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But, as she started to have more and more success, she also started to battle with her mental health and distanced herself from friends and family.
"I was trying to run away from the relentless stress and pressure I had on myself the whole time," she said.
She told her coach, got help and now, having retired from playing in 2011, is a mental health ambassador for the Lawn Tennis Association.
World Mental Health Day is observed on 10 October every year, to help raise awareness of mental health issues.
Though alligators are common in the state, the incident raises questions about whether Disney could have prevented the boy's death.
Two-year-old Lane Graves was wading in shallow water on the shore of the Seven Seas Lagoon when he was seized.
"No swimming" signs were displayed, but they did not warn specifically about the presence of alligators in the water, a situation that a Disney spokeswoman said was being reviewed.
"All of our beaches are currently closed, and we are conducting a swift and thorough review of all of our processes and protocols," Jacquee Wahler said in a statement on Thursday.
"This includes the number, placement and wording of our signage and warnings."
Lane and his family, who are from Elkhorn, Nebraska, were relaxing near the lagoon's shore on Tuesday night when he was taken by an alligator believed to have been between 1.2-2m (4-7ft) long.
After a 16-hour search, Lane's body was found "intact" a few metres from shore and 1.8m (6ft) underwater, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said.
The Orange County Medical Examiner's Office subsequently said the boy had died from drowning and traumatic injuries.
"We are devastated and heartbroken by this tragic accident and are doing what we can to help the family during this difficult time," said Walt Disney World president George Kalogridis.
Police have said an investigation is under way, and that it is not criminal in nature.
The death is the first of its kind at Disney World in its 45 years of operation, according to Sheriff Demings. But is the company legally liable?
Disney's liability hinges on whether it was negligent in warning guests about the potential dangers of alligators and what the company knew about the risk of harm, according to Florida state law.
Though state agencies post alligator warning signs near bodies of water, the attack occurred at a lagoon Disney said was marked only with "no swimming" signs, which did not specify the animal's threat.
Disney also works with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) to remove "nuisance alligators", or alligators that are considered dangerous to people, from its waters.
But officials could not identify the last alligator sighting on Disney property or say how many had been removed in recent weeks, Nick Wiley, the FWC executive director, told the Orlando Sentinel.
Authorities removed and euthanised five alligators from the water after Lane Graves was taken.
Disney's liability also depends on the status of both the family and the alligator.
According to Florida's premises liability law, a property owner is responsible for keeping property in a safe condition and for warning its "invitee", or someone welcomed onto the property, of concealed dangers that are known to owners.
The owner is also responsible if a child who has trespassed is harmed by an "attractive nuisance" on the property. An "attractive nuisance" is defined as an artificial item, such as a swimming pool or hot tub, that could be considered enticing to a child. The law, however, does not extend to wildlife.
Property owners are also not responsible for "invitee" encounters with wild animals, according to state law. The company would be responsible only if the alligators were kept as pets or under Disney's control.
Despite these protections, the company could be held accountable if found to be outright negligent.
John Mesirow, a personal injury lawyer in Washington, told the BBC that the case against Disney would be tough legally because of the infrequency of alligator attacks.
However, Disney would almost certainly settle with the family in a civil case to avoid a public relations disaster, Mr Mesirow said.
"They will definitely settle, because a two-year-old died on their property and they cater to children," he explained.
"As far as a civil case goes, on the law, it's not that strong."
Disney's role will depend on what the resort knew and did about the threat of alligators and whether the "no swimming" signage was considered a reasonable enough warning for its guests.
Joseph Page, a law professor at Georgetown University, told the BBC that unless Disney was found guilty of "egregious misbehaviour", it is unlikely to be found negligent.
"After all, it is Florida," he said. "Everyone knows there are alligators near the water."
Still, alligator deaths in Florida are rare.
Before Lane Graves' death, 23 people had been killed by alligators in the state since 1973, according to FWC statistics.
Animal expert Jeff Corwin told the BBC that the attack was an "anomaly" and not much could have been done to prevent it.
Additional reporting by Ashley Gold
Desmond Brooks, 42, stabbed the three women, two while children were present, in Brixton, on 29 July 2013.
Brooks, a Jamaican national, told his victims they were "nagging" and disrespecting" him.
He was ordered to serve a minimum of 29 years, at the Old Bailey.
Brooks pleaded guilty to murdering Keisha McKenzie, 28, and sentenced to 19 years for the attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend Joan Wade, then aged 46.
He also received 12 years for inflicting grievous bodily harm on his sister-in-law, who was 17 at the time. He attacked the three women over the course of 35 minutes, the court heard.
Brooks said to his ex-girlfriend: "You think I'm playing? I'm going to kill you.". He then attacked her as she lay on the sofa in a flat they shared, in front of a child.
Ms Wade fled to her balcony, where neighbours and passers-by watched him chopping and slashing at her with a meat cleaver and a kitchen knife.
Two of her fingers were chopped off as she tried to protect herself and her lip and tongue were sliced through.
Afterwards, armed with another knife, Brooks went to the nearby house of his ex-wife.
As she answered the door, he began stabbing her. She died at the scene from 42 separate injuries, a post-mortem examination showed.
Ms McKenzie's 17-year-old sister jumped on his back and tried to stop him and then locked herself in the bathroom with a child who was screaming.
Judge Stephen Kramer heard Brooks, who has 10 convictions for cannabis offences since he arrived in the UK in 2002, then battered the bathroom door down and stabbed her repeatedly in the head.
Later that evening, he got on a bus and asked the driver to flag down the first police he saw. He told police: "I want to hand myself in. I killed my wife. I cannot take it any more."
Judge Kramer said: "Over the period of about an hour, you engaged in a stabbing spree properly said to be of extreme violence and ferocity.
"The catalogue of injuries inflicted is truly appalling."
He said the two surviving women had been left permanently disfigured.
Following the trial, the family of Ms McKenzie and her sister said they were "satisfied to finally have some justice".
They added: "We have lost Keisha forever but no amount of years will bring back the loving mother and bubbly, smiley daughter, auntie and sister that we all knew and loved."
Brooks pleaded not guilty to attempting to murder his ex-wife's sister but guilty to an alternative charge of grievous bodily harm.
All sentences will run concurrently.
The 22-year-old defender moved to the Dingwall club in January 2015 following his release from Celtic.
A Scotland U21 international, he has been a regular under manager Jim McIntyre, making 29 appearances in this campaign.
Fraser has scored once in his near two-and-a-half seasons with the Staggies.
There has been no official update from the French hospital where he is being treated since 6 January.
But his manager Sabine Kehm has told the BBC that the seven-time world champion remains in a "stable" condition and confirmed that he had not fallen into a natural coma as some newspapers have speculated.
However, millions of fans and the motorsport community remain desperate for more information, and there remain a number of unanswered questions about the 45-year-old's condition.
Here, two experts - Professor Gary Hartstein, Formula 1's chief medic between 2005 and 2012, and Mr Colin Shieff, neurosurgeon at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London - attempt to tackle some of those questions.
It is important to stress that neither man has been involved in the Ferrari legend's treatment, but they offer their insights into how a patient with injuries like Schumacher's might be treated and run through the possible prognoses based on their experience of similar cases.
Both Hartstein and Shieff believe it will be difficult for Schumacher to return to the same level of health he had before his accident.
"It is extremely unlikely, and I'd honestly say virtually impossible, that the Michael we knew prior to this fall will ever be back," Hartstein said.
With every injury being unique, a variety of symptoms ranging from mild to severe can be experienced. But the effects of brain injury fall into three main categories:
"I think that it will have to be considered a triumph of human physical resiliency, and of modern neurointensive care, if Michael is able to walk, feed himself, dress himself, and if he retains significant elements of his previous personality."
Shieff agreed that outcome was "extremely unlikely".
"It is generally accepted that the longer a patient is in a reduced state of consciousness, the less likely they are to make a good recovery," he said.
"It is still possible to regain consciousness, but this is far from certain.
"At best, there will be handicaps in respect of communication, memory, mobility and independence.
"At worst, the patient may remain in 'low arousal state' with little awareness of surroundings, some response to comfort/discomfort, cycles of being alert, occasionally appearing to recognise or make attempt to communicate."
Schumacher has been in an induced coma for 31 days since his accident at the French Alpine resort of Meribel.
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After several months, a patient experiencing an extended period of reduced consciousness may be diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state (PVS).
Patients in this state have not recovered sufficient consciousness to make any form of communication, but can breathe without mechanical assistance.
They may have sleeping and waking cycles allowing them to be fed, but they do not speak, follow commands or have any understanding of what has been said.
The general consensus among clinicians is that a recovery of sorts is possible from PVS although it is impossible to predict outcomes, which can place intense emotional pressure on the families of such patients.
Schumacher's condition was described as "stable but critical" in the most recent statement released by doctors in Grenoble on 6 January.
It was unclear, said Hartstein, whether Schumacher was still in that condition. And he stressed he had not seen him, had access to any of his medical documents or spoken to any of the staff treating him.
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However, he said he based his opinions on the information put into the public domain by the team caring for the German and his own clinical experience with similarly injured patients.
The American, who now lives in the Belgian city of Liege, said: "'Critical' means imminent life threat or threat to a vital system.
"Michael [would no longer be critical] if the intracranial pressure - the pressure inside his skull and brain tissue - has normalised.
"He is stable as his physiological parameters are now acceptably 'constant'.
"I would define a patient as being critical if they are ventilation-dependent. But we can't say for sure if Michael is still reliant on breathing assistance because no details have been released."
Hartstein, who works as a consultant anaesthetist and A&E physician at Liege University Hospital, said Schumacher "almost certainly" remained in an intensive care unit (ICU).
"I say this because it is rather likely that he still requires this level of care given his injuries. But, also, if he had been moved from the ICU to a normal room, this would have been sufficiently newsworthy to have almost certainly been announced."
Patients are put into a medically induced coma - a state of depressed consciousness which needs mechanical assistance - when they have suffered a traumatic brain injury from a variety of causes, including accidents, falls and assaults.
"It is broadly similar to anaesthesia for surgery," explained Shieff, who is also a trustee of UK brain injury charity Headway. "It requires sedation and artificial respiration (ventilation) through a tube placed in the airway as the sedatives will reduce or remove the drive to breathe.
"The benefits come from resting the brain after an [injury]. There is no medical procedure that can directly assist the brain in its recovery."
Patients in induced coma will receive medical and nursing care including - if still needed - supported respiration through a ventilator, fluids and feeding administered by tube, and physiotherapy.
The 6 January statement on Schumacher's condition added that the medical team would not be giving further details of his treatment, or holding news conferences "for the time being" in a bid to protect his privacy.
Two days earlier, his manager Sabine Kehm warned fans to treat reports about his health from sources other than her or doctors as "pure speculation".
Various newspapers across Europe have run stories about Schumacher's condition since the last media briefing 23 days ago.
On 13 January, the Daily Telegraph reported that the Zurich Tages-Anzeiger, a daily newspaper in Switzerland, said French doctors had begun tests to see which areas of Schumacher's brain had been damaged.
The Daily Mail said on 15 January that fears were growing in Germany that he may be in a coma for the rest of his life.
Nine days later, the Daily Mirror said it had been claimed doctors had no plans to wake him from the coma.
BBC Sport's chief F1 writer Andrew Benson said the Formula 1 community and fans were desperately hoping for Schumacher to pull through.
"The bitter irony of the appalling situation in which Michael Schumacher finds himself is that he is getting far more unqualified support than he ever did during his career," he said.
"The most successful Formula 1 driver of all time, with career statistics that still look dizzying even in the context of Sebastian Vettel's recent success, was a divisive figure while racing and never far from controversy.
"Now, though, as he lies unconscious in a French hospital, his plight has focused attention more on what he achieved and less on how he achieved it.
"And his feats were truly remarkable. He was one of the greatest talents ever to step into a racing car. With his Ferrari team he took F1 to a new level, setting fresh standards for all to aspire to.
"Whatever fate awaits him, his sporting legacy as a legendary figure in F1 is assured."
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Another escape for El Chapo, Mexico's most famous drug lord, would have made it a hat trick. He has already given two maximum security prisons the slip.
And on Friday his name trended worldwide, with hundreds of thousands of people sharing gifs, memes and jokes about his tricksy ways and supposed third escape.
But no reputable media organisation was reporting that he had got out.
The story wasn't on the front pages of any of Mexico's main newspapers and none of the news agencies were reporting it.
El Chapo is still behind bars in Mexico, his extradition to the US halted for now.
So why has his name been trending?
Spoof stories is why.
Several different websites published stories saying El Chapo had escaped again. One of the websites has since apologised, but others have not.
And people just kept sharing and sharing and sharing.
Sometimes people don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.
It wasn't the first time that unsubstantiated rumours of El Chapo's escape circled the internet.
But at least some people do check their sources.
Amen, Boogie Bousins: here's to finding out the full story.
And in that vein, let me tell you more about El Chapo Guzman.
With him at the head, the Sinaloa Cartel quickly grew a reputation as the most powerful drugs cartel in the world. Even today, slightly overtaken by its rival the Zetas, it still smuggles a huge proportion of the US' drugs in to the country. Cocaine, marijuana and amphetamines all are smuggled across borders by organisations with far-reaching tendrils.
Who is El Chapo?
The long arm of the law caught up with El Chapo in the early 1990s and he has been in and out of jail since.
Meanwhile, violence related to drugs has claimed more than 100,000 lives in Mexico as rival cartels fight against each other.
Who is behind Mexico's drug violence?
El Chapo was smuggled out of Puente Grande maximum security prison inside a laundry basket. He bribed guards to help get him out and some of them served time in jail as a result.
It was 13 years before he was captured again.
Just over a year after he was put in Altiplano prison, El Chapo escaped through a 1.5km (1 mile) tunnel dug in the showers.
It was a massive embarrassment for the Mexican government and caused difficulties between them and the US, who wanted to see him stay banged up.
He was recaptured in January 2016.
Hasn't happened.
Guzman is wanted in the US on charges of smuggling vast amounts of drugs into the country. At first a Mexican judge said he could be sent there, but in June, a judge blocked the extradition while his lawyers filed appeals.
So El Chapo is still in jail in Mexico.
Charles MacDonald was rescued from the property in King's Crescent on Monday morning and was taken to hospital in a critical condition, but died from his injuries.
A joint fire and police investigation has been carried out and Police Scotland said there were no suspicious circumstances.
A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.
The Lancaster PD214 set off on what was meant to be the crew's last operational mission from RAF Metheringham in Lincolnshire in October 1944.
But the plane lost contact with the base and it never returned and the crew was listed as missing.
Earlier this year, the remains were found beneath a field near Bremen.
The find came after family members of one of the crew asked the German authorities for permission to carry out an archaeological excavation at the site before a planned building scheme began.
Eight crew members lost their lives in the crash - but only two of their bodies were recovered.
Julie Barton, granddaughter of crew member flight engineer Ronald Barton, said the German authorities had been really helpful in dealing with the family's request.
Speaking at Metheringham airfield during a visit to see the wreckage, she said: "It's been an incredibly emotional day to see the place the plane took off from in 1944.
"To walk into what would have been the gymnasium at the time and see the parts of the plane laid out in front of us was very emotional."
Rod Sanders, curator at Metheringham Airfield Visitor Centre, said: "You could say, spiritually, we've brought the boys home to Metheringham."
Describing the aircraft's last flight, Mr Sanders said: "She took off on the evening of the 6/7 October 1944 to carry out a raid on the docks at Bremen.
"Sadly, on the return trip she got a few miles south of Bremen and was shot down, crashing in a field close to the village of Cloppenburg."
RAF Metheringham was the wartime home to 106 Squadron.
The latest survey from the British Medical Association shows little change in the number of unfilled posts, despite a Scottish government recruitment drive launched last summer.
The crisis in GP recruitment is a problem across the UK.
With increasing workloads, fewer young doctors are choosing general practice.
The Scottish government has pledged more money and launched a recruitment drive but the BMA survey suggests these measures are not yet bearing fruit.
There are 963 GP practices in Scotland. More than half (514) responded to the BMA survey.
Of those, 26.46% reported a vacancy.
BMA Scotland said the rate in some areas was much higher, with Fife (35%), Lanarkshire (38.7%) and Dumfries and Galloway (41.67%) having particularly high rates of vacancies.
Grampian had a vacancy rate of 47.37% but the response rate to the survey was low.
Respondents reported a total of 171 open vacancies spread over 133 practices.
The survey showed 97 of those vacancies (72.9%) had been open for more than 6 months.
The NHS's own Primary Care Workforce Survey will not report until later in the year.
The latest figures, for 2015, showed a total 3,645 whole-time equivalent GPs in Scotland.
BMA Scotland's GP committee chairman Dr Alan McDevitt said: "The fact that more than one in four GP practices in Scotland had a vacant position in this snapshot survey is extremely troubling. It indicates that the recruitment and retention problems in general practice are not improving.
"Every unfilled vacancy puts more and more strain on remaining GPs who must struggle to cover the gaps in their practice while also coping with increasing demands on GP services.
"The BMA is currently negotiating a new contract for GPs in Scotland, and addressing recruitment and retention issues is one of our top priorities.
"However, there is much more work to do to ensure that general practice is an attractive career choice for doctors."
Health Secretary Shona Robison said: "We have delivered a record number of NHS staff - an increase of over 12,200 whole time equivalent since 2006.
"This includes the highest proportion of GPs per head in the UK."
She said the Scottish government would invest a further £500m in primary care by the end of this parliament.
Ms Robison added: "I recently set out that £250m of this new investment will be in direct support of general practice, helping to transform the way services are delivered in the community - an approach that was agreed with the British Medical Association."
"In this financial year, over £71m of that funding is to support general practice by improving recruitment and retention, reducing workload, developing new ways of delivering services and covering pay and expenses."
Scottish Conservative health spokesman Donald Cameron criticised the Scottish government's "shambolic" workforce planning.
He said the vacancies would have a "very direct impact on vulnerable people" and put additional strain on GPs.
Scottish Labour health spokesman Anas Sarwar said the vacancies meant people were not getting the care they deserved.
The BMA is running a "speed dating" event on Saturday to try to match up practices with GPs.
But there are twice as many practices going along as doctors.
They found the first part of human DNA - the genetic code - that seems to affect how old people look to others.
The mutations, reported in the journal Current Biology, were in the genetic instructions for protecting the body from UV radiation.
But these can also lead to red hair, and experts caution the findings may be confused by eye, skin or hair colour.
The study into "perceived age" was organised by the Erasmus University Medical Centre in the Netherlands and Unilever.
Dr David Gunn, a senior scientist at the company, said perceived age was a phenomenon everyone was familiar with.
He told the BBC News website: "You meet two people you haven't seen for 10 years, and you happen to notice one doesn't look a day older than you remember and then the other person you think 'Wow what happened to them?'."
Images of the make-up free "naked-face" of 2,693 people were independently assessed to see what age people thought they looked. This was compared with their true age.
The next stage of the research was to scour the 2,693 people's DNA to find any differences or mutations that were more common in those who looked younger than they really were.
All the evidence pointed to the MC1R gene - it is critical for making melanin, which affects skin pigmentation and protects against UV radiation from the Sun.
But the gene comes in many different forms, or variants, many of which cause red hair - hence the nickname "the ginger gene".
The study suggested some variants of the gene led to people looking, on average, two years younger than those with other forms of MC1R.
Prof Manfred Kayser, from Erasmus, told the BBC News website: "The exciting part is we actually found the gene, and that we did find the first means we will be able to find more.
"It is exciting because this is a well known phenomenon that so far cannot be explained - why do some people look so much younger?"
However, the researchers cannot explain why MC1R has such an effect - they tested ideas that the different variants might alter skin damage from the sun, but this did not appear to be the case.
Does 'gingerism' really exist?
What causes wrinkles and can you do anything about it?
Prof Ian Jackson, from the UK Medical Research Council's Human Genetics Unit, said the study was interesting, but had not found the fountain of youth.
He said: "MC1R is the major gene involved in red hair and pale skin, and what they're trying to say is it's got an impact on making you look slightly younger that isn't to do with paler skin, but I'm not so sure."
The researchers say they adjusted their data to account for different skin tones.
But Prof Jackson said: "The question is how well are they adjusting for that - what about hair colour and eye colour - my gut reaction is what they're looking at is an aspect of pigmentation.
"I would suspect people who have paler pigmentation would look younger and that might be paler skin or bluer eyes or blonde or red hair."
More research is planned, but Dr Gunn hopes the findings will eventually lead to a product to make people look younger.
"This is the first genetic study ever of perceived age, ideally we'd want something to boost this gene for everybody," he said.
However, it is far from clear whether it will be possible to lower someone's "perceived age".
Also commenting on the study, Prof Tim Frayling, from the University of Exeter, said: "This is an interesting finding that shows how genetics can influence the ageing process independently of developing disease.
"However, whilst interesting, the authors admit that they need to find more genetic variation to have any chance of predicting someone's appearance from DNA alone."
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The day-long tour of Vadnagar in western Gujarat state has run once a week since starting in February and has proved a big draw with visitors.
The operator expects tens of thousands to sign up for the tour this summer.
Mr Modi was Gujarat chief minister for more than a decade before his landslide general election win last year.
The tour of the BJP leader's birthplace includes visits to the street where he once lived, his former school, the railway station where he sold tea and a local lake where, according to reports, he once "caught a baby crocodile".
It costs 600 rupees ($9; £6) per person, tour operator Manish Sharma told BBC Hindi's Ankur Jain.
"Some 10,000 people have been on this tour since it began earlier this year. People are most excited about the trip to the railway station where Mr Modi once sold tea. They take a lot of pictures there. This summer, we expect some 40,000 people to sign up for the tour," Mr Sharma said.
Buoyed by the demand, Mr Sharma decided to make the tour daily, transporting tourists from the main city of Ahmedabad, some 99km (62 miles) away.
The BJP government in Gujarat is "promoting" the private tour, chief of the state tourism corporation Sanjay Kaul said.
Vadnagar shot into the limelight after Mr Modi became the chief minister of Gujarat in 2001 - Bollywood films have even been shot there.
However, correspondents say that many believe a cult of personality is growing around Mr Modi.
Earlier this year his fans scrapped plans to open a temple in Gujarat dedicated to him after Mr Modi said he was "appalled" by the idea.
The Hindu temple, with an idol of the prime minister, was to open in Kotharia village in February.
Later in the month, a diamond trader in Gujarat agreed to pay 43.1m rupees ($690,000; £450,000) at an auction for a controversial suit worn by Mr Modi.
Critics had attacked Mr Modi when it was revealed the suit was decorated with pinstripes spelling out his name.
Conservationists at Kielder Water and Forest Park in Northumberland aim to re-establish a population of water voles, not seen there since the 1970s.
The animal has been completely wiped out in large areas of the county.
Northumberland Wildlife Trust said there was real hope of "bringing this charismatic little animal back to our riverbanks where it belongs".
The animal's decline in the UK has been caused by habitat losses and predation by north American mink which escaped into the wild from fur farms.
A two-year project to ensure there are no mink in the Kielder area is nearly completed. It is believed they may have been driven away by an increase in otters.
The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded £14,000 to the project, after a grant of £40,000 last year.
Young water voles from healthy populations outside the area will be caught, bred in captivity and eventually released.
The ultimate intention is to re-introduce them along the whole of the River Tyne and its catchments.
Khadimou Diagne befriended the 38-year-old as she walked through Wigan town centre, in Greater Manchester, at about 05:25 GMT on 1 October 2016.
She then collapsed and he dragged her by the arms into an alleyway leading to Standishgate before removing her clothes and attempting to rape her.
Diagne, 33, from Wigan, was jailed for seven years at Bolton Crown Court.
The victim was left on the floor in the pouring rain for an hour before she was found by a passer-by who called for an ambulance, police said.
Diagne, of Swinley Road, was later recognised by an off-duty detective after the attack was captured on CCTV.
Det Con Brendan Greally said it was a "despicable attack on a lone woman" who was put through a "chilling ordeal".
Diagne will remain on licence for four years after completing his sentence.
He was also placed on the sexual offenders' register for life.
But as many turn bad, the government has announced a pilot scheme to create new, smaller financial institutions offering micro-financing and private equity. So is this the next step in China's economic revolution?
Private finance is very common in China - that is, lending and borrowing operating outside the realms of the state banking system.
Take the city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang province, the so-called home of Chinese entrepreneurs. Wenzhou has more than 400,000 small businesses that make a high proportion of the world's "stuff", such as cigarette lighters, shoes, spectacles and a lot more.
Many of the factories in the city were started on the back of private loans because China's state-owned banks are not in the business of lending to manufacturing start-ups.
So, in order to fund their new business ventures, entrepreneurs have turned to private financiers.
These money men and women are often business owners themselves looking to get a better return on their cash than the rates offered by the state banks. And they have a lot of money to lend.
Zhou de Wen is the head of Wenzhou's Association of Small and Medium Business Enterprises. He told BBC Radio 4's In Business programme that the total amount of private loans in Wenzhou totalled about 120bn yuan (£11.9bn; $19bn).
In Zheijang province, where Wenzhou is located, it adds up to 1.5tn yuan, which is about half of China's total private lending of 3.7tn yuan.
The problem with this private finance is that much of it happens underground. Officially, it is illegal, but the line between right and wrong has become blurred.
The Chinese government turns a blind eye to much of the private finance market as long as the interest rates paid back to lenders do not exceed four times the interest rates of the state banks.
Many borrowers, however, often pay a rate that is much, much higher.
In Wenzhou the official state interest rate is 0.6% per month. By contrast, private lenders can get a return of anything between 3% and 6% a month on their loans, which are usually short-term and run for up to six months.
The practice hit the headlines recently after a 31-year-old businesswoman, Wu Ying, was found guilty of "financial cheating" by a Chinese court.
She was sentenced to death, though on Friday the country's supreme court overturned the sentence and ordered a retrial.
Ahead of the initial sentence, many had long seen Wu Ying as one of China's new capitalist heroes; a former hairdresser who went on to become one of the country's richest women.
So the court's treatment of her case stirred up much debate as many commentators felt it was harsh considering the nature of the offence.
Far from being an unusual crime, this kind of private lending is rife, says He Gang of Caijing financial magazine in Beijing, insisting it is almost the norm in the province of Zhejiang where Wenzhou sits to the south of Shanghai.
"In that sector, state-owned industry is not that well developed," he explains. "So a lot of people lend money under some private business agreement."
With the rapid growth of China's economy, private finance has been a win-win situation for many.
Entrepreneurs have been able to access the capital they needed to build new businesses, which in turn enabled them to cash in on China's boom. Investors, meanwhile, have got a better rate of return on their money.
But the recent softening of global and Chinese economic conditions have seen some cracks appear in this previously smooth-running system.
Faced with issues such as tougher competition and weakening sales, a number of factory owners who borrowed money have not been able to repay their debts. Some have gone into hiding, others have committed suicide, leaving the small lenders with little hope of recouping their cash.
And while a great number of lenders are business people, many others are ordinary people who accumulated savings and had money to invest. Often they lent money on nothing more than a handshake and trust because their deals are between friends, family and close associates.
The 11 people persuaded to take action against Wu Ying were all known to her personally.
One of private lenders we spoke to for In Business explained how he lost 700m yuan (£69m; $111m) which he loaned to several investors in the property market.
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The man, who asked us not to reveal his name, used to run a construction supply company that he set up with compensation money his family received after being moved from their land in Inner Mongolia to make way for a coal mine.
He was earning an interest rate of 2.5% per month on the money he was lending and like much private financing it was subsequently invested in real estate.
However, last year the Chinese government introduced measures to control the country's ballooning property bubble, including limits on the number of houses people can own, higher deposits and property taxes in selected cities.
This has meant some people investing in new property developments have found it harder to sell, or have made much less money than they anticipated, which is bad news for the private lenders.
"It had a huge impact on our loan business because our money is stuck in the market," says the lender. "Nobody is buying and we can't get our interest payments, not to mention the money we invested."
All the investors he loaned money to have disappeared, but he says he is not angry about it.
"At first I was very angry, furious," he explains. "But after some time I re-thought the whole process of the loan business. We should calm down, it's a difficult time. No need to be angry any more."
The Chinese government has recently announced plans to reform this sector of the economy, developing a pilot scheme to create new, smaller, financial institutions.
The scheme will begin in Wenzhou and will create institutions including rural banks, micro-financing firms and most importantly a private equity fund led by the city's government to invest in its private companies.
This move is unprecedented in China and could be the beginning of the next phase in its economic development.
It comes in the wake of Premier Wen Jiabao's announcement on state radio last week that the monopoly of the state banks should be broken up.
And the government is not the only body to have taken the initiative to improve matters in Wenzhou.
Since May 2010, a young lawyer, Yen Yi Pan, has run a website where both borrowers and lenders can trade. The idea came to him after he noticed a run of cases at his practice involving the private loan business.
"The website has two important missions," he explains. "One is to provide an information exchange platform for lenders and borrowers. The second is for after both sides agree a deal.
"We provide online legal support, draw up contracts, agree interest rates and provide some form of guarantee. In this way we are in a position to help regulate the market."
The influential head of Wenzhou's Small and Medium Business Association, Zhou de Wen, feels so strongly about a need to regulate private financing that he drafted a suggested law to this effect.
He says the financial system must be changed because the monopoly of the large state banks encouraged the growth of the private finance sector.
"We have a very irrational financial system in this country; it cannot meet the economic needs of the development of this country," he explains. "That's why you've seen a lot of crises in these medium and small sized enterprises."
"If the financial system doesn't change then our country's economy cannot move forward," he says.
Hear the full report on Radio 4's In Business on Thursday, 19 April at 20:30 BST and Sunday, 22 April at 21:30 BST.
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It is the first official comment about Lee Ming-che since he went missing in southern China earlier in March.
Mr Lee is in good health, officials say. No details have been released about where he is being held.
He specialises in promoting human rights and democracy on social media.
The BBC's John Sudworth in Beijing says that his detention fits a pattern of increasing intolerance in China of human rights and civil society activists, including those based overseas.
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Earlier this week China banned a visiting professor - a Chinese national but with permanent Australian residency - from leaving the country, apparently because of his human rights research.
Mr Lee - a regular visitor to China - went missing after entering the semi-autonomous Chinese territory of Macau on 19 March. He failed to attend a meeting later that day with a friend across the border in mainland China.
"Regarding Lee Ming-che's case, because he is suspected of pursing activities harmful to national security, the investigation into him is being handled in line with legal procedures," Taiwan Affairs Office spokesman Ma Xiaoguang said.
Friends and supporters of Mr Lee say the authorities may have been alerted after he used the social media platform WeChat as a forum to debate China-Taiwan relations.
Taiwan's governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) said over the weekend that China's failure to release details about Mr Lee was causing "anxiety and panic" to his family. It demanded better protection for Taiwanese people in China.
Mr Ma insisted however that said Taiwanese people coming to China for "normal" activities did not have anything to worry about.
"The mainland has rule of law," he said. "On this point, Taiwan compatriots can rest at ease."
Relations between the two countries have deteriorated over the last year, mainly because China is resentful of the DPP's traditional support for Taiwanese independence.
China strictly curtails freedom of speech and is frequently criticised by rights groups for arbitrary detentions, official brutality, widespread corruption, a lack of transparency, a pliant judiciary and little in the way of democracy.
It is also extremely sensitive to criticism and has cracked down on domestic critics.
Jatupat Boonpattararaksa was detained in north-eastern Thailand and charged with insulting the monarchy under the strict royal defamation law.
He had shared the profile, published by BBC Thai, on his Facebook page.
King Maha Vajiralongkorn ascended the throne on Thursday nearly two months after the death of his father.
Mr Jatupat is thought to be the first person charged with lese-majeste since King Vajiralongkorn, 64, officially became monarch.
The activist, who has been involved in anti-government protests in the past, was arrested in Chaiyaphum province. Charges were filed in the city of Khon Kaen.
Mr Jatupat could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
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Human rights groups accuse the military-backed government of using the royal defamation law as a way of cracking down on opponents.
King Vajiralongkorn's father, the revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, died on 13 October at the age of 88 after seven decades on the throne.
The region wants new investment under plans that would see the Welsh Rugby Union relinquish its 50% stake.
Davies said follow-up meetings with "interested parties" are in the pipeline.
But he was disappointed by ex-Wales captain Gwyn Jones' recent call for Dragons to become a "development" team.
Dragons finished in 10th place in the Pro12, one place ahead of Zebre despite winning a game fewer than the Italian side.
The Welsh region finished ahead of them after picking up 10 losing bonus points during the season.
Dragons parted company with director of rugby Lyn Jones in April and head coach Kingsley Jones will remain in charge for at least 2016-17.
Before the season ended, Gwyn Jones told Scrum V: "It wouldn't be a bad thing if they were to become more developmental in their philosophy."
Davies said he had "absolutely no problem with the observation that it's been a very poor season for the Dragons".
The former Swansea number eight added: "But I was very disappointed with the context, really because whilst Gwyn was saying that we need change, I also felt he'd probably been on a desert island for the last six weeks because there was no reference to the change that we're actually instigating.
"So I share his feelings around us needing to improve - that's not an issue at all.
"But certainly in the context of what we've announced this year, I don't think we can do more than we currently are in terms of showing our ambition and our desire as much as anyone to improve performances on the field."
Two women, aged 53 and 54, and a 59-year-old man died following the crash on Sutton Road, Askern.
A 56-year-old man remains in hospital with life-threatening injuries, South Yorkshire Police said.
A 24-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and is being questioned.
Officers are appealing for witnesses to the collision which happened at about 23:00 GMT and involved a blue Volvo S60.
The deceased are yet to be formally identified.
Last week Mr McKinnon's mother said the 46-year-old "had no choice" but to refuse a medical test to see if he was fit to be extradited.
Mr McKinnon, from north London, admits hacking US military computers but says he was looking for evidence of UFOs.
If he is convicted in the US, he could face up to 60 years in jail.
The latest hearing has mainly been about the timescale of the case, BBC correspondent Daniel Boetcher said.
This is partly due to the amount of evidence that has to be considered, but also because Home Secretary Theresa May now had an "increased and all-consuming involvement in the Olympic Games", according to the barrister for the Home Office.
The court also heard that Mrs May wanted to make her decision when Parliament was sitting.
At an earlier hearing, judges were told she was "close" to making a decision.
Mrs May said she was "personally concerned" Mr McKinnon had not been examined by a Home Office-appointed medical assessor, to decide whether there was a risk of suicide if he was extradited.
But his family said the Home Office expert, Professor Thomas Fahy, had no experience in uncovering suicidal tendencies in Asperger's syndrome patients.
Mr McKinnon, who hacked into the US computers in 2002, has been fighting extradition since 2006.
Joe Reilly, 43, a father of one, was shot twice in the chest at Glenwood Court, Poleglass, earlier this month.
Two other people in the house at the time were told to lie on the kitchen floor while the shooting took place.
Police spoke after revisiting the scene as part of a reconstruction to encourage witnesses to come forward.
Det Ch Insp Peter Montgomery urged people to "remember there is a handgun out there which may be used to inflict another death".
He said that a number of witnesses had come forward since the shooting but that police "need the community... to provide us with information so that we can progress our investigation".
"A line of enquiry I'm following is in relation to drugs and I believe this murder has been carried out by a paramilitary organisation," said Det Ch Insp Peter Montgomery.
"At this stage it's too early to say which organisation and I need the public to come forward to help me identify what organisation I should be concentrating on and who are the gunmen involved."
He said that police have a "clearer picture of where the killers went after the murder" and know "the type of clothing the killers were wearing".
"Both were wearing half-zip hooded sports tops and skin-tight jogging bottoms.
"Both had their faces covered and at least one had a Celtic scarf up over his face and was wearing dark-rimmed glasses."
He added: "As members of a civilised society, we owe it to ourselves, to each other and to victims like Joe Reilly and his family to put those responsible for his death before the courts."
Sporting director Monchi says the Serie A club have made an improved offer - of more than 30m euros (£27.1m) - for the 26-year-old Algerian.
Mahrez, who helped Leicester win the Premier League title in 2015-16, has asked to leave.
"At the moment, the club is very close to the limit and I believe our offer is very significant," said Monchi.
Speaking to his club's website, he added: "If my memory does not deceive me, the last offer we made would make it the most expensive purchase in the history of the club.
"We are not making any effort to sign the player, but at the moment we are still waiting on a positive result. At the same time, we are working on other solutions.
"He has said publicly [that he wants to leave] but I think he also respects his club, and rightly so."
The deficit has been partly caused by the Swans' increased wage bill, which has since been reduced this summer.
But the losses are not thought to have directly affected the club's transfer activity, with funds available to head coach Francesco Guidolin.
"I am happy with the squad I have available," Guidolin said.
"There is plenty of quality there and the club has done well to allow me to do my job in the right way.
"I am confident we can and will have a good season."
An American consortium, led by Jason Levien and Steve Kaplan, bought a controlling stake of 68% in the club in July.
The 2015-16 losses contributed to the eagerness of Swansea's existing directors to attract additional investment.
Some of Swansea's highest earners have left this summer, with Ashley Williams joining Everton, Andre Ayew moving to West Ham and Bafetimbi Gomis signing for Marseille on loan.
The Swans have signed strikers Borja Baston - for a club-record £15m fee - and Fernando Llorente, as well as midfielder Leroy Fer, defenders Mike van der Hoorn and Alfie Mawson and goalkeeper Mark Birighitti.
Swansea failed to make any further additions on transfer deadline day, though chairman Jenkins defended the club's business.
"The team has been in transition over the last year or two, with a number of players who have been the bedrock of our success in first achieving and then maintaining our Premier League status moving on for different reasons," he said.
"That transition, which happens to all clubs and proved the downfall of many, has to be managed.
"The recent majority shareholder takeover will help us secure that future, which is one of the reasons they came on board.
"Our accounts are due out next month and it will highlight a significant loss for last season.
"That's why we always have to strike a balance to work financially within the budgets we have."
It has traditionally stated its general aim as being to "safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilisation" of its members by promoting "stability and well-being in the North Atlantic area".
Members agree that an armed attack against one shall be considered an attack against them all, and that they will come to the aid of one another.
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Originally consisting of 12 countries, the organisation expanded to include Greece and Turkey in 1952 and West Germany in 1955. However, then, as now, the alliance was militarily dominated by the United States.
In 1955 the Soviet Union created a counter-alliance called the Warsaw Pact, which dissolved after the break-up of the USSR in 1991.
The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland became the first former Warsaw Pact countries to gain Nato membership in 1999.
The next historic step came in 2004 when Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, republics of the USSR until its collapse in 1991, along with Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania were welcomed as Nato members at a ceremony in Washington.
Bosnia, Montenegro and Serbia have joined Nato's Partnership for Peace programme - a first step towards membership. At a summit in Bucharest in early April 2008, NATO countries invited Albania and Croatia to join on schedule.
Greece vetoed Macedonia's application, but the alliance agreed that the country would be invited when it settles its dispute with Greece over its name. The International Court of Justice ruled in 2012 that Greece had been wrong to veto the application. This opens the way to a new Macedonian bid.
Nato was set up in the post-World War II atmosphere of anxiety, largely to block Soviet expansion into Europe. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and subsequent demise of the Warsaw Pact, therefore, left Nato with no obvious purpose.
Since then Nato has used its defensive role to justify a more proactive approach to "out of area" activities - arguing that instability in any part of Europe would constitute a threat to its members.
Thus, at the end of 1995 it organised its first ever multinational Implementation Force (Ifor), under a United Nations mandate to implement the military aspects of the Bosnian peace agreement.
In 1999 the alliance launched an 11-week campaign of air strikes against Yugoslavia to push Serb forces out of Kosovo. The strikes were the largest military operation ever undertaken by Nato, and the first time it had used force against a sovereign state without UN approval. The Nato peacekeeping force remains in Kosovo, although it has been scaled down from 16,000 to about 6,000 by 2012.
In 2003 Nato took its operations outside Europe for the first time when it assumed strategic command of the UN-mandated peacekeeping force in and immediately around the Afghan capital, Kabul.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Nato embarked on a series of steps designed to build new relationships with former Warsaw Pact countries and particularly with Russia, which was profoundly suspicious of the alliance's plans to expand eastwards.
In 1994 Nato offered former Warsaw Pact members limited associations in the form of the Partnership for Peace programme, allowing them to participate in information sharing, joint exercises and peacekeeping operations.
But this simply appeared to confirm Russian fears that Nato posed a creeping threat to its security.
The Nato-Russia Permanent Joint Council was established in May 1997 to give Russia a consultative role in discussion of matters of mutual interest. While Moscow was given a voice, it rarely felt that it was really listened to.
Russia's fears intensified when in 1999 the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland became the first former Soviet bloc states to join Nato, bringing the alliance's borders 400 miles closer to the Russian frontier.
The 11 September 2001 attacks on targets in the US were a pivotal moment for Nato. The US did not involve the alliance in the international military campaign that followed, even though Secretary-General George Robertson quickly invoked Article Five of the Nato constitution declaring an attack on one member to be an attack on all.
Russia's supportive reaction following the attacks proved to be the catalyst for a thaw in relations with Moscow. The establishment of the Nato-Russia Council was agreed in May 2002. This body gives Russia an equal role with the Nato countries in decision-making on policy to counter terrorism and other security threats.
However, the relationship with Russia continued to be difficult. Russia was unhappy that the Nato expansion of early 2004 brought the alliance to its borders. Relations took a marked turn for the worse after the brief Russo-Georgian war of August 2008, when Nato announced that cooperation would be suspended until Moscow pulled all its troops out of Georgia.
Relations improved after Barack Obama assumed the US presidency in January 2009, and Nato announced in March 2009 that it would be resuming high-level contacts with Russia.
However, relations took a turn for the worse in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine and was accused of supporting separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine. The developments appeared to give Nato, which some described as a Cold War relic, new relevance.
Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the Ukraine crisis "reminds us just how important Nato is. The idea of collective defence has become more important given how Russia is using force to change borders in Europe."
Disputes between Germany, France and the US over the 2003 invasion of Iraq caused one of the worst crises in Nato history. The alliance itself played no part in the invasion, although most member countries did. It later assisted in training Iraqi security forces.
Nato has since shaped a new role for itself. It took command of the international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan in 2003 as part of a growing awareness of the global terrorist threat, and set up a 9,000-strong rapid reaction force for swift deployment to trouble spots anywhere in the world.
However, the reluctance of many Nato governments to supply reinforcements for the Afghan mission raised questions about the alliance's ability to sustain such large-scale operations.
At a key summit held in Lisbon in November 2010 the alliance adopted a new "strategic concept" or mission statement that pledged it to cut costs while prioritising defence against new emerging threats, such as cyber attacks.
Nato allies also agreed to deploy a missile defence system to cover all of the territory of its European members, complementing US plans for a missile defence shield.
And agreement was secured on moving towards Afghan control of internal security, which is due to begin in July 2011 and envisages full Afghan control by the end of 2014.
The imposition of a no-fly zone over Libya in March 2011 posed a tricky problem for the alliance. Although countries such as Britain and the US were keen for Nato to play a major role in heading the operation, some Arab governments were initially uneasy at the prospect of Nato command.
Following a period of disagreement and confusion, Nato agreed to take on the responsibility of enforcing the no-fly zone, which proved crucial in defeating pro-Gaddafi forces in October.
The European Commission's plan for standard time limits for flying will now come into force across the EU.
The transport committee rejected the plan last week, after safety concerns were raised by the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) and others.
But the changes have broad support from member governments, including the UK.
Britain's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) also backed the plans.
The transport committee's recommendation to dismiss the new rules was rejected by 387 MEPs, with 218 voting in favour and 66 abstaining.
Balpa argues the proposals could mean some aircrews fly for longer, with more risk of pilots falling asleep at the controls.
However, EU officials insist the new rules will boost safety standards and ensure that all European airlines have the same maximum time limits for flying.
Under the new act
There has been a huge row over whether the proposals really will make flying safer, the BBC's Duncan Crawford reports from Strasbourg.
Balpa argues that loopholes in the proposals could result in British aircrews being on shift for longer, with pilots potentially being awake for 22 hours before needing to land an aircraft.
The group is concerned that the new limits lower existing UK standards - saying that, for instance, crews might have to do up to seven 05:00 starts in a row, up from three.
The maximum of 1,000 flying hours is an increase on the current 900 that applies in Britain - though airlines will be free to stick to the 900 if they wish.
Jim McAuslan, Balpa's secretary general, said after the vote: "British pilots want to make every flight a safe flight and are deeply concerned that these unsafe new EU rules will put the lives of passengers at risk."
He accused the British government and CAA of forcing through the new regulations.
"Passengers and pilots deserve flight safety rules based on rigorous science and evidence, not secret dodgy deal-making in Strasbourg, which will mean that Britain no longer has the safest skies in Europe," he said.
That claim has been dismissed as a distortion, our correspondent says. An EU official said suggestions the new rules would weaken safety were "false and irresponsible".
The European Parliament's Transport and Tourism Committee chairman, Brian Simpson, noted that every national safety regulator had supported the new measures.
In a statement, the CAA said the new act would give regulators "far greater oversight of fatigue".
"The CAA is calling on the aviation industry to work together to ensure that reporting is improved, fatigue management is strengthened and the new European rules, when implemented, are utilised to their full to enhance aviation safety," the UK body said.
The real annual salaries of emergency workers, many of whom will be working over Christmas, have dropped by thousands of pounds, it said.
The Treasury said "difficult decisions" on public sector pay would protect 200,000 jobs.
It added that public sector wages had kept pace with the private sector.
Midwives and firefighters have seen a real terms annual pay cut of more than £3,000 on average, and nurses' and ambulance drivers' salaries have dropped by more than £2,000, the TUC said.
Police officers' pay is down £1,300, it added.
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "Nearly a million people will be working on Christmas Day this year.
"Ministers should show some seasonal goodwill and end the real-terms pay cuts.
"The government's Scrooge-like public sector pay cap has to go, to ensure that wages at least keep up with prices."
But the Treasury said: "The government has made difficult decisions on public sector pay to maintain fiscal discipline and protect public sector jobs."
Dozens of residents have complained about delays in collections after Bridgend County Borough Council introduced a new system on 5 June.
Town and community councillors claimed the situation was "spiralling out of control".
Bridgend council apologised to residents for the inconvenience.
It added its private contractor Kier had already made changes. The company has been asked to comment.
The new scheme aims to recycle almost all rubbish, with different coloured sacks for cardboard, paper, plastics and nappies and caddies for glass and food waste.
Homes with fewer than five occupants are limited to throwing out two bags of non-recyclable waste every fortnight.
But the changes have been branded "shambolic" on social media by some residents who have waited up to two weeks for their rubbish to be collected.
Angela Pearce, from Cefn Glas, posted a picture of maggots in her food waste caddy, which was supposed to have been picked up on Wednesday.
Her daughter Abi Pearce said: "It still hasn't been collected. It's so unfair that our elderly and disabled have to put up with this, I can't imagine how families are coping with nappies.
"I'm disgusted with Bridgend County Borough Council for allowing this."
John Whitehouse, from Litchard, said collections on his street were four days late, food waste caddies ordered around seven weeks ago have still not arrived and calls to the council and Kier had been fruitless.
"I don't disagree with the scheme in principle but I don't agree with how it was set up," he said.
"It's an absolute shambles and it doesn't seem as if the council or Kier have properly prepared for the changes.
"As a resident who pays my council tax every month on time, I would expect in return my waste to be collected on time by the council."
More than 40 councillors have signed the letter calling on council leader Huw David to take "personal responsibility" for the situation.
"The scheme is well into its second week and there is no sign of things improving," it said.
"We call upon you to recognise that a crisis is unfolding before us and to intervene personally to bring this matter under control."
Bridgend town councillor Freya Sykes Bletsoe said the situation was "horrendous" and that many residents were frustrated at a lack of information from both the council and Kier.
Mr David said: "I can certainly understand people's frustration, and like them, I am extremely disappointed that Kier are not performing as well as they should be. It is clearly not good enough.
"I want to apologise to residents for the inconvenience that this has caused, and thank them all for persevering with us during this initial stage of the contract."
But Mr David said efforts were already yielding positive results with a 50% recycling rate increase.
He added: "Kier have made changes such as increasing the number of staff at their call centre, introducing an additional vehicle to ensure that collections can be completed in some of the county borough's harder-to-reach streets, ensuring that staff have worked over the weekend to help complete rounds, boosting crew numbers and more."
Smith was crowned the Lance Todd Trophy winner in the Challenge Cup final at Wembley, where Wigan defeated Hull FC.
And he can make it a unique double when his side face Warrington in the Grand Final at Old Trafford on Saturday.
Date of birth: 27 July 1987
Born: Whiston, Merseyside
Previous clubs: St Helens, Widnes, Crusaders, Salford
Did you know? Smith was at Everton at the same time as Wayne Rooney, James Vaughan and Victor Anichebe before being released by the Toffees at the age of 15
"It would be amazing to win both man of the match trophies. It has never been done before," Smith told BBC Sport.
Former Wigan stars Kris Radlinski and Jason Robinson have won both awards, but as yet it has never been done in the same campaign.
With Shaun Wane's men looking to complete a double of their own by winning the Super League title to go with their cup victory - a feat not achieved since St Helens in 2006 - Smith is confident in his own ability and is pleased at how he has performed this season.
"It is a team game, we set our sights on winning both cups at the start of the year and to do that would be fantastic," he said.
"I was not sure who would win between Wigan and Leeds last week and I cannot call this one either.
"From an England perspective there are six players from Wigan and two from Warrington [in England's World Cup squad] but that does not tell the whole story.
"Warrington have got a couple of old stagers like Adrian Morley and Garreth Carvell who just missed out with England, then a couple of the younger boys like Stefan Ratchford and Richie Myler who could easily have been selected.
"I think it is a very even match-up between the English boys. It could be the foreign contingent that decide the final."
"If we do end up winning, then someone on our side will pick up the Harry Sunderland trophy and I have a chance of doing that.
"But it has been a great year for me. I haven't surprised myself at how well I have done because I knew I had it in me."
The Merseyside-born 26-year-old already has experience of playing in a Grand Final in 2010, but it was not a good one as his St Helens side were beaten 22-10 by his current employees.
"I still think back to the 2010 final and I never want to feel that pain again, what I felt at the final whistle," said Smith.
"Walking out in front of 80,000 people, the best moment of your career, to the worst moment when you get beaten.
"It was awful but they say you have to lose one to win one so hopefully that will be the case for me on Saturday."
Smith - a former Everton trainee - has predicted a close contest at Old Trafford and feels it will be a showpiece occasion that will live long in the memory.
"It is hard to split the two sides. Both are fantastic, attacking teams that are able to strike from anywhere on the pitch," he added.
"Both are great defensively too and have a first-class kicking game so I think it will be one of the best finals ever."
Marcus Nash alerted birders nationwide after seeing the citril finch in Burnham Overy on Sunday morning.
The bird normally lives in mountainous areas of Europe including the Alps and the Pyrenees.
Mr Nash said: "I've seen them before in the Alps, so immediately knew what it was."
The male bird remained at the dunes during the day and was spotted again on Monday.
Paul Stancliffe, from the British Trust for Ornithology, said the only other recorded sighting of the bird in the country was on the Shetland Isles, in 2008.
"It's just an incredible record," Mr Stancliffe said. "It doesn't normally move very far. It must have got caught up in a weather front."
David North, from Norfolk Wildlife Trust, said the area was a "mecca" for wild birds and continued to amaze.
"There are always surprises but not many birders would have guessed they would see a citril finch," he said.
Mr North urged visitors to keep to footpaths, to protect nesting birds.
The 30-year-old Wales international's previous deal was set to expire at the end of the season.
Edwards has made 22 appearances this term and scored four goals, including the first in Wolves' 2-1 win at QPR on Thursday.
"I am both proud and excited to have agreed a deal to extend my stay at this great club," said Edwards.
He told the club website: "It is great that the manager [Paul Lambert] wanted to get this deal sorted out and now it is up to me to reward him on the pitch with my performances."
By signing a new contract until 2019, Edwards should pass the milestone of spending 10 years at Molineux, having joined from Luton in January 2008.
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To put it into perspective, it was more than one and a half seconds quicker than American Allyson Felix clocked to take gold at this year's World Athletics Championships in Beijing.
Koch's record, set at the World Cup in Canberra, Australia, has been the subject of much debate in the intervening 30 years.
That's because:
However, Koch, now 58, never failed a drugs test and has always maintained she did nothing wrong.
She does not give many interviews, but, at the end of 2014, she told BBC athletics reporter Ed Harry: "I don't have to prove anything to myself.
"I have a clear conscience. I can only repeat myself... I never tested positive, I never did anything which I should not have done at that time.
"I didn't achieve the world record out of nowhere. I had previously improved my time on five occasions, in slow steps, around the 48-second mark, and at some point it became a world record.
"Also, all world records are certainly in some way an exception, so now the next person has to come, or has to be born, who is ready to break the record. At some point, that time will come."
They urge us to read the evidence.
The state-sponsored, systematic doping of East German sportsmen and women was administered by the country's secret police, the Stasi.
On Germany's reunification in 1990, the Stasi's records were handed to a member of the German Science Council, Professor Werner Franke.
He subsequently made those records, detailing who was receiving banned substances and in what quantities, available to the public.
His wife, Brigitte Berendonk, also published a book in 1992 containing doping data for many East German athletes of the era, including Koch.
Following its publication, Koch threatened to sue but never did.
The data detailing dosages of banned substances that Professor Franke published has been used on numerous occasions over the last 25 years.
Specifically, it has helped former East German athletes claim compensation for medical conditions arising from their use of performance-enhancing drugs.
But the sport's world governing body has never used these figures to launch its own investigation.
It says it can't act because there is a 10-year statute of limitations in the World Anti-Doping Agency code, to which it adheres.
However, the IAAF told the BBC that "should an athlete subsequently admit to having used or taken advantage of a substance or a technique prohibited at the time", then it could act.
That could mean removing a record from the history books.
Nothing, it appears. Some of Koch's former team-mates have asked for their performances to be removed from the record books.
As for Koch herself, she said she doesn't feel the need to continually defend her reputation.
"Everyone who knows me knows that I don't seek the publicity," she said. "If I am asked, then I answer. Aside from that, I just have to live with it."
The work showed that women who had a particular version of the BCAR1 gene were more likely than other women to have heart attacks and strokes.
In contrast, men who had the gene were not at increased risk.
Researchers say this adds to mounting evidence that there are differences in how men and women experience heart disease.
In the study, published in the journal, Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics, researchers from University College London pooled data from five European research projects, involving nearly 4,000 men and women.
Comparing their genes, the health of their blood vessels and the thickness of key arteries, scientists pinpointed a version of a gene that was linked to a higher risk of heart attacks, strokes and diseased blood vessels in women.
Though they still have work to do to fully understand the link, researchers believe the gene - when combined with a woman's naturally occurring oestrogen - could lead to an increased risk of heart disease.
And building on previous work, they suggest the gene may encourage the mass migration of cells into the walls of key blood vessels - making them thicker.
As blood vessel walls thicken, this could, in turn, increase the chance of blockages that lead to heart attacks and strokes.
Lead author of the research, Freya Boardman-Pretty, said: "We've known for a long time that risk factors for heart disease are different for men and women.
"This gene effect seen only in women, could be contributing to this difference, although we expect there are a lot of other factors at play.
"If we can confirm that this gene is involved, and work out exactly how it leads to an increased risk of heart disease in women, it could become a new target for drugs in the future."
She added that more research is needed and that individuals need to look beyond their genetic make-up and focus on healthy lifestyles to help protect themselves from heart disease.
Dr Shannon Amoils, from the British Heart Foundation, which helped fund the research, added: "Heart disease is often seen as a disease which predominantly affects men, but this is simply not the case.
"It is imperative that everyone takes steps to prevent it. Women can reduce their risk by not smoking, getting regular physical exercise and eating healthily."
South Korea's radio management agency has issued guidelines outlawing the sale of unregistered selfie sticks.
The law applies to sticks using Bluetooth to remotely trigger a phone to take a picture.
The agency said unregistered sticks might interfere with other devices using the same radio frequencies.
Selfie sticks into which smartphones can be slotted to take snaps of their owners beyond arm's length have proved hugely popular and the most sophisticated versions use the Bluetooth short-range radio technology to trigger a handset's shutter.
Because they use Bluetooth, the devices are considered to be a "telecommunication device" and must be tested and registered with the South Korean agency that oversees such gadgets, an official at the Central Radio Management Office told the AFP newswire.
"The announcement last Friday was really just to let people know that they need to be careful about what they sell," said the official.
The regulations published by the Office can impose fines or jail terms on those making and selling unregistered sticks.
"We've had a lot of calls from vendors who think they might have been unknowingly selling uncertified products," added the radio management office's spokesman.
So far, the new regulations are not being rigorously enforced and there are no reports of the sellers of selfie sticks at attractions in South Korea being targeted by police.
Even the official at the radio frequency watchdog wondered if the new regulation was going to make a difference to the sale of the sticks - whether or not they are registered.
"It's not going to affect anything in any meaningful way, but it is nonetheless a telecommunication device subject to regulation, and that means we are obligated to crack down on uncertified ones," said the spokesman.
Gen John Nicholson said the most powerful non-nuclear bomb ever used by the US in combat had been the right weapon to target a suspected Islamic State (IS) base in Nangarhar province.
A 300m (328yds) long network of tunnels and caves was destroyed, he said.
The US coordinated the attack with Afghanistan, Afghan officials said.
About 36 suspected militants were killed, according to Afghan officials, but IS has denied suffering any casualties.
Known as the "mother of all bombs", or MOAB, the device was dropped on Thursday evening by an MC-130 transport plane, falling in Nangarhar's Achin district.
Chief Executive of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah said the attack had been carried out in co-ordination with his government and "great care had been taken to avoid civilian harm".
When IS announced the establishment of its Khorasan branch - an old name for Afghanistan and surrounding areas - in January 2015, it was the first time the group had officially spread outside the Arab world.
"The enemy had created bunkers, tunnels and extensive mine fields, and this weapon was used to reduce those obstacles so that we could continue our offensive in southern Nangarhar," said Gen Nicholson.
US and Afghan forces at the site saw "no evidence of civilian casualties", he added.
US President Donald Trump called the strike "another successful job".
Local eyewitness Qari Mehrajuddin first saw "lightning like a thunder storm" followed by the roar of an explosion, he was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
"I thought there was a bombing just outside my home," he added but, in reality, the blast was around 5km (three miles) away, according to Reuters.
The 21,600lb (9,800kg) bomb also destroyed a large stash of weapons, the Afghan defence ministry says.
IS commander Siddiq Yar was among those killed, presidential spokesman Shah Hussain Murtazawi told the BBC.
IS fighters in the tunnels had "come from Pakistan and were persecuting people in the local area", he added.
Massive blast area - Jonathan Marcus, BBC defence correspondent
The clue is in the ungainly name - the MOAB or GBU-43/B massive ordnance air blast is the US military's most destructive conventional (that is non-nuclear) bomb.
It is a huge weapon and is GPS-guided. It was dropped from a MC-130 aircraft - the US Special Forces variant of the Hercules transport. The weapon is carried on a special cradle inside the aircraft from which it is extracted by a parachute.
Its principal effect is a massive blast over a huge area. It is a larger version of weapons used during the Vietnam War.
The Trump administration's policy towards Afghanistan remains under consideration but the use of this weapon sends a powerful signal that IS is top of the administration's target list wherever its offshoots may be found.
Achin district governor Ismail Shinwary told the BBC that Afghan special forces, with the help of American air support, had begun anti-IS operations in the area 13 days ago.
He said IS targets had been bombed regularly but "last night's bombarding was very powerful... the biggest I have ever seen".
A member of an anti-IS group in the area who gave his name only as Mohammad told the BBC all civilians had left the area since the start of the anti-IS operations.
Achin resident Mir Alam Shinwari told Reuters that IS were "not human beings, they are savages".
"They used to marry our daughters and wives to their fighters, blamed residents for spying, they beheaded, cut [off] hands and did not allow mobile phones that had cameras," he said.
Dywedodd Nia Griffith, sy'n llefarydd yr wrthblaid ar amddiffyn, fod y Blaid Lafur yn barod i gymryd yr awenau "unrhyw funud".
Mae Mrs May mewn trafodaethau gyda'r Unoliaethwyr Democrataidd, ar ôl i'r Ceidwadwyr golli eu mwyafrif yn yr etholiad ddydd Iau.
Fe gyhoeddodd dau aelod blaenllaw o staff Mrs May eu bod yn ymddiswyddo ddydd Sadwrn. Mae Nick Timothy a Fiona Hill wedi derbyn cyfrifoldeb dros fethiant y Prif Weinidog wrth geisio argyhoeddi pobl y DU yn yr etholiad.
Dywedodd AS Aberconwy, Guto Bebb, sydd hefyd yn Weinidog yn Swyddfa Cymru, mai llywodraeth Geidwadol gyda chefnogaeth gan bleidiau eraill yw'r "yr unig ddewis ar y bwrdd".
Mae Llafur wedi awgrymu y gallai ffurfio gweinyddiaeth leiafrifol, ond gyda 262 o seddi, sydd yn sylweddol llai na'r 326 sydd ei angen ar gyfer mwyafrif yn Nhŷ'r Cyffredin.
Mae arweinydd Llafur, Jeremy Corbyn wedi diystyru taro bargen gyda phleidiau eraill.
Dywedodd Ms Griffith wrth BBC Cymru: "Yr hyn yr ydym wir eisiau, ydi gwneud yn siŵr y gallwn ni roi cynnig ar roi ein syniadau ar waith, ac mae hynny'n golygu bod angen i'r grŵp fod yn unedig iawn yn y senedd.
"Mae'n golygu ein bod angen bod yn barod, ar unrhyw funud, i gymryd drosodd a chamu i mewn i lywodraeth pryd bynnag y gallai'r cyfle godi.
"Rydym yn dal i ddweud yn eithaf clir y byddem yn barod i gymryd drosodd os na all Theresa May drefnu rhywbeth gyda hyn, ac rydym yn amheus iawn y gallai wneud hynny.
"Tyda ni ddim yn credu fod ganddi fandad, mae hi wedi gwneud ffŵl o honni hi ei hun, ac yn wir, a dweud y gwir, fe ddylai hi gamu o'r neilltu a gadael i ni roi cynnig arni."
Fe gafodd y Blaid Lafur yng Nghymru noson etholiadol lwyddiannus gan gipio tair sedd oddi wrth y Ceidwadwyr.
Gŵyr, Dyffryn Clwyd a Gogledd Caerdydd oedd yr etholaethau hynny, gyda phob un o bedair sedd y brifddinas yn bellach yn goch.
Roedd yna ddarogan y byddai'r blaid yn colli seddi yn y gogledd ddwyrain, ond dyw hynny ddim wedi digwydd.
Dywedodd Ms Griffith hefyd fod Jeremy Corbyn wedi rhoi "hyder" i bobl, wrth iddo werthu polisïau'r blaid ynglŷn â "materion megis perchenogaeth gyhoeddus y rheilffyrdd ac ati".
Dywedodd Ms Griffith fod pleidleiswyr wedi newid eu meddyliau i gefnogi Llafur yn ystod yr ymgyrch etholiad ei hun.
"Mae pobl yn cael ymdeimlad gwirioneddol o gymuned yng Nghymru," meddai.
"Maent yn hoffi syniadau Llafur, fel edrych ar ôl y gwasanaethau cyhoeddus ac rwy'n credu y daeth pobl at ei gilydd, a'u bod yn gweld yr hyn mae Theresa May yn ei gynnig yn wag iawn - ni allaf ei alw yn faniffesto."
"Yr hyn oedd yn ddiddorol oedd y nifer o bobl a wnaeth eu penderfyniadau yn ystod yr ymgyrch, gwelsom bethau yn newid ar y funud olaf un."
Fis Mehefin diwethaf, ymunodd Ms Griffith â gwrthryfel Llafur yn erbyn Mr Corbyn yn dilyn pleidlais y refferendwm ar Brexit, ac fe ymddiswyddodd Ms Griffith fel Llefarydd yr wrthblaid ar Gymru mewn protest.
Dychwelodd i'r fainc flaen ym mis Hydref fel y Llefarydd Amddiffyn, ar ôl i Mr Corbyn drechu her i'w arweinyddiaeth gan AS Pontypridd, Owen Smith.
Mae Guto Bebb AS, sy'n Weinidog yn Swyddfa Cymru, wedi gwrthod y syniad y gallai Llafur gymryd yr awenau.
"Mae'n glir iawn i mi mai'r unig opsiwn ar y bwrdd ydi llywodraeth Geidwadol gyda chefnogaeth gan bleidiau eraill yn San Steffan," meddai.
"Mae'r DUP wedi pleidleisio yn weddol reolaidd gyda'r Blaid Geidwadol yn y gorffennol, felly naturiol, rhywbeth i'r prif weinidog i weithio allan ydi unrhyw gytundeb.
"Ond nid yw'n syndod bod yna bosibilrwydd o lywodraeth leiafrifol Geidwadol gyda chefnogaeth y DUP.
"Dydw i ddim yn gweld bod hynny yn annisgwyl mewn unrhyw ffordd."
He was speaking as he visited the crash site where rescue workers are still trying to retrieve bodies.
All 153 people on board, and an unknown number on the ground, were killed.
An official told the BBC investigators have recovered both the flight data and cockpit recorders, vital for understanding what caused the crash.
The McDonnell Douglas MD-83, operated by Dana Air, crashed into a printing works and residential buildings on Sunday afternoon before bursting into flames.
"We have been working very hard to improve the aviation conditions in this country, so this particular incident is a major setback for us as a people," President Jonathan said as he toured the crash site just north of the airport.
"I am here with members of the national assembly, because we will thoroughly investigate this... at the end of the day, we will make sure that this will never repeat itself again in this country," he said.
Correspondents say this could be a difficult challenge in a country with a history of major passenger plane crashes - this is the fourth crash in the last decade in which more than 100 people were killed.
But the African Airlines Association says Nigeria has made significant improvements in the last five years, "maintaining world class standards of safety".
"Nigeria has been used as a model of what can happen if you have a government determined to improve safety - by giving autonomy to the civil aviation authority to do whatever is necessary to improve safety within the country," Elijah Chingosho, the secretary general of the association, told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.
"I hope the president will ensure that the investigation of the cause of this accident is thorough and then they can learn lessons from there which should be implemented as soon as possible and fully."
Efforts to retrieve bodies and clear debris from the area continue as the country began three days of national mourning on Monday.
• Seven major air crashes since 1992
• Security in the sector was revamped in 2007
• All airlines had to re-capitalise or be grounded, in an effort to ensure better safety
• In August 2010, the US gave Nigeria its top safety rating, allowing its domestic carriers to fly directly to America
• Lagos's Murtala Muhammed Airport is a major transport hub for West Africa, with 2.3m passengers passing through it in 2009
• Nigeria's government says it now has full radar coverage of the entire country
The BBC's Sam Olukoya at the crash site says Sunday's scenes of chaos have been replaced by better co-ordination by rescue workers.
"The search and rescue and recovery has been going on steadily. Today, a large number of bodies have been recovered. More are still in there, and they're working tirelessly to get them out," Tunji Oketunmbi, the spokesperson for Nigerian Accident Investigation Bureau, told the BBC.
The cause of the crash remains unclear.
Both the aeroplane's black boxes have been recovered, according to Mr Oketunmbi.
"These are very vital to our investigation, they will help us lots in determining the causes of the accident," he said.
Aviation Minister Stella Oduah said that the pilot contacted the Lagos control tower just before crashing to say the plane was experiencing trouble.
Indian-owned Dana Air, which has yet to make an official statement about the cause of the crash, has set up a 24-hour hotline for relatives.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of guests who were involved in the Dana Air mishap. May the souls of the deceased rest in peace," its website says.
Dana Air says it operates to cities around Nigeria out of Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos.
The airport is a major hub for West Africa and saw 2.3 million passengers pass through it in 2009, according to the most recent statistics provided by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria.
Black Friday, the big sales day in the US that follows the Thanksgiving holiday, is being adopted by more and more shops in the UK.
It was brought over by online store Amazon four years ago as internet shoppers noticed the US got the best deals.
"The global nature of the internet means the best deals can't be kept in America," says Nick Bubb, an independent retail analyst.
Most offers will be on electrical goods such as TVs, tablets, kitchen gadgets and audio hardware, he says, as electricals are often where shops can get the best deals from suppliers.
In the UK, Black Friday has been led by "the three As," says Mr Bubb: Amazon, Apple and Wal-Mart's Asda.
And this year is likely to see the biggest Black Friday sales yet as more people know about the event and more shops participate, say analysts.
Tesco says it expects Black Friday to beat Boxing Day sales in 2014 as it prepares discounts of as much as 70%. Its 24-hour stores will begin selling a minute after midnight, and more staff may be laid on in some areas.
This year rival Sainsbury's will enter the fray with 485 stores taking part, while Asda says it will be using the buying power of its US-based owner Wal-Mart to bring more bargains to UK shoppers.
Department store John Lewis says it will put on about 100 deals and will add staff at its main distribution centre and in stores.
"Following steady growth over the last few years, Black Friday really emerged in the UK in 2013, when we saw the day break our previous records for a single day's online trade," says Mark Lewis, online director at John Lewis.
According to a Visa estimate, spending on Black Friday in the UK will be up 22% on last year with £1m spent on its cards every three minutes on the day.
A product of this Christmas sale in November is lengthening the shopping season, says Jacques de Cock of the London School of Marketing.
"Ultimately, customers only have a finite pot of money," he says, but purchases made sooner rather than later mean "people will forget" what they've spent, so shops are trying to lengthen the shopping season.
Another reason for this early sales event is its part in the game of chicken played between shops and shoppers, says Clare Rayner, founder of the Support for Independent Retail campaign.
Customers have money to spend and want to buy gifts, which the retailers know.
On the other side of the coin, shops need the festive period to be a profitable one to keep shareholders happy or merely to survive, which consumers know.
This has previously meant customers being prepared to wait and wait for the best deals to arrive, knowing shops will eventually blink and offer them a bargain for fear of losing their custom to a competitor.
Now shops are adopting this American tradition of a pre-Christmas sale period to capture those sales.
Ten things you didn't know about Black Friday
But what about smaller competitors?
Ms Rayner says independent shops will soon have to start planning for next year if they want to offer discounts comparable to their larger peers, because of the planning and negotiating that will be necessary.
Smaller shops are trying to import the US answer to Black Friday for independent shops - Small Business Saturday - which is proving challenging, she says.
"Some local councils are offering free parking on the Saturday but some shops don't even know it exists to encourage customers in... getting it together is difficult."
She adds: "If independent retailers want to have a part in Black Friday they will need the budget."
Doing cheap deals means giving away profit margin, which is a gamble, she says.
Many of the deals for the retailing giants will be supplier-funded, says Ms Rayner.
This means a big store company will have agreed a promotional deal with a supplier, such as a TV manufacturer. That can help the manufacturer gain market share at the expense of the competition, but it saddles most of the risk, rather than the retailer.
As for shoppers, there are some tricks to be aware of, says Mr de Cock of the London School of Marketing.
He says retailers are relying on Black Friday's fleeting nature and so-called flash sales to get shoppers to buy.
"Buy now or regret - getting consumers to trick themselves" is part of the gambit, he says. "It encourages more spontaneous purchases with less thought."
His advice: "Don't buy it just because it's discounted."
Consumers should also beware of companies using it as a good way to dispose of end-of-line products, particularly in technology, he says.
And they should also realise that the UK discounts on most products don't come close to the discounts available in the US, where 70% cuts are more commonplace.
Mr de Cock says Amazon may be the biggest winner on the day because they have the most experience.
For analyst Nick Bubb, shops also need to be careful about how many sales they run. "The biggest problem is no-one will want to buy full price ever again."
The service for Abbas Khan took place at Regent's Park Mosque in London.
Mr Khan was days from being freed when the Syrian government announced on 17 December he had committed suicide. His family believes he was murdered.
He was arrested after arriving in Syria to work in a field hospital in a rebel-controlled area in November 2012.
An inquest into the death of the 32-year-old from Streatham will open at Walthamstow Coroner's Court on Friday.
At a packed funeral prayer service, his brother Shahnawaz Khan said: "Last night, I sat down to undertake the morbid task of writing a eulogy for my brother."
"My brother, to us, was our star - his star shone on our family."
Dr Khan was described by his brother as the "kindest and simplest man I've ever met".
Mr Khan spoke of "the evil that has taken him from us so cruelly" and said the family had been through "one of the most difficult times we have ever seen".
In a very distressed state outside the mosque, Dr Khan's mother wailed and, as people tried to comfort her, she told people not to aid her.
"Nobody help me, I love my son. I am the loser. I'm the failure," she said.
"I beg everybody. I touch everyone's feet. Please give me my son."
Solicitor Nabeel Sheikh said the family were "grateful for all the support they have received from the public".
He said the idea of suicide was "inconceivable".
However, he added the Foreign Office had done "nothing more" than send Mr Khan's family a letter of condolence.
The Foreign Office said it was giving the family "privacy and space to grieve".
Following the funeral, the body of Dr Khan, who leaves behind his wife, a seven-year-old daughter and a six-year-old son, was taken to Ilford to be buried.
Dr Khan's body was flown back to London on Sunday and a post-mortem examination later took place.
Orthopaedic surgeon Dr Khan entered Syria without a visa, and later told his family he was "accused of treating dying civilians, (women and children), which has been classed as an act of terrorism".
His family has revealed a letter in which Dr Khan talked of his optimism at being released, and his hopes of being home in time for Christmas.
Prime Minister David Cameron wrote to Dr Khan's mother Fatima on 20 December, calling his death a "sickening and appalling tragedy".
The Foreign Office has said the doctor had been "in effect murdered" by the Syrian authorities and at best his death was "extremely suspicious".
Officials said they had "consistently sought" consular access to Dr Khan and information on his detention, directly and through the Russians, Czechs and others.
But Dr Khan's brother, Shahnawaz, criticised the UK government for not doing enough to secure his brother's freedom.
He said the Foreign Office had treated his case as if he was a "wayward traveller in Dubai being caught drunk".
The Syrian government, meanwhile, has told Dr Khan's family it could send a team to Damascus to investigate his death. It also said it would share the findings of its own post-mortem examination with the family.
In Iran, reactions range from euphoric to critical and cautionary.
Regional media are strongly divided on the deal, but they agree on the "historic" nature of Tuesday's announcement.
There is a sense of pride on Iran's rolling news channels IRINN and Press TV, with patriotic music videos adding colour to rolling coverage of the build-up to Tuesday's announcement.
State-owned Channel One is more reserved, presumably not to overexcite the audience over the agreement. But even Channel One is appreciative of the negotiators, while stressing that the deal came through the "resistance" of Iranians.
In their morning editions, before the deal was formally announced, Iran's moderate and reformist papers celebrated the upcoming agreement, hailing Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as a hero of near-epic proportions.
The Qanoon newspaper carried a front-page report depicting Mr Zarif as Arash, a heroic archer figure from Iranian folklore.
"From Arash to Zarif - We endured great suffering so that Iran can transform into a shining jewel," said the daily.
The reformist daily Aftab-e Yazd cast Mr Zarif as Amir Kabir - a famous 19th-Century reforming prime minister.
But there has also been criticism. Hardline websites and supporters of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad censure the deal, claiming that it violated red lines set by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
"Iran has always faced West's ill-intentions and sabotage, with US playing main role", wrote the hardline Keyhan daily.
Conservative websites also criticised pro-government news outlets for their calls for "nuclear celebrations".
Under hashtags #IranTalks, #IranDeal and #IranWinsPeace, Iranian web users have been rejoicing at the deal.
"Hello, world! Goodbye, sanctions!" tweets @Mojtaba_Fathi.
"Let us sing together: Iran, o home of hope!" says another tweet.
Persian-language Twitter is full of praise for Mr Zarif, who led Iran's nuclear negotiating team over the past two years.
"As long as the world and Iran exist, we will always be indebted to Zarif", tweets @kimiyakhsh.
Iranian nuclear negotiators too used social media, in particular Instagram, to keep Iranians updated on the nuclear talks.
Middle Eastern media, too, focus on the Iran deal.
In their morning editions, the Middle East Arabic press discussed the impacts of the imminent agreement, agreeing that it affects the entire region.
"The Middle East would not be the same after the deal," wrote the Lebanese al-Mustaqbal daily.
Jordan's al-Rai said the "historical" deal means the "high possibility of new alliances".
Gulf papers, however, expressed doubts, with an editorial in Qatar's al-Watan saying the deal would be "a defeat for Iran and its soft powers. It will also allow the Arab region to move to a new stage of strength and stability".
In Israel, the media are divided in their response.
Pro-government freesheet Yisrael Hayom calls the agreement "shameful", adding that the US Congress is Israel's "last hope" of preventing the deal.
"The US Senate can rescue Israel from the Iranian nuke, but mainly rescue the West from one of the most shameful surrenders in history," writes its commentator Boaz Bismuth.
Liberal Haaretz says the deal "breaks a political taboo".
"The agreement over Iran's nuclear project is the result of unprecedented talks between equals that also won international recognition for the Islamic revolution," writes commentator Zvi Bar'el.
Writing in the Jerusalem Post, Herb Keinon highlights Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's anger at the deal.
"The final year of the [US President Barack] Obama-Netanyahu era, therefore, most likely will be more fraught than even the seven years that came before," says the paper.
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The 38-year-old hit eight birdies to move one stroke clear of compatriot Jamie Lovemark, who also carded 65.
Defending champion Bill Haas scored a second straight 66 to share third.
Haas is joined by overnight co-leader Anirban Lahiri of India, who shot 68, Canada's Adam Hadwin and fellow Americans Jason Gore and Andrew Loupe.
Another stroke back was five-times major winner Phil Mickelson, who said he was nearing top form after returning a 65.
"I'm probably a week away," he said. "But I've also won with a lot less game than I have right now, so I still expect to get in contention and have a good weekend."
Scotland's Martin Laird is the highest-placed Briton, eight shots off the lead and tied for 35th, while England's Luke Donald is two strokes further back.
The security forces opened fire while people queued for food cards at a camp for internally displaced people.
The mayor of Mogadishu Yusuf Hussein Jimale said some suspects had already been arrested and others will follow.
The camp houses people fleeing Islamist militants al-Shabab, drought and the country's long-running conflict.
Members were due to start the ban on Sunday as part of the long-running dispute over the introduction of driver-only-operated trains.
Mick Whelan, Aslef's general secretary, said the move came after a meeting with Southern earlier.
He said Southern had indicated it would discuss "a range of issues".
The union said it would discuss driver's terms and conditions, industrial relations and pay.
Mr Whelan said: "Industrial action is always the last resort; we would much rather talk and negotiate than take industrial action.
"The company has indicated that it is prepared to negotiate with us on a range of outstanding issues and, therefore, we have suspended our overtime ban.
"We now have a fortnight to try and find a resolution."
Nick Brown, chief operating officer of Southern's parent company Govia Thameslink Railway, said: "We are pleased that Aslef has suspended the drivers' overtime ban.
"This will allow talks to continue, on a wide range of issues including pay. We aim to continue to find a way forward over the next few weeks and finally bring matters to a conclusion."
The drivers' union has been in a year-long dispute with Southern and its parent company Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) over the roles of train staff.
GTR replaced conductors with "on-board supervisors" to work across different services but without the responsibility of closing doors - which has switched to train drivers.
Talks between Southern and the RMT union over the change of roles of guards to on-board-supervisors were adjourned last month.
But the number of homes that cannot get a service of 10 megabits per second (mbps) or higher has fallen by one million in the last year, it found.
The report looks at how the UK's mix of fixed and wireless communication networks are developing.
Ofcom said despite the fall, "much more" had to be done to improve the UK's communications infrastructure.
"Mobile and broadband coverage continued to grow this year, but too many people and businesses are still struggling for a good service," said Steve Unger, Ofcom's director of strategy, in a statement. "We think that is unacceptable."
Ofcom's report found a significant urban-rural divide on higher speed broadband. About 25% of properties in rural areas, more than 900,000 homes, are too far from telephone exchanges to get a 10mbps service. This speed is now necessary to meet the needs of typical households, it said.
Estimates by Ofcom suggest it would take £1.1bn to boost networks in remote areas so they run as fast as the "decent" 10mbps networks in towns and cities.
The report noted that one-third of UK homes, 9.1 million, have signed up for superfast services - designated as 30mbps or higher.
Ofcom said the UK's mobile networks also needed to tackle areas where coverage fell short. Its report estimates that only 40% of the UK's landmass can get 4G mobile signals from all four operators. This was an improvement on 2015, when only 8% enjoyed that "total" coverage, it said.
Ofcom is now talking to network operators about "radical and ambitious" ways to fill the "not-spots" and to boost speeds.
"The advent of 5G draws ever closer, which seems extraordinary when a third of the UK's geography can't even get a call signal from all four networks," said Ernest Doku, mobiles expert at USwitch, in a statement.
"It's a bitter irony for anyone living in a coverage blackspot, who'd gladly settle for a voice call let alone 5G," he added.
The Ofcom report is published soon after a separate report from the UK's National Infrastructure Commission called mobile coverage on trains and motorways "appalling".
It found that the UK's 4G network currently ranks 54th in the world in terms of coverage.
The Swedish Football Association claims an AIK player was "offered a considerable sum" if he contributed to losing Thursday's Allsvenskan game.
General secretary Hakan Sjostrand described it as a "very serious attack against Swedish football", adding: "We will never let this happen."
Police in Sweden have started an investigation into the allegation.
"It is ultimately not about a single match, therefore it is important we act forcefully," added Sjostrand.
"The starting point for all of our games is that they are safe and settled on sporting grounds. Based on the information we have, we cannot guarantee that."
The two sides have played eight games in the Allsvenskan this season, with AIK sixth in the 16-team table, five places above Gothenburg.
Radio Sweden's Spenser Bomholt, speaking to BBC World Sport Today:
"This has been the first instance of alleged match-fixing in the top league level that we have heard about - it has happened quite a bit in lower league football and in basketball. In 2016, the Superettan [second tier] had 43 instances of players participating in match-fixing, but for it to rise to this level is really quite surprising.
"The secretary general of the Swedish Football Federation say they have worked hard to educate players about what to do if they find themselves in this situation, and that's one of the reasons this was nipped in the bud."
They belong to a man in his 40s, his wife, in her 30s, and their three sons aged six, 11 and 13.
They have been named locally as Alan and Clodagh Hawe and their sons Niall, Ryan and Liam.
Police say they are not currently looking for anyone else in relation to the deaths.
The alarm was raised at 10:45 BST on Monday, after someone called to the house and could not get in.
They contacted police who searched the house and found two of the bodies downstairs, the other three were found in upstairs bedrooms.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday evening, Assistant Commissioner John O'Driscoll said: "We believe all the answers are in that house.
"We are working along very definite lines of inquiry.
"The most likely scenario is that one person in that house may have caused the deaths of the others."
He said there was no evidence that a firearm had been used and a number of objects had to be examined before a cause of death can be confirmed.
Bishop Leo O'Reilly of Kilmore said the deaths were "shocking" and "near impossible to comprehend".
Brighton's Eubank Jr, 25, challenges for Billy Joe Saunders' British, European and Commonwealth middleweight titles at London's Excel arena on Saturday.
Hatfield's Saunders, a former Olympian, is the favourite for the fight, which has had an ill-tempered build-up.
"The last person who had this ability was Sugar Ray Leonard," said Eubank Sr.
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"My son is the most dangerous young man I've ever come across in boxing, the most dangerous fighter on the planet.
"I was the benchmark, I was the beacon, I was the one everyone was measured against. And I can't even measure him against me.
"I have never seen anything like him. The great British public has a great journey in front of them over the next 10 years."
American Leonard, regarded by many as the greatest of the modern era, landed Olympic gold in 1976 before winning world titles in five weight divisions as a professional.
Blessed with dazzling skills, knockout punching power, a granite chin and enormous courage, not to mention good looks and charisma, Leonard fought and beat fellow greats Wilfred Benitez, Roberto Duran, Thomas Hearns and Marvin Hagler in a career spanning 20 years.
But Eubank Sr has no qualms about comparing his son, undefeated in 18 contests since turning pro in 2011, to Leonard.
"Am I putting too much pressure on him by saying he's as talented as Sugar Ray Leonard?" Eubank Sr told BBC Sport.
"If I don't say it to him, he'll never see it. I have to make him aware that this is what I see. Can he do what I see? I am absolutely certain of that. It's ridiculous the things he can do."
Eubank Sr won world titles in two weight divisions in the 1990s and is remembered as one of the most courageous boxers of all time.
But Eubank Jr says he is relaxed about comparisons with his father, who engaged in some of the most brutal contests in British boxing history, including his victory over Michael Watson in 1991, which left Watson fighting for his life.
"I have the same resolve as my father," said Eubank Jr. "I'm willing to lay down my life to defend my undefeated record.
"I know that I have something inside of me that many of the fighters of my generation don't. I'm made of pure British steel.
"I'm looking forward to the night when someone gives me the pleasure of providing me with a war, so I can show the public exactly what I'm made of.
"This is why I'm going to pull off a great performance on 29 November, in front of 20,000 people, with three belts on the line. It's going to be cool, calm, calculated mayhem."
Saunders, also 25, represented Great Britain at Beijing 2008 and has won all 20 of his fights since turning professional the following year. He believes he is in top form going into the bout.
"I'm feeling great, the best I've ever been in my career," he said. "My weight is perfect. I'm just where I want to be.
"Everything has been done in training camp and I've left no stone unturned. I couldn't have done any more and now it's all on the line on Saturday night - there's going to be fireworks.
"The boxing world seems to be split down the middle deciding who is going to win between us. I can't see why because for me it's a clear cut victory for me - but everyone will see the reason why this Saturday."
Estyn called on local authorities, schools and pupil referral units (PRUs) to work together to prevent children leaving full-time education.
Its report highlighted inconsistent provisions at PRUs.
Estyn's new chief inspector, Meilyr Rowlands, said "effective strategies" were needed.
He said: "Although we have seen good practice in PRUs, all stakeholders still need to do more to make sure there are effective strategies in place to help vulnerable pupils both in and outside school settings."
The report, Education Other Than At School, also encouraged "prompt intervention" with disengaged pupils and said some PRU staff felt "isolated and unsupported".
The report highlighted good practice in Ceredigion where there have been no permanent exclusions in schools for six years.
The Melancholia director was probed about breaking French law after remarks made at the Cannes Film Festival.
In a statement he said he realises he does not "possess the skills to express myself unequivocally".
Von Trier added that from now on he will "refrain from all public statements and interviews".
In May he was expelled from the French film gala after he told a press conference that he sympathised with the dictator.
"I understand Hitler, but I think he did some wrong things, yes absolutely, but I can see him sitting in his bunker," he said.
"I think I understand the man, He's not what you would call a good guy, but I understand much about him and I sympathise with him."
In a statement afterwards organisers of the festival declared the film-maker "persona non grata".
Von Trier accepted the punishment, but issued a statement saying he was not anti-Semitic, racially prejudiced or a Nazi.
Actress Kirsten Dunst, who was with Von Trier in Cannes to promote Melancholia, told The Guardian that footage of the press conference was hard to watch back.
"You could see my face. I was choking, because I'm watching a friend having a meltdown. And what he's saying is horrendous in a roomful of press.
"He was asked an inappropriate question and his response was to make a joke about it. But no one laughed and he just kept unravelling."
If he sticks to his promise, one of the director's last interviews will have been with Radio 3's Night Waves programme.
Over forty minutes, Von Trier discussed how his childhood fear of atomic war had informed his career, and said The Night Porter, in which Dirk Bogarde plays a former concentration camp officer, had been a major influence on his film-making.
The group have been held at sea by customs officials for almost a month.
Rights groups had voiced serious concerns about their treatment.
The case came to light earlier this month as Australia detained a separate boat of Sri Lankan asylum seekers, screened their asylum claims at sea and returned them to Sri Lanka.
Human rights activists filed a legal challenge aimed at preventing similar handling of this second group of people.
Lawyers say the group, which departed from India, includes Sri Lankan Tamils.
Rights groups say Tamils can still face intimidation and violence in Sri Lanka, five years after the end of the civil war, which pitted the majority Sinhalese Sri Lankan military against Tamil separatists.
Under international treaties, Australia cannot return people to places where they might face persecution. UN refugee body UNHCR has also expressed concern about the fairness of on-water screening of asylum claims.
Australian officials have not revealed where the group were being held.
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday that - following talks with Indian officials - they would be brought to Australia.
Consular officials from the Indian High Commission would be given access to determine identities and "arrange where possible the return of any persons to India".
India would also consider taking non-nationals who were Indian residents, he said.
It was not clear what might happen to those who did not fall into this category, nor was the extent to which asylum claims would be assessed addressed.
But Mr Morrison said no members of the group would be allowed to settle in Australia.
He declined to comment on where the group would be detained but local reports say they are being transferred to the Curtin detention centre via the Cocos Islands.
The move is an apparent set-back for the government, which enforces tough policies aimed at ending the arrival of asylum boats.
Australia detains all those who arrive by boat. In recent months detainees have been processed offshore, in camps in Papua New Guinea and Nauru. Those found to be refugees will be settled in PNG and Nauru, not Australia.
Reports have also emerged in recent months of Australia towing boats back to Indonesia, the most common embarkation point.
The government says the aim is to save lives by preventing people getting on dangerous boats. But refugee advocates and the UN have voiced increasing concern about the policies, with severe criticism of conditions in Australia's detention camps.
Responding to Mr Morrison's announcement, Amnesty International said the development showed that "stranding a boatload of people in the middle of the sea, in an effort to 'stop the boats', has achieved nothing".
"All it has done is prolong and exacerbate the suffering of more than 150 asylum seekers and their families," said Graeme McGregor, the group's refugee campaign co-ordinator.
All asylum seekers must have the opportunity to undergo a "full, fair and rigorous" assessment for refugee status, he said.
The former home secretary confirmed he had been questioned by police about a "serious allegation made against me".
The Independent on Sunday said Lord Brittan was understood to have been questioned last month about the claim, which relates to an incident in London in 1967.
Lord Brittan, 74, was not an MP at the time of the alleged rape.
In a statement, the Conservative peer said: "It is true that I have been questioned by the police about a serious allegation made against me. This allegation is wholly without foundation."
Scotland Yard said that in late 2012 a woman claimed to police that she was raped by a man at an address in the capital. It said the woman was over 18 at the time of the incident.
Police added that a man in his 70s was interviewed under caution, by appointment, at a central London location last month. He was not arrested and inquiries continue.
Lord Brittan was home secretary in Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government from 1983 to 1985.
Lord Brittan, who was first elected as an MP in 1974, later became Trade and Industry Secretary. He stood down from the Commons when he became a European commissioner in 1989.
Downing Street sources have said they did not know about the questioning.
The High Court was told they face increased dangers operating alone, with reduced abilities to screen those seeking out their services.
The claims were made during a sex worker's unprecedented legal challenge to legislation making it illegal for men to pay for prostitutes.
The law was changed last year.
Laura Lee's lawyers claim amendments to the Human Trafficking and Exploitation Act breach human rights entitlements to privacy and freedom from discrimination.
But Attorney General John Larkin QC, representing the first and deputy first ministers, resisted her legal challenge.
He said protections under European law do not cover sex for hire.
Northern Ireland is currently the only UK region to make the purchase of sex a criminal offence.
The amended legislation was introduced last year in a private member's bill brought before the assembly by DUP peer and MLA Lord Morrow.
Although it shifts the legal burden away from prostitutes, many of them believe it puts them at heightened risk from customers using fake names to avoid identification.
Ms Lee, a 38-year-old Dublin-born law graduate, was accompanied by supporters for the first stage in her courtroom battle.
Mr Justice Maguire was told she has been a sex worker for two decades, and now operates in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.
Her barrister stressed the case was not a debate about the morality or any perceived degradation of those involved in the trade.
"We simply say the current law operates to make sex work in Northern Ireland more dangerous, particularly for women, given most sex workers are women," he said.
The court heard Ms Lee was herself exposed to significant verbal abuse during one encounter.
She feared for her own safety but was able to avoid any violence.
Her legal challenge is directed against the Department of Justice - even though former minister David Ford opposed the new legislative clause.
Counsel for the department did not oppose the case advancing to a full hearing, but stressed it was no indication of support for Ms Lee's action.
However, the Attorney General argued that proceedings should be thrown out at the first stage.
He claimed the act brought in by Lord Morrow provided Ms Lee with greater protection from any abusive behaviour.
Referring to Ms Lee's business model, the Attorney General said she is paid up-front in cash for sexual services.
"She can't sue for her fees, she can't issue an invoice to a client asking him or her to pay up," he said.
"Her business... is utterly unsupported by the common law and existing law of contract."
Responding to claims that customers are more likely to remain anonymous, Mr Larkin suggested those who are "hardly flowers of humanity" may always have been wary about being known.
He rejected claims that the law means men seeking to pay for sex will be more dangerous, contending that Ms Lee retains "sovereign choice" on whether to accept clients who don't identify themselves.
The Attorney General added: "The applicant wants to continue to receive money from prostitution.
"The policy of the law designed to disrupt and, if possible, prevent human trafficking is to choke-off demand.
"Time will tell whether or not that works, but Lord Morrow, I hazard, would be very pleased indeed to know he stopped one or two women being trafficked into prostitution."
Judgment was reserved on the application for leave to seek a judicial review.
Manchester United against Liverpool is a match which rarely fails to deliver some element of controversy. But the recent Steven Gerrard 38-second red card has nothing on the tie between the clubs 100 years ago.
On that day, there were "two matches going on at once" during a crucial bottom of the table clash at Old Trafford.
After an approach by a third party, some players from both sides hatched a plot to rig the game for a 2-0 home win, which eventually saw United avoid relegation.
"There was the realistic possibility of relegation for both of the sides - so it was an important match," says Graham Sharpe, a sports writer who has researched the fixture.
"It was overshadowed by the First World War, which had been raging for several months, and you could make the case that those players thought to themselves, 'when this season has finished, there may not be one to follow'."
Many footballers had already signed up to fight, while others played on.
There were rumours about the honesty of the tie, even before kick-off.
There were eyewitness accounts of the two sets of players meeting up in Manchester pubs to discuss the outcome, before bets were placed at up to 8/1.
Bookmakers were naturally suspicious if they saw "significant amounts of bets" on one particular outcome or score, Mr Sharpe says.
A crowd of up to 18,000 witnessed one of the fixture's most extraordinary passages, when United were 1-0 up and won a penalty.
Patrick O'Connell, a centre half and the side's captain, stepped up and hit it so far wide it nearly hit the corner flag, according to match reports.
Mr Sharpe explains: "From all reports, he walked back up the pitch laughing as he thought 'well it doesn't matter, we can get another goal whenever we want one'."
There are accounts of a dressing room row at half-time, with some players who were not in on the plot threatening not to come out for the second half.
And after United got a second goal, the bet was nearly ruined when Liverpool forward Fred Pagnam hit the crossbar.
"A number of his teammates gestured angrily towards him," Mr Sharpe says.
Baseball's 1919 Black Sox scandal - "Say it ain't so, Joe," was the apocryphal cry of the heartbroken kid who could not believe his hero, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, could have done such a dastardly thing as throw the 1919 World Series.
But it was true, and the United States was rocked by the news that several members of the Chicago White Sox had conspired to fix the outcome of games against the Cincinnati Reds in return for $100,000 ($1.42m /£960k in today's money). Several of their players, including Jackson, were given life bans.
Pakistan 2010 cricket spot-fixing scandal - Former Pakistan cricket captain Salman Butt was jailed for 30 months in 2011 for his part in a conspiracy to bowl deliberate no-balls in a 2010 Test match against England.
Former world number two Test bowler Mohammad Asif was jailed for one year and 19-year-old bowler Mohammad Amir was given six months.
Sheffield Wednesday 1964 betting scandal - Former Sheffield Wednesday centre half Peter Swan and his fellow player David Layne bet £50 that Ipswich Town would beat their own team Sheffield Wednesday 2-0.
They were jailed for four years for "conspiracy to defraud". Swan's eight year ban cost him his place in the 1966 World Cup as he had been a regular in the England team.
Failed floodlights scam 1997 - A businessman, with links to Chinese Triad gangs, was convicted of taking part in an Asian betting scam by plotting to black out a Charlton Athletic v Liverpool game.
Two previous matches - West Ham united v Crystal Palace and Wimbledon v Arsenal - saw the floodlights fail when the scores were level, a result favourable to a Far East betting syndicate.
"It's almost as if there were two matches going on at once."
Suspicions were raised almost immediately after the game, with an inquiry announced shortly afterwards.
Later that year, Liverpool players Tom Fairfoul, Tom Miller, Bob Purcell and Jackie Sheldon and United's Enoch West, Sandy Turnbull and Arthur Whalley received lifetime bans.
Lawrence Cook, of Chester, and Manchester City's Fred Howard were also banned for their parts in the scam.
The Football Association said the players had "sought to undermine the whole fabric of the game and discredit its honesty and fairness."
Players were then called up to fight in the war.
When they returned, many had their bans lifted in recognition of their war efforts, while Turnbull received a posthumous pardon as he was fatally wounded at Arras in 1917.
However, Enoch 'Knocker' West, who had refused to admit his role in the plot and even sued the FA for libel, was not pardoned and remained banned from football for 30 years.
A recent campaign to clear his name has stalled because the FA said his documents were lost.
Alex Jackson, Collections Officer at the National Football Museum, thinks the player's motivations for the plot could be similar to that of the US baseball players involved in the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
He said footballer's wages had fallen after the outbreak of war and - similar to the Chicago White Sox players - financial reward was the aim.
Mr Sharpe believes it was "a combination of 'let's stick two fingers up to authority' and 'let's cover ourselves in the event of losing our livelihoods or in fact our lives".
Mr Jackson said: "It was probably the biggest scandal of the time as it involved quite a number of players and two of the biggest clubs in the league.
"It is interesting that the players were approached by a third party to arrange the scam, but they were never found out".
Mr Sharpe said the match changed the way the British betting industry operated.
"It was the first major case of its type and will have made the authorities wary of this sort of behaviour. For that reason, it will never be completely forgotten."
Feeney was sacked on 28 October with the club bottom of League Two.
County director Gavin Foxall would not confirm Westley was in the running, but admitted the former Stevenage manager is well qualified.
''We are looking for somebody with that type of pedigree and profile to get us out of the position we are in today,'' he said.
Newport hope to appoint a new boss in time for next Saturday's League Two game at Colchester.
Currently without a club, Westley, 46, was in charge at Peterborough from September 2015 until last April, having also been manager at Preston.
Westley led Stevenage into the Football League and then into League One.
Foxall told Radio Wales the process to find a new boss was continuing this weekend, with a view to an appointment next Thursday.
Newport were due to host Stevenage at Rodney Parade on Saturday, but the game was postponed because of a waterlogged pitch.
It was the second time in a month that Newport have had a home game called off after heavy rain.
Newport share the ground with owners Newport Rugby Club, who played on Thursday night, and the Newport Gwent Dragons regional rugby team, who lost 26-17 to Glasgow on Friday.
The idea is in a plan to boost numbers of GPs and community nurses in Wales.
Other measures unveiled by the health minister include offering part-time work to doctors thinking of retiring.
Mark Drakeford, who announced an extra £4.5m towards recruitment and training, also said he wanted to "make the most" of the skills of current staff.
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) in Wales has already pointed to a "desperate workplace crisis", with nearly a quarter of GPs set to retire over the next five years and a slump in medical graduates wanting to replace them.
The strategy also looks at new ways of working between GPs, pharmacists, dentists, optometrists, therapists, nurses and other healthcare workers.
It wants improved training, more robust planning and a greater sharing of information, so patients can be given more effective treatment outside hospital.
South Wales GP Dr Richard Lewis, Welsh Secretary of the British Medical Association, has also been appointed as Wales' first professional lead for primary care.
His responsibilities include providing leadership to healthcare staff in the community and helping the Welsh government with its plan to provide more medical services closer to people's homes.
Proposals include:
BBC Wales health correspondent Owain Clarke took a trip around mid and north Wales to look at three surgeries.
Criccieth Medical Centre, Gwynedd
There are 4,000 registered patients but shortages of GPs locally coupled with an aging population means demand is increasing all the time. Some patients can wait up to a month for an appointment.
Dr Melfyn Edwards said: "There's been a failure to recruit for various reasons. The situation is quite bleak locally.
"For GPs it's degrading to morale, it's very difficult to try to sustain a happy smiling face and provide good standards of service when you're under a heck of a lot of pressure daily."
Meddyg Care, Porthmadog, Gwynedd
After the retirement of two local GPs, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board had to take over the running of GP surgeries in Porthmadog for 18 months using temporary staff.
The tender to run the town's two NHS surgeries was subsequently won by Meddyg Care company, a business run by two GPs and a managing partner.
Kevin Edwards, practice manager, said: "We've got to be encouraging medical students to come to general practices and spending more time than they do presently".
Machynlleth Medical Centre, Powys
The Medical Centre in Machynlleth previously had four GP partners, now there are only two. After failing to recruit extra GP partners, Powys Local Health Board will take over the running of the surgery later this summer.
Dr David Church said: "There is a shortage across Britain. For a small surgery like this, you notice more of a difference.
"The health board will be taking over the direct management at the start of August and we hope that will allow us to concentrate on the clinical route while still trying to recruit doctors."
Mr Drakeford said: "Our goal is to meet the rising demand for healthcare by making the most of the skills our dedicated primary care workforce already have and supporting them in their continued desire to innovate and improve the services they provide every day."
Meanwhile, Dr Richard Lewis, who has been Welsh secretary of doctors' organisation, the British Medical Association, has been appointed as Wales' first national professional lead for primary care.
The new role will help ministers deliver the new strategy.
"He has the knowledge, experience and understanding of the strengths and challenges of our health service in Wales," said Mr Drakeford..
The train company is advising passengers not to travel towards London Waterloo until after 09:00 after a loss of all signalling in the Earlsfield area of south-west London.
It said trains could be cancelled, delayed by up to 90 minutes or revised until the end of service.
Waterloo handles about 100 million passenger journeys a year.
SWT had already warned of disruption because of a track defect on a set of points between Woking and Surbiton, which blocked the London-bound fast line.
A Network Rail spokesman said: "Owing to a major signalling failure overnight, mainline services through Clapham Junction to Waterloo will be delayed or cancelled this morning.
"We're sorry for the disruption this will cause to people's journeys this morning, and will continue to work to resume a normal service as quickly as possible."
South West Trains passengers are set to face severe disruption next month when work begins to extend platforms at Waterloo, meaning many services will not be running and some commuter stations will be closed altogether.
The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) for England and Wales investigated 32 complaints, in just over a year, of letters being opened.
The watchdog ruled in favour of the prisoner in 16 cases, but found "little evidence" of deliberate tampering.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said they were "isolated cases".
Nigel Newcomen of the PPO said it was a "fundamental aspect" of the right to a fair trial and access to justice that correspondence between prisoners and their legal advisers was kept private.
Prison rules say such letters can be opened only if staff suspect they contain banned items, such as drugs, or if they do not think the mail is connected to a legal matter.
Mr Newcomen said the investigation, which looked into complaints dating from April 2014 to June this year, found "one-off and occasional errors".
Most of the cases were due to "human error", he said
But he found that some letters had been "deliberately" opened on security grounds without the prisoner involved having the opportunity to be present, as the rules require.
There was a small number of cases in which staff training or prison processes had not been sufficient to prevent repeated mistakes, he said.
He added: "To say that the evidence pointed to human error rather than deliberate interference is not to minimise the seriousness of the issue."
He called for improvements in the way prisons handle confidential correspondence - ensuring errors are recorded and that staff fully understand the rules.
A Prison Service spokesman said his recommendations had been accepted and the "necessary action" taken at the prisons concerned.
"This bulletin is being shared with all prison staff to reinforce the correct process that needs to be followed when handling prisoners' legal and confidential mail."
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At a time when bosses come and go - in some cases after just one game - how has Arsene Wenger lasted such a long time?
Arsene Wenger has won the MOST titles at Arsenal than any other Gunners' boss. He's won three Premier League titles and six FA Cups.
There have been plenty of mishaps along the way, including last season when lots of fans were disappointed after the club dropped points in the Premier League.
Some fans were unhappy with Wenger's direction and even turned up to games with banners saying "Wenger Out" - so why didn't he go then?
Well he's actually really well liked by the team's players, as well as former players too.
Ex-Arsenal striker Ian Wright came out to defend his old boss urging fans to respect and trust Wenger's plan.
Arsene Wenger is known for his honesty.
One time he was asked about buying popular players and said: "We do not buy superstars, we make them."
He isn't one for splashing out lots of cash as soon as the transfer window opens which has, at times, annoyed his fans.
There were lots of raised eyebrows when in 1999 he bought Thierry Henry from Juventus for £11 million.
The player wasn't doing too well, but Wenger switched Henry from a winger to a centre forward and the rest is history!
Henry scored a total of 228 goals in two spells for the club, becoming one of the finest strikers of his generation.
Arsene's also nurtured other players over the years, most recently the likes of Aaron Ramsey and Theo Walcott. They have both praised his considered way of working.
And that's just four reasons why Monsieur Wenger has been at the north London side for two decades!
A G Barr will close its drinks carton plant in Tredegar on Friday and switch production to Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
Last year the firm said the decision followed a "comprehensive review of existing operations".
It said Tredegar staff would be offered the chance to relocate where 27 jobs would be created in the town.
A spokesman for the company said: "We thank all of our Tredegar employees for their commitment and professionalism during and post the consultation period and we fully acknowledge the contribution that the team has made to the success of the business."
By volume, sales in the first quarter of this year were down 1.4% on the preceding quarter, and down 1.8% compared with February 2017, according to the Office for National Statistics.
They fell across all types of shop except textiles, clothing and footwear.
But the total amount spent was still higher than a year ago.
Kate Davies, senior statistician at the ONS, said: "This is the first time we've seen a quarterly decline since 2013, and it seems to be a consequence of price increases across a whole range of sectors."
The ONS said average store prices had increased by 3.3% on the year, the highest growth since March 2012.
The largest contribution came from petrol stations, where prices were up by some 16.4% on the year.
Keith Richardson, managing director of retail at Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking, said that after record growth in 2016, the retail sector was slowing down.
"These figures suggest that the clouds are now gathering over British consumers," he said.
"Rising food and petrol prices, together with slowing real wage rises, appear to be finally prompting shoppers to tighten their belts, while the value of the pound continues to put pressure on retailers' costs."
Analysis: Jonty Bloom, BBC Business correspondent
Since the credit crunch, the British consumer has been acting rather like some Impressionist artist starving in a Parisian garret - every time they do find some money they have spent it - not on food - but on the good things in life.
But retail sales fell sharply in the first three months of the year, that was the first quarterly decline since 2013. It was also the sharpest fall since 2010, when a temporary cut in VAT came to an end.
That contraction seems to have been caused by the recent increase in inflation, with prices now increasing at almost exactly the same rate as wage rises. Inflation is also expected to increase further in coming months as the fall in the value of the pound pushes up import prices.
That is worrying for the British economy as it has been the resilience of consumers that has been a principal factor in keeping economic growth going.
Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit, said the trend appeared to have continued into the second quarter.
"The latest IHS survey data showed the amount of cash that households had available to spend fell in April to the greatest extent for two and a half years," he added.
"Spending was supported by households eating further into their savings and taking on more debt [which] is clearly unsustainable in the long run".
There were some bright spots in the ONS figures, with the amount spent on textiles, clothing and footwear up by 2.5% from the preceding quarter.
Online sales also continued to rise, climbing 19.5% in the 12 months to March and up 0.5% compared with February 2017.
The Pope told Olympic leaders that looking for profit and victory at all costs risked reducing athletes "to mere trading material".
"Sport is harmony, but if money and success prevail as the aim, this harmony crumbles," Pope Francis said.
Pope Francis, who was elected in March, has struck a different tone to his predecessor on a range of issues.
He said recently the Church was too focused on preaching about abortion, gay people and contraception.
And he made headlines when he said it was not up to him to pass judgement on the sexual orientation of clergy.
Pope Francis played basketball as a young man and is a keen supporter of his local San Lorenzo football club in Buenos Aires, says the BBC's David Willey in Rome.
The Pope had two days of meetings with leaders of the world of sport. He met Sepp Blatter, the head of the International Football Federation, Fifa, and International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach.
He has also been talking about the spiritual values of team games with the rugby squads of Italy and Argentina - ahead of their encounter in Rome, our correspondent says.
"Rugby is like life because we are all heading for a goal. we need to run together and pass the ball from hand to hand until we get to it," Pope Francis told the rugby players.
Addressing the delegates of the European Olympic Committees at the Vatican on Saturday, the Pope said: "When sport is considered only in economic terms and consequently for victory at every cost, it risks reducing athletes to mere trading material from whom profits are extracted.''
Mr Bach presented the Pope with the Olympic Order in Gold, telling him: "You truly understand the joy in human spirit that sport can bring but just as much the deeper values that it can nurture."
Mr Blatter gave the Pope a special Latin edition of the Fifa magazine.
Andy Trotter, head of the Association of Chief Police Officers communications advisory group, said Twitter must make it easier for users to report problems.
Caroline Criado-Perez faced abuse after successfully campaigning for a woman's face to appear on UK bank-notes.
A 21-year-old man arrested on suspicion of harassment offences has been bailed.
He was detained on Sunday in the Manchester area in connection with an allegation of "malicious communications" reported to the Metropolitan Police.
The Met said on Monday afternoon he had been bailed until a date in mid-September and enquiries were continuing by detectives from Camden police.
Ms Criado-Perez, who had appeared in the media to campaign for women to feature on bank-notes, said the abusive tweets began the day it was announced that author Jane Austen would appear on the newly-designed £10 note.
She reported the matter to police after receiving "about 50 abusive tweets an hour for about 12 hours" and said she had "stumbled into a nest of men who co-ordinate attacks on women".
Chief Constable Trotter told BBC Radio 4's The World At One on Monday: "I was talking to Twitter only this morning about this and, while we do work with them on some matters, I think there is a lot more to be done.
"They need to take responsibility, as do the other platforms, to deal with this at source and make sure these things do not carry on.
"They need to make it easier for victims to report these matters and, from a police perspective, they need to know that they can report these things to us."
Tens of thousands of people have so far signed an online petition demanding that Twitter introduce a "report abuse" button and review its terms and conditions on abusive behaviour.
Twitter said in a statement on Saturday that iPhone users could already report individual abusive tweets "and we plan to bring this functionality to other platforms, including Android and the web".
A spokesman added that the site encouraged users to report anyone breaking Twitter rules on conduct by using a report form.
But Labour has written to Twitter complaining it was "weak" to tell Ms Criado-Perez to take her complaints to the police.
Labour MP Stella Creasy, who has herself received abusive messages for supporting Ms Criado-Perez, said Twitter "needs to be explicit that sexual violence and sexual aggression will not be tolerated as part of their user terms and conditions".
"This is not about Twitter, this is about hatred of women and hatred of women who speak up," she told The World At One.
"It is important that we do not think that somehow because this is happening online it is any less violent, any less dangerous than if people were shouting or abusing Caroline in the street in this way."
Meanwhile, classicist Prof Mary Beard - who spoke earlier this year about the online abuse she had received after appearing on the BBC's Question Time - has received an apology from another Twitter user who sent her an offensive message on Monday.
She retweeted the remark from Oliver Rawlings and following condemnation from other users, he responded: "I sincerely apologise for my trolling. I was wrong and very rude. Hope this can be forgotten and forgiven."
Talking to a fellow user about her decision to draw attention to the abuse, Prof Beard later tweeted: "It is a tough call. I have increasingly opted for name and shame.
"It has to be outed. And maybe his friends can say 'stop'."
Christian-Lee Thompson, 16, was injured while riding on a footpath in Hemel Hempstead.
PCs Stuart Francis and Rishi Patel, from Hertfordshire Police, deny using excessive force on the injured boy.
A witness has told the hearing the officers did not appear concerned about his injuries.
The teenager, then aged 15, was riding the moped with a passenger on the back along the Nickey Line - a footpath which used to be a railway line.
The misconduct hearing was told he was knocked off his moped by a man who was using the footpath and the two officers were responding to reports of the altercation, on 16 July.
The officers are accused of using excessive force and providing dishonest or misleading accounts of what happened.
Jared Reed, 18, said he found the boy bleeding and "moaning and groaning" before the officers arrived.
He told the hearing: "PC Stuart Francis's voice was aggressive. He said to Christian-Lee 'you may as well tell the truth as you're going to be arrested anyway'."
Lisa Sandridge, a neighbour who arrived at the scene, said: "His [PC Francis's] behaviour was terrible. He didn't show any concern. He gave him no first aid.
"PC Rishi Patel was kneeling on Christian-Lee's legs as he was worried he was going to be kicked in the face.
"Christian-Lee was in no state to be kicking anyone in the face."
The hearing, in Hatfield, is expected to last until Friday.
In relation to the boy being knocked from the moped, Hertfordshire Police said a 61-year-old man had been arrested but had not been charged.
The 23-year-old won his semi-final to qualify for his first final and led midway through the medal race.
However, he was overtaken by eventual winner Federico Pellegrino of Italy and Simeon Hamilton of the United States on the final climb of the 1.3km race.
The Scot held on for third and punched the air in delight as he crossed the line 0.84 seconds behind Pellegrino.
The 34-year-old has won two Heineken Cups and a Pro12 title since joining the Irish side in 2009.
His international debut came in the same year, and the former Munster and Harlequins player has won 44 caps.
"I am happy to have re-signed with Leinster for another season - it is an exciting time to be involved with both Leinster and Ireland," said Ross.
"The next 12 months will be incredibly busy and challenging but also have the potential to be very rewarding too."
Ross played in all five games of Ireland's Six Nations Championship success this year.
His last appearance for Ireland was in the 26-23 victory over Australia in November.
"Mike has made a huge contribution to the Leinster environment since joining us in 2009," said Leinster CEO Mick Dawson.
"He continues to be an integral member of our squad and is also playing a key role in the development of emerging talent at the club.
"His performances for club and country this season illustrate his value to Irish rugby."
It said sales at stores open at least a year fell 1.9% excluding fuel in the 10 weeks to 14 March.
Total sales fell 0.3% as price cuts and food deflation both affected trading.
Sainsbury's said the drop in sales reflected decisions the group had taken to "improve our competitiveness".
Shares rose 1.5% after the announcement, with analysts saying the supermarket chain's performance was better than expected.
At the start of the year, Sainsbury's said it would cut the prices of 1,000 of its most popular products as part of a £150m programme announced in November.
It said it had now reduced prices on more than 1,100 items, resulting in an average sales increase of 3% on these products.
But it said a combination of food deflation, which it expected to continue for the rest of the year, and competitive pressures on price meant the outlook remained challenging.
The "big four" supermarkets, which also includes Tesco, Asda and Morrisons are engaged in a bitter price war as they battle for customers.
A combination of increased competition from discounters Aldi and Lidl, customers shopping around for bargains and a switch to convenience stores and online shopping has hit all of the main supermarkets.
However, Sainsbury's said that its general merchandise and clothing business had performed strongly, with sales up more than 6% on last year.
It also said its convenience store sales, an area supermarkets are increasingly focusing on, were strong with sales up 14%.
Retail Vision director John Ibbotson said Sainsbury's performance was "marginally better than expected".
"What's very clear is that Mike Coupe's Strategic Review needs to be implemented faster. There has to be greater urgency at Sainsbury's or it will see bigger sales falls in the future. This is not one that will play itself out over time," he added.
Sainsbury's like-for-like sales - the key marker of a retailers' health - are falling but the "volumes" of sales are rising. Which all sounds a bit topsy-turvy until you consider that the two figures are measuring different things.
Like-for-like sales are not actually a measure of the number of baked beans a supermarket sells. They are a measure of the total value of sales that are made at the tills and online.
And in an era of food deflation, hyper-competition on price and the growth of own-brand ranges which tend to be cheaper, the value of sales is falling across the sector.
In fuel, it is particularly acute. As the price of a litre of petrol tumbles towards £1 and supermarkets attempt to grab market share through price promotions, they have to sell a lot more fuel to gain the same "like-for-like" figure.
Sainsbury's like-for-like sales including fuel are down 3.9%. Excluding fuel, they are down 1.9%.
So, Mike Coupe, the relatively new chief executive of Sainsbury's, might not be too gloomy about today's trading update. He is selling more stuff - volume - at lower prices.
That might not be great for the bottom line. But it's certainly pretty good for the consumer.
Skipper Stafanie Taylor (40) anchored the Windies' innings of 103-8 in Chennai, but lacked support as left-arm spinner Anam Amin took 4-16.
Captain Sana Mir nearly saw Pakistan home but fell in the final over.
There was also concern for Pakistan opener Javeria Khan, who was hit on the head by a Shamilia Connell bouncer and was taken off on a stretcher.
Wisden India journalist Himanish Bhattacharjee later tweeted that Javeria had been taken to hospital for a precautionary CT scan, but was "OK".
England face Bangladesh in their first game on Thursday, also in Group B.
But alongside the red carpet on the famous Palais des Festivals on the Croisette is the the Marche du Film, a bustling movie market where producers, distributors and investors are all trying to find or fund the next big thing.
Among them are British producers Rachel Richardson-Jones and Daisy Allsop.
Both women have been selected by Creative England as part of its Market Trader programme, aimed at giving film producers, distributors and sales agents at the start of their careers a better understanding of international markets.
But with hundreds of producers all camped out and hoping for the same thing, what do they expect will be the challenges facing them?
Richardson-Jones is a film producer and co-founder at Not A Number Productions and, prior to entering the world of feature films, directed and produced corporate videos and commercials.
She produced horror films Splintered in 2010 and White Settlers in 2014 and is meeting with sales agents for her third film, Dearly Beheaded, which is due to start shooting this in September.
The corporate stuff has stood me in good stead for features. My last two movies I raised through private equity. You need to be able to understand the corporate culture and how SEIS works. I wouldn't have imagined being a corporate producer had so much continuity with film producing.
Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) - Investors can invest up to £100,000 a year and for every £10,000 invested under SEIS, will get £5,000 tax relief or 50% back.
There are the horrors of the corporate world, making high end films about fork lift trucks! When Simeon (film director Simeon Halligan), approached me with an idea for a low budget horror, I didn't really know anything about the genre. But I thought, that kind of stuff sells.
I was so lucky to have been mentored by Tony Parsons (producer of films including Scum and Gregory's Girl) and I asked him whether I should go for it and, in the end, he offered to executive produce and said he would teach us everything there was to know about film producing.
Sadly, he died before we finished producing Splintered (2010), so both Simeon and I knew about production but it was after-production which was where we missed him so very much. So there we were, we had this movie and didn't know the world of sales and distribution.
We didn't have UK distribution so we decided to put on on an event, just us and a few filmmakers of low budget movies. and before we knew it, it wasn't one day with three or four films, it was three days with 27 films and Grimm Up North was born and we're now in its seventh year.
Sim loves the genre and we've now built an audience - I'm more of a sci-fi geek. I'm dying to make a pure sci-fi movie but they take bigger budgets
We're actually just about close finance on that, and hope to start shooting in September. So we are talking to sales agents (who market films and help find international distribution) but with Cannes around the corner they are all very busy.
I'm going to be doing some meetings about a monster movie bank heist, primarily with American sales and financiers because it really lends itself to being an American-set movie. I've been sending emails about meeting with production partners, there are a couple of studio people I met at the Berlin Film Festival and I'll reconnect with them.
The industry people spend the first four or five days seeing who they are there to see, they are there to buy and sell. So you coming along with your little project, its very difficult to get time with them, to sit down and have a proper conversation. It's always good to have meetings planned and have time to shift them if you need to.
Also the parties, they do help in bumping into people and catching up. We have another Manchester-based project called Habit. It's a novella by the writer Stephen McGeagh.
Simeon has just adapted it in to a screenplay so we are going to start talking about that project. It's a fantastic gritty, kitchen sink horror.
Allsop began her career in 2000 in development and distribution. She helped launch the film arm of Feel Films in 2004.
As head of development for Feel she managed a slate of literary adaptations through development, production and distribution, including the upcoming BBC series adaptation of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.
She was also associate producer on Skellig starring Tim Roth and is now producing with director David Leon through their company Zeitgeist Films.
This is my 13th Cannes Film Festival, I've been every year since university. I used to go in my capacity as development and acquisitions sales agent. That was a different kind of Cannes where I was in the office all day taking meetings every half hour with producers pitching their ideas, and now I'm on the other side.
Absolutely. Working for a sales agent gives you a view on the whole market. Firstly, it was good training right from the beginning of my career on how films get made, and the market value of a film. Sometimes the quality of a script is not enough. It's also about whether the budget matches the elements attached. It also taught me to work out the producers who get their films made are the ones that are smart about aiming it for the right budget and with its destination audience in mind.
Yes, there are so many people in Cannes doing so many different things at different levels. People do come year after year and don't get films made, but then maybe they do once they've had time to mould them and make it work. Sometimes it can take a long time. I've been coming as a producer for about three years.
You tailor your trip to Cannes for whatever stage you are at with your project. Sometimes you have a finished film and you want to find a sales agent. Last year, I had a film that was almost finished called Orthodox, directed by David Leon and starring Stephen Graham and Michael Smiley. It was David's first feature and now I produce him and we have a company. We've developed his second feature - no-one has seen the script yet, it is hot off the press. I will be coming to meet with sales agents and potential financiers about that. It's called The Albatross - we'll be partly shooting it in north-east Yorkshire and partly Newcastle and it's about a trawlerman who becomes a reluctant father figure to a young migrant girl.
It's really full on. I've also got another project called Tell it to the Bees, which is an adaptation of a novel which I've developed with the BFI which is slightly bigger budget, around the £5m mark. The script just finished and I'll be starting conversations around that. So with both projects at an early stage, planning Cannes has been about planning how I am going to finance these films. It's coming up with a whole strategy.
Other festivals are catching up slowly with markets. They are dotted throughout the year, but Cannes is the one time you really know everybody. People tend to use it to meet people from other countries. The other thing is just keeping up with people and telling friends what you're up to. But ultimately it's a market - sales agents are there to sell films they've already got so indie producers coming in and saying, 'Can I have a meeting is a low priority' for them. It can be difficult to get half an hour unless you know who you want which is important so you don't waste the wrong people's time.
It can feel quite big and unwieldy, it takes a few times of going to get a sense of the place and what you're doing.
We'll be catching up with both Daisy Allsop and Rachel Richardson-Jones later in the festival.
Ganesh Joshi, a legislator from the northern state of Uttarakhand, allegedly beat the animal with a stick.
Veterinarians performed a four-hour operation on the horse, named Shaktiman, and said they were able to save his leg.
A case has been lodged against Mr Joshi, who denies he hit the horse.
"The footage which the electronic media is showing by linking with an old clip - in which I am lifting a stick in front of the horse - has no connection at all [to the incident]," Mr Joshi told the BBC.
"The horse fell down when someone pulled its saddle and the animal sustained a fracture on its leg," he added.
The incident took place near the legislative assembly in the state capital, Dehradun, on Monday when the BJP was holding a protest against the Congress party-led state government.
Vets were quoted by Indian media as saying that Shaktiman would now have to be monitored for infection.
A veterinary officer said they would know if the surgery was a success only once the horse had recovered.
However, the 13-year-old animal's police career is most probably over, reports say.
The incident caused outrage in India with many taking to social media to express their anger.
On Twitter, the hashtag #IsHorseAntiNational - prompted by a tongue in cheek newspaper headline that read, "BJP MLA beats up a horse. No confirmation whether the horse was anti-national" - was trending for most of Tuesday.
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The BBC has learned that former Chelsea boss Mourinho could be set to take over at United this summer.
Asked about his future, Van Gaal, 64, accused media of "inventing" the story and said there was no need for United to issue any kind of denial.
Van Gaal's contract runs until the end of next season.
Speaking after Sunday's 1-1 draw at Chelsea, he was involved in a frosty exchange with a reporter in the post-match news conference.
Van Gaal questioned whether the reporter had spoken to either Ed Woodward, the club's chief executive, or the Glazers, the owners, to find out what was going on behind the scenes.
Instead of writing stories about his future, Van Gaal said the media should be praising his team for their recent performances, including the one that gave them a point against Chelsea.
"It was not a 'boring' match," insisted the former Ajax, Barcelona and Bayern Munich manager.
"For the third game in succession, our football was sparkling. So I hope to get the support of the media this week. But you write what you like."
He also referenced Sir Alex Ferguson's three years without a trophy at the start of his United reign, clearly insinuating that things would get better under him.
"Maybe you remember the difficult first years of Fergie," said Van Gaal. "You have to study... study statistics."
He has clashed with the media before.
Last month, the former Netherlands coach claimed journalists had "sacked" him three times already this season.
United had the better of the first 70 minutes at Stamford Bridge and led through Jesse Lingard's goal, only for Diego Costa to equalise in added time.
United lie fifth in the Premier League table, six points short of the top four.
At close, the benchmark FTSE 100 was down 46.79 points, or 0.67%, at 6,886.95.
Elsewhere in Europe, France's Cac 40 index closed down 0.29% while Germany's Dax closed up 0.51%.
The yield on German 10-year bonds settled, after jumping by 20 basis points on Thursday, reaching 0.799%.
Only three weeks ago, the yield had fallen to a record low of just 0.05%.
Other eurozone bonds were affected, with French yields rising 14 basis points to 1%.
The global bond market has seen a huge sell-off in the past week, which has pushed down bond prices and increased yields.
Signs that fears about deflation may have been overdone is one reason behind the sell-off, analysts say. The argument is that if inflation is set to pick up, then investors are less likely to accept ultra-low returns on their bond investments.
Among individual UK shares, Morrisons shares closed 6.5% lower, after the company said first quarter sales fell 2.9%, worse than the 2.6% decline seen in the previous quarter.
The UK's fourth-largest supermarket group also warned that it would take a charge of up to ??40m to cover restructuring costs.
BT Group's shares closed down 0.2%, despite its full-year results which came in ahead of forecasts.
The telecoms group reported a 14% rise in pre-tax profits to ??2.645bn and said it added a record 455,000 new fibre broadband customers in the first three months of the year.
In the FTSE 250, shares in Telecity closed up 21% after it said could be taken over by US firm Equinix.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.1% against the dollar to $1.5225, and was up 0.5% against the euro at ???1.3503.
A brief shortlist might start with judges biased against Chinese athletes. In all Rio venues, the points of the gold stars on the Chinese national flag were misaligned.
On one occasion where a Chinese and US athlete drew for bronze, the Chinese flag was positioned below the American flag. An Australian and a French swimmer made doping allegations against a Chinese swimmer and failed to apologise.
And back to the beginning, China's gymnasts were robbed, China's weightlifters were robbed, China's swimmers were robbed.
The volleyball team only avoided being robbed by standing up to Swiss bullying (Yes that's a nation of 8 million bullying one of 1.4 billion, 175 times bigger).
"As we mature in mentality, learn how to appreciate competition, and become able to calmly applaud our rivals, we showcase the confidence and tolerance of a great country," suggested China's state broadcaster CCTV on day one of the Rio Olympics. If only.
On the face of it, the Chinese public have every reason to display confidence and tolerance. Their athletes are bringing gold and glory on the international sporting stage just as their political leaders prepare to welcome the rich world at the G20 summit of powerful economies.
But if CCTV believes tolerance and confidence should be the overriding Olympic mood, it needs to get that message across to its viewers.
According to one poll, more than 80% of the public think Rio's judges have a sinister bias against China. Only 16% believe other countries might equally be the victim of bad calls.
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On Thursday night, the Communist Party flagship the People's Daily published a commentary designed to temper this script.
It pointed out that Olympic history is fraught with umpiring controversies, that other nations too often feel wronged and that it is a mistake to look at some facts and ignore others.
But truly China's state media only have themselves to blame. If the Chinese public have an ineradicable victim narrative it is of their own creation.
The Olympics come a month after the Hague tribunal ruling on the legality of China's claims in the South China Sea, and the tsunami of official outrage over that ruling still conditions the public mood.
The message then was that a ruling in international law which didn't go China's way was thereby null and void. Moreover, the judges are brainless or paid, or both, so the narrative went.
If rulings in international law are optional for the Chinese government then who can be surprised if the Chinese public applies the same principle to rulings in sport?
Especially when the run-up to the Olympics saw an almost daily slew of state-sanctioned viral videos warning that a giant western conspiracy is afoot to bring China down and turn it into a second Syria.
If any foreigner is plotting against China in Rio they're not making a very good job of it. At the time of writing, China was second on the medals table. Only at home in 2008 did the Chinese team top the table, so the evidence of a sinister anti-China bias among Olympic judges seems fragile.
But one good thing about blaming foreign judges is that it takes some of the pressure of expectation off Chinese athletes.
Over the past week, some did still make tearful apologies to the nation for underperforming; others dedicated their medals to the nation when they won. Like weightlifter Long Qingquan who spoke with almost Cultural Revolutionary fervour,
"I couldn't feel the weight on my shoulders because my country gave me willpower that was greater than the weight".
But the athlete who's really touched fans hearts falls into neither of these winner or loser stereotypes.
Instead swimmer Fu Yuanhui said she was thrilled with bronze and perhaps her arms were too short to expect more. She did not blame mind games by rival athletes or a sinister plot by anti-China judges. She said training had been a slog that felt almost unbearable at times.
Honesty, enthusiasm, spontaneity: China would do well to encourage more athletes to be themselves.
Or their best selves. Because at the other end of the soft power scale is Sun Yang.
Another swimmer, Sun has got into a sensational row with Australian rival Mack Horton over doping allegations. The dominant Chinese view of this is that Horton was rude and unfair. I'm not in a position to judge.
But Sun Yang was clearly unpopular with athletes and coaches from several countries as there had been several complaints about disruptive behaviour in training.
And since the incident at the beginning of the week, the torrent of abuse levelled at the Australian on social media has been shocking. Horton is a snake, a racist and more. Australia is on the fringe of civilisation, a former penal colony.
Why do Chinese fans take it all so personally? And why isn't there a spectrum of opinion? It's legitimate to point out that Chinese athletes train hard and deserve respect.
It's also legitimate to point out that China has mounted a long hard campaign to root out doping. But why aren't there more Chinese voices acknowledging that doping has been a terrible scourge for the national swimming team in the past, or that Sun Yang does not have an unblemished record? With Friday's news that a Chinese swimmer, Chen Xinyu, has now failed a Rio drugs test, perhaps the self-reflection will begin.
If it doesn't, what hope for reflection on the more dangerous differences with other nations? In my view, this too relates back at the most profound level to China's absence of free debate and to the most recent example of driven herd mentality over the South China Sea dispute.
After the Hague ruling, China was angered by a joint statement from the US, Japan and Australia upholding international law and freedom of navigation.
Again the propaganda machine whipped up public rage. Only last week, one state owned newspaper said Australia was a "paper cat" and that if it got involved in the South China Sea it would become "an ideal target for China to warn and strike".
Since then Australia and Vietnam have fallen victim to significant cyber attacks, Japan has been dismayed by a fleet of Chinese fishing boats and coastguard vessels in contested waters,
South Korea has been targeted for economic punishment after its decision to deploy an anti-missile technology and China's state broadcaster has declined even to acknowledge the existence of the Philippines team at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
In this climate of multi-dimensional antagonism, it's hardly surprising that the Chinese public approach a festival of sport at a fever pitch of wounded national pride, ready to see sinister plots at every turn.
Perhaps Fu Yuanhui could bring her example to bear and set three "do nots" for Team China (and the rest) on the field at Rio and every other world stage: don't be sore losers on the rare occasions when you lose; don't indulge in paranoid groupthink; and don't treat international rules as a pick and mix. Come on China! 中国加油！
Ambulance crews were called at 18:30 GMT to Ancaster Road after reports that a man had been wounded. He was taken to hospital but later died.
Two men were seen running from the scene, Suffolk Police said. The force is appealing for witnesses.
The road is closed between the junction with Ranelagh Road and Gippeswyk Avenue while officers investigate.
Det Ch Supt Simon Parkes said: "At this early stage of the investigation any piece of information - however small it may seem - could be crucial in helping us to locate the person or persons responsible."
11 June 2016 Last updated at 12:56 BST
The play takes place 19 years after the final book in the Potter series, and focuses on Harry, Hermione and Ron's children.
JK Rowling, John Tiffany the director, and Jack Thorne the writer, have been keeping very tight-lipped about what happens in the play.
So, BBC Arts Reporter and top class muggle Will Gompertz went to speak to them to see if he could find out more...
A cannon was fired at Edinburgh Castle to signal the start of the two-minute silence to mark Armistice Day.
Services of remembrance were held at churches and war memorials around the country.
It is 98 years since the guns fell silent in World War One at the 11th hour, on the 11th day of the 11th month.
In Glasgow, Poppyscotland volunteers broke from a day of fundraising activities to pay their respects at the city's cenotaph in George Square.
The Lord Provost, Sadie Docherty, joined them and read Laurence Binyon's For The Fallen.
The city centre square is currently home to the Every Man Remembered statue, which depicts an unknown soldier in glass case, surrounded by hundreds of poppies.
Commemorations also took place in the capital, with events organised at the Princes Street garden of remembrance, Edinburgh Waverley station and Edinburgh Castle.
Nicola Sturgeon did not attend a public event, but a spokeswoman for the first minister said she observed the two-minute silence and would be at a Remembrance service on Sunday.
In Paisley, pupils from two primary schools joined military, civic and church representatives for the annual Renfrewshire children's armistice service.
After the event in Paisley Abbey, they headed to the town's cenotaph for a two-minute silence.
More than 700,000 men were killed in World War One - 1.7% of the population of the United Kingdom.
Scotland was particularly badly affected and new figures reveal the impact of the bloody conflict on towns across the country.
In a list of the 10 UK towns worst-affected by the Great War, six are Scottish.
Durham tops the list compiled by Ancestry, but Dumfries is third, having lost 4.79% of its population of just over 30,000 in the war.
The survey found:
It also revealed that 13,740 people from Glasgow died in the war - only London suffered more losses during the 1914-18 conflict.
Ancestry senior content manager Miriam Silverman said: "The First World War was devastating for communities across the UK.
"Sadly many brave soldiers did not return to their cities, towns and villages, leaving friends and families bereft.
"It may be a century ago, but their communities and country as a whole honour their bravery today."
In Bishopton, Renfrewshire, Finance Secretary Derek Mackay joined veterans from the Erskine care home to lay wreaths and remember their fallen colleagues.
Meanwhile, 20 of Scotland's most famous landmarks will glow red at the weekend in support of the Scottish Poppy Appeal.
Edinburgh Castle, The Kelpies and St Magnus Cathedral in Orkney are among the structures taking part in the "Light Up Red" campaign.
The heavy horse statue next to the M8 motorway near Ballieston will also wear a specially-designed poppy to celebrate the appeal.
Poppyscotland's head of fundraising, Gordon Michie, said: "It's fantastic to see Scotland lighting up poppy red for the Scottish Poppy Appeal, and we've been blown away by the country's support.
"We hope that when people see all these wonderful iconic structures glowing red over the weekend they will think about the many ways they too can go the extra mile in their support for this year's Poppy Appeal.
"Whether it's putting a little bit more in the poppy tin, or doing something completely different to raise money, every penny helps us to offer life-changing support so we can be there when they call for backup."
The incident happened near New Pitsligo overnight between Sunday and Monday.
Blaze, an 18-year-old female pony, had to be put down following the incident.
In a Facebook post, the horse's owner, Zoe Wright, said Blaze had been stabbed twice in the chest and "sexually violated". She has offered a £1,000 reward for anyone who provides information which leads to an arrest.
Ms Wright, 30, urged other horse owners in the area to check their animals for suspicious cuts, and to contact the police if they see anything or anyone suspicious.
She added: "My lovely Blaze was the nicest pony, she has been part of our family for 18 years, the complete low life scum who did this to her needs to face justice for what they have done."
Police Scotland confirmed it had received a report of a horse being injured and was investigating. Officers have appealed for any witnesses to contact them.
Ms Heard, 29, escaped conviction after pleading guilty to falsifying documents before a Queensland court on Monday.
A video of the pair apologising for flying their dogs Pistol and Boo into the country was played to the court.
Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce said Mr Depp looked like he was "auditioning for the Godfather".
"I don't think he'll get an Academy Award for his performance," Mr Joyce told the Australian Broadcasting Corp's AM programme.
Heard avoids dog-smuggling conviction
Depp and Heard's bizarre apology video
"At the end of it we've got a message that is going all around the world right now, it's going off like a frog in a sock telling people that if you come into this nation and you don't obey our laws, you're in trouble," added Mr Joyce.
"That's what this is about, it's making sure we keep this nation, protect our flora, our fauna and protect our biosecurity laws."
In a separate interview with Channel 7's popular Sunrise breakfast TV programme, Mr Joyce denied directing the video himself.
"As far as me directing this atrocious movie, no, even I could have done a little better than that," he said.
"Do it again Johnny, do it with gusto mate, a little gusto."
Mr Depp and Ms Heard recorded the video on the Gold Coast after arriving in Australia on their private jet to face Southport Magistrate's Court.
In the video, Ms Heard calls Australia "a wonderful island, with a treasure trove of unique plants, animals and people".
Mr Depp says at its conclusion: "Declare everything when you enter Australia."
Its release sparked a frenzied reaction on social media, as internet wags compared the couple's stilted delivery to North Korean propaganda videos and hostage films.
The judge in the case handed Ms Heard a one-month good behaviour bond after prosecutors dropped charges of illegally importing animals, reportedly in exchange for her guilty plea to the lesser charge of falsifying documents.
The case, dubbed the "war on terrier", made international headlines in May 2015, when Mr Joyce threatened to have Pistol and Boo put down if they didn't "bugger off" back to the United States.
It was conducted in October in the Mexican jungle after Guzman's jail break, and published by Rolling Stone.
A White House spokesman said Guzman's boasts about his exploits were "maddening", and Republican Marco Rubio said the interview was "grotesque".
Guzman, 58, was recaptured on Friday after months on the run.
Unnamed Mexican officials say Penn's secret meeting helped lead them to the boss of the Sinaloa drug cartel.
He has now been returned to the maximum-security Altiplano jail, from where he escaped in July via a tunnel dug to the shower in his cell.
Twitter users were quick to offer their verdict on the interview:
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In the Rolling Stone article, the result of a seven-hour "sit-down", Guzman said he was the world's leading supplier of heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana.
White House chief of staff Denis McDonough told CNN: "One thing I will tell you is that this braggadocious action about how much heroin he sends around the world, including the United States, is maddening.
"We see a heroin epidemic, an opioid addiction epidemic, in this country... But El Chapo's behind bars - that's where he should stay."
The Mexican authorities would not say whether they would investigate Penn and a Mexican actress, Kate del Castillo, who apparently arranged the interview.
Mr McDonough declined to answer a question about whether the US would hand Penn over to Mexico for questioning.
"Well, it poses a lot of very interesting questions both for him and for others involved in this-so-called interview, so we'll see what happens on that - I'm not going to get ahead of it," he said.
Mr Rubio told ABC: "If one of these American actors who have benefited from the greatness of this country, who have made money from our free enterprise system, want to go fawn all over a criminal and a drug trafficker in their interviews, they have a constitutional right to do it. I find it grotesque."
February 2014: Recapture after 13 years on the run following "laundry basket" escape from Puente Grande maximum security prison
July 2015: Escape via tunnel from Altiplano prison
2 October 2015: Interviewed by US actor Sean Penn in Durango state jungle hideout and then by phone and video
17 October: Mexican officials announce narrow escape as police try to recapture him in neighbouring Sinaloa state; suffers face and leg injuries
January 2016: Recaptured in city of Los Mochis, Sinaloa state
Mexico has said it will begin the process of extraditing Guzman to the US, in line with extradition requests from 2015.
He is charged with smuggling vast amounts of drugs into the US.
No detail has been given about the timeframe for extradition but experts say the process could take months.
The BBC's Katy Watson, in Mexico City, says his extradition is by no means a foregone conclusion. The two countries have an extradition treaty but there are many steps that need to be taken and officials who need to approve the request.
Previous requests from the US have been turned down.
Guzman, who was named Public Enemy Number One by the Chicago Crime Commission in 2013, has been indicted by at least seven US federal district courts.
He was recaptured on Friday in the north-western city of Los Mochis in his home state of Sinaloa, which he had come to dominate through his drugs cartel.
During the raid, he managed to flee through a drain but was later caught by marines in a shootout.
Five drug gang suspects were killed in the operation and one marine wounded.
Politicians scrambled to express their condemnation after it emerged that more than 100 women had complained of harassment and violence at the hands of gangs in the square outside Cologne's main railway station.
But there has been widespread criticism of the slow response by city authorities, amid accusations of an initial cover-up and controversy over the mayor's advice to young women following the attacks.
As reports of assaults continue to come in from Cologne and some other German cities, victims and onlookers have been asking how this could happen.
Residents in Cologne say the area around Cologne Cathedral is a well-known danger zone when it comes to pickpockets and theft.
The spot, in the centre of the city, attracts thousands of people for the New Year celebrations, and the combination of crowds, alcohol and fireworks has proved problematic for police for a number of years.
Many of the perpetrators on Thursday night reportedly used a well-known tactic to distract their victims by trying to dance with them.
But authorities say the scale and nature of the latest wave of attacks, including allegations of rape and sexual assault, were "unprecedented".
About 1,000 young men - many of North African or Arab appearance - are believed to have arrived in large groups, seemingly with the specific intention of carrying out attacks on women.
The violence outside Cologne's main train station sparked a heated debate about Germany's open door policy on migrants.
Witnesses said police officers in Cologne appeared to be surprised and overwhelmed by the attacks.
Rainer Wendt, head of the German Police Union, said there were simply not enough officers deployed.
And internal national police report said officers simply "could not cope" with the volume of attacks. Women were "forced to run the gauntlet" through gangs of drunken and aggressive men, it said.
Cologne police chief Wolfgang Albers insisted police were well prepared, with 70 federal officers in the station, and about 140 Cologne police officers around the cathedral area and city centre.
But whatever the staffing numbers, it is clear officers on duty failed to stop the attacks.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere accused police of waiting for complaints rather than taking preventative action.
Meanwhile Mr Albers was forced to say the initial police assessment - describing a "relaxed atmosphere" in the city on New Year's Eve - was incorrect.
And, a week after the incident, only a handful of arrests are thought to have been made despite reports of hundreds of men being involved.
Irmgard Kopetzky from Cologne rape crisis centre told the BBC that more action was needed to provide more security for women.
"It is still being clarified how something like this could happen when the police already had so many personnel there," she said.
"Going forward it is vital that the police get more staff - something that has long been a requirement - and that attackers are prosecuted and punished."
Soon after reports emerged that the men involved were of Arab or North African appearance, anti-immigration campaigners seized on the incident as an example of Germany's failed asylum policy.
Some suggested Germany's media had been hesitant to report on the attacks for fear of stirring far-right sentiment, after the arrival of more than a million migrants and refugees in the past year.
Public broadcaster ZDF later apologised on social media because it failed to report on the mass assaults on its Monday evening news bulletin.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere stressed there should not be any general suspicion towards refugees.
"But if North Africans were the perpetrators, for which there is some indication, there should not be a taboo and people should not gloss over it."
Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker said "people from other cultures" needed to be given "a better explanation" about appropriate behaviour during street celebrations.
Meanwhile experts stress that sexual violence is an issue for people of all ethnic origins.
Figures show the majority of people carrying out sex attacks in Germany do not come from an immigrant background. In two-thirds of cases, the perpetrator is known to the victim, Ms Kopetzky says.
Following the Cologne attacks, Mayor Reker was criticised for urging young women and girls to adopt a code of conduct that meant keeping an "arm's length" distance from strangers.
Justice Minister Heiko Maas wrote on Twitter: "It is not women who bear responsibility, but the perpetrators."
As well as the incident in Cologne, women were targeted in Hamburg and Stuttgart.
Ms Kopetzky from Cologne rape crisis centre said there was a clear need more public awareness of sexual harassment and assault across the country.
"Women's groups like ours have been doing what we can for many years, but many people only recognise the subject when they are affected personally," she said.
Meanwhile Barbara Steffens, equality minister in North Rhine-Westphalia, told the BBC there needed to be greater recognition of the issues women faced on a daily basis, as well as more "social condemnation of male abuse of power".
"It is still the case that women who have been raped are often not believed, abuses are trivialised, lewd jokes and sexist comments are tolerated, and women are reduced to their bodies," she said.
"We need to work on that, to create a tangible culture of respect."
She had been performing at a church in the picturesque village of Goudron, in the Lot region of the south-west, when she collapsed. Storms were reported in the area at the time.
Weldens, 35, suffered an apparent cardiac arrest and emergency services were unable to revive her.
She had released her first album this year and had won several awards.
She had become a singer after growing up in the circus, according to her website. Among her biggest influences was the singer-songwriter Jacques Brel. In 2016, she won the young talent award at the Jacques Brel festival.
She collapsed at about midnight on Wednesday while singing in a local festival. Investigators were looking at electrical equipment on the stage to find out what caused the apparent electrical fault.
Weldens regularly performed with a pianist and acoustic guitarist and was in the middle of a tour. She was due to give further concerts in France and Belgium in the coming months.
Although little known, her February 2017 album Le grand H de l'homme (Man with a capital M) had brought national acclaim. A review on the Mediapart website praised the "softness of the melodies" and "the femininity and masculinity" of her work.
She told Midi Libre newspaper last year: "I've always written poems, even when I was little. Then I took piano lessons as a teen. All I wanted to do was compose".
He has travelled more than 50,000 miles and ridden in over 700 races in a duel with 2015 champion Silvestre de Sousa.
Crowley, 38, is set to lift the title on Saturday at Ascot - close to his birthplace - on British Champions Day.
"I've become obsessed by it. When you really want to do something badly, you eat, breathe and sleep it," he said.
"Literally, I have thought about nothing else for the last two months. It does take over your life.
"Any sportsman will tell you the same - you have to be obsessed with something if you want to do it well. I'll be glad when the season's over because you can relax a little bit, but it's all I'm thinking about at the moment."
When betting opened on this year's top rider, Crowley was rated a 66-1 outsider.
He had signed up last year with agent Tony Hinds, who helped Ryan Moore and Richard Hughes become champions, but felt 2016 might be a year too soon for a title bid.
With the Stobart Flat Jockeys' Championship taking place from late April to mid October, Crowley did not make it in to the top 10 until early July.
"After Glorious Goodwood [in July], I think I was 17 or 18 winners behind the leaders, which was still quite a fair way, but we were on a roll and thought we would give it our everything," he recalled.
The battle to be champion, which is based on the number of winners, developed into a two-horse race, as last year's victor De Sousa, 35, fought with Crowley.
With a lead of 15 going into the final week, the Briton is now highly unlikely to be overtaken.
"For about two months, we were literally neck and neck. Every day the lead would change. It's been fantastic for racing, so many people have picked up on it," Crowley said.
Every day brought a new quest for winners, developing into a punishing schedule.
"Some days I've got up at 4am and gone to Newmarket from my home in Sussex to ride work and then do two meetings that day, possibly up to 13 or 14 races a day, travelling by car or helicopter or plane.
"I would say I've done more than 50,000 miles going to meetings by car. I was driving myself up until about two months ago when the workload became so intense that I managed to find someone to drive me.
"Sometimes I would get to bed at midnight. It's physically, as well as mentally, tiring."
Crowley recalls an evening meeting at Chelmsford where De Sousa won the first two races, and he replied with victory in the final three.
"We are both very competitive, hungry jockeys," he said.
"When you are locked in a close battle like I have been with Silvestre, you're watching each other all the time and seeing if he's ridden winners.
"It's human nature, and anyone who says you wouldn't do that is a liar. You can't help it. If he was at another meeting, I would watch to see where he was in a race."
Crowley wrestled the lead from De Sousa with a 100-1 treble at Windsor on 28 August.
But a day later, his Brazilian rival rode four winners at Epsom and Crowley joked to him: "You've kicked my backside today."
Crowley regrouped and pulled clear by riding 46 winners in September, the most victories clocked up in a month, beating a long-standing record held jointly by Fred Archer and Sir Gordon Richards.
"There are days when I thought he wouldn't ride a winner, looking at the racecard, and he'll come back and bang three in. He's a tough, tough person to ride against," Crowley said.
"The next day you wake up and think, 'It's my turn' - and that's the sort of mentality you need.
"You have to be a bit careful, otherwise it could fry your head if you're having a bad day and they're having a good day. It's a bit like golf, where you have to just concentrate on what you're doing.
"We get on really well. I have so much respect for him as a jockey and a person."
Crowley rode for seven years over the jumps before making the switch to flat racing.
"I never in my dreams thought I'd be champion flat jockey, if anything I had dreams of being champion over jumps," he said.
"It would be without doubt the highlight of my career. From a young boy when you go into racing, you want to be champion. To realise your ambition is a dream come true.
Being crowned champion at Ascot would have special resonance for Crowley.
Hopefully we will get to spend a little more time together in the winter, but if he wants to do it all again, then we'll support him all the way
"I was born in the hospital, literally opposite the racecourse. I grew up just down the road, a lot of my friends and family live close by, and it would be great if I could be crowned champion there. It's always been a lucky track for me."
Crowley concedes he might have a big party once the season is over, and then he hopes the title can be a springboard for more success.
"I'd like to win an English Classic. I've been second in the Oaks and the St Leger. Racing is big on the international stage and it would be good to win some big races abroad," he said.
The father-of-three has been supported by his wife Lucinda and children Alice, Bella and Sam.
"My girls, who are nine and seven, are into ponies and horses and they've become really interested in it. I hope I do it for their sake. I hope I can make them proud," he added.
The Local Government Association (LGA) said new powers must now be given to local areas in England and Wales.
Some ministers, such as Deputy PM Nick Clegg, broadly back decentralisation.
But Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said "new taxes, more politicians and new tiers of local administration was not the answer".
LGA chairman David Sparks said public trust in the "old ways of central control has been shattered beyond repair".
He thinks the appetite for devolution "will not stop at the border" and the rest of the UK "won't be content to settle for the status quo".
The councils now want a firm timetable for pushing powers out across England.
The LGA said the establishment of an English parliament would not represent "true devolution".
Instead they argued that a constitutional commission should examine ways to give local authorities more control over spending and taxation.
It came as group of regional newspapers issued a joint call on their front pages for more powers for the north of England.
Titles including the Journal and the Chronicle, both in Newcastle, Northern Echo in Darlington, Middlesbrough's Gazette, Yorkshire Post and Manchester Evening News said the part of the country should be given "far more control over its own affairs".
Prime Minister David Cameron has ruled out creating an English parliament but hinted that English MPs could get the final say on laws affecting England only.
The three main Westminster parties have promised more powers for Holyrood in the event of a "No" vote in Scotland.
Conservative calls for an English parliament have been led by backbench MP John Redwood.
Conservative former cabinet minister Liam Fox said change was "unavoidable" to address the ability of Scottish MPs to vote on devolved issues in Westminster.
Mr Fox told the BBC's Newsnight programme that there was an "imbalance in our constitutional relationship".
"There are a number of ways that we can address that but I think now it will have to be addressed. Politicians have ducked the question for too long," he said.
Labour MP John Denham called for devolution within England.
Mr Denham told the programme: "At first you've got to have a constitutional convention in England.
"Secondly, we are going to have change in Westminster, it's clear that the more powers that go to the Scottish Parliament, the less you can have Scottish MPs voting on the same issues for England. That's got to change in one way or another.
"Thirdly, though, England is much too centralised. So this isn't just about reducing the influence of Scottish MPs in Westminster, it's about getting English decisions out of Westminster."
Shadow international development secretary Jim Murphy told the BBC there would be "much more power and more decisions made in Scotland".
Meanwhile, anti-monarchy campaign group Republic has called for a Parliamentary inquiry into the Queen's "underhand, deliberate and provocative" interventions into the Scottish independence referendum.
Republic's chief executive Graham Smith said: "Comments made by the Queen last weekend and widely reported in the press as pro-Union were a deliberate attempt to influence the vote.
"Earlier briefings to the press about the Queen's concern were also clearly a deliberate attempt to influence the result of the referendum."
Ahead of the referendum, the Queen said she hoped "people will think very carefully about the future" when she spoke to a well-wisher outside a church at Crathie, near her Balmoral estate in Aberdeenshire.
It followed reports claiming the Queen was growing increasingly concerned about the vote.
Buckingham Palace has said any suggestion the Queen would wish to influence the outcome of the campaign was "categorically wrong".
"Her Majesty is simply of the view this is a matter for the people of Scotland," the palace said in a statement.
After the polls closed, BBC royal correspondent Peter Hunt tweeted: "Palace officials say the Queen has been following the independence referendum closely."
The Queen is expected to issue written statement late on Friday afternoon.
Posing as an Asian-based manufacturer, Evaldas Rimasauskas tricked staff into transferring money into bank accounts under his control, US officials said.
The companies were not named but were described as US-based multinationals, with one operating in social media.
Officials called it a wake-up call for even "the most sophisticated" firms.
According to the US Department of Justice, Mr Rimasauskas, 48 - who was arrested in Lithuania last week - deceived the firms from at least 2013 up until 2015.
He allegedly registered a company in Latvia which bore the same name as an Asian-based computer hardware manufacturer and opened various accounts in its name at several banks.
The DoJ said: "Thereafter, fraudulent phishing emails were sent to employees and agents of the victim companies, which regularly conducted multimillion-dollar transactions with [the Asian] company."
The emails, which "purported" to be from employees and agents of the Asian firm, and were sent from fake email accounts, directed money for legitimate goods and services into Mr Rimasauskas's accounts, the DoJ said.
The cash was then "wired into different bank accounts" in locations around the world - including Latvia, Cyprus, Slovakia, Lithuania, Hungary and Hong Kong.
He also "forged invoices, contracts and letters" to hide his fraud from the banks he used.
Officials said Mr Rimasauskas siphoned off more than $100m in total, although much of the stolen money has been recovered.
Acting US Attorney Joon H Kim said: "This case should serve as a wake-up call to all companies... that they too can be victims of phishing attacks by cybercriminals.
"And this arrest should serve as a warning to all cybercriminals that we will work to track them down, wherever they are, to hold them accountable."
The DoJ would not comment on possible extradition arrangements and said that no trial date had been set.
They raided 35 addresses in the Newport area and recovered what is believed to be Class A drugs and money.
A total of 27 people were convicted following a major operation in February.
Ch Supt Marc Budden said: "We have now acted on further community intelligence to continue our robust action against these crimes."
Boys aged 13, 15 and 16 were among those arrested along with a 60-year-old woman.
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Serum made from the blood of recovered Ebola patients could be available within weeks in Liberia, one of the countries worst hit by the virus, says the WHO.
And the US Homeland Security Department says all visitors arriving from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone must undergo enhanced screening at one of five airports.
Here is the latest Ebola news for Wednesday 22 October - in 15 seconds.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposed the fine, accusing the firm of breaching rules by sending a corrosive drain cleaner by air.
Nine UPS employees complained of burns after handling the package after the substance leaked, the authority said.
Amazon said it would work with the FAA to improve its processes.
According to the authority, Amazon sent a package containing a one-gallon container of the corrosive drain cleaner "Amazing! LIQUID FIRE" from Kentucky to Colorado via UPS in October 2014.
"While being transported, some of the Liquid Fire leaked through the fibreboard box. Nine UPS employees who came into contact with the box reported feeling a burning sensation and were treated with a chemical wash," the FAA said.
It accused Amazon of failing to package the shipment properly and said the box did not have the correct labelling or documentation and said the firm's staff who handled it were not properly trained.
"Amazon has a history of violating the Hazardous Materials Regulations. From February 2013 to September 2015 alone, Amazon was found to have violated the Hazardous Materials Regulations 24 times. The FAA is continuing to investigate Amazon's compliance with the Hazardous Materials Regulations applicable to air transportation," it said.
The Reuters news agency reported that the FAA has sought a total of nearly $1.3m in fines as a result of those instances. In at least 15, hazardous material leaked, the FAA said in its notice of violation.
It was not clear how many times Amazon had paid fines or admitted responsibility because the FAA does not announce fines of less than $50,000, a spokesman for the authority told Reuters. The company did pay $91,000 in April 2014 for an incident the previous year in which its employees improperly shipped flammable liquid adhesive.
FedEx employees in Boulder discovered a gallon container of adhesive was leaking, not properly labelled and without proper shipping papers, the FAA said.
An Amazon spokesperson said: "We ship tens of millions of products every day and have developed sophisticated technologies to detect potential shipping hazards and use any defects as an opportunity for continuous improvement. We will continue to partner with the FAA in this area."
The firm has 30 days to respond to the FAA.
The proposed additions to the Gogerddan campus will allow research into food, nutrition and energy security, renewable energies and biotechnologies.
It comes after a public consultation on the proposals.
Aberystwyth University said it would provide "world-leading facilities".
A decision on the new campus - which would be built next to the IBERS institute on its current Gogerddan site - is expected in spring 2017.
The development will be funded by the European Regional Development Fund via the Welsh Government, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and Aberystwyth University.
It will include a bio-refining centre, a future food centre, laboratories and a seed-processing and biobank facility.
It is hoped it will help create solutions for the agri-tech industry and will support more than 100 jobs once fully operational.
Project director Huw Watkins said feedback from the public consultation had been "extremely positive".
"It allowed us to progress community benefits such as solutions to address highway concerns. We will be working closely with Ceredigion County Council during the next few months to facilitate a series of improvements that work for all stakeholders," he added.
If planning permission is granted, construction is planned to start in mid-2017 and is expected to take two years to complete.
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The 23-year-old has not played a single game for Town this season.
He joined the Championship side from Southampton in June 2011 and has made 67 appearances in total for them.
"It is important that we have the right balance in the team as I have felt that the balance has not been correct in the last couple of weeks," Chesterfield boss Paul Cook told the club website.
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A cross-party group of assembly members will call for a legal defence of "chastisement" to be removed.
The Welsh government said it wanted to make physical punishment unacceptable by promoting "positive alternatives".
A previous attempt to outlaw the smacking of children in Wales ran into a dispute about whether the assembly had powers to pass such a law.
However, First Minister Carwyn Jones has told AMs the Welsh government believes the assembly has the necessary powers to amend the criminal law.
Four AMs seeking a ban - two Labour, one Plaid Cymru, and the leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats - have tabled a debate in the Senedd on Wednesday.
They will urge the Welsh government to bring forward legislation that would end the availability of the chastisement defence for an offence of assaulting a child.
In a letter to two of them, seen by BBC Wales, Mr Jones says it is the view of Welsh ministers that it is possible for the assembly to amend the criminal law and "end the availability of the defence of reasonable punishment for those cases where it still applies to an offence of assaulting a child".
In its manifesto for the last assembly election, Labour said it would "work to make physical punishment of children and young people unacceptable through the promotion of positive alternatives".
One of the AMs seeking a smacking ban, Labour's Christine Chapman, said similar bans had been successful in several other countries.
She said: "There's a lot to suggest smacking doesn't work.
"What message are you giving out that in order for them to do what you want you have got to use physical force? Really, we are way behind other countries."
Mrs Chapman, the mother of two grown-up children, said she regretted smacking her daughter a couple of times when she was younger.
"I really wish at the time there had been information about this being wrong. I feel terrible now," she said.
She is tabling the debate for Wednesday with another Labour AM, Julie Morgan, Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams and Plaid Cymru AM Lindsay Whittle.
Mr Whittle said: "This is something where the assembly could really make a major impact, one of the first big laws we could pass since the new powers."
He said enforcing a ban on smacking children would be "no more difficult than any other act of violence against individuals".
A government spokesman said: "This government is committed to work to make physical punishment of children and young people unacceptable through the promotion of positive alternatives and we believe this is the best place to start."
Conservative AM Darren Millar opposes a ban and said while did not condone any abuse of children, whether physical of mental, parents should have the right to chastise them.
"Physical chastisement is a tool," said Mr Millar, the AM for Clwyd West. "It's not the only tool but it can be extremely effective and useful, and can be far less damaging.
"I think the vast majority of parents know where to draw the line. People use it as a reasonable punishment and they ought to be able to continue to do so."
Mr Millar said in the last assembly there had been a balance among AMs against physical punishment of children, but it would be interesting to see the current situation, with many new members.
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The Canadian singer remains in pole position in this week's singles chart with Love Yourself and also stays put at two with Sorry.
Bieber's former number one track What Do You Mean?, meanwhile, climbs one place to three.
In the album chart, Adele's 25 is number one for a seventh straight week.
Her third solo record again triumphed over Elvis Presley's If I Can Dream, her closest rival, on what would have been the legendary singer's 81st birthday.
The ubiquitous Bieber sits one place behind them with Purpose, just ahead of Jess Glynne's I Cry When I Laugh at four and James Bay's Chaos and the Calm at five.
A campaign to send Motorhead's Ace of Spades into the Top 40 following the death of lead singer Ian 'Lemmy' Kilmister sees the track re-enter the singles chart at 13.
The song's previous highest position came when it was first released in 1980, when it reached 15th place.
Further down the chart, at number 33, Craig David scores his first top 40 hit in eight years with When the Bassline Drops.
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Nigel Boocock, from Yorkshire, competed in 748 matches for Coventry Bees in 18 consecutive seasons in the 1960s and 70s.
Known as "Little Boy Blue" because of the colour of his leathers, Boocock died in Australia last April.
The service will see 1976 champion Peter Collins ride around the track in Brandon with Boocock's grandson, Jack, holding his ashes.
Tony Gillas, a former Bees rider and now chairman of the Speedway Control Bureau, said Boocock entertained hundreds of thousands of people, and regularly rode for the England team.
"Nigel will always be Mr Coventry Speedway," said Mr Gillas. "He put his heart and soul into Brandon and entertained so many people... we wanted to do something like this."
BBC Coventry and Warwickshire's speedway correspondent, Wayne Roberts, said Boocock was unsurpassed and arguably "the best rider ever".
Boocock's son, Darren, and Darren's wife Sharon were killed in a road collision in 2008 when their Triumph motorcycle collided with a lorry.
The aircraft manufacturer added it expected profits would be flat in 2016.
Airbus shares fell 10.4% to €43.20 (£34.32)on Wednesday, marking their worst one-day fall for six years and wiping €3.9bn off the company's value.
At the same time, Qatar Airways said it was postponing delivery of the first A350 jetliner "until further notice".
Delivery of the A350 to Qatar Airways had originally been planned for 13 December followed by a flight to Doha.
The two sides then scheduled a pre-delivery ceremony for Friday, before the handover was scrapped altogether.
The A380 aircraft is only in its seventh full year of operation and cost about $25bn to develop.
While Airbus will break even on the plane in the years up to 2018, chief financial officer Harald Wilhelm said the aircraft manufacturer would have to provide different engines from 2018 to make it more attractive, or discontinue making it altogether.
The announcement prompted a furious reaction from the head of Dubai's Emirates airline, who said it was prepared to invest heavily in buying more of the aircraft.
Tim Clark, president of Emirates, said he had protested to Airbus.
Mr Clark said if Airbus went ahead with proposals to upgrade the A380 by adding new Rolls-Royce engines, Emirates would eventually replace all the 140 aircraft it had ordered with the newly upgraded version.
He added the aircraft was popular with passengers and "full to the gunwales" with passengers.
Airbus has already announced plans to cut production of its A330 aircraft by 10% to nine aircraft a month.
But it said on Wednesday it would have to cut production again in 2016 to an unspecified level, following slow progress in finding buyers for the aircraft, ahead of a planned upgrade in 2017.
In an attempt to restore calm, Airbus head of corporate communications Rainer Ohler issued a statement on behalf of the company which said: "The entire Airbus top management continues to believe strongly in the market prospects of the A380, but any investment by Airbus requires a sound business case, which we will continue to study,"
Peter Anstell, chair of the Friends of Horsey Seals (FHS), said the "phenomenal" number of pups had turned Horsey into a tourist attraction.
Volunteers from FHS are attempting to keep visitors from disturbing the record 600 pups on the beach.
Norfolk Police has advised people to stay away because of traffic problems.
Grey seals begin arriving at Horsey beach in November, give birth over the coming months, and suckle their young before leaving in late January or February.
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In the past decade, the number of seals born on the beach has risen from about six to about 600 this season, which Mr Anstell described as "a bit of a phenomenon".
"Visitor numbers is a real issue for local people," he said.
"On peak days such as Boxing Day and New Year's Day, people descended on Horsey in their hundreds, if not thousands. It is chaotic for parking in a place not designed for this many visitors."
He said he was unsure why thousands of seals chose to come ashore at Horsey, but added: "They would want a solid and stable beach on which to give birth and Horsey is good for that.
"It's got a wide expanse of sand and dunes, which give them some protection from the weather and very high tides."
Mr Anstell said the seal pups would be suckled for about three weeks, during which time they would put on about 2kg (4.5lb) a day.
"The mother then leaves them alone on the beach for another three weeks. That's when they're at their most susceptible.
"If they wander into another seal's territory, they will be attacked."
Mr Anstell said until a year ago, the seals were monitored by Natural England, but following funding cuts FHS was asked to take on the task of counting the seals and keeping them safe.
On Monday the prospective Republican presidential candidate raised some eyebrows when he responded "yes" to a question about whether he would have approved the 2003 invasion of Iraq "knowing what we know now". Is Jeb standing by Bush's Iraq War decision?
It took less than 24 hours for his political supporters to begin walking back that statement, however, after he was subjected to withering criticism from the left and the right.
Ana Navarro, an adviser to Mr Bush who served on his staff when he was governor, said she emailed Mr Bush on Tuesday about the remark, and he told her that he didn't hear Fox host Megyn Kelly correctly.
"I think when you hear the entirety of his answer, and he talks about the faulty information, it's hard not to conclude that he misheard the question," she said on CNN. "Instead of hearing 'if we knew what we knew now', he must have heard 'if we knew what we knew then'."
The latter version of the question is a fairly common one for candidates of all political stripes, and - for the most part - it results in a dispassionate discussion of faulty intelligence, missed opportunities and unintended consequences not too different from the way Mr Bush answered.
Very few politicians these days would answer "knowing what we know now" with a solid affirmative, however. Then again, only one politician on the national stage today has the surname Bush.
Syndicated radio show host Laura Ingraham, a long-time conservative critic of Jeb Bush, said after Monday's remarks that "you can't still think that going into Iraq, now, as a sane human being, was the right thing to do".
She added that comments like that show that Mr Bush is ill qualified to be the Republican nominee.
"You have to have someone who says, look, I'm a Republican but I'm not an idiot. I'm not stupid," she said. "I learn from the past, and I improve myself."
Another conservative commentator, the Washington Examiner's Byron York, writes that the Iraq issue isn't going to go away for Jeb Bush - especially if he continues mishandling what should be easy questions
"Jeb's statement is likely to resonate until he either changes his position or loses the race for the Republican nomination," he writes. "Should he become the nominee, the issue will dog him into the general election campaign."
Meanwhile the Democratic National Committee wasted no time taking advantage of the opening Mr Bush's remarks created. It launched a YouTube video tying the two Bush brothers together, and spokeswoman Kristin Sosanie quipped: "Apparently hindsight isn't 20/20 for Jeb Bush. Even knowing how badly we were misled, he would still have done it all again."
Jeb Bush's remarks come less than a week after he reportedly told a private audience in New York City that George W Bush was one of his primary advisers on Middle East policy.
Mr Bush's staff have said since that his comments were about Israel policy specifically, not the Middle East in general. Some members of the audience at the event disagree, however.
Being a Bush brings with it a number of distinct advantages when running for the Republican presidential nomination - such as money, name recognition, a set of influential connections within the party and a seaside compound in Maine in which to relax for a few days.
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Gen Gilbert Diendere made the proposal at talks brokered by West African mediators in the capital Ouagadougou.
On Saturday one of the mediators had spoken of a breakthrough and hinted at a new transition government reinstating interim President Michel Kafando.
At least 10 people have been killed in clashes since Thursday's coup.
The overthrow of the civilian interim government - carried out by the presidential guard - was widely condemned. Burkina Faso has been suspended from the African Union.
BBC West Africa reporter Thomas Fessy says the junta's proposal is unlikely to signal a return to power of the civilian authorities.
The document, signed by Gen Diendere and exclusively seen by the BBC, says he should remain president until elections - currently due on 11 October.
This is in stark contradiction to the optimism shown on Saturday by one of the mediators, Benin President Yayi Boni, who suggested the presidential guard might give up power, our correspondent adds.
Gen Diendere was chief of staff of former President Blaise Compaore, who was deposed in a popular uprising last October.
Meanwhile violence erupted on Sunday at the hotel in Ouagadougou, where the talks have been taking place.
About 50 coup supporters burst into the lobby of the Laico hotel, injuring several people.
"They invaded the hotel," an eyewitness told Reuters news agency. "They attacked ex-opposition members as they arrived. One had to be saved from the crowd by security forces."
Outside the building opponents of the coup held a protest but were later dispersed by security forces.
Mr Kafando, who was initially held by the coup leaders, is now free. However, other questions remain, including the fate of Prime Minister Isaac Zida, who was also detained.
Mr Compaore is currently in exile and was accused of committing widespread abuses, and trying to change the constitution to extend his term in office.
Some of his key allies had been barred from contesting the election.
Gen Diendere has said he has had no contact with Mr Compaore and will do everything to "avoid violence that could plunge the country into chaos".
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The Welsh region says Smith, 28, has suffered a "series of concussive events" and after "expert advice" has decided to "hang up his boots".
"I am utterly disappointed and devastated that I have been forced to retire through injury," said Smith.
"But I feel that the medical advice given to me cannot be ignored."
Former Wales Under-20 captain Smith, made more than 160 appearances for Dragons since joining the Rodney Parade side in 2005.
Dragons' director of rugby, Lyn Jones said it was a "big blow" for the region.
"We are all so upset at the news of Ashley's forced retirement," said Davies.
"Over his 10 years at Rodney Parade, he has been a credit to the region, himself and his family.
"We will miss his maturity, football, decision making and his experience.
"It's a big blow for us, but Ashley has made the right decision for himself and his family. We wish him well for the future."
The airline is concerned that only a third of the 29 electronic passport gates are open at Heathrow Terminal 5.
BA says the gates shut prematurely at 23:00 while customers are still disembarking, causing huge queues.
The Home Office has said it strongly disagrees with BA's remarks.
Back in 2015, when the electronic gates at Terminal 5 were opened, the Home Office said that the technology would help the Border Force to process a higher number of low risk passengers "more quickly and using less resources" to reduce queuing times.
The electronic gates were meant to help border control officers to focus on "more priority work" like cracking down on people trafficking and drug smuggling.
However, since many of the gates are often closed, families returning from holidays have been facing long queues to pass through immigration, particularly late at night.
"It is a constant frustration to us and to our customers that after a long flight they have to stand in queues, sometimes for over an hour, just to get back into the country," said Raghbir Pattar, British Airways' director of Heathrow.
"And it is a dreadful welcome for visitors to the UK... It adds insult to injury when you're stuck in a queue but can see numerous gates which just aren't being used."
British Airways has submitted its concerns to the Home Office and hopes that action can be taken to reduce unnecessary delays.
Mr Pattar said: "We recognise some of the steps being taken by Border Force to improve the service they provide to travellers. However more focus must be put on operating in the most efficient and flexible way and ensuring that passengers' needs are put first."
Heathrow Terminal 5 currently only serves BA and Spanish airline Iberia.
A spokesperson for Virgin Atlantic told the BBC: "This hasn't been a particular issue for our customers as all our flights land before 10pm."
The Home Office strongly disagrees with British Airways' comments.
"This statement significantly misrepresents the experience of the vast majority of passengers arriving at Heathrow this summer," a spokesperson said.
"More than 99% of British and European passengers arriving at Heathrow are dealt with within 25 minutes. For passengers from outside the European Economic Area, 87% of passengers have been dealt with within 45 minutes.
"Border Force and British Airways have an agreement to close the Terminal 5 ePassport gates at 11pm every evening. In recent months, Border Force has kept the gates open beyond 11pm - often to accommodate passengers arriving on delayed British Airways flights.
"The security of our border is paramount - which is why 100% of scheduled passengers are checked when arriving in the UK. While every effort is made to keep delays for passengers to a minimum, we make no apology for carrying out this important work."
The silver Vauxhall Corsa knocked down a bollard before crashing into the Salvation Army store in Trinity Street, Dorchester, just before 11:00 GMT.
Dorset Police said the driver, a man in his 70s, was checked over by ambulance crews and is not believed to have been injured.
There were no reports of anyone being hurt inside the shop.
The driver was attempting to park in the adjacent car park at the time of the crash, according to reports from the scene.
Ray Slater, from the Salvation Army, said staff were "shocked" after the crash.
Mr Slater said: "Our staff were at the other side of the shop so heard it, they didn't actually see it.
"It looks like the damage is just to merchandise - so that's fine - we're just pleased nobody was hurt."
He said it was likely part of the shop would have to close while repair work is carried out.
The WWF and the International Rhino Foundation said the country's last Javan rhino was probably killed by poachers, as its horn had been cut off.
Experts said the news was not a surprise, as only one sighting had been recorded in Vietnam since 2008.
Fewer than 50 individuals are now estimated to remain in the wild.
"It is painful that despite significant investment in Vietnamese rhino conservation, efforts failed to save this unique animal, " said WWF's Vietnam director Tran Thi Minh Hien.
"Vietnam has lost part of its natural heritage."
The authors of the report, Extinction of the Javan Rhino from Vietnam, said genetic analysis of dung samples collected between 2009-2010 in the Cat Tien National Park showed that they all belonged to just one individual.
Shortly after the survey was completed, conservationists found out that the rhino had been killed. They say it was likely to have been the work of poachers because it had been shot in a leg and its horn had been cut off.
Globally, there has been a sharp increase in the number of rhino poaching cases. Earlier this year, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) published a report that said rhino populations in Africa were facing their worst poaching crisis for decades.
An assessment carried out by Traffic, the global wildlife trade monitoring network, said the surge in the illegal trade in rhino horns was being driven by demands from Asian medicinal markets.
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The Vietnam rhino, as well as being the last of the species on mainland Asia, was also the last known surviving member of the Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus subspecies - one of three recognised groups of Javan rhino populations.
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Another is already extinct. R. sondaicus inermis was formerly found in north-eastern India, Bangladesh and Burma.
The remaining subspecies, R. sondaicus sondaicus, is now found on Java, Indonesia. However, since the 1930s, the animals - now estimated to number no more than 50 - have been restricted to the westernmost parts of the island.
Bibhab Kumar Talukdar, chairman of the IUCN's Asian Rhino Specialist Group, said the demise of the Javan rhino in Vietnam was "definitely a blow".
"We all must learn from this and need to ensure that the fate of the Javan rhino in [Indonesia] won't be like that of Cat Tien in near future," he told BBC News.
"Threats to rhinos for their horn is definitely a major problem. But in Indonesia, due to active work done by rhino protection units and national park authorities, no Javan rhino poaching has been recorded in Indonesia for past decade."
Dr Talukdar observed: "What is key to the success of the species is appropriate habitat management as the Javan rhinos are browser and it needs secondary growing forests."
He warned that the habitat within the national park on Java serving as the final refuge for the species was being degraded by an invasive species of palm.
"As such, control of arenga palm and habitat management for Javan rhinos in Ujung Kulon National Park is now become important for future of the species."
Speaking to me at the International Monetary Fund autumn meeting in Washington, Phillip Hammond said that although sterling's rapid fall was partly "technical", markets would have to get used to volatility while Britain negotiated its departure from the European Union.
He said that it was important to "look through" currency volatility to the fundamentals of the UK economy which he said were strong.
"[There will be] no spending splurge," he told me.
"What we have said we are going to do is create within a new fiscal framework enough space for the government to be able to respond to the turbulence in the economy that I have talked about.
"As we go through this period we want to be able to provide fiscal support if necessary.
"At the moment I can't predict whether that will be necessary at the time of the Autumn Statement in November.
"We will have more data by then and if the data show that the economy needs support we will make carefully targeted, precise interventions aiming to support the economy through investment in infrastructure which not only gives a short term boost but gives a long term benefit to the UK's productivity."
He told the BBC the government would take the "necessary measures" to support the economy, but that did not mean abandoning attempts to control Britain's high levels of debts.
He said that despite abandoning the pledge made by George Osborne to eliminate the deficit by 2020, the Treasury would provide a "clear set of benchmarks" about tackling the deficit.
Mr Hammond said it was "not credible" to have the government's fiscal position "unanchored" and that any new target on balancing the books would be achieved "over a sensible period of time".
On sterling, the Chancellor said investors who control billions of pounds of sterling assets were "resetting their expectations" as it became clear that Britain would not seek to engineer a "soft" or partial departure from the European Union.
He said the "final foot had dropped" in investors' minds that "it is going to happen".
That could suggest further downward pressure on sterling as many investors believe that UK assets will be less valuable if Britain is outside the European Union single market, Britain's biggest destination for exports.
Others believe that after a period of volatility, the UK economy will bounce back, which could see sterling strengthen.
"Markets will go up and down - markets respond to noises," the Chancellor said.
"We are going to go through a period of volatility, there will be lots of commentary going on and we can expect to see markets being more turbulent over this period and we should prepare for that."
Mr Hammond said he wanted to ensure the "maximum possible access" to the European single market for businesses but that it was not yet time to set out the details of Britain's negotiating position.
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Gallons of dirty, smelly water has damaged their furniture, toys and clothes.
They have had to leave all their toys, clothes and Christmas presents behind until all the flood water drains away.
It could take months to dry before the houses can start to be repaired.
Our reporter Naz went with one young boy, Ben, as he went back to his badly damaged home for the first time since the water flooded in.
However, he describes it as the "mission" of Rangers, the team he managed to a domestic treble in season 2002-03, to halt champions Celtic.
"I see the Dons being second," the 58-year-old told BBC Radio Scotland.
"Derek McInnes has made good acquisitions and it is there for Rangers to try to usurp him."
McLeish, who also enjoyed success in charge of Motherwell and Hibernian, joked that Rangers fans would be "ganging up" on him for tipping the club for whom he played in central defence almost 700 times.
But, as Celtic target a seventh consecutive title, the former Scotland manager thinks the Reds have the edge over Pedro Caixinha's Rangers team when it comes to being runners-up.
He is impressed with the standard of players to have arrived at Pittodrie over the summer, such as Kari Arnason, Greg Tansey, Ryan Christie, Stevie May, Greg Stewart, Nicky Maynard and Gary Mackay-Steven.
McLeish continued: "I still think Aberdeen are the favourites. They still have a really good chance of finishing second.
"Derek McInnes has bought wisely again. If you look at the guys he's recruited, there is good experience there. Stevie May - what a buy that is.
"Being first, that's the only thing that Rangers fans crave but common sense would tell you that they should be accepting second.
"People talk about 'let's stop 10 in a row'. They've got to stop seven in a row. That is their mission this season.
"I've said Aberdeen could finish above them but Rangers have still got to pull out all the stops to try to beat Celtic this season."
McLeish describes the treble-winning Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers as an "all-round terrific package", with a successful blend of man-management and coaching skills.
"Brendan came to Birmingham when he was out of work," he recalled. "I invited him in for a day's training.
"I knew he was an educated guy. I think he learned a lot about man-management over maybe a sacking or two and going on to manage players like Steven Gerrard (at Liverpool) and doing it with great aplomb."
McLeish was Scotland manager in 2007 before leaving for Birmingham City. He is urging the Tartan Army to get behind the current boss Gordon Strachan for September's World Cup qualifiers against Lithuania and Malta, insisting Scotland can win both games.
Asked if he would welcome a return to the Scotland job one day, he replied: "Yeah, I would, absolutely. You kind of evolve in your life and there comes a moment when you think 'that would really suit me'.
"I've got the experience and they say experience is forever. It would be a great challenge in the future. You never know."
The woman's body was found in a flat in Meelmore Drive in the County Tyrone town on Saturday.
Matthew Darryl Taylor, of Meelmore Drive, faces a total of 10 charges.
They include the possession and supply of Class A, B and C controlled drugs, namely ecstasy, cannabis and diazepam.
He is also facing a further charge in connection with selling or supplying the prescription-only drug, Lyrica.
Mr Taylor appeared at Fermanagh Magistrates' Court on Monday for a bail application, which was opposed by the police.
A PSNI detective constable told the court the deceased had been involved in an "on-off relationship" with the defendant for the past year.
An eyewitness told the police that the deceased had attended a house party late on Thursday night and in the early hours of Friday.
The witness alleged Mr Taylor had arrived at the house "with different bags of drugs", and supplied a number of ecstasy tablets to her, the court heard.
As a result of what the witness had said, police spoke to the defendant.
He told officers that he had seen the woman on Friday morning and admitted that he had supplied Class C drugs to her, but would not say where he got them.
After he was arrested, a police search found quantities of suspected ecstasy and cannabis.
During interview, Mr Taylor claimed these drugs were for his own personal use.
The police objected to bail due to the risk of further offending.
During cross-examination, the detective constable confirmed she was not aware of the port-mortem examination results, adding that this was scheduled to take place later on Monday.
A defence solicitor told the court his client wished to convey his sympathies to the family of the deceased at this stage.
The solicitor said Mr Taylor, who admitted to being a drug user, was "very upset".
The solicitor told the court his client accepted that he supplied drugs to the deceased, but added that there was nothing to suggest he was involved in the wholesale dealing of drugs to the wider community.
A district judge said it was clearly a tragic case that was a "chilling example" of the dangers of the illicit use of drugs.
The judge said the defendant, who was "sadly known" to the deceased, had provided her with drugs that had led to her "untimely and sudden demise".
The judge said that Mr Taylor suffered from some form of drug addiction and had other offences on his record as a result of a failure to deal with that issue.
Refusing bail, he expressed his fear that, if released, the defendant would be unable to deal with his addiction issue and attempt to re-involve himself in that behaviour.
Mr Taylor was remanded in custody to appear before Omagh Magistrates Court on Tuesday for a possible compassionate bail application.
Shadow Welsh Secretary Nia Griffith challenged Stephen Crabb over UK government support for the industry: "You know just how serious the crisis facing the steel industry in Wales is and indeed in the whole of the UK. Four years ago, the chancellor promised a compensation package to the energy-intensive industries.
"What reassurance can you now give the thousands of workers in Wales whose jobs depend on the steel industry that your government will deliver that package by the end of this month?"
Mr Crabb told her: "The steel industry in Europe is facing a perfect storm as a result of a glut of cheap imports, falling prices and high energy costs. With nearly half of the UK's primary steel industry employed in Wales we fully recognise the impact of these global challenges on Welsh steelworkers and their families.
"We are working closely with the industry and with the devolved administrations to do everything possible to support the industry at this time."
Mr Crabb said the government was in the process of delivering that compensation. "We have already paid out around £50 million in compensation to British steel companies, not least to companies based in Wales."
Whenever two or three Welsh MPs are gathered together it is traditional, if not compulsory, for them to debate the future of devolution and so it proved at the first question time since the draft Wales Bill was published.
Plaid Cymru's parliamentary leader, Hywel Williams, wanted to know what progress Mr Crabb had made consulting civil society on the draft bill.
Mr Crabb said he continued to meet "members of civil society, the judiciary and leading business organisations across Wales to take soundings and hear their views".
Mr Williams, who had clearly been taking his own soundings in civil society, warned him: "There is general, substantial and growing dissatisfaction with the draft Wales bill, not least among legal colleagues. Would you not be better advised to withdraw the bill and start again?"
Mr Crabb was not for turning: "I fear that if we were to withdraw the bill, we would see no progress whatsoever on strengthening and clarifying Welsh devolution, which I understood Plaid Cymru and the Labour Party supported."
Enter Michael 'my mam's from Aberavon' Fabricant : "When I raised this issue before the general election, a previous secretary of state for Wales said that I was wrong. Will the present Welsh secretary say that if the Welsh people would like a Welsh parliament, rather than a Welsh assembly, they will be able to have one?"
Stephen Crabb, a reader of Gerald of Wales's works, told him: "To paraphrase the famous old man of Pencader, it will be the Welsh people ultimately who determine the direction and pace of Welsh devolution. The draft Wales bill will give powers to the Welsh assembly to call itself a parliament and take on more law-making responsibilities."
Mr Crabb rejected calls for a single Welsh legal jurisdiction, warning that it could lead to "a flight of talent" from the Welsh legal profession.
You can read the full exchanges here.
In other news, Jeremy Corbyn has continued on his "steep learning curve" as Labour leader, with some frontbench spokespeople continuing to question openlyhis leadership and policies.
One Labour activist, Madeleine Jennings, who works for Aberavon MP Stephen Kinnock, tweeted: "Pretty embarrassing week 2 b Labour Party member. Parisians must see our party spat over their national tragedy & think we're total morons."
But charges of match-fixing against Petersen, who has spent the past two years playing for Lancashire, were withdrawn by Cricket South Africa.
It follows a lengthy investigation into South Africa's domestic Ram Slam T20 Challenge Series competition in 2015.
"I accept the punishment that CSA has imposed on me," said the 36-year-old.
Petersen, who played the last of his 36 Test matches in January 2015 and has spent the last two English summers playing county cricket for Lancashire, admitted 13 breaches of CSA's anti-corruption code:
In January, as part of the same investigation, former South Africa spinner Gulam Bodi was banned for 20 years after admitting charges of contriving or attempting to fix matches.
Then in August, CSA banned former wicketkeeper Thami Tsolekile for 12 years for his part in the scandal, while Pumelela Matshikwe, Ethy Mbhalati and Jean Symes received lesser bans for accepting money from Bodi.
A CSA statement said: "After considering representations made by Petersen, CSA has withdrawn certain charges against him, including those relating to fixing or contriving to fix any match and seeking, accepting or offering to accept any bribe or other reward to fix or influence any match."
Petersen added: "I would like to apologise to my family, friends, the public who are fans of the game of cricket, my team-mates, Gauteng cricket, Lions cricket and especially to Cricket South Africa for my actions.
"At the time that the meetings with Bodi and the fixers happened, I never had any intention of fixing matches or taking money.
"I now deeply regret having participated in these meetings and not to have immediately reported them to the authorities as I am obliged to do."
A statement by Petersen's former county said: "Lancashire County Cricket Club respects the outcome of the recent proceedings between Alviro Petersen and Cricket South Africa (CSA), and as such can confirm that the player won't be playing for the club in the 2017 season."
Petersen was Glamorgan's captain for the 2011 season and also had spells with Essex and Somerset.
A spokesman for the defence ministry said his army unit was "looking into the matter" following a public outcry.
The 30-year-old, whose real name is Jung Ji-hoon, is doing compulsory military service until this year.
Thousands had signed an online petition calling for an investigation into possible preferential treatment.
All able-bodied South Korean men are required to serve time in the military - a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War.
The South is still technically at war with North Korea, as the conflict ended in a ceasefire and not a peace treaty.
Men in military service have limited free time and are largely confined to their barracks.
In the past, artists have been known to try to avoid military duty, which has proved unpopular with the public.
Psy - known for his global hit Gangnam Style - was made to repeat his military service after being accused of neglecting his duties.
The report of Rain's apparent romance with popular South Korean actress Kim Tae-hee, 32, broke in local media on Tuesday.
Kim's representatives said in a statement that the two had been dating for a month.
Rain began his career in 2002 and became part of the Korean Wave of drama and popular music that has spread in Asia.
His 2004 album It's Raining sold 1m copies and he appeared in several movies, including Hollywood production Speed Racer in 2008.
The Guernseyman is part of the new Ford Chip Ganassi team, with Priaulx hoping to better his third-place result he achieved in his class in 2011.
"We led it for most of the race in 2011 and lost it in the final hours, so I hope we can do one better than that," he told BBC Radio Guernsey.
"But this is a very tough and demanding race on the cars, drivers and teams."
Priaulx will be racing a Ford GT alongside fellow Britons Harry Tincknell and Marino Franchitti.
"It would go amongst the big wins for me," said Priaulx, who won three successive World Touring Car titles between 2005 and 2007.
"I won the Nurburgring 24 hours in 2005 and Sebring 12 hours in 2011, so this - along with Daytona - would be two big races for me.
"I've finished second in Daytona and third here, so there's still some unfinished business.
"To win Le Mans in the Ford GT would be a massive career step for me, so I'm very motivated about it.
"I've been told that I'm starting the race and, for me, that's a massive honour.
"Obviously that's a pretty crucial part of the race, to get under way a 24-hour programme with the huge commitment of Ford, to be given that privilege is a great honour and I'm looking forward to doing that on Saturday."
The Shropshire side have parted company with manager Rob Smith and his assistant Larry Chambers.
BBC Radio Shropshire reports that this is all part of a plan that will provide new investment to secure their future.
"It was tough to part with Rob (Smith) and Larry," said director Andy Pryce.
"But Rob (Edwards) is a Telford lad, who had a successful career as a player and has since gone on to make a very good start to his coaching career."
"This is my hometown club," said Shropshire-born Edwards, 34, who was heavily linked with the manager's job at Shrewsbury Town earlier this year.
"I will be working very hard to see what we can achieve and hopefully see the football club raise its profile to a new level."
Edwards returns to football four weeks after leaving in Wolves in May, when he departed Molineux along with boss Paul Lambert and the rest of his backroom team.
AFC Telford were formed by fans in 2004 following the liquidation of the old Telford United, famed in the 1970s and 1980s for their non-league FA Cup-fighting exploits.
Since being reformed, in the eighth tier of English football, the Bucks have twice been promoted to English football's fifth tier, in 2011 and 2014, only to be relegated in 2013 and again in 2015.
They have now spent two seasons back at sixth-tier level, finishing 18th in 2015-16 and 17th in 2016-17.
After seeking new investment in October 2016, an American-based Telford fan made an official approach for his hometown club. But the then fan-owned club's constitution, run by a Supporters' Trust, would only have allowed him to initially invest no more than 20%.
The club, who last year tried to raise £50,000 in extra income to improve a cashflow problem, have since changed their structure.
BBC Radio Shropshire's Nick Southall
"Obviously this is a pretty major development for the club. We caught wind that something was happening after the first scheduled pre-season training session was cancelled on Tuesday.
"Then today I was told that Rob Smith and Larry Chambers have left the club. This is as a result of new investment coming in, which I'm told is an offer too good to turn down.
"I'm also told the club's chairman Ian Dosser is leaving and Andy Pryce will be interim. This isn't a takeover and nothing will change as regards the current share structure or the name of the club.
"But I think it's a game-changer. We're talking pretty major investment and the prospect of some Football League players joining on loan.
"Sources also tell me that Telford are to receive additional financial support from Wolves, on top of their current agreement, in which the Championship side pay to use Telford's Bucks Head home to stage their Under-23 games."
The loss of Anthony Foley transcended provincial borders and national borders. It even transcended sport. People with no connection to Killaloe, where he was laid to rest on Friday, or Limerick, where his memory was evoked so thunderously on Saturday, were moved by the tragedy of his wife and two young boys left behind to deal with the cataclysm of his death.
So we begin not with the epic at Thomond Park but with a slow walk down the back streets of Foley's home town, the funeral cortege following his coffin from the gates of St Flannan's church to the graveyard, down the road, around the corner, past the GAA club and in the narrow gap to his final resting place.
Munster players of Foley's vintage carried the coffin, then they paused, handed it over to six more and the next wave of team-mates took it onwards. Every 100 yards or so, new pallbearers - men who had played, laughed and cried with him - carried him forward. For so long he was their protector, now the roles had been heartbreakingly reversed.
Walking a discreet distance behind was our Leinsterman - Malcolm O'Kelly. At 6ft 8in tall, hard to miss.
O'Kelly, a lock forward of the highest quality, won 92 caps for Ireland, 47 of them in the same pack as Foley. He looked at the scene ahead of him, this changing guard of Munster greats, and said quietly: "No shortage of big shoulders today."
At the time, approaching 2pm on Friday, it was almost inconceivable that the current crop of Munster players could leave the funeral of their coach and the emotion of his graveside and immediately focus on a game less than 24 hours away. It was borderline cruel to even ask them and nigh on impossible to envisage them holding it together so soon after a piece of their world had fallen apart.
At 10.30am on Saturday, Thomond Park was busy. Two and a half hours to kick-off and yet the place was filling up. What struck you was the warmth of the welcome and the brilliance of the organisation.
Pre-match was powerful. The songs, the montage on the big screen and then more songs. The guard of honour from kids from Foley's old school, St Munchin's, and Foley's old club, Shannon.
When the minute's silence ended, what passed as normality hit Thomond Park again, but you wanted to wince in that moment. You felt for the Munster players and the burden they were carrying. You knew how good Glasgow could be and the damage they could wreak.
Forty-plus points on Leicester Tigers last weekend at Scotstoun. The lethal running of Stuart Hogg, the orchestration of Finn Russell and Henry Pyrgos, the power and mobility of their pack led by the wonderful tyro, Jonny Gray.
If they put 40 on Leicester, what could be they be capable of now, against a team whose preparation involved more tears than tactics. We got our answer soon enough - right between the eyes.
This was Munster rugby played in the style and ferocity of their greatest teams from the past decade; unrelenting ferocity, clinical finishing, passion personified. It could have been Foley out there making the hard yards instead of CJ Stander. It could have been David Wallace at seven inside of Tommy O'Donnell.
In the mind's eye, O'Mahony was as much of a dervish and monumental pain in the opposition's backside at blindside as Alan Quinlan and Denis Leamy were in their pomp.
For Paul O'Connell and Donncha O'Callaghan, read Donnacha Ryan and Billy Holland. For Marcus Horan, Jerry Flannery and John Hayes, read Dave Kilcoyne, Niall Scannell and John Ryan.
You can pay these guys no greater compliment. They fronted up. As individuals, and as a team, they're not in the same class as Munster's Heineken Cup-winning sides of 2006 and 2008 - but on this particular day they were.
Maybe it was a one-off, hewn from the despond of the week, but they were outrageously good.
Two tries in 14 minutes, then a red card for Keith Earls and then - without missing a beat - another try. Unyielding and unstoppable.
There were so many moments that stood out and some of the finest ones were old school Munster. The monster 26th-minute scrum that brought a penalty, a Thomond Park roar that shook the ground and then three points that stretched the lead to 17-3.
Another moment and another scrum. Or scrums. At the beginning of the second half the worries still hung in the air about Munster's capacity to maintain the power without hitting an emotional wall. Again the questions were answered.
In the early minutes of the new half, Munster blitzed the Glasgow scrum once, twice, three times. Penalty try. Bonus point. Euphoria in the stadium. A powerful reminder of blissful old times, when they were kings.
Glasgow changed their team. They substituted their props but the pain didn't lessen. They brought new blood into their pack, but the demolition continued. They tried to fight Munster fire with fire of their own, but what's to be done when you're packing a lighter and the others a flame-thrower.
Gregor Townsend said that his team never turned up. You could see his point. Again, it was a throwback to when fancied teams came here - to the old Thomond Park as opposed to the new - and were sent away as beaten and slightly haunted men. Glasgow had that look about them on Saturday evening.
Townsend said something else. He spoke about the red card for Earls and Glasgow's inability to capitalise on it. He said that in ways, yes, his team were playing against 14 for over an hour, but in other ways they were playing against 26,014.
The Glasgow coach got that one right, too. It didn't lessen his frustration and anger at the way his team was bullied out there, but it was true none the less.
A powerful day had the perfect ending for Munster: a win and a song. Normally these players find the sanctuary of their own dressing room before they belt out their anthem, 'Stand Up And Fight', after a match - but this time they made it public and it was moving.
Foley's two young sons, Tony and Dan, joined the players in a huddle on the pitch and of all the remarkable things that have been seen here down the years - the great performances and seismic European wins - that simple moment when a family, a team and a support were united together was one to top them all.
Poignancy and points on a bittersweet day.
First Minister Arlene Foster said the terms for an independent inquiry were worked out in consultation with the attorney general.
She said they were sent to Sinn Féin who, so far, had not responded.
However, Sinn Féin's MLA Conor Murphy said they were "insufficient".
"There has been no agreement with the DUP on the terms of reference of an independent investigation," he said.
"In order to restore public confidence in the political institutions we need an independent investigation, which is robust, transparent, timeframed and led by a senior judicial figure from outside the jurisdiction and with the power to compel witnesses and subpoena documents.
"Arlene Foster should step aside to facilitate that investigation pending a preliminary report."
Set up in November 2012, the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme was an attempt by the Northern Ireland Executive to help to increase consumption of heat from renewable sources.
It is approximately £490m over budget as businesses were receiving more in subsidies than they were paying for renewable fuel and the scheme became heavily oversubscribed.
A quarter of 1,000 parents said they would support a free school in their area, with 31% against and 43% unsure.
The schools - being set up by groups of parents, charities and faith bodies - will be funded directly by Westminster and be outside local authority control.
The government says the NUT is "blindly opposed" to the schools, which it argues will drive up standards.
The NUT is campaigning against free schools - and the conversion of existing schools to academy status.
Both types of school will be what the government calls independent state schools, with more freedom over the curriculum and teachers' pay and conditions.
Teachers employed by them will also not need to have formal teaching qualifications.
In September, the government gave provisional approval for 16 free schools to open at the start of the next academic year. Another nine have since also been given the go-ahead.
The NUT asked pollsters YouGov to survey just over 1,000 parents in 22 local authority areas of England where free schools are being planned.
When asked which groups should run schools, about half said local authorities, 43% said teachers, 30% said charities, 25% said parents and 15% private companies - people could specify as many options as they liked.
About half of those questioned said there was a need for a new school in their area - with the same amount saying there was not.
However, 31% said they were against or "tended to be against" a new free school. The largest proportion were neither for nor against such a school opening locally, or did not know their opinion on the issue.
Most parents questioned (72%) said they thought any new state-funded school should follow the national curriculum and that children should be taught by qualified teachers (78%).
Asked what impact they thought a free school would have on other schools in their local area, one in five said it would raise standards, while one in four said they did not know.
Christine Blower, NUT general secretary, said: "This survey clearly shows that parents are not clamouring to set up free schools, have no issue with schools being accountable to the community through democratically elected local authorities, and absolutely reject the premise of their children's education being handed over to private companies.
"Free schools are not wanted or needed. They are divisive and unaccountable.
"It is time the government stopped playing with the educational future of this country based on nothing more than the fact they can."
But Mark Lehane, a maths teacher planning to form a free school in Bedford, said he had the backing of parents who had opposed previous plans for a "ginormous" secondary school with up to 400 pupils per year group.
"What me and my teacher colleagues are proposing is a much smaller secondary school. There's an awful lot of community support," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"I'm really worried that the union leaderships are really opposed to their members trying to do something for their local community."
Asked about union concerns over the separation of free schools from councils' democratic structures, he added: "If unions wanted to set up free schools and build in these accountability processes involving the local council they have got the opportunity to do that."
And Rachel Wolf from the New Schools Network charity, which has received some government funding, said free schools need not have 100% support and would give parents more options.
"A lot of state schools are absolutely fantastic, but there are a significant minority that aren't," she said.
"Those are overwhelmingly in more deprived areas. What this survey shows is a very high number of parents think they don't have an option."
A spokeswoman for the Department for Education said: "It's disappointing to see the NUT continuing to blindly oppose free schools before one has even opened its doors.
"As well as teachers and charities, it's also parents themselves who are behind many of the free school proposals.
"And each proposal has to show there is demand locally for the type of education they plan to offer.
"Too often the poorest families are left with the worst schools while the rich can pay for good education via private schools or house prices. Free schools will give all parents, not just the rich, the option of a good local school with great teaching, strong discipline and small class sizes."
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The Blues became champions of England for a sixth time - with two games to spare - thanks to Michy Batshuayi's late goal in a 1-0 win at West Brom.
Conte's side face Arsenal in the FA Cup final on 27 May.
"For me to win in my first season in England, I am really proud of the achievement," he told BBC Sport.
"My players showed me great professionalism, commitment, work-rate and will to try to win this league.
"We have two games to celebrate, then we try to make this season from great to fantastic."
Conte, who took charge at Chelsea after leaving Italy at the end of Euro 2016, says switching to a three-man defence in the wake of a 3-0 defeat by Arsenal in September was pivotal to the Blues' season.
Chelsea were eighth, eight points behind leaders Manchester City after that loss at Emirates Stadium. A 13-match winning streak followed, and they are now 10 points clear of their nearest challengers with two games remaining.
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"It was very frustrating for me because at the end of the Arsenal game I didn't see anything from my work or my ideas on football," said Conte.
"But in this moment I found the strength to change and take responsibility and find a system for the players.
"It was a key moment in the season because every single player found in this system the best for him.
"When you arrive after a bad season and the team has arrived at 10th in the league it means there are a lot of problems.
"To find the right solution quickly isn't easy and for this I want to thank my players because they trusted in the new work, my philosophy, video analysis to see mistakes and they showed the right attitude and behaviour."
Conte apologised after arriving late to his post-match news conference, explaining his players had showered him with beer and champagne and that "my suit is a disaster".
He revealed he had cut his lip as he celebrated Batshuayi's winner, but that it was not the first time he had been injured as a result of his joyful exuberance.
"In these moments, anything can happen," he said.
"I hurt my lip during the Euros as well and they had to put a stitch in it after we scored against Belgium.
"Simone Zaza gave me a header - I don't think it was on purpose. I'm not sure if this was a header or a punch but I am ready to repeat this."
The conference came to an abrupt end when players Diego Costa, John Terry and David Luiz arrived and, impatient to start their celebrations, ushered him away.
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Captain Gary Cahill said the players always believed they could mount a title charge despite finishing 10th last season, 31 points adrift of champions Leicester.
"We felt confident in the dressing room all season," he said.
"We deserved it over the season. We worked very hard and have been the better team.
"It is fantastic to wrap it up with a couple of games to go. It is very difficult in this league."
Fellow defender David Luiz says the chance to land his first Premier League title was one of the reasons he returned to the club from Paris St-Germain in a £34m move in August.
"When I decided to come back here I dreamed to win the Premier League. I am very happy because my dream came true," he said.
"Conte works with passion every day. He deserves it because he is working hard every day."
The Chelsea boss' influence on his side was also acknowledged by West Brom counterpart Tony Pulis.
"They're worthy champions," he said. "They had a poor start, and Conte had to change things.
"He's made it his team. Italian teams are tactically organised and well run.
"He changed their shape and they've been superb from that moment onwards."
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BBC analyst and former Tottenham and Newcastle midfielder Jermaine Jenas believes Conte deserves the credit for turning the club around, highlighting his conversion of Victor Moses from a fringe midfielder to first-choice wing-back.
"They lost their way last season, they were unrecognisable. He has come in and reinvigorated them," Jenas said.
"What I like about Conte is he gave Moses a chance and trusted him. He has made him a better player and a Premier League champion."
Alberta's Minister of Justice complained to the Canadian Judicial Council after Justice Robin Camp made "victim-blaming" statements during a 2014 rape trial.
Mr Camp acquitted the accused, but his verdict was overturned and a new trial ordered.
The judge will be able to make written submissions in his defence.
The council, which is in charge of investigating judicial misconduct, called an inquiry into Mr Camp's statements in 2015.
Mr Camp was presiding over a sexual assault trial when he asked the 19-year-old complainant "why couldn't you just keep your knees together?"
He also repeatedly referred to her, the complainant, as the accused, and told her that "pain and sex sometimes go together".
His comments drew sharp criticism from sexual assault victims and their advocates.
In its report, submitted Wednesday, the committee that led the inquiry found the judge's conduct "was so manifestly and profoundly destructive" he should no longer serve.
They found the judge "relied on discredited myths and stereotypes about women and victim-blaming" during the trial.
During the judicial inquiry, Mr Camp expressed remorse for his comments and said that he has been educating himself about sexual assault laws and stereotypes.
"I was not the good judge I thought I was. I struck the wrong tone in counsel submissions. I was rude and facetious," he said during the hearing.
"I didn't realize the implication came with those words."
During the inquiry, the complainant said his comments made her contemplate suicide.
Although the committee acknowledged his "significant efforts" to correct the situation, they found that no amount of training could repair the public confidence lost during the trial.
Mr Camp will have the opportunity to file written submissions on his behalf before the council makes its final recommendations to Alberta's Minister of Justice.
A verdict is expected in the new rape trial on 31 January.
Some 67% of corals died in the reef's worst-hit northern section, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies report said.
The situation was better in the central section, where 6% perished, while the southern reef is in good health.
But scientists warn recovery could be difficult if climate change continues.
Coral bleaching happens when water temperatures rise for a sustained period of time.
In February, March and April, sea surface temperatures across the Great Barrier Reef were the hottest on record, at least 1C higher than the monthly average.
"Some of the initial mortality was down to heat stress," said study leader Professor Terry Hughes.
"The coral was cooked."
Far more has been lost through gradual starvation, after the coral expelled the colourful algae zooxanthella, which turns sunlight into food.
This is what leads to the white, skeletal appearance of the coral, which is left without its main source of energy.
The study also found that the coral which survived the bleaching have now come under greater threat from predators such as snails and crown of thorns starfish.
This year's mass bleaching was the worst-ever recorded on the Great Barrier Reef, following two previous events in 1998 and 2002.
Professor Hughes is certain that the increased water temperature is the result of carbon emissions, and warns that climate change could bring annual bleaching within 20 years.
"Most of the losses in 2016 have occurred in the northern, most pristine part of the Great Barrier Reef," he said.
"This region escaped with minor damage in two earlier bleaching events in 1998 and 2002, but this time around it has been badly affected."
One of the worst-hit areas is around Lizard Island in Far North Queensland, where around 90% of the coral has died.
Dr Andrew Hoey, whose team charted the area, said the impact was far worse than feared after an initial survey in April.
"It's devastating to get in the water somewhere you've been coming for almost 20 years, and it's just knocked it on its head," he said.
"There's very little coral cover left there. It was dominated by the acropora - the branching corals - but we lost most of them."
Lizard Island is home to a research station, where scientists from across the world have come for decades to study marine life
One of its directors, Dr Anne Hogget, said this was by far the worst event to hit the Great Barrier Reef since she started working there in 1990.
"We had bleaching here in 2002," she said. "We thought this was bad at the time, but this has blown it completely out of the water."
She is hopeful that the reef is capable of recovery, but fears it may not be give an opportunity, as sea temperatures continue to rise.
"The trajectory is not good," Dr Hogget explained.
"We keep pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and this happened absolutely because of that."
On the central and southern parts of the Great Barrier Reef, where bleaching was not as prevalent, there is concern that it has been misreported, with one magazine even publishing an obituary of the reef earlier this year.
Tourism operators like Michael Healey from the Quicksilver Group are keen to point out that many sites were unaffected, but there is concern for the reef's long term health.
"Without the Great Barrier Reef, we wouldn't survive," he said.
"So it is absolutely of the utmost importance that we ensure that our politicians and everyone else in our community and around the world are doing what they can."
The Australian Government has published a long-term sustainability plan for the reef, and pledged financial support for research into coral bleaching.
The 2050 plan identifies the need to help make the reef more resilient to climate change in the future, while trying to lower carbon emissions.
Mr Healy argued even those not financially involved had a stake in the reef.
"I'd say every human on the planet does," he said.
Wonderland - the second album since Take That became a trio - had to settle for second place and the highest new entry, with 113,000 sales.
James Blunt has scored his fifth top 10 album, as The Afterlove debuts at six.
Sheeran's Shape of You isn't losing its form in the singles chart, staying at number one for the 12th straight week.
He is also at number two with Galway Girl and number five with Castle on the Hill - both from Divide, the Official Charts Company said.
Source: Official Charts Company
It's the first time Take That have failed to reach number one with an album in its first week since before they reformed without Robbie Williams.
But they can take some solace from the fact that their 2005 retrospective of '90s hits, Never Forget: The Ultimate Collection, has gone up to 25 in the album chart.
There seems to be no stopping Divide's success, and Shape of You has now beaten milestones set by Rihanna and Whitney Houston.
When it claimed the number one single spot last week, the song overtook Rihanna's 2007 chart-topper Umbrella and Houston's 1992 version of I Will Always Love You, which both topped the charts for 10 consecutive weeks.
Source: Official Charts Company
Drake is at number three in the singles chart with Passionfruit, while Clean Bandit's song with Zara Larsson, Symphony, is in fourth place.
In the album chart, Drake's More Life slips from two to three; Rag 'N' Bone Man stays at four with his debut album Human; and Dame Vera Lynn's 100 falls two places to five.
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The 22-year-old has joined the Premier League club on a four-and-a-half-year deal after passing a medical on Sunday.
Afobe, who arrived at Wolves from Arsenal a year ago, scored 23 goals in 48 games for the Championship side.
He becomes the Cherries' second signing of the January transfer window following fellow forward Juan Iturbe, who has signed on loan from Roma.
"It's been a long time coming," said Afobe. "I'm not saying I'm the finished article or the best that I'll ever be, because I know that I've got a lot to work on."
Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe said Afobe would "bring strength, power and hopefully goals", while the Cherries' chief executive Neill Blake said that his "outstanding progress" has been "difficult to miss".
Howe lost striker Callum Wilson and winger Max Gradel to long-term injuries earlier this season.
Bournemouth's previous record signing was £8m last summer for Ipswich defender Tyrone Mings - another long-term injury victim.
Wolves turned down offers from Norwich for Afobe in the summer, but the club "reluctantly" accepted a bid from the Cherries on Saturday.
"Benik has regularly re-stated his desire to leave Wolves and to test himself in the top flight at the earliest opportunity," read a Wolves statement. "Faced with this difficult situation, and with circumstances now changed, Wolves were left with little other option than to reluctantly accept the substantial bid."
The fee Wolves received is the club's biggest since they sold Steven Fletcher to Sunderland for £14m following relegation from the Premier League in 2012.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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The Welsh region scored tries through Hadleigh Parkes and Aled Davies in the opening 12 minutes and led 17-0 at half-time.
But two touchdowns by number eight Andries Van Schalkwyk brought Zebre back to within a score with 20 minutes remaining in atrocious weather.
Steven Shingler's late penalty finally sealed the win for the Scarlets.
The result lifted Scarlets to second in the table behind Connacht.
Scarlets were forced into a late change, with Gareth Owen coming in on the wing for the injured Tom Williams.
It meant the Welsh region started with nine changes from the team beaten by Racing 92 in the Champions Cup, but they showed little sign of disruption in the early exchanges.
After a run of three consecutive defeats, Wayne Pivac's team might have been thinking of bonus points following a blistering start with a strong wind at their backs.
Playing with the elements at their back, Scarlets made the early breakthrough when man-of-the-match Parkes burst through some weak midfield defence to score near the posts.
And the New Zealander played a big part in the second try as again he exploited some disorganised midfield defence before giving Davies a clear run to the line.
With a rout on the cards, Scarlets lost their edge while Zebre came to terms with the atrocious weather conditions to stage some strong attacks of their own before the interval.
Scarlets looked a lot less comfortable playing into the wind, with Zebre's forwards rumbling effectively with fly-half Canna's tactical kicking keeping them on the front foot.
The Italians were rewarded when van Schalkwyk claimed the touchdown following a driving line-out and then exploited some weak tackling to dive over from a five-metre scrum.
Canna's conversion brought the Italians back to within a score with Scarlets down to 14 men after second row Maselino Paulino was shown a yellow card.
However, far from crumbling, the home team rallied and forced the Italians back into their own territory.
Steven Shingler replaced Aled Thomas at fly-half, but was off-target with two penalties, before finally nailing the crucial three points to take the Scarlets two scores clear with five minutes remaining.
Scarlets head coach Wayne Pivac said: "We're happy to get the win, that's the first thing in conditions like this.
"All weekend we've seen some pretty tight games and we knew this would be another hard game for us in the conditions and I was really pleased with first 25 maybe 30 minutes of the game.
"I thought we controlled it really well and took our opportunities and set ourselves up for the win, but our discipline let us down in that last 10 minutes of the first half.
"At the end of the day four points in these conditions is important, but in the second half there was a lot to work on."
Scarlets: Steffan Evans; Gareth Owen, Regan King, Hadleigh Parkes, DTH van der Merwe; Aled Thomas, Aled Davies; Rob Evans, Emyr Phillips, Samson Lee, Maselino Paulino, Lewis Rawlins, Aaron Shingler, James Davies, John Barclay (capt).
Replacements: Kirby Myhill, Dylan Evans, Rhodri Jones, George Earle, Jack Condy, Rhodri Williams, Steve Shingler, Michael Collins.
Zebre: Guglielmo Palazzani; Dion Berryman, Giulio Bisegni, Matteo Pratichetti, Kayle Van Zyl; Carlo Canna, Luke Burgess; Andrea Lovotti, Andrea Manici, Pietro Ceccarelli, Valerio Bernabo, George Biagi (capt), Jacopo Sarto, Paul Derbyshire, Andries Van Schalkwyk.
Replacements: Oliviero Fabiani, Andrea De Marchi, Guillermo Roan, Marco Bortolami, Federico Ruzza, Marcello Violi, Tommaso Boni, Edoardo Padovani.
Referee: George Clancy (IRFU).
Assistant referees: Leighton Hodges, Dan Jones (WRU).
Citing commissioner: Jeff Mark (WRU).
TMO: Jon Mason (WRU).
She's up for the most awards followed by Ed Sheeran with six and Beyonce and Mark Ronson with five each.
Ellie Goulding is up for best female video, for Love Me Like You Do.
Other British acts up for awards are George Ezra, FKA Twigs and James Bay in the artists to watch category.
The awards take place in Los Angeles on 30 August and will be hosted by Miley Cyrus.
Taylor Swift ft. Kendrick Lamar - Bad Blood
Beyonce - 7/11
Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud
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It was lobbed from a moving car as the victim walked along Penybanc Road, Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, at about 11:30 GMT on Sunday, Dyfed-Powys Police said.
Officers tweeted for witnesses to come forward, calling the attack a hate crime.
Those with information should call 101.
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Sirigu, 29, played in Italy's 1-0 defeat by the Republic of Ireland at Euro 2016 in June.
The former Palermo keeper lost his place as PSG's first-choice following the arrival of Kevin Trapp from Eintracht Frankfurt last year.
Europa League holders Sevilla, who beat Espanyol 6-4 in their opening La Liga game, face Villarreal on Sunday.
Ethan Brady-Rainey, from Trefor, near Llangollen, Denbighshire, was looking for conkers with friends when they found the swing on the banks of the River Dee in September 2015.
The Ruthin inquest gave the cause of death as a head injury sustained due to a fall from height.
A verdict of accidental death was recorded.
One of Ethan's friends told the inquest that he first of all thought he was playing a prank.
"We had been collecting conkers for about three or four minutes when we heard a scream," he said in a statement read to the court.
"He was lying face-down in the water. All his body was in the water and he was floating face-down,"
Two boys dragged his body out of the river and they tried to resuscitate him, but he was already "pale and blue".
A post mortem examination found Ethan suffered a severe head injury and a fractured skull, consistent with hitting a hard object such as a rock.
His brain was bruised and he would have died instantly, knowing "nothing at all", the inquest heard.
Coroner John Gittins said Ethan "was doing something with his mates that he loved doing... having a bit of fun and doing things boys do".
Mr Gittins added he was "incredibly impressed" by the actions of his friends.
"They showed huge bravery," the coroner said, adding there was nothing they could have done to save him.
Rumours that owner Joe Lewis was prepared to sell the club for up to £1bn were reported in the Daily Mirror.
The club revealed on Wednesday they would have to spend a year playing away from White Hart Lane before moving into a new 56,250-capacity stadium.
"Neither the club, nor its majority shareholder, are in any takeover discussions," a statement said.
It added: "The focus of the club is fully on delivering the new stadium project."
A High Court challenge, launched by a landowner on the site of the club's proposed new home, is set to delay its construction beyond the original proposed completion at the start of the 2017-18 Premier League season.
Spurs have hired investment bank Rothschild to advise on the options to finance a move to a new stadium, next to their current White Hart Lane ground.
The development is expected to cost between £400m and £450m.
"The stadium redevelopment plans are a significant part of the future for both our club and the local area and represent a complex infrastructure project that requires funding," the Spurs statement added.
"This substantial construction project requires discussions with multiple providers of finance so that the optimum financing package can be achieved.
"To this end, we have appointed Rothschild to advise us on those options."
Potential options for a temporary "home" ground for Spurs could include Wembley, the Olympic Stadium in Stratford and Stadium MK in Milton Keynes.
Former club captain Gary Mabbutt played down reports Joe Lewis - who took control of Spurs in 2001 - was looking to sell.
"All the top clubs are always being looked at to be purchased," he said.
"We have a stable situation at the moment and hopefully that will continue."
Mabbutt also warned Tottenham supporters a temporary move to Wembley may not be straightforward.
"It's not quite as easy as just deciding where we'd like to play," said the former defender, who made more than 600 appearances for the club.
A poll of 2,000 fans carried out by the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust found 85% would be happy with a year-long move to the national stadium, which is also in north London.
The Olympic Stadium has been mooted, while it is thought talks have been held with Milton Keynes Dons over a move to Stadium MK.
Mabbutt, now a club ambassador, told BBC Radio 5 live that the Wembley idea was not a simple one.
"There is a lot of due diligence on the schedule of Wembley. They have concerts, they have other sporting events taking place," the 53-year-old said.
"You're looking at other stadiums. Will it be big enough? Will it be acceptable for our fans? Is the pitch going to be the right size? Every team decides on the size due to the way they play. All these things will have to be taken into consideration."
A ground share with rivals Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium is not thought to be among the options being considered.
"Geographically it is a solution. It is a very sensitive subject but I don't think it will happen," Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said.
Tottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust spokesman Martin Cloake said Wembley would be the preferred option.
"From informal discussions, the assumption has always been that it would be Wembley," he said.
"A move to Stratford would certainly raise eyebrows," Cloake added. "There would be some serious issues with MK Dons."
But politics, here and across the world, is perhaps moving outside familiar currents, into choppy waters, leaving mainstream politicians unsure if they are waving or drowning at the voters.
Take my fellow passengers, as I stuck a microphone underneath their noses and asked political questions that no reasonable person would want to answer before breakfast.
But most wanted to have their say, and it wasn't always what I expected.
I was braced for some pithy comments about senior politicians, but hardly what came: one was described to me as a "Marxist Zionist war criminal", even though the individual concerned is none of these things.
These three men - who described themselves as "nationalists" - didn't like anyone else any better. Politicians were all the same, in it for themselves, and they wouldn't vote for any ever again. Well, maybe UKIP. But probably not.
Three other passengers declared that they had never voted and never would.
Four middle-aged women said they were Labour - "father was always Labour, so am I" - but quickly added that they are all the same: "In it for themselves, and take a third of your money."
A scientific, judiciously balanced opinion poll this was not. Still, my trip to Gravesend captured a certain mood.
There was a deep distrust of politicians, a distaste for them that bewilders those in Westminster.
It was as if the Age of Insecurity met the Death of Deference and they had a child, born swaddled in contempt - I christen it The Disconnect.
It is one of the underlying stories of our age, and I intend to bang on about it quite a bit, in these columns and on The World This Weekend.
In the UK, two events have forced politicians to look voters in the eye.
One was the Scottish referendum, a close shave with the end of a nation.
It also gave the Scottish National Party more prominence, more members and soon more power.
And in the south of England it is the rise of UKIP that has forced Team Westminster to examine what the future might hold.
It is a situation that has been reflected by events in the US. The Tea Party, which is not a party, but a hydra-headed movement of like-minded malcontents, loathes Obama, but doesn't have much time for many Republicans either.
Supporters have a hearty distaste for Washington's ways, for Washington professional politicians, and are careful to call themselves Conservatives rather than Republicans. They talk of "taking our country back".
Even as the Republicans were in the middle of winning a stunning victory in this week's mid-terms, one leading Tea Party activist, Erick Erickson, was writing: "In 2014, the American public has shown that it hates Washington DC, and the Republican leaders in Washington are demonstrating why."
He added: "Many of those GOP (Grand Old Party = Republican) Senate candidates who squeaked into office are, in my view, political philanderers - by which I mean that while they pledge their troth to conservative principles, they still carry on outrageous affairs with Big Government."
In Europe the far right are on the march. They have increased their vote, most recently in Sweden.
But it is France that worries many in the political centre, not only in Paris, but even more in Brussels and Berlin.
They see a real possibility of President Marine Le Pen in the Elysee Palace in 2017 - the National Front at the heart of Europe.
Neither the Tea Party nor UKIP share these parties' fascist roots and they both passionately reject any suggestion of racism.
So I am in no way suggesting all these movements are identical.
But there is little doubt their voters' discontents are similar: the sense of a world that is changing too fast, that is slipping though their grasp.
They would all find solace in the Tea Party cry "take our country back" without wanting to spell out from what or whom.
The seminal book on UKIP, Revolt on the Right, identifies many supporters as "the left behind": older, poorly educated, poorly paid.
Partly this is a reaction to the global financial crisis, and globalism itself.
There are winners as well as losers and even as the the banks and the rich bounce back, others see no sign of recovery.
While an elite feel as comfortable in Boston or Birmingham, Berlin or Beijing, those left behind on the runway may find solace in a closer, and older, identity.
Protectionism and closed borders seem attractive ways of shutting out the threatening world.
This is part of the tale, but not the whole story.
The leaders of UKIP and the Tea Party whom I know are hardly poor and unskilled. Many are well-heeled, and well-educated.
While there is no doubt the main beneficiaries of The Disconnect are on the right, some parties on the left are growing too.
The Greens say they now have 20,000 members, the SNP boast of their increase while the Left party in Germany is the fourth largest in parliament and new movements are doing well in Spain and Greece.
Still, many mainstream politicians don't get it.
Here's a test. How many times after the Rochester by-election will you hear the term "protest vote"?
It is a term banned from my personal lexicon. Of course people do vote differently in by-elections from general elections, when, in effect, they are choosing a prime minister.
But the idea that a vote is a mere protest underscores a profound disrespect for voters by the media and the main parties.
They look on voters as if they were a petulant five-year-old, who marches out the door clutching a teddy bear and one T-shirt, declaring that she's leaving home.
Indulgently, the parental parties look on, knowing she will be back long before teatime - indeed before she gets to the end of the road.
Likewise the parties think "their" voters will have their little strop over a war or a failed economy and return to a proper way of doing things, voting for one main party or another - or daringly perhaps a third - come the general election.
It hasn't dawned on them that the conventional way of voting may be what you could call an "under protest vote" - the least worst choice of those who might form a government - that may not reflect what they really want or believe.
The economic crisis has left a sour taste towards the parties who take turns in taking power.
In France, a disliked centre-right government has been replaced by an even more unpopular socialist one.
In the US, Obama, elected on a wave of hope, was elected again in 2012 but given a kicking in 2010 and an even more profound beating this week.
In the UK, an unpopular Labour government has been replaced by a coalition that has failed to win hearts and minds.
In short, all over the world, people want to scrawl on their ballot paper "none of the above".
I wonder how much this is because politics is disconnected from the world of choice we live in.
I could pause in my writing and take two minutes to choose a bewildering array of electronics, or exotic fruit or styles of shirts at the click of a trackpad.
Or I could take a break and pop down the road and order a skinny flat white, an espresso or an americano, some with or without chocolate or froth.
But my political choice extends to going to a local school every five years and choosing an often ideologically incoherent bundle of policies and then sitting back and watching for another five years.
Some in the main parties are very worried by all this implies.
There will be a hunt for solutions before the election.
Because it is beginning to dawn that the little five-year-old who'll be back repentant in time for tea has grown up, moved out, bought her own flat and is looking for others to love.
"There'll always be a room for you here," the parties will insist.
The next few months will show if it is too late for that.
He told a conference of independent school heads that parentage dictates progress in England more than in any other country.
But there need be no difference in educational performance between pupils from poor and wealthier homes, he said.
Other countries were already closing the achievement gap, he added.
Research suggests children from poor homes are already behind by the the time they start school, and that the achievement gap widens as they progress through their education.
At GCSE there remains a "stubborn and unchanging gap in achievement" between the number of disadvantaged pupils who achieve five good GCSEs - including English and maths - and the rest of the population.
Speaking at a conference at independent Brighton College, in East Sussex, Mr Gove said it did not need to be this way.
He cited evidence of other countries closing and even eradicating the attainment gap.
He said: "Deprived pupils in Hong Kong and Shanghai, who struggle with challenges far greater and more debilitating than any we know here, achieve as highly as their English peers from the most comfortable homes.
"Only 24% of disadvantaged students in the UK perform better than expected compared with 76% in Shanghai, 72% in Hong Kong and 46% in Finland.
"The OECD average is 31% - putting the UK well behind countries like Poland, Greece, Slovenia, Mexico and Chile when it comes to making opportunity more equal."
Mr Gove added: "Despite the evidence that other nations are closing the gap between rich and poor through great state schooling, some in this country still argue that pupil achievement is overwhelmingly dictated by socio-economic factors.
"They say that deprivation means destiny - that schools are essentially impotent in the face of overwhelming force of circumstance - and that we can't expect children to succeed if they have been born into poverty, disability or disadvantage."
Mr Gove said he did not accept this, adding that there were a growing number of schools "proving that deprivation need not be destiny - that with the right teaching and the right values they can outperform everyone's expectations".
Research has suggested there are more than 440 secondary schools where the average GCSE point score for children on free school meals - a key measure of poverty - is higher than the national average for all children.
Mr Gove said: "What they share is an unwavering, unapologetic focus on standards.
"Led by inspirational heads and teachers, every day these schools are proving the pessimists and fatalists wrong."
He continued: "They show us all that there need be no difference in performance - none whatsoever - between pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds and those from wealthier homes.
"They show us that a difficult start in life can be overcome, with hard work and good teaching."
Mr Gove said the government must stand for "aspiration, ambition, hard work and excellence - for success based on merit and a celebration of those who do succeed".
He said he knew the government was making progress when he heard opposition from what he described as vested interests in the trade unions and local government.
Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg said: "Launching another attack on the teaching profession is not the way to close the gap between poorer and richer pupils.
"The truth is that the government's key measure - the pupil premium - is not being targeted at the poorest children because many schools are using it to plug holes in their budgets."
But general secretary of the NASUWT union Chris Keates said: "Coalition ministers are becoming more and more frantic as their flawed ideological policies, which are creating a lost generation of children and young people and plunging millions into poverty, are exposed."
NUT general secretary Christine Blower said: "Michael Gove is right to highlight the fact that the UK has a 'profoundly unequal society'.
"It is a great shame that the Coalition government's policies will do nothing to alter this fact, and in many cases will make matters even worse.
"Cutting the Education Maintenance Allowance and raising the cost of university tuition fees has meant that for many poorer pupils further or higher education is not an option.
"This is a decision based not on their educational achievements but on their family's economic abilities to keep them in education."
They say at least three other suspects were arrested in the operation in the Mount Taouyer area, about 70km (44 miles) west of the capital, Tunis.
Two policemen died when they were attacked in the area on Thursday.
Interior Ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui said the militants belonged to the Salafist Ansar al-Sharia group.
The group has been declared a terrorist organisation by the government and the interior ministry spokesman told reporters on Saturday that the three-day operation "has been a success".
About two tonnes of materials used to make explosives were also seized.
The killing of the two police officers led to an angry response from security forces when Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki, Prime Minister Ali Larayedh and other senior officials attended a memorial service for the men on Friday.
The leaders were forced to leave the ceremony because of the hostility.
Ansar al-Sharia has been blamed for the murders of two secular opposition politicians earlier this year.
Their deaths also triggered mass protests against Tunisia's Islamist-led government.
Several other militant groups - including al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb - also operate in the region.
But the latest clashes were significantly closer to the capital than previous fighting with suspected Islamists.
Since the popular revolt that sparked the "Arab Spring" in 2011, Tunisia has seen a rise in attacks by militants.
A coalition led by the moderate Islamist Ennahda party was elected in 2011. But some government critics accuse it of being soft on hardline Islamist forces - charges it strongly denies.
The ruling AIADMK party said Sasikala Natarajan would become the next chief minister following the resignation of the acting chief minister.
A close confidante of Jayalalitha, Sasikala was made the general secretary of the party after the latter's death.
Her ascension to chief minister was rumoured ever since.
"She is the next chief minister of Tamil Nadu. Like Amma (mother), we wanted a strong woman leader to serve the people," party spokesperson CR Saraswathi told AFP news agency, referring to Jayalalithaa by her popular nickname.
O Panneerselvam, who had been filling in as chief minister since October when Jayalalitha was hospitalised, said he stepped down for "personal reasons".
But Tamil Nadu's main opposition party has criticised the decision.
"The people of Tamil Nadu did not vote for anyone from Jayalalitha's household to become CM," opposition leader MK Stalin tweeted, using the acronym for chief minister.
For close to three decades, Sasikala, known as Chinnamma (younger mother) to her supporters, had been an almost permanent fixture in Jayalalitha's life, and was often seen with the former chief minister on public platforms.
Never given any formal role by Jayalalitha in the party or the state government, Sasikala's role was always that of aide and confidante.
But analysts say her proximity to power allowed her and her extended family to wield huge influence in the party and the government.
Sasikala's influence over Jayalalitha also became the source of intense media speculation and tabloid gossip.
They also faced corruption charges. A Karnataka high court order in 2015, which cleared them of involvement in a corruption scandal, paved the way for Jayalalitha's return to power after a setback in September 2014 when a trial court found them guilty of corruption.
India's Supreme Court has heard an appeal in the case, and is expected to issue a verdict next week.
GB fell behind to an impressive Anita Punt strike midway through the second quarter in Argentina.
A clever video referral then helped Helen Richardson-Walsh level through a penalty stroke with six-minutes remaining.
But with just a minute to go Olivia Merry forced a winner past GB goalkeeper Maddie Hinch.
Seen as two evenly matched sides ahead of the fixture, in truth New Zealand were rarely put under any considerable pressure.
GB were indebted to keeper Hinch, who pulled off a series of impressive stops to keep the score close.
Goalscorer Helen Richardson-Walsh told BBC Sport: "Sometimes you can learn from results like this and I'm sure that's what we'll do."
It is a disappointing end to what has otherwise been an impressive year for the team.
Defeating Germany at the World League semi-finals in Valencia in June secured GB's place at next summer's Rio Olympics, whilst England claimed a historic gold medal at the European Championships in August.
And captain Kate Richardson-Walsh has targeted a medal in Rio.
"We started slowly but in the second half we improved and created some good moves but it wasn't to be," she told BBC Sport.
"Nothing here will change our belief that we can challenge for an Olympic medal next year."
Great Britain head coach Danny Kerry:
"We need players to be here and go through these experiences. There are some players at home who also need to be here to get the experiences for Rio.
"It's all very well making excuses, but international hockey is tough. The players now understand a little bit more about what this level is like.
"The younger players now get the tempo of the game and the heat of the quarter-final format. They will probably play with a bit more nous and we won't let games get away from us."
GB will play again on Saturday against South Korea, who lost 3-1 in their quarter-final against China.
Germany play New Zealand and Argentina face China in the semi-finals on Saturday.
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Woods, 38, has been suffering from a persistent back problem and had failed to qualify for the US team automatically.
Nevertheless, Watson was considering Woods as one of his captain's picks.
"My primary wish is for Tiger to be healthy and competitive," said Watson. "I hope that he'll return very soon."
Woods had surgery on his back injury in March and has been told not to play by doctors after aggravating the problem at the recent WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in Ohio.
He said he was pain-free at the US PGA Championship a few days later but re-injured himself before his second round and went on to miss the halfway cut for just the fourth time in 66 majors as a professional.
"Of course, I'm disappointed that Woods has asked not to be considered for the US Ryder Cup Team, and that his health is not where he would like it to be," added Watson.
"However, I think we can all agree that we need Woods in this great sport, and he has taken the high road by informing me early on in the selection process."
"My focus will remain on identifying three players to join the US team and give us the best chance for success at Gleneagles," he added.
Former Ryder Cup player Andrew Coltart believes Watson will be relieved by Woods' decision.
"I don't think necessarily it's going to be a bad thing for the US team," said Coltart, who lost to Woods in the singles at Brookline in 1999, the only time the 14-time major winner has been on a winning team.
"Certainly it's a bit of a relief for Tom Watson because it was a huge decision that he was going to have to come up with. The decision has been made for him."
He added on Sky Sports: "Watson getting the freedom to pick somebody else, I think will possibly make that American team a little stronger."
Europe will go into the tournament in Perthshire, Scotland, which takes place between 23-28 September, as the holders.
Jose Maria Olazabal's team beat the United States 14.5-13.5 at the Medinah Country Club in Illinois in 2012.
League Two side Oxford led 1-0 at half-time through Callum O'Dowda's header but Barnsley recovered to lead 3-1.
Chey Dunkley nodded into his own net, before Ashley Fletcher fired in a loose ball from eight yards and Adam Hammill curled in from outside the area.
Danny Hylton's header set up a tense finish but the League One club held on.
Oxford, who were aiming to become the first fourth-tier side to win the competition since Luton Town in 2009, came close to making it 2-2 shortly before Hammill netted what proved to be the winner, but Tykes goalkeeper Adam Davies made a stunning reaction save to keep out Liam Sercombe's close-range attempt.
Relive Barnsley's Johnstone's Paint Trophy final victory
Barnsley's victory, their first ever win at Wembley, was their season in microcosm.
The Tykes were 23rd in League One in November but a wonderful upturn in form since then has lifted them up to seventh, four points from a play-off spot.
Previous boss Lee Johnson, who left Oakwell for Bristol City shortly after Barnsley had secured their spot in the final, was a guest of the club at Wembley and watched caretaker manager Paul Heckingbottom demonstrate his credentials to take the role on a more permanent basis.
O'Dowda had given Oxford a deserved half-time lead when he headed in Alex MacDonald's superb right-wing cross.
But Barnsley were level six minutes into the second period when the unfortunate Dunkley, under huge pressure from Barnsley's top scorer Sam Winnall, turned Hammill's centre past Benji Buchel.
Winnall, the Tykes' 18-goal leading scorer who had been a big injury doubt in the build-up to the final, was replaced by Ivan Toney after 65 minutes and the on-loan Newcastle striker made an instant impact.
His blocked shot rebounded to Fletcher, who found the net despite the best efforts of Buchel and Oxford defender Jonjoe Kenny on the line.
Hammill's run from halfway and excellent finish gave Barnsley a two-goal cushion, which was instantly halved when Hylton headed in Kemar Roofe's cross.
But the U's, currently second in League Two and supported by 34,000 fans at Wembley, could not seriously test Davies again in the closing stages.
Barnsley striker Ashley Fletcher told BBC Radio Sheffield: "To see the whole of the Barnsley end go wild was crazy. I'm delighted for the team, the fans and the whole town.
"I visualised it all in bed last night - me scoring at Wembley. It's a dream and I'm thankful it's happened."
Barnsley full-back Aidan White: "It was a difficult first half and I felt like maybe the occasion got to us, but in the second half we came out raring to go and thankfully got the win.
"We wanted to come out of the game with no regrets, and luckily we managed to turn it around."
Barnsley caretaker manager Paul Heckingbottom: "I'm still buzzing. I told the players 'you've got to enjoy this'. That's what you play for.
"We'll be having a celebration tonight, not just the players, but the fans, the staff, the owner, the director - everyone's there.
"I'm just going to enjoy tonight, I enjoy what I do, even more so than I thought I would - love it to bits."
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Oxford United head coach Michael Appleton told BBC Radio Oxford: "We got off to a good start and got our noses in front, but that second goal did for us really.
"That's something we've tried to avoid this season - conceding too many close together and a strong 20 minute spell for them in the game has done for us.
"We went up a gear once we got a second goal, but we fell a bit short today sadly."
At least 16 of the protesters, who were mostly journalists, were arrested.
The demonstration was against government moves to introduce a new law to criminalise defamation.
Observers says it is the latest sign of tension in the Maldives between those calling for greater democratic freedoms and a government increasingly unwilling to allow critics.
A week ago, senior journalists in the Indian Ocean archipelago said in a joint statement the bill would "prevent journalists and citizens from speaking out over serious accusations of corruption and the integrity of state officials".
Demonstrators had gathered outside the office of President Abdulla Yameen in the capital Male on Sunday.
They fear that if enacted, the bill would be used against private media and political opponents of the government.
Protesters were also angry about:
Officials said the protest was broken up by police because demonstrators had gathered in a protected area.
Those detained were reported to be from Haveeru, The Maldives Independent and private TV stations.
The Maldives Independent said its editor Zaheena Rasheed and Sangu TV Managing Director Ibrahim Waheed were among those arrested.
It said some journalists were injured and taken to hospital.
African champions Mazembe also won the prestigious annual fixture between the winners of the Champions League and the Confederation Cup in 2010 and 2011.
Etoile, who won the 2015 Confederation Cup, have also won the competition twice.
Ghanaian striker Daniel Nii Adjei scored twice to set up Mazembe's win.
He opened the scoring for Mazembe after 20 minutes when he powered his header off a Jean Kasusula cross from the left beyond goalkeeper Aymen Mathlouthi.
27-year-old Adjei doubled his tally in the 45th minute, when he acrobatically finished off a lovely attack after he was set up by strike partner Jonathan Bolingi.
The Tunisian 'Red Devils' pulled a goal back in first half stoppage time through Mohamed Msekni, who stabbed home from inside the box after a goalmouth scramble.
In a game played under hot and humid conditions, Msekni led Etoile to chase the game after Mazembe took the lead when he fired wide from the top of the box.
Tunisia international striker Ahmed Akaichi also came close minutes earlier, but Ivory Coast international goalkeeper Sylvain Gbohouo combined with his defenders to concede the first corner of the encounter.
In the 42nd minute, Bolingi saw his shot from outside the box narrowly miss the target.
Mazembe's towering central defender Salif Coulibaly crashed his header into the side netting in the 58th minute as his team piled on the pressure to increase their lead.
The African champions continued to fight to extend their advantage, bringing on Most Valuable Player from the recent African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Rwanda, Meschack Elia, to add some firepower to the attack.
In the 76th minute, goalkeeper Gbohouo produced the save of the day when he dived to block a goal-bound header by Alaya Brigui.
Mazembe held on to record another international triumph in front of their jubilant home fans.
The Bank of England's new Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has announced that all those whose accounts are in credit will be automatically moved to Bank of Cyprus in the UK.
This means that up to £85,000 of their deposits will be protected under the UK compensation scheme.
Laiki customers in Cyprus face losing much of their money above that amount.
It follows the country's bail-out deal with the European Union, under which customers with more than 100,000 euros in their accounts face a levy of up to 60% on the remainder of their deposits.
But 15,000 Laiki customers with an estimated £270m in their accounts in the UK are being told their money is safe.
They will now be able to access it via Bank of Cyprus UK. Unlike the UK arm of Laiki Bank, Bank of Cyprus UK is a full UK subsidiary and is regulated by the PRA.
On average, Laiki customers in the UK have £18,000 in their accounts.
About 5% of customers have more than £85,000, according to Bank of Cyprus UK.
Any money above that amount would not be guaranteed by the UK compensation scheme, but the Bank of England confirmed that all deposits had been moved to Bank of Cyprus UK.
"This is a good thing for customers," said a Bank of England spokesperson.
"Some of the deposits may be uninsured, but they have all been transferred," she said.
Speaking at the launch of the PRA, the Chancellor, George Osborne, paid tribute to one of its first decisions.
"In your very first day in existence, you sorted out a banking problem without having to come to me and ask for British taxpayers' money. And long may that continue," he said.
Authorities in Cyprus are in the process of winding up the Laiki Bank. "Good" parts of the bank are being transferred to Bank of Cyprus.
UK customers of the Laiki Bank whose accounts are overdrawn will not be allowed to transfer their money to Bank of Cyprus UK.
Their accounts will be frozen, said the PRA.
Those with mortgages or loans from Laiki Bank will see them transferred to Bank of Cyprus, not in the UK, but in Cyprus itself.
Such customers are advised to continue making payments as usual.
Those whose current or deposit accounts are being transferred to Bank of Cyprus UK are being told to contact their new bank with any questions.
Celtic's match with Hamilton Academical and Partick Thistle's meeting with Motherwell have been called off because of waterlogged pitches.
High winds in Edinburgh caused the postponement of Hearts' game against Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
The Met Office issued a weather warning for Scotland following Storm Desmond.
Rainfall of between 60mm and 100mm is likely in the amber "be prepared" zones of central and southern Scotland until Sunday morning, and 80 flood warnings and alerts are in place across the region.
Glasgow Warriors confirmed the postponement of their Pro12 rugby fixture against Leinster following a morning pitch inspection at Scotstoun Stadium.
In the Championship, St Mirren's home game with Queen of the South and Raith Rovers' match against Rangers at Stark's Park, and the League One game between Albion Rovers and Stranraer at Cliftonhill, have all been postponed because of waterlogged pitches.
In England, Barrow's National League match with Boreham Wood has also been called off because of a waterlogged pitch at Holker Street.
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Hearts P-P Inverness CT
Partick Thistle P-P Motherwell
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Raith Rovers P-P Rangers
St Mirren P-P Queen of the South
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Albion Rovers P-P Stranraer
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France's Etixx-Quick Step rider Julian Alaphilippe, 23, was the overall winner from BMC's Rohan Dennis.
Team Dimension Data rider Cavendish, 31, held off Tinkoff's Peter Sagan to take his first stage victory of the race.
"I'm happy," Cavendish told Eurosport. "We've been consistently visible throughout the week."
Cavendish was part of a group that reeled in an early seven-man breakaway with two kilometres to go on the 138km route.
The 2011 Tour de France green jersey winner then emerged from the bunch to finish ahead of Sagan and Katusha's Alexander Kristoff by a bike length.
Holly Taylor is learning fast.
She's 26 and in Sierra Leone for two weeks as part of her work for Oxfam.
The country is one of the worst affected by the Ebola outbreak, and over the next five days she'll be telling us about what she sees.
"What really struck me is how normal everything is here, compared to how I imagined it.
"I guess I imagined everyone would be indoors, there would be people in protective clothing walking around the streets, but that's not what its like.
"People are still out on the streets and still holding markets - and that's because Sierra Leone has had Ebola for six months.
"You can't stay at home for six months, you need to go out and work, you need to make sure you have food on the table."
"I guess that's scary because the woman who serves you in the shop might be living with someone who has Ebola.
"But you don't know that, and you're interacting with her.
"Ebola's everywhere but you can't really see it."
Holly describes her six hour car journey to Kabala, a town in the Koinadugu district in the north of the country.
She's wearing a long sleeved top because Ebola's spread by direct contact.
"If someone touches you and you've got clothes on you are at far, far less risk."
On the way the car is frequently stopped at Ebola checkpoints where passengers have their temperatures taken.
This is what would happen if Holly had a high temperature.
"You'd be made to stay where you were and then they'd call the Ebola ambulance and they'd treat you as an Ebola patient.
"That's quite a scary thought.
"What if you just had a temperature and not Ebola and you were put in an ambulance with other people with Ebola?"
Holly heard about a mother who was put in an isolation unit with Ebola patients because she had a fever.
She had a baby there.
The test results came back negative for Ebola, but now the mother and child are at high risk.
Arriving in Kabala, Holly meets Doris, an Oxfam worker based there.
The district worked hard to remain free of Ebola for six months, and then two weeks ago the first case was discovered.
The patient died on the long journey to hospital.
Now there are five known Ebola cases in Kabala.
"When you hear about these stories it makes you feel so sad and so frustrated," says Holly.
Sierra Leone is one of the countries hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak. To date, 1,259 people have died from the disease there.
"But it's kind of amazing that despite being in crisis the people of Sierra Leone are just staying really really calm.
"I guess beneath that calm they must be really worried."
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Feedback on the consultation included strong opposition to a proposal to shut the veterinary unit in Inverness.
Farmers, vets and MSPs oppose any move to close the site.
The lab carries out post-mortem examinations on dead livestock as part of Scotland's animal disease surveillance services.
In a statement, SRUC said: "The proposals for changes to the Inverness vet lab and other disease surveillance centres operated by Scotland's Rural College were first published for consultation on 2 June.
"They were proposals not plans.
"Since the consultation finished, SRUC has taken note of the many views expressed and in light of them is revising the original proposals and continues to discuss alternatives or possible changes with key stakeholders. We will make them public as soon as we are able."
Scotland's Rural College looked at the future of the unit as part of a wider consultation on the future shape of veterinary disease surveillance.
In a report last month, SRUC said there was "strong opposition" in the feedback to the closure plan.
Opponents included 20 vets working at seven practices in the Highlands.
In a letter, they said they were unhappy with a suggestion that the post-mortem examinations be carried out by private practices on-site on farms.
The Prospect union and local MSPs including David Stewart and Rob Gibson have also opposed the closure plan.
Prospect spokesman Alan Denney said: "We are pleased to note that the wide-ranging concerns expressed during the consultation. including from Prospect, appear to have been listened to.
"We await with interest more details from the college."
Scottish ministers and a strategic management board will look at the options for the future shape of disease surveillance before any final decisions are made.
The men were denied bail in Madhya Pradesh state after appearing in court where they were charged with sedition.
They were arrested after their Hindu neighbours complained that they had burst firecrackers and shouted "pro-Pakistan" slogans during the game.
Pakistan won the final, defeating India by 180 runs.
Sedition is one of the most serious charges under the Indian penal code.
People charged with sedition have to surrender their passports, are not eligible for government jobs, must appear in court as and when required, and spend money on legal fees.
The India Today website quoted police as saying that the men were charged because of the anti-India slogans and not because they were cheering for Pakistan.
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This is not the first time Indian Muslims have got into trouble for cheering for the Pakistan cricket team.
In 2014, 66 Muslim students from Indian-administered Kashmir were kicked out of their university in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh and charged with disturbing communal harmony.
And in 2016, police were sent into a university in Indian-administered Kashmir after clashes between students from the state and other parts of the country.
Brendan Rodgers' side are 25 points clear at the Premiership summit.
They will retain the title with nine games remaining, if second-placed Aberdeen lose to Hearts on Saturday, and Celtic beat Dundee a day later.
"It's not something that we've spoken about or focused on," Davies said.
"For that to happen it would involve us relying on someone else - what we've done this season is just rely purely on ourselves, and that's what we'll always do."
Davies admits the squad will probably watch the Aberdeen match, but says preparing for their own task at Dens Park is the priority.
"We're focusing on Dundee, they've had a good February so we know it's going to be a difficult game," he said. "We're just focusing on that, the game plan, how we can perform and we can control that.
"We can control how we can perform. We can't control what happens at Aberdeen. If it happens, it's great but it's not something we're worried about."
Celtic have not lost a domestic fixture this season, winning 26 league matches and drawing two, while lifting the League Cup in November, and reaching next month's Scottish Cup semi-finals.
In the process, the Hoops racked up 22 consecutive league victories - a run that was only halted on Sunday, when rivals Rangers held them to a 1-1 draw at Celtic Park.
"The bigger picture for us is that it's been a fantastic season and we've performed consistently," Davies added. "I think it's 35 games domestically unbeaten - 33 wins, two draws and a winning run I think of 28 games before the weekend.
"That will be one of the best domestic runs in the history of football, I would have thought, because we've really performed well."
Midfielder Callum McGregor says being so close to sealing the title at this stage of the season is a "great achievement", but insists, even if Celtic wrap up the title this weekend, the champions want to preserve their unbeaten record for the remainder of the campaign.
"It's that relentlessness to go and get there - it would be great to get over the line maybe this or next week," he said.
"Of course, the manager is always saying to everybody, be relentless in every game that we play. When we get across the line, there's no way we're going to take the foot off the gas, we want to keep going and keep wining games, so that's the way it's going to be."
In its most comprehensive report into the Oromo protests, HRW lists the names of more than 300 it says were killed.
The government has acknowledged that protesters have died but said HRW was "very generous with numbers".
Protests were sparked by fears that a plan to expand the capital into Oromia region would displace Oromo farmers.
They began in November last year, but the government dropped the proposal to enlarge Addis Ababa's administrative boundaries in January.
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The change of policy has not stopped the demonstrations, but they have reduced in their intensity.
At the last census in 2007, the Oromo made up Ethiopia's biggest ethnic group, at about 25 million people out of a population at the time of nearly 74 million.
An investigation, released last week, by the Ethiopia Human Rights Commission, appointed by parliament, found that 173 people had died during the unrest.
It said the dead included 28 security officers and local government officials.
Information Minister Getachew Reda said that in the main the security forces conducted themselves "in a very professional and responsible manner".
He put the killings down to "a few bad apples".
The government has said that it will investigate and deal with those responsible.
In March, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn apologised for the death and destruction of property caused by protests in Oromia region.
While his statement was bold, and came as a surprise, some protesters said it was a case of too little, too late.
The acknowledgment by the country's information minister that deaths had occurred is not different.
There will also be questions about the sincerity of investigating police officers who used unnecessary force.
Can it really do that while dozens of protesters are still being detained and are yet to be charged?
While the protests have died down recently, they remain significant as some believe they are highlighting the alleged marginalisation of the Oromo people.
The HRW report is based on interviews with more than 100 victims and witnesses and accuses the police and army of using excessive force, reports the BBC's Ethiopia correspondent Emmanuel Igunza.
Some of those interviewed allege they were hung by their ankles and beaten while others described having electric shocks applied to their feet while in detention.
Several women also claim to have been raped and sexually assaulted.
HRW also says that tens of thousands of people were arrested and hundreds have disappeared.
Koukash, 57, took over in 2013 but the Red Devils are yet to finish higher than 10th during his tenure.
"In the first year I came and I thought I could buy the superstars of this game, bring them in, put them together and win the Grand Final," he said.
"That didn't work. What you need is to invest in the future and be patient about that success."
The Red Devils started the 2016 season with a loss at Hull FC, but produced a stunning display to put eight tries past St Helens in a 44-10 win in their first home match of the year.
With 13 new arrivals, head coach Ian Watson and director of rugby Tim Sheens have transformed the squad during the winter.
"It's a belief in the players and we were always confident and we know we've got a good team here," Watson, 39, told BBC Radio Manchester.
"People have challenged our middles saying that they're not good enough - well I think we were more than good enough on Thursday.
"We had a blip last week at Hull and we knew we had to fix that up really quickly - the big thing for us is consistency and getting it week in week out."
Kompany, 30, suffered the injury against Real Madrid on 4 May.
City manager Pep Guardiola says the defender is close to full fitness but not in time for Saturday's Premier League game against Bournemouth.
"The players must compete with each other," said Guardiola. "We'll see on the pitch what is best for each game."
Kompany has been an automatic choice since his arrival from Hamburg for around £10m in 2008.
He replaced Carlos Tevez as City captain following the 2011 FA Cup final victory over Stoke and in his 298 appearances for the club has led them to two Premier League titles and two League Cup final victories.
In recent seasons though, he has suffered a number of muscular injuries.
Last year he was missing for over a month on four occasions prior to the injury that ended his season and meant he was not able to play for Belgium at Euro 2016.
His highest number of Premier League appearances in the past four full seasons was 28 in 2013-14 and he only played half that number of games last term.
So, with City chasing an eighth successive win - which would be a club record from the start of the season - against Bournemouth this weekend, and £47.5m new signing John Stones excelling alongside Aleksander Kolarov and Nicolas Otamendi in defence, Kompany cannot take his return for granted.
"I know Vincent's quality," said Guardiola. "I need him to put pressure on John Stones, Nico Otamendi and Kolarov.
"They have to know if they don't play good that there's another one beside me and the next time he is going to play."
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Midfielder Chalobah, 19, has yet to make a Premier League appearance, while 21-year-old Keane has made one top-flight substitute outing for United.
Chalobah won the 2010 Under-19 European Championship with England and has 18 Under-21 caps to his name.
The pair are the ninth and 10th signings of the summer transfer window by Burnley.
Chalobah came through the Chelsea youth ranks and has regularly captained their reserve and youth sides.
He was an unused substitute for the Blues' Carling Cup third-round tie with Newcastle in 2010 at the age of 15.
Last season, he spent the first half of the campaign on loan at Nottingham Forest, where he made 12 appearances and scored twice, before joining Middlesbrough in a temporary deal in January and making a further 19 appearances.
The season before he made 42 appearances for Watford, scoring five goals to help the club reach the play-off final, where they were beaten by Crystal Palace.
Keane began his career at Old Trafford before signing professional terms in 2011.
He made his debut for United in the League Cup against Aldershot Town in the same year and, after several more appearances in the competition, finally made his first Premier League appearance for United against Sunderland last month.
Burnley are bottom of the Premier League table, with one point from their first three games.
Polling stations opened in all the city's 73 constituencies at 07:00 BST with results expected to be declared after midnight.
Votes will be counted after the polls close at 22:00 BST.
For the latest news from all the counts on London, go to our election live service or check the results on your constituency profile page.
The Unite and GMB unions have claimed there has not been enough consultation on moves by members of the Offshore Contractors Association (OCA) to change rota patterns in a bid to cut costs.
Talks were held with the OCA in Aberdeen on Wednesday.
In a statement, the unions said both sides would consider fresh proposals before fresh talks on 20 May.
She is best known for songs including We'll Meet Again and The White Cliffs Of Dover, which buoyed the spirits of millions during World War Two.
Both songs will feature alongside a selection of previously unreleased recordings on Vera Lynn: National Treasure - The Ultimate Collection.
It will be released on 2 June, to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings, which occurs four days later.
"I think it's wonderful that my songs are still enjoyed, especially if it encourages people to commemorate what happened 70 years ago," said Dame Vera in a statement.
"It's moving for me to relive those days, and humbling to know that people still think of me. After all, it was simply my duty to keep singing."
The collection will bring together more than 40 recordings, some of which were only previously available on 78rpm vinyl.
Record label Decca said the music had been remastered "from the best available recordings", with many tracks transferred "from the original un-played source".
Her previous greatest hits collection, We'll Meet Again, topped the UK album chart in September 2009, making Dame Vera - then 92 - the oldest living artist to score a number one record.
"It was a shock," she told the BBC at the time. "I didn't think I'd still be around, never mind have another number one hit."
The following year, she released an album of new material - featuring several songs that had been left on the shelf for 60 years on unmarked discs.
More unreleased material will feature as bonus tracks on the new collection, after being uncovered by her daughter Virginia.
However, the singer has insisted her singing days are "well behind her".
2014 also marks Dame Vera's 90th year in showbusiness, after her making her stage debut at the age of seven.
During the war, she was heard over the airwaves by millions and, although no official figures exist for great swathes of her career, it is estimated she sold just as many records.
According to a recent book, she would have notched up dozens of number one singles before the Official Chart launched in 1952.
The Missing Charts, compiled by the late Colin Brown, examined sales figures from music publishers and record companies to provide detailed listings of the most popular records from 1940 onwards.
His research suggested the very first number one would have been Dame Vera's We'll Meet Again.
When the NME published its first chart in November 1952, she had three entries in the top 10, while US crooner Al Martino held the top spot with Here In My Heart.
It follows a UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) decision to lift the ban on the aircraft if operators met certain safety conditions.
They were grounded following a fatal crash off Norway in 2016.
The Unite union said the offshore workforce did not have confidence in the helicopters.
The crash in April last year killed 13 people, including Iain Stewart from Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire.
The CAA criteria announced in July included:
The Super Puma 225 came down near the island of Turoey, near Bergen, while it was returning from an oil field.
A report in April into the crash said there was no explanation as to why a detection system did not spot signs of damage to the gearbox.
In one, a no-smoking sign had the spelling as 'Betsi Cadwaladar', with an extra 'a' at the end of Cadwaladr.
In another, fleet vehicles had the name spelt with an extra 'e' at the end.
A spokesperson for the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said the errors by a local supplier had been amended at no cost to them.
"I can confirm that the mistake on the signage has now been amended," said a spokesperson.
"Unfortunately it was an error with a local supplier which has been rectified at no cost to the health board."
The health board did not comment on how the misspelt signs were able to be erected or how many signs had to be changed.
But misspelt signs were spotted outside the maternity unit at Ysbyty Gwynedd and on two separate fleet vehicles seen in Llanfairfechan and Tywyn.
The health board had erected no smoking signs at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor with the spelling "Betsi Cadwaladar" and signs on its vehicles had the name as "Betsi Cadwalader".
Darren Millar AM, the Conservative shadow health minister, said he was not impressed.
"These mistakes do nothing to enhance the reputation of the health board, which is already at rock bottom due to a series of critical reports," he said.
"If the health board can't even spell its own name how on earth can it inspire confidence amongst patients and staff?"
Betsi Cadwaladr was a Crimean War nurse who worked with Florence Nightingale.
She was born in Bala in 1789, though the health board's website states, "it is said she changed her surname to Davis as Cadwaladr could not be easily pronounced by English people".
Five-time champion Serena Williams is top seed for the women's event while Britain's Heather Watson will have no protection in Friday's draw.
Former champion Victoria Azarenka, who is ranked 41st in the world after an injury-hit 2014, is also unseeded.
The tournament, the first Grand Slam of the year, begins on Monday.
The seedings mirror the world rankings.
Spain's David Ferrer is the ninth seed in the men's draw after the withdrawal of US Open champion Marin Cilic, while world number 12 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga's absence with a forearm strain means Ernests Gulbis moves up to 11th seed.
Britons Kyle Edmund and Liam Broady are two matches away from reaching the main draw after wins in the first round of qualification.
1. Novak Djokovic (Ser)
2. Roger Federer (Swi)
3. Rafael Nadal (Spa)
4. Stan Wawrinka (Swi)
5. Kei Nishikori (Jpn)
6. Andy Murray (GB)
7. Tomas Berdych (Cze)
8. Milos Raonic (Can)
9. David Ferrer (Spa)
10. Grigor Dimitrov (Bul)
11. Ernests Gulbis (Lat)
12. Feliciano Lopez (Spa)
13. Roberto Bautista Agut (Spa)
14. Kevin Anderson (SA)
15. Tommy Robredo (Spa)
16. Fabio Fognini (Ita)
1. Serena Williams (US)
2. Maria Sharapova (Rus)
3. Simona Halep (Rom)
4. Petra Kvitova (Cze)
5. Ana Ivanovic (Ser)
6. Agnieszka Radwanska (Pol)
7. Eugenie Bouchard (Can)
8. Caroline Wozniacki (Den)
9. Angelique Kerber (Ger)
10. Ekaterina Makarova (Rus)
11. Dominika Cibulkova (Svk)
12. Flavia Pennetta (Ita)
13. Andrea Petkovic (Ger)
14. Sara Errani (Ita)
15. Jelena Jankovic (Ser)
16. Lucie Safarova (Cze)
Pietersen, who was sacked in February, claims there was a "bullying culture", where players were forced to apologise if they made mistakes in the field.
Vaughan said the "bowlers' cabal" has been a "problem for several years".
"The likes of Graeme Swann and Stuart Broad have been disrespectful to fielders," he wrote in the Telegraph.
Vaughan, 39, who captained Pietersen in England's 2005 Ashes-winning team, added: "No one drops a catch on purpose. How would they feel if every time they bowled a bad ball everyone turned to them and said: 'What the hell are you doing?'"
Vaughan said he had encountered a similar situation in his early years at Yorkshire, where he would "hate" fielding because he was "scared" of making a mistake.
"The irony is that James Anderson has spoken about how difficult it was for him when he first played for England," Vaughan added.
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"So I hope these bowlers know what they are doing to the guys around them, especially the inexperienced ones."
Nottinghamshire fast bowler Ajmal Shahzad, who played one Test and 11 one-day internationals for England, agreed with Pietersen's assessment of cliques in the dressing room.
"I wish I could have socialised with my peers a bit more and been accepted a little bit more," Shahzad, told BBC Radio 5 live.
"Off the pitch you would go off and socialise with your friends in the team, and there were maybe two or three cliques who would stick together. I guess these cliques are not a healthy thing to develop."
Pietersen, whose new book is published on Thursday, also accused wicketkeeper Matt Prior of being a disruptive influence on the team.
Former England spinner Swann described Pietersen's claims as "codswallop". He added that the book was "the biggest work of fiction since Jules Verne".
Pietersen had his England central contract terminated in the wake of the 5-0 Ashes defeat in Australia, as the England and Wales Cricket Board set out to create a new "team ethic".
Speaking to the Telegraph on Monday, he claimed he had been "marginalised and demonised" by England and that ex-coach Andy Flower "ruled by fear".
Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott said Flower had failed to man-manage Pietersen.
Boycott told BBC Radio 5 live: "I have played in a lot of teams. The best captains I played with could be forthright when they wanted to be but understood the different needs of the members of the team.
"The real leaders can handle different types of people. It has been quite obvious for some time that the England set-up has not been able to handle KP. KP maybe has part of the blame but if you are someone like Andy Flower, you're not out there scoring runs, so your job is to pull all the players together."
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Former England captain Mike Gatting said: "Think of bullying KP, I'm not sure that's quite right. He's a larger than life character, he is his own person at times and he gets on and does things," he told 5 live.
"Maybe he didn't like what was being done, but he was captain remember, for a short time. Sadly that didn't last long. So he had a chance to actually mould something in that team and he didn't take it."
Former England batsman Allan Lamb told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "It's quite sad to hear but I think it's something that's gone on. In every dressing room you are always going to have someone who is upset."
Asked if there was any chance Pietersen could make an international return, Lamb said: "I can't see that happening. I can't see the ECB taking him back after this."
Watch Kevin Pietersen's full interview with BBC Breakfast.
Education Minister John O'Dowd visited the 126-acre site on Wednesday as phase one of the project got under way.
Phase one will see the construction of a new school for Arvalee Special School and a resource centre.
Six schools, catering for 3,700 pupils will eventually be built and based on the site.
Mr O'Dowd described the start of work as a "hugely significant milestone".
"The Lisanelly project is visionary. It will be the largest single investment in education facilities ever made here, with construction costs estimated to be in excess of £120m, as it brings six schools together on one campus in the town for the first time," he said.
"The commencement of demolition marks the beginning of the delivery phase of the Lisanelly Shared Education Campus. It is symbolic of the progress we have made in recent years through working together in an atmosphere of collaboration and sharing.
"It is symbolic of our move away from the past, toward a brighter future where everyone here can fulfil his or her potential, irrespective of political, religious or social background."
The minister attended the site with pupils from each of the six schools involved to witness demolition of the first building.
The six schools that will move on to the site are Arvalee School and Resource Centre; Loreto Grammar School; Omagh High School; Sacred Heart College; Omagh Academy and Christian Brothers Grammar School.
Mr O'Dowd said the schools involved had a "unique opportunity to create something special".
"The opportunity exists to ensure the end result will be greater than the sum of the individual parts and the campus provides a model for shared education here," he said.
"A model that can act as a flagship for the area and as a beacon showing the way forward for other educational communities in the north.
"The schools involved have recognised strengths and capabilities and well deserved reputations for delivering quality education and pastoral support for local children.
"There is not, and never has been, any intention to dilute the individual strengths or capabilities of those schools. Rather we want to ensure that we harness and share all that is best in these schools and working together deliver a world class, 21st Century education for the area."
The new site will include some shared areas, such as a school of performance, sports facilities and an ecology centre.
Jonathan Vega, 33, is accused of attacking Natalia Ponce de Leon outside her home in Bogota last week. He is said to be a former neighbour of hers.
On Thursday President Juan Manuel Santos offered a reward for information leading to arrests in such cases.
More than 40 people are victims of acid attacks every year in Colombia.
The motivation for the attacks can be partner jealousy, personal vendettas or even disagreements with neighbours.
Police say that when he was arrested, Mr Vega had small burns caused by the same acid used against his alleged victim.
Ms Ponce, 33, suffered severe burns to 24% of her body, including her face, when she was attacked on 27 March.
She is still in hospital, where she has had undergone several reconstructive surgeries.
Her lawyer said that Mr Vega was a former neighbour who had become obsessed with Ms Ponce.
He made death threats after she refused to begin a relationship, he told El Espectador newspaper.
A few days after that attack, another woman in Colombia had acid thrown at her by a female neighbour with whom she had previous disagreements.
Mr Santos had announced a reward of nearly $40,000 (£24,000) for anyone providing information on the perpetrators of acid attacks.
"No more violence against women. We are all shocked," wrote Mr Santos in his Twitter account.
The Colombian Institute of Legal Medicine registered 55 such attacks in 2010 and 42 in 2011.
But support groups say the number is much higher - more than 100 per year.
By comparison, it is estimated that more than 150 women have acid thrown on them every year in Pakistan, whose population is nearly four times that of Colombia.
And according to the Dhaka-based Acid Survivors Foundation, Bangladesh, which has a population of 165 million compared with Colombia's 47 million, saw 84 attacks in 2011.
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But the bill was almost a quarter lower than the previous year, thanks to the plunging cost of renewables.
Investment in renewables capacity was roughly double that in fossil fuels, says the report from UN Environment.
It follows news that the cost of offshore wind power has fallen by around a third since 2012 – far faster than expected.
But the report’s authors sound the alarm that just as costs are plunging, some major nations are scaling back their green energy investments.
This, they say, reduces the likelihood of meeting the Paris climate agreement.
The paper is published in conjunction with Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre and Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
Ulf Moslener, a co-author, told BBC News: “Things are heading the right way, and the learning and technical costs of renewables have done a large part of their job. But investments are not yet there to meet the structural change agreed in Paris."
The report finds that wind, solar and other renewables added 138.5 gigawatts to global power capacity in 2016 - up 8% from 2015. The added capacity roughly equals that of the world's 16 largest existing power producing facilities combined, it says.
Recent figures from the International Energy Agency cited the switch to renewables as one main reason for greenhouse gas emissions staying flat in 2016 even though the global economy grew by 3.1 per cent.
Europe led the way on renewables investment with a 3% increase. The UK spent $24bn and Germany $13.2bn. India kick-started a huge investment in solar with what’s said to be the world’s biggest solar farm.
But globally new investment in solar and wind fell from 2015. Much of the finance drop was due to reduced costs, but countries are also needing less electricity than projected as economies switch towards services, use more LEDs and governments impose standards making appliances like fridges and air-conditioners more efficient.
Some nations are also taking the opportunity to scale back ambition on energy investment.
But Michael Liebreich from BNEF said the key argument over costs had been won: "The question always used to be 'will renewables ever be grid competitive?'.
"Well, after the dramatic cost reductions of the past few years, unsubsidised wind and solar can provide the lowest cost new electrical power in an increasing number of countries, even in the developing world - sometimes by a factor of two."
And Ulf Moslener added a message directed at President Trump: “These technologies are there because they are competitive. We see wind - and in some cases solar – are the cheapest alternatives. Subsidies play less of a role. That’s where the markets are going, and it’s probably a bad idea to work against markets.”
There was a more muted reaction from Dr John Constable of the anti-green group GWPF, whose campaign against wind subsidies has arguably put downward pressure on renewables costs.
He told BBC News: "Faced with a barrage of criticism about subsidy levels, the offshore wind industry has reacted with claims of major cost reductions." But he said the cost of wind power could be deceptive, as it didn't include the cost of supplying the cables to tie turbines into the national grid.
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Centre Mark Percival crossed twice for the 2014 champions, who were beaten in the semi-finals of both Super League and the Challenge Cup last season.
Atelea Vea, Jordan Turner and Luke Thompson also went over for the hosts, with former Hull FC player Turner scoring the 100th try of his career.
Huddersfield replied through Aaron Murphy, Ukuma Ta'ai and Jake Connor.
In tricky wet conditions, Saints avoided a repeat of the 40-4 humbling by the Giants on the opening day of the 2013 season.
But their win was tempered by the loss of influential hooker James Roby to a shoulder problem midway through the second half.
Huddersfield also lost key players to injury, with captain Danny Brough and full-back Scott Grix both failing to complete the match.
Giants coach Paul Anderson had been unable to select Joe Wardle, Craig Huby, Kyle Wood and Luke Robinson because of injuries.
St Helens head coach Keiron Cunningham: "The halves were brilliant and Luke Thompson changed the game when he came on. He was phenomenal.
"Atelea Vea also played the full 80 minutes straight and I'm pleased all over. Defensively we were very good and we played the conditions really well.
"We looked comfortable for a large part of the game."
Huddersfield head coach Paul Anderson: "The effort and endeavour was very good, considering the youth out there.
"We were masters of our own downfall with penalties and errors, but Sam Rapira was outstanding and caused a lot of problems.
"The difference was Luke Walsh's kicking game and he played as though he was in a dinner jacket. The first half was very even, although the scoreline may show otherwise."
St Helens: Owens; Makinson, Peyroux, Percival, Swift; Turner, Walsh; Amor, Roby, Tasi, Wilkin, Vea, McCarthy-Scarsbrook.
Replacements: Walmsley, Richards, Savelio, Thompson.
Huddersfield: Grix; McGillvary, Cudjoe, Connor, Murphy; Brough, Ellis; Rapira, Hinchcliffe, Crabtree, Ta'ai, Lawrence, Patrick.
Replacements: Smith, J. Johnson, Leeming, Roberts.
Referee: Robert Hicks
Speaking in Moscow, where he met Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, he urged those involved to "refrain from using belligerent rhetoric".
Mr Putin said both wanted to see "peaceful, constructive dialogue" between the opposing parties.
Relations between North Korea and the US have plunged in recent weeks.
The two countries have traded angry words and threats as North Korean leader Kim Jong-un persists with missile tests, despite repeated warnings to stop.
This week, the US announced it was set to activate a missile defence system in South Korea "within days", and tighten sanctions against the secretive state.
It came after President Donald Trump announced the US was sending a naval carrier group to patrol the Korean peninsula.
North Korea, meanwhile, threatened to launch a "super-mighty pre-emptive strike" against what it called US aggression.
North Korea is also believed to be on the verge of conducting another nuclear bomb test.
Washington fears it could develop a nuclear device small enough to fit on a long-range missile which could reach the US, though some experts say this is some way off.
But if North Korea did decide to launch a missile attack, neighbours South Korea and Japan could be targeted.
Mr Abe is keen to ensure the situation does not deteriorate further.
Speaking on Thursday, Mr Putin said: "In my opinion, and in the opinion of the prime minister, the situation on the Korean peninsula has unfortunately got a lot worse.
"We call on all governments involved in regional matters to refrain from using belligerent rhetoric and to strive for peaceful constructive dialogue."
He urged Theresa May to "condemn these ideas", saying they were very similar to events in Europe in the 1930s.
He said there had been an "enormous" rise in attacks on Czechs in the UK since the referendum.
The government says firms will not have to list individual foreign staff.
At the Conservative Party conference last month, Home Secretary Amber Rudd proposed that firms could be forced to disclose what percentage of their workforce was non-British as a way to encourage them to hire more locals.
She told the BBC she wanted to "flush out" companies abusing existing rules and "nudge them into better behaviour".
Briefing notes from her department also suggested they could be required to "be clear about the proportion of their workforce which is international", a practice which the Home Office said was standard in the US.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon later clarified that, if the plan went ahead, it would mean firms providing numbers overall rather than individual names.
But, speaking to BBC Radio 4's Analysis, Mr Prouza, the Czech Republic's state secretary for European affairs, said: "I think the performance at the Conservative Party conference was again stoking the fires.
"When you had all these ideas of British companies that would have to report the number of foreigners they employ, maybe even the names of the foreigners they employ, that is very similar to what we have seen on the continent in the 1930s.
"I think we all remember what it led to. So I think we see it as very dangerous and I was really hoping that Prime Minister May would condemn these ideas very quickly and it's not happened. So that is a worry."
A UK government spokesman said: "There is no plan to list foreign workers and never has been. The proportion of international workers in a company is one of the pieces of information that companies may be asked to provide to the government. This information will not be published.
"This already happens in the US and is one of several proposals we will be consulting on as part of our work to ensure that companies take reasonable steps to recruit at home before looking to bring in workers from abroad.
"The purpose of having a consultation is so that we can listen to business and use that feedback to inform our decisions".
Racist or religious abuse incidents recorded by police in England and Wales increased by 41% in the month after June's EU referendum, according to Home Office figures.
It said the sharp increase had declined in August but had "remained at a higher level than prior to the EU referendum".
Mr Prouza said: "At the moment we need to support the security of Czechs. We've seen an enormous increase in attacks on Czechs and other foreigners on British soil.
"We've had dozens and dozens of people complaining to the Czech embassy in London, sharing their negative experiences in places where they have lived for five or 10 years and never had a problem.
"In the last six months there is more and more of these issues."
Mr Prouza said that, in a recent conversation with Mrs May, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka had told her: "We would really like to see the British government doing something about these xenophobic, nationalistic attacks."
Ms Rudd has said: "We should be able to have a conversation about the skills we need.
"I don't think we should have a situation where we can't talk about immigration.
"We must not ignore the fact that people want to talk about immigration and if we do talk about immigration, don't call me a racist."
Analysis is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Monday from 20:30 GMT and will be available on BBC iPlayer and the programme's own website.
They've been burning for several months and the smoke has spread to nearby countries like Malaysia.
It's a problem that affects Indonesia every year, but scientists say this year could be the worst since 1997.
Big companies, as well as farmers with small areas of land, are thought to have started many of the fires.
They do it to quickly clear the land to make way for palm oil, pulp and paper plantations.
But high temperatures have made the situation worse.
The heat has made the land very dry making it easier for the fires to spread quickly over huge areas.
The fires have created a smoky haze, which have spread to nearby countries including Thailand and Malaysia.
Many schools have been forced to close because of the smog, and some flights have been cancelled.
Scientists are also very worried that the air pollution could lead to problems with people's breathing in the future.
The fires have also been devastating for the animals who live in the forests.
Wildlife experts fear that as many as a third of the world's orangutans are at risk of dying in the fires.
The flames destroy their habitat and force them into areas where humans live - where they're often not welcome.
Sadly, many creatures have gone into villages to escape the fires, but they've been attacked by humans who see them as pests.
Animal charities have been working hard to save the orangutans and move them to safety.
Lots of animals are also suffering from the effects of breathing in smoke.
The Indonesian army is trying to put out the fires on the ground, and countries like Japan and Australia have sent help too.
One of the more unusual ways they're trying to put out the fires is by using specially trained elephants.
The elephants carry water pumps and other equipment to make sure the fires stay out.
It's hoped the flames can be brought under control so that the situation can improve soon.
The new Warwickshire captain, who has said he wants his place back in England's Test side, struck 10 fours in his 134-ball innings as the MCC chased down a target of 256 in Abu Dhabi.
Earlier, Yorkshire, who resumed on 239-7, were bowled out for 299.
Essex batsman Tom Westley also made 58 as the MCC reached 257-6.
Bell, who has 118 Test caps, was dropped by England for their winter tour of South Africa before being named Warwickshire skipper in January.
The 33-year-old, captaining the MCC side, looked in fine touch before he was dismissed by teenage spinner Karl Carver for the second time in the match when he skied him to Alex Lees at mid-off.
Bell's wicket left the MCC 199-5, still needing 57 for victory, but Warwickshire team-mate Rikki Clarke (33) and Ben Foakes (32 not out) helped them home.
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Greig Laidlaw's four successful penalties out of five gave the Scots a 12-7 advantage at half-time, Amanaki Mafi having crossed for Japan.
John Hardie and Mark Bennett touched down after the break and Tommy Seymour raced clear for the Scots' third try.
Bennett's second score secured a bonus point and Finn Russell celebrated his 23rd birthday by crossing late on.
Japan had caused a major upset when they beat South Africa 34-32 on Saturday but, despite a spirited first half, they were overwhelmed by Vern Cotter's side, who now top Pool B.
Mafi scored after a successful line-out and Ayumu Goromaru converted but that 7-6 advantage would be Japan's only lead in the match as Laidlaw largely kept his composure with the boot before the Scots fully took control.
Relive Scotland's win over Japan
Some of the attacking rugby Scotland produced was sumptuous. They did it against a team that was tiring but there was pace and wit in the backline and a reason to believe big things are to come.
Bennett and Matt Scott were outstanding, cutting through the Japanese defence and causing mayhem.
Scotland have often toiled miserably when it comes to breaking down defences, but not now.
In Bennett and Scott in the midfield, the electrifying Stuart Hogg at full-back, the predatory Seymour on the wing and such cleverness at half-back in Russell and Laidlaw, Scotland are not lacking in game-breakers anymore.
The game turned when Japan suffered the cruel loss of their totem Mafi to injury early in the second half.
The back row forward had been a colossus. As soon as he was carried off on a stretcher, Scotland ran amok.
When he departed it was still just a two-point game and Scotland were beginning to wobble.
His exit had the twin impact of demoralising Japan and galvanising Scotland. Eddie Jones's team quickly tired and they were picked off relentlessly and clinically.
Hardie and then Bennett found gaps on Japan's right for Scotland's opening two scores and the pace of Seymour and Bennett left opponents trailing in their wake as the bonus point was secured.
Russell added gloss to the scoreline under the posts, with Laidlaw converting four of the five tries.
Scotland: Hogg, Seymour, Bennett, Scott, Lamont, Russell, Laidlaw, Dickinson, Ford, Nel, Gilchrist, J. Gray, Wilson, Hardie, Denton.
Replacements: Maitland for Hogg (66), Horne for Bennett (80), Grant for Dickinson (65), Brown for Ford (73), Welsh for Nel (72), R. Gray for Gilchrist (51), Strauss for Wilson (59). Not used: Pyrgos.
Japan: Goromaru, Matsushima, Sau, Tamura, Fukuoka, Tatekawa, Tanaka, Inagaki, Horie, Yamashita, Thompson, Ives, Leitch, Broadhurst, Mafi.
Replacements: Hiwasa for Tamura (69), Hesketh for Tatekawa (76), Mikami for Inagaki (41), Kizu for Horie (73), Hatakeyama for Yamashita (53), Ito for Thompson (69), Makabe for Ives (61), Tui for Mafi (46). Sin bin: Matsushima (24).
Att: 14,354
Ref: John Lacey (Ireland).
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Johnson, 21, joined the League Two strugglers in time to start against Mansfield on Tuesday.
The forward scored 59 goals for Gainsborough in the Northern League last term, earning him a summer move to Championship side Cardiff, where he has yet to feature at senior level.
"He's a fantastic goalscorer who'll be a real threat for us," Rovers boss Micky Adams told the club website.
He is the second signing made by new boss Adams, following the arrival of Armand Gnanduillet from Chesterfield on Monday.
Black-cab drivers are angry that Hailo is opening up its service to private hire vehicles.
The word "Scabs" was scrawled on the wall of its London office and police were called after a fight broke out.
Discontent is growing across Europe between licensed taxi drivers and alternative private hire vehicles.
The app firm, co-founded by three London cabbies, had been exclusively for black cabs and allows people to hail a cab through their smartphone.
In an open letter to London taxi drivers, chairman Ron Zeghibe explained why the firm had applied for a private hire licence.
"There is no point burying our heads in the sand - people want a choice," he said.
"When we started, it was a straight fight between taxis and private hire. Now, it's not so simple. These are tough times that call for tough decisions - and that means doing what's right, not what's popular."
He was referring to services such as Uber, a San Francisco-based start-up that describes itself as a "pick-up" service.
It connects those needing a ride with a background-checked private driver, and takes a cut - typically 20% - of the fee.
It now operates in more than 100 cities across 30 countries.
Steve McNamara, head of the London Taxi Drivers' Association said that "feelings were running high".
Of the incident at the Hailo office he said: "Things turned a little bit nasty, punches were thrown and the police were called."
Beyond that, he said, drivers were deleting the app and "queuing up" to have the Hailo stickers removed from their cabs.
Licensed taxi drivers around Europe are getting increasingly frustrated by the proliferation of new services such as Uber, which they say are not subject to the same regulation and licensing regime as them.
In the Italian city of Milan, taxis have been sitting idle for the past five days in protest at what they say is "unfair competition" from Uber. In Paris, the government is considering banning Uber drivers from using GPS-enabled apps and in Spain the National Taxi Federation has called for it to be banned saying it is putting 100,000 jobs at risk.
In London too, black-cab drivers are planning a protest on 11 June over the way Transport for London has handled Uber's arrival in the capital.
"Our beef is not with Uber but with the regulator which is not enforcing the law and kowtowing in the face of Uber's money," said Mr McNamara.
"The reason for the complete collapse of a normally strong and vigilant regulator can only be put down to the fact that TfL are intimidated by the money, power and influence being brought to bear by the enormous presence of Uber's backers Google and Goldman Sachs."
He said that the protest, likely to cause gridlock in central London had "united the taxi and minicab trades in London".
At the heart of the dispute is why Uber is classified as a minicab service when it uses a smartphone app to calculate fares. Black-cab drivers argue that the app is akin to a taximeter and it is illegal for such vehicles to be fitted with these.
The discovery was made by Jinru He, a student in marine biology in China.
Several years ago, he picked up a baby moon jellyfish from the sea, and kept it until it was fully grown.
When the jellyfish died, he put its body into a new tank. Three months later, a polyp, or baby jellyfish, appeared on its back.
They also found that the tissues from adult jellyfish can regenerate to become baby jellyfish again.
Scientists are hoping that studying how the moon jellyfish regenerates could help them work out ways to cure diseases in humans.
Several radio and television shows will be live from the festival, from 22 May and 1 June, with a global audience on BBC World News.
Some of the headline events will also be streamed live on the BBC website.
The BBC said the "unprecedented" coverage would make the festival more accessible than ever before.
This year's link up is the start of a three-year partnership between the festival and the broadcaster, bringing Sky Arts's coverage to an end.
A full programme of events will be broadcast over BBC Radios 2, 3, 4, 6 Music as well as BBC Radio Wales and Radio Cymru.
There will also be a BBC Tent, which will host appearances and performances from well-known presenters and guests such as singer Cerys Matthews.
The One Show will be live from Hay for the first time and the BBC's Talking Books programme will have five special episodes dedicated to the event.
BBC Wales will also host live coverage and a documentary about the festival and the town of Hay-on-Wye will be made by BBC Four.
Daily stories and videos will be available on the BBC website along with live feeds of some of the most popular events.
BBC Director General Tony Hall said: "Our coverage this year will demonstrate our ambition to join up arts on the BBC like never before - across television, radio and digital.
"By doing so we can give the public access to the greatest writers, performers and thinkers in a way that no one else can."
Peter Florence, director of Hay Festival, added: "The BBC will give everyone, everywhere, the best seat at the table."
Rhodri Talfan Davies, director of BBC Wales said: "The Hay Festival has established itself as a true festival of ideas - bringing together some of the world's leading thinkers and writers.
"And I'm absolutely delighted that this new partnership will enable BBC audiences right across Wales - and right across the UK - to savour the real magic of Hay."
The festival is now in its 27th year and one-time festival speaker, the former US President Bill Clinton, famously described the 10-day event as 'the Woodstock of the mind'.
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Wrexham council has bid to host the 'Wave' at Llwyn Isaf green in the centre of the town.
The installation marked 100 years since the outbreak of WWI.
Armed forces champion, councillor David Griffiths, said the location would be "accessible to all" and would "showcase the sculpture in a fantastic way".
The outcome of the bid will be known by 30 September.
"The matter has caused a lot of frustration and confusion, for which I apologise," he said in a TV address.
He said he would abide by a court ruling that he must repay government money spent on upgrading his rural home with a swimming pool and amphitheatre.
The case was brought by the opposition, which urged him to stand down.
The public protector, an anti-corruption body, ruled in 2014 that $23m (£15m) of public money had been improperly spent on Mr Zuma's rural home in Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal province, and ordered him to reimburse part of the expense.
In Thursday's unanimous judgement, the Constitutional Court ruled that Mr Zuma's failure to repay the money violated the constitution.
In his live address on Friday, Mr Zuma said: "I respect the judgement and will abide by it."
The president added that he had acted "in good faith" and "never knowingly and deliberately set out to violate the constitution".
"Any action that has been found not to be in keeping with the constitution happened because of a different approach and different legal advice," he said, before issuing an apology for the "frustration" caused.
He has been described as the quintessential escape artist, and he has done it again. South Africans were glued to their TV screens awaiting an address. Speculation was rife that the president would resign. Instead people got an apology, the first since the Nkandla saga erupted six years ago.
The immediate reaction for many is disappointment. Remember though that Mr Zuma is a master tactician who rose to the highest office against all odds. He is not about to let that go without a fight.
True to his smoothness, Mr Zuma peppered his address with denials and promises to never allow this to happen again. He even spoke about how this could only make the country stronger.
The man that has been the cause of anger for many presented himself as a victim of unclear rules, but said that he now knows better and that the country should forgive him and move on. It takes a lot of charm and confidence to display such boldness, and the president lives to fight another day.
Mr Zuma has been in office since 2009, and his government has been widely accused of corruption and cronyism.
The case had been brought by two opposition parties, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the Democratic Alliance (DA).
The EFF urged Mr Zuma to step down and the DA called for his impeachment.
Following the president's address, Gwede Mantashe, secretary-general of Mr Zuma's ANC party, described the calls as an "overreaction" by the opposition.
Sean Kennedy took 90s dance classic Freed from Desire by Gala, rewrote the lyrics and renamed the tune 'Will Grigg's on fire' - in honour of the 28-goal Latics forward.
After filming himself singing it, Kennedy's song was adopted by the Wigan fans in the stands, and the players sang a rousing rendition on the pitch when they celebrated winning the League One title earlier this month.
Even the club's chairman David Sharpe is a fan.
Sharpe tweeted on Monday: "Signed him for his goals but this Will Grigg chant was worth paying money for alone! It's gone worldwide!
"For inventing the best chant ever known to man, you've earned yourself a free season ticket for next season @KennoUTJ. Will Grigg's on fire."
Kennedy's inventive lyrics include: "He will score goals, he will just score more and more. He will score goals, that's what we signed him for. Will Grigg's on fire, your defence is terrified."
He also parodied Alicia Keys' 2012 single Girl on Fire and dedicated it to 24-year-old Grigg... but it hasn't quite caught on yet.
Norway's Consumer Council (NCC) said Fitbit, Jawbone, Garmin and Mio had broken local laws governing the handling of consumer data.
It said all four gathered too much data, did not say who saw it and failed to say how long it would be kept.
The complaint has been lodged with Norway's data protection authority.
The wristbands may help people monitor fitness activities, but anyone who used them gave up data on "asymmetrical and obscure terms", said Finn Myrstad, director of digital services at the NCC, in a statement.
"We fear that this information can be exploited for direct marketing and price-discrimination purposes, and that basic privacy principles are being neglected," he said.
The complaint came out of a research project carried out by the council, into the terms and conditions used by the four wristband makers.
This revealed that users of the wristbands had little access to the information gathered about them, who saw it and how it was used.
"It is important that we don't give up basic rights in order to use the products and services of the future," said Mr Myrstad.
The BBC has asked the four companies named in the complaint for comment.
In a statement, Jawbone said it was reviewing the NCC report.
"We want to reassure our users and let them know that we only share their data if they ask us to - for example to integrate with a third party app," it said.
A spokesman said Jawbone was a "custodian" of users' data and sought permission to share it.
Users could also download their data and take it elsewhere, he said.
And requests to delete data would be honoured.
The Everton defender, 28, was given oxygen before being carried off following the challenge with Neil Taylor, who was sent off.
The incident happened midway through the second half of the important World Cup qualifier.
Republic manager Martin O'Neill said the defender suffered a "bad break".
"Seamus has gone to hospital, it's been confirmed by a doctor that he has broken his leg," added O'Neill.
"Obviously, it's a real blow to him. He's having the season of a lifetime at club level. He's a big player for us, a great captain and a great character.
"It's a big loss to Everton, a big loss to us. But he'll fight back I hope. It puts things in perspective."
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Wales manager Chris Coleman said defender Taylor was "despondent" following the game.
"First and foremost, the most important thing is Seamus Coleman," he said. "We are told that it is not so good, which we are sorry for.
"Neil Taylor is not really that type of player, but it's a tough one for Seamus. Our thoughts are with him. I have not seen it again."
Everton return to Premier League action with the Merseyside derby against Liverpool at Anfield on Saturday, 1 April.
Everton midfielder James McCarthy was scheduled to start for the Republic, but was withdrawn from the team-sheet before kick-off due to a hamstring injury.
"He thought he was going to be OK with the couple of days (training) he had done," added O'Neill. "He was feeling it and I just didn't want to take any chances."
The draw in Dublin meant the Republic missed out on returning to the top of Group D, after Serbia beat Georgia earlier on Friday, with Wales four points behind in third.
Gareth Bale twice went close for Wales from long range, but the visitors had to withstand a spell of heavy pressure following Taylor's sending off.
Wales will also be without Real Madrid forward Bale when they visit Serbia on 11 June after he was booked for a foul on John O'Shea.
The Republic's next Group D qualifier is at home to Austria, also on 11 June.
The festival, visiting Abergavenny this year and running until 6 August, opened in a ceremony at 13:35 BST.
Before that, there were brass bands and disco dancing competitions on Saturday morning.
The Eisteddfod is returning to Abergavenny for the first time since 1913 and is being held on the grounds of Castle Meadows.
The Woodland Trust is displaying a model of a war horse carrying a wounded soldier to mark 99 years since Hedd Wyn, Ellis Evans from Trawsfynydd, won the chair for his poem The Hero.
He was killed in World War One, just six weeks before being awarded the black chair.
Lucy Ward claimed she was sacked because she was former head coach Neil Redfearn's partner.
Ms Ward, who worked as the club's education and welfare officer, travelled to Canada to work as a BBC pundit at the 2015 Women's World Cup.
The club, which denied any wrongdoing, claimed she was sacked for exceeding her annual leave entitlement.
At the tribunal, employment judge Stephen Keevash said, on the balance of probabilities, club chairman Massimo Cellino told then club executive director Adam Pearson that Ms Ward had to leave the club.
There were no grounds to disbelieve Ms Ward's testimony concerning her application for time off to commentate for the BBC, the judge added.
Speaking outside the hearing, held in Leeds city centre, Ms Ward said her "name had been cleared".
"I spent 17 years building up a really good reputation at Leeds for it to be destroyed by the current ownership," she said.
"It's a club that I love dearly and I'm very proud to have been a part of Leeds United and all of the lads I have looked after."
She added: "I look forward to the rest of my career, hopefully back into football."
Ms Ward, who worked in the club's academy, had previously told her managers about her BBC analyst work with their "full support", the tribunal heard.
Leeds United claimed Ms Ward "repeatedly failed to work on a Wednesday", but she responded she worked from home on that day and her working pattern was "well-known" and agreed with her line manager.
The hearing previously heard Mr Cellino decided to sack her because she and Mr Redfearn came as "a pair".
The judge agreed with Ms Ward's legal team that the club had taken a "sexist" view and ruled the reasons for her dismissal were "a sham".
Ms Ward earlier told the tribunal she was "treated like a piece of meat" in the way she was dismissed.
Leeds United secretary Stuart Hayton, giving evidence as a witness, said Ms Ward was a strong character who "intimidated" her line manager and "was ruling the roost".
Judge Keevash said Ms Ward was not aggressive nor disruptive and found her and Mr Redfearn "credible and truthful" witnesses.
He added the former Leeds United executive director Adam Pearson was "evasive" in giving his evidence.
The hearing previously heard of an alleged conversation between Mr Cellino and Gary Cooper, the chairman of Leeds Ladies FC.
Ms Ward said she was told by Mr Cooper that Mr Cellino had said to him: "Football is no place for women, they should be in the bedroom or the beauticians."
Mr Cellino did not give evidence during the tribunal.
A further hearing is due to take place to arrange compensation.
The man was driving a red Renault van on the A9 northbound, near the B8033 Dunblane junction, at about 20:00 on Wednesday when it was in collision with an HGV.
Officers said the man made off from the scene by foot and possibly hitchhiked north.
The van driver was white, and wearing blue jeans and a white T-shirt.
Amanda Spielman, who has no teaching experience, failed to show "passion" or an understanding of the "complex role", education select committee MPs said.
But the committee cannot veto her appointment if the education secretary wants to force it through.
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said she was the "best person" for the job.
Mrs Morgan wrote to the cross-party select committee, saying she was "surprised and disappointed" but remained "wholeheartedly in support of Amanda as the best person for this crucial role".
The current Ofsted boss, Sir Michael Wilshaw, steps down at the end of the year.
Amanda Spielman, born in 1961, left Clare College Cambridge in 1982 with an upper-second-class degree in mathematics and law.
She qualified as a chartered accountant in 1985 and went on to work for leading City firms as an accountant, market analyst and investment adviser.
By the late 1990s, she was working for Nomura International, making equity investments worth between £250m and £500m.
After the birth of her first child in 2001 she focused on part-time study, consultancy and voluntary work.
Her portfolio included:
In 2004, she became research and policy director for the Ark academy chain.
From 2011, she chaired exams regulator Ofqual three days a week, working with then chief executive Glenys Stacey.
She also continued with her consultancy work, giving development advice on public-private education partnerships in Uganda, India and Pakistan for Ark, and as an external reviewer for the TeachFirst education charity, though she has since resigned from these positions.
Last week, Ms Spielman, who is currently chairwoman of the exams regulator Ofqual, appeared before the committee for pre-appointment questioning.
She was grilled by MPs, who were visibly frustrated by her answers on a range of issues on several occasions throughout the hour and 40 minute hearing.
Their report said:
Conservative committee chairman Neil Carmichael said he and his colleagues were "unconvinced" that Ms Spielman was the right person to lead Ofsted, to raise standards and improve the lives of children.
"Ms Spielman's responses on child protection were particularly troubling and did not inspire confidence that she grasped the importance of Ofsted's inspections in preventing children being held at risk through service failure.
"As a committee, we did not leave the session with the view that Amanda Spielman was prepared for the vast scope and complexity of this important role."
He added: "It is unusual for a select committee to find itself unable to support the government's preferred candidate for a public appointment.
"However, it is our responsibility to hold government to account and the seriousness of our concerns regarding this appointment has led us to produce this report to the House of Commons.
"We call on the secretary of state not to proceed with Ms Spielman's appointment."
But, in her letter to the committee, Mrs Morgan said: "I chose Amanda because it is clear to me that the education and social care systems... will benefit hugely from her evidence-based approach, her system-level thinking and her clear commitment to raising standards."
The job advertisement for head of Ofsted, posted in February and March, attracted 32 applications, and five shortlisted candidates went on to be interviewed by the recruitment panel.
Mauricio Pochettino's youthful side kept alive their hopes by beating Manchester United on Sunday, although they remain seven points behind leaders Leicester, with five games left.
Have they left themselves too much to do? Former Spurs boss Tim Sherwood tells Match of the Day 2 why, even if they do miss out, the foundations are in place for another challenge next season.
Tottenham have now scored the most goals and conceded the fewest in the top flight this season. Only six teams have managed to do that over a full season in the Premier League era, and five of them won the title - Manchester United in 2001 and 2008, Arsenal in 2004, Chelsea in 2006 and Manchester City in 2012. On the other occasion, United finished second in 1998.
Sherwood: "The United game showed again why Tottenham are contenders - when things don't click for them up front, they have got a solid defence to fall back on.
"It meant United only managed one shot on target in the entire game, which saw one of the best goalkeepers in the league - Hugo Lloris - make a great save.
"Then, less than 10 minutes later, Tottenham suddenly turned it on with three goals in quick succession.
"They can do that because they have got match-winners, players who can turn games. I don't think Dele Alli had his best game against United, or Harry Kane, but you still knew they were on the pitch.
"They do not go missing even if they are not playing well and they still affect the game, which we saw with Tottenham's first goal, where Kane started the move and Alli finished it.
"After that they came forward in wave after wave and could have scored even more than three in the end."
Sherwood: "Even if Tottenham keep winning, this is Leicester's title to lose now - it would take a 'Devon Loch' from Claudio Ranieri's side for them not to win it from here.
"But Tottenham are not making it easy for them. They are breathing right down their neck and, if there is any slip up from the Foxes, they will be right there.
"Part of the pressure on the teams at the top is that Chelsea are out of touch and Manchester United are not looking like the side they used to be.
"Everyone expects them both to improve next year, so this season was seen as a great opportunity for any of the top three - Leicester, Spurs and Arsenal - to win the title, and one that might not happen again soon.
"I disagree as far as Tottenham are concerned. Next year it is going to get harder, that is for sure, but I don't think this season is Spurs' only chance.
"If they don't win it this year, then I think a lot of people would say they will be among the favourites to win it in the future. I would agree with them."
"The thing with Tottenham, which makes them different to Leicester, is that they will be able to attract the best players in the world this summer.
"On top of the pull of London, and the fact Tottenham are a big club anyway, there could be Champions League football, as well as the prospect of a new ground and fantastic training facilities.
"They also have a young team with an exciting young manager. Everything is in place, on and off the pitch.
"Harry Kane has been linked with a summer move to Manchester United but why would anyone want to leave?
"Kane has got plenty of time - at 22, he is only a baby. He has been developing at a rate of knots over the last couple of seasons and it looks as if he will lead England's attack at Euro 2016.
"My advice to him would be to stay put. I would tell him you are not at an inferior club anymore - yes, United are massive, but Tottenham are getting there too and he can be a huge part of that."
Sherwood: "In Pochettino, they have got a manager who has a lot of faith in young players and a good young squad - at 28, Jan Vertonghen is their oldest outfield player. What I like about Pochettino is how he has brought them along.
"I gave a lot of those players their debuts so he has been able to see them first hand in the Premier League, and see that they can do the job.
"He has stuck with them too. He has not worried about reputations or price tags - he picks his team based on what they do on the training ground.
"Clearly they are hungry enough to prove they should be in the side, but credit to Pochettino for giving them a chance.
"Is there more to come from them? Absolutely."
Sherwood: "On Sunday we saw Tottenham's strongest team - if there was a cup final tomorrow, then this would be the team playing in it.
"Mauricio Pochettino has rotated a lot and has taken a while to decide on his best side, but I think he has found it now, with Jan Vertonghen fit and back in the side.
"Injuries and suspensions aside, I would be surprised if he makes any changes between now and the end of the season, and this will be the basis of his team going forward too.
"His best full-backs are Danny Rose on the left and Kyle Walker on the right and, with Eric Dier sitting in front of the back four, it gives them solidity they need. That allows Dele Alli, Christian Eriksen and Erik Lamela to go and do some damage.
"The youth he has in his squad means they have the energy that is such a big part of the way they play.
"In the last 20 minutes against United, they could step it up. They produced that burst of goals that just blew United away, while Louis van Gaal's side never had that in the locker.
"Like Leicester, Spurs are built on defensive discipline and teamwork, so it should be no surprise that both teams are having such successful seasons."
Tim Sherwood was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Officers in Wellingborough opened up the custody cells on Thursday with a message to "clear your conscience or face being arrested on the big day".
Those who attended were interviewed about offences including theft, robbery and criminal damage.
Wellingborough Police also sent Christmas cards to people with records of theft and burglary.
The cards included the message: "If you spoil someone else's Christmas, we're ready to spoil yours".
Wellingborough Sector Inspector Paul Valentine said the approach was "unusual" but it worked.
He said: "This didn't mean offenders were dealt with any differently if they handed themselves in, it just meant they had the chance to control when that is.
"We are estimating that in excess of 20 crimes will be detected as a result of yesterday's activity."
Activities are planned in Gretna, Leith, Stirling and Dundee.
Ms Hyslop said the focus of the second year of events would extend from the capital out to other parts of the country.
She said World War One had had a "significant and broad impact on our nation".
The calendar of events for 2015 is:
Ministers are liaising with Stirling Council, Dundee City Council, City of Edinburgh Council, Dumfries and Galloway Council and the Royal Scots Regimental Association on arrangements for each event.
Further details will be announced later in the year.
Ms Hyslop said the events were part of the "busiest year" of the five-year commemoration programme.
"The Quintinshill Rail Disaster, Gallipoli campaign and Battle of Loos each had a profound and long-lasting impact on Scotland and it is right that we pause to remember each event, and the Scottish communities who were affected," she said.
"The First World War had a significant and broad impact on our nation.
"Through our national commemorations the people of Scotland will have opportunities to reflect on its lasting social and civic legacy."
Norman Drummond, who chairs the Scottish Commemorations Panel, said the events would take place in the communities most affected.
"2015 will be the busiest year in Scotland's five-year commemorations programme," he said.
"We will further pause to reflect on the horror of war, the service and sacrifice of our servicemen and women and of those at home, and the lessons we continue to learn from World War One."
MLB matches have already been staged in Japan, Australia and Mexico, but talks about London hosting games this year were abandoned last July.
"It is something we would really like to do in 2019," said MLB commissioner Rob Manfred.
"We do think it's time. Whether it's 2019 or shortly thereafter that we play in Europe."
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The new trilogy is called The Book of Dust and the first novel will come out in October although the title of that book hasn't been released yet.
Phillip Pullman's first book in the His Dark Materials series was Northern Lights which came out in 1995.
The His Dark Materials trilogy sold more than 17.5 million copies and was translated into 40 languages.
The new series will once again be about the story of Lyra Belacqua and will begin when she is a baby and move on to when she is 20 years old later in the series.
Click on the video and to watch Mr Pullman talking about it...
He told me that he would do a deal with the devil - in other words supporting either David Cameron or Ed Miliband to be prime minister - if they delivered his party's principal objective: a clear in/out referendum on Britain's membership of the EU.
Farage insists he's no new Nick Clegg as he doesn't want his bum on a ministerial car seat.
So, what else would he and his party back if they could decide who governed at Westminster? I invited Nigel Farage to answer a few quick-fire questions on his attitudes.
"Was he in favour of spending cuts or increases?" I asked. At first, he was reluctant to answer, insisting he wanted to cut the deficit and wasteful spending. However, he did eventually say that he wanted to cut public spending.
"Tax cuts or tax rises?" I asked next. Tax cuts for lower paid workers he replied.
"More, or less ,private sector involvement in the NHS?" His reply was interesting - it was less. This, despite the fact, that up until two years ago, he was arguing to end the NHS as we know it and to establish an insurance system run by private companies who would, he claimed, be more efficient.
Didn't this suggest that far from "telling it like it is" - as he often claims - he tailors his views to whatever the public will stomach? Not surprisingly, he rejects that.
Voters will ask more questions like this and will also scrutinise the answers the closer Mr Farage gets to doing a deal with the devil.
Many were surprised, citing his history of faux pas including insulting the president of Turkey and commenting on the US president's ancestry.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in a radio interview Mr Johnson was a liar with "his back against the wall".
One EU source told the BBC: "Everyone in the European Parliament thinks it's a bad joke and that the Brits have lost it."
Boris Johnson: How Britain's new foreign secretary has insulted the world
New UK government: Who's in and who's out?
Here we take a look at the response in countries where Mr Johnson will now represent the UK.
The Washington Post publishes a round-up of "undiplomatic" things Mr Johnson has said during his time in public life.
"To be sure, Johnson is an unusual candidate for the job. The former journalist is known for his deliberately provocative manner, ruffled appearance and penchant for sometimes-insulting commentary," it says.
It reminds its readers that just two months ago, "a poem he concocted about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan having sexual congress with a goat won the first-place prize in a contest sponsored by Spectator magazine."
Washington Post writer Ishaan Tharoor also writes that Mr Johnson "has controversially bucked the Western trend and praised Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for battling the Islamic State, no matter its parallel campaign of violence on Syria's civilian population".
"A Short History of Boris Johnson Insulting Foreign Leaders" is how the website of American culture and politics magazine, The Atlantic, reports the story of Mr Johnson's comeback.
"The brash and flamboyant politician, the UK's new foreign secretary, is one of the more cosmopolitan figures on the world stage - but he's also one of the least diplomatic," it says.
Apparently stifling a laugh on hearing the news of Mr Johnson's new job, state department spokesman Mark Toner said the US would always work with the UK because of the "special relationship" between the two countries.
"This is a relationship that goes beyond personalities and it is an absolutely critical moment in England's history but also in the US-UK relationship," he says.
In comments to Europe 1 radio, Mr Ayrault said: "I am not at all worried about Boris Johnson, but... during the [referendum] campaign he lied a lot to the British people and now it is he who has his back against the wall."
Newspaper Le Figaro says Mr Johnson "gives the impression of being guided by opportunism".
The newspaper says the UK's new foreign secretary's political career has seen him change his mind on gay marriage and on Turkey joining the EU.
Pierre Jova writes in the paper: "Although, he has a 'clown' image which delighted the tabloids with his antics and punchy statements, he was a comrade of David Cameron at Eton and Oxford and is a pure product of the British conservative aristocracy raised to govern."
Ralf Stegner, deputy leader of the SPD party, said: "[Prime Minister Theresa] May seems to be weaker through making such an appointment." He said Mr Johnson had hardly demonstrated that he was an outstanding diplomat. "Now he is negotiating Brexit. Have a nice trip."
Green Party leader Simone Peter said it was "not a good signal" if Mr Johnson "inflicted his capricious and monstrous approach" on Europe.
Der Spiegel took an editorial line against Brexit and published a "Please don't go" issue aimed at the UK in the run-up to its EU referendum.
The news magazine (in German) calls Mr Johnson a "controversial politician" and notes that his decision to support a Leave vote was a deciding factor in the referendum campaign, which Leave won with 52% of the vote.
One of its columnists, Jakob Augstein, commented: "Haha! Boris Johnson as foreign minister. I can't stop laughing. The Brits are crazy."
The German journalist Laura Schneider points to a certain amount of mirth on television as presenters announce Mr Johnson's new role.
Under the headline: "Why the disloyal jack of all trades is not the absurd choice", Die Welt thinks it knows why Mrs May appointed him.
"He described Hillary Clinton as a "sadistic nurse", compared the EU with Hitler. And now Boris Johnson is the British foreign secretary. But the new prime minister is pursuing a plan… she [Mrs May] incapacitated her anti-EU critics by making them accountable. Now Brexit advocates must ensure that the exit succeeds," it says.
The deputy editor of Germany's biggest tabloid, Bild, Nikolaus Blome, tweeted: "There's justice after all. As foreign minister, Boris Johnson, now has to lie in the bed he made himself."
The head of the Russian State Duma's foreign affairs committee, Aleksey Pushkov, tweets that Mr Johnson's predecessor, Philip Hammond, has "painful anti-Russian complexes" that he hopes Mr Johnson does not share.
Mr Hammond said last year that Russia had the potential to be "the single greatest threat" to UK security and that President Vladimir Putin was "bent not on joining the international rules-based system which keeps the peace between nations, but on subverting it".
The Russian news website ria.ru calls Mr Johnson "one of the most eccentric politicians in the UK" and says he "knows how to surprise".
A Turkish official suggested Ankara would draw a line under Mr Johnson's previous remarks.
"His negative comments on Erdogan and Turkey are unacceptable... However we're sure of one thing, that British-Turkish relations are more important than that and can't be hostage to these statements," he said.
Speaking before Mr Johnson's appointment, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the former London mayor had made an "unfortunate statement" when he used Turkey's accession to the EU negatively in the referendum.
Asked what he would like to say to Mr Johnson, he said: "May God help him and reform him."
The pro-government Daily Sabah described the new foreign secretary (who has Turkish ancestry) as being "anti-Turkey" and said he had "sympathy for the PKK".
Pro-government newspaper commentator Selim Atalay sent a tweet to Johnson saying: "Dear @BorisJohnson I understand you need well-versed apologies in Turkish. I can help you with that. PS: Turkish roots-card won't work. Cheers."
Sydney Morning Herald foreign editor Maher Mughrabi writes that Boris Johnson has been "removed from Conservative Party plotting at Westminster and allowed to get on with being a travelling circus". The rest of the world, he says, can rely on Mr Johnson to "confidently lecture people of many nations on their own histories and cultures".
Former prime minister Tony Abbott takes a more benign view:
The former prime minister of Sweden, Carl Bildt, tweets that he wishes the appointment were a joke.
MEP Fredrick Federley tweeted: "Trump, Brexit, Pokemon Go, Boris Johnson. Oh lord, what horrors will you bring us tomorrow?"
Czech MEP Pavel Telicka tweeted: "People say PM May does not have a sense of humour. By appointing B Johnson she proved the opposite."
Financial news website kurzy.cz describes the appointment of Mr Johnson as "at the very least questionable and very surprising. She has appointed to the post of foreign minister one of the leaders of Brexit, former London mayor Boris Johnson, who is famous, among other things, for his often extremely 'undiplomatic' conduct."
At least 40 people died when the two-storey guesthouse for members of the Synagogue Church of All Nations collapsed on Friday.
There is no official comment. Local officials have said additional floors were being added to the structure.
Mr Joshua - also known as the Prophet - regularly preaches to vast crowds.
The popular televangelist says a small plane had circled over the building four times before it collapsed on Friday afternoon and it may have been an attempt to kill him.
"It was yesterday, Friday, as I was praying; they came to call me that there was an airplane hovering over the church. They said it is like it wanted to land," his statement said.
He said about 30 minutes later, it came over the building several times.
"About five minutes after, the building came down."
He gave journalists a CCTV video clip of the alleged plane, urging them "to use their discretion to write on what they saw".
Rescue officials say 130 people were pulled out of the rubble - some are being treated in local hospitals. Many foreigners are believed to have been there at the time.
Mr Joshua's services, at a mega-church in Lagos's Ikotun district, are known for attracting thousands of people.
Followers in Nigeria and abroad believe he has the gifts of healing and prophecy.
The panel's chair stepped down. It followed the departure of another panel member, claiming government interference.
Now campaigners have said they hope it will lead to a new remit for the inquiry.
Education Secretary John Swinney has promised to consider changes.
Victims and survivors have expressed concern about the appointment of replacement panel members.
And they would like the inquiry widened to include abuse committed outwith residential settings.
Helen Holland, from the In Care Abuse Survivors group (Incas), told the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland programme that they also want the inquiry to be able to consider the award of recompense to victims of abuse.
"It means someone can go forward, speak about their experience, speak about the abuse that they suffered," she said.
"The panel of the inquiry would then have the power to include redress for that individual."
That would mean, she explained, that survivors wouldn't have to wait for the inquiry process to be completed before they then having to go to a civil court to get justice.
Fellow abuse survivor and campaigner in Ireland Colm O'Gorman, who founded the "One in Four" campaign group, said redress in this context means much more than cash compensation.
He told the programme it is about "working to ensure, so far as is possible, we restore people to the place they may well have been in their lives had these violations not happened in the first place".
He said that could include "access to good education services, to housing supports, sometimes ensuring that you have appropriate medical services to refer people on to".
"In my experience working with victims of abuse," he added, "it's often these unseen support services that are really important."
After meeting campaigners last week Mr Swinney said: "I want to assure survivors that I have heard them today. I recognise how important it is for us to build trust and I am absolutely committed to that.
"I am utterly committed to an independent inquiry and I have tried to answer all the questions survivors had. I will now take time to consider the issues they have raised, including expanding the remit of the inquiry.
"All the evidence already collected by the inquiry will be utilised and work has begun on filling the panel vacancies while the remaining panel member and the team continue processing applications. The inquiry remains on track, and I will be meeting survivor groups again over the summer."
But victims are realistic about what any inquiry process can deliver.
Colm O'Gorman said: "Of course the first thing victims want is for the abuse not to have happened."
And Helen Holland of Incas told me: "Human beings are capable of doing that to children. And that will always be the case. As long as there are human beings in the world."
Police attended the scene on Friday night after a suspect object was left in the Hall Road area of the village.
The object appeared to be a gas cylinder with wires attached. The road was cordoned off at about 18:30 BST.
Army bomb experts examined the device before removing it for further examination. The area was re-opened at about 02:00 BST on Saturday morning.
People living in the area have said the alert caused considerable disruption.
Sinn Féin councillor Roisin Mulgrew said the alert was a "massive inconvenience".
Guthrie Meville's boat The Solstice was fishing for razor clams in Largo Bay when diver James Irvine died in March 2011.
Mr Irvine, 42, was found by a police diver lying face up on the seabed with neither of his air supply regulators in his mouth.
Melville was found guilty of safety failings last month.
The 60-year-old was sentenced at Stirling Sheriff Court on Thursday.
The Solstice was thought to have been using an unapproved technique known as electrofishing when Mr Irvine died.
The technique is designed to make the razor fish rise to the surface of the sandy sea bed by trailing unprotected copper electrodes connected to an electric welder.
An expert said the set-up posed a risk of serious injury, with only a few milliamps being capable of stopping a diver's heart.
The court was told that there was no way of knowing if this was what had happened to Mr Irvine.
Last month prosecutor Louise Beattie said Mr Irvine had been left "truly on his own", eight metres down in the Forth.
The court heard that Mr Irvine, an unemployed kitchen fitter, had been doing his first day's work as a diver.
His only dive training had been a two-week holiday course in Turkey.
He had been recruited by Melville to fish for razor clams, which could be sold on at high prices. A day's catch could fetch Melville more than £2,000.
Melville, from Cardenden in Fife, was found guilty of a string of breaches of diving at work regulations and health and safety legislation, leading to the death of Mr Irvine.
He was also found guilty of putting five other divers at risk through similar failings over a six-year period from April 2005.
Melville had denied the offences and claimed that he had been taking Mr Irvine out for "a pleasure dive".
Sheriff William Gilchrist told him: "The court has to take into account how foreseeable were the risks and how far short of the applicable standards you fell.
"It's quite obvious to me that the risks were clearly foreseeable, and there were effectively no health and safety measures in place, you completely ignored the requirements of health and safety.
"The consequences were extremely, extremely serious."
"I can only conclude that this was a most serious and wilful breach of health and safety regulations, which resulted in a death."
Defence advocate Greg Sanders said since his client had been convicted, he had been subjected to "a litany of abuse" on social media and had been to see his GP about thoughts of taking his own life.
Mr Sanders said: "If it is being suggested he is some sort of greedy businessman, nothing could be further from the truth."
Outside court, Mr Irvine's wife Hazel, 42, said Melville should have been treated like a killer.
She said: "I am disgusted with the sentence. He took my husband's life and he should have gone down for years. He should have been treated like it was culpable homicide, because that was what it was."
His brother Richard Irvine, 39, said: "I hope it sends out a message to other captains who are putting divers' lives at risk."
Mr Irvine's daughter Chloe, 18, said: "He failed to protect five other men, so if this hadn't happened to my dad, sooner or later it would have happened to someone else."
Gary Aitken, the Crown Office's head of heath and safety division, said: "This was a foreseeable and entirely avoidable tragedy which has left family and friends devastated at the loss of a loved one.
"Hopefully, today's outcome will highlight the need for dive contractors and vessel owners to keep the health and safety of their employees and divers to the fore."
Judith Tetlow, HSE principal inspector of diving, said: "This dive resulted in tragic consequences which could have been avoided had Guthrie Melville planned the activity properly using competent and appropriately qualified divers.
"We hope this sentence will send a strong message to the shellfish diving industry that employers have a duty to plan and carry out work properly in order to protect workers."
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The 125-104 win in Oakland means the defending champions surpassed the previous record of 72 set by Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls in 1995-96.
Steph Curry also became the first to net more than 400 three-pointers in a season, taking his tally to 402.
Warriors coach Steve Kerr, who played for the 1996 Bulls team, said: "I never thought anyone would break it."
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Organiser Joshua Virasami said black people should come together "to achieve justice and equality in Britain".
The movement has grown over the past three years in protest at police killings of black people in America.
Small-scale protests have been held near Heathrow and in Nottingham on Friday, resulting in some arrests.
Protesters purporting to be part of the Black Lives Matter movement obstructed traffic en route to Heathrow Airport, meanwhile in Nottingham some protesters have laid down on tracks in the city centre causing delays to the tram network.
The Met Police said they had attended the scene at Heathrow, and 10 people had been arrested. The aviation policing team later tweeted that the last cones were being removed from the M4 spur road, and that the road "should be completely open shortly". Heathrow Airport has apologised for any delays.
Newsbeat: Why has Black Lives Matter come to the UK?
Black Lives Matter activist Adam Elliott-Cooper, 29, from London, said the Heathrow location was appropriate as "many people are either being killed at our borders or being sent back to certain death".
He made reference to Angolan deportee Jimmy Mubenga, who suffered a fatal heart attack after being restrained on a flight, in October 2010. Three G4S guards were found not guilty of manslaughter in 2014, having denied acting dangerously or negligently during the incident.
The protests come the day after the fifth anniversary of the fatal shooting of Mark Duggan by police in north London, sparking riots which spread to several English cities.
In 2014, an inquest jury concluded that Mr Duggan had been lawfully killed by police, but his family won the right to appeal in October 2015.
Last month hundreds of people marched through central London to the Houses of Parliament in protest at the shooting of two black men by police in the US.
Mr Virasami said: "We need black people all over the world to come together, groups and individuals, to build this movement to achieve justice and equality in Britain and all over the world.
"We're asking the government to take responsibility, not just to investigate the statistics but to hear the demands of the communities."
Dr Tony Sewell, from the Youth Justice Board, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that in England and Wales 21% of young men under 18 in custody were black - though black people only made up 4% of the general population.
Conversely, he said, 60% of men under 18 in custody were white, when that racial group made up 82% of the population.
"That is a scandal, that's what we should really be looking at," he said.
Kadija Sesay - who is the cousin of Sheku Bayoh, 31, who died after being arrested and restrained in Kirkcaldy in May 2015 - said more needed to be done.
"People need to realise that this happens in the UK all of the time, in state institutions - it happens," she told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.
Toyin Agbetu, who is a British-African social rights activist, told the programme that since the Brexit vote there had been "increased racism" within the UK, and said the problem was "more hidden" compared with the US.
He added that the UK's Black Lives Matter movement was saying "treat us with dignity", and he described deaths after police restraints as a "normalised form of terrorism" that black people faced.
Activist Marcia Rigg said: "It's absolutely vital that there is a platform for the families in the UK and BLM [Black Lives Matter] is perfect for that."
Her brother Sean Rigg, who suffered from schizophrenia, died at Brixton police station in 2008.
An IPCC investigation identified no police misconduct but in 2012 an inquest jury found that police had used "unsuitable" force after arresting Mr Rigg.
Five police officers could face criminal charges following the death of Mr Rigg while in police custody.
"Families like mine have been suffering for a long time and there has been an injustice," Ms Rigg said.
"Deaths are not just happening in the US at the hands of police; they are happening in the UK too, and so therefore it's the perfect platform to highlight those deaths in Britain because people are not aware of them."
Cdr Mak Chishty, National Police Chiefs' Council lead for Race and Religion, told the BBC: "I know that cases like Sean Rigg are infrequent and few and far between, but that doesn't mean they're any less important to us.
"Cases like that are extremely important - we want to learn, we want to improve and we want to give confidence back to the whole of our communities."
In recent weeks in the US, two white officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, killed a black man during an incident and an officer in Minnesota shot and killed a black motorist during a traffic stop, sparking protests.
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VAT: Rate will rise from 17.5% to 20% from January 4, 2011.
Personal income tax allowance: To be increased by £1,000 in April to £7,475 - worth £170 a year to basic rate taxpayers. It is expected that 880,000 of the lowest-paid will be taken out of income tax altogether.
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Council tax: Could be frozen for one year from April 2011 in England, but extra funds will only be offered to councils which keep their own costs down. Worth about £35 per household.
Capital Gains Tax: To rise from 18% to 28% from midnight for higher rate taxpayers. The "entrepreneurs relief" rate of 10% on the first £2m of gains will be extended to the first £5m.
A 50p a month "landline tax" to fund the rollout of fast broadband will be scrapped - instead the government will support private investment, partly funded by the digital switchover under-spend within the TV licence fee.
The balance of spending cuts to tax rises would be 77% to 23%.
WATCH: Chancellor announces changes to capital gains
WATCH: House in uproar over VAT rise
WATCH: Government raises income tax threshold
No increases this time round. Labour's plan to increase the duty on cider by 10% above inflation will be scrapped from July.
Child benefit: Frozen for the next three years.
Tax credits: Reduced for families earning over £40,000 next year. But low income families will get more Child Tax Credit - the amount per child will rise by £150 above the rate of inflation next year - at an annual cost of £2bn.
Housing benefit: New maximum limit of £400 a week for properties with more than three bedrooms, £250 a week for a one-bedroom flat, £290 for a two-bedroom property and £340 for a three-bed property, to save £1.8bn a year by the end of the Parliament.
Unemployed people will see their Housing Benefit cut by 10%, after 12 months of claiming Jobseekers Allowance from April 2013.
It will also be cut for people of working age who are in larger homes than their family size warrants but, from April 2011, disabled claimants who do not have a resident carer will be able to claim for an extra bedroom.
Health in pregnancy grant to be abolished from April 2011, the Sure Start maternity grant will be restricted to the first child.
Lone parents will be expected to look for work when their youngest child goes to school.
Excluding the state pension and pension credit, from 2011 benefits, tax credits and public service pensions will rise in line with the Consumer Price Index, rather than the, generally higher, Retail Price Index, saving over £6 billion a year by the end of the Parliament.
The government will introduce a medical assessment for Disability Living Allowance from 2013 for new and existing claimants.
The welfare shake-up will save £11bn by 2014/15.
Public sector workers face a two-year pay freeze if they earn over £21,000. Those earning less £21,000 will get a flat pay-rise worth £250 in both years.
Armed services personnel in Afghanistan will see their operational allowance doubled to £4,800 - as announced by David Cameron two weeks ago.
WATCH: Public sector pay frozen
The basic state pension will be linked to earnings from April 2011, with the pension guaranteed to rise in line with earnings, prices or 2.5%, whichever is the greater.
The government will accelerate the increase in state pension age to 66 - a "call for evidence" will be made later this week.
The government will also consult on phasing out the default retirement age - to ensure those who want to work past 65 are able to do so.
Former Labour Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton to review public sector pensions, ahead of the autumn spending review.
From April 2011, the threshold at which employers start to pay National Insurance will rise by the rate of inflation plus £21 per week.
Corporation Tax will be cut next year to 27%, and by 1% annually for the next three years, until it reaches 24%.
The small companies' tax rate will be cut to 20%.
Tax relief for the video games industry will be scrapped.
WATCH: Chancellor George Osborne cuts corporation tax
A bank levy will be introduced, which will apply to the balance sheets of UK banks and building societies and the UK operations of foreign banks from January 2011. But smaller banks will not have to pay. It is expected to raise over £2bn a year.
WATCH: Chancellor announces bank levy in Budget
The government will "explore changes to the aviation tax system" such as switching from a per-passenger to a per-plane levy. It will consult on major changes.
Government looking at reforming the climate change levy "to provide more certainty and support to the carbon price". Proposals to be published in the autumn.
The Office for Budget Responsibility will assess the effect of oil price fluctuations on the public finances over the summer, before the government looks at options for a "fair fuel stabiliser" - which would see fuel duty fall when prices go up, and vice versa.
Case for rural fuel duty discount is under consideration.
White Paper to be published on tackling regional economic differences in Britain later in the summer, followed by a paper on rebalancing the economy of Northern Ireland.
The upgrade of the Tyne and Wear Metro, extension of the Manchester Metrolink, redevelopment of Birmingham New Street station and improvements to the rail lines to Sheffield and between Liverpool and Leeds will go ahead.
A Regional Growth Fund will be created to help fund regional capital projects over two years.
People setting up new businesses outside London, the South East and the east of England will be exempt from £5,000 of National Insurance payments for the first 10 workers.
Growth forecast revised down from 2.6% to 2.3% in 2011.
The economy is predicted to grow by 1.2 % this year, 2.3% next year, 2.8% in 2012, 2.9% in 2013 and 2.7% in both 2014 and in 2015.
Debt to peak in 2013/14 at 70% of GDP.
Unemployment is forecast to peak this year at 8.1% and then fall for each of the next four years, to reach 6.1% in 2015.
Consumer price inflation is expected to reach 2.7% by the end of 2010 before "returning to target in the medium term". The inflation target remains at 2%, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index.
The UK is set to miss the previous government's "golden rule" - of borrowing only to invest over the economic cycle - in the current cycle by £485bn.
WATCH: Cuts and taxes will 'balance books' by 2016
Underlying current budget deficit should be "in balance" by 2015/16.
Public sector net borrowing will be £149bn this year, £116bn next year, £89bn in 2012-13 and £60bn in 2013-14.
By 2014-15 borrowing to reach £37bn, falling to £20bn in 2015-16.
Mr Osborne said the state now accounted for "almost half" of all national income which was "completely unsustainable".
Average real terms budget cuts of 25% over four years - except for health and international aid. Departmental cuts amount to a further £17bn by 2014-15, on top of those already planned.
But current expenditure to rise from £637bn in 2010-11 to £711bn in 2015-16 - partly due to rising debt interest payments.
No further reductions in capital spending totals but there will be "careful choices" about how the money was spent. Projects with "a significant economic return to the country" would be prioritised.
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Here are the key points of Chancellor George Osborne's first Budget, delivered on 22 June, 2010:
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Successful applicants will be answering calls and helping customers from around the UK, providing them with technical and billing advice.
Forty two people will be based at BT Tower, Swansea, and 25 at Stadium House in Cardiff.
It is part of plans to employ 1,000 new contact centre staff around the UK. BT employs almost 3,000 people in Wales.
Investors are worried about how a strengthening dollar and falling oil prices have affected profits.
Japan's Nikkei 225 recovered earlier losses to close flat at 19,908.68.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index - which has risen by almost 15% in the previous eight sessions - was down 1.1% at 27,691.73.
On the mainland, the Shanghai Composite index fell 0.2% to 4,111.84.
In Sydney, shares were lower, weighed down by the resources sector. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed down 0.3% at 5,942.8.
However, shares in Fortescue Metals were up 3.6%. The world's fourth-largest iron ore producer said it was changing its roster to get more work out of its miners, as it attempts to cut costs in a climate of falling commodity prices.
Bucking the regional trend, South Korean shares ended higher. The Kospi index rose 0.6% to 2,111.72, marking its highest close since August 2011.
The benchmark index was boosted by capital inflows and expectations that China, South Korea's biggest trading partner, would take steps to boost its economy.
Moira Morrison was seen close to the River Dee in Garthdee on Tuesday afternoon.
A lifeboat and Coastguard teams have been involved, with police kayakers and the force helicopter also called in.
Mrs Morrison, from the Mannofield area, was wearing dark trousers, a dark jacket, white trainers, and was carrying a white carrier bag.
She is described as being about 5ft 2in tall.
Insp Steve McEwan, who is leading the inquiry, said: "A large area has already been searched both on land and water - stretching from Aberdeen Harbour up to Robert Gordon University - as we continue to establish Moira's whereabouts.
"This is completely out of character for her and we are obviously growing increasingly concerned for her safety and wellbeing.
"I know members of the public might want to help with the search however I would respectfully ask that you allow our teams to do this given the challenging weather."
Former France Under-21 international Amavi, 23, will join on a five-year deal if he passes a medical.
Amavi joined Villa from Nice in July 2015 and made 48 appearances in all competitions for the Birmingham club.
Having recovered from a serious knee injury, Amavi returned to Steve Bruce's side last season, helping Villa finish 13th in the Championship.
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Counties are allowed to field two overseas players in Twenty20 games, with up to four registered for that competition, although only two can be registered at any one time, and registrations must be for a minimum of 10 days.
Only one overseas player is permitted in the County Championship and One-Day Cup competitions.
Kolpak contracts are signed by foreign players, using a loophole in European Union law to avoid counting against the quota of one overseas player per club.
Players who moved counties or retired during the 2014 season are included on the 2014 list. Have we missed anyone? Please let us know.
Overseas player: Martin Guptill (New Zealand, for first three Championship matches); Tillakaratne Dilshan (Sri Lanka, June and early August until end of the season), Nathan Rimmington (Australia, for Twenty20); Hashim Amla (South Africa, from 10-29 May); Hamish Rutherford (New Zealand, from mid-June to the end of July)
Ins: Shiv Thakor (Leicestershire), Will Davis (YTH), Adam Wheatcroft (YTH), Harry White (YTH), Wayne White (Lancashire), Matthew Critchley (YTH), Tom Milnes (Warwickshire, month's loan from 23 July)
Outs: Tim Groenewald (Somerset), Mark Turner (REL), Matt Higginbottom (REL), Gareth Cross (REL), Jonathan Marsden (REL), Cheteshwar Pujara (Yorkshire), Wayne White (REL on 5 August, subsequently joined Leicestershire), David Wainwright (REL on 26 August, subsequently signed for Shropshire)
Other news: Wes Durston took over as captain in the One-Day Cup and T20 Blast.
Overseas player: John Hastings (Australia)
Ins: Jack Burnham (YTH), James Weighell (YTH), Barry McCarthy (YTH), Gurman Randhawa (ex-Yorkshire, had been playing for Shropshire)
Outs: Gareth Breese (REL), Rammy Singh (REL), Phil Mustard (Lancashire, loan from 11 September until end of season)
Overseas player: Jesse Ryder (New Zealand), Shaun Tait (Australia, for Twenty20)
Ins: Callum Taylor (YTH), Liam Gough (trial until May, will be registered for first team), Aron Nijjar (trial, June-Sep), Saf Imtiaz (trial, 2015 season), Daniel Lawrence (YTH), Adeel Malik (three-month contract from May), Liam Dawson (Hampshire, loan from 6-18 July); Ravi Patel (Middlesex, loan from 18 July-7 August)
Outs: Ben Foakes (Surrey), Sajid Mahmood (REL), Tom Craddock (REL), Tim Phillips (RET), Tymal Mills (Sussex), Tanveer Sikandar (REL), Adeel Malik (REL, see above)
Other news: Coach Paul Grayson left the club by mutual consent on 2 September.
Overseas player: Jacques Rudolph (South Africa); Wayne Parnell (South Africa, for Twenty20 until 28 June)
Ins: James Kettleborough (Northants), Craig Meschede (Somerset, season-long loan), Colin Ingram (KPK), Andy Carter (Nottinghamshire, month-long loan from start of season, then loan for Championship cricket only, from 19 June to end of July)
Outs: Murray Goodwin (RET), Gareth Rees (RET), Stewart Walters (REL), Tom Lancefield (REL), Mike Reed (REL), Jim Allenby (Somerset), Will Owen (RET on 17 August)
Other news: Rudolph took over as captain in all formats.
Overseas player: Michael Klinger (Australia, from June)
Ins: Tom Hampton (Buckinghamshire), Kieran Noema-Barnett (UKP), Geraint Jones (Kent), Peter Handscomb (UKP)
Outs: Will Gidman (Nottinghamshire), Alex Gidman (Worcestershire), Graeme McCarter (REL), Dan Housego (REL), Tom Shrewsbury (REL)
Other news: Former players Richard Dawson and Ian Harvey were named as coach and assistant coach following the departure of director of cricket John Bracewell. Geraint Jones stepped down as four-day captain in early July and was replaced by Ian Cockbain.
Overseas player: Jackson Bird (Australia, until August); Yasir Arafat (Pakistan, for one-day cricket); Ryan McLaren (South Africa, from 1 September)
Ins: Andre Adams (Nottinghamshire, short-term deal as player-coach), Yasir Arafat (Sussex), Gareth Berg (Middlesex), Fidel Edwards (KPK), Brad Wheal (UKP), Joe Weatherley (YTH), Mason Crane (YTH), Ryan Stevenson (Devon)
Outs: David Balcombe (Surrey), Michael Bates (Wiltshire, subsequently joined Somerset), Ruel Brathwaite (REL), Matt Coles (Kent), Andre Adams (RET on 8 June), Liam Dawson (Essex, loan from 6-18 July)
Other news: Twenty20 captain James Vince became one-day skipper as well at the start of the season - then took over as interim Championship captain on 18 July after Jimmy Adams stepped down.
Overseas player: None
Ins: Sam Weller (YTH), Ryan Davies (YTH), Joe Denly (Middlesex), Matt Coles (Hampshire), Hugh Bernard (YTH), Sean Dickson (UKP)
Outs: Geraint Jones (Gloucestershire), Robbie Joseph (REL), Mark Davies (RET), Brendan Nash (REL on 20 August)
Overseas player: Peter Siddle (Australia, first four games of the season), James Faulkner (Australia, from end of IPL season to end of August)
Ins: Nathan Buck (Leicestershire), Haseeb Hameed (YTH), Matthew Parkinson (YTH), Saqib Mahmood (YTH), George Edwards (Surrey), Alviro Petersen (Somerset, as KPK), Toby Lester (YTH), Phil Mustard (Durham, loan from 11 September until end of season)
Outs: Andrea Agathangelou (REL, subsequently joined Leicestershire mid-season), Oliver Newby (REL), Kabir Ali (REL), Wayne White (Derbyshire), Andrew Flintoff (played Twenty20 only last season)
Other news: Director of cricket Mike Watkinson stepped down and was replaced by Ashley Giles, Tom Smith was named as captain in place of Glenn Chapple who moved into a player-coach role.
Overseas player: Clint McKay (Australia, from 26 April), Grant Elliott (New Zealand, for Twenty20, initially for first 10 matches); Umar Akmal (Pakistan, for Twenty20, 12-26 June)
Ins: Aadil Ali (YTH), Zak Chappell (YTH), Neil Pinner (YTH), Mark Cosgrove (UKP), Kevin O'Brien (Surrey, for Twenty20 from 15 May-26 June), Andrea Agathangelou (ex-Lancashire), Greg Smith (Nottinghamshire, loan for Championship cricket only, 5-18 July), Michael Burgess (Loughborough MCCU), Wayne White (Derbyshire)
Outs: Shiv Thakor (Derbyshire), Nathan Buck (Lancashire), Josh Cobb (Northants), Greg Smith (Nottinghamshire), Anthony Ireland (REL), Michael Thornely (REL), Matt Boyce (RET on 23 July)
Other news: Former director of cricket Phil Whitticase left the club, while ex-Australia all-rounder Andrew McDonald joined as head coach. Cosgrove was appointed captain, with Ned Eckersley as his deputy.
Overseas player: Adam Voges (Australia, until mid-May); Joe Burns (Australia, early May until mid-July); Kyle Abbott (South Africa, for first half of Twenty20 season); Mitchell McClenaghan (New Zealand, for second half of Twenty20 season); Junaid Khan (Pakistan, from 27 July)
Ins: Max Holden (YTH), George Scott (YTH), Robbie White (YTH), Nick Compton (Somerset), James Franklin (New Zealand - as EUP), Nathan Sowter (YTH)
Outs: Gareth Berg (Hampshire), Adam Rossington (Northants), Ollie Wilkin (REL), Joe Denly (Kent), Ravi Patel (Essex, loan from 18 July-7 August)
Other news: Voges replaced fellow Australian Chris Rogers as Middlesex's Championship captain, but was then called up to the Australian Test squad. David Houghton joined from Somerset in January to become batting coach, replacing Mark Ramprakash who took up the same role with England.
Overseas player: Rory Kleinveldt (South Africa), Shahid Afridi (Pakistan, for Twenty20 until mid-June)
Ins: Josh Cobb (Leicestershire), Adam Rossington (Middlesex), Saif Zaib (YTH), Richard Levi (KPK), George Munsey (Scotland), Ben Sanderson (ex-Yorkshire), Richard Gleeson (Cumberland)
Outs: David Sales (RET), Andrew Hall (REL), Matthew Spriegel (RET), James Middlebrook (Yorkshire), James Kettleborough (Glamorgan), Michael Leask (REL), Stephen Peters (RET on 7 August)
Other news: Alex Wakely became captain in all formats.
Overseas player: Vernon Philander (South Africa, start of season until early June), Ben Hilfenhaus (Australia, from early June until mid-July), Darren Sammy (West Indies, for Twenty20 from 31 May-12 June); Dan Christian (Australia, 19 June - end of July, then for One-Day Cup semi-final on 7 September), Imran Tahir (South Africa, 30 July until 6 September)
Ins: Will Gidman (Gloucestershire), Greg Smith (Leicestershire), Brendan Taylor (Zimbabwe, as KPK), Matthew Carter (YTH), Billy Root (YTH)
Outs: Phil Jaques (REL), Andre Adams (Hampshire), Sam Kelsall (REL), Ajmal Shahzad (Sussex), Andy Carter (Glamorgan, month-long loan from start of season, then for Championship cricket only from 19 June to end of July), Luke Fletcher (Surrey, loan for three Championship matches from 18 May - 3 June), Greg Smith (Leicestershire, loan for Championship cricket only, 5-18 July)
Other news: Ex-England coach Peter Moores joined Notts on 30 June on a three-month coaching consultant contract.
Overseas player: Abdur Rehman (Pakistan, until 30 July), Sohail Tanvir (Pakistan, for first half of Twenty20 season), Chris Gayle (West Indies, for Twenty20 from 29 May - 12 June, possibly returning if they make the knock-out stages), Luke Ronchi (New Zealand, for Twenty20 from 26 June - 17 July, then for County Championship from 1 September)
Ins: Tim Groenewald (Derbyshire), Ollie Sale (YTH), Tim Rouse (YTH), Sam Wyatt-Haines (YTH), Jim Allenby (Glamorgan), Tom Cooper (EUP), Michael Bates (ex-Hampshire), Adam Hose (YTH)
Outs: Chris Jones (RET),James Burke (Surrey), Nick Compton (Middlesex), Craig Meschede (Glamorgan, season-long loan), Alviro Petersen (Lancashire, as KPK), Craig Kieswetter (RET on 5 June), George Dockrell (Sussex, month's loan for Championship cricket from 15 June), Alfonso Thomas (Sussex, month's loan for One-Day Cup from 24 July)
Other news: Matthew Maynard replaced Dave Nosworthy as director of cricket, while high performance director Andy Hurry left to take up a role with England, and batting coach David Houghton left to take up the same position at Middlesex. Alfonso Thomas became one-day captain.
Overseas player: Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka); Moises Henriques (Australia, for Twenty20 and as cover for Sangakkara, in June), Wahab Riaz (Pakistan, for two Twenty20 games on 15 & 16 May), Dean Elgar (South Africa, as cover for Sangakkara & Henriques, from 21 June - 1 July)
Ins: Ben Foakes (Essex), James Burke (Somerset), David Balcombe (Hampshire), Luke Fletcher (Nottinghamshire, loan for three County Championship matches from 18 May - 3 June), Sam Curran (YTH)
Outs: Tom Jewell (REL), Kevin O'Brien (Leicestershire), Jack Winslade (REL), George Edwards (Lancashire), Tim Linley (Sussex, month's loan from 15 June), Chris Tremlett (RET on 21 August)
Other news: Gareth Batty replaced Gary Wilson as captain.
Overseas player: Steve Magoffin (Australia); Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka, for Twenty20 until mid-June); George Bailey (Australia, for second half of Twenty20 competition)
Ins: Tymal Mills (Essex), Ajmal Shahzad (Nottinghamshire), Oliver Robinson (ex-Yorkshire), George Dockrell (Somerset, month's loan for Championship cricket only from 15 June), Tim Linley (Surrey, month's loan from 15 June), Peter Burgoyne (ex-Derbyshire, non-contract), Alfonso Thomas (Somerset, month's loan for One-Day Cup from 24 July)
Outs: Yasir Arafat (Hampshire), Jon Lewis (RET, is to become the club's bowling coach), Rory Hamilton-Brown (RET), Matt Prior (RET on 11 June)
Other news: All-rounder Luke Wright became Twenty20 captain.
Overseas player: Jeetan Patel (New Zealand); Brendon McCullum (New Zealand, for Twenty20 from 26 June)
Ins: Andrew Umeed (YTH), Mark Adair (YTH)
Outs: Paul Best (RET), Jamie Atkinson (REL), Tom Milnes (Derbyshire, month's loan from 23 July)
Other news: Former wicketkeeper Richard Johnson returned to the club as assistant strength and conditioning coach, with ex-captain Jim Troughton back as fielding coach.
Overseas player: Colin Munro (New Zealand, for Twenty20); Sachithra Senanayake (Sri Lanka, until late May); Saeed Ajmal (Pakistan, from June until 4 September); Shannon Gabriel (West Indies, from 14 September)
Ins: Alex Gidman (Gloucestershire), George Rhodes (YTH), Alex Hepburn (YTH), Josh Tongue (YTH), Ben Twohig (YTH)
Outs: Nick Harrison (REL), Matt Pardoe (REL), Graeme Cessford (REL)
Overseas player: Cheteshwar Pujara (India, start of season until mid-May); Aaron Finch (mid-June to mid-July, then from late August); Glenn Maxwell (Australia, for Twenty20, then all formats from July to late August)
Ins: Josh Shaw (YTH), Cheteshwar Pujara (Derbyshire); James Middlebrook (Northants, short-term contract)
Outs: Azeem Rafiq (REL), Barney Gibson (RET)
Other news: Second team coach Richard Dawson left to become head coach of Gloucestershire. Alex Lees replaced Andrew Gale as limited-overs captain on 5 August.
The Antrim player moved into a 3-1 lead at the Motorpoint Arena on Thursday but Englishman Hawkins fought back to win the next two frames.
Allen prevailed in the deciding frame and the world number nine will meet Michael White on Friday night.
The Welsh player beat former John Higgins 4-1 in the fourth round.
Allen hit two centuries as he defeated Ryan Day 4-1 on Wednesday to set up a last-16 encounter with Hawkins.
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Well, the Manchester City Women team realised that dream this month, with their victory over Birmingham City bringing them FA Cup glory.
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The Minnesota Vikings star will avoid a jail sentence after reaching a plea agreement with a court in Texas.
Peterson, who used a wooden implement to discipline his son in the Texas town of Spring in May, was put on probation and fined $4,000 (£2,500).
The player has been on paid leave pending resolution of the case.
He had been facing a possible two years in prison but the judge in Conroe, 40 miles (64 km) north of Houston, accepted the plea agreement.
Peterson will also do 80 hours of community service.
The footballer was said to have punished his son after the boy pushed another of his children off a motorbike video game.
The "whooping" - how Peterson allegedly referred to the incident in a police interview - resulted in cuts and bruises to the boy's back, buttocks, legs and scrotum, local media reported.
Peterson's defence attorney Rusty Hardin earlier described his client as a "loving father" who had "used the same kind of discipline with his child that he experienced as a child growing up in east Texas".
"It is important to remember that Adrian never intended to harm his son and deeply regrets the unintentional injury," he said.
Delegates at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers conference backed a possible boycott by 96% to 4%.
The motion urges discussions with other unions, "to see if they would join such a boycott" but this year's tests are unlikely to be affected.
Proposer Jean Roberts said government plans to scrap tests for seven-year-olds did not go far enough.
The government's consultation announcement last month followed years of pressure from teachers, parents and educationalists opposed to putting young pupils high stakes national Sats tests.
The Department for Education proposed a new assessment for pupils when they first start school instead.
The idea would be that children do not know they are being tested, according to the DfE.
Last year parents of seven-year-olds in the Let Our Kids be Kids campaign removed their children from school on the day of the tests.
Ms Roberts, a delegate from the London borough of Brent, said the union should say no to the "baseline" testing of five-year-olds - as well as to the testing of 11-year-olds, which are the basis of primary school league tables.
"The time has passed for moaning about the tests. The time has come to put the nail in the coffin of testing. Our children deserve better," said Ms Roberts.
She argued that national tests in primary schools were leading to stress in children and a narrowing of the curriculum, while teachers are being judged on test results, "not on the quality of teaching".
Another speaker, Michael Catty, from Hertfordshire, said education in England was "in a pit", caught between testing and league tables, which left little room for education.
"We can't do anything about league tables but we can do something about testing.
"Nobody wants it, the children don't want it, the parents don't want it, the teachers don't want it. Let's get rid of it. We can do it," urged Mr Catty.
In her keynote speech to the conference, ATL General Secretary Dr Mary Bousted the union had "worked hard" with Department for Education over the past year and had "managed to secure some improvements" to primary testing.
"That said, we think the DfE could be far more ambitious with their plans for primary assessment and accountability," she added.
Dr Bousted later told journalists that she believed that Education Secretary Justine Greening was taking the issue seriously and that some of the government's proposals were "a serious attempt to engage with the profession".
However, the union would not agree to new tests for five-year-olds and the government was giving out mixed messages on testing, she said.
She said the chaos of last year's tests for 11-year-olds - when changes to content and marking systems meant almost half of children failed to meet the required standard - had left teachers with "huge scars".
"It's not surprising that teachers say 'we want the option if we don't get significant, serious progress, we want the option of a boycott.'"
The motion instructs the union's executive committee "to explore a possible boycott of all tests at primary level".
"Further, that discussions are held with both the NUT and NAHT to see if they would join such a boycott."
A formal boycott of the tests would be a form of industrial action and would therefore need to be put to a ballot of all the union's members - this means this year's tests are likely to go ahead as normal.
The ATL is due to amalgamate fully with the National Union of Teachers by 2019.
The NUT annual conference, in Cardiff over Easter, will also debate a motion on a primary test boycott.
A boycott of SATs tests in 2010 by the NUT and head teachers' union, NAHT, affected about a quarter of England's primaries, with tens of thousands of pupils missing the tests.
Over the same period, some 15,500 volunteers have been recruited and 343 libraries have closed, leading to fears over the future of the profession.
Children's author Alan Gibbons said the public library service faced the "greatest crisis in its history".
The government said it funded the roll-out of wi-fi to help libraries adapt.
The BBC has compiled data from 207 authorities responsible for running libraries through the Freedom of Information Act. Our analysis shows:
Tap here to find out how many libraries have closed near you
Mr Gibbons, who wrote Blue Peter Book Award winner Shadow of the Minotaur, said: "Opening hours are slashed, book stocks reduced.
"Volunteers are no longer people who supplement full time staff, but their replacements. This constitutes the hollowing out of the service. We are in dangerous territory."
Philip Pullman, the author of the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials, said the library service should not rely on volunteers.
"It is exploiting people's goodness and willingness to work and so on," he told BBC Radio Oxford.
"I am in favour of volunteering but relying on volunteers to provide a service that ought to be statutory is not a good policy. What next? Are we going to rely on volunteer teachers because we can't find new teachers because all the staffing levels in schools are going down?"
There are four areas - Sefton in Merseyside; Brent in north London, Stoke-on-Trent and Sunderland - where more than half the libraries have closed since 2010, either buildings, mobile or both.
Librarian Ian Anstice, who runs the Public Libraries News website in his spare time, said the cuts were "without precedent".
4,290
Council-run libraries in 2010
3,765
Council-run libraries now
343 libraries closed, 207 of them buildings, 132 mobile and four "other"
232 transferred, 174 to community groups and 58 outsourced
50 new libraries started, 20 of them buildings, 8 mobile and 22 "other"
111 proposed for closure over the next year
He said: "Councils learnt early on how unpopular simply closing libraries is so they have had to cut the vital service in other, less obvious ways.
"It can come across in many forms: reduced opening hours, reduced book fund, reduced maintenance and reduced staffing.
Explore the full dataset here
"In all its incarnations, it is harmful to the service, creating the risk that once-loyal users of libraries will come away disappointed and stop using them.
"Our public library system used to be envy of the world. Now it is used as a cautionary tale that librarians use worldwide to scare their colleagues."
24,044
Paid staff now
31,977
Paid staff in 2010
31,403 unpaid volunteers now
15,861 unpaid volunteers in 2010
Cuts to library services were deeper in England than the rest of the UK.
"Scotland has, until now, been faring better than south of the border for libraries, but I'm not sure it's going to be maintained," Professor Peter Reid, who oversees the Department of Information Management at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, said.
In England, the largest percentage drop in library workers was in Harrow in north-west London. In 2010, the council paid 164 people but today there are 60 employees, employed by an external provider, which now runs the service.
The largest rise in volunteers was in Hampshire, where 1,498 people are assisting the library service, compared with 567 at the beginning of the decade. Over the same period, paid staff in the county's libraries dropped from 760 to 525.
The East Midlands has lost 36% of its jobs in libraries, the biggest percentage drop in the UK. There were 1,905 paid posts in 2010 compared with 1,213 now.
Some authorities say changes were inevitable to the library service. Volunteers perform a range of tasks, from reading clubs to stacking shelves, and their use varies from library to library, they argue.
'Decimated' service: What does the future hold for libraries?
Councillor Andrew Gibson, from Hampshire County Council, said: "Our volunteers are enthusiastic and knowledgeable, and are greatly appreciated by library customers. Volunteers have helped libraries to increase their opening hours."
He said 58% of people responding to a recent residents' survey agreed with increasing the number of trained volunteers.
Harrow's Councillor Sue Anderson said: "We are faced with government cuts of £83m and like other local authorities we need to make the most from our reduced budget.
"Yes, we have needed to close four of our most under-used libraries (and merge two others), and some staff have left. But the model for libraries that we have now is not just sustainable, it offers a bright future for public space and learning."
BBC News also analysed how library habits have changed. Through analysing Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy reports from 2012 to 2014, we found:
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Dr Briony Birdi, who has an MA in librarianship, said: "It's not a happy picture, but there are still lots of libraries left.
"The danger is we predict the end of libraries, and it's not the end of libraries.
"We would be lying if we said [library staff] are not affected by what's going on. The way that funding has been repeatedly cut has been the most demoralising.
"I don't want people to think that libraries are over, they will just look different and I think we do accept that."
Elizabeth Elford, of the Society of Chief Librarians, said: "I think inevitably there will be fewer public libraries when we come out the other side, but they will be better and more innovative... we are really trying to be attuned to the needs of customers, above and beyond books."
Councillor Ian Stephens, who chairs the Local Government Association's Culture, Tourism and Sport Board, said: "It's testament to how much people value their libraries that so many have volunteered to help keep them open.
"Councils are doing all they can to keep libraries open and don't take decisions to close them lightly. Each council will do what works best for their communities depending on local circumstances."
A spokesman for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said: "Libraries are cornerstones of their communities and are part of the fabric of our society, so it's vital they continue to innovate in order to meet the changing demands of those they serve.
"Government is helping libraries to modernise by funding a wi-fi roll-out across England that has benefitted more than 1,000 libraries and increasing access to digital services and e-lending.
"The Libraries Taskforce is also consulting on a new vision for public libraries that will help reinvigorate the service and ensure they remain relevant to local communities."
A spokesman for the Department of Culture Arts and Leisure Northern Ireland said it regarded libraries as a "key front line service", and had provided additional funding to protect them from the impact of budget cuts.
A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "We place great importance on public libraries and believe everyone should have access to library services."
Welsh Assembly Deputy Culture Minister Ken Skates said: "We took the decision during the worst of austerity to better protect budgets for Welsh councils and local libraries than happened in England."
Reporting team: Daniel Wainwright, Paul Bradshaw, Pete Sherlock, Antia Geada
Following publication three councils provided further information to that contained in their original FOI responses.
Derbyshire County Council has closed eight of its 10 mobile libraries while Gloucestershire County Council closed three and Lambeth closed two.
The 28-year-old Iceland international joined the Cod Army in July 2015, but started just eight league games this season, scoring once.
The former Hearts, Wolves and Charlton man made 63 appearances at Fleetwood.
"He has never sulked, never put himself above the team, he has understood it is about the team," said boss Uwe Rosler.
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Williams knocked out his Scottish opponent with a solid left-hand jab in the opening seconds of round two.
The 23-year-old was fighting for the first time in 13 months after recovering from two hand operations.
He now hopes to meet Liam Smith, who defended his WBO title against Jimmy Kelly on the same bill in Manchester.
There were ominous signs for Carslaw as Williams, who also holds the Commonwealth title, began to dominate towards the end of the first round.
A series of body shots forced the Scot down to one knee, and he waited until the last possible moment before getting back to his feet.
But the fight was over after only six seconds of the second round when a routine-looking jab to the temple floored Carslaw.
The referee stopped the contest immediately without a count, giving Williams his eighth knockout victory in 13 wins.
By 'baking' the dust with concentrated sunlight, the European Space Agency have made blocks that could help build lunar homes of the future.
The space bricks will now go through a number of tests to see if they are strong enough to build houses with.
The plan is to one day take the special 3D printer to the Moon - using the Sun's rays and local materials like moondust.
Following private company SpaceX's announcement that they will be flying tourists to the Moon by 2018 this is exciting news.
Advenit Makaya, who is in charge of the project for the ESA, said: "This project is a proof of concept, showing that such a lunar construction method is indeed feasible."
The 750-year-old Black Book of Carmarthen is the first Welsh text to include medieval figures such as King Arthur and Merlin.
But for hundreds of years never-before-seen poetry and pictures have been hidden to the naked eye.
Now, thanks to high resolution photography and UV lighting, some of its secrets have finally been revealed.
The book, which was written in the priory at Carmarthen, is now owned by and kept at the National Library of Wales in environmentally controlled conditions to protect the fragile text.
The collection of poetry and illustrations was penned by one scribe in the 13th Century who added to it over the years.
It was then passed from owner to owner, with more additions being made in the margins.
Prof Paul Russell, from the University of Cambridge, who has been uncovering the book's secrets, said: "That tradition of adding to it over the years was carried on by subsequent owners, it was a living text that was constantly added to."
But 300 years after it was first written the then owner, believed to be Jaspar Gryffyth, decided to purge the pages of anything that was not original.
Prof Russell added: "This man in the 16th Century went through the book tidying it up. The owner erased a lot of material from the left, right, top and bottom margins. Anything he thought was an addition, he got rid of."
The book was written on vellum - animal skin which has been stretched, dried and smoothed.
Prof Russell believes the person who erased parts of the book used a pumice stone.
He said: "It takes off a slight layer off the surface, but the ink has penetrated a bit further so what we can do is use UV light to bring out that ink.
"On some bits of it you can't recover anything as it has been rubbed so hard."
Although it was suspected there could be some text hidden within the pages, the researchers who first looked at the book under UV light were shocked when they found two faces staring out at them.
Prof Russell said: "It was a scary moment when we turned the page and out popped these faces in the bottom corner, along with a line of Welsh which goes with them.
"We think the line of Welsh was from one kinsman donating something, possibly the book, to another kinsman."
They went on to discover a page of medieval Welsh poetry, which they believe has never been seen before.
They found a drawing of a fish on another page, and are continuing their search for other hidden text and images in the book.
The Black Book of Carmarthen is not the first to have had hidden secrets uncovered by using modern techniques.
Material to write on in medieval times was expensive and hard to get hold of, so it was not unusual for it to be reused.
With the Black Book the researchers used a number of techniques to try and uncover text hidden within the pages.
They first looked at some of the pages with UV light, before taking high resolution photos which they digitally enhanced.
Prof Russell said: "It goes to show that there is still so much to be learnt from the Black Book of Carmarthen, even though it is a familiar text.
"Modern technology makes these things a lot more accessible to more people.
"What we have discovered may only be the tip of the iceberg in terms of what can be discovered as imaging techniques are enhanced."
Prof Russell and PhD student Myriah Williams will present their discoveries so far to a conference at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth on Wednesday.
Clive Hart was elected by 28 votes to 26, with one abstention, at Thursday night's council meeting.
Thanet became a hung council after the May local elections, with 27 Tories, 26 Labour and three Independents.
However, the recent resignation of a Conservative councillor to join the Independents prompted a motion from Mr Hart to remove the Conservative leader.
Thanet is now the second council in Kent with a Labour leader.
Gravesham became a Labour council following the local elections.
The new kit has been announced at the Ifa tech show in Berlin.
The idea is to add capabilities that are not currently built into handsets themselves.
But Sony's latest flagship phone also has new photography tricks of its own.
"It seems that people are holding on to their phones for longer, and, so, vendors are hoping to sell them extra things to add on," said Carolina Milanesi, a consumer tech analyst at Creative Strategies.
"And the camera is often the feature they use the most.
"But the price is critical.
"When you are talking about charging about $300 [£226] or more for an add-on, as some of these are, that's tricky because for that amount, consumers will think they may was well buy a standalone device."
The latest snap-on accessory for Lenovo's Moto Z phone will test owner's willingness to stretch their budgets.
The Hasselblad True Zoom provides a 10x optical zoom, which produces superior results to the digital-cropping techniques used by normal smartphone cameras.
The accessory also lets users take photos in Raw mode, which provides more scope to alter white balance and exposure, and create more detailed images than JPegs, if they are willing to spend time using photo-editing software.
Priced at £199, it costs half as much as the Moto Z itself.
But it is still less than the DXO One - a rival £399 camera accessory for the iPhone, launched last year.
For its part, the DxO One gets a number of add-ons of its own at Ifa, including a waterproof shell costing a further £50.
Early reviews suggest DXO's kit has the advantage over Hasselblad's when it comes to image quality, if not price.
Drone-maker DJI is also targeting phone owners with deep pockets for its new stabilisation system.
The Osmo Mobile is a handheld support known as a gimbal, which uses computer-controlled motors to stabilise an attached smartphone across three axes.
The device is compatible with the latest phones from Apple, Huawei and Samsung, and promises to make it "easy for anyone to capture smooth, cinematic shots".
Costing £289, it is more expensive than rival gimbals from lesser-known brands, including Feiyu and Zhiyun. And Steadicam itself makes lower-cost smartphone stabilisers that counteract shakes without needing motors or batteries at all.
But the original DJI Osmo - which includes its own camera and costs 60% more - has been widely praised as a way for vloggers and other enthusiasts to make their videos appear more professional.
Alcatel's new camera add-ons are not the most advanced on the market, but provide one of the lowest-cost ways to capture virtual reality videos and 360-degree interactive photos.
The French firm's 360 Camera comes in a choice of a rectangular or ball-shaped version, both of which are designed to plug into a phone and offer the same functions.
Costing 99 euros ($110; £83), they are less than half the price of rival 360-degree cameras from Samsung, LG and Theta.
But users will have to wait until next year before Alcatel makes it possible to use them with other handsets than its own.
"By connecting to a smartphone via the MicroUSB port, Alcatel is able to use the processor, memory and battery in the phone which makes this punchy price point possible," said George Jijiashvili, from the consultancy CCS Insight.
"Given that Facebook and YouTube are both already supporting 360-degree content, there is an instant distribution channel to 1.6 billion people."
Sony is developing a camera add-on of its own - the life-logging Xperia Eye.
But its focus at Ifa is its new flagship smartphone, the Xperia XZ.
The firm boasts it is the first handset camera to feature five-axis image stabilisation, meaning it can compensate for the device being moved up and down and left and right off its mark in addition to pitch, yaw and roll.
This feature was previously limited to high-end cameras, including Sony's Alpha range.
But in the phone, the stabilisation is achieved by adding a software effect to the recording rather than moving the sensor about, as the cameras do. As a result, it is less effective.
Moreover, the phone can use the function only when recording video in 1080p high definition, and not the 4K resolution it is capable of.
Other innovations include the introduction of a laser-based autofocus system - a feature pioneered by LG's earlier G3 phone - and new colour-sensing tech built into the sensor that helps it make white-balance judgements.
"I believe it's a bit too technical to resonate with most consumers," said Mr Jijiashvili.
"And when I saw the stabilisation demonstrated, it wasn't a mind-blowing improvement.
"That's a problem for Sony."
Figures disclosed in the River Tweed Commissioner's annual report show the total number of salmon caught by rod and net in 2014 was 9,971.
It is a drop of more than 10,000 compared with the 2013 total of 20,316.
It has been attributed to the mildest winter on record coupled with a hot summer and lengthy dry spell.
However, the report maintained there was "plenty to be positive about" on the river.
It said the fact the fishery was "properly protected, monitored and understood" could provide a "platform to bounce back from a period of relative famine".
A 10-minute film is currently being produced to raise money for Comic Relief.
Thompson appeared in the original 2003 film as the wife of Alan Rickman's character.
But in light of the actor's death last year, Thompson has said it would be "too sad" and "too soon" to revisit her character.
"Richard [Curtis, the writer] wrote to me and said 'darling we can't write anything for you because of Alan' and I said 'no of course, it would be sad, too sad'.
"It's too soon. It's absolutely right because it's supposed to be for Comic Relief but there isn't much comic relief in the loss of our dear friend really, only just over a year ago.
"We thought and thought but it just seemed wrong but to revisit the wonderful fun characters of Bill Nighy and Hugh Grant and Liam [Neeson] and all of that, that's fantastic but obviously what would he [Richard Curtis] have done?"
Speaking about what might have happened to their characters Karen and Harry, whose marriage is rocked by Harry's affair with a colleague in Love Actually, Thompson added: "Both of them would be in therapy by now and I would be working on some kind of ward.
"It was absolutely the right decision."
The short sequel, which will be broadcast on BBC One on 24 March, has already begun filming.
Rowan Atkinson, Liam Neeson and Thomas Brodie-Sangster (the now-not-so-little boy from the first film, who also stars in Game of Thrones) have been seen shooting their scenes.
Atkinson returns as the shop assistant Rufus, who was painfully-slow at gift wrapping in the first film. He now appears to be working in a supermarket.
Hugh Grant, Martine, McCutcheon, Keira Knightley, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth and Bill Nighy are among the other actors reprising their roles.
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Italian striker Osvaldo, 28, arrived at Southampton in August 2013 for £15m, but was sent out on loan in January after a training-ground fight.
The former Roma forward failed to arrive back for pre-season training and has since been given leave of absence.
The board knows we need new players. There is no need to hurry. We have a good squad but we would like better players to be competitive
"It was a difficult situation for him to come back to," Saints manager Ronald Koeman told BBC Radio Solent.
Osvaldo scored three times in 13 games for Saints but had a tumultuous time in English football.
In January, he was suspended for three matches and fined £40,000 after being found guilty of violent conduct during an incident at Newcastle.
Later that month he was involved in an altercation with Saints defender Jose Fonte, which resulted in him being sent to Juventus on loan. He eventually missed out on Italy's World Cup squad.
His failure to arrive back for pre-season resulted in the Southampton board deciding to look to sell the forward.
"He was too late," added Koeman. "The decision of the board was to allow him not to come back. We have to look for opportunities for him to play in a different team."
Meanwhile, Koeman says no bids have yet been accepted for defender Dejan Lovren, who is wanted by Liverpool.
However, the former Feyenoord boss has confirmed the Croatian centre-back has asked to leave Southampton.
"There are a lot of rumours," said Koeman. "He said he would like to go, we will wait for the bid, but if there is no bid we will continue. I know the situation."
Koeman has also asked fans to be patient as the club look to sign new players, after seeing defender Luke Shaw, midfielder Adam Lallana and striker Rickie Lambert all leave the club.
"We are working on it," he said. "Our job is to be prepared if someone leaves the club.
"The board knows we need new players. There is no need to hurry. We have a good squad but we would like better players to be competitive."
Ambulance crews said 36 patients had been treated after the collision on the southbound carriageway in Derbyshire.
One person was pulled from a vehicle by firefighters after the crash between junctions 30 and 29 at about 12:25 BST.
There are not thought to be any serious injuries and the road has reopened. The coach driver went by air ambulance to the Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham.
Police said his injuries were not believed to be serious or life-threatening.
The crash happened between junction 30, near Barlborough and junction 29, near Chesterfield.
Chesterfield Royal Hospital said it had treated 10 people for minor injuries.
Three people were taken by ambulance to the hospital and a further seven "walking wounded" were taken by minibus. All were discharged shortly afterwards.
A further 19 people were taken to a "place of safety" and treated at the scene.
The coach belonged to a firm called National Holidays.
Mr Márquez said he would co-operate with investigations and has made a voluntary declaration to Mexico's attorney general.
He was one of 21 people and 42 organisations singled out by the US treasury department for sanctions.
They are all accused of ties to alleged drug trafficker Raul Flores Hernández.
The US alleges that Mr Márquez acted as a "front person" for Mr Hernández through his football school and several health and sports outlets.
Mexican singer Julio César Álvarez is also on the list.
In a statement, the US treasury department said the organisations and individuals highlighted had "longstanding relationships with Flores Hernández... acted as front persons for him and his DTO [drug-trafficking organisation] and held assets on their behalf".
The statement said the ruling meant that any assets of theirs under US jurisdiction or controlled by people in the US would be frozen.
Mr Álvarez rejected the claims against him and also defended Mr Marquez.
"He's got one of the longest careers in football," he said in a post on Facebook. "Do you really think he would need to do something like this?"
Mr Márquez, 38, has represented Mexico in four World Cups and won more than 140 international caps in two decades with the national side.
Having played for European club sides Monaco and Barcelona, where he won the Spanish league four times and the Champions League twice, the defender returned to Mexico in 2015 to rejoin his first club Atlas, where he remains captain.
The firm said a rapid fall-off in trade was behind its index falling from 52.7 in October to 51.3 in November.
"We think the key reason for the slowing in services growth is due to the attacks," Chris Williamson, Markit's chief economist said.
Markit said 60% of survey responses from services sector firms were received after the 13 November attacks.
The services index remains above 50, meaning that it is continuing to grow, but at a slower pace.
"Clearly there's been a cut in footfall and any sort of feel-good factor amongst consumers in the wake of the horrific events.
"But history does tell us that these events tend to have a very short-lived impact," added Mr Williamson.
The "flash" manufacturing PMI rose to a 19-month high, and Mr Williamson said the rest of the survey data suggested "a more encouraging picture of France continuing to lift itself out of its gloom".
The survey comes after the boss of the industrial conglomerate Siemens warned that the Paris terrorist attacks and political instability in Europe were making companies more reluctant to invest.
"The biggest economic damage from these attacks is on confidence and confidence is a crucial element in this phase. It is indispensable to help countries exit the crisis," Joe Kaeser told the Financial Times.
Yet overall, European businesses reported the fastest rates of growth in business activity and employment for four and a half years in November, according to Markit.
Its "flash" purchasing managers index for the eurozone rose to 54.4 from 53.9 in November - the survey's fastest rate of expansion since May 2011.
Germany, which saw growth in manufacturing and services accelerate to a three-month high, helped drive the overall index higher.
Mr Williamson said the data put the 19-nation euro area on track for growth of 0.4 to 0.5% in the final quarter of the year.
But European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi recently indicated he was disappointed with the current rate of growth and suggested policymakers could take fresh action to boost the economy.
Draghi's ECB has an inflation target of 2%, but prices in the eurozone have stayed low, with CPI at 0.1% in October.
"If we decide that the current trajectory of our policy is not sufficient to achieve that objective, we will do what we must to raise inflation as quickly as possible. That is what our price stability mandate requires of us," the European Central Bank chief said last week.
Phil Cook, of the Association of UK Course Measurers, re-measured it after runners questioned the distance.
Mr Cook said he could not pinpoint a specific location where an error was made by organisers.
He said: "This obviously doesn't affect people who ran for charity. But if it was for an official time, unfortunately you haven't got it."
The event, held on Sunday 1 March, was criticised by some runners after they found their personal best times were faster than expected.
After concerns were raised, St David's Hospice, which organised the race, said it believed the distance was correct.
Chief executive Emma Saysell said: "As far as we're concerned the course was measured by an accredited professional.
"The course length was accurate based on what they told us."
The entire frontage of the home in Cheltenham collapsed and garden walls were flattened.
The attack on the home on Tewkesbury Road took place early on Wednesday evening.
A lorry, thought to be the one used, was later found burnt out in a field off nearby Withybridge Lane, Gloucestershire Police said.
According to the Land Registry, the house is owned by John Connors, who was jailed in 2012 with four other members of his family, after being found guilty of keeping a private workforce.
In 2014 he was ordered to pay just over £300,000 as part of a proceeds of crime hearing.
The house was put up for sale earlier this year, but the estate agent dealing with the sale was unable to tell the BBC whether it had yet been sold.
Gloucestershire Police said enquiries were ongoing.
BBC Radio Gloucestershire reporter David Smith said: "It's quite a sizeable house, a nice house, with gable windows built into the roof.
"Now the entire ground floor has gone. There is nothing left of it. There is brickwork all over the floor."
The Community Health Council (CHC) wants to hear about people's experiences of in-patient services.
It comes after a report into care at the Tawel Fan ward of Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, said patients were "kept like animals".
The first public sessions are at Cefni Hospital on Anglesey on Tuesday.
Chief officer for the North Wales CHC, Geoff Ryall-Harvey, said: "One of our roles is to keep an eye on the health services in north Wales. We hope that the results of this survey will provide us with a clear picture of people's experiences."
Hughes claims Shawcross received the voicemail from Pulis on Monday, two days after Stoke's defeat at West Brom.
Shawcross, Stoke skipper for several years under Pulis, accused the Baggies of leaking the news of former Albion striker Saido Berahino's two-month ban.
Berahino made his Stoke debut in the game and Hughes said: "We were annoyed with a number things."
There was no handshake between the managers at the end of the game and Hughes added: "Any number of things surrounding the game were, in our view, unnecessary.
"I was annoyed with their manager ringing up Ryan on the Monday morning after the game and calling him a loser. I wasn't too happy with that."
On the message left for Shawcross, he added: "There was a voicemail left, and I haven't heard it. But Ryan wasn't too pleased. He tried to ring back and didn't get any answer."
Pulis was asked about Shawcross' comments on Friday and replied: "Ryan has tried to ring me since [the accusation of the Berahino leak] and I will get back to him."
Shawcross had said: "Someone from West Brom's side must have been speaking to the papers", regarding the leak of the ban.
Berahino joined Stoke on 20 January and it was later revealed he served an eight-week suspension before leaving West Brom, reportedly for failing an out-of-competition drugs test.
Matthew Williams attacked Cerys Yemm, 22, at the Sirhowy Arms Hotel in Argoed on 6 November 2014.
PC Alan Cotterell said Williams "looked possessed" when he confronted him in the hotel room after a 999 call.
Williams was Tasered four times, the officer claimed. He was arrested and later died.
The Taser-trained officer told the Newport inquest he recognised Williams' name when it was given over the radio.
PC Cotterell said: "I have never been more scared in my entire life.
"I spoke to him but he was looking possessed. There was an angry sort of look and his eyes were almost all black."
PC Cotterell said he had dealt with Williams a few times previously, the first being in 2012 when Williams was Tasered by another officer and it had not worked.
He understood firearms officers were engaged to use deadly force if required, he said, adding there had been a discussion about whether the Taser-trained officers should go into the room or just "contain" the scene and wait for the firearms officers.
PC Cotterell said he knew Williams was a "rather large, violent male" and shouted at him that he was armed and should move away from Ms Yemm's body.
But Williams lay on the floor "snarling and growling" as he refused to listen.
The PC then decided to fire his Taser at Williams, holding it for seven seconds instead of the usual five-second blast.
Williams started to try and get up again "lifting up the officers as if we weren't even there".
PC Cotterell said: "In my opinion he was trying to get to his feet to carry on the attack.
"He would've caused further damage to Miss Yemm and we would've been struggling to restrain and contain him."
Three more Taser shots were fired - one hitting him between the eyes. Williams was then arrested at the scene and later died.
Earlier, Raymond Miles, who let police into Williams' room during the attack, told the jury he thought officers' actions were justified.
Mr Miles described hearing "thumping and grunting" inside the room and said he was fearful "something truly awful" was happening.
The husband of the Caerphilly county hostel's owner told the jury he opened the door to let officers in, after asking "if they were ready".
He described seeing Williams on top of Ms Yemm, saying it was "clear that Cerys was dead" and that Williams was still attacking her face with "his hands on her eyes or in her mouth".
Mr Miles agreed police needed to restrain Williams and needed to use force to do it and said he did not believe officers used too much.
The inquest continues.
He was responding to a question by MP Dominic Grieve about the Heathrow spur.
Mr McLoughlin said: "I would now like to make clear that we do not intend to build the spur as part of Phase 1 or 2 of the HS2 scheme".
HS2 is a planned high-speed rail network from London to Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.
Previously the government had said any decision about the Heathrow spur would be delayed until the Davies Commission's report on future UK airport capacity had been completed.
Responding to Mr Grieve's written Parliamentary question, the minister cited the Airports Commission review findings - published in November - which "indicated that an HS2 spur is highly unlikely to be necessary to support any expansion of Heathrow airport".
Nick Hurd, Conservative MP for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner tweeted he was "delighted" the government had dropped the idea and gave "credit to ministers for listening to our argument".
He said the best way of connecting passengers to Heathrow was via Old Oak Common. He said it also simplified the case for extending the HS2 tunnel to protect Ickenham and Colne Valley.
Paul Prentice, assistant news editor at Rail magazine said it was a "very sensible decision. Bearing in mind there is already a spur tunnel to Heathrow and another western link being built".
Campaigner Lottie Jones from Hillingdon Against HS2 said the group was "delighted" with the decision but cautious that it was not "just a pre-election sweetener" that might be revoked.
The two-day-old baby was found dead by doctors at the No 2 People's Hospital in Chongming County last Friday, said the Xinhua news agency.
Those arrested are a doctor and the baby's grandfather, who is accused of injecting the baby with chemicals.
Cleft lips are a common birth defect but easily corrected.
Cleft palates, where a baby is born with a hole in the roof of the mouth, are more severe. The condition causes feeding difficulties and can also lead to problems with hearing and speech.
Xinhua said initial investigations indicated the grandfather had killed the baby by injecting him with potassium chloride, a drug used to treat potassium deficiency but which can stop the heart when used incorrectly.
The doctor, from the gynaecology and obstetrics department, is accused of supplying the drug and telling the grandfather how to use it, Chinese media reported.
Beam International (Future Smile in China), one of several charities which carries out free surgery for the condition, told the BBC that about one in 600 babies born in China each year have a cleft lip or palate.
Surgery for cleft lips can cost between 5,000 ($800; £520) and 7,000 yuan in China, and for cleft palates up to 10,000 yuan, said the charity's China director, Shan Li.
Babies who struggle to feed and whose families cannot afford treatment or find a charity to help them would often not survive, she said, while some people may have to save for years to pay for the surgery.
There have been previous reports of families abandoning such babies.
In May this year, one baby with a cleft palate was found alive in the Guangxi region, 10 days after being left in the countryside.
An editorial in the People's Daily on Friday said the baby's death should be cause for reflection in China, and that many people were ill-informed about the condition.
"Families are obsessed with advantage at birth, and any small flaw would sound the alarm. This kind of mind-set has to be corrected by modern child-bearing science and medical knowledge," it said.
The paper said China should work harder to educate people about congenital diseases, and that the "government needs to play a key role in helping them".
A yellow "be aware" warning is in place ahead of a band of heavy rain moving in from the west on Wednesday evening. It should clear by Thursday morning.
It comes as diversions were put in place at two locations on the Pembrokeshire coastal path after cliff falls damaged the route.
Recent heavy rain has been blamed.
Anthony Richards, Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority's access manager, said: "The diversions are clearly signposted and we would ask that people follow these temporary routes while work to re-align the path is being completed."
The current closures and concerns on the 186-mile national trail are:
Wales saw the highest level of rainfall across the UK in December, although it was parts of northern England which bore the brunt of the floods.
The latest Met Office weather warning is in place for Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Swansea, Torfaen and the Vale of Glamorgan.
Official figures showed GDP grew by 0.8%, having shrunk by 0.2% in the previous three months.
Scotland outstripped the UK as a whole, which saw growth of just 0.2% in the first three months of the year.
The latest figures showed Scottish production grew by 3.1%, while the services industry expanded by 0.3%. Construction contracted by 0.7%.
On an annual basis, the Scottish economy grew by 0.7%
Economic forecasters had warned recently that it was "in the balance" whether the latest figures would show any improvement in the Scottish economy.
A recent report from economists at the Fraser of Allander Institute said Scotland seemed to be "stuck in a cycle of weak growth".
It predicted that growth would pick up over the next few years, but was "likely to continue to lag behind the UK".
The EY Scottish Item Club also warned the Scottish economy was showing signs of slowing faster than the rest of the UK as a result of fading consumer spending and firms remaining reluctant to invest.
However, a Royal Bank of Scotland survey released last week found Scottish firms were confident of expansion over the remainder of 2017, despite reporting "modest" growth in the three months to June.
Its business monitor suggested the weak pound had offered some comfort to the nation's exporters and tourism sector.
The mother of six from south London, who cannot be named, was found guilty of fraud and child abuse.
She was sentenced to seven and a half years after Croydon Crown Court heard she claimed £375,000 in benefits.
She duped doctors for over a decade - convincing them to insert feeding tubes into her son and daughter's stomachs.
The woman told specialists her daughter had stomach problems and her son had asthma.
Judge Elizabeth Smaller said she had forced the children to "live double lives to fall in with your deception".
She said doctors believed her "because why would a parent present their child as ill when they were not?"
Dr Eveline Knight-Jones, who prepared the paediatric overview for the trial, said: "In London it is all too easy for fabricated illness cases to attend several different hospitals some distance from their local hospital, because there are so many hospitals, particularly specialist hospitals."
Most of the health professionals the children saw took what the mother said about them "at face value," the court heard.
Jurors were told the mother was "resistant" to attempts to investigate the causes of the alleged symptoms and refused to allow one child to be admitted to hospital for a two-week review.
The defence claimed she suffered from a severe anxiety disorder, which caused her to "catastrophise" and overstate her children's medical symptoms.
The court heard she received £287,800 in income support payments between 2002 and 2013 as well as disability living allowance.
She also claimed to be a single mother but was living with her partner, the children's father.
Det Sgt Stuart Parsons, said: "It is staggering to think that the mother's wilful actions resulted in the children undergoing unnecessary surgical and medical interventions.
"She lied at every opportunity, presenting herself as a lone parent coping with ill and vulnerable children.
"The reality was that she resided with her partner and fabricated her children's conditions for personal financial gain."
A serious case review has yet to report its findings.
It brings civil law, where a man was only allowed one wife, into line with customary law, where some cultures allow multiple partners.
Controversy surrounded an amendment to the bill, supported by many male MPs, allowing men to take more wives without consulting existing spouses.
Traditionally, first wives are supposed to give prior approval.
Kenya's same-sex marriages
Last month, female MPs walked out of parliament in disgust after their male counterparts voted through the amendment.
They argued that a decision to take on another wife would affect the whole family, including the financial position of other spouses.
The bill was also opposed by Christian leaders who urged the president not to sign it into law, saying it undermined Christian principles of marriage and family.
"The tone of that bill, if it becomes law, would be demeaning to women since it does not respect the principle of equality of spouses in the institution of marriage," Archbishop Timothy Ndambuki, from the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK), was quoted by Kenya's Standard newspaper as saying.
The marriage legislation has been under discussion for several years and some initial proposals were scrapped at committee stages.
It has abolished the practice of unofficial traditional marriages which were never registered and could be ended without any legal divorce proceedings.
But plans to ban the payment of bride prices were dropped - although a person must be 18 to marry and this now applies to all cultures.
MPs did reject the committee amendment which said a woman should only be entitled to 30% of matrimonial property after death or divorce.
The law now allows for equal property and inheritance rights - previously a woman had to prove her contribution to the couple's wealth.
However, the BBC's Frenny Jowi in the capital, Nairobi, says this aspect of the legislation could create chaos in polygamous marriages.
The law stipulates that a wife is entitled to an equal share of whatever the couple acquired during their marriage but in the case of multiple partners it is going to be difficult to determine what each spouse is entitled to if one of them divorces or their husband dies, she says.
There had also been a proposal to recognise co-habiting couples, known in Kenya as "come-we-stay" relationships, after six months, but this too was dropped.
It would have allowed a woman to seek maintenance for herself and any children of the union, had the man left.
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Although a Sunderland fan, six-year-old Bradley made a real impact on Everton when he was a mascot first against them, then for them.
Bradley died on 7 July having been diagnosed with neuroblastoma when he was 18 months old.
Everton, which previously donated £200,000 to his appeal, will host a celebrity match on 3 September.
Bradley's mother Gemma said the support the family had received was "fantastic".
Evertonians formed a special bond with the youngster, initially during Everton's match at Sunderland in September 2016 and then when he was a guest at Goodison Park for two matches in January and February this year.
Everton Chairman Bill Kenwright said: "I didn't know him for long but from the second he walked out onto the pitch with his beloved Sunderland against us, I felt an overwhelming need to support him.
"He was the loveliest lad - still an imp, but with the biggest heart."
Funds are being raised for the Bradley Lowery Foundation, a charity set up by his family which aims to help other families with children with cancer.
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The 24-year-old Dane will partner Frenchman Romain Grosjean in 2017.
Magnussen had wanted to stay with Renault for 2017 but decided to accept Haas's offer after the French team delayed its driver choice.
"We feel that pairing Kevin with Romain will help us develop our new car and continue our growth," team founder and chairman Gene Haas said on Friday.
Magnussen will be heading into his third full season in F1 in 2017.
He raced for McLaren in 2014, scoring a second place on his debut in Australia, but was demoted to reserve driver in 2015, when two-time champion Fernando Alonso joined the team to partner Jenson Button.
McLaren dropped Magnussen at the end of 2015 but Renault rescued his career on the eve of this season after their contract with Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado collapsed as a result of unpaid sponsorship money.
Magnussen has been Renault's most successful driver in a difficult season for the company following their takeover of the Lotus team last December.
He has scored seven points compared to team-mate Jolyon Palmer's one and has out-qualified the Briton 12-7 in the 19 races so far.
But a couple of heavy crashes and the occasional less-convincing weekend left the team uncertain over whether to continue with him.
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Renault did offer to take up their option on Magnussen for one further year, BBC Sport understands, but he preferred the security of a longer-term deal with a team that is more committed to him.
Haas, who have close links with Ferrari, have done a solid job in their debut season and lie eighth in the constructors' championship.
Their best result was a fifth place for Grosjean in Bahrain.
Following Magnussen's decision to leave Renault, the team confirmed it was retaining Palmer for their second seat alongside German Nico Hulkenberg, who signed for the team last month.
Palmer had previously been considered an outside bet and more likely to join Force India.
Video taken inside the Pedrinhas prison in Sao Luis also shows the torture of one inmate at the hands of others - and cases of beheadings.
The district judge who wrote the report said the video was the "most barbarous scene" he had ever witnessed.
Brazil has the world's fourth largest prison population with half a million inmates occupying spaces for 300,000.
The report contains details of sexual relations between prisoners taking place in open spaces, horrific scenes of torture and at least 59 deaths, including the beheading of three prisoners, in the last year.
Across the country, many poorly resourced jails are, in effect, run by powerful crime gangs and the government is looking again at a greater role for privately run prisons, says the BBC's Wyre Davies in Rio de Janeiro.
A judicial report into a prison in the northern Brazilian state of Maranhao has exposed some shocking conditions of torture, sexual abuse and murder.
The report, now handed over to Brazil's Supreme Court, describes a desperately overcrowded facility where the prison authorities have lost control and where punishment or retribution is handed-out on a daily basis by gangs. One video, obtained by a newspaper shows the slow torture of one inmate until he dies.
Pedrinhas, in the state of Maranhao, is notorious for its gang warfare; fighting between inmates in October left 13 dead and 30 injured.
Brazil's Minister of Justice, Jose Eduardo Cardozo, said last year that Brazil had "a medieval prison system, which not only violates human rights [but] does not allow for the most important element of a penal sanction, which is social reintegration".
Officials say that despite building new prisons they have not been able to keep pace with the increasing number of detainees, making it hard for them to improve conditions within the jails.
Uber deactivates its drivers for a multitude of reasons, most famously for having a passenger rating which drops below 4.6 out of five.
Drivers can also be banned for serious misconduct, such as sexual assault.
But the grayer area for drivers is the various other ways you can be deactivated, such as “excessively” cancelling rides or not accepting enough rides.
In some cases, drivers have reported being deactivated after posting disparaging remarks about Uber on social media.
But now an appeals process - for New York City drivers only - will see drivers up against a panel made up of five other Uber drivers.
Here they will be able to appeal deactivations, but only those in that gray area. “Bad” drivers rated poorly by passengers will not be eligible.
The decision is being touted as a “huge win” by the Independent Drivers Guild (IDG), the only workers’ rights group recognised by Uber.
It isn’t, however, a union - as drivers can’t use the group to bargain for better pay or benefits.
Jim Conigliaro, founder of the IDG, told his members in an email that the group was “celebrating another victory”.
"After months of negotiations,” he wrote, “we finally won you the right to a fair deactivation appeal with Uber management."
'Peer panel'
Uber did not respond to the BBC’s request for comment other than to point in the direction of its newly set up portal for appeals.
The service has also not yet said whether the same system will be made available to drivers in other cities or countries.
"No deactivation decision is taken lightly or without investigation,” the company wrote on the appeals process web page.
"As such, certain deactivation decisions, especially those related to zero tolerance violations, are not eligible for appeal.
"For example, we will not accept appeals related to criminal activity while on the app, like theft or reckless driving. Likewise, we will not accept appeals related to physical or sexual altercations."
Drivers with a low passenger rating will also not be considered using this process, Uber said. Drivers kicked off for poor “quality” can undergo a training course which may see their account reactivated.
The so-called “peer panel” of drivers will be jointly picked by IDG and Uber and will be facilitated by the American Arbitration Association.
Uber has tussled with its drivers over workers’ rights in cities all over the world.
In October an employment tribunal in London determined that drivers should get the right to be considered employees - meaning holiday pay, sick leave, paid breaks and other benefits.
A similar row is taking place in various locations in the United States.
Uber, which launched in 2009, is said to be worth more than $60bn based on investments made in the company. It is widely considered to be one of the major tech firms considering going public next year.
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Just two points separate the pair at the bottom of Women's Super League One with three games remaining, while Liverpool need just one point to guarantee safety.
Two sides that have competed in the Champions League twice in the past four years now face the prospect of the drop.
"If you go down it is not the end of the line but it is an absolute disaster to get relegated from this league," Parker told BBC Sport following Sunday's 1-1 home draw against Sunderland.
"Getting relegated from WSL 1 is a doomsday scenario - it is funding, players, everything. You see the way Everton went down, losing a couple of players and now you can see how hard it is to get out."
Bristol Academy, who beat Barcelona to reach the quarter-finals of Europe's top club competition this year, are rock bottom - a spot they have occupied all season.
Birmingham, with almost the same line-up that reached the semi-finals of the Champions League and came within a goal of the title last season, are away from home for their final three matches - starting with next week's trip to Bristol.
Birmingham City seemed to have brought Liverpool into the relegation scrap when they claimed their first and only league win to date against the Reds earlier this month.
However, two goals from Natasha Dowie was enough for Liverpool to overcome a Bristol side that revived their own hopes of avoiding the drop after claiming their first win of the league season by beating Women's FA Cup finalists Notts County.
"It was a two-horse race until Birmingham beat Liverpool and we beat Notts and it almost dragged them into it," Kirk told BBC Sport after Saturday's 2-0 defeat.
Blues travel to Bristol's Stoke Gifford Stadium next week for what is shaping up to be the most definitive night in their relegation battle.
Birmingham have enjoyed FA Cup glory and sampled European success, but Parker believes their trip down the M5 will be a defining moment.
"It is one of the biggest games in this club's history, we don't need to build it up any more than that," he said.
Kirk's message to his players ahead of Birmingham's visit is to ensure they take the fight all the way.
"I think it will go do to the last day of the season, but we have a lot of work to do between now and then to make sure we are still in it with a game to go," said the Scotsman.
Parker says the fitness of England internationals Karen Carney and Jade Moore is being assessed game by game.
Carney, the first woman inducted into Birmingham City's Hall of Fame, helped create Blues goal against Sunderland, while Moor was sidelined.
"Karen is a top-class player. You want top-class players on the pitch and, most importantly, you want them to perform," said Parker.
"If it is just a matter of playing game by game, then that is what we have to do at this moment in time because we are in a dogfight."
Kirk, who replaced Dave Edmondson in June and rejuvenated the squad with seven transfer deadline day signings, insists the Vixens have responded to their relegation plight.
"It is easy to coach that lot, because they have been great since the day I came," he said.
"They have been fantastic in terms of focusing on what we are trying to do and believe in what we are trying to do.
"We are not far away, but that is not going to save us from relegation - we need results."
Additional reporting by Jo Currie and Tom Garry.
Emma-Jayne Magson, 23, of Sylvan Road, Leicester, killed James Knight, 26, in the early hours of 27 March following a "drunken row".
Magson, who was found guilty after a three-week trial, was sentenced at Leicester Crown Court and ordered to serve a minimum of 17 years.
Judge Nicholas Dean QC said her behaviour was "inexplicable".
The court listened to a recording of a 999 call Magson made some time after she attacked Mr Knight, saying he had collapsed but failing to mention he had been stabbed.
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When told an ambulance might be delayed, Magson said: "No, that's fine, don't worry about it."
The family of murdered James Knight said his two daughters question why "daddy was stolen".
A statement was read to the court on behalf of his children, four-year-old Ruby and Evie, six and their mother Becki Waite.
"The initial shock of being woken at 4am to be told the father of your children had died made me feel numb and utterly broken," it read.
"To then be informed he was murdered was heart-wrenching but to later find out it was by the woman he had left me for, the woman who had been putting our daughters to bed on a weekend, made me feel like a part of me had died at the same time.
"My five-year-old was asking 'why has Daddy been stolen?' and 'how will he know it's my birthday?"
"The impact of James's death isn't just for now, the impact isn't going to stop.
"My little girls will never have a daddy, never get to go to the park with him, he will never walk them down the aisle, this will continue to have a huge domino effect."
She later claimed she had stabbed Mr Knight in self-defence but refused to give evidence during the trial.
The judge said: "You did nothing to help James Knight. Your behaviour is inexplicable.
"You knew you had used the knife, the knife you disposed of. You carried the bloodied T-shirt into the house and there it was on the floor, close to where James remained prone, struggling by now to breathe.
"You have demonstrated no real remorse for what you did, on the contrary you have effectively blamed James Knight for what you did".
Magson refused to give evidence during her trial but the court heard that she claimed Mr Knight had been beaten up by two bouncers on a night out in the city centre.
The victim's brother Kevin Knight, who lived a few doors away, helped Magson carry the body back into her front room - without knowing about the fatal stab injury.
He was later woken by Magson banging frantically on the door screaming "It's James, it's James, he's dead, he's dead", the jury heard.
In his closing speech, prosecutor Michael Evans QC said: "(On that night) she was in drink, she was cold, she was brutal, she was manipulative, she was calculating, she was volatile, she was determined and she was vicious."
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The two Greater Manchester Police officers were sent to the home of Fred Thomson and his 95-year-old wife Doris in Middleton.
GMP Middleton tweeted: "Just dealt with a 95 year old couple who called the Police as they were lonely.
"What else could we do but make them a brew and have a chat."
Mr Thomson told BBC North West Tonight how he and his wife enjoyed their company and was grateful for their help.
Abuot 400 old vehicles are on fire at the Moorfield Drive Industrial estate in Altham, near Accrington. More than 80 firefighters are at the yard.
Lancashire Police said smoke drifted across the M65 between Rishton and Accrington. Two lanes were closed eastbound.
Residents are being asked to keep their windows closed and avoid the area.
Lancashire Fire and Rescue said crews were starting to have a "significant effect" on the blaze after being called to the yard at about 04:40 GMT.
The blaze quickly spread due to a "strong breeze", it added.
A hazardous materials unit has joined firefighters to advise on protecting the environment and public health.
The Environment Agency said it was working with the fire service.
Joshua House Children's Centre, in Guyana's capital Georgetown, houses children at risk of poverty or neglect.
The centre was founded in 1977 by the controversial Unification Church.
After touring the building, the prince held a question and answer session with 50 of the children, aged between seven and 17.
Answering a question about what life is like as a prince, Harry said: "It's good and bad - there's lots of privileges, of course, that you get from when you're born; but with privilege comes responsibility."
Asked what his middle names are, he replied: "I was christened Henry but everyone calls me Harry, and I have - let's see where it starts: Charles, Albert and David - I have three middle names."
After hearing the long names of some of the children, he joked: "Mine are really boring."
The prince's visit to the centre marked the end of his 15-day tour of the Caribbean, where he has also visited Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines.
He has taken part in a wide range of events including meeting pop singer Rihanna in Barbados to promote World Aids Day, releasing baby turtles into the sea in St Kitts and Nevis, and visiting Guyana's rainforest and Kaieteur Falls.
Joshua House Children's Centre is run by Gladys Acca, who is a member of the Unification Church of Guyana and was married alongside 6,000 other couples in South Korea.
The founder of the Church, the late Sun Myung Moon, is revered by his followers who are often referred to as "Moonies".
The church claims millions of members worldwide and became famous for its mass wedding ceremonies.
But critics say the Church brainwashes its followers - a claim it denies.
A contract has been awarded to the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) to carry out the tests of vehicle "platoons".
Up to three lorries will travel in formation, with acceleration and braking controlled by the lead vehicle.
But the head of the AA said platoons raised safety concerns.
In the platoons, the lead vehicle will be controlled by a human driver and will communicate with the rest of the convoy wirelessly.
The following vehicles will be instructed to accelerate and brake by the lead vehicle, allowing the lorries to drive closer together than they could with human drivers.
Lorries driving close together could reduce air resistance for the following vehicles, as the front lorry pushes air out of the way.
This could lead to fuel efficiency savings for haulage companies, which Transport Minister Paul Maynard hopes will be passed on to consumers.
The following vehicles could also react more quickly to the lead lorry braking than human drivers can.
However, human drivers will still steer all the lorries in the convoy.
The TRL will begin trials of the technology on test tracks, but these trials are expected to move to major roads by the end of 2018.
The government has been promising such a project since at least 2014.
Last year, for example, it announced its intention to carry out platooning trials but was later frustrated after some European lorrymakers declined to participate.
A Department for Transport spokesman told the BBC that the experiments are now expected to go ahead as the contract had been awarded.
Will the platoon block motorists trying to leave or enter the motorway?
The TRL says it will carefully choose sections of motorway for its trials, taking the number of junctions and traffic into account. All the lorries will have drivers behind the wheel who will be able to take control and break up the convoy to let other drivers join or leave the motorway if there is an obstruction.
What happens if a car tries to squeeze between the lorries?
The platoon lorries will be able to drive more closely together than those driven exclusively by humans, so the gap between them might be uncomfortably close for a driver to try to squeeze into. However, the TRL says its current strategy is to break up the convoy and let the human drivers take control, if a car squeezes in between the lorries. The organisation is considering ways of informing other road users that the lorries are in a "self-driving" convoy.
How much fuel will a convoy actually save?
According to TRL, other trials have seen improvements in fuel economy of between 4% and 10%. A local trial will help determine the benefit platooning can deliver in the UK.
The TRL has announced its partners for the project:
Platooning has been tested in a number of countries around the world, including the US, Germany and Japan.
However, British roads present a unique challenge, said Edmund King, president of the AA.
"We all want to promote fuel efficiency and reduce congestion but we are not yet convinced that lorry platooning on UK motorways is the way to go about it," he said, pointing out, for example, that small convoys of lorries can block road signs from the view of other road users.
"We have some of the busiest motorways in Europe with many more exits and entries.
"Platooning may work on the miles of deserted freeways in Arizona or Nevada but this is not America," he added.
His comments were echoed by the RAC Foundation.
Its director, Steve Gooding, said: "Streams of close-running HGVs could provide financial savings on long-distance journeys, but on our heavily congested motorways - with stop-start traffic and vehicles jostling for position - the benefits are less certain."
Campaign group the Road Haulage Association said "safety has to come first".
Transport Minister Paul Maynard said platooning could lead to cheaper fuel bills, lower emissions and less congestion.
"But first we must make sure the technology is safe and works well on our roads, and that's why we are investing in these trials," he said.
Oxford City Council's Bob Price said a county mayor would allow Oxfordshire to pull "powers back from Whitehall".
He also claimed a mayor would increase central government funding and provide greater control over housing and transport for the county's six council authorities.
Authority leaders have confirmed they are looking at elected-mayor proposals.
It was revealed in November that the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (OxLEP) - tasked with boosting the county's economy - had only provisionally received £15m of £382m requested funding to complete infrastructure projects across the county.
Mr Price, who is a member of OxLEP, said: "We think that in the latest round of local growth fund allocations there was a strong bias in the allocations made by government to places which had elected mayors and combined authorities.
"There's no evidence to really prove that, but that seems to be the evidence in terms of allocations."
Mr Price said he believes there would be political consensus between the mayor and respective Labour and Conservative-run Oxfordshire authorities, as all of the authorities wanted to improve roads such as the A34, and resolve the county's housing crisis.
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The fact that Oxfordshire does not yet have an elected mayor is rumoured to be the reason the county recently missed out on hundreds of millions of pounds for big projects from the government.
Council bosses and Oxfordshire's Local Enterprise Partnership put together a bid for £382m for things like upgrading railway stations, building new junctions on the A34 and creating new roads.
But the county is only expected to get a tiny slice of that money.
Oxford City Council leader Bob Price claims there was a bias in allocating money to areas that have elected mayors, or plans to bring one in.
There is no consensus yet from our councils on whether or not having an elected mayor is a good idea - and they will all have to agree for the plan to go ahead.
But if there are potentially big sums of money involved, the change is going to be very tempting for councils.
The six councils - Oxfordshire County Council, Oxford City Council and Cherwell, West Oxfordshire, South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse district councils - are looking at lobbying the government for an elected mayor, potentially as part of a devolution bid.
A spokesperson for Oxfordshire County Council, which manages transport infrastructure, social care, children and adult services in the county, said: "We cannot pass up the chance to secure infrastructure investment from the government, so we will work closely with the district and city councils on a devolution bid - which is likely to include an elected mayor and combined authority.
"But we still need to be convinced that adding another layer of council administration is right for Oxfordshire."
OxLEP chief executive Nigel Tipple said: "Ultimately, proposals will be submitted to central government for consideration and final decision.
"OxLEP will continue to work closely with all local authorities, universities, business and other partner organisations to create the conditions that will best enable the county's already thriving economy to flourish and grow in future."
Final results in the poll - seen as a step towards restoring peace - are not expected for several weeks.
The seizure of power by a mainly Muslim rebel group in 2013 led to prolonged bloodshed.
Candidates Faustin Touadera and Anicet Dologuele have pledged to restore security and boost the economy.
Both Mr Touadera, portrayed by supporters as a peacemaker who can bridge the Christian-Muslim divide, and Mr Dologuele, who has promised a break from the country's violent past, expressed hope for a high turnout.
Mr Dologuele even referenced St Valentine's Day as he exhorted citizens to vote "as an act of love for their country", Radio Centrafrique reported.
But a BBC correspondent in the region said there was less enthusiasm among voters than during the first round in December, although election officials said the voting had gone smoothly.
Prime Minister Mahamat Kamoun echoed this, telling Radio Centrafrique that he was "not entirely satisfied" with voter turnout.
Voters were also choosing a new parliament following the annulment of a poll in December due to irregularities.
Nearly 80% of the electorate voted in December's first round, which observers saw as a rejection of violence.
Communal reconciliation and reigniting the country's sluggish economy featured prominently as campaign themes.
CAR is one of the world's most unstable countries and was thrown into political chaos three years ago when mostly Muslim Seleka fighters toppled President Bozize.
Christian militias responded to Seleka abuses, with attacks carried out against the Muslim minority community.
After regional pressure, an interim administration took charge in January 2014 and later that year a 10,000-strong UN force took over the peacekeeping mission.
The north-east of the country is now mostly under the control of Muslim rebels while Christian militias hold sway the south-west.
Thousands died in the fighting and roughly a fifth of the population is thought to have been displaced.
Their dinghy was found deflated 28 nautical miles west of the island of Alborán, midway between the Moroccan coast and Spain.
Three survivors were rescued by the Spanish coastguard on Tuesday. The 17-year-old and two men aged 25 were all taken to Tarifa for treatment for hypothermia and burns.
But hope has faded of finding anyone else alive. The boat had apparently set out with 52 people aboard on Sunday morning and had drifted for days before being hit by a strong wave.
There has been a sharp rise in migrant arrivals on Spain's south coast this year. Since the start of 2017, 6,464 migrants crossed the Mediterranean to Spain, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
The total in 2016 was just over 8,000 migrants last year, making up only 2% of the total of so-called "irregular arrivals" to the EU.
The vast majority of the 101,000 who have crossed the Mediterranean this year have arrived via Italy. The number of fatalities is put at 2,247.
Even before this tragedy, 60 migrants are believed to have drowned in the Western Mediterranean this year. Andalucía human rights charity APDHA estimates that 6,000 people have drowned trying to cross that stretch of water since 1997.
"Right now we've got the capacity to handle this but it is stretching us," said Samuel Linares, provincial co-ordinator of the Red Cross in Málaga, on Spain's south coast.
"The resources in the province of Málaga were set up for the numbers arriving two or three years ago and since then they have multiplied by three or four times."
The vast majority of migrants coming to Spain are sub-Saharan Africans fleeing poverty or conflict in their home countries.
Many of those who make the journey come from West African nations such as Guinea or Ivory Coast. A common route is by land through Mali and Algeria, then on to Morocco, which at its nearest point is only eight nautical miles from the Spanish mainland.
Migrants often camp out in forests near ports such as Nador, in northern Morocco, as they prepare for the final part of their journey.
Although people traffickers are often involved in organising boats for crossings, groups of migrants also pool their money to get hold of motorised, inflatable boats in which they set off from the Moroccan coast.
The usually calm summer months are particularly popular for crossings but, as the latest tragedy shows, a rogue wave or unexpected weather can make the journey a lethal one.
Internal factors within particular countries of origin can also encourage exoduses. Recent social unrest in northern Morocco's Rif region, for example, has triggered a new migratory tendency.
"The people who come to Spain on boats have generally been sub-Saharan Africans," says Jon Iñárritu, a senator who sits on Spanish parliamentary commissions for domestic and foreign affairs. "But in recent days we've seen people arriving from Rif, requesting political asylum."
Migrants who reach Spain or Spanish waters are given medical attention before they are placed in police custody and then housed in the short term either in a migrant stay centre or in accommodation provided by an NGO.
And, when they have recovered, that will likely be the fate of the three survivors from the rescue west of Alborán.
Many of those who arrive lack documents and are often reluctant to reveal their true country of origin, especially if it has a repatriation agreement with Spain.
It can take several months before migrants find out if they are to be allowed to stay in Spain or if they are to be sent back home.
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.
Patients will be offered Imbruvica, which needs to be swallowed once a day.
It will treat relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma and certain types of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), which affects 3,000 people in Wales.
The drug targets cancer cells, stopping them in their tracks before they have time to multiply and travel through the body.
Around one in every 25 people will be diagnosed with blood cancer during their lifetime.
Boycott rounded on Cook following his comments about incoming England and Wales Cricket Board boss Colin Graves.
Cook was critical of Graves for calling West Indies a "mediocre" side before the drawn Test series in the Caribbean.
Boycott, a Yorkshireman like Graves, said Cook was "out of order", adding: "If he attacks us, I care."
Boycott added on Twitter that there was "no reason to slag off Yorkshire folk" and said Cook would have been sacked in any other business for "publicly criticising his boss".
To add spice to the row, Boycott, 74, also claimed that Yorkshire, the current county champions, had produced more England cricketers than any other county and would beat the current England team.
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Cook has come in for renewed criticism after England lost the third and final Test against West Indies in Barbados to draw the series 1-1.
But it is his comments about Graves that have really infuriated Boycott.
Cook said Graves had inspired West Indies with his "mediocre" remark, adding: "That's a Yorkshireman for you... they're quite happy to talk a good game,"
In his Daily Telegraph column on Tuesday, Boycott wrote: "Every time Cook opens his mouth, he sticks his foot in it.
"Cook acts as if he is the best captain England have ever had.
"He is living in cloud-cuckoo land about his captaincy ability. He thinks he is untouchable."
Boycott's comments, in turn, drew a fierce response from Steve Harmison, a former England team-mate of Cook's.
The former Durham fast bowler told BBC Radio 5 live: "Geoffrey makes some valid points about the team, but I can't agree with what he says about Alastair Cook. That's a disgrace.
"He is having a personal crusade on a man who is trying to do his best."
The journey is seen as one of the five pillars of Islam, central to the faith.
Pilgrims spend five days praying both in Mecca and the surrounding desert.
It is a spiritual pilgrimage that every adult Muslim must perform at least once in their lives if they can afford it and are physically able.
In order to be closer to God, they wear simple clothes, aren't allowed to argue and perform rituals such as throwing stones at pillars to symbolise rejecting evil.
Teresa Romero's brother said her health had deteriorated and she was now being helped with her breathing in hospital.
Meanwhile, two doctors who treated her have been admitted for observation.
The admissions bring to six the total number of people under quarantine at the hospital in Madrid.
A spokesman for the Carlos III hospital said that so far neither of the two doctors recently admitted had shown Ebola symptoms.
Ms Romero is the first person to have contracted the deadly virus outside West Africa.
She was part of a team of about 30 staff looking after two missionaries who later died from the virus after being repatriated from West Africa.
Ms Romero told a Spanish newspaper that she might have become infected when removing her protective suit after cleaning one of the missionaries' room.
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On Wednesday she said that she was not feeling unwell, but now her condition has worsened although details remain unclear.
Her husband is among those being monitored.
The Ebola outbreak has already killed more than 3,000 people and infected more than 7,200, mostly in West Africa.
Spanish newspaper El Pais said that "a chain of human errors" had led to the first contagion of Ebola outside West Africa.
After cleaning the room of one of the missionaries following his death from the virus, Ms Romero took two days off from work and was instructed to monitor her temperature, the paper adds.
Reports as to what happened next vary, but it is believed that several days after cleaning the room she called the hospital reporting feverish symptoms and a temperature of 37.6C.
Sources working at her primary health care centre - where she was referred - told Spanish media she had not explained that she had been in contact with Ebola-infected patients. As a result she was discharged with painkillers.
Missionary Miguel Pajares, 75, died on 12 August after contracting the virus in Liberia. Manuel Garcia Viejo, 69, died on 25 September after catching the disease in Sierra Leone.
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Thomas Duncan, 42, tested positive in Dallas, Texas, 10 days after arriving from his native Liberia.
He became ill a few days after arriving in the US. Even after going to hospital and telling medical staff he had been in Liberia, he was sent home with antibiotics.
Peter Piot, one of the scientists who discovered Ebola in 1976, has told the BBC more must be done to stop the spread of the virus, saying he never imagined an outbreak "could have got to this point".
Surgical cap
Goggles
Medical mask
Scrubs
Overalls
Apron
Double gloves
Boots
Respirator
The cap forms part of a protective hood covering the head and neck. It offers medical workers an added layer of protection, ensuring that they cannot touch any part of their face whilst in the treatment centre.
Goggles, or eye visors, are used to provide cover to the eyes, protecting them from splashes. The goggles are sprayed with an anti-fogging solution before being worn. On October 21, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced stringent new guidelines for healthcare personnel who may be dealing with Ebola patients. In the new guidelines, health workers are advised to use a single use disposable full face shield as goggles may not provide complete skin coverage.
Covers the mouth to protect from sprays of blood or body fluids from patients. When wearing a respirator, the medical worker must tear this outer mask to allow the respirator through.
A respirator is worn to protect the wearer from a patient's coughs. According to guidelines from the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the respirator should be put on second, right after donning the overalls.
A surgical scrub suit, durable hospital clothing that absorbs liquid and is easily cleaned, is worn as a baselayer underneath the overalls. It is normally tucked into rubber boots to ensure no skin is exposed.
The overalls are placed on top of the scrubs. These suits are similar to hazardous material (hazmat) suits worn in toxic environments. The team member supervising the process should check that the equipment is not damaged.
A minimum two sets of gloves are required, covering the suit cuff. When putting on the gloves, care must be taken to ensure that no skin is exposed and that they are worn in such a way that any fluid on the sleeve will run off the suit and glove. Medical workers must change gloves between patients, performing thorough hand hygiene before donning a new pair. Heavy duty gloves are used whenever workers need to handle infectious waste.
A waterproof apron is placed on top of the overalls as a final layer of protective clothing.
Ebola health workers typically wear rubber boots, with the scrubs tucked into the footwear. If boots are unavailable, workers must wear closed, puncture and fluid-resistant shoes.
Things looked rosy for the Reds when Juan Mata pounced on Antonio Valencia's deflected cross to give them an early lead from close range.
But poor marking allowed Jack Rodwell - making his home debut - to head in Seb Larsson's corner after half an hour.
To add to United's troubles, Ashley Young was booked for diving.
The winger, criticised for going down too easily by former manager Sir Alex Ferguson, fell in the area following a challenge from ex-United defender Wes Brown, and referee Martin Atkinson had no hesitation in reaching for his pocket.
Before the match, Van Gaal said United would need a "miracle" to win the Premier League, and there was further evidence on Sunday to add weight to his gloomy prediction following last weekend's 2-1 home defeat by Swansea City.
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The Dutchman, who took over in the summer, persisted with a 3-4-1-2 formation and, while his side look bright going forward, they remained fragile at the back.
Angel Di Maria, the Real Madrid winger, is expected to arrive before the transfer window closes on 1 September for a British record fee, but Van Gaal may seek further reinforcements.
Mata's 17th-minute strike failed to settle the visitors and their nervy backline was given a warning when Connor Wickham turned on a throw in yards of space and shot wide.
United were exposed moments later when Rodwell, whose opportunities were limited at Manchester City before his summer move to the Stadium of Light, beat Valencia at the near post to power a header past David De Gea.
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United, without ineligible new signing Marcos Rojo, lost defender Chris Smalling to a hamstring injury to add to an injury list that now features eight first-team players, including midfielder Ander Herrera.
In a second half high on energy but low on quality, Wickham volleyed at youngster Tyler Blackett, who saw the ball rebound past De Gea's near post.
Sunderland goalkeeper Vito Mannone had to be quick off his line to deny Young as both sides pressed for a winner in a tense finale.
The Black Cats have not beaten United in a Premier League match at home since 1997, but there were several positives for manager Gus Poyet after a vibrant performance.
Winger Will Buckley, signed from Brighton in the summer, was a constant menace, while Rodwell's goal was a welcome reward for 63 minutes' action following his unsuccessful spell at Etihad Stadium.
Sunderland manager Gus Poyet: "It was a good game to watch. We played a very good first half, going forward taking chances and creating half opportunities after conceding at what was the wrong time really because we were in control of the game. It was a big effort.
"We made a few decisions on how to play against a different system and the boys have done exceptionally well. We showed that we were organised and difficult to play against.
"The goal from Jack Rodwell was perfect for a home debut. There are plenty of positives. It's important we started better than last year and that was key. Will Buckley played well and was incisive as well."
On Fabio Borini, the Liverpool target, who has been offered a Sunderland contract: "We're getting close to a final decision either way because it's been a bit too long.
"It's time now that it's a 'yes' coming or a 'no' as we need to move on."
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The 31-year-old world number 309 birdied the first two holes and two of the last three to reach seven under with US Open champion Dustin Johnson.
World number one Jason Day had six bogeys in a 76 and is eight shots back.
The cut came at two over, one too many for England's Matthew Fitzpatrick, while Northern Irishman Graeme McDowell finished seven over after a 76.
Johnson, the world number two who shared the overnight lead with List after an opening 66, had an early tee time on another hot, dry day at the Glen Abbey Golf Club.
He started at the 10th hole and bogeyed the 11th, double-bogeyed 12 and bogeyed the par-five 13th but later compiled six birdies in nine holes in his 71.
"The wind today almost feels like it's a little bit heavier and it's affecting the ball a little bit more, and it's a little bit different direction," said the long-hitting American, who was tied for ninth at last week's Open Championship.
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List, who dropped three shots in four holes midway through his round, is in his ninth season on the PGA Tour and has yet to record a victory, but has secured two top-10 finishes this year.
Two birdies at the par fives towards the end of the round kept him in contention and he said: "I'm real happy the way I finished up."
Johnson and List have a one-shot advantage over a group of three including amateur Jared du Toit, bidding to become the first Canadian to win the event since 1954.
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Bijan Ebrahimi was beaten to death and his body set alight on a Bristol estate amid false claims he was a paedophile.
A BBC investigation has found he asked the city council on a weekly, sometimes daily, basis to find him a new home but was given an Asbo in 2010.
The council said a report into the case was being published.
Mr Ebrahimi, a council house tenant, suffered constant abuse at the hands of his neighbours and had already been moved from another part of the area.
But the abuse continued at his final home in Capgrave Crescent, where he was killed by Lee James.
The BBC has learned he was given an Asbo in 2010 as he was viewed as the nuisance, according to the IPCC.
However, with the support of the SARI (Stand Against Racism & Inequality) charity in Bristol and the Avon and Bristol Law Centre, the Asbo was overturned.
Bristol City Council insist that Mr Ebrahimi was issued with an injunction based on anti-social behaviour which they say was "set aside" when Mr Ebrahimi agreed to give "an undertaking to be of good behaviour".
The BBC also spoke to one neighbour who supported Mr Ebrahimi in getting his Asbo lifted.
The woman, who has declined to be named, said his repeated calls for help from the council were "ignored".
She said he faced "death threats, his cat was abused and he had faeces left on his doorstep".
"No action was ever taken against those residents," she said.
She added that she felt scared living in this part of Brislington and was also affected by racism, with her daughter once threatened with a baseball bat.
Bristol City Council says it is investigating its treatment of Mr Ebrahimi, an Iranian refugee.
No report has been published since his death four years ago but the council said one would be released in the coming months.
The council added it had not been able to talk about the report due to legal reasons.
Mr Ebrahimi's family, who said the delay "could be seen by some as a cover-up", are considering taking a civil prosecution against the council.
Last week, the Independent Police Complaints Commission said Mr Ebrahimi reported death threats and racial abuse for seven years.
The report stated he had been treated "consistently differently from his neighbours" in what could be "racial bias, conscious or unconscious".
PC Kevin Duffy and PCSO Andrew Passmore were jailed last year for misconduct over their dealings with Mr Ebrahimi. They and two other police officers were also dismissed from the Avon and Somerset force.
Regarding the Asbo, the IPCC report states: "PC Duffy used his knowledge of Mr Ebrahimi and the latter's reports to the police, as the basis for a statement he wrote in September 2010 to support a Bristol City Council Anti-social Behaviour Order application against Mr Ebrahimi.
"PC Duffy asserted that he had compiled the statement from his personal knowledge and from researching police computer systems.
"From analysing this statement and comparing it with the information held by the force on its incident logs, it is apparent [in the opinion of the investigator] that, in short, PC Duffy misrepresented, was misleading about, and did not accurately reflect the contact between Mr Ebrahimi and the force between 2007 and 2010."
The Jordanian wants to replace the suspended president of world football's governing body in February's election.
But after Blatter, 79, and Uefa president Michel Platini, 60, were suspended, Fifa is expected to discuss postponing the vote.
Prince Ali said that would "tell the world lessons haven't been learned".
Swiss Blatter and Frenchman Platini, a Fifa vice-president, are both appealing against their 90-day suspensions.
General secretary Jerome Valcke is also suspended. All three deny any wrongdoing.
Confederation of African Football boss Issa Hayatou is interim Fifa president. Platini maintains he will still stand for election on 26 February to replace Blatter.
Prince Ali said: "With Fifa's crisis deepening, the organisation needs to move beyond interim leadership and elect an accountable president.
"Delaying the scheduled election would only postpone needed change and create further instability. It would tell the world that lessons haven't been learned, that the same backroom deals that have discredited Fifa in the first place continue."
Fifa's emergency meeting is being held on 20 October in Zurich.
The governing body's ethics committee began its investigation after the Swiss attorney general opened criminal proceedings against Blatter in September.
He is accused of signing a contract "unfavourable" to Fifa and making a "disloyal payment" to Platini.
The ethics committee also opened an inquiry into Platini over the 2m euros (£1.35m) payment, which was made nine years after the former France footballer carried out consultation work for Blatter.
Chris Hopson told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme that "something has to give" and there should be a debate about which services to sacrifice "rather than pretend the gap doesn't exist".
Figures show waiting times and delayed hospital discharges at record levels.
The government says it is giving NHS England the £10bn it asked for.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has called for a "seven-day NHS" since 2015 after his department concluded that there was a "clear link between poorer outcomes for patients and uneven service provision at the weekend".
Introducing a seven-day NHS also formed part of the Conservative Party's manifesto, and its based on data which suggests that patients are 16% more likely to die if they are admitted on a Sunday compared with a Wednesday.
However, the reasons for this have been contested, and medical professionals agree that people who arrive in hospitals at weekends tend to be sicker than those who do so during the week.
NHS Providers, the organisation that represents hospitals in England, says unless urgent funding is provided it will have to cut staff, bring in charges or introduce "draconian rationing" of treatment, for example, of non-urgent operations.
It highlights that 80% of England's acute hospitals are in financial deficit, compared with 5% three years ago - while missed A&E waiting time targets have risen from 10% to 90%.
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Mr Hopson said the NHS was under the "greatest pressure that we've been for a generation".
He added: "Jeremy Hunt and others have made a very strong case for seven-day services, but it seems to us it's impossible on the current level of staff and the current money we have available."
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On almost every measure, the last few years has seen a decline in performance in the NHS in England (although the rest of the UK is not immune to this either).
That should not come as a surprise. Overall the last five years has seen the tightest financial settlement in the history of the NHS.
To stem the decline, ministers agreed 2016-17 would see the biggest cash injection - nearly 4% above inflation - since the Labour years.
The jury is still out over whether that will have an impact. But even if it does the following years will see much smaller rises so the fear is any respite will only be short-term.
Yes there is a productivity drive, but it is the most ambitious one ever set. Most observers believe it would be amazing if it was achieved in full.
And that's before the seven-day initiative is even factored in.
So that leaves the government with three choices: Put more money in, accept a further decline in standards or cut back on what the NHS does. None of them are particularly palatable for the government.
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Mr Hopson also said the numbers of hospitals in deficit, and the missed waiting times for A&E, showed there was "clearly a system-level problem - it's not a problem of poor management".
People on the front line in the NHS were saying that they "cannot provide the right quality of care, and meet the performance standards, on the money that's available".
Mr Hopson said he wanted to see the seven-day NHS idea abandoned, and more money put into the NHS through general taxation.
But he added that the NHS's chairs and chief executives were "absolutely signed up" to deliver "stretching savings targets, and stretching productivity".
His warning comes days before the Commons Health Select Committee will decide whether to launch a special inquiry into the state of the NHS in England and two months before the government announces its spending plans in the Autumn Statement.
In July more than 50 hospitals in England were given the go-ahead to miss key waiting time targets this year to help ease their financial problems.
Fines for missing targets in A&E, cancer and routine operations have also been scrapped altogether and a new failure regime is being set up for the worst-performing trusts.
The Vale of York trust considered suspending non-urgent treatment for obese patients and smokers for a year in order to ease financial pressures before bosses intervened.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd rejected Mr Hopson's suggestion that a seven-day NHS was impossible to deliver.
"The health secretary and the government consulted with [NHS Chief Executive] Simon Stevens and asked him about what scale of money was necessary - we've delivered on that money," she told Andrew Marr.
But Chris Ham, chief executive of the King's Fund think tank, said the government should heed "warning signs" and not wait for a "full scale crisis to develop".
He added: "It is simply not realistic to expect hard-pressed staff to deliver new commitments like seven-day services while also meeting waiting time targets and reducing financial deficits."
Diane Abbott MP, shadow health secretary, said: "Years of Tory underfunding of the NHS has made it is impossible to provide the right quality of service and meet performance targets.
"The government needs to properly fund the NHS if it is to function properly. This is what Labour would do."
In June, Northern Ireland Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir said its health service was to receive an extra £72m to help deal with pressures in the service, bringing the total additional funding for health to £200m in 2016-17.
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced in June that minimum staffing levels in Scotland's NHS are to be enshrined in law.
And Welsh Assembly Finance Minister Jane Hutt announced last December that the NHS would be getting a net boost of £278m under the Welsh government's spending plans for 2016-17.
Gael Nofri said that in 2012 the National Front (FN) had recruited him into Ms Le Pen's presidential campaign team, using a fictitious European Parliament (EP) contract.
It was apparently a way for the FN to avoid declaring campaign spending.
The FN is already under investigation for alleged misuse of EP funds.
Polls suggest that Ms Le Pen is on course to win the first round of the presidential election in April, but centrist Emmanuel Macron is gaining ground and looks likely to beat her in the May runoff vote.
A Figaro/LCI poll on Sunday put Mr Macron on 58% in the runoff, against 42% for Ms Le Pen.
Quoted by French media, Mr Nofri said he had signed up to work for Ms Le Pen in September 2011.
"In 2012 I was told: 'there is a problem, we have to do it via a European Parliament contract' - I refused," he said.
Mr Nofri is now a municipal councillor in Nice with the centre-right Republicans party, having severed his links to the FN.
Later in 2012, he said, he was given a contract to work with FN accountant Nicolas Crochet, but he "never set foot" in Mr Crochet's office.
The French news website Mediapart says fraud investigators have found evidence of €4,500 (£3,834; $4,763) in monthly payments to Mr Nofri from 2012, identifying him as a European Parliament assistant to MEP Jean-Marie Le Pen, Marine's father and the former FN leader.
"I was never Jean-Marie Le Pen's assistant," he said.
At least three other FN associates of Marine Le Pen are under French judicial investigation: Catherine Griset, Frederic Chatillon and her bodyguard Thierry Legier.
Ms Le Pen has refused a police interview about her alleged misuse of EU funds - a right that she has because of parliamentary immunity.
She denies wrongdoing and claims that the allegations are a plot to derail her campaign.
One of her election rivals, Republicans' candidate Francois Fillon, is embroiled in a separate financial scandal involving suspicious payments made to his wife and children.
Lorrain de Saint-Affrique, an aide to Jean-Marie Le Pen quoted by Mediapart, insisted that Mr Nofri had indeed worked for Mr Le Pen "as a local assistant".
The European Parliament alleges that more than €300,000 (£257,000; $321,000) of its funding was misspent by the FN.
On Sunday Ms Le Pen addressed a campaign rally in the western city of Nantes, hours after anti-FN demonstrators clashed with police.
There were an estimated 2,000-3,000 protesters and 12 police officers were injured in the unrest. Video showed masked protesters running through tear gas and riot police confronting them. Flares were thrown and a policeman's trouser leg caught fire. Colleagues extinguished the flames but he suffered serious burns.
A run of two wins in nine matches has left Hibs behind Falkirk in the race for second spot in the Championship.
But with promotion still up for grabs and a Scottish Cup final to look forward to, McGinn believes this could prove to be a special season for Hibs.
"It will give us a great feeling at the end of the season if we can ram the words down people's throats," he said.
The phrase "Hibsing it" - meaning to throw away a favourable position - has been prevalent on social media among rival fans this season, and McGinn admits it riles him.
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"Our character can't be doubted over the course of the season," said the midfielder, who made his Scotland debut against Denmark last month.
"We ignore it to an extent but then it gives us something to inspire us and be successful."
McGinn and team-mate Jason Cummings are among the nominees for the Championship Player of the Year award.
Cummings says the feeling the Hibs players experienced after losing the League Cup final to Ross County is spurring them on to make sure they do not finish the season empty-handed.
"The boys after getting beat in the League Cup final don't want to feel like that again," said Cummings, who has scored 24 goals in all competitions for Hibs this season.
"So, I think we're going into the Scottish Cup final [against Rangers] just to give everything.
"We're still in good stead for promotion. I think we're still favourites. Everyone's still confident."
But the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld other guilty verdicts against Sister Megan Rice, 85, and two others for damaging government property.
It ordered a lower court to give them new sentences.
Rice was jailed for nearly three years for entering the Oak Ridge facility in Tennessee, which stores uranium.
The other two protesters, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed, were each sentenced to more than five years in prison.
The July 2012 incident prompted security changes at the Y-12 site.
The panel of the appeals court in Nashville, Tennessee, overturned the sabotage convictions of the three peace activists - members of the group Transform Now Plowshares - in a 2-1 ruling.
During their trial last year, Walli and Boertje-Obed received tougher sentences because they had longer criminal histories.
The trio were also found guilty of causing more than $1,000 (£647) of damage to government property.
After cutting a fence to enter the site, they walked around, spray-painted graffiti, strung out crime-scene tape and chipped a wall with hammers.
They spent two hours inside.
The trio also sprayed the exterior of the complex with baby bottles containing human blood.
When a guard approached, they offered him food and started singing.
At the trial, Sister Megan said her only regret was waiting so long to stage her protest. "It is manufacturing that which can only cause death," she said.
US lawmakers and the Department of Energy later launched an inquiry and uncovered "troubling displays of ineptitude" at the facility.
Top officials were reassigned, including at the National Nuclear Security Administration.
WSI, the company providing security at the site, was dismissed and other officers were sacked, demoted or suspended.
The 42-year-old was found with "significant" injuries in Greenend Avenue at about 10:45 on Saturday.
Police believe he was killed after a disturbance when someone came to his door in the early hours.
They have appealed for anyone with information or who saw anything suspicious to come forward.
Det Ch Insp Raymond Brown said: "We know that there was a disturbance at Mr Quail's home in Greenend Avenue, Johnstone around 0050 hours on Saturday 25 February 2017 and extensive inquiries are ongoing to establish the circumstances.
"Greenend Avenue is in a busy residential area and it may well be that local residents or those in the area may have seen people acting suspiciously.
"I believe that the answer to this murder inquiry lies in the local community and I am in no doubt that there are people out there with vital information regarding this incident, who have not yet spoken to police."
He added: "A man has lost his life and it is critical to this investigation that anyone who has information, no matter how insignificant it may appear to them, contact the inquiry team who are based at Helen Street Police Office through 101."
Mark Williams told a BBC Wales debate that people should have the right to have their say over the Brexit deal.
He also said the Lib Dems would not go into coalition with Labour or the Conservatives.
"No coalition with Mr Corbyn. No coalition with Mrs May", he said.
Speaking on Ask the Leader, he said: "Theresa May is asking for a blank cheque.
"I don't think many of you would give someone a blank cheque if you didn't have some indication of what the outcome would look like".
"The country voted for departure but the destination is unclear and that's why I believe the country should have the vote," he told a studio audience in Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent - a county which voted to Leave the EU.
He acknowledged that MPs would have a say but believed voters should as well.
Mr Williams told the programme: "What the public need to reflect on is whether that vote should be for one for politicians alone or for yourself.
"I believe that if democracy started the process, and the country did speak, and democracy should end the process as well.
"I don't think that we can understate the enormity of the decision that is before us."
After the vote to leave the EU, many might have expected the Lib Dems to position themselves as the main opposition to the Conservatives on Brexit.
The party campaigned heavily for Britain to remain a member of the EU - if this election is about Brexit, surely the Lib Dems will be able to pick up a number of votes from those who voted to remain?
Also, the party would be hoping to win over voters disillusioned with the current turmoil in the Labour Party. Unfortunately for the Lib Dems, the hoped-for fight back has not materialised.
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The alliance said it must adapt to the mixture of conventional military tactics, subversive campaigns and cyber-warfare that Russia was using in Ukraine.
Nato says that Russia is backing rebels in Ukraine - a claim denied by Moscow.
Three Baltic countries are preparing to ask for a permanent presence of Nato troops on their soil to act as a deterrent to the Russian military.
"Hybrid warfare combines different types of threats, including conventional, subversion and cyber," said Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg.
"When the world has changed, Nato has to adapt," he added.
Speaking after a meeting of defence ministers in Turkey, Mr Stoltenberg said that a more assertive Russia had been using force to change borders and intimidate its neighbours.
The two-day conference was also attended by EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini. Nato has said that it will look to increase its co-operation and intelligence sharing with the EU.
"We will ensure that the strategies we are developing are complementary, so that we can work together quickly and effectively in the case of a hybrid threat against any of our members," said Mr Stoltenberg.
In another development, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have said they are preparing to ask Nato to station one troop battalion in each country.
Lithuanian Army spokesman Capt Mindaugas Neimontas said that the request would be made in a joint letter later this week.
"It is necessary because of the security situation," he told The Associated Press news agency. "It's not getting better in our region, so it will be a deterrent."
There is growing concern over increased military activity from Russia.
On Thursday, RAF fighter jets were scrambled after two Russian military aircraft were seen flying towards UK airspace.
Nato forces have also stepped up military exercises, especially in eastern European nations.
The alliance is conducting its largest ever anti-submarine warfare exercise in the North Sea, off the coast of Norway.
The West has criticised Russia for annexing the Crimean peninsula and has accused Russia of arming rebels in the east of Ukraine.
More than 6,000 people have been killed in fighting which began in April 2014 between Ukrainian government forces and rebels in the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
The lull in the conflict in eastern Ukraine since February's ceasefire has been punctuated by frequent violations, and on Tuesday Ukraine said three of its soldiers had been killed in the past 24 hours.
Phillip Potter, 19, of Dauntsey, Wiltshire has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Matthew Gordon, 29, from Dauntsey, has been charged with aiding and abetting and one count of dangerous driving.
Mitzi Steady, four, Phil Allen, 52, Stephen Vaughan, 34, and Robert Parker, 59, all died in the crash.
Mitzi was walking with her grandmother on Lansdown Lane, Bath, when she was hit by the truck. The three others victims, from Swansea and Cwmbran were in a taxi.
Mr Potter and Mr Gordon have been released on bail to appear before Bath Magistrates' Court in January.
Emergency services were called to Muscle Junction on Glasgow Road, Barrhead, just after 23:00 on Saturday.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said there had been a fire and "small explosion" at the store.
The entire front of the shop was blown off in the blast, but police said no-one had been injured.
An investigation into the explosion is being carried out by the fire service.
Gail Purcell is charged with causing death by careless driving following a collision with Michael Mason, 70, on Regents Street, London, in 2014.
The 58-year-old from St Albans, Herts, pleaded not guilty at the Old Bailey.
The Cyclists' Defence Fund raised £60,000 from 1,500 donations to pursue the action.
Mr Mason died 19 days after the collision having never regained consciousness from his injuries.
Police had declined to refer the case to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
Private prosecutions can be brought by any individual or organisation and proceed in exactly the same way as those brought by the CPS.
Before proceeding with a prosecution, the CPS will consider if the case is in the public interest and if there is sufficient evidence to secure a conviction.
Ms Purcell will face a six-day trial on 3 April and was granted unconditional bail.
There have been eight UK documented cases of the H5N8 strain of the infection, including in Llanelli and Pontyberem.
It led to an avian flu prevention zone being extended to all of Wales.
But NFU Cymru is among four farming unions calling for the 12-week free-range status to be extended.
The prevention zone is in place until 28 February 2017 and includes measures such as keeping poultry and other captive birds indoors or separate from wild birds.
But the presidents of the four UK farming unions - including NFU Cymru - have called for free-range status to be extended "until the risk has subsided to previous levels".
"The UK market will, without doubt, be one of the most affected countries as a result of bird flu, due to half of our national flock being free-range, by far the highest percentage of any member state," the UK Farming Union Presidents said in a statement.
Yet the British Free Range Egg Producers Association said the restrictions were necessary.
Its chief executive Robert Gooch told BBC Radio Cymru's Taro'r Post programme: "This is a situation that is not of farmers' making. It will be seen as a necessary step to protect production of free range eggs.
"We would urge all poultry keepers, regardless of their size, to follow the rules of the housing order and for good biosecurity protocols to be followed at all times."
Englishman Garner, 28, has scored 57 goals in 148 appearances since joining the Championship club in 2013.
The forward could make his Rangers debut against Kilmarnock at Rugby Park on Friday evening.
Preston said on their official Twitter account: "We're yet to receive the paperwork but expect the deal to be completed over the weekend."
But Garner, who was paraded at Ibrox Park ahead of a 2-1 win over Motherwell on Saturday, is not expecting any last-minute hitches.
"It's fantastic to be here and to have got it over the line," he said. "Now it's done, I'm really looking forward to it.
"It was a great finish to the game today, a great atmosphere and I'm sure the lads will be buzzing in the dressing-room.
"If you look at the history of the club, it's obviously massive.
"When I was driving in with my family, you could get a sense of how much they love their football up here.
"I've been brought in to score goals and hopefully pick up points and trophies along the way."
Garner was left out of Preston's side as they lost 1-0 at home to Derby County on Tuesday after Rangers submitted their bid.
Rangers manager Mark Warburton was delighted to add to his striking options along with Kenny Miller, Martyn Waghorn and summer signing Joe Dodoo.
"We've been chasing him for a while," he said. "He comes in with a real edge to his play and offers us something a bit different.
"We've now got four strikers with Joe, Kenny, Martyn Waghorn and Joe Dodoo, so we've got some real options now up front."
Garner has previously played for Carlisle United, Nottingham Forest, Huddersfield Town, Scunthorpe United and Watford, scoring over 100 goals since 2006.
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Bashir Naderi, who has lived in the UK for nine years, had his deportation halted by a judge just hours before his flight on 31 October.
More than 30 friends attended a 'Stand up for Bash' awareness event on Tuesday and his old school showed its support.
"The support has overwhelmed Bashir," said friend Gemma Summers, 24.
"He can't put into words how much it means to him, Bash can't believe all of these people would care so much. He's humbled."
Mr Naderi, who was a painting and decorating student at Cardiff and Vale College until his threatened deportation, is with his adopted family in Cathays.
His solicitors have launched a judicial review and Cardiff Central MP Jo Stevens is working with his legal team to keep him in the city permanently.
Mr Naderi's girlfriend Nicole Cooper, 24, thinks the Home Office is deporting him now he is an adult, so launched an online petition to give to Home Secretary Amber Rudd.
The Home Office said it could not comment on individual cases.
Mr Naderi's mother paid for her youngest son to be trafficked to the UK aged 10 after his father, an Afghan police officer, was murdered by the Taliban. He has not spoken to his family in Afghanistan since.
AMs Jenny Rathbone, Julie Morgan and Lynne Neagle will show support to Mr Naderi's cause on the Senedd steps on Wednesday by wearing a blue ribbon - the symbol his supporters have adopted.
"I raised concerns in the Senedd last week about the threatened forced removal of Bashir," said Cardiff Central AM Ms Rathbone.
"Events like Stand Up for Bash are critical in both raising awareness of why Bashir should stay and to show the massive support he has from the community and the people of Wales.
"No family in Wales should have to go through this type of forced separation. Holding a Stand Up for Bash event in the assembly shows he has support at the highest level of government here."
It happened at about 01:00 BST between junction 8 southbound for the M50 and junction 9 for Tewkesbury.
Police and paramedics attended. Two people were pronounced dead at the scene.
The M5 is closed between J8 and J9 southbound, and officers are advising motorists to avoid the area.
A diversion has been put in place to exit the M5 at Junction 8 and follow signs via the A417 and A40.
Police had earlier said that three people were dead, but later corrected this information.
The Pro12 leaders were outclassed and made to pay dearly for indiscipline as Racing scored nine tries - five of them before half-time.
Dan Carter kicked faultlessly for 13 points, with man of the match Casey Laulala scoring a hat-trick of tries.
Scarlets' previous biggest loss was 41-0 against Clermont Auvergne in 2008.
The visitors were not helped by the last-minute withdrawal of South African second row George Earle with a calf strain, his place taken by Tom Price.
And they struggled to hold the home team from the outset as Carter opened his account with a penalty and converted Juan Imhoff's outstanding try.
Their resistance collapsed when first Maselino Paulino and DTH van der Merwe were yellow-carded for dangerous tackles midway through the first half.
Tries for former Cardiff Blues centre Laulala and Antonie Claassen quickly followed and, even when Paulino returned, Louis Dupichot ran in brilliantly to claim Racing's bonus point.
Laulala's second touchdown on the stroke of half-time came with Scarlets at full strength. Carter did not miss a kick in the first half.
After the interval, Scarlets' first-half miscreants combined brilliantly with Paulino sending Van der Merwe over after a storming run, and Gareth Davies crossed soon after with Racing's Mike Phillips in the bin.
But a penalty try after a driving maul restored the home dominance, with further tries coming from Imhoff, Johannes Goosen and Laulala.
Scarlets head coach Wayne Pivac told BBC Wales Sport:
"They're a class side, very strong across the field from one to 15.
"But I was disappointed in the early part of that first half. There were 21 points scored when we had men off the field and the game was pretty much gone at that point.
"We talked at half-time about putting some pride back in our performance and there were some pretty good things in that second half, but the game itself was obviously gone at half time. So it was very disappointing."
Racing 92: Brice Dulin; Louis Dupichot, Dan Carter, Casey Laulala, Juan Imhoff; Remi Tales, Mike Phillips; Eddy Ben Arous, Dimitri Szarzewski (capt), Ben Tameifuna, Luke Charteris, Manuel Carizza, Yannick Nyanga, Bernard Le Roux, Antonie Claassen.
Replacements: Camille Chat, Julien Brugnaut, Martin Castrogiovanni, Thibault Dubarry, Chris Masoe, Maxime Machenaud, Henry Chavancy, Johannes Goosen
Scarlets: Michael Collins; Steffan Evans, Regan King, Hadleigh Parkes, DTH van der Merwe; Steven Shingler, Gareth Davies; Phil John, Ken Owens (capt), Samson Lee, Tom Price, Maselino Paulino, Rory Pitman, Aaron Shingler, Morgan Allen
Replacements: Kirby Myhill, Wyn Jones, Rhodri Jones, Jacob Cowley, Tom Phillips, Rhodri Williams, Daniel Jones, Steffan Hughes
Referee: Matthew Carley (England)
Touch judges: Ian Tempest (England), Wayne Falla (England)
TMO: David Grashoff (England)
Citing commissioner: Achille Reali (Italy)
Michael Jones, 46, must serve 25 years for killing his son Adrian. The boy's step-mother, Heather Jones, 31, has already been jailed for the same crime.
Officials say Adrian endured horrific torture in his last year of life, and was fed to pigs after his death.
A Kansas politician has introduced a law requiring people to report abuse.
Representative Louis Ruiz introduced Adrian's Act, which would require family members or residents of the household to report abuse to authorities.
Under current Kansas law, only "mandated reporters", such as healthcare workers, teachers, social workers, and law enforcement officers are obligated to report abuse.
"If you witness child abuse, I don't care if you're a mandated reporter or not, we should report these things," said Adrian's grandmother, Judy Conway, who praised the bill.
The little boy's remains were found in a barn on a property rented by the Jones family in November 2015.
He is believed to have died from starvation months earlier.
Investigators had gone to the home after receiving reports of domestic abuse.
While the couple was awaiting trial, their landlord discovered photos and videos on their computer meticulously documenting the horrific abuse Adrian had endured.
During sentencing, Detective Stuart Littlefield choked back tears as he described the final year of Adrian's life, which he said was the worst crime he had seen in his 23-year career.
"Imagine the screams of a 7-year old boy", Mr Littlefield said describing the abuse.
"And when his killers could no longer stand the stench of his body he was fed to pigs," he said.
Carlisle-based CN Group has transferred ownership of the Eskdale and Liddesdale Advertiser to community interest company Muckle Toon Media.
It was announced in November that the loss-making weekly title would close unless a new owner could be found.
The Langholm-based community company will now run the paper with printing and publishing help from CN group.
The new not-for-profit organisation was formed by local businessman David Stevenson and a small team.
"We have just got used to local and regional newspapers closing and the increased emphasis about what's on Twitter, Facebook and the internet," he said.
However, he said a chance meeting with two elderly women in the local paper shop convinced him of the importance of the publication to the community.
Mr Stevenson described it as "high risk-low return" in financial terms but "high risk-very high return" for the community.
"We set about working out how much money would be needed to fund it from the losses it is making at the moment to taking it up to break even," he said.
"We think that is probably about 18 months to two years.
"It really depends on the amount of advertising that we can raise - it lives or dies on that."
For editor Rachel Norris and her two staff the deal brings to an end a period of uncertainty.
"It is incredibly important, not only as a high street business on a small high street but it is a fantastic vehicle to get news out to people but also for people to share what is happening in their lives," she said.
"All newspapers are seeing their circulations decline but we are kind of turning it around and going to the community and saying: 'What do you want? What would you like to see in the paper? What would you like to contribute?'."
Mr Stevenson said he believed that whatever happened they would find a model to allow the paper to continue for years to come.
"Papers like this are important, particularly to the older people," he said.
"If you don't have communication, you don't have a community and the Eskdale and Liddesdale paper is very much part of that infrastructure.
"We would lose a lot if it ceased to be there."
Since announcing the scheme last May, the government has struggled to find affordable long-term private finance for the majority of the 261 schools it planned to rebuild this way.
And at least half, 137, will have to wait until the next spending review to have their funding confirmed, it says.
This means battling it out with other departments to secure Treasury funding.
When Education Secretary Michael Gove announced that 261 schools would be built under the priority building programme, he said the majority, 212, would be built and funded by private finance initiatives.
The other 42 schools were to be funded directly by the Department for Education (DfE), though this was later increased to 51 schools.
But a year on, only one potential private finance package - covering seven schools in Hertfordshire, Reading and Luton - is ready for bidding to open by construction companies. They are to be invited to bid on the scheme at the end of this month.
The Department for Education said a further four regional batches, totalling 39 schools, will be finalised and released to bidders over the next 12 months. It is only after such deals are signed that start dates can be set.
And a further 27 are now to be funded directly by the DfE with a £300m sum from its capital budget.
But the rest of the programme, some 137 schools earmarked for the programme a year ago, it added, would now be "delivered using capital funding, subject to the next spending review settlement.
"The timetable for the remaining schools in the programme will be announced after the settlement is made in June."
This means the DfE will have to battle it out with other departments to secure the funding from the Treasury for the scheme. And there has already been speculation that many departments are facing harsher settlements than they may have expected.
Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said there was no guarantee these schemes would be funded, as extra borrowing would be required to bankroll them.
"There is still an urgent need for a large number of schools that are in poor condition and urgently need significant refurbishment.
"It is good news for those in the first few batches, but very bad news for those further down the line. They have no start date and no guarantee of funding.
"It means they have got no guarantee that their work is going to be completed. It's a very, very slow process and it is going to seem extremely slow for those schools."
A DfE spokesman insisted that all the rebuilds would still go ahead and that the change of strategy was about finding value for money.
He confirmed that there had been "a few concerns about the affordability of the long-term debt and the fact that we wanted to get this work done quickly."
He added: "It's about making the right decision for the taxpayer."
The statement comes just two months after the BBC revealed that that programme was being held up by delays in finding private cash to fund it. At that stage, the delays were denied by Schools Minister David Laws.
Steve Beechey, head of education at the Wates construction company, welcomed the news about the schools that are progressing, but added: "It is a matter of concern that future school spending beyond these schools is not guaranteed.
"Many of the remaining 146 schools in the priority school building programme, who had thought they would be procured via PF2 [Private Finance 2], are in dire need of work, so it is very important that their funding streams are confirmed as soon as possible."
Cllr David Simmonds, Chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board, said:
"Government needs to reassure mums, dads and head teachers that these plans will be put into place quickly and provide definitive time scales on the future of their local schools."
He said that schools were being kept running by councils carrying out repairs, but many of them had been ready to be rebuilt and refurbished for several years.
According to Cllr Simmonds some of the schools were in such bad condition that it was impacting the quality of education.
Stephen Twigg, the shadow education secretary, said: "This government is failing to deliver on school rebuilding...
"This failure will mean pupils are stuck in overcrowded classrooms or under leaky roofs. Parents rightly expect more. Labour would kick start our flatlining economy by bringing forward investment in new school buildings."
Jocelyn Elliott and her husband Ken, who are in their 80s, were snatched from Djibo near the border with Mali.
The couple had provided medical services in the town since the 1970s.
Al Qaeda-linked militants said the kidnapping was an attempt to secure the release of imprisoned fighters, a jihadist monitoring group said.
The group, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), said in an audio recording that it would release Mrs Elliott so as "not to make women involved in the war", according to a translation made by the SITE Intelligence organisation.
Mrs Elliott appeared alongside Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou in the town of Dosso, Niger's presidential spokesman said.
Efforts to free her husband were continuing, the spokesman added.
Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull confirmed that the Australian government had been in contact with Mrs Elliott following her release.
The couple were kidnapped on the same day as a deadly attack on a hotel in the Burkina Faso capital Ouagadougou, which was also claimed by AQIM.
In response, local people in Djibo launched a social media campaign calling for their release.
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The pair last met in the Masters final in January, when O'Sullivan won 10-1.
Hawkins, who beat Zhang Anda 10-5 in round one, also lost to O'Sullivan in the 2013 World Championship final and the 2014 semi-final.
"I've got to try to push if him if I can and see where we go from there," said Hawkins, the world number 11.
"The last few times, Ronnie's just blown me away and I've crumbled.
"If I can get that mentality back that I had in the final a few years ago, when I actually felt I could beat him, hopefully I can give him a decent game.
"If not, he'll bash me up with a session to spare again, I suppose."
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Hawkins, from Ditton in Kent, was scathing in his assessment of his performance in the first round at the Crucible, despite finishing off with a 141 break - the highest of the tournament so far.
"I'm delighted to be in the next round," he said. "Tuesday was awful.
"I was so lucky to be 6-3 up. I could easily have been 6-3 down with the way I was playing and the way I was cueing.
"The 141 was a nice way to finish. I had a few 50s and 60s but kept breaking down, which is definitely not good enough. It's probably got no chance of lasting, but you never know."
Hawkins, who has reached the semi-finals or better at the World Championship in each of the last three years, starts his second-round match against five-time winner O'Sullivan on Saturday.
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Nicola Urquhart's comments came after Corrie Mckeague's grandparents offered a five-figure reward for information leading to his discovery.
The RAF gunner from Dunfermline went missing on a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on 24 September.
Temporary Assistant Chief Constable Louisa Pepper said she was confident in her team of officers.
She said the force was using an "inordinate" amount of resources in the hunt for Mr Mckeague.
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Mr Mckeague's mother Mrs Urquhart said: "The police have behaved in such a way that they have utterly destroyed any faith or trust I have in them actually trying to do something to find Corrie.
"They have absolutely destroyed my belief that they are competent and they know what they're doing.
"This is more than just resources, this is an utter betrayal of trust."
Temporary ACC Pepper said she was "surprised" and "disappointed" by Mrs Urquhart's comments.
"We are using the similar resources we would put into a murder investigation," she said.
"I'm absolutely confident that my officers are doing everything they can to find Corrie.
"They are highly skilled, they are highly professional and they're determined to find him and understand the circumstances around his disappearance."
Meanwhile, Mary and Oliver Mckeague said they are offering a reward to the "individual who provides information that leads to our grandson's discovery and return".
Mrs Mckeague said she believed he might "have gone" with a "third party".
Corrie Mckeague was last seen on CCTV walking alone and eating fast food in Brentgovel Street, Bury St Edmunds, at about 03:20 BST.
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A seven-wicket win over New Zealand took Morgan's side into Sunday's final against India or West Indies - 12 months after England exited the World Cup at the group stage.
"Everybody involved has worked tirelessly to get us to this stage and to get us to play in this fashion," Morgan said.
"We've come out and we've delivered."
England have won 19 out of 31 limited-overs games since the World Cup - including nine out of 12 Twenty20 matches - with much of their improvement down to a more aggressive and enterprising approach, especially from the batsmen.
And Morgan says the team will be told to continue to play that way in the final on Delhi.
"The later the stage you get to at a World Cup, the more licence you have as a team and as individuals to go out and express yourself as much as you can, so we'll be encouraging our guys to go out and do that," he said.
Batsman Jason Roy, who hit 78 in England's chase, described the achievement as "overwhelming".
"A lot of hard work has gone into it by all the team and to be in a final with this group of boys is extremely special," he said.
Roy averaged just 13 in this format before the World Twenty20, but is now the tournament's third-highest run scorer.
"People who don't realise how much hard work you put in in the nets and how tough it is mentally," he said.
"I am glad I have been able to right those wrongs and gain a few more people who back me."
Moeen Ali: What a win. Jason Roy - unreal innings. Well played brother and to the team.
James Anderson: Brilliant England. Serious performance. Go on and win it now.
Stuart Broad: The perfect game! Won the toss, bowled well, took chances, had some luck, caught NZ on an off day and Roy lashed it! Final time! #WT20
Ben Stokes: What a team performance that was, great atmosphere at the ground. How good was Jason Roy?
Michael Vaughan: Boooooommmmmm... World Cup Final... Get in, you young England beauties...
James Vince: Que sera sera, whatever will be, will be, we're going to Kolkata, que sera sera.
Brian Lara: Big and brave move @Eoin16 to bowl first and it paid off. Excellent bowling performance set up a great victory. #betterteamwon #goodeffortNZ
Phil Tufnell: What a result for England. I don't think it could have gone much better #top drawer
Mitchell McClenaghan: Really proud of our boys - not quite enough on the day. Credit to England and wish them all the best for the final.
Ross Taylor: England were just too good tonight. Great campaign and thanks to all the fans for all the support over the last month.
Police said the man was seen on the Queens Bridge in Perth at about 04:00 on Saturday and entered the water shortly afterwards.
Rescuers from the police, coastguard, ambulance and fire service were at the scene.
The inshore lifeboat from RNLI Broughty Ferry and a search and rescue helicopter were also involved.
The plane, a new Airbus A400M, reportedly developed a fault just after take-off on a test flight.
Local media say that those on board were Spanish Airbus employees. Two have also been seriously injured.
Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has expressed his sorrow over the incident which took place about 1.6km (1 mile) away from San Pablo airport.
Local media say that the plane had signalled that there was a fault with its systems just before the crash.
The plane reportedly hit an electric power line as the pilots tried to make an emergency landing.
The survivors have been taken to hospital by helicopter. A Spanish interior ministry spokesman told The Associated press news agency that one person had been conscious when they were taken out of the wreckage.
Mr Rajoy said the government was ready to support the families of all of those involved in the accident.
The accident took place in a field just north of San Pablo airport. According to local media, the crash site is close to the Airbus manufacturing plant which assembles the planes.
The Airbus A400M plane model is not yet used by the Spanish military. It is a large transport aircraft that has been ordered by eight countries including Spain to replace a fleet of ageing Hercules aircraft.
Airbus has said that the plane that crashed had been ordered by Turkey.
Local media report that the Spanish government has also agreed to buy 27 of the planes, with the first one due to be delivered to the military next year.
The British Ministry of Defence has temporarily suspended use of its two A400M aircraft, as a precaution.
The crowd of all ages and backgrounds filled Potters Field Park, less than a mile from where three men drove into pedestrians on London Bridge before launching a knife attack in Borough Market.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan led the short ceremony with a defiant speech that was welcomed by applause.
The crowd filled the park and spilled out on to the area around City Hall, a snaking line of people waiting to leave flowers. The area is now a sea of floral tributes.
Hanyah Casam, 14, from Eden Girls School in Walthamstow, said: "I don't think there's an emotion to describe how we feel today. There's so much sorrow and heartbreak and we just wanted to be here to show our support."
Classmate Zahra Salamut, 15, said: "What happened is not a representation of Islam and we are here with love to represent British Muslims."
Doreen Hutchings, 67, from Camberwell, said: "I'm very angry that people think they can come and do this to my city so I wanted to be with other Londoners.
"It's nice there's a real mixture of people young and old from different backgrounds."
Gareth Snelling, 24, from Peckham, works for Help For Refugee Children. He drew a rainbow heart on a banner where people could leave messages.
He said: "It's really eerie being so quiet but it's nice to see so many people."
Monika Ober-Sahnoun, 31, is from Poland and lives in Greenwich. She said: "I wanted to show the spirit of coming together as a community and showing love and saying 'no' to fear and hate."
The previous driest spell for the four-month period was in 1962-63.
So what has caused this and what has been the impact?
During the last three months of 2016, there was predominantly high pressure over north-west Europe, keeping unsettled and wetter Atlantic weather at bay.
High pressure over Scandinavia in January had the same impact, but brought much colder conditions across Europe too.
However, in Northern Ireland, the severely cold weather did not arrive - temperatures were actually almost one degree above average.
This dry weather has been beneficial to arable farmers.
Robin McKee, a potato farmer in Comber, said it had been "a great spell for potatoes and root vegetables in general, and it's been much easier for the farmers and for harvesting crops".
As far as water levels go, Alison McCrystal of NI Water said a small number of reservoirs, including Silent Valley, had lower levels than usual for this time of year.
However, she said this was not at a worrying level and after more than an inch of rain fell on 30 January, the levels have already started to rise.
The story might be more concerning if the drier weather comes in the summer months, with higher evaporation from the sun coupled with low rainfall amounts.
That is still a way off though, so no sign of hosepipe ban just yet...
The focus of her rage is Universal Pictures, who snapped up a script about the singer's early years in New York earlier this week.
Madonna sought out a copy of the screenplay, called Blonde Ambition, and immediately declared it to be "all lies".
"Nobody knows what I know and what I have seen," the 58-year-old fumed on Instagram.
"Only I can tell my story. Anyone else who tries is a charlatan and a fool. Looking for instant gratification without doing the work. This is a disease in our society."
Penned by first-time writer Elyse Hollander, Blonde Ambition topped last year's Black List, Hollywood's annual chart of the best unproduced screenplays.
The list has previously featured future Oscar-winners such as Spotlight, The Revenant, Argo and American Hustle - so it's no surprise that Universal nabbed the rights.
Two major producers have already been attached to the project, Michael De Luca (The Social Network) and Brett Ratner (X-Men), who himself directed Madonna's Beautiful Stranger video in 1999.
However, it's clear that the project doesn't have the star's approval.
In theory, that's not a barrier to the film getting made, but the script relies heavily on Madonna's music, including Like A Virgin, Everybody and Lucky Star.
If the singer vetoes their use, the project would essentially be dead in the water.
But how inaccurate is Hollander's script?
We read a publicly available draft to see how closely it stuck to Madonna's story.
While the arc is broadly true, Hollander compresses and condenses events, even creating composite characters to keep up the momentum.
Here's what's true, and what isn't.
The first act of the script focuses on Madonna's pre-fame band The Emmys, which she formed with her boyfriend Dan Gilroy and childhood friend Stephen Bray, who went on to co-write Into The Groove, Express Yourself and True Blue.
Their name derived from Madonna's childhood nickname, and video footage of their scrappy garage tunes can easily be found online.
The film insists the group were a cheap knock-off of new wave pop band Blondie, but their sound was more indebted to Britain's ska and 2 Tone scenes.
Madonna can even be heard adopting a British accent in some of their early demos.
One of the script's biggest fabrications was that Madonna and The Emmys had a deal with Sire Records and cut an entire album before Madonna took the songs, erased Dan's vocals and launched herself as a solo artist.
In reality, the band never got beyond making demo tapes; and many of the songs attributed to them in the film - including Borderline and Lucky Star - were written much later.
Madonna even paid tribute to Dan Gilroy when she was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008.
"He lived in an abandoned synagogue in Queens," she recalled, "and he taught me how to play guitar.
"I practised those four chords that Dan taught me over and over and over again."
At the start of Blonde Ambition, Madonna is seen waiting tables at New York's prestigious Russian Tea Room.
While the star did work at the venue for two months, she was stationed in the cloakroom, and eventually let go for failing to adhere to the dress code.
"She was a hard worker, conscientious," said restaurant manager Gregory Camillucci in 1991.
"I got the impression that the one meal we fed her was the only food she was getting."
Blonde Ambition's biggest sub-plot is Madonna's romance with dance producer John "Jellybean" Benitez, who produced her breakthrough single, Holiday, and remixed others, including Material Girl, Like A Virgin and Dress You Up.
They first met at the influential New York club Fun House, where, according to one observer, Madonna "walked right up to the DJ booth, grabbed him and kissed him".
After that, they dated for two years, during which time Madonna's career exploded - leading to inevitable tensions and the eventual breakdown of their relationship.
However, it's unlikely that their courtship included the sort of "romantic" dialogue Hollander provides in her script.
"You're the first Latin DJ to break out of genre in a heavily white industry and I'm a driven woman in [an] all boys club," says Madonna during one encounter. "We're both outsiders but I'm willing to work the system from within. Are you?"
Throughout the script, entire lines of dialogue are lifted verbatim from Madonna's interviews, including the pivotal quote: "It never occurred to me to get into this business and not be a huge success. I wanted the world to notice me, always have."
In fact, Hollander's reliance on archive clips caught Madonna out during her Instagram rant.
As an example of the script's inaccuracies, the singer singled out a line of dialogue on the first page, in which Madonna tells US TV personality Dick Clark: "I was born in Detroit. I'm a famed high school dropout."
"I was born in Bay City, not Detroit. And I did not drop out of high school. In fact, I went to University of Michigan," Madonna said.
But the interview Hollander quotes is available on YouTube - which might explain why Madonna later deleted her comments.
However, some of her quotes have been placed in a new context.
On page 58 of the script, Madonna tells Jellybean: "I always knew I was going to be a nun or a star. Spending six months in a convent cured me of the first one."
This superb (and untrue) piece of hyperbole actually comes from a handwritten letter Madonna sent to film director Stephen Lewicki, requesting an audition for his movie A Certain Sacrifice.
One of the most well-worn Madonna stories is that Seymour Stein signed her to Sire Records in hospital, hours after having heart surgery.
In the script, this is all at Madonna's behest. So desperate is she to sign the deal that she storms into his ward and practically puts the pen in his hand.
But Stein insists he was the one who summoned Madonna to him.
"I was caught with dirty pyjamas with a slit up the back of my gown," he told Rolling Stone.
"I needed a shave and a shower. But I got it together to meet with her.
"When she walked in the room, I could tell she wouldn't have cared if I was like Sarah Bernhardt lying in a coffin.
"All she cared about was that one of my arms moved, that I could sign a contract.
"What I saw there was even more important than the one song I heard.
"I saw a young woman who was so determined to be a star."
In Blonde Ambition's final scene, backstage at the 1984 MTV Awards, Madonna coldly informs Jellybean that she has aborted their child.
"I won't have to choose between my career and a family now," she says, not even deigning to make eye contact. "And that's how I want it."
Madonna has never suggested she was pregnant in 1984, and Hollander's claim would appear to be based on Christopher Andersen's salacious 1992 biography Madonna: Unauthorized (you can read an excerpt here).
However, Madonna has frequently spoken about having an abortion at the start of her career.
"You always have regrets when you make those kind of decisions," she told Times Magazine in 1996, "but you have to look at your lifestyle and ask, 'Am I at a place in my life where I can devote a lot of time to being the really good parent I want to be?'
"I think you have to be mentally prepared for it. If you're not, you're only doing the world a disservice by bringing up a child you don't want."
(A group of New York Film Students have filmed Blonde Ambition's final scene, should you be interested in watching an am-dram version of the movie).
"I think Madonna's vulgar and tacky," says Cher on the 83rd page of Blonde Ambition. "She's a flash in the pan at best."
Amazing though it may seem, the quote is real.
Madonna even responded to the comment in a 1984 interview with her future biographer J Randy Taborelli, saying: "Who knows tacky better than Cher?"
Half-way through Blonde Ambition, Madonna is desperately seeking a final song to complete her debut album. So she and Jellybean hold an open audition in an indoor swimming pool at the YMCA.
After a montage of dismal musicians playing dismal songs, funk duo Pure Energy walk through the double doors.
Singer Lisa Stevens and bassist Curtis Hudson (bizarrely renamed Richard Curtis in Hollander's script) nervously set up their instruments before playing what will become Madonna's signature song, Holiday.
Great story - but it never happened.
The band originally submitted a cassette demo of the song to Mary Wilson, of The Supremes.
When she rejected it, Holiday was passed on to Jellybean, who presented it to Madonna.
"The song still generates money," Curtis told blogcritics in 2006 .
"Can you live off of one hit? Yes, you can if you get the right hit. It can last you a lifetime. We've been living proof of that. If we did nothing else, the royalties from Holiday could support us."
Madonna's most public mishap came at the 2015 Brit Awards, when she was yanked off stage by a cape.
But it had happened once before - at the first MTV Awards in 1984, when she lost a stiletto while walking down a 17ft (5m) tall wedding cake in her wedding dress (it could happen to anyone).
Although the incident plays a pivotal part in Blonde Ambition - has she lost the baby? - it was never as serious as the script makes out.
"I thought, 'Well, I'll just pretend I meant to do this,'" Madonna later said. "So I dove on the floor and I rolled around. And, as I reached for the shoe, the dress went up. And [my] underpants were showing."
The stumble-flash made television history and propelled Madonna to even greater heights. And that's where the film drops the curtain.
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He 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 in 2012.
The NSPCC said the man had "inflicted injuries on his children" and it was "right" he was convicted.
The court had heard that the matter came to police attention after an anonymous call from a concerned member of the public to NSPCC.
"This case shows that it's imperative that adults concerned about a child's welfare do ask hard questions if there are any doubts about any injuries," said Neil Anderson, NSPCC's head of services in Northern Ireland.
"This is especially important in cases where the victim is too young to speak out and their only hope lies with those in positions of authority."
Earlier, the court also heard that the man has been classed at a high risk of reoffending, which the defence said was "slightly surprising".
"Clearly significant emotional damage has been caused," the judge said.
He added: "While this is a serious matter, I feel a combination order would be more beneficial to both the defendant and the community."
The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his children, was given a 12-month probation order with 100 hours of community service.
Previously, Dungannon Magistrates' Court heard that injuries to the man's son were noticed by a classroom assistant in his primary school.
The boy told her his father had hit him in the face causing the injuries.
The court heard the school decided not to report the incident and opted instead to monitor the situation.
However, social services then attended the school in relation to inquiries into domestic abuse in the children's home setting, and the previous incident was disclosed.
Just over four months later, an anonymous caller said they were told by the two children that their father beat them with a belt.
The court heard that his daughter initially said this had not happened, but later claimed both her father and step-mother beat her with a belt.
A medical examination said marks found on one of the children "could be consistent with belt marks".
In a video interview after the children were removed from the home, the son said both he and his sister were beaten with a belt by their father and step-mother.
He added that he was glad he did not have to go home, as he was afraid of his father.
He said his step-mother had told both children they were not to tell anyone about the beatings.
The court heard the father made no comments to police questions when he was arrested and failed to respond to photographs of the children's injuries.
He then told police that his son's allegations were lies and he had never beaten his children, although he accepted he had witnessed his wife strike the children.
In court, a defence barrister said his client accepted he used a belt to punish the children, but disputed that it caused injuries.
He died on Monday at a hospital in Hawaii, three days after suffering a stroke, his publicist said.
On stage, Woolford played the King of Siam in The King And I opposite Elaine Paige in London's West End in 2001-02.
He also wrote, directed and produced the award-winning 2013 independent film The Haumana.
In 2013, Woolford received a special jury prize at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival for best first feature for The Haumana.
He had just completed the script for a sequel and auditions were set to begin in January, publicist Tracy Larrua said.
He also had small roles in films including Falling for Grace, the 2014 remake of Godzilla and Happy, Texas.
But he was best known for playing Detective James Chang in the remake of Hawaii Five-0, which began in 2010.
Woolford's co-stars from the police drama led tributes on Twitter.
Daniel Dae Kim said: "As talented as you were, I will remember you most for your kindness. Thank you for sharing your light with us, @KeoWoolford. Rest In Peace."
Brian Yang wrote: "So saddened to learn of @keowoolford's passing. From NYC to Hawaii, we miss you."
Actress Lynn Chen also paid tribute to Woolford on Twitter, saying he would be "missed dearly".
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But who is the man who beat the 16-time champion? Here are 10 things you may not know about the 44-year-old Scot.
Anderson's arrows ended up in the water after a defeat at the BDO World Championships at the Lakeside, Frimley Green, six years ago.
"I could not buy a double," he said after a 5-3 defeat by Tony 'Silverback' O'Shea. He didn't need to. Although Anderson likes the odd vodka, his favourite drink is coffee.
Initially going under the moniker 'Dreamboy' he is now known as 'The Flying Scotsman'.
The Flying Scotsman was a train that travelled at twice the speed of a darts flight - reaching 100 mph (160 kph) on the rails, compared to 40mph (64 kph) from oche to board.
No Scot had previously won the Professional Darts Corporation tournament, a breakaway event from the British Darts Organisation where Anderson and other champions like Taylor and Michael van Gerwen started.
Two of Anderson's countrymen have won the BDO version - Les 'McDanger' Wallace (1997) and Jocky Wilson (1989, 1982) who was used as a backdrop on Top Of The Pops for the Dexys Midnight Runners track "Jackie Wilson Said".
Oche. Och aye.
Originally from Musselburgh, East Lothian, Anderson moved to Eyemouth, Berwickshire, as a young man after meeting future wife Rosemary, whom he is now separated from.
Eyemouth is a small town in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland with a population of about 3,500 people. Anderson is a former builder who still enjoys a spot of DIY.
While the Scot progressed from pub games to the bright lights of Alexandra Palace, he still spent time behind bars.
Anderson used to run the Wellington Arms in Rooksbridge, Somerset, for fellow PDC player Steve Grubb.
Regulars included nine-time ladies world title winner Trina Gulliver and former BDO world champion Mark Webster. Not a bad pub side.
In the autumn of 2011, Anderson unexpectedly lost his younger brother Stuart, who died aged 35 after a heart attack.
The following spring, his beloved father Gordon, who helped him to step up to the oche in the first place, passed away.
Anderson, who also has two teenage sons, named his new-born boy Tai Gordon Stuart Anderson, and has a 'Tai' tattoo on his hand.
"I went through a difficult time for a couple of years with things that happened in my life, but everything is now spot on and it's down to him," he said.
Boxer Joe Calzaghe, motorcycling champion Carl Fogarty and tennis coach Judy Murray were among those avidly following the action and giving updates on social media.
German footballer Toni Kroos, who plays for Spanish club Real Madrid, told his two million Twitter followers: "Congrats Gary Anderson! Great final! #lovethedarts #180 #power"
The trophy was presented to Anderson by AP McCoy, an ambassador for sponsors William Hill, who has 19 champion jockey titles himself.
Jump Around by House of Pain, a number three US hit in 1992, is the chosen tune for Anderson's walk-on music backed by a boisterous crowd, who are estimated to have got through 250,000 pints of beer during the tournament.
Phil Taylor comes on to 'I've Got The Power' which topped the charts 25 years ago for German outfit Snap! The single was released on 3 January 1990, 10 days before Taylor claimed his first world championship, beating 'Crafty Cockney' Eric Bristow.
Before taking up darts in his mid-20s, Anderson was a useful pool player and lists six-time world snooker championship finalist 'Whirlwind' Jimmy White as his sporting hero.
Another man he admires is Taylor: "It's always an honour to be on the stage with that man. He's one of my biggest heroes and to get one over on him is even better."
In-form Anderson has now won his last 18 competitive darts matches and has racked up the tungsten tons, averaging well over 100 (best 104.54) in four of his six matches at Alexandra Palace.
He is only the fourth player to beat Taylor in a world final, after Dennis Priestley (1994) , John Part (2003) and Raymond van Barneveld (2007). 'The Power' has won all 20 of his world semi-finals.
President Ricardo Martinelli is not allowed to stand for re-election this time round, but his wife, Marta Linares de Martinelli, is running for the vice-presidency, leading to suggestions that Mr Martinelli is keen to run affairs from behind the scenes.
Who is Marta Linares?
She is a political novice and the running mate of Jose Domingo Arias, the candidate of the governing Democratic Change party.
Shortly after it was announced that she was running for vice-president, she stepped down from the office of first lady to work full time on Mr Arias's campaign.
Her dual role as candidate and president's wife had attracted criticism both from the opposition and the media.
Born in 1956, Marta Linares married Mr Martinelli in 1978. She worked as an insurance broker from 1980 until 2009, when she became first lady.
Why is her candidacy controversial?
Critics say her candidacy is a thinly veiled attempt by Mr Martinelli to keep his grip on power after a five-year presidency marked by strong economic growth but also by mounting allegations of corruption.
She says she is a strong candidate in her own right and her husband has stressed he has no intention of holding on to power.
Opposition supporters have petitioned the Supreme Court to dismiss her nomination, alleging it is unconstitutional.
Analysts say that since the rule of strongman Manuel Noriega ended in 1990, Panamanians have been suspicious of anything that might deviate from the rules governing the transfer of power.
How would her election help Mr Martinelli?
Many believe that a win by Ms Linares would allow Mr Martinelli to remain influential and close to power.
There has also been speculation that an Arias-Linares government would seek to eliminate the constitutional requirement that a president sit out two terms before becoming eligible to run again - allowing Mr Martinelli an earlier bid for the top job.
Meanwhile, Mr Martinelli has been busy campaigning for his Democratic Change party, engaging in what critics have called a veritable "ribbon-cutting marathon", which leads them to believe he is far from done with politics.
And in a potential violation of a ban on campaigning by the president, he warned that economic growth would be jeopardized if any of his party's rivals won the election.
Who is running for president?
Jose Domingo Arias is the candidate for the ruling Democratic Change (CD) party. He served in President Martinelli's government, most recently as housing minister.
The former mayor of Panama City, Juan Carlos Navarro of the centre-left Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), is the leading opposition candidate. An umbrella opposition movement, the New Republic, has been backing Mr Navarro as the best option to avoid the "disguised re-election" of Mr Martinelli.
Juan Carlos Varela is the current vice-president. He is the candidate of the right-wing Panamenista Party and served for a time as foreign minister under President Martinelli.
Who is favoured to win?
Mr Navarro and Mr Arias are the front-runners according to opinion polls, and analysts suggest it could be a very close result.
The president is elected to a five-year term by direct vote of the people, and whoever gets the most votes in the single round of voting wins.
What challenges will the victor face?
The new president will inherit a strong but slowing growth rate in the Central American country of 3.6 million people and will oversee the completion of a multibillion-dollar expansion of the Panama Canal, which was disrupted this year by a dispute over cost overruns.
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The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said two cars packed with explosives were detonated at a military camp, killing and wounding "dozens".
Syrian state media said the two car bombs resulted in "victims and material damage", but did not give details.
Meanwhile, Syrian opposition groups are continuing negotiations in Doha about a possible merger.
One of the biggest groups, the Syrian National Council (SNC), has yet to decide whether it will join a proposed unified group, provisionally called the Syrian National Initiative.
On Friday the SNC elected its new leader, a Christian and former communist, George Sabra.
The initiative idea is supported by the US and other international backers.
No group has claimed responsibility for the bombings in Deraa, but car bombs targeting the military have been a regular tactic of the various rebel groups fighting President Bashar al-Assad's army.
In the past, Islamist groups have claimed responsibility for similar attacks, as fighting across the country has continued.
An activist in Deraa who gave his name as Mazn told the BBC the explosions appeared to have been targeted attacks, aimed at army and secret police in an area away from civilian homes.
"Two places in particular were targeted. One was a club for army and secret police," he said.
"There have been clashes since the explosions and there are a lot of secret police on the streets and snipers on buildings."
Following his appointment as SNC head, Mr Sabra called on the international community to provide the rebel fighters with weapons.
But he also cast doubt on whether the SNC would agree to join the proposed new initiative.
He told the BBC he believed the current talks with other opposition groups in Doha were merely the beginning of a process.
The BBC's Jim Muir, in Doha, says the SNC wants to propose significant amendments and is clearly reluctant to sign up to a new body that might spell its own demise.
Talks are expected to continue for some time, he says.
That will disappoint backers of the new initiative, including the UK and the US, who would like to see a unified Syrian opposition emerging as a credible alternative to President Assad's government.
Any deal must include a strong relationship with the EU and the exact same benefits the UK has from the single market, Sir Keir Starmer said.
The UK should "honour our obligations" regarding any "divorce bill", he added.
The government will trigger Article 50 on Wednesday, kick-starting talks aimed at agreeing a Brexit deal with the EU.
The government will then publish its Great Repeal Bill on Thursday.
It will propose giving ministers the powers to change some aspects of European laws when they have been incorporated into UK legislation, without needing the approval of Parliament.
Triggering Article 50 begins a two-year negotiation process to attempt to reach a deal before Britain officially leaves the EU in March 2019.
If no deal is agreed, it would mean World Trade Organization rules would be imposed - less favourable terms than trading within the single market.
What is Article 50?
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Sir Keir, who will outline Labour's demands in a speech on Monday, told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: "If our tests are not met then we do not intend to support the deal the government comes back with."
Among the tests is one calling for the "exact same benefits" the UK has from the single market and customs union - words he said were used by Brexit Secretary David Davis in Parliament.
"The government can't turn around and say this is unachievable because it was David Davis... who said that," he said.
Another is a demand for "fair management of migration in the interests of the economy and communities". Sir Keir accepted that the EU principle of freedom of movement "has to go".
His party leader Jeremy Corbyn said in January that while Labour was "not wedded to freedom of movement... nor do we rule it out".
A future immigration policy must be one of managed migration which works for businesses and communities, Sir Keir said.
One of the tests calls for "a strong collaborative future relationship with the EU".
He said it was important to state that because "some of the pure Brexiteers actually want us to crash out [without a deal], either at the Article 50 stage in two years or before that".
Asked whether a reported £50bn bill was worth paying for better access to the EU's single market, Sir Keir said it was "very important early on that the principles of liability are established, what is the money for... and then I think the prime minister should say loud and clear we are a country that complies with our international obligations".
"How much and over what period is to be negotiated," he said, and if there were transitional arrangements in place after March 2019 there would be longer to pay it back.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd was also asked about the reported £50bn bill for better access to the single market and customs union, mentioned by Jean Claude Juncker this week.
"I certainly do think that we should try to have the widest possible access to the single market, that is what businesses want us to have and that is what is good for the economy... we don't know what that cost would be... that is going to be part of the negotiations. We have a lot to offer in this negotiation as well, we mustn't ever forget that this is going to be two-way.
She also dismissed a "no deal" scenario outlined by EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier - with truck queues at Dover, disruption to air traffic and a suspension in the movement of nuclear materials to the UK - as "apocalyptic".
"I think it's fair to say I don't recognise that description... he would say that wouldn't he?" she said.
Ms Rudd said the UK economy and world economy were doing well, and she thought "there was a lot of positioning right now".
"Over the next two years I hope people will calm down and we will see a really good deal that will work for us, and the European Union."
On Thursday, the government will publish its Great Repeal Bill, which will ensure EU law no longer applies in the UK after Brexit.
It includes proposals for the government to be given a "new time-limited correcting power" which would allow changes to be made through so-called Henry VIII clauses - without needing the approval of Parliament.
The government says it needs the power to make "technical" changes quickly as a lot of EU law will not work properly without changes being made.
But Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told ITV's Peston on Sunday: "We are not going to sit there and hand over power to this government to override Parliament, override democracy and just send down a series of diktats about what's going to happen in the future."
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The allowance - introduced in April 2015 to incentivise marriage - is worth £220 in 2016/17.
However those eligible can also back-date a claim for last year, meaning £432 can be claimed in total.
Out of 4.2m couples who could claim that amount, only 1m have done so, despite an HMRC advertising campaign.
Marriage tax allowance lets one half of a married couple transfer part of their tax-free allowance to their partner.
However one of the partners must not be earning more than £11,000 - the personal allowance - while the other must be paying income tax at the basic rate.
A spokesman for HMRC said it takes less than five minutes to apply online.
"We don't know the reason why so few couples have taken up this allowance, but the fact is, it's a fairly quick and simple process and could save couples up to £430 - which can go a long way especially around this time of year," said Sam McFaul, a personal finance writer at MoneySavingExpert.com.
Anyone wanting to claim can go to this page.
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He had been looking for investors for the last 12 months after previous majority shareholder Anton Zingarevich failed to complete a full takeover.
The Thai consortium have agreed to keep Madejski, who has been with the club since 1990, on the board.
Asked whether he felt the new owners had saved the club, he said: "In many ways, I'd say they have."
Speaking to BBC South Today, he continued: "There were other parties interested, but these are the ones I favoured because when you're choosing new owners of a treasured club like Reading you have to be incredibly careful.
"We've had some colourful suitors in the past, but these people are decent, straightforward people, and I'm grateful for that."
The amount of money involved in the takeover has not yet been disclosed.
But, under the agreement, businesswoman Khunying Sasima Srivikorn, now also co-chairman, and Khun Sumrith Thanakarnjanasuth have each taken 25% of the club, while the other 50% of the shareholding has been bought by Khun Narin Niruttinanon.
Their takeover ended months of speculation regarding potential investors into the Championship club.
"I've had lots of sleepless nights thinking about Reading Football Club over the years, but I think the last 12 months have been the most challenging," Madejski said.
"I'm just delighted that at long last we've reached a situation we can look positively to the future."
However, the 73-year-old has warned the consortium against making sweeping changes too soon after the completion of the deal.
"Like the old saying, if it ain't broke why fix it?," he added.
"They're obviously ambitious, they want to get Reading into the Premier League as soon as they can, so they will be making sure they make a positive input.
"We welcome that because change is always a good thing and a fresh pair of eyes can see things perhaps we've missed."
James Whale, who hosts the BBC Essex breakfast show, entered the Channel 5 reality television show on Thursday evening.
Whale, 65, formerly of Talksport, said he was "excited" to be taking part and looking forward to having a "lie-in".
"We expect James back on the breakfast show on 5 September," BBC Essex Managing Editor Lou Birt said.
"His friends and colleagues at BBC Essex wish him lots of luck."
Whale, who also worked for LBC radio, will initially be replaced by Kath Melandri between 06:00 and 09:00.
He said: "I'm excited to be taking part in Celebrity Big Brother and getting to know all the characters in the house. At least I get a lie in from the breakfast show for a while."
Jalal Uddin, 71, died after suffering head injuries in an attack in a children's play area in Rochdale.
Mohammed Hussain Syeedy, 21, of Ramsay Street, Rochdale, denies murder and being the getaway driver for Mohammed Kadir, 24, who is alleged to have killed Mr Uddin, in February.
Manchester Crown Court has heard claims they hated the imam's form of Islam.
The prosecution alleged they believed Mr Uddin was performing "black magic" because of his practising of Ruqya healing, which involves the use of amulets known as taweez.
It was also claimed they supported the so-called Islamic State (IS) and sought to punish the imam with death for this practice, in line with the group's beliefs.
Mr Syeedy, a former Manchester United steward, admitted he disagreed with Mr Uddin's beliefs but denied any link to IS.
He also told the court he did not suspect Mr Kadir of planning or being involved in the imam's murder.
Mr Kadir, of Chamber Road, Oldham, boarded a flight to Denmark three days after Mr Uddin's death on 18 February, followed by a connecting flight to Istanbul.
His whereabouts are unknown, although it is thought he may have travelled to Syria.
The 70-year-old guided Blues to Championship safety at the weekend with a 1-0 victory at Bristol City.
Redknapp took over on 18 April after Gianfranco Zola's departure.
The ex-West Ham, Tottenham and QPR boss led Birmingham to two wins in the final three matches as they avoided relegation to League One by two points.
Redknapp's first game in charge of Birmingham was a 1-0 defeat by West Midlands rivals Aston Villa - a result which left his team just one place above the relegation zone.
But successive wins to end the season over Huddersfield - where they played for more than an hour with 10 men - and Bristol City on the final day ensured their survival.
Harry Redknapp's confirmed that he's agreed to manage Birmingham City on a one-year contract. He will review the situation with the club at the end of next season after signing the contract later this week.
Redknapp has been assured by the Chinese owners that sufficient funds will be available to strengthen a squad that nearly got Blues relegated.
Steve Cotterill and Paul Groves will continue assisting Redknapp. He's been locked in talks with the board since Sunday night.
Birmingham will be the furthest north that Redknapp's ever managed in his long career. Before that, it was Tottenham.
The move in 2014 by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will put 1,300 jobs at risk, although the authority aims to deploy these staff elsewhere.
The centres will be replaced by a telephone service and home visits, to save HMRC £13m a year.
But an accountancy body said some "very vulnerable" people could be affected.
"While we wish HMRC success in saving costs and making their brave new world of roving enquiry staff work, we wonder whether the timing of this change will come to haunt them," said Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the ACCA.
"One wonders whether this should really happen to a later and longer timetable to take account of the wide ranging changes to the tax and benefits system."
The tax authority said that the number of people using the Enquiry Centres across the UK had halved from five million in 2005-06 to 2.5 million in 2011-12.
Each visit cost the service £152 on average, according to HMRC, but it said four out of five queries could have been solved on the telephone or online.
There will be a five-month pilot of the new telephone-based service in the north-east of England, starting in June.
Some 13 Enquiry Centres will be closed as part of the pilot, at Alnwick, Bishop Auckland, Bridlington, Hexham, Darlington, Durham, Middlesbrough, Morpeth, Newcastle, Scarborough, Stockton, Sunderland and York.
People will need to contact the phone line or go online to get their tax query answered.
Advisers may then decide that the issue should be discussed face-to-face at the caller's home or elsewhere, but there is no set procedure about which cases would require visits.
"We will give a more specialised phone service for customers whose affairs can be resolved over the telephone, and face-to-face help to those who need it, visiting them at a place convenient to them, saving them both travel and time," said Lin Homer, HMRC chief executive.
"HMRC will provide a more modern and accessible service that will target the right support to customers who need it, where and when they want it."
However, the authority has been criticised in the past for its call-handling efficiency. HMRC handles more than 60 million calls a year dealing with issues such as self-assessment tax filing, and VAT returns.
In January, Ms Homer admitted to the Commons Public Accounts Committee that some people faced waits of more than 10 minutes to get through.
From April, HMRC will have a target of making 80% of people wait no longer than five minutes to speak to a real person.
Call costs will also be reduced by the end of the summer.
In February, the National Audit Office said HMRC had improved its value for money in 2011-12 as it began a programme to reduce annual running costs by 25% by 2014-15.
HMRC is targeting a £955m annual reduction in running costs, as well as bringing in an extra £7bn in tax.
The PCS union, which represents some HMRC staff, said it was unhappy with the decision to close the centres.
"Closing all face-to-face tax offices would break the link between people in communities and an essential public service they rely on," said general secretary Mark Serwotka.
"If, as we fear, flawed research has been used to justify these closure plans then ministers must put an immediate stop to them."
Extra funding will go to voluntary sector organisations that might also deal with queries.
The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group said that the pilot needed to ensure that tax credit claimants on low incomes or those with particular needs benefited from an improved service.
Mr Mckeague, from Fife, vanished after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on 24 September.
April Oliver, 21, had been in a relationship with the 23-year-old, who is based at nearby RAF Honington.
Ms Oliver, who discovered she was expecting his child two weeks after his disappearance, said: "I've had to make a massive decision by myself."
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"I was hoping and praying that he'd come back so we could make the decision together," Miss Oliver, from Norfolk, added.
Mr Mckeague did not know his girlfriend was expecting before he vanished. She discovered the news in October.
The pair, who met via a dating site, had been together for about five months before Mr Mckeague went missing.
Miss Oliver described him as an "absolute gentleman".
"He's just the sweetest and most outgoing person I've ever known," she told BBC Look East.
"There is nothing I would love more than for him to walk through the door and say 'I'm back'."
Miss Oliver said she was on holiday in America when Mr Mckeague went missing, but returned to the UK as soon as she heard the news.
"I was concerned," she added. "I knew it was out of character. I was quite worried."
She said she decided to speak about her pregnancy so that she could focus on looking after herself and her baby without any intrusion.
"Most people only tell their close friends but I'm faced with a decision where I need to tell near enough the whole UK.
"It's hard and it's going to add another level of stress I don't really need but it's something that has to be done," said Miss Oliver.
Mr Mckeague's mother, Nicola Urquhart, went with Miss Oliver for the scan.
She said: "It's incredibly difficult to bounce my head from the excitement of a new baby to what we're actually trying to focus on, which is finding Corrie."
Mr Mckeague, from Dunfermline, was last seen on CCTV walking alone in Bury St Edmunds at 03:24 BST.
A team of private investigators, paid for by online crowdfunding, began inquiries on behalf of the family to complement the Suffolk Police investigation on Friday.
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During Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons, Labour's acting leader said the PM was "sneering".
Mr Cameron said he was sorry if she though he was gloating and quoted her saying Labour supporters were relieved the party did not win the election.
He also defended his EU referendum plans.
Mr Cameron said he did not believe 16 and 17-year-olds should not be allowed to take part in the vote, promised by 2017, but said a Commons vote would be held to decide.
He also defended plans to scrap the usual purdah restrictions preventing the publication of promotional material by Whitehall before the referendum.
Otherwise, he said, there was "very real danger" ministers would be barred from commenting on matters like the EU budget and European court judgements.
He added: "When the negotiations are complete and the government has a clear view I do not want us to be neutral on this issue. I want us to speak clearly and frankly on this issue."
But the answers got an angry response from Ms Harman, who said he was gloating after the Conservatives' election win.
"Frankly he should just show a bit more class," she said, adding: "Perhaps we can have an answer rather than a gloating session for the next answer... go right ahead and gloat".
Mr Cameron replied: "It must be the first time someone has ever been accused of gloating whilst quoting the leader of the opposition."
The acting Labour leader also asked how the PM could guarantee people will benefit from the expansion of free and tax free childcare, and not be hit by fees elsewhere.
Mr Cameron said families would have "far greater choice on childcare".
Zamalek, coached by former Birmingham City and Aston Villa boss Alex McLeish, grabbed a late equaliser against Mouloudia Bejaia to progress 3-1 on aggregate.
The success eases some of the pressure on McLeish, who's side are trailing their great rivals Al Ahly in the Egyptian league by 11 points.
Setif, African champions in 2014, were held to a goalless draw at home by Sudan's Al Merreikh.
Coupled with a 2-2 draw from the first leg, that takes the Algerians through on away goals.
Earlier Zesco beat Mali's Stade Malien 2-1 on Tuesday to complete a 5-2 victory on aggregate and become the first team to reach the Champions League group stage.
Zesco's Jesse Were scored the opener for the hosts after five minutes.
Samake Issaka equalised after the break for visitors Mali, but an 80th-minute close-range effort from Maybin Mwaba made certain of their progress.
Malien's misery was complete when Issaka was sent off on 89 minutes.
The losers get a second chance as they enter the draw for the play-offs in the second-tier Confederation Cup.
There are five more matches on Wednesday, while the draw for the group phase takes place on 24 May.
Joseph McCarthy, 50, had pulled in front of the cyclists before braking unnecessarily in Larbert's Bellsdyke Road, causing them to brake.
McCarthy was later identified, reported and charged by the officers.
He was convicted of careless driving at Falkirk Justice of the Peace Court and had three points added to his licence.
A Forth Valley Division spokesman said: "The moral of this story is our officers regularly cycle to work and you never know when you might encounter a police officer."
After Christmas, it's all about calories, credit card bills and how to get them under control in the new year.
But how much will the year ahead cost us all?
BBC News NI's economics and business team have looked into the crystal ball for the year ahead to give us a financial forecast for 2017.
Chocolate fans were cocoa-ing mad in 2016 when Toblerone announced they were changing the shape of their distinctive bars.
The manufacturers said the change was designed to reduce weight because of a rise in the cost of ingredients.
It's called 'shrinkflation' - rather than companies charging you more for your chocolate bar, they make the bar smaller.
But will we see more and more makers cutting costs through redesigns? And what does that mean for our favourite confectionary?
One big retailer the BBC spoke to recently said they wouldn't do this, because it causes dreadful publicity for any company caught reducing the size of their products.
They said they would rather be up front and tell customers of price rises rather than shrinking the size.
However, you can probably expect more of this sort of thing as commodities, such as dairy and coffee, become more expensive.
The manufacturers will not want to be seen to pass that cost on to the consumer - so reducing the size could be one action they take.
The big thing to look out for in 2017 is inflation. Are everyday items going to get more expensive?
"We're already starting to see some evidence of that. We've lived through a period in the UK where inflation has been incredibly low," said BBC News NI's Economics and Business Editor John Campbell.
"People's standards of living have improved as a result because wages will go further.
"There was a period a year ago where were in negative inflation so prices across the economy were actually falling, but now they're starting to creep up again.
"You can see that in the oil market. Across 2016, oil prices in wholesale markets were up nearly 50%.
"You won't have seen that at the pumps or in your home heating costs, but it will start to feed through."
It's also happening in other commodities. Coffee was up 20% in the wholesale markets in 2016. So expect inflationary pressure to feed into the high street in 2017.
You can also expect more pressure on prices to come from Brexit.
We know that after the Brexit vote, the pound weakened and that made it more expensive for imports.
And there's a lot of stuff we import - food, for example, and clothes.
The boss of Next has said he expects prices to go up by the middle of 2017.
Now, let's talk about something that sounds faintly terrifying - the debt deflation spiral.
It's not a rollercoaster, although it is something that may give you quite a shock if you're unlucky.
The Bank of England has a 2% inflation target. They would like to see prices gently rise across the economy. And they want that rise so that we can avoid that dreaded spiral.
"The debt deflation spiral means that if prices are falling people won't bother buying something now because they expect it to be cheaper in the future," said our editor.
"So people keep holding off, sucking all the demand out of the economy and leading to, you guessed it, the spiral."
At the moment, inflation is only 1.2% and it's expected to rise further.
So, you want to have a little bit of inflation - but not too much.
The other thing we have to watch out for is wages.
Will wages keep pace with prices? If they don't, people will start to feel the squeeze.
"If prices go up by 3% and your wages only go up by 1%, then that's effectively a pay cut for you," said our economics and business editor.
"In Northern Ireland, we're in an interesting position because the labour market is strong locally.
"We're close to our best ever employment figures. The percentage of adults in work is pretty much at record levels, so, in that situation, you would expect people would be in the position to ask for and receive pay rises."
However, it's unclear if that happen in 2017.
The aim of the spacecraft was to give the closest, most detailed look at Saturn's rings and its moons.
Amongst its many discoveries Cassini has found new moons orbiting the planet, signs of possible life on existing moons and huge underground oceans spewing fountains of water into space.
But now Cassini is running out of fuel.
As its journey comes to an end, scientists don't want to risk the craft crashing into Saturn's moons, which could damage the environment where there could be conditions for alien life.
On Tuesday scientists announced the plan for Cassini.
They will direct the spacecraft into Titan's orbit one last time, using it as a catapult to drive Cassini into a 12-mile gap in the rings, whilst travelling 70,000mph.
All the while Cassini will still be recording huge amounts of information. Nasa hopes to use it to learn more about the age of the rings and take a closer look at giant hurricanes at the north and south poles of the planet.
Finally, after 22 orbits Cassini will fall into the clouds.
Earl Maize, the mission's project manager, said: "It will break apart, it will melt, it will vaporize, and it will become part of the very planet it left Earth to explore."
Scientists will watch the incredible craft - at the end of its 20 year mission - disappear in minutes.
The captain, Massimiliano Marselli, reported the laser sighting to the control tower at Mexico City.
Alitalia flight AZ4000 was travelling from Havana with the Pope on board, and was preparing to land when the laser was spotted.
No crew or passengers were injured by the beam, the airline added.
"It is usual practice for the control tower to alert the competent, local authorities," Alitalia said.
On Sunday, a Virgin Atlantic flight to New York from London Heathrow Airport turned back following take-off after a laser was shone into the cockpit.
Virgin Atlantic said that the co-pilot reported feeling unwell and the return to London was a "precautionary measure".
Nearly 9,000 incidents involving lasers and aircraft in the UK were reported to the country's Civil Aviation Authority between January 2009 and June 2015.
"This is yet another incident that shows how serious and widespread the issue of laser attacks on aircraft is," said Jim McAuslan, General Secretary of the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa), in response to the case involving the Pope's plane.
"Modern lasers have the power to blind and the potential to dazzle and distract pilots during critical phases of flight," he told the BBC.
"Shining a laser at an aircraft is illegal and dangerous and puts all those on board and on the ground nearby at completely unnecessary risk."
Mr McAuslan added that Balpa would like to see greater restrictions on the sale of all but the least powerful lasers.
The Pope has now completed his five-day tour of Mexico.
According to the UK government, laser pointers - also known as laser pens - are those most commonly used against planes. They are usually portable, low-powered battery-operated devices.
Laser products are categorised by strength, ranging from Class 1 - including CD players - to Class 4 devices - which can be strong enough to cut metal and to medically treat eyes.
The strength of laser pens can vary widely.
Public Health England says it has found laser pointers available to buy with many found to be Class 3 or higher.
Read more: How dangerous are lasers to planes?
Wales fans hoping to travel home after Saturday's game said they would be left stranded if they relied on the train.
The last service from Paddington is at 22:00 BST - just 30 minutes after the game is due to finish.
Great Western Railway said the closure of Severn Tunnel for engineering work prevented them putting on more trains.
Meanwhile passengers may face delays travelling to London, after Arriva Trains Wales confirmed delays between Cardiff and Newport due to a cable theft.
Wales and England face each other at Twickenham at 20:00 BST in what is expected to be the most explosive contest of the World Cup so far, as both sides aim to bolster their quarter-final chances.
GWR said less than 2% of match tickets had been sold to fans in Wales - with most staying overnight.
"Given the particularly late kick off and with a journey time from Twickenham to a GWR station of at least an hour - meaning the earliest train to some destinations in south Wales would not arrive until at least 02:00 - most fans from Wales are likely to choose to travel by alternative means, or stay overnight," an official for the train operator said.
"No amount of additional trains would change the fact that the Severn Tunnel is closed, and we are not able to run any more trains through it to get to Wales than we already are.
"The train timetable following the game has been published well in advance and the majority of customers will have planned their return from the match accordingly."
GWR said its plans were also based on match ticket data provided by Rugby World Cup, which said less than 2% of match tickets have been sold in Wales.
Train travel arrangements for the game is the latest in a series of complaints that have marred the start of the tournament, following overcrowding problems at Cardiff Central after the Ireland v Canada game.
It prompted Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb to tell train operators to "fix it".
GWR also had to apologise after fans faced long delays following the Scotland v Japan game in Gloucester and Australia's match against Fiji in Cardiff.
The issues have also seen the Welsh economy minister Edwina Hart intervene to warn train operators that "they've got to get their act in order".
She told assembly members: "I don't very often agree with the secretary of state for Wales, but I do agree with him on this occasion and what he says: 'Can't they just get on with it and actually sort it out?'
However, with five more Rugby World Cup matches still to be played at the Millennium Stadium - including two quarter finals - Cardiff council dismissed any suggestion that delays experienced by rugby fans painted the city in a poor light.
"The positive benefits for the city massively outweigh the negatives - it's a good thing for the city," insisted a spokesman.
Moving tens of thousands of people in and out of the city centre always "poses some challenges" he added, which was why the council had established areas such as fan zones, to ease pressure on the road and rail network, by persuading people to stagger their journeys home.
The council said it was continuing to liaise with rail and bus operators for the upcoming games, with the possibility of increasing capacity for one of two sold-out park-and-ride facilities in the city.
In May, Indian food safety authorities banned the production and sale of Maggi amid claims they contained dangerously high levels of lead.
The ban was overturned in the Bombay High Court in August.
Nestle India's new boss, Suresh Narayanan, has told the BBC the tests which were carried out on the noodles were "highly unreliable".
Nestle had to destroy 400 million packets of Maggi products and stop production in the wake of the tests.
The product recall cost the company $67m (£44.5m).
Filming on a remote Indian hillside last week, my colleague got a bit over-excited when she thought she'd glimpsed a packet of Maggi noodles in a cafe - like a mirage in the desert. She was wrong. The ban applied there too.
But when a product has 80% market share it's perhaps no wonder it resonates with so many people. Nestle India's marketing campaign over the last few months has been playing on that popularity - using lines like "We Miss You Too".
Now we'll see if the brand's confidence in its customers is reciprocated as they get the chance to buy it once again.
A company statement on Monday said it had been "a challenging period for the Nestle organisation and therefore, there is a feeling of satisfaction at bringing back Maggi noodles to the market".
Mr Narayanan was brought in to handle the crisis from Nestle's unit in the Philippines and is the first Indian-born head of Nestle India in decades.
He told the BBC the labs which tested the noodles "had not been accredited".
He said that meant they could have been missing the right systems or people qualified to carry out such tests, as well as equipment.
India's government is suing Nestle for $100m over allegedly misleading Maggi adverts, a case which Mr Narayanan said was based on bad tests.
Fresh tests mandated by an Indian court found last month that the lead content in Maggi noodles was at a safe level.
Nestle was also criticised for what was seen as a slow reaction to the crisis.
Mr Narayanan, who took over at the start of August, said the company had not reviewed the sequence of events yet, but that during the crisis Nestle had been talking to the regulator.
Nestle's efforts to get across its point of view "did not work" and "unfortunately, things went out of hand", he said.
The company is planning a consumer helpline and says it will be more active on social media.
The call follows the discovery that Volkswagen coded some of its diesel cars to cut nitrogen oxide emissions when tested in lab conditions.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation suggests the deceit could have been uncovered earlier had researchers been able to look at the source code.
But one expert said the idea was risky.
VW's chief executive Martin Winterkorn has resigned after admitting his company had fitted computer-controlled "defeat devices" to more than 11 million vehicles.
In the US, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prohibits people from circumventing "technological protection measures" that restrict access to copyrighted works.
This includes reverse-engineering many products' machine code to turn it into a lower-level computer language that can be understood by humans.
The EFF has long campaigned for automobile security researchers to be granted an exemption to the rule.
But the lobby group notes that the US's Environment Protection Agency - the watchdog that is holding Volkswagen to account - had opposed the proposal in a letter earlier this year.
"[We have previously] taken enforcement action against third-party vendors who sell or install equipment that can 'bypass, defeat or render inoperative' software designed to enable vehicles to comply with Clean Air Act regulations," the EPA's lawyer wrote to the US Copyright Office on 17 July.
"Any benefit in exempting motor vehicle technological protection measures... is exceeded by the risk that lawful owners could, intentionally or not, modify that software in a way that would increase emissions."
The EFF suggested that VW's case demonstrated the approach had undermined the regulator's own goals.
"When you entrust your health, safety, or privacy to a device, the law shouldn't punish you for trying to understand how that device works and whether it is trustworthy," blogged Kit Walsh, the foundation's staff attorney.
In the UK, security researchers face similar restrictions.
"You're certainly not allowed to go digging into source code without permission," Jeremy Harris, from the law firm Kemp Little, told the BBC.
"Copyright law does allow legal users to decompile machine code if it's to get two programs to work together, but you are not allowed to do it to go searching for flaws or other issues in someone else's product."
He noted, however, that car manufacturers and others could waive their rights in the wake of VW's scandal, to restore confidence.
The Open Rights Group said it too had concerns about the status quo.
"There is a need for car manufacturers to be more open about the technology they use," said spokeswoman Pam Cowburn.
"We need to make sure that laws are not being used by corporations to prevent research that could make our society safer."
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders declined to comment.
But one industry analyst said there were good reasons for the industry to resist pressure to share its code.
"Modern cars are heavily computer-controlled," said Chris Green, a tech consultant at Davies Murphy Group.
"The computer code may well be controlling emissions, but it's also controlling safety features like when your air bags fire and anti-lock braking systems.
"There is an argument for stopping people fiddling with those systems, because if you don't know what you are doing - or even worse do know and have malicious intent - you could create genuine safety issues."
One security researcher added that manufacturers might be worried about losing a competitive advantage.
"Speaking personally, I don't think it should be illegal to reverse-engineer the code," said Ken Munro, from Pen Test Partners.
"That said, I understand why manufacturers are reluctant to allow it.
"There's a lot of effort, time and money put into creating the code, so they have a huge vested interest in keeping their proprietary tech locked down."
Sir Terry Wogan hosted the BBC One event on Friday with Fearne Cotton, Tess Daly and Radio 1's Nick Grimshaw.
Girls Aloud and One Direction performed live, while BBC Newsreaders took part in a Top Gear challenge and Lord Sugar starred in an EastEnders special.
The final total is expected to be higher than the £26,757,446 raised on Friday night once all donations are in.
This year's event is taking place against the backdrop of widespread allegations of child abuse against former BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, and Newsnight's dropped investigation into some of the allegations.
Children in Need chair Stevie Spring said she "couldn't be more thrilled" by the total raised at the end of "yet another tough year".
She told BBC Breakfast the previous year's total had been "absolutely smashed".
"I just think it's a sign of the whole of the UK getting behind Pudsey, coming out in force," she added.
Speaking at the start of Friday night's show, Sir Terry said: "As you know by now, we are going to be asking you to help us support disadvantaged children all over the UK. You have been amazing so many times before and we humbly hope that we can count on your help once more.
"We know that children are vulnerable. In the news in recent weeks there has been an awful reminder of just how true that can be. We have been supporting... victims all of all kinds of abuse, including sexual abuse, for many years now. We will continue to do so."
The presenter added: "We also support children in a wide range of circumstances, and they all have something in common - they all need your help."
Last year's event raised £26.3m on the night, which rose to £46m over the year.
Friday night's live show featured performances from Susan Boyle, Leona Lewis and Tim Minchin, while the newly reunited Girls Aloud gave the first TV performance of their official Children in Need single, Something New.
About 20 of Britain's Olympic and Paralympic stars also got in on the action in a special music video.
Tom Daley, Rebecca Adlington, Zara Phillips, Louis Smith and Ellie Simmonds were among those seen dancing to everything from Beyonce's Single Ladies to Gangnam Style.
Meanwhile two of Strictly Come Dancing's celebrity competitors returned for a Children in Need special.
Ann Widdecombe and Russell Grant dusted off their dancing shoes to perform again with partners Anton Du Beke and Flavia Cacace.
Children in Need mascot Pudsey the bear also danced after being partnered with this year's Britain's Got Talent winner and his namesake, Pudsey the dog.
The show also previewed the Doctor Who Christmas special, including a glimpse of the Doctor's new companion in Jenna-Louise Coleman.
DIY: SOS and Bargain Hunt also recorded special Children in Need programmes, while Terry Wogan paid a fund-raising visit to Lee Mack sitcom Not Going Out.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra teamed up with urban artists including Fazer, Angel, Stooshe and Tyler James to produce Wish I Belonged, with proceeds going to the charity.
Other fund-raising events included The One Show's Rickshaw Challenge, Radio 2's Children in Need Jukebox and Saturday night's Strictly Live Wembley Show.
The TV broadcast featured films highlighting some of the work the charity does with children throughout the UK, presented by stars including Fearne Cotton, Robbie Williams, Geri Halliwell and EastEnders actress Nina Wadia.
A white VW Polo was spotted in a small tributary leading to the River Great Ouse near Barford Road in Tempsford just after 13:15 GMT on New Year's Day.
The male driver, who was the only occupant of the vehicle, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Officers believe the car had entered the water at about 03:00.
A post-mortem examination is yet to take place to establish the cause of death.
Friends leaving tributes at the scene told the BBC the dead man was 19 years old and lived locally.
Bedfordshire Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
They were found inside the Trafalgar Street property, in Gillingham, Kent.
The woman has been named as Lillian Elizabeth Oluk, 36. Post-mortem tests failed to establish her cause of death.
Police said neither death was being treated as suspicious, and they were liaising with the Health and Safety Executive.
They said further tests would be carried out on the body of the child, who has not yet been formally identified.
The rocket - equivalent in weight to five fully laden jumbo jets, or 200 fully grown elephants - was put into space using locally-developed technology; the launch had been planned for a decade.
India is often criticised for spending money on space projects when nearly a quarter of its population live below its official poverty limit.
So why is India so keen on space? BBC Tamil's Sivaramakrishnan Parameswaran investigates.
India argues that the cost of the latest launch was not huge by international standards. It cost about $5m (£6m).
With an expected life span of 10 years, the operating cost per year is narrowed down further - to a level that India's space industry claims is "very cheap".
India has been constantly upping its budget allocation for scientific research, and in particular space research. In fact, this has partly been in response to criticism that it does not spend anything like as much on science funding as it should.
The United States, France and Russia hold nearly 75% of the nearly $6bn (£7.25bn) satellite launch industry - one that is increasingly lucrative.
India now hopes to tap "hugely" into this.
The "space economics" include launching satellites ranging from a few kilos to ones weighing hundreds of kilos.
In a multibillion dollar industry, India has just a share of just above 0.5% - while China has 3% of the market, according to the Satellite Industry Association.
In the past India was unable to lure customers for their satellite launches due to its launch vehicle constraints, making the nation heavily dependent on France for its launches.
That is now a thing of the past.
Most meteorological and communication satellites weigh nearly four tonnes and that needs a massive rocket to launch them.
With the latest launch, India has sent a strong message to the international community that a low-cost alternative is available.
India launches 'monster' rocket
It recently successfully launched 104 satellites of varying sizes in one go, enhancing its credibility.
The global satellite market - which includes building, launching and sustaining communications between them - is worth $120bn, and has mushroomed in recent years, driven by the increased demand for connectivity.
Analysts say with its lower costs, India could become a hub for the growing satellite launch industry.
Critics question the rationale of India investing hugely in scientific development when comprehensive social development is still lacking.
Millions in India still don't have access to clean drinking water, uninterrupted power supply, toilet facilities, road and rail connectivity among others.
But successive governments have argued that spending on science and technology leads to all-round social development.
The latest rocket launch is a case in point. India hopes it will encourage developing nations to use them for their launches rather than the Western nations.
And regardless of criticism, India is putting up the money - the budget has been increased and there are now plans to launch a mission to Venus.
Controversial laws require bars within parts of Australia's largest city to shut their doors to new patrons from 1:30am and stop serving drinks at 3am.
New South Wales state also banned greyhound racing after an inquiry found evidence of systematic animal cruelty.
The Hollywood actor said that many dogs were likely to be destroyed and racing jobs lost as a result of the ban.
"Shutting down the dogs is a crime, it's a valuable part of working class culture," he said.
"Instead of cleaning up the dogs they're killing the dogs. How many thousands of dogs will be destroyed and livelihoods lost? It's regrettable and I'm grumpy about that."
Neill also lamented the effect of liquor laws, saying "the vibrancy has been sucked out of the place".
"I particularly lament this lockout which has taken the guts out of the nightlife of Sydney. And Sydney without nightlife is kind of a pointless place."
The New South Wales state government has defended the laws, saying they have curbed alcohol-related violence.
However, Neill described the city's most famous entertainment precinct as one of the saddest places he had ever been.
"Every city needs a Kings Cross. London needs a Soho and Sydney needs Kings Cross.
"Instead of making the streets safe they've stopped the streets."
Jeremie Malenge, 17, from Hackney, died on Homerton High Street less than an hour after police spoke to him on 6 January.
The girl, also from Hackney, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared at the Old Bailey.
A 14-year-old boy and a 17-year-old have also been charged with murder.
The boy, also from Hackney, and a 17-year-old from Redbridge, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are due before Stratford Youth Court later.
A post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as a stab wound to the chest.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating the Met's prior contact with the victim on the night of the attack.
It is understood Mr Malenge was questioned on the night he was killed by officers because he matched the description of young people reported to be armed with knives in the area.
He was not arrested but was attacked less than an hour later in Ponsford Street.
A 17-year-old boy arrested in West Yorkshire on suspicion of murder remains in police custody.
Another youth, from Enfield, north London, who was also arrested on suspicion of murder, has been bailed pending further inquiries.
The Scottish SPCA said a council worker made the discovery in Eastern Cemetery on Arbroath Road on Thursday.
The charity is awaiting the result of post-mortem examinations to discover the causes of death.
Scottish SPCA inspector Karen Cooper said the discovery of the dogs was a "particularly sad find".
She said: "Eleven puppies were disposed of in total and there are obvious questions around how they've come to be in this state.
"We're also concerned about the bitch's condition and whether she is receiving the appropriate veterinary care as this is an unusually large litter."
If there was such a thing as a British XI, there is no doubt he would be in as a centre-half right now.
Williams has been outstanding for Swansea City for a number of years now but, at 31, he is finally getting the recognition he deserves.
A big reason for that is the key role he has played in Wales being on the brink of reaching Euro 2016.
Gareth Bale has scored six of our nine goals in qualifying, but that is only half the story, because Wales have kept six clean sheets in eight games in Group B.
They have conceded just twice - none from open play - and out of the 53 teams in the competition, only Romania have let in fewer goals.
It is an extraordinary defensive record that should see us clinch our place in France within the next few days and Williams, who has not missed a single minute of this campaign, is right at the heart of it.
He lives at the bottom of my road and I know him very well, but I am not wearing my Swansea hat or speaking as his friend when I emphasise how good he is, because the statistics and his achievements back it all up.
Williams joined Swansea the same year he made his Wales debut, in 2008, and since then I have watched him very closely.
I have worked with him too. I was part of the Wales coaching set-up when the decision was made to make him skipper in 2012 and I could see how much it meant to him.
He takes massive pride in his role.
As a former Wales captain myself, witnessing how he has handled the responsibility of the job has been magnificent.
I have seen him in the dressing room and on the training pitch and he is very vocal.
He will always come forward and discuss things with the other players or the manager Chris Coleman and he is never frightened to have his say.
In that way he reminds me of Tony Adams, with whom I played at Arsenal when they had one of the finest defences British football has ever seen.
Adams was a magnificent leader of men. He led by example and showed us the standards we all had to meet.
Williams is exactly the same - and I can offer him no higher praise than that. You could not ask for a better captain.
Williams is a top defender because he can handle whatever type of striker he is up against - and he also has a bit of class about him too.
He is very similar to another former Gunners team-mate of mine, Martin Keown, in that he will be up for a fight with the opposition centre-forward if required.
If someone wants to be physical, Williams will be rubbing his hands together saying 'bring it on'.
But that is not the only way he can play. If he is facing a striker who prefers to drop away from him and find some space, his pace means he is comfortable in that situation too.
Where he is different from most defenders is that he can be silky too and play out from the back in the way few centre-halves can.
When we put on 5-a-side sessions of keep-ball in Wales training sessions, Williams hardly ever gave it away. He stood out - and that was with players like Bale, Aaron Ramsey and Joe Allen involved.
The way he strikes the ball is exceptional and his range of passing is some of the best I have seen from a defender.
I remember Neil Ruddock used to ping diagonal balls 50 or 60 yards with his left foot out to the right wing during his Tottenham and Liverpool days, but Williams can do it with either foot.
He knows when the ball needs to go into Row Z but few Premier League defenders use the ball better than he does. His passing accuracy of 88.75% this season is the fourth-best in the top flight.
His intelligence is another strength. You only have to look at his stats for blocks and clearances over the last couple of seasons - where he has led the way in the entire Premier League, let alone just British players - to see how good his positional sense is.
I am waxing lyrical about Williams, but I am not alone - every current and former player I speak to tells me what a player he has become.
He did not even play as high as Championship level until he was almost 24 but he has kept getting better over the last seven seasons.
For many years John Terry and Rio Ferdinand led the way as the top British defenders in the Premier League, but Ferdinand has retired and it looks like age is catching up with Terry too.
Now I look at who else is around as a challenger to Williams and it is obvious Everton's John Stones is going to be a very good defender while Chris Smalling has come on a lot for Manchester United this season.
Phil Jagielka is always strong for Everton and Gary Cahill at Chelsea is usually very reliable too, but like Terry he has been in and out of their team this season.
Consistency is hugely important for a defender and it is there that Williams really comes into his own, because his form rarely dips.
He is hardly ever suspended and plays through his injuries, so he rarely misses a game for either his club or his country, so Wales have been able to build their backline around him no matter what system they play.
Swansea have done the same. The statistic showing how few minutes Williams has missed since he first played Premier League football in 2011 is staggering. No other top-flight outfield player can compare.
I used to look at the amount of money that the top Premier League clubs would spend on centre-backs without solving their defensive problems and wonder why none of them went for Williams, even if I was obviously pleased he stayed at Swansea.
But it would not surprise me if some of the rumours I have heard about bids from Liverpool and Arsenal - among others - in the last few months are true.
While Swansea realise he is too important to let him go, his loyalty is a big factor in him staying too. If Williams had wanted to leave, I am sure he would have done, but he has found his home in Swansea, so why would he?
He is captain of his club and his country so it's no wonder he is happy, and things will get even better when he leads Wales into their first major finals since 1958.
John Hartson was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Kenneth Zohore put visitors Cardiff ahead and Derrick Williams levelled.
Warnock said: "Declan should have stopped the cross, Nooney's with his man.
"You live and learn, don't you? That's what we're doing - learning about next season and who you want on board."
Warnock also blamed himself for sending John and Noone on among only six substitutes, but said his bench choices were limited by injuries going into the game.
"Before the game you'd have taken a point, wouldn't you," he said.
"It's my own fault - I put the subs on. Two of them cost us the goal."
Overall Warnock has been pleased by Cardiff's progress since his arrival in October and offered praise to striker Zahore and full-backs Jazz Richards and Joe Bennett
"I think Kenneth Zahore can get better and he's got to try and last the games as well fitness wise," the manager said.
"I mean you can't fault him - 80 minutes the way I'm asking him to move about and he's got such a big frame as well, but he's enjoying it.
"I love him. He's got blood all over his socks, it's brilliant, isn't it? I like that."
The Cardiff boss was equally impressed by full-backs Richards and Bennett, saying they were "fantastic".
He added: "I said to them before the game 'if you two come out of this game and I say well done to you, we'll have got at least a point and probably win'.
"And I thought they were super.
"Jazz Richards played the best since I've arrived and if I'm honest, I didn't think Bennett could defend like that.
"I thought he was superb so it augurs well."
The Bluebirds were second from bottom of the Championship at that point.
"When you think where they were, you wouldn't think it was the same bunch of players - they've been excellent," he said.
"We didn't sign anyone in January. For the future we know where we're looking and if we can just improve one or two areas with quality I think we'll be as good as anyone, no matter how much other teams spend."
The draw at Blackburn came on the day Cardiff's accounts showed a near £9.5m loss for the financial year ending May, 2016.
Anthony Grainger, of Bolton, was shot in the chest during a Greater Manchester Police (GMP) operation in Culcheth, Cheshire, on 3 March 2012.
Liverpool Crown Court heard GMP was "committed to learning lessons".
Anne Whyte QC, for the force, said: "No commander or firearms officer goes to work wishing to injure or kill."
Mr Grainger was under surveillance as part of Operation Shire, set up to target an organised crime gang believed to be conspiring to commit armed robberies.
He was shot through the windscreen of a stolen Audi in a car park.
In her closing statement, Ms Whyte said an inaccurate briefing to firearms officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) "contained avoidable errors".
She said: "The team relied on sensitive intelligence from the NCA. Some (of it) was inaccurate and out of date. The team received it in good faith."
But there was no cover up or culture of secrecy at GMP. Ms Whyte added: "The worst is always assumed - misjudgements immediately characterised as more sinister."
"We are conscious that errors have occurred... GMP is committed to learning lessons from the untimely death of Anthony Grainger."
The public inquiry has heard from 80 witnesses since hearings began in January.
Inquiry chairman Judge Teague will now begin the process of writing his report.
Mr Grainger's inquest was converted to a public inquiry in March 2016 by then-Home Secretary Theresa May.
The 26-year-old from Northern Ireland enjoyed three tour victories in 2015 to win the Race to Dubai title ahead of Englishman Danny Willett.
McIlroy triumphed despite an ankle injury which ruled him out of action for five weeks.
"I feel very proud to have won for a third time - it's always special to be recognised in this way," said McIlroy.
The world number three secured his first tour victory of 2015 at the Dubai Desert Classic, followed by success in the WGC-Cadillac Match Play in San Francisco in May.
Victory in the season-ending World Tour Championship last month ensured McIlroy also won the Race to Dubai title for a third time in four years.
"After a good first half to the season, the injury was obviously a setback for me, so to finish the year strongly with my second victory in Dubai, plus picking up the Race to Dubai title again, was very satisfying," added the four-times major winner.
"This was an objective I successfully fulfilled this season. To now also win the Golfer of the Year award is a great way to sign off the year.
"I am already looking forward to starting the new season and trying to achieve even more in 2016."
Phillip Cullen, 57, of Cadbury Heath, Bristol, is accused of six offences related to the endangered Large Blue [Maculinea arion].
He is alleged to have captured and killed two butterflies from sites in Gloucestershire and Somerset in 2015.
He denied all charges at Bristol Magistrates' Court and was granted unconditional bail.
Mr Cullen will appear for trial on 16 March.
The prosecution is believed to be the first involving offences related to Large Blue butterflies in the UK.
The court heard the two butterflies were allegedly taken from Daneway Banks near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, on 18 June 2015 and from Collard Hill, near Street, Somerset, between 17 and 20 June that year.
It is claimed witnesses saw Mr Cullen taking them before killing and mounting them in a display case.
Dead butterflies were found at Mr Cullen's Bristol home on 13 February last year after a police search, the court was told.
Prosecutor Kevin Withey told the court: "The defendant faces charges in terms of capturing, killing and possession of a protected butterfly.
"The butterfly became extinct in this country in the late 1970s and was reintroduced and is a protected species in certain parts of the country.
"Significant care is given to its wellbeing and its hopeful future flourishing."
The globally-endangered species has always been rare in Britain, but became extinct in 1979.
In 2004 it was found on nine sites in the country following a major conservation programme.
The former Dundee and Scotland winger, who is a television football pundit, steered the club clear of relegation
But the club said in a website statement: "Since Neil returned to the club, the process for finding our next permanent manager began.
"Extensive discussions have taken place over the past few weeks, and the process continues this week."
No specific reason was given for the 42-year-old's exit, although it is thought McCann decided against continuing in the role.
But Dundee's statement said he gone after "fulfilling his role as interim manager" and they pointed out that: "Sky very kindly allowed Neil to step away from his contract to answer the call for the past five weeks.
"We are grateful to them and also to Neil for his hard work over the period."
Under McCann, who succeeded the sacked Paul Hartley on 18 April with the Dark Blues sitting second bottom of the table, Dundee ended a run of seven straight defeats to win two games in a row.
They drew their next match but ended the season with two defeats but two points above the play-off spot occupied by Hamilton Academical.
McCann, who said he was "embarrassed" by a 4-0 defeat by Accies on the final day, told Dundee's website: "I'd like to thank everyone at Dundee FC for their hard work in the time I was manager there.
"It was an honour to become manager of the club where my playing career started and finished.
"I'm very proud I was able to succeed in keeping them in the Scottish Premiership. I wish them great success in the future."
Managing director John Nelms thanked McCann for his time in charge.
"He came in and did the job we asked him to do," he said. "The club once again owes Neil a debt of gratitude.
"Neil is certainly a credit to Dundee Football Club and Scottish football as a whole."
Spokesman Moussa Ibrahim described Colonel Gaddafi as a "unifying figure", and insisted his forces only targeted armed rebels, not civilians.
Libyan state TV has showed video of Col Gaddafi rallying supporters in Tripoli.
Meanwhile, his son told the BBC that Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa had not betrayed Libya by leaving for the UK.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi told the BBC's world affairs editor John Simpson that Mr Koussa had travelled to Britain for health reasons and was being pressured into making allegations about Libya's government in an effort to secure immunity from prosecution.
Mr Gaddafi said Moussa Koussa was allowed to leave Libya, and denied that he knew incriminating details about the Lockerbie bombing or other atrocities.
"The British and the Americans they know about Lockerbie, they know everything about Lockerbie so there are no secrets anymore," Mr Gaddafi said.
"Come on. The British government say this: you have no immunity unless you co-operate. He [Moussa Koussa] is sick, he is sick and old so if you put it this way, no immunity of course... [he] will come out with the funny stories."
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On the ground in Libya, the Associated Press reports that rebel fighters have resumed their efforts to retake the eastern oil hub of Brega, pushing halfway into the town. They have won and lost control of the town several times in recent weeks.
The oil-rich country's vital coastal belt is effectively split between rebel forces in the east and government loyalists in Tripoli and the west, nearly two months after the start of a revolt against Col Gaddafi's rule.
A tanker carrying Libyan oil is expected to be loaded up near Tobruk in rebel-held territory on Tuesday, the first export of oil from rebel areas since the uprising began.
Speaking in Tripoli, government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said Col Gaddafi was "a safety valve for the country to remain together".
"The leader provides Libyan tribes and Libyan population of a unifying figure, as a unifying figure," he said.
"Many Libyans, many Libyans want him to lead the process forward because they are scared if he is not there for any reason we will have what happened in Iraq, we will have what happened in Somalia, we will have what happened in Afghanistan."
Libya, Mr Ibrahim said, was open to political reform - "elections, referenda, anything" - but "the leader has to lead this forward".
Mr Ibrahim said it was not for the West to tell Libya "you have to lose your leader or your system or your regime".
Denying government attacks on civilians, he challenged the outside world to investigate any alleged crimes.
"We are fighting armed militias," he said. "You are not a civilian if you take up arms."
Late on Monday Libyan state TV showed what appeared to be live footage of Col Gaddafi saluting supporters from a jeep outside his fortified compound at Bab al-Aziziya in Tripoli.
As fighting continued in eastern Libya, evacuees from the besieged city of Misrata, in the west, have accused pro-Gaddafi forces of atrocities against civilians.
On Sunday, a Turkish humanitarian ship carrying more than 250 injured people from Misrata, the only major city in western Libya still under rebel control, arrived in the rebel capital Benghazi.
Speaking from Tunisia, other evacuees told Reuters that Gaddafi forces there had been "massacring" civilians.
"You have to visit Misrata to see the massacre by Gaddafi," said Omar Boubaker, a 40-year-old engineer with a bullet wound to the leg, brought to the Tunisian port of Sfax by a French aid group.
"Corpses are in the street. Hospitals are overflowing."
More than 650 properties were flooded and over 28,000 left without power over Christmas, with Maidstone, Tonbridge and Yalding being the worst affected.
The document also calls for better overall communications and improved co-ordination between agencies.
The report is due to be discussed by the Conservative-run council's cabinet later.
The Blue Anchor Pub in St Mary's Platt, near Sevenoaks, was flooded and left without power.
Landlady Rose Gill said: "We were supposed to be having a special family Christmas because I was diagnosed with cancer in August...it could be my last Christmas.
"We did have them here, we sort of had a meal but no one enjoyed themselves because it was so cold.
"We were going across the road, cooking the meal over there and walking it back over here.
"It was like a trail of ants, backwards and forwards across the road."
Gavin Ritchie, from Yalding, and his family were rescued by a dinghy.
He said people needed information about when they should leave their homes.
"You have no idea and no one's telling us it's getting worse," he said.
"You're essentially left as a sitting duck with little or no time to actually save any possessions that you do have."
Mike Hill, cabinet member for community services, said: "Ten days or so it went on, and people were working unsustainably long hours.
"We'll at least look again at how we can bring in trained volunteers to supplement some of our work.
"That's one lesson I've taken away from it. The other was problems of communication, it was a particularly difficult time."
The 25-year-old evaded her marker to chip the Slovenia goalkeeper and give Anna Signeul's side a half-time lead.
Little scored twice more after the break, twice racing through on goal and rounding the keeper to tap in.
They continue their campaign with an October double header at home to Belarus and away to Macedonia.
As expected, Ifeoma Dieke, Rachel Corsie and, crucially, Little all returned to the side after being forced to sit out Thursday's 4-0 friendly defeat to Norway at Firhill.
The late afternoon conditions were perfect as coach Signeul relied on most of the players who had fought the last World Cup qualifying campaign.
Little, who plays for Seattle Reign, was just two minutes into her return when she landed on the wrong side of referee Sandra Bastos.
The Portuguese official was unhappy when the midfielder took a free kick in a dangerous area outside the Slovenia box before she had authorised it - but the yellow card looked very harsh.
The home side, who had lost 10 of their last 12 matches were happy to sit in and try to hit Scotland on the break, but neither goalkeeper was unduly tested in a sluggish opening.
Beattie fired in a low 30 yard shot which was easily collected. It looked more promising when Little cut in from the left, but she fired well wide of the target.
A disjointed Scotland performance finally brought a goal made in Seattle after 28 minutes.
Another promising attacking move looked to have been cleared by Slovenia but the Scots got a second bite and Corsie's neat touch gave Little the opportunity to lob goalkeeper Sonja Cevnik.
Slovenia had a great chance to equalise three minutes later. Lara Prasnikar beat Dieke on the edge of the box, but as she was about to shoot Jenny Beattie took the ball off her toes.
Little, who was easily Scotland's best player, set up a great chance for Jane Ross after another fine run down the left, but the striker couldn't squeeze the ball past Cevinik.
An unconvincing opening 45 minutes for the visitors ended with the Slovenian captain Mateja Zver springing Urska Zganoc behind the Scottish defence, but this time Hayley Lauder prevented her from testing Gemma Fay.
Scottish nerves were finally settled three minutes into the second half. Little had already been caught just offside a couple of times before accepting Ross's pass and calmly rounding Cevnik before scoring her second.
Little made it three, and a hat-trick, ten minutes later. She had already been involved in the move twice before Leanne Crichton provided the killer pass and Little again rounded Cevnik, this time on the other side, before shooting home.
Despite posing almost no attacking threat, Slovenia were lucky not to pull one back in the 67th minutes. Zver's curling shot from just outside the box beat Fay but rebounded back off her far post.
Anna Signeul: "I'm delighted. We came for the three points and we got them. Kim was very good.
"It was the first game of the campaign and a very slow pitch. We just need to be patient in these games."
Kim Little: "It's always nice to score goals for your country, and to get another hat-trick is great. What's important is getting the win."
Scotland: Fay, Dieke, Love, Lauder, Little, Crichton, Evans, J.Ross (L.Ross 81) Corsie, Beattie, Brown.
Subs not used: Lynn, Smith, Weir, Murray, Arnot, Clelland
Not for the first time, Stormont appeared to be close to suspension or financial breakdown.
And not for the first time, the politicians found their way back from the brink.
Although this time, much to the relief of the Stormont press pack, their talks did not run into the Christmas period.
The year began with plenty of dates for the politicians to mark in their diaries.
The Stormont House Agreement, reached on the day before Christmas Eve 2014, set out a series of targets related to the Northern Ireland Executive's budget, the implementation of controversial UK-wide welfare reforms and the creation of an opposition at Stormont.
But the choreography did not roll out according to plan.
In March, Sinn Féin pulled the plug on the Welfare Reform Bill before it reached its final stage.
The party argued that a package designed to mitigate the cuts would not be as comprehensive as it had been led to believe.
Its main partner in power, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), accused Sinn Féin of "dishonourable and ham-fisted" tactics.
The move put a question mark over the financial viability of the executive, as the UK government made it clear it would not release loans promised in the Stormont House deal, and would continue to levy fines related to the failure to revamp the benefits system.
With the future of Stormont in question, the local parties turned their minds to their own fates in May's Westminster election.
Many commentators expected a "hung parliament", so the DUP made great play of potentially holding the UK balance of power, something that, with the outright Conservative majority, didn't come to pass.
One of the fiercest contests took place in East Belfast where the DUP's Gavin Robinson wreaked revenge on behalf of his leader and namesake Peter Robinson by winning the seat back from Naomi Long of the Alliance Party.
The DUP were greatly assisted in recapturing East Belfast by an election pact with the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP).
They repaid the favour in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency, where the Ulster Unionist Tom Elliott took the seat from Sinn Féin's Michelle Gildernew by more than 500 votes.
Although the DUP and UUP reached tactical deals in some Westminster seats, in other places they fought each other as hard as ever.
In Upper Bann, Jo-Anne Dobson failed to unseat the DUP's David Simpson, but in South Antrim the UUP's Danny Kinahan defeated the veteran DUP politician William McCrea by more than 900 votes.
The return of two Ulster Unionist MPs to the green benches meant the party's leader Mike Nesbitt emerged from the May election as a clear winner, while the defeat of both Mrs Gildernew and Mrs Long lowered the profile of local women in politics.
Away from the results, though, the election yielded one extraordinary story when the then Health Minister Jim Wells, of the DUP, made controversial remarks about same-sex marriage and the abuse of children in unstable relationships.
A video of his remarks at an election hustings event in Downpatrick in County Down went viral.
Although Mr Wells maintained his comments had been misconstrued, a further incident when he was canvassing a lesbian couple in Rathfriland in County Down led to his resignation as a minister.
The controversy played out against a particularly tragic backdrop as Mr Wells' wife lay seriously ill in hospital.
Back at Stormont, the DUP reshuffled its team, switching Simon Hamilton from the finance portfolio to health, with Arlene Foster moving to the finance department from from enterprise.
With no movement on welfare reform, Stormont's financial situation appeared ever more dire.
In late May, Mrs Foster predicted that a massive £2.8bn cut might be imposed if civil servants had to take over the reins of power and introduce an emergency budget.
But this doomsday scenario was avoided when she pressed ahead with what commentators called a "fantasy budget", in which she pretended that welfare changes that remained open to dispute had in fact been agreed.
It seemed a bizarre development, but it was not the last time during 2015 that the DUP would adopt strange tactics to keep the Stormont show on the road.
In August, the murder of a former IRA member in Belfast, in apparent revenge for the murder of another leading republican in May, added a more sinister element to what had previously been a crisis at Stormont over financial and social policy.
The police's suspicion that current IRA members might have been involved in the murder of Short Strand man Kevin McGuigan Sr turned the clock back to the 1990s when the stability of power-sharing was frequently threatened by questions about whether the IRA had gone away.
In that earlier era, the Ulster Unionists took a constant pounding from the DUP who criticised them for sharing power with republicans.
So perhaps some in the UUP could be forgiven for indulging in a sense of schadenfreude when Mike Nesbitt pulled his only minister, Danny Kennedy, out of the executive in response to the police briefings over Mr McGuigan's murder.
The move initially wrong-footed the DUP, who called for Sinn Féin's exclusion from government.
After a senior Sinn Féin official was arrested for questioning about the killing, DUP ministers appeared to follow the Ulster Unionists' lead by handing in their resignations.
But there was a crucial difference - the DUP ministers kept their portfolios in limbo by resuming their jobs then immediately resigning again, a tactic that they repeated.
The DUP's critics lampooned the manoeuvre as "hokey-pokey" politics.
The move generated negative publicity but bought crucial time for fresh negotiations.
The Sinn Féin official was released without charge and, even though an official security assessment suggested the IRA Army Council might still play a role in overseeing Sinn Féin, the DUP ministers returned to their jobs full time and pressed ahead with another attempt to resolve the executive's outstanding difficulties.
Before that came to fruition, though, another of the Stormont parties experienced internal upheaval.
Alasdair McDonnell successfully defended his Westminster seat in South Belfast during a hard-fought personal campaign.
But that did not stop his critics within the SDLP complaining about his leadership.
The 32-year-old Foyle MLA Colum Eastwood decided to run against Dr McDonnell at the party's conference in November, and the bold gambit paid off as delegates voted by 172 votes to 133 to give a younger generation a chance.
The SDLP was not the only party to hold its conference in November.
As the DUP's gathering loomed closer at the end of November, there was an increasing sense that it might serve as a bookend both for the latest inter party talks and the career of the First Minister Peter Robinson.
On a personal level Mr Robinson had experienced an extremely tough year.
In May, he was rushed to hospital after suffering a heart attack, something he later blamed on his lack of exercise and diet of "cowboy suppers".
He returned to work but there were occasions when he was clearly hampered by complications related to his treatment.
On top of this, the first minister faced questions about his handling of a massive property deal in which the £1.2bn Northern Ireland portfolio owned by the Republic of Ireland's so-called 'bad bank', the National Asset Management Agency, was sold to the US firm Cerberus.
The loyalist blogger Jamie Bryson used the privilege accorded to a meeting of Stormont's finance committee to claim Mr Robinson was one of a number of people hoping to benefit from multi-million pounds fixer fees associated with the deal.
The first minister strenuously denied the accusation, insisting that his involvement in discussions about the deal had been purely motivated by wanting to stimulate the wider Northern Ireland economy.
With the DUP conference in sight, the two main local parties and the British and Irish governments unveiled their Fresh Start deal.
The welfare reforms resisted by Sinn Féin would now be implemented by Westminster legislation.
The move would free up Treasury loans that would put Stormont back on a more stable financial footing.
A mitigation package would assist those hit hardest by benefits cuts and reduced tax credits, although the chancellor later withdrew his threat to cut the credits.
The DUP and Sinn Féin hailed the deal as the best option available.
But their critics insisted the Fresh Start was a false start, not least because it did not cover the vexed issue of setting up new agencies to deal with the legacy of the Troubles.
The rights and wrongs of the Fresh Start are likely to provide much of the battleground for the 2016 Northern Ireland Assembly election.
Mr Robinson will not be in the front line of that struggle.
One day after the deal he confirmed his departure as both DUP leader and first minister.
At an emotional DUP conference, it looked like a "dream team" of Nigel Dodds as leader and Arlene Foster as first minister would be anointed as Mr Robinson's joint successors.
But Mr Dodds, the North Belfast MP, surprised observers by deciding not to contest the leadership, arguing that in the days of devolution the DUP could not be led from Westminster.
The East Antrim MP Sammy Wilson briefly considered running his own campaign.
But when he decided against standing as a leadership candidate, the election of Arlene Foster as both DUP leader and first minister became a coronation.
Mrs Foster is the DUP's first woman leader and, as an Anglican and former Ulster Unionist, she represents a break from the party's Paisleyite Free Presbyterian roots.
The new leader will no doubt focus on the assembly election, in which she will hope the DUP does not lose its top spot to Sinn Féin, nor the first minister's title which goes with it.
Martin McGuinness says if Sinn Féin was to be the biggest party he would be relaxed about renaming the two top jobs as "joint first ministers".
Before he gets to that place, though, Mr McGuinness's attention will no doubt be deflected by the forthcoming Irish parliament election, in which Sinn Féin hopes to advance its all Ireland agenda.
There's also the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising that will have inevitable resonance for Irish nationalists, and potentially for unionists if the angry reaction to a stunt in which a 1916 flag and an Irish tricolour were briefly raised over Stormont is anything to go by.
Aside from constitutional issues, the parties will continue to grapple with sensitive moral and social questions concerning abortion, same-sex marriage and blood donation.
And then, of course, there is the unexpected.
As 2015 proved, no year at Stormont unfolds according to any plan laid out before our MLAs on 1 January.
Prakash Javadekar told reporters he strongly condemned the "sexist" book and had asked for "appropriate action".
Snapshots of the offending text were widely circulated on social media.
The book, printed by a private publisher, was taught in some schools which follow India's Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) syllabus.
In addition to listing the ideal body proportions of a woman, the book went on to say that "the bones of hips of females are wider and their knees are slightly apart. Due to this shape, females are not able to run properly".
CBSE officials say they are unable to monitor privately published textbooks.
The board recommends only textbooks published by India's National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and said it was up to schools to exercise caution when choosing privately published textbooks to teach.
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Mr Javadekar said that schools had been asked to stop teaching the book with immediate effect. The Delhi-based publisher also said in a statement that it had "stopped the printing, selling and distribution of the revised book with immediate effect".
Controversies over Indian textbooks are not uncommon.
In February an animal rights row had erupted over a textbook which told children how to suffocate kittens.
A book in the western state of Gujarat made headlines in 2014 for claiming that Japan had dropped nuclear bombs on the US during the Second World War.
A row erupted in Maharashtra state over a textbook that said "ugly" and "handicapped" brides had led to a rise in dowries being claimed by groom's family.
Carnivores have also been a target for bile.
In 2012, a national text for 11-year-old students was discovered that said people who ate meat, "easily cheat, tell lies, forget promises, are dishonest and tell bad words, steal, fight and turn to violence and commit sex crimes".
Glasgow-based Page\Park Architects have been appointed from a shortlist of five companies which bid for the role.
They will now start work on a detailed plan for restoration. Work is expected to begin in spring 2016 with hopes for academic access from 2017/2018.
The art school is continuing efforts to raise £20m to pay for the restoration of the Mackintosh and its contents.
'Design icon'
Prof Tom Inns, director of Glasgow School of Art (GSA), said: "The team assembled by Page\Park Architects impressed us not only with their deep knowledge of the building, but of the wider work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
"They also bring an understanding of the building's particular importance to Glasgow - its people and history - as well as of its status as an international design icon.
"Page\Park Architects have ongoing relationships with key crafts specialists and artists in Scotland and wider afield, and presented exciting proposals for expanding the legacy of the restoration by working with a new generation of creative talent."
GSA said Page/Park had "an extensive track record in both restoring and reinvigorating major historic buildings".
They were lead designers for the Mackintosh Conservation and Access Project from 2007-2009.
They have also worked on Mackintosh's designs, such as the Hillhouse and at the former Glasgow Herald offices - now The Lighthouse.
Prof Inns added: "This is the beginning of an exciting journey of discovery.
"There will be many fascinating questions to be addressed as we undertake this complex restoration project.
"We are looking forward to working in partnership with Page\Park Architects and the design team to explore how we can best meet the needs of the GSA in the 21st century whilst remaining true to Mackintosh's astonishing vision."
As part of the project, Page\Park will establish an external expert advisory panel for the restoration.
The firm's head of architecture, David Page, said they were "delighted" to be leading the restoration of a "world-renowned" building.
He added: "We have, over many years, had the privilege to work on and in the context of the Mackintosh legacy, the highlight of which will now be the opportunity to bring The Glasgow School of Art into splendid re-use for its students and staff, the people of Glasgow and the huge audience beyond the city."
An investigation by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service concluded it was caused by flammable gases from a canister of expanding foam.
The report, released in November, said the gases ignited as they came into contact with the hot surface of a projector in Studio 19.
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust planned to end licensed fertility treatment, including IVF, at University Hospital Hartlepool on 31 March.
But Hartlepool Council won an injunction, claiming the trust had not properly consulted on the move.
Ahead of a further hearing on Tuesday the organisations agreed to a three-month consultation.
Problems in recruiting enough embryologists have been blamed for the trust's decision.
But Hartlepool Borough Council claimed health bosses acted too quickly, failed to properly consult with the public and could have done more to attract trained staff.
About 250 IVF cycles are provided each year at the hospital, with the trust pledging to refer affected patients to other units in the region.
A trust statement said: "The trust has reached agreement with Hartlepool Borough Council to enter into engagement and consultation with key stakeholders about the future of the assisted reproductive unit at the University Hospital of Hartlepool.
"This agreement has been approved by the High Court, on substantially the same terms as proposed by the trust in February 2016.
"It is disappointing that the council felt the need to resort to litigation, which the trust feels was unnecessary and a waste of public funds.
"We look forward to working with key stakeholders about the future of the assisted reproduction unit."
The council said it was satisfied with the outcome and would engage fully in the consultation process.
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Adam Withers, 20, suffered from an acute psychotic illness and died after gaining access to a chimney at Epsom Hospital in May 2014.
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust admitted health and safety breaches at a previous hearing at Guildford Crown Court.
An inquest found the trust had failed to reassess Mr Withers' risk levels.
It concluded his death had been "caused or more than minimally contributed to" by the trust's failures.
The trust was found to have failed to act on previous warnings that patients could abscond via a low level building in the courtyard.
There had been at least nine previous incidents between 2011 and 2014 in which patients had managed to get on to the roof.
Mr Withers was admitted to the Langley Unit at the hospital in April 2014 after becoming mentally ill, suffering from paranoia and delusions.
In May, while being visited by his mother, he went into the courtyard at Elgar Ward and climbed onto a low rise building.
From there, he gained access to a ladder that had been propped up against an industrial chimney, climbing to the top of it and falling to his death.
His mother was standing nearby and his twin sister, Carla, had arrived just moments earlier.
Fiona Edwards, chief executive of Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, said the trust "fully accept" the judge's decision and the fine imposed.
She said: "I am deeply sorry for Adam's death and continue to offer my most sincere condolences to his family and friends for the devastating impact this has had on them.
"This was a tragic accident and we accept responsibility for our contribution to his death.
"Sadly the loss of his life has helped drive, and contributed to, all of our safety work and service improvements."
A spokeswoman for Weston General said pregnant mothers were being assessed locally and "diverted to St Michael's where appropriate".
She urged people to only attend A&E if "it is absolutely necessary and a medical emergency".
Sixteen beds from the stroke and maternity units are currently in use.
The hospital said during the weekend some people turned up to A&E with minor illnesses which did not require urgent medical attention.
Dr Bee Martin, Medical Director of Weston Area Health NHS Trust, said: "We're seeing people turn up in ED with coughs and colds and symptoms of norovirus - all illnesses which can be treated with self-care or counter medication."
Three wards at Weston General remain closed to new admissions due to norovirus.
They are Uphill, Kewstoke and Berrow wards where visitors are being urged to stay away if they display symptoms of the virus - vomiting and nausea.
Over the weekend A&E departments in Southmead, Bristol Royal Infirmary and Weston General Hospitals were urging people not to turn up at casualty with "minor ailments".
The advice followed "unprecedented demand" for services across emergency departments in those hospitals.
A team of archaeologists and volunteers has spent five years investigating the origins of 17 altars found at Maryport Roman fort in 1870.
Now a rare piece of rock crystal from the 2nd or 3rd Century, believed to be the centrepiece from a ring, has been found at the site.
The head of a bearded man, possibly a philosopher, is carved into the back.
It is thought that, when it was originally worn, the polished bronze back would have looked like gold through the stone.
Built on the cliffs overlooking the Solway Firth, it is believed the fort was founded in the 1st Century AD when the Roman army initially entered the region.
The civilian settlement, which lies north-east of the fort, is currently believed to be the largest along the Hadrian's Wall frontier.
This year's dig has yielded more information about the layout of an area of temples near the remains of the fort and settlement.
Project director Prof Ian Haynes said the team had discovered temples unearthed at the site formed part of a large monument complex.
He said it was "unlike anything" discovered on Britain's Roman frontier to date.
"The complex was a major undertaking and was dominated by a substantial precinct where many of Maryport's famous altars may once have stood," he said.
Prof Ian Haynes said the project's aim had always been to find out more about how the altars were displayed in Roman times.
He said: "In 2011 we found the altars had been used in the foundations for later timber buildings just over the ridge, not ritually buried as previously thought.
"We think that when they were originally dedicated to the Roman god Jupiter by commanders of the fort each year - which we know from the inscriptions - a number of them would have been displayed together on the cobbled precinct."
Prof Haynes said the group also found more evidence from ditches below the precinct for a temporary camp, which appears to date from before the construction of Hadrian's Wall.
The altars are housed at the Senhouse Museum Trust in Maryport and form part of a significant collection of Roman sculpture and inscriptions at the museum.
Believed to be the biggest single find of Roman inscriptions ever made in Britain, the altars provide evidence that three regiments from as far away as Spain and Germany were stationed at the fort.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said he would not allow the secessionists to achieve their aim. "They want an end to democracy," he said.
He said Monday's Catalan vote was a "clear violation" of the constitution.
The motion called on the regional parliament to aim for independence within 18 months.
It gives the assembly 30 days to start legislation on a Catalan constitution, treasury and social security system.
Catalan nationalist parties secured a majority of seats in September elections but fell short of winning half the vote. They had said before the vote that they considered it a de facto referendum on independence from Spain.
Spain's state prosecutor had called on the Constitutional Court on Wednesday to suspend the Catalan resolution immediately, the prime minister said after an emergency cabinet meeting.
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Opinion polls suggest a majority of Catalans favour a referendum on independence, but are evenly divided over whether to secede.
The Constitutional Court, which was due to hear the government's appeal later on Wednesday, is expected to rule against the Catalan motion.
However, the pro-secession parties had fully expected the motion to be declared illegal and as part of the motion argued that the court lacked legitimacy.
Two big separatist parties make up the "Together for Yes" ("Junts pel Si") coalition but they needed the help of the far-left CUP (Popular Unity) party to secure an absolute majority in the Catalan parliament.
Artur Mas, the acting Catalan president who has spearheaded the drive for secession, has been trying to win re-election but has failed to secure the approval of the far-left party. The CUP has called for another Together for Yes candidate, Raul Romeva, to take over the leadership role.
Several parties oppose secession in Catalonia, including the Catalan Socialists and Citizens (Ciudadanos), a centre-right party which was born in the wealthy north-eastern region but has attracted increasing popularity across Spain.
Its leader, Albert Rivera, said earlier this week: "To those Catalans who want independence: the solution is not to break up the country, it is to reform it."
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World number eight Hawkins won the first frame, but thereafter it was one-way traffic as O'Sullivan took control of the final.
The five-time world champion showed his class with a superb break of 136 in frame three and wrapped up victory with a break of 82.
O'Sullivan now jointly holds the record for most Masters titles with Stephen Hendry.
The world number six - playing in his first televised tournament since losing to Stuart Bingham in the World Championship quarter-finals in April - also equalled the biggest-ever margin of victory in a Masters final, tying Steve Davis' 9-0 win over Mike Hallett in 1988.
40-year-old O'Sullivan was highly critical of his performance in his semi-final win over Bingham, saying he felt "embarrassed" and "had no touch or feel".
But he was in excellent form in the final as Hawkins - who had lost nine times in 10 previous meetings with O'Sullivan - appeared to wilt under the pressure of his first Masters final.
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Essex potter O'Sullivan, who needed a final-frame decider to overcome Mark Williams in the first round, said he was surprised to have made a triumphant return after his hiatus.
"I am over the moon. I knew I needed to raise my level," he told the BBC. "I was able to do that and I managed my emotions well. I am delighted to play as well I have done.
"I am never normally surprised when I win tournaments but I am surprised I have won it after eight months out. It is about producing when it matters.
"Dr Steve Peters [O'Sullivan's psychiatrist] mentioned a couple of things and I just had to focus on each ball. If Barry played like he did in the semis, it would have been a great match."
But O'Sullivan was lukewarm on his chances of adding a sixth world title to his sixth Masters crown.
"This is only a week, but to keep your focus for 17 days at the World Championship is a grind," he said. "We'll see how it goes."
Hawkins had been in excellent form on his way to the final, making three century breaks to upset world number five Judd Trump in the semis.
But he never got going in the final and admitted he was frustrated with his lacklustre display.
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"I am disappointed with my performance," Hawkins told BBC Sport. "I didn't give him a game. I was all over the place.
"If someone said I would have got to the final, I would have ripped their arm off. [But] it is hard to take positives, even though I played well most of the week."
Six-time world champion Steve Davis: "There has not been a situation where one player is bigger than the sport but Ronnie O'Sullivan comes close.
"Ronnie puts people out of their stride and puts paid to challengers. It would be fair to say, other than Mark Williams, people didn't perform against him.
"Barry says he had a bad day but he was left a lot of awkward shots. He got into more of a hole as the match went on."
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1991 world champion John Parrott: "Ronnie sets himself very exacting standards and comes back very downbeat. It takes some pressure off himself. He is total box office - every session he has played in has been sold out.
"He played hard matchplay snooker and was very professional and business-like today. He played all the right shots that he needed to.
"He didn't waste any opportunities. Barry was struggling to get going and Ronnie knew that - he didn't give him anything."
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The sentences were suspended for three years, meaning they will not go to prison unless they reoffend, he adds.
The video shows three men and three unveiled women dancing on the streets and rooftops of Tehran.
In six months, it has been viewed by over one million people on YouTube.
The majority of people involved in the video were sentenced to six months in prison, with one member of the group given one year, lawyer Farshid Rofugaran was quoted by Iran Wire as saying.
The "Happy we are from Tehran" video was brought to the attention of the Iranian authorities in May, after receiving more than 150,000 views.
Members of the group behind the video were subsequently arrested by Iranian police for violating Islamic laws of the country, which prohibit dancing with members of the opposite sex and women from appearing without a headscarf.
They later appeared on state-run TV saying they were actors who had been tricked into make the Happy video for an audition.
The arrests drew condemnation from international rights groups and sparked a social media campaign calling for their release.
Williams, whose song was nominated for an Oscar earlier this year, also protested at the arrests.
"It is beyond sad that these kids were arrested for trying to spread happiness," he wrote on Facebook.
Steve Herbert, corrections minister for Victoria, ferried pooches Patch and Ted from his home in Melbourne, the Herald Sun reported.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said he was disappointed with Mr Herbert but no action would be taken against him.
Mr Herbert has promised to pay back the cost of the petrol.
Mr Herbert admitted on Wednesday night the trips to Trentham, in central Victoria, were not in line with community expectations.
"Being a minister in a senior portfolio, it's a tough job, it's a really tough job and sometimes you make mistakes, and this was one of them," he said on Thursday.
He added the responsibilities of his ministerial portfolio had "played havoc with my domestic arrangements".
Mr Andrews said although "the wrong thing had been done", he was satisfied Mr Herbert had learned his lesson.
But opposition leader Matthew Guy said Mr Herbert should lose his job.
"This minister should go. This minister has been caught rorting the system," he told reporters on Thursday.
The incident comes a year after Bronwyn Bishop resigned as speaker of parliament over an expenses scandal.
Ms Bishop had used A$5,000 (US$3,806; £2,300) in public funds to charter a helicopter for a 65km journey from Melbourne to Geelong to attend a political fundraiser. She also claimed expenses for attending colleagues' weddings.
Her resignation, after weeks of pressure, forced a review of the federal parliamentary expenses system.
Last month, federal Labor MP Sam Dastyari was forced to relinquish his frontbench duties after allowing Chinese donors to make payments on his behalf.
Also in September, federal Liberal MP Steve Irons repaid $2,000 in taxpayer money he had claimed to attend his own wedding.
Monaco 1984 is one, so is Donington 1993. Then there's Barcelona 1996, Silverstone 2008 and Nurburgring 1968. All wet-weather races. All exceptional.
Mention these grands prix to F1 devotees and they will nod approvingly, because these were occasions when a driver delivered something remarkable that marked him out as a cut above his peers.
In the case of Brazil 2016, we may well have another entry to that list - and the man responsible was a 19-year-old named Max Verstappen.
"We witnessed something very special," Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said of his driver. "The way he drove was outstanding. It stands out to me like Ayrton Senna in Monaco and other great drives in history."
High praise indeed for a man occupying the third step of a podium.
Verstappen dropped to 16th after a pit stop with 16 laps to go but fought back to finish on the podium in treacherous wet conditions.
Yet his drive was about more than this late climb through the field.
He also overtook Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen early on and produced a superb pass on Mercedes' Nico Rosberg to take second place midway through the race.
He would have finished there, behind winner Lewis Hamilton, had Red Bull not put him on intermediate tyres at a crucial point. The decision turned out to be an error and Verstappen had to pit again for extreme wet tyres, prompting his climb back.
He also rescued a huge spin on the pit straight, preventing the car from hitting the wall and managing to hold on to second. He said it was "50-50" between skill and luck.
Horner said: "His move earlier in the race on Rosberg was brave, skilful and totally courageous and later in the race the inter tyre looked like the tyre to be on.
"We could see others starting to go quicker and we took the gamble and then the rain just intensified slightly, particularly around Turn 12. We had to abort that and fit a new set of extreme and then it was over to Max."
Verstappen looked completely out of the picture when he pitted under the safety car for extreme wet tyres late on. But Red Bull knew what their man was capable of, and so did he.
"Can you make your way through the field on full wets?" came the question from the pit wall. Verstappen said he could and dived in for fresh boots.
What followed was hugely impressive, to say the least.
The midfield runners were swiftly dispatched and, within a couple of laps, Verstappen was up to 12th place. That became 11th when he passed the Williams of Valtteri Bottas, while team-mate Daniel Ricciardo had no answer either as the teenager moved back into the points.
Daniil Kvyat was next, then Esteban Ocon's Manor and the Sauber of Felipe Nasr.
Nico Hulkenberg? No problem. Sebastian Vettel? Done in a few corners. Verstappen even rudely ran the Ferrari off the track for good measure.
Carlos Sainz was his next victim as he moved into fourth, and then came the podium-clinching move on Sergio Perez - a gutsy, around-the-outside pass at Turn 10 that he completed in Turn 11 having corrected a big slide on his way through.
The Mercedes were too far up the road to do anything about, but Verstappen had made his point. Thirteen places made up in 16 laps. Job done.
"It was a lot of fun, with some scary moments," Verstappen said. "I was a bit disappointed after the last pit stop, but I kept my head down and just kept pushing and I went for it. To come back on to the podium was amazing.
"It was crazy. I thought 'now my race is over'. But the car was great. We had great grip. All the race we had good pace. We could have definitely fought for second but to come back in such a style is also a lot of fun."
Verstappen said it was "one of" his best races and his "best ever" in the wet. But he said that his win in the Spanish Grand Prix in May would have a bigger place in his heart.
"Barcelona will always be better because it is a race victory but to come back from 16th felt like a race victory."
Nico Rosberg on Verstappen's amazing half-spin: "I arrived in the straight and saw him pointing 90 degrees towards the wall - I was thinking, 'what the hell?!'"
Jos Verstappen, Max's father, who started 106 Formula 1 races: "I have never seen something like this, he has surprised even me. I have seen many races he did, but today it was incredible. He did himself proud. It is what we want to see more of in F1."
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolf: "It was the Verstappen show. It was really unbelievable driving, great entertainment. Physics are being redefined."
Mercedes non-executive chairman Niki Lauda: "Verstappen was outstanding, the way he passed everybody so it was an interesting race. I knew the guy is good but he proved to everybody what he can do."
Horatio McSherry: Max Verstappen is driving like a man possessed. Utterly extraordinary. One of the greatest drives I've seen in nearly 30 years of F1.
Lauren McCarthy: This driving by Verstappen is simply ridiculous. How on earth is he 19, absolute genius.
JavelBleach: Wow. Best race I've seen from one driver for a very long time.
Ayrton Senna - 1984 Monaco GP
A race remembered as the moment Ayrton Senna truly announced his arrival in the sport.
Starting 13th on the grid, the Brazilian, in only his sixth F1 race, came through the field in atrocious wet conditions, passing established front-runners to sit second behind Alain Prost's McLaren when the race was brought to a premature halt on lap 31.
It was just a second place and only half points were awarded, but a statement had been emphatically made. F1 had a new star.
Ayrton Senna - 1993 European GP
Fast-forward nine years and Senna was at it again.
By now his reputation as master of wet conditions was legendary, but even so his charge from fifth to first place on the opening lap at Donington had jaws on the floor.
It is routinely held up as the best single-lap performance in the history of the sport - and to back it up he won the race by over a minute from second-placed Damon Hill, and by a lap from great rival Prost.
Michael Schumacher - 1996 Spanish GP
The drive that gave Michael Schumacher his first Ferrari win and earned him the reputation as a legend in the wet.
Just two weeks earlier he had slid out of the lead on the first lap at a wet Monaco, but in Barcelona - with the rain pounding down once again - he delivered one his most celebrated drives.
The Ferrari was a long way from the best car in the field, but on this day and in Schumacher's hands it was peerless. He took the chequered flag by 45 seconds from Jean Alesi.
The 'Regenmeister' had landed.
Lewis Hamilton - 2008 British GP
We knew Lewis Hamilton was good by midway through 2008, but maybe it took this race to tell us just how good.
Hamilton trailed Ferrari's Felipe Massa in the drivers' championship heading into the ninth race of the season, and the two could not have had more contrasting fortunes on this soggy Silverstone day.
Massa spun five times en route to a miserable 13th place, two laps down on race winner Hamilton, who judged the conditions to perfection, keeping the car on the island and winning by more than a minute from the chasing pack.
Come season's end, he would be champion by a point from Massa, and this was arguably the race where the tide turned.
Jackie Stewart - 1968 German GP
A truly startling drive from a man who in a few short years would retire from Formula 1 as a three-time world champion.
On 4 August 1968, Jackie Stewart had no world titles and just two wins to his name, but by the end of the day the sport had a new superstar.
In wet and foggy conditions at the unforgiving 14-mile Nurburgring, and sporting a broken wrist, Stewart produced a performance of immense skill and bravery to win by four minutes from Graham Hill.
Stewart later described it as "a tremendously satisfying race to win, but I was very pleased to get it over with".
A six-mile (10km) exclusion zone has been paced around the farm in the village of Nafferton, within which the movement of all poultry is banned.
The flu strain has been identified as the H5 virus but not the H5N1 strain which can be deadly to humans.
Environment Secretary Liz Truss told the Commons the risk to public health was very low.
Defra's Animal and Plant Health Agency said culling of the livestock was expected to last all day.
Chief Veterinary Officer Nigel Gibbens said the farm had good bio-security in place so the risk of spread was "probably quite low".
The European Commission said the outbreak was likely to be linked to migratory birds - possibly swans - heading south for winter, and to cases in the Netherlands at the weekend and Germany earlier in the month.
The transport of poultry and eggs has been banned throughout the Netherlands after an outbreak of the H5N8 bird flu strain was confirmed at a chicken farm in the central province of Utrecht.
The commission said the "information available indicates that the H5 virus in the UK is probably identical to the H5N8... virus found in the Netherlands and in Germany".
Officials say the H5N8 strain is very dangerous for bird life and could potentially spread to humans, although people can only be infected through very close contact with affected birds.
Prof John Oxford, emeritus professor of virology at the University of London, said the risk to humans was not a major concern.
He said: "There've been outbreaks of this infection in Korea and south-east Asia over the last year. There's been an outbreak in Germany, now an outbreak in Holland, now an outbreak in England.
"In no case, in none of those countries, involving many hundreds of thousands of birds, has there been any serious human infection so I think we can quite safely say why should England be any different, and be a little relaxed about it."
Farmer John Wright, who has more than 1,000 turkeys 20 miles from the affected farm, said he was hopeful the outbreak could be contained.
He told the BBC: "I'm just crossing my fingers and hoping it's just an isolated outbreak as others have been in the past, and that the government will keep on top of the job and do a good job as they have done in the past.
"Of course we're worried; we always are when somebody mentions bird flu, it puts a bit of a fear through you, but I'm sure that it'll be contained and everything will blow over. I'm just hoping anyway."
A private vet reported a possible case of bird flu at the Nafferton farm on Friday morning and the disease was confirmed the following day.
On Monday, specialists dressed in blue protective overalls and face masks could be seen on the farm.
Parish council chairman Gary Lavis said concern was raised about a week ago when egg production began dropping and the number of birds dying increased.
In her statement to MPs, Ms Truss said "immediate and robust action" was being taken to control the outbreak and prevent any potential spread of infection.
"Importantly, the chief medical officer and Public Health England have confirmed the risk to public health is very low," she said.
"The Food Standards Agency have said it does not pose a risk for food safety for UK consumers. The chicken and turkey people eat continues to be safe."
The case is the first in the UK since 2008 when chickens on a farm in Banbury, Oxfordshire, tested positive for bird flu.
The 10ft (3m) statue was sculpted by "diehard fan" Chandrasekaran, out of a single piece of black granite.
Mr Chandrasekaran said he had tried to donate the statue to Jackson's family and install it in Neverland Ranch, but had been unable to do so.
The BBC was unable to independently verify that the family did not respond to the offer of the gift.
The statue was unveiled at the city's Vels University by film star Prabhu Deva, famous in India for his Jackson inspired dance moves.
Mr Chandrasekaran told the BBC that the 3.5 tonne statue was made by six sculptors who took 45 days to chisel it out of a single piece of rock.
He added that the sculptors repeatedly watched Jackson's Beat It music video to get his posture correct, and studied "thousands" of photographs to get his features correct.
The newborn was discovered at Windmill Pit, in Weasenham St Peter, near Fakenham, Norfolk, on 5 June 1988.
The baby, known as Baby Peter, was buried at the local church but exhumed last April for tests to be carried out.
The Crown Prosecution Service has advised police it is not in the public interest to prosecute the mother.
Norfolk Police tracked her down earlier this year using DNA.
In interview, the mother told officers she had delivered the stillborn baby alone after concealing her pregnancy from family and friends.
Frank Ferguson, deputy chief crown prosecutor in the East of England, said: "The original post-mortem on the baby could not show whether the baby was born alive and could not determine a cause of death.
"There was also no evidence of any injury. A more recent post mortem reached the same conclusions.
"In light of those findings, we concluded that there was no evidence that the baby was unlawfully killed by the mother."
The woman disposed of the body by throwing it into a pond in the village several days after the baby was born, Mr Ferguson said.
"The mother has clearly suffered beyond any punishment a court could impose."
At the time, the country was promised that the end of the Games would not mean the end of the success story, that there would be a lasting legacy for sport participation.
But, in England at least, that promise was broken.
The government gave Sport England £1bn to invest in grassroots sports, and Jeremy Hunt, then Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, said the Games provided an "extraordinary chance" to "reinvigorate this country's sporting habits for both the young and the old".
He described it as a "once-in-a-generation opportunity, a real golden moment for the UK".
But there has been virtually no increase in participation in sport.
Since 2005, when London won the bid to host the Olympics, Sport England has surveyed people about their physical activity.
In 2005-06 the proportion of over-16s in England who played sport for at least 30 minutes each week was 34.6%. By 2015-16, it was 36.1%.
Among 16- to 25-year-olds, there has been no change at all in participation rates since 2005-06.
From 2012, Sport England has included 14- and 15-year-olds in the survey.
School sport is included, so a higher percentage of this age group report playing sport once a week - about 70%.
And while it looks like there may have been a post-Olympic boost, the proportion then dropped back to just under 70%.
To look at participation rates for children younger than 14, we can look at Taking Part, an England-wide survey from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.
Since 2011-12, this survey has asked a number of questions about the impact of the London Games, including whether hosting the Olympics encouraged respondents to take part in sport.
In 2015-16, nearly 70% of the five- to 10-year-olds answered: "Not at all."
Of the 11- to 15-year-olds, 57% said the Games had encouraged them to take part in sport.
But the Taking Part survey has a similar measure to Sport England of playing sport for 30 minutes a week.
And, although it shows higher participation rates in younger children, overall, for both age groups, there has been no change.
But the sports legacy was part of a wider set of ambitions that included:
And the London Games legacy is evident when it comes to elite sport and medals.
Although British Athletics came sixth in the medal table at the World Championships last week, they hit their target.
And in Olympic and Paralympic sports as a whole, Team GB retain their strong position.
In the 2012 London Games, Team GB athletes came third in the overall medal tables for both the Olympics and Paralympics.
And in Rio, four years later, they came second in both - the first nation in the history of the Olympics to improve their medal tally following a home games.
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"Once called 'America's tuning fork', Pete Seeger believed deeply in the power of song," said Mr Obama.
"But more importantly, he believed in the power of community.
"To stand up for what's right, speak out against what's wrong, and move this country closer to the America he knew we could be."
Seeger died at New York hospital, his grandson said.
His songs included Turn! Turn! Turn! and If I Had A Hammer.
In 2009, he was at a gala concert in the US capital ahead of President Obama's inauguration as president.
In his tribute, the president praised Seeger's activism.
"Over the years, Pete used his voice - and his hammer - to strike blows for worker's rights and civil rights; world peace and environmental conservation. And he always invited us to sing along.
"For reminding us where we come from and showing us where we need to go, we will always be grateful to Pete Seeger. Michelle and I send our thoughts and prayers to Pete's family and all those who loved him," he added.
Seeger gained fame in The Weavers, formed in 1948, and continued to perform in his own right in a career spanning six decades.
Renowned for his protest songs, Seeger was blacklisted by the US Government in the 1950s for his leftist stance.
Denied broadcast exposure, Seeger toured US college campuses spreading his music and ethos, later calling this the "most important job of my career".
He was quizzed by the Un-American Activities Committee in 1955 over whether he had sung for Communists, replying that he "greatly resented" the implication that his work made him any less American.
Seeger was charged with contempt of Congress, but the sentence was overturned on appeal.
He returned to TV in the late 1960s but had a protest song about the Vietnam War cut from broadcast.
British singer and left-wing activist Billy Bragg who performed with Seeger on several occasions called the singer "hugely encouraging".
"He was a very gentle man and intensely optimistic," he told the BBC. "He believed in humanity and the power of music to make a difference, not to change to the world.
"I performed at his 90th birthday and the fire was still there."
Seeger became a standard bearer for political causes from nuclear disarmament to the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011.
In 2009, he was at a gala concert in the US capital ahead of Barack Obama's inauguration as president.
His predecessor Bill Clinton hailed the musician as "an inconvenient artist who dared to sing things as he saw them.''
Other songs that he co-wrote included Where Have All The Flowers Gone, while he was credited with making We Shall Overcome an anthem of resistance.
Turn! Turn! Turn! was made into a number one hit by The Byrds in 1965, and covered by a multitude of other artists including Dolly Parton and Chris de Burgh.
Seeger's influence continued down the decades, with his induction into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, and he won a Grammy award in 1997 for best traditional folk album, Pete.
He won a further two Grammys - another for best traditional folk album in 2008 for At 89 and best children's album in 2010.
He was a nominee at Sunday night's ceremony in the spoken word category.
He was due to be honoured with the first Woody Guthrie Prize next month, given to an artist emulating the spirit of the musician's work.
Mark Radcliffe, host of BBC Radio 2's Folk show, paid tribute, saying: "Pete Seeger repeatedly put his career, his reputation and his personal security on the line so that he could play his significant musical part in campaigns for civil rights, environmental awareness and peace.
"He leaves behind a canon of songs that are both essential and true, and his contribution to folk music will be felt far into the future."
Seeger performed with Guthrie in his early years, and went on to have an effect on the protest music of later artists including Bruce Springsteen and Joan Baez.
In 2006, Springsteen recorded an album of songs originally sung by Seeger.
On his 90th birthday, Seeger was feted by artists including Springsteen, Eddie Vedder and Dave Matthews in New York's Madison Square Garden.
Springsteen called him "a living archive of America's music and conscience, a testament of the power of song and culture to nudge history along".
His other musical output included albums for children, while he appeared on screen several times as well.
A reunion concert with The Weavers in 1980 was made into a documentary, while an early appearance was in To hear My Banjo Play in 1946.
The band, who had a number one hit with Good Night, Irene in the early 1950s, went their separate ways soon afterwards.
Seeger's wife Toshi, a film-maker and activist, died aged 91 in July 2013. They leave three children.
The Trust have announced that applications for the New Writers Awards 2017 are now open.
This scheme provides financial support to ten unpublished authors who live in Scotland.
Writers winning the award will receive £2,000, mentoring from industry professionals and the opportunity to showcase work to publishers and agents.
The annual awards are managed by the Scottish Book Trust in association with Creative Scotland.
Applications are invited from Scottish-based writers who have not published a novel, short story or poetry works.
Successful applicants will be announced in January 2017.
Caitrin Armstrong, Head of Writer Development at Scottish Book Trust, said: "Writing is often a lonely pursuit and it can be very difficult for writers to get themselves noticed.
"That is why the New Writers Awards are so important to writers in Scotland - we give them support, encouragement and friendship, along with a bit of financial and physical breathing space to enable them to concentrate on their writing for a while."
Donor and former candidate Michael Foster is contesting Labour's decision to allow Mr Corbyn on to the ballot paper without having to secure nominations from 50 other MPs and MEPs.
Labour's National Executive Committee backed the move by 18 to 14 votes.
Mr Corbyn is taking on Owen Smith.
As a challenger, Mr Smith, a former work and pensions spokesman, had to win the backing of 20% of Labour's MPs and MEPs to be eligible to stand - a hurdle he overcame easily.
But the NEC's decision that, as the incumbent, Mr Corbyn did not have to adhere to the same requirements has proved controversial.
The NEC backed Mr Corbyn's automatic inclusion following a highly charged meeting earlier this month. Labour's ruling body, of which Mr Corbyn is a member, is reported to have taken a range of legal opinions before making its decision.
Mr Foster, who unsuccessfully stood in the seat of Camborne and Redruth at the last general election, has expressed concerns about "apparent manipulation" of the party's rules and questioned whether the legal advice was given proper consideration.
Lawyers for Mr Foster told the High Court on Tuesday that Labour and Mr Corbyn made a "very problematic interpretation" of the party's rules.
Gavin Millar QC said there was no concept of "incumbent" or "incumbency" in the party rules. "There is no distinction in the rules between the leader candidate to be automatically on the ballot paper or the challenger candidate," he said.
Mr Millar said: "There's nothing whatsoever unfair to a leader to expect him or her to gather or have a minimum level of support in the combined group [of Labour MPs and MEPs] if the leader wants to stand again in the teeth of the challenge.
"It goes with the job description to maintain that minimum level of support in the PLP (Parliamentary Labour Party)."
Appearing for Labour's NEC, Mark Henderson said precedent suggested courts were wary of intervening in voluntary unincorporated associations such as the Labour Party except where their rules have "incoherence".
He said the rules were "not ambiguous nor open to serious doubt", and that there was no "custom, precedent nor practice" which suggested Mr Corbyn should be stopped from automatically going forward to a ballot of members.
Analysis by BBC political correspondent Iain Watson
The court case has huge implications for Labour.
Its ruling body - the National Executive Committee - put Jeremy Corbyn automatically on the leadership ballot but Michael Foster believes the party leader should have to seek the same number of nominations from MPs as his challenger.
That might be difficult for Mr Corbyn to achieve so if he loses the court case he could potentially lose his job too.
Mr Foster's QC argued there was no concept of incumbency in Labour's rules or anything which in terms was designed to give an incumbent leader an advantage and that all candidates should be treated in an even-handed way. In other words, that Mr Corbyn should not be exempt from seeking nominations from his fellow MPs.
But counsel for Labour's general secretary argued that the courts should be wary of intervening in the affairs of a major political party and that the intention of the rules was not to exclude the democratically elected leader from the ballot if challenged
Martin Westgate, the QC representing Mr Corbyn, said the rules as they stood existed to prevent Labour MPs choosing the leader without a ballot of party members and supporters.
Any change, he said, would be a "major, substantial shift", arguing the judge had no reason to "disturb" the current rules unless they were unreasonable.
At the end of the hearing, the judge, Mr Justice Foskett, said that he hoped to hand down his judgment on Thursday, when he will also consider any application for permission to appeal.
The outcome of the leadership election is due to be announced on 24 September.
It emerged on Monday that Labour is facing legal action from people who have joined the party since the EU referendum after the NEC decided that only those who signed up on or before 12 January could automatically vote.
Solicitors Harrison Grant said they had issued proceedings against the Labour Party "on behalf of a number of new members who have been denied the opportunity to vote in the forthcoming leadership election".
More-recent joiners were given the opportunity to vote by becoming registered supporters at a cost of £25 each.
So although millions of South Sudanese are rejoicing, there are legitimate doubts about whether the agreement will bring lasting peace.
Until Wednesday's dramatic signing ceremony, a year-and-a-half of peace processes had not stopped South Sudan's collapse.
Soldiers slaughtered young boys, women were raped and millions fled as ceasefires were ignored.
An expanded mediation team from the regional body Igad and several other interested nations, known as Igad Plus, pushed through this supposedly permanent peace deal.
Here are five of the main obstacles to a lasting peace in South Sudan:
The key question. President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar have in the past committed to stopping the fighting, only for both sides to break their word and launch offensives.
Do the leaders realise or care how much the people are suffering? Are both sides prepared to make the necessary compromises to end the war?
Will a tougher stance from the US and regional leaders make a difference? What about the growing economic crisis?
Mr Machar arguably has more to gain from the agreement: He will become first vice-president, his movement will get political posts and his troops will become integrated into the army. But what happens if he does not get everything he wants from the deal - or if he does not get the nomination of the governing SPLM party for the 2018 elections?
Mr Kiir has made it very clear he dislikes the deal - and his animosity with Mr Machar is well known too. Will Mr Kiir respect an agreement he feels was imposed upon him and South Sudan? Will he allow Mr Machar and his movement the powers the peace deal grants to them?
And can the two men, who have fought each both in the past and over the last 20 months, work together again?
Finally, what will happen if Mr Kiir, Mr Machar or other senior officials are found guilty of atrocities in the hybrid court that is to be set up?
President Kiir expressed his dissatisfaction with the deal, including some of the power-sharing and security components.
Many of his key supporters, including ethnic Dinka elders and powerful generals, had advised him not to sign it.
They say it is a foreign-backed attempt to weaken President Kiir and the country.
The rebels had objections too, but the fact they signed earlier suggests these were less serious.
South Sudanese civil society groups have also criticised the agreement for putting too much emphasis on power-sharing among the elite, rather than insisting on accountability and justice, or resolving the underlying issues that caused the conflict.
The government and the rebels have signed a power-sharing agreement, essentially fine-tuning a return to the status quo ante.
But if the root causes of the conflict aren't resolved, it is difficult to see it bringing lasting peace.
Over the past 18 months, South Sudan's neighbours have taken a leading role in mediating between the warring parties.
Yet this has been compromised by their own involvement in the conflict.
Uganda intervened militarily in support of President Kiir, to the frustration of the rebels. Sudan is allegedly providing logistics, weapons and bases to Mr Machar's army.
Other countries are not implicated militarily in South Sudan, but have important economic interests there (Kenya) or wish to drive the mediation process (Ethiopia).
This peace deal will only last if all of South Sudan's divided neighbours value keeping the peace as much as the South Sudanese citizens do.
Mr Machar's rebel group was always an uneasy coalition of civilian militias and military units that defected from the national army, the SPLA.
The recent split announced by well-known generals including Peter Gadet and Gathoth Gatkuoth was no surprise: The men had been sidelined, in part because of their opposition to Mr Machar's apparent willingness to consider a power-sharing deal.
There had always been concern about whether Mr Machar could bring all his movement with him. Now we are about to find out.
Two key questions here: do the generals have enough support on the ground to constitute a powerful military force of their own?
And will they receive the external military support they will need to flourish?
This would be most likely to come from Sudan, as Gen Gadet has fought for Khartoum several times in the past.
Equally relevant here: Will all the hardliners in Mr Kiir's camp respect the agreement he has just signed?
His critics often accuse the army chief of staff, Paul Malong Awan, of wanting to scupper the peace process - but he is not the only potentially frustrated figure.
Many officials, in particular in Unity, Upper Nile and Jonglei states, stand to lose their jobs to rebels. How will they react?
Millions of South Sudanese have known hardly anything but war.
At the time of the united Sudan, the first north-south civil war lasted from 1955-1971, and the second was even longer (1983-2005).
After South Sudan's independence in 2011, it wasn't long before this new civil conflict erupted - in December 2013.
Tragically, war is part of life for many. South Sudan is a militarised society, where the military men run politics.
Those in command often have ethnic power bases, bringing an ethnic dimension to most conflicts.
The current war has deepened animosity between the Nuer and the Dinka, the country's two biggest ethnic groups.
The picture is even more complicated than this: for example, many Bul Nuer (a Nuer sub-group) have fought for the government against the largely Nuer rebels, creating tensions within the Nuer.
In South Sudanese society, the culture of revenge is also prominent - a worrying ingredient in a conflict in which tens of thousands have been killed.
All these factors will be difficult to resolve, even though a peace deal has been signed.
Nevertheless, the country has strong traditions of peace-making and reconciliation, often through the chiefs or the church.
Their best efforts will be needed if a lasting peace is to be achieved.
The 22-year-old was left out of Wales manager Chris Coleman's 23-man squad ahead of their historic run to the semi-finals in France.
Having joined Cardiff from Wigan, Huws is now aiming to secure a regular starting place in the Bluebirds' midfield.
"It was tough, but you learn from things," he said of his Wales omission.
"Looking back I can [take positives], but at the time it was hard, I'm not going to lie. But things like that make you stronger so I'm looking forward to what lies ahead.
"I've come here to play - hopefully week in, week out - and see where it gets me."
Coleman named Huws as one of the players most unfortunate to be left out of the squad for the European Championship.
Injuries to fellow midfielders Aaron Ramsey and Jonny Williams could present Huws with a chance to feature in Wales' opening 2018 World Cup qualifier at home to Moldova in September - though he is coy about his prospects.
"Maybe, but at the minute I'm just aiming to get my fitness up and get a starting place here [at Cardiff] and then can see where that gets me," he added.
Born in Llanelli, Huws left Swansea City to join Manchester City when he was 15 but managed only one senior appearance for the former Premier League champions.
Hampered by several injuries, he had loan spells with Northampton, Birmingham and Wigan, before joining the Latics permanently.
The seven-cap Wales midfielder could not settle, however, and after spending last season on loan at Huddersfield, he has joined Cardiff in the hope of enjoying a sustained period with one club.
"I've moved about a while which is nothing to do with myself, I just want to play football and enjoy myself," said Huws.
"Hopefully I can have a successful future at Cardiff, which is what I'm aiming to do. Hopefully I can stay fit and clear of injuries and get a run of games going which is the plan."
Although Huws struggled to establish himself at Manchester City with stellar international midfielders such as Yaya Toure and David Silva standing in his way, his time at the Etihad did provide the left-footer with valuable experience.
His head coach for City's development squad was former Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira, who encouraged Huws to draw inspiration from Barcelona and Spain's World Cup-winning holding midfielder Sergio Busquets.
"I'd probably say my best role is the deepest one [in midfield] but equally it's not a massive difference in my head - I don't have a huge preference," Huws added.
"Patrick Viera was always trying to get me to look at him [Busquets] and model my game on the way he played for Barcelona. A top class player.
"There's loads you look up to, can pick things off all top players, and since I was young I looked up to [former Liverpool and England midfielder] Steven Gerrard."
The baby ape, which is yet to be named or sexed, was born at Twycross Zoo to 19-year-old female Cheka.
Bonobos, which share 98% of their DNA with humans, are endangered, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
The Leicestershire zoo said captive breeding programmes are tricky because of the apes' "promiscuous" nature.
Cheka already has a daughter, nine-year-old female Gemena, who lives at Leipzig Zoo in Germany, and a son, Winton, five. They were born as part of a European Endangered Species Programme.
Dr Charlotte Macdonald, from the zoo, said bonobos use sex as a "powerful communication tool" to establish social hierarchies and remove tension from aggressive situations.
"With so much promiscuous behaviour going on they need to be carefully managed to keep their genetic lines healthy," she said.
The zoo is a part of a UN initiative to ensure the long-term survival of chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, and orang-utans and their habitats in Africa and Asia.
Bonobos, which are often mistaken for chimpanzees, are poached for their bush meat and threatened by commercial logging and expansive agriculture in their native Congo, the zoo said.
The great apes, which are as closely related to humans as chimpanzees, were recently found to be communicating with one another in the wild in ways previously thought to be uniquely human.
Argentina have changed their style from the one they used to play, which was based around set-piece dominance and kicking for territory.
They put the ball through the hands a lot more and play at a much higher tempo these days and we should be set for an exciting game on Saturday.
Argentina now love to play with the ball in hand and have some devastating attackers.
However, they can play in the wrong areas at times.
I was lucky enough to be at their World Cup semi-final a year against Australia and although they showed at times how good they were, at times they played in the wrong areas, allowing the likes of David Pocock to turn them over.
If you are trying to run it from your own half all the time, then one mistake, one turnover, one penalty and you're conceding points.
Joining the Rugby Championship and Super Rugby has massively benefited them.
They used to have lots of players in Europe but they have loads of players based back home now and you can see how it has helped them.
Previously, when they came to World Cups (2007, when they came third, being the most glaring example) and had time to have their players together, they were a team to watch out for - much like Fiji - but away from that they struggled because of a lack of preparation time.
Now, unlike Fiji, they have that regular time together as well as regular top-level competition, and you can see how they have improved.
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There are a few differences between the Rugby Championship and Super Rugby, and the sport as we play it in Europe.
The first thing is there is no relegation, so that gives teams time to develop a bit of a game-plan and not have to worry about their immediate future - you're not playing do or die rugby all the time.
I also felt from my time playing down south that the weather and pitches were better over there.
In addition, the Six Nations is a far more attritional tournament - both because of the weather and the physicality.
In my experience the Australian and Kiwi teams also don't have that same relentless physicality, although the South Africans did.
That meant each week presented a different kind of challenge for your team and you as a player.
Dunedin, which is notoriously cloudy and prone to drizzly rain (it's a bit like New Zealand's Manchester in that regard) has a great roofed-stadium.
The glass roof lets the grass grow, and it's much more simple than many roofed stadiums - it should be the blueprint for any new stadium in the UK.
My personal view is that I would rather have a glass roof on a stadium than an artificial pitch any day of the week - I'd much rather do it that way round.
I've not met a player who likes playing on artificial pitches. The boys prefer playing on grass - it's better for your joints.
Personally I think rugby should be a summer sport.
We all want to play expansive, fun rugby and when you go to certain grounds in January it's a hard thing to do because you're limited by the weather and the somewhat boggy quality of the pitch.
I look at kids running around in the mud and freezing cold and I remember that it was not fun.
Every time I run out in the pouring rain I think 'why are we doing this? Let's get a roof'.
It's difficult to encourage the next generation, and teach them about contact, when it's freezing cold and wet.
George Kruis has done very well to get back from his ankle injury only four weeks after the operation.
Yes, I know I've taken literally months to get back from a little-toe injury, but it was a slightly more complicated operation than just having a bit of bone removed from an ankle.
He has had a great recovery and I would go any faster if I could, but I'm aiming to be back for the end of December.
The Saracens lock is a very professional guy who takes a lot of pride in his game and is a very dedicated player.
He's excellent at calling line-outs and had a very good teacher in Steve Borthwick, now England's forwards coach, who he learned from at Saracens and who set his own standards in terms of attention to detail.
That's not to say other players don't also put in lots of work on line-outs - Courtney Lawes applies himself similarly in terms of dedication, but he and Kruis have a different style.
Kruis is a guy who's done a lot of work in the gym since he turned professional with Saracens in order to first build himself up and now maintain his 18st 5lb physique, because he was very skinny when he was younger.
He also eats like a horse - five meals a day - to maintain his target weight.
I used to be able to do that but it seems you get to an age when putting on weight, rather than trying to maintain it, becomes an issue.
After my holiday in Ibiza I carried on eating and got up to 125kg (19st 7lb), which is easily my heaviest.
However, I knew I was having five months out, and wanted to use my time as a challenge to get back into great shape - it's always good to practice what you preach. You can see how my journey has been going elsewhere on the net.
I think you have to look to the parents to see what the future holds.
My old man has always been a big guy but he's got into walking and does a ridiculous amount - he has got himself a fitness watch, and now tries to beat his score every day.
He's lost weight and his dog is now as skinny as a whippet.
Not all players stay big when they retire. I bumped into former England and Wasps blind-side Joe Worsley and although he's still got those massive hamstrings, his upper body has shrunk, without the constant weights and training.
Another big guy, former Wales number eight Ryan Jones, has been doing iron man triathlons and has lost literally three stone.
Safe to say you'll never catch me doing an iron man when I retire - the odd sprint triathlon perhaps.
I can't lose too much bulk when I retire because I've got quite a big head (literally and metaphorically, some might say) and I'd look like a toffee apple on a stick.
I'll keep on doing some training though, a bit of aesthetic stuff. Nothing wrong with a sprinkle of vanity.
Elliot Daly did very well on the wing last weekend and it's good to see my Wasps team-mate get another run.
He is normally a centre but has great pace and finishing ability, which you need in a wing, but his all-round ability - such as his kicking - means he offers other options too.
The key to a winning team is getting the right balance throughout the side for the game-plan you want to play, and these days the number on your back means very little.
That means, for instance, you don't have to play a specialist winger or open-side flanker, provided you have the finishing ability or ability to win turnovers scattered throughout your team.
The game is changing constantly and, as players get bigger and stronger, so you need to have players who are multi-skilled.
Most sides are evenly matched in physical and fitness areas these days, so it then comes down to game-plan and individual points of difference being key.
The best teams are all about winning, as the All Blacks proved last weekend. They understand what they do well and have the ability to adjust under pressure.
After New Zealand lost to Ireland in Chicago they went away and adapted, and a hurt All Blacks side is a dangerous All Blacks side.
On Saturday they came out and went after Ireland with their physicality, which is a sign of a world class team.
Test rugby is a hard game. As players we think a lot of the time that people are going over the top worrying and panicking about stuff, and when I saw the Sam Cane tackle on Robbie Henshaw it looked to me like Cane hit him as he spun - it happens.
The best teams in the world are the most physical and as long as players aren't deliberately trying to hurt players, it is what it is.
Gouging, biting and deliberate high tackles are all wrong, but hitting someone at shoulder or chest height and sliding up is something that happens - it's a contact sport.
All we want as players is consistency in the way games are refereed.
Joe Launchbury is not the kind of guy to try to hurt somebody but, although he was off balance, he caught Asaeli Tikoirotuma as he tried to kick the ball through last weekend and rules are rules, he now has to serve a two-week ban.
However, when the same thing happened and he got booted in the head in the Premiership semi-final last year against Exeter nothing happened.
That is the sort of thing that frustrates players and needs to be improved.
I think of all of England's autumn Tests this is the hardest one to call because Argentina are a bit of an unknown quantity.
England will be worrying solely about themselves and will be looking to impose themselves on the Pumas.
Expect to see England's big forward carriers running off Ben Youngs and for the scrum-half to be sniping as he did against South Africa. It will be high-pace, high intensity, high physicality.
England will be disappointed about a couple of tries they conceded last weekend against Fiji and even though they won by 50 points it was interesting to hear the players talking about improvements.
It's not long ago that we beat Fiji by a narrow margin in the World Cup - now we put 50 on them, and there is no satisfaction.
It's a case of keep improving, keep pushing, never become casual, or you become a casualty.
James Haskell was speaking to BBC Sport's James Standley.
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Institutions across the UK are expected to be affected by the action, taken by three unions - the University and College Union (UCU), Unison and Unite.
The Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA), which represents universities as employers, said it was disappointed by the move.
The news comes as teachers plan a strike in parts of England on Thursday.
Members of the National Union of Teachers and the NASUWT are staging a further regional strike in their continuing row over pay, pensions and workload.
The unions planning the university strike for 31 October claim a 1% pay rise offered to staff - including lecturers, technicians and administration workers - means there has been a 13% pay cut in real terms since October 2008.
For Unite, the turnout for the ballot was 28% and of these, 64% (1,654 members) voted in favour of action. For the UCU the turnout was 35%, with 62% voting in favour of strike action.
Unison declined to release details of what percentage of its membership had voted. It only said of those who had voted, 54.4% had been in favour of action and 45.6% against.
UCU head of higher education Michael MacNeil said: "Staff have suffered year-on-year cuts in the value of their pay. Quite simply, enough is enough.
"We urge the employers to reflect on the fact that they are about to face their first ever strike by three unions at the same time and come to the negotiating table to resolve this dispute.
"The suppression of academic pay is one of the most sustained pay cuts since World War II and, while strike action is always a last resort, the fact that staff are prepared to take this step demonstrates just how angry they are."
A spokesman for UCEA said: "Employers do understand that the general 1% uplift offered to all may be frustrating to these trade unions, with 5% of the workforce saying they will support strike action.
"However, we also know that much more than this is going into pay increases for HEI [higher education institution] staff: 3% incremental rises for many plus merit payments beyond this.
"Our HEIs tell us that the vast majority of their staff understand the reality of the current environment and would not want to take action that could harm their institutions and their students."
Work starts on 5 September and will be in place between the Almond River bridge and Junction 1A, near Newbridge roundabout.
A Transport Scotland spokesman said "essential repairs" to the road were needed.
Passengers heading for Edinburgh Airport are "strongly urged" to allow extra time for their journey.
There will be a 40mph speed limit through the roadworks.
Transport Scotland said a number of measures would be put in place to minimise the disruption.
These include the works being scheduled to avoid major events and busy times, and resurfacing only taking place overnight and at weekends.
Steven Brown, Transport Scotland roads and infrastructure manager, said: "We have an inspection regime in place to monitor performance of the road, this has identified the need for essential repair work to the road surface. The repair work will be undertaken by the contractor at no cost to the public purse.
"The work has been scheduled to avoid busy periods for the network such as the Edinburgh Festival and Military Tattoo."
Mr Brown advised drivers to avoid the area if possible and to consider using public transport or alternative road routes.
Ann Barnes created the job to represent the views of young people on policing.
The first youth commissioner, Paris Brown, resigned over comments she made on Twitter.
The second, Kerry Boyd, was investigated over claims she had a relationship with an ex-councillor and her referee for the £15,000-a-year role.
Ms Barnes said she could not put another young person through the pressure of the role.
She said a youth advisory group would replace it.
Speaking in front of the Kent and Medway crime panel, she said: "The demands placed on one young person, I cannot justify anymore.
"Even though I do think a youth commissioner was a good concept and she [Kerry Boyd] did a good piece of work."
Mike Hill, who is the chairman of the crime panel, which holds Ms Barnes to account, said he was pleased the role had been scrapped.
It saw a huge swing to the party which, just last year, saw its support collapse after five years in coalition government.
The decision by the south-west London seat's previous incumbent Zac Goldsmith to follow through on a political point of principle over Heathrow expansion failed miserably.
And it saw Labour's vote fall dramatically, with the Lib Dems taking the credit for scooping up their supporters.
But it is the claim by the victor Sarah Olney that the result is a verdict on Brexit that is most worthy of examination, because it goes to the heart of the schism that has been driven into British politics this year.
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Some of the testy language of the referendum campaign was echoing around Richmond and beyond over the last 24 hours.
Ms Olney said "intolerance, division and fear" could not be allowed to win when it came to Brexit.
She said she would vote against triggering Article 50 - the process to take Britain out of the EU.
This caused the Brexit-supporting Conservative MP James Cleverly to accuse Ms Olney of starting her political career by telling the British people they can "get stuffed".
The Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said the result was "historic" and a verdict on a so-called "hard" Brexit - taking the UK out of the single market.
But was this claim justified?
Of course the great clanging caveat that has to be dropped into Mr Farron's assertion is what we know about Richmond Park's voters.
As his political opponents have pointed out - it is hardly surprising that an area that voted heavily to remain in the European Union backed a "Remain" candidate in this by-election.
But Mr Farron has attempted to spike this line of attack by claiming that a third of Conservative "Leave" voters switched to the Lib Dems on Thursday.
If true, it would appear to be a significant change in sentiment by many of those who backed leaving the EU.
It appears the claim was based on canvassing figures collected by his party during the by-election campaign.
But the polling guru and Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde John Curtice is less convinced.
He believes that, despite the Liberal Democrats' belief, many voters who backed Remain in the referendum did not vote for the Lib Dems - puncturing the idea that the poll was a referendum on Brexit.
He points out that Ms Olney's share of the vote in the by-election was below 50% - whereas more than 70% of Richmond voters backed Remain in the referendum.
Professor Curtice says: "To try to suggest that this by-election success tells us anything about the mood of the country with respect to Brexit is mistaken.
"The polling evidence is that we still have a situation where the country is divided pretty much 50/50 on the merits of Remain versus Leave, much as it was in June."
Despite this, it is hard to disentangle the fevered debate about Brexit from this, more regular, cycle of political events.
The Richmond result will empower those described by Mr Farron as "moderates", who are keen to use any tool possible to force a "soft" Brexit - in particular trying to maintain Britain's position in the single market.
And with the government's appeal to the Supreme Court over whether it or Parliament has the right to trigger Article 50 only days away, the political intensity in this debate is only likely to increase.
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The host were 3-0 in front after the opening 16 minutes with Michael Forney, Riley and Colin Shields on target.
Trevor Johnson pulled one back at the end of the first period but Riley restored the three-goal advantage three minutes into the second period.
Adam Harding make it 4-2 before Shields scored in the final seconds.
The victory takes Belfast three points clear of third-placed Sheffield Steelers, who were beaten 4-1 by Coventry Blaze on Saturday night.
The Giants are seven points behind leaders Cardiff Devils but their title challenge has faded, with the focus now on the play-offs.
Next up for the Giants are home league matches against Nottingham Panthers next Friday and Sunday.
The defeat means the 28-year-old Briton will lose his world number two ranking to Roger Federer on Monday.
The Scot was blown away in the opening set, but fought back to level, only to fall to the Serb's power and accuracy in the decider.
Djokovic now moves ahead of Spain's Rafael Nadal with a record 29 ATP Masters 1000 titles.
The Serb underlined his current dominance as he claimed his fifth title in the past six Masters tournaments but he was pushed hard by Murray, exemplified by a 14-minute final game as Djokovic survived six deuces and seven break points to hold for the match.
"The first couple of break points I remember making two mistakes," said Murray.
"It was kind of back and forth from there and unfortunately I couldn't quite break, which was a shame because both of us on the break points until that last game were pretty clinical."
Djokovic broke Murray's serve in the opening game and the 2011 winner gave a masterclass combining powerful ground shots with brutal accuracy as he found the lines with uncanny regularity.
Murray found his second serve coming under huge pressure and Djokovic duly earned a double break before racing to the first set in just 31 minutes.
In the second, however, the Scot's serve began to click into gear and, having won just 17% of points on his second serve in the first set, he increased it to an impressive 60% in the second.
Djokovic made crucial forehand and backhand errors in the third game before serving a double-fault to be broken for only the second time in the tournament.
The Madrid crowd who were muted as Murray beat local favourite Rafael Nadal 7-5 6-4 in Saturday's semi-finals were now encouraging the Briton, who responded with some of his best tennis of the week as he won the set with a cheeky drop shot from the back of the court.
It was Djokovic's turn to regroup and after a comfortable hold needed just one of two break points to take the early initiative in the decider.
But this was a different Murray from the opening set and the Scot immediately broke back with Djokovic again serving a double fault at the crucial moment.
Again, however, the world number one raised the bar and this time it proved crucial with a decisive break in the sixth game.
"When you play against the best players, you are probably not going to win every single time," said Murray. "But you want to make the matches extremely difficult for them: physically and mentally, so it's not comfortable. So I think at least today I did that, but unfortunately didn't get the win.
"It's been a positive week for me this week overal l- a few years ago I wouldn't have thought I'd be winning against Rafa and then pushing Novak this close on a clay court."
"Murray began the match a shadow of the man who had played so well in Madrid all week. The first set wasn't a contest, but once given an opening by the world number one early in the second, Murray started playing with real conviction, and pushed his man to the limit.
"At 2-2 in the decider the match was genuinely in the balance. Djokovic's response, though, was characteristically brilliant, and after surviving a bout of jitters and a 14-minute final game, he deservedly clinched his record 29th Masters series title."
They might only have a little bit of information about their environment, but in a group, different animals might have separate but complementary information about a particular problem.
Some may know where to find food but not how to access it.
Others might know how to get at it but not where it is hidden, scientists at St Andrews University found.
In a set of experiments, scientists at the university's school of biology set out to determine whether leadership - the pulling of the group by informed members - could allow groups of animals to pool their experience in order to solve problems collectively.
Their findings, which could have implications for businesses and even bio-inspired swarm robotics, are published on the Nature Ecology & Evolution website.
Dr Mike Webster, of St Andrews University, said: "To tackle this question we presented shoals of stickleback fish with a two-part problem, in which they had to first find, and then access, some hidden food.
"Individual fish were either inexperienced or had experience of just one of the stages.
"We found that in shoals that comprised individuals trained in each of the stages more fish did indeed access the food, and did so more rapidly, compared with other shoal composition which only contained fish trained to one or to neither of two parts of the problem.
"Supporting our idea that leadership played a role in this, we found strong effects of having experienced members in the group, with the presence of these greatly increasing the likelihood of untrained fish completing each part of the problem."
Researchers have known that larger groups tend to outperform smaller groups and lone individuals when completing certain tasks.
The new study shows that experience pooling, where subsets of the group assume leadership roles when completing the specific part of a task in which they have knowledge or competence, is a plausible mechanism by which this might happen.
Professor Kevin Laland, of St Andrews University, said: "There may be lessons to be learned for human behaviour too.
"Businesses and institutions already make good use of teams with diverse skills sets, and the natural world might provide further inspiration for how these groups might be put together and organised.
"Finally, artificial intelligence researchers are focusing heavily on bio-inspired swarm robotics, and the kinds of collective information processing mechanisms uncovered by this study might potentially be deployed by other researchers designing software and behaviour rules for fleets of drones."
The city council confirmed the board had "varied the licence", meaning the venue could no longer stay open until 03:00 and must close by midnight.
Last month police made a bid to have the club closed after a woman was found unconscious and officers recorded 26 drug and alcohol-related incidents.
It was rejected after a lawyer for The Arches argued this was inappropriate.
Last year The Arches announced it was raising its minimum age for admission to 21 after the suspected drug-related death of a teenage girl who fell ill there but the over 18's policy was later reinstated.
Regane MacColl, 17, died after becoming ill at the club in February 2014. Police linked her death to an ecstasy-like "Mortal Kombat" tablet.
Inspector Mark Sutherland, area commander for Glasgow city centre, said they recognised the decision of the licensing board.
"Our aim is always to work closely with licence holders to uphold the law and provide a safe environment for their patrons to enjoy alcohol responsibly," he said.
"Where breaches of licensing legislation occur we will take appropriate action and record and report this to the local licensing authority."
Participating in the tests for the first time, the country's 15-year-olds scored higher in reading, maths and science than many developed countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom.
It was an achievement that was as much of a surprise for Vietnamese officials as for outside observers.
So how did Vietnam do so well?
There are three key factors that contributed to these impressive results: committed leadership, a focused curriculum, and investment in teachers.
People at the highest levels of government in Vietnam are thinking about the challenges they face in educating their young. Very few other countries have shown a similar level of forward thinking and determination.
The education ministry has designed a long-term plan. It is eager to learn from the best-performing countries on how to implement that plan successfully and is ready to commit the financial support that is needed.
Almost 21% of all government expenditure in 2010 was devoted to education - a larger proportion than seen in any OECD country.
The nation's educators have also designed a curriculum that focuses on pupils gaining a deep understanding of core concepts and mastery of core skills.
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Contrast that with the mile-wide but inch-deep curriculums that you find in much of Europe and North America and you understand why so many of these Vietnamese students excel.
These students are expected to leave education not just able to recite what they have learned in class, but to apply those concepts and practices in unfamiliar contexts.
In Vietnamese classrooms there is an impressive level of rigour, with teachers challenging students with demanding questions. The teachers focus on teaching a few things well and with a great sense of coherence that helps students to progress.
Teachers in Vietnam are highly respected, both in society as well as in their classrooms. That may be a cultural trait, but it also reflects the role that teachers are given in the education system, which extends well beyond delivering lessons in school and embraces many dimensions of student well-being and support.
Teachers are expected to invest in their own professional development and that of their colleagues, and they work with a high degree of professional autonomy.
Vietnam first entered Pisa tests in 2012 - coming 17th in maths, 8th in science, 19th in reading - higher than the US in all subjects, which was ranked 36th at maths, 28th at science, 23rd at reading.
In global rankings published by the OECD in May 2015, based on science and maths, Vietnam was ranked 12th, while the US was in joint 28th.
In fact, mathematics teachers, especially those working in disadvantaged schools, receive more professional development than the average in OECD countries.
These teachers know how to create a positive learning environment, foster good discipline in the classroom, and help to build students' positive attitudes towards learning.
This is also helped by the encouragement of parents, who generally hold high expectations for their children, and by a society that values education and hard work.
What Vietnam has achieved in education in so short a time is remarkable.
But some 37% of Vietnamese 15-year-olds are not in school and the challenge now is to get them enrolled. And the test results, based on those who are in classrooms and learning, say nothing about those young people who are not in school at all.
The government has made it a priority to get all young people into education and so far the education system has been good at absorbing disadvantaged children and giving them equal access to education.
Almost 17% of Vietnam's poorest 15-year-old students are among the 25% top-performing students across all countries and economies that participate in the Pisa tests.
By comparison the average across OECD countries is that only 6% of disadvantaged students are considered "resilient" by this measure.
But achieving and maintaining quality is harder than expanding quantity, and Vietnam will have to be careful not to let the quality of its education suffer as it broadens access to more children.
As the highest-performing countries show, excellence is generally associated with giving individual schools greater autonomy in curriculum and tests, particularly when there are strong accountability measures in place.
For Vietnam this will mean finding a way to balance a centralised leadership with a flexible, autonomous environment for individual schools.
To fully reap the returns of investing in education, Vietnam has to change not only the supply of its skills, but the demand for those skills as well.
As a recent report suggests, Vietnam stands to gain three times its current GDP by 2095 if all of its children were enrolled in secondary school and they all acquired at least basic skills in mathematics and science by 2030 - and if the country's labour market were able to absorb and use all of that talent.
If Vietnam does not create a demand for higher skills, then well-educated Vietnamese may choose to take their skills elsewhere.
Liberalising the country's labour market must be considered at the same time as the country works to build a more highly skilled labour force.
It's a lot to ask of a country and a people, but Vietnam has already shown that it is up to the challenge and, most important, willing and eager to accept and meet that challenge.
"If it were possible for me to be sold, I would sell myself,'' he said in a speech on state television.
A joke page on Ebay "selling" Mr Sisi was created and bids passed $100,000 (£72,000) within hours. The page was later removed.
Mr Sisi also asked Egyptians to make donations to the country by text.
The remarks were made as he unveiled an economic development plan for 2030.
Egypt's economic problems include a sharp decline in foreign investment and tourism revenues amidst years of social unrest.
The country also pays large amounts to cover fuel subsidies and servicing its domestic debt, and has suffered from high inflation and unemployment.
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Within minutes of Mr Sisi's comments, a listing for the sale of "a used field marshal" with a photograph attached on the president appeared on Ebay.
He was also mocked for asking Egyptians to each donate "10 pounds ($1.2; £0.9) to Egypt by mobile text" to help lower the country's enormous financial burden.
Many users took to Twitter to criticise and make fun of his comments, and the hashtag #Ebay was a trending topic in the country.
Mr Sisi vowed to continue building the country "until my life or term [in office] ends" and urged Egyptians to listen only to him if they "truly love" Egypt.
"Do not listen to anyone else but me," he urged.
The council had proposed to build an incinerator at Saddlebow, King's Lynn, but the project was scrapped earlier this year at a cost of £33m.
Labour council leader George Nobbs said the site would not be sold or rented to any company to build an incinerator.
The council is now to develop a strategy to recycle and reuse waste.
Mr Nobbs, who heads an alliance of Labour, Lib Dem and Ukip councillors supported by the Greens, said: "Land in different parts of the county would be set aside for waste disposal use.
"But there is no intention of building an incinerator anywhere in the county."
The scheme to incinerate waste from across Norfolk to generate energy and reduce the need for landfill was spearheaded by the county's former Conservative administration .
When the party lost control of the authority in 2013, councillors voted to withdraw from the scheme following delays in obtaining planning permission, due to the scheme being called in by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles.
The cancellation of the contract cost the authority more than £33m in compensation to contractors Cory Wheelabrator.
Conservative councillor Bill Borrett said the waste disposal issue in Norfolk was still not resolved and a solution had to be found that did not involve landfill.
The Conservative-run West Norfolk Council had opposed the incinerator plan and celebrated alongside the local protest group King's Lynn without Incineration when the project was abandoned.
The left-winger is ahead of his rivals in the race to replace Ed Miliband, according to a Times opinion poll.
He also dismissed claims that he would split the party if chosen as leader.
The Islington North MP was speaking to journalists after promising a "publicly led expansion and reconstruction of the economy" in a speech in London.
His comments came after former prime minister Tony Blair said he would take the country backwards if elected and that anyone with his politics in their heart should "get a transplant".
"I do not know what he means by taking the country backwards," Mr Corbyn said, adding that Mr Blair's suggestion he was the Tory preference amounted to "rather silly remarks".
"Surely we should be talking about the situation facing Britain today, the situation facing many of the poorest people in this country today, and maybe think if our policies are relevant," he said.
"A lot of people are supporting us, particularly young people supporting us who want a very different Labour Party to the one they've had in the past."
In his speech on the economy, Mr Corbyn said austerity was a "political choice not an economic necessity".
You would expect people who are eligible to vote in the Labour leadership contest to be unusually interested in politics.
But the full details of the poll show that of the 1,056 people polled, 80% said they would definitely be voting in the leadership election while another 15% said they would probably be voting.
I know that the rules for the leadership election have been changed, but it still seems a very high turnout.
Compare it with the 2010 leadership election, when about 72% of constituency Labour Party members voted.
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He promised to protect public services and increase taxes on the wealthy, arguing that "all of us are an accident away from needing a benefits system that sustains us
The YouGov poll for The Times suggests that in the final round of voting, the Islington MP would get 53% of support, six points ahead of Andy Burnham. Liz Kendall and Yvette Cooper are also in the contest.
Mr Corbyn only made it onto the ballot paper at the last minute after MPs who supported other candidates "lent" him their nominations to get him into the contest, arguing Labour needed as wide a debate as possible about its future direction.
John McTernan, a former adviser to Tony Blair, has described those MPs who helped him reach the leadership shortlist as "morons".
Mr Corbyn dismissed this, saying: "I don't get involved in personal stuff, it's really not worth it. That kind of remark is really uncalled for in any kind of politics."
Labour peer Lord Foulkes said those who nominated Mr Corbyn despite disagreeing with him should be "searching their consciences right now". They should "realise they've put the Labour Party in to a very difficult position", he told the BBC.
But Frank Field, who nominated Mr Corbyn despite disagreeing fundamentally with him about economic policy, said the other candidates had failed to articulate an alternative to Mr Corbyn's stance of "deficit denial".
"I would be surprised if Jeremy wanted to win. He really wanted to test the arguments and the mettle of the other candidates," he told BBC News. "He has played his role. Sadly we have not had the other candidates with the abilities to take him on and say...'this is my vision, these are my priorities, there are my values'."
The pieces of gutta percha have been found on beaches in Cornwall, Devon, northern France and the Netherlands in the last year.
The Porthcurno Telegraph Museum in Cornwall said the blocks bore the name of a 19th Century plantation.
The material was used to insulate telegraph cables on the seabed.
Marc Cragg from the museum said: "Gutta percha is from Indonesia and is very similar to rubber.
"It has been a central part of telegraph systems for the last 100 years or so."
His colleague Rachel Webster said: "Many of the cables which were insulated with it remain in situ on the seabed."
Mr Cragg said: "It looks like there was a shipwreck 80 miles (130km) or so off the coast of Brittany in the Western Approaches."
He added that the gutta percha, which would have been stored as cargo, could have been released during a salvage operation.
"If you look at the distribution, it would make sense," Mr Cragg said.
The museum said the blocks, which were about 12in (30cm) by 14in (35cm) had the letters "TJIPETIR", which was believed to be the name of a rubber plantation in the Dutch East Indies in the 19th Century.
In recent months staff have been working to find out how many blocks have washed-up.
It added that gutta percha was used to make golf balls, teddy bear noses and decorative items such as picture frames and jewellery.
They were struck by a double-decker First Glasgow service, at the corner of Argyle and Queen Street, at 14:30.
Both casualties were removed from under the bus and taken to the city's Royal Infirmary where their condition was described as critical.
Eyewitnesses described "horrific" and "hysterical" scenes in the aftermath. A police investigation is under way.
The bus driver was uninjured but said to be extremely shaken as a result of the incident.
Eyewitness Jan Watson told the BBC: "We were coming out from Primark and we saw the bus coming along and going round the corner.
"It just stopped dead. We approached the crossing and people were coming round and we just followed the people. We saw a woman trapped underneath the wheel."
She added: "There was a lot of shouting and screaming. A few people were hysterical because they had actually witnessed it. It was horrific.
"I saw part of the lady and saw something under the wheel which I have been told is an elderly man."
Jordan Macrae, 18, told BBC Scotland he was coming out of a shop on Argyle Street when the crash happened.
"From what we could see there was two people under the bus," he said.
"It was horrible. There was screaming. Everyone was on their phone trying to call the emergency services."
"Everyone was crowding round, trying to see if they could help. The people that went and helped were really good."
Sgt Andrew Mair from Police Scotland said: "Where the crash happened is an extremely busy shopping area, and I would appeal to any witnesses who have not yet spoken to police to contact us."
There was a major deployment of emergency services to the crash scene.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said it had up to 25 firefighters on the scene, who used airbags to release two people from underneath the bus.
A spokesman said: "Scottish Fire and Rescue Service crews attended an incident in Queen Street in Glasgow city centre following a call from ambulance control around 2.35pm.
"Four appliances from Calton and Cowcaddens community fire stations attended the incident along with a heavy rescue vehicle from Easterhouse.
"The firefighters, who were working closely with paramedics and doctors, used airbags to release two people from beneath a bus.
"Both casualties were taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary by ambulance."
A spokesman for the Scottish Ambulance Service said they had "a number of ambulance crews" on the scene as well as a special operations team and a trauma team.
A spokeswoman for First Group said: "We can confirm an incident occurred this afternoon involving a First Glasgow service and two pedestrians.
"We are doing everything we can to support the emergency services and a full investigation to establish exactly what happened is under way."
BBC Scotland political reporter Andrew Black, who is at the scene, said: "Just after 16:00 accident investigators arrived, so very quickly the investigation to establish exactly what happened here this afternoon is taking place.
"It is expected that that will continue for some hours to come."
GE said it no longer posed "any conceivable threat to US financial stability".
US regulators labelled GE Capital a systemically important financial institution (SIFI) in 2013.
SIFIs fall under stricter regulations to protect the financial system.
The label is given by a group of US regulators - known as the Financial Stability Oversight Council- which includes the US Treasury Department and Federal Reserve.
Most SIFIs are banks such as JP Morgan and Citigroup, but the FSOC has labelled a number of institutions in this category, including insurance firms and non-bank lenders.
A spokesperson from the US Treasury Department said in a statement, "The council's authority to designate nonbank financial companies is a critical tool to address potential threats to financial stability."
The spokesperson said there was a "clear process for de-designation" but gave no timeline for addressing GE's application.
The SIFI designation was developed as part of the 2010 Wall Street reforms, after the US public was forced to bailout Wall Street banks and insurer AIG.
The label is given to institutions whose collapse could have a significant impact on the financial system and the economy. It requires them to hold excess funds to protect against a collapse.
The government argued that because insurance firms and non-bank lenders have ties to many other financial institutions and hold large amounts of financial obligations, their collapse could be detrimental to the US economy.
GE announced in April 2015 that it would be reducing the size of GE Capital and focusing on industrial and manufacturing financing.
"Our plan to change our business model, shrink the company and reduce our risk profile has been successful," said GE Capital chief executive, Keith Sherin.
"We believe GE Capital no longer meets the criteria to be designated as a SIFI and we look forward to working co-operatively and constructively with the FSOC through the rescission process," he said.
On Wednesday, US insurance firm MetLife won a court battle to remove its "too big to fail" label.
MetLife filed a lawsuit in 2015 arguing the regulators had violated their own rules when it placed the insurer in the same category as large banks.
"From the beginning, MetLife has said that its business model does not pose a threat to the financial stability of the United States. This decision is a win for MetLife's customers, employees and shareholders," Steven Kandarian, MetLife's chief executive said in a statement.
The decision was a blow to regulators and could mean more non-bank SIFIs appeal against the "too big to fail" tag in court, rather than reducing their size like GE.
The Treasury Department said on Wednesday that it "strongly disagreed" with the judges decision.
"We are confident that FSOC's determination was lawful and will continue to defend the Council's designations process vigorously," a spokesperson said.
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In a rare interview with BBC sports editor Dan Roan, Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha - the son of billionaire club owner and chairman Vichai - also talked about his family's future plans for the club.
He also spoke of his relationship with "special" manager Claudio Ranieri and striker Jamie Vardy.
Srivaddhanaprabha Sr owns the King Power duty free chain which lends its name to the club's stadium. The family have rarely spoken publicly since taking over the club in 2010.
In the wide-ranging BBC Sport interview, his son reveals:
Leicester won the Premier League title on Monday despite being 5,000-1 outsiders and tipped for relegation at the start of the season.
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Ranieri was a surprise choice as manager, with many pundits tipping him for the sack at the start of the season.
The 64-year-old Italian lost his previous job as head coach of Greece after a defeat by the Faroe Islands - but Srivaddhanaprabha said he was struck by the former Chelsea boss.
"Claudio is a brilliant manager. The way he managed the media with the pressure of the team, he has so much experience with football," he said.
"The way he managed the players and put them out on the field was something special. We saw that when we interviewed him. He has something special inside and has all the plans in his head.
"We interviewed quite a number of managers and he was the one I chose the first time. When I met him, he was the first choice for me."
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England striker Jamie Vardy, 29, is the top flight's second-top scorer and found the net 11 games in a row earlier in the season - a Premier League record. He is now one of the most sought after strikers in Europe - but was signed for £1m from the then non-league Fleetwood Town in 2012.
"Steve Walsh [assistant manager] asked me to buy non-league players and I thought it was funny. Then when he showed me all the information about him, it was amazing. He scores 29 or 30 goals a year so we can see he can score and has a record.
"When I met him, he was quite a special character. He wanted success, he had the hunger to be the best striker in the team, even though he came from non-league.
"He talked to me openly about wanting to be in the Premier League and he said he will try anything to take the club to the Premier League. He said to me on the first day he wants to play for England, I said to him, 'I will help you. Anything you want, I will do it'."
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The story of Leicester's unlikely Premier League title win has made headlines around the world.
"Is it a miracle? It is. It is inspirational and people talk about it. We set the standard of the sport and inspiration for the whole world.
"It is not just for the sport, it is life. If people use Leicester as the standard now, if they fight, they try - then they can achieve one day. Everything has to be right as well.
"It is a miracle for the city, it is a miracle for the players but we have a job to do. They worked hard to be in this position. It is not just lucky.
"All the middle clubs in the team will try now as they are inspired by Leicester. They will believe so it will be more difficult for the big clubs and for Leicester to try again."
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Earlier on Thursday, the agent of Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year Riyad Mahrez - a £400,000 buy from French side Le Havre - said it was "50/50" whether the Algeria forward would be at the club next season.
Other players have also been linked with moves to more established clubs. That prompted Ranieri to speak about his desire to keep the team together at his Thursday news conference - and his vice-chairman echoed that sentiment.
"We will play in the Champions League next season, why would they want to move? I don't see the reason," said Srivaddhanaprabha.
"We will try to keep them but it depends on the players as well. If they want to move, we will talk to them and ask why they have to move."
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"Everything has turned to Leicester over the past seven months of the season.
"Every team is doing well which is why the league has been so strange. All the teams try so hard to win every match so the big teams slip sometimes and we kept the momentum from last season. We tried to survive in the first half of the season and we achieved it earlier than we thought.
"It was so nice to see the players try and the fans trying to support them and we have had the success now and it makes us so happy. It is difficult to say how we are feeling now to be the champions of the Premier League.
"We have been in the first position from Christmas and New Year's Day and people were doubting, they thought we would slip to the middle of the table. We kept belief and dreaming.
"There is no special secret but the team spirit is so great. They fight for each other and try to cover the mistakes for each other. They never stop and they kept believing. They are a special group of players and love each other.
"When we bought the club, we said we love football and we will try everything to make the club successful. If you asked to if I believe can we win the league? Maybe not realistically. My father said he wanted the team to be in the Champions League one day, and we set the plan with all the staff.
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"We will build the team to compete in the Premier League. We will compete in the Champions League next season and I am not saying we will win the big cup, but we will try. We want to keep our best players and we will add some quality players with the right people. I am not sure where we will finish next season.
"We will try to win the league again. The target is the same, we want to build the squad and we try to stay in the Premier League as long as we can. To win the title again is so difficult. It will be super difficult from now. If we win, we win.
"We are scouting for players now, we will see when we finish the season. We will talk with Claudio about how many players we want and in which position. I support everything they say.
"If the scouting team ask me to spend, they need to have some reason. Claudio needs to support it as well. I can't as an owner say, 'you can go out and spend whatever you want. We are going to buy Ronaldo and Messi'.
"As a club, we have to manage for the long term. Not just next season, but we need to build. The players have to be for the right position. We have to buy quality to add more for next season. Then we already have young players that we have bought like Demarai Gray and many others.
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Twelve of the 20 Premier League clubs are now in the hands of foreign owners - and not all are seen as beneficial.
While investment in Manchester City and Chelsea has been welcomed for bringing success, the Glazer family's handling of Manchester United has not always gone down well with fans despite some big money signings, while Randy Lerner's stewardship of Aston Villa has grown toxic at the relegated club.
Srivaddhanaprabha, however, believes his family are doing "the right thing" - and the club's Thai fan base will grow as a result.
"Thai people love football and the Premier League interests them the most. To be part of the owners, the Thai people are proud. They are waiting for the players to go to see them because they want to welcome and thank them. If Manchester United and Leicester play at the same time now, they will be switching the television. They want to see the team owned by Thais playing and they love it.
"If you do the right thing, something good will come. We did last season and the season we got promoted. We supported the players, the staff, the fans. We do everything on and off the pitch.
"If you have the foundation right, you can be good. Every owner tries to be successful in everything they do. They are devoted people and love sport.
"We love football, we love sport and we know how important the fans are. I just need them to support the team. If they [the players] play at home, they feel safe - the support is there. Now even away, they feel the same. It is important for the performance. Now they play for the fans, for the support."
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But how many child migrants are there in the camp?
There are no firm figures for the number of people or children living in the Jungle camp.
They are not registered with the French authorities and the numbers are constantly changing as some leave and new people arrive.
But there are estimates.
Officials in Calais conducted a "visual survey" of the Jungle last week and estimated that there are around 6,500 people currently there, 1,200 of them are unaccompanied children.
Charities that work in the camp estimate that there are around 1,000 unaccompanied children out of a population of around 10,000 people living in the Jungle.
An unaccompanied child in this context is anyone under the age of 18, separated from both parents and not being cared for by an adult who in law or by custom has responsibility to do so.
The most vulnerable unaccompanied children are girls, those under the age of 13, and orphans.
The Safe Passage UK charity said it had identified, in August, 387 children who could be resettled in the UK and passed this list to the Home Office.
One hundred and eighty-seven of those children could be resettled under the EU's Dublin regulation, which allows unaccompanied refugee children to be placed in a country where they have a relative who can be responsible for their care.
The rest could be brought to the UK on the basis of an amendment to the Immigration Act, originally put forward by Lord Dubs, which requires the government to arrange for the transfer to the UK of unaccompanied refugee children from Europe.
On the charity's August list, the youngest child was eight years old, but the majority of them were between 14 and 17.
Children seeking asylum have to first apply for asylum in France, and then the claim can be transferred to the UK if they have relatives here.
It is not always easy to assess the claims. While some of the children, especially those who have come from Syria, have some of their identity documents with them, many do not.
The Home Office says it has identified more than 80 unaccompanied children who have been accepted for transfer to the UK from France under the Dublin regulation and nearly all of whom have now arrived in the UK.
The Met Office had warned of rain turning to snow as it moved east across the UK on Thursday, with snow confined to higher ground in Wales.
Snow and ice warnings, forecasting showers of sleet and hail, are also in place for the whole of Friday.
This may lead to "a risk of disruption" and "difficult driving conditions".
The chief forecaster said: "A cold north to north-westerly airstream will keep the risk of wintry weather going through Friday.
"However, amounts of snow are likely to be very variable with some places missing it altogether."
People were warned to expect longer journey times.
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On Thursday evening, police said the A470 Oerddrws Pass in Gwynedd was blocked in both directions, with 10 cars and a bus having become stuck in the road between Wyle Cop Street, in Dinas Mawddwy, and A487 at Cross Foxes.
The road was "completely impassable due to the snow", with the blockage affecting motorists travelling between Mallwyd and Dolgellau, police said.
Several cars were also involved in an accident in the snow on the A5104 at Treuddyn near Mold, in Flintshire, with no injuries reported.
Friday's warnings cover Bridgend, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Isle of Anglesey, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taff and Swansea.
Vale of Glamorgan, Wrexham, Caerphilly, Cardiff and Merthyr Tydfil are also included.
Meanwhile, Dyfed-Powys Police encouraged walkers to park sensibly around the Storey Arms-area of Brecon this weekend as a high volume of visitors is expected for the Fan Dance endurance event at Pen y Fan.
The force said snowfall over the Brecon Beacons and two pre-planned events led to significant disruption and traffic issues on the A470 last January.
Cars parked on the side of the road in the National Park area caused "substantial difficulty" to emergency services vehicles which were called to a three-vehicle crash and created a hazard to pedestrians who had to walk in the road.
Sgt Owen Dillion, of the roads policing unit, said: "Last January, we issued fines to over 100 vehicles parked illegally in one weekend. We really hope not to do the same this year."
Mr Yentob has faced scrutiny for his role in its financial mismanagement and faced claims he tried to influence BBC coverage of the charity's demise.
He also faced an investigation into his dual roles by the BBC Trust.
The Trust has since concluded it would not be "appropriate or cost effective to look further at these matters".
However, it has ordered a report into potential external conflicts of bosses.
Yentob said the speculation over his conduct had been "proving a serious distraction" when the BBC was in "particularly challenging times".
He will continue to make and present programmes for the corporation, including arts show Imagine.
Kids Company, run by Camila Batmanghelidjh and Mr Yentob, collapsed in August amid claims of financial mismanagement - something its former bosses deny.
Mr Yentob has been accused of trying to influence BBC journalists when he accompanied Ms Batmanghelidjh as she was interviewed on Radio 4's Today programme.
In October, he told a House of Commons select committee he stood with the programme's producers while Ms Batmanghelidjh was being interviewed by its presenters.
He denied that his presence was designed to put pressure on the producers, saying: "I just thought I was there to listen to what Camila said and this is an organisation that I'm familiar with. If it was intimidating, I regret it."
Mr Yentob also phoned the BBC Two's Newsnight in July as the programme prepared to broadcast a report into the charity's government funding.
He said his phone call was about a request they made to interview him, which he declined, and has said he has not "abused my position at the BBC".
But on Tuesday, BBC Trust Rona Fairhead told the Today programme the corporation's editorial standards committee were looking into his involvement in the BBC's coverage of the charity.
After meeting today, the Trust said there was no evidence he had hindered BBC News and its investigation of Kids Company, but said questions were raised about his behaviour.
However, the Trust said, in light of his resignation, "it would not be proportionate, appropriate or cost effective to look further at these matters".
But it said it is right to see if there are lessons to be learnt from the Yentob case, and has asked for a report on conflicts and external activities of managers
On Thursday, BBC director general Tony Hall said BBC News had concluded that he did not influence its reporting of Kids Company.
In a statement, Mr Yentob said: "The BBC is going through particularly challenging times and I have come to believe that the speculation about Kids Company and the media coverage revolving around my role is proving a serious distraction.
"So I have spoken to Tony Hall and told him that I think it best that I step down from my senior management role as creative director at the end of this year and focus on programme-making and TV production - including of course the Imagine series.
"I love the BBC and will continue to do everything I can to ensure that it thrives and fulfils the great expectations we all have of it."
Alan Yentob found himself at the centre of a media storm as revelations about its management and its ultimate collapse made headline news.
He had strong feelings about the stories - and expressed them. The BBC's creative director ringing BBC Newsnight and attending interviews at the Today programme raised more than a few questions.
An internal inquiry concluded he had not influenced the investigations, but the questions did not end.
In a statement, Lord Hall described Mr Yentob as "a towering figure in television, the arts, and a creative force for good for Britain".
Lord Hall said: "He has served the BBC with distinction in a number of different executive roles - all of which have been characterised by his energy, creativity and commitment to public service. He has an extraordinary roll-call of achievement.
"For the record, BBC News considered whether Alan Yentob had influenced the BBC's journalism on the reporting of Kids Company. They concluded that he did not. Despite that, I understand his reasons for stepping down as creative director.
"He has been thinking about this carefully for some time and we have discussed it privately on a number of occasions.
"I am pleased that Alan will be continuing his brilliant work as a programme maker at the BBC in the future."
Camila Batmanghelidjh paid her own tribute to Yentob on Thursday, describing him as "a kind and creative human being".
"Alan Yentob is recognised for his lucid and cutting edge understanding of the arts," she told the BBC. "He has always been generous in recognising talent and nurturing it.
"Many successful careers are owed to him. What is less known about him is that he is passionate about social justice."
The blaze gutted Newgrange Care Home in Cadmore Lane, Cheshunt, when it broke out at about 06:00 BST on Saturday.
A further 33 residents were rescued from the collapsing building, three of whom needed hospital treatment for burns and smoke inhalation.
They are said to be in a serious but stable condition.
Hertfordshire Police said that formal identification of the two people who died had not yet taken place.
A spokeswoman said that a joint investigation with the county's Fire and Rescue Service was continuing on Sunday.
Chief fire officer for Hertfordshire, Darryl Keen, said the outcome could have been even worse had crews not reacted so quickly.
"We had a number of people that were unable to get themselves out, you know, physically would not have been able to move even under normal circumstances," he said.
More than 3.2m people are being asked whether they want to amend the country's constitution to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry.
Polling stations opened at 07:00 BST with voting continuing until 22:00 BST and counting due to start on Saturday morning.
Same-sex marriage is currently legal in 19 countries worldwide.
Votes have already been cast in some islands as well as hospitals, hospices and nursing homes. Irish citizens who are registered are allowed to vote, but there is no postal voting. Many people returned to Ireland to cast their votes.
They will be asked whether they agree with the statement: "Marriage may be contracted in accordance with law by two persons without distinction as to their sex".
The referendum is being held 22 years after homosexual acts were decriminalised in Ireland.
In 2010, the government enacted civil partnership legislation, which provided legal recognition for gay couples.
But there are some important differences between civil partnership and marriage, the critical one being that marriage is protected in the constitution while civil partnership is not.
A constitutional convention established by the Irish government in 2013 considered the specifics of a proposal on extending marriage rights, as well as discussing other changes to the constitution.
It voted in favour of holding a referendum on same-sex marriage and the date was announced by Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny earlier this year.
A separate referendum, on whether the eligibility age of presidential candidates should be lowered from 35 to 21, is being held at the same time, along with a parliamentary by-election in the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency.
They will join fans from the Republic of Ireland in receiving the Medal of the City of Paris.
The city's mayor, Anne Hidalgo, said she wanted to mark the fans' "exemplary sportsmanship".
She said both sets of supporters had displayed "enthusiasm, jolliness and fair play".
The 'Grand Vermeil' is regarded as Paris's most prestigious honour and has been awarded to Nobel Prize in literature winner, Toni Morrison, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and jazz pianist Herbie Hancock.
Ms Hidalgo said the Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland fans had participated in and contributed to the "festive atmosphere" that prevailed in Paris over the weeks.
She said they were "a model for all the supporters of the world".
No date has yet been set for the awarding of the medal.
The Indian boxer announced on Monday that he would be based in the UK for training to start his professional career.
Singh became the face of Indian boxing after winning a bronze medal in the middleweight category at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
"I don't want to compare myself to a legend like Pacquiao, but if I can achieve even half of what he has, I will consider myself successful," the Mid Day quotes the 29-year-old as saying.
He said he would miss his official blue jersey, but wouldn't stop carrying the Indian flag at his bouts.
"Just like how Pacquiao carried the Phillipines flag and (Floyd) Mayweather Jr carried the US flag to their bout, I will carry the Indian flag to my bouts. I've taken Indian boxing to a new, untested level and opened international avenues for our boxers. This cannot be viewed as un-patriotic," he said.
But not everybody is impressed with his decision.
Many were expecting Singh to win a medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
National coach Gurbax Singh said the decision was "surprising" for him. "I am in a state of shock because I never expected this would happen," The Indian Express quotes him as saying.
Some argue that the boxer decided to turn professional and train in the UK because of the absence of world-class facilities and professional management in India.
The boxer has often been critical of the sport's management in India.
"There are so many things. If you see boxing affairs in India...there is no boxing federation right now and there are so many other reasons. When I came here [UK] to see the set up, they are all so professional. They all work step by step," he said.
The Indian Amateur Boxing Federation (AIBF) was suspended by amateur boxing's international body in 2012 after reports of "manipulation" in the IABF elections in 2012.
India's boxing affairs are currently overseen by an ad hoc team set up by the International Boxing Association.
Some pundits feel that Singh can't be blamed for choosing a professional career and it certainly doesn't mean that "he has turned his back on India".
"The jingoistic sections of our public and media are bound to holler. But I'm in Vijender's corner on this one," writes Shamya Dasgupta in The Economic Times.
He acknowledges that Vijender "inspired a generation of boys and girls, especially in Haryana [state], to take up boxing seriously".
"Yes, this could be start of something fantastic for Vijender, and Indian boxers on the whole. Why bring nationalism into it?" he asks.
But can the boxer become the next Pacquiao from India?
India's former professional boxer Raj Kumar Sangwan tells the Times of India that "Vijender can go a long way. He has the skills and boxing sense... but he needs to have more power and must be ready to be patient".
For Singh, his bouts will always be about inspiring his fans and fellow boxers.
"I am still a boxer. It shouldn't matter to them whether I am an amateur or a professional. I love the tricolor [Indian flag], and I want to see it go high in professional boxing too. That will be my aim," he told NDTV.
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Currently, households have no choice in which water company supplies them. Ofwat says greater competition could mean innovation and lower prices.
Under the proposals, firms could buy water in batches from existing providers and sell it on to households.
Companies could also offer bundles of services, selling gas, electricity or broadband alongside water.
In theory it could mean that banks, supermarkets or phone companies could also sell water.
"We are living in an age of retail revolution, but water customers are being left behind," said Ofwat chief executive Cathryn Ross.
"The service offers from water companies can feel behind the curve compared to the innovation customers benefit from when buying other goods. The uncomfortable truth is that, when it comes to retail offers, water companies provide an analogue service in a digital age."
According to Ofwat, greater competition may only have a modest impact on bills, with an annual saving of £8.
But Ms Ross told the BBC that she expected that opening up the market would lead to better service as well as lower bills.
"We would expect significant benefits to come through to customers in terms of better service," she said.
"For instance, at the moment only two of the water companies in England let their customers manage their bills using an app. That's the kind of thing we'd expect to change and see real innovation."
Ms Ross said that opening up the market would only work for customers if switching was made "as hassle-free as possible".
Water UK, which represents the water companies, said in a statement: "Extending retail competition to over 20 million households could secure potential benefits for domestic customers, but would also be a major undertaking and so deserves to be given very careful consideration.
"We look forward to a timely decision from government which helps sustain the stability the industry needs to continue successfully meeting the needs of its customers."
The government still has to approve any proposals before the market is opened up.
Earlier this year, a report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), said millions of households in England and Wales were paying too much for their water supply because of poor oversight by Ofwat.
PAC said the regulator consistently overestimated water companies' costs.
The property at Inshriach House, an Edwardian country house on an estate near Aviemore, will feature on the programme next month.
The winner is decided by a public vote.
Inshriach House's owner Walter Micklethwait hopes Dash, a lamb who shares a bed with a dog called Monty, will win them some extra support.
Mr Micklethwait, who built the shed with help from his girlfriend Lizzy Westman, has dubbed the lamb a "house sheep".
He said: "Dash was rejected by her mother so has been living in our house.
"She is 12 days old and thinks she is a dog."
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Russia's Maria Sharapova has been given wildcards for tournaments in Stuttgart, Madrid and Rome after her 15-month suspension ends next month.
"I think you should really have to work your way back," Murray told the Times.
"But most tournaments will do what they think is best for their event. If they think big names will sell more seats, they're going to do that."
Five-time Grand Slam winner Sharapova was banned for two years after testing positive for meldonium in January last year, but that suspension was reduced in October to 15 months following an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Wimbledon organisers face the potential dilemma of whether to hand the 2004 champion, who no longer has a world ranking, a place in this year's tournament in July.
"She has an opportunity to try to improve her ranking up until that point and potentially not need a wildcard," Murray said of Sharapova, who he played alongside at the International Premier Tennis League.
"But then if she doesn't, that becomes Wimbledon's decision and how they want to play that. I'm sure they'll think long and hard about it and how they feel people will view it and then make the right decision for them."
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Curry Mallet is one of 25 locations celebrating the signing of charter by King John in Runnymede on 15 June 1215.
Magna Carta established that the king was subject to the law rather than being above it.
William Malet, the feudal baron of Curry Mallet, born around 1175, was one of Magna Carta's guarantors.
The former Lord of the Manor of the village was one of the 25 rebel barons present at the signing.
A district council grant helped the village commission the signs by Somerset-based designer Belinda Magee.
Ms Magee worked with the Curry Mallet community to create a theme that reflected the "heritage" of the village.
With a population of 306, Curry Mallet is one of the smallest communities involved in the celebrations, and the furthest south west, the council added.
Village events over the anniversary weekend include taking part in a national peal of bells, choral performances, a pageant and a re-enactment of the sealing of Magna Carta.
Van Gaal, 62, will be replaced by Guus Hiddink as coach of the Netherlands after this summer's World Cup.
Spurs named Tim Sherwood, 45, as head coach on an 18-month deal in December.
Ex-Chelsea boss Gullit told BBC Radio 5 live: "I know for sure he was at Van Gaal's house, the chairman. I think it's a done deal, but you never know."
2012-2013: Andre Villas-Boas
2008-2012: Harry Redknapp
2007-2008: Juande Ramos
2004-2007: Martin Jol
June 2004-Nov 2004: Jacques Santini
Van Gaal, who has previously managed Ajax, Barcelona, AZ Alkmaar and Bayern Munich, said recently: "I've always said that I want to work in the Premier League, so there's a chance."
One proviso Van Gaal had made previously was that he was not prepared to combine two roles, but the end of his second spell as Netherlands coach this summer would allow him to pursue other jobs.
However, a Spurs source questioned the timing of a rumoured meeting between Levy and Van Gaal, intimating any such conversations might have been before Sherwood's appointment, adding: "We don't comment on speculation."
In his first managerial role, former Spurs midfielder Sherwood has presided over 10 wins, eight defeats and three draws in his 21 games in charge since taking over from Andre Villas-Boas in December, initially as interim boss.
But he accepts that with only a short-term contract, speculation will continue about his future.
He told the Independent: "Daniel wants the club to do well. He cares for the club. And I believe he wants me to do well. I would like [the contract] to be 10 years but I am realistic enough to know this is a dress rehearsal. I am untried.
"What I would say is there is no guarantee [about the alternatives]. Someone could win 19 trophies elsewhere and they might not fit at Tottenham. The club has to fit the manager and you don't know until you bring them in. But they have a better idea with me than anyone else."
Following the world record £85.3m sale of Gareth Bale to Real Madrid last August, Spurs spent £107m on seven new overseas players, recruitment overseen by technical director Franco Baldini, the former England assistant manager.
"They are all internationals, but it is like fixing a washing machine with someone's tool bag," Sherwood added. "Sometimes you might not have the right bit."
Greeks have been enthralled for months by the mystery surrounding the Amphipolis monument.
Now Katerina Peristeri has revealed that fragmentary inscriptions link the tomb to Hephaestion.
Hephaestion died less than a year before the Macedonian leader.
After his death in 325BC, Alexander was said to have ordered that shrines be constructed throughout the empire.
Ms Peristeri's team believe the site at Amphipolis may have been designed by one of two architects, Dinocrates or Stesicrates, and built by Antigonus, another of Alexander's generals.
They also believe that tiny inscriptions found at the site show Hephaestion's monogram (two initials from his name).
However, not everyone was convinced by the team's revelations.
Prof Panayiotis Faklaris of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki told Greek radio on Thursday that there was no indication that the tomb had any connection to Hephaestion or that Alexander had ordered it to be constructed.
There had earlier been speculation that the tomb may be linked to Alexander the Great's mother Olympias or his wife Roxana.
And earlier this year bones were recovered at the site that belonged to at least five individuals, including an elderly woman, a newborn child and two men, one of whom had been stabbed.
As well as 550 fragments of bone, animal as well as human, archaeologists have uncovered three vaulted chambers behind a facade decorated with two big marble sphinxes.
Within the chambers were a pair of caryatids - larger-than-life statues of young women - and a mosaic pavement depicting the abduction of the goddess Persephone by Hades, king of the underworld.
Alexander, who built an empire from modern Greece to India, was buried in Egypt although the precise location remains a mystery.
As his generals fought over his legacy, his mother, widow, son and half brother were all killed, most of them near Amphipolis.
Amphipolis site
But Mr Ahmed, who runs the Egyptian Kebab House in Christchurch, wasn't fazed by the gun-wielding masked man demanding money.
In fact, CCTV footage from inside the shop shows the cool kebab shop owner placing an order into a bag and handing it to a waiting customer, as the would-be robber continues to make his demands for cash.
"He came into my shop and took out a gun from a bag and asked me to give him money," Mr Ahmed explained.
"I'm not a hero. I just stayed calm and he wasn't expecting that.
"I am a businessman. I hadn't finished with my customer and my priority was to finish serving him," Mr Ahmed said.
"When the customer left I walked to the kitchen to call the police. I told him too and he couldn't believe it.
"For a moment I was scared he might shoot but then I just thought if that happens then it is my destiny, but my calm reaction just surprised him I think and he just ran away."
The CCTV footage of the incident in May was posted by Canterbury police on their Facebook page. It has been viewed 170,000 times and has more than 750 shares.
Mr Ahmed said the footage of the casual hold-up has turned him into a local celebrity.
He said: "Customers have been telling me how brave I am but I don't think I am brave. It just happened and I didn't really think anything of it.
"It was a surprise because nothing like this has ever happened to me in the 15 years I have owned the shop.
"It has made me a little bit famous though and that is quite nice."
Police are still looking for the gunman.
By Rozina Sini, BBC's UGC and Social News team
The first picture, posted by his campaign staff, shows the President video-conferencing with supporters at the Iowa caucus.
The service, which allows users to apply special effects to pictures, has over 50 million users worldwide.
Social networking is expected to play a major role in efforts to build voter loyalty in the upcoming US Presidential Elections.
Prior to being elected in 2008, President Obama used Twitter to rally support and raise money for his campaign.
He quickly became one of the service's most followed users.
Ahead of this year's election, all of the Republican candidates have established a presence on Twitter - with Newt Gingrich proving the most popular of the presidential hopefuls with over 1.3 million followers.
President Obama's Twitter account is mostly maintained by his campaign team, although posts signed off with 'BO' are said to be posted by the President himself.
As a notable Blackberry user, it is unclear whether the President will upload pictures that he has taken himself as the app is currently only available on the iPhone.
Instagram, which Apple named "app of the year" in 2011, said it was delighted to have the President using its service.
"We look forward to seeing how President Obama uses Instagram to give folks a visual sense of what happens in the everyday life of the President of the United States," it saidin a blog post.
Cameroon are in the final despite West Brom's Nyom and Liverpool's Matip being among eight players to refuse call-ups.
"I don't understand people turning down their country," former Senegal striker Diouf told BBC World Service.
"And like the legend Bob Marley always said 'if you don't know where you come from, you don't know where to go'."
Cameroon beat Ghana 2-0 in Thursday's semi-final in Gabon to book a final meeting with Egypt on Sunday.
Diouf, who played for seven British clubs including Liverpool, Bolton and Blackburn, featured in the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations final for Senegal, as well as the World Cup later that year.
He added: "Definitely they'll regret not playing in the Cup of Nations. After your career, what are you going to do? Stay living in Europe? To do what?
"It's always tough to be African, because you can be the best African coach but they'll never give you PSG, Barcelona, Liverpool or Manchester United.
"That's why I say to all the boys: don't turn down your country because the future of this world is in Africa."
As well as defenders Matip and Nyom, other Cameroon players refusing call-ups were Andre Onana (Ajax), Guy N'dy Assembe (Nancy), Maxime Poundje (Bordeaux), Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa (Marseille), Ibrahim Amadou (Lille), and Eric Maxim Choupo Moting (Schalke) who pulled out after the initial seven.
Police said the two vehicles collided between Ballantrae and Cairnryan at about 13:55 on Wednesday.
Emergency services attended but the driver of the car was pronounced dead at the scene. His relatives have been told.
Officers have urged anyone who witnessed the crash to contact them on the non-emergency number 101.
Sgt Iain Pittams said: "Enquiries are continuing to establish the exact circumstances of this incident.
"Anyone with information is asked to contact officers at the Divisional Road Policing Unit based at Irvine via 101."
Dotcom is wanted by the US on a number of charges including fraud and copyright infringement.
Three other Megaupload accused can also be extradited, the court said, upholding an earlier ruling in the District Court.
The four have said they will appeal against the decision.
Megaupload, which was shut down in 2012, allowed millions of people to download digital content, including films, music and TV shows.
The High Court agreed with the defence that the accused could not be extradited on the basis of alleged copyright infringement, since "online communication of copyright protected works to the public is not a criminal offence in New Zealand".
However they can be extradited on the fraud charges, he said, as they are crimes in New Zealand.
The ruling does not determine the defendants' guilt or innocence, merely that they can be sent to the US for trial.
Dotcom responded on Twitter, saying he had "won" as the ruling agreed he cannot be sent to the US for copyright infringement, but had "lost anyway", calling the ruling "a political judgement".
"Judges who prioritize political views and career over impartiality and the law shouldn't be Judges at all," he said.
Mr Dotcom and former colleagues - Mathias Ortmann, Bram van der Kolk and Finn Batato - are accused of copyright infringement, conspiracy, racketeering and money laundering.
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Dotcom, a German national living in New Zealand, has described himself as an "internet freedom fighter" engaged in a David and Goliath battle against major corporations.
US authorities say Dotcom and others cost film studios and record companies more than $500m (£322m) in lost earnings, while making at least $175m for themselves.
The 19-year-old was arrested after reportedly warning of bomb and cyber attacks and demanding air time.
A police statement said he later admitted making the threats up, and claimed he was acting alone.
The man's motive was unclear. It comes at a time of heightened security in Europe following attacks in Paris.
NOS's main evening bulletins were cancelled after the intruder broke in on Thursday.
Staff were evacuated from the building in the Media Park in the city of Hilversum.
The man, smartly dressed and carrying what appeared to be a long pistol, paced around a studio, and reportedly wanted 10 minutes' airtime.
Footage broadcast by NOS after the incident shows him saying: "The things that are going to be said [pause] - those are very large world affairs. We were hired by the security service."
Armed police stormed into the studio and overpowered him.
Footage shows the officers shouting: "Drop it! Drop it! Get on your knees!"
He is seen dropping the fake gun, saying: "I dropped it. It's dropped."
Police then put handcuffs on him and took him away.
Prosecutors later said that the man, aged 19 and from the town of Pijnacker near The Hague, was in police custody.
He was being held on suspicion of making a threat, weapons possession and taking a hostage, officials added.
Dutch media reported that he was believed to be a student at a technical university and had been living with his mother and stepfather.
A threatening letter the man allegedly gave to staff, warning of bomb and cyber attacks if he was prevented from going on air, has been published on the NOS website (in Dutch).
A reporter who spoke to him said he had claimed to be from a "hackers' collective", AP news agency says.
Controversial Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was shot dead in Hilversum's Media Park in 2002 after giving a radio interview.
Security has been tightened across Europe in recent weeks after jihadist attacks on the offices of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, police officers, and a kosher supermarket in Paris left 17 people dead.
A series of anti-terror raids in Belgium also left two suspects dead this month.
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Blair Riley and Colin Shields netted doubles as Belfast Giants secured an Elite League victory over Manchester Storm at the SSE Arena.
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World number one Novak Djokovic beat defending champion Andy Murray 6-2 3-6 6-3 in the Madrid Open final.
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Welshman Page's side beat West Brom on penalties to set up the Sixfields tie.
"I've had a couple of pals texting me talking about when we used to collect the Panini stickers," said Page.
"There was a couple of Tottenham and Liverpool fans, and I was Man United. It's great to have those memories, I've always looked out for their results."
He added to BBC Radio Northampton: "It's a great opportunity for the players and they deserve that for the performance the other night."
The League One side have never beaten Manchester United in four matches, their most recent meeting being an FA Cup game in 2004.
But former Wales defender Page says his side must not lose focus on their league campaign, starting against Coventry on Saturday.
"They'll be able to get themselves up for the Manchester United game - if they don't they're in the wrong profession," said Page.
"What's important now is that we're grounded and realise it's the league campaign that's our priority and there's a lot of points to be gained from now until we play Manchester United."
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Northampton Town manager Rob Page says "half the Rhondda Valley" wants tickets for his side's EFL Cup third round match against Manchester United.
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Cardiff University is leading a three-year research project into a special form of concrete to reduce the need for road repairs.
The new material uses bacteria in microcapsules which burst out to plug gaps and cracks when water enters them.
The bacteria forms to produce a limestone seal.
Professor Bob Lark from Cardiff University's school of engineering said: "We can introduce fibres into the mixtures which limits cracks from being formed.
"But equally it's about saying once those cracks form - and when water gets into them and that freezes and expands it makes the cracks bigger - we can have a mechanism for knitting those cracks together."
Prof Lark said it was similar to someone cutting themselves while shaving, with the bleeding being part of the process as the skin repairs itself.
The material is being developed in conjunction with Bath and Cambridge scientists.
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Scientists are developing a self-healing material which could mean the end of the road for potholes.
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The restrictions were part of wide ranging immigration controls that also suspended refugee arrivals. It appears that existing restrictions in place during the Obama administration informed Mr Trump's list.
These countries were already named as "countries of concern" after a law passed by a Republican-led Congress in 2015 altered a visa admissions programme.
The Visa Waiver Program allows citizens from 38 countries to enter the US for 90 days without a visa. The UK, France and Germany are among those countries allowed in under the waiver programme. Visitors apply for an Electronic System for Travel Authorization (Esta).
In December 2015 Congress passed a law - created by senators from both parties, and supported and signed by the White House - that removed waiver benefits for foreign nationals who had visited certain countries since March 2011. The countries were identified as having a terrorist organisation with a significant presence in the area, or the country was deemed a "safe haven" for terrorists.
After Libya, Somalia and Yemen were added to the list in February 2016, the "countries of concern" were the seven named in Mr Trump's order.
According to the restrictions, citizens who had been eligible for the waiver programme and had visited one of those seven countries in the time period were forced to apply for a visa.
The Obama administration passed the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015 after the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. The Act, however, unlike Trump's much more broad order, only affected people eligible for the visa waiver programme, rather than suspend all citizens' travel from one of those seven countries.
In a statement on 29 January, President Trump said his policy was "similar" to an Obama order that "banned visa for refugees from Iraq".
Trump referred to an incident in May 2011 when the FBI indicted two Iraqi citizens in Kentucky on federal terrorism charges. Both were accused of providing material support to al-Qaeda and had been involved in attacks against US forces in Iraq.
A hearing before the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence found that the pair had "exploited special Iraqi refugee programs". The vetting system came under review and this resulted in fewer Iraqi refugee admissions that year.
The number of refugees from Iraq dropped from 18,016 to 9,388 as a result of the suspension. That number increased to 12,163 the following year.
Mr Trump's order said that foreign-born individuals have been responsible for "numerous" terrorism-related crimes since 9/11, including foreign nationals who have entered the country on visa or refugee programmes. The 9/11 attackers came from Saudi Arabia, UAE, Lebanon and Egypt.
In September 2015 the Homeland Security Committee reported that the so-called Islamic State had inspired or directed 60 terror plots or attacks in Western countries, including 15 in the United States. There are 250 American citizens known to have joined Islamist extremist groups.
Significant recent attacks in the US were not committed by citizens from any of the seven countries included in the order. This list includes:
There have been a few non-fatal attacks by individuals from two of the countries on the banned list.
According to the New America Foundation, 82% of all terrorism incidents since 2001 were conducted by citizens and permanent residents. Since 9/11, jihadists have killed 94 people inside the United States.
A Cato Institute study found that Americans are 253 times more likely to die in a regular homicide than dying in a terrorist attack committed by a foreigner in the US.
US Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have said the order "may do more to help terrorist recruitment than improve our security", because of the signal it sends to the Muslim world.
But President Trump has rejected that notion, saying in an interview that America's enemies were already angry and it was his number one responsibility to keep the country safe. And his supporters wholeheartedly agree.
"Donald Trump says this is temporary and I trust him," said one resident in New York's Staten Island. "His number one job is to protect the American people."
The 30-year-old South African is set to make his first appearance of the season following a knee injury against Surrey in the T20 Blast at the Oval.
Ingram has been a spectator as Glamorgan have failed to win any of their six County Championship matches.
"It's been a really tough start to the season," Ingram said.
"It might be really good for us to change the format up completely and change the momentum of the season and keep building on that with a really good run in the next couple of months coming."
Ingram will need an operation to "clean-up" his knee which he injured during the warm-up to Glamorgan's first game of the season.
But he has chosen to return to the team because he wants to "get as much cricket as I can out of the season."
Ingram added: "I've torn a cartilage in my knee and at some stage I'm going to need an operation to clean that up.
"If I go for that operation now it could 10 or 12 weeks out again."
However, Ingram insists it is not a risk to play and is looking forward to his return to the Oval where he scored 91 off 47 balls in Glamorgan's most impressive win last season.
"We showed last season we could beat anyone on any day. A few wickets up front wouldn't go awry either," he added.
"It's been pretty frustrating and it's just been great the last couple of days just joining up with the squad again and I'm just ready to go."
The 38-year-old said he was "honestly sorry" and hoped families would find peace if he was convicted, news agency DPA reported.
Identified only as Niels H under German court reporting rules, the accused told the court he acted on impulse.
"Usually the decision to do it was relatively spontaneous," he said.
Niels H has been on trial in Oldenburg in the north of Germany since September and is accused of murder and attempted murder.
The deaths occurred at the Delmenhorst clinic, where the man worked in the intensive care unit between 2003 and 2005.
He is alleged to have killed three patients and attempted to kill two others during that time, using a heart medication that lowers blood pressure.
A psychiatric expert last month said Niels H had admitted to the crimes and also claimed to have over-medicated another 90 patients, 30 of whom died.
His plan was to trigger medical emergencies so he could resuscitate his victims but he also acted out of boredom, the court heard.
The defendant said: "There was a tension there, and an expectation of what would happen next."
He claimed that each time someone died, he decided he would never do it again. But his determination would then slowly fade, he added.
Prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for Niels H, who at a first trial was convicted of attempted murder in 2008 and imprisoned for seven and a half years.
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The Barcelona forward curled home a free-kick after only 12 minutes, and Luan added a second after the break.
Brazil will now play Honduras in Wednesday's semi-finals after they won 1-0 against South Korea, thanks to Alberth Elis's winner.
Germany play Nigeria in the other last-four match.
The Africans beat Denmark 2-0 in their quarter-final, while Germany won 4-0 against Portugal.
Brazil's second pool win came after 0-0 draws with Iraq and South Africa, and a 4-0 victory over Denmark.
Neymar, the poster boy for the Games, finally got off the mark at the fourth attempt when he curled home from 25 yards out.
He then provoked a mass brawl between the two teams after a heavy challenge on Andres Roa, and five yellow cards were handed out.
Brazil made sure of a place in their third consecutive Olympic semi-final when Luan's effort from outside the area beat goalkeeper Cristian Bonilla.
Kinde, 36, was the last of the 10 refugee athletes to compete in Rio, coming 90th in the men's marathon on Sunday.
The team of swimmers, judokas and runners competed under the flag of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
IOC president Thomas Bach said the athletes were selected to "send a message of hope to all the refugees of the world".
"We are equal now," said Kinde, who is originally from Ethiopia. "We compete like human beings, like the others.
"We are 10 refugees selected by the IOC and their flag leads us. Sixty-five million follow us, more than one country. We are inspiring them."
Here are the athletes of the Refugee Olympic Team, their stories and how they got on in Rio.
Who is he? The 25-year-old fled war-torn Syria in 2015, travelling by boat across the Mediterranean Sea to Turkey before continuing to Belgium.
How did he do? Anis earned a standing ovation after setting a personal best in the men's 100m freestyle. He clocked 54.25 seconds to finish 56th out of 59 in the heats. On Thursday, his time of 56.23secs in the 100m butterfly saw him ranked 40th out of 43 in the heats.
What did he say? "It's a wonderful feeling to compete in the Olympics. I don't want to wake up from this dream."
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Who is he? The "lost" South Sudanese runner lived in a refugee camp in Kenya for 10 years after escaping a civil war. He started running competitively just over a year ago. Despite the weather being unfavourable for training during the day, and there being no facilities, he continues to compete.
How did he do? Biel finished last in the heats for the men's 800m, in a time of one minute 54.67 seconds and failed to qualify for the semi-finals.
What did he say? "Sport gave me a sense of belonging. Even if I don't get gold or silver, I will show the world that, as a refugee, you can do something."
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Who is he? James Chiengijek fled his home to avoid being recruited as a child solider, like many of the "lost boys of Sudan" who made it to refugee camps in Kenya from which several long-distance runners have emerged. He picked up injuries as a result of having the wrong footwear, but that did not stop him.
How did he do? Chiengjiek finished eighth in his heat for the men's 400m, in a time of 52.89secs.
What did he say? "My dream is to get good results at the Olympics and also to help people. Because I have been supported by someone, I also want to support someone."
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Who is he? Paulo Lokoro was a cattle herder in South Sudan, until the war broke out and he fled to join his parents in Kenya. On the journey there was only fruit to eat, and when he arrived at the refugee camp he did not even have any shoes.
How did he do? Lokoro finished 12th in his heat for the men's 1500m and 39th overall, with a time of 4:03.96 meaning he failed to qualify for the semi-finals.
What did he say? "A dream would be to break a record. To win a medal, a gold, that is my dream."
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Who is she? Since the age of six, Anjelina Lohalith has been disconnected from her family in South Sudan after escaping civil war. The 21-year-old hopes her running career will allow her to help improve the life of her family, return one day and help her father build a better house.
How did she do? Lohalith finished 14th in the second of the women's 1500m heats, with a time of 4:47.38.
What did she say? "I'm happy because it will be the first time refugees are represented in the Olympics. It will inspire other refugees because wherever they are they will see that they are not just the 'other people'."
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Who is she? Rose Lokonyen discovered her talent for running at a 10km competition at her refugee camp in Kenya, where she came second. She only started running with shoes last year. The South Sudanese runner believes she would have died if she and her family had not left the country when she was 10.
How did she do? Lokonyen finished seventh in her women's 800m heat, where a time of 2:16:64 was not quick enough to see her progress.
What did she say? "My dream, my first priority, is to help my parents and my siblings and then after that to help my fellow refugees."
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Who is he? The Ethiopian marathon runner had to leave his native country because of political problems, and has been living in Luxembourg since 2013. He has a personal best marathon time of two hours 17 minutes and would qualify for the Olympic team if he had his citizenship.
How did he do? Kinde came 90th in the marathon in a time of two hours 24 minutes eight seconds.
What did he say? "I can't explain the feeling, it has power, it's amazing. It's very good news for refugee athletes that Olympic Solidarity have given us this chance to participate here."
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Who is she? Yolande Mabika left the Democratic Republic of Congo three years ago to escape the country's civil war, moving to Rio. She was separated from her family at a very young age. On her arrival in Brazil, she was taken to a centre for displaced children, where she took up judo.
How did she do? She was knocked out in the first round of the -70kg contest by Israel's Linda Bolder.
What did she say? "Judo never gave me money, but it gave me a strong heart. I got separated from my family and used to cry a lot. I started judo to have a better life."
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Who is she? Mardini is known for rescuing 20 people in a capsizing boat after fleeing Damascus from the conflict in Syria. She used her talent in open water swimming to swim for three hours and help everybody survive the journey to Germany.
How did she do? She won her women's 100m butterfly heat, but her time was not quick enough for her to progress. She also failed to progress in the 100m freestyle.
What did he say? "I want everyone to think refugees are normal people who had their homelands and lost them, not because they wanted to run away and be refugees."
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Who is he? Popole Misenga grew up in Bukavu area of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which was severely affected by the Second Congo War. When he was six, his mother was murdered, and he fled to a nearby rain forest, where he wandered for a week before being found and returned to Kinshasa, the country's capital. He sought asylum in Brazil in 2013.
How did he do? Misenga beat India's Avtar Singh in his opening match, but lost by ippon to South Korea's Gwak Dong-han.
What has he said? "I have two brothers and I haven't seen them, I don't know how they look any more because we were separated since we were small. So I send hugs and kisses to my brothers."
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Mathias Depardon, 37, was being held in the south-eastern city of Gaziantep, accused of propaganda links with outlawed Kurdish militants.
The group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said his detention was "illegal".
Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron urged his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to intercede.
The Istanbul-based photographer was on assignment for National Geographic magazine when he was detained in Hasankeyf, in the south-eastern Batman province, on 8 May.
The accusation of "propaganda for a terrorist organisation" was a possible allusion to photos of members of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) which had been published in French media outlets, RSF said in a statement.
The police apparently found the images while looking at the photographer's social media accounts following his detention, the group added.
His deportation comes a day after his mother visited him in detention. Mr Macron said on Twitter he was "very happy" with the news.
RSF said Depardon's detention was "further evidence of the suspicion with which foreign journalists are increasingly treated in Turkey".
"Depardon's only crime was practising journalism, so his detention is illegal and arbitrary," RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire said earlier this week.
Dozens of foreign journalists have been expelled from Turkey since fighting between the Turkish army and the PKK flared up in July 2015, after the end of a two-year ceasefire, the group added.
Turkey is ranked 155th out of 180 countries in the 2017 World Press Freedom Index by RSF.
In an open letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, 45 US lawmakers said Haiti needed a strong, representative government in the wake of January's disaster which made a million and a half homeless and, according to the Haitian government, left more than 200,000 dead.
The letter said the decision of the electoral authorities, the Provisional Electoral Council, to exclude some of the most popular candidates from the 28 November poll, so potentially conferring decisions to a government perceived as illegitimate, was a "recipe for disaster".
The US lawmakers say the exclusion of candidates, including those from Fanmi Lavalas, which they describe as "Haiti's largest political party", risks causing popular unrest.
And they go as far as quoting former US President John Kennedy: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
Fanmi Lavalas leaders, some of whom are loyal to the exiled former Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide, have been barred on technical grounds following a dispute between candidates.
The popular Haitian hip hop singer Wyclef Jean was excluded from running in the presidential poll because he was said not to meet eligibility requirements.
The lawmakers' letter to Mrs Clinton, issued last Thursday, says excluding candidates will undermine both the right of Haitians to vote and the resulting government's ability to govern.
The current Haitian government led by President Rene Preval has rejected allegations that it is excluding popular candidates for political reasons.
It said Fanmi Lavalas was split and some of its leaders unrepresentative of the party. And it said Wyclef Jean had spent too much of his time resident in the United States to be eligible for election.
In Haiti's fluid political landscape some prominent members of the current government claim allegiance to Fanmi Lavalas.
But many ordinary Haitian voters spontaneously say they support populists like Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Wyclef Jean, and they express deep scepticism about the current administration because it is not seen to have responded well to their needs after the earthquake.
The letter to Mrs Clinton said allowing the elections to proceed with the exclusions in place would "come back to haunt the international community" because the government that is elected will have to make difficult decisions about post-earthquake reconstruction and spend large amounts of aid money.
"Running transparently unfair, exclusive elections with the support of the international community, will leave many Haitians to conclude that they have no choice but to protest the elections and the consequent government through social disruption," the letter says.
Finally, the letter concludes that the US government should not provide any funding to elections that do not meet "basic democratic requirements".
Ten people were arrested after police officers and other personnel surrounded the remote property in a canyon in northern Los Angeles County.
As well as the birds, firearms and drugs were found in the area.
Cockfighting, which is illegal in every state in the US, involves two birds fighting each other to the death.
Captain Jeff Parry, of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, told a press conference: "This, according to the experts here, is the largest seizure in US history of illegal cockfighting roosters."
Most of those detained by his officers were "at the lower level, the caretakers, entrusted with feeding and caring for the animals", while the property owner was the main suspect.
More arrests are expected, with some of those already detained caught after being chased through the canyon by mounted police officers.
Video of the raid shows officers discovering bodies of birds which Cpt Parry said bore "wounds consistent with cockfighting".
As well as the birds, a number of mobile fighting pit and "hundreds of slashers" - which are attached to the animals feet during fights - were discovered on the site, along with syringes and steroids.
This is not the first time the property has been raided.
Eric Sakach, of the Humane Society of the United States, told the press conference that about 2,700 birds were seized in 2007.
Assets were reportedly seized in just over 100 cases in Switzerland last year out of almost 30,000 asylum applications.
The Swiss Refugee Council has criticised the practice as unworthy.
But the government says the policy reflects the will of Swiss voters.
The UN refugee agency and human rights groups have condemned Danish proposals to seize migrants' cash and other individual items worth more than 10,000 kroner (£1,000; €1,340, $1,450) to pay for their stay.
Danish MPs debated the plans on Wednesday and the bill is expected to be voted on later in the month.
Asylum seekers in Switzerland are required to declare their assets on arrival, and anything over $1,000 can be taken.
The authorities collected a total of 210,000 Swiss francs ($210,000; €200,000) from 112 people in 2015 under the regulation, public broadcaster SRF reported on Thursday (in German).
Government spokeswoman Lea Wertheimer told Swiss television: "Swiss law states that asylum-seeking refugees who have money have to contribute to the costs that they cause while being here.
"And that's why we take their valuables away once they arrive in Switzerland."
But Stefan Frey, from the Swiss Refugee Council, described the practice as "daylight robbery".
"This is unworthy" he was quoted as saying. "This has to change."
A Syrian man told Swiss television that he had been forced to sell his house to pay people traffickers to help his family flee the conflict in their country, but the money left over was seized when he arrived in Switzerland.
"In Zurich we were controlled by the police. They took away all our money," he said, explaining that he had about £2,000 at the time.
"It seems that it is their right to take it away. They gave us a receipt. The officers promised that the money would be returned, but until now this has not happened."
On Wednesday, the UNHCR criticised the proposals being considered in Denmark, saying it was hard to believe that the country wanted to confiscate the few belongings that asylum seekers had managed to save.
But Integration Minister Inger Stojberg said the measures simply put migrants on an equal footing with jobless Danes, who must sell assets above a certain level to claim benefits.
Wedding rings and other items of sentimental value will not be included in the plans.
Unlike Denmark, Switzerland is not a member of the EU - but it is part of the Schengen Agreement, which is supposed to enable passport-free travel between countries.
Some countries have reintroduced border controls amid concerns over the arrival of more than a million migrants in Europe last year.
On a sandy stretch of waste ground a few miles outside Tripoli, a small crowd of militiamen gather almost excitedly around a large yellow earthmover. The digger is excavating a huge hole in the ground.
From the pile of earth at the side of the hole a few bones are sticking out. Bones that are immediately recognisable as belonging to humans: long leg bones and pieces of skull. This is a mass grave.
At this particular site, Ahmed Atar, a medical student and militia member, tells me there may be as many as 30 or 35 bodies.
"These were people killed right at the start of last year's revolution," he tells me.
"When the regime wanted to clean the streets of Tripoli, so it could show off to the foreign press how much it was in control, they shot protesters and buried their bodies here."
Hisham Sharif is hoping his brother has not met a similar fate. I went back with him to En Zara prison. This is where 40-year-old Tarek was last seen after he was detained at the clinic where he worked as a doctor.
As long as there is a chance his brother may be alive, or that he can at least recover his body, Hisham will try anything and has already given a DNA sample to a central data bank.
"I don't know if he's dead or alive," Hisham says with tears in his eyes as we look over the prison courtyard, now full of captured Gaddafi loyalists. "I just need to know where Tarek is."
Later, at a small centre established to help families of the missing, I gaze at a huge wall of photographs. There are about 800 pictures, mainly of young men, but also some older men and a few women.
Crucially, they are not just opponents of the former Gaddafi regime but men in uniform and others who either supported or served the former leader.
These are some of Libya's missing - a gap on the wall indicates where a photo has been removed, not because someone has been found alive but because their body has been identified.
Officials at the organisation set up to help families of the missing said some of them had been abducted on the direct orders of Abdullah al-Senussi, Col Gaddafi's hated head of intelligence.
The Libyan government has now requested his extradition after he was reportedly detained over the weekend in neighbouring Mauritania.
To be blunt, Libya is ill-equipped to do much about the missing. Central government is alarmingly weak and ministries are barely more organised than the country's many armed militias.
Soaade Messoudi from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says relatives of the missing should not expect too much, too soon - especially in a country with little expertise in forensics. Excavating graves with diggers is not the best way to preserve bodies or collate evidence.
"These people are so desperate that, even during the fighting, they would go to grave sites and dig up the bodies, thinking they would find their loved ones," Messoudi tells me from the base in Tripoli where the ICRC is trying to advise and help the fledgling and inexperienced Libyan authorities.
"It just isn't going to happen quickly, they have to be told this is a process that will take years."
During part of last year's uprising, much of the international media was "billeted" by the Gaddafi government at the infamous Rixos hotel in Tripoli. At night we would often hear the sound of gunfire from the woods behind the hotel.
This week my suspicions were confirmed when I was shown a video of dozens of dead bodies, lying in a ditch behind the Rixos.
They were, apparently, activists picked up from their homes in Tripoli and brought here to be executed.
By the time they were discovered many of the bodies were unidentifiable.
No-one has lost more than Abu Salam. Photographs of five smart young men, all college graduates, are spread out on the carpet in front of him. Abu Salam has not seen or heard from his sons since they were all abducted by Gaddafi's police last summer.
"One of the boys, Ahmed, was picked up when he went out walking. They beat him and forced him call his brothers for help, saying he'd been in an accident.
"They were all taken in the space of 15 minutes. It was an ambush," Abu Salam told me in the living room of a large family home that he had built with his sons.
Human rights groups say there are as many as 8,000 missing or disappeared people in Libya.
The old man keeps a lonely vigil in the hope that at least one of his boys may come home.
The incident, involving a black Volkswagen Polo, happened on King Street, Brynmawr, at about 00:25 BST.
The victim, named by Gwent Police as Sophie Brimble from Crickhowell, Powys, died at the scene.
A 24-year-old man was seriously injured and is being treated at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales.
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Check out Greece's entry - Freaky Fortune - who are performing their track Rise Up while bouncing on a trampoline!
The final takes place on Saturday in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Watch the video clip to see them in action.
The Loons were comfortable 4-1 winners while Clyde won 2-0 at Elgin City.
Berwick Rangers leapfrogged Arbroath into third thanks to a 2-0 victory at Cowdenbeath as Arbroath grabbed a late 1-1 draw against Annan Athletic.
And Montrose beat bottom side Edinburgh City 1-0 to go eighth and leave City on one point - four points adrift.
Andy Munro headed home a David Cox corner to give Forfar the lead before Sean Dickson levelled for the visitors on the stroke of half-time with a superb strike from the edge of the area.
Forfar went in front again when Gavin Swankie teed up Josh Peters, who soon grabbed his second with a shot from distance. Danny Denholm completed the scoring in added time as Forfar maintained their 100% league record.
Sean Higgins' early strike was added to by Peter MacDonald for Clyde, who had Martin McNiff sent off near the end.
Gary Fraser's close-range strike was enough for Montrose to secure victory away to City, despite Terry Masson being dismissed.
Two first-half goals from Steven Thomson moved Berwick up to third in the table.
Ryan McCord's stoppage-time equaliser denied Annan at Gayfield. Earlier, Arbroath goalkeeper Robbie Mutch could only parry Omar Kadar's shot into the path of David McKenna, who put the visitors ahead.
Increasing numbers of young graduates are tempted by UK salaries up to three times what they might earn at home.
A body representing UK recruitment companies has admitted a few agencies "misrepresent" the work they offer.
Health Education England says it is increasing the number of nurse training places in England to fill NHS gaps.
In an HEE film, used to attract EU nurses, new arrivals to the NHS in the West Midlands are asked why they left Spain and Portugal.
They refer to the career and skills opportunities in the UK - as well as higher salaries.
But Portugal has its own nursing shortages.
The vice-president of Portugal's nursing regulator, Dr Bruno Gomes, told BBC News: "Some recruitment firms have very aggressive tactics.
"The companies - mainly from the UK - come to the nursing schools, and hold big conferences in the fourth year of the degree.
"Among the conditions they offer is free language training, and sometimes accommodation for three or even six months."
Spanish Council of Nursing president Dr Maximo Jurado told BBC News: "They lie - they fool nurses.
"Perhaps a group of nurses go to a country, rent a flat, and they think they are going to work at a particular hospital.
"Then that company organising temporary work sends nurses one day to a hospital in one city, another day to a different hospital in a different city."
Spain sends the largest number of nurses to the UK - about 2,000 last year.
Dr Jurado added: "There is a more general problem of poor planning by the NHS.
"Any health service in any country has to do appropriate planning for the future - because otherwise nurses will have to be recruited from other countries.
"We are all trying to plan for the future, in order not to have such a big gap."
Sometimes, the NHS enters into formal overseas agreements with local staffing boards - 150 nurses from Venice came to three hospitals in Manchester in this way.
Dr Genarro Rocco, who helps lead Italy's nursing colleges, said: "We have had just a few complaints, but these are from nurses who were told they would be working in a hospital - and they end up providing just basic care instead.
"On other occasions, they were maybe getting a lower salary than what was promised."
Samantha Hurley, from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (Apsco), said: ""We are aware that misrepresentation can happen when recruitment firms engage professional healthcare workers from other EU countries.
"The issue is one of a lack of understanding of the process.
"In order to practise in the UK, healthcare professionals must register with the appropriate professional body and obtain a Pin number.
"Without which, for instance, a band-five nurse would not be able to work as such and would be in a position where they had to accept a band-two healthcare assistant role instead."
Apsco says foreign staff need comprehensive preparation and induction - as one study indicated up to a third returned home within a year.
Ms Hurley added: "We believe that the vast majority of recruitment firms which provide international staff are doing so in an ethical manner and are ensuring workers are properly inducted.
"But a minority of recruitment firms, based not only in the UK but also in other EU countries, are shipping over large quantities of workers without the appropriate support."
Having suffered the semi-final heartache of the 2015 World Cup in Canada, they have a chance to go one step further and even become the first senior England team to win a major tournament since the 1966 World Cup.
Taking home the Euro 2017 trophy has been a stated aim from head coach Mark Sampson and, as the highest-ranked team remaining, his team may not have a better chance of glory.
But what have been the crucial components that have propelled this England side to the brink of a major trophy once more?
Sampson has already become the first England boss since Sir Alf Ramsey to reach two major tournament semi-finals following the men's triumph at the 1966 World Cup and reaching the last four of the 1968 European Championship.
And the 34-year-old Welshman has revolutionised a Lionesses team that were at rock bottom after Euro 2013, where they crashed out at the group stage.
Having replaced authoritarian former boss Hope Powell after that tournament, he has been a breath of fresh air to the players, by empowering them and "treating them like adults", according to one.
He is more approachable too. Having appeared on an old episode of the BBC gameshow Pointless, the kit man recently showed it to the team during a quiz night, and they ended up laughing at Sampson as he struggled with the questions. "I didn't really understand the concept," he says sheepishly.
Yet having previously achieved success for Women's Super League club Bristol Academy, players were still questioning his inexperience at the start of his reign.
Despite his knack for chopping and changing the side, the bronze medal at the 2015 World Cup soon won doubters over, and he addressed long-standing psychology and fitness concerns.
Sampson is unconventional at times, choosing to name his squad three months early and his barbs towards opposition teams - accusing Spain of "dark arts" and the French manager of being "wet behind the ears" - have raised eyebrows.
He has risked his reputation, but so far he has shown that his judgement and decision-making are worthy of top-level international football.
One of the players Sampson brought in from the wilderness was Jodie Taylor, a striker ignored by Powell because she chose to play in the US where the football was of a higher standard.
Sampson soon addressed that paradoxical choice, and gave Taylor the belief she was desperate for, awarding her an England debut at the age of 28.
Sampson took another gamble, by selecting Taylor for the World Cup despite carrying a knee injury but she repaid his faith by scoring a crucial goal in the quarter-final win over hosts Canada.
And after another injury threatened to scupper her chances of making Euro 2017, Sampson still picked her despite a lack of games for her club Arsenal.
Now she is top scorer in the Netherlands with five goals, sleeping with the matchball after her hat-trick against Scotland and likely to win the Golden Boot, Sampson's assertion that he "always knew Taylor was world class" seems justified.
"I want to thank the medics for getting me in a good place, and Mark for still believing in me and having confidence in me because without that I wouldn't be here," she said after the Scotland win.
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After banning women's football for 50 years, the Football Association's decision to introduce a semi-professional league in 2011 was long overdue in many minds.
Backing clubs with funds to pay players allowed them to become full-time footballers, avoiding previous scenarios where they would fit training around day jobs.
The FA also awarded central contracts to England players - now at about £25,000 a year - to supplement their club income which can now reach up to £50,000 per annum.
But it is the full-time training, and the chance to rest afterwards which is the richest reward.
In 2016-17, the FA spent £14m on women's football, more than any other European association, and that has helped Sampson recruit more than a dozen staff out at Euro 2017, including performance coaches, psychologists and video analysts.
That sort of budget puts pressure on the team to succeed, but so far they have delivered.
The route to the top of women's football has not been easy for many of the players in the England squad. Some of the older ones will tell you about coming from an era when they were laughed at for playing football, or even bullied because of it.
Then there are the personal stories. Fara Williams is England's record caps holder with 164 appearances but had periods of her life when she was homeless. Jade Moore found two holes in her heart through a routine screening but is one of the fittest players in the team, while Casey Stoney spent years hiding her sexuality yet came out in 2013 and now has twins with her partner.
Sampson tapped into this before the World Cup, showing his players that they were "street-fighters" for already reaching the top of English football, and he has used that message to inspire his players as they beat Germany for the first time at the World Cup, and France for the first time in 43 years in their quarter-final in the Netherlands.
"We do a lot of work off the pitch to bring us together," said right-back Lucy Bronze. "You don't have to be the best of friends, but have some sort of relationship, so that when you are on the pitch, you have each other's backs, no matter what."
If that was the social and psychological evolution of his team, the physical one came before Euro 2017 when a former rugby union fitness coach was brought in, encouraged them to lift weights in the gym three times a week and improved their fitness by 23%. The result? What Sampson calls the "fittest team in the tournament", and there has been little evidence to suggest he's wrong.
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Former England goalkeeper Rachel Brown-Finnis remembers being in the tunnel for the Euro 2009 final against Germany and says the players went out expecting to lose. The result was a 6-2 defeat.
Back then, the gulf between the two teams was immense.
But this England team is driven by a core of younger players who won the Under-19 European Championship together in 2009, including Bronze, Jordan Nobbs, Jade Moore and Toni Duggan.
And Bronze has hinted that they have had to breathe confidence into the more senior players, who may have been scarred by past experiences.
"The older players have more to be confident about," said Bronze. "I just don't think they realise it."
For her, glorious failure in the semi-final is not an option. "We definitely haven't achieved anything yet," she said. "Our expectation coming into the tournament was that we would reach the final and come home with the trophy. If we were to lose, we would be devastated."
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Based on their world ranking, England are clear favourites as their position (fifth) is seven places above the hosts (12th), 10 above Denmark (15th) and significantly higher than Austria in 24th.
They beat the Netherlands 1-0 last November, and in the Euro 2009 semi-final. And the Lionesses earned recent wins over Denmark (2-1) in June and Austria (3-0) in April.
In some ways it is England's to lose, but Brown-Finnis spins it the other way.
"This is England's to win now," she told BBC Sport. "Some might say that brings its own pressure but that is not affecting this team. They are not playing with hope or ambition, they are playing with a belief that they will win."
Nottinghamshire County Council wants to bar its 9,000 employees from smoking during work time.
The ban would prevent staff in uniform smoking on their way to and from work, and also extends to e-cigarettes.
Public sector union Unison said the rules would be unenforceable, but the council said it has a "duty of care to protect the health of employees".
The local authority said the ban, to include all buildings, land and vehicles, was aimed at boosting its workers' health, increasing time spent working and reducing levels of sick leave.
Its stance on e-cigarettes would be open to review pending legislation to officially license them, it said.
The council's deputy director of public health John Tomlinson said smoking was still "public health's number one enemy" and the local authority was committed to taking action.
He added: "We are trying to be a supportive employer and have a duty of care to protect the health of our employees as part of a wider remit to take a leading role in promoting better health in Nottinghamshire."
Neighbouring Gedling Borough Council is also proposing similar measures for its employees.
Leicester City Council introduced a ban on staff smoking in working time in 2007, but they can smoke during their lunch breaks.
Smoking breaks are not allowed at Derby City Council either.
Brian Fitzpatrick, Unison services conditions officer, said: "We're supportive of public health and we haven't got a stance on this, but we are balloting members asking whether they would be for or against."
Employees get a short morning and afternoon break, but no smoking will be allowed during these periods under the ban.
Smoking will be allowed during lunch breaks but not in uniform or anywhere near council property, according to the union. It said staff should be offered more help to quit.
Mr Fitzpatrick said: "Say you work in highways, if you want to smoke, you need to take all your uniform off and go as far away from site as possible and have a cigarette and then come back.
"If you're in the parks department, you won't be able to - even when you're outside.
"I don't see yet how they could enforce it."
Nottinghamshire County Council declined to comment on how it planned to enforce the ban, and what the consequences for staff breaking the rules would be.
It is currently consulting on the proposals.
The Academy Awards pledged to diversify its membership after complaints about the lack of ethnic diversity among this year's nominees.
The director said: "If a ruckus had not been raised, I believe the Academy would not have made those changes."
All 20 actors nominated this year for a best actor or supporting actor award are white.
In January, Lee - together with Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith - publicly said they would not attend the ceremony in protest.
Their comments prompted a number of high-profile Hollywood figures to join the debate and a social media campaign "Oscars So White" was launched.
In response, the Academy - which hands out the Oscar honours - announced it would double the number of women and ethnic minority members by 2020.
Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs said: "The Academy is going to lead and not wait for the industry to catch up.
"These new measures regarding governance and voting will have an immediate impact and begin the process of significantly changing our membership composition."
Actor Don Cheadle called the measures "a step in the right direction" while nominee Matt Damon added the industry had "a long, long, long way to go".
Discussing the controversy at the Berlin International Film Festival, Spike Lee said: "It was worth it. A week later they changed everything up."
"That would not have happened if people kept quiet."
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The scheme will help people from abroad who are suffering from the effects of poverty.
Chris Page has been meeting asylum seekers living in Belfast to investigate why the need is there.
The BBC Radio Ulster documentary Nowhere to Go will be broadcast on Sunday 16 February 2014.
Twenty-four people were elected to serve in the House of Keys - the lower chamber of a parliament first established by Viking settlers more than 1,000 years ago.
The first historical references to Tynwald -the world's oldest continuously sitting parliament - can be found in the Chronicles of Mann.
The Latin manuscript, held at the British Library in London, makes reference to the original Tynwald meetings which were established sometime between the 11th and 14th Century.
The document was written at Rushen Abbey and is one of the most valuable sources of Manx history.
It tells the story of the Viking settlement on the Isle of Man which brought together Scandinavian Paganism and indigenous Christianity.
Despite this potentially volatile merger, experts tell us it was a relatively peaceful transition.
Andy Johnson from Manx National Heritage (MNH) said: "There is no evidence pointing to a bloody clash of culture.
"Instead the Vikings seem to have married into the population and exerted their influence that way.
"They absorbed Christianity from the indigenous population and very quickly they assimilated themselves.
"At the same time though, they did hang on to their language, place names and other traditions."
One such tradition introduced islanders to the concept of early democracy, played out in a ceremony which still exists today.
The Vikings established an annual public open-air meeting held at the height of summer.
In old Norse this gathering was called Thingvollr - 'thing' meaning assembly and 'vollr' meaning field.
The purpose of the meeting was to settle disputes between neighbours, something which morphed from a town meeting into what we would now call a parliament.
A similar event, Tynwald Day, is still held every year on Tynwald Hill in St. John's.
"Archaeologically speaking, there is a good deal of evidence to suggest that this area of the island is important," said Mr Johnson.
"There is a Bronze Age burial ground nearby and if you imagine away the buildings you can get a sense of being cradled by the hills at a coming together of route ways to the North, South, East and West - it's like being in at a geographical and intellectual crossroads."
Over the years the Viking meeting is thought to have developed into a people's court where new laws were introduced and read out to the nation - a tradition still also observed today.
New laws cannot be introduced on the island until they have been "proclaimed" in both English and Manx on Tynwald Day.
Clerk of Tynwald Roger Phillips said it is a system which retains its legal impact.
"The idea was that if you were not present at the Tynwald meeting and you subsequently broke the law you had no defence.
"Even today, if a law is not proclaimed on the hill during the Tynwald ceremony it will lapse - that is a rather pleasing connection to our Viking ancestors.
"Everyone was expected to talk about how to end disputes - this was a very important part of keeping the peace and the beginnings of a very early form of democracy."
The Tynwald ceremony has continued unchanged, except in detail, for more than 1,000 years and for this reason Tynwald can claim to be the "longest continuous parliament" in the world.
Many other Thingvollr meetings were established in Scandinavia but none have endured.
"Its continued existence is of fundamental importance to the identity of the Isle of Man," explained Mr Phillips.
"Tynwald is the sole reason the Isle of Man never became a part of England - in the 18th Century this was certainly was on the cards.
"Without it the island may have been incorporated into an English county - somewhere like Cheshire.
"The fact that Tynwald still exists today means we don't look to Westminster- the UK is not entirely irrelevant to the island - but it is a neighbour rather than central government," he added.
It is this feature of Manx governance which attracts attention from all over the world.
The Death Row Records founder, accompanied by his lawyer, handed himself into police on Friday morning.
He was arrested on suspicion of murder after his pick-up truck hit two men, leaving one of them dead, on Thursday.
He is being held in West Hollywood on bail of $2m (£1.3m). His lawyer claims it was an accident and that Knight is an "innocent victim".
James Blatt added that he will get to see the video footage in the next 24 hours.
Suge Knight's friend, Terry Carter, 55, was killed and Cle "Bone" Sloan, 51, injured.
Sheriff spokeswoman Nicole Nishida confirmed police had seen the video but "they have made no such arrangements with the attorney".
Suge Knight, whose real name is Marion Hugh Knight Jr, is due in court on Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department.
Mr Blatt seemed to confirm Knight had been driving at the time, but claimed it was an accident and that he was running away from attackers.
"He was in the process of being physically assaulted by two men and in an effort to escape he unfortunately hit two (other) individuals," Blatt said.
"He was in his car trying to escape."
Knight founded Death Row Records in the 1990s, but later declared bankruptcy and the company was sold at auction.
He helped launch the careers of artists including Dr Dre, Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg.
Last August he was shot six times at a nightclub in Los Angeles. No arrests have ever been made.
In November, he pleaded not guilty to a robbery charge filed after a celebrity photographer accused him of stealing her camera in Beverly Hills.
He could face up to 30 years in prison because of previous convictions.
The music boss has previously been convicted of armed robbery and assault with a gun.
He has also served time for violating probation.
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Drivers can expect up to two weeks of disruption while work on the Northern Inner Distributor Road (NIDR) occurs.
The work, starting on Wednesday, will see the closure of the northbound carriageway of Staplegrove Road beyond Richmond Road for drainage work.
The one-mile (1.6 km) NIDR will see Staplegrove Road, in the west, linked to Priory Avenue in the east.
The project, which will also see a bridge built over the River Tone and the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal close to Priory Fields Business Park, is expected to be completed by the autumn.
Somerset County Council said the road would also help with the regeneration of the Firepool area.
Councillor Harvey Siggs, cabinet member for highways, said: "There will be some disruption, we are still asking everyone to be patient about it, to understand it's the end goal that's really worth having.
"Where we can we are running single lane traffic, but at times we will need to close roads completely."
Officials say nearly 1,700 people have died in the worst-hit states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, where temperatures rose above 45C (113F).
Clouds have formed over some parts of the two states and weather officials say pre-monsoon showers are likely to provide some relief on Friday.
The monsoon is due to reach Kerala, in the south, by the end of May.
It will then sweep across the country.
In the worst-affected state of Andhra Pradesh, where temperatures have hit 47C (117F), more than 1,300 people are reported to have died since 18 May.
The state's top meteorological officer YK Reddy told BBC Hindi that heatwave conditions "have reduced considerably" and temperatures have fallen in all but two districts.
In neighbouring Telangana, where officials say at least 340 people have died from heat-related conditions, temperatures have declined.
"For all practical purposes, the heat wave has now ended in our state," BR Meena, Telangana's disaster management commissioner, told BBC Hindi.
Meanwhile India's public hospitals are struggling to cope with patients of the heatwave.
"I have been posted here for seven years, but I am feeling a lot of heat this year. We have been seeing a dozen patients of heat wave every day," Dr Anjaya of Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Medical Sciences in Andhra Pradesh told the BBC.
Hospitals in the Indian capital Delhi, where temperatures have soared to 45.5C (113.9F) have also seen a large number of patients.
"Hospitals are overflowing with heatstroke victims," Ajay Lekhi, president of the Delhi Medical Association, told AFP news agency.
"Patients are complaining of severe headache and dizziness. They are also showing symptoms of delirium," he said.
Reports said there were long queues outside the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, one of Delhi's largest government-run hospitals.
"Last night there was no electricity for nearly five hours," Seema Sharma told AFP outside the hospital as she waited in line for her four-year-old son to be examined.
"You can imagine what we must have gone through. He just couldn't sleep and kept on crying. Now he has fever as well."
The Delhi-based research organisation Centre for Science and Environment said the high deaths this year could be because of the sudden onset of heat.
"This could be due to the sudden change in temperatures after a prolonged wet February and March that had kept the temperatures cool," said Arjuna Srinidhi, the group's programme manager for climate change.
Sources: National Disaster Management Authority of India and BBC
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The 21-year-old, who upset fifth seed Stan Wawrinka on Monday, lost 6-4 6-2 3-6 2-6 6-3 to Belgian Ruben Bemelmans.
The Russian led 2-0 in the decider but became angry at Alves' decisions as he lost five straight games and was docked a point by the umpire.
"I was just frustrated - it has no meaning, I apologise," said Medvedev.
As he was packing up, Medvedev took out his wallet and threw coins at the bottom of the umpire's chair as Alves departed. The world number 49 then left the court without retrieving the money.
He had asked for Alves to be removed in the fifth set but his request was turned down by the match supervisor. Medvedev claims he does not remember what he said during the match.
When asked whether he understood his actions could be interpreted as implying Alves was biased, Medvedev said: "I haven't thought about it and that's not why I did it.
"I was frustrated to lose the match - maybe there were some bad calls, it can happen in sports.
"I was just disappointed and [did] a stupid thing."
Medvedev added it was "not for me to decide" whether he will receive any sanction for his actions.
Bemelmans will face South Africa's Kevin Anderson in the third round.
The officer was taken to hospital after more than 40 officers were called to areas around Abbeydale Road.
Police said the actions were "appalling and extremely dangerous". Five people were arrested.
Elsewhere, a rocket was thrown at a house in Woodhouse wrecking the bathroom and fireworks were also hurled at passing cars.
Nasima Akther, a councillor for Nether Edge, who saw the trouble around Abbeydale Road, criticised the police's handling of the situation.
"Me and a few other volunteers had gone down to try and stop things kicking off," she said.
"We were talking to people and being really tough on them and then another gang came along and that's when the trouble started.
"I called the police but when they turned up they started harassing the volunteers who were trying to calm things down.
"The police seemed to make things worse by not acting quick enough and not being organised."
In a separate incident, South Yorkshire Police tweeted that while they were dealing with a call out in the Parson Cross area, a police vehicle was set on fire.
The force also received several calls about fireworks been thrown into passing cars in Tinsley.
South Yorkshire Police said: "The type of behaviour we have seen will not be tolerated and we would like to reassure people that we will take a very robust approach to anyone involved in using fireworks in a dangerous or anti-social way."
But Bradford's Stuart McCall will have more positives to take from his side's performance than opposite number Bruno Ribeiro as the home side dominated large chunks of the match without being able to supply a finishing touch to their attractive football.
The nearest City came to scoring was in the 12th minute when Billy Clarke saw his shot diverted on to the crossbar by goalkeeper Jak Alnwick.
Twice striker James Hanson just failed to connect with inviting crosses while Clarke again and new signings Nicky Law and Romain Vincelot also went close to breaking the deadlock.
Vale, who included five new signings in their starting line-up, rarely threatened the Bradford goal but almost snatched victory in the last minute of normal time when substitute Christopher Mbamba scuffed his shot with the goal at his mercy from Paulo Tavares' cross.
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Match ends, Bradford City 0, Port Vale 0.
Second Half ends, Bradford City 0, Port Vale 0.
Attempt missed. Quentin Pereira (Port Vale) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Kjell Knops (Port Vale) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Mark Marshall (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kjell Knops (Port Vale).
Paul Anderson (Bradford City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Anton Forrester (Port Vale).
Foul by Tony McMahon (Bradford City).
Sam Foley (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Tony McMahon (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Anton Forrester (Port Vale).
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Nathaniel Knight-Percival.
Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Quentin Pereira.
Attempt missed. Anton Forrester (Port Vale) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. James Hanson (Bradford City) header from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Substitution, Port Vale. Quentin Pereira replaces Jerome Thomas.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by James Meredith.
Substitution, Port Vale. Anton Forrester replaces Rigino Cicilia.
Substitution, Bradford City. Paul Anderson replaces Filipe Morais.
Substitution, Bradford City. Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila replaces Billy Clarke.
Romain Vincelot (Bradford City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Rigino Cicilia (Port Vale).
Foul by Billy Clarke (Bradford City).
Anthony Grant (Port Vale) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Nathaniel Knight-Percival (Bradford City) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Paulo Tavares (Port Vale) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Tony McMahon (Bradford City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Paulo Tavares (Port Vale).
Attempt missed. Paulo Tavares (Port Vale) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Substitution, Port Vale. Chris Mbamba replaces Anthony de Freitas.
Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Anthony Grant.
Billy Clarke (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Paulo Tavares (Port Vale).
Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Remie Streete.
Attempt missed. James Hanson (Bradford City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Anthony Grant.
Foul by Romain Vincelot (Bradford City).
Anthony Grant (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Anthony de Freitas.
The Cherries were 3-1 down but fought back to claim a dramatic 4-3 win with an injury-time goal from Nathan Ake.
"It shows we still have that spirit of a Championship team," said Howe, who guided Bournemouth into the top flight.
"When we got promotion we didn't want to lose our honesty, togetherness and never-say-die attitude."
Howe said the win was a "huge day" that he wouldn't forget and that he was proud his players had retained the character he fostered from their days in the lower leagues.
"We needed to protect that. If anything we've enhanced it," Howe added.
Comparisons were immediately drawn with last season's home match against Liverpool's Merseyside rivals Everton, who had led 2-0, only for Bournemouth to make it 3-3 in the eighth minute of stoppage time.
"It's right up there with the Everton game," Howe said.
"We were in real trouble at half-time [when they trailed 2-0], as Liverpool were excellent and showed their quality, but our players never lost their self-belief.
"For everyone involved with the club, it's a very special day. We'd never been in the Premier League until last season so we're making history."
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Bournemouth's inspiration was Scotland Under-21 winger Ryan Fraser, who put in a man-of-the-match display after he came on for the injured Junior Stanislas in the 55th minute.
Within a minute of his introduction Fraser was bundled over for a penalty that Callum Wilson converted, before he scored the Cherries' second, and crossed for Steve Cook to add a third as the hosts set up a grandstand finish.
"Ryan was absolutely magnificent," said Howe. "He's trained like that for the last three or four weeks and has been patient and waited for his chance."
Fraser first burst on the scene as a teenager with Aberdeen, before eyebrows were raised when he swapped the Scottish Premier League for England's lower divisions, joining Bournemouth in January 2013.
"As a very young player, he had to come a long way from home and come to a League One club. So it was a leap of faith and it's paid dividends for him," Howe added.
"We call him the 'Wee Man' - I heard the crowd singing his name which was nice - but he's got fitter and fitter since he's been with us. His physicality can be a strength as he has a low centre of gravity, and it was a great finish for his goal."
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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was philosophical afterwards, despite his side's implosion to lose a game which they had completely controlled for the first half.
"Even at 2-0 up, we weren't playing too well - the first half wasn't perfect. We kept the ball too long, and passed it too late," the German said.
"Nothing was decided at 2-0. The boys know now we gave it away - it was only because of us that Bournemouth came back. We opened the door, but Bournemouth had to run through it. It's a wonderful story if you're not on the wrong side of it. But we have to accept it and learn from it.
"We are not ice skating - it's not about how it looks. I know we can play football. Nothing happened today apart from losing three points. Everything else is OK.
"I'm not happy, but I am not angry. We made mistakes and missed chances, but I cannot change it any more so why should I be angry?"
Klopp also played down a second-half incident, when he appeared to be warned by referee Bobby Madley after tempers flared in the technical areas.
"There was no issue with Bournemouth. I was, not surprisingly, not happy about the penalty decision," he said.
"It was not possible for me to do nothing but obviously I did too much. I left my box and that was the issue."
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Louis Almond gave the hosts an early lead from the penalty spot after keeper Dean Snedker brought down Mike Phenix before James McQuilkin's equaliser.
Elton Ngwatala put Harriers ahead at the break, going back in front through Tyrone Williams after Phenix levelled.
Evan Garnett made it 4-2 to Harriers but Jack Ryan pulled a late goal back.
Much-improved Harriers completed their campaign in 23rd place, having reached the 40-point mark, nine adrift of safety, after losing just once in their last nine matches.
Harriers boss Colin Gordon told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"It was great to sign off with a win. It keeps that momentum going. We thoroughly entertained. I was very, very pleased.
"It was a ridiculous start to the game, but it wouldn't be Kidderminster Harriers if we didn't make it difficult for ourselves.
"It was a very difficult surface. Probably the worst we've played on. But we managed to still pass the ball, move the ball and create chances."
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Ajer, 17, will join the club on a four-year deal in the summer, after agreeing personal terms following a trial.
The midfielder has captained and been a regular for IK Start in Norway, but recognises he has to develop further to succeed at Celtic.
"I come here as a 17-year-old that surely no-one has heard about, so I need to prove myself," he said.
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"I expect much from myself."
Highly-rated in his homeland, the Norway Under-17 cap revealed his decision to join the Scottish champions was influenced by the presence of his compatriot Ronny Deila as Celtic manager.
The midfielder did not seek assurances about Deila's long-term future at the club before committing to a contract, though.
"He's the manager now and that's what's important," Ajer said. "You don't know what will happen. Ronny's a great manager and I am really sure that he will be manager for a long time.
"Back in Norway, he won the Premiership and I will prove that I am good enough to play.
"I'm a full member of the A squad. I need to prove myself, develop and be good in training. Hopefully I will play a lot, that's my goal.
"I'm a holding midfielder that likes to be on the ball and win it back again. I've had many role models who I've seen on YouTube, such as Patrick Vieira - a great player in that position.
"At Celtic, there are holding midfielders who are so good that I need to learn from. I can't wait to start training with them and learn everything.
"I've played almost 50 matches in the Premiership in Norway and I felt I was ready to come to such a big club as this and develop as much as I can."
Ajer admitted other teams had been keen to sign him but that Celtic was his "number one club", explaining: "I wanted to come here.
"My parents have my whole life told me to keep my feet on the ground and never think you are better than someone else, you have to prove yourself," he added.
"I will [now return home to] take the driving licence and finish second grade at my high school, so I have many things to do back in Norway."
The incidents, such as operating on the wrong body part or leaving instruments inside patients, are categorised by the Department of Health as "never events".
This means they are incidents that are so serious they should never happen.
NHS England admitted the figures were too high and said it had introduced new measures to ensure patient safety.
Find out how many "never events" occurred between 2009 and 2012 within NHS trusts in your area in England by clicking on the table below.
Please note these figures do not reflect the total number of procedures performed in each NHS trust. This means that even if your trust has a high number of "never events" it may also deal with more patients than other trusts.
*In 2012 Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust downgraded one never event in the category of retained foreign object post-operation.
Kris Wade, 37, is serving at least 21 years after admitting killing Christine James, 65, at her Cardiff Bay flat.
Allegations were made by patients with learning disabilities in 2012 and 2013.
Police investigated the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg (ABMU) Health Board support worker but found insufficient evidence.
In a statement, ABMU - which runs Rowan House in Ely, Cardiff, where he worked - said it was "shocked" and "sickened" to hear the details of Mrs James' murder.
Wade was employed at the assessment and treatment unit for people with learning disabilities from 2005, when a criminal record check showed nothing of concern.
In January 2012, he was given special leave while a sexual assault allegation was investigated by the health board and South Wales Police.
However, both found there was insufficient evidence to proceed, the health board said.
While he returned to work at another location for the health board, further complaints of sexual assault were made in October 2012 and 2013 and he was suspended again.
Further investigations were carried out, with police again deciding to take no further action, the health board said.
However, Wade remained suspended by ABMU until its internal disciplinary procedure resulted in him being sacked for gross misconduct earlier this year.
The statement added: "We have offered our profound apologies to the patients involved, and the distress his actions undoubtedly caused."
It will now review its processes to see if there are lessons to be learned.
A South Wales Police spokesman confirmed three allegations of patients in Cardiff being sexually assaulted by a member of staff between 2012 and 2013 were investigated.
He added: "As part of those investigations, a man who was in his 30s at the time, was voluntarily questioned by officers.
"In each case no further action could be taken following advice from the Crown Prosecution Service."
Cwmpadarn school in Llanbadarn Fawr, near Aberystwyth, will shut along with Ysgol Llangyfelyn at Taliesin, near Machynlleth.
Full council backed a decision taken by the cabinet in September and agreed that Cwmpadarn should shut.
Pupil numbers have dropped under 30 at Llangyfelin, with 24 councillors voting to shut the school, nine against and one abstention.
Parents of both schools have held vocal campaigns to save their primaries, and lobbied councillors ahead of Thursday's vote.
In a bid to recreate a view painted in 1825, the cathedral wants to open up the grounds of the Cathedral School and relocate its works yard.
The cathedral said the view at the moment was "somewhat blighted" by its yard, a school swimming pool and trees.
A draft report is currently at the consultation phase.
The south side of Salisbury Cathedral has been closed to the public for many years.
As a result, the view shown in Constable's Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds can only be enjoyed from within the grounds of the Cathedral School.
As part of the cathedral's report, the school's playing fields would be opened up to the public and the cathedral's works yard moved to a new workshop.
The report, which sets down projects the cathedral wants to develop over the next five to 10 years, also includes plans to reclaim the Bishop's Palace - currently used by the Cathedral School - to house Magna Carta, cathedral archives and the library.
In an attempt to tackle the "unseemly and confusing" access to the cathedral, the report has recommended closing the Close to "non-essential" traffic and the High Street Gate entrance to all traffic at certain times of day.
An initial consultation with Wiltshire Council, local residents and businesses is currently being carried out.
'71, the debut feature film by French director Yann Demange, sees 24-year-old actor Jack O' Connell play Private Gary Hook, a teenage soldier from Derby who is sent to Belfast on a tour of duty in 1971, when some of the worst sectarian violence was taking place.
After a stand-off between the Royal Ulster Constabulary and residents of a Catholic neighbourhood, Private Hook is abandoned behind enemy lines, and at the mercy of extremists on both sides.
O'Connell, who also grew up in Derby, says he felt an affinity with the role - at the age of 15, he too seriously considered signing up to army life.
"I was a bit like Gary Hook, although definitely more educated on something like Northern Ireland because I'm half Irish," he says.
"But Gary's reason for joining the army isn't political, it's personal - he's searching for that sense of belonging.
"I was affected by the same kind of propaganda - there was a time in my life when I wanted to join the army, probably for all the wrong reasons, and now I feel that I dodged a bullet, quite literally.
"I was really susceptible to that false depiction of a glamorous military lifestyle. I hope this film, '71, gives a genuine insight into what they sign up for, not a manipulated ideal. In my opinion, it's quite disgusting."
Written by Scottish playwright Gregory Burke, and filmed in the North of England rather than in Belfast , '71 had a world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in February this year.
Critics praised both the actor and the film, with the Daily Telegraph calling it "a stunningly well-crafted survival thriller".
Its star though, says the plot is secondary to the harsh reality of everyday life in 1970s Belfast, as portrayed in the film.
"I wouldn't watch a film that tried to glamorise this topic. Partly because of my Irish background - it would make me feel repulsed.
"However, this film shows the grim horror of what was going on in those times. Too often it gets swept under a rock and is never unearthed.
"Culture gives us the ability to document these things from an honest angle, not the one that is favoured from powerful people - perhaps those who were responsible for the conflict in the first place.
"We've tried to be honest and unbiased and not accuse any sides, even though we choose to see everything from a British soldier's eyes.
"I don't think that even 40 years later there's enough water under the bridge that's gone by to just do a slick thriller. I've spent time in Belfast and I sense that to some people, those times are still very present. It would just be criminal to try and market something that was just downright insensitive.
"This though tells some important truths."
O'Connell, who made his movie debut as a teenager in 2006's film This is England by Shane Meadows, went on to star in the E4 series Skins and opposite Michael Caine in Harry Brown.
He received rave reviews last year for David Mackenzie's prison drama Starred Up, and has just completed filming the lead role of Louis Zamperini - the Olympic athlete taken prisoner by the Japanese during World War Two - on Angelina Jolie's biopic Unbroken.
With another part opposite Cara Delavigne for The Weinstein Company's adaptation of the novel Tulip Fever, the actor seems confirmed as a rising star.
But he adds that, as a teenager, he was a "bad boy" - which is why he sought to channel his energies into the military.
"I joined the Cadets in the hope of speeding up enrolment because I didn't have a spotless record, for one reason or another.
"What changed my mind? Well, I guess I just listened to my mother in the end.
"I'm just glad I did listen to her and continued to act. I'm very glad to be sitting here as a man of 24, as an actor, hopefully portraying for the right reasons everything I thankfully avoided."
O'Connell describes his time working with Jolie, who directed him in the part of Louis Zamperini, as "really motivational - she's a real encourager, and she knows exactly what she wants on set."
But although he's prepared for intense scrutiny when it's released in December, he says " character" roles are what he wants to do.
"I just want to do parts where I feel I'm doing an important thing about telling the story.
"Right now I feel really lucky, I just want to keep my head down, and get on with the job."
'71 is screening at the BFI London Film Festival and is released on 10 October in the UK.
The band's frontman, Marcus Mumford, admitted to being inspired by the Man Booker Prize-winning novel in an interview with BBC Radio 4's Front Row.
He said it was "definitely" a line spoken by central character Thomas Cromwell, but chose not to elaborate.
"I'm not going to tell you which, because I think it might be illegal."
As well as Mantel's Wolf Hall - a fictional account of Henry VIII's chief minister, Cromwell, as he helped to engineer the King's second marriage to Anne Boleyn - Mumford and Sons have previously spoken about being influenced by writers such as John Steinbeck, and other literary figures.
Their Brit Award-winning debut album Sigh No More took its name from the Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing.
The title track opens with the lyrics, "serve God, love me and mend", as spoken by Benedick in the play.
When it comes to the literary influences on Babel, due out on 24 September, Mumford said the album features "too many to count".
"Honestly, they appear everywhere," said the singer, songwriter and guitarist.
"But I don't think that's a unique thing for us as a band. You just have to listen to Bob Dylan to realise that's what people do when they write songs," he continued." Or even the old spirituals, and the old blues guys.
"A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words."
Despite being open about their influences, he denied Mumford and Sons are any more well-read than their contemporaries.
"We don't consider ourselves more of a literary band than any other band, you know. Every band reads," said Mumford.
He did, however, launch a book club for fans as part of the Mumford and Sons' website.
"That was because we wanted to engage with people who liked our music in some way online - without doing Twitter and telling them that we're in the bath or watching TV," Mumford explained.
"We didn't really want to give people access to our personal lives like that. But we also wanted to engage in an interesting way with people who wanted to talk with us."
Mantel's follow-up to Wolf Hall, Bring Up The Bodies, is currently on the shortlist for this year's Booker Prize, with the winner due to be announced on 16 October.
Mumford said he has already finished reading the sequel, but as far as plundering the lyrics go, he told Front Row: "No, not yet!"
Front Row's full interview with Marcus Mumford will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 2 October.
The hosts led 26-17 at half-time, thanks to Andy Forsyth, Taylor Prell, Rob O'Donnell and Jonah Holmes scores.
Ross Adair's try after the restart set the tone for a scintillating half with Jersey's Uili Kolo'ofa'i going over twice to set up a tense finale.
Carnegie held on to win by a point and will host London Welsh in the final.
Jersey have now lost their last seven matches against Yorkshire Carnegie and are still waiting for their first win at Headingley.
The islanders took the lead inside three minutes with back rower Nick Haining powering over from close range. But the home side hit back through Forsyth's score after good work from hooker Joe Graham and then rugby league convert Kevin Sinfield set Prell clear for their second try.
Prop O'Donnell found space out wide to crash over and give the Leeds-based team a 19-5 lead before Jersey responded with tries from flanker James Freeman and full-back Adair.
A quickly-taken penalty, however, caught the visitors off guard and Holmes ran in for a converted score which gave Yorkshire Carnegie a nine-point advantage at the break.
It took just 35 seconds of the second half for Jersey to get their fourth try, as Adair crossed in the corner for his second of the afternoon.
It sparked Carnegie into life and after a series of phases captain Ryan Burrows went over to make it 33-22.
The visitors just would not lie down though, and replacement forward Kolo'ofa'i twice scored from mauls to narrow the gap to a single point.
Brendan Cope and centre Lewis Robling shared kicking duties for Jersey, both without much success. Cope missed the conversion of Kolo'ofa'i's second score and with it the chance to take a remarkable lead.
The islanders finished the game with 13 men after Gary Graham and Robling were sent to the sin-bin for infringements near their own line.
But there was still time for more late drama as Jersey felt they should have had a penalty kick to win it, but the referee awarded a scrum and not a penalty when a Carnegie player was lying on top of the ball at a ruck.
After a series of resets Jersey lost possession at the breakdown and Carnegie narrowly hung on. They will have home advantage in the final on Sunday 10, April, with London Welsh the visitors after their 36-15 semi-final win over Cornish Pirates on Saturday.
Yorkshire Carnegie: Holmes; Goss, Forsyth, Casson, Prell; Sinfield, Pilgrim; Beech, Graham, O'Donnell, Schofield, Smith, Jones, Walker, Burrows (capt).
Replacements: Nilsen, Imiolek, Tideswell, Ryder, Saull, Hodgson, Burdon.
Jersey: Adair; Howe, Evans, Robling, Lane; Cope, Dudley; Lockwood, Buckle, Kerrod, Campbell, Phillips, Rae (capt), Freeman, Haining.
Replacements: Lancuba, Selway, Herriott, Kolo'ofa'i, Graham, Sami Fisilau, McCrea.
Troops were drafted in at the Games after the private company was unable to provide enough security guards.
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said it had made him "think again" about the default use of private contractors.
And Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said only the state could provide "large-scale" contingency back-up.
G4S had a £284m contract to provide 10,400 staff for Olympic events but could not supply enough personnel, leaving some 4,700 members of the armed forces to stand in.
The firm described its failures as a "humiliating shambles" and was forced to apologise.
On Monday G4S said it had donated £2.5m to the armed forces, with Mr Hammond saying the donation would "go some way" to recognising the extra work placed on the military.
Some 18,000 service personnel provided support at London 2012, including Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force staff, some of whom had their leave postponed.
Labour say the problems demonstrate the dangers of outsourcing security to the private sector and all future private tenders for back-office policing functions should be put on hold.
Asked what lessons he drew from the G4S contract, Mr Hunt told 5 liveBreakfast that it must be remembered that while there had been serious failures in the firm's management, many thousands of their staff had turned up for work and done a great job.
"I think we have to have an open mind," he said. "We will all look at the performance of G4S in this situation and it does make you think again about the use of private companies in certain situations.
"I think you have to be pragmatic about this."
Former businessman Mr Hammond told the Independent he went into government with a "starting prejudice" that it should learn from the private sector but now acknowledged that model was not always the best way to handle big projects.
The issues with G4S had been "quite informative" for ministers, he suggested.
"I still think that, in general, there's a lot that the public sector still has to learn from the way private sector does things," he said.
"But... as two models of how to approach a problem you could not get two greater extremes than the G4S model and the military model."
The former was predicated on a "lean structure" with "very little resilience" if things went wrong while the military started by asking itself "what is the job that needs to be done?".
"So G4S were literally hiring people and expecting to deploy them three days later, into a live situation; trying to build up a management structure overnight, at the beginning of the operation.
"The military comes at it from the exact opposite extreme... Whatever it takes we'll pour in massive over-resourcing, massively heavy structures of management."
He added: "What the military primarily deliver is contingent capability and I haven't been able to think of a single large-scale example where a private organisation delivers a contingent capability."
The BBC's political correspondent Chris Mason said the comments should not be "over-analysed" in terms of what they meant for government policy on opening up public services.
But he said they showed a willingness by ministers to question the suitability of the "just-in-time" model for private sector delivery to maximise efficiency.
Responding to the interview, a Ministry of Defence spokesman said it was "patently obvious" that there were differences in how the armed forces and G4S had handled security.
But a spokesman said the private sector still offered best practice in many areas and the MoD would be announcing plans soon to introduce greater commercial skills into its procurement chain.
Meanwhile, a senior Royal Air Force officer has suggested the armed forces could take two years to recover from the extra deployment for the Olympics.
"You can't expect them [the armed forces] to go back to normal routine very easily," Wing Commander Peter Daulby told the Guardian.
The MoD said its contribution to the Olympics was planned to avoid an impact on current operations and "while some individual training and leave may need to be rescheduled, this will be managed and will not impact on operations including the ongoing mission in Afghanistan".
More than 80 of those at the concert were killed when several gunmen stormed the Bataclan concert venue.
The band members were unhurt but Nick Alexander, a Briton selling merchandise at the gig, was among those killed.
On Friday, the group issued a short Facebook statement saying: "Our thoughts are with all of the people involved in this tragic situation."
Eagles of Death Metal were playing in the French capital as part of a European tour.
The band have now cut the tour short and have returned to the US.
The raucous rock 'n' roll band were formed by Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme and his childhood friend Jesse Hughes. Homme was not on the tour.
Their support act Red Lemons posted a message saying: "Guys... I don't know what to say. We're more than lucky."
They added: "Thinking about those who passed away and who were having such a love (sic) time & happiness with all of us just a minute before."
Eagles of Death Metal released their first full LP in 2004 and have been described as "a mash-up of punk, rockabilly and Rolling Stones-style boogie".
The group's latest album Zipper Down, which came out last month, reached number 59 in the US Billboard chart and number 32 in the UK. Their songs have been used in advertisements for the likes of Nike, Acura and Microsoft.
Jesse Hughes is a hard-living frontman who is also an ordained minister and a former journalist and speechwriter for the Republican Party.
Meanwhile, U2 cancelled their concert in Paris on Saturday.
In a statement, the Irish band said: "We watched in disbelief and shock at the unfolding events in Paris and our hearts go out to all the victims and their families across the city tonight.
"We are devastated at the loss of life at the Eagles of Death Metal concert and our thoughts and prayers are with the band and their fans. And we hope and pray that all of our fans in Paris are safe."
Foo Fighters, who were due to perform in Paris on Monday, have also called off the remaining dates of their European tour.
"In light of this senseless violence, the closing of borders, and international mourning, we can't continue right now," the band said in a statement.
Motorhead have also announced the postponement of a Paris concert scheduled for Sunday.
She's going to be given Manchester citizenship even though she's from America.
It's the city's way of saying thank you for Ariana's amazing work organising the One Love concert in Manchester, in aid of victims of the bombing at the Manchester Arena on 22 May.
The concert, which featured artists like Katy Perry and Justin Bieber, raised almost £3 million to help victims and their families.
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President Goodluck Jonathan declared Boko Haram and Ansaru to be terrorist groups, his office said.
The army has been waging an offensive against the militants in their northern strongholds since a state of emergency was declared last month.
The insurgency has killed about 2,000 people since 2009.
The activities of both Boko Haram and Ansaru would now fall under the Terrorism Prevention Act, Mr Jonathan's office said, in a statement.
It means that "any person who knowingly, in any manner, directly or indirectly", offers support to Boko Haram and Ansaru would be jailed for "not less than 20 years" if convicted, the statement added.
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On Monday, the US said it was offering rewards for information on Islamist militants in West and North Africa.
The highest reward of up to $7m (£4.6m) is for information leading to the location of Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, the state department said.
Boko Haram launched the insurgency in 2009, carrying out a wave of bombings and assassinations in north and central Nigeria.
Ansaru, which is suspected to be an off-shoot of Boko Haram, joined the insurgency in 2012, taking foreigners hostage.
It said it had killed seven European and Middle Eastern nationals abducted in February 2012 in the northern Bauchi state.
Last month, Mr Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, the three main strongholds of the Islamist groups.
It led to the army launching a ground and air assault to flush out the militants.
Rights groups repeatedly accuse government troops of targeting innocent people after falsely accusing them of backing the militants.
The army denies the allegation.
It is all about how young people are affected by their parents' relationship with drink.
It tells the real-life stories of three children who have had very different experiences.
In the 2010 Children's Bafta awards, the programme won the Best Factual Programme Bafta.
At E3 it gave a first look at toys that have a switch on their base that flips them from one game system to another.
The toys will work with the forthcoming Skylanders Superchargers game that is due out in September.
Nintendo also announced plans for a new Super Mario game that will let people create their own levels for the plucky plumber to bounce around.
The first two toys in the dual-purpose Amiibo figures will be Turbocharged Donkey Kong and Hammer Slam Bowser. Both will have cars they can drive around and special abilities in the expansion which brings vehicles to the Skylanders universe.
Both figures will also work in Nintendo games such as Super Smash Bros.
The Amiibo toys have been very successful for Nintendo and have helped to drive sales for its Wii U console and 3DS handheld. Skylanders has also been a big seller for Activision and the tie-up between the two firms could put pressure on Disney and its Infinity line of game toys.
Separately, Nintendo showed off the Super Mario Maker game that is based around the in-house tools its designers use to make levels for the Super Mario games.
"The more we worked with it the more we realised we could turn it into something everyone could enjoy," said Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto.
Mr Miyamoto also revealed that in the early days of Nintendo, level designers used to draw out plans on paper before giving them to programmers to turn into working parts of a game.
In the Wii U game, people will be able to decide where to position blocks, bricks, traps, enemies and characters from the Super Mario world to make their own environments they can then try out. The levels that people create can also be shared with other players. Super Mario Maker is due out on 11 September.
Nintendo's digital presentation at E3 began with puppet versions of its three senior executives, Satoru Iwata, Reggie Fils-Aime and Shigeru Miyamoto, slowly transforming into the main characters of Star Fox to introduce a new game called Star Fox Zero.
You can follow all of the BBC's coverage from E3 2015 via the hashtag, #e3bbc
Eleanor de Freitas, 23, of Fulham, was found dead in 2014, only days before she had been due to stand trial accused of perverting the course of justice.
Alexander Economou has been charged with harassing her father, David de Freitas, the CPS said.
Mr Economou is due before Westminster Magistrates' Court on 11 January.
The CPS said he had been charged in relation to sending a letter to Mr de Freitas, emails to his solicitor, uploading recordings and comments to websites including YouTube and setting up a website with the domain name eleanordefreitas.com.
Trainee accountant Ms de Freitas, who had bipolar disorder, made a rape complaint against Mr Economou to the Metropolitan Police in early 2013.
The police said there was insufficient evidence to pursue the case and the man she said had attacked her took out a private prosecution, accusing her of perverting the course of justice.
Ms de Freitas's solicitors asked the CPS to halt the private action but instead the CPS decided to take it over and continue it.
The 23-year-old had said she felt there was "no way out" after the CPS charged her with perverting the course of justice and she was found hanged on 4 April, three days before she had been due to stand trial.
West London coroner Chinyere Inyama recorded that Ms de Freitas had taken her own life and that the impending court case had been "a significant stressor in her life at that time".
Born Michael Omari in Croydon, south London, the MC calls himself "a child of grime" who rejected slick US hip-hop for Britain's harder, grittier scene.
At the age of 11 he was winning rap battles at his local youth club, and his charismatic freestyles have earned him a huge following on YouTube.
Championed by Radio 1Xtra, he became the first unsigned rapper to appear on Later... With Jools Holland last year, going on to win a Mobo for best grime act.
"It's been beautiful, but there's been a lot of hard work and thought put into it as well," he tells the BBC.
How does it feel to come third on the Sound Of 2015 list?
That's a bit of an overachievement for me, I can't lie. Especially being an unsigned act and an MC, it's overwhelming.
Grime seemed to disappear over the last few years. Why do you think that is?
I'm not sure why - but one thing I do know is that it never went anywhere. Even though it wasn't being promoted at a mainstream level, it was still happening.
For a long time, the scene has needed unity - a few people to come in and do the right thing. So I think me, as a young artist, an upcomer, I just came at the right time.
In October, Wiley called you the "grime don" and said "please take it to where we couldn't". How did that feel?
That was mad. That was a lot of pressure when I heard that. These people like Wiley and Skepta opened the doors. They built the foundation for us, so now it's for us to take it even further. Hopefully in 10 years time I'll be saying to a new MC, "I hope you take it where I couldn't."
To outsiders, any music with spoken lyrics is rap. How would you explain the difference between what you do and, say, Kanye West or Jay-Z?
What I'm doing is British. It stems from the same culture as US hip-hop, but the way we dress, the way we speak, the way we perform is so different. It's UK street culture.
In Not That Deep, you rap about being "stopped on the road" as a result of your YouTube videos. Does that happen a lot?
It does, it does. Ever since the whole buzz, it's been happening quite a lot. People always reference that lyric now as well.
What's the strangest place you've been recognised?
I went to pick up my nephew from primary school and one of the teachers there stopped me and said, "my son listens to you". That's quite an awkward thing.
Another song that stands out is Storm Trooper, which deals with domestic abuse. Why did you decide to tackle that topic?
That was an idea that was presented to me by an artist called TE dness [who sings on the track]. It's actually something that he'd been through personally. But as an artist, I like to talk from perspectives I may not have been through.
I may not be able to give an eyewitness account but Storm Trooper has a universal pain running through it. You wouldn't have to have been in a domestic abuse relationship to understand the pain.
Was there a lot of music in the house when you were young?
I would love to say I grew up on 2Pac and The Beatles but I didn't.
My generation, me and my friends, we grew up on grime. We grew up in the era of Sony Ericsson phones, Walkman phones. There'd be a few grime tunes circulating in the area and we'd send them to each other by Bluetooth.
We used to listen to Krept and Konan, So Solid… These were all south London artists. People who were actually around me.
When was the first time you thought "I'm going to have a proper go at this"?
I've always been doing music but I've been so inconsistent. So the first time was November 2013, when I dropped a video called Where You Been and started my campaign.
While I was doing that, I was actually working on an oil refinery, in quality assurance. It was quite a niche job, so they had to train me up for 10 months.
It got to March, April and the music was picking up, so I had to make the decision - project engineer or musician? I decided to take the music path and here we are.
Do you remember handing in your notice?
I didn't actually hand in my notice, I just left. I couldn't really tell my mum. I knew how she would take it!
Did she want you to stay in work?
My mum's always had big aspirations because I'm an academic. I always got good grades at school. GCSEs were just a breeze for me.
I went to college but that's a time when education requires a lot more focus and a lot more dedication and I couldn't click with it, so I dropped out and went to work.
You've done so well as an unsigned artist, you must be fighting off the record labels.
I'm at that period now where people are showing an interest, but nothing's happened. I'm focused on the music. All the politics and that, I don't pay attention to. But there's a lot of interest. A lot of interest.
But you could demand anything you want - a car made of bacon and custard - and it'd be yours...
People overestimate how big it is to sign or not to sign. Don't get me twisted, it's probably one of the biggest decisions you'll ever make in your life - but in terms of focusing on being signed or not being signed, that's not a good space to be in.
I think you've got to be in a creative space all the time. I try to make sure decisions aren't made hastily. They're well thought-out. There's a lot of patience.
Is it fair to say you approach this like a business?
Yes it is. For a long time, I was actually doing it by myself. Up until September last year I was going to all these meetings with the labels, doing the PR, taking bookings, all by myself. I finally noticed, "nah, I can't do this," so I gathered a small team, a few brothers who I've grown up with, and we thought up a plan.
They keep me good. It's quite easy to get caught in the routine of fooling off. They keep me in check, I keep them in check. It's very family-orientated like that.
What do you mean by fooling off?
Getting complacent. Partying every night. Not being in the studio. You're losing sight of the goal.
People underestimate the fact that we plan and strategise and structure what we're going to do. We keep it calculated.
From dating websites for horses to super studs who command fees topping £200,000 a time, this is the thoroughbred industry.
The hope is that by Saturday evening, your horse will have joined the Epsom Classic roll call that boasts champions like Shergar and Sea The Stars.
But amid the stallions and dams, the genes and pedigrees, there is one unpredictable factor.
"You need to start with an awful lot of luck," says Lord Derby, who triumphed himself in 2014.
It took 234 years for a man named Derby to breed the winner of the race named after one of his antecedents. In 2014, Australia was the horse and the 19th Earl of Derby - Teddy to his friends - was the man.
"Having a Derby winner is something every owner-breeder dreams about. A lot of people have tried very hard but only 200-odd people have done it," he says.
Previous Earls of Derby have included a Prime Minister and sponsor of Shakespeare. It was the 12th Earl who founded Epsom's two Classic races - the Oaks and the Derby.
"To be at Epsom with such a long-running family history, there was a lot of nervous anticipation. That makes the clock tick rather slowly," reflects the current incumbent.
It's unique, like the Grand National, the Monaco Grand Prix, the Masters, Wimbledon. It's the unknown - who's going to be the best, who stays the distance, who can handle the track
"As they came around Tattenham Corner, I could see the horse going very nicely and I remember thinking about a furlong out - 'I'm going to have bred a Derby winner'.
"I remember galloping down the fire escape to get to the course to see him being led in.
"My wife, brother, mother, some of the children, were there. There were tears, cheers, there was every type of emotion."
The victory can be traced back to Australia's grand-dam, or grandmother, Selection Board. Lord Derby's brother Peter, who runs his Stanley House Stud operation, suggested sending Selection Board to Cape Cross, then a first-season sire costing 9,000 euros.
The offspring was Ouija Board, who won the Oaks and, after a glittering racing career, was destined for an arranged marriage - with the 2001 Derby winner Galileo.
It soon became clear the blue-blooded alliance had produced something special. The horse was sold to Coolmore Stud in Ireland for about £550,000 and his Epsom victory gave trainer Aidan O'Brien a historic third consecutive Derby triumph.
Seems simple, eh? Except that the year before Australia, Lord Derby bred a filly - Filia Regina - to the same illustrious parents.
Her only victory in five outings was a race at Great Yarmouth where the winner earned just under £2,000.
Deals are normally signed on a no-foal-no-fee basis; hygiene is paramount - there are checks to guard against sexually-transmitted disease - and lots of paperwork.
"Stallions have so much testosterone going through their veins that they are very territorial," says Brian O'Rourke, managing director of the National Stud.
"You have to be very careful with them and respect them. These animals are so valuable, you don't want them to get hurt."
The National Stud's stallions are subscribed to a matching tool - an equine dating system where the numbers are crunched to identify potential partners.
"The tool will go back through the pedigrees and find successful horses that have been bred on the same cross, the same lineage," says Amy Taylor, the National Stud's marketing and nominations executive.
"They will come up with the probability of producing a Group One winner, or what distance it might be best at. It will give you a 20-20 match, which is what you are looking for, but there will be lots of 20-20 matches that don't work. Sometimes it's just luck."
O'Rourke is well bred himself - two brothers are high up in the industry - and savours the unpredictability.
"The beauty of this game is it's not an exact science. They can come from anywhere," he explains.
"If you've got an exceptional racemare, yes it's beautiful to see her run, but you have to think of her offspring and could she produce a future stallion for the greater good of the thoroughbred breed?
"We never get to go to the winner's enclosure, but behind the scenes we do an awful lot of the donkey work to get them to that point. It's a passion, a vocation."
There is no wine and wooing for these love matches. The process is more rudimentary than romantic.
A mare is brought in to one side of the breeding shed - normally the size of a small village hall - where a 'teaser' will engage in a rough kind of flirting before the main attraction comes in.
"The teaser is probably the most valuable horse on the farm but has the worst job in the world," chuckles O'Rourke.
The stallion arrives and with the help of some human handlers, the deed is over within minutes.
Galileo is one of five Derby winners for O'Brien, who trains the pick of Coolmore's horses and readies runners for the rollercoaster Epsom track where cambers can unbalance runners in the mile-and-a-half contest, with a crowd of more than 100,000 cheering on.
"Epsom is the complete test of a horse. They need balance, speed and stamina. It's uphill, downhill, sideways. It's a very intense atmosphere," says the trainer.
Last year's winner Golden Horn was reared at breeder Anthony Oppenheimer's Hascombe and Valiant Studs and is now retired to nearby Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket, Suffolk.
"Of course he was brilliantly trained by John Gosden," says Dalham Hall director of stallions Sam Bullard.
"You can't mess that up or you won't win the Derby and maybe the fella on top had a bit to do with it as well, but I think Golden Horn was so good that even he would admit he was fortunate to be on top."
Golden Horn has put on seven stone since he was retired for a breeding career last autumn.
He's not exactly let himself go. His dark coat gleams, he is content, lapping up the attention at his new home.
The weight gain - from 511kg (80 stone) to 557kg (87 stone) - is all part of switching from racehorse to sire.
In 2015, he was burning up the racetrack at 40 miles an hour, adding the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe to the Derby. He raced nine times, won seven and was second twice.
In 2016, he has a different schedule - mating with mares, maybe four times a day, at 0800, 1300, 1800 and midnight. He's well fed, well groomed, and will be taken for a walk of an hour or more every day.
"He doesn't want for a lot," smiles Bullard.
With a 93% strike rate from 145 mares in his first season, Golden Horn is in the early stages of becoming a breeding heavyweight - like his neighbour Dubawi, and Galileo, based with Coolmore in Tipperary.
A date with Dubawi, who was third in the 2005 Derby and is a son of the sheikh's beloved late stallion Dubai Millennium, will set you back £225,000, and Galileo is thought to be even more expensive.
Among the breeding experts, their names are ushered in almost reverential terms - 'the big D' and' the big G'.
"These are absolutely the best in the world of the thoroughbreds, for breeding racehorses," says Bullard.
"No stallion has ever had 23 individual Group One winners at this stage of their career, like Dubawi has. He is the best of the best and his yearlings when they go to the sales, they realise astronomical sums of money."
Dubawi is 14 and Galileo four years older. So how long do stallions go on for, at their peak?
"To use a golfing term, par would be about 20. Anything beyond that is a bit of a bonus," reckons Bullard.
"Sadly this year Cape Cross (sire of Golden Horn and Sea The Stars) has been retired aged 22 because he didn't get anything in foal at the beginning of the year. He probably had his time."
The Derby, like all five British Classic races from the Guineas to the St Leger, is restricted to horses aged three.
US Army Ranger and Wings Of Desire are among the favourites for Saturday's renewal in which 11 of the 18 remaining entries have been sired by previous Derby winners - seven of them by Galileo, who has provided the victor three times before.
But the 2000 Guineas victor Galileo Gold sidesteps the contest after genetic tests suggested the distance might not be ideal. Could this be another key to identifying a winner?
"You can't take science away from everything - we know so much more about nutrition, for example. Genetic analysis is a very new area. I don't believe there's any one thing that is the answer to it all," says Derby.
Bullard agrees the "jury is out" on genetics.
"There's a lot of new theories flying around but no-one has yet found the key to how you put two horses together and guarantee a Group One winner," he adds.
Just a year ago, Golden Horn was storming home by three-and-a-quarter lengths in the third fastest ever Derby. So, how about this Saturday?
"He might have one or two mares coming back who didn't get in foal the first time perhaps but there aren't many of them because he's done so well," says Bullard.
"I think he'll probably be quite happy standing here, resting up, having done it all."
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Pools had not won a league game at Victoria Park since 16 April when they beat York, but were good value for their victory as they ended the Robins' nine-game unbeaten streak.
Home keeper Trevor Carson, on the bench for Northern Ireland on Friday night, flew back for the game but suffered an injury after 33 minutes when he appeared to suffer damage to a hand after making a save.
Pools then took the lead four minutes into first-half added-on time.
Lewis Alessandra found space on the left side of the penalty area and his curling effort towards the far post was diverted in by visiting skipper Aaron Downes.
But 25 seconds in the second half, Pools' replacement keeper Adam Bartlett had to make a fine reaction save to preserve the lead.
Harry Pell's shot from distance was deflected towards his own goal by Toto Nsiala and the keeper twisted to push the ball away one-handed.
Hartlepool made the game safe after 80 minutes as Alessandra's free-kick was powerfully met by centre-half Matthew Bates.
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Match ends, Hartlepool United 2, Cheltenham Town 0.
Second Half ends, Hartlepool United 2, Cheltenham Town 0.
Attempt blocked. Jake Carroll (Hartlepool United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. Dan Holman (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.
Hand ball by Dan Holman (Cheltenham Town).
Attempt missed. Lewis Alessandra (Hartlepool United) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left from a direct free kick.
Michael Woods (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Robert Dickie (Cheltenham Town).
Substitution, Hartlepool United. Scott Harrison replaces Liam Donnelly because of an injury.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Koby Arthur replaces James Dayton.
Delay in match Liam Donnelly (Hartlepool United) because of an injury.
Lewis Hawkins (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town).
Attempt missed. Lewis Alessandra (Hartlepool United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Nicky Featherstone (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town).
Delay in match Liam Donnelly (Hartlepool United) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Dan Holman (Cheltenham Town) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is too high.
Substitution, Hartlepool United. Michael Woods replaces Nicky Deverdics.
Foul by Lewis Hawkins (Hartlepool United).
Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Amari Morgan-Smith replaces Billy Waters.
Goal! Hartlepool United 2, Cheltenham Town 0. Matthew Bates (Hartlepool United) header from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Lewis Alessandra with a cross.
Aaron Downes (Cheltenham Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Lewis Alessandra (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Aaron Downes (Cheltenham Town).
Padraig Amond (Hartlepool United) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box.
Padraig Amond (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Aaron Downes (Cheltenham Town).
Attempt missed. Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Lewis Alessandra (Hartlepool United) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Aaron Downes (Cheltenham Town) header from very close range is too high.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Lewis Hawkins.
Jordan Cranston (Cheltenham Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Lewis Alessandra (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jordan Cranston (Cheltenham Town).
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Liam Donnelly.
Attempt missed. Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt missed. Jake Carroll (Hartlepool United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Mark Hillman, 26, was shot twice in the back and found on a pavement in Lloyd Close, Everton, on 27 April.
A 19-year-old from Anfield has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder.
A woman, 43, also from Anfield, was held on suspicion of assisting an offender. Both have now been bailed pending further inquiries.
Three people previously arrested over Mr Hillman's death have also been released on bail.
Plans for vehicle crossings at Silvertown and Gallions Reach have been put forward.
Tests in the proposed-crossing areas in east London, conducted on behalf of Friends of the Earth, found some pollution levels exceeded EU limits.
Transport for London (TfL) said the schemes would bring economic benefits.
The tests for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) were carried out by residents using diffusion tubes on behalf of Friends of the Earth in June.
The results showed that half of the 32 locations tested exceeded the EU level of 40 micrograms per cubic metre of air.
Newham Way on the A13 was the worst location - registering a level of 61.
Jenny Bates from Friends of the Earth said: "Allowing any new road river crossing or City Airport development as proposed would be a traffic-generating, congestion-worsening, air quality-deteriorating disaster.
"Instead a package of non-road alternatives such as DLR (Docklands Light Railway) extensions, ferries and cheaper bridges for walkers and cyclists must be considered."
Currently, the only crossings for cars and lorries between Rotherhithe and Dartford are the Blackwall Tunnel and Woolwich Ferry.
In a statement, TfL said: "With London's population set to grow to 10 million by the early 2030s new river crossings in east London are crucial to manage demand.
"Providing the Silvertown Tunnel as an additional river crossing would reduce the time vehicles currently spend queuing in traffic - helping to reduce vehicle emissions while saving people and businesses time and money."
Plans put forward for new a Thames crossing include building a new road tunnel linking Silvertown to the Greenwich Peninsula, a ferry at Gallions Reach linking Thamesmead and Beckton or a proposed fixed bridge at Gallions Reach.
Consultations on the schemes will begin later this year.
TfL added that since Boris Johnson began his term as London Mayor emissions of NO2 were down by an estimated 20% due to measures brought in, including tighter emission standards for lorries.
George Bush, 63, of Riverdale Road, Erith, south east London, also possessed sexual images of animals, Woolwich Crown Court heard.
He was sentenced to 14 months in prison, suspended for two years.
Bush admitted four charges relating to listings on the online auction site which included more than 130 body parts of endangered species.
Among them were leopard skulls and the hands and heads of monkeys. Bush also admitted possessing 71 images of bestiality.
Bush was arrested on suspicion of illegally importing protected species following information from UK Border Force.
Det Con Sarah Bailey, of the Met's Wildlife Crime Unit, said: "This case shows that strong controls are in place to protect endangered species and the police will take action against anyone found to be trading illegally.
"Illegal trade threatens many species' survival. I would urge anyone who sees specimens from protected wildlife for sale to contact police. We are committed to ensuring that anyone in London who is trading illegally in endangered animal parts is stopped."
Grant Miller from the border force agency CITES said the illegal movement of endangered species was "often cruel" and those trading in illegal wildlife products would be targeted "at the UK border and beyond".
He said Bush's supplier in Indonesia had been referred to the East Java police.
A confiscation hearing is due to take place in April.
Abu Zarin Hussin trains other firefighters in the state of Pahang on how to catch and handle snakes.
Earlier this month, UK tabloids reported that he had married a snake believing it to be his "reincarnated girlfriend".
Mr Hussin told the BBC he was "very disappointed" by the reports, which used pictures from his Facebook page.
"I'm always working with snakes and training other firemen in handling and rescuing snakes," he said.
He is married, and said his wife was "okay" with the stories because she knows they are "fake news".
The story was reported by the Daily Mirror on 10 November, and the Daily Mail website picked it up a day later.
Mirror Online's report said he had "spotted a snake with a 'striking resemblance'" to a girlfriend who had died.
"He now spends his life with the 10ft long cobra believing it is his dead lover - following the Buddhist idea that people can be reincarnated as animals," the paper reported.
Mr Hussin, 31, is a Muslim.
"The pictures are of me. They used my photos and started making up stories, saying that I married a snake," he told Malaysia's Star Newspaper
Nick York of the Exclusivepix agency, which sold the story to Mirror Online, said the information was provided by a "British journalist in Thailand" who works with Thai media outlets which first published the story.
"The story was checked according to the journalist and if the information is incorrect we can only report what the journalist believed the story to be after doing his own checks," he said.
Mr Hussin says he currently has four snakes in his possession and keeps them with him to understand their behaviour.
Earlier Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said MPs had voted last year against air strikes there and that decision would not be revisited.
Number 10 said he had been referring to strikes against the Syrian regime.
It comes after US President Obama pledged to "degrade" and "destroy" IS in Syria - including with a systematic campaign of air strikes.
Foreign Affairs Select Committee member John Baron called on the prime minister to clarify the British government's position on what was a matter of "seminal performance".
The Tory MP said there appeared to be a "disparity between the foreign secretary and Number 10".
The US has already launched more than 150 air strikes against IS, formerly known as ISIL, in Iraq and provided arms to Iraqi and Kurdish forces.
IS controls large parts of Syria and Iraq after a rapid military advance.
Its fighters have become notorious for their brutality, beheading enemy soldiers and Western journalists on video.
As part of the US strategy for tackling the jihadists, President Obama announced on Wednesday that 475 military personnel would be sent to Iraq in a non-combat role.
In Berlin earlier, Mr Hammond told reporters: "Let me be clear, Britain will not be taking part in any air strikes in Syria, I can be very clear about that.
"We've already had that discussion in our Parliament last year and we won't be revisiting that position."
But Downing Street later clarified that "the point he was making" was that MPs had already voted to oppose "air strikes against the [Syrian President Bashar al-]Assad regime".
"In terms of air power and the like, the prime minister has not ruled anything out," a Number 10 spokesman said.
"That is the position. No decisions have been taken in that regard."
Number 10 has welcomed President Obama's "tough, long-term, intelligent" strategy in tackling IS and has said the US and UK would continue their "unity of approach".
BBC deputy political editor James Landale said Mr Hammond had "got it wrong".
"The first rule of British diplomacy is don't disagree with the American president just after he's announced a new foreign policy," he said.
"That's what the foreign secretary found himself doing today. That's why he was over-ruled by the people who work in there."
In the UK, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, Richard Ottaway, said he believed MPs would support the bombing of targets in Iraq.
"My instinct is the government will propose air strikes," the Conservative MP told BBC News.
"They will put it to Parliament and my instinct is that Parliament will approve it."
And on Syria he added: "If the argument's put that this is to eliminate the cancer of ISIL, I suspect Parliament will support strikes in Syria against ISIL."
On Wednesday Mr Hammond told MPs any attack on Syria would constitute a higher-risk strategy than taking action in Iraq, adding there was a "qualitative difference" between bombing the two countries.
"The legal, technical and military differences make the proposition of air strikes an order of magnitude more complicated in Syria," he said.
Meanwhile the Ministry of Defence said weapons and ammunition provided by the UK to Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq had arrived in Irbil.
The weaponry includes heavy machine guns and almost half a million rounds of ammunition.
"This will give the Kurdish Peshmerga additional firepower in order to help them defend the front line, protect civilians and push back ISIL advances," the MoD said in a statement.
"The UK will continue to look positively on any further direct requests for assistance to the Kurds."
US Secretary of State John Kerry is in Saudi Arabia as he seeks to build a regional coalition against IS.
A joint statement issued after talks in Jeddah declared a "shared commitment to stand united against the threat posed by all terrorism" including IS.
In addition to Saudi Arabia, Arab states taking part were Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Nato member Turkey was also represented, but did not sign the statement.
Russia, which has been an ally of President al-Assad, has warned that any US bombing of IS positions in the country would be "an act of aggression, a gross violation of international law".
The Crown Dependency of the Isle of Man is the only part of the British Isles in which both gay and straight couples can enter civil partnerships.
In 2004 the UK's Civil Partnership Act was created for same sex-couples only.
Baroness Hussein-Ece had asked Lord Nash whether heterosexual civil partnerships were recognised in the UK.
Lord Nash said they would not, adding: "As opposite sex couples cannot lawfully register a civil partnership here, the [2004] Act provides that couples registering a relationship overseas are not to be treated as having formed a civil partnership if, at the time the relationship was formed, they were not of the same sex."
Since July, all couples who have registered a civil partnership on the Isle of Man have acquired similar legal status and rights to married couples.
Lord Nash's clarification means this only applies to couples living on the island.
Last month, a couple from London became the first UK residents to take advantage of the new Manx law.
Claire Beale, 49, and Martin Loat, 55, travelled to the island for a day trip to say their vows at Douglas Registry Office.
The couple, who have two children, said they wanted a civil union which was "free from the trappings and social pre-conditions of marriage, but protected their family financially and in law".
They added that they were campaigning "for the UK government to follow the Isle of Man's lead and end discrimination against heterosexuals seeking civil partnerships".
Under the deal, Ping Petroleum Ltd and Hibiscus Petroleum Berhad will each acquire 50% of Shell and Esso's interests in the Anasuria cluster.
It will give them a 100% stake in the Teal, Teal South and Guillemot A fields and 38.65% in the Cook field.
The deal includes the Anasuria Floating Production Storage and Offloading unit.
The Anasuria cluster is located about 175km east of Aberdeen in the UK Central North Sea.
Hibiscus said the acquisition was subject to regulatory approval, and consent from third parties.
The agreement was signed by Shell UK Ltd and Shell EP Offshore Ventures Ltd as well as Esso Exploration and Production UK Ltd, which is part of Exxon Mobil.
In a statement, Ping and Hibiscus said the acquisition "reflected the support provided by the UK government to encourage smaller independents to invest and revive the North Sea basin".
Hibiscus managing director Ken Pereira said: "This acquisition will complete our company's strategy of acquiring a balanced portfolio of assets which includes exploration, development and producing assets within five years of listing our company.
"We will be able to cut our teeth as an operator in conjunction with Ping in one of the world's foremost oil and gas production basins.
"The Anasuria Cluster has development potential for a company of the size of Hibiscus and provides us with an excellent foundation upon which we can build a significant North Sea presence."
Ping is an upstream company focusing on shallow water offshore production and development in south east Asia.
Hibiscus owns exploration and development assets in the Middle East, Norway and Australia.
A Shell spokeswoman said: "Shell can confirm that it has signed a sales and purchase agreement with Ping Petroleum and Hibiscus Petroleum, for the sale of its interests in the Anasuria Cluster.
"The deal is subject to partner and regulatory approvals, with completion expected in quarter four of 2015.
"This deal fits with Shell's strategy to deliver strong shareholder value across our assets.
"The Anasuria cluster has entered a phase where it offers greater value to other companies than it does for Shell."
Earlier this week BP announced plans to invest about £670m to extend the life of its North Sea assets.
BP hopes to secure the future of its Eastern Trough Area Project (ETAP) fields until at least 2030.
Social Security Minister Jeane Freeman said she was "watching" the impact of pilots in Finland, Holland and Canada.
She also expressed interest in proposed pilot schemes in Glasgow and Fife.
A universal basic income offers all adults a non-conditional flat-rate payment. Models have varied, but in some any income they earn over this is subject to progressive rates of tax.
Ms Freeman told BBC Scotland that a universal income was worth considering but more evidence was needed to determine how effective it was.
"We have a very strong commitment to reducing poverty and inequality and any idea that we think can contribute towards that, then we are very interested in it," she said.
"We are interested in the idea of the universal basic income and we're watching to see how that plays out in Finland where the government there is running a pilot and the Netherlands and Canada."
The minister said she was aware of similar projects planned for Glasgow and Fife but said there was a "difficulty in running pilots in Scotland".
Finland has started paying the benefit to a number of unemployed people.
€560
Monthly income for two years
€20m Cost to government
8.1% Unemployment rate
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Ms Freeman said the universal basic income was a proposal for "acting as an alternative to the bulk of the benefits system" and that she was unclear how this could be adequately evaluated in Scotland while the government did not have full control over the welfare system.
She added: "I'm not clear how it might work in Scotland but that doesn't mean to say I'm discouraging people who want to test that out and be very interested in seeing how that progresses."
Councillor Matt Kerr, executive member for social justice at Glasgow City Council said a universal basic income would remove "fear" from the lives of many people who were struggling financially.
"Every citizen would know that there was a level below which it wouldn't be acceptable for them to fall in terms of income," he said.
He said people would not have to worry about changes to their circumstances adversely affecting their living standards.
He also said this would eliminate anxiety about losing out on cash if someone came off benefits and started work.
The councillor said that the authority was at an early stage in working up a pilot scheme.
"We intend to take a paper forward to the executive committee in the next few weeks and that starts the process," he said.
If approval was given, Councillor Kerr said discussions would then begin with the Scottish government, academics and other partners, to shape the pilot scheme in a way that would enable an effective appraisal of its effectiveness.
Jamie Cook, head of RSA Scotland (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), said the concept of a basic income was an old one but was gaining fresh traction due to the challenges posed by modern life.
"We are seeing the growth of automation as a challenge...and we're seeing changes in the nature of work," he said.
"I think its partly that the welfare state was very much a structure of its time and the world has changed dramatically since that period."
Mr Cook said the current welfare system could act as a disincentive to work.
He said a basic income could provide the security to try new things such as starting a business, while knowing that bills could be paid.
But he accepted that it was up to politicians and the public to arrive at an acceptable figure for a basic income.
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Patsy Kelly, a member of Derry City and Strabane District council, is alleged to have offered his support to Sinn Féin's Pat Doherty on social media during the Westminster elections.
In a statement, the SDLP said an investigation had been launched into the matter.
The whip will be withdrawn from Mr Kelly for a period of four weeks.
Around half of the UK's abortion providers now have regular demonstrations outside, according to one of the main campaign groups.
The protesters, who sometimes hold placards with graphic imagery, say they are defending the unborn.
The displaying of these type of placards is what usually happens at the similar demonstrations in the US.
A debate between abortion providers, MPs and anti-abortion groups exists over "buffer zones" that would stop protests from being immediately outside clinics.
Dr Graeme Hayes, co-author of the research, said: "The voices of women (visiting the clinics) have been missing from the debate. For the first time we are bringing data that goes beyond anecdotal comment.
"We can't say it's representative of all women, but we now have not just one or two voices but more than 200."
The research, funded by Aston University, cannot claim to represent the views of all women patients.
Responses ranged from reports of being made to cry or having a panic attack, to saying it made "a hard situation worse".
Eight women said they were followed and one reported an attempt to prevent her from getting to her car.
One woman said of an activist: "She was very aggressive and my daughter, who had been composed, cried."
Another said: "It made me scared to come in and I was physically shaking."
The responses from women who chose to comment about the protests as part of their general feedback about treatment were gathered by BPAS (the British Pregnancy Advisory service) and then analysed by the team at Aston University.
The report's co-author Dr Pam Lowe has spoken at BPAS events but does not work for them.
She said: "Women felt it was an invasion of healthcare privacy, shown by quotes like: 'I felt very angry as I am being judged by a stranger'."
No one group has been singled out by the research and not all groups who campaign against abortion are the same.
Isabel Vaughan-Spruce runs the Birmingham branch of the American 40 Days for Life campaign.
She says that her group offers advice such as: "We're outside the clinic to witness, not harass. We work within the law. We feel we offer a different path, in the spirit of love and I have recently had a young woman change her mind."
Ms Vaughan-Spruce added that she has also offered women support after their abortions.
The BBC asked staff at clinics across England how they were affected and received replies in writing.
One said: "I never used to have a problem walking past people demonstrating but things have changed. It now invades every moment of my working day.
"Passers-by were appalled by the protest and became involved. Four afternoons in one week the police were called (not by us) and had to ask people to disperse."
One group, Abort67, uses leaflets and graphic posters outside clinics.
In Southwark, a man sympathised but said the images were not suitable for public display.
He said: "If I was walking past with my seven-year-old son, I'd be angry."
Activist Aisling Hubert said the graphic pictures were necessary: "We want to educate people about what really happens during an abortion."
Abort67, which has links with US organisations, have protestors with small cameras on their chests, which film women entering the clinic, as well as passers-by.
"These are to record our behaviour and protect us from false accusations," explains spokesperson Ruth Rawlins.
The group condemns any form of violence or illegal activity.
Just over half of the 184,571 procedures in England and Wales per year are medical, rather than surgical, which means pills are taken to end the pregnancy. This means that treatment is in GP surgeries or smaller clinics, which are easily accessible to protestors.
While the methods used vary hugely, anti-abortion activists say their presence remains necessary to "protect the unborn child". The campaign group Good Counsel say they believe their protests, which they call vigils, work to change women's minds.
Dr Hayes said: "What is interesting is that it didn't seem to matter who was outside the clinic. It was just the presence that women found upsetting."
Machines at the Temple of Heaven park scan visitors' faces before dispensing a fixed length strip of paper.
The tourist attraction is reportedly frequented by visitors who take large amounts of loo roll home.
It has reignited debate over the lack of social graces among some Chinese.
Park officials have installed six machines at its public bathrooms in a half-month trial, with staff on standby to explain the technology to visitors. The park has retained its existing loo roll dispensers.
The new machines, placed at the average heights for men and women, dispense strips of toilet paper measuring about 60 to 70cm (24 to 27.5 inches) to each person.
They will not dispense more paper to the same person until after nine minutes have passed.
"If we encounter guests who have diarrhoea or any other situation in which they urgently require toilet paper, then our staff on the ground will directly provide the toilet paper," a park spokesman told Beijing Wanbao.
The park also upgraded the toilet paper's quality from one-ply to two-ply.
When the BBC visited the toilets on Monday, the machines had been turned off. A staff member said they were not in use as there were not many visitors in the park that day.
Earlier this month, Chinese media reported that visitors to the Temple of Heaven park's toilets were taking excessive amounts of toilet paper, some of whom were seen stuffing their bags.
The park has been aware of this problem for years, which began shortly after it started dispensing free toilet paper in 2007.
It has put up posters as well as broadcast messages on its public announcement system exhorting visitors to use less paper.
The trial appears to have had initial success - the park told Beijing Wanbao that the daily amount of toilet paper used in its toilets has gone down by 20%.
But it has also had teething problems. Reports said that the machines, which are supposed to scan a face in three seconds but in reality can take up to 30 seconds, had caused delays and confusion.
Beijing News said that two machines had also broken down during a recent visit over the weekend.
But the dispensers may now have become an attraction in their own right.
One cleaner told the BBC: "In the past there were a lot of cases of people taking toilet paper, with these new machines a lot of people have come by to take a look."
The case has both amused and exasperated Chinese netizens, who have condemned the bog-standard behaviour of those raiding the park's toilet paper supply.
"Several low-class people have forced the rest of society to undertake a high-cost operation," said one user.
"This is so ironic, the paper in public toilets is meant to serve all in society, now we have to use technology to regulate it," said another.
Earlier this month, the Beijing Municipal Administration Center of Parks launched a campaign on Weibo called "Use Paper Economically, Spread Civility".
Residents were asked to take a pledge to "take appropriate amounts of toilet paper with no wastage" from public parks.
PC Iain Norton, 41, was dismissed without notice following a hearing over claims he drove a police vehicle whilst over the legal alcohol limit and being unfit to perform duties, police said.
Mr Norton, from Wesham, was accused of breaching "fitness for duty" and "discreditable conduct" regulations in the Police (Conduct) Regulations 2012.
The full findings of the hearing will be published on 20 September.
The hearing was held at Leyland police station.
Queensland declared on 240-9 in Brisbane, in reply to Ireland's first innings of 155.
Ireland opener William Porterfield and Niall O'Brien put on 56 for the second wicket before both retired.
However, the Irish lost five wickets for 26 runs and were 83-6 when the teams shook hands with a session left.
Gary Wilson hit 16 and Andrew Balbirnie nine but Stuart Thompson, Stuart Poynter and Ed Joyce all failed to score.
Ireland trio George Dockrell, Max Sorensen and Andrew McBrine played for Queensland, with the latter scoring an unbeaten 49.
Ireland move on to Townsville to face Papua New Guinea, with the third-round encounter starting on Sunday.
The Netherlands top the Intercontinental Cup table with Ireland six points behind in second.
The wildfires broke out on Friday and have now covered an area of 20,000 acres.
Hundreds of people living in a nearby town have been evacuated to the city of Santa Clarita for safety reasons.
400 animals from a nearby wildlife sanctuary have also been evacuated.
Around 900 firefighters have been working hard to tackle the flames, and are being helped by helicopters and aeroplanes dumping water.
The fires are being spread by high temperatures and strong winds, and weather forecasters have warned that the conditions are set to continue.
Leader Jeremy Corbyn is against air strikes - putting him at odds with more than half of his top team.
He faced warnings of resignations after he wrote to Labour MPs rejecting David Cameron's case for military action.
But Labour deputy leader Tom Watson and others who disagree with him say they will not be resigning.
Mr Watson hinted a free vote - allowing the shadow cabinet and Labour MPs to follow their conscience - might be the best way out of the situation.
Asked if he would resign if there was not a free vote, Mr Watson said: "No, of course not. I'm the deputy leader of the party with a mandate. But I don't think that situation is going to occur."
Mr Watson said he agreed with Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn's view that the prime minister had made a "compelling case" for military action and that the UK faced an "imminent security threat".
In his letter to Labour MPs, Mr Corbyn rejected Mr Cameron's claim that attacking IS in Syria would make the UK safer and said the prime minister did not have a "coherent strategy" for defeating IS.
Mr Watson said he had not known Mr Corbyn would send a letter expressing his own views to Labour MPs, following Thursday's shadow cabinet meeting, but added that he was within his rights to do so as leader.
He said the shadow cabinet would form a view collectively on Monday after seeking clarifications from David Cameron on the issue of 70,000 ground troops being available to support the action.
Mr Cameron has said he will hold a Commons vote on joining air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Syria when he is confident he can win it - and that depends on persuading enough Labour MPs to back his case to offset any Conservative rebellion.
Mr Corbyn's shadow cabinet ally Diane Abbott has urged the front bench to get behind their leader in any vote.
"Jeremy appoints the shadow cabinet - not the other way round. You cannot have a shadow cabinet voting down the leader of the Labour Party who has just been elected with the biggest mandate in history."
Meanwhile, Labour MP Paul Flynn, who is opposed to air strikes in Syria, says he has told his leader he will have to resign if he becomes a "liability" to the party and Mr Corbyn "understands that".
The MP told BBC Radio 4's The World at One that Labour was in a "terrible mess" and the divisions seen over issues like Syria "can't go on".
But he urged colleagues not to try and depose Mr Corbyn, saying this would cause a "rift" and possibly a split in the party.
They must rally round their leader for the time being, Mr Flynn said, suggesting Mr Corbyn will have take a decision about his own future closer to the next general election.
Labour MP John Spellar, a member of the defence select committee, said Mr Corbyn's behaviour over the Syria vote debate had been "unacceptable".
And he urged shadow cabinet members considering resignation to stand their ground, telling BBC Radio 5 Live: "If anyone should resign after this incident, it should be Jeremy Corbyn."
Another ex-minister, Fiona Mactaggart, said Mr Corbyn's leadership was "weak" and "unsustainable", although she was also unconvinced about the case for bombing Syria.
The Baggies led 2-0 inside nine minutes through Chris Brunt's 25-yard effort and Fabian Delph's own goal.
Andreas Weimann lobbed in to pull one back, Leandro Bacuna levelled with a fortunate effort and Delph put Villa ahead with a fierce drive.
Each of the previous 15 encounters between Aston Villa and West Brom had ended either as a draw or with a 2-1 scoreline.
Villa had failed to win in their last six meetings with West Brom, a run going back to December 2010.
Youssouf Mulumbu shot through Brad Guzan's legs to make it 3-3 at half-time but Christian Benteke scored a penalty to win it for Villa.
When the two teams met in November, West Brom took an early 2-0 lead before Villa rescued a 2-2 draw. But that was nothing compared to what happened at Villa Park.
Derbies are often tense occasions but it was a game with defensive errors, brilliant strikes and six first-half goals. And pleasingly for Villa fans, Benteke scored in a third consecutive game after almost four months without a goal.
Villa are up to 10th in the table while the Baggies remain 15th, but are now only three points above the relegation zone.
After a sloppy opening three minutes, the opener, while brilliant, came from a mistake. Benteke lost the ball 50 yards from goal and Liam Ridgewell found Brunt with a piercing ball from the left, allowing the Northern Ireland international to convert a brilliant half-volley from distance.
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And five minutes later their lead was doubled. Brunt took a quick free-kick to James Morrison, who squared the ball only for Delph to divert it into his own net.
But Villa pulled one back, with only the second shot of the game. Goalkeeper Guzan played a long ball forward that Baggies defender Diego Lugano headed back to Weimann and the Austrian, who would have been offside had he been found by a team-mate, lobbed Ben Foster.
The hosts were starting to get on top and Weimann forced a save from Foster from a corner.
And the equaliser came when Matt Lowton played the ball across to Bacuna, whose fortunate shot hit his own shoulder and looped in - with Benteke touching the ball after it had crossed the line.
West Brom, in their second game under new boss Pepe Mel, lost Nicolas Anelka to an injury after a 50-50 tackle with Lowton, as the game started to calm down.
But that lull did not last long as Benteke flicked a long ball onto Delph, who beat Steven Reid with ease on the edge of the box before firing in off the underside of the crossbar from an angle.
Aston Villa win a rollercoaster ride. West Brom led 2-0 within nine minutes but ultimately Villa won the day thanks to Christian Benteke's second-half penalty. A seven-goal thriller at the Villa.
Benteke almost made it 4-2 to Villa but Foster kept his close-range effort out with his foot.
And moments later the Belgian was made to pay when Victor Anichebe found Morrison, who slipped in Mulumbu to slot the ball through the legs of the onrushing Guzan.
The second half started slowly but West Brom were looking much improved. Morgan Amalfitano forced a save from Guzan before Lugano headed wide from six yards out, totally unmarked, from Brunt's free-kick.
Lugano has been heavily criticised this season for a lack of pace, and surprisingly kept his place ahead of Gareth McAuley, who was on the bench after returning from injury.
And the 33-year-old's night got even worse when he pulled down Benteke by the head in the box, with the striker stepping up to send Foster the wrong way.
Both sides made a host of substitutions and the match lost its momentum as it ended with just the seven goals.
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Aston Villa boss Paul Lambert:
"It's not great for the heart, to go down 2-0 in a derby. All credit to the team, the response was fantastic.
"With derby games, it doesn't matter where you are in the table, they're really unpredictable.
"He [Christian Benteke] did the same last season with the incredible scoring run. His general game is getting back to what it was."
West Brom boss Pepe Mel:
"It was an incredible match. To score three goals away and [get] no points is remarkable. We need to work on our defensive mistakes.
"I'm very proud of the players, they tried very hard."
On penalty decisions going against Diego Lugano at both ends: "It's football, only football. In the other box, it's the same [offence]. But the referee is the boss. We're only thinking about the next game now."
Have a look at Wednesday's match action gallery from all the Premier League games on the BBC Sport Facebook page.
Match ends, Aston Villa 4, West Bromwich Albion 3.
Second Half ends, Aston Villa 4, West Bromwich Albion 3.
Offside, Aston Villa. Nathan Baker tries a through ball, but Christian Benteke is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Diego Lugano (West Bromwich Albion) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Chris Brunt with a cross following a corner.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Ron Vlaar.
Attempt blocked. Diego Lugano (West Bromwich Albion) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Morgan Amalfitano with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Youssuf Mulumbu (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Saido Berahino (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Leandro Bacuna (Aston Villa).
Grant Holt (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card.
Grant Holt (Aston Villa) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Jonas Olsson (West Bromwich Albion) is shown the yellow card.
Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Claudio Yacob tries a through ball, but Saido Berahino is caught offside.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Matej Vydra replaces Victor Anichebe.
Substitution, Aston Villa. Nathan Baker replaces Andreas Weimann.
Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Chris Brunt tries a through ball, but Saido Berahino is caught offside.
James Morrison (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ashley Westwood (Aston Villa).
Substitution, Aston Villa. Yacouba Sylla replaces Karim El Ahmadi.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Saido Berahino replaces Steven Reid.
Foul by Liam Ridgewell (West Bromwich Albion).
Christian Benteke (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Victor Anichebe (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Jonas Olsson.
Liam Ridgewell (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Christian Benteke (Aston Villa).
Chris Brunt (West Bromwich Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Chris Brunt (West Bromwich Albion).
Fabian Delph (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Diego Lugano (West Bromwich Albion) is shown the yellow card.
Victor Anichebe (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ciaran Clark (Aston Villa).
Offside, Aston Villa. Andreas Weimann tries a through ball, but Fabian Delph is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Andreas Weimann (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Karim El Ahmadi.
Steven Reid (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Grant Holt (Aston Villa).
Substitution, Aston Villa. Grant Holt replaces Matthew Lowton.
Goal! Aston Villa 4, West Bromwich Albion 3. Christian Benteke (Aston Villa) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty conceded by Diego Lugano (West Bromwich Albion) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Aston Villa. Christian Benteke draws a foul in the penalty area.
Foul by Morgan Amalfitano (West Bromwich Albion).
The Emergency Provisions Act was introduced in 1950 after independence from Britain.
It allowed the authorities to detain people without charge and prescribed jail or execution for a wide range of offences considered treason.
It allowed punishments of up to seven years for crimes like disrupting public morality or spreading false news.
The National League for Democracy (NLD), which swept to power in Myanmar earlier this year ending decades of military rule, had been trying to get rid of the law.
"This law was used by the socialist dictatorship to arrest anyone who went against them," said Tun Tun Hein, chairman of the parliament's bill committee.
"Now we have abolished it because we have a people's government," he told Reuters.
But the move faced opposition from from some of the military, which still holds a mandatory 25% of seats in parliament and who argued the law was still necessary for national security.
After dropping 1.8% on Thursday, the FTSE 100 rose 103.09 points or 1.71% on Friday to 6,139.79.
For the second day in a row, insurance firm Aviva was the top riser on the index, climbing 6.35%, after posting strong results.
Bank stocks also did well as investors digested the implications of the latest stimulus moves from the ECB.
Plans by the European Central Bank to provide ultra-cheap loans to banks lifted the sector. Barclays rose 3.8% and Standard Chartered added 4.3%.
Mining shares had risen in early trade on gains in commodity prices, but the sector then lost ground and shares in Anglo American were down 0.5%.
Shares in financial services group Old Mutual rose 3% at first after the company announced plans to split itself into four units, but then dropped back to stand 1.78% lower.
High Street retailer Marks and Spencer was the biggest faller on Friday with shares down 2% after Bank of America Merrill Lynch cut its rating to "underperform" from "neutral".
On the currency markets, the pound edged up 1% against the dollar to $1.4427, and also rose 1% against the euro to €1.2902.
"Ashe is expected to remain on the sidelines for several months, with the aim of returning to action at the beginning of next season," they said.
He picked up the injury during May's Pro12 semi-final defeat by Connacht.
The Scotland international, 22, has been with Warriors since turning professional with them in 2012.
Bottom-placed Swans face third-from-bottom Black Cats in a Premier League match on Saturday.
Bradley's side have picked up five points from his seven games in charge with pressure mounting for change.
"If that's the case it shouldn't be Bob Bradley that loses his job, it should be the person who employed Bob Bradley," said Moyes.
"Bob has only been in the job [a matter of weeks]. It must have been the people who made decision, that's the way I would look at it."
Bradley is the first American to manage in the Premier League and the fourth Swansea manager in less than three years.
Chairman Huw Jenkins has said he accepts responsibility for the turmoil in at the club.
Former Everton manager Moyes, who was under pressure himself after a poor start to the season, believes Swansea's plight cannot be blamed on a man who has been in charge for less than two months.
"I think Bob Bradley would have to be given time," he added.
"Whoever would go into Swansea, or Sunderland for example, or some of the clubs at this end of the table and expect it to be a massive turnaround? If anybody thinks that they are completely wrong. They really are."
Bradley has defended himself in the face of criticism, accusing some people of not liking him because of his American accent and claiming some critics are talking "garbage".
Bradley, who succeeded Francesco Guidolin in October, was the first football appointment made by Swansea's new US owners and previously managed Le Havre, Egypt and the USA national team.
Gold, a colourful portrait of a spiny seahorse, taken by Davide Lopresti, in Trieste, Italy, has won this year's UK Underwater Photography Competition.
Lopresti beat entrants from more than 54 countries. He set out to photograph the seahorses to "celebrate their return to areas of the Mediterranean that have been protected from destructive fisheries, such as trawling".
Dan Bolt, from Devon, won British Underwater Photographer of the Year with Catshark Supernova. This award is open to all British residents and nationals.
Pier Mane, from South Africa, won Up and Coming Underwater Photographer of the Year with Three Pillars, taken in the Bahamas.
Marty Engels Dunmore, from Suffolk, won Most Promising British Underwater Photographer with Fired Up, taken on the Kittiwake wreck in Grand Cayman.
Mike Korostelev won the International Wide Angle category with a shot from Kuril Lake, Kamchatka, Russia. "I constructed a cage to keep me safe as I captured the fishing behaviour of the bear," he said.
Thomas Heckmann won the International Wrecks category with a shot from Curacao. "I was unable to descend, because I had to take care of Maja, my five-year-old daughter, who is unable to snorkel by herself. So, my only possibility was a shot from the surface," he said.
Richard Carey won the International Behaviour category with a shot of a turtle eating a jellyfish taken on an early morning dive in the Similan Islands.
Marcus Blatchford won the British Wide Angle award. The judges said: "Whilst this may have been an 'unplanned' photo dive, these two, the model and the photographer, knew exactly what they were doing, either by instinct or design."
Paul Colley, who won the British Compacts category, said: "Whilst trying to photograph trout, during a year-long river project, with a homemade pole-cam, a raft of Mallard ducks muscled in to steal food intended to entice trout to the camera."
In a statement, the festival said it would "present the film as planned".
The film's release plans were cast into doubt after it emerged that a woman who accused director Nate Parker of rape in 1999 later took her own life.
Parker, who also stars in the Oscar-tipped film, was acquitted of raping the woman while at university.
His roommate Jean Celestin, who has a story credit on The Birth of a Nation, was convicted of sexual assault.
The conviction was later overturned when the woman opted not to testify again for a 2005 retrial.
The incident has come back into the press ahead of the US release of Parker's drama about Nat Turner's 1831 slave rebellion.
Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the film is to have its Canadian premiere at Toronto next month.
On Tuesday, Parker responded to the news of his accuser's death with a Facebook post in which he expressed "profound sorrow".
According to Variety, the 36-year-old will continue to be his film's "public face" and will honour his Toronto media commitments.
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However IOC medical director Richard Budgett said that it would continue to monitor the situation closely.
Dr Budgett was responding to a call by Canadian health Professor Amir Attaran for the Games to be postponed or moved.
Prof Attaran said that the influx of visitors to Brazil would result in the avoidable births of malformed babies.
"If the IOC and the World Health Organisation (WHO) do not have the generosity of heart to delay the games to prevent children being born and disabled their whole lives, then they're among the cruellest institutions in the world,'' Prof Attaran said in a telephone interview with the Associated Press news agency.
"What I'm asking for is a bit of delayed gratification so that babies aren't born permanently disabled."
Prof Attaran - a public health specialist - argues that Zika is far worse than the IOC is willing to admit.
In an article for the Harvard Public Review he says that Rio de Janeiro is more affected by Zika than anyone expected and that all it takes is one infected traveller to start a process that could ultimately result in a "full-blown global health disaster".
He argues that if the Games go ahead, it would be especially unfair on countries like Nigeria, India and Indonesia, which do not have the same resources to fight Zika as Brazil.
But his point of view is hotly contested by Olympic and global health authorities including the WHO, who are adamant the 5-21 August Games will not be derailed by the virus.
The IOC - which adheres to the WHO's advice - insisted there were no plans to relocate or postpone the games.
"The clear statements from WHO that there should be no restrictions on travel and trade means there is no justification for cancelling, delaying, postponing or moving the Rio Games,'' Dr Budgett said.
"The IOC will continue to monitor the situation very closely and work with the WHO, and we're confident as we've been advised by the experts that the situation will improve over the next three months."
A separate IOC statement said that plans were in place to target mosquitoes and deal with their stagnant water breeding grounds..
The statement said it was important to remember the Olympic and Paralympics Games are taking place in the winter months of August and September, when mosquitoes should not be so abundant.
The Olympics are expected to attract about 500,000 visitors from abroad.
The 26-year-old scored 46 goals in 270 matches for the Dons, helping them win promotion to the Championship in 2015 but was unable to prevent them from being relegated at the first attempt.
But he was released by the Buckinghamshire side this summer having graduated through the club's academy.
Powell said that he turned down offers at other clubs to sign for Cobblers.
Northampton manager Justin Edinburgh told the club website: "Despite only being in his mid-20s, he has a wealth of experience in League One and the Championship and he provides qualities I feel we need more of in the squad.
"He offers pace and width, he is direct and he is a threat to defenders. He is unpredictable, he is the sort of player who keeps supporters on the edge of their seats and I think he is a very good signing for us."
Powell was released by the Dons on Tuesday alongside Nicky Maynard and Charlie Powell.
The trio follow Dean Bowditch, Darren Potter and David Martin in leaving Stadium MK.
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ScotRail has come under the microscope repeatedly, with political debates centring around service disruptions and the government raising the possibility of the franchise contract being revoked.
However, the firm also delivered a series of infrastructure improvements, and improvements in service performance were announced the week before Mr Verster's departure became public.
Here is a timeline of the ups and downs of Abellio's time in Scotland so far and Mr Verster's time in the role.
14 October 2014: Abellio wins the ScotRail franchise contract, taking over from Aberdeen-based FirstGroup. The firm wins a 10-year contract, but could be stripped of it in half that time if punctuality targets are not met.
1 April 2015: Abellio formally takes over the running of Scotland's railways.
25 March 2015: Phil Verster is announced as the managing director of ScotRail Alliance, which sees Abellio and Network Rail team up to deliver rail services.
He takes up the job in May.
13 June 2015: Work begins on improvements to the main Edinburgh-Glasgow line, with the Winchburgh tunnel in West Lothian closed for six weeks.
6 September 2015: The new Borders Railway is opened at a cost of £249m, bringing train services back to the Scottish borders for the first time in 46 years.
17 September 2015: ScotRail announces plans to hire up to 100 new train drivers.
6 November 2015: ScotRail is fined £265,282 for failing to meet standards for trains and stations.
21 December 2015: ScotRail announces a £475m improvement plan, pledging new trains, thousands of extra seats and better on-board wifi.
Mr Verster describes the plan as the biggest improvement programme in the company's history, saying 75% of trains will be refurbished or replaced.
15 March 2016: ScotRail pledges a "revolution" in travel for passengers in Tayside and Aberdeenshire, with 200 new services and 200,000 additional seats a day.
20 March 2016: The main tunnel serving Glasgow Queen Street station, the third busiest in Scotland, is closed for 20 weeks, causing major disruption to services.
ScotRail says the work is part of a £60m upgrade project to allow faster and longer trains to use the station.
21 June 2016: ScotRail workers walk out on strike in a dispute over plans to operate more trains without guards.
The RMT union leads industrial action, with ScotRail estimating that about 30% of services are unable to run.
Mr Verster hits out at the "needless" strikes, saying they would "affect tens of thousands of passengers and hurt hundreds of rail staff".
3 August 2016: Mr Verster is "very pleased" as further planned strike action is called off.
6 October 2016: With criticism of services mounting, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says she is "absolutely committed" to fixing problems, noting that it is "absolutely incumbent" on Abellio to meet expectations.
28 October 2016: ScotRail is fined £483,000 for failing to meet required standards for trains and stations.
9 November 2016: Rail unions stage protests calling for a publicly-owned service.
17 November 2016: Nicola Sturgeon is forced to apologise to rail passengers after a broken-down train in Edinburgh causes severe disruption.
She notes that "there are options for the contract to be broken early, and we will keep that option under review".
Rail unions subsequently call for the resignation of Transport Minister Humza Yousaf, who refuses to quit.
20 November 2016: Mr Yousaf invites unions and political parties to hold talks on setting up a public sector train operator, noting that Abellio's contract could be cancelled in 2020.
23 November 2016: Mr Yousaf makes an emergency statement at Holyrood about the recent disruption, insisting that "ScotRail has learned lessons".
On the same day, commuters face further disruption after overhead wiring problems affect services in Glasgow.
24 November 2016: Ms Sturgeon says she will consider freezing rail fares in 2017 in response to the ongoing concerns over services. Ultimately fares are not frozen.
29 November 2016: A major improvement plan for ScotRail is published, with Mr Yousaf demanding "immediate improvement" for passengers.
The plan includes measures to improve punctuality and reliability through a series of local and nationwide programmes, from infrastructure developments to "performance workshops" for managers and staff about running services on time.
11 December 2016: ScotRail unveils the first in its fleet of new electric trains, which Mr Verster welcomes as "a visible symbol of our ongoing massive rail investment".
16 December 2016: The Scottish government announces a £3m package of "targeted discounts" for regular rail passengers to compensate for recent disruption.
2 January 2017: Rail fares increase across the UK.
8 January 2017: The Sunday Post newspaper reveals that Mr Verster received taxpayer money to cover his rent for a year as part of a relocation package.
12 January 2017: "Big improvements" in ScotRail's performance are recorded in the aftermath of the improvement plan being published.
18 January 2017: Mr Verster tells MSPs he "can't vouch" for the discount scheme going ahead, with the government apparently demanding ScotRail pay for it.
Alison Burt-Ryan, 46, of Newport, was alleged to have "dragged" one toddler up stairs by the wrists, causing them to have a carpet burn on their face.
She was also accused of shoving another child into a chair causing them to bite their lip.
Mrs Burt-Ryan, who denied harming the children, was found not guilty of two charges of common assault at Cwmbran Magistrates' Court.
The Briton, 28, missed out on bronze by one hundredth of a second to world champion Tina Hermann, with Elisabeth Vathje of Canada claiming gold.
Yarnold has been on an extended break and last competed when winning gold at the World Championships in March 2015.
Fellow Briton Laura Deas finished in a tie for sixth at the event in Whistler.
"I wasn't sure how I'd get on in Whistler after mid-field training times," said Yarnold, who won Olympic gold at Sochi 2014.
"To know that I can bring it on race day is a big confidence boost. Fourth place is job done - I've conquered the Whistler track once more."
Yarnold, from England, and Wales' Deas will next compete at race two of the World Cup on 17 December at Lake Placid in the USA.
"It's great to be sliding with Lizzy again," said Deas, 28. "We've had a really good vibe in the team and we push each other on.
"It was awesome to see her come back after her break and do so well."
Meanwhile, British short track speed skater Jack Whelbourne, 25, has announced his retirement from the sport.
Whelbourne became the first British skater to reach a Winter Olympic 1500m final at Sochi 2014.
He said: "Being a full-time athlete has taken its toll on my body.
"I've always been able to bounce back, but I've been competing and training at a high level for a long time now and I feel it's the right time for me to step away."
The 30-year-old victim and her Jack Russell were attacked on a path near Knowe Road in the Gallowhill area at about 09:10 on Friday 4 November.
The suspects dragged her to the ground, kicked and punched her and tried to injure the dog before stealing personal items.
The woman was not seriously injured.
Det Con Raymond Brownlow said: "This was a terrifying ordeal for the victim, who was thankfully not seriously injured, but still left badly shaken as a result of this incident. Her dog also escaped with only a minor injury.
"It is crucial that we trace these cowardly individuals as soon as possible and I am appealing for any witnesses to come forward.
"I would like to speak to anyone who may have seen what happened or a man and woman matching the above description acting suspiciously around the area at the time of this attack."
The man involved in the attack is described as of medium height and slim build, aged 35 to 40 years old.
He had unkempt brown hair, a gaunt appearance and a distinctive scar which runs from his left ear to his mouth, and scarring around his mouth. At the time of the attack he was wearing a dark grey zipper.
The woman is described as having unkempt brown shoulder-length hair. At the time of the incident she was carrying a cream handbag.
In part, that’s because KELT-9b’s host star is itself very hot, but also because this alien world resides so close to the furnace.
KELT-9b takes just two days to complete one orbit of the star.
Being so close means the planet cannot exist for very long - the gases in its atmosphere are being blasted with radiation and lost to space.
Researchers say it may look a little like a comet as it circles the star from pole to pole - another strange aspect of this discovery.
News of KELT-9b is reported in the journal Nature. Its highly unusual properties were also presented on Monday to the spring meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas.
"We found [KELT-9b] back in 2014, if you can believe it; and it took us this long to finally convince ourselves that this truly bizarre and unusual world was in fact a planet orbiting another star," Prof Scott Gaudi, from The Ohio State University, told BBC News.
"We know pretty well how big the planet is and how massive it is: it's about three times the mass of Jupiter and twice as big as Jupiter.
"We know the parent star's properties reasonably well: it's about two and a half times more massive than the Sun; it's almost twice as hot as the Sun; and it's rotating very rapidly and so it would appear very flattened to our eyes."
The planet is tidally locked to its star, meaning it always presents the same face - just as our Moon never shows its far side to Earth.
This raises the temperature on the "day side" of KELT-9b to over 4,300C - hotter than the surface of the average Red Dwarf star, by far the most common type of star in the Milky Way.
The host star - known by the simple designation of KELT-9 - is radiating so much ultraviolet light that it may completely erode the planet's atmosphere.
Prof Gaudi's team calculates material is being lost at a current rate of perhaps 10 billion or 10 trillion grams per second.
If KELT-9b possesses a rocky core, this could be laid bare eventually, but a more likely end scenario is that the planet will be engulfed by the star.
This star is what's termed an A-type object. These stars burn brilliant but brief lives. They exist for just millions of years rather than the billions of years that our Sun is expected to persist. So it may not be long before KELT-9 puffs up as it exhausts its fuel and eats the planet.
The discovery was made using a robotic telescope system that uses high-end - but standard - camera telephoto lenses attached to scientific grade detectors.
The Ohio State University operates the system at two locations, one in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere. It is a collaboration with Vanderbilt University, Lehigh University, and the South African Astronomical Observatory.
This astronomical facility goes by the name of the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope. "We named the telescope kind of as a joke; we're poking a little fun at ourselves," said Prof Gaudi.
They had been considering a "Plan B" to retain doctor-led services at Glan Clwyd, in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire.
But staff have been told the original plans to suspend consultant care will go ahead, according to information seen by BBC Wales.
Betsi Cadwaladr health board said it would issue a full statement on Monday.
The changes, expected to be brought in this month, would see some women having to travel more than 30 miles to Gwynedd or Wrexham for consultant care, with clinical staff transferred to Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor and Wrexham Maelor hospitals.
A revised plan was drawn up by health experts and politicians after a public outcry, including a demonstration of about 1,500 people in Rhyl in February.
In March, a public meeting was held with health board officials who agreed to look again at finding another way forward and which led to the "Plan B" proposals being tabled.
Three people were injured outside Sugar Hut in Brentwood - as featured in TV show The Only Way is Essex - when a car mounted the pavement during a brawl.
One remains in a critical condition after the incident on 2 April.
A man, 21, from Brent, north London, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and released on conditional bail. Two other people remain on bail.
The fight in the early hours involved more than 20 people, police said.
One of the people hit by the car - a blue Audi - remains in hospital, while the other victims, a man and a woman, have been discharged.
Three arrests have been made so far by Essex Police.
A 32-year-old man from West Drayton in west London was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and bailed.
A 26-year-old woman from Hornchurch, east London, was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender and also released on bail.
The move was in response to a report that found many low income families had no funeral plan or savings in place.
More than 1,000 funerals take place in Scotland every week, with the average cost now more than £3,500.
Social Justice Secretary Alex Neil said families could be taking on "unmanageable debt" to bury their loved ones.
The report on funeral poverty was compiled by Citizens Advice Scotland on behalf of the Scottish government.
It said action must be taken on funeral costs, which were continuing to rise above inflation.
The report also highlighted the wide range of prices set by local councils for burial plots and cremations and recommended councils reduce or limit charges .
In 2015, the cost of a lair in East Dunbartonshire (£1,527) was more than three times the cost of one in East Renfrewshire (£414), it said.
Other recommendations in the report included:
Its author, John Birrell, said: "I am increasingly concerned that if action is not taken bereaved relatives are going to experience more and more distress and I hope the suggestions made in our report will go some way to mitigate this."
In response, the Scottish government said it would speed up the decision time on funeral payments after it received the powers through the Scotland Bill.
It will also organise a national conference on funeral poverty, and consider the funeral bond scheme.
Mr Neil said: "We know funeral directors will want the best for their customers and we plan to work with them and others to explore the recommendations in the report, including whether services could be offered through a Scottish Funeral Bond scheme. This could help unlock lower cost options for people who choose them.
"Our new powers over funeral payments will give us the opportunity to set up a benefit which is simpler and more streamlined.
"Speeding up the application process will help bereaved people know if they will receive a funeral payment, and we believe it will create more certainty for funeral directors, allowing them to give appropriate advice and potentially eliminating the need to take a deposit from those who make a successful application."
A pox outbreak in Tollymore in March threatened resident reds.
But nature smiled on the nutkins there and they came through relatively unscathed.
Also making progress, thanks to the intervention of conservationist Sue Wilson, were seal pups Pearl and Coral.
They were washed up underweight and would almost certainly have died but for the seven weeks of hand rearing in the backyard of her home.
Of course that meant a bond, which was difficult to break when we came to re-release them off the County Down coast.
It took a lot of persuasion and the appearance of a group of mature seals to help them finally make the break.
In August, we got a call about a plague of caterpillars munching their way through trees on a Belfast housing estate. Hundreds of thousands of ash sawfly larvae were consuming the leaves on the trees there.
Unsightly and a bit spooky, but ultimately they were not doing any long-term damage to the trees themselves.
Insects got a good outing this year. A killer ladybird turned up at several sites, proof that it was breeding in Northern Ireland for the first time.
Harlequins were introduced to Europe as a way of controlling aphids but escaped and spread.
It was bad news for the native variety, because the larvae of the larger harlequin like nothing better than feasting on their young.
Fluff the baby barn owl was possibly the cutest critter we met all year.
She was not happy at being taken from her nest box along with her sibling to be ringed and recorded as part of a conservation project.
Even when we were finished she was still striking out with her tiny talons.
The ringer was glad to get rid of one awkward little owl with his hands intact.
The lawmakers' surprise vote to strip the Office of Congressional Ethics of its independence prompted public uproar and a dressing down from Donald Trump.
"Focus on tax reform, healthcare and so many other things of far greater importance!" the president-elect said.
The secretive move, which overshadowed the first day of the 115th Congress, was reversed in an emergency meeting.
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The ethics committee was set up in 2008 following a slew of scandals that resulted in several House lawmakers being jailed.
Mr Trump made cleaning up corruption in Washington a key theme of his campaign, and he ended his tweet with "#DTS", an acronym for "drain the swamp".
Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan had argued unsuccessfully against the rule change, which was adopted on Monday night in a closed-door meeting, but he defended the proposal on Tuesday.
Donald Trump's tweets have teeth. The president-elect took to social media to express his displeasure with the move and within hours those legislative efforts were abandoned.
The independent ethics investigators had been a source of discomfort for members of Congress on both sides of the aisle, and there was significant interest in limiting their ability to conduct inquiries.
Even after Mr Trump's tweets, many congressional Republicans appeared reluctant to back down. House Speaker Paul Ryan, an initial opponent of the measure, issued a statement defending the change.
That ended up being little comfort to the party rank and file, however, as pressure increased for them to bend to Mr Trump's political will. In his first confrontation with congressional leadership, the president-elect displayed his dominance.
Mr Trump now has a valuable talking point when discussions inevitably turn back to his own ethical questions, such as how he will handle potential conflicts of interest involving his sprawling business empire.
He has made it a bit easier, at least for now, to claim he's standing behind his drain-the-Washington-swamp campaign rhetoric.
"I want to make clear that this House will hold its members to the highest ethical standards and the Office will continue to operate independently to provide public accountability to Congress," he said.
Democrats, led by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, lambasted the Republicans.
"Republicans claim they want to 'drain the swamp', but the night before the new Congress gets sworn in, the House GOP has eliminated the only independent ethics oversight of their actions," she said.
"Evidently, ethics are the first casualty of the new Republican Congress."
As the news spread, internet searches for "who is my representative" rocketed, according to Google Trends.
House Republicans called an emergency meeting and abruptly voted to undo the change.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham took a shot at his party colleagues' decision to neuter the ethics watchdog, telling Fox News radio it was "the dumbest fricking thing I've ever heard".
Under the change:
Mr Ryan - who was re-elected by fellow lawmakers on Tuesday as House Speaker - had urged his party to seek bipartisan support and to wait to push for the change later.
But Virginia Congressman Bob Goodlatte went ahead anyway and submitted the proposal.
The Republican tweeted an op-ed he wrote arguing that the rule change would strengthen the ethics watchdog.
But he faced scathing criticism on social media. "That simply isn't true," one Twitter user replied. "Your disingenuousness is jaw-dropping. Shame on you."
Another posted: "You, sir, are a LIAR. Why did you meet in secret in the middle of the night?"
"You are a traitor to the Constitution you swore to uphold," yet another tweeted.
Mr Trump's remarks about the ethics committee came on a busy morning for the president-elect's Twitter account.
He also warned North Korea about its nuclear ambitions, attacked Obamacare costs and sparked a row with General Motors over its manufacturing operation in Mexico, which the car firm disputes.
How different would golf be if Tiger Woods, who turns 40 on 30 December, had chosen to play something else?
As the ailing 14-time major champion struggles to swing a club again, he can celebrate this landmark birthday by reflecting that no-one has had a bigger impact on the game.
Would modern-day golf be as athletic or back in the Olympics without his influence? "I doubt it," European Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke told the BBC.
"All sports progress, all sports move forward. Tennis has changed immensely as well over the years.
"But golf was somewhat slower to adapt to all that stuff. With all the technology we have now, fitness has become a huge part of it and I think Tiger led the way."
The 47-year-old Clarke has played most of his career with Woods as a great friend and rival.
"Because he played so well, so consistently, everybody was trying to figure out what he did. Whatever he was doing was right, so he led the way on many fronts," the 2011 Open champion added.
Another of those fronts was Woods' economic impact. In 1996, when he burst on to the scene, PGA Tour purses totalled more than $100m for the first time.
In the previous six years they had grown at a rate of 3.4%. Then Woods won the 1997 Masters by an astonishing 12 strokes.
It was the big bang moment, the first of 14 major triumphs for the then 21 year old.
The last of those came at the 2008 US Open and by then the PGA Tour schedule was worth $292m. Prize money inflation ran at 9.3% in that period.
"The results are astonishing," said American political scientist Roger Pielke Jr, who carried out extensive research into what he termed the "Tiger Woods effect".
"Tiger effectively more than doubled the prize money for every other golfer, adding billions of dollars to fellow players' pockets."
Woods' greatest rival has been five-time major champion Phil Mickelson, who fully appreciates the way this trailblazer brought so much more money to golf.
"It's unbelievable, the growth of this game - and Tiger has been the instigator," Mickelson said.
"He's brought increased ratings, increased sponsors, increased interest and we have all benefited."
Players may have been richer but many were shattered by Woods' brilliance during his years of domination.
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Colin Montgomerie insists one of the reasons he never won a major was that his opportunities were so limited by the prolific American. An in-form Woods only needed to turn up to win the biggest titles.
There was a sense of inevitability at the 2001 Masters when he completed a two-stroke win over David Duval to hold all four majors simultaneously.
No-one else has achieved such a feat and the run began at Pebble Beach in 2000 when Woods won his first US Open with the greatest golf ever played. He was the only man to break par on a course considered too tight for his driving game.
Woods put that erroneous notion to bed with a brilliant opening 65 before finishing 15 strokes clear of the field.
Here are some of the stellar names, with their major tallies, who finished in the top 20 in California that week: Ernie Els (4), Miguel Angel Jimenez (0), Lee Westwood (0), Padraig Harrington (3), Duval (1), Stewart Cink (1), Vijay Singh (3), Retief Goosen (2), Michael Campbell (1), Jose Maria Olazabal (2), Mickelson (5) and David Toms (1).
How much higher might those figures have been had Woods not beaten these players so regularly and so convincingly? Add to the list Spain's Sergio Garcia, surely a major champion in any other era.
Following the Pebble Beach triumph, Woods claimed the Open at St Andrews by eight strokes and repelled the plucky Bob May in a play-off to land the PGA at Valhalla. He held all four majors with an average winning margin of 6.5 strokes.
"He was a phenomenon," Clarke said. "He was the young kid coming out to show us what he could do.
"The interest that he brought to the game, the youngsters that he brought to the game, his level of fitness - he brought so many different facets to the game.
"I'm certainly very fortunate to have played in his era."
Woods was golf's poster boy. He was different - a black man in an overwhelmingly white sport - and he became the inspiration for the players who populate the top of the current world rankings.
"What Tiger Woods has done for golf, I'm not sure anyone would do again," four-time major champion Rory McIlroy told the BBC.
"Not just how unbelievably talented he was, but what he stood for, where he came from. He brought a whole new demographic into golf and sort of made golf cool again for kids."
McIlroy, along with fellow top-three stars Jordan Spieth and Jason Day, are prime examples of the excellence and athleticism Woods brought to the game.
At the height of his powers Woods transcended golf and was the biggest sports star on the planet. He was capable of superhuman achievements like winning the 2008 US Open while suffering a broken leg.
Despite his rather reluctant and dour public persona, Woods seemed untouchable in every respect.
Apparently happily married with two beautiful children, once his leg was fixed, he would surely go on to smash Jack Nicklaus' record of 18 major victories. He was only 32 with a long career of continued domination ahead of him.
A year later, though, he stumbled to defeat by YE Yang at the PGA at Hazeltine. Woods had never before been beaten from the front in a major and his aura was severely shaken by the unheralded Korean.
He was also hiding the secret of a string of extra-marital affairs that dramatically became public knowledge after he crashed his car on Thanksgiving night just three months later.
It was a shattering fall from grace and although he returned to the top of the world rankings in 2013 he has failed to add to his major tally. He was never again the same irresistible golfing force.
His body bares the scars of decades of hard physical training. He prepared like an athlete and athletes are usually competitively finished when their 40th birthday comes around.
Woods will probably heave one of those middle-aged sighs as he climbs out of his seat to blow out the candles. After three back operations in the past 19 months he waits to see whether he will swing a golf club in anger again.
"Come on, I'm not retired. I'm not done yet," Woods protested during his recent World Challenge Tournament in the Bahamas.
He was responding to a widespread interpretation of an earlier news conference at which his uncharacteristically frank answers suggested his career might be over.
"I know there will be a time when I will get to rehab, get to start working out again, and I'll do everything I can to get back out here."
Down to 416 in the world rankings, Woods is largely confined to his sofa. He talks, though, of wanting to win more tournaments, adding to a list of 79 PGA Tour victories and to be a playing vice-captain at the next Ryder Cup.
The record books suggest a golfer's life is far from over at 40. Vijay Singh, one of the few players to muscle in on Woods' 623 weeks as world number one, won 22 times after his 40th birthday.
Ben Hogan, who overcame the effects of a car crash that nearly killed him, won the next three majors after reaching that age in August 1952.
Nicklaus had five wins after that landmark, including the three majors that took his tally to his record of 18.
And it is Nicklaus to whom Woods has most regularly been compared. But their sporting vocations have differing characteristics.
"Jack Nicklaus' career was so long," observed the respected Golf Channel pundit Brandel Chamblee.
"He won his major championships over 24 years, spanned three generations, but Tiger Woods dominated in a way that had never been done before and will never be done again."
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Chamblee has been one of Woods' biggest critics, particularly regarding the swing changes that marked the latter part of his career.
But this eloquent former PGA Tour pro tellingly concludes: "In my estimation, you'd have to give the edge to Tiger Woods as the greatest player of all time."
It feels as though marking this great champion's 40th birthday has involved writing his golfing obituary.
After all, it is only a month since Woods said: "For my 20 years out here I think I've achieved a lot, and if that's all it entails, then I've had a pretty good run."
He is the master of understatement. "Pretty good run" doesn't come close to describing such an astonishing career.
Undoubtedly the sport owes Earl Woods a huge debt for pointing his son in the direction of golf because the sporting life that resulted massively changed the game for the better.
But is that it? Is he done, before the flames on those 40 candles are extinguished? Woods is surely not alone when he added: "But I'm hoping that's not it."
The families said the report confirms much of what they already believed.
It found that the IRA was responsible for the atrocity and that the victims were targeted because of their religion.
The full HET report is expected to be made public on 21 June.
Part of the investigation centres on claims that guns used that night may be linked to as many as 90 other murders and attempted murders.
Survivor Alan Black was shot 18 times. He said the memory would "never leave him".
"There is a memorial to the men in the village of Bessbrook, close to where I live, and I think often of my work mates who lost their lives on that terrible evening.
"I have suffered physical and mental scars but the families of the men who died have suffered much more.
"Their grief continues every day and I hope they will find some comfort in the HET report."
On 5 January 1976, the 10 textile workers were travelling home from work in the dark and rain on a minibus in the heart of rural County Armagh.
Just after the van cleared the rise of a hill, there was a man standing in the road flashing a torch.
They stopped and there was the sudden, ominous movement of 11 other men, all armed, emerging from the hedges around them.
Their first thought was that it was the Army, but the gunmen were masked.
A man asked their religions. There was only one Catholic left on the bus. He was identified and ordered away from his Protestant work mates. He was able to run off.
The lead gunman spoke one other word - "Right" - and the shooting began.
Mr Black was the only one to survive.
After the initial screams, he recalled years later: "There was silence. I was semi-conscious and passed out several times with the deadly pain and cold.
"I must have been lying at the roadside waiting on the ambulance for up to 30 minutes. It was like an eternity.
"When help arrived I could not get the words out quick enough. I was afraid I'd die and nobody would ever know what happened.
"I was hysterical and wanted to tell everyone - the ambulance men, nurses, doctors, police."
Bessbrook, a small, Quaker model village that because of the Troubles hosted a massive Army base, was devastated. Nine of the men lived in Bessbrook. They had 14 children.
They were Joseph Lemmon, whose wife was standing over their tea as he died; Reginald Chapman, a Sunday school teacher who played football for Newry Town; his younger brother Walter Chapman; Kenneth Worton, whose youngest daughter had not even started school; James McWhirter, who belonged to the local Orange lodge; Robert Chambers, still a teenager and living with his parents; James McConville, who was planning to train as a missionary; John Bryans, a widower who left two children orphaned; and Robert Freeburn, who was also a father of two.
The van driver, Robert Walker, came from near Glenanne.
The IRA never admitted involvement and was supposed to be on ceasefire at the time.
The South Armagh Republican Action Force claimed the deaths. The HET reinvestigated the killings as part of work spanning three decades of conflict.
More Kingsmills family members are expected to give their reactions soon.
It follows the decision to extend the station's working life by a further seven years.
Hunterston B opened in 1976 and was originally scheduled to be decommissioned in 2011, but will now generate electricity until 2023.
EDF Energy says it is investing more than £20m to ensure it continues to operate efficiently and safely.
Station director Colin Weir told BBC Scotland: "As the plant ages, we have to look at what's ageing and replace some components.
"More importantly, we also test and inspect our components, much as you would with a vintage car.
"We take a great deal of care with our nuclear power plant."
The work is known as a "statutory outage".
The operators of nuclear power plants are required by law to carry out regular inspections and maintenance.
Major work can only be carried out when part of the plant is shut down.
One of Hunterston B's two Advanced Gas Cooled Reactors (AGRs) is currently offline as a result and won't return to service until October.
The workforce at Hunterston, near West Kilbride, has doubled as a result of the project and firms across the west of Scotland have won new business.
Local bed and breakfast owners in Ayrshire are benefiting from the influx of workers and, at the other end of the economic scale, major engineering companies are benefiting too.
Doosan Babcock in Renfrew is one of those firms.
The company's nuclear service director, Cameron Gilmour, said: "We support EDF at Hunterston and Torness in Scotland, but also across its other nuclear stations in the UK.
"We employ up to 1,000 people with EDF and in Scotland our nuclear business is very important to sustaining jobs locally and investing in facilities like those we have here in Renfrew."
But anti-nuclear campaigners say the money being invested at Hunterston could be better spent elsewhere.
Dr Richard Dixon, of Friends of the Earth Scotland, said: "You could create many more jobs if you were investing in energy efficiency, insulating people's homes, and in particular in renewables.
"You would get more jobs for the same amount of money and you wouldn't be creating more nuclear waste, for which we have no solution."
The nuclear plant at Torness in East Lothian began operating in 1988 and is due to be decommissioned in 2023.
Its working life is also expected to be extended, subject to approval by the UK's Office for Nuclear Regulation.
The Scottish government is opposed to the construction of new nuclear power stations in Scotland, but the UK government says new stations will have an important role to play in the country's future energy mix.
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Christie, 26, clocked a time of 42.565 seconds to finish ahead of Canadian Jamie Macdonald and Netherlands skater Yara van Kerkhof.
The Nottingham-based Scot has been training with men and "learning to lose" to boost her medal prospects.
She was controversially disqualified three times at Sochi 2014 but won World Cup and European honours last season.
"It's been great to be back here in Calgary," said Christie.
"I haven't had the most straightforward of competitions with a few falls on Friday and Saturday. My coaches and support team worked with me and my equipment overnight and the adjustments paid off."
Christie was also part of the GB ladies relay team who broke the 3,000m British record on Friday.
The team of Christie, captain Charlotte Gilmartin, Kathryn Thomson and Samantha Morrison finished in four minutes 13.719 seconds, with the previous record having stood at four minutes 14.57 secs.
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Mortimer was due to take to the stage alongside Reeves in Glasgow next month as part of a 25th anniversary show.
Neil Reading, spokesman for Mortimer, 56, said he needed "several weeks" to recover from the operation.
Reeves said: "I'm so pleased the operation has gone well and Bob is fixed. Many thanks to the surgeon."
Their tour, 25 Years Of Reeves And Mortimer: The Poignant Moments, was due to start on 8 November.
Mr Reading said: "Bob would like to thank his consultant and all the nursing staff at the hospital for looking after him so well.
"He now needs several weeks to fully recover, so unfortunately the first leg of the UK tour will be cancelled.
"Bob very much hopes to be fit and well enough to perform the second leg in January next year."
The tour is expected to combine elements from TV shows like Shooting Stars and Vic Reeves Big Night Out, with characters such as Man With The Stick, The Stotts and Mulligan and O'Hare.
All ticket holders for performances from 8 November to 4 December are advised to contact their point of purchase for a refund.
It is hoped the January and February 2016 shows will go ahead as planned.
When the tour was announced earlier this year, Mortimer said: "Playing in front of a living audience is where it all began for us."
He added: "I will ensure that Vic arrives at all dates smartly dressed and unarmed. I promise not to mention football, JLS or apricots during the performances.
"Should you choose to attend, be warned - I will be not be wearing a toupee."
Fellow comedians and broadcasters have wished Mortimer well on Twitter, including Jack Dee, Charlie Higson and Sherlock actor and writer Mark Gatiss who said: "All love and luck @RealBobMortimer for a speedy recovery, pet."
Absolute Radio presenter Christian O'Connell said: "Get well soon @RealBobMortimer. The man's a true gent and been making me laugh for years."
Pointless star Richard Osman wrote: "The loveliest, funniest man you could ever hope to meet. Get well soon."
The heart is covered in blood vessels that feed it with oxygen and nutrients.
But fatty deposits - which are more common in smokers or overweight people - can clog up these arteries.
A heart bypass - official known as a coronary artery bypass graft - uses blood vessels from other parts of the body to rewire the heart's blood supply.
Arteries and veins from the the arm, chest and leg are used to bypass any blockages.
Some patients have only a single bypass, but it is more common for two, three (a triple heart bypass) or four grafts to be needed.
It is a common operation with around 20,000 taking place in England alone every year.
Athlete Stepanova, who helped expose state-backed doping, was ruled out when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) banned from Rio any Russian who had served a doping suspension.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) outlawed that ruling on Thursday.
But Stepanova, 30, said she was "hugely sad and heartbroken" at a lack of IOC support and therefore will not appeal.
Stepanova, who served a two-year ban for blood passport abnormalities in 2013, was not included in Russia's team but had hoped to be invited to the Games by the IOC to compete under a neutral flag.
She and husband Vitaly, a former Russian anti-doping official, said in a statement that the IOC had "turned a blind eye" to the risks the 800m runner took in exposing "systematic cheating in Russia".
"We believe that in exercising this discretion to deny Yuliya a place in the competition, it sends a message that the World Anti-Doping Code and the values of Olympism are merely words on a page," the statement added.
"As a result, we will not file an appeal to Cas."
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Alec Stewart from Dundee has completed seven degrees since returning to further education aged 65.
Mr Stewart started an MA General Studies last year and now plans to gain entry to another course at Abertay University.
The pensioner said his latest degree would be in either environmental science and technology or criminology.
He has previous qualifications from both Abertay and Dundee University.
These include degrees in American and French studies, town planning, sociology and philosophy.
Mr Stewart said: "After I retired I wanted to see what was possible and to go into higher education to do something I could enjoy.
"My three sons are graduates so I knew what it was about and felt I could cope.
"I've made a point in my late years of studying different subjects."
Mr Stewart started work as a labourer in Dundee before serving as an RAF radar operator for ten years.
He said: "I say to myself 'use your brain Alec and change your subject with each degree'.
"It means your brain is pretty full of a lot of stuff.
"I find that once in a tutorial or seminar group the younger students get to know you and they are always asking questions.
"They always want to know who the old man is."
Tax credit claimants with a household income of more than £20,000 will see any historic overpayments clawed back at a much faster rate.
The UK tax authority said this would cut the time that people spent in debt.
But campaigners have argued that some claimants will face "serious financial hardship".
Entitlement to tax credits - a top-up for those on low incomes - is generally calculated by referring to a claimant's previous year's income.
Sometimes, pay rises or more hours of work mean that claimants may receive too much from the tax credits top-up. This money then needs to be repaid to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
The amounts of overpayment can sometimes be quite high, but families may have spent the money, so find it difficult to repay.
Repayments are often made by reducing subsequent tax credit awards, and it is this cut in payments that has been changed.
Previously, payments were reduced by a maximum of 25% in order to pay back outstanding overpayments.
Under changes newly in force, but announced in the March 2014 Budget, those who still owe money to HMRC will see their latest tax credit award cut by up to 50%, if they have a household income of more than £20,000.
It is understood that HMRC want to retrieve previous overpayments quicker, so the books are settled before benefit claimants move over to the new system of Universal Credit.
Campaigners are concerned that clawing back the money too quickly could leave some families in financial difficulty.
"We fully support the need for HMRC to recover overpayment debt, but this should not be at such a rate that it has the potential to plunge people into serious financial hardship," said Anthony Thomas, chairman of the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group.
"This change is likely to catch people out, as they may not be aware that their payments are about to reduce by an additional 25%. This is likely to hit those with high childcare costs or who receive extra payments due to disability even harder, as their awards will be higher."
The group is calling on HMRC to protect those with high childcare costs or who receive payouts owing to disabilities to be protected from the new, faster, repayment system.
A spokesman for HMRC said: "This change is simply about recovering overpayments faster and more efficiently. It will allow customers to return to full payments sooner and reduce the burden on families who previously would have repaid their debt at a slower rate.
"We wrote to all affected tax credits customers to tell them about the measure in March, so that they can manage any potential change to their finances. If anyone is worried about being unable to pay their debt, they should get in touch with HMRC as early as possible, so that we can help."
The government says some of those affected will benefit from higher pay, thanks to the National Living Wage, and more generous tax allowances.
Exeter's chances of reaching the last eight are all but over after three previous losses in Pool Five.
But the Chiefs led 7-6 at half-time courtesy of a Thomas Waldrom try, before Bordeaux wing Nans Ducuing was sent off for an illegal challenge on opposite number Olly Woodburn.
Returning hooker Luke Cowan-Dickie clinched it for Exeter with a late try.
Exeter's 13-7 defeat by Bordeaux last Sunday virtually ended the English side's chances of reaching the quarter-finals.
But head coach Rob Baxter demanded a strong display, with matches against Bath, Saracens and Leicester coming up over the festive period.
Two penalty kicks from fly-half Lionel Beauxis, the second after Mitch Lees was sin-binned for slowing the ball down at a ruck, gave the hosts an early lead.
But Exeter hit back with a try from Waldrom, the number eight barging over from the back of a ruck after Henry Slade had split the Bordeaux defence.
Slade's conversion gave the visitors a slender half-time lead but Beauxis booted Bordeaux ahead again after Kai Horstmann stole the ball illegally at a line-out.
Eight minutes into the second half, Woodburn was taken out in the air by Ducuing as he claimed a kick and the Bordeaux winger was shown a red card.
Ducuing had his eyes on the ball but the fact that Woodburn was flipped and landed on his neck gave the referee no other option, according to the law.
A regulation Slade penalty edged Exeter ahead again before Cowan-Dickie rumbled over from close range.
Bordeaux full-back Geoffrey Cros should have scored in the corner but dropped the ball over the line before Slade made certain of victory with a late three-pointer.
Bordeaux's defeat makes Clermont and Ulster, who play each other on Sunday, favourites to advance to the knockout stages.
Exeter head coach Rob Baxter: "We have to keep challenging the players but ultimately, when you look at the changes we made and the fact we won, it's pretty pleasing.
"Some of our players, like Henry [Slade] and Jack [Nowell] will only get better from this.
"Overall though it's an excellent result and I was pleased with the attitude we showed in defence. That played a big part in us winning the game."
Bordeaux-Begles: Cros, Ducuing, Lonca, Vakacegu, Dubie, Beauxis, Audy, Taofifenua, Avei, Clerc, Palmer, Botha, Goujon, Edwards, Tauleigne.
Replacements: Doubrere for Audy (50), Civil for Taofifenua (63), Auzqui for Avei (63), Cazeaux for Botha (62), Madaule for Edwards (33).
Not Used: Poux, Serin, Buttin.
Sent Off: Ducuing (49).
Exeter: Dollman, Nowell, Whitten, S. Hill, Woodburn, Slade, Chudley, Rimmer, Cowan-Dickie, Williams, Lees, Atkins, Ewers, Horstmann, Waldrom.
Replacements: Campagnaro for S Hill (61), Low for Rimmer (56), Maunder for Chudley (56) Malton for Cowan-Dickie (74), Armand for Ewers (31), Dennis for Atkins (59), Holmes for Williams (45).
Not Used: J Simmonds.
Sin Bin: Lees (29), G Holmes (64).
Ref: John Lacey (Ireland).
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He won World Championship gold in 2009 at the age of 15, before going on to clinch European and Commonwealth titles, as well as an Olympic medal, all before he turned 20.
Many have since endured the pressure of being dubbed 'the new Daley', but on the same day he was crowned World champion for a second time, another 15-year-old from Plymouth was making his mark in a different kind of diving.
Aidan Heslop was below the age limit to enter the International Cliff Diving Championships in Switzerland, but was given special dispensation to compete - and triumphed from the dizzy height of 18.5m against his more experienced rivals.
Asked how his seniors would have felt seeing him beat them, Heslop told BBC Sport: "They see me every year, so they know what's coming.
"You're meant to be 16 to compete and the first year I came I was limited to diving from the lower side, but this was the first year I was allowed to compete from the high side."
Heslop has been cliff diving competitively since he was 12, but most of his training time goes towards the more conventional 10m platform events.
In June he won individual bronze at the European Junior Championships in Norway and the teenager is now targeting next year's Commonwealth Games in Australia, where he hopes to represent Wales.
"We have been in discussions. Ben Fox, the manager of Welsh diving, usually comes down to Plymouth once every month just to check up on me," he said.
"I'm quietly confident [of being picked]," added Essex-born Heslop, who qualifies for Wales through his mother. "There are a good four people who are ahead of me for England at the moment."
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Four-time Olympian and 1990 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Robert Morgan was the last Welsh diver to compete at a major championships - almost 20 years ago.
While 3m and 10m diving feature in the Olympics, cliff diving does not, though there has been talk of adding the sport to the Games to entice a younger audience.
"I'd be very interested [in cliff diving at the Olympics]," said Heslop. "It hasn't been put in yet because of the lack of nationalities doing it.
"It works exactly the same [as platform diving], it's just much higher with more somersaults."
Heslop does his cliff diving training at a quarry in Liskeard, which allows him to dive from as high as 24m.
His triumph in Switzerland came against 20 other competitors from nine countries - though the teenager still feels certain emotions before launching himself off the top.
"It's very dangerous, that's why they call it an extreme sport - but you have a boat nearby, scuba divers, and you have a certain skill level," he said.
"The smallest mistake can cost a lot really, so it needs to be very safe.
"There's a lot of adrenalin and you do have to be scared - if you're not, there's something wrong."
As the crowds dispersed after Australia won the first women's rugby sevens gold in Games history, Marjorie Enya entered the pitch and asked Brazil player Isadora Cerullo to marry her.
Enya, a 28-year-old manager at the venue, grabbed a microphone and delivered an emotional speech before the couple embraced to applause.
"As soon as I knew she was in the squad I thought I have to make this special," Enya told BBC Sport.
"I know rugby people are amazing and they would embrace it."
Enya said she had not been nervous about popping the question so publicly to her partner of two years, insisting: "She is the love of my life."
Cerullo, 25, was part of the Brazil squad who finished ninth in the inaugural Olympic outing for sevens.
They started as 12th seeds, having only qualified as hosts.
The couple live in Sao Paulo, where Cerullo, who has dual US citizenship, moved to focus on making Brazil's squad for the Games.
"The Olympic Games can look like closure but, for me, it's starting a new life with someone," added Enya. "I wanted to show people that love wins."
She has watched it with her family in Sweden for as long as she can remember.
The appeal of Britain's small screen dramas abroad is being dubbed "The Crown effect" after the biopic series about the British Queen.
Added to the impact of a weaker pound it is helping set the scene for a bumper year for UK tourism.
Linnea spent Easter visiting the Peak District, the Lake District and the Cotswolds.
"You have the lovely green hills. You've got the seaside, the cute houses, the pub culture, you've got everything," she says.
She's a fan of the property show, Escape To The Country, too, which is also shown on daytime television in Sweden.
A Barclays survey suggests that Linnea is not alone in choosing to explore Britain thanks to a passion for UK's small screen drama exports.
The popularity of the Netflix series, The Crown, dramatising the life of Queen Elizabeth II and a string of other recent successes such as Poldark, Sherlock and Downton Abbey are whetting travellers' appetites.
Amongst Chinese tourists interested in visiting the UK, 44% said TV programmes had driven their interest. More than a quarter of Americans planning a UK visit said the same.
On top of that, the weaker pound this year is convincing tourists from both home and abroad, that they'll get more for their money if they holiday here.
A third of those interested in holidaying in the UK cited the exchange rate as a reason in Barclays' survey.
Recent figures show that visitor numbers to the UK in January and February were 6% higher than last year.
VisitBritain, the UK's tourist body, reports that flight bookings to the UK for April to September this year are 21% higher than last year. And 2016 was already a record breaking year for in-bound tourism.
Barclays surveyed 10,000 respondents. Amongst those outside the UK, 63% said they were more likely to consider pitching up on UK shores this year. And responses from the UK suggest "staycations" could rise by around 30%.
Firms in the tourism sector are reporting an uptick in business.
"Operators are reporting good forward bookings. We're seeing the first few months exceed expectations," says Mike Saul, head of Hospitality and Leisure at Barclays.
Scott McCready rents holiday cabins on the Devonshire coast. He says sterling's fall last year following the referendum vote had a marked and immediate effect on his bookings.
"It went bananas. It was like someone flicked a switch. Within a couple of days all the available units to let were booked for whole of last summer."
He expects to be fully booked again this year, largely thanks to the trend for Brits to holiday at home.
Hannah Mercer, 35, will count herself among them this year.
In the past she and her husband, an American, holidayed in the States. This year, in part thanks to the poor exchange rate, they're looking closer to home.
"We'd want nice British experience like a country walk, a pub lunch, that kind of stuff" she says.
They're looking at Cornwall and Devon.
"It won't be dry all week," she concedes. "But if you get at least one or two days of sunshine, you've done pretty well. "
Speaking at a Bafta event on Monday, Lygo said he wants more "happy, life-affirming" dramas like The Durrells and The Good Karma Hospital.
"I bet you well over half our drama output will always have in some way crime at its heart," he added.
But he said such programmes "don't have to be quite so brutalised".
"I'm a bit tired of endless murders where in the first five minutes someone, always a woman or a child, is abducted, raped, knifed, killed or bludgeoned," said Lygo.
"In comes a hard-bitten cop with a drinking problem or a woman who never got over the fact that her parents were murdered and couldn't solve the crime, and in six weeks they find the killer and it ends up being Pauline Quirke around the corner.
"There are brilliant versions of that show and not great versions and I just feel: enough. They will always be around but the success of the Durrells was a positive thing, a sweet, happy, well-made brilliantly performed show, perfect for a Sunday evening."
There has been lots of debate over the last couple of years about the prevalence of rape and sexual violence in contemporary TV drama, including a recent opinion piece by Radio Times TV editor Alison Graham, who suggested "the brutal opening scene in ITV's new crime drama Paranoid is one murder too many".
One column in the Daily Mail described BBC Two drama The Fall as an "invitation to share an extended rape fantasy".
But the programme's writer, Allan Cubbit, defended the programme in an interview last month.
"There has been one female death in The Fall across the first 11 episodes and that was the character of Sarah Kay. The other ones are reported, but I only showed the murder of one woman on screen, which I needed to do to show what it was that Paul Spector [Jamie Dornan's character] was about.
"I don't expect to be applauded for my restraint, but I do think that compared with a great many other dramas I could mention The Fall has never indulged itself in that way."
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The Everton midfielder took part in training on Wednesday but is still regarded as a doubtful starter.
Wales have Ben Davies available after injury ruled the Tottenham defender out of November's draw with Serbia.
Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale and Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey are also fit having been sidelined.
The Republic will be without injured duo Daryl Murphy and Shane Duffy for their crucial World Cup qualifier against Wales.
Wes Hoolahan, Ciaran Clark and Harry Arter have withdrawn from the squad while Robbie Brady is suspended.
McCarthy has not played since 5 March because of a hamstring injury and was rated as extremely doubtful for the match at the Aviva Stadium.
He warmed up with the Irish squad in front of media at Abbotstown on Wednesday morning, and was able to continue for the closed part of the session.
Manager O'Neill and Everton boss Ronald Koeman have clashed on more than one occasion over the Republic's use of McCarthy on his return from injury.
Seamus Coleman, Shane Long and Jonathan Hayes, who sat out Tuesday's training, were all able to take a full part in Wednesday's session.
This is an enormous match for both sides, but the onus is on Wales to win as they aim to close the four-point gap between themselves in third place and the Republic of Ireland at the top of Group D.
Only the group winners secure automatic qualification for the 2018 World Cup, while the eight best of the nine second-placed teams must enter the play-offs.
With three wins and a draw from their opening four fixtures, the Republic of Ireland are in a commanding position.
They can afford to approach Friday's match with caution, knowing a draw would be enough to keep a sizeable gap between themselves and Wales, but the Republic's assistant manager, Roy Keane, is not entertaining that notion.
Asked whether his team's injuries would mean they play more defensively, his response was a flat: "No."
He added: "I know from working with the manager and the staff and the group of players we have, if you think our mindset going into the game on Friday night at the Aviva is a draw, then you are sadly mistaken.
"We're here to win."
For Wales, meanwhile, this is being billed as a match they must win.
After exceeding all expectations by reaching the semi-finals of Euro 2016, they entered this qualifying campaign as top seeds in Group D.
With a trip to second-placed Serbia to come in June, it would seem Chris Coleman's side would need at least four points from these two games to keep alive their hopes of qualifying for next year's tournament in Russia.
Coleman, however, is reluctant to declare Friday's encounter in Dublin a "must-win" match for his team.
"People will look at this and say it's do or die but I don't see that," he said.
"All I see is a huge challenge, a great game for us. We've always wanted to be involved in games like this, when the pressure is on for all the right reasons, which means we're competing at the right end as opposed to halfway into it and competing for nothing, competing for pride. That's not the case.
"We can't control how the game is billed by everybody else - everybody will sensationalise it. We will prepare as we always prepare.
"Once we start talking about points and the result, that's for everyone else to talk about. We need to concentrate on our performance and what we need to do to meet this challenge. That's all we've ever done and that's what we'll do."
Wales 0-0 Republic of Ireland (14 August 2013) An injured Gareth Bale watched from the stands as Wales played out a goalless friendly against the Republic of Ireland at the Cardiff City Stadium.
Speaking in the Polish capital Warsaw, Mr Trump urged Russia to "join the community of responsible nations".
The Kremlin rejected his comments.
The US leader has travelled to Hamburg for the G20 summit, where he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time.
He also faces differences with other leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said last week that the G20 would focus on the Paris climate deal - which the US has withdrawn from.
Up to 100,000 protesters are expected over the two-day event and police have warned of potentially violent clashes. They have already confiscated a number of homemade weapons.
"It's important because you have the biggest meeting of all of the leading rulers of the main countries in the world - the G20 - and I don't like some of the politics that they're doing, especially that of [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan, of Putin and of Trump," one protester told the BBC.
In Warsaw, Mr Trump argued that the future of Western civilisation itself was at stake and asked whether the West had the "will to survive".
He urged Russia to join the "fight against common enemies and in defence of civilisation itself".
Mr Trump referred to Russia's "destabilising" behaviour twice in one day in Poland. But the Kremlin spokesman has shrugged that off, saying simply that Moscow "does not agree". It's all part of the wait-and-see approach here.
Russia once had great hopes that Donald Trump could rescue relations from the pit into which they were plunged after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine. Almost six months into the Trump presidency, there may be increasing pessimism.
But the Kremlin is calling Mr Trump's meeting with Mr Putin on Friday an important chance to get acquainted. Perhaps it is betting that personal dynamics will help overcome policy differences.
After all, officials here insist that it is simply "Russophobia" in the US that has prevented President Trump "getting along" with Russia as he said he wanted.
They have certainly noted how in Poland he shied away from accusing Russia unequivocally of meddling in the US elections. Moscow has argued all along that there is no proof. In public at least, Mr Trump appeared to agree with that.
The US leader also hailed Poland as an example of a country ready to defend Western freedoms.
Poland's conservative government shares Mr Trump's hostile view of immigration and strong sense of sovereignty.
Giving a news conference ahead of his Warsaw speech, Mr Trump also:
NTV correspondent - "After the icy reception [Trump] was given in Europe in May, what he needs now are comfortable and favourable surroundings, a picture along the lines of 'look at how they adore us here'."
Ren TV presenter - Trump was keen to play on differences within Europe and help Poland "cobble together an Eastern European bloc opposed to EU leaders... Trump is only too happy to pour oil onto the fire of European discord."
In the four-minute video, the Greens' parliamentary leader, Katrin Goering-Eckardt, read out some anti-immigrant abuse she had received, calling it "dirt that belongs in the bin".
She urged Facebook to "ensure that such hate, such dirt no longer appears on Facebook pages".
A migrant surge is challenging Germany.
The authorities expect as many as 800,000 migrants - most of them refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan - to arrive this year.
The Greens' leader pointed her Facebook readers to the Greens' anti-racism campaign on Twitter, called #NoHateSpeech.
"Your dirt spurs me on," she warned those who had insulted her on Facebook.
She said she was also speaking out on behalf of the many Germans helping refugees, who could not defend themselves openly.
Among the personal insults she read out, which she described as "dirt", were: "thick as a sow, you old bag", "Yank-loving slut" and "you fat dopey rat, you lack a..."
Germany is taking in far more refugees than any other EU country, as the ruling conservative-social democrat coalition says it is a humanitarian duty. The Greens support that policy.
In its "Community Standards" section, Facebook says it "removes hate speech, which includes content that directly attacks people based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, sex, gender or gender identity, or serious disabilities or diseases".
But Facebook goes on to say that "as with all of our standards, we rely on our community to report this content to us".
German Chancellor Angela Merkel also called for better Facebook enforcement of the rules against hate speech.
German Interior Minister Heiko Maas is expected to discuss the matter with Facebook executives on Monday.
"The rules need to be implemented," Mrs Merkel told the Rheinische Post newspaper.
"When people incite others on social networks, using their real name, not only the state must act, but also Facebook as a company must do something against those slogans," she said.
On Twitter, a German Green MP of Turkish origin, Ozcan Mutlu, posted a racist hate message he had received via email, which said "it's time to get Auschwitz, Buchenwald, etc working again - that's where you filthy Turks belong!"
He said he had asked state prosecutors to take action over it, but they had rejected his request.
Separately, a German district council chairman, Erich Pipa, said he had received a death threat from neo-Nazis, linked to his activism on behalf of migrants.
Mr Pipa, the Social Democrat (SPD) leader in the central German Main-Kinzig district, said Sunday was the day he would be targeted, according to the threat.
But he vowed to attend a local sports event as planned, regardless, the Frankfurter Rundschau reported.
Some other German politicians who actively support the integration of migrants have also been threatened. A car belonging to one - Michael Richter - was blown up in Saxony, eastern Germany, recently.
And Markus Nierth, the mayor of Troeglitz in Saxony-Anhalt, resigned after he and his family were threatened by far-right extremists.
Public sector net borrowing was in surplus by £1bn for the month, less than the £1.2bn seen a year earlier.
July is typically a month of surplus for the public finances, because of revenues from corporation tax.
For the financial year to date, public borrowing was 11.3% lower than a year earlier.
For the April-to-July period, the total was £23.7bn, £3bn less than the same period in 2015.
Total public sector net debt at the end of July was £1,604.2bn, equivalent to 82.9% of GDP. That was £35.3bn more than in July 2015.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said July was the second month in a row in which the debt had fallen as a percentage of GDP. In June, it was 84% of GDP.
That indicated that GDP was currently increasing year-on-year faster than net debt, although the ONS stressed that care should be taken when inferring trends from only two months' data.
The ONS said its bulletin presented the latest fiscal position of the public sector as at 31 July 2016 and so included the first post-EU referendum data.
However, it added that estimates for the latest period always contained a substantial forecast element and so any post-referendum impact might not become clear for some time.
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, David Gauke, said: "With the public finances in surplus in July, our economy starts from a position of strength to face any economic turbulence following the vote to leave the EU.
"As we keep working to cut the deficit, we are well-placed to handle any challenges and seize the opportunities as our economy adjusts. We are determined to build on our economic strengths to ensure Britain is a country that works for everyone."
The UK's new Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has indicated that he will take a more gradual approach to deficit reduction and will not be bound by the targets of his predecessor, George Osborne.
His own policies should become clearer when he presents his Autumn Statement, due before the end of the year.
Howard Archer, chief UK and European Economist at IHS Global Insight, said: "The UK's vote to leave the European Union clearly put the fiscal targets for 2016-17 and beyond out of reach.
"Even before the Brexit vote, the plan to get [public sector net borrowing] down to £55.5bn in 2016-17 from £74.9bn in 2015-16 had looked challenging, while ex-Chancellor George Osborne's target of a budget surplus in 2019-20 was widely seen as hugely optimistic."
Mr Archer added: "The public finances look poised to take a serious hit from probable significantly weakened economic activity after the Brexit vote, taking a toll on tax receipts in particular. It also seems probable that unemployment will rise, while any slowdown in the housing market will hit Stamp Duty receipts."
Suren Thiru, head of economics at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), said: "Fixing the public finances remains a major challenge, and is likely to be an increasingly uphill task if economic growth slows in the coming months.
"If the economy does weaken, the UK will struggle to generate sufficient tax receipts needed to make meaningful progress in reducing the deficit.
"More needs to be done to strengthen the UK's tax base. The government should use the extra fiscal headroom from abandoning the 2020 target to support firms looking to invest, and deliver on major infrastructure projects that will boost jobs and growth."
He bought the car after World War Two and adapted the bodywork to resemble a successful early Ferrari.
Carmarthenshire-born amateur racer Mr Folland made the change after losing to a Ferrari in a 12-hour race in Paris and a 24-hour event in Spa.
The auction for the Aston "Red Dragon" is taking place on Saturday.
John Polson, Bonhams motoring specialist, said: "Folland chose 'Red Dragon' because it was the most competitive British built car available in the early years after the war."
Jon Trickett told a conference in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, that a "Council for the North" should also be set up.
The Labour MP's comments come after a mayoral election for the Sheffield City Region was pushed back to 2018.
The delay followed a High Court ruling about a flawed consultation process.
Voters were expected to choose an elected mayor for South Yorkshire and parts of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire for the first time in May under a deal announced by then chancellor George Osborne in 2015.
The move, agreed to give Sheffield and its surrounding region greater freedom to boost growth, meant £900m of extra funding.
But Derbyshire County Council took a challenge to the High Court, which agreed that people in Chesterfield had not been properly consulted.
On Thursday, the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority said it could not deliver the revised consultation programme for Chesterfield in time for May elections.
Mr Trickett, who is also shadow Lord President of the Council, said: "I will press my case but others may have a different view.
"Let there be a debate, but not a long one - the only thing we cannot consider is inaction."
Mr Trickett, MP for Hemsworth, was speaking at a conference attended by council leaders from across Yorkshire.
Ros Jones, Mayor of Doncaster, said the Sheffield City Region delay provided an opportunity to discuss alternative strategies.
She said: "It does not mean that the Sheffield City Region is dead, but we must discuss what is the best option for Doncaster and the whole of Yorkshire."
Councillor Judith Blake, leader of Leeds City Council, said she wanted to explore the option of an all-Yorkshire deal.
Labour MPs in South Yorkshire issued a joint statement criticising the idea, with the Government's Devolution minister Andrew Percy calling it a "non-starter".
Mr Percy said: "Postponing [Sheffield City Region's] launch is fine, but any attempt by its members to renegotiate could set us back years."
The 50-year-old took over at Rovers in June 2016, but won just 11 of 37 games.
Blackburn are 23rd in the table, three points from safety, in a season which has also been marred by fan protests against the club's owners, Venky's.
"The decision has been taken to give the club the best possible chance of climbing to a position of safety in the Championship," said a club statement.
Coyle's last game was the 2-1 defeat in the FA Cup fifth round by Manchester United on Sunday.
Assistant manager Sandy Stewart, first-team coach John Henry and goalkeeping coach Phil Hughes have also left Ewood Park.
Blackburn's next game is away to fellow Championship strugglers Burton Albion on Friday - with Rovers winless on the road since November.
The club have said that the search for new manager will begin with "immediate effect".
BBC Radio Lancashire's Andy Bayes
Owen Coyle's appointment was never going to be a success in the eyes of the supporters. The abuse from the travelling support directed at him in the recent draw with Rotherham was vociferous and I understand that his position was very much hanging in the balance from then on.
Coyle can rightly claim that he wasn't backed in terms of budget. He was given £250,000 to spend in the summer while he recouped in excess of £10m and the January transfer window saw him frustrated that the club failed to land his list of potential targets.
The fact that Rovers haven't been higher than 20th all season is the reason behind his departure. Financially they can ill afford relegation to League One, and whoever comes in has 15 games to save them.
Since the takeover of the club by Venky's in November 2010, the club are now looking to appoint a seventh permanent manager.
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City won their opening five matches but have suffered back-to-back defeats by Juventus and the Hammers this week.
"In the last two games we didn't play with the concentration or intensity we had shown in the first five games," said the 62-year-old Chilean.
"We have 96 points left to play for - there's a long time to go."
City lost their first game of the season when Italian champions Juventus fought back from a goal down to win 2-1 in their Champions League opener on Tuesday.
Pellegrini's side were aiming to return to winning ways against a side which had already earned away wins at Arsenal and Liverpool this season.
But they missed the chance to move six points clear at the top of the Premier League table, slipping to their first top-flight defeat in 12 matches.
"We must concentrate more because two balls decided the result," Pellegrini said.
Hammers loanee Victor Moses drilled in a low 20-yard shot and Diafra Sakho hooked in from six yards, before City's record signing Kevin De Bruyne fired in to halve the deficit.
"I'm frustrated as they were three very important points at home," Pellegrini added.
"They won their two away games before this game against Arsenal and Liverpool so I knew it would not be easy but we conceded two easy goals and that allowed them to be in front.
"We never believed we had won the title after just five games - we just always focus on the next game."
West Ham's perfect Premier League away record after beating Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City is a dream, admits Hammers manager Slaven Bilic.
"It is a surprise to us as well that we have beaten Liverpool, Arsenal and Man City," said the 47-year-old Croatian.
"Nine points from the first three away games sounds like a dream, not a plan. There's nothing wrong with a dream."
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Former West Ham defender Bilic, who replaced Sam Allardyce in the summer, guided his team to a 2-0 win at Arsenal on the opening weekend, then to a 3-0 success at Liverpool.
But they recorded arguably the biggest shock by beating a City team which had scored 11 goals, conceding none, in their opening five matches.
City dominated the game, controlling 72% of possession and attempting 27 shots at goal, but were unable to find a way past the Hammers who are now three points behind them in second place.
"We deserved to win," said Bilic. "City played much better in the second half and it was almost like The Alamo.
"But I have told my players to be proud, we deserved it, and we kept the ball when they let us.
"When City are losing and start to play faster and apply more pressure, it is hard to cope with. That's why I'm so proud - all credit to my boys."
Hammers centre-back Winston Reid drew praise from Bilic - a former Croatia defender - after being instrumental in helping his team clinch their fourth win of the league season.
The New Zealand international, 27, made the most clearances (20) and interceptions (five) during the match, while he also won back possession for his side (nine) more than any other player.
"Winston Reid was always in the right place - it was like there were two Reid brothers on the pitch!" said Bilic.
Both players were on deals set to expire at the end of next season.
Alsop, 19, struck a half-century for England Under-19s in the Test against Australia last month.
Wicketkeeper batsman McManus, 20, made his second first-class appearance in the County Championship draw against Durham at the Ageas Bowl in July.
"Both have come through the ranks and developed into very promising young cricketers," said Hampshire director of cricket Giles White.
"Their ambition will be to push for a permanent place in the first team and we are looking forward to seeing how they progress over the next two years."
The legal action is being taken after MPs said in July the authority had "failed in its duty of care".
The announcement comes as The Times published one of the women's account of being allowed contact with a suspected child abuser while in care.
South Yorkshire Police said the article could "undermine" ongoing inquiries.
Lawyer David Greenwood, who is acting for some of the alleged victims, said: "It is very likely that my clients will be taking legal action against Rotherham Council and potentially the police for failing to protect them over a long period of time.
"Inaction by social services and the police has left hundreds of young women, or teenagers, open to child sexual exploitation.
"It is important to remember that at the time of the abuse they were children under the age of 16 and could not legally consent.
"The [Home Affairs Committee] report noted part of the problem is that adults may misunderstand the grooming process and assume that the young person was a willing participant in a relationship, rather than the victim of sexual abuse."
Speaking to The Times, one of the women, now in her 20s, said she began a relationship with a 24-year-old man, who had served two prison sentences for violent offences, in 1999, when she was 14.
It is understood the man twice made the girl pregnant.
The newspaper said social services became aware before the relationship ended that the man was part of a ring of men suspected of abusing more than 40 young teenagers in Rotherham.
The article states that by June 2000, both police and social services knew the teenager, who had been placed in emergency foster care, was in a sexual relationship with the man.
However, despite this knowledge the authorities continued to allow contact between the pair, it said.
Speaking to the newspaper, the woman said: "My parents tried everything to keep [the man] away from me, but I thought I was in love with him.
"When I went into care I stopped running away because I didn't need to any more. Social services let me see him all the time."
The force's Police and Crime Commissioner Shaun Wright said he was "deeply concerned" by the story.
South Yorkshire Police criticised The Times for publishing the article, saying: "South Yorkshire Police deeply regrets the decision by The Times newspaper to publish an article about an on-going, complex and highly sensitive investigation into matters of historic child sexual exploitation.
"The Times newspaper contacted South Yorkshire Police on Monday, 19 August, announcing its intention to publish an article about these issues. In response, the force informed the newspaper that any such publication could seriously undermine and, at worst, cause fatal damage to this inquiry."
My daughter was horrifically sexually exploited and groomed.
I am talking on behalf of other parents in the Rotherham area who feel the same as we do, that we have been lied to and let down by various services.
We feel it's about time these services were called to account.
Although Rotherham Council have said sorry in a statement, we feel as parents that individual apologies should be sent out to the families and their children.
The inaction by the authorities compounded the crime and allowed the abusers to continue carrying out their horrific crimes.
The Times said it published the story despite South Yorkshire Police's request because it "wants to see justice for child sex exploitation victims".
It said it chose to tell the girl's story after she contacted one of its reporters, in the hope it would encourage others to come forward and because it felt "not enough has yet been done" by police.
Rotherham MP Sarah Champion described the allegations in the article as "serious and distressing".
She said she would be carrying out a cross-party inquiry in Parliament in the autumn in order to "make sure current legislation protects children from abuse as fully as possible".
Mr Wright, who was cabinet member for children's and young persons' services in Rotherham between 2005 and 2010, said: "The allegations made in The Times newspaper about the way in which various agencies failed to adequately combat child sexual exploitation and protect vulnerable victims 14 years ago concern me deeply.
"I will be seeking assurances from the chief constable and other agencies that all allegations of such crimes are thoroughly investigated, that victims are fully supported and that this process is underpinned by the most robust and thorough processes and policies."
Rotherham Council said: "The council wishes to support South Yorkshire Police and not potentially compromise this process.
"As such we will not be making further comments on the article without further consultation with our police colleagues."
Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, said he planned to write to Rotherham Council's leader Roger Stone and chief executive Martin Kimber to ask what progress had been made since the committee's report was published in June.
He said: "What I hope [the article] has done and I hope what our recommendations have done is that they have woken up local authorities to the importance of acting on information they receive.
"It's very simple, if a 24-year-old man is in a relationship with a girl under the age of 16 this is a criminal act and they need to report it.
"They do not need to stand by and just accept it because in their view it is being done willingly. The law is the law and therefore it needs to be enforced."
The Care Inspectorate said 10 requirements for improvements at All Stars Nursery following an earlier inspection had not been met.
The quality of care and support provided to children was found to be "weak".
An improvement notice served following an earlier inspection have been met.
Two inspections of All Stars Nursery have now been made by the Care Inspectorate
Following the latest checks, the watchdog told the nursery that it must show further evidence of significant improvement.
The inspectorate's report said: "Since the last inspection was completed on 20 August 2014, the service has made some improvement to the care of the children.
"This improvement made must be maintained and continued to ensure children receive adequate care."
It said the nursery had to focus on the quality of staff interactions with the children, and respect and encourage the involvement of parents.
The report added: "The quality of the resources, furnishings and environment must continue to be upgraded, kept clean, safe and organised."
A spokesperson for the Care Inspectorate said: "Every child in Scotland has the right to safe, compassionate care which meets their needs and respects their rights.
"We remain committed to working with this service to ensure it meets the standards we require, but if we do not see further evidence of significant, urgent improvement, we will not hesitate to take further action."
Politicians and commentators said the post on Twitter was "anti-English".
In it, a Wales fan asked "what's good about England?" before puzzling over the question, followed by other fans also considering and failing to answer.
Richard Thomas, BBC Wales' head of digital and marketing, said: "No offence was intended.
"It was meant to be tongue in cheek but clearly didn't hit the right note."
Plaid AM Rhun ap Iorwerth tweeted: "This is not what promoting Wales and Welsh rugby is about, surely. I don't define my Welshness by being anti-English."
Preseli Pembrokeshire MP Stephen Crabb tweeted: "However it is dressed up, anti-English sentiment belittles Wales."
Rugby correspondent Simon Thomas said it was a "good decision" to remove it.
Metal detectorists unearthed the collection of axe and spear heads, thought to be around 3,000 years old, in a field in Llantilio Crossenny in January 2015.
The items are thought to date back to around 1000-800 BC - the Ewart Park phase of the late Bronze Age.
The two finds were found around 135 metres away from each other.
Lee Doyle, Liam O'Keefe, David Owen and John Thomas discovered the first hoard containing nine bronze axe heads.
David Hughes found the second smaller collection which contained two bronze axe heads and a bronze spear head.
Abergavenny Museum is looking to buy the items with money from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Museum curator Rachel Rogers said: "The stories to be told from these objects will really help us get a little closer to the people and communities who made and used them."
Principal Curator of Prehistory at National Museum Wales, Adam Gwilt, said: "Many whole and still usable bronze objects were carefully buried in the ground at this particular time and archaeologists now think that these may have been gifts to the gods and ancestors, buried during ritual ceremonies.
"It is curious that this place in the landscape was chosen for the burial of two hoards of the same date and very close to each other."
Most of the country's towns and counties saw a fall last year in the proportion of pupils getting a place at their first-choice school.
The figures come on National Offer Day - the day families in England find out where they have been allocated a place.
The government said it was creating 600,000 new school places.
Analysis of Department for Education (DfE) data by the Press Association suggests that last year, 80 out of 151 local councils (53%) saw a drop in the proportion of children given their first choice of secondary school compared with the year before.
Meanwhile, 68 authorities (45%) saw a fall in the proportion offered one of their overall preferences in 2016.
Most authorities - 85 in total (57%) - witnessed a drop in the proportion of 11-year-olds offered their first secondary school preference over the past five years.
And about two-thirds, 98 councils (65%), have seen a drop in the proportion offered one of their overall preferences during this time.
Liverpool saw the biggest drop for first choices, down seven percentage points on 2015. While Hammersmith and Fulham in west London had the biggest drop for overall preferences, down 4.2 points.
The biggest fall in first-preference offers between 2011 and 2016 was in Blackpool, down 19.6 percentage points. It also had the largest drop for overall preferences, down eight percentage points.
The application process sees families list a number of choices, in order of preference.
There have been continuing concerns about a squeeze on school places, caused in part by a rise in the birth rate.
A DfE spokesman said: "Last year almost all parents got an offer at one of their top three preferred schools.
"Nearly 600,000 additional pupil places were created between May 2010 and May 2015, and the government is now pushing ahead with the creation of a further 600,000 new school places as part of its wider £23bn investment in the school estate up to 2021."
Richard Watts, chair of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said: "Creating an extra 300,000 primary places over recent years is a demonstrable record that councils are doing everything they can to rise to the challenge of ensuring no child goes without a place.
"However, as children move on to secondary schools, the majority of which are now academies, councils are working with one hand behind their backs to help as many as possible receive a place at their first-choice school.
"If they are to meet the demand for secondary school places, then existing academy schools should be made to expand where required, or councils should be given back the powers to open new maintained schools."
Russell Hobby, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said: "The massive increase in pupil numbers over the next few years, particularly at secondary age, will only make it harder.
"The government's own figures show that an extra 750,000 school places will be needed in England by 2025, to meet a 10% rise in pupil population.
"There is a desperate need for long-term planning that spans all sectors.
"Schools are facing a £3bn shortfall in funding by 2019, with 98% set to be worse off at a time when costs are rising and pupil numbers are growing."
In a game where the Red Devils offered free entry but asked for donations to support families of the Manchester attack, they led 28-0 at the break.
Gaz O'Brien, Josh Jones, Kris Welham, Niall Evalds and Ryan Lannon crossed for Salford in the first half.
Kris Brining, Robert Lui, Olsi Krasniqi and Mark Flanagan added further scores.
Vincent Duport and Fouad Yaha tries were Catalans' only points as they slumped to their six straight defeat in all competitions.
Both teams spent time a man down in the first 40 minutes as Catalans' Remi Casty and Salford forward James Hasson, on his debut, were both sent to the sin bin.
Ian Watson's side last suffered defeat in the reverse fixture in Perpignan in April when they lost 38-6 but have now won 11 of their last 12 games to stay second, and it was the first time they had beaten Catalans at home since 2015.
It was the Dragons' first match since the departure of head coach Laurent Frayssinous in midweek but they offered little threat at AJ Bell Stadium.
Salford head coach Ian Watson told BBC Radio Manchester:
"It was a great performance. We spoke this week about being a better team and improving on what we've done.
"We always felt if we did our job in the middle we could get them on the edge.
"It was important for us to put on a performance like that, and put on a show, with everything that has gone on to support everything.
"People talk about it [the Manchester attack] and people discuss it but the big thing for us was we had to focus on our performance."
Catalans assistant coach Michael Monaghan:
"The scoreboard doesn't look pretty. It's never enjoyable to be on the end of a score line like that.
"As coaches we need to take the score out of it and look at what we did on the field. I thought our young kids showed some promise but there are some things we can move forward with.
"There is plenty of stuff we need to work on and we can't feel sorry for ourselves. We have got to get back to work quickly because we have got another game on Monday.
"We had a fair challenge today against a team near the top of the table."
Salford Red Devils: O'Brien; Johnson, Jones, Welham, Evalds; Lui, Dobson; Tasi, Tomkins, Hasson, Murdoch-Masila, Hauraki, Krasniqi.
Replacements: Flanagan, Lannon, Kopczak, Brining.
Catalans Dragons: Gigot; Thornley, Inu, Wiliame, Yaha; Walsh, Myler; Moa, Da Costa, Simon, Bousquet, Casty, Dezaria.
Replacements: Doport, Albert, Seguier, Perez.
The American, 37, will overtake sister Serena's record - set when she was 35 at the Australian Open in January - by winning her sixth SW19 title.
"I don't think about my age," Williams told BBC Sport. "It is not a factor."
Spain's Muguruza, 23, is aiming for her first Wimbledon triumph after losing to Serena in the 2015 final.
"My mind is more equipped this time," said the 2016 French Open champion.
Venus Williams dominated Wimbledon for almost a decade between 2000 and 2009, winning five titles and finishing runner-up three times.
But the seven-time Grand Slam champion had become a peripheral figure after being diagnosed with Sjogren's syndrome, an illness that causes fatigue and joint pain, in 2011.
She says she refused to consider retirement, despite her world ranking plummeting to 103 by the end of 2011.
Williams returned to the top 10 last year and reached her first Grand Slam final since 2009 when she lost to Serena in Melbourne earlier this year.
Now, after beating Britain's Johanna Konta in the last four, she has another chance to win her first major title since Wimbledon in 2008.
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"I love the big stage," she said. "There is a lot more pressure and it is about dealing with it.
"There are only a handful of players each year who can push and deal with the pressure of playing your best against the best players.
"I just love the game and I don't want this part of my life to end. It is not over until it is over."
Muguruza, seeded 14th, has dropped down the rankings in recent months after struggling to sustain the form she showed to win last year's French Open.
However, she has been impressive at Wimbledon under the guidance of temporary coach Conchita Martinez - the only Spanish woman to have won Wimbledon when she beat Martina Navratilova in 1994.
Muguruza fought back from a set down to beat world number one Angelique Kerber in the last 16, and reached her second Wimbledon final by beating Magdalena Rybarikova in a one-sided semi-final.
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Now she has chance to make amends for that 6-4 6-4 defeat by Serena Williams with victory over her older sister.
"The more experience you get, the more you know how to deal with these situations, because they're very special," Muguruza said.
"If you felt it before, it's really helpful. So I have more information about the situation."
Kim Clijsters, Belgium's four-time Grand Slam champion
If Venus plays as well as she did against Konta in the semi-finals then it will be very hard for Muguruza to win.
You have to try to hang in there and stay close. Venus might have a moment where her level drops a little bit and that's when you have to take your chance.
Tracy Austin, American two-time Grand Slam champion
Venus loves this place. She walks into the club and feels more confident. But, most importantly, it is the grass which suits her style of play.
She is very alert and it seems like she is more alert when she comes here.
She is always looking to move forward and shorten the points. She knows how to play this surface.
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Martina Navratilova, nine-time Wimbledon champion
Muguruza has a very clear game plan and that is where Conchita Martinez has helped her mentally and tactically.
She knows what she wants to do and has been able to execute it during this tournament.
The Italians succumbed to two goals in each half to slip to a 4-0 defeat, the worst scoreline in a final in European Championships history.
"They totally dominated this evening," Prandelli conceded.
However, the 54-year-old manager added: "You can grow from the experience. I am very proud of my team."
These are experiences you have to deal with and have to accept
Italy competed bravely in over 90 minutes but were undone by strikes from David Silva and Jordi Alba and, late on, Fernando Torres and Juan Mata.
Substitute Thiago Motta also suffered a hamstring strain and Italy, who had already introduced their three replacements, were left to battle with 10 men for the last half hour.
One-time Roma and Fiorentina boss Prandelli admitted: "Perhaps we could have got back into the game at the start of the second half, we had two chances but of course once Thiago Motta went off injured, we didn't have anything left in the tank."
And he was pragmatic at full-time: "You have to hold your hands up and say the opponents were better, accept defeat.
"We have to congratulate a great side for their victory."
Spain had a extra 24 hours to rest and prepare for the final after defeating neighbours Portugal on penalties on Wednesday, while Italy overcame Germany 2-1 on Thursday.
Prandelli, who will lead Italy into their 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign from the autumn, bemoaned the day's difference, but admitted his side were second best.
"Against a team like Spain I think you really need to be good in the tackle and fit," he said.
"We've had a terrific European Championship. The only regret is the fact we didn't have a few extra days to rest up before this game."
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At the final whistle a number of Italy players, including experienced midfielder Andre Pirlo, were seen shedding tears of disappointment.
Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli left the field in obvious frustration before returning later to claim his runners-up medal for the tournament, but Prandelli stated that the defeat will provide valuable international experience for his squad.
"I told Mario that these are experiences you have to deal with and have to accept," said Prandelli.
"You also have to make sure this helps you going forward and you can grow from the experience.
"This has happened to a number of players, and will happen again, but this is what sport is all about."
A new project called Pregnant Then Screwed says it's already exposing the scale of the problem and is hoping to build a case for change.
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"I was placed in the most junior role to ease me back in..."
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A quick scan of the Pregnant Then Screwed website gives a snapshot of the way many women are being treated when they announce their pregnancy to their employers.
The site's founder, Joeli Brearley, 36, experienced discrimination when she was pregnant and was shocked by how many similar stories she heard when she spoke to other mothers.
"The problem is women are too scared to speak out for fear of being branded a troublemaker. Or if they still work for the company they are terrified of losing their jobs, particularly now that they are responsible for a child," she told the Victoria Derbyshire programme.
"You also only have three months to take a case of discrimination to an employment tribunal, and this tends to come at a time when you are weak, exhausted and frankly, this just isn't your priority.
"It all just gets brushed under the carpet."
"I left my job recently after nine years.
My employer was supportive of me working flexible hours after my first baby, but I got pregnant with my second baby almost straight away.
They took me off any interesting contracts and made me do admin, all under the cloak of 'you won't want to stay late because you have a family'. But I would have liked to have done something more interesting; I just put up with it because I knew I would be leaving again.
When I returned after my second maternity leave they said I could stagger my return, starting with three days a week, which would be reviewed after six months.
But six weeks before this was up, my line manager told me I had to come back to work full time or leave. No negotiations, and flexible working was not on the table. I told them childcare would cost more than my pay.
I was really angry - I didn't want to be part of a company that showed such little loyalty for all my hard work.
I am suing for constructive dismissal as the person they have replaced me with is working part time. Acas, a conciliation service, says I have a strong case for breach of contract. I deserve some compensation for the stress it has caused."
The first legislation protecting women from unfair dismissal because of pregnancy was introduced 40 years ago. Since then, successive laws have strengthened maternity rights. Women are now protected from any unfavourable treatment at work because of pregnancy or maternity leave.
But nine years ago, research from the Equal Opportunities Commission (EQC) found half of all pregnant women suffered a related disadvantage at work, with 30,000 forced out of their jobs each year.
Others are demoted, suffer harassment, miss out on promotion or lose contracts if they are self-employed.
The charity Maternity Action now estimates as many as 60,000 pregnant women are losing their jobs every year - an increase which they put down to the "explosive growth in precarious forms of employment" since the financial crisis.
They applied the same methodology as the EQC - taking the number of people who went to tribunal and taking into account that this was only 3% of actual cases.
Ms Brearley was self employed as a project manager in art and digital technology, and had been working with her main client for six months when she told them she was pregnant. They ended the contract, despite her meticulous planning to cover her absence.
"I suddenly found myself four months pregnant and pretty much unemployed. It was terrifying," she said.
"There was no way I could survive the next five months plus maternity leave without a good income as I had bills to pay, but no-one was going to employ a visibly pregnant woman.
"I became very stressed, felt very alone and vulnerable, and it totally shattered my confidence," she said.
When Danielle Ayres, 32, an employment lawyer for north west firm Gorvins Solicitors, attended baby groups with her first son, she was astonished at how many mothers she heard saying they were having issues with their employers.
She soon found herself dishing out legal advice amid the chat about teething and sleep training, and now runs free advice clinics every six weeks. The take-up has been "huge", she said.
Her cases include one woman who, after informing her boss she was pregnant, received the reply: "I hope you aren't going to be taking the full 12 months off."
Another returned to work to find that a reorganisation had taken place while she had been on maternity leave and that she had no desk or job.
"Mums don't really know their rights, what they're entitled to and how they should be treated," said Mrs Ayres.
"Some employers hit the nail on the head and manage pregnancies and maternity leave to the letter, and they really know how to support working mums.
"But others - either by fault or design - get it completely wrong, and it's really deeply disappointing that in the 21st Century people are facing these challenges."
Source: Maternity Action
Mrs Ayres said the main problem lawyers face is connecting the treatment the woman is receiving from employers to her pregnancy, or the fact that she has exercised her right to take maternity leave.
"You need to be able to show that the treatment, which can include dismissal, is as a result of the pregnancy or maternity, which is sometimes difficult to prove," she explained.
Moreover, in 2013 a £1,200 fee was introduced for anyone wanting to take a case to a tribunal. Since then the number of cases being taken for any reason - not just maternity discrimination - has dropped dramatically by 70%.
The first thing Ms Brearley is campaigning for is to increase the time limit for taking cases to tribunal from three months to a year.
In the six weeks since the project launched, about 50 stories have been posted on the site. She says many more women have contacted her to say they are too scared to share their stories, despite it being anonymous.
"But reading the stories of other victims has made them realise they are not alone and that this isn't their fault. It has given them the strength to confront their own situations," she said.
"I hope we can trigger a public debate on why this is still happening, why it's on the increase, and the repercussions for women, the economy and society as a whole."
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The 31-year-old stopped Clarkson in three rounds to extend her 100% professional record to six wins.
Taylor, who won gold at the 2012 Olympics in London, dominated the contest with her Texan opponent.
Clarkson had no answer to Taylor's punches and, after the third round, the American's corner called a halt.
Afterwards lightweight Taylor said she wanted more fights in America.
"There were some nerves. I got caught with a few silly shots but overall it was good," she said.
"I hope I made some fans - I loved hearing the Irish in the crowd."
Taylor is expected to challenge Uruguay's WBA world lightweight champion Cecilia Comunales later this year after stopping Nina Meinke of Germany in April's Wembley eliminator.
Goals from Conor Grant, John Marquis and Tommy Rowe helped Doncaster to a sixth win in seven matches to strengthen their place at the top of the table.
Grant slammed in from 25 yards to put Doncaster in front, only for James Jones to equalise after Rovers goalkeeper Ian Lawlor had saved superbly from Chris Dagnall.
Doncaster were indebted to Lawlor for keeping the scores level heading into the break as he saved from new signing Jordan Bowery and Jones.
But Doncaster emerged for the second half refreshed and went back in front after 56 minutes. Grant delivered a superb free-kick which the unmarked Marquis guided into the net.
And Doncaster put the game to bed after 68 minutes. Andy Williams headed off the bar and Rowe mopped up the rebound.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Doncaster Rovers 3, Crewe Alexandra 1.
Second Half ends, Doncaster Rovers 3, Crewe Alexandra 1.
Foul by John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers).
Jon Guthrie (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Tommy Rowe.
Andy Williams (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by George Ray (Crewe Alexandra).
Andy Butler (Doncaster Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Andy Butler (Doncaster Rovers).
Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
George Ray (Crewe Alexandra) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by George Ray (Crewe Alexandra).
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Ryan Wintle replaces George Cooper.
Attempt missed. Mathieu Baudry (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Tommy Rowe (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Oliver Turton (Crewe Alexandra).
Niall Mason (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra).
Andy Williams (Doncaster Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Andy Williams (Doncaster Rovers).
George Ray (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Andy Williams (Doncaster Rovers) header from the right side of the six yard box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Ben Nugent replaces Zoumana Bakayogo because of an injury.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Alex Kiwomya replaces Charlie Kirk.
Goal! Doncaster Rovers 3, Crewe Alexandra 1. Tommy Rowe (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Corner, Doncaster Rovers. Conceded by Jon Guthrie.
Attempt missed. Jordan Bowery (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a fast break.
Attempt saved. John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers. Craig Alcock replaces Matty Blair because of an injury.
Foul by Matty Blair (Doncaster Rovers).
Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Danny Hollands (Crewe Alexandra) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Goal! Doncaster Rovers 2, Crewe Alexandra 1. John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner following a set piece situation.
Conor Grant (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Zoumana Bakayogo (Crewe Alexandra).
Matty Blair (Doncaster Rovers) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Niall Mason.
Matty Blair (Doncaster Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Doncaster Rovers. Conceded by Jon Guthrie.
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And now, in the space of just four days in Melbourne, the world's top two players have both been on the receiving end of upsets almost without parallel in the past 10 years.
Former players were cheering Mischa Zverev on from the locker room - not because of any antipathy towards Murray, but because his opponent was playing the style of tennis many of them used to play to great effect.
Serving and volleying against the Briton seems counter-intuitive. Along with Djokovic, he is the best returner in the world - and if he does not manage to pass you, then he is more than likely to send a top spin lob fizzing over your head to within inches of the baseline.
But Zverev served superbly, and volleyed even better, again and again and again. The German hit some astonishing returns and made short shrift of Murray's second serve. And when the pressure started to rise, his level did not start to fall.
Pinned behind the baseline too frequently for comfort, Murray started missing more regularly. The Scot was unable to turn the tide or summon up the aggression that served him so well in the second half of last season.
Andre Agassi addressed this subject before the match. The four-time Australian Open champion was very complimentary about Murray in a video link to Melbourne Park on Saturday, as he explained how the 29-year-old could improve still further.
"I have always sort of talked about Andy as a person that has never really utilised his game to his maximum potential. He's so good at certain things that it almost makes him a bit indecisive," Agassi said.
"If you actually minimised his defensive skills just 5%, he might even actually be a better player.
"He puts himself through unnecessary wear and tear on a court, because his offensive upside is, I think, still more than he shows."
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Murray says he will now reflect on whether he could have done anything differently to prepare for the first Grand Slam of the year. He only had time for two weeks off after a frenetic end to last season, and must now balance the need for rest with his instinctive desire to play in Great Britain's Davis Cup first-round tie in Canada the week after next.
Murray suggested in the immediate aftermath of defeat that he intends to play in Ottawa, but his coaching team may well argue he should take a longer break before heading to Dubai in late February. The first two Masters events of the year follow in Indian Wells and Miami.
There is no immediate threat to Murray's world number one ranking - he will be 1,715 points ahead of Serb Djokovic when the list is refreshed at the end of the Australian Open.
He is certain to be number one until at least May because he has just a handful of ranking points to defend between now and the start of the clay court season.
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Can anything further be read into the early exits of both Murray and Djokovic, who will both have turned 30 by the time the next Grand Slam is staged at Roland Garros in four months?
Ageing players are once again doing very well at this Australian Open, with half of the 12 men left in the draw on Sunday night older than the pair of them.
And yet in the modern era, men have found it tricky to win Grand Slam titles in their thirties. Stan Wawrinka and Agassi have each done it twice, but even Roger Federer has managed it only once.
Mats Wilander, who won the last of his seven Grand Slam titles at the age of 24, explains why it can become harder to find the consistency required over seven rounds.
"You have good days and you have bad days when you get older," Wilander told BBC Sport.
"You don't have to call on anything when you are younger - it's just there naturally. You don't worry about the consequences, you just play and you fight until the bitter end. I think the mind gets in your way when you get older."
There are still three Grand Slam champions left in the draw, with Federer, Wawrinka and Rafael Nadal all now over 30. The younger challenge is led by Milos Raonic, Dominic Thiem and Grigor Dimitrov.
Along with Federer - who will not now have to face Murray in the quarter-finals - it may be Raonic who takes most heart from Sunday's events.
You will not find him at the net as often as Zverev, but he did add the 1996 Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek to his team in December with the explicit intention of trying to move forward on a more regular basis.
We are a long way from declaring a new serve-and-volley era, but Melbourne Park's quicker courts have contributed to an enthralling first week - unless, that is, you happen to be ranked number one or two in the world.
Scientists have analysed ancient rocks and have found traces of emissions from huge volcanic eruptions that happened about 200 million years ago.
This would have led to one of the largest mass extinctions on record, enabling dinosaurs to become dominant.
The study is published in the journal PNAS.
Lead author Lawrence Percival, from the Earth sciences department at Oxford University, said: "The dinosaurs were able to exploit those ecological niches that were left vacant by the extinction."
The researchers looked at volcanic rocks from four continents that date to this turbulent time.
A previous study assessed how levels of carbon fluctuated in the rocks, which is linked to rises of carbon dioxide from volcanic eruptions.
But this research looked at a different fingerprint for volcanic activity: mercury.
When volcanoes erupt, they emit traces of mercury in the plumes of gas that rise into the sky. This then spreads throughout the atmosphere before being deposited in sediments on the ground, where it remains for millions of years.
"If you can see a big spike in mercury in those sediments, you can infer there is volcanism happening at that exact time," explained Mr Percival.
"And that's what we see at the time of this extinction."
The researchers found evidence for huge pulses of volcanic activity that would have continued for about a million years.
Prof Tamsin Mather from Oxford University said: "You get these fissures, these cracks opening up in the Earth's crust, and probably some fire fountains, and also lava flows opening up.
"You probably had different areas active at different times during the million years. And you likely get eruptive periods going on for a decade or so with enormous volumes of magma coming to the surface and gases as well."
Anything living in the immediate vicinity of the eruptions would have fared badly. But creatures living far away would also have been in trouble: the repeated eruptions would have had a devastating impact on the wider environment, blocking out the Sun and leading to rising levels of carbon dioxide.
This would have triggered a major mass extinction: animals including vast crocodile-like creatures and reptilian-looking mammals and early amphibians were wiped out.
However, early dinosaurs from that period clung on, although researchers are not sure how they survived the hellish conditions.
But once the volcanoes had simmered down, few of their competitors were left, allowing the age of the dinosaurs to begin.
The researchers now want to use mercury to look at other periods of ancient volcanic activity.
Prof Mather said: "I think what's really exciting is that we are talking about an episode of volcanism that happened 200 million years ago, and these mercury records in the sediments are allowing us to say new things about volcanism that happened that far back in deep Earth time.
"This is a new and powerful tool that will really allow us to understand more about the evolution of our planet and how it's come to be how it is today."
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Number 10 made the announcement late on Monday.
It had become clear earlier in the day that a new individual would take the helm when the previous incumbent, Greg Clark, was put in charge of Communities and Local Government.
Jo Johnson studied modern history at Balliol College, Oxford, and was first elected to parliament in 2010.
The Orpington MP went into the election as head of the Downing Street Policy Unit.
His pre-parliament career was spent as an investment banker and a journalist.
He had 13 years on the Financial Times, including stints as a foreign correspondent.
As science and universities minister, Mr Johnson will report to the new business secretary, Sajid Javid.
Mr Johnson has made few statements of record on the topic of science and research.
Some topics he has touched will however chime with the concerns expressed by the scientific community.
For one, he has spoken out on the importance of allowing students to come to the UK. In a recent FT article, he wrote: "Britain's universities are a globally competitive export sector and well-placed to make a greater contribution to growth. With economic growth at a premium, the UK should be wary of artificially hobbling it."
He is also considered to be supportive of the European Union, which has become an increasingly important source of funding for UK-based scientists.
For example, a fifth of all the money from the European Research Council, the EU's blue riband funding agency, now goes to grantees in Britain. The prospect of losing this funding source will weigh heavy on the research community as the country moves towards the in-out referendum promised by the prime minister.
Commenting on Mr Johnson's appointment, Naomi Weir, the acting director of the Campaign for Science and Engineering, said: "There is enormous opportunity for science and engineering to drive economic prosperity and public wellbeing.
"In his new role, Jo Johnson is in a strong position to ensure science and engineering is a central feature of the government's long-term economic plan.
"I look forward to working with him to ensure the UK has the people, the funding and the policies for science and engineering to thrive."
For the duration of the previous parliament, the public science budget was held flat at £4.6bn per annum, and its value was consequently eroded by inflation. Case says the investment as it now stands, below 0.5% of GDP, is the lowest in the G8.
The Society of Biology, which held a debate with the various science spokespeople from the main parties during the election, issued a statement on Monday from its chief executive, Mark Downs.
He said: "The new government can no longer simply be positive about science. With over £1bn wiped off the research budget as a result of inflation over the last five years there needs to be a real commitment to see research as an investment and grow expenditure well above the levels of inflation."
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Tesla said it manufactured 11,600 cars in the first three months of 2015, 1,000 more than it had been projecting.
That led to revenues of $893m (£586m), a 52% increase from a year earlier.
However, the firm still reported a loss of $154m, reflecting continued investment in research and new manufacturing facilities.
Tesla said it planned to increase production by about 12% and manufacture 12,500 cars in the second quarter of 2015, but warned that a strengthening dollar would continue to hurt its bottom line.
It said it would increase its prices by 5% in Europe to try an offset that loss.
After admitting earlier this year that its China sales were less than expected, Tesla said that it was seeing a recovery in the market. It said it was still on track to sell 55,000 of its Model S and Model X cars in 2015.
The company added that it was still on track for the launch of its battery factory - known as the Gigafactory - in the US state of Nevada in 2016.
Last week, Tesla announced it would manufacture batteries for home electricity use in addition to those for its cars at the facility.
Shares in the firm fluctuated in trading after US markets had closed, rising by nearly 5% before declining.
In an interview for the BBC on Sunday, the Democratic Unionist Party leader called it "a very violent attack on the state".
It was one that "gave succour to violent republicanism", she said.
Mrs Foster is about to become Northern Ireland's youngest ever leader.
She will also be the first woman to hold the role when she takes the reins at Stormont on Monday, the day MLAs return to their debating chamber after the winter break.
The 1916 Easter Rising was the seminal event that led to Irish independence and, in some ways, to the creation of Northern Ireland.
It was a republican rebellion that lasted from 24 April (Easter Monday) to 30 April 1916.
The aim was to end British rule in Ireland and to establish an independent Ireland as a republic.
Despite its military failure, the Easter Rising is seen by many as being a significant stepping-stone in the eventual creation of the Republic of Ireland.
Arlene Foster, 45, is already a Stormont Executive veteran and the longest serving woman in it.
She has been a minister since 2007 and has held three portfolios - environment, enterprise and finance.
Arlene Foster has experience of some of the most high-profile posts in Northern Ireland politics and has long been tipped for Stormont's top job.
The Fermanagh politician has had a rapid rise through the DUP ranks since joining the party from the Ulster Unionists in 2004.
She was born Arlene Kelly in Roslea in 1970.
Her first experience of Troubles violence came when she was just eight years old.
Her father was a part-time policeman and was shot by the IRA at the family farm.
When she was a teenager in 1988, a bomb exploded under her school bus.
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Speaking to Radio Ulster's Sunday News, she said she had always been involved in politics, not because of her gender, but because of her passion for it.
"People do want to see real change," she said, adding that she would be looking towards the future.
Mrs Foster said last year had been "turbulent" for Northern Ireland, but underlined: "We dealt with it by talking to each other, negotiating and planning for the future."
Her priority would be the economy, she said, and that would offer hope to young people.
She also spoke about her own past and how that had shaped her.
Her father was a part-time policeman and was shot by the IRA at the family farm when she was eight years old.
"I have been a victim of IRA violence, I carry that with me, I want to look to the future and build for that," she said.
"We have the vision for Northern Ireland moving forward. We believe in Northern Ireland as a country."
Although she said that it would not be right for her to take part in the centenary commemorations of the Easter Rising, she was clear that she would represent everyone who is a democrat.
"People are nuanced enough to know that I am very open and will represent democratic nationalists and democratic unionists in Northern Ireland," she said.
"I certainly will not be representing violent republicanism."
Mrs Foster said she hoped her position as the first woman to be leader, would give confidence and aspiration to other women, regardless of their background to get involved in politics.
On a personal level, she said Monday would be "a mix of emotions" for her. There would be sorrow that her father did not live to enjoy the day.
But there would be happiness too.
"My mum and my husband will be present. It will be a very joyous day," she said.
"I am conscious of the fact that I step forward as the leader of Northern Ireland, that is a huge responsibility and I am aware of that."
It has got increasingly complicated in recent times, with rules on residency qualification and even the possibility of switching allegiance.
But even if there is a decision to be made, once it's done and dusted there's usually clarity and resolution.
Not so in the Pattinson household where Nottinghamshire's new Australian fast bowler James is getting ready for his debut season in English cricket with the county where older brother Darren won a Test cap for England.
The 26-year old has other connections to Nottingham too, as his father spent time as a youngster at Nottingham Forest nearly 40 years ago - playing for the club's under-19 side when the legendary Brian Clough was beginning his European adventures at the City Ground.
And Grimsby-born father John - who moved his young family to Australia in 1983 - is still somewhat torn.
"It is a bit bizarre," Pattinson junior told BBC Nottingham Sport. "I can't imagine there's many siblings who've done that before.
"Dad's quite stubborn - he still supports England, almost.
"He was born in Grimsby, and lived there quite a lot of his life, I think it was probably my third or fourth year of playing for Australia that he converted and started supporting Australia."
Pattinson will play for Nottinghamshire in the County Championship and One Day Cup matches until June, as they try and return to Division One of the Championship at the first attempt.
His signing was announced last month, after fellow Victorian Peter Siddle was forced to withdraw from the second year of his contract because of a back injury.
Pattinson arrives at Trent Bridge having guided his home state to victory in Australia's domestic cricket competition, the Sheffield Shield. But he has some familiar faces in his new surroundings.
Notts begin their new county season against Leicestershire on Friday, with Pattinson likely to open the bowling duties with England's Stuart Broad.
Pattinson said: "When I was growing up, he [Broad] was someone I looked up to when he was playing for England, and obviously I've played against him for Australia a few times.
"It'll be a privilege to play with him - he's a fantastic guy, and a fantastic competitor.
"I haven't managed to play much cricket over the last two years, so I'm excited about coming over here. It's great to get back to England - a lot of my family (my mum and my dad) are from England.
"I hope my family can get back over while I'm here and support me, and also see the family that I've still got over here."
You can hear commentary on every Nottinghamshire game from this season via the BBC Sport website.
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The sculptures are located 15 metres under the water in Lanzarote.
The eco-friendly concrete statues are of current Lanzarote residents doing everyday activities, and are expected to last for 300 years.
However, visitors will need diving equipment to enjoy Jason DeCaires' artwork.
"Hi there," it began. "I wanted to make sure you were aware of an Indesit repair programme."
Tumble dryers sold in the UK over the course of 11 years were in danger of causing a fire and needed to be made safe. I would later learn that there were 5.3 million of them.
Dramatic proof was provided this summer when one machine, awaiting a repair, caused a huge tower block fire which left families homeless and needed 120 firefighters to bring under control.
On a basic level this is a story about clearing the build-up of fluff from dryers. On a much more serious level, it is a lesson in how much, or how little, we are told about dangerous, potentially lethal, appliances in our homes.
That understated original email message was an opaque window into a saga that one MP described in Parliament as "corporate malpractice on a grand scale".
The starting point of much drama and debate came in 2014 when the biggest appliance manufacturer in the world, US-based Whirlpool, bought the Italian company Indesit.
Consumer groups had long warned of the danger of defective white goods. After reviewing the products under its ownership, Whirlpool decided to alert authorities in the UK and Europe of the safety issue with some dryers under the Hotpoint, Indesit and Creda brands. It subsequently added the Proline brand to this list.
These appliances were sold for more than a decade from April 2004 to September 2015. They were found in Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain, as well as the UK.
The problem was that excess fluff could catch the heating element in the machine and cause a fire.
What Whirlpool did next has been the source of furious debate among MPs, consumer groups and, to a degree, the company itself.
Major companies with various sites in the UK have a home authority trading standards department with whom they work on product safety. In Whirlpool's case this was Peterborough Council's Trading Standards team.
Whirlpool and Peterborough Trading Standards agreed on a repair campaign to modify the dangerous products, instead of a full product recall.
Had Whirlpool decided on the latter, customers would have been given a refund, a replacement or a partial refund for older models. In all likelihood owners would have been told to stop using these dryers completely. Action would be required fast.
The repair programme that was instigated has received massive criticism, with cases of people being told they must wait well over a year for an engineer to visit.
Andy Slaughter, the Labour MP for Hammersmith, says that choosing a modification programme created a massive logistical task for Whirlpool, but is evidence that the company wanted control of the process.
He condemned Whirlpool's response to the safety risk as a whole as operating "under the radar".
"If this wasn't so dangerous, I'd have some sympathy for [Whirlpool]," he says.
That danger was made spectacularly clear with a fire in an 18-storey block of flats in Shepherd's Bush in August. Flames ripped up the side of the building, 100 families were evacuated, and 50 people spent the night away from their homes.
Some of those families are still unable to return to their damaged flats. Investigations by the London Fire Brigade found the fire clearly started in a tumble dryer.
Mr Slaughter points out that the Defreitas family - in whose seventh-floor flat the fire started - was following Whirlpool's instructions. The company has said the affected tumble dryers can still be used, but should not be left unattended.
The victims in this case are not the only ones in disbelief that these products were not recalled.
Emma McGrath, whose Hotpoint dryer caught fire and left the kitchen of her home in Ayrshire as "one big black room", says the appliances should be recalled fearing for others who may use these dryers at night.
Exactly how the decision was made to undertake a repair programme, rather than a recall, has been extremely difficult to establish.
The company's risk assessment of the fire hazard of these tumble dryers has not been published.
For six months, I have attempted to gain access to correspondence between Whirlpool and Peterborough Council's Trading Standards department in a bid to shed some light on the deliberations. The two parties have very different levels of resources, according to Mr Slaughter, but was any pressure put on local officials by the international corporation?
Twice my request under Freedom of Information laws was refused. On one occasion the few pages of correspondence that the council said it would consider releasing were described as of "little or no value".
Finally, following an appeal to the Information Commissioner, I was sent 140 pages of correspondence between the two. Some were mundane, many were redacted. At times page after page in a row were entirely black.
However, what some of the correspondence does convey is a keenness from Whirlpool to publicise the fact that there would be no recall.
One email reads: "...one further question from the Whirlpool side if I may - is there a way at all of possibly weaving into this sentence in any way that: 'this is not a recall campaign..."
Another calls for some agreed wording that states "this activity is correctly a REPAIR campaign and not a RECALL..."
Some wording is agreed, but trading standards stress that this may only be used in conjunction with a general explanation of its officers' advisory role.
It is understood that, legally, the trading standards department would not be able to order a recall owing to the small number of fires in proportion to the total number of "at risk" machines.
They would potentially have had to prove in court that the repair programme was an insufficient response.
Other documents released by the council cover email discussions about the possibility of meetings with Whirlpool's global product safety director who was retiring, and his replacement.
A batch shows trading standards teams keen to help vulnerable customers. One, for example, prompts an engineer visit as a priority after it is pointed out that an owner is receiving end-of-life care with 24-hour oxygen and cannot leave the house without the help of paramedics.
A worried family member writes in March: "We could not bear to imagine what would happen if a fire from this product was to occur, which my dad has explained to Hotpoint, but to no avail as he was told it would still be around July time before they could come and fix the faulty item.
"Obviously my father is extremely worried and upset about this as with my mum's illness he has to do at least two loads of washing a day."
Ultimately, whatever the information that has been released, there is a great deal that remains blocked from our view. That includes the risk assessment conducted by Whirlpool.
The explanation for this is that the information was shared on a purely confidential basis and that placing it into the public domain would "have a significant reputational impact on Whirlpool and would prejudice Whirlpool's commercial interests on a number of levels".
Moreover, Peterborough Council says that disclosing confidential information could deter Whirlpool and other companies from voluntarily raising safety concerns of other products with trading standards officers.
So, without information such as a risk assessment being available, it has fallen on some of those dealing with the fires to raise concerns and challenge Whirlpool's advice.
They have included the fire service which, through the Local Government Association, has urged owners of these tumble dryers to unplug the dryers and stop using them, arguing that they are "unwittingly playing Russian roulette".
Following the Shepherd's Bush investigation, Dave Brown, the London Fire Brigade's director of operations, said: "This fire has highlighted just how dangerous faulty white goods can be. Disappointingly though, Whirlpool have still not changed their advice to consumers.
"We are now appealing once again for them to change their advice and bring it into line with our own. Thankfully there were no serious injuries in the Shepherd's Bush fire but we may not be so lucky if it happens again."
Even within trading standards there have been calls for the government to get involved. Leon Livermore, chief executive of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, told the BBC that central government had powers to "force people into recalls" and that it should "take action before someone dies".
Consumer group Which? has also entered the debate, demanding government action, as has the Business Select Committee, which has demanded more explanation from Whirlpool.
Most recently, Consumer Minister Margot James has accepted that more action is needed from Whirlpool to reassure the public. Previously, she had said that Whirlpool's repair programme was a "creditable performance" and that the company was making a "concerted effort" to deal with the safety of appliances. She was also told that recalls generally only have a 10% to 20% success rate.
Yet, during a Commons debate last month, she said: "Although statistically the risk of the 5 million machines that have been sold may be very low, people have been killed by them."
She later corrected this statement, saying that some people have been "seriously affected and some have lost their homes".
Under pressure from MPs and following a review of the system of recalls, she has promised action within weeks on white goods' safety through a new working group on product recalls and safety. This will take over the work of an industry-led steering group which was expecting to report back in two years' time.
The membership of the new group has yet to be announced.
Throughout it all Whirlpool has retained a consistent line.
"The safety of consumers is our number one priority and we are committed to doing everything we can to ensure that the tumble dryer modification programme is carried out in a safe and timely manner. We continue to co-operate fully with the relevant regulatory authority as progress of the campaign is regularly monitored and reviewed," it says.
It adds that it has increased the number of engineers dealing with these repairs and is offering replacements at a discounted price. Customers can check their dryer by using the model checker on two bespoke websites - for Hotpoint customers and for Indesit customers - or via a free helpline on 0800 151 0905 for the UK or 1800 804320 for the Irish Republic.
A report to the region's health board on Thursday says the move is being explored as part of an all-Wales overseas recruitment plan.
The Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) said despite job fairs in Ireland, Scotland and England there was still a shortfall in filled posts.
It comes as new laws on safe nursing levels in Wales come into force.
The report to the joint meeting of the health board and the North Wales Community Health Council, which acts as a patients' watchdog, states that not all hospital acute wards are "fully compliant" with the number of nurses and ward managers required.
"Recruitment to registered nurses' posts remains a challenge with a resulting increase in the usage of bank and agency staff to address gaps," said assistant director of nursing Anne-Marie Rowlands.
"A variety of strategies to address this continues, including attendance at job fairs, with BCUHB attending Ireland in April 2016 and Glasgow and Manchester in June 2016."
The nursing official said graduate recruitment and bringing new staff from Europe "continues with much success".
But Mrs Rowlands added: "Further overseas recruitment is planned and BCUHB are exploring recruitment in the Philippines as part of the all-Wales overseas recruitment plan."
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council and Rochford District Council will now formulate detailed plans.
Regeneration, environmental improvements and transport proposals are included in the Joint Area Action Plan (JAAP).
The aim is to start construction in 2016 after detailed plans are adopted.
The JAAP presented to the inspector provided evidence for the creation of 4,200 additional jobs excluding direct airport-related employment up to 2021 and up to 2,000 additional jobs later.
The aim is for an additional 1,180 jobs within the airport boundary.
Borough council leader Ron Woodley said: "This is a golden opportunity for Southend-on-Sea and we will also be working to ensure that our policies reflect the skills required and give our young people every opportunity to fill these new jobs that will be created."
Speaking on Talk Vietnam, he said: "I would like George and Charlotte to grow up being a little bit more simple in their approach and their outlook."
He told the show's host he found materialism "quite tricky" with "people living with an enormous amount of stuff that they don't necessarily need".
The TV appearance was made during his first official visit to Vietnam.
The Duke of Cambridge had earlier on his trip spoken at an international conference about the number of endangered animals being killed in illegal poaching.
During the interview on the English language show, for Vietnam's national broadcaster VTV, he said he hoped George, three, and one-year-old Charlotte, would grow up "treating others as they would like to be treated themselves".
The 34-year-old also admitted he had "struggled at times" with parenthood, which had come with "wonderful highs and wonderful lows".
"I'm very lucky in the support I have from Catherine, she's an amazing mother and a fantastic wife," he said.
"But I've struggled at times. The alteration from being a single independent man to going into marriage and then having children is life-changing."
The Duke of Cambridge also told host Tran Thuy Duong: "George is a right little rascal sometimes, he keeps me on my toes but he's a sweet boy. And Charlotte, bearing in mind I haven't had a sister, so having a daughter is a very different dynamic.
"I adore my children very much and I've learnt a lot about myself and about family just from having my own children."
The bodies of Joanne Marie Semple, 36, Kelly Taylor-Hackett, 28, and Stephen Fitzgerald, 18, were found on Sunday after a blaze on East Park Street, East End Park.
Post-mortem examinations found all three died as a result of the fire, police said.
Three Rottweiler dogs were also found dead inside the terraced property.
The fire had burnt itself out before the emergency services arrived.
West Yorkshire Police said it continued to treat the deaths as unexplained.
Lancashire Police, who are still appealing for witnesses, said a 33-year-old man from Accrington is currently in custody.
Officers said the child was taken from Nairne Street at 16:00 GMT on Thursday.
She was dropped off 30 minutes later less than three miles away in Whitefield Street, Hapton where she was found and returned home.
Det Ch Insp Joanne McHugh said: "We need anyone who may have witnessed a black coloured car in the Nairne Street or Whitefield Street areas around the time of the abduction to contact us."
Red blood cells can already be made in the lab, but the problem is scale.
A team at the University of Bristol and NHS Blood and Transplant have developed a method to produce an unlimited supply.
The artificial blood will be far more expensive than conventional donation. So it is likely to be used for people with very rare blood types.
The old technique involved taking a type of stem cell that manufactures red blood cells in the body and coaxing it to do so in the lab.
However, each cell eventually burns out and produces no more than 50,000 red blood cells.
The trick developed by the Bristol team was to trap the stem cells at an early stage where they grow in number indefinitely.
It is known as making them immortal.
Once the researchers have this group of cells, they can just trigger them to become red blood cells.
Dr Jan Frayne, one of the researchers, said: "We have demonstrated a feasible way to sustainably manufacture red cells for clinical use.
"We've grown litres of it."
The work is far from over.
The researchers now have the biological resource to mass produce red blood cells, but they still need the manufacturing technology for mass production.
It is like the difference between home-brewing beer and a large brewery.
A bag of blood contains about a trillion red blood cells.
Prof David Anstee, another of the researchers, told the BBC: "There is a bioengineering challenge.
"To produce that much at scale is quite a challenge, and really the next phase of our work is to look at methods of expanding the yield."
The cost will be a massive barrier to wide-scale use of manufactured blood.
NHS Blood and Transplant says it has no plans "in any way at all" to move away from traditionally donated blood.
However, it can be almost impossible to match some people's blood - often from minority ethnicities - with a donor.
Prof Anstee added: "The first therapeutic use of a cultured red cell product is likely to be for patients with rare blood groups, because suitable conventional red blood cell donations can be difficult to source."
Safety trials of lab-made blood are already planned for later this year.
The study was published in Nature Communications.
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Athletes in the Bangkok Half-Marathon bombarded race organisers with complaints after running almost 17 miles rather than the usual 13.
David Paul Nicholson said on Facebook he was "disgusted" by the error.
"According to my GPS watch it was 27.8kms!!! (17.3 miles)," he wrote.
"I am utterly disgusted that a marathon that prides itself and markets itself as one of the best in South East Asia, cannot get the distance right.
"Needless to say I will vote with my feet and never again participate in this joke of an event."
On Monday, Songrakm Kraison, vice-president of the Jogging Association of Thailand, said organisers told runners to turn in the wrong place.
"The association apologises for the mistake," he told the Associated Press. "It will not happen again in the future."
More than three kilometres (about two miles) were added to each of the two laps.
"We have rebuked the association, but we could not do anything else," added Kraison.
Facebook user Sam Lord wrote: "Still waiting for any kind of apology or explanation. Extremely disappointed. Instead of the satisfaction of crossing a finish line I ended the race in the back of a taxi after 23km when my legs gave out. I want my money back!"
Sebastian Movila was a passenger in the car when it lost control and struck a tree on the M57, near Prescot, on Saturday evening.
He was being treated in hospital but on Thursday Merseyside Police confirmed he had died.
His parents paid tribute to their "wonderful" son, and said they would "miss him more than words can explain".
"Sebastian was a loving seven-year-old who loved life, his football and tennis, and living here in the UK, where he had been since August 2015," they said.
"We felt it fitting to allow his organs to be donated to other children in order that they live."
Officers are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.
PC Kurt Timpson said: "The events of last Saturday evening have devastated a lovely family.
"They wish to thank everyone who stopped on the motorway to help them and for those who gave first aid to Sebastian and themselves."
Frederick Boyd failed to return to the open prison on Tuesday 11 April after being on leave at his home in Glasgow.
Officers had warned the public not to approach the 54-year-old.
Police Scotland said Boyd was traced in the Glasgow area.
The 7.8-magnitude quake struck on Saturday in the hilly district of Gorkha, west of Kathmandu.
Aid groups say the damage could be far worse in rural areas than in the capital.
One aid worker spoke of "an entire village - all but gone" - and there are fears others have suffered the same fate.
The United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs said it expected "high and significant damage" in the regions closest to the earthquake's epicentre, Gorkha and Lamjung.
Close to 300,000 people live in Gorkha, which is normally around four hours' travel from Kathmandu. The region's most senior official, Udav Prashad Timalsina, said: "There are people who are not getting food and shelter.
"I've had reports of villages where 70% of the houses have been destroyed."
Mr Timalsina said 223 people had been confirmed dead in the district but he said "the number would go up because there are thousands who are injured".
On Monday, an Indian journalist flew over the damage in Gorkha in an Indian army helicopter. The footage shows many low-lying houses, seemingly cut off in the middle of mountains and reduced to rubble.
The journalist, Jugal Purohit, said: "What we are witnessing here are villages completely devastated, destroyed and, in a sense, rubbed off the map of Nepal."
The aerial images are the first recorded pictures of the destruction near the epicentre. Very few images of damage there have emerged, even on social media.
Matt Darvas, of the charity World Vision, is in the town of Pokhara, further west from the epicentre. He told the BBC: "I spoke to one man. He had been [evacuated] in to the hospital where I was, in the very first helicopter.
"In his village of 1,100 homes, almost every home was decimated. He estimated 90%. That's a village of over 2,000 people.
"There could be many other villages in a similar case where the entire village is all but gone."
Mr Darvas said he expected the death toll in Gorkha to rise "significantly".
Pokhara itself - Nepal's second city and a popular trekking destination - appears to have been spared significant damage, though there are reports of people sleeping outside due to a fear of buildings collapsing.
Teams from many major charities have so far been unable to reach the more outlying areas of the country, but have plans to do so as soon as possible. Many are working with regional partners who are based in western Nepal.
But access to areas such as Gorkha and Lamjung, that are hilly, isolated and heavily forested, was difficult even before the earthquake, that caused landslides to block roads.
Mr Darvas said some parts of Gorkha could take up to five days to reach.
Chandra Kayastha is the programme unit manager for Plan International in Baglung, 270 kilometres west of Kathmandu. He told the BBC: "The main problem of this area is damage of their houses and school buildings.
"Some of the area is very remote, it takes more than three hours, four hours on a wagon, there's no road facilities even before the disaster because it lies in the western hills of Nepal."
Part of the effort to help relief teams reach distant areas will come down to space agencies.Rural Nepal prepares for the worst
The earthquake has led to the activation of the UN's International Charter on "Space and Major Disasters".
Many of the world's space agencies are signatories to the charter, and they will now task their satellites to gather images of the country every time they pass overhead.
The images will be used to assess the scale of the damage, and to find roads not blocked by landslides.
One added factor, says Rupa Joshi, a communications officer with Unicef Nepal, is the fact that many men from rural areas are absent, having gone to work for more money abroad.
She said: "In many of the villages in Nepal, many of the men are out of the country. So what you find in these villages are the elderly, women and children.
"They are now the ones who are having to deal with this massive thing - when their houses have come down, their homes wiped out - without men, who are usually the ones running around, setting things straight."
The 21-year-old and three others were allegedly involved in a disturbance in the VIP section of Livello in October.
Newcastle Magistrates' Court heard an amateur footballer, Wesley Erskine, was hurt during the incident.
Geoffrey Forrester, defending, said the allegations would be "seriously contested".
The court heard Mr Erskine, had been on a night out in Newcastle with his teammates when violence broke out.
Keith Laidlaw, prosecuting, said: "Mr Wesley Erskine suffered injuries when bottles were smashed and bottles where thrown around by a number of the defendants in this case."
Jamar Collins, 21, from Bristol, Jean Coly, 23, from Liverpool, and Joan Jacob, 45, from Newcastle, also appeared in court.
All three are charged with violent disorder and Coly an additional charge of wounding with intent.
All four were granted unconditional bail and will appear at Newcastle Crown Court on 3 May.
The Jamaica-born winger joined the club in 2012.
The administration would rule Kurdish-majority areas in the northeast until the broader conflict is over.
Kurdish groups in northern Syria have tried to stay out of the civil war between the government and rebels.
However, Islamist rebels have moved into Kurdish-controlled areas in recent months, causing increasing clashes between them and Kurdish militias.
The Democratic Union Party (PYD) announced the move after two days of talks in the town of Qamishli in north-eastern Syria.
Alan Semo, the PYD's UK-based representative, told the BBC his party was not seeking to carve out a separate Kurdish state.
Mr Semo said the region would be "integrated in future in a united, democratic, plural Syria", adding that neighbouring Turkey, which has fought a long war against Kurdish rebels, had nothing to fear from the move.
"I think Turkey will realise that this step is not a threat to any regional or international or global stability, it is temporary," he added.
The PYD planned to introduce a constitution and regional parliament, with representation for non-Kurds in the area, he went on.
However, it is not clear whether all Kurdish factions will take part in the administration.
"I think that such a rushed, one-sided move will be seen as... an obstacle to the Syrian opposition," Nuri Brimo, a member of the Kurdish National Council (KNC), an alliance of 13 Kurdish parties, told AFP.
A de facto autonomous Kurdish zone was created when government forces withdrew from the area in the summer of 2012.
Last month Kurdish fighters took control of a border crossing with Iraq from an Islamist rebel group.
Syria's Kurdish minority makes up around 10% of the population and is largely concentrated in the country's far north-east, near the borders with Turkey and Iraq.
The fighting between jihadist rebels and armed Kurdish militia has added another layer to Syria's complex civil war.
McKinnon, 45, resigned as boss of Raith Rovers on Wednesday after agreeing to take over at Tannadice, where he enjoyed two spells as a player.
The former midfielder succeeds Mixu Paatelainen, who left United on 4 May after their drop to the Championship.
"This is a wonderful opportunity at a club that is close to my heart," McKinnon told United's website.
"I am looking forward to taking on the task of rebuilding the club and developing the talent required to get us where we should be.
"There are a lot of challenges ahead and it is important that we give ourselves every opportunity to succeed. We will work hard to build a team that the United fans can be proud of.
"I want to thank everyone at Raith Rovers. I really enjoyed my time there and I am grateful to them for being so understanding of my desire to become manager of Dundee United. Raith Rovers are a fabulous, proper club whom I wish all the best."
Raith missed out on promotion via the play-offs and McKinnon had a year left to run on his contract at Stark's Park.
He joined Rovers last summer after three years in charge of Brechin City.
McKinnon led Raith to fourth place in the Championship, but they lost 2-1 on aggregate to Hibernian in the Premiership play-off quarter-finals.
United were bottom of the Premiership for most of the season with Jackie McNamara replaced as manager after only one win in their first nine games, but Paatelainen was unable to inspire a turnaround in fortunes.
Defeat by city rivals Dundee on 2 May ensured United would finish at the foot of the table, and they were docked three points on Wednesday for using two ineligible youngsters in their win at Inverness last week.
McKinnon will watch United's final game of the season on Saturday away to Kilmarnock from the stands.
This week's departure of coach Ian Millward appeared inevitable after barely 3,000 fans turned up to watch a ninth successive game without victory, a 40-24 defeat to Huddersfield.
The Tigers have won just once in 18 games and have lost their chief executive, commercial manager and now head coach during a painful middle year of the current three-year licence period.
The manner of Millward's departure highlighted the Tigers' problems.
The news was leaked and widely known on Tuesday morning but only finally made public by the club that evening, during which time the one update to their official website was of its £100 Daily Draw winner.
Interestingly, the club statement referred to the team's results as "unacceptable for all concerned, including sponsors and supporters".
Millward may feel he was dealt a rough hand after being appointed as part of a long-term plan.
He has made many improvements to the daily operation around the team, including increased use of video analysis but, crucially, on the field there has been no improvement and he has paid the price.
An impressive win over champions Leeds and a gutsy draw against the Catalan Dragons offered a glimpse of the quality in the squad and the players may feel they have to take a large share of responsibility for Millward's departure.
It leaves the club's fans, staff and former players wondering what the future holds.
Former Great Britain forward Lee Crooks, who played over 200 times for the Tigers, is hugely concerned.
"The club is in turmoil at the moment and unless someone comes along with £1m then I am very worried about where Castleford might be heading," he said. "There need to be big changes."
When Steve Ferres walked away as chief executive in February after just six months in the job he warned that unless things changed then Castleford Tigers would simply not be able to generate enough income to exist as a Super League club.
The ideal is that change would be a new stadium, or an improved version of the club's dated Wheldon Road home, but it is hard to envisage that scenario while the team toils on the field and the fans stay away.
Ferres' replacement Steve Gill, promoted from his role as head of youth development, has been charged with the responsibility of turning the club's fortunes around by owner Jack Fulton.
Danny Orr will take temporary charge of the team.
The decision on who should replace Millward is vital to both ensure the fans are onside and get one of rugby league's most famous old names firing again.
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The club has already assembled a new-look commercial team and attention now turns to finding the right head coach.
Gill says the new man could be named within a fortnight if it is a Briton, but he is willing to wait longer if a suitable overseas candidate is available.
John Kear and former Hull KR coach Justin Morgan will again be frontrunners.
Batley are unlikely to stop Kear if there is a chance of him returning to a Super League job.
He once called Castleford his dream job, but circumstances for both club and individual have since changed.
The Tigers may look closer to home at highly rated Featherstone boss Daryl Powell. That could give the former Leeds Rhinos and Great Britain international a dilemma.
Powell is well established at the successful Championship club, and would have to decide whether his longer-term Super League prospects are at Post Office Road if he was offered a top-flight role now.
Andy Hay could be another contender. The former Tigers forward is Castleford through and through but remains untried in the main role after moving from Cas to Hull as their assistant coach.
Whoever takes over will find that there is as much quality in the squad as there is concern around it.
In Justin Carney, Rangi Chase, Jordan Thompson, Michael Shenton and Weller Hauraki, there is enough flair in this Tigers team to convince the new man in charge that a position at the foot of Super League is a huge misrepresentation of where Castleford should be.
Ofsted has rated the service "inadequate" since 2009 and improvement has "not gone far enough, fast enough", the Department for Education has said.
Child deaths include Khyra Ishaq, seven, who starved and Keanu Williams, two, who was murdered by his mother.
The council said the voluntary decision will be finalised by the cabinet.
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The government appointed Lord Warner as an external commissioner to oversee the running of children's services in the city in March 2014.
Since then, he found there had been "significant improvements" but more was needed.
On Tuesday he said he felt moving to a trust was a "rushed decision" as it had no proven track record of providing change.
Andrew Christie from Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea councils, replaced Lord Warner in December 2015 to continue a three-year review of the department.
Mr Christie said: "The city council has decided that one of the things it now needs to do is to strengthen governance with a children's services trust.
"Done well, my judgment is that this will provide a more solid platform for the next stage of Birmingham's improvement programme."
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Insiders have been telling me that while improvements have been made to Birmingham children's services, the department still struggles to retain staff and therefore relies heavily on agency workers.
They also say that social workers can still be dealing with between 20 and 30 individual cases, even though a maximum of 15 is recommended.
Critics of the council have been calling for a change along these lines for years, but it's unlikely that the new voluntary trust, however it is set up, will be a panacea for the city's problems.
Birmingham's central belt is one of the most deprived areas in the country and the city's population is rapidly growing.
Whoever takes charge will have to address recruitment and morale as a matter of urgency.
Professor Ray Jones, who has advised councils on social services, said if there was "a lot of work to do and not enough people to do the work, that'll be the same in the trust as anywhere else".
An NSPCC spokesman said: "Concerted efforts must now be made to improve staff retention rates and - most importantly of all - ensure the most vulnerable members of society are protected."
Brigid Jones, cabinet member for Children's Services at the city council, said it was "a voluntary move", adding: "We will retain control of design, delivery, and the trust itself".
"Our caseloads are the lowest that they've been: they're 15 now on average, they were around 30 on average when I started," said Ms Jones.
"We've got our staff turnover down from around a third to around a quarter. And the number of agency social workers has come down significantly as well.
"What we need to do now is find a way to keep that improvement going. And we think that by going into some sort of trust arrangement, we can do that in the best way."
Alison Holt, BBC social affairs correspondent, said the announcement was brought forward because of a Channel 4 Dispatches programme to be broadcast this week.
She said: "Similar children's trusts have been established to run services in places where there have been problems such as Doncaster and Slough.
"They often rely on groups of experts, charities and high-performing local authorities to provide support."
Perry Barr MP, Khalid Mahmood, said he welcomed the news that a trust would make key decisions, but said there were still "huge issues" around how it would be staffed, managed and resourced.
A blogger who runs the Facebook page Social Work Tutor said he had been contacted by a social worker who was filmed for Dispatches.
He said: "It talks about exposing a service which is struggling, where decision-making is clouded and the protection of children isn't good."
He added: "Somebody, somewhere has had the responsibility to turn this around. Three years is a long time when the cost of failure isn't monetary, it isn't logistical, it is children dying and children seriously injured.
"Doncaster was the first authority in England to go into a trust and has seen a fall in referrals. A trust will bring an added level of accountability.
"The evidence we've seen from Doncaster is that this can only be a good thing for staff, children and social workers."
Across Ghana, the irreversible effects of child malnutrition can be seen among thousands of children affected during their critical first 1,000 days of life.
This is the time in a child's life that will determine their health as adults, their ability to learn in school and to perform in future jobs.
A group of photographers and researchers organised by Ubelong went to Ghana to uncover the complex stories behind this problem.
Nana has been the chief of the farming community of Bentum for 35 years, although two years ago he sold most of the farming land in the area to a developer.
As a result, most local villagers lost their livelihoods, and now struggle to feed their families.
The signs previously used to identify farm boundaries lie discarded by the road.
"I am very proud to be the chief," he says. "It's not easy. No-one will take my land. I know my people in Bentum cannot farm anymore.
"But whatever you do for food, is on you."
While at home with her mother, Kate tells the story of how one of her daughters died aged two.
Ever since her husband died, a decade ago, she has struggled to find work and take care of her four children.
They are malnourished and often get sick as they eat only banku, a Ghanaian dish of fermented corn and cassava dough.
"God took my two-year old daughter. She was not feeling well, so I put her to bed. Later that evening, there was a bad storm," she says.
"The sky was loud and angry. I heard an explosion in the clouds. When I went to check on my baby, she was dead. I believe the thunder killed my baby."
Hannah stands surrounded by the yellow buckets of rainwater she collected the night before.
She never attended school, and started working at a very early age as a fishmonger. She is married to a fisherman who is often away for weeks.
"My kitchen is empty. I have no food," she says. "My children don't even eat the little food I give them. I don't know about malnutrition. I just pray my children become great people".
Rebecca's children receive over-the-counter medical remedies from the local shop, instead of professional healthcare at the hospital.
Like many women in the village, Rebecca doesn't receive much support from the father of her children. She feels she has nowhere to turn.
"Women don't support each other here, it's not something we do."
Beatrice and Joy are in charge of the childcare and malnutrition unit at the Kasoa Clinic.
A few community nurses cover an area with more than 30,000 people, and Beatrice estimates only about 20% of the malnourished children are brought to this clinic.
"Women with malnourished children have problems that they cannot openly discuss with friends or family. There is a stigma associated with having a malnourished child," she says.
"So, we mostly identify malnutrition cases by talking to neighbours. Our most important job is to provide a safe environment to counsel them about their children, so that they don't feel embarrassed about bringing them here.
"But our effort is just a drop in the ocean."
Christy stands with her youngest daughter besides the farm where she used to work in Bentum, a community plagued by poverty and child malnutrition.
When the village chief, Nana Agya Kwao, sold all the farming land in the community, it meant she could no longer work.
"No-one here can access their farms. I was able to feed my four children before, but there is no food anymore and no jobs in this village," she says.
"I struggle to earn a quarter of what I made before."
Mary holds a bottle of glucose that a nurse gave her at the clinic, to combat the malnutrition symptoms of her newborn baby.
She could not breastfeed her son, who was very small at birth.
Despite giving glucose to her baby, he died six weeks later, at just two months old.
Local tradition mandates that when a baby dies of malnutrition, the baby is taken away. Mary and her husband were not allowed to attend their son's funeral.
The striker thought his tournament may be over after he went off injured in Wednesday's 1-0 loss to Egypt.
"Tests have shown the injury is not as bad as initially feared," the Ghana Football Association said on Friday.
Should he recover from a "left thigh muscle contusion", Gyan will earn his 100th cap.
"Gyan has now joined the Black Stars camp in Oyem to undergo treatment to make him fully fit," added the Ghana FA statement.
The 31-year-old, who is playing in his sixth successive Nations Cup tournament, is also looking to score his 50th goal for his country.
He scored his 49th international goal in Ghana's second Group D match against Mali, earning them a 1-0 win.
His superb run set up Jon Walters for the goal which keeps the Irish in contention for a place at next summer's Euro 2016 finals in France.
Hendrick, 23, said he was unhappy with his display until a dazzling solo run and pass to Walters in the 69th minute.
"I got past and Jonny made a great run and just tapped it in," Hendrick added.
The Derby midfielder produced one of the few moments of genuine quality in the priceless victory, cutting in from the left and slipping the ball through a defender's legs.
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He then danced past two others before picking out striker Walters in front of goal.
"I gave the ball away maybe three times before it, going sideways and backwards and not really being positive with the ball, so in my head, I was saying, 'Next time I get it, I'm just going to go at them and show a bit of positivity'.
"Thankfully it worked and Jonny got the goal.
"The two of them were closing me down, so obviously I had to try to go through them.
"I could have maybe fallen over, the way it was going before, but I got past. Obviously we are all delighted."
Hendrick won his 15th senior cap against the Georgians and is rapidly becoming a fixture in Martin O'Neill's midfield.
The Derby midfielder looks certain to play in next month's showdown against Germany with both Glenn Whelan and James McClean suspended after picking up third bookings of the campaign.
"Obviously I'm happy the manager has shown a bit of faith in me by playing me in the games.
"I have got to work hard not only for the team, but for myself. I don't want to let the players down when I'm out on the pitch."
During a fractious Stormont committee hearing, Gordon Dunne said she had not funded events in many unionist areas.
The exchange happened as the minister was facing questions about cuts to her budget and allegations surrounding funding for the Féile an Phobail festival in west Belfast.
Mr Dunne denied her allegation.
During questioning by members of the culture, arts and leisure committee, the Sinn Féin minister defended her department's distribution of a cultural fund which was set up two years ago.
Unionists have demanded answers after it emerged the bulk of the money was spent on projects in north and west Belfast.
The exchange happened after the minister was accused of prioritising the Belfast area for funding.
She replied by listing a series of projects which had been given money in south Armagh, Newry and Newcastle.
But Mr Dunne said: "You didn't touch on many unionists areas there I noticed, or is that obviously a minister's priority as to where funding goes."
Ms Ní Chuilín replied: "I think that's a complete disgrace. I think that's an absolute disgrace that you've accused me of being sectarian."
In response, Mr Dunne said: "No I didn't."
The minister also clashed with the committee's DUP chairman Nelson McCausland telling him if she could put words in his mouth he might have more manners.
He accused her of demeaning herself.
At the end of the hearing, Ms Ní Chuilín, an MLA for North Belfast, added that claims she was siphoning off funds was "disgraceful".
Health chiefs say a register would alert GPs to the specific needs of adults and children with autism and help tailor services for them.
The National Autistic Society said it would "help improve the health and wellbeing of autistic people".
But getting a quick diagnosis was still an issue, a child autism charity said.
Autism is a lifelong, developmental disability that affects how a person communicates with and relates to other people, and how they experience the world around them.
GPs in England already keep a register of patients with learning disabilities, and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence thinks patients with autism should be easily identified by healthcare professionals too.
NICE says a register - which would be anonymous outside a patient's surgery - would help staff to adapt their approach to suit patients' needs.
For example, doctors might need to take time to explain information clearly, nurses could vaccinate children at quieter times of the day, and surgeries could turn down lights for those with sensory problems.
Robyn Steward, 30, has autism and lives in south London. She says going to the GP can be a difficult experience.
"I used to dread ringing up. I have lots of appointments and the receptionists are very understanding.
"But a lot of autistic people aren't verbal and don't find it easy.
"GPs assume a level of understanding but they need to give us more processing time and more time to go through issues."
She says a flag on medical records telling GPs about an autism diagnosis could make things easier.
And finding out how many autistic people there are in each local area is "really important", Robyn says.
"Adults are often under-supported.
"If you know there are lots of women in one area then you can set up a woman's group.
"It's about looking at the needs of the community."
Mark Lever, chief executive of the National Autistic Society, welcomed the autism register proposal but said it was not the only answer.
"It must be accompanied by continued efforts to improve GPs' understanding of autism so they can recognise the needs of different autistic people and provide the right care and guidance."
Mandy Williams, from the charity Child Autism UK, said a register could also help track how many people have autism and "enable better planning of services in the future".
But she added: "It doesn't address the more fundamental problem of actually getting a diagnosis in the first place."
The guidance from NICE over an autism register will now need to be accepted by NHS England before it is put into practice in GP surgeries in England.
David Hope, 43, reported a car had hit the central reservation on the A19 in North Tyneside on 16 July last year.
Mr Hope, from Wallsend, then got out of his vehicle on the dual carriageway near Killingworth where he was hit.
A 25-year-old man from Ashington, Northumberland, has been charged with a number of offences, including causing death by dangerous driving.
The man, who is also charged with causing death by careless driving over the prescribed limit; causing death while driving disqualified and causing death while driving with no insurance and no driving licence, is due to appear in court on 1 March.
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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
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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.
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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."
Officers arrived at the Jaipur Art Summit on Saturday following complaints that the life-size cow floating in the air was offensive to Hindus.
They detained two artists for a few hours, while Hindu activists brought the installation down.
Activists say the raid is a sign of growing religious intolerance in India.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje tweeted on Sunday that she was "saddened" by the incident, and the police commissioner of Jaipur also apologised.
She said the chief of the local police station was "removed and I have spoken to the artist personally".
Artist Siddhartha Kararwal had called his life-size cow effigy Bovine Divine, and had created it to highlight the plight of Indian cows that scavenge and choke on plastic bags.
But some people complained the cow looked as if it had been hanged, and that the model insulted the animal, which Hindus revere as a symbol of life and sustenance.
Some Hindu activists brought the installation down, but garlanded and blessed the cow before it was seized by police.
The police briefly detained two other artists, Chintan Upadhyay and Anish Ahluwalia, who protested against the move, leading to social media outrage.
The director of the art summit Pratap Sharma told The Indian Express newspaper that they don't plan to reinstall the work.
"We don't want to hurt anyone's sensibilities again, so we are not going to install the work again," he said.
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Supporters also boycotted the first 20 minutes of the 3-1 quarter-final win.
They are unhappy at the rising cost of attending Bundesliga games, with a quarter of away tickets for Tuesday's match costing 70 euros (£55).
On Saturday, Liverpool fans staged a walk-out during their home game against Sunderland in protest at ticket prices.
Dortmund fan Marc Quambusch, a member of the campaign group behind the protest, explained why some supporters chose to miss the opening 20 minutes.
"Obviously it's not something we want to do, but we feel we have to do it," he told the BBC World Service. "We don't feel very good about not supporting the team for the first 20 minutes, but it has to be."
Quambusch also backed the decision of thousands of Liverpool fans to leave the Sunderland match early.
"It's always good to see fans protesting against bad conditions and, yes, they have our solidarity," he said. "I hope it is inspiring other fans to join them and to protest as well. I love English football but it is killing itself."
According to Quambusch, fans were being ironic. He says Germans use the expression "great tennis" to describe something very good.
So throwing tennis balls, he says, was a way of telling Stuttgart that their prices were too high. "It was an idea to make it clear that enough is enough," Quambusch told BBC Radio 5 live.
There is the perception in Britain that tickets don't cost that much in Germany, but that's wrong, says Quambusch.
"When it comes to standing tickets, it's ok," he said. "But you don't have so many standing tickets. It's not cheap, in a way."
Dortmund took the lead against Stuttgart with a fifth-minute strike from Germany international Marco Reus.
The home side, who had won their previous four Bundesliga games, drew level in the 21st minute thanks to a Lukas Rupp effort.
Goals from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang - his 30th of the season - and Henrikh Mkhitaryan secured Dortmund's place in the semi-finals.
The British pair were beaten by Moreno de Pauw and Kenny de Ketele of Belgium in the final race, the madison.
Wiggins, 36, plans to retire after the Six Day event in Ghent in November but hinted at a possible change of heart.
"Money talks," he joked. "Who wouldn't want to come back with a week like this? I don't know. I love racing."
After competing at the Lee Valley velodrome, which hosted the London 2012 track events and was built on the site of the Eastway facility that he used as a boy, the five-time Olympic champion said it was an appropriate place to end his career in Britain.
"It has such fantastic memories for me. I will always come back - I'll probably be back next year, but in the stands," he told Eurosport.
The event started last Tuesday and Wiggins and Cavendish led going into Sunday's final day but were beaten in the last race of the exhibition event.
De Pauw and De Ketele gained a lap late in the madison - after a slipped hand-sling changeover cost the reigning British world champions in the closing stages in London - and took the final sprint to win by 11 points.
"It just shows what a class act they are - hats off to them," said Wiggins.
Cavendish hopes that he can help give Wiggins' a winning send-off in Ghent - the city of his birth.
"We're in top condition and know we can go to Ghent ready to win," he said.
Wiggins was racing for the first time after a period he described as "topsy turvy".
It emerged in September that Wiggins took a banned steroid before his 2012 Tour de France win.
Britain's most decorated Olympian had a therapeutic use exemption to allow him to use the drug.
While no rules were broken, some of Wiggins former team-mates and a doctor who worked with him at Team Sky say questions remain over his use of triamcinolone to treat allergies and respiratory issues.
Wiggins told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that his treatment put him "back on a level playing field" and that he didn't gain any "unfair advantage".
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The goal came after just seven minutes in Valencia after great link-up play between Helen Richardson-Walsh, Sophie Bray and goalscorer Lily Owsley.
Great Britain had chances to double their lead but were denied by Germany goalkeeper Kristina Reynolds.
And GB goalkeeper Maddie Hinch made a number of late saves.
She said: "Words can't really describe the feeling. To reach a final and book a spot at Rio, we can't be happier."
Owsley's first goal in the competition ensured Danny Kerry's side remain unbeaten in the World League and will face China in Sunday's final.
"For 15 minutes we were awesome. After that we won ugly," Kerry said.
The top three teams in the World League qualify for next year's Olympics and by winning the semi-final it guaranteed GB's passage to Rio.
It has been an eventful 12 months. Samsung smartphones exploded, GoPro drones dropped out of the air and Pebble smartwatches met an untimely end.
Facebook became embroiled in a fake news controversy, Yahoo revealed several mega-breaches, we identified the supposed creator of Bitcoin - who then went AWOL - and millions indulged in a game of Pokemon Go.
Yet none of those stories made our most-read-of-the-month list - based on the number of times an article was clicked - as you can see below.
January: Licence to spy
There is a good rule of thumb: if you do not want your employer to know what you are up to online, wait until you are not on the job. And at the start of 2016, a Romanian company successfully argued it was within its rights to read Yahoo Messenger chats sent by one of its staff.
The sales engineer had claimed his privacy had been invaded as he had posted details about his health and sex life, but the European Court of Human Rights noted he had previously been warned not to send personal messages within working hours. However, later in the year, the man appealed and the case was reconsidered. The ECHR will now issue a fresh ruling in early 2017.
February: iPhone lockout
Apple clashed with the FBI when it refused to unlock an iPhone used by a murderer. Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik had killed 14 people in a shooting spree in California before being shot dead themselves. Farook's iPhone 5C was password-protected and the FBI feared that if it tried and failed to guess the combination, the device would auto-delete.
The agency demanded a bypass, but Apple refused to help saying it would set a dangerous precedent. A legal battle ensued, but then suddenly ended when the FBI declared an unnamed third party had found its own way to access the data. For now, the matter rests. But at the height of the stand-off, Donald Trump called on consumers to boycott Apple. That is likely to serve as a warning to any tech firm tempted to take a similar stance in a future dispute.
March: Amazon's shock tactics
Amazon's bosses sounded somewhat distrustful when it was reported that they had started screening videos of staff caught stealing on the job via big TVs in their US warehouses. The alleged offenders were said to have been silhouetted with the words "arrested" and "terminated" superimposed over them.
It was not the only time working conditions at the company made headlines. Earlier this month, Amazon was also accused of threatening to axe workers if they took four days off for sickness even if they had a doctor's note.
April: Google's awkward April Fool
It must have seemed like a hilarious idea. To celebrate April Fool's Day, Google added a button to its Gmail app to let users send a gif of a Minion cartoon character dropping a microphone. The meme symbolises a triumphant moment and had been popularised by rappers, actors and even a fast food chain.
So what could go wrong? Well, because of a "bug" some users reported the gif had been added even if they clicked Gmail's normal "send" button. People complained of having the yellow henchman pop up in inappropriate messages. One man even claimed it had cost him his job. Despicable Google!
May: Microsoft's "nasty trick"
As the shutters began to close on Microsoft's free Windows 10 offer, it faced a challenge. Many were ignoring its pop-up plea to upgrade and were opting instead to stick with earlier versions of the operating system.
So, in an effort to spur them on, the firm embarked on a mischievous strategy: clicking on the cross in the pop-up's top right-hand corner no longer dismissed the Windows update but triggered it instead. The move was widely denounced and Microsoft soon added a further notification message providing users with another chance to opt out before the software was installed. The firm's chief marketing officer recently acknowledged the whole affair had been "a lowlight" for all involved.
June: Shattered glass
BBC Click's Dan Simmons was invited to visit the world's highest and longest glass-bottomed bridge ahead of its launch in China. He took a sledgehammer with him. You can view the results in the clip above. It's smashing! The bridge opened to the public in August, but was closed again a fortnight later for urgent maintenance work. We understand Dan was not to blame.
July: Self-drive death
While other car-makers talked up their self-driving vehicle plans, Tesla went ahead and deployed a restricted form of the tech. The firm described its Autopilot feature as being a "beta" test, but it faced criticism when a former Navy Seal died after his Model S car failed to recognise a tractor trailer and ploughed into it.
Weeks later, another non-fatal crash involving Autopilot occurred in the US, and then unconfirmed reports emerged from China that another motorist had died in a motorway crash while using the feature. Tesla continues to roll out updates to Autopilot and its chief executive Elon Musk says the technology has the potential to save many lives. But critics - including the German and Dutch authorities - have urged Tesla to rebrand the system to discourage drivers from putting too much trust in it.
August: Android alert
Every summer, many of the world's top hackers, cybersecurity experts and government officials descend on Las Vegas for the Defcon and Black Hat conferences. To mark the events, a flurry of new cracks and bugs are revealed as researchers compete for recognition from their peers and the wider public.
This year's break-out revelation was about flaws in software used on Android devices powered by Qualcomm chips, which could be exploited to reveal their users' data. By the time the news was made public, Qualcomm had already developed a patch and Google fixed outstanding issues in an Android update released in September.
September: Hit the road, jack
Usually new hardware is all about what has been added. But the iPhone 7 made headlines because of Apple's decision to build it without a headphone jack - a decision that took "courage" apparently. To be fair, the move helped Apple make the handset more water-resistant, and others - including Samsung - are now rumoured to be considering similar moves.
But the path to a wireless music-playing future was not totally smooth after Apple had problems getting its accompanying AirPod earphones to market after running into manufacturing issues. The hiccup has now been addressed, but a backlog in orders means many users will not be able to pop the new tech into their ear canals until the new year.
October: Snapchat slapdown
Daughters... it does not matter how powerful you are, they are still prone to gain the the upper hand. President Obama revealed on TV that his youngest child, Sasha, had recorded him "lecturing" his family on Snapchat and other social media. He said she then secretly posted her reaction - a look of boredom - to her friends via the app. The anecdote sparked a brief media frenzy as gossip writers and others sought to track down Sasha's Snapchat account, but to no avail.
November: ...now with added dongle
Apple clocked up its third "win" of the year after it offered a discount on connector adapters following criticism that its latest laptops lacked legacy ports. The firm has a habit of dropping support for historic hardware standards ahead of the competition and often before many of its consumers are ready. But this time even it acknowledged that it was surprised by the scale of the backlash it had provoked.
December: Back to the phone future
Nostalgia had a certain role to play in our last popular story of the year, as Nokia revealed that handsets emblazoned with its brand are being promoted via its website once again. The Finnish firm is not actually making the mobiles this time round - a start-up called HMD Global is taking charge - but has lent its name for a fee.
Nokia itself is more interested in virtual reality and smart health tech these days. But for many, its brand, ringtone and Snake game will be forever associated with the dawn of the mobile age. Whether or not many people will actually buy one of the existing featurephones or forthcoming Android smartphones is another matter.
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England face India in the third one-day international at Trent Bridge on Saturday bidding to recover from a 133-run loss in the second ODI at Cardiff.
Hales hit 40 on his ODI debut and is set to bat with Cook for only the second time on his home ground.
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"I hope our games can feed off each other, and we can get that partnership going," Hales said.
As England seek to level the five-match series, Hales, 25, is bidding to consolidate on his encouraging start.
His half-century stand with Cook offset an otherwise miserable performance from the home batsmen.
Cook's ODI record has come under criticism from former England team-mate Graeme Swann but Hales has backed his skipper.
"I really enjoyed the start we had, and hope there are more of those partnerships to come," he said.
"He's a very technically sound guy and he's the right guy at the top of the order.
"I hope he'll show everyone in this series what he can do."
Hales believes India deserve credit for their skilled and clever bowling last time out but expects them to find it more difficult on a different pitch.
"They were just very cunning," he said. "Once I got past 30, they were one step ahead of me.
"So it's up to me to put that right, and have that game smartness.
"We feel a lot more prepared now, and this pitch will be a lot easier to score on and take the game back to their bowlers."
India have suffered a setback ahead of the the third ODI with the news batsman Rohit Sharma has been ruled out for the rest of the tour of England with a broken finger.
Sharma, 27, was injured during India's win on Wednesday.
Test opener Murali Vijay has been called up as a replacement, but is unlikely to arrive in time for the ODI at Trent Bridge.
Sharma was promoted to the top of the India batting order in January 2013, and made 52 against England in Cardiff.
In a statement, the Board of Control for Cricket in India said: "Rohit Sharma has sustained a fracture on the middle finger of his right hand, and has been ruled out of the ongoing ODI and T20 International Series against England as a result."
The middle-order batsman featured just once in the five-match Test series over the summer, scoring 28 and six in the third Test at Southampton in England's 266-run victory.
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According to several reports, the fitness tracking company is offering about $40m (£31m) and the deal could see the Pebble brand disappear.
Analysts said that although Pebble has a "dedicated and loyal fanbase", its financial difficulties have left it vulnerable to a takeover.
The BBC has not been able to independently verify the reports.
However, it has been widely reported by news sites including The Information,Techcrunch,Verge and Venturebeat.
Pebble was one of the first to enter the smartwatch market, breaking records on crowdfunding site Kickstarter during three successful funding rounds.
Juan Espinosa, who owns three Pebble devices, told the BBC: "Pebble was a start-up company that was made by the users and for the users.
"It was open in the sense that you could tweak the system basically in whichever way you wanted. You could create your own faces and apps unlike the others."
Mr Espinosa said he would switch to an Apple Watch if Fitbit acquired Pebble, because "that is the most complete smartwatch".
"All the others are either running Android, which I'm not a fan of, or are not actually smartwatches but fitness devices," he added.
Users also took to Reddit and Twitter to lament the possible changes for Pebble.
One said: "What a stupid thing to do... There's no other watch like the Pebble. I loved the openness of the developer community, how it was so easy to develop apps and watchfaces.
"Only to be crushed in an instant by some big company who doesn't want competition. So pathetic."
But Chris Anderson, another user and the chief executive of robotics firm 3DR, tweeted: "The Pebble team should be really proud of what they accomplished. I love my watch and am delighted they've found a good home at Fitbit."
Fitbit launched the Blaze smartwatch range earlier this year, but is still best known for its fitness devices.
George Jijiashvili, an analyst at CCS Insight, said: "Even though it's quite a small, niche company, Pebble has a very loyal and dedicated fanbase."
But he was "not surprised" at the news of the Fitbit talks, because slowing smartwatch sales and Pebble making staff cuts earlier this year marked it out as a takeover target.
A year ago, Pebble and Fitbit would "definitely not" have been a well-suited pairing, Mr Jijiashvili said.
But since then Pebble has been moving more towards fitness.
"A smartwatch has not become an essential device that people need," he said. "One feature that has really stuck is the fitness aspect."
The Apple Watch has also increased its focus on fitness through a tie-up with Nike, announced earlier this year.
Fitbit shares rose 2% on Thursday, suggesting cautious approval from investors for a Pebble deal.
Its shares are down 71% so far this year, though, after investor concerns about the Blaze and an underwhelming reaction to its third quarter results.
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The French club's new Argentine boss has also sent messages to Zambia's Stoppila Sunzu, Tunisia's Naim Sliti and Ivory Coast's Junior Tallo saying they are not part of his plans.
Enyeama, who played 101 times for the Super Eagles, only signed a new deal last season and could choose to follow the lead of Tallo.
"As for me, I'm under contract. I will respect the two years I have left. I'm in no hurry," the Ivorian told French Newspaper L'Equipe.
"I want to establish myself at Lille.
"It's the club that wants me to leave. We'll see if they find a solution between now and the end of the transfer window. I'm calm. It's a bit bizarre, but I'm handling it OK.
"I was informed like the others, by text. We're under contract, the club does what it wants.
"We would have liked to have had a discussion. But it's a business choice made by the bosses.
The club has already made some summer signings including Burkina Faso international goalkeeper Herve Koffi following Lille's disappointing 11th place finish in Ligue 1 last season.
But the African quartet, former captain Rio Mavuba, Eder, Julian Palmieri, Marko Basa, Éric Bauthéac, Lenny Nangis and Marvin Martin have been ordered to stay away from the rest of the squad as pre-season started on 3 July.
Enyeama, who joined Lille in June 2011 and has made 164 appearances, welcomed the signing of Koffi last month.
On Monday, Enyeama tweeted a photo with some of his fellow outcasts, who also include Montenegro international Marko Basa, France international Marvin Martin and , stating: "Always a pleasure to be back with the team."
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One of the climbers was injured after the pair got into difficulties on Bosigran Cliff, known as Commando Ridge, in Cornwall.
Coastguard rescue teams from Lands End, St Ives and Penzance lifted the climbers to safety on Saturday afternoon.
The poor weather conditions meant a "challenging rescue" said coastguards.
Nic Lonsdale, senior maritime operations officer at Falmouth Coastguard said: "'People who know the area will know why it's called Commando Ridge.
"These teams worked hard and brilliantly to rescue these climbers and did a marvellous job."
Alibaba has been accused by its smaller rival JD.com of "forcing retailers" to promote their sales exclusively with its own outlet, Tmall.
JD.com has lodged a complaint with the Chinese industry and commerce watchdog but Alibaba denies the allegation.
The retail giant claims its rival is "panicking because they're losing".
"They simply can't match our customer and merchant experience and logistical scale because Alibaba wins with customers and merchants as we provide a superior experience for users on our platforms," said Jim Wilkinson, Alibaba's senior vice president of international corporate affairs.
The Wall Street Journal reported that a shoe retailer called Mulinsen had declined to promote JD's Singles Day event.
Singles Day began in the early 1990s as a day for people not in relationships to treat themselves, in the spirit of Valentines Day.
The Chinese State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) has accepted the complaint and warned retailers "not to use malicious marketing methods to engage in competition" ahead of the event, according to the Xinhua news agency.
A recent change in legislation bans online retailers limiting promotional activity by their merchants on other platforms.
Last year, Alibaba recorded $9.3bn (£5.9bn) sales during the annual event, which it adopted in 2009.
Abdul Hafidah was stabbed after being hit by a car on Moss Lane East in Moss Side on 12 May. He died two days later.
Fifteen people, including boys, aged 14 and 17, have previously been arrested over Mr Hafidah's death. Three will face no further action, while the rest have been bailed until September.
A 29-year-old man is being questioned after being arrested on Thursday, Greater Manchester Police said.
Police believe Mr Hafidah had been chased near Greenheys Lane before being struck by a blue Vauxhall Corsa and then stabbed.
He was taken to hospital with wounds to the neck and abdominal injuries.
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Dennis began running after thinking he was overweight and wants to take part on Sunday to "help those less fortunate."
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AT&T said the actions of the government to block the deal do not change the problems faced by the mobile phone industry.
It says it still requires more airwaves to expand.
If AT&T had bought T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom, it would have become the US's largest cellphone company.
AT&T is currently the country's second-largest wireless carrier, while T-Mobile is the fourth-largest.
The US Justice Department moved to block the merger in August, saying it would reduce competition and lead to higher prices.
Last month, the companies cast doubt on whether they would go through with the plan when they withdrew their application to the Federal Communications Commission after its chairman also opposed the deal.
AT&T has said it would include a $4bn charge in its fourth-quarter accounts to cover any potential compensation due if the deal does not go ahead.
AT&T agreed to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom in March, aiming to create the largest US wireless network.
The 21-year-old singer said the track was called Someday Maybe but said she wasn't sure about if or when it would be released.
Speaking to Nick Grimshaw on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show, she said: "Yes, I wrote a song with Harry.
"It was unbelievable he's a very, very talented songwriter I was very impressed."
Harry Styles also recently worked with Kodaline on the band's fourth album, while One Direction bandmates Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne were pictured in the studio with US rock band Good Charlotte during a writing session.
In March last year, Niall Horan tweeted about a writing session with Danny Jones, Dougie Poynter and Tom Fletcher from McBusted.
Meghan Trainor is up for record of the year with All About That Bass at this year's Grammy Awards.
She said: "It was a little bit of a surprise but All About That Bass is so out of control and has a world of its own, so I guess I understand.
"But it was a dream come true, it's the last dream I had on my list."
All About That Bass spent four weeks at number one in the UK and was the first track to top the Official Singles Chart on streams alone.
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Emily Jayne Collie, 20, suffered neck and shoulder injuries in the accident at Kata Beach late on Sunday.
Local media reported her partner was riding the other jet ski, and that sunlight reflecting off the water had made it difficult to see.
Lifeguards could not resuscitate Ms Collie and she was pronounced dead on arrival at a nearby hospital.
An Australian consular spokesman told the BBC: "The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is providing consular assistance to the family of an Australian woman who died in Phuket."
According to her Facebook page, Ms Collie was from the small town of Kyabram, in the state of Victoria, and had studied at Charles Sturt University.
Her partner, identified by Australian media as Tom Keating, suffered minor injuries.
Mr Keating's sister, Bree Lyon, told Fairfax Media her family was "absolutely devastated" about Ms Collie's death.
"I love how you loved my brother, the way you looked into his eyes with nothing but pure love, it was the truest thing I've ever been grateful to witness," she said.
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Sofia Hellqvist, 30, also worked as a topless model and a yoga instructor before helping to set up a charity.
Her new husband, 36-year-old Carl Philip, is third in line to the throne.
Thousands of well-wishers lined the streets for the event, despite polls suggesting the Swedish royal family's popularity is waning.
They cheered as Miss Hellqvist, a 30-year-old commoner, became a princess.
After their marriage, the couple took to a horse-drawn carriage to parade through the cobbled streets of Stockholm's old town, waving to crowds in the hot summer sun, before returning to the palace for a 21-gun salute and wedding banquet.
About 550 guests attended the ceremony, many of them royals, including Princess Takamado of Japan and Britain's Prince Edward.
Prince Carl Philip was initially reported to have had difficulties putting the ring on his bride's finger while the royal couple said their vows.
A band played a version of the Coldplay song Fix You in the royal chapel, and the newly weds were then serenaded by a man singing a Swedish version of the song Umbrella by Rihanna.
The pair reportedly first met at a restaurant in 2010, with news of their relationship being revealed soon after.
Sofia Hellqvist: A real Cinderella story
The Swedish media made much of Ms Hellqvist's past, which included posing topless with a boa constrictor for a men's magazine in 2004.
A year later she appeared on the Swedish reality TV show Paradise Hotel, in which scantily dressed singletons compete to stay in a luxury resort.
In response to the media interest, Ms Hellqvist told Swedish television that she had long since moved on.
"I don't regret anything. All these experiences have made me the person I am," Ms Hellqvist said. "I wouldn't have made those choices today," she added.
Amid rumours that her past had caused disquiet among the royal family, the palace has emphasised her charity work.
In 2010 she co-founded the Project Playground charity which helps disadvantaged children in South Africa. She has also worked as a volunteer in several African countries.
Ms Hellqvist, who is from the central Swedish town of Alvdalen, also studied accounting in New York in 2005 and worked there as a yoga teacher and a waitress.
On Friday evening, more than 200 wedding guests attended a dinner in honour of the couple on the island of Skeppsholmen.
Carl Philip is third in line to the throne behind his elder sister Crown Princess Victoria and her three-year-old daughter, Princess Estelle.
Violet Grace Youens, who was knocked down on Friday died in hospital late on Saturday, Merseyside Police said.
Her nanny Angela French, 55, who was also hit by the car is described as being in a serious but stable condition after the crash in Prescot Road, St Helens on Friday.
Police said a number of lines of inquiry were "being pursued".
Violet's mother Rebecca posted a tribute to her daughter on Facebook: "My beautiful baby girl passed away in my arms on 25/03/2017 at 23:38. Thank you for all your well wishes... she was just too poorly.
"However, my brave baby girl saved two lives by donating her kidneys and pancreas. I am truly heartbroken but proud of my little fighter! Violet-Grace Susan Youens 02/10/2012 - 25/03/2017."
The crash involved a black Ford Fiesta, which was then driven into a lamppost, before the two male occupants reportedly fled on foot.
Violet, who had a 21-month-old brother Oliver, had her pancreas and kidneys donated following her death, said Merseyside Police.
Follow all the reaction, key points and analysis of the debate on our rolling live coverage.
The Times leads on the Conservatives' promise to freeze regulated rail fares at the level of inflation, while three of the latest polls have Labour in the lead
The Guardian's top political story also focuses on the Tories' promise to rail commuters
The Telegraph thinks that Defence Secretary Michael Fallon's personal attack on Ed Miliband was the moment the campaign turned ugly
A UKIP parliamentary candidate is to be questioned over allegations he tried to influence voters by giving away sausage rolls at a party event featuring snooker star Jimmy White.
Kim Rose, standing in Southampton Itchen, said he had been told to report to police over allegations of treating.
Electoral Commission rules state food and entertainment cannot be provided by candidates to "corruptly influence" votes.
Mr Rose has rejected the allegations, claiming that "all the intentions were good".
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles on volunteering leave: "Of course we've thought about who's going to pay. This election's about building a better future for our children and our grandchildren and obviously the foundation of that is economic security - but you've got to think about what kind of society you're going to build at the same time."
Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander on Michael Fallon's "backstabber" comment: "I think most people feel that the Tory tactics actually backfired on them and exposed the hint of desperation already surrounding their faltering campaign."
UKIP candidate Kim Rose: "It's absolutely ridiculous. I'm sure people aren't going to change their mind for a sausage roll."
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Wada was heavily criticised by Olympic officials for its handling of the Russian doping scandal in the build-up to this summer's Rio Games.
Reedie's future at the agency has been called into question just days before he stands for re-election.
But the 75-year-old Briton told BBC Sport he would fight on as "the integrity of sport is at stake".
Tensions over Wada's attempt to get Russia banned from the Rio Olympics were laid bare at this week's general assembly of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC).
"There was irritation from a number of national Olympic committees," said Reedie, who is also a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
"Just before Rio they would rather sport had not been involved in accusations of the breaching of rules by the Russian authorities, and I understand that, so I had to deal with it and I did deal with it."
IOC president Thomas Bach told BBC Sport this week he has "no regrets" about letting Russia compete at Rio 2016.
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But ANOC president Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah - an influential powerbroker in the Olympic movement - has called for a "neutral" leader to take charge of Wada.
Reedie is due to stand unopposed for a second three-year term at a Wada board meeting this weekend. He had been told he had the IOC's support.
"I've spent 15 years of my life working with Wada," he said. "I don't think it's a particularly good idea if I walk away from it simply because it's getting difficult.
"We've been faced with a difficult situation. I think we're going to come through it, and we have to. The integrity of sport is at stake."
The Olympic movement is bracing itself for the release next month of a second independent Wada report by professor Richard McLaren into Russian doping.
His first report was damning, revealing a systematic cheating programme in the country across many sports.
"If, about three and a half years ago, when I was invited to apply [to be Wada president], somebody had told me this would have happened, it maybe isn't the kind of job that you would volunteer for," said Reedie.
"That having been said, there are serious issues involved here.
"The past has been pretty dreadful. I'm really hopeful that once we get the second part of the McLaren report out of the way, we can draw a line under the past and move forward.
"We have to get the Russian anti-doping agency properly compliant again and we need to look at what Wada is currently doing, and see if we can do it better."
Wada's board meeting in Glasgow this weekend could be pivotal in the debate about how to better protect clean sport following the recent Russian scandal.
Many within the anti-doping community want Wada to be strengthened, with greater independence and sanctioning power.
However, the sports movement appears reluctant to hand Wada more authority, with Bach suggesting he wants a new Wada-run body to take on responsibility for testing as well as regulation.
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Spurn Point peninsula, a Yorkshire Wildlife Trust (YWT) reserve, was hit by the North Sea tidal surge on 5 December.
High tides washed litter and debris from the Humber Estuary and North Sea across the land.
Harry Watkins from YWT said the response from people wanting to help clear up was "overwhelming".
The surge punched holes in the sea defences and washed away the road and large parts of land on the 3.5 mile (6km)-long stretch.
Mr Watkins said contractors repairing the road, unpredictable tides and a lack of parking made it unsafe for the public to visit.
However, the wetlands and the pub are open at the top end of the reserve, he said.
It is hoped that the whole peninsula will reopen to the public in spring.
"Vegetation starts to grow then - sand dune plants will re-establish and we will have a clearer picture of Spurn Point's future," Mr Watkins said.
Smithy Wood, near Chapeltown, South Yorkshire, is the site of a proposed £40m service station near the M1.
Developers said the site, near junction 35, was the best location and would create about 300 jobs in the area.
But campaigners said the 850-year-old wood should be protected and want village green status to prevent building work.
The inquiry is being heard by a council-appointed inspector at Sheffield Town Hall and is expected to run for four days ending on 24 April.
The Commons Act 2006 allows applications for an area to be given village green status if local residents have "indulged as of right in lawful sports and pastimes on the land for a period of at least 20 years".
Cowley Residents Action Group (CRAG) and The Woodland Trust appealed last year for evidence of locals using the site.
Oliver Newham, a senior Woodland Trust campaigner, said: "We're not against a motorway service area, that's not the issue.
"But motorway service areas don't need to be built in the middle of ancient woods, and what we're saying is that the community have used this wood for generations and it needs protecting.
"The history of Smithy Wood goes back to 1161."
Extra Motorway Service Area Group said there was "a clear need" for the station to fill a gap in service provision.
According to the consultation website the services would include a food court building, a hotel and a petrol station.
It adds that current guidance indicates that for safety, drivers should have the opportunity to stop on a motorway journey every 30 minutes or 12 to 28 miles (19 to 45km), depending on traffic conditions.
But drivers coming to the M1 in South Yorkshire from the M18 are having to travel 42 miles (67km).
In the US, the Dow Jones fell by 2.5%, before recovering to 16,141.74, a 1% drop. European markets were also sharply lower.
The Dow is down more than 1,000 points, or 6%, from last month.
Oil prices also continued to slide, with Brent crude falling to $83.78 a barrel and US light crude dipping to $81.78.
Brent crude has fallen by 20% since the summer on concerns of oversupply, as output increases and forecasts for future demand fall because of concerns about sluggish global growth.
On stock markets, the main Cac 40 index in France closed down 3.6%, while Germany's Dax index and the UK's FTSE 100 both ended the day down about 2.8%.
The Athens stock market closed down 6.3% while Greek government bond yields rose sharply.
Elsewhere, government bond prices rose as investors sold equities and looked for the relative safety of fixed-income investments.
Long-term US Treasury prices jumped to two-year highs as yields fell sharply. Bond yields always fall when prices rise, reflecting increased demand for the instruments.
"It typically takes weeks for 10-year Treasuries to move 29 basis points," said Tom Di Galoma at ED&F Man Capital in New York.
"Today it moved 25 basis points in five minutes."
A basis point is a hundredth of a percentage point.
Recent economic figures have increased fears that the global economic recovery may be running out of steam.
On Tuesday, Germany cut sharply its growth estimates for this year and next, while last week the International Monetary Fund cut its forecast for global economic growth, warning that the recovery was "weak and uneven".
Figures released this week have shown inflation falling to five-year lows in India, China and the UK, prompting some commentators to talk about the possibility of deflation.
Disappointing economic data published on Wednesday helped to undermine investor confidence further.
US retail sales fell by a worse-than-expected 0.3% in September, the Commerce Department reported, while US producer prices dipped 0.1%, the first drop in more than a year, the Labor Department said.
"Incoming economic data is prompting many investors to question their faith in the belief that central bankers can change the economic dynamic with easy monetary policy," said Briefing.com analyst Patrick O'Hare.
"Macroeconomic weakness, and the seeming inability of monetary policy to counteract it, has the market in a selling stupor at the moment."
Central banks have been holding interest rates low to keep borrowing costs down in order to stimulate spending and general economic growth.
Some, including those in the UK and the US, have also been buying up assets with newly created money in a more unconventional bid to boost lending and growth.
In January, the Kenyan international alleged he was forced to sign a termination of his contract at gunpoint by his former club Golden Arrows.
Safa's Chief Executive denied receiving any communication from Safpu.
"They have not sent anything," Dennis Mumble told reporters. "Ask them to show you a copy of the letter."
"They have not asked us to do anything. They must come and meet us. I am still waiting for something coming from Safpu with regard to this issue."
On Wednesday, Safpu members held a placard demonstration outside Safa House on the day that Fifa president Gianni Infantino was meeting with African football leaders in Johannesburg.
Around 20 Safpu members who hoped to catch Infantino's attention held up placards which read 'Justice for Miheso' and, among others, 'Respect footballers' freedom of choice.'
Safpu deputy general secretary Nhlanhla Shabalala explained that his organisation is hoping to bring the issue to Fifa's attention, claiming that Safa ignored its request to investigate the issue.
"We have been in discussions with our mother body FIFPro to contact Fifa about this matter," Shabalala said.
"We want Fifa to force Safa to investigate because this is not a matter that must be taken lightly," said Shabalala, a former Ajax Cape Town midfielder.
Earlier this month, Miheso told the BBC's World Football programme he feared for his life when forced to sign the agreement.
He says it was in the presence of two gunmen and the club's Chief Executive, Gordon Masondo, at the Arrows' Durban offices on 14 January.
The club have denied the allegations.
A statement ostensibly signed by the 24-year-old midfielder denying the incident was posted on Arrows Facebook but has since been removed.
South Africa's Premier Soccer League, whose acting Chief Executive Mato Madlala is also chairperson of Golden Arrows, has yet to comment on the matter. .
The S&P closed 0.16% lower at 2,085.22, marking the ninth day of losses and its worst run since December 1980.
Markets in the US, Asia and Europe have fallen as polls showed the gap between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton narrowing.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 0.23% to 17,888,
While the tech-heavy Nasdaq dropped 0.24% to 5,046.37.
Stocks were largely unmoved by new jobs data which showed that US businesses added 161,000 jobs in October, slightly below forecasts. The unemployment rate dropped to 4.9% from 5%.
Joint patrols of soldiers and police have been sent into areas dominated by criminal gangs.
Honduras has the world's highest murder rate, according to the UN, with much of the killing linked to drug-trafficking.
On Monday President Porfirio Lobo sacked his top police commanders after four officers accused of murder were released and went into hiding.
The military deployment, dubbed "Operation Lightning", began in the capital Tegucigalpa and the northern city of San Pedro Sula.
Soldiers and counter-insurgency police units set up road blocks while helicopters patrolled overhead.
President Lobo said the aim was to "guarantee the presence of the authorities in the most conflict-ridden areas".
He vowed to "do everything possible within the law to reduce the impunity that makes us all indignant".
The sacking of the police commanders on Monday followed the release of four officers accused of killing two students.
Their release has caused public outrage in Honduras, which is suffering soaring levels of violent crime.
A recent UN report found the country had the highest rate in the world in 2010, with 82 killings per 100,000 inhabitants - an average of 20 murders a day.
Honduras is a major transit point for cocaine smuggling from South America north through Mexico to the US, and much of the violence is linked to drugs gangs.
The all-rounder was twice dropped by wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha on the way to 128 as England racked up 537.
Moeen Ali moved from 99 overnight to 117, while Stokes shared 99 with Jonny Bairstow, who made 46.
On a true surface, India reached 63-0 by the close, 474 behind, with Gautam Gambhir on 28 and Murali Vijay 25.
India's comfortable progress in the evening session highlighted the size of England's task if they are to take the 20 wickets required to end the hosts' run of 12 wins and two draws in their past 14 home Tests.
However, England's batting effort has them in control and wickets early on day three would put the world number ones under severe pressure.
"There is no shame in saying that at the end of the day, nothing happened. India played nicely, steadily. You can't blame anybody - the pitch is good," said former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott on BBC Test Match Special.
"Tomorrow might be different. Somebody might play down the wrong line, nick it and there's a clatter of wickets. There's nothing really there where you could say England bowled poorly - they haven't."
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With England 311-4 overnight, Stokes, who began on 19, attacked the second new ball in the company of Moeen, who got the single he required for a hundred in the first over.
After Moeen was bowled shouldering arms to Mohammed Shami, Stokes added 99 in 21.1 overs with Bairstow as England piled up 139 runs in the morning session.
Bairstow's loose edge behind was the signal for England to lose three wickets for 23 runs, but Stokes found an ally in Zafar Ansari.
After mixing leg-side power - two thirds of his runs came on the on side - with beautiful straight drives, Stokes brought up his fourth Test century, each scored on a different continent, by cutting Ravi Jadeja for four.
Eventually, the scoring dried up and the Durham all-rounder seemed to suffer with cramp, but by the time he was caught down the leg side off Umesh Yadav, England had a huge total.
"It was a curious innings - a superb innings," said former England spinner Vic Marks on TMS. "The first half of it was just majestic but then he had a series of wobbles.
"Towards the end he looked pretty exhausted and was moving gingerly."
India dropped three catches on the first day, none of which proved too costly, only for the hosts to be punished for reprieving Stokes.
The left-hander was put down on 60 and 61, in successive overs, with wicketkeeper Saha spilling edges off paceman Yadav.
India's ground fielding was also shabby and, with Stokes enjoying the further fortune of miscues landing safely and one catch being carried on to the boundary by Vijay, captain Virat Kohli struggled to hide his frustration.
Kohli's spinners also failed to make much of an impression, with leg-spinner Amit Mishra ineffective and Ravichandran Ashwin, the world's number one bowler, neutralised by the tourists.
The off-spinner took two wickets before lunch on day one but then went without success for 34 overs, while the 167 runs he conceded is his most expensive Test return since England last visited India in 2012.
"Kohli has had so much success as captain and player, but what would happen when things start to go wrong?" asked Boycott.
"He's a fiery character, even though he's tried to curb it a bit. It's easy to do that when things are going your way. If he has a couple of failures and India lose, I reckon the wheels could come off."
India were under the weight of scoreboard pressure when they finally got the chance to bat after tea.
They were aided by a surface that remains flat - there were fewer signs of uneven bounce than on day one and only minimal turn - and some slightly wayward England new-ball bowling.
With seamers Stuart Broad and Chris Woakes too wide or too straight, the watchful pair of Vijay and recalled 35-year-old Gambhir cashed in on anything loose.
Spinners Moeen, Ansari and Adil Rashid were tidy, while Stokes did not bowl after spending time off the field following his innings.
Still, England have the luxury of knowing that India are likely to have to bat well into the fourth day before they can feel like they are back in the match.
England's Moeen Ali, who was 99 not out overnight, told TMS: "I felt it was going to be dangerous with the new ball but I backed myself to get over the line and get that hundred.
"The seamers will have a role to play with reverse swing but the spinners will be the most dangerous on that wicket.
"The last 45 minutes gave us confidence as spinners. The cracks are a little bit bigger and there is a bit more rough for the spinners. The good thing is not every ball is spinning so that keeps us more in the game."
England will wear poppies on their shirts on day three to mark Armistice Day.
The poppies will be on the right collar of the players' shirts and will be worn during the first session of the day's play.
Shortly before the start of play on Friday, at 03:54 GMT, the England players and management will observe a minute's silence.
"It's important for the national team to pay their respects," said England captain Alastair Cook.
The England women's team, playing in a four-match one-day international series against Sri Lanka, will also observe a minute's silence during their scheduled practice in Colombo on Friday.
Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill has welcomed the news.
She said it would help improve farming businesses, protect the environment and support rural development projects.
Ms O'Neill said it was especially important when all sectors of the industry were experiencing difficulty.
"This is very positive news, not just for our rural communities, but for everyone in the north of Ireland," she added.
"The new Rural Development Programme will provide opportunities for our rural communities and farmers alike.
"I'm confident that every single penny allocated as part of this programme will go towards creating rural jobs, developing our rural infrastructure and investing in the future sustainability of the farming industry.
"The programme will also provide fantastic cross-border initiatives focusing on tourism and further integrating border communities."
In July 2014, Executive approval was granted for the Rural Development Programme containing support worth up to £623m.
This consisted of:
Ulster Unionist MEP Jim Nicholson welcomed the funding approval, saying: "It is now important that the various schemes within the programme are rolled out as quickly and effectively as possible so that the benefits can be felt on the ground - especially by our farm businesses and families given the difficulties currently facing the agricultural industry."
Iraqi activist Nadia Murad was awarded the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by the Council of Europe.
Miss Murad became the face of a campaign to free the Yazidi people and stop human trafficking after escaping IS in November 2014.
The 23-year-old had been captured and enslaved three months earlier along with about 5,000 women and girls.
During her months in captivity, she was bought and sold several times, and subjected to sexual and physical abuse at the hands of the jihadists.
Miss Murad, who was named a United Nations goodwill ambassador in September, called for the creation of an international court to judge crimes committed by IS extremists in her acceptance speech in Strasbourg.
She went on to brand IS's attack on the Yazidi a "genocide", adding: "The free world is not reacting."
The award, which honours outstanding civil society action in defence of human rights, comes with prize money of 60,000 euros (£54,250;$67,000).
Tempers frayed after seven hours of debate during the Brexit Bill's Monday committee stage in the Commons.
The disagreement came as deputy speaker Lindsay Hoyle tried to move on from SNP MP Joanna Cherry.
Mr Salmond claimed Mr Hoyle had cut off his party colleague while speaking and demanded she be allowed to continue.
The row occurred after the MP for Gordon raised a point of order.
He said: "It is quite clear that the honourable member had not resumed her seat, Sir. Being in the chair accords you many privileges but you cannot reinterpret the wishes of an honourable member who is on her feet."
Mr Hoyle responded: "As the chair I have the right to make decisions on this House. What I would say is quite rightly when I wanted to bring her in [Joanna Cherry MP], which I did ... I certainly don't expect advantages to be taken of the chair on the agreements that I make."
Referring to the Brexit Bill, he said: "It is a very serious matter, it is so serious that I want to hear what the minister has to say."
Earlier, Mr Salmond claimed the debate on legislation to allow Theresa May to start formal Brexit talks was being rushed through the Commons.
SNP and Labour MPs had reacted angrily after just one vote was held on the first group of amendments to the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill.
Former shadow chancellor Chris Leslie said there had been a "knife in proceedings" to curtail debate and the opportunity for MPs to vote.
Deputy speaker Natascha Engel replied: "The deputy chairs and clerks spent a very, very long time looking at every single amendment in detail, looking at every single group in detail over a period of three days, and we came to the decision that we would put the lead amendment to a division and then we would move on to the second group."
Mr Salmond, also raising a point of order, said: "There is no challenge to the chair in any of these points of order but honourable members are entitled to point out that this programme motion is railroading debate on the biggest constitutional decision facing this country for 50 years."
The brother, known at the inquiry as BR10, taught at Rubane House boys home, County Down, in the 1970s and 1980s.
Several former residents accused him of physically abusing them at the home.
Earlier, the inquiry took evidence from a lay worker at Rubane, who also denied abuse and claimed the boys pulled knives on each other in the home.
He said the incident happened after a De La Salle brother was removed amid sex abuse allegations.
The lay staff member worked at Rubane more than 30 years ago and has been accused of assaulting a number of boys, which he denies.
He told the inquiry social services used the home as a "dumping ground" for "the most difficult children".
He added: "I think maybe some of the boys could have been better placed."
The man described how glue-sniffing was "very prevalent" in the home, and said workers "very often found glue bags strewn around Rubane".
Describing the moment when a De La Salle brother was removed from the home amid sex abuse allegations, he said: "The boys were going mad.
"They had pulled knives on each other and the whole place was in an uproar.
"Boys were accusing each other of touting on them to the police."
Giving evidence on Tuesday afternoon, the witness known as BR10 said he was "flabbergasted" by allegations that he physically assaulted boys at Rubane.
One former resident had claimed the brother "punched the living daylights out of me" and others also alleged he had punched and kicked them.
BR10 repeatedly denied the claims and on one occasion, he told the inquiry: "I can't understand. I'm flabbergasted by that. Flabbergasted."
It was also revealed that the police decided not to prosecute him over sex abuse allegations.
BR10 said he taught and worked with young children for more than 30 years, after leaving his post at Rubane House and had never been accused of any physical or sex abuse linked to his work.
The HIA inquiry was set up in 2013 to investigate child abuse in residential institutions in Northern Ireland over a 73-year period, up to 1995.
A total of 13 Northern Ireland institutions are being investigated.
The inquiry is currently examining alleged abuse at Rubane.
About 200 former residents have made allegations of abuse.
A total of 55 former residents have come forward to the inquiry to allege that they were physically or sexually abused.
Down Street in Mayfair, a station from 1907 to 1932, was used as a bomb-proof bunker for the prime minister during World War Two.
Passageways under Euston Station and Clapham South's deep-level bomb shelter will also be made accessible.
Tours of the sites will be run by London Transport Museum.
Down Street was also used as the main location for coordinating the country's railways.
Tours will also take place in the warren of tunnels 180 steps beneath Clapham South.
The site was used as a shelter during the Blitz, as a base for Caribbean migrants arriving in 1948, and even by visitors to the Festival of Britain in 1951.
London Underground's former headquarters at 55 Broadway near St James' Park, which opened in 1929, will be another site featured in the Hidden London project.
Chris Nix of London Transport Museum said visitors would get "a rare opportunity to see a secret side of London".
Tickets for the tours, which will begin next month, go on sale on 20 April.
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The £200m scheme will give Northern Ireland greater access to generating capacity in the Republic.
Approval was granted in December 2016 but was challenged by the North East Pylon Pressure Campaign.
The judge said there was "no lawful reason" to overturn the planning permission.
The Utility Regulator has said the scheme is needed to ensure security of supply, particularly as some older power stations in Northern Ireland are due to be decommissioned.
The scheme will involve connecting the two power grids via 138km of overhead lines between Moy in County Tyrone and County Meath.
The Planning Appeals Commission (PAC) held a public inquiry into the northern element of the the project in February.
The PAC is due to make a recommendation later this year.
The Northern Ireland section is being overseen by System Operator for Northern Ireland (SONI).
Robin McCormick of SONI welcomed the court decision and said the inter-connector was needed to address security of supply problems facing Northern Ireland.
"This decision is encouraging and means our colleagues in EirGrid can now engage with landowners in the project area in the south," he said.
Angela McGowan, CBI Northern Ireland Regional director, said it was a welcome development but stressed that "urgent clarity" on the northern section of the project was needed.
"We would encourage the Planning Appeals Commission and the Department for Infrastructure to reach a positive decision on the planning application as soon as possible," she said.
Economic uncertainty in the event of a UK vote to leave the EU would hit the consumer goods giant, a spokesman said.
He said Unilever was responding to questions about the future from employees and pensioners.
Some UK bosses have previously said that Britain can be economically successful outside the European Union.
Unilever said in a statement it would still operate and have facilities such as research laboratories in the UK after a Brexit.
But it added: "However, the way we run the company may be fundamentally different if the decision were taken to leave the EU."
A spokesman said it was too early to say what effect Brexit would have on Unilever jobs, hiring, or investment.
However, uncertainty about the knock-on effects on the UK economy could stifle business behaviour, the spokesman said.
"We cannot predict the consequences on the economy and subsequent impact on our operations in the UK," the Unilever statement said.
Chief executive Paul Polman, along with former chief executives Patrick Cescau and Niall FitzGerald and former chairman Sir Michael Perry, sent a joint letter to employees on Thursday.
"It is not for us to suggest how people might vote... but in taking this hugely important and irreversible decision, we feel a responsibility to point out that Unilever in the UK, with its thriving operating company, international research centres, factories and global headquarters would, in our considered opinion, be negatively impacted if the UK were to leave the European Union."
How trade and the UK's economy are affected by membership of the EU.
Previously, Mr Polman had told the Guardian that Unilever had no plans to scale back its UK operations in the event of Brexit, but that "it would be very good" for the UK to remain in the EU.
In their letter to Unilever's 7,500 UK employees, the bosses said the company owed much of its success over the past 25 years to having access to "a single European market of 500 million consumers".
The "collective weight of the European Union" had helped "open up markets and drive standards in other parts of the world, including in such important areas as the environment and social protection", it said.
The letter added that the European Union has become "a window on the world - crucial to any European-based business, like Unilever, seeking to grow and prosper in a highly globalised marketplace".
But Vote Leave campaigners have previously said that trade in Europe would carry on as before after a Brexit, and that the UK "could do a trade deal with the US that the EU is failing to do".
In the UK, some bosses have come out in favour of a Brexit. Last week JCB chairman Lord Bamford wrote to his company's 6,500 employees to explain why he favoured a vote to leave the European Union.
He said he was "very confident that we can stand on our own two feet".
And Sir James Dyson said Britain would gain more from leaving the EU than it would lose.
He said the idea that Britain could not trade successfully outside the EU was "absolute cobblers".
Sir James told the Daily Telegraph that the UK "will create more wealth and more jobs by being outside the EU than we will within it".
This brings it well below the EU limit of 3% and allows it to exit the Commission's excessive debt procedure.
After its 2011 bailout, Portugal saw austerity policies under a centre-right government until elections in 2015.
Since then, a Socialist-led coalition has reversed those austerity measures.
EU economy commissioner Pierre Moscovici said the outcome was "extremely good news" for Portugal.
The Portuguese finance ministry hailed the Commission's decision, calling it a "turning point".
"It expresses the evaluation of the Commission that Portugal's excessive budget deficit has been corrected in a sustainable and lasting way," the ministry said in a statement.
"Confidence in the Portuguese economy is beginning to be reflected by international institutions."
Under EU rules, member states are not supposed to run annual deficits greater than 3% of their total economic output.
Portugal now complies with those rules, but some other member states are less fortunate.
On Monday, the Commission, which has the power to oversee eurozone countries' draft budgets, said France and Spain were still subject to the disciplinary procedure.
France's deficit hit 3.4% last year, while Spain's was even worse at 4.5%.
Although all EU countries are required to observe the 3% limit, only the 19 countries that use the euro as a currency can be fined.
The app is a social game in which players create an avatar known as a Mii and share posts with friends from Facebook and Twitter.
Players are encouraged to answer questions about their likes and dislikes and the answers can be seen by friends in the app.
Early reviews of the app have been mixed.
Video game site IGN said Miitomo had "a lot of potential" but had "missed opportunities with the lack of room customisation".
Technology site The Verge said Miitomo was "a little clunky at times, with too many load screens" but did have an abundance of "sleek, appealing quirkiness".
But the first 500 reviews on the Japanese version of the iOS app store have been largely positive.
Nintendo first announced its intention to produce smartphone games in March 2015, after widespread demand for its best-selling franchises to be made available on mobiles.
Miitomo lets players dress up their avatar with Nintendo-themed accessories and share pictures of their Mii with friends.
"It's a new kind of social network, and it's quite strange," said Alex Olney, a games journalist at Nintendo Life.
"You are questioned by the app about what you did at the weekend and what food you like and the answers are relayed to your friends. It's strangely engrossing."
Although the game offers in-app purchases, where players can part with real cash to buy in-game currency, Mr Olney said he felt like the app was more likely to be a "gateway" into the Nintendo ecosystem.
"It links to a Nintendo account and Miitomo can be used to get rewards. Save enough and you might get a discount or free downloadable content for a console game," he told the BBC.
"It gets people on to their platform - a gateway into the wider Nintendo world."
Nintendo's social software has not always been a success. In 2013, it closed the Letterbox messaging service on its 3DS console over concerns people were sharing indecent images on the platform.
Despite the closure, Mr Olney said Miitomo did not have content filters built into it.
"There is no language or photo filter, it is something we brought up with them," he told the BBC.
"But it is a closed circle of friends - you can't add people just by email address, you have to be friends with them on Facebook or follow one another on Twitter. And you can report content you find inappropriate."
Miitomo, which is expected to be released in the UK in March, is the first of five mobile games Nintendo is producing with Japanese firm DeNA.
In January, Nintendo's president Kimishima Tatsumi said he hoped to use some of the firm's famous characters in smartphone games in the future.
The quotation is attributed to Albert Einstein but after a torrid few days on the Korean peninsula, it's one for Chinese leaders to ponder.
China is simply in the wrong place on North Korea. It is allowing Kim Jong-un's nuclear ambitions to undermine Chinese national interest.
There are complex reasons for this including history, habit and political culture. But among Chinese foreign policy experts and even on social media, unease is beginning to spread.
North Korea's nuclear programme has already driven South Korea to agree to the deployment of an American anti-missile system, locking Seoul deeper into a defensive triangle with Japan and the United States.
Relations between Beijing and Seoul are at their worst in a quarter of a century and many South Koreans have been alienated by unofficial Chinese sanctions against the whole spectrum of South Korean interests from supermarkets to boy bands.
This is good for North Korea but for no-one else. It is nonsensical for China to punish South Korea for trying to defend itself against a nuclear threat which even Beijing describes as real and urgent.
And if North Korea continues its drive for nuclear weapons, there may be a worse arms race to come. A nuclear-armed Japan would hardly be in China's national interest.
But despite this catalogue of warning signals and failures, China seems trapped in an unfinished history marked by binary choice: a nuclear-armed North Korea or a reunified Korea with American troops on China's border. Between these choices, it finds a nuclear-armed North Korea preferable.
But if it thinks hard enough, perhaps there is an alternative.
In fact, this is a moment of decision for China. President Xi has talked of an Asia led by Asians. Showing flexibility and resolve on fixing Korea in the interests of the region and the world would demonstrate a readiness to lead.
Almost everyone, even China's most suspicious neighbours, would be grateful. President Trump has already promised that American gratitude would take material form in a favourable trade deal.
So China could use the current crisis on the Korean peninsula to engage its neighbours and cement a key area of partnership with the US. Or it could duck the challenge and let the US lead. A choice put starkly in a tweet from President Trump: "I have great confidence that China will properly deal with North Korea. If they are unable to do so, the US, with its allies, will."
Of course, China's view on what constitutes "dealing with North Korea" does not coincide with Mr Trump's. But there will be no dealing with North Korea worth the name that does not require a fundamental shift in how Beijing sees the region and its relationships within it.
China is after all an ideologically insecure one-party state. A profound aversion to liberal internationalism has tied it to a rigid position on non-interference in the internal affairs of another state. A position which now constrains it in managing the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
What's more, in Beijing's worldview, the United States is its long-term rival in Asia and the US system of alliances is a barely concealed strategy of containment.
For decades, China's security planners have war-gamed scenarios of brinkmanship and conflict with the US as enemy in a zero-sum game. There are no established scenarios in which the US presents as a partner in managing a rogue state masquerading as a Chinese ally.
China and North Korea signed a mutual aid treaty in 1961. The treaty says if either ally comes under armed attack, the other should provide immediate assistance, including military support. But it also says both should safeguard peace and security.
Some Chinese experts now argue that Beijing is not obliged to defend North Korea on the grounds that its nuclear weapons breach the mutual defence pact. But in general, China's security policy for the Korean peninsula seems frozen in time.
Despite establishing diplomatic relations with Seoul 25 years ago, and despite the burgeoning economic relationship with South Korea which followed, the security logic has not changed.
And now that China's only formal ally is threatening a nuclear war which would bring incalculable horror to the entire region including China's own citizens, Beijing's position looks a quarter century out of date.
If it wants to claim leadership in Asia, it could say loudly that Pyongyang's threats are completely intolerable and must not stand. After all, what loyalty does it owe a regime which shows only contempt for Chinese diplomacy and Chinese national interest?
Rather than dragging its feet on economic sanctions and turning a half-blind eye to Chinese companies which supply high-tech components to North Korea's arms programme, Beijing could choose to lead the sanctions charge.
Rather than repeating tired rhetoric urging all parties to refrain from provoking and threatening each other, it could suspend oil exports and foreign currency dealings.
Rather than staging an unnecessary set piece forum on President Xi's "one belt, one road" slogan next month, it could host an emergency conference for Asia on dealing with North Korea.
That Beijing will not lead on North Korea is China's tragedy and Asia's tragedy.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 19.31 points to 18,473.75.
The broader S&P 500 added just 0.7 points to 2,169.18, while the Nasdaq climbed 12.42 to 5,110.05.
Shares in McDonald's slid 4.5% after the fast-food giant reported weaker-than-expected sales growth. Sales at US restaurants open at least 13 months rose 1.8%, below analysts' forecasts.
The burger giant also said it faced "a challenging environment in several key markets".
Commenting on McDonald's results, Neil Saunders, of retail research firm Conlumino, said: "There is no doubt that in the US the market as a whole was weak across the reporting period, with lower growth in consumer expenditure on fast food and casual dining."
However, he added: "Despite the slowdown the results are not disastrous: they remain in positive territory and show that the changes McDonald's has made continue to gain favour with customers."
Shares of US telecoms giant Version also fell, dropping 1.9%, after the company reported disappointing growth.
Verizon blamed a seven-week long strike by over 40,000 employees for the drop in revenue. The company announced Monday plans to buy Yahoo's core internet business for $4.8bn.
Heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar rose 5% after the company beat quarterly earnings expectations.
The Federal Reserve also began its latest two-day policy meeting. Investors will be looking for any clues as to the timing of interest rate changes when the Fed issues its statement on Wednesday.
The Reading striker feels form and results in their current Test series against Netherlands will be key.
The 31-year-old, from Southampton, was part of the first Test win against the Dutch in Amsterdam on Tuesday.
"There's a really strong sense of belief in our squad that we've got an edge," she told BBC Radio Solent.
"To get that, you need to have done it against the best," added Danson, who returned to the GB squad last month following a hand injury.
"We've beaten the Dutch on our last two occasions, so we have that in our mental locker.
"We know on our day we can beat the big teams in the big tournaments."
Great Britain face Netherlands again on Thursday before another meeting in the Champions Trophy at London's Olympic Park later this month, alongside pool matches against Argentina, New Zealand, USA and Australia.
"To an extent, you can't read too much into results before an Olympics," said the 2012 bronze medallist. "But in the back of your mind you know you've done it before and you know you can do it again."
Manager Paul Lambert told BBC WM the 18-year-old will be out for "a good few months" with the injury.
Ronan made his league debut in the 2-0 Championship win at Nottingham Forest in December, and he has since made five further appearances.
"He just needs to come over this little hurdle and we'll get him right for the start of next season," Lambert said.
"In the games he's played he's probably been one of our best players, so he's got a big future and he'll come back strong."
Evan and Jordan Caldwell, 17, were killed and six other teens were injured after they rode toboggan down a bobsled track at Canada Olympic Park.
The teens had sneaked into the park after it had closed, police said.
As their toboggan sped down the track, the teens crashed into a gate that separated the luge and bobsled tracks.
The twins were pronounced dead at the scene and the others were treated at hospital.
"Our boys Jordan and Evan were bright lights to all who knew them. We are grieving their loss but confident in their new home of heaven. Our brief 17 years with them were a gift: filled with much love, laughter and fond memories," the Caldwell family said in a statement.
"They leave a huge void and will be sorely missed."
WinSport, the operators of the park, which hosted events during the 1988 Winter Olympics, told the CBC that the company was reviewing security camera footage to determine how the accident happened.
WinSport president and CEO Barry Heck called the park's security "robust" and refuted claims made on social media that teens frequently sneak into the park after hours.
"I've heard of incidents of people coming into the park," Mr Heck told the CBC. "I do not know of any incidents of anyone being on the sliding track."
The Italian was visibly moved as he celebrated a result that leaves the Foxes needing three wins for the title.
"You make this job for the emotion you feel inside but it is difficult for me to tell you what kind," Ranieri said.
"The fans must continue to dream but we must be concentrated and focused."
Speaking to BBC Sport, the Leicester manager added: "We have to stay calm, be focused, strong, solid and keep going. Today we made some mistakes. We still have to look at what is not right."
Leicester remain top of the table and have all but clinched Champions League football next season after Tottenham beat fifth-placed Manchester United 3-0 at White Hart Lane.
The Foxes cannot finish lower than fourth but could still miss out on a place in Europe's premier club competition.
That would happen if:
Leicester, who this time last season were fighting relegation from England's top flight, are seven points ahead of second-placed Tottenham.
Ranieri's table-toppers face West Ham, Swansea, Manchester United, Everton and Chelsea in their final five matches.
They were described as "virtual incendiary" devices which were a danger to people, farm animals, wildlife and property.
After agreeing the ban, the council's cabinet expressed a desire for lanterns to be banned across Wales.
Powys is the 14th Welsh local authority to ban their use on its property.
Cabinet member for environment and sustainability John Powell said there is "widespread concern" about the impact of Chinese lanterns.
"They are a virtual incendiary device consisting of a candle or a fuel cell filled with paraffin wax suspended inside a frame, capable of reaching heights of 1,000 metres (3,280 ft) and drifting for miles," he said.
Mr Powell added they are a fire hazard.
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The group, Action for Community Transformation (ACT), told the BBC the aim of the patrols is to prevent crime and deter anti-social behaviour.
ACT is involved in community work. It has set up groups of residents to walk around their estates, watching for burglars and "suspicious activity".
The groups were filmed on Tuesday night patrolling the Braniel estate.
One of the organisers from ACT, Ian Shanks, said: "There's been several break-ins in the last couple of weeks in the Braniel, but it's increasing all over east Belfast.
"We're not here to be vigilantes or anything. We're just here as concerned residents."
A young man who was filmed taking part said: "We're just out to deter people from doing wrong.
"Hopefully, if people are looking out of their window, the more vulnerable people, that they'll see us out and hopefully it'll give them a bit of peace of mind, because at the end of the day your home is supposed to be your sanctuary."
However, the Police Services of Northern Ireland has asked the group to stop the patrols until the volunteers are formally organised into a "regulated" and "accountable" neighbour watch group.
Supt Darren Jones, who is in charge of operations for Belfast City policing district said officers have recently received reports from the public expressing concerns about groups of individuals patrolling the streets.
"This is actually increasing fear of crime, particularly within vulnerable groups, and it's not having an impact, as far as we know, on actually reducing crime," he said.
The group said it held a meeting in a local church and decided on the action after a 70-year-old man's home was broken into on a Sunday morning.
One of the group told the BBC's Talkback programme: "We're all family men and we're not going to put ourselves in a position where, if we do catch somebody on the street, as angry as it would make you, we're not going to put ourselves in a position where the law is going to come down on us."
Another man said he would make a "citizen's arrest" if he confronted a burglar.
When asked if residents should leave street patrols to the PSNI, another resident said: "We've been out for an hour at the minute and there hasn't been one police patrol, police car about.
"There's only so many cars, so they can't cover everywhere."
A woman taking part in the patrols said: "At the end of the day we need to protect where we live and make sure that people are safe in their homes and feeling safe in their homes."
Another woman said that on an average night they patrol together in groups of three of four, walking up side streets and alleyways, mostly checking on the homes of pensioners to "make sure they're ok".
Supt Jones said officers have already given "some advice to the ACT group" but said that it was on an "ad hoc and informal" basis.
"We're keen to promote volunteering but we need to do it a structured and regulated way, so we can make people accountable for their actions."
"We would rather they didn't do it at this time, until they're properly trained, until they're properly constituted, until they speak to us to allow us to impart advice, and that's not only just to protect them, it's also to protect vulnerable people within the community as well," the officer said.
However, Dr William Mitchell, co-ordinator of the ACT initiative said ACT was already a "legally constituted" group.
He said it was registered as a limited company with Companies House, with a board of directors "made up of civic society".
Dr Mitchell said they had already held a community consultation process and followed the recommendations on the PSNI's website before setting up the neighbourhood patrols.
The group I match will take place in Ivorian city of Bouake on 3 September 3 and Sierra Leone need to win to qualify for the tournament for the first time in 20 years.
Ivory Coast need only a draw to secure the chance to defend their title in January's finals in Gabon.
"We are taking the team to Accra to reduce the pressure and tension from the fans at home who would like to see the team succeed in the historical match," said the Leone Stars coach Sellas Tetteh.
"In the process we'll create a conducive atmosphere for the boys to concentrate on the task ahead.
"This is a very important match for the country and for the team of young players who have never played in the Afcon finals.
"We are going to do our best and come out of the match with our heads raised up.
The 16 home-based players in the 30-man provisional squad selected by coach Tetteh are already in Accra and are expected to play several warm-up games against Ghanaian top-flight league clubs.
They will be joined in Accra by 14 foreign-based players, including Celtic forward Mohamed Bangura, who currently plays in China.
Defender Gibril Sankoh, who is also based in China, returns to the squad after a four-year absence.
The Sierra Leone Football Association says three-time African Player of the Year Abedi Pele and former Black Stars defender Anthony Baffoe will help Leone Stars prepare for the crucial game.
Sierra Leone provisional squad:
Goalkeepers: Solomon Zombo Morris (Quevilly, France), Unisa Koroma (East End Lions), Alhaji Dauda Conteh (Diamond Stars FC)
Defenders: Mohamed L. Bangura (Ports Authority FC), Umaru Bangura (FC Zurich, Switzerland), Ibrahim A. Kamara (Mighty Blackpool), Abu Kanu (FC Johansen), David Simbo (Krumkachy Minsk Belarus), Mohamed Kamanor (Unattached), Gibril Sankoh (Meizhou Kejia, China), Yeami Dunia (FC Johansen), Abu Suma (FC Johansen), Kemson Fofanah (East End Lions)
Midfielders: Prince Barrie (Kallon FC), Kwamie Quee (FC Johansen), Ibrahim Kabba (FC Kallon), Hassan Sesay (FC Lahti, Finland), Mohamed Kamara (Kuwait FC, Kuwait), Khalifa Jabbie (FC Sheriff, Maldova), Alfred Sankoh (Denizlispor, Turkey), John Bankole Kamara (Riga Latvia), Julius Woobay (Olimpija, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Forwards: Mohamed Bangura (Dalian Yifang, China), Abdul Sesay (OPS, Finland), Sheka Fofanah (Vejle BK, Denmark) George Davies (Greuther Fürth, Germany), Donald Wellington (East End Lions), Christian Moses (Lion Pride FC), Abu Bakarr Mansaray (Old Edwardians), Ibrahim Sorie Barrie (FC Johansen)
Tracy Shelvey, 41, fell from the roof of a car park in Rochdale on 3 February 2014 after learning a man accused of raping her had been cleared.
Coroner Simon Nelson ruled the death an accident and said the failings had only "minimally" contributed.
He said she had not been told of the "possibility of an acquittal".
Ms Shelvey, who was vulnerable and known to have drink and drug problems, plunged to her death three days after hearing the verdict of the retrial.
Oldham County Court learned she was visited by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officers on 31 January 2014 to deliver news of the verdict.
But the subject of acquittal had not been broached "adequately or at all" with Ms Shelvey and there were a catalogue of errors by other agencies, the coroner said.
Officers should have made sure a bespoke plan was in place before the retrial, he said, which was a "significant and gross failure".
Ms Shelvey was later made the subject of a high-risk missing person inquiry but, when police and a paramedic visited her, she dismissed their concerns and was deemed not to be at risk.
After taking to the roof of the Wheatsheaf Shopping Centre car park in protest at the acquittal, she fell when a conduit on which her foot was resting gave way.
No less than 10 referrals to Rochdale Council's adult care were generated from GMP's Public Protection Investigation Unit before 31 January, the response to which, Mr Nelson said, was "wholly inadequate".
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust had failed to record or explore how Ms Shelvey might respond to an acquittal, Mr Nelson said.
GMP said since Ms Shelvey's death, officers investigating rape and sexual assaults have been given guidance to ensure the correct support is in place for victims.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission found no case to answer for misconduct or gross misconduct by GMP and recommended officers who tried to talk Ms Shelvey down should be commended.
Rochdale Council said: "We have made a number of changes to our systems so that people in similar situations will get a greater level of support."
A victim-support group, called Anadir, estimates that thousands of babies were stolen over decades.
Many were taken away from parents with left-wing sympathies and given to other families.
But the group says some babies were stolen after Franco's death in 1975.
Enrique Vila, lawyer for the victims' group bringing the case, describes a mafia of doctors and intermediaries he claims was trading children for cash.
The practice of forcibly removing children from their mothers began in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War.
The victims then were largely Republican supporters - including prisoners - whose children were handed to more "ideologically suitable" families.
"This structure, these methods allowed people to see the potential for a business," said Mr Vila.
"It all started for political reasons, but in the end it could be any child at all that was targeted."
Anadir was founded by Antonio Barroso, after the man he always believed was his father made a death-bed confession.
He admitted he had bought his son, paying "more than the price of a flat" to doctors, in cash.
DNA tests later proved that Antonio and his parents were not biologically related.
"We want the prosecutor to open a national investigation," Mr Barroso said outside the general prosecutor's office.
He was accompanied by a crowd of Anadir members in white T-shirts declaring themselves "the victims of baby-trafficking" and demanding justice.
"There are cases of mothers who had their babies' graves opened and found them empty when they had been taking flowers there for 30 years. Mothers who were deliberately tricked. Then there are people like me, whose birth certificates were faked," Mr Barroso said.
He tried to get a local court to look into his case, but failed. He then founded Anadir as a campaign group and has been amazed at the scale of the response.
Alberto and his mother Solidad Hernandez are both members.
Solidad gave birth to twins in the 1980s and was told one had died. But as many mothers now recount, she never saw the body. Alberto says the official paperwork does not match up.
"One set of papers says my brother was buried, others say he was cremated. One says he died of respiratory problems, another that he was malnourished," Alberto says.
The inconsistencies feed his suspicions and give him hope his twin is still alive.
"All my life I've thought there was someone out there. People always see me in places I have not been. This case could bring all that to a close," he says.
Lawyer Enrique Vila admits that not all the suspicious deaths are clear-cut thefts.
"Some mothers may be clinging to that chance, as a means of hope," he says.
"We don't know, we have to investigate. We need to check all the records, and if necessary order exhumations, to see if there is an empty grave."
But he claims a funeral parlour worker recently admitted transporting 20 empty coffins in the past.
"That is just one man," Mr Vila says.
"Just imagine how many there could be in the whole of Spain. This has to be a gigantic investigation."
An estimated 63,000 people now live with the disease.
Approximately 10,000 more people have been living with cancer since 2010, a figure that represents an 18% rise over the last five years.
The increase is due to improvements in survival and detection, and a growing and ageing population.
The number of men with prostate cancer has seen the biggest rise of 27% over the last five years.
Macmillan Cancer Support's general manager in Northern Ireland, Heather Monteverde, warned that care for cancer patients must be adapted.
"Without a complete transformation of the way people are supported after their treatment ends, there is no way patients will get the after-care they so desperately need, whether that's practical help at home, financial advice, or even emotional support," she said.
"Our existing health and social care structures were not set up to deal with the needs of such a huge number of people who have survived cancer, but who often continue to require considerable support," she added.
The charity has been working with the Health and Social Care Board, Public Health Agency and Northern Ireland Cancer Network to advocate individually tailored patient care.
A Transforming Cancer Follow Up (TCFU) programme, which cost ??1.3m, has been used as a template by all five health trusts in Northern Ireland as a new model for breast cancer follow-up treatment.
The scheme includes access to a clinical nurse specialist, an additional treatment summary and an invitation to a health and well-being event.
My view is that Rabin's assassination was one of the most successful political killings of the 20th Century; his assassin, Yigal Amir, wanted to destroy the Israel-Palestinian Oslo peace accords by shooting dead the only Israeli leader who had a chance of making it work.
Amir wanted to stop Israel ceding land in the occupied West Bank to Palestinian control; he believed the land was a gift from God to the Jewish people that could never be traded away. He achieved his objectives.
The Israeli official argued that Rabin's successors were just as willing to talk. They couldn't make a deal, he argued, as neither Yasser Arafat nor his successor Mahmoud Abbas would make the necessary compromises for peace.
Rabin's killer, a religious Jew and law student in his 20s, was convinced that he had scored an historic victory. When he was charged with the murder, Amir admitted cheerfully that he had done it. He asked for a glass of schnapps so he could toast his achievement.
The atmosphere in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories in the months leading up to Rabin's assassination on 4 November 1995 was turbulent; a mixture of hope, among supporters of peace on both sides, and fear and loathing on the Israeli right-wing and within the Palestinian militants of Hamas.
I moved to Jerusalem in August 1995 to start a posting as the BBC Middle East correspondent. Wherever you went in Israeli West Jerusalem there were posters of Yitzhak Rabin, put there by Israeli opponents of the interim peace deals he had agreed with the Palestinians.
In many of them, Rabin was made to look like Yasser Arafat, complete with a black-and-white Palestinian scarf, the keffiyeh, folded around his head in the Arafat style.
In some posters, waved at demonstrations, Israeli enemies of Rabin portrayed him as a Nazi, in the black uniform of the SS. Benjamin Netanyahu - then leader of the opposition, now prime minister - spoke at some of the most vitriolic anti-Rabin rallies.
Among the Palestinians, militants in Hamas had already started a suicide bomb campaign. They would have nothing to do with Oslo, saying it was surrender and that there could be no territorial compromise with an Israeli state they believed should not exist. Some leading intellectuals rejected it too.
But my impression in the summer of 1995 was that mainstream Palestinians and Israelis had real hope that better times were coming, that there could be a peaceful resolution of the most intractable conflict of modern times.
The extremists, though they were kicking and screaming, were being outmanoeuvred.
Yitzhak Rabin was the vital Israeli if peace was to be made. He was the man Israelis trusted most with their security.
Rabin had been a leading commander in Israel's independence war in 1948-49. In 1967, as chief of staff, Israel's most senior general, he led their armed forces to their most decisive victory over their Arab enemies.
In six days, Israel destroyed the armed forces of Jordan, Egypt and Syria. After that, like many Israeli generals, he had gone into politics.
Once the Oslo peace process started, he put his weight behind it in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, and internationally. This was a typical quote, from a speech in 1993:
"I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces and in the army of peace, I, who have sent armies into fire and soldiers to their death, say today: We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in - the war for peace."
Israelis listened to Rabin when he talked about making peace, because he had proved himself in uniform as a man who above all wanted his country to be secure. They listened when he said peace, not war, was the answer.
Public grief overflowed in Israel after Rabin was murdered. There was plenty of guilt too, from supporters of peace who realised that they had not defended Rabin enough when he was under verbal assault.
Of course it is impossible to map out with certainty an alternative future for Israelis and Palestinians had Rabin lived.
The Oslo peace process had a slow death, but I believe it contracted its fatal illness on 4 November 1995 when Yigal Amir shot Yitzhak Rabin in the back.
There was a chance of peace with the Palestinians when Rabin was alive. He was forging an unlikely understanding with Yasser Arafat, his detested old enemy. Arafat visited Leah, Rabin's widow, in Tel Aviv after the assassination to offer his condolences, and was pictured without his trademark keffiyeh.
It still might not have worked. On 4 November 1995, the night Rabin was shot dead, talks with the Palestinians were behind schedule. Rabin himself had not stated publicly that he supported the idea of a Palestinian state, though his closest aides said after his death that he knew it would be part of a final settlement.
The negotiators had not got yet touched the hardest items on the agenda of any peace deal: the final borders of a Palestinian state, the future of Jerusalem, of Palestinian refugees, and of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories.
But between them, Rabin and Arafat might have seized the chance to make history.
Shimon Peres was sworn in as prime minister after the assassination. Instead of calling a snap election to capitalise on a surge in the polls he decided to see out the government's term. A succession of blunders followed, and so did an intensification of the Hamas suicide bombings.
On election night in 1996, Israelis went to bed thinking that Shimon Peres had secured a narrow victory over Benjamin Netanyahu.
At the Likud campaign headquarters in Tel Aviv, I saw Israeli right-wingers weeping over their hero's defeat. But when Israel woke, the final votes had given victory to Mr Netanyahu and the right. Yitzhak Rabin would most likely have beaten Mr Netanyahu. The future would have been different.
Yigal Amir is still in jail, convinced he is a national hero, campaigning for a pardon.
He was allowed to marry and fathered a son during a conjugal visit. The boy's ritual circumcision was held at Rimonim prison, 12 years to the day after the assassination.
Amir attended in handcuffs. As the 20th anniversary of the killing approached, right-wing Israeli fans of the Beitar Jerusalem football team chanted his name from the terraces.
Mobile phone footage of Robert Anderson's outburst as he walked through a Glasgow pub went viral after being uploaded to the internet.
He admitted repeatedly uttering a racial remark in McChuill's pub on Glasgow's High Street on 21 May.
The 27-year-old was ordered to carry out 250 hours of unpaid work.
Anderson, of Tolcross, was sentenced after appearing from custody at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
Procurator fiscal depute Ruth Ross-Davie said that Anderson had gone to the pub at about 20:00.
He began singing the racist chant and recorded himself on his own mobile doing this.
The police were contacted and Anderson handed himself in after the footage went viral.
Miss Ross-Davie added: "During interview he accepted his actions had been idiotic, that he did not have these types of views and he felt he would not have behaved in the manner he did, had he been sober."
Defence lawyer David Tod told a previous court hearing: "Somebody other than him put this on social media.
"He made full and frank admissions and gave a number of details about his attitude, how he expected people to feel."
It considered a challenge to a Texas law that imposes strict regulations on abortion doctors and clinics.
But the court's eight justices so far appear divided on the hot button issue.
It is the court's first major abortion case in decades and the first big case since its most conservative justice, Antonin Scalia, died in February.
His death leaves the court evenly split between liberals and conservatives, with all eyes on Justice Anthony Kennedy who holds a swing vote on the highly charged issue.
Hundreds of activists - both in support and in opposition to abortion - camped outside the court on Wednesday.
The crowd was overwhelmingly in favour of abortion access for women. Mostly younger women enthusiastically gathered together, holding signs and wearing hats emblazoned with the logo of pro-choice groups. They called the Texas abortion regulation in question a "sham law".
"It's too important to miss," said Gena Johnson, 36, who came from Chicago for the hearing. "My mom fought for Roe v Wade in the 1970s, and now here we are… still fighting about abortion, it's ridiculous. I'm here for my daughter so we don't have to do this every couple of years."
Caroline Goldfarb, 19, a student at Harvard, said people don't understand that abortion is "one of the safest medical procedures."
"It's not fair, and it's not safe, to force women to have children when they can't afford them, or they know it's not right."
But Amanda Quigley, 22, who came to the Supreme Court with her mother, said she hopes the law is upheld, and that it has reasonable requirements for women's health.
"I'm here because I believe in the dignity of all human life, from womb to tomb," said Jean Morrow, 27, from Virginia. "I understand there are a lot of people who are pro-choice, but I believe the tide is turning to a pro-life mindset."
Wednesday's case focuses on a part of the law that has yet to go into effect requiring abortion clinics in Texas to have hospital-grade facilities - a requirement that would require costly upgrades at many providers' offices.
It also focuses on a mandate within the law already gone into effect that requires doctors to have the ability to admit patients to hospitals within 30 miles (50km) of their clinic.
Opponents to the law say it would leave just 10 abortion clinics in Texas, making it harder for women there to obtain the procedure. But the law's proponents argue it is necessary to protect women's health.
Justices at the court must decide whether such restrictions on clinics hampers a woman's constitutional right to an abortion.
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But after 90 minutes of arguments, they failed to show a unified front on the issue. In their questions, liberal judges voiced hostility towards the law while the conservatives appeared more sympathetic.
Justice Kennedy did not give a clear indication of which way he stood, however he did suggest sending the case back to the lower court to allow more evidence to be gathered on the law's impact.
A ruling is not expected until the end of June, although experts say this is likely to end in deadlock with a 4-4 split in the case. Without a majority verdict, the Texas law would be implemented but the court will not set a nationwide legal precedent.
Abortion is a highly disputed issue in the US, and is a hot topic in the presidential election, with all of the Republican candidates backing bans on the procedure.
The Supreme Court legalised abortion more than 40 years ago in a landmark ruling, but some states have since endeavoured to pass laws placing restrictions on a woman's ability to terminate a pregnancy.
The hospital said the move was necessary after a difficult winter with a high level of admissions.
In March, the Care Quality Commission called for action at the hospital.
The Royal United Hospital NHS Trust said the extra consultants would ensure more senior expertise was available in the first 24 hours of admission.
Francesca Thompson, Chief Operating Officer at the RUH said: "The Royal United Hospital, similar to many other acute hospitals, experienced an extremely challenging winter with the number of emergency department attendances and admissions."
The extra consultants would "enable more responsive senior medical review over 24-hours and seven days a week", she added.
The hospital had responded to the Care Quality Commission report saying the inspection had been carried out when the whole local healthcare system had been extremely busy and there was a shortage of beds in all acute hospitals and onward care within the community.
The hospital trust provides 565 beds to a catchment population of some 500,000 covering Bath and the surrounding towns and villages in North East Somerset and Western Wiltshire.
The Sea Life Sanctuary in Oban said seal pups were being brought to them for care when they probably did not need rescued.
And it has been told of people trying to put the pups back into the water themselves.
It said seal pups are left behind when their mother goes out to sea to hunt.
But once a pup is separated from its mother and comes into contact with humans it cannot be returned.
The sanctuary said it had rescued 10 seal pups in the past week when it normally rescues only about four a year.
A spokeswoman said: "We are incredibly grateful to members of the public for alerting us to any seal pups they find that they feel may be abandoned or in difficulty.
"However we would like to stress that unless a pup is visibly injured or unwell it should always be monitored from a distance for 24 hours before action is taken.
"Seals quite often haul out on stretches of beach or rocky areas for a rest, so just because a seal is on the land does not mean it is unwell or in distress."
Sanctuary visitor numbers are up 29% compared with this time last year, and staff are concerned that the rise in tourism combined with the lack of knowledge about seal behaviour may be a reason for the increase in unnecessary "rescues".
If people come across a seal pup on land that are advised to keep their distance and not to attempt to handle the pup or put it back into the sea.
But the Sea Life Sanctuary or SSPCA should be notified if the pup looks thin, injured or seems unwell.
Rocky, the newt-hunting spaniel, has been drafted in to sniff out the amphibians alongside the route of the planned bypass to the north of Norwich.
Natural England has been overseeing the safe removal of the protected great crested newts to secure areas nearby.
Ecologists need to remove protected species and other wildlife to safe areas before building work can begin.
Specially-trained Rocky is being brought in for a week to ensure none remain along the 12-mile (20km) route.
Since the warm spring weather brought the newts out of hibernation, more than 7km (4.3 miles) of amphibian fencing has been used to steer them into bucket traps in the three areas on the route of the Norwich Northern Distributor Road.
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The buckets are checked daily by ecologists and any creatures inside are transferred to more suitable habitats away from the development site.
So far, more than 340 great crested newts have been relocated together with 450 smooth newts, about 850 toads, 90 frogs and an assortment of reptiles and mammals, including a baby hedgehog.
Two-year-old Rocky will be tasked with using his sensitive nose to sniff out any remaining newts.
Trainer Aran Clyne, from sniffer dog firm Wagtail UK, said it takes several months to train a dog to identify wildlife.
"It's all about building an association between the newt smell and Rocky's reward, the tennis ball," he said. "Whenever he finds a newt, he gets his ball."
This is Rocky's first foray into newt conservation as he is more used to sniffing out bats, another protected species, on sites designated for new windfarms.
Once he has located the wayward newts, they will be moved by hand.
Norfolk County Council, who employed Rocky, said: "Using a sniffer dog is a quick, efficient and cost-effective way of carrying out final checks of cleared areas. Without a trained sniffer dog all suitable areas would have to be laboriously searched by hand by ecologists."
The warning came from David Dobbin, the chief executive of Dale Farm, Northern Ireland's largest milk processor.
Speaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Inside Business programme, he said Stormont needed to put the economy at the centre of its next Programme for Government.
He also said he wanted to see a "more collective executive".
Dale Farm is part of the United Dairy Farmers Group, a UK dairy farmer co-operative.
In 2014, Mr Dobbin expressed frustration over delays in getting energy infrastructure to the west of Northern Ireland.
His firm had wanted to expand its plant at Cookstown, County Tyrone, but despite planning approval, correct electricity and gas facilities were not in place.
He told the programme that the next Northern Ireland Executive needed to get to grips with energy infrastructure.
"What we want to see this time round is an executive that is focused on bread and butter issues, not constitutional politics," he added.
"The political process here is pretty ugly to watch. It's almost a case of, we stumble forward, so the government needs to focus and set a target to bring energy costs down.
"We did lose Michelin and there are other big energy users that I think are going to struggle to survive in Northern Ireland if we don't address that."
Inside Business with Wendy Austin airs on BBC Radio Ulster on Sundays at 13:30 BST
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Commiserations to Liverpool and Chelsea, who played a massive part in making the title race so interesting for millions of fans across the country. Arsenal finish a worthy fourth having wrestled a Champions League spot from Everton, who played some blistering football this season, especially at Goodison Park.
The fight for survival at the bottom of the table was just as competitive. Sunderland retained their Premier League status in spectacular fashion, sending Norwich City back into the Championship.
Fulham also find themselves back in the second tier after a turbulent period which saw them employ three managers during a nine-month spell, while Cardiff City are also down after their early-season promise failed to last the distance.
Take a look and see who has made my team of the season.
There have been some notable performances from a number of goalkeepers this season. Julian Speroni's save from Eden Hazard against Chelsea was a turning point in Crystal Palace's season. And to think that, after all the heroic saves Cardiff's David Marshall pulled off, he still couldn't stop them going down.
However, in the final analysis it's Hart who wins my selection. After a poor start to the season and the witch-hunt that followed, he recovered magnificently and went on to produce some title-winning performances. It's not how you start that defines your season but how you finish.
Did you know? Of regular keepers, only Petr Cech (127) and Artur Boruc (99) conceded a goal less frequently than Joe Hart (every 93 mins) in the Premier League this term.
Last season, it was Branislav Ivanovic who made my team, and once again he's had a strong season. Pablo Zabaleta has produced some fine performances and would have been an easy choice to make now Manchester City have won the title.
But no-one has impressed me more at right-back, or attacked with as much purpose, as Seamus Coleman. The full-back has had a superb season. I cannot mention Coleman without acknowledging the contribution made by Everton boss Roberto Martinez, whose style of play has had a significant effect on the defender's development.
Did you know? Scored six goals this season, the most of any full-back, as well as keeping 15 clean sheets
The player Arsenal fans affectionately refer to as the "big friendly giant" has had a wonderful season. The German has played a massive part in getting the Gunners into the Champions League and to an FA Cup final.
He has played more games than any other Arsenal player this season and, without his resilience and consistency at the back, they might have been in all kinds of trouble. If he performs anything like he has this season when Germany arrive at the World Cup in Brazil, they might be one of the European sides to pose a real threat to the South American teams.
Did you know? Mertesacker played more minutes of football than any other outfield player for a Premier League club this season (all competitions, 4,605).
This young man had a better season when Manchester City won the title in 2011-12. However, what the centre-back has demonstrated during another successful season is character.
We have seen frailties in his defending - notably the error against Liverpool, when many thought he had single-handedly thrown away the title. Regardless, Kompany never lost faith in his ability to lead his team to the title, and Pellegrini clearly never lost belief in his captain.
Did you know? Manchester City won 75% of their Premier League games with Kompany this term, but just 60% without him.
I think it is telling that both Everton's full-backs make my team, and a further endorsement of the way their manager approached the season. The left-back has not just made his normal contribution to the Toffees' goal tally, he has grown into a player worthy of the captain's armband.
He has also emerged from the shadow of Ashley Cole at international level. All he has to do now to emulate Peter Reid and Howard Kendall, two Everton greats with similar pedigree, is win the league title. No pressure then.
Did you know? Created more chances than any other defender (49), as well as scoring five goals.
To think that a mere slip against Chelsea should rob Steven Gerrard - arguably the best player of his generation - of lifting the Premier League title seems outrageously unfair. He may not have enjoyed the dream finish to the season that Liverpool fans so desperately wanted, but he could not have given any more to the cause.
His sheer professionalism and dignified approach to the game makes him the perfect choice to lead England in the World Cup.
Did you know? Made more assists than any other player this season (13), as well as scoring 13 goals.
What a season this lad has had. I must admit I had some difficulty leaving Raheem Sterling out of the line-up, but while the Liverpool winger did finish the season strongly, Lallana has been brilliant throughout. Some of his performances were so complete they reminded me of former Sheffield United and Leeds star Tony Currie.
Thrilling crowds with eye-catching performances, Lallana has justified his step up to the England set-up this season. The big question now is can Southampton keep him?
Did you know? Lallana has created more chances than any other Englishman in the Premier League this term (71, seventh overall).
I thought the way Jose Mourinho singled out Eden Hazard for criticism after the defeat by Atletico Madrid in the Champions League was strange. Was it not Mourinho who said that Hazard was the best young player in the world a few weeks earlier? Of course, that was when the Belgium international was practically beating teams on his own.
Mourinho needs to be careful as it was this approach that was thought to have forced Arjen Robben away from Stamford Bridge to forge a successful career elsewhere. One thing is for sure, Mourinho will need Hazard next season if he's serious about winning the Premier League title.
Did you know? Hazard created 92 chances in the Premier League this season. No player created more.
I said halfway through the season that the contest between Yaya Toure and Luis Suarez was so close that it would take the title to decide who got my vote for player of the season. Well, the title has gone to Manchester City, and Toure gets my vote.
When you score so many goals from midfield and prove to be the most valuable member of a Premier League-winning team, you deserve recognition.
Did you know? Became only the second midfielder in Premier League history to reach 20 goals in a season (after Frank Lampard - 22 - in 2009-10).
I was asked recently if I had the choice of selecting Aguero or Suarez in my team, who would I choose? My answer was: 'Why do I have to choose one or the other?' I would make room for both.
I can't see a better striking combination in the world at the moment than Aguero and Suarez. How would they play? I'd let them work it out. Great players always do.
Did you know? Had the best minutes to goals ratio of any regular Premier League player this season (a goal every 91 minutes).
Love him or loathe him, you can't ignore him. Whatever your thoughts on the Uruguay international, Suarez has been breathtaking at times this season. There is no doubt in my mind that without Suarez, Liverpool would not have got anywhere near the title.
To see him so emotional after the draw at Crystal Palace tells you just how much the title meant to him. That's what comes with wanting to win so badly.
Did you know? Suarez was the Premier League's top scorer (31), while only team-mate Gerrard (13) made more assists than the Uruguayan (12).
The custom in the Premier League is the manager who wins the title normally wins the manager of the year award. That is not to say I don't acknowledge the success Manuel Pellegrini has had in his first season at Manchester City, or the glorious football displayed by Brendan Rodgers's Liverpool.
I only ever have a problem with that premise when the winning manager has a team with the biggest squad, or the most money at his disposal. Tony Pulis has had none of those resources. Most managers demand a budget for transfers you could run the National Health Service on, plus numerous guarantees before they even consider taking a job with far less risk to their reputation than the one that was facing Pulis.
What followed in the four months after he took the reins at Crystal Palace was one of the greatest transformations I have ever seen in a football club. We were told that his players were inferior, the fans indifferent and the stadium in disrepair. What Pulis did was inject belief into his players, a sense of real hope into the fans and turned the stadium from a dilapidated arena into a fortress - and all with little money. That is genius, and that is why he is my manager of the season.
Did you know? Had the Premier League started the day Tony Pulis managed Crystal Palace for the first time, the Eagles would have finished eighth in the table.
From 1 April, there will be a three-year ban on killing fish outside estuary limits and strict controls on numbers in inland waters.
One MSP described it as an "attack" on fishing in Dumfries and Galloway.
The Scottish government said it had to balance conserving stocks with the interests of salmon fishermen.
Haaf netting is a fishing method which dates back to Viking times and is practised on the Solway Firth in south west Scotland and north west England.
Tom Florey, who manages the Caerlaverock Estate, said the ban would affect the tradition on the River Nith.
"Haaf netting goes back to the days when employees were promised they wouldn't be fed salmon more than three times a week because the numbers were so high," he said.
"But we have all seen the dwindling numbers and the haaf netters themselves have been very good at agreeing restrictions on the hours and the times they practise this very old, ancient art.
"I can see this being a further restriction and possibly for quite a lot of haaf netters a restriction too far and they will not be taking their permit out next year, even though they can still fish for sea trout, the other migratory fish that comes into the Nith system."
He said numbers of haaf netters on the Caerlaverock Estate had fallen from 60 to under 20 in recent years.
"There are dwindling numbers partly because of the restrictions that have been put in over the years," he said.
"I can see that number going down into single figures but we won't let it die out.
"We will by one way or another keep practising, even if it is using estate staff and allowing visitors and tourists to have a go at haaf netting."
Dumfriesshire MSP Elaine Murray described the move as "an attack on the region's fishing industry".
She claimed there was no "genuine research" behind the regulations but the ban was being forced through anyway.
She said the response of local angling and fishing clubs had been "brushed aside".
Her counterpart in Galloway and West Dumfries, Alex Fergusson, said he believed the ban could have been delayed.
"I think there is going to be a huge impact on the local economy," he said.
He said a delay for a year would have helped local fishing interests to prepare for the move.
Announcing the restrictions, Environment Minister Aileen McLeod said: "Our salmon is a valuable and important asset which we must protect and balance conserving stocks with the interests of those who fish for salmon.
"It is absolutely right that we take action now to protect our salmon stocks for the future.
"The changes have been subject to extensive consultation and we have listened and made some changes to the district classifications as a result of all the feedback we have received."
She said she was confident they now had the "right package of measures" to ensure wild salmon had a "sustainable future" in Scottish waters.
They show that the £842m South Glasgow University Hospital saw 1,420 A&E patients in the week ending 31 May.
Of these, 238 waited for longer than the four-hour target for treatment with 20 waiting longer than eight hours.
The 83.2% performance rate is the lowest of Scotland's 31 A&E units and well below the 95% government target.
The 1,109-bed hospital, which began taking patients in April, was built on the site of the Southern General and is one of the largest acute hospitals in the UK.
The new campus replaces the Royal Hospital for Sick Kids at Yorkhill, the Southern General Hospital, Western and Victoria infirmaries and Mansionhouse Unit.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde had the lowest performance rate for any health board, with 88.5% of patients seen within four hours.
The health board also had the highest number of people attending A&E at 6,670.
Throughout Scotland, overall performance improved slightly, with a total of 92.6% of people treated within four hours, up from 92% in the previous week.
The figures show 156 patients waited more than eight hours and 21 patients waited more than 12 hours.
Health Secretary Shona Robison said: "Today's figures show that our NHS staff are continuing to work hard towards delivering a first-class service for Scotland.
"This week has seen an improvement in waiting times but weekly publications will continue to show fluctuations in these figures.
"What is important now is that health boards focus on sustaining the reduced waiting times we have recently seen and make more, sustainable progress towards meeting our world-leading targets."
The Scottish government has put in place an action plan to improve unscheduled emergency care and Ms Robison said £100m had been invested to tackle delayed discharges, otherwise known as bed blocking.
Reacting to the A&E figures, Labour's Jenny Marra said it was clear that the new hospital could not cope with patient numbers.
She added: "We want to see more people treated and supported at home and in the community but the failure to resource GPs and care workers to provide this is driving patients to a hospital which is being overwhelmed by demand.
"Until we see the shift to community care that the SNP government promised, many hospitals across the country will have to ask patients to wait longer and longer for treatment and targets will continue to be missed."
It also argues the bulk of committee convenors and the presiding officer should come from opposition parties.
The proposed ban on second jobs would include paid directorships and consultancies.
An SNP spokesman said it would try to find agreement but it was up to parliament to decide its rules in a "consensual, democratic way".
Scottish Labour's democracy spokeswoman Claire Baker said the changes would improve parliamentary scrutiny.
Speaking ahead of MSPs returning to the parliament on Monday, she said: "Our manifesto contained many proposals for reforming the Scottish Parliament that received backing from all opposition parties.
"We will work with other parties to make them a reality.
"As a start, the presiding officer and the majority of committee convenerships should not come from the governing party.
"We saw in the last term that SNP-dominated committees did not provide anywhere near the level of scrutiny that the government's work required. We will work to change that - but we must go further.
"People require confidence that the politicians they elect to serve are giving them the full attention they deserve.
"Being a member of the Scottish Parliament is an immense privilege and it should be the only job that MSPs do. That is why we will push for a ban on MSPs holding second jobs, including paid directorships and consultancies."
The Scottish Conservatives - now the main opposition party after returning 31 MSPs in the Scottish Parliament election - have also called for improved parliamentary scrutiny.
The Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson also argues that Holyrood committees should have opposition MSPs as their convenors.
An SNP spokesman said: "Parliament will decide all of these issues in a consensual, democratic way, as it always has done.
"The shape of Holyrood's committees is determined by the strength of parties in the parliament - again in line with democratic principles.
"And it isn't for any single MSP or party - certainly not those who lost the election by a country mile - to try and dictate terms.
"The SNP government will seek to work with all parties to find consensus wherever possible, if it is in the interests of the people of Scotland.
"At the same time, Ruth Davidson and Labour need to respect the verdict of voters across Scotland, who have handed the SNP an overwhelming victory at this election and with it a clear mandate from the public to deliver on our manifesto commitments."
A "joined-up approach across a raft of policy areas" is needed to tackle the problem, Holyrood's Health committee has concluded.
MSPs found "well-intended initiatives" had aimed to reduce the gap between affluent and deprived areas.
However none has made "any significant difference".
They also heard from experts that the effect of "lifestyle public health campaigns" encouraging people to eat more healthily, give up smoking, exercise more and drink less was "to widen inequalities rather than to narrow them".
Committee convener Duncan McNeil said: "That your income, your education and where you live contribute to how healthy you are is an issue that as a society should bring us significant shame.
"Since devolution, successive governments have made this a political priority and invested significant amounts of public money in tackling this complex issue.
"But sadly none have made any significant difference.
"Our NHS can offer a sticking plaster, but without a new approach we will not tackle the root causes of inequality and improve the health outcomes of thousands of people across Scotland."
The committee is writing to the conveners of other Holyrood committees, urging them to consider what could be done to reduce wider inequalities, arguing this would "have a corresponding impact on health and wellbeing inequalities".
BBC Scotland understands a neighbour discovered the man dead in the driveway of his bungalow at Anchorscross.
Police Scotland said the death of the 67-year-old was being treated as "unexplained".
A spokesperson added: "Inquiries into the full circumstances are at an early stage and ongoing."
The street is currently cordoned off and a forensics tent has been erected in the driveway.
Nowhere is this clearer than in the field of foreign policy which, throughout the Fifth Republic, has been seen as a reserved presidential domain.
No wonder then that Nicolas Sarkozy stamped his personality on France's relations abroad
So if Socialist candidate Francois Hollande - consistently ahead in the opinion polls - were to win on Sunday, how would French foreign policy change?
It is a question I put to veteran French analyst Dominique Moisi.
Mr Hollande's style would, he told me, be very different "not least because his international experience is very limited".
President Sarkozy was strong on high-profile diplomacy and eager to seize upon events to propel France into a driving seat.
In the summer of 2008 he took the helm of EU efforts to broker a peace deal between Russia and Georgia and French warplanes were first into action against Libyan government troops in March 2011.
In both cases France was by no means acting alone but Nicolas Sarkozy sought to leverage its interventions to bolster French foreign policy goals.
Mr Hollande is not Mr Sarkozy. Indeed it is the current French president's personality, as much as anything else, that was rejected by many voters at the first ballot.
So Dominique Moisi believes that the style of French foreign policy would change under Mr Hollande but he adds one important caveat: Mr Hollande could change while in office.
Mr Hollande's chief challenge would be how to deal with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and his other European partners, says Francois Heisbourg, a strategic adviser at the Paris-based think-tank FRS.
Much has been made of Francois Hollande's desire to promote growth and his unhappiness with the European Union's whole approach to austerity, championed by Mrs Merkel.
Indeed the German chancellor has made no secret of her preference for the re-election of Nicolas Sarkozy.
But Mr Sarkozy's policy of sticking to the Germans and doing what they want has reached its limits, Heisbourg argues.
"The whole thing has been undermined by the downgrading of France's credit rating and the current state of the European economy.
"Hollande could be in a relatively strong bargaining position. The writing is on the wall and if Chancellor Merkel chooses - for political reasons - not to read it then the markets will clobber Europe."
"Given his background and history, Francois Hollande is probably at heart more of a European than Sarkozy," Moisi argues.
After all, he worked closely in his formative years with Jacques Delors - one of the great architects of the European Union.
"Hollande," says Moisi, "has an understanding for Europe, an understanding of the centrality of Europe.
"That is why he is credible when he says he wants to change Europe."
One central aspect of French defence policy over recent years has been to try to intensify co-operation with Britain - the only other country in Europe that maintains similar military ambitions.
Moisi argues that the Anglo-French understanding - especially in the defence sphere - would continue under Mr Hollande.
But he also warns against the idea that somehow Mr Hollande would seek to destabilise the Franco-German relationship.
What, though, of the more "atlanticist" accent that Nicolas Sarkozy has given to French foreign policy?
"Here, there would not be a significant shift," says Moisi.
Both he and Heisbourg agree there would probably be a return to a more traditional pattern of French diplomacy.
On the other hand, the personal relationship between Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy was highly competitive, Heisbourg says.
"Obama was the only US head of state who managed on a 48-hour official visit to Paris to spend two meals with his wife in restaurants without his French counterpart!" he recalls.
"There was an immediate mutual aloofness, to use a mild word."
On the Middle East, Heisbourg believes Hollande will maintain Nicolas Sarkozy's improved ties with Israel, albeit with a change of style.
In any case, he adds, the recent relationship between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the French president was "very fraught".
On Afghanistan, Dominique Moisi points out, Mr Sarkozy wants a withdrawal of French combat troops by the end of 2013 while Mr Hollande has said he wants them out at the end of 2012.
But in broad terms an Hollande presidency would signal a large measure of continuity in both foreign and defence policy.
Indeed, foreign policy has not played a significant role in the presidential campaign.
"On balance," says Dominique Moisi, "Nicolas Sarkozy's record in foreign affairs is widely seen as globally positive.
"This context inevitably favours a broad continuity."
The officer, known as Vincent, told the court how he infiltrated the group, known as the Three Musketeers.
Naweed Ali, 29, from Sparkhill in Birmingham, is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of preparing terrorism acts along with three other men from the West Midlands.
They were arrested on August 26 after a pipe bomb was found in Ali's car.
Both Ali, of Evelyn Road, and his co-accused Khobaib Hussain, 25, also of Evelyn Road, have previous convictions for attending a terror training camp.
The officer said he had posed as the boss of a courier firm which had employed Ali to travel around the country delivering parcels.
On Ali's first day, he left his Seat Leon at the depot in Birmingham city centre and took a van on a delivery run to Luton, the court heard.
Meanwhile, British security services searched Ali's car.
Giving evidence from behind a screen, Vincent said they found what appeared to be a pipe bomb and a handgun inside a JD Sports bag in the car.
He said he and another officer had eased the contents of the bag on to a ground sheet and carried it into a different room.
Vincent told jurors the bag contained a black self-loading pistol with an empty magazine strapped to it, chrome-coloured pipe, a hatchet knife, gunshot cartridges and a single 9mm bullet.
There were also latex gloves, a roll of gaffer tape and some napkins, he said.
Jurors have previously heard the pipe bomb turned out to be only partially constructed and the pistol was an imitation firearm.
Ali and Hussain, Mohibur Rahman, 32, of High Lane, Stoke-on-Trent, and Tahir Aziz, 38, of of Wulstan Road, Stoke-on-Trent, deny the charges.
The case will resume on Monday.
The warrants are for the Benin Football Federation (FBF) executive committee and a Caf observer who attended federation elections on 10 June.
All ignored a court injunction ordering the suspension of FBF elections, which went ahead in June despite the directive.
Football's world governing body says if the "decisions in question are not withdrawn by 18 July, the case will be referred to the Bureau of the Fifa Council, for it to take the appropriate decision."
Fifa disapproves of external interference in the running of a football association, having banned various countries in the past for such an offence.
The elections were held in the presence of Omari, with the DR Congo FA president acting as a Fifa observer, and his Ivorian counterpart Sidi Diallo, who represented the Confederation of African Football.
Holding the elections meant a ban from global football imposed by Fifa in May was lifted and allowed Benin to play a postponed Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Equatorial Guinea.
Benin won that match 2-1 to keep alive their hopes of qualifying for January's finals in Gabon from Group C.
The Fifa ban had been imposed after an earlier court ruling but stipulated the sanction could be lifted when elections had been held.
Anjorin Moucharafou was voted in as president once again by the 40 of the 42 delegates present.
His election went ahead despite a court having ruled it should be delayed indefinitely after it upheld a complaint by 20 of the country's football clubs.
The clubs argued that the current normalisation committee running the sport in the country had violated the statutes of FBF.
Fifa has warned Benin over the arrest warrants issued in the country for several key officials.
The warrants are for the Benin Football Federation (FBF) executive committee as well as the Fifa and Caf observers who attended federation elections on 10 June.
Football's world governing body says if the "decisions in question are not withdrawn by 18 July, the case will be referred to the Bureau of the Fifa Council, for it to take the appropriate decision."
The FBF held polls to choose a new president in June despite a court injunction order the suspension of the elections.
This meant that a ban from global football imposed by Fifa in May was lifted and allowed Benin to play a postponed Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Equatorial Guinea.
Benin won that match 2-1 to keep alive their hopes of qualifying for January's finals in Gabon from Group C.
The elections were held in the presence of DR Congo FA president Constant Omari acting as a Fifa observer and his Ivorian counterpart Sidi Diallo on behalf of the Confederation of African Football.
The Fifa ban had been imposed after an earlier court ruling but stipulated the sanction could be lifted when elections had been held.
Anjorin Moucharafou was voted in as president once again by the 40 of the 42 delegates present.
His election went ahead despite a court having ruled should be delayed indefinitely as it upheld a complaint by 20 of the country's football clubs.
The clubs argued the current normalisation committee running the sport in the country had violated the statutes of FBF.
The Iron took the lead through Michael Cheek's penalty on five minutes after Ross Flitney brought down Reece Hall-Johnson in the box.
Bromley's hopes were further dashed when Lee Minshull was shown a straight red card for a foul on Harry Lee just 16 minutes in.
The hosts then saw Daniel Johnson sent off for another foul on Hall-Johnson in the area on 32 minutes and Jack Midson converted the spot-kick.
Bromley also had boss Neil Smith sent to the stands before Hall-Johnson struck a third for Braintree in first-half added time.
Monty Patterson and Hall-Johnson added further gloss to the scoreline for Braintree in the second period, but the visitors had Ian Gayle sent off with six minutes remaining.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Bromley 0, Braintree Town 5.
Second Half ends, Bromley 0, Braintree Town 5.
Connor Dymond (Bromley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Second yellow card to Ian Gayle (Braintree Town) for a bad foul.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Joe Maybanks replaces Monty Patterson.
Substitution, Bromley. Dave Martin replaces Bradley Goldberg.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Sam Corne replaces Chez Isaac.
Goal! Bromley 0, Braintree Town 5. Reece Hall-Johnson (Braintree Town).
Goal! Bromley 0, Braintree Town 4. Monty Patterson (Braintree Town).
Substitution, Bromley. Tobi Sho-Silva replaces Brandon Hanlan.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Lee Barnard replaces Michael Cheek.
Chez Isaac (Braintree Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Bromley. Connor Dymond replaces Jordan Higgs.
Second Half begins Bromley 0, Braintree Town 3.
First Half ends, Bromley 0, Braintree Town 3.
Goal! Bromley 0, Braintree Town 3. Reece Hall-Johnson (Braintree Town).
Jordan Higgs (Bromley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ian Gayle (Braintree Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Blair Turgott (Bromley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Bromley 0, Braintree Town 2. Jack Midson (Braintree Town) converts the penalty with a.
Daniel Johnson (Bromley) is shown the red card.
Lee Minshull (Bromley) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
Goal! Bromley 0, Braintree Town 1. Michael Cheek (Braintree Town) converts the penalty with a.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Opposition and church groups had condemned the decision, saying the men were a security threat.
However, Mr Mahama said a Ghanaian was more likely to die in a road accident than at the hands of the Yemenis.
The men said they looked forward to living in Ghana, and had followed the national football team in prison.
Khalid al-Dhuby and Mahmoud Omar Bin Atef were held at the US prison in Cuba for more than a decade without being charged.
They are the first Guantanamo detainees that Ghana has accepted, at the request of the US.
The jail was set up following the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US to detain what Washington called "enemy combatants".
US President Barack Obama has said he wants to close the jail down before he leaves office in 2017.
Speaking at a press conference in the capital, Accra, Mr Mahama said that Guantanamo Bay was a "blot on the human rights record of the world".
"They [the men] just want to pick up the pieces of their lives and live normally. We don't have anything to fear," Mr Mahama said, adding that Mr al-Dhuby and Mr Atef were living in a security compound.
He dismissed as "absolutely untrue" allegations that Ghana had received money from the US to take the detainees.
Earlier, the influential Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference called the Yemenis "time bombs" who should be "sent back to wherever they came from".
The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) said that official US documents showed the men had "violent and dangerous profiles".
"Why is government straining to paint a picture of the two detainees as harmless, misunderstood and wrongly detained persons?" it asked.
The two men were captured in Afghanistan, following the US-led invasion to overthrow the Taleban government in 2011.
Mr al-Dhuby and Mr Atef have denied belonging to militant groups.
"We have been wrongly arrested for 14 years without any charge against us," Mr Atef told Ghana's public radio station Uniiq FM.
"We have suffered but we are not looking for revenge," he said.
Mr Atef said they were huge fans of Ghana footballer Asamoah Gyan, and many of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay supported the Black Stars at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
"When Ghana beat America, we were very happy. We made some celebrations. We also told the guards that we've won," Mr Atef said.
Ghana beat the US 2-1, with Gyan scoring the winning goal in extra-time, which sent the Black Stars through to the quarter-finals.
Dozens of countries have received former Guantanamo Bay detainees, including other African states such as Uganda and Cape Verde.
A total of 780 men have been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002, the vast majority without charge or criminal trial.
The US navy base now has 105 detainees, nearly 50 of whom have been cleared for release.
In addition, it said, fake technical support scams rose by 200% and crypto-based ransomware attacks grew by 35%.
Hackers also made more use of unknown software bugs to make sure attacks work, said the annual threat report.
It said the gangs behind the attacks had become more professional and now resembled legitimate software firms.
"They have extensive resources and highly skilled technical staff that operate with such efficiency that they maintain normal business hours and even take the weekends and holidays off," said Kevin Haley, director of Symantec security response in a statement.
Call centres had been set up by some gangs to make scams and cons more effective, he said.
Some of these groups were involved in tech support scams that try to trick people into paying to fix non-existent problems on their home computers. The US, UK, France, Australia and Germany were the hardest-hit by the fake support scams, it said.
Fake pop-up warnings on websites were being used by some groups to try to convince people their computer was riddled with viruses. In a small number of cases, said Symantec, people who rang to get help had ransomware installed on their computer when they let fake support staff have remote access to their PC.
Ransomware, which encrypts files on a computer that are only unlocked when victims pay a ransom, also remained popular among cybercriminals last year. The number of potential targets increased, it said, as ransomware for Apple Macs, smartphones and Linux all debuted in 2015.
Last year was also remarkable for the huge number of data breaches companies and other organisations suffered, it said. More than 500 million records of login names, passwords and other ID information went astray in the last 12 months.
In 2015, there were nine breaches that exposed more than 10 million records. By contrast, in 2014 only four breaches were this severe. One breach, of US Voter registration records, saw information about 191 million people exposed online.
Hospitals, healthcare firms and insurance companies suffered the largest number of breaches, said the report.
The ultimate number of digital identities that have been exposed could be higher, said Mr Haley, because many firms had stopped reporting exactly how much data had been lost.
"The increasing number of companies choosing to hold back critical details after a breach is a disturbing trend," he said. "By hiding the full impact of an attack, it becomes more difficult to assess the risk and improve your security posture to prevent future attacks."
Tony Gibb, 39, of Ruislip, was driving his car in Hertfordshire when he got into an argument after pulling out in front of another driver.
He was found guilty of dangerous driving at St Albans Crown Court.
Gibb, who won bronze in Manchester in 2002, was given a three-month suspended sentence and a year-long driving ban.
Gibb, who won the bronze in the Commonwealth Games 20km scratch race final and followed it up with a silver at the 15km event at the World Track Championships that year, had been on his way to a cycling event when the offence took place on Sunday, 21 June last year.
The prosecution said Gibb was in his Volvo XC90 on Cow Lane near Tring when he pulled out of a junction onto the A4251 in front of Kyle Gilroy's Astra SRI, causing him to perform an emergency stop.
After swearing and gesticulating by both men, Gibb got out of his car and took the other driver's keys from his ignition before throwing them and driving away.
Judge Andrew Bright said blocking the other man's car with his own constituted dangerous driving.
He said: "You decided to take his keys to somehow punish him.
"The Court Of Appeal has made it clear that road rage is something the courts must take very seriously and punish severely."
He told Gibb the offence "crossed the custody threshold", but he was just able to suspend the sentence for two years.
Gibb, who was described as a cycling commentator on Eurosport and businessman, will also have to pay prosecution costs of £3,500 and carry out 100 hours of community work.
With the tie at 1-1 after the first leg, Barca rested Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar but still had way too much for their opponents.
Lucas Digne broke the deadlock before Ivan Rakitic's penalty and a Rafinha strike put Barca firmly in control.
Turan's treble came in the second half, along with a Paco Alcacer header.
The Turkish midfielder's first was a stooping header from close range, with his second a powerful finish into the roof of the net after Alcacer's header had been saved.
His third was the best of the lot - a superb curling finish into the top corner after Hercules had failed to properly clear a corner.
Arguably the biggest cheer of the night, though, was reserved for the goal of Alcacer, who joined the club from Valencia in the summer for £25m but had failed to find the net in 12 previous appearances for his new club.
He could not miss from two yards out after Rafinha's cross had deflected his way.
It was ultimately the one-sided scoreline many had predicted but is a little harsh on Hercules, who claimed an impressive home draw in the first leg and frustrated Barca for over half an hour in the Nou Camp.
However, once Digne had poked in the opener and Rakitic had scored from the spot - following Fernando Roman's foul on Turan - Luis Tevenet's side were exposed allowing Barca to take full advantage.
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West Midlands Police outlined the measures - which will mainly affect community support officers - as part of its efforts to save ??130m.
Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson said further cuts of up to ??30m were likely to follow.
The Home Office said crime was down 16% in the region.
West Midlands Chief Constable Chris Sims said: "We will continue to offer the protection we currently offer but people will notice the service is delivered differently.
"There will be less visibility on the streets, fewer bobbies on the beat."
Shale Ahmed from the Aspire and Succeed Youth Centre in Lozells said the changes could be "devastating".
"For a neighbourhood like this, it's about community safety," he said.
Ravi Subramanian, from the union Unison, which represents some police staff, said the service had already suffered job losses. "This further reduction will mean a scaling back of neighbourhood policing."
Mr Jamieson said: "The West Midlands has seen 24% cuts - that isn't right.
"Last week we heard there could be another ??20-30m cuts on top of this. What we cannot do is do what we were doing before.
"We are going to lose up to half of our budget by 2020.
"What people must realise is that government austerity could have a severe effect on the quality of policing.
"It's going to be policing without frills. I'm afraid it could be like some of the European forces, where it's just response policing and the other excellent work our police do could be seriously diluted."
However, the Home Office said: "There is no question that the police still have the resources to do their important work.
"What matters is how officers are deployed, not how many of them there are in total.
The gang is accused of invading, logging and burning large areas of public land and selling these illegally for farming and grazing.
In a statement, Brazilian Federal Police said the group committed crimes worth more than $220m (£134m).
A federal judge has issued 14 arrest warrants for alleged gang members.
Twenty-two search warrants were also issued and four suspects are being called in for questioning.
The police operation covers four Brazilian states, including Sao Paulo.
Five men and a woman have already been arrested in Para state in the north of the country, Globo news reported.
The BBC's Wyre Davies in Rio de Janeiro says details are still sketchy, partly because the police operation is focused on one of the most remote and inaccessible parts of the Amazon region.
Political and police corruption is still rife in Brazil's interior, our correspondent adds.
That problem coupled with alleged ineptitude on the part of the federal government means that loggers and illegal miners are able to operate with impunity, he says.
The police announced the operation in a statement: "The Federal Police carried out today Operation Chestnut Tree designed to dismantle a criminal organisation specialising in land grabbing and environmental crimes in the city of Novo Progresso, in the south-western region of Para.
"Those involved in these criminal actions are considered the greatest destroyers of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest."
The group members face charges of invading public land, theft, environmental crimes, forgery, conspiracy, tax evasion and money laundering.
They could be sentenced to up to 50 years in jail, although the maximum length that can be served by law in a Brazilian prison is 30 years.
Last year, the Brazilian government said the rate of deforestation in the Amazon increased by 28% between August 2012 and July 2013, after years of decline.
It made a commitment in 2009 to reduce Amazon deforestation by 80% by the year 2020.
Brazil is home to the biggest area of Amazon rainforest, a vast region where one in 10 known species on Earth and half of the planet's remaining tropical forests are found, according to the leading conservation organisation WWF.
Hayley Okines, 17, died in East Sussex earlier this month from progeria, which causes sufferers to age eight times faster than normal.
Hayley, of Bexhill, was told she would not live beyond the age of 13 but underwent pioneering drug treatment.
Her funeral was held at All Saints Church in Sidley.
Paying tribute to her daughter, Kerry Okines said she could not imagine life without her "little chick".
She told the mourners how she loved her "sarcasm, dry sense of humour and pure stubbornness".
A letter from the Prince of Wales was read out in which he recalled "her infectious love of life" and described Hayley as "an inspiration to millions".
Speaking of his meeting with Hayley in 2004, Prince Charles wrote he was "impressed by her incredible spirit".
Parish priest Father Michael Bailey went on to praise her "courage and strong determination".
Hayley's father Mark said his daughter was an inspiration to everybody she met.
"She never had a bad word to say about anybody. She just got on with her life and took anything life threw at her."
He said anyone who met Hayley was "awestruck" by her positivity and her outlook on her life and her illness.
"We were just so proud of her and what she wanted to do with her life about raising awareness of progeria...", he said.
Mr Okines said Hayley knew she was not expected to live past 13 but she did not let it faze her.
"We just took every day as the next day, not as a challenge, just as another day in the life of a child."
Father Michael said he hoped people would take away how remarkable Hayley was.
He said she rose to the challenge, seized the day and made the best of everything.
Hayley was diagnosed with Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome at the age of two.
It affects just 124 children worldwide and causes accelerated ageing.
People with the condition also suffer heart problems, lack of growth and loss of body fat and hair.
Hayley was being treated for pneumonia and had briefly returned home from hospital on 2 April, the day she died.
During her short life, she had endeavoured to raise awareness of her condition, publishing an autobiography at the age of 14.
She was also the subject of a number of television documentaries.
Writing in her book, Hayley said: "My life with progeria is full of happiness and good memories.
"Deep inside I am no different from anyone. We are all human."
The Vauxhall Corsa ended up on its side alongside the house on Carrington Drive in Hop Pole, near Spalding on Thursday.
The 25-year-old driver escaped the wreckage with broken ribs and a dislocated shoulder.
No-one is thought to have been in the property at the time of the crash, which demolished part of a rear bedroom of the semi-detached house.
Dick Holmes, from Lincolnshire Police, said the car demolished a fence as it flew through the air.
However, on Friday, a police spokeswoman said it was unclear whether the car hit the first floor or if that part of the house crumbled as a result of an impact at ground level.
Firefighters worked into the early hours to stabilise the building and structural engineers were assessing the damage.
Graham Roberts, who said his fence was damaged during the incident, said: "I heard a horrendous noise and I knew something was wrong.
"It looked like Armageddon, no fence to my house, hedge broken, and the car that had obviously knocked a hole in the house and fallen down."
Speculation over Wednesday's blast ranged from an earthquake to an aircraft's sonic boom, but aviation authorities have ruled this out.
Activity at the MoD's Hebrides Range, a large live firing test site, has been suggested as the most likely cause.
One islander described how the big bang caused properties to shake.
Sheila MacCormick, of the Borrodale Hotel in South Uist, told BBC Scotland: "The actual building shook."
She said: "When we looked out there was people walking on the road - who were standing looking around to see what had happened.
"We didn't know what it was, couldn't see any signs of blasting - it was very, very loud to be a blast anyway.
"One of our bar staff put it on Facebook to see if it was heard anywhere else and we've had reports coming in from Benbecula and from Barra saying that they've also heard it."
BBC Scotland News Facebook users suggested the bang was a controlled explosion of out of date explosives and that some residents had received letters alerting them to activity at the rocket range.
A loud blast which was heard over Kent on Wednesday turned out to be the sound of RAF jets scrambled to intercept a Latvian cargo plane.
"We can't contact them, they come to us," says the young man, who looks like he is barely out of his teens.
Five members of this gang in Diffa, near the border, have joined the group; two have since been killed on operations, he says.
In total there are about a dozen gang members in a tiny, dark room, built with local mud-bricks.
There are a couple of homemade stools and weights for them to exercise just outside the door.
When I ask if they agree with Boko Haram's reason for fighting, they answer in unison: "No. We only do it for the money."
They had agreed to meet us earlier on a street corner in Diffa.
Arriving one by one, they all wore skinny jeans, bright coloured T-shirts and shiny chains - like those seen around the necks of American rappers on music videos.
Their attitude and brand new clothes make them stand out when they walk down the dusty streets of Diffa.
The fashion style is clearly inspired by Western consumerism rather than Islamist militancy.
The gang members agreed to talk to us on the condition that we would not reveal their identity.
"We break into houses for cash; sometimes we beat people for money, we steal their animals so we can eat and then we gather up and take Tramol [an opiate drug], smoke ganja [marijuana] and drink alcohol," one says.
"We have no jobs; some of us are still at high school but we need money. Violence has become a form of work for us."
Taking us back to their hangout, they explained their association with the Nigerian militants.
"They have paid 500,000 Nigerian naira ($3,085, £1,835) to those of us who followed them over there," one of the young men says.
"The rest of us, here, we give them information.
"When they come, we inform them about what's going on, what the security forces are up to."
But the ideals for which Boko Haram is fighting - the imposition of strict Sharia, an Islamist caliphate and the banning of Western education - hold no interest for them.
Officials in the region say that several attacks allegedly planned by Boko Haram on Niger's territory have been foiled over the last months; and dozens of men suspected to have links to the group have been arrested.
"We know that Boko Haram members come across the border, but we are watching them closely," Diffa government representative Inoussa Saouna, says.
"Just last December, we arrested two dozens of men - we believe they were planning to kidnap the regional governor, the military zone commander and myself."
Military police, customs officers, as well as national guards conduct daily patrols along the porous border to mitigate the threat.
On paper, the border is supposed to be secured by joint patrols with soldiers from both countries. However, they have yet to start.
Niger's security forces are receiving training, logistics and intelligence support from both the US and France.
Most of the border between Niger and Nigeria is naturally drawn by the Komadougou Yobe River.
On either side of it, people have enjoyed strong links for centuries, sharing ethnicity, culture and living off the cross-border trade.
At the Bosso border point, many people cross on foot through water knee-high as the river is at its lowest level in the hottest month of the year.
It allows motorbikes and cars to drive through easily too.
Most cars showing Nigerian plates come from Borno State bearing the slogan "Home of peace".
But this seems a reality long gone for the north-eastern state where Boko Haram was born and has its bases.
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The UN refugee agency says more than 50,000 people have now crossed into Niger, fleeing the relentless violence.
Human rights groups estimate that more 1,500 people have been killed in the north-east of Nigeria since the start of the year alone.
In the small Niger village of Guessere - a 45-minute drive from Diffa - we found half the population of Gashagar, a Nigerian village located only 3km (2 miles) over the river.
Abdou Dotia says people decided it was time to leave after the Islamist militants attacked Gashagar for the fourth time, in January.
Eight people were killed and dozens of shops and cars were burnt down.
As he points his finger towards Nigeria, Mr Dotia explains that the border should keep them safe for now.
On Lake Chad, the south-eastern tip of Niger, Nigerians are also fleeing by boat.
The UN estimates 500 cross into Niger every week.
The many lake islands are now home to thousands, and a lot of people, like Mourtalla Souleymane, have made it to the trading post of Krikri on Niger's shore.
He arrived last month with his two wives and six children and works on the huge wooden canoes that traders use to cross between the two countries.
"I was going to bed when we heard the first gun shots," Mr Souleymane says, recalling the time they were forced to flee.
"When we ran to escape, a little girl was shot as she fled her burning house."
He says he counted 50 dead in the streets and recalls a group of wounded soldiers, three of whom had had their hands amputated.
Niger has a growing refugee crisis but without camps, which the authorities are reluctant to allow, fearing they could become new targets, or worse, recruitment centres for Boko Haram.
But how many more people can one of the poorest countries in the world take in? Borno state has a population of five million - 10 times more than Niger's Diffa region.
The UN refugee agency says it will try to build new homes and expand existing neighbourhoods rather than setting up camps.
Drought and hunger have made communities in Niger vulnerable; coups and rebellions have made the country unstable.
This fragile state is now threatened by an insurgency next door that is fuelled by extreme poverty and neglect, conditions which both exist here.
"There is no reason why it wouldn't spill over the border," says a Western diplomat, who declined to be named.
"But in Niger, at least, there isn't this dynamic where security forces drive populations into Boko Haram's arms."
The heavy-handed and often indiscriminate response of the Nigerian security forces to the Islamist insurgency has long been criticised.
The Diffa government politician believes that the emergency rule in place in north-eastern states of Nigeria has not changed anything over the last year.
"It has radicalised Boko Haram more than anything else and generated other gangs and groups of bandits," Mr Saouna says.
The young gang members we met in Diffa showed us a stash of machetes, knives, knuckle-dusters and traditional axes. They also claimed to have firearms and grenades but refused to show them.
In a report published this month, the Brussels-based think-tank International Crisis Group noted that Boko Haram has "resorted to forced conscription and recruiting criminals and thugs, paying them for attacks".
Boko Haram has shown that it can hit the Nigerian state in different ways: Bombs, village raids, school attacks and child abductions.
For now, Nigeria's neighbours are only dealing with the consequences of this violence.
But the prospect of the same violence spilling over is becoming more of a question of "not if but when".
"If they tell you to set off a bomb and it succeeds, if it kills a lot of people, they will pay you a lot of money," one of the gang members said.
"We are ready for that."
The 33-year-old joined the Championship side in October and has missed just one game since for the Channel Islanders.
Simon Kerrod, Fautua Otto and prop Sean McCarthy have also penned new deals.
"Uili has been increasingly influential since his arrival and I believe he'll be an important member of next season's squad," said head coach Harvey Biljon.
Jersey currently sit fifth in the second tier and now have 18 players signed on for next season.
Navalny was imprisoned for five years for embezzlement from a timber firm. He had denied the charges, saying the trial was politically motivated.
The EU said the verdict posed "serious questions" about Russian law, while the US said it was "deeply disappointed".
Later, police detained dozens of protesters following scuffles in Moscow, St Petersburg and other cities.
Thousands took to the streets for protests which continued late into the evening.
In Kirov, where the trial was held, at least two Navalny supporters were arrested after the verdict and sentence were announced.
By Bridget KendallDiplomatic correspondent, BBC News
In the last year or so Alexei Navalny had become probably Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic.
And his apparent sympathy for nationalist sentiments, reflected in his infamous jibes at the expense of non-Russian migrants, while upsetting liberals, would have worried the Kremlin.
Not only is he young and vigorous and an effective user of social media, he is also a talented orator. If ever he gained access to mainstream Russian media - and crucially, Russian state television - he could appeal to the same strata of society Mr Putin needs to maintain his hold on Russian politics.
One can be sure that Navalny, who made his reputation through whistle-blowing activities as a lawyer, will use every avenue to appeal against his sentence. Even if he is unsuccessful, a life behind bars will not entirely silence him. The activities of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an earlier political opponent of the Kremlin who ended up with two long sentences, have shown that in today's Russia it is still possible to be heard from inside prison.
But once the appeals are exhausted, today's verdict bars Navalny from political office. He has already withdrawn from the race to become mayor of Moscow. The Kremlin will hope the outcome of this trial will in effect sideline him from the frontline of Russian politics.
The 37-year-old is a leading campaigner against President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party, and regularly blogged about corruption allegations.
He came to public attention when he inspired mass protests against the Kremlin and President Putin in December 2011.
Before he was handcuffed and led away, Navalny urged his supporters to continue his anti-corruption struggle, tweeting: "Don't sit around doing nothing."
Later it emerged that he could be temporarily freed until the sentence comes into force in 10 days' time, or pending an appeal.
Navalny had recently registered his candidacy for the next mayor of Moscow, and Interfax news agency quotes the head of his election headquarters as saying he will take part in the September poll if he remains free.
But Russian officials say if the verdict does come into force, he will be barred from running in any future election.
Navalny was found guilty of heading a group that embezzled timber worth 16m rubles ($500,000; £330,000) from the Kirovles state timber company while working as an adviser to Kirov's governor Nikita Belykh.
The prosecution had asked for a six-year jail sentence, but judge Sergei Blinov decided on five years, and said there were no extenuating circumstances that would warrant keeping Navalny out of prison.
Navalny's co-accused, Pyotr Ofitserov, was also found guilty, and given a four-year jail sentence.
State television has only shown limited interest in the process despite Navalny's prominence, but online the trial has been followed extensively.
The BBC's Moscow correspondent Daniel Sandford says that when the sentence was handed down, there were tears from Navalny's supporters and an explosion of anger on the social networking sites that he has used so effectively.
Anti-Putin activist and former cabinet minister Boris Nemtsov told reporters the trial was "completely fabricated from start to finish, and even the judge could not say what the reason for the crime was".
Jailed former oil executive and Putin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky said the conviction was "predictable and unavoidable", according to the independent Ekho Moskvy website.
"There is nothing unusual for the government's opponents to be convicted of crimes in Russia," he added.
The last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, said using courts to punish political opponents was "unacceptable".
In a statement posted on his charity's website, he said: "Everything I know about this case... unfortunately confirms we do not have independent courts."
The US ambassador to Moscow, Michael McFaul, said: "We are deeply disappointed in the conviction of Navalny and the apparent political motivations in this trial."
A spokesman for the EU's top foreign policy official, Catherine Ashton, said the embezzlement charges were unsubstantiated, and that Navalny's jailing posed "serious questions as to the state of the rule of law in Russia".
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A spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the trial had "raised doubts about whether criminal justice was the main motive".
"Five years in prison appears disproportionate, given the alleged crime," Steffen Seibert added.
Russian rights group Memorial said the country "now has one more political prisoner", while Amnesty International's Europe and Central Asia director, John Dalhuisen, said in a statement: "This was a parody of a prosecution and a parody of a trial."
But the Kremlin denies that Mr Putin uses the courts for political ends, and the judge rejected Navalny's claim the trial was politically motivated.
Pro-government analyst Sergei Markov said many Navalny supporters "realise deep in their souls that the court has proven in a normal way that Navalny was a thief".
Our correspondent said Navalny smiled in a resigned manner when the guilty verdict came.
His wife, Yulia Navalnaya, said her husband knew he would get a custodial sentence and was mentally prepared to go to prison.
It was recommended by the government's Extremism Task Force to ensure children were not exposed to intolerant views.
Home Secretary Theresa May suggested the code should be mandatory following the Trojan Horse affair in Birmingham.
But the government now says more can be done within existing regulations.
The code was intended to cover evening classes, weekend schools or in private tuition centres and was suggested amid ongoing concern about the radicalisation of young people.
The BBC's education correspondent, Alex Forsyth, said thousands of children spend hours each week being taught after school and at weekends in "supplementary schools", which operate outside the mainstream education system and often teach children about a specific faith or culture.
The Department for Education (DfE) was expected to publish a draft version before the end of the year.
But it has now shelved the plan in part because putting it into practice proved too complex. Officials will instead strengthen existing regulation and target schools where there is particular concern.
A DfE spokesman said: "The Extremism Task Force previously set out plans for a voluntary code of conduct for religious supplementary schools.
"The government has been considering this carefully over recent months and we believe that there is more to be done within the existing regulatory framework."
In March an anonymous and unverified letter sent to Birmingham City Council claimed that there was a "Trojan Horse" conspiracy to take over governing bodies and create a school culture more sympathetic to their hard-line Muslim religious ethos.
Education watchdog Ofsted inspected 21 schools in Birmingham as a result of the allegations - placing five in special measures in June and confirming that a sixth (which was already in special measures) was "inadequate".
Ofsted head Sir Michael Wilshaw said there was evidence of an "organised campaign to target certain schools" and that some governors had attempted to "impose and promote a narrow faith-based ideology" in secular schools. Although the schools involved denied any wrongdoing.
Two subsequent reports - one by Birmingham City Council and one from the DfE written by former counter terrorism chief Peter Clark - found no evidence of extremism but did highlight problems with the running of the schools.
The allegations also led to a bitter public row between then-Education Secretary Michael Gove and Home Secretary Theresa May, with Mr Gove later being forced to apologise.
Visitors from outside the European Economic Area already pay for planned hospital care.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt wants to save the NHS millions of pounds by extending the charges to A&E care.
The British Medical Association said doctors were meant to treat patients, "not to act as border guard".
A consultation is expected to be set up in the next few weeks.
Overseas visitors can currently receive A&E treatment, ambulance services and GP visits free of charge, but if the plans go ahead some treatment could be withheld until fees are paid, the Times newspaper reports.
BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said a source had told him that no-one requiring urgent care would be turned away, as the cost would be charged afterwards.
The Department of Health said exemptions would be put in place for refugees and asylum seekers, and pregnant women would not be turned away from maternity units if they had not paid upfront.
A department spokesman said: "International visitors are welcome to use the NHS, provided they pay for it - just as families living in the UK do through their taxes.
"This government was the first to introduce tough measures to clamp down on migrants accessing NHS care and have always been clear we want to look at extending charges for non-EEA migrants.
"No-one will be denied urgent treatment and vulnerable groups will continue to be exempt from charging."
BBC reporter Alan Soady said it was not clear whether the new charges would apply to short-term visitors only, nor how the government would pursue patients who did not pay, particularly if they had left the country.
The EEA covers the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
Visitors from these countries must present a European Health Insurance Card when using the NHS, so that the cost of their healthcare can be recouped from their government.
All visitors to the UK and British expats are charged 150% of the cost of non-emergency NHS treatment in order to discourage people travelling to the UK just to use health services - so-called "health tourism".
The latest crackdown is expected to reclaim around £500m, according to the Times.
A spokesman for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine told the newspaper that A&E doctors "cannot reasonably be expected to take on the burden of identifying who is eligible for free treatment, and who should be charged".
The British Medical Association agreed, saying: "A doctor's duty is to treat the patient in front of them, not to act as border guard. Any plans to charge migrants and short-term visitors need to be practical, economic and efficient."
But Roger Goss, of Patient Concern, said: "The average patient would think 'quite right too!' In other countries they won't touch you until you get out your credit card and that's how they ought to operate here.
"But the main issue is not whether patients are supposed to pay, it's the failure of hospitals to collect the money."
In April new rules came into force which mean non-EU citizens settling in the UK for longer than six months are required to pay a "health surcharge" as part of their visa applications.
The family of Frank Whyte, who died in May aged 69, was left distraught by the state of Spynie Mortuary in Elgin.
They have described its condition as like an "old garage" set in "unkempt" grounds.
Ms Campbell has told MSPs that all health boards have been asked they meet government guidance on mortuaries.
She also said that Scottish government officials will review current guidance to ensure it meets the requirements of bereaved families.
The Whyte family, who were at Holyrood to hear a debate on mortuary provision led by their MSP Richard Lochhead, would be invited to contribute to that review, the minister said.
Mr Whyte, from Forres in Moray, died after a boating accident in Findhorn Bay.
Ms Campbell said the state of Spynie Mortuary, which is no longer used, had compounded "the trauma and pain" of the Whyte family while they were dealing with the "tragic and unexpected" death of Mr Whyte.
All of Scotland's health boards have been asked for information to show that current guidance is being met, the minister said.
Ms Campbell added: "I have further asked if they cannot do this that they give me detailed plans of how they will rectify this as a matter of urgency."
She said there would be "no excuses" for failure to provide adequate mortuary services.
Ahead of the Holyrood debate, the Whytes said they had heard from other bereaved families.
Mr Whyte's daughter, Natalie, said she had thought Spynie was a "one-off".
She told BBC Scotland: "I have been really saddened to know there are other facilities very similar to the mortuary that we went to.
"I had thought we were a one-off."
Mr Whyte's widow, Maryan, said Spynie Mortuary was in a "derelict situation" and the grounds and surroundings were "unkempt".
The building where her husband had been laid out looked like an "old garage" with an "old sofa" inside, she said.
Mrs Whyte said there was no place for her or other members of her family to grieve or compose themselves. Police officers who met the Whytes at the mortuary interviewed Mrs Whyte in their police car.
Mrs Whyte said: "There was compassion from the individuals, but no compassion in the process."
Since speaking publicly about their situation, the Whyte family have been contacted by others from across Scotland who have had similar experiences to them.
Mrs Whyte said they had been contacted by people from the Borders to the north of Scotland.
Later on Thursday, the Whytes' local MSP Richard Lochhead will lead a debate on the issue.
Mortuaries in Edinburgh and Aberdeen are owned by city councils, while in Dundee and Glasgow they are owned by the police.
Elsewhere, NHS hospital mortuaries are hired by Police Scotland when dealing with an accidental or unexplained death.
The Whyte family want the Scottish government to standardise the facilities and have them inspected.
Mr Whyte, from Forres in Moray, had been cruising off Findhorn Bay when the weather suddenly turned and a blast of wind overturned his yacht.
NHS Grampian has apologised to his family about the condition of Spynie Mortuary and switched to using a mortuary at Dr Gray's Hospital in Elgin.
The health board also said it was working on improving Spynie Mortuary, which is on the site of a former hospital that closed 10 years ago.
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership was rated as needing improvement in 2015, but the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has raised its rating to good.
However, it still had to address some areas, including safety, as a priority.
Trust boss Helen Greatorex said the CQC's feedback was being taken "very seriously".
Two years ago, a Dartford ward was singled out for unsafe administration of medicine and patients being made to wear incontinence pads when not needed.
Dr Paul Lelliott, the CQC's deputy chief inspector of hospitals, said there had been significant improvement in ensuring patients were protected against risks associated with unsafe management of medicines, and staff were "compassionate, kind and respectful of patients and their families".
But he said: "We also found some areas where the trust needed to make further improvements, including safety."
Good practice identified by inspectors included dementia care, rehabilitation work and support for carers.
The trust was told to improve high caseload numbers allocated to individual staff, review waiting lists and ensure it followed guidance on same-sex accommodation.
Inspectors also said that in the forensic inpatient and secure services, the trust had to protect patients and staff against the risks of unsuitable premises and equipment, including a review of bed frames to reduce the risk of ligatures.
Ms Greatorex said the trust was already working on improvements.
She said: "The CQC was uncompromising in their feedback in the areas we need to tackle but we take that very seriously.
"They are really serious problems, but we've got solutions."
Explaining the pressures on the trust, she said referrals were going up and a stigma about mental health issues was reducing.
She also said A&E units were under enormous pressures nationally and the trust was playing its part to fix the problem.
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Kent and Medway has a total of 83 buildings on 47 sites, including 16 hospitals with 518 beds.
The CQC has highlighted a series of issues that will need to be resolved - high caseloads, men and women sharing wards, unsuitable premises and equipment, and even the risk of patients using bed frames which could lead to injuries.
The trust says it recognises the problems and is addressing them "systematically".
The chief executive has acknowledged the issues and added the pressure of recruiting staff, coping with busy A&E departments and tight financial constraints made it tough, but she was very clear she wanted to see the trust rated "outstanding" in 18 months time.
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The Warwickshire-based luxury car maker said the recall accounted for most of its sports cars built since late 2007.
It follows the discovery that a Chinese sub-supplier was allegedly using counterfeit plastic material in part of the accelerator pedal.
There are fears the pedal arm may break although there have been no reports of any accidents, the firm said.
A spokesman said it would now bring manufacture of the pedal arm back to the UK.
The firm is recalling a total of 17,590 cars - 1,553 in the UK - including all of its left-hand-drive models built since November 2007 and all right-hand-drive models built since May 2012, affecting about 75% of all cars built in those periods.
The recall applies to all cars apart from the new Vanquish coupe and Volante models.
"Customer safety is very important and to change the pedal takes less than an hour, so take the car and get it replaced is what we're saying," the spokesman said.
"It's very important to say that there have not been any incidents or accidents."
Champions Linfield must go into the new campaign as favourites to retain their title given the outstanding run of form they put together in the second half of last season to land the Irish Premiership crown, the Irish Cup and the County Antrim Shield. The Blues were unbeaten from early January, winning 19 and drawing one of their last 20 games in all competitions.
The psychological edge they may hold over main championship rivals Crusaders could be exacerbated by the fact that they won a much publicised tug-of-war to secure the signature of defender Josh Robinson during the close season. Manager David Healy has strengthened his hand by also adding Jordan Stewart, Andrew Mitchell and the returning Robert Garrett to his squad. Expect more silverware to be winging its way to Windsor Park this term.
It remains to be seen what lingering impact, if any, Crusaders' failure to lift the title for a third consecutive season will have, given that they squandered a nine-point lead in coming in second best behind Linfield in a thrilling finale to the championship race last time out. Crues boss Stephen Baxter will be determined to reclaim the Gibson Cup, which resided proudly on the Shore Road for the previous two years, as well as making an overdue impact in the cup competitions.
Baxter has added experience in the form of summer arrivals Brian Jensen, Mark McChrystal, Sean Ward and Mark McAllister, with highly rated midfielder Jamie Glackin joining from Dungannon Swifts. With bags of quality and strength in depth, expect the north Belfast club to be right up there in the hunt for the major honours once again.
Coleraine emerged as the surprise packages of the 2016-17 season, recovering from an indifferent run of results in the run-up to Christmas to claim a third place Premiership finish, a Europa League spot and a first Irish Cup final appearance for nine years. Manager Oran Kearney's confidence in his younger players has reaped rich dividends for the Ballycastle Road outfit and Bannsiders fans will hope for 'more of the same' from their side over the coming months.
Josh Carson, Joe McCready, Stephen O'Donnell, Aaron Traynor and Matthew Kirk have all been brought in during the summer and with James McLaughlin out injured, goalscoring responsibility will fall mainly on the shoulders of front pair Eoin Bradley and Jamie McGonigle.
Such were the strides made by Ballymena United last term that even manager David Jeffrey admitted his plans to resurrect the fortunes of the Warden Street club were ahead of schedule. A highest top-flight finish since 1981, a place in the top six for the first time since the league split was introduced, a League Cup success and qualification for the Europa League in dramatic fashion at the expense of Glenavon proved just the tonic for the Sky Blues' long-suffering supporters.
The goals flowed freely for United last year, but the 'goals against' column was less impressive so it is not surprising that Jeffrey has moved to bolster his defensive options by acquiring defenders Andrew Burns, Emmet Friars and Steven McCullough, as well as midfield pair Michael Gault and Stephen McAlorum to offset the departure of the long-serving Allan Jenkins.
A season that promised much at the turn of the year proved to be a disappointing one for Cliftonville as they were forced to settle for fifth position in the Premiership following an alarming dip in form. Former manager Gerard Lyttle oversaw the signings of striker Joe Gormley and defender Garry Breen on pre-contract deals and much will be expected from Gormley as he begins a second spell at Solitude following his return from Peterborough United.
New manager Barry Gray has delved into the transfer market to add goalkeepers Brian Neeson and Brett Long, centre-back Jamie Harney, ex-Warrenpoint skipper Liam Bagnall and midfielder Ciaran Caldwell. Improvement will be demanded in the red half of north Belfast.
The 2016-17 campaign will go down as one of underachievement for Glenavon as their failure to turn scoring opportunities into goals proved their downfall. Touted as possible title challengers before a ball was kicked, the Lurgan Blues went tantalisingly close to salvaging something tangible from their season, but were edged out by Ballymena United in the Europa League play-off final.
Many of the 'old guard' have departed Mourneview Park in the close season but boss Gary Hamilton saw off the challenge of other potential suitors by securing the services of the league's top goalscorer, Andy Mitchell, from Dungannon Swifts. Marc Griffin and Adam Foley have also been snapped up and fans of the mid-Ulster club will hope that the addition of Mitchell, in particular, will add a more clinical edge to boost their side's fortunes.
Dungannon will aim to go one better than their seventh-placed finish last season but must do so without key trio Andy Mitchell, Andrew Burns and Jamie Glackin, who have all moved on to pastures new. The Stangmore Park club were right in the mix for a top-six spot until the latter stages of the campaign but in the end fell just short. The Swifts also came within touching distance of the Irish Cup final, before a semi-final defeat by Linfield put pay to their ambitions of appearing in the showpiece finale.
Manager Rodney McAree has his team playing attractive football and has instilled a confidence into the club so another mid-table battle seems likely. Among his new recruits are ex-Ballinalllard United midfielder Ryan Mayse, former Ferney Park right-back Liam McMenamin and goalkeeper Liam Hughes.
Ards were fast out of the blocks last season to set the early pace in the Irish Premiership but despite being unable to maintain those lofty heights, the north Down club clinched a creditable ninth place to comfortably ensure their Premiership safety. New manager Colin Nixon dipped his toe in the managerial waters for the first time at the summit of local football when he replaced Niall Currie and will hope to consolidate the club's fortunes in his first full season at the helm.
To that end, Nathan Hanley has moved from Carrick Rangers, while other new faces include former Linfield duo Johnny Frazer and Michael McLellan, ex-Glenavon defender David Elebert and goalkeeper Sam Johnston and midfielder Scott Davidson, both formerly of H&W Welders.
Glentoran manager Gary Haveron is the man tasked with spearheading the club's quest to recapture some of their former glory and a top-six finish will be the target for the Oval club following an underwhelming campaign last time out. Haveron replaced Alan Kernaghan in the east Belfast hotseat early in the season but inconsistency plagued the Glens as they were reduced to the role of 'also-rans'. a whopping 43 points behind eventual champions and cross-city rivals Linfield.
Haveron welcomes James Knowles and Daniel Kelly to the club, along with returning midfielder John McGuigan, from Warrenpoint. A glutch of promising young players in the form of Corey McMullan, Tiarnan McNicholl, Karl Hamill, Dylan Davidson and Nathan Kerr have also been signed.
The capture of Fermanagh man and experienced midfielder Richard Clarke from Crusaders could represent Ballinamallard manager Gavin Dykes' best piece of pre-season business as the Ferney Park club aim to stay clear of the danger zone at the bottom end of the Premiership. The search for consistency is key for Dykes as he prepares for the start of a new term. The departures of the impressive Ryan Mayse and ex-captain Liam McMenamin come as a blow to the Mallards, who ended up 10th last time round.
Carrick overcame the sudden departure of manager Aaron Callaghan to seal their Premiership status by overcoming Institute in a relegation/promotion play-off in May and will hope to build on that triumph under new manager Davy McAlinden. Despite navigating their way to the League Cup decider in February, the Taylor's Avenue club were always in trouble at the foot of the table and will be keen to avoid a repeat of that scenario this season.
McAlinden has put together a new-look squad and held onto most of the players he wanted from last year's panel so will be keen to impress after four years in charge of East Antrim rivals Larne in the Championship.
It's been a very busy summer at Milltown as manager Matthew Tipton bids to confound the armchair 'experts' and avoid the relegation battle which many predict for the promoted County Down club. Relegated in unfortunate circumstances in 2016, 'Point have bounced back in impressive style under the guidance of the former Portadown, Linfield and Ballymena United forward, claiming the Championship title.
Striker Darren Murray, goalkeeper Alan Blayney and midfielders Sean Mackle and Neil McCafferty bring bags of experience with them, with Martin Murray, Seanna Foster, Luke Fisher, Matthew Parker and Darius Roohi among the other batch of summer arrivals.
Norfolk County Council's plan for The Willows incinerator at King's Lynn was first given permission in 2012.
But it faced widespread opposition from MPs, local councils and residents.
At an extraordinary council meeting, it was decided to terminate the project, even though it leaves the authority facing financial penalties of £30m.
By Andrew SinclairBBC East political correspondent
As the debate drew to a close the leader of the Liberal Democrats, Dr Marie Strong declared this had been a long and torturous journey.
It has been and it isn't over yet.
The council has a month to come up with £8m of extra savings and, long term, it will have to find a way of making up the entire cost of pulling out of this contract.
It is estimated today's decision will cost every household in Norfolk £200 and, if that's not enough, the council now has to draw up and cost a new environmental waste policy.
The political fall out from this is enormous.
Labour will blame the Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles for forcing them to make this move and any job losses or future cuts will be laid at his door.
Mr Pickles will have to explain why it has taken him so long to reach a decision and why, even now, he cannot say when he will be in a position to decide.
The Conservatives will try to blame Labour for pulling out of the contract too soon, but they appear to be desperately divided.
Tory MPs celebrated the decision to drop the incinerator, while Tory councillors were whipped to support it, but even then some chose not to vote at all.
The incinerator may be dead, but the fall out from it will linger for a long time to come.
The council said the decision was due to failure to secure satisfactory planning permission.
Members voted 49 to 29, with one abstention, to recommend that cabinet should terminate the contract at an estimated cost of £30.26m.
That sum comprises compensation to development partner Cory Wheelabrator of £20.3m, contractor public inquiry costs of £1.6m and exchange rate and interest rate related costs of £8.36m.
These would be met through a £19m contingency reserve, £3m from the council's 2013/14 under-spend and £8m from general reserves.
Price Waterhouse Coopers had warned that pulling out later would incur further legal and other costs.
During a four-and-a-half-hour debate, Labour leader George Nobbs blamed Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles' delay in approving the scheme for the situation the council faced.
He also said that the withdrawal of a £169m Waste Infrastructure Grant meant the scheme no longer represented value for money.
The meeting heard delays to the contract were also costing the council £144,000 a day, and that promised savings of over £250m guaranteed over its 23 years when compared to the cost of landfill would have disappeared by June this year.
The council's UKIP group leader Richard Coke said: "We were in a hole so, I thought 'Let's stop digging.' This has been a reckless scandal."
Brian Watkins, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, said it was the final battle in what had been "an inglorious moment for the authority".
Conservative Jason Law, who represents Freebridge Lynn division, referred to a referendum on the incinerator held by West Norfolk Council.
"When 65,000 people vote against a scheme you have to listen to them," he said.
Steve Morphew, cabinet member for finance, said: "It's incredible that I'm voting to spend £30m on nothing. I voted for it with a heavy heart."
The Conservative group maintained that the incinerator remained value for money and voted for the contract to continue.
They also questioned the administration, an alliance of Labour, Lib Dems and UKIP members supported by the Greens, on what alternative policies they had to deal with the county's mounting waste.
The council said it had £19m in reserves to cover the cost of withdrawing from the contract but that the remaining £11m would have to be found through savings.
Henry Bellingham, Conservative MP for North West Norfolk and an opponent of the scheme, welcomed the decision.
"We have been saying for the last six months there are other ways of dealing with Norfolk's waste," he said.
Cory Wheelabrator, the council's development partner, said it was extremely disappointed.
"We, and the industry, have also made it clear to government that planning delays to major infrastructure projects are costly," said a spokesman.
"The delay to that planning decision has resulted in considerable costs to all parties.
"The fact still remains that there is no firm solution for the long-term management of Norfolk's waste, despite considerable time and expense being devoted to a solution that was viable, deliverable and would have created hundreds of jobs."
Norfolk's cabinet will consider the options at its meeting on 12 May.
The 36-year-old from Eastbourne uploaded two sexually explicit pictures of his ex-partner that were taken when they were in a relationship.
He also posted non-sexual images of three women with offensive captions.
Sussex Police said the case would be reviewed in light of "concern". Police and crime commissioner Katy Bourne has asked the force to clarify its policy.
The man was arrested and cautioned in April after the victims contacted officers.
The force has been criticised for issuing a caution by the mother of one of the victims, Eastbourne MP Caroline Ansell and Polly Neate, the boss of charity Woman's Aid.
Sussex Police said the man, who has not been named, "made full admissions and expressed remorse" and its original decision "fits the national framework for out-of-court disposals".
But Det Supt Nick May told BBC Sussex the force was going to look into the case "in view of the concern that has been raised and the interest that this has caused".
"One of those aspects that particularly concerned me was around the potential for threats being made to one of the young women and I want to make sure, absolutely, that those are looked into appropriately," he added.
Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner Ms Bourne said: "What worries me is that whilst I heard Sussex Police's response I actually don't feel very reassured at this point in time.
"Sussex Police claim that they put victims first and I would disagree that they have in this instance."
Revenge porn became an offence in April 2015 and refers to the act of a partner or ex-partner purposefully distributing images or videos of a sexual nature without the other person's consent.
Some 3,000 Cubans heading for the US have been stuck at the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua since the latter closed its border.
The two countries blame each other for the problem.
Their foreign ministers and those from other Latin American nations failed to find a solution at Tuesday's meeting.
The number of Cubans leaving the Communist-run island has risen since last December when Cuba and the US announced a thaw in their relations.
They fear that with ties between Cuba and the US improving, the US could stop granting Cubans who reach the US by land the right to stay.
The migrants left Cuba for Ecuador, a popular destination for emigrating Cubans as it does not require them to have a visa.
From Ecuador, they travelled north through Colombia and Panama to Costa Rica where they received visas allowing them to continue north.
But Nicaragua, a close ally of Cuba, stopped them at its southern border.
Nicaragua accused Costa Rica of "unleashing an invasion of illegal Cuban migrants".
In a statement, Nicaragua said that it did not have the resources to deal "with this new threat to our national security".
For his part, Costa Rican Foreign Minister Manuel Gonzalez accused the Nicaraguan government of "acting in bad faith" and of being intransigent.
The meeting in San Salvador was also attended by representatives from Belize, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama and Mexico.
According to Mr Gonzalez only Nicaragua opposed "a joint and integral solution" to the migrant crisis.
"The other 11 countries have the best intentions because they know this is not a situation provoked by Costa Rica," he said.
He said his country would try and find a solution without Nicaragua's help.
Nicaragua has demanded that Costa Rica remove the Cuban migrants camped out at their joint border.
Cuba last week said that it would welcome back any of the migrants who wished to return.
10 November 2015 Last updated at 18:36 GMT
He is the first person to be arrested as part of the investigation and was detained in County Antrim by the PSNI's Legacy Investigation Branch.
BBC News NI's Home Affairs Correspondent Vincent Kearney reports.
The WSL, in its sixth year, takes place in the English summer, with the 2016 season having started on 23 March.
The 2017-18 WSL will run from September to May after Women's Euro 2017, moving in line with other divisions in Europe.
The FA says it hopes the changes will help England win the 2023 World Cup, improve player welfare and double both participation and attendances.
England manager Mark Sampson described the move as "courageous" but thinks it will take the game forward.
"When I look at it the positives far outweigh the negatives, certainly from an England point of view," the 33-year-old said.
"The objective is to make sure we do as well as we can. We need the best players we can, the best support and with a fixture list that helps them develop and grow.
"Hopefully the way the season works moving forward, we will get players who are fit, they will be fresh and with all of the factors combined it gives us a better chance of a more competitive team."
A one-off, transitional competition, known as the FA WSL Spring Series, will run from February to June in 2017, alongside the Women's FA Cup, as part of the changes.
The FA has also revealed the WSL will take a one-month winter break from mid-December 2017 to mid-January 2018.
The Women's Premier League divisions - which include the third tier of women's football and below - are already played over the winter.
The WSL had planned to expand to 20 clubs by 2017, with no teams being relegated from WSL 2 to the WPL. That will continue, to 21 teams by 2017-18.
The summer schedule had been criticised by leading figures in the English game, including Chelsea Ladies manager Emma Hayes, for its impact on English clubs competing in Europe.
Speaking after a 2-1 loss in the first leg of her side's Champions League last-16 tie against German side Wolfsburg in November 2015, Hayes told BBC Sport: "Four weeks between games showed.
"I hope our Football Association do more to prepare better scheduling because if an English team is going to win the Champions League, we have to be more game ready.
"It's geared to French, German and Swedish teams, and until we change that or listen to clubs like Chelsea we are always going to get knocked out in the early rounds."
The Women's Champions League runs alongside the men's competition, with the 2016-17 final to be played in Cardiff on 1 June.
In 2014-15, Bristol Academy reached the quarter-finals of the competition, only to lose 12-0 on aggregate to Frankfurt in a March tie that came before Bristol had started their 2015 league campaign.
As the league switches from a summer schedule to winter, the WSL Spring series removes the prospect of a 10-month period without competitive matches for WSL teams.
Clubs will play each other just once between February and June, before England head to the Netherlands for Women's Euro 2017.
Fixtures will start in the same month in which WSL 2 clubs have typically entered the Women's FA Cup.
Trophies will be awarded to both divisional winners, but there will be no promotion or relegation.
Attendances in WSL 1 saw an overall rise of 48% in the 2015 season compared to 2014, with record crowds after England came third at the World Cup in Canada.
Manchester City Women were watched by the highest average crowd of 1,500.
Whether WSL clubs playing matches on the same days as their male counterparts would see an increase or decrease in attendances remains to be seen.
The 2015 and 2016 Women's FA Cup finals both saw record competition crowds at Wembley, with Arsenal beating Chelsea 1-0 in May this year in front of 32,912 people.
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Ebdon, 45, only finished his second-round match at 01:30 GMT on Monday, but said he felt "fantastic" as won 6-3.
"I've probably had four or five bananas today, some apples, grapes - I feel as fresh as a daisy," said vegan Ebdon.
World number one Mark Selby survived a thrilling late night final-frame finish to beat Welshman Jamie Jones 6-5.
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The Leicester man trailed 2-0, 3-2, 4-3 and 5-4 but showed all his renowned battling ability to pull through.
Selby's only half-century came in frame three until a high-pressure clearance of 67 sealed a trademark comeback victory.
"Jamie deserved to win the match," said Selby, who had not lost a frame in his first two rounds. "I was just scraping through and I don't know how I won the game.
"The last frame was the best frame I played all match, right at the end when I needed to."
Jones added: "I just can't really believe I am sat here as a loser.
"I think I was the better player and could have won 6-2 but he always hangs on and that is the sign of a champion."
Selby's stunning comeback meant the biggest surprise of the day came in the afternoon session when Ebdon saw off 2015 Crucible champion Bingham.
"It would have been so easy for me to fold today," said Ebdon, the 2002 world champion and 2006 UK Champion.
"I love playing on the big stage and am over the moon to get through. I don't really feel like a snooker player when I play in the smaller events."
The veteran showed no tiredness and, after a cagey start, he closed out a 6-3 win with a classy 109 in the final frame.
"Peter played really well. He got in first most frames and controlled the tempo," World number two Bingham, 39, told BBC Sport.
"He rolled back the years there, particularly in the last frame with that ton."
Basildon's Bingham, the world number two, has struggled to find his best form since winning at the Crucible but had been impressive in winning through to the last 32.
There were also wins for three-time champion John Higgins, who brushed aside Ali Carter 6-2, and Northern Ireland's Joe Swail, who thrashed Michael Holt 6-1.
The Deal or No Deal host wants £50m in damages because he says the "criminal actions" of an HBOS manager brought his business "crashing down".
Mr Edmonds said Lloyds had shown no urgency to "right the grievous wrongs".
Lloyds said it had told "the customer concerned" they were part of a review that is assessing compensation.
Mr Edmonds' letter to Lord Blackwell follows one sent last week to Lloyds chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio.
Two former HBOS staff have been jailed for their part in a £245m loans scam.
They insisted small business customers used a specific turnaround firm. The HBOS managers were given bribes including cash and prostitutes and were jailed along with four others involved in the scam.
In the letter sent to Lord Blackwell on Monday, Mr Edmonds asked to meet him to explain the "suffering" inflicted on victims of the HBOS fraud.
"May I suggest therefore that you agree to such a meeting in the next few days so that you can then direct the future actions of your bank with a full understanding of the human cost of its wrongdoing," he wrote.
Lloyds has set up a £100m fund to compensate the victims of the fraud.
Mr Edmonds referred to last week's Lloyds annual meeting, at which he said Lord Blackwell "echoed" Mr Horta-Osorio's "personal pledge of prompt reparation".
He quoted Lord Blackwell as saying: "By quickly, I mean within weeks rather than months".
However, he said since only one individual had been given the job of assessing "complex and substantial" claims, it was "difficult to see" how Lord Blackwell's assurance that compensation would be paid "within weeks" could be adhered to.
Ten years ago Mr Edmonds' business, The Unique Group, collapsed.
"Not only did this cost me a vast amount financially, but it caused me great public humiliation, frustration and distress," he said in the letter.
"The impact that your employee had on the lives of many others was even more severe, with relationships and livelihoods destroyed and homes lost."
In a statement to the BBC, Lloyds - which did not mention Mr Edmonds by name - said: "We have confirmed to the customer concerned that they have been included in the review, which is being overseen by Professor Russel Griggs as Independent Reviewer.
"The review will assess any compensation due and will provide an opportunity for customers to input directly on any aspects of their interactions with the HBOS Impaired Assets office in Reading. We remain on track to begin making the first compensation offers before the end of May and anticipate making compensation offers by the end of June to all customers who have confirmed their participation in the review."
Steve Bannon, who has returned as head of ultra-conservative website Breitbart News, said he would fight for the agenda that won Mr Trump the election.
"I've got my hands back on my weapons," he said. "It's Bannon the Barbarian."
Mr Bannon helped shape the America First campaign message but fell foul of more moderate White House forces.
The 63-year-old has been accused of voicing anti-Semitic and white supremacist views.
He is the latest high-profile figure to leave the White House team. National Security Adviser Michael Flynn; press secretary Sean Spicer; chief of staff Reince Priebus and communications director Anthony Scaramucci have all gone.
Mr Trump paid tribute to Mr Bannon in an early-morning tweet on Saturday.
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There had been suggestions Mr Trump was under renewed pressure to sack Mr Bannon following the violence at a far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend, when a car was driven into counter-protesters, killing a woman.
But he told the Weekly Standard that he had informed Chief of Staff John Kelly and Mr Trump on 7 August that he would announce his resignation on the 14th. The tumult over the violence in Charlottesville postponed the announcement, he said.
President Trump had hinted at the situation during his controversial press briefing on the Virginia violence on Tuesday.
Although the president had defended Mr Bannon as "not a racist", saying he had received an unfair press, Mr Trump said "we'll see what happens" about him.
The only statement about Mr Bannon's sacking on Friday came from Trump spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who said: "We are grateful for his service and wish him the best."
In his Weekly Standard interview, Mr Bannon said: "The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over.
"We still have a huge movement, and we will make something of this Trump presidency. But that presidency is over. It'll be something else. And there'll be all kinds of fights, and there'll be good days and bad days, but that presidency is over."
He added: "In many ways I think I can be more effective fighting from the outside for the agenda President Trump ran on. And anyone who stands in our way, we will go to war with."
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Mr Bannon added: "I built a [expletive] machine at Breitbart. And now I'm about to go back, knowing what I know, and we're about to rev that machine up."
Breitbart itself carried the headline: 'Populist Hero' Stephen K Bannon Returns Home to Breitbart.
News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow said: "Breitbart gained an executive chairman with his finger on the pulse of the Trump agenda."
Breitbart executive Joel Pollak responded to the return of Mr Bannon with a singled-worded, hashtag tweet: #WAR.
By Anthony Zurcher, BBC North America reporter
Steve Bannon may be out as a senior White House adviser, but Bannonism - if that's what it can properly be called - is still firmly entrenched in the White House.
Donald Trump has repeatedly boasted that the success of his presidential campaign should properly be attributed to him, not Mr Bannon. And, in the end, Mr Bannon's desire to take credit for that win may have been what did him in.
It certainly wasn't because of any sharp ideological divides between the president and the former head of Breitbart News.
Border security, aggressive trade protectionism, immigration reform and a certain kind of cultural nostalgia - all were themes that Mr Trump ran on from the start, which Mr Bannon only sharpened and focused. They're also issues Mr Trump has pushed in recent weeks, even as Mr Bannon has been increasingly marginalised.
Mr Bannon's firing will be seen as a win for chief of staff John Kelly, whose attempts to instil discipline in the White House will get a boost without the free-wheeling Mr Bannon roaming the hallways.
Trump was Trump before Mr Bannon came on the scene, however. And as the rollercoaster ride that was politics this week indicates, the president isn't changing anytime soon.
Mr Trump raised eyebrows this year when he elevated Mr Bannon to the National Security Council, the main group advising the president on national security and foreign affairs.
But he was subsequently removed in a move that was seen as a sign of National Security Adviser HR McMaster's growing influence over the president.
Mr Bannon has reportedly feuded with Mr McMaster as well as Gary Cohn, the director of the president's National Economic Council and a former Goldman Sachs chief viewed as a "globalist".
Mr Cohn, along with President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter, Ivanka Trump, were viewed as threats to Mr Bannon's White House agenda.
Mr Trump had reportedly grown weary of Mr Bannon taking credit for his victory and also saw him as a serial leaker of information to the press.
Mr Bannon's interview this week with the American Prospect, a liberal magazine, also reportedly infuriated the president.
The White House aide was quoted as dismissing the idea of a military solution in North Korea, undercutting Mr Trump.
For the first time in their history, Wales moved above England in September's Fifa world rankings.
Roy Hodgson's men have already reached the Euro 2016 finals, while Wales need one point from their remaining two qualifiers to secure their place.
"There will be a bit of banter between me and some of my (English) team-mates at Arsenal. It is always a great game, a committed game," Ramsey said.
"I have been involved in two before. So yeah, why not play them? If it does happen, it will be a great game."
Should Wales qualify for France, it opens the prospect of both sides being drawn against each other in the group stage at the 24-team tournament.
The old rivals could also choose to arrange a friendly as part of their preparations for the finals. England are already scheduled to face France and Germany in friendlies before the tournament.
Wales are yet to arrange any friendly games for next year.
The most recent games between the two side came during the Euro 2012 qualifiers, when England won 2-0 in Cardiff and 1-0 at Wembley in 2011.
Wales' last success was a 1-0 win in Wrexham in 1984, which was only their 14th win in 101 attempts.
A goalless draw with Israel in Cardiff on Sunday meant Wales could not yet celebrate qualification.
The result means Chris Coleman's men need a point in their remaining games in October away to Bosnia-Herzegovina and at home to Andorra.
But Wales striker Hal Robson-Kanu believes they were wrongly denied an opportunity to seal qualification against Israel when the additional official behind the goal line failed to award a penalty when defender Eitan Tibi appeared to handle the ball in the second half.
"It was a blatant handball," said the 26-year-old Reading forward, who was being marked by Tibi when the defender touched the ball.
"I was shocked to see the official standing so close, so it was surprising he didn't give it, but it was just one of those days.
"The official I was looking at - he obviously didn't want to put his neck on the line and if he had done he would have made the right decision, but there you go."
Wales remain unbeaten in eight matches and top of the qualifying group, and Robson-Kanu is confident they will finish the job and qualify for the finals of a major tournament for the first time since 1958.
"We'll be fully focused on getting the job done and I'm sure we will," he added on BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"And when we get there we'll be looking to achieve something special."
The body of Jacob Chothia was found on Burnley Road between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd at 11:25 BST on Thursday.
Police said it was not clear when the accident took place, but the 21-year-old from Mytholmroyd was last seen in Hebden Bridge in the early hours of Thursday morning,
Officers appealed for help to work out his final movements.
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The seven-member group - known as Bangtan Sonyeondan in Korean or "Bulletproof Boy Scouts" - won Top Social Artist, voted for by fans.
They beat Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande and Shawn Mendes in the category.
The win marks a breakthrough for the K-pop genre, which has long tried to crack Western markets.
"We still cannot believe that we are standing here on this stage at the Billboard Music Awards," the group said in their acceptance speech.
"It's so great to see all the artists we admire. To be in this category with such great artists, [we are] just really honoured."
The band - made up of members Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Rap Monster, Jimin, V and Jungkook - later tweeted that the win was a "dream come true".
The group use hip hop and R&B styles to sing about issues including bullying and mental health. They have released albums in Korean and Japanese and have almost 10 million followers on social media.
Despite not singing in English, BTS have already toured the US and sold out venues in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.
Their success marks a high point for Korean music in the West following South Korean rapper Psy's 2012 global hit Gangnam Style, which has so far racked up almost 3 billion views on YouTube.
Psy then concentrated on the huge Chinese music market, collaborating with pianist Lang Lang for a series of smash hits there, although in 2014 he did release Hangover alongside US rapper Snoop Dogg, which has had almost 300 million YouTube views.
K-pop was conceived in South Korea in the 1990s as a Western-Asian hybrid and is now a multi-million dollar industry, part of the so-called 'Korean Wave' - the spread of Korean music, drama and film to the rest of the world.
Large numbers of boy and girl bands attempt to make their mark each year.
However, there has been controversy over the extent of control exerted over the young stars by their record companies. Members of some groups are expected to abide by a set of behavioural rules.
Discussing politics has also been considered taboo - Chou Tzuyu, a 16-year-old Taiwanese singer and dancer in the Korean girl group Twice, was required by her record company to issue a video apology for waving a Taiwanese flag ahead of the island's election last year.
JYP Entertainment denied coercing her into the apology to appease audiences in mainland China, which sees Taiwan as a renegade province.
Observers say the incident may have helped Tsai Ing-wen, from the traditionally pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party, win a landslide to become Taiwan's first female president in 2016.
Karen Foster and Dean Lowden noticed that Hooch, their Dogue de Bordeaux, was unwell after a walk near Derwent Reservoir.
A "huge swelling" appeared on Hooch's face at the weekend.
He was taken to a local vet, then transferred to a veterinary hospital for an anti-venom injection.
Ms Forster, of Blackhill, said: "It was a real shock. People need to be aware that there are adders out there.
"I'm very concerned that children and small dogs might be in danger."
Westway Veterinary Group, which treated Hooch, said: "This case is fortunately very rare, but owners should be aware that there are snakes out there in the countryside.
"With Hooch, it was very serious because he was bitten on the face and it meant the swelling could affect the airways.
"If he had been bitten on a paw, he may have only needed an antihistamine injection, but we needed to get anti-venom with it being his face."
Adders are Britain's only venomous snake, but numbers are in decline due to erosion of their habitat by agriculture and urban development.
While a bite can be painful for a human it is rarely fatal - according to Amphibian and Reptile Conservation there have only been about 12 cases of death in the past century.
A conservation project is being carried out by the Durham Wildlife Trust to increase numbers in the area.
The jail's C and D wings were mothballed with the reduction of 282 beds and the loss of 70 jobs.
The ministry (MoJ) said the cells will be brought back because the "prison population is currently above published projections".
The Prison Officers' Association (POA) said it had concerns over the staffing of the reopened wings.
In a statement, the MoJ said the number of prisoners in England and Wales in March was 1,500 higher than predicted and said the reopening was "a proportionate and sensible response to ensure that we continue to have enough prison places for those sentenced by the courts".
Rob Nicholson, from the Hull branch of the POA, said his members welcomed the wings' reopening, but the union was still in discussions with the prison's governor about how the cells would be staffed.
"The way they they are going by staffed is by detached duty," he said.
"So, that's other members of staff across the prison estate and an overtime system called payment plus.
"My concern, along with my committee, is that staff may burn out far too quickly."
The 18-year-old centre-back, who began his career with Southampton, joins the National League Spitfires, after being on trial during pre-season.
"I like the look of what I see," boss Richard Hill said. "I'm delighted to sign someone of his talent. especially with a number of league clubs looking to acquire his services."
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Masked protesters burned effigies of the president after a rally called "Resurrection of Democracy".
Police responded to petrol bombs in the Chacao district with tear gas and water cannon.
More than 40 people have died in violent protests since February and hundreds of people have been arrested.
The demonstrations started with students demanding action to tackle Venezuela's high crime rate, its growing inflation and shortages of certain food staples.
They have since grown into a wider opposition movement and many of the protesters say they will not stop until the government of President Maduro resigns.
There have also been demonstrations in support of the government, with tens of thousands of people clad in red, the colour associated with the Bolivarian revolution, taking to the streets.
On Sunday, the rally started with a "Via Crucis" march, mirroring Jesus's walk to crucifixion.
"We're staying in the street until we get our country back," student leader Djamil Jassir, 22, told Reuters news agency.
Another protester, Naybeth Ramirez, said: "There are many who have already died and it's for them that we're here. They're not going to have an Easter again, nor carnival."
Later, several hundred protesters set up barricades in Chacao, in the east of the capital, chanting "Liberty" and throwing petrol bombs.
Supporters of the president have also been protesting.
In the capital's Petare shanty-town, residents burned effigies of opposition governor Henrique Capriles.
Mr Maduro this week marked one year in office, after replacing the late Hugo Chavez.
Mr Maduro said via Twitter: "I will continue to fulfil my oath with the people. No-one will deny our right to be happy, free and independent."
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The 39-year-old powered through to win in 24.10 seconds, beating the 24.38 he set to win gold at London 2012.
"I knew I was in great shape and I wanted to go out and deliver that performance," Whitehead told BBC Sport.
Also through to the final is team-mate Dave Henson, who captained GB at last year's Invictus Games.
Henson, a double amputee after stepping on an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan in 2011, finished third in his heat in 26.61 - just short of his personal best.
Whitehead had admitted he was disappointed at missing out on a medal in Sunday's T42 100m final, where he finished fourth.
Although, as usual, he started slower than his rivals, he put in a devastating burst of speed over the second 100m of the race, finishing over a second clear of Australia's 100m champion Scott Reardon (25.27).
"It is such an honour to be a GB athlete and putting on the team kit, even at 39," added Whitehead, who also revealed that he had missed his young son Andrew, who is at home in Nottingham, crawling for the first time.
"It is about acting on all of the support I have had over the past 12 months. I enjoy what I am do and am passionate about what I do.
"It is now about delivering another performance in the final. Anything less than a world record isn't good enough for me - I need to keep pushing and pushing. It is important that people realise that sport isn't about medals for me - it is about giving back to those who have supported me and hopefully guiding other people to their success."
Meanwhile, Jo Butterfield added discus bronze to the gold she won in the club throw on Saturday for Britain's only medal of the day.
Butterfield managed a best of 8.96m with gold going to American Rachel Morrison in a new world record of 12.86m.
But the 36-year-old was still thrilled with her performance in her weaker event.
"I'm over the moon - I knew that one was going to be really tough and I had to work hard for it," she said afterwards.
"It was a European record; not quite my personal best but I'm happy."
Songwriters Thomas Leonard and Martin Harrington sued the singer last June, claiming his hit ballad had a similar structure to their song, Amazing.
A lawyer for the pair confirmed to the BBC the claim had now been settled.
Leonard and Harrington's track was released by former X Factor winner Matt Cardle in 2012.
On Friday, court papers were lodged dismissing the case "with prejudice", stipulating that a California federal court would enforce the terms of an agreement.
Richard Busch, who represented Harrington and Leonard, would not comment on the settlement terms.
A spokeswoman for Sheeran's record company, Atlantic Records, told the BBC it did not comment on stories relating to copyright issues.
The songwriters originally claimed the chorus of the two songs shared 39 identical notes, with similarities "instantly recognisable to the ordinary observer".
They submitted the chord structures for both tracks in court documents.
Mr Busch is the same lawyer who won a case for the family of the late soul singer Marvin Gaye.
He successfully sued Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams for copyright infringement last year over their single Blurred Lines, winning a $7.4m (£5.1m) settlement.
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At this point, the performance bar from the Republican candidate is so subterranean you'd have to notify local utility companies before digging for it. Given Mr Trump's poor performance in the first debate and his inability to maintain any semblance of message discipline in the weeks since, mere coherence on stage may be enough to earn positive reviews.
When it comes to what he needs to accomplish, however, surpassing expectations won't be enough. Trump will have to be a political pole-vaulter to clear the bar required to get back in this race. He's trailing in the polls, the 2005 "hot mic" tape in which he boasts of sexually harassing women has caused an exodus of support among Republican officeholders, and many Americans are already casting ballots in key swing states. Time is running out, and he needs a triumphant performance to shake things up.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton faces challenges of her own. Mr Trump is down, and she has to make sure he stays there. Can she finish him off without overreaching? Will she make a positive case to voters who may dislike the Republican but may be considering third-party alternates?
Complicating all of this is the debate's town-hall format, which rewards empathy and punishes politicians who go negative or dodge questions.
These types of events can be unpredictable, given that the priorities and concerns of the average-voter participants are often different, and differently expressed, than those of traditional media-savvy moderators.
Here are four questions that will make Mrs Clinton and Mr Trump squirm, however, even if they should see them coming.
The Republican nominee was already suffering from high negative ratings among female voters before his lewd comments in 2005 went public. Now, however, he faces a historic wipe-out in that key demographic.
When he's forced to address the controversy - it will be the first question asked, according to media reports - he has two choices on how to handle it.
The first is contrition. He could unconditionally apologise, say he has erred but has been redeemed by his experiences on the campaign trail, then move on to discussing his populist economic message.
This is the tactic that the Republican leadership, focused on avoiding disastrous losses in down-ballot races, would like him to pursue. Many officeholders who haven't abandoned the nominee at this point have said they want to see a humble Mr Trump take the stage on Sunday night.
The other option is total war. Mr Trump offers a pro-forma apology, then goes scorched-earth on Mrs Clinton, trying to tie her as a willing accomplice to every allegation of her husband's sexual misconduct both confirmed and unfounded.
Given that Mr Trump recently re-tweeted stories about the rape accusations made by Juanita Broaddrick against Bill Clinton and has mentioned the former president by name in both his video and printed statements on Friday, this isn't an unlikely scenario.
Mr Trump often boasts that he's a counter-puncher who responds with overwhelming force if he's attacked. He's probably itching to unload, even if it may not be in his party's best interests.
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Mr Trump has been telegraphing a personal attack on Mrs Clinton and her husband practically since the end of the last debate, so she should be well prepared should the subject come up. If you don't think her campaign has already focus-group-tested responses that will resonate with female voters in swing states, you don't know how they roll.
Something along the lines of, "My husband cheated on me and I decided to keep our family together. That was my choice, just like you cheated on your wives and they decided to leave you" could be a political kill shot.
Knowing what to do and actually pulling it off in the heat of a debate, however, are two different things. A coin toss means Mrs Clinton will be asked about this before Mr Trump, so she may want to hold her heaviest fire until after he tips his hand. Or she could try to goad him into an angry, impolitic response.
Mrs Clinton is an intensely private politician, and a baring-of-the-soul moment where she acknowledges her husband's infidelity would be extraordinarily difficult for her. She may instead choose to express her disgust at Mr Trump's statements and move on. That could be the safe move, but it also may let Mr Trump off the hook and allow him to paint his transgressions and her husband's as equivalent.
If Mr Trump doesn't attack, Mrs Clinton has to decide how hard to press the issue. She must sense her opponent is vulnerable, but she can't be seen as politically opportunistic. She's been dealt a strong hand, but she can still overplay it.
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Remember when Mr Trump's taxes were going to be the big issue that was litigated during this debate? The political bombshell of last week seems like a distant memory, but it still is likely to come up - and could cause the Republican nominee untold headaches.
Mr Trump got irretrievably bogged down in his answer to the tax question in the first debate, and running-mate Mike Pence didn't do much better in the vice-presidential debate last week.
The challenge for Mr Trump is three-fold.
He needs to explain why he continues to refuse to release his tax returns. The under-audit excuse he has tried to roll out continues to be insufficient cover, given that he's said he's been under audit for more than a decade.
Second, he needs to tell the average voters in the debate hall why it is OK that they pay federal taxes every year but he seemingly managed to avoid them for as long as 18 years. Taking advantage of deductions is one thing, but such a long period of avoidance makes it appear he's playing by a different set of rules than most Americans.
And third, he needs to explain how he managed to lose nearly a billion dollars in 1995. Were they real losses or paper ones? How does that reflect on his proclamations of being a world-class businessman?
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He could opt for saying that he knows how corrupt the tax system is, which makes him best positioned to fix it. That's how he's pitched his views on campaign finance reform in the past.
More effective, however, could be packaging his response in a redemptive narrative. He had his failures in the 1990s and rebuilt his empire, just as he will rebuild the nation. If he combines that with contrition for his past sexual transgressions, he may be able to frame himself as the sinner who has seen the light.
Of course, that would require up-till-now-unheard-of rhetorical deftness on Mr Trump's part.
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Buried beneath all the talk of Mr Trump's genital-grabbing was the story that key parts of Mrs Clinton's Wall Street speeches have apparently become public, thanks to (Russian?) hackers and Wikileaks.
The purloined missives, if they are indeed legitimate, paint a picture of Mrs Clinton as a globalist and Machiavellian moderate whose dreams of hemispheric unity would confirm the worst fears of blue-collar workers leaning toward Mr Trump and Bernie Sanders's populist supporters.
So far, the Clinton campaign has attempted to dismiss the revelations as part of Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to tilt the election to Mr Trump. Blanket denials may not be enough, however.
During the first debate, one of Mr Trump's few truly successful moments was confronting Mrs Clinton on her past praise for free trade deals. He pushed her to renounce her support for President Barack Obama's efforts to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and she never came up with an adequate response.
It's all but impossible to make the case for the diffuse economic benefits of free trade in the current political climate. It's somewhat easier to defend immigration, given the importance of the Hispanic vote in swing states and the reluctance of many Americans to embrace Mr Trump's hard-line policy prescriptions.
Mrs Clinton will have to come up with an answer that doesn't appear shaped by political expediency. On immigration, that may be easy. On trade it will be very, very hard.
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It is understood the Liberal MP, who died in 2010, was stopped on the M1 in Northamptonshire during the 1980s.
But he was released from police custody after making a telephone call to an unidentified third party in London, it has been claimed.
Northamptonshire Police is probing the circumstances around the arrest.
Labour MP Simon Danczuk first made the claim in his book about Smith, published last year.
He alleged Smith was stopped on suspicion of a driving offence, but quickly released after he made the phone call.
Despite being taken into the police station, the material said to have been found in his boot disappeared, Mr Danczuk said.
Northamptonshire Police has launched an investigation into the claims, the BBC has learned.
Lead officer Supt Steve Lingley said: "We're investigating it as an historic report and we want to make sure that we get the facts using the right resources.
"If Cyril Smith was stopped on the M1, and was arrested by Northamptonshire Police, I want to know who those officers are.
"We want to understand why they released him.
"We want to know if they came under any pressure, who that person was that gave the instruction to be released."
The force's Police and Crime Commissioner Adam Simmonds said the suspicion was officers were "brought under pressure from somebody in London to release Smith".
"What worries me the most about that is, if we had reason to hold onto him, this man was released back into the community and continued to perpetrate heinous crimes," he said.
Earlier this week, it was claimed an undercover investigation gathering evidence of child abuse claims in the 1980s against Smith was 'scrapped' shortly after he was arrested on a separate occasion.
United manager Jose Mourinho said on Friday the Premier League club had turned down an offer for the 22-year-old Netherlands international.
"I have put a priority on Memphis Depay," said Genesio.
"Things are progressing. We keep on working. It takes time because recruiting a player now is not easy."
Depay joined United from PSV Eindhoven for £31m in May 2015, signing a four-year contract.
He has scored seven goals in 53 appearances for the Red Devils but has not started Premier League game since Mourinho was appointed in the summer.
Speaking on Friday, Mourinho said: "The offer we had is far from being reasonable for us.
"He is our player. If nothing happens, he is one more for us."
Genesio described Depay as a "young player with great international experience and a lot of potential".
He added: "He has an interesting profile for us. But there are several things to consider, including the price."
Lyon, who visit Caen on Sunday (16:00 GMT) are fourth in Ligue 1, 10 points behind leaders Nice with a game in hand.
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Normally in recession, unemployment rises notably. But last time it didn't - the dog didn't bark.
What was happening? One clue is the rise that did happen - in self-employment.
Figures show an increase of 600,000 in the number of micro-businesses in the UK since the recession began in 2008. One in seven people are now working on their own, for themselves.
The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has identified this as a substantial change in the way we think about work as a whole, and the way that governments think.
For decades, lifetime employment by big corporations was the way that most people regarded work. That blueprint may be fading.
If it is, then many things may need rethinking - taxes, training, planning permission for home workshops and offices, insurance, and pensions.
People who have embraced this self-employed way of life can be lyrical about the possibilities. Tom Hodgkinson, founder of the magazine The Idler, is one of them.
He says: "I would like to see a world where most of us work in small groups and for small companies.
"This is because I know from experience that it is the only responsible path, and that despite the downsides - poverty, long hours, attacks from the spiteful - self-employment can bring happiness and fulfilment.
"Small business offers the potential for creativity and autonomy."
Emma Jones is another enthusiast - she founded Enterprise Nation in 2005 as a for-profit cheer leader, event organiser and consultancy.
She also talks about the huge new freedom of choice available to the self-employed person. How growing children can be fitted into working life. How costs shrink without the need for daily commuting and dressing up for the job. The extra hours available to the home worker.
And an array of new tools have helped enormously. Internet telephony makes collaboration easy, even across continents. Internet selling gives small businesses the chance of a global marketplace from day one, if they learn the art of creating a viral buzz.
Selling sites such as Etsy provide an international shop window for crafts and antiques, with a low cost entry barrier of 20 US cents (12p).
And help is available from professionals in things like website design from services such as Freelancer, where freelance specialists quote for specified jobs almost as soon as the request is posted.
The response is international, enabling even a self-employed person to outsource from day one - right across the world.
But it has to be said that there may be big drawbacks to this new way of life. The conference on the subject organised earlier this year in London by the RSA began with a glad confident morning of enthusiasm from people who had adopted the self-employed way of life. People like Tom Hodgkinson and Emma Jones.
Later in the day, though, things got grimmer. Panels of economic experts raised doubts about the process. They were concerned about the erosion in pay levels when people go self employed, and the uncertainty of it.
There were worries that many of the new self-employed were not volunteers seeking a better way of life, but people forced into self-employment by corporate employers finding ways of removing high-cost employees from their payrolls, their pensions, and their responsibilities.
Or they were a temporary phenomenon - white collar workers who had lost their company jobs in a recession, and had been forced into self-employed consultancy by sheer necessity.
The director of the publicly-funded innovation powerhouse Nesta, Geoff Mulgan, expressed fears that start-up businesses are not the hotbeds of innovation that many assume.
It is still the big companies where most research and development happens. Small start-ups find it very difficult to get the backing to grow and employ others, to become significant contributors to the UK economy as a whole.
According to Mr Mulgan one of the big deficits in the modern economy in Britain is the tendency for so many ambitious start-ups to wither on the vine as they attempt to grow fast early in their development.
The UK does not seem to have the financial support for this vital phase of growth, unlike the US. The UK doesn't have enough angels and venture capitalists willing to have a punt.
Government officials I've met in the past used to refer slightly sneeringly (I felt) to "lifestyle businesses", run more for self esteem that powering economic development.
That's a technocratic view. I still like the idea that it may be possible to break free of the uniformity of corporate employment through going it alone.
For most self-employed people the money may be worse than what they pay on the corporate ladder, but the freedom may be exhilarating.
Provided that self-employment is taken seriously by the people who frame the rules and regulations... and by the people who think about what our future society may look like.
Living For Love failed to make the station's playlist, which dictates its most-played songs, when it was released last month, leading to accusations of ageism from the 56-year-old's fans.
Speaking to The Sun, Madonna said she was "shocked" by her exclusion.
"I was like, 'Wait a second. Shouldn't it be to do with whether you wrote a good, catchy pop song?"
Radio 1 says Madonna's age had nothing to do with its decision, saying it chooses songs on "musical merit and their relevance to our young audience on a case-by-case basis".
"An artist's age is never a factor," it said in a statement.
However, BBC News has learned that the station turned its back on Madonna long before Living For Love was released.
Speaking at a Radio Academy event last year, Radio 1's 49-year-old head of music, George Ergatoudis, said the station had "moved on" from her music.
Ergatoudis, who chairs the weekly playlist meetings, had been asked whether he would play Madonna's next single if she agreed to appear at Radio 1's Big Weekend festival.
In response, he said: "The BBC Trust have asked us to go after a young audience. We've got to concentrate on [people aged] 15-30. We have to bring our average age down. That's something we're very conscious of.
"The vast majority of people who like Madonna, who like her music now, are over 30 and frankly, we've moved on from Madonna."
In her interview with The Sun, Madonna expressed disbelief that age would be a factor in deciding whose music to play on daytime radio.
"My manager said to me, 'If you're not in your twenties, it's hard. You might get your record played in your thirties. There's a handful of people who do - Pharrell [who is 41] got lucky. But if you're in your fifties, you can forget it'.
"Really? Is that how it's broken down? I'm so stupid. I didn't know it was anything to do with my age. I just do my work."
"We've made so many advances in other areas - civil rights, gay rights - but ageism is still an area that's taboo and not talked about and dealt with."
Radio 1 does continue to play other artists above the age of 30 - including the Foo Fighters, whose frontman Dave Grohl is 46.
72-year-old Paul McCartney also appears on the current playlist, although only as a featured artist on Kanye West and Rihanna's song FourFiveSeconds.
The Sun has run a vocal campaign criticising the station for turning its back on artists such as Take That and Kylie Minogue.
However, Madonna's single was not completely banished by Radio 1, being played on some of its specialist shows.
One of the DJs who gave the song airtime was Annie Mac, who took over the influential Evening Session programme earlier this week.
She told The Independent: "I'm a lifelong Madonna fan and I played her on my Friday show.
"[Living For Love] was produced by Diplo, who is one of the biggest artists on my show. If I'm excited by a song, then I think it's going to be all right to play it."
The single was also included on the Radio 2 playlist, which targets an older audience.
Despite that, it stalled at 26 in the charts, despite the publicity following Madonna's fall at the Brit Awards.
The star can perhaps take comfort in the fact that her new album, Rebel Heart, is on course to reach number one this weekend.
If it reaches the top spot, it will be her 12th number one album in the UK.
Day beat 1997 World Champion Ken Doherty 10-6 at Pond's Forge on Wednesday to reach The Crucible.
Mark Williams - winner in 2000 and 2003 - faces 2006 champion Graham Dott in his first round game.
And Michael White completes the Welsh contingent against England's world number 59-ranked Sam Baird.
The other highlights of the first round see defending champion Stuart Bingham playing Ali Carter and five-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan face Dave Gilbert.
World number one Mark Selby plays Robert Milkins and Judd Trump meets Liang Wenbo.
The tournament starts on Saturday, 16 April.
Full draw
Stuart Bingham v Ali Carter
Stephen Maguire v Alan McManus
Ricky Walden v Robbie Williams
John Higgins v Ryan Day
Judd Trump v Liang Wenbo
Martin Gould v Ding Junhui
Mark Williams v Graeme Dott
Neil Robertson v Michael Holt
Shaun Murphy v Anthony McGill
Marco Fu v Peter Ebdon
Barry Hawkins v Zhang Anda
Ronnie O'Sullivan v David Gilbert
Mark Allen v Mitchell Mann
Joe Perry v Kyren Wilson
Michael White v Sam Baird
Mark Selby v Robert Milkins
Norton in Hales scooped the Royal Horticultural Award title at a ceremony in Sunderland.
Judges praised the excellent green spaces and variety of plants in the "beautiful, picturesque" village.
The village was one of 70 finalists chosen from more than 1,000 groups across the country.
Last year Shrewsbury took the title.
This year judges said the variety of plants in Norton in Hales had made a "tremendous impact", particularly on the village green and sports field.
They said its commitment to the environment and sustainability "played a large part in their success", praising projects such as "ground to ground" which sees coffee granules and bark mulch transformed into fertiliser and slug repellent.
The "exceptional" community spirit of Norton in Bloom volunteers was also mentioned with judges adding the "entire village" had won the title which was announced at a ceremony on Friday.
Norton in Bloom Secretary Malcolm McDonald said it was an "amazing achievement" for a village of some 300 people and reflected the hard work of the committee and its many helpers.
Birmingham achieved a gold award at Britain in Bloom and won the "Large Town" category while Walsall took silver in the Urban Community section.
The metal rods were used by Causeway Coast and Glens council to mark out a makeshift car-park for the Irish Open golf championship in Portstewart.
Ryan Patev, 11, was playing with his younger brothers on Wednesday when he fell on the rod.
It punctured 4in (10cm) into his right thigh, just 2cm from a major artery.
It is understood that he fell backwards off a wall onto the rod.
Natalie Patev said her son had a lucky escape - despite now being off his feet and not allowed to go outside.
"Ryan could have died - it doesn't bear thinking about," she told BBC News NI.
"He is upset and really sore, he can't walk on it or anything and has to stay inside."
Ms Patev said the rods were not "capped" and the car park had been constructed in a "slap-dash" fashion with "no thought put into the children's safety".
"They were there for the golf - it was a parking area they had made... like an overspill," she said.
Recovering after his ordeal, Ryan Patev described the moment he was injured.
"I just saw the the pole sticking out at the side of my leg," he told BBC Newsline.
"Luckily, my other leg was supporting it so it didn't go down any further.
"My friend, Tommy, pulled the iron rod out of the ground so I could lie on the ground."
Ryan Patev said those responsible for the rods should have put up warning signs.
"I didn't see it at first and I just don't want it to happen to anyone else."
A council official had visited the family's home and offered Ryan and his mother tickets to the tournament, but this was not what they wanted, Ms Patev told The Belfast Telegraph.
"(The official) apologised and said they have removed the iron rods from the grass," she told the newspaper.
The Health and Safety Executive said it was aware of the incident and was making inquiries.
In a statement, Causeway Coast and Glens Council confirmed that a council officer and a representative from the European Tour's car park operation visited Ryan Patev at home on Thursday.
A spokesperson for golf's European Tour said it was working with the council to carry out a full investigation into the incident.
"We were very sorry to hear of Ryan's unfortunate accident," said the spokesperson.
"A representative of the Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council, along with a member of our car parking team, visited Ryan and his family at home yesterday afternoon to offer support and check on his wellbeing, and we all wish him well in his recovery."
A 49-year-old man has been reported to the procurator fiscal in connection with the incident at a property at Glenkingie Street in Caol on Tuesday.
A 73-year-old man is in a critical but stable condition in Glasgow Royal Infirmary, said Police Scotland.
A woman in her 60s was treated at Belford Hospital in Fort William before being released later.
Emergency services were alerted to the incident at about 20:30.
Police Scotland said: "The public in the local community are thanked for their patience and understanding whilst the matter was dealt with by officers."
Mr Obama told reporters at the White House that the search for a two-state solution remained elusive but he hoped to see progress in the coming weeks.
Mr Abbas said he considered the current round of talks a historic opportunity.
The US wants both sides to approve a "framework" accord that would extend the negotiations beyond next month's deadline for a final deal in July.
But Palestinian officials say the prospect is "disappearing day by day".
Mr Obama and Mr Kerry brought the Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table last July after a three-year hiatus, and said at the time that their objective was to achieve a "final-status agreement over the course of the next nine months".
By Rushdi Abdu AloufBBC News, Gaza City
Gaza critical as Abbas meets Obama
Although negotiations have taken place in secret, there has been little sign of progress and US officials say they are now trying to forge a framework that "narrows the gaps" on core issues and allows the process to continue beyond 29 April.
The issues include the borders between Israel and a future Palestinian state; the status of Jerusalem; Israel's insistence that it be recognised as a Jewish state; the Palestinians' demand that their refugees be allowed to return to their former homes in what is now Israel; and security in the West Bank, with Israel wanting a long-term presence in the Jordan Valley.
At the start of his meeting with the Palestinian leader on Monday, Mr Obama said: "We are going to have to take some tough political decisions and risks if we're to move it forward."
"My hope is that we can continue to see progress in the coming days and weeks," he added.
Mr Abbas said he was hopeful that the Israeli authorities would release a fourth batch of 26 long-term Palestinian prisoners by 29 March, in line with a deal that saw the talks resume.
"This will give a very solid impression about the seriousness of the Israelis on the peace process," he said.
Israeli ministers said last week they would have difficulty approving the release if an agreement was not reached to extend the peace talks.
Before Mr Abbas's visit to Washington, an official at the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) said its negotiating team felt it did not "have a partner on the Israeli side".
The pan-Arab newspaper al-Hayat meanwhile reported that at his meeting with President Obama, Mr Abbas would demand that Israel halt all construction at Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank as well as the release of high-profile Palestinian prisoners as a condition for agreeing to extend the peace talks beyond 29 April.
Sources were cited as saying that the prisoners would include Marwan Barghouti, a Fatah leader serving multiple life sentences after being convicted of murdering Israelis, and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader Ahmed Saadat, jailed for 30 years for his role in the assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi in 2001.
Two weeks ago, Mr Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that a peace deal required "compromise on all sides".
While offering no concessions in public, Mr Netanyahu insisted: "Israel has been doing its part and I regret to say that the Palestinians have not."
Mr Netanyahu is insisting on Palestinian recognition of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, but Mr Abbas has refused.
The Palestinians recognise the State of Israel, but say recognising its Jewish character would have implications for Palestinian refugees and Israeli-Arabs.
The former All Black was capped 63 times by his country and was considered one of rugby's first global superstars.
Thousands attended the service, which opened with a traditional Maori haka for Lomu, who was of Tongan descent.
He was diagnosed with a rare kidney condition in 1995, but the exact cause of death has not been established.
Doctors believe he died as a result of a blood clot that developed on the long flight back from the UK where he had recently been watching the Rugby World Cup with his wife and two young boys, reports the BBC's Jon Donnison in Eden Park.
Many of those at the memorial were from New Zealand's Pacific Island communities. A private family burial service will be held in Auckland on Tuesday.
This was a great send off for a great man. Perhaps not the attendance everyone was hoping for, but several thousand turned up at Eden Park to remember a legend of rugby union. The game's first global superstar.
The ceremony opened with a haka, performed in traditional warrior costume with spine tingling intensity. The crowd heard tributes from people ranging from Queen Elizabeth II to Elton John.
Dozens of former All Blacks were there to pay their respects, among them Grant Fox, who told me: "The scary thing with Jonah was he was performing with a debilitating illness. Imagine what he could have done if he was 100% healthy."
Former winger Eric Rush reduced the crowd to laughter and then tears as he addressed the gathering, remembering his dear friend.
It was a tough day for Jonah Lomu's wife Nadene, who did her best to comfort the couple's two young boys, Dyhreille and Brayley, both decked out in the famous number 11 shirt their father wore to such devastating effect.
The memorial opened with a haka, and powhiri welcome ritual. Jonah Lomu's coffin was then carried into the stadium by pallbearers, including several former All Blacks.
Lomu's wife Nadene followed, wearing a woven skirt - a traditional Tongan symbol of respect and mourning - accompanied by her two sons.
In an especially moving moment, pupils of Lomu's former school in South Auckland, Favona Primary, performed their own tribute song, calling the rugby giant "Number 11, our friend in heaven".
The tributes were led by World Rugby chairman Bernard Lapasset, who travelled from Paris for the memorial. He described Lomu as "a giant of a man (who) leaves a giant space in world rugby".
"He will forever be a big part of rugby's story," he said.
New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key recorded a video tribute in Paris, where he is attending the world climate conference.
"He proved that you can come from anywhere in New Zealand, in any background, and make it to the top,'' he said in the message.
Jonah Lomu fought a nearly two-decade battle with kidney illness, which former All Blacks coach John Hart recounted, saying "he was a fighter until the very end".
His death did not only touch the rugby world, with footballer David Beckham and Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman also among those paying their condolences.
Lomu scored a record 15 tries at Rugby World Cups, eight of them in 1999 - also a record for most tries at a single tournament. Both records were only matched this year.
The Kuwait-born businessman and racehorse owner bought Salford in 2013 when they were in financial trouble.
Despite a huge investment in the playing squad, the Red Devils have not finished higher than 10th, and are 11th this season after a points deduction for breaching the salary cap.
"I think I've failed miserably," the 57-year-old told Rugby League Extra.
"I've not advanced the club as much as I would have liked, although we have a better team than we did in 2014.
"One of my main goals of the time was to grow the club, and that means commercially and the fans coming to the ground, now attendances this year are almost half of what they were when I came in."
With attendances declining at the AJ Bell Stadium, Koukash believes their relocation from the Willows to their new home in Barton in 2012 has been the main reason.
"Questions have to be asked about was it a wise thing to take Salford from the heart of the city to where they are now," he said.
"I'm talking about the location of the stadium and that's affecting the club big, big time. Rugby league is a community game and people like to walk to the ground.
"St Helens, Wigan and Warrington fans can walk to their own stadium and we don't have that - our traditional fan base is miles away."
In April, Salford were docked six points and fined £5,000 by the Rugby Football league for breaching salary cap regulations in 2014 and 2015.
Before that ruling, Koukash said he would go to the "highest court of the land" to prove their innocence and an appeal will be heard on 6 July.
"It is not going to be a complicated case, it's very simple," stated Koukash.
"There was a claim that was made in the judgement letter that we breached the cap by x amount of money by x amount of days.
"I've got now the hard evidence, stop speculation as I have got it in black and white, that shows we have not breached the salary cap.
"We haven't gone over the salary cap by a single pound or for a single day."
The cancer has one of the lowest survival rates, with fewer than 5% of patients surviving five or more years after diagnosis.
The idea is to deliver oxygen to the tumour and improve radiotherapy treatments.
The treatment will not be available for a number of years
Survival rates had not improved in 40 years, said Prof John Callan, who is leading the Ulster University research.
"There's no coincidence that pancreatic cancer receives the lowest amount of research funding amongst all the common cancers with less than one per cent of the total research spend," he said.
Last year, Ulster University researchers identified a new therapy that can selectively target pancreatic cancer tumours using microbubble technology combined with harmless sound waves.
A new study, which is being run in conjunction with Oxford University, uses the micro-bubble technology to supply oxygen to the tumour.
This makes chemotherapy and radiotherapy drugs more effective, and means that more patients could be eligible for surgery, the only practical treatment for pancreatic cancer.
"Unfortunately, only about 20% of patients that initially present with pancreatic cancer are eligible for surgery," explained Prof Callan.
Maggie Banks, CEO of the Pancreatic Research Fund, which is funding the research, said: "Because every penny of our funding is donated by supporters who know how devastating pancreatic cancer is, it's our priority to fund the most innovative research that could offer benefits to parents.
"This project is a great example of that strategy and we look forward to hearing the results."
The condition of the woman, who has not been named, was "good, considering the circumstances", the GIZ development organisation said.
She is "very relieved and happy" at being released, it added.
The kidnapping happened in a central Kabul neighbourhood, where a number of foreign aid agencies are based.
No details have been given about the circumstances of the woman's release.
German Foreign Minister Frank Walter-Steinmeier, who is visiting Tehran, said he was "very relieved" at the news and thanked the Afghan government and the country's security forces.
The kidnapping was the second abduction of a GIZ aid worker this year.
Another employee of the agency was kidnapped in the restive northern province of Kunduz and rescued in a police operation after 40 days in captivity.
In April the bodies of five Afghan workers for Save the Children were found after they were abducted by gunmen in the strife-torn southern province of Uruzgan.
Thousands of migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar are feared stranded in boats in the Andaman Sea after their crews deserted them.
Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand have been turning away migrant boats.
Survivors have described desperate conditions on the boats, with people thrown overboard amid fights for food.
Rohingya Muslims have been leaving Buddhist-majority Myanmar, also known as Burma, because they are not recognised as citizens and face persecution.
Many of the Bangladeshis at sea are thought to be economic migrants.
Thailand is hosting a meeting on 29 May for 15 countries to discuss ways to address the crisis.
However, Zaw Htay, director of Myanmar's presidential office, said his leaders would not attend if the word "Rohingya" was used in the invitation, as they did not recognise the term.
"We are not ignoring the migrant problem, but... we will not accept the allegations by some that Myanmar is the source of the problem," he told the Associated Press news agency.
"The problem of the migrant graves is not a Myanmar problem, it's because of the weakness of human trafficking prevention and the rule of law in Thailand," he said in a separate interview with AFP.
At the scene: Jonathan Head, BBC News, southern Thailand
It is being called human ping-pong - the refusal of south-east Asian countries to accept mainly Rohingya migrants from Myanmar, and their navies' policy of pushing boats back into each other's territory.
So the boat we found on Thursday, which had already been pushed back once from Malaysia, into Thailand, was then pushed back again by the Thai navy. At the time of writing it lies just inside Malaysian waters. They tell us it will now be towed to a fourth country, perhaps Indonesia.
On board, more or less running the boat, are Rohingya brokers, who have good reason not to want to land in Thailand, where an anti-trafficking operation is underway.
Thai officers are negotiating with these men, who claim to speak for all 350 on board. So the Thais say they were merely helping by repairing the engine and sending the boat on its way.
But what about the women and children on board - more than half the passengers? What about all the visibly ill people, or those who look half-starved? How can an endless sea voyage in an appallingly cramped and unsanitary boat help them? Thai and Malaysian officials are not saying.
Why are so many stranded at sea?
Myanmar's unwanted people
Close to 800 migrants were rescued after their boat sank on Friday near Langsa in Indonesia's Aceh province, after being pushed back from both Indonesia and Malaysia's coasts.
The boat had reportedly been at sea for two months and was recently deserted by its crew.
The Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants on board began fighting over dwindling food supplies, survivors said.
"They were killing each other, throwing people overboard," Langsa police chief Sunarya told AFP.
Rohingya Muslims attempt to flee Myanmar every year during the non-monsoon season, but the smugglers who take them to Thailand have been scared by a recent Thai crackdown.
Instead they are reported to have been abandoned at sea. The numbers involved are unclear but rights group say thousands are thought to be stranded.
Sammy Bremner said the dog, that he bought in a car park, died a few days after he took it home.
The USPCA said the illegal cross-border trafficking of dogs is a major issue.
It has launched a campaign to warn the public over the growing trade in puppies by illegal breeders.
The organisation has published guidelines for new owners to guard against buying dogs from illegal sources.
Mr Bremner said that the Pomeranian puppy's death had "really angered" and upset him.
He said it was younger than the seller told him and had signs of mistreatment.
"The wee thing had suffered and was taken away from its mother long before it was due to be taken away all because these boys wanted to make a quick buck."
He said that his sister had organised the purchase of the puppy after seeing it advertised online.
Mr Bremner said he spoke to the seller, who said he was based in Letterkenny, County Donegal, and was prepared to drive there to collect the dog.
However, the seller told him his brother could meet him in Magherafelt, County Londonderry, with the puppy.
They arranged to meet at a car park near the town.
Mr Bremner said: "When he arrived, he has this wee sort of ball of fluff in his hands.
"I thought it was dead at first, and said there's something wrong with it.
"It was all wet down it's front and didn't look well.
"But the man said it's just been sick in the car and that it was a wee bit dehydrated.
"I asked him how old the dog was and he said nine weeks. He also said the dog hadn't been checked by a vet yet."
Mr Bremner paid £245 for the puppy and said the man told him he could have got £800 if he "went over to England".
He took the dog back to his sister, but two days later the puppy became extremely ill.
"The vet told us the dog was only five weeks old and should still be with its mother," he said.
"She also said it looked like it hadn't been treated very well, that it was very dehydrated and very skinny."
Mr Bremner said the dog rallied over the next couple of days but soon became ill again.
"My sister rang me and said the puppy was dying," he said. "She had the puppy on a pillow on her lap and she was stroking it and talking to it.
"Half an hour later it lifted it's wee head and started howling.
"I ended up crying and anger was building up in me.
"Then its howling started getting lower and lower and the head fell down and it was gone."
Colleen Dowdall, from the USPCA, said that puppy trafficking and illegal breeding were growing problems.
"Designer puppies are changing hands for hundreds of pounds out of car boots in car parks and lay-bys all over the country."
She added that there was "little or no thought given to how they were bred, what vaccinations they have or the consequences of buying a sick dog".
"Many of these puppies are bred in the Republic of Ireland and are trafficked to Northern Ireland and on to Scotland.
"At our animal hospital in Newry, our vets see too many sad cases of distraught families with puppies they love come in with disease or genetic abnormalities that cannot be cured.
"Owners have to be responsible and take some very obvious steps to ensure the health of their puppy and the safety of their family."
The hosts, the better side throughout, took an early lead when Liam Kelly headed home Jonathan Forte's cross, and Curtis Main nodded in at the back post late on at Boundary Park.
Oldham goalkeeper Joel Coleman kept out a rare Swindon effort from Louis Thompson effort in the first half.
The Latics remain in the relegation zone, one point behind 20th-placed Blackpool with two games in hand.
Oldham manager John Sheridan told BBC Radio Manchester:
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"I thought we fully deserved the result. The most important thing is getting the three points.
"It was a tricky game tonight, Swindon are a good passing side and they can really hurt you.
"I wouldn't like to play against us at the moment. The stamina in the team is excellent and we fully deserved the result and another clean sheet.
"I'm really pleased for Curtis Main. He deserved the goal, it was a great finish."
The 41-year-old will star opposite British actor Henry Cavill, who will reprise his role as Superman from the most recent film, Man of Steel.
Director Zack Snyder revealed the big screen superhero mash-up at a comic convention in San Diego last month.
Production is expected to begin next year for release in the summer of 2015.
"We knew we needed an extraordinary actor to take on one of DC Comics' most enduringly popular super heroes, and Ben Affleck certainly fits that bill and then some," Warner Bros President Greg Silverman said in a statement.
Mr Snyder, who also directed Man of Steel, said in a statement that Mr Affleck will provide an "interesting counter-balance" to 31-year old Cavill's Clark Kent.
"(Affleck) has the acting chops to create a layered portrayal of a man who is older and wiser than Clark Kent and bears the scars of a seasoned crime fighter, but retain the charm that the world sees in billionaire Bruce Wayne," said Snyder. "I can't wait to work with him."
The sequel - which has yet to be given a title - will reunite Man of Steel stars Amy Adams (Lois Lane), Laurence Fishburne (Perry White) and Diane Lane (Martha Kent).
Christian Bale most recently played Batman in director Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy.
Michael Keaton and George Clooney have also donned the black mask and cape in previous Batman films.
Ben Affleck's film Argo, which he starred in and directed, won an Academy Award for best picture earlier this year.
The superhero genre is not new to Mr Affleck, who previously starred as the blind hero in the 2003 Daredevil film based on the Marvel Comics.
Batman and Superman are part of DC Comics universe, which is part of the Warner Bros Entertainment division.
Revenues from the latest films featuring Superman and Batman have exceeded $1bn (£655m) in recent years.
Nikola Zhulev, 30, is charged with murdering Alan Gardner by hitting him on the head with a metal frying pan and asphyxiating him.
He is also charged with plotting to conceal Mr Gardner's body, stealing valuables and a car, and with drug offences.
Mr Zhulev denies all the charges.
John Gordon, 52, who owns 176 South Street in Perth, told told the High Court at Livingston that Mr Zhulev only had £60 of the £170 deposit needed when he rented a room on 14 April last year.
Mr Zhulev said he would raise the money by the following week.
Mr Gordon said he had rented a room to the accused a year or so before and found him "decent enough" with no issues.
He said: "He was a bit short of money. He gave me £60 and told me his situation.
"He was having problems getting the money and he was going to claim housing benefit. He was having problems with his wife, divorce or something like that.
"I told him we don't accept housing benefits because it's all working people. He said he would get the money the following week."
The next time he saw Mr Zhulev was on Tuesday 21 April 2015.
He said: "I went to his room to collect the £110 balance for the two week rent. I knocked once on Nicky's door and he answered it.
"He knew straightaway. He said: 'Give me two seconds', went away and got me £110. It was in cash in £20 notes and a £10 note."
The trial, before Lady Rae, continues.
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The articulated lorry was being unloaded in Ferryquay Street at about 04:45 BST on Sunday when it rolled away.
A parked car and a number of street signs and bollards were damaged as the lorry rolled down Linenhall Street and Newmarket Street before crashing into the wall of the Foyleside Shopping Centre on Orchard Street.
Police are particularly keen to speak to three young males who were in the area of Ferryquay Street at about the time of the incident.
Darren Manley sold products with names such as King B, Cherry Bomb, Blow and Charly Sheen from his shop Red Eye on Cowley Road in Oxford.
They were described as research chemicals and herbal incenses.
Oxfordshire County Council's trading standards team said the way the products were sold without health risk warnings was illegal.
The council started investigating the business in 2014 after doctors raised concerns about the products' effects upon people using them as drugs.
Deputy county council leader Rodney Rose said the company failed to act when it was made aware of the risks.
Manley and his firm RAD Trading Limited admitted eight counts of breaching the General Product Safety Regulations 2005 when he appeared at Oxford Crown Court.
Jody Kerman, operations manager for the trading standards service, said the way the supposedly legal highs were sold meant they were not legal.
He said: "The products were labelled incorrectly and contained dangerous substances with no appropriate warnings or instructions for their safe use.
"Whilst there is new legislation in place now that cover these items, at the time of these offences, dangerous products such as these were being openly sold to consumers in Oxford from a retail shop.
"This helped to add to the public perception that these were safe and legal products."
Other products sold at the shop were called Clockwork Orange, Exodus Herbal Incense, China White and Loop. Red Eye stopped selling them in early 2015.
Manley, 36, of Curlew Place, Portishead, has been released on bail and will be sentenced on 17 January at Oxford Crown Court.
The teenager has scored five goals in four games for the Green Lions since joining the club in December.
Meanwhile, Guernsey boss Tony Vance has added another Robins youngster on loan by signing left-back Cameron Pring.
He has agreed a month-long deal at the Isthmian League Division One South club and replaces Kodi Lyons-Foster, who has returned to Ashton Gate.
Sevdet Ramadan Besim, 19, was committed to trial on Thursday after pleading not guilty to four terror charges.
He is accused of plotting to run down and behead a police officer in Melbourne on Anzac Day.
Mr Besim was one of five teens arrested in police raids in April last year.
Prosecutors alleged on Thursday that he was communicating with a teenager overseas about a planned attack.
"I'd love to take out some cops," Mr Besim allegedly wrote.
He faces charges relating to searching internet sites, engaging in communications and creating a memo with the intention of planning a terrorist attack.
A fifth charge of conspiring to do an act in preparation or planning a terror act, which carries a life sentence, was withdrawn.
The Australian Broadcasting Corp quoted a document presented by prosecutors that summarised the alleged conversation about the kangaroo bomb.
"The conversation continues with BESIM detailing what he did that day and they have a general discussion around animals and wildlife in Australia including a suggestion that a kangaroo could be packed with C4 explosive, painted with the IS symbol and set loose on police officers," the document reportedly said.
Anzac Day, held on 25 April each year, commemorates Australian and New Zealand personnel killed in conflicts.
Mr Besim allegedly conducted internet searches on Anzac Day in preparation for a terrorist attack.
The new attempt to uproot the protest stronghold came as President Yanukovych blamed opposition leaders for the worst violence in months of unrest.
After failed overnight talks, he urged them to distance themselves from radical forces.
The EU says it expects to agree sanctions on those behind "repression".
By Daniel SandfordBBC News, Ukraine
This no longer seems to be a democratic argument over Ukraine's relationship with Russia. It is a violent power struggle.
The violence is contained - and mostly takes place in four square kilometres in central Kiev - but the determination of the most active protesters should not be underestimated, nor should President Viktor Yanukovych's determination to survive.
It's unlikely that any leader of a Western European democracy would still be in post if similar events had happened in their country.
But although the violent protesters, many inspired by far-right politics, are now focused on revolution, their numbers are small. They alone could not overthrow the government.
What makes this crisis so serious is the quiet support that many in western Ukraine, particularly in Lviv, are giving to the violence. It means that a split between eastern Ukraine and western Ukraine is being openly discussed, even though few people say they want that.
A violent power struggle
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Russia, however, has accused opposition protesters of trying to engineer a "violent takeover of power".
Police launched their latest assault on Independence Square, also known as the Maidan, shortly after 04:00 local time (02:00 GMT). Several tents were set ablaze, and water cannon was later used.
The BBC's Daniel Sandford said police had taken control of a corner of the square for the first time since December.
The protests began in late November, when President Viktor Yanukovych rejected a landmark association and trade deal with the EU in favour of closer ties with Russia.
Tensions had begun to subside as recently as Monday, as protesters ended their occupation of government buildings in return for an amnesty against prosecution.
But violence erupted outside parliament on Tuesday morning as government supporters blocked opposition attempts to scale back the president's constitutional powers.
Correspondents say it was unclear what sparked the clashes, with each side blaming the other. Protesters accused pro-government agents provocateurs, known as "titushki", of inciting some of the violence while the government said radical Right Sector supporters were involved.
Fighting spread to surrounding streets and police launched a first attack on Independence Square on Tuesday evening.
The number of dead on both sides has risen to 26 and it is feared the death toll could rise further.
As police gained ground in the Maidan, stones and petrol bombs were met with tear gas.
The protesters tried to hold their defence lines, burning tyres on the barricades and more anti-government activists were said to be on their way to join the camp.
A trade union building where many protesters had been sheltering was set alight and people could be seen climbing down the walls to escape the flames.
There were reports of unrest breaking out elsewhere in Ukraine, including the western cities of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil.
Ukraine protests timeline
Why is Ukraine in crisis?
Media shock and despair
Opposition leaders Vitaly Klitschko and Arseniy Yatsenyuk met President Viktor Yanukovych for late night talks but failed to come to an agreement.
In a statement broadcast on TV news channels on Wednesday morning, President Yanukovych said: "The opposition leaders have disregarded the principle of democracy according to which one obtains power not on the streets or maidans - but through elections."
"They have crossed the line by calling for people to take up arms," he said, warning that those responsible for violence would face the law.
But the president added that there was a "better and more effective way" to solve the crisis - through dialogue and compromise.
"It is not too late to stop the conflict," he said.
Security forces had given the protesters a deadline of 18:00 on Tuesday (16:00 GMT) to leave the square, the scene of a mostly peaceful protest camp since November.
When the deadline expired, riot police advanced with an armoured vehicle, dismantling barricades and firing stun grenades and water cannon.
Protesters resisted, throwing missiles from behind piles of burning tyres.
In speeches from the main stage through the night, protest leaders urged people already on the Maidan to stand firm, and called on Ukrainians elsewhere to come to the square.
"This is an island of freedom and we will defend it," said Vitaly Klitschko, the leader of the Udar (Punch) party.
Mr Yatsenyuk, who heads the Fatherland party, appealed to President Yanukovych to "stop the bloodshed and call a truce".
He had earlier accused the president of blocking attempts to reform the constitution in parliament.
But MPs who support the president said the proposals had not been thoroughly discussed, and that more time was needed.
There has been widespread international alarm at the bloodshed in Kiev.
The 32-year-old had been made available by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for the county's first three Division One matches.
But he missed the draw with Lancashire due to the problem with his left hip.
On Wednesday, the ECB turned down a request from Nottinghamshire to play England bowler Stuart Broad.
Broad and fellow paceman James Anderson, who is unavailable for Lancashire, will return for the third round of games starting on 21 April.
England do not play a Test until 6 July, but then face seven Tests in just over two months against South Africa and West Indies, before seven more in Australia and New Zealand over the winter.
The 20-year-old joined the Cumbrians in March from Indian side Delhi Dynamos and made one substitute appearance.
He came through Premier League club West Brom's academy system.
"Samir is an excellent technical player and we now need to school him in what he needs to do when we are out of possession," said boss Keith Curle.
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The newborn child was discovered on 29 January 2016 on land near Imperial Park, Coedkernew.
He had been wrapped in a white towel and placed in a black leather-style bag.
Despite numerous appeals, Gwent Police has still not been able to identify the baby's mother.
Officers said the towel, which had the words "St Annes" hand-written along its edge, came from St Anne's Hospice in Newport.
They have asked if anyone can connect the towel or the bag with a woman or girl who may have been upset, anxious or acting strangely this time last year and who may be doing so again around the anniversary of the birth.
Det Insp Judith Roberts said: "This must be an incredibly distressing time for the mother.
"The anniversary may bring back painful memories and we want to ensure that she is offered the right support.
"Anyone with information is urged to get in touch. If you want to speak with us confidentially or anonymously, that can be arranged."
Anyone with information is asked to call Gwent Police on 101 or contact the force via direct message on Facebook.
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Steve O'Connell said there was concern the Met Police had not charged former Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman.
Mr Rahman was forced to step down after an Election Court found him guilty of corrupt and illegal practices.
Police had investigated claims of electoral fraud and malpractice during the local elections of 2014.
Mr Rahman, who became Tower Hamlets' first directly elected mayor in 2010 and was re-elected four years later, has faced no criminal prosecution.
The Met has been contacted for a comment.
Mr O'Connell, chairman of the Assembly's Police and Crime Committee, said: "During our investigation, we, as a committee, have been shocked to uncover major failings by the Metropolitan Police in its ability to investigate allegations of electoral fraud and malpractice."
He said failings included missed files of evidence, missed opportunities to gather witness statements and witnesses who were prepared to give evidence in the election court but were unwilling to do so in criminal proceedings.
He also said a bundle of 27 files sent to the Director of Public Prosecution was not reviewed by the force.
"This is not what we expect from a supposedly world-leading police force," he said.
Mr O'Connell has written to Sophie Linden, deputy mayor for policing and crime, urging her to use her powers to call on Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) to look into the activities of officers investigating the election.
He said it was time for "a fresh pair of eyes" to review the activities of the Met.
But what about the tactic used to restrain him?
The chokehold has long been considered a controversial technique for law enforcement officers in the US, although it's not a term widely used in other countries such as the UK.
Video footage of the incident shows officer Daniel Pantaleo lock his arm around Mr Garner's neck, before wrestling him to the ground.
"As defined in the department's patrol guide, it would appear to have been a chokehold," New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told reporters at the time.
It is defined in the New York Police Department patrol guide as any pressure to the throat or windpipe that may hinder breathing or reduce intake of air.
They have been prohibited in New York since the 1980s because, in Bratton's words, of the "concerns of potential deaths around them." Most police departments across America also ban their use.
In pictures: Chokehold ruling sparks protests
The origins of the chokehold come from martial arts such as judo, where it is also known as a "shime waza", explains Gary Golz, president of the US Judo Association.
Mr Golz, who has been a defensive tactics adviser for the Los Angeles Police Department, says there are several iterations of the chokehold, which he describes as more of a strangle than a choke.
"If they choke, you're doing it wrong," he says.
Mr Golz says the move applies pressure to the carotid artery in the neck, restricting blood flow to the brain. "It should be a very painless hold, it would knock you out, and make you feel kind of woozy, then you'd be fine."
In judo this move would only last between 3-15 seconds, says Mr Golz.
"After that it's going to take on a new dimension, the person is going to pass out... go longer, [for example] a minute or two and someone could die."
Golz believes it can be a very effective move for officers to restrain people, as long as they are trained properly.
"Problem is lots of police don't have the skills that a judo person who's been doing it for 5-10 years has".
Even though police officers in New York aren't meant to use the move, many still do.
A report released in October 2014 by the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) said 1,128 complaints about chokeholds had been received in the past five-and-a-half years.
Between July 2013 and July 2014 there were 219, the report said, with the vast majority of chokehold cases occurring with more than one officer present.
The report said the NYPD was failing to appropriately discipline officers because of inconsistencies in how they interpret what a chokehold is.
In judo terms the definition may be simpler, but the CCRB report says in the NYPD there is an "interplay" between pressure and breathing tests for chokehold complaints.
"For some investigators, a chokehold existed if and only if breathing was restricted, while for others, it was correctly, the presence of pressure regardless of whether breathing is restricted," it noted.
The New York medical examiner concluded that a chokehold played a part in Eric Garner's death, but there are others who dispute that.
Pat Lynch, president of the patrolmen's benevolent association (PBA), a union which represents officers in the city, says Officer Pantaleo did not use the tactic, and "was bringing a person to the ground the way we're trained to do to place him under arrest."
The PBA says it is saddened by Eric Garner's death, but that the officer's intention was "to do nothing more than take Mr Garner into custody".
Retired NYPD Detective Sergeant Mike Codella who runs a Ju-Jitsu academy in Staten Island teaching chokeholds to clients including police officers, believes they should not be banned.
"In the force the idea is to match the force being used against you. If your life is seriously in danger you have to use whatever technique to defeat the person who is on the attack.
"It should be used the way a gun is used - you wouldn't fire a weapon at a person if you don't feel your life is in danger. You have to use minimum amount of force to win the situation."
The CCRB report calls for NYPD officers to be trained to use alternative methods for restraining suspects, as well as reaching an understanding on what is considered appropriate and even-handed discipline.
The NYPD has already announced it will be retraining 36,000 officers on guidelines and tactics on the use of force following Eric Garner's death.
This case has further inflamed an ongoing national debate about the use of police force, and the extent to which it should be used.
It follows the recent decision by a grand jury not to indict police officer Darren Wilson for shooting unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (Secamb) was inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Reasons for the rating included bullying, delayed response times and putting patients at risk.
The trust said it was committed to improving the quality of its service.
Secamb, which covers Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire, said it already had a recovery plan in place and had taken action across a number of areas to address concerns.
Acting chief executive, Geraint Davies, said: "I, along with my senior team, am committed and focused on ensuring these necessary changes continue.
"We are determined to implement the changes required to restore confidence in our service."
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The chief inspector of hospitals, Professor Sir Mike Richards, recommended the trust be put into special measures in light of the findings of the report.
NHS Improvement confirmed that it would go ahead with the chief inspector's advice.
It added: "NHS Improvement will soon appoint an improvement director to provide the trust with additional expert advice and support on the ground to improve the quality of its care, and will consider what further action might be needed to address the CQC's concerns."
Professor Richards praised employees of the trust for "giving their best" and "treating patients kindly".
However, he said "leadership had not been supporting staff to do their jobs effectively".
"Staff told us there was a culture of harassment and bullying. We found in many cases there weren't enough properly trained staff, or that the proper equipment wasn't available to them," he said.
Despite this, he said that once care arrived it was "of a good standard - with dedicated and caring call handlers, ambulance crew, paramedics and other frontline staff working hard to ensure this."
"I am recommending that South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust be placed into special measures to ensure the service gets the support it needs to improve," he said.
Although rated inadequate overall, the trust was rated good for caring in all parts of its service.
The inspection team also highlighted areas of good practice when it came to training and support for paramedics, and supporting patients to use non-emergency services, such as their GP when appropriate.
Gary Palmer, of the GMB union, called on Mr Davies to resign.
"We very much regret the service is going to have to go into special measures, but the trust members who've caused this have to take that full responsibility... and Geraint has to go," he told the BBC.
Secamb is not the first ambulance trust to be put into special measures. In 2015 London's Ambulance Service (LAS) NHS Trust suffered the same fate following an inspection.
Morgan has a new-look squad to face the Kiwis as England look to bounce back from a dismal World Cup.
The five-match series begins at Edgbaston on Tuesday.
"For a long time now, we've been behind the eight-ball in one-day cricket and fallen behind by a long way," said Morgan. "It's time for a catch-up."
Morgan, 28, took over the one-day captaincy from Alastair Cook in December, two months before the start of the World Cup.
England went on to exit the competition at the group stages, losing to minnows Bangladesh along the way.
Now, as they attempt to rebuild, England have left out a number of established players for the series against New Zealand.
James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Ian Bell, Gary Ballance, Moeen Ali, Ravi Bopara and James Tredwell are all missing.
Instead, James Taylor, Alex Hales, Jason Roy, Adil Rashid, David Willey, Mark Wood and uncapped wicketkeeper-batsman Sam Billings will get a chance to shine.
"I've got the squad that I've wanted," said Morgan.
"The guys we have brought in do something different and we want that to continue.
"If they play as well as they have done in county cricket, things will be very exciting."
New Zealand have already secured a draw in a two-match Test series against England this summer.
The Kiwis excelled at the World Cup, losing in the final to Australia, having thrashed England by eight wickets along the way.
"I think it's an exciting squad England have picked," said Black Caps skipper Brendon McCullum.
"It's obviously a little bit raw, but it's full of talented players and guys who are pretty aggressive with both bat and ball."
England (from): Eoin Morgan (capt), Sam Billings, Jos Buttler (wkt) Steven Finn, Alex Hales, Chris Jordan, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, James Taylor, David Willey, Mark Wood
New Zealand (from): Brendon McCullum (capt), Corey Anderson, Trent Boult, Grant Elliott, Martin Guptill, Matt Henry, Tom Latham, Mitchell McClenaghan, Nathan McCullum, Luke Ronchi (wkt), Mutchell Santner, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor, Kane Williamson, Ben Wheeler
Umpires: Bruce Oxenford (Aus), Michael Gough (Eng)
TV umpire: Steve Davis (Aus)
Match referee: Javagal Srinath (Ind)
Coetzer will be assisted by Con de Lange as vice-captain, but a full-time skipper will not be named until March.
Pace bowlers Brad Wheal and Chris Sole are both selected after breaking into the national squad in 2016.
The experienced Josh Davey and Safyaan Sharif, plus George Munsey and Craig Wallace, are also in a 13-man squad.
Matt Machan and Gavin Main both miss out because of injury, while Alasdair Evans has been granted a period of rest and recovery in preparation for the home season.
Former Durham and Northamptonshire batsman Coetzer was previously Scotland captain in 2013 but lost the role to Mommsen, who stood in when Coetzer was injured during the successful qualifying campaign for the 2015 World Cup.
The Desert T20, hosted by the Emirates Cricket Board, is set to feature eight of the top Associate nations and is expected to be hosted in Dubai and Abu Dhabi in mid-January.
Coach Grant Bradburn said: "The Desert T20 will be a fantastic event to kick off what is an exciting and important year for us as a team.
"All the top Associate teams are improving rapidly and we look forward to some epic battles during this tournament, which we would love to become a regular feature on our playing calendar.
"We have had a very good build-up over the winter months in Scotland, and in addition five squad players will arrive in Dubai with valuable off-season playing experience."
Scotland squad in full: Kyle Coetzer (capt), Con de Lange (vice-captain), Richie Berrington, Matthew Cross, Josh Davey, Michael Leask, Calum MacLeod, George Munsey, Safyaan Sharif, Chris Sole, Craig Wallace, Mark Watt, Brad Wheal.
The think tank now expects the rate to rise to £7.50 an hour next year.
That would still mean an annual pay rise of up to £600 for full-time staff.
The National Living Wage, which was introduced in April, currently stands at £7.20 per hour for workers aged 25 and over.
About 4.5 million workers are expected to benefit from the increase - with the amount dependent on how many hours they work.
Stephen Clarke, policy analyst at Resolution Foundation told the BBC's Today programme: "The National Living Wage relates to average earnings and because of Brexit, many forecasters, including the Bank of England, revised down their earnings growth; therefore the National Living Wage has also been revised down."
The Resolution Foundation now forecasts the rate - which is linked to the growth in pay of typical workers - to reach £8.60 by 2020, based on current forecasts.
Further details are expected as part of the Autumn Statement on 23 November.
Despite the fact that the increase is lower than expected, the report adds that the National Living Wage is still set to transform the country's low-pay, helping some 800,000 workers out of low pay by 2020.
Low-pay is defined as an employee earning two-thirds of the country's typical hourly pay.
A spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: "The government is committed to building an economy that works for all and the national living wage is doing just that, with more than one million workers already benefiting from a pay rise.
"The independent Low Pay Commission is chiefly responsible for making recommendations for national minimum wage rates."
Research from insolvency firm Begbies Traynor has indicated that nearly 100,000 businesses are said to be experiencing "financial distress" since the higher wage came in.
Retailers, hotels, bars, restaurants, sports and health clubs are among those suffering the most.
Julie Palmer, a partner at Begbies Traynor said: "My concern is that many of these struggling businesses may now be forced to take more drastic measures to manage their growing cost base, such as further cuts to staff numbers, reducing bonuses or even passing on the increased costs to the end consumer."
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After his side's draw with Burnley on 18 March, Moyes was asked by Vicki Sparks if the presence of owner Ellis Short had put extra pressure on him.
He said "no" but, after the interview, added Sparks "might get a slap even though you're a woman" and told her to be "careful" next time she visited.
Moyes "deeply regrets" the comments.
"It was in the heat of the moment," added the 53-year-old Scot.
Both Moyes and Sparks were laughing during the exchange and the former Everton and Manchester United manager later apologised to the reporter, who did not make a complaint.
The FA will now write to Moyes to ask for his observations on the incident.
Speaking in a news conference on Monday, he said: "I deeply regret the comments I made.
"That's certainly not the person I am. I've accepted the mistake. I spoke to the BBC reporter, who accepted my apology."
The BBC confirmed that Moyes and Sparks had spoken about the exchange and the issue had been resolved.
A spokesman said: "Mr Moyes has apologised to our reporter and she has accepted his apology."
However, shadow sports minister Dr Rosena Allin-Khan called on the FA to act.
"If you look at the fact that he wouldn't have said that to a male reporter, and I truly believe that, I think the comments and his behaviour and attitude was sexist," she told BBC Radio 5 live.
"With the FA, part of what they have been criticised for in the past is not tackling sexism and other forms of discrimination, which needs to be stamped out across the sport.
"Fundamentally it's a male-dominated environment that women find it incredibly difficult to break into and comments like this do nothing to encourage women."
Former England striker and BBC Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker also condemned Moyes' behaviour.
"Moyes incident highlights a tendency for some managers to treat interviewers with utter disdain. Pressured job. Well rewarded. Inexcusable," he said.
A statement from Women in Football said it was "deeply disappointed and concerned" but "pleased that David Moyes has apologised".
It added: "No-one should be made to feel threatened in the workplace for simply doing their job.
"We hope that the football authorities will work with us to educate football managers and those working within the game to prevent this kind of behaviour."
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The FA must now decide what action, if any, it will take following David Moyes' comments.
His swift apology to Vicki Sparks may help him mitigate any punishment if he is subsequently charged by the governing body.
However Moyes' admission of wrongdoing and "deep regret" shows that he himself believes he's done something wrong.
Under such circumstances could The FA publicly justify simply warning him as to his future conduct? Would there be criticism of the message that sends from an organisation which prides itself on the values and high standards it tries to uphold in football?
It must now await Moyes' letter - and then decide how best to proceed.
The inquiry comes after police were called to a disturbance between two men outside a gym on Chapel Lane, Wigan shortly before 20:45 BST on Friday.
Two men entered the gym, said Greater Manchester Police, with one apparently causing damage.
No arrests were made, but the Super League club say it was conducting its own inquiries.
Marketing director Simon Collinson issued a brief statement before the start of coach Shaun Wane's weekly press conference at the club's training ground at Orrell earlier.
He said: "We are carrying out an internal investigation and I would ask that no questions are put to Shaun that might compromise or prejudice those investigations.
"As soon as the investigations are complete, we will then issue a full statement."
The incident day after the Warriors beat Castleford 33-26.
GMP said: "Officers attended and spoke to all parties. Inquiries are ongoing but no arrests have been made."
The whole retail group is being wound down, with the loss of about 11,000 jobs, after efforts to find a buyer for the troubled firm failed last month.
BHS operated 163 stores in the UK, four of which are in Northern Ireland.
The Lisburn store, in Bow Street Mall, is the first local store to cease trading.
A second store in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, is expected to close next weekend.
The remaining BHS stores in Belfast city centre and at Holywood Exchange have not yet indicated when they are due to cease trading.
Meanwhile, the knighthood given to former BHS owner Sir Philip Green, is under review following criticism of his conduct while he was in charge of the firm.
A number of MPs have called for him to be stripped of the title due to his decision to take money out of the company before he sold it for £1 to a former bankrupt.
The 20 BHS stores due to close on Saturday are:
Gareth Willington, 59, from Carew, died after his boat, The Harvester, sank off St David's Head on 28 April. His son Daniel, 32, has never been found despite a large-scale sea search.
About 60 people went to the service on the Rath in Milford Haven on Monday.
Milford Haven town clerk Moira Galliford said: "It was a really nice service for what was a tragic event."
The service was organised by Milford Haven town council, The Mission to Seafarers and led by Father Harri Williams of St Katharine and St Peter's Church.
Mayor of Milford Haven, William Elliott, said: "It was a tragic loss of life of two men who were just doing their job.
"Milford Haven has a huge connection to the fishing industry and it's important that we as a community remember them and the fishermen who risk their lives everyday doing a dangerous job."
A report in May condemned treatment on the Tawel Fan unit at Glan Clwyd Hospital as "institutional abuse".
Families have since complained about a lack of information, and invitations to meetings sent to wrong addresses.
Betsi Cadwaladr health board chief Simon Dean has apologised to them.
Giving an update on progress following the damning report by Donna Ockenden, Mr Dean said he could understand why the families of patients affected had no confidence in the board, and that he had "huge sympathy" for them.
Gillian Berry, from Rhyl, whose late brother was a Tawel Fan patient for nine months, told a health board meeting in Mold on Tuesday that communication was poor.
She said a letter inviting her to a meeting had been sent to an address in Prestatyn, arriving two days after the meeting had happened.
Christine Johnson, whose mother had been treated on the ward, said the families were being told different stories by different people and felt they were being pushed "from pillar to post".
"It's distressing - we're not getting anywhere," she told BBC Wales after the health board meeting on Tuesday.
However, during the meeting she said she was keen to work with the health board to restore public trust in it.
Mr Dean admitted during the meeting that systems needed to be in place so that families could "engage" with the board, and that basic details such as addresses and contact details needed to be accurate.
Along with chairman Dr Peter Higson, he apologised for the mix-ups and hoped that appointing someone as a single point of contact for the families would improve communication.
Mr Dean, appointed interim chief executive after the suspension of Dr Trevor Purt in June, promised progress on mortality reviews and the disciplinary process.
He also promised "strong leadership", confirming plans to appoint a new head of mental health services.
Waltham Forest council pleaded guilty to charges under the Health and Safety at Work Act and the Control of Asbestos regulations.
The council said it "should have done more in the past" to manage safety.
Unison has called on the council's chief executive to resign.
The case was brought by the Health and Safety Executive and related to two incidents in November 2006 and two more in January 2009.
The hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court took place on Monday and has been transferred to Southwark Crown Court for sentencing on 2 February.
The union said the issue was discovered when a local resident was refused access to requested files because of the risk of exposure to asbestos dust.
Unison branch Secretary Dave Knight said the council failed to protect people from potential exposure to "deadly asbestos."
He said: "We are appalled that our employer should show such scant regard for the health and safety of people who work in and use the Town Hall."
"The case demonstrates a lack of concern for employees and contractors and anyone else who had cause to visit the Town Hall basement, and it is for this reason that we call upon the chief executive of Waltham Forest Council to tender his resignation."
A spokesperson for Waltham Forest council said: "This issue dates back to 2002, and we completely accept that the council should have done more in the past to manage the health and safety of our buildings. We accepted responsibility at court.
"In 2012 a fresh asbestos survey indicated the problem, and we have been working with the Health and Safety Executive to make sure that nothing like this happens in the future."
Asbestos remedial works were carried out at the town hall basement in 2012 and other buildings have been monitored, the council said.
The dean, who was appointed in June 2011, is to become team rector of a parish in the Diocese of Salisbury.
He made the announcement during a service in St Anne's on Sunday morning.
He said it had been a hard decision to move to England having lived most of his adult life in Northern Ireland.
"My wife Helen and I have been privileged to serve in four parishes in the Church of Ireland, as well as St Anne's Cathedral, and have seen great change in the community," Dean Mann said.
"Our children were both born here and had much of their education in Belfast. We will be leaving with fond memories and with the intent of being back as often as is practical."
He said the main reason for returning to England was because St Anne's was passing from one phase of transition, into which he was appointed, to another, as the Cathedral Quarter approaches significant change.
"St Anne's will rise to the opportunities and challenges that will face a new dean and the Cathedral Board over the next five years," Dean Mann said. "It is from this perspective a good time to go."
"We will also be moving closer to our family and I look forward not only to that, but to returning for a few years to my primary calling as a parish clergyman. It is a time to look forward for us all."
The Bishop of Conor, Rev Alan Abernethy, a member of the Belfast Cathedral Board said: "I will be forever grateful for John's ministry in St Anne's, for his prayerful presence.
"His clear thinking and compassionate care for many will leave the cathedral in good heart. He and Helen can be assured of the love and prayers of everyone at St Anne's and the clergy and people of Connor Diocese."
Christopher Furniss-Roe was found dead by his father at their home in Pontypool on 9 July last year.
Earlier that day Christopher had enjoyed his school's sports day.
But Gwent Coroner's Court heard following a minor incident at home with his sister involving a bucket he was sent to his room.
The girl's bucket had somehow broken and she had suffered a cut lip.
Giving evidence, father Jason Furniss-Roe said he told his son to go and have a shower and then go to bed as punishment.
Fifteen minutes later, Mr Furniss-Roe went up to Christopher's bedroom, which he shared with his younger sister, and found his son.
Mr Furniss-Roe cut his son down and performed first aid involving cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but Christopher was taken to hospital and had his life support machine switched off the following day.
Dr Stephen Leadbeatter, a consultant pathologist at the University of Wales Hospital in Cardiff, concluded in his post-mortem examination that the youngster had died as a result of hanging.
Coroner David Bowen said: "[Christopher] had been naughty and as a result he had been sent to his room.
"It was far more probable that he was pretending to hang himself to get sympathy and forgiveness. But it all went tragically wrong.
"A heart-wrenching decision was made to turn that [life support] machine off the following day."
Mr Bowen recorded a verdict of accidental death.
That's because the unusual tee-off was installed on an artificially grassed roof of a holiday villa, after the development built over the original tee.
Lee Westwood, who says he is "not great with heights", had some helpful advice for his rivals before the tournament starts on Friday.
"You want to be sober," laughed the Briton. "It looks quite a tough shot."
Players will have to walk past a swimming pool in front of the villa and then climb temporary steps against the side of the house to get onto the roof.
Westwood added: "I'm not sure I'd want to be staying in that villa this week with 78 golfers jumping around on the roof hitting golf balls."
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As his former cellmate and long time friend, Ahmed Kathrada, said recently: "He was born into a royal house and there was always that sense about him of someone who knew the meaning of leadership."
The Mandela who led the African National Congress into government displayed a conspicuous sense of his own dignity and a self-belief that nothing in 27 years of imprisonment had been capable of destroying.
Although Mr Mandela frequently described himself as simply part of the ANC's leadership, there was never any doubt that he was the most potent political figure of his generation in South Africa.
To the wider world he represented many things, not least an icon of freedom but also the most vivid example in modern times of the power of forgiveness and reconciliation. Back in the early 1990s, I remember then President, FW De Klerk, telling me he how he found Mandela's lack of bitterness "astonishing".
His fundamental creed was best expressed in his address to the sabotage trial in 1964. "I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination," he said.
"I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
Born in 1918, Rolihlahla Dalibhunga Mandela was raised in the village of Qunu in the Transkei in the Eastern Cape. He was one of 13 children from a family with close links to the royal house of the Thembu people.
Mr Mandela often recalled his boyhood in the green hills of the Transkei with fondness. This was a remote landscape of beehive-shaped huts and livestock grazing on poor land.
He was only nine when his father died of tuberculosis. Always closer emotionally to his mother, Mr Mandela described his father as a stern disciplinarian. But he credited his father with instilling the instincts that would help carry him to greatness.
Years later Mr Mandela would write that "my father possessed a proud rebelliousness, a stubborn sense of fairness…" His death changed the course of the boy's life.
The young Mandela was sent from his home village to live as a ward of the Thembu royal house, where he would be groomed for a leadership role.
This meant he must have a proper education. He was sent to a Methodist school, where he was given the name Nelson. He was a diligent student and in 1939 went to Fort Hare University, then a burgeoning centre of African nationalism.
1918 Born in the Eastern Cape
1943 Joined African National Congress
1956 Charged with high treason, but charges dropped after a four-year trial
1962 Arrested, convicted of incitement and leaving country without a passport, sentenced to five years in prison
1964 Charged with sabotage, sentenced to life
1990 Freed from prison
1993 Wins Nobel Peace Prize
1994 Elected first black president
1999 Steps down as leader
2001 Diagnosed with prostate cancer
2004 Retires from public life
2005 Announces his son has died of an HIV/Aids-related illness
It was at Fort Hare that Mr Mandela met the future ANC leader, Oliver Tambo, with whom he would establish the first black law practice in South Africa. Both were expelled from the university in 1940 for political activism.
First as a lawyer, then an activist and ultimately as a guerrilla leader, Mr Mandela moved towards the collision with state power that would change his own and his country's fate.
The late 1950s and early 1960s were a period of growing tumult in South Africa, as African nationalists allied with the South African Communist Party challenged the apartheid state.
When protest was met with brute force, the ANC launched an armed struggle with Mr Mandela at its head.
He was arrested and charged with treason in 1956. After a trial lasting five years, Mr Mandela was acquitted. But by now the ANC had been banned and his comrade Oliver Tambo had gone into exile.
Nelson Mandela went underground and embarked on a secret trip to seek help from other African nations emerging from colonial rule. He also visited London to meet Tambo.
But soon after his return he was arrested and sentenced to five years in jail. Further charges, of sabotage, led to a life sentence that would see him spend 27 years behind bars.
He worked in the lime quarry on Robben Island, the prison in Cape Town harbour where the glaring sun on the white stone caused permanent damage to his eyes; he contracted tuberculosis in Pollsmoor Prison outside Cape Town, and he held the first talks with government ministers while he was incarcerated at the Victor Verster prison farm.
In conversation, he would often say prison had given him time to think. It had also formed his habits in sometimes poignant ways.
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I recall a breakfast with several other journalists, where Mr Mandela was briefing us on the latest political talks. The waiter approached with a bowl of porridge. Tasting it briefly, the ANC leader shook his head. "It is too hot," he said. The waiter went away and returned with another bowl. This too was sent back. The waiter was looking embarrassed as he approached for the third time.
Fortunately the temperature was now cool enough. The famous broad smile appeared. The waiter was heartily thanked and breakfast - and our questions - were able to continue.
"That was a bit fussy wasn't it," I remarked to a colleague afterwards.
My colleague pulled me up short with his reply. "Think about it. If you spent 27 years in jail, most of the time eating food that was either cold or at best lukewarm, you are going to end up struggling with hot food."
There it was, expressed in the most prosaic of realities, a reminder of the long vanished years of Nelson Mandela.
Prison had taken away the prime of his life. It had taken away his family life. Relations with some of his children were strained. His marriage to Winnie Mandela would end in divorce.
But as I followed him over the next three years, through embattled townships, tense negotiations, moments of despair and elation, I would understand that prison had never robbed his humanity.
I remember listening to him in a dusty township after a surge of violence which threatened to derail negotiations. Fighting between ANC supporters and the predominantly Zulu Inkatha movement had claimed thousands of lives, mainly in the townships around Johannesburg and in the hills of Natal.
In those circumstances another leader might have been tempted to blame the enemy alone. But when Mr Mandela spoke he surprised all of us who were listening: "There are members of the ANC who are killing our people… We must face the truth. Our people are just as involved as other organisations that are committing violence… We cannot climb to freedom on the corpses of innocent people."
He knew the crowd would not like his message but he also knew they would listen.
As an interviewee, he deflected personal questions with references to the suffering of all South Africans. One learned to read the expressions on his face for a truer guide to what Mr Mandela felt.
On the day that he separated from Winnie Mandela, I interviewed him at ANC headquarters. I have no recollection of what he said but the expression of pure loneliness on his face is one I will always remember.
But my final memory of Nelson Mandela is one of joy. On the night of 2 May 1994 I was crammed into a function room full of officials, activists, diplomats and journalists, struggling to hear each other as the music pulsed and the cheers rang out.
The ANC had won a comprehensive victory. On the stage, surrounded by his closest advisors, Nelson Mandela danced and waved to the crowd. He smiled the open, generous smile of a man who had lived to see his dream.
About 20,000 patients in Tayside, Fife, Grampian and Glasgow health board areas will be offered "scope screening", an examination using a tiny camera.
The 15-minute procedure can detect polyps that could eventually become cancerous.
Bowel cancer is the third most common form the disease in Scotland with 4,000 cases diagnosed each year.
Men and women aged about 60 will be invited to take part in the pilot which, if successful, will be rolled out across Scotland.
The technique allows medics to see the lower part of the large bowel.
Samples are taken if they identify any abnormal areas.
Scope screening has had similar trials in other parts of the UK.
It will run alongside the existing screening programme which involves home testing kits
One man who was given the all-clear after an early detection of bowel cancer is encouraging others to get checked.
John Withers, 65, was diagnosed with cancer three years ago after taking part in the current screening programme.
He said: "I would not have known that I had bowel cancer until it was very advanced if it hadn't been for the screening programme."
Retired engineer Mr Withers underwent successful surgery at Dumfries and Galloway Infirmary less than a week after his diagnosis.
He added: "There is no doubt that the bowel screening programme saved my life.
"I am glad to see that bowel scope screening is now being offered to people in Scotland and would advise anyone asked to take part in this programme to do so - it could save your life.
"Cancer is not as scary as it once was and it can be very treatable so don't put off taking the test."
Health Secretary Alex Neil said the level of participation in the pilots would be analysed before deciding whether to extend the programme.
He said: "We know that nine out of 10 people will survive bowel cancer if it is detected early.
"What's more, bowel cancer is one of the most preventable cancers, especially when it's caught early, and screening helps us to do exactly that."
Hernandez headed in his 47th goal with four minutes left in Saturday's friendly in Los Angeles, a warm-up for the Confederations Cup in Russia.
It took the Bayer Leverkusen forward, 28, past Jared Borgetti's record in his 91st international appearance.
"Javier is one of the best finishers in the world," Mexico coach Juan Carlos Osorio said.
Hernandez, who was the fastest Mexico player to score 40 goals for his country, equalled Borgetti's record in March.
He scored 59 goals in 156 appearances for United after arriving at Old Trafford in 2010, before joining German side Leverkusen in August 2015.
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Two systems - Hawk-Eye and GoalRef - have passed Fifa's criteria for use.
The technology will first be used at December's Fifa Club World Cup and, if successful, at the 2013 Confederations Cup and 2014 World Cup.
The Premier League said it wanted it "as soon as practically possible".
A statement following IFAB's announcement added: "The Premier League has been a long-term advocate of goal-line technology.
Hawk-Eye's system works by using six cameras, focusing on each goal, to track the ball on the pitch.
The system's software then uses "triangulation" to pinpoint the exact location of the ball.
If it crosses the goal-line an encrypted radio signal is sent to the referee's wristwatch to indicate a goal has been scored.
In line with Fifa's requirements, the whole process takes less than a second to complete.
"We welcome today's decision by IFAB and will engage in discussions with both Hawk-Eye and GoalRef in the near future with a view to introducing goal-line technology as soon as is practically possible."
FA general secretary Alex Horne said it was up to the Premier League, which is likely to centrally fund the technology for its member clubs, to decide on a timescale for implementation.
"It may be December until the technology is absolutely finally approved and installed in stadia," he said at a press conference in Zurich. "Priority is given to the Fifa Club World Cup in Japan.
"The Premier League need to talk to the two [technology providers] and the clubs. My understanding is that clubs are supportive and, in principle, as long as all clubs agree it could be introduced part-way through the season - it could be before the start of 2013-14 season, it could be part-way through.
"We have already got Hawk-Eye at Wembley. It needs to be calibrated and make sure it's working properly and licensed so we are nearly there and we could turn it on on quite quickly.
"The FA Cup would be our decision and we could say for the semi-finals and finals of the FA Cup we could turn it on. I don't think that is a very controversial decision."
Horne added that he felt it was "a hugely important day" for football.
"We believe that it is a great day for football. From an English perspective, today is a hugely important day. It is a cause we have had on our agenda for a number of years.
"This is about having the right technology helping the referee in a relatively rare occurrence."
GoalRef uses a microchip implanted in the ball and the use of low magnetic waves around the goal.
The system then detects any change in the magnetic field on or behind the goal-line to determine if a goal has been scored.
The process takes less than one second, with the result electronically relayed to the referee.
The systems will require testing after they are installed in each stadium to ensure they are working properly before they can be used, with licenses lasting for 12 months.
Premier League director of communications Dan Johnson said there were several factors to consider before the system is implemented.
"We have to look at the technologies ourselves and decide which is the most appropriate," he said.
"There is the cost factor too - which is why we are particularly pleased that two companies have come through because it provides some competitive tension.
"We haven't ruled out introducing it midway through the season, but it is dependent on what type of progress we make with the two companies, what we think of the technology and how our clubs react.
"One thing which wasn't clear [in the Zurich meeting] was a graphical representation of the technology working because I think it is important fans and television viewers can see it working. It is important for the trust in the technology."
The Football League said it "welcomed the decision" and will now consider the future use of technology in its competitions.
It is believed it could look to fund it through commercial sponsorship.
The IFAB was keen to stress that technology will not be used to help referees make any other decisions.
The momentum for the introduction of goal-line technology increased after Ukraine were denied an equaliser after the ball appeared to cross the line in a 1-0 defeat by England at Euro 2012.
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Chelsea manager Roberto Di Matteo said: "We see every season, every big tournament, we need it because there are some crucial moments within those games where you could find the right solution with a bit of technology."
Uefa president Michel Platini is believed to prefer the use of five match officials, something which was also approved by Fifa on Thursday.
The system, which sees an extra official posted behind each goal-line to monitor action in and around the penalty box, has been on trial since 2008 and was in use during Euro 2012 as well as last season's Champions League.
Football's governing body also lifted a ban on women wearing headscarves during games, clearing the way for the participation of many Islamic nations in top-flight competition.
Protesters set out from Brighton earlier to ride to the Horse Hill site near Gatwick Airport where a march was taking place at midday.
Duncan Blinkhorn, chair of Brighton Climate Action Network, said about 40 cyclists were on the ride and about a hundred people joined the march.
UK Oil and Gas Investments (UKOG) has not commented on the protest.
The company has previously said it does not intend to use the controversial fracking technique to extract oil from the site.
But campaigners have told the BBC they oppose any kind of fossil fuel extraction, not just fracking.
The protest group said some campaigners took a coach from Brighton and others cycled to the site from the city.
Other cyclists were riding from Horley station.
Protesters gathered outside the test drilling site on Friday to try to obstruct vehicles entering and leaving.
Earlier this month, anti-fracking protesters set up camp close to the site for a second time.
UKOG has said there could be up to 124 billion barrels of oil under the Weald Basin.
The Emmy-nominated actor received the 2,482nd star at a ceremony on Hollywood Boulevard on Monday, in the same week NCIS began its 10th season.
"I'm really fortunate to get up every morning and go do a job I love going to," the 62-year-old said.
Harmon has played Leroy Jethro Gibbs in the CBS drama since 2003.
After a brief career as an American football player, Harmon has had a variety of roles in television, film and on stage and has been twice nominated for an Emmy award.
His first nomination came in 1977 for his portrayal of a wounded soldier in the TV movie Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years.
In 2002 he received another nomination for his portrayal of Secret Service agent Simon Donovan in The West Wing.
"This is a long way from where I started," said Harmon at a ceremony whose attendees included CBS president Les Moonves.
"If this means anything to me, it represents longevity."
Harmon appeared in CBS medical drama Chicago Hope for four years and starred alongside Jamie Lee Curtis in the 2003 remake of Freaky Friday.
His other big-screen credits include Wyatt Earp, The Presidio and Stealing Home.
Despite efforts to revive him, Rupert Marshall, of Heron's Ghyll, East Sussex, drowned in Armacao De Pera in Portugal on 21 August, 2013.
He had been staying at a four-bedroom bungalow with his two older sisters, their father and his partner.
East Sussex coroner Alan Craze recorded a verdict of accidental death.
The inquest at Eastbourne Magistrates' Court was told the children had been instructed not to go into the 10m-long oval pool without adult supervision.
Joanna Gardner, the partner of Rupert's father Adrian Marshall, said she had gone outside the bungalow and seen Rupert in the shallow end of the pool.
"I went down to the pool and I saw [Rupert] at the shallow end. He was lying flat, face down in the water," she said.
"He was wearing a towel and leggings."
Ms Gardner, who had just completed a swimming teacher's course, added: "I ran in, pulled him out, and started breathing into him. I yelled."
A Portuguese pathologist found Rupert died from "asphyxia as a result of drowning".
Mr Marshall said Rupert generally had to be "coaxed" into the water and was less interested in swimming than his sisters.
He told the inquest it was a mystery why his son had gone into the water but there was speculation that he was looking for a stray cat seen recently at the bungalow owned by Ms Gardner's mother.
Rupert was extremely long-sighted according to his mother, Sophie Marshall, who said she had been worried about the proximity of the pool.
"Nobody is going to forget this, nobody pretends they are ever going to forget this," Mr Craze said in his closing remarks.
"But my hope is that with the benefit of the passage of time, each parent will be able to move on."
Detectives investigating the murder of a woman in her home in Doncaster Lane, Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, have charged 73-year-old David Powell.
While the body has not been formally identified, she is believed to be Mr Powell's mother, Cecilia Powell.
Mr Powell, of Longton Road, Barlaston, will appear before magistrates at Newcastle-under-Lyme on Saturday.
Detective Inspector Andy Maxfield from Staffordshire Police said "At this stage of the investigation we are not looking for anyone else in connection with this incident. We will complete our forensic examination of the home later today [Friday] and we expect a Home Office post-mortem to take place tomorrow."
Police arrested Mr Powell after they were called to the home in Doncaster Lane at 20:00 BST on Thursday night.
Family liaison officers are working to support family members affected by the death.
A council spokesperson said the "tough decision" was made due to "the massive government cuts we are facing".
Moore sold the sculpture, currently worth millions, to the council in the 1960s for less than the market value.
He had intended the artwork, currently on loan to Yorkshire Sculpture Park, to stay on display in the borough.
It was one of several that British artist Moore, who died in 1986, had sited in new towns and housing estates that were built following bomb damage from World War II.
Known as Old Flo, the sculpture was moved after the Tower Hamlets housing estate in which it was housed was demolished in the late 1990s.
Tower Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahman said: "It is with considerable regret that I make this decision but I have a duty to ensure residents do not suffer from the brunt of the horrendous cuts being imposed on us."
The council said "the cost of insuring the sculpture and threat of vandalism and theft has proved to be unreasonable".
Several alternative sites had been discussed, including Canary Wharf and Victoria Park, but none were deemed suitable.
The Museum of London had also offered to display the sculpture.
Richard Calvocoressi, director of the Henry Moore Foundation, argued on the Today Programme on Radio 4 this week that "this work is part of London's history" and should be reinstated back in London.
The proposal to sell the sculpture also sparked a campaign suggesting it should be housed in east London's Olympic Park.
Olympics opening ceremony director Danny Boyle, artists Jeremy Deller and Rachel Whiteread and Tate galleries director Nicholas Serota joined the sculptor's daughter Mary Moore in signing a letter asking the council to reconsider.
Boyle said the sculpture "defies all prejudice in people's minds about one of London's poorest boroughs".
The sculpture has been valued between £5m and £20m, but Louisa Buck from the Art Newspaper told the BBC that its sale could prove problematic.
"There's been so much controversy over the sale of the sculpture, that anybody that buys it, however much they love it, are going to be taking on the notion they have privately acquired a work that was intended by the artist to be in the public realm for the people of Tower Hamlets."
Stephen Deuchar, director of the Art Fund added: "To sell it would go against the wishes of the artist who effectively part-gifted it to the council... In view of this, we believe the council has no right to sell the work and, if it does, will permanently damage the public's and future donors' trust in the council."
However, Councillor Rania Khan, Tower Hamlets' cabinet member for culture said they were being "judged rather harshly by the art world".
"We are not the first council to do this in order to benefit our residents and I am sure we will not be the last," said Khan.
The council quoted an online poll carried out by a local newspaper which found 55% in favour of releasing funds and 18% supporting the sculpture being relocated to nearby Victoria Park.
Professor of Public Art at Goldsmith's art college in London, Andrew Shoben, told the BBC he had a lot of sympathy for Tower Hamlets Council.
"It's their asset, they're entitled to sell it. Councils are desperate to find as much money as they can.
"Don't get me wrong, Henry Moore's work is phenomenal, but they could sell this work, it could still remain in the public domain and they could invest in new and exciting public art."
Prof Shoben, who also founded artist collective Greyworld to create art in public spaces, added that there were issues with trying to return the sculpture to the borough.
"Heavy metal sculptures are being stolen more and more and do need to be protected and looked after, they can't just be plonked into a tower block anymore," he said.
The Tower Hamlets Federation of Tenants and Residents Associations told the BBC the council's decision was "understandable given the current economic climate".
"Tower Hamlets has a dire shortage of affordable housing with over 22,000 on the waiting list and considerable over-crowding issues," its spokesman said.
"It would be most welcome if the capital tied up in the artwork could be used to meet the housing needs of residents."
The 27-year-old Russian, victorious in Paris in 2012, won nine games in succession to wrap up a 3-6 6-4 6-0 victory and reach the last eight.
In the men's draw, Novak Djokovic brushed aside Jo-Wilfred Tsonga 6-1 6-4 6-1 to reach the quarter-finals.
The second seed will next play Milos Raonic, who beat Marcel Granollers.
Tomas Berdych is also into the last eight after a comfortable 6-4 6-4 6-4 win over John Isner. He meets Ernests Gulbis, who beat Roger Federer.
Two men's third-round matches were carried over from Saturday, with Fernando Verdasco seeing off Richard Gasquet 6-4 6-4 6-4 to set up a last-16 tie against Britain's Andy Murray, who beat Philip Kohlschreiber.
Eugenie Bouchard joined Sharapova in the women's singles quarter-finals by beating Angelique Kerber 6-1 6-2 in 52 minutes.
Bouchard, 20, will now play clay-court specialist Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain, who beat Croatia's Ajla Tomljanovic 6-3 6-3.
E Bouchard (Can) (18) beat A Kerber (Ger) (8) 6-1 6-2
"I'm confident, and I really believe in my skills. I believe I can play with the best girls out there," said Bouchard.
"She's top 10, so I respect her. She can play some really good tennis. I was really mentally prepared for anything, for a battle."
F Verdasco (Spa) (24) beat R Gasquet (Fra) (12) 6-3 6-2 6-3
"My objective right now is to rest and prepare the best I can to play this match against Murray," said Verdasco. "I have nothing to lose. He is favourite because of his ranking."
E Gulbis (Lat) (18) beat R Federer (Swi) 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 6-2 4-6 6-3
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N Djokovic (Ser) (2) beat J-W Tsonga (Fra) (13) 6-1 6-4 6-1
"With the support Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has on home soil, I needed to start with a high intensity, good movements and try to get as close to baseline as possible," said Djokovic.
"I prepared well with my team and executed very well. The scoreline was perfect for me and I'm very happy with that performance."
G Muguruza (Spa) beat P Parmentier (Fra) 6-4 6-2
Muguruza said: "I didn't know I was playing against Maria until the guy went to the court and asked me, 'You're playing against Maria Sharapova next round.' I thought, 'OK, it's a tough match again.' Nothing to lose; everything to win."
T Berdych (Cze) (6) beat J Isner (US) (10) 6-4 6-4 6-4
"I think it's a good thing to avoid playing the tie-breaks with him," said Berdych. "That was one of my plans in the beginning, and I'm really glad that it was working pretty good."
A Murray (GB) (7) beat P Kohlschreiber (Ger) (28) 3-6 6-3 6-3 4-6 12-10
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C Suarez Navarro (Spa) (14) beat A Tomljanovic (Cro) 6-3 6-3
"I don't have a ready explanation," said Suarez Navarro about the big names to fall in Paris. "I simply believe that the women's circuit is more and more consistent. We've got to be careful. Everybody plays well nowadays."
M Raonic (Can) (8) beat M Granollers (Spa) 6-3 6-3 6-3
"There was a few moments where I'd be up quite handily on my serve, and I'd sort of drift away for a little bit," said Raonic. "But when I came down to the wire I was playing those moments well."
M Sharapova (Rus) (7) beat S Stosur (Aus) (19) 3-6 6-3 6-0
"She uses her quick serve extremely well to start and set up the point," said Sharapova. "The slice, especially in the conditions that we played in tonight, it was very effective. It stays very low. But with that said, I still was able to win nine games in a row. So, you know, I'm quite pleased about that."
Stosur said: "I was a set all, 40 all, and missed a return in the top of the tape. I mean, I was right there to win it. I actually can't believe from that moment I didn't win another game. How quickly things can turn."
"I'm not big on medical timeouts. I don't like to take it, but I take it when it's really necessary. It probably was my third medical timeout in life." Ernests Gulbis on taking a timeout for his back and his hamstring.
Roger Federer is not overflowing with sympathy. "If the rules allow you to do that, what can you do? There is nothing much. He didn't look hurt in any way. But if you can use it, you might as well do it."
"We all have choices. I can have a choice to break a racquet and get a penalty. The kid can have the choice to take it or not. I think he did a great choice." Gulbis again, on breaking his racquet and giving it to a boy in the crowd.
"I didn't go through happy moments today. It was not fun for me." Jo-Wilfried Tsonga could do with a pick-me-up after an afternoon with Novak Djokovic.
"Best friend on tour? I don't have one. I don't think the tennis tour is the place to have friends. For me it's all competition." No messing about from Eugenie Bouchard.
Maria Sharapova has been thinking along similar lines for years: "I know that what has got me my success is the fact that I'm a big competitor and that I don't want to give anyone a chance. I was never here from day one to make friendships. This is a battlefield for me, and I want to win."
Andy Murray had a restless night thinking about his fifth-set shootout: "I didn't sleep much and I woke up quite a few times. I was ready to play at 4, 5 in the morning."
Things were not much better over at Philipp Kohlschreiber's: "My sleep wasn't good, either. I was sweating a lot. If you finish late, you try to recover. You drink a lot, so quite often to the toilet, and, well, it wasn't a great night."
"I'm the number one American now, which isn't as cool as being the number one American in the '90s or something, or the 2000s," said a modest John Isner. "It's pretty neat to say, but it's nothing I would brag about or anything like that."
Isabelle Wallace caused a first-round upset in the girls' singles by impressively beating number six seed Varvara Flink.
The 17-year-old from Scotland took a closely-fought first set before easing through the second for a 7-5 6-2 win.
"Winning selfie with the family," tweets Tomas Berdych, known to some as 'T-Berd'.
The performance is 46% above the low point of the recession in 2009.
Trade sectors which grew well in 2014 included stone exports which were up 18% and steel which was up 38%.
The level of new car imports also rose by 10% to 48,000, its highest level since 2007.
Roy Adair, Belfast Harbour's chief executive, said that surpassing 23m tonnes was "a major achievement" driven by an ongoing investment programme.
He said the performance had also been supported by major investments from customers such as Stena Line which has introduced a third ship to its Belfast - Liverpool service.
Mr Adair said the increased activity reflected a pick-up in the economy across the island of Ireland.
"Increased steel imports, for example, reflects greater manufacturing activity, especially in the Republic of Ireland, while the improvement in freight, containers and new car imports suggests a modest pick-up in consumer confidence," he said.
The amount of cement moving through the port increased fivefold to 79,000 tonnes.
However, total cement tonnages remain less than one third of pre-recession levels, reflecting the continuing depression in the construction industry.
Ferry passenger numbers remained steady during 2014 at 1.4m while cruise passengers calling at Belfast increased by 23% to a record 112,000.
Simon Buckden, 42, of Landseer Way, appeared at Leeds Crown Court charged with seven counts of fraud relating to military service, PTSD and cancer.
Mr Buckden was told he will face a trial, in February 2016, by the Recorder of Leeds, Judge Collier QC.
The charges relate to periods between October 2009 and December 2013.
Well, it's because the surge in house prices, even after the great crash and recession, increased the proportion paying IHT to 6% in the past year. And the OBR currently forecasts the share of taxpayers among estates to continue rising to 11.6% in 2019.
The Tories also believe that those figures understate the number of households legitimately worried about the tax - in that they point out that a quarter of all houses in the UK are worth more than £325,000 (which is the IHT threshold for a single person who has not been widowed).
They say that plenty of their target voters, in their 60s, give away assets and rearrange their affairs to get their net worth below the tax threshold. And most of those would no longer need to go to that bother.
That said, given the UK's skewed residential property market, most of the benefit would go to residents of London and the South East, which are the only two parts of the UK, according to official figures, where average house prices exceed £325,000. The average house price in the South East is £338,000 and it's £510,000 in London.
So this appears to be a policy aimed at Tory heartlands. But even then, its impact should not be overstated.
Expected house price inflation means that if the Tories were to implement the policy in 2017 as planned, the forecast 11.6% of estates paying the tax based on the current threshold would fall only to today's level, of 6%.
Strikingly, David Cameron and George Osborne think that the best way of selling the policy to the middle-middle class is to be seen to be paying for it by taking a swipe at the upper-middle and upper classes.
So anyone - either a married couple or a single person - bequeathing assets of £2m or more will see the IHT threshold reduced by 50p for every pound that those assets are worth more than £2m, until, for estates worth £2.35m, the threshold is the same as today's.
Also, the tax cut's cost of just over £1bn a year will be met by significantly reducing the tax breaks on pension contributions for those earning £150,000 or more.
What would happen is that the current annual allowance of £40,000 for obtaining tax relief on pension contributions would be reduced by 50p for every pound of income earned over £150,000, until at an annual income of £210,000 the allowance would be cut to a floor of £10,000.
So with 300,000 people earning above £150,000, the Tories would be taking probably more than £2bn from the top 1% of taxpayers - many of whom would vote Tory through thick and thin - to give perhaps around £1bn to the children of perhaps one in 10 asset-rich older people, who would also largely vote Tory, presumably.
Maybe these tax reforms are largely about boosting the morale of their people, rather than winning many additional votes.
By the way, if you do earn £150,000 or more, you should note that it is now more or less certain that your tax breaks for pension savings are likely to shrivel to almost nothing after the election, since Labour has announced a very similar raid on the tax relief you receive.
And if, like me, you were also puzzled by why George Osborne and David Cameron felt they needed to say how they are paying for the IHT giveaway, but not how they would finance the promised £8bn of additional spending for the NHS and other costs, also around £8bn, of promising to raise the thresholds for paying tax at all and for paying tax at the 40% rate, there is an answer.
An official says it's the 2017 implementation date for IHT change that makes all the difference - in that the other tax cuts and health spending increase would only be done when affordable and by the end of the Parliament.
In other words, George Osborne and David Cameron are asking voters to trust them on their record to deliver those other big commitments.
Which some people will interpret as meaning that those other promises are more fiscally reckless or less serious than the IHT reform - though George Osborne denied that today.
The 41-year-old was found in the palace grounds by officers seven minutes after an alarm was activated on Wednesday evening, according to the Met Police.
The suspect, who was not armed, was arrested on suspicion of trespassing on a protected site and is in custody.
It is understood that the Queen was at the palace at the time of the security breach.
A palace spokesman said: "We never comment on security, which is a matter for the police."
Police officers at the Queen's central London residence were alerted at 20:37 BST, the Met said.
Commander Adrian Usher, head of the Met's royalty and specialist protection, said: "I am content that our security measures worked effectively on this occasion and at no time was any individual at risk."
But Ken Wharfe, a former protection officer for Princess Diana, Prince William and Prince Harry, said: "It took seven minutes to find this guy, which is a hell of a long time. Ten seconds is a long time, a minute is a long time."
He added: "Once somebody is over that wall, unless you catch them immediately there's no telling where that person might go."
Mr Wharfe said the problem for security was that the Queen was "quite adamant she doesn't want any additional people patrolling".
There have been several security breaches at Buckingham Palace in the past, including the case of Michael Fagan, who got into the Queen's bedroom in 1982 and spent 10 minutes talking to her before she managed to raise the alarm when he asked for a cigarette.
In 2003, Daily Mirror journalist Ryan Parry exposed security flaws by getting a job as a footman at the palace using a false reference.
In 2013, a man scaled a fence and was arrested inside the palace. He was found at about 22:20 BST in a room which was open to the public in the daytime.
Last year two men got on to the palace roof and unveiled a banner in a protest over fathers' rights.
The company has not confirmed the decision, but said it would make a statement on Thursday.
The insurer has been weighing up different locations on the continent.
Without the move, the company said Brexit could have a significant impact on its continental business which generates 11% of premiums.
The insurer was due to ratify the decision on Wednesday, according to The Insurance Insider, which first reported it.
Brussels had been chosen over the other shortlisted locations, including Luxembourg, thanks to the presence of EU politicians and regulators, according to the Financial Times. Other financial institutions are also planning to relocate business within Europe.
Several investment banks, including Bank of America, Barclays, and Morgan Stanley are considering relocating staff to Dublin. Frankfurt, Madrid and Amsterdam are also likely to benefit. HSBC is expected to move significant numbers of employees to Paris.
Lloyd's chief executive, Inga Beale, told the BBC last year that if the insurer lost "passporting" rights, which allow it to operate across the EU, Brexit could cost the business around 4% of its revenues.
She said the company would need to prepare for post-Brexit conditions and that some people might end up working in continental Europe rather than London.
Lloyd's, one of Britain's oldest institutions, is the world's leading insurance and reinsurance market. It focuses on specialist markets, such as marine, energy and political risk, but also branches out into more unusual areas such as insuring the late chef Egon Ronay's taste buds and comedian Ken Dodd's teeth.
Mitchell, 45, from the New Forest, fought back from 1-0 and 2-1 down to reach the last 16.
New Zealand's Caldwell hit nine 180s, but Mitchell's finishing was decisive.
In the women's event, England's 2015 runner-up Fallon Sherrock was knocked out by Denmark's Ann-Louise Peters in a sudden-death leg.
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The 21-year-old's exit was another surprise after Anastasia Dobromyslova's first-round defeat on Saturday.
Sweden's Peter Sajwani and English two-time champion Ted Hankey won preliminary-round ties.
Hankey, the men's champion in 2000 and 2009, was making his first appearance at Lakeside in four years following an unsuccessful switch to the Professional Darts Corporation circuit and a period of ill health.
He eased past Canada's Dave Cameron 3-0, while Sajwani beat England's Sam Hewson 3-2.
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Rebels say they have taken most of Debaltseve, a transport hub, but the government says it is still holding its positions.
International observers tasked with monitoring the ceasefire have been unable to enter the town.
Ukraine's president described rebel attempts to take the town as a "cynical attack" on the ceasefire.
"Today the world must stop the aggressor," Petro Poroshenko said in a statement posted on his website.
"I call on the permanent members of the UN Security Council to prevent further violation of fundamental principles and rules of the UN and the unleashing of a full-scale war in the very centre of Europe."
Speaking on a visit to Hungary, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he hoped the ceasefire agreements would be observed by both sides.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said "fundamental" parts of the ceasefire were not being respected, referring to the Debaltseve fighting and withdrawal of heavy weapons.
Earlier, both sides failed to begin the withdrawal, despite a Monday deadline agreed in the truce.
The two sides were given until two days after the latest ceasefire came into effect to start the pullout.
The wealth of claim and counter-claim around Debaltseve speaks volumes. It's hard to confirm any of today's stories.
Controversy surrounds the fate of dozens of government troops - rebel sources say they surrendered, while the army contends they were captured after running out of ammunition during an ambush.
The rebels say Debaltseve is not covered by the ceasefire agreement reached last week in Minsk and continue to insist that it's an "internal" matter. Between April and July last year, the town was in rebel hands. It sits astride the railway line linking two rebel strongholds, Donetsk and Luhansk.
Ukrainian TV has shown pictures of text messages sent to government soldiers in Debaltseve, allegedly from Russia. "Poroshenko and his generals have betrayed you," the messages read, referring to the Ukrainian president. "There's no need for you to die for them."
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Sources in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) said Debaltseve police station and railway station had been taken, and at least 80% of the city was under rebel control.
According to later reports, the city's military HQ - where many government troops are based - has also been surrounded.
DPR spokesman Eduard Basurin said government forces had stepped up their bombardment and were heading towards the rebel-held town of Lohvynove in an attempt to break through to Debaltseve.
He added that the rebels intended to withdraw heavy weapons from "quiet sectors" of the front line, but gave no time-frame.
The rebels said that up to 300 Ukrainian troops in Debaltseve had surrendered, and Russian TV showed footage of what it said were 72 captured soldiers. The Ukrainian government said a group had been taken prisoner after an ambush but denied large-scale surrenders.
The Ukrainian military said there was intense fighting in the streets and confirmed that the rebels were in control of parts of the city.
"Our troops are holding their positions, and they are well within their rights to return fire and hold the positions that they have held for several months," Interfax quoted spokesman Andriy Lysenko as saying.
A National Guard source in the area told the BBC that government forces had regained control of the supply route, enabling them to get food and medicine into the town and wounded soldiers out.
Meanwhile, Russia's LifeNews website reported that rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko had been lightly wounded in the leg during the fighting in Debaltseve and had been evacuated from the city.
Rebels have offered Ukrainian troops under siege there a safe corridor to leave.
Although Debaltseve has suffered weeks of artillery exchanges, correspondents say this is the first fierce fighting inside the town.
Most of Debaltseve's 25,000 population have been evacuated but about 7,000 civilians are still believed trapped by the fighting, according to Amnesty International.
The BBC's David Stern in Kiev says there is great concern about the humanitarian situation, with water now running out.
Minsk agreement: Key points
The ceasefire, which came into effect on Sunday, has been broadly observed but separatists insist the agreement does not apply in Debaltseve because they have the town almost surrounded.
Denis Pushilin, a spokesman for the Donetsk People's Republic, described Debaltseve as "internal territory" and said fighting for it was "a moral thing".
"We do not have the right [to stop fighting]," he told Reuters.
In the neighbouring Luhansk region, separatist leader Igor Plotnitsky said he had begun pulling back his tanks and artillery in line with the ceasefire agreement. His claim could not be independently verified.
Ukraine's pro-Western government says Russia is supporting the separatists with troops and weapons, but the Kremlin has consistently denied this.
Meanwhile, the leaders of Germany, Ukraine and Russia discussed the crisis in an overnight phone call.
Germany said they had agreed "concrete measures" for observers to have greater access, but gave no details.
Observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), who are charged with monitoring the ceasefire, have been trying to reach Debaltseve after being denied access by pro-Russian rebels on Sunday.
The withdrawal was due to start no later than the second day after the truce came into effect and be completed within two weeks, creating buffer zones 50-140km (30-85 miles) wide.
Officials say more than 5,400 people have been killed since the conflict erupted in eastern Ukraine in April, but the UN believes the actual death toll to be much higher.
5,486
people killed since conflict began in April 2014
12,972 wounded across eastern Ukraine
5.2 million people estimated to be living in conflict areas
978,482 internally displaced people within Ukraine, including 119,832 children
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Romania captain Nastase swore at the umpire before abusing Johanna Konta and GB captain Anne Keothavong on Saturday.
He was banned from the tie and later handed a provisional suspension by the International Tennis Federation (ITF).
"Ilie is very patriotic and sometimes he says things that he doesn't really mean," said Comaneci.
"Everybody in Romania loves Ilie because he is Ilie."
But Comaneci, a close friend of two-time Grand Slam champion Nastase, warned the 70-year-old must accept any punishment imposed by the ITF.
"Ilie is responsible for what comes out of his mouth, and I think it is important in sport that you keep the respect and good behaviour," she added.
"He will have to deal with it [the consequences], but he can survive whatever happens to him. People make mistakes."
The ITF is investigating Nastase's conduct in Constanta on Saturday, and also derogatory comments he made relating to the unborn child of 23-time Grand Slam singles champion.
The organisation said the provisional suspension meant Nastase "shall be denied access to any ITF event, including the Fed Cup", pending further investigation into "a breach of the Fed Cup welfare policy".
ITF president David Haggerty said: "One of the principles that is important is that we want a rigorous process that is fair.
"We will also hear Nastase's side of the argument. It will be a thorough process conducted in an efficient manner. I do not think you will be hearing any final decisions in the next two weeks."
Despite that, Nastase returned to the site as Britain were beaten 3-1 on Sunday.
He was later ordered to leave after entering the VIP restaurant, BBC Sport's tennis correspondent Russell Fuller reported.
A spokesperson for the ITF told BBC Sport on Monday the organisation was aware of Nastase re-entering the venue on Sunday.
But, as the investigation is ongoing, no further comment will be made.
Nastase said on Monday: "I don't regret it and they can send me to prison if they want - I don't care."
The Times reported on Monday that the All England Club has held initial discussions about Nastase's behaviour and will not invite him into the Royal Box at Wimbledon this year.
An All England Club spokesman told the Press Association: "Invitations to the Royal Box are at the discretion of the chairman and committee of management who will take into account a range of factors, including any suspensions, when determining the guest list for the Championships."
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David Lander, of Montrose, was caught on CCTV at Wagley's bar in Exchange Street and Sizzlers in Guild Street at the end of November.
Lander admitted the crimes at Aberdeen Sheriff Court. He was estimated to have taken about £160 in total.
The court heard he had lost his bus ticket home.
Sheriff Donald Ferguson told Lander: "This has crossed the custodial threshold by a large margin.
"This was a mean and despicable offence and it's important that you are jailed immediately."
The tin at Wagley's was in aid of Children's Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS) and the bar is raising funds to replace the money.
The basic machine is capable of pricking a finger but is programmed not to do so every time it can.
Mr Reben has nicknamed it "The First Law" after a set of rules devised by sci-fi author Isaac Asimov.
He said he hoped it would further debate about Artificial Intelligence.
"The real concern about AI is that it gets out of control," he said.
"[The tech giants] are saying it's way out there, but let's think about it now before it's too late. I am proving that [harmful robots] can exist now. We absolutely have to confront it."
Mr Reben's work suggests that perhaps an AI "kill switch", such as the one being developed by scientists from Google's artificial intelligence division, DeepMind, and Oxford University, might be useful sooner rather than later.
In an academic paper, the researchers outlined how future intelligent machines could be coded to prevent them from learning to override human input.
"It will be interesting to hear what kill switch is proposed," said Mr Reben.
"Why would a robot not be able to undo its kill switch if it had got so smart?"
In a set of three robotics laws written by Isaac Asimov, initially included in a short story published in 1942, the first law is that a robot may not hurt humans.
Mr Reben told the BBC his First Law machine, which at its worst can draw blood, was a "philosophical experiment".
"The robot makes a decision that I as a creator cannot predict," he said
"I don't know who it will or will not hurt.
"It's intriguing, it's causing pain that's not for a useful purpose - we are moving into an ethics question, robots that are specifically built to do things that are ethically dubious."
The simple machine cost about $200 (£141) to make and took a few days to put together, Mr Reben said.
He has no plans to exhibit or market it.
Mr Reben has built a number of robots based on the theme of the relationship between technology and humans, including one which offered head massages and film-making "blabdroid" robots, which encouraged people to talk to them.
"The robot arm on the head scratcher is the same design as the arm built into the machine that makes you bleed," he said.
"It's general purpose - there's a fun, intimate side, but it could decide to do something harmful."
Footage of a train narrowly missing two people who walked into a tunnel in Downhill Strand was released by Translink on Tuesday.
The CCTV film shows Ray Cunningham, 23, waving to the train to warn the driver.
Mr Cunningham, a lifeguard for six years, said he "feared the worst" when seeing the two enter the tunnel.
According to Mr Cunningham, the pair were tourists from the Republic of Ireland who entered the tunnel thinking it was abandoned.
"It was two people between 40 and 50-years-old. I got them out to make sure they were ok," he said.
"When I talked to them they said that they were using it because they thought that it was abandoned or not in use.
"This is the first time I've ever seen it happen."
The 26-year-old said he was on patrol at the water's edge and doing his final scan of the beach with his binoculars.
It was then that he spotted two people enter the tunnel from about half a kilometre away.
"Obviously alarm bells started ringing. I made my way to the tunnel entrance, took a quick look around to see if I could see them," Mr Cunningham explained.
"Then I noticed the train going down the tracks at quite a speed, so I immediately started waving for the train to stop.
"I knew that these people were in the tunnel and I was freaking out. At the time I was expecting the worst and then out of the darkness the couple started stumbling towards me and that was a massive relief.
"There's no recesses in that tunnel so there is nowhere to really hide. From what I can see in the video they just dived to the ground and hoped for the best," he said.
The pair were not struck by the train and only received some scratches in the incident.
Translink, which operates buses and trains in Northern Ireland, released the July 2015 footage as part of a campaign to raise awareness over the risk of trespassing onto rail tracks.
Gavin Massey scored the only goal of the game in the 18th minute, side-footing in from Elliot Lee's fine pass.
Visiting keeper Elliot Parish saved on-loan Norwich player Jacob Murphy's penalty shortly before the interval.
A second Easter win for 23rd-placed Colchester moves them within seven points of safety, while Coventry are eight points adrift of the play-offs.
The Sky Blues have now lost nine of their last 13 matches, to plummet from fourth to 10th.
The 41-floor ageing property, which occupies a full block that fronts Fifth Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Street, was purchased by Kushner Companies in 2006 for $1.8bn (£1.5bn). At the time, it was the highest price paid for a single building in Manhattan.
But does Chinese interest in the building, just a few blocks south of Trump Tower, raise questions over a potential conflict of interest with someone so personally and professionally close to the US president? And would a possible sale to China's Anbang Insurance Group pose security risks?
On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Anbang was planning a $4bn (£3.3bn) investment deal with the owners of 666 Fifth Avenue. The agreement, the news agency reported, would make Kushner Companies, owned by Jared Kushner and his father Charles, more than $400m (£327m).
The report says that some real estate experts consider the terms of such a transaction unusually favourable for the US company.
On Tuesday, however, Anbang said that reports circulating of its investment in the Fifth Avenue property were "not correct".
"There is no investment from Anbang for this deal," the company wrote in a statement.
Kushner Companies later confirmed that it is in "active discussions" over the building in Manhattan, but did not name Anbang specifically.
"Nothing has been finalised," company spokesman James Yolles told Reuters news agency.
After Mr Kushner was given a senior role inside the White House, his lawyer told the New York Times that he "would recuse from particular matters that would have a direct and predictable effect on his remaining financial interests".
As an owner of Kushner Companies, and with close ties to Mr Trump, investment deals under negotiation between his company and firms such as Anbang do raise questions.
Responding to these concerns, company spokesman Mr Yolles said that Mr Kushner sold his ownership stake in 666 Fifth Avenue to family members, meaning that any transaction would pose no conflict of interest with his role at the White House.
"Kushner Companies has taken significant steps to avoid potential conflicts and will continue to do so," Mr Yolles said in a statement.
Jared Kushner, 36, is married to Mr Trump's daughter, Ivanka. In 2006, at just 25, the softly-spoken millionaire bought the once-venerable New York Observer newspaper.
Although he shares with Mr Trump a complete lack of political experience, last year he exerted a powerful influence over the Trump campaign - including digital strategy and top-level hires - and carried that clout into the White House.
His father, Charles, founded Kushner Companies in 1985 and made his fortune as a New Jersey property mogul.
A controversial figure, Kushner senior received a prison sentence in 2005 for tax evasion, illegal campaign contributions and witness tampering.
At the time, he admitted setting up his own brother-in-law with a prostitute, secretly filming the liaison, and sending the tape to his sister in an effort to dissuade them from testifying against him.
The man who prosecuted Charles Kushner was the former US Attorney for New Jersey and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie.
Jared Kushner is reported to have been involved in counselling Mr Trump to choose Mike Pence as his running mate, over Mr Christie.
China's Anbang Insurance Group was founded in 2004. It is now one of the country's corporate goliaths with an increasingly large international portfolio and interests ranging from banking to traditional Chinese medicine.
The firm first came to prominence in 2015 when it bought New York's landmark Waldorf Astoria hotel for $1.95bn (£1.35bn), then the biggest US real estate deal by a Chinese buyer.
Following the acquisition, then President Barack Obama refused to stay at the Waldorf Astoria during a UN general assembly gathering, citing security concerns.
Anbang has been making an aggressive push into the US property market over the last few years but little is known about the company.
In April 2016, the firm unexpectedly abandoned a $14bn (£9.75bn) takeover offer for Starwood Hotels, ending a three-week bidding war with Marriott. According to reports at the time, there were questions over its financing sources.
The company now claims to have total assets of more than 1.9tn yuan ($300bn, £240bn).
Anbang chairman Wu Xiaohui is considered one of the best politically-connected men in China, having married the grand-daughter of former leader, Deng Xiaopeng.
Mr Wu, 49, is considered "reclusive" but in 2015 he appeared at a Harvard event in Beijing, where he spoke about his firm's investment strategy.
"We must win the first battle and every battle thereafter, as we are representing Chinese enterprises going global," he said.
Company records have also shown members of the board to include the son of a top military commander under former leader Mao Zedong and the son of China's former prime minister Zhu Rongji.
Mr Trump's overseas business interests invite questions of whether his foreign policy decisions are directed by US interests or by his own - or his family's - business interests.
A section of the US Constitution known as the Emoluments Clause restricts what US presidents can accept from foreign governments.
America's founding fathers included this to prevent US leaders from being beholden to foreign governments.
After Mr Trump was elected in early November he spoke over the phone with Argentine President Mauricio Macri. After that call, the Trump Organization issued a press release indicating that Trump Tower Buenos Aires - which had been waiting permit approval to be built - was a done deal.
In January, Donald Trump said he had formally given "complete and total" control of the Trump Organization's businesses to his two sons in a bid to avoid conflicts of interest.
But meetings with Indian business partners and current projects in places like the Philippines and Brazil are also raising questions about what the power of the presidency could do for the Trump brand's international negotiating power.
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The manoeuvre, which saw the van turning around and driving back the wrong way, was captured by Marek Scyzor near junction 33 at Milton, Cambridgeshire.
He sent the footage to the BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
Cambridgeshire Police said: "Congestion and accidents can cause tailbacks and delays on the county's roads but that is no excuse for this type of driving behaviour."
We have a big ship with tanks full of fuel, aground on an island in a sea fringed with natural protected areas.
So the worst case scenario is pretty bad.
Isola del Giglio, where the stricken cruise ship rests, is part of the Tuscan Archipelago National Park, the largest marine protected area in Italy.
Among its inhabitants are important plants and birds and some rare frogs, while the seas support coral, cetaceans and the occasional Mediterranean monk seal - a critically endangered species.
However, there is also quite a large human presence in the archipelago. On Giglio itself, only about half the land area is protected, and none of the seas around the shore.
Other islands further to the north and west - Elba, Pianosa, Montecristo - contain more natural riches.
To the east on the mainland, lies the Laguna di Orbetello, an important bird reserve.
A little further north is the Natural Park of Maremma - the only Italian habitat for at least one dune-dwelling plant, a stopover point for migratory birds, and the location for a successful reintroduction of osprey.
Elena Moutier, a scientific consultant working at the park, told BBC News that an oil spill there "would be a disaster".
"The Maremma Park is one of the most important regional parks in Italy, for the landscape, the ecosystem and the richness in endemic species of plants and animals," she said.
However, all of this is in the realms of the potential, not the actual.
As far as we are aware - and sources including the salvage company Smit and environmental group WWF concur - there has been no fuel spillage so far.
There has been a fair amount of confusion about what material is on board, with some reports saying the Concordia runs on heavy fuel oil and others citing diesel.
That's a crucial point if there is a spill.
While relatively light diesel would disperse fairly quickly in a swelling sea, heavy fuel oil is clumpy and clinging, as we saw in the Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010.
The answer is that the ship contains both. Smit's figures are 2,400 tonnes of heavy fuel oil and 200 tonnes of diesel; the manufacturer of the ship's engines told BBC News that they are "fuel flexible".
For comparison, said Simon Boxall from the UK's National Oceanography Centre, the fuel oil consignment is equivalent to "about half of a day's output" from the Deepwater Horizon disaster "when spewing oil at the full rate".
But the ship's proximity to the coast means a spill would be "damaging", he said.
Smit's experts and equipment are now in place near the stricken ship, and are ready to begin extracting the oil. The process involves drilling holes at the highest and lowest points of the tanks and fitting valves to them.
Seawater exerts pressure from the bottom, forcing the oil up and and out of the top valve. The sticky oil is encouraged to flow by using heat from a steam generator on a nearby barge.
The process could take two to four weeks.
The big risk in the meantime would be if the vessel began breaking up.
During a news conference on Tuesday morning, contractors were optimistic that it would not.
The seas are said to be calm; and although the Concordia is perched in coastal shallows with the potential to tumble into deeper waters, Smit believes it's unlikely to move.
"Based on the first underwater pictures, there are quite a number of [hull] penetrations on the starboard side," operations manager Kees van Essen told reporters.
"They are acting as an anchor; so although we never underestimate the danger, the chance of the vessel sliding down into deeper water is minimal."
In case of spillages in the meantime, the site is surrounded by booms - although as Deepwater Horizon proved, their utility as barriers can be substantially less than promised.
Perhaps the closest recent comparator is the Rena, the container ship that struck New Zealand's Astrolabe Reef in October.
Again, the site was in an area of outstanding ecological importance. And the pounding seas eventually broke the ship in two.
Nevertheless, the incident fell a long way short of constituting an environmental disaster - mainly because salvage operators were able to pump out the vast majority of the oil.
So far, the indications are that the Concordia may prove even less damaging - at least from an environmental point of view.
In both cases, there's a wider question. Neither vessel was on its scheduled course, for different reasons.
But parts of the Italian government and environment groups are asking whether such large vessels should be able to travel through, or even close to, areas that are supposed to be protected.
As Italy's Environment Minister Corrado Clini put it, referring to the passenger boats that ferry people around the Venetian lagoon: "That's enough, we have to stop treating these ships like they were simple vaporetti [small ferries]."
But cargo ships and cruise liners have commercial imperatives to go where they go. We will see whether Mr Clini wins the argument he is bound to have if he is serious about reining them in.
Dan Fish returns at full-back, while Jarrad Hoeta starts in the second row.
Visitors Scarlets welcome Wales scrum-half Gareth Davies back to their starting line-up after a calf problem.
That means Aled Davies is named among the replacements, along with Wales hooker Emyr Phillips, who has been selected as back-row cover.
And with Jake Ball (knee) and John Barclay (forearm) both injured, Tom Price and Jack Condy come into the Scarlets pack.
Blues' other positional switch will mean Phys Patchell moving to fly-half.
Australia international prop Salesi Ma'afu, who joined on 18 December, is not named in the home side's squad.
Cardiff Blues: Dan Fish; Alex Cuthbert, Cory Allen, Rey Lee-Lo, Tom James; Rhys Patchell, Lloyd Williams; Gethin Jenkins (capt), Kristian Dacey, Taufa'ao Filise; Jarrad Hoeata, James Down; Josh Turnbull, Josh Navidi, Manoa Vosawai.
Replacements: Ethan Lewis, Sam Hobbs, Dillon Lewis, Lou Reed, Macauley Cook, Tavis Knoyle, Jarrod Evans, Garyn Smith.
Scarlets: Michael Collins; Steff Evans, Gareth Owen, Hadleigh Parkes, DTH van der Merwe; Aled Thomas, Gareth Davies; Rob Evans, Ken Owens (capt), Samson Lee; Tom Price, Lewis Rawlins; Aaron Shingler, Jack Condy, Morgan Allen.
Replacements: Kirby Myhill, Phil John, Rhodri Jones, Maselino Paulino, Emyr Phillips, Aled Davies, Steve Shingler, Regan King.
Referee: Ben Whitehouse (WRU)
Assistant referees: Ian Davies, Gwyn Morris (WRU)
Citing commissioner: Gwyn Bowden (WRU)
TMO: Derek Bevan (WRU)
The £350m move will initially see 900 workers relocating from sites such as Porton Down in Wiltshire to the former GlaxoSmithKline labs in Harlow.
Public Health England says the move is a "big step forward for UK public health science".
But Salisbury MP John Glen has said he is "extremely disappointed" now the decision has been confirmed.
The new facilities, based on the site currently owned by GSK, will create a centre for research, health improvement and protection working on international health threats, such as Ebola.
The chancellor made the announcement while visiting Harlow this morning.
It was not only crucial for the future of research in public health, but it was also the right decision for the taxpayer, he said.
Duncan Selbie, Public Health England chief executive, said it was a "big step forward".
"Giving our world leading scientists world class facilities, located in the region with the greatest concentration of academic and commercial expertise in life sciences, will ensure we can deal with the health challenges we face now and are certain to in the future," he added.
But Salisbury MP John Glen, whose constituency covers the Porton Down site, said: "I am extremely disappointed to hear this decision has finally been confirmed.
"I have had four debates and lobbied hard for five years but the question now is how to maximise the opportunities for a brighter future for Porton.
"I met the chancellor yesterday and he has readily agreed to support a task force for Porton."
The group claims the bank deliberately misled shareholders into believing it was in good financial health just before it collapsed in 2008.
More than 12,000 private shareholders and 100 institutional investors have raised a class action against the bank.
Former chief executive Fred Goodwin is among those named in the action.
Ex-chairman Sir Tom McKillop is also being sued, along with Johnny Cameron and Guy Whittaker, who were senior figures at the bank in 2008.
RBS has declined to comment on the development.
The institutions involved in the claim are understood to include 20 charities as well as churches, pension funds, hedge funds, fund managers and private client brokers. Collectively they manage in excess of £200bn.
The bank has 30 days to respond to the claim, which relates to a £12bn rights issue by RBS in 2008 to shore up its balance sheet after its disastrous acquisition of Dutch bank ABN Amro.
It is the second in recent days to be lodged against RBS.
Last week a group of 21 claimants launched a multimillion-pound lawsuit, also over its 2008 cash call.
The latest claimants said in a statement on Wednesday: "The action group maintains that the bank's directors sought to mislead shareholders by misrepresenting the underlying strength of the bank and omitting critical information from the 2008 rights issue prospectus.
"This means that RBS will be liable for the losses incurred on shares subscribed in the rights issue, by reason of breaches of Section 90 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000."
The action group estimated that the final claim may be as much as £4bn.
A spokesman for the investors said: "Today represents a giant step forward for the many thousands of ordinary people who lost money as the result of inexcusable actions taken by banks and their directors in the financial crisis.
"Now, for the first time, some of these directors will have to answer for their actions in a British court."
The class action has been raised with High Court of Justice's Chancery Division in London.
RBS was saved from collapse in 2008 by a UK government bailout and is now 82% taxpayer-owned.
He was discovered in Surgeon's Gully area, to the south east of Ben Nevis.
The 23-year-old, from London, had been reported missing on 31 March, after he failed to return to his accommodation in Fort William.
His next of kin have been informed and a report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.
Mr Knox had last been seen at about 10:00 on 30 March in the Glen Nevis area of Lochaber. It is believed he was planning to ascend Ben Nevis.
A previous search, immediately after Mr Knox's disappearance, had been suspended due to bad weather.
The 70 prints featuring Alfred Hitchcock, Sir Laurence Olivier, Henry Fonda and John Wayne were used in Cardiff cinemas from 1936 to 1940.
But two builders later stumbled upon them while renovating the home of a late cinema owner in Penarth in 1985.
They have been put up for auction but are so rare there is no guide price.
The posters, which are up to 3m (10ft) tall, were turned into makeshift underlay after once being used in the New Theatre, Capitol, Empire and Olympia cinema theatres.
They include Alfred Hitchcock's second Hollywood feature, Foreign Correspondent, in 1940 and John Wayne's breakthrough film, Stagecoach, in 1939.
Also included is Fire Over England, the first British film to have its premiere in Los Angeles and the first to pair together Hollywood stars Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in 1937.
They have been kept in pristine condition after being found by the builders.
Now film fans are to be given the chance to own them as they go up for auction next month.
Auctioneer Ben Rogers Jones, of Rogers Jones & Co, said valuing the posters was "nearly impossible" because there was no comparison "in terms of titles, condition and size of some of them".
"It wasn't just the sheer volume of them that was impressive but the condition was fantastic considering their age and the imposing size of the 12-sheet posters," he added.
Former All Blacks players Tana Umaga and Michael Jones led mourners.
Lomu, who was of Tongan descent, died suddenly at the age of 40 earlier this month. He was widely regarded as one of the best players of all time.
Another public memorial service is due to be held on Monday at Auckland's Eden Park stadium.
Lomu was diagnosed with a rare kidney condition in 1995. It forced him to quit the game and he had a kidney transplant in 2004, but the organ stopped functioning in 2011 and he had to have regular dialysis.
He died of cardiac arrest in Auckland, but the exact cause of his death has not been established.
Lomu was capped 63 times by his country and was considered one of the game's first global superstars.
"He impressed us with his courage, his humility, his grace under pressure," New Zealand's Governor General Jerry Mateparae said, AFP reports.
"His determination to use his influence and his mana (prestige) for the benefit of others was exemplary," he said.
Pellegrini will not admit it, of course. He seemed to enjoy deflecting questions about what Tuesday's win over Paris St-Germain meant to him - and for his future - preferring to talk about the club's prospects instead.
The 62-year-old Chilean has done that a lot since City announced to the world at the start of February that he is making way for current Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola in the summer, handling any praise or criticism that comes his way with the same quiet dignity.
On Tuesday night he was given congratulations by the media for his achievements, which surely deserve more credit given the unique circumstances he finds himself in.
His replacement has already been named and has been given the brief of winning Europe's elite club competition, but it is still possible that Pellegrini could win it first - and beat his successor along the way.
Win or lose, Tuesday night was always going to be seen as one of the games that will define Pellegrini's time at City, along with the silverware he has collected.
Defeat would have ended his final chance of adding to his haul of trophies, which stands at one Premier League title and two League Cups and is viewed by some as a modest showing from three seasons at a club of City's means.
An exit would also have increased the volume of those voices that believe the club's faltering form in the Premier League in recent weeks has been down to the announcement Pellegrini is on his way out.
Instead, victory keeps alive City's chances of the type of triumph that their wealthy Middle Eastern owners surely envisaged when they bought the club in 2008.
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And even if he falls short, Pellegrini is already responsible for the sort of landmarks he knows he was expected to reach when he was appointed in 2013.
City are now into a European semi-final for the first time since 1971, when they lost to Chelsea in the last four during their defence of the now obsolete Cup Winners' Cup - which remains their only continental trophy to date.
Pellegrini had already taken them out of the Champions League groups for the first time in 2013-14, then helped them win their group for the first time this season and has continued to lead them into uncharted territory in the knockout stages.
"I came to City because I had good performances in Europe, so to leave this club without taking them to a new state would have been a bad thing for me," the Chilean conceded after Tuesday's victory.
"It is very important to me to be in the semi-finals because that is my job."
Given his side scored a record 151 goals in all competitions in his first season in charge and are also known for some chaotic defending, a 1-0 win with one shot on target was an unlikely way to register such a significant European victory.
An exciting attack and an occasionally disastrous defence is the way Pellegrini's City sides will be remembered.
On Tuesday, however, his team - and some of his signings - showed they are capable of disciplined defence too.
Not that it affected his attacking philosophy. Pellegrini said before the game that he would not change his style to protect the advantage City held with the away goals they scored in last week's 2-2 first-leg draw in the French capital.
We should not be surprised that it worked. While the Champions League semi-finals are new territory for City, Pellegrini has been there before.
It is 10 years since he took Villarreal to the last four, where they narrowly lost to Arsenal after missing a last-gasp penalty that would have forced extra time.
He came within seconds of returning in 2013 with Malaga, when it took two stoppage-time goals by Borussia Dortmund to steal victory in their quarter-final.
His success and style of play - the Daily Telegraph described it as "death by beautiful geometry" during City's title-winning season of 2013-14 - surely makes him a catch for Europe's leading sides when he leaves Manchester behind.
Whatever his long-term future holds, Pellegrini does not want to talk about it yet.
"I am not thinking about it. I don't want to link anything that has happened with this win with the future and another job that happens for me," he said.
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In the short-term, City - and Pellegrini's - chances of winning the Champions League will be clearer once Wednesday's quarter-finals are completed and Friday's draw is made.
He would not entertain the thought of City meeting Guardiola's Bayern Munich side - who play Benfica on Wednesday - before the season is out, asking: "This is interesting for who? The media?"
Instead, as usual, he was concentrating on his own team. Before those semi-final first legs take place, City play three Premier League games and Pellegrini says his focus is on those to ensure they finish in the top four and are back in Europe's top tournament next season.
Could they win it this time though? On the back of their performance against PSG, even Pellegrini dares to dream.
"In the semi-finals you know you have to play against a very big team," he said. "But playing the way we did here, we have a lot of chance against anyone."
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said the fish, which weighed "a few tonnes" was found near the A78 Shore Road.
North Ayrshire Council was notified along with Largs Coastguard Rescue Team which photographed the shark.
Basking sharks can be up to 40ft long and are the largest fish found in British waters.
They are the second largest fish in the world, after the whale shark, according to the Shark Trust charity.
An MCA spokeswoman said: "This was reported to us by a member of the public in the evening of 23 January. The shark was dead when it washed up. It was 15ft long and weighed a few tonnes.
"North Ayrshire Council was contacted and we sent Largs Coastguard Rescue Team to confirm it. All relevant agencies were informed."
Ian Bailey is suing the Irish state after twice being questioned over the killing of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
The 39-year-old producer was found by two neighbours beaten to death on a hillside outside her holiday home in a remote part of west Cork in 1996.
Mr Bailey denies any involvement in the death and was never charged.
Under cross-examination in the High Court in Dublin, the 57-year-old was forced to recount his history of violence and a litany of injuries his partner Jules Thomas suffered at his hands.
Admitting he had been "seriously violent" towards his Welsh-born artist girlfriend three times, Mr Bailey said they separated for several months in mid-1996 after she sought a protection order against him.
"It's common knowledge, to my eternal shame, that in the past when I used to drink spirits, that to my eternal shame, that I was involved in incidents of domestic violence with Ms Thomas," Mr Bailey said.
"I don't know what I can say about that other than to say it's to my eternal shame."
In the most recent beating, in August 2001, the court heard Mr Bailey hit Ms Thomas across the face, body and limbs with a crutch after she woke him from a nap on a sofa in their home near Schull, west Cork.
Mr Bailey pleaded guilty to an assault charge and was given a suspended sentence.
In an earlier incident, Mr Bailey told the court, he pulled out a 4cm clump of Ms Thomas' hair, left her with a closed black eye, in need of stitches inside her mouth and bruising to the face and head, hands and arms after a row broke out in her car as she drove them home from a west Cork pub.
Ms Thomas was kept in hospital in Cork city for one night after the attack and the couple separated and got back together before Christmas.
Mr Bailey told the court Ms Thomas grabbed him when they were in her car after a night socialising and drinking. He reacted by pushing her away before attacking her.
He was shown four photos of injuries to Ms Thomas but refused to detail them to the jury.
Pressed on the injuries by senior counsel for the state, Mr Bailey agreed Ms Thomas was shown with a closed, blackened right eye, bandaged and badly bruised arms.
The couple have been side by side since the case started over a week ago.
In the earliest violent attack, in 1993, the court heard Mr Bailey attacked Ms Thomas after waking from sleep with a nosebleed and lashing out.
Almost 20 years on from the killing of Ms Toscan du Plantier, Mr Bailey, originally from England and resident in County Cork for 23 years, is suing for wrongful arrest and the handling of the murder investigation.
The jury of eight men and four women has been told the state denies all claims.
Mr Bailey was arrested twice on suspicion of the murder of Ms Toscan du Plantier, first on 10 February 1997 and again on 20 January 1998.
He told the court he was "1000%" sure he had never met the film maker in the months before her death.
Junior Fuller was found with stab wounds to his chest in Mill View Close, Sneinton, on Sunday and later died from his injuries, police said.
The BBC has been told Mr Fuller was holding a party to celebrate the life of a man stabbed to death in the same part of the city 24 hours earlier.
Dwayne Johnson, 29, from The Meadows, appeared in court on Saturday.
Mr Johnson was arrested on Thursday and will appear at Nottingham Magistrates' Court, police said.
The BBC understands the party was being held in honour of Martin Maughan, 27, who was found wounded in West Walk, Sneinton, on Saturday and later died from his injuries.
Ben Richardson, 19, of Main Road, Gedling, has been charged with Mr Maughan's murder, while a 43-year-old, arrested on suspicion of murder, has been released on bail.
The two stabbings are not being directly linked, police have said.
United Utilities said the burst caused "significant damage" washing away earth beneath Rochdale Road, Royton.
Greater Manchester Police has closed the road in both directions between the Halfway pub and Thorncliffe Park and advised motorists to avoid the area.
United Utilities said engineers are on site repairing the 6in (15cm) pipe and the road.
It added eight properties without water due to the incident have been provided with bottled water.
Oldham Council said diversions are in place via Shaw Road, Royton, Crompton Way and Rochdale Road, Shaw and Broad Lane, Rochdale.
The Ivory Coast player, 33, accepts he was "above the permitted limit", and did not challenge the charge.
He was fined £54,000 - a means-tested fine - and banned from driving for 18 months by Barkingside magistrates.
"It is well known that I am a Muslim and do not drink, said Toure. "I have always refused alcohol."
Toure was driving in Dagenham in east London at the time of the offence last month.
Barkingside Magistrates Court said Toure had an alcohol reading of 75 micrograms per 100 millilitres of breath - more than twice England's legal limit of 35 micrograms.
He pleaded guilty to the charge on Monday, but did not say in his Facebook statement how the alcohol got into his system.
In his statement Toure added: "Drink-driving is a serious crime and even though I was not intentionally consuming alcohol I accept the ban and fine and I would like to apologise for this situation."
The Ivory Coast international was recalled to the Manchester City squad earlier this month after apologising for "misunderstandings" relating to comments made by his agent Dimitri Seluk.
The 26-year-old joined the Swans in January from Italian side Chievo Verona and scored two goals in 10 appearances for the club.
The former AC Milan striker's transfer will be completed on 1 July.
"Everyone at Swansea City would like to thank Alberto for his services and wish him well for the future," a statement on the club's website said.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
The Belfast native is one of the most recognisable and controversial figures in Irish politics.
To some he is hailed as a peacemaker, for leading the republican movement away from its long, violent campaign towards peaceful and democratic means.
To others, he is a hate figure who publicly justified murders carried out by the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
The paramilitary group is believed to be responsible for about 1,700 deaths during more than 30 years of violence, mostly in Northern Ireland, that became known as the Troubles.
The Sinn Féin leader has consistently denied that he was ever a member of the IRA, but has said he will never "disassociate" himself from the organisation.
Gerry Adams was born in October 1948 in Ballymurphy, west Belfast, and both of his parents came from families that had been active in armed republicanism.
His father, Gerry senior, had been shot while taking part in an IRA attack on a police patrol in 1942 and was subsequently imprisoned.
Influenced by his father, the young Adams became an active republican while still a teenager.
He worked as a barman at the Duke of York pub in Belfast where he was fascinated by the political gossip traded among the journalists and lawyers who frequented the bar.
However, as the civil rights movement gathered pace in the late 1960s, the young Adams did not spend long pulling pints.
Soon he was out on the streets, involved in the protests of the time, and in 1972 he was interned - imprisoned without charge - under the controversial Special Powers Art.
According to his own account, he was purely a political activist, but that same year, the IRA leadership insisted that the then 24-year-old be released from internment to take part in ceasefire talks with the British government.
The talks failed and were followed by the Bloody Friday murders, when the IRA detonated at least 20 bombs across Belfast in one day, killing nine people and injuring 130.
Security sources believed Gerry Adams was a senior IRA commander at the time, but interviewed after the organisation's formal apology 30 years on, he adamantly denied this.
In 1977, he was acquitted of IRA membership.
At the height of the 1981 IRA hunger strikes, he played a key role in the Fermanagh by-election in which Bobby Sands became an MP a month before his death.
Two years later Gerry Adams became MP for West Belfast on an absentionist platform, meaning he would represent the constituency but refuse to take his seat in the House of Commons.
Also in 1983, he replaced Ruairí Ó Bradaigh as president of Sinn Féin. Three years later, he dropped Sinn Féin's policy of refusing to sit in the Irish parliament in Dublin.
Despite the tentative moves towards democracy, the IRA's campaign of violence continued and Sinn Féin were considered political pariahs.
In the late 1980s, Gerry Adams entered secret peace talks with John Hume, the leader of the Sinn Féin's more moderate political rivals, the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).
The Hume Adams negotiations helped to bring Sinn Féin in from the political wilderness and paved the way for the peace process.
But treading a line between politics and violence was risky.
In 1984, Gerry Adams survived a gun attack by loyalist paramilitaries, the Ulster Freedom Fighters, in Belfast city centre. He and three companions were wounded but managed to drive to the Royal Victoria Hospital for treatment.
A second murder attempt was made at Milltown cemetery, west Belfast, in 1988 at a funeral for three IRA members. Three mourners were killed but loyalist paramilitary Michael Stone said his real targets were Adams and Martin McGuinness.
The 1993 Shankill bombing confirmed the tightrope Gerry Adams had to walk in order to keep hardline republicans on board with his political project.
He expressed regret for the bombing that killed nine people and one of the bombers, but did not condemn it.
Mr Adams then carried the coffin of the IRA man Thomas Begley, who died when the bomb exploded prematurely.
But the Hume-Adams talks were beginning to bear fruit. US President Bill Clinton withstood pressure from London to grant Gerry Adams a 48-hour visa for a peace conference in New York. The visit attracted worldwide attention and Adams used it as justification to press on with politics.
The Hume-Adams process eventually delivered the 1994 IRA ceasefire that ultimately provided the relatively peaceful backdrop against which the Good Friday Agreement was brokered.
In 1998, 90% of the party backed its president in taking seats in the new Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont - a remarkable piece of political management given Sinn Féin's "no return to Stormont" slogan in the 1997 general election campaign.
Mr Adams stayed out of the Stormont power-sharing executive, letting Martin McGuinness take a ministerial post.
When the power-sharing deal collapsed in 2003, Gerry Adams became a key player in the government's attempts to broker a new agreement between Sinn Féin and their one-time enemies, the Democratic Unionist Party.
The negotiations foundered at the end of 2004, but in October 2006 both Mr Adams and DUP leader Mr Paisley indicated their support for the St Andrews Agreement, drawn up after intensive talks in Scotland.
The deal led to a once-thinkable situation, a Stormont coalition led by the DUP and Sinn Féin.
A key element of the deal was Sinn Féin support for the police, whom the IRA had once deemed "legitimate targets".
It was unthinkable in the days of the Troubles, but persuading Irish republicans to embrace policing was another step on Adams' personal and political journey between war and peace.
In January 2011, Gerry Adams formally resigned as West Belfast MP in order to run for election in the Republic of Ireland.
The move was believed to be in response to fears that the party was too narrowly focused on Northern Ireland and needed to boost its all-island strategy.
The following month, he was elected as a Teachta Dála (member of the Irish Parliament), representing the border constituency of Louth and East Meath.
However, closer to home, personal turmoil was unfolding in the Adams family.
His brother, Liam Adams, was publicly accused of rape and child sexual abuse. The allegations were made by Liam Adams' adult daughter Aine, who waived her right to anonymity in a bid to bring her father to justice.
Gerry Adams publicly named his own father as a child sex abuser as he spoke about the impact the allegations had made on his whole family.
He then became embroiled in the police investigation, when it emerged his niece had told him she had been abused several years earlier.
The Sinn Féin president said his brother had confessed the abuse to him in 2000 and added that he made his first report to the police about the allegations in 2007, shortly after his party voted to accept the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
In 2013, Liam Adams was jailed for 16 years for raping and abusing his daughter over a six-year period.
The following year, Gerry Adams was arrested by detectives investigating the 1972 murder of Belfast woman Jean McConville.
The widowed mother-of-10 was abducted by the IRA in 1972 and later shot dead and secretly buried on a County Louth beach.
Mr Adams said he was "innocent totally" of any involvement in the killing.
He was questioned for four days, before being released without charge. The PSNI sent a file to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS).
At the time, Sinn Féin accused the PSNI of "political policing" and claimed the arrest was due to a "dark side" within the service, conspiring with enemies of the peace process.
The PSNI said they had a duty to "impartially investigate serious crime" and said they were committed to treating "everyone equally before the law".
Brendan Rodgers' Celtic side go into the game 33 points ahead of Rangers and have won all three derbies this season.
Moussa Dembele scored a hat-trick in Celtic's 5-1 victory in September and the French striker fired the winner in the League Cup semi-final.
Celtic came from behind on Hogmanay at Ibrox to claim three points courtesy of Scott Sinclair's strike.
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In 2003 there were around 1,596 pandas living in the wild, but according to the latest count there are now 1,864.
Nearly three quarters of the pandas live in China's south-western province of Sichuan.
The number of giant pandas in captivity has grown too - almost 200 more now than there were back in 2003.
Ginette Hemley, from animal charity World Wildlife Fund, says it's great news: "The rise in the population of wild giant pandas is a victory for conservation and definitely one to celebrate.''
But the latest count says the main threat to the panda numbers is the building of roads and power stations. Over 300 hydropower stations and 800 miles of roads have been built in areas where giant pandas live.
It is the fourth time Shafqat Hussain, who was found guilty of kidnapping and killing a child in 2004, has been given a stay of execution.
His lawyers say he was 14 when he was charged, and was tortured into making a confession.
The authorities however believe he was 23 when he committed the crime.
The execution was halted after Pakistan's Supreme Court agreed to consider an appeal.
Shafqat Hussain's family say they cannot believe the execution was halted.
"We were not expecting this, we had even found a place for his grave in a local cemetery here in Muzaffarabad," his brother Manzoor told the AFP news agency.
Rights groups have petitioned the Pakistani authorities throughout the past week, calling for the execution to be halted.
A spokeswoman for the charity Reprieve told the BBC that both the president and the Supreme Court had been intensely lobbied before the latest stay of execution.
"At one point on Monday - before the latest stay - the Supreme Court ordered a hearing to be held four hours after his scheduled execution. It was a Kafkaesque situation," a Reprieve spokeswoman told the BBC.
Reprieve argues that Pakistan's legal system has failed Shafqat Hussain at every turn and that even now his case has not been properly investigated.
"Ten years later, Shafqat still bears the physical and psychological scars from the torture," a petition filed by human groups to President Mamnoon Hussain says.
"The execution of a juvenile offender is strictly prohibited under both Pakistani and international human rights law."
A group of UN human rights experts has also called for the execution to be halted, pointing out that "he did not receive a fair trial and that the state-appointed lawyer never raised the fact that he was a child at the time of the alleged offence".
Pakistan is on course to have one of the highest rates of executions in the world. It executed three other men on the same day that Shafqat Hussain was reprieved.
Activists are petitioning to halt Wednesday's planned execution of Aftab Bahadur Masih, who they argue was also a minor at the time of his crime. He was convicted of a double murder in 1992.
The Pakistani government scrapped a moratorium on capital punishment in the aftermath of a deadly attack on a school in Peshawar - in which more than 150 school pupils and teachers were killed by the Taliban.
Pakistan has the world's largest number of death row inmates, with more than 8,000 people reported to be awaiting execution.
The HealthWise Wales project, described as the first of its kind in Europe, hopes to collect information from 260,000 people.
The aim is to build an in-depth picture of the health of the nation, using the data to plan NHS services in future.
Anyone over 16 can take part and the Welsh government said the data would only be used for research.
The project is led by Cardiff and Swansea universities, and some participants will be asked if researchers can access their information and invite them to take part in further studies.
Dr Ruth Hussey, Wales' chief medical officer, said it was the largest research project of its kind ever launched in Wales.
"Young or old, fit or unwell you will be contacted every six months to get an ongoing understanding of your health," she said.
"This is about people sharing their knowledge to improve health and care in Wales."
A pilot was launched in May 2015 and 570 people have signed up to date.
It aims to recruit hundreds of thousands more over the next five years by encouraging people to register online, as well as a mixture of roadshow events, TV adverts and social media campaigns.
Prof Shantini Paranjothy, from Cardiff University's School of Medicine, said the project built on "a strong tradition of population health research in Wales".
"This large-scale project will use modern technology to engage people in research and provide opportunities to contribute to the design and conduct of research studies," she said.
The East Region Junior side held out for 28 minutes before Murray's close-range finish broke the deadlock.
Paul McManus began a second-half goal deluge when he netted from six yards for the League Two leaders.
Murray grabbed his second after being teed up by Kevin Nicoll and added his third in the 75th minute before McManus found the bottom corner a minute later.
The part-timers had a chance to give the majority of the 1,769 crowd something to cheer late on only for Stuart Hunter to head over.
Match ends, Bo'ness United 0, Arbroath 5.
Second Half ends, Bo'ness United 0, Arbroath 5.
Foul by Kevin Buchan (Arbroath).
Ross Campbell (Bo'ness United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Craig Johnstone (Arbroath) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Nicky Walker (Bo'ness United).
Attempt missed. Darren Gribben (Bo'ness United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Foul by Ali El-Zubaidi (Arbroath).
Mark Cowan (Bo'ness United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Scott McBride (Arbroath) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ian Nimmo (Bo'ness United).
Foul by Mark Whatley (Arbroath).
Andy Scott (Bo'ness United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Stuart Hunter (Bo'ness United) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Substitution, Arbroath. Kevin Buchan replaces Paul McManus.
Corner, Bo'ness United. Conceded by Kevin Nicoll.
Foul by Adam Hunter (Arbroath).
Nicky Walker (Bo'ness United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Arbroath. Jack Smith replaces Simon Murray.
Goal! Bo'ness United 0, Arbroath 5. Paul McManus (Arbroath) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Bobby Linn.
Goal! Bo'ness United 0, Arbroath 4. Simon Murray (Arbroath) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Craig Johnstone.
Attempt missed. Paul McManus (Arbroath) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Foul by Simon Murray (Arbroath).
Stuart Hunter (Bo'ness United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Bobby Linn (Arbroath).
Mark Cowan (Bo'ness United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Bo'ness United 0, Arbroath 3. Simon Murray (Arbroath) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kevin Nicoll.
Goal! Bo'ness United 0, Arbroath 2. Paul McManus (Arbroath) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Simon Murray.
Attempt missed. Scott McBride (Arbroath) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Darren Gribben (Bo'ness United) is shown the yellow card.
Ricky Little (Arbroath) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Darren Gribben (Bo'ness United).
Substitution, Bo'ness United. Mark Cowan replaces Kieran Anderson.
Attempt missed. Craig Johnstone (Arbroath) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Corner, Arbroath. Conceded by Stuart Hunter.
Substitution, Bo'ness United. Andy Scott replaces Chris Donnelly.
Corner, Arbroath. Conceded by Mark Peat.
Attempt saved. Bobby Linn (Arbroath) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Arbroath. Conceded by Ross Philp.
Attempt missed. Kieran Anderson (Bo'ness United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high.
A California court ordered German firm Bossland to pay $8.6m (£6.8m) to Blizzard for 42,818 counts of copyright infringement.
Blizzard had argued that Bossland had reverse-engineered and otherwise altered its games without permission.
It follows related court rulings in the UK and Germany.
Bossland had attempted to have the US case dismissed, but did not defend itself in court, according to the news site Torrentfreak.
It also faces having to cover about $177,000 of legal costs.
"The Bossland hacks destroy the integrity of the Blizzard games, thereby alienating and frustrating legitimate players and diverting revenue from Blizzard to defendants," the US games developer had argued.
The tools included the ability to see other players' positions, health scores and other information from a distance within games.
The Zwickau-based firm's managing director said it did not accept the US court had jurisdiction over it, and that the judgement did not take into account that many of the licences it had sold had been "trials" at a fraction of the normal cost.
"We are discussing with our lawyers how to continue - if an appeal to the declined motion to dismiss is worth trying," Zwetan Letschew told the BBC.
Bossland's website remains active and continues to advertise cheats for several Blizzard games, insisting "botting is not against any law".
However, UK visitors are blocked from access and are instead shown a message saying the sale of its software to "any person resident in the United Kingdom, constitutes an infringement of Blizzard's intellectual property rights and an inducement to players of Blizzard's games to breach their agreements with Blizzard".
One games industry analyst said the US games developer had a lot riding on its multiplayer titles remaining fair.
"If the cheats work then they fundamentally break the gameplay mechanics as it's impossible to balance these types of game as a consequence," commented Piers Harding-Rolls from IHS Technology.
"If you have a competitive game like Overwatch - which is starting to branch out into the e-sports playing-for-money scene - if cheats are being used it spoils the whole concept.
"And even outside the competitive scene, if casual games don't feel they are experiencing a level playing field then they can be turned off playing."
The Local Government Association (LGA) - which represents 400 councils - wants the government to adopt a similar approach to that taken in Ireland.
Instead of banning drugs on a case-by-case basis, Ireland has banned all "psychoactive" - brain altering - drugs and then exempted some such as alcohol.
The LGA says this is the only way to protect young people.
Deaths from so-called legal highs have more than doubled in the past four years - from 26 in 2009 to 60 last year.
Currently in the UK a decision on whether a product is allowed to be sold is made on a case-by-case basis.
The LGA says that when one product is banned the makers change the chemical compound slightly and can then sell it legally in shops - dubbed "headshops".
To stop this happening in Ireland a ban on all brain-altering drugs was made law in 2010, and then substances such as alcoholic drinks and tobacco were made exempt and allowed to be sold.
Councillor Ann Lucas, chairman of the LGA's safer and stronger communities board, said: "This is all about tackling the sellers.
"Legal high shops are becoming endemic to our high streets, which is why we are calling on the government to introduce robust and vigorous new laws to tackle them.
"The sooner we put these so-called headshops out of business for good, the better. A key priority is educating and informing younger people about the dangers and risks of these drugs and councils play a pivotal role in this."
Director at Public Health England (PHE) Rosanna O'Connor said services needed to be "geared up" to account for changing patterns of drug use.
She said PHE was strengthening its own efforts to tackle use of new and emerging substances and was working with national and local partners to "raise awareness of the risks... prevent problems where possible and ensure treatment services are able to help people".
Ms O'Connor said she was monitoring the use and impact of newer drugs to "build a better picture of the scale of the problem" and would feed any information into a pan-European early warning system.
Councils spend about 30% - £830m a year - of their public health budget on drug and alcohol misuse, the LGA said.
Legal highs, which include substances called "Clockwork Orange", "Bliss" and "Mary Jane", have been directly linked to emergency hospital admissions including in mental health services, the LGA said.
Drug treatment charity Addaction said it was "notoriously difficult" to control legal highs because so much of their trade took place online.
"Any regulatory measures must be accompanied by education, support, advice and - in serious cases - specialist treatment," the charity said.
Alastair Graham was looking after Bruno, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross, for a friend when he snapped after the animal bit his finger.
He tied the animal to a tree in Kirkcaldy's Dunnikier Woods and initially attempted to slit its throat.
When he failed Graham went to a petrol station and filled up a jerry can before pouring it over the dog.
He then set the dog alight.
A sheriff told Graham the attack was a "grotesque act of savagery".
The Animal Health and Welfare Act means Graham can only be jailed for a maximum of a year.
However he will face "years" in jail after he also admitted an attempted knife robbery carried out days after he killed Bruno.
Fiscal depute Susan Dickson told Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court that a post-mortem on Bruno revealed he had still been alive when Graham had set him alight.
She said: "Footage from the BP petrol station showed the accused filling up a container with petrol on the day in question - a similar container was found melted beside the dog.
"A post mortem on the dog was carried out which revealed the burning was concentrated over the neck, head and thorax areas with the right side badly burnt to full thickness.
"There was a thick black deposit round the neck consistent with the harness - the metal parts were burnt on to the neck.
"There was inhalation of smoke in the dog's airways which indicates it was alive when it was set on fire.
"There was also a deep sharp puncture would and another sharp wound - neither of which were life threatening but would have caused pain."
Graham, 23, a prisoner at HMP Perth, pleaded guilty on indictment to causing Bruno unnecessary suffering by causing his death in the fire on 24 or 25 April.
He further admitted an attempted knife robbery committed alongside Steven Gourdie, committed on 2 May at High Street, Leven.
Larry Flynn, defending Graham, said: "He has a vague recollection of doing this but was abusing alcohol at the time.
"His recollection is that he attempted to kill it with a knife but he failed and he went to get the petrol then returned."
Sheriff James Williamson deferred sentence on Graham and Gourdie until next month for social work reports and a risk assessment.
The men were among more than 300 officers convicted in 2012 of taking part in the "Sledgehammer" conspiracy.
They were freed last year when Turkey's highest court said the trial had been flawed.
The prosecutor told their retrial that key computer files in the trial were inadmissible as evidence.
Some of the evidence had been fabricated, according to expert reports.
The plot allegations arose from a war simulation seminar in 2003 involving top military men, including First Army commander Gen Cetin Dogan.
Gen Dogan and two other generals, Ozden Ornek and Ibrahim Firtina, were jailed for 20 years, accused of staging a dress rehearsal for a coup that involved bombing mosques and trying to trigger a war with Greece to justify a military takeover.
Gen Dogan insisted the seminar had been aimed at preventing a hypothetical crisis involving political unrest.
The army has a long history of intervening in politics, with three military coups between 1960 and 1980, and a campaign in 1997 that forced the resignation of Turkey's first Islamist-led government.
Mr Erdogan came to power in 2002 at the head of an Islamist-rooted government and became president last August.
The 2012 convictions were eventually overturned last June when Turkey's Constitutional Court ruled that the original trial had been flawed.
Prosecutor Ramazan Oksuz called for their acquittal at the high criminal court in Istanbul on Tuesday, arguing that the "digital data" was inadmissible as evidence and could not be linked to the suspects.
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The Crime Survey for England and Wales included the offences for the first time in its annual report, which covered the year to September.
Separate figures recorded by police showed an 8% rise in offences overall.
The Office for National Statistics said crime recording improvements meant the police figures could not reveal trends.
John Flatley, from the ONS, said: "In the past, burglary and theft of vehicles were the high-volume crimes driving trends but their numbers have fallen substantially since then.
"When the crime survey started [35 years ago], fraud was not considered a significant threat and the internet had yet to be invented.
"Today's figures demonstrate how crime has changed, with fraud now the most commonly experienced offence."
Sir Tom Winsor, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary for England and Wales, told the You and Yours programme on BBC Radio 4 that many frauds went undetected and a great deal never got reported to the police.
"The amount of fraud that is taking place now is probably in epidemic proportions," he added. "The police are having to work very, very hard to keep up with even the ones they know about.
"The capability at police forces is quite skeletal and that needs to change and change a great deal."
The National Police Chiefs' Council lead for crime and incident recording, Chief Constable Jeff Farrar, said forces were working with the Home Office, police and crime commissioners, and industry experts to develop new tactics to fight cybercrime.
"The ability to commit crime online demonstrates the need for policing to adapt and transform to tackle these cyber challenges," he said.
There are two broad categories of "computer misuse" crimes:
Des Dillon, who runs a student accommodation company, told BBC Radio 5 live he had become a victim of cybercrime after being tricked into giving away information that led to the loss of £230,000 from his company bank account.
"Over a couple of phone calls, he asked me for various [information], third number, fourth number and ninth letter, that type of thing, and obviously he put it together very quickly," he said.
"We've recouped [over] £100,000, we're outstanding £113,000. We managed to block and recoup the balance and now we're fighting [with the bank] about the other portion of it."
Katy Worobec, director of Financial Fraud Action UK, said banks had managed to stop £6 in every £10 targeted by criminals in the first half of 2016, but that people needed to be aware of the threat.
"While the industry invests in new systems to stop the criminals, fraudsters are increasingly targeting people directly," she said.
"Customers and businesses need to be alert to the threats posed by the continued rise in impersonation scams attempting to trick them out of their personal details and money."
All but one police force - Nottinghamshire - recorded an increase in violent crime last year.
The largest percentage increases were logged by Northumbria Police, up 95%, Durham Police (73%), West Yorkshire Police (48%) and Avon and Somerset Police (45%).
"Violence against a person" offences now include revenge pornography and internet trolling, which the ONS believes contributed towards the 22% rise from last year.
Police recorded 695 homicides in the 12 months to the end of September - 125 more than the previous year.
This included the 96 cases of manslaughter resulting from the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, because the inquest verdicts were returned during the last recording period. Excluding those deaths, there was still a 5% rise in homicides.
The figures for fraud and computer misuse show how behind the curve our statistics have fallen.
It is undeniable that the overall level of crime has been falling across the industrialised world for a quarter of a century, as report after report on our experiences show we are less and less likely to be victims.
However, while traditional crimes such as burglary and theft fall, criminal gangs look for new opportunities by exploiting gaps in online and banking security.
The brutal fact is that nobody knows how big the problem is. It is massively underreported and, outside of London, it is arguable that national policing hasn't yet got the skills or the expert manpower it needs.
A good detective must have the skills to catch a burglar or killer, but very few of them have the skills to analyse screens of information and find criminals who have taken the digital road to a life of crime.
While there was a 23% increase in attempted murders, the ONS said this may have been "influenced" by improved crime recording.
Recorded offences involving a knife or sharp weapon hit their highest level for five years, up 11% up on the previous year to 30,838.
There was a 7% rise in gun crime, which BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said had been mainly driven by an increase in offences involving handguns and shotguns, but added that some of the increase might be accounted for by better firearm identification processes.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said the crime figures were akin to "the warning lights flashing."
Policing minister Brandon Lewis said reforms of the police were "working" and the offences "traditionally" measured by the survey - before the inclusion of fraud and cybercrime - had fallen by 370,000.
Mr Lewis said the government was investing £1.9bn in cybersecurity over five years, adding that the survey helped inform efforts.
"Understanding more about these crimes will help us continue to protect those who are vulnerable," he said.
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His announcement followed another bloody year in the US in which thousands were killed and tens of thousands wounded by gunfire.
Here's a look at some of the statistics behind the violence.
Mass shootings: There were 372 mass shootings in the US in 2015, killing 475 people and wounding 1,870, according to the Mass Shooting Tracker, which catalogues such incidents. A mass shooting is defined as a single shooting incident which kills or injures four or more people, including the assailant.
Source: Mass Shooting Tracker
School shootings: There were 64 school shootings in 2015, according to a dedicated campaign group set up in the wake of the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre in Connecticut in 2012. Those figures include occasions when a gun was fired but no-one was hurt.
Source: Everytown for Gun SafetyResearch
All shootings: Some 13,286 people were killed in the US by firearms in 2015, according to the Gun Violence Archive, and 26,819 people were injured [those figures exclude suicide]. Those figures are likely to rise by several hundred, once incidents in the final week of the year are counted.
Source: Gun Violence Archive
How the US compares: The number of gun murders per capita in the US in 2012 - the most recent year for comparable statistics - was nearly 30 times that in the UK, at 2.9 per 100,000 compared with just 0.1.
Of all the murders in the US in 2012, 60% were by firearm compared with 31% in Canada, 18.2% in Australia, and just 10% in the UK.
Source: UNODC.
The home front: So many people die annually from gunfire in the US that the death toll between 1968 and 2011 eclipses all wars ever fought by the country. According to research by Politifact, there were about 1.4 million firearm deaths in that period, compared with 1.2 million US deaths in every conflict from the War of Independence to Iraq.
Source: Politifact.
Total number of guns: No official figure exists but there are thought to be about 300 million in the US, held by about a third of the population. That is nearly enough guns for every man, woman and child in the country.
The NRA: The right to own guns is regarded by many as enshrined in the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, and fiercely defended by lobby groups such as the National Rifle Association, which boasted that its membership surged to around five million in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school shooting.
Gun violence and terrorism: The US spends more than a trillion dollars per year defending itself against terrorism, which kills a tiny fraction of the number of people killed by ordinary gun crime.
According to figures from the US Department of Justice and the Council on Foreign Affairs, 11,385 people died on average annually in firearm incidents in the US between 2001 and 2011.
In the same period, an average of 517 people were killed annually in terror-related incidents. Removing 2001, when 9/11 occurred, from the calculation produces an annual average of just 31.
Valencia have the option of signing 20-year-old Munir for 12m euros (£10.2m) at the end of his loan next summer.
Alcacer, 23, is considered one of Spain's most promising young talents after scoring 30 La Liga goals in three years and has agreed a five-year deal.
He was made captain at the Mestalla Stadium under Gary Neville last season.
Alcacer's contract, which includes a 100m euro (£85m) buy-out clause, could be worth another 2m euros (£1.7m) in "variables" to Valencia.
Luis Enrique's Barcelona have spent most of the summer trying to sign a forward to complement their front three of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez.
He is the sixth summer signing for the Spanish champions, following goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen, defenders Lucas Digne and Samuel Umtiti, and midfielders Denis Suarez and Andre Gomes, who has also arrived from Valencia.
Barcelona accidentally ran a competition on their website to win a signed Alcacer jersey on Monday, before they had revealed his signing.
Teri Lau, 28, of Dunclug Park, and Roddy Patterson, 28, of Glendun Drive, Ballymena, had pleaded guilty to actual bodily harm and false imprisonment.
They will serve half their sentences in custody and the rest on licence.
Paula Wilson, 22, of Main Street, Cullybackey, was sentenced to two years, half to be spent on licence.
She had pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting false imprisonment.
The trio were originally charged with attempting to kill Adam Robinson, who was 21 at the time, in September 2013, but pleaded guilty to lesser charges.
The attack happened after they took part in a drink and drugs binge over 72 hours.
In sentencing, the judge said a factor was that Mr Robinson had been left suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
He said the victim truly believed he was going to die when he was left in a bin, unable to see and with limited air to breathe.
The judge said this was clearly meant to "punish, humiliate and demean" Mr Robinson.
He said if he had not been found, the consequences could have been far worse.
It is understood that because of time already served in jail, all three will be released soon.
Earlier hearings were told that Mr Robinson was only found by chance, when a dog sniffed out the bin, which was propped up against a tree in dense undergrowth and sealed with parcel tape.
The pet's barking alerted its owner who then rang the emergency services.
Mr Robinson's father Mervyn said he was disappointed by the sentences.
He said the trio would be released "very shortly" and "will most likely be back in Ballymena very soon".
"Adam wants to go down the town in Ballymena and walk about freely, and who knows who he is going to bump into some day when he walks around a corner," he said.
"It's tough for him. Ballymena is not that big a town and he realises the possibility of that happening and it probably plays on his mind too, which he doesn't need because he has been through so much.
"It's been very very traumatic for him, so hopefully he can put this behind him."
The unnamed woman went to a newsagent in Worcester with the ticket bearing the winning numbers, but the date and barcode are illegible, Natu Patel, who runs Ambleside News in Warndon said.
Camelot confirmed on Friday the winning ticket was bought in Worcester.
It has urged the woman to get in touch and send it in within 30 days.
The National Lottery operator said: "If anybody believes they have bought the ticket and think they may have lost it, or washed it in their jeans, or it's been stolen, they need to make a claim within 30 days."
The prize money is half the record Lotto jackpot win - shared with a couple from Hawick who claimed their prize within days of the 9 January draw.
Newsagent Mr Patel said the woman was convinced hers was the winning ticket and was "rather nervous and frightened".
"She said to me it had been through the wash," he told BBC News.
"It was in a washed condition and so, of course, in a slightly poor state.
"But I think if Camelot have the ability to be able to break it down and check it, they'll do what they have to do."
Mr Patel said the only visible date was 2016 and the serial number and barcode had faded.
"We secured it on card and put it in a bag and I asked her to send it to Camelot as they requested," he added.
Camelot said on Friday it would not reveal the exact location where the ticket was purchased, but hoped that by naming the area it could increase local interest and help find the winner.
The operator has the discretion to pay prizes in respect of stolen, lost or destroyed tickets only if the player has submitted a claim in writing within 30 days of the relevant draw, a spokesman said.
If the player can provide sufficient evidence, Camelot will investigate and determine "at its discretion whether the claim is valid and is able to pay the prize 180 days after the draw."
The ticket had the winning numbers 26, 27, 46, 47, 52 and 58.
Even though the prize total was shared, the sum is still the biggest win since the National Lottery was launched in November 1994.
Mr Patel said he hoped he had sold the winning ticket.
"It would be win-win in all ways, because it would be very, very good for her and very good for us and for the city of Worcester.
"It would put Worcester on the map once again - instead of the floods."
Antoine Demoitie, a Belgian rider, was hit by the motorbike after several riders came down in a crash as the race passed through northern France.
Demoitie, 25, was taken to hospital in the French city of Lille but died some time later.
The 243km, one-day race was won by the current world champion, Peter Sagan of Slovakia.
French police announced Demoitie's death. "An inquiry is under way to determine the circumstances," said Frederic Evrard, a police spokesman.
Demoitie's team, Wanty, posted on Twitter while he was still in a critical condition to say that his wife and family were at his side.
Former Belgian national champion Jens Debusschere was also taken to hospital after he was concussed following a heavy crash.
World road race champion Sagan held off Sep Vanmarcke, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov and Fabian Cancellara, to take victory.
"I'm very happy that I've won finally in this (rainbow) jersey," said the Slovak, after earning his first win as world champion.
Sagan, who was second in Friday's E3 Harelbeke, recorded his second triumph in the one-day Belgian classic, having won it in 2013.
Dutch rider Chantal Blaak won the women's race by 84 seconds after riding clear from a breakaway group with 10km remaining.
Lizzie Armitstead was the first Briton to cross the finish line, two minutes, 23 seconds behind her Boels Dolmans Cycling Team colleague.
Final standings
1. Peter Sagan (Slo/Tinkoff) 5hrs 55mins 12secs
2. Sep Vanmarcke (Bel/LottoNL) Same time
3. Vyacheslav Kuznetsov (Rus/Katusha)
4. Fabian Cancellara (Swi/Trek)
5. Arnaud Demare (Fra/FDJ) +11secs
6. Fernando Gaviria (Col/Etixx-Quick-Step) Same time
7. Juergen Roelandts (Bel/Lotto)
8. Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita/Katusha)
9. Greg Van Avermaet (Bel/BMC Racing)
10. Michael Morkov (Den/Katusha)
Overseas aid for education stands at about $12bn (£9bn) - which Unesco says is 4% less than in 2010.
The UN agency says the funding gap means global targets for access to school are unlikely to be achieved.
The US and the UK remain the biggest donor countries for basic education.
Unesco's Global Monitoring Report says that despite warnings about the importance of raising education standards, international aid funding is falling behind.
The UN agency says there is a $39bn (£30bn) annual shortfall in the financial support needed to reach education targets set for 2030, such as ensuring a primary school place for every child.
When the targets were set in 2015, the UN says there were more than 260 million young people without access to school, with serious consequences for their future wealth, health and security.
The most recent figures show a slight annual increase - but Unesco warns that the amounts being targeted at education have "stagnated" and are below the levels at the beginning of the decade.
The report says that for the sixth year in a row, education has had a declining proportion of the overall overseas aid budget.
Health continues to take a much bigger slice of aid budgets - with aid support for transport now matching the amount donated for education.
Poor girls living in rural areas in low-income countries are particularly at risk of missing out on school.
At the current rate of progress, Unesco has forecast that it will be 2042 before universal access to primary school is achieved. It will be 2084 before all young people will have the chance to stay on for upper secondary school, the UN says.
The UN report also highlights that the poorest countries are not necessarily receiving the most aid.
Unesco says that sub-Saharan countries account for half of the world's children out of school, but these countries now only get about a quarter of the education aid budget.
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The report says an increasing amount of support is going to countries with refugees from Syria's civil war.
Conflict and war have become a significant factor in denying millions of youngsters a chance of an education.
Overseas aid budgets are also being spent on supporting refugees within the donor countries - and in a number of European countries, about a fifth of international aid is spent within their own borders.
The UN agency has also warned of education aid being targeted by donor countries towards their own trade interests, rather than towards those in the greatest need.
Unesco argues that improving education standards will have far-reaching economic and social benefits.
This applies to developed as well as developing countries. Unesco says that in the United States, if 5% more male teenagers graduated from high school, it would add $20bn to the economy in reduced crime and higher earnings.
Child mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa would improve, says the UN, if more mothers were literate and could access medical advice.
There are also big differences in access to education within countries. In low-income countries, for every 100 wealthy children who complete primary school, only 30 children from poorer families reach the same level of education.
The report shows the countries and organisations that have given the most direct funding to basic education.
Despite warning of a "chronic" funding gap for education, the UN report highlights where some donations have increased.
The war in Syria and the displacement of millions of families prompted a big increase in emergency humanitarian aid for education, to a record level of $300m.
Unesco's director general, Irina Bokova, said that the aid shortage was putting international education pledges "at risk".
"Aid would need to be multiplied by at least six to achieve our common education goals and must go to countries most in need.
"Yet, we see that donors to education are shifting their attention away from the poorest countries," said Ms Bokova.
A joint statement from Highlands and Islands Airports (Hial) and the Prospect union said both parties were "hopeful of finding a solution".
Security staff staged a 48-hour walkout earlier this month as part of an ongoing dispute over pay.
Hial operates 11 Scottish airports in Dundee, Inverness, Argyll, the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland and Wick.
After the earlier strike saw flights cancelled at Dundee airport, Hial bosses said they were ready to make a "formal offer" to the union, which represents more than 120 staff from security firm AMSL.
The joint statement read: "Hial met with Prospect today to discuss potential solutions to the recent dispute.
"These discussions are on-going and both parties remain hopeful of finding a solution."
Parag Sawant, 36, whose wife was pregnant with their daughter when he was admitted, spent two years in a coma and was then in a semi-conscious state, his doctor told PTI news agency.
On 11 July 2006 one of seven bombs exploded in his train carriage.
The bombings killed at least 187 people and injured more than 800, PTI said.
The bombs were packed into seven pressure cookers and put in bags during the evening rush hour.
"He was in a deep coma for about two years and then his condition gradually improved into a semi-conscious state where he would understand simple commands," neurosurgeon BK Misra said.
Mr Sawant died when his lungs and heart stopped and he could not be resuscitated.
In 2010 when he came out of the coma, his wife Preeti told The Hindu newspaper: "He recognised me, our daughter. I am very happy."
The paper reported his wife had been given a job in the Western Railway and officials had paid for medical fees.
He was visited by Sushma Swaraj, then leader of the opposition in parliament, who criticised the government for the lack of prosecutions in the case.
Indian militants were blamed for the attack.
NDTV reports the case has now concluded, with 13 tried, but a court in Mumbai is yet to give its verdict.
In a rare interview Mr Armstrong, 66, said reaching accommodation on victims' issues is necessary to allow political process to keep moving forward.
"I'd say to the politicians at Stormont: 'Get your act together'.
"The important thing is that victims should be sorted out," he said.
"Until that is done you can't go forward.
"You have to look at all the victims - like us who were sent to jail in the wrong - and victims who were killed and other victims who were innocent of what happened.
"When those people are helped then you can start the process. But you can't enter a process until that's done. If you can't sort that out there is no point in having an agreement."
Mr Armstrong and three others, Gerry Conlon, Paul Hill and Carole Richardson were jailed for life in 1975 in what was widely regarded as one of the UK's worst miscarriages of justice.
They served 15 years of their life sentences before their convictions for murdering five people in two IRA pub bombings in 1974 were quashed by the Court of Appeal in 1989.
Mr Armstrong, then 25, was living in squat in London which he shared with 17-year-old Carole Richardson when they were arrested in 1974 and wrongly convicted a year later.
After sporadic contact while they were in prison, they went their separate ways after they were released in 1989.
"We did not think we could cope for each other after what happened. We were still good friends when we split up," he said.
"I hadn't seen her for a while and then I got a letter to tell me she had died of cancer. I could not believe it."
Asked if he was angry with those responsible for framing him, Mr Armstrong said: "I'm angry with the police, but I always get asked 'you must hate the British' and I say 'Why?' The ordinary English person in the street did not send me to prison."
The four always protested their innocence.
They all made signed confessions and were charged with the Guildford bombings, but would later retract their statements, claiming they had been obtained using violence, threats to their family and intimidation.
It was only after a campaign that received support from high-profile politicians and law lords that the four were finally released.
In February 2005, then Prime Minister Tony Blair formally apologised to the Guildford Four for the miscarriage of justice they suffered.
Gerry Conlon died in June 2014 aged 60. Carole Richardson died of cancer aged 55.
The "Balcombe Street Gang" IRA unit later admitted responsibility for the explosions, although no-one else was ever charged.
Mr Armstrong lives in the Republic of Ireland with his wife Caroline and their two children.
His memoirs will be published in Dublin on Thursday.
But if going about your daily business has become a game of chance for many, what are the odds of becoming a victim? And have those odds increased or decreased over time?
Terror acts in Western Europe have undoubtedly become deadlier.
Since World War Two, the three worst attacks on land - excluding those targeting planes, such the 1988 Lockerbie bombing - have taken place in the past 16 years. These are:
The pattern until 2000 had been a high number of incidents with small death tolls.
Eta, the Basque separatist group that is now handing in its weapons, killed more than 800 people in 3,300 attacks over 40 years - an average of just one death for every four attacks.
But although the number of high-fatality attacks has dramatically gone up, annual deaths from terrorism have decreased just as dramatically.
In the 1970s and 1980s the figure averaged more than 150. Since 1990, it has been about 50, although attacks in Paris and Brussels have led to a sharp spike for 2015 and 2016.
The word "terrorism" has no universally accepted definition. The Global Terrorism Database uses three criteria. To label an act as "terror" it must:
One may debate whether any particular attack meets all three criteria, but the broad trend is clear: the chance of a European of being killed by militants has fallen sharply over the past four decades.
Throughout the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the annual risk for civilians was about one in 25,000. In France in 2015 - a particularly bloody year in that country - it was one in 400,000.
In 2001, the year of the deadliest attack in the US, the likelihood of being killed by a militant in America was less than one in 100,000.
Those statistics, of course, do not tell the whole story. There are notable differences between the terrorists of today and those of previous generations.
In the 1970s, militants were motivated by ideology - usually a radical form of Marxism. They focused on official targets or high-profile figures embodying the capitalism.
The main groups - such as Eta, France's Action Directe, Germany's Baader-Meinhof gang, or Italy's Red Brigades - had forged links and were sponsored by a superpower, the Soviet Union.
None of this applies in today's world, where bitter jihadist rivals are vying for leadership in a holy war through mass carnage.
But in terms of raw numbers, the terror threat hanging over Europeans today is no greater than the one their parents faced.
Before Plaid's spring conference, she said "two-way conversations" between grassroots activists and local people were crucial to success at the polls.
Ms Wood said she did not see her push for a soft Brexit harming party chances in areas that voted to leave the EU.
The two-day conference begins in Newport later on Friday.
Ms Wood won Rhondda from Labour at the May 2016 assembly election, a constituency which voted Leave in the EU referendum the following month.
She will use the conference to accuse Labour Welsh Government ministers of concentrating on the economy in Cardiff at the expense of the rest of the Wales.
Plaid Cymru is on a "mission to rebalance Wales", she will say in a speech later.
Speaking to BBC Wales at her office in Cardiff Bay, she said: "Most people on the doorstep, they are not talking about Brexit, they are not talking about what goes on here, or really what goes on in Westminster.
"It comes up a bit, but you can have conversations with people that go to the local issues - and people then might disagree with me on something I've said on Brexit, but then they will still say 'I'll vote Plaid because you've done this locally for us'.
"So, if it comes up it's not stopping people - even if they are against what I've said - stopping them from voting Plaid.
"I'm not concerned that's going to be a major issue in the elections or any other of the big things we are all concerned about.
"Most people talk about dog poo."
Her party struck a deal with Labour in the assembly, rather than go into coalition.
That allowed Carwyn Jones to return as first minister, in exchange for including Plaid in preparing policies and budgets.
But Ms Wood said where Plaid has a strong grassroots campaign they hoped to pick up votes from Labour.
In her speech, Ms Wood will accuse Labour of repeating the mistakes of UK ministers by concentrating on the capital city and neglecting the rest of the county.
She will say: "Plaid Cymru would ensure every part of Wales gets the chance to succeed.
"Existing plans lack the ambition needed to rebalance the country."
The 28-year-old joined the club in the summer from French side Marseille in a deal worth more than £10m.
The France international has excelled this season, scoring six goals in 22 appearances to help the Hammers to sixth in the Premier League.
The new deal - replacing Payet's previous five-year contract - lasts until summer 2021.
Earlier this week, the club denied media reports that Payet had made demands over a new contract.
Speaking after West Ham's 2-1 FA Cup win over Liverpool on Tuesday, manager Slaven Bilic said: "We must do everything we can to keep our best players - and he is our best player."
Hammers co-owner David Sullivan recently described Payet as the "signing of the season".
"He's the best player I've signed in 25 years," said the 67-year-old.
"He's a £30m player. He's a supreme footballer. He makes every player in our side play better. On his day, he's world class, he's unstoppable."
The roads of Yorkshire will host the first stage of the 101st tour, which starts in Leeds and finishes in Harrogate on 5 July.
It will be the first of two stages in Yorkshire before the riders race from Cambridge to London prior to the French stages.
The race was last in the UK in 2007 when it started in London.
The second, slightly longer stage will leave from York and finish in Sheffield.
The county beat off rival bids from Florence and Edinburgh to host the two stages of the race next July.
Meanwhile, new road signs to permanently mark the route of the Tour de France in North Yorkshire have been unveiled.
Tourist organisation Welcome to Yorkshire said 50 signs would be installed along stage one of the route by North Yorkshire County Council.
Welcome to Yorkshire said the signs would allow people to follow the stage one route for "years to come".
The announcement of the signs along the stage one route in North Yorkshire came as the full itinerary of the three English stages of the race were released.
The race is to start on the Headrow in Leeds and head out of the city north towards Harewood. It is also to visit Ilkley, Otley, Ripon, Skipton and Hawes before finishing after 118 miles (190km) in Harrogate.
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The race is to start in York and go through Knaresborough, Keighley, over Holme Moss into the Peak District National Park before finishing after 124 miles (200km) at Sheffield Arena.
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Scott Marsden needed urgent medical attention during an English title fight at Alexandra Mill, Morley, on Saturday.
The teenager was taken to Leeds General Infirmary in a "critical condition" but later died.
West Yorkshire Police said officers were making inquires into what happened but the death was not being treated as suspicious.
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Scott was believed to be a member of Marsden's All Styles Kickboxing, in Sheffield.
The club posted a statement on Facebook on Sunday, which said training was cancelled until further notice.
A post written earlier in the day said: "Unfortunately, (Saturday) night's English title fight had to be stopped due to Scotty needing immediate medical attention.
"There was no way to foresee the fight ending in such a way as at no point were either ever in any overwhelming danger from each other.
"Everyone is still in shock as there were simply no signs to suggest the fight needed to be stopped.
"The referee stepped in to protect Scott as soon as he could, which meant Scott did not hit the canvas and was laid down and straight into recovery position."
A fundraising appeal has been set up for Scott's family and tributes to the young kickboxer have been posted on Facebook.
A statement posted online by Leeds Martial Arts College, which is based in Alexandra Mill, said: "Our deepest condolences and sympathy go to our friends the Marsdens at this terrible time.
"Scotty will always be in our hearts and our thoughts and we miss you dearly.
"A true champion in every way whose energy and positivity affected everyone he met."
It was struck by a passenger train travelling at 110 mph (177 km/h) near Newbury on 17 November 2014.
The train was not derailed but the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) report said the outcome could have been "much more serious".
The report recommended changes to how such signal structures are maintained in future.
The First Great Western high-speed train from Truro to London Paddington sustained exterior damage when it struck the top of the signal, which had partially blocked the track it was travelling on. The other track was completely blocked by the pole.
The RAIB report said: "The outcome could have been much more serious if the first train to encounter the collapsed signal had been travelling at speed on the completely obstructed track."
It found the hollow steel post had corroded just above ground level, but could not been seen because it was hidden by ballast.
It said examination and maintenance of signal structures should be improved and a new specification of signal post should be developed.
A Network Rail spokesman said it would be "studying the recommendations in detail".
"The safety of our network is of the utmost importance to us and we will take any steps necessary to prevent a recurrence of this incident," he added,
Sara Underwood and fiancé Andy York held their marine-themed party at Brancaster beach in Norfolk.
Mr York dressed as a large blue squid and Miss Underwood was an octopus.
Some of the more bizarre moments were when an excited dog tried to chew her tentacles, and an 8ft cod attempted to eat a fish and chip supper, she said.
The couple, from Brigstock, Northamptonshire, invited guests from as far afield as Cornwall to the beach for their fancy dress celebrations.
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Miss Underwood admitted the sight of 50 sea creatures arriving by coach and taking over the beach turned heads, when they arrived on Sunday afternoon.
"The local dogs were really startled," she said.
The bride-to-be's parents have a second home in the area and she said she had fond memories of childhood holidays there.
Guests embraced the theme dressing up as mermaids - "who got very cold" - along with "seaweed", "seahorses" and a "deep-sea diver".
They ended the party at a local fish and chip restaurant where many guests, including the 8ft-tall cod, attempted to polish off their supper still dressed in full costume.
"When the giant cod was waddling around trying to eat cod, it was all a bit surreal," Miss Underwood said.
"We wanted to do something a bit different and I've always wanted to dress up as an octopus... but I woke up this morning thinking, did this happen?"
The Department for Transport (DfT) said bidders for the new franchise must demonstrate how they would deliver more trains and more space for passengers.
The current operator, Govia, wants to run the franchise again after its contract expires in October 2017.
It has been shortlisted as a bidder alongside West Midlands Trains Ltd.
New services will offer more than 300 extra Sunday services across the franchise by 2021, more evening trains, free wi-fi on mainline services and better ticket options for passengers who travel fewer than five days a week. A new direct peak time service between Walsall and London will also be provided.
Rail Minister Paul Maynard described it as the "biggest investment in the railways since the Victorian era".
Craneware, based in Edinburgh, sells software to American hospitals and clinics.
In a trading update, it reported the second half of 2015 saw a 15% rise in new sales contracts, compared with the same part of 2014.
Renewals of contracts rose in value.
Craneware informed investors that it expects pre-tax earnings for the second half of the year to be more than 10% above higher than the previous year, with revenue up by 7%.
The company has secured a loan facility of $50m (£35m) from Bank of Scotland.
The update says that will be available as the company assesses strategic options. That could be for growth or acquisition.
Keith Neilson, chief executive of Craneware and its second largest shareholder, commented: "We are seeing the initial success of the 'Value Cycle', our vision for the process and culture by which US healthcare providers pursue quality patient outcomes and optimal financial performance, in our continued strong sales performance."
The improved figures come after a period of uncertainty in the US healthcare market, as providers adapted to the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Earlier this decade, Craneware disappointed investors with its financial results. But more recently, it has claimed that its market has settled, and large hospital groups have been signing up to its management software.
It employs 200 people, and has offices in Georgia, Massachusetts and Arizona. In the past year, its share price has risen 57%.
The 23-year-old, who is the Highland club's first signing this summer, has joined on a one-year contract with the option of a further year.
"It's great to be joining a club who has been successful recently," Wedderburn told the Inverness website.
And manager John Hughes added: "He is a big strong lad with good speed and agility."
Scottish Cup holders Caley Thistle say Hughes had been tracking former Stoke City and Notts County player Wedderburn during 2014-15.
"Nat will be a great addition for the club," said Hughes.
"He is joining a great club at a fantastic time and we look forward to him developing in to a regular first-team player. He is stepping up a few levels, but we know he is well capable of doing so."
Wedderburn expects the step up from Championship to Premiership level to be "a challenge".
"I'm ready to take it," he explained. "I don't expect to go straight into the team. It's like when you go to any new club, you have to earn that right, but I am here to work hard and play my part."
Meanwhile, Inverness chairman Kenny Cameron revealed the club have been unable to secure striker Edward Ofere for next season after "extensive discussions" with the player's agent.
And talks are continuing with long-serving midfielder Nick Ross, who Cameron says has been made "a very good offer".
"It's pleasing to have kept the nucleus of the squad together and we thank those moving on for the part they have played whilst here," added Cameron.
"John has a number of targets in mind and we are confident of adding another three or four faces to the squad in the very near future."
Antimatter particles are the "mirror image" of normal matter, but with opposite electric charge.
How antimatter responds to gravity remains a mystery, however; it may "fall up" rather than down.
Now researchers reporting in Nature Communications have made strides toward finally resolving that notion.
Antimatter presents one of the biggest mysteries in physics, in that equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been created at the Universe's beginning.
Yet when the two meet, they destroy each other in what is called annihilation, turning into pure light.
Why the Universe we see today is made overwhelmingly of matter, with only tiny amounts of antimatter, has prompted a number of studies to try to find some difference between the two.
Tests at Cern's LHCb experiment and elsewhere, for example, have been looking for evidence that exotic particles decay more often into matter than antimatter.
Last week, the LHCb team reported a slight difference in the decay of particles called Bs mesons - but still not nearly enough to explain the matter mystery.
One significant difference between the two may be the way they interact with gravity - antimatter may be repelled by matter, rather than attracted to it.
But it is a difference that no one has been able to test - until the advent of Cern's Alpha experiment.
Alpha is an acronym for Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus - an experiment designed to build and trap antimatter "atoms".
Just as hydrogen is made of a proton and an electron, antihydrogen is an atom made of their antimatter counterparts antiprotons and positrons.
The trick is not just in making it, but in making it hang around long enough to study it - before it bumps into any matter and annihilates.
In 2010 the Alpha team did just that, and in 2011 they showed they could keep antihydrogen atoms trapped for 1,000 seconds.
The team has now gone back to their existing data on 434 antihydrogen atoms, with the antigravity question in mind.
"In the course of all the experiments, we release (the antihydrogen atoms) and look for their annihilation," said Jeffrey Hangst, spokesperson for the experiment.
"We've gone through those data to see if we can see any influence of gravity on the positions at which they annihilate - looking for atoms to fall for the short amount of time they exist before they hit the wall," he told BBC News.
The team has made a statistical study of which antihydrogen atoms went where - up or down - and they are able to put a first set of constraints on how the anti-atoms respond to gravity.
The best limits they can suggest is that they are less than 110 times more susceptible to gravity than normal atoms, and less than 65 times that strength, but in the opposite direction: antigravity. In short, the question remains unanswered - so far.
"It's not a very interesting band yet but it's the first time that anyone has even been able to talk about doing this," said Prof Hangst.
"We actually have a machine that can address this question, that's what's exciting for us here, and we know how to get from here to the interesting regime."
The Alpha experiment's main task is to study the energy levels within antihydrogen, to spot any differences between it and the hydrogen that physicists know to extraordinary precision.
Prof Hangst said the antigravity measurement was just an "interesting sideshow" for the experiment.
"We have a lot of options for studying antimatter and this is a new one that has a future."
The Mourne men are set for relegation from Division One after a fifth straight league defeat as Dublin moved closer to a league semi-final.
Down took a surprise 1-2 to 0-1 lead after eight minutes thanks to a rare goalkeeping mistake by Stephen Cluxton.
However, Dublin responded with an unanswered 1-7 with Cormac Costello netting for the All-Ireland champions.
Down hit the woodwork twice in the last few minutes, but Dublin were always able to raise their game any time the Mournemen threatened to push them close.
Cluxton's blunder as he allowed a Donal O'Hare attempt at a point to slip through his fingers gave Down a shock early boost.
However, Down suffered a blow seconds later when Kevin McKernan picked up a harsh black card for a pull-down, though his replacement Joe Murphy kicked a point with his first touch to stretch Down's lead to four.
However, Costello's 18th-minute goal put the Dubs 1-4 to 1-2 ahead, after Kevin McManamon's initial shot had been blocked.
As Dublin began to run at will through the Down defence, the home side were held scoreless for 27 minutes before Donal O'Hare's 35th-minute free left them trailing by 1-8 to 1-3 at the break.
Dublin hit three of the first four points after the break to stretch their lead out to seven after 43 minutes, McManamon chipping over a point after Down 'keeper Michael Cunningham saved his near-post shot.
The Dubs took their foot off the gas for a spell, and Down took advantage with three points in a row with Kilcoo pair Darragh O'Hanlon and Paul Devlin scoring from play.
However, a Dean Rock 45 and Jonny Cooper and Paddy Andrews points killed off any hopes of a Down comeback.
Paul Devlin wasted a glorious late goal chance and Gerard McGovern hit the woodwork late on as Down kept battling but the game was already beyond them by that stage.
Down manager Eamonn Burns praised his team's display after the game and confirmed recent reports that Benny Coulter, Dan Gordon and Martin Clarke are unlikely to return to the squad this year.
It estimates small firms are owed £26bn in late payments - and chasing debts costs them millions of pounds more.
Business minister Anna Soubry said the role would tackle the power "imbalance" between small and large UK businesses.
The Federation of Small Businesses welcomed the move but said it must be properly funded and be high profile.
Plans for a new small business conciliation service to help settle disputes - specifically over late payment - were announced in the Queen's Speech.
The service aims to handle problems without the need for court action.
As part of the new Enterprise Bill, the government also wants to create a commissioner role to deal with outstanding payments and supply-chain bullying, where suppliers are forced to cut their prices in order to retain the custom of much bigger firms.
It said the commissioner would:
In a consultation published online, Ms Soubry said small firms were responsible for 48% of UK private sector employment and were vital to economic growth.
She said she wanted the commissioner to bring about a "long-lasting culture change", helping to settle disputes quickly and cheaply.
A similar role in Australia was having a real impact, she said, adding she hoped for the same "effective and fair solution here".
The consultation cited data suggesting more than half of cases handled by Victoria's small business commissioner were successfully resolved, at 30% or less of the cost of taking legal action.
More than half of complaints were resolved within one week, and 80% within 12 weeks.
Ms Soubry said the culture of late payments to small firms was "simply unacceptable".
"It limits their growth and productivity, and can put an otherwise successful business at risk," she said.
"The small business commissioner will tackle the imbalance of bargaining power between small suppliers and large customers, and encourage them to get round the table."
Ministers also called on businesses of all sizes to share their experiences with late payments and asked for their views on its proposals.
The Federation of Small Businesses, which represents small and medium-sized businesses and has more than 200,000 members, carried out a survey of members last year that suggested 51% had experienced late payment in the previous 12 months.
The federation said the move was encouraging but a culture of late payments had developed at board level in big companies.
It also said the new commissioner should have the power to refer large debtors to the Competition and Markets Authority.
The Scots recently switched to play the bulk of their home matches at Myreside but with the option to move bigger games to the sport's national stadium.
The French outfit will visit on Friday, 31 March, with kick-off at 20:00 GMT.
"La Rochelle have proven their worth in the Top 14 and Europe this season," said Edinburgh coach Duncan Hodge.
"We are fully aware of the challenge they'll pose on their trip to BT Murrayfield.
"However, we're on our home patch and that's a huge boost for the team.
"We're hoping for a big crowd to come along to BT Murrayfield and help make this a great occasion for the side by getting behind the team and creating an intimidating atmosphere for the visitors.
"It's been a good European campaign for us thus far, but the hard work has only just started and we know cup knockout stages are a different beast."
Edinburgh secured a home European Challenge Cup quarter-final with a 49-3 victory over Timisoara Saracens, their first game at Myreside - their home for the second half of the season.
Edinburgh have been playing at Murrayfield since 2004, with room for 67,500 spectators at the national stadium.
Staff will be offered voluntary redundancy and early retirement packages under the proposals.
The university currently employs about 3,000 people, with staff wages making up 60% of its costs.
It said the cutbacks would provide financial stability in a very challenging funding environment.
The move is aimed at saving £10.5m.
The university said it needed to tackle staff costs in order to maintain and grow its position in an increasingly competitive international market.
University and College Union (UCU) Scotland official Mary Senior said: "The news that the University of Aberdeen are looking to cut 150 jobs is deeply disappointing and this is a very worrying time.
"Cutting the very staff who make the university the world class institution it is can't be done without impacting on both the student experience and the university's reputation.
"UCU opposes these cuts and will be meeting with the university."
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said since April 2007 it had kept people out of hospital and cut overall NHS costs.
The Welsh Government said the £593m cost of free prescriptions in 2015 was only £3m more than the bill in 2007.
Conservative spokeswoman Angela Burns said the cost was still too high, saying people should pay for their medicine if they could afford to.
Prescription charges were the same across the UK until 2001, when they were frozen at £6 in Wales by the then Labour-Lib Dem administration in Cardiff Bay.
Welsh ministers also made prescriptions free for all aged under 25.
They were already free for children, pensioners, people on benefits and pregnant women - accounting for about 90% of the total.
The charge was subsequently cut before being abolished altogether in 2007.
Northern Ireland followed suit in 2010, and Scotland in 2011.
Mr Gething said free prescriptions were "progressive and an integral part of our health services in Wales".
"It should never be the case that people with serious chronic conditions can not afford to collect their prescription," he said.
"Ensuring patients have the medication they need not only improves their own health and wellbeing, it also benefits the health service as a whole by reducing hospital attendance and placing fewer demands on general practitioners."
For the Welsh Conservatives, Ms Burns claimed the cost of free prescriptions had soared by 45% since the idea of dropping all charges was proposed in 2000.
She said the NHS should not be "treated like a buffet cart", calling for a "more just and affordable model".
"It cannot be right that £5.1m was last year spent on paracetamol alone - which can be bought for mere pennies in supermarkets - while some patients were denied potentially life-saving cancer medication on the basis of cost," Ms Burns said.
"People who can afford to pay for their medicine should pay, while those who cannot afford to pay, or live with long-term chronic conditions, should still be able to benefit from free medicine."
Plaid Cymru AM Dr Dai Lloyd said his party supported free prescriptions for all, saying the policy "frees up NHS resources away from the bureaucracy required to administer a means-tested system as in England".
"The fact that Northern Ireland and Scotland have also introduced free prescriptions following Wales demonstrates this has been a successful policy," he added.
The Welsh Liberal Democrats said they "remain committed to free prescription charges as part of a package of ways used to tackle the significant health inequalities we face".
In England, prescription charges rose on Saturday from £8.40 to £8.60.
However, the Department of Health said that due to the range of exemptions, 90% of prescriptions were dispensed free of charge.
Matthew James, 30, from Trehafod, near Pontypridd, used his body as a human shield while trying to protect his fiancee when the gunmen opened fire.
At least 38 people died in Sousse with the Foreign Office confirming at least five were British.
Islamic State extremists have said they carried out the attack.
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Gas engineer Mr James' fiancee Saera Wilson, 26, said he was hit in the shoulder, chest and hip.
Speaking from the hospital on Friday where Mr James, known as Sas, is being treated, she said: "He took a bullet for me. I owe him my life because he threw himself in front of me when the shooting started.
"He was covered in blood from the shots, but he just told me to run away.
"He told me: 'I love you babe. But just go - tell our children that their daddy loves them'.
"It was the bravest thing I've ever known. But I just had to leave him under the sunbed because the shooting just kept on coming.
"I ran back, past bodies on the beach to reach our hotel. It was chaos - there was a body in the hotel pool and it was just full of blood.
"You just can't explain how terrible it was. It was chaos with screaming and gunshots. I'm just so glad Matthew is alive because so many other people are dead."
Gas engineers and friends of the couple have raised thousands of pounds to help support them and their two children while Mr James recovers from his injuries.
Several other tourists from Wales have also been caught up in the attacks.
Amanda Roberts, from Swansea, was staying with her family near to the affected Imperial Marhaba Hotel in the Port El Kantaoui district.
They were on the beach when the attack took place and she told the BBC: "Someone said 'run for your life'."
It is understood the family have returned to the UK.
Ms Roberts daughter Leiha Shaw, 28, posted on social media they had 15 minutes to pack, leave the hotel and get on a plane.
"So relieved to be home in the UK," she posted on Saturday morning.
"At the moment we are being looked after by officials at Manchester Airport who have been wonderful, I cannot thank them enough. Waiting now for them to get us home.
"(I) can't even put it in to words the feeling that I have today and what myself and family have been through. A very sad day for Tunisia and a very sad day for the world."
A number of Britons issued desperate pleas for information about relatives who have not made contact since the attack.
Chris Spiteri, 29, from Cardiff, said he was deeply worried about his 25-year-old cousin Lena Tanti, also from Cardiff, who is currently in Tunisia.
However, he later managed to speak to her and found out that she was at a different resort some two hours away.
Kelsie Collins, from Pontypridd, was also on holiday in Sousse with her family and described scenes of confusion and fear. Her grandmother, Mavis Collins, spoke of her relief at hearing the family is safe.
Stacey Webb, 23, from Barry, said she was locked in a bathroom with seven others following the shooting.
"I have never been more scared in my life but I hope God is with me", she said.
Wrexham FC footballer Wes York, 22, left Sousse just 48 hours before the killings.
The striker told the Daily Post he would have been at the targeted beach, had he not cut his holiday short to prepare for pre-season training.
"I have been watching what has happened on TV and it just sends chills down your spine to think I was only just there," he said.
Tunisia has been on high alert since March when militants killed 22 people, mainly foreign tourists, in an attack on a museum in the capital Tunis.
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a failed attack on the beach in Sousse in October 2013.
Tunisia's prime minister Habib Essid has said the majority of the 38 people killed in the attack were British.
Speaking in Downing Street after chairing an emergency Cobra meeting on the UK's response to the attacks, Prime Minister David Cameron said he could only imagine the "pain, and anguish and agony" of families caught up in these "terrible events".
Thomson and First Choice said the two hotels where the attacks took place - the Hotel Riu Imperial Marhaba and the Bellevue - were part of their programme.
The companies said their customers were among "a number of fatalities", and they had sent 10 planes to bring home 2,500 tourists.
All Thomson and First Choice holidays to Tunisia have been cancelled for the next week.
The Foreign Office's helpline number is 0207 008 0000.
Barring a 14-goal swing in the final round of fixtures, Garry Monk's side will now finish outside the top six.
Fans who bought a season ticket for the Championship club before the end of May 2016 will get 25% of their money back.
The club had pledged to give refunds of 50% if they sold 15,000 tickets, but they did not reach that number.
Leeds, who have extended a deadline for supporters to claim their money back, are in the process of sending forms to season ticket holders who qualify for the refund.
The cost to the club, co-owned by Italian businessman Massimo Cellino, is not known, but it is understood that funds have been ring-fenced to pay back the money.
Speaking after Saturday's 3-3 draw with Norwich, which effectively ended their play-off hopes, manager Monk said: "The reality is, the majority of the group were not quite ready for this situation. That's not a criticism. It's just a fact."
Colwyn Bay's Victoria Pier was already closed to the public for safety reason and there is no suggestion anyone was nearby at the time.
In 2013, Conwy council voted to demolish it but this was refused by the Welsh Government in 2015.
The council said it was responsible for the clearance and a clear-up would start at low tide on Thursday.
A spokesman said: "Contractors have been mobilised to make the area safe, to remove the fallen pieces and salvage materials wherever possible.
"Over recent years the council has been quite clear about the deteriorating state of the pier. Fencing has been in place around the structure for some time for public safety and we urge the public to take note of the situation and keep away from the area."
The pier has been the subject of a protracted legal battle between the council and businessman Steven Hunt.
Mr Hunt failed in a 2015 High Court bid to regain ownership of it when Mr Justice Morgan said the pier was unsafe, in danger of collapsing and Mr Hunt was in no financial position to restore it.
It is estimated it would cost about £12m to restore and the council could be asked to provide £850,000 towards it.
Campaign group Colwyn Victoria Pier Trust wants the authority to save the structure, saying it would be far less costly than demolishing it.
Anne Hidalgo said they will be given the Medal of the City of Paris.
The medal, known as the Grand Vermeil, is regarded as Paris' most prestigious honour and has been awarded to a variety of cultural and political figures.
Both teams reached the knockout stages but exited Euro 2016 last weekend.
"They participated in the festive atmosphere that has been prevailing in Paris these last two weeks," said Jean-François Martins, deputy mayor for sport and tourism.
"They are a model for all the supporters of the world.
"As shown in the numerous videos that circulate on the social networks, the Parisians particularly appreciated meeting them, speaking with them and sharing those joyful moments that are essential in such a great sportive event."
Ms Hidalgo has written to First Minister Arlene Foster and Irish President Michael D Higgins to inform them of the award, but it is not yet known when the ceremony will take place.
Northern Ireland lost 1-0 to Wales on Saturday while the Republic of Ireland were beaten 2-1 by France on Sunday.
Twelve high value bikes were stolen from sheds and garages in Abergele over two weeks.
Police advised app users to tighten their private settings and ensure their home address settings were hidden.
Anyone with information about the thefts is asked to call 101.
The hazy pictures on the blogs suggest that one of the vessels - dubbed the PLAN 052D - was launched at the end of last month. At least two others are already under construction.
Chinese warship design tends to evolve gradually. Here the PLAN 052D is no exception - it bears clear links to its predecessor, the 052C.
But it differs in important respects to the extent that many analysts believe what we are seeing is the first of what could be a series of new Chinese warships that could form the backbone of its fleet.
Prof James Holmes, a China-watcher at the US Naval War College, says the chief significance of the new vessel "is that China appears to have settled on a design for a top-of-the-line guided-missile destroyer after a lengthy period of 'fleet experimentation' - a gestation period, if you will".
"The PLA Navy has made a habit of building a couple of copies of each design, taking them to sea, identifying their faults and strengths, and incorporating the lessons learned into future designs," he says.
"Evidently Beijing is satisfied it has learned enough to go into mass production, if indeed," as he believes, "10 hulls are under construction."
"One hopes it will finally settle the debate about the direction and permanence of Chinese naval power," he adds.
There are strong indications, he argues, that the Chinese "believe they've found their standard surface combatant."
This new destroyer could be a central element of Beijing's new blue-water navy.
Another observer of Chinese naval affairs is Feng Cao. It was his blogging that first alerted Western defence circles to the new warship design.
He has been making a careful study of Chinese defence publications and displays at trade exhibitions for several years, piecing together clues to the way in which China's naval power is developing.
He is not so sure that the 052D is itself the new vessel. But he explained that it was an important step towards what the Chinese Navy has wanted for years; a capable guided-missile destroyer somewhere in size between the US Navy's Arleigh Burke and Ticonderoga classes.
"In a couple of years, we will see a whole new class of surface warship that uses a new propulsion system," he says.
"From the 052C to the 052D, the hull itself really didn't change that much other than moving a couple of things around to fit the new weapon systems and decreasing the radar signature of the ship a little bit. The propulsion system is basically still the same."
"What's really changed is the weapons system," he says. "The first obvious change are the new larger and flat multi-functional radar panels and the new vertical launch system (VLS).
"They are no longer using the VLS we saw on 052C, but rather a new type of universal VLS that can support different types of missiles to strike at both air and sea targets as well as against shore installations."
In his view the 052D is "a stepping stone to that new series of surface warship they want to get to. 052D basically uses an existing proven hull and propulsion system to test out these new weapon systems."
"When the new series of ships come along," he says, "they will have less risks to worry about, because much of the weapon systems will already have their issues worked out using the 052D."
James Holmes stresses the significant leap in capability that these new vessels will bring. The United States' equivalent ships are fitted with the so-called Aegis radar and battle-management system.
If, as he believes, this is an Aegis equivalent ship and there are plans to build 10 of them, then he says "this will give China's navy an air-defence capability on par with that of any navy in the region, and far more hulls than any other Asian fleet."
"Japan and South Korea have Aegis vessels, but only six and three, respectively," he says.
Prof Holmes says the new Chinese vessel's closest US counterpart is probably the US Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, its first Aegis ships.
Though he notes that the new Chinese destroyer "carries only two-thirds the complement of missile launchers, so the US ships would have the edge in a one-on-one engagement".
His guess, he says, "in the absence of any hard evidence", "is that the Type 052D is on par with older US Aegis vessels. This is the big unknown, and I would encourage no one to make policy or strategy based on my guesswork!"
James Holmes stresses that the modus operandi of the Chinese navy must also be taken into account when assessing the impact these new ships might have. The 052D may be an inferior vessel to its US counterparts, but it will not be operating alone.
"Let's keep in mind that China operates its fleet almost entirely within range of shore-based anti-ship missiles, fighter aircraft, and ships like patrol craft and submarines."
"These provide protective cover for the surface fleet and, Beijing believes (and I agree), that this is the great equaliser."
"Why go to the effort and expense of building a mirror image of the US Navy if you can hammer away from shore? In short, China doesn't need a fleet symmetrical to the US Navy to fight on ground of its own choosing, namely the China seas and Western Pacific."
The Republic of Ireland international, 29, joined the Owls on loan from Everton on Monday having played just 45 minutes for the Toffees this season.
"The national team manager [Martin O'Neill] told me that I had to get out and play," McGeady, who has 79 caps, told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"You're wasting your time if you're not playing. It wasn't enjoyable at all."
He added: "I forgot what it was like to be a footballer. I was training Monday to Friday and then having weekends off.
"Once it got to October/November, I knew I had to get out."
McGeady, who helped O'Neill's side qualify for this summer's European Championship finals in France, still has two and a half years remaining on his deal with Everton.
He believes the Owls could make a push for an automatic promotion place in the Championship.
Carlos Carvalhal's men are currently seventh in the second tier, eight points outside the top two.
"There's 18 games left this season and a lot of points to be played for. There is not that big a gap between us and the top two," he said. "The ideal scenario for me is to come here and play and help the club to get towards that.
"The owners are ambitious and it is something I want to be a part of."
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A harmful computer program called WannaCry started taking over people's computer files and demanding money to let them back into their own systems.
But how was it stopped? Well, 22-year-old Marcus - a UK security researcher who has his own company - helped to limit the damage.
He's being called an "accidental hero" after registering a domain name to track the spread of the virus, which actually ended up stopping it from spreading!
The comments from Gypsies and Travellers Wales comes as one group in Newport was asked to move on this week after camping without permission.
The Welsh Government said the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 placed a duty on councils to meet accommodation needs.
Council leaders said they would develop "appropriate sites where possible".
Bethan Wyn Jones from Gypsy and Travellers Wales said "political will" was needed to make changes happen.
She said unauthorised encampments would continue "where there isn't an adequate supply of residential site-based accommodation and where there isn't a network of transit sites or stopping places to facilitate the travelling way of life".
Welsh Government figures published earlier this year showed five out of 370 residential pitches provided by councils were vacant in January; one in Gwynedd, one in Pembrokeshire and three in Torfaen.
And only one transit site - providing temporary accommodation land in Torfaen - was available across the whole of Wales.
A Welsh Local Government Association spokesman said: "Under the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 local councils have a duty to complete accommodation assessments to establish the level of Gypsy and traveller accommodation needs in their local area.
"Every local council in Wales has now completed a detailed assessment of local needs and submitted this to the Welsh Government for scrutiny.
"Local councils will now continue to work closely with Gypsy and traveller households to develop appropriate sites where possible, and to ensure they maintain a clear understanding of local accommodation needs."
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The accident happened on Monday at about 22:50 BST on the A4074 near Woodcote, between Reading and Wallingford.
A grey Yamaha motorbike and a heavy goods vehicle were involved in the crash. The lorry driver was not injured and no arrests have been made.
Police said the man riding the motorbike died at the scene.
The 134-mile John Muir Way, which goes from Helensburgh in Argyll to Dunbar in East Lothian, was opened in April 2014.
Its launch marked the centenary of the death of conservationist John Muir, who was born in Dunbar in 1838.
The way was designed to be used for day trips as well as an end-to-end trail.
SNH said there were more than 60,000 visits specifically to walk or cycle a stretch of the way, with 6,000 people reported to have completed the whole route over consecutive days.
A further 200,000 also made use of a section for routine dog walking, commuting or other purposes, the report found.
A third of those interviewed for the survey were people who "seldom" visited the outdoors.
Ron McCraw, route developer for SNH, said: "We're really thrilled to discover how many people are using the John Muir Way.
"In particular, it's great that so many people who may not have considered going out for a walk or cycle very often before are enjoying the way.
"We're now working with Central Scotland Green Network Trust and other partners to encourage even more people to journey on the route, which will benefit communities and businesses throughout the central belt."
The route takes in Roman hill forts on the Antonine Wall, the 14th Century Callendar House and Park and the Falkirk Wheel - the world's only rotating boat lift.
Councillor Adrian Mahoney, Falkirk Council's spokesman for culture, leisure and tourism, said: "The creation of the John Muir Way has been a very positive experience for areas along the route.
"It has led to path and access improvements and brought lots of new visitors to the Falkirk area - and other stretches of the way."
Having lost to Argentina, Howley demanded a reponse from his players.
They were better, but still no match for the islanders for whom Fa'atoina Autagavaia, George Pisi and Johnny Leota scored tries.
Ashley Beck scored a long-range Wales intercept and Leigh Halfpenny's boot added the rest of their points.
"You cannot say Samoa did not deserve to win. They were the better side. They had better ball carriers, created the tries and scored the tries.
"For whatever reason it was a very flat performance again, with no imagination and no deception in the line-outs. And in the last 20 minutes the scrum just disintegrated.
"The bad news is - the All Blacks are coming to town next Saturday."
The loss meant a fifth successive defeat for Wales, their worst run since 2010, all inflicted since Howley assumed temporary responsibility from 2013 British and Irish Lions coach Warren Gatland.
It was also their third defeat by the Islanders in Cardiff and the first outside a World Cup, to leave Wales with a 5-4 win record against them.
The hosts had every reason to be nervous ahead of this encounter. The 26-12 defeat by Argentina that kicked off their autumn campaign was a reminder of the slumps that followed their 2005 and 2008 Grand Slams.
Another slump, this time post-2012 Six Nations success, is now upon Welsh rugby.
Ahead of this latest upset former captain Paul Thorburn criticised Howley, while another former Wales skipper, Jonathan Davies, reflected the nation's mood with his view that the pressure was on them for Samoa's visit.
And if Wales needed any more reason to feel unsettled in the build-up, the big-screen replay of Dan Biggar throwing an interception pass to Seilala Mapasua in the November 2009 Cardiff clash, that ended 17-13 to the hosts, provided it.
From the kick-off Wales were also on the back foot. Pisi switched the intended direction of his kick away from the opposing forwards.
George North gathered, but the visitors were soon in possession - and took full advantage of Welsh frailty.
Newcastle Falcons number eight Taiasina Tuifua injected direction to a move that had swung to and fro to break through before Pisi again changed the point of attack, freeing Autagavaia for his run to the line.
Pisi added the conversion to the try, which came after a little more than a minute, leaving Wales with an even more severe test of character than they had taken to the field with.
(provided by Opta)
The visitors went on to dominate the opening period as Wales, as against Argentina, were unable to build momentum or territorial advantage.
Being penalised at breakdowns afflicted both teams, but Pisi twice failed with shots at goal while Halfpenny kept Wales in touch with penalties in the 16th and 28th minutes.
However, in the absence of the nous to work their way into Samoa's 22 for the first time, Wales instead benefited from a slice of luck and well-taken opportunism.
Centre Beck intercepted Pisi's pass and sprinted 75 metres to the line for his first Wales try, and Halfpenny converted for a 13-6 lead.
But after Wales lost Ospreys hooker Richard Hibbard and fly-half Biggar to shoulder injuries, Pisi added some more misery with a penalty, although Howley's side led 13-10 at the break.
Wales engineered a morale boost when, for the first time in 124 minutes of rugby this autumn, they finally played their way into an opposition's 22.
However, a knock-on followed, then a penalty against Wales from the scrum.
And Wales went behind for the second time after Kahn Fotuali'i first stole possession, then stole away down the touchline before sending George Pisi over for a try given by the TMO.
10 Nov: lost 12-26 v Argentina, Millennium Stadium
16 Nov: lost 19-26 v Samoa, Millennium Stadium
24 Nov: v New Zealand, Millennium Stadium, 1715
1 Dec: v Australia, Millennium Stadium, 1430
Tusi Pisi was unable to convert and Wales went back in front when Halfpenny sent over a penalty. As the final quarter approached, Tusi Pisi kicked his second penalty and Halfpenny squandered a chance to reclaim the lead for Wales after Samoa transgressed at the restart.
The difference between the sides at this point was two points, but contrast in approach and application had been stark.
Where Samoa attacked by coming from deep and at pace, Welsh attacks had often drifted across field.
And while the visitors were happy to kick for territory as part of their tactical mix, Wales again fell victim to a desire to keep the ball in hand with more than half the length of the field and Samoa's renowned defence in front of them.
It took a high challenge on Ken Owens to give Halfpenny the chance to give his side another slender lead.
But back in front went Samoa after Tusi Pisi penalised Wales for infringing at a scrum in the shadow of their posts.
From the restart Wales were unable to profit from a line-out deep in Samoa's 22 as they were eventually stripped of possession having only achieved a 40 metre crab across field.
Having underlined the strong points of their traditions, Samoa also applied increasing dominance to the scrums.
And when Leota followed up skipper David Lemi's kick ahead, he profited after the ball bounced away from Halfpenny.
Tusi Pisi failed with the conversion, allowing Wales a sniff of a draw, but they could not take it.
Wales: L Halfpenny (Cardiff Blues); A Cuthbert (Cardiff Blues), A Beck (Ospreys), J Roberts (Cardiff Blues), G North (Scarlets); D Biggar (Ospreys), M Phillips (Bayonne); P James (Bath), R Hibbard (Ospreys), A Jarvis (Ospreys), B Davies (Cardiff Blues), I Evans (Ospreys), R Jones (capt), J Tipuric (Ospreys), T Faletau (Newport Gwent Dragons).
Replacements: R Priestland (Scarlets) for Biggar (38), G Jenkins (Toulon) for James (61), K Owens (Scarlets) for Hibbard (18), S Andrews (Blues) for Jarvis (78), L Charteris (Perpignan) for Evans (41), S Warburton (Blues) for R Jones (71).
Not Used: Knoyle (Scarlets), S Williams (Scarlets).
Samoa: F Autagavaia (Northland); P Perez (Eastern Province), G Pisi (Northampton), P Williams (Stade Francais), D Lemi (Worcester, captain); T Pisi (Suntory), K Fotuali'i (Ospreys); S Taulafo (Wasps), O Avei (Bordeaux-Begles), C Johnston (Toulouse), D Leo (Perpignan), F Paulo (North Harbour), O Treviranus (London Irish), M Fa'asavalu (Harlequins), T Tuifua (Newcastle).
Replacements: J Leota (Sale) for Williams (56), J Sua (Tasman) for T Pisi (78), T Paulo (Clermont Auvergne) for Avei (58), J Johnston (Harlequins) for C Johnston (49), J Tekori (Castres) for F Paulo (60), T Foma'i (Haweke's Bay) for Treviranus (70).
Not Used: V Afatia (Agen), R Lilomaiava (Laulii).
Att: 58,000
Referee: Pascal Gauzere (France)
Assistant Referees: Wayne Barnes (England) Jérôme Garces (France)
TMO: Giulio De Santis (Italy)
Brothers Dominic and Jason Usher, along with Greg King, kidnapped the victim in Heanor, Derbyshire, in April 2014.
They put him in a van, bound his legs and hands and threatened to stab him and chop off his toes if he did not give them the keys to his safe.
The trio, along with two others, were jailed for a series of crimes.
Nottinghamshire Police said the men took their victim to a remote farm in Watnall, Nottinghamshire, and left him "shoeless, battered and bruised" with his legs and hands still bound together. He eventually flagged down a passing motorist.
Dominic Usher was involved in a violent robbery in Arnold a few weeks prior to the kidnap, the force added.
Three days later, the brothers set fire to a stolen convertible Mazda used in the robbery.
But enquiries led detectives to the Usher brothers and King over the kidnap. They also uncovered evidence linking Dominic to the robbery.
Dominic Usher, his girlfriend Grainne Cafferkey and friend Scott Finch then attempted to pay off a key witness in the kidnap case.
Dominic Usher, 29, of Colmon Walk, Nottingham, admitted conspiring to pervert the course of justice and was convicted of kidnap, blackmail, robbery and arson after a trial at Stafford Crown Court. He was jailed for life with a minimum term of 11-and-a-half years on Wednesday.
Jason Usher, 27, of Willow Hill Close, Nottingham, pleaded guilty to kidnap, blackmail and arson - and was acquitted of conspiring to pervert the course of justice. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
King, 30, of Portland Road, Selston, was jailed for eight years and four months after admitting kidnap and blackmail.
Cafferkey, 24, of Cromwell Street, Nottingham, was sentenced to 44 months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Finch, 32, of Durnford Street, Nottingham, was jailed for 16 months after admitting conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Det Ch Insp Paul Myers, of the East Midlands Special Operations Unit, revealed Dominic Usher's accomplice in the robbery was jailed in July 2014.
He said: "The psychological effects of their ordeals remains with them still."
The construction union Ucatt has claimed Portuguese sub-contractor Sosia Ltd paid joiners £7.67 an hour and labourers £6.32 an hour.
The industry agreement for minimum rates is £11.61 and £8.73 respectively.
Economy Secretary Keith Brown will ask Acas to work with the lead contractors, Transport Scotland and Ucatt.
Mr Brown met representatives from Ucatt and Labour MSP Neil Findlay, who has called for a pay audit of the scheme, at the Scottish Parliament on Thursday.
He said: "I advised Ucatt that I had ensured that their allegations regarding low pay had been fully investigated, with no evidence being uncovered to substantiate the allegations.
"In response, Ucatt have advised that they remained of the view that such practices had been prevalent.
"I have therefore offered to ask Acas to undertake further work in conjunction with Forth Crossing Bridge Constructors (FCBC), Transport Scotland and Ucatt to examine this and related issues. Ucatt have agreed with this approach.
"It remains the responsibility of our contractor FCBC to manage matters relating to its workforce and sub-contractors. The Scottish government will continue to work together with all parties to ensure that all obligations over workers' rights, health and safety and pay are being met on the Forth Replacement Crossing project."
Nine police officers were among 34 people convicted as part of Operation Elveden, which cost almost £15m.
The Met said it had been one of the most difficult and complex investigations it had ever dealt with.
Those convicted had caused "irreparable damage to public confidence", it said.
Assistant Commissioner Patricia Gallan said: "It is right that they faced prosecution. These were not whistle-blowers but people working in some of the most trusted positions in the police, prisons and healthcare, who were only seeking to profit."
Those convicted during the course of the operation included a senior officer in the Met counter-terrorism command, Det Ch Insp April Casburn, who was jailed in 2013 for offering to sell information to the now-defunct News of the World newspaper.
Others convicted following Operation Elveden investigations included:
The Met said Operation Elveden had uncovered payments totalling more than £300,000 that had been made in exchange for confidential information.
Ms Gallan said: "In order to secure evidence and build cases detectives reviewed over 200,000 emails, 28,000 documents and in excess of 12,000 exhibits. They also established that confidential information was leaked over 400 times, and over 400 victims were informed that personal data relating to them had been sold."
In all, 90 arrests were made.
As the operation unfolded, the Met faced criticism that it was impinging on press freedom by trying to stop a long-standing and, to that point, accepted practice of journalists paying for information.
When charges were dropped against a group of journalists, the Society of Editors called Elveden an "incredible fiasco". A number of other journalists had been cleared in trials.
Only two journalists were convicted in cases relating to Elveden - France, whose appeal is expected to be heard soon, and Evans, who pleaded guilty.
Ms Gallan rejected the criticism, saying: "The decision to arrest journalists for conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office was not one taken lightly. Elveden was certainly not an attack on journalists or a free media."
Other commentators noted that News International, which owned the News of the World, had triggered the investigation itself by providing evidence to the Met.
"It was necessary and right that we investigated all suspected crimes from the evidence News International provided to us, which directly led to the arrest of suspects," said Ms Gallan.
The final investigation under Elveden concerned a serving prison officer who was arrested last September on suspicion of misconduct in a public office, and told on Wednesday he would face no further action.
Writing in the Church Times, Bishop North said the Church joined a middle-class "bandwagon of outrage and horror" in its response to Brexit.
But he said it was important the Church stopped "condemning" those who voted for Brexit and listened to them.
The Church said it was considering how to better serve "outer urban estates".
There had been an "almighty cry of anger from a dispossessed and marginalised working class" during the vote for Brexit in June and in Donald Trump's election as US president in November, Bishop North wrote.
He said both groups of people had been "routinely accused of xenophobia" when they expressed concerns about changes in their communities.
In the UK, working class people had felt abandoned by organisations that were set up to represent them, such as the Labour Party and local government, he said.
The Church would not have been surprised by the "revolution" in politics "this anger caused" if it had still been present in the poorest areas, he said.
"But it has become so disconÂnected from many of these communities that it no longer hears what they are saying, let alone amplifies their voices to the nation," he wrote.
Bishop North said there were working-class communities who felt frustration towards those who were perceived to be taking "unfair advantage of the benefits system".
He also said there was "intense anger" from people who, despite working hard, were still unable to feed their chilÂdren.
He said it was vital the Church stopped condemning people who voted for Brexit and instead listened to the reasons for their decision.
But until the Church reinvested in urban ministry by "placing the best leaders in the most deprived parishes" and returned to estates it had left, those voices would "continue to go unheard", he said.
"If, as Christians, we can re-engage, listen to the questions, and offer some answers, we will not just be playing our part in reunifying a nation. We may find that people also start listening afresh to the gospel that we proÂclaim," he added.
A Church of England spokeswoman said: "As part of its wider programme of renewal and reform, the Church of England is actively considering how to better serve those living on outer urban estates."
Artist Carsten Höller is installing the world's longest and tallest tunnel slide around the Olympic Park work.
Sir Anish said Boris Johnson had insisted the tower "raise revenue".
Mr Johnson said the artistic collaboration was "like Bernini adorning the work of Michelangelo."
Höller has been celebrated for his slide installations at the Hayward Gallery and Tate Modern, but Sir Anish said he had only approached him after Mr Johnson stipulated that the tower needed "to raise revenue".
"The mayor foisted this on the project, and kind of insisted, so there was a moment where I had to make a decision: do I go to battle or is there a more elegant way to do this... to have this very impressive thing that Carsten does, which is in-between public participation and art?
"I thought it was the right thing to do. It's one art work becoming part of another work."
The mayor said it was "fantastic that two such extraordinary artists should have collaborated on this project", adding that he hoped it would "rouse thrill seekers and art lovers alike".
It is hoped the revamp will revive interest in the sculpture, which was erected in 2012 and found to be losing £10,000 a week in 2014.
The sculpture cost £19m to build, £3m of which was public funding.
According to the London Legacy Development Company, the Orbit is currently about £10.6m in debt and is projected to incur interest charges totalling £8.6m in the next 10 years.
The company expects £0.5m of this to be paid off by revenue generated by the slide.
It projects that in the next financial year, 239,000 will go on the slide, and that by 2021, a total of 1.2 million people will have used it.
Sir Anish said that while it may "be theoretically losing money, the fact that it has over 200,000 visitors [is] a considerable gain".
"One makes artworks for other reasons than profit. I understand this is run as a so-called attraction [but] I want it to be slightly more highbrow than that. There's a difference between a fairground ride and art."
It is estimated the slide down will take 40 seconds, with sliders twisting and turning 12 times at speeds of up to 15mph, on a mat to protect clothing.
It will officially open to the public on 24 June, with the £5 cost of a ride being in addition to the £12 currently charged to visitors wanting to go to the top of the tower.
Total revenue rose 2% to £585m. But revenues at ITV studios fell 4%, which the broadcaster blamed on programme timings.
However, ITV said it was "confident" its acquisitions would help drive "good revenue growth".
It recently bought a controlling stake in US broadcaster Leftfield.
Leftfield is the production company behind series such as Pawn Stars and the Real Housewives of New Jersey.
Chief executive Adam Crozier said the deal was "a major step forward" in its strategy of building an international content business.
Mr Crozier said its stronger schedule, including the start of the World Cup in June, would help to boost revenues in the second half.
The company, home to Coronation Street and Britain's Got Talent, said advertising revenue rose 19% in April, and forecast a rise of 7% in May and 12-15% in June.
"We continue to make progress with our strategy of growing and rebalancing the business," added Mr Crozier.
Mr Crozier's plan is to achieve an equal split between advertising and production revenues, to help protect it from the volatility of the advertising market.
As part of this strategy, ITV has made several acquisitions. Last year, it bought the US production firms Thinkfactory Media and High Noon and the UK producer The Garden, maker of Channel 4 shows including 24 Hours in A&E and The Audience.
Steve Hilton said Mr Cameron was told "explicitly and directly" that EU free movement rules meant net migration could not be reduced below 100,000.
The target featured in the Tories' election manifesto last year.
But the prime minister said Mr Hilton was "simply not right".
And Downing Street questioned why Mr Hilton - who is backing a Leave vote - had chosen to make his comments for the first time days before Thursday's referendum.
Net migration - the difference between the number of people coming to the UK for at least a year and those leaving - stood at 333,000 in 2015, according to the latest figures.
It has risen by more than a third since Mr Cameron came to power in 2010 with the aim of reducing it to tens of thousands a year.
Leave campaigners have repeatedly said that exiting the EU is the only way the UK can control its borders.
In a Daily Mail article on Tuesday, Mr Hilton recalled meetings towards the end of his time at Downing Street - chaired by Mr Cameron - where ministers and civil servants were "working hard to try to deliver the government's commitment" on migration.
He said: "The news was not good. We were way off target; indeed the numbers were going in the wrong direction. We explored various policy options - and I'm sure that process continued after I left the government in May 2012.
"But I recall very clearly one of the points that was made to us by the expert officials in the room. We were told, directly and explicitly, that it was impossible for the government to meet its immigration target as long as we remained members of the EU, which of course insists on the free movement of people within it."
This issue covers immigration and free movement within Europe.
Mr Hilton, who was formerly one of the prime minister's closest aides before he left Downing Street in 2012, was a driving force behind Mr Cameron's flagship "Big Society" project.
He said that when he saw the commitment in the 2015 manifesto he assumed Mr Cameron was either certain he could "negotiate a solution within the EU" or was assuming the UK would vote to leave.
Referring to leading Leave campaigners Michael Gove and Boris Johnson, he added: "For the government to continue to make the promise today, after no negotiated solution was achieved and while campaigning to stay, is, I think, what Gove and Johnson meant when they described this as corrosive of trust in politics."
In a BBC interview, he added: "This question of immigration isn't about whether or not you want lower immigration, or higher immigration.
"It's about whether the government that people elect in this country can control it.
"And when I was working in government, we were told, by officials, that as long as we were in the EU we couldn't control the level of immigration. And that's why I think we need to leave the EU."
Mr Gove told the BBC that he wanted the British people, via Parliament, to be in charge of deciding who came into the country although he accepted that "full control" would not be possible until 2020 - the date earmarked by the Leave campaign for exiting the EU.
Asked about the manifesto pledge, Mr Gove rejected claims it had been made in bad faith and said he had "hoped and prayed" that Mr Cameron would have been able to secure fundamental reform of free movement rules.
But he added: "Making promises and then saddling yourself with a political union that means you cannot deliver those promises does not contribute to an atmosphere of trust and confidence in politics".
The prime minister has insisted migration can be controlled from inside the EU by limiting access to benefits and other "pull factors" attracting people to the UK.
He said his former aide's recollection of events was "simply not right".
"When Steve Hilton left Downing Street in 2012, net immigration had actually fallen quite substantially and had got down, just after he left, to about 154,000 - not far away from the ambition I set, " he told ITV's Lorraine.
Labour's pro-EU campaign leader Alan Johnson, told BBC Breakfast most immigration was "coming from outside the EU".
He added: "This is not a referendum about immigration, and is still less [about] David Cameron's rather vainglorious promise.
"If people vote to leave on the basis of immigration, I'm afraid they'll find that they're going to be in exactly the same situation, because the issues are complex and leaving the EU won't resolve them. Indeed, in terms of legal immigration and immigration from outside the EU, it will make our situation worse."
A Downing Street spokesman said the Conservatives' 2015 manifesto had made it clear reducing net migration to the tens of thousands remained a government ambition.
He said that since 2008 there had been an extraordinary period when the British economy was growing while many other EU countries were struggling economically.
Frank Le Villio was sent to World War Two Neuengamme and Sandbostel camps aged 19 after stealing a German officer's motorbike in occupied Jersey.
He survived and moved to Nottingham, but died aged 21 from tuberculosis.
A service, attended by members of his family and Nottingham's lord mayor, has been held at his grave to honour him.
A wooden cross and several wreaths were laid on the grave where Mr Le Villio, from Jersey, and six other people were buried.
Mr Le Villio's cousin Stanley Hockley, from Jersey, was at the service at Wilford Hill Cemetery, Nottingham.
He said: "It has been absolutely wonderful finding his grave after 70 odd years.
"We did not know where he was buried to start with. We always thought about him."
He said the family was hoping to take him back to Jersey.
Mr Le Villio is believed to be one of the few camp survivors from Jersey who was able to return to the UK after the war.
He had developed tuberculosis while in the camps and was being treated at Nottingham's City Hospital when he died in 1946.
His grave was discovered earlier this year after an appeal by Devon-based Stanley Keiller, who came across Mr Le Villio's story and realised his grave's whereabouts was unknown when doing his own family history research.
Mr Keiller also attended the ceremony.
Mr Keiller's appeal was answered by Father Derek Hailes, of St Cyprian's Church, in Nottingham, who tracked down the pauper's grave a few months ago with the help of undertaker A. W. Lymn and church officials.
Father Hailes said he was very pleased to help track down the grave and said the service was "closure" for the family.
The gang of four swooped on a security van in two cars, using one to block the road's exit, near the city of Lyon.
The robbers then put the powdered gold, worth €1.5m ($1.6m; £1.3m), into their getaway car, locking two security guards in the back of the van and setting fire to their other vehicle.
The two guards were rescued by police after a tip-off from a witness.
The thieves fled immediately, leaving the fire to spread and gut nearby vehicles before it was put out by firefighters.
The robbery took place on the A6 motorway, which connects Lyon to Paris.
Police said they are hunting for the perpetrators.
Barnsley - who could have secured a top-six spot with a win had Scunthorpe also not beaten Port Vale - are now only above the Iron on goal difference.
Relegated Colchester led at half-time through George Moncur before Ashley Fletcher's second-half brace.
But Tom Lapslie's late header denied the Tykes a third win in five games.
Barnsley go to promoted Wigan on 8 May and will need to at least match seventh-placed Scunthorpe's result at Sheffield United if they are to reach the play-offs.
The 26-year-old joined the Cherries from non-league Woking in June 2010 and has been part of two promotions.
He made 21 appearances in the top flight last season and was unfortunate to be ruled out of the Republic of Ireland's Euro 2016 squad with injury.
Arter follows team-mates Adam Federici, Adam Smith and Steve Cook in signing new deals at Bournemouth.
James McIntyre, 28, from Stranraer, was caught in Dumfries last year with 500 tablets in his glove compartment.
He admitted being concerned in supplying drugs in Moffat and Dumfries between 22 October and 5 November.
At Dumfries Sheriff Court, he was ordered to be under supervision for 12 months and carry out 150 hours unpaid work.
The court heard that McIntyre told police he had arranged to meet another man at McDonald's car park in Dumfries when he was stopped.
He also admitted that he had previously been involved in a deal in Moffat involving 1,000 tablets.
Built at a cost of £0.5bn, Britannia was officially named by the Queen in a ceremony in Southampton in March.
The ship, carrying about 5,000 passengers, anchored off Newhaven, near Leith in Edinburgh, on Wednesday.
It has now arrived at Invergordon in Easter Ross and some of the thousands of holidaymakers have been making day trips into Inverness.
The 141,000-tonne, Italian-built ship has a 94m (308ft) Union Jack on its bow and is operated by P&O.
Its voyage around the British Isles has been described as a "lap of honour".
While anchored off Newhaven, the ship was visited by Edinburgh's Deputy Lord Provost Steve Cardownie.
It has issued and withheld baby permits, policed menstrual cycles and ordered abortions.
Because the job prospects of family planning officials have often depended on reducing live births, the result has been a catalogue of horrifying human rights abuses including forced late-term abortions and sterilisations.
Combined with the traditional desire of rural couples for a son to look after them in old age, the policy has been particularly catastrophic for girls, resulting in neglect, infanticide and - when ultrasound and other sex selection techniques became widely available - gender-specific abortions.
Although it is often called the "one-child" policy, China's family planning policy has been more complex. Rural parents and ethnic minorities have often been allowed more children.
And it is fair to say that while abhorring some of the excesses of the policy and mourning the consequences for their own families, many Chinese have supported the policy in principle on the grounds that the population was too large and personal sacrifice necessary for the common good.
But when I think about the numberless personal tragedies this policy has produced, faces and stories crowd my mind.
I know little boys who are only alive because a pre-natal ultrasound promised they would be boys.
I know families where little girls died mysterious deaths. I know women who now suffer lifelong gynaecological problems because they hid in the hills when they were due to give birth in order to avoid forced abortion at the hands of roving family planning police. I know whole families blighted by the weight of the fines for a child born outside the plan.
And what of the Chinese children who were lucky enough to be born in the past three and a half decades?
For them there is often the psychological pressure of single-handedly meeting the expectations of two parents and four grandparents who have strained every sinew to house, clothe, feed and educate them... not to mention the economic pressure of single-handedly looking after these parents and grandparents as they age.
China says its family planning rules have prevented hundreds of millions of births and made possible its economic miracle - by freeing women to go out to work and by encouraging saving.
But critics always said China's birth rate would have come down with or without the policy as it industrialised, pointing out that other developing Asian countries have seen a comparable decline without such Draconian policies.
And now China has the opposite problem - an ageing population and a shrinking workforce.
China may get old before it gets rich. Or worse, the burden of the aged may prevent it getting beyond middle income status at all.
But if the declining birth rate was driven by underlying economic incentives rather than family planning policy, then it is unlikely relaxing the policy will solve the problem.
After all, China is now a predominantly urban society where parents count the costs when making a choice about children.
It is also a society where both parents usually work.
A bigger family means increased costs and reduced earnings and the evidence to date suggests many parents will choose against that.
In the past two years, a relaxation for those who were themselves only children allowed more than 10 million couples to have a second child. But fewer than a million applied, less than half the number the government expected.
In the richest cities, the reluctance is even more pronounced. In Shanghai, for example, the Family Planning Commission recently estimated that 90% of women of child-bearing age were eligible for a second child under the rule change of 2013, but that only 5% had applied.
So as it finally announces the end of the one-child policy, the irony for the Chinese government may be the discovery that the policy had become irrelevant anyway.
Andy and Jamie Murray won Saturday's doubles contest, but Argentina lead 2-1 going into the last day of the best-of-five tie in Glasgow.
Andy Murray is scheduled to face Guido Pella at 13:00 BST, followed by Kyle Edmund against Juan Martin del Potro.
However, team captains can change their nominations up to an hour before play.
GB skipper Leon Smith could choose to bring Dan Evans in for Edmund, should Murray beat Pella and force a decisive fifth match.
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And there is a question mark over the involvement of Del Potro, who was a surprise inclusion in the doubles after his gruelling five-hour match with Andy Murray on Friday.
Del Potro hinted after the doubles that he might not play on Sunday, should a fifth and final rubber be required.
"I have to be smart," said Del Potro. "I want to play for more years not just one more match."
Andy Murray is clearly fatigued after a gruelling summer but hopes he has enough energy left to produce a win to keep GB's hopes alive.
The 29-year-old Scot said: "Whether I win or not, I don't know, but I can definitely guarantee I'll give my best effort and hopefully I can.
"I'll be tired and I have to accept that and deal with it and try to play the match on my terms if possible."
Speaking about the doubles success, he added: "I didn't know how I was going to feel when I woke up.
"I saw my physio this morning and he checked some of the things he checks if I'm not feeling great or if I'm tired, and he said I was looking decent.
"It was tough, obviously. In doubles there's not as much running but you need to be very sharp."
Russell Fuller, BBC tennis correspondent:
"Juan Martin del Potro's appearance on the doubles court was a huge surprise, given Argentina's position in the tie, and it may turn out to be his last match of the week.
"Both del Potro and Andy Murray have now spent eight hours and two minutes on court in Glasgow, and although mind games are often an important ingredient, Del Potro has hinted quite strongly he may not play on Sunday should a fifth and final rubber be required.
"The travelling Argentine media are inclined to take his words at face value - and suspect he won't play.
"Dan Evans is likely to play in any fifth match for GB - but that will only be necessary if an equally exhausted Murray can first beat Guido Pella, who will be feeling a lot, lot fresher."
Chile defender Gonzalo Jara appeared to elbow Germany's Timo Werner in the face during the game, but got only a yellow card, even after the video assistant referee (VAR) system was used.
There were several contentious moments involving VAR at the tournament.
Former Arsenal defender Lee Dixon said the system was a "shambles".
"If you look at sports that use VAR - we're the laughing stock," he said on ITV.
Referees can decide whether they want help from VAR, although other officials, including the video ones, can suggest he uses the technology. If he does, he has the choice of trusting the VAR's decision or viewing the footage himself on a screen at the side of the pitch.
Referee Milorad Mazic used a pitchside screen to watch a replay of Jara's challenge on Werner, and decided it was worthy of a booking and not a sending off.
Dixon added: "I was joking: 'I bet he gives him a yellow.' It's not even a red. It's a purple. It's obvious."
It was not the first controversial use of VAR at the tournament:
Former Premier League referee Mark Halsey tweeted: "What on earth is going on with VAR? It's a shambles. There is a protocol in place but officials are not adhering to it."
Luis Garcia, the former Liverpool and Spain winger, tweeted: "Still not getting the VAR!! If you have to take a decision and stop the match, must be something that changes the game!!"
Former Liverpool and Aston Villa striker Stan Collymore tweeted: "Should have been a red for Jara. Wonder if the pause gave the ref the thought 'let's keep 11 v 11 in a final'. Can't be anything else!"
Danny Higginbotham, the former Stoke and Southampton defender, tweeted: "VAR will only work with factual decisions, not subjective ones. Blatant red card but when based on a ref's opinion, VAR pointless."
In the group stages, six "game-changing decisions" were made using VAR, with another 29 "major incidents" - according to Fifa's head referee Massimo Busacca. That equates to 35 times it was used in 12 games.
And there were occasions where the technology proved beneficial:
Speaking before the final, Fifa president Gianni Infantino said the system has been a "great success", but that work was needed on "the details" such as the speed of decisions.
"Without VAR, we would have had a different tournament and it would have been a little less fair," he added. "Thanks to VAR, we have achieved a great thing. Those big mistakes will not happen any longer.
"It will always be the referee who decides and there will always be discussions, but big mistakes will be corrected and that is a great achievement after it was asked for for so many years."
Fifa's head referee Busacca admitted "many aspects should be improved" in the VAR system.
"Every referee team in every country that is supplying officials to the World Cup needs to be working with VAR every day," he said.
"In five days, we did the VAR training for this competition. To implement more, to be at the level we need, we need time."
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The Northern Irishman, 25, is aiming to become only the sixth man to win all four majors and made a solid start to the tournament with a battling one-under-par 71.
However, American Spieth, who finished joint runner up to Bubba Watson at last year's Masters, produced the performance of the day, carding nine birdies to open a three-shot lead with an eight-under 64.
England's Justin Rose made an impressive start as he continues his quest for a first Masters title, carding a 67 to sit in a group of four players on five under while former world number one Tiger Woods is nine shots off the pace after a one-over 73.
Spieth, 21, is yet to win a major but arrived in Georgia in fine form, with a win and two runners-up places in his last three PGA Tour events.
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He became the first man since Woods in 2011 to record nine birdies in a round, with six arriving in seven holes around the turn.
Spieth's fine display means McIlroy, looking to win his third major in succession, will be determined to get himself firmly in contention with an improved performance in Friday's second round.
He opened with a huge 324-yard drive down the first on a scorching Thursday morning but found the water hazard on the par-five second, scrambling superbly for par with a beautiful back-spinning chip to within four feet.
Having dropped a shot on the par-three sixth he then hit straight back with a fine approach on the seventh for his first birdie of the tournament, but another bogey on the testing par-four 11th slowed his momentum.
A birdie on the par-five 13th was followed by a wonderful 21-foot birdie putt on the 15th, and he was a little unlucky that his tee-shot on the par-three 16th failed to release down the slope of the green.
Rose made a strong start to the tournament as he had six birdies and just one bogey to take a share of the clubhouse lead midway through the day, before Spieth made his move in the afternoon.
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The 34-year-old, alongside American Charley Hoffman, South African Ernie Els and Australian Jason Day on five under, is well placed to mount a challenge on Friday.
However, having led after the opening round on three previous occasions but still without a Masters title, Rose is keeping his expectations in check.
"There's really no point in getting ahead of yourself," said Rose, who won the 2013 US Open. "So much can happen around this golf course."
"One thing I've learned on this golf course is that if you do make a bogey or two, when you start to chase around here to make up for it, it's not always the best decision."
Much of the pre-tournament focus had been on Woods, who was playing in just his third tournament of the year and his first after taking an indefinite break from golf. two months ago.
Having shot an 82 in his first tournament of 2015 and then withdrawing after 11 holes in the second, there was plenty of uncertainty about how the 39-year-old would get on at the Masters.
Woods has not won a major since the 2008 US Open and he made a disappointing start on Thursday, bogeying the par-four first, but recovered with a birdie on the second.
He added two further birdies but three bogeys meant he signed for a one over 73 and he immediately headed off to the practice area.
Paul Casey, making his first Masters appearance since 2012, is in contention for a maiden Major title after finishing with a three-under-par 69.
A bogey on the 18th cost him a place higher up the leaderboard, but the Englishman was satisfied with his round.
"It is great to be back," Casey said. "This is a golf course I play well and I love to play it."
Casey's compatriot Danny Willett marked his Masters debut with an impressive eagle on his way to a 71.
The 27-year-old holed a 60-foot putt on the 13th and said: "It's the kind of thing you dream of when you're a kid, boxing a long one across the green."
Also finishing the opening round with a 71 was Scotland's Stephen Gallacher, who carded three birdies alongside two bogeys, and Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell.
English duo Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood both finished on 73, one over, while Scot Sandy Lyle is two over.
Welshman Jamie Donaldson, partnering Tiger Woods and Jimmy Walker, finished with a two-over 74, with compatriot Ian Woosnam a shot further back.
First round scores
The Boeing 777, on its way from Mauritius to Paris, was evacuated at Mombasa airport and the suspicious device taken away for examination.
Air France chief Frederic Gagey later said it was made of a cardboard box, paper and a timer.
He described it as an "extremely aggressive act".
The plane, carrying 459 passengers and 14 crew, had left Mauritius at 01:00 GMT and had been due to fly directly to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.
Several passengers from the flight have been questioned by Kenyan police.
Mr Gagey told a news conference that the airline would press charges against those responsible and an inquiry would be held.
But he denied there had been any problem with security checks in Mauritius, saying the device contained no explosives, so would not have been detected.
He said the device appeared to be made of a cardboard, sheets of paper and some kind of kitchen timer, and had been placed in a cupboard behind a mirror in the toilet.
Mr Gagey said he did not know exactly when it had been placed there, but that the cupboard had been checked before the flight so it was assumed that it was put there during the flight.
He said the object was made of material not usually found on the plane.
Mr Gagey thanked the crew and the Kenyan authorities for the way they had handled the incident.
Earlier, a police official quoted by AP news agency said a passenger had noticed an object in the toilet that looked like "a stopwatch mounted on a box".
Mr Gagey said the crew was alerted, and the pilots decided to land at the nearest airport. Both the aircraft and Moi International Airport in Mombasa were evacuated while the device was removed.
Joseph Nkaissery, cabinet secretary at Kenya's ministry of interior, said authorities from France and Mauritius had been helping with the investigation.
One of those on board the aircraft, Benoit Lucchini, said passengers were calm and were told by the crew that the plane was being diverted because of a technical problem.
"The plane just went down, slowly, slowly, slowly, so we just realised probably, something was wrong," he said.
"But the personnel of Air France were just great, just wonderful. So they keep everybody calm and really quiet."
France is still on high alert following bomb attacks and shootings in Paris.
So-called Islamic State (IS) said it carried out the attacks in response to France's military action in Syria.
Elizabeth Moir, 52, told the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) she had split from her husband Ian in 2010.
But neighbours told investigators that the couple were still living together with their children.
At Dundee Sheriff Court, she was told to pay back the full sum and sentenced to 240 hours of unpaid work.
Moir, of Dundee, also was given two years' supervision and placed on a restriction of liberty order confining to her home on an electronic tag from 19:00 to 07:00 every day for 12 weeks.
She admitted a charge under the Tax Credits Act committed between October 2010 and August 2013.
Solicitor advocate Kris Gilmartin, defending, said: "She's been a law-abiding, pro-social person and in employment until ill-health hit her.
"Her husband left and then returned over a period of time.
"She has not informed the benefits agency that he was back.
"She has committed an offence and requires to be punished."
Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC told Moir: "You have pled guilty to a serious offence - it is a lot of money to defraud DWP of and I take a very serious view of it.
"The appeal courts have made it clear for this amount of money the court should look at a significant amount of time in custody.
"But in your case there are exceptional circumstances and I can step away from that."
He has signed a four-year contract having won his appeal against the refusal of a work permit.
And Wanyama told Celtic's website: "It has always been a dream of mine to play for a club like Celtic.
"After reading the club's history, I have chosen 67 as my squad number to show appreciation to the 1967 squad."
Wanyama's work permit application was initially automatically refused because Kenya is ranked outside the top 75 in the world, currently standing at 130 on Fifa's latest list.
But a Scottish Football Association committee, which heard a plea from Celtic manager Neil Lennon via a conference call from Australia on Friday, gave the go-ahead for his permit to be finalised by the UK Border Agency.
It's fantastic news that Victor has now signed for Celtic. He will be an important addition to the squad
And he completed his medical on Saturday before returning to Belgium to obtain the relevant entry visa.
Wanyama is looking forward to meeting up with his new team-mates on their return from pre-season training in Australia and has already been briefed about the importance of the club's European Cup triumph in 1967.
"My ambition at Celtic is to win many trophies like the Lisbon Lions," he said.
Wanyama becomes Lennon's third summer signing, the manager having previously stated that his new arrival, who can play in midfield, had been signed predominately as a central defender.
"It's fantastic news that Victor has now signed for Celtic," added Lennon.
"He will be an important addition to the squad and I look forward to him joining up with the boys on our return from Australia."
Wanyama first moved to Europe from his native Kenya when he joined Swedish club Helsingborg in 2007.
He moved on to Germinal the following year and has been capped 11 times - including all six of Kenya's World Cup 2010 qualifiers.
The gates will be installed on the A628 Woodhead Pass at Flouch roundabout near Penistone and east of the junction with the A6024 near Woodhead Reservoir.
Electronic signs to warn drivers the road ahead is closed will also be fitted, the Highways Agency said.
Work begins on the gates this week and is expected to be completed by April.
Costing £250,000, the gates and signs will be operated manually by the police in conjunction with the Highways Agency.
The warning signs will be sited on the east and westbound approaches to the A628 at Mottram roundabout in Greater Manchester and at the Flouch and Westwood roundabouts in South Yorkshire.
Sujad Hussain, Highways Agency project manager, said the aim of the gates and signs was not to close the Woodhead Pass more frequently.
"Weather conditions and driver safety will continue to dictate when, or if, this happens," he said.
"What we are trying to do is ensure that drivers already on the route have more warning of what's ahead and have more time to take alternative strategic routes."
Anthony Ashton, South Yorkshire Police's traffic management officer, said the gates would free police resources during bad weather as officers would no longer have to be present at points where the Woodhead Pass was closed.
"The gates will also reduce the length of route that has to be closed, making it easier to maintain access to local businesses and residential properties in the area," Mr Ashton added.
The Welsh fighter lost to Iran's Kimia Alizadeh Zenoorin on golden point after the pair were tied on three apiece.
The 22-year-old, ranked two in the world, continues on course to qualify in her weight category for next year's Rio Olympics after the season-opener.
Three further Grand Prix events will be held over the next five months.
She was finance minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy's government at the time of the compensation award to Bernard Tapie for the sale of a firm.
Mr Tapie supported Mr Sarkozy in the 2007 presidential election.
Ms Lagarde's lawyer described the court's decision as "incomprehensible", and said the IMF boss would appeal.
In a statement she said she had "always acted in this affair in the interest of the state and in respect of the law", according to AP.
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Mr Tapie was once a majority shareholder in sports goods company Adidas but sold it in 1993 in order to become a cabinet minister in Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government.
He sued the Credit Lyonnais bank over its handling of the sale, alleging that the partly state-owned bank had defrauded him by deliberately undervaluing the company.
His case was later referred by Ms Lagarde to a three-member arbitration panel which awarded the compensation, causing a public outcry.
Investigators suspect he was granted a deal in return for his support of Mr Sarkozy.
Earlier this month, a French court ruled that Mr Tapie was not entitled to any compensation for that sale and should pay back the €404m with interest.
France's Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) decided that Ms Lagarde, 59, should be tried on the charge of "negligence by a person in position of public authority" over the compensation case, iTele TV channel and the Mediapart website reported on Thursday.
A court spokesman later confirmed the decision.
If convicted, she could be sentenced to one year in prison.
French media said the CJR investigation magistrates declined to follow the recommendation of another court which last year decided not to pursue the case.
"It's incomprehensible," Ms Lagarde's lawyer Yves Repiquet told iTele. "I will recommend Mrs Lagarde appeal against this decision."
A spokesman for France's attorney general said Ms Lagarde would have five days to appeal, once the court decision is made public on Friday or Monday.
Meanwhile, IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said the organisation - which represents 188 member nations - "continues to express its confidence in the managing director's ability to effectively carry out her duties".
1993: Credit Lyonnais bank handles sale of Adidas, in which Bernard Tapie is a majority stakeholder, to enable tycoon to pursue ministerial career under then Socialist President Francois Mitterrand
1993-2007: Mr Tapie claims Credit Lyonnais undervalued Adidas and that he was cheated; lengthy court battle ensues
1994: Bernard Tapie's highly indebted group collapses and is wound up by Credit Lyonnais
2007: Mr Tapie switches support to conservative Nicolas Sarkozy in presidential election. Finance Minister Christine Lagarde intervenes in Tapie case to order binding arbitration
2008: Special judicial panel rules Mr Tapie should receive damages of €404m; Ms Lagarde decides not to challenge ruling, prompting public outcry
2011: Public prosecutor recommends judicial investigation into Ms Lagarde's decision to order arbitration
2013: Ms Lagarde is questioned by magistrate and her Paris apartment searched. Mr Tapie is placed under investigation by prosecutors investigating corruption claims
2014: French prosecutors open formal investigation of negligence into Ms Lagarde
3 December 2015: A court orders Mr Tapie to pay back €404m with interest
Ms Lagarde replaced Dominique Strauss-Kahn as IMF managing director in 2011.
Mr Strauss-Kahn - also a former French minister - resigned following his arrest in New York on charges of sexual assault that were later dropped.
Now serving his second term as Bucharest mayor, Mr Oprescu is accused of taking kickbacks from companies awarded contracts with the city.
Prosecutors allege he took a 10% cut from deals. He denies any wrongdoing.
It is the latest of several corruption scandals to engulf top political figures in Romania.
Mr Oprescu, 63, who is backed by Romania's governing Social Democrats, was taken into custody for an initial 24 hours.
Prosecutors will ask a court to extend this for a month while investigations continue.
Companies which won public works contracts kept up to 33% of the gross profit, prosecutors said in a statement.
"The rest was given as bribes to employees of the Bucharest mayor, with 10% of the contracts' value requested by the accused Sorin Oprescu."
The mayor was caught accepting a bribe from people who became informants, prosecutors allege.
His lawyer, Alexandru Chiciu, said his client had "never asked for money from anybody, directly or indirectly".
Several high-profile Romanians have lost their jobs recently over allegations of corruption.
Prime Minister Victor Ponta was charged in July with several counts of corruption in a long-running investigation.
He faces charges of fraud, tax evasion and money laundering dating back to when he was a lawyer before he became prime minister in 2012, the country's anti-corruption agency DNA said.
Mr Ponta, who resigned as Social Democratic party leader, also denies any wrongdoing but continues as PM despite opposition calls for him to quit.
Romania's reputation has suffered from allegations of corruption - it ranks 69th out of 175 on Transparency International's corruption perceptions index for 2014, where a low ranking suggests less corruption.
However, the DNA agency is stepping up efforts to combat corruption, earning praise from Romania's European partners, correspondents say.
Several famous writers were among his fans, including Philip Roth and Joseph Heller, but he never converted critical acclaim into commercial success.
A former US fighter pilot, he flew in the Korean War alongside future astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who became the second man to walk on the moon.
He died on Friday at a gym near his New York state home, his publisher said.
Salter wrote his first novel, The Hunters, in 1956 during the Korean War and became known for exploring masculine themes like conflict - provoking comparisons to Ernest Hemingway.
Speaking to the BBC in 2013, he said: "Having been to war satisfies a certain classical definition of manhood. To have seen war is some kind of pillar of manhood, and I felt that at the time."
The Hunters was made into a Hollywood film in 1958 starring Robert Mitchum but his five later novels received far less attention.
He published his final novel, All That Is, two years ago at the age of 87. It was his first for nearly 30 years and it made the New York Times best-seller list - but only for a week.
It might have fell short of the popular success he craved, says the BBC's Nick Bryant in New York, but the critical adulation cemented his reputation as a writer's writer, almost without peer.
Fellow novelist Richard Ford wrote in 1975: "It is an article of faith among readers of fiction that James Salter writes American sentences better than anybody writing today."
The 35-year-old, from London, was found at Old Street Station after police were called at 00:22 GMT on Sunday.
His 32-year-old brother from Manchester, who is thought to have accidentally fallen on to the tracks, is in a critical condition in hospital.
British Transport Police has described the man's death as a "tragic accident".
The names of the men have not been released. Officers are not treating the incident as suspicious.
London Ambulance Service said the man from Manchester had suffered multiple injuries.
Matthew Pabon, a consultant from Clapham Junction, told the BBC he was waiting on the platform on his way home from Shoreditch when he saw one of the men "jumping really close to the line".
"I was really close, on the same platform in front of them. Just waiting for the Tube," he said.
"One of them was jumping really close to the line and then he slipped on to the tracks.
"Before it happened I was really worried the man might fall.
"The train was just seconds from coming. That was what stopped me from trying to help. I froze."
"The guy who was trying to save him was on the edge of the platform trying to pick him up with his hands but it was too late, the train came 20 seconds later," Mr Pabon said.
Another witness, Robert Brown, said: "I'm a trainee accountant and I'm 24. Thirty-five is no age to die."
Mr Brown, who is originally from Manchester but now lives in east London, had been out for dinner in Shoreditch celebrating a friend's birthday and was catching the last Tube home.
He said: "I saw the train approaching from a distance and then saw the person fall into the tracks."
The person he was with "instantly" tried to pull him up before the train arrived, Mr Brown said.
He said the "rescuer" was then thrown back on to the platform from the impact.
"People tried to approach him and there were screams. Pretty much every girl was crying and I just stood there head in hands," Mr Brown said.
The injured men were treated by paramedics at the station and taken to the Royal Free Hospital, where the 35-year-old died later on Sunday.
The 29-year-old was hurt in the British and Irish Cup tie with London Irish at the Mennaye in December.
He initially had surgery on the problem, but needs more to help it.
"We'll be able to gauge a timeframe from that, but he'll be returning to play at some point next season," Cattle told BBC Radio Cornwall.
"I don't want to speculate too much on it," added Cattle of Evans, who has scored four tries in eight Championship games this season and crossed the whitewash against Ireland in November.
"I know a lot of people want to know what's going on with Matt because he's a very popular member of our squad and been a star for us on and off the pitch."
In his 38 caps for Canada, Evans has scored 10 tries and played at the last two World Cups.
Mr Cameron's former director of communications Sir Craig Oliver said in a book that Mrs May was regarded by some as "an enemy agent".
But Mr Duncan Smith urged Remain campaigners to "get behind Theresa May instead of carping".
Sir Craig said the book was an attempt to explain "what went wrong".
In his book, Sir Craig claimed that Mrs May failed to back the Remain campaign 13 times and he also said Boris Johnson believed the Leave campaign would be "crushed".
Former Work and Pensions Secretary Mr Duncan Smith said in a statement: "In the past, a knight of the realm who had failed in battle and lost would have quit the field and retired in humility to better understand their own failings.
"How surprising then to find that far from that, Sir Craig Oliver, one of the leading lights of Remain, has decided to instead try to pin the blame for his failure on others, particularly the new prime minister.
"Craig Oliver's is one of a growing number of foolish attempts by ex-government Remainers who lost to shift responsibility for their failure.
"The grown-up thing for them to do, instead of carping, is to show some humility and get behind Theresa May as she seeks to get back control of migration with the EU as we leave."
Mr Duncan Smith said far from failing to support Mr Cameron in his bid to get a better deal with the EU, Mrs May made her backing for tougher migration controls quite clear.
In response, Sir Craig said Mr Duncan Smith appeared to have got the "wrong end of the stick".
"I have not made the specific allegations he claims," he said. "The book is a sincere and honest attempt to explain what went wrong; and I take full responsibility for the mistakes made by the campaign."
Sir Craig's book, titled Unleashing Demons: The Inside Story Of Brexit, is being serialised in the Mail on Sunday. Neither Downing Street nor Foreign Secretary Mr Johnson have responded.
Speaking on the Murnaghan programme on Sky News, Conservative Party chairman Sir Patrick McLoughlin said he did not think it was true "at all" that Mrs May had let down Mr Cameron.
"Theresa May during the referendum campaign made her position very clear, " he said. "This is a book that has been written after the event. You have got to have certain spicy things in a book to sell it.
"I don't blame Craig for doing that. At the time, Theresa was very much part of the Remain campaign."
However, former Northern Ireland secretary Theresa Villiers, a pro-Leave campaigner, said there were times when she "did wonder" if Mrs May was listening to both sides.
She told BBC One's Sunday Politics: "Her major speech of the referendum campaign expressed real concerns about the possibility of Turkey joining the EU. It also said that the sky is not going to fall in if we leave."
In the book, Sir Craig said Mr Cameron briefly considered staying on as prime minister, despite losing the referendum.
However, he said he decided against it, saying he feared remaining in Downing Street would have left him "being prepared for the slaughterhouse".
Mr Cameron resigned as prime minister the day after the result and was replaced by Mrs May.
Sir Craig said Mrs May only came "off the fence" in favour of Remain after Mr Cameron became "visibly wound up" and gave her a dressing down over the telephone.
Sir Craig's book suggests Mr Cameron was left uncertain over whether Mrs May favoured staying in the European Union.
He said Mrs May was referred to dismissively by aides as "submarine May" during the campaign.
The then home secretary's "sphinx-like approach" became difficult, he added in the book, as the press were questioning which way she would jump.
Sir Craig said matters finally came to a head after a newspaper warned Mr Cameron faced "last-minute opposition" from Mrs May to his deal for EU reform.
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The US firm added that the device would not be fully waterproof as first advertised, just "splash-proof".
Many people who had pre-ordered the wristband had complained on social media about the firm's failure to explain the delay fully until now.
The delay has lost the firm sales to rivals such as Fitbit and Misfit.
"When we announced UP3 late last year we were confident we would start mass production of the device and begin shipping within a few weeks of the announcement," the company said on its blog.
"However, as we began to scale our manufacturing process it became clear that, while most units passed our high quality bar, a proportion did not.
"Specifically, we were not achieving the level of water resistance we had passed in the design and initial production stages.
"We would like to apologise to customers who may have pre-ordered UP3 on the basis that it would be suitable for swimming. Customers who wish to cancel their pre-order will, of course, be able to do so with no charge."
Until now, the only explanation the firm had given for the delay was in an interview chief executive Hosain Rahman gave Fortune magazine in January, in which he blamed a "sealing" problem.
The same article had noted that Jawbone's manufacturing partner Flextronics had recently sued it for breach of contract, describing the fitness firm's financial position as "perilous".
The case was ultimately settled out of court.
A subsequent report in February by the Financial Times suggested Jawbone's finances were "deteriorating" as it sought out new investors, causing some to question if the UP3 would ever be released.
But the firm has said the device is now in "mass production" and that it would start deliveries to customers who had pre-ordered on 20 April.
Customers should receive the bands no later than mid-May, Jawbone added.
Posts to the firm's own community forum and Facebook page, however, suggest that a significant number of users had already cancelled their bookings.
"I have lost all faith in Jawbone and their communications," wrote one.
This is not the first time that Jawbone has run into manufacturing difficulties.
In 2011, it pulled the original UP wristband from sale after the initial batch of bands stopped holding their charge.
Posts to its forums also suggest that many owners of its more recent UP24 bands have complained that the devices stop working after several months of use - something the firm has handled by offering replacements.
The UP3 attracted much interest when it was first announced in November because of its use of a technique called "bioimpedance" to track its owner's pulse.
This involves passing an imperceptible electrical current through the body to measure its resistance to the signal.
The process is already used by several specialist medical devices to measure heart rate, body fat, fluid levels and other body composition readings.
But Jawbone was the first to use it in a mass-market wristband.
Its biggest rival Fitbit tracks users' heart rates by shining LED lights into their arms to detect changes in blood volume beneath the skin.
This kind of technology can sometimes have problems obtaining accurate readings from users with darker pigmented skin, however.
Jawbone previously suggested that another advantage of bioimpedance was that it was less battery intensive.
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Jawbone has said that it will begin deliveries of its top-end UP3 fitness tracker from 20 April, four months later than originally promised.
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It worked. He managed to walk pass the Azeri police that guard the embassy and was admitted onto foreign soil.
For over six months, the whereabouts of Emin Huseynov, a prominent human rights campaigner, were unknown, until the Swiss broadcaster SRF broke the news last week that the country's embassy in Baku had been sheltering him since August 2014.
The Swiss foreign ministry has confirmed that an Azeri national has been allowed to stay at the embassy on humanitarian grounds and in a statement said that Switzerland was negotiating with the Azeri authorities to resolve the issue "in the interest of the individual".
Mr Huseynov, the founder of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), a non-governmental organisation monitoring rights violations against journalists, is accused by the Azeri government of tax evasion and abuse of power.
Similar charges have been brought against a number of other civil society activists - charges that rights groups describe as "bogus".
Like most pro-democracy NGOs, Mr Huseynov's IRFS was under surveillance by the Azeri security services.
Activists like Mr Huseynov and others currently in detention - such as Rasul Jafarov, human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev, Leyla and Arif Yunus, and Anar Mammadli - have for years openly criticised their government, raising awareness of human rights abuses in the oil and gas-rich country.
They have earned recognition for their work from the international community. But Azeri officials, such as President Ilham Aliyev's chief adviser Ramiz Mehdiyev, have branded them "traitors".
The most recent victim of the government's campaign to silence its critics is the investigative reporter Khadija Ismaylova, known for her corruption investigations into the financial schemes of Azerbaijan's president and his family.
In December 2014, she was charged with inciting a man to commit suicide. Last week, she was additionally charged with embezzlement, tax evasion and abuse of power.
Her colleagues, whom I met in December in Baku, described her detention as an attempt to silence her.
"By arresting Khadija, the government is sending a message to journalists and to the public in general that those who fight for truth and free speech, those who fight for their rights, will be arrested." said Kamran Mahmudov, who briefly stood in for Ms Ismaylova on her popular radio talk-show on US-funded Radio Liberty.
A few weeks after this interview, the authorities raided the offices of Radio Liberty and took the station off air.
Still in his pyjamas, Kamran Mahmudov was dragged out of his home by the police and taken for questioning.
The closure of one of the few remaining independent voices in Azeri media was criticised by the US State Department, the EU and several human rights organisations.
According to the New-York based Committee to Protect Journalists, Azerbaijan is the leading jailer of journalists in Europe and Central Asia.
However, the government insists that all the charges against journalists and civil society activists are legitimate.
"No one is prosecuted in Azerbaijan based on his or her professional activities or political beliefs," said Hikmat Hajiyev, a spokesman for Azerbaijan's foreign affairs ministry.
"Khadija Ismaylova has been engaged in journalistic activities for more than 10 years and could write different stories. Now there is a real criminal case based on the criminal code of Azerbaijan," he added.
"It is so unfortunate that the human rights issue is being politicised, and certain groups and circles under the pretext of human rights are trying to interfere in the internal affairs of Azerbaijan."
President Aliyev pardoned 87 prisoners shortly before the new year, among them two journalists and two members of a pro-democracy youth movement.
But most of the activists, journalists and lawyers detained remain behind bars. They face long prison terms if found guilty of their charges.
Human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev, who has taken several hundred cases - ranging from violating rights to freedom of speech and the right to a fair trial - to the European Court of Human Rights, is now on trial himself, with his hearing set to resume on February 17.
The Kurdakhany detention facility on the outskirts of Baku, where he is being held, has been dubbed "the university" because most of the bright minds deemed a threat to the state are being held there.
Shortly after visiting him in December, his son, Necmin, wanted to deliver a message from his father to the outside world.
"In today's Azerbaijan defending human rights is a crime," he said. "He and his friends are paying the price for doing just that."
Stanley Gibbs, 35, covertly set up recording devices in the woman's Glasgow home and published them online under the username "Psycho Stan".
He was caught when a friend of the woman saw them online. Police later recovered 60,000 stored moving images.
Gibbs was also placed on the sex offenders' register for 10 years.
At Glasgow Sheriff Court he was also made subject of a non-harassment order relating to his victim for the same length of time.
Sheriff Andrew Mackie told Gibbs he had reduced his jail term from 18 months because of his guilty plea.
"Your behaviour as you know was deplorable and appalling," the sheriff told Gibbs.
"It was a gross breach of trust and it was a gross invasion of your victim."
Gibbs, a business analyst from Erskine, Renfrewshire, pleaded guilty to using electronic devices to record the woman in a state of undress.
He also admitted uploading indecent footage of her on to the internet and recording her without her knowledge between October 2012 and June 2014.
The court heard Gibbs and the woman had been friends for a number of years and that he regularly visited the flat where she stayed.
In June last year, a friend of the woman was online and recognised various pictures of her.
The person who uploaded the images claimed that the woman was unaware they had been taken and that he got "sexual gratification" from the pictures.
The friend saved everything on a USB stick and contacted the woman to advise her she should leave her flat.
The police were then alerted and a search warrant was granted for Gibbs' house.
He was detained and interviewed by police before being cautioned and charged.
Electronic equipment was seized including a laptop, hard drive, mobile phone and tablet, as well as a digital camera.
They were analysed and 60,000 moving images were found which had been taken "covertly".
The court heard much of the footage was of "day-to-day" business, although indecent footage was also captured.
It was heard that the woman was "shocked and disgusted" and that she had "trusted the accused like family".
The newspaper has estimated the 88-year-old and his family's fortune at just over £1bn, putting them at 114th in the list.
It said profits at Glasgow-based Arnold Clark Automobiles reached a record £107.2m in 2014, on sales of £3.2bn.
The business is estimated to be worth £1bn. Other assets include the yacht Drum, once owned by Simon Le Bon.
Sir Arnold started his business in 1954. He was knighted in 2004.
The highest-placed Scots on the rich list, at 49th, are the Grant-Gordon family, owners of Banffshire whisky distiller William Grant.
Their fortune is estimated at £2.16bn - £10m more than last year.
The Sunday Times valued the business at £2bn, with past dividends and other assets adding £160m.
The distiller's brands include Grant's, Glenfiddich, Drambuie and Hendrick's Gin.
In 72nd place are Aberdeen-based oil tycoon Sir Ian Wood, 73, and family, whose fortune is estimated to have risen by £55m last year to £1.44bn.
At 108th, engineering entrepreneur Jim McColl is estimated to be worth just over £1bn - up by £10m on 2015. The Sunday Times values his company Clyde Blowers at £1.7bn, valuing Mr McColl's stake at £1.02bn. Other assets added £50m.
Tied in 117th place are Sir Brian Souter and Ann Gloag, founders of Perth-based transport giant Stagecoach. They are estimated to be worth £1bn - down by £40m on 2015.
Author JK Rowling is tied at 197th on the list, with an estimated fortune of £600m - £20m more than in 2015.
Other wealthy individuals with connections to Scotland include Jim Radcliffe, boss of the Ineos chemicals group which includes the giant petrochemicals plant in Grangemouth.
He was tied at 30th with an estimated worth of £3.2bn.
Mahdi al-Tajir, Bahrain-born owner of Scottish mineral water firm Highland Spring, was 60th in the list with a fortune estimated at £1.735bn. Highland Spring turned in a £1.6m profit on record sales of £100m in 2014, according to the Sunday Times.
Scottish tennis stars Andy and Jamie Murray were 11th in the top 50 young rich list with a fortune estimated at £58m - £10m more than 2015.
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The traditional St Patrick's Day final was a closely contested affair held in difficult wet and windy conditions.
All the tries came in the first half, with Rhys O'Donnell and David McCann touching down for RBAI and James Hume kicking a conversion to make it 12-0.
Chris Larmour crossed for Methody, with Paul Kerr adding a second-half penalty.
Outside centre Hume, who scored all 13 points in Inst's success 12 months ago, skewed an early penalty effort wide of the posts.
O'Donnell darted over and stretched to score on the line in the 15th minute, Hume adding the extras with a well executed kick from a difficult angle near the touchline.
Seven minutes later, second row McCann rumbled over beside the posts after a driving maul, Hume scuffing his conversion attempt on this occasion.
The signs looked ominous for Methody at this point but Larmour completed a superb move along the back-line by diving over for a try in the corner to reduce his side's deficit to seven points.
The second half saw both sides reduced to 14 men in rapid succession for high tackles, Kerr first seeing yellow and then Hume being sent to the 'sin bin' for seven minutes for an infringement on Michael Lowry.
Larmour almost grabbed his second try of the game, but was tackled into touch by the corner flag before he could ground the ball.
RBAI captain and playmaker Lowry was then taken off injured, and while Methody pushed for a potential winning score, they could only muster Kerr's three-pointer to eat into their opponents' lead.
"The boys stuck at it well, they showed real effort and grit in the last 20 minutes, and the boys off the bench put in a great shift too. It's a real privilege to lead such a great bunch of guys," said RBAI skipper Lowry after the match.
The meeting was the 15th encounter between the schools in the showpiece decider, Inst having now emerged victorious on 10 occasions.
RBAI last lifted the cup in three consecutive years in the 1940s, when they actually won the final six times in a row between 1943 and 1948.
Thousands of people took to the streets in New York and other US cities, disrupting traffic and holding sit-ins.
The protests began on Wednesday, after a grand jury decided not to press charges over the death of Eric Garner.
Civil rights activists are pinning their hopes on a federal investigation into the case.
The mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, said the city's 22,000-strong police force would be retrained in how to better communicate and remain calm when making arrests, and they will be fitted with body cameras.
US President Barack Obama welcomed the mayor's commitment to act, adding: "Too many Americans feel deep unfairness when it comes to the gap between our professed ideals and how laws are applied on a day to day basis."
America saw a wave of race-related unrest only last week over the decision not to indict another white police officer who had shot dead a young black man, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri.
UN human rights experts have expressed "legitimate concerns" over the decisions not to bring to trial the cases of both Mr Brown and Mr Garner.
Policing and race
13%
of the US population is black
28% of suspects arrested in the US in 2010 were black
32% of people killed from 2003 to 2009 in arrest-related incidents were black
42% of inmates on death row in 2012 were black
On Thursday night in New York, protesters carried coffins across the Brooklyn Bridge and marched in several groups through Manhattan, carrying banners saying "Racism kills" and "This stops today".
"People are sick and tired of the systemic problems of racism in this country," said one protester, Jason Pollock. "We are out here in the streets to say that black life matters."
Police in riot gear told protesters staging sit-ins that they would face arrest if they did not move along. Police arrested more than 80 people in Wednesday's protests, though the demonstrations have been largely peaceful.
Smaller-scale protests were held in cities including Chicago, Washington, Denver, and Boston. In Minneapolis, some protesters blocked traffic by marching or lying in the middle of a highway.
Activists have called for another march in Washington on 13 December, followed by a summit on civil rights.
Mr Garner, 43, was stopped on a street in New York on 17 July on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes.
After a confrontation with police officer Daniel Pantaleo placed his arm round Mr Garner's neck. Mr Garner, who had asthma, was wrestled to the ground and restrained by force.
On video of the incident, he can be heard repeatedly saying "I can't breathe". He became unresponsive and later died.
The city's medical examiner's office found in the summer that Mr Garner's death was caused by "the compression of his chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by police".
Police unions and Mr Pantaleo's lawyer, Stuart London, have said he used an accepted takedown manoeuvre on Mr Garner, rather than a chokehold, which is banned under New York City police regulations.
Mr Pantaleo testified to having heard Mr Garner say "I can't breathe" but said he had believed that once he got him down on the ground and put him on his side, he would be revived by paramedics, according to Mr London.
Mr Pantaleo also testified that he had tried in vain to talk Mr Garner into complying with police instructions - something not seen on the video. "Let's make this easy, you've been through this before," the police officer is said to have told Mr Garner.
Attorney General Eric Holder promised "an independent, thorough, fair and expeditious" federal investigation into potential civil rights violations in the case.
A review of how to heal a "breakdown in trust" between police and communities is also under way.
Elsewhere in the US several other racially sensitive cases appeared this week:
Jean Ping, ex-head of the African Union commission, said he was waiting for the president to call and congratulate him.
Mr Bongo, whose family has governed for nearly 50 years, has called for calm and for people to wait for official results on Tuesday.
Gabon is a major oil producer, but still has high levels of poverty.
The head of the 70-strong European Union election monitoring team in the country has said the polls "lacked transparency".
The atmosphere in the capital Libreville was calm overnight, according to a BBC correspondent on the ground.
The head of the African Union election observer mission in Gabon, Casam Uteem told BBC Focus on Africa that he was not worried by the uncertainty.
"So long as as the results are not made official, I don't think anybody can claim victory at this stage," he said.
Ali Bongo won disputed elections in 2009, following the death of his father Omar Bongo, who led the small West African nation for 41 years.
President Yahya Jammeh ruled the country with an iron fist after seizing power in a bloodless coup in 1994. His 22-year rule appeared to come to an end in 2016 when he was defeated in a shock election result by the main opposition candidate, Adama Barrow, but Mr Jammeh declared a state of emergency and refused to step down.
Stability has not translated into prosperity. Despite the presence of the Gambia River, which runs through the middle of the country, only one-sixth of the land is arable and poor soil quality has led to the predominance of one crop - peanuts.
Tourism is an important source of foreign exchange, as is the money sent home by Gambians living abroad. Most visitors are drawn to the resorts that occupy a stretch of the Atlantic coast.
Population 1.8 million
Area 11,295 sq km (4,361 sq miles)
Languages English (official), Mandinka, Wolof, Fula
Major religions Islam, Christianity
Life expectancy 58 years (men), 60 years (women)
Currency dalasi
President: Adama Barrow
Adama Barrow defeated longtime President Yahya Jammeh in a shock election result in December 2016.
Mr Barrow, a property developer, ended Yahya Jammeh's 22-year authoritarian rule by winning more than 45% of the vote.
A member of the United Democratic Party, during his election campaign Mr Barrow pledged to revive the country's economy.When Mr Jammeh refused to step down, Adama Barrow took the oath of office at the Gambian embassy in neighbouring Senegal.
Outgoing president: Yahya Jammeh
Yahya Jammeh seized power in 1994 as a young army lieutenant.
He won four largely criticised multi-party elections and faced down several coup attempts before suffering a shock election defeat at the hands of opposition candidate Adama Barrow in 2016. He refused to step down, and declared a state of emergency. Regional states ordered him to quit office or face military intervention.
A controversial leader throughout his tenure in office, he raised eyebrows early in 2007 when he claimed that he could cure AIDS with herbs and bananas.
Mr Jammeh's government has been criticised by international rights groups for its attitude to civil liberties, especially ahead of the December 2016 presidential election.
He called homosexuals ''vermin'' in 2014 and said the government would deal with them as it would malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
A "pervasive climate of fear" forces most journalists to practice self-censorship or flee the country, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
The law provides for jail terms for libel or sedition. Freedom House notes that journalists are regularly arrested on "flimsy and superficial" charges.
State-run Radio Gambia broadcasts tightly-controlled news, which is relayed by private radio stations. Radio France Internationale is available on FM in Banjul.
The government operates the only national TV station and blocks critical websites.
Many news websites and blogs are based overseas and some are run by exiled journalists, according to Freedom House.
Some key dates in Gambia's history:
1889 - Present boundaries of The Gambia set by agreement between Britain and France; five years later it becomes a British protectorate until its independence in 1965.
1982 - The Gambia and Senegal form a loose confederation called Senegambia, which collapses in 1989.
1994 - Lieutenant Yahya Jammeh takes over the country in a coup. He is elected president two years later in a vote that three major political parties were barred from taking part in. He goes on to win three more elections and defeat several coup attempts.
2013 - President Jammeh announces Gambia's withdrawal from the Commonwealth, describing it as a "neo-colonial institution". Critics say the move was prompted by wide-spread international condemnation over the government's human rights violations.
2015 - President Jammeh declares the country an Islamic republic to break from the country's "colonial legacy".
2016 - President Jammeh's 22-year-rule seems to draw to close after shock election defeat by Adama Barrow.
In a visit to St Thomas' Hospital in central London, the couple met Jonny Benjamin and Neil Laybourn - the stranger who persuaded him not to jump off Waterloo Bridge in 2008.
The men were reunited six years later when Mr Benjamin started a Twitter campaign to trace him.
The 26-year-old is now a campaigner.
An emotional Mr Benjamin told Prince William and his wife how his psychological problems began at an early age with hearing voices, and when he turned 16 he started struggling with depression.
He was diagnosed with a combined schizophrenia and bipolar condition and had hit "rock bottom" at the time of the incident on Waterloo Bridge.
Mr Laybourn described how he was walking to work when he spotted Mr Benjamin - now his good friend - wearing just a T-shirt and trousers on a freezing winter day perched on the side of the bridge.
"It was a real snap decision, all the time I was walking up to Jonny I was thinking, 'Why was he there, should I talk to him or not?', he told the duke and duchess.
"I just felt he needed help."
The Cambridges were at the NHS hospital - where Mr Benjamin was treated after the bridge incident - to hear about support services for people experiencing suicidal thoughts.
Mr Benjamin tracked down his saviour in 2014 after he launched a campaign using the hashtag #FindMike search.
Goals from John O'Sullivan and substitute Romuald Boco halted the Magpies' unbeaten run, which included one Checkatrade Trophy success.
The hosts had yet to score first in a League Two game this season and continued that run as they fell behind in the 17th minute to O'Sullivan's deflected strike.
Jonathan Forte did his best to level, but his shot towards the near post brought a fine save from visiting goalkeeper Aaron Chapman.
Notts were out of sorts, but having come from behind to snatch results in their last three league games, they came out with purpose and a much quicker tempo at the start of the second half, with Louis Laing volleying straight at Chapman from a Michael O'Connor free-kick.
But an inspired substitution from Accrington boss John Coleman helped his side deservedly extend their lead when Boco fired an effort past Adam Collin.
With Notts fans restless, John Sheridan's side did their best to launch a comeback but they were indebted to Collin for keeping the score down with an excellent save from Billy Kee.
Reports supplied by Press Association.
Match ends, Notts County 0, Accrington Stanley 2.
Second Half ends, Notts County 0, Accrington Stanley 2.
Alex Rodman (Notts County) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Romuald Boco (Accrington Stanley).
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Thierry Audel.
Richard Duffy (Notts County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Steven Hewitt (Accrington Stanley).
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Jordan Clark.
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Carl Dickinson.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Steven Hewitt replaces Scott Brown.
Richard Duffy (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley).
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Louis Laing.
Foul by Michael O'Connor (Notts County).
Jordan Clark (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Adam Collin.
Substitution, Notts County. Adam Campbell replaces Vadaine Oliver.
Jonathan Forte (Notts County) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Zak Vyner (Accrington Stanley).
Substitution, Notts County. Robert Milsom replaces Matt Tootle.
Foul by Alex Rodman (Notts County).
Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Seamus Conneely.
Alex Rodman (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Scott Brown (Accrington Stanley).
Goal! Notts County 0, Accrington Stanley 2. Romuald Boco (Accrington Stanley) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Seamus Conneely.
Foul by Carl Dickinson (Notts County).
Seamus Conneely (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Romuald Boco replaces John O'Sullivan.
Substitution, Notts County. Aaron Collins replaces Jon Stead.
Vadaine Oliver (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Omar Beckles (Accrington Stanley).
Zak Vyner (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Vadaine Oliver (Notts County).
Seamus Conneely (Accrington Stanley) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by John O'Sullivan.
Matt Tootle (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by John O'Sullivan (Accrington Stanley).
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Matty Pearson.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Zak Vyner.
Bitwalking dollars will be earned by walking, unlike other digital currencies such as Bitcoins that are "mined" by computers.
A phone application counts and verifies users' steps, with walkers earning approximately 1 BW$ for about 10,000 steps (about five miles).
Initially, users will be given the chance to spend what they earn in an online store, or trade them for cash.
The founders of the project, Nissan Bahar and Franky Imbesi have attracted more than $10m (£6.6m) of initial funding from mainly Japanese investors to help launch the currency and create the bank that verifies steps and any transfers.
Japanese electronics giant, Murata is working on a wearable wristband that will provide an alternative to carrying a smartphone and show how many BW$ the wearer has earned.
Shoe manufacturers are poised to accept the currency, and a UK high street bank is in talks to partner with the project at one of the UK's biggest music festivals next year.
The founders have a track record in disruptive technology that could help developing nations as much as richer ones.
Last year they launched Keepod, a $7 USB stick that acts like a computer in Nairobi, Kenya.
The idea of Bitwalking is to take advantage of the trend for fitness trackers by offering an additional incentive to keep fit.
The global scheme plans to partner with sportswear brands, health services, health insurance firms, environmental groups, and potentially advertisers who could be offered unique insights into the audiences they are targeting.
In the future employers may be offered a scheme to offer to their employees to encourage them to stay fitter, with the currency they earn converted and then paid alongside their salaries.
In developed nations the average person would earn around 15 BW$ a month, but its hoped that in poorer countries where people have to walk further for work, school, or simply to collect water, the Bitwalking scheme could help transform lives.
Salim Adam walks around 6 miles (10km) a day to work as an IT teacher at his local college in Mthuntama in northern Malawi.
He has worked out that he can earn 26 BW$ a month just by having the app running on his mobile phone. His current salary is the equivalent of $26 USD.
The impact Bitwalking could make in developing countries isn't lost on the founders. It is one of the central reasons for creating the currency. In Malawi, one of the African nations to join at the launch of the project, the average rural wage is just US$1.5 (£1) a day.
Business advisor, Karen Chinkwita runs Jubilee Enterprises, giving business guidance to young people in Lilongwe. She said "there may be a temptation for some to walk instead of work."
"But most people want to earn more money and will do both. With some education we can teach them how to use that money to create even more opportunities."
The Bitwalking manager for Malawi, Carl Meyer, has set up the first two Bitwalking hubs in Lilongwe and Mthuntama where local people will be trained how to trade the BW$ online for US$ or the local currency Malawi Kwacha.
Eventually an automatic online exchange is planned that will match up buyers with sellers and a rough exchange rate will begin to emerge.
The Go! app for iOS and Android devices will initially be offered to a handful of countries including the UK, Japan, Malawi, and Kenya to give the organisers a chance to iron-out any difficulties before other countries come on board.
The idea isn't completely new. Several start-ups have tried to connect keeping fit to earning rewards but most have failed to measure movement accurately enough to avoid scammers.
Bitwalking hasn't officially released the algorithm used to verify steps but says it uses the handsets' GPS position and wifi connections to calculate the distance travelled.
The team has created it's own walking algorithm to verify users' workouts after testing Google's and finding that steps could be spoofed.
The phone reports the speed and type of movement as measured by the accelerometer.
At its launch the total amount someone can claim in one day will be capped at around 3 BW$ (roughly 30,000 steps) and running multiple accounts will be banned.
The success of the scheme is likely to depend on how much interest there is from established companies such as big sportswear brands, health insurance firms, or charity and environmental groups all of whom have an incentive to work with the fitness sector.
In Japan, it is not unusual for firms to offer employees rewards for fitness activities. Bitwalking's founders hope their project could help extend this idea to other nations.
The country's largest convenience chain store, Lawson, runs a successful scheme that pays its workers up to $50 a year to eat healthily and keep fit.
But the Lawson scheme is based on promises and trust, so unlike Bitwalking it is not verifiable. The vouchers earned cannot be traded for cash.
Despite the freedom to trade, it is likely that unless BW$ can be freely used to buy goods and services they are likely to drop in value from parity with the US$ - the point where the founders are launching it.
The online store will sell goods for the same price in BW$ as US$.
Keeping the virtual shelves of this online store fully stocked will be one of the first challenges.
The shop isn't expected to be open all the time, but plans are in place for other retailers and service providers to accept the currency in their stores too.
It is still not clear how a currency that appears to be so easy for users to produce could maintain its value, nor if the initial funding for the scheme will be sufficient to sustain it in the initial period while confidence in its value is being built up.
The Bitwalking website will invite people to apply to join the scheme so the company has some control over user numbers.
Because the new scheme necessarily tracks its users they'll be data available that could be particularly valuable to advertisers and accompanying concerns over privacy.
"That won't be for sale," says co-founder Nissan Bahar.
"We may explore offering advertisers the opportunity to focus on different groups depending on how active they are, but we won't pass on any information relating to individual's movements."
Transfers of the new currency will also be carefully monitored with transactions going through a central 'bank' which verifies each deal using the block chain method used to transfer other crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin.
Users will have access to their own wallet which stores the dollars they've earned and will be able to transfer them to others via the app.
"It's a currency that can be earned by anyone regardless of who they are and where they live," says Franky Imbesi.
"For some it will be a free cup of coffee a week perhaps offered by local businesses to encourage people to explore their local shops. For others it could be a game changer, transforming their lives by enabling them to earn and trade in the same way with the rest of the world."
"And all while encouraging us to protect the planet and stay healthy."
A shortage of doctors is often the reason which has left expectant mothers being transferred at short notice to give birth further away from home.
It is understood the three maternity units in Gwynedd, Denbighshire and Wrexham have on different occasions implemented "emergency closures".
These usually last for several hours.
"It's incredibly disruptive (for mothers)," said Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board's head of midwifery, Fiona Giraud.
"The first that any woman would know about it would be when they phone the unit in early labour or when seeking advice in relation to their pregnancy.
"But this is a service that's currently run as if it's in emergency mode 24-hours a day and it is monitored to that level. No other maternity service in Wales or any of the other countries are monitored to this level."
Staff sickness, a lack of a temporary locum positions, or mothers with high level or complex care can bring levels at any one unit below what bosses deem to be safe and they say they have no option but to shut the doors.
The health board argues full-blown maternity services cannot be kept running at all three hospitals.
It wants to temporarily transfer maternity doctors from Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan to strengthen the teams at Bangor's Ysbyty Gwynedd and the Wrexham Maelor Hospital.
Glan Clwyd would only have a stand alone midwife-led maternity unit - for low-risk pregnancies. Higher risk mothers would need to go to Bangor or Wrexham.
But the proposal has caused uproar amongst some campaigners.
Following a public consultation, the health board will decide what to do on 8 December.
Interim chief executive Simon Dean said: "The whole point of these changes is to offer the best possible treatment to the people we serve and on occasions that may have to mean travelling distances that in an ideal world they'd prefer not to."
The Irishman, 27, was set to fight Rafael dos Anjos for the Brazilian's lightweight title on 5 March but the champion pulled out with a foot injury.
McGregor said: "As long as there's an opponent and a date, you'll see me.
"The only weight I (care) about is the weight of them cheques, and my cheques are always super-heavyweight."
McGregor is predicting a quick victory over America's Diaz, 30, in their non-title welterweight fight at UFC 196 in Las Vegas.
He added: "His soft body and his lack of preparation, he will not be able to handle the ferocity. End of the first round I feel he will be put away.
"There's a respect there between us but it's business in there and business is business. He will be KO'd inside the first round."
McGregor was looking to make history against Dos Anjos by becoming the first fighter to hold titles in multiple weight classes at the same time.
And he was critical of the Brazilian for pulling out of their bout.
McGregor, who also distanced himself from Diaz's claims that all UFC fighters use steroids, said: "Dos Anjos has a bruise on his foot. Did ya see it?
"It's a bruise. Ice. Ibuprofen. If I jumped under an X-ray, the doctor would slap me and say: 'What are you doing, kid? Get out of here! Stop this.'"
Chemotherapy and radiotherapy can damage the reproductive organs in girls and boys, with one in 10 undergoing such treatment being left sterile.
The NHS does not fund the freezing of testicular or ovarian tissue needed to let patients have their own children.
But the money from fertility firm IVI has helped create a national service.
Doctors said it was "amazing" that such "groundbreaking treatment" was now available.
In 2014, a woman in Belgium was the first in the world to give birth to a baby using ovarian tissue that was frozen when she was still a child.
"It's a very significant problem," said Dr Shelia Lane, a consultant paediatric oncologist at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
She said patients who have conquered cancer would often struggle to even form relationships knowing they could not have children.
Her site in Oxford has been offering fertility preservation on a case-by-case basis for the past two years.
But it depends on local groups of doctors deciding if individual patients should be funded or using the hospital's own charitable funds.
Prof Lane told BBC News: "The donation will make such a significant difference to making this available to every eligible patient.
"It has given us the opportunity to make this groundbreaking treatment available to young people at risk of fertility failure and it's amazing that we can do that.
"As we accumulate more data it will be reviewed and hopefully get standard NHS funding and I think in the future it will become part of cancer treatment."
Hospital staff will have to collect the tissue from the patient and return it to Oxford in the short window between diagnosis and therapy starting.
There are around 1,500 new cases of childhood cancer in people under 15, but only those at highest risk of infertility will be offered tissue freezing.
Fertility preservation costs roughly £3,000 to £5,000 per patient.
If the child died then the donated tissue could only be incinerated or used for research.
Prof Antonio Pellicer, the president IVI, said: "We hope that it [the donation] will help to deliver this important service to young people with cancer.
"Alongside this, our Foundation will work with the University of Oxford on the basic science around the return of fertility to young people who undergo sterilising treatment for their cancer."
The university will be investigating the science of fertility preservation - including how to ensure that any returned tissue is free from cancer, producing eggs in the laboratory and finding ways to protect such tissue from being damaged by treatment in the first place.
The charity said notable sightings included 100 white-beaked dolphins from Holborn Head in Caithness, and 12 killer whales off Unst in Shetland.
Marine biologists and volunteers who took part in the survey captured images of some of the whales, dolphins and porpoises spotted.
Colin Speedie photographed killer whales, including a male nicknamed John Coe that can be indentified by a notch on its dorsal fin.
The whale is a member of a small, west coast community of orcas.
In recent years, the group of whales have been seen off the Isle of Eigg, also from John O'Groats and even off the east coast from Peterhead and Girdleness.
White-beaked dolphins were recorded in large numbers on several occasions during the survey.
Chanonry Point in the Black Isle, near Inverness, is a hot spot for sightings of bottlenose dolphins.
A Risso's dolphin with its young was another notable sighting during the national, annual survey.
More than 400 harbour porpoises were recorded off the shores of the Hebrides, including Canna, north east mainland Scotland and Orkney.
Staff at Claythorpe Watermill, near Alford, Lincolnshire, said Stan the cockerel had a reputation for chasing toddlers and pecking ankles.
They said with the busy summer season approaching it might be better if Stan found somewhere else to live.
Owner Rebecca Agate said she wanted people to enjoy a trouble-free visit to the watermill.
She said: "We get a lot of small children visiting the park and if he is chasing you, or pecking, he can be a bit intimidating.
"So, rather than people going away remembering their visit for the wrong reasons, we thought someone might be able to offer him a nice home."
She said Stan, who is thought to be at least part Dutch bantam, has "lots of personality and likes being around people".
However, she added: "He has a bit of a grumpy side as well."
There have been numerous other cases of birds attacking either people, animals, or other objects.
Last year in Cambridgeshire, a "terrorist" pheasant attacked vehicles and chased cats and dogs at a farm in Hail Weston.
One delivery driver was trapped for 20 minutes after the bird blocked his way, flew at the bonnet then chased his van.
Another pheasant, named Phil, started attacking members of a Shropshire family, forcing one of them to carry a badminton racket for self-defence.
Claythorpe Watermill and Wildfowl Gardens is home to numerous animals, including waterfowl, wallabies, chipmunks and peacocks, as well as a family of otters.
Firms pumped out more emissions than allowed, operated without licences or had insufficient pollution control equipment, Xinhua news agency reported.
Checks were carried out at thousands of companies at 28 cities in and around the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
Air pollution in Chinese cities is notoriously bad.
The findings appear to confirm suspicions that companies ignore strict environmental protection policies and that officials do not enforce them, correspondents say.
Inspections found that more than 13,000 companies had failed to meet environmental standards, the ministry of environmental protection said in a statement.
The ministry ordered local officials to investigate the firms and rectify the problems, the statement said.
China's government is under pressure to do more to address the sources of smog, including reducing reliance on coal-fired power plants, the country's primary source of electricity.
Earlier this year, Beijing's mayor said a new team of environmental police would try to reduce smog levels by tackling local sources of air pollution, including open-air barbecues and dusty roads.
The mayor also promised to reduce coal consumption by 30% this year.
While some papers tried to score points on who was favoured more by the pontiff in his visits to holy sites and landmarks, others felt his tour would have no impact on the Middle East conflict.
Some editorials in the Palestinian press were positive about the visit, praising the Pope for what they saw as his recognition of a Palestinian state.
"The Pope blesses the establishment of a Palestinian state," pro-Fatah Al-Ayyam newspaper, declared.
It said that while some world leaders visited Israel before heading to Ramallah - the Palestinians' de facto administrative capital - the Pope began his journey in Ramallah first.
"That means avoiding entering Ramallah from the Israeli gate and airspace, underlining that he recognises Palestine and dealing with it as a [sovereign] state," Al-Ayyam said.
Another Palestinian paper also lauded the Pope for visiting the Israeli barrier separating Bethlehem in the West Bank from Jerusalem. Pro-Fatah Al-Quds said that his insistence on leaving his car and walking to the gate there to say a prayer was "a step with a unique significance".
The pro-Hamas Filastin newspaper however rejected the pontiff's visit outright. "The Pope's visit to the occupied Palestinian territories is mainly political," an editorial said, claiming that he conveyed the message of the US administration to the Palestinians. "Anyone who believes that the Church will oppose the Israeli occupier is wrong. The Church recognises the legitimacy of the entity which usurped Palestine and did not condemn the crime of the blockade of Gaza," it said.
But according to an editorial in the Palestinian Authority-owned newspaper Al-Hayat al-Jadidah, the Pope's visit came at a "crucial time" after great upheaval in the region.
"The Arab Spring created a state of fear and apprehension for many religious sects, particularly Christians, as Christian Arabs in Iraq and Syria have been the target of dubious Islamist groups," the paper said. "For this reason, the Pope's visit carries an important political and moral meaning in encouraging Palestinian and Arab Christians, in general, to remain in their homeland."
In the Israeli press, some commentators felt that the Palestinians had indeed scored a PR victory. "There is no doubt that the Pope gave the Palestinians tail wind in the PR battle they have been leading in recent months," Jack Khoury wrote in Israel's Haaretz daily.
Saying that the Pope's decision to fly directly from Jordan to Bethlehem without landing at Israel's Ben Gurion airport was being perceived by the Palestinians as recognition of sorts for an independent state, Khoury said that the pontiff's "most significant, most political step" was his decision to pray at the West Bank barrier.
"In a calculated decision, the Pope descended the vehicle taking him to the mass, stood in front of the fence and prayed... No-one heard the prayer, but it is clear that his attitude to it was not positive and within minutes his picture praying in front of the fence starred in news sites all over the world..."
Ben Hartman in the Jerusalem Post agreed that photographs of the Pope praying at the barrier overshadowed his visit to Tel Aviv. "Pictures had already circulated the globe of the pope only minutes earlier praying at the West Bank security barrier, his head bowed in prayer, surrounded on both sides by graffiti reading 'Free Palestine' and 'Bethlehem looks like Warsaw Ghetto.' A shot like that is hard to compete with."
However an editorial in the Jerusalem Post conceded that the Pope had tried to be even-handed. "In what can be seen as an attempt to balance the impression made by his silent prayer at the security barrier outside Bethlehem, Francis also made an unplanned visit to a memorial to Israeli terrorism victims on Mount Herzl," it said.
"Showing empathy for one side risked offending the other side. Too neutral a message would be seen as bland… These nearly insurmountable challenges were met by Francis with grace and charm."
But while Reuven Berko in Yisrael Hayom said that the Pope's meetings with the Israeli president and prime minister were "de facto expressions of the Vatican's recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel", Noah Klieger in Yediot Aharonot was disappointed. "The statements of Francis at this impressive, touching memorial [to victims of terrorism] in the Jerusalem mountains were undoubtedly sincere and came from genuine pain. It's just a pity they will contribute nothing to the struggle against the spread of anti-Semitism in the world."
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Jerame Reid was a passenger in a car pulled over by police in Bridgeton, New Jersey, for going through a stop sign.
Before opening fire, one officer warns his partner about seeing a gun.
The case follows months of protests over the killings of unarmed black men by white police officers in New York and Ferguson, Missouri.
However, one of the two officers involved in the Bridgeton altercation is black.
The newly released footage from a police dashboard camera shows police approach the car and then an officer warning his colleague about seeing a gun in the glove compartment.
An officer shouts at Jerame Reid to show his hands and warns him that: "If you reach for something, you're going to be... dead."
After the officer reaches into the car to retrieve what appears on the video to be a handgun, the car door opens and Jerame Reid steps out with his empty hands raised to his shoulders.
At that moment, the two officers fired several shots.
The killing on 30 December has already sparked protests in Bridgeton, a city of about 25,000 people south of Philadelphia.
The BBC's Nick Bryant in New York says the video is likely to inflame tensions further.
Both officers have been given leave pending an investigation by the Cumberland County prosecutor's office.
Activists say they want the prosecutor to transfer the case to the state attorney general.
Scientists at the University of Aberdeen are working to find ways to prevent hackers enticing people into downloading malware.
Recent large-scale incidents included one that affected the NHS across the UK, including Scottish health boards.
The researchers suggest hackers "exploit" certain human behaviour.
The scientists believe the main problem faced by big organisations is getting computer users to follow existing security policies.
The project will test how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and persuasion techniques can improve the way safety advice is followed.
The UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has awarded the research team £756,000 towards their Supporting Security Policy with Effective Digital Intervention project, which now has total funding of more than £1m.
Dr Matthew Collinson, who is the principal investigator on the project, said: "If we look at most cyber security attacks, there is a weakness relating to human behaviour that hackers seek to exploit.
"Their most common approach, and the one we are most familiar with, is the use of phishing emails to entice a user to download malware on to their computer.
"One of the main problems faced by companies and organisations is getting computer users to follow existing security policies, and the main aim of this project is to develop methods to ensure that people are more likely to do so."
The project coincides with the launch of a new masters degree in AI at the university.
Russia is barred from international athletics after last year's McLaren report claimed more than 1,000 athletes benefited from a state-sponsored doping programme between 2011 and 2015.
The Russians vowed to make changes but the taskforce set up to monitor those has delivered a damning report.
"There is no reason why better progress has not been made," Coe said.
"It's not that complicated, frankly. The criteria we laid down is the criteria that stands. There is no timeline here. We are going to see this through."
Speaking at a IAAF council meeting in London, Coe said that the six milestones set out for the reinstatement of the Russian Athletics Federation are still outstanding.
Furthermore, the taskforce concluded "it does not look like they will be met any time soon".
Their concerns centre on problems with testing, the difficulties in getting biological passport samples, issues around closed cities, and the employment of coaches who were linked to tainted regimes.
Meanwhile, the World Anti-Doping Agency has lifted the suspension on the doping analysis laboratory in Doha.
It was one of 34 Wada-accredited facilities to lose its status last year.
Coe also confirmed that world athletics' governing body has scrapped plans to remove the 50km men's walk from the Olympic programme.
She also said that lewd comments Donald Trump made about women that were caught on videotape were unacceptable but did not represent the man she knows.
The Republican presidential nominee was guilty of "boy talk" but was "egged on" by TV host Billy Bush, she added.
The tape prompted dozens of Republicans to drop their support for him.
In the video, Mr Trump tells Mr Bush, who was then host of NBC's Access Hollywood, that he can force himself on women because he's a star.
Several women have since come forward and accused Mr Trump of sexual assault, which he denies.
"I know he respects women but he is defending himself because they are lies," Mrs Trump said in an interview with CNN.
"I believe my husband," she said. "My husband is kind and he is a gentleman and he would never do that."
She claimed the scandal had been "organised and put together to hurt his candidacy" by Hillary Clinton's campaign team and the media.
"With the details [the media] have got, did they ever check the backgrounds of these women? They didn't have any facts," she added.
Speaking for the first since the scandal began, Mrs Trump defended her husband's conduct with women, saying he had never behaved inappropriately over the years.
Women commonly approached her husband in front of her to give him their phone numbers and behave inappropriately, she said.
Reflecting on the 2005 Access Hollywood videotape leaked to the media 10 days ago, she said: "I said to my husband that, you know, the language was inappropriate. It's not acceptable.
"And I was surprised, because that is not the man that I know."
After the taped remarks became public, Mrs Trump issued a statement saying she found the words he spoke to be offensive but she accepted his apology.
Now she believes Billy Bush, who was fired by NBC over the tape, was the main culprit.
Mr Trump, she said, "was led on - like, egged on - from the host to say dirty and bad stuff".
She also justified her husband's tactic of appearing with the women who have accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual assault.
With three weeks to go before Americans cast their vote, polls show Mr Trump with considerable ground to make up on Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in key battleground states.
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Adelaide sweltered through four consecutive days of 40C-plus temperatures until rain on Sunday brought cooler weather.
Paul Jansen was driving to a Christmas carols event on Sunday when he spotted the thirsty marsupial.
Mr Jansen, who filmed the incident, told the BBC he was amazed by the amount of water it was drinking.
"It didn't mind the attention or the road noise, it was just focused on the drink," Mr Jansen said.
"They don't usually drink so much water, it's usually extreme cases."
Fauna Rescue of South Australia volunteer Anne Bigham said the organisation took around 60 calls about koalas every day during the heatwave.
She said it was hard to determine whether a koala was heat-stressed or suffering renal failure, a kidney disease common in South Australian koalas.
The koala in the video likely left its tree because it was feeling ill and took the opportunity to rehydrate at the drain, she said.
"I think they're just feeling so rotten that they come down to the ground," she said.
The 64-year-old Rugby Football Union chairman was the unanimous choice of the World Rugby board, with ex-Argentina international Agustin Pichot taking the role of vice-chairman.
The pair begin their tenure on 1 July.
Beaumont captained England to the grand slam in 1980 and led the Lions tour of South Africa that same year.
Pichot, 41, won 71 caps at scrum-half for Argentina before retiring from playing in 2009.
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Scientists from Scotland, Canada and US, said their studies of rocks on Barra and the Uists showed that hydrogen was formed after earthquakes.
Hydrogen is essential for supporting life, the researchers said.
The scientists said on Mars there are "Marsquakes" which may produce hydrogen in the same way as quakes on Earth.
The study, which has been published in the journal Astrobiology, was carried out by scientists from the University of Aberdeen, working alongside colleagues from Yale University in the US and Brock University in Canada.
Their research was supported by the Science and Technology Facilities Council and has been released amid preparations for Nasa's 2018 mission to the Red Planet.
Prof John Parnell, from the University of Aberdeen's School of Geosciences, said: "Earthquakes cause friction, and our analysis of ancient rock in the Outer Hebrides has demonstrated how this creates hydrogen.
"Hydrogen is a fuel for simple microbes, so microbes could live off hydrogen created in the Earth's subsurface as a result of seismic activity.
"This is a model that could apply to any other rocky planet, and on Mars there are so-called 'Marsquakes' that may produce hydrogen and therefore could feed life in the Martian sub-surface.
"Our analysis finds that conservative estimates of current seismic activity on Mars predict hydrogen generation that would be useful to microbes, which adds strength to the possibility of suitable habitats that could support life in the Martian sub-surface."
He added: "Nasa has plans to measure seismic activity on Mars during its 2018 InSight mission, and our data will make those measurements all the more interesting."
Det Con Sharon Garrett, 48, died in a five-vehicle collision on the A141 near Wyton, Cambridgeshire, in June 2014.
Danny Warby, 28, of Runcton Holme, near King's Lynn, Norfolk, had opened a text message moments before his 13.6-tonne vehicle hit the officer's car.
Warby had denied causing Mrs Garrett's death by dangerous driving but was convicted by a jury last month.
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He was also banned from driving for 10 years.
During a nine-day trial, Peterborough Crown Court heard Warby had opened a text message one minute and six seconds before the crash.
His vehicle crossed the white line in the centre of the road and clipped an oncoming lorry, showering two cars in debris, before crashing into Mrs Garrett's Renault Clio, which was in the oncoming line of traffic.
Warby was driving at 53mph (85km/h) on a stretch of single carriageway restricted to 40mph (64km/h) for lorries at the time of the collision, the prosecution said.
The court heard the delivery firm driver had numerous previous convictions including speeding and using a mobile phone while driving. In 2015, Warby was banned for a year for drink-driving.
Mother of two Mrs Garrett was married to a fellow police officer and was on her way home from work at the time of the crash on 6 June.
Her car crashed off the road and ended up in a field and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
Sentencing Warby to six years in prison, His Honour Judge Stuart Bridge told him it was clear he had not learned anything from his previous court appearances.
"Your driving in general was reckless and cavalier, and on this day it was deplorable," he said.
"Mrs Garrett and her family have paid the ultimate price."
Mrs Garrett joined Cambridgeshire Police in 1991 and served in a number of roles across the force, most recently investigating complex fraud offences in the Economic Crime Unit.
In a statement released after Warby's conviction, her family said they remained "devastated" by her death.
"Sharon was a fantastic mother who has been taken from her two young children in such tragic circumstances," they said.
Mr Sipila has already rejected claims of a conflict of interest over a contract awarded by a state-run mine to a steel company owned by his relatives.
But the case has now also placed him at the heart of a censorship row.
It has emerged that Mr Sipila sent a series of emails to public broadcaster YLE to complain about its coverage.
Finland has been rated highest in the World Press Freedom index for the past five years.
The prime minister told reporters on Wednesday that he had not tried to limit press freedom or influence the broadcaster, but said he had not been given a fair opportunity to comment on the allegations against him.
According to YLE, Mr Sipila also felt that its coverage had given an impression that he or his relatives had acted fraudulently.
The Suomen Kuvalehti website reported on Wednesday that the prime minister had sent a string of critical messages late on 25 November to a YLE reporter covering the story.
A news story written by the public broadcaster on Friday night assessing allegations of a conflict of interest involving Mr Sipila was dropped, the website said. A further story written on Monday morning about the prime minister's emails was also shelved, it added, citing three sources at YLE.
Finnish talk show host Ruben Stiller complained on Twitter on Friday that he had been barred from raising the issue on his weekly programme.
YLE's news and current affairs editor Atte Jaaskelainen responded to the allegations with a lengthy piece denying that the broadcaster had been silenced. The story had led all YLE's platforms for four days, he argued, insisting that the prime minister's emails had played no part in its coverage.
However, he said the broadcaster had decided not to publish stories questioning whether Mr Sipila should have not taken part in decisions on contracts awarded to his relatives' steel company.
That was because YLE had decided to wait until investigations had been carried out into whether there had been a conflict of interest. Mr Stiller returned to Twitter on Wednesday to say the ban on him covering the story had been lifted.
The 24-year-old Germany international, who arrived from Schalke in 2013 for £1.5m, played 42 games for Spurs.
After a loan spell at Fulham, he spent much of last season on loan at Bundesliga club Hamburg, who exercised an option to make the deal permanent.
Brazil midfielder Paulinho left Tottenham for Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande for £9.9m on Tuesday.
The militants have also moved Christians taken captive in the town to their stronghold of Raqqa, according to a UK-based monitoring group.
IS captured al-Qaryatain from government forces some two weeks ago.
Photos showed the group bulldozing parts of the monastery, which was founded more than 1,500 years ago.
IS also transferred more than 100 captives to Raqqa, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
But the group says the fate of 230 people kidnapped after al-Qaryatain's capture remains unclear, including Jacques Mourad, a prominent local priest who had been working at the Mar Elian monastery.
January: The group ransacks the central library in the Iraqi city of Mosul, burning thousands of books.
February: A video emerges showing the destruction of ancient artefacts at the central museum in Mosul.
March: IS uses explosives and bulldozers on Nimrud, one of Iraq's greatest archaeological treasures. Shortly after they destroy ruins at Hatra.
May: The group overruns the historic Syrian city of Palmyra. They have destroyed statues there and this week were reported to have beheaded an expert at the site.
IS regards Christians as infidels. The threat of violence and persecution from the militants has forced many Christian communities from their homes in Syria and northern Iraq.
Al-Qaryatain was captured in the militants' first major offensive since May, when they seized the historic town of Palmyra, famed for its Roman-style ruins.
More than 230,000 Syrians have died in the civil war, which began after anti-government protests in March 2011.
Rebel groups that originally fought against the government of President Bashar al-Assad have also been battling each other in an increasingly complex and bloody conflict.
In a separate development, at least five people have died in an Israeli strike on a Syrian-held section of the Golan Heights.
Israel has carried out a series of raid in the area, which lies in south-western Syria, after rockets fired from Syria struck its territory on Thursday. The rockets set fire to scrubland but did not cause any casualties.
Israel's military has accused Palestinian militants from the Islamic Jihad group of firing the rockets, who Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran had given "sponsorship and instruction" to.
While the Israelis said five or six militants were killed, a Syrian army source, quoted on Syrian state TV, said the strike killed five civilians.
One Syrian soldier was earlier reported killed in an Israeli strike on military positions in the Syrian-held section of the Golan Heights.
Israel seized most of the Golan Heights from Syria in the closing stages of the 1967 Six-Day War.
The king's casket went on display on Monday morning and people waited up to four hours to see it.
Richard III's skeleton was found under a car park in Leicester in 2012.
A requiem mass was said at Holy Cross Church in Leicester earlier, led by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England.
The reburial ceremony will be held at Leicester Cathedral later this week, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.
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Liz Hudson from Leicester Cathedral said the amount of people visiting had been "remarkable".
"We would have liked for people not to have waited three to four hours but everybody has got through," she said.
"It is the only chance we will ever get to do this and we are expecting even more people on Tuesday with the longer opening times."
Richard, the last English king to die in battle, was killed at Bosworth Field in 1485, at the end of the Wars of the Roses.
After his death his body was taken to the Greyfriars Church in Leicester and buried in a hastily dug grave.
In the centuries since, Richard gained notoriety as Shakespeare's villain and the possible killer of the princes in the tower.
His grave's location became a mystery until it was found under a municipal car park in a discovery that stunned archaeologists and drew worldwide attention.
BBC Today's Justin Webb reports from Leicester Cathedral: "A combination of solemnity... and a tourist attraction".
In the queue outside the cathedral Rebecca McCole, from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA, said: "I was one of the lucky ones to get an invite so how could I not come to see this all.
"I have always been interested in history, especially in the British monarchy.
"This visit has been really inspiring and everyone has been so helpful and delightful."
Throughout Richard's turbulent upbringing - two periods of exile and the death in battle of his father - he proved himself a capable and loyal follower of his eldest brother, who became Edward IV.
However on Edward's death, Richard seized and imprisoned his young sons. They were then disinherited on the grounds Edward had a previously unheard-of marriage contract with another woman.
Richard passed a number of laws, including an early version of legal aid and making courts use English, which benefited the common man.
Despite this, his taking of the crown, the disappearance of Edward's sons and the execution of several leading nobles, lead to discontent and rebellions.
At Bosworth, Richard's larger army failed to crack Henry Tudor's troops while the king's reserves did not move to his aid.
The blackening of his reputation by Tudor historians started debate about his personality and legacy which is ongoing to this day.
John Wesseldine, from Barwell in Leicestershire, said he had taken sons Jayden and Jenson, aged 10, out of school to view the coffin.
Jayden said: "School wasn't going to do a trip to visit the cathedral so dad said he would bring us to see the King's coffin.
Mr Wesseldine said: "This is part of their history and is a chance to see a real King. It is a chance they will never get again so we made the effort to come down."
"The climax will come on Thursday when the Archbishop of Canterbury comes to join us - and the eyes of the world will be on us," the Bishop of Leicester, the Right Reverend Tim Stevens, said.
On Sunday, Richard's coffin left the University of Leicester where it had been kept since the discovery of his remains in 2012.
It was accompanied by the team who made the find to Fenn Lane Farm in the village of Dadlington, the site believed to be the closest to his death.
More than 35,000 people lined the route of the cortege as it travelled through Leicestershire and then back into the city for a service at the cathedral.
Trevor Monk, 47, of south east London, also paid nearly £15,000 to watch child sex abuse in Manila on his webcam.
Police found more than 80,000 images and 1,750 indecent videos of children in a raid on his home in March 2015.
He admitted possessing and making indecent images of children, assault of a child under 13 and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
In total Monk pleaded guilty to 18 charges at the Old Bailey.
One of the girls he abused was eight years old and an image of a three-year-old child was discovered among the pictures.
Judge Anuja Dhir described the pictures as "harrowing images of very young children being abused and degraded in the most vile manner".
She said: "Your actions were depraved and revolting. It is astonishing that anyone would want to film such abuse, but you did.
"I have no doubt you did so so that you could watch it again for your own sexual gratification."
The court heard Monk paid "facilitators" to watch live streams of abuse and for access to the children during a two-week holiday to the Far East in the spring of 2014.
The National Crime Association (NCA) arrested Monk as part of an investigation into UK nationals who pay to live-stream child abuse in the Philippines.
It was found he spent more than £14,000 to pay for what he called "shows" which he watched from his Erith home, before travelling to Manila to carry out the abuse himself.
Analysis
By BBC Correspondent Angus Crawford
The case of paedophile Trevor Monk represents a growing problem of British men ordering abuse over the internet.
Law enforcement is beginning to make inroads into the trade. Police in the Philippines carry out raids and arrests on a regular basis, but it's impossible to estimate accurately the scale of the problem.
Monk's case is significant because it shows that although his crimes began in the UK, using live streaming, that then led to him travelling to carry out contact abuse in the Philippines. The internet facilitated an escalation in his offending.
Most important though, is the fact that he got caught - thanks to co-operation between forces in the UK, US, Australia and the Philippines - which should send a powerful message to offenders that they cannot hide in the anonymity of the internet.
He was re-arrested in November when officers discovered a video of him sexually abusing a child during a trip to South East Asia.
Erica Hall, from aid charity World Vision UK, said: "The widespread use of webcams coupled with dire economic conditions in many parts of the world means we're seeing many more cases of such vile abuse.
"It's encouraging that laws are keeping up with technology...[but] we suspect this is the tip of the iceberg with many cases still undetected."
Following sentencing Kelvin Lay, senior investigating officer for the NCA, said it was a "very important result".
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The UK's first H5N8 strain in a wild bird was found in a wigeon at an estuary near the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust's Llanelli Wetland Centre.
The centre closed "as a precautionary measure".
But on Sunday it said all birds "look fine" and the animals would be watched closely.
The Welsh Government said it was the first time the H5N8 strain had been found in a wild bird in the UK.
Restrictions were imposed across Britain to keep birds indoors after the disease came to light across Europe, the Middle East and north Africa.
The risk to human health is low.
Unilever's leading brands include Marmite, PG Tips, Pot Noodle, St Ives, Vaseline, Lipton, Knorr, Ben & Jerry's, Brut, Magnum and Persil.
The deal - if it was to eventually succeed - would be the biggest acquisition of a British company on record, based on offer value.
Steve Clayton, fund manager at Hargreaves Lansdown, said such a deal would create enormous cost savings.
"Putting portfolios of brands together can create huge synergies across marketing, manufacturing and distribution, even before you think about cutting the combined HQ back to size," he said.
"Kraft Heinz are attempting a massive push on the fast forward button, for to acquire the sheer scale of brands that Unilever represents through one-off acquisitions could take decades.
"With debt cheap and abundant right now, Kraft have spotted their opportunity."
Globally, it would be the second-biggest deal behind Vodafone Airtouch's takeover of Germany's Mannesmann AG for $172bn (£138bn) in 1999.
Unilever announced last month that annual pre-tax profit rose to 7.47bn euro (£6.3bn) from 7.2bn euro (£6.1bn) last year, but revenues dropped 1% to 52.7bn euros (£44.7bn), while underlying sales rose by a lower-than-expected 3.7%.
Unilever clashed with supermarket Tesco in October over its attempts to raise prices to compensate for the steep drop in the value of the pound.
William Hesketh Lever, founder of Lever Brothers, wrote down his ideas for Sunlight Soap in the 1890s.
It was "to make cleanliness commonplace; to lessen work for women; to foster health and contribute to personal attractiveness, that life may be more enjoyable and rewarding for the people who use our products".
In 1887, William Lever bought the site where Port Sunlight would be built, a large factory on the banks of the Mersey opposite Liverpool with a purpose-built village for its workers providing a high standard of housing, amenities and leisure facilities.
Lever Brothers and Dutch business Margarine Unie signed an agreement to create Unilever in 1929.
Kraft merged with Heinz in 2015 to create one of the US's biggest food companies.
Nicola Sturgeon told BBC Scotland it would be "anti-democratic" for the UK government to block a referendum.
And she said she would consider her options if the will of the Scottish Parliament "is not respected".
Mrs May said the focus should be on securing the best possible Brexit deal.
She added that it would not be fair for the people of Scotland to be asked to make a decision on independence before the terms of Brexit were clear.
Speaking shortly after the prime minister, Scottish Secretary David Mundell clarified that the UK government "will not be entering into discussions or negotiations" about referendum, and that "any request at this time will be declined".
Ms Sturgeon wants a referendum to be held in the autumn of next year or the spring of 2019, to coincide with the expected conclusion of the UK's negotiations with the EU.
In an interview with BBC Scotland's Jackie Bird, she said she had an "unequivocal mandate" to hold a referendum, and that a majority of MSPs at Holyrood were likely to back her call in a vote next Wednesday.
Ms Sturgeon added: "You are asking me to accept that a Conservative prime minister who has one MP in Scotland has the right to lay down the law to Scotland's democratically elected parliament. That is unacceptable".
She went on to say that she would "consider my options and what I should do" if a formal Scottish Parliament request to hold a referendum is turned down.
Ms Sturgeon added: "I am determined that I will have one on my timescale, because the will of the Scottish Parliament will be respected.
"I accept that the prime minister has said what she has said today. What I don't accept is that that position is an acceptable one, a democratic one or a sustainable one."
The first minister said Mrs May appeared to be suggesting that a vote on independence could not be held until "long, long after" the UK had left the EU.
She said this would mean that the "damage of Brexit will have started to be done" and it would be "too late for Scotland, without suffering that damage, to choose a different path".
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Ms Sturgeon claimed that the UK government had "sunk the Brexit ship" and was now seeking to "puncture Scotland's lifeboat", and that it was like "going back to the bad old days of Margaret Thatcher".
But referring to the UK government's u-turn over national insurance contributions on Wednesday, Ms Sturgeon said that the prime minister was "not the Iron Lady" and had shown she was capable of changing her mind in the face of public opinion.
Mrs May had earlier said that her message to Ms Sturgeon on a referendum was clear - "now is not the time".
The prime minister added: "I think we should be working to get the right deal for Scotland and the UK with our future partnership with the European Union.
"It would be unfair to the people of Scotland that they would be being asked to make a crucial decision without the information they need to make that decision."
The prime minister also said the country should be "working together, not pulling apart".
They said it could be crucial to meeting the UK's energy needs, in a letter to the Financial Times.
The Hendry Review - set up to consider the lagoon plan's viability - is to be published on Thursday.
The firms said the project was one of the "biggest industrial opportunities in a generation".
The co-signatories - including Sheffield Forgemasters, the steel and engineering company, and the British arm of General Electric - employ more than 42,000 workers at more than 250 UK sites.
They said: "We have at our fingertips a brand new sector that will create a multibillion-pound industry, provide tens of thousands of jobs across the country and create a significant local supply chain. All of this before we even think about the massive potential as a British export technology."
Those behind the new manufacturing and energy sector believe it can deliver sustainable, locally-produced electricity for about a hundred years.
There is cautious optimism that the Hendry Review, which is looking into the economic viability of the scheme, will give a thumbs up.
However, questions have been raised over the project, both in terms of its scale and its related electricity strike price - the government subsidy required for the power generated.
Tidal Lagoon Power, the company behind the plan, has said it is "confident" it could hit a "viable" electricity strike price, having also dismissed engineering and environmental impact concerns.
The project received planning consent in June 2015 from the then energy secretary Amber Rudd before the UK government commissioned former energy minister Charles Hendry to scrutinise whether it was a "cost-effective" solution.
The Swansea tidal lagoon project has been described as heralding a new industrial era. That may be over-egged but, if Swansea gets the go-ahead and if more lagoons follow, it could be that some of the parts for those lagoons would still be made in Wales. Certainly for Cardiff and Newport.
The company Tidal Lagoon Power is very ambitious. It is already talking about developing the technology in Gujarat in India. The challenge for Wales would be to develop an expertise which could benefit from similar projects internationally.
But we also need to remember that we will not know for sure until Thursday what the Hendry Report actually says and what the UK government response will be.
There are a number of variables. Even if it's a green light for the Swansea lagoon, the project still has to get a Marine Licence from the Welsh Government. That would not be automatic as there is significant opposition from environmental groups and anglers who fear the effects the Swansea lagoon might have, in particular, on fish breeding grounds.
Firms hoping to be part of the project's complex supply chain will have a much better idea of whether the UK is going to embrace this new source of energy generation on Thursday, but there may well be questions about the detail.
The Hendry Review was originally expected to be published last year but will now be released on Thursday.
However, those supporting the lagoon scheme believe it could generate enough clean energy from the ebb and flow of the tide to satisfy 11% of electricity consumption in Wales.
The wider plan is for the lagoon in Swansea Bay to be a prototype and the smallest in a series.
If approved, it would be followed by lagoons in Cardiff - east of where Cardiff Bay is now - Newport, Bridgwater Bay, Colwyn Bay and west Cumbria, north of Workington.
In their letter to ministers, the firms said the UK must have the confidence to embrace its "first-mover advantage" in a project which would boost the economy and employment.
"The world-first Swansea Bay tidal lagoon would use unproven, yet cutting-edge technology to provide a pathfinder for a fleet of larger projects which, if approved, could power up to a third of UK homes for the next five generations. It will catalyse a new British engineering and construction industry," they said.
Pembroke Dock-based engineering firm Ledwood and Goodwin Steel Castings, of Stoke-on-Trent, were also among the list of signatory companies.
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Sam Topliss' looping header gave North Ferriby, whose last win was at Gateshead in mid-September, a dream start after 11 minutes.
Reece Thompson doubled their lead just after the break, profiting from confusion in Sutton's box as Jamie Collins' blocked clearance fell kindly for him to slot home.
Maxime Biamou set up a tense finale by racing clear and slotting home through Rory Watson's legs, but there was not enough time for Sutton to get a second and clinch their fifth draw in a row.
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Match ends, North Ferriby United 2, Sutton United 1.
Second Half ends, North Ferriby United 2, Sutton United 1.
Substitution, North Ferriby United. Curtis Bateson replaces Danny Emerton.
Jamie Collins (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ben Middleton (North Ferriby United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! North Ferriby United 2, Sutton United 1. Maxime Biamou (Sutton United).
Substitution, North Ferriby United. Connor Robinson replaces Reece Thompson.
Substitution, Sutton United. Chris Dickson replaces Ryan Burge.
Substitution, Sutton United. Craig Dundas replaces Gomis.
Substitution, Sutton United. Craig McAllister replaces Dan Fitchett.
Goal! North Ferriby United 2, Sutton United 0. Reece Thompson (North Ferriby United).
Second Half begins North Ferriby United 1, Sutton United 0.
First Half ends, North Ferriby United 1, Sutton United 0.
Mark Gray (North Ferriby United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ryan Fallowfield (North Ferriby United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Dean Beckwith (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Reece Thompson (North Ferriby United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! North Ferriby United 1, Sutton United 0. Sam Topliss (North Ferriby United).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Robert Bavington, 28, of Rugby, fell to the ground in the attack and hit his head. He died in hospital.
Vijay Masih, 31, of Willenhall, West Midlands, denied his manslaughter in April last year but was found guilty at Warwick Crown Court.
Police said it was an unprovoked attack and described it as "a senseless act... with no real meaning or justification".
Mr Bavington was attacked in the early hours of 10 April outside Moo Bar on Russell Street in Leamington.
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Det Ch Insp Liam Barry, of Warwickshire Police, said Mr Bavington was "a young man of fine character with his life very much ahead of him".
"The sentence handed to the defendant will not bring Robert back or take away the trauma, pain and suffering caused but I hope they will be able to take comfort from the fact Masih will be behind bars and will not be able to cause harm to another family," he said.
Xolile Mngeni, who was convicted of killing Mrs Dewani while she was on honeymoon in 2010, had been serving a life sentence for her murder.
His death comes amid the trial in Cape Town of Briton Shrien Dewani, who denies arranging his wife's murder.
Mngeni died in the hospital section of Cape Town prison, officials said.
South Africa's correctional services department has said it will make a full statement about his death on Sunday.
The death of Mngeni comes 12 days after Bristol businessman Mr Dewani went on trial.
Mr Dewani, 34, faces five charges including murder and lying about the circumstances of his wife's death.
He denies any involvement in the killing, which happened in the Gugulethu area of Cape Town.
Reports suggest prosecutors in South Africa had spoken to Mngeni but had not planned to call him as a witness in the trial because of the poor state of his health.
Mngeni, 27, had been diagnosed with a rare brain tumour, which was removed in 2011. His trial was repeatedly delayed while he had surgery.
He was denied parole in July this year after officials ruled he could receive appropriate medical care at Goodwood Prison, in Cape Town.
Mrs Dewani was kidnapped at gunpoint and shot dead in the Gugulethu township on 13 November 2010 while on honeymoon in South Africa.
Mr Dewani, who was kidnapped alongside her, was later released unharmed.
Mngeni was charged with murder, robbery with aggravating circumstances and kidnapping three days after her death and was convicted on 19 November 2012 of firing the shots that killed Mrs Dewani, having denied the charges.
In court, Mngeni was described as a "merciless and evil person" who deserved the maximum sentence by the trial judge.
"He had no regard to her right to freedom, dignity, and totally disregarded and showed no respect to her right to life by brutally killing her with utter disdain," Judge Robert Henney said.
Mngeni is one of three men to have been jailed in connection with the murder of Mrs Dewani.
Taxi driver Zola Tongo was sentenced to 18 years following a plea bargain.
He told South African authorities he had been approached by Mr Dewani, who offered him about $2,100 (£1,340) to organise the killing and make it look like a carjacking.
Tongo said he then recruited Mngeni and a third man, Mziwamadoda Qwabe, to carry out the killing.
In August 2012, Qwabe was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to the murder of Mrs Dewani.
South Wales Police said two vehicles collided at Afan Way, Port Talbot, on Sunday at 21:55 BST.
A fourth person was also treated at the scene before being taken to hospital.
The collision involved a silver Suzuki Ignis and a black Ford Focus east of the junction with Victoria Road. Police are appealing for witnesses.
The boats were caught in strong winds and torrential rain as they sailed across Lake Togo, about 40km (25 miles) east of the capital, Lome.
Police say the victims were returning home from a funeral on the other side of the lake.
Local official Akouete Edan said there were 21 survivors and that most of those killed were students.
It is not known how many people were on board the boats, and a search is continuing for further bodies.
"When the winds hit, the largest boat carrying some men and drums capsized first," a survivor told a local radio station, according to the Reuters news agency.
"Then two or three other smaller boats carrying women and children also capsized," he said, adding that he had lost three of his children who were with him.
Women's Minister Henriette Amedjogbe travelled with the prime minister to the village of Agbodankope, where many of those killed came from.
"It is a real tragedy," she said, according to the AFP news agency.
"We came to bring you the support of the government and the Togolese people."
The two teams went into the game level on points in Pool Five - both trailing leaders Wasps by six.
George Ford kicked Bath ahead on three occasions at the Stade Felix Mayol but Toulon's Eric Escande matched him every time from the tee.
And despite a strong second half from Bath, Freddie Michalak landed the winning penalty after 75 minutes.
The first ever meeting between the two sides was due to be played back in November, but was postponed following the deadly attacks on Paris.
Bath came into the rearranged fixture in inconsistent form, having lost two of their last three games in all competitions.
But they put in a fantastic performance in France, against a Toulon side who have not lost in 17 European matches at home.
The Premiership club picked up a losing bonus point but they must now win both their remaining pool games, against Leinster and a return match against Toulon at the Rec, to stand a chance of progressing to the quarter-finals.
Fly-half Ford has been struggling for form since he was dropped by England during last year's World Cup, but the 22-year-old looked rediscovered his confidence against Toulon - perhaps aided by his impressive partnership with Chris Cook, who was brought in at scrum-half in place of the injured Nikola Matawalu.
Ford kicked the opening penalty and landed two out of three drop-goal attempts to give his side a narrow lead in Sunday's contest.
But Toulon scrum-half Escande kept pulling the three-time champions level, and the Toulon defence held off a fired-up Bath attack as the clock ticked down in the second half.
The visitors were also forced into desperate defending. Josua Tuisova went on a blistering run only to be halted by full-back Anthony Watson, while his England team-mate Semesa Rokoduguni was on hand to clear the danger from Juan Smith out wide.
In the end, it fell to replacement Michalak to grab the winner after Bath conceded a needless penalty with five minutes left on the clock.
Bath fly-half George Ford told BBC Radio Bristol: "It's pretty devastating. To come out here and perform like that the attitude was there today and small margins in the game.
"We had good field position but little errors at the end gave them field position to kick the late penalty. I'm unbelievably proud of the boys today to put in a show like that.
"It was more like us, the feel was similar to last year, great energy and enthusiasm. We're still alive in the pool, we just need to prepare right and show up mentally."
Toulon: James O'Connor; Josua Tuisova, Mathieu Bastareaud, Ma'a Nonu, Bryan Habana; Quade Cooper, Eric Escande; Florian Fresia, Guilhem Guirado, Levan Chilachava, Jocelino Suta, Konstantine Mikautadze, Juan Smith, Juan Fernandez Lobbe, Duane Vermeulen.
Replacements: Anthony Etrillard, Xavier Chiocci, Matt Stevens, Steffon Armitage, Frederic Michalak, Maxime Mermoz, Sebastien Tillous-Borde, Thibault Lassale.
Bath: Anthony Watson; Semesa Rokoduguni, Jonathan Joseph, Kyle Eastmond, Matt Banahan; George Ford, Chris Cook; Max Lahiff, Rob Webber, David Wilson, Stuart Hooper, Dominic Day, Matt Garvey, Francois Louw, Leroy Houston.
Replacements: Ross Batty, Nathan Catt, Henry Thomas, Charlie Ewels, David Denton, Jonathan Evans, Rhys Priestland, Tom Homer.
Ref: George Clancy (IRFU).
Southport and Ormskirk Hospitals NHS Trust was inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in April.
Although overall care at the trust was "good", Southport and Formby Hospital did not give sufficient priority to safety in urgent care, said inspectors.
The trust said more nurses have been hired while A&E standards had improved.
Inspectors visited Southport and Formby District General Hospital, Ormskirk District General Hospital and the North West Regional Spinal Injuries Centre.
They found "significant improvements" at the spinal unit and in maternity services - both previously rated as "inadequate".
But inspectors found the A&E department and surgical services at Southport to be "inadequate" with patients waiting "too long to be seen and assessed".
Concerns were also raised about a shortage of doctors, consultants and nurses.
Overall, the trust's services were rated as "good for being caring" but the trust still "requires improvement" in being safe, effective, responsive and well led, their report said.
Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Professor Sir Mike Richards, said delays affecting patients at A&E, as well as risks to safety in surgery, "must be addressed".
In a statement, the trust said it recognised that "a great deal more needs to be done" and A&E in particular needs to "rapidly improve".
A spokesman said the trust plans "tackle these issues" along with other ongoing quality concerns.
The inspectors' findings have been made public following disciplinary action taken against two senior members of staff at the trust.
Former chief executive Jonathan Parry was sacked for gross misconduct last month after an investigation into complaints from whistleblowers.
And former human resources director Sharon Partington would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had she not resigned, said a disciplinary panel.
The nature of the allegations has not been revealed, but the trust said no aspect related to patient care or safety.
Coastguard search-and-rescue teams scoured the area beneath the 80m high cliff, near Newhaven after huge chunks fell on to rocks below.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said there were no reports of anyone missing but a large-scale search was launched "due to the sheer scale" of the fall.
Coastguards have repeatedly warned walkers to stay away from cliffs there.
A coastguard spokesman said emergency services received "multiple 999 calls" at about 16:00 BST.
The UK Coastguard search-and-rescue helicopter flew from Lydd, in Kent, to join Newhaven and Birling Gap Coastguard Rescue teams and East Sussex police and fire-and-rescue services at the scene.
The helicopter was stood down at about 17:30 and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency later confirmed the search had ended.
Kaimes Beasley, duty controller for the UK Coastguard, said beach goers were being advised "to keep away from the scene" and the area was being cordoned off "in the interests of public safety."
Witnesses spoke of seeing clouds of white dust as an estimated 50,000 tonnes of cliff fell.
Vitalea Coleone told the BBC: "As I was swimming I saw huge amounts of what I thought was smoke. We thought something had gone into the rocks.
"I got out of the water because I didn't know what it was. It was just like someone had let a smoke machine off."
A large crack appeared in the cliff face at Seaford Head in 2014, and there have been numerous warnings about the entire stretch around the Seven Sisters and Beachy Head - a favourite spot with walkers.
Aan was shot more than 100 times with an air rifle on a plantation in Borneo in 2012, leaving her blind in one eye and severely sight-impaired in the other.
Vet Claudia Hartley said Aan, who has been in captivity since the attack, would be able to fend for herself in the wild if the surgery works.
The operation is planned for February.
After Aan was attacked, vets managed to remove most of the pellets, but 37 had lodged in her head, blinding her.
Her hearing was also affected, rendering the orangutan overly-sensitive to noise.
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After a three-hour operation Aan, aged between 10 and 12 years, was taken to live out the rest of her life at a reserve in Borneo run by charity the Orangutan Foundation.
"That's quite miserable for an animal as intelligent as an orangutan," Ms Hartley, a veterinarian ophthalmologist from Cambridge, said.
"It's akin to a human being in a prison cell, and that's her life 24/7. It's the best the charity can offer her because it keeps her safe, it keeps her fed."
After examining the orangutan in September, Ms Hartley said there was a "good chance" of restoring sufficient sight in Aan's right eye to enable her to return to the wild.
"Even though she will only be one-eyed, she will be able to be released because primates can still forage one-eyed," she said.
The procedure, similar to a cataract operation on a human, is planned for early next year.
Its success or otherwise will be known "pretty much straight away," Ms Hartley added.
"I'm fairly certain I can make the eyeball see, but it's whether that will get through to the brain is the crux of it."
Ashley Leiman, director of the foundation, said being able to release Aan would be "absolutely amazing".
"As a blind orangutan, she was going to spend the rest of her life in a cage," she said.
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Association said it would look at whether the politician was paid money "that should not have been allowed".
The claims focus on the Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill MP's office costs.
A spokesman for the SNP said Mr Boswell would "comply fully" with the investigation.
He added: "It would be inappropriate to comment further while the investigation is ongoing."
In a formal statement, the standards authority said: "The compliance officer has opened an investigation to determine whether Mr Phil Boswell MP has been paid an amount under the MPs' Scheme of Business Costs and Expenses that should not have been allowed."
This is the second parliamentary probe related to Mr Boswell, who was elected to the House of Commons in May last year.
In January this year, the parliamentary commissioner for standards opened an investigation after allegations were made that the MP had failed to register financial interests.
A complaint was reportedly made by a Liberal Democrat candidate claiming Mr Boswell had not properly recorded his directorship of Boswell and Johnston Ltd.
Two other SNP MPs - Michelle Thomson and Natalie McGarry - are currently suspended from the party after withdrawing from the whip.
Ms Thomson has been linked to property deals that led to a solicitor being struck off, while Ms McGarry is at the centre of a police investigation into claims that donations made to the Women for Independence group have gone missing.
Both deny any wrongdoing.
Three adult hamsters and eight babies were found in the Nike shoebox off the A9 near the Perthshire town at about 08:30 on Friday.
Four of the babies had died, but the others were rescued and are in the care of the Scottish SPCA.
Animal rescue officer Lauren Graham said dumping them was "very cruel".
She said: "The hamsters were abandoned in a Nike shoebox which had sawdust, bedding and food inside.
"Sadly half of the litter had died but we are hopeful the survivors will make it.
"Abandoning these hamsters in a layby was very cruel. There was no guarantee they would be found and it would have been really distressing for them."
Abandoning an animal is an offence under the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act, and anyone found guilty of doing so could be banned from keeping animals.
But his career has been dogged first by claims that he covered up child sexual abuse by priests, and then later that he was himself an abuser. He has always strongly denied any wrongdoing.
On 29 June 2017 he was charged with historical sex offences - which he described as "false".
"The whole idea of sexual abuse is abhorrent to me," Cardinal Pell said in a statement hours after being charged.
He added: "I am looking forward finally to having my day in court. I am innocent of these charges."
Cardinal Pell was born in the city of Ballarat, near Melbourne, Victoria, in 1941, the son of an Anglican father and an Irish Roman Catholic mother.
His early education was at Loreto Convent and later at St Patrick's College where he excelled in sports, particularly Australian Rules football.
Such was his prowess on the football field that towards the end of his studies he signed a contract with Richmond Football Club, but then switched his attention to the priesthood.
He later said he had tried to fight his calling for a long time.
"I feared and suspected - and eventually became convinced - that God wanted me to do His work and I was never able to successfully escape that conviction," he said.
George Pell began his training for the priesthood in 1960 at Corpus Christi College, the regional seminary for Victoria and Tasmania, and in 1963 went to Rome to continue his studies.
He was ordained at St Peter's Basilica in Rome in 1966 and went on to take a doctorate in Church history in Oxford.
He returned to Australia in 1971, taking a post as an assistant priest in Swan Hill, Victoria, and then at a parish in Ballarat.
By 1996, George Pell had risen to be archbishop of Melbourne and was later appointed archbishop of Sydney.
Pope John Paul II nominated him to the Vatican's College of Cardinals in 2003, a position that allowed him to vote in papal elections.
In 2014, Cardinal Pell was summoned to Rome to become chief of the Vatican's finances, a new position created by Pope Francis in the wake of scandals at the Vatican Bank.
But he left behind growing anger over revelations of child sex abuse by members of the Catholic clergy in Australia.
Cardinal Pell repeatedly faced allegations from abuse victims of a cover-up and his critics accused him of appearing aloof and arrogant.
He was accused of moving one notorious paedophile priest - Gerald Ridsdale - around parishes rather than reporting him, and of attempting to bribe one of the victims to keep quiet.
He strongly denied any wrongdoing but said he could have done more to investigate claims of abuse.
In 2016 the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) aired allegations by two men who claimed Cardinal Pell had touched them inappropriately in the 1970s.
He strongly denied the allegations, describing them as a "scandalous smear campaign".
The 44-year-old was given permission to speak to the Championship club on Monday but resigned from his Hibs role, according to Rotherham, to take over.
He leaves Hibs less than two weeks after guiding the Easter Road side to a first Scottish Cup win in 114 years.
And his exit comes despite the two clubs having yet to reach an agreement over compensation.
The former Celtic and Everton defender replaces Neil Warnock at the New York Stadium.
Warnock kept the Millers in the second tier last season but left at the end of the campaign, saying it would have been "wrong" of him to sign a new deal.
Stubbs took over at Hibs in June 2014 following their relegation from the Scottish Premiership.
They finished second and third in his two seasons in charge but were unable to gain promotion via the play-offs on both occasions.
He will be joined at Rotherham by assistant John Doolan, who also resigned from his position as first-team coach at Hibs.
GDP grew at an annual rate of 0.7% in the first quarter - the slowest rate since the first quarter of 2014.
But the US central bank said it expected growth to pick up again, and decided to keep a key interest rate on hold in a range of 0.75% to 1%.
The Fed has only raised interest rates three times in the last decade, most recently in March this year.
Most analysts expected there to be no action on rates this month.
But they were watching to see if policymakers would hint at a possible rate rise in June, despite recent weak economic data.
The central bank said it viewed "the slowing in growth during the first quarter as likely to be transitory" and still expected economic activity to "expand at a moderate pace".
The statement, released after the Fed's May meeting, pointed to stronger business investment and downplayed modest growth in household spending.
Traders reacted by increasing the probability of a rate rise next month.
Ryan Sweet, senior economist at Moody's Analytics, said: "The Fed is communicating its mantra of gradual rate hikes. The next time they will likely raise rates would be June."
Brian Coulton, chief economist at Fitch Ratings, said: "There is nothing in here to change our view of two more rate hikes this year."
The Federal fund interest rate peaked in the early 1980s at nearly 20%.
But it has been at record lows since the financial crisis as central bankers sought to boost the economy.
Allen, Amber Hill and Sarah Gray won GB's first women's skeet team gold with their combined qualifying scores.
Allen progressed to the individual gold medal match where she lost to Brandy Drozd of the USA by a single score.
The Newport-based shooter's silver guarantees another place for Team GB at the Rio Olympics in 2016.
"I'm ever so pleased to get the silver - I did not want another bronze medal," Allen, who won bronze in Lima in 2013, told BBC Sport.
"And getting the quota place for the Olympics is fantastic."
Allen's qualifying total of 73 - dropping just two clays over three rounds - was good enough for direct entry to the semi-final.
Once there, she came through a shoot-off to guarantee a place in the gold/silver match, where she shot 13 of 16 clays - one fewer than her American opponent.
She added: "It's been tough, during training it gets extremely stressful as the competition nears but I'm so pleased with how I handled the pressure today."
Hill, 17, scored 72 in qualifying but fell at the semi-final shoot-off stage, while Gray's 68 was a new personal best.
Crucially, hers and Allan's final qualifying round perfect scores of 25 sealed the team gold after GB and Slovakia both ended on combined totals of 213.
"To come away with a team gold for Great Britain is absolutely incredible - it's the first time it's ever been done," said Hill.
Allen's individual success brings the number of Olympic spots secured by Team GB in Granada to two after Ed Ling's silver medal in the men's trap.
The GB medal total at the championships, which runs until 20 September, now stands at four with Steve Scott also winning a bronze in the double trap.
The 30-year-old player joined Palace in January, 2014 on a three-and-a-half year deal.
Ledley starred for home club Cardiff City before leaving for Scottish giants Celtic in July, 2010.
His release was announced by the Premier League as Wales prepared for Sunday's 2018 World Cup qualifier against Serbia in Belgrade.
Ledley is currently with the Wales squad preparing for Sunday's World Cup qualifier in Serbia.
Once-capped Wales winger Lloyd Isgrove is also among those seeking new clubs, as Southampton released him after his loan spell at Barnsley.
Meanwhile, Swansea City confirmed the departures of: Jonathan Thomas Dyson, Marvin Emnes, Thomas Holland, Rhys Owain Jones, Kinloch Alexander Samuel, Liam Shepherd, Gerhard Tremmel and Josh Vickers.
The shed, in Ironbridge, has been neglected since coracle maker Eustace Rogers died aged 88 in 2003.
He kept alive a 200-year family tradition, making the boats for museums and people around the world.
The Ironbridge Coracle Trust says the shed is the last one in England and the charity will now conserve it.
Mr Rogers' knowledge of the River Severn was legendary, and he often helped police in the hunt for people who were feared drowned.
But he had no family to pass on his craft-making skills to.
Terry Kenny, a local coracle maker and chair of the trust, said 'We are really pleased to have purchased the shed, which has stood neglected since Eustace died in 2003.
"It will stand as a memorial both to Eustace and to all those who made the Ironbridge coracle a unique part of our river heritage.
"We will be making the shed an important part of the Ironbridge Coracle Regatta on August Bank Holiday Monday this year to celebrate its story."
The flat-bottomed boats are built by weaving strips of wood into an oval-shaped frame.
They have been in use across Europe for thousands of years, particularly in the region of Wales and the Welsh borders, the trust said.
The trust has bought the shed with a £40,000 grant from Telford & Wrekin Council's Community Pride Fund and a further £10,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund will go towards a training place on a local coracle-making course.
Not only was it announced that five of the UK's top modelling agencies are being investigated for fixing prices but one of those agencies, FM London, has gone into liquidation with dozens of models potentially affected.
That's unlikely to break the stride of the industry's most high-profile models, the Cara Delevingnes and Kate Mosses of this world.
But there are thousands of young women and men working in the industry with a much lower profile and income. And questions are being raised over how well these jobbing models are being treated by the agencies who are supposed to represent their best interests.
We asked three London-based models what it is like trying to make a living in the industry.
"Lauren" is 24 and has been modelling for five years. She doesn't want to give her real name as she fears her agency would offer her less work if she speaks out. She says pay rates have fallen in recent years.
All the first jobs I did were free. When you do a commercial job for a High Street brand or a big ad campaign they pay money, but editorials - everything you see in industry magazines - you don't get paid for those at all. It's an unwritten rule in the industry that you have to do them to get your profile up.
You've got quite a lot of girls who can't afford to live and are going to the agencies to ask for advances on money and are getting into debt. The bookers laugh at them for asking for handouts.
They try to discourage you from collecting your money and put you off asking for it.
When you get your money it comes with a statement and there are always unforeseen charges on the statement. It's never set out what they're charging you for and the more you've earned the more weird charges there are on your account.
Agencies pick and choose. If they don't like you that week then they won't put you forward for the job. I've been in the agency when they've actually said not to put certain girls in certain packages because the girls have been annoying them or they've been asking for money.
Some agencies are really good, they pay their girls every Friday, but in my agency we have to message our accountant every month to find out if any money has come in. Half the time they lie to us and say the money hasn't come in even if the client has told us they've already paid the invoice.
It's quite sad because when you join an agency you like to think it's like a family, but they're out to make a profit. You have to bear that in mind and not get sucked into the idea that they have your best interests at heart. They don't when it comes down to it.
"Pippa" started modelling when she was 14 and living abroad. She went back to it aged 18 and back living in the UK, to help pay for her degree. She says the first agency she worked for treated her very badly.
Modelling is a really horrific industry to work in if you don't have anything else going for you.
There's constant pressure over weight control: it's a form of control and grooming.
I was 5'11" and size 8-10 and they told me I had to lose 3cm off my hips.
They phoned me up every day and asked me what I had eaten that day. I'd go in for a chat and they'd measure me and say you need to lose this much more weight.
They said I had to get a personal trainer, which was £100 for four sessions, and made me dye my hair. They said I had to go to the hairdresser they picked and it was £400. After three months they said, you've just got to lose two more centimetres [off your hips] and you can be on our main board in Paris.
They'd send me out for test shoots to men's apartments on my own and it was really unsafe. One time the man was really weird and kept trying to make me take my clothes off.
There was a casting for a lingerie company. My agent said, you have to do it. I said, I don't want to do that because if I'm on an ad spanking someone I won't get a professional job outside modelling. They pressured me. So I quit.
I was eight months with that agency and I didn't make any money.
"Pippa" says she worked for two further agencies where she wasn't happy, and earned around £10,000 a year. But she is now with an agency she is very happy with and is earning £800 a day and getting regular work.
Rebecca Pearson is happy to give her real name because her experiences have been mostly positive, although earlier in her career she also encountered late payment. She has been modelling for more than a decade.
It can be a harsh industry full of rejection. But I'm really glad I modelled. It gave me a lot of confidence. It bought me a flat and put me through university.
But I'm glad I started when I did.
There were so many more clients, there was so much more money in advertising. The fees you could get for a commercial were huge.
I don't think regular working models now are getting the opportunities I had at that stage. I did campaigns for most of the shops on the High Street but now it's celebrities who do the High Street campaigns and magazine covers that we used to get.
I did a big campaign for New Look and was in all of their shops. It must have totalled around £35,000 over about seven years. Now I'd say most regular models are getting paid less and less for more and more work.
You're expected to do longer hours and do the whole social media thing. If you have fewer than 10,000 followers on Instagram you'll lose the job to someone with more followers, as they can give the brand a broader advertising reach.
There are so many new agencies and so many more models than there used to be, many agencies get undercut by smaller ones and there's always someone who'll do it for less.
There is a groundswell of people speaking up from within the industry. People have been reluctant to before because they didn't want to be seen as a moaner, it can lose you work.
And as for those outside the industry, they say, ugh, she's being a princess. They assume we're all Linda Evangelistas not getting out of bed for less than $10,000, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
The average is probably around £20,000 to £30,000 per annum. We're not moaning, we're just calling for regulation in certain areas, especially because many models are so young.
No-one from the industry's trade body, the Association for Modelling Agencies, was available for comment, but the code of practice on its website says that agents should manage each model's career to the maximum potential and safeguard the health and well-being of the models they represent.
Whelan, 77, apologised for newspaper comments he made about Jewish and Chinese people while defending the appointment of Malky Mackay as manager.
Kick It Out chairman Lord Ouseley told the BBC: "You cannot castigate Dave Whelan because of his age.
"We must recognise as a diverse society that we have people of all backgrounds, ages and characteristics."
Ouseley told 5 live's Sportsweek programme: "Age is no excuse. But people say things that are of a different age.
"The problem is that we have to help people come to terms with modern expectations we have of the way people should conduct themselves.
"As he [Whelan] was making the appointment, we had Kick It Out staff training and working with their young footballers because we are looking to the future to make sure the next generation of players and supporters will be better than the present in dealing with attitudes.
The Football Association issued a statement on Friday in which it said it was "very concerned" by the situation and had written to Whelan.
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The Latics owner then said on Saturday that he would resign as Wigan chairman if the FA punished him for the controversy in which Cardiff owner Vincent Tan has labelled him "racist".
Whelan has denied being racist, although he insisted he was misquoted in the original interview with the Guardian newspaper about Mackay's appointment and did not intend any racial slight.
Mackay was recruited by Wigan despite being under investigation by the FA for allegedly sending homophobic, sexist and racist text messages while at Cardiff, who sacked him in acrimonious circumstances in December 2013.
The Scot, who took charge of the Wigan team for the first time against Middlesbrough on Saturday, has also denied being racist.
Syria said the strikes were a "blatant attack on forces fighting terrorism", while Russia said they breached the country's sovereignty.
The convoy was hit on Thursday as it neared a group of US-backed rebels and a Western special forces unit in Tanf.
The US said Russia was told in advance and that warning shots were ignored.
Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said the strikes were "completely unacceptable", according to state-run news agency Ria Novosti.
He was quoted as saying in Geneva that any military action leading to an escalation of the conflict would have an impact on the political process.
The US-backed Maghaweer al-Thawra rebel faction said that the convoy had been about 27km (17 miles) away and contained four tanks.
A US defence official said the convoy had not responded to numerous warnings that it was "getting too close to coalition forces".
The US-led coalition said the pro-regime forces consisted of Syrian and Iranian-backed militias and "posed a threat to US and partner forces".
But a statement on Syrian state news agency Sana said that the air strikes at 16:30 (13:30 GMT) on Thursday had targeted one of the "military points" of its army.
It said there had been "a number" of deaths and "some material losses" and that the army would not be intimidated by attempts to stop it performing its counter-terrorism duties.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, reported that eight people were killed. It said most of them were not Syrian.
Mr Gatilov also condemned a US-led coalition strike on Wednesday that reportedly killed dozens of civilians. The coalition has denied the attack occurred.
Rebel officials said earlier this week that hundreds of troops and militiamen were advancing into the sparsely-populated desert region near the Jordan border, in an apparent attempt to halt recent rebel gains against so-called Islamic State (IS).
The US-led coalition said that, ahead of the air strikes, a telephone call had been put into the Russian military, which backs President Bashar al-Assad. That was followed by a "show of force" by aircraft overhead and warning shots, the officials said.
"Then there was finally a strike against the lead portion of that movement."
A US defence official told the AFP news agency that the strike did not signal a strategic shift for the coalition, which has focused on battling IS and has tried to avoid intervening in Syria's civil war.
US-led troops helped repel a major IS attack on Tanf last month, while Russian warplanes bombed the base in June 2016.
Chris and Fiona Jones, of Y Felinheli on the Menai Strait, near Bangor, have spent the last 14 years sailing their 43ft (13m) boat Threeships.
Their 90,000 nautical mile journey has taken them to more than 40 countries since setting off in 2002.
A cannon salute from the Royal Welsh Yacht Club, Caernarfon, on Saturday marked their return to home waters.
The couple, who are ambassadors for the Ocean Cruising Club and taught sailing for two years prior to their trip, have kept a blog of their travels over the years.
Mrs Jones told BBC Radio Wales they did not expect to go away for so long.
"When we first set off we didn't really have any plans to circumnavigate. We thought we would just go sailing and see what we could see," she said.
"It's pretty difficult to choose a favourite spot. We loved a lot of places and loved meeting all different people.
"I suppose New Zealand was a highlight and so were some of the Pacific islands."
Acton, 25, appeared to grab the shirt of Greg Bird, lift him and push him back to the floor while he lay injured.
He challenged the grading of the offence but a Rugby Football League independent tribunal ruled it was correct and also fined him £300.
Acton has missed Leigh's last two games, which counts towards his ban.
He will now miss the Centurions' final home game of the regular Super League season against Salford on Friday and six of their seven fixtures in the Qualifiers as they bid to retain their top-flight status after winning promotion from the Championship last year.
Following the game on 1 July, Acton was charged with a Grade F offence - the most serious on the RFL's disciplinary scale, which carries a minimum ban of eight games.
Meanwhile, Wakefield forward Tinirau Arona has escaped a suspension after submitting an early guilty plea to a Grade A charge of kicking out during Trinity's victory at Widnes on Friday.
The man was travelling south on the A737, at Beith, when his Aprilia bike collided with a northbound Mercedes sprinter van and a BMW 3 series.
The accident happened near the B777 Gateside Road junction at about 18:35 on Wednesday.
Emergency services attended but the man died at the scene. The 47-year-old male van driver, and the 46 year-old male BMW driver were not injured.
Sgt Iain Pittams, from the Divisional Road Policing Unit at Irvine Police Office, said: "Inquiries are continuing into the circumstances surrounding the crash and I would ask any witnesses, or anyone with information that may assist our investigation to contact our office."
Bridges into Work 2, backed by £5.4m EU cash, will be on offer to over-25s in Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil and Torfaen.
It aims to find jobs for at least 400 people and qualifications for 1,000.
Finance Minister Jane Hutt said the scheme will "help remove the barriers that prevent people getting into work".
The three-year project includes advice on job searching, presentation skills and CV writing, plus opportunities to take qualifications or vocational training.
Extra support is offered to people whose ability to work is affected by health, childcare or transport issues.
The first phase of Bridges into Work, from 2009 to 2015, cost £27m and helped almost 4,000 people find work and more than 14,000 get new qualifications.
The scheme is run by Torfaen council on behalf of five local authorities, with Bridgend replacing Rhondda Cynon Taf in the latest phase.
The 24-year-old, who was from the Newtownards area, died after an assault at a house on Bangor Road in the town at about 05:30 GMT.
Mr Miskelly was found lying on the road. He was treated by ambulance staff but died at the scene a short time later.
Two 19-year-old men arrested on suspicion of murder remain in custody.
Mr Miskelly's body was still at the scene at lunchtime, when reporter Kevin Sharkey spoke to the BBC's Sunday News programme.
"There is a police forensic tent about 50m off the main Bangor Road," he said.
"A number of entrances along this road have been cordoned off.
"Police are still there, as are forensics experts who are working around the scene in very difficult weather conditions."
The reporter said there had been "torrential rain" in the area at around noon on Sunday.
Police said a post mortem examination would be carried out to help determine the cause of death.
The officer leading the investigation, Det Ch Insp Justyn Galloway, said the incident had "resulted in the tragic death of a young man".
"I would like to thank the local community for their support in this investigation," he said.
"I would appeal to anyone who has any information that they think could help but hasn't yet contacted us to get in touch with detectives."
The European Commission has opened an unprecedented inquiry into whether the new laws violate EU standards.
PM Beata Szydlo told MEPs that the move to appoint constitutional court judges was an internal matter for Poland.
She said reforms of Poland's public broadcaster would improve objectivity.
Earlier this month Polish President Duda approved the controversial laws, which enable the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) government to hire and fire the heads of public TV and radio as well as senior civil servants, and choose judges for Poland's constitutional court.
Critics and local protesters have accused the government, elected in October 2015, of a power grab.
Speaking in the European Parliament, Ms Szydlo said: "There have been no violations of the constitution in Poland recently.
"The Constitutional Tribunal is doing fine in Poland these days. It works. Nothing bad is going on," Reuters news agency quoted her as saying.
She said the EU should be supporting Poland's government and respecting the country's sovereignty.
"We are part of a united Europe This is a major value for us. We are Europeans and we are proud of it."
However Guy Verhofstadt, the head of the Liberals and Democrats group in the European Parliament, challenged Ms Szydlo.
He expressed concern that the party seemed to be using its substantial parliamentary majority to "dismantle the system of checks and balances in the country".
Last week European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans announced a "preliminary assessment" of Poland's reforms under the EU's "rule of law mechanism".
On Tuesday, Ms Szydlo said she was disappointed Poland would be the first country monitored under the mechanism, which was introduced in 2014 to protect fundamental EU values.
"Today I can have a sense of injustice that it is Poland that is subjected to this experiment," she was quoted as saying.
Mr Timmermans said the review would be carried out impartially.
"When national rule of law safeguards seem to come under threat, the EU needs to act," Reuters quoted him as saying.
Jones' opening game in charge ended with a 15-9 win in Scotland, meaning England lead the table after the first round of matches.
Now England travel to Rome next Sunday, having won all 21 of their previous meetings against the home side.
"We control our own destiny. We want to go there and smack Italy," said Jones.
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The 56-year-old Australian was appointed England's first foreign coach after Stuart Lancaster lost his job following last year's World Cup failure.
Lancaster's side became the first host nation to be eliminated in the group stage of a World Cup.
Now Jones, who took over after leading Japan to a stunning victory over South Africa during the tournament, is trying to guide England to their first Six Nations championship since 2011.
Italy, who are aiming to avoid the wooden spoon for the second successive season, were narrowly beaten 23-21 in their opener in France.
The Azzurri led 21-20 with less than five minutes remaining, only to lose when Jules Plisson converted a penalty from the halfway line.
"I've already said to the boys that's our aim - to go out there and give Italy a good hiding," said Jones.
"Italy are going to be tough because they should have beaten France, but that's our aim."
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It was thought there was a one-in-200,000 chance that it could strike on 13 April 2036, but revised calculations have now ruled this out.
Instead, Nasa scientists said it would not get closer than 31,000km as it flies past on this date.
They were able to study the rocky mass as it made a relatively close approach above our planet, allowing them to better assess its future threat.
"Radar data we have collected over the past couple of weeks have completely excluded any chance of impact in 2036. Furthermore, we can now precisely predict its trajectory decades into the future," Marina Brozovic of the Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory told the BBC Stargazing Live programme.
The Apophis asteroid is named after the Egyptian demon of destruction and darkness.
Hazardous asteroids
It caused alarm after it was discovered in 2004, when scientists thought it could have a one-in-45 chance of smashing into the Earth in 2029.
Improved calculations later lifted this threat, but until this week, the very tiny but real chance of a hit in 2036 remained.
If an asteroid of this size did smash into Earth, it would strike with the energy of about 100 of our largest nuclear bombs.
But for now, this has been ruled out - at least for Apophis.
Scientists are becoming increasingly interested in potentially hazardous asteroids.
So far, they have catalogued more than 9,000 of them, and spot on average another 800 new ones each year.
One recent discovery is 2012 DA14. On 15 February, this rock, which measures about 45m in diameter, will pass about 36,000km from the Earth.
This is closer to the Earth than some satellites, but again scientists say there is no chance of a collision.
2012 DA14 should be visible with binoculars or small telescopes.
Stephen Harding, 54, was suspended three years ago after allegations of perjury and committing acts against public justice were made against him.
He was acquitted of all charges in 2014 but later failed in a bid to stop disciplinary action taken against him.
In November 2015, a court hearing was told Mr Harding had become "severely depressed".
The doctor's report said it was due to prolonged stress over the past four years, the court heard.
During his suspension Mr Harding, from Glen Vine, received his annual salary of about £160,000 a year.
John Quinn has been acting attorney general for over two years.
The position is a Crown appointment and not a government post.
By virtue of the position the attorney general has a seat on the Isle of Man's Legislative Council but cannot vote.
The attorney general is appointed by the Queen on the advice of the UK's Secretary of State for Justice.
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Syria and its ally Russia have condemned air strikes by the US-led coalition on pro-Syrian government forces near the Jordan border.
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A couple who have spent more than a decade sailing across the world have returned to their home in Gwynedd.
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Leigh forward Jamie Action has been banned for nine games after admitting a charge of "other contrary behaviour" during his side's defeat at Catalans.
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A 23-year-old man has died following a road crash in North Ayrshire.
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Two thousand unemployed people in the south Wales valleys will be offered training and mentoring in a new £7m project to get them into work.
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The man murdered in Newtownards, County Down, overnight was Richard Miskelly, police have confirmed.
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Poland's prime minister has defended her government's reforms of the media and judiciary in the European Parliament, saying they do not breach EU democracy rules.
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England head coach Eddie Jones wants his new side to maintain their early Six Nations momentum by giving Italy "a good hiding" next weekend.
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A 300m-wide asteroid will not hit the Earth in 2036, US astronomers say.
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The Isle of Man's attorney general has retired on the grounds of ill health, Government House has announced.
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Martin Peter Trenneborg had admitted kidnapping her but denied and was acquitted of rape.
He had planned to hold her captive as a girlfriend in the purpose-built bunker for years.
The 38-year-old abducted his victim after meeting her for a date in Stockholm last September.
He has been dubbed the "Swedish Fritzl", after the case of Austrian Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter locked up in a cellar for 24 years.
Arriving at her home with champagne and gifts, and pretending to be an American, Trenneborg drugged her with Rohypnol-laced strawberries dipped in chocolate before kidnapping her.
He used two rubber masks, of a bearded man and an older woman, to conceal their identities, prosecutors said. He then put his victim in a wheelchair, took her to his car and drove her about 350 miles (560km) to his home near Kristianstad in southern Sweden.
Trenneborg held his victim in a soundproofed cell he had built at his home, where she was shackled before being permitted to leave to take a shower.
According to Swedish media, the court found insufficient evidence to prove rape, and the sentence handed down was lower than the 15-16 years sought by prosecutors.
But prosecutors are considering whether to appeal against that finding, the reports suggest.
Trenneborg must also pay 180,000 Swedish krona (£15,000; $21,200) in damages to the victim.
The doctor was found to have drafted a "sex contract" listing sexual acts which would reduce the amount of time his victim would have to stay in the bunker - and other actions such as escape attempts that would add time.
The document, found on his computer, required her to provide a "GFE" or "girlfriend experience", such as shaving body hair and kissing him during sex.
His crimes were found out when, six days after the kidnapping, he returned to his victim's home in Stockholm to pick up some of her belongings.
Discovering that she had been registered missing, he then forced her to attend a police station with him to tell police she was safe and well and not being coerced.
But suspecting something was amiss, the police took the woman aside. She told them what had happened and Trenneborg was arrested.
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Photographs by the BBC's Laeila Adjovi.
Spain's Contador attacked to drop Colombian Henao with 52km of Sunday's eighth and final stage remaining.
But he was beaten to the stage win by Quick-Step Floors' David de la Cruz and took eight instead of 10 bonus seconds.
Henao, 29, trailed by a minute at one point but chased to finish 21 seconds down and secure the yellow jersey.
Team Sky have now won five Paris-Nice titles in the past six years and three consecutively, after former rider Richie Porte's success in 2015 and Briton Geraint Thomas' victory last year.
Ireland's Dan Martin completed the podium behind Henao and Contador, while Britain's Simon Yates finished ninth overall, following his victory on stage six.
Final standings:
1. Sergio Henao (Col/Team Sky) 29hrs 50mins 29secs
2. Alberto Contador (Spa/Trek-Segafredo) +2secs
3. Daniel Martin (Irl/Quick-Step) +30secs
4. Gorka Izagirre (Spa/Movistar) +1min
5. Julian Alaphilippe (Fra/Quick-Step) +1min 22secs
6. Ilnur Zakarin (Rus/Katusha-Alpecin) +1min 34secs
7. Jon Izaguirre (Spa/Bahrain-Merida) +1min 41secs
8. Warren Barguil (Fra/Sunweb) +4mins 07secs
9. Simon Yates (GB/Orica-Scott) +4mins 39secs
10. Richie Porte (Aus/BMC) +14mins 26secs
The bodies of Nigel Henderson, 52, and Stacey Henderson, 35, were discovered at a house in Ruffets Close, Chepstow, on Friday morning.
No-one else is wanted in connection with the deaths, which are being treated as unexplained.
Mr Henderson's family said he would be "sorely missed", while Ms Henderson's relatives said she was "much loved".
On Monday, Mr Henderson's family said in a statement, released by police, that he suffered from a "chronic illness" and his death was "untimely".
"Nigel will be sorely missed by his children, his sister, two brothers and all his friends in Chepstow and his hometown of Bristol," the statement read.
Ms Henderson's family said in a separate statement: "Taken from this life too early, our wonderful and much-loved daughter.
"It is beyond belief and she will be forever in our hearts."
Police were called to the address at about 11:50 BST.
The actor donated an undisclosed sum in aid of Dave Green, 74, who has died from lung cancer.
The Port Talbot actor met mining activist Mr Green while filming the BBC Wales documentary, Valleys Rebellion in Newport.
Sheen stepped in after being told that he had died without any family or money to his name.
Sheen said it was "my honour" to help Mr Green who he described as "a character".
He said on Twitter: "Dave died last week of lung cancer. He was 74. He had no family and no money.
"I've been told he faces a paupers funeral. It's my honour to help.
"He made a big impact on me. Someone, in other circumstances, whose voice could easily have been ignored."
Mr Green was a vocal anti-opencast mining activist from Pontlottyn, in the Rhymney Valley, who featured in Sheen's BBC documentary marking the 175th anniversary of the Chartist march for political reform.
After hearing the news, Sheen made a personal donation and asked his 230,000 Twitter followers to help.
So far more than £1,000 has been raised for a funeral and headstone.
Gaynor Morgan, of Pontlottyn, who knew Dave Green well, said the contribution of Michael Sheen to the funeral fund was "absolutely amazing".
She described Mr Green as "lovely and definitely a character. Once you knew Dave you never forgot him. And once he got his teeth into something he never let go."
Mrs Morgan said she and members of the anti-opencast mining group United Valleys Action Group were shocked to learn that he would not have had a proper funeral if the money had not been raised. "Now he's going to get a nice funeral - one that he deserves," she said.
Group chairman Terry Evans, of Merthyr, added: "Michael Sheen's contribution has been dramatic. He remembers Dave and he made a mark on him."
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Complaints were made to police over Lennon's touchline conduct after Hibs' first goal in a 3-2 victory.
Lennon was criticised by some Rangers fans for "inflammatory" actions following Simon Murray's equaliser.
A 54-year-old man has been arrested in connection with alleged offensive and threatening social media comments relating to Lennon.
The Easter Road boss cupped his ears and made a gesture as he celebrated.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman told the BBC: "Officers reviewed the events at the match and talks with the procurator fiscal established that no criminality took place.
"Therefore no further action will be taken."
Following the match, the Northern Irishman insisted he had no concerns about his behaviour.
When it was suggested Rangers assistant manager Helder Baptista had spoken to police about Lennon, he said: "I didn't make a gesture, I celebrated a goal.
"If they are unhappy about it they can come and tell me. But I shouldn't get into trouble for doing that.
"I am celebrating a goal. What way are you supposed to celebrate a goal?"
The Quality of Healthcare Experience National Indicator has risen to 82.8, the highest it has been since the survey began in 2010.
This represents a rise of 1.1 from the previous survey in 2014.
The 2016 survey, published today, found that 90% of patients rated their care as good or excellent.
Good or excellent care in A&E has also increased to 88% and the number of people who thought their ward was clean has increased from 95% to 96% since the last survey in 2014.
Overall satisfaction with the hospital environment increased from 88% to 89% since the last survey, and overall satisfaction with hospital staff has remained at 91%.
Health Secretary Shona Robison said: "It is encouraging to see that satisfaction in Scotland's hospitals continues to rise against a backdrop of increasing patient numbers. It's especially pleasing to see even more people rating their overall care as good or excellent, including in areas like accident and emergency.
"We are determined to continue to push up standards.
"This is why we are providing financial support to all health and social care partnerships in the form of £90 million over three years, specifically to reduce delays in patients leaving hospital, plus an additional £250 million for investment in social care in 2016/17."
The idea of restricting an autism diagnosis to only the most severe cases was discussed earlier this month.
The local alliance of five clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) says nothing has been decided yet.
But the National Autistic Society says it is "deeply concerned" about the plans.
Board papers from a meeting of south-west London and St George's mental health trust a fortnight ago describe a service under intense pressure, with waiting times for autism diagnoses of more than 10 months.
The team is supposed to carry out 750 assessments a year.
But it is getting almost double that level of demand, with about 25 referrals a week.
The papers state that NHS commissioners, who fund services, have asked the trust to review who is eligible for the service - so they focus specifically on children who have another illness such as depression.
The report goes on to say: "The effect of reviewing and revising the criteria must be to reduce the number of children and young people who are able to access a full diagnostic assessment from the trust."
The National Autistic Society has written in protest to the local CCGs, covering Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth and Sutton.
The charity's head of policy, Sarah Lambert, said: "If it goes ahead, this will leave many local children without access to a diagnosis and unable to access the specialist support they desperately need.
"That will threaten their long-term prospects and put a greater strain on many already vulnerable families.
"We believe this goes against CCGs' legal duty to make sure children in their area can access a diagnosis service.
"An autism diagnosis can be life changing. It can explain years of feeling different and help unlock crucial advice and support."
The charity has written to commissioners to express its concerns and to offer to help them make sure that this service remains available.
It ran a national campaign two years ago, highlighting the difficulties and long waits autistic people and families face in many areas in getting a diagnosis.
SEND Family Voices, the parent/carer forum in Kingston and Richmond, said: "The sense is that these proposals have been agreed, without due consultation with any of the stakeholders - and more importantly, without consideration of the impact upon families, children and young people."
The five CCGs said: "No decision has been made by the Trust or by the commissioning CCGs on taking this approach forward.
"We absolutely recognise the concerns of families of children with a neuro-developmental condition and the groups who support them.
"Any potential changes to the service would require detailed engagement with stakeholders. The CCGs are fully committed to talking to local people before reaching any conclusions on the way forward.
"We want to be clear that nothing has been decided by the CCGs or changed at this time and no change will happen in the next 12 months."
Banton, 24, joined the English League Two side last summer and has made 19 appearances for the club.
"This is a good opportunity for Jason to get games under his belt at a very good level," said Crawley head coach Dermot Drummy.
"Opportunities for him have been limited so he has a chance now to make an impression in Scotland."
Banton has been on the books at Liverpool, Leicester City, Crystal Palace and more recently has been at Wycombe Wanderers, Hartlepool United and Notts County.
Mentoring, CV advice, interview training and on-job support will be offered to 6,000 people aged over 25.
The programme could be extended to help 1,500 younger adults handle education, training or work.
Public Health Minister Rebecca Evans said work can help people overcome such issues, although "the issues themselves are often a barrier to employment".
Employers will also be encouraged to take on people recovering from substance misuse and mental health problems, with up to three months transitional support for such workers.
Backbencher Luke Simpkins called the motion for Tuesday, saying it was "time to test the support of the leadership".
Mr Abbott, who came to office promising stability, has faced growing questions about his position in recent weeks.
His party lost recent elections in Queensland and he was ridiculed for giving a knighthood to Prince Phillip.
Ms Bishop, whose position is also being challenged, had been seen as a potential leadership challenger.
In a statement on Friday she said there should be "support for current leadership" in Tuesday's motion, known as a spill.
Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has also been suggested as a possible rival, along with Social Services Minister Scott Morrison.
While Mr Turnbull has not yet commented, Mr Morrison told reporters he would not stand for election.
Analysis: Wendy Frew, Australia editor
Mr Abbott's leadership had been criticised before but his decision on Australia Day to award a knighthood to Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, was a game-changer.
Now, two backbenchers have come forward to lance what former Victorian Premier and Liberal heavyweight Jeff Kennett has likened to a festering boil of discontent with Mr Abbott.
The call for a party room spill on Tuesday by MPs Luke Simpkins and Don Randall has set the hares running. MPs are now furiously phoning each other to count the numbers for the pretenders.
Although Julie Bishop has supported Mr Abbott's stand against the motion, that does not mean she is ruling herself out if the motion passes and goes to a leadership vote.
Leadership spills have failed in the past, however, and Mr Abbott could still survive to see another day.
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Mr Abbott took office in 2013 promising to end the infighting and instability of the Labor years and reinvigorate the economy.
But he was immediately criticised for slashing spending in areas including universities, and his approval ratings have since plummeted.
He has been forced to scrap several of his key policies, including increasing the direct cost of seeing a GP and a paid parental leave scheme.
But in his email to Liberal MPs, Mr Simpkins said the awarding of a knighthood to Prince Philip "was for many the final proof of a disconnection with the people".
He said it was "time to test the support of the leadership in the party room".
In a brief news conference on Friday, Mr Abbott said MPs were entitled to put the motion forward, but that they were "asking the party room to vote out the people that the electorate voted in".
He said the Liberals were "not going to repeat the chaos and the instability" of the opposition Labor party, which lost office in 2013 after a series of leadership crises.
"So I have spoken to Deputy Leader Julie Bishop and we will stand together in urging the party room to defeat this particular motion and in so doing, and in defeating this motion, to vote in favour of the stability and the team that the people voted for at the election," he said.
Political commentators have said the spill is based on opaque procedures, but in general this is how Tuesday's spill would work:
Democratic Senator Al Franken told Yahoo News: "I think she has a right to analyse what happened, but we do have to move on."
Mrs Clinton this week faulted Democratic National Committee (DNC) voter data as "mediocre to poor".
She has also blamed the FBI, Russia and media.
Minnesota Senator Franken said on Thursday: "We have to move on by proving we are the party that cares about a lot of the people who voted for Donald Trump."
Mrs Clinton, speaking at a conference in California on Wednesday, said: "I take responsibility for every decision I make - but that's not why I lost."
She said the Democratic party did not help her once she was anointed their White House candidate.
"I get the nomination, so I'm now the nominee of the Democratic Party," she said.
"I inherit nothing from the Democratic Party. I mean, it was bankrupt.
"It was on the verge of insolvency. Its data was mediocre to poor, non-existent, wrong.
"I had to inject money into it."
She added: "I also think I was the victim of the very broad assumption that I was going to win."
Hillary Clinton joins the 'Trump resistance'
But Andrew Therriault, former DNC director of data science, lashed out at Mrs Clinton in a series of tweets that have since been deleted.
"DNC data folks: today's accusations are f****** bull****, and I hope you understand the good you did despite that nonsense," he wrote.
He also wrote that the battleground swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, all of which Mrs Clinton lost, never looked "even close to safe".
The Clinton campaign has been criticised by political experts for not campaigning more frequently in those crucial swing states.
"Her team thought they knew better", Mr Therriault said.
President Donald Trump reacted to Mrs Clinton's complaint by pouring scorn on his old foe.
"Crooked Hillary Clinton now blames everybody but herself, refuses to say she was a terrible candidate," he tweeted. "Hits Facebook & even Dems & DNC."
Organisers said they had "outgrown" the Spiegeltent, which has been located next to Loreburn Hall in recent years.
For the first time, they will be staging events at the Easterbrook Hall for the 2017 edition in January.
A free shuttle bus to the site will run at peak times and other venues in the town centre will still be used.
A Burns Night Carnival will return to the High Street on 22 January which will see a community cast of thousands present a reworking of Tam O'Shanter.
Town centre venues including the Theatre Royal and the new Stove building will be used for the first time, with traditional sites like the Globe and the Coach and Horses continuing to be used.
Graham Main, executive producer for Electric Theatre Workshop, which produces Big Burns Supper, said: "When we first brought the Spiegeltent to Dumfries - there was almost a venue shortage.
"We were quite blown away by how popular some of our events became.
"The fact of the matter is we have outgrown the Spiegeltent capacity in just four of those five years.
"If we are going to grow - we need to think about it now."
The award-winning Le Haggis show is one of the events to move to the Easterbrook Hall.
Elaine Carruthers, marketing manager for the Crichton Trust, said: "This is a really exciting development and helps to position the festival across all of the assets Dumfries has.
"The estate contributes to the overall charm of the town, and it is great to see it playing a part in one of the region's leading cultural events."
The full programme for the Big Burns Supper will be announced on St Andrew's Day but other announcements are expected during November.
A series of tweets about fake weather conditions in Middle Eastern countries began appearing on Thursday afternoon.
The accounts are the latest in a series of large corporate Twitter feeds to have been breached.
The BBC said that it now has control of all three accounts and all inappropriate content has been deleted.
A BBC spokeswoman said: "We apologise to our audiences that this unacceptable material appeared under the BBC's name."
The attacks began in the early afternoon on Thursday. At the same time, BBC staff were alerted to a phishing email that had been sent to some BBC email accounts. It is not yet clear if the two are related.
The email contained a link that if clicked on could expose password details.
The BBC weather Twitter feed, which has 60,000 followers, was among those affected.
Alongside the standard tweets from the weather feed such as "'last night was chilly" some more bizarre comments began emerging.
They included: "Saudi weather station down due to head-on collision with camel."
Another read: "Chaotic weather forecast for Lebanon as the government decides to distance itself from the Milky Way."
The group claiming responsibility has previously spread messages in support of Syrian President Bashar-al-Assad.
The BBC's Arabic and Radio Ulster feeds were also affected.
Faris Couri, BBC Arabic's editor-in-chief said in a statement: "Today at around 11.00GMT, BBC Arabic's twitter account @BBCArabicOnline was hacked. Since then, several pro-Assad news tweets were published by the account.
"We strongly condemn such action and apologise to our audiences," he said.
The attacks on the BBC are the latest in a series of hacks on high-profile Twitter accounts.
Last month Burger King and Chrysler saw their Twitter feeds hijacked while a quarter of a million Twitter users had their passwords stolen.
"The BBC is an obvious place to attack as it a trusted brand and so anyone who wishes to broadcast a message can reach a audience that are likely to pay attention, certainly initially," said Prof Alan Woodward from the department of computing at the University of Surrey.
"The most likely source of the hack is via social engineering - someone managing to elicit the password by fooling the user who keeps the password," he added.
Increasingly experts are now calling for Twitter to step up security and offer two-factor authentication, essentially a disposable, single-use password for its users.
Writing about the hack on his blog, security consultant Graham Cluley said it was unclear how the password had been cracked.
"The good news is that the hack doesn't appear to have been done with the intention of spreading malicious links or scams. Instead, it appears that the Syrian Electronic Army are trying to spread political messages about Syria instead," he said.
"You should always use hard-to-guess, hard-to-crack, unique passwords for your online accounts that you are not using anywhere else on the web."
Jones, appointed as the replacement for Stuart Lancaster on 20 November, was scheduled to begin work on Tuesday.
The Australian has been able to start carrying out his duties, but is having to do so from Tokyo because his visa application is still being processed.
Rugby Football Union officials hope that Jones' paperwork will be approved before the end of the week.
Jones, who coached Japan at the recent World Cup, was able to attend a press conference at Twickenham on the day of his appointment because he had a visitor's permit to enter the UK.
The 55-year-old then travelled to Los Angeles to carry out work for World Rugby, the game's global governing body, at a conference for tier two nations, before returning home to Japan, where he has been waiting to be granted a visa.
To take up the England job, he left his role as head coach of South African franchise the Stormers - who he only joined in September.
Before that, Jones led Japan to a shock victory over South Africa at this year's World Cup, having guided Australia to the 2003 final before helping South Africa win the 2007 tournament by working as their technical director.
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The US conservative TV station has apologised and reportedly paid the former Fox & Friends co-host $20m to drop her case.
Ms Carlson's allegations led to Fox's chief executive, Roger Ailes, leaving the channel in July.
She had complained that Mr Ailes victimised her and ruined her career after she rejected his advances.
"We regret and apologise for the fact that Gretchen was not treated with the respect and dignity that she and all of our colleagues deserve," said 21st Century Fox, which owns Fox News.
Ms Carlson, 50, had claimed that Mr Ailes, 76, one of the most prominent figures in US television, first demoted her then sacked her after she spurned him.
For many years she had co-hosted the Fox and Friends morning show before being given her own programme in 2013.
Mr Ailes denied the allegations but resigned after an investigation by 21st Century Fox brought forward similar complaints from other female employees.
Another presenter, Greta Van Susteren, resigned on Tuesday, but Fox News did not give a reason for her abrupt departure after 14 years. One source described it as a financial disagreement.
Roger Ailes became a leading figure in US cable news after Rupert Murdoch brought him in to set up Fox in the mid-1990s.
For almost 20 years, Mr Ailes was the top dog as his channel posted annual profits of hundreds of millions of dollars, and transformed the cable news landscape, which had been dominated by CNN.
Ms Carlson said: "I am gratified that 21st Century Fox took decisive action after I filed my complaint.
"I want to thank all the brave women who came forward to tell their own stories and the many people across the country who embraced and supported me."
In her complaint, made after she was sacked in June, Ms Carlson's lawyer said that Mr Ailes "unlawfully retaliated against Carlson and sabotaged her career because she refused his sexual advances and complained about severe and pervasive sexual harassment".
Mr Ailes worked on the presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H W Bush before going on to set up Fox News in 1996.
He has reportedly advised the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump since leaving the network.
Mr Ailes continues as an informal adviser to Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman of 21st Century Fox.
Drivers reported seeing the man exposing himself as he walked on the B818, near to Nethermains Road, at about 17:30 on Wednesday.
He was described as a white man in his 30s, about 5ft 9in tall, with a slim build and wearing a blue or grey hooded top and jeans.
Officers are continuing to carry out inquiries in the area.
Sgt Peter Dimberline said: "This is a fairly busy road with young children potentially travelling in vehicles, which passed the suspect, and this type of behaviour is completely unacceptable."
Police said people threw stones at a tram full of passengers near St Werburgh's Road stop, Chorlton, late on Friday.
Transport for Greater Manchester said this damaged the tram and the tracks, with a later tram becoming stuck and blocking the line.
Services on the Manchester Airport and East Didsbury lines were suspended.
No-one was injured during the incident.
There was significant travel disruption on Saturday, with lines since fully reopening. Greater Manchester Police is investigating the incident.
Peter Cushing, Metrolink director, said: "I'm disgusted by the behaviour that we saw and we will be working with the police to help them with their inquiries.
"I'd like to apologise to our passengers for the disruption caused by the vandalism."
22 April 2016 Last updated at 07:01 BST
Shakespeare expert Michael Rosen tells Leah why his plays are still so interesting - he tackles the big stuff like love, death, greed and hate!
We also learn all about the sayings and words we use today that he might well have been responsible for.
Selman's unbeaten 116 anchored Glamorgan's pursuit of 266 in 51 overs, before hitting 14 off the first three balls of the last over.
Four wickets for debutant spinner George Harding also kept Durham in the hunt in the evening gloom.
Paul Collingwood declared when he was on 92 not out to set up a competitive contest.
The Durham captain was set to record his second century of the match, but brought an end to the innings after bad light and rain cost an hour of play after lunch.
Earlier Graham Clark took his first-class best to 72 while Ryan Pringle made a hard-hit 41, but two wickets apiece for Michael Hogan and Andrew Salter prevented Durham accelerating too quickly before lunch.
Glamorgan reached 37-1 by tea, but the game exploded into life in the closing stages as Aneurin Donald hit 28 off 17 balls, Colin Ingram smashed 42 off 31 deliveries, and Chris Cooke 31 off 20.
Harding's mature display under pressure kept Durham's hopes alive deep into the last hour as both sides strove for their first win of the season.
But Selman, who had never hit a professional six before this innings, took on the responsibility as he cleared the ropes twice with the first two balls of the last over before running a two to complete the chase.
Glamorgan batsman Nick Selman told BBC Wales Sport:
"It was good to get a win and to bat that well puts us in good stead in the future, everyone played a role and it was good to get over the line.
"We wanted to keep wickets in hand, then play it as a one-dayer with a game plan of right-handers coming in against the spin, me and Chris Cooke played well to get it that deep and to finish it off was great.
"The boys reminded me I'd never hit a six so it was good to clear the fence and whack a few."
Durham captain Paul Collingwood told BBC Newcastle:
"We could have batted longer and batted for the draw but the position we're in [with a points deduction], if something special's going to happen this year we have to take the odd risk.
"We knew we'd have to give them a chance, and for a game to go down to the last over with all three results possible.
"It was a good game - unfortunately we came off on the wrong end of it but there's no shame in trying to win matches."
The warrant was issued by Sweden in 2010 on two allegations of sexual assault.
Mr Assange denies the assault claims and has been living at the Ecuadorean embassy in London since June 2012.
Swedish investigators are now likely to proceed with plans to travel to London to question Mr Assange.
The Supreme Court said it saw "no reason to lift the arrest warrant", since moves to question Mr Assange in London were already in place.
Mr Assange's lawyer, Per Samuelson, told Reuters."We are of course disappointed and critical of the Supreme Court's way of handling the case.
"This decision has been taken without letting us close our argument."
The 43-year-old Australian has been living in a small suite of rooms in Ecuador's embassy since requesting asylum in 2012 to avoid extradition.
Mr Assange denies the allegations of sexual assault, made by two women he met during a trip to Sweden in August 2010.
He claims they are part of a plot to extradite him to the US because of Wikileaks' publication of thousands of classified US documents.
But the former computer hacker has not been charged with any crime in the US and the Americans have not issued the UK with an extradition request.
Both players were offered new contracts at Bristol, whom they helped win promotion to the top flight last season and to a recent upturn in form.
Eadie, 24, has made 126 Bristol first-team appearances since 2010, while Ford-Robinson, 23, has played 36 times.
Ex-Scotland Under-20 man Eadie scored against Saints earlier this term.
"Both Jamal and Mitch put in impressive performances when we played Bristol at the start of January but we have been watching them for some time," said Saints director of rugby Jim Mallinder.
"We've liked what we've seen and believe that they have the ambition and quality to have a big impact here at the Saints."
Bristol head coach Mark Tainton said he was "very disappointed" that the pair would be leaving at the end of the season.
"Both players would have played a significant role in developing what we are building at Bristol Rugby," he added.
Eadie said the decision had been "one of the most difficult" he has had to make.
"I've come through the academy system and Bristol is the club that gave me my chance in the game," he continued.
Ford-Robinson, who came through the Leicester academy, has made seven Premiership appearances so far this season.
"It's been a hugely enjoyable two years at Bristol and the support from the rugby community in the city has been fantastic," he said.
"The supporters have been magnificent towards me and I appreciate how welcome they have made me feel here."
The soldier, known as 1U to protect his identity, also said he had to arrange for more water for his checkpoint because it nearly ran out.
L/Cpl Craig Roberts, of Conwy county, L/Cpl Edward Maher, and Cpl James Dunsby from Trowbridge, died attempting the march in the Brecon Beacons.
It was on one of 2013's hottest days.
The inquest had previously heard it took medics about an hour to reach casualties on the 16-mile (26km) march.
1U was asked about the medical plans and how an evacuation would be performed.
"It would take us time to get there, and especially with heat injuries time is against you," he said.
"I raised it several times in the past that we don't have enough medics, but we had to work with the resources we had."
He said he raised the issue with those higher in the chain of command within his reserve unit, but not directly with Signal Regiment that was running the exercise that day.
1U said he would usually have a radio, but did not that day because "there weren't enough to go around".
The coroner, Louise Hunt, asked if he told the directing staff why a soldier, 2J, was withdrawn earlier in the day.
"I didn't, no, because I was still trying to cool him down at that particular point," he said.
1U added that it was not routine practice in 2013 to detail why a candidate was being withdrawn, other than it was for medical reasons.
The coroner asked: "How can the commanders make decisions… if they don't have knowledge about medical withdrawals?"
"I don't know," he replied.
The 247 vehicles in High Wycombe were damaged in High Wycombe between 3 March and 9 April.
Men aged 19, 20 and 22 - all from High Wycombe - have been charged with stealing a motor vehicle, arson and conspiring to damage property.
A 17-year-old boy, also from High Wycombe, has been charged with the same offences and a drugs offence.
The three men are Iftikar Aslam, 22, of Desborough Road, High Wycombe, Waqas Yasin, 20, of Rutland Avenue, High Wycombe and Khurum Hanif, 19, of Rutland Avenue, High Wycombe.
People will be expected to pay around 10% of the cost of fitting flood doors and other measures.
The scheme will pay the rest after an assessment by a flood expert.
The total cost of protecting a home is expected to be between £3,500 and £8,000. That would leave homeowners with a bill of between £350 and £800.
Priority will be given to homes which have flooded before and which will not benefit from a government flood alleviation scheme within the next five years.
The grant is capped at £10,000.
The scheme has been prepared over the course of the past year.
Businesses are not eligible.
Michelle O'Neill said she intended to ask the executive to extend the flooding hardship scheme to businesses at the executive meeting next Thursday.
The minister said she understood the frustration of flooded businesses which were not eligible for the £1,000 grant.
She said some of the £1.3m extra flood money available from the Treasury could be used for this purpose.
The executive had said the money would be used for flood prevention measures.
The environment minister has already called for the extension of the hardship grant scheme to affected businesses.
Sixty years after enjoying a first Royal Ascot winner as an owner, in the year of her coronation, she crowned a Ladies' Day where leading ladies made it an extraordinary afternoon.
Her filly Estimate just held on in a pulsating running of the 207th Gold Cup that saw the monarch break free of her regal sobriety to show the sheer enjoyment of winning.
As the four-year-old saw off the Irish challenge of Simenon and the French raider Top Trip, she clapped alongside her racing manager John Warren in the royal box.
Horse: Estimate - A four-year-old filly bred in Ireland by the Aga Khan. Has won four of her seven races. Career earnings: About £280.000
Owner: The Queen, 87, has about 40 horses in training on the Flat and over the jumps
Trainer: Sir Michael Stoute, 67. Royal Ascot wins: 66. Has won the Derby at Epsom five times. Arrived in Britain from his native Barbados just before 20th birthday
Jockey: Ryan Moore, 29, champion jockey in 2006, 2008, 2009. Father Gary is a trainer, and brother Jamie a jump jockey
Winnings: A prize of £198,485 goes to the Gold Cup winner. A small percentage goes to both the jockey and the trainer
Presentation: The Queen traditionally presents three trophies at Royal Ascot - the Royal Hunt Cup, the Gold Cup and the Queen's Vase. The Duke of York stepped in this time
Seeing the Queen close up after this triumph made me double check her age. She is 87, but had a spring in her step which defied those years.
The Queen has presented the Gold Cup to the winning owner down the decades, but this time it was finally her turn to collect the trophy as she became the first reigning monarch to win it.
The Duke of Edinburgh of course, who presented her with the Queen's Vase last year when Estimate won that race, was missing this time as he recovers from a stomach operation.
And so it was their son, the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, who did the presentation honours and following a small bow of his head, they shared a warm exchange.
Even jockey Ryan Moore, not known for grand celebrations, looked chuffed after his second Royal Ascot success on Estimate, who was first in the Queen's Vase 12 months ago in Diamond Jubilee year.
"She won well, and to do it for the Queen is fantastic. To win the Gold Cup in her colours is exceptional," said the three-time champion jockey.
Like the odd female, Estimate is not entirely straightforward. She can occasionally be a "pain in the bum" according to her trainer Sir Michael Stoute.
"The girl who rides her every day, Michelle, and Kerry the head lass and Kirstie who led her up have put a lot of hard work in to get her relaxed," said the Newmarket trainer.
"It's a special thrill to win this race for The Queen, and it will have given her enormous pleasure - she really loves the game and it's a great recreation for her. She told me it was a very big thrill and thanked everybody involved.
"This rates as highly as anything, and I know the pleasure it will have given the Queen because she has such a love for her breeding programme, and that's why it will have given her a bigger thrill to win with a filly, rather than a colt.
"This win is very high on my list, because it's been done for a lady who, never mind being the Queen, loves racing, is a great supporter of racing and is so good for British racing."
The Gold Cup had been preceded by another hugely popular, and emotional, win for a filly as Riposte - ridden by Tom Queally - triumphed for Lady Cecil, the widow of Royal Ascot's leading all-time trainer Sir Henry Cecil, who died aged 70 nine days earlier.
Her voice cracking with emotion following the Ribblesdale Stakes, she said: "First of all, that was for Henry, the Prince (Khalid Abdullah, the owner of Riposte) and all of the staff at Warren Place - for Team Cecil.
"I don't really have the words to say what I am feeling right now. I think people will probably have a good idea. Henry was just adored by so many people. People who had never met him just loved him."
Joining the Queen and Lady Cecil in this highly charged day of thrilling female victories was the Ireland-based trainer Joanna Morgan.
In 1978, she was the first professional woman jockey to ride at Royal Ascot when partnering Gallowshill Boy in the Queen's Vase.
Total number of winners: 22
First victory: Choir Boy (1953 Royal Hunt Cup)
Most recent winners: Free Agent (2008 Chesham Stakes), Blueprint (1999 Duke of Edinburgh Stakes)
2012 runners: Carlton House (2nd, Prince of Wales's Stakes), Momentary (12th, Ribblesdale Stakes) Estimate (1st, Queen's Vase)
Thirty-five years on, she secured her first victory at the meeting as a trainer when 20-1 shot Roca Tumu obliged in the Britannia Stakes.
"It is a dream to win here - what you work every day for," said Morgan
"My first runner here as a trainer came third in the Queen's Vase about 25 years ago. I have had several runners since but not got any closer until today."
So where did 20 June, 2013, stand in the rich tapestry of this world-famous meeting where top thoroughbred action mixes with high fashion?
"This is a seriously historical day in our [racing] world," said Newmarket trainer John Gosden, a close friend of Sir Henry, who won the Tercentenary Stakes on Thursday with the Abdullah-owned favourite Remote.
From the top-hatted toffs in the Royal Enclosure to the cheaper, cheekier Silver Ring, there was an air of celebration among the crowd of 61,954.
Estimate was the well-backed favourite after all. Only the bookies were hurting, and even some of them were smiling on the inside.
Ascot's chief executive Charles Barnett reckoned there were "some of the greatest scenes ever seen in the long history of the Royal meeting".
Ireland's champion National Hunt trainer Willie Mullins, who narrowly missed out on winning jump racing's Gold Cup at Cheltenham in March with runner-up Sir Des Champs, had to settle for second again as Simenon was denied by a neck.
"I wasn't too disappointed to be second - maybe for the first time in my life," said Mullins, who called it the "perfect race".
"This is a fantastic result for racing. The stands just erupted about the furlong-marker and then everyone rushed back to the back of the stands to see the winner come in - it was a fantastic atmosphere."
Racing needed this - the last two months have seen a stream of damaging headlines after a major doping scandal and a corruption case which saw jockey Eddie Ahern banned for 10 years.
With Estimate and the Queen taking racing onto front pages and the top of news bulletins for positive reasons, it is hard to over-estimate the value of Her Majesty's contribution.
There was an extra zip in the feelgood post-race singsong for punters around the Ascot bandstand as the sun shone on a day when thunderstorms were expected.
The Queen's winning horse Estimate is the first filly to win the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot since Indian Queen in 1991.
It was hard, however, not to look to the heavens and think of Lady Cecil when the band played You'll Never Walk Alone.
Earlier, Riposte's jockey Queally had said: "It has been a tough, tough week and I know that a lot of people are struggling, emotionally as well as everything else."
Known by many simply as Jane, Sir Henry's former secretary has shown a regal dignity in her time of grief.
"Keeping busy is what is keeping us all going - if we had nothing to do, then I think we would all fall to bits," she had said.
Her husband's funeral is on Monday. He would have loved all this - a script fit for Ascot's king, with his Lady, and the Queen, at the centre.
Ten thousand children were evacuated by parents desperate to get them to safety. Acts of commemoration are taking place this week, but as survivors grow old, how should their stories be remembered? BBC Newsnight hears the stories of four of them.
I slept through the actual night of Kristallnacht and in the morning as I walked onto the streets there was glass everywhere, and crowds, and I realised something very sensational had happened.
There were Nazis standing around in uniform and big smears all over the walls saying "Die, Jews" and so forth. And through all of this I walked to the school.
It was from Kristallnacht on that the Kindertransport started.
I don't remember my parents discussing the decision to send me, although they must have. My father was abroad at that time because Jews had been made to leave their businesses, and my father had transferred his truck business from Danzig [now Gdansk] across the border into Poland.
My mother had two sisters and her mother living in London at that time, so it was arranged that I would be taken in by my mother's family.
My group was the last of three that left Danzig. I was one of 18 children, and we travelled for three days, passing through Berlin, at Friedrichstrasse station, with a Gestapo guy who accompanied us, and a member of the Jewish community who took us all the way to London.
In Berlin we had arrived at around four or five in the morning, and an aunt of mine was standing in the station with bananas for all the children because she had heard that we were passing through.
The Gestapo guy got off at the railway station at the border between Holland and Germany, and we then went on to the Hook of Holland, and from there by ferry to Harwich and from Harwich to Liverpool Street station in London.
By the time we arrived in Liverpool Street we had been sleepless for three days and three nights and we arrived totally disorientated. We were hungry and didn't know the language, and it was a strange world to us.
There was a mixture of emotions, a combination of excitement at being in a strange place and of sadness at having parted with one's parents. We weren't aware, and I think maybe many parents weren't quite aware, that this was the last parting ever, because of course the [concentration] camps had not been built.
That's what I wanted to show in the sculpture that I did for Liverpool Street station - disorientated, tired, slightly elated, somewhat depressed, bewildered children coming into a wartime England not knowing a word of the language, I wanted to show it the way I remember it was.
My mother's two sisters were at Liverpool Street station and off I went. Others were taken in by people who had previously agreed to accept children to their homes. Where there was no place for the children in homes, they were taken to some kind of hostel.
One of my aunts was married to a Bavarian doctor who had resettled a year or two before and had a practice in Harley Street. They lived with my grandmother, so there was my mother's sister, her husband, their son and my grandmother.
When my parents said goodbye to me on the platform, my father said: "Whatever happens, study, go to university," which I tried to do and did. That's the advice I got, and for better or worse I carried it out.
I had to learn English first, for which I got private lessons, and then was accepted into a boarding school in north London.
In terms of what was happening back home during the war, I think the British government suppressed a great deal of what they knew concerning the concentration camps. They had their own reasons to underplay this, but the German refugees here knew all about it.
The rumours were rife there, and people knew what was happening in Auschwitz and in Buchenwald, that something terrible was happening there, which the British authorities did not want known.
I remember being taken by the school to a play in the West End, and it was in the middle of the play that I was sitting there with all the other students, when I suddenly said to myself: "I'm an orphan."
I suddenly realised that the chances of my parents still being alive after what I had heard were minimal. I don't know why it came to me in the theatre, but I remember sitting there in that chair and coming to that understanding.
I got the confirmation of this from the Red Cross after the war, and also from my father's brother, who had survived and had himself passed through Poland during the war and looked for them.
When I try to piece together what there would be in common between all of us who were on the Kindertransport, it would be that, as I wrote in a book, we entered the train in Danzig as children; we disembarked in Liverpool Street Station as adults, because we were now responsible for our own lives.
We experienced too much too soon. I think that probably is the epitaph of our youth.
There are a number of things that often play in the back of my mind as I think about the transports, the feeling that parents must have had to make that decision to send their child away; added to that, the promise of "we'll see you again shortly, hopefully", which of course in many cases never occurred.
I was a young child and I cannot remember my reaction to being told I was going abroad. I know my parents made me a promise. They promised me a suit with long trousers, because in those days boys wore shorts only, when I had my bar mitzvah.
But of course the promise was unfulfilled as they didn't survive.
I cannot remember much of how I felt at my time of leaving for England. It's almost like a curtain came down and blacked it all out.
I didn't know the language except one sentence. Interestingly my parents taught me a sentence in English, which was: "I'm hungry, may I have a piece of bread?", or words to that effect, which I've fortunately never had to use.
All of the children were allowed only one small piece of luggage. I still don't know to this day why, but I was able to take two cases with me: an ordinary big case and an old-fashioned trunk.
I had clothes and a hairbrush, which mother packed to make sure that her darling little son kept his hair tidy, and a shoe bag and other bits.
Father would have probably left most of the packing to mother, but he ensured that I took things that were important from a Jewish point of view. He came from an Orthodox Jewish home and he made sure that I had prayer books. And there was a photo album that was given to me, a little tiny one.
I don't really remember saying goodbye to my father and sister. My mother came with me to Hamburg and we boarded the liner and I said goodbye to her there.
When I got to England I was sent to Margate, where I lived in a group of 50 youngsters up to the age of about 16 or 17. I was the youngest. I learned English and learned to play games which I'd never heard of, such as hopscotch.
I was lazy when it came to writing to my parents, and also I had to choose whether I would use my pocket money to buy sweets or stamps, but I did write and I got letters back.
Unfortunately I destroyed all those letters when war broke out. An older child said: "You can't keep those, if the Germans come here it's no good," so sadly I destroyed all my parents' letters.
Once the war broke out there was no further communication. Around about 1942-43 we tried to contact them via the Red Cross, as a number of people did, but we heard nothing, as by that time they were no longer alive.
My father died in January 1942 and my mother in the March. I heard about my parents' death in 1945. My sister met me from school and told me and I just went on with my life. There was nothing much more I could do and that was that.
I'd already sort of lived with the loss in my own mind because I'd not heard from them since the war began.
I remember it was night when we went to the railway station because, I think, they didn't want the population to know what they were doing.
In a way I didn't understand it all. I wasn't stupid or anything, but it was just a thing that you couldn't comprehend. I remember my father telling me that I would like it in England because I would be able to ride the horses, but the reality wasn't like that at all.
The journey was such a blur. On the boat we had bunks because we crossed in the night. I remember going to the toilet, and when I was out of the compartment I cried and one of the helpers who was on the journey said: "Don't do that, you'll set the young ones off."
When we arrived in England we stayed overnight in London with the uncle of Eve, the friend I had travelled with. In the morning we took a train to Hinckley in Leicestershire, where we were both due to go.
I remember my foster parents coming in. He wore a bowler hat, which he took off. He was quite an elderly gentleman and she was a fairly stern-looking lady.
I don't know whether they were just the type of people who didn't hug or kiss or anything. I can't ever remember being hugged, you know? Of course we couldn't talk together either, which I suppose was a hindrance.
I went to school for a couple of years, and my foster parents went to work, both of them.
I was basically a maid, hoovering and polishing and washing up, and I was a young pair of legs for going shopping.
Then of course we come to the time when I left school at 14. On the very next Monday I was introduced to my first factory job, where I promptly ran the needle of the sewing machine through my thumb. I don't think I lasted very long in that factory.
But then there was always another one. And so it went until I was 18, when I decided to leave my foster parents. I took lodgings with one of my workmates.
Until I left my foster parents, I was sort of continuously homesick, and it's a horrible feeling. You know, it was always there.
We didn't part on terribly good terms, because I think they thought I would live there for ever. I suppose they were fond of me. I just don't know.
It was a matter of luck who you went to and I just wasn't that lucky. But then again you've got to think that they saved my life.
I came to England in April 1939 and I was five and a bit years old. The passport I travelled on was issued by the German Reich, and on the front page there was a J in red to designate that I'm Jewish.
My father was a doctor and he had his practice near the showbiz part of Vienna. My mother worked as a dancer in one of the theatres and she went to him as a patient and they fell in love. Since she wasn't Jewish, she converted.
I don't remember getting on the train, but I do remember the train stopping and people coming in and giving us a sweet drink and then we carried on.
First I stayed with quite a strict family. I recall silly things, like having to wear a straw bonnet and being forced to make my own bed with hospital corners. I don't think I stayed there that long. It probably wasn't more than a year or so, and then I moved to Cambridge.
I remember at one point a card coming from my parents, and rushing down the stairs and then being quite emotional. I think that must have been the first contact then, since I remember it as an event.
In Cambridge I moved to a very nice family. They had a son about the same age as I was, a beautiful house and a big dog, and I started school. I think the family would ideally have adopted me because they had a boy and I was a girl, but then the mother had to go into hospital to have an operation and so I went to another family in Cambridge.
After that I was in a hostel and another family, until eventually I moved to stay with my uncle from Moravia and his family, who had settled in Hartlepool.
The refugee committee hadn't wanted me to go to them until they had a stable set-up, but when they became established in West Hartlepool and my uncle got a steady job as a teacher I was allowed to have a holiday with them there to see how I liked it.
I had a lovely holiday and my aunt said to me: "You know you're going back now, but when you come back it will be for ever," and so it was.
My mother was working in a factory during the war and she was killed when it was bombed. I felt sad, but I didn't really know her. I just sort of had flashes of memory of her.
My father managed to survive the war and in 1948 he came over, full of hope, to see his only child, but it was quite a traumatic experience because I'd more or less got a new father. Things did thaw during his stay but it was quite hard because for him it was a continuation, but for me it was something new.
I was all geared up to go to Vienna the following year, but unfortunately in the February of that year he had a massive heart attack and died.
The former Netherlands Under-21 international is now under contract until the end of the 2017-18 season.
Jozefzoon signed from PSV Eindhoven for an undisclosed fee in January on an initial six-month deal.
He made 19 appearances and scored once for the Championship side, who finished 10th in the table despite losing to Blackburn in their final game.
A woman in her 20s was attacked in Boundary Road on 24 November, police said.
Two other incidents happened in the Boundary Road area, including one in the adjacent Slades Farm wooded area, on 13 and 14 September.
A 28-year-old Bournemouth man charged with two counts of sexual assault is due to appear at Bournemouth Magistrates' Court later.
A defence ministry statement said Washington was using a "verbal curtain" to hide its reluctance to rein in the rebel groups it supports.
The truce has broadly held since taking effect on Monday although the Russian-backed Syrian army and rebels have accused each other of many violations.
Meanwhile, the UN has warned there is a "problem" with getting aid into Syria.
Special envoy Staffan de Mistura placed responsibility on the Syrian government which, he said, had not yet provided the "facilitation letters" that would allow aid convoys to pass through army checkpoints and reach besieged areas.
"We cannot let days of this reduction of violence be wasted by not moving forward," he told reporters in Geneva.
The Russian defence ministry insisted that, from the very beginning of the truce, Moscow had been fulfilling its obligations, which includes ensuring that the Syrian air force does not bomb areas held by mainstream rebel forces and setting up checkpoints in divided second city of Aleppo.
It therefore said it found "confusing" recent comments by US officials that expressed doubts about whether Russia would be able to deliver.
"Only the Syrian army has been observing the ceasefire regime... while the US-led 'moderate opposition' has been increasing the number of shellings of residential quarters," the ministry statement said.
"Moreover, it appears that the 'verbal curtain' of Washington is aimed at hiding the non-fulfilment of the US obligations."
The US has not reacted to the comments from Moscow, but the state department did acknowledge some incidents "on the part of both the opposition and the Assad regime" were continuing.
The US, Moscow also added, had not yet compelled rebels to separate themselves on the ground from allied fighters from Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, a jihadist group known as al-Nusra Front until it formally broke off ties with al-Qaeda in July.
The move is necessary before the US and Russia can start conducting joint air strikes targeting Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and so-called Islamic State (IS).
The Russian defence ministry also stressed that the Syrian army was ready to pull troops back from the Castello Road in Aleppo to ensure the safe movement of humanitarian convoys.
Mr de Mistura said the creation of a demilitarised zone along the road, which runs around the north of the city into the rebel-held east, was proving complicated.
Both government and rebel forces are ready to withdraw personnel and weapons at least 500m (1,640ft) away from the road, but they will not begin until they see each other doing the same, according to a monitoring group.
"There is great fear because the regime exploits every opportunity," Zakaria Malahifji of the Aleppo-based rebel group Fastaqim told Reuters news agency.
Mr de Mistura's humanitarian adviser, Jan Egeland, is exasperated at the situation.
"Can well-fed grown men please stop putting political, bureaucratic and procedural roadblocks for brave humanitarian workers that are willing to go to serve women, children, wounded civilians in besieged and crossfire areas?" he asked.
Later, Mr Egeland said a convoy of 20 lorries carrying food supplies for the estimated 250,000 people trapped in eastern Aleppo had crossed into the buffer zone between the Turkish-Syrian border and would hopefully arrive on Friday.
The big fear is that if no aid gets through soon, the warring parties will grow impatient, and the fighting will begin, reports the BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva.
They struck inside two minutes through Moussa Dembele's tap-in from close range and he added a second by finishing Tom Cairney's cross.
Ross McCormack curled in a free-kick from 30 yards just after the half-hour and there was worse to come for City.
Ryan Tunnicliffe made it 4-0 after lobbing keeper Frank Fielding, before Jonathan Kodjia scored an injury-time consolation for Bristol City.
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The result left City just a point above the relegation zone, with only Charlton, Rotherham and Bolton below them, while Fulham moved up to 10th, four points outside the play-off places.
The damage was done in the first 36 minutes, with Dembele firstly firing home from six yards after James Husband got behind City's defence.
Aden Flint's ill-advised crossfield pass was then intercepted by McCormack, who fed Cairney and his delivery from the right allowed Dembele to side-foot home his second at the far post.
McCormack's sweetly-struck free-kick and Tunnicliffe's goal after running onto a bouncing ball that split City's back-line put Fulham out of reach.
City at least managed to get on the scoresheet as Kodjia converted a cross from substitute Simon Cox, shooting first time past Andy Lonergan from eight yards.
Bristol City manager Steve Cotterill:
"We made a couple of mistakes to give Fulham a leg-up in the game and we are very disappointed with the goals conceded.
"We came up against opponents with that bit more quality than us and they took their chances. We have to create more opportunities than our rivals to score goals.
"We are in for training tomorrow and will dust ourselves down in time to face Wolves on Tuesday."
Fulham boss Kit Symons:
"First half I thought we were excellent and took our goals really well.
"We could have put the game to bed in the second half with a couple of early chances, but Bristol City kept on going and made it more difficult for us."
On 19-year-old striker Moussa Dembele: "Talks over a new contract are in progress and we want him to sign."
The gathering of the British Medical Association is not really a time for celebration. It tends to be more about airing grievances.
But, even given that, there will be one group of medics that are unhappier than the rest. GPs.
Surveys suggest many can't wait to escape. A third of doctors say they are planning to retire in the next five years and even those who are just starting out seem unsure they want to be there with one in five trainees planning to go abroad and many areas in England struggling even to fill the trainee places in the first place.
How have we got into this situation? After all, a decade ago they were handed a new contract which gave them the ability to opt out of the deeply unpopular night and weekend cover and saw their pay shoot up over the £100,000 barrier.
GPs - arguably more so than A&E - are the front door of the health service. Nine in every 10 contacts with the NHS come via them and, as a result, they are bearing the brunt of the growing pressure on the health service.
The number of consultations they do has risen by 13% to 340 million a year in the past four years and you now find GPs claiming they have to work 12 or even 14-hour days to keep up.
BMA GP leader Dr Chaand Nagpaul talks about it being a "hurricane" of rising patient demand, declining recruitment and a lack of investment that could lead to the end of a general practice as we know it. He has spent the past year demanding action.
But there seems to be more to it than that. After all, long hours and constant demands from patients have always been part of the GP's lot.
In many ways, they may have found themselves to be a victim of that contract the BMA so skilfully negotiated all those years ago. It has created the perception that the profession had a good deal and so with money scarce other parts of the NHS have arguably been given more attention.
While overall numbers have increased slightly, when it comes to numbers per head of population there has actually been a fall. By comparison, consultant numbers are up - as the graph below illustrates.
Only managers have fared worse - and there has been a specific push to reduce their numbers.
To be fair, ministers have already recognised investment is needed with the Tories promising an extra 5,000 GPs during this parliament.
But it is not a something for nothing deal. Twinned with this will be a push to move towards seven-day services. Sara Khan, a GP from Hertfordshire, is just one of many GPs that have been openly critical about the policy. Her practice has already experimented with extended opening and found patients were not particularly interested.
"Rather than spreading ourselves thinly we need to focus on the core service that is needed," she says.
Nonetheless, the government is determined to push on - and that in turn is changing the nature of general practice. Gone are the days when large numbers of GPs worked alone in single-handed practices.
Instead GPs are increasingly becoming employees of large practices rather than their own bosses as the traditional GP partner model allows. With that, there is a sense among GPs that the profession is beginning to lose its identity.
GPs have traditionally seen themselves as the entrepreneurs of the NHS. Since the NHS was created they have operated effectively as self-employed professionals in charge of running their own practices.
But that is changing. Today only two-thirds in England are GP partners as there has been a trend towards become a salaried GP, employed by the practice they work for.
It means the number of one-doctor practices has halved over the last seven years and there are now fewer than 1,000 in England out of a total of more than 30,000. In their place has emerged the "super-surgery" of 10 doctors or more. There are more than 500 of these.
What is more, there is also a trend towards practices working in partnerships with others, effectively becoming franchises. It allows for a wider range of care to be provided - something that many believe is essential to meet the needs of an ageing population.
This was something recognised by the Nuffield Trust last year. Mark Dayan, who led the research that was published in November, said at the time working in "bigger, better organised groups" would be key to the survival of general practice.
But he warned the government would need to be supportive to GPs to allow them to adapt. Perhaps the key question is not why GPs are so angry but whether ministers - under pressure to fulfil their ambitions for the NHS - have the patience to work with the profession.
Authorities said the terrorist cell was planning to carry out imminent attacks in the capital Kampala.
Nineteen people have been arrested and are being interrogated about their intentions, a police spokesman said.
Uganda has been on high alert since al-Shabab's leader, Ahmed Abdi Godane, was killed in a US air strike in Somalia earlier this month.
Last week, the US embassy in Kampala warned of possible revenge attacks against US targets in response to the air strike on 2 September.
On Sunday, the US lifted its warnings after saying it believed the "immediate threat of an al-Shabab attack has been effectively countered".
But Ugandan Information Minister Rose Namayanja urged the public to "remain vigilant" as authorities continue investigating the planned attack.
"The operation is still going on," Ms Namayanja said. "We just want to ensure that we exhaust all the leads so that there are no more terrorist cells."
Police said the suspected al-Shabab cell had been planning to carry out attacks in Kampala and other towns over the weekend.
"We are interrogating 19 to see what leads we get to help expand the investigation," police spokesman Fred Enanga told reporters.
He said the suspects had been found with "explosive materials related to acts of terror" and their intentions "were very, very clear."
The BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga says the suspects are believed to be foreigners.
Ugandan troops are part of the African Union force in Somalia, known as Amisom, that is fighting al-Shabab militants.
The government in Kampala said it had provided the US with key intelligence regarding Godane's movements ahead of the US strike.
Al-Shabab has vowed to retaliate for the death of its leader.
The Islamist group, which wants to overthrow the UN-backed government in Somalia, has since named Ahmad Umar as its new leader.
Its fighters were behind twin blasts that killed 76 football fans who were watching the World Cup final in Kampala in July 2010.
At the time, Godane said the attack was retribution for Uganda's deployment of troops as part of the AU force in Somalia.
An investigation by Channel 4 claimed the UK Tories contracted Blue Telecoms to conduct marketing campaigns ahead of the general election.
A Conservative spokesman had said all the calls were compliant with the law.
Labour MP Wayne David said South Wales Police were looking into the claims.
Speaking in the Commons on Thursday, Mr David said the Electoral Commission had written to him confirming the police were "formally considering the allegations".
An undercover investigation by C4 News, broadcast last month, claimed call centre workers may have been carrying out paid canvassing, banned under electoral law, as they promoted key Conservative messages to undecided voters in the weeks before the election.
The investigation claimed that calls were made to voters in key marginal seats, including Bridgend, Gower, Clwyd South and Wrexham.
At the start of the election campaign, the information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, contacted all parties to remind them of the law around direct marketing.
At the time a Conservative spokesman said: "All the scripts supplied by the party for these calls are compliant with data protection and information law".
Caerphilly MP Mr David told BBC Wales that he would be speaking with South Wales Police in the next few days to establish the nature and scope of the inquiry.
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Norbert Hofer has about 36% of the votes for the mostly ceremonial role - not enough to avoid a run-off in May.
He is likely to face Alexander Van der Bellen, an independent contender backed by the Greens, who is polling 20%.
For the first time since World War Two, the candidates from Austria's two main parties did not make it to the run-off.
Rudolf Hundstorfer from the Social Democrats and the centre-right People's Party Andreas Khol are each thought to have taken about 11% of the vote.
Both parties have governed Austria for decades - either alone or in coalition.
This is a big shake-up in Austrian politics, the BBC's Bethany Bell in Vienna reports, as the country has had a president from the centre-left or centre-right since 1945.
The clear victory of the far-right candidate reflects widespread discontent with the status quo, as well as concerns about immigration and the economy, our correspondent says.
Support for the Social Democrats and the People's Party has been falling in recent years.
In the last general elections in 2013, the two parties won just enough votes to govern in a "grand coalition"
If no candidate secures a majority of the votes in the first round of the presidential elections, the run-off will be held on 22 May.
Incumbent President Heinz Fischer, 77, cannot run again after two terms in office.
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Austria's far-right Freedom Party candidate has come top in the first round of presidential elections, preliminary results show.
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In a 90-minute telephone conversation, Mr Obama urged the Russian leader to pull forces back to bases in Crimea.
Mr Putin responded by saying that Moscow reserves the right to protect its interests and those of Russian speakers in Ukraine, the Kremlin said.
Meanwhile, Canada has recalled its ambassador to Moscow for consultations.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he was also suspending Canada's preparations for a G8 summit in the Russian resort of Sochi in June.
Ukraine says it has put its army on full combat alert after Russia's parliament approved the deployment of Russian troops.
Acting President Olexander Turchynov said he had also stepped up security at key sites, including nuclear plants.
Mr Obama, the White House said, told Mr Putin that the appropriate way to address any concerns "is peacefully through direct engagement" with the Ukrainian government and international mediating bodies.
"President Obama expressed his deep concern over Russia's clear violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity," the White House said.
Mr Obama told Mr Putin his actions were a "breach of international law, including Russia's obligations under the UN Charter, and of its 1997 military basing agreement with Ukraine", a statement added.
By Jonathan MarcusBBC diplomatic correspondent
Moscow's Ukraine gamble
The Kremlin said that in his phone call with Mr Obama, President Putin "underlined that there are real threats to the life and health of Russian citizens and compatriots on Ukrainian territory".
As diplomatic efforts increased, US Secretary of State John Kerry said he had spoken with foreign ministers from Europe and Canada as well as EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and the Japanese envoy to the US "to co-ordinate on next steps".
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for "an immediate restoration of calm and direct dialogue", whilst Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen tweeted: "Urgent need for de-escalation in Crimea."
The UN Security Council held an emergency session on the crisis on Saturday, and Nato has called emergency talks to be held on Sunday at 1200 GMT.
In his live television address, President Turchynov urged Ukrainians to bridge divisions in the country and said they must not fall for provocations.
He was accompanied by acting Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who said he was "convinced" Russia would not intervene militarily "as this would be the beginning of war and the end of all relations".
But tensions are high, not only in Crimea which is home to a large number of ethnic Russians.
There were big pro-Russian rallies in several Ukrainian cities on Saturday.
In Donetsk, traditional stronghold of ousted Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych, demonstrators from a crowd of some 7,000 tried unsuccessfully to occupy the regional administration building, raising a Russian tricolour on a nearby flag-post.
In Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-biggest city, dozens of people were injured after scuffles between pro- and anti-Russian protesters broke out outside the regional administration building.
In Mariupol, in the south-east, hundreds of protesters carrying Russian flags gathered outside the city council.
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President Putin submitted the request for troops "in connection with the extraordinary situation in Ukraine and the threat to the lives of Russian citizens", the Kremlin said.
The upper house went into a special session almost immediately after Mr Putin made the request, and swiftly approved it.
Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said, however, that this "does not mean that this right will be used quickly" to deploy troops.
During the upper house debate, one legislator accused President Obama of crossing "a red line" with his comments on Friday that there would be "costs" if Russia intervened militarily in Ukraine.
The upper house has recommended that the Russian ambassador to the US should be recalled, although the decision lies with Mr Putin.
Despite the political developments on Saturday, observers have been watching a build up of Russian military activity in Crimea - home to Russia's Black Sea Fleet - for the past few days.
Latest reports say two Russian anti-submarine warships have appeared off the coast of Crimea in violation of an agreement governing the presence of Russia's Fleet in the peninsula.
Russian soldiers are widely reported to be guarding a number of administrative buildings and military bases in Crimea. Parliament, airports, the state television building and telecommunications hubs have also been surrounded.
Some 6,000 extra Russian troops and 30 additional armoured vehicles are now in Crimea, Ukrainian Defence Minister Ihor Tenyukh said earlier on Saturday.
The newly-elected pro-Moscow leader of Crimea, Sergiy Aksyonov, said he had appealed to Mr Putin for help to ensure peace on the peninsula.
The interim government in Kiev does not recognise Mr Aksyonov and his government, and signed a decree on Saturday that their election at an emergency session of the regional parliament this week was illegal.
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US President Barack Obama has told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that Russia has flouted international law by sending troops to Ukraine.
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A hopeful first-half strike from on-loan Everton man Conor McAleny, once of Charlton, took Oxford to within six points of sixth place with two games in hand.
The Addicks, whose disappointment was increased by Chris Solly's red card, remain 13th, three places behind their visitors and 10 points behind the top six.
The hosts almost took the lead with their first attack. Gifted space in the third minute on the edge of the area, Nathan Byrne sent a right-footed shot against the crossbar, but the ball bounced back and away from danger.
Stephy Mavididi also threatened with a run down the left wing and shot that Simon Eastwood saved, but it was as Charlton were appearing to settle that their visitors took the lead.
McAleny found himself with space and few options in midfield and his ambitious, low shot went beyond Declan Rudd's reach and in off the left post.
The Addicks began to respond during the second half with the introduction of substitutes Tony Watt and Joe Aribo, and appealed for a penalty when Ricky Holmes was brought down in the area after the former's cut-back.
In the 59th minute, Mavididi cut in from the left wing and struck against the post, but after the equalising goal they needed continued to elude them, Solly was given a straight red card in the 70th minute for a late challenge on John Lundstram.
Match report supplied by the Press Association
Match ends, Charlton Athletic 0, Oxford United 1.
Second Half ends, Charlton Athletic 0, Oxford United 1.
Attempt blocked. Patrick Bauer (Charlton Athletic) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Curtis Nelson.
Ricky Holmes (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Chris Maguire (Oxford United).
Marvin Johnson (Oxford United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Stephy Mavididi (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Robert Hall (Oxford United).
Attempt missed. Marvin Johnson (Oxford United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt missed. Philip Edwards (Oxford United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Substitution, Oxford United. Chris Maguire replaces Conor McAleny.
Corner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Conor McAleny.
Ricky Holmes (Charlton Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Lewis Page (Charlton Athletic).
Marvin Johnson (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Jorge Teixeira.
Foul by Stephy Mavididi (Charlton Athletic).
Philip Edwards (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Jordan Botaka replaces Andrew Crofts.
Tony Watt (Charlton Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Tony Watt (Charlton Athletic).
Conor McAleny (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Conor McAleny (Oxford United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Patrick Bauer (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Oxford United. Robert Hall replaces Liam Sercombe.
Hand ball by Kane Hemmings (Oxford United).
Attempt saved. Kane Hemmings (Oxford United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Chris Solly (Charlton Athletic) is shown the red card.
Foul by Chris Solly (Charlton Athletic).
John Lundstram (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Patrick Bauer (Charlton Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Patrick Bauer (Charlton Athletic).
Conor McAleny (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ricky Holmes (Charlton Athletic).
Joe Skarz (Oxford United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Tony Watt (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Ledson (Oxford United).
Attempt missed. Philip Edwards (Oxford United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high following a corner.
Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Andrew Crofts.
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Oxford continued their pursuit of a League One play-off place with a victory at Charlton that left their hosts even further behind the top six.
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"I declare this day... the end of the epidemic of the Ebola virus in Mali," said Ousmane Kone.
The last Ebola-infected patient in Mali recovered and left hospital in early December.
Latest figures show the three West African countries worst affected have all seen a decline in new Ebola cases.
Sierra Leone and Guinea both recorded the lowest weekly total of confirmed Ebola cases since August, according to UN figures on Thursday.
Liberia, which reported no new cases on two days last week, had its lowest weekly total since June.
The overall death toll has reached 8,429 with 21,296 cases so far.
Mali recorded its first case of Ebola in October, when a two-year-old from Guinea fell ill and died.
At its worst, there were 300 contact cases under investigation in the country.
But the country has now "come out" of the epidemic, said Ibrahima Soce Fall, the head of the Malian office of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UMEER).
The incubation period for Ebola is 21 days, and countries must be free of new cases for two consecutive incubation periods, 42 days, to be declared free of the virus.
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WhiteHat Security provides web security services to businesses, including e-commerce, financial services and healthcare companies.
The new jobs will be created following the establishment of a threat research centre, customer support and software engineering operation.
Invest NI has offered the company an employment grant of £400,000.
WhiteHat Security will also get £80,000 of support under the agency's Skills Growth Programme to develop its Belfast team, while the Department for Employment and Learning has offered support of up to £240,000, towards pre-employment training costs.
The company will recruit 50 security engineers, 20 software engineers and 10 customer support staff over the next three years.
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster said: "It is very welcome news that another leading ICT company has decided to locate in Northern Ireland.
"WhiteHat Security is a rapidly expanding company that is leading the field in the area of web security.
"The ICT sector is an important and growing cluster for Northern Ireland; and WhiteHat is a welcome addition to our important IT security sub sector."
The 25-year-old, winner of one of only 10 gold medals in British Winter Olympic history, was selected by Team GB chief Mike Hay and his deputies.
Yarnold dominated the women's skeleton event, and won by almost a second - a huge victory margin - on 14 February.
GB's haul of four medals equals 1924 - their previous best at a Winter Games.
1924: Men (curling)
1936: Men (ice hockey)
1952: Jeannette Altwegg (figure skating)
1964: Tony Nash & Robin Dixon (two-man bobsleigh)
1976: John Curry (figure skating)
1980: Robin Cousins (figure skating)
1984: Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (figure skating)
2002: Women (curling)
2010: Amy Williams (skeleton)
2014: Lizzy Yarnold (skeleton)
* Madge Syers won figure skating gold at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London
However, Britain could yet break that record, with two teams competing in the four-man bobsleigh on Saturday and Sunday.
Yarnold will be joined at the closing ceremony by her 55 team-mates including the men's curling rink, who won silver, their bronze medal-winning female counterparts and snowboarder Jenny Jones, who took bronze.
It is the fourth consecutive Games in which a British athlete has won a skeleton medal, after Alex Coomber (Salt Lake City 2002, bronze), Shelley Rudman (Turin 2006, silver) and Amy Williams (Vancouver 2010, gold).
Yarnold, born in Sevenoaks and now based in Bath, said: "It's been an indescribable experience here in Sochi.
"I came to these Games with the goal of competing to the best of my ability, doing my country proud, and supporting my team-mates across all of Team GB.
"To have been selected for this honour is so far beyond anything I could have ever imagined. It makes what has already been an incredible experience just that much more special, and I am extremely grateful."
Team GB chef de mission Hay said: "In winning her Olympic gold medal, Lizzy delivered an outstanding performance, and I'm certain every member of our Team GB delegation congratulates her on this well-deserved honour."
London's recently renovated Imperial War Museum, Manchester's Whitworth art gallery and Belfast's The MAC are among those vying for the £100,000 prize.
The Tower of London, Oxford University Museum of Natural History and the Stamford Military Hospital at Dunham Massey complete the list.
The winner will be announced at the Tate Modern on 1 July. It was won last year by the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
"This is, by any measure, an exciting and diverse shortlist, showing great heights of creativity and ambition," said Stephen Deuchar, director of the Art Fund, which has sponsored the prize since 2008.
"Despite a difficult environment of funding cuts, UK museums continue to be inventive, surprising and exhilarating."
The Museum Prize Trust was set up in 2001 to reward the finest museums and galleries across the UK, and encourage greater visitor numbers.
Below is a brief synopsis of this year's contenders:
Dunham Massey, Altrincham (National Trust)
A Georgian country house in Cheshire, Dunham Massey has been home to the Booth and Grey families for some 350 years. In 2014, the Sanctuary from the Trenches exhibition faithfully recreated the Stamford Military Hospital as it had been in 1917-19, using artefacts and furniture from the house's own archive. Working in partnership with Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre, actors were brought in to tell real stories of wartime experiences at the hospital. The acclaimed exhibition subsequently extended its run to November 2015.
Imperial War Museum, London
To mark the the centenary of the outbreak of World War One in 2014, the Imperial War Museum brought together letters, diaries, objects and works of art from its vast collection to create the newly established First World War Galleries. The resulting galleries lay bare the story of the war, from both the frontline and the home front. It also saw the museum's atrium dramatically transformed by Sir Norman Foster to tell the story of conflict from World War One to the present day.
The MAC, Belfast
The Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC) is a multi-disciplinary arts venue at the heart of Belfast. 2014 was an exceptional year across the organisation, with the visual arts programme - particularly an exhibition from US artist Kara Walker - attracting significant numbers of visitors and raising the venue's profile both nationally and internationally. The inaugural MAC International exhibition attracted more 1,000 artist entries worldwide and is, to date, the largest art prize in Ireland.
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
In 2014, Oxford University Museum of Natural History reopened its doors after 14 months of closure to restore its Pre-Raphaelite-inspired, iron and glass roof. The museum re-emerged from the £4m project with a revitalised public space and a revitalised collection, following a major conservation project undertaken on the suspended whale skeletons. LED lighting further enhances the visitor experience.
HM Tower of London (Historic Royal Palaces)
In 2014 Historic Royal Palaces commissioned for HM Tower of London a work of art that was to become the defining public commemoration of the First World War centenary: Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, by Paul Cummins and Tom Piper. This evolving installation of 888,246 ceramic poppies, which eventually filled the 16-acre moat, was viewed by more five million visitors.
The Whitworth, Manchester
The Whitworth underwent the largest physical transformation in its 125-year history in 2014. The £15m redevelopment project doubled its size and created myriad new spaces. During redevelopment the Whitworth continued to offer pop-up projects all over the city, maintaining established audiences and building new ones ahead of the new building's re-opening earlier this year.
The 22-year-old, who becomes the Royals' eighth signing of the summer, has agreed a three-year deal at the Madejski Stadium.
Harriott came through the youth ranks at Charlton and scored 12 goals in 95 appearances for the Addicks.
"Callum is difficult for opponents to predict and will be a great asset," Reading boss Jaap Stam said.
Harriott made 21 appearances for Charlton last season as the south-east London club were relegated to League One.
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Its summary position stated there was an "urgent need" to start pulling redundant objects out of the sky.
Scientists estimate there are nearly 30,000 items circling the Earth larger than 10cm in size.
Some are whole satellites and rocket bodies, but many are just fragments.
These have resulted from explosions in fuel tanks and batteries, and from the high-velocity impacts between objects.
Upwards of 10cm is trackable with radar, but there are tens of thousands more pieces that are smaller and move unseen.
And it is the prospect of an increase in the frequency of catastrophic collisions among all this material that now worries the experts.
"There is a consensus among debris researchers that the present orbit debris-environment is at the rim of becoming unstable within a few decades, a phenomenon that is commonly known as the Kessler Syndrome, and that only active removal of five to 10 large objects per year can reverse the debris growth," Prof Heiner Klinkrad, the head of the European Space Agency's (Esa) Space Debris Office told reporters.
Prof Klinkrad was the chairman for the 6th European Conference on Space Debris in Darmstadt, Germany.
The meeting was presented with a study earlier in the week that suggested the population of objects in low-Earth orbits (LEO) - the important altitudes used by imaging spacecraft to health-check the planet - would likely rise steadily over the next 200 years even under the most optimistic of scenarios.
The research highlighted the need for better adherence to best-practice guidelines.
These "rules" call on space operators in LEO to make sure their equipment naturally falls out of the sky within 25 years of the end of a mission.
But compliance with the guidelines is far from perfect, and the panel said active removal was now the urgent topic on the agenda.
Quite how much time there was to act before conditions became intolerable was not yet clear, said Christophe Bonnal from the French space agency (Cnes).
"We say we want to 'stabilise' the environment. Does that mean we are satisfied with today's situation? Could we live with a situation that is two times worse than today, or do we need to decrease [the debris population]? These are questions which are ongoing at international level," he told BBC News.
Active removal would see new spacecraft launched specifically to take other, redundant satellites out of orbit. And the Darmstadt meeting was presented with an array of concepts that included the use of nets, harpoons, tentacles, ion thrusters and lasers.
The conference summary panel told the media it was vital that pilot programmes were implemented to advance these technologies.
A few have been approved. The German Space Agency (DLR) is developing a project called DEOS that would demonstrate the robotic capture of a tumbling object in space.
"In this mission, what we want to show is that it is technically possible to safely approach a satellite, which we launch together with our main satellite, to capture it by means of a robotic arm and to perform a number of services like repairing or maintenance operations," explained DLR's Dr Manuel Metz.
"Many of the technologies which are currently being developed for DEOS would be useful for potential future international active debris-removal missions."
The experts also stated that the international community needed to sort through the myriad legal issues that would currently frustrate attempts to clean up space.
At the moment, international law permits only the launching nation or agency to touch an object in orbit, something that would prevent, for example, commercial debris removal activities.
"My dream is that a new agency like the International Telecommunications Union will be proposed at UN level to coordinate all this activity," said Dr Claudio Portelli from the Italian space agency (Asi).
Esa was hosting this week's meeting. It has two old satellites in orbit that are likely to become targets for a future de-orbiting exercise.
ERS-1 and Envisat both suffered major failures that left them drifting uncontrolled through LEO.
The duo can be tracked but nothing can be done to move them off a potential collision course, should one arise.
Envisat in particular is considered a high priority for removal because of its great size - over eight tonnes.
However, de-orbiting this dead satellite would probably be very expensive. And the robotic spacecraft sent up to bring Envisat down would itself be very large.
Prof Klinkrad explained: "If you want to have a controlled de-orbit - and this is what you should have for Envisat because large portions are going to survive to ground impact - then you should have a highly energetic chemical propulsion system, and to reliably de-orbit Envisat from its altitude you'd need, I'd say, about 6% of its mass in terms of fuel.
"With everything included, you are talking about a two-tonne-type spacecraft [to do the de-orbiting]," he told BBC News.
To date, there have only been a handful of major collisions in orbit involving the largest objects.
Perhaps the best known was the 2009 impact between the defunct Russian Cosmos 2251 spacecraft and the American Iridium 33 satellite. The collision produced over 1,500 trackable fragments, many of which continue to pose a threat to operational missions.
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Retired women's champion Marion Bartoli and injured British number two Laura Robson join the BBC commentary team.
Jimmy Connors and Martina Navratilova will also be part of the BBC line-up.
• Up to 12 live HD video streams - up from 10 in 2013 (depending on device and connection)
• All the action on any device
• Up to five alternative courts on the Red Button
• Highlights and full-length replays of key matches on demand
• Have your say through live votes
BBC Sport's digital coverage will be the most comprehensive ever, with up to 12 live streams across any device.
Sue Barker will lead 150 hours of live television coverage on BBC One, BBC One HD, BBC Two, BBC Two HD and the BBC Sport website.
She will be joined by a host of regulars, including Tracy Austin, Pat Cash, Lindsay Davenport, Tim Henman, Anne Keothavong, John Lloyd, John McEnroe and Virginia Wade.
John Inverdale will present Today at Wimbledon each evening on BBC Two and BBC Two HD.
Clare Balding heads Radio 5 live's coverage daily from 12:00. Tennis correspondent Russell Fuller leads the commentary team, which includes Mary Pierce, Goran Ivanisevic, Richard Krajicek, Jana Novotna and Nick Bollettieri and, new for 2014, Serena Williams's coach Patrick Mouratoglou.
John McEnroe will take calls from listeners on his 6-love-6 programme, and you can catch up with the day in summary in the 5 live In Short section.
BBC Sport's dedicated live coverage page, available at bbc.co.uk/sport, and through the BBC Sport apps for mobiles and tablets and on connected TVs, will combine the BBC's full selection of live video streams, radio, rolling highlights, text commentary and live votes.
Up to five alternative courts can be accessed via the Red Button. Depending on your digital TV provider, you may need to retune your receiver.
Audiences can also join the conversation with all the best comments and opinions from across social media, email and texts.
The BBC Sport website will also offer a range of features, including a column from Murray, alongside all the latest news, analysis, draws, order of play, live scores and results. The site will also offer highlights, full match replays and video clips.
All the BBC's Wimbledon coverage broadcast on BBC One and BBC Two will also be simulcast and available for catch-up on BBC iPlayer.
Sunday, 6 July
Wimbledon 2014: Men's Singles Final (Build-up), 11:00-14:00 BBC Radio 5 live
Wimbledon 2014: Day 13, 11:30 BBC Red Button
Wimbledon 2014: Men's Singles Final (Build-up), 13:00-13:50 BBC One
Wimbledon 2014: Men's Singles Final, 13:50-17:45 BBC One
Wimbledon 2014: Men's Singles Final, 14:00-19:00 BBC Radio 5 live
Wimbledon 2014: Mixed Doubles Final, 17:45-20:00 BBC Two
Today at Wimbledon, 23:35-00:35 BBC Two
Wimbledon 2014: Day 13 Highlights - 21:00 BBC Red Button
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Nigel Farage Gets His Life Back, a half-hour mockumentary, will show the public and private faces of the politician following the EU referendum.
Bishop, soon to be seen in a remake of Porridge, said the "colourful character" was a "gift to parody".
The title of the BBC2 comedy refers to a speech made by Farage in July, in which he said he wanted his life back.
In the speech, in which he resigned as UKIP leader, he said: "During the referendum campaign, I said I want my country back. What I'm saying today is I want my life back, and it begins right now."
The programme makers ask "what sort of life has he gone back to, and how does a man forever in the spotlight fill his days now he has nothing to do?".
They say Farage will be shown "at home, eating bangers and mash, watching Pointless and insisting that he doesn't miss the limelight... and that he never wanted to be prime minister anyway".
Bishop said: "I'm delighted to be playing a character as colourful as Farage. He's a gift to parody and I'm looking forward to bringing previously unseen aspects of his life to the screen."
Executive producer Peter Holmes, managing director of Zeppotron, which is making the comedy, said: "This project couldn't feel more relevant. Nigel Farage has had a huge part to play in the momentous political events of recent times, and everybody has an opinion of him.
"We hope we can create a lot of laughter while painting a portrait of such a divisive figure as he fills the empty hours of retirement."
The comedy is being written by Alan Connor and Shaun Pye, who worked together on The Rack Pack and Sky Arts's A Young Doctor's Notebook, which starred Daniel Radcliffe and Mad Men's Jon Hamm.
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The world number one required just one set to qualify and won his final group match 6-3 7-5.
Federer had already won the group but earlier maintained his 100% record with a 7-5 4-6 6-4 win over Kei Nishikori.
Djokovic will face Rafael Nadal in Saturday's semi-final, before Federer takes on Andy Murray or Stan Wawrinka.
The British number one and the Swiss number two will play for the remaining semi-final place at 20:00 GMT on Friday.
It was always going to be a tall order for Berdych to claim the straight-sets win he needed to edge out Djokovic - the Czech had won two of 22 matches against the Serb, and none of 17 on hard courts.
He managed to recover an early break of serve but Djokovic moved ahead again and clinched the set he required after 42 minutes.
Berdych, 30, still had the £109,000 on offer for every round-robin win to play for and again fought back from a break down in the second, but Djokovic broke for the fourth time at 5-5 and closed it out.
"I just waited for a game with more second-serve opportunities and that's what happened at 5-5," said Djokovic.
"It was a solid performance, I think. We both can have done better. It's been a long year and we did our best.
"Rafa has another match tomorrow and I'm going to watch that a little bit with my team and prepare.
"Hopefully I'll be able to perform at my best because that's what's needed to win against him."
The Swiss had qualified with victory over world number one Djokovic on Tuesday, but Nishikori still had a chance to progress and pushed the third seed to the limit in a match he did not need to win.
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He was broken twice in a row in the first set but prevailed in game 12 after some fabulous play around the net from both men, and then opened up a 4-1 lead in the second.
Nishikori's day was not done, however, as the Japanese 25-year-old hit back with five games in a row to level after one snatched Federer forehand that must be among the worst he has ever hit.
The 17-time Grand Slam champion appeared rattled at 0-40 down early in the third but served his way out of trouble and built another 4-1 lead - only to see Nishikori fight back again.
A double-fault by the eighth seed on game point at 4-5 opened the door for Federer and he converted his first match point with a clinical smash.
"It was extremely difficult," said Federer. "It was a good match, with more breaks than we are used to. Kei is a very good returner, especially on the second serve. It was a very physical match, but I enjoyed it."
The Fort William Mountain Bike World Cup and Buff 4X Pro Tour takes place at Nevis Range on Aonach Mor on Saturday and Sunday.
More than 250 riders and 20,000 spectators are expected in the area over the two days.
Police said people should be prepared for delays on the A82.
Traffic Scotland has also been warning motorists to expect heavy traffic on the trunk road.
Ch Insp Bob Mackay, of Police Scotland, said: "We're pleased to be supporting the event this weekend but would advise the public to allow extra time for journeys as we are expecting the area to be busy with increased traffic.
"People attending the event should follow the travel advice of the event organisers and use the park and ride facilities in Fort William as there is no vehicular access or parking at the event.
"We will be policing the event and surrounding area and ask that vehicles are parked sensibly as illegally or inconsiderately parked vehicles will be removed if necessary.
"This is to ensure access remains for the event and that the local community and users of the A82 public road between Spean Bridge and Fort William are not unnecessarily inconvenienced."
Wang, 21, took a three-stroke lead into the final day, when he was joined at 16 under par by Sweden's Joakim Lagergren and South Africa's Jaco van Zyl.
The Korean then fired the only birdie on the par-five first extra hole.
England's Jordan Smith shot a final-day six under to finish sixth, two strokes behind the leading trio in Doha.
Wang, who won back-to-back events in Morocco and Mauritius last May, almost clinched it on the 72nd hole, but left a birdie putt inches short to force the play-off.
But he held his nerve after that, after Van Zyl three-putted for par and Lagergren was unable to get up and down from a greenside bunker.
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He becomes the third youngest player to win three European tour titles after Italy's Matteo Manassero (19) and Spain's Seve Ballesteros (20).
Wales' Bradley Dredge, who led after the first day and had a share of the halfway lead, finished well down the field, tied for 21st place on nine under.
Over the past four nights, heavily armed local police have clashed with protesters angry at the police killing of black teenager Michael Brown.
Governor Jay Nixon announced the change after President Barack Obama urged police not to use "excessive force".
The governor said the violent confrontations with county police made the suburbs resemble a "war zone".
"We're going to have to regain trust," he said.
Missouri Highway Patrol's Captain Ron Johnson, who grew up nearby, has taken charge of the operation.
He lost no time in making his presence felt, escorting a peaceful march through the streets of Ferguson on Thursday evening, shaking hands with protesters.
The tension in Ferguson was sparked by the death of Michael Brown, 18, on Saturday afternoon.
A vigil and a moment of silence in his honour has been scheduled in cities across the US at 19:00 EST (00:00 GMT).
Details about the incident have been disputed but eyewitnesses said the unarmed teenager had his arms raised when he was shot multiple times by a police officer.
Police say there was a struggle and the officer suffered facial injuries.
The authorities have yet to release the officer's name, saying they are worried that his life and that of his family could be in danger.
But this decision has provoked anger from the two-thirds black community of Ferguson against the majority white police force.
The online hacker group Anonymous earlier released what they believed was the name of the police shooter. It was later dismissed as incorrect by police.
On Wednesday night, heavily armed riot police fired tear gas at demonstrators who had ignored an order to disperse.
Several people were arrested, two of them journalists who said they were assaulted before being released.
In a specially convened press conference during his holiday, Mr Obama said there was "no excuse" for police to use excessive force against peaceful protesters.
"Here in the United States of America, police should not be bullying or arresting journalists who are just trying to do their jobs and report to the American people on what they see on the ground," he said.
But Mr Obama also recognised the violence and criminal behaviour police had faced since Mr Brown's killing.
"There is never an excuse for violence against police or for those who would use this tragedy as a cover for vandalism or looting," he said.
And Attorney General Eric Holder said the deployment of military equipment and vehicles sent a "conflicting message."
Mr Holder added local Missouri police had an accepted an offer from the justice department for "technical assistance... in order to help conduct crowd control and maintain public safety without relying on unnecessarily extreme displays of force".
Ferguson Police Department Chief Thomas Jackson described the situation as a "powder keg".
He said firebombs were being thrown at police and one officer suffered a broken ankle after being hit by a brick.
"We would like the protesters to stop the violence, we certainly don't want to have any violence," he said.
Of those young black men and women taking to the streets to protest, many say they have no other outlet to show their objection.
"You're going to have to respect the fact we're citizens in this city and you're going to give us equal rights," Michael Brown's neighbour, Howard Bronner, told the BBC.
Mr Obama has promised a full investigation by the US Department of Justice into the teenager's death, and the FBI has launched its own inquiry.
The Reverend Christopher Griffin is alleged to have touched the feet of the teenagers at Sedbergh School in Cumbria for sexual gratification.
The 57-year-old, of Ingleton, North Yorkshire, denies the charges.
He told Carlisle Crown Court he touched the foot of one to make sure he was in his room and shook the foot of another "to check he was alive".
The male pupils, both over 16, said he slipped his hands under their duvets and stroked and squeezed their feet in 2015 and 2016.
When asked by his barrister whether he had at any stage touched either boy in a sexual way on their feet or lower leg, Mr Griffin said: "No, sir, I would not touch them in any sexual way."
He told the court he regularly needed to check on the first complainant, who was a "difficult pupil" and often absent from his room.
"Because of the nature of the room and the hallway and not wanting to be deceived ... I have just shaken his feet to see if he was there", he said.
Referring to the second complainant, Mr Griffin said he checked on him after he had fallen ill.
He said: "He seemed to be asleep. I quietly spoke to him, I didn't get a response.
"I needed to find out if he was still alive so I shook his feet."
The trail continues.
The event, which marked the 101st anniversary of the rebellion, was led by President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Enda Kenny.
Sinn Féin's Stormont leader, Michelle O'Neill, also attended.
It was held outside the General Post Office (GPO) on O'Connell Street, the building that served as the headquarters of the 1916 rebels.
The 1916 rebellion was an attempt to overthrow British rule in Ireland.
President Higgins laid a wreath at the GPO and members of the Irish Defence Forces personnel also took part.
The state ceremony began with the lowering of the Irish tricolour.
A prayer was read and a piper played a lament before the Proclamation of Independence was read by an officer from the Irish defence forces.
The 21-year-old will compete in the 400m individual race as well as the relay after being named in Team GB's 80-strong athletics team for the Games.
Hurdler Rhys Williams has appealed against his omission from the squad.
"There are a lot of people that are close to the standards and a few people that have run the standards," she said.
"It is always hard to know who's going to get selected and it is disappointing there's not a bigger Welsh contingency.
"It is what it is and I'm still going to try and run to the best of my ability and hopefully bring home a medal for Wales."
Bundy-Davies, who helped Britain win 4x400m European relay gold, is the 21st Welsh competitor to be named for Rio 2016, which begins on 5 August.
But Wales will have just one athletics competitor at an Olympics for the first time since the 1952 Helsinki Games, though that could change if Williams' appeal is successful.
"I think there are two sides to it," explained Bundy-Davies, adding: "A lot of people have been quite unlucky.
"Dai Greene [the 2011 world 400m hurdles champion] - he's struggled with injury and everyone knows he's capable of massive things if he's fit.
"It is kind of unfortunate, but at the same time I think Welsh athletics is kind of up and coming.
"There are a lot of younger people coming through that I'm sure will feature in the Commonwealth Games in a few years and the Olympics in 2020.
"Sometimes it's just having patience, waiting for people to come through, but there's a lot of talent in Welsh sport at the moment, especially in athletics."
The 4x400m title in Amsterdam on Sunday was Team GB's first European gold in the event since 1969 and their run of three minutes 25.05 seconds was the fastest time in the world this year.
Bundy-Davies also won relay bronze at last year's World Championships, having claimed individual bronze at the 2015 European Indoor Championships.
Legendary former 110m hurdler Colin Jackson has already tipped her as a medal contender in Brazil and she feels winning a relay medal is "really realistic".
"Bringing home the bronze medal last year showed we can medal at a world level," Bundy-Davies said.
"I think we've got an even stronger relay squad this year. I think people are quicker and we want it just as much.
"We've set a world lead in the European Championships and now we've won the gold medal we've showed we can do it at European level.
"Now we need to compete on a world level against Jamaica and the USA."
Bundy-Davies feels her best is yet to come in the individual 400m: "There's a lot of experience I still need to gain.
"I think I will be peaking more four to eight years down the line.
"Hopefully it will be realistic for me to bring home a medal from the 2018 Commonwealth Games and 2020 Olympics."
The secretary of state said discussions would "pause" for Easter.
Stormont's parties have yet to strike a deal to form an executive almost six weeks after the assembly election.
Meanwhile, DUP leader Arlene Foster says she will contact Irish language speakers, saying she wants to better understand those who love the language.
Issues including the Irish language and the legacy of the Troubles are seen as the main sticking points in the current talks.
On Wednesday, Mr Brokenshire said: "If no executive is formed by early May, I will need to take further steps to ensure Northern Ireland has the political stability it needs.
"This is likely to mean, however undesirable, either a second election or a return to decision making from Westminster."
In his statement, Mr Brokenshire said the restoration of devolution remained achievable, but "more time and a more focused engagement on the critical issues are required".
Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan, who has been involved in the talks, welcomed the secretary of state's statement.
"In particular, at this critical and challenging time for Northern Ireland as we approach negotiations on the UK's withdrawal from the EU, the restoration of a power-sharing executive is essential," he said.
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams said the institutions could only operate "on the basis of rights, and that's rights for everybody ".
He said the impasse "could be sorted out by nine o'clock tonight" if that were recognised.
Asked whether there could be a deal, Mr Adams said: "The optimism of the heart always has to overcome the pessimism of the mind."
DUP leader Arlene Foster said she felt there had been "good engagement" and she emphasised the cultural aspect of the talks.
The former first minister said she intended to "listen to and engage with those from the Gaelic Irish background, those without the party political background".
This would encompass "people who genuinely love the Irish language and don't want to use it as a political weapon".
Irish language group Pobal said it would "gladly accept" Mrs Foster's invitation to meet with Irish speakers and it had written to Mrs Foster to arrange a meeting.
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Many will think this a long way off the Arlene Foster during the election campaign, whenever she made it very clear there would be no Irish Language Act under her watch.
Her party has stressed this is not a change of policy but it was pretty deliberate Arlene Foster putting the information in the public domain that she plans to meet Irish Language groups beyond Sinn Féin, because she wants to hear from those who have no political baggage.
This could be the first step towards clearing the way among her own people, to be able to say we can now make a decision on an Irish Language Act without the influence of, or demands from, Sinn Féin.
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said he was "furious and frustrated" another deadline had been missed.
"I don't know how I can look at the public out there when I meet them over the next couple of days that once again we have missed another deadline. I don't think it's good enough," he said.
Mr Eastwood also called on the parties to reduce the prominence of their unelected special advisers in the talks.
Ulster Unionist Tom Elliott said the talks had been "extremely frustrating".
He said that at times it felt like "Back to the Future" as the parties returned to matters they discussed three-and-a-half years ago.
Mr Elliott said he feared that "some people are going through the motions".
The political deadlock came after a snap election on 2 March brought an end to Stormont's unionist majority and the DUP's lead over Sinn Féin was cut from 10 seats to one.
Under Northern Ireland's power-sharing agreement, the executive must be jointly run by unionists and nationalists, with the largest party putting forward a candidate for first minister.
Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness quit as deputy first minister in January in protest against the DUP's handling of a botched green energy scheme.
The party said it would not share power with Mrs Foster as first minister until the conclusion of a public inquiry into the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme.
Mr McGuinness died last month at the age of 66.
The former Leicester City, Derby County and Blackburn Rovers midfielder was honoured by Wrexham's Glyndwr University for services to sport.
Savage, 40, earned 39 caps for Wales and played for six different clubs in a career spanning 17 years.
He said: "I am very thankful to be offered this honorary fellowship... and accept this accolade wholeheartedly."
The father-of-two and former Manchester United trainee is now a regular pundit for Match of the Day and Radio 5 Live and appeared on Strictly Come Dancing in 2011.
The university's vice-chancellor, professor Michael Scott, said: "Robbie Savage is Wrexham through and through so we are thrilled that he will be accepting this honour."
Other fellows being honoured at the graduation ceremony include Mario Kreft, owner of Pendine Park care organisation, technology firm NU Instruments' managing director Alan McCall and Tim Baker, artistic director of Clwyd Theatr Cymru in Mold, Flintshire.
In the assembly, Mr McDonnell asked the speaker what he could do to address Nelson McCausland's attitude to what he called recent events in north Belfast around parading.
The speaker said the issue was outside his authority.
Dr McDonnell said the SDLP will be proposing a motion of censure.
He said they were taking the action over what the SDLP regard as Mr McCaulsand's failure to condemn breaches of lawful determinations relating to recent parades.
"The minister failed to condemn the sectarian actions of the Young Conway Volunteers outside St Patrick's Church on the Twelfth," said Mr McDonnell.
"He has since hidden behind a deeply disingenuous line on civil disobedience to mask his failure to condemn the illegal actions of lodges and bands who flagrantly breached the Parades Commission determinations on August 25.
"The minister is quick to publicly judge on breaches by the nationalist community - it is time he exercised balance in his work.
"In his failure to uphold law and order and promote good community relations, we believe he has breached points 1.4 and 1.5 of the Ministerial Pledge of Office.
"The speaker has informed the assembly that he has no authority to rule on such breaches - it is a matter for the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM) - but we believe the minister's behaviour to have caused such serious damage to the reputation of this assembly that the SDLP will be bringing a motion of no confidence before the house.
"If our community is to move forward, it must do so in a spirit of partnership and reconciliation and the least we can expect is for those at the heart of government to uphold that spirit - Mr McCausland has manifestly failed to do so and action must be taken."
The 72-year-old will host a new BBC One family game show which sees celebrities try to answer clues based on rhymes.
With one of his catchphrases on Strictly being "It's a 10 from Len" - it's perhaps an ideal fit to front the programme, called Partners in Rhyme.
Goodman stood down as head judge in December, after 12 years on the show.
The new game show was devised by BBC Radio 1 presenter Matt Edmondson.
He said: "I'm ridiculously excited about bringing Partners in Rhyme to BBC One.
"It's the sort of show that I hope will have families screaming at the TV as they try and make sense of pigs in wigs, flowers with superpowers and Lorraine Kelly making jelly!"
That last one we'd like to see.
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The bridge in Mountain Ash will be built over the Aberdare-Cardiff railway line and the River Cynon, from the Cwm Cynon Industrial Estate to Miskin Road.
It will offer a link for traffic travelling on the A4059 and the B4275.
Council leader Andrew Morgan called it "a major landmark" after planning permission was granted on Thursday.
Part of the Mountain Ash Cross Valley Link project, it has received more than £6m of funding with further preparatory work set to take place on 27 March.
Brollies bounced and flags swayed as the basilica bells rang out.
The crowd swelled as Rome converged on the square, priests and pilgrims running to catch a glimpse of their new leader.
Not everyone was overawed. Roberta Guerrera, an actress who lives in the city, was caught in the crowds as she tried to make her way to a nearby Buddhist meditation centre. She seemed bemused.
But among the pilgrims clamouring to pass through the colonnades bordering the square, the mood was electric.
They were kept waiting. Before he greeted them from the basilica balcony overlooking the square, the Pope had to accept the allegiance of his cardinals, don his new white vestments and stop at the Pauline chapel for prayer and contemplation of his new role.
The crowd didn't mind - excitedly speculating about their new leader's identity.
"Viva il Papa!" they chanted, as they waited to learn his name.
Francesco. Pope Francis. The former cardinal archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, had chosen the name of an 12th Century Italian saint who turned his back on an aristocratic lifestyle to work with the poor.
Once the crowd knew the name, their chants quickly turned to "Fran-ces-co! Fran-ces-co!"
And then, to trumpet fanfare, the balcony curtains parted and he appeared above them, to bless them. But only after he had asked them to pray with - and for - him.
It was a gesture appreciated by the crowd, who roared their approval.
The Latin American contingent were particularly vocal. Tais and Nicole, visiting from Ecuador, said they were ecstatic to have Latin America's first Pope.
They said they hoped he would help bring Catholics who have turned to newer Pentecostal Churches back to the fold in Latin America.
And their expectations were big: "Bring peace to the world."
For others, simply being on the square for the historic occasion was what mattered.
Jenny Uebbing, originally from Denver but now living in Rome, said her son John-Paul was one of the last babies Benedict XVI blessed before he resigned.
"We had to be here to say hello to the new Papa," she told the BBC, as John-Paul grinned. "It's been a long Lent but now it feels like Easter has come early."
On Friday, William Dunne admitted carrying out the robbery in Dublin.
During the attack, he asked his victim Ciaran McGinley: "Do you know who I am?", before informing him he was "Jim Kerr from Simple Minds".
He then waved the bottle at the man, struck him and took his phone.
Dunne, 55, and originally from Glasgow, pleaded guilty to the robbery on 14 May 2014, and to an earlier theft on the same day.
He also admitted the theft of a mobile phone in a bookmaker's shop on Upper Baggot Street in the city on 6 May 2014.
Dunne has numerous previous convictions including theft, criminal damage, assault causing harm and 79 public order offences.
The court was told that Mr McGinley, aged 60, was on his way to a chiropractor when Dunne approached him.
Dunne waved the wine bottle at him and asked Mr McGinley how much money he had before he demanded his phone.
He then struck his victim with the bottle, cutting his face just below his eye. Mr McGinley then handed over his phone.
Police viewed CCTV footage from nearby cameras and identified Dunne.
He was arrested on 24 May 2014 and claimed he could not remember the mugging because he was drunk.
The court heard that Dunne had been in Ireland for almost 19 years and had spent most of that time in custody due to his criminal offending.
A defence barrister said Dunne is now ready to return to Scotland and is willing to do so upon his release from jail.
Situated along the route of the Great Silk Road, it has fallen within the orbit of a number of cultural influences and empires.
After independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Armenia quickly became drawn into a bloody conflict with Azerbaijan over the mostly Armenian-speaking region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
One of the earliest Christian civilisations, its first churches were founded in the fourth century. In later centuries, it frequently oscillated between Byzantine, Persian, Mongol or Turkish control, as well as periods of independence.
Population 3.1m
Area 29,743 sq km (11,484 sq miles)
Major languages Armenian, Russian
Major religion Christianity
Life expectancy 71 years (men), 77 years (women)
Main exports Diamonds, machinery, foodstuffs
President: Serge Sarkisian
Serge Sarkisian became president following elections in 2008 and won a second term in early 2013.
He was a Soviet soldier and later worked in the defence committee of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. He was then appointed Armenia's minister of defence. He had a spell as minister of national security and head of the presidential staff before returning to the defence ministry.
In 2009, he signed a historic deal to re-establish diplomatic ties with Turkey. However, the thaw in relations proved to be short-lived, and ratification of the agreement was suspended after only a few months, on account of pressure from nationalists on both sides.
Television is Armenia's dominant medium. Some 25 private stations operate alongside two public networks. The main Russian networks are widely available.
Few Armenians rely on newspapers as their main news source. Print runs are small - usually a few thousand copies - and most titles are owned by wealthy individuals or political parties.
A media law prohibits censorship. However, libel and defamation can be punished by prison terms and journalists have been sentenced under relevant laws.
Some key events in Armenia's history:
1915 - 1917 - Between 600,000 and 1.5 million Armenians are massacred or deported from their homeland in Anatolia to present-day Syria. Armenia considers the killings genocide, a charge Turkey does not accept.
1918 - Independent Armenia emerges from defeat of Ottoman Empire in World War I.
1922 - Armenia is incorporated into the Soviet Union.
1989 - Conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh begins. In 1994 a Russian-brokered ceasefire but no peace deal is reached and intermittent fighting continues.
1991 - Armenia secedes from the Soviet Union.
2009 - Armenia and Turkey agree on a provisional roadmap for normalising diplomatic ties, but subsequently fail to ratify the deal.
2015 - Armenia officially joins the Russian-led Eurasian Customs Union, having decided against signing a EU Association Agreement.
During busy periods, the taxi firm's customers are currently told they will be charged a "surge price" such as 1.7 or 2.3 times the standard fare.
Customers will instead be shown a fixed fee with a notice that "fares are higher due to increased demand".
One analyst said hiding the surge price multiplier could stop people being discouraged from using the service.
"I've been in the situation myself, where I've held off using an Uber during a surge," said Jim Clark, research director at Econsultancy.
"We are sensitive to price - as a nation we do like a bargain and that's one of the reasons they'll be making this change."
Uber told the BBC it was moving to a system where riders would know the cost of their journey before booking. Presently, factors such as waiting time in traffic can increase the cost of a journey
In a blog post, Uber said it had started rolling out the change in the US and India in April.
It said more cities would follow suit, but told the BBC it had no timescale for implementing the change in the UK.
In addition to hiding the surge price multiplier, Uber is also removing an option that notifies customers when the surge price drops.
Uber said the changes made the app "clear and simple".
"There's no complicated math and no surprises - passengers can just sit back and enjoy the ride," it said.
However, Mr Clark said hiding the surge price multiplier could also have a financial benefit for Uber.
"There is the argument that it becomes quicker and easier to see the price," Mr Clark told the BBC.
"But I think that's an argument only Uber might make rather than anybody else.
"From a business perspective, it makes sense - it encourages people to use the service.
"But it's important to give users a choice of whether to wait - being given all the information is the spirit of the sharing economy. At the very least they could give users the option to switch the surge information on or off."
It said in a statement that views on commentary were subjective but that "we do appreciate that over-talking can irritate our audience".
It added that it hoped it had achieved "the right balance" across its coverage and was "of course sorry if on occasion you have not been satisfied".
Tim Henman and John McEnroe were among the ex-players offering punditry.
Pat Cash, Boris Becker, Lindsay Davenport and Greg Rusedski also commentated on matches during the two-week tournament.
"The aim of our commentary team was to inform our audience and give context to the matches we showed," the statement added.
It said the "diversity of the team itself added balance and insight where necessary" and that views on commentary were subjective.
A BBC spokesman said the corporation had received more than 100 complaints about "excessive" talking.
Viewers also logged on to the Points of View website to complain.
A mother-of-three, Um Omar is in her mid-40s but the wrinkles and sad look on her face make her seem like a much older, tired woman.
She wants to tell the story of her son but is fearful of retaliation by the Lebanese military establishment in case she is discovered. Her name has been changed to protect her identity.
Um Omar's son was detained and tortured for three years, and then released at the age of 24 with no charges against him.
She shares a grievance with many Sunni Muslims in the Middle East these days, not only in Lebanon.
"We are victims in the war against terror," Um Omar says, adding that in her view Lebanese Sunnis have no leader to protect them.
"We are oppressed - the Sunni leaders are only focused on their interests and political gains, and they don't protect us. [Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan] Nasrallah protects the Shia Muslims. Walid Jumblatt protects his people - the Druze - and our leaders only call for tolerance while we face a constant crackdown by the government," she protests, accusing the military and state security apparatus.
Um Omar says many young men, like her son, who are held in the infamous Roumieh high-security prison in Lebanon, are at risk of getting radicalised because of their harsh treatment in detention.
"These practices are pushing young people to extremism. When we face such things we say it's better to have the Islamic State (IS) than the Lebanese state.
"Although we know if IS comes here we may be the first to be killed but at least we die once and for all, not a slow death like this."
Roumieh prison in Metn district, east of Beirut, is one of the most notorious prisons in Lebanon.
In 2015, videos were leaked on social media showing prison guards beating up prisoners. Many prisoners later rioted, calling for a change in conditions. The situation only got worse after the war in Lebanon's neighbour - Syria - started.
Tripoli is a predominantly Sunni city, where resentment and anger against the government is strong and where many locals say the authorities' attempts to fight terrorism seem counter-effective.
"Any person, anywhere who faces injustice will have a reaction - at least a psychological one - towards the oppressor," says Ahmad Statite, a former prisoner who spent a year-and-a-half without trial, accused of belonging to radical groups, but ultimately released without charge.
"In 2007, following tensions in the Palestinian Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon, 50 people were detained and tortured and accused of terrorist acts but then released with no charges. One of them joined the Islamic State," he said.
Ahmad is now working with a committee to support prisoners.
"A very limited number will have a violent reaction to facing such injustices, but we need the government to take the right steps to prevent such a reaction," he argues.
"Many Sunnis feel that they are targeted and that the government is treating them differently to Christians and Shia. Roumieh prison is full of Sunnis while, when it comes to the Shia of Hezbollah, no-one can touch them even if they commit crimes," he claims.
As Lebanese society split between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Shia Islamist militant group Hezbollah started sending fighters to back President Assad's forces.
"Members of Hezbollah are treated as heroes when they get back to Lebanon, but it doesn't seem the same case for Sunnis who go to fight," Um Omar tells me.
"Our sons are arrested when they come back from Syria, Hezbollah's fighters are hailed as heroes."
There is a general sense among Sunnis that they are paying a high price in the war against terrorism and the rise of so-called Islamic State. Many feel they are being tarred with the same brush and punished for what a small group of extremists is doing.
Judge Mohamad Saeb, Senior Advisor to the Minister of Justice, acknowledged there is an issue with the way Sunnis are treated in Lebanon .
"Roumieh prison is a very huge problem for the Lebanese government. It's overcrowded; there are nearly 4,000 prisoners there while its capacity is only for 2,000.
"The Ministry of Justice is following this case and co-operating with the Ministry of Interior, but all these efforts are not enough to end the suffering of prisoners in Roumieh. With the cases of Islamists in the prison, where the majority are Sunnis, many of them feel they are treated unfairly - especially when some are left for two or three years in prison without a trial," he said.
Judge Saeb said things have improved in the prison but more needed to be done.
Tripoli's top Sunni cleric Mohammed al-Shaar has called on the government to enforce rule of law.
"I have no doubt that unfair treatment and investigations that violate the rule of law, especially for young men, have inflamed the situation," he said.
"Holding prisoners for years without trial is against human rights and it could create an atmosphere of heated reactions that would lead people to clash with the government."
The resentment within the Sunni community is widely felt in a country that is defined by sectarian divisions. With instability and war surrounding Lebanon, many here argue that in order to avoid escalating tensions, reforms need to be made, and soon.
The 24-year-old male suspect surnamed Li was caught in Henan province on Thursday night, Beijing police said on their Sina Weibo microblog.
The video, taken from the hotel's CCTV footage, was viewed widely online in recent days and sparked public anger.
The hotel's parent company has apologised over the incident.
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The video was uploaded on Sina Weibo, a popular microblogging network in China, earlier this week and quickly went viral, with posts about the subject attracting more than two billion views.
It shows a woman being approached by a man in a black jacket, who then appears to attack her.
The uploader of the video, who used the screen name "Wanwan" and claimed to be the woman in the video, said she did not know the man, and that a staff member who saw them did not intervene.
The incident took place at the Beijing branch of the Heyi hotel chain, known as Yitel in English.
Homeinns, the parent company of the hotel, has apologised for "insufficient security management and customer service".
Following news of the arrest, "Wanwan" wrote: "The suspect has been arrested, and Homeinns has apologised, so two of my requests have been met."
"The last few days have been exhausting, and the incident has affected my everyday life, and friends have also suggested I seek support from a psychologist."
She added that she hoped her life could go back to normal, and thanked her supporters for their help.
While news of the suspect's arrest was welcomed by many on Sina Weibo, some also expressed disappointment in the authorities.
"When something happens, it seems like taking to social media is more useful than dialling 110 [the police number in China]," one user said.
Another user, VIP-GGG, commented: "I'm still very angry! Your police statement came too late! We forced it out of you! There are thousands of other women like Wanwan whose cases haven't been resolved!"
China has seen several incidents in recent years where bystanders have refused to help those in need.
Many are reluctant to intervene because there have been cases where injured people have subsequently blamed those who came to their aid for causing the injuries - and sued them.
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Collins scored the opening try in the fifth minute but Ulster hit back to lead 10-8, with winger Craig Gilroy carving out a superb individual score.
Luke Marshall touched down in the corner for a second try, which gave Ulster a 17-15 lead at the interval.
But two Aled Thomas penalties secured victory for the visitors.
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The hard-earned victory saw Wayne Pivac's men move up to third while Ulster, who began the weekend at the top, slip back to fourth after claiming a losing bonus point and falling to only their second home league loss this season.
The Welsh side are now level on points with Leinster, and two behind leaders Connacht.
The opening exchanges looked ominous for Ulster as they conceded the opening try inside the first five minutes.
A loose pass by Darren Cave proved costly and the home defence was caught outnumbered as Collins got through to score.
Thomas missed the conversion but soon added a penalty to stretch the visitors' lead.
Paddy Jackson, leading Ulster for the first time, put the hosts on the board with a drop goal.
Then home winger Gilroy scored a sparkling try, running from deep in his own half and gathering his own kick ahead. Jackson's conversion made it 10-8.
However, Scarlets regained the lead when Ulster's defence found themselves sucked in, giving their opponents the numbers out wide for Collins to dot down his second.
The game's momentum continued to see-saw as Ulster bagged a 17-15 interval advantage - centre Luke Marshall just managing to touch down in the corner. After video confirmation, Jackson landed a fine touchline conversion.
But Scarlets took a 21-17 lead through two Thomas penalties, the second following a yellow card for Ulster flanker Chris Henry.
A Jackson penalty set up a close finish but was Ulster's only score of the second half.
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Ulster: Olding, Gilroy, Cave, L. Marshall, Stockdale, Jackson, P. Marshall, Warwick, Andrew, Lutton, O'Connor, van der Merwe, Diack, Henry, Wilson.
Replacements: J. Murphy for Andrew (46), McCall for Warwick (46), B. Ross for Lutton (46), Pienaar for P. Marshall (60), Arnold for Cave (60), Browne for O'Connor (26), C. Ross for van der Merwe (71).
Not used: Humphreys.
Sin bin: Henry (48).
Scarlets: Collins, Owen, King, Parkes, van der Merwe, Thomas, A. Davies, John, Myhill, Edwards, Earle, Bulbring, A. Shingler, Boyle, Allen.
Replacements: R. Williams for A. Davies (3), S. Evans for van der Merwe 37, D. Evans for John (47), M. Paulino for Earle (54), Pitman for A. Shingler (54), Elias for Myhill (63), D. Jones for A. Thomas 63.
Not used: R. Jones.
Ref: Ian Davies (Wales).
The Canadian slipped in the locker room at the Grand Slam event in September.
She withdrew from the tournament prior to a fourth-round match and pulled out of her comeback event at the China Open on 5 October because of dizziness.
The lawsuit alleges the 21-year-old world number 39 slipped on "a foreign and dangerous substance" in New York.
It also alleges negligence and includes a demand for a jury trial, with Bouchard seeking damages from the USTA and USTA National Tennis Center.
Her lawyer, Benedict Morelli, told the New York Times the substance was a cleaning agent intended to be left on the floor overnight when the room would no longer be used.
He claimed they could be seeking damages worth "millions and millions" of dollars.
Seeded 25th at Flushing Meadows, the 2014 Wimbledon runner-up suffered a head injury in a fall after playing mixed doubles on 4 September.
The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, includes the allegation Bouchard "was caused to slip and fall on a dangerous condition created by the defendants in the physiotherapy room attendant to the women's locker room".
It is claimed the defendants either caused or should have known of the floor condition, and that Bouchard was not made aware that it was slippery.
The lawsuit adds Bouchard sustained a "severe injury to her head, including, but not limited to, a concussion", and the injury also caused her to withdraw or retire from the subsequent Japan Open, Wuhan Open, China Open and Hong Kong Open tournaments, resulting in a fall of 13 ranking places.
It also says she continues to suffer pain as a consequence of the fall, resulting in medical costs and a loss of income, and it affects her quality of life.
The USTA has declined to comment on the lawsuit.
Prime Minister David Cameron will hold an "in-out" referendum on Britain's membership of the EU by the end of 2017.
The Beaufort Wales Omnibus survey found 26% of more than 1,000 adults want to stay.
The figure is double the proportion of people who said they want an EU exit.
Others say their vote will depend on the outcome of renegotiations on Britain's membership with EU leaders and there are some who are undecided or will not vote.
The 26-year-old has apologised following a late-night incident in Aberystwyth in August 2016.
Scarlets coach Wayne Pivac says the region is "doing everything it can to educate players".
The Welsh Rugby Union has already "reminded (him) of his responsibility as an international player".
Police are reviewing video evidence of the incident after initially deciding against action.
Pivac told a media conference: "At the moment he (Davies) is in the Welsh camp.
"I think they (WRU) have put out a statement and there is an inquiry going on so we won't be doing anything until we get the result of that inquiry."
Davies, 26, won his 23rd cap as a replacement in Wales' defeat against England and is due to remain with the Welsh camp preparing to face Scotland on Saturday 25 February.
Pivac added: "We talk to our players and all professional sports do around the world about the pitfalls out there.
"Our guys have got to learn from other people's mistakes and make sure we don't repeat them.
"Certainly, here at the Scarlets, we are doing everything we can to further educate them on the pitfalls that are out there."
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The payout by the estate, which owns London's Regent Street and the entire UK seabed, was up from £285m.
It comes ahead of a review of the Sovereign Grant - taxpayers' money given to the Queen by the Treasury.
This year the Queen received a grant of nearly £43m, currently calculated as 15% of the Crown Estate's profits.
The Sovereign Grant, which is paid two years in arrears, is reviewed every five years.
In the coming months, the government and a senior royal official will carry out a review of the grant, which was set at 15% in 2012.
If the formula is unchanged, the grant will rise to more than £45m next year, up from £31m in 2012.
This year, the Crown Estate has reaped the benefits of a regeneration programme of London's Regent Street and St James's, where it lets out shops.
The estate brought in £22.9m over the year from leasing the country's seabed to offshore wind farms, a rise of nearly 20%.
How rich is the Queen?
The Sovereign Grant's annual report for 2015-2016 shows the monarchy cost the Treasury £40.1m, of which:
During a briefing to launch the report, Sir Alan Reid, Keeper of the Privy Purse, highlighted the large amount of funds spent on the upkeep of royal palaces.
Spending on property maintenance was up close to 40% on the previous year, he said, yet the condition of the estate was deteriorating at a faster rate than they have been able to respond to.
Sir Alan said a "significant amount" of the rise in this year's Sovereign Grant of £42.8m would be used to tackle the backlog in essential maintenance.
BBC royal correspondent Peter Hunt said it was now unlikely - as had been suggested last year after the publication of the Sovereign Grant's annual report - that the Queen would have to vacate Buckingham Palace during refurbishment.
Source: The Crown Estate
Meanwhile, Prince Charles's private income from his Duchy of Cornwall estate, a portfolio of land, property and financial investments, rose by 3% to £20.5m during the last financial year, and his tax bill increased by £531,000 to just over £5m.
The Duchy of Cornwall, which includes assets such as London's Oval cricket ground and has the Isles of Scilly among its possessions, funds the private and official expenditure of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall.
The estate is given to the heir to the throne and comprises 53,628 hectares (132,518 acres) of land in 23 counties, mostly in the south-west of England.
The prince also received £1.4m in funding from the Sovereign Grant and government departments during the period.
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Former players including Dean Radford and Jamie Webb have spoken about incidents they said happened when they were in schoolboy teams.
Mr McMenemy told BBC South Today that if he had known of any abuse, he would have acted.
The club said it has contacted police regards claims of historical abuse.
Mr McMenemy, the club's most successful manager, also had spells as director of football and later as a non-executive director.
He said he had no suspicions such activity was happening at the club, which he managed between 1973 and 1985.
"Certainly if I'd known that was happening in my time - and I don't think it did happen in my time - I would have got it killed straightaway," he said.
"If I thought for one minute that sort of thing was happening, I'd have acted ... certainly I'd have gone straight to the police."
He said he was "staggered" about the allegations against the staff member.
"I'm so sad and disappointed - we all feel for the players ... I don't think this sort of thing could happen now."
In a statement, Southampton FC said: "The club has informed Hampshire Constabulary that we will offer our full support to any investigation they undertake, for as long as it takes, and with our full focus.
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The National Police Chiefs' Council said 55 amateur and professional clubs had been linked to police investigations in 18 force areas.
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Mr Farage should only be used "sparingly" when Brexit campaigners target blue-collar workers, because of his potential to alienate voters with "a divisive or reactionary tone on issues like immigration". That's according to a report produced for his own allies.
A strategic analysis commissioned by the Leave.EU movement said that campaign themes "should be delivered by someone other than Nigel Farage". It argues that some voters view Mr Farage negatively, which "hurts the message", and "the Leave campaign does not have the luxury to allow this to happen".
But it also says that Mr Farage could be deployed to "keep the pot boiling" and "at times of a specific crisis in migration, for example, to underline the negative effects of immigration on working households".
Mr Farage is well-established as a figure in British politics who provokes starkly diverse reactions, deeply inspiring many voters while equally profoundly infuriating many others.
His appearance on Tuesday night in ITV's special EU debate, on the same programme as David Cameron, has aroused controversy - mainly from the official Leave campaign who said ITV's choice of Mr Farage rather than a Conservative was an "outrage".
But what is surprising is that this analysis does not stem from Mr Farage's enemies, but from his allies. He backed the application by the Grassroots Out movement (which included Leave.EU) to be designated as the official leading Leave campaign in the referendum.
Grassroots Out included this research as part of their lengthy submission to the Electoral Commission to justify why their group (with Mr Farage playing a prominent role) should have been designated, rather than the rival Vote Leave organisation which actually succeeded. It is hard to see why it would have encouraged the Commission to pick GO.
There are some other interesting features of this strategic report, which is a detailed 50-page demographic and geographic analysis of voter characteristics aimed at helping Leave.EU target the Labour vote. It says that voters in blue collar working households have "closed personality traits, which are associated with social conservatism".
It goes on: "They tend to hold dogmatic and closed positions on issues such as immigration, Europe and welfare ... They are also slightly neurotic, which leads them to emphasise the unfairness in issues such as welfare or immigration. The combination of closed and neurotic personality types means they have fairly stark and blunt views".
The report was produced by Ian Warren, an elections analyst who runs the Election Data website. He has provided expert advice for a range of political forces, including Labour at the last general election and UKIP previously.
A Grassroots Out spokesman said: "This report was about the Labour vote. The fact that Nigel Farage isn't the best person to get across to Labour voters isn't exactly shocking news. The reason why it was included in our submission is neither here nor there."
All political campaigning organisations commission this kind of strategic research to help their target their communications, but it is unusual for it to become publicly available.
The Electoral Commission redacted large sections of the applications to be chosen as the lead campaigns on each side before releasing them in April, particularly the evidence on campaigning capacity, but included this report in the published material. However, I have not seen it reported anywhere until now.
The woman, who is in her 20s, was in the house in the Craighill area of Antrim when a bin was placed against a door and set alight at about 04:50 BST.
The door and the hallway of the house were damaged in the attack.
Firefighters and police were called to the scene. The woman was treated in hospital for the effects of breathing in smoke.
Det Insp Christopher Millar appealed for anyone with any information to contact detectives.
The actor, who is from the state of Kerala, suffered from a heart attack early on Monday, his family said.
Thilakan began his career in the theatre before playing his first role on screen in 1979.
He starred in more than 200 Malayalam films and received a Padma Shree, one of the top civilian honours from the government, in 2009.
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said that Thilakan's death was a "big loss to the world of art".
In his early years, the actor was part of various drama troupes, including the Kerala Peoples' Arts Centre and Kalidasa Kalakendram.
Well known as a character actor, Thilakan's films included Nirmalyam, Ekantham and Keeridam and he acted in several films with top star Mohanlal.
The last movie he starred in was Ustad Hotel.
Thilakan was also a well known voice in radio plays.
The veteran actor was admitted to hospital on 23 August with a cardiac problem.
Wrexham took the lead through Alex Reid who made it two in two for his new club, but the hosts turned the game around thanks to goals from Alex Wynter and Jack Richards to lead at the break.
The second half got worse for Wrexham who saw Manny Smith sent off for a professional foul.
That led to a penalty - saved by Christian Dibble - before Mark Carrington also saw red for dissent.
Wrexham manager Dean Keates told BBC Radio Wales:
"It is very disappointing, the fans came in great numbers and deserved better than that.
"Ultimately we've let them have too many chances and our goalkeeper was absolutely outstanding.
"Things are going against us at the moment, but we will keep working hard and hopefully it will change.
"We will appeal Manny Smith's red card, because he's made a clear attempt to get the ball."
Match ends, Maidstone United 2, Wrexham 1.
Second Half ends, Maidstone United 2, Wrexham 1.
Jai Reason (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Jack Paxman (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Jack Paxman replaces Delano Sam-Yorke.
Substitution, Wrexham. James Hurst replaces Marcus Kelly.
Mark Carrington (Wrexham) is shown the red card.
Manny Smith (Wrexham) is shown the red card.
Zavon Hines (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Wrexham. Akil Wright replaces Paul Rutherford.
Substitution, Wrexham. Ntumba Massanka replaces Scott Boden.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Zavon Hines replaces Jack Richards.
Second Half begins Maidstone United 2, Wrexham 1.
First Half ends, Maidstone United 2, Wrexham 1.
Kevin Roberts (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card.
Manny Smith (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Maidstone United 2, Wrexham 1. Jack Richards (Maidstone United).
James Jennings (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card.
Mark Carrington (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Maidstone United 1, Wrexham 1. Alex Wynter (Maidstone United).
Goal! Maidstone United 0, Wrexham 1. Alex Reid (Wrexham).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The Lady Boys of Bangkok will be moving to the Fountainbridge Brewery site, two acres of derelict land formerly used by the NoFit State circus.
It lost the Meadows location to promoters Underbelly after the council introduced a tendering process.
The Lady Boys of Bangkok can apply for the Meadows site again in two years.
Phillip Gandey, Lady Boys of Bangkok founder and promoter, said: "We are aggrieved by the whole tendering process over the Meadows site and would have preferred to have remained there this year.
"We are, however, delighted that we are able to come back to Edinburgh this year as the Lady Boys started at the Fringe and now perform around the world."
The Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) said it believed there was a strong interest among people with disabilities to take up climbing.
However, this year's British Mountaineering Council/MCofS Paraclimbing Series saw no Scots reach the final.
MCofS sport development officer Kevin Howett hopes to appeal to more Scots to get involved.
A come-and-try event held by the Scottish council last year attracted more than 30 participants.
Mr Howett said: "We know there are more people north of the border with disabilities interested in climbing and who enjoy taking part in events and we want to encourage them and others to help paraclimbing competitions become an established part of the Scottish climbing scene.
"Our first event in 2014, was supported by quadruple amputee climber Jamie Andrew, who is also an ambassador for the British Paraclimbing Team.
"There was a lot of interest and enthusiasm, and it would be great to see this carried on."
Mr Howett added: "I would encourage any climber, or even non-climbers, whatever their ability, to come along and have go at the 2016 ParaClimb Scotland event."
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The actor suffered a heart attack at his residence in Mumbai early on Friday, reports say.
Om Puri, who acted in both mainstream and art films, was known for his gritty performances in a number of landmark Indian films in the 1980s.
He also appeared in a number of British films, including a cameo in Richard Attenborough's epic on Mahatma Gandhi.
A versatile actor, Puri was known for his roles in Indian, Pakistani, British and Hollywood films. He was awarded an honorary OBE for his contribution to the British film industry in 2004.
Puri, who was born in 1950 in the north Indian state of Haryana, made his film debut in the 1976 film Ghashiram Kotwal.
He became a well-known figure in the Indian film industry in the 1980s before he found international fame in the following decade.
His roles in American and British films included the 1999 British comedy East is East about a Pakistani immigrant adjusting to life in the north of England.
Puri also appeared in City of Joy, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Charlie Wilson's War and most recently starred in The Hundred-Foot Journey alongside Dame Helen Mirren.
At home, Puri was best-known for his performances in critically-acclaimed films like Ardh Satya, Sadgati, Paar and the satirical Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro.
Puri was one of India's truly successful crossover actors, doing films with stars such as Jack Nicholson and Tom Hanks, the BBC's Soutik Biswas said.
His roles in Govind Nihalani's Aakrosh as a tribal man falsely accused of murder and a policeman in Ardh Satya beaten back by the system remain among the finest performances on Indian screen, Biswas added.
Puri is survived by his wife Nandita Puri, who he married in 1993, and their son Ishaan.
The actor is being mourned in neighbouring Pakistan with newspapers reporting prominently on his death.
He had recently spoken out against the ban imposed by India on Pakistani actors working in Bollywood films, following tensions over Kashmir.
"Pakistani artists are not terrorists," he told an Indian TV channel. The remark led to criticism by sections of the Indian media.
The actor made several other comments that caused controversy in the country.
These included statements on the Indian army, politicians who "loot" the country, and a comment on the controversial lynching of a Muslim man in 2015 over beef, when he said, "Those who wanted to put a ban on slaughtering cows in the country were hypocrites."
Actor and director Ananth Mahadevan, who was a close friend of Puri, paid tribute to the star.
He told the BBC World Service's Newsday programme: "It's a personal loss and a loss to cinema because he was truly India's international star."
Mahadevan praised Puri's "sheer versatility", adding: "He was a man that proved that you needn't be a very handsome-looking, tall, strapping guy to be a leading man.
"You needed loads of talent and that is what Om proved with his sensibility and sensitivity."
In a tweet two weeks ago, the actor reflected on his life and career, saying he did not have a "conventional face" but was "proud" of his success.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office led the tributes to the actor:
A number of leading filmmakers and actors also remembered Puri:
Gog the dog, from Leicester, was known for wearing clothes and being wheeled around in a buggy by its owner Monti Shortt.
Dozens of people responded to a social media campaign and helped hand out leaflets to help find the dog.
Police said someone walked off with the buggy when Ms Shortt briefly popped into the Haymarket Shopping Centre.
Mrs Shortt told BBC News that Gog had clearly been well looked after since she was taken nearly three weeks ago in Leicester.
"It hasn't quite sunk in yet," she said about her dog's return, adding that a man had called her saying the dog was at his home.
Ms Shortt, 69, who has cancer, said she wanted to get her pet back urgently because Gog needed surgery on her knees.
The pet was found by police after they "attended an address in the city" and the force is still investigating the incident.
"Thank you to everyone who gave information and shared the appeal for her safe return," a Leicestershire Police spokesman said.
One force, West Mercia, saw the equivalent of more than five call-outs a day to homes in 2014-15, the Howard League for Penal Reform found.
It said children were being wrongly "criminalised" because staff often called the police over minor incidents.
But the Independent Children's Homes Association said homes were "rigorously inspected" and staff well-trained.
The majority of children legally defined as "looked after" in England and Wales are placed in foster care, but in 2014, some 5,220 were living in residential care homes.
The Howard League's findings included:
The report also highlighted Department for Education figures which show a 13 to 15-year-old in a home is almost 20 times more likely to have contact with police than a child living with their family.
Taken together, the Howard League said it was clear children living in children's homes were "being criminalised at excessively high rates".
Staff are calling police too frequently, often over minor incidents that would never come to officers' attention if they happened in family homes, the charity said.
"There appears to be a 'tipping point' around the age of 13, at which time these children lose society's sympathy and, rather than being helped, they are pushed into the criminal justice system," the report added.
Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League, said: "They are wonderful young people who have had a really bad start in life.
"Private companies, charities and local authorities that are paid a fortune by the taxpayer should give these children what they need and deserve."
The report also said:
Figures from different forces are not directly comparable because some include call-outs for missing or absent children, while others only relate to reports of criminal behaviour.
Children's homes are also not evenly distributed across the country, and West Mercia Police pointed out that its area contained more than any other force in England.
It said in a statement: "We work closely with partner agencies and each reported incident is carefully managed on a case-by-case basis. Police work with care homes and children exploring alternatives including restorative justice."
Restorative justice enables victims to meet or communicate with offenders to explain the real impact of the crime.
A West Midlands Police spokesman said: "Clearly there are times when an arrest is the most appropriate course of action when a serious offence has occurred and the suspect is a child; however for more minor incidents we utilise a variety of resolutions rather than an arrest."
Jonathan Stanley, from the Independent Children's Homes Association, said children's homes were "the most scrutinised and accountable service for young people".
"It seems that what is being reported here is history. Police and children's homes work closely together and meet regularly in local areas," he said.
"That's not to say there aren't some particular issues but this needs real life, detailed evidence in order for them to be understood."
Olivia Pinkney and Nick Ephgrave, from the National Police Chiefs' Council, said police "should not be called to minor incidents which would otherwise be dealt with in a family environment".
They said where intervention was necessary, officers should consider tools like restorative justice, and make every effort to avoid holding young people in cells overnight.
They added: "By engaging with 'looked after' children in non-crisis situations we can help build positive relationships and earn their trust.
"All of this will be impossible, however, without better data - which is currently lacking."
Children's Commissioner Anne Longfield said: "Ensuring that staff are able to work in partnership with the police to positively deal with difficult behaviour will be essential if we are to offer children with particularly challenging behaviour the guidance and support of a parent - in this instance a corporate parent."
It was a huge disappointment for the 37-year-old who had been hoping to repeat his victory last year.
The Citroen driver from Dungannon had been in a battle for the lead with Jari-Matti Latvala and Hayden Paddon.
M-Sport driver Ott Tanak of Estonia leads by 4.6 seconds, ahead of Dani Sordo and Sebastian Ogier.
Meeke had been running in second position before the midday break, hitting the front on the first stage of the afternoon.
He stopped with a puncture on stage seven, the longest of the day, however the battle to fix his C3 was in vain as he was then forced to retire with left-rear suspension damage.
Toyota driver Latvala rolled at the beginning of SS7, while Paddon lost nearly 11 minutes with a mechanical problem.
It has been another disappointing day for Citroen, who only have Waterford driver Craig Breen in the top five as team-mates Stephane Lefebvre and Khalid Al Qassimi both hit problems.
The Premiership champions beat last season's runners up 34-13 without the likes of George Kruis, Owen Farrell, Chris Wyles and Duncan Taylor.
Sean Maitland crossed twice in the bonus-point win as Sarries went top.
"The really encouraging thing for me today was that a lot of what people consider to be the big players for us weren't playing," he said.
"Jackson Wray is just getting better and better. He probably doesn't get enough attention but he's been incredibly consistent for us for a while.
"He stepped up even further today and that was a really good top level performance," McCall said.
Saracens became the first team to win at Sandy Park since January 2015 and they expect to be further boosted by the return of England fly-half Farrell, who has missed the opening two games of the season with a back injury, for the visit of Northampton on Saturday.
"There was a brilliant focus before the game today," McCall added.
"Sometimes you can sense that it's not quite right or that it is right, and there as a big contrast between last week and this week.
"They knew it was a big game, they knew it was serious and I thought they performed that way."
But for 21 years, a small courtroom in this bustling tourist town has heard some terrible things and has handed down some extraordinary rulings.
In the months that followed the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the UN Security Council established the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
On Monday, the tribunal delivers its 45th and final judgement - an appeal ruling against six convictions - then it will formally close.
It wasn't the only body set up to judge those responsible for perhaps 800,000 deaths in a hundred days of killing, but it became the first international court to pass a judgement on genocide.
Four years after the massacres took place, Jean-Paul Akayesu, a former mayor, was convicted on nine counts of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Dozens more were to follow - among them the former Rwandan Prime Minister Jean Kambanda, who became the first head of a government ever to be convicted of genocide by an international court.
In all, 93 individuals were indicted - politicians, businessmen, high-ranking military and government officials, heads of media and religious leaders.
Two-thirds of them were sentenced, and more than 3,000 witnesses appeared in court to give their personal accounts of crimes against humanity.
The tribunal was also the first international court to recognise rape as a means of perpetrating genocide, but it has no shortage of critics over its estimated $2bn (£1.3bn) price tag.
It's seen as a huge amount for a relatively small number of convictions, given the scale of the killing.
Critics, like Jean Pierre Dusingizemungu from Ibuka, an umbrella group for genocide survivors in Rwanda, says the ICTR has "delivered nothing for either the victims or the survivors of the genocide".
"Delivering no compensation for the horrific atrocities committed during the genocide planned, and perpetrated, by the government."
Rwanda: How the genocide happened
Rwanda timeline
Supporters, such as the tribunal's Danish president Judge Vagn Joensen, believe its judgements serve as "powerful deterrents to those committing similar crimes in the future".
"That all those who commit genocide or other atrocities, regardless of their position, will no longer go unpunished," he told the UN Security Council in his final report last week.
Tim Gallimore was the spokesman for the ICTR prosecutor between 2004 and 2008, and he said the fact the tribunal was held outside Rwanda and worked in three languages (English, French and Kinyarwanda) made it extremely expensive.
"I don't think there's any jurisdiction anywhere in the world that if you did a comparable assessment of the price and the number of people involved that would say the investment was a good return," he said.
"It needed to be done and still needs to be done. The kinds of precedents it set - over what it means to commit genocide, and to establish a regime for protecting human rights is a significant accomplishment.
"But I'm disappointed about the justice aspect of it," he said referring to cases which have collapsed and prisoners released early despite the weight of their crimes.
The majority of those convicted in connection with the genocide were tried not in the ICTR, but in Rwandan community-based "gacaca" courts which completed their work in 2012.
Yolande Bouka is a researcher from the Institute for Security Studies, specialising in Rwanda, and she studied the tribunal, which focussed on the more senior perpetrators.
"Ordinary people would tell me one of the greatest frustrations about the tribunal was the disconnect between the people and the process - they couldn't look at those accused and get a sense of who organised the genocide.
"They also felt they had not been harshly sentenced in comparison to some of the executors in Rwanda who were sentenced in the first year of transitional justice... some were executed."
She felt the tribunal never fulfilled its full jurisdiction to try all crimes against humanity whether perpetrated by ethnic Hutus or Tutsi rebel group the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which is now Rwanda's governing party.
"This political aspect of the tribunal is very frustrating, as it offers an official narrative: Where genocide crimes against the Tutsi population have been highlighted as the only crimes.
"The reality is… the RPF committed a tremendous amount of crimes throughout the country during the civil war and during the genocide, and because the tribunal has failed to properly investigate them or try to prosecute them, I think this is going to be one of the biggest failings of the tribunal."
And what of those still on the most wanted list?
It's perhaps ironic that as the tribunal was winding down, Ladislas Ntaganzwa was arrested last week in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Accused of organising mass rapes and killings, the US called him "one of the main instigators of the genocide."
His case will now be tried in Rwanda.
Eight other men have been indicted as senior figures in organising the genocide, but they remain on the run.
If arrested some will be tried in Rwanda, while others will be dealt with by something called the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, which will continue the work of the tribunal.
"The Mechanism" has no police force, nor powers of arrest, relying on national governments to act on its behalf, but 21 years after the genocide, is still committed to finding the last genocidaires.
Many politicians seem to think so, spending ever more time and resources campaigning on social media.
The power of Barack Obama's victories in the 2008 and 2012 US presidential elections proved the power of digital campaigning. He amassed 23 million Twitter followers and 45 million Facebook likes, using this massive digital following to organise more than 300,000 offline events and raise $690 million.
Since then, politicians around the world have tried to follow suit. During the 2014 Indian election Narendra Modi enlisted 2.2 million volunteers using online tools, engaging with hundreds of thousands of people to crowd-source his Bharatiya Janata Party's manifesto, as he swept to power.
Now British parties have been importing highly prized experts in digital campaigning. The Conservatives are reportedly spending £100,000 a month on personalised advertising via Facebook, while Labour has been organising an army of volunteers to not only fight the "ground war" on the streets but also to pound the digital pavements at #labourdoorstep.
Politicians are making increasing use of digital platforms, with around 80% of MPs elected to the last parliament using Twitter - most every day - and about half using Facebook once a week. More than 1,000 of this year's parliamentary hopefuls are sending a deluge of digital campaigning in the direction of the electorate: around 20,000 Tweets a week.
BBC Asian Network and Demos are teaming up to look at the digital campaign from the point of view of the voters. Throughout the campaign, we'll follow the social media experiences of three people firmly in the crosshairs of the parties' online armoury: young, enthusiastic users of social media and, most importantly, undecided.
Iram is voting in the West Lothian constituency of Livingston. Labour held the seat with a massive majority in 2010 but, with polls suggesting the SNP could make dozens of gains, the seat is now on the front line of the contest between the parties. Iram, a full-time mother, is wavering between Labour and the SNP because of the volume of information available.
Sakib is a first-time voter in north London's Brent North constituency, where Labour is trying to see off a Conservative challenge. Both parties have policies he likes and dislikes, and he's struggling to pick. It's one of only two seats in England and Wales where more than 50% of eligible voters are predicted to be foreign born. Sakib, a student originally from Bangladesh, is among them.
Simmi is a recruitment consultant, voting in Wolverhampton South West which was once held by Enoch Powell. Narrowly captured by the Tories in 2010, the seat is a key battleground, with the latest round of polling putting the Labour challenger ahead. She hasn't thought much about the election so far but is determined to change that.
The trio don't have a history of following politicians or parties on social media but, as Sakib says, social media has given all of these politicians a platform to reach them. For the campaign, they'll be following the candidates in their constituency, the accounts of local parties and campaigns, and a number of national political figures.
Each thinks social media could have a big effect on how they will vote, if the politicians get it right.
Iram wants clear ideas over political tactics. For Simmi, it'll be politicians responding to Tweets that'll be important, to help her learn what they are really like, and how much they understand what "average Joes" are dealing with.
Sakib agrees, it's all about interactivity: "Whether they'll pay attention or respond... you feel like you can get more involved with what's happening." He's particularly keen to hear what's going on in his own constituency and what will affect people there.
In the coming weeks, we'll be asking them about the type of messages they received, what caught their eye and why. We'll see whether it's politicians, spoof accounts or pictures of cats that made it into their social media streams.
We'll learn about the kind of messages that caused them to think, and maybe to change their mind - and whether it was all worth the parties' efforts.
Beyond the frenzy of the political campaign, one final question is important. At a time of declining party membership and decreasing voter turnout, are these digital platforms a new way of engaging people with politics?
Hughes, 52, was sent to the stands during the first half of Stoke's 4-0 loss to Tottenham on Saturday.
The Welshman reacted angrily on the touchline after two separate incidents, prompting referee Anthony Taylor to take action.
The FA said "his behaviour amounted to improper conduct" and he has until 18:00 BST on Friday to respond.
Defeat for the Potters, their third consecutive loss in the Premier League, kept them bottom of the table.
Hughes' outburst, some of it directed at the fourth official Jon Moss, came shortly before Spurs' 41st-minute opener, after a booking for Marko Arnautovic for diving and what he thought was a foul on Jon Walters.
The former Manchester United striker said after the game he was "disappointed" by the decisions and by his own reaction but added: "I don't think my departure had an effect on my team's performance.
"There were two decisions I thought should have gone our way so I reacted in a forceful manner. When you come out of your technical arena, it's not allowed, sometimes you forget that.
"Mr Moss, bless him, decided that warranted a sending off, which, by the letter of the law it did, so I have to hold my hands up."
Stoke's only point of the season so far came on the opening day when they drew 1-1 against Middlesbrough at the Riverside.
The former Wales international, 34, joined Forest in 2013, initially on loan from Sunderland, before signing permanently the following summer.
Vaughan played 33 times this season as Mark Warburton's side avoided relegation on the final day with a 3-0 win over Ipswich.
He has previously played for Crewe, Real Sociedad and Blackpool.
Soldiers could be deployed "to deal with... the phenomenon of the environment mafia", said Defence Undersecretary Gioacchino Alfano.
There are fears that toxic waste dumped illegally is to blame for high rates of cancer, allergies and birth defects.
Police are digging to try to find one particularly toxic cache of waste.
Huge excavators are at work at the site on the edge of the town of Casal di Principe, north of Naples, and the search is being conducted by officers in full protective suits and face-masks.
Police are working from information given to a judge by two mafia men who switched sides.
They have told a judge where exactly they believe this dumping operation was carried out - on the edge of the town of Casal di Principe, in the heartland of the formidable local mafia, known as the Camorra.
The crime network has been making money for decades by illegally disposing of industrial waste in the area.
Local people are increasingly concerned about this kind of pollution, the BBC's Alan Johnston reports.
There are fears that underground water supplies might have been contaminated, our correspondent says,.
The government is trying to tackle what many now regard as a very serious environmental and public health issue, he adds.
Tens of millions of euros have just been set aside to cover the costs of medical examinations for people in a swathe of territory north of Naples.
The army has been used twice before in recent times to help clear uncollected waste from Naples - in 2008 and 2011, when they ferried rubbish out of the city in lorries after landfill sites became too full.
It was not immediately clear what role the military would play under the new proposal, which would need backing in parliament.
However, Mr Alfano is confident of success: "For the first time, all political forces are in agreement to offer concrete solutions to resolve a specific problem."
Hidden out of sight down dirt tracks in the countryside are vast mounds of illegal and hazardous waste, from broken sheets of asbestos to car tyres and containers of industrial-strength glue, AFP news agency reports.
Periodically set alight, they billow black fumes towards neighbouring towns but locals say the real killer lies in aquifers feeding tomato, cabbage and broccoli crops which are poisoned with chloroform, arsenic and heavy metals.
So common has the phenomenon become that the area between Naples and Caserta has been nicknamed the "Land of Fires".
According to environmental protection association Legambiente, 10m tonnes of industrial waste were burnt or buried in the zone between 1991 and 2013, all trucked in at night.
Toxic waste has been buried in the area for decades, ever since the Camorra branched into the lucrative waste disposal business in the 1980s.
Companies paid criminals a fraction of the cost of official waste firms to dump the waste in fields, wells and lakes.
Tracey Woodford, 47, was found dead in Pontypridd on Friday, three days after being reported missing.
Christopher May, 50, spoke only to confirm his name and address during the two minute hearing in Merthyr Tydfil.
Magistrates remanded him in custody to appear at Cardiff Crown Court on Tuesday.
Areas of the town were first cordoned off on Friday evening following the discovery of Ms Woodford's body in a flat in Andrews Court, Rickards Street.
There has been a major police search of the ground surrounding Pontypridd rugby club. The club is open again this morning.
Police are still working at the flat where the body was discovered.
She was raped after being snatched from a street and forced into a car on Wednesday morning.
The girl, wearing a school uniform, was forced into a silver hatchback car as she walked in the Banbury Road area of Summertown between 08:15 - 08:40 BST.
Thames Valley Police has issued detailed descriptions of the men.
The first offender is a white man who spoke with a northern accent.
He has been described by the girl as aged in his mid twenties, balding with shaven dark blonde hair. He has blue eyes is of medium build and about 6ft (1.82m) tall.
He was wearing a hooded top with one pocket on the front and no drawstrings or logo, and black trousers.
The second man is white with brown gelled hair, is cleanly shaven and has brown eyes.
He is aged in his late teens or early 20s.
He is described as slightly smaller in build than the first offender.
Det Supt Chris Ward, said: "Please rest assured that we are carrying out a thorough investigation but we also need the help of the public to bring these offenders to justice."
The teenager was found at midday by a member of public after knocking on doors to get help in Cavendish Drive, Marston.
The girl has since been receiving support from specialist officers.
Extra patrols were deployed in the area amid a major operation to find the two men.
At a press conference on Thursday, it was said the girl was approached and possibly hugged, something that could have looked relatively innocent to witnesses.
Ian Madigan performed solidly at fly-half to move a step closer to securing his World Cup spot as Ireland scored four tries in beating Scotland 28-22.
D'Arcy struggled to impose any authority at inside centre however, with Schmidt insisting he does not need two out-and-out 12s in his final 31.
"We haven't put any rigidity around those decisions," said the head coach.
"I think we're reasonably open-minded apart from thinking we'll have a 17-14 split between forwards and backs," explained Schmidt, who will name his World Cup squad on 31 August.
"How we split that up will be defined by who fits where, and certainly in the backs we're reasonably open-minded about who fits where."
Remaining "open-minded" about his backline carve-up could mean bad news for 35-year-old D'Arcy, who made his first Test appearance since last November in Dublin on Saturday.
Madigan's versatility to cover fly-half and centre, not to mention full-back, could open Schmidt's selection options elsewhere - and D'Arcy could take the full impact.
Robbie Henshaw will start at 12 for Ireland with Johnny Sexton at fly-half, fitness permitting, so Madigan's ability to deputise for both adds an extra card to Schmidt's selection deck.
Ireland's Kiwi boss admitted in midweek that versatility will go a long way to forcing the selection issue.
The Ireland boss was pleased with Madigan's offering at fly-half, especially in teeing up tries for Zebo and Fitzgerald.
"I think he demonstrated that he can play the position," said Schmidt of Madigan as a fly-half.
"His line-kicking was spot-on, his kicking off the tee was super and his pass delivery was very positive.
"There were two crucial involvements in the lead-up to the third try and the crucial involvement in the lead up to the fourth try.
"He'll be reasonably tough on himself and look for more, and he'll have some ideas about what he can do better."
Should D'Arcy's bid for a fifth World Cup campaign fall by the wayside, the 82-cap centre will return to Leinster to boost provincial resources during the tournament, and then retire before Christmas.
Ireland now face a fallow week after two World Cup warm-up victories, where Schmidt admits he will sit down with his fellow coaches for lengthy selection meetings.
Ireland will still face Wales in Dublin and England at Twickenham before launching their World Cup challenge in Pool D against Canada in Cardiff on Saturday, September 19.
His defeat of French forces at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 effectively ended French colonial rule in the region.
He was North Vietnam's defence minister at the time of the Tet Offensive against American forces in 1968, often cited as a key campaign that led to the Americans' withdrawal.
Gen Giap also published a number of works on military strategy.
He was born into a peasant family in the central Quang Binh province of what was then French Indochina.
Obituary: General Vo Nguyen Giap
At the age of 14, he joined a clandestine resistance movement.
By 1938 he was a member of Ho Chi Minh's Indochinese Communist party and fled to China with Ho, ahead of the Japanese invasion of Vietnam.
Gen Giap organised an army from his Chinese exile and returned to Indochina to wage a guerrilla war against the occupying Japanese.
While he was out of Vietnam, his first wife was arrested and died in a French prison. He later remarried and had three daughters and two sons.
After his role in the war against the French, Gen Giap was credited for his leadership at the time of the 1968 Tet Offensive against US forces.
Troops ultimately under his command attacked more than 40 provincial capitals and entered Saigon, then the capital of South Vietnam, briefly capturing the US embassy. But he was not personally involved in the operation, as he was in Budapest at the time.
After the war, Gen Giap retained his position as defence minister and was appointed deputy prime minister in 1976.
However, he found himself sidelined by the regime and retired from government six years later.
In the US, news of Gen Giap's death was noted by Senator John McCain, a former navy pilot who was shot down during the Vietnam conflict and held as a prisoner of war.
In a tweet, Senator McCain described Gen Giap as "a brilliant military strategist who once told me that we were an honourable enemy".
So says Rob Havard, the acting director of the Malvern Hills Conservators, the charity that looks after the area.
He may not be able to match his Victorian predecessors for scale, but the bonfire he has planned for the top of the Worcestershire Beacon will still be one of the most visible in the county.
If you stand at the top of the 425m (1,395 ft) Worcestershire Beacon and look east the next highest hills are the Urals in Russia.
For this reason the hill has been used for the beacons after which it is named since Norman times.
The 30ft (9m) Jubilee beacon will be made from pallet wood and scrub collected by the Conservators.
The Malvern Hills are now designated as an Area of Outstanding Beauty, and special permission had to be obtained from Natural England before the plans went ahead.
Mr Havard said they will take special precautions to ensure the hill is not damaged by the bonfire.
"We'll be putting down a barrier layer underneath and then we'll put a layer of sand on top of that, then another membrane and the fire goes on top," he said.
An officer from the Conservators will stay at the bonfire site throughout the night to ensure the fire doesn't spread to other parts of the hills.
The building of the bonfire will be take place from 08:00 BST on Jubilee day, to foil any would be arsonists.
The beacon will be lit by 77-year-old Tony Cotgreave, who now lives in Alsager, Cheshire.
As a teenage Scout living in Malvern he lit the bonfire at the Worcestershire Beacon built to celebrate the Queen's coronation in 1953.
Mr Cotgreave also helped guard the bonfire as it was being built, sleeping out at the top of the hill.
"There used to be a café on top of the Malvern Hills which was derelict at the time, so a couple of scouts including myself slept up there for a couple of nights before the lighting of the fire to safeguard it," he said.
He remembers their stay at the top of the hill as anything but pleasant as the weather was "atrocious" and the derelict cafe had clearly been used by the sheep who roam the hills.
Mr Cotgreave said lighting the bonfire also proved eventful: "I climbed a short wooden ladder and set light to some brushwood that had been soaked in paraffin - it flared up and I got down the ladder a sight quicker than I got up it."
He said it was a "double honour" to be involved in the beacon lighting for a second time, especially as his granddaughter was coming from Sweden and his cousins from America for the event.
"I'm just hoping and praying for different weather from 1953," he added.
Approaching foes
The massive Victorian beacons were a spectacular site, according to a correspondent called Worcestershire Sauce, reported in the Malvern Advertiser in July 1887.
He described how "the leaping cracking flames and the close volume of breeze-blown smoke circling and spreading over the dark outlined hillside, the town lit lit by the powerful ruddy glow of the blazing hills, the dark masses of the people silhouetted against the glare, all made for a never to be forgotten sight".
He also watched as the gorse covering the Worcestershire Beacon was set ablaze as the fire spread.
The beacon can be clearly seen from a great distance. A letter writer in the same Malvern Advertiser watched the one lit for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee from the top of the grandstand on Worcester racecourse, 10 miles (16km) away.
He added that it was "a sight to be remembered" and showed the value of beacons "should people need to be appraised of approaching foes".
A system of organised warning beacons on high points across the country, including the Malverns, had been in place since Norman times.
A call to arms sent by beacon would travel far faster than a messenger on horseback.
The system was not foolproof though - in 1545 rumours spread of a French landing on the coast, the beacons were lit, and the Worcestershire militia tramped all the way to Swindon before they were told it was a false alarm.
The Jet Centre was evacuated briefly after a stage speaker in the cinema screen apparently short-circuited.
One filmgoer said he "noticed a glowing light behind the screen".
"I paid more attention to it and I realised it was the speaker and that it was on fire," Portadown teenager Andrew said.
"I pointed it to my dad and he didn't understand what it was - he thought it was part of the movie."
The centre was forced to close early on Tuesday night, but said it would reopen as normal on Wednesday.
Four fire engines were dispatched, but the fire was already out when they arrived.
"Following health and safety procedure, staff evacuated all areas of the complex just after 8pm," a cinema spokesperson told BBC News NI.
No-one was hurt and there was no damage to the building, said a centre manager.
Customers whose entertainment was disrupted should contact the centre, added a statement.
"This turned out not to be a serious incident but we are delighted by the quick response of our staff and the care taken to ensure the safety of our customers," said Jet Centre owner Michael McAdam.
"Our procedures were followed to the letter by our staff and by the time the fire brigade arrived, everyone was out of the building."
Christopher Nolan's World War Two film, Dunkirk, tells the story of the mass evacuation of Allied troops from the northern coast of France in 1940.
Roedd yn rhaid i'r enillydd gyfansoddi naill ai Cylch o ganeuon, Rhangan neu gytgan, Cyfansoddiad i un neu ddau offeryn neu Gyfansoddiad i ensemble offerynnol.
Mae'r darn buddugol yn gwneud defnydd unigryw o emynau Cymreig mewn sgôr sy'n cyfuno prysurdeb gydag adrannau hamddenol.
Yn wreiddiol o Gamros yn Sir Benfro, ac yn gyn ddisgybl yn Ysgol Syr Thomas Picton, Hwlffordd mae e newydd gwblhau gradd mewn deintyddiaeth ym Mhrifysgol Meddygaeth a Deintyddiaeth Frenhinol Llundain.
Dywedodd fod ennill yn binacl ar ei yrfa gerddorol hyn yn hyn.
"Bues i'n ysgrifennu'r darn dros gyfnod o ddeufis o fis Ionawr nes mis Mawrth, ond mae'n rhaid dweud ei bod wedi bod yn anodd cydbwyso hynny gyda'n harholiadau!
"Mae'r Urdd yn fudiad gwych, ac mae ennill y gystadleuaeth yn anrhydedd enfawr.
"Dyma'n bendant yw pinacl yr hyn rydw i wedi'i gyflawni hyd yn hyn fel cyfansoddwr."
Mae o wedi chwarae y corn tenor i Fand Pres Wdig a bu'n unawdydd corn gyda Band Pres Ieuenctid Cenedlaethol Prydain Fawr a Chymru.
13 yn cystadlu am Y Fedal
Dechreuodd gyfansoddi pan oedd yn 15 oed, a chyfansoddodd ei ddarn llawn cyntaf ar gyfer band pres yn 19 oed.
"Rydwi wastad wedi caru alawon Cymreig, ac fe ges i dipyn o brofiad gyda nhw trwy'r ysgol ac wrth chwarae mewn bandiau pres.
"Roeddwn yn meddwl y byddai'n neis rhoi blas Cymreig i'r darn, ac roeddwn yn meddwl mai'r ffordd orau o wneud hynny oedd cyflwyno'r tiwniau yma a'u plethu trwy'r gerddoriaeth.
"Fy ngherddoriaeth i yw e, ond wedi'i ysbrydoli gan alawon Cymreig."
Ffug enw Ryan oedd 'Gwahoddiad' a chyflwynwyd 13 darn o waith yn y gystadleuaeth eleni.
Bydd Ryan yn derbyn Medal Goffa Grace Williams sy'n cael ei rhoi eleni gan Ysgol Gyfun Garth Olwg.
Beirniad y gystadleuaeth oedd Einion Dafydd.
Yn ail roedd Elan Richards o Gylch Caerfyrddin ac yn drydydd roedd Gwydion Rhys o Ysgol Uwchradd Dyffryn Ogwen
Bulgaria's Minister of Economy and Energy, Vassil Shtonov, suspended work on the 930km-pipeline until it conforms to European Union law.
South Stream will stretch across the Black Sea to southern and central Europe, providing another gas transit route for Russia's Gazprom.
But the EU is worried about the gas producer also owning a pipe network.
Bulgaria stopped work on South Stream in June after tensions in Ukraine.
On Tuesday, the minister ordered the Bulgarian Energy Holding to suspend any competitive bidding procedures and the signing of any contracts relevant to South Stream.
Bulgaria is almost entirely dependent on Russian gas and has been trying for years to diversify its sources.
South Stream's offshore section would run beneath the Black Sea across territory run by Russia, Bulgaria and Turkey. The onshore section will cross Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary and Slovenia.
Currently, 15% of the EU's gas supply from Russia is piped through Ukraine. South Stream would by-pass the country.
Laurent Ruseckas, global gas analyst at the economic research firm IHS said: "Bulgaria has been strongly supportive of South Stream, which will give it greater security of gas supply - but as the situation in Ukraine has deteriorated, it has come under increasing pressure from Brussels to stop co-operating with Gazprom on the project.
"The government had already announced a suspension of South Stream in June, but in practice activity seemed to continue. The current announcement could be a bit more serious, although time will tell."
The construction of South Stream began in late 2012, with the first gas deliveries expected in 2016. The pipeline is due to become fully operational in 2018.
Brett Smitheram from Chingford defeated fellow Briton Mark Nyman in three straight rounds during the contest's final in the French city of Lille.
The 37-year-old's highest scoring word was BRACONID, meaning a parasitic wasp, which earned him 176 points.
Mr Smitheram, who also collected a 7,000 euro (£5,873) prize, said he was "absolutely thrilled to have won".
It was the former UK champion's first victory at the tournament. His best previous result was reaching the quarter finals in 2014.
His Knutsford-based opponent, Mark Nyman, is a writer who was named world Scrabble champion in 1993 and has been a producer on legendary Channel 4 word game Countdown.
After his win, Mr Smitheram admitted his opponent was one of his "Scrabble idols" when he was growing up.
"He used to be the producer of Countdown and he got me on Countdown when I was 17, 20 years ago now. I was on Countdown about 10 or 12 times," the new champion said.
"So he's known me for 20 years, and at the time when he interviewed me for Countdown he said 'What's your biggest aspiration?' and I said 'I want to win the Scrabble World Championship'.
"And today I beat him in order to do it. Quite a story behind it."
Knox is the world number 20 at the moment. Only five players in Darren Clarke's team are ranked higher than the Inverness man - Henrik Stenson (four), Rory McIlroy (five), Justin Rose (10), Danny Willett (11) and Sergio Garcia (12).
The other seven in Clarke's team are ranked below - and in some cases miles below - Knox in the world order. Rafa Cabrera Bello is ranked 27th, Chris Wood is 28th, Thomas Pieters is 41st, Andy Sullivan is 42nd, Lee Westwood 46th, Matt Fitzpatrick 48th and Martin Kaymer 50th.
Clarke was always going to go for at least two experienced players among his three captain's picks and nobody can quibble with the inclusion of Ryder Cup warriors Westwood and Kaymer.
Three wildcards - but, in real life, there was only ever one spot up for grabs as soon as it became obvious that the Englishman and the German would require a pick.
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When Knox sank that terrific putt across the 18th green to win the Travelers Championship in early August he looked like a shoo-in for the team. It was Knox's second victory on the PGA Tour since November - the other being his breakthrough win in an all-star field at the WGC in Shanghai.
He was not a member of the European Tour then, so the ranking points did not count towards his Ryder Cup bid. Had he joined the Tour a week before instead of a week after, he would have made the team automatically.
That night of the Travelers the lost points in Shanghai did not seem to matter because the Scot's form was looking formidable. Apart from his two wins, he would also finished second to Graeme McDowell at the OHL Classic, second again to Branden Grace at the Heritage and second once more to Rory McIlroy at the Irish Open.
The gist was that Clarke probably wanted three experienced players as his wildcards to counterbalance the five rookies already in his team, but that Knox was forcing his hand with his excellence.
In early August, Knox looked a certainty.
Things changed, dramatically. The fast emergence of Pieters was something that Knox, and others, did not see coming. Fourth at the Olympics, second at the Czech Masters and first last week at the Made in Denmark event was a hell of a run by the talented Belgian.
Suddenly, Knox had a challenger for that one wildcard spot.
Knox has not helped himself either. You could not say for sure that he blew his own chances but he did himself no favours by his approach post-Travelers. He had two ranking events left after that and he played in neither of them.
He thought he had done enough. He sat back and waited for Clarke's call while Pieters burned it up elsewhere. Knox should have played in the Wyndham on the PGA Tour to show his intent to qualify by right, but he did not.
He should have gone to Denmark last week, thereby showing his captain that he had a huge desire to make the team, but instead he opted for the cash mountain that was The Barclays. There were Ryder Cup points on offer in Denmark but not in the USA. In choosing the USA, the Scot gave out a bad signal.
At the beginning of last week, an interview with Knox was published in Golf Digest magazine. That, too, probably damaged his case for a pick. Knox displayed an alarming sense of entitlement. It would have been understandable had Clarke harboured grave doubts about Knox's ability to fit into a team once he read that interview.
"As I said to someone recently, my big problem was not getting the points for winning in China," said Knox of his victory in Shanghai.
"I'd be in if they counted. So there is a moral obligation to pick me, I guess. I don't want Darren to pick me because of that, though. His goal is to pick the three best players who did not make the team. And I have a hard time not thinking I am one of those right now."
Moral obligation? This was a player dictating to a captain - and no good ever comes of that. It was a bizarre approach from Knox; it was utterly self-defeating when Pieters was already laying down a huge case for inclusion.
Knox went on: "If all he [Clarke] does is list those he thinks are playing the best right now, I don't know how I can't be in the top 12. I know people are assuming I am the third of the three picks if he goes for Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer. But I should really be the first."
The first? It smacked of arrogance.
Knox has only recently become a member of the European Tour, but ticking a box is not enough. He has not shown the commitment to playing in this part of the world that his captain would want.
Pieters is a dedicated member of the Tour. Knox is not. Because he played in Denmark last week, Pieters got to partner his captain - and shot the lights out in his company - while Knox was in New York playing The Barclays. Out of sight, out of mind.
The Belgian is a terrific player, a massive hitter, a birdie-machine and a future star of the Tour. He deserves his spot. Knox played his way into contention and then let the moment slip.
The draw takes place on Monday in Nyon, Switzerland, from 11:00 GMT, followed by the draw for the last 32 of the Europa League.
BBC Sport takes a look at which teams have progressed, who they could face and all the important dates for your diary.
You can follow the draw live on the BBC Sport website and app via Sportsday.
The winner of each group will be drawn against a runner-up, but teams cannot face a side from their own nation in the last 16, or a club they met in the group stage.
Group winners will play the first leg away and the second leg at home.
What are the key dates?
Arsenal will be paired with one of: Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich, Benfica, Real Madrid, Porto, Sevilla.
Manchester City's opponents will be one of: Atletico Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Juventus, Monaco, Napoli.
Leicester City will face one of: Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich, Benfica, Paris St-Germain, Real Madrid, Sevilla.
Tottenham were the one English casualty, finishing third to secure a place in the Europa League.
Celtic, in the same group as Barcelona and Man City, finished bottom without a win and are out of European football for this season.
Besiktas and Dynamo Kiev may have been disappointed not to make it through a group that saw Napoli and Benfica progress.
And spare a thought for Club Brugge and Dinamo Zagreb, who finished on zero points, with the latter not managing a single goal.
Tottenham finished as one of the four best third-placed teams in the Champions League groups, meaning they will be seeded with the 12 Europa League group-stage winners for the last 32 of the Europa League when the draw is made on Monday, from 12:00 GMT.
Because Manchester United finished second in Group A behind Fenerbahce, they are unseeded - joining the 11 other group runners-up and the four remaining Champions League third-placed teams
These are the 32 teams confirmed for the knockout stage.
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The three-mile (4.8km) stretch of shoreline neighbouring Peterstone Wentlooge was sold for £61,000.
Auctioneer Keri Harding-Jones said the sale was "extremely rare" as more than half of the UK's shoreline belongs to the Crown Estate.
Paul Fosh Auctions said the beach could only be used at low tide before the sea comes in from the Bristol Channel.
Roger Thomas, from Cooke and Arkwright Estate Agents, who purchased the land on behalf of the mystery buyer said: "I can't reveal who the new owner is but what I can say is there will be a continuation of the current use for sporting and conservation activities on the land."
He added: "There were about six individual bidders active in the room on the night including on the phone."
Among them were two children in the white makeshift tarpaulin structure perched on top of a slope.
They stood for a few minutes and nurses dressed in protective suits guided them to their beds.
The adults walked like children learning to take their first steps. And the children had to be led by the hand.
They were carried away like people being taken to the gallows. I would later learn that all of them died, except one.
The sight of a girl among them, probably five years old, has never faded from my memory.
Whenever I give my two-year-old daughter Anna her daily morning hug, or send her to sleep at night, memories have flashed back of the girl in the doorway who looked weak and emaciated even from a distance.
I have developed a natural thermometer - the back of my hand - to check body temperatures, mine and the children's.
The traditional thermometer resembles a syringe and scares my daughter, so I use my hand. It is a routine I have never needed before.
When I drive and get stuck in traffic, it has become instinctive for me to place the back of my hand on my temple, neck and wrist.
I pull the rear mirror to see if I do not have red-shot eyes - one of the signs of Ebola - and tend to repeat that process several times at home.
Intermittently, I grab my viral gels to disinfect my hands just in case I may have come into contact with an infected person.
As a journalist, I have covered civil wars in which I was shot in the legs and violent elections in which I was a target.
But I have never felt as frightened and as close to death as I have while covering the current Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.
I believe in eyewitness journalism, where possible, but the nature of the Ebola coverage has forced me to exercise restraint.
The virus moves through human bodily fluids and, as a broadcast journalist, the windshield on the microphone could be a conduit for the spittle of someone who has the virus.
That is besides the fact that I could make a mistake and touch an infected person. As a result, my movement is highly restricted.
Sierra Leone is a malaria-prone country and, as a consequence, fever is a fairly common condition.
The plasmodium parasite is the biggest killer of the country's children and has sent many adults to the world beyond.
Since the Ebola outbreak, it is amazing to witness the relief of parents whose child has been diagnosed with malaria.
These days hospitals here - both public and private - are effectively closed to non-Ebola patients.
At home we have abundant supplies of gloves, second only to foodstuff, for emergencies like a fever.
One of the biggest scares I have had throughout this crisis was when Anna fell ill. Her temperature shot up to 37 degrees Celsius.
A paediatrician later gave us advice and prescription on the phone to treat her. She was fine the next day.
In early August I felt a high fever which struck at the same time as a harsh stomach pain.
The night felt as long as a week.
I sent a text message to an Indian doctor who is a friend of mine in Freetown at around 03:00 am. He immediately called and asked me to see him later that morning.
I isolated myself without my children noticing for fear of spreading panic, and informed the BBC. It transpired that my pain was caused by ulcers.
Every feeling of fever or stomach pain these days is treated as suspicious.
My children are locked in a virtual prison. With schools closed nationwide because of the outbreak, I stopped my eight-year-old son from attending Islamic school for the same reason.
They spend days inside our gated compound with no direct contact with the outside world. And they are required to wash their hands regularly.
After a bitter disagreement, my wife and I agreed to send our housemaid away - with pay - until the situation improves.
The kids in the doorway of the Kenema Ebola clinic are just the tip of the iceberg.
As of 16 December, 373 children had been lost their lives to the virus in Sierra Leone, according to the UN Ebola mission. A further 5,135 had lost one or both parents to Ebola.
Whenever I think about these grim figures, I make an extra effort to be a good parent. I do this by being home for most of the day - and showing my children more love and giving them more attention.
Ebola will leave us one day. But memories of this virus and how it changed my lifestyle and that of my children will be with me forever.
The 26-year-old has joined the Brewers until 2 January and adds to the club's attacking options after a long-term injury to summer signing Liam Boyce.
Mason spent five seasons at Cardiff, scoring 22 league goals, before joining Wolves in January 2016.
"We need goals and we are building up other options," said Burton manager Nigel Clough. "We are not ruling out getting someone else in as well."
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The suicide attack, at the entrance to a court in the north-western town of Shabqadar, wounded nearly 30 others, police told local media.
Militants said it was to avenge the hanging last week of Mumtaz Qadri, who was seen by many as a religious hero.
Qadri killed the governor of Punjab in 2011 for opposing blasphemy laws.
Shabqadar is located on the border of the tribal district of Mohmand, which remains volatile years after the military said it had been cleared of militants.
"The court and judges were our target as their practices are un-Islamic," a spokesperson for Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a splinter group of Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), told Pakistan's Express Tribune.
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The attack in Shabqadar is the first response by Taliban militants to last week's execution of Mumtaz Qadri, a former police guard who had shot dead a provincial governor for alleged blasphemy. It took place in the same region where a similar attack on a university campus in January left more than 20 people dead.
This region in north-western Pakistan is located on the border with Pakistan's semi-autonomous Mohmand tribal district, which adjoins the Afghan province of Kunar.
In the past, the area has been home to the so-called Mohmand Taliban, a regional ally of Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP). But most of its sanctuaries were eliminated by the military in a series of operations during 2011-12.
However, the Mohmand Taliban slipped into neighbouring Kunar, from where they have continued to be able to launch attacks inside Pakistan.
Pakistani officials have been raising the issue with the Afghan authorities, but many analysts suggest Kabul doesn't have the resources to establish its authority in the remote mountainous region.
Rivaldo was involved in all three Mogi Mirim goals as they beat Macae 3-1, his pass leading to his 20-year-old son's headed goal after three minutes.
Former Barcelona and AC Milan forward Rivaldo, who won the 2002 World Cup with Brazil, later scored a penalty.
The 43-year-old retired in March 2014, but decided to return this month.
There have been several famous football fathers and sons, including the Cloughs and the Maldinis, but few have played together.
In English football, European Cup winner Ian Bowyer and son Gary played together for Hereford United, while ex-Manchester City forward Alec Herd featured alongside son David - who went on to play for Manchester United - for Stockport County in the 1950s.
In 1996, Eidur Gudjohnsen, then 17, came on as substitute for 34-year-old father Arnor during Iceland's 3-0 win over Estonia. The duo never played together in a professional match.
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England paceman Stuart Broad took 2-40 and Luke Fletcher 3-60.
Aneurin Donald's 53 was the home side's top score in a disappointing display.
Earlier, Notts batted through the showers until mid-afternoon thanks to Chris Read (88) and Brett Hutton (61), who put on 97 for the seventh wicket.
Read, who batted with a runner and did not keep wicket because of a bruised hip, was caught on the square leg boundary when in sight of becoming the visitors' third centurion.
The last four wickets went for 21, Timm van der Gugten claiming a five-wicket haul on his Championship comeback when he bowled last man Harry Gurney.
But the visitors reduced Glamorgan to 51-4 as their seamers struck either side of tea, aided by Chetashwar Pujara's run-out of Will Bragg.
Donald and David Lloyd (34) added 72 before Broad grabbed two quick wickets in his second spell, and Donald's dismissal to a brilliant leaping boundary catch by sub Luke Wood off Fletcher signalled the end of the specialist batting.
Nottinghamshire lead by 261 on first innings and are likely to enforce the follow-on on day three.
Nottinghamshire head coach Peter Moores told BBC Radio Nottingham:
"Chris Read bottom-edged one onto his hip, it's swollen up, it's sore and it's making him immobile so he'll ice it up overnight, but it's doubtful he'll keep (on day three).
"It was a really good score on the pitch, a lot of the damage was done by Chris and Riki Wessels in the last session (on Friday), then Brett Hutton played well - it was nice to get a very competitive score.
"Everybody chipped in with the ball, we bowled some really good balls and took some great catches. The fielding was one of the stars today and it's been significant for us."
Glamorgan batsman Aneurin Donald told BBC Wales Sport:
"I felt pretty good out there, I applied myself getting in but it is pretty criminal to get out the way I did and when I did.
"If you did graft your way through the first 20 to 30 balls it did open up a bit, they did that very well and to be fair they took all their chances again today.
"It is a tough day for the team, we really stuffed it up with the bat. It is difficult to take and we are going to come back and really show a bit of fight."
The former Notts County Ladies keeper, 29, rejoined Chelsea - who she played for between 2011 and 2013 - on a free transfer in May after Notts had folded.
She helped the Blues win the Women's Super League One Spring Series title in June.
Meanwhile, versatile Portugal winger Ana Borges, 27, has left Emma Hayes' side to join Sporting Lisbon.
Borges had been on loan with the Portuguese side, but has now signed a three-year contract with the club.
The airline said 425,000 passengers would be affected by the stoppages, due to take place on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Lufthansa added it would inform passengers via text message or email about the flight changes.
Its freight carrier, Lufthansa Cargo, will also be affected.
Lufthansa said the impact on profits would be "in the range of tens of millions of euros".
"The announcement alone has already caused significant damages since passengers have already rebooked flights and logistic customers have made arrangements with other cargo airlines to secure the transport of their goods," it said in a statement.
"During the three-day walkout by Cockpit teams, there will only be around 500 short- and long-haul flights by Lufthansa and Germanwings," Lufthansa said.
However, the group said that pilots at its other airlines, including Swiss International Air Lines, Austrian Airlines, Eurowings, Lufthansa CityLine and Air Dolomiti, would not take part in the strike.
Lufthansa added that where possible, these airlines would "use larger planes on routes from and to Germany in order to bring as many rebooked Lufthansa passengers as possible to their destinations".
Lufthansa said the strike would be one of the biggest walkouts in its history.
It is the third strike to hit Frankfurt airport, Lufthansa's home base, in six weeks.
The airline's management is urging the pilots' union, Vereinigung Cockpit (VC), to restart negotiations as soon as possible.
Mr Turnbull told journalists at No 10: "We move quickly. Australians are fleet of foot. We don't muck around. We're very simple. So we will move as quickly as the UK will move."
Ahead of the Downing Street talks, the two leaders visited Borough Market.
Two Australians died in June's van and knife attacks in south-east London.
During a Downing Street press conference, Mr Turnbull said Australia "had been the first on the phone" to call for a free trade agreement with the UK following Britain's decision to leave the EU.
He said Australia stands "ready to enter into a free trade agreement with the United Kingdom as soon as the UK is able to do so - so once that Brexit has been achieved, then we look forward to speedily concluding a free trade agreement".
Mr Turnbull said he hoped the EU deal could be finalised before the expected date of Brexit in March 2019.
He said a UK agreement could follow swiftly: "My government's position is very simply this: economic prosperity has been demonstrated to be delivered by free trade and open markets - that is one of the major reasons why Australia has had 26 years of uninterrupted economic growth."
He said Mrs May's vision for post-Brexit Britain "is one filled with optimism". "It's not a counsel of despair as some people have said."
Turning to the PM, he added: "I know Theresa that you believe passionately that the British people can do anything, can achieve anything and that your post-Brexit Britain will be a Britain with big horizons, big opportunities, free trade, open markets.
"You're right, that is the future. That's where our prosperity has been delivered and I know that it's where your prosperity will come."
Mrs May said a trade deal with Australia was a "priority" for the UK after Brexit, to expand on the £14bn-worth of trade between the two nations.
"We've both made clear our intention to continue to deepen our trade and investment relationship as the UK leaves the EU," she said.
"Our Brexit negotiations have started well, and I have made clear to prime minister Turnbull that an ambitious and comprehensive bilateral trade deal with Australia remains a priority for the UK."
Earlier, the two prime ministers - who were at Oxford University at the same time - visited the scene of the Borough Market atrocity to be briefed by police officers and paramedics who rushed to the aid of victims and survivors.
They also spoke to traders in the market, one of London's most popular visitor attractions.
The two earlier met Church leaders at nearby Southwark Cathedral, including the Reverend Canon Michael Rawson, the Sub Dean of the cathedral.
The UK and Australia have strong commercial, cultural and security links through the Commonwealth and the "five eyes" intelligence alliance.
Although the UK cannot negotiate trade deals with other countries until after Brexit, Australia is one of the countries with which Whitehall officials have set up a working party to look at the issues involved.
International Trade Secretary Liam Fox will be travelling to Australia in the coming months.
The spectacular event celebrating Shetland's Viking heritage was held in Lerwick on Tuesday.
A band of latter-day Viking warriors known as the Jarl Squad marched through the town, recreating its history.
Hundreds processed with flaming torches which were thrown into a longship that had been dragged through Lerwick.
Volunteers had built the boat and produced more than 1,000 torches, with preparations for the event beginning in October.
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At the NASUWT annual conference in Cardiff this weekend, the union said the use of unqualified staff was on the rise.
Rex Phillips, however, said that was not true in Wales and it was only in England that such staff were recruited.
He said the Welsh government had stuck to "the principle that pupils should be taught by qualified teachers".
Speaking to BBC Radio Wales, Mr Phillips accepted there were instances of unqualified support staff working in Welsh schools, but not teachers.
He said: "That's a matter of the management within a school, and where we know about that, and where we are told about that, we will go in and we will challenge that."
The cheap loans for European banks have been designed to encourage lending to business.
But out of total loans of 400bn euros (£315bn) available on Thursday, only 82.6bn was taken up by 255 banks.
However, banks may be waiting for separate ECB measures due in October, analysts said.
Cheap loans to banks were part of a package announced in June designed to support lending and the economy.
The loans - called "targeted longer-term refinancing operations" (TLTROs) - see the banks pay 0.15% annual interest for up to four years.
Money market traders had been expecting banks to take up between 100bn and 200bn euros of TLTROs this week, with further interest in December, when banks get a second chance to apply for the cash.
Banks may be wary of taking up the loans before imminent ECB-led health-checks of the banking sector, said Karel Lannoo, chief executive of Brussels think tank the Centre for European Policy Studies.
"The European financial sector continues to be weak," said Mr Lannoo. "There may be a stigma because the markets are waiting for the AQR (asset quality review) in a few weeks."
However, banks may be waiting for details of a separate ECB programme to buy asset-backed securities, which are due out in October.
"We would warn about drawing too strong conclusions from the September round," said ABN Amro analyst Nick Kounis.
The 28-year-old was arrested on Friday.
He is due to appear at Belfast Magistrates Court on Monday.
Det Sgt Mark Bell said he had been charged with 12 offences "linked to distraction thefts and fraud between the dates of 2 May and 23 June".
Thomas crashed on the final descent but still finished the road race as the best-placed British rider, in 11th.
The 30-year-old could compete in Wednesday's time trial if Team GB are handed an extra spot.
"Potentially I'm going to get a start in that so I'm delaying my holidays for a few days just in case," he said.
"We may get a second spot because a few countries aren't using their time trial places."
Tour de France winner Chris Froome, who finished 12th in the road race, is at present Team GB's sole representative in Wednesday's time trial.
British hopes in the road race ended when Thomas crashed after Froome and Adam Yates had failed to stay with the leaders.
"It was a massive shame because I was ready to fight for the win," Thomas told BBC Sport.
"For me to crash on the last corner of the descent was more mentally hard to take rather than physical.
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"At least I was fortunate not to do any real damage. I'm really fortunate not to break anything.
"I'm a bit sore but feel a lot better after a bit of a spin this morning. I've certainly had worse.
"It still doesn't quite numb the pain of not being able to go for that win."
Thomas was left as Britain's last chance of a medal but did not have the legs to stay with the three leaders - Vincenzo Nibali, Colombia's Team Sky rider Sergio Henao and Poland's Rafal Majka.
That trio looked set to contest the medals until the final descent when Nibali and Henao both crashed out, with Thomas sliding off the road soon afterwards.
"We were right in there, rode just as we wanted to and it was all going to plan until 10km to go," Thomas added.
"That descent is super dodgy. It's twisty and the road's really uneven and any little mistake you pay the price.
"I went into the corner a bit fast and the back wheel skipped out on the small little bumps and that's what threw me off my bike.
"A lot of guys crashed and it's not normal really for pro racing for everyone to be crashing on the same descent, especially one you've done three times already.
"I think it shows how technical and dangerous it was."
Greg van Avermaet of Belgium won the sprint to the line to secure gold, leaving Denmark's Jakob Fuglsang to take silver and Majka bronze.
John Rayne Rivello, 29, of Maryland, sent Kurt Eichenwald an animated image with a flashing light on Twitter in December, causing the seizure.
He has been charged with criminal cyber stalking and could face a 10-year sentence, the New York Times reports.
"You deserve a seizure for your post," he is alleged to have written.
Mr Eichenwald is known to have epilepsy. He is a senior writer at Newsweek magazine, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a best-selling author of books including The Informant.
Investigators found that Mr Rivello had sent messages to other Twitter users about Mr Eichenwald and a plan to attack him virtually, including one that read: "I hope this sends him into a seizure".
Tweet 'caused' epileptic seizure
"Spammed this at [victim] let's see if he dies," another message read, according to the justice department.
Investigators found a screenshot on his iCloud account of an altered Wikipedia page for Mr Eichenwald, falsely listing his date of death as 16 December, a day after the image was sent.
He had also researched epilepsy seizure triggers on the epilepsy.com website.
The Twitter message was no different from "a bomb sent in the mail or anthrax sent in an envelope," Steven Lieberman, a lawyer for Mr Eichenwald, told the New York Times. "It triggers a physical effect."
Mr Rivello will have his case heard in Texas, where his alleged victim is based.
The justice department did not say what motivated the attack, though reports have speculated that it may have been related to Mr Eichenwald's frequent criticism of US President Donald Trump on Twitter.
Mr Eichenwald is reported to have suffered the effects of the seizure for several weeks. He tweeted on Friday that more than 40 people had sent him "strobes" after learning about the case.
After the attack was reported in December, Stefano Seri, a professor of neurophysiology at Aston University in the UK, said the material in the tweet must have been carefully constructed.
"Abrupt changes in light intensity, or luminance, can trigger seizures. The most sensitive range is about 15-25 flashes per second," he said.
"The picture would need to occupy most of the visual field. It would take some very sick people to do this, but technically, it is possible.
"Modern LED screens are not as provocative as older ones. It takes a very carefully designed stimulus to induce a seizure," Prof Seri added.
Poppi Worthington was found with serious injuries at her home in Barrow, Cumbria, in December 2012.
In January, a judge ruled she had been sexually assaulted by her father, Paul Worthington, who denies any wrongdoing.
He was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault in August 2013.
Reaction to the CPS announcement
Key dates in Poppi Worthington case
A CPS spokesman said: "The CPS has looked at the original decision in this case that there was insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction - as we often do in other cases.
"We have reached the same conclusion."
In a statement released following the announcement, Poppi's mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she was "desperate" to understand more about the police investigation and the events leading up to her daughter's death.
Speaking on her behalf, solicitor Fiona McGhie, said: "She is angry and disappointed with the decision by the Crown Prosecution Service and wishes to be given time and space at this difficult time as we approach the inquest."
Cumbria Police, which is being investigated by the police watchdog, has been criticised over its investigation into the death, after it emerged officers failed to preserve vital items for forensic analysis.
Chief Constable Jerry Graham said the force "deeply regrets" the way the case was handled.
In January, Mr Justice Peter Jackson's ruling was made as part of care proceedings in the family court involving Poppi's siblings.
He concluded the force carried out no "real" investigation into the death of the toddler for nine months, and highlighted a list of basic errors in evidence-gathering.
Speaking after the CPS announced its decision, Mr Graham said the investigation had fallen "below standard".
He said: "I would like to make a full and heartfelt apology to Poppi's family and all those who loved her."
He said the main failings were not preserving potentially relevant evidence from Poppi's home and the length of time it took to interview family and key witnesses.
He also said forensic analysis was not carried out quickly enough and accurate records were not kept.
Prosecutors originally decided there was insufficient evidence "to provide a realistic prospect of conviction", but in January the CPS said it was reviewing the case.
Cumbria police and crime commissioner Peter McCall said: "I am disappointed that despite a re-investigation no criminal charges will be brought.
"The constabulary has let Poppi down as no-one has been brought to justice for her tragic death."
Barrow Labour MP John Woodcock said he was "bitterly disappointed" at the CPS decision and that Cumbria Police's mistakes had "thwarted the chance of ever getting justice for Poppi's death".
A second inquest into the toddler's death is due to take place in the autumn.
Toby Roland-Jones hammered six sixes in an unbeaten 79 off 51 balls as they advanced their overnight 470-8 to 577 all out, a first-innings lead of 171.
Roland-Jones (3-34) then removed Adam Lyth and Kane Williamson before lunch as the home side slumped to 89-5.
Wicketkeeper John Simpson took five catches as they were all out for 167 to lose by an innings and four runs.
The victory put Middlesex one point clear of Warwickshire at the top of the table, while Yorkshire's first defeat of the summer - and first since losing by 246 runs to the same opponents at Lord's last September - left them fifth, 15 points behind.
Middlesex's total was their highest against the White Rose county and followed a ninth-wicket stand of 123 in 13 overs between Roland-Jones and Tim Murtagh, who made 47 before giving a return catch to Adam Lyth.
Roland-Jones ran out of partners when last man Steven Finn went for a first-ball duck, but soon had Lyth and Williamson back in the pavilion as Yorkshire began their second innings.
Three more wickets followed between lunch and tea and Tim Bresnan's 47-run partnership with Will Rhodes (20) proved to be the highest of the innings.
Nine Yorkshire batsmen fell to catches by Simpson or the slip cordon including Jack Brooks, whose dismissal by Tim Murtagh (3-44) at the start of the final hour brought Middlesex victory.
Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie:
"We played a decent game for the first three days but there was a massive momentum shift this morning.
"On reflection, we didn't adapt quickly enough to the situation and they got away from us."
Middlesex pace bowler Toby Roland-Jones:
"This was a hell of a win. We had it in our minds to make it tough for Yorkshire, but to win by an innings was pretty exceptional."
The 1962 prize was awarded to Watson, Maurice Wilkins and Francis Crick, with each receiving a gold medal.
The medal is the first Nobel Prize to be put on sale by a living recipient.
Watson recently said he was selling the medal because he had been ostracised by the scientific community after remarks he made about race in a 2007 interview.
The discovery of the structure of DNA - which encodes the instruction booklet for building a living organism - was made by Watson and Crick, using experimental data that had been gathered by Maurice Wilkins, Raymond Gosling and Rosalind Franklin.
Mr Watson, 86, said he planned to donate part of the proceeds to charities and to support scientific research.
Christie's auction house had said the gold medal could fetch between $2.5m (£1.6m) and $3.5m (£2.2m).
In an interview with the Financial Times recently, Mr Watson said he had been made to feel like an "unperson" since a Sunday Times interview seven years ago in which he linked race to intelligence.
Francis Crick's Nobel medal sold for $2.2m last year. He died in 2004.
Michael Davies, 71, from Blaina, Blaenau Gwent, was on a coach trip with his wife when he went missing on the evening of Tuesday, 26 May.
The new CCTV footage shows him in the corridor of the Hotel Maria where they were staying on the night he vanished.
He was last seen in the street on CCTV in the early hours of the Wednesday.
In a statement released through Hampshire Constabulary, his family said: "We still remain in limbo with the not knowing where our husband, father and grandfather is.
"We are still crying out for any information about Mike - please contact the police ASAP if you have any."
Numerous searches involving specialist officers, dogs, and rescue volunteers have taken place in the areas surrounding Avenue Road where Mr Davies was last seen.
Water search officers have also conducted inquiries in the area of reed beds near Sandown and Yaverland seafront.
There is no evidence to suggest Mr Davies has been the victim of a crime.
Edward Alfano, 31, from the US, was found hanging upside down from ropes at Stack Rocks on 25 May.
Mr Alfano's friend, Alicia Lenis, told the inquest in Milford Haven she witnessed him "falling head-first".
Coroner Mark Layton ruled Mr Alfano died as a result of misadventure.
He added: "He was an experienced climber. We do not know exactly why he fell, but the injuries were fatal and sustained immediately."
Mr Alfano had been visiting the UK to attend a conference in London and was in Wales for a weekend of rock climbing.
A new inquest into the death of 18-year-old Pte Cheryl James from Denbighshire will be heard in February.
Her body was exhumed in August prior to the new hearing.
The soldier, from Llangollen, was one of four recruits found dead with gunshot wounds at the barracks between 1995 and 2002.
Pte James's parents, Des and Doreen James, made their fresh appeal on a special broadcast for British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) on Friday, which marked the 20th anniversary of her death.
The High Court ordered that a new inquest should be held in 2014, quashing an open verdict finding in the original inquest in 1995.
Speaking in the BFBS interview, Mrs James said: "I'd love to speak to somebody that had something to do with her on the day of her death, or the day before.
"Just speak to someone that had some sort of inkling to what happened."
She said it would help give the family closure on events surrounding the death.
Pte James was undergoing initial training at Deepcut when she was found dead with a bullet wound to her head.
Her parents, who now live in Llanymynech, Powys, believe she had suffered sexual harassment and bullying at the barracks.
Mr James said as long as the new inquest was evidence-led, they would accept its conclusions.
"If it comes as suicide, then it comes. And if it doesn't - it doesn't," he said.
In addition to the death of Pte James, the deaths of three other soldiers at Deepcut - Pte Sean Benton, Pte Geoff Gray and Pte James Collinson - has led to long-standing allegations of bullying at the barracks.
However, a request that new inquests be held into their cases was turned down in May.
"At this stage we can confirm there are dead and wounded on all sides, and hostages," Lt Col Diarran Kone said.
Ukraine's foreign ministry says one of its nationals is being held hostage.
Residents told the BBC that before the attack, gunmen on motorbikes warned people via loudhailers to go indoors.
Sevare has an air force base and some UN peacekeepers are in the town.
The BBC's Alex Duval Smith in Mali says the town, which is about 600km (370 miles) north-east of the capital, Bamako, is the trading hub that serves the historic riverside city of Mopti.
The Byblos Hotel, scene of the ongoing incident, was reportedly attacked early on Friday morning by gunmen who had spent the night at the nearby Debo Hotel.
"An armed attack has been carried out on a hotel in Mali, and a Ukrainian national is among the hostages. Jointly with our international partners, we are taking urgent steps to free our citizen," Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesperson Mariana Betsa said on Twitter.
Our reporter says there are several hotels near each other in the town that are popular with UN workers and those working for non-governmental organisations.
The BBC has learned that guests from France, South Africa and Ukraine are registered at the hotels, but it is not clear if they are caught up in the operation.
UN spokeswoman Radhia Achouri refused to say whether any UN members of staff had been affected or were being held hostage in the Byblos Hotel.
A resident in the same neighbourhood as the hotel said: "We have never seen anything like this is Sevare.
"In 2012, the jihadists from the north were stopped at Konna, about 50km from here. So we only saw the war on television. Now that it has come to Sevare we are all traumatised."
Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militants have been fighting the army in northern Mali for a number of years.
France, the former colonial power in Mali, intervened in January 2013 to stop their advance south to the capital.
Militancy in Mali
Aiden Webb, 22, from Norwich, set off to scale Fansipan mountain alone on 3 June. He died after slipping down a waterfall and was found six days later.
His family and girlfriend Bluebell Baughan have arranged the event on Jesus Green in Cambridge, on 31 July.
It will include personal tributes, "memory tables" and a candlelit vigil.
Organising the tribute had helped the family through their grief, his girlfriend said.
Miss Baughan, 24, from White Notley, Essex, who met Mr Webb when they were drama students at Cambridge's Anglia Ruskin University, said it was "a day for all of us to get together to celebrate Aiden's life".
Experienced climber Mr Webb injured himself climbing the 3,100m (10,300ft) high mountain.
He managed to contact Miss Baughan by phone, who was in the nearby town of Sapa, and raised the alarm.
Trying to make it to safety Mr Webb slipped down an 18m (60ft) waterfall and died on impact.
His funeral took place near Norwich on 15 July.
Miss Baughan hopes the Celebrate Aiden Webb's Life memorial day will be a fitting tribute to her boyfriend, who would have turned 23 on 27 July.
The family needed permission from the city council and public liability insurance to hold the event in the park.
Although they have had to hire portable toilets, many people have donated equipment and the couple's former university has lent them a sound system.
"We'll play Aiden's favourite music," Miss Baughan said. "He loved The Doors as well as blues.
"This day is purely to show our unity in the love we hold for Aiden."
Henri Gonay, from Belgium, died in June 1944 after his aircraft crashed into a farm.
The road at the northern end of Route de Grantez, St Ouen, which was unnamed, has been called Rue Henri Gonay.
Parish Constable Michael Paddock said: "He was a well-decorated pilot and was part of the forces which helped to secure our future."
A number of Belgian delegates attended a ceremony to mark the unveiling.
Experts predict it is worth six-figures, although the exact valuation will be revealed on Sunday's show.
BBC News takes a look at how other famous items of clothing fared when sold at auction.
The white dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch sold for $4.6m (£2.8m) at an auction in Los Angeles.
The dress was part of a collection of film memorabilia collected by actress Debbie Reynolds over four decades.
She had hoped to house them in a museum but the project never came to fruition.
The trademark bowler hat worn by Charlie Chaplin in several films, including The Little Tramp, reached $135,300 (£89,000).
It was sold at the same auction as Marilyn Monroe's dress in 2011.
A leather jacket worn by US singer Michael Jackson in his renowned Thriller video sold at auction in California for $1.8m (£1.1m) in 2011.
Jackson wore the jacket in the 1983 video in a scene with a troupe of zombies who rise from their graves and break into a dance routine.
It was bought by a Texas commodities trader who said he planned to use it to raise money for children's charities.
A pair of Queen Victoria's cotton pants with a 45in (114cm) waistband sold for £10,500 at auction in Wiltshire
The pants, embroidered with the Royal VR monogram, were sold on behalf of Yesterday's World museum in July 2015.
In 2014, a pair of her silk bloomers sold at auction in Kent for £6,200.
A leather jacket belonging to Beatles guitarist George Harrison sold for £110,450 at a 2012 Bonhams auction.
The jacket dates back to the Fab Four's stay in Hamburg in 1960.
Other top-selling items from the Harrison family collection included a guitar and his boots.
A collection of dresses and outfits worn by Madonna during her career in music and film raised hundreds of thousands of pounds.
The highest lot was a jacket from Desperately Seeking Susan, which fetched $252,000 (£165,000), while a gown from her Material Girl video reached $73,125 (£48,000).
Her wedding dress, worn when she married Sean Penn in 1985, sold for $81,250 (£51,192).
In 2012 a pair of unwashed and stained underpants worn by Elvis Presley went on sale in Stockport with an estimated value of £10,000.
However, The King's dirty pants failed to find a bidder.
The light blue briefs were worn below one of his famous white jumpsuits during a performance in 1977.
JFK's jacket will appear on Antiques Roadshow, Sunday 22 November, BBC One, 8.00pm.
Dolan, 43, won nine of the 13 legs as he finished with an average of 95.123 and a checkout percentage of 56.
World number 23 Dolan took the opening set 3-0 at Alexandra Palace as he won two legs against the darts.
Former BDO world champion Kist, 30, won the second set 3-0 but Belcoo man Dolan quickly regained control.
Kist, who won at Lakeside in 2012, looked in control after taking a big lead in the first leg but missed three darts on double 12 which allowed Dolan to pinch the opener.
After Dolan went on to quickly wrap up the set, Kist looked to be in the groove as he whitewashed the Northern Irishman in set two, but a 180 in the opening leg of the third saw Dolan wrest back the initiative.
Dolan took the third set 3-0 and while Kist's last-ditch dart on double one saw him level at 1-1 all in the fourth, the Fermanagh man won the next two legs to set up a second-round meeting on 28 December with the winner of the all-Dutch first-round encounter between Jelle Klaasen or Jeffrey de Graff.
The Northern Irishman has never been beyond the second round in his nine appearances at the PDC World Championship but he was delighted with his performance on Tuesday night.
"I struggled quite a bit for 18 months but my around October or November my game started to improve," said Dolan.
Dolan is the second Northern Ireland player into the second-round draw after Londonderry man Daryl Gurney defeated Dutchman Jermaine Wattimena 3-1 on Sunday.
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The bridge, at junction 6 of the ring road, is intended to make the city centre more accessible for pedestrians walking from the railway station.
Sixteen beams have been put in place to form the bridge, which should be completed by April next year.
A 40-year-old bridge at the junction was demolished in March.
The huge new bridge is so large that it has effectively created a tunnel where part of the ring road goes, BBC Midlands Today's transport correspondent Peter Plisner said.
The last two beams were winched into place on Monday evening, when the ring road in the area was closed to traffic.
Guitarist Brian May collected the award at Classic Rock magazine's 11th annual ceremony at The Roundhouse in Camden.
Queen recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of one of their biggest hits, Bohemian Rhapsody, and will headline 2016's Isle of Wight Festival.
Other winners included Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Foo Fighters, Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper and Noddy Holder.
Queen, who originally consisted of May, Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor and John Deacon, still perform live despite the death of singer Mercury in 1991.
Previous recipients of the living legend award include Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Motorhead's Lemmy, Ozzy Osbourne, Iggy Pop and ZZ Top.
Other winners on the night included Nils Lofgren - who plays guitar in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band as well as having a solo career - who was honoured with the evening's outstanding contribution award.
AC/DC, currently touring their latest album Rock or Bust around the world, were named band of the year. The album was the first in their 40-year career not to feature founding member Malcolm Young who is suffering from dementia.
Iron Maiden won the album of the year award for The Book Of Souls. It was released in September after being delayed to allow singer Bruce Dickinson time to recover from treatment to remove a cancerous tumour at the beginning of the year.
Led Zeppelin won reissue of the year for the re-release of their back catalogue in a deluxe box set.
Foo Fighters' Sonic Highways documentary, which saw them touring recording studios around the US to make an album, won them the award for film or DVD of the year.
Here is the full list of Classic Rock Roll of Honour winners:
The Frenchman was sacked in November 2014 after just eight months into his two-year contract as national team manager.
Olle-Nicolle, 54, said he was unfairly dismissed and reported the issue to Fifa, who ruled in his favour this week.
"The FBF must pay €39,000 euros in salary arrears and €153,000 euros as a 'compensation for breach of contract'," according to a letter sent by Fifa to both parties.
The FBF are expected to pay the fine by next month.
Appointed coach of the Squirrels in March 2014, Olle-Nicolle's contract was terminated in November, ostensibly for poor performance.
His immediate task was to guide Benin through the first and second knockout rounds of qualification for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.
But Malawi stunned the Squirrels on penalties in the second knockout rounds to reach the group stages of qualification.
Benin are currently serving a Fifa suspension from world football after a court ruling in the country blocked upcoming elections.
Liza Jones, 26, from Wrexham had been using the 4m (13ft) high "tower jump" at Flip Out, in Chester.
She was injured on the same day George Magraw was left with a fractured spine after using the same jump.
Cheshire West and Chester Council is investigating the park, which has voluntarily closed the tower.
Ms Jones, who suffered a back fracture and burst vertebrae when she visited on 1 February, underwent surgery to have metal plates and screws inserted in her back.
She said: "The pain is worse at night and I can hardly move in the mornings.
"I can't lean forwards or bend to pick things up and I can't lift things.
"It just feels like a massive ache sometimes and it's difficult because I'm used to doing such an active job."
Flip Out confirmed they had "three incidents" on 1 February.
A spokesman added: "We have replaced the Tower Jump with a new Battle Beam attraction."
Following the incidents the company uploaded a safety video on YouTube.
Michael Hardacre, the public liability lawyer representing Ms Jones, said: "Liza says she followed the health and safety instructions on landing, but clearly this wasn't enough to prevent a serious injury, which could have been much worse."
Mark Bradstock's 2015 winner returned from over a year out with a leg injury at Haydock in November, and impressed as runner-up to Cue Card.
But the nine-year-old missed the King George VI Chase on Boxing Day following an unsatisfactory workout.
"He's good and we're hoping he'll be ready to run in the Gold Cup," Bradstock's wife Sara said.
"He's fine, but he's jarred himself a little bit. It's not a serious injury, but as we all know, while he is a miracle horse, he is fragile.
"You never really know with him, but I'm hopeful he'll make the Gold Cup. We'll walk him now for a month until he's super-well and then we'll see where we are.
"He'll be fine by the time the Gold Cup comes around, the question is whether we'll have him ready."
BBC horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght
It's striking how often a horse wins the Gold Cup in great style and is rated jumping's new shining light who might win a few big races. But things don't always work out like that.
OK, that didn't apply in the golden era of Kauto Star and Denman, or when Best Mate completed a hat-trick, but plenty of others didn't progress as anticipated - Imperial Call, the 1996 winner, is a classic example - and with Coneygree being still a novice when he was successful, hopes were sky high.
Good luck to the Bradstocks, but it all goes to prove how hard it is to keep champions at the top.
Gardai (Irish Police) said the blaze broke out in the complex in Cluainin Cronan in Clondalkin at about 02:30 local time.
The woman, who was 27 and the two children, aged two and three, were taken to Tallaght Hospital but were pronounced dead.
Another woman in her 30s was rescued along with a four-year-old boy.
The woman was taken to St James's Hospital, while the boy was taken to Our Lady's Hospital in Crumlin.
Both are said to be in a critical condition.
The apartment was on the first floor of a small complex next to the Grand Canal.
Insp Ken McLaughlin said gardaà were keeping an open mind as to the cause of the fire.
Seven residents of nearby apartments were moved out of their homes during the emergency.
The block of flats has been cordoned off.
Children's Minister Katherine Zappone said her thoughts and prayers were with all those affected by the fire.
The 16-year-olds were reported missing on Friday and police said subsequent reports indicated they were seen getting into the vehicle.
The car was spotted later on the A38 Aston Expressway in Birmingham and the men were arrested.
Two men from Birmingham and a third, from Newquay, are being questioned.
In an election with more than 100 million ballots cast, that's all it took to make George W Bush president in 2000.
So while the US presidential election is often described as an exercise in appealing to as many voters as possible, candidates will never neglect a niche audience.
Here are five groups - both large and small - that could tip the scales in 2016.
Polling has shown that these are the core voters for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. His positions on trade and immigration have resonated with working-class voters. But the question is - Are there enough of them, especially in battleground states, to carry him to victory?
Don Levy, who conducts polls in New York state, says Mr Trump would have to win these voters at a "tremendously high margin". Mr Trump's supporters are optimistic that can happen and often pose these two complementary theories:
Mr Levy, the director of the Siena College Research Institute, says he isn't buying either scenario. In his polling, he says that voters have not been reluctant to voice their support for Mr Trump, often keeping pollsters on the phone for long periods explaining why they support the billionaire businessman. And in a race with such unpopular candidates, he expects lower turnout - not a wave of new voters.
Perhaps, most importantly, Mr Levy notes that to get Mr Trump to the White House, he will not need just those men - he will also need their wives.
"There is a lot of talk about the 'Angry White Man' vote," Mr Levy says. "Trump certainly appeals to that group. But many of those angry white men are married to people. He needs to carry 'Mrs Angry White Man' too."
Unfortunately for Mr Trump, his favourability numbers among women are dismal, especially among highly-educated women.
Where they count: So-called "Rust Belt" states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania
A traditionally Republican constituency, university-educated white women are moving firmly into the Democratic coalition. Focus groups have found that highly-educated women have been put off by some of Mr Trump's provocative statements. A Pew Research study found that voters were particularly repelled by an incident where Mr Trump mocked a disabled journalist and another where he implied that Fox News presenter Megyn Kelly was menstruating because she asked a tough question at a debate.
This has helped turn two battleground states - Virginia and Colorado - into likely wins for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Both states have high levels of educational attainment - 43% of Colorado residents have a university degree, while 44% of Virginia residents are university graduates.
Mr Trump has alienated women pretty effectively, says Virginia pollster Harry Wilson of Roanoke College. "And once people are turned against you, it's difficult to get them back."
Where they count: Virginia and Colorado
In mid-July, Mr Trump was enjoying a slim lead in the polls, signalling that the New York billionaire could pull off a narrow win in November with a united Republican coalition. But by August, after a series of inflammatory statements, Mr Trump's popularity had cratered. Frank Luntz, a news analyst for Fox News and CBS who specialises in polling and focus groups, is in search of the voters Mr Trump lost.
He says it is a broad group, but it skews younger and more female. He believes the former supporters were attracted to Mr Trump's message that the "system is broken" and an outsider is needed to fix Washington.
"But now they see Trump as mean-spirited, unkind and just hateful," Mr Luntz said.
There is time to win them back, but the veteran political analyst is doubtful Mr Trump will use the time wisely. He says the Republican nominee lacks focus to stay on a message of change, which appeals to these disaffected supporters.
"The more fed up you are with the system the more likely you are to vote for Donald Trump, no matter where you are on the political spectrum," Mr Luntz said.
Where they count: Florida, Ohio and Nevada
In recent years, Puerto Rico has seen an economic downturn that has sent residents of the US territory to the mainland in search of better opportunities. Many have settled in central Florida, potentially tipping the balance of the deeply divided state. Mike Binder, a political science professor at University of North Florida, says more than half of new voters registered in the state since 2012 are Latino, many of them Puerto Rican.
Long dominated by its Cuban community, Florida's Latinos have typically supported Republican candidates. However in 2016, the rising Puerto Rican population - combined with Mr Trump's immigration policies, which some see as anti-Latino - could change that.
These new voters may not be the largest voting bloc, but in Florida a small edge could deliver a win. Polls show an extremely tight race between Mrs Clinton and Mr Trump. President Obama won the state by only 74,000 votes in 2012.
Where they count: Florida
While some Christian groups have either tolerated or embraced the brash persona of Mr Trump, Mormons - typically dutiful Republicans - have soundly rejected the New York billionaire.
Once a persecuted religious minority, many Mormons were deeply unsettled by Mr Trump's plan to temporarily ban Muslims from travelling to the US. Polls have shown that Utah - which hasn't voted for a Democrat since the 1960s - is suddenly not a sure bet for Republicans in 2016.
Two third-party candidates, Independent Evan McMullin and Libertarian Gary Johnson, are also based in Salt Lake City. Their appeal to Mormons further complicates Mr Trump's efforts to eke out a victory in Utah. Mormons, along with a rising Latino population, could also sway the vote in neighbouring Arizona. Polls there show a tight race, with Mrs Clinton leading in some surveys.
Where they count: Utah and Arizona
Joseph Lau Luen-hung said he broke up with Yvonne Lui in 2014 but had given her HK$2bn ($0.26bn; £0.21bn) worth of gifts during their relationship.
Ranked as the world's 65th richest man by Forbes with a net worth of $13.1bn, and a convicted money-launderer, Mr Lau made his fortune in real estate.
His ad sparked a debate in Hong Kong on the meaning of wealth.
Mr Lau, 65, has two children with Ms Lui, who is believed to be 26 years his junior.
He said his announcement was made in response to "untrue reports" about their relationship.
Ms Lui was now "a very wealthy woman" after receiving "lots of money, jewellery and other gifts" from him and no longer needed his "financial support", he said, though he added he would continue to support their children.
A former beauty pageant contestant, Ms Lui has a PhD degree in chemical engineering from King's College London.
In an email to the BBC, Ms Lui described Mr Lau as "a dedicated father" and will "eventually overcome any obstacles". She also said there were bigger global issues, like child malnutrition and child abuse.
She had earlier released a cryptic statement on her website (in Chinese): "The children and I hope that you will recover soon and distance yourself from people who have been troubling you."
Mr Lau's very public announcement has become the talk of Hong Kong, with many questioning the motives behind it.
Mr Lau divorced his first wife in 1992 and has two adult children. He also has two children with his current girlfriend, a former entertainment reporter almost 30 years younger than him.
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He has been seen in a wheelchair and is suffering from renal failure, heart disease and diabetes.
"Lau is getting seriously sick. The fight for inheritance will begin soon!" said one Facebook user.
"The rich are troubled by something that the poor will never trouble themselves with. How much is $2bn? What are private jets? What do children mean? What does love mean? What does a family mean?" wrote by Stephen Ko on Facebook.
"Wealth doesn't equal happiness. If you are happy now, you are already more blessed than he is."
Mr Lau, who was convicted of bribery and money-laundering in Macau in 2014, is well-known for his love affairs with movie stars and his extravagant romantic gestures.
It is not the first time he has used newspaper ads to get his message across.
In 2006, he bought a full-page ad anonymously wishing happy birthday to an ex-girlfriend.
Bradford-based Provident Personal Credit Ltd employed third party companies to send 999,057 unsolicited text messages to promote personal loans
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) imposed the fine as the recipients had not agreed to receive the messages.
The BBC has contacted Provident for a response.
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An investigation was launched by the ICO after the regulator received 285 complaints to a spam reporting service between April and October in 2015.
The watchdog said it thought the number of texts sent was higher than the one million figure "as it is likely that other affiliates sent out many more".
ICO head of enforcement Steve Eckersley said the law was clear.
"You can't send marketing texts to people who have not signed up to receive them," he added.
"Being bombarded with texts you didn't ask for and don't want is an intrusion into people's privacy, an irritation and, in the worst cases can be upsetting.
"Companies have no excuse whatsoever for sending nuisance texts, whether they do it themselves or employ someone else to do it for them."
Provident has the right to appeal against the fine.
The 18-time champion jockey from Moneyglass, County Antrim, has been honoured with 20 Lester Awards, more than any other jockey past or present. He has ridden over 13,000 races, equivalent of 31,000 miles or 1.25 times around the earth.
Begins riding at the age of eight when his dad takes him to a local horse riding school in County Antrim. A year later, he gets his first pony, which he names Seven Up "because that was the number of times she would drop (me) in one session".
Records his first career win with Legal Steps at the age of 17 at Thurles while serving as an apprentice at Jim Bolger's flat yard in Coolcullen, Ireland.
Moves to England in order to compete nationally.
Scores his first UK win in Exeter while riding Chickabiddy.
Claims the conditional jockey championship after scoring a record 74 winners.
Becomes a champion jockey this season, riding 175 winners. He repeats this champion jockey success every year up to and including 2012/13.
McCoy achieves a double win after riding Make a Stand to win the Champion Hurdle, and then later riding Mr Mulligan to victory in the Cheltenham Gold Cup.
Equals the record of five winners (record shared with Fred Winter, Jamie Osborne and Barry Geraghty).
Records his 1,000th win in a meet at Cheltenham. By the end of the decade, McCoy has set a new National Hunt record of 253 for the number of winners in a season.
McCoy wins 289 races in Britain when claiming his seventh championship, overtaking Sir Gordon Richards' record of 269 wins, for all types of racing, in a season.
Claims 1,700th win to beat Richard Dunwoody's record.
Awarded MBE in Queen's Birthday Honours.
Claims his 2,000th win at Wincanton,
Becomes first jump jockey to ride 2,500 winners at Huntingdon.
Takes his 3,000th win at the Tyser & Co Beginners Chase in Plumpton. Despite record-breaking wins, McCoy still hadn't won the coveted Grand National title.
He finally seals victory in his 15th Grand National after riding Jonjo O'Neill-trained Don't Push It at Aintree.
Awarded OBE in Birthday Honours for his services to horseracing.
Voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year ahead of darts player Phil Taylor and heptathlete Jessica Ennis - the first jockey ever to be given the award.
Named Sportsman of the Year at the British Sports Awards.
Wins his second Gold Cup on Synchronised, owned by JP McManus and trained by Jonjo O'Neill - 15 years after his first win on Mr Mulligan.
This year's Grand National is not so successful for McCoy, as his horse Synchronised falls at the notorious Becher's Brook on the circuit. Synchronised suffers a leg fracture and dies of his injuries.
McCoy makes a delayed start to the 2013/14 season after falling from Quantitativeeasing during Cheltenham's end of season meeting. He suffers broken ribs in the fall but returns to action a month later at Ludlow.
McCoy seals his 4,000th career win.
Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel was responding to claims that the BND had helped the US National Security Agency (NSA) spy on German firms.
Last week, a leaked BND report suggested it had monitored French and EU targets for the NSA.
Mrs Merkel defended the BND, in her first public comments on the scandal.
Its first priority was to ensure the safety of Germans, she said on Monday, and the government would do all it could to enable the agency to carry out its role.
"This ability to carry out its duties in the face of international terrorism threats is done in co-operation with other intelligence agencies, and that includes first and foremost the NSA."
While her office was prepared to respond to all questions, she said "striking the right balance is my job".
But Mr Gabriel, the leader of the centre-left SPD, increased the political pressure on the chancellor by calling for a "thorough inquiry".
He said a list of "selectors" - mobile phone numbers and IP addresses - handed by the NSA to German intelligence should be made available to parliamentary committees investigating the affair.
He had twice asked the chancellor if German companies had been targeted and twice she had denied it, he said, adding that he had no reason to doubt she had answered correctly.
SPD deputy chairman Ralf Stegner told German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung that "the game" of saying the latest revelations were nothing to do with the chancellor was up. Her chief of staff, Peter Altmeier, should give evidence to MPs, he said.
The BND has worked with the US for years, but it is now clear that the targets went far beyond potential terrorist threats.
Its monitoring station at Bad Aibling was reportedly used to spy on the French foreign ministry and presidential palace as well as the European Commission and Airbus group.
The head of German intelligence, Gerhard Schindler, rejected as "totally absurd" a suggestion by opposition politicians that the BND committed treason by helping the US.
"The BND isn't a compliant tool of the United States," he said.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, who like Mr Schindler has come under pressure to resign over the affair, is due to give evidence to the Bundestag's intelligence committee on Wednesday.
When Mrs Merkel herself was the target of US spying in 2013, she admonished the Americans with the words: "Spying between friends, that's just not done."
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Hot Chip, Mel C, KT Tunstall, Dynamo and Phil Daniels are among the stars who manned the sale at the Old Truman's Brewery in east London.
Items up for grabs included the Blur star's drumsticks, art by Pete Doherty and Russell Brand's trousers.
The aim is to raise £100,000 for mobile health clinics to help Syrian refugees and host Jordanians in need.
Rowntree collected more than 1,000 items for the Star Boot Sale in Brick Lane, with some items available to bid for online in an auction that will remain open for a week.
He said: "It was really good, we had lots of fun and everyone was smiling.
"The most popular things were the knick-knacks from the celebrities, people were falling over each other for them."
Some of the items, such as books, started from £1 while a gramophone donated by Coldplay has already attracted an online bid of £2,000.
Model Sophie Dahl gave clothing including a faux-fur Nicole Fahri jacket and a black Balmain jumper and Sir Bradley Wiggins donated a cycling shirt.
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Rowntree said: "It's hard to get basic healthcare services to those people, that's why mobile health clinics are so vital."
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The National Football Museum's exhibition will benefit from a new £4m Museums and Galleries Improvement fund.
Interim director Kevin Haygarth said the money would "piece together the lost history of women's football".
The collection includes World Cup shirts worn by players including Brazil forward Marta and the USA's Mia Hamm.
The largest part of the government's £4m cultural grant will go to Weald and Downland Museum in Singleton, West Sussex.
It will get £224,500 to fund a bakery and dairy showcasing heritage food production.
An ancient Egyptian gallery in Leicester and a Roman fort in Tyneside will also be among 39 projects to benefit.
The grants are funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
Minister for Digital and Culture, Matt Hancock, said the grants "will make an important contribution toward increasing access to their wonderful collections and improving the visitor experience at museums right across the country".
Paul Ramsbottom, chief executive of the Wolfson Foundation, said: "From Egyptian mummies in Leicester to a Roman fort on Tyneside, this is a gloriously diverse set of projects - but all demonstrate excellence and all will improve the visitor experience."
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One man survived, a second died and a third is still missing after the Belgian vessel overturned on Tuesday.
An investigation into the cause of the incident will be carried out by Belgian authorities, as will the missing person enquiry, the Coastguard added.
A salvage operation is expected to begin later on Thursday.
A temporary exclusion zone has been put in place around the vessel to allow the operation to take place.
The vessel from Belgium capsized off Ramsgate on the Kent coast at about 23:00 GMT on Tuesday.
Dover Coastguard said weather conditions at the time were "relatively benign" and the sea had been calm.
A man was rescued from the upturned hull at 07:30 GMT on Wednesday after he was spotted clinging to the vessel by a passing boat.
A second man "showing signs of life" was rescued from the sea later in the day but died in hospital.
The third crewman remains unaccounted for. An extensive search involving helicopters and boats was called off for the day late on Wednesday due to fading light.
The 17-year-old was stabbed to death after a night out in Bath in June 1984. More than 90 people were arrested but no-one was charged with her murder.
Avon and Somerset Police say forensic advances could lead to new clues in the case.
Det Insp Julie Mackay said they were contacting hundreds of people to ask them for DNA samples.
The A-Level student was last seen alive in the early hours of Saturday June 9 in Broad Street after deciding to walk home alone.
Her body was discovered later that morning by a milkman, close to a block of garages in St Stephens Court, Lansdown.
Since then, new forensic techniques have enabled police to develop of a full DNA profile of the suspected killer.
"We are now cross-checking that DNA with that of all people with links with Melanie or who we know were in Bath at the time and may be of interest," said Det Insp Mackay.
"It is a long and laborious process but I believe Melanie's murderer is within that group."
Police have also appealed for a "significant witness," who contacted police five years ago, to come forward again.
Det Insp Mackay said the person had "important information".
"All we need is a name," she said.
Mr Bent of Claremont Lane, Esher appeared at North Surrey Magistrates Court in Staines earlier.
He is next to appear at Guildford Crown Court on 16 October and was bailed.
The 37-year-old, who played for clubs including Wigan Athletic, Charlton Athletic, Everton and Leicester City, was arrested in Esher on 13 September.
Mr Bent also played as a striker for Sheffield United, Blackburn Rovers, Ipswich Town and Birmingham City during his career. He is believed to have retired from football in 2012.
In June, his family failed to overturn a government decision not to hold a public inquiry into his killing.
A lawyer for the Northern Ireland Secretary told Belfast's High Court that as the challenge had failed, the family should pay the full costs.
But the judge rejected the application.
Sources have said that the bill would have been in the region of at least £150,000.
Mr Justice Stephens said Mr Finucane's family had succeeded in establishing that investigations into his killing had not been in compliance with Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
One of Pat Finucane's sons, John, criticised the government for trying to make the family pay the legal bill.
"I think it was a very vindictive application," he said.
"The only way that that could be viewed is something that is quite mean, petty, and I think designed to stymie any decision by our family to go for an appeal."
Mr Finucane was a high-profile lawyer in Belfast who had represented clients including convicted IRA members, some of whom had taken part in hunger strikes at the Maze prison.
He was shot dead by loyalists in 1989 and his family have campaigned for an independent inquiry to examine UK state collusion in the murder.
Three years ago, Prime Minister David Cameron apologised to the Finucane family.
He agreed to a review of the case by Sir Desmond de Silva QC, but stopped short of a public inquiry.
In December 2012, a report by Sir Desmond said there was collusion in the murder of Mr Finucane.
It said the state had facilitated the killing, and made relentless efforts to stop the killers being caught.
Mr Finucane's family have said they will continue to campaign for a full public inquiry into his killing.
Mikel believes the arrival of Guus Hiddink as interim boss has helped the Blues start to recover from a low of 16th place in the Premier League.
"The atmosphere has improved since the change of manager," Mikel said.
"Jose is a fantastic manager, but sometimes football is a cruel game and you have to move on."
Mikel added: "He came back to the club a second time and won two trophies but now he is gone. Is it the right decision? We will only see in the future."
The champions dismissed Mourinho on 17 December - at that moment they were only one point above the relegation zone - and turned to Hiddink to rescue their season.
Dutchman Hiddink also managed the Blues on a temporary basis for the final three months of the 2008-09 campaign.
Mikel is one of only a few players, along with defenders John Terry and Branislav Ivanovic, who were at the club during Hiddink's first spell, which ended in FA Cup glory.
"He (Hiddink) hasn't changed much yet, but he was here before and he knows the place and all the staff," Mikel said.
"We are down there in the table for a reason so he can not come in and perform miracles.
"We have had three games now without losing, so (we) are making the right steps."
Mikel, who got limited game-time under Mourinho, making only two starts in five league appearances, could not explain Chelsea's meek title defence this season.
"It is difficult when you are not playing, as you do not really know what the problems are," Mikel added.
"I was not playing that much under Mourinho. It was a collective thing - the players and the manager were not performing."
Chelsea, currently 14th in the table with 20 points, travel to Crystal Palace on Sunday, hoping to register their first win under Hiddink.
Overseas sales in the "manufactured goods" category were down by more than 9%. These represent an eighth of Scotland's exports of goods.
The machinery and transport category, which accounts for a third of Scottish goods exports, was down by 5%, or £319m at £5.8bn.
That was a sharper fall than the UK declines registered in the data.
The UK figure for machinery and transport was barely down, at just below £108bn.
UK exports of manufactured goods were down by 6% on 2014, to less than £26.9bn.
The new figures do not include overseas sales of services such as banking, insurance, technical and professional skills or tourism.
The figures reflect a worldwide slowdown in trade, and also the problems exporters faced from the strength of sterling.
The other big sector in export of Scottish manufactured goods is whisky. That dominates the "beverages and tobacco" classification, which saw a continued slide of 4.4% in exports, to just under £4.5bn.
While exports fell, imports rose, according to the HMRC's latest "regional" trade figures.
The machinery and transport category of imports, which grew to account for half of all goods imported from overseas to Scotland, grew by £886m, or 16% during last year.
Total exports of goods from Scotland fell by 11% last year, while the UK as a whole saw a fall in the overseas sale of goods of 2.7%.
Exports of goods from Scotland to the European Union were down 20% in only one year - by 17% to Germany and by 23% to the Netherlands.
The USA remained the biggest single export market, with a one-seventh share, but the total value was down 3.5%.
The quarterly survey of companies by the Scottish Engineering trade grouping, just published, also reflected slides in both output and exports.
The figures were slightly improved on the final quarter of 2015. While 29% of companies in the survey said orders were up, 40% said they were down. Machine shops were particularly negative on orders.
On exports, there was a six-point gap between fallers and risers, making it the tenth negative quarter. The electronics sector, however, saw strongly positive signs of exports picking up.
Output volume has been negative for five quarters, with 27% reporting a rise, and 36% falling.
There was a balance of 26% of respondents saying they were shedding staff, and the same proportion reporting they were taking on more workers. The quarterly survey was also slightly negative on recruitment throughout last year.
One of the larger engineering-based companies based in Scotland, Aggreko, has produced full year results that reflect a wide range of changes in the world economy over the past year.
The provider of temporary power generation was hit by the fall in oil and gas prices, where it had been a provider of power on fracking projects, though it has partly offset that by doing better in petrochemicals and refining.
The company reported the impact of a slowdown in the growth of power demand in emerging economies.
The weakness of the mining sector hit operations in Australia, Brazil, Peru and Chile, while power shortages in South Africa helped grow orders.
The Glasgow-based company, which makes diesel and gas generators at its Dumbarton plant was badly affected by a gas contract in Bangladesh that required re-negotiation, and slower payments from clients, notably in Venezuela and Yemen.
It warned of security concerns in Iraq, and instability in Yemen, Venezuela and Libya.
It renewed a contract to supply temporary power in Japan, which began following the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster.
And although it has pulled out of bidding for the Olympics in Brazil this summer, it provided power to the first European Games in Baku and to the ICC World Cup in New Zealand, where it also put power generators in place following cyclone damage.
Aggreko had revenue of £1.5bn in 2015, and pre-tax profits fell by 13% to £252m.
Despite that fall in profits, and a warning that the 2016 pre-tax profit will be slightly lower than 2015, the share price was boosted 13% after publication of the annual results.
Gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 0.9% in the three months to June, compared with the previous quarter.
On an annual basis, the Thai economy grew by 0.4% from a year earlier.
Months of political turmoil before the coup caused a drop in exports, foreign investment and tourism.
Krystal Tan from Capital Economics said the coup helped calm political unrest and boost confidence in the economy.
"Growth is set to pick up further in the coming quarters, but it will take time for the recovery to gain a firmer footing," she said.
"The junta has made spurring the Thai economy one of its top priorities since coming to power. For instance, its moves to delay tax hikes, accelerate budget disbursements and clear the way for investment approvals to resume should help support domestic demand."
Thailand's National Economic and Social Development Board, which compiles the growth data, also released revisions to its first quarter figures.
The revised figures show the economy contracted by 1.9% rather than the 2.1% decline initially reported for the period from January to March.
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The crowding turned into a crush and 96 people died, with hundreds more being injured.
It was the biggest tragedy in British sporting history.
Families of the people who died have campaigned for many years to find out what happened on the day of the disaster.
Now the results of a special investigation, called an inquest, have been announced.
It says that the police, ambulance service and other organisations made mistakes that led to the disaster. It also says that the fans were not to blame.
Ayshah's been looking at what happened on that day.
In February, Twitter announced that 125,000 accounts since mid-2015 had been banned for the same reasons.
"Daily suspensions are up over 80% since last year, with spikes in suspensions immediately following terrorist attacks," said the firm.
It added that it continued to work with authorities on the issue of extremism.
In the past, Twitter has faced criticism over the level of extremist content that has been detected on its network.
Besides increased human efforts, Twitter said it had benefited from the use of spam-fighting tools that can help automatically detect problem accounts.
One third of the recent batch of suspensions were identified via such methods, the firm added.
"We have expanded the teams that review reports around the clock, along with their tools and language capabilities," said Twitter in its blog.
"We also collaborate with other social platforms, sharing information and best practices for identifying terrorist content."
However, the move was described as a "short term solution" by Nikita Malik, a senior researcher at the Quilliam Foundation, an anti-extremist group.
"What we're trying to do as an organisation when we work with social media companies like Google and Twitter is to help them have a more pro-active role," she said.
She added that it would potentially be more beneficial to focus on promoting counter narratives that challenged the message of extremist propaganda.
More than 120,000 people signed a petition backing Finn's Law, named after a dog who was stabbed while chasing a suspect in Hertfordshire.
Speaking during a parliamentary debate on the petition, Policing Minister Brandon Lewis said new legislation could be brought in next year.
"None of us think of police animals as just equipment," he said.
"They are an important part of the job."
German Shepherd Finn was stabbed in the head and chest and his handler received a hand injury in Denton Road, Stevenage, after they pursued a suspect on 5 October.
At the moment, those who attack police dogs and horses are prosecuted for causing criminal damage, but campaigners want the animals to be given the same status as injured officers.
Mr Lewis told the Commons: "It doesn't seem to me to properly convey the respect and gratitude that we do and should feel for the animals involved, and for their contribution to law enforcement, and indeed public safety more widely."
Peter Scotter shouted "you are in our country now" when he attacked his victim, who was with her young son, at a Sunderland shopping centre.
The 55-year-old, of Beach Street, Roker, Sunderland, admitted racially aggravated assault by beating and racially aggravated harassment.
He has 66 previous convictions and was told he was facing a jail sentence.
Both offences were based on Scotter's hostility towards a particular religious group, namely Islam, the court heard.
Judge Stephen Earl heard the victim was standing outside the Bridges shopping centre in July when Scotter grabbed her veil, almost throwing her to the ground.
Laura Lax, prosecuting, said the attack had left the victim feeling as if she could not go out.
Tony Hawks, defending, said Scotter had recently been diagnosed with a cancerous tumour under his tongue and was due to undergo surgery.
During the abuse, Scotter was heard to swear at the woman and call her a "stupid" Muslim.
He continued to make derogatory comments when he was being interviewed after his arrest, Miss Lax said.
Scotter's previous convictions include actual bodily harm and racially aggravated criminal damage.
She accused China of "trying to hack into everything that doesn't move in America", and urged vigilance.
US officials had named China as the chief suspect in the massive hack of the records of a US government agency earlier this year.
China had denied any involvement, and called US claims "irresponsible".
Speaking at a campaign event in New Hampshire, Ms Clinton said that China was stealing secrets from defence contractors and had taken "huge amounts of government information, all looking for an advantage."
She added that she wanted to see China's peaceful rise but that the US needed to stay "fully vigilant".
"China's military is growing very quickly, they're establishing military installations that again threaten countries we have treaties with, like the Philippines because they are building on contested property," she said.
US officials have blamed China for a major data breach of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that was revealed in June.
The hacking of federal government computers could have compromised the records of four million employees.
US intelligence chief James Clapper called China a "leading suspect" after the incident.
But China dismissed the accusation, saying that it was "irresponsible and unscientific".
China has previously argued that it is also the victim of hacking attacks.
Republican presidential candidates have used the recent OPM cyber hack to attack President Obama's administration, accusing it of "incompetence".
Marco Rubio and Rick Perry have called for the US to threaten sanctions against organisations linked to hacking, while Mike Huckabee has argued that the US should "hack China back".
Meanwhile, Democratic candidate Martin O'Malley has called for better funding for cyber security.
The hack against the OPM is not the first time that China has been blamed for a cyber attack against the US.
An earlier attempt to breach OPM networks was blocked in March 2014, with the US saying China was behind the attack.
The first one involved a cyclist who was seen on the hatch markings off the eastbound carriageway of the M8, before J15 Townhead, Glasgow, at about 07:30.
The other involved a pedestrian who was seen walking southbound on the hard shoulder of the northbound M77, near J1 Dumbrek Road.
Traffic Scotland tweeted warnings and said police were being notified.
Jakub Gorski, 19, was found with a stab wound to the chest in Hope Street, Higher Broughton, at about 19:45 BST on Friday evening.
He was taken to hospital where he later died.
On Sunday Greater Manchester Police arrested a fourth man on suspicion of murder.
Three other men, aged 26, 26 and 49, who were also questioned over the killing have been bailed.
Det Ch Insp Terry Crompton appealed for anyone with information to come forward.
He said: "Jakub's death has left a gaping hole in his family, who are understandably devastated by the loss of their young son and brother.
"To lose a child in such violent circumstances must be incredibly difficult to come to terms with, and my officers and I offer our most sincere condolences to the Gorski family at this time.
"We are doing everything we can to ensure we bring those responsible for his untimely death to justice, and the public can assist us in this task."
All matches will be played in Jamaica, with the first two in Montego Bay on 8 and 10 October.
The other three games - in Kingston on 14, 16 and 19 October - will double up as a round of fixtures in England's ICC Women's Championship campaign.
England, sixth in the championship, will qualify for next year's Women's World Cup by finishing in the top four.
The World Cup will be held in England in June and July 2017, with matches to be played at Lord's, Derby, Bristol, Leicester and Taunton.
"We all saw during the ICC Women's World T20 what a talented side they are, and they will be especially dangerous in home conditions," said England head coach Mark Robinson of West Indies, who won the World Twenty20 in April.
"It should be a really exciting tour and a challenge that we will relish."
England, who have won six and lost five of their 12 Women's Championship matches to date, face three home fixtures in the competition against Pakistan in June - at Leicester, Worcester and Taunton - before the West Indies trip.
Leon Barrett-Hazle, aged 36, has been officially identified by police as the man who was attacked on the top deck of the 11A bus in Handsworth on Monday.
A 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder, the West Midlands force said.
CCTV stills of the suspect were taken on board the bus and released earlier on Wednesday.
Witnesses are still being urged to come forward.
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The attacker is believed to have left the bus in Rookery Road after the altercation at about 22:30 GMT on Monday, police said.
A post-mortem examination will be carried out on the victim, who police said was from Smethwick, later.
Passengers who were on the top deck during the stabbing, including four who immediately got off the bus, have been urged to get in touch with officers.
Police said the suspect pictured was last seen wearing a puffa jacket and headphones over a baseball cap and was carrying a duffle type bag.
Detectives said the attacker was only on the bus for five minutes before stabbing the victim "several times" in the stomach and back.
Forensic searches were carried out on Tuesday, to find the weapon used, which is believed to be a folding pocket knife.
Christopher and and Adam Hoar, from Murton, County Durham, were spotted on Dalton Park retail park's CCTV camera repeatedly kicking the animal like a football in July.
Christopher, 31, of Woods Terrace, and Adam, 23, of Malvern Crescent, admitted causing unnecessary suffering contrary to the Wild Mammals Protection Act.
Peterlee Magistrates' Court was told their actions amounted to "torture".
Denise Jackman, for the RSPCA, which brought the case, said security staff at the retail park recognised one of the men on camera, as he used to work at the site.
District judge Kristina Harrison said: "I cannot see how anybody their size was doing anything other than torturing the hedgehog by kicking it around the place, using it as a football.
"This is a horrible case where you have tortured an animal who has hurt absolutely nobody and whose numbers in the wild are rapidly dwindling.
"If people feel horrified by the case, quite frankly they are absolutely right to do so."
Outside court, RSPCA inspector Helen Nedley said: "Wild animals have protection as well as domestic ones.
"We are here to protect both."
Fenby, 30, made his first appearance since the opening Premiership weekend in mid-October on Saturday as Irish moved to the top of their pool.
The 38-6 victory at the Madejski Stadium included six tries for Irish.
"It's been a frustrating season so far with not many opportunities for me," he told BBC Radio Berkshire.
Fenby made the switch from full-back to blindside wing as he was named man-of-the-match in his first start since 18 October.
"Being out of the side has been incredibly frustrating," the former Scarlets player added.
"It's part and parcel of professional sport really. Especially now with the investment we've made and the great players we've signed in the back three.
"There's loads of competition and it's all part of staying positive and waiting for your chance. When it comes, you've got to take it."
Irish top pool five after three games and face Edinburgh again at Murrayfield on Friday.
But, The Exiles are still without a win in the Premiership after losing their opening six games.
Fenby hopes they can take the confidence of their European campaign into domestic competition.
"It's about gaining momentum," he said. "We're desperate for that first win in the Premiership, but know we've also had a tough run in our opening fixtures."
The 33-year-old made his Ulster debut in 2004 and has scored 16 tries in 172 games for the Kingspan Stadium side.
"I am very happy to remain with Ulster - I'm privileged to captain this talented group of players," said Best, who has won 89 international caps.
"Our challenge now is to deliver on the promise we have shown and reward our fans with strong performances."
Best made his international debut against New Zealand in November 2005 and is Ireland's most-capped hooker.
He started every game of Ireland's successful 2014 and 2015 Six Nations campaigns and played at this year's Rugby World Cup.
"I have worked closely with Rory for a number of years in the national set-up and the quality he delivers so consistently reflects his character and his talent," said Les Kiss, Ulster director of rugby.
"His leadership, tenacity and drive are incredibly important to what we are looking to achieve at Ulster Rugby."
Pending regulatory approval it would be a merger between two very different companies.
Time Warner creates content - TV shows, channels and movies.
AT&T's wireless, phone and cable networks are major platforms people access that content on.
For the consumer, this deal might affect price, choice and advertising - issues regulators will inevitably be examining before giving the go-ahead.
And politicians have already weighed in, with the two presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both saying they were wary of the deal.
So what are the issues?
Whether it is hit series Game of Thrones or the Harry Potter movies, the CNN news network or NFL football on TNT - swathes of popular content is all owned by Time Warner.
And one big concern is that AT&T will use the deal to offer more of Time Warner's content for its existing customers, and woo new ones by offering perks to access Time Warner's hit shows.
It could, for example, make its own offerings available via "zero-rating" - allowing customers to stream certain content without it eating into their data plans.
This means that if you are on AT&T - you would be able to stream NFL games or Game of Thrones episodes without having to worry about hitting data usage limits.
That might be a good thing if you happen to be on AT&T (and of course if those shows interest you).
But for customers signed up to a rival telecoms company, there is already a fear they could find themselves having to pay more, switch providers, or go without.
There is a lot of very successful content assembled under the Time Warner umbrella: HBO, Warner Brothers film studios, CNN, TBS, and TNT. It also owns DC Entertainment, home to Batman and Superman and has a 10% stake in the Hulu streaming subscription service.
But media content companies like Time Warner are facing distribution challenges with rapidly changing audience behaviour. Younger viewers in particular are "cutting the cord", ditching cable and watching their favourite shows on mobile devices.
For any smaller media company without privileged access to a network like AT&T's, it will be increasingly hard to get noticed and push past the dominant market players.
And with media analysts expecting this deal to kick off more consolidation in the industry (Disney buying Netflix to help its distribution is one rumour doing the rounds, while a big tech firm like Apple or Google buying Disney is also seen as a possibility by some) things are only likely to get harder for small players.
The merger will also help AT&T "innovate on new advertising options, which, combined with subscriptions, will help pay for the cost of content creation," the company said over the weekend.
How would that work? Well AT&T's ability to gather data about user behaviour from its tens of millions of customers means the company can do a better job tailoring adverts and video to user preferences.
It could then create more attractive subscription packages suited for phones, which is the platform people increasingly choose for watching video.
Better targeted advertising would bring in more money to flow back into content creation, says AT&T. It could even make subscriptions cheaper - though without pressure from competition, there might be little incentive for AT&T to pass increased earnings on to their customers.
John Atkinson's complaint against Mr Gill is being dealt with by the Employment Tribunals Service in Cardiff.
A decision is expected in the next few weeks on whether it is thrown out or goes to a full hearing.
Mr Gill disputes the claim, saying he had adhered to the law "fully".
The leader is now both a MEP for Wales and a North Wales AM.
Mr Atkinson was Mr Gill's constituency manager in his role as an MEP, and was also UKIP's campaign manager in Wales for the 2015 general election and the 2014 European election.
He has claimed he was dismissed by Mr Gill after complaining about being asked to carry out campaigning for UKIP instead of organising his MEP constituency work, which he said went against the conditions of his contract.
It is understood he wanted to carry out office-based work as he was unable to walk long distances because of asthma.
Mr Atkinson was dismissed as Mr Gill's constituency manager in March 2016. He had been in the job since July 2014.
He resigned from the party in February because he disagreed with UKIP's internal rows over the selection of candidates for the assembly election.
A tribunal judge will now consider the next step, and a spokesman for the Employment Tribunals Service confirmed that the case is progressing.
Mr Gill said he followed the rules of the conciliation service ACAS and the European Parliament's own legislation when the contract was terminated.
He said: "I ensured that the process of concluding the contract of employment was transparent and fair in terms of paid holiday, final remuneration and notice period, and fully adherent to the law.
"I have every reason to believe that there are absolutely no grounds for any claim of unfair dismissal."
Striker Vassell saw his tame second-half spot-kick saved by Stanley goalkeeper Marek Rodak after Seamus Conneely caught Jack Payne with a high boot in the area.
Other results going their way keeps the Seasiders within two points of the top seven, while Accrington extend their unbeaten run to 14 games and retain a slim chance of making the play-offs.
Blackpool should have been ahead after 37 minutes. A rapid counter-attack set Colin Daniel free down the left, and he squared for the unmarked Bright Osayi-Samuel who inexplicably shot wide from four yards.
Blackpool's Neil Danns went down just inside the area early in the second half but the referee waved away the appeals, before Tom Aldred was forced to block on the line to deny Matty Pearson at the other end.
Gary Bowyer's side, who had lost their previous two, had their big chance after 75 minutes when Vassell fired straight at Rodak from the penalty spot.
With the last action of the game, Kelvin Mellor struck a post with a flicked header from eight yards as Accrington clung on for the draw.
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Match ends, Blackpool 0, Accrington Stanley 0.
Second Half ends, Blackpool 0, Accrington Stanley 0.
Kelvin Mellor (Blackpool) hits the right post with a right footed shot from very close range.
Attempt saved. Kelvin Mellor (Blackpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Jordan Flores (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley).
Colin Daniel (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley).
Attempt missed. Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. Nathan Delfouneso (Blackpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Neil Danns (Blackpool).
Seamus Conneely (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Harvey Rodgers (Accrington Stanley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jack Payne (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Harvey Rodgers (Accrington Stanley).
Foul by Jack Payne (Blackpool).
Matty Pearson (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Sanmi Odelusi (Blackpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Blackpool. Jamille Matt replaces Kyle Vassell.
Attempt blocked. Kyle Vassell (Blackpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Matty Pearson (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Foul by Tom Aldred (Blackpool).
Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Tom Aldred (Blackpool).
Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Penalty saved! Kyle Vassell (Blackpool) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, left footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.
Penalty Blackpool. Jack Payne draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Seamus Conneely (Accrington Stanley) after a foul in the penalty area.
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by Harvey Rodgers.
Attempt saved. Jordan Flores (Blackpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Sanmi Odelusi (Blackpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Sanmi Odelusi (Blackpool).
Omar Beckles (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Blackpool. Jordan Flores replaces Brad Potts.
Substitution, Blackpool. Sanmi Odelusi replaces Bright Samuel.
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by Seamus Conneely.
Attempt blocked. Kyle Vassell (Blackpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Mark Hughes (Accrington Stanley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kyle Vassell (Blackpool) wins a free kick on the left wing.
The 82-year-old, who ruled from 1983 until a US invasion ousted him in 1989, needs to have a benign tumour removed.
His lawyer Ezra Angel successfully argued Noriega should be allowed to prepare and recuperate at home, instead of a hospital or in prison.
Noriega was jailed in Panama for murder, corruption and embezzlement.
He was convicted of the crimes carried out during his rule in absentia and extradited from France to Panama to serve his sentence in 2011.
The former strong man and one-time US ally has also served time in the US and France on drug and money laundering charges.
Noriega will return to prison once he has recovered, and will also spend time at home before undergoing the surgery.
His doctor Eduardo Reyes said it was important he was not taken directly from prison to the operating theatre because "it is not a simple case".
The Northern Irishman trailed 7-1, and despite twice getting to within two frames, Wilson won through 13-9.
"The comeback probably looked on a couple of times at 7-5 and 11-9. I had two chances to push on," said Allen.
"It's true that you can't win it in the first session but you can lose it, and that's where I lost that match."
An astonishing game saw Allen trail 7-0 and then win five in a row to get back to 7-5 on Sunday evening, before losing the next four to end the session 11-5 behind.
"He deserved his 7-1 lead and played superb snooker," world number seven Allen said. "Kyren thoroughly outplayed me. He didn't put a foot wrong in that session."
The topsy-turvy nature continued on Monday with both men refusing to change their attacking, aggressive style.
Allen won the first four frames to make it 11-9 and bring hope of an astonishing fightback, with breaks of 86, 103 and 64.
But Wilson, making just his second Crucible appearance, showed he has the temperament to equal his talent by winning a scrappy penultimate frame before sealing victory with a fine 71 under intense pressure.
Wilson said it was "probably the strangest match he has every played", describing it as "crazy".
Allen was pleased with his efforts after such a bad beginning. But the Antrim man took little consolation after failing to reach the last eight for the fifth year in succession.
"I've always been a fighter so I wasn't going to give up out there," Allen added.
"I got close enough and looking back people will say you did well to get back into it but I'm sitting here as a second-round loser once again and that's a disappointment that I have to take back and look at."
Allen said he employed every tactic he could to try to get back in the match.
"He held himself together really really well," Allen added.
"When you're 7-0 down you have to try other things other than potting balls and I tried my best to get at him and get under his skin but it didn't work. I feel my game is in good shape but the first session just cost me.
"I set my season out to win the World Championship and I haven't done that so it's a waste of a year really."
"I put him under a lot of pressure and he handled everything. That's the sign of a top player."
Kyrgios, 21, reacted after apparently being disturbed as he prepared to serve in Tuesday's 3-6 6-3 6-3 win.
The world number 17 later laughed off Australian broadcaster 7 News' report that four fans want an apology.
Sela confronted Kyrgios after the match at the Abierto Mexicano Telcel, with the umpire coming between the players.
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The incident is the latest in a string of controversies for Kyrgios who accused an umpire of being biased in his semi-final defeat by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in Marseille last week.
He was banned for eight weeks and fined for his on-court behaviour at October's Shanghai Masters, although he accepted a 'care plan' agreement that would reduce the suspension to three weeks.
Kyrgios will play former world number one Novak Djokovic in the last eight from 04:00 GMT on Friday morning.
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At least 21 firefighters are among the dead, with another 721 people injured after the blasts at a warehouse storing hazardous materials.
The operators of the Tianjin site have been accused of "clearly violating" safety rules.
China has ordered a nationwide check on dangerous chemicals and explosives.
China's cabinet also ordered officials to "crack down unwaveringly on illegal activities to ensure safety".
Twenty-five of the injured are in critical condition and 33 are serious.
Some fires are still smouldering and chemical experts are testing for toxic gases.
The cause of the blast is still being investigated.
Officials have only confirmed that calcium carbide, potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate were at the warehouse.
But there were reports in the People's Daily that 700 tonnes of sodium cyanide were at the Tianjin site. Ammonium nitrate may also have been present.
Chinese officials, though, have admitted there are discrepancies between accounts from the company and from customs, and that damage to company offices had made it hard to identify the chemicals.
More than 200 chemical and biological experts from the military are on site but officials insist that the air and water quality levels in Tianjin are safe.
People's Daily said the Tianjin facility, operated by Ruihai Logistics, had "clearly violated" safety rules that say dangerous materials must be stored at least 1km (0.6 mile) away from public buildings and main roads.
State media said the manager of the Ruihai Logistics site had been detained.
Fire officials have defended the actions of the team who responded to the initial report of a fire on Wednesday night, amid suggestions that using water on some of the chemicals could have led to the blasts.
Calcium carbide reacts with water to create the highly explosive acetylene.
Fire department official Lei Jinde said: "We knew there was calcium carbide inside but we didn't know whether it had already exploded. At that point no-one knew, it wasn't that the firefighters were stupid."
They would not have sprayed water on calcium carbide, he said, although he admitted it was a large warehouse and the team could not be sure where that substance was.
Chemical experts suggest an acetylene blast could then have detonated ammonium nitrate causing a much larger blast.
There were two explosions. The first was equivalent to about three tons of TNT, the second - some 30 seconds later - was equivalent to 21 tons.
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Lorraine Barwell, 54, was attacked as she escorted a prisoner from Blackfriars Crown Court to a van on 29 June. She died on Friday.
Post-mortem examination tests show the provisional cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head, the Met said.
Humphrey Burke, 22, is accused of grievous bodily harm.
Mr Burke, of no fixed address, appeared at Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court on 1 July. He was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on 15 July.
Ms Barwell, from Romford, east London, worked for the services company Serco for more than 10 years.
The Ministry of Justice and Serco said she was the first prison custody officer to die in the line of duty.
Scotland Yard, Serco and the Ministry of Justice are investigating Ms Barwell's death.
The hen harrier fledged at a nest in Aberdeenshire in July.
The RSPB said its tag last sent information on 3 August from moorland in the Monadhliath Mountains managed for grouse shooting.
The Scottish Gamekeepers Association said there was "no independent information" on the situation.
Last week, RSPB Scotland and the Scottish Moorland Group, whose members include landowners and gamekeepers, clashed over the loss of the eight golden eagles between 2011 and July this year.
The wildlife charity believes they were killed illegally around grouse moors, and their satellite tracking tags destroyed.
The Scottish Moorland Group said it condemned wildlife crime. It added that the RSPB had not considered other reasons for the loss of the tags.
The hen harrier, known as Elwood, was being monitored under a scheme run by the Partnership for Action against Wildlife Crime Scotland.
After fledging at a nest site in Aberdeenshire the bird spent time near Tomatin, south of Inverness.
The bird's tag last transmitted information a few miles from the Slochd Summit on the A9.
Ian Thomson, RSPB Scotland's head of investigations, said: "This latest disappearance of a satellite tagged bird is deeply concerning, and joins the long list of protected birds of prey that have been confirmed to have been illegally killed or disappeared suddenly in this area.
"The transmitters being fitted to these birds are exceedingly reliable, and illegal persecution is therefore the most likely explanation of the disappearance of these birds of prey.
"The absence of typical breeding raptor species from areas of suitable habitat, or at traditional nesting sites, in large parts of the Monadhliaths is further supporting evidence of a major problem with wildlife crime in this general area."
A spokesman for SGA said: "As with other recent allegations, the SGA will work with Police Scotland and Scottish government in an attempt to get to the bottom of this. It is clearly a situation which cannot go on.
"We have no independent information, at the present time, so getting the facts will be the first step. Speculation, at this stage, will not help.
"The SGA does not, and will never, condone wildlife crime. As an organisation we advocate legal solutions, solely, as the means to resolve conflicts. If there is any evidence of illegal activity by an SGA member, appropriate action will be taken."
Tim Baynes, director of the Scottish Moorland Group, added: "We are as concerned as anyone when a satellite tagged bird goes missing and particularly in this case because the bird was part of a project involving Scottish Land and Estates and our members.
"This bird was tagged on one of our member estates as part of the Heads Up For Harriers."
He added: "Estates in the area where the bird went missing are also concerned but have not been approached by RSPB to help in any search. They are unaware of any incident and would be willing to help."
The 59-year-old could start his new job with an eight-match ban after he was sent off in his final game as Greece boss - a 5-3 penalty shoot-out defeat by Costa Rica at the 2014 World Cup.
Lisbon-born Santos, who has managed Benfica, has appealed against the ban.
He succeeds Paulo Bento, who quit after a surprise 1-0 Euro 2016 qualifying loss to Albania earlier this month.
Santos, who played for Maritimo and Estoril during the 1970s, has also been in charge of Porto and Sporting Lisbon during his 27-year managerial career.
He has also spent time managing in Greece, including a stint with PAOK, Panathinaikos and two spells with AEK Athens.
He was in charge of Greece for four years but his reign ended on a sour note with his sending off, which followed an altercation with an official at the end of the last-16 match in Recife.
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Sunday's 1-1 draw against West Ham at Old Trafford means Mourinho's side are sixth and 11 points behind leaders Chelsea. They were second at this stage last season under Louis van Gaal.
"It's a big club and we are used to big clubs - we also know how to take a team to win," said Faria.
What we are chasing will arrive for sure
"We know that we will do it."
Mourinho won three Premier League titles during two spells at Chelsea, who sacked him last December as they lay 16th, having lost nine of their first 16 league games.
He has also won league championships with Porto, Inter Milan and Real Madrid.
Mourinho was sent off by referee Jon Moss on Sunday after kicking a water bottle as he reacted to Paul Pogba being shown a yellow card for diving.
The France midfielder will now be suspended for Wednesday's EFL Cup quarter-final against West Ham.
It was the second time Mourinho has been dismissed in a month, after Mark Clattenburg sent him to the stand during the 0-0 home draw with Burnley.
He was banned and fined for that, and in a separate case was fined £50,000 for comments made about referee Anthony Taylor before United's match with Liverpool.
The Football Association will wait for Moss' report before deciding what action to take against Mourinho.
Faria said: "I think everyone saw his frustration in the situation where it should be a free-kick for us.
"And there's the issue about the yellow card for Paul, which means he'll be suspended, so there is maybe reasons to express some frustration."
Mourinho was dismissed after two goals were scored in the opening quarter of the match.
West Ham took the lead in the second minute when Diafra Sakho headed in from Dimitri Payet's free-kick.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic was partly at fault for the goal but made amends in the 21st minute when he nodded in from Pogba's dinked delivery.
United have drawn five of their past seven league matches.
Mourinho's men are 11 points shy of leaders Chelsea following their fifth draw in seven league matches. In that period, they have only won one game.
Any feelings of euphoria that Manchester United had following Thursday's 4-0 Europa League win have quickly disappeared.
Asked if their title chances had gone, Faria said: "We are looking to the team and trying to get the best results. We knew the job was not an easy job and we fight to change the things and it's what we'll keep doing.
"We believe in the players, we believe in the team and we believe things will change. And what we are chasing will arrive for sure."
Your Excellency, greetings from Dar es Salaam!
Your name, Pombe, in Kiswahili means alcohol.
And I recall that in one of your public rallies you said if people found Pombe a little difficult, they could simply call you Wine.
I'd like to speak some truth to that Wine.
Scientists say red wine has some health benefits - you will definitely need to do a lot of healing in Tanzania.
Your first assignment must be Zanzibar.
The uncertainty surrounding the cancellation of the election in Zanzibar creates a dangerous political vacuum.
The opposition Civic United Front (CUF) party in Zanzibar, and the many people who support it, believe they won the election.
But the Zanzibar Electoral Commission maintains the vote was not valid because it did not meet the threshold for a free and fair election.
CUF has in the past argued that Zanzibar does not reap the full benefits of its union with the mainland.
Many conservative leaders within your own governing CCM party are therefore fearful that a CUF victory could mean a break-up of that union.
If that were to happen, the implications would be far-reaching.
The situation now seems to be a choice between national unity and electoral democracy.
As the union president, you will need to show bold leadership and actively engage with the Zanzibar crisis to find an urgent solution before the country begins to bleed.
After that, you must turn your attention to healing the nation as a whole.
Like any fiercely contested poll anywhere, last month's election has left deep political scars in Tanzania.
Out of the roughly 15 million people who voted, more than half (58% ) said yes to you while over 6 million (42% ) rejected you.
Joseph Warungu:
"President Magufuli, you will need to persuade the Tanzanians who did not vote for you to trust you - to bury their bitter rivalry and rally behind you."
Five challenges for Tanzania's new president
John Magufuli in profile
And then there are the other 7.5 million Tanzanians who decided to remain silent.
They registered but never voted.
You will need to persuade all these Tanzanians to trust you - to bury their bitter rivalry and rally behind you.
When you are done with that, the headaches of your own governing CCM party await you.
You will require a united party of committed members to drive the nation forward.
During the campaign you yourself expressed your frustration over hypocrites inside CCM whom you said were "with you during the day but at night they cross over to the opposition".
Tanzanians are waiting to see if you will have the courage to face up to the harsh voices that stifle reform and fair play within the party - the kind of voices that forced Edward Lowassa to desert CCM and fight you from the safety of the Chadema opposition party.
Some of these influential voices belong to people in very senior positions.
You are currently not the national chair of CCM party, yet you will need the clout that comes from that position to reach those powerful people and pull them by the ear.
As you get busy reforming CCM, you must also restore some discipline in all sectors of public life in Tanzania.
The previous regime had a very relaxed approach to life.
Punctuality was a word to be found only in the dictionary and bureaucracy seemed to be enshrined in the constitution.
The previous president spent quite a lot of time on foreign trips, leaving his 46 million children unattended.
But most critically, high-level corruption has nearly milked government accounts dry.
The first steps you took when you got the keys to State House have been quite encouraging.
Walking to the Ministry of Finance offices unannounced sent a strong message that you will keep a close eye on public money and public service.
Some of the absentee civil servants, who had left their jackets hanging over their empty chairs when you paid a visit, have caught a sudden terrible bout of political malaria.
They are still sweating and shivering and regretting their absence.
You made a lot of promises on the campaign platform including revamping the transport infrastructure and health delivery.
These commitments will require serious money.
So you will need to raise it quickly by increasing government revenue and by sealing the leaking holes.
You will again need to confront the rich and the powerful who are the biggest tax evaders, while also easing the taxation burden on the small informal businesses that are frequently harassed by the authorities.
Your in-tray is certainly overflowing.
But this should not be a concern because you fought the election on a platform of service delivery.
Your campaign slogan was "hapa ni kazi", which roughly translates into "we mean business".
However, the one wild animal that Tanzanians are desperate for you to hunt down is corruption.
You will need nerves of steel and staying power to take tough action on those who treat government finances like personal ATM machines.
Very few African presidents have ever succeeded in curing this global illness.
If you do, then you will definitely deserve a large glass of wine and a collective cheer from the people of Tanzania.
Mr President, you said we can call you wine, now we just need to taste and see how vibrant, mature and refreshing this wine truly is.
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Some of the sites involved were seized from net entrepreneur Kim Dotcom and are thought to attract large numbers of visitors.
The sites were taken over thanks to an administrative error by the FBI which forgot to renew its ownership of one domain.
The sites have now been suspended and no longer show any web content.
Tech news site Torrent Freak revealed that several web domains that used to be run by Kim Dotcom were suddenly directing visitors to sites peddling porn, fake security software, adware and bogus special offers.
These domains were seized three years ago when the FBI carried out raids on Mr Dotcom's business empire, alleging that his Megaupload service was a haven for pirates and copyright thieves. The legal action that started with the raids has yet to be resolved.
Megaupload.com and Megavideo.com were two of the domains briefly taken over by the adware peddlers.
Mr Dotcom lamented what happened to the domains in a tweet, saying the US government had "lost control" of them. He also warned people about adware and other bogus offers.
A separate investigation by news site Ars Technica revealed that the domains had become available because the FBI had forgotten to renew its ownership of a separate site - cirfu.net.
This was used by the agency's Cyber Initiative and Resources Fusion Unit that oversaw sites seized during investigations and raids conducted by the force. This unit replaced the seized site's content with banners announcing that they had been taken over by the FBI.
Megaupload.com, an associated Mega video site and several gambling domains were controlled via cirfu.net.
However, said Ars Technica, cirfu.net was auctioned earlier this month soon after the FBI's ownership of it expired and was not renewed.
The exact identity of who got control of cirfu.net and its associated sites is not known. However, net ownership records show it is now run by Syndk8 Media which is based in Gibraltar.
Soon after news stories about the sites began circulating, the sites were suspended by registrar GoDaddy for violating the company's terms and conditions.
The FBI has yet to comment on what happened to the domains.
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The judge at Leeds Crown Court said Neil Taggart's once high reputation in the community now "lay in the gutter".
Taggart, who also served as a West Yorkshire Police Authority chairman and city councillor, pleaded guilty to eight child sex offences in June.
The offences were committed between 2010 and 2016.
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Taggart, 65, of Marlowe Court, Garforth, served as the city's Lord Mayor in 2003.
He was a Labour councillor for more than 30 years before being deselected by the party in October 2013 ahead of the 2014 election.
Taggart was suspended in October when the party became aware of the allegations he was facing, and was sacked after admitting the offences.
The charges:
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) said Taggart was "just one of the growing number of offenders caught using the internet to access child abuse images".
"Every child in his sickening catalogue of images has suffered abuse in the real world", a spokesman said.
The NSPCC called for technology companies, government and law enforcement to commit "resources and expertise to prevent it being published".
Det Supt Pat Twiggs, of West Yorkshire Police, said: "Offenders like Taggart, who seek out and distribute abusive images of children for the sexual gratification of themselves and others, play a significant role in the continuation of the appalling real-life abuse that these images capture.
"The crimes he pleaded guilty to represent a high volume of images - many of the most serious kind - and cover a significant period of time."
A survey found 28.5% of Scottish practices had at least one GP vacancy as of 1 June, up 2.5% in three months.
The BMA said vacancies were putting more strain on remaining GPs who have to cover staffing gaps as well as facing increased service demands.
Health Secretary Shona Robison said the Scottish government was already taking steps to improve GP recruitment.
Dr Alan McDevitt, chairman of the BMA Scottish GP Committee, said: "The fact that over 28% of GP practices in Scotland had a vacant position in this snapshot survey is extremely concerning.
"It shows that the recruitment and retention problems in general practice that we have been warning of are continuing to get worse.
"The Scottish government can no longer talk about record numbers of GPs in Scotland. The vacancy rate shows that there are simply not enough doctors to meet the demands being put upon general practice.
"Every unfilled vacancy puts more and more strain on remaining GPs who must struggle to cover the gaps in their practice while also coping with increasing demands on GP services.
"The Scottish government urgently needs to commit to improving recruitment and retention, as well as to increased funding to general practice."
Health Secretary Shona Robison said the government was already taking steps to address the shortage of GPs.
She said: "We are committed to supporting and developing local GP and primary care services, and working with stakeholders, including the BMA to do so.
"We have pledged to increase the number of GPs working in our NHS. Last year we confirmed an extra 100 GP training places to encourage more medical students into the profession, and an increase in our support for return to practice schemes that bring experienced GPs back into the health service."
Ms Robison said Scotland continued to have the highest number of GPs per patient in the UK but said the way care was provided would need to be redesigned to make it sustainable.
"That means transforming primary care and GP services - increasing the role that other health professionals play in delivering care and making it much more of a team approach, allowing GPs to focus on those patients specifically in need of their expertise," she said.
"We have also allocated £20m over the next year to ease some of the immediate challenges facing the GP workforce. We will also continue our work with the profession to negotiate a new GP contract for 2017, which will be instrumental in delivering our shared vision for the future of GP services."
The Scottish Conservatives called on the government to "get to grips with" the issue of GP staffing.
Health spokesman Donald Cameron said: "With almost a third of GP practices reporting at least one vacancy, this is yet more evidence of the ongoing crisis in recruiting and retaining our family doctors.
"GPs are at the forefront of family healthcare and the SNP must get to grips with what is clearly a worsening situation.
"The SNP have run the health service since 2007 and should have foreseen the general crisis in NHS staffing a long time ago. It must be addressed at once as a matter of urgency."
The move is to allow for the evacuation of civilians trapped in the battle zone. Mr Lavrov said some 8,000 people would be taken out.
Government forces have retaken 75% of east Aleppo in recent weeks - areas rebels had controlled for four years.
The US welcomed the "indication that something positive could happen but we're going to have to wait and see.
"Our approach to the situation has been to listen carefully to what the Russians say, but scrutinise their actions," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.
Mr Lavrov said on the sidelines of a European foreign ministers meeting in Germany: "I can tell you that today, combat operations by the Syrian army have been halted in eastern Aleppo because there is a large operation under way to evacuate civilians."
He also said Russian and US military experts would meet in Geneva on Saturday to discuss ways of bringing an end to the violence in Aleppo.
A US state department spokeswoman confirmed Mr Lavrov had spoken to John Kerry and both had agreed to discuss a ceasefire that allows for the delivery of aid and the departure of civilians, but the "specific nature" of Saturday's technical talks "are still to be worked out".
Russia's announcement comes at a time when tens of thousands of civilians have already been fleeing the fighting on their own, using whatever route they can. We saw a tide of people scrambling through a hole smashed through a wall.
News that the Syrian military has suspended operations to allow for a more orderly evacuation would be good news for tens of thousands of people still trapped inside rebel-held districts.
But while fighting appears to have eased, there's no sign on the ground that it's completely stopped. And pauses only succeed if they're agreed by all sides and there's no sign of that yet.
This week rebel fighters also called for a truce to allow civilians to leave the battlefield. But both sides suspect the other will use any pause to regroup for another round of fighting.
Earlier, a local council leader in Aleppo warned that "150,000 people are condemned to death" in the city.
Brita Haji Hassan, during a visit to UN officials in Geneva, said 800 people had been killed and up to 3,500 injured in the city in the past four weeks.
"We demand a safe passage for civilians to leave and an end to the killing, bombing and bloodbath," he said.
Late on Wednesday, 148 mostly disabled and elderly civilians were evacuated from a former old people's home in the Old City, hours after the area fell to government forces.
They were rescued in a joint operation by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Many had injuries or conditions which left them unable to move, and had been trapped in the home for days.
Eleven others had died before they could be reached, either caught in the crossfire or because of a shortage of medicine, officials said.
The chairman of the UN's humanitarian taskforce for Syria, Jan Egeland, praised the Red Cross operation as "heroic" but said evacuations should not "happen like that". He instead called for the establishment of humanitarian corridors.
He told reporters in Geneva that he believed Russia and the US - which back opposing sides in the civil war - were still "poles apart" on agreeing terms.
The UN's envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, told reporters in New York on Thursday that he was planning to meet members of US President-elect Donald Trump's team, though he did not say when.
Aleppo was once Syria's largest city and its commercial and industrial hub before the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began in 2011.
It has been divided in roughly two since mid-2012. But in the past year, Syrian troops have broken the deadlock with the help of Iranian-backed militias and Russian air strikes, reinstating a siege in early September.
Lord Falconer said he believed the UK should remain a member "come what may" and his position would be "impossible" if Labour's leadership said otherwise.
Mr Corbyn has said David Cameron should not have a "blank cheque" in his negotiations ahead of a referendum.
Unions warn they may argue for an "Out" vote if workers rights are eroded.
Mr Corbyn, who has taken a Eurosceptic stance in the past, has faced questions from his own MPs over his stance on the EU ahead of referendum due by 2017.
He has signalled he will support a vote to stay in but warned David Cameron must not be given a "free hand" in talks and indicated Labour should only support the "right changes" in areas such as social and employment rights.
New shadow chancellor John McDonnell has reinforced this message, by saying it is "fairly reasonable" for the opposition to see what package the prime minister secures before determining its position.
"At the moment it's trying to get a good Europe, trying to get a Europe that serves all our interests, and I think we can do that," he said on Monday.
But Lord Falconer said he could not support any equivocation about the UK's future in Europe.
"If the Labour Party adopts a position which says we might leave the EU and might argue against it then of course my position would become impossible at that point," he told BBC Radio 4's World at One. "But that's not the current position."
The Labour peer said he could envisage "no circumstances" in which it would be beneficial for the UK to leave the EU.
"My view is we should stay in the European Union come what may. So whatever the result of the negotiations, I believe that Britain would be so damaged by leaving the European Union - or indeed saying it's going to leave the European Union - that we should stay."
Mr Corbyn did not mention the issue of Europe during his speech to the TUC Congress on Tuesday.
The congress is expected to pass a TUC General Council Statement later that says: "We are issuing a warning to the prime minister: you will lose our members' votes to stay in the EU by worsening workers' rights."
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Over the past 20 years, Labour MPs openly calling for Britain to leave the EU have been on the fringes of the party but one of their number, Kate Hoey, said the situation was changing and there were members of the shadow cabinet who would quit if "fundamental reform" was not achieved.
"The dam has opened and we can now have proper debate with people being listened to on all side," she told BBC News.
The leader of the UK's largest union Unite, Len McCluskey, said the union movement had been a "bulwark" of support for the European Union but he was "nervous" about the prime minister's negotiating strategy and what it meant for rights to public holidays, rest breaks and limits on working hours.
"We support, on balance, staying in Europe and that key question of on balance is based on the social charter," he said. "We hope the prime minister takes a step back from that and we will remain a pro-European union."
But the BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said there was a serious prospect of the union movement "switching sides" on the issue.
Shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn has attempted to calm fears among many Labour MPs on the issue, insisting that Labour "has always been committed to not walking away, but staying in to work together for a better Europe".
A number of former shadow ministers have refused to serve under Mr Corbyn since his election, citing his views on the economy, defence and Britain's place in the world.
Chuka Umunna ruled out joining the shadow cabinet after claiming he had not received the assurances he was seeking from Mr Corbyn on Britain's continued membership of the EU.
Matthew Miller was arrested in April, shortly after arriving as a tourist.
The US accuses North Korea of using Mr Miller and two other detained Americans as pawns in a diplomatic game.
The North Korean authorities have not specified the charges against Mr Miller, but they claim he tore up his visa and demanded asylum.
During the trial, prosecutors said Mr Miller admitted having a "wild ambition" to spend time in a North Korean prison so he could find out about the country's human rights situation, the Associated Press (AP) reports.
Notes produced in court also suggested he had become a fugitive because he was involved with Wikileaks, the organisation that has leaked US state secrets.
Our correspondent in Seoul, Steve Evans, says it is impossible to know how those notes were written - whether under duress or not - and it is not clear whether there is any truth to the allegations.
After a 90-minute trial, the sentence was handed down and Mr Miller was handcuffed and led from the room, AP reports.
The White House has described securing the release of Mr Miller and the two other American citizens detained in North Korea as a "top priority".
In the past the US has been able to negotiate the release of American detainees.
Notably two journalists who were held whilst filming a documentary in North Korea were granted a "special pardon" after former President Clinton travelled to the country.
The US has offered several times to send Robert King, its special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, to Pyongyang to discuss the detainees, but these visits have been cancelled by North Korea.
Mr Miller, 24, of Bakersfield in California, had been in custody since 10 April.
Little information has been released about him, and the US State Department said this was partly because he had not signed a Privacy Act Waiver, which allows information about him to be released to the public.
According to KCNA, Mr Miller tore up his tourist visa on arrival in the country and shouted that "he came to the DPRK [North Korea] after choosing it as a shelter."
In a brief interview with CNN earlier this month, attended by North Korean officials, Mr Miller said: "I will say that I prepared to violate the law of the DPRK before coming here."
He also said he deliberately committed his "crime", although he did not specify what he had done wrong.
Accordingly, much mystery remains, our correspondent says.
In a recent interview with Associated Press, all three American detainees appealed to the US government to send a high-ranking representative to negotiate about their freedom.
State department official Daniel Russel told Reuters last week that the US found North Korean treatment of its citizens "objectionable and distressing".
"This is the way that they play," he said. "They use human beings, and in this case Americans citizens, as pawns."
Jeffrey Fowle came to North Korea as a tourist but was arrested in May for allegedly leaving a Bible in a public place. North Korea considers the distribution or spreading of Christian information as incendiary.
Korean-American missionary Kenneth Bae, who was arrested in November 2012, is serving 15 years in a labour camp after being convicted of trying to overthrow North Korea's government.
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15-17th centuries - Ewe clans from Nigeria and the Ane from Ghana and Ivory Coast settle in region already occupied by Kwa and Voltaic peoples.
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1700s - Coastal area occupied by Danes.
1884 - German protectorate of Togoland established, forced labour used to develop plantations.
1914 - British, French forces seize Togoland.
1922 - League of Nations issues mandates to Britain to administer the western part and to France to rule the eastern area of Togoland.
1956 - British-ruled western territory included into the Gold Coast, later renamed Ghana.
1960 - Independence.
1961 - Sylvanus Olympio elected as first president.
1963 - Olympio assassinated, replaced by Nicolas Grunitzky.
1967 - Gnassingbe Eyadema seizes power in bloodless coup, political parties dissolved.
1974 - Phosphate industry nationalised.
1979 - Eyadema, standing as sole candidate, elected as president in first parliamentary polls since 1967, under constitution entrenching civilian, one-party rule.
1985 - Series of bombings in Lome.
1985 - Coup attempt, French troops come to government's assistance. Togo accuses Ghana and Burkina Faso of involvement. Togo's frontier with Ghana shut until 1987.
1986 - Exiled opposition leader Gilchrist Olympio sentenced to death in absentia for complicity in 1985 coup attempt.
1986 - Eyadema re-elected.
1991 - Strikes, demonstrations. Eyadema agrees to split power with transitional adminstration pending elections.
1992 - New constitution approved.
1993 - Eyadema dissolves government, sparking protests and fatal clashes with police. Thousands flee to neighbouring states.
1993 - France, Germany, US suspend aid to press for democratic reforms.
1998 - Eyadema re-elected.
2000 March - UN report alleges that presidents Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso and Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo helped the Angolan rebel group Unita get arms and fuel in exchange for diamonds. Both countries deny the accusations.
2001 February - UN-OAUl inquiry into allegations of summary executions and torture in Togo concludes there were systematic violations of human rights after 1998 presidential election.
2001 August - Opposition leader Yawovi Agboyibo is jailed for six months for libelling the prime minister. Demonstrators take to the streets.
2002 June - Eyadema sacks his prime minister and ally Agbeyome Kodjo and says the action is in preparation for parliamentary elections. Kodjo lambasts the president and accuses his aides of corruption and human rights abuses.
2002 October - Ruling party wins parliamentary elections. Main opposition parties stage boycott in protest at way poll was organised.
2002 December - Parliament alters the constitution, removing a clause which would have barred President Eyadema from seeking a third term in 2003.
2003 June - Eyadema re-elected. Prime Minister Koffi Sama and his government resign.
2003 July - President Eyadema reinstates Koffi Sama as prime minister. A unity government is announced but the main opposition parties are not included.
2003 September - Togo sends 150 soldiers to Liberia to bolster a West African peacekeeping force.
2004 November - European Union restores partial diplomatic relations. Ties were broken in 1993 over violence and democratic shortcomings.
2005 February - President Gnassingbe Eyadema dies, aged 69. The military appoints his son Faure as president in a move condemned as a coup. Under international pressure Faure stands down and agrees to hold presidential elections.
2005 April - Faure Gnassingbe wins presidential elections which the opposition condemns as rigged. The vote is followed by deadly street violence between rival supporters. The UN later estimates that 400-500 people were killed.
2005 June - President Gnassingbe names opposition's Edem Kodjo as prime minister.
2006 April - Reconciliation talks between government and opposition resume. Dialogue was abandoned after Gnassingbe Eyadema's death in 2005.
2006 August - Government and opposition sign an accord providing for the participation of opposition parties in a transitional government.
2006 September - Yawovi Agboyibo, veteran leader of the opposition Committee of Action for Renewal, is named prime minister and tasked with forming a unity government and organising polls.
2007 February - Exiled opposition leader Gilchrist Olympio returns home briefly.
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2007 October - Ruling Rally of the Togolese People party wins parliamentary election. International observers declare the poll free and fair.
2007 November - The European Union restores full economic cooperation after a 14-year suspension, citing Togo's successful multi-party elections.
2007 December - Rally of the Togolese People's Komlan Mally appointed prime minister
2008 September - Former UN official Gilbert Houngbo appointed prime minister with support of governing Rally of the Togolese People.
2009 April - President Gnassingbe's half-brother and former Defence Minister Kpatcha Gnassingbe and several army officers are arrested in connection with an alleged coup plot against the president.
2009 June - Togo abolishes death penalty.
2010 January - Togo quits African Cup of Nations football tournament in Angola after an attack on its team bus kills two officials.
2010 March - President Gnassingbe declared winner of presidential elections. The main opposition Union of Forces for Change alleges widespread fraud and refuses to recognise the result.
2010 May - Veteran opposition leader Gilchrist Olympio agrees power-sharing deal with ruling party, splitting his Union of Forces for Change (UFC).
2011 March - Police break up protests against planned legislation which would restrict street demonstrations.
2011 September - President's half-brother Kpatcha Gnassingbe sentenced to jail for plotting to overthrow him.
International Maritime Bureau voices concern over increasing violence being practiced by pirates off the West African coast.
2012 June - Clashes as demonstrators gather in Lome to protest against reforms to the electoral code that favour the ruling party.
2013 July - Long-delayed elections. Ruling party wins two-thirds of parliamentary seats. Opposition party Let's Save Togo alleges irregularities.
2015 May - Opposition candidate Jean-Pierre Fabre refuses to recognise President Gnassingbe's victory in elections, West African leaders seek to mediate dispute.
Some 20,000 people applied in March; last December it was 120,000.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the focus had switched from crisis management to integrating the more than one million who arrived in 2015.
The news came as a second group of migrants were deported from Greece to Turkey under a controversial EU deal.
Two ferries carrying more than 120 people, mostly Pakistanis, arrived in western Turkey from the Greek island of Lesbos.
Three protesters dived into the harbour before the first vessel's departure but were fished out by coastguards.
More than 200 people were sent back on Monday, but returns have been stalled by a surge of asylum applications in Greece.
The EU-Turkey deals aims to ease the uncontrolled mass movement of people into Europe.
Under the agreement, migrants who have arrived illegally in Greece since 20 March are expected to be sent back to Turkey if they do not apply for asylum or if their claim is rejected.
For each Syrian migrant returned to Turkey, the EU is due to take in another Syrian who has made a legitimate request.
Human rights have attacked the scheme as badly flawed, warning that Turkey was not a safe place to return people.
Amnesty reported that there was just one official processing applications on the island of Chios, and out of 833 claims that had been filed he had processed only 10.
Sources: international news agencies, Turkish media
Germany registered about 170,000 asylum claimants in the first three months of this year, compared with half a million people in the final quarter of last year, according to the interior ministry.
The country is the top destination for arrivals in Europe, many of whom are fleeing conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
But this has put Chancellor Merkel's coalition government under strain, with the populist Alternative for Germany party performing well in recent local elections.
Mrs Merkel said a partial ceasefire in Syria may have contributed to the drop in claims.
"At least there is no fear that hundreds of thousands of new refugees are coming to us," she said.
Analysts however pointed to the border controls introduced in the Balkans that left 11,000 migrants stranded at Greece's border with Macedonia as being behind the fall.
154,227
in 2016, up to 20 April
376 died on Turkey-Greece route
37% of 2016 arrivals are children
853,650 arrivals in 2015
There are meanwhile worries in Italy that migrants deterred from trying to reach Greece might try to enter the EU from North Africa instead, using the sea route from Libya to Italy.
"We are concerned because it's predictable that this summer, maybe hundreds of thousands of people will arrive from Syria and African countries through Italy going to Europe," Giorgia De Acutis of the Italian Red Cross told Reuters news agency.
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.
CEO Al Anstey said the business model "is simply not sustainable in light of the economic challenges".
Al Jazeera America launched in 2013 vowing to be a more serious and in-depth alternative to CNN and Fox News.
The Qatar-based broadcaster spent millions of dollars hiring top US journalists but struggled to bring viewers to its news programmes.
Al Jazeera promised to expand its coverage of the US online after the channel shuts down in April.
The network replaced Current TV, a network founded by former US Vice President Al Gore.
The Qatar-based broadcaster bought Current TV for around $500 million (£308 million).
Al Jazeera America was available in about 60 million American homes. Politico notes that the channel reached an average of 19,000 viewers each day in 2015, far fewer than its competitors.
The channel struggled with internal turmoil, as well, including multiple discrimination lawsuits that ended up ousting its founding CEO.
What have you done this year to justify your salary?
The employee quakes and mumbles something, hoping at best to boost their pay, at worst to avoid getting sacked.
It's the annual appraisal.
Fans of The Office TV show will remember the Appraisals episode from 2002, when David Brent sat down with Keith Bishop from accounts, armed with a standardised office questionnaire.
What were his strengths? "Accounts". Weaknesses? "Eczema". And the training he received to use his computer? He didn't know.
Perhaps none too soon, this clumsy method of evaluation, which ranks, grades and irritates employees across the world, is being re-appraised - and found wanting, by some firms, at least.
Microsoft, Accenture and Deloitte are some of the companies that are reshaping their annual performance review processes, moving away from rigid rankings, into more fluid feedback,
Younger companies like Amazon ensure employees can get feedback anytime from managers and colleagues, rather than just once a year. But older, more established organisations are also looking at a fresh approach to evaluating staff - whether the employees are ready or not.
Perhaps surprisingly, one of the leaders of the trend away from annual appraisals is General Electric (GE), which employs more than 300,000 people across the world.
Its infamous performance reviews once epitomised the detested process that's been dubbed the "rack and stack" or "rank and yank" system, which called for managers to rank employees, then sack the bottom 10%.
GE's former chief executive, Jack Welch, became notorious for axing the lowest rung of performers.
Now, GE is rolling out a process focused on employees' goals, rather than their grades.
But that doesn't mean there isn't still a bit of stress involved.
"It is really a shift from what we have historically done at GE," says Janice Semper, leader of GE Culture, the department spearheading the change.
"The focus is much more on the people, developing them, and much less on rating and ranking people."
The new process includes an app called PD@GE (Performance Development at GE), a technical tool that GE designed.
Rather than hearing how they're doing just once a year, employees have access to what the company calls "insight" whenever they want to see it - and even if they don't. The feedback is available 24 hours a day on employees' mobile phones, or on other platforms.
The feedback comes from peers, as well as managers, and focuses on frequent discussions between managers and staff, and their progress toward short-term goals.
Ms Semper likens the app to an online notebook.
"It's moving away from an annual evaluation to a continuous series of dialogues that happen throughout the year between managers and employees," she says.
Instead of just judging and grading employees, the system is intended to help them improve.
The manager then becomes a coach, rather than just a critic.
Ms Semper says: "Obviously we will still have employees that at the end of the day may not able to live up to the expectations of the company."
But those employees generally self-select, she says, they're not shown the door at the end of a negative review.
Saving time and retaining talent were driving factors behind the decision of US software group Adobe to revamp its performance review process.
Adobe has a similar ethos to GE - instead of an annual rating and ranking, employees get frequent "check-ins" with their manager.
"It's really more individualised," says Donna Morris, senior vice president of human resources at Adobe, which employs 13,500 people.
But the revised system is not just intended to help employees improve their performance - it's also designed to save the company time, and with it, money.
The new system has saved 80,000 hours of what Ms Morris called "administrivia."
She says staff members have welcomed the shift too, with fewer employees leaving voluntarily since the company implemented the change three years ago.
"The employment market is just so hot and feverish that our ability to not only retain critical talent, but also attract talent, is paramount."
The check-ins tend to focus on the future, rather than the "rear-view mirror" approach of the past.
For employees who dread appraisals, the prospect of 24-hour-a day feedback on their performance might seem even more daunting.
Some credit the social media revolution for opening the door to real-time reports in corporate communication - employees are accustomed to instant gratification when they post a picture on Instagram or Twitter.
But getting comments from friends on a cute cat photo is different from seeing comments from co-workers about a disastrous presentation.
Ideally, experts say that the new trend in performance management could help employees do better, because it looks forward, rather than backward.
"You have got to make it possible for people to learn from mistakes, not to put them in situations where they have to deny their mistakes because the consequences are too bad for them," says Samuel Culbert, professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, author of the book: "Get Rid of the Performance Review!"
He argues for a process which he calls the performance preview, which would allow managers to help their teams improve their work, rather than try to cover up their mistakes from the year in an annual interview.
"When things are going badly, the expectation is you talk about it while there is still time to turn things around," says Mr Culbert.
But even at companies without rating and ranking systems, the demise of the performance review does not necessarily mean the end of unpleasant corporate conversations.
With the new trend, employees won't have to wait to hear what their boss - and colleagues - don't like about their work.
They can find out in real-time, even if they would rather not find out at all.
But at least they have a chance to try to correct their mistakes - or find a new job.
Music videos from his YouTube account have also disappeared but no-one from his media team will say why.
So what's the deal with the music legend's apparent digital blackout?
It's got social networks chattering with some comparing him to a moody teenage and labelling him "the artist formerly known as relevant".
Others said the star, who played secret gigs in London earlier this year, is just repeating old tricks.
So we've taken a look at Prince's previous fights with the internet.
In 2007, Stephanie Lenz posts a YouTube clip of her children dancing around her kitchen.
Unfortunately for her, the music playing in the background is Prince's Let's Go Crazy.
Prince's then record label, Universal, orders her to take it down, arguing it is copyright infringement.
She removes it temporarily but then puts it back up, arguing that it is fair use. The case is still ongoing, seven years later...
At the 2008 Coachella Music Festival, Prince performs a cover of Radiohead's Creep.
Everybody loves it, including Radiohead.
But then Prince forces YouTube to remove video captured by fans during the performance.
Radiohead's frontman Thom Yorke says: "Really? He's blocked it? Surely we should block it. Well, tell him to unblock it. It's our ... song."
Days later, YouTube reinstates the videos.
In a 2010 interview, Prince announces: "The internet's completely over… The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers."
In January 2014, Prince starts a $22m lawsuit against fans who posted links to copyrighted material of his concerts on Facebook.
He later drops the case, after the fans remove the links, and tells the BBC "nobody sues their fans".
Having finally joined Twitter and Instagram in the last two years, Prince caps his social media presence by joining Facebook in October.
He holds a highly anticipated Q&A but of the 4,000 questions he gets from fans, he answers just one - on the topic of sound frequencies. Random, oh yes.
Prince has even been awarded the dubious title of "Raspberry Beret Lifetime Aggrievement Award" by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a US internet civil liberties group, for the number of "take down notices" he has issued to various websites over alleged copyright infringement.
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Scott Sinclair, 41, who lived in Elgin at the time, was convicted by a jury.
A judge rejected a defence plea to spare Sinclair a prison sentence and told him that custody was "inevitable".
Lord Glennie said: "I cannot regard this as a case where you could have reasonably believed they were consenting to the sexual acts."
Sinclair, who ran a DJ and karaoke business, had taken part in events organised for people with learning difficulties.
He earlier denied three sex charges during a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Sinclair was placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.
Some 22% of marriages among Iranians end in divorce - a rate which is even higher in the capital, Tehran.
The vast majority occur between couples under 30 - the age group which makes up most of country's population. It is a statistic which is worrying officials.
Announcing the plan earlier this year, Mahmoud Golrazi, the deputy minister for Sports and Youth Affairs, said he hoped the new site would help create "100,000 marriages" and thus "solve the problem of marriage amongst young people".
It was a bold claim, but a sign of the government's determination the reverse the trend.
The new site is called hamsan.tebyan.net and is run by the Islamic Development Organisation, an institution under the supervision of the Supreme Leader that promotes the Islamic lifestyle.
It is integrated in tebyan.net, an Islamic lifestyle portal, now catering for its audience's love life.
Hamsan.tebyan.net is run by about 100 people and although it is currently only operational in Tehran, there are plans to expand to other Iranian cities.
Users searching for true love are asked to enter basic details, such as height and weight, but also parents' occupation and marital status.
Conventional questions about hobbies, music tastes or favourite films do not appear.
Unlike traditional dating sites, candidates cannot view other users' profiles or even photos of potential matches, as religious authorities deem this immodest.
Only the web administrators can access these and start matching up "compatible" couples.
Whether the site will successfully entice single people, it is too soon to tell, though it has aroused curiosity.
"It is so hard to meet people in Tehran, and this is a good option for people who come from traditional families," a young resident of the capital, Kaveh, told BBC Persian.
However, others sounded more wary than willing.
Ali, also from Tehran, said he would not join, as [his] "matches would be chosen by the people running the website, and I can't trust that they would make the right decision".
"Other websites have arithmetic that match candidates according to their likes and dislikes, but this one is entirely arbitrary," he said.
In a country where internet access and social media is tightly controlled, it seems an unusual step for the government to jump on the online dating bandwagon.
But with around 300 Western-style dating websites operating within Iran, according to Mr Golrazi, the new sanctioned site is meant to draw users away.
The existing sites contain what Mr Golrazi called "illegal and immoral" content. Authorities worry that such sites encourage sex before marriage - illegal under Iran's strict application of Sharia law - sometimes through temporary marriages known as sigheh.
Indeed some websites are set up to exploit the practice as a way to circumvent the law specifically for individuals solely interested in sexual relationships.
Under sigheh a union can be as short as 30 minutes, or as long as 99 years. No official papers are required - all that is needed is a simple blessing by a mullah.
It is a mechanism which is permitted for married men who want a second partner, but not for married women, who can face flogging or stoning if caught with another man under Islamic law. However in practice the severest punishments are seldom carried out.
Attempts to regulate illegal dating websites have previously been tried and failed. Where sites have been shut down, others have sprung up.
However there are some online matchmaking sites that are run by religious clerics and have the blessing of the government.
The main aim is to encourage marriage and give young Iranians from more conservative backgrounds the comfort they seek in using internet dating by adhering to the traditional concept but with a modern twist.
One example is the Amin Family Center. Singles in search of love enter personal preferences in a partner, and once an online match is found, both parties are invited to an initial face-to-face meeting, which takes place under the supervision of a cleric in a "safe atmosphere", like their office.
To make sure the pair is harmonious, a counsellor is brought in to give an assessment.
If all concerned are happy to take the next step, parents are then invited into the equation.
However, despite the growth of government and private dating sites, there are still plenty of Iranians who do not want to take matchmaking out of the real world.
"I would like to date someone I meet in person," said Mohamed, a young single, from Tehran, "not on the internet". For the state-run site to reach its target, it clearly has some way to go.
The case will decide if a child born with serious disabilities caused by her mother's alcohol consumption should be compensated as a victim of crime.
Some estimates suggest thousands are born every year in the UK with serious health defects caused by alcohol.
Senior health officials have said there are mixed messages on the issue.
NHS guidance states "women who are pregnant or trying to conceive should avoid alcohol altogether".
But it continues: "If they do choose to drink, to minimise the risk to the baby, we recommend they should not drink more than one or two units once or twice a week, and should not get drunk."
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has said "current scientific opinion points to there being no hard evidence that very small amounts of alcohol consumption during pregnancy are harmful".
But advice and research can seem inconclusive.
According to the Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Network, which supports families affected by the problem, health defects caused by alcohol include learning difficulties as well as behavioural and emotional problems.
Pregnant mothers need to be educated to steer clear of alcohol, said Maria Catterick, FASD Network's founder. "We are told that alcohol is a poison on the one hand, but on the other hand we are told that maybe it's OK to drink one or two units."
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Dr Shonag MacKenzie, lead obstetrician at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust, believes the advice can be confusing: "A small amount can lead to more drinks," she said, "we do know that actually the only absolutely safe policy is no alcohol at all in pregnancy."
In September, 12 directors of public health in the North East of England wrote an open letter complaining that there were "a lot of mixed messages about how much alcohol is 'safe' during pregnancy".
"We want to send a clear message to parents-to-be that alcohol and pregnancy don't mix - the safest option is an alcohol free pregnancy," they said in the letter.
"This needs to be the advice given during all stages of pregnancy from conception to birth by all healthcare professionals," they added.
A Department of Health spokesman said the chief medical officer for England was reviewing alcohol guidelines, with new draft guidelines expected next year.
One woman who lives in the North East and asked not to be identified adopted baby girls who were later diagnosed with Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS).
"Due to the brain damage both my children have problems with ADHD, bits of autism, sensory dysfunction, memory problems," she said.
She said there was a shortage of support services for children with FAS, and her girls would need help into adulthood. "When they are both around 18 to 20 years old chronologically, they are only going to be like a 10-year-old socially."
The Court of Appeal will decide later this month whether a seven-year-old with FAS and now in local authority care is entitled to a payout from the government-funded Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme.
Neither the council, which is in the North West of England, nor the child can be named for legal reasons.
Solicitor Neil Sugarman, who represents the council that is taking the claim on behalf of the child, said the mother "had been warned on a number of occasions that if she continued to drink excessively the child would be harmed".
"It's for the court of appeal now to decide whether recklessly taking alcohol was tantamount to poisoning the foetus," Mr Sugarman said.
He said his firm, Bury-based GLP Solicitors, represented about 80 other children damaged by foetal alcohol.
But campaigners fear the compensation claim could end up labelling mothers as criminals.
"I don't believe at all it is worth going down this route to criminalise women," said FASD Network's Maria Catterick.
"Most women would never drink alcohol, knowingly harming their baby. The messages have been totally unclear," she added.
Mr Sugarman denies the compensation claim will criminalise women.
He said the case was "simply about proving that if there was recklessness and it has resulted in damage, the child is then entitled to an award which will improve their lives".
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Appearing in public for the first time since conceding, the Democrat said she hoped Mr Trump would be a successful president for all Americans.
The Republican will become the 45th US president after an astounding victory which followed a divisive campaign.
He holds his first transition meeting with outgoing President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday.
Mr Trump's transition team for the 10-week period until inauguration will be led by Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey.
The president-elect has said his immediate priorities are restoring the country's infrastructure and doubling its economic growth.
After losses overnight as Mr Trump's surprise victory became clear, markets rebounded and a feared meltdown failed to materialise.
Mr Obama, who congratulated his successor in a phone call in the early hours of the morning, said it was "no secret" that he and Mr Trump had pretty significant differences.
But he added that "we all want what's best for this country" and he was "heartened" by what he heard in Mr Trump's remarks the night before.
Mrs Clinton also urged her supporters to respect the election result, saying the constitution enshrines the peaceful transition of power.
"I'm sorry that we did not win this election for the values we share and the vision we hold for our country," Mrs Clinton told her supporters in her address in New York.
"We have seen that our nation is more deeply divided than we thought."
Referencing her own speech when defeated by Barack Obama in her 2008 bid to become the Democratic nominee, she said:
"We have still not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling. But some day, someone will."
"To all the little girls watching... never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world," she said.
Mr Trump told cheering supporters at his campaign rally in the early hours of Wednesday that Americans must now "bind the wounds of division", after the gruelling, acrimonious electoral battle.
"I want to tell the world community that while we will always put America's interests first, we will deal fairly with everyone," said the real estate mogul, former reality TV star and political newcomer.
House Speaker Paul Ryan paid tribute to his fellow Republican, saying he had "turned politics on its head" and would lead a unified Republican government.
From January the Republicans will control the presidency and both houses of Congress - defying pollsters' predictions.
Mr Ryan, a lukewarm supporter of the president-elect, said their party's strong showing in elections to the Senate and House of Representatives was thanks in no small part to Mr Trump.
He referred repeatedly to Mr Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, as "my good friend" and "a good man".
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Mrs Clinton's running mate Tim Kaine paid tribute to her as "a history maker" and said that it was "uniquely difficult" to be elected to federal office as a woman in the US.
US media report that Mrs Clinton is ahead in the popular vote, albeit by less than 1%, though Mr Trump carved a path to victory through the electoral college.
The last time the defeated candidate won more votes cast than the person elected president was in 2000, when Republican George Bush beat Democrat Al Gore.
Mr Trump's election sparked protests in California, with more than 1,000 high school students walking out of classes in Berkeley, as well as smaller demonstrations elsewhere in the state and in Oregon, Washington state and other university locations.
The Republican overturned pollsters' forecasts to win in key battleground states including Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Exit polls suggest that he won 58% of white voters to Mrs Clinton's 37% - and did particularly well among white men and white voters without college degrees.
His outsize showing with this demographic compensated for his lower appeal to blacks, Hispanics and Asian Americans.
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The Manchester United star posted on his official Facebook page he and his Rosso Restaurant hoped to "put a smile on local kids' faces this Christmas".
He announced the donation live on air to Cash for Kids, the official charity of Manchester radio station Key 103.
The charity said it was "totally overwhelmed" with the donation.
Ferdinand told the station: "Christmas is a time when families want to get each other presents and there are obviously people that are less fortunate than we are so we want to try and help them and donate £500,000 worth of toys."
He said: "As a father myself I couldn't see children going without opening a present this Christmas day.
"We're not looking for a thank you, we're just trying to help people out."
The charity's manager Russell Feingold said on the station's website: "We are totally overwhelmed by Rio's amazing contribution.
"This is going to help so many young children."
The charity which supports disabled and disadvantaged children in Greater Manchester said its Mission Christmas campaign aims to help at least 60,000 children in Manchester who are at risk of not getting a present this Christmas.
Ferdinand won 81 England caps, plus six Premier League titles with Manchester United.
He is now a TV pundit and restaurant owner.
John Kelpie, Chief Executive of Derry and Strabane District Council, told BBC Radio Foyle that discussions on the funds are at an "advanced stage."
The funding would establish a route development fund at the Derry airport.
On Tuesday, City of Derry airport confirmed Ryanair was to drop a number of services from its 2017 schedule.
Both the Stansted and Faro routes are being axed, while the flight to Liverpool is being reduced to twice a week.
Mr Kelpie said the Stormont funding had received the backing "at the highest level" and enjoyed cross-party support.
"We are talking days rather than months for an announcement," he said
The airport is currently also exploring the option of operating government funded public service obligation (PSO) flights to London.
Mr Kelpie said the PSO application was being treated "very favourably" by the Department of Transport in London.
He said that if all "the pieces line up" a new airline will be offering a twice or three times daily flight to London as of April 2017 when Ryanair cease its service.
The Derry airport is currently running at a £2.145m loss per year, paid for by local ratepayers.
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Six goats were preparing to walk in the parade celebrating the opening of the market when they took their detour.
They passed the Farmer's Market and crossed several streets, before being rounded up and taken home.
Hamish Mowatt said he phoned the coastguard three times, telling them they were searching in the wrong place.
The diver was rescued on Thursday after spending 11 hours in the water.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said the search took into account information from planning software as well as local knowledge.
The diver, 40-year old Ivan Doychev from Bulgaria, was reported missing by the dive boat "Fair Morn" just before 17:30 on Wednesday.
He was eventually rescued by a passing sail training vessel after spending more than 11 hours in the water.
Mr Mowatt, from South Ronaldsay, has fished in the Pentland Firth for more than 40 years.
He told BBC Radio Orkney that the diver had been found "despite the search operation not because of it".
But the MCA said: "Both the Coastguard helicopter from Sumburgh and the Thurso Lifeboat covered the area in which the diver was later found."
Mr Mowatt said resources were redeployed to the wrong area after he had advised search teams that the diver would be found between Duncansby Head and the Pentland Skerries.
"Everybody went west, when the man was going east. It's that simple.
"The guy was lucky. He was found. But he could have been found at seven o'clock at night.
"I told the Thurso lifeboat where to go, and they were told by Shetland Coastuard 'No. Turn around. Go west.'"
In a statement, the agency said it provided "a consistent approach to search and rescue operations regardless of the geographical location of its co-ordination centres".
The MCA said its policy was "to review all incidents as a matter of routine to ensure it remains an effective and efficient emergency service".
Ivan Doychev said he was kept going by the sight of helicopters and boats searching for him as he drifted in the Pentland Firth.
He said he hopes to go back to his work as a scallop diver in Orkney this weekend despite his ordeal.
He said it was time for party leader Jeremy Corbyn to step down.
But Mr Corbyn has said MPs needed to "respect" the views of the party members who had elected him.
Meanwhile, Newport West MP Paul Flynn has been appointed Shadow Welsh Secretary.
He takes over from Nia Griffith who resigned from the position, and comes after several MPs quit the Labour front bench in the wake of the EU referendum vote for Brexit.
Mr David was among those to quit and told BBC Radio Wales that Mr Corbyn's position was "untenable" after a no confidence vote by his MPs.
Speaking to the Sunday Supplement programme, Mr David said he and colleagues stood down "because they are concerned that the Labour Party is not an effective, coherent opposition under Jeremy's leadership".
"We have done our level best to work with Jeremy," he said.
"Jeremy's position is completely untenable and I really think that what he should do is look at the likely scenarios over the next few months and years and recognise that, though a decent man he is, his position as leader of the Labour Party has effectively come to an end.
"This is a crucial point in the Labour Party's entire history.
"If the Labour Party does descend into total civil war then it is quite possible that the Labour Party may cease to exist."
Rhondda MP Chris Bryant is also concerned about the future of the party and urged Mr Corbyn to "go out with dignity".
He told the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme he could not imagine any other leader of the Labour Party, apart from Ramsay MacDonald, who would not have taken on board the result of the motion of no-confidence.
"I'm sure in Jeremy's heart, he knows that there is a real danger that his broken leadership will break the Labour Party," he said.
"If he is listening, please, please, please Jeremy, you're the only person who can break this log jam."
Mr Corbyn has refused to resign, saying the motion of no-confidence - a vote of 172 to 40 - has "no constitutional legitimacy".
But former Labour leader Lord Neil Kinnock said party rules mean Mr Corbyn would need to secure backing from more than 50 MPs if he wanted to fight a leadership challenge.
Lord Kinnock told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: "Unless the leader can have that substantial support in Parliament then there should be a contest or the leader should consider his position and do his duty to the party and resign."
Later on Sunday, Mr Flynn confirmed he has been appointed as Shadow Welsh Secretary.
It comes as the Wales Bill is set to be discussed on Tuesday, and Mr Flynn said he believed UK and Welsh ministers could come to an agreement.
"It has a reasonable compromise and we should sit to discuss it as mutually intelligent people with a great deal of respect for both sides," he said.
"It will be a rare event and a sensible discussion, not with grandstanding."
He also said he agreed with Mr David and Mr Bryant's comments but said to stand down would leave Plaid and SNP able to "takeover".
The Markit/CIPS purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the sector moved up to 52.6 from 52.3 in September.
IHS Markit's senior economist Tim Moore said the news was "positive".
But he warned that "respondents noted that Brexit-related uncertainty and concerns about the UK economic outlook had held back investment spending".
He added: "While business activity has picked up since the third quarter, the recent phase of new order growth has been the weakest for three-and-a-half years.
"Subdued new order intakes contributed to a fall in construction sector business confidence for the first time since July."
Markets analyst Neil Wilson said: "The market is holding up very well since the [Brexit] vote.
"Residential housing activity was the key driver and this confirms that in terms of the fundamentals of the UK housing market, nothing has really changed.
"The market remains undersupplied and with interest rates at record lows, there is no reason for buyers not to be found.
"Even if prices are pressured and household incomes are constrained by inflation, at the first-time buyer level there is no lack of demand."
However, the figures are at odds with last week's GDP figures, which said that the construction sector had contracted by 1.4% in the three months following the Brexit vote.
While construction rose according to the survey, figures for commercial construction stabilised during the month, but civil engineering decreased slightly.
There was only a moderate growth in new business in October and the increase was much weaker than in the first quarter of the year.
And input prices increased at the second-fastest rate since July 2011.
Reports suggest this is because of suppliers trying to pass on higher prices for imported raw materials following the decline in the value of sterling in the wake of the Brexit vote.
On Tuesday, the Markit/CIPS survey on manufacturing for October showed it remained on a "firm footing" during the month.
And later this week, the Bank of England meets for its latest policymaking meeting, although it is not expected to announce another cut in interest rates.
Neil Lennon, who Deila succeeded in 2014, has already said he would welcome a return to the Scottish champions.
News of Deila's exit comes three days after a Scottish Cup semi-final defeat by city rivals Rangers at Hampden.
"There have been some disappointments and times when we have not achieved what we had hoped for," he said.
"I'm realistic and honest enough to admit that."
Lennon is a free agent after leaving English Championship side Bolton Wanderers but is not the only potential candidate.
Republic of Ireland assistant manager Roy Keane has been mentioned as a possible replacement, while two other former Celtic players - David Moyes and Malky Mackay - have not distanced themselves from the job in recent weeks.
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Deila, who arrived from Stromsgodset in his homeland, claimed in February that he would never quit Celtic.
He led them to the title and League Cup last season and they currently lead the Scottish Premiership by eight points from Aberdeen with five games remaining.
However, Celtic have had two disappointing European campaigns, failing to reach the Champions League group stage in consecutive seasons and finishing bottom of their Europa League pool this term.
Deila's position had attracted increasing speculation, especially in the wake of the cup defeat by Rangers.
"It is vital that the club comes first and, instead of me being the focus, hopefully now the team and the club can be the focus as we enter this final important period of the season," the 40-year-old told the club's website.
"It was an absolute privilege to be named manager of Celtic, such a wonderful football club, and I have enjoyed my time here immensely.
"There have been some great times and I am delighted that we have brought some trophies to the club."
Deila said he now wanted to focus on securing Celtic a fifth successive league title before leaving the Glasgow club.
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Celtic chairman Ian Bankier said Deila was "a fine man with strong values of honesty and integrity".
"He has had some success, which we have enjoyed, and I know all our fans will back Ronny and the players as he looks to bring us more success in the shape of a second league title," he said.
"We are all Celtic supporters and we all know that there can be disappointments in football, but I know Ronny is a man who has given his very best to the job and someone who will always care passionately about the club.
"The club, as always, will give Ronny our full support until the end of the season. We will then make a decision regarding our next manager with the objective of remaining Scotland's pre-eminent club."
Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell added: "Ronny has given everything to Celtic during the past two years and we thank him for his contribution to the club.
"He is a man of real humility, someone of tremendous character, and I personally wish him nothing but success for the future."
But only after the 20-year-old prompted his boss to give him a mention after the 2-0 win over Hamilton Academical.
"I always forget to mention the goalkeeper," said McCulloch. "He told me that after the game.
"He's a rising star and an under-20 international. It shows you the standard we have in the dressing-room."
Woodman, who has been capped by England at every level up to under-21s, pulled off two important saves from Dougie Imrie in the first half.
Combined with goals from Conor Sammon and Jordan Jones, it extended Kilmarnock's seven-year unbeaten run at New Douglas Park.
"His first save was brilliant," said McCulloch. "He's now got three clean sheets out of his last four.
"He made some great saves to stop Dougie Imrie, the header as well."
Woodman, who came through the Newcastle youth ranks, had previous loan spells with Hartlepool United and Crawley Town.
He has played 14 times for Kilmarnock since arriving in January and is keeping the experienced Jamie MacDonald out of the team.
"Jamie's training hard every day waiting on his chance and, to be fair, he knows Freddie has been on it the last few weeks," said McCulloch of the former Hearts and Falkirk 31-year-old.
Konta, ranked 18th, played superbly to win 6-4 6-2 and set up a final against Venus Williams (22:00 BST on Sunday).
The 25-year-old Briton hit seven aces and dropped just six points on serve as she won in one hour and 14 minutes.
"It's just a release of emotions," said a jubilant Konta, who later lost in the doubles semi-finals with Maria Sanchez.
Konta and her American partner Sanchez were beaten 6-4 6-2 by Darija Jurak of Croatia and Australian Anastasia Rodionova.
But asked about her singles success against Cibulkova, she said: "I needed to do a very good job of just focusing on myself.
"It was about focusing on breathing and enjoying playing in front of such a great crowd."
Top seed Williams beat fellow American Alison Riske 6-1 7-6 (7-2) to progress.
Konta reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open in January, and again at Eastbourne in June.
She is playing her first tournament since losing to Eugenie Bouchard in the second round at Wimbledon last month and is the first British woman to reach the final at Stanford since Virginia Wade was runner-up in 1981.
Mr Trump signalled in January he would block the passage of the 12-nation pact in order to protect American jobs.
Trade ministers from the 11 remaining countries have met in Vietnam to get the deal back on track.
The representatives also agreed to help the US rejoin the deal at any time.
The bid to revive the TPP, which would have covered 40% of the global economy, was led by trade ministers from Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
New Zealand trade minister Todd McClay said the remaining countries "are committed to finding a way forward to deliver" the deal.
Although the door will be kept open for the US to rejoin the pact, its trade representative Robert Lighthizer said it would not return to the TPP.
"The United States pulled out of the TPP and it's not going to change that decision."
"The president made a decision, that I certainly agree with, that bilateral negotiations are better for the United States than multilateral negotiations."
The remaining 11 countries pushing on with the deal are Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei.
The Olympic flame arrives in the UK on 18 May and begins its 70-day journey at Land's End on the morning of 19 May.
Visiting every nation and region on its 8,000 mile journey, it will stop off at landmarks including Durdle Door, Dorset, and Blackpool Tower before heading to the Olympic Park for the opening ceremony of the Games on 27 July.
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So what do the people of south east Asia want from their governments and for their future?
For this edition of Global Questions we have assembled a high-profile panel of political figures and key decision-makers to discuss Asean and the future of the region.
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The Swede, 26, joined Sauber in 2015 but has not scored a point in this season's drivers' championship.
"It is great news," Ericsson said. "I have developed a lot as a driver during my time at Sauber. We have had ups and downs, but we always stick together and work as hard as we can."
Sauber said they will announce their second driver for 2017 in due course.
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A former Lord Mayor of Leeds has been jailed for 32 months after making and distributing indecent photographs of children.
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Syria's army has suspended combat operations in eastern Aleppo, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says.
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A member of Jeremy Corbyn's new shadow cabinet has threatened to quit if the Labour leader campaigns for the UK to leave the European Union.
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A North Korean court has sentenced an American man to six years of hard labour for "hostile acts", the state-run KCNA news agency has said.
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Germany has seen a slump in the number of people arriving to seek asylum, weeks after several Balkan states tightened their borders, figures show.
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Al Jazeera America will shut down its cable news channel despite spending heavily to break into the US market.
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A disc jockey who subjected a man and woman with Down's syndrome to sex attacks in Moray has been jailed for five years.
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With a high rate of divorce among a large, youthful population, authorities in Iran have stepped in to play Cupid with the launch of a state-run internet dating website.
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Campaigners and doctors are calling for stronger warnings about drinking during pregnancy, ahead of a legal test case on foetal alcohol syndrome.
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US President-elect Donald Trump must be given a chance to lead, his defeated rival Hillary Clinton has said.
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Former England football captain Rio Ferdinand and his restaurant have pledged £500,000 of toys and gifts to a children's charity.
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Details of a multimillion pound funding package from Stormont to support City of Derry airport are expected in the "coming days."
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The Labour Party is at a "crucial point" in its history and could "cease to exist" unless its leadership row is settled, according to Caerphilly MP Wayne David.
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UK construction companies enjoyed a rise in business activity in October, largely thanks to another big increase in residential work, says a survey.
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In a royal-themed final, she got off to a strong start in the signature bake. Paul Hollywood gave her a handshake when he tried her meringue crown.
The technical challenge, a Victoria sandwich cake, was a little tougher for her and she was criticised for her jam.
But she pulled it back when contestants were asked to make a selection of picnic items in the showstopper.
Mary Berry loved her little pig sausage rolls, and her chocolate and orange cake.
In the end, there was a clear winner - and Candice burst into tears when she heard the news.
She said she was in "complete and utter disbelief" at beating finalists Jane and Andrew.
In honour of her win, we've taken a look back at her most memorable moments from the series.
Candice's amazing peacock won her star baker in Tudor Week.
She made it out of blue, yellow and green marzipan and it definitely wasn't marzi-panned! Paul told her: "You ticked all the boxes and then some. Exceptional."
Eagle-eyed Bake Off fans will remember that last year's champion, Nadiya, also made a peacock cake...
Candice won another star baker in Biscuit Week, when she used gingerbread to create the pub that her parents ran as a child.
It included a pool table, a darts board and even a sticky ginger floor!
From sticky floors to lipstick... Candice has become known for wearing a different shade of lippy every week - and her bold choice of colours.
One week, Mel even put on her lipstick for her!
Candice made a beautiful Four Seasons showstopper cake in Botanical Week.
For the winter layer, she made a fruitcake from her late nan's handwritten recipe.
It hasn't all been plain sailing for Candice.
She was left in tears after a disastrous Bread Week, with Paul criticising her chocolate loaf.
But that hasn't stopped her from "rising" to the top and becoming the ultimate star baker.
Congrats to Candice!
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PE teacher Candice Brown has been crowned the winner of The Great British Bake Off 2016.
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A market for people to sell their annuity will be launched in April 2017, meaning pensioners can exchange their set retirement income for a lump sum.
The government estimates that 300,000 people will cash in their products.
Now the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined the dangers that could result from selling up.
Concerns include individuals struggling to calculate what a good value for their annuity might be, vulnerability to scams, and people with debts being put under pressure to sell their annuity to settle the bill.
An estimated five million people in the UK have an annuity - a retirement income bought with pension savings.
As an extension to the pension reforms allowing people to cash in their pension pot before retirement, people who have already bought an income for life with their pension pots will be able to reverse that deal.
Currently, it is possible to sell an annuity, but a tax charge of between 55% and 70% makes it an impractical option for most people.
From April 2017, individuals who receive a lump sum from selling their annuity will only pay tax at their highest marginal income tax rate.
The Treasury is expecting a tax windfall of £960m over the first two years of the scheme, owing to the tax collection of an estimated £3,200 per annuity seller.
The FCA has now warned that "there is a significant risk of poor outcomes" for consumers selling their annuities.
Christopher Woolard, director of strategy and competition at the FCA, said: "We recognise that some consumers may be particularly vulnerable.
"We have set out proposed rules and guidance that will help ensure that consumers have an appropriate degree of protection should they decide to sell their annuity income."
Those proposals include:
Tom McPhail, head of retirement policy at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "This is a complex market to create from scratch; however, we know that many annuity holders will be interested in trading in their income for a lump sum.
"The FCA has come up with a good package of measures to try and protect investors, while also giving them the freedom to manage their own money."
Others are more sceptical.
"There are a number of missing pieces to make this brand new market work efficiently," said Steven Cameron, pensions director at Aegon.
"There is no central point for consumers to offer up their annuity to a range of buyers, with consumers instead being encouraged to approach each buyer separately to get the best deal.
"Each potential buyer may demand their own medical evidence which will be timely and costly."
The Association of British Insurers said there was a number of issues to work through in "limited" time before April 2017.
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Significant risks face those who decide to sell a retirement income - such as running out of money in old age, the City watchdog has said.
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Satellite data is used to show where and how the rocks ruptured under the country, leading to the loss of more 8,800 lives.
The Magnitude 7.8 tremor occurred at a point where the main fault takes a deep dip just south of the high Himalayas.
This "ramp" structure, as the group calls it, probably also plays a key role in building the famous peaks.
As tectonic forces drive the Indian subcontinent under Central Asia, rocks ride up the ramp, adding a few millimetres a year to the height of the snow and ice-capped mountains.
John Elliott from Oxford University, UK, and colleagues report their assessment of the 25 April quake in the journal Nature Geoscience.
They examined images from Europe's Sentinel-1a radar satellite and other spacecraft to map the buckling of the ground.
These pictures enabled the team to infer what was going on deep beneath the surface.
The researchers trace the quake activity to a locality some 10-15km down.
It was spread across what they term a "hinge point", where the main fault in the region transitions from being relatively horizontal to being sharply angled into the Earth.
This geometry has a number of consequences, the scientists say.
First, it neatly explains why the surface surrounding the capital Kathmandu rose up by about a metre during the quake, and dropped by roughly 60cm in the more mountainous terrain to the north.
And, secondly, it also provides a good model for how the Himalayas gain height over time.
The team proposes a cycle of slumping on the occasion of major quakes and mountain-building in quiescent periods, with the increase in elevation dominating over the long term. The high Himalayas currently gain on average about 4mm per annum.
Last April's tremor occurred in what scientists refer to as a seismic gap - a segment of the fault that has not experienced any significant strain-releasing activity in a long while.
The 2015 shock brought relief only to the far eastern sector of this gap, meaning the potential for future large quakes is still present to the west.
And there is potential also to the south.
The latest analysis demonstrates that the main fault did not rupture all the way to the surface on 25 April. It stopped abruptly some 11km under Kathmandu.
"There is still half of the fault - that's going south of Kathmandu, from a depth of 11km up to the surface - that hasn't yet broken," Dr Elliott told BBC News.
"Our hypothesis is that the abrupt stop is because the main fault has been damaged and it was held up where it intersected with other, smaller faults. But this will only be temporary.
"These earthquakes tend to happen on the century timescale, but this barrier could be pushed through on a shorter timescale. Of course, our problem is that we are not able to predict when; we can never give a date."
The Oxford scientist said that if the remaining portion did break all the way to the surface in one go, it would likely produce a quake of similar magnitude to the 25 April event, but being much shallower could have more damaging effects.
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The newspaper said it has drawn on a range of factors, including community spirit, exam results, broadband speed and the availability of local shops.
Abersoch in Gwynedd was the only place to be listed in north Wales.
It is the fifth year the guide has been produced.
Llandaff in Cardiff has been named among its "Top 20 perennials" for places to have appeared in almost every annual guide.
Sunday Times home editor Helen Davies said: "Numbers on a spreadsheet can only tell us so much, so we carefully balance statistics with our writers' decades of knowledge and expertise to create the definitive list of the best places to live in the UK."
Cowbridge is regarded as an affluent market town with a traditional high street full of independent shops and a popular secondary school.
Other Welsh towns in the guide are: Abergavenny, Bishopston and Gower, Cardigan, Carmarthen, Hay-on-Wye, Llandeilo, Llanidloes, Monmouth, Narberth and Penarth.
"Best places" to live in the north and north east, Midlands, Northern Ireland and south east will also be highlighted in the first part of the guide at the weekend.
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Cowbridge in Vale of Glamorgan has been named as the "best place to live in Wales" in an annual guide by the Sunday Times.
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The pair, along with third-placed Dani Pedrosa, wore T-shirts that read "always in our hearts" on the podium in memory of Moto2 rider Luis Salom, who died during practice on Friday.
Marquez moved into the championship lead on 125 points, 10 ahead of Jorge Lorenzo, who did not finish.
Rossi is now third on 103 points after seven rounds.
The Yamaha rider started fifth and dropped to seventh before taking the lead on lap seven.
Rossi traded first place with Honda's Marquez in the closing stages but made a move with two laps to go for his second win of the season.
"It's a great victory, one of the best of my career," said the 37-year-old.
Rossi accused Marquez of "making me lose the championship" last season but the pair shook hands after the race.
"The important thing is that we had a great battle with Valentino and I think the people enjoyed it," said Marquez.
Lorenzo came off his Yamaha bike after a clash with Ducati's Andrea Iannone, who he will replace next year, on lap 17.
"I am appalled by Iannone's move," said Yamaha team boss Lin Jarvis.
"He hasn't learned his lesson from what he did earlier this season where he took out his own team mate.
"This do-or-die suicide move on Lorenzo is impossible. - it's not acceptable to do this sort of thing."
National Savings and Investments (NS&I), which runs the savings lottery, said all sales would be online, by phone, by post or by electronic transfer.
It will be writing to people who have previously bought Premium Bonds over the counter to tell them of the change.
NS&I said 65% of contact with customers occurred online or on the phone.
"Moving to 100% of direct sales is a natural next step for NS&I. It should also be intuitive and straightforward for these customers, given that they already manage and repay their Premium Bonds with us directly," said Jane Platt, chief executive of NS&I.
"After such a longstanding relationship, we know it is important that we help our customers with the transition."
The service has been available at post office counters since 1956. From August, customers who do not have access to the internet will have to make an application through the post or on the telephone.
A spokesman for the National Federation of Subpostmasters said: "This is very disappointing news, particularly for our elderly and more vulnerable customers who rely on face-to-face support from subpostmasters with handling these types of transactions."
The maximum permitted investment in Premium Bonds recently rose to £50,000 from the previous limit of £40,000.
Every one of the 54.2 billion bonds has an equal chance of winning one of the two top prizes of £1m, but the chances are the equivalent of flipping a coin and getting 34 consecutive heads. The odds of winning any prize of between £25 and £1m with a single £1 bond are 26,000 to one.
People need to be aged 16 years old or over to buy Premium Bonds, although parents, guardians and grandparents can invest on behalf of their child or grandchild.
Scientists engineered extremely small golden spheres, coating them with a chemotherapy drug.
When the tiny particles were infused into the centre of tumour cells, the cancer stopped replicating and many diseased cells died.
Researchers hope it may provide a way to target difficult-to-treat cancers.
Glioblastoma multiforme is a common form of brain cancer that affects more than 4,000 adults in the UK each year.
Though treatments exist, they have limited effectiveness. Most people with these tumours die within five years of diagnosis.
Researchers created nanospheres - particles that were four million times smaller than a cross-section of a single human hair.
At their core were tiny pieces of gold, surrounded by layers of cisplatin - a commonly used chemotherapy drug.
In trials on samples from human cancers, the spheres appeared to boost the effectiveness of conventional radiotherapy and chemotherapy, improving the chances that all the tumour cells were killed.
Scientists tested the nanospheres on brain-tumour samples extracted during surgery.
The cancer cells were then given a dose of radiotherapy, mirroring currently available treatment.
The radiotherapy not only attacked the tumour cells, it also excited electrons within the golden core. The excited electrons triggered the breakdown of genetic material (DNA) within the cancer.
This process also led to the release of the surrounding chemotherapy, allowing the cisplatin to work on the now weakened tumour.
Twenty days later, there appeared to be no viable cancer cells left in treated samples.
Prof Sir Mark Welland, of St John's College, Cambridge, who worked on the techniques said: "This is a double-whammy effect.
"And by combining this strategy with cancer cell-targeting materials, we should be able to develop therapy for glioblastoma and other challenging cancers in the future."
Dr Colin Watts, a neurosurgeon involved in the study said: "We need to be able to hit cancer cells directly with more than one treatment at the same time.
"This is important because some cancers are more resistant to one type of treatment than another."
They said this was promising but early research that required many more tests before it could be considered a part of standard treatment.
Researchers hope to start trials in humans in 2016 and are working on early experiments involving other types of tumour.
The men were arrested on the A4119 at Talbot Green at 17:50 BST on Tuesday.
All four were arrested on suspicion of firearms and offensive weapon offences.
South Wales Police said the incident was not terror-related and had no connection to the investigation in Pontyclun which is connected to the attack near Finsbury Park Mosque in north London on Monday.
Police were called to a car wash in Swansea just after 14:40 BST on Tuesday following reports a number of men in a Jeep had threatened people with weapons.
A description of the vehicle was put out, prompting the arrests later that afternoon.
Police also said the arrests were not connected to Talbot Green or the Swansea car wash.
John O'Neill, from York, was cleared of rape last year but given a Sexual Risk Order (SRO) due to comments he made to a GP and a nurse in 2014.
Mr O'Neill said he had been misunderstood, but police argued he posed a risk to the public.
District Judge Adrian Lower said the terms of the "frankly unpoliceable" order would be amended.
He was particularly critical of the "disproportionate" requirement for Mr O'Neill, 45, to give a day's notice before starting sexual contact with a new partner.
However, the judge said Mr O'Neill's evidence during the course of the hearing had made him "increasingly concerned".
"I found him to be a vain, manipulative and grandstanding individual who seeks to persuade me that black is in fact white," he said.
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Judge Lower said Mr O'Neill had also displayed a "narcissistic streak".
Speaking after the case, Mr O'Neill, who represented himself in court, said: "Clearly I didn't know what I was doing".
After what he described as a "thoroughly humiliating day", the father-of-two said he hoped the amended order would allow him to find a job.
"I'm homeless, I cannot work, I cannot claim benefits, I need to get back into society somehow."
Mr O'Neill, an IT consultant, told the BBC the order had prevented him from applying for jobs requiring a computer or a telephone and he was currently living in a tent in woodland.
He was cleared of rape at Teeside Crown Court in November last year, but after the jury had been dismissed the judge called him a "very dangerous individual".
North Yorkshire Police (NYP) then applied for the order on the basis of comments he made to health professionals.
During Friday's hearing, the court heard details of confessions to health professionals, which included choking a woman unconscious and thinking "a lot" about killing her.
Responding to the judge's ruling, NYP said the judge had "made it very clear he believes Mr O'Neill poses a risk of sexual harm, and that it is right to have an order against him in place.
It said it would work with the courts to "protect the public from the risk Mr O'Neill poses".
The new terms of the order will be agreed at a hearing on 22 September.
MPs are calling for more "openness" in the strengths and weaknesses of such state-funded independent schools which are a majority of secondary schools.
They say that the government should be less "defensive" about academy schools.
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan says academies are "central" to "delivering the best schools".
The report from the cross-party committee of MPs says that standards have risen in the state school system, but it is still too early to determine the impact of academies.
"Current evidence does not prove that academies raise standards overall or for disadvantaged children," says committee chairman Graham Stuart.
"It is clear though that academisation has led to greater competition, challenging many maintained schools to improve and incentivising local authorities to develop speedier and more effective interventions in underperforming schools."
The report calls for much more transparency on what really works in academies.
It argues that these autonomous state schools can be very successful, but the government needs to be much more open about the scheme and to improve supervision.
The report highlights the Ark and Harris academy chains as examples of success.
Nestled in a road lined with period properties and flat-fronted shops, The Petchey Academy is a bright modern building full of airy spaces and sharp angles
It was established in 2006 under the last Labour government to replace the struggling Kingsland School.
As a sponsored academy it is backed by the Jack Petchey Foundation and since it opened results have vastly improved.
Last summer 59% of children gained five GCSEs at A* to C including English and maths, compared to 17% at its predecessor school.
The principal, Olivia Cole, said being a sponsored academy has made all the difference.
"I know all academies are different but the model here works extremely well," she said.
"We are in competition (with other schools), but we also talk to each other and support each other through the local authority, and I really think it's helped drive up standards in the whole of Hackney whether maintained schools or academies."
She said the autonomy of academy status has allowed flexibility over the curriculum, while the freedom to set pay and conditions has helped staff recruitment.
"I think it's just a change in attitude. We were directly answerable to the Department for Education, and as a result we knew that if they were going to invest £32m in this amazing building then we had to do something in return, and also for the children this was really a last chance for the children in Hackney."
Pupil Snezana Milivojevic said: "I feel like we have a lot more opportunities than we had in year seven. We have trips to China, Spain, France and Belgium every year. The school has different links, like business partners.
"I'm doing something called careers academy, where I have a business mentor which is helping me find out what kind of career I want to go into which is really good, and not many schools have that so I feel privileged for that."
The MPs also want more clarity over funding, raising questions as to whether the Education Funding Agency can be both the funder and regulator.
"While some chains have clearly raised attainment, others achieve worse outcomes creating huge disparities within the academy sector and compared to other mainstream schools," says Mr Stuart.
There is a call for more transparency in the oversight of academies, including creating a way for schools to leave academy chains and to develop a plan for schools when an academy chain fails.
The report calls for Ofsted to be able to inspect academy chains - and last week the Department for Education conceded that inspectors would be able to carry out such inspections, but without delivering a formal judgement.
While academies have become a majority in secondary school they remain a minority of primary schools.
Before pressing ahead with an expansion of primary academies, the MPs say, research into their value should be commissioned as a "matter of urgency".
"There is at present no convincing evidence of the impact of academy status on attainment in primary schools," says the report.
"The Department for Education needs to be far more open about the implementation of the academies programme: it has much to gain from transparency," the MPs conclude.
On the quality of free schools, the report says it is "too early to draw conclusions". But it calls for more clarity over funding and better co-ordination with local authorities.
The education secretary said academies and free schools have helped by "promoting new ideas and approaches, and helping to drive up standards in other local schools as a result".
"They have also created greater choice and are more accountable to parents and communities who have a much greater opportunity to hold them to account than has been the case with schools in the past.
"The interests of parents, pupils and communities are at the heart of the programme," said Mrs Morgan.
Tristram Hunt, shadow education secretary, described the report as a "damning verdict".
"The report finds that under David Cameron there is no convincing evidence that schools policy has delivered improvements."
Becky Francis, professor of education at King's College London, said the report illustrates that "the evidence on whether or not academies have had more success in raising attainment than other equivalent schools is mixed, and hard to pin down".
This is in part because there are many different types of school under the "academy" label and progress is from very different starting points.
Kevin Courtney, deputy general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said this was "an utterly damning report".
"Those parents whose schools have been forcibly converted to academies, often against their wishes and those of the staff, will rightly question just whose interests the government has been pursuing in the last five years."
Mary Bousted, leader of the ATL teachers' union, said the report showed: "Academy status is no magic potion to transform schools."
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Cavendish had a terrific year on the bike, winning five stages of the Tour de France to take the green jersey, which is worn by the leader in the points competition.
He followed that by being crowned world road race champion after a dominant performance in Copenhagen.
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The women, aged 66 and 33, were pronounced dead at a house in Golders Green, north-west London, on Friday night.
Joshua Cohen, 27, from Golders Green, was arrested on Saturday afternoon in the nearby Golders Hill Park.
He was remanded in custody to appear at Hendon Magistrates' Court on Monday.
Williams, 32, had played with heavy strapping on her left thigh throughout the week in Madrid, but aims to return at next week's Italian Open.
The American will then defend her title at the French Open, which gets under way in Paris on 25 May.
"I suffered [the injury] during my first-round match," said Williams.
"I started to feel better but it is important that I have enough time to rest and recover. It's very frustrating. This isn't the way I wanted to end the week."
Williams had won the title in Madrid for the last two years, and in 2013 she went on be crowned champion in Rome and then claimed her second title at Roland Garros.
"I am planning to play in Rome," she added. "Fortunately, I have a [first-round] bye next week so will have an extra day of rest."
Maria Sharapova, seeded eighth, made it through to the semi-finals in Madrid with a fine 2-6 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 win over second seed Li Na.
The Russian will play Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska on Saturday after the third seed battled past France's Caroline Garcia 6-4 4-6 6-4.
Kvitova will next face fourth seed Simona Halep of Romania, who saw off Serbia's 11th seed Ana Ivanovic 6-2 6-2.
In the men's event, world number one Rafael Nadal beat sixth seed Tomas Berdych for the 17th time in a row to reach the semi-finals.
The Spaniard, 27, extended his eight-year unbeaten run against Berdych with a comprehensive 6-4 6-2 victory.
Berdych has won three of their 21 matches but the Czech's last victory came at the same tournament in 2006.
"I brought great energy and intensity to it and that's the best news, that it's my best (on clay) yet," said Nadal, who arrived in Madrid on the back of quarter-final defeats in Monte Carlo and Barcelona.
"The things that, historically, I've done well on this surface I managed to do them again today."
Nadal will next face compatriot Roberto Bautista Agut, who beat Colombia's Santiago Giraldo - - 6-3 6-4.
The self-styled "dating guru" holds seminars claiming to teach men how to attract women but his methods have been widely criticised as sexually abusive.
A petition to deny him a visa attracted more than 150,000 signatures ahead of his UK tour, due to start in February.
Mr Blanc has apologised, saying his intention was "a horrible attempt at humour" taken out of context.
Crime prevention minister Lynne Featherstone said she was "delighted Mr Blanc won't be coming to our shores".
In one recorded seminar, Mr Blanc is seen approaching girls and forcing their heads towards his crotch.
In the same video, he advises people on 'picking up' in Japan. "At least in Tokyo, if you're a white male, you can do what you want," he says.
"I'm romping through the street just grabbing girls. It's awesome."
Lib Dem MP Ms Featherstone said last week she was "extremely concerned" by the "sexist and utterly abhorrent statements" Mr Blanc had made about women.
"If he was allowed to perform in the UK I have no doubt that cases of sexual harassment and intimidation would increase," she said.
The Home Secretary has the power to exclude an individual if she considers his or her presence in the UK is "not conducive to the public good".
However, a spokesman for the Home Office said it did not comment on individual exclusion cases - unless they were made public by the excluded individual.
The decision has been greeted by campaigners and those who backed calls for Mr Blanc's visa to be turned down.
Author and columnist Daisy Buchannan tweeted: "It makes me very happy that on #InternationalMensDay, Julien Blanc does not get to be an International Man."
Novelist Jojo Moyes tweeted: "I'm not sure we should have banned Julien Blanc. Might have been more effective for women to buy up all the seats and just laugh at him."
Mr Blanc has already had to cut short a recent tour of Australia because his visa was cancelled following protests there.
On its website, his company Real Social Dynamics calls itself "the world's largest dating coaching company" and promises customers the chance to "witness dating coaches attract beautiful women in live demonstrations".
But critics say videos and pictures of Mr Blanc in action show that he encourages men to harass women with the aim of having sex with them.
The petition to bar him from the UK was started by a woman - using the pseudonym Caroline Charles - who was angry at the material being taught at his seminars.
Labour shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper publicly condemned Mr Blanc and wrote to Home Secretary Theresa May to express her concerns.
Twitter users have also used the hashtag #ChokingGirlsAroundTheWorld to share pictures apparently showing Mr Blanc with his hand around the throats of women - pictures that he has himself shared.
Appearing on US network CNN on Monday, Mr Blanc said: "I just want to apologize, you know, to anybody I've offended in any way.
"This was never my intention, and I just wanted to add that I'm extremely sorry for - for everything that happened."
Last year, Mrs May banned anti-Islamic activists Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer from coming to the UK to join an English Defence League demonstration.
In 2009, then home secretary Jacqui Smith refused to admit Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders.
Robert Patterson, 49, from nearby Carronbridge, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident on the A76 on Monday.
A police spokesman said he was struck by a Honda Accord being driven by a 26-year-old man from Dumfries.
He appealed for witnesses who were on the road where the accident happened at about 01:10 on Monday.
The road between Thornhill and Carronbridge was closed for about eight hours following the crash and a 40 mile diversion was put in place.
The procurator fiscal has been informed.
Moneyval, the body which examines jurisdictions' compliance with international laws, said the island had a "mature and sophisticated regime".
However, it did call for moves including more investigations into money-laundering.
The report also suggested more powers for authorities to be able to confiscate assets from offenders.
It said more rigorous checks could be done on who owned or benefited from particular funds and companies.
Moneyval found Jersey was co-operative with other jurisdictions, and had a robust system in place to deal with any breaches of the law.
A spokesperson said: "Jersey has an internationally-recognised mechanism to ensure transparency of beneficial ownership information.
"However, the number of money laundering convictions and confiscations is relatively low given the size and characteristics of the island's financial sector."
Independent experts from Moneyval started analysing Jersey in 2015 to investigate whether the systems used to detect money laundering and financing of terrorism were up to scratch.
There are 35 banks, 150 trust companies and 500 investment funds in Jersey.
The island had to make some changes following recommendations made in the last assessment in 2009.
The States of Guernsey agreed to an increase in fines for money laundering earlier this year, following a report by Moneyval which criticised Guernsey's sanctions.
13 December 2013 Last updated at 09:19 GMT
It's not just a house - oh no. It's an entire village made of the sweet stuff!
Gingerbread Lane is packed with candy canes, sweets and a whole load of super-sweet icing.
The sugary village has a fire station, town hall, subway station and even an ice rink. The chef, Jon Lovitch from New York, is a very, very proud man.
Solicitor General Lesley Thomson will lead Crown evidence at the fatal accident inquiry, which is due to start on 22 July at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
Six people died and 10 others were injured when a council bin lorry crashed into pedestrians in Glasgow city centre on 22 December.
The Crown Office has already said that no-one will face criminal charges.
A spokesman for the Crown Office said: "The Crown Office can confirm that the Solicitor General, Lesley Thomson QC, will be conducting the fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the road traffic incident which resulted in the deaths of six people in Glasgow City Centre on 22 December 2014."
The FAI will be held before Sheriff Principal Craig Scott QC with a preliminary hearing scheduled to take place on 13 April.
The six people who died in the crash were teacher Stephenie Tait, 29, from Glasgow; student Erin McQuade, 18, and her grandparents Lorraine, 69, and Jack Sweeney, 68, from Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire; tax worker Jacqueline Morton, 51, from Glasgow; and 52-year-old Gillian Ewing, from Edinburgh.
The bin lorry went out of control on Queen Street before crashing into the Millennium Hotel at George Square, close to the city's Queen Street rail station.
Many of those who were struck had been out Christmas shopping.
Police investigating the crash submitted their initial report to prosecutors at the end of January.
In February, Harry Clarke, the driver of the Glasgow City Council bin lorry, told the Daily Record newspaper that he had fallen unconscious at the wheel and could not remember anything about the crash.
Mr Clarke, 58, also said that he understood that bereaved families and those who were injured wanted answers about what exactly had happened.
The attacker forced his way into the elderly man's home in Buchanan Street at about 09:20 on Saturday.
A Police Scotland spokesman said he then assaulted his victim before stealing a sum of cash and making off.
The robber is described as a white male in his 30s, about 5ft 6in tall with a medium build and short brown hair. Police have appealed for witnesses.
Det Insp John Kavanagh said: "This was a distressing incident for the victim. We are eager to trace this suspect as a matter of urgency.
"Anyone who saw a male matching the suspect description in the Buchanan Street area yesterday, or has any other relevant information, is asked to contact police immediately."
Daniels, 73, lost his left index finger and the tip of his ring finger in an accident with a circular saw while building props for his act.
He drove himself from his Berkshire home to hospital in Henley-on-Thames, where the index finger was reattached.
He told BBC Radio 5 Live: "I've only lost the tip of one finger. It could have been a hell of a sight worse."
He added: "It's all healing up now and it's coming along really well; the surgeon's really pleased, the sensation's there, it's all bending. I will have to adapt when I get all the bandages off for the handling of some of the stuff I do."
Daniels said he was on his own at the time while his wife and assistant Debbie was being interviewed on a BBC radio station.
Daniels said on his blog: "Bad moments recur, the worst being full shock state one night which turned me into a gibbering wreck as I relived the moment it happened. This has given me a fuller understanding of shock. It's not nice."
He said he was recuperating while preparing for his new theatre tour, which will begin in February.
Jones, 21, made 12 appearances for Hartlepool last season, but was released by the club in May.
Chambers played in 39 games for the Daggers last term, but could not help them avoid relegation from League Two.
The 26-year-old has previously played for Grimsby, scoring two goals in four games during a loan spell in 2010.
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It is the last great ape to have its DNA sequence laid bare, following the chimpanzee, orang-utan and gorilla.
Comparisons of all their codes, including the human genome, will shed new light on the biology and evolution of these closely related species.
The sequencing and analysis work is
reported in the journal Nature
.
It was undertaken by an international team led from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
The samples for study were taken from a female bonobo known as Ulindi which resides in Leipzig zoo.
Bonobos (
Pan paniscus), together with chimpanzees (
Pan troglodytes), are the closest living relatives of humans.
If one compares the DNA "letters" in the sequences of all three species, there is only a 1.3% difference between humans and their ape cousins.
The separation between the bonobo and the chimp is smaller still. Only four letters in every thousand is changed.
"Based on the differences that we observe between the genomes, one can actually estimate when the last common ancestor between these species lived," explained MPI's Kay Prufer.
"And between chimpanzees and bonobos that is maybe a million years in the past. For the chimps, bonobos, and humans - the common ancestor of all three lived somewhere around four to five million years ago," he told the
BBC's Science In Action programme
.
Bonobos and chimpanzees live very near to each other in central Africa, but their populations are separated by the Congo River.
Indeed, it has long been thought that the creation of the river about two million years ago was responsible for the divergence of the species. And the new analysis certainly seems to support that hypothesis, with no significant signal of interbreeding detected in the DNA of the apes. "It seems there was a very clean split," said Dr Prufer.
But as similar as their genomes are, bonobos and chimps do display some quite diverse behaviours.
Chimps are very territorial and resort to aggressive actions to resolve conflicts, whereas bonobos are more placid and will use sex as a tool to settle their differences.
The researchers want to learn something about the origin of these behaviours, and the degree to which they are influenced by genetics.
"That's the great hope," said Dr Prufer. "If you look at bonobos, chimpanzees and humans, what you can see is that there are some specific characteristics that we share with both of them.
"So, for instance, the non-conceptive sexual behaviour is a trait that is certainly shared with bonobos, while the aggressive behaviour unfortunately is also a trait that is shared with chimpanzees.
"In a way, it is a question of what the ancestor of all three looked like. Which one actually evolved the new trait here?"
To get at some answers, scientists plan to look more deeply at those parts of the genomes where humans share more similarity to bonobos or chimpanzees. It turns out that that more than 3% of the human genome is more closely related to either the bonobo or the chimpanzee genome than these are to each other.
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The comic book spin-off attracted 12.2 million viewers on Tuesday night, despite going up against the American version of The Voice and NCIS.
The series launches in the UK on Channel 4 on Friday 27 September.
It stars Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, a hit character from Marvel movies Avengers Assemble and Iron Man.
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is one of the autumn's most eagerly anticipated new series, with producers hoping to translate the success of the film franchise to the small screen.
The action-packed US drama follows the adventures of a skilled team of agents from a global law-enforcement organisation.
They are tasked with investigating super-human individuals and unusual events.
S.H.I.E.L.D. ranked first in its time slot among viewers aged between 18 to 49 but NCIS was the most-watched show overall with 20 million viewers, according to figures from Nielsen.
So far the critics have been largely positive, with the Huffington Post highly impressed by episode one.
"ABC nailed it with this new series," wrote Jason Hughes. "Everything about this premiere worked."
Avengers screenwriter and director Joss Whedon, who also created long-running series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, returned to his TV roots to help steer the pilot.
He developed the show with his brother Jed Whedon and sister-in-law Maurissa Tancharoen. The Huffington Post's Hughes added: "Whedon's signature snappy dialogue and light-hearted charm can be seen throughout."
However James Hunt of Den of Geek was not entirely convinced.
"It's certainly not a bad piece of TV - the plot mostly makes sense, the cast is mostly good, and there's an undeniable thrill in seeing the likes of Coulson and Hill (actress Cobie Smulders) on screen outside the movies," wrote Hunt.
"But it's also not as good as it should have been: it looks a little economical, the pace is meandering, and it doesn't seem to know what story it's actually trying to tell."
Marvel's big screen interests continue throughout the next two years with Thor: The Dark World due in cinemas next month starring Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier will be released in 2014 and The Avengers: Age of Ultron is scheduled to start filming in 2014.
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So much has been said about the numbers involved that it is sometimes difficult to remember there are other things at stake - namely the WBC, WBA and WBO welterweight titles and the title of best boxer of the modern era.
It is a fight everyone has an opinion on and BBC Sport has pooled the thoughts of boxers past and present, including some of the sport's greatest names.
"A turtle is only vulnerable when he sticks his head out - when he senses danger, he goes back into that shell. You can beat that shell up, but you're not hurting him. Pacquiao has to trick Mayweather out of that shell, make him think he's there for the counter. When he's not - 'bang' - capitalise on his mistake.
"Pacquiao has to make Floyd become the aggressor, something he's not comfortable with. He has to make Floyd bring the fight to him, let his hands go while Manny's letting his hands go and see who lands first. That's fun for us.
"Counter-punchers aren't good at catching up, we wait for you to come knocking at the door, we don't come to you. So counter-punchers need their opponents to be aggressive and then take advantage of slow feet and slow hands. It won't be a landslide win for Mayweather, it will be a hard-earned win. "
"I can see how Manny Pacquiao is able to beat Mayweather - work the angles, high work-rate, volume of punches, fast hands, back Floyd into a corner or onto the ropes. Just outwork Mayweather and win round after round after round.
"Mayweather will put on a defensive masterclass, behind the shoulder, slipping and sliding, ducking and diving and not getting hit. He's a defensive genius, a magician in the ring. But Pacquiao should punch the shoulder, punch the arms, hit him round the back of the head, in the kidneys, take anything he can.
"Mayweather is just too good at adjusting, changing his style, adapting to what's in front of him. If there's ever a time for Mayweather to lose, that time is now, he's an ageing athlete. But I'm going for a close Mayweather points win."
"Pacquiao needs to pressurise Mayweather and land punches with speed, power and accuracy. But Mayweather uses distance very well, is hard to hit and lands with counter-punches.
"I don't think it affected him when I knocked him out. I want Manny Pacquiao to win this fight, my heart is with Pacquiao as a boxer. But Mayweather wins because he's got such a difficult style."
"Manny has to be aggressive and Floyd's planning for him to be aggressive. Is Floyd going to match aggression with aggression, or is he going to use tactical boxing? He can do either. Manny can do one thing, Floyd can do two. Floyd will determine how the fight starts and how it ends.
"Manny's game plan has to be pressure, pressure, pressure. Floyd has never fought an opponent like Manny who throws so many punches, has power in both hands and is a southpaw. No-one has pressured Mayweather like Pacquiao will.
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"Manny can be reckless and that's what Floyd will be planning on. He got reckless against Marquez when he had the fight won, went for the knockout and got knocked out himself. Hopefully he will have learned from that and be reckless at the right time. It's going to be a very good fight - I'm not sure who is going to win."
"Both fighters still have so much to give and on Saturday I'm sure they're going to produce something very special for the fans.
"This is going to be a tremendous match-up.
"Manny has hand speed and fast feet, and that will cause Floyd some problems early on. But as it progresses, I expect Floyd to make the adjustments he tends to make to counter that before pulling away on the scorecards."
"Pacquiao has all the attributes to beat Mayweather - if anyone is going to beat Mayweather it will be someone with similar hand speed who is a southpaw. Pacquiao will definitely cause problems, it will be Mayweather's toughest task yet.
"But after a few rounds, Mayweather will do what he does best and suss things out. He always manages to adapt his style for the opponent he's facing and always finds a way to win. Love him or loathe him, he's a genius.
"I'm picking Mayweather to win on points. It will be a very close fight, nip and tuck, with almost nothing in it. But Mayweather will finish with his nose in front."
"Mayweather has a couple of ways to win the fight: as a counter-puncher, wait for Pacquiao to make mistakes and make him pay for those mistakes; or just box him, dance around, do what he does best. He's a little bit more versatile than Pacquiao.
"As for Pacquiao, if he can be the man who beat Oscar De La Hoya and Miguel Cotto, we're talking about a very interesting, physical fight.
"I think there will be a couple of surprises for the fans, in terms of knockdowns. But there could be dominance from Mayweather."
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"Floyd can't fight the way he's been fighting if he wants to beat Pacquiao. He has to go forward and throw punches.
"Pacquiao throws over 100 punches a round. Floyd, in his last fight, threw 38 punches a round.
"Mayweather can't be on the ropes against a guy like Pacquiao. It's not going to work out. I think that it's going to be a great fight.
"I like Pacquiao, although I'm not saying Floyd can't win. But he's got to change the way he's been fighting."
"Manny chucks a lot of shots and comes from awkward angles, which Mayweather won't be used to, especially from a southpaw stance. Pacquiao is a very active fighter, he'll pressure Mayweather and make him uncomfortable.
"But Mayweather is just too clever, his defence is great and he'll find a way to win. It's got points written all over it, although if Manny thinks he's losing the fight and starts getting desperate late on, I can see him getting knocked out."
"It's going to go to the end because they'll be so careful. Pacquiao understands that he could get knocked out and Mayweather will be thinking: 'Pacquiao has knocked out a lot of guys.'
"Mayweather is a defensive genius. But he's not an offensive machine. So I think Pacquiao will win. He's smart and he's the underdog - he'll feel the crowd pulling for him. I've got a feeling he can win it by one round."
"It can be a very boring fight, with Mayweather just picking at Pacquiao, or it could be a very exciting fight if Mayweather stands more flat-footed.
"I almost knocked Mayweather out straight out of the gate - that would be a good tip for Pacquiao, he can't give Mayweather a chance to get comfortable or to pick up on his rhythm.
"If he is going to win against Mayweather, it's going to have to be in the first three or four rounds, tops. But Mayweather is the best in the world at avoiding punches, so I would have to go with Floyd."
"There are two scenarios: Pacquiao can push the pace and make Floyd fight. If he's in great shape, it can be an exciting fight; or Mayweather can figure him out and box him the whole night and have an easy win. He's going to fight in spurts and put the rounds in the bag. Nothing is going to change.
"The question is, can Pacquiao keep his composure and focus in the ring? He's going to have trouble hitting Floyd, so he has to stay calm and not get frustrated. He's going to throw five and six-punch combinations and maybe only one punch is going to land. If he gets frustrated, Mayweather will capitalise."
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A vote was held by the Oxford University Student Union on maintaining the tradition known as "sub fusc".
The turnout was 40%, which the returning officer said was the highest known turnout for the union.
The compulsory clothing includes a dark suit, black shoes, a plain white shirt or blouse with a bow tie, long tie or ribbon.
First-year history student Harrison Edmonds, leader of the "Save Subfusc" campaign, said after the vote: "People have seen that sub fusc is a leveller and is egalitarian."
Xav Cohen, a second-year student of philosophy, politics and economics, who led the "no" campaign, said he thought it was "quite alienating".
Sub fusc comes from the Latin for dark brown.
The first reference to the term is in the university statutes from 1636.
The University of Oxford defines it as:
1. one of: dark suit with dark socks; or dark skirt with black tights or stockings; or dark trousers with dark socks
2. dark coat if required
3. black shoes
4. plain white-collared shirt or blouse
5. white bow tie, black bow tie, black full-length tie, or black ribbon.
Source: http://www.ox.ac.uk/students/academic_dress
Liam Hall had tried to swim to shore when the dinghy they were in, along with two other friends, started taking in water on Tuesday afternoon.
The 17-year-old, from Southwick, got into difficulties and disappeared. He was found two hours later following a search operation but died in hospital.
Courtney Anne Richardson, 18, said Liam had not been a good swimmer.
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The four friends had taken a trip on the dinghy from Roker Beach on a sunny day in calm seas, but it began drifting further out to sea and taking in water.
Miss Richardson said: "Liam wasn't that much of a good swimmer, but we didn't know that at the time.
"He swam about half way and then just stopped.
"All I can remember is just panicking, seeing Liam's head going under the water and not coming back up.
"It was horrible, I can still see it all the time. I can still hear him shouting for help."
The three others tried to help but were unable to get to him. They were eventually helped to safety and there was a major search operation to recover Liam.
He was recovered from the water and taken to Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary but could not be saved.
Miss Richardson said: "It doesn't even feel like he's gone. Sometimes I hope he walks through the door.
"He was a really happy person, who loved to be out with his friends. He just laughed at everything."
The US economy added 235,000 new jobs in February, Mr Trump's first full month in office.
He retweeted a news report with the caption: "GREAT AGAIN".
During a campaign speech last August, Mr Trump called the Department of Labor numbers one of the "biggest hoaxes in American modern politics".
Challenged about this contradiction at Friday's daily news briefing, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Mr Trump believes, "they may have been phony in the past but it's very real now."
The latest figures brought down the US unemployment rate from 4.8% to 4.7%, the report found.
Much of the growth is being attributed by analysts to an unusually clement few weeks, allowing construction projects and hiring to continue uninterrupted.
Last month was the warmest February on record.
Two years ago in a press conference, Mr Trump attacked the official unemployment rate, calling it "such a phony number" and "the biggest joke".
He asserted that some "great economists" estimate the real US jobless rate is as high as 32% or 42%.
PolitiFact, a fact-checking website, rated this claim as "pants on fire" false.
Mr Trump's US treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said during his confirmation hearing that "the unemployment rate is not real".
One-year leases on 24 unfurnished huts - all in pastel shades of blue, green and lilac - on the promenade at Royal Sands are available.
North Somerset Council has permission to put up more than 100 huts along the seafront, each with no fixed price.
However, some residents are concerned they will be too expensive and could ruin the views along the promenade.
One woman, who did not want to be named, told the BBC: "In Eastbourne, Brighton, and places like that, they've got different ones and I just think it ruins it.
"Because they're all different colours and some people look after them, some don't. Some are quite an eyesore."
North Somerset Council said the first auction would take place between 20 and 25 April.
Other leases will be auctioned off every day from 27 April.
The council said it was hoping to install the huts in the first week of May.
Nick Yates, from the local authority, said the huts would "add something extra" to Weston, whilst raising money for the council and enhancing the seafront.
"We've had over 800 expressions of interest [so far]," he added.
"We think that by having this licensing agreement for a year and doing it on an online auction, it gives the greatest number of people the best chance of having one."
Mr Yates said renting the huts on a day-by-day basis to individuals, like some other seaside resorts, would be "too costly" and "personnel intensive."
The first auction sale began on Monday evening and is due to end on Saturday.
The Saffrons led 0-9 to 0-6 at half-time at Corrigan Park and six unanswered points after the break put the game out of London's reach.
Seven of Clarke's points came from frees while Conor McCann hit 0-3.
Jack Sheridan's last-minute goal helped Kildare beat Armagh 1-18 to 1-15 in their Division Two A contest.
Armagh led 1-7 to 0-9 at half-time at the Athletic Grounds.
In Division 2B, Down were hammered 4-21 to 1-10 by Christy Ring Cup champions Meath at Navan with Kevin Keena, Sean Quigley, Adam Gannon and Anthony Forde getting the home team's goals.
Derry, meanwhile, got their Division 2B campaign off to a winning start as they edged out Mayo 1-14 to 1-13 at Castlebar.
WEEKEND ALLIANZ HURLING LEAGUE RESULTS
Sunday
Division 1A
Kilkenny 0-17 1-15 Waterford
Division 1B
Offaly 1-12 6-23 Galway
Kerry 3-14 0-19 Laois
Wexford 1-14 0-14 Limerick
Division 2A
Antrim 0-20 0-13 London
Armagh 1-15 1-18 Kildare
Westmeath 1-11 1-11 Carlow
Division 2B
Roscommon 0-7 2-17 Wicklow
Meath 4-21 1-10 Down
Mayo 1-13 1-14 Derry
Division 3A
Donegal 2-23 1-14 Louth
Tyrone 1-11 3-15 Monaghan
Division 3B
Longford 2-13 0-7 Fermanagh
Saturday
Division 1A
Tipperary 1-24 1-8 Dublin
Cork 0-21 1-11 Clare
Division 3B
Warwickshire 3-9 3-8 Sligo
Aleksandar Mitrovic nodded Newcastle in front but Aguero's brilliant burst of goals began when he headed City level.
It continued after the break when his deflected shot made it 2-1 and he ran through soon after for his hat-trick.
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Kevin de Bruyne's volley made it 4-1 before Aguero struck again with a curling shot and close-range finish.
Listen to the goals on BBC Radio 5 live
Newcastle, who are still without a league win this season, had chances to extend their lead after £13m striker Mitrovic scored his first goal since joining the club in the summer.
But Aguero's virtuoso show - which ended his Premier League goal drought in style - means the Magpies fall to the bottom of the table on goal difference.
Going into the game, Aguero was without a goal in open play in 595 minutes in all competitions, and any Premier League goal in 424 minutes since City's win over Chelsea on 16 August.
The 27-year-old Argentina striker's shooting statistics were all well down on his usual high standards but when he returned to form, a shell-shocked Newcastle had no way of stopping him.
His early season frustration continued with his first two shots of the game both ending up off target, but his next five efforts all found the net.
The pick of the bunch was his fourth, which came when he looked up on the left-hand side of the area and picked his spot in the opposite corner.
It was something of a surprise when City manager Manuel Pellegrini chose to take him off, soon after he timed his far-post run to perfection to slide home De Bruyne's cross for his fifth goal and City's sixth.
Newcastle fans joined the applause as he left the field on 66 minutes - no doubt grateful he would not add to his tally - but, despite his early exit, Aguero still joined a select club of players to score five goals in a single Premier League game.
Pellegrini claimed afterwards that Aguero was injured, which makes his performance even more remarkable, but said he was not surprised by his haul of goals.
"Sergio Aguero is different," Pellegrini said. "In other games he was maybe having a lot of chances but not scoring - today he returned to his normal amount of chances he creates, but this time he scored.
"He was not upset about going off. He was having treatment at half-time and it was a risk for him to finish the whole game."
Before Saturday, Aguero had scored one goal in 482 Premier League minutes this season, with a shot conversion of 6.25%
Against Newcastle he managed five in 66 minutes, with a shot conversion rate of 71%.
Aguero touched the ball nine times between the 42nd and 62nd minutes and scored with five of them for the fastest five-goal haul in Premier League history.
Newcastle have now won only one of their past 19 league games, and their failure to find a victory in any of their first eight matches of this campaign makes this their worst start to a season since 1898-99.
The Magpies could take plenty of encouragement from their 2-2 draw with defending champions Chelsea last week, but it was difficult to see any positives in their complete collapse at Etihad Stadium.
Boss Steve McClaren tried his best, pointing out that his side could have been 3-0 up before City and Aguero responded, but admitted they had no answer to the Argentina striker after the break.
"You are coming up against a top-quality team," McClaren told BBC Sport. "Aguero was world class. He is getting back to form and we were punished by a really high-quality opponent.
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"It was such a magnificent performance in the first half. it was same against Chelsea last week but in 13 minutes we got beaten by world-class individuals. We probably frightened them into life and they killed us for it.
"We have had a tough eight games but I have seen enough in the last two weeks that we can win football matches.
"We were unlucky last week and this week. There is enough in there, we just need consistency. Our season begins now."
After the international break, City have another home game, against Bournemouth, while Newcastle's search for a win will continue when they face Norwich at St James' Park on 18 October.
Match ends, Manchester City 6, Newcastle United 1.
Second Half ends, Manchester City 6, Newcastle United 1.
Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Florian Thauvin (Newcastle United).
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Kevin De Bruyne.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Eliaquim Mangala.
Foul by Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City).
Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Wilfried Bony (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cheick Tioté (Newcastle United).
Eliaquim Mangala (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Eliaquim Mangala (Manchester City).
Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Jamaal Lascelles.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) because of an injury.
Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City).
Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Wilfried Bony (Manchester City).
Cheick Tioté (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jesús Navas.
Substitution, Manchester City. Kelechi Iheanacho replaces David Silva.
Attempt missed. Wilfried Bony (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Aleksandar Kolarov with a cross.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Chancel Mbemba.
Attempt missed. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by David Silva following a corner.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Vurnon Anita.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Florian Thauvin replaces Yoan Gouffran.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Cheick Tioté replaces Moussa Sissoko.
Substitution, Manchester City. Wilfried Bony replaces Sergio Agüero.
David Silva (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Fabricio Coloccini (Newcastle United).
Goal! Manchester City 6, Newcastle United 1. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.
Goal! Manchester City 5, Newcastle United 1. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by David Silva with a through ball.
Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box. Assisted by Aleksandar Kolarov with a cross.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Moussa Sissoko (Newcastle United) because of an injury.
Foul by Eliaquim Mangala (Manchester City).
Moussa Sissoko (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Dywedodd Gweinidog Sgiliau Llywodraeth Cymru Julie James fod yn rhaid gwella'r wybodaeth sydd ar gael i bobl ifanc, a bod angen darparu gwybodaeth mewn ffordd sydd yn berthnasol i'r ganrif hon.
Ymhlith yr argymhellion mae sefydlu ap newydd er mwyn rhoi gwybodaeth i bobl ifanc sy'n gadael ysgol.
Yn ôl Ms James dyw'r ap presennol ddim yn addas ac fe fydd yn rhaid cael gwared ohono.
Dywedodd: "Mae na ddiffyg cyswllt gyda phobl ifanc, mae hynny yn broblem fawr i ni."
Dywedodd ymgynghorwyr o bartneriaethau sgiliau rhanbarthol Cymru wrth bwyllgor Sgiliau y Cynulliad fod cyngor gyrfaoedd "hen ffasiwn" ac roedd "canfyddiadau wedi eu dyddio" yn atal pobl ifanc rhag gwneud dewisiadau addas ar gyfer eu dyfodol.
Yn ôl yr arbenigwyr, mae yna bryder hefyd am brinder hyfforddwyr dwyieithog i ddarparu prentisiaethau iechyd a gofal yn enwedig yn y "cadarnleoedd Cymraeg".
Mae yna ddryswch hefyd ynglŷn â'r drefn darparu prentisiaethau, yn enwedig mewn ardaloedd yn agos at y ffin â Lloegr.
Fe rybuddiwyd hefyd bod angen herio'r canfyddiadau anghywir am brentisiaethau sydd gan athrawon a rhieni.
Yn ôl yr ystadegau diweddaraf mae cyllideb Gyrfa Cymru - sydd yn darparu cyngor ar yrfaoedd - wedi cael ei chwtogi yn llym.
Yn 2016-17 roedd gan y gwasanaeth gyllideb o £18m. Eleni mae gan Gyrfa Cymru £6m - gostyngiad o 66%.
Dywedodd y Gweinidog Sgiliau Julie James fod gan y gwasanaeth ddigon o arian ond bod "angen edrych eto ar gyfeirio eu hymdrechion".
"Fydda' i ddim yn hapus tan fod rhiant yn medru darganfod sut i gael prentisiaeth i'w plentyn yr un mor hawdd ac maen nhw'n medru dod o hyd i gwrs gradd mewn seicoleg."
The subsidies will be cut by 64%, although this is less than the previous proposal of an 87% reduction.
The cuts have been softened following a storm of criticism.
The government says large-scale solar farms are cost-competitive, but the sector says it is being forced to stand on its own feet before it is ready.
The industry is worried about a new government cap on the volume of solar installations.
UK Energy Secretary Amber Rudd said: "We have to get the balance right and I am clear that subsidies should be temporary, not part of a permanent business model.
"When the cost of technologies come down, so should the consumer-funded support".
However, Leonie Greene from the Solar Trade Association said: "We thought the government had listened more to our case. We are very disappointed".
Environmental group Friends of the Earth called the cuts a "hammer blow":
"The cuts come just a day after the government pushed through plans to allow fracking beneath National Parks and protected areas.
"It's outrageous that the government continues to hand out billions of pounds in subsidies every year to climate-wrecking fossil fuels, while trying to block the clean energy sources we urgently need."
Domestic solar subsidies were said to be costing households about £7 a year. The industry said the planned cuts announced in the summer have already cost 6,500 jobs.
The government estimates that between 9,700 and 18,700 solar jobs could be lost as a result of the changes to subsidies.
It says its main priorities are keeping the lights on and holding bills down. But its downgrading of renewables since the election has already deterred some investors from the UK.
Its squeeze on the solar industry has successfully reduced billpayer support, but industry sources say the manner in which it was performed has reduced investor confidence.
Now the former CBI chief, Lord Turner, has told the BBC that he fears a government rift over the low-carbon agenda which the UK backed at the Paris climate talks at the weekend.
Lord Turner, a former head of the government's advisory Climate Change Committee, said he believed that the Prime Minister was committed in his heart to tackling climate change along with the energy department DECC, but that the Treasury was not.
He said: "I would love - as someone who believes that we have to make better effective action on climate change - that George Osborne was more a believer of this in his heart and fundamentally I don't think he is."
Asked if that was a problem for public policy he said: "Yes I think it is. Within the combination of the departments in the UK government and the ministers in the UK government, it is the Treasury which is probably the one which we have to make sure does not undermine our commitment to achieving strong reduction in our carbon emissions."
A Treasury spokesman told the BBC he did not recognise Lord Turner's view. The government's policy, he said, was unified. The government has consistently said it would meet its commitments on carbon emissions.
But Lord Turner said the Treasury tried to weaken targets during discussion of the fourth of the "carbon budgets" mandated by the UK's world-leading Climate Change Act.
Mr Osborne has previously said he does not want the UK to lead the world in climate action unless other nations were making the same effort.
He has been under pressure from heavy industries, which said high energy prices caused in part by low-carbon policies were driving jobs abroad.
The chancellor is yet to comment publicly on the Paris summit which saw more than 180 governments promise to curb emissions of greenhouse gases.
Lord Turner - along with many industry analysts - supports reform of the unwieldy renewables subsidy system. But many say the cuts have driven away investors because support was withdrawn too suddenly.
One analysis from BBC News suggested that, even before the CCS cuts, the government had made many policy changes likely to increase carbon emissions.
Lord Turner criticises decisions such as the ending of the rule for new homes to be carbon neutral, and the scrapping of a £1bn support scheme for carbon capture and storage.
The Climate Change Committee will advise next year whether the UK's carbon targets need to be more rigorous following the decision of the Paris summit to hold the global temperature rise down to well below 2C, aspiring to 1.5C.
Lord Turner's interview will be broadcast on BBC News Channel "Hard Talk" programme at 10.30 on Thursday.
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The peace building project is set to be confirmed in the coming weeks as part of a £300m redevelopment of the 350-acre site near Lisburn.
Unionist critics say the planned centre will be a shrine to IRA prisoners.
But supporters argue that the project will create thousands of jobs.
The application for the European Peace Three money was submitted in January 2011 and confirmed - with conditions - in December.
A firm financial offer reached the office of the first and deputy first minister last week.
The money comes from the same European fund that provided £13m for the Peace Bridge over the River Foyle in Londonderry.
Since the Maze closed 12 years ago there has been a constant debate about how the extensive site should be used.
It was ear-marked for a new national sports stadium but the proposal was rejected after years of disagreement.
The conflict resolution centre will provide a place for visitors from around the world to exchange views on conflict transformation, a focus for education and research about the troubles together with exhibition space and an archive.
It is envisaged there will be input from ex-prisoners, prison officers and victims.
The centre will sit alongside a preserved H block and other buildings, including the chapel and the hospital where the hunger strikers died.
Unionists have been critical of the preserving of certain parts because of their significance to the republican movement.
Ten members of the IRA and INLA starved themselves to death in the Maze in 1981 and it was also the scene of their 'dirty protest'. Thirty-eight IRA prisoners also took part in the largest prison escape in British history in 1983.
The project's supporters portray it as an important building block in redeveloping an area twice the size of Belfast's Titanic Quarter - an investment which it is argued could generate as many as 5,000 jobs over the next 20 years.
No official announcement on the conflict transformation centre is expected until progress can also be confirmed on the Maze's wider economic regeneration.
That will include a planned move by the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society from Balmoral in south Belfast to a new Maze centre of rural excellence.
It's thought the first agricultural show could take place on the site of the former jail as early as next year.
The Mercedes driver's victory at Silverstone on Sunday was his fifth - and it moved him to within one point of Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in the championship.
"It has taken me a long time to get there but I am so proud to be up there with the greats," Hamilton said.
"Still a long, long way to go, so new heights hopefully will be set."
Hamilton was cheered throughout a dominant performance on Sunday as he took his fourth victory of the year and he crowd-surfed and high-fived the fans after coming off the podium before making an appearance on stage at the fan zone after completing his engineers debrief and media commitments.
"It is almost impossible to describe how amazing it is the reception from the crowd," he said.
"It spurs me on and pushes me and that love really inspired me this weekend. Anyone who was here or at home supporting me, I want them to know how grateful I am."
Hamilton was criticised in some sections of the media for missing an F1 promotional event in London on Wednesday that was attended by all 19 other drivers. He preferred to spend some days in Greece relaxing to get himself in the right mindset before coming to Silverstone.
"There is no reason to question my preparations," he said. "I have more poles than most. I am building up the wins that I have. My performance is second to none.
"If you don't know now that my preparation is mostly on point, than I guess you never will."
He added: "I did something I felt was right for me and I performed the best I have all year, in terms of the championship."
Hamilton cut his deficit to Vettel in the championship by 19 points after the Ferrari driver suffered a late puncture that dropped him from fourth to seventh.
"I did not expect to come away only one point behind," he said. "Maybe seven or 10 or 12. We kind of needed this today.
"I couldn't have dreamed or imagined today he would have the problem at the end. So to have that close up at the British Grand Prix, that's fantastic. So happy."
But he said it would be premature to call the British Grand Prix result a key moment of the season.
"It's difficult to ever say it's a turning point," he said. "Ultimately, there's constantly turns and the pendulum goes back and forth.
"Obviously the pendulum swung a little bit this weekend and I think that's only good for F1. It's only good for the fans, probably super-exciting for them to see the close battle that we're continuing to have.
"Without a doubt we hope it stays the way it's swung this time, but we're just hoping we can be on our toes to react to whatever is thrown at us in the next races."
Hamilton said he expected the title race to go to the final grand prix of the season.
"It's going to be a close race," he said. Its going right down to the wire, clearly."
Vettel said that Mercedes' upturn in pace in qualifying in the last four races had been a "game changer". But he added: "There is no reason to panic or to worry. but for sure we need to be aware. There are a couple of advantages we need to work on and then it could be a different picture."
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Mae nifer y bobl ifanc sy'n derbyn prentisiaethau yng Nghymru wedi gostwng 6% ers 2015, ac mae diffyg cyngor a gwybodaeth addas ar fai medd arbenigwyr.
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The Markit/CIPS purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell to 53.4 from 54.2 in October. A figure above 50 indicates expansion.
The weakening of the pound following the Brexit vote pushed up costs for manufacturers.
However, firms reported more demand from the US, Europe, and the Middle East for business.
A weak of the pound pushes up the cost of imports, but makes UK goods cheaper for overseas buyers.
The UK vote to leave the EU led to a sharp fall in the value of the pound against the dollar and the euro.
While the sector is "in good health", the weak pound has increased production costs, which has had a knock-on effect on the prices factories charge for goods, Markit said.
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Industry body EEF said that manufacturing, while still robust, had lost some momentum.
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In November, the Bank of England sharply raised its inflation forecast for next year. It expects inflation to hit 2.7% in 2017, compared with its current rate of 0.9%.
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Louise Wilkie, of the University of Aberdeen's museum team, was tasked with cleaning and sorting through a collection.
Her research led her to link the owner of the slippers and the famous French military leader's sister Princess Pauline Borghese.
The small silk and leather slippers are now on display.
The collection in question belonged to the Banff-born medical graduate and traveller Robert Wilson.
The slippers were in a chest of clothes and were marked on the sole with 'Pauline Rome'.
Ms Wilkie said: "Robert Wilson left his collection of objects from his extensive travels to the museum in his will in 1871.
"In a list of the objects donated by Wilson is the description of 'A pair of slippers - Pauline, Rome Jan 20th 1824'.
"I began to look at other archival material held by the university and found that Wilson had a friendship with Princess Pauline Borghese, the sister of Napoleon Bonaparte."
She explained: "Letters from him to Pauline show a close friendship and in his diary he describes how she spent a lot of time with him travelling in Italy and gave him many gifts, including a ring which is also held in the museum collections.
"The relationship between Wilson and Princess Pauline can only be speculated upon, however records do indicate some form of attraction and attachment.
"He kept the gifts she had given him for life and then they passed to the University collections.
"It is amazing to think the slippers have been here all this time but their significance was never fully realised. I was delighted to make a discovery of this kind."
Neil Curtis, head of museums at the University of Aberdeen, said: "The university holds huge collections and many of the items given to us over the years do not have full descriptions.
"It was a great piece of detective work from Louise to piece together the fascinating history behind the slippers.
"We are delighted that these significant objects are now on display and can be enjoyed by the public for the first time."
Her animal trainer-owner Kimberly Unger contacted the BBC after spotting Olivia in a news story about unusual pets.
A second raccoon, assumed to be Olivia, spotted being walked on a lead near Oxford Street, was in fact a young male racoon she owns called Winston.
But the undoubted star of her four-strong raccoon troupe is Melanie, who appeared in a TV talent show in 2013.
Melanie, her eldest, featured in Britain's Got Talent, aged one. She performed a series of actions to music, but failed to charm Simon Cowell, who buzzed her out of the TV show.
"Melanie did ever so well. She was rolling over, playing dead, climbing a ladder, but Simon didn't like the fact she wasn't dancing. Dancing wasn't part of her routine though, so that's not her fault," Miss Unger said.
Miss Unger, 35, has revealed Winston - who was photographed on a lead near Oxford Street on Friday - is a fidgety male who is a week younger than Olivia.
She said she had brought Winston to the capital from his home in Kent to help socialise him.
"They are highly intelligent and need a lot of mental and physical stimulation. They get easily bored, that's why it's good to take them out regularly," she said.
"London is a great place to take them to get them used to noise, traffic, people and different smells. If you do this from when they are young it doesn't stress them out."
She accepted some people would see her as eccentric but said she hoped to study captive raccoons to measure their intelligence, to help better protect the species.
She agreed with the RSPCA that raccoons were not suitable pets for most people because they demand a lot of attention.
A spokesman for the charity said: "We would strongly discourage anyone from buying or keeping them. Sadly, the needs of raccoons cannot adequately be met within typical household environments."
In the wild in their native North America raccoons have an average lifespan of between one to three years.
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More than 100 passengers were due to fly at 11:00 BST on Monday, but were told their flight was going to be late due to a "technical fault".
The flight, operated by Lithuanian airline Small Planet, was delayed several more times and eventually left at about 02:00 on Wednesday.
Small Planet apologised on Facebook for "all the inconveniences".
Paul Kenny, who booked the flight through tour operator Olympic Holidays, is among passengers who have now arrived at Corfu.
He said: "At first it was just the usual delay, we had been called to the departure gate. It was saying 'wait a couple more hours' - then two more hours before any more information.
"I think what people got angry about was there was never any detail. There was contradictory information on Twitter," Mr Kenny said.
"We stood around very patiently for long periods of time [on Tuesday] and there were raised voices at times, particularly yesterday morning. Bearing in mind we had been going 20 hours by then."
Mr Kenny said he and his family were determined to "make the most" of the remaining time left of their holiday.
"People just want to be sitting by the pool with a cold beer in their hands," he added. "Most families on this flight are only here for a week and this is the morning of our third day."
In a statement Small Planet apologised for passengers' inconvenience and stress and said this was "one of the most difficult technical situations we've experienced in some time".
The hydraulic system needed immediate repair, it said, adding: "flight safety is an absolute and foremost priority".
The firm "actively" looked for a replacement aircraft but no options were available until Wednesday, it said.
The statement added: "We made every effort to take care of [passengers] by organising welfare as well as hotels with meals and transportation so that they could wait for their flights as comfortably as possible."
Passengers can apply for compensation, according to EU261 rules, on the Small Planet website, a spokesperson added.
On arrival in Corfu, the delayed passengers were handed leaflets explaining how they could claim compensation, Mr Kenny said.
He added: "We have lost almost a third of our holiday, so a big chunk of it. We'll make the most of the holiday we have left and then I'll pick up the paperwork and the arguments when we get back."
Manchester Airport confirmed the delay was the longest passengers have had to endure there.
The Queen's granddaughter and Toytown won individual European eventing gold in 2005 and the world title in 2006.
Toytown was retired from equestrian competition in 2011.
"I'm heartbroken that I had to say goodbye to my greatest friend and horse of a lifetime, Toytown. He was the most incredible athlete with the biggest heart," a statement from Tindall said.
"He made my career and I couldn't be more grateful to him for the amazing times we had together. I will miss you forever."
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She bought Toytown as a seven-year-old in 1999, but injuries to the horse prevented them competing at the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games.
However, they won both European individual and team gold in 2005, followed by world individual gold and team silver the following year, and a European team gold in Italy in 2007.
Tindall's husband, and former England, Bath and Gloucester rugby player Mike, said on Twitter: "Sad to say goodbye to the big man today, been a massive part of our lives giving us so many highs!"
BBC Radio Gloucestershire's Paul Furley:
At the peak of their partnership in 2005 and 2006, they were unbeatable.
There should have been Olympic appearances, but twice injury was to deny Toytown a place on sport's grandest stage.
Toytown was retired on home turf at Gatcombe in 2011, but got his moment in the Olympic spotlight at Cheltenham Racecourse a year later during the Olympic Torch relay.
Ironically just a few weeks later, Zara Tindall competed at the London Olympics on High Kingdom, winning team silver, but it's Toytown who'll always be the horse associated with her.
As for the rest of an impressively strong field of 28 Englishmen, some are just pleased to be here. Especially, the two amateurs.
Hampshire's Harry Ellis, from Meon Valley, near Southampton, the newly crowned British Amateur champion, and Alfie Plant, from Bexleyheath, Kent, who qualified by winning the European Amateur Championship at Walton Heath a couple of weeks back.
There are five other Open debutants, Manchester's Haydn McCullen, three Yorkshiremen - Joe Dean, Nick McCarthy and Adam Hodkinson - and Sussex's Toby Tree.
After the battle Tree had to get through Final Qualifying at Hollinwell earlier this month, being at Birkdale should be a comparative breeze.
"Those last seven holes were stressful," Tree, 23, from Horsham, told BBC Radio Sussex. "I dropped a few shots so had a nervous wait. That first tee shot on Thursday at Birkdale can't be anywhere as pressurised.
"I used to play football more than golf. Then I started playing with my dad and won the English Boys Under-14s and thought I must be half decent.
"I turned pro two and a half years ago now, having got to 11 in the world [as an amateur] but my pro career hasn't really lived up to the heights I expected. Maybe this could be a stepping stone."
One player who has been to an Open before is Moor Park's Callum Shinkwin, 24, who missed the cut on his debut a year ago at Royal Troon.
Last weekend, just a few miles inland in Ayrshire, he left a six-foot putt short when he could have won the Scottish Open at Dundonald, losing in a play-off to Rafa Cabrera-Bello.
But apart from banking 680,000 euros and a rise up the world ranking from 405 to 158, Shinkwin did have one big consolation prize - one of the three spare places in the field.
"It's all a learning curve," he said. "Of course I was nervous. But you have to have luck. I hit a great second shot which finished in a divot on a downslope of the bank above the bunker. I had no shot, really. It wasn't there for me. But the consolation is I'm in the Open now."
Bath's Laurie Canter is another who has been at an Open before, when he shot rounds of 89 and 71 at St Andrews in 2010 to miss the cut by 14 shots on 16 over par and finish second last.
"I remember having a moment on the Thursday," he told BBC Points West. "I went into a Portaloo and was almost crying in there. It was quite a tough experience that. But I look back on it more fondly now."
Canter was once close to making it in another sport, playing county tennis for Avon, with whom he was in a team that played against Andy Murray - although not on the same court. "That story has snowballed a little bit," he smiles.
Canter is now clearly moving in more exalted circles, having received coaching over in America four times this year from Jordan Spieth's coach, Texas-based Cam McCormick.
It was back in 1992 when Nick Faldo became the last Englishman to win the Open and 1969 when Tony Jacklin became the last Englishman to do it in England at Royal Lytham & St Annes.
When the now 60-year-old six-time major winner rolled up at Royal Birkdale this week for TV commentating duties, Sir Nick said he was "very surprised" no English golfers had won the tournament in a quarter of a century.
It is not as if the country has not produced good golfers in all that time.
Westwood, playing his 23rd-straight Open this week, Rose, Luke Donald, Paul Casey and Poulter have all been Ryder Cup regulars and up at the top of the world rankings.
Rose even won England's first major since Faldo's time, the US Open at Merion 2013.
But apart from runners-up spots for Poulter, at Birkdale in 2008, and Westwood, at St Andrews in 2010, the closest anyone has got were the three players who have finished just a shot shy of a play-off.
It happened first in 2002 at Muirfield to the little-known Gary Evans, also from Sussex.
Then again in 2009 at Turnberry, where both Westwood and Chris Wood narrowly missed the play-off between Tom Watson and the winner Stewart Cink.
As the first Englishman to win a major title in 21 years, Rose's contribution to this country's golfing history is already assured. But it was at Royal Birkdale 15 years earlier when he first briefly took centre stage, as a 17-year-old amateur.
The chip he holed at the last for a birdie - and a tie for fourth place behind champion Mark O'Meara - is the stuff of Open folklore.
But he is not the only English amateur to have made headlines here. Chris Wood also won the Silver Medal here as top amateur 10 years later, tying for fifth, on 290 - eight strokes worse off than the four-round total recorded by Rose in 1998.
Had Rose, now England's top ranked golfer, the world number 14, compiled a four-round score of 282 again in 2008, incidentally, it would have won him the Open.
The 2008 champion Padraig Harrington's four-round score, in admittedly some fairly inclement weather conditions, was 283.
Royal Birkdale is one of only six golf courses in England to have staged the Open Championship - and the newest of the four currently on the rota.
Its famous iconic white clubhouse, built in the golden architectural age of Art Deco in 1935, first staged the annual event in 1954, when Australia's five-times Open winner Peter Thomson enjoyed the first of his two victories on the Southport course.
This will be the 10th Open at Royal Birkdale with Royal St George's in Kent due to stage the tournament in 2020.
Royal Liverpool, Hoylake, on the Wirral Peninsula, last held it in 2014, while Royal Lytham St Annes, further up the Lancashire coast, last hosted it in 2012.
The other two courses to have staged the Open are both in Kent, close to Sandwich, Royal Cinque Ports (in 1909 and 1920) and Prince's (in 1932).
Only 28 of the previous 145 Open Championships have been won by an English golfer, with Jersey-born Harry Vardon's six titles the most, ahead of JH Taylor (five), and Henry Cotton and Faldo, who have both won three.
The fifth English player to win the crown more than once was Harold Hilton in 1892 and 1897.
Click here to view the full list of Open winners.
Sturridge, 26, scored on his first Premier League start since October in Sunday's 6-0 win over Aston Villa.
It was only his sixth league appearance of a season interrupted by knee, foot and hamstring injuries.
"Any centre-half in the world would be worried coming up against him," said Henderson. "They know how quick he is, how sharp he is with the ball."
It has been reported that Sturridge, who has scored five goals in eight games in all competitions this term, wants to leave Anfield at the end of the season over criticism of his injury record.
"A lot gets said about him outside of our group," said midfielder Henderson.
"I know it hurts him and I know it is hard for him to take. He is doing things to try and get back.
"I have been with him a lot while he has been out. He doesn't want to be injured. He is more annoyed than anyone that he isn't playing.
"But now he is back, he has got a smile on his face and he has been world class."
Take a look at what has happened over the past decade. There has been a ban on smoking in public places, the introduction of graphic warnings on packs and a ban on shops displaying tobacco products.
Now it appears standardised packaging is going to be introduced, following hot-on-the heels of the decision last month to ban smoking in cars when children are present.
Some areas are even looking at banning smoking in squares and parks.
Only the home remains sacrosanct it seems - and smoking lobby group Forest has even wryly suggested that will be next on the hit list.
But do these measures work? A quick glance at the smoking rate can give the impression they don't.
Let's look at what has happened over the past 20 years. This is the period when governments have been particularly active.
In the mid 1990s 27% of people smoked. By 2013 that had fallen to 19%. By comparison, the 20 years before that - the mid 1970s to mid 1990s - saw the rate fall from 45%.
What is more, even this latest step is only likely to have a "modest" impact, according to Sir Cyril Chantler, the paediatrician who reviewed the evidence on standardised packaging for the government last year.
Does that mean that tough legislation doesn't work? Not necessarily. The proportion of smokers used to be so high that it was only natural as the evidence grew about the risks the numbers would fall relatively quickly.
What you are left with is the hard-core group of smokers. This is the point we have reached now - hence the desire among health experts to keep pushing for ever tougher measures.
Action on Smoking and Health's chief executive Deborah Arnott says: "I think we should consider what has happened for the last decade or two a real success. It gets harder as you go on, but the figures are still falling.
"It impossible to prove exactly what impact each piece of legislation has had and you have to see it all in context of the health awareness campaigns that have been run too. Whatever we are doing, it is working."
Focussing solely on the numbers of smokers also misses an important element of what campaigners and ministers are trying to achieve with the legislation.
Firstly, some of it has been aimed at reducing exposure to second-hand smoke - something that the smoking ban in public places certainly achieved, according to research published in 2011 by Stirling University.
Secondly, as well as reducing the numbers of people who smoke, the aim has been to stop people taking it up in the first place.
Since the 1970s, the proportion of the population which has never smoked increased from 37% to 58%.
And in recent years the progress in discouraging children from taking up smoking has been particularly impressive.
Between 1982 and 2006, the number of 15-year-olds who regular smoked hovered between 20% and 25%, according to the Health and Social Care Information Centre. Since then it has dropped to 8%.
This is what ministers and health campaigners call "denormalising" smoking - and in trying to achieve that goal, it could be said no stone is being left unturned.
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Neil Mahrer, from Jersey Heritage, is separating the hoard of about 70,000 coins, which have fused together after hundreds of years in the ground.
Jersey Heritage hopes to recruit more experts to help.
Mr Mahrer said if additional help could not be found it would limit how much could be achieved by one person.
He said: "We are hoping that we'll be allowed to get two new members of staff specifically to work with me on this and then we can do it as a three-year project.
"We want to put some of the material on show in an exhibition here [in Jersey] in 2014 so we have really got to make a start to try and free up some of this jewellery so we can see what we've got."
He also wants to examine a pottery vessel full of axe heads and other items found in Jersey earlier this year.
The two hoards of historic treasure are on display at the Jersey Museum this weekend, one for the first time and one for the last time.
The group of axe heads found in a pottery vessel has never been seen by the public before, and the hoard of Celtic coins will be seen for the last time before conservation experts take it apart.
While the hoard of coins has been on public display before, a Jersey Heritage spokesman said some islanders had still not seen it.
The coin hoard, discovered in a field, is thought to be worth about £10m.
Mr Mahrer said he would start separating the coins in the new year so this would be the last time anyone could see them as they were discovered.
Hundreds of public squares, streets, libraries and schools across Egypt are named after the couple.
Mr Mubarak's 29 years in power ended with his resignation in February after weeks of mass anti-government protests.
The 82-year-old is currently under arrest at a hospital in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
He is due to be questioned about allegations of corruption and alleged violence against protesters during the popular uprising.
Egypt's state news agency Mena reported on Thursday that his health is "unstable".
Portraits of the former president have already been taken down at public institutions across the country.
Ordering the same to be done for the Mubarak name, Judge Mohammed Hassan Omar said: "It has become clear that the size of the corruption that's being uncovered every day exceeds by far anyone's imagination."
After the ruling, the transport minister said the Mubarak name would be removed from all ministry facilities, including a major underground station in central Cairo.
There are suggestions for streets to be renamed after the people who were killed in the recent anti-government protests, the BBC's Yolande Knell in Cairo reports.
An Egyptian government fact-finding panel reported recently that at least 846 people were killed and 6,400 were injured during the 18 days of protests earlier this year.
The mission - consisting of a panel of judges - said security forces fired live ammunition, placed snipers on rooftops and used vehicles to run over protesters.
Mr Mubarak's two sons are among a growing number of ministers and officials from his ruling circle who are also facing investigation.
The bigger-than-expected shortfall was for the April-to-December period.
However, shares of Sharp surged about 26% ahead of its earnings release on reports it has entered into exclusive takeover talks with Taiwan's Foxconn.
The century-old company also has a competing offer from the state-backed investment fund Innovation Network Corp of Japan (INCJ).
There has been speculation that the Japanese government is keen to keep the company in local hands, given its proprietary technology.
Sharp, a major producer of display screens for smartphones, tablets and televisions, said it plans to make a decision within the month.
In 2012, Sharp nearly entered bankruptcy and has been saddled with heavy debts that required two major bailouts in the last four years.
A large part of this is due to its loss-making display panel business, which has struggled to compete against South Korean producers and cheaper Chinese rivals.
Foxconn Technology Group, which assembles most of the world's iPhones, initially offered about $5.3bn to take over Sharp before raising this to $5.9bn.
20 November 2015 Last updated at 12:51 GMT
Winnie the bear had lived most of her life in London Zoo.
Abigail Woods, professor in the history of human and animal health at King's College London, says Winnie would have been an important commercial attraction for the zoo.
"People would come to the zoo specifically to meet Winnie, to watch her playing, to have photographs taken with her, feed her honey," said Prof Woods.
The use of human names for animals was a way of helping visitors to connect with animals, "not to see them as wild animals, but as friendly companions".
And when zoo animals died, their bodies were sought after as being "very valuable for scientific research", said Prof Woods, who is researching the relationship between human and animal health.
The visitors had the better chances to win the game before going down to 10 men, Tom Barkhuizen and Alan Browne both going close in the first half.
Pearson was sent off for a second booking on 60 minutes.
Leeds striker Chris Wood had a number of chances before Preston's Josh Harrop hit the bar in stoppage time.
It was the first time Leeds had failed to score since 17 April, having scored seven goals in their opening two games this season.
New Zealand international Wood forced Chris Maxwell into a fine second-half save and failed to put away a Cameron Borthwick-Johnson cross before chances for Stuart Dallas and Pablo Hernandez.
But Preston - who have now won only one of their last nine league visits to Elland Road - could have come away an unlikely three points had Felix Wiedwald not got a finger to Harrop's shot and tipped it onto the woodwork.
Leeds United head coach Thomas Christiansen:
"When you play for that amount of time with one player more and do not win, it is an opportunity lost.
"We have to impose ourselves on our home ground and we did not do that in the first half.
"We gave the ball away too easily and when you play against a good team you suffer. We did not have the speed in the game that we should."
Preston manager Alex Neil:
"For 60 minutes I thought we were great and were the better side. We controlled the ball, we were aggressive. I thought we dominated which was really pleasing.
"Once we went down to 10 men we had to change our approach. They had a man more and that makes it more difficult for us to press.
"The lads worked extremely hard and kept their shape and discipline. They showed just how much it means to them individually and collectively."
Match ends, Leeds United 0, Preston North End 0.
Second Half ends, Leeds United 0, Preston North End 0.
Corner, Preston North End. Conceded by Stuart Dallas.
Attempt blocked. Josh Harrop (Preston North End) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul Gallagher.
Offside, Leeds United. Liam Cooper tries a through ball, but Stuart Dallas is caught offside.
Foul by Pontus Jansson (Leeds United).
Jordan Hugill (Preston North End) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Callum Robinson.
Substitution, Preston North End. Paul Gallagher replaces Alan Browne because of an injury.
Attempt blocked. Ronaldo Vieira (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Samuel Sáiz.
Foul by Ronaldo Vieira (Leeds United).
Jordan Hugill (Preston North End) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Chris Wood (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Samuel Sáiz with a cross.
Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Chris Maxwell.
Attempt saved. Pablo Hernández (Leeds United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Stuart Dallas (Leeds United) header from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ezgjan Alioski with a cross.
Substitution, Leeds United. Stuart Dallas replaces Cameron Borthwick-Jackson.
Attempt missed. Liam Cooper (Leeds United) header from the left side of the six yard box misses to the right. Assisted by Pablo Hernández with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Daniel Johnson.
Attempt blocked. Pablo Hernández (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Chris Wood.
Attempt saved. Samuel Sáiz (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ronaldo Vieira.
Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Greg Cunningham.
Samuel Sáiz (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Thomas Spurr (Preston North End).
Ronaldo Vieira (Leeds United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ronaldo Vieira (Leeds United).
Daniel Johnson (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Chris Wood (Leeds United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Hernández with a through ball.
Foul by Cameron Borthwick-Jackson (Leeds United).
Darnell Fisher (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Liam Cooper (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Hugill (Preston North End).
Attempt blocked. Ezgjan Alioski (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Eunan O'Kane.
Foul by Liam Cooper (Leeds United).
Darnell Fisher (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Greg Cunningham (Preston North End) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ezgjan Alioski (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Greg Cunningham (Preston North End).
Attempt missed. Chris Wood (Leeds United) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Cameron Borthwick-Jackson with a cross.
Substitution, Preston North End. Josh Harrop replaces Tom Barkhuizen because of an injury.
The woman heard Alex Doyle, 23, and Zoe Paton, 21, talking in their parked car in Launceston, Cornwall.
Unemployed Mr Doyle was apologising to his girlfriend of two months for not being able to afford to take her out for an official first date.
The passerby insisted on giving them £50 so they could "make some memories".
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Mr Doyle, who has been unemployed two months, said he was so overwhelmed by the kind gesture that he cried and was unable to thank the stranger properly.
He said although his girlfriend works he did not want to go on a date until he could afford to pay for it, and he "felt really bad" that he could not do so.
The couple were parked by Roadford Lake and Miss Paton was telling him "it felt like he had given up looking for work".
The car window was slightly open and the woman approached the car saying she had overheard them and wanted to give them some money.
The pair spent the money on a meal in Plymouth and a trip to the cinema to see Ouija: Origin of Evil.
Mr Doyle says he wants to thank their benefactor for her generosity.
Sport Wales' latest Active Adults survey showed 41% of adults are "hooked on sport" - take part three or more times a week - up from 39% in 2013 and 29% in 2008.
About 67% of those not already "hooked" would like to do more sport, the survey found.
More than 8,000 people aged 15 and over were interviewed as part of the study.
While the survey showed volunteers had fallen slightly from 10% of adults in 2012 to 9% in 2015, there had been a 25% increase in hours volunteered.
However, it found there are still gaps in participation between males (46%) and females (35%), disabled (29%) and non-disabled (48%).
The study also showed those from Wales' most deprived areas are less likely to be hooked, with 39% of people taking part in a sport.
Sport Wales chief executive Sarah Powell said: "What these results show is that we have been successful in sustaining the incredible swell in numbers of volunteers and participants which followed the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics."
But she said they needed to "continue to evolve our approach" to make sure there was sport on offer for everyone's needs.
If you've been inspired to get involved in sport, you can see our full list of activity guides or try our Activity Finder to find events and activities near you.
But attempts to land may face a major hazard: jagged "blades" of ice up to 10m long.
A major US conference has heard the moon may have ideal conditions for icy spikes called "penitentes" to form.
Scientists would like to send a lander down to sample surface regions where water wells up through the icy crust.
These areas could allow a robotic probe to sample a proxy for ocean water that lies several kilometres deep.
Details of the penitentes theory were announced as scientists outlined another proposal to explore the jovian moon with robotic spacecraft.
On Earth, these features (so named because of their resemblance to the pointed caps worn by "penitents" in Easter processions around the Spanish-speaking world) form in high altitude regions such as the Andes.
Here, the air is both cold and dry, allowing ice to sublimate (turn from a solid into vapour without passing through a liquid phase).
Penitentes begin to form when irregularities in the surface of the snow are enhanced by the Sun's energy. These furrows then act as a trap for solar radiation, and, as they deepen, the tall peaks are left behind.
Dr Daniel Hobley, from the University of Colorado, who presented his research at the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas on Tuesday, said the formation of penitentes also required the Sun to be overhead as much as possible.
Jupiter's moon
"Light coming in at a high angle will illuminate the sides of the blades, causing them to retreat away," he explained.
On Earth, this restricts them to between 30 degrees latitude from the equator.
"Europa is very strongly tidally locked to Jupiter and Jupiter is very strongly tidally locked to the plane of the Sun. So the Sun is always coming down straight from above on Europa," said Dr Hobley, so the moon fulfils this requirement nicely.
He added: "You need a strong thermal gradient between the spike at the top of the penitente and the pit at the bottom. So any mechanism that acts to suppress that, i.e. warm cloudy days - or hot air - will also kill them."
With its negligible atmosphere, this wouldn't be a problem on Europa, suggesting the moon could have more or less ideal conditions for the formation of these icy blades.
"From our point of view, if the surface of Europa is subliming - if it is being sculpted by the sunlight - it will form these features," Dr Hobley told BBC News.
"The question then becomes: can it sublime the ice to produce these features faster than other processes that might erode the surface."
Using the angle of the Sun, the team was able to estimate temperatures on Europa's surface. This in turn allowed them to calculate that penitentes are probably restricted to between 15 and 20 degrees latitude from the equator. They also estimate that the penitentes within this region are likely to be between 1m and 10m in depth.
Outside this region of latitude, other erosional processes can outcompete penitente formation. These include "sputtering" erosion - the bombardment of the surface by very fast charged particles (a process similar to sandblasting) - and impacts by meteorites.
But Dr Hobley added: "We are expecting a band around the equator where it is… spiky."
There is a limit to the lifetime of these features: Europa's surface is relatively young, having been resurfaced by currently unknown processes some 50 million years ago.
"If we're on crust that's about 50 million years old and we're near the equator within the plus minus 20 degree latitude band, we're expecting to get 5m deep, spiky things that you really wouldn't want to send a lander onto."
Regions of the icy crust may also "wander" from their original location. This could transport penitentes beyond the ideal latitude band, but may also limit their formation.
Dr Javier Corripio, a glaciologist who has studied the formations in the Andes, said Dr Hobley had come up with an "interesting hypothesis".
However, he highlighted a potential problem. During the formation of penitentes, the furrows deepen such that they are sufficiently sheltered from the wind for melting to occur - which helps further deepen the depressions.
Dr Corripio told BBC News: "I have always seen some melting at the bottom of the penitentes, and never found them in very cold snowpacks, which is the case on Europa."
He suggested that another process could be active on Europa's surface: "Since temperature and atmospheric pressure are very low, sublimation rates are also very low. Then, vapour may simply migrate from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure, causing a very slow growth of snow crystals."
But he added: "In any case, it is a situation worth considering for future missions to that moon."
Indeed, Dr Hobley may have a way of testing the idea. Because of the way the Sun moves across the sky, penitentes should be oriented in an east-west direction. This might be visible as a polarisation in measurements of the surface.
Dr Hobley pointed out that there was a band around the moon's equator that is "anomalously cold", which means that it holds on to heat better than other regions of the surface.
Penitentes may or may not provide an explanation, but heat would tend to bounce around the blades rather than being fired back out.
In the near-term, scientists would like to send a lander to the surface to "taste" the ice in regions where liquid water surges up to Europa's surface from the vast ocean beneath. A study released this month found further, strong evidence that salty water makes its way out to Europa's frozen exterior.
Co-author Mike Brown from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) said: "We now have evidence that Europa's ocean is not isolated - that the ocean and the surface talk to each other and exchange chemicals."
He added: "If you'd like to know what's in the ocean, you can just go to the surface and scrape some off."
Nasa had planned an orbiter mission with Europe's space agency, called the Europa-Jupiter System Mission (EJSM) to have launched in 2020. But the project was abandoned because of budgetary concerns.
At the LPSC, US researchers associated with the EJSM outlined details for another proposal to explore the jovian moon. Europe also hopes to salvage something from the EJSM work through a mission called Juice.
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Concerns were raised over leadership, patients being treated in corridors and a shortage of consultants.
The trust is already in special measures and must remain so for a further three to six months, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) said.
The trust said it accepted the findings and that a new leadership team was "determined to put things right".
The trust, which was placed in special measures in December 2015, runs Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Kidderminster Hospital and Treatment Centre and Alexandra Hospital, Redditch.
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Inspectors said there had been "little evidence of improvement" adding, "rather than getting better, our latest inspection shows a noticeable decline in ratings".
However, it said generally, staff were hard-working, passionate and caring and because of that the trust was rated as good for caring.
The trust's chief executive, Michelle McKay, said: "We are working hard to make the necessary improvements to make our services consistently better and safer and ensure that quality improvement is part of our daily business."
Improvements had been made since the inspection, she said.
The trust was told to make significant improvements around staffing and governance in January and the result of further inspections around those issues is due in July, the CQC said.
Issues highlighted by inspectors:
Maude White was found dead at the Wyndham Hall Caravan Park at Cockermouth on 27 May last year.
Her 72-year-old son-in-law Peter Fairclough and his 43-year-old daughter Jacqueline Fairclough are each charged with manslaughter.
They appeared at Carlisle Crown Court, where they were bailed ahead of a trial which is due to take place in November.
In an end-of-season questionnaire, supporters are being asked if the change would make them more likely - or less likely - to attend matches.
Warwickshire are the only first-class county to play under a different name - Birmingham Bears - in T20 cricket.
"We just wanted to put it out there to get people talking about it. This issue comes up again and again," club chief executive Will Brown said.
Gloucestershire are based at the County Ground in Bristol, with Cheltenham the only other venue in the county currently used for matches.
"We want people's suggestions and opinions," Brown told BBC Radio Gloucestershire. "I'm not sure how it would change Gloucestershire - but other counties have done it.
"I would be extremely surprised if it happened, though. We have a unique problem in that we've been playing in Bristol for 126 years and I don't think there is enough awareness of that.
"My natural inclination and gut feeling is that it shouldn't change - but we'll see what the fans have to say. Ultimately, we are a membership society and members have the final say."
Glamorgan rebranded themselves as Welsh Dragons for limited-overs cricket in 2012, but reverted to their county name for all forms of the game after only one season.
Kasabian Newton-Smith, eight, was diagnosed with cancer at the age of two and has two inoperable brain tumours.
Football teams, players and individuals are being asked to tweet with #1LastSmile4Kasabian.
His father Simon Newton-Smith said: "I just hope he is awake enough to know if he meets Wayne Rooney."
The organisation Grassroots Football said: "We appeal to the entire footballing world to join together and send Kasabian 1 last smile."
People are being encouraged to wear a football strip, hold one finger in the air and smile for a photograph.
Billy Sharp, who plays for Sheffield United, has tweeted a picture using #1LastSmile4Kasabian featuring Manchester United star Wayne Rooney and Liverpool's Adam Lallana.
Kasabian, from Parson Cross, Sheffield, has been diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma and has had 111 radiation treatments.
He has been treated for five other tumours in six years.
He is now confined to bed at home and his family celebrated his ninth birthday, which was to be in December, early.
His mother Kay said the campaign was the idea of some friends who wanted to give her son "one last smile" and meet the England player.
Kasabian had "desperately" wanted to follow in his big brother's footsteps and play football and he had three games for Southy Wolves U10's, his father said.
Watching him play football "was a dream", Mr Newton-Smith said.
Kasabian has seen one Manchester United game at Old Trafford and "absolutely loved it" his dad said.
The young boy, who has six brothers and sisters, has previously taken part in fundraising efforts for Sheffield Children's Hospital and cancer charities.
The BBC has contacted Wayne Rooney's management for a comment.
A judge was told the possibility of Avoniel Primary School instead being amalgamated with nearby Elmgrove Primary was never properly considered.
A barrister for the school said: "It was the solution that dare not speak its name."
Education Minister John O'Dowd announced the school's closure in May.
A judicial review challenge has been brought on behalf of one child at the school with special educational needs.
With the school set to shut at the end of this month, lawyers for the child want the court to overturn Mr O'Dowd's decision.
Mr O'Dowd announced its closure as part of a rationalisation process that will see increased admissions and enrolment at Elmgrove.
Parents of pupils at Avoniel reacted with anger to the decision, claiming they have been left with little time to find a new school by September.
Lawyers representing the pupil claimed that the minister's decision should be quashed because a prior consultation process by the Belfast Education and Library Board was not properly or fairly conducted.
According to their case the parents believe that when this exercise was carried out, back in 2014, the board's proposals were already at an advanced stage.
The barrister told the court that Avoniel had been performing well.
"This is not some sink school, the closure of which is inevitably going to save pupils therein from further bad education. This is a good school," the barrister said.
Alleged failures by the education authorities to consider and consult on the possibility of amalgamation rendered the whole process flawed, it was claimed.
Accusing the board of "dismissively" turning its back on the option, the barrister added: "They treated it with disdain."
He contended that an expanded Elmgrove could ultimately end up moving into new or refurbished buildings on Avoniel's current site.
The barrister urged a judge to quash the outcome reached.
"This consultation process was flawed, and resulted in a flawed decision by the Minister," he said.
However, Attorney General John Larkin QC, representing the minister, questioned the merits of the legal challenge.
"This is an application characterised by needlessness and utter pointlessness," he said.
"It cannot achieve any substantive advantage to the applicant."
He also said the minister was never misled during the process.
The hearing continues.
The Cobblers, with seven straight league wins, face Oxford on Tuesday.
"We've tried to get into the players that you only get accolades for working hard," Knill told BBC Look East.
"We believe we work as hard as, if not more than, any other team in the league. The minute we stop that we're not a top-seven team."
He continued: "If anything our training is becoming more intense. We just felt we needed that. Instead of easing off we'll go the other way and keep the hammer down and push the players even more.
"We've worked so hard to get into this position, the last thing we want to do is let it go."
Saturday's 4-0 victory over play-off hopefuls Leyton Orient came before a clash against third-placed Oxford, the side manager Chris Wilder was in charge of before he moved to Sixfields Stadium.
Earlier this season, the Cobblers faced an uncertain future, with players and staff not being paid by the club and the fourth division side itself facing a winding-up petition before Kelvin Thomas' takeover in late November.
Despite the off-field issues, the Cobblers continued a push towards promotion.
"This season, especially the last three months, has been really enjoyable. The players are playing with a real freedom and we are scoring goals," said Knill.
"Myself and Chris have walked off a couple of times and said to each other 'I really enjoyed that today'."
For more than a decade, the BBC Home Affairs Unit has monitored every single terrorist incident, attempted or failed, that has made it into the public domain.
Quite simply, most of the people we have seen dragged through the courts are not capable of this kind of incident.
Many aspire to "martyrdom" and talk about building bombs.
But they are either, to be frank, too stupid and disorganised to turn their fantasies into reality or, alternatively, they get caught because they don't know how to cover their tracks.
Most jihadists discount a bomb attack at the early stages: they realise that it's too difficult to pull off.
They might accidentally kill themselves while making the device.
Their purchasing patterns might raise suspicions in a local pharmacy or, online, prompt GCHQ to have a closer look at their digital life.
They may turn to someone else for help who, unbeknown to both, is already on the MI5 radar.
And so, as the 2013 killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby showed - exactly four years before the Manchester attack - most aspiring attackers opt for a different course.
Vehicles and knives became the weapons of choice.
We saw it in 2014 when a London man planned a knife attack to coincide with the annual act of remembrance.
We saw it again with the Khalid Masood Westminster attack.
But while knives and vehicles - and to a lesser extent guns - have featured in recent terrorism plots, there are people who still want to build bombs to attack crowded places.
Just recently, the younger brother of the man in the Remembrance Sunday incident pleaded guilty to trying to find bomb-making help - and one of his potential targets was an Elton John concert.
So the big question for investigators is given that bomb-making requires expertise, how did the attacker, 22-year-old Salman Abedi, get hold of such a device?
As Tuesday dawned, there were three possibilities:
If Abedi was taught, this could point to someone who has returned from so-called Islamic State territory in Syria and Iraq or another jiahdist theatre, such as Libya, where his father is from.
The militants have constructed devices involving the type of DIY shrapnel of metal nuts that has been reported from the scene at the Manchester Arena.
Al-Qaeda and its offshoots have deployed those devices too. Reaching those camps is a harder journey to make - but don't rule it out.
Either way, these are sophisticated devices, particularly if made to a well-known recipe that is circulated among extremists.
It takes engineering skill. Sometimes the process of making a bomb can't easily be hidden. For instance, the 7/7 devices contained a chemical that bleached the hair of one of the bomb-makers. The fumes can kill plants.
So if Abedi taught himself, how did he go about it in complete secrecy?
Such an outcome would demonstrate how difficult it is to learn about a threat if the individual is acting entirely alone and taking exceptionally well planned precautions to avoid surveillance.
It's not hard to find bomb-making plans online - don't go looking, it's an offence to possess this information - but many of them are useless.
So, again, the attacker would have spent some time thinking and planning this - and that reduces the likelihood that he was acting entirely alone.
The third scenario is the worst-possible because it would point to an active bomb-making technician on the loose in the UK.
Someone who is completely beneath the security services radar.
Someone who has found ways of reaching out to potential recruits without compromising themselves.
Someone who could strike again.
That, of course, is quite a worrying prospect - but by the end of Tuesday, security chiefs could not rule it out. So they had no choice but to raise the official "threat level", published by MI5, to the maximum level of "critical".
That means an attack may be imminent. Nobody can say for sure because the intelligence business involves glimpsing at things in the shadows, hints and suspicions.
It's less of a jigsaw with missing pieces, it's more like an impressionist's picture: one can only ever see part of what's going on.
So, this is very much a manhunt for helpers - even though nobody may know for sure at this stage who, if anyone, they are actually hunting.
The police know the identity of the attacker - this was a very early breakthrough. It took days back in 2005 for the police to be sure who carried out the London attacks.
So as the hours progress, inside Thames House, the home of MI5, and its regional units, a large post-incident operation will be under way. Officers, supported by GCHQ and where necessary counterparts in foreign agencies, will be examining any piece of intelligence to build up a greater sense of the attacker, his life and those around him.
The North West Counter Terrorism Unit, a joint team of MI5 and police officers, will be looking at anything they can glean from the attacker's own devices. Search teams will identify addresses to search - two have already been raided.
Experts from the national Forensic Explosives Laboratory in Kent will begin the astonishingly difficult work of recovering the remains of the device so they can reconstruct it. These scientists have performed this task on every bomb recovered in modern times.
What they find may, in time, yield vital intelligence - such as the origins of the bomb recipe or its technical construction.
Those details will in turn create new leads - perhaps linking the attacker to a specific group in a specific location: the British and US armed forces also recover remains of bombs overseas for analysis.
It may take months for the full picture to emerge.
But first things first: the race to work out if this killer was a lone wolf or part of a cell that's still out there.
The tribute was made in front of thousands of fans during a concert Ms Carey gave in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
It is the latest sign the singer is in a serious relationship with Mr Packer, one of Australia's most powerful businessmen.
The pair were photographed cruising the Mediterranean last month on Mr Packer's super yacht, with Ms Carey's children.
"I have a new heart tonight," the 45-year-old singer said at the concert.
"James is in the house. Thank you so much," she said, according to concert footage published by celebrity website TMZ.
Mr Packer, 47, is Australia's fourth richest person, according to Forbes magazine, with an estimated wealth of more than A$6bn ($4.7bn £3bn).
Mr Packer, who inherited an Australian media empire from his father Kerry Packer, and now operates casinos, split from his second wife model and singer Erica Baxter in 2013.
Ms Carey announced her break-up from "America's Got Talent" host Nick Cannon, last year.
The love ballad 'Hero' about finding a hero inside yourself earned the singer a Grammy nomination for best female pop vocal performance in 1994.
The couple went public with their relationship last month after they were seen strolling hand-in-hand around the famous holiday town of Capri in Italy.
Dami Im's song, Sound Of Silence, features the lyric "trying to feel your love through face time," which some have interpreted as a reference to Apple's video-chat service FaceTime.
Eurovision rules prohibit "messages promoting any political cause, company, brand, products or services".
But organisers say the lyrics do not make specific reference to Apple's app.
"The lyrics of the Australian song are presented as two separate words, 'face time' and not FaceTime which is an Apple trademark," said the Eurovision Song Contest Reference Group, which rules on such disputes.
"The Merriam-Webster dictionary refers to 'face time' as 'time spent meeting with someone'... so in this case the song lyrics have been cleared."
In previous years, entrants have been forced to rewrite songs which fell foul of the Eurovision rulebook.
San Marino's 2012 entry, Facebook Uh, Oh, Oh (A Satirical Song) was renamed The Social Network Song (Oh Oh Uh Oh Oh) after organisers intervened.
And in 2005, Ukraine had to rewrite the lyrics to Razom Nas Bagato!, which had become the anthem of the country's "orange revolution" a year earlier.
The song, whose title translated as Together We Are Many!, included such phrases as "Yushchenko - yes! Yushchenko - yes! This is our president - yes, yes!"
Dami Im, a former winner of X Factor Australia, will perform her song at the second Eurovision semi-final on 12 May in Stockholm.
The country was first admitted to the contest last year as part of its 60th anniversary celebrations, with Guy Sebastian eventually taking fifth place.
Eurovision says Australia's continued involvement is an "exciting step" towards making the contest "a truly global event".
The UK will be represented by pop duo Joe and Jake, both of whom appeared on last year's series of The Voice UK.
Their track, You're Not Alone, is considered an outsider to win the contest - with odds of 50/1 at bookmakers William Hill and Paddy Power.
The trial was told the 38-year-old, from Eskdale Gardens in Belfast, grabbed the woman by her hair and tried to throw her down stairs in September.
The ex-WBU welterweight title holder was given the maximum sentence for the offence, but was released on bail pending an appeal.
He was ordered to stay at an address in Hull pending the appeal.
Magee was also banned from any contact with the victim and banned from taking alcohol.
The victim of the attack, Maria Magill, had been in a relationship with Magee for six years.
She said he attacked her after the couple had been out at a concert and then drinking in a bar last September.
In her evidence to Belfast Magistrates Court, she said they returned to a flat at Glenview Street where Magee asked her to get into bed and then demanded to see her mobile phone to check if another man had been contacting her.
She claimed he grabbed her by the hair, slapped her and trailed out of the room before attempting to throw her down a flight of stairs.
Judge Thokozile Masipa said the athlete had acted "negligently" when he fired shots through a toilet door, but in the "belief that there was an intruder".
She said the state had failed to prove he intended to kill Reeva Steenkamp.
The judge allowed Pistorius to remain on bail ahead of sentencing which is to take place on 13 October.
The victim's parents, June and Barry Steenkamp, condemned the verdict, saying it was "not justice for Reeva".
Speaking in an interview with NBC News, June Steenkamp said: "He shot through the door and I can't believe that they believe it was an accident."
However Arnold Pistorius, the athlete's uncle, said the family was "deeply grateful" to the judge for finding him not guilty of murder and that a "big burden" had been lifted.
"There are no victors in this," he added. "We as a family remain deeply affected by the devastating, tragic event... It won't bring Reeva back but our hearts still go out for her family and friends."
South Africa's prosecuting authority said it was "disappointed" Pistorius was not convicted of murder but said it would wait until after sentencing to decide whether to appeal.
The verdict leaves the disgraced sprinter facing up to 15 years in jail, although the judge could suspend the sentence or only impose a fine.
The BBC's Nomsa Maseko said there was a poignant moment in court when Oscar Pistorius's father and Reeva Steenkamp's father hugged each other as the judge adjourned to consider bail.
The athlete was also found guilty on a charge of negligently handling a firearm that went off in a restaurant.
At the scene: Pumza Fihlani, BBC News
Oscar Pistorius was a picture of composure as the judge announced he was guilty of culpable homicide, a lesser count of murder in South Africa.
The athlete, who became emotional on Thursday after being described as an "evasive witness", seemed to have been expecting this verdict. The judge had already spoken of his negligence and use of "excessive force" when he fired through the door.
Some say this verdict is the best outcome he could have hoped for.
Many South Africans have questioned the judge's decision to acquit him of murder and argue that the prosecution may have grounds to appeal.
For now, the Pistorius family seem relieved. But in the benches opposite them, friends and relatives of model Reeva Steenkamp wept, while others, including her mother June, seemed shell-shocked.
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Mr Pistorius said he and Ms Steenkamp had dinner at about 19:00 before going to bed at 21:00. He said he woke in the early hours, spoke briefly to his girlfriend and got up to close the sliding door and curtains.
Judge Thokozile Masipa questioned the reliability of several witnesses who said they heard screams and gunshots between about 03:12 and 03:17, saying most had 'got facts wrong'.
Mr Pistorius said he heard the bathroom window sliding open and believed that an intruder, or intruders, had entered the bathroom through a window which was not fitted with burglar bars.
Mr Pistorius said he grabbed his firearm and told Ms Steenkamp, who he thought was still in bed, to call the police.
The judge said it made no sense that Ms Steenkamp did not hear him scream 'Get out' or call the police, as she had her mobile phone with her.
Mr Pistorius could see the bathroom window was open and toilet door closed. He said he did not know whether the intruders were outside on a ladder or in the toilet.
He had his firearm in front of him, he heard a movement inside the toilet and thought whoever was inside was coming out to attack him.
'Before I knew it, I had fired four shots at the door,' he said.
The judge said she did not accept that Mr Pistorius fired the gun by accident or before he knew what was happening. She said he had armed himself with a lethal weapon and clearly wanted to use it. The other question, she said, was why he fired not one, but four shots before he ran back to the room to try to find Ms Steenkamp.
Mr Pistorius said he went back to the bedroom and noticed that Ms Steenkamp was not there.
Mr Pistorius said this was when he realised she could have been in the toilet and rushed back to the bathroom.
Mr Pistorius said he screamed for help and went back to the bathroom where he found the toilet was locked. He returned to the bedroom, pulled on his prosthetic legs and turned on the lights before bashing in the toilet door with a cricket bat.
When the door panel broke, he found the key and unlocked the door and found Ms Steenkamp slumped on the floor with her head on the toilet bowl. He then carried her downstairs, where he was met by neighbours.
The double amputee had denied murdering Ms Steenkamp after a row on Valentine's Day last year, saying he shot her by mistake.
With this the judge agreed, saying "it cannot be said that the accused did not entertain a genuine belief that there was an intruder".
But she said: "The accused knew there was a person behind the toilet door, he chose to use a firearm.
"I am of the view the accused acted too hastily and used too much force. It is clear his conduct is negligent."
Pistorius was convicted on an unrelated firearms charge - negligently handling a firearm that went off in a crowded restaurant.
He was acquitted of another charge of firing a gun in public, through the sunroof of a car, and of a charge of illegal possession of ammunition in the home where he killed Ms Steenkamp.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a dual Russian and British citizen, collapsed in Moscow last Tuesday. The 33-year-old was in a coma for almost a week and has been diagnosed with acute kidney failure.
He has now regained consciousness but still has difficulty communicating; tests to determine what caused his mysterious illness are continuing.
"He was perfectly healthy before, he'd had no chronic illnesses," the activist's father, also Vladimir, says. "It's clear he's been poisoned. But by what or who, we don't know."
Vladimir Kara-Murza was a close friend of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead in Moscow in February.
The chief doctor at the Moscow hospital treating Mr Kara-Murza told the BBC that tests revealed traces of an antidepressant.
He speculated that the citalopram, which the activist was taking, may have accumulated in his body if he had a prior, undetected kidney problem.
It may also have reacted with an antihistamine Mr Kara-Murza used for hay fever.
His family are sceptical.
"It was just a nasal spray," his father points out, unconvinced that a few drops could have triggered the "nuclear explosion" in his son's kidneys.
Other doctors also say his symptoms are not typical of a citalopram overdose.
"It is not the usual picture, whether an overdose is deliberate or inadvertent," believes Eran Segal. Called in by family friends, the Israeli doctor examined the activist shortly after he was rushed to hospital.
"It could be a severe infection or maybe some other toxin we are not aware of," Dr Segal told the BBC. "But there is no evidence of the cause."
After living abroad for some years, Vladimir Kara-Murza now works for the opposition organisation Open Russia run by oligarch-in-exile Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
His most recent Facebook post is an advert for an Open Russia film alleging serious human rights abuses and corruption in Chechnya.
His father says he was chief "organiser" of the project, but never mentioned receiving any threats.
While the "picture" of symptoms in such a young man is unusual, Dr Segal stresses that it is not necessarily suspicious.
But a long history of mysterious deaths linked to Russia is fuelling the family's doubts.
Just last month an inquest in the UK heard that traces of a rare plant poison had been detected in the stomach of Russian businessman Alexander Perepilichny.
A whistleblower in a major tax fraud investigation, his sudden death in 2012 had long been considered suspicious.
So, the Kara-Murza family has sent samples of Vladimir's nails and beard hair to four countries for analysis. Tests so far have not detected toxins.
"Maybe they've thought up some new poison," Mr Kara-Murza told the BBC.
"Or maybe it's a total coincidence: that a politician, an inconvenient one, was poisoned by some cocktail that had gone off," he added.
Though he rated the chances of that as one in a million, he stressed that such a scenario would be ideal.
"That means there's no threat to our family. We can walk the streets. My son doesn't have to leave the country," the father said.
"But if someone did want to frighten us," he said, "then they succeeded."
For the third time in a year-and-a-half, Marine Le Pen can legitimately say that her Front National (FN) is the country's most popular party.
It happened with the European elections, then with the departmentals - and now after round one of the regionals, the FN has once again outperformed both its rivals.
It is an astonishing performance for a party that until very recently was regarded as being beyond the pale.
The Paris attacks will have played a part in this.
The attacks propelled to the top of the national agenda issues of immigration and security that have always been the far right's strong card.
All the FN had to say was "we told you so" and it was hard for either the Socialists or Nicolas Sarkozy's Republicans to answer back.
But it would be wrong to ascribe Ms Le Pen's triumph solely to fears of terrorism.
Her party has been on a steady upward slope for four years.
The problems that worry voters are as much economic and social as they are security-related.
Barely reported in the heat of the attacks were the latest unemployment figures. After a brief respite, they have once again started to grow.
For more and more voters, the recipes offered by the two main parties are indistinguishable. There is a surly anti-establishment mood in the land, of which the National Front- a quintessential anti-establishment party - is taking full advantage.
Of course triumph for the FN will not necessarily translate into power.
The regional elections (like most French elections) are in two rounds. Next Sunday, voters may rally around the two main parties.
But in two regions - the north and on the Cote d'Azur - the National Front has smashed the opposition. In a third - Alsace - its chances are very strong. Others are not beyond reach.
The two main parties can take action to keep the FN out. The third-placed party in a region - either the Socialists or the Republicans - can step down and urge its voters to vote to stop the FN.
This has happened now in both the north and on the Cote d'Azur, where the third-placed Socialists have withdrawn their lists. This will make next Sunday's second round in these regions tighter - though the FN remains favourite.
But in Alsace, the Socialist is refusing to step down and elsewhere, Nicolas Sarkozy's Republicans are refusing to withdraw their third-placed lists. In most regions it will be a three-horse second round, splitting the anti-FN vote.
It is only by a twist of the electoral rules that this pattern cannot be repeated in the one election in France that really matters: the race for the presidency.
There, only two candidates qualify for the run-off. It is never a three-way fight.
So even if Marine Le Pen gets through to round two of the presidential election in May 2017, it is unlikely she would win. A majority would always combine to vote for the other candidate.
How relieved her rivals must be.
The 25-year-old Scot helped Rangers win the Scottish Championship title with six goals last season.
He has also played for Queen of the South and Peterhead after beginning his career at Aberdeen.
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Those on board had to be transferred on to the Trident VI, usually used for cruise ship visitors.
Trident V was towed back to Guernsey by the Harbours' boat, the Sarnia.
The boat company's managing director, Peter Wilcox, said a marine accidents investigation would be carried out into the incident.
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The research compared two identical surveys, 20 years apart, that measured the health of people aged 65 or older in Cambridge, Newcastle and Nottingham.
The data, collected in 1991 and 2011, involved more than 15,000 responses.
Experts say the findings are encouraging, but warned they suggest health inequalities remain in the UK.
New health threats - such as obesity - may have an impact on wellbeing in the future, which needs investigating, say the researchers.
The work, part-funded by the Medical Research Council and published in The Lancet, looked at three measures of good health:
In 2011, men spent nearly four more years and women about three more years in "self-reported" good health compared with the respondents in the 1991 survey.
The chance of having dementia also appeared to be reduced in the 2011 group - men and women enjoyed about four more years free of any cognitive impairment compared with those surveyed in 1991.
Life without disability gains between 1991 and 2011 were smaller - 2.6 years for men and half a year for women, on average - and there was a mixed picture. While severe disability became less common between 1991 and 2011, milder disability increased.
The researchers say the milder disability figures might be explained by rising rates of obesity and arthritis.
But, overall, they say their findings are positive.
Lead researcher Prof Carol Jagger, from Newcastle University, said: "Brain health has improved over the 20-year period. We're not entirely sure why."
Although, as individuals, people may be living more years without cognitive impairment, Prof Jagger said, it was important to remember the number of cases of dementia in the UK was still rising because of an ageing population - there were more elderly people living in the country, meaning more "at risk".
"Our findings have important implications for government, employees and individuals with respect to raising the state pension age and extending working life," she said.
"It is also necessary for community care services and family carers who predominantly support those with mild to moderate disability to enable them to continue living independently."
Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said: "Real improvements in older peoples' health are a real cause for celebration and demonstrate the continuing importance of supporting people to age well, especially through the provision of good quality health and social care services.
"However, we know that health inequalities are still deeply entrenched across the UK and with a growing older population, particularly of those aged over the age of 85, there is still much more work to do to help every older person have a healthier and happier later life."
Trailing 1-0 from the home leg, captain David Gray's deft finish levelled the tie after 62 minutes.
The full-back was forced off injured but Hibs survived into extra-time.
John McGinn missed Hibs' first penalty in the shootout, and despite Paul Hanlon, Grant Holt and Martin Boyle converting theirs, Brondby took it 5-3.
It was a harsh way for Neil Lennon's side to exit - at the first hurdle - after taking the game to their hosts in the second half and defending bravely throughout.
The Edinburgh club had never won a European tie in 61 years after losing the home leg, but they came close to making history after deservedly prevailing in normal time.
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The prize of a tie against Bundesliga side Hertha Berlin however goes to Brondby, who kept their nerve in the shoot-out.
Needing to score to keep the tie alive, Hibs barely created a chance in the first half. McGinn had their one sight of goal in the 18th minute, but Martin Albrechtsen swiftly blocked the Scotland midfielder's effort.
But the visitors were not unduly troubled at the other end either as a defence re-enforced with a third centre-back in Liam Fontaine repelled most of Brondby's attacks.
The hosts' best moments came from set-pieces.
Christian Norgaard and Kamil Wilczek - whose strike after just 16 seconds proved the winner at Easter Road - headed over from corners, while Johan Larsson's curling free-kick was just too high.
But it was 36 minutes before Hibs' debutant keeper Ross Laidlaw - taking over from Otso Virtanen after the Finn's first-leg howler - was called into action.
The 24-year-old conceded five goals on his last outing in April 2015 - for Elgin City against Annan Athletic.
But after missing the whole of last season with a lacerated kidney and being released by Raith Rovers, he showed no signs of rustiness as he tipped a powerful drive from Norgaard over.
Hibs began the second half with greater intent and urgency, McGinn's inviting cross from the left flank headed over by Gray, whose last-minute winner in the Scottish Cup final had sent Hibs into Europe.
But the full-back showed great poise to control and flick home Darren McGregor's prodded ball forward with the outside of his right foot, after Brondby failed to clear Dylan McGeouch's corner.
It was reward for a sustained spell of pressure, but served to stir the hosts into life.
Lebogang Phiri and Svenn Crone both sent shots wide of the target, while Teemu Pukki - a player signed by Lennon at Celtic - found himself in space inside the box but his tame effort was blocked.
Gray's energy and commitment was encapsulated in the driving run out of defence that ended his evening, Norgaard sending the full-back sprawling and landing awkwardly on his shoulder.
Hibs survived some late scares - McGregor escaping with a yellow card when he impeded Pukki's run on goal, while the impressive Laidlaw got a hand to Larsson's effort to divert it wide.
But after neither side threatened to win it in extra-time, Hibs' luck finally ran out.
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In a rare start, striker Saido Berahino put the Premier League side ahead with a brilliant long-range finish.
Shaquile Coulthirst levelled for what was the first of three late goals in a space of an incredible seven minutes.
Berahino put the Baggies ahead once again from an acute angle before Jon Taylor earned the underdogs a draw with a hooked finish 60 seconds later.
Terrible defending led to Taylor's equaliser and a below-par West Brom were booed off for failing to overcome a side two divisions below them at home.
Baggies manager Tony Pulis opted to start with the unsettled Berahino, who has again been linked with a move in the January transfer window.
In the build up to the match, the Welshman said Berahino - who threatened to strike earlier this season after the club rejected transfer bids - had "wasted three or four months" of his career.
The England-21 international has failed to make an impact this season, scoring just three league goals, with 10 of his 18 appearances coming as a substitute.
But while the 22-year-old's all-round performance against Peterborough could have been better, his two superb goals illustrated why he has reportedly attracted the interest of a number of Premier League clubs.
He collected Rickie Lambert's past in the first half to finish with ease inside the D, while his second-half strike was an instinctive finish.
Berahino celebrated his second by cupping his ears to the home fans and, with transfer deadline day on Monday, it remains to be seen whether that was his last appearance for the club.
"He's a good player and he can score," said Albion boss Tony Pulis. "The problem we've got is his fitness is not what it should be - but put him in front of goal and he'll score.
"Will those be his last goals for the club? We'll see. That's the chairman's decision."
West Brom's recent form will be a worry for their fans. They failed to register a shot on target in a 0-0 draw against Aston Villa last week, and should have dominated against Peterborough.
The hosts, fielding a strong line-up, were comfortable in the first half, but their lack of intensity after the break gave the League One promotion hopefuls another bite at the ABAX Stadium next month.
James McClean had two chances in the first half to double his team's lead, but of the Baggies' 13 shots on goal only four were on target.
Craig Gardner shot high over the crossbar when he should have done better after the break, and from there on Posh began to make inroads.
West Brom manager Tony Pulis: "It's going to be four games in the first two rounds of the FA Cup - it's a lot of games for us, but at least we're still in the draw.
"It was our demise, when you're leading twice to concede the goals we did was pretty poor."
Peterborough manager Graham Westley: "The lads showed some great composure and some great maturity. I watched them grow this afternoon and I am very pleased.
"I think over the 90 minutes, the young players will have gained a lot of experience and they showed that important ingredient, desire.
"The replay will be tough because they are well managed and are a good side. We will give it our everything, it is the FA Cup."
West Brom - seven points above the relegation zone - will host Swansea in the Premier League on Tuesday and defeat against the Welsh team could drag the Baggies into a relegation scrap. Meanwhile, Peterborough, three points adrift of the play-offs, must refocus on their league visit to Chesterfield on 6 February.
Match ends, West Bromwich Albion 2, Peterborough United 2.
Second Half ends, West Bromwich Albion 2, Peterborough United 2.
Attempt missed. Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Sébastien Pocognoli (West Bromwich Albion).
Martin Samuelsen (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Claudio Yacob (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Ricardo Santos.
Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ricardo Santos (Peterborough United).
Attempt saved. Martin Samuelsen (Peterborough United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! West Bromwich Albion 2, Peterborough United 2. Jon Taylor (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ricardo Santos.
Goal! West Bromwich Albion 2, Peterborough United 1. Saido Berahino (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Craig Dawson.
Lee Angol (Peterborough United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Craig Dawson (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ricardo Santos (Peterborough United).
Michael Smith (Peterborough United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
James McClean (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michael Smith (Peterborough United).
Attempt blocked. Saido Berahino (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1, Peterborough United 1. Shaquile Coulthirst (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Michael Bostwick.
Foul by Craig Gardner (West Bromwich Albion).
Jack Baldwin (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. James McClean (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Victor Anichebe (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ricardo Santos (Peterborough United).
Attempt saved. Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Claudio Yacob (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jon Taylor (Peterborough United).
Foul by Saido Berahino (West Bromwich Albion).
Ricardo Santos (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Michael Smith (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Craig Gardner (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Victor Anichebe (West Bromwich Albion).
Chris Forrester (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Victor Anichebe replaces Stéphane Sessegnon.
James McClean (West Bromwich Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Salomón Rondón replaces Rickie Lambert.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Marcus Maddison replaces Erhun Oztumer.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Sébastien Pocognoli.
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United manager Jose Mourinho was involved in touchline clashes with opposite number Antonio Conte and was verbally abused by Chelsea fans at the scene of many of his triumphs, including three titles.
The Portuguese was furious when midfielder Ander Herrera was sent off 10 minutes before half-time after a second foul on Eden Hazard, and the managers were kept apart moments later after Marcos Alonso tumbled to the floor after being brought down.
Kante's low 51st-minute drive finally beat defiant United keeper David de Gea, who saved superbly from Hazard and Gary Cahill before the break to keep Mourinho's side in contention before Chelsea made the breakthrough.
Marcus Rashford, who came off his sick bed to play - with Zlatan Ibrahimovic suspended, and Wayne Rooney and Anthony Martial injured, created United's best chance for himself but Chelsea keeper Thibaut Courtois saved with his feet to set up a semi-final against Tottenham at Wembley.
Mourinho's first return to Stamford Bridge after he was sacked as Chelsea manager ended in humiliation with a 4-0 defeat in October - and every piece of his body language here spoke of a man intent on putting matters right.
He was pacing his technical area from the first whistle, applauding, imploring and cajoling his team, stripped of talisman Ibrahimovic as well as Rooney and Martial.
With Mourinho in fired-up and combative mood, it was almost inevitable he would clash with his equally passionate and animated Stamford Bridge successor.
The flashpoint came seconds after Herrera's sending-off. Mourinho, still simmering, felt Alonso had dived, the Portuguese exploding in fury - soon to be joined by Conte in a head-to-head bout of bad blood that ended with the pair being separated and, in boxing parlance, being sent to their corners by fourth official Mike Jones.
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It was a feud that bubbled throughout, with Conte reacting angrily in the second half when Mourinho kicked the ball along the touchline too close to the Chelsea manager for his liking.
The players seemed to take a cue from their managers through a series of tetchy clashes, one of which could lead to further action against United defender Marcos Rojo for an apparent stamp on Hazard.
Mourinho certainly did not feel the love on his return to the place where he enjoyed so much success, responding to four-letter abuse from Chelsea's fans behind his technical area by raising three fingers to signify the Premier League titles he won at Stamford Bridge.
The Portuguese was also taunted with chants of "Judas" - even though he was sacked by Chelsea a year last December.
He will feel a sense of injustice at Herrera's red card and frustration at Ibrahimovic's suspension - but the unpalatable truth for Mourinho is the team he left behind is currently far superior to the one he now guides.
In the absence of Ibrahimovic, this was a night when United needed £89m world-record buy Paul Pogba to step forward and prove his worth. Instead he did a disappearing act.
The contrast between the influence of Pogba, on the periphery of the action and conceding possession with alarming regularity, and Chelsea's own summer purchase Kante was stark.
Kante was perpetual motion, starting attacks, breaking up moves and crowning another magnificent performance with the winning goal, emphatically drilled past De Gea.
Pogba simply could not get into the game, either before Chelsea took the lead or afterwards when Mourinho looked to his showpiece summer capture, the signing he set his heart on, to revive United's hopes.
Chelsea's fans revelled in Pogba's struggles as they chanted "what a waste of money" - no such charges will be levelled at Kante, who looks a £30m bargain.
Chelsea remained on course for that domestic Double, a feat they achieved under Conte's countryman Carlo Ancelotti in 2010.
And this was a victory for quality, persistence and character, albeit aided by Herrera's silly foul on Hazard that drew the second yellow card from referee Michael Oliver and left Chelsea with the numerical advantage.
Chelsea already look like Premier League champions-elect, standing 10 points clear, and their confidence gives them an air of invincibility.
Conte's side are at Wembley in the FA Cup semi-final - and it will take a special performance from any opponent to stop the bandwagon.
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Chelsea manager Antonio Conte: "It was a good performance against a strong team with good players. United has the best squad in the league. We must be pleased to go into the next round."
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho: "I don't speak [about the red card]. I just want to say that I'm really proud of my players and Manchester United fans.
"Everybody can analyse from different perspectives but we all watch the match until the red card and after the red card. So we can compare the decisions of the two yellow cards, in this case with others which were not given.
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"I don't want to go in that direction. Michael Oliver is a referee with fantastic potential but in four matches he has given three penalties and a red card. I cannot change that. I shook his hand and said many congratulations."
Leaders Chelsea travel to Stoke for a Premier League game on Saturday. United, meanwhile, host FC Rostov in the second leg of their Europa League tie on Thursday before visiting Middlesbrough in the Premier League on Sunday.
Match ends, Chelsea 1, Manchester United 0.
Second Half ends, Chelsea 1, Manchester United 0.
Substitution, Chelsea. Michy Batshuayi replaces Diego Costa.
Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Antonio Valencia (Manchester United).
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Marcos Rojo (Manchester United).
Attempt blocked. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
Attempt saved. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Diego Costa.
Substitution, Chelsea. Kurt Zouma replaces Victor Moses.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Victor Moses (Chelsea) because of an injury.
Diego Costa (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Diego Costa (Chelsea).
Phil Jones (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Antonio Valencia.
Attempt missed. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jesse Lingard.
Substitution, Manchester United. Jesse Lingard replaces Ashley Young.
Substitution, Chelsea. Cesc Fàbregas replaces Willian.
N'Golo Kanté (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Paul Pogba (Manchester United).
Ashley Young (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Victor Moses (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ashley Young (Manchester United).
N'Golo Kanté (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Antonio Valencia (Manchester United).
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Ashley Young.
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Antonio Valencia (Manchester United).
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by David de Gea.
Attempt saved. Willian (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by N'Golo Kanté.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Chris Smalling.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Phil Jones.
Attempt blocked. Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Willian (Chelsea) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Phil Jones.
Offside, Chelsea. Willian tries a through ball, but Diego Costa is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Eden Hazard (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Gary Cahill.
Foul by César Azpilicueta (Chelsea).
Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
The 23-year-old signed a three-year contract after joining for an undisclosed fee from Vitoria Setubal.
"I have to adapt to the new country and the new way of living. I am going to be successful though," he told Rangers TV.
"I will do my best to help me and my team-mates win. A club as big as Rangers has to win."
Cardoso, a former Portuguese Under-21 international, made 23 appearances for Vitoria Setubal last season, having moved to the club from Benfica.
He becomes the second Portuguese centre-back to move to Rangers this summer after full international Bruno Alves joined from Cagliari.
They have been joined at Ibrox by midfielder Dalcio, on loan from Benfica, and former Aberdeen captain Ryan Jack.
Cardoso said of Alves: "He is an amazing player and is one of the best defenders from my country. I know with him I will learn a lot.
"I met Caixinha for the first time in the airport and I spoke to him a lot.
"I like him and what he had to say and he is the right person to put Rangers where it belongs, which is first place.
"I am very happy to be here. For me, this is the best club in Scotland and I will do my best to help us make history together."
Mexican midfielder Carlos Pena and his compatriot, striker Eduardo Herrera, are awaiting the outcome of a work permit hearing by the Scottish Football Association and are also expected to join the club.
Caixinha thinks Cardoso is a future full international.
"Everyone describes him as having potential to be one of the centre-halves of the future with the national team," he said.
"We believe in him and he can perform on the right or on the left, which is good in a centre-half.
"We try to organise the centre-halves by thinking about them as a double and we have four very good centre-halves who can perform together or independently.
"Fabio is 23, so having an experienced player around like Bruno Alves is good - he is a player whose one main characteristic is leadership - so Fabio will feel comfortable and grow and learn from him."
Swimmer Ms Johnson, who trained and studied in Swansea, received the award at a presentation ceremony on Monday.
The Newport-born athlete, who has cerebral palsy, won gold for Great Britain in the 100m breaststroke in Beijing in 2008.
She said: "Swansea University played an important part on my road to sporting success and I loved my time there."
Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson said Better Together agents took "tallies" of postal votes at sample openings held before the count.
Election rules state the results of these openings must be kept secret.
The Crown Office has now instructed police to conduct an investigation into the complaints.
The allegations surround comments made to BBC Scotland by Ms Davidson about 45 minutes after polls closed in the independence referendum on 18 September.
Ms Davidson told the Scotland Decides programme: "We have had people at every sample opening around the country over the last few weeks... and we have been incredibly encouraged by the results from that.
"Going into today, going by the postal votes that were cast, our side would have had a lead and I think that we have a confidence, I hope a quiet confidence, that the quiet majority of Scots have spoken today."
She said postal votes were not counted until after the polls closed, but added: "Different local authorities have had openings around the country. It is illegal to discuss that while any ballot is ongoing, so until 10 o'clock tonight no-one could talk about it.
"But there is people in the room that have been sampling those ballot boxes as they have been opened and they have been taking tallies and the reports have been very positive for us."
Speaking on the BBC's results coverage, Humza Yousaf, the Scottish minister for external affairs, also made reference to indications from "postal ballot sampling".
He told the BBC's Huw Edwards: "The intelligence we're getting is that in those die-hard, traditional Labour areas actually the Yes campaign is starting to break through quite strongly.
"That's initial postal ballot sampling, all the caveats thrown in, etc., etc.."
The SNP said Mr Yousaf was referring to sampling of postal votes after the ballot had closed.
Earlier sample postal vote openings, which were attended by agents from both campaigns ahead of polling day, were held to confirm that personal identifiers - the date of birth and signature - on the postal ballots matched those held on official records.
The ballot papers were supposed to be kept face down when postal voting packs were opened so postal ballot agents and observers were unable to see how people had voted.
A Crown Office spokesperson said: "We can confirm that Crown counsel has instructed Police Scotland to commence an investigation into alleged breaches of Schedule 7, Paragraph 7, of the Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013."
The act states it is an offence to "attempt to ascertain at the proceedings in connection with the receipt of the ballot papers the outcome for which any vote is given in any particular ballot paper or communicate any information with respect thereto obtained at those proceedings".
Anyone breaching the law could face up to 12 months in prison or a fine of up to £5,000.
The Scottish Conservatives said they were unable to comment but the BBC understands there was a telephone conversation between Ms Davidson and the police on Friday.
Party sources said there was "no suggestion she was accused of doing anything wrong".
Complaints were initially made to the Electoral Commission, which said it had brought them to the attention of police.
A spokesman for Police Scotland said: "We can confirm that we have been instructed to commence an investigation into alleged breaches of Schedule 7, Paragraph 7, of the Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013.
"Police Scotland will not comment on anyone who may or may not have been spoken to or interviewed as part of any ongoing investigation."
Demand grew as more drugs became available and the £200m of original annual funding was under severe strain. That has been increased to £280m but with a cap on the number of drugs which can be made available.
It has not been clear before now what might happen to the Fund, which is run for patients in England, after the 2015/16 financial year, the last in which firm financing has been committed.
Labour has now come out with a pledge, if elected in May next year, to continue the work of the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) but to rebrand it and include treatment such as advanced radiotherapy as well as drugs.
The annual budget, under Labour's plan, would be increased from £280m to £330m.
Labour's Andy Burnham argues that it is perverse for the CDF to pay for expensive drugs which are not available on the NHS but not treatments.
Labour that 40,000 cancer patients each year stand to benefit from radiotherapy which they don't currently receive.
But Labour 's plan raises the question of how rising demand can be met if the Fund is expanded to include treatments as well as drugs. Mr Burnham's extra £50m a year might be accounted for quickly and still leave oncologists and their patients feeling short-changed.
The funding for these cancer measures has come under scrutiny.
Labour wants to use a rebate from the pharmaceutical industry after a deal with the companies to cap the NHS medicines budget. But the Conservatives say the money has already been committed to the NHS. In other words, if Labour wants to re-direct it to the newly relaunched Cancer Drugs Fund, something else will have to be cut.
So what's the Conservative plan for the next parliament?
The Fund is of course David Cameron's baby, his personal initiative after taking office in 2010.
Government sources make it clear that Mr Cameron is committed to continuing the Fund from 2016 if he is still Prime Minister after the election. Technically, though, it is not yet a Conservative manifesto pledge.
All this begs a question - what do the pharmaceutical industry think? Some drug companies don't like the Cancer Drugs Fund. They believe the watchdog National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) should authorise a wider range of new drugs to bring availability of cancer drugs on the NHS into line with many other countries. Other pharma players are happy to do business with the CDF, aware that the prices they can charge are not controlled (though that will change when the restrictions take effect next year).
Another complication has just emerged.
I understand that the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, the trade body for drug companies, is not happy that politicians pledge money from the rebate deal to specific schemes. They say the arrangement was for the money to be ploughed back into general front line NHS services. Their unhappiness is both towards Labour for earmarking cash for their Cancer Drugs Fund plan and the Government for increasing the CDF from £200 million to £280 million. Watch this space.
Ozancan Akkus was killed with 36 others when a huge explosion ripped through the Kizilay neighbourhood of Ankara on Sunday.
His friend Ali Deniz Uzatmaz was also killed in a bomb attack - this one on 10 October during a peace rally he was attending in the Turkish capital with hundreds of others.
At the time Ozancan, on the left, condemned the death of his childhood friend on social media and paid tribute to him.
"He will live on in our hearts," he wrote on Twitter.
How dangerous is Turkey's unrest?
In a tragic twist of fate Ozancan's own social media pages have today been inundated with tributes. His Facebook page, which before included pictures of the smiling student among friends, is now a virtual cyber-shrine.
"Who would have thought you would share the same fate?" one post reads.
Another simply says: "Good-hearted beautiful people goodbye."
Ozancan's tributes are not the only ones on social media.
Some expressed criticism over what they believed was a brief social media blackout. Others used cyberspace to make an empathetic appeal.
One Facebook user shared a post calling for a universal show of solidarity for Turkey.
Hours after the attack, James Taylor, who lives in Ankara, asked his friends to imagine what it would be like if the attacks happened where they lived. The post has gone viral and has been shared more than 65,000 times.
Today James posted on Facebook that he is humbled by the messages of support he has received.
"It is easy to hate. It is easy to ignore. Why is it so hard to love?"
His latest post which has also had thousands of likes, ends with a poignant message: "We are Paris, we are Ankara, we are Syria, we are Ivory Coast, but above all we are human."
By Rozina Sini with additional reporting by Emre Azizlerli
AFC Wimbledon's win at Oxford earlier in the day saw Neal Ardley's side go above MK Dons for the first time in the English Football League and Karl Robinson's day got even worse when Jones netted the winner.
The hosts started brightly and Kieran Agard's downward header was well saved by Jak Alnwick in the Vale goal.
But little more than a minute after watching his strike smack against the Port Vale post, Dons defender Dean Lewington's misjudged handball handed Bruno Ribeiro's side a penalty 10 minutes before the break.
And although Jones' initial strike was superbly saved by Dons keeper David Martin, the Birmingham loanee was perfectly placed to smash home the rebound.
Substitutes Nicky Maynard and Brandon Thomas-Asante both forced saves from Alnwick late on and Ben Reeves hit the bar with a free-kick but they were unable to grab an equaliser.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, MK Dons 0, Port Vale 1.
Second Half ends, MK Dons 0, Port Vale 1.
Samir Carruthers (MK Dons) hits the bar with a left footed shot from outside the box.
Darren Potter (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Anthony Grant (Port Vale).
Kiko (Port Vale) is shown the yellow card.
Dean Bowditch (MK Dons) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Kiko (Port Vale).
Substitution, Port Vale. Quentin Pereira replaces Alex Jones.
Attempt saved. Brandon Thomas-Asante (MK Dons) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Brandon Thomas-Asante (MK Dons).
Sam Foley (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Nicky Maynard (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Port Vale. Dan Turner replaces Sam Hart.
Corner, MK Dons. Conceded by Nathan Smith.
Substitution, MK Dons. Brandon Thomas-Asante replaces Ryan Colclough.
Attempt saved. Ryan Colclough (MK Dons) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Samir Carruthers (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kiko (Port Vale).
Foul by Samir Carruthers (MK Dons).
Kiko (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Alex Jones (Port Vale) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Sam Foley (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Samir Carruthers (MK Dons).
Foul by Nicky Maynard (MK Dons).
Kiko (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Ben Reeves (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Port Vale. Kiko replaces Martin Paterson.
Corner, MK Dons. Conceded by Kjell Knops.
Anthony Grant (Port Vale) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Samir Carruthers (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Anthony Grant (Port Vale).
Darren Potter (MK Dons) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Martin Paterson (Port Vale).
Substitution, MK Dons. Nicky Maynard replaces Paul Downing.
Attempt saved. Ben Reeves (MK Dons) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, MK Dons. Conceded by Jak Alnwick.
Sam Foley (Port Vale) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Samir Carruthers (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Sam Foley (Port Vale).
An independent panel upheld the decision to suspend Barba at Wednesday's operational rules tribunal.
The 28-year-old full-back, who tested positive for cocaine while still a Cronulla player last year, will not be eligible to play until late August.
Barba joined Saints on 24 May after a stint playing rugby union in France.
His cross-code move to France proved a contentious one, as it meant he escaped being sanctioned because the ban only applied to rugby league.
On Barba's return to rugby league with Saints, the RFL - who govern the Super League - sought clarity from the NRL about whether the ban was applicable outside the southern hemisphere competition.
St Helens signed Barba, who was the NRL's player of the year in 2012 and is contracted until 2019, with knowledge of his possible ban, and chairman Eamonn McManus last week criticised the time taken for their appeal to be heard.
He has already served five matches of his 12-game ban and will be available for selection as of Monday, 28 August.
Beaumaris Castle on Anglesey was built in the late 13th and early 14th centuries but never finished.
Now visitors can tour the castle using an interactive app which shows how the finished product would have looked.
It follows a £170,000 investment by the Welsh Government's historic environment service CADW.
Other site improvements include audio-visual displays, new signage and the addition of a family trail.
Ken Skates, cabinet secretary for economy and infrastructure, said: "Along with Harlech, Conwy and Caernarfon castles, Beaumaris Castle forms one of Wales's only three UNESCO World Heritage Sites, so it's crucial that we continue to strengthen its visitor experience to attract visitors from Wales and beyond."
Many of those at the free concert were lifelong fans who for years had to keep quiet about their love of the Stones and other groups.
Mick Jagger welcomed fans in Spanish before opening the performance with the 1968 hit Jumpin' Jack Flash.
The concert comes days after a historic visit by US President Barack Obama.
Tens of thousands of Cubans queued for hours to get into the grounds of Havana's huge 450,000-capacity Ciudad Deportiva venue.
"Hello, Havana. Good evening, my people of Cuba," said Jagger before beginning the eagerly awaited performance.
The band swept through 18 songs in a two-hour gig, including Sympathy for the Devil and Satisfaction.
The gig is being seen as another sign of real change on the island. Until about 15 years ago Cuba's communist government banned most Western rock and pop music, which was deemed decadent and subversive.
But Cuba has changed significantly in recent years, particularly in the past 18 months as the process of rapprochement with the United States has quickened, says the BBC's Will Grant in Havana.
Fans travelled from many parts of Cuba and other countries to witness what some described as a historic moment.
"It was forbidden. We couldn't have the Beatles or some singers from Latin America. Now we are allowed to hear what we want to hear," a fan told the BBC.
"The visit from Obama [earlier this week], and now the Rolling Stones. It's just unique and historic. So, yeah, nice to be here," said another one.
"After today I can die," Joaquin Ortiz, a 62-year-old night watchman, told the Associated Press. "This is like my last wish, seeing the Rolling Stones."
The Rolling Stones released a short video saying their concert was a sign of change in Cuba.
"Time changes everything. So we're very pleased to be here," said Mick Jagger. "It would have been surprising for this to happen 10 years ago."
Cuban authorities said they expected at least half a million people to watch the British band's first concert in Cuba.
Jumpin' Jack Flash
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It)
Tumbling Dice
Out of Control
All Down the Line
Angie
Paint It Black
Honky Tonk Women
You Got the Silver
Before They Make Me Run
Midnight Rambler
Miss You
Gimme Shelter
Start Me Up
Sympathy for the Devil
Brown Sugar
Encores: You Can't Always Get What You Want. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Britain's Mirror newspaper has reported that the concert went ahead despite a request from Pope Francis that it be halted because it fell on Good Friday.
The paper said the Vatican had suggested the band could start after midnight.
It quoted a "tour insider" as saying: "The band's team were flabbergasted when the Vatican got in touch by letter - couldn't believe their eyes.
"Much as they didn't want to upset the Pope, they had a contract to play and were going to honour it."
Some athletes, like Tosin Oke, feel the lack of medals reflects a lack of support from the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN).
The triple jumper alleges discrimination and the holding back of training funds from the AFN.
He also feels let down by the IAAF, after complaining to athletics' governing body about his concerns.
Oke, 36, is the reigning African champion in triple jump.
Having competed for Great Britain as a youngster - winning a European junior title - he switched to compete for his parents' homeland after not being selected for the 2007 World Championships.
Since then, he has won three African titles: two gold medals at the All Africa Games (the "African Olympics") and another gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. At the 2012 Olympics, Oke was Nigeria's best performing individual athlete - finishing seventh in the final.
Nonetheless, he says he has suffered repeated discrimination at the hands of Nigerian sports authorities, which he believes stems from his public criticisms of their work.
After winning at the 2015 All Africa Games (AAG), Oke wrote to the director-general of the National Sports Commission, the body then responsible for overseeing sport in Nigeria.
In his email to Alhassan Yakmut, the athlete outlined the funds he desired to support an attempt to go for a field medal at the 2016 Olympics - a feat which no Nigerian man has ever achieved.
"Well received. Sorry your refusal to take a lap of honour at the AAG has ruled you out of Rio. Yakmut," came the reply.
A baffled Oke duly sent through pictures of his victory lap but failed to win over Yakmut, who chastised him for looking "emotionless".
Two weeks later, Oke learned that his name had not been put forward by Nigerian officials for an Olympic Solidarity Scholarship training grant provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
"We do not know the criteria used by the IOC," Solomon Ogba, then president of the AFN but now a board member, had told him in March 2015 when Oke had queried his absence.
"The selection was not done by us. What [we] did was send all the names to them," added Ogba, a vice-president of Nigeria's National Olympic Committee (NOC).
Concerned by the tone of Yakmut's mail, Oke wrote to the IOC to ask why it had rejected his application.
"Your name was not included in the list of scholarship requests we received from your NOC," came the IOC reply.
When contacted by the BBC about the discrepancy between their versions of events, Ogba said:
"Athletes were asked to fill the forms which the NOC processed and sent to the IOC. Not all those - to the best of my knowledge - who filled the forms got the scholarship."
Despite lacking training funds, Oke did make it to Rio - after buying an expensive flight to Brazil at late notice when the AFN told him the government had not released funds on time.
Told he would be refunded for his fare in Brazil, Oke realised this would not be the case upon arrival in Rio, so he spent the run-up to his event trying to secure his money, which equated to two months' salary.
"At this point my mind was definitely not on competing, it was on 'this is a huge amount'," he said.
Unlike 2012, Oke failed to reach the final. He says he is still owed for a third of his flight fare. The government says all flight fares have been paid in full.
Nigerian-born athletes hold the fastest 100m times on three different continents:
Oke says he has repeatedly failed to receive significant funds due to him from Nigerian officials - primarily for training grants.
Originating from the Nigerian government, the funds must pass through the AFN before reaching the athletes.
While saying he did receive some grants, Oke claims he was deprived of at least $146,500 (£112,923) more by the AFN between 2010 and 2015.
Ogba rejects the allegations.
"The best thing is for him to petition the government who he claimed released money to the AFN," he told BBC Sport.
"As a matter of fact, most of the monies he claimed to have received were my personal assistance to him and other athletes."
When contacted by the BBC, the Nigerian government declined to comment on this matter.
In December 2015, Oke sent a 10-page statement to the IAAF in which he outlined his allegations of funds being withheld from athletes as well as other claims about lax doping controls and mismanagement - all of which he largely blamed on then-AFN president Ogba.
Ogba denies the allegations.
In his letter, Oke also hoped that its recipient - IAAF President Lord Coe - would find his "experiences serious enough to ask the right questions of the characters running the federation".
The IAAF responded to Oke's letter by sending a representative to meet the athlete, Ogba and the AFN's general secretary in March 2016.
"Having spent time with both Mr Oke and his federation [president and general secretary], the IAAF representative left reassured that the other issues canvassed by Mr Oke would be resolved between them," Huw Roberts, the IAAF's Legal Counsel, told BBC Sport.
The IAAF did not confirm whether or not its representative had brought up the denial of funds at the meeting.
Oke feels the IAAF effectively asked the AFN to investigate itself.
Oke had also told the IAAF how he had witnessed insufficient doping controls in Nigeria.
"This year [2015], I saw an athlete enter the doping room claiming to be another athlete," he wrote. "As ID is not asked for/checked, anything is possible."
The IAAF says that according to its representative, the issue was not raised in March 2016 when he met both Oke and Ogba.
Oke maintains he did discuss wider concerns over doping in Nigeria with the representative, even if he did not directly address the matter above.
"The AFN, under my leadership, fought doping violations with every vigour we could muster," Ogba told BBC Sport.
Oke was not originally set to compete at the 2017 World Championships in London.
As an area champion, he was qualified to do so but the AFN did not put his name forward on time.
"It was the duty of your National Federation to submit your entry in due course," the IAAF told Oke.
"At this late stage, with entry lists being already published, I am afraid there is nothing we can do."
When the BBC asked the IAAF about Oke's letter of 2015 and its various allegations, the initial response that came back two working days later largely dealt with the athlete's selection issues with Nigeria.
It also revealed that the Nigerian had now been included in the World Championships - just six days before the event began.
The IAAF told Oke this was due to "exceptional" circumstances.
Oke, who says he had stopped training in the run-up since he was not expecting to be involved, finished in 25th place.
Despite his experiences, the athlete still hopes to compete for Nigeria at next year's Commonwealth Games.
He is not the only athlete to be frustrated by the way in which Nigerian athletics is run, with several having switched nationality to compete for other countries in recent years.
Since the BBC wrote to the IAAF, the body's Athletics Integrity Unit - which became operational in April - has invited Oke to re-submit his claims.
Roedd y gwleidydd Sinn Féin wedi bod yn dioddef o gyflwr prin ar y galon.
Aeth Mr McGuinness o fod yn arweinydd ar yr IRA i gymodi, a chwaraeodd ran flaenllaw yn llywodraeth ddatganoledig Gogledd Iwerddon yn dilyn Cytundeb Gwener y Groglith 1998.
Yn ei deyrnged iddo, dywedodd Prif Weinidog Cymru, Carwyn Jones: "Chwaraeodd Martin ran hanfodol mewn dod â heddwch i Ogledd Iwerddon.
"Gweithiais yn agos ag ef am sawl blwyddyn ar Gynghorau Prydain ac Iwerddon, Cynghorau Cydweinidogol a thu hwnt.
"Pan siaradai, roedd pobl yn gwrando. Mae'r presenoldeb hwnnw'n esbonio llawer am sut llwyddodd i godi pontydd dros wahaniaethau gwleidyddol. Mae fy meddyliau gyda'i deulu a'i ffrindiau heddiw."
Fe wnaeth arweinydd y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig, Andrew RT Davies, gydnabod cyfraniad Mr McGuinness i'r broses heddwch, ond ychwanegodd y bod yn rhaid cofio am y rhai fu farw yn ystod y trais yng Ngogledd Iwerddon.
"Chwaraeodd Martin McGuinness ran allweddol i ddod â'r Troubles i ben, ond i nifer llawer rhy niferus o deuluoedd yng Ngogledd Iwerddon, ac ar draws y Deyrnas Unedig, bydd yr holl glodfori'r bore 'ma yn ormod," meddai.
Daeth Mr McGuinness yn ddirprwy brif weinidog ar Ogledd Iwerddon yn 2007, gan gydweithio gydag arweinwyr plaid unoliaethol y DUP, Ian Paisley, Peter Robinson ac Arlene Foster.
Dirprwy brif weinidog Cymru ar yr un cyfnod oedd Ieuan Wyn Jones, a dywedodd wrth raglen Post Cyntaf Radio Cymru ei fod wedi cwrdd â Mr McGuinness am y tro cyntaf yn 2007.
"Dyna lle o'n i'n cael fy nghyfarch yn Stormont gan Martin McGuinness ac Ian Paisley, oedd yn brofiad eithaf diddorol ar y pryd," meddai.
"Roedd llywodraeth ddatganoledig Gogledd Iwerddon newydd ddod yn ôl yn 2007 felly roedd o'n brofiad eithaf newydd iddyn nhw ac i mi.
"Ges i brofiad o fynd i gael sgwrs gyda Martin McGuinness sawl tro wedyn yn ystod y pedair blynedd o'n i yn y swydd.
"Roedd o'n gymeriad hawddgar iawn. Roedd ganddo fo'r cefndir o fod yn gefnogol i'r IRA, ond doeddech chi ddim yn ymwybodol o hynny o'i ymarweddiad.
"Roedd o'n hynod o hoffus, yn hawdd iawn i siarad ag o."
Dywedodd Mr Wyn Jones bod Mr McGuinness wastad wedi dangos diddordeb yn yr iaith Gymraeg, a hynny am ei fod yn gobeithio gweld datblygiad Gaeleg yng Ngogledd Iwerddon.
"Oherwydd bod y ddau ohonom yn ddirprwy brif weinidogion, oedden ni'n tueddu i eistedd wrth ein gilydd mewn ciniawau a chynadleddau ac yn y blaen, felly ges i gyfle i gael sawl sgwrs hynod o ddifyr efo fo ynglŷn â gwleidyddiaeth," meddai Mr Wyn Jones.
"Un maes oedd ganddo fo ddiddordeb mawr ynddi oedd y Gymraeg a Gaeleg, a sefyllfa'r ddwy o ran y gyfraith.
"Roedd o'n ein holi ni'n aml ynglŷn â pha fath o fesurau deddfwriaethol y bydden ni'n bwriadu eu gwneud i gryfhau'r Gymraeg, ac wrth gwrs, roedden nhw'n ei chael yn llawer iawn anoddach yng Ngogledd Iwerddon oherwydd bod yr unoliaethwyr yn gwrthod cyflwyno unrhyw fesur fyddai'n cryfhau'r iaith Aeleg yno."
Last month the government lost a Freedom of Information battle to keep its transitional risk register secret.
In a full ruling published on Thursday, the tribunal says why it believes the TRR should be published within 30 days.
The government, which can still appeal to an "upper tribunal", says it is examining the judgement.
Ministers had argued that to publish the register could have a "chilling effect" on how frank civil servants would be with them about risks in future.
The decision was made days after the tribunal hearing last month, but the government has been waiting for the reasons behind it to be published in full before deciding on its next steps.
In the meantime the controversial Health and Social Care Bill has completed its passage through Parliament and become law.
Labour MP John Healey put in an FOI request for the transitional risk register to be published in November 2010, when he was shadow health secretary.
At the time, the government had published a white paper outlining plans to overhaul the NHS.
Ministers cited a "section 35" defence under the FOI Act, which exempts information used in policy formulation and development from having to be released, and rejected the request in December 2010 - the month before the NHS bill was introduced in Parliament
But the section 35 defence is not absolute and must be weighed against the balance of public interest.
Because of the "exceptional" nature of the NHS overhaul, the timing of Mr Healey's request and the nature of the risk register itself - which dealt with "implementation/operational type risks" not direct policy considerations - the tribunal ruled it should be published.
But it said a second risk register relating to the NHS overhaul - a strategic risk register requested under FOI laws by Evening Standard journalist Nicholas Cecil and dealing with "risks which need to be brought to the attention of ministers" - could be kept secret.
The top civil servant at the DoH, Una O'Brien, told the tribunal hearing last month that risk registers were meant to allow civil servants to "think the unthinkable" about what might go wrong - however unlikely - and to publish them could lead to a "very distorted" view of possible risks.
But the tribunal said, having seen the registers, it found it "difficult to understand how they could be described in such a way".
"It seems to us that the TRR identifies the sorts of risks one would expect to see in such a register from a competent department," it said.
The government has argued that to publish could mean civil servants being afraid of being too candid in their advice in future.
But the tribunal said it was "entitled to expect courage and independence from such officials" and that was not a good enough reason to withhold the information.
It said research had suggested there was no evidence to back claims publishing could have a "chilling effect" on future risk registers and pointed out that a risk register had already been published in 2008 on plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport.
While it accepted the "very strong public interest" in allowing officials and ministers private space to develop policies, it said that did not mean there should be an "absolute exemption for risk registers".
Much depended on the timing of the requests - in the case of Mr Healey's request, it was made at a "time when consultation had ceased and policy seemed to be fixed", it said, thereby reducing the need for "safe space" for advice.
"We find in this case that there is a very strong public interest in transparency and accountability in relation to the risks involved in introducing the NHS reforms," the tribunal said.
It argued that the public interest in understanding the risks involved in this case "would have been very high, if not exceptional" and would have provided the public "with a far better understanding of the risks to a national institution which millions depended on".
Publishing it could have either "gone a long way to alleviating" concerns and reassuring the public or "demonstrated the justification for the concerns" to better inform public debate.
The information commissioner had already ruled that it should be published, but the government had appealed to the information tribunal.
A spokesman for the Department of Health said: "We are now examining the judgment given by the information tribunal. We are working closely with colleagues across government and we will set out our next steps as soon as we are able to."
Mr Healey said: "What was the Health Bill is now law but the risks of the government's huge NHS reorganisation remain.
"The government used its big guns to defend its refusal to publish the risk register and this legal judgement demolishes their case for secrecy."
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Mae ffigyrau gwleidyddol Cymru wedi rhoi teyrngedau i gyn-ddirprwy brif weinidog Gogledd Iwerddon, Martin McGuinness, wedi iddo farw yn 66 oed.
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Emma Hayes's side added the league title to the FA Cup they won in August.
England striker Fran Kirby netted twice after Ji So-Yun's opener, before Gemma Davison's late fourth.
Chelsea avoided a repeat of final-day drama in 2014, when they narrowly lost out on goal difference to Liverpool, as they denied Manchester City the title.
The Blues, who began the final round of fixtures with a two-point cushion over City, knew a win would be enough to secure top spot.
They took the lead when Eniola Aluko beat Sunderland right-back Abby Holmes with a burst of pace down the left and squared for South Korea international Ji, who calmly found the bottom corner via the post.
Aluko almost made it two before the break, but her long-range effort whistled just wide of the far upright, after Kirby had gone close when one-on-one.
After half-time, Davison beat her marker before crossing for Kirby to tap into an empty net, before the former Reading striker made it three with a sweet, left-footed strike from outside the box.
Davison's low finish made the scoreline comfortable, emphasising the quality of Chelsea's outstanding front four of Aluko, Ji, Kirby and Davison.
Sunderland, who were guaranteed to finish their first season in WSL 1 in fourth place before Sunday, extended their winless run in all competitions to eight games.
Chelsea Ladies manager Emma Hayes: "Tonight was a champions performance, full of character. We looked like champions tonight.
"That front four, when they get around the outside of teams and play very good football, they're capable of beating any team in Europe.
"After the FA Cup final, we have had the confidence of being a winning team. Since the FA Cup final, we've been on a different level."
Chelsea Ladies: Lindahl (Hourihan), Blundell, Flaherty, Fahey, Davison, Aluko, Ji (Coombs), Rafferty, Kirby, Chapman, Spence (Bright).
Subs not used: Borges, Brett, Meiwald, Ayane.
Sunderland Ladies: Olsen, Holmes (Potts), Greenwell, Furness, Bannon, Ramshaw (Etherington), McDougall, Mead, Joice, Kelly (Roche), Williams.
Subs not used: Harkness, Hill, Beer, Potts, Brown.
Referee: Adrian Quelch.
Attendance: 2,710
Discussions between the clubs are now at an advanced stage as new Hornets manager Marco Silva shapes his squad for next season.
The 22-year-old is currently away on international duty with England's Under-21 squad at the European Championships in Poland.
He is likely to complete his move once England return from the tournament.
Hughes has made 165 Championship appearances for the Rams and was linked with a move to Liverpool in 2013.
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Foreign Minister Taieb Bakouch said the consulate had now been closed and urged all Tunisians to leave the country.
He denied reports that the workers were freed in exchange for a Libyan militia commander.
Walid Kalib, who leads a brigade in the "Libya Dawn" alliance which controls Tripoli, was recently arrested in Tunisia on terrorism charges.
Libya Dawn official Jamal Zubia on Wednesday wrote on his Facebook page:
"The page of the Tunisian consulate will be turned and they will return to their families and the revolutionary hero Walid Kalib returns to his family,'' reports AP news agency.
Analysis: Rana Jawad, BBC News, Tunis
Tunisian officials have occasionally advised their nationals to leave Libya in times of crisis there in recent years.
More often than not, these calls are not heeded - this is partly why officials here decided to re-open their consulate in Tripoli in recent months.
Tunisia has very high unemployment and the livelihoods of a large number of its nationals depend on Libya for both skilled and menial jobs, as well as trade.
The recent kidnappings of Tunisia's consular staff served as a reminder of why most embassies pulled out of Tripoli last summer. Militia allegiances shift as frequently as the sand dunes in the Libyan desert.
There is no central security structure that anyone can rely on - not even those who are in power.
In urging Tunisians to leave Libya, Mr Bakouch said "we cannot again be subject to any blackmail," according to the Reuters news agency.
However, he said that the decision to deport Mr Kalib had been taken by the courts, independently of his ministry.
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Libya descended into chaos after the uprising that led to the overthrow of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
There has been no central government since then, with different militia groups competing for power.
Most countries closed their embassies during the fighting that ensued, but Tunisia recently sent consular staff back to Tripoli.
The UN is trying to negotiate a political settlement to the crisis in Libya, after insecurity in the capital forced Libya's internationally recognised parliament and government to relocate to the eastern city of Tobruk.
Libya Dawn last year seized control of Tripoli and surrounding areas.
The 24-year-old cyclist was among 26 individuals whose records were posted on the Fancy Bears website last week.
"If I were to release the documents on my terms then it'd be very different," Skinner told BBC Scotland.
"I'm not averse to having these things public, but I'd have preferred to have done it on my terms."
Skinner added: "This was an invasion of my privacy and it was just put out there with people willing to interpret it as they wish."
The document suggests that Skinner was granted a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) for the banned substance prednisolone in 2014 and for salbutamol in January of this year.
There is no suggestion Skinner has been involved in any wrongdoing.
Skinner won gold in the team sprint at the Rio Olympics - along with Jason Kenny and Philip Hindes - as well as taking silver in the individual sprint when he was beaten in the final by team-mate Kenny.
The document posted on the Fancy Bears website suggests that Skinner, who has suffered from asthma since childhood, was allowed a TUE for prednisolone - an anti-inflammatory drug that is regularly prescribed for asthma - for a one-off, five-day oral course of treatment in November 2014, while he was competing at the Track World Cup in London.
Skinner said he could "understand where the sceptics are coming from".
"So what I'm doing now is having an opportunity to present it in the way I want to present it and, hopefully, people will see that this medication was required and was reasonable; and there's a history of it in my past with the National Health Service," he insisted.
"It's a bit disappointing because these documents are thrown out into the public without any kind of explanation or any chance for me to give my side of the story.
"Over the past weeks, I've been contacting the NHS to try to scramble together some of my own medical records, which ideally, if I'd chosen to release them, I would've released my medical records with my TUEs so that people had a better understanding of my asthma history and why this medication was necessary.
"These TUE certificates aren't just signed off by your team doctor. It's a bit of a collaboration by your team doctor and the governing bodies."
Skinner said the UCI, cycling's governing body, closely examined his condition and medical requirements.
"So your team doctor recommends the medication and then it's signed off by another two independent doctors: the UCI and UK Anti-doping - and UCI is our governing body," he added.
"It does go through a few checks and it's certainly not easy to get them.
"The second one I had, which was for salbutamol, they did actually request a bit of my own medical history.
"So, as far as I'm aware, my TUEs went under a good level of scrutiny."
The salvage operation began late on Thursday evening in Jianli, Hubei province.
As cranes slowly turned over the stricken ship, relatives gathered to hold a candlelit vigil nearby.
Just 14 of the 456 passengers and crew are known to have survived. Authorities said the chances of finding anyone else alive were slim.
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The attack took place at 02:35 on Saturday in Benthall Street in the Gorbals area of the city.
Police said the victim was with a woman friend before the "unprovoked" assault by three men and two women.
The man is being treated for several stab wounds at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
Det Con Ashleigh Coghlan said: "This was a very violent attack and what appeared to be a totally unprovoked attack which has left a young man with serious injuries and his female friend traumatised by the incident.
"I would like to speak to anyone who witnessed this attack or anyone who saw the five culprits running off afterwards as they may have information that could assist us in identifying those responsible."
The suspects were all white and in their early 20s.
One man was 5ft 6in, very thin and wearing a dark grey cotton hooded top and matching jogging bottoms.
Another man was 5ft 4in, also very thin and wearing a dark grey cotton hooded top.
A third man is thought to be slightly older than the other two, 5ft 6in, of very thin build wearing a dark cotton tracksuit.
One woman was of slim build, with dark hair in a messy bun wearing a denim jacket, black leggings and white trainers.
The other woman was of heavy build, had dirty blonde shoulder length hair and was wearing a dark zipper top.
The 21-year-old made one senior appearance for Fleetwood last season and had spells on loan with Tranmere Rovers and Stockport County in 2016-17.
"He is a player who we know is highly regarded," boss Jim Bentley said.
"He's young and growing as a player but we've heard good things about him and are looking forward to him joining and continuing his development."
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How did Yamato Tanooka survive and find shelter, and how much of a danger were the bears that live in the region?
Yamato's parents had briefly left him by a wooded road near Nanae in Hokkaido region to punish him for throwing rocks on a family day out. When they went back minutes later he had gone.
He was dressed in only a T-shirt and jeans, in an area where temperatures can dip as low as 9C at night.
"It's been colder than it usually is at this time of year," Ross Findlay, founder of the Niseko Adventure Centre in the region, told the BBC.
"We've had snow on top of the mountain in Niseko, though that might not have been the case of Nanae, which is further south. But for a small boy who doesn't have much body fat, that's a problem."
The remote region is densely forested, with oak and birch trees and heavy undergrowth.
"The undergrowth in the forest is made up of a thing called Sasa," said Mr Findlay.
"It's like bamboo but quite thick and very hard to get through, so it's a lot different to what other countries might think of forest.
"It's too hard to walk through so not many people wander into the woods. You really need to be on some kind of trail otherwise you just can't get anywhere.
"Especially for a small boy if he's lying on the ground with dense undergrowth, it can be very hard to find."
The search was also hampered by heavy rains.
Yamato appears to have been both lucky and sensible.
He was discovered at a military base on Friday, about 5.5km (3.4 miles) from where he went missing last Saturday.
The site had allegedly already been searched on Monday morning, but the boy was not found. The search team comprised 180 people and search dogs.
The soldier who found Tanooka had not been part of any previous rescue efforts, AP reports.
Yamato told police he had walked to the military base by himself soon after his parents left him.
"I drank water to get by," he reportedly said. "There wasn't anything to eat."
He slept on mattresses spread on the hut floor.
It's very unlikely at this time of year, according to David Niehoff, president of Kanto Adventures.
"Spring is just getting started so things are just starting to come out of the ground," he said.
"Local knowledge is also necessary to know what to eat safely because there are poisonous plants growing too, but in general there's not a lot of wild food."
The streams around Japan are generally safe to drink from, but certain streams in the mountains of Hokkaido carry a parasite that makes it essential to boil water before drinking, says Mr Niehoff.
However, it would have been safe to drink from a tap like the one the boy found.
Doctors at the hospital where he is being treated say he has only minor injuries, but was suffering slightly from hypothermia.
Not having food "would have caused him to run even lower on energy, which would have put him in greater danger", said Mr Findlay.
Hokkaido is also home to brown bears, which can be as big as 2m high (6ft 5in), but they weren't necessarily a threat.
"The bears generally kept to their own, so it's actually better to make more noise so they are aware of your presence, which makes them likely to go the other way," said Mr Findlay.
"They can usually get quite hostile if you surprise them instead."
"Stay dry, stay warm and stay put," says Mr Niehoff. "It's much harder to be found if you're moving about. People can be more easily found from their last known location."
However, Mr Findlay added in the boy's circumstances, he had acted in the best possible way.
"He found himself shelter, water, and something to keep himself warm so I don't think you can do too much from that," he told the BBC. "It's quite a miracle, really, after six days."
Conservatives Antoinette Sandbach and Will Quince will host a Twitter session on Monday as "Baby Loss Awareness Week" gets under way.
The pair have also arranged a debate in the House of Commons on Thursday.
They hope talking about the issue will help stop other parents from "suffering in silence".
Mr Quince, MP for Colchester, and his wife Elinor had a stillborn son named Robert in October 2014 and will be marking two years since his death on Wednesday.
"We found out something was wrong at our 20-week scan and that he had an incredibly rare condition called Edwards' Syndrome," he told the BBC. "Some babies who have it live for a few weeks, others live for a few years, and some are stillborn.
"We had two options. Continue with the pregnancy or terminate - which is an awful word and would have meant an injection through the mother and into the baby's heart. It was not a hard choice for us, we decided to continue, even though the most likely outcome was a stillbirth."
Robert made it all the way to 40 weeks but died in the last few minutes of labour, which was heartbreaking for the family.
"It is a traumatic thing to go through," said Mr Quince. "For a woman to give birth to a lifeless baby and for the father who watches it happen, it is a horrific ordeal."
He co-chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Baby Loss with Eddisbury MP Ms Sandbach, who lost her son Sam five days after he was born in 2009.
She thanked the public for their support last year after she spoke about her experience in Parliament and broke down into tears.
"The night my son died, I awoke to find him not breathing," she said. "Arriving at hospital, looking at a flat line in the ambulance for over 20 minutes, a crash team was waiting for me, but it was too late.
"Staff at the hospital were wonderful but I found myself in a plain room with questions being asked at me."
It was leaflets handed to her at the hospital with numbers for a local charity, the Chrysalis Trust, that helped her through.
"This week and the debate in Parliament is hugely important," said Ms Sandbach. "It can often be very isolating, as family and friends don't know what to say. We need to talk about the issues."
Both MPs now want more help for families who go through a stillbirth or neonatal death, and for the public to talk about it in the hope of stopping those deaths that are avoidable, as well as bringing more comfort to the bereaved.
"The sad case is around half of stillbirths are preventable," said Mr Quince. "That is 2,000 babies a year. That is 2,000 families who don't have to go through this. And we have one of the best healthcare systems in the world.
"The government has pledged to cut the number of these preventable deaths by 2020 and halve it by 2030 and are putting the money in to help. But there is the issue that care isn't consistent across NHS trusts."
The organisers of the campaign have urged the public to get involved on Saturday by lighting a candle at 19:00 BST for an hour to remember all the babies who have died, calling it a "Wave of Light".
Dr Clea Harmer, chief executive of Sands, said: "Baby Loss Awareness Week is chance for bereaved families to unite in remembering their precious babies which we hope will help them feel less isolated and alone.
"It's fundamental that we raise awareness of the issues surrounding baby loss and infant death and push for changes in practice across the UK.
"The support of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Baby Loss and their commitment to both raising these issues and helping to change policy is invaluable."
Schmidt lost his job after four defeats in six Bundesliga games, ending with a 6-2 loss to Borussia Dortmund.
Ex-Hannover boss Korkut, 42, was named Kaiserslautern boss last summer but resigned after only six months.
Leverkusen are 10th in the league and trail Atletico Madrid 4-2 in their Champions League last-16 tie.
The 300ft (100m) structure links the town of Conwy with Llandudno Junction.
Engineers described installing scaffolding across the bridge arches as "complicated".
Pigeons have also posed one of the biggest problems, with a skip full of droppings expected to be scraped from the bridge during maintenance.
Paul Collins, from contractors Gabre (UK) Ltd said: "It's a complicated job working underneath the arch of the bridge and above the river.
"We have a safety boat on standby and all the scaffolders are connected to the structure by lanyards.
"There's a lot of corrosion at the abutment, and throughout the bridge there's paint blown off the rivet heads."
Conwy council said it was aiming to keep disruption to traffic above to a minimum.
Principal engineer Owen Conry said: "Conwy is an important tourist destination, so it's a priority to avoid permanent lane closures.
"There will be brief closures in the evening tonight and tomorrow, but overall, we hope that people in Conwy won't even know that the work is happening until the scaffolding comes off in August."
The former Wales under-20 captain had limited opportunities in west Wales last season, starting only five games.
Myhill, 24, joined the Blues in May aiming to play more first team rugby.
"The last couple of years I had the feeling that whatever I did it wasn't going to change," he said.
"If I played well I still wasn't going to play, so I needed a change - a fresh start and just to kick on in rugby, really."
The presence of Wales internationals Ken Owens and Emyr Phillips at Parc y Scarlets meant Myhill faced a battle for first-team appearances - but he says he understands the reasons.
"There's two good players [Owens and Phillips] and a couple of young boys as well. They're all good players so I can see why the coaches came to the decisions they made," he added.
"There's no hard feelings or anything like that.
"I support the Scarlets anyway. I grew up supporting them. But now I'll just concentrate on the Blues and try to do well for them and win something."
Myhill was captain of Wales under-20 team that beat New Zealand in 2012.
He hopes the move to the Welsh capital will provide a new impetus to his senior career.
"I want to play more, try to improve and enjoy rugby again - because when you're not playing you don't really enjoy it," he added.
"But I'm really enjoying it with the Blues."
Myhill will again face tough competition for first-team selection, with current Wales squad player Kristian Dacey at the region and former Wales captain and British and Irish Lions hooker Matthew Rees having signed a one-year contract.
Myhill sees that front-row experience as a bonus.
"I learned most of my stuff off Smiler [Rees] at the Scarlets," said Myhill.
"I'm a young hooker so it's good to pick up stuff off him and the other internationals there, like [props] Gethin Jenkins and Rhys Gill."
It follows the arrest of an Uber driver in the city who is accused of raping a female passenger. In response the Delhi authorities banned all net-based taxi services.
Uber apologised for what happened and acknowledged that it "must do better".
It will conduct a full audit of the way it screens drivers.
"We are sorry and deeply saddened by what happened over the weekend in New Delhi. Our hearts go out to the victim of this horrible crime. We have been [doing] and will continue to do everything in our power to assist the authorities to help bring the perpetrator to justice," Uber India said in a statement.
Previously the taxi service, which uses an online platform to connect drivers and passengers, had said that it would work with organisations in the city championing women's safety.
This latest apology goes further: "The events of this week have made us reflect on our operations in India and we are immediately undertaking a number of important actions. During this review we will suspend operations in New Delhi," it said.
Acknowledging that "we must do better", the US-based firm promised to conduct a full audit of its rider feedback processes.
"We are implementing measures to ensure that critical rider feedback is escalated immediately and immediate action is taken in every instance.
"We are also re-reviewing rider feedback on every driver partner across India to make sure nothing has been missed."
It said it would also assess all driver screening processes and look at whether additional screening options and background checks are necessary.
The way it screens its drivers has come in for close scrutiny not just in India but in other cities around the world.
Two Californian cities, Los Angeles and San Francisco, are taking legal action against the firm, partly over the quality of its background checks.
The Renfrewshire town is up against Coventry, Stoke, Sunderland and Swansea for the title, credited with attracting major investment to former winners.
The UK government's department for digital, culture, media and sport will announce the winner at the end of the year.
A bid by Perth to make the shortlist was unsuccessful.
Paisley's bid focused on a £42m plan to create a national museum of textile and design and reconnect the town with its famous Paisley Pattern.
The bid has also been backed by some of the town's most high-profile figures, including singer Paolo Nutini, actor Gerard Butler, artist John Byrne and designer Pam Hogg.
The Paisley 2021 Partnership Board, which placed the bid, said that if Paisley was chosen, it could provide a £172m economic boost to the town and create the equivalent of 4,700 jobs over a 10-year period.
Board chairman, Renfrewshire Council leader Iain Nicolson, said: "For the judges to have shortlisted us is a major endorsement of our ambitions for Paisley and Renfrewshire - and we are in it to win it.
"I know local people will be absolutely thrilled at this news - we want to thank every one of them as they are the ones whose incredible contribution made it happen."
Mr Nicolson said that more than 30,000 people had joined in with the bid, equivalent to almost half the town's population, and that winning the title would be a "major boost".
He added: "Aside from hosting some of the world's best performers and bringing more than a million people to Paisley in 2021, it would over the long-term create thousands of new jobs, and allow us to attract massive investment and build a new town centre economy with tourism and creativity at its heart."
Paisley 2021 bid director Jean Cameron added: "There's never been a Scottish winner and we would be thrilled to be the first - we are now Scotland's bid and would love to see the whole country get behind us."
The leader of Perth Council, Ian Campbell, said there were no regrets about pursuing the bid.
He said: "Perth is a small city with huge ambitions, and the experience of developing our bid has absolutely cemented our conviction that we can achieve these."
Derry-Londonderry was the first city to host the title in 2013. Hull will host the 2017 version, during which the 2021 winner will be announced.
The Belarusian won 6-3 6-2 in 77 minutes to add a third Miami title to her victories in 2009 and 2011.
The 26-year-old has now won 20 career WTA titles and will return to the world's top five next week.
Russian Kuznetsova, 30, was bidding for her second title of the year after her victory in Sydney in January.
Azarenka, a former world number one and twice a winner of the Australian Open, has rediscovered her best form this season after failing to win a WTA title throughout 2014 and 2015.
She began the year with victory in Brisbane in January and last month overcame Serena Williams to win at Indian Wells.
She becomes just the third woman to achieve the Indian Wells-Miami double after Steffi Graf (1994, 1996) and Kim Clijsters (2005).
In the siege, Chechen rebels took more than 1,000 hostages, mostly children. The operation by Russian forces to end it used disproportionate force, the court added.
It also said that officials knew an attack was imminent but did not act.
Russia said the ruling was "utterly unacceptable" and that it would appeal.
No Russian official has been held responsible for the high number of deaths, which included 186 children.
Masked men and women, wearing bomb belts, burst into Beslan's School Number One, opening fire in the courtyard as a ceremony marking the beginning of the school year was finishing.
The hostages were crammed into their school sports hall beneath explosives strung from the basketball hoops. Their captors were demanding Russian troops pull out of Chechnya.
The tense siege ended suddenly on the third day with two deadly explosions and intense gunfire. Witnesses described the operation by Russian security forces as chaotic, saying that the troops used excessive force and heavy weapons.
Only one of the hostage takers was caught alive and put on trial.
For more than a decade, survivors and relatives have been asking whether the siege could have been prevented and whether so many people had to die in the rescue operation.
They say officials, including President Vladimir Putin, mishandled the hostage crisis and ignored intelligence indicating that a hostage-taking scenario was being planned. A Russian investigation into the events stalled several years ago.
So more than 400 of them applied to the European Court of Human Rights, a Strasbourg-based court run by the Council of Europe, a pan-European human rights body of which Russia is a member.
The council is a distinct entity and is not a branch of the European Union.
In its ruling, the court said Russia had sufficient specific information that an attack was being planned in that area, but did not act.
It criticised the authorities for being unable to prevent the militants from meeting and travelling on the day of the attack, and failing to increase security at the school or warn the public of the threat.
It also said that "powerful weapons such as tank cannon, grenade launchers and flame-throwers" had been used to free the school, contributing to the high number of casualties.
The court was also critical of Russia's investigation into the case, saying it was unable to rule whether the force used by the security officers was justified.
"Though the decision to resort to the use of lethal force had been justified in the circumstances, such a massive use of explosive and indiscriminate weapons could not be regarded as absolutely necessary," it said.
It ruled that Russia should pay 2,9m euros ($3,1m; £2,5m) in compensation.
Countries must comply with the court's verdicts, although the court cannot directly enforce this.
The Russian government said the ruling was "utterly unacceptable".
"We certainly cannot agree with such an assessment, in a country which has suffered from more than one terrorist attack," spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
The justice ministry denied that excessive force had been used and said the government would appeal against the ruling within the three-month deadline.
The court, the ministry added, did not understand "the full seriousness of the situation in Beslan after the seizing of the hostages" and the "risks of the process of carrying out a rescue operation".
For those caught up in the siege of Beslan's School Number One, this is the result they had hoped for. What happened in Beslan was first and foremost a horrific terrorist attack.
But many mothers of those killed have long argued that officials should have done more to save their children. For years, they have been pushing for those who failed them to be held responsible. Until now, no-one in Russia had been held to account.
The court has underlined that there should now be a new, objective investigation here in Russia - and the mothers of Beslan say they will now push for that too.
They argue they owe it to their children to make sure those responsible for the loss of life are held to account.
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Wales' 1-0 Euro 2016 qualifying win over Belgium will see Chris Coleman's side enter the top 10 in the Fifa rankings for the first time.
It will also place Wales among the top seeds when the 2018 World Cup qualifying draw is made in July.
"I guess that marks how far we've come as a nation," Liverpool's Allen said.
"It's a great feeling when all the work you've put in over the last couple of weeks pays off."
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Victory against the side ranked second in the world saw Wales return to the top of Group B and move closer to their first major finals since 1958.
Coleman's men were ranked 22nd, but the points gained from the win will see them climb the order under Fifa's coefficient system when the new rankings are published on 9 July.
Former Wales manager John Toshack, who handed Allen his debut in 2010, believes four points from four remaining qualifiers will be enough to seal their place at the Euro 2016 finals.
But Allen himself insists Wales have not set any targets ahead of September's double-header against Cyprus and Israel and the final two games against Bosnia-Hercegovina and Andorra in October.
"It's not something we've really focused on," Allen added.
"It's something that can be tempting at times but something that we won't let distract us.
"It's an old cliche but it's been a case of completely being focused on one game at a time and putting all that preparation and focus into those games.
"So far it's been good."
Allen will miss Wales' trip to Cyprus on 3 September because of suspension after picking up his third yellow card of the campaign against Belgium.
"The victory has obviously softened that blow but it's always disappointing to miss any games for Wales," Allen said.
"I always knew there was a danger [of getting booked] with the likes of Eden Hazard and Kevin De Bryune that can make it difficult for you.
"But the team performance carried us through and got a result. And on top of that the strength we've got in depth in this squad means we can go away to Cyprus and perform to these high levels."
The latest Welsh Government figures suggest the attainment gap widened again at GCSE level.
National Deaf Children's Society Cymru is calling for more support and awareness in classrooms.
Ministers said they were raising educational standards and investing in pupils with additional learning needs.
The attainment results for deaf children in the last three years fluctuated, according to figures obtained by BBC Wales.
In 2014, 48% of deaf children achieved a grade A* to C in the core subjects at key stage four - English/Welsh, maths and science - compared to 64% of peers who can hear.
The following year the attainment gap narrowed - but last year it grew again with 48.5% of deaf pupils achieving the grades, compared to 69.5% of hearing children.
And the problem is not confined to Year 11.
Over the last three years, the attainment gap has remained the same or worsened at foundation phase and for primary school children aged 7 to 11.
The figures come as organisations across the UK mark Deaf Awareness Week, which runs from 15 to 21 May.
Four years ago, the National Deaf Children's Society Cymru launched the Close the Gap petition following a poor set of results.
Debbie Thomas, policy and campaigns officer, said the latest results were "unacceptable".
"Deafness is not a learning disability so that gap shouldn't be there and we need to make sure that deaf children and young people are appropriately supported so they can reach their full potential," she said.
"There's no reason why they should be underachieving - other than the fact they're not accessing the appropriate support."
Ms Thomas said there were also practical steps which could be taken.
"The big thing that deaf children and young people tell us time after time is about raising deaf awareness and also about improving acoustics in the classroom but it's also about making sure that deaf children and their families are supported from the start," she added.
The Welsh Government said its "national mission" was to improve attainment for all children, including those with additional learning needs (ALN), aims to raise standards via a range of reforms.
A spokesman said: "Our ambitious Additional Learning Needs (ALN) Bill, if passed, will completely overhaul the system for supporting pupils with additional learning needs, including learners with hearing impairments.
"The bill will place the learner at the heart of that process and will make the system far simpler and less adversarial for those involved."
A £20m package of reforms will support the bill's implementation and wider plans, the spokesman added.
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The 31-year-old's FA Cup strike against Reading took him to 249 in 543 games, reaching the landmark 215 matches and four seasons quicker than Charlton.
The record had stood since 1973 but Rooney now seems certain to beat it.
"This club is a huge part of my life and I'm honoured to be up there alongside Sir Bobby," said Rooney following the 4-0 win.
"It's a proud moment. To do it at a massive club like Manchester United, I'm hugely honoured."
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Manager Jose Mourinho added: "A more special day will arrive. It was great but I want one more goal! He is an amazing guy in the group and we all want him to do it. To have Wayne as the top scorer in a club like this is magnificent for him."
In 2015, Rooney surpassed World Cup winner Charlton's England scoring record of 49 goals and has since taken his tally to 53.
The United landmark comes during a season in which the England captain has been left out of the starting line-up for both club and country, his record-equalling goal being just his fourth of the campaign.
BBC Sport's Simon Stone at Old Trafford
As Old Trafford celebrated the occasion, the stadium announcer made sure he remembered the 'other' player: 'Manchester United's goalscorer, and equalling Sir Bobby Charlton's record of 249...'
Up in the directors' box, blinking through his glasses under a dark, brimmed hat, Charlton looked down. Wife Norma sat alongside, applauding generously.
At 79, Charlton was not on his feet like others around him as the ball lobbed in off Rooney's right knee. But close by, Sir Alex Ferguson, who paid £27m to buy the then 18-year-old striker from Everton in 2004, was up and applauding.
The genuine enthusiasm and warmth around the stadium as Rooney celebrated the landmark was an acknowledgement of what he has achieved.
The signs were there from the very start that Rooney's could be a stellar Old Trafford career.
In his first game following a £27m move from Everton in 2004, he scored a hat-trick against Fenerbahce in a 6-2 Champions League win.
He has not looked back since, reaching double figures in every season at the club, including a career-high 34 in all competitions in 2009-10 and 2011-12.
Rooney and Charlton are ahead of some of the finest players that Manchester United and British football has known.
Charlton, who came up through the United youth system, spent 17 years at Old Trafford before finishing his career with spells at Preston and Irish side Waterford United.
And despite his consistency over such a long period, he never managed to hit the 30-goal mark in a single season, coming closest when he struck 29 times during his third season at Old Trafford.
Despite Rooney's scoring bursts, his goals have not come at the fastest rate. Tommy Taylor, who was a two-time title winner with United in the 1950s, holds that honour, just ahead of former Netherlands international Ruud van Nistelrooy.
Rooney's ratio of 0.459 goals per game puts him eighth on the list, while Charlton (0.328) does not even make the top 10.
Phil McNulty, BBC Sport's chief football writer
Rooney has secured his place in Manchester United history and Old Trafford's hall of greats with his record-equalling goalscoring feats.
However, he will have to resign himself to never being held in the same esteem, and place of legend, as the likes of Charlton, George Best and Denis Law.
Indeed, despite his lofty place in United's record books, the 31-year-old will never be revered by United's supporters in the same manner as the maverick Old Trafford catalyst Eric Cantona, the great leaders Roy Keane and Bryan Robson, and brilliant home-grown products such as Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville.
This may seem brutally unfair given his contribution to United's successes, but there are several factors at work when his place in the club's historical affections is measured.
Rooney was an expensive import from Merseyside, while Charlton, who survived the 1958 Munich air disaster, led United to their first European Cup in 1968 and stands alongside his great mentor Sir Matt Busby and Sir Alex Ferguson as an iconic Old Trafford figure.
Best and Law came alongside Charlton as United's 'Holy Trinity' as the club emerged from the tragedy of Munich, while Cantona was the great transformer in the early 90s and the likes of Robson and Keane were world-class players and warriors.
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Rooney's chequered history with the club and its fans will also have an impact on his legacy when his contribution to United - a truly great one when judged solely in a football context - is reflected upon.
In many eyes, Rooney will never quite be forgiven for the episode in October 2010 when he decided he wanted to leave, then further strained his relationship with club and fans by issuing a statement which effectively said United lacked ambition and questioned the quality of his team-mates.
This was resolved within days when he signed a new five-year-contract, but the memory has lingered for many. There was another disagreement late in the 2012-13 season as Ferguson prepared for retirement and made it clear Rooney again wanted to leave - a claim that led to the player being jeered by some fans as he collected his title winner's medal at Old Trafford.
Fans and those who record history and legends take these matters into account.
What must also be remembered is that Rooney has had a stellar United career littered with trophies, brilliance and game-changing moments. He fully deserves to be remembered as one of the greats of Old Trafford.
There will, however, be many more remembered before him.
His debut single Gangnam Style reached number one in the UK charts in September after becoming a worldwide hit on YouTube.
Psy, 34, will address the union on 7 November and is expected to talk about the hype and excitement surrounding the single's "horse-riding" dance craze.
He was personally invited by president of the union and Korean compatriot John Seungyoon Lee.
Both originate from the Gangnam area of Seoul, from where the eponymous hit song takes its name.
Mr Lee said it was the artist's "first ever English public speech".
He added: "Speculation and interest have been stratospheric, and we are pleased to finally confirm the rumours that Psy will be visiting us.
"With over 600 million views on YouTube, we are expecting him to attract a record turnout."
Union spokesman Finbar McLoughlin earlier said it would be a great opportunity to hear from someone "topical and current".
Band McFly, Olympic gold medallist Greg Rutherford and publicist Max Clifford are also due to address the union next week.
"We're expecting the chamber to be full to capacity to hear what Psy has to say," said Mr McLoughlin.
"It's great for our members to be able to welcome someone who has had a huge impact on life in such a short space of time."
Michael Jackson, the Dalai Lama, Sir Winston Churchill, Mother Teresa, Clint Eastwood, Ronald Reagan and Kermit the Frog are among the many famous characters who have addressed the union in the past.
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Dave Libby worked during the 1960s for a firm in Watford alongside his grandfather, his father and his brother-in-law.
Mr Libby, who is being treated for advanced mesothelioma, has been paid compensation by the company concerned.
Both his grandfather and brother-in-law were diagnosed with mesothelioma. His father died of a lung-related condition, although it was never diagnosed.
He was refused bail at Camberwell Magistrates Court and will appear before a judge again next month.
He is accused of attempted murder, grievous bodily harm and possession of a bladed article.
The two victims, both 15, are being treated in hospital. One remains in a critical condition.
The attack happened at Kingsdale Foundation School in south London on Thursday shortly before 15.30 GMT, and pupils were kept inside buildings as emergency services dealt with the situation.
The school reopened on Friday.
A community group in Marseille arranged the day, giving access only to women wearing the all-over swimming garment.
The group was set up to "encourage women to join in with the community".
Some leading political figures said the move was contrary to France's legally enshrined secular values.
"Accepting this so-called fashion means we accept communalism in our country," said Valerie Boyer, a mayor of two Marseille districts from the centre-right group Les Republicains group, led by ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy.
"However, it's also a question of the woman's dignity, a question of our most fundamental principles."
A note by the event organisers, Smile 13, said that women attending "must be covered from the chest to the knees".
France was the first European country to ban the full-face Islamic veil in public places, but it is legal to wear Islamic dress.
France has about five million Muslims, the largest Muslim minority in Western Europe, but it is thought only about 2,000 women wear full veils.
Islamic headscarves were also banned in French schools in 2004.
Boys under the age of 10, but no men, will also be allowed to attend the burkini day, which will take place at the Speedwater Park near Marseille on 17 September.
The decision was also attacked by Stephane Ravier, a mayor of two other Marseille districts with the far-right Front National.
"This Islamist day demonstrates that, outside of the comforting words of Muslim authorities, a certain number of Muslims are deciding among themselves to break away from our Republican model and put themselves outside our society," he said.
Neither Speedwater Park nor Smile 13 has commented on the criticism.
But Smile 13 has received some messages of support, as well as attacks, on its Facebook page.
"Good luck, ladies, I hope this takes place" wrote one woman, who said: "And I don't even wear the veil."
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford was £60,000 short of the £860,000 needed to acquire Turner's "The High Street".
It took four weeks to raise the funds through donations. The painting was offered to the museum in lieu of £3.5m of inheritance tax.
If the museum had been unable to acquire the painting, it would have been sold on the open market.
Director Dr Alexander Sturgis said the museum had been "overwhelmed by public support" and described it as the "the greatest painting of the city ever made".
The work dated 1810 has been on loan to the Museum from a private collection since 1997.
It was offered to the museum for £860,000 as it was worth more than the tax liable on the estate.
Grants of £550,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund, £220,000 from the Art Fund; and a further £30,000 from the Friends and Patrons of the Ashmolean also helped secure the painting.
An average of 2.8 million viewers tuned in to the second show of the new series on Sunday evening - 1.6 million fewer than the first episode.
Viewing peaked at 3.3 million just before the BBC Two show ended, overnight figures show.
Presenter Chris Evans said viewing figures would be higher when on-demand services were taken into account.
He tweeted: "Overnight television viewing figures for Top Gear have never been less relevant. Obviously some newspapers prefer to live in the past.
"The way Top Gear is being viewed is repositioning the way television is consumed. Last week 9 million viewers. This week we shall see."
The first episode of this series was watched by an average of 4.4 million when it was first broadcast - 23% of the TV viewing share.
However, when all forms of viewing are taken into account - including people who recorded the programme, watched the repeat or requested the show on a catch-up service such as iPlayer - the launch episode's audience totalled around 9 million.
Alan Tyler, acting controller of BBC Entertainment Commissioning, said: "We are delighted that this was the strongest launch episode of Top Gear since 2010."
Referring to the show's second episode, Tyler said: "Chris, Matt and the team once again brilliantly led BBC Two's biggest show of the day, by some margin.
"It secured a peak audience of 3.3m, and the show again remained the most requested programme on BBC iPlayer."
Overnight figures only account for viewers who watched the show as it was being broadcast, and do not include those watching on catch-up services.
The first two episodes of the last series of Top Gear, which was hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, were watched by 6.41 million and 6.56 million viewers respectively, according to overnight figures from the time.
Sunday evening's figures give the second episode of Top Gear a 14% share of all television viewing in its timeslot.
BBC One's Antiques Roadshow attracted more viewers than the motoring show - with 4.2 million people tuning in.
Soccer Aid on ITV also had a bigger audience, with an average 3.9 million viewers watching across the four-hour broadcast - including viewers watching on ITV+1.
Sunday evening's Top Gear featured guest appearances from Damian Lewis, Sharleen Spiteri, Seasick Steve and Tinie Tempah.
This series is the first since the departure of Clarkson, Hammond and May following Clarkson's fracas with a producer.
They later signed up to present a new show, The Grand Tour, on Amazon Prime - which will premiere later this year.
Evans and Matt LeBlanc have taken over hosting duties for the latest series, together with co-presenters Sabine Schmitz and Eddie Jordan.
Rory Reid and Chris Harris also present a spin-off show, BBC Three's Extra Gear.
Stuart Wishart, 45, died in the accident near Clovenfords at about 19:20 on Monday.
He was riding a dark Kawasaki motorbike when it was in collision with the tractor near Caddonlee Farm.
Police are continuing to appeal for witnesses to the accident or anyone who saw the vehicles beforehand.
Mr Wishart's family issued a short statement through Police Scotland.
"Stuart's family and friends are devastated at our loss," it said.
"The support we have had since the accident is very much appreciated and has been a comfort."
PC Paul Aitchison said it was a "very difficult time" for Mr Wishart's family and friends and offered his condolences.
"Our enquiries continue and I'd urge anyone who may have witnessed the collision, or seen either vehicle shortly beforehand, to get in touch," he said.
"I also want to thank the local community for their patience while road closures were in place and investigations conducted at the scene."
The restrictions, brought in by NHS Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), mean overweight patients will have to lose 10% of their weight before surgery.
Smokers face a six-month delay.
Clare Marx, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS), said that "patients should be treated equally according to their symptoms".
The CCG said only elective surgery for non-life threatening procedures, such as hip and knee operations, would be affected.
The new rule will be introduced in January.
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Clinical lead Dr Shaun O'Connell denied reports the measures amounted to a ban on surgery.
He claimed the change would bring patients the "best possible health outcomes in the long term" while helping to protect finances.
"There is no ban and no blanket policy," said Dr O'Connell.
"People who do not wish to access the support services or fail to meet the criteria will not be denied their operation, decisions about what is in the best interests of their health, will be made on a case-by-case basis."
The CCG, which serves a population of more than 351,000 in areas including York, Selby and Tadcaster and parts of East Yorkshire proposed the surgery delay in September, but it was put on hold when NHS England and the RCS raised concerns.
NHS England has now approved the plan.
RCS president Clare Marx said she thought the CCG's decision was "financially motivated".
"We think all patients should be treated according to their clinical need," she said.
"We really do believe that everybody needs to eat healthy and if possible give up smoking, but that should not be the deciding factor on whether or not you eventually you get your operation in a timely manner."
The 22-year-old, who can play in both full-back positions, started his career as an apprentice at MK Dons, but was released by the club four years ago.
Barnsley signed him from Worcester City in 2014 and last season he played in 23 games, including the League One play-off and Football League Trophy finals.
But an initial offer of a new deal was withdrawn by the Yorkshire club.
He said: "It feels really good to be back. This is my hometown club - I'm over the moon to get this deal done.
"Me and the gaffer had a really good chat, but he didn't really have to sell it to me. I know the club well from my time here as a youngster and ever since I left I've always checked up on how the Dons are doing."
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He said Richard Matt, 49, was shot dead in woodlands near Malone, a town near the Canadian border about 30 miles (50 km) from the prison.
David Sweat, 35, remains at large as police continue to search the area.
The pair escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora on 6 June, setting off a massive manhunt.
On Friday officers were called to an area south of Malone where a caravan had been attacked, police said. They found evidence left behind by the pair in a nearby cabin.
Matt was later found in woodland and shot around 15:45 local time (19:45 GMT).
A search for Sweat is continuing in the area. Police say he is dangerous and warned the public not to approach him.
Manhunt timeline
Prisoner worker Joyce Mitchell has been charged with aiding the inmates in their escape.
Prosecutors allege that she gave the men power tools that allowed them to saw through a steel cell wall before bashing a hole through a brick wall and crawling through.
Ms Mitchell denies the charges.
Before their escape, Matt was serving a prison sentence of 25 years to life for the killing and dismembering of his former boss.
Sweat was serving a life sentence for murdering a sheriff's deputy.
Sandeep Kothari was abducted in his home state of Madhya Pradesh on Friday.
Media reports say he may have been targeted for writing about illegal mining in the area and for pursuing a related case in court.
Mr Kothari's death is the latest in an apparently unrelated spate of serious attacks on Indian journalists.
The journalist, 40, disappeared from his home in Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh on Friday night. Hs charred body was found near a railway track in neighbouring Maharashtra state the following evening.
Police said the three men held in connection with the murder were suspected to be involved in illegal mining.
"We are investigating the case from all angles... It will be premature to conclude the exact reason behind the kidnapping and killing," police official JS Markam told the Press Trust of India.
Journalists often face harassment and intimidation by police, politicians and bureaucrats in India.
Earlier this month police registered a murder and criminal conspiracy case against a ruling party politician over the death of freelance journalist Jagendra Singh.
Mr Singh published an article and posted allegations of corruption on Facebook against Ram Murti Singh Verma, who denies the charges.
India ranked 136 out of 180 nations in the 2015 World Press Freedom Index, according to Paris-based Reporters without Borders.
The Shanghai Composite traded erratically, but closed down by 2.5% to 3,080.42 points.
The market volatility in China came as the country's National Bureau of Statistics revised its annual economic growth rate for 2014 to 7.3%, down from 7.4%.
Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng index closed down 1.2% to 20,583.52.
Mainland shares have fallen 40% since mid-June when the sell-off began, while Chinese regulators continue to take more steps to stabilise erratic trading.
China's central bank governor, Zhou Xiochuan, told financial leaders at the G20 summit over the weekend that the markets had almost completed their correction after a steep rise in the first half of the year.
"The stock market adjustment is already roughly in place and financial markets can be expected to be more stable," Mr Zhou said in a statement from Turkey.
Other Asian markets were mixed on Monday despite stocks in the US, which headed lower on Friday after US jobs figures were released.
Friday's much-anticipated jobs figures showed unemployment fell to 5.1% last month, the lowest since April 2008.
The jobs report is the last before the US Federal Reserve meets later this month to decide whether to increase interest rates.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei opened lower on Monday, down 0.65%, but finished the day closing up 0.38% at 17,860.47.
Economist Angus Nicholson from IG Markets said in a note that there were two main factors driving Asian trading on Monday, "the delayed response to Friday's non-farm payrolls number out of the US and the reopening of the Chinese stocks markets after a four-day break".
"Both of these factors are likely to spur further selling in Asian markets today, with the outcome of the [mainland] Chinese market reopening being the greater cause for concern," he added.
In Australia the S&P/ASX 200 closed down 0.2% at 5,030.40, while South Korea's Kospi benchmark index closed down 0.15% at 1,883.22 points, after closing down 1.5% on Friday.
The quake struck at 14:22 GMT on the island of Chiloe, about 40km (25 miles) south-west of Quellon, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
No casualties have been reported. Some 4,000 people were evacuated.
It hit an area of Chile known for tourism. Some roads and bridges were affected but damage appeared to be limited.
The quake's depth was about 34km, according to the USGS.
Chile's national emergency services office had initially issued an alert and ordered the evacuation of coastal areas of Los Lagos region.
Residents of Quellon were among those who headed to safe areas ahead of the tsunami warning being lifted.
"I've lived for 10 years in the south and never felt something like that," a resident who was leaving his house said.
Chile's President Michelle Bachelet tweeted: "Much strength and encouragement to the compatriots affected by the tremor in Chile and other areas in the south. Emergency procedures are already in place."
Alexander McHugh, 19, lashed out twice at the Newcastle gig in November 2015.
McHugh, of Peasemore Road, Pennywell, Sunderland, was sentenced to 20 months in prison suspended for two years, during a Newcastle Crown Court hearing.
He must also pay each victim £300 compensation after admitting wounding and causing actual bodily harm.
The first victim, a student, stepped in when he saw McHugh pushing a woman in the audience.
McHugh felt threatened when he was challenged, the court heard, and he headbutted the man, leaving him needing eight stitches that have left him with scars on his forehead.
Shortly afterwards, McHugh attacked a 16-year-old after there was more shoving, knocking him over and biting his cheek as he sat astride him.
A previous hearing was told how 50 Cent appealed for calm from the stage having seen a disturbance in the crowd.
Recorder Tahir Khan QC said McHugh, who has an apprenticeship, must also carry out unpaid community work and take an anger management course.
The judge heard McHugh has been "out of trouble" for the past year.
He told McHugh: "You are demonstrating a desire to live a law-abiding life."
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Nathan Redmond's cool finish from Jay Rodriguez's pass gave Saints a crucial lead to take to Anfield on 25 January - but Southampton can count themselves unlucky not to be in complete control of this battle for a place at Wembley.
Liverpool's much-criticised goalkeeper Loris Karius was one of very few in Jurgen Klopp's side to distinguish himself amid a shocking performance, making two fine first-half saves from goalscorer Redmond.
Karius's one-handed save from Redmond right on half-time was vital but he was helpless late on as the same player threatened once more, Liverpool enjoying more good fortune as his effort came back off the bar.
Southampton's recent form has been indifferent but manager Claude Puel will have been delighted with their display at St Mary's.
After a brief early spell of Liverpool pressure, when Roberto Firmino tested Fraser Forster, Southampton were completely untroubled throughout an impressive performance.
Saints were sharp in the tackle, more assured in possession and a continual threat through Redmond and the industrious Rodriguez.
They will be left, however, with a tinge of regret despite an excellent, fully merited result that gives them real reason for optimism for the second leg at Anfield.
Karius and the woodwork kept them at bay and they had many other opportunities to produce a scoreline reflecting their superiority.
Southampton could have slammed the door on Liverpool - instead it remains ajar.
Karius has had to undergo a severe examination of his goalkeeping credentials and endure heavy public criticism in the early months of his Liverpool career.
Klopp placed great faith in the 23-year-old German, signed from his former club Mainz in a £4.75m deal this summer - eventually choosing him ahead of established first-choice Simon Mignolet.
The decision backfired and he was forced to drop Karius after two poor, error-strewn performances in the 4-3 loss at Bournemouth and the 2-2 home draw with West Ham.
Klopp has never lost belief, however, choosing Karius as his cup keeper - and he was rewarded here with an outstanding display, especially with two excellent saves from Redmond.
He is responsible for Liverpool still being in this tie after a shocking display.
Southampton manager Claude Puel:
"Liverpool had just the one chance all game. We were unlucky at the end because we know Liverpool away in the second leg will be very difficult.
"This competition is exciting, now it is important to keep the good concentration for the Premier League.
"We lost three games so it is important to have a good reaction."
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp:
"We needed Loris Karius to save our lives two or three times.
"The best thing for us is the result. We know that we can play better at Anfield - nothing is decided.
"We cannot be happy with the performance, Southampton cannot be happy with the result. It could and should have been 2-0, 3-0."
Former Leicester and Birmingham striker Steve Claridge:
You can make a strong case for Southampton winning 2-0 or even 3-0. Everyone here is happy but this is an opportunity missed.
If Southampton don't go through they will be kicking themselves.
Match ends, Southampton 1, Liverpool 0.
Second Half ends, Southampton 1, Liverpool 0.
Ragnar Klavan (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Shane Long (Southampton).
Attempt missed. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by James Milner.
Divock Origi (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ryan Bertrand (Southampton).
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Cédric Soares.
Attempt missed. Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Nathan Redmond (Southampton) hits the bar with a right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right.
Substitution, Liverpool. Divock Origi replaces Roberto Firmino.
Substitution, Southampton. James Ward-Prowse replaces Steven Davis.
Substitution, Southampton. Shane Long replaces Jay Rodriguez.
Jay Rodriguez (Southampton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ragnar Klavan (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jay Rodriguez (Southampton).
Attempt missed. Jay Rodriguez (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Nathan Redmond.
Attempt missed. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Nathaniel Clyne.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Southampton. Pierre-Emile Højbjerg replaces Jordy Clasie because of an injury.
Delay in match Jordy Clasie (Southampton) because of an injury.
Foul by Lucas Leiva (Liverpool).
Oriol Romeu (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Cédric Soares (Southampton) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Nathan Redmond following a fast break.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Maya Yoshida.
Dusan Tadic (Southampton) is shown the yellow card.
Offside, Liverpool. Philippe Coutinho tries a through ball, but James Milner is caught offside.
Substitution, Liverpool. Philippe Coutinho replaces Georginio Wijnaldum.
Attempt missed. Nathan Redmond (Southampton) header from a difficult angle on the right misses to the right. Assisted by Steven Davis with a cross.
Attempt saved. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Adam Lallana.
Attempt missed. Adam Lallana (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum.
Emre Can (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Oriol Romeu (Southampton).
Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Maya Yoshida (Southampton).
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by James Milner.
Attempt missed. Dusan Tadic (Southampton) left footed shot from long range on the right misses to the left. Assisted by Steven Davis from a direct free kick.
Foul by James Milner (Liverpool).
Cédric Soares (Southampton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Second Half begins Southampton 1, Liverpool 0.
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The hour-long programme, entitled Nuqanchik (We), airs on weekdays at 05:30 on radio and TV.
All journalists and producers working on the programme are native speakers.
Quechua was spoken by the indigenous people of Peru before the arrival of the Spaniards in the 16th Century.
It was declared a national language alongside Spanish in the 1970s but Peruvians say there is still a strong social stigma attached to speaking it.
Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has backed the new programme and sent its producers and presenters a message in Quechua: "Allinta munay, allinta yachay, allinta ruway," (Wish well, learn well, do well.)
Mr Kuczynski, both of whose parents emigrated to Peru from Europe, said he hoped the programme would help end discrimination.
Presenter Marisol Mena said it would contribute to creating an awareness that Quechua was not a language of the poor or disadvantaged.
"There's resistance, but [Peruvians] have to understand that there are business executives and university professors who speak Quechua as a mother tongue," she told the Agence France Press news agency.
TV Peru said it was planning to launch similar programmes in other indigenous languages.
Daniel Miller, 45, had been riding the machine at his remote property 300km (180 miles) north of Sydney.
When the edge of the dam gave way, the farmer was pinned down by a bar on the three-tonne excavator.
Mr Miller said he adopted a yoga pose - arching his back for air - until a neighbour 500m away heard him shouting.
"I was trapped and had to keep my head up above water using my arms, I guess it was the cobra position," he told Sydney's Daily Telegraph.
"I'm not a yogi but I guess you could say yoga saved my life. That and the will to live."
Rescue crews said the ordeal on Tuesday lasted two hours, but Mr Miller's wife, Saimaa, wrote on Facebook it was five hours.
Mr Miller said he spent "the whole time" thinking about returning to his wife and their two young children.
Police chief inspector Neil Stephens said only Mr Miller's nose and forehead were above the water.
"He's been extremely lucky to survive," he told Nine News.
Firefighters drained some mud and water before wading in to free Mr Miller.
"How he kept his back arched with his nose above the waterline was quite incredible for that amount of time," said Fire and Rescue New South Wales deputy captain Steve Howard.
Mr Miller was taken by helicopter to a hospital in the nearby city of Newcastle, where he was treated for hypothermia and minor back injuries.
"Dan is OK!" Ms Miller wrote online.
"He was trapped... with the weight of his excavator on his back, and with the boggy dam ground below him slowly slipping away.
"It was literally sheer mental strength and determination to survive that got him through. As well as being fit, strong and healthy. Nothing to do with luck.
"Legendary effort from a legendary man."
Jutkiewicz's first goal for Blues - and first since May 2014 - came moments after Adthe Nuhiu had headed against the crossbar for visitors Wednesday.
Gary Hooper had given them the lead going in to the closing stages from Steven Fletcher's clever back heel.
Clayton Donaldson then levelled soon after from the penalty spot after he was brought down by Keiren Westwood.
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The game at St Andrew's suddenly came to life in the closing 15 minutes after the main talking point had been Birmingham's appeals for a penalty in the first half.
Former Owls winger Jacques Maghoma appeared to have been tripped by Tom Lees on the edge of the area after he squared the ball.
Birmingham's protests went unanswered and their hopes of taking any points from the game appeared dashed when Wednesday led through substitute Hooper.
They were behind for just five minutes as Donaldson picked himself up to send Westwood the wrong way from 12 yards, having been clipped by the goalkeeper rushing off his line.
It was another substitute who had the final say as Jutkiewicz, on loan from Burnley, suddenly found space to loop his header over Westwood moments after Nuhiu headed Liam Palmer's cross against the bar at the other end.
Birmingham boss Gary Rowett:
"The way we worked hard when we were not playing well certainly gave us the opportunity to do what we did late in the game.
"The changes we made in terms of tactics gave us the chance to get back into the game. Against a team like Sheffield Wednesday you always have to ride out 15 to 20 minutes which I thought we did really well."
Sheffield Wednesday manager Carlos Carvalhal:
"I am very happy with our form. We are playing fantastic but not scoring. We again had five good chances against Birmingham.
"If we were not playing well I would be concerned. We play to win but we need to improve our finishing."
Match ends, Birmingham City 2, Sheffield Wednesday 1.
Second Half ends, Birmingham City 2, Sheffield Wednesday 1.
Adam Reach (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Adam Reach (Sheffield Wednesday).
Clayton Donaldson (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
William Buckley (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jacques Maghoma (Birmingham City).
Foul by William Buckley (Sheffield Wednesday).
Che Adams (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Birmingham City 2, Sheffield Wednesday 1. Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City) header from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Jacques Maghoma.
Atdhe Nuhiu (Sheffield Wednesday) hits the bar with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Liam Palmer with a cross.
Foul by Atdhe Nuhiu (Sheffield Wednesday).
Jonathan Grounds (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Jonathan Grounds.
Attempt blocked. William Buckley (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Fernando Forestieri.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. William Buckley replaces Ross Wallace.
Foul by Atdhe Nuhiu (Sheffield Wednesday).
Michael Morrison (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Birmingham City. Lukas Jutkiewicz tries a through ball, but Clayton Donaldson is caught offside.
Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jacques Maghoma (Birmingham City).
Foul by Atdhe Nuhiu (Sheffield Wednesday).
Michael Morrison (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Birmingham City 1, Sheffield Wednesday 1. Clayton Donaldson (Birmingham City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.
Keiren Westwood (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty conceded by Keiren Westwood (Sheffield Wednesday) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Birmingham City. Clayton Donaldson draws a foul in the penalty area.
Substitution, Birmingham City. Lukas Jutkiewicz replaces Stephen Gleeson.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Atdhe Nuhiu replaces Steven Fletcher.
Liam Palmer (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Che Adams (Birmingham City).
Goal! Birmingham City 0, Sheffield Wednesday 1. Gary Hooper (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Steven Fletcher following a set piece situation.
Gary Hooper (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonathan Spector (Birmingham City).
Attempt missed. Clayton Donaldson (Birmingham City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is too high. Assisted by Adam Legzdins.
Foul by Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday).
Jacques Maghoma (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ross Wallace (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Reece Brown (Birmingham City).
Attempt missed. Greg Stewart (Birmingham City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Galw ar Lywodraeth Cymru i gyflwyno cynllun gweithredu ar gyfer ffermwyr ifanc a newydd ddyfodiaid mae Undeb Amaethwyr Cymru ar ail ddiwrnod y Sioe Frenhinol yn Llanelwedd.
Dywedodd llywydd yr undeb, Glyn Roberts, wrth BBC Cymru y byddai angen cyflwyno ysgogiad ariannol yn ogystal â chymorth i ffermwyr oedrannus allu ymddeol a rhyddhau tir.
Ond mae'r Ysgrifennydd dros Gefn Gwlad, Lesley Griffiths, yn mynnu ei bod hi wedi blaenoriaethu ffermwyr ifanc ers dechrau yn ei swydd.
Bydd dadl yn cael ei chynnal ar faes y sioe yn ddiweddarach i drafod yr heriau sy'n wynebu'r genhedlaeth ifanc wrth geisio gyrfa ym myd amaeth.
Mae ystadegau diweddara' Llywodraeth Cymru yn awgrymu bod y gweithlu'n heneiddio. Ar gyfartaledd 60 yw oed perchennog fferm yng Nghymru erbyn hyn, gydag ond 3% dan 35.
Dywedodd Mr Roberts bod angen mynd i'r afael â "thair elfen bwysig".
"Mae angen tir, mae'n rhaid bod ffermydd ar gael i'w rhentu gan nad yw rhywun newydd sy'n dod i mewn i'r diwydiant yn mynd i fedru fforddio prynu," meddai.
"Felly mae'n hollbwysig bod daliadau cyngor sir yn cael eu cadw."
Gyda'u cyllidebau dan bwysau mae sawl awdurdod lleol yng Nghymru wedi bod yn gwerthu tir amaethyddol yn eu meddiant, cam sydd wedi cythruddo undebau ffermio.
Dywedodd: "Fe gefais i'r cyfle pan oeddwn i'n ifanc i ddechrau allan fel amaethwr drwy fod yn denant.
"Mae'n drist bod lot o ddaliadau'r cyngor sir yn cael eu gwerthu heddiw, dydy hynny ddim yn rhoi cyfle i bobl ifanc.
"Ac os 'na allwn ni ddod â phobl ifanc i mewn 'da chi'n colli agweddau gwahanol a syniadau ffres."
Dywedodd hefyd bod angen "ysgogiad ariannol" i helpu ffermwyr ifanc, a chymorth i ffermwyr oedrannus sy'n "methu fforddio ymddeol".
"Maen nhw angen ysgogiad hefyd i fynd o'r ffermydd fel bod lle i bobl newydd ddod drwyddo."
Yn 26 oed, mae Caryl Hughes newydd ddechrau ffermio 300 erw ger Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, Wrecsam.
Mae'n dod o gefndir amaethyddol ac roedd angen cymorth y busnes teuluol i fedru dechrau ffermio ar ei phen ei hun.
"Roedd rhaid i fi ddod yn bartner yn y busnes er mwyn i fi allu cael y pres tu cefn i fi oedd angen er mwyn siarad â banc," meddai.
"Dwi 'di bod yn lwcus iawn, iawn achos bod gen i'r fferm deuluol y tu nôl i mi a bod fy rhieni yn gefnogol.
"Ond i'r sawl sydd heb hynny mae'n anodd iawn. Mae rheolwyr banc yn gyndyn iawn o fenthyg arian i ffermydd newydd.
"Her arall hefyd yw gorfod ffeindio'r costau i brynu pethau ar y dechrau, prynu stoc a phethau syml fel ci a quad bike, maen nhw gyd yn hanfodol ond yn costio llawer iawn o arian ar y dechrau."
Dywedodd y byddai'n hoffi gweld Llywodraeth Cymru yn ei gwneud hi'n anoddach i dirfeddianwyr a busnesau mawr brynu tir amaeth allai gael ei gynnig i bobl ifanc.
Mae hefyd am weld cynllun 'match-making' yn cael ei gyflwyno ar gyfer ffermwyr hen ac ifanc, syniad sy'n cael ei dreialu gan Ffederasiwn Cenedlaethol Clybiau Ffermwyr Ifanc Prydain.
"Ry'ch chi'n cymryd ffermwr sydd eisiau ymddeol ac yn ei lincio fo neu hi gyda ffermwr ifanc. Y syniad yw bod y ffermwr ifanc wedyn yn dysgu gan y ffermwr hŷn.
"Gobeithio bydd hyn yn rhywbeth y bydd Llywodraeth Cymru yn ei weld ac yn sylweddoli ei fod yn syniad da."
Dywedodd yr Ysgrifennydd dros Gefn Gwlad Lesley Griffiths wrth BBC Cymru fod y llywodraeth yn "gwneud darn o waith gydag awdurdodau lleol i geisio sicrhau bod daliadau amaethyddol cynghorau sir yn cael eu cadw fel ffermydd ac ar gyfer defnydd y sector amaeth".
"Ers i fi gael fy mhenodi dwi wedi gwneud ffermwyr ifanc a newydd ddyfodiaid i'r diwydiant yn flaenoriaeth," meddai.
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) said all services would be suspended from 2 July. They are due to resume on 1 August.
A replacement bus service is being provided for passengers during the closure.
It will follow the subway route, with additional direct services to the city centre operating from key stations.
'Life-expired'
SPT said the work was essential to ensure a reliable service in the future, and comes ahead of the introduction of driverless trains in 2020.
Strategic project manager at SPT Stuart McMillan said: "We need to replace the concrete and the rails in this section in order to maintain the on-going reliability of the service.
"This part of the system was installed in the 1970s modernisation and it's now life-expired and we need to take this work in advance of us bringing new trains into the system."
Park and ride facilities will be available at Bridge Street, Kelvinbridge and Shields Road. Services will run every five minutes at peak times and every 10 minutes during off-peak.
All passengers will pay £1 for a single journey, £2 for a return and £2.50 for an all-day ticket. Child fares will be 50p for a single and £1 for a return.
The Glasgow subway is the third oldest underground system in the world and is 120 years old this year.
It is currently undergoing a £288m modernisation plan to upgrade or replace trains, signalling, platforms and stations.
All the information on the subway suspension and the replacement bus service is available on the SPT website.
The vigilantes had earlier been locked in a stand-off with security forces, who have been monitoring the conflict.
Activists from the Baptist church-connected Pat Jasan group said three people were injured in an ambush, and farmers were holding about 30 others.
Myanmar is the world's second largest producer of opium.
Over the past week at least 3,000 activists with the militia-inspired Pat Jasan have been camped out at an army checkpoint in Kachin state demanding to be let through.
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Burmese media report that the stand-off ended when authorities finally allowed the activists to clear some poppy fields on Wednesday. The BBC understands the Kachin state government negotiated their passage.
The vigilantes then engaged in skirmishes with farmers who have vowed to protect their fields.
Myanmar has promised to eradicate opium production, but growing and smuggling the drug remains a key source of income for farmers, rebel groups, militia and the Burmese army.
Myanmar launched a 15-year plan to stamp out cultivation in 1999 - a deadline since extended to 2019.
In recent years, Myanmar's army has clashed with ethnic minority rebels in Shan and Kachin states where poppy production is widespread.
The army, rebels and militias have been accused of taking a poppy tax from farmers.
Opium has traditionally been used as a medicine to treat diarrhoea, dysentery and other ailments.
But over the last decade commercial poppy production has taken hold in Myanmar, with demand from China, but also Australia and Japan, helping to fuel this trend.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in its Southeast Asia Opium Survey 2015 that the opium poppy grown in Myanmar and Laos had been refined into about 73.1 tonnes to 82.3 tonnes of street-quality heroin. It noted that transnational organised crime groups were making huge profits from the product.
Until the end of the 20th Century, Myanmar, which was part of the so-called "Golden Triangle" with neighbouring Laos and Thailand, was the largest supplier of opium. The region was then overtaken by Afghanistan.
They had attended the event at Gloucester Leisure Centre - known as GL1 - and used the inflatable balls that people climb inside.
The centre said it was aware a "group of children have been taken ill" and the zorb balls had been destroyed.
One parent, Natalie Oakley, said her daughter developed a "severe rash".
She said her daughter's experience, at the end of January, has been "horrendous...simply because of inadequate cleaning".
"What should have been a brilliant two hours of her life at the party has turned out to be now 12 days of misery," she added.
In a statement GL1 said abnormal levels of bacteria had been found in the balls.
It said: "We are co-operating with an investigation being undertaken with the local authority environmental health team and have decommissioned the equipment in use as part of the relevant activity."
Forwards Marvin Emnes and Lucas Joao both joined on loan, while Celtic defender Efe Ambrose could arrive pending a work permit decision.
They were the only deals done by Rovers, who are in the relegation zone.
"The investment is always there for the right player who becomes available at the right price," said Senior.
He told BBC Radio Lancashire: "It was never a case of 'we can't have any money' as there is money and resources there."
Owen Coyle's side have won just one of their last 10 games in the Championship and were beaten at home by Leeds United on Wednesday.
"I had a ridiculous amount of players made available to me during January," added Senior. "It is an expensive month to try and do business and you can make a lot of mistakes if you don't get the right players in.
"Part of my job is also keeping the wrong type of players out of the squad because it would be very easy to say yes, yes, yes, but you end up paying for those mistakes for along time in the future."
She pointed out that a white working-class boy is currently less likely than anyone else to go to university, and that the privately educated dominated the "top professions".
Her cabinet has the highest proportion of state-educated ministers since Clement Attlee was prime minister in 1945.
Justine Greening is the first education secretary to have been wholly educated at a comprehensive school.
However, promising social mobility and delivering it are different things, as previous governments have learned.
For decades now, the charity the Sutton Trust has been the standard-bearer for social mobility in Britain, developing schemes to help pupils from less advantaged backgrounds gain access to elite universities, and helping them into the professions.
The trust's chief executive, Lee Elliot Major, said the Brexit vote underlines the need for a broader policy now, as it exposed a divided country.
Many areas which voted Leave are those same areas where opportunities are fewest.
Mr Elliot Major said: "The political vote that we saw was a direct consequence of social immobility."
One of the Sutton Trust's newest schemes, in partnership with the Fulbright Commission, helps teenagers to apply to American universities and win scholarships to pay the fees.
It is very competitive. There are 10 applicants for every place.
Just 61 British students are going to the US on the scheme this year.
Ben Hopkins, aged 18, from the village of Wheaton Aston in Staffordshire, will soon be heading for Bowdoin in Maine, where he has won a scholarship. It is one of the most highly rated liberal arts colleges in the US, with fees of $62,000 (£48,000) a year.
Ben does not come from a privileged background. His father is a machinist, his mother a teaching assistant.
Neither went to university. The family live in a modest, though immaculate, home, on the outskirts of the village.
South Staffordshire is one of the more affluent parts of the Midlands, with a lower rate of unemployment than the national average.
It is a Conservative area. Nearly 65% voted Leave on 23 June. Those I spoke to cited fears over immigration.
Ben's mother, Tracy, told me he had always been very committed to his schoolwork, and he perseveres until he gets something right: "He's a perfectionist."
She said she wasn't a "tiger mother". Ben had always set his own pace. Both parents are very supportive of their son and proud of his achievement.
Ben told me his teachers had helped him greatly. Some gave up their own free time to give him extra lessons.
He was a pupil at the local comprehensive, Wolgarston High, in the nearby market town of Penkridge. It is rated "good" by Ofsted, and improving. It currently gets some of the best A-level results in South Staffordshire.
Every year, some pupils go to Russell Group universities, and sometimes students go to Oxford or Cambridge.
However, Ben told me that when he visited Oxford he wondered whether he would fit in, as so many students seemed to have gone to private school.
Adam Simmons, head of sixth form at Wolgarston High, said others occasionally felt the same, as there is a strong sense of community in this part of South Staffordshire, and some 18-year-olds do not want to leave.
"Sometimes it's a powerful draw, their experiences in this locality, and they don't want to give that up to go to, well any university, actually," he said.
"We've had students with three As at A-level who've decided to stay at home because they like staying at home."
Though Stafford is just over an hour from London by train, Ben had only visited the capital once before he went for the Sutton Trust assessment.
The school headteacher, Phil Tap, said he was working to arrange more trips for all students. He said there was very little in the local area to inspire and raise aspirations.
So what made Ben such an exception? His family, his teachers and ultimately, himself. No-one told him about the Sutton Trust: he discovered it online.
Adam Simmons described Ben, outgoing head boy, as an "elder statesman" of the school whom everyone respected and felt they could talk to.
Lee Eliot Major, chief executive of the Sutton Trust, urged the new government to consider how to extend social mobility to help more people.
He said; "We can pick talent and then catapult it into opportunity, as with our US programme where you have amazing young people who are going to the Ivy League and other leading universities.
"But what about those areas that are left behind? What about the children who don't go on those programmes? And I think no-one at the moment has got the answer to that."
The new government is considering reversing the ban on new grammar schools, as a way of promoting social mobility. But that's controversial - many argue it will not work.
David Skelton, of the conservative think tank Renewal, said he thought a more sophisticated and complex approach was needed now. He said: "1950s England should not be our model."
He suggested more streaming in schools could be effective, and he endorsed the comments of the new minister for skills, Robert Halfon, who has said apprenticeships should be more highly valued and more could be done to improve vocational and technical training, such as that provided by university technical colleges.
The vaccine, given to Ugandan and American volunteers, appeared to generate the desired immune response - although not enough to make it a good candidate for wider use.
Scientists say although it will not beat Ebola, it is a crucial step.
This trial has stopped but other vaccines are in development.
The Ebola virus has killed more than 7,000 people in the worst-affected countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
No proven vaccine exists to prevent people from getting the disease, though several trials are underway.
The aim of a successful vaccine is to train the immune systems of healthy people to produce antibodies - proteins capable of fighting off any future infections.
In 2009, researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) tested their experimental vaccine on healthy adults in Uganda, having first trialled it in the US.
Dr Julie Ledgerwood, the lead researcher of the trial that has been written up and published in The Lancet, said: "This is the first study to show comparable safety and immune response of an experimental Ebola vaccine in an African population.
"This is particularly encouraging because those at greatest risk of Ebola live primarily in Africa and diminished vaccine protection in African populations has been seen for other diseases."
According to the study some 57% of people in Uganda who received the Ebola vaccine alone developed antibodies against Ebola in their blood.
Dr Sridhar of the University of Oxford, commenting on the research, said the data provided insights into Ebola vaccine development.
Vaccines currently being tested against Ebola are made in a different way to the NIH one.
Several women held a silent protest in red robes and white bonnets - like the characters in the dystopian novel and TV series where fertile women are captured and forced to have children.
The proposed state legislation would ban a method of abortion commonly carried out in the second trimester.
Critics call the bill unconstitutional.
Senate Bill 145 is sponsored by members of Ohio's Republican party who say they want to end what they describe as inhumane and brutal dismemberment abortions.
The bill makes an exception where the mother's life is in danger.
However, opponents say the ban against dilation and evacuation is an attempt to block access to a common and safe abortion method.
They also argue it would particularly affect women who already struggle to obtain access to an abortion.
The Handmaid's Tale has inspired several protests against anti-abortion bills this year, including in Texas and Missouri.
The novel, by Margaret Atwood, is set in a future, dystopian America, where a violent dictatorship has been imposed and women have been stripped of all their rights.
In the novel, much of the population has become sterile, so the few remaining fertile women are captured and given to society's highest-ranking men as "handmaids", to bear the children.
Speaking to the BBC in October, Atwood said the book still had resonance, and had become a meme, because "the religious right in the United States has not faded away".
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Anti-abortion activists have been energised by the Republicans gaining control over the White House and Senate in November's election.
President Trump has in the past expressed support for a woman's right to have an abortion, but during the campaign announced that his views on the subject "have evolved".
He told an interviewer that he favoured "some form of punishment" for women who have abortions, but changed his position only hours later to say only the person performing the abortion should be punished.
The club received £1m in transfer income after the sales of Nadir Ciftci, John Souttar and Ryan McGowan.
But United's revenue fell by 21% to £4.61m through reduced prize money and match-day attendance income.
The club say they expect to make £1.5m in cost-savings this season as they bid for promotion from Championship.
Administrative costs rose during the period by more than a third to £1.8m. The board say these were mostly football-related as the club took steps to avoid relegation.
United sacked two managers in that time, parting company with Jackie McNamara and Mixu Paatelainen respectively.
The Terrors are currently second in the Championship table, seven points behind league leaders Hibernian.
A club statement read: "The latest annual accounts show the adverse economic effect of a season of poor football results which led to eventual relegation.
"Revenue dropped by 21% to £4.61m through reduced prize money and the associated drop in match attendance income related to sitting at the foot of the Premiership from October 2015 through to the season end in May 2016.
"Broadcast revenue was also down as the club featured in fewer live televised cup games."
An RNLI lifeboat from Porthdinllaen and the RAF Valley rescue helicopter were called out on Sunday at 03:15 BST.
The lifeboat towed the fishing boat back in to Morfa Nefyn.
The man was named as Gareth Jones of Morfa Nefyn by the north Wales coroner on Monday morning and a post-mortem examination is being carried out.
The family has been informed and the Marine Accident Investigation Branch is working with North Wales Police to establish what happened.
The incident is not believed to be suspicious, a police spokesperson said.
Visually impaired Knight, 18, and guide Brett Wild added silver to the downhill gold and super combined silver she had already won in Italy.
Welsh competitor Fitzpatrick and her guide Jennifer Kehoe were third.
The 18-year-old was returning to action after recovering from a broken hand suffered at the end of 2016.
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And that may be no bad thing given the difficulty players have found in winning Grand Slams in their thirties.
Only four men have managed to do so this century: Pete Sampras at the US Open of 2002; Andre Agassi, twice in three years, at the Australian Open; Stan Wawrinka at the 2015 French Open and last year's US Open; and Roger Federer, who won his 7th Wimbledon title at the age of 30 and then so memorably walked away with this year's Australian Open at the age of 35.
The incomparable Serena Williams has won 10 in her 30s, but women too have traditionally struggled to make an impact in their fourth decade.
Since the start of tennis' Open Era in 1968, just 10% of Grand Slam titles have been won by players over the age of 30. It is a percentage I think likely to increase over the next couple of years, as Murray's principal rivals remain the other members of the top five, who have triumphed in all bar two of the Grand Slams contested since the French Open of 2005.
And with the exception of Novak Djokovic, who is seven days younger than Murray, Federer, Wawrinka and Rafael Nadal are all further advanced in years.
My sense is that Murray's motivation and desire remain strong - even though he has already won three Grand Slam titles, two Olympic gold medals, the Davis Cup and been world number one, and has a wife and young daughter with whom he would love to spend more time.
With the exception of a bout of shingles and an elbow injury, which have contributed to a 2017 season which is yet to get out of first gear, Murray has been predominantly fit and healthy since undergoing successful keyhole back surgery in September 2013.
The physical nature of his style, and the reliance on exceptional defensive skills which have broken the spirit of so many opponents, will in time take their toll on his body. So while I am not putting money on him to win the 2023 Australian Open at the age of 35, I do think his prospects remain bright for at least the next two years.
Murray himself speaks openly about the prospect of remaining on tour, and thus remaining competitive, for a good few years yet. Although there may be times when his wife and team need to confiscate his racquet and balls and force him to switch off and relax - which may prove easier said than done.
Winning a Grand Slam title will remain incredibly challenging: just witness what Federer is still able to do at 35, and what a threat Nadal proved on hard courts even before there was a sniff of clay in his nostrils.
Wawrinka is likely to remain a major threat in a Slam if, having survived the first week, he hits his straps in the second, and it would be very unwise to rule Djokovic out of the equation even though he has been far from his best for 10 months now.
The 25-30 age group is headed by Milos Raonic, Kei Nishikori, Grigor Dimitrov, David Goffin and two US Open champions in Juan Martin del Potro and Marin Cilic.
Raonic and Del Potro seem most likely to pose a threat to the established order if they can steer clear of injury, but all of the above have had to soak up a lot of punishment from those serial Grand Slam winners over the years.
Which leaves the under-25s, who are an emerging threat. Dominic Thiem looks a French Open champion in the making: the 23-year-old is at a career high ranking of seven after finishing runner-up to Nadal in both Barcelona and Madrid.
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France's Lucas Pouille beat Del Potro and Nadal en route to the quarter-finals of both Wimbledon and the US Open last year. Alex Zverev, at 20 and a career high ranking of 17, has won his first three titles in the past eight months.
And then there is Nick Kyrgios, who is yet to present evidence he can keep it together to win seven matches over a two-week Grand Slam, but has been far more consistent this year and beat Djokovic twice in the space of two weeks in Acapulco and Indian Wells.
So the threat to Murray from the next generation should not be underestimated. Thirty is a significant landmark in many people's lives, but the world number one says he expects to be relaxed about it as he spends the day practising at the Foro Italico before this week's Rome Masters.
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"I think the last time I was at home on my birthday and around my friends and family was when I was 13 or 14," Murray told BBC Sport.
"I didn't even know what day [of the week] it was until I was told [last week]. Maybe on the day that will be a little bit different.
"A lot of people put huge emphasis on birthdays and I am sure it will be chatted about a lot, but I haven't thought about it too much."
Chair of Belfast's Tall Ships board, Dr Gerard O'Hare, said the Irish government would part-fund the project.
"We have a project under way, it's a cross-border project, for a new sail training tall ship for Ireland," he told the Good Morning Ulster programme.
"We hope at least part of the ship will be built at Harland and Wolff in Belfast."
Mr O'Hare added: "Since the loss of the Asgard and the Lord Rank, in theory Ireland doesn't have a sail training ship for young people.
"A new project is under way and we hope that over the next few years, Ireland will have its own sail training tall ship.
"It's being funded partly by the Irish government and we are hoping for public and private sector investment."
Mr O'Hare said the project would need a £12m (16m euro) budget.
"We hope to take part of the ship - maybe the finishing out of the ship - back to Belfast, to make sure it's a Belfast-built tall ship," he added.
Meanwhile, the Tall Ships festival is in its second day in Belfast.
The organisers estimate 500,000 people will attend the four-day festival.
Belfast is the home port for the start of the Tall Ships Races this year.
About 50 vessels will be on show from 15 different countries until Sunday.
BBC Northern Ireland is bringing you full coverage of the tall ships across TV, radio and online.
The four-time Super League champions were placed in administration for the third time on Monday.
The club's membership of the Rugby Football League has also been terminated and the club could face a points deduction or relegation.
Joint administrator Gary Pettit said: "We are excited by the interest shown."
He added: "We consider that several of the parties appear to have sufficient resources and experience to take Bradford Bulls forward.
"A lot of hard work is going on behind the scenes to safeguard the Bulls' heritage and legacy."
The Bulls entered administration in both 2012 and 2014 and finished fifth in the Championship last season.
They are scheduled to start the 2017 season at Hull KR on Sunday, 5 February.
The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) held the consultative ballot amid claims of a lack of progress in discussions over the agreement.
When it closed earlier, 97% of lecturers backed industrial action, on a turnout of 64%.
Colleges Scotland Employers Association said the strike threat was "disappointing".
They added that it was "totally inappropriate" to threaten industrial action while "constructive talks" were ongoing.
Members of the EIS Further Education Lecturers' Association (EIS-FELA) took part in the ballot.
The EIS-FELA executive has now asked the EIS to authorise a statutory industrial action ballot of its members. The full EIS executive will process this request next week.
Larry Flanagan, EIS general secretary, said: "Scotland's further education lecturers have been extremely patient in waiting for college management to deliver on their pay commitments, but that patience is now exhausted.
"After a year of dragging their feet, it is time for Scotland's colleges to make good their promises to lecturers on fair and equal pay."
EIS-FELA president John Kelly added: "This is an outstanding ballot result which clearly demonstrates the strong feelings held by Scotland's FE lecturers.
"While no lecturer wants to take strike action, we feel our hand has been forced by the actions of Scotland's college managers.
"We are now requesting a full statutory ballot for industrial action, and would urge all members to continue to support our campaign for full delivery of the pay agreement that was promised to us."
Shona Struthers, chief executive of the Colleges Scotland Employers' Association, said it held negotiations with the EIS on Thursday and agreed to continue talks this month.
She said: "Given yesterday's progress, it is disappointing and totally inappropriate that the EIS is threatening disruptive strike action while constructive talks are ongoing.
"Lecturing staff have already received a pay increase for 2016/17 which was above public sector pay policy recommendations, and we are fully committed to honouring the terms of agreement reached last March, including paying the top of the salary scale of £40,000 for lecturers.
"A national pay scale and migration plan has already been jointly developed with the EIS which will give lecturers on average a 9% pay increase over the next two years.
"We came to the negotiating table on Thursday in good faith, open to compromise, and hoping to secure agreement on the implementation of the total package agreed in March 2016, which included bringing pay and conditions together."
Stephen Yip, 57, was selected for the honour because of his work as founder of the charity Kind (Kids In Need and Distress).
The charity, which he started 37 years ago, works with disadvantaged children across the region and is funded entirely by donations.
He is the first local person from an ethnic minority group to be granted the freedom, which is one of the highest honours Liverpool can award an individual.
Mr Yip said: "It is an amazing award and its an amazing honour because I think there is no higher award than one that is given by people that you live, work and socialise with.
"I've lived here all my life so to be awarded the highest honour that our city can give me - I'm absolutely gobsmacked."
The son of a Chinese seaman, Mr Yip said he has always been a "proud Scouser".
He said: "My dad came to Liverpool as a merchant seaman and met Mum who was a Liverpool girl - they got married and had 10 kids.
"I am the son of an immigrant and I think this honour is a recognition of their contribution to Liverpool life - Liverpool is a melting pot of culture.
"I am a very proud Scouser, I was born here and have lived here all my life."
Mr Yip was brought up in the centre of Liverpool and says he has fond memories of urban life.
He said: "We lived in the last of the back to backs in Duke Terrace which was an amazing place to live because it was like having a secret garden, except there was no green - it was all concrete.
"We were in the heart of the city. Our playground was the docks and Chinatown - we were city kids."
Mr Yip was inspired to start his charity while still a student at Quarry Bank High School in the 1970s.
He said: "I was the chair of the community action group and we did a lot of fundraising. I also did a lot of volunteering for the NSPCC.
"We took some of the kids on a trip to Wales and it was so good for them, getting them into the countryside and out of their normal environment. That's when I decided this is something I'd really like to do."
He registered his charity Kind in 1975 to help children and young people "overcome their disadvantages and reach their full potential".
In 2011 he was made Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside for his role within the community and in 2002 he received an MBE for his charitable works.
Mr Yip is the 63rd person to receive the freedom of the city honour which dates from 1886.
He will receive that award at a special presentation ceremony later this year.
He said: "I'm accepting it on behalf of all the voluntary sector. I've done this for 37 years but there are lots of organisations and lots of individuals that give so much to the city in the voluntary sector.
"Also I'd like to accept it on behalf of all the sons and daughters of immigrants, of all the people who came from all over the world to make Liverpool their home.
"I hope that all young Scousers will look up and think, here's a lad who used to live in the back to backs in Liverpool one is being honoured by the city.
"If I can do it then anyone can do it."
NHS Borders warned earlier this month that it was facing "exceptional" pressure on beds at the Borders General Hospital.
An update issued on the situation said the facility near Melrose remained busy.
It stressed that staff were continuing to work hard to ensure that patients were "kept safe and well cared for".
NHS Borders reminded the public that community pharmacists were available to provide advice and treatment for a range of common illnesses and ailments, and to give advice about medicines.
"If you have an illness or injury that won't go away and that isn't an emergency, contact your GP to make an appointment," a statement added.
"When your GP surgery is closed and you're too ill to wait, you can access medical care by calling NHS 24 on the free phone number 111.
"If the condition is immediately life-threatening, dial 999 for an emergency ambulance."
Ralph Hasenhuttl's side suffered their first defeat of the season away to struggling Ingolstadt last weekend but responded on Saturday.
Striker Timo Werner put Leipzig ahead with his ninth goal of the season when he coolly finished after fine work by midfielder Naby Keita.
Defender Will Orban added a second when he headed in Emil Forsberg's corner.
RB Leipzig, who were promoted to the Bundesliga for the first time last season, are now three points clear of Bayern Munich at the summit.
Defending champions Bayern travel to bottom side Darmstadt on Sunday.
In the day's other games, Hamburg's struggles continued as they lost 3-1 to Mainz while Augsburg claimed a 1-0 home win over Borussia Monchengladbach.
Werder Bremen drew 1-1 with Cologne while Schalke were held by the same scoreline at home to Freiburg. In the day's late kick-off Wolfsburg beat Eintracht Frankfurt 1-0 to record their first home win of the season.
Match ends, RB Leipzig 2, Hertha Berlin 0.
Second Half ends, RB Leipzig 2, Hertha Berlin 0.
Corner, RB Leipzig. Conceded by Peter Pekarík.
Offside, RB Leipzig. Diego Demme tries a through ball, but Davie Selke is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Dominik Kaiser (RB Leipzig) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Yussuf Poulsen (RB Leipzig) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Fabian Lustenberger (Hertha Berlin).
Davie Selke (RB Leipzig) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jens Hegeler (Hertha Berlin).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Stefan Ilsanker (RB Leipzig) because of an injury.
Foul by Marcel Sabitzer (RB Leipzig).
Allan (Hertha Berlin) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, RB Leipzig. Davie Selke replaces Timo Werner.
Attempt missed. Emil Forsberg (RB Leipzig) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Bernardo.
Vladimir Darida (Hertha Berlin) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Benno Schmitz (RB Leipzig) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Vladimir Darida (Hertha Berlin).
Attempt missed. Alexander Esswein (Hertha Berlin) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a corner.
Corner, Hertha Berlin. Conceded by Dominik Kaiser.
Substitution, Hertha Berlin. Alexander Esswein replaces Genki Haraguchi.
Offside, RB Leipzig. Yussuf Poulsen tries a through ball, but Willi Orban is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Yussuf Poulsen (RB Leipzig) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Benno Schmitz with a headed pass.
Fabian Lustenberger (Hertha Berlin) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Timo Werner (RB Leipzig) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Fabian Lustenberger (Hertha Berlin).
Dominik Kaiser (RB Leipzig) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Vedad Ibisevic (Hertha Berlin).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Diego Demme (RB Leipzig) because of an injury.
Niklas Stark (Hertha Berlin) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Diego Demme (RB Leipzig) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Niklas Stark (Hertha Berlin).
Dangerous play by Bernardo (RB Leipzig).
Niklas Stark (Hertha Berlin) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, RB Leipzig. Conceded by Fabian Lustenberger.
Attempt blocked. Yussuf Poulsen (RB Leipzig) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Emil Forsberg.
Yussuf Poulsen (RB Leipzig) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Fabian Lustenberger (Hertha Berlin).
Corner, RB Leipzig. Conceded by Peter Pekarík.
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The fourth busiest station in the capital is preparing for part-closure as part of the Thameslink programme.
BBC London's transport correspondent Tom Edwards speaks to Simon Blanchflower from Network Rail and David Statham from Southeastern Railway.
The 25-year-old brother of England international Steve was released by Durham at the end of last season.
He has averaged 34.66 with the ball in 37 first-class matches, and 26.10 with the bat.
He told the club website: "I am delighted to have signed for Kent. I cannot wait to get down to Kent and start training with the squad."
The former England Under-19 player continued: "I am looking forward to an exciting 2012 season. This is a great opportunity and I look forward to continuing my career with a county hungry for success."
Kent chairman of cricket Graham Johnson said: "I am delighted that we have signed Ben - he offers a lot with both bat and ball, and he was a target for us during the recent recruitment process.
"He has a point to prove about making the best of his undoubted ability and we look forward to helping him do that. I am sure that all involved with Kent Cricket will make him very welcome."
Researchers found that these species compensate for their poor flapping skills by seeking out turbulence at low altitudes.
The researchers say this explains their awkward, wobbling flying style near tree-tops.
The study is published in the journal The Auk: Ornithological Advances.
Sometimes called buzzards, Turkey vultures are the most widespread of these species in North America
They are unique among these birds as they use their sense of smell to find carrion.
For this study researchers in this study observed both Turkey and Black vultures in south eastern Virginia in the US.
According to the study's lead author Julie Mallon, then at the University of West Virginia, these particular vultures have evolved a different style of flying, skirting low along the edge of forests.
"It's an energetic thing," she told BBC News.
"They don't have the muscular power other raptors like eagles have to give chase, vultures don't pursue their prey and they've lost a lot of those adaptations that allowed them to do that and one of those is sustained flapping flight."
In the place of sustained flapping, they've developed the ability to tap into the small scale turbulence that occurs when horizontal air currents hit the edge of a forest or a similar barrier.
The disturbance usually produces a small uplift that the vultures utilise to stay aloft. Researchers have termed this manoeuvre "contorted soaring".
"They are very close to the trees, often only a metre above them, they look like they are going to crash but they stay aloft, its really amazing to see," said Julie Mallon.
"They are generally following a straight line, but they will move suddenly to one side or bump up and down like a roller coaster."
"It's not a very smooth flight, but at the same time it's very graceful, the way they can keep catching air."
The scientists believe that by staying low, Turkey vultures increase their chances of sniffing carrion while avoiding the notice of higher flying birds that use visual cues to spot food.
The researchers made the discovery by the rather old fashioned method of observation - Scientists used binoculars to watch the vultures over long periods of time and record their altitudes and different types of flight.
"This paper is a real step forward in the study of vultures and other birds that use soaring flight for efficient movement across large areas," said USDA scientist Travis DeVault, an expert on the ecology of scavengers.
"Kudos to them for recognizing and describing this behaviour, which is probably used by many species worldwide."
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The Dragons led 12-4 at the break after scores from Tony Gigot and Eloi Pelissier either side of George Griffin's unconverted try for Salford.
After the first of Dave Taylor's two tries, home winger Greg Johnson then crossed twice in six minutes.
But they too went unconverted, while Pat Richards improved Taylor's second late try for his fifth kick of the day.
On top of the former Wigan Man of Steel winner's strike rate of three out of four conversions, his two penalties helped the Dragons stretch clear to win by a 16-point margin.
Pelissier needed a dislocated finger put back in place early in the second half but did not allow the injury to stop his all-action display, capped by his 26th-minute try when he strolled over to take advantage of casual marking at dummy-half.
After starting the season with a narrow defeat at Wigan, the Catalans' first win at Salford for five years - with former Reds scrum-half Richie Myler in the team - was this season's third straight away victory.
That is a marked improvement on last season's record when they won just once across the English Channel.
Salford's second home defeat of the campaign, on winter signing Gareth O'Brien's 100th career appearance, is their fourth loss in five matches.
Salford coach Ian Watson:
"We made a lot of fundamental errors and there were a lot of silly things out there. If we had completed our sets we could easily have won that game.
"We missed the jump on certain things and our organisation wasn't great. We did not get the opportunity to get to the right points and play the right system. We fell off what we have been doing.
"We conceded a couple of soft tries and that's a concentration thing."
Catalans coach Laurent Frayssinous:
"Our attitude and commitment were very good.
"It seems we have now found a way to win away from home.
"Eloi Pelissier, Greg Mounis and Remi Casty carried off from where they left off at Huddersfield five days ago."
Salford: O'Brien; Carney, Sau, J Griffin, Johnson; Lee, Dobson; Kopczak, Tomkins, G Griffin, Murdoch, Jones, Forster.
Interchanges: Flanagan, A Walne, Sarsfield, Joseph.
Catalans Dragons: Gigot; Broughton, Horo, Duport, Richards; Carney, Myler; Taylor, Pelissier, Bousquet, Anderson, Stewart, Mounis.
Interchanges: Aiton, Casty, Maria, W Mason.
Referee: Richard Silverwood (RFL).
Robin Rhodes, 57, is accused of saying "Trump... will get rid of all of you." and blocking the woman from leaving her office in the Delta Sky Lounge.
Assault and unlawful imprisonment are among the hate crimes charges he faces, the Queens District Attorney said.
He faces up to four years in prison if convicted.
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The Delta airlines employee, who wears a heard scarf or hijab, was sitting in her office on Wednesday evening when Mr Rhodes is alleged to have come up to the door, sworn at her, punched the door, blocked the doorway and kicked her in the right leg.
When another individual intervened and she then left the office, he is alleged to have followed her and got down on his knees in an imitation of Muslim prayer.
"[Expletive deleted] Islam, [Expletive deleted] ISIS, Trump is here now. He will get rid of all of you. You can ask Germany, Belgium and France about these kind of people. You will see what happens," he is accused of shouting.
They say an "unusual amount" of people online have put money on Her Majesty giving up the throne and handing it down to a younger generation.
Six people - within 10 minutes - waged a bet on it today.
There have been similar bets placed before but it's the fact these recent ones were made in "quick succession" which "set alarm bells ringing".
Buckingham Palace told Newsbeat: "We would not directly comment on a bookmaker's work."
But Newsbeat has been told the chances of a Christmas day abdication are unlikely - here's why:
The Palace suggested that we take a look at some of the speeches the Queen has given.
On her 21st birthday when she was still a princess she gave a radio broadcast to the Commonwealth.
She said: "I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong."
Then during the Coronation in 1953 she made a promise to God to govern the countries she's head of state for - a promise which she said she would "perform and keep. So help me God."
Sorry to spoil it for you but the Queen's Christmas speech isn't live and will have been recorded in front of other people.
It's unlikely that the Royal Household would risk including something as big as an abdication within the speech for fear that the information may be leaked before it is officially announced to the public.
Grant Harold, former butler to Prince Charles and the Royal Household, doesn't believe she'll do it.
Speaking to Newsbeat he says: "She's very much the old school - she's taken on this responsibility and I think she means what she's said in her speeches.
"I wouldn't have thought she would change her mind. She's got no reason to change. She's still got the support of the Duke of Edinburgh backing her all the way.
"I know she's cutting back in duties but I think she'll stay until the sad day when her life comes to an end. She sees it as her duty to carry on to the day she dies."
There's only been one occasion that a British monarch has abdicated and that was the Queen's uncle in 1936.
He wanted to marry Wallis Simpson but because she was a divorcee he wasn't allowed.
As the British monarch he was also head of the Church of England and they didn't permit the remarriage of divorced people until 2002.
He chose love over being King Edward VIII. The throne then passed to his younger brother, the Queen's dad, King George VI.
It caused a lot of controversy at the time and the country went into a state of panic.
Other monarchies in Europe have abdicated the throne without much of a fuss.
Earlier this year, King Juan Carlos of Spain stood down for personal reasons. He's been suffering ill-health for the past couple of years.
His son, the now King Felipe, took over his duties. It was the third time in 18 months that a king or queen in Europe stepped down.
It's become a bit of a tradition in the Netherlands to abdicate when you feel you've had enough.
The past three Dutch monarchs - all queens - have all chosen to step down from the job.
Last year Queen Beatrix handed over the ceremonial power to her son - Willem-Alexander.
Her mother Juliana resigned the throne in 1980 on her 71st birthday, and her grandmother Wilhelmina abdicated in 1948 at the age of 68.
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World football's governing body turned down a request by both teams to wear the symbol to mark Armistice Day.
Fifa said it had not "banned" the move but "reiterated" rules on displaying "political" statements on shirts.
England and Scotland could now face a points deduction, a fine, or both.
England won the Group F match 3-0 thanks to goals from Daniel Sturridge, Adam Lallana and Gary Cahill.
Northern Ireland's players wore plain black armbands during their 4-0 World Cup qualifying Group C victory against Azerbaijan in Belfast on Friday.
Wales will wear plain black armbands when they face Serbia on Saturday.
The Football Association of Wales says it does not want to risk a financial penalty or points deduction by going against Fifa's rules.
The poppy is a symbol of remembrance for those who have died in conflict and is traditionally worn on and in the days before and after 11 November, which is also known as Armistice Day.
According to the rule-making International Football Association Board, which includes members of the four British FAs, players cannot wear "political, religious or personal slogans, statements or images".
Fifa secretary general Fatma Samoura said last week: "We have to apply uniformly and across the 211 member associations the laws of the game.
"Britain is not the only country that has been suffering from the result of war."
Fifa's match commissioner at Wembley will decide whether to mention the armbands in their official report.
If they do, the case would then go to Fifa's disciplinary committee.
The English Football Association has already said it will contest any fine and believes its "legal position is right and our moral position is right".
But former England right-back Danny Mills believes the FA "has picked the wrong fight" and is "likely to get a fine".
The former Leeds player told BBC Breakfast: "Surely all of the money that has been spent on arguments, lawyers and the fine it may get from Fifa would have been much better being donated to the Royal British Legion.
"It would have done far more good than this needless argument."
The Scottish Football Association believes Fifa is "misinterpreting the rules" and claims the poppy "is not a political statement".
He was riding a black Suzuki in Halfway Road at about 10:00 BST when he crashed with a Ford Fiesta.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene and his next of kin have been informed, Kent Police said.
A 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving and is in custody.
Newlywed Michaela McAreavey was murdered in her hotel room on the island of Mauritius.
John McAreavey, her husband of less than two weeks, said "my life ended as well" that day.
The McAreaveys were on honeymoon at the Legends Hotel when John found 27-year-old Michaela dead in the bathtub of their room.
Michaela, daughter of Mickey Harte, one of Ireland's leading sports figures had gone back to their room from a poolside restaurant to get biscuits.
When she did not return her husband went back to their room and found her body in the bath. She had been strangled.
The police and prosecution said she had been murdered after disturbing thieves in her room.
Five hotel workers would later be arrested over the murder before two - floor supervisor Sandip Moneea, 43, and cleaner Avinash Treebhoowoon, 32, were charged.
Both denied the murder.
The trial at the island's Supreme Court in the capital city of Port Louis was expected to last around two weeks. It would instead take more than six weeks.
Some of the most harrowing testimony came from Michaela's widower John.
He recalled finding their hotel room door open, then seeing his wife in the bath with the water still running.
"I ran to the bathroom, dropped my bag and grabbed Michaela," he said.
He said he did not know what was going on, but she was cold and he noticed marks on her neck.
He said he pulled Mrs McAreavey from the bathtub, and although he did not know CPR he attempted to resuscitate her.
"I was holding her in my arms, telling her to wake up - 'Michaela, Michaela, come on, wake up'," he told the jury.
Mr McAreavey said he then screamed for help.
The McAreavey and Harte families were often upset by some of the proceedings, which had to be adjourned on 15 June after heated exchanges between the defence and prosecution.
In the early days of the trial, the family were also clearly upset at occasional bursts of laughter from the public gallery.
They were prompted by the extrovert style of defence barrister Ravi Rutnah.
He later withdrew as defence counsel, claiming his professional integrity had been questioned by a prosecution witness.
In May, there were angry scenes over what the defence claimed was a sex guide found in the McAreaveys' room.
A family friend told the BBC the booklet was an insert from a women's magazine.
John McAreavey said on the day of the murder he had offered to go up to the room instead of Michaela.
"Obviously I wish I had gone," he told the court.
He said he and Michaela had never got the chance to spend one night in the house they planned to start married life in.
"It was very important to us that we would only ever live together when we were married," he said.
"We felt by waiting it would make the experience more new and magical and something to look forward to after we returned from honeymoon."
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The order formalises a decision by Betsi Cadwaladr health board last week not to contest a judicial review of its proposed changes to services at Ysbyty Glan Glwyd in Bodelwyddan.
Mrs Justice Davies said the board had "lost or eroded the trust" of some employees and people in the community.
The board had to "regain that trust".
The process brings to a close the legal procedure started when campaigners sought a judicial review over the board's plans.
Last week, Betsi's interim chief executive Simon Dean said they had advised the court the board no longer wanted to contest the judicial review, and would now be consulting on the future of services.
The hospital had originally planned to end consultant-led services in April but the bid for judicial review put the plan on hold.
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Rivers burst their banks in Cumbria with flooding affecting roads, farmland and train services across the county.
Only a handful of homes are thought to have been affected despite initial fears up to 1,600 properties could be at risk.
Reception centres were set up in the Cumbrian towns of Kendal and Egremont.
In addition to Cumbria, where the main A66 route was flooded at Threlkeld, some of the worst hit areas were in West and North Yorkshire.
The River Wharfe burst its banks in a number of places as it surged through Ilkley, Otley and Pool, north of Leeds.
Northern Trains had to cancel a large number of services after lines were flooded in West Yorkshire, including in Hebden Bridge and Leeds.
In Stockton-on-Tees, three people were taken to hospital for checks after a taxi overturned in what police described as "awful driving conditions".
The A65 in the Settle area of North Yorkshire was also badly affected by localised floods and North Yorkshire Police attended reports of a fallen tree blocking a road in the Ingleton area.
River levels in many parts of England appeared to be dropping, although 39 flood warnings remained in place overnight.
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The Environment Agency said it was particularly concerned about the town of Tadcaster, further down the River Wharfe.
Neil Davies, Environment Agency flood risk duty manager, said: "Further heavy, persistent rain is expected into Monday and river levels remain extremely high and are continuing to rise in places."
The Army is due to leave the barracks in 2013, when training facilities will be moved elsewhere.
The exhibition is being held by Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) as part of public consultation, Surrey Heath council said.
Proposals for the 117-hectare site include housing, open space, access roads, a primary school and some shops.
Opponents of the plan have questioned whether the infrastructure is adequate to cope with an influx of hundreds of new residents.
Surrey Heath council said this consultation was being carried out by DIO, which is responsible for Ministry of Defence (MoD) property, but the local authority would run its own consultation after a formal planning application was submitted.
The site is being released by the MoD following a national review of training that was prompted by the deaths of four soldiers in unclear circumstances at the Surrey army base.
Privates Sean Benton, Cheryl James, Geoff Gray and James Collinson all died from gunshot wounds between 1995 and 2002.
A coroner recorded a verdict of suicide for Pte Benton, but the inquests into the other three returned open verdicts.
The exhibition was taking place on Wednesday at Deepcut Village Hall.
The man was detained near Casablanca on Friday, the interior ministry said, and had travelled from Syria via Turkey, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
He had fought in Syria with al-Nusra front before joining so-called Islamic State, Morocco said.
The Paris attacks of 13 November killed 130 people.
They are believed to have been at least partly planned in Brussels, and Belgian police have arrested several people as part of their investigation.
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The Moroccan interior ministry's statement did not name the suspect, but gave his initials in Arabic, which could be translated as either GA or JA.
The statement said the man, arrested in Mohammediya, had travelled to Syria "with one of the suicide bombers of Saint-Denis".
French police raided a flat in the Saint-Denis district of Paris five days after the attacks, searching for the suspected ringleader, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian national. He and his cousin Hasna Aitboulahcen died in a fierce gun battle during the raid.
A third person who died during the raid, detonating a suicide bomb, was named by the Paris prosecutor's office last week as Chakib Akrouh, a Belgian-Moroccan national, born in Belgium in 1990. He was identified using DNA from his mother.
Both Akrouh and Abaaoud had spent time in Syria.
The Moroccan statement said the arrested man had "built solid ties with IS leaders, including the ringleader of the Paris attacks".
He would stand trial once investigations finish, it added.
Paris prosecutors would not comment on the arrest.
The focus of the international manhunt remains Frenchman Salah Abdeslam, who is suspected of taking part in the attacks and is still on the run.
In three separate cases, high profile and influential individuals - a Bollywood star, a powerful politician, and a former business baron - were allowed to walk free by appeals court despite being found guilty by lower courts.
The actor was found guilty of running a vehicle over people sleeping on the street, the politician of amassing unaccounted wealth and the former business baron of corporate fraud.
The wheels of justice grind slowly in India - more than 30 million cases are pending in its courts and more than a quarter of them have been unresolved for at least five years. Snail justice ends up benefitting the rich as witnesses can be intimidated and bought and political pressure and money power can be used to influence and subdue prosecutors and sometimes judges.
It took 13 years for a court in Mumbai to convict actor Salman Khan of culpable homicide and sentence him to five years in prison despite prosecution witnesses turning hostile. But it took two days for an appeals court to suspend the sentence and grant him bail. It helped that Khan had access to some of the best and most expensive lawyers. India has over a million registered lawyers, but a large number of them graduate with dubious degrees from indifferent law schools, are poorly educated and, according to lawyer-turned-journalist Kian Ganz, "effectively operate as fixers... hawking for work outside small claims courts or as notaries".
After 18 years, a court last September found former Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayaram Jayalalitha guilty of amassing unaccounted-for-wealth and sentenced her to four years. Some seven months later, on Monday, an appeals court cleared her of corruption charges, saying that the trial court had "exaggerated" her wealth.
The case was moved from Tamil Nadu to neighbouring Karnataka to ensure a fair trial, but that doesn't appear to have helped matters. As Supreme Court lawyer Karuna Nundy pointed out, the high court in Karnataka examined the same evidence and said in its 919-page ruling "repeatedly that the acquittal was a failure of the prosecution".
It took six years for a court in April to declare B Ramalinga Raju, former head of Satyam Computers, guilty of criminal conspiracy and cheating and sentenced him to seven years in jail. A month later, on Monday, the appeals court accepted a defence plea that he had spent 35 months in jail, a "substantial part" of his term, and granted him bail after suspending his sentence.
To be sure, the three rulings really do not mark any sea change and have just happened to come around the same time. It is also true that India's higher courts routinely revoke orders of lower trial courts. For years politicians have evaded corruption charges and the rich and famous have escaped criminal liability through "high-priced lawyering".
At the same time, many believe, the recent rulings are - again - an indictment of India's ailing and unfair justice system which is heavily loaded against the poor, and shabby investigation by the police.
Thousands of undertrials languish in Indian prisons for lesser offences unable to afford bail. Judges are also often blamed for being anti-poor. After the Supreme Court granted bail to Jayalalitha last year, Supreme Court lawyer Rajeev Dhavan wrote tellingly about bail discrimination: "Bail for as many is good, but applying it differentially is not. We do not have clear principles to guide bail decisions - especially in post-conviction cases, where judges look at the crime and behave totally with subjective arbitrariness against the poor."
The recent rulings reminded me of a highly acclaimed recent indie film called Court - possibly the best Indian film of the year so far - which astutely skewers the country's discriminatory and outdated justice system. A part-time teacher and social activist is hauled to a court on trumped up charges of instigating a sewage worker to kill himself after listening to one of the activist's incendiary songs. The case grinds on in drab courtrooms with no end in sight, and effectively destroys the activist.
Of course, as Nick Robinson, a fellow at the Harvard Law School's Program on the Legal Profession and at Delhi's Centre for Policy Research, tells me, there are often good judges trying to do the right thing. "But politics and money is so embedded in the system that it clearly tilts the deck in favour of the powerful," he says. "I also think some judges worry that if they are seen as overly-punitive on those with power, then there might be a backlash against them impacting their careers or the authority of the judiciary."
India needs more judges, more and better educated lawyers and a thorough repair of what academics Devesh Kapur and Milan Vaishnav call the "dilapidated and clogged" plumbing of its courts. Otherwise, as they warn, the judicial process itself will remain the punishment, an enduring shame for the world's biggest democracy.
The Sydney Morning Herald claimed they disagreed over a deadline for proving Clarke's fitness for the World Cup, which begins on 14 February.
Clarke, 33, made 51 playing grade cricket for Western Suburbs on Saturday on his return from hamstring surgery.
"I've copped it my whole career. It's another day, it's another newspaper sold. I don't really care," he said.
"Some people are going to write what they want."
Batsman Clarke has not played since having surgery on a hamstring injury sustained in the first Test against India in December.
In January, he was named in Australia's 15-man World Cup squad, on condition he proved his fitness in time for their second group game against Bangladesh in Brisbane on 21 February.
Clarke is reported to think their fourth match against Afghanistan in Perth on 4 March is more realistic.
However, he said: "I'm really happy and comfortable with my relationship with Cricket Australia, firstly, certainly with my team-mates, so it's water off a duck's back.
"My job is to get fit and healthy and I can't wait to get back on the park for Australia.
"I'm certainly ahead of where the surgeon and the Australian medical staff thought I would be at the six-and-a-half-week stage."
In Clarke's absence, Steve Smith has excelled as stand-in captain, winning the Allan Border Medal and claiming Test and one-day player of the year accolades at Australia's annual cricket awards.
It is one option being looked at by the Department of Health's joint committee on vaccination and immunisation.
The number of cases in England and Wales this year is already three times higher than for the whole of 2011.
The Department of Health said any decision to expand the vaccination programme would not be taken lightly.
Babies are currently offered a whooping cough vaccine at two, three and four months of age.
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said on Friday that it was very concerned about the surge and warned parents to be on the look-out for symptoms of whooping cough and to ensure their children were vaccinated on time.
The condition is characterised by severe coughing, followed by a gasp or "whoop".
There have been 235 cases this year among babies aged under three months, which is double the number recorded in the last peak in 2008.
Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is more dangerous for young babies because they do not get the benefits from vaccination until about four months.
The Department of Health's committee is considering whether to vaccinate more people to help tackle the outbreak.
This could mean booster doses for teenagers, and jabs for pregnant women and newborn babies and their families.
The HPA said there had been 1,047 whooping cough cases reported in July, bringing the total this year to 3,513. Surges are seen every three to four years.
A Department of Health spokesman said: "We continue to see high uptake of vaccination against whooping cough and are investigating the recent increase in cases. This highlights the importance of vaccination against this and other illnesses.
"The joint committee on vaccination and immunisation is looking at whether more people need to be vaccinated. Careful consideration is always needed around expanding any programme.
"Parents should make sure their children are up to date with all vaccinations, and should speak to their GP if they need advice."
At its peak, 35 firefighters were needed to bring the blaze in Upper Dock Street under control after getting a call just after 03:00 BST On Thursday.
The building consists of a vape shop and two floors of offices and South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the fire was out by about 07:15.
No-one was inside when the fire started, but police evacuated neighbouring buildings as a precaution.
Firefighters remain at the scene and are damping down to prevent any reignition.
The adjacent Kingsway, one of the main roads through the centre of Newport, was closed in both directions for several hours while the blaze was ongoing.
Gwent Police said it had been reopened by 07:50, but High Street and Skinner Street remain closed.
England have clinched the Six Nations title but victory in Paris on Saturday will complete five wins out of five.
"We haven't done anything yet," said Jones. "We've got the Six Nations trophy, but it doesn't feel like that."
Scrum-half Danny Care and prop Mako Vunipola come into the side that beat Wales last weekend.
France have finished in the bottom half of the table in the past four Six Nations while England will be looking to win a Grand Slam for the 13th time.
"If you look at their team, they have got very talented individuals. We are certain they will play a traditional French game based on forward power and off-the-cuff rugby," said Jones.
"We have just got to be intense and physical to not allow them in the game. They have got a new coach who likes a certain style of play and they are trying to develop that play."
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Jones also said his predecessor Stuart Lancaster deserved credit for doing a "great job" developing the team.
Lancaster, 46, left his post in November after three and a half years in charge, following England's early exit from their home World Cup and Jones told BBC Sport that Lancaster should be "congratulated on the job he did".
The 56-year-old Australian added: "I'd be remiss not to say that a lot of the success has got to be put down to what Stuart Lancaster did with this group of players."
England had the youngest squad at the World Cup, with an average age of 26.2 years.
Jones, the first foreign coach of the England team, added: "He did a great job developing this team up to the stage they were, so we're all thankful to him."
Police said they were responding to a report of a dispute at a house at Mullach Alainn near Omeath in County Louth at about 18:00 local time on Sunday when the incident occurred.
A woman was also seriously injured in the shooting.
The police officer who died was Anthony Golden, 36, a father of three.
BBC NI's Dublin Correspondent Shane Harrison said the gunman had been named locally as 24-year-old Adrian Crevan Mackin.
He was facing charges of membership of a dissident republican organisation and was out on bail.
Commissioner Noirín O'Sullivan, the head of the Irish police force, said the incident was a "terrible tragedy".
"I am deeply saddened to hear of the death of my colleague in a fatal shooting incident this evening while carrying out their duties," she said.
"This incident highlights the unique nature of the job carried out by the men and women of [the police force], and the dangers they face every day."
Frances Fitzgerald, the Irish justice minister, said the police officer's death would be "mourned by the entire nation".
"The fact that [he] has laid down his life while protecting the community is a cause of great sadness," she said.
"While no words at this time can be expected to console his wife and children, his family, his colleagues and all who loved him, they know that he gave his life protecting the community he was so proud to serve."
Irish President Michael D Higgins contacted Commissioner O'Sullivan to offer his condolences.
"I want to express my deepest sympathy to the family and friends of the Garda who has so tragically lost his life while responding to this incident," he said.
"My thoughts at this time are also with all others who have been affected by the events in Omeath earlier this evening."
Northern Ireland Justice Minister David Ford said he was "absolutely horrified" to hear about the deaths.
"I spoke to my colleague Frances Fitzgerald in Dublin to express my sympathy and asked her to pass that on to garda officers," he said.
The Garda Representative Association, which represents rank and file members of the Irish police force, said it was "shocked and saddened" by the officer's death.
Its president Dermot O'Brien said: "This dreadful, dreadful news is the deepest fear of every police family. This puts everything we do into perspective."
The scene of the shooting has been sealed off for a forensic examination.
Firefighters and police were called to the Claire House children's hospice store in Bromborough, Wirral, at about 03:40 GMT.
A passer-by had seen smoke pouring from a broken window and dialled 999.
No one was injured but the building was badly damaged in what Merseyside Police are treating as a deliberately-started fire. The force has launched an appeal for witnesses to come forward.
Det Insp Paul Parry said: "The charity which is based there will inevitably be disrupted and that is a great shame when it does so much good in the local community.
"Someone out there will know who has done this and I would urge them to do the right thing and come forward."
Mr Cunha is a rival of President Dilma Rousseff, He will be charged with bribery connected to contracts with the state oil company, Petrobras.
The court will rule later on whether Mr Cunha should leave his post. He denies wrongdoing and refuses to stand down.
Mr Cunha has been leading efforts to impeach President Rousseff.
The lower house's Ethics Committee has also approved an investigation into whether Eduardo Cunha should lose his position for lying to a congressional hearing by denying he held bank accounts overseas.
Swiss prosecutors say they later located accounts held by Mr Cunha.
Prosecutors have said Mr Cunha accepted $5m (£3.5m) in bribes between 2006 and 2012 in connection with the construction of two Petrobras drilling ships.
He is charged with corruption and money-laundering. The charges are part of a wide-ranging and complex investigation into a huge corruption scheme at Petrobras.
Under Brazilian law, charges against federal congressmen and other top government officials can only be filed and judged by the Supreme Court.
Mark McGuigan's calm finish gave Stranraer the lead and Scott Robertson fired home the hosts' second.
McGuigan notched his second from Kyle Turner's assist before the break.
Stenny pulled one back in the second half from the penalty spot, Jason Scotland converting after Craig Pettigrew had fouled Mark Gilhaney.
The attackers fired guns and threw grenades at worshippers during Friday prayers. Three militants later blew themselves up and two were captured.
An Ahmadi leader called for greater government protection after the attacks by suspected Taliban militants.
Lahore has been the scene of a string of brazen attacks.
The victims were buried in Rabwah, the religious headquarters of the Ahmadi community.
Security was tight at the two mosques on Saturday.
A day earlier, several attackers, armed with AK-47 rifles, shotguns and grenades, held people hostage briefly inside a mosque in the heavily built-up Garhi Shahu area.
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Some took up positions on top of the minarets, and fired at police engaged in gunfights with militants below.
Police took control of the other mosque in the nearby Model Town area after a two-hour gunfight.
Pakistan's Geo TV channel said the Pakistani Taliban had claimed responsibility for the assaults.
Members of the community have often been mobbed, or gunned down in targeted attacks, says the BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad.
But this is the first time their places of worship have suffered daring and well co-ordinated attacks that bear the mark of Taliban militants, our correspondent adds.
Ali Dayan Hassan of Human Rights Watch told the BBC the worshippers were "easy targets" for militant Sunni groups who consider the Ahmadis to be infidels.
While the Ahmadis consider themselves Muslim and follow all Islamic rituals, they were declared non-Muslim in Pakistan in 1973, and in 1984 they were legally barred from proselytising or identifying themselves as Muslims.
The note will be a limited edition that will be auctioned to raise money for BBC Children in Need this autumn.
Kayla Robson, at Morgan Academy, won the competition which challenged children to design part of the £5 Bank of Scotland banknote.
The theme was What does BBC Children in Need mean to you? The note will be Bank of Scotland's first polymer note.
The circulation will be limited to just 50 notes, which officials believe will make it popular among collectors.
The charity's iconic mascot, Pudsey Bear will be on the note with Kayla's design depicting him wearing a kilt and raising a Saltire on the back.
Graeme Donald, Bank of Scotland competition judge said: "The bank received over 4,000 entries to this competition, a fantastic response, and all the judges were blown away with the quality of the entries and the imagination and creativity shown by the children.
"Choosing a winner was not an easy process but when we looked at Kayla's design, which combines brilliantly the use of colour and shading, we felt it brought home what BBC Children in Need means to so many people as well as having all the right attributes to make a great £5 note.
"This will be the first time the designs of children have been incorporated on a Scottish banknote and we hope to raise lots of money for BBC Children in Need."
The winner Kayla Robson said: "I love drawing and have always enjoyed raising money for BBC Children in Need in school.
"I am very excited at winning and can't wait to see my design on the £5 note."
Last month the bank announced that its next £5 and £10 banknotes will be printed on polymer.
The design of the main replacement polymer £5 note will be unveiled before the end of this year with the note itself issuing in the second half of 2016. It will be followed a year later by the polymer £10 note.
Bath have ruled out surgery for the 24-year-old, who suffered medial ligament damage against Northampton.
Wales play Australia on 5 November before games against Argentina, Japan and South Africa.
"He's had a scan. It's anything from six to eight weeks," said Bath director of rugby Todd Blackadder.
Faletau, who joined the Premiership club from Newport Gwent Dragons this summer, was replaced 12 minutes into the 18-14 win at Northampton Saints.
He is one of seven Welsh exiles who will have to rely on being picked as wildcards for international selection during 2016-17.
George North, Jamie Roberts, Rhys Priestland, Dominic Day, Nicky Thomas and Rhodri Williams are the others.
The Welsh Rugby Union's senior player selection policy means only three players who play outside Wales can be picked.
Interim Wales head coach Rob Howley announces his squad for Wales' November Test matches on Tuesday, 18 October.
Hundreds of thousands called for democratic reforms in a peaceful demonstration largely focused on a gathering in Tiananmen Square in the summer of 1989.
Security forces cracked down on the six-week protests on 4 June 1989, killing hundreds in the streets of Beijing. The authorities classify the 1989 protests as counter-revolutionary riots and hold no memorial.
Some Chinese papers discuss the controversial topic of democracy, but without making any direct comment on the Tiananmen Square incident.
A headline in the Global Times' editorial reads: "25 years on, society firmer about its path."
The editorial, which is only available in print and e-paper format, criticises media outlets in the US and Europe for "ramping up" reports on "China's crackdown on illegal activities in the public sphere" leading up to the anniversary.
"China has shielded relevant information in a bid to wield a positive influence on the smooth development of reform and opening-up??? Chinese society has never forgotten the incident 25 years ago but not talking about it indicates the attitude of society," it says.
Adding that the "Chinese society still remembers how poor we were 25 years ago", it quotes examples of Ukraine and Thailand to caution against the "preaching and appeals from the West".
"We will not follow the steps of the West. Even those who are captivated by Western ideology are alert to the possibility of the country sinking into turbulence," it warns.
Echoing similar sentiments, an article in the China Daily praises "socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics".
Making no mention of the incident, Liu Guijun, a researcher with the Communist Party Central Committee's Literature Research office, writes that "China's democracy is people's democracy under the leadership of the party".
"Therefore, if China adheres to the development path it has chosen, it can establish itself as a successful institutional system different from those followed by Western countries," he adds.
Meanwhile, both Hong Kong and Taiwanese news outlets quote China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei as saying that the Chinese government had long ago reached "the conclusion about the political turmoil at the end of the 1980s".
However, the foreign ministry's press conference website is not carrying Mr Hong's remarks.
Hong Kong media outlets also report that support for the 1989 student protests has dropped, although a majority of Hong Kong residents still believe that the central government was wrong in suppressing the protests.
According to a survey conducted by Hong Kong University's Public Opinion Programme, only 48% of the respondents agreed that "the Beijing students did the right thing", in contrast with 54% a year ago.
The South China Morning Post expects "tens of thousands of Hong Kongers" to attend the candlelight vigil on Wednesday as people still remember the "tragedy of the brutal crackdown" and "younger people have taken up the candles from the older generation".
In Taiwan, experts tell the Apple Daily that China's suppression of dissenting voices is stronger than in the past.
Media outlets also report that President Ma Yingjeou has urged the mainland to "think hard about the significance of the Tiananmen massacre" and to turn the "historic scar" into energy to "push forward real reforms of the country's political and social systems".
A report in the Central News Agency observes that the atmosphere is tense in Beijing and that there are "more armed police than tourists in Tiananmen Square" on Wednesday.
"The country's system is reminding the people not to create trouble, but the public are awakening too. Keeping silent does not mean they do not know [about the incident]??? a big country needs to have the courage to face up to the past before it can become a strong country," it adds.
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The 23-year-old right-back also rejected offers from Dundee and Polish top-flight club Jagiellonia Bialystok.
Thistle manager Alan Archibald told the club's website: "It's great to bring Ziggy to the club.
"He has a wealth of experience at Premiership level and I'm sure he'll be a great addition to the squad."
Thistle were looking for right-back cover after Mustapha Dumbuya suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon and Gary Miller left for Plymouth Argyle.
Gordon, who came through the youth ranks with Accies and made 40 appearances last season, had been viewed by Dundee as a replacement for Paul McGinn, who moved to Chesterfield this summer.
"Paul Hartley is a fantastic manager and he's a great guy as well, but my gut feeling at the time was that it wasn't the right path for me to go on," the Scottish defender told BBC Scotland ahead of Thistle's announcement.
Jagiellonia, from Bialystok in the east of Poland, finished 11th in last season's Ekstraklasa and had a transfer bid for the defender rejected in January 2015.
"These two were really good offers," said Gordon, whose mother's family hail from Krakow. "People would bite your hand off to go to either club - massive clubs with massive opportunities.
"Dundee are a big club here and I'm sure they'll do well this season and Bialystok in Poland, they are a big club and have just got a new stadium as well - 17,000 fans every week.
"So it was a very tough decision and I don't take it lightly. It just didn't sit well enough with me to sign."
Gordon admitted that it was a difficult decision to leave New Douglas Park.
"I'm the kind of person that really needs to think about the decision he makes and I've been at Hamilton for a long time - 13 years, since I was 10 years old," he added.
"This next step is really crucial for my development and my career, so it is not one I take too lightly.
"It is very emotional, especially with the season we had last season. It was a really up and down season - in some parts we looked like a top-six team and then in other parts we looked like relegation candidates.
"It made it more emotional helping to keep them in the Premiership."
They were crossing at Welburn near Malton at about 23:00 BST on Friday, North Yorkshire Police said.
The pair were pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. The vehicle driver and his wife, travelling towards Scarborough, were uninjured.
The road was closed in both directions for about four hours but has since reopened.
The force has appealed for any witnesses to contact them.
The Bluebirds have eight Championship games left, starting at Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday.
But rather than thoughts of a summer break Warnock is busy preparing his charges for the next campaign.
"We start next season now. We want to keep the momentum going," said Bamba. "We can't stop talking about it."
Warnock has signed a contract extension to keep him in Wales' capital for 2017-18 and has made no secret of the fact he is aiming to add another promotion to his already formidable record.
The 68-year-old has sought financial backing from the Bluebirds' board and Bamba believes he and his teammates will be contenders to rise to the Premier League.
"Everything we are doing now is for next season. The gaffer says that every day," said Bamba.
"If we don't do things right, he says he is going to get new players or change things, which is fair enough.
"We start now and we are ready for it.
"We believe (we can be promotion contenders). We've got the right manager.
"If you look since the manager has been at the club, I think he said it himself, we would be third in the league from when he took over.
"We want to build on that and we do believe we can be up there, definitely. We've got good players.
"We've beaten some good teams in the league.
"If we do the right things next season and believe in ourselves, we have a good chance."
Such positive talk shows how far the Bluebirds have come since Warnock took charge in October with the Bluebirds sitting one place off the bottom of the Championship.
Victory over Ipswich before the international break took Cardiff above the 'magic' 50 points mark often cited as the amount needed to avoid relegation.
But Bamba, who was one of Warnock's first signings, says it was apparent straight away that, under their new boss, the Bluebirds would be looking up the table rather than down.
The 32-year-old centre-half added: "We were in a relegation battle then, but after a few games we were more looking up than down.
"It's definitely down to the manager. He gave us a lot of confidence. He told the players he believed in us.
"He's a character with a lot of experience in this league. We responded to that and now we are looking up."
Those from the poorest backgrounds, with more loans available to support them, will graduate with debts of over £57,000 says the think tank.
Interest charges are levied as soon as courses begin and the IFS says students on average will have accrued £5,800 in interest charges by the time they have graduated from university.
Report author Chris Belfield describes the interest as "very high", but the Department for Education declined to comment on the increase in charges.
Universities Minister Jo Johnson says that more disadvantaged students than ever are going to university.
The study from the IFS compares England's current student finance system introduced in 2012, where fees were raised to £9,000, with the previous system introduced in 2006, when fees were about £3,000.
Because the level at which graduates have to repay also increased, to £21,000, it meant that those with low incomes were initially better off, says the IFS.
But the repayment threshold has been frozen since 2012 - and the IFS report says that graduates on all income levels are now worse off than under the previous fee regime.
Students from disadvantaged backgrounds can borrow more in maintenance support - but because these are now loans rather than grants, it means that the poorest students will leave with the highest debts.
The increase in interest rates and tuition fees going up to £9,250 per year will push up the cost of loans for all graduates - and higher earners will pay interest of £40,000 on top of the amount borrowed.
Mr Belfield says the 6.1% being charged on loans is "very high compared with current market rates".
But if loans are not repaid after 30 years, they are written off - and the IFS forecasts that about three-quarters of students will not pay off all their debt, despite making payments from their earnings into their 50s.
The government also wants to sell off student loans to private investors - with some pre-2012 loans having already been put up for sale.
The report says there have been two main beneficiaries from the current fee system - universities and the government's finances.
Universities have increased per-student funding by 25% since fees rose to £9,000, says the IFS, after taking into account the money they no longer receive directly from the government.
Last week, Mr Johnson warned against university leaders being paid excessive salaries - with some vice-chancellors earning over £400,000.
Replacing grants with loans and freezing the earnings threshold for repayment has made the system less expensive for the government.
The IFS says that the lowest-earning third of graduates are paying 30% more than in 2012, when the £21,000 threshold was introduced.
The switch in costs to students will mean cutting government borrowing by £3bn in the long term.
Tuition fees became a high-profile issue during the general election - with Labour promising to scrap tuition fees.
The big swing to Labour in university seats was seen as suggesting that young people were concerned about tuition fees - and plans for them to begin rising each year.
Senior Conservative minister Damian Green, speaking last week, recognised that fees had become a big issue, particular for young voters, and that universities needed to show they were providing value for money.
The IFS analysis says scrapping tuition fees would cost £11bn per year. But it also warns that continuing on the current trajectory of "high debts, high interest rates and low repayment rates" would mean problems both for "graduates and the public finances".
The report says that the overall trend has been to increase university funding, reduce government spending on higher education, "while substantially increasing payments by graduates, especially high-earning graduates".
Labour's shadow education minister, Gordon Marsden, said: "This report shows that any argument that the current fee system is progressive is absolute nonsense.
"From scrapping the maintenance grant to freezing the repayment threshold, this government has increased the debt burden of students from disadvantaged backgrounds, who will graduate with debts in excess of £57,000."
"Under the Tories, student debt continues to rise with no end in sight, and students in the UK will now graduate with a shocking average of over £50,000 in debt."
Mr Johnson said: "The government consciously subsidises the studies of those who for a variety of reasons, including family responsibilities, may not repay their loans in full.
"This is a vital and deliberate investment in the skills base of this country, not a symptom of a broken student finance system.
"And the evidence bears this out: young people from poorer backgrounds are now going to university at a record rate - up 43% since 2009."
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Tests on 1,414 people showed that part of the immune system - called T-cells - was able to attack regions of the virus that were common to many different strains of flu.
The team at University College London says it may be possible to develop a "universal flu vaccine".
However, virologists warned flu was an expert at mutating.
The body produces antibodies in response to an infection or flu vaccine that bind to the surface of a virus.
But flu is skilled at changing its appearance and rendering antibodies useless, which is why a new flu vaccine is needed each year.
T-cells are a different weapon in the immune system.
They are able to target the hidden parts of flu, which change less frequently.
This means that after being exposed to one strain of flu, people may have resistance to other strains too.
Tests on nearly 1,500 unvaccinated people over the course of four years indicated 43% had "cross-protection" to seasonal and pandemic flus.
The data was published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
However, the flu vaccines given to adults do not generate a T-cells response, meaning a new type of vaccine is needed.
Prof Andrew Hayward, from University College London, told the BBC News website that developing a T-cell vaccine for flu could protect against a wide range of strains - a "universal flu vaccine".
He said: "It may increase the level of protection we can give to elderly people, who currently often have an immune response to the current vaccine which is not as good as in young people.
"From time-to-time we predict the antibodies that go into the seasonal flu vaccine wrong, so we get a mismatch between the vaccine and the circulating flu."
He said this cross-protection could minimise the impact of such a mismatch and play a role in pandemics when new flu viruses emerged.
"Having a cross-protective vaccine could allow it to be used much earlier in the pandemic and could make a difference it the spread and ultimate size of the pandemic," he added.
Prof Jonathan Ball, from the University of Nottingham, said: "Our immune system deploys two types of weapon to combat viral infections - antibodies and T-cells, and both are important.
"The current study shows that the other arm of our adaptive immune response - the T-cells - might offer some protection against genetically different strains of the virus.
"We know that influenza's response to host immunity is mutation - so, whether or not these findings can be translated into a vaccine that can yield a level of cross-protection that the virus can't escape from is still a big unknown. "
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Tottenham, the only team who can pip them to the title, lost ground when they drew 1-1 with West Brom on Monday.
Even if they fail to beat United, the Foxes only need three points from three games to be certain of finishing top.
Spurs are now seven points adrift with three games left, but boss Mauricio Pochettino said: "We still need to believe. We are not going to give up."
Tottenham striker Harry Kane added: "Hopefully Manchester United can do us a favour. It has not gone. We need to keep fighting. All we can do is keep fighting."
Claudio Ranieri's Leicester side started the campaign as 5,000-1 outsiders for the title, having narrowly escaped relegation last season.
They are now 1-16 to claim their first top-flight success after leaving Manchester United, Arsenal, Manchester City and defending champions Chelsea in their wake.
"There's still work to do but, in most people's eyes, it is done and dusted," former Foxes defender Matt Elliott told BBC Radio 5 live.
"Leicester can win the title at Old Trafford... it sounds incredible.
"I'm covering it on the radio and there are three of us going up in the car. If they win, it won't be me driving home."
Former Tottenham midfielder Jermaine Jenas said Leicester's title win would be one of the "biggest ever" sports stories.
"Everyone's pinching themselves because it's an unbelievable achievement," the Match of the Day pundit added.
"These players will be legends at Leicester. They will have done it with class and quality and it's good for football. It's a beautiful story."
West Brom manager Tony Pulis told BBC Radio 5 live he wanted the East Midlands club to win the title.
"Leicester is such a wonderful story and I don't think it can happen anywhere else but in this country," he said.
"I just think it's a wonderful, wonderful story, but they still have a lot of work to do."
Leicester, owned by Thai billionaire Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, have already qualified for the Champions League for the first time.
They started the season as one of the favourites for relegation, with only the three promoted sides - Watford, Norwich and Bournemouth - longer odds for the title.
Ranieri, who took charge when Nigel Pearson was sacked in the summer, was seen as an uninspired choice by some fans and pundits.
"Claudio Ranieri, really?" tweeted former Leicester striker Gary Lineker after the Italian's appointment.
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Match of the Day presenter Lineker has previously suggested his hometown club were on the "edge of sporting immortality" and said it would be the "most unlikely triumph in the history of team sport".
MOTD pundit and former England striker Alan Shearer, who won the title with Blackburn Rovers in 1995, has also described a potential Leicester title victory as "the best story of all time".
If Leicester are to win at Old Trafford, they will have to do so without leading goalscorer Jamie Vardy.
He misses the game after the Football Association gave him an additional one-match ban for improper conduct following his dismissal against West Ham.
A blog report by security expert Brian Krebs has suggested that several of its stores in north-east America have been affected by a breach.
If correct, it would make Staples the latest in an increasingly long line of US retailers to have been targeted by hackers.
The US government has called for a swift move to chip-and-pin technology.
Stores are gradually making the move from using magnetic strip payment cards - the most common form of payment in the US - to the more secure chip-and-pin.
Many are now rushing through the changes following a series of high-profile breaches where hackers have put card-stealing malware on cash registers.
Staples, it seems, could be the latest victim.
Mr Krebs, a US security expert who has written widely on retail data breaches, blogged that bank officials were investigating breaches at Staples stores in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
"Multiple banks say they have identified a pattern of credit and debit card fraud suggesting that several Staples Inc. office supply locations in north-eastern United States are currently dealing with a data breach," Mr Krebs wrote.
Staples said it was investigating the matter.
"Staples is in the process of investigating a potential issue involving credit card data and has contacted law enforcement," company spokesman Mark Cautela said in a statement.
Earlier this month, Sears Holdings said it had discovered that point-of-sale registers at its Kmart stores had been compromised by malicious software.
Fast-food chain Dairy Queen also reported that malware had been installed on cash registers in nearly 400 of its stores.
And, at the end of last year, Target suffered a massive data breach which affected up to 70 million customers.
It has led the US government to call for the widespread adoption of chip-and-pin technology.
"With over 100 million Americans falling victim to data breaches over the last year, and millions suffering from credit card fraud and identity crimes, there is a need to act and move our economy toward secure technologies that better secure transactions and safeguard sensitive data," the Obama administration said in a press release.
The young male hen harrier fledged last summer and was found dead a few months later near Newtonmore.
A number of examinations were done of the carcase, including by a laboratory at Scotland's Rural College.
Scientists identified injuries likely to have been caused by a shot gun. Police Scotland said its enquiries into the case were ongoing.
RSPB Scotland became concerned for the bird, known as Lad, in September last year after its tag indicated that it had stopped moving.
The 26-year-old, who has won 12 international caps for Scotland, has made 81 appearances since joining Sarries from Bedford Blues in 2011.
"I don't think he gets the credit for the wonderful work he can do with and without the ball," director of rugby Mark McCall said.
"His work-rate and contribution to this team is enormous."
Sarries have not disclosed the length of Taylor's new deal at Allianz Park.
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A win over France in Vannes on Friday would see England complete the Grand Slam and clinch their first Six Nation's title since 2012.
"It's been a few years since we have been battling it out for the Grand Slam," Croker said.
"We have a new group now, we have rebuilt from the World Cup. Last year and at the beginning of the Six Nations this year people started to write us off.
"But we have really grown as a group and we are hoping to put on a good performance in France."
Now technology is becoming available that aims to help the daily battle to stay on-task.
Will Henshall used to play guitar in R&B band Londonbeat, and, while he would not want to question people's music taste, he has some very fixed ideas about what you should be listening to at your desk.
U2 or Snoop Dog on your playlist? Turn it off immediately if you want to get any work done.
"Those are the two most distracting types of music, and it is no coincidence that they also happen to be two of the biggest selling artists. It turns out that listening to music that you like will distract you," he said.
Working with neuroscientists, Mr Henshall has spent several years exploring which music best engages the parts of your brain that aid concentration.
His research indicated the best music was neutral, something that workers neither liked nor disliked. Music with lyrics was too distracting when compared with instrumental tunes.
The trick, according to Mr Henshall, is to occupy your brain just enough to let you work.
He has gathered a bunch of remixed music together on a website, called focusatwill. Users can choose from 10 categories - including Classical, Ambient, Up Tempo and Acoustic and can set the energy level they want.
"It turns out that the music that works best for you is unique to you," he said.
So far the website has 300,000 subscribers, and, according to Mr Henshall, the average user will engage with the site for seven hours a day.
Users are given a month free trial during which they are given tips to find out what music works best for them, and, if they like the system, can subscribe after that for $5 (£3) a month.
In May the firm launched a channel aimed specifically at people with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder).
Mr Henshall told BBC: "We live in an always-on world and distraction levels are so high. I'm here now at Venice Beach in California, and everyone is looking at their phones and not the sunset. What's going on with that?
"It is increasingly difficult to concentrate on doing anything. I want to create technology that helps us do stuff rather than wasting time and also helps us get our sense of selves back."
But not all neuroscientists are convinced.
"I'm not aware of any convincing research showing that certain types of music can be beneficial to concentration," Dr Matt Wall, from the Imanova centre for imaging sciences, told the BBC.
"It's true that purely instrumental music is better to have in the background while you're working than vocal music (as it interferes less with verbal working memory), but any old instrumental music will do, and arguably it's better to have nothing at all in the background if you're really trying to concentrate," he added.
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Thync is a three-year-old start-up founded by engineering and neuroscience experts from Stanford, Harvard and MIT.
Like focusatwill, it wants to use technology to unlock the power of the mind and has come up with a wearable that it claims can literally alter your mood.
"We can tap into pathways we have inside us and trigger a response - it is tapping into the power of the mind," said Issy Goldwasser, co-founder of Thync.
The system works via a headpiece that is connected to a mobile app via wires - there are no pictures yet as the firm does not want to reveal the product until it is launched in 2015. Details of how exactly it will work were also sketchy.
It may sound like a step too far for many, but investors seem to like the idea - so far it has raised $13m in funding.
Talks with the Federal Drug Administration, not always the easiest regulator to please, are also going smoothly, Mr Issy Goldwasser .
"We are in dialogue with them, and so far things are going well," he told the BBC.
"It is not enhancing you in any way. It is more comparable to having a coffee or a Red Bull," he added.
Some electrical brain stimulation equipment already on the market was recently criticised by scientists from Oxford University.
Writing in the Journal of Neuroscience, Roi Cohen Kadosh warned: "It is not something that people should be doing at home at this stage. I do not recommend people buy this equipment. At the moment it's not therapy, it's an experimental tool."
For Dr Wall, the science behind the product seems solid, but he remains to be convinced about how much help it will be to individuals.
"It's hard to evaluate at the moment, as they haven't actually released a product, or even many details about what the product might actually be," he told the BBC.
"My natural instinct with this is to be sceptical, and cautious. It's true that you can get reliable effects with devices like this in the laboratory, and in some ways they do seem to be able to 'enhance' performance, but the effects are generally quite small."
Advances in understanding how the brain and nervous system works will be responsible for some life-changing technology, according to most experts. But for now, any neuroscience-based spin-off industries remain embryonic.
Neuromarketing - a term coined by the marketing industry to describe firms such as Sensum, which offers to measure emotional responses to content in adverts - is particularly unproven, according to Dr Wall.
"I have a quite sceptical approach to these things and to the whole 'brain training' idea and am generally of the opinion that these products are massively over-hyped," he said.
"Most of these products don't really have any solid data behind them and haven't been convincingly shown to produce the effects they claim."
Lithuania and Poland both issued statements of concern.
Russia has not confirmed the report but insists it has every right to station missiles in its western-most region.
Moscow has long threatened to move Iskander short-range missile systems to Kaliningrad in response to the United States' own European missile shield.
Russia sees the missile shield as a threat to its nuclear deterrent.
It was one of the biggest sources of confrontation between Moscow and Washington during the presidencies of George W Bush and Vladimir Putin.
President Barack Obama tried to "reset" relations with Russia, and the shield system was revised - but it survived in a different form and continued to antagonise Russia.
The US insists that the missile shield is not aimed at Russia but designed to defend Europe from attack from "rogue states" - assumed to include Iran.
A Russian defence ministry spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, did not confirm the report - in the German newspaper Bild - that the Iskander system had been deployed to Kaliningrad.
But he did say: "Iskander operational-tactical missile systems have indeed been commissioned by the Western Military District's missile and artillery forces," adding that Russia's deployment "does not violate any international treaties or agreements".
The Western Military District includes parts of western and north-western Russia, including the Kaliningrad exclave, which is separated from Russia proper and wedged between Poland, Lithuania, and the Baltic Sea.
The Russian newspaper Izvestia reported on Monday that the missiles had already been stationed in the area for more than a year.
Lithuania's Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said: "I am worried about signals that Russia is about to modernise missile systems it has deployed in Kaliningrad.
"Further militarisation of this region, bordering the Baltic states and Nato, creates further anxiety, and we will be watching the situation there closely.''
The Polish foreign ministry said: "Plans to deploy new Iskander-M rockets in [Kaliningrad] are worrying."
It added that such a deployment "would contradict effective Polish-Russian co-operation, in particular with respect to this region, and undermine constructive dialogue between Nato and Russia. We will raise this topic in our bilateral contacts with the Russian side."
They have been used to monitor areas where the birds are being persecuted.
It is thought to be the first time the technology has been used in this way in the United Kingdom.
It follows dozens of cases of poisoning across Northern Ireland over the last few years. According to the PSNI, there were 44 reports of birds of prey being killed illegally between 2009 and 2014.
Several peregrines are lost every year to illegal poisoning, shooting or trapping, said the Northern Ireland Raptor Study Group, which has been helping with the survey work.
The Northern Ireland Environment Agency is overseeing the work, which is part of a wider initiative to protect the nests of peregrine falcons.
The species often raise its young in quarries or on cliff faces.
There are around 80 breeding pairs of peregrines in Northern Ireland, but only about half of them fledge young every year.
While numbers of peregrines have increased in recent years they are still being persecuted, said wildlife officer Jon Lees.
"They can also be disturbed to the point of nest abandonment by people who just want a closer look or a photograph," he said.
PSNI wildlife liaison officer, Emma Meredith, said the drones provided the ability to survey hard-to-reach areas.
She added the new technology means that "there is no hiding place for those who seek to persecute wild birds".
Ms Meredith said the PSNI takes "all types of crimes seriously and this includes wildlife crime such as shooting, poisoning or trapping of birds of prey".
"On occasions, baits (such as a rabbit carcass or sausages) have been laid laced with poison in the public domain," she said.
She added that some of the food left out to poison the birds was found to contain the banned and "seriously dangerous" substance, Carbofuran.
"Be under no illusion, this type of poison is an indiscriminate killer and can also be fatal to humans, not only wildlife suffers but also any child, adult or pet could find and ultimately consume these poisoned baits."
A scheme backed by the government will include alternative job training, replanting projects and microloans.
Mangroves are considered to be one of the world's most at-risk habitats, with more than half being lost or destroyed in the past century.
Conservationists hope other mangrove-rich nations will follow suit and adopt a similar protection model.
Commenting on the agreement, Sri Lanka President Maithreepala Sirisena said: "It is the responsibility and the necessity of all government institutions, private institutions, non-government organisations, researchers, intelligentsia and civil community to be united to protect the mangrove ecosystem."
The Sri Lankan government is a joint partner overseeing the measures, alongside global NGO Seacology, and Sri Lanka-based Sudeesa, which was formerly known as the Small Fishers Federation of Lanka.
'Extreme importance'
Seacology executive director Duane Silverstein said the pioneering framework had "extreme importance as a model" that could be used throughout the world.
"No nation in history has ever protected all of its mangrove forests and Sri Lanka is going to be the first one to do so," he told BBC News.
"This is through a combination of laws, sustainable alternative incomes and mangrove nurseries.
It is also very significant considering the importance of mangroves as a means of sequestering carbon."
"It is not only that mangroves sequester an order of magnitude more carbon than other types of forest, but it is sequestered for so much longer.
"In the case of mangroves, it is forecast that this lasts millennia," he observed.
Mangroves are evergreen trees that are found in more than 120 tropical and sub-tropical nations.
They are able to grow in seawater, and their strong, stilt-like root systems allow them to thrive in swamps, deltas or coastal areas.
The trees sequester the carbon in the top few metres of soil, which is primarily an anaerobic environment - without oxygen.
As a result, the organisms that usually lead to the decomposition of organic material are not present, meaning the carbon remains locked in the environment for longer.
Because of their surrounding habitat and the lack of readily available fuel, mangrove forests are also not susceptible to forest fires.
But mangroves also offer coastal communities a more direct and immediate form of protection, explained Mr Silverstein.
"After the 2004 (Indian Ocean) tsunami, it became evident - particularly in Sri Lanka which was severely impacted - that those villages that had intact mangroves suffered significantly less damage than those that did not.
A report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) published 12 months after the devastating tsunami compared two coastal villages in Sri Lanka that were hit by the wall of water.
It showed that two people died in the settlement with dense mangrove and scrub forest, while up to 6,000 people died in the village without similar vegetation.
"Another advantage of a healthy mangrove ecosystem is that the stilted root systems serve as nurseries for many of the fish species that go on to populate coral reefs.
Healthy fish populations, sustained by healthy mangrove forests, have also provided livelihoods and nutrition for millions of small-scale fishermen and their families for generations, allowing coastal communities to sustain themselves.
Costing livelihoods
Anuradha Wickramasinghe, chairman of Sudeesa, said: "People live in these areas because they depend on the mangroves because a lot of the fish they catch come from mangroves.
But he added: "Shrimp farmers have been either legally or illegally cutting down mangroves.
Farmed shrimps, or prawns, account for more than half of the global demand for the crustaceans.
A UN report published in November 2012 warned that the growing demand for prawns meant that valuable mangrove forests were still being felled or were under threat of being felled.
Mr Wickramasinghe told BBC News: "Shrimp farming results in a significant fall in fish catch yields, so fishermen are losing income so it costs them their livelihoods.
"So they know about the importance of mangroves and they are keen to protect them.
Mr Silverstein hoped the Sri Lanka protection model would be adopted by other nations.
"We absolutely believe that Sri Lanka's mangrove model will serve as a model for other nations to follow."
The scheme, which will cost US $3.4m over five years, aims to protect all 8,800 hectares (21,800 acres) of existing mangrove forests by providing alternative job training, funding microloans to people in exchange for protecting local mangroves forests.
It also involves a replanting project, which aims to replace 3,900 hectares of mangroves that had been felled.
He submitted an early guilty plea for the Grade B charge in Salford's 14-42 win against Batley Bulldogs.
Hull KR's Jamie Peacock has also been charged for contact with a referee but the club say he will not face a ban.
The Grade A charge was issued against Peacock following the 23-22 defeat against Huddersfield Giants.
The winner of Saturday's Million Pound Game will retain their Super League status and secure their place in English rugby league's top flight for 2017, while the loser will drop to the Championship for next season.
Minorities are becoming an increasingly larger portion of the population that votes in US presidential elections, and those voters overwhelmingly support Democrats.
The numbers speak for themselves. In 2012 Republican candidate Mitt Romney won 17% of the non-white vote - Hispanics, blacks, Asians and others - and 59% of the white vote.
Thanks to population changes in the last four years, if the 2016 Republican nominee maintained that non-white percentage, he or she would have to win about 64% of the white vote, according to Republican pollsters Glen Bolger and Neil Newhouse - a seemingly insurmountable margin.
The last Republican to win a presidential election, George W Bush in 2004, carried 58% of the white vote and 26% of the non-white vote. In 2016 those would be losing numbers.
At the National Urban League's presidential forum, the audience favourite was former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - and she seemed to feed on the crowd's energy.
If there were some concern that Democrats have been taking the black vote for granted, she wanted the community to know that "your issues are deeply personal to me".
"The real test of a candidate's commitment is not if we come to speak at a national conference, as important as that is, it's whether we're still around after the cameras are gone and the votes are counted."
Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush received polite applause throughout his address.
Unlike Mrs Clinton and the other Democrats who spoke today, he gets points just for showing up before this audience. Most of the other Republicans didn't - only Mr Bush and Ben Carson attended.
He noted his defeat during his first run for governor in 1994 as a key turning point that has made him more sensitive to the concerns of the black community.
"I went through what some people might call self-reflection - I call living and learning," he said.
As It Happened: Candidates court black voters
When political analysts and strategists talk about Republican efforts to reach out to minority voters, the focus of late largely has been on Hispanics. They represent the largest, fastest-growing block of the non-white electorate - 10% of the electorate in 2012 - and they are perceived to be more open to a conservative message because of studies showing them to be more religious, with a high value on tight-knit families.
The politics of the immigration issue - including border security and the status of undocumented workers - have complicated the Republican pitch, however. Candidates like Donald Trump, with his now-infamous line about Mexico sending "criminals, drug dealers, rapists, etc" to the US, are taking hard line positions that some fear could alienate Hispanic voters.
"All the Latino friendly Republican candidates in the world may be unable to repair the damage done by a primary that seems set to turn on antipathy toward Hispanic immigrant culture," writes Noah Rothman in an essay in Commentary magazine.
As another option, he argues, Republican candidates should try to make inroads in a voting segment that has turned out in record numbers and voted overwhelmingly for the Democrat in the past two presidential elections - blacks.
That Democrat on the ballot in 2008 and 2012, of course, was Barack Obama - and his status as the first black US president likely explains much of the enthusiasm and support for his campaign.
Mr Obama isn't running in 2016, however, leading Rothman to argue that the black vote represents an "untapped well" for Republicans.
"If Republicans were even modestly successful in appealing to African-Americans, it would make winning elections substantially more difficult for Democratic politicians," he writes.
This may explain why Republican candidates like former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and former Texas Governor Rick Perry are leavening their speeches with talk of broadening their party's appeal and advancing issues they believe will attract blacks voters.
Mr Paul, for instance, calls for creating low-tax, low-regulation "economic freedom zones" in black neighbourhoods, restoring voting rights for convicted felons and reforming a federal prison sentencing system that has been criticised as being unfair to blacks.
Mr Bush has pledged to campaign in places where Republicans rarely appear, such as inner cities and black churches.
"I want to be the candidate who goes into the African-American community and says: 'Join our team because our values are the ones that you share'," Mr Bush said recently in New Hampshire.
In a speech in early July, Mr Perry asserted that Republicans were in part to blame for their party's lack of black support by placing too much emphasis on states' rights.
"There has been, and there will continue to be an important and a legitimate role for the federal government in enforcing civil rights," he said. "When we gave up trying to win the support of African-Americans, we lost our moral legitimacy as the party of Lincoln, as the party of equal opportunity for all."
On Friday Mr Bush - along with fellow Republican Ben Carson, the only prominent black candidate for either party, and Democrats Hillary Clinton, Martin O'Malley and Bernie Sanders - will travel to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to address the annual conference of the National Urban League, a black civil rights organization. Mr Paul was a keynote speaker at its 2014 gathering.
At the conference on Thursday, attendees and speakers grappled with the upcoming 2016 election and the role that black voters will play. Some of the talk could prove encouraging for Republicans.
"We are a part, as black voters, of a coalition that we've given everything to and can't ask anything from," Van Jones, an environmental activist, lawyer and former Obama adviser, said during a panel on the presidential race. "As long as that's our position, we're going to continue to be mistreated within our own party."
Blacks have been supportive of other Democratic priorities, such as immigration reform, the environment and gay rights, but are being ignored on matters that concern their communities.
"The Obama era of black silence on issues that are important to us is over," he said.
That doesn't necessarily mean good news for conservatives, however. Fellow panellist Angela Rye, a political strategist and former executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus, said after the session that she's seen little from the current crop of Republicans that will appeal to black voters.
"Black folks shouldn't be beholden to the Democratic Party, they should be beholden to their interests," she said. "To me, however, the Republicans are style over substance. Anybody can come up with a good talking point or two. I'd love to see what their real agenda looks like."
These spilt sentiments - a dissatisfaction with the Democratic response to black issues but a lack of trust in a viable Republican alternative - were echoed among many convention attendees.
Ludlow Bailey of Miami said that while Mr Bush was "a balanced guy" and a smart politician, his attempts to reach out to the black community were being drowned out by candidates like Mr Trump.
"Donald Trump is really screwing it up for Republicans," he said, adding that it was not just Hispanics who were being put off by his brash style.
If the black community is in turmoil, that could represent a rare opportunity for Republican candidates to tip the balance a bit more in their favour for the first time in more than a generation.
Toward the end of the day on Thursday, the Reverend Al Sharpton - a long time black activist who has a reputation for brashness himself - pointed out that in 2016 Americans will elect the first white president to follow a black president.
"The bar has been raised higher than it has been before," he said. "After Obama you can not get away with what you got away with before."
That is an opportunity and a challenge - for Republicans and Democrats alike.
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Joseph Sheridan, 13, died of multiple injuries after the crash on the Southend-bound carriageway of the A127 near Basildon in February.
An inquest into his death earlier heard there were no issues found with the BMW involved.
A verdict of accidental death was recorded by Greater Essex Coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray.
Joseph was hit by a car near the junction with Oak Lane, a private road which leads to the former Dale Farm travellers' site.
The following night about 30 people blocked the road in protest by parking cars across the lanes. The road was shut for about five hours.
Signs on the A127, which has a 70mph (112kmh) speed limit along the stretch involved in the crash, warn: "Do not cross. Fatal accident site."
The 31-year-old BMW driver was initially arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving but was released without charge.
Along with neighbouring and mainly Albanian-inhabited Kosovo, it has a Muslim majority - a legacy of its centuries of Ottoman rule. Approaching twenty per cent of the population are Christians, divided mainly between the Orthodox and smaller Catholic denominations.
After World War II, Albania became a Stalinist state under Enver Hoxha, and remained staunchly isolationist until its transition to democracy after 1990.
The 1992 elections ended 47 years of communist rule, but the latter half of the decade saw a quick turnover of presidents and prime ministers.
Many Albanians left the country in search of work; the money they send home remains an important source of revenue.
During the Nato bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, nearly 500,000 ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo spilled over the border, imposing a huge burden on Albania's already fragile economy.
While there have been signs of economic progress with inflation under tighter control and some growth, the country remains one of the poorest in Europe outside the former Soviet Union. By 2013, public debt stood at 60% of GDP.
Country profiles compiled by BBC Monitoring
Unemployment remains stubbornly high, and the infrastructure and corruption continue to deter much foreign investment. According to a report published by graft watchdog Transparency International in 2012, Albania is currently the most corrupt country in Europe.
Albania made a formal application for membership of the European Union in 2009, on the basis of a 2006 Stabilisation and Association agreement. It was granted EU candidate status in June 2014.
The EU is keen to encourage further reform, particularly as regards stamping out organised crime and corruption and developing media freedom and property and minority rights.
Edi Rama, the Socialist Party leader who took over the reins of government in 2013, has vowed that Albania will achieve full EU membership within the next ten years.
Family members told local media that Vilma Trujillo had been attacked by four people led by a man who said he was an evangelical pastor.
Juan Rocha denied burning Mrs Trujillo, saying evil spirits had suspended her above the fire and then dropped her.
Relatives found Mrs Trujillo, 25, hours later with severe burns.
The police have arrested Mr Rocha and a number of other people allegedly involved in the attack.
The victim's husband, Reynaldo Peralta Rodriguez, said the mother-of-two was taken inside a church last week when members thought she was possessed after allegedly trying to attack people with a machete, the Associated Press reports.
"It's unforgiveable what they did to us," he was quoted as saying.
"They killed my wife, the mother of my two little ones. Now what am I going to tell them?"
Pablo Cuevas, a spokesman for Nicaragua's Human Rights Commission, called on the government for firmer control over religious sects in the country.
"It is incredible that these things can happen today, there has to be a review by the authorities into all the different denominations and religions," he said. "We can't have things like this happening."
Women's rights groups said the case was an example of fanaticism and misogyny.
Juanita Jimenez of the Autonomous Women's Movement (MAM) told local media that it was also the product of a lack of state presence in isolated parts of the country and an act of barbarity.
"Apart from the religious aspect, nothing justifies an act that is as cruel as burning a woman, putting her on a fire with the help of other people who you have used religion to manipulate," the activist said.
Acknowledging the scale of the problem the education ministry's permanent secretary Adamu Hussaini said it was "sad to note" that Nigeria had 10.5 million children out of school.
This is the first time senior officials have admitted the size of the problem.
Cultural factors have been blamed but critics point to a lack of money going to publicly funded schools.
The UN's children's agency, Unicef, has been campaigning on this issue as well as a number of other groups.
Africa Live: Updates on this and other stories
On a visit to the country last week, education activist Malala Yousafzai met acting president Yemi Osinbajo and asked him to declare what she called "an education state of emergency in Nigeria".
Mr Hussaini said those most affected were girls, street children and the children of nomadic groups and added that economic prosperity can only be achieved with an "inclusive and functional education system".
But BBC Hausa editor Jimeh Saleh says the failure in the education system is due to a lack of government funding, rather than any cultural factors as suggested by the ministry.
"Government funded schools in Nigeria have practically collapsed over the years because of poor funding leaving children from poor homes with nowhere to go but the streets," he says.
Unicef estimates that 60% of Nigerian children not attending school live in the north of the country.
But what are the plans? What could they mean for the future of the longest form of the game? And what are some of the interested parties saying about it all?
BBC Sport, with the help of cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew, looks behind the news releases and official statements to bring you the facts and opinions.
Sweeping reforms to the way Test cricket operates, that's what. Based on a highly controversial 'position paper', containing the proposals and leaked to the media in the past fortnight, we know what some of those who control international cricket have come up with, including:
"The other countries have been ambushed by this. England, India and Australia have gone away quietly over the last six months and come up with this scheme. There are so many things to worry about here and, frankly, I can't see an awful lot of good for Test cricket to come out of it."
So, quite a seismic upheaval.
The short answer is that it's that time of year again - the ICC Dubai conference which features 10 Test-playing nations, three associate nation representatives and the organisation's own president, vice-president and chief executive.
But there's general agreement within the sport that Test cricket is in a vulnerable position, squeezed by the growing popularity of Twenty20, particularly in the southern hemisphere. In India, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and even to a certain extent Australia, crowds for Test matches are falling. There are very real concerns that cricket's most traditional format could die out.
Until this past week, even ardent cricket fans had not heard of the ICC's Finance and Commercial Affairs committee (F&CA) chaired by England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Giles Clarke. Not any more. That group are behind these proposals and are seeking to make a persuasive case for themselves as likeliest custodians of the game.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is a truly heavyweight organisation, being in control of the most lucrative cricket-playing nation.
It has been suggested that, should the F&CA's proposals have cold water poured on them in Dubai, the BCCI could disassociate itself from the ICC altogether, effectively "going it alone" on the international cricket scene. India bring so much to the table in terms of broadcasting rights (more on that later) that they wield significant political influence.
India exiting the ICC is the nuclear option perhaps, but it's enough to force those in attendance in Dubai to take these revolutionary proposals all the more seriously.
"The other nations have been ambushed because they so desperately need in particular India's money," says BBC Sport's cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew.
"They need India to tour. The West Indies very recently had India playing a one-day tour there and, if you watched it on the telly, you'd think it was being played in Hyderabad or Mumbai because all the advertising logos, everything was Indian and yet it was being played in the West Indies. So, they all need India's money."
1. South Africa
2. India
3. Australia
4. England
5. Pakistan
6. Sri Lanka
7. West Indies
8. New Zealand
9. Zimbabwe
10. Bangladesh
As well as securing the future of Test cricket? Yes.
A leaked 21-page draft of the position paper makes repeated reference to fiscal matters and most proposals appear motivated by finances. It also features a remarkable statistic: 80% of the money Test cricket makes through the sale of global broadcasting rights come courtesy of India. The contribution of the remaining nine full Test-playing members ranges from 0.1% to 5%.
A case is made for "distribution based on relative contribution", effectively the most funding going to the countries that bring the most money to the sport.
Agnew adds: "The TV rights will be sold soon for the World Cups and so on, in which India will get $560m, England $170m and those other countries - West Indies, New Zealand, Sri Lanka - will get $80m. That's the gulf."
That's the allegation, certainly. With the three most money-generating teams sat on the board and protected from relegation to the second division, won't the existing wealth gap simply widen? What have the smaller Test-playing nations got to aspire to?
Plenty, according to the the position paper: the argument hinges on self-sufficiency among all national cricket boards rather than reliance on centralised funding from the ICC. Financial independence, in other words, with all countries encouraged to find a way to stand on their own feet. The danger though, is that certain countries will play far fewer Tests.
As a result the paper calls for an end to an obligatory Future Tours Programme, ending "a large number of unviable matches". It also wants a Test Cricket Fund to be formed, with money to be directed to supporting the development of Test cricket in Sri Lanka, West Indies, New Zealand, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.
"What's going to happen to those smaller countries?" ask Agnew. "What happens to those who aren't Test-playing countries, the associate members? Their funding has been slashed according to these plans and you need strong opposition for sport to thrive.
You bet. South Africa are the number one ranked Test team in the word but have been left off the top table in these proposals, with only occasional access to decision-making via a seat on the executive board on a rotating basis.
"The draft proposal is fundamentally flawed," Cricket South Africa president Chris Nenzani has said. "The proposal self-evidently is inextricably tied up with a fundamental restructuring of the ICC.
"We propose that the draft proposal be withdrawn immediately."
Others are unhappy too, including a sceptical Pakistan and a furious international players' union (Fica), whose executive chairman Paul Marsh said: "It is not in the best interests of the global game and we have real fears that it will only serve to strengthen the 'big three' countries while the rest are left to wither on the vine."
Agnew adds: "The other countries have been ambushed by this. England, India and Australia have gone away quietly over the last six months and come up with this scheme. There are so many things to worry about here and, frankly, I can't see an awful lot of good for Test cricket to come out of it."
The F&CA, and the ICC, have made it plain that they will not be remarking publically on the proposals until discussions have been concluded in Dubai.
But some have come out cautiously in favour of the plans, with New Zealand Cricket director Martin Snedden suggesting: "There's nothing wrong with India, Australia and England working together to produce something for everyone. Don't jump to the conclusion what they're doing is not good for world cricket."
Agnew adds: "Sport is cyclical. Those teams at the top at the moment - England, India and Australia - they may not be in 10 years' time."
The Dubai conference is under way. When might these significant, Test cricket-altering proposals be voted on? Potentially as soon as this week, so watch this space.
A statement from the service (NWAS) said the number of 999 calls it has received increased by 25% this year.
In 2015, the service was 6% below the national target for services to respond to an emergency within eight minutes.
Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Merseyside, Cumbria and Lancashire ambulance services merged in 2006.
"We were disappointed not to have hit the target at the end of the last year and are working hard to improve our performance," NWAS said in a statement.
"Because of the rise in life-threatening calls, it's highly likely people with less urgent injuries or illnesses will wait longer for an ambulance, as we must prioritise those who need our help more quickly."
The trust said it believes too many people are dialling 999 for minor ailments, which could easily be dealt with by visiting a pharmacy, a GP a walk-in centre or minor injuries unit.
"We would urge people to carefully consider whether their condition warrants an emergency response," said the trust.
The national expectation is that 75% of what are termed Red 1 and Red 2 calls should be responded to within eight minutes - in 2014-15 the figure for NWAS was 69%.
That figure was the third worst in the country, which Graham Curry, NWAS sector manager for South Lancashire, said was "not that bad", considering the service is the largest in the UK.
"Obviously, we want to hit every performance [target] because, if we do, we're giving the best performance possible," he said.
"We do do our best; however, the demand is so great at the moment, we're finding it virtually impossible to deliver that at this time."
Premier League Swansea City go to MK Dons, Cardiff City host Championship rivals Burton Albion and League Two Newport County are at Leeds United.
The games will be played in the week starting 21 August.
Newport were drawn at home, but a new pitch is being installed at their Rodney Parade home so they go to Elland Road to face the Championship side.
Newport tweeted: "We've drawn Leeds United at home but the fixture will be reversed."
Last season's losing finalists Southampton will host Championship club Wolves.
QPR v Brentford*
Crystal Palace v Ipswich Town*
Watford v Bristol City*
Norwich City v Charlton Athletic*
Cheltenham Town v West Ham United**
Brighton & Hove Albion v Barnet
Cardiff City v Burton Albion
Southampton v Wolverhampton Wanderers
Fulham v Bristol Rovers
Milton Keynes Dons v Swansea City
Birmingham City v Bournemouth
Reading v Millwall
Carlisle United v Sunderland
Bolton Wanderers v Sheffield Wednesday
Accrington Stanley v West Bromwich Albion
Newcastle United v Nottingham Forest
Leeds United v Newport County**
Stoke City v Rochdale
Huddersfield Town v Rotherham United
Middlesbrough v Scunthorpe United
Doncaster Rovers v Hull City
Blackburn Rovers v Burnley
Sheffield United v Leicester City
Aston Villa v Wigan Athletic
Barnsley v Derby County or Grimsby Town
*These ties were initially announced with the other team at home
**West Ham and Newport County would not play at home, as per a pre-draw agreement
Police Scotland said the 16-year-old boy died at the scene of the crash involving a white Volkswagen Golf on the B9010 Forres to Kellas Road.
The road between Forres and Elgin was closed after the collision which happened just after 11:00 on Sunday,
The boy's family have been informed. No-one in the car was injured.
Officers have urged anyone who witnessed the crash to contact them.
Crews were called to the property on Stow Hill at about 04:10 GMT on Sunday.
The building was "severely damaged" and adjacent buildings also caught fire, South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said.
An investigation into the cause of the fire is under way, it added.
Emergency services were called to the scene, on the A71 Galston Road, near East Holmes Farm in Hurlford, at about 00:25 on Friday.
One of the vehicles, with three people inside, left the road and came to a halt at the bottom of an embankment. The other car remained on the road.
The casualties were taken to Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock after fire crews cut them free from the vehicles.
Their is no information, as yet, on their conditions.
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The Team Sky rider lost almost a minute to his rivals after he was forced to swap his rear wheel with Polish team-mate Michal Kwiatkowski on Sunday.
However Froome, 32, recovered to rejoin the group of favourites and retain the leader's yellow jersey going into the final week of the Tour.
"That was a huge save," said Froome.
"I'm really grateful to have got through Sunday because it was touch and go if I was going to make it back."
Team Sky had been in control of the peloton before reaching the foot of the steep Col de Peyra Taillade climb inside the final 40km.
Third-placed rider Romain Bardet and his AG2R La Mondiale team then burst clear, distancing Froome and it was around this point the Briton encountered his wheel problem, initially reported as a puncture before the rider himself later said it was a broken spoke.
"There were a good five to 10 minutes where, knowing the pace that AG2R were setting going into the climb, I thought that was potentially game over for me," Froome told BBC Radio 5 live.
"If I hadn't had reached that front group by the top of that climb then I don't believe I would've made it to the finish line in yellow."
Following Monday's rest day, there are six further stages, including a summit finish on Thursday's stage 18 and a time trial on Saturday's stage 20, with the race ending in Paris on Sunday.
Froome, who is bidding to win his third straight Tour title, leads Italy's Fabio Aru (Astana) by 18 seconds, with Frenchman Bardet five seconds further behind.
Colombia's Rigoberto Uran (Cannondale-Drapac) is 29 seconds behind Froome in fourth, with Ireland's Dan Martin (Quick-Step Floors) at one minutes 12 seconds down in fifth, making it the closest Tour at this stage in history.
"We knew coming into this year's race that it would be the closest-fought Tour I've ever done and the biggest challenge of my career to date. And it's shaping up to be exactly that," said Froome.
The Kenya-born Briton added it was a "disappointment" to lose the yellow jersey to Aru when he cracked on the final climb of Thursday's stage 12 before reclaiming it on Saturday's stage 14, but was feeling "better and better" as the race enters its final week.
He added: "I came in really fresh and I hope that means going into the third week that'll put me in better shape than some of my rivals."
For years, they have been accused by their sternest critics of subverting democracy - by allowing bureaucratic procedures to ride roughshod over democratic institutions.
That was partly why the European Commission - under pressure from the member states - decided to allow all 38 national and regional parliaments across the EU to have their say on Ceta, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada.
But suddenly there is "too much democracy" - the Walloon parliament in southern Belgium, representing less than 1% of the EU's population, is holding up a deal that has been seven years in the making.
And many of those same critics are now scoffing at the dysfunctional way the EU tries to make big decisions.
The Walloonatics, they might say, have taken over the asylum.
But while regional Belgian politics is complex at the best of times, this is also an example of the EU as a whole having to listen to local concerns.
Mounting opposition to free trade deals in Europe has been a grass roots rebellion - part of the broader mood of anti-globalisation that is seeping across the EU and beyond.
And if that means that the trade deal with Canada has to be delayed, and amended, that might be better in the long term than failing to listen once again.
Ratification in every member state has always been a bit of a lottery but so be it - no-one ever said democracy was perfect.
Walloon intransigence may now mean there is greater public discussion of things like environmental safeguards, and the controversial court system for settling disputes between multinational investors and governments.
That sounds like a good thing.
But there will be a price to pay: the dysfunctional label will stick.
This agreement was supposed to be relatively uncontroversial - a deal with cuddly Canada, what's not to like? The fact that it has run into trouble does not bode well for other important EU projects.
The much larger set of negotiations with the United States on the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has already stalled, under attack on both sides of the Atlantic.
And negotiations on a British exit from the European Union, and the nature of future trade links, have yet to begin.
Now the Commission does not have to recommend that all parliaments get a vote on such matters in every circumstance. More closely focused deals can be approved with fewer hurdles.
If Ceta falls, the EU's reputation as a reliable negotiating partner on trade issues will take a huge hit.
But in response to the Brexit referendum in the UK, the remaining 27 EU member states have acknowledged that they need to do more to reflect the practical concerns of their citizens.
And you cannot have it both ways.
The key in other words is patient diplomacy, and crafted compromise.
In the 24/7 social media world these can be underrated skills.
But - for better or worse - they have always been how the EU goes about its business.
Inzievar Primary in Oakley started up a so-called "walking bus" last year.
Many schools have schemes like this to promote road safety, health and exercise.
But Inzievar, which had relatively high absence levels, tried the idea to see if it might also improve attendance and in turn attainment.
The aim is to encourage children to walk to school together.
The primary's catchment area - in a village near Dunfermline which once housed many miners - includes places which are classed as disadvantaged.
Head teacher Jane Gray said the success of the initiative - which started last autumn - had vastly exceeded her expectations.
"The data tells us we have gone from an average of 25 children arriving late in a day to 10, sometimes less than that," she said.
"That's a huge improvement. It's not perfect but it's a huge improvement already."
She added: "We had a little boy who was almost never at school and he's here every day. In fact, he's a graduate of the walking bus as he now comes on his scooter."
Mrs Gray said the initiative had benefited students, parents, teachers and the school's relationship with the local community.
She said: "Teachers can get started in the morning first thing without thinking: am I going to have two or three people coming in late?
"The lollipop lady's happy as she's bringing people across the road in streams rather than in ones and twos. The office staff are delighted as they aren't having to sign so many people in late."
Three "buses" - led by teachers, support staff or parents who have volunteered - now make their way through the village each morning.
The way the scheme works is simple.
The "bus" starts off in a particular place at a certain time. Like a bus, it goes down particular streets at set times and children can join it at their nearest "stop". As the "journey" goes on, more youngsters join until eventually a big group arrive at school together just before 09:00.
Inzievar is expected to benefit from a government scheme to give £120m straight to head teachers to help raise attainment.
The scheme will give schools across the country around £1,200 for each pupil from P1 to S3 known to be eligible for free school meals.
However, there are few costs associated with starting a walking bus, other than high-visibility vests for safety and producing maps and timetables. Teachers or other responsible adults need to be available to lead the bus and chaperone the children.
One of the pupils who joins the "bus" regularly is Liam who uses a wheelchair.
Before, he had to get a taxi to school. Now he walks some of the way and the rest of the time other pupils help push his wheelchair.
The idea of "walking school buses" originated in Australia and the first scheme in Britain is thought to have been in St Albans nearly 20 years ago.
The scheme features in a new Education Scotland website for teachers which highlights various initiatives which could help raise attainment.
There may be other schools facing similar challenges to Inzievar which may find that a walking bus scheme works.
Mrs Gray makes the point that the scheme cost little to set up and virtually nothing to run. This means the money they are receiving from the government to help raise attainment can be spent on other projects.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) produces rankings of school performance - but it has now published an analysis of fair opportunities for pupils.
It shows that Shanghai in China, South Korea and Finland are among top performers in both results and equity.
The UK is successful in results, but weaker in fairness.
This OECD study compares the reading skills of teenagers against the levels of social equity.
The Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) tests published by the OECD show a strong link between social disadvantage and low achievement in school.
"On average across OECD countries, disadvantaged students are twice as likely to be among the poorest performers in reading compared to advantaged students," says the report, based on an analysis of tests taken in 2009.
But this study says there is nothing inevitable about this connection between social background and achievement.
Source: OECD. School systems with above average results in reading and higher equity levels
At the top end of the international spectrum, Shanghai, Finland, South Korea, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong and the Netherlands are among a select group of school systems with very high results and high levels of fairness, where pupils can succeed regardless of background.
Russia, Spain, Croatia and the Czech Republic are relatively strong on equal opportunities, but have low performance.
Bulgaria, Turkey and Kyrgyzstan perform poorly on both equity and results.
The UK belongs to a group of countries, including France, Germany and the United States, that are above average for results, but have lower levels of equity.
Andreas Schleicher, the OECD's special adviser on education, says a long-term characteristic of the UK's education system has been social division - with a polarisation between the results of rich and poor pupils.
But although the UK remains less equal than the OECD average, there has been an improvement.
Mr Schleicher says this is also a major problem for other Western economies, such as France and Germany. And the big challenge is to develop education systems that no longer accept widespread underachievement among poorer pupils.
"In the past, economies and school systems could tolerate these inequalities. But the life chances are deteriorating rapidly for those without qualifications. There are more severe penalties," he says.
A report from the OECD last year found that the UK's schools were among the most socially segregated of any industrialised country.
A Department for Education source said: "This OECD analysis is based on data from 2009 and clearly shows that despite record spending Labour failed the poorest children in England.
"This is unacceptable, and it is why we are raising standards by giving teachers stronger discipline powers, tackling underperforming schools, improving exams, and attracting the brightest graduates into teaching. The pupil premium, targeted specifically at the poorest children and worth £900 per pupil in 2013-14, will help schools raise attainment."
Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg said: "While independent research shows Labour narrowed the gap, this report shows the government are going in the wrong direction.
"The OECD says fairness means all young people gaining good skills and not dropping out early. But under this government the numbers staying on in education are down, and the number of children getting catch up tuition in the basics is falling."
Kings of Leon, Little Mix and Grime artist Stormzy are due to perform at the free event at Burton Constable Hall, near Hull, on 27 and 28 May.
The US rockers said it was "going to be a great show, can't wait".
Little Mix tweeted: "YAAAAS!!!! We're headlining the #R1BigWeekend in Hull on 28th May. Bring it on! We seriously cannot wait @BBCR1 ðŸ˜
Mr Obama ordered federal aid for three of the worst affected counties following a request by Governor Earl Ray Tomblin.
Residents will now receive grants for temporary housing and repairs.
More than 30,000 homes and businesses are without power.
Heavy rain on Thursday turned rivers and streams into torrents, cutting off several towns.
The floods are the worst in a century in some areas and hundreds of people have had to be rescued.
President Obama "ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area affected by severe storms, flooding, landslides and mudslides", a White House statement said.
Mr Tomblin said the federal help included medical support and housing to Kanawha, Greenbrier and Nicholas counties.
Officials were still assessing the damage in other areas and additional requests for aid could follow, he added.
West Virginia received a quarter of its annual rainfall in a single day, the US National Weather Service said.
A storm system dumped up to 10 inches (250mm) of rain on parts of the state, causing rivers and streams to overflow.
More than 100 homes were destroyed, some of them torn from their foundations and carried away, and an estimated 32,000 residences were still without power.
Teams removed people from upper-floor windows, tops of trees and cars.
Among those rescued were a 97-year-old woman and a family of five including an infant, officials said.
About 500 people were trapped in a shopping centre as crews scrambled to build a new gravel road to reach them.
Meanwhile, officials continued to try to reach others stranded in devastated areas.
States of emergency have been declared in 44 of the state's 55 counties, and up to 500 soldiers have been authorised to assist in the rescue operations.
In a blogpost, the site - known for its liberal attitude towards free speech and anonymity - said it was "unhappy with harassing behaviour".
Users who believe they are being bullied will be able to email Reddit and report it.
But some users complained that the policy is vague and not in keeping with Reddit's promotion of free speech.
The site announced the changes, for which it has been preparing for six months, in a blogpost on Thursday signed by Reddit co-founder and Executive Chair Alexis Ohanian, interim CEO Ellen Pao, and Jessica Moreno, Reddit's head of community.
"We've seen many conversations devolve into attacks against individuals," the San Francisco company wrote, adding that it is also seeing more and different types of harassment than in the past.
For example, some users are harassing people across platforms and posting links on Reddit to private information on other sites, it said.
It added that it defines harassment as "systematic and/or continued actions to torment or demean someone in a way that would make a reasonable person (1) conclude that Reddit is not a safe platform to express their ideas or participate in the conversation, or (2) fear for their safety or the safety of those around them".
But, in comments posted on the site, users expressed dissatisfaction with the plan.
"Don't 'keep everyone safe'. This isn't Facebook, Reddit is a free speech platform," said one, who added that it was not for moderators to "dictate to subreddits how they should handle their community".
Subreddits are individual communities within the larger site - usually focusing on a specific topic, such as news or technology.
"Censorship should be the subreddit's decision. If we feel that some subs should be silenced then we are no better than they are," said the user XPythagoras.
Another user AltLogin202 wrote: "They're pandering to advertisers. Reddit is (rightfully) earning a negative reputation for some of its content and users.
"Posting meaningless feel-good drivel like this makes companies feel better about making ad buys."
Reddit's interim CEO Ellen Pao this year lost a high-profile gender-discrimination lawsuit against a prominent venture capital firm. That case highlighted issues of gender imbalance and working conditions for women in Silicon Valley.
Earlier this year, the site said it would remove photos, videos and links with explicit content, if the person in the image has not given permission for it to be posted.
That change came about six months after hackers obtained nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities and posted them to social media sites, including Reddit and Twitter.
Correspondents say Mr Rafsanjani, 78, is virtually assured the support of reformers and could pose a real challenge to the country's conservative leadership.
Constitutionally, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cannot stand again.
But his choice of candidate registered minutes before Mr Rafsanjani.
Hardline nationalist Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei, a close friend of Mr Ahmadinejad, is also seen as a threat to the clerical elite around Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, has also registered. He is seen as close to Ayatollah Khamenei.
More than 400 candidates in total have registered but Iran's Guardian Council - a body controlled by the supreme leader - decides who can stand.
The results of the last presidential elections, in 2009, were disputed by the reformist opposition, triggering mass street protests.
By Saeed BarzinBBC Persian
The return of the seasoned centrist politician to frontline politics is seen as a serious challenge by the conservative-dominated establishment.
Mr Rafsanjani, 78, has already served as the country's president, parliamentary speaker and the head of the Assembly of Experts which appoints, and theoretically has the authority to dismiss, the supreme leader.
Conservatives are unhappy that Mr Rafsanjani has, for the past four years, expressed support for the pro-reform movement. He has called for the release of political prisoners and greater political freedoms for parties prepared to work within the existing constitution.
However, those who seek to change the regime by gradual reforms see Mr Rafsanjani as the master manipulator who has a foot in the door of the establishment and a hand in the affairs of the opposition, and who could, theoretically, create a more open and predictable political climate.
Profile: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Seen as a moderate, Mr Rafsanjani is expected to gain support from reformers after supporting the protests.
Opinion polls suggest he is currently the most popular of the candidates.
The former president put his name forward in the last half hour before nominations closed.
His aides said he was waiting to see whether Iran's supreme leader would have any objections to his running as a candidate.
"I came to serve. It is the right of the people to choose me or not," Iranian media quoted him as saying as he registered.
Mr Rafsanjani has said in the past that in his view Ayatollah Khamenei no longer trusts him.
He has also said he does not want a set-up where the two top figures in the Islamic republic are at odds with each other.
But BBC Persian's Kasra Naji says he feels the country is going through a serious crisis and that he can help steer Iran to calmer waters.
Mr Rafsanjani, who was president from 1989 to 1997, leads the Expediency Council, a political arbitration body.
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Trott was left in a one-on-one contest for victory with Sarah Hammer and sprinted clear of the American to win with ease.
Having won the first event of the multi-discipline challenge, she goes into day two of the omnium tied on points with Hammer but in front thanks to her time from the "flying lap".
This followed Jason Kenny's victory in the men's sprint final and a dominant display by Victoria Pendleton in the quarter-finals of the women's sprint.
The 31-year-old Pendleton is retiring from the sport after these Games but has rarely looked in such imperious form.
Facing Olga Panarina of Belarus for a place in the semi-finals, the British star won the best-of-three contest 2-0. The "nil" flattered Panarina, it was not even that close.
Pendleton now faces Germany's Kristina Vogel, 21, in Tuesday's semi-final and, while this should be a much harder contest, nobody who has seen "Queen Victoria" in action in London is expecting anything other than another win there.
That will put her into a final against either her great Australian rival Anna Meares or the powerful Chinese sprinter Guo Shuang. A match-up with Meares would arguably be the race of track cycling programme, but Guo cannot be discounted.
Pendleton, the defending Olympic champion in the sprint, already has gold from the keirin last Friday, and was only deprived of a shot at team sprint gold when she and partner Jess Varnish were disqualified for a minor infringement of track cycling's sometimes mysterious rules.
Bowing out as a triple Olympic champion would be the most fitting send-off for a rider who is probably the greatest female track sprinter of all time.
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But if Pendleton is nearly the past for British track cycling, Trott is very much the present.
Already an Olympic champion from Saturday's team pursuit, the 20-year-old is firmly on course to add an Olympic omnium title to the world crown she picked up in Melbourne in April.
The omnium is the ultimate test of a rider's versatility, which makes Trott the sport's answer to Jessica Ennis.
She started the competition with a stunning display in the 250m flying lap, beating French specialist Clara Sanchez by just 0.001 of a second but taking nearly half a second off the time she set at the Worlds.
Trott then followed that with a 10th place finish in the highly tactical points race. Never her best event, she was closely watched by all the leading contenders and had to settle for picking up points on the intermediate sprints that punctuate the 80-lap race.
The really big points come if you can lap the rest of the field, but with so much attention on her, that was impossible. But she did win the final sprint to climb above Australian rival Annette Edmonson.
There was nothing her rivals could do about Trott in the elimination race, though. The aim of this particular game is to make sure you are not in last place when the pack crosses the line every other lap. If you are, you are eliminated.
As the best sprinter in the field, Trott repeatedly timed her efforts to surge past the stragglers and stay in the contest.
And when the field had been whittled down to Trott, Hammer and Edmonson, the crowd roared the young Brit home.
Tuesday's events are the individual pursuit, a scratch race and a two-lap time trial. Like teammate Ed Clancy, Trott prefers the timed events and should win the time trial, but consistency is the key, which means the scratch race (a straightforward race over 40 laps) will be crucial.
With three gold medals up for grabs, and strong GB hopes of winning all of them, Tuesday could be the greatest day in British track cycling history.
A new holiday and caravan park will be be opened at the attraction, that will include timber lodges, safari tents and showmen's wagons for visitors to stay in.
The safari enclosure will be extended in the development which is set to create up to 30 new jobs at the site.
Pembrokeshire Council has given its approval for the development to begin.
The venue was due to be announced on 26 August, but a press conference was cancelled at the last minute.
Organisers said they were "still discussing" candidates, but fans speculated Ukraine might pull out of the contest for financial reasons.
Eurovision said Kiev, the capital city, would prove to be a "worthy host".
"Kiev presented an excellent case and we are looking forward to working together to create the most electrifying show yet next May," said Jon Ola Sand, who oversees the contest for the European Broadcasting Union.
Hosting the contest costs millions of pounds. This years, Sweden is thought to have spent £12m on staging the three live shows, making it the lowest-budget production in years.
The city of Baku, in Azerbaijan, which hosted the contest in 2012, spent £48m after building the Baku Crystal Hall specifically for the event. In 2014, Denmark spent £36m and received £13m in tourism spending, while Austria paid £28m and received £22m in 2015.
Millions of viewers watched Ukrainian singer Jamala win the 2016 contest, held in Stockholm last May.
Her song, 1944, had been the target of criticism, as its lyrics referenced the deportation of Crimean Tatars under Josef Stalin, which some said broke Eurovision rules on songs that contain political messages.
However, it scored a resounding victory, winning 534 points, largely drawn from viewers' phone votes.
The 2017 contest will be held in Kiev's International Exhibition Centre, which has the capacity for 11,000 spectators.
The semi-finals will take place on Tuesday 9 and Thursday 11 May, with the grand final on Saturday 13 May.
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Wilson scored twice in the first half with first-time finishes, with left-back Aaron Cresswell at fault for both.
Mark Noble scored a penalty for West Ham and Cheikhou Kouyate levelled.
Marc Pugh put the Cherries ahead from 16 yards and Wilson scored a penalty, with Carl Jenkinson sent off, before Modibo Maiga ensured a tense finale.
Jenkinson's sending off, for a foul on the lively Max Gradel, was West Ham's fifth red card of the season.
Wilson was the undoubted star of the show at Upton Park with his first Premier League goal. And then his second. And then a third.
The former England Under-21 striker scored 23 goals last season following his £3m move from Coventry as the Cherries were promoted to the Premier League.
The 23-year-old, who only made his full Football League debut in 2013, opened the scoring from Simon Francis's cross which he met with a venomous effort. His second was another first-time punt, this time after some poor Cresswell control in the box.
He passed up the opportunity to complete his hat-trick late in the first half when he squared to Gradel but it came from the spot with 11 minutes left.
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West Ham have only themselves to blame for their disappointing start to the season.
A Europa League qualifying exit was followed by a 2-0 win over Arsenal, but back-to-back defeats by some of the Premier League's weaker teams could cause manager Slaven Bilic to worry about his side's mentality.
Cresswell was the club's player of the year in 2014 but was horribly caught out by Francis for Bournemouth's opener and then sloppily controlled the ball which gifted Wilson his second goal.
West Ham improved a bit after the break, leading to their comeback, but the game was beyond them when Gradel destroyed Jenkinson for pace, which led to the defender fouling him for a penalty and red card.
And yet again Bilic - who accepted Jenkinson was rightly sent off - will need to reshuffle his team as a result of suspension, with the Arsenal loanee picking up their fifth red card in nine games this season.
West Ham boss Slaven Bilic: "It went wrong from the start. We played a very bad first half. It is very hard to explain three of their four goals - you can't make errors like that at this level. They were more lively and more aggressive but you can't make those mistakes.
"It's not an alarming situation but we can't continue to play without more desire. We simply need a better mentality."
Bournemouth forward Callum Wilson: "It's a fantastic day on a personal note but the important thing is we got the three points.
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"In the first two games I think there were nerves, but today I felt we showed real confidence.
"There's a few things we need to brush up on but it's a fantastic result and instils confidence into the team."
Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe: "It was a really strange game. We were in cruise control in the first half but that seemed to go out of the window after half-time when we made some strange decisions.
"The only disappointment at half-time was that we were not more than 2-0 up.
"We have been really heartened by the two previous games but when you don't win then naturally the players will question whether we are doing the right things."
Match ends, West Ham United 3, Bournemouth 4.
Second Half ends, West Ham United 3, Bournemouth 4.
Corner, West Ham United. Conceded by Eunan O'Kane.
Foul by Adam Smith (Bournemouth).
Aaron Cresswell (West Ham United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Dan Gosling (Bournemouth) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Offside, West Ham United. Cheikhou Kouyaté tries a through ball, but Modibo Maiga is caught offside.
Substitution, Bournemouth. Adam Smith replaces Matt Ritchie.
Offside, West Ham United. Darren Randolph tries a through ball, but Modibo Maiga is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Cheikhou Kouyaté (West Ham United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mark Noble.
Corner, Bournemouth. Conceded by Cheikhou Kouyaté.
Offside, West Ham United. Dimitri Payet tries a through ball, but Modibo Maiga is caught offside.
Substitution, Bournemouth. Dan Gosling replaces Max Gradel.
Foul by Callum Wilson (Bournemouth).
James Tomkins (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Andrew Surman (Bournemouth) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Matt Ritchie.
Goal! West Ham United 3, Bournemouth 4. Modibo Maiga (West Ham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Aaron Cresswell.
Goal! West Ham United 2, Bournemouth 4. Callum Wilson (Bournemouth) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Carl Jenkinson (West Ham United) is shown the red card.
Penalty Bournemouth. Max Gradel draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Carl Jenkinson (West Ham United) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt blocked. Mark Noble (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, West Ham United. Conceded by Marc Pugh.
Offside, Bournemouth. Max Gradel tries a through ball, but Tommy Elphick is caught offside.
Max Gradel (Bournemouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Tomkins (West Ham United).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Pedro Obiang (West Ham United) because of an injury.
Artur Boruc (Bournemouth) is shown the yellow card.
Eunan O'Kane (Bournemouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Carl Jenkinson (West Ham United).
Substitution, West Ham United. Modibo Maiga replaces Diafra Sakho.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match (Bournemouth).
Goal! West Ham United 2, Bournemouth 3. Marc Pugh (Bournemouth) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Max Gradel.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Cheikhou Kouyaté (West Ham United) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Marc Pugh (Bournemouth) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Max Gradel.
Charlie Daniels (Bournemouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cheikhou Kouyaté (West Ham United).
He was unable to represent his native Kuwait at Rio 2016 after its Olympic body was suspended by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Al-Deehani, 49, beat Italy's Marco Innocenti 26-24 in the final of the double trap shooting event.
The IOC banned Kuwait in October 2015 citing domestic laws that permit government interference in sports.
During the medal ceremony the Olympic flag was raised and the Olympic anthem played.
"That was for my country, for the people who don't want us to participate in the Olympics," he said. "I'm showing them that we are here and we got the medal."
Appearing in his sixth Olympics, Al-Deehani, an army officer and one of eight independent athletes at the Games, had turned down the chance to carry the IOC flag at the opening ceremony.
He won bronze in the event at the 2000 Sydney Games, and another bronze in single trap at London 2012 while competing for Kuwait.
It was the first medal for an independent athlete since the 1992 Barcelona Games.
Great Britain's Steven Scott beat compatriot Tim Kneale to win the bronze medal in the same event.
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Khadiza Begum was attacked with a machete at a college campus in Sylhet district in the north on Monday.
Hundreds of students held a protest on Tuesday, demanding better security at universities and colleges.
It is the fourth case of a woman being attacked after reportedly refusing a male suitor in recent months.
Ms Begum was attacked at Murari Chand University College as she left an exam hall.
Her uncle Jahid Ahmed told the BBC that the alleged attacker, Badrul Alam, had been pursuing Ms Begum and became violent after she rejected him.
Several students witnessed the attack, with some filming the incident on their mobile phones, but no one intervened to stop the attack.
An eyewitness, Abdul Kader, told the BBC: "I heard someone screaming... and saw a boy hacking at a girl indiscriminately.
"The attacker was so violent that we did not dare to rescue her."
Later, some students attempted to chase the attacker off the college grounds, and he was arrested by police as he attempted to flee the scene.
The incident has sparked an outcry, with hundreds of students rallying at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, where Mr Alam was a student leader, demanding punishment for him and tighter security at the campus.
Ms Begum has been taken to the capital, Dhaka, for hospital treatment.
Three other women have died in the last two months, after they were attacked for refusing a suitor.
Mr Alam was a senior member of a student group affiliated with the Awami League, the ruling political party. He has been suspended from the university.
Bangladesh's Home Minister, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, told reporters the attacker would be held to account whatever his political affiliation.
The Penygroes-based Express Motors coach went into a ditch on the A39 motorway at Lons-le-Saunier, near the Swiss border, on 23 July.
Its two drivers have been quizzed by French police and another probe is taking place in the UK.
The Gwynedd coach was carrying students from a school in Gloucestershire.
The driver behind the wheel at the time of the crash told investigators he came off the road while looking for his sunglasses.
But prosecutors said his explanation was not very convincing and believe the driver, who is now being formally investigated, fell asleep at the wheel.
Police said no other vehicles were involved. No charges have been brought.
There were 42 students on board - aged between 14 and 18 - and six staff from Bournside School in Cheltenham for their camping trip to Italy.
Alex Woods was found with stab wounds on Scott Road in Eastleigh on 6 July.
Andi Leigh Edwards, 36, of Scott Road, Eastleigh, pleaded not guilty to murder at Winchester Crown Court earlier.
His trail has been set for 4 December at the same court. A 51-year-old woman, also arrested on suspicion of murder, has been released from custody while inquiries continue.
On Tuesday, up to 10,000 prison officers in England and Wales stopped work over claims of a "surge in violence" among inmates.
Prison Officers Association members were ordered back to work after the government won a High Court injunction.
The Ministry of Justice said Ms Truss had now asked the POA to resume talks.
The National Offender Management Service, which is responsible for correctional services in England and Wales, said it had contacted the POA to offer a meeting with Ms Truss on Thursday.
A MoJ spokesman said the government welcomed the union's decision to end Tuesday's "unlawful industrial action".
"We are committed to improving safety across the prison estate and are already taking action.
"This includes tackling the use of drugs, mobile phones and drones while recruiting new staff and improving protection for staff.
"The justice secretary already met with the POA earlier this month but would not do so again until they called off their unlawful action.
"Now that prison officers are back at work she will meet the POA and invites them to resume talks with her team."
Earlier this month, Ms Truss unveiled a White Paper detailing £1.3bn investment in new prisons over the next five years, including plans for 2,100 extra prison officers, drug tests for inmates on entry and exit from prisons, and more autonomy for governors.
The POA ended Tuesday's protests by saying it had achieved its aim of securing a meeting with Ms Truss.
The protests began at midnight on Tuesday and came after multiple high-profile incidents at prisons across England.
Two men were arrested on suspicion of murder after Jamal Mahmoud died after being stabbed at Pentonville jail on 18 October in an attack which left two others injured.
Earlier this month prisoners caused almost £1m of damage during a riot at Bedford prison.
Days later at HMP Isle of Wight, an inmate cut a prison officer's throat with a razor blade on the way back to his cell.
It is illegal for officers to strike, but the POA had directed its members to stop working after talks with the government over health and safety concerns broke down.
Announcing the action, it said: "The POA has consistently raised the volatile and dangerous state of prisons, as chronic staff shortages and impoverished regimes has resulted in staff no longer being safe, a lack of discipline and prisoners taking control of areas."
The Supreme Court ruled in favour of Ricardo Adair by four votes to one.
Mr Adair said that Mexican legislation violated the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
It banned him from doing simple tasks by himself, such as applying for a passport, because of his condition.
A judge will be appointed to agree which decisions Mr Adair will be allowed to make without the consent of a parent or guardian.
The groundbreaking ruling is expected to have wider implications for the rights of people with autism in Latin America, says the BBC's Will Grant.
"I want to be allowed to decide what to do, where to go, where and with whom I want to live or travel, where to work or study," Mr Adair told the Mexican Supreme Court.
Mexican legislation makes straightforward tasks, such as buying a mobile phone, enrolling in university or applying for a driving licence, very difficult for people with Asperger's syndrome or other forms of autism.
Mr Adair said all papers had to be signed by his parents or legal guardians.
He began his battle two years ago and has been supported in his fight by a non-profit organisation.
"All we wanted was for Ricardo's own free will to come first, and now the court has recognised that," his lawyer, Andres Gomez Montt, told the BBC.
Mr Adair said he wanted to read the full court ruling before making further comments, but expressed his satisfaction at the decision.
"They have asserted our rights and I believe this is a great step forward," he said.
Mexican legislation on people with disabilities was drafted with the intention of protecting them, by taking away legal responsibility for their actions, but Mr Adair's mother says the law is out of date.
"Many children have different levels of disability. Some need more support, some need less. This should be about giving to each one what they need," Leticia Robles told BBC Mundo earlier this year.
The UN's World Health Organization describes autism spectrum disorders as "a group of complex brain development disorders".
It affects one in each 160 children around the world on average, the WHO says.
"These disorders [which include Asperger's syndrome] are characterized by difficulties in social interaction and communication and a restricted and repetitive repertoire of interests and activities."
Friday afternoon's incident near Kinlochleven is being investigated by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch.
Two men in the Piper Cub - the pilot and his passenger - were uninjured. The aircraft is understood to be stuck in a bog near Blackwater Reservoir.
Inverness Coastguard helicopter picked up the pair and flew them to Oban Airport.
The pilot's "pan-pan", an emergency call, was received by the Distress and Diversion Emergency Centre based at RAF Swanwick near Southampton.
It was picked up by air traffic controllers at Prestwick Airport in Ayrshire.
The crew of an easyJet passenger plane was understood to have relayed the distress call to the Distress and Diversion Emergency Centre.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch confirmed the incident had been reported to it and it was investigating.
Meanwhile, the Mountain Bothies Association said it had received an inquiry about use of the bothy near to the scene by the plane's owner when attempts are made to remove the aircraft.
Since the first HebCelt 20 years ago, 202,000 people have attended the festival in Stornoway in Lewis.
Organisers calculated the economic impact by looking at takings at bars, restaurants and cafes and money spent on hotel bookings and transport.
The 20th anniversary festival will be held from 15 to 18 July.
After Jo Potter's strike was parried, Allen struck home from close range in the second half.
The visitors had chances to secure a point with Angharad James, Ellen White and Ellen White going close.
The three points means the Blues sit third, just a point off the top two while Notts County remain sixth.
Match ends, Birmingham City Ladies 1, Notts County Ladies 0.
Second Half ends, Birmingham City Ladies 1, Notts County Ladies 0.
Rachel Yankey (Notts County Ladies) is shown the yellow card.
Melissa Lawley (Birmingham City Ladies) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Emily Westwood (Birmingham City Ladies).
Angharad James (Notts County Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Birmingham City Ladies. Ellie Brazil replaces Freda Ayisi.
Attempt saved. Leanne Crichton (Notts County Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Notts County Ladies. Aileen Whelan replaces Ellen White.
Corner, Notts County Ladies. Conceded by Jade Moore.
Foul by Melissa Lawley (Birmingham City Ladies).
Amy Turner (Notts County Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Emily Westwood (Birmingham City Ladies).
Rachel Williams (Notts County Ladies) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Melissa Lawley (Birmingham City Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Jessica Carter (Birmingham City Ladies).
Danielle Buet (Notts County Ladies) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Jade Moore (Birmingham City Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rachel Williams (Notts County Ladies).
Substitution, Notts County Ladies. Rachel Williams replaces Aivi Luik.
Jade Moore (Birmingham City Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Angharad James (Notts County Ladies).
Attempt missed. Jade Moore (Birmingham City Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Emily Westwood (Birmingham City Ladies) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Jessica Carter (Birmingham City Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jessica Clarke (Notts County Ladies).
Substitution, Notts County Ladies. Danielle Buet replaces Maja Krantz.
Corner, Birmingham City Ladies. Conceded by Laura Bassett.
Corner, Birmingham City Ladies. Conceded by Fern Whelan.
Foul by Remi Allen (Birmingham City Ladies).
Leanne Crichton (Notts County Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Emily Westwood (Birmingham City Ladies) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Goal! Birmingham City Ladies 1, Notts County Ladies 0. Remi Allen (Birmingham City Ladies) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal.
Corner, Notts County Ladies. Conceded by Remi Allen.
Corner, Notts County Ladies. Conceded by Sophie Baggaley.
Attempt saved. Jessica Clarke (Notts County Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Second Half begins Birmingham City Ladies 0, Notts County Ladies 0.
First Half ends, Birmingham City Ladies 0, Notts County Ladies 0.
Melissa Lawley (Birmingham City Ladies) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Aivi Luik (Notts County Ladies).
The 26-year-old left-hander from Perth was batting in the nets when she was struck on the back of the head by a ball from team-mate Rene Farrell.
A decision on her availability for the first one-day international at Taunton will be taken on Tuesday morning.
Bolton made 124 on her ODI debut against England in January 2014.
She averages 53.22 from 10 ODIs, having established herself at the top of the order over the past year.
The Age newspaper reports that Bolton, who was wearing a helmet when she was hit, is likely to be replaced by Jess Cameron if she is unavailable.
Mignolet, 27, joined the Reds from Sunderland in 2013 for £9m and has made 122 appearances for the Anfield club.
"I am the sort of character that wants to be a leader, wants to speak in the dressing room and help the defence," Mignolet told the club's website.
The Belgian's record of 15 clean sheets in 2015 was more than any other Premier League goalkeeper.
He had come under pressure after high-profile mistakes, most recently in the 3-3 draw with Arsenal, but received the backing of Reds manager Jurgen Klopp.
His deputy Adam Bogdan also proved error-prone in the 3-0 loss at Watford and 2-2 FA Cup draw against Exeter, prompting Klopp to recall 22-year-old Danny Ward from a loan spell at Aberdeen.
Mignolet, who has seven clean sheets this term, added: "I know signing a new contract comes with new responsibility. I am getting older as well and coming into the years where people would say those are the years a goalkeeper is at his best.
"I will try to work hard together with the goalkeeping coach and staff here, who are behind me and have given their confidence with a new contract.
"I would like to thank them for that but you can't really do that with words, you have to do that with performances on the pitch. That is what I will try to show."
Liverpool are ninth in the league after Sunday's 1-0 home defeat by Manchester United.
James McConnell, 69, who is understood to be originally from Clydebank, landed in a reservoir.
The skydiving centre Thai Sky Adventures told the BBC it believed he may have had a heart attack or a stroke after leaving the plane on Thursday.
His son has posted a message on social media saying "Fly free my hero".
Mr McConnell was an experienced skydiver.
Thai authorities are investigating. The Foreign Office said it had been informed but did not want to confirm details of the man's identity.
News portal Khaosod quoted police spokesman Col Chonnapat Nawalak as saying: "We have to check whether he died from the jumping or from drowning."
In a post on Facebook, Mr McConnell's son Mark McConnell wrote: "It is with a heavy heart that I have to tell my Facebook friends and family that my dad Jim McConnell has sadly passed away.
"As soon as I can confirm what happened I will let you know but for now, the family and I would appreciate privacy at this difficult time! Blue skies to you all xxx.
"All of you who knew my dad will know that he went the way he wanted and no-one should feel sad, fly free my hero xx."
Harry Harrison, director of flight operations at Thai Sky Adventures, said the centre began its own investigation immediately after the incident on Thursday.
Eyewitnesses told the centre they saw the man rolling onto his back and spinning in mid-air shortly after he jumped.
His parachute was seen to be deployed, but he did not steer it as he drifted towards the ground. He missed the designated landing spot and landed in water.
Mr Harrison said the man was pulled out within five minutes by a rescue team, who tried to revive him.
It is the second death to have happened at Thai Sky Adventures, which opened in 2009. Last year a Russian instructor died during a jump, said Mr Harrison.
He said the causes for both deaths could not be attributed to the centre. "Our safety record is excellent," he said.
The centre was shut on Friday, but would resume operations on Saturday, he added.
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Plans include reducing its 14 high schools to six or seven, without closing any facilities.
A concern is that head teachers do not have enough time to provide leadership because they have to teach lessons.
One teaching union official said changes were necessary due to recruitment problems and cash cuts.
A Gwynedd council report suggests the majority of the county's 95 primary schools are retained with cooperatives set up to share management.
Neil Foden, National Union of Teachers chairman in Wales, said: "It's a very radical proposal. Gwynedd have to do something.
"The current situation isn't viable, but I think there will be areas where they will have some difficulty in getting this through and there will be areas of opposition."
The report to Tuesday's cabinet committee tabled a range of ideas such as creating a new leadership structure in a reformed school system.
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The Great Notts Bike Ride was started by Pedals, a group which campaigns for safer cycling conditions around Nottingham.
Pedals member Hugh McClintock has ridden every year since it began.
He said the ride has changed considerably since then, growing from a few hundred participants to thousands.
Mr McClintock said: "The first ride was organised at very short notice and there were only 250 riders.
"People were encouraged to wear fancy dress and that was quite an important part of the ride for a few years, but I think that died out when lycra became more fashionable."
A wider variety of riders now compete in the annual event.
"There are short rides on the Saturday, which are great for bringing in kids," Mr McClintock said.
"Having longer rides - 75 and 100 miles - is very good for people keen on racing."
The name became shortened to the Great Notts Bike Ride over the years, and there are now 25, 50, 75, 100 and 125-mile routes.
There are 4,000 people signed up for this year's main rides, which are on Sunday, and 500 signed up for shorter City Rides on Saturday.
1982 - The ride was founded as the Great Nottingham Bike Ride, inspired by the London to Brighton Ride which had started a few years earlier. The 250 riders set off from the Forest Recreation Ground in Nottingham, rode 18 miles to Newark, then had to make their own way home
1983 - More than 650 riders took part
1984 - More than 1,000 riders took part, making it too big for Pedals to organise on its own, so the group approached Nottinghamshire County Council for help
1985 - Nottinghamshire County Council took over from Pedals as the main organiser. The name changed to the Great Nottinghamshire Bike Ride and riders set off from County Hall
1986 - The start was moved to the National Water Sports Centre at Holme Pierrepont, and a choice of 50 and 18-mile circular rides was offered
2008 - a longer 100-mile ride was added
2009 - a 70-mile sportive ride was added
2012 - Nottingham City Council took over after the county council ended its involvement due to financial cutbacks. Marketing and events company Perfect Motion started running the ride as part of the Cycle Live Nottingham weekend festival of cycling, and the start switched to Victoria Embankment in Nottingham.
They range in style from tree fellers to hitmen to ball-and-all envelopers - but they all have one aim in common: to take their man down or out of the action.
They don't have to be forwards - as anyone who saw former England fly-half Jonny Wilkinson in action will attest - but it's no surprise my picks this year are forwards because that's where most of the bish bash goes on, close to the breakdown where the big men lurk.
This kid is a tackling machine who hardly ever misses his man - anyone carrying the ball into his channel is going down and he is so consistent that when he finally missed a tackle in this year's Six Nations it was newsworthy, as he didn't miss a single one in the 2016 tournament, making 58 with a 100% success rate.
So far this year, he's made a tournament-high 52 tackles - including a phenomenal 26 in the opening win over Ireland - but two missed attempts mean he 'only' has a 96% success rate.
He's not the biggest of hitters but he puts himself about to make the numbers and, still aged only 22, he has a long and potentially glorious future in the game ahead of him.
He has a well-deserved reputation for being a tree feller, a smash-and-wipe-out merchant who can wreak havoc on the opposition, but he's not the headless, full metal jacket type of player that some have claimed and is more controlled these days, which is great to see.
He's made 45 tackles so far with a 94% success rate and although he might be a touch behind Gray when it comes to consistency, he's certainly got the upper edge in explosive physicality.
Critics say he only levels half-backs, but how many other second rows have the speed to get out of the line and smash them, or cover across to lasso them after a 50-metre run? He can put anyone down when he times it well.
Another second row in the workhorse mould of Scotland's Gray, Launchbury has formed a superb locking partnership with Lawes for England this season - a remarkable illustration of their strength in depth, with fellow second rows Maro Itoje playing on the blind-side and George Kruis currently injured.
Despite being 6ft 5in and well over 18 stone he has unbelievable staying power, which all locks need these days.
He's made 46 tackles this season and although he may lack the sheer percussive impact of Lawes, the Wasps man brings a rumbustious presence to the heart of the England pack.
The France back row is not one of the game's glamour players, but in a struggling French team he brings a dogs of war spirit to their efforts.
He has a high work-rate and is a real nuisance of a player, shouldering a huge defensive burden to try to get France on the front foot again - he's the second-highest tackler in the tournament, with a solitary miss in 50 tackles.
Like Italy counterpart Maxime Mbanda, who has a similar attitude but misses the odd tackle in a way Gourdon does not, he is not the biggest of flankers. However, there is no doubting the size of his impact in 2017.
At 6ft 1in, Watson is another of the "smaller" players in this list - but another busy bee with a ferocious work ethic.
In Scotland's rearguard win against Ireland he made an astonishing 19 tackles in about 50 minutes of play - he was a human strimmer that day, chopping down men in green like blades of grass.
That performance alone was enough to catch everyone's eye and put him on the tackling map but he's continued in the same vein, having missed just one tackle all tournament.
He is one of the great footballing back rowers, but Tipuric is an amazing all-rounder, as he is proving this tournament with his tackling heroics.
As an open-side it is imperative he takes players out of the game and he does just that with his tackling excellence.
He leads the way for Wales with 43 tackles so far this tournament and has shown that he has the physicality to complement his skill set.
As always with these lists it's impossible to please everyone, but who do you insist should have definitely made the cut?
England flanker James Haskell might count himself unlucky not to have made the selection, and what about Scotland centre Alex Dunbar? Where's Jamie Heaslip? And no Alun Wyn Jones?
Use our interactive tool to rank Guscott's selections for yourselves, and join the debate below on who you think should be in the Six Nations wrecking crew.
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It took place outside the Maureen Sheehan Centre on Albert Street at 19:00 BST on Thursday.
Residents said they have been "terrorised" by burglaries, drugs and car crime.
The Falls Road Residents' Association, which organised the event, called on local people to work together to tackle the problem.
It said parents of those involved had a "responsibility" to deal with their young, but offered assistance to those who "can't control their children".
Gerry McConville, who is the chair of the Falls Community Council, said life is "intolerable" for people in the area.
"We have to face the fact that many of those involved in this campaign of destruction are not strangers to us.
"Many are our neighbours' children and in many cases our own sons, daughters and grandchildren.
"We're here to say we have had enough," he told the assembled crowd.
'Reign of terror'
"This shows how angry people in the area are that they have to come out onto the streets to protest this," he told the BBC.
"People won't be cowed into their own homes by these thugs' reign of terror.
"They haven't broken the spirit of the people in this area."
The former governor of Alaska and conservative activist told CNN that "energy is my baby".
"Oil and gas and minerals, those things that God has dumped on this part of the Earth for mankind's use," she said.
Mr Trump said in July he would be open to the possibility of Ms Palin serving in his government.
Ms Palin said she wanted individual states to "start having more control over the lands that are within their boundaries" with respect to their energy policy.
"If I were in charge of that, it would be a short-term job," she said.
Ms Palin also defended Mr Trump over recent criticism of gaps in his knowledge of foreign affairs.
"I think I'd rather have a president who is tough and puts America first than can win a game of Trivial Pursuit," she said.
"But I don't think the public gives a flying flip if somebody knows who, today, is a specific leader of a specific region or a religion or anything," she added.
Mr Trump has recently been leading polls for the Republican presidential nomination. Ms Palin was the Republican nominee for vice-president in 2008.
Tindle Newspapers Ltd, which is buying the titles, said it was "delighted".
The deal includes three weeklies - the Isle of Man Examiner, Isle of Man Courier, and Manx Independent - as well as the iomtoday.co.im news website.
Sir Ray Tindle, who established Tindle Newspapers Ltd, said: "We are unable to meet the whole of the staff until completion of the agreement."
He added: "Everyone at Tindle Newspapers will make them all very welcome just as soon as we are able to do so.
"I am convinced that local weekly papers will be with us for a very long time. Everyone wants to read about their own community, and they want to read about it in depth."
Tindle publications include the Enfield Gazette and Advertiser, the Cornish Times, Farnham Herald and the Monmouthshire Beacon.
On its website, Isle of Man newspapers said staff were informed of the deal on Friday.
The deal is expected to be finalised at the end of July.
Nicole Devlin says she is speaking out about her own experiences in a bid to help other people and reduce stigma - particularly around personality disorders.
"A mental illness is like having a cancer of the mind which can be terminal in some cases," she said.
"I've been quite ill physically and mentally in my life and would rather have a broken bone any day compared to the mental distress I've gone through."
She was speaking as a report found an "overwhelming gap" between mental health provision and needs in Northern Ireland.
The 30-year-old, who is now a student in Belfast, was first admitted to a psychiatric hospital when she was 17.
It followed three suicide attempts, the last of which she describes as "very serious".
"Things had just gotten really really bad and I could see no other way out.
"I didn't want to be alive and didn't believe I was worthy of living either. When I went into hospital I was there for a few months and just after my 18th birthday I received a diagnosis of emotionally unstable personality disorder."
The disorder is characterised by instability of emotions, difficulty of forming and maintaining relationships and problems with impulsiveness and self-harm.
From then until she was 25, Nicole was to spend months in hospital.
"Certainly, after I went in, I felt like I was imprisoned, that people were against me, that they were trying to control my life though they were trying to keep me safe.
"For a long time, my life was really chaotic and there were a lot of times nursing staff had to sit with me 24 hours a day one one-to-one observation to prevent me from hurting myself."
She describes the almost three years she was an in-patient at a hospital in England which specialises in emotionally unstable personality disorders as a very difficult time.
"The other thing was I was such a long way away from home, was very vulnerable at such a young age and I think not having your family or loved ones around you is very detrimental when you are alone going through something very horrible."
Coming back to Northern Ireland meant experiencing a new kind of pain - realising that friends and schoolmates were moving on.
"I saw a lot of people my age had gone on to university, had jobs and relationships and it was just as if I had been locked away for three years. "
Eventually, Nicole says, she was able to turn a corner, paying particular tribute to her current doctor, key workers and health team.
"I've always had a good family around me and they've been supportive - but my three-year-old nephew definitely showed me the meaning of life. He showed me that everyone can be vulnerable, that it's ok to cry and ok not to be ok."
Nicole has now come to the end of a two-year access diploma in social sciences and, after her exams, hopes to go to university to study psychology.
She also uses her own experience to help others by volunteering at a mental health charity.
"I used to be ashamed of having a mental health illness, thinking that it made me weak.
"But it's shaped me as a person, made me a person who's more aware of the bigger picture and made me want to change things.
"Lots of people who are going through things are doing so alone, so if I can use even a tiny part of my experience to help someone, then I feel all of this has been worth it."
Thousands of people have descended on the Borders for the first week of events in the TweedLove Bike Festival.
A trail run, mountain bike marathon and family day in Peebles were among the opening attractions.
Children's events were a particular focus with hundreds of riders taking part.
Now in its eighth year, TweedLove describes itself as the UK's biggest cycling festival with more than 40 events over a three-week period.
Its second "big weekend" - from 9 to 11 June - includes a "mega bike demo" with bicycles worth up to £10,000 available for the public to try.
Igor Kornelyuk died in hospital after the attack near Metalist while a colleague, sound engineer Anton Voloshin, was reported missing.
Meanwhile, a major pipeline in Ukraine carrying gas from Russia to the rest of Europe was hit by a blast.
However, European and Russian companies said gas exports were not affected.
The explosion hit the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod Pipeline, also known as the Trans-Siberian Pipeline, in Ukraine's north-east. No one was reported injured by the blast.
It is not immediately clear what caused the blast. According to AFP news agency, Ukraine's state emergencies service said it appeared to have been the result of a puncture or loss of pressure.
However, the energy ministry said it could have been an "attempted terrorist attack", Reuters reported.
Ukraine's gas transport monopoly, a Slovak gas transit firm, and sources at Russian gas producer Gazprom, all told reporters that the transit of gas to Europe would not be affected.
Gas was being delivered through a parallel pipeline, a Gazprom source said.
Meanwhile, Moscow condemned the killing of journalist Igor Kornelyuk, describing it as a "crime of Ukrainian forces".
Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli and prominent Russian human rights activist Andrey Mironov, who was accompanying him, were killed by mortar fire in eastern Ukraine last month.
Hundreds of lives have been lost in fighting in Ukraine's Luhansk and Donetsk provinces, where pro-Russian rebels are battling government forces after declaring independence just over a month ago.
Reports of three civilians killed overnight by a bombardment near the rebel-held town of Sloviansk, in Donetsk region, could not be verified independently.
The film, which also stars Pakistani actor Mahira Khan, was scheduled to open across Pakistan on 2 February.
The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has not issued an official statement on why it banned the film.
However a CBFC official told BBC Urdu one reason was that the crime thriller "depicts Muslims as criminals and terrorists".
Some of the scenes were also "offensive to a particular sect", the official added.
Shia Muslims in India had objected to action sequences involving an annual Shia religious procession when the official movie trailer was released in December.
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The storyline of Raees revolves around the character of Raees Alam, a Muslim mafia don who builds an alcohol empire in the western Indian state of Gujarat, where the consumption and sale of liquor is prohibited.
An official from Ever Ready Pictures, which has distribution rights in Pakistan, told the BBC the film was considered by the CBFC on Friday. They were told on Monday that the board had decided to ban the film.
Nadim Mandviwala, who owns the Attrium Cinemas, told BBC Urdu that Raees was a "major film" and that a ban on it "is not good for business, but if the government thinks it may spark religious unrest, then perhaps it's the right decision".
However Pakistani film director Jami Mehmood was critical of the decision.
"People ought to be tolerant of other people's views. We should watch Indian movies with the viewpoint of the Indians in mind, like Iranian films are watched in the United States."
Pakistan imposed a partial ban on importing Indian films after the 1965 war between the two countries and completely banned them in 1971 after the Bangladesh war.
The move led to a gradual decline of the Pakistani film industry and brought its once thriving cinema culture to an end.
But in 2007, Pakistan lifted the ban. Indian films are hugely popular in Pakistan and are credited with aiding the recent proliferation of multiplex cinemas in major cities.
In September last year, however, the Pakistan Film Exhibitors' Association (PFEA) imposed a unilateral ban on screening Indian films after the Indian Motion Picture Producers' Association (IMPPA) banned Pakistani actors from Indian film projects.
The move followed a militant attack on an Indian military camp in Indian-administered Kashmir, for which India blamed Pakistan-based militants.
The PFEA ban was lifted in December and in February the government cleared two Bollywood productions - Kaabil and Ae Dil Hai Mushkil - for screening.
Streets will be pedestrianised, new trees and plants added, and public art and cycle routes installed.
A University spokesperson said the work would make the campus more welcoming, safer and greener for everyone to use.
The scheme, funded by Sheffield City Region Investment Fund and the University, is due to be finished by the new academic year in September.
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The public courtyards around the Arts Tower and Western Bank concourse will be improved, with a new public park created near Broad Lane.
New pedestrian and cycle crossings will be made, and existing ones improved.
Keith Lilley, director of estates and facilities management, said the development would "transform the campus environment and support the University's links with the city centre."
"We want to encourage the people of Sheffield to enjoy and use our campus whether it's to have lunch in one of our cafes, cycle through the campus area up to Weston Park, or just enjoy sitting and relaxing in one of the new greener, safer places that will be created through this development."
The university is providing £5.1m for the work, with £2.9m from Sheffield City Region Investment Fund.
Sheffield City Council's Leigh Bramall said: "Our universities are critical to the future of Sheffield and vital to the successful economic growth of the city."
He added the new campus would "emphasize the University's position as a key driver in the local economy."
The hosts had the better of a game lacking quality and full of wayward finishing.
Chris Clements and Matt Blair were off target for the Stags and Ryan Sellers missed a great chance for Wycombe.
But the home side took maximum points when Harriman showed great footwork before curling in a cross-come-shot.
The victory takes Wycombe a point above seventh-placed Leyton Orient, while Mansfield drop to 14th, eight points adrift of the play-offs.
Peter Toulson, who died on Monday, sold the magazine from a pitch outside a department store in York's Parliament Street.
A friend of Mr Toulson started a fundraising page to help his partner Karen pay for his funeral costs.
The appeal has now exceeded its £3,000 target just a few days after being launched.
John and Julie McGall who established the fundraising site said they wanted to give Mr Toulson "the send off he deserves".
A message on the site described Mr Toulson as "a gentle giant".
"Always had a smile or friendly banter with both his customers and the general public.
"He was a dignified proud man, who for no fault of his own found himself falling upon hard times."
BBC Wales picture editor Johanna Powell, 37, died in Laos on 11 April.
She was on holiday with friends when the cruise boat they were on capsized on the Mekong River near Pak Beng.
On Tuesday at Aberdare Coroner's Court, Coroner Andrew Barkley said he had not received a final report from overseas so was not in a position to proceed.
He asked Ms Powell's family if they would prefer to wait for the conclusion of investigations abroad, which he warned could take years, or go ahead with an inquest based on statements to be obtained from the European witnesses involved.
Ms Powell's parents Teresa and Donald indicated that they would prefer the latter.
The ban applies to all new cosmetics and their ingredients sold in the EU, regardless of where in the world testing on animals was carried out.
The 27 EU countries have had a ban on such tests in place since 2009. But the EU Commission is now asking the EU's trading partners to do the same.
Animal rights lobbyists said EU officials had "listened to the people".
The anti-vivisection group BUAV and the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments (ECEAE) said they had spent more than 20 years campaigning on the issue and had enlisted celebrities including Sir Paul McCartney, Morrissey and Sienna Miller to their cause. They congratulated the EU Commission for putting the ban into effect.
But BUAV says many countries in the world still test on animals for cosmetics and the group is now pressing for a global ban.
Mice and rats are used for more than half of all lab animal tests carried out in the EU.
Despite the EU's 2009 ban, cosmetics firms were allowed to continue testing on animals for the most complex human health effects, such as toxicity which might lead to cancer. However, those tests now come under the ban too.
The EU Commission says it is working with industry to develop more alternatives to animal testing, and that it allocated 238m euros (£208m; $310m) in 2007-2011 for such research.
Cosmetics firms are concerned that the ban could put Europe at a competitive disadvantage in a global market.
Cosmetics Europe chief Bertil Heerink, quoted by the Associated Press news agency, said that "by implementing the ban at this time, the European Union is jeopardising the industry's ability to innovate".
The team from Keen Security Lab remotely manipulated the brake system on a Tesla while it was on the move, from a distance of 12 miles (19km).
Using a laptop, the hackers also managed to open a car door without using a key.
Tesla has updated its software to prevent anyone else from manipulating its cars.
The hack took place after months of research and the team from Keen Security Lab posted a video of their efforts earlier this week on YouTube.
During the experiment a hacker took control of a vehicle from the passenger seat, while someone else was behind the wheel.
Using a laptop, he was able to adjust the rear-view mirror while the driver was changing lanes. The hacker also managed to open the trunk remotely, while the car was on the move.
This hack is notable for two reasons.
One, it was conducted far away - as far as 12 miles, researchers said. And two, the sheer amount of control it can wrest from the driver is remarkable - brakes, windscreen wipers, all sorts.
The good news is the security community is so far rising to the challenge of protecting cars from hackers. This hack was discovered by researchers who, as they should, went straight to Tesla before going public.
Tesla's cars are able to get over-the-air updates, meaning Tesla's engineers can automatically rectify the vulnerability in its cars without drivers needing to visit a dealership.
And that's precisely what the company has done.
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A Metropolitan Police spokesman said a man had been heard shouting abuse and was then seen throwing a bottle. It landed behind the sprinters.
US athlete Justin Gatlin, who won bronze in Sunday's race, said the bottle had been a "little distraction".
Nobody was injured and the event was not disrupted, police said.
The suspect is being held at an east London police station on suspicion of causing a public nuisance.
A spokesman for Games organisers Locog said: "The incident had no impact on the competitors or the event."
Following the incident Edith Bosch, the Dutch judo champion who won a Bronze medal in the 70kg category, tweeted about hitting a man who she saw throwing a bottle on the track.
The 32-year-old later told Dutch television station NOS TV: "I had seen the man walking around earlier and said to people around me that he was a peculiar bloke.
"Then he threw that bottle and in my emotion I hit him on the back with the flat of my hand.
"Then he was scooped up by the security. However, he did make me miss the final, and I am very sad about that.
"I just cannot understand how someone can do something like that."
Speaking about the bottle-throwing after Sunday's 100m race, Justin Gatlin said: "I didn't know what it was, but when you're in those blocks, and the whole stadium's quiet, you can hear a pin drop."
Gatlin said the incident had not affected the race.
"You just have to block it out and go out there and do what you got to do. You can't complain about that, the race went on and it was a great race."
Winner Usain Bolt told reporters he had been unaware of the incident.
He added: "No, I keep hearing that. I don't know who would have done that."
Fellow Jamaican sprinter Yohan Blake, who came second, said: "I was so focused I didn't see anything. I was so focused on just running to the line."
He was found at a shop front on High Street on Wednesday evening.
It is believed he was aged in his 40s. Paramedics and police were called to the scene.
Sandra Moore, director of the Welcome Organisation which works with homeless people in Belfast, has called for greater co-ordination between homeless charities.
"There is very good inter-agency working between the statutory agencies and most of the voluntary sector," she said.
"Our outreach is on the street 17 hours a day and what would help would be co-ordination of the other groups that are out there.
"My intelligence would tell me there are more volunteer groups on the street doing uncoordinated work than there are rough sleepers. That's the distinction we have to make, the difference between people who are homeless but are in temporary accommodation and those who are rough sleepers."
Ms Moore said "an intensive package of support" had been available to the man who was found dead on Wednesday evening.
"We did know this gentleman and gentleman is the proper word in this case," she said.
"While this person has been labelled homeless he actually wasn't roofless, like some of the others who passed over in the last month he did have a bed, somewhere to go at night.
"I don't know the cause of death in this instance, but I do know there were significant underlying health issues.
"So many of the people who come to us do have a complex range of issues and as in this case there was an intensive package of support available to this gentleman."
Several thousand protested outside the main public TV station in Warsaw.
The new laws give the government power to appoint heads of public TV and radio, as well as the civil service.
European media watchdogs and the EU have condemned the move. But the government says some of Poland's state-controlled bodies need reform.
"Free media" protests were held in the cities of Poznan, Wrocław and Krakow, Radio Poland reported.
"We want to express our solidarity with the independent media and our opposition to the attack being currently being carried out against it," the station quoted Mateusz Kijowski - head of the newly-created Committee for the Defence of Democracy - as saying.
The committee also opposes the introduction of a constitutional court - which it says undermines the court's responsibility for holding the government to account.
The government's media reforms give the treasury minister the power to hire and fire broadcasting chiefs - a role currently in the hands of a media supervisory committee.
On Friday it dismissed state media management teams and installed replacements.
The EU Commission has warned that Poland may be jeopardising EU values by introducing the new laws and could face punitive measures. It will hold a debate on the reforms on 13 January.
Polish presidential spokeswoman Malgorzata Sadurska said earlier this week that President Andrzej Duda signed the laws because he wanted the state media to be "impartial, objective and reliable".
The Eurosceptic Law and Justice Party (PiS) won a clear majority in October elections and argues that journalists on public service channels are biased against it in their coverage.
Most Poles tune in to the public TVP channels, as well as public radio - which includes many regional stations.
Correspondents say that incoming governments in Poland tend to put their own people in to run large state companies, institutions, and the public media - but the PiS has gone faster and further this time.
Relatives of some of the victims of the atrocity want to pursue the appeal on behalf of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only man convicted of it.
The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) asked the appeal court to rule on whether it could continue investigating.
It wants a ruling on whether the relatives have "a legitimate interest".
Since June 2014, the SCCRC has been considering a joint application from members of the family of Megrahi, the Libyan secret service agent who was convicted of the murders of 270 people in the 1988 bombing.
The application was jointly lodged by the Justice for Megrahi campaign group, which includes relatives of British victims of the bombing, in an attempt to review his January 2001 conviction.
The relatives, led by Dr Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora died in the explosion over Lockerbie on 21 December 1988, believe the Libyan was the victim of a miscarriage of justice and said his conviction should be overturned.
SCCRC has asked the High Court for guidance on whether it can take forward such an appeal on the convicted man's behalf.
It had earlier said, despite repeated requests, members of Megrahi's family had failed to provide appropriate evidence supporting their involvement in the application.
It concluded the application was being actively supported only by the members of the victims' families.
A brief procedural hearing took place in Edinburgh before judge Lady Dorrian to examine the SCCRC's petition.
She ordered a further hearing to take place, likely to last a day, for all the issues surrounding the commission's request to be aired.
It is expected to take place later in the year.
Previous court decisions have meant only the executor of a dead person's estate or their next of kin could proceed with such a posthumous application.
The SCCRC has asked the court to determine if victims' families can be classed as a "person with a legitimate interest to pursue an appeal".
Dr Swire and other victims' relatives were among those at court.
They have called for the SCCRC's petition for guidance to be dismissed, claiming it is "incompetent" in law.
After the hearing, Aamer Anwar, the Megrahi family solicitor, said: "Relatives of the Lockerbie victims instructing my firm maintain that they have a legitimate interest in pursuing an appeal and they will continue to seek the truth.
"But as proceedings are live, it would be inappropriate to comment further."
SCCRC has already investigated the Lockerbie bombing, sending the case back to the Appeal Court in June 2007 after a four-year investigation.
But Megrahi, who was convicted after a trial at Kamp van Zeist in the Netherlands, abandoned the case two years later.
Shortly afterwards he was sent home to Libya on compassionate grounds, suffering from inoperable prostate cancer. He died in 2012.
In his first international 400m since breaking the world record in the 2016 Olympic final, the 24-year-old South African won in 43.62 seconds.
It beat Michael Johnson's record at this meeting of 43.66, set in 1996.
Britain's Laura Muir, 24, ran a personal best of one minute 58.69 seconds to finish fifth in the 800m.
Compatriot Lynsey Sharp, 26, set a season's best of 1:58:80 to finish seventh in a race won by Burundi's Francine Niyonsaba in 1:56.82.
Scot Muir, who has recently recovered from a stress fracture in a foot, said: "You do not realise the value of something until it is taken away from you."
Eilidh Doyle, 30, ran a season's best 54.36 in finishing third the 400m hurdles.
Fellow Britain James Dasaolu, 29, was fifth in the 100m in 10.12 as 35-year-old American Justin Gatlin won in 9.96.
Ryanair and IAG shares were up almost 3%, while Aer Lingus was up 1.8%.
The formal acceptance paves the way for the €1.3bn (£940m) bid by BA and Iberia owner IAG for Aer Lingus to go ahead.
It is subject to backing by competition authorities. European Union approval is now the last remaining hurdle to the tie-up.
IAG's plans include building a new transatlantic hub at Dublin airport.
Ryanair's chief executive Michael O'Leary said in a statement: "We believe the IAG offer for Aer Lingus is a reasonable one in the current market and we plan to accept it, in the best interests of Ryanair shareholders.
"The price means that Ryanair will make a small profit on its investment in Aer Lingus over the past nine years."
Ryanair has attempted to buy Aer Lingus three times. Its takeover quest began in 2006, just after Aer Lingus was floated on the stock market by the Irish government.
Ryanair's initial bid illustrates the wild swings in Aer Lingus's value since then. Its first offer was €2.80 a share. The second, two years later, was half that and its most recent offer in 2012 was €1.30 a share.
The Irish government, which sold its 25% stake in Aer Lingus to IAG in May, recommended that Ryanair accept IAG's offer.
The deal values Aer Lingus shares at around €2.50 (£1.87) per share.
Aer Lingus is Heathrow Airport's fourth busiest operator, behind BA, Lufthansa and Virgin Atlantic.
If the deal is approved, IAG would gain more take-off and landing slots at Heathrow Airport, allowing it to operate more flights.
Ryanair said it had planned to use Aer Lingus to gain slots at mainstream airports.
Travellers have been surprised in the past by the distance of some of Ryanair's airports from the city they thought they were flying to.
Michael O'Leary said Ryanair did not need Aer Lingus now: "Our original strategy for Aer Lingus (to use it as a mid-priced brand to offer competition to flag carriers at primary airports) has been overtaken by the successful rollout - since Sept 2013 - of Ryanair's "Always Getting Better" strategy, which has seen the Ryanair brand successfully enter many of Europe's primary airports."
Bella Caledonia was set up in 2007, providing a platform for a varied range of writers and bloggers producing political and cultural content.
It became an important voice during the Scottish independence referendum campaign.
Its editor Mike Small is stepping down. He told BBC Scotland the site needed £50,000 in order to survive. An urgent fundraising appeal has been launched.
Mr Small set up the online magazine along with fellow socialist writer and publisher Kevin Williamson.
It was named after a character from Alasdair Gray's novel Poor Things. Gray later provided the site with a new version of his artwork.
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Mr Small said Bella Caledonia may be able to continue with less than £50,000, but on a voluntary model.
The site's board is due to meet on Tuesday to discuss ways forward.
The statement posted on the Bella Caledonia website said: "The Advisory Board of Bella Caledonia confirms we are going to have to make the decision to close, unless an urgent fundraising appeal can be met.
"Mike Small has advised that despite his commitment to Bella, he will have to step down as editor as the position is too financially precarious and he is actively seeking other work.
"The board is looking at other funding models and is appealing for urgent help to finance the magazine in a more permanent way in a year when a second independence referendum is very likely to be called."
It added: "Regardless of the outcome the board and contributors of Bella would like to thank Mike for his years of work - mostly unpaid but always cheerful, professional, imaginative and dedicated.
"Mike and our diverse range of writers have made Bella a successful online magazine and we hope that legacy can continue in some form."
A separate short message posted by Mr Small said: "Thanks to everyone for their support over the years, to the board members and writers who gave their time and to everybody who supported us financially and who took part in the debate.
"Couldn't quite manage to do it."
Activists and journalists have been using social media to voice their support for Mr Small and the website.
Bella Caledonian has a following of almost 48,000 people on Twitter and a Facebook group with almost 14,000 members.
On Monday, emails to the site were being returned with an automated response which said: "Bella is closed to submissions until further notice."
However, BBC Scotland has learned no bid has yet been made for the 22-year-old striker.
Damari made his first-team debut in 2006 and has scored twice in two appearances for his country.
Meanwhile, Victor Wanyama has agreed to join Celtic subject to a work permit and medical after a fee was agreed with Belgian club Germinal Beerschot.
Wanyama, 20, first moved to Europe from his native Kenya when he joined Swedish club Helsingborg in 2007.
The defensive midfielder moved on to Beerschot the following year and has been capped 11 times.
Celtic manager Neil Lennon has been trying to sign a goalkeeper but last week had a bid of £1.5m for Fraser Forster rejected, the Newcastle stopper having spent last season on loan in Glasgow.
Lennon has also been linked with moves for Kaizer Chiefs forward Knowledge Musona and Central Coast Mariners midfielder Mustafa Amini, who will play against Celtic in a friendly in Australia this weekend.
Men, women and children donned mermaid tails, sequins and wigs for the event which is now in its third year.
Organisers aimed to celebrate the sea, while raising awareness of sea life and marine conservation issues.
Saturday's march was held in collaboration with WhaleFest and organisers said all profits would be donated to the World Cetacean Alliance.
The robbery happened at Earthy on Canonmills Bridge at about 21:40 on Thursday.
The men, who were carrying knives, robbed the premises of a three-figure sum of cash.
They were in their early 20s, of slim or slim-to-medium build. One of them was about 5ft 5in and the other was about 5ft 9in. Both had local accents.
The first man was wearing a light-grey, zipped, hooded top, grey tracksuit bottoms and plimsoll-type shoes.
The second man was wearing a dark greyish/blue hooded top, grey jogging bottoms and gloves and was carrying a green and cream duffel bag.
Police are appealing for witnesses.
Det Insp Graham Grant, of Police Scotland, said: "This robbery left two female members of staff shocked and distressed and deprived the business of their income.
"I am keen to speak to anyone who was in the area around 21:40 last night and who might have information that can assist us in tracing these suspects."
Ashley, who owns a 9% stake in Rangers, has also asked the board to explain why the club has been delisted from the AIM stock exchange.
If the loan is paid back, the club will regain security over their branding, the Murray Park training ground and the club's retail rights.
All are currently held by Ashley.
The move comes after the Sports Direct owner lost control of the Ibrox boardroom to South Africa-based businessman Dave King, who is awaiting Scottish FA approval to become the club's new chairman.
That followed an EGM called by King in March, when shareholders backed the former Rangers director and his allies.
Paul Murray, who was named interim chairman, was this month formally cleared by the SFA to become a director of the Scottish Championship club despite sitting on the board along with King in the years preceding Rangers' insolvency in 2012.
Police investigating takeovers at Rangers last week searched Sports Direct's Derbyshire headquarters.
The company stressed that it related to "various persons previously employed by and or associated with Rangers" and was "not directed at Sports Direct or at any of its directors or employees".
In April, Rangers International Football Club plc was delisted from AIM - the Alternative Investment Market, a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange - when the club failed to appoint a nominated advisor to replace WH Ireland after the firm stood down from the role, an omission for which the club blamed the previous administration.
Derek Llambias, a former Newcastle managing director, took charge in December and appointed former Sports Direct executive Barry Leach as finance director.
An initial £2m loan from Ashley had given the Newcastle owner the right to appoint two directors to Rangers' board.
The Englishman agreed a further £10m loan in January to help keep the club solvent, although only £5m was made available immediately as working capital.
Sports Direct started its merchandising deal with the Glasgow club in 2012 following a takeover led by English businessman Charles Green, after which Rangers were accepted to play in the Scottish Third Division.
Mr Burnham, 47, was elected on Friday with 63% of the vote to lead the the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.
He named Sir Richard Leese as deputy for business and economy while Baroness Beverley Hughes will oversee policing and crime.
Councillor Rishi Shori, Bury Council's Labour leader, will take responsibility for young people and social cohesion.
Mr Burnham, who served in governments under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, will control transport, housing and police budgets.
He will be paid £110,000 a year and take over the powers of the region's elected Police and Crime Commissioner, Tony Lloyd.
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Greater Manchester's authority will have control over a £6bn health and social care budget and also has an adult skills budget, powers over apprenticeship grants for employers, strategic planning powers, and transport.
The Liverpool-born politician said the region "will be the modern industrial capital of the country - digital, green, and young" and he "will put young people at the centre of everything we do".
Mr Leese said he had been "working on the devolution agenda" and although "we need a lot more control", he will do everything he can to make devolution "an enormous success".
Former home office minister, Baroness Hughes, said she was "honoured" to be part of "a new era of politics" and face the "challenging" police and crime brief.
Mr Shori said he will create a "youth combined authority" because "we can't afford to lose and ounce of the potential of our young people... the future belongs to young people and they are going to help shape it".
Mr Burnham, who has been MP for Leigh in Wigan since 2001, will not stand in next month's general election.
Ecclestone had wanted double points at the final three races of the season but the teams, who he called "bloody idiots", did not go for the plan.
"I'm not going to propose the three races again," he told the Independent.
"I'm going to let them get on with it. I don't know what we're going to do next year."
Briton Lewis Hamilton leads the drivers' standings by 17 points from Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg going into the last race of the campaign in Abu Dhabi on 23 November.
If Rosberg wins, Hamilton will need to finish second to take the title. Under the old system, sixth would have been enough.
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said: "It would put a big shadow over the championship if it was turned by a technical issue."
However, Ecclestone accused the teams of thinking about the "short term" in not agreeing to his original plan of double points for three races.
"One race is stupid but imagine if it was the last three races," he said. "It means that somebody would have to have a 150-point advantage minimum to be sure they will win.
"The teams have not accepted it because they are bloody idiots. They are all mechanics. They think of their team in the short term."
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The British number one was responding to BBC and BuzzFeed News revelations about suspected illegal betting in tennis over the past decade.
World number one Novak Djokovic has revealed he was offered £110,000 to fix a match early in his career.
Murray, 28, said: "When people come with those sums of money when you are that age, people can make mistakes."
Djokovic said he was approached to lose a first-round match at the St Petersburg Open in 2007, adding that the offer, which was not made directly to the Serb, was dismissed immediately.
Speaking in Melbourne following his first-round win at the Australian Open, Murray said tennis authorities needed to be on the front foot on the issue of match-fixing.
"You have to be proactive with things like this and go and speak to the players rather than them reading about it in the newspapers or listening to it on the TV or the radio," the Scot said.
"I think the more proactive you are with educating young players, the better on matters like this."
He said players should learn about the dangers of match-fixing from the age of 15 and they should also be warned that a bad decision "can affect your career, can affect the whole sport".
Murray also said that:
"If there is corruption in any sport, you want to hear about it," said the world number two after his straight-sets win over Alexander Zverev.
"As a player, you just want to be made aware of everything that's going on. I think we deserve to know everything that's sort of out there.
"Some of it will be true, some of it might not be true, but I'm always very curious with that stuff, across really all sports as well.
"I think sports could in general be much, much more transparent."
Murray also said tennis was sending mixed messages by allowing betting company William Hill to become one of the Australian Open's sponsor's this year and advertise on the tournament's three main show courts.
For the first time at Melbourne Park, electronic advertising boards at Rod Laver Arena, Margaret Court Arena and Hisense Arena display the name 'William Hill' during breaks in play.
"I'm not really pro that," said Murray, a four-time finalist in Melbourne.
"I think it's a little bit hypocritical, because I don't believe the players are allowed to be sponsored by betting companies, but the tournaments are.
"I don't really understand how it all works. I think it's a bit strange."
Djokovic has also called the decision to allow a betting company to sponsor the Australian Open "borderline".
The BBC and BuzzFeed News obtained secret files that contained evidence of suspected match-fixing in tennis.
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Those files indicate that, over the past decade, 16 players who have been ranked in the world's top 50 have been repeatedly flagged to the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) over suspicions they have thrown matches.
All of the players, including winners of Grand Slam titles, were allowed to continue competing.
However, tennis officials have rejected suggestions they have been lax on the issue of match-fixing.
They also criticised the timing of the BBC and BuzzFeed News report, published just before the start of the first Grand Slam of the year.
Djokovic does not think match-fixing is prevalent at the top level of tennis and says there is "no real proof" of fixing among the elite.
"It's just speculation," said the 10-time Grand Slam champion.
Roger Federer, a 17-time Grand Slam champion, said it was difficult to gauge if and to what level fixing went on, adding he wanted more information about who might be guilty.
"I would love to hear names,'' said the former world number one. "Then at least it's concrete stuff and you can actually debate about it.
The Burundi-born 22-year-old made his senior debut for Coventry in August 2011 at the age of 17 and joined the Magpies a year later.
But he made just three league starts in four years with Newcastle and returned to the Sky Blues on loan last season.
"I'm sure he can rediscover the form that made him so popular in his first spell," said manager Tony Mowbray.
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Rhodes turned in Grant Hanley's header from a Craig Conway corner just before half-time to put the hosts ahead.
Substitute Tom Lawrence crossed from the right to set up Scotland international striker Rhodes for his fourth goal in three games.
And Lawrence finished an excellent team move with a powerful shot into the roof of the net for Blackburn's late third.
Charlton actually had the first clear chance of the game but Tony Watt's lob was not on target.
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Addicks 'keeper Nick Pope had twice denied Rhodes, before the striker gave Rovers the lead with a close-range header following Hanley's flick on.
Although behind, Johann Berg Gudmundsson and Watt both went close to equalising before Rhodes turned home at the near post to extend Rovers' lead.
Wales international Lawrence scored 10 minutes after coming on as Blackburn moved out of the relegation places with their first three points of the season.
Blackburn manager Gary Bowyer: "We know if we create the chances, we've got the best finisher in the league (Rhodes).
"They were terrific after a tough week, two trips to London and back, all the travelling. They were outstanding today, but that's what we were - ruthless in both boxes.
"There's a good feeling in the dressing room but it's just the start, we won't get carried away and hopefully now we can kick on because the level of performances has been sky high."
Charlton manager Guy Luzon: "I thought that our attitude today was good. We started the game well, organised in defence and in attack we created some good occasions in the first half.
"In this division it's very important to score the first goal and, unfortunately, Blackburn scored in the last minute of the half."
Match ends, Blackburn Rovers 3, Charlton Athletic 0.
Second Half ends, Blackburn Rovers 3, Charlton Athletic 0.
Attempt saved. Johann Berg Gudmundsson (Charlton Athletic) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ahmed Kashi.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Conor McAleny.
Foul by Tom Lawrence (Blackburn Rovers).
Chris Solly (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Adam Henley (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Igor Vetokele (Charlton Athletic).
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Karlan Ahearne-Grant replaces Tony Watt.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Lee Williamson replaces Corry Evans.
Goal! Blackburn Rovers 3, Charlton Athletic 0. Tom Lawrence (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Adam Henley.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Chris Solly.
Attempt saved. Ben Marshall (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Craig Conway.
Corner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Adam Henley.
Attempt blocked. Conor McAleny (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tony Watt.
Foul by Jordan Rhodes (Blackburn Rovers).
Alou Diarra (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Johann Berg Gudmundsson (Charlton Athletic) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Igor Vetokele.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Hope Akpan replaces Danny Guthrie.
Delay in match Igor Vetokele (Charlton Athletic) because of an injury.
Goal! Blackburn Rovers 2, Charlton Athletic 0. Jordan Rhodes (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Tom Lawrence with a cross.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Tom Lawrence replaces Bangaly-Fodé Koita.
Corner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Shane Duffy.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Conor McAleny replaces Zakarya Bergdich.
Grant Hanley (Blackburn Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Grant Hanley (Blackburn Rovers).
Tony Watt (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Ben Marshall (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Patrick Bauer.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Patrick Bauer.
Attempt missed. Tony Watt (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Johann Berg Gudmundsson.
Offside, Blackburn Rovers. Jordan Rhodes tries a through ball, but Bangaly-Fodé Koita is caught offside.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Igor Vetokele replaces Mikhail Kennedy.
Attempt missed. Craig Conway (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Jordan Rhodes.
Bangaly-Fodé Koita (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jordan Cousins (Charlton Athletic).
Foul by Grant Hanley (Blackburn Rovers).
Johann Berg Gudmundsson (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Charlton Athletic. Morgan Fox tries a through ball, but Tony Watt is caught offside.
The firm also revealed that its chief financial officer, Andrew Jenner, was stepping down.
Existing shares in Serco were trading down 2.1% on Thursday following the announcements, which were made after the markets closed on Wednesday night.
Serco has been hit by costs relating to its overcharging the UK government on a criminal tagging contract.
The firm was accused of charging for tagging people who were either dead or in jail.
In March, it said profit plunged 62% last year after it was hit by costs relating to the scandal.
Rupert Soames, the former boss of engineering firm Aggreko, took over as Serco chief executive on Thursday morning.
On Tuesday, Serco said its performance for the year had been "more challenging than expected".
It warned this could mean a "material downward revision" to its profits forecasts.
But the message applied equally to those Remain voters in Northern Ireland who have been thinking fondly about the idea of retaining some kind of special status within the EU.
The PM's scornful attitude to the legal challenges against Brexit pertained as much to the cases before Belfast's High Court as to those launched in London.
She repeated her pledge to engage the devolved administrations fully in the Brexit process.
But Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness revealed that, in practice, this boiled down to a phone call from the EU Exit Secretary David Davis telling Stormont about the plan to legislate to repeal EU legislation shortly before that plan was revealed to the public.
Stormont's first and deputy first ministers managed to find some common ground by penning a joint letter to the prime minister setting out their Brexit concerns.
First Minister Arlene Foster told MLAs that letter has not yet received any response from Downing Street, although Mrs May's latest speech may be considered the clearest reply so far.
Mrs Foster acknowledged that an Alliance query about the repercussions of the UK withdrawing from the single market was "a core question".
But she declined to say how she believes that might "impact on business in Northern Ireland, given the degree to which we trade with the Republic of Ireland", taking refuge in not wanting to give away Stormont's negotiating hand.
The thrust of Mrs May's speech appears to be that controlling immigration trumps staying in the Single Market.
If that remains the case, the room for compromise on potential immigration and customs checks on the Irish border appears to have diminished. No wonder the Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan seems to no longer be ruling out the possibility of a so-called hard border, even if Mrs Foster derides it as a Donald Trump-style wall which will never be built.
Many of the Stormont Remain politicians are reluctant to accept that Brexit is a done deal, as they continue to hope it can be derailed by their court challenges or some other unforeseen event. But the clock is ticking, and the likely consequences on the border are very real.
The politicians are saying radically different things about Brexit but the public in Northern Ireland deserves both its Leave and Remain representatives to start thinking seriously about the practicalities.
For all London's promises of engaging the devolved administrations, Stormont will have to shout loud and often if its concerns are going to get heard amid the cacophony of the negotiations between the UK and the EU.
The number of people out of work in the January to March period fell to 1.83 million, down 35,000 from the previous quarter.
The total number in work rose to 31.1 million.
The number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance fell by 12,600 in April to 764,000.
A council work crew was startled to find the 120kg (265lb) seal, who they named Sammy, taking a nap in the women's toilets at Mersey Vale Lawn Cemetery on Tuesday.
Sammy was sedated and taken to a nearby beach to be released.
The cemetery is about 500m from the ocean and it is believed Sammy may have swum up a creek to reach it.
A spokeswoman for Devonport City Council told the BBC the arrival of Sammy was "highly unusual".
"They are quite common on the beaches. Local fishermen often complain about them stealing their fish," she said.
"He came and posed for a few photos for us, which was lovely."
Nine Protestant civilians were killed in the 1993 attack in Belfast, as well as one of the IRA bombers.
The newspaper said it had seen files stolen by the IRA from police special branch offices in Castlereagh on St Patrick's Day 2002.
It said the files had been decoded by IRA members.
This led them to discover the alleged informer's identity, the paper said.
In a statement, the police ombudsman's office said: "We have received a complaint.
"It centres on two concerns: Did the RUC have information which would have allowed them to prevent the bombing and was the subsequent investigation compromised; did the police fail to 'deliver justice to the families of those who lost their lives in the bombing?'
"We will now assess this complaint and speak to those who have made these allegations.
"We will seek to establish if this is something we should investigate, and if so, when we could begin this work."
The IRA bomb attack took place on a busy Saturday afternoon in October in the heart of one of Belfast's best known loyalist areas.
Among the dead were two children aged seven and 13.
Four people were held by a man with a firearm on Sunday evening inside the South Tyneside Coral bookmakers, police said.
The last person was released from the shop on Grange Road, Jarrow, at about 20:45 GMT, after several hours.
Alistair Gallow, 39, of Percy Street, has been charged with nine offences including false imprisonment and possessing a firearm.
He has been remanded in custody by South Tyneside magistrates to appear at crown court next month.
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The Ministry of Justice change relates to "simple cautions" given mainly for offences classed as "low level" such as shoplifting and criminal damage.
Ministers say two would only now be granted in "exceptional circumstances".
Police can use cautions instead of prosecuting if people admit offences.
They can also be given by the Crown Prosecution Service and apply to any offenders over the age of 10 if they admit a crime and agree to accept one.
But concerns have been raised that cautions are being used to deal with repeat offenders, contrary to advice, and the government pledged to clamp down on their over-use.
An MoJ examination of the system has now concluded that all types of out of court disposals should be reviewed by next spring.
As well as simple cautions, these include cautions with conditions attached, fixed penalty notices, warnings given to people for possession of cannabis, community resolutions and fixed penalty notices for disorder.
The MoJ said overall, the use of cautions issued to all ages of offenders fell from a peak of 362,900 in 2007 to 200,900 in 2012.
But its figures show that some 4,763 adults received two or more simple cautions in the two years to 31 March this year for similar offences.
In September, ministers announced that simple cautions for serious offences such as rape, robbery and supplying class A drugs would be banned.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said: "The current range of out of court disposals are confusing and the system is overly bureaucratic.
"They should be consistent, straightforward and something in which victims and the wider public can have confidence."
The review recommended there should be greater transparency with police, magistrates and victims' groups potentially checking to see cautions have been issued correctly.
The guidance also says criminals should only receive more than one simple caution in a two-year period in certain cases and only then when signed off by a police inspector.
The Association of Chief Police Officers said it recommended and supported the review of cautions.
But Chief Constable Lynne Owens from Acpo said: "It is important that there is room for officer discretion in any system to ensure the punishment is proportionate to the offence."
Labour welcomed the move but accused ministers of being too slow in addressing the issue.
Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said: "In the three years it has taken the government to wake up to this problem, too many innocent victims of crime have been insulted by the slaps on the wrist given to criminals.
"Ministers denied there was even a problem. Then they insulted innocent victims, blaming the rise in cautions on their unwillingness to press charges. Now we have yet another review being launched."
The FTSE 100 closed down 66 points, or 0.93%, to 6,994.63.
The biggest faller was the wealth management firm St James's Place, which fell by 3%.
On the currency markets, the pound edged up 0.05% against the dollar to $1.4941 and slipped 0.15% against the euro to €1.3857.
The pound rose sharply after the latest jobs figures showed unemployment continuing to fall. The rate fell to 5.6%, the lowest since July 2008. However the British currency later fell back.
Trading was also complicated earlier in the session by the failure of Bloomberg's trading terminals, used by many firms in the City, which went down for two and a half hours.
The problems caused a UK debt auction to be cancelled.
"Q" Johnson, also known as Ricky or Jamie Sampson, and a man known as "Diego" are being sought over the attack on 26 December in Reading.
It happened close to the junction of Sidmouth Street and Queens Road.
The male victim was stabbed with a kitchen knife and treated for chest wounds and a punctured lung.
Detectives believe the stabbing was not a random attack and reminded the public that the "harbouring of these men" could be a crime.
Police said "Q" Johnson, 21, has links to Reading, Bedford and Wandsworth in London.
Both men are black, about 5ft 8ins and of medium build.
Det Con Ben Sherriff said: "If you are harbouring either of these men then you could be committing a crime, so it is vitally important that you contact us now."
Joe Allen's half-volley put Wales ahead in Vienna but slack marking allowed Marko Arnautovic to nod level.
Wales were fortunate to regain the lead through Kevin Wimmer's own goal - a day after Austria manager Marcel Koller had called his opponents "lucky".
Arnautovic seized on more sloppy defending to level again but Wales held on for a point to stay top of Group D.
Chris Coleman's side had to cope with spells of heavy Austrian pressure as well as a vociferous Viennese crowd inside a packed Ernst Happel Stadion.
The European Championship semi-finalists also had to contend with an injury to Allen, which will make the midfielder a doubt for Sunday's match at home to Georgia.
The draw means Wales are level on points with Austria, Serbia and the Republic of Ireland - who beat Georgia 1-0 - but they retain their place at Group D's summit thanks to their superior goal difference.
This meeting between Group D's top two seeds was always likely to be a significant fixture, and the game was given added spice by the two managers' pre-match comments.
Coleman dismissed Koller's suggestion Wales were "lucky" to reach the Euro 2016 semi-finals, and he appeared to make a pointed reference to Austria's failure to get out of their group when he said some teams in France "couldn't handle the pressure".
There was a sense of serendipity to the way Koller's comments came back to haunt him shortly before half-time, as Wales regained the lead in extremely fortuitous fashion.
Gareth Bale launched a long throw into Austria's box and, after Sam Vokes' flick-on, James Chester had a header saved by Robert Almer - but the ball bounced off Wimmer and bobbled into the net.
The element of luck was amplified by the fact Wales had been under intense pressure before they scored their second goal, although Arnautovic's second equaliser meant Austria were eventually rewarded for their endeavours.
On paper, this was Wales' most difficult match of the campaign - Coleman's top seeds away from home against the second-highest ranked team in the group.
Austria had won their past 10 qualifiers and were unbeaten in competitive matches at home since 2012.
With a highly-charged atmosphere inside Ernst Happel Stadion, Koller's men seemed determined to make amends for their disappointing European Championship campaign.
And, despite falling behind to Allen's superb swerving left-footed half-volley, Austria were level five minutes later as Chris Gunter failed to track Arnautovic's run from a lofted David Alaba pass, allowing the Stoke winger to head past Wayne Hennessey.
The hosts took charge from that point and, although Wales reclaimed the lead, Allen's loose pass and a poor touch from Chester allowed Arnautovic to run clear and clip the ball over Hennessey.
A draw was the least Austria's attacking efforts warranted and, for Wales, a point away from home against one of their primary rivals for Group D's top spot was reward for a valiant performance.
Wales manager Chris Coleman: "We have to be honest and say we'll take that point. It wasn't our best performance but Austria are a very good team at home. To take three points we needed to be at our very best in every department but we weren't. We found a way though, by hook or by crook, and we rode our luck at times.
"If you can get something when you are not at your best it is a good sign. We made trouble for ourselves, that's not like us. We can play a lot better but we can't fight any harder than that."
Wales forward Gareth Bale: "This is a very difficult place to come but we ground out a 2-2 draw. Austria will beat a lot of teams here, a point is positive."
Wales are at home to Georgia on Sunday, while Serbia host the Austrians. Elsewhere in Group D, the Republic of Ireland travel to Moldova.
Match ends, Austria 2, Wales 2.
Second Half ends, Austria 2, Wales 2.
Martin Hinteregger (Austria) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Hal Robson-Kanu (Wales).
Marc Janko (Austria) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Marc Janko (Austria).
Chris Gunter (Wales) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Marcel Sabitzer (Austria).
Chris Gunter (Wales) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Wales. Emyr Huws replaces Neil Taylor.
Foul by Aleksandar Dragovic (Austria).
Hal Robson-Kanu (Wales) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Wayne Hennessey (Wales) because of an injury.
Substitution, Austria. Louis Schaub replaces Marko Arnautovic.
Attempt saved. Alessandro Schöpf (Austria) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by David Alaba.
Aleksandar Dragovic (Austria) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ashley Williams (Wales).
Corner, Wales. Conceded by Kevin Wimmer.
Corner, Wales. Conceded by Florian Klein.
Corner, Wales. Conceded by Aleksandar Dragovic.
Attempt missed. David Alaba (Austria) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Alessandro Schöpf.
Attempt missed. Marko Arnautovic (Austria) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Alessandro Schöpf.
Substitution, Austria. Alessandro Schöpf replaces Zlatko Junuzovic.
Offside, Austria. Marcel Sabitzer tries a through ball, but Zlatko Junuzovic is caught offside.
Foul by Marc Janko (Austria).
Ben Davies (Wales) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Wales. Hal Robson-Kanu replaces Sam Vokes.
Offside, Austria. Florian Klein tries a through ball, but Marc Janko is caught offside.
Julian Baumgartlinger (Austria) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gareth Bale (Wales).
Foul by David Alaba (Austria).
James Chester (Wales) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Marc Janko (Austria) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ashley Williams (Wales).
Attempt missed. Sam Vokes (Wales) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Offside, Austria. David Alaba tries a through ball, but Marko Arnautovic is caught offside.
Attempt missed. James Chester (Wales) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Joe Ledley with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Wales. Conceded by Julian Baumgartlinger.
Florian Klein (Austria) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Defeat to Manchester Storm on Sunday means it's the fifth year in six where the Caps have failed to secure a top eight berth.
And there was no-one more disappointed than Emmerson that they'll be outsiders to the traditional end of season party.
"We had high hopes earlier in the season," the Canadian said.
"We were in fourth in November and it went downhill from there.
"All we can do is upset things for others in the run-in and we've got four weeks of games where the guys are playing for contracts, whether that's here or elsewhere.
"They have the chance to showcase themselves and we've still got a close knit group of guys, which showed in our game against Manchester.
"We came up against a good goalie and that's just the way the luck goes. Ultimately, it's disappointing that we can't get to the play-offs."
The fact they've lost their last 13 games and won once in 23 is the cold hard fact around the Caps descent from the top half of the table into Elite League oblivion.
Emmerson's first season was also set back by sudden departures to key players and replacements not finding their feet well enough.
But despite the score, they could be positive about Sunday's 4-1 loss to Manchester Storm at Murrayfield that consigned them to a bleak end to the season.
Mathew Sisca scored in the opening minute to set the tone for Storm, but Kyle Bigos levelled later in the first period for Caps on the powerplay.
Matt Paton restored the lead before Matt Davies added a third for Storm, followed by Omar Pacha making it 4-1 in the final period to kill off Edinburgh's play-off dreams.
Storm had come to Scotland on the back of a 7-5 win over Dundee Stars on Saturday that elevated them into the top eight.
Davies, Sisca and Luke Salazar had Storm three in front after only five minutes before Lou Dickenson struck back for the Stars.
Grant Toulmin made it 4-1, but Jason Gray scored for Dundee to halve the deficit before Salazar nabbed his second followed by Doug Clarkson scoring for the Stars.
Salazar and Dundee's Curtis Leinweber traded goals, as did ex-Stars defenceman
Paul Swindlehurst and Justin Faryna as Manchester claimed the points.
At the top end of the table, Braehead Clan look out of the title reckoning after suffering two defeats to Fife Flyers on Saturday then the Stars on Sunday.
Ryan Finnerty's men are nine points away from top spot with eight games to go after the two losses, which began with a 5-1 humbling by rivals Fife.
Michael Dorr, Ryan Dingle and Kyle Horne put Todd Dutiaume's men comfortably 3-0 ahead as Clan struggled in front of a bumper sell-out home crowd.
Scott Aarssen fired Clan back into the game, but joy was short-lived as TJ Caig scored two to clinch a big 5-1 win in Glasgow.
The slump continued as Braehead went to Dundee Stars, but left with a 2-1 defeat.
Although Neil Trimm opened the scoring in the opening four minutes, Dundee hit back through Faryna to cancel it out.
Mikael Lidhammar struck the game winner late in the second to secure the points and pile further misery on the struggling Clan.
The recent slump prompted strong words from the club's Hockey & Operations Director, Gareth Chalmers, who has put pressure on the team to deliver.
He told the club's website after the Fife game: "The performance was abysmal, when you consider it was in front of a capacity crowd.
"As an organisation, we've worked hard to bring it into where it is now and after finishing second in the league last season, we can't accept that.
"I don't blame fans for booing or leaving early and with only a few games left to go, it's imperative we win the Gardiner Conference. Anything less won't be accepted."
Saturday
Braehead Clan 1 Fife Flyers 5
Manchester Storm 7 Dundee Stars 5
Sunday
Dundee Stars 2 Braehead Clan 1
Edinburgh Capitals 1 Manchester Storm 4
Malaysian police say he was waiting at the airport for a flight to Macau on Monday when a woman covered his face with a cloth which burnt his eyes.
He was using a passport in a different name at the time.
The late Kim Jong-il's eldest son is thought to have fled North Korea after being passed over for the leadership.
Kim Jong-nam was attacked at about 09:00 (01:00 GMT) on Monday while waiting at the budget terminal of Kuala Lumpur International Airport for a 10:00 flight to Macau, Malaysia's Star newspaper reports, quoting police.
How the attack actually unfolded is still unclear. Malaysian police official Fadzil Ahmat told The Star that Mr Kim had alerted a receptionist, saying "someone had grabbed him from behind and splashed a liquid on his face".
But quoted by Malaysian news agency Bernama, the same official said a woman had come at him from behind and "covered his face with a cloth laced with a liquid". Earlier reports spoke of a "spray" being used or a needle.
His eyes "suffered burns as a result of the liquid", Fadzil Ahmat told Bernama, and he died on the way to hospital in nearby Putrajaya.
"So far there are no suspects, but we have started investigations and are looking at a few possibilities to get leads," Fadzil Ahmat told Reuters news agency separately.
News of Mr Kim's death was not reported until Tuesday. An autopsy was conducted on his body but the results have not yet been released.
South Korean media named the victim early on Tuesday but the Malaysian authorities initially only reported the sudden death of an unnamed North Korean national who had fallen ill at the airport.
Police then released a statement which quoted the victim's travel document identifying him as "Kim Chol", born on 10 June 1970.
Kim Jong-nam was born on 10 May 1971.
Police finally confirmed that the victim was indeed the half-brother of North Korea's leader.
It was not the first time Mr Kim had travelled under an assumed identity: he was caught trying to enter Japan using a false passport in 2001. He told officials he had been planning to visit Tokyo Disneyland.
Bypassed in favour of his youngest half-brother for succession when their father died in 2011, Kim Jong-nam kept a low profile, spending most of his time overseas in Macau, mainland China and Singapore.
He is said to have enjoyed the slot machines in Macau, a Chinese territory famous for gambling.
The Tokyo Disneyland incident is thought to have spoilt his chances of succeeding Kim Jong-il, who died in 2011.
He later spoke out against his family's dynastic control of North Korea and in a 2012 book, was quoted as saying he believed his younger half-brother lacked leadership qualities.
Mr Kim was reportedly targeted for assassination in the past.
A North Korean spy jailed by South Korea in 2012 was reported to have admitted trying to organise a hit-and-run accident targeting him.
The secretive state has a long history of sending agents overseas to carry out assassinations, attacks and kidnappings.
Previous captain Jacques Rudolph stood down from the four-day leader's role.
Glamorgan have defeated Durham and Worcestershire following two opening defeats and two draws in their Division Two campaign.
"It's a method in how we approach the game," said Hogan.
"We had a bit of freedom in the past to go out and play how we feel. We're asking for more of a structured innings or bowling performance."
South African batsman Rudolph, 36, who will retire at the end of the 2017 season, hit his first Championship century since 2015 to help spark Glamorgan's comeback at Worcester.
But fast bowler Hogan is not ready to discuss a push for the top of the division, with four sides having already notched up four victories.
"So far we've had two good games but it's a work in progress" Hogan added.
"It was a slow start to the season, we're looking for improvement and we can assess in August where we're at."
Croft calls for 'resilience'
Coach Robert Croft says the handover of the captaincy has worked smoothly with both men influential in the Worcestershire victory.
"It's the right time because it's fitted into people's lives, they're both performing and working as a team of captain and senior player with advice" he told BBC Wales Sport.
The former England spinner believes "resilience" is the key word in the Welsh county's recovery.
"It comes down to the word resilience, it's about making sure that when you do bat you understand your role in the team," he said.
"Part of that is resilience, particularly against the new ball when things are more in the bowler's favour, and playing each ball on its merit.
"Earlier in the season we weren't playing the ball on its merit, whereas now we have done in the last few games, though there were a couple of slack shots (in the first innings at Worcester)."
Dutch duties
Fast bowler Timm van der Gugten will miss Glamorgan's match against Durham starting on Monday, 19 June because of commitments with the Netherlands.
South African paceman Marchant de Lange, who was rested at Worcester, is expected to replace him.
The Thai-based owners have gone into liquidation, with the loss of 2,200 jobs at the Redcar site.
There have also been knock-on job losses at contractors and suppliers.
More than 30 employers are showcasing opportunities, with vacancies ranging from heavy industry to administration and logistics.
Sue Soroczan, from Durham and Tees Valley Jobcentre Plus, said: "We've had a fantastic response from companies in the area and beyond.
"They recognise that the SSI workforce have excellent skills that would be transferable to a range of jobs currently available."
Pte Conor McPherson, 24, from The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Scotland, died after suffering a "serious head wound".
The soldier, from Paisley, Renfrewshire, was training in Otterburn, Northumberland when he was shot at about 23.15 BST on Monday.
Northumbria Police is investigating. No-one has been arrested.
Commanding officer Lt Col Alasdair Steele said: "Private McPherson was a capable young soldier who had previously trained in both Kenya and France.
"He was hugely committed about his career in the Army. He had aspirations to join the machine gun platoon and attend a junior leadership course at the start of next year.
"He constantly drove to develop himself physically and was well liked among his peers for his sharp wit and sense of humour."
He completed his initial training in Catterick, North Yorkshire, after enlisting into the Royal Regiment of Scotland in May 2014 as a combat infantryman.
An MoD spokesman said the Defence Safety Authority was investigating.
Armed Forces Minister Mike Penning said his thoughts were with the soldier's family, friends and colleagues "at this difficult time".
Mr Penning added: "The safety of our personnel is our absolute priority and while deaths in training don't happen often, any death is a tragedy.
"As well as a police investigation, MOD accident investigators are looking into the circumstances surrounding this tragic incident."
Otterburn Training Area, set up by former prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, is the second largest live firing range in the country and has been used for military training since 1911.
The Royal Regiment of Scotland marked the 10th anniversary of its creation with a parade in Edinburgh in April.
The creation of the regiment in 2006 was controversial as it meant that names of famous regiments, such as the Royal Scots and the King's Own Scottish Borderers, would disappear.
Caroline Hope, who is from Clydebank, had been working as an English teacher in the country when she fell ill.
A private plane carrying the 37-year-old is due to land at Glasgow Airport.
Her family had feared she would not survive after contracting the bacteria and launched a JustGiving page to raise money for her return to Scotland.
That appeal raised more than £31,000 to pay for a private medical evacuation.
The fundraising appeal was in response to UK government guidelines that strictly limit the repatriation of UK citizens for medical reasons.
On arrival at the airport, Caroline Hope will be taken by ambulance to a hospital in the city before she is eventually moved to the Beatson cancer treatment centre.
Before being diagnosed with stage four colon cancer, Caroline Hope had been teaching English at an international school in Turkey.
She had planned to return to Scotland and her employer had taken out medical insurance to cover her stay at the Medical Park Hospital in Izmir until the end of July.
However, her recovery was undermined when she became infected with E.coli during an operation to remove a tumour last month.
Her mother, Catherine Hope, had been due to fly out to Turkey on Thursday but was told to stay in Scotland after the money needed to bring her daughter home was raised within hours of the appeal being launched.
Catherine Hope, who is waiting for her daughter's flight to arrive, said: "She thought she was going to die. She wants home. She said she thought her body was giving up on her.
"But when she got on the plane, my son Scott sent me a picture of her, and she was smiling."
Scott Hope, Caroline's brother, told the BBC that doctors in Turkey had been in contact with doctors at the Beatson cancer treatment centre in Glasgow and that they were expecting his sister to be admitted there once she returned to Scotland.
He added that any money raised above and beyond that required to get Ms Hope back home would be donated to the Beatson.
Writing on the JustGiving page, Caroline Hope's friend Bella Shek wrote: "We've smashed our target, unbelievable!
"Thank you, Thank you, Thank you so much. We can now get Caroline home.
"On behalf of Caroline, her family and all her friends, the support from all of you and the general public, many of whom have never met Caroline before, has been truly overwhelming."
Since May, the PSNI has spent £1.6m policing a row involving the South East Antrim UDA in the Castlemara estate.
Senior officers have called for those involved to talk to each other but Mr Wilson told the BBC that will not work.
Mr Wilson said that "it's the law that should be used, not sitting down and having a chat".
"It sends out all the wrong signals to the people who are law abiding and it sends out all the wrong signals to the people who have to live with the situation," he said.
"It sends out the wrong signals for the future as well," he added.
The police have said 18 people have been arrested and 10 charged in connection with Castlemara and the loyalist feud.
"This demonstrates our commitment to take paramilitarism out of Castlemara," said Supt Ryan Henderson.
At a Policing Board meeting on Thursday, Assistant Chief Constable Stephen Martin said he was concerned someone was going to "end up hurt or dead".
These offences involve the paramilitary organisation and include drugs, intimidation and possession of weapons.
The Assistant Chief Constable said this was the reason why police officers are being sent in on a daily basis,
A number of searches have been carried out and two handguns seized, as well as cocaine, fireworks, and more than £5,000 in cash.
ACC Martin said the row in the estate was a "real cause for concern" and described the potential for violence as "extremely high".
He said there was no obvious criminal justice resolution and called for the parties involved to undertake mediation to solve the dispute.
The Welfare Reform Bill is due before the assembly on Tuesday, despite no agreement between Sinn Féin and the DUP.
Sinn Féin withdrew its support for the bill in March.
Mrs Foster told the BBC's Inside Business programme she did not want to see the assembly break down.
"I hope that it doesn't happen and that if it comes to the fact that the welfare reform bill falls, that the government will step in and legislate for welfare in Northern Ireland, because if they don't we will continue to have a huge hole in our budget," she said.
"It would just be unacceptable to the community in Northern Ireland for us to implement that budget because it would be a budget with cuts which would be unimaginable, we just would not be able to support that."
On Friday, SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell said his party would not be bounced into an artificial deadline on welfare reform.
The party's 14 MLAs have signed a petition of concern on the measure.
Combined with the 28 signatures already collected by Sinn Féin, the SDLP move means the welfare reform bill will be blocked as it will not get the necessary cross community support.
On Thursday, the BBC saw a document in which Ms Foster outlined the financial crisis facing the Northern Ireland Executive.
Her paper, obtained by the Nolan Show, was circulated to other executive ministers.
In it, she said no deal on welfare would mean the executive having to make cuts of £604m in order to balance its books.
Mrs Foster said health could lose £280m and education £114m.
A so-called black hole would be created because loans offered in the Stormont House Agreement depend on the welfare issue being resolved.
Arlene Foster's interview was broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster's Inside Business at 13:30 BST on Sunday 24 May.
Champions Australia begin their defence against West Indies at Taunton two days later, while Bristol and Leicester are the other group stage venues.
The eight teams play each other in a round-robin format, with the top four sides qualifying for the semi-finals before the final at Lord's on 23 July.
England, ranked second in the world, play Australia in Bristol on 9 July.
Australia, England New Zealand and West Indies qualified by finishing in the top four of the ICC Women's Championship, while South Africa, India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan clinched the last four places through the recent World Cup Qualifier.
International Cricket Council chief executive David Richardson said 9,000 tickets had already been sold for the final.
"We are anticipating an exciting tournament and I know the players are looking forward to competing here in front of unprecedented levels of support," he added.
The group games will be played at Bristol, Derby, Leicester and Taunton, with the semi-finals at Bristol and Derby,
Click here for full tournament fixtures
An army-appointed legislature impeached her over corruption in a scheme she oversaw to subsidise rice farmers.
The criminal charges, which also relate to the rice scheme, could result in a 10-year jail term.
The military has ruled Thailand since May 2014, when they overthrew Ms Yingluck's government in a coup.
The BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok says the impeachment sends a strong signal that there will be no compromise and her family will be removed from politics.
Ms Yingluck and her brother, tycoon and former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, remain hugely popular among Thailand's rural poor, but are hated by an urban and middle-class elite who accuse them of corruption and abuse of power.
Their party is the most popular in Thailand and has - under various different names - won every election since 2001.
Shortly after her impeachment, Ms Yingluck was due to hold a news conference at a Bangkok hotel.
But troops arrived and prevented her from speaking.
Thailand is still under martial law and unauthorised political meetings are banned.
Ms Yingluck has since posted a statement (in Thai) on her Facebook page accusing the authorities of trying to destroy her.
"Democracy has died in Thailand today, along with the rule of law," she said.
As they prepared for this vote, those advocating impeachment argued that it had nothing to do with politics or reconciliation, that it should be understood purely as a response to corruption in the Yingluck government's rice support scheme.
That there was corruption is undeniable; there is plenty of evidence. The generous subsidy was also financially unsustainable.
But no-one has yet been tried or convicted. Nor were Ms Yingluck's opponents able to explain how impeachment was possible against a politician who has already been removed from office, and by an assembly entirely appointed by the military.
So this was not about corruption, or the rule of law. It was the culmination of eight months of lobbying by hard-line opponents of the Shinawatra family, who want them purged from politics, and eight months of hesitation by military rulers who had some hopes of being seen as saviours, delivering the nation from political turmoil.
That calculation has now changed decisively. With a five-year ban from politics and a criminal charge hanging over her, Ms Yingluck faces the same fate as her brother - jail or exile.
Her party and supporters, who have relied on her family's funds, must decide whether they will seek new leadership or start resisting the military.
The allegations against Ms Yingluck centre on a scheme in which her Pheu Thai-led government bought rice from Thai farmers at a much higher price than on the global market.
It resulted in the accumulation of huge stockpiles of rice and hit Thailand's rice exports hard.
Anti-corruption investigators have accused Ms Yingluck and her party of using the scheme to buy votes from farmers, particularly from their power base in the north, and allowing government associates to profit from it.
On Friday, 190 out of 219 lawmakers present in the National Legislative Assembly voted to impeach her. Eighteen voted against impeachment while the others abstained. One lawmaker was absent for the vote.
The votes were written on a whiteboard as they were tallied, and broadcast on national television.
Ms Yingluck has maintained that she was not involved in the scheme's day-to-day operations, and has defended it as an attempt to support the rural poor. She has also said that she could not be impeached as she has not held a position in the government for months.
Her supporters say the claims against her are a ruse to remove her from politics.
Ms Yingluck also faces up to 10 years in prison if she is found guilty of negligence of duty, which the attorney general charged her with on Friday morning.
Surasak Threerattrakul, director-general of the Office of the Attorney General, said after considering all the witnesses and evidence from the National Anti-Corruption Committee "we agree that the case substantiates a criminal indictment charge against Yingluck".
The 24-year-old England international is now committed to the Premier League club until 2021 and there is the option to extend the deal by a further year.
Lingard has made 70 appearances for United, who he joined as a seven-year-old, and won four caps for his country.
"Manchester United has always been a big part of my life," said Lingard.
"I feel great pride every time I pull the shirt on."
Lingard holds the rare distinction of scoring in three successive games for his club at Wembley.
After netting the winner in last season's FA Cup final, Lingard also scored against Leicester in the Community Shield and Southampton as United won the EFL Cup in February.
"To have scored in two cup finals for my boyhood club were immensely proud moments for me and my family," he added.
"As a team, we have already won a major trophy this season and I look forward to helping us win many more under this great manager."
United boss Jose Mourinho said: "Jesse is a popular member of the squad and I am delighted he has signed a new contract.
"He has good intelligence which, when combined with his energy and ability, makes for a player with a great future ahead of him."
Lingard had spells on loan at Leicester, Birmingham and Brighton before he was given his first-team debut by Mourinho's predecessor Louis van Gaal against Swansea in the opening game of the 2014-15 season.
This season he has played 29 times, scoring five goals.
HMRC is examining 100 figures who were paid via personal service companies.
A tribunal ruling in a case involving BBC News presenters Tim Willcox and Joanna Gosling revealed HMRC has opened enquiries into 100 other on-air stars.
The BBC said the tribunal related to between 2006 and early 2013, when it adopted a new employment status test.
The case relates to whether Willcox and Gosling were eligible to pay tax as freelancers through their own personal services companies or should have applied legislation known as IR35, as employees.
The pair have appealed against the extra tax and National Insurance contributions which HMRC decided were due. According to the ruling, both became staff in 2014. The pair are not commenting.
The HMRC has examined a list of 469 current or former presenters who have peen paid via personal service companies and put around 100 cases "under consideration", according to a BBC application to the First-Tier Tribunal.
The BBC's application, which was quoted in the judgement, continued: "The BBC also understands that HMRC has initiated or indicated their intention to initiate IR35 proceedings in relation to presenters who are engaged by other broadcasting organisations...
"The appeals are therefore extremely important not only to the individuals in question but also to the BBC and to the broadcasting industry as a whole.
"The appeals are likely to be the first cases to test the freelance model in the broadcasting industry against the IR35 legislation."
An HMRC spokesperson said employment status is "never a matter of personal choice and is always dictated by the specific facts".
The spokesperson continued: "When the employment relationship does not accurately reflect the underlying reality of the relationship, the wrong tax is paid then we intervene to ensure the rules apply as parliament intended.
"While there can be many legitimate business reasons for workers being employed through their own companies, there are rules in place enabling HMRC to make sure people who provide their services in this way pay the right tax and National Insurance."
A BBC statement said it was "an industry-wide issue and affects those who have been engaged in this way for a number of different organisations".
The statement added: "The exact number of cases that will be taken forward will be determined by HMRC. This particular tribunal relates to tax issues between 2006 and early 2013 and not the present day.
"It is up to individuals to ensure they pay the right tax, and since 2013, the BBC has adopted a new employment status test that provides a clear and consistent approach to the employment status of journalists and presenters."
The BBC announced in 2012 that it would give up to 131 freelancers staff contracts after a review of the use of personal service companies.
The low-cost credit-card sized computer is widely used by schools and the maker community for programming devices.
Google has asked makers to complete a survey about what smart tools would be "most helpful".
And it suggests tools to aid face and emotion recognition, speech-to-text translation, natural language processing and sentiment analysis.
Google has previously developed a range of tools for machine learning, internet of things devices, wearables, robotics and home automation.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation said the new tools could enable makers "to build even more powerful projects".
"Google is going to arrive in style in 2017. The tech titan has exciting plans for the maker community," said the foundation in its blog.
A Google spokeswoman told the BBC: "We don't have any specifics to announce right now, but we're excited to keep sharing more open source machine learning tools with the community - stay tuned for more this year."
Eben Upton, founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, told the BBC: "It's fantastic to see Google getting closer to the maker community.
"I'm particularly excited about the prospect of connecting Raspberry Pi to some of the machine learning work coming out of Google DeepMind in London, allowing us to build smart devices that interact in the real world."
In 2015, the Raspberry Pi became the most popular British computer ever made.
More than 10 million have now been sold.
The Pi, which is manufactured in Wales, has been adopted by school children, programmers and inventors around the world.
It is also increasingly being used by the business community.
Craig Wright had pledged to move some of the virtual currency from one of its early address blocks, an act many believe can only be done by the tech's creator.
This would have addressed complaints that earlier evidence he had published online was misleading.
Dr Wright said that he was "sorry".
"I believed that I could put years of anonymity and hiding behind me," he blogged.
"But, as the events of this week unfolded and I prepared to publish the proof of access to the earliest keys, I broke. I do not have the courage. I cannot.
"When the rumours began, my qualifications and character were attacked. When those allegations were proven false, new allegations have already begun. I know now that I am not strong enough for this."
Dr Wright's claims were first reported by the BBC, the Economist and GQ magazine on Monday.
Dr Wright had earlier indicated that he would transfer some bitcoins from "block 9" by using a private key thought to be known only to Satoshi Nakamoto, a pseudonym used by the person or team that designed the crypto-currency.
Satoshi is known to have used the address in 2009 to send coins to a computer scientist.
Dr Wright had promised the "extraordinary proof" in light of a growing backlash against one of his blogs.
On Monday, he had posted what seemed to be evidence that he had Satoshi's key by describing a process that led to the creation of a "digital signature".
But soon after, this was attacked by security researchers who linked the signature to an earlier Satoshi Bitcoin transaction that could be found via a search engine.
Dr Wright subsequently wrote that he was the victim of "false allegations" and would prove his case by both moving the coins and by sharing "independently verifiable documents".
Dr Wright's claims had initially been bolstered by the fact that two senior members of the Bitcoin Foundation - an organisation set up to protect and promote the virtual currency - had said they were convinced he was indeed behind the technology.
Dr Wright had shown Gavin Andresen and Jon Matonis other evidence in private.
He apologised to the two men in his latest blog.
"I know that this weakness will cause great damage to those that have supported me, and particularly to Jon Matonis and Gavin Andresen," he wrote.
"I can only hope that their honour and credibility is not irreparably tainted by my actions. They were not deceived, but I know that the world will never believe that now. I can only say I'm sorry. And goodbye."
Mr Matonis has tweeted that there "won't be another Satoshi".
The BBC understands that this tweet signifies that Mr Matonis still believes Dr Wright is indeed Satoshi.
"A lot more people in the Bitcoin community are going to be unconvinced of Dr Wright's claims than will believe he is Satoshi, based upon what's happened to date," commented Dr Garrick Hileman, an economic historian at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance.
"But many of the doubters don't want to be convinced. Satoshi has been mythologised and if you pull back the curtain, you shatter a lot of people's fantasies.
"There are very credible people besides Gavin and Jon who still think he is Satoshi - people who are privy to other information and whose judgement I respect.
"But personally, I have more questions than answers at this point."
Security researcher Dan Kaminsky was more sceptical.
"I'm glad it's over," he said.
"I can't believe Wright's last scheme was to demand £5 be sent to the real Satoshi. I wouldn't call that courage but it's definitely chutzpah."
Dr Wright's website no longer contains his original blogs, but only his final message.
Bitcoin is often referred to as a new kind of currency.
But it may be best to think of its units being virtual tokens rather than physical coins or notes.
However, 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.
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 several thousand new bitcoins a day. There are about 15 million bitcoins currently 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 registry 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.
Camille Cosby, 72, underwent more than five hours of questioning on her second and final day before lawyers in Boston.
"We accomplished what we needed to accomplish," said Joseph Cammarata, a lawyer for the women.
The women claim Mr Cosby portrayed them as liars after they made their allegations public.
They are among about 50 women who say Mr Cosby, 78, forced them into unwanted sexual contact with him. The comedian denies all the allegations.
Mrs Cosby's lawyers said in a statement their client had "no relevant non-privileged information", adding they were "thankful for this distraction to now be over".
Last week Mrs Cosby's lawyers had asked the federal magistrate to prevent further questioning of their client.
This followed an earlier attempt to halt the proceedings after a first day of evidence in February.
Her representatives claimed she had been subjected to "outrageous questions" about her personal life "designed to annoy, embarrass and oppress the witness".
Without giving detail, the questions were about her sexual relationship with her husband and her thoughts on his level of honesty and trustworthiness.
Earlier this month a judge rejected Mrs Cosby's attempts to avoid testifying further.
However, he included a clause saying lawyers for both parties were obliged to behave properly. He also said Mr Cammarata was not allowed to ask Mrs Cosby "improper questions" about the intimate communications between her and her husband.
Most of the alleged crimes committed by Mr Cosby go back decades and are considered too old to be criminally prosecuted.
But in one case, filed in 2014, Mr Cosby was charged with sexual assault from an incident in 2005.
The comedian, who is currently out on bail, has repeatedly denied wrongdoing in all the cases brought against him and has himself countersued the seven women in the defamation in case. In December he won his case against one of his accusers.
Mr Cosby is best known for his role as the father in the television hit The Cosby Show which ran from 1984 to 1992 and was a huge hit in the US and around the globe. It made the comedian one of America's best-loved entertainers.
The Edinburgh-based free-from bakery was 28th in its list of the most valuable Scottish brands to Scotland's food and drink retailers.
That was 17 places higher than it achieved last year.
The top brand once again was Irn-Bru, produced by Cumbernauld-based soft drinks producer AG Barr.
Stirlingshire-based Graham's The Family Dairy took second place, making it the most valuable Scottish dairy and food brand.
Larbert-based Malcolm Allan, which sells a range of meat products including steak pies and lorne sausage, was third.
The list of the top 50 non-alcohol Scottish food and drink brands was compiled by consultancy Kantar Worldpanel.
The rankings were based on the value of take-home sales within Scotland.
Top 10 Scottish non-alcohol food and drink brands:
1. Irn-Bru
2. Graham's The Family Dairy
3. Malcolm Allan
4. Baxters
5. Bells Pies and Pastry
6. Tunnock's
7. McIntosh
8. Wiseman
9. Mackie's
10. Seriously Strong
Source: Kantar Worldpanel/Scottish Grocer
This year saw Edinburgh-based Indian foods producer Mrs Unis enter the top 50 for the first time.
The company makes handmade Indian snacks, nan breads and chapatis for the retail, catering and wholesale market.
Among the biggest risers on the list were meat product firms We Hae Meat, which moved up from 43rd to 30th, and Hall's, which rose seven places to 22nd.
In a separate list, Glens Vodka was the top take-home alcohol brand in Scotland, followed by Tennent's, Famous Grouse, Whyte & Mackay and Bells Whisky.
Johnnie Walker was 25th in the list, just behind BrewDog.
The company said industrial markets in North America were expected to remain "challenging", and in the UK the heating business "is expected to remain very competitive with little growth".
It said underlying revenues for the six months to January were set to grow 4%, down from an earlier forecast of 6%.
Wolseley also reported a 25% fall in full-year profits.
For the year to 31 July, pre-tax profits fell to £508m from £676m the year before, with like-for-like revenues up 7.1%.
The profit figure was hit by a one-off charge of £238m, mostly related to the write-down of assets at its Nordic business.
Wolseley's US operations account for three-quarters of its profits, and chief executive Ian Meakins said its plumbing supplies business there, Ferguson, had enjoyed a "great performance" with like-for-like revenues up 9.6%.
However, he added: "We continue to face some challenging markets in the rest of the Group and remain focused on improving growth rates and protecting gross margins whilst keeping the cost base tight."
In the UK, the company said trading related to new house building was "strong", but repair and maintenance business "remained weak" in the second half of its financial year.
Wolseley's shares closed down more than 12% at £36.58.
John Hesp, 64, will take home over $8m (£6.1m) if he wins the World Series of Poker's (WSOP) main event in Las Vegas.
The grandfather of seven has little experience and usually plays a £10 tournament at his local casino in Hull.
But he is already certain to walk away with at least $1m.
Hesp's story has captivated the world of poker, with many of the game's biggest names rooting for him to win.
The semi-retired businessman, from Bridlington in East Yorkshire, has won admirers for both his colourful dress sense and cheerful demeanour at the table.
Speaking to PokerNews, Hesp, who owns a company that rents caravan homes, said he had "just been having a ball the whole week".
"It's the most amazing experience of my life... it's a completely surreal, unbelievable experience that I never in my wildest dreams would ever imagine."
The father of four, who paid $10,000 to enter the 7,221-player tournament, said competing in the main event was a "bucket list wish" he had had in his mind for a couple of years.
Writing on Facebook, Hesp said: "I would like to thank my wife Mandy and all my family and friends back home for supporting me in this and hope that I've done them, Bridlington and East Yorkshire proud."
British professional poker player Paul Jackson, a WSOP veteran who was in Las Vegas for some of the earlier tournaments, said: "It's so rare and difficult for someone of his limited ability to do so well.
"To get through such a large field... it's a freak occurrence that's unlikely ever to be repeated."
He added: "He seems like a really nice bloke; a good winner and a good loser. It lets people know you don't have to act like a sulky teenager like some of the players do.
"I think it's absolutely fantastic. It's great for poker.
"I hope he goes on to win it."
Another British man, 26 year-old London poker pro Jack Sinclair, has also reached the final table. He lies eighth with 20,200,000 chips, while Hesp has the second biggest stack, with a chip count of 85,700,000.
The winner of the event will earn $8,150,000, with even the first of the remaining nine players to be knocked out ensured a $1m payday.
Play resumes at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino later on Thursday and concludes on Saturday.
The shortage of nurses worsened last year, with 17% of all London's registered nursing jobs vacant, up from 14% in 2014 and 11% in 2013.
The figure is much higher than the national average of 10%.
The Department of Health said it did not recognise the figures and London had 1,800 more nurses than a year ago.
The RCN said the new figures, which it gathered through Freedom of Information requests to all of London's NHS trusts, showed the city was facing a "critical shortage" of registered nursing staff.
A spokesperson said this put patients at risk and led to expensive solutions such as temporary agency staff or recruitment from overseas.
Bernell Bussue, the RCN's London regional director, said: "The problem is partly down to short-sighted workforce planning which saw training posts cut in the past, meaning there aren't enough home grown nurses coming through the system.
"Most importantly, the ongoing pay freeze imposed by the government means that nursing staff increasingly just can't afford to live and work in London.
He urged the government to give nurses a pay rise so they could settle in the capital, saying nurses' pay had "run 10% below inflation since 2010".
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17% average vacancy rate
30% highest vacancy rate at an individual trust
3% lowest vacancy rate at an individual trust
Responding to the figures, London Mayor Boris Johnson told BBC Radio London "you can afford to be a nurse and live in London".
He added: "I won't deny the cost of living in London is incredibly high."
But he said the Conservative party has built record numbers of "affordable homes" and there are homes for part-buy, part-rent.
A spokeswoman for NHS England (London) said the July figures did not reflect reductions in agency spend since a cap on charges for agency staff was introduced in November.
"In London we are looking at new ways to recruit both new and returning nurses while retaining nurses already in post so that we are reaching our planned staffing levels," she said.
"This includes a programme in which senior nurses in the capital are working together to create innovative career pathways and making London a more desirable place to work."
A Department of Health spokesperson said: "Official statistics show that Londoners have already benefitted from 3,400 additional nurses since May 2010 and this is down to continued government investment in the frontline.
"We have 50,000 nurses in training and our recent changes to student funding will mean up to 10,000 more training places across the country by 2020."
The attack - in the south-western Cauca region - is the deadliest since the resumption of air raids against the rebels last month.
President Juan Manuel Santos restarted the raids after 11 soldiers were killed in an ambush.
The bloodshed comes as Farc and government representatives meet for the latest round of peace talks in Cuba.
The two sides have been in negotiations since 2012 to try to end more than half a century of conflict.
Thursday's military action comprised an air strike and ground assault against the rebel group in Guapi, Cauca, said officials.
The operation's aim was the capture of a rebel known by the alias "Javier", and two rebels were captured along with those killed, defence ministry officials told the Efe news agency.
The rebel column targeted was one the army blames for an attack on Gorgona island in November 2014, during which an army lieutenant died, the officials said.
Farc declared a unilateral truce last December, though some Farc leaders are reported to be warning that violations are making it increasingly difficult to maintain.
"The offensive continues until peace is achieved I hope as soon as possible!" said President Santos (in Spanish) after the attack.
Government and Farc representatives have reconvened in Havana, Cuba, as the latest round of negotiations inch forward.
The last meeting ended with a call from the Farc to dismantle paramilitary groups and without an agreement over reparations for the victims of the conflict, an issue that has been wrangled over for months.
Monmouth MP David Davies said Velothon Wales lied when, he claims, it told him MPs backed the event.
About 15,000 cyclists will join in Sunday's race through Newport, Torfaen, Monmouthshire, Cardiff and Caerphilly. Some roads will be shut.
Velothon Wales said its team did "their best" to give "clear information" and "never intended to mislead anyone".
Mr Davies launched the stinging attack during BBC Radio Wales' Jason Mohammad programme on Wednesday.
"The arrogance of this organisation - they're telling lies to people," he said.
"They told me that all MPs support it, and that was a lie, they back-tracked when they found out that I was an MP. They told me they consulted with MPs in April, that was a lie because there was no MPs in April."
Ahead of the general election in April, all MPs became candidates.
On Tuesday, businesses affected by the road closures said they would lose millions of pounds as a result. Residents claimed they will be trapped in their homes on race day.
Mr Davies said businesses that lose money should be compensated.
"Why should they suffer if somebody else is making a lot of money," he said.
"I keep hearing that this (event) is going to generate millions of pounds - I'm not sure how."
In a statement, director of Velothon Wales Andrew Taylor said there had been a long-term "programme of engagement" with residents and businesses about the 140km (87m) race.
"This has included a dedicated team and helpline who are doing their best to provide clear and full information to the people who need it and of course have never intended to mislead anyone," he said.
"The route for Velothon Wales was chosen in consultation with local authorities. We do understand that some of the road closures can cause disruption but unfortunately they are unavoidable and are part and parcel of a closed-road event of this scale."
Mr Taylor went on: "Velothon Wales is a fantastic opportunity for Wales to showcase its iconic landmarks and stunning scenery with a direct impact estimated to be in excess of £2m to the Welsh economy."
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The malfunctioning device was caught on camera with motorists slowly driving past as the light went off every few seconds.
It is located on the A38 at Rooksbridge near Burnham-on-Sea and one theory is that it was struck by lightning.
Wiltshire Police said in any one week up to 40 foreign sex workers were advertising their services in the town, the majority of whom were "transient".
The women use rented properties for between one day and a few weeks before packing up and moving on.
Many of the pop-up brothels are linked to organised crime gangs, with women being trafficked from Poland and Romania.
Det Sgt Chris Hitchcock said: "Many of these women move between addresses within the town as well as outside of it.
"Of these 40, we estimate they populate 20 to 30 brothels in short-term to medium-term rental properties."
He added that officers "look to intervene and see if we can offer safeguarding, and see if organised crime is involved, as often as we can".
He said the force was currently monitoring a total of between 170 and 190 women involved in sex work "predominantly" in Swindon.
A study last year by the Police Foundation found women in pop-up brothels were more likely to be trafficked than in standard brothels.
The number of reports of suspected brothels in Swindon nearly doubled between 2014 and 2015.
The issue of pop-up brothels moving into residential streets will be investigated as part of BBC Inside Out West at 19:30 GMT on Monday 6 February, and available afterwards on BBC iPlayer.
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Professor Mike Lean says children should be prevented from buying these drinks in the same way as alcohol.
There are worries that caffeine - which can be found in coffee, fizzy drinks and energy drinks - can have a bad affect on young people's brains.
Too much of it can increase a person's heart rate, make it harder to concentrate and harder to sleep.
The British Soft Drinks Association, who represent manufacturers of these types of drinks, already advise that high-caffeine drinks shouldn't be sold to or drunk by children.
However Professor Mike Lean doesn't feel enough is being done to enforce this and obstacles should be put in the way of children getting the drinks.
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The pair were playing at the China Open qualifiers in Barnsley, with Wilson beating Hamilton 5-3 for a place at the Beijing finals in March.
The 24-year-old scored four centuries, while Hamilton, 44, scored two tons to break the previous record of five.
Only two matches had previously recorded five consecutive centuries.
How the record-breaking run unfolded:
Reigning Masters champion Ronnie O'Sullivan and seven-time world champion Stephen Hendry were the first opponents to do so at the 2003 British Open.
They were followed by Stephen Maguire and Neil Robertson at the 2009 Masters.
"It's the best match I've ever played by far," said Wilson. "Even if I had lost I still would have enjoyed it.
"Anthony was very gracious afterwards, he wished me luck and we agreed that it had just been a phenomenal match."
It was a quick turnaround for Wilson, who five days ago was knocked out of the German Masters when he lost 6-3 in the semi-finals to Belgium's Luca Brecel.
The China Open, which began in September 1997, is the longest running of the China ranking events and was the first international snooker tournament in the country.
The 2016 tournament begins in Beijing on 28 March.
The forecast comes after years of excess supply, which last year prompted major oil producers to agree to cuts in output.
The IEA said the oil market was now "very close to balance."
But the organisation predicted supply would grow in coming months, with US oil-producing firms driving the increase.
The IEA said it expected non-Opec production, of which the US and Russia account for the biggest chunk, to rise by 485,000 barrels a day in 2017 to a total of 58.1 million barrels a day.
US production had already climbed to 9 million barrels a day in March, up from a September low of 8.6 million barrels per day.
The IEA said it expects demand to increase by just 1.3 million barrels a day in 2017, rising to a total of about 97.9 million barrels a day.
That is less than the organisation had anticipated previously and could prove an "optimistic" forecast, it said.
Phil Shiner was struck off after being found to have acted dishonestly in bringing murder and torture claims against British war veterans.
He ran the now-defunct Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) and had 12 charges of misconduct proved against him.
The Insolvency Service website states Mr Shiner, 60, from Birmingham, was made bankrupt on Tuesday.
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The solicitor had denied or partially admitted the charges, which were found proved against him by a panel of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. He was struck off in February.
A property in Birmingham, which the Insolvency Service lists as his address, was transferred to his daughters for £300,000 in January.
The service said the sale of the house and any other transfer of assets would be subject to investigation to ensure his creditors recoup as much of the money owed to them as possible.
An Insolvency Service spokesman said: "We would want to know what has happened to any money received for the house. The Official Receiver checks all transactions over a five-year period before bankruptcy. We would investigate that sale."
In five of the charges, he was found to have acted dishonestly, including agreeing to pay "sweeteners" to a fixer, understood to be Abu Jamal, to persuade him to change his evidence to the £31m Al-Sweady Inquiry.
Investigations that originated from Mr Shiner and the PIL law firm would be assessed and a decision reached over which cases should no longer be pursued, the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (Ihat) said.
Ihat is due to close this summer. It is independent of the military chain of command for the purposes of its investigations, the government services website said.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has paid out more than £100m on legal costs and compensation linked to the war in Iraq, with a large proportion of this over allegations brought by PIL.
An MoD spokesman said: "The evidence we submitted on Phil Shiner's abuse of our legal system saw him struck off and, with his conduct discredited, we announced the closure of Ihat.
"We intend to recover as much as possible from defending these claims and await the Solicitors' Disciplinary Tribunal full decision before deciding our next steps."
Backs Tyler Morgan and Hallam Amos are the only current Dragons who are among the 16 players on dual contracts.
Former Wales captain Jones says centre Jack Dixon, hooker Elliot Dee and flanker Ollie Griffiths are in line for consideration.
"They're certainly players I think can go on and play for Wales" Jones said.
"The Welsh Rugby Union have to look carefully at it.
"I would look to centrally contract the main core players and then, as they have done with Tyler and Hallam, to keep the periphery in Wales for the future."
Dixon and Griffiths, both 20, and 21-year-old Dee have represented Wales at Under-20 level.
The total of players on a NDC is now 16, with salaries funded 60% by the Welsh Rugby Union and 40% by the regions.
Dragons number eight Taulupe Faletau turned down a dual contract in May 2015 and Bath's recent bid to sign him was vetoed by Wales coach Warren Gatland.
Jones has not given up hope of Faletau signing for the Dragons and Wales despite his aborted move to the English Premiership side.
"Of course there's a chance, this is his home," Jones added.
"The market-place in England and France is difficult to compete with but let's hope he gets a central contract."
Faletau is a slight doubt for the Sale Sharks game in the European Challenge Cup with a sore knee, while fellow backrower Nick Crosswell is available after suspension.
Former Wales hooker and Dragons captain Rhys Thomas may play for the Dragons' British and Irish Cup side against Connacht in his comeback from a foot injury.
The 28-year-old moves to St James' Park until the end of the season, with an option to make the deal permanent.
Doumbia joined Roma in January 2015 for a reported £10m but made only 13 appearances before returning to former club CSKA Moscow on loan in August.
Meanwhile, Spanish striker Ayoze Perez, 22, has signed a new five-year contract at St James' Park.
Perez has scored 12 goals in 57 Premier League appearances since joining from Tenerife in 2014.
Doumbia, who scored 66 goals in 108 league games for the Russian club, becomes Newcastle's fourth January signing.
"It is no secret that we have been looking to add to our options in the striking area," Newcastle head coach Steve McClaren said.
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"We have been searching for a forward and were delighted when the opportunity arose to take Seydou on loan.
"He is a natural goalscorer, someone who has scored goals in the Champions League and has played at the highest level. We believe he can make a mark in this team."
Third-bottom Newcastle are two points from safety with 15 matches remaining.
Doumbia joins midfielders Jonjo Shelvey, Andros Townsend and Henri Saivet as the club's signings in this transfer window.
"I am looking forward to helping the club get some wins and climb the table," he said.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Formed in 2002 from the charter unit of Eurowings, Germanwings became a direct Lufthansa subsidiary in 2009.
Germanwings was kept deliberately small for many years so as not to compete with its parent company. However, Lufthansa then began to invest heavily in the budget carrier to compete with low cost rivals including EasyJet, AirBerlin and TUIfly.
It has operated many short-haul flights for Lufthansa since early 2013. In January, Germanwings completed the takeover of most of Lufthansa's loss-making Europe-only flights.
Only Lufthansa's services for international traffic at Frankfurt and Munich airports were excluded.
Germanwings has about 78 aircraft, serving around 130 European destinations. The budget carrier has around 2,000 employees and last year had about 16 million passengers.
Its fleet comprises Airbus A319, A320 and A330 planes as well as Bombardier CRJ900 NextGen aircraft.
Unions argue that Lufthansa is using Germanwings to unpick long-held agreements on pay and conditions with pilots and cabin staff, and the row has led to months of strikes.
Lufthansa plans to phase out the Germanwings brand and replace it with Eurowings by autumn this year.
The airline offers flyers three fares: "basic" with no frills, "smart" and "best", which includes free snacks and drinks.
Prior to the crash of flight 4U 9525, it had no previously reported accidents.
The aeroplane which went down - the A320, which is used as a workhorse by airlines all over the world - has "a formidably good safety record", according to Simon Calder, the travel editor of the Independent.
"Relative to the number of flights in which it's been used, it is one of the safest aircraft in the world," he said.
Lufthansa chief executive Carsten Spohr described the day's events as "a dark day for Lufthansa."
And on the Germanwings and Lufthansa Twitter feeds, the logos were shown in greyscale.
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With West Indies needing 19 to win, Carlos Brathwaite smashed the first four balls over the boundary to complete a stunning victory.
"I thought: 'I've just lost the World Cup'," Stokes told the Daily Telegraph.
"I couldn't believe it. It was just complete devastation."
But the 24-year-old Durham player believes the setback will make him a better player in the long term.
"Disappointment is the biggest emotion now," he said. "I remember getting the medal and thinking it's just a runners-up medal. You don't want it.
"It will be a little bit of motivation to make sure this does not ever happen again. So train 10 minutes longer every now and again to get better."
Stokes, who has been backed to bounce back from the defeat by England team-mates including Stuart Broad and Alastair Cook, says he would be prepared to bowl the final over for England again.
"It is something I work at a lot," he said. "Some days they go well. Some days they don't. That was a bad day, but I won't be shying away from it."
Stokes praised the post-match behaviour of Brathwaite, whom he described as a "brilliant lad", adding: "We did not have a beer with them afterwards but Brathwaite came up to me and asked for a shirt.
"I wanted to make sure I spoke to them and say well done because I did not want people to think I was bitter. I wished them all the best. It is about respect to the opposition. What happens on the pitch stays on it."
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If Warrington defeat either Wigan Warriors or Hull FC on 8 October, they will be domestic champions for the first time since 1955.
Stefan Ratchford and Tom Lineham touched down in the second period to send the Wolves to Old Trafford.
Saints had led 10-8 at half-time, with Kurt Gidley's try for the home side cancelled out by Jonny Lomax.
But the visitors were unable to add any further points after the interval and they could feel aggrieved about the award of Lineham's match-clinching try.
Television replays appeared to show that the former Hull winger had knocked on in attempting to ground the ball in the corner.
In reaching the Grand Final, Warrington ended a run of seven successive home defeats by St Helens, a sequence that had stretched back to June 2011.
Wigan host Hull in the second semi-final on Friday.
Both sides had taken a fairly pragmatic approach in the first period, turning down attempts to run sets of six at the opposition and instead electing to take the two points on offer from kicks at goal.
The one real moment of quality before the break came from St Helens, who scored a scintillating breakaway try through Lomax after good work by Jordan Turner and Adam Swift.
Warrington required a spark having conceded a two-point deficit at half-time, and full-back Ratchford provided two excellent creative moments to swing the match in his side's favour.
Ratchford, who appeared in Warrington's two Grand Final defeats in 2012 and 2013, first spotted a gap in the Saints defence to dive over from dummy-half and then fired a pass out wide for Lineham to cross for his third try in two matches.
And, as St Helens attempted to find a way back into the semi-final, Ratchford was rock solid under the high ball and helped to see off any late threats that Saints posed.
Warrington head coach Tony Smith: "I thought both teams defended really well, we didn't give each other too many opportunities. I thought Saints were fantastic.
"But I just had that feeling that, no matter what happened, they were going to work hard for each other and that's a really big ingredient in rugby league.
"You might not be squeaky clean or just perfect in some areas, but if you work really hard for each other you can cover over a lot of the cracks."
Warrington captain Chris Hill: "[Winning the Grand Final] would be unbelievable and it would go down in history. For me personally being captain, it would be something special and something I'd never forget, but we'll get to that when we're walking up those steps.
"Before that, we've got a big week ahead of us and we're going to prepare well."
St Helens head coach Keiron Cunningham: "I just thought we lacked a little bit of composure in certain areas. That's generally how you win big games - the most composed side for longer periods and whoever kicks the ball best.
"Warrington didn't do anything special, they just did what they always do. I thought we defended a lot of their stuff really well.
"But the biggest thing for me, which is becoming a bit of a blight on the game, is you're looking at the first semi-final and what everybody's talking about is the video referee and refereeing decisions. We just couldn't buy a call tonight.
"You need your fair share of those calls, you do need a bit of luck in the game and it does even itself out over the period of a season, but it seemed like it went a fair bit against us in the wrong game."
Warrington: Ratchford; Lineham, Evans, Atkins, Russell; Gidley, Patton; Hill, Clark, Sims, Wilde, Hughes, Westerman.
Interchanges: T King, G King, Smith, Philbin.
St Helens: Lomax; Owens, Peyroux, Percival, Swift; Turner, Walsh; Amor, Roby, Richards, Greenwood, McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Wilkin.
Interchanges: Walmsley, Vea, Thompson, Knowles.
Referee: Ben Thaler.
The sailors were in the country to attend a military sports tournament, the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service (CFNIS) said.
The men have appeared in court charged with one count of sexual assault each.
The incident allegedly took place in barracks at an air base at Shearwater, near Halifax, on Thursday.
The alleged victim is a woman not in the military, the CFNIS said.
The men have been named as Craig Stoner, Darren Smalley, Joshua Finbow and Simon Radford, in a statement on the Government of Canada website.
Canadian officials said they were members of the Royal Navy ice hockey team.
Reports in Canada suggested the men were remanded to a jail until Monday, while lawyers negotiate bail terms.
"This is a disturbing accusation of sexual assault," Lt-Col Francis Bolduc said in a statement.
"I'm pleased with the full co-operation provided by the British authorities to support the hard work and diligence of the CFNIS team in responding to this matter."
The UK Ministry of Defence said it was aware of allegations against four members of the Royal Navy.
"The Royal Navy takes allegations of this nature very seriously, however as legal proceedings continue it would be inappropriate to comment further," an MoD spokeswoman said.
The county has not won any silverware since 2008 when they won the One-Day Cup and Division Two of the Pro40.
"He's a very balanced guy, he's passionate about leading Essex into a new era," former England opener Gooch told BBC Look East.
"I'm confident he can start something special for Essex."
Essex won the County Championship six times between 1979 and 1992, but have been in Division Two since 2011.
Former Yorkshire and England bowler Silverwood, 41, was appointed as head coach on a full-time basis in December 2015 after standing in temporarily following Paul Grayson's departure last September.
The club has also had a shake-up on the field with Ryan ten Doeschate replacing James Foster as four-day captain and Ravi Bopara being named as limited-overs skipper.
"I think he's got a tough job and the pressure's going to be on him [Silverwood]," Gooch, who played for Essex for 24 years, added.
"We've had a change of captain, a few new players and he's got a new assistant coach.
"I think Essex have been flat-lining a bit for a few years, but I'm confident he can start something special."
Built in 1070, Chester Castle was the base for the English conquest of Wales.
The city's MP Chris Matheson said reopening the attraction had been "quite problematic" as the site was owned by various organisations.
He said he had to "bang heads together" but "getting access to some very old parts of the city will be fantastic".
Founded during the Roman military occupation, the historic city draws about eight million visitors annually, a spokesman for Cheshire West and Chester Council said.
The castle, which is in the south-west part of the walled city, will be free to get into until 3 September.
The local authority is looking into whether a museum and art gallery could be located at the site in the future.
Council cabinet member Louise Gittins said: "For that to happen it's a long-term view and there are a lot of barriers to overcome.
"We want to encourage and inspire people to connect with local heritage and to use the fabric of the city as a backdrop for interesting and engaging activities and events."
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Prosecutors accuse Mr Perez Molina of masterminding a scheme to defraud the customs service of millions of dollars. He denies the allegations.
On Tuesday, Congress stripped him of his immunity from prosecution, a first in the Central American nation.
A spokesman said Mr Perez Molina had decided to step down to "confront the proceedings against him".
Mr Perez Molina's resignation comes just days before Sunday's presidential election, in which he was barred from standing under constitutional rules.
For weeks now Guatemalans have been chanting "fuera" (out).
They shouted because more than anything they wanted President Perez Molina to resign.
They were outraged at these most recent corruption scandals and while corruption has always been present - and even tolerated - in Guatemala, people had had enough.
Their voices have now been heard. Guatemalans feel this is their moment, that for once they have been listened to.
On a day that until recently they never thought they would see, people on the streets feel empowered.
Vice-President Alejandro Maldonado is expected to govern until the new president is sworn in on 14 January.
Mr Maldonado has only been in the post since mid-May, when his predecessor Roxana Baldetti resigned.
Ms Baldetti is accused of involvement in the same corruption scheme which Mr Perez Molina allegedly masterminded.
Investigators say the scheme, dubbed La Linea, or The Line, involved businesses paying bribes to government officials and custom officers in return for being allowed to evade import duties.
The corruption scandal has triggered a series of mass protests in Guatemala and widespread calls for Mr Perez Molina to resign.
But until Wednesday night, the president had stood firm, saying he would serve out his term.
His spokesman said Mr Perez Molina had handed in his letter of resignation just before midnight local time.
Congress still has to approve his resignation before it comes into force.
Local media said Mr Perez Molina's current whereabouts were unknown.
On Tuesday, a judge barred him from leaving the country "as a precautionary measure".
Earlier this week, Mr Perez Molina said he would be "very respectful and submit himself to the rule of law".
Shahbaz Taseer was seized by gunmen in Lahore in August 2011, months after his father Salman was killed for opposing Pakistan's blasphemy laws.
The assassin, his bodyguard Mumtaz Qadri, was hailed by many as a hero.
Counter-terror police said they recovered Mr Taseer from a compound north of Quetta, following a tip off.
Shahbaz Taseer's dramatic release came barely a week after the hanging of Mumtaz Qadri. So are the two developments linked?
If they are, then it would suggest that the Pakistani security agencies are getting serious about the state of lawlessness in the country and this may be their first big break.
But many aspects of the raid in which Shahbaz Taseer was recovered are still unclear - Why was he being kept in a hotel? Who were his kidnappers? Was there a shoot-out between the kidnappers and the security forces? Were any of the kidnappers arrested?
Mr Taseer was the son of an influential politician and businessman, and was considered to be his political heir. But the family's hopes were dashed when his father was shot dead, and he himself was kidnapped months later.
Soon after his kidnapping, there were rumours that his captors had demanded a huge ransom. But then the case went cold.
It now appears that he may have been freed for ransom. Reports from Quetta suggest that on Tuesday he walked into a restaurant in Kuchlak, ordered food, then asked for a phone to call Lahore.
Official confirmation is still awaited.
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Aitzaz Goraya, head of the Counter-Terrorism Department of south-western Balochistan province told AFP: "Intelligence forces and police went to a compound in Kuchlak district some 25km (16 miles) north of Quetta.
"We surrounded the compound and we raided it. We didn't find anyone. A single person was there and he told us, 'My name is Shahbaz and my father's name is Salman Taseer'."
The Balochistan Frontier Corps, the government paramilitary group behind the operation, tweeted to announce that Mr Taseer had been safely recovered.
Few other details were available about the operation or how Mr Taseer came to be at the compound alone.
Some reports suggested a ransom may have been paid to the Pakistani Taliban, which is suspected of involvement, or that holding Mr Taseer had become too burdensome.
The governor's son may have spent time in the custody of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) before troops drove the group out of North Waziristan into Afghanistan in an operation that began in 2014, Pakistani journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai told BBC Urdu. Mr Taseer then apparently ended up in the hands of the Afghan Taliban following clashes with the IMU.
Mr Goraya described the rescued hostage, who is in his early thirties, as being in "feeble" health.
Qadri was hailed as a hero by Islamists after killing Salman Taseer in Islamabad over the governor's opposition to blasphemy laws.
Thousands of people protested last week following the execution of the former police bodyguard.
Shabaz Taseer's brother Shehryar said just after Qadri's hanging that the execution was a victory for Pakistan but not his family.
"The safe return of my brother is the only victory my family wants," he wrote on Twitter on 29 February.
Former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, who belonged to the same Pakistan People's Party as Governor Taseer and whose own son was kidnapped by suspected Taliban militants in May 2013, told Geo News on Tuesday: "It is a very big day for Salman's family."
He added: "After this release, I am very hopeful that my own son will be freed."
The Channel Islanders led by 11 goals at one stage but went into the final quarter level with their opponents.
Victory lifted Linda Andrews' side to fourth and keeps them in the hunt for the end-of-season promotion play-offs.
"It was so tough, we made a right spectacle of it - to win by seven was amazing," Devine told BBC Radio Jersey.
"You've got to go down sometimes to get strength of character and learn how to build back up, so we'll certainly learn a lot of lessons from that."
Ryland got promoted along with Team Jets last season and sit second in the table.
Jets have lost just two of their last 10 games and have two regular-season games remaining.
"The home crowd's always a good advantage but sometimes it adds that little bit of pressure - without it it would've been a very different game," added Devine.
"We had a little dip - I think we probably surprised ourselves with such a good start, we weren't used to it."
Two people received minor injuries in October when panels above platforms one and two caved in.
The station unveiled a £44m upgrade in October 2015, including the £20m roof.
Network Rail said the reporting of faults with Northern Rail was a factor in the roof not being repaired before the incident.
Network Rail said it has "revaluated communication channels" with Northern when logging faults to ensure there is no repeat of the incident.
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Dujardin, who could become the first British woman to win three Olympic gold medals, posted a score of 85.071% - the highest of all 44 competitors.
It helped move the British team of Dujardin, Carl Hester, Fiona Bigwood and Spencer Wilton up to second.
Germany (81.424) lead ahead of Britain (79.252) and the US (76.971).
The team competition concludes on Friday, with the top six qualifiers completed by the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark.
"I think, for me, going in there today was about going in and enjoying it. That was the biggest thing," 31-year-old Dujardin said.
"I watched a lot of people on the first day going in there looking nervous.
"I thought, 'It's my absolute passion, I've got the horse of my life, I've got a top trainer and huge support team around me, so go out there and enjoy it'."
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They say it can mean an initial burst of hyperactivity and then an "inevitable crash" later in the day.
Teachers' union leader Chris Keates said a "significant number" of school staff had concerns over energy drinks.
The British Soft Drinks Association said teachers must decide "what pupils are allowed to take into school".
The NASUWT teachers' union's annual conference in Cardiff will hear warnings about the "negative impact" of energy drinks on pupils' behaviour.
They will raise concerns that "high levels of caffeine and sugar" are disrupting pupils' ability to concentrate and behave well in class.
Ms Keates says teachers have warned of pupils staying up into the early hours of the morning and then drinking several cans of energy drinks on the way to school the next day.
After a phase of hyperactivity and poor concentration, she says pupils "crash later in the day when the impact of these drinks wears off".
"These drinks are becoming increasingly popular among young people and are often seen as simply like any other soft drink, but many young people and their parents are not aware of the very high levels of stimulants that these drinks contain," said the NASUWT leader.
But Gavin Partington, director general of the British Soft Drinks Association, said: "It's worth remembering that coffees from popular high street chains contain the same or more caffeine than most energy drinks.
"However, like all food and drink, energy drinks should be consumed in moderation and as part of a balanced diet."
Mr Partington said his association's code of practice says high caffeine soft drinks are not recommended for children, and high caffeine content drinks should not be promoted or marketed to children.
The teachers' union conference will also hear concerns of "home invasion" and "email intrusion" from staff who complain they are receiving too many work-related emails outside of school hours.
Many staff say they are expected to respond to work emails in evenings and weekends, including from parents and pupils, and some reported being expected to answer work emails when they were on sick leave.
"It is unacceptable that teachers at home or when they are ill or on leave continue to be bombarded with emails at all times of the day and night," said Ms Keates.
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The game was effectively wrapped up in a clinical opening 21 minutes from the Iron, who are currently 22nd in the National League.
They took the lead after just six minutes when Monty Patterson scored as he followed up Michael Cheek's back-post header which was saved by Lewis Carey.
The lead was doubled five minutes later as Patterson's corner was met by the head of former Wolves defender George Elokobi.
The third goal came in the 21st minute when Oli Muldoon's free-kick took a deflection and the ball rolled into the net.
Eastbourne attacked but struggled to find the target and Lee Barnard made it 4-0 in the 68th minute as he scored from close range after Sim Akinola's lob over Carey hit the post.
Barnard bagged a second six minutes later from the penalty spot after Akinola was fouled, before Elokobi added the sixth after heading in another corner.
The rout was completed by stand-in skipper Akinola as he curled home a beautiful effort late on.
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Match ends, Braintree Town 7, Eastbourne Borough 0.
Second Half ends, Braintree Town 7, Eastbourne Borough 0.
Goal! Braintree Town 7, Eastbourne Borough 0. Simeon Akinola (Braintree Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt blocked. Gavin McCallum (Eastbourne Borough) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Harry Lee (Braintree Town) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Substitution, Eastbourne Borough. Ryley Tate replaces Brian Dutton.
Goal! Braintree Town 6, Eastbourne Borough 0. George Elokobi (Braintree Town) header from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Reece Hall-Johnson following a corner.
Corner, Braintree Town. Conceded by Josh Hare.
Harry Lee (Braintree Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Reece Hall-Johnson replaces Oliver Muldoon.
Attempt missed. Lee Barnard (Braintree Town) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Josh Hare (Eastbourne Borough) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Braintree Town 5, Eastbourne Borough 0. Lee Barnard (Braintree Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty Braintree Town. Simeon Akinola draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Gavin McCallum (Eastbourne Borough) after a foul in the penalty area.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Jack Midson replaces Michael Cheek.
Attempt missed. George Elokobi (Braintree Town) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left.
Corner, Braintree Town. Conceded by Lewis Carey.
Attempt saved. Jake Goodman (Braintree Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Braintree Town. Conceded by Gavin McCallum.
Goal! Braintree Town 4, Eastbourne Borough 0. Lee Barnard (Braintree Town) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal.
Corner, Eastbourne Borough. Conceded by Jerome Okimo.
Substitution, Eastbourne Borough. Miguel Baptista replaces Mark Hughes.
Simeon Akinola (Braintree Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mark Hughes (Eastbourne Borough).
Attempt missed. Gavin McCallum (Eastbourne Borough) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Sam Matthews replaces Monty Patterson.
Substitution, Eastbourne Borough. Nathaniel Pinney replaces Jamie Taylor.
Corner, Eastbourne Borough. Conceded by Jake Goodman.
Attempt missed. Josh Hare (Eastbourne Borough) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Sean Clohessy (Braintree Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt missed. Jamie Taylor (Eastbourne Borough) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt blocked. Elliott Romain (Eastbourne Borough) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Monty Patterson (Braintree Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Craig Stone (Eastbourne Borough).
Corner, Eastbourne Borough. Conceded by Simeon Akinola.
Attempt missed. Harry Lee (Braintree Town) right footed shot from very close range is too high.
Monty Patterson (Braintree Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mark Hughes (Eastbourne Borough).
Second Half begins Braintree Town 3, Eastbourne Borough 0.
Claudio Ranieri's squad will travel on an open-top bus through the city before taking the stage at Victoria Park.
Leicester will be presented with the trophy following Saturday's final home game of the season against Everton.
Opera star Andrea Bocelli will also perform at the King Power Stadium before Saturday's game.
Leicester secured a first top-flight league title in their 132-year history on Monday, as Tottenham drew 2-2 with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
The open-top bus tour will start from Jubilee Square at 6pm, and finish at Victoria Park an hour later, where the players will show the Premier League trophy to the fans.
In 2014, the Foxes held an open-top bus parade to celebrate promotion to the top flight after a 10-year absence.
Thousands of people lined the route from the High Street, past the Clock Tower before some 6,000 fans greeted the buses in Town Hall Square.
The Englishwoman - two wins from making history - resumes play at 14:30 BST on Monday in the best of 19 frames match.
Evans, 11-time women's world champion, beat Robin Hull 10-8 in the first round, having accepted an invitation for the qualifying event in Sheffield.
Peter Ebdon faces Jack Lisowski in the evening session from 19:00 BST.
In 2015, Evans, 31, faced 1997 world champion Ken Doherty in qualifying, but suffered a narrow 10-8 defeat in the first round.
The 2017 World Championship takes place at the Crucible from 15 April until 1 May with world number one Mark Selby looking to successfully defend his title.
The attack happened on the night of Tuesday 21 March. It was a roadside bomb with a command wire attached.
A 20-year-old man was arrested last Friday and a 31-year-old man on Saturday.
Both have now been released unconditionally, police have said.
An initial assessment suggested Tarkhan Batirashvili, a Georgian known as Omar Shishani, was likely killed along with 12 other militants, officials said.
The strike took place on Friday near the north-eastern town of Shaddadi, where Shishani had reportedly been sent to bolster local IS forces.
There was no immediate confirmation of his death from IS or its supporters.
The US had offered a $5m (£3.5m) reward for Shishani, who it declared a specially designated global terrorist in September 2014.
A statement issued by the US defence department late on Tuesday said it was "still assessing the results" of Friday's operation targeting Shishani.
But an unnamed senior defence official told the Associated Press news agency that it was likely the IS military commander was killed. The official said the strike involved multiple waves of manned aircraft and unmanned drones.
Using an acronym based on IS's former name, the defence department said it believed Shishani had been sent to Shaddadi to "bolster Isil fighters following a series of strategic defeats to local forces we are supporting, cutting off Isil operations near the Syria-Iraq border".
Shaddadi was captured last month by the Syrian Arab Coalition, an alliance of Arab rebel groups which have joined forces with the Kurdish YPG militia to battle IS.
A YPG official told the Reuters news agency that it had received information that Shishani was killed but had no details and had been unable to confirm anything.
The defence department said Shishani - which means "Chechen" in Arabic - held numerous top military positions within IS, including "minister of war", and was based in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the so-called caliphate whose formation IS proclaimed in 2014.
"Batirashvili is a battle-tested leader with experience who had led Isil fighters in numerous engagements in Iraq and Syria," it added.
"His potential removal from the battlefield would negatively impact Isil ability to recruit foreign fighters - especially those from Chechnya and the Caucus regions - and degrade Isil's ability to co-ordinate attacks and defence of its strongholds like Raqqa, Syria, and Mosul, Iraq."
Before joining IS in mid-2013, Shishani was the leader of Jaysh al-Muhajirin wa al-Ansar, an al-Qaeda-linked group comprising mostly foreign fighters that fought in the rebellion in Syria.
By late 2013, he had been appointed emir (leader) for northern Syria and was in charge of fighters from Chechnya and elsewhere in the Caucasus.
He was identified as the IS military commander in a video distributed in June 2014.
Shishani is also said to have overseen an IS prison facility in Tabqa, west of Raqqa, where foreign hostages were possibly held, according to the US.
He announced a "landmark feasibility study" into the idea, which would enable Chinese and British shares to be traded in both countries.
He said the UK and China would "stick together", despite stock market turmoil and faltering economic growth in the world's second-largest economy.
Mr Osborne made the pledge in a speech at the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
He described the exchange as the "epicentre" of the recent volatility in global markets.
The exchange's benchmark index has fallen nearly 40% since June.
The chancellor is visiting China to boost commercial and political ties.
His trip comes ahead of a state visit to the UK by Chinese President Xi Jinping in October - the first by a Chinese leader for 10 years.
China recently revised down its 2014 growth figure from 7.4% to 7.3% - its weakest showing in nearly 25 years.
For this year, the government is targeting annual economic growth of about 7%.
Growing evidence that the world's economic powerhouse is slowing down has caused major investment market falls.
"Whatever the headlines, regardless of the challenges, we shouldn't be running away from China," said Mr Osborne, adding that he "very deliberately chose" the location of the stock exchange to send out his message.
He said the two countries should work together to make the UK "China's best partner in the West".
"I want to see our stock markets in London and Shanghai formally connected, with UK firms raising funds from Chinese savers, and Chinese firms listing in London," the chancellor said.
"This week, we've announced with the Chinese government and this stock exchange a landmark feasibility study to look at how we could do this."
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the chancellor said China was a "phenomenal part of the world economy" and "a very important part of Britain's economic future".
He acknowledged concerns about China's human rights record, saying the countries had two completely different political systems, but added that it was "better to engage and talk about these things" than to "stand on the sidelines".
Mr Osborne's speech in Shanghai comes a day after he announced that the UK would guarantee a £2bn deal under which China will invest in the Hinkley Point nuclear power station.
He said the deal would pave the way for a final investment decision on the delayed project by French energy company EDF.
He added it would also enable greater collaboration between Britain and China on the construction of nuclear plants.
Reports suggest one such reactor could be built at Bradwell-on-Sea in Essex.
In other measures announced on Monday, it emerged that the People's Bank of China is to issue short-term bonds in London denominated in the Chinese currency, the first time it has done so outside China.
The rest of the home nations have two nominees each, with last year's winner Stuart Hogg selected alongside Scotland team-mate Finn Russell.
Scrum-half Conor Murray and back row CJ Stander are shortlisted for Ireland.
Wales scrum-half Rhys Webb and hooker Ken Owens are also included.
France fly-half Camille Lopez - the 2017 top points scorer - and team-mate Louis Picamoles make the list, as does Italy captain Sergio Parisse.
Voting is open to the public on the Six Nations website and closes at 12:00 GMT on Tuesday 21 March.
Centre Farrell, second row Launchbury and fellow forward Itoje are recognised after England claimed their second straight title, despite missing out on back-to-back Grand Slams with defeat to Ireland on Saturday.
Scotland full-back Hogg could become the first player since Ireland centre Brian O'Driscoll in 2006 and 2007 to win two successive player of the tournament titles.
It has lasted longer than some forecast.
Enda Kenny became Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) in a Fine Gael-led government, that included independents in the cabinet.
The main opposition party, Fianna Fáil, agreed to support the government for three budgets and in confidence motions.
Critics said this much derided "new politics" would not last 12 months, but it has - though it has come at price.
Compared to previous Dáils (Irish parliaments), very little legislation has passed - 18 bills in the last year, and six so far this year.
While previous governments dominated the legislature, this one is a prisoner of it and, as a result, bulls tend to get teased out a lot more.
This government tends to lose a lot more parliamentary votes too.
It is also the case that many decisions are pushed down the road partly because of the perception that a general election could happen unexpectedly.
That is partly the reason that Enda Kenny is now on his "long goodbye" as Fine Gael leader and taoiseach.
After a poor performance in his handling of allegations relating to the Garda whistleblower affair in February, his party feared there could have been an election even though he had said he wouldn't lead them into the next one.
That prompted Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney, the favourites to succeed Mr Kenny, to hint gently that it was time to go but that they would give him the space to do so.
After the formal beginning of the Brexit negotiations, the end of Enda as leader seems nigh.
While in Canada, meeting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Mr Kenny appeared peeved to be asked yet again about his intentions.
Whoever succeeds him will do so at a time of great uncertainty, and not just because of Brexit and what it will mean for Ireland, north and south, politically and economically.
"No politics" in Northern Ireland and "new politics" in the Republic may not seem the ideal scenario to deal with the complexity that Brexit will bring.
There are also decisions to be taken about that most vexing of issues - public sector pay after years of austerity.
It is an issue that so often in the past has brought the state almost to the point of penury.
While Fine Gael may well get a poll bounce with a new leader, the same polls show that if a general election were held tomorrow the result would not be very different from the last one, with no party in any way close to an overall majority.
As of now "new politics" seems here to stay.
And one look at Murdoch's track record at the event shows that self-belief is well-placed.
This will be the 38-year-old's eighth world championships and he has failed to pick up a medal at just two of those - winning the title in 2006 and 2009, a silver medal in 2005 and 2008 and bronzes in 2010 and 2013.
So his rink of Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews and Michael Goodfellow head to Edmonton with all the experience you could ask for.
"I've got two world titles, two silver medals and two bronze, and the guys have been in the final a couple of times as well," Murdoch told BBC Scotland.
"We had a bronze medal a few years ago, so the pedigree is there. We know about what it takes to win, we know what the experience is like, the pressures, and it's more a case of us trusting our technique and our game plan."
Team Murdoch have had a mixed season but have found form at the right time, winning the Scottish Championships last month in Perth to seal their place at the worlds.
"That's always been our goal for the season, to peak at the right time, and we certainly did that with winning the Scottish Championships," Murdoch added. "So now we've had a great few weeks of training and we're ready to go to Canada."
Murdoch had to watch Tom Brewster's rival rink represent Scotland at the last world championships and last year's home European Championships. He admits missing out on those events gave him added incentive this year - as did the thought of competing at the Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, in February.
Having won a silver medal at the Sochi Olympics in 2014, making it to South Korea is a huge target.
A top seven finish at the worlds will secure Great Britain a men's quota place for PyeongChang, and a medal in Canada will strengthen Murdoch's rink's case for Olympic selection.
"We've always had the hunger and the drive and we've always had the Olympics as the goal at the end, that's still the end goal," Murdoch said.
"We've got a lot of work to do to achieve that. A lot of things go hand in hand in that week, but ultimately it's about doing well and getting a medal at the worlds. For us there's a lot of good challenges and I think that's what motivates you."
Murdoch is also relishing a return to Canada and the spotlight that comes with competing in a country where curling is big news. Team Murdoch regularly play there during the season, with events often shown live on TV.
"It's in Canada so it'll be huge crowds and a massive arena," he said. "It's quite strange for us coming home where nobody knows us, but out there everyone knows us. It's such a popular sport and it's starting to get a really big following over there, so it's an exciting place to go and compete."
Joining Team Murdoch for these championships is someone who would normally be lining up for a rival rink. Ross Paterson usually plays second as part of Team Brewster, but he has been poached as fifth alternate for Murdoch's rink.
"We're part of British Curling first and foremost." Paterson told BBC Scotland. "Last year when we (Team Brewster) qualified we asked Scott (Andrews) to come with us as fifth man. I've played with David in the past and we see each other in the gym during the week, during practice, so it's not a problem fitting in. I'm looking forward to it.
"This is my first major championship as a fifth man, I was fifth man for the university games back in 2007 and I didn't play then, so I've kind of got an idea of what you're doing. I've still got an important job to do in terms of supporting the team and if the situation arises where I do play then I have to be ready, so it's a slightly different focus."
The men's world curling championships take place between 1 April and 9 April.
The migrants, including 50 women and 84 children, say that many people are now falling ill after the boat crew abandoned them at the weekend.
Their exact position is still unclear, said Chris Lewa of the Arakan Project which works with the Rohingya minority.
Indonesia and Malaysia have been turning away migrant boats.
Thailand has launched a crackdown to disrupt people smuggler networks since the discovery of dozens of bodies in abandoned camps along regular trafficking routes.
A ship passed by the drifting ship on Tuesday but did not stop.
"I heard the boat's engine and then all the people screaming, shouting for help, trying to get attention - then the noises faded away and it became very quiet. All I could hear was the children crying," Ms Lewa told the BBC on Wednesday.
The migrants have been at sea for two months but their situation only became critical once their crew abandoned the boat and left them without a working engine.
Ms Lewa said that the migrants could see land but could not reach it. "They have a compass but no-one knows how to use it," she added.
On Tuesday, the migrants thought they might be close to the Malaysian island of Langkawi.
There is growing concern over the health of some of the passengers.
"One man said some people had died but others later contradicted him so the situation is very unclear," said Ms Lewa.
As many as 8,000 migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar are believed by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to be stranded at sea.
People smugglers are reportedly refusing to land their boats because they do not want to follow their usual route through Thailand after the government launched a campaign there against them.
Jeff Labovitz, an IOM spokesman, told the BBC on Monday that the discovery last week of the remains of dozens of people in abandoned camps in the south of Thailand had prompted a police crackdown.
Another IOM spokesman, Joe Lowry, said that many on board the migrant boats needed urgent help because they were suffering from beriberi - a disease caused by vitamin deficiency which "leaves you like a walking skeleton".
Ms Lewa said that some people in Myanmar were no longer attempting the perilous journey.
Two boats which originally intended to leave last week have been disembarked, she said. More than 200 passengers were forced to pay a fee to be allowed to leave the vessels.
Five other boats however were reported to have set out regardless of the dangers.
On Tuesday, Indonesia said it had turned away a boat carrying hundreds of migrants believed to be from Myanmar and Bangladesh. What has happened to them is not yet known.
A senior Thai official told Reuters news agency on Wednesday that Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia would all continue to turn the boats away.
Myanmar's unwanted people
Major General Werachon Sukhondhapatipak said that the three countries had decided "not to receive boat people".
On Sunday and Monday more than 2,000 migrants arrived in Malaysia or Indonesia after being rescued or swimming ashore.
The journey the migrants take - from Bangladesh or Myanmar through the Bay of Bengal to Thailand or beyond - takes several weeks. They have been slowed further by the refugees effectively being held hostage by smugglers.
Joe Schmidt's Irish looked in control after Simon Zebo's try and Tommy Bowe's breakaway score helped them lead 17-0.
However, the strong-running Wallabies fought back to lead after two Nick Phipps tries and a Bernard Foley score.
Sexton's penalty levelled before the break and his two second-half penalties proved enough for the Irish.
The victory was a big turnaround from their 32-15 walloping by the Wallabies 12 months ago and was further indication of how far they have come under New Zealander Schmidt.
After Saturday's game, it was revealed that Schmidt, 49, had been suffering from suspected appendicitis and had gone to hospital for tests.
The victory completed a clean sweep of November triumphs for the first time since 2006, with the Irish having leapfrogged the Australians into third place in the world rankings after their wins over Springboks and Georgia.
Australia coach Michael Cheika's knowledge of the Irish players had dominated the build-up to the game but the home side produced the early fire as they stormed into a 17-0 lead within 17 minutes.
Sexton edged Ireland ahead in the sixth, although the Irish fly-half was off target four minutes later after Australian prop James Slipper had been fortunate to avoid a yellow card for a high tackle on Rob Kearney.
Ireland's first try came two minutes later as Sexton's kick - after Rory Best had dispossessed Luke Jones near halfway - bounced perfectly for Zebo to score.
After Sexton's successful conversion, the Australians threatened an immediate response through Foley and Kuridrani, but a seemingly outnumbered Bowe ended the attack by intercepting Phipps's laboured pass and running from deep in his own 22 to score at the other end.
Sexton's conversion increased the lead to 17 points as Irish found themselves in a similar position to the one they had carved out against New Zealand 12 months ago.
But the visitors hit back within a minute as Phipps atoned for his mistake by running from his own half to score after Zebo's ambitious off-load had been intercepted by Aussie debutant Henry Speight.
As the Aussies opted to run the ball at every opportunity, Foley touched down again five minutes later, with the television match official deeming Phipps's pass to have been level.
With Foley missing the conversion, Ireland's lead was 17-12. But Australia were on terms by the half hour after more sensational running and off-loading from Matt Toomua, with Foley setting up Phipps to score his second try.
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Foley's struggles with the boot continued as he missed the straightforward conversion but more magnificent work from Toomua set up another simple kicking chance for the fly-half in the 37th minute.
This time he took advantage but Sexton's penalty in injury-time brought the sides level.
The Aussies appeared to have the momentum as the players headed into the dressing rooms but Ireland were back in the lead four minutes after the resumption as Zebo's dancing feet led to a breakdown infringement by the Wallabies, with Sexton punishing the offence.
But the visitors were back on terms with four minutes as Foley profited from an Irish scrum which was showing signs of starting to wilt.
Yet the Irish were succeeding in making the game a less open contest and they regained the lead on 64 minutes through another Sexton penalty after Kearney had struck an upright with an amazing drop-goal attempt from 50 metres.
With Kurtley Beale and Quade Cooper introduced, Australia produced inevitable late pressure but the Irish held on to complete their run of autumn wins.
TEAMS
Ireland: Rob Kearney; Tommy Bowe, Robbie Henshaw, Gordon D'Arcy, Simon Zebo; Jonathan Sexton, Conor Murray; Jack McGrath, Rory Best, Mike Ross: Devin Toner, Paul O'Connell (capt); Peter O'Mahony, Rhys Ruddock, Jamie Heaslip.
Replacements: Sean Cronin for Best 68 mins, Dave Foley for Toner 61, Eoin Reddan for Murray 72, Ian Madigan for D'Arcy 59, Felix Jones for Kearney 78
Not used: Dave Kilcoyne, Rodney Ah You, Tommy O'Donnell
Australia: Israel Folau; Adam Ashley-Cooper, Tevenia Kuridrani, Matt Toomua, Henry Speight; Bernard Foley, Nick Phipps; James Slipper, Saia Fainga'a, Sekope Kepu; Sam Carter, Rob Simmons; Luke Jones, Michael Hooper (capt), Ben McCalman.
Replacements: James Hanson for Fainga'a 69, Benn Robinson for Slipper 75, Tetera Faulkner for Kepu 69, Will Skelton for Carter 72, Jake Schatz for Jones 54, Will Genia for Phipps 69, Quade Cooper for Foley 65, Kurtley Beale for Kuridrani 46.
Referee: Glen Jackson (New Zealand)
Stephen Hughes, 29, and Shaunean Boyle, 25, were convicted of attacking Owen Creaney in July 2014.
Mr Creaney, from Lurgan, died two days after the attack.
His family said Mr Creaney "thought he was with his friends but these people turned out to be his killers".
"The loss of such a wonderful son has left us heartbroken. He was a kind soul and didn't deserve what happened to him.
"Owen would have helped anyone."
Both Hughes and Boyle received automatic life sentences when convicted.
At a tariff hearing on Friday, a judge said Hughes would spend at least 15 years in prison before being considered for parole, while Boyle will serve 14 years.
The judge said Mr Creaney was subjected to a "savage and merciless attack".
The judge said Boyle would have a year less on her tariff because her past criminal record was less serious.
He added that the pair will serve their sentences in their entirety with no chance of earlier parole.
A jury had previously heard that Hughes and Boyle had punched, kicked and stamped on Mr Creaney.
They then washed and changed him and, after he died, put his body in a wheelie bin at the house in Moyraverty Court in Craigavon, County Armagh, where he was found by police.
Det Ch Insp Lee McNevison said the police hoped the sentences would "provide comfort and a degree of closure for the Creaney family".
"They have conducted themselves with great dignity over the past two and a half years since Owen's murder and more recently as they listened to the often difficult evidence at the trial."
The action stoked fears of rising tensions in the Middle East and oil prices jumped in response.
The Dow Jones fell 40 points, or 0.2% to 17,678, while the broader S&P 500 dropped 5 points, or 0.2%, to end on 2,056.
The tech-focused Nasdaq closed 13 points lower, or 0.3%, at 4,863.
Oil prices surged on news of the airstrikes. Brent crude futures jumped $2.6 to hit $59.09 a barrel, while US crude settled $2.08 higher at $51.29 a barrel, having peaked at $52.48 a barrel earlier.
"Obviously the situation in Yemen is being used as the excuse for this pullback, which is a continuation of yesterday," Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Rockwell Global Capital, told Reuters.
Among individual stocks, Sandisk fell 18% after the firm cut its outlook for revenues for both the first quarter of 2015 and the full year.
Yoga-attire maker Lululemon Athletica jumped 4.9% as revenues for the three months to 1 February rose 15.6% to $602.5m.
The dollar gained 0.8% against the euro, edging to €0.9188.
Jack Archer was hit by the car on Chapel Lane, in Bingham, Nottinghamshire, at about 22:15 BST on Monday.
A 28-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of death by dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene, police said.
Jack was described as "cheerful and happy" by his friends and teachers.
Updates on this story and more from Nottinghamshire.
Toot Hill School said the community was "deeply saddened" by his death.
It said: "Our thoughts are with Jack's family, friends and students, who will be devastated by this sad news.
"Jack was always a cheerful and happy student who had a real zest for life."
Some of his friends have spoken of their shock after finding out about Jack's death.
"It was my birthday yesterday and then I wake up this morning and find he is gone," one boy said.
"He was a good mate of ours. He always had a smile on his face, cheeky, mischievous, quite funny lad.
"You just think it is never going to happen to you."
Insp Simon Heads, of Nottinghamshire Police, said he will leave "no stone unturned" in the search to find out what happened.
"From what I understand the boy was actually overtaken by another vehicle before the vehicle that struck him," he said.
"Mum and dad are clearly devastated, which is the reason why we are absolutely determined to find out for them what happened to their boy last night."
Insp Heads added they needed to find the car and driver and had appealed to the owners of two cars, which are thought to have passed Jack before the crash, to contact the force.
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The 23-year-old took gold with a unanimous points victory, with one judge giving him the win by 30-27 and the other two judges scoring it 29-28.
For Aloyan, a two-time world amateur champion, the silver was an upgrade on the bronze he won at London 2012.
Zoirov's gold medal was Uzbekistan's third of the Games.
And Fazliddin Gaibnazarov added a fourth shortly afterwards when he beat Azerbaijan's Lorenzo Sotomayor on a 2-1 split decision to win light-welterweight gold.
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The Frenchman joined Charlton in June 2011 and played 35 times for the Championship club.
But the 22-year-old full-back left the Addicks earlier this summer.
Former Arsenal youth player Evina has made 63 professional appearances so far in a career which also includes two spells with Oldham Athletic, where he played under Rovers boss Paul Dickov.
Team principal Doug Ryder has two Eritreans and three South Africans in his nine-man MTN-Qhubeka line-up at this year's Tour.
"This team, and Africa, can transform cycling," he told BBC World Service.
"We will have an African rider standing on the podium in a Grand Tour in the next three to five years."
A South African-sponsored team, Barloworld, took part in the 2007 and 2008 Tours and riders with African heritage - including Kenya-born Briton Chris Froome, who won the 2013 edition - have competed previously in the Tour de France.
But MTN-Qhubeka, based in South Africa since their creation in 1997 by former professional cyclist Ryder, is the first genuinely African team invited to participate, with this year's Tour starting on Saturday in Utrecht, in the Netherlands.
It includes the first Eritreans to take part - Daniel Teklehaimanot, 26, the best climber in last month's Criterium du Dauphine won by Froome, and his 21-year-old compatriot Merhawi Kudus, who completed the Vuelta a Espana last year.
Three South African riders - Louis Meintjes and the unrelated Jacques Janse van Rensburg and Reinardt Janse van Rensburg - are supplemented by Briton Steve Cummings, Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen, American Tyler Farrar and Belgian Serge Pauwels.
"We are not just here to make up the numbers, we are here to compete," Ryder insists.
"This team has earned its right to be in the Tour de France. They have risen out of the also-rans of the peloton and really shown that they are able to compete at this level.
"Our team will be a breath of fresh air for the Tour because cycling is not just a European sport, it's a sport that should be participated in by people all around the world.
"I can't tell you the level of support and interest we've had in Eritrea from the President down. This team will open the door for African riders to make this breakthrough into world cycling and that door will never be closed."
Ryder has been working on getting an African team into cycling's most prestigious stage race for a decade, and admits "it seemed like an insurmountable task".
"'Are you crazy? You must be smoking some cheap herb Doug, it's never going to happen,'" he recalls being told by the doubters.
But confirmation of the team's entry into the Tour finally arrived this year… via text message.
"Tour Director Christian Prudhomme sent me an SMS and I didn't have his number in my phone," he laughs.
"The message read 'Doug, welcome to the Tour de France, please call me'. I was like what? Really? You get an invite and this guy sends you an SMS… that's how you get told!
"But now we are here we are doing it and it's the realisation of a dream."
The authority has to implement more than 170 language standards imposed by Welsh Language Commissioner, Meri Huws.
But it appealed against three concerning meetings between members of the public and council officials that would not allow for the use of a simultaneous Welsh translator.
They have been granted by Ms Huws.
The regulations, which came into force in March, include requiring public bodies to make it clear they welcome correspondence with the public in Welsh and giving the language priority on bilingual signs.
Organisations involved include the Welsh Government, local councils and the three national parks.
Welsh language campaign group Cymdeithas yr Iaith strongly criticised Carmarthenshire council's decision to appeal.
It told BBC Wales' Newyddion 9 programme the decision "sends the wrong message" and instead of providing leadership, it "gives the impression that Carmarthenshire council is trying to avoid its responsibilities".
But the council said it was committed to developing the Welsh language as the main administrative language of the authority.
Rebecca Deacon became private secretary to the duchess shortly after the Cambridges married in 2011.
Miss Deacon previously worked for Prince Harry's charity Sentebale.
A palace spokeswoman said: "Their Royal Highnesses are incredibly grateful for all the hard work and support Rebecca has provided over the past 10 years."
She said Miss Deacon planned to leave the duke and duchess's household this summer, adding that they "wish her well in the next phase of her career".
The news follows reports of Miss Deacon's engagement - she is due to marry later this month.
Often pictured standing behind the duchess during public engagements, Miss Deacon played an important role during the royal wedding.
A private secretary's duties include organising official programmes and engagements and ensuring the duchess is briefed on whom she is going to meet.
Kensington Palace declined to comment on the matter of Miss Deacon's replacement.
Analysis by Peter Hunt, royal correspondent
Conversations with headhunters will take place soon.
However, anyone who lets slip they might be in the running for the post will not end up sitting behind an antique desk at Kensington Palace.
The successful candidate will be discreet, self-effacing and efficient. A sense of humour and a sense of the absurd will be very necessary personal qualities.
An ability to collect flowers from members of the public and to provide fashion advice won't be written into the job description.
In public, they'll be a hovering presence and they'll call the duchess Your Royal Highness and Ma'am (to rhyme with jam); whether they call her Catherine in private depends on how well their relationship develops.
The new private secretary will be appointed at a critical time. With the Queen a month away from her 91st birthday, the Cambridges will take on more royal duties.
In the coming years the duchess' diet of engagements will grow and will be managed by her newest member of staff.
This senior royal official will be an adviser, a confidante and, at the end of the day, a servant.
They'll have a privileged position inside the House of Windsor bubble and, if they're wise, they won't overstay their welcome.
When they do leave, like Rebecca Deacon before them, they'll know they'll have played a part in shaping, as things stand, the life of a future Queen Consort.
Read more from Peter here.
The Competition and Markets Authority study will look at whether the current complaints and regulation system gives residents adequate protection.
Reports of potentially unfair practices and contract terms being used by some care homes will also be examined.
The market study will assess whether there are breaches of consumer law.
There are currently 430,000 older people in care and nursing homes in the UK.
The CMA said it particularly wanted to hear from care home residents and their relatives who had encountered issues such as unexplained or "hidden" charges, unexpected fee increases, confusing requests for "top-up" payments, or occasions when they felt complaints had not been handled fairly.
The watchdog said it also wanted to hear from charities and care home providers about the services they offered and any challenges they faced.
Andrea Coscelli, CMA acting chief executive, said: "Choosing a care home can be emotional and costly.
"It's therefore essential that elderly people and their families have all the information they need to make the best possible choice, and then feel secure in the knowledge they will be fairly treated throughout their time there."
The market study will also evaluate the effectiveness of competition between care homes in driving quality and value for money for residents and taxpayers.
It will also consider how local authorities and other public bodies purchase and assign care home places, and how they encourage and shape local supply.
The study, which could take up to a year, could result in the CMA taking consumer or competition law enforcement action and making recommendations to the government to change regulations or public policy.
Citizens Advice, a network of charities that offer advice for people on issues including consumer rights, said a lack of protections in the care market was exposing older people and their families to "poor practices".
Chief executive Gillian Guy said: "Given people paying care bills in many ways have fewer protections than those buying a package holiday or as an energy customer, it is good that the CMA will now investigate the care home market.
"In particular it's important that the investigation looks closely at whether further regulation is needed."
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A formal request for the recount was filed by the Green Party's Jill Stein.
Dr Stein, the Green Party's candidate, has also pledged to file for recounts in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Lawyers for Hillary Clinton's campaign say they will participate in the Wisconsin recount, though it is thought highly unlikely the result will change.
The result would need to be overturned in all three states to change the outcome of the election.
The Clinton campaign's general counsel, Marc Elias, said there was no evidence to conclude the election was sabotaged, but "we have an obligation to the more than 64 million Americans who cast ballots for Hillary Clinton to participate in ongoing proceedings to ensure that an accurate vote count will be reported".
Dr Stein reportedly wants to make sure computer hackers did not skew the poll in favour of Mr Trump.
US election results
In statement, the Wisconsin Elections Commission said it had received two recount petitions from the Jill Stein campaign and from Rocky Roque De La Fuente, a businessman who ran unsuccessfully to be the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee.
"The Commission is preparing to move forward with a statewide recount of votes for President of the United States, as requested by these candidates," said Wisconsin election commission administrator Michael Haas.
He said the recount would begin in the week after Dr Stein's campaign has paid the fee, which the commission was still calculating.
Dr Stein's campaign needs to raise millions of dollars to cover the fees for the vote recount in all three states.
Dr Stein's website says nearly $5.3m (£4.2m) has already been raised toward a $7m target. It says this is enough to fund the recounts in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Concerns over possible Russian interference had been expressed in the run-up to the vote.
Voting rights lawyers who urged candidates to request recounts, John Bonifaz and J Alex Halderman, have said the results need to be closely analysed.
However, the fact that the results in the three states were different from what polls predicted was "probably not" down to hacking, Mr Halderman said.
"The only way to know whether a cyber-attack changed the result is to closely examine the available physical evidence ," he wrote.
The deadline for the petition for the recount in Wisconsin was Friday, while Pennsylvania's deadline is Monday, and Michigan's is Wednesday.
Wisconsin provides only 10 votes in the crucial electoral college that gave Mr Trump victory in the 8 November election.
Wins there for Mrs Clinton, as well as in Michigan (16 electoral votes) and Pennsylvania (20 electoral votes), would have clinched the presidency for the Democrat.
US officials have said there was no evidence of election tampering in the three states where Republican candidate Donald Trump had razor-thin victories over his Democratic rival.
Mr Trump's camp has made no public comments on the recounts issue.
Mr Trump won 290 electoral votes in the November election, while Mrs Clinton had 232 votes.
Michigan is yet to declare final results.
The findings were released by the American Psychological Association.
It set up a taskforce that reviewed hundreds of studies and papers published between 2005 and 2013.
The American Psychological Association concluded while there was "no single risk factor" to blame for aggression, violent video games did contribute.
"The research demonstrates a consistent relation between violent video game use and increases in aggressive behaviour, aggressive cognitions and aggressive affect, and decreases in pro-social behaviour, empathy and sensitivity to aggression," said the report.
"It is the accumulation of risk factors that tends to lead to aggressive or violent behaviour. The research reviewed here demonstrates that violent video game use is one such risk factor."
However, a large group of academics said they felt the methodology of the research was deeply flawed as a significant part of material included in the study had not been subjected to peer review.
"I fully acknowledge that exposure to repeated violence may have short-term effects - you would be a fool to deny that - but the long-term consequences of crime and actual violent behaviour, there is just no evidence linking violent video games with that," Dr Mark Coulson, associate professor of psychology at Middlesex University and one of the signatories of the letter told the BBC.
"If you play three hours of Call of Duty you might feel a little bit pumped, but you are not going to go out and mug someone."
The question about whether violent games inspire violent behaviour "in real life" is a subject that strongly divides opinion.
The playing of violent video games is often cited as a factor in motivating shockingly violent youth crimes such as high school shootings in the US.
One of the students who carried out the Columbine High School massacre in 1999 used a gun he called "Arlene" - allegedly after a character in a novel inspired by the computer game Doom.
However, most people who played graphically violent games (such as Call of Duty, Hitman, Mortal Kombat) did not resort to violence - and most video games were not violent, said Dr Richard Wilson from trade body Tiga.
"I wouldn't rubbish the [APA] report, but think it is important to look beyond the headline," he said.
"Although there are adult games, there are also adult films, books, TV shows... the content should be, and is, regulated to ensure children and minors do not play inappropriate material."
The taskforce said more research was now needed to establish whether violent games did lead to violent criminal behaviour.
However, the group of 230 academics from universities around the world wrote in its open letter to the APA youth violence in the US and around the world was currently "at a 40-year low".
"This decline in societal violence is in conflict with claims that violent video games and interactive media are important public health concerns," they wrote.
"The statistical data are simply not bearing out this concern and should not be ignored."
A study released by the Oxford Internet Institute last year suggested frustration at being unable to play a game was more likely to bring out aggressive behaviour than the content of the game itself.
"We focused on the motives of people who play electronic games and found players have a psychological need to come out on top when playing," said Dr Andrew Przybylski at the time.
"If players feel thwarted by the controls or the design of the game, they can wind up feeling aggressive.
"This need to master the game was far more significant than whether the game contained violent material."
In Europe, games are given age-related ratings in accordance with the Pan-European Game Information (Pegi) system.
There are five age ratings - three, seven, 12, 16 and 18.
The problem is that violence is hard to classify.
A Pegi 18 certificate may contain scenes of "gross violence", says the website.
"Gross violence is the most difficult to define since it can be very subjective in many cases, but in general terms it can be classed as the depictions of violence that would make the viewer feel a sense of revulsion," it says.
The APA is calling for extra in-game controls in addition to the current ratings.
"This is censorship by another route," said Dr Coulson.
"The worry I have is that any soft-coded censorship will be immediately subverted.
"The people playing these games are more competent than the people acting as gatekeepers.
"It's kind of putting forward a solution to a problem I don't think exists."
The APA taskforce used meta-analysis - combining the results of lots of studies in order to look for patterns and correlations, rather than carrying out any new research itself.
It conducted a comprehensive review of academic work around the subject, some of which dated back to 2005.
"While there is some variation among the individual studies, a strong and consistent general pattern has emerged from many years of research that provides confidence in our general conclusions," said task force chairman Mark Appelbaum.
However, this approach was criticised by the group of experts, which said such correlations sometimes had other explanations.
For example, boys were more likely to play video games than girls but they were also more likely to be aggressive in general.
Dr Coulson also cautioned about work included in the study that may not have been subject to peer review, where it is critiqued by the wider academic community.
"Obviously there is a lot of stuff out there that doesn't get into peer review journals," he said.
"If you look at all the literature in this area you are bound to get a sensationalist conclusion."
Marathon Oil, the Texas-based operators of the Brae Alpha platform, said it was not safe to continue work until investigations were completed.
The installation was shut down at about 16:35 on Boxing Day. No-one was injured in the incident.
A spokesman said the situation was being investigated and the relevant authorities had been notified.
The Brae Alpha Platform is located about 155 miles (248km) north east of Aberdeen.
An impressive first quarter saw the Dragons take the lead 11-10, but the title record holders fought back with the game ending 51-41 in their favour.
"The second quarter let us down and that meant we were chasing the game," captain Suzy Drane told BBC Wales Sport.
"But the rest of the three quarters were really tight and competitive."
Dragons faces Scottish Sirens in their next game on 25 February in the new Super Ten event in Birmingham.
Sirens are one of three new franchises for the 2017 season and head coach Trish Wilcox is relishing the challenge as she targets an impressive campaign.
"It's a great challenge and I think it's a very exciting league this year because there is so much unknown which really levels the playing field," she explained.
We're not coming here to participate and we want to get (into the) top four."
The programme had been going on since 2006.
Ottawa says it will ensure the spy agency is in is full compliance with Thursday's Federal Court decision.
The news came in the wake of revelations that police in Quebec had been spying on journalists.
The Federal Court ruling said that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) had been illegally keeping and analysing so-called "associated data", more commonly known as metadata, from third party communications.
That metadata, which could include the date, time, and telephone number linked to a phone conversation or an email address, was collected legally.
But it could only be retained if it was related to national security threats or of use to an investigation or prosecution.
It could also be kept if it was related to national defence or international affairs.
The court found CSIS was holding onto data from an unknown number of Canadians unrelated to threats or to the target of the warrants and that did not fall under any of those categories.
The spy service also failed to inform the court about that programme for a decade.
CSIS said it has suspended all access to and analysis of that metadata while it determined the its next steps .
Canadian Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said on Friday that CSIS's compliance with the judgement will be supervised by Canada's security intelligence review committee.
Opposition New Democrat MP Murray Rankin called the retention of the metadata "a gross abuse of power and an unjustifiable intrusion into the privacy of Canadians" and said that Canadian spy agencies lacked oversight.
Canada is currently reviewing its national security laws and framework.
The court judgment added to an ongoing debate in Canada over police powers, press freedom and privacy following revelations that Quebec police had spied on at least seven journalists.
Quebec announced it will hold an inquiry into the surveillance of journalists by police forces in the province.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the surveillance "troubling" and said nothing similar was happening at the federal police force level.
Two of the province's police forces admitted they had obtained court warrants to monitor phones owned by journalists in order to track sources linked to leaks.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden spoke out on the revelations, calling police actions a "radical attack on the operations of the free press".
India Chipchase, 20, was found dead at Edward Tenniswood's home in Stanley Road, Northampton, on 31 January.
Mr Tenniswood, 52, denies the charges.
He told Birmingham Crown Court that he inadvertently throttled Miss Chipchase through "inexperience and incompetence".
Mr Tenniswood told the court: "I, in my over-eagerness to please her, either sustained the pressure just too long or just gripped too tightly."
He added: "Without the guidance of her hands - and I was eager to please - obviously I sustained the pressure too long and that obviously caused the death, in retrospect."
He claimed he failed to notice the part-time barmaid's body was lifeless despite refastening her bra and reclothing her, while wearing surgical-style latex gloves, before leaving his victim alone.
Mr Tenniswood is said to have approached Miss Chipchase outside Northampton's NB's nightclub before taking her in a taxi back to his house.
The court has already heard that instead of raising the alarm, he went out to buy a kebab and spent 22 hours drinking lager in an Ibis hotel until police arrested him.
During cross examination, prosecutor Christopher Donnellan QC put it to Mr Tenniswood: "You were kneeling either side of her. You managed to get her trousers down and then you raped her?"
Mr Tenniswood replied: "No, no, 100% no."
The prosecutor then asked how the defendant failed to notice Miss Chipchase was probably dead when he redressed her.
He replied: "She was just floppy as I expected her to be in a semi-comatose state."
He added: "Now you mention it, the paleness of the skin. I guess that would be the reason I was thinking something clearly wasn't right."
The trial continues.
The Mass Automated Cycle Hire (Mach) scheme is also running at six temporary sites at Commonwealth Games venues.
Bike hire is on a membership or casual basis. Casual hire costs £1 per half hour capped at £10 for up to 24 hours.
Each bike has a four-digit code chain lock, a saddle with a theft protection device and GPS fitted to assist in locating any stolen cycles.
Annual membership costs £60 with hire free for the first 30 minutes and £1 an hour capped at £5 for up to 24 hours.
Customers are able to register online as a member or as a casual, or by telephone.
Temporary Games locations:
Once registered, they are provided with a login username, membership and personal identification number.
Annual subscribers are provided with a radio frequency identification card which can be swiped over the cycle's on-board computer sensor to speed up the hire process.
The scheme, which was launched by Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson and, allows as many as four bikes to be hired on one card.
Councillor Matheson said: "We have studied similar schemes across the world to ensure we give the people of Glasgow, and visitors, a cycle hire scheme that meets their needs and compliments their lifestyles.
"Hiring of the cycles will be quick, easy and user-friendly. The operation of the scheme will be made efficient through the use of tried and trusted technology, such as mobile phones.
"The scheme will play a key role in driving forward Sustainable Glasgow as it will lead to a reduction in carbon emissions, leading to an improvement in air quality and will give people ready access to a healthy method of travel."
Mr Matheson said the council's long-term aim was to "see cycling as the biggest participation activity in the city by 2020".
He added: "This is the latest step, in addition to the millions of pounds we're investing on cycle routes across the city, to making Glasgow one of the UK's most cycling friendly cities."
The scheme allows local businesses to sign up for a corporate membership to allow staff or customers access to the bikes for free.
The service is aimed at organisations looking to improve their green credentials, promote active transport and reduce use of cars for short, frequent journeys.
The Mach scheme is being run by NextBike, which operates 15,000 bikes in 80 city locations worldwide.
Glasgow Bike Station, the charity advocating mental and physical health through cycling as a means of transport, has won the contract to carry out all bike maintenance.
The visitors took the lead through Cody McDonald's clever dinked finish following a great ball from Doug Loft.
Bradley Dack then doubled the Gills' lead from the penalty spot before Kieron Morris's 25-yard drive and Milan Lalkovic's tap-in levelled proceedings.
Jason Demetriou's smashed effort in injury time completed the comeback win for the Saddlers.
The result means Gillingham's six-game unbeaten run in the league is over and they drop to third in the table whilst Walsall move up to first having won for the ninth time this season.
Walsall manager Dean Smith told BBC WM:
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"Yes, it was a lot of fun, it wasn't fun after 25 minutes when they went 2-0 up!
"I thought it was a really entertaining game, a great game of football for League One, two good teams trying to get the win.
"I was disappointed with the goals we conceded, because we made a couple of mistakes there which we don't normally do.
"But the character the players have shown to come back from that and get the result is fantastic for them."
It's a battle that Greg Stewart, executive director of the Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential library in Biloxi, has fought before. And it's one he's convinced the defenders of the flag that has flown over Mississippi for more than 100 years will win again.
Sitting inside a massive, million-dollar monument to Southern history - built on the post Civil War home of the Confederate president with federal disaster relief funds provided after 2005's Hurricane Katrina - Stewart explains that Mississippi is most definitely not South Carolina.
If the national media and liberal agitators think his state is going to be quick to follow suit and renounce its Confederate heritage, he says, they're mistaken.
According to Stewart, "the stars all lined up" in South Carolina. A tragic event combined with national Republicans who wanted to defuse the debate over the Confederate flag before the South Carolina presidential primary next February.
"They are desperate to get the flag issue off the table before the presidential hopefuls have to show up and face those questions," he said.
Stewart already bears the political battle scars from a 2001 fight to prevent what he saw as a pending back-room deal to change the flag. He pushed for Mississippi to hold a public vote on the issue - and when they did, they opted by a nearly two-to-one margin to make no change.
At that point Stewart thought the issue was settled. And it seemed to be - until Charleston.
Given the events of the past week, it now appears as if a tidal wave of public opinion about the Confederacy and the place of Confederate imagery in modern society is sweeping across the South.
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has publicly called for the Confederate flag to be removed from her statehouse grounds. Legislative action making her recommendation a reality is likely only a matter of time.
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe announced his state would stop issuing licence plates with the rebel flag on it. Mega-retailers Walmart, Sears and Amazon.com are halting the sale of flag-themed merchandise. Online auction website eBay will no longer list Confederate flags - and the same goes for the craft site Etsy.
It was only a matter of a few hours, minutes even, after Ms Haley announced her support for removal of the flag that attention turned to Mississippi.
"This is not a horribly offensive relic of history that flies on/near state buildings," tweeted Mother Jones editor Clara Jeffrey. "It is the actual flag of the state of Mississippi."
Jennifer Gunter, a Mississippi native who now lives in South Carolina, started a moveon.org petition calling for state officials "to change the flag of Mississippi to reflect the present, not the past". It received more than 18,000 signatures.
Philip Gunn, the Republican speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, also came out firmly in favour of change.
"We must always remember our past, but that does not mean we must let it define us," he said in a statement. "As a Christian, I believe our state's flag has become a point of offence that needs to be removed."
According to Stewart, however, Mr Gunn will soon be isolated among state leaders.
"Gunn has made a huge mistake," he said. "He was not here in 2000. The woods are on fire."
He says he sees the same look in the eyes of country-dwelling Mississippians angry about changes to the flag that he saw back then.
"If you do something to them that really bothers them, they will climb off that tractor and come into the town and vote," he adds.
Early evidence from other Republican leaders seems to bear this out.
The governor, Republican Phil Bryant, pointed to the flag referendum in his only public comments so far.
"A vast majority of Mississippians voted to keep the state's flag, and I don't believe the Mississippi Legislature will act to supersede the will of the people on this issue," he told a local television station.
Another state legislator, Melanie Soujourner, wrote on her Facebook page that calls to take down the flag in South Carolina are what's wrong with US society.
"The flag was no more the 'source' of horrible acts against mankind than a gun is the 'source' of someone's death," she wrote. "We all have a responsibility to make certain that it is the 'source' we address and not place blame on something that alone could do no harm."
Then again, many South Carolina politicians were saying the same thing in the days just after the Charleston shooting. Could the ground shift in Mississippi equally quickly?
Even within the walls of the Jefferson Davis museum, visitors gave a mixed reaction to the flag issue.
"You have to be proud of the state where you're from, and that's part of their history," said Elizabeth Hahs, visiting from Missouri. "I think it's a good representation of what the state's gone through and been through."
Kim Sine of Wymer, Texas disagreed.
"I think they need to take it down," she said. "Put it in a museum. Quit flying it around and causing trouble."
Just a few miles away, outside a local Walmart - now devoid of Confederate merchandise - feelings were similarly divided.
"It's like the shooting in Ferguson had nothing to do with racism, but they made it a racist thing," said Rick, a Biloxi resident who declined to give his last name. "The shooting in South Carolina was purely racist, but it had nothing to do with the Confederate flag."
"It's time to take it down," said Effie Hudson Barrett, a local Mississippian who asserts she is a "black American", not an "African-American". "The flag has always been against us. The 50 stars on the US flag is the only thing that should represent us."
At a tattoo parlour down the street, artist Travis Wade says he's probably drawn hundreds of Confederate flag tattoos - and he wouldn't be surprised if he sees an uptick in business from those willing to push back against the criticisms. "We're in the South, after all."
Personally, he says, he doesn't know what the big deal is.
"Who cares?" he asks. "It's like somebody shoots someone with a gun and they want to ban guns. Somebody that did something bad likes a flag, but that doesn't mean that everybody who likes that flag is bad."
Fellow employee Tom Donovan adds that if any patrons want to get their old flag tattoos covered up, they can do that too.
"Something dark that will cover the colours - like a black panther or a grim reaper," he says.
It doesn't seem likely that the Mississippians who cherish their Confederate past are going to be quick to renounce it, however. As Stewart explains, to do so means turning their backs on their ancestors.
"Implicit in the argument that the flag represents evil is for me to have to say, yeah, you're right, my people were evil," he says. "And that's just not true."
A short walk away from the Jefferson Davis museum is a graveyard filled with tombstones of Confederate war veterans. Many lived out their final days on Davis's estate, which was converted to an old soldier's home following his death.
Fresh Confederate flags are scattered among the headstones, which bear the names and military ranks of those interred beneath the ground.
It's been more than 150 years since Robert E Lee, the general who led these men into battle, laid down his sword at a courthouse in Appomattox, Virginia.
But in Mississippi, the echoes of the war have yet to fade.
Called "Two States - One Homeland", the group, led by Israeli journalist Meron Rapoport and Palestinian politician Awni Almashni, is advocating the creation of an Israeli-Palestinian confederation.
They say that their plan, now picking up public and official backing, can solve the difficult issues - Israeli settlements, the right of return for Palestinian refugees, and the fate of Jerusalem - that have scuttled past negotiations.
The "clinical death" of the Oslo Peace process, inaugurated by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 1993, and increasing violence "bring fertile ground for new ideas," said Mr Rapoport, a veteran journalist based in Tel Aviv.
The new proposal can succeed because "it reflects reality and the deep desires of both sides", he says.
The Two States - One Homeland plan resembles the familiar two-state solution in that it calls for the creation of an independent state of Palestine in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, beside Israel, along the pre-1967 boundaries.
These two states, however, would not be entirely separate. They would deal jointly with security, the economy, and infrastructure, and would be equally subject to a supreme court of human rights. Jerusalem would serve as a shared capital.
The plan also envisions a separation of citizenship and residency meant to satisfy the historical and spiritual connection both Jews and Palestinians feel to the entire Holy Land.
Like the similar system in the European Union, citizens of one country would be free to reside in the territory of the other and live under its laws.
Jewish settlers could remain in the West Bank, the heartland of the Bible, just as Palestinian refugees from the 1948 Middle East war, who would be granted citizenship in the Palestinian state, could return to live in their former communities (though not in their original homes).
Two States - One Homeland now counts more than 100 Palestinian public figures as supporters, and Mr Almashni says it is making inroads among the leadership of the Palestinian Authority.
The Israeli side, while also engaging with politicians, is taking a more grassroots approach. According to Meron Rapoport, over the past six months the group has held nearly weekly home meetings with Israelis from across the country's political spectrum.
It has garnered thousands of followers on social media and enlisted scores of volunteers.
The group has also encountered opposition. Its inaugural public conference last June was moved from the Palestinian city of Beit Jala to nearby Jerusalem after Palestinian supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement threatened to disrupt the gathering.
While opponents claim that any co-operation with Israelis is tantamount to normalising the occupation, Mr Almashni, himself the child of refugees, disagrees.
"Normalisation means living with the occupation, but this relationship with Israelis is proposing the end of occupation," said the long-time Fatah party member.
A crucial element of the initiative is its attempt to cut across calcified political divisions between left and right within Israeli society.
"Today, what is called the 'peace camp' talks only to itself. It sees settlers and the entire right-wing as a kind of enemy," said Mr Rapoport, noting that this strategy has only resulted in failure.
Instead, Two States - One Homeland is actively reaching out to settlers for support.
Bar Ilan University political scientist Menachem Klein, a veteran of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, is more sceptical.
Not only is the initiative less detailed and enjoys less international support than the two-state solution, he said, but the idea of allowing Jewish settlers to remain in the West Bank in return for letting Palestinian refugees settle in Israel is unpopular.
The settlements are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this. UN General Assembly resolutions, meanwhile, endorse a Palestinian right of return.
"For the Palestinian public it is difficult to accept this exchange," he added. "It's hard for me to accept it."
Mr Almashni, while not legitimising the settlements, is pragmatic.
"The Palestinians have already accepted the two-state solution, which does not include the return of refugees. This project proposes the return of refugees. It's not completely just, but it's more just."
Samuel Thrope is an American journalist and translator based in Jerusalem. His translation of Jalal Al-e Ahmad's The Israeli Republic was published in 2013.
The combined budget for the two events was £9.29bn, but the cost has been revised to £8.77bn.
It is an increase in savings of £151m since the last update in October, with a drop in policing and other security, transport and construction expenses.
Sports minister Hugh Robertson said: "It is testament to the sound financial management of all involved."
The figures were revealed in an update to Parliament in a written statement from the Minister for Sport Robertson following organising committee Locog publishing their final report and accounts in May.
The original budget was set in 2007 and was almost four times the estimated cost at the time London bid in 2005.
It was revised upwards after taking into account previously overlooked costs such as VAT, increased security costs, and an expanded brief to regenerate the lower Lea Valley area.
Robertson added: "As the one year anniversary of staging the London 2012 Games approaches we can look back on last summer as a nation with a real sense of pride and be encouraged by the progress made over the last 12 months in delivering a lasting legacy.
"The transformation of the Olympic Park is well under way, with the long term future of all eight major venues secured and first residents moving into the Olympic Village in the summer."
The Olympic Development Agency is now transforming the apartments in the Olympic Village into thousands of new homes, removing partitions and fitting kitchens.
It is due to be completed in time for occupation later in the summer and the entire project is to be completed in 2014.
Temporary Games venues are also being returned to their previous use and owners.
Nick Medlin, 57, died from a head injury outside a pub in Pier Street, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, during a night out.
Michael Hudson, 32, from the Nottingham area but of no fixed address, appeared at Winchester Crown Court.
He was remanded in custody ahead of a trial, scheduled to last two weeks from 26 June.
Mr Medlin, a father-of-two from Ventnor, worked at HMP Parkhurst and played bass in a punk band called Manufactured Romance.
Duncan Scott won gold in the 4x200m relay, with compatriot Stephen Milne, and silver in the 4x100m medley relay, alongside fellow Scot Ross Murdoch, at the World Championships in Budapest.
Wilkie believes they need to win more than team events though.
"You've got to produce and perform at the highest level individually to get the recognition in sport," Wilkie said.
"When you swim in a relay, it's a lot easier. You've got three other guys taking the pressure off you, so the performances tend to be a lot better in the relay because you don't feel that pressure.
"It requires just a little bit harder work. I know they're all probably working their socks off right now, but they've got the Olympic Games in three years in Tokyo.
"They know what it takes, they've just swum with the best in the world and they should be looking at the times that the best in the world are doing and gearing their training programme to that."
Wilkie believes Scottish swimming "can go from strength to strength" and that "the investment over the years has paid off".
There were six Scots in the Great Britain team at the World Championships and Wilkie believes that can be a platform for success at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games next year and then the Tokyo Olympics.
"Talent is the most important thing," Wilkie said: "Hard work is just not enough on its own.
"Anybody who can swim in a relay and win a silver medal and can make the final of an event at the world championship is certainly going to [have] some talent there. It might just need fine-tuning.
"Mental toughness helps a lot too. So mental toughness, talent, hard work, good coaching - if you can get that combination right, there's no reason to say why those guys shouldn't [win a] medal in three years' time.
"We always do well at the Commonwealths. We had a great 2014 in Glasgow. It's measured in medals.
"We're in a good position. We had six Scottish swimmers in the team at the world championships and we should have at least six going to the European championships, maybe even more.
"So, in terms of how we've done in medals, it looks pretty rosy, but we didn't get an individual medal.
"I was really expecting Ross Murdoch to get an individual medal in the 200m. He was beaten by a good Russian and two good Japanese swimmers, but in terms of the Europeans, Ross must be looking to get a medal there and the relay boys will probably do really well in that."
On Tuesday, the Qatar News Agency (QNA) quoted Sheikh Tamim Al Thani as telling a military ceremony that Iran was an "Islamic power that cannot be ignored".
The government said the agency had been hacked by an "unknown entity" and that the story had "no basis whatsoever".
However, the quotes were reported across the region and caused a stir.
Saudi Arabia's Okaz newspaper accused Qatar of "breaking ranks" and choosing to "side with the enemies of the nation", while the website of the Doha-based Al Jazeera network was blocked in the United Arab Emirates.
Ties between Qatar and its Gulf Arab neighbours have been strained in recent years by the emirate's support of Islamist groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, and its funding of Al Jazeera, which they see as being overly critical.
The report on the QNA's website said Sheikh Tamim had told the military ceremony that Qatar had "tensions" with the administration of US President Donald Trump, who on Sunday urged Arab and Muslim leaders to "work together to isolate Iran".
The emir was quoted as saying that there was "no wisdom in harbouring hostility toward Iran" and that it was a "big power in the stabilisation of the region".
He was also reported to have described relations with Israel as "good" and called Hamas the "legitimate representative of the Palestinian people".
State television's nightly news bulletin showed pictures of the ceremony and included lines from the QNA report in the ticker at the bottom of the screen.
On Wednesday, Government Communications Office director said the QNA website "has been hacked by an unknown entity" and "a false statement attributed to His Highness the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has been published".
"The statement published has no basis whatsoever, and the competent authorities in the State of Qatar will hold all those [involved] accountable."
Qatar's foreign ministry meanwhile denied that its ambassadors to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain and the UAE were being withdrawn.
A series of posts on the QNA's Twitter feed cited Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani as saying a plot to "discredit" the country had been uncovered. The ministry said the remarks were "fabricated" by hackers.
Elfyn Llwyd asks if it was appropriate that Nikki Holland was given the job while a report into an investigation she led has not yet been published.
It looked at South Wales Police's role in one of Britain's worst miscarriages of justice.
The force said her work on it ended two years before she applied for the post.
Three men from Cardiff spent a decade in jail after being wrongly convicted of killing newsagent Phillip Saunders in the Canton area of the city in 1987.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) set-up Operation Resolute in 2010 in response to claims from one of the wrongly convicted men that evidence was fabricated by a South Wales Police officer.
A year later, Nikki Holland, then a detective superintendent with Merseyside Police, was selected by the IPCC to take over the investigation, which has now been completed.
Control over publication of the operation's report lies with South Wales Police.
In February, the force said it would publish the report "in as much detail as possible" once it had been signed off by the IPCC.
It will be submitted for sign-off in the next few weeks.
Plaid Cymru MP Mr Llwyd said appointing Ms Holland as assistant chief constable before publishing the report was a "curious situation" that requires explanation.
He says he is writing to the Home Secretary to ask whether Ms Holland's appointment was appropriate.
He said there was "something odd" that a person who led a very far-reaching and important report into a miscarriage of justice by South Wales Police suddenly becomes one of its most senior officers before its publication.
"Secondly, I've asked the Home Secretary...to ensure the report is published fully and urgently or alternatively that she can explain fully and urgently what is the true reason for any further delay," he said.
In 2009, Ms Holland was promoted to superintendent at Merseyside Police and later began working on overseeing the operation.
South Wales Police deputy chief constable Matt Jukes said: "Following a thorough and robust investigation, this work was completed in April 2012 around two years before Ms Holland applied for her current position".
Newsagent Mr Saunders died after being hit over the head and robbed outside his home.
Three men - Michael O'Brien who was then 20, and Ellis Sherwood and Darren Hall who were 19 - were convicted of his murder in 1988.
They spent 11 years in prison until their convictions were overturned by the Court of Appeal.
Appeal judges ruled that a confession by Darren Hall was unreliable because he suffered from a personality disorder.
Mr O'Brien has always insisted the prosecution was malicious and claimed that evidence was fabricated by a police officer, who is now retired.
South Wales Police has always insisted that all officers on the investigation acted in good faith.
Following requests from BBC Wales to see the Operation Resolute report, South Wales Police Chief Constable Peter Vaughan said in February it was essential there was transparency.
"South Wales Police prides itself on being an open and transparent organisation and it remains our intention to publish this report in as much detail as possible," he said.
Three universities remain closed, with students demanding free quality education for all.
The protests started last week when university management announced a 10-12% increase in fees.
They have been the biggest student protests to hit the country since apartheid ended in 1994.
Wits University in Johannesburg, where the protests began, the University of Cape Town and the University of Western Cape remain closed.
The BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg reports that students say a number of their other demands have been overlooked. These include racism at the country's previously white institutions and free education for the poor.
The students are also demanding that exams, which they are due to take this week, be postponed indefinitely.
The government had expected an end to protests after President Jacob Zuma agreed to a 0% increase on tuition fees.
But the continued protests should not come as a surprise. During the nationwide demonstrations, it became clear that the protests were not just about fees but also often unaddressed challenges in South Africa, including racial inequality.
Many here say they are still feeling the effects of apartheid, despite its collapse more than 20 years ago, and feel the government is failing to rectifying this.
"Our parents were made promises in 1994. We're just here for the refund" reads one of their most popular placards.
And it seems this group want all or nothing.
Education is one area where students say it is most evident that the playing field is not level between black and white people.
They want the government to honour the promises it made when it took power in 1994, one of which was free education for all. They believe this will help them out break the cycle of poverty and unemployment.
Last week police used stun grenades and water cannon to stop a group of students breaking into government buildings in Pretoria.
Universities had said they needed to increase fees to maintain standards, and that they had been hit by a reduction in government subsidies.
President Jacob Zuma agreed to provide more government money for universities in a private meeting with student representatives and university management on Friday.
In that meeting the government said it did not know how much they would pay or where the money would come from, one of the attendees Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, Max Price, told the BBC.
Mr Zuma then announced on TV that the fee increased would be frozen.
But some students continued protesting, angry that Mr Zuma spoke on TV, rather than speaking to the crowds directly.
On Sunday, Wits students resolved to carry on protesting.
Dawn Nisbet, 41, from Oldham, finished last in the 5km run 10 minutes behind the other runners.
She said she has been "blown away" by the messages she has received since the image was posted on social media.
She now wants to run 500km (311 miles), set up a blog and raise money for charity as a "legacy to my story".
Ms Nisbet, an NHS business manager, said the response to her photo had been "absolutely phenomenal".
She said: "I'm just ordinary. I'm a wife and mum-of-two.
"So many women, and some men too, have thanked me for inspiring them and asked me to keep them up-to-date with the story."
Ms Nisbet said her first thought on seeing the image was "how embarrassing" because "I'm a big girl" and "there are lots of jiggly bits, sweat, and no make-up in that picture".
But the 41-year-old, who was inactive for "about 17 years", said she now felt proud as it captured her "sense of achievement" at her sixth Parkrun.
She said she now wants to put her story to good use. She is aiming to run 500km this year and is writing a blog to keep her new followers up-to-date with what she is calling #2017dawnsyear.
Ms Nisbet said she would not have wanted to be seen in public in her exercise gear before but "now I'm running through the streets of Manchester".
She is also joining up with Alzheimer's Research UK to raise money and awareness.
Ms Nisbet said: "It is a charity close to my heart as I lost my grandma Molly to Alzheimer's."
Rebhorn, 65, who had skin cancer, died at his home in South Orange, New Jersey, his agent Dianne Busch said.
His career spanned five decades and saw him appear in TV shows including The Good Wife and 30 Rock and films such as Meet the Parents, My Cousin Vinny, Carlito's Way and Basic Instinct.
Diagnosed with melanoma in 1992, he continued working until last month.
His agent told The Hollywood Reporter: "He fought it all this time.
"He died [on] Friday afternoon at his home in New Jersey, where he had been receiving hospice care for a week and a half."
Rebhorn had more than 100 screen credits, one of the most recent being for Homeland, in which he played Frank Mathison, the father of Claire Danes' CIA officer Carrie Mathison.
His films included The Talented Mr Ripley, in which he played a shipping magnate, plus Meet the Parents and The Game.
Rebhorn often played authority figures, including the headmaster in 1992's Scent of a Woman and the US secretary of defence in the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day.
The Philadelphia-born actor also worked on stage, with theatre roles including Broadway productions of 12 Angry Men and Our Town.
Tributes have been paid to the prolific character actor.
Actor Jason Alexander, who played George Costanza in the long-running US sitcom Seinfeld, tweeted: "RIP James Rebhorn, a lovely man and a terrific actor."
Rebhorn played a district attorney in the show's last ever episode.
Actor Tom Arnold wrote on Twitter: "RIP. This actor was amazing. You didn't know him but trust me, you knew him."
Director Roland Emmerich, who worked with him on Independence Day, tweeted: "It's a sad day. I just learned James Rebhorn passed. Such a great talent and always a joy to work with. RIP."
Donnie Darko writer Richard Kelly tweeted: "I loved working with the great James Rebhorn on The Box. He was one of our most reliable and underrated character actors. RIP."
Actress Frances Fisher wrote: "Shocked and saddened to hear of James Rebhorn's passing. Jim was a consummate actor with whom I had the pleasure to work when we were young."
Comedian Mike Birbiglia who worked with Rebhorn on 2012's Sleep Walk with Me tweeted: "So sad to hear about the passing of James Rebhorn. He played my dad in Sleepwalk With Me. I feel so lucky to have known such a great person."
Rebhorn is survived by his wife Rebecca Linn and two daughters.
Labour retained majorities in Newcastle, Sunderland, Gateshead and North and South Tyneside.
In Cumbria, the Liberal Democrats came out on top in South Lakeland again while the Conservatives took control of Eden Valley for the first time.
On Teesside, control of Redcar and Cleveland Council will be decided by a recount on Monday.
Thirty seats are needed for a majority with Labour currently holding 27 and opposition parties a combined 29.
A recount will be held for the Skelton ward, which has three seats.
Elsewhere on Teesside, Labour held Darlington and Hartlepool, and became the biggest party in Stockton where there was previously no party in overall control.
Following a drawn-out count for the post of Middlesbrough's elected mayor, the council had still to declare the results of some wards at 21:45 BST.
It was due to announce the results on its website.
In Cumbria, Labour retained its position as the largest party in Copeland and also held Barrow and Carlisle.
There was no change in Allerdale where no party is in overall control. Labour has 28 of the 56 seats.
On the Australia Day long weekend, I did something more traditionally Aussie than snags [sausages] on the barbie or sunburn on the beach. I tanned a kangaroo hide.
It was only after I had mentioned it casually to a friend on Facebook who replied "Ba ha ha - what a message!" that I remembered hide tanning was not your usual backyard hobby.
Nor was it mine, until 2010 when I embarked on a year-long Independent Wilderness Studies Program, living off the land in a forest on the north coast of New South Wales.
The experience quickly dispelled any romantic notions of wild living. I remember one night, my palms bleeding from fire-lighting blisters, standing under a shelter with rain pouring in and wondering what I was doing.
But overall I loved it. The rawness and physicality of living outdoors, the intimacy with the elements, and the time to just wander without time or destination.
Alongside a curriculum of matchless fire-making, shelter building, hunting and gathering, primitive pottery and bird language, I learned the art of "brain tanning".
Every animal, so I'm told, has enough brains to tan its own hide, the fats and chemicals contained within being the alchemical ingredient to turn skin into suede.
I still struggle to imagine by what experimental process this equation was first discovered, but the proof is smooth against my own skin on the occasions I don my matching hide skirt, top and bag.
On Australia Day, it's been a year or so since my last tanning effort, and I'm a little daunted as I rescue my 'roo hide from the lime bath it has been soaking in and fling it onto the fleshing beam which is used to scrape off flesh and skin.
With the hair half falling out, it's hard to connect the object in front of me to the animal I scooped off the side of a road in far north Queensland last winter.
During the "bush year", roadkill roo provided me with a regular source of food, as well as leather. I didn't eat this one but salted and dried the hide for safe keeping.
My tanning companion is Michelle Yang, who is working on a deer hide from a nearby venison farm. She emerges from the kitchen with a bucket of what appears to be strawberry milkshake. Submerging her hands and the hide within it, Michelle looks up at me with a grin.
"I'm fine with the ick factor now, but the first time I saw brains being mushed up for tanning I almost upchucked," she says.
My shoulders soon remember the arduous process of turning stinky skin into leather. Into the night I lean my weight against the beam, and painstakingly scrape off layers of snotty epidermis until the matrix of small fibres underneath appear, each patch as unique as a fingerprint.
Looking closer I'm struck again by how incredible skin really is - thin, flexible, water wicking and so strong.
Michelle is several steps ahead of me, working the deer's skin with practiced fingers. She turned her suburban Melbourne backyard into a traditional tannery after learning the skill during a visit to the US. She works with rabbits too.
It's a passion that's turned into a business. Michelle ran her first Backyard Buckskin course this year.
"I just love the craft of it, the re-learning of what used to be such a part of indigenous life," she says.
"I also love that I'm making use of something that would be otherwise thrown out, and turning it into beautiful, durable clothing that I can also throw in the washing machine."
Michelle is not the only hide-tanner of my acquaintance. She's part of a loose east coast collective who gather occasionally to practise these and other "earth" skills.
Among them is Dan White, a life coach from northern NSW who picks up carcasses of wallabies near his home to feed both his dogs and his penchant for hides.
"If anyone took a look in the back of my van and saw plastic bags, knives, and rope they might be a bit worried," Dan says.
With a house adorned with "chicken bits, possum handbags, roo hides, wings and bones", Dan seems to loves the shock value it provides his guests.
"People think I'm a fruit loop, but then when I explain to them why I do it they get it," he says.
"Rather than about death I'm cherishing the life of these animals, it makes me feel closer to them. What's not normal to me is buying meat wrapped in plastic at the shop."
I feel that same sense of closeness to the roo on Australia Day, although the holes I'm accidentally scraping are making it look more like Swiss cheese than a potential pair of shoes.
My hide emerges from the brain bath like a cross between chamois, modelling clay and a rubber mat. Rain dampens our plans to soften and smoke the hides (another long and tiring process), so I return mine to the freezer until a later date.
Perhaps I'll make it an Australia Day ritual, an honouring of a lost art that also honours the lives of our wildlife.
Claire Dunn is a writer, rewilding facilitator and barefoot explorer. She is the author of My Year Without Matches: Escaping the City in Search of the Wild.
The man, who was in his 40s, died at a property on Capgrave Crescent in Brislington in the early hours of Sunday.
The case has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission as officers had previous contact with the dead man.
Two men held on suspicion of murder remain in custody. Two women who were arrested have been released on bail.
The victim had been seriously assaulted and had serious head injuries.
It is not known if he was alive when he was set on fire.
The dead man - who has not been named - had been questioned by officers on Friday on suspicion of breach of the peace.
He was released without charge later that evening and returned to his home in the Brislington area of the city.
Avon and Somerset Police have categorically denied claims in the community that the man had been arrested over alleged paedophile activity.
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Willett's wife Nicole had been due to give birth on Sunday, but Zachariah James Willett arrived 12 days early on 30 March to allow him to play.
"My wife was born 28 years ago on Monday and my son came early," said Willett, who won by three shots after Jordan Spieth's dramatic capitulation.
"You talk about fate and everything that comes with it. It's been crazy."
The 28-year-old took advantage of defending champion Spieth dropping six shots in three holes to win his first major on five under.
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He became the first European winner since Spaniard Jose Maria Olazabal in 1999, and the fourth British champion after Nick Faldo (1989, 1990, 1996), Sandy Lyle (1988) and Ian Woosnam (1991).
American Spieth, who was seeking back-to-back Green Jackets, finished tied for second alongside Willett's compatriot and playing partner Lee Westwood on two under.
"On this rare occasion I'm nearly speechless," added Willett, who moves up to ninth in the world rankings. "It's been a fantastic week on and off the golf course.
"It's been one of those crazy weeks where things seem to go your way. The 80th Masters is always going to be special and dear to my heart.
"People were saying 'Try to bring the Green Jacket home for the little man'. It's a bit big but I am sure he will grow into it."
"You can't really describe the emotions and feelings," added Willett, who started the day on level par.
"We all try to play good golf and someone has to win and fortunately today it was my day.
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"Every time we seemed to make ground, Jordan kept pulling ahead. We kept trying to dig in. I thought we had to get to seven under and we looked up and Jordan was already seven.
"It was a very surreal day when you look back at the ebbs and flows."
"This isn't a shock win, Danny Willett has been playing great for two years now. Gave Rory a run for his money in Race To Dubai last year." - England's former world number one Luke Donald.
"Danny Willett well done that man.... And a new baby that was due today... The name Augusta sounds pretty good." - Ryder Cup star Ian Poulter, who finished in a tie for 49th.
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"Congrats Danny Willett incredible stuff enjoy all that's coming your way you deserve it all." - Scotland's 1999 Open winner Paul Lawrie.
"Tears in this household Danny Willett. You little beauty." - Former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan.
"Enjoy tonight Danny Willett get down the local in your Green Jacket when you're home for a pint of mild." - Yorkshire and England bowler Tim Bresnan.
"Not often we've been able to say it but an Englishman is Masters champion. Congratulations Danny Willett." - Former England striker Michael Owen.
"What a round by Danny Willett! Always good to see an English winner! Masters champion!" - Tottenham and England striker Harry Kane.
"And now Jordan has to give him the jacket? Brutal." - British tennis player Laura Robson.
Peter Ball, who coached Willett between the ages of 12 and 16, told Radio 5 live: "I had my heart in my mouth watching him, wishing every putt in.
"It is amazing, I'm so proud of the young man. He was one of a number of young people who turned up, but he wanted to practise more and his drive and determination was amazing.
"We went down to the Ryder Cup and Danny was on the bus with me and we went on the practice area to meet some of the players and he said 'I would like to be here one day' and he is here. Absolutely amazing."
James Hobbs, Willett's coach at Jacksonville State University, said: "He came at 17, he was an immature young man and we got him playing competitive golf and introduced him to fitness and working out to build his strength.
"We gave him a great course to practise on and basically Danny will agree it was a platform where he could launch his golf career."
Nine of the 25 most prolific openers in Test cricket history are English - more than any other nation.
Six of those nine were fixtures in the side, so much so that in the 51 years since Geoffrey Boycott made his debut in 1964, at least one of Boycott, Graham Gooch, Mike Atherton, Marcus Trescothick, Andrew Strauss or Alastair Cook has opened in 79% (442) of England's 561 Tests.
But that lineage appears, for now at least, to be in danger of dying out with Cook.
Since Strauss retired in 2012, Cook has gone through seven different partners, with Alex Hales set to become the eighth in the first Test against South Africa starting on 26 December.
How have England, the home of technically correct, gritty, sell-your-grandma-before-you-sell-your-wicket openers - raised against the moving ball on pitches greener than a snooker table - found themselves in such a state of flux at the top of the order?
Cook's seven partners in the post-Strauss era have been Nick Compton, Joe Root, Michael Carberry, Sam Robson, Jonathan Trott, Adam Lyth and Moeen Ali.
They could be divided broadly into four categories: the disastrous experiments (Trott and Moeen), the mistakenly promoted (Root), the faded early promise (Robson and Lyth) and the arguably hard-done-by (Compton and Carberry).
The nine matches given to Compton are the most any of Strauss' successors have managed at the top of England's order. Is that really long enough to feel at home opening the batting in Test cricket?
"It takes a while for the person to get used to that role," said former England captain Alec Stewart, who would have been higher than 11th on the list of run-scorers among English openers had he not been given the wicketkeeping gloves for 82 of his 133 Tests.
"It needs the selectors to be brave enough to stick with the person who they think is the answer. If you're always searching after four or five games, you will always be looking."
The statistics also suggest that England have been too eager to hit the eject button.
In the period between Strauss retiring and 30 November this year, England's average opening partnership was 35.42, better than all but Australia, India and Bangladesh.
It is also only five runs fewer than Cook and Strauss - opening partners when England rose to the top of the world rankings - averaged together.
"You could say the selectors have bought it upon themselves," added Stewart.
"If you are leaving people out after just a handful of games, the selectors are saying they have made an error in who they selected.
"Should they have given that person more time or should they not have picked that person in the first place?"
If most of the seven players tried post-Strauss hinted at having the tools to open long-term, it can also be argued the selectors were not totally mistaken.
Talent has been identified and, in most cases, flourished early on. Then, for various reasons, the promise has petered out to the point at which each man had to be removed.
Trott retired, Moeen is likely to return to number eight and Root is an anomaly in that he still averaged 37 opening the batting despite appearing much less comfortable than in the middle order.
Robson and Lyth both showed weakness around off stump, Compton somehow became both shotless and frenetic, while Carberry also gradually retreated into his shell, before becoming a victim of the post-Ashes whitewash clear-out.
Speaking in April 2014, three months after his last Test match, Carberry, who went on to play only one more one-day international and one more Twenty20 game for England, said he had not heard from the selectors.
"It's disappointing but it's the way they tend to do things," said the Hampshire left-hander. "I don't think it's me alone saying this sort of thing. There have been players before me and players now who have felt the same thing."
Is Carberry the exception, or the rule? Is a dropped player given the advice he needs to succeed at Test cricket?
"A lot of the players we've tried haven't got the defensive technique," said BBC Test Match Special summariser Boycott. "But have we done anything to improve them?
"Have we done anything to help them? Have we shown them all the details of how they've played? Has anyone sat them down and gone through it?"
Any assumption that the inability to find a Test-quality opener is because top-order batsmen are not pulling their weight in county cricket would be incorrect - the percentage of runs scored by openers in the County Championship has held steady around 25% every year since 2000.
However, the type of first-class cricket played in England could be a hindrance to would-be international openers. As for why, that depends who you believe.
To Boycott, pitches in the Championship are now too good. Scoring is too easy and not conducive to honing a technique that will succeed at the highest level.
"The County Championship isn't as strong as it used to be," said Boycott. "Pitches are flatter and better.
"They don't have to learn to play the moving ball, which means a dearth of quality opening batters when they get higher up into Test cricket."
However, Boycott's fellow Yorkshireman Michael Vaughan states the problem is the exact opposite - surfaces aren't good enough.
"Pitches do so much that 70 or 80mph wobbly bowlers run up and hit the seam and the ball goes either way," said ex-England captain Vaughan, also a TMS pundit.
"Openers see these pitches and have a dash. It inflates the value of a quickfire 30 or 40. Therefore, they haven't got the technique or the mindset of a Boycott to bat for seven hours."
It seems the England and Wales Cricket Board agrees with Vaughan. Their decision to scrap the mandatory toss in the Championship next season should, in theory, discourage home teams from producing pitches that overly favour seam bowling.
Not that any change to the Championship will help Hales with the imminent task of making his Test debut against South Africa's Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel, probably the best new-ball attack in the world.
Indeed, the decision to pick Hales - other than the fact he is simply the next cab off the rank - is an indication that the selectors have turned away from performances in county cricket and instead gone for a man who has shown flashes of brilliance in limited-overs internationals.
Though the Nottinghamshire man's career first-class average is only 38, he has hit England's only T20 international century and made his maiden ODI ton against Pakistan in November.
England are perhaps hoping Hales can become their answer to David Warner, who progressed to Tests via white-ball cricket for Australia and has been the world's outstanding Test opener since he made his debut in 2011, averaging 50.64.
"He has to play his way, the way he does at county level," said Stewart.
"But you have to be aware you get more good balls and fewer bad balls. At times the rate of scoring will change, but it's still a red ball coming down the pitch at you. You watch it and play it on its merit.
"My big thing was to remember that you're in charge. You're the boss whether you're defending or scoring. Play the way that has got you into the set-up."
England are unlikely to worry about Hales' method, just the amount of runs he scores. He will most probably get all four Tests in South Africa to claim the job of partnering Cook as his own.
If he fails, then every county opener will be alive to the possibility of playing for England in 2016. Just as they were in 2015. And 2014. And 2013.
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After comfortably winning the first set against the French qualifier, Murray made some unforced errors in the second before breaking early in the third.
The British number one faces Frenchman Benoit Paire or Portugal's Joao Sousa next as he begins his claycourt campaign before May's French Open.
British number two Aljaz Bedene plays Rafael Nadal in his second-round match.
Murray, 28, is also competing in the men's doubles, where he and partner Dom Inglot progressed to the second round by beating Pablo Cuevas and Marcel Granollers 6-3 6-4 on Monday.
The Scot and Englishman Inglot next play Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France and Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic.
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More than two decades after they first picked up a racket, both Andy, 29, and Jamie Murray, 30, will finish 2016 as world number one tennis players.
After years of hard work and sacrifice, their proud mum Judy can look back on a job well done.
And the former Strictly contestant has marked the historic occasion in the best way possible - by posting throwback pictures of her boys on Twitter.
It's fair to say Judy has form for embarrassing her kids in public. Remember when she spilled the beans on Andy's hi-jinks at rugby practice?
And she is not afraid to take to social media to share her pride in her sons' triumphs.
She tweeted "Mission accomplished" alongside this image when her youngest son finally ousted Novak Djokovic as world number one.
And when Jamie and Bruno Soares became the number one ranking doubles team, she proudly posted this snap.
But our favourite tweets from the Murrays are those which show that, despite having two world-beating tennis players in the family, they are actually very normal.
Andy's success has also prompted our team at BBC Scotland to delve into the archives.
And a television package from 2001, when he was just 14, shows mum Judy was on hand back then vowing that "anything is possible" when it comes to Scotland producing a future tennis star.
Judy Murray was not the only person to take to Twitter to celebrate Andy Murray's remarkable win at the ATP World Tour finals on Sunday. The victory over Serb Novak Djokovic cemented his position as world number one.
Some members of his backroom team also shared snaps of their victory celebrations.
Jamie Delgado, who shares coaching responsibilities with Ivan Lendl, said it had been an "incredible year" while his fitness coach Matt Little said "you get everything you deserve in life".
Among others who tweeted their support and admiration were First Minster Nicola Sturgeon and patriotic fellow Scot, and former F1 driver, David Coulthard.
Meanwhile businessman and The Apprentice star Lord Sugar led calls for a knighthood for the three times Grand Slam champion.
And BBC Scotland's Tom English considered the prospects of a viable future for tennis in Scotland.
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Michael Gibbons, of Dickens Way, Yateley, Hampshire, faces 16 counts of serious sexual offences against children under 13.
Police said the alleged offences happened at locations in north Hampshire and Berkshire from 2009 onwards.
The 26-year-old is due at Basingstoke Magistrates' Court later.
Retailers in Andover protested when the boards were removed following complaints of obstruction from members of the public.
The town's independent shops said they lost up to 25% in business as shoppers did not know of their existence.
Now a 12-month trial will see shops pay a £50 fee to reinstate their boards.
Larna Burley from Burley's Bridal said she was "over the moon" with this compromise scheme.
"It means retailers can stop worrying about the amount of business coming into their shops and concentrate on making this town a success for everybody," she said.
Retailers in the town had set up a campaign group against the sudden removal of what they regarded as crucial street advertising in February.
A petition called "stop victimising small businesses" had also been started in response to Hampshire County Council, as Andover's highways authority, serving legal notices to shops in Andover.
Councillor Sean Woodward, executive member for economy, transport and environment at Hampshire County Council, said: "I am grateful to the majority of the business owners who removed their A-boards following the complaints.
"The idea behind our new licensing scheme in Andover is that controlled regulation will better suit both the businesses and residents by being clear about sizes, dimensions and suitability of locations."
The 26-year-old Gambian only recently returned from a year-long knee injury by playing for Boro's reserves, but is yet to make a first-team comeback.
He joins a Seagulls side who are 16th in the Championship table, 10 points clear of the relegation zone.
Carayol joined Middlesbrough from Bristol Rovers in 2012 and has scored 12 goals in 54 appearances for Boro.
"Mustapha is an exciting, dynamic player," said Brighton manager Chris Hughton.
"He is quick and direct, and he gives us a different option alongside our other attacking players.
"While he has played for Boro's Under-21s and has recovered from the injury, he is yet to feature in the Championship so it will be a case of reintroducing him to the rigours of first-team football."
Meanwhile Emmanuel Ledesma has returned to Middlesbrough after his loan deal at Brighton expired.
The 26-year-old winger failed to score in four games during his one-month stay at The Amex.
Twentieth Century Fox had appealed against a High Court ruling that it breached a trademark registered by The Glee Club chain.
But three appeal court judges dismissed its latest argument that EU trademark law affected the earlier ruling.
The broadcaster said it will now "seek consideration" from the Supreme Court.
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But the owner of the Glee Club chain, Mark Tughan, said he now expected compensation.
"Ultimately, they just infringed my intellectual property and they need to pay.
"My business was affected and I've persuaded two courts so far that I have suffered detriment."
He said he was not asking for the name of the TV programme - which started in 2009 on the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox Channel - to be changed.
"The TV show is over really… Things may change if they revive it, who knows? But I think the moment has passed," he said.
The Glee Club name was first registered as a trademark in 1999.
Mr Tughan launched proceedings against Fox in 2011 and successfully argued in the High Court in 2014 that the show breached its trademark right to The Glee Club name.
Fox appealed but lost its case in February.
But because they claimed EU law affected the ruling, a new hearing, with the UK Intellectual Property Office present, was scheduled on 25 May.
There, three judge dismissed Fox's latest challenge.
The Glee Club opened in Birmingham in 1994 and now has branches in Cardiff, Nottingham and Oxford.
Four people were injured after stones were thrown at the bus and smashed a number of windows.
One woman had to be treated in hospital for serious facial injuries.
Fr Aidan Mullan told the BBC's Sunday News programme that the attack "did not represent the views of the people in Dungiven".
He said he was getting ready for a vigil mass at Dungiven Parish Church when he heard about the attack.
"What is very annoying is that it was pre-meditated, these people had to be there, armed with these stones in a pre-meditated, cold-blooded fashion," he said.
"They do not represent the good people of Dungiven and that was what people were saying to me in the church, one woman had tears in her eyes saying 'we get painted in a bad name and it's not fair, it's not right, that doesn't represent us'.
"It is shameful, we're rightly ashamed, and this attack does not represent the feelings of the vast majority of people in Dungiven."
A 16-year-old boy arrested after the attack on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm has since been released on bail pending further inquiries.
You can listen back to The Sunday News programme on the BBC iPlayer.
Incidents have seen the machines, which break down animal and food waste to produce gas for energy, fail and leak a slurry-like substance into rivers.
Afonydd Cymru, the Rivers Trust of Wales, wants tougher penalties introduced.
The Welsh Government said it would review the machines' impact on farms.
In one incident in the Tregaron area of Ceredigion, an anaerobic digester leaked into the River Teifi killing 1,000 fish.
Afonydd Cymru chief executive, Dr Stephen Marsh-Smith, said more scrutiny of the industry was needed.
"At the moment anaerobic digesters aren't regulated properly, this needs to be regulated like an industrial process," he said.
"They're often set up by contractors who don't have a lot of experience of managing them and when they're up and running there should be a full-time member of staff monitoring them.
"Where we've found anaerobic digesters have been successful there's been bunding in place, that's a secondary containment area, to make sure nothing escapes and a full-time staff member who can manage the process day and night.
"In Wales you could set up and run one of these with half a day's training, switch it on, then you've got huge pressure, and a load of toxic stuff, very often by a water course, and we're seeing that fail."
He added: "If this happened in an industrial process, it would be stopped, the directors would be found guilty of criminal pollution and prosecuted and there would be huge fines."
Chris Norman, a farmer in Pembridge, Herefordshire, has been running an anaerobic digester from his farm for the past three years.
He produces enough power to provide electricity to 850 homes, employs a full-time member of staff to run the digester and has spent an extra £40,000 on a secondary containment area, to make sure any material would be contained if anything did fail.
"I've built ramps, walls and concreted the whole area. So it won't run and escape from here. Also when building the anaerobic digester we made sure it wasn't near any water courses," he said.
"The nearest river is about half a mile from here. I don't believe I'm being particularly cautious or overly conscientious.
"I understand plants have been built on hillsides and next to rivers and this shouldn't happen. It doesn't matter how tight a farmer can be, we should all take preventative measures from digestate - the material remaining after the anaerobic digestion - getting into our rivers."
Mr Norman added: "At the end of the day the buck stops with me, so employing a full-time member of staff to run it and building this secondary containment area is worth every penny if it prevents a catastrophe happening."
The Welsh Government said the regulation and monitoring of anaerobic digesters was the responsibility of environment body Natural Resources Wales and it would take action where there is evidence of a breach.
A spokesman added: "Pollution incidents from farms have a significant detrimental impact on water quality and farmers must recognise the important responsibility they have in addressing this problem.
"We will be working with NRW to review the impact of anaerobic digesters used on farms."
But he was fired as prime minister in 2014 - after more than 20 years in government - and is now running against him in the country's presidential elections.
Mr Mbabazi told the BBC that as an independent candidate who has worked closely with the president he represents "change with continuity".
But an election promise which has attracted much press attention is his promise to repatriate the remains of former dictator Idi Amin and build a museum in his honour.
Some observers suggest his chances of winning are so slim that his real aim could be to take votes away from opposition candidate Kizza Besigye in an effort to keep the incumbent in power.
'Idealistic lawyer'
However, Mr Mbabazi's presidential campaign hit a stumbling block at his very first campaign meeting last July when he was arrested, along with one of his daughters, for violating public order laws by attempting to hold meetings without permission.
He was later released without charge and was quick to hit out at President Museveni, saying he was directly behind the arrest.
He told the BBC's Newsday programme that the only other time he had been arrested was in 1976, under the rule of Amin.
"Even Idi Amin did not arrest my children," he said.
In a YouTube video declaring his intention to run in the election, Mr Mbabazi described his younger self as a "young idealistic lawyer with a hunger for justice" who "joined the struggle against the destructive forces that were threatening to derail our self-governing hopes".
"That hunger still remains," the 67-year-old insisted.
But during armed rebellion of the 1980s against Milton Obote's government, which was led by Mr Museveni in the bush, he worked as an external co-ordinator and did not fight on the front line, something which attracted criticism.
He and his wife and children fled to Kenya in 1981 and then Sweden only returning after Mr Museveni's National Resistance Army eventually took power in 1986, according to his campaign biography.
He then went on to work closely with President Museveni for the next two decades, earning the nickname "super minister" because he held the defence and attorney general portfolios at the same time.
Over the years he held three key cabinet positions before becoming prime minister in 2011.
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President Museveni once described him as a "clean man, he doesn't booze or involve himself with women, and he is a hardworking man".
Not everyone was a fan and some of colleagues in parliament described him as elitist.
Mr Museveni sacked him from government nearly 18 months ago amid allegations that millions of dollars had gone missing from the prime minister's office - something Mr Mbabazi denied.
He hinted at an election rally that the two had fallen out over Mr Museveni breaking a promise that he would step down, Uganda's Observer newspaper reported.
My Mbabazi went on to describe the government as a "system that has become weak" and said that the country needs to "rediscover our democratic principles".
His presidential ambitions have cost his wife Jacqueline, with whom he has six children, her position as chair of women's league of the ruling National Resistance Movement.
He says in his youth he was hurdler, loved rugby and was an avid singer.
And a short clip on his YouTube channel, posted a year ago, shows him performing what looks like an impromptu piano recital.
Julia Holmes, who is in her 60s and is known to use false identities, was charged with two counts of fraud by misrepresentation totalling £18,000.
She was on court bail but failed to return to court in January 2011. A warrant was issued for her arrest.
Police believe she was most recently in the Galway area of the Republic of Ireland.
However, they have said she could be in any one of a number of places.
She is about 5ft 5ins tall with blue eyes. She has been known to change hair colour and style.
Anyone who has been in contact with her, or thinks they may know where she is, is asked to contact CID at Bangor PSNI Station on 0845 600 8000, or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111
The hosts took the lead when Kemar Roofe kept his cool to lift his shot over Preston keeper Chris Maxwell before Pablo Hernandez made it 2-0.
Preston hit the woodwork when Tom Barkhuizen's shot struck the bar before Alex Baptiste saw red for a kick on Hernandez off the ball.
Sub Souleymane Doukara finished well to seal the victory in the last minute.
Garry Monk's side needed a positive result after a run of one win in five had seen them drop to fifth in the Championship, but they nearly found themselves a goal down inside the first two minutes when Rob Green produced a fine save from Barkhuizen's header.
Leeds grew into the game and Roofe's third of the season put them in charge before leading scorer Chris Wood had a strike disallowed for offside and Hernandez squeezed a shot over the line for his fifth of the season.
Wood hit the bar with a header from a corner before Barkhuizen should have made it 2-1 when he hit the woodwork after Aiden McGeady's initial effort had been parried by Green.
Preston, who had gone into the game unbeaten in five games, dropped to six points off the play-offs, while Leeds remained fifth, five points clear of seventh-placed Fulham.
Leeds manager Garry Monk: "It was really important to respond and we were determined to after back-to-back defeats away from home and that was the key.
"The first five 10 minutes they had a couple of breakaways, which could have been more dangerous. But once we got to grips with it, for the next 50 or 60 minutes we played some really good football.
"We created numerous chances and probably should have capitalised a bit more, but we were playing against a good side and they are in form.
"They were never going to make it easy for us, but some of the football we played I thought was excellent."
Preston boss Simon Grayson: "We started really well and had two great opportunities through Tom Barkhuizen.
"But before you know it, we switch off and they got their noses in front. We weren't good enough defensively and that was the big aspect.
"We created some good chances. We had good possession and played some decent stuff, but it mistakes at key times cost us.
"If you do that against a strong team like Leeds they're going to punish you."
Match ends, Leeds United 3, Preston North End 0.
Second Half ends, Leeds United 3, Preston North End 0.
Goal! Leeds United 3, Preston North End 0. Souleymane Doukara (Leeds United) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kalvin Phillips.
Foul by Charlie Taylor (Leeds United).
Tom Barkhuizen (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Simon Makienok (Preston North End) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Aiden McGeady.
Substitution, Leeds United. Charlie Taylor replaces Pablo Hernández.
Alex Baptiste (Preston North End) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
Foul by Alex Baptiste (Preston North End).
Pablo Hernández (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Chris Maxwell.
Attempt saved. Souleymane Doukara (Leeds United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Stuart Dallas.
Offside, Leeds United. Kalvin Phillips tries a through ball, but Souleymane Doukara is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Jermaine Beckford (Preston North End) right footed shot from very close range misses to the right. Assisted by Tom Barkhuizen.
Substitution, Leeds United. Souleymane Doukara replaces Chris Wood.
Offside, Leeds United. Luke Ayling tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.
Chris Wood (Leeds United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Chris Wood (Leeds United).
Chris Maxwell (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stuart Dallas (Leeds United).
Tom Clarke (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Simon Makienok (Preston North End) header from very close range is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. Tom Barkhuizen (Preston North End) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Aiden McGeady (Preston North End) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ben Pearson with a headed pass.
Attempt saved. Jermaine Beckford (Preston North End) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Alex Baptiste (Preston North End) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Aiden McGeady with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Preston North End. Conceded by Luke Ayling.
Substitution, Preston North End. Jermaine Beckford replaces Paul Gallagher.
Substitution, Preston North End. Simon Makienok replaces Callum Robinson.
Substitution, Leeds United. Stuart Dallas replaces Kemar Roofe because of an injury.
Corner, Preston North End. Conceded by Kyle Bartley.
Offside, Preston North End. Greg Cunningham tries a through ball, but Alex Baptiste is caught offside.
Foul by Ronaldo Vieira (Leeds United).
Callum Robinson (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Ronaldo Vieira (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Chris Wood.
Offside, Preston North End. Alex Baptiste tries a through ball, but Tom Barkhuizen is caught offside.
Foul by Gaetano Berardi (Leeds United).
Alex Baptiste (Preston North End) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Luke Ayling (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aiden McGeady (Preston North End).
Humberside Police said the tyres of 99 vehicles were deliberately punctured between 2 and 4 September in Pocklington.
The force has appealed for help to locate a suspect they believe may be responsible. The vandalism was described as "mindless".
The man is described as white, of slim to medium build, with short, dark hair which is balding on top.
Insp Jo York said: "I believe the man is local and knows the area well.
"There is already much talk about this around Pocklington and someone in the town must know who this is, or know something about it.
"I would urge anyone who has information to come forward and share it with us so we can identify and locate the person causing this mindless vandalism that has affected so many residents in the town."
'Towards Scottish Independence? Understanding the Referendum' is the latest Massive Open Online Course (Mooc) being offered by the university.
The course is open to anyone and gets under way on 25 August.
It provides background information on the referendum and features online debates and video presentations.
Opinion polls will be held at regular intervals to find out if the course is affecting how participants will vote.
It is being led by political academics Professor Charlie Jeffery, Professor Nicola McEwen and Dr Alan Convery.
Professor Jeffery said: "We will place learners at the heart of the referendum question by examining arguments for and against independence, with lively debate guided by university academics.
"We will also ensure a distinct international dimension, by examining implications for other nations and regions whose populations have expressed desire for greater autonomy, including Catalonia, Flanders and Quebec."
The University of Edinburgh is running the course in partnership with the social learning platform FutureLearn.
Since the university launched their Moocs in July 2012, more than 900,000 people have signed up to take part.
Mothers in three areas of Derbyshire and South Yorkshire where breastfeeding rates were low - between 21% and 29% - were offered vouchers of up to £200.
Of the 108 eligible for the trial scheme, 37 (34%) earned vouchers for breastfeeding at six-to-eight weeks.
Critics, including leading doctors, say the scheme amounts to "bribery".
There will now be a much bigger trial involving 4,000 women.
Of the mothers eligible for the scheme, 58 signed up.
The vouchers are given at five different time-points. And results for the three- and six-month stages are still being collected.
The results of Nourishing Start for Health (Nosh) scheme are being presented at a public health science conference organised by the Lancet.
Vanessa Purdy, 31, who is still breastfeeding her eight-month-old, James, said: "The vouchers lure you into the scheme and breastfeeding. But the confidence you gain, and the friends you make through the scheme, is unbelievable.
"It's that support network, not the money, that spurs you on to continue.
"It broke down the barriers and got everyone talking about the vouchers.
"It made breastfeeding feel normal and natural to me.
"And the money was useful for daily shopping and a few treats. I even tried tuna steak for the first time."
Across England, 51% of women are breastfeeding by the six-to-eight week stage. The equivalent figure in Scotland is 38%.
Rates are much lower in poorer areas - sometimes reaching just 12%.
Official health guidelines recommend that babies are breastfed up to six months, to help protect infants from infections.
And some research has linked breastfeeding to a lower risk for mothers from breast and ovarian cancers.
But rates in the UK remain low compared with other countries. Just 1% of babies here is exclusively breastfed at six months.
Dr Clare Relton, from Sheffield University's School of Health And Related Research public health section, is running the scheme, part of a four-year research project.
She said: "The UK has one of the worst breastfeeding rates in the world - yet it gives better health outcomes to mums and babies, and saves the NHS money.
"During the last year, our small-scale tests have shown that midwives and health visitors were happy to tell mums about the scheme.
"We think this idea has the potential to increase breastfeeding rates in the UK, but we don't have enough information yet.
"So we are conducting a large-scale trial to help us find out how acceptable and effective the scheme is - and whether it would a good use of public money in the future."
But Dr Colin Michie, from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said: "You're asking for a payback from some mums who can't necessarily give it.
"Not all mothers can breastfeed for a range of reasons - so it's just not fair.
"It is essentially a bribe if you're offering money for breastfeeding.
"This pilot scheme has been a success - but it would be nice if we could incentivise mums to breastfeed without paying them."
Last year 577 police officers were injured by some form of assault.
That is an average of almost 50 attacks a month on almost 20% of all front-line police officers.
The Police Federation says tougher action is needed because fines and non-custodial sentences for some offences are not sufficient deterrents.
Serious injuries are a regular occurrence for officers during riot situations.
But many also suffer less serious injuries when pushed, punched or kicked during scuffles with crowds.
The Police Federation for Northern Ireland (PFNI) says politicians and the courts must do more to protect them.
It has has written to the Stormont executive asking for a mandatory custodial sentence for anyone found guilty of assaulting a police officer and wants the new legislation to be part of the next programme for government.
"The PFNI find this totally unacceptable and feel that a greater deterrent is required to protect officers," the submission says.
The association has defended its bid to give police officers more protection than members of other emergency services.
"Assaults on public servants such as hospital staff and teachers are equally abhorrent, but we would contend that policing is unique, in so much as, police officers are frequently required to put themselves in danger to protect society," the submission says.
"In recognition of the unique expectation, a specific offence of assault on police exists in statute.
"We would submit that there should be a mandatory custodial sentence for any person found guilty of the summary or indictable offence of assault on police.
"It would be the hope that this would send out a clear message to society that it is unacceptable to resort to violence against police and would also show the intent of government to protect officers carrying out their duty."
No other police force in Europe has the kind of legal protection the federation is asking for.
But it says the "unique" challenges faced by the PSNI and the high proportion of officers injured in the line of duty each year means tougher laws are justified.
Antony Munro died in the accident between Auldgirth and Thornhill on Monday.
He was driving a Volkswagen Golf which was in collision with an Iveco lorry being driven by a 53-year-old man from Cumbernauld.
The lorry driver was unhurt. Crash investigations are continuing.
Police said the procurator fiscal had been informed.
Insp Campbell Moffat said: "We are still appealing for any witnesses to this crash to get in touch with us at Dumfries through 101."
Luis Suarez scored four for the Spanish leaders, with the Uruguay striker bundling in the opener, then tucking in Lionel Messi's pass.
Barca scored six in the second half - Ivan Rakitic fired in, before Suarez slid in for his hat-trick and then tapped in Neymar's selfless pass.
Messi rolled in, then Marc Bartra's solo goal and Neymar's simple finish from close range sealed the rout.
Barca had let a nine-point lead at the top of La Liga slip but victory on Wednesday was never in doubt from the moment Suarez scored his 46th goal of the season from a corner.
Suarez took his tally to 49 before the end of the night and also contributed three assists as Barca were utterly dominant.
Wins for Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid mean that the title race remains tight. Barca are joined on 79 points by Atletico, with Real a point further back. There are four games remaining.
"We are human, we aren't machines and we can all commit errors or have a bad game," Suarez told Spanish TV station Movistar+.
"This is a demonstration that the group is more united than ever and desperate to win the league. It is still in our hands."
Barca face Sporting Gijon, Real Betis, Espanyol and Granada in their final games.
"It was a spectacular result for us," said manager Luis Enrique.
"We have a wonderful challenge ahead of us to retain the league title. But there are still four games to go and I'm sure it's not going to be easy."
Relive the action from Wednesday's La Liga games
Under Congolese law, anyone under 18 is considered a minor.
The Romanian military observer is among five peacekeepers accused of acts of sexual abuse and exploitation in the first three months of 2017, a senior UN official told the BBC.
UN peacekeeping missions have been hit by a raft of child sex abuse scandals.
The underage girl involved in the first case has been put under the care of the UN children's agency Unicef, Adama Ndao, head of the conduct and discipline team for the UN peacekeeping mission in the country (Monusco) told the BBC.
All the other cases involve adults.
Two of the complaints come from women who are demanding paternal recognition from the peacekeepers they had sex with, Ms Ndao added.
She said that one of the women has already had her baby, while the other is still pregnant.
Two South African soldiers and two non-military Monusco officials, from Burundi and Niger, are among the accused.
All have been suspended pending the outcome of investigations.
Other complaints about UN peacekeepers which have been received and are under consideration, implicate police officers and soldiers from Senegal, Uruguay and South Africa, Monusco spokesman Charles Bambara said on Wednesday.
UN and French forces faced multiple allegations of child rape in the Central African Republic, a scandal which was compounded by allegations of a high-level cover-up.
Former All Black Jono Gibbes and ex-Wales scrum-half Dwayne Peel will join the coaching staff for next season.
The appointments signal the departure of current coaches Doak and Clarke.
"I do feel sorry for them after the time and effort they've put in," Ferris said, "Neil has given 24 years' service and a lot of people forget that".
Ferris told BBC Sport NI that he believes the timing of the high-profile signings will appease supporters who were disgruntled watching the team lose nine out of 13 matches prior to last week's Pro12 win over Edinburgh.
"There was a lot of speculation about who would be going and coming and inside the camp, the word coming out was that things were a little bit unsettled.
"This has been bubbling away and I'm pretty confident that Neil and Allen knew for the last three or four months that they weren't going to be part of Les Kiss' bigger picture.
"Naming the new coaches so early, with a good bit of the season to go, seems like taking the pressure off because the players haven't been performing.
"Sometimes you need new faces, new voices, new ideas, and maybe it will be a masterstroke and these guys will bring Ulster Rugby forward because for me, since 2012, the team has been going backwards.
"But it's important to remember that someone like Neil Doak was involved when we got to a Heineken Cup final in 2012 and a league final at the RDS in 2013. People forget that very very quickly when the team is not doing so well."
Ferris said some supporters are confused over the coaching staff's job titles, leading to mis-interpretation about Doak's role.
"His title is head coach but he's not really - Les Kiss is the head coach even though his title is Director of Rugby.
"Les does 75 per cent of the coaching on the pitch.
"Not everyone understands that and because of it, a lot of press and fans have got on Doak's back."
Gibbes, 40, will arrive at Kingspan Stadium with a stellar CV as a player and coach.
He is currently forwards coach at Clermont Auvergne and previously helped Leinster to three Heineken Cups in an impressive coaching career.
Ferris stated: "he is a real hard-edged forwards coach, an All Black, and I think he will be tremendous".
"There needs to be a harder edge brought to this forward pack and he will be very good.
"Dwayne Peel was a bit left-field, I didn't expect that, because he only retired a couple of years ago.
"He obviously wasn't on Pat Lam's radar at Bristol for next season and perhaps Ulster thought someone new coming in would bring a bit of fresh blood.
"He's not long out of the game so he is a little bit unknown, with not a lot of experience.
"Having world-class coaches like Jono and Les will make the players better and hopefully help the team win trophies."
Not this time. Not in this mean-spirited race. Not when the undercurrent is race in America.
Who could imagine in 2016 that a vice-presidential candidate from one side would accuse the man running for president from the other side of pushing the "values of the Ku Klux Klan?" But that is what Tim Kaine said of Donald Trump, denouncing him, in effect, for wanting to restore white supremacy.
And this was not an isolated moment of campaign rhetoric.
Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of wanting to take the "hate movement mainstream".
And we have also had presidential candidate Donald Trump being asked by a television interviewer whether he wants white supremacists to vote for him. And yes this is 2016.
And then Donald Trump rounds on his opponent: "Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of colour only as votes."
And then, in the midst of this, Donald Trump takes a page out of his book, The Art of the Deal. He decided to make an extraordinary offer to black Americans. "You're living in poverty," he tells them. "Your schools are no good. You have no jobs. What the hell do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump?"
And, unsurprisingly, many black Americans have expressed outrage that their lives and struggles can be so easily dismissed.
There has been progress. More than 60% of black Americans have white-collar jobs, and 22% have graduated from college.
Yet despite real progress, 41% say there is still discrimination.
Eight years ago, in 2008, I stood in Grant Park, Chicago, when Barack Obama delivered his acceptance speech.
I wrote at the time "an African-American had denied the weight of history, and become the most powerful man in the world". Mr Obama spoke of "many voting for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different". He spoke of change coming to America, of reclaiming the American Dream.
And on inauguration day 2009, at 04:00 on a bone-chilling night, I saw thousands of people on the move, many of them black Americans, trekking from distant places to claim their place on the Mall and witness history being made.
So what happened? Inevitably hopes raised were disappointed.
The economy spluttered and the dream of attaining a middle-class lifestyle receded. Inequality rose. The levels of incarceration for black Americans, although diminishing, remain high. On the streets, many attempted arrests ended in police shootings.
And then I recalled too that some Americans never accepted Barack Obama as a legitimate president. I remember a Sarah Palin rally in Ohio in 2008 at which she declared: "Obama doesn't feel like us." There were references to the "real America".
On the cable television channels and in Congress, a mean-spiritedness has stained the political debate. Bipartisanship and collegiality and compromise have been ditched in favour of ideological battles.
And it seeps into this political season. At a Trump rally in Milwaukee a few weeks ago, several men had T-shirts with the slogan "Trump that Bitch!"
And in the maelstrom of this campaign Colin Kaepernick, a San Francisco 49ers quarterback, remains seated during the national anthem. It is a protest, he says, against the nation's oppression of people of colour.
"There are a lot of things going on that are unjust," he said afterwards. "I mean," he continues, "you have Hillary who has called black teens 'super predators'. You have Donald Trump who's openly racist."
Both candidates would dispute this but race is one of the undertones of this campaign.
Martin Luther King's central hope was that people someday would be judged by "the content of their character" rather than the colour of their skin.
But this election is far from being colour blind. It is littered with references to college-educated "whites" or "black" women or Hispanics - as if what mattered was skin colour.
Back in 1964, the then Republican candidate Barry Goldwater agreed with the sitting president Lyndon Johnson that they would keep race out of the campaign and not exploit it for electoral purposes.
They were different times.
This time the 19-year-old, who is yet to make a first-team appearance for Liverpool, has joined Belgian club Mouscron for the season.
The striker joined Liverpool on a long-term deal in August 2015 from Imperial Academy in Nigeria.
He joins DR Congo's Jonathan Bolingi and Cameroon's Fabrice Olinga on loan at the club.
Awoniyi, who helped his country win the Under-17 World Cup in 2013, spent last season on loan at Dutch side NEC Nijmegen.
He also played at the 2015 Under-20 World Cup in New Zealand, netting twice and then helped Nigeria win the 2015 African Under-23 Championship in Senegal.
However he missed out on playing at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
His other loan spell was at German second-tier club FSV Frankfurt in the 2015/16 campaign
More than 7,000 visitors attended events such as battle re-enactments.
Tourists from 18 different countries exploring their heritage brought in a net total of £390,000 last year.
Clan chief Alexander Leslie, vice-convener of the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs, said there had been a renewed level of interest over the last 18 months.
About 50 million people globally claim to have Scottish ancestry.
Mr Leslie, vice-convener of the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs, said many "overseas Scots" were visiting each year.
He said: "The clan network and clan societies bring a lot of overseas Scots to Scotland every year and within the last year or 18 months there's also been a renewed level of interest in Scotland itself in which clan people belong to, which is very encouraging to see.
"We work hard with the Scottish Government on this issue and see it a win-win situation that Scotland as a whole, Scotland as a brand and Scotland as a destination will benefit."
The Scottish Clan Event Fund, administered by EventScotland, gives clans and clan societies up to £5,000 for gatherings, battle re-enactments and other associated heritage events.
The Scottish Government allocated £23,000 to the fund in 2015/16 and has announced up to £70,000 will be available in 2016/17.
There will be six supported events taking place across Scotland in 2016.
Tourism minister Fergus Ewing said: "The market for ancestral tourism in Scotland is considerable and creates opportunities for communities to benefit.
"I am pleased to see the fund has already had such a strong positive impact, capturing visitors' imagination and helping to inspire and promote fun, colourful and inspiring events across the country."
It was a tournament that started with a bang as the hosts came from behind to beat Croatia, and has since delivered fantastic entertainment almost game after game.
Here, BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty and the BBC's much-loved and most experienced commentator John Motson consider whether this has been the best ever World Cup.
You can also take part in the debate in Friday's Sportsday from 08:00 BST - where you can vote on a number of different categories to help determine if Brazil 2014 stands above all the others.
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McNulty's review: "Robin van Persie set the goal standard for this World Cup with his spectacular equaliser in the Netherlands' 5-1 opening group game thrashing of Spain. Daley Blind's angled pass set the platform for Van Persie's brilliant header, a monument to athleticism and awareness.
"Tim Cahill's volley against the Dutch and James Rodriguez's masterpiece of a strike against Uruguay in the Maracana were other moments of individual brilliance that have illuminated the tournament."
Motty's review: "I think the best four or five goals from this World Cup bear well in comparison to others I've seen. I thought Cahill's would be goal of the tournament, but the Rodriguez volley will probably win. That strike compares well with anything I've seen in terms of great goals.
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"If we look at past World Cup efforts, I guess they've played a lot of Diego Maradona's goals from 1986 during the BBC programmes. Then there was that goal Argentina scored against Serbia in 2006 that included 25 passes - there hasn't been one like that at this World Cup. And most of us have seen the iconic 'team goal' scored by Carlos Alberto for Brazil in 1970 final."
Motty's verdict: "It is hard to narrow it down to one 'great goal'. But if I was to pick my most memorable then I would say Maradona's solo strike against Belgium in the 1986 semi-final - because I commentated on it."
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McNulty's review: "One moment stands out above everything - a scar on a World Cup that should be remembered for its commitment to attacking football.
"And that was when Uruguay's Luis Suarez delivered his notorious bite on Italy's Giorgio Chiellini that ended his World Cup and effectively his Liverpool career.
"Croatia felt robbed by a penalty conceded to Brazil in the opening game, while Costa Rica were angered by Dutch keeper Tim Krul's antics in the quarter-final penalty shoot-out."
Motty's view: "There were a lot of the fears about protests and the conditions of stadiums - many of those fears have been allayed. On the field, I think the referees and officials have avoided huge controversies. We haven't had anything like the Harald Schumacher boot in Patrick Battiston in 1982, Frank Rijkaard's spit in the hair of Rudi Voller 1990 and the infamous headbutt by Zinedine Zidane in 2006.
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"The Suarez bite is a different category, I think. Although it's dreadful - that was based on the fact the Uruguayan had two previous cases of its kind. Had it been his first offence he wouldn't haven't got the same sort of headlines."
Motty's verdict: "There are two that stick out from the past - when the brother of the Kuwait Emir walked on to the pitch to remonstrate against the third goal scored by France against his country in 1982 and Maradona's 'Hand of God' goal against England in 1986. I have to say that Edin Dzeko's disallowed strike against Nigeria in this competition still rankles with me though."
Did you know? Argentine legend Diego Maradona played two games at the 1994 World Cup before being sent home in disgrace and banned for 15 months for testing positive for ephedrine.
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McNulty's review: "World Cup holders Spain, plus Italy and England, may have fallen at the first hurdle but so many of the usual suspects remained.
"Brazil, Argentina, Germany and the Netherlands made up a powerhouse last four, but there was also an element of surprise in the closing phase in the shape of Costa Rica and the emerging Colombians.
"It gave this World Cup perfect light and shade as the old guard showed strength but new forces demonstrated their quality."
Motty's view: "Spain will look back with great disappointment, as will Italy, who probably should have qualified out of that group. Then we have England, which has been well debated.
"I would say this for all the speculation, the four semi-final teams are probably in the top six World Cup countries of all time. By the time of the latter stages the natural order was restored."
Motty's verdict: "There were more contenders for the crown this time around."
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McNulty's review: "Every World Cup loves an underdog - those of us present in 2002 recall how South Korea were swept to the semi-final on a red wave of national fervour.
"Costa Rica, dismissed when drawn with England, Uruguay and Italy, played the part here. They topped their group and only lost to the Netherlands on penalties in the quarter-final.
"The United States also progressed to such an extent that even the White House felt obliged to get in on the act.
"In the case of Colombia, they had a very good player in James Rodriguez, who most teams would have known what to expect from - he did cost Monaco just shy of £40m last season. His performances at the World Cup just brought him into wider prominence."
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Motty's view: "If these teams have another four years' improvement then I think some of these countries will get further. The coaching has improved, but the biggest improvement we've seen is in the goalkeeping department. It is unrecognisable from past tournaments.
"We have to take our hats off to those teams that weren't expected to do well. Costa Rica are top of the list, then you have Algeria, Nigeria, Mexico.
"If I look back to 1990 and Cameroon's run to the last eight, it was expected that African teams and even Asian teams would kick on after that tournament - but it never happened. I think we are now seeing signs that they have closed the gap."
Motty's verdict: "I think this was the best World Cup when it came to underdogs - more proved they were better than a lot of us originally thought."
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McNulty's review: "Brazil has been marked out by key matches going to the wire, exemplified by the last 16 when the Netherlands scored two late goals to beat Mexico and Argentina's Angel Di Maria struck with moments left to beat stubborn Switzerland.
"The penalty shoot-outs have produced moments to treasure, such as the tears of Brazil keeper Julio Cesar after victory against Chile and Dutch coach Louis van Gaal's decisive introduction of Tim Krul against Costa Rica.
"But, I guess, even those matches could not come close to the late drama of the 1966 final between England and Germany at Wembley - Germany's late goal in normal time, then Sir Geoff Hurst's wonderful strike at the end."
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Motty's view: "Looking back on World Cups I've been to, I have to say we have seen more late goals in the 2014 tournament - 30 out of 62 games had goals scored after 75 minutes during normal time.
"A lot of games have been settled in the last few minutes. These have been breathtaking and caught the public imagination because they have been in the balance until the final whistle. They all thought the heat would be a major factor - but the Dutch were playing at full pelt in the second period of extra time against Costa Rica.
"The science of the game has moved on - better preparation, dieticians, nutritionists, etc."
Motty's verdict: "Yes - definitely this one."
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McNulty review: "The South American 'Perfect 10s' have decorated Brazil's World Cup.
"Lionel Messi has finally shone at a major tournament here in Brazil. He inspired Argentina throughout, while Brazil's Neymar lived up to a nation's expectations before departing through injury.
"A new young star burst on the scene in Colombia's James Rodriguez, while Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer proved he is the best in the world.
"Cristiano Ronaldo? He suffered for being part of an ordinary Portugal."
Motty's view: "Great players will shine at every World Cup. We asked: 'Has Messi really ever done it?' Well, he has so far. I think this World Cup has produced as many star performances as any others. Rodriguez has caught the eye, then there's Robben, who, had you stopped the World Cup before the semi-final stage, would be player of the tournament.
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"I remember other Dutch stars such as Johan Cruyff, who was magical in 1974. Then there was Johan Neeskens in '74 and 1978, and Dennis Bergkamp in 1998. Robben is one of the greatest Dutchmen we've seen, which means you can compare him directly to the likes of Maradona and Pele. Alongside him, another star has shone in Germany's Thomas Muller - what a great two World Cups he has had."
Motty's verdict: "This is a tricky one to judge, but Muller scoring five goals in 2010 and five already at this World Cup is exceptional - and he's only 24."
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McNulty's review: "The World Cup semi-final between Brazil and Germany was meant to be "the sixth step" towards the hosts winning the trophy on home turf.
"Instead it became a living nightmare for the entire nation - a dark day in their World Cup history that will never be forgotten as Germany inflicted Brazil's worst defeat, a 7-1 thrashing.
"Many Brazil fans were in tears as Germany went five up in 29 minutes. More World Cup drama but anguish for a country with its heart set on victory."
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Motty's view: "I have been to 10 World Cups and seen a lot of memorable games.
"There was England v Argentina in 1986, the 1998 final between France and Brazil, which involved the mystery over striker Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane's two goals.
"But Germany's 7-1 win at this tournament eclipses all of those, primarily because of the shock value and the way Brazil capitulated."
Motty's verdict: "It would have to be Brazil 1-7 Germany."
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McNulty's review: "The mass protests feared in Brazil failed to fully materialise as their team progressed. The World Cup has been everything this country wanted it to be.
"From the heat of the Amazonian rainforest in Manaus to the cold climate of Sao Paulo's concrete jungle, magnificent stadiums have played to full houses and superb games.
"And to be present at Brazil playing on home turf was to witness a spectacular cascade of colour and a deafening wall of sound."
Motty's view: "The crowds have been fabulous and the stadiums near full for many matches. The supporters have made the event - their enthusiasm, dress sense and their response to what has been put in front of them.
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"I think USA '94 comes back to us in that department because they surprised us by how they adopted the game. It now seems for the first time it is actually taking hold in that country, and that's partly thanks to Brazil."
Motty's verdict: "Most certainly the very colourful Brazil 2014."
Did you know? The highest average attendance figure for a World Cup is 68,991 and came when the tournament was held in the United States in 1994.
McNulty's review: "Of the four World Cups I have covered, this Brazilian tournament is run close by Germany in 2006 for sheer joy and the support of a nation for its showpiece.
"Japan-South Korea had its moments, while South Africa was a unique experience - but for excitement produced and the attacking football witnessed, this Brazil World Cup just shades it as the best."
Motty's view: "The excitement didn't slip, but the games got tighter once it went to straight knockout - bar, of course, Brazil 1-7 Germany.
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"One of the big differences I noticed is that the teams went for it a lot more in their group games. I remember former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson saying during the 2010 World Cup the group matches were like pulling teeth - watching them I mean.
"The referees have restrained themselves at this World Cup - you usually get a glut of cards because they are determined to clamp down right from the start.
"People have responded in a warm way, certainly off the pitch and to some extent on the pitch. It's thrown up new names, new coaches, while the underdogs deserve a special mention."
Motty's verdict: "Brazil 2014 would come out ahead of South Africa 2010, Germany 2006 and South Korea-Japan 2002. France 1998 was my favourite up until now, but this one has pipped it."
John Motson was speaking to BBC Sport's Saj Chowdhury
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In a speech in Delhi, Mr Modi accused Kashmiri separatists of "scheming".
Muslim-majority Kashmir is at the centre of a decades-old territorial dispute between India and Pakistan.
Mr Modi said only "hugs" could solve the problems of the territory, which often sees clashes between protesters and Indian security forces.
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Mr Modi urged Indians to stand together with Kashmiris to rediscover "the lost paradise".
He also appealed to the nation to stand together with the families of 60 children who died at a public hospital in northern India after oxygen supply was cut over unpaid bills.
The prime minister also spoke in support of Muslim women who are fighting a legal battle to abolish the practice of "triple talaq" (instant divorce).
India is one of a handful of countries where a Muslim man can divorce his wife in minutes by saying the word talaq (divorce) three times.
India's Supreme Court is soon due to give a ruling in the case.
Mr Modi also criticised people for using religion to incite violence.
Vigilantes who portray themselves as protectors of cows - an animal considered sacred by Hindus - have been frequently attacking people suspected of smuggling the animal since Mr Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in 2014.
The slaughter of cows is banned in several Indian states.
Nearly a dozen people have been killed in the past two years in the name of the cow. Targets are often picked based on unsubstantiated rumours and Muslims have been attacked for even transporting cows for milk.
The Army bomb squad examined the device on Friday after it washed up on Benar beach at Dyffryn Ardudwy near Barmouth and an area was cordoned off.
A team returned to the site on Saturday to see if a controlled explosion was required, but the mine had already exploded and was not considered a hazard.
It will be removed by Gwynedd council workers on Monday.
"None of it's true", Belle Gibson told Australia's Women's Weekly magazine in an interview.
Ms Gibson chronicled her battle with cancer on a blog, The Whole Pantry, which spawned an app and recipe book
But doubts about her claims surfaced after she failed to deliver a promised $300,000 donation to charity.
"I am still jumping between what I think I know and what is reality," Ms Gibson said in the interview, her first since the story was called into question.
"I have lived it and I'm not really there yet," she said.
Ms Gibson rose to prominence in 2013 after claiming she was treating her malignant brain cancer with whole foods and alternative therapies.
She went on to build a huge following on social media for her recipes and so-called "wellness" tips.
But when pressed to show medical records to back up her story, she refused.
"I don't want forgiveness," Ms Gibson told Woman's Weekly, adding that she was speaking out because it was "the responsible thing to do".
"Above anything, I would like people to say, 'Okay, she's human.'"
The reasons for her actions remain largely unexplained - she gave few details about why she lied so publicly, apart from referring to a "troubled" childhood.
Woman's Weekly speculated that she might be suffering from a psychological disorder in which people seek attention by faking illness.
There is a psychological condition called factitious disorder in which a person deliberately and consciously acts as if he or she has a physical or mental illness, including creating or exaggerating symptoms.
Melissa Keogh, a clinical psychologist in Melbourne, says: "People who are healthy and well-adjusted don't have to create illnesses to get attention or for financial gain.
"People who do this kind of thing - it usually comes back to early childhood trauma or distress. If you trace it back, there is usually some kind of attachment disorder."
Ms Keogh says to the layperson it may look like fraud, but in many cases there are some underlying psychological conditions, including a personality disorder or elements of narcissism.
Ms Gibson's recipe book was withdrawn by Penguin in March and her app was removed by Apple from its online store.
Ahead of the interview's publication on Thursday, the magazine said the blogger had "cried easily and muddled her words" whenever challenged.
"She says she is passionate about avoiding gluten, dairy and coffee, but doesn't really understand how cancer works," it said.
Ms Gibson's partner, Clive Rothwell, did not know about her deception, according to Australia's News Ltd, which appeared to have obtained the full interview ahead of publication.
She said he was "supportive, but obviously very devastated", according to the site.
The figure, reported by Reuters, is from Church sources in the country.
The deaths are the result of clashes between the army and a rebel group, but civilians have also been caught up in the violence.
The UN has reported on the discovery of more than 20 mass graves but has put the death toll so far at about 400.
According to the church, 20 villages have been completely destroyed, half of them by government troops.
The UN human rights chief, Prince Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, said investigators in Kasai province had identified dozens of mass graves along with harrowing evidence of people being shot, burned or hacked to death.
Atrocities were being carried out by the security forces and a government-backed militia, known as the Bana Mura, which was set up to help fight a rival group known as the Kamuina Nsapu, Prince Zeid said.
He added that local authorities had denied the UN access to information about what was happening in the region. The UN has said it has evidence that hundreds of villagers from the Luba and Lulua ethnic groups have been killed.
The UN Human Rights Council is likely to vote this week on whether to mandate an independent investigation into the violence following what the group's commissioner described as horrific atrocities committed in Kasai province.
The Congolese authorities have said they would reject it.
More than a million people have been displaced in the region in the last year and aid workers say the humanitarian response on the ground has so far been inadequate.
Violence erupted in the once peaceful Kasai region last August, after the death of a local leader during fighting with security forces.
They include classic tomes like the Guinness Book of Hit Singles and Colin Larkin's peerless Encyclopaedia of Popular Music, but they've been joined recently by Bob Stanley's Yeah Yeah Yeah.
Packed with anecdotes and insights (he describes Berlin-era David Bowie as "a silent movie ghost"), it reflects pop through the prism of the charts, rejecting the "rockist" perspective of most reference books.
"A film isn't necessarily more enjoyable if it's based on a true story," Stanley explains. "Likewise, a song isn't necessarily any better or any more heartfelt, or convincing, because it was written by the singer."
Although Yeah Yeah Yeah ends in 2000, Stanley had already come up with chapter headings for the next instalment, including the fantastic "Oops I Did It Again and Again", about the Swedish hit factory behind Britney Spears, Taylor Swift and Justin Timberlake.
So it's a surprise to discover his next book won't deal with grime, crunk or EDM - but big bands, ragtime and jazz.
Called Too Darn Hot: The Story of Popular Music, it's an attempt to make sense of the 50-year period between the advent of recorded music and the birth of rock and roll.
"It's the classic case of, 'if you can't find the book you want to read, write it yourself,'" explains Stanley.
"There are plenty of books on jazz or the great American songbook - but some of those genres have forceful advocates, who see their music as the music of the era and completely ignore Broadway or Hollywood musicals. So I really want to tie it all together".
Last time around, Stanley was immersed in the music he was describing. He started his career at the NME and Melody Maker, before forming his own group, Saint Etienne, as the physical embodiment of his pop obsession - mixing 60s girl group harmonies with elements of folk, house, dub and northern soul.
His knowledge of pop's pre-history is altogether more sketchy.
"I'm really starting from a position of knowing nothing about the music, except for the standards which everyone knows," he says. " But learning things as I'm going is fascinating and terrific."
He recently discovered how Bing Crosby's intimate, laid-back delivery on songs like White Christmas was only made possible by the advent of electric microphones (previously, singers like Al Jolson were vaudeville "belters", screaming down the rafters in order to be heard).
"Nobody could have recorded a voice that soft before the late 20s," says Stanley. "And then in the late 30s, he [Crosby] funded the Ampex tape company, gave them thousands of pounds, and made the first pre-recorded radio broadcast.
"He said it was because he got fed up of going into the studio every day and wanted to play golf. But he speeded along recording technology."
Stanley's research has received a boost from the British Library, who have awarded him a £20,000 grant and a year's residency at the Eccles Centre - which houses the library's collection of American journals, newspapers and sound recordings.
"It means I'll have access to a lot more material in Britain than I thought," says the writer, "from early music magazines with amazing names like 'Talking Machine News' to wax cylinder [recordings] and people's diaries."
The book's only in the early stages, but he's already uncovered a few surprising themes... including the fact that Britain was the dominant force in pop at the start of the 20th Century.
"America at that point just didn't have the confidence or belief in its own music," he says, referencing the story of Jerome Kern, who wrote standards like Smoke Gets In Your Eyes and A Fine Romance.
"As a young songwriter, he came over to England and went to see the music halls. Then he went back to America and passed himself off as English because that was the only way he could get his songs on Broadway," Stanley says.
"That changed very quickly once jazz came in. There are lots of [British] songs about how ragtime is a joke - 'my wife ragged herself to death' - but music hall got hit really badly by ragtime and jazz.
"As soon as it has the confidence, America becomes so brash, and everyone is cowed by it that it feels like Britain's doing a lame imitation of America until the Beatles."
Technology also plays a huge role in the story - particularly with the advent of radio in the 1920s.
"It's hard to conceive how it would have felt, if you were working on a farm in Iowa, to be able to hear a live broadcast of a big band from a ballroom in New York.
"That obviously affected what music people wanted to listen to, how it was recorded, how it was broadcast.
"Something else I wasn't aware of was that record players, like in the 1990s, were consigned to the attic. The quality on radio was so much better than on the 78s [early vinyl records], which always sounded like a man shouting into a tube.
"It was only in the late 20s and early 30s, when the recording technology improved that people started getting 78s out again."
Stanley's home in North London is littered with record players - a vintage Dansette and a 1948 gramophone join his sleek, modern turntable amidst the neatly filed vinyl and scattered baby toys of his new son, Len.
He says he intends to listen to the songs he writes about in their original format, whether it be wax cylinder or shellac discs "because they would have been recorded to be played on that format.
"It's like The Who's singles in the 1960s. They were made to be played on a Dansette and that's why they sound thin and strange on a CD.
"So what I want to get across is what it was like to live through that period and how people were listening to music, and what they were listening to."
Writing the book will have to be slotted in around his other commitments, including a film about the jazz musician Basil Kirchin for Hull City of Culture and a brand new Saint Etienne album, which is due in June.
Called Home Counties, it reflects the band's experiences of growing up in Surrey and Berkshire.
The songs tackle everything from the Enfield Poltergeist (a notorious hoax that made the national press in the 1970s) to the rail drivers' union Aslef, as well as "teenage parties and deceased pets".
Stanley says he may miss a few of Saint Etienne's concerts as he finishes Too Darn Hot - grimacing he recalls flying the 1,000-page manuscript for his previous book on a tour of eastern Europe.
"I want to get this one done faster than the last, because that was five years," he says. "I've got the structure sorted out, and I'm looking forward to talking to collectors.
"It's just a question of not wanting to go too far down the rabbit hole."
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A vote on the bill was postponed on Tuesday as Republican leadership seek to persuade rebels to back the plan.
Nine senators have said they will not support it, and the party can only afford to lose two for it to pass.
The plan has been widely criticised amid fears that millions will lose their health insurance coverage.
A survey published on Wednesday by USA Today suggests only 12% of Americans support the Senate plan.
President Barack Obama led an overhaul of the US healthcare system that has been deeply unpopular among Republicans, who have vowed to replace his signature law.
But the party cannot agree on a replacement - conservative Republicans say the Senate plan maintains too many elements of so-called Obamacare, while moderates believe it will hurt vulnerable people.
The president said on Wednesday: "I think we're going to get at least very close, and I think we're going to get it over the line."
He added that the final plan "would be so good, would be far better than Obamacare, and would be much less expensive for the people".
The latest round of polling, which shows approval numbers for the Senate healthcare reform bill hovering in the mid-teens, is deadly news for Republicans.
They're caught in a political pincer not unlike the one Barack Obama and Democrats faced during the Affordable Care Act battle of 2009. Back then, conservatives viewed the legislation as an unacceptable government takeover of US healthcare. Meanwhile, some on the left disapproved because they thought the efforts didn't go far enough. They wanted full-out socialised medicine, instead of market-based insurance reform.
That left-right combo of dissatisfaction made it hard for Obamacare to ever gain majority backing.
Trumpcare faces a similar dilemma - only it's much, much worse. Democrats universally despise the proposals. The not-far-enough/too-far divide exists almost entirely within Republican ranks. Moderates think the cuts go too far. Hard-liners want a full-out repeal. None of them are happy. That leaves only a slice of a slice of the public offering any kind of support for the bill.
Republicans legislators may yet close ranks and pass something, faced with the unappealing prospect of doing nothing after promising action for seven years. One thing is certain, however. Whatever they might agree on has little chance of garnering much popular support.
Will Trumpcare's unpopularity be fatal?
The 142-page Senate bill - the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 - imposes deep cuts to Medicaid, a government health programme for low-income Americans.
The bill also gives states more latitude in requiring insurers to provide essential medical benefits guaranteed under Obamacare, including emergency and maternity care and mental health services.
Details also include:
Nine Senate Republicans have announced opposition to the bill.
Some have criticised it for stripping protections for the poor and elderly, as well as access to women's health. Others on the right of the party say the bill still represents government overreach.
Not one single Democrat is expected to support the proposed legislation, having lambasted it as a huge transfer of wealth from poor to rich.
Top Democrat Nancy Pelosi has warned that "hundreds of thousands" of Americans will die if the bill passes.
The American Medical Association opposed the bill because, among other concerns, it says there will be higher costs for people on low incomes.
And the American Association of Retired Persons, the nation's oldest non-profit organisation representing Americans over 50 years-old, slammed the bill as an "age tax".
Republicans reportedly want to make changes to the bill by the end of this week.
They will then send it to be analysed by the non-partisan Congressional Budgetary Office (CBO), which has said the bill in its present form would strip 22 million Americans of health insurance over the next 10 years.
Congress returns from the Fourth of July holiday on Monday 10 July, and there is a three-week window before the long summer break in which the Senate can vote on a new version.
It will then need to return to the lower chamber, the House of Representatives, for approval before being signed into law by the president.
A healthcare bill similar to the Senate version has already passed the House, but it was criticised by the president as "mean".
Fewster, 20, spent seven months on loan at York in last season, while Heardman, 20, trained with the Pools last week.
Pools manager Craig Hignett previously managed Fewster during the forward's time with Boro's under-13s.
"I know what Craig is all about and I knew when he went to York last season that he would do well and score some goals," Hignett told the club website.
"He's a finisher who comes alive in the box, his movement is good and he's a bit different from the other options we have in the squad so I'm delighted to get him.
"Both Tom and Brad are really hungry to prove themselves and that's one of the big qualities I look for in players."
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The 54-year-old from Azerbaijan has been out of the game for 12 years, after turning his hand to politics.
He gained legendary status, becoming known as the "Beast of Baku" and dominated the sport for 15 years.
In a Facebook post he said: "This is not an end to my retirement from chess, only a five-day hiatus."
He added that any earnings from the competition will be donated to charity.
Mr Kasparov was selected as a wild card to compete in the Rapid and Blitz tournament against nine of the best players in the world.
The competition's format requires players to make moves much faster than in the ordinary game.
However, the current world champion, Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, is not there.
In 1985 Mr Kasparov became the youngest-ever world champion, maintaining the title for 15 years.
He was a pioneer of using technology in the game, but was famously beaten by an IBM super computer Deep Blue in 1997.
Mr Kasparov stepped away from the sport in 2005, becoming a vocal opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He has taken part in significant demonstrations against the Russian leader and set up the Other Russia opposition group.
In 2013 he left Russia and moved to New York.
The Afon Rheidol river in Ceredigion has been chosen as the location for their return next year.
Should the move go ahead it could see beavers brought in from the UK and around Europe.
But farmers have raised doubts about the suitability of reintroducing the mammal.
Adrian Lloyd Jones, co-ordinator with the Welsh Beaver Project, said six potential sites had been in the running as an beaver "des res" but it had now been narrowed down and the Afon Rheidol was "looking the most favourable".
"I can't see any problems, but if there are then a couple of others are also suitable," he said.
"If all goes well we are aiming for release this time next year," he said.
The trust said beavers disappeared from Wales because they were hunted for their meat, fur and scent glands, and not because their habitats were destroyed.
The idea of returning European beavers to Wales' river valley was drawn up after more than five years' research.
The Welsh Beaver Project sees beavers as having "considerable benefit for biodiversity".
"(The) reintroduction of beavers to Wales is considered appropriate because of the important ecosystem services beavers can perform - managing wetland habitats, and helping to clean and control water resources, as well as boosting tourism and local economies," it says.
A baby beaver, known as a kit, born in Kent this week could also be one of the new inhabitants of the river next year.
Some farmers are sceptical though and Bernard Llywellyn, National Farmers' Union (NFU) rural affairs board chairman in Wales, said not enough was known about the effect the creature could have.
"There's a certain amount of evidence that in Europe, in particular, that quite considerable damage has been done but in truth we don't really know what problems there will be... and I don't think anyone else does either," he said.
"I haven't seen any evidence that they'll contribute anything to the eco-system.
"The history as far as introducing mammals in particular is not a particularly good one.
"We've seen the grey squirrel, rabbits and even mink so in reality there isn't much evidence to suggest they do any good at all."
Participants are given a 6ft (1.8m) tree, weighing about 10 kg (22lb), for the contest at Keele Christmas Tree Farm.
They must then throw it as far as possible and get the tree as high over a bar as they can.
One hundred trees are being used at the charity fundraising event to benefit the Help for Heroes campaign.
Each contestant has three attempts at the "long throw" and three at the "high throw... over a high jump bar like in athletics", with the scores being added together, organisers said.
The competition is being held over this weekend at the farm on the A525 near Keele for the first time.
Organiser Charlie Reynolds, 19, said earlier: "They get a tree to throw which they then give to the next person to throw.
"We've got 100 trees of the same size and weight over the two days, because over time branches will fall off and they'll get lighter.
"So after a while we'll change the tree to keep the weight consistent.
"In Germany they've been running a competition just after the main festive celebrations for about eight years, and always ask people to turn up with their old trees."
Minister Hakubun Shimomura said Japan wanted to teach its children "about integral parts of its territory".
The disputed territory includes islands in the East China Sea controlled by Japan but also claimed by China, and islands controlled by South Korea.
The disputes have caused tension between Japan and the two countries.
The revision approved by the Education Ministry will affect history and geography classes in junior and senior high schools.
It will say that islands in the East China Sea, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, and the South Korea-controlled Dokdo islands, known as Takeshima in Japan, are "integral parts of Japanese territory".
"From the educational point of view, it is natural for a state to teach its children about integral parts of its own territory," Mr Shimomura said.
He added that "with the co-operation of our Foreign Ministry, we will explain the country's position to our neighbours".
South Korea has protested the move, with officials calling the meaning of the revision a "very serious" matter, says Yonhap news agency.
Seoul also planned to summon the Japanese ambassador to South Korea to lodge a complaint, Yonhap added.
The disputed islands have long been an issue in diplomatic relations between Japan and its neighbours.
The territory disputed with South Korea, which North Korea also claims, covers a small area but provides good fishing grounds.
The row has also come to symbolise historical grievances founded in Japan's colonisation of the Korean peninsula.
Meanwhile, the islands at the heart of the row with China lie in the East China Sea. Controlled by Japan, they are also claimed by Taiwan.
Tensions rose significantly in 2012 after the Japanese government bought three of the islands from their private Japanese owner.
Since then, Chinese ships have been sailing in and out of what Japan says are its territorial waters.
China has also declared an Air Defence Identification Zone over the islands - meaning it requires all aircraft flying through the zone to follow certain rules - a move roundly criticised by Japan and the US.
The 32-year-old Australia lock, who has captained his country for 16 of his 62 Tests, joined Harlequins in 2015.
Horwill, who previously played for Super Rugby outfit Queensland Reds, will succeed England scrum-half Danny Care as Quins skipper.
"I'm very humbled and honoured to be asked to captain such a great club," Horwill told Quins' website.
Care, who had led the side since replacing Joe Marler in 2015, said: "I feel that it is the right time for a freshen-up, and for someone else to take over."
Director of rugby John Kingston added: "I would like to extend my sincere thanks to Danny for his huge effort and energy whilst being captain of Harlequins.
"James has shown unconditional commitment to the cause since he arrived at the club. I am immensely looking forward to working with him as we seek to build on our Champions Cup qualification."
Quins finished sixth in the table in 2016-17, 14 points off the top four, after 11 wins and 11 defeats in their 22 league games.
Dale Gordon, known as Deezy, was involved in a fight with two men in Manchester at about 22:15 GMT on 15 November 2014, police said.
The 20-year-old died from head injuries in hospital the following day.
His mother Lynn Meecham said: "I have lost a young, talented, loving son and I hope in my heart there is someone out there who can assist the police."
"It only seems like yesterday as the pain has not gone away," she added.
A £25,000 reward is still on offer for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.
The two other men in the fight were described as both being mixed race, between 5ft 8in (1.7m) and 6ft (1.8m) tall and in their mid to late 20s.
One man was said to be of average to athletic build, wearing a hooded grey top with a darker hoodie over the top, and possibly something red underneath.
The other man wore a dark top, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.
They were seen leaving the scene in a grey or silver hatchback car.
Three men, aged 24, 28 and 32, were arrested on suspicion of murder but have been since released with no further action.
Det Ch Insp Paul Parker, from GMP, said police had made "good progress" with the investigation but "need that key witness to come forward".
He added: "Gorton is a very strong community and I am sure there is somebody out there who can provide that key piece of evidence that brings the offenders to justice.
"I understand that people can feel scared about providing information to the police... and I can reassure you we will treat the information you supply with the strictest of confidence."
Among the five legislative votes scheduled, Wednesday's vote on new national emissions caps for five pollutants is most likely to generate attention.
Not for the first time this year, the main political interest may lie in the motion votes - chief among which is a vote on the EU's strained relations with Turkey.
On Thursday, MEPs will vote on a draft resolution calling for the EU to freeze the country's accession talks following a failed coup against the government in July.
It comes as the main centre-left group last week abandoned support for the current talks following crackdowns against journalists and opposition politicians.
Although the vote will not be binding on EU governments, it could serve to further worsen relations between the bloc and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Here's a rundown of the main events this week…
European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi will join MEPs at the start of the day's sitting to debate the Bank's annual report for 2015.
Last year saw the ECB launch a massive bond-buying programme, known as quantitative easing (QE), in a bid to boost borrowing in the eurozone.
It also marked the first full year of the ECB exercising its new responsibilities for supervising the health of the eurozone's largest banks.
Critics of the QE programme have said it hits savers and widens inequality by boosting asset prices.
However Bank chiefs have said the programme has played an important role in supporting a still-fragile eurozone recovery.
After this, MEPs will debate proposed changes to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's international banking requirements.
There is some concern the changes could put some European banks at a disadvantage to their US competitors.
In the evening, MEPs will debate three non-binding motions that will be put a vote on Tuesday - the most noteworthy is a motion calling for greater military co-operation between EU states.
In the morning, MEPs will debate how EU debt and deficit rules should be applied next year.
The EU Commission said last week that the draft budgets of eight eurozone countries were "at risk" of not complying with agreed EU limits.
However some MEPs have criticised the EU executive for not taking punitive action against states that break the rules.
They will also debate new EU rules obliging tax authorities to automatically share certain bank account information to tackle money laundering.
After the lunchtime voting session, EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini will join MEPs to discuss the situation in Syria.
It comes as the Syrian government last week renewed air strikes and shelling on rebel-held parts of Aleppo, according to activists.
They will then debate relations with Turkey, which have been under strain since a failed coup against the government of President Erdogan in July.
A crackdown against opposition politicians, civil servants and journalists in the wake of the coup attempt has prompted increasing criticism from within the EU.
A topical motion which could call for the country's EU membership bid to be frozen will be voted on during Thursday's session.
After this, MEPs will debate draft motions on the EU's common security and defence policies, and efforts to counter "disinformation and propaganda" from Russia and Islamic State (IS) group.
In the evening they will also discuss plans for an EU "skills guarantee" scheme to boost literacy and numeracy skills among low-skilled adults.
The scheme would target those without a formal secondary education but too old to be eligible for the EU's youth guarantee scheme for under-25s.
The morning sitting will see MEPs debate stricter national emissions caps for five key pollutants, to apply from 2030.
MEPs agreed a compromise position on the new legal limits with member states at the end of June, which will be put to a final vote at lunchtime.
New limits for methane - as originally proposed by the Commission in 2013 - were dropped after opposition from some governments.
The winner of the annual LUX prize for European cinema will be announced at around 11.00 GMT, before lunchtime's voting session.
Among the motions to be put to the vote is one calling for the EU's recently-signed trade deal with Canada to be examined by the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
The agreement was signed last month after seven years of negotiations - but still needs to be ratified by the European Parliament before it can fully come into force.
Eighty-nine MEPs have backed a motion asking for the Court to rule on whether the investor protection measures in the deal comply with EU law.
Without substantial support from the centre-right parties, it is unlikely to be passed.
After the voting session, MEPs will debate a proposal to grant €200m in EU loans to Jordan to help it cope with economic instability and refugee crisis.
A vote on whether to approve the loans will take place on Thursday.
They will also debate changes to EU rules governing cross-border pensions, also to be put to a vote on Thursday.
The evening will see discussions on non-binding motions to change the EU's VAT rules to clamp down on fraud, and calling for EU-wide sanctions on the traffickers of wildlife products.
The day's short sitting starts with a debate with European Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly about her department's work during 2015.
At lunchtime MEPs are likely to pass a motion backing her investigations into "revolving doors" cases involving EU ex-commissioners.
Ms O'Reilly recently raised concerns about the appointment of Jose Manuel Barroso as an advisor at US investment bank Goldman Sachs.
Last month an EU ethics panel cleared the ex-Commission President of breaching the EU executive's conduct rules.
The Ombudsman has hinted that she may open an inquiry given the "concern that continues to be expressed" about the appointment.
After this MEPs will debate this month's resolutions on human rights cases - this month relating to China, Brazil and Russia.
The motion on Turkey's EU membership bid will be voted on at lunchtime, along with a motion on the situation in Syria following the debate on Tuesday.
A short afternoon session will consist of a single short debate on access to energy targets in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Please note: This agenda is subject to modification at the opening of the session on Monday afternoon.
A guide to how the European Parliament's plenary sessions can be found here.
Ronnie Coulter, 48, from Wishaw, was originally cleared of stabbing the 32-year-old in Overtown, North Lanarkshire, following a trial in 1999.
The Crown was given permission to bring a second prosecution following changes to Scotland's double jeopardy laws.
Coulter was convicted at the second trial at the High Court in Glasgow. He now faces a mandatory life term.
His conviction is only the second time in Scottish legal history that an accused has been tried twice for the same crime. The other saw Angus Sinclair convicted of the World's End murders after a second trial.
Coulter was convicted by a majority verdict following a four-week trial.
Judge Lord Matthews deferred sentence until 31 October for background reports.
The judge told Coulter: "There is only one sentence I can pass of life imprisonment. The only question for me is how long you should serve before being eligible for parole."
Lord Matthews said he was calling for background reports given the relatively minor nature of Coulter's previous convictions and his mental health issues.
Lawyer Aamer Anwar, who began campaigning for the Chhokar family when he was a final year law student at Strathclyde University, said: "Today's verdict is not a cause for celebration but relief that finally justice has been done after nearly 18 years.
"No-one can imagine the devastating toll on a family who were forced to campaign for justice.
"In 2000, I stood on the steps of this court, accusing our justice system of acting like a gentleman's colonial club - of being arrogant, unaccountable and institutionally racist.
"But the Chhokar family want to thank today's prosecutors, Crown Office and Police Scotland for their unwavering commitment to justice."
Mr Anwar said the Chhokar family's campaign for justice had "placed victim's rights at the heart of a modern criminal justice system" and would "be their legacy for generations to come".
He added: "Their is real sorrow that Mr Darshan Singh Chhokar is not here to see justice, but I hope that both he and Surjit are finally at peace."
Two official inquiries were ordered after the original trial of Mr Coulter and the subsequent acquittal of his nephew Andrew and David Montgomery over Mr Chhokar's death.
One of the reports made allegations of "institutional racism" and the other said that all three men should have stood trial together.
Following the publication of the reports in 2001, the then Lord Advocate, Colin Boyd QC, said the Chhokar family had been failed by the police and prosecution services.
In his last interview before his death in November 2015, Mr Chhokar's father said his only wish was that those responsible for his son's death "face justice".
After the verdict a spokesman for the Crown Office said: "We welcome the decision of the jury and the fact that this means someone has now been convicted for the appalling murder of Surjit Singh Chhokar in 1998.
"We would like to pay tribute to his family who have behaved with great courage and dignity throughout their long wait to see someone found guilty of his murder.
"As a result of this case, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service has transformed the way it deals with allegations of racial crimes including a complete review of how we manage High Court business and significant improvements to the way we communicate with relatives."
Det Ch Supt Clark Cuzen, who led the investigation, said: "Coulter has been cowardly for showing absolutely no remorse for his crimes and the fact that he has actively and deliberately tried to evade justice for years speaks volume about the individual."
The detective paid tribute to Mr Chhokar's father, Darshan Singh Chhokar, who died last year.
He described the case as "a complex and challenging two-year investigation" that "ultimately...pointed the finger firmly at Ronnie Coulter".
Det Ch Supt Cuzen added: "Whilst we were unable to find evidence of racial motivation at the time of the murder, there was evidence to support the fact that Ronnie Coulter described Surjit using racist terms when confessing to the murder."
The trial heard that Ronnie Coulter, his nephew Andrew Coulter and another man, David Montgomery, went to see Mr Chhokar on 4 November 1998 following a row over a stolen £100 Giro cheque.
After an altercation, Mr Chhokar collapsed in front of his partner Liz Bryce.
He was stabbed three times in the chest and one of the blows pierced his heart, resulting in his death from massive blood loss.
The court also heard how Ronnie Coulter was previously tried for Mr Chhokar's murder in 1999, but cleared of the charge.
Andrew Coulter, who was convicted of stabbing and killing another man in 1999, and Mr Montgomery, were also cleared of Mr Chhokar's murder at another trial in 2000.
In 2011, changes were made to the double jeopardy law which prevented an accused person from being tried for the same offence twice.
In January 2013, the Crown Office ordered a new investigation into the Chhokar case.
The following year, three high court judges granted prosecutors permission to retry Ronnie Coulter.
He denied the charge and lodged a special defence blaming his nephew Andrew and Mr Montgomery.
Both men gave evidence during the trial and admitted being there on the night Mr Chhokar died, but they denied murder.
A jury has now decided Ronnie Coulter committed the murder and convicted him following a second trial.
November 4, 1998: Surjit Singh Chhokar murdered
9 March 1999: Ronnie Coulter acquitted of murder, but convicted of assaulting Mr Chhokar. He was not sentenced because of the time he had already spent in custody. In a Special Defence of Incrimination he had blamed his nephew Andrew Coulter and David Montgomery for the murder. Trial judge Lord McCluskey fiercely attacked the Crown for having failed to indict all three men together. He said: "For reasons that I cannot begin to understand, one, and only one of those persons was placed in the dock and charged with the crime. That is a matter which, to me, as a judge of considerable experience, passes my understanding altogether, I cannot begin to understand how it happened and I shall be taking steps to see if I can discover what the reason was for the course that was taken. Unfortunately I know no more than you do about that particular background."
The then Lord Advocate, Lord Hardie replied in a statement: "It is a matter of regret that a judge of such experience should make such public pronouncements in ignorance of the background to the case. Such uninformed and ill-advised remarks do not serve the interests of justice and fail to appreciate the respective roles of the Lord Advocate and the Judiciary. Prosecution decisions fall within the independent exercise of the discretion of the Lord Advocate, who is not accountable to the High Court of Justiciary, or any of its judges, for such decisions. From the preliminary report given to me I am satisfied that the action taken in this case was the most appropriate in the circumstances and the reasons for it are sound."
2 July 1999: Andrew Coulter and David Montgomery indicted for Mr Chhokar's murder. They lodged a "plea in bar of trial" at the High Court, claiming the case should not be allowed to go ahead because pre-trial publicity meant they wouldn't get a fair hearing.
14 September 1999: Appeal Court in Edinburgh rejects plea. The men appealed to the Privy Council.
28 November 2000: Andrew Coulter and David Montgomery acquitted of murder. They had named Ronnie Coulter as the killer in their own Special Defences.
24 October 2001: Report of Sir Anthony Campbell QC into the way prosecution decisions were made in the Surjit Singh Chhokar case. He said all three men should have been indicted together, and recommended a review of Crown Office procedures.
24 October 2001: Report of Dr. Raj Jandoo into allegations of institutional racism on the case. Among his findings: institutional racism was evident in the police and the procurator fiscal system, and police failed to appreciate the impact which a major crime has on members of a vulnerable minority community.
21 January 2015: Crown Office indicts Ronnie Coulter for Mr Chhokar's murder. This follows an application to the High Court seeking permission to raise a prosecution under Double Jeopardy laws. Coulter's case will be only the second such prosecution. The only other was that of Angus Sinclair in the World's End murder case.
5 October 2016: Ronnie Coulter convicted of murder
Lee Brown struck Rovers' winner in stoppage time as they came from behind to win against the relegated Daggers.
Billy Bodin had cancelled out Matthew Cash's opener and Rovers looked set to draw despite having 35 shots on goal.
But Brown clinched the Pirates' second consecutive promotion on 92 minutes.
Darrell Clarke's side, who were relegated to the National League on the final day of the season in 2014, began Saturday in fourth place, two points behind second-placed Accrington.
Wins for both Accrington and Oxford would have left Rovers in the play-offs, but Stanley failed to beat Stevenage, meaning Rovers finished third on goal difference.
Top scorer Matty Taylor spurned the best of the home side's many second-half chances before Brown's late twist.
Throwing players forward in search of the winner, Rovers almost conceded but Brown cleared off the line to deny Dagenham.
As full-time loomed, Taylor hit the post but the rebound fell to defender Brown, who netted to set off jubilant celebrations at the Memorial Stadium.
Clarke's side lost just one of their final 14 games of the season to return to the third tier for the first time since being relegated in 2011.
Bristol Rovers match-winner Lee Brown told BBC Radio Bristol: "It means the world to me. It means so much to so many people.
"It just happened to fall to me. I was the lucky one. I'm just so happy it hit the back of the net.
"What a group of players, I can't rate them highly enough. It's going to be a long night."
Match ends, Bristol Rovers 2, Dagenham and Redbridge 1.
Second Half ends, Bristol Rovers 2, Dagenham and Redbridge 1.
Ellis Harrison (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jimmy Shephard (Dagenham and Redbridge).
Lee Brown (Bristol Rovers) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal! Bristol Rovers 2, Dagenham and Redbridge 1. Lee Brown (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Luke Pennell.
Attempt missed. Matty Taylor (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Billy Bodin (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Oliver Hawkins replaces Andre Boucaud because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Mark McChrystal (Bristol Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Mark Cousins.
Attempt saved. Jermaine Easter (Bristol Rovers) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Christian Doidge (Dagenham and Redbridge) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Jack Connors.
Attempt missed. Ellis Harrison (Bristol Rovers) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Andre Boucaud.
Attempt blocked. Jake Gosling (Bristol Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Jermaine Easter (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Andre Boucaud (Dagenham and Redbridge).
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Jermaine Easter replaces Lee Mansell.
Corner, Dagenham and Redbridge. Conceded by Mark McChrystal.
Mark McChrystal (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jamie Cureton (Dagenham and Redbridge).
Attempt saved. Matty Taylor (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Mark Cousins.
Attempt saved. Ellis Harrison (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Jamie Cureton replaces Ashley Chambers.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Mark Cousins.
Attempt saved. Matty Taylor (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Matty Taylor (Bristol Rovers) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Andre Boucaud.
Attempt blocked. Matty Taylor (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Ellis Harrison (Bristol Rovers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Frankie Raymond.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Dominic Hyam.
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Ellis Harrison replaces Rory Gaffney.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Mark Cousins.
Attempt saved. Chris Lines (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Luke Pennell.
Keshi was sacked at the start of July and has been replaced by Sunday Oliseh.
He has written to the NFF through his lawyers demanding the money, claiming damages for defamation.
However, NFF officials believe the claim has no substance and are confident the body will not be forced to compensate Keshi.
BBC Sport understands that Keshi is anxious to protect his reputation and profile in football circles after the NFF disciplinary committee made various allegations against him.
Keshi has yet to take the case to court as he is hoping the matter can be resolved amicably.
The former Togo and Mali coach becomes the second former Nigeria coach in five years to protest against dismissal by the NFF - his predecessor Samson Siasia launched legal action in October 2011 but later withdrew his case and said he wanted to look ahead.
Keshi, a former captain of the national team, led the side to the 2013 Nations Cup title in South Africa and also steered the Super Eagles to the Round of 16 at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
His contract was not renewed after the World Cup but he later returned on a match-by-match deal, which ended in November after the team's failure to reach the 2015 Nations Cup finals.
As caretaker coach, Keshi endured a turbulent 2014, in which he was sacked by the NFF and only reinstalled after intervention from then Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan.
The 53-year-old, who returned for his third spell in April, led his side to a 2-0 home win against Chad in a 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in June, but was shown the exit door after less than three months into a two-year deal.
Mr Carney's decision came after increasing speculation about his future as the head of the Bank of England.
Governors are traditionally appointed for an eight-year term, but when Mr Carney took the job in 2013 he initially signed up for five years, with an option for a further three. He has now said he will stay until June 2019.
In his letter to Chancellor Philip Hammond, Mr Carney said his move should help "contribute to securing an orderly transition to the UK's new relationship with Europe".
During the referendum, Mr Carney had come under pressure from some Brexit campaigners for his remarks that voting to leave the EU would push the UK into a recession - seen by some as outside the governor's non-political remit.
The governor defended his intervention, saying the Bank's role was to "identify risks, not to cross your fingers and hope risks would go away".
Nevertheless, this sparked calls for him to resign.
Mr Carney "never seems to want to recognise the result of the referendum and get on with it," said one MP, Jacob Rees-Mogg, recently.
Since his arrival three years ago, Mr Carney has presided over measures designed to boost the UK economy in the aftermath of the global economic crisis.
There have been bouts of quantitative easing - pumping money directly into the financial system.
He introduced a policy of "forward guidance" at the Bank, also aimed at raising confidence; though just six months after its implementation in 2013 this needed a rethink.
The Bank had originally said it would not consider raising interest rates until the unemployment rate fell to 7% or below.
But when that seemed likely to happen much sooner than anticipated the Bank altered its stance, saying it would focus on a range of economic variables rather than just the jobless numbers before changing rates.
But Mr Carney did then give clear hints that rates would have to gradually rise towards 2017.
Instead, the opposite has happened, and in the wake of the UK's Brexit vote the Bank actually cut rates to 0.25% this summer.
When Mark Carney became the Bank of England's governor in June 2013, he was the first non-Briton to be appointed in the Bank's 300-year history.
He came after a successful stint as Canada's central banker, where he was credited for shielding the country from some of the worst effects of the 2008 financial crisis.
In March 2008, just a month after his appointment, he cut Canadian interest rates. This and other measures helped boost market confidence and enabled Canada to recover from the crisis more quickly than some of its peers.
Likened more than once to the Hollywood actor George Clooney, ahead of his arrival in the UK Mr Carney was touted as a "rock star" banker, a change from the usual Bank of England head.
"He's got star quality, and he knows how to use it," said fellow Canadian and former government colleague Scott Reid.
Mr Carney's appointment was a break with tradition in many ways.
He had a commercial banking, as well as a public sector background - unlike his two most recent predecessors who had spent their careers within the Bank of England and academia.
Mr Carney worked for investment banking giant Goldman Sachs in New York before returning to Canada to work for the country's Finance Department - and then Canada's central bank.
Another difference was the size of his pay packet, which was well above that of his predecessor, Sir Mervyn King.
His starting annual salary of £480,000 (plus £144,000 pension allowance) was £175,000 more than Sir Mervyn received - and that's not counting his £250,000 annual accommodation allowance.
So what is it about Mr Carney that separates him from other central bankers?
"He's extraordinarily charismatic," says Scott Reid. "You go to his speeches and you'll find them just as dry as anyone's.
"But it's the way he does things, he takes the time to linger on you... and the public and the press find that very intoxicating.
"He such a fetching figure - but let's not be shy about that. He's conscious of it. He's shrewd when it comes to his image."
Married to an Englishwoman, the 48-year-old's postgraduate education was at Oxford University, where he studied economics.
His former tutor during his Masters degree, economist Peter Oppenheimer, says "he was a typically bright, transatlantic student".
"That sounds terribly old fashioned, but he wasn't the sort of young man who walked around in torn sweaters."
Prof Oppenheimer says Mr Carney was an interesting choice to run the Bank of England. "He wasn't an insider, he wasn't an academic economist, and he was a practical banker of a certain kind.
"The really good governors of the post-Second World War period have been people with practical banking experience, such as Gordon Richardson and Robin Leigh-Pemberton.
"They have been the outstanding governors. More so than Bank insiders, or people with long academic careers."
It's been said Mr Carney wanted to stay to help the UK through the challenges of Brexit, and that leaving early might be seen by some of his critics as admitting defeat.
Crucially, he has the backing of the Prime Minister, Theresa May, who believes he is the right person to be Bank of England governor.
There is also the matter of market confidence.
Following the referendum result and all the personnel changes in the Conservative government, many in the markets see Mr Carney as one of the few voices of continuity in the UK.
Three people, thought to have been in the building at the time, are still missing after the incident at the mine near the north-eastern town of Barberton, emergency services say.
More than 70 workers had to use an emergency exit to reach the surface.
South Africa's deep gold mines often pose serious safety issues.
Last year, 77 workers were killed in various mining accidents, the lowest number on record.
The three missing workers were in the lamp room near the surface of the mine at the time of the incident, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) said in a statement on its website.
There have been conflicting interpretations of the incident.
The operations manager for the Lily mine Mike Begg told local media that 84 workers had escaped and that five were missing, describing what happened as "a freak accident".
Meanwhile, AMCU said that 75 employees were successfully rescued, and that it was "outraged at another terrible mining disaster".
It said that more than 50 family members of those involved in the incident were now waiting outside the entrance of the site for their loved ones.
His lawyer claims the allegation is "demonstrably false" - and fans have flocked to social media to support the controversial singer.
This isn't Brown's first encounter with the law - and with a number of previous, high-profile convictions for violence, why do so many fans adore him?
Chris Brown's violent assault on his then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009 became one of the biggest stories of that year. Details of the attack in the police report, and the photos of Rihanna's injuries leaked to the press, led to widespread criticism in the media.
But his die-hard fans - who call themselves Team Breezy - say that was an isolated incident and has since been used to sabotage his career and reputation. His probation for the attack ended last year.
In the age of social media, Brown's fans connect with him directly, personally, through his online accounts. In 2009, that was through a YouTube video - since deleted - in which he told his fans he was "not a monster" and to tell his "real fans I love you all".
Now, the star has turned to Instagram as his favoured platform. Some celebrities might suspend their social activity when they find themselves suddenly in the public eye - but as police waited outside his home, reportedly because they were denied entry by Brown and had to wait for a judge to approve a search warrant, he used Instagram to issue messages to his 30 million followers.
He complained that "every three months y'all come up with something". "You're all the worst gang in the world, the police," he said, and mentioned the "Black Lives Matter" movement in another.
His fans have taken up that call, too, painting Brown as a victim of racial profiling, and suggesting the police response was disproportionate.
This type of deep, personal connection to a star is relatively new, according to Professor Chris Rojek from City University London. author of the book Celebrity.
"Social media has transformed celebrity culture," he said. "By having 24/7 access to a celebrity the fan believes that he or she 'knows' [the star]."
Yet while the singer can enjoy the dedicated support of his followers, those on Team Breezy's bad side can face a difficult time.
Baylee Curran, the actress at the centre of the story, originally posted a video message to her Instagram account with her version of events. It has since been deleted.
Her other posts, however, are inundated with abuse from Brown supporters. "Dumb little ***** … nobody has time for your dumb stories , you just want attention and fame you ain't gonna have that because your level is zero and his level can't even be compared with your ******* ugly self !" one wrote in the comments of a photo.
Other posts encourage violence, insult her appearance, and accuse her of lying for attention.
This aggression, Professor Rojek says, can happen when fandom crosses the line into open celebrity worship.
"For some fans, celebs are more important than their families and friends," he said. "They have a relationship of 'presumed intimacy' with them, in which the public acclaim for the celebrity is shared by the fan.
"The assault on a celebrity is therefore an assault on the self. The celebrity can't be wrong, so he or she must be protected."
This, he said, is no different from religion. Celebrity Worship Syndrome is a psychological condition, where a fan comes to see their icon as "super human".
The behaviour of a small number of Brown's fans online doesn't tell the whole picture, however - Brown has also enjoyed the support of world-famous celebrities over the years.
After the alleged incident this week, singer Ray J posted a video to Instagram, saying he was "real upset about today."
"I'm not happy with how things are handled, and how people can take a false story and blow it up into something way more than what it should be," he told fans.
A trailer for an upcoming documentary, billed as "a chance to tell his own story" featured interviews with high-profile stars such as Usher, Jennifer Lopez, Mike Tyson, and Jamie Foxx.
Even Rihanna seemingly forgave the singer for the infamous 2009 assault, as the couple briefly dated once again in 2012. They have since discontinued their relationship.
Despite the support of fans and friends, Brown's troubles have had a direct impact on the artist's career.
"Even though Chris Brown will always have a loyal fanbase, he isn't the hitmaker he once was," said Radio 1 music journalist Steve Holden.
"Some corners suggest he has been unfairly treated in this instance, or that there was some kind of set-up. However, for many news outlets and tabloids, Chris Brown is more synonymous with his personal troubles than his music.
"As long as Rihanna remains the huge star she is, he will forever be associated with what he did to her."
Brown's convictions have hurt him professionally, too. He has been denied visas to enter the UK and Australia on tour, and his last top 10 hit on the Billboard US Hot 100 was in 2013.
Despite the setbacks, however, he continues to make new music for his core fans - who stand by him at every turn.
Six others were convicted of involvement in the murder of Ahmed Rajib Haider, who was hacked to death as he was returning home from a rally in the capital, Dhaka.
A five-year sentence was given to the head of Ansarullah Bangla, the group suspected of carrying out the attack.
Five more secular bloggers and writers were killed in Bangladesh in 2015.
The court said that one of the students sentenced to death, Faisal bin Nayeem, attacked Haider with a meat cleaver in front of the victim's house.
The other was tried and sentenced in absentia.
Haider was among a group of bloggers who had called for the execution of Islamist leaders for crimes committed in the 1971 war.
The blogger's father, Mohammad Nazim Uddin, said he was unhappy that only two men were given the death sentence.
"I'm not happy with the verdict. I reject this verdict. Five of them confessed their involvement in the killing. But only two were given death sentence. How is it possible?", he said.
There have been several clashes in recent years between Islamists and supporters of the secular Awami League.
6 November 2014 Last updated at 10:36 GMT
Known as Ak Saray (White Palace), it was built on a forested hilltop on the edge of the capital Ankara, on more than 150,000 sq m (1.6m sq ft) of land.
BBC News takes a quick look inside.
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Lomu died on Wednesday at home in Auckland. He had been diagnosed with a rare kidney condition in 1995.
"We wish to thank all who have expressed their sympathies for our family at this incredibly difficult time," said Lomu's father-in-law Mervyn Quirk in a statement.
"We know that many people are mourning a very special individual."
Winger Lomu was capped 63 times for the All Blacks between 1994 and 2002 and scored 37 tries.
Quirk said funeral arrangements for Lomu were yet to be finalised.
However, he added there would be a celebration of his achievements "during an all too short time on this earth".
"We are truly touched by the outpouring of love for Jonah and the support for our family," he added.
Meanwhile, Lomu's widow, Nadene, has taken down a fundraising page set up after his death.
Ms Lomu had said the page, on the Givealittle site, would help her and her sons bring Lomu's "dreams and visions to life". She later clarified the money would go towards her sons and their education.
Family spokesman and former All Blacks coach John Hart said the page had felt at the time like "an appropriate way" to respond to requests from the public who wanted to help the family, but that it had been "misunderstood".
He said Ms Lomu had asked for it to be taken down.
Police sealed off the area behind Shrewsbury Sports Village near to Pimley Manor in Sundorne at about 10:00 GMT.
No shots were fired and the incident reached a "peaceful conclusion", said West Mercia Police.
A 42-year-old Shrewsbury man was arrested on suspicion of firearms offences.
Armed officers and police negotiators were at the scene for about three hours, the force said.
Witness Dave Mellor, who owns a cycle shop in the town, said: "There was a little bit of shouting and when I came out [of the woods] there were police dogs and armed response guys.
"I could see where [the man] was through the trees but I couldn't see what was happening. I didn't really know what was going on.
Supt David McWilliam said: "The incident was dealt with very professionally and we have tried to minimise disruption to the wider local community.
"Officers remain at the scene and will be providing reassurance to the local community that there is no continuing threat."
In a speech, Mr Hunt highlighted the "problem of loneliness that in our busy lives we have utterly failed to confront as a society".
"Some five million people say television is their main form of company," he said.
Labour accused of him trying to blame families for government failures.
In a speech at the National Children and Adults Services (NCAS) conference, Mr Hunt said: "Each and every lonely person has someone who could visit them and offer companionship.
"A forgotten million who live amongst us - ignored to our national shame."
He added: "According to the Campaign to End Loneliness, there are 800,000 people in England who are chronically lonely."
He also told delegates that the 112,000 cases of alleged abuse in care homes referred by English councils in 2012-13, the majority involving over-65s, indicated that "something is badly wrong".
But the regulation of care in both the private and public sector was improving, he argued.
Loneliness affects 'half of adults'
The Conservative MP said the new chief inspector of social care, Andrea Sutcliffe, would start to give ratings to care homes from April 2014 with a view to organising inspections of all 25,000 care homes by 2016.
Mr Hunt said he was "particularly worried" about the 400,000 people in care homes, some of whom get regular visits but others who were just "parked there".
He said that 46% of people aged 80 or over reported feeling lonely "some of the time or often".
He warned that loneliness was as "bad for you" as "smoking 15 cigarettes a day", was "worse than obesity" because of the risk of blood clots, heart disease and dementia, and warned that lonely people "drink more" and were more prone to early admission in residential or nursing care.
Mr Hunt also said he believed the UK should learn from Asian cultures where there was "reverence and respect for older people" and "residential care is a last rather than a first option".
"The social contract is stronger because as children see how their own grandparents are looked after, they develop higher expectations of how they too will be treated when they get old," he explained.
"If we are to tackle the challenge of an ageing society, we must learn from this - and restore and reinvigorate the social contract between generations.
"And uncomfortable though it is to say it, it will only start with changes in the way we personally treat our own parents and grandparents."
England should aim to become "the best place in the world to grow old in", he concluded.
But Labour said the "real national shame" was "Jeremy Hunt's attempt to shift the blame for dealing with the very real problems of loneliness amongst elderly people on to families alone".
Living alone can be linked to habits that are bad for health.
Eating poorly and having less motivation to be physically active can be a consequence of being physically isolated.
Being alone can also affect mental health, causing people to feel low and depressed.
However, feeling lonely can in itself be bad for your physical health.
Studies have shown people who are socially isolated can cause damage to the immune system leading to a condition called chronic inflammation.
And other research suggested women who developed breast cancer were more likely to die of the disease if they saw few friends and family.
Shadow health and social care minister Liz Kendall said: "He seems completely unaware that there are over six million unpaid family carers in Britain today, one in five of whom provide more than 50 hours care a week for their loved ones.
"These unsung heroes save the taxpayer billions of pounds yet often get precious little support in return.
"Families, friends and neighbours need a decent care system to back up their efforts to look after elderly people, but the reality is our care system is in crisis and has been pushed to the brink of collapse.
"Jeremy Hunt and David Cameron need to take responsibly for their government's actions rather than trying to turn the clock back and say it's down to families alone."
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said on Twitter that Jeremy Hunt was "right to highlight isolation of older people".
He added: "But he can't get away from fact that Govt cuts to care have made it much worse."
But speaking on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Anthea Tinker, professor of social gerontology at King's College in London, said it was a "myth" that eastern Asian families placed greater reverence on families and older people than in the West.
"The reality is that with one-child-families, children have often moved to a city or emigrated," she said.
"So it's just not practical for families to depend on their children. One of the largest nursing homes in the world is about to open in China, for 5,000 people, which is amazing."
Prof Tinker added: "We've got to look at the reality rather than the myth."
Mr Hunt's speech came as a BBC poll found that almost half of all adults said they experienced feelings of loneliness.
The survey of more than 2,500 adults in England was commissioned for BBC Radio 2 and BBC Local Radio's Faith In The World Week.
It also showed that people who practised a religion felt lonelier than those who did not.
London was identified the loneliest place with a figure of 52% compared with 45% in the south west of England.
On Sunday protestors marched with the coffins of two men they said died in clashes with India's security forces, waving flags and calling for peace.
Around 50 people have been wounded in riots and arson attacks that began more than a week ago.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh has appealed for calm, urging protesters and the state government to hold talks.
Tensions first escalated when police raided the homes and offices of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) members, who want a state for ethnic Gorkhas within West Bengal.
The government had also angered the Gorkhas - who speak Nepali - by announcing plans to make the Bengali language mandatory in state schools.
As relations deteriorated, the authorities sent troops and riot police in to patrol the famous tea resort.
Police said one man died and 35 police officers were hurt in the violence on Saturday.
West Bengal director general of police Anuj Sharma said the man appeared to have been shot, but police have denied using live ammunition.
They say they used tear gas and baton charges after protesters torched cars and attacked the security forces with knives.
But supporters of the GJM insist three of their comrades were shot dead by police. They say one of the bodies remains in a local hospital, awaiting a post mortem.
Reports on Sunday suggested mobile internet access has been blocked in riot-hit areas of Darjeeling.
Thousands of visitors, most of them Indian, have fled the picturesque area since the clashes began at the height of tourist season.
The GJM has ruled out holding talks with the state authorities, saying it will only negotiate with India's central government.
His election victory comes a day after China held its first state Nanjing Massacre memorial ceremony, where Chinese President Xi Jinping criticised Japanese nationalists for denying history.
China says 300,000 civilians were massacred when Japan's troops occupied the city in 1937, although some Japanese nationalists dispute this.
Last month, both countries reached a consensus to resume dialogue after strained bilateral ties over rival territorial claims in the East China Sea and disputes about Japan's World War II history.
The official Xinhua News Agency has published a series of reports and articles on Japan's election, warning the Abe administration to "shake off the rightist ideology".
Mr Abe's victory is "no reflection of public will" but "a simple economic referendum… as no other party stood nearly close enough to deliver on any of their pledges", a Xinhua report quotes observers as saying.
Another article summarises China's position on its ties with Japan.
"China and Japan, whose relations have been constantly troubled by Japan's increasingly right-tilting moves over the past few years, have reached a four-point agreement in November. Now the onus is on Mr Abe to walk his talk," says the article.
Several domestic papers, including the Beijing Times and the Beijing News, sound a note of caution over Mr Abe's military intentions.
An expert tells the Global Times' Chinese edition that the victory "may not be a disaster to Beijing-Tokyo relations", but Mr Abe has to work on improving bilateral ties now that he has reinforced his position at home.
Elsewhere, the unruly behaviour of four Chinese passengers aboard an international flight has drawn strong criticism from state media.
According to reports, four Chinese passengers lashed out at a flight attendant in an AirAsia flight to Nanjing in eastern China from Bangkok, Thailand. One of the four even threatened to blow up the plane.
The plane was forced to return to Bangkok on Thursday night after the scuffle in the air.
The four passengers were fined by Thailand authorities and were asked to compensate for throwing hot water on the air crew.
The incident sparked outrage among the Chinese netizens after the news was reported in the Chinese media.
Many are criticising them for "hurting the image of the country", while National Tourism Administration (NTA), China's tourism authority, has announced over the weekend that these passengers will be "punished".
Reprimanding the passengers, the China Daily said it was an "ugly incident" and described them as "barbarians".
"Of course, such isolated incidents do not represent the Chinese people. But they do tarnish their image," stresses the paper.
"The incident should serve as a lesson not just for the four culprits, but also for all Chinese to behave properly to get respect," it adds.
The Global Times reports that the passengers' "misconduct" will be included in the new personal travel records set up by the NTA.
"The administration's move should be encouraged, as it is the first time they have clearly stipulated that public behaviour should not only be punished by law, but also regulated by a record system," Su Haopeng, vice-dean of the Law School at the University of International Business and Economics, tells the paper.
And finally, several media outlets shine a spotlight on an ancient Chinese temple that has been turned into a "private luxurious club".
According to Xinhua, the club is located within a famous ancient temple near the historical Forbidden City in Beijing.
The news agency notes that the temple is only accessible to "members" where they could sit on the golden "dragon chair" and enjoy other luxurious services. The report adds that the temple houses a lavish Western restaurant and its hall has been "elaborately decorated".
The Beijing Times notes that some "officials" frequently visit the "temple".
The paper also calls for more stringent checks after rules banning such clubs within historic buildings and parks came into effect last month.
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At this point it's conventional wisdom that Mr Trump has had a terrible week on the campaign trail.
His top aide was indicted for accosting a reporter. He stumbled when trying to answer questions about abortion, angering both the left and the right. Wisconsin's popular Republican Governor Scott Walker endorsed his opponent, Ted Cruz. And Mr Trump saw his lead in this pivotal mid-western state evaporate.
By Sunday evening, at a rally in a half-full downtown Milwaukee theatre, the front-runner was showing signs of frustration.
He mocked his opponents in the #neverTrump movement, which has vowed to fight the New Yorker to the July Republican convention and beyond.
"If they would have worked so hard, so diligently against President Barack Hussein Obama," he said, "they would have beaten him. They would have had great budgets. They would have had everything they wanted."
Mr Trump enters the Wisconsin primary on Tuesday with a commanding lead over Mr Cruz in the race for 1,237 delegates necessary to secure the Republican nomination, but his path to reach that number is narrow.
If he is soundly defeated in Wisconsin, as polls now indicate is possible, the margin of error in future contests - such as New York, Pennsylvania and California - drops to near zero.
And Wisconsin is proving to be a very difficult nut for Mr Trump to crack. In addition to opposition from Mr Walker, the New Yorker has faced oblique criticism from Paul Ryan, the home-state hero who serves as speaker of the US House of Representatives.
He's also been resoundingly denounced by the most prominent conservative talk-radio commentators in the state.
"I think the deepest concern that talk radio people have about Trump is not so much that he's rude and will say politically incorrect things, but that they don't buy that he's a bona fide conservative," says University of Wisconsin public affairs professor Donald Moynihan.
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In other states Mr Trump has been able to capitalise on the frustration many rank-and-file Republicans have with their party's leadership, but there are few signs of such a schism in Wisconsin - in part because of the pitched battles conservatives, led by Mr Walker, have fought with liberals in the state, both in the legislature and at the ballot box.
If Trump is routed in Wisconsin, says Scot Ross, executive director of liberal watchdog group One Wisconsin Now, "they're going to say it's because his support has eroded - but it's really because the structure of the state of Wisconsin is tailor made for this to happen to him".
He said that the Wisconsin-based non-profit powerhouse the Bradley Foundation, which has spent hundreds of millions advancing conservative priorities across the US, likely views Mr Trump as a threat. The group, led by Michael Grebe, heavily supported the rise of three influential Wisconsin Republicans - Mr Walker, Mr Ryan and Republican Party head Reince Priebus - and is now quietly organising the Trump resistance in the state.
"This is a total party conspiracy against Donald Trump here that is being fully realised, whether people want to admit it or not."
Meanwhile Mr Cruz is surging in Wisconsin - and increasingly aiming to be the man the Republican Party relies on to take down Mr Trump.
Before a town hall forum in Madison, Wisconsin, on Sunday morning, the Texas senator - who previously had been reviled by Washington insiders as an uncooperative ideologue and political showboat - was boasting about his ability to rally the party behind his banner.
"Across the country 65 to 70% of Republicans recognise that Donald Trump is not the best candidate to go head-to-head with Hillary Clinton," he said. "What we are seeing in Wisconsin is the unity of the Republican Party manifested."
He noted that five former Republican presidential candidates - Rick Perry, Lindsey Graham, Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, and Mr Walker - had endorsed him. "You've got the full ideological spectrum of the Republican Party," he said.
Even if Mr Cruz drastically outperforms expectations in Wisconsin and in the states to come, however, his path to the nomination relies on an open convention where formerly committed delegates are free to support whomever they choose after the first rounds of balloting end in a deadlock. He made his pitch for their support in Wisconsin, as well.
"If we get to a contested convention, I believe we will be in a very, very strong position to earn a majority from the delegates who were elected by the people," he said.
He also pushed back against recent calls to change the party rules to allow an open Republican convention to pick a nominee who did not compete in the primaries - such as Wisconsin's Mr Ryan.
"The nice thing is, Washington doesn't control what happens," he said. "The delegates control what happens, and the delegates are elected by the people."
Preventing a so-called "white knight" from taking the nomination is one area where the campaigns of both Mr Cruz and Mr Trump are in agreement.
But Mr Trump, at least on Sunday night, still appeared to have difficulty wrapping his head around the pitched backroom convention battle that may be looming if things don't go his way in Wisconsin - and neither did his supporters.
"If Donald Trump gets the most votes but doesn't win, I think the country would feel cheated," Joe, a Trump fan who works in a Milwaukee water-processing factory, said. "The people are speaking. It not only cheats us, it shows there's a system not listening to the people."
During his speech Mr Trump groused about states like Louisiana, where Mr Cruz's campaign has secured more delegates despite having fewer votes than Mr Trump on the 1 March primary - a pattern that could repeat itself elsewhere and set the stage for convention-floor strife.
"I don't care about rules folks," Mr Trump said. "I go out. I campaign. We win. I get the delegates."
The challenge for Donald Trump is it may not work out that way. And Ted Cruz knows it.
His comments came as he spoke to MPs on the Treasury Committee.
UK rates have been held at 0.5% since March 2009. Most economists are not expecting the Bank to raise rates until mid-2016 at the earliest.
Mr Carney said that "even with limited and gradual rate increases it still will be a relatively low interest rate environment".
He remained vague on when a rate rise might be coming, and added: "The question in my mind is when the appropriate time for interests to increase and that is strongly consistent with the strength of the domestic economy."
Mr Carney also said that he did not see any need for negative interest rates.
Meanwhile, he said the Bank was monitoring groups of households to find out what impact any rate hike would have.
Kirstin Forbes, an external member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, who was also giving evidence at the same hearing, said that the next interest rate move would be upwards.
"Given the state of the UK economy, a solid recovery, I still believe certainly the next move in interest rates will be up, we will not require loosening," she said.
Mr Carney also said productivity was more likely to exceed than undershoot the Bank's latest forecasts, reducing the pressure on inflation.
Meanwhile, sterling fell after the Bank's chief economist Andy Haldane said he saw more downside risks to growth and inflation than had been indicated by the Bank's latest economic outlook.
He also reiterated his view that the Bank's next move might actually be a rate cut.
"I see the balance of risks around UK GDP growth and inflation as skewed materially to the downside, more so than embodied in the November 2015 Inflation Report," he told the Treasury Committee.
In late morning trade sterling fell by 0.03% against the US dollar, to $1.5120, and by 0.15% against the euro, to 1.4198 euros.
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Tony Walsh's poem became a symbol of defiance when he read it before a crowd of thousands at a vigil for the Manchester attack victims on Tuesday.
Endorsed by the poet, 61 people will take a line of the poem and respond to it as they like.
Organiser James Torry said: "We want this book to mark a moment, but to look ahead with real hope for the city."
In a Twitter video, he said he felt the poem "gave language to a city that was struggling to articulate how it was feeling".
"I just felt there was a response that could be made from us," he added.
Contributors already confirmed include Peter Saville, who designed Factory Records' graphics, and Malcolm Garrett who designed for Buzzcocks, Duran Duran and Simple Minds.
Proceeds will go to help those affected by the Manchester Arena attack and the mayor's fund for the city's homeless.
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The party made gains from the Conservatives as it won 30 of the 39 seats on the council.
Councillor Andrew Leadbetter said he was "considering his position" as Conservative group leader of the council.
Control of Plymouth City Council hangs in the balance as no party managed to win a majority.
Labour gained four seats in Exeter while the Conservatives lost four, leaving them with eight and the Liberals Democrats with one.
Among the winners for Labour were four Exeter University students, Dan Gottschalk, Rose Ashwood, Luke Sills and Lewis Keen, all first-time councillors.
John Chilvers, president of Exeter Labour Students, said: "It's a great testament to our hard work, it is just a shame about how the party performed nationally.
"People should come to Exeter to see what wining is about and how to do it.
"There are no safe seats for Labour so if you didn't work hard you would not achieve this."
Mr Leadbetter said: "Obviously I'm disappointed.
"There is something special about Exeter that seems to make them want to have Labour candidates - they've had a Labour MP here for a long time so it's continuity."
Former Exeter city centre manager John Harvey, who had been standing as the Conservative candidate in the Alphington ward, tweeted that he was "absolutely devastated" at the result.
Labour and the Conservatives hold 27 seats each in Plymouth after Labour lost a seat and the Conservatives gained one.
Decisions will have to be made over the next few days over who will lead the city council.
Counting in the Devon and Cornwall Police and Crime Commissioner is due to start later.
Across England, elections are taking place for more than 120 councils and to elect mayors in Bristol, Liverpool, London and Salford.
Mario Itzep of the National Indigenous Observatory said two men on a motorbike opened fire on him in Guatemala City.
He said he had recently received anonymous telephone calls telling him that unless he stopped bothering the government he would regret it.
Mr Itzep said he was not injured in the incident.
He recently filed a suit with the Prosecutor's Office for Human Rights over the killing of six indigenous people during protests in Totonicapan at the beginning of October.
An army colonel and eight soldiers have been charged with extrajudicial killing in connection with the case.
New Zealander Crosswell, 30, is vice captain at Rodney Parade while 24-year-old Prydie has been with the Dragons for five seasons.
Prydie holds the record as the youngest Wales international, making his debut against Italy in 2010 when he was 18 years and 25 days old.
He has won five caps, but his last appearance was against Japan in 2013.
"They haven't been offered a contract at the moment," said backs coach Shaun Connor.
"That's not to say they won't be offered contracts but, as is the case, rugby world players around this time of year need to look if they are not going to be at a club.
"As far as I'm concerned they'll both be involved this week and they are going to be vital players for us between now and the end of the season and who knows maybe beyond."
Dragons are 10th in the Pro12 table, having won only four games out of 14 and face Connacht in Galway on Saturday, 18 February.
The region will again be without Wales squad wing Ashton Hewitt who is continuing his recovery from concussion.
But second row Cory Hill could figure at the Sportsground having been released from Wales squad duties.
The Royal Society of Architects announced One Central Square in Cardiff, Rhyl High School in Denbighshire, and the Silver House in Gower, were in the running.
The Chickenshed, Monmouthshire, completes the shortlist.
All the buildings will be visited by a regional jury before the winner is announced at an award ceremony at Cardiff and Vale College on 30 May.
The winners will be in the running for the UK-wide 2017 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize for the best building of the year.
The girl was taken to hospital after emergency services were called to St Gabriel's Avenue, Blackburn, where she remains in a serious condition.
Lancashire Police said she was seen arguing with a man on Rutland Close before the incident on Thursday night.
A 21-year-old man from Blackburn has been arrested on suspicion of assault.
They are one of four Kosovan clubs who have met Uefa's licensing criteria.
Kosovo were granted member status by Uefa in May 2016 but neither champions Feronikeli nor cup winners Pristina, obtained a Uefa license for last term.
Either the Kosovan Cup winners, or the second-placed team in the league, will enter next season's Europa League.
The first qualifying round draw for the Champions League and Europa League takes place on 19 June, with the first qualifying round first leg ties taking place a week later.
Three of the five teams Trepca '89 could meet are Wales' New Saints, Northern Ireland's Linfield and Vikingur of the Faroe Islands.
The study by the London School of Economics and the Institute for Fiscal Studies says the success should boost social mobility in the capital.
The proportion of pupils on free school meals in inner London obtaining five or more A*-C grades at GCSE has more than doubled over a decade, it finds.
London could offer "valuable lessons" for improving standards in other areas.
The study seeks to find out what is behind the "London effect" that has seen the performance of disadvantaged pupils improve dramatically.
In 2002, fewer than a quarter (22%) got at least five A*-C GCSEs (including maths and English) but by 2013, this had risen to nearly half - 48%.
Outside England's capital, the figure rose from 17% to 26%.
Researchers say the improvement in performance of disadvantaged children in London cannot be attributed to one single factor and is "complex and stretches back a number of years and through the education system".
However, steady improvement in the capital's schools is cited as one major factor, with improvements in primary schools playing a major role.
They found that disadvantaged pupils generally started primary school at a similar level or behind their peers elsewhere in England, but then made faster progress from the age of five to 11.
The ethnically diverse mix of London is cited as another possible factor for the capital's success, because poorer pupils from ethnic minorities tend to obtain better GCSE results than children from poor, white British backgrounds.
But the report says this only explains about one-sixth of the improvement relative to the rest of the country and most of it can be explained by rising attainment at primary level - pupils entering secondary school with better test results.
The researchers say the tide started to turn in London - "an educational success story" - before various schemes aimed at improvement were introduced.
"We show that the London advantage for poor children was present in primary and secondary schools from the mid-1990s," the report says.
"This is well before the introduction of many recent policies that have previously been cited as the reasons for London's success, such as the London Challenge or academies programme."
The study concludes that the academic success of the capital's young people is likely to gain ground.
"London's schooling success seems likely to further grow over time as age-11 test scores continue to improve relative to elsewhere in England," it says.
"Furthermore, it is striking that London's improvement appears to be driven by higher quality attainment, including higher grades and GCSE qualifications rather than lower value equivalent qualifications.
"While it is too early to observe if this trend continues at later stages, there are reasons to be optimistic that this may translate into more social mobility in the capital city," the study concludes.
Theresa May said on Sunday a Conservative government would not raise VAT if it wins the general election.
But the prime minister declined to back a Tory pledge from 2015 that also ruled out rises in the other two taxes.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies said the 2015 move had been a "bad policy".
IFS analysts Helen Miller and Barra Roantree said: "This so-called 'tax lock' is a serious constraint because these three taxes contribute almost two-thirds of tax revenues.
"A government that wanted, or thought it might be necessary, to raise additional revenues in future would be foolish to tie their hands by ruling out increases in these workhorse taxes."
Mrs May said she would not be making "specific proposals" on taxes unless she was "absolutely sure" they could be delivered.
She later said the Conservatives "won't be increasing VAT".
Labour, which has also ruled out a VAT rise, said it would deliver "low taxes for low and medium earners" if it won the general election on 8 June.
Chancellor Philip Hammond's recent U-turn on a planned increase in taxes for the self-employed "highlights the problems with the tax lock", the IFS said.
Mr Hammond was forced to drop the plans after criticism that he was breaking the spirit of the Tories' 2015 election pledge.
Whoever wins the election needs room to manoeuvre because the government's reliance on tax income is set to reach its highest since the early 1980s, the IFS said.
It forecasts that by 2019-20 tax receipts will be at the highest share of national income, at 34.4%, since 1981-82.
Where will the tax take come from in 2017-18?
Source: IFS
"The next government, whatever its colour, will face pressure to maintain this increase in tax revenues, and possibly to raise further revenues," said Ms Miller and Mr Roantree.
After the last five elections, chancellors have routinely increased taxes in the 12 months that followed, they said.
The government raised an extra £3.5bn in tax after the 2015 election, while after the previous four elections ministers raised an extra £7.5bn on average, the think tank said.
Catalonia's High Court said it would open proceedings against Mr Mas for allegedly disobeying a constitutional ban against the vote.
The 9 November vote, which was not binding, went ahead despite fierce opposition by the Spanish government.
Catalan officials say more than 80% of those who voted backed independence.
Mr Mas, his deputy Joana Ortega, and Catalan Education Minister Irene Rigau face accusations ranging from disobedience and perverting the course of justice to misuse of public funds.
Catalonia is one of Spain's richest and most highly-industrialised regions, and also one of the most independent-minded.
With a distinct history stretching back to the early Middle Ages, many Catalans think of themselves as a separate nation from the rest of Spain.
Earlier this year, the Spanish government appealed against the autonomous north-eastern region's plans for a referendum, and Spain's constitutional court suspended the vote and ordered a ban on campaigning.
The Catalan government reacted by making the vote unofficial and non-binding, and gave the task of organising the ballot to thousands of volunteers.
Some 2.3 million people took part in November's ballot, out of an electorate of 5.4 million. Mr Mas called the poll "a great success" that showed the region had "earned the right to a referendum".
However, the Spanish government dismissed the exercise as a "useless sham" and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy stressed that most voters had not taken part.
She tweeted: "I want the public to see my email."
This came after her emails were subpoenaed by a congressional committee investigating the deadly attack on the US embassy in Benghazi in 2012.
The state department is examining her use of a personal email account as a possible breach of federal law.
The controversy has put Mrs Clinton under pressure as she is widely believed to be planning a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.
In the tweet, Mrs Clinton wrote: "I asked State to release them [emails]. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible."
It was revealed on Wednesday that Mrs Clinton had her own internet server at her home in New York.
As the secretary of state in 2009-2013, Mrs Clinton did not have a government email address, the US state department told The New York Times.
Government watchdogs and former officials from the National Archives and Records Administration told the newspaper that Mrs Clinton's use of private email alone, without any government account, was a serious breach.
Others cited concerns that a personal email account could be vulnerable to hackers.
The matter has been complicated by Associated Press reports that an internet server was registered under the name of Eric Hoteham at Mrs Clinton's home in Chappaqua, New York.
The correspondence of federal officials is considered government records under federal law and Mrs Clinton has already had to hand over 55,000 pages of emails to the State Department.
On Tuesday, Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Mrs Clinton, declined to say why she used a personal account at the state department, but defended its use.
Mrs Clinton had complied with the "letter and spirit of the rules", Mr Merrill said.
Mrs Clinton's tweeted statement came just hours after the Republican-led congressional committee had demanded that Mrs Clinton turn over all emails relating to the Benghazi attack in which US ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed.
The chairman of the Benghazi committee, Trey Gowdy, told reporters "I want the documents. Sooner rather than later."
Democrats on the committee have criticised the decision arguing it is a politically-motivated hunt by Republicans,
"Everything I've seen so far has led me to believe that this an effort to go after Hillary Clinton, period," said Elijah Cummings.
United Airlines said its last service from Newcastle will fly on 6 September.
The company said the route was "not profitable" and anticipated an "impact of the weaker pound in UK outbound travel".
The pound has lost more than 13% of its value against the US dollar since the UK voted to leave the EU.
The airline has run the service between Newcastle and Newark for six days a week for the last two summers.
A spokeswoman for United Airlines said: "We have regretfully taken this decision because this seasonal route has not proved to be profitable and because of the anticipated impact of the weaker pound on UK outbound travel."
Newcastle Airport said the news was "disappointing" but said it does not reflect growing passenger numbers, with new routes recently agreed to places like Berlin and Warsaw.
Iain Malcolm, chairman of LA7, the combined authority of seven North East councils, said: "This is disappointing news. The region pulled together magnificently to secure a New York service and we have all worked extremely hard to make it work.
"While it is a blow to lose the service, especially given that numbers were up, the reasons are understandable."
Malorie Bantala, 21, was 32-weeks pregnant when she was assaulted by two people in Peckham on 15 June.
A 16-year-old boy was arrested earlier on suspicion of conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm and child destruction.
Kevin Wilson, 20, and a 17-year-old boy have already appeared at the Old Bailey accused of child destruction.
Mr Wilson, believed to the baby's father, is also charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent and the 17-year-old grievous bodily harm.
The 16-year-old was later released on bail.
Prime Minister Theresa May made the announcement on Saturday.
It had been set at critical in the aftermath of the bombing at Manchester Arena which killed 22 people and left scores injured.
Former counter terrorism minister Kim Howells said there is still a "likelihood of an attack".
Speaking to BBC Wales, he said security over the bank holiday weekend was key preparation for the Champions League final, which takes place in Cardiff on 3 June, and security authorities will be looking "very carefully" at the main suspects in the south Wales area.
South Wales Police said it would still have armed officers in Cardiff and Swansea and places with high footfall like McArthur Glen in Bridgend.
North Wales Police said it had armed police at a UB40 concert in Wrexham on Friday night, and continues to have some at ports, as has been the case for the past few days.
Gwent Police said it would have more armed police across the area and Dyfed-Powys Police said it was doing all it could to keep the public safe, and was reviewing security at all events and key locations.
South Wales Police Assistant Chief Constable (ACC) Richard Lewis said Operation Temperer, which is the deployment of additional officers across Wales, will remain in place until the end of the bank holiday.
He said the public will continue to see "additional overtly armed officers at key locations and on the streets" over the next few days.
"As we move into next week we will continue to review our deployments to ensure maximum visibility of both armed and unarmed officers across the force area."
ACC Liane James, of Dyfed-Powys Police, said: "Our priority is to maintain a visible and reassuring presence in our communities, and we are doing all that we can to continue to provide the response our communities would expect in order to keep them safe".
"We ask our communities to be vigilant and to report any concerns they may have."
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the flock at Settle consisted of about 17 birds.
The strain of H5N8 avian flu is the same as the one found in Wales on 3 January and at a farm in Lincolnshire in December.
Defra said the risk to public health was "very low".
The UK's chief veterinary officer, Nigel Gibbens, said some of the birds had died from the disease with the remainder being humanely culled.
A 1.6 mile (3km) protection zone and a six mile (10km) surveillance area have been put in place around the infected premises to reduce the risk of the disease spreading.
Mr Gibbens said: "This finding in a back-yard flock shows how essential it is for all poultry owners, even those who just keep a few birds as pets, to do everything they can to keep them separate from wild birds and minimise the risk of them catching avian flu via the environment."
Defra introduced an "Avian Influenza Prevention Zone" on 6 December, which lasts until 28 February, to help protect poultry and captive birds from avian flu.
It requires keepers of poultry and other captive birds to keep them indoors or take steps to keep them separate from wild birds.
The zone covers England and similar restrictions have been introduced in Scotland and Wales.
It was introduced after the H5N8 bird flu strain was found in poultry and wild birds in 14 countries including Germany and France.
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Sanchez, 28, is in the last year of his contract at Emirates Stadium and has yet to agree a new deal, while Costa has said he wants to leave the Blues.
Wenger added 23-year-old midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, also out of contract at the end of the season and a reported target for Chelsea, will stay.
"I rate him highly," said Wenger.
"I want him to stay here for a long time and I'm convinced he will be the English player in the next two or three years that everybody will look at."
Wenger, 67, has previously said Sanchez "respects" his decision to keep the Chile forward at Arsenal this season, despite reported interest from Manchester City and Paris St-Germain.
On Wednesday the Frenchman said Arsenal have not made any more progress on a new deal for Sanchez and were prepared for him to leave on a free transfer next summer.
"We have to make a choice between efficiency on the field and financial interests and most of the time you can find a compromise," said Wenger.
"In this case, I prioritise the fact that he will be useful on the sporting side."
Meanwhile Costa, 28, said he was sent a text in June by Chelsea boss Antonio Conte telling him he would not be part of the squad for this season and has yet to return from an extended summer break in his native Brazil.
The Spain forward has also described his treatment by the club as "criminal" and confirmed he wants to return to former club Atletico Madrid.
When asked if there were similarities between Sanchez and Costa's situation, Wenger said: "No comparison at all.
"We want Sanchez to be with us but I'm not sure whether Chelsea want Costa to be with them."
Sanchez missed the opening game of the Premier League season at the weekend, a 4-3 victory over Leicester, with an abdominal strain and is unlikely to feature against Stoke on Saturday but could return against Liverpool on 27 August.
Wenger added he was "very happy" neither Sanchez nor Oxlade-Chamberlain have submitted a transfer request, like Philippe Coutinho at Liverpool.
"It's important you have a serene atmosphere inside and clarity about your commitment," he said.
"It's important the players aren't half in and half out and they are completely in."
Wenger added he supported proposals to close the Premier League summer transfer window before the season starts.
"It is better for the season and for our psychological comfort as managers," he said.
The Raptors flew over the US military air base in Osan in Gyeonggi province, bordering North Korea, on Wednesday.
The move comes as the US and South Korea discuss possibly deploying a missile defence system in the South.
North Korea's actions have attracted international condemnation and calls for new UN sanctions.
Relations with the South have deteriorated, with Seoul suspending operations of the jointly-run Kaesong industrial park.
The US Raptors, one of the world's most advanced military aircraft, were flown into South Korea from their base in Okinawa in Japan.
South Korea' Yonhap news agency said the deployment of four stealth jets by the US at one time was rare.
It quoted military sources as saying the jets would remain in South Korea "for a while".
The US has some 28,000 military personnel based in South Korea.
In January the US flew a B-52 bomber over South Korea shortly after the North conducted a test of what it said was a hydrogen bomb.
The North then launched a rocket earlier this month, saying it was a satellite, but others believe it was a long-range missile test.
The 34-year-old midfielder has represented Swansea in all the top four divisions since 2002, playing more than 520 games for the Welsh club.
"I am very happy. Everyone knows how much the club means to me," he said.
"I just spoke with the chairman and it was just a five minute conversation phone call and everything was agreed."
Swansea chairman Huw Jenkins paid tribute to the club's stalwart.
"Leon has been and still is a fantastic servant to this football club," said Jenkins.
"He is a model pro and we are very proud he is representing Swansea City.
"I hope this new contract paves the way for Leon to remain with us for many more years to come.
"He has made a tremendous contribution to this club, both on and off the pitch, over the last 15 years."
The new deal also guarantees Britton a coaching role at Swansea after he retires from playing. He has been doing his coaching badges with the Football Association of Wales.
"It (coaching) is something I spoke to the chairman and manager [Paul Clement] about," Britton said.
"There is maybe an opportunity when I decide to finish my playing time at Swansea the club will keep me on in some capacity.
"It is still something to speak about later on down the line but we have had discussions about.
"At the moment I am focusing on the football side of things and when that finishes we will sit down and see what the club are thinking.
"I have done the B licence and the A licence with the FAW the season just gone."
Britton helped Swansea avoid relegation from the Football League and rise up the divisions to become a top-eight club in the Premier League.
He made 18 appearances last season and feels he can still hold his own in the Premier League.
"I am delighted with the option of another year which gives me a target coming into the new season to try and hit the criteria to get an extension as well," he added.
"I feel fit. I am training hard and well with the rest of the squad.
"When I have played I feel I can still contribute to the team. If I felt I couldn't I would not want to extend my time at Swansea.
"I want to make sure I go out at the right time. I still feel there is enough in the tank to go ahead.
"It depends how the manager wants to use me next season and the seasons coming."
After having joined from West Ham United, initially on loan, in 2002, Britton remained at Swansea until 2010 when he left for Sheffield United - only to return to Swansea just months later.
"Our Greatest Team Parade" will take place in London on Monday 10 September, the day after the Paralympics finishes.
The procession will leave London's Mansion House at 13:30 BST and will travel past Trafalgar Square, through Admiralty Arch and into The Mall.
A similar parade took place four years ago after the Beijing Games.
Spectators can turn up on the day to watch the first part of the parade up to Trafalgar Square, although they have been warned to arrive as early as possible because viewing areas will be closed when they are full.
The area from Admiralty Arch to the Queen Victoria Memorial will be ticketed and reserved.
Places there will go to groups who have made a crucial contribution to the running of the Games and the success of the British athletes.
This will include 14,000 volunteers, police, fire and ambulance staff, military personnel, coaches, support staff, friends and family of the athletes and schoolchildren from every London borough.
Once the parade leaves Mansion House, it will travel along Queen Victoria Street and Cannon Street and pass St Paul's Cathedral.
It then moves down Fleet Street, past Aldwych and into The Strand before reaching Trafalgar Square, where there will be a big screen at the bottom of Nelson's Column showing proceedings with live commentary.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: "This is a chance to celebrate the heroes and heroines who have thrilled us with their skills, sportsmanship, and grace during London's spectacular Olympic and Paralympic Games, and whose names and triumphs will live on for centuries to come."
Andy Hunt, chief executive of the British Olympic Association, said: "The parade provides a fantastic opportunity for the nation to recognise and celebrate the special achievements of the outstanding group of athletes.
"Importantly, it also gives the members of Team GB a chance to show their appreciation and gratitude for the truly inspirational support they received from the Great British public throughout the London 2012 Games."
The British Paralympic Association chief executive Tim Hollingsworth said: "We know we have to focus on what is still to come at the 2012 Paralympic Games.
"But it's also right we look ahead to what we hope will be a fantastic outcome for our team and in particular the performances and medals won that will excite and inspire the nation once again."
The parade will be broadcast live on BBC One and the BBC News Channel.
Gary Lineker and Gabby Logan will present the programme with guests including Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson and Colin Jackson.
Jake Humphrey and Sonali Shah will be on the floats interviewing athletes with Huw Edwards and Hazel Irvine providing commentary throughout.
Mr Amadou was arrested in November 2015 for baby-trafficking charges after fleeing to France for a year.
He filed for provisional release to run in the elections but Judge Ibrahim Harouna denied the appeal on Monday.
Mr Amadou says the accusations against him are politically motivated.
The Constitutional Court on Saturday approved him to stand in elections. The court of appeals did not give a reason for the verdict.
Mr Amadou's second wife was arrested in June 2014 along with 16 others, accused of illegally buying new-borns from "baby factories" in south-east Nigeria - where babies are allegedly sold for thousands of dollars. All denied any wrongdoing.
Mr Amadou - a leading opposition presidential candidate - was then arrested in November 2015 after living in exile in France.
Mr Amadou's supporters say the charges were fabricated to prevent him from running against President Mahamadou Issouffou in the 21 February presidential election.
"With this rejection of conditional release, the regime succeeded with its first knock-out blow," his lawyer, Souley Oumara, said.
The BBC's Abdourahmane Dia says that Mr Amadou now has five days to appeal against the decision - or risk following the election from his prison cell.
Tensions have been rising in Niger ahead of the elections. On Monday, lawyers in the country staged a 24-hour strike to oppose what they call the arbitrary arrest of government opponents.
In December, President Mahamadou Issoufou said his government had foiled a plot to overthrow him.
He is the favourite to win elections, though critics accuse him of becoming increasingly authoritarian as the vote nears.
The campaign for the presidential election is due to start on 31 January, with 15 candidates vying for the presidency.
Howard Hastings, managing director of Hastings Hotels, said greater investment would lead to economic growth.
He told the BBC's Inside Business programme that much more needs to be done to promote existing attractions.
"The failure we make is not marketing more comprehensively," he said.
"It seems bizarre when we want to rebalance our economy away from our dependence on the public sector to more private sector led.
"There's nothing more private sector than the tourism economy.
"By denying the marketing funds to the marketing agencies we're giving up our chances of securing that private sector growth that we seek."
There, at the end of the road going away from the terminal, is a giant poster, the colours somewhat faded, showing a picture of Fidel Castro on one side and the now dead Venezuelan leader, Hugo Chavez, on the other. They are brothers, it declares.
And they were. Cuba's economy was kept afloat on Venezuelan oil. Before Venezuela it was Soviet aid that helped keep Cuba going.
But now that the oil price has collapsed and the Venezuelan economy is spinning out of control, a rapprochement with Cuba's giant of a northern neighbour could not come at a better time.
Yes, it was a major jump when the two presidents set out a new course for their countries last December. But there is a long way to go.
The 1950s-built US embassy on the waterfront still stands empty - although an eagle eyed journalist did spot the flagpole being repainted the other day, a harbinger of things to come, perhaps.
Castro and Obama are scheduled to meet at the Americas conference at the weekend in Panama - the first official meeting between a sitting US president and his Cuban counterpart since the Batista government was overthrown.
And expectation is growing that Cuba will soon be taken off the "state sponsor of terrorism" list that the US State Department compiles.
Travel has already been made a bit easier for Americans wanting to visit - though the hoops that you have to go through will likely deter the casual American traveller. And the big prize, of course, is trade. When will the embargo on Cuban goods be lifted?
Once those obstacles to normalisation (such an ugly word) are removed then the potential is enormous.
We went to one of the most amazing factories I have ever visited.
In pre-revolutionary times it was a splendid, colonial palace on Havana's most prestigious tree lined road - all white stucco and marble columns.
But Castro gave it to the country's cigar producers. And in every room sit rows of men and women, lovingly hand rolling every cigar that are exported around the world.
Habanos Cigars is a private company - but in the room where the final bits of quality control are carried out there is a huge portrait of Che Guevara looking down on the workers. A global prestige product with a whiff of revolution.
The US market is thought to be worth around $3bn. But for the last half century, Cuba has been shut out from it.
Just imagine the potential for growth in sales once America opens up. Cuban rum manufacturers are eyeing up similar opportunities.
And in the other direction, you can be sure that American corporations will be looking at the opportunities to invest in Cuba - whether it be hotel groups or fast food chains.
There will be no shortage of American car dealers wanting to buy up all the wonderful 1950s American cars that still fill the streets of Havana.
When the trade ban came, Cubans had to keep these cars on the road because they couldn't buy new ones. Now these gas guzzling, chrome lined, finned and winged monsters are total collectors items.
You just look at Cuba's crumbling infrastructure and you see the need for investment.
But here's the thing, and the challenge for the country's ageing political elite.
How to exploit economic opportunities while keeping Cuba the distinctive, raucous, friendly and exuberant place it is today.
11 December 2015 Last updated at 16:34 GMT
The weather can play a big part in making sure that launch goes to plan.
Newsround asked BBC weather presenter Simon King to tell us what Tim can expect on launch day.
Claudia, who had become stuck on a pillar of concrete under a bridge in Heigham Street, was saved by the RSPCA.
It found she was microchipped and had gone missing from her home in the city in January 2015.
Owner Adrienne Hamilton said: "I couldn't believe it when I got the call... it was lovely, she recognised me immediately."
It is thought the tabby may have become stranded after jumping down from the bridge, the Eastern Daily Press reported.
RSPCA inspector Amy Collingsworth said two men with a boat helped rescue the cat who was then taken to the vet and scanned.
"Although the address wasn't up to date, with the help of the vet we could get her home to her very relieved owners," she said.
Ms Hamilton, who still lives in Norwich, said she had moved about a month after Claudia went missing and had given up hope of finding her.
"She is a little bit skitty... but she seems in really good condition and is settling back in," she added.
The curfew had been imposed on Thursday, after a community sentence - given to Simpson for assaulting the mother of his child - was revoked.
The 29-year-old complained that "press intrusion" was stopping him completing the 300 hours of unpaid work.
A judge has now lifted the curfew - but restored the community order.
The player denied attempting to strangle his ex-partner but was convicted last May and ordered to complete 300 hours in unpaid work.
Judge Richard Mansell QC at Manchester Crown Court overturned the decision and ruled Simpson must now complete the unpaid work after all.
On Thursday his lawyer had complained journalists had found where he was carrying out his community service, making it impossible.
Judge Mansell said: "He's hardly keeping a low profile, turning up for unpaid work in a Lamborghini. Why can't he get a cab?"
He said he "did not buy" Simpson could not do his unpaid work elsewhere - other footballers had done it.
The judge, sitting with two magistrates, told Simpson he can complete the rest of his 300 hours once his club commitments diminish over the summer.
Judge Mansell added: "We are back to square one, and it's cost the appellant a significant amount of money."
On Thursday District Judge Alexandra Simmonds, at Manchester Magistrates' Court had said Simpson must wear an electronic tag and stay indoors at his home in Salford between 22:00 and 06:00 for the next 21 days,
The former Manchester United player, who also played for Newcastle and QPR, was arrested on 29 December after a reports of a row at a house in Worsley, Greater Manchester.
She took home the prize for her portrayal of the Queen in The Audience.
Dame Helen, a previous Oscar-winner for The Queen, accepted the award saying: "Your Majesty, you did it again."
Other British wins included Alex Sharp for best actor and Marianne Elliott for best directing of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which was also named best play.
The stage adaptation of the hit novel started life at the National Theatre in London before transferring to Broadway.
Dame Helen, who beat competition from fellow British actresses Carey Mulligan and Ruth Wilson, dedicated the award to her husband, director Taylor Hackford.
She said: "This is an unbelievable honour and I am so thrilled."
Her co-star Richard McCabe, who plays prime minister Harold Wilson, also received the honour for best featured actor in a play.
London-born Alex Sharp, who plays a gifted mathematician with Asperger's syndrome in The Curious Incident, beat Bradley Cooper and Bill Nighy for the best lead actor award.
The 26-year-old reminded the audience that he had only graduated from drama school last year.
As well as best director, Marianne Elliott's Broadway transfer of the play was also honoured with awards for best lighting and best scenic design.
When she was nominated in April, Elliott had told the BBC: "We had no idea when we first started how the hell this play was going to go down. We had no idea whether there'd be an audience for it. So to see it go to Broadway is quite amazing."
An American in Paris and Fun Home took most awards in the musical categories.
An American in Paris won four technical awards, while Fun Home won for best score, book and direction.
The ceremony at the Radio City Music Hall in New York was hosted by British actor Alan Cumming and musical star Kristin Chenoweth.
Here is a list of the winners in full:
Best musical - Fun Home
Best revival of a musical - The King and I
Best play - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Best revival of a play - Skylight
Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play - Helen Mirren, The Audience
Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play - Alex Sharp, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a musical - Kelli O'Hara, The King and I
Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical - Michael Cerveris, Fun Home
Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a musical - Ruthie Ann Miles, The King and I
Best direction of a musical - Sam Gold, Fun Home
Best direction of a play - Marianne Elliott, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a play - Annaleigh Ashford, You Can't Take It with You
Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical - Christian Borle, Something Rotten!
Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a play - Richard McCabe, The Audience
Best choreography - Christopher Wheeldon, An American in Paris
Best original score (music and/or lyrics) Written for the Theatre - Fun Home
Music - Jeanine Tesori
Lyrics - Lisa Kron
Best book of a musical - Fun Home, Lisa Kron
Best orchestrations - Christopher Austin, Don Sebesky, Bill Elliott, An American in Paris
Best scenic design of a play - Bunny Christie and Finn Ross, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Best scenic design of a musical - Bob Crowley and 59 Productions, An American in Paris
Best lighting design of a musical - Natasha Katz, An American in Paris
Best lighting design of a play - Paule Constable, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Best costume design of a play - Christopher Oram, Wolf Hall Parts One & Two
Best costume design of a musical - Catherine Zuber, The King and I
Evans, 26, who has beaten a player inside the world's top 25 only once, was two points away from his first-ever ATP quarter-final on grass.
Second seed Cuevas will face Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis in the last eight.
Baghdatis saved two match points against America's Sam Querrey on his way to a 1-6 7-6 (10-8) 6-4 victory.
Parc Howard in Llanelli costs Carmarthenshire council more than £100,000 to maintain each year.
But Parc Howard Association said the building, which houses a museum, and parkland needed more investment.
Councillor Meryl Gravell said one option would be for somebody else to run park.
Parc Howard was built in 1885 and given to the town of Llanelli in 1912 by Sir Stafford and Lady Howard.
The grade II-listed mansion houses a collection of Llanelli pottery, artwork and town history.
The association said it was worried for the future of the Italianate country house and 24 acres of parkland, adding they were starting to deteriorate.
Ken Rees, chairman of Parc Howard Association, told S4C's Newyddion 9 programme: "If they [the council] aren't ready to spend money to maintain the place it's going to become an eyesore."
He added: "This park is the jewel in the crown of Llanelli."
Ms Gravell, Carmarthenshire council's executive board member with responsibility for regeneration and leisure, admitted the future of the park was "uncertain".
"At present the only other option is perhaps finding someone to come and take the park over," she added.
The substitute's shot came off Ben Gerring and left goalkeeper Brendan Moore with no chance.
Brett Williams put the Gulls at half-time with a superb individual goal, beating one defender before nutmegging Moussa Diarra and calmly slotting home.
Torquay winger Dan Sparkes had chances to score either side of the break, but both times Barrow goalkeeper Joel Dixon saved well.
Match ends, Torquay United 1, Barrow 1.
Second Half ends, Torquay United 1, Barrow 1.
Goal! Torquay United 1, Barrow 1. Richard Bennett (Barrow).
Substitution, Torquay United. Giancarlo Gallifuoco replaces Sam Chaney.
Substitution, Barrow. Andy Haworth replaces Byron Harrison.
Substitution, Torquay United. Damon Lathrope replaces Courtney Richards.
Ben Gerring (Torquay United) is shown the yellow card.
Shaun Beeley (Barrow) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Barrow. Richard Bennett replaces Ross Hannah.
Substitution, Torquay United. Jamie Reid replaces Brett Williams.
Substitution, Barrow. Lindon Meikle replaces Paul Turnbull.
Second Half begins Torquay United 1, Barrow 0.
First Half ends, Torquay United 1, Barrow 0.
Goal! Torquay United 1, Barrow 0. Brett Williams (Torquay United).
Paul Turnbull (Barrow) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The Englishman, 21, has made 19 first-team appearances since making his Celtic debut in 2013.
Fisher started his youth career with Farnborough before joining Celtic in 2011.
"Everyone at Celtic wishes Darnell all the best for the season ahead with St Johnstone," Celtic said on their website.
He joins Saints after centre-half Frazer Wright, 35 left the Perth club, bringing to an end his four-year spell at McDiarmid Park.
Joseph McMahon, from the Antrim Road, is charged with trying to steal a double decker bus.
He is also accused of stealing two mobile phones from a shop, causing criminal damage to a phone, and possessing cannabis.
All the alleged offences took place on 19 February.
He is further charged with disorderly behaviour at the Royal Victoria Hospital the following day.
A detective constable told Belfast Magistrates Court that with 128 convictions, along with drink and drug addictions, Mr McMahon "appears to have no concern for the consequences of his actions, so is a danger to both himself and others".
"He passed out on the bus he attempted to steal, so given the circumstances, it's alarming to think about the consequences that may have ensued if he had managed to steal the bus," the detective said.
He also said Mr McMahon had numerous breaches of bail and court orders, adding that he was currently under two suspended jail terms for burglary and theft and was only released from custody last month.
Mr McMahon's solicitor said he had instructed her that he would abide by any bail conditions set by the court, but a judge told the solicitor it was "very difficult for me to say that there's any chance of him keeping to conditions".
The accused is due back before the court via videolink on 20 March.
Security plans will be reviewed and any necessary lessons learned, the home secretary said in a Commons statement.
Her comments come as the Metropolitan Police revealed there are 600 counter-terror investigations active in the UK.
Armed police will be deployed at the football match between England and France at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday.
Prince William, who is president of the Football Association, has decided to attend the friendly out of "solidarity to the people of France", the BBC's Peter Hunt said.
Multiple attacks on bars, restaurants, a concert hall and the Stade de France on Friday left 129 people dead, including Briton Nick Alexander from Essex. The Islamic State group has said it was behind the killings.
A minute's silence was observed across Europe at 11:00 GMT on Monday, including at Trafalgar Square and the French Embassy in London, as well as in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Among hundreds injured is Callum MacDonald, 24, from Fort William in Scotland, who was in the Bataclan concert hall where gunmen opened fire. He is understood to be in a medically-induced coma.
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Speaking in the Commons, Mrs May confirmed that new funding would be made available for an extra 1,900 security and intelligence officers at MI5, MI6 and GCHQ - an increase of 15%.
She said those who had attacked Paris "represent no-one and they will fail" to divide free countries such as Britain and France.
"France grieves but she does not grieve alone. People of all faiths, all nationalities and all backgrounds around the world are with you and together we will defeat them," she said.
The announcement on Monday that Britain's intelligence and security agencies are to be given a massive boost in resources has taken some there by surprise.
Expecting a modest boost in the coming Strategic Defence and Security Review, they have now been told they are to get a 15% increase in headcount, raising their numbers by 1,900.
For MI5, the Security Service and MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service, this will take some time to absorb, perhaps years. They will need to find, recruit, vet and train new intelligence officers largely from scratch.
But for GCHQ, the government's secret listening station in Cheltenham, it will be relatively easier for them to recruit already-qualified IT analysts and linguists from the commercial marketplace.
Deploying extra aviation security officers should also show results fairly quickly. They will be expected to assess security in overseas airports used by large numbers of Britons where security is suspected of being lax.
Mrs May said police and emergency services had been prepared for the possibility of a "marauding gun attack" in the UK since the 2008 Mumbai attacks, but plans would be reviewed in light of Friday's events.
"As soon as the attacks took place, we took steps to maintain the security of the UK," she said.
"The police have increased their presence on some streets and at some locations, and they will be intensifying their approach at events in big cities."
The UK's Border Force had intensified checks on people, goods and vehicles entering the UK - and was carrying out "targeted" security checks against passengers and vehicles travelling to France, the home secretary added.
She also said she would be lobbying her European counterparts for tighter gun laws across the European Union.
In other developments:
Mrs May said that in recent months, "a number of serious plots" had been disrupted in the UK, adding there could be "little doubt" that the threat posed by IS militants was evolving.
More than 750 people are thought to have travelled from the UK to Syria and Iraq, and approximately half of those have returned, she said.
The terror threat level in the UK has been at "severe" - meaning an attack is highly likely - since last August.
Earlier, UK Prime Minister David Cameron said world leaders had agreed to do more to share intelligence and cut off funding for terrorists, as the Paris attacks "underlined the threat we all face".
Speaking at the G20 summit in Turkey, he said the gap between Russia and the West's position on Syria "has been enormous", but now "everyone recognises the need for compromise".
Meanwhile in the UK, officers from the Met Police's Counter Terrorism Command unit are interviewing people returning from France who may have information.
The Met is also appealing for any potential witnesses to contact its anti-terrorist hotline, on 0800 789 321.
Bataclan concert venue, 50 Boulevard Voltaire, 11th district - 89 dead when stormed by gunmen, three of whom were killed; another gunman died nearby
La Belle Equipe, 92 rue de Charonne, 11th district - 19 dead in gun attacks
Le Carillon bar and Le Petit Cambodge restaurant at rue Alibert, 10th district - 15 dead in gun attacks
La Casa Nostra restaurant, 92 rue de la Fontaine au Roi, 11th district - five dead in gun attacks
Stade de France, St Denis, just north of Paris - explosions heard outside venue, three attackers and a bystander killed
Tory peer Lord Ballyedmond, 70, died in March 2014 when the helicopter came down near the estate he owned in Gillingham, Norfolk.
Pilot Capt Carl Dickerson, 36, co-pilot Capt Lee Hoyle, 45, and foreman Declan Small, 42, also died.
A jury inquest into their deaths has opened in Norwich.
The Agusta Westland AW139 crashed in thick fog shortly after take off from Gillingham Hall, near the Suffolk town of Beccles.
The hearing was told Mr Dickerson, of Thornton, Lancashire, had warned the helicopter needed to take off "no later than 7pm" because of the bad weather.
However, it did not take off until 19:22 GMT because Lord Ballyedmond, also known as Dr Edward Haughey, had been overseeing the hanging of pictures as part of his renovation of Gillingham Hall.
Ciara Cunningham, Dr Haughey's diary secretary, confirmed to the hearing he had received the message and would have had no problem following Mr Dickerson's advice.
"He very much valued the opinion of experts in their field," she added.
His personal assistant Madeleine Irwin, also said in a statement: "Lord Ballyedmond would never insist on flying when a pilot said they could not fly."
The peer lived at Ballyedmond Castle in Co Down, Northern Ireland.
He was chairman and founder of Norbrook Laboratories, the largest privately-owned pharmaceutical company in the world, and had a range of other business interests.
His son Edward told the inquest he last spoke to him as the helicopter was about to take off.
He added: "He was joking and said 'I better do what I'm told or I'll get in trouble with the boys'."
The timing of the flight had been arranged around Mr Small, of Mayobridge, Co Down, who was a valued employee and had a concert to attend the following day, he said.
Mr Dickerson's widow Paula said in a statement: "The accident shook my world and took the love of my life from me."
Mr Hoyle's widow Georgina, of Macclesfield, Cheshire, said the former soldier was a conscientious man who would not take chances with safety.
"He was my best friend and losing him left our family devastated," she added.
An Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) report has already found the crash may have been triggered by an error in perception along with a lack of training and procedures to handle the flight.
The hearing continues.
Assets worth a combined 1.24bn yuan ($183m; £141m) belonging to Jia Yueting, his wife, and three affiliates have reportedly been blocked.
The ruling follows LeEco's failure to pay interest due on bank loans taken out to fund its smartphone business.
Neither Mr Jia nor the company has commented on the reports.
LeEco was for a while known as the Netflix of China, a company that streamed content and eventually started making its own original material.
But it then drew comparison with the likes of Apple and Tesla when it began branching out into hardware, including a smart TV, phones and electric cars.
LeEco started selling devices in the US at the tail end of last year, but is now facing a cash crunch and has been forced to slash costs, including making job cuts.
Mr Jia, who resigned as chief executive in May but retains his position as chairman, recently admitted to shareholders that its financial problems were "more severe than we expected".
In April, a $2bn deal to buy consumer electronics-maker Vizio was called off because of "regulatory headwinds".
Meanwhile LeEco's smartphone unit, Coolpad, has further delayed its 2016 financial results because of audit issues. The company's unaudited results from May suggest it lost $542m last year.
Coolpad shares listed in Hong Kong have been suspended from trade for three months.
The news of the court freeze on some of LeEco's assets was welcomed by Philip G Chiu, CEO of US-based marketing firm Beyond Media Global.
He took LeEco business LeTV to court over debts of $1m but claims that it still owes his firm around $100,000.
"LeTV has still not paid all their debt to our company," he told the BBC.
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Matt Slater of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust swam around the jellyfish to capture this video - which also shows his dog paddling nearby!
The jellyfish is said to weigh as much as 20kg and measure around a metre across.
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And the Osprey also caused a stir with his pre-kick ritual that gathered a cult following during the tournament.
In celebration of a year of outstanding performances, here is BBC Wales Sport's re-creation of Biggar's 'dance'.
The event is part of an art exhibition at the 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, which began on Saturday 18 February.
To find and keep the pieces, worth at least £1,000 each, people must study five paintings and solve the code within them.
One of the items was found by accident so a reward is being offered to anyone who can solve the clue linked to it.
Artist Luke Jerram said he would donate £500 to a charity of the finder's choice if they could solve the mystery of the "red picture".
The fourth item, the golden train, was found by a family from Grimsby in Scunthorpe's Central Park on Friday night.
Mr Jerram said he had not anticipated so many items would be discovered in the first week.
"I was expecting two or three, something like that. What I did not expect was the response of the public would be so astonishingly positive.
"I did not expect the public would go round looking in every nook and cranny of the town to try and find the artefacts."
The Visual Arts Centre said the public response had been extraordinary.
"It has created a real buzz around the place and brought in thousands of people," said the centre's visual arts officer Michelle Lally.
The final item to be found is the gold copy of a Jurassic ammonite, an ancient marine mollusc fossil.
The five objects are replicas of pieces at North Lincolnshire Museum and were made from gold worth £1,000, but could be worth much more.
The northern state is India's most populous, with more than 200 million people. If it were a separate country, it would be the fifth-largest by population in the world after China, India, the United States and Indonesia.
Commonly called UP, the state sends the largest number of MPs - 80 - to India's parliament. It is often said that the party that wins the state rules the country.
Several prime ministers, including India's first PM Jawaharlal Nehru, have come from here.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is from the western state of Gujarat, also chose to make his parliamentary debut from the state in the 2014 general election when he contested from Varanasi.
And voters in the state can easily claim the credit for his Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) stunning sweep of the elections. Of the 282 seats they won, 71 were from Uttar Pradesh.
It's a three-way contest between the governing BJP, the regional Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the state's ruling Samajwadi Party (SP), which is contesting the polls in alliance with the Congress.
Since the late 1990s, the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party have dominated state politics, with the Congress and the BJP pushed to the sidelines.
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But this time, buoyed by its success in the general election, the BJP is making a serious bid for victory. The party is yet to declare a chief ministerial candidate and is banking on the popularity and charisma of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to win the polls. Mr Modi has been criss-crossing the state, addressing election rallies and exhorting voters to give the BJP a chance.
The Samajwadi Party is led by 43-year-old Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. He led his party to victory in the 2012 state assembly polls and is hoping for an encore when the votes are counted on 11 March. His journey, however, has been far from smooth, especially in the past few weeks when he fought a very public battle with Mulayam Singh Yadav, his father and chief of the party.
As father and son fought for power in a manner likened to political drama House of Cards, the party seemed on the verge of disintegrating. But Yadav junior won the duel, and has since forged an alliance with India's main opposition Congress party. The partners have been holding joint election rallies, promising good governance, state development and free smartphones for young people.
Pitted against the BJP and the SP-Congress alliance is the Bahujan Samaj Party, led by Dalit (formerly Untouchables) icon Ms Mayawati. The four-time state chief minister, who lost power in 2012, is seeking a comeback. She is hugely popular among her community, but during her earlier stints she was criticised for spending millions of dollars to build statues of herself and other Dalit icons. This time though, she has promised to not spend money on statues and says she will work to lift millions of people out of poverty.
Because of its sheer size and numbers, UP is a key battleground. And for the parties in the fray, these elections are being seen as a do-or-die battle.
The BJP hasn't done too well in state polls since winning the 2014 general elections, so a victory here is important. Also, the polls are being seen as a referendum on Mr Modi's recent move to ban 500 and 1,000 rupee notes. The timing of the move has been questioned by many and if the party loses, a blame game is likely to begin.
A victory for Akhilesh Yadav is crucial as it will cement his position as the leader of his party. If he loses, the rebel faction led by his uncle Shivpal Yadav will get a boost. A win will also bring cheer to the Congress, which has had little joy with voters in the general election or in regional polls for the last few years.
And a win is absolutely essential for Ms Mayawati, who has spent the past five years in the political wilderness. Analysts say if she loses this time too, she risks becoming politically irrelevant and may find it very difficult to bounce back.
With 403 seats up for grabs, thousands of contestants are in the fray, fighting for a share of the pie.
More than 138 million voters will be casting their votes at 147,148 polling centres, watched over by thousands of police and paramilitary troops, during the seven phases of voting spread over a month.
Despite its political significance, UP remains among India's most backward states with millions living in extreme poverty, a lack of employment opportunities and rampant corruption.
For some voters the only tool they have to express themselves with is their vote. And during elections they come out in large numbers to use it - often against those in power.
Esa's Rosetta satellite will despatch its piggybacked Philae probe to the surface of the "ice mountain" known as 67P on Wednesday.
Controllers report both mothership and descent robot to be in excellent shape.
The landing commands on Philae have already been loaded, and an instruction was sent up on Monday evening to switch on and warm the probe.
The intention now is to leave it in an active state, ready for the separation. This is timed to occur at 08:35 GMT on Wednesday.
Touchdown should follow about seven hours later, with a confirmation signal expected back on Earth around 16:00 GMT.
But before the mission can get to this milestone, Rosetta must be primed to make its delivery run.
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The satellite is currently moving on a long, slow arc around 67P at a height of about 30km.
At a predetermined time on Wednesday morning, it has to turn and head in towards the comet, releasing Philae on the path that will take it down to the targeted landing zone.
Executing this pre-delivery manoeuvre with high precision is the one really big issue vexing controllers.
They know their calculations for the thruster burn must be spot on. They know also that they will have very little time to assess its performance before giving the final "go" for separation.
"The point of separation is fixed in time, in space, velocity and attitude; and we have to reach exactly that point," explained Esa flight director Andrea Accomazzo.
"So, wherever Rosetta is, we have to design a manoeuvre to reach that point."
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Navigation specialists here at Esa's operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany, will examine the present flight path of Rosetta on Tuesday afternoon.
They will then have the detailed information they require to implement this critical delivery dash.
But if any of the parameters are out by even a small degree, the errors will expand as Philae heads downwards.
Already, the landing zone, which is on the head of the rubber-duck-shaped comet, is considered extremely challenging.
It contains some very uneven terrain, with cliffs, boulders and a number of steep slopes.
Controllers will not want to make the probe's task even more difficult by sending it off-track.
Philae should touch the surface with a velocity of about 1 metre per second.
Foot screws and harpoons will hopefully lock it down. A small gas thruster will push the probe into the surface to give these mechanisms time to work.
"It will take a few minutes to really analyse and fully understand that, yes, we are landed; yes, the harpoons are fired and safely anchored," Stephan Ulamec from the German space agency told BBC News.
Whatever happens on Wednesday, the scope of the Rosetta mission will go through a major gear change, according to Esa project scientist Matt Taylor.
Since the satellite arrived at the comet in August, much of its focus has been on finding a suitable landing location for Philae.
With the landing now all set to occur, the emphasis can shift more towards the scientific study of the Comet 67P.
"Up until now, we have been doing science on the side, doing characterisation of the comet to enable landing site decisions.
"From this week onwards is when we start the main phase of this mission, in my view. It's all go now - so, stay tuned," Dr Taylor said.
Even if Philae fails in its landing attempt, the Rosetta mothership will continue its remote observations of 67P through all of next year.
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GB teams played at London 2012 but the FA had said that it would be a one-off.
The FA has now written to its counterparts in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales to ask them if they want to take part in Rio de Janeiro.
"I am absolutely gutted with the English FA," Hughes said.
"If they want to work with us they have to be more open with us and they don't seem to be keeping to agreements. I'm livid about it."
The FAW, along with the Scottish FA and Irish FA, refused to give their official backing to Team GB in 2012.
They feared a Great Britain squad could set a precedent that affected their individual memberships of Fifa and the International Football Association Board.
Despite the FAW's opposition five Welsh players - Ryan Giggs, Craig Bellamy, Aaron Ramsey, Joe Allen and Neil Taylor - were named in the men's squad, with Gareth Bale ruled out of the competition through injury having been expected to take part.
Although Hughes is unhappy, he does not think the Welsh FA can block the FA's move.
"As far as the Olympics is concerned, it was not long ago that they said London 2012 was just a one-off," he added.
"Now it appears they have decided on their own to enter a team without discussing it with us.
"I don't think we will be able to block it, but why has Seb Coe and the British Olympic Association gone to England? The BOA should be more open and transparent.
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"It's supposed to be the British Olympic Association, not the English Olympic Association."
The GB men's side, coached by Stuart Pearce, lost on penalties to South Korea in the quarter-finals in 2012.
The women's team also lost at the quarter-final stage, to Canada, but a crowd of 70,584 - a record for a women's game in Britain - saw GB beat group rivals Brazil 1-0 at Wembley.
Hughes is competing against English FA nominee David Gill, the ex-Manchester United chief executive, for the Fifa vice-presidency reserved for the four British associations.
He has accused the FA of reneging on a written agreement that would see Wales take over the British Fifa vice-presidency in May.
The FA claims the agreement no longer applies because under Fifa reforms the position is elected by Uefa rather than just the four home nations.
But Hughes said: "England seem to want to run everything and take over the whole game.
"But we will not let that happen - the dragon on Wales has still got flame coming out of his mouth. We are not going to be bullied."
"I jumped on top of my partner and covered us with our suitcase"
James Firkin was waiting to check in at the airport when the attacks took place.
"We're in shock. Miraculously I don't know how we're not physically hurt. I went to get a tea for my partner and it was at that moment that the first explosion happened...
"The ceiling was falling in, there was debris falling all around us. General panic would be the best way to describe it.
"I jumped on top of my partner and covered us with our suitcase to protect us from the falling ceiling.
"We were afraid there would be shooting, but that didn't happen at all... I didn't here any shots... I personally didn't hear any shouting in Arabic where we were, near the check in row 8.
"There was no doubt in our minds that it was a bomb. The main thing that stuck in my head was the smoke. It smelt like fireworks... it definitely seemed like a bomb straight away."
"The ceiling collapsed behind us"
Horst Pilger was at a Starbucks in the airport after checking in with his wife and two children for their flight to Rome.
"Around 8am we heard a bang - my wife and I looked at each other thinking 'What was that?' Then there was another blast which was much louder.
"I saw a fireball coming from the car park outside. Then the ceiling collapsed behind us, which was about 30 metres away. There was dust everywhere and it was difficult to breathe.
"People were screaming and panicking.
"We decided to go across the street to the Sheraton Hotel. I saw injured people being treated."
"I saw a soldier pulling away a body. I hope he was not dead"
Tom, who is doing an internship at the airport, started his day at 08:00 local time:
"We were going to our desks, to the gate, and we looked to our left side and it looked like 15 metres from us was a big explosion. First we thought it was a billboard falling down or something. My colleague was looking and was wondering what is it, and I said 'Run, run'. We ran away; we were running very quickly...
"My colleague jumped into the carousel behind the check-in desk. I lost him because I did not know where he was.
"Then it was like a big explosion, a second one...
"I thought I was hurt or I was hit. Then there were two people who were working at the airport. They told me to come inside and locked the door.
"And behind the little gap I saw a solider pulling away a body. I hope he was not dead and just hit... I am feeling overwhelmed."
'Everyone was screaming and running... I'm still shaking'
Nils Liedtke, who was in the airport when the explosions took place, described the scene to BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"It was basically like a big bang - it felt like your neighbours upstairs are throwing something big on the floor.
"And everything was shaking, some smoke.
"It took me a second or two to realise what was going on. Everybody was screaming and running out into the taxi area, so that's what I did as well... I'm still shaking."
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"We saw lots of injured people"
Odeta Islam, from Antwerp, was in Brussels Airport this morning, dropping her mother off.
"We were sitting and having breakfast and we heard a huge blast on our right. Everyone started running. Then we heard a second blast from our left.
"There was mess everywhere and the smell of burning and smoke. There was a lot of dust and we had problems breathing so we headed to the exit.
"We saw lots of injured people.
"I saw a mum and her children injured and I offered to help her but she told me to go and get out as she was being looked after. I am a certified first aider and as soon as we got out my brother and I offered to help but by then there were ambulances and they told us they were ok.
"We were outside for a while and then we had to wait at the car park. Eventually we were allowed to leave and we are now home safe in Antwerp."
"I heard one shot fired, then someone shouted some words in Arabic"
One man who had been inside the airport told the BBC: "I heard two explosions and then the ceiling fell on us.
"I saw a woman going down the escalator - her leg was bleeding because of the shattered glass.
"I heard one shot fired, then someone shouted some words in Arabic, followed by a huge explosion. And then people started to flee towards the lifts and escalators."
"There were lots of people on the ground"
Jef Versele, 40, from Ghent, told the Press Association: "I was on my way to check in and two bombs went off - two explosions.
"I didn't see anything. Everything was coming down. Glassware. It was chaos. It was unbelievable. It was the worst thing. People were running away. There were lots of people on the ground. A lot of people are injured.
"The bomb was coming from downstairs. It was going up through the roof. It was big.
"About 15 windows were just blown out from the entrance hall."
"My hearing will be damaged"
David Crunelle, from Brussels, told the BBC: "While dropping off my luggage two explosions happened right next to me. Two or three seconds between the two explosions.
"They happened in the departure (area) for international flights... My hearing will be damaged because of the sound of the explosions.
"I've seen many people injured around me, including children - really, really injured and covered in blood, people outside on the floor. So I'm really lucky."
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"People were running out of the station covered in blood"
Darren Hayes, from London, is staying on the Rue Philippe Le Bon, Brussels - near Maalbeek metro station.
"My partner lives in Brussels. I am visiting for the week. I went to the market this morning and passed Maalbeek station as it happened. People were running out of the station covered in blood and injured.
"There was chaos.
"I was told to get indoors and stay there. At one stage I heard lots of people shouting very loudly, and then some people grabbed the injured and ran further away from the station down the side streets where I am.
"Now I am in the flat and they have cordoned off the area."
"We felt a blast of air and my ears popped"
Evan Lamos was travelling towards Maelbeek when the metro train he was on was evacuated.
"We felt a small blast of air and my ears popped. The blast of air was not that big, it was something similar to if you stood in front of a fan.
"The metro immediately stopped, the lights turned off, the engine turned off. And a message came over the intercom saying there had been a disturbance on the line, and they were working to resolve it. That continued for about three or four minutes.
"There was a lot of apprehension and nervousness - I think a lot of people were reading about the news of the explosions at the airport.... then someone came from the front of the metro to the back, and opened up the door, installed a ladder and started evacuating people."
"The glass doors were blown out"
One witness told Belgian broadcaster RTBF: "We left Maelbeek station towards the centre at around 09:07 or 09:10 when we felt an explosion which appeared to come from the front of the train.
"The lights went off, there was panic given what happened at Brussels Airport.
"The doors of the train were forced open to get off the train. There was a lot of smoke. We left via Maelbeek station. The glass doors were blown out. The explosion must have been violent."
"We have numbers of policemen with AK-47 style weapons"
Steven Woolfe, an English MEP for the UK Independence Party, was in an office near the underground station.
"I heard a very loud bang that was like a car exhaust exploding. The building shook a little bit. As we opened the door you could start hearing car horns going off and see people moving away from the metro. Within a short period of time the police were on the ground in their distinctive uniforms, ushering people away.
"There were a couple of people with cameras trying to take photos but the police were firm in pushing them away.
"Here in the parliament area we have numbers of policemen with AK-47 style weapons."
Staff at HMP Norwich realised a drugs trolley was unlocked and the medication had disappeared in the early hours of 3 December, according to a prison report.
A Ministry of Justice (MoJ) spokesman said an investigation into what happened was currently taking place.
The MoJ added it could not say what drug had been removed from the trolley. It said: "We will take action against anyone found to have been involved."
An officer observed a prisoner walking around the landing near the centre at 00:10 GMT, according to the prison report.
"He escorted him back to his dormitory where he found the gate was unlocked," the report said. The officer then conducted a search of the cell before locking him up, it adds.
At the same time, nursing staff discovered the drugs trolley kept in a side room in the centre was unlocked.
"On a further check it was established that a quantity of medication was missing and unaccounted for," the report stated.
NHS England appointed Virgincare to run the health centre in April 2014.
Earlier this year, inspectors found that Class A drugs were intercepted at the prison. Their report revealed that a member of staff was sentenced for "illegal provision of drugs to prisoners for cash".
The Independent Monitoring Board found that healthcare had "improved after an uncertain start to the new contract with Virgincare", but said there were "too many agency staff" running the centre.
A spokesman for Virgincare said: "Following an incident at HMP Norwich, we are currently taking part in a joint investigation into the circumstances."
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Huge plumes of ash and smoke have been seen rising from the crater.
Farmers have been harvesting their crops as quickly as they can in case they are destroyed.
Froome has been subjected to sustained scrutiny since his Tour win in 2013, with some sceptics using power data to justify their case against him.
The 30-year-old Briton has always insisted he is a clean rider.
"We think someone has hacked into training data and got Chris's files," said Team Sky boss Sir Dave Brailsford.
"We've got some legal guys on the case. I would never mention a name but ethically and morally if you are going to accuse someone of doping, then don't cheat."
Froome said critics on social media who try to interpret power data are "clowns", adding that it means nothing without context. He has also said he is prepared to be a spokesman for drug-free sport.
With Froome leading this year's Tour by 12 seconds going into Tuesday's 167km 10th stage, Brailsford says he is braced for more questions over doping.
"It's part of the game, isn't it?" he said. "If he does well [on Tuesday], the rest of the Tour it's 'how do you know he's not doping?'
"The question of how to prove a negative is always going to be a difficult one.
"I used to worry about it a lot more, but I don't any more. It's part of the game. Just try to be honest, tell the truth, be open."
The Langham Dome in North Norfolk, one of only six training domes in the country, was built in 1942 and sits on the edge of a former RAF base.
Film of enemy planes was projected on its walls to simulate target practise.
It is being restored thanks to £200,00 from English Heritage and £426,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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Once renovations are completed, the dome will open to the public as an education centre.
John Ette, from English Heritage, said the concrete used to build it had suffered severe decay.
The metal rod and mesh sub-structure was also decaying.
"It's required an absolutely innovative technique to run a current through it to drive the moisture out," said Mr Ette.
"Then it has to be refaced, so it's actually quite a technically difficult job and it's taken years to build up the right expertise."
Patrick Allen, from the Friends of Langham Dome - the organisation instrumental in securing the grants for the dome's restoration - said it was the culmination of 20 years' work.
"Future generations can come in here and hopefully will be able to learn what went on in 1940 to 45 in Langham," he said.
"Langham went from a village of 200 people to 2,000 people living here during the war, so it was quite an upheaval for the village.
"I think it's important to remember this," added Mr Allen.
Brendan Conway, 28, is accused of charges including causing or inciting children aged 13 to 15 to engage in sexual activity and possession of indecent photographs of young children.
Police said the charges relate to at least three children.
The chef, from Alvaston in Derby, was remanded in custody and will appear at the city's crown court on 24 April.
He appeared before magistrates in Derby via video link.
As a football coach, he worked with a youth team in Derby.
He was also a successful street dancer and had appeared on television dance show Got to Dance, as an extra in the movie Streetdance 3D, and was due to appear on Britain's Got Talent.
The proportion of passengers happy with their journeys fell from 82% in spring 2014 to 80% in spring 2015, a Transport Focus survey suggested.
Some 96% on First Hull Trains were satisfied - the highest in the country.
By contrast, satisfaction was just 72% on Southern and 74% on Govia Thameslink.
Michael Roberts, director general of the Rail Delivery Group which represents train operators and Network Rail, said: "Too often many passengers are not getting the service they deserve, and for this we are sorry.
"More than almost anything else passengers want trains to be reliable and run on time. After years of improvement overall satisfaction has fallen, largely due to delays in London and the south east and how we deal with those delays."
Transport Focus, formerly known as Passenger Focus, spoke to 31,000 rail travellers.
It found below average satisfaction on services run by:
Services with higher satisfaction included:
Satisfaction for operators in London and the south east of England dipped from 80% in spring 2014 to 78% in spring 2015.
The biggest decline on these routes was a 5% dip in passengers who felt train companies dealt well with delays.
And just 45% of rail passengers across the survey thought the price of their ticket represented value for money - similar to the figure for the previous year.
Transport Focus chief executive Anthony Smith said: "Commuters will not be surprised at these results. Long-term plans and investment are important and welcome - how the work is carried out, though, is crucial.
"The London Bridge rebuilding scheme in particular has caused problems. We're now working with train companies and Network Rail to try and minimise the impact on commuters."
Office of Rail and Road chief executive Richard Price said there had been "marked improvement in passenger satisfaction" in the past decade.
He added: "In the past year, however, we've seen overall scores dip significantly. Passengers are telling us that reliability and punctuality of trains remains their primary concern."
The Mayor of London's office said the potential move followed "record low" numbers of fires and related deaths in the capital.
Removing the engines, out of use for more than two years, could save £8.1m from the 2016/1017 budget.
London Fire Brigade (LFB) said it had received a letter from the mayor and would respond in due course.
The engines are likely to be cut from service after a public consultation in which 70% of 1,478 respondents - including members of the public and LFB staff - voted to maintain the number of engines and fire stations in the capital.
A spokesperson for London Mayor Boris Johnson said the engines had been held back for two-and-a-half years and in that time, response times had "continued to be comfortably met".
She added: "The savings achieved by their permanent removal would allow more money to be invested in frontline officers and help fund vital long term work to continue reducing the number of fires and deaths in the capital for many years to come."
Mr Johnson is to direct the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) to follow earlier recommendations by the Fire Commissioner and start to make an official plan to implement the cuts.
LFB, which has been asked to make a total of £11.5m savings for the coming financial year, said it would respond to the mayor via the LFEPA.
City had led in the first half through Julie Fleeting's goal.
However, Hibs were level by the break as Lucy Graham tucked home on the rebound after Lizzie Arnot's penalty had been saved.
And, with time running out, a ball into the Glasgow box was deflected into the net by Arnot to give Hibs victory at the death.
What he'll hand over to his host to share with the 27 other guests is the "British problem". This is the important moment that it becomes the EU's shared problem.
Gone are the days when Europe's politicians and officials could kid themselves that if they waited long enough the British would change their mind or change their government.
They now know that, like it or not, there will be a renegotiation of the UK's membership of the EU followed by a referendum.
This will not, though, be the moment David Cameron spells out a detailed negotiating position, let alone begins haggling with his fellow leaders over what he will and will not accept.
He fears that if he did that now it would simply be an invitation for his opponents in Europe to chip away at his demands and for his critics at home to proclaim that he's demanding too little and already failing.
Besides, Europe's leaders have enough on their minds - with the Greek crisis still unresolved and the EU's migration crisis getting steadily worse.
His aim, instead, is to get the formal agreement of this EU Summit that it is now the job of the man in the chair - President Tusk - to add solving the British problem to his 'to do' list.
Yesterday he appointed a top Eurocrat - a Brit as it happens - to do just that.
How easy will that prove to be? The short answer is - not easy. Here's a few examples of why:
David Cameron believes that changes to the EU's treaties are necessary not just to implement the changes he wants but to convince Eurosceptics that his demands are not cosmetic.
Other EU leaders - the French president in particular - are already resisting this, fearful that it will invite other countries to make their own demands and that it will trigger unpredictable referendums in other countries.
The prime minister says he no longer wants Britain to be bound by this EU ambition. Some see this as mere symbolism but he sees it as critical to assuaging the anger of those, particularly older, voters who feel they were lied to when they were told that Britain was joining a "common market" and not a much wider political project.
Cameron hopes the change will allow him to assert that Britain is not and cannot be forced to join a European project which dreams of creating a single country with its own flag and anthem, elected parliament and army and, of course, a single European currency.
The phrase is, though, not only symbolic. It has legal status. The EU's other leaders will be reluctant to agree to something which they fear will allow Britain to claim the benefits but not share the costs of co-operation.
The PM has tried to make his proposals on immigration - the issue that upsets voters more than any other - more acceptable to the rest of the EU.
He has dropped proposals drawn up by the home secretary for a cap on EU migration or a so-called "emergency brake" which would allow any country to block their borders if too many people were arriving.
He's insisted that he's signed up to the key EU principle of freedom of movement. He's aiming instead for changes to the rules on welfare.
However, even his proposals to stop child benefit being sent abroad or to stop anyone who has not lived here for four year from claiming tax credits are hitting resistance from countries like Poland, who see them as designed to discriminate against their citizens, and others who believe the UK should simply reform its own over-generous benefits system and stop blaming everyone else.
There is more to the "British problem" than that short list.
This then is not the sort of gift that will be received with much enthusiasm at tonight's summit dinner. The prime minister will try to wrap it up with a cheery message.
Britain, he will insist, no longer wants to slow down or stop the rest of the EU pulling closer together if that's what they want to do.
Indeed, he'll argue that that's the only answer to the continuing problems of the eurozone.
His big ask is that the EU finally accepts that the UK will, though, be no part of that - not now and not ever.
After that he may share what I'm told is the favourite bit of advice he's picked up on his recent whirlwind tour of EU capitals.
It's a phrase used by Finland's prime minister which is said to capture David Cameron's desire to postpone protracted public negotiations for as long as possible and move instead into a long phase of private, behind the scenes, low key discussions about the best way forward.
He does not want to do now what can wait until later or, as they say in Finnish: "There is no need to skin the bear before Christmas".
Hawkins, the pre-race favourite over the 10km course at Falkirk's Callendar Park, broke away on the first of three laps to win very comfortably.
Chris Jones of Dundee Hawkhill was second ahead of Shettleston's Lachlan Oates.
It was Hawkins' second success at an event that has also been won by big brother Derek. Both are coached by father Robert, and the younger sibling, still spattered in mud as he signed autographs for fans waiting at the finish-line, reflected on the overall feel-good factor in Scotland.
"We had 15 Scots at the Olympics. And that, at least in my lifetime, is unheard of. And now Laura Muir, Andrew Butchart and myself - running the kind of times we are - it's just a snowball.
"Everyone is just bouncing off each other and it's just great for the sport in Scotland."
The next target for Hawkins is the New York half-marathon on 19 March, then the focus switches to London in August.
"Hopefully I can improve on what I did in Rio," he said.
Hawkins' win was the final act in a frenetic day in Falkirk, where well over 2,000 athletes splashed their way around a sometimes sodden track in all the various age-group races.
There was a fine victory in the main women's event for Morag MacLarty, who says making it into next year's Scottish Commonwealth Games team could be tougher than the trials for Rio.
It was a first senior cross-country title for the 31-year-old Central AC athlete, who won with a fine piece of front running to see off the defending champion, and Rio Olympian, Beth Potter. Lothian's Sarah Inglis took the bronze medal.
"I'm very injury-prone," said MacLarty. "My physio just identified a leg-length difference and she's been amazing. She's keeping me in one piece so I've been able to get a few months' consistent training which I've never had for as long as I can remember so I'm excited to see what I can do if I keep myself in one piece.
"Getting in the Scottish team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast is going be crazy. The Scottish team is so strong, if you're looking at the 5,000m for women. So I don't know; I'm going to have to see what event I'm going to go for first . It will be a bit of a tall order."
Chloe Keegan, 41, of Marsden Terrace in Ramsey, failed a breath test after crashing her car into a field in Sulby on 18 April.
She was ordered to carry out 200 hours of community service and was banned from driving for six years at Douglas courthouse on Tuesday.
Keegan resigned from her job with the Manx force after the incident.
Deputy High Bailiff Jayne Hughes said her actions had undermined the work of the police when it came to tackling drink-driving.
The disruption is across counties Tyrone and Londonderry.
Normal out-of-hours repairs are not being carried out because of the dispute over pensions.
NI Water said it would try to minimise disruption, but resources were limited. The company has a postcode search on its website for customers to check for information.
The areas still affected:
Omagh: Carrickmore, Dungannon (Sultan Road), Glenhull, Greencastle, Loughmacrory, Mountfield, Omagh (Camcosy Road, Gorticashel Road, Cairn Road, Cloghan Road, Fernagh Road, Green Road, Striff Lane), Pomeroy (Camlough Road and Loughmallon) and Sixmilecross.
Draperstown: Cahore Heights and surrounding areas
Pomeroy: Sluggan Road, Bardahessiagh Lane
An alternative water supply is available in the following locations:
Greencastle: Maryville, Sheskinshule, Omagh, BT79 7QW (near Greencastle and Crockanboy Road junction)
Creggan: Creggan Visitors Centre, 182 Creggan Road, Carrickmore, BT79 9AA
Mountfield: Main Street, Mountfield, BT79 7PP
Loughmacrory: Loughmacrory Community Centre, Ballybrack Road, Loughmacrory, BT79 9LU
Carrickmore: Creggan Road and Barony Road crossroads (at the layby opposite the filling station), BT79 9BL
NI Water said customers will need to bring their own containers to collect water from the tanks.
Customers are also asked to boil the water before use.
Patricia Gray lives outside Draperstown, County Londonderry, and has been without water since Thursday morning.
"We've had two short spurts of water this morning for about half an hour, on Saturday, for about one hour and that's it. This is day four.
"It's the coldest snap in the winter and we can't even heat the house because of the pressurised system that uses the water.
"We've had three or four inches of snow.
"There's six of us in the house altogether, three teenage girls who shower and wash their hair everyday.
"It's awful, it's just got to the point where it is really frustrating and everybody is very angry in this area that nothing seems to be getting done.
"We're rate payers, we're paying for a service that has just let us down completely.
"We're quite rural, this would never be allowed to happen in Hillsborough. Belfast wouldn't be crippled the way we are.
"Apologies really are no good for us. People are running a multi-million pound company and it's just not good enough."
NI Water chief executive Sara Venning said: "It is completely unacceptable that this industrial action is aimed and targeted at customers."
She added: "We made an offer on Friday and we asked that while they consider the offer they put in place arrangements to protect the public drinking water supply.
"They refused to do that, and we see these interruptions to supply as a direct consequence of their refusal."
NI Water said as a result of the industrial action, unions were only allowing their staff to work between eight and four during the week, so outside of those hours, there was no cover for the water treatment works or the distribution works.
Ryan McKinney of the public service union Nipsa said NI Water had put forward what they said was a "final offer" on Friday, but it was not enough to suspend their industrial action.
"If that offer had been one that we felt would have been accepted by our representatives and the wider membership, we would have been in a position to reinstate the emergency protocol," he said.
"However, it's quite clear to us that the offer falls well short of the main demand of the workers in this dispute - it would mean they would have to accept the pension changes this year, and there's no package that ameliorates any of that."
He said more talks would be held with NI Water this week, and it was important to resolve the dispute.
"When I speak to our members, who after all are also affected when an area loses water, they say to me, 'why should we reinstate goodwill?' When was the last time they got any goodwill from the company?
"When workers in an important public utility decide to take action, unfortunately that will pit them against other working people as well, and all of them are really being affected by the government's decision."
Last weekend, about 10,000 customers in counties Fermanagh and Tyrone were left without water after a pump at a treatment plant in Enniskillen broke down.
Nipsa, Unite and GMB members voted last month for a work-to-rule and withdrawal of on-call services and overtime in a row over pensions.
NI Water said it remained "committed to continued engagement" with trade unions in an effort to resolve the dispute.
ITV offered 236p a share for the company, valuing it at more than £1bn.
But the Canada-based film distribution and TV production company said the bid "fundamentally undervalues the company and its prospects".
Entertainment One owns more than 40,000 film and television titles, including last year's Oscar-winning Spotlight and AMC drama Fear the Walking Dead.
In all, it has 4,500 hours of TV programming and 45,000 music tracks. Its library is valued at more than $1bn.
Shares in Entertainment One jumped almost 10% on Tuesday and rose a further 7% on Wednesday to 234.40p.
In a statement, ITV said it had "a clear strategy that, over recent years, has created significant value for shareholders".
"A key part of that strategy is continuing to build a scaled international content and global distribution business, with a focus on US-scripted content.
"ITV believes that the proposed combination with eOne has strong strategic rationale and would further accelerate ITV's rebalancing of the business."
Neil Wilson, markets analyst at ETX Capital, said: "ITV will be disappointed that's bid for Entertainment One has been rejected, but it can hardly be surprised.
"ITV may well fatten up its bid - Entertainment One was valued at close to 368p in July 2015, before its main backer Marwyn Value Investors sold off a big chunk of its holding.
"Around this time Entertainment One began a series of acquisitions that has hit its price, while a refinancing plan in December sent the stock plunging 20%."
ITV chief executive Adam Crozier has said the company is striving to build "a global production business of scale" in an attempt to reduce its reliance on advertising revenue.
Shares in ITV have fallen almost 30% this year and it was particularly hard hit following the Brexit vote in June.
The broadcaster has made a series of acquisitions to bolster the ITV Studios division, which last month reported a 31% rise in revenues to £651m.
ITV Studios makes programmes including Coronation Street, Come Dine With Me, Hell's Kitchen, I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and the Jeremy Kyle Show.
Last year, ITV bought Talpa, the production company that makes The Voice. The UK version of the talent show will move from BBC1 to the commercial broadcaster in 2017.
Mr Wilson added: "Terrestrial TV is coming under huge pressure from on-demand services like Amazon Prime and Netflix, which also own a lot of their own content.
"ITV has been snapping up production companies as it clearly understands content is vital for its future, but it too could be the subject of a takeover.
"A sharp fall in its share price this year and the collapse in sterling since the Brexit vote has left it wide open. The cheap pound makes unique UK assets like ITV very desirable."
The Irish News has a picture of an industrial yard in County Fermanagh with "a row of biomass boilers" inside.
The paper says when it visited the premises last week, the door was open while the boilers burned inside.
The owner said it was for an industrial process and was not an abuse of the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme.
The Belfast Telegraph says that, for the second time in less than a year, taxpayers will have to foot the bill for MLAs who will not be returning to Stormont after an assembly election.
More than £1m was handed out to 33 former MLAs after last May's election, it says, as each are entitled to payouts of up to £80,000 to help them adjust to life outside politics.
This time around, there will be 18 guaranteed payments as the number of MLAs is cut from 108 to 90, with other payouts for MLAs not standing this time or who lose their seats. Inside, the paper lists the MLAs given payouts in 2016 and what they received.
The News Letter focuses on DUP special adviser (SPAD) John Robinson's response to allegations by Jonathan Bell in relation to the RHI scheme.
Mr Robinson has admitted his father-in-law is an RHI claimant, but said he had never advised anyone to join the scheme.
Inside, the paper reports on DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds' comments in the House of Commons that the 2 March election is about the Troubles and Sinn Féin's desire to see former soldiers prosecuted, rather than about the RHI scheme.
The Mirror leads with Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams' accusation that former first minister Arlene Foster has betrayed the Northern Ireland electorate over Brexit.
Mr Adams says it was Mrs Foster's "duty" to uphold the wishes of the majority in Northern Ireland who voted to remain in the EU.
Moving away from politics, the Belfast Telegraph, Irish News and News Letter all report on the brother and sister critically injured by a car after getting off a school bus in County Antrim.
The Belfast Telegraph also carries an interview with Joanne McGibbon, whose husband Michael was murdered by dissident republicans in north Belfast last year.
Joanne took her four children to Disney World in Florida as a Christmas surprise. She says she and Michael had often talked about taking the children to the resort, and it was bittersweet making the trip without him.
Also on the subject of dissident republican violence, The Irish News reports that the bomb defused by the army in the Poleglass area of west Belfast at the weekend is believed to have been of a type not previously used in Northern Ireland.
The paper's security correspondent Alison Morris says this may have contributed to the length of time it took to make the device safe.
Meanwhile, the News Letter quotes former senior police officer Norman Baxter as saying there should be "public outrage" over the judiciary's handling of the case against 40-year-old Damien McLauglin.
The Ardboe man, who is out on bail charged in connection with the murder of prison officer David Black, has not been seen by police since November.
Finally, the paper has the story of the Matchett family from Waringstown whose Mercedes Benz parked in their driveway has been left unusable - by rats.
The rodents have chewed through electrical wiring and seats after apparently getting access through the exhaust and boot. James Matchett said he encountered one of them while vacuuming the vehicle.
It's enough to drive you round the Benz.
The bird is one of four on a list that the International Council for the Conservation of Nature have put together to highlight which species of birds are at risk.
Atlantic puffins, European turtle doves, Slavonian grebe and Pochards are also on the list.
This doubles the number of UK species on the critical list to eight different birds.
The Atlantic puffin population is still in the millions, but fewer young birds are surviving long enough to have babies.
The environmental organisation says numbers of turtle doves have fallen in the UK by 90 per cent in the past 40 years.
BBC reporter Dafydd Evans sent Newsround this report.
Zhi Min Soh, 23, was struck on Edinburgh's Princes Street, at its junction with Lothian Road, at 08:30 on Wednesday 31 May.
Pedal on Parliament have asked for "a short, respectful protest" at the scene exactly a week on from the accident.
Cyclists have previously branded the tracks "an accident waiting to happen".
Ms Soh, from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, was a medical student at Edinburgh University.
She was described as "talented and thoughtful". The university said it had lost "a bright star of the future".
A Pedal on Parliament statement said: "We and every other cyclist we have spoken to personally and online are angry as well as saddened at this death.
"Edinburgh's tram tracks have been described as an accident waiting to happen from the moment they were unveiled.
"As a result, hundreds of cyclists have been injured from falls on the tracks, and thousands more have had close shaves, putting many off cycling those roads at all.
"This is a sorry record for a city that aspires to be the most cycle-friendly in Scotland. We should not have had to wait for a young woman to die for there to be ministerial action, and a review."
It comes after lawyers claimed warnings about the safety risks which tram tracks in Edinburgh pose to cyclists have been ignored.
City of Edinburgh Council said it has made "every effort" to raise awareness about the tracks.
Customers who use the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) or NatWest mobile banking app can now request cash, up to £100, via their smartphone.
They are given a six-digit code to enter into an ATM to release the cash.
A similar system has been developed by cash machine operator NCR. This requires users to scan a barcode to withdraw the money.
The services are the latest developments in a long-predicted move towards the smartphone becoming a digital wallet.
RBS said that its new system would help customers who had forgotten their bank cards, or who wished to send cash to family members in a hurry.
It would also allow the people to leave their wallets at home in favour of taking a mobile phone, it suggested.
"It is a really simple and secure way to help our customers get cash whenever and wherever they need it," said Ben Green, head of mobile at RBS and NatWest.
The service is available to customers who have downloaded the bank's free app and use the 8,000 RBS, NatWest or Tesco branded ATMs in the UK. Some 2.6 million people have installed it on their smartphone so far, the bank said.
At present, customers using a card can withdraw up to £300. Initially the limit on the cardless withdrawal will be £100.
Access to the app requires a password, and the withdrawal code will be hidden until the user taps the screen. This is aimed at preventing thieves from looking over the user's shoulder to steal the code.
The system is an extension of a RBS service that allowed people whose card had been stolen to access emergency cash from an ATM.
The bank is also unveiling a system which allows customers to make charity donations at its ATMs.
In a separate development, NCR has announced that it has developed software that allows people to scan a barcode on their smartphone at an ATM to release an amount entered in their smartphone.
It is looking for banks and building societies to adopt the software.
Blindwells, next to the A1, is a site near Prestonpans, Cockenzie and Port Seton.
Plans for 1,600 houses makes Blindwells one of the largest residential developments to be given the go-ahead in Scotland in recent years.
Developers are planning 480 affordable homes on the site.
The proposals include a mix of uses including 25 acres of employment land that will bring more than 100 jobs to Blindwells, a new primary school, and in the longer term a High School, a new park and ride, a site for a new rail halt, playing fields and more than 10 miles of paths through the parkland and open space.
Hargreaves, which owns the site, has been working on the project with East Lothian Council since 2013.
Iain Slater, development and estates director for Hargreaves, said: "We are obviously delighted that East Lothian Council has approved our application and we look forward to starting the construction work soon.
"I would like to thank East Lothian Council for its co-operation in helping realise the original vision for a new community at Blindwells.
"East Lothian is one of the most attractive places to live in the UK, and Hargreaves has worked hard to ensure that we create a high quality new community of which the council and residents can be proud."
Long term plans for the site include 3,200 homes built over 15 years.
The 38-year-old is the club's longest-serving player, making 171 appearances in almost five years at St Andrew's.
The former West Bromwich Albion defender played 25 times last season as Birmingham avoided relegation to the third tier on the final day.
Robinson will continue to help as a coach at the club, having previous assisted Blues' under-23 side.
Champions Toulon had gone into the final round of games as group leaders, but Wasps leapfrogged them on points scored in their two meetings.
Saturday's game was evenly poised at half-time, with the hosts taking a narrow 15-10 lead.
But Wasps ran in 36 unanswered points in a superb second-half performance.
Toulon had to settle for second place in Pool Five, and go through as one of three runners-up.
Wasps will now play the winners of Pool Two in the quarter-finals and could secure a home tie, depending on Sunday's results.
Wasps seemed unlikely group winners after being drawn alongside three-time European champions Leinster and Toulon, as well as last year's Premiership finalists Bath.
But the Coventry-based outfit went into the final game, against an under-performing Leinster side, knowing a win would see them through.
Dai Young's team got off to the worst possible start after only two minutes at the Ricoh Arena, when a rapid break saw Zane Kirchner go over in the right-hand corner for the visitors.
But the Irish province, who finished bottom of the pool, lost influential fly-half Johnny Sexton to concussion after only 10 minutes and their afternoon began to unravel.
Jimmy Gopperth converted his own try and England's Joe Launchbury, on his return from concussion, also went over to put Wasps ahead.
While Wasps front-rower Lorenzo Cittadini was in the sin-bin, an acrobatic inside pass by Rob Kearney saw Eoin Reddan score Leinster's second, but it was to be their final points of the match.
Elliot Daly will head to England's Six Nations training camp on Sunday off the back of a man-of-the-match performance which included a sensational try.
The Wasps outside centre, as yet uncapped at international level, raced diagonally from 40 metres out, beating Rob and Dave Kearney, to touchdown his side's third score of the game.
The bonus point came via a penalty try and Leinster's defence crumbled again as Daly sent wing Frank Halai over.
Full-back Charles Piutau showed his pace to cross with 10 minutes remaining, before Ashley Johnson stepped off the bench to heap more misery on Leinster, who were handed their heaviest European defeat to date.
Speaking about Daly's influence on the game, director of rugby Young said: "He showed what a threat he is against the best in Europe.
"He's also been excellent at the bread and butter stuff like defence that you expect from an international centre.
"He was outstanding and while I don't select the England team, I don't think he can do any more."
Wasps: Charles Piutau; Josh Bassett, Elliot Daly, Brendan Macken, Frank Halai; Jimmy Gopperth, Joe Simpson; Matt Mullan, Edd Shervington, Lorenzo Cittadini; Joe Launchbury, Bradley Davies, James Haskell (capt), George Smith, Sam Jones.
Replacements: Ashley Johnson, Tom Bristow, Jake Cooper-Woolley, James Gaskell, Nathan Hughes, Dan Robson, Ruaridh Jackson, Rob Miller.
Sin Bin: Cittadini (29).
Leinster: Rob Kearney; Zane Kirchner, Luke Fitzgerald, Noel Reid, Dave Kearney; Johnny Sexton (capt), Eoin Reddan; Jack McGrath, Sean Cronin, Marty Moore; Devin Toner, Rhys Ruddock; Dominic Ryan, Jordi Murphy, Jamie Heaslip.
Replacements: Richardt Strauss, Peter Dooley, Michael Bent, Ross Molony, Josh van der Flier, Isaac Boss, Cathal Marsh, Ben Te'o.
Ref: Mathieu Raynal (France).
Attendance: 16,519
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Johnson confirmed his departure and the Scottish Rugby Union announced that he will be available for the June tour to Australia, Fiji and Samoa.
"I will not be looking to renew [my contract] at the end of the season," said the 49-year-old Australian.
Scotland coach Andy Robinson has been seeking an experienced coach.
Johnson added: "When I joined the region I had a remit to help set-up systems that would enable us to bring through home grown talent, coaches and players, a challenge I've thoroughly enjoyed getting my teeth into over the last three years.
"I feel that now is the right time for me to move on to other challenges but I remain 100% committed to the Ospreys between now and the end of the season."
The real legacy he [Johnson] will leave is the systems and structures he has helped to develop that will allow us to continue leading the way in Wales
Johnson's role with Scotland is thought to also include some involvement with Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Ospreys chief operations officer Andrew Hore said: "It is a huge disappointment for us to be losing Scott at the end of the season, but we understand that he feels it is the right time for him to move on to other challenges having served the three years he committed himself to us for originally."
Hore added: "By informing us of his intentions at this early stage, it allows us to use this time to consider our next course of action and the options available to us as we plan for the future."
Managing director Roger Blyth said: "While he has brought silverware to the Liberty Stadium and we hope that will be the case once again this season, the real legacy he will leave is the systems and structures he has helped to develop that will allow us to continue leading the way in Wales."
Johnson joined the Ospreys ahead of the 2009-10 season, leaving the role of USA Eagles national coach to do so.
He first arrived in Wales as a skills coach during 2011 World Cup winning coach Graham Henry's reign and was assistant coach during the Steve Hansen and Mike Ruddock eras.
Wales won their first Grand Slam in 27 years under Ruddock in 2005 and many credited Johnson with playing a key role in that achievement.
Johnson became Wales caretaker coach during the 2006 Six Nations following Ruddock's controversial departure.
In March 2006 Johnson became one of John Connolly's assistant coaches and selectors ahead of the Wallabies' 2007 World Cup campaign.
In 2008 he became USA coach and left the following year to return to Wales with the Ospreys.
During his time at the Liberty Stadium, they reached the 2009-10 Heineken Cup quarter-finals where they were defeated 29-28 by Biarritz.
A year later they bowed out after a tough pool stage featuring Munster, Toulon and London Irish and this term are struggling in the competition having drawn 26-26 in Treviso and lost back-to-back games against Saracens in Pool Five.
In what was the Magners League, the Ospreys' greatest triumph came in Johnson's first Ospreys term, a 17-12 win over Leinster in Dublin in the tournament's inaugural Grand Final.
Ahead of the 2011-12 season they lost high-profile players James Hook, Lee Byrne, Jerry Collins, Marty Holah and Mike Phillips and were without a glut of Test stars playing for Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Samoa at the World Cup.
But after a strong start in what is now the Pro12 League, the Ospreys lie second to Leinster with eight wins from 11 games.
Wasps coach Dai Young and Johnson coached the Barbarians when they beat Wales in June, 2011.
Johnson was Wales' observer of Sir Clive Woodward's British and Irish Lions back-room staff during the ill-fated 2005 tour to New Zealand.
Scotland coach Robinson was a Woodward assistant on that tour and has sought someone of the right calibre to be his right-hand man.
"I am delighted Scott has agreed to join the Scotland coaching team. I have huge respect for him as a coach and a person having coached against him on numerous occasions," Robinson said.
At the 2011 World Cup Scotland failed to reach the quarter-finals for the first time and Robinson is keen to emulate the template that brought the All Blacks success at the tournament.
Graham Henry had Test-hardened coaches in former Wales coach Steve Hansen and ex-All Blacks head coach Wayne Smith as his assistants.
Johnson's solicitor, Duncan Sandlant, of Esportif international, had indicated that Scotland was not his only option, saying: "Scott has a number of options which he is seriously considering."
The Australian had been linked in reports in New Zealand with a role as assistant to new All Blacks head coach Hansen.
But Ian Foster's appointment as one of Hansen's back-room staff made such a move unlikely for Johnson.
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Auditions began earlier than usual this year, and were held in Manchester and London.
Lots of people turned up for their moment in the limelight, and Leah chatted to a few about their hopes for the auditions.
The 61-year-old driver of a VW Golf and children aged between six and nine were hurt in the crash on Friday with an Audi S4 on the A23 near Crawley.
A nine-year-old boy with serious injuries was taken to St Georges Hospital in Tooting and is stable.
Sussex Police said the four occupants of the Audi left the scene, near Applegreen service station.
Two males aged 17 and 24 have been arrested.
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The event in Calne was attended by 1,254 people dressed as shepherds, angels and wise men.
This beat the previous record of 1,039 people, which was set in the US state of Utah.
Guinness World Record official Jack Brockbank described it as "a fantastic result" for the town.
The body of the 36-year-old was discovered on Friday evening in Culver Street, Salisbury.
Officers said "there may be a quantity of contaminated heroin" in the city and have issued an 'urgent warning' to drug users to be aware.
The woman has not been formally identified.
DS Guy Williams, of Salisbury CID, said the batch of drugs could "have the potential to lead to further illness or death".
He added: "We would like to reassure the local community we are carrying out a detailed and robust investigation following this death and enquiries will be continuing."
Temperatures plummeted overnight and Northern Ireland suffered its coldest August night on record at -1.9C.
The Met Office has issued yellow warnings for rain on Monday - indicating people should "be aware" - for Wales and most of England.
The forecaster said the rain was caused by a "complex area of low pressure".
It said the conditions could cause problems for motorists, with surface water and spray predicted.
BBC weather presenter Darren Bett said that following sunshine on Sunday, increasing cloud would then bring heavy rain.
Temperatures on Monday will struggle to get above 19C (66F), forecasters said.
Scotland, where it is not a bank holiday, is expected to have the best of the weather.
The Met Office said strong winds would be an additional factor, as well as rain, close to southern coasts and in north-west England.
In Northern Ireland, the forecaster said temperatures would not exceed 15C and there would be cloud and patches of rain, becoming heavier and more persistent across the southern border.
In the early hours of Sunday morning, the temperature dropped to -1.9C at Katesbridge, in County Down - which set a new record for the coldest August night in Northern Ireland. The previous low of -1.1C was set in 1964.
In Scotland, the mercury in Eskdalemuir fell to 0.8C overnight. In southern England, Bournemouth saw a low of 2C.
The lowest August temperature ever recorded in the UK was -4.5C in Lagganlia in the Scottish Highlands, registered in 1973.
Low temperatures are expected again in Scotland overnight on Sunday, but the rest of the country will be less cold, BBC forecasters said.
The Met Office warned people across the UK to be aware that there may be "some impacts to holiday traffic and other outdoor activities".
A spokesman said: "A complex area of low pressure will bring an unpleasant day's weather to much of England and Wales on Monday.
"Rainfall amounts are likely to exceed 15mm (0.6in) quite widely, while a few places could see more than 30mm (1.1in). There will be a lot of surface water and spray on roads, and winds will be locally strong and gusty, for instance over parts of north-west England."
Tourism agency Visit England said more than five million people were planning an overnight stay away from home over the weekend.
About one million people are expected to attend London's Notting Hill Carnival, one of Europe's biggest events of its kind, which takes place on Sunday and Monday.
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There were 254 such deaths in 2010 across England and Wales - a rate of 0.35 per 1,000 live births - slightly down from 279 deaths the previous year.
But the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID) says more needs to be done in the worst-hit region.
North-west England has a rate of 0.53 "cot deaths" per 1,000 live births.
The charity's chief executive, Francine Bates, said: "Although we have seen a small reduction in the number of deaths across England and Wales, the figure for the North West is extremely concerning.
"The region has had the highest rate for the last seven years."
The FSID says that with the help of public health agencies, it hopes to cut the number of deaths through Reduce the Risk campaigns.
Back to sleep
While it is not clear what causes the deaths, avoiding smoking is one of the measures recommended to reduce the risk.
Ms Bates added: "We know that smoking is a major risk factor for sudden infant death... the smoking rate for the North West is above the national average."
Others measures recommended to protect infants include putting babies on their backs to sleep and not allowing them to share a bed with the parents.
There is also a suggestion that bacteria may have a role in sudden infant death, although the precise nature of any relationship is not known.
The number of babies dying from sudden infant death before they are 12 months old has fallen steadily in recent years.
This drop is largely attributed to the Back to Sleep campaign, which was launched in 1991.
And for the past few years the overall number of sudden infant deaths has hovered around 300 a year.
While the change in the rate of unexplained infant deaths from 2009 to 2010 is not significant statistically, the fall since 2005 - when the rate was 0.5 deaths per 1,000 live births - is significant.
In 1995, when the figures were first compiled, the death rate was more than 0.6.
As well as regional differences, the ONS figures show that some sections of the population are more likely to experience sudden infant death than others.
The rate among unmarried mothers registering the birth alone - 1.18 per 1,000 - was eight times that of babies born within marriage.
In 2010, more than a third of cot deaths occurred over the winter period, while just over a fifth occurred during the summer. It is thought that overheating and an unsafe sleeping environment, such as the baby's head being covered, may have played a part.
The figures include deaths described both as sudden infant deaths and those for which the cause is "unascertained" after a full investigation. ONS researchers said the terms were used interchangeably by coroners.
North Wales Police said a call was received at about 19:15 BST on Friday, alerting them to the crash at Lon Gerddi, Edern, Pwllheli.
The road was blocked following the incident with police warning of delays but has since reopened.
The man has not yet been named.
Many employers will have to increase salaries when the new £7.20 an hour measure comes into effect next April.
Colin Neill of Hospitality Ulster said it would have major implications for hotels and restaurants.
He told the BBC's Inside Business programme there was a risk of more workers being paid "cash-in-hand".
Mr Neill said that while the hospitality industry was "in a much more difficult place than others", various sectors were looking at "how we're going to deal with this and, actually, how can you pass on the cost".
Announced by Chancellor George Osborne in the Budget, the National Living Wage will be paid to both full-time and part-time workers aged 25 and above.
Initially, it will be set at £7.20 an hour, with a target of it reaching more than £9 an hour by 2020.
Inside Business is on BBC Radio Ulster and Radio Foyle at 13:30 BST on Sunday, and is available to listen to afterwards on the BBC iPlayer.
In his regular radio address, Lee Myung-bak described the field as a "new growth engine" for the economy.
The announcement comes five years after a damaging scandal, when it was found a cloning pioneer had faked research.
Analysts say Mr Lee's pledge belies concerns that South Korea could fall far behind fast-moving rival nations.
The president said South Korea alongside the US had been a world leader in stem cell research a decade ago.
"Unfortunately, there was a disappointing incident which caused inevitable damage to the entire stem cell research community in Korea," he said, referring to the conviction of Hwang Woo-suk.
Hwang's claims he had succeeded in creating human embryonic stem cells by cloning raised hopes of finding cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's, until revelations that his work was bogus.
The controversy caused shockwaves in South Korea, where the scientist had been widely regarded as a national hero.
As Seoul's stem cell programme faltered, other nations streamlined regulations and aggressively expanded funding for research, Mr Lee said.
"We must restore our national fame as a stem cell powerhouse," he said, adding the government would ease regulations and establish a state stem cell bank.
Scientists believe stem cells could be used as a super "repair kit" for the body, generating healthy tissue to replace that damaged by trauma or compromised by disease.
Among the conditions which scientists believe may eventually be treated by stem cell therapy are Parkinson's disease, heart disease, stroke, arthritis, diabetes, burns and spinal cord damage.
Lawyers for one of the men successfully sued by relatives of some of those murdered indicated a hearing planned for January may have to be put back.
The potential hold-up is due to material being sought in a bid to help overturn the original findings.
Twenty-nine people including a woman pregnant with twins were killed in the Real IRA bombing in August 1998.
After being updated duon Monday, Lord Justice Higgins told the legal teams involved: "If there is to be an application to vacate the date for which this appeal is presently fixed, that application will require to be made in the first half of November."
A separate bid by victims' families to obtain a more punitive award of exemplary damages against those deemed responsible is also due to be mounted during a scheduled two-week hearing.
In a landmark ruling last year Mr Justice Morgan, now the lord chief justice, ordered that more than £1.6m in total should be paid out to 12 relatives.
Four men were found liable for the atrocity: Michael McKevitt, Liam Campbell, Seamus Daly and Colm Murphy.
Their planned challenges to the verdict were originally in doubt until they were all granted legal aid earlier this year.
During a review hearing on Monday Mary Higgins QC, for Daly, stressed that all involved wanted the appeal to go ahead on time.
But she flagged up potential delays over obtaining all transcripts and documents required to mount a full challenge to the original verdict.
Brett Lockhart QC, for the victims' families, claimed the only difficulty appeared to be over Daly's requests for "all sorts of extraneous material".
Mr Lockhart said Daly wanted to go over "various other conspiracy theories", but accepted it was his right to bring the appeal in whatever way he wanted.
However, he added: "The fact they wish to have such a wide-ranging amount of documentation should not be permitted to delay the trial of this matter."
Lawyers on both sides were told to meet again later this week in an attempt to finalise indexes of material they will seek to rely on.
The 23-year-old Portuguese winger, Wolves' top scorer last season, has undergone a successful operation to repair the injury which troubled him towards the end of last season.
His absence is expected to last between six and 10 weeks, which would rule him out until at least early September.
Costa was the first signing following Wolves' Chinese takeover last summer.
Shortly after Chinese group Fosun took over, he signed from Benfica, initially on loan, before completing a £13m move on a four-and-a-half-year deal in January.
That made him Wolves' club record signing, prior to Saturday's £15m-plus arrival of Ruben Neves, from Porto.
The findings come from a report published by Fair Funding for Our Kids.
In 2014, the Scottish government increased entitlement to free childcare for three to five-year-olds from 475 to 600 hours per year.
A Scottish government spokeswoman said 2015 statistics showed "97% registration" for funded childcare.
Fair Funding for our Kids submitted Freedom of Information requests in order to analyse whether working parents' needs were being met across Scotland.
The research found that some local authorities were only offering half-day places at council nurseries.
While some families could place their children in private nurseries for the full day, councils did not always fund these places, even where the nurseries were in partnership with the local authorities.
The FOI requests found that in 2015/16 almost three-quarters of all free childcare places for three to five-year-olds in Scotland were offered in council-run nurseries.
The results showed councils in Scotland were underfunding places in private nurseries, with 25 of 32 local authorities offering an hourly rate below the national average cost of a nursery place.
A spokeswoman for the campaign said the results showed there had been "very little progress" made in ensuring Scottish parents could access the childcare they were entitled to.
Scottish Labour education spokesman Daniel Johnson said: "We need to see childcare policies that fit around the lives of working families, not just on an election leaflet."
However, a Scottish government spokeswoman said there had been "97% registration for funded entitlement to early learning and childcare for three and four-year-olds".
She added that the Children and Young People Act "put flexibility on a statutory footing for the first time" resulting in local authorities being required to consult with parents on childcare that would "best meet their needs."
Alison Johnstone MSP, the Scottish Greens' children and young people spokesperson, said that childcare arrangements in Scotland were "woefully patchy and inflexible," and added that as well as increasing the hours of free childcare, there was also a need to raise "the quality training and pay for childcare staff."
Johnstone added: "If we invest in good quality childcare there's a better chance of tackling unemployment, giving parents easier access to further and higher education, and reducing inequality."
FOI requests were submitted to all 32 of Scotland's local authorities. When analysis began two local authorities (Highland and North Lanarkshire) had not replied.
Secret filming by the BBC programme broadcast last month showed residents being pinned down, slapped and taunted at Winterbourne View, near Bristol.
Police investigating the matter confirmed a further two men, aged 26 and 32, had been arrested and bailed.
Local MP Jack Lopresti has called for the hospital to be closed.
Eleven people have now been questioned in connection with the inquiry.
Earlier this week police arrested two women, aged 22 and 21, and three men, aged 58, 40 and 28. Last week, a woman and three men were arrested.
All have been released on police bail.
On Wednesday, it was revealed that South Gloucestershire Council staff may have been been told five times in two months about fears of abuse at Winterbourne View.
An e-mail from the hospital manager last November said "five safeguarding concerns" appeared to have arisen.
It is thought this may refer to concerns raised with the council's Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults panel.
The e-mail, sent by the manager to support workers and nurses and seen by the BBC, said patients had complained of ill treatment.
It said they had allegedly been teased, forced to swallow medication, threatened, restrained when it was not warranted and called nicknames which other patients then used.
The private home, which is taxpayer-funded, is to be investigated by the Care Quality Commission.
Hospital owner Castlebeck has apologised and suspended 13 employees - including the manager who wrote the e-mail.
Jack Lopresti, the MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke, has now called for the care home to be closed and for an independent review into what led to the failures in patient care.
The Conservative MP said: "I will be meeting with the chief executive of Castlebeck shortly to suggest that the company permanently closes Winterbourne View at the earliest opportunity.
"I am also calling for an independent inquiry into why such serious failures occurred and what lessons can be learnt to ensure the abuse at Winterbourne View Hospital never happens again.
"I believe that a truly independent inquiry is needed to restore the public faith in the care system."
The vulnerable patients filmed by Panorama have been moved to safety.
Bethany Farrell, 23, of Colchester, Essex, died while scuba diving off the coast of Queensland.
She panicked after becoming separated from her friend and their instructor during an introductory dive trip, Chelmsford Coroner's Court heard.
Ms Farrell's family has called for the diving company to face prosecution.
The court heard that Australian health and safety investigators were critical of firm "DL20 Trading Pty Ltd".
Ms Farrell died just a week into her gap year on 17 February 2015.
Recording a narrative verdict, senior coroner for Essex, Caroline Beasley-Murray told the court: "The deceased drowned in Blue Pearl Bay, Hayman Island.
"There were various failings in the way in which the diving activities were carried out."
They said the company had not allowed people to practise with buoyancy devices and had failed to test the competency of first-time divers.
After the inquest, Bethany's father Patrick, 48, said: "Ultimately, Bethany went on a paid-for organised trip and was completely let down.
"The whole point of an introductory dive is it's an introductory dive."
Her mother Caron, 51, wept on hearing the conclusion of the inquest and, after the hearing, described her daughter as a "real-life angel", adding: "She was lovely, she was just beautiful."
Bethany died six days after arriving in Queensland for a gap year, having graduated from an English literature and media course at the University of Southampton.
Kestutis Bauzys, 46, is charged with killing Dzilva Butiene, 48, whose body was found in Orange Grove, Wisbech, on 5 April.
Post-mortem tests showed Ms Butiene, of Oakroyd Crescent, Wisbech, suffered trauma to the abdomen.
Mr Bauzys, of no fixed address, pleaded not guilty to murder at Cambridge Crown Court earlier. He was remanded in custody until his trial on 2 October.
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The Jaguars led 23-6 after the third quarter before a Colts comeback.
Indianapolis scored three fourth-quarter touchdowns, but Allen Hurns' 42-yard touchdown catch from Bortles with just over two minutes left ensured Jacksonville's victory.
It was the Jaguars' second win in their fourth NFL appearance at Wembley.
Jacksonville, the designated home team, had lost their first three games of the NFL regular season but looked good for a 17-6 half-time lead, after Allen Robinson touched down in the first quarter and Bortles ran through to score in the second.
The Colts were playing their first overseas NFL game, and only woke up in the final quarter.
Frank Gore rushed for a touchdown and quarterback Andrew Luck threw a two-yard pass to TY Hilton, who made it a three-point game with five minutes left.
However, Hurns collected a pass from Bortles and expertly weaved past several players for a touchdown that meant Phillip Dorsett's 64-yard score for the Colts with three minutes on the clock was in vain.
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Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles told BBC Sport: "The guys played their tails off. It was fun and cool to see, and it was good to get back on track.
"It definitely feels good to come here and win over here as well."
Indianapolis Colts' quarterback Andrew Luck said on www.colts.com: "They played better than us. We didn't play better in the first half. We didn't play particularly better in the second half.
"We made enough plays to almost get them, but almost doesn't cut it in this league. We've got to be better, I've got to be better. It's pretty simple."
More than 83,000 attended NFL's latest Wembley game, and they were treated to a pre-match performance by singer Robin Thicke.
Wembley Way outside the stadium, normally filled with football fans on cup final and play-off match days, was taken over by NFL supporters, some wearing jaguar masks and others with horseshoes painted on their faces.
Both sets of players were given a guard of honour on to the field by members of the armed forces holding the national flags of the United Kingdom and the United States.
There were plenty of sporting celebrities in attendance, including Great Britain's Olympic women's gold-medal winning hockey team.
One of the defining images of this NFL season has been San Francisco 49ers' quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the United States national anthem in recent months, in protest against what he called the oppression of black people in his country.
Several sportspople - both within and outside the NFL - have joined him in support and on Sunday, the Colts cornerback Antonio Cromartie knelt on one knee and raised his right fist as well.
Cromartie later stood up for UK anthem God Save the Queen.
Some fans at Wembley on Sunday were also seen wearing Kaepernick jerseys - the replica kit became one of the top-selling in the days after his stance gained widespread attention.
The Jaguars' win on Sunday made it back-to-back victories at Wembley, after their win over the Buffalo Bills 34-31 in 2015. Jacksonville's first two visits to London had ended in defeats.
London will host two more games this season, with the New York Giants and the Los Angeles Rams playing at Twickenham on 23 October, before the Washington Redskins take on the Cincinnati Bengals at Wembley on 30 October.
The NFL's international series in the regular season first took place in 2005 in Mexico, which will also play host to a game this year - the Houston Texans versus the Oakland Raiders on 21 November.
Wembley will be used as as one of the overseas venues until 2020 after the deal was extended last year.
The John Lewis advert has become a festive tradition for many people. Some people say it is the first sign of Christmas. This year's advert features the story of a lonely old man living on the moon.
It caused quite a flood of reaction on social media. The #ManOnTheMoon hashtag is trending in the UK, the United States and Ireland.
We asked you to share your views on the new advert and Christmas TV adverts in general.
Here is a selection of your views.
'Too soon'
Some of you feel it's too soon for Christmas adverts:
However, Alison Wonderland had a different view:
While PapY tweeted to say there should be no Christmas marketing until the Remembrance Sunday has been "given its due acknowledgment".
'Thought provoking'
Some people said the advert put a focus on loneliness and raised awareness about being lonely during the festive period. Some of you shared your views.
Amy Telford said "it's never too soon to highlight the issue of loneliness for older people."
'The bane of parents' lives'
Not many people appreciated Christmas adverts. Paul Berry feels adverts promoted "nothing of what Christmas is really" and encouraged "greed and debt."
Paul Clarke tweeted that adverts are just "a money grabbing venture". Spare a thought for poor parents.
@dom_ross asks "why do they start appearing in early October? They are the bane of parents' lives for far too long".
@AngelinedeH finds the advert "annoying". She adds that the "happy, cosy stuff is a slap in the face for bereaved, lonely and depressed people."
'Christmas tradition'
Some of you believed there are other TV adverts that manage to capture the spirit of Christmas better than the John Lewis campaigns.
There's more to Christmas adverts than John Lewis and Coca Cola...
Noel tweets that Christmas TV adverts are now a "Christmas tradition" along with turkeys, crackers and puddings.
However, the "Christmas tradition" is not appreciated by some, according to our readers!
Thanks for sharing your views, you can read more of your thoughts in our Twitter collection.
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Karen Bowden was pronounced dead at the scene the fire at Bayham Walk in Bucknall.
A man in his 60s who was taken to hospital after being recovered from the house has been discharged.
Staffordshire Police said it was not treating the fire as suspicious. A report is being prepared for the coroner.
More than 50 firefighters were deployed to tackle the fire, which hit the Olympic venue in Sydney on Sunday. No deaths were reported.
Firefighters say the blaze was probably started as a grass fire sparked by a cigarette butt or a car exhaust pipe.
Eyewitnesses said they heard car tyres and petrol tanks exploding in the fire.
"In all my years fighting fires - 42 years - I've never seen a fire move through cars like that," New South Wales Fire Commissioner Greg Mullins said.
"The fire was leaping from car to car, being driven by the wind."
"There is no determined cause at this stage," Mr Mullins added. "It's looking like the most likely cause would be a cigarette butt or maybe a hot car exhaust pipe, but we're just not sure at this stage."
Eyewitness Nicola Tonuri told the Sydney Morning Herald that car tyres were "popping like fireworks" as she and her daughter left the venue.
Another witness told broadcaster ABC that the cars were "completely gutted".
"They had no tyres, they were just sitting on the floor, no paint left, all burnt off, no windows," Andrew, who was only identified by his first name, said.
Barnardo's Cymru said professionals can often spot symptoms of abuse among girls, but sexual stereotyping means boys can slip through the net.
Negative behaviour among boys tends to be taken at face value, while in girls it is more likely to be explored as a potential response to trauma.
The charity wants awareness raised.
Menna Thomas, senior policy research officer and co-author of the report, I Never Spoke About It, said boys have "additional barriers which prevent them from being identified and, more importantly, from being able to speak up about their abuse.
"For example, boys' negative or criminal behaviour is often interpreted and responded to in a way which overlooks their status as victims of exploitation and abuse.
"There doesn't seem to be sufficient awareness of the possibility of boys being vulnerable to sexual exploitation and, therefore, insufficient messaging to boys that they will be believed and offered suitable services."
The report also found as the most vulnerable boys move into adolescence, they are at greater risk of mental health problems, substance misuse, homelessness and offending behaviour.
It found they were also more likely to be loners - all are factors which can increase the risk of sexual exploitation.
It said a high number of professionals who were questioned referred to boys who had run away from home or been forced to live on the streets and exchanged sex for accommodation or food, known as "survival sex".
The Wales Audit Office and Healthcare Inspectorate Wales looked at progress at Betsi Cadwaladr since 2013 and said it should "continue to show energetic, brave and visible leadership".
But it said it lacked a "clear plan" for shaping clinical services and more work was needed on quality improvement.
Betsi said it welcomed the review.
"We recognise there is still much that needs to be done and are committed to delivering the necessary improvements, building on the progress made to date," the board said.
It is under Welsh Government supervision over serious concerns about patient care.
The 35-year-old made his debut for the Headingley side in 1999 and has made 363 appearances for the club.
His current deal runs to the end of the 2017 campaign.
"I've given it a lot of thought and God willing if the body is right and the team wants me then I will have a go again," he told BBC Radio Leeds.
"If you look at the stats in the last two or three years, I have played some of the best rugby I have ever played. Just because I am a certain age doesn't faze me one single bit."
The former England international added: "The crux of it is that it is not about Jamie Jones-Buchanan, it's about Leeds Rhinos.
"I will do whatever is best for the team whether that is play or be on the sidelines and let someone new come in and take on the mantle.
"We're not footballers and we don't earn millions of pounds. When I finish playing I need to think about what I want to do next in terms of employment."
Jones-Buchanan has won six Grand Finals and one Challenge Cup with the Rhinos
The company announced late last Friday that it would postpone its earnings release date to next month.
The delay was due to uncertainty over the supply chain from two earthquakes which recently hit southwest Japan. Sony was initially scheduled to release its earnings this week.
In the broader Japanese market the benchmark Nikkei 225 closed 0.8% down at 17,439.30 points.
Investors continued to selloff shares of Mitsubishi Motors, which closed down 4.8%.
Last week shares plunged by more than 40% over three days, after the car maker admitted to rigging fuel efficiency tests.
The Japanese company is expected to announce annual results on Wednesday, but media reports have suggested it may skip its earnings forecast - which was originally scheduled for the same day.
Traders in Japan were also cautious ahead of an important Bank of Japan meeting where the lender might decide on more monetary easing.
The country's central bank will on Thursday decide on its interest rate which currently is negative as an attempt to spur growth.
In Korea, the Kospi index finished the day flat at 2,014.55 points.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng closed lower by 0.8% to 21,304.44, while the mainland's Shanghai Composite also closed lower by 0.42% to 2,946.67.
Markets in Australia and New Zealand were closed on Monday for the Anzac Day holiday.
There is a long list of companies reporting quarterly earnings this week.
In the US they include tech giants Apple and Facebook, online retailer Amazon, and Dunkin Donuts.
From the auto sector, Ford Motor is due to report its quarterly results.
Over in Asia, South Korea's Hyundai as well as Japan's Honda Motor and Mazda Motor update investors on their earnings.
The local television channel is run by Archant, which publishes a number of local newspapers and magazines including the Eastern Daily Press.
It was one of 19 initial local TV stations, awarded licences by the government.
The station started broadcasting in March 2014 to 162,000 homes across Norwich and parts of Norfolk.
The BBC has agreed to buy content from local television firms for £15m over three years. This is due to end in March 2017.
Jeff Henry, chief executive of Archant, said: "The cost of running the licence for a local television channel such as Mustard TV is a significant investment and we are working towards the establishment of both sustainable cost base and commercial revenues.
"The results demonstrate the underlying economic difficulty of providing a quality service in a limited broadcast area. Addressing the local TV model is the next important step in enabling media businesses like Archant to thrive and grow."
In March, the television channel apologised after a presenter used a swearword to describe a colleague on air.
Adam Walker, 34, from Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire, swam 18 miles (30km) across the Tsugaru Channel, last month.
It was the fifth stage of the Ocean's 7 Challenge - a series of long-distance swims scattered across the globe.
He described it as "the hardest thing I've ever done in my life".
Mr Walker is aiming to become the first Briton to complete all seven swims, at the same time raising money for marine charities.
During his latest challenge, which started on the 14 August and lasted more than 15 hours, he was stung by several jellyfish and "smacked in the face" by large waves, which he said made him "instantly sick".
Mr Walker said he also saw a 6ft shark swim underneath him.
The swimmer said at one point the large waves and strong currents had taken everything out of him.
"I've never breathed so hard in my life," he said.
"My chest was tight and my shoulders were really sore from the hours of swimming and being bashed around."
He added: "At one point my left shoulder had packed in and I had a terrible pain in the middle of my right shoulder, but was determined to finish."
The 34-year-old said he had been spurred on to the finish by the sight of a lighthouse on the coastline.
"With 800 metres to go, I started sprinting like my life depended on it," he said.
Mr Walker has now completed five of the seven swims, which include the English Channel, Straits of Gibraltar, Molokai Channel in Hawaii, the Catalina Channel in the US and the Tsugaru Channel, Japan.
He has now started training to swim the Irish Channel and the Cook Strait in New Zealand, which he hopes to do next year.
The feat has only ever been completed by one person - Irishman Stephen Redmond - but not all seven swims were successful on the first attempt.
Meeting the PM at Number 10, Mr Tusk said the other 27 member states were waiting to see when the UK would formally trigger its EU departure.
Mrs May said she wanted a "smooth" Brexit process.
Meanwhile, former Belgian PM Guy Verhofstadt has been appointed as the EU Parliament's lead Brexit negotiator.
On Twitter, Mr Verhofstadt, head of the Liberal group in the European Parliament, said it was an "honour" to be appointed to the role, which he said would be central to the deal struck with the UK and "any future EU-UK agreements".
EU leaders, excluding the UK, are preparing to meet next week in Bratislava to sketch out the bloc's future after Brexit.
Mr Tusk - who oversaw the UK's EU renegotiation attempts prior to the in/out referendum - told Mrs May: "It doesn't mean that we are going to discuss our future relations with the UK in Bratislava, because for this - and especially for the start of the negotiations - we need the formal notification, I mean triggering Article 50.
"This is the position shared by all 27 member states. To put it simply, the ball is now in your court.
"I'm aware that it is not easy but I still hope you will be ready to start the process as soon as possible.
"I have no doubt that at the end of the day our common strategic goal is to establish the closest possible relations."
The PM has said the government will "not reveal its hand", amid pressure to set out what it wants to achieve from the negotiations.
The meeting between Mrs May and Mr Tusk - over salmon and scrambled eggs - was billed as an attempt for the two leaders to get to know each other ahead of those talks.
They were also expected to discuss trade, migration, Russian sanctions and the Ukraine.
Donald Tusk is a businesslike pragmatist - hence his talk of turning the potentially fractious and intractable process of Brexit into a "velvet divorce".
His visit to London is part of the process of preparing for the Bratislava gathering where the UK won't be a voice around the conference table but will be very much an elephant in the room.
Neither he nor Theresa May is anywhere near deciding where their bottom lines will eventually settle on the issues of immigration and access to the single market - nor would either be ready to reveal their hand to the other if decisions had been taken.
But these talks could be important because they could help to set the tone for the opening phase of the more serious negotiations on Brexit whenever they might begin - and when they do it's worth noting Mr Tusk will be representing the interests of the 27 states remaining in the EU, rather than the one that's leaving.
Speaking ahead of Mr Tusk's visit, the PM's official spokeswoman said it was: "An opportunity in part to talk about the process of leaving the European Union, how we see the upcoming months, but also to talk about the upcoming October European Council and some of the issues that we expect to be on the agenda for that."
The UK government has said it does not plan to kick-start the formal two-year EU exit process until the start of 2017 at the earliest, to give it time to prepare its negotiating position.
Mrs May has refused to give a "running commentary" on the Brexit process, and pledged to "think through the issues in a sober and considered way".
"So we will not take decisions until we are ready. We will not reveal our hand prematurely and we will not provide a running commentary on every twist and turn of the negotiation," she told MPs on Wednesday.
After Thursday's talks, the prime minister is chairing a cabinet subcommittee on Britain's exit from the EU which will focus on trade.
It comes after Australia and the UK began "preliminary discussions" about a new trade deal, with Australian trade minister Steven Ciobo predicting an agreement between the countries "when the time is right".
But with the UK unable to sign deals while still in the EU, he said an agreement would not be able to happen until the UK left the EU in two-and-a-half years' time.
Mrs May has said India, Mexico, South Korea and Singapore are also keen to remove trade barriers.
Brexit Secretary David Davis has predicted a "round of global trade deals" will be "fully negotiated" within 12 to 24 months, coming into force when the UK leaves the EU.
The Labour leader is facing a no confidence vote over his "lacklustre" campaign for a remain vote.
He vowed to fight off any leadership challenges, and told one activist who heckled him as he attended a Pride march in London: "I did all I could."
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said Mr Corbyn "worked himself to the ground" during the four-month campaign.
Mr Corbyn was confronted by Labour Party activist Tom Mauchline at the Pride event, who shouted: "It's your fault, Jeremy. When are you resigning? You need to resign."
During the exchanges, which were filmed and posted on Twitter, Mr Mauchline can be heard saying: "I had a Polish friend in tears because you couldn't get out the vote in Wales, the North and the Midlands."
Mr Mauchline later said he had not known Mr Corbyn would be at the event and became "so angry" when he found out.
"It just seemed like a cynical attempt to use the LGBT community to shore up his weak leadership," he added.
Labour MP Angela Smith told BBC News she and her colleagues are receiving texts and emails from party members "indicating real dissatisfaction with Jeremy's leadership", describing his performance as "nondescript" and "half-hearted".
She added: "Given there's a really strong chance of a general election, and given the importance of taking the country forward to stability, it's really important we've got a really strong leader in place. Jeremy Corbyn we don't believe is that person."
In a speech on Saturday, Mr Corbyn vowed to ensure Labour's voice was heard on workers' rights, protecting the environment and human rights in the negotiations on Britain's exit from the EU - and he suggested those negotiations should happen soon.
Quizzed afterwards about claims he had run a "half-hearted" campaign for a Remain vote, he said: "Two-thirds of Labour voters voted for Remain in response to our party's call for that."
He added: "There are some people in the Parliamentary Labour Party who would probably want somebody else being the leader of this party, they have made that abundantly clear in the past few days."
Asked if he would stand again if there was a challenge to his leadership, he said: "Yes, I'm here, thank you."
He said he had been "totally amazed" that an online petition had attracted 140,000 signatures from people who do not want Labour spending the next two months debating the party's leadership.
He also announced a review of immigration policy and ruled out a new EU referendum if Labour wins power.
He said: "The referendum has taken place, a decision has been made, I think we have got to respect that decision and work out our relationship with Europe in the future."
An online petition calling for a second referendum has passed a million signatures.
Mr McDonnell told BBC News it was wrong to blame Mr Corbyn for the Brexit vote.
"He did his job. He worked himself in to the ground doing meetings after meetings," he said.
"Now trying to blame him or anyone else for what is the democratic decision of our country is wrong. We have just got to say people have made their minds up, they've made a decision, respect it."
He said talk of leadership challenges and confidence motions were a "complete distraction".
"I think people out there in the real world, our constituents, just want us to get on with the job of getting the best deal possible for them," he added.
Two Labour MPs - Dame Margaret Hodge and Ann Coffey - have submitted a motion of no confidence in Mr Corbyn.
Mrs Coffey told BBC News: "The result of the referendum was a disastrous result for us and the leadership must bear a share of the responsibility for that.
"It was a lacklustre campaign, it didn't contain a strong enough message and the leader himself appeared half-hearted about it.
"If you have got a leader who appears half-hearted, you can hardly be surprised if the public feels the same way."
The confidence motion has no formal constitutional force but calls for a discussion at the next meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) on Monday.
The PLP chairman, Labour MP John Cryer, will decide whether it is debated. If accepted, a secret ballot of Labour MPs could be held on Tuesday.
The motion's backers Mrs Coffey and Dame Hodge hope it will help build a sense that confidence in Mr Corbyn is draining away, forcing him to quit.
It would take 50 MPs uniting around an alternative candidate to trigger a new leadership contest but none have so far come forward.
Caroline Flint, a former minister on the right of the party, said she would not rule herself out of a leadership bid.
"! think I could be a good leader," she told BBC Radio 5 live.
She said there was "concern across the spectrum" in the party about "whether Jeremy can deliver".
"I think he's a decent guy, a nice guy but we've had lots of decent, nice guys who can't win elections," she added.
Labour MP Frank Field - who supported the Leave campaign - said Mr Corbyn "clearly isn't the right person to lead Labour into an election, because nobody thinks he will win".
"We clearly need somebody who the public think of as an alternative prime minister," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Former shadow chancellor Chris Leslie, former minister Ben Bradshaw and MP Stephen Kinnock are among those backing the no confidence motion.
An online petition on the website of campaign organisation 38 Degrees calling for "a vote of confidence in Jeremy Corbyn after Brexit" has attracted more than 90,000 signatures from the general public.
However, in a joint statement, union leaders have backed Mr Corbyn to continue as leader, saying the "last thing Labour needs is a manufactured leadership row of its own".
They called for Labour to "unite as a source of national stability" and challenge any attempt to use the referendum result to "introduce a more right-wing Conservative government by the backdoor".
PC Simon Reynolds, 38, who is based at Llanelli police station in Carmarthenshire, will appear at Swansea Magistrates' Court on 18 June charged with common assault.
It is alleged he assaulted a 27-year-old man on 22 November 2014.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission investigated after the force referred the matter in December.
The West is being bombarded by two very different stories about Georgia, with top international PR and lobby firms hired to push the message.
The war of words is costing both sides huge amounts of money - in a country with high levels of poverty.
The version pushed by the Georgian government rests on a common perception of the country: a small, plucky state, keen to shake off its Soviet past and join Nato, bullied by Russia, and invaded in 2008.
It is an easy story to follow for any American or European parliamentarian looking for a good cause.
And Georgia's charismatic US-educated President, Mikheil Saakashvili, has pushed it relentlessly. He says the upcoming parliamentary elections will be the freest and fairest ever held in the country.
But now politicians and journalists in the West are suddenly being told another story entirely: President Saakashvili is accused of being authoritarian, of crushing political dissent and of being responsible for Georgia's war with Russia.
By this account, the elections on 1 October will be rigged.
It is a well-funded message being spread by top international lobbyists and PR firms hired by Georgia's opposition leader, the tycoon Bidzina Ivanishvili, whose $6.4bn (£3.9bn; 4.9bn-euro) fortune is worth around half of Georgia's GDP.
The govenrment denies the claims, and says it fears that such a negative portrayal of the country will undermine the credibility of Georgia's democratic reforms - jeopardising the flow of Western aid and the country's drive to join the EU and Nato.
In the US, Georgia's government hires three major firms to promote the country's image and give advice on political strategy, spending around $1.83m a year.
There are allegations the money is being used to promote the ruling party.
But this year Mr Ivanishvili has gone on his own PR drive.
It has been claimed that the opposition is currently spending around $1m a month on 18 firms and consultants across Europe and the US. Mr Ivanishvili's office said much less was being spent, but was unable to provide full details.
"Ivanishvili has an army of lobbyists who essentially do black PR and spread misinformation about the elections," says Zoe Reyners, a Paris-based political consultant employed by the Georgian government.
Typically a Western parliamentarian or journalist will receive an email detailing how the government is unfairly targeting the opposition.
And information about alleged human rights abuses is spread by organisations - which at first glance appear to be impartial NGOs - such as Citizens for Democracy in Georgia, which is financed by Mr Ivanishvili.
One recent poll, funded by Mr Ivanishvili - although that was not immediately apparent from the press release - put the opposition ahead.
That contradicted every other reputable survey so far conducted.
A slick video, with the music and American voice-over more common to a Hollywood action movie, has also been produced. It portrays Mr Ivanishvili as a saintly figure with the work ethic of Bill Gates and the moral fibre of Gandhi.
The tactics may appear blunt but the message appears to be working
Mr Ivanishvili argues that President Saakashvili has lobbied heavily in the West for years, and he is entitled to fight back.
It may seem strange for Georgia to be willing to spend so much money winning over people outside the country who have no vote. But the West has taken on the role of referee in a fight which is becoming increasingly dirty.
"Georgian people don't trust the government or the election authorities," says Maia Panjikidze, spokesperson for Mr Ivanishvili's opposition coalition Georgian Dream.
"In the last 20 years there have been so many cases of stolen elections. So you need somebody from outside to judge whether the elections are okay. It's a sign of the weakness of our democracy."
As with all effective PR, there is some truth in the arguments coming from both sides.
The difficulty for Western observers is that the situation in Georgia is indeed complicated. Certainly far too complex to boil down into one easily digested press release.
As well as seeking to encourage more girls and boys to take up the sport, organisers also want more females to follow cricket, while convincing young sportswomen there is a worthwhile career for them in the game.
Ironically, for what is the most financially lucrative women's world cup to date, making huge amounts of money from the event is not the main priority.
And there is a lot of cash around the eight-team tournament - with record prize money of $2m (£1.57m), healthy ticket sales, and big name International Cricket Council (ICC) global sponsors such as Nissan, Emirates, Hublot and Moneygram backing the event.
Rather, it is hoped that the money being spent now on the 28-day, 31-match, tournament, will be a catalyst that piques the interest of potential commercial sponsors in both the UK and elsewhere.
"What strikes me is that we have been presented with this huge potential for growth in so many areas, sporting and financial," Clare Connor, head of England Women's Cricket and a former national team captain, tells me.
"We have got a sport, cricket, that is looking for relevance. People are asking 'how can we help take cricket into a new era?'
"One way is to engage with young women and girls. We have to maximise these opportunities during the World Cup."
Ms Connor, who is also chair of the women's committee at cricket's governing body the ICC, said that irrespective of who wins, the world cup offers a chance to grow the sport in lots of creative ways.
One way is through the ECB's All Stars Cricket, aimed at providing children aged five to eight with a memorable first experience of the sport. The nationwide entry-level participation programme aims to get 50,000 girls and boys - and their families - excited by the game over the summer.
"We also have a soft ball initiative specifically for women." says Ms Connor, with a number of festivals being held during the World Cup.
As well as boosting participation, getting more women to follow women's cricket is a major goal.
"At the moment it is a fallacy to think women watch women's cricket. More males than females are cricket fans," the 40-year-old says.
"Cricket is not currently as relevant to women as it is to men, but the World Cup gives us an opportunity to change that."
She said that the majority of tickets, some 80%, had been sold to fans of England Cricket, and that she expected a high majority of them to be to men.
"But work by our marketing team does show there is a growing interest in watching by women," she adds. "That is why a lot of our marketing of the All Stars children's programme is targeted at mums, we are looking to engage them in the whole experience."
She said a new city-based eight-team Twenty20 tournament, due to start in 2020, was the ideal way to attract a new female audience.
"We have been looking at Australia and the Women's Big Bash, where 50% of spectators are women. They have totally altered the make up of their audience, and that is something we would look to emulate."
The tournament was brought forward so more matches sat in school term time. Just less than half of the matches are taking place on weekdays which presents an opportunity for local schools to witness tournament action live.
Meanwhile, Ms Connor says tickets for World Cup games have been priced to allow an affordable family day out. England's opening game against India is sold out, and 15,000 tickets have been sold for the final at Lord's.
England cricket player Anya Shrubsole on forging a cricket career
The 25-year-old is the daughter of Ian Shrubsole, a former Minor Counties cricketer in the 1990s. At 13 she was the first girl to join the Somerset Academy.
"I remember from the age of three or four my dad playing, and going out onto the pitch at the interval, throwing a ball around. That is my first memory of cricket. I then really got into it when I was at school.
"Back then, when I was growing up and coming through as a player there was an element of financial reward, but not enough to live off it. The money you received wasn't enough, you couldn't have afforded a mortgage.
"However, that wasn't something that was a real issue for me, I wanted to be as good as I could be.
"But I graduated at the same time that cricket turned professional. So I have never had the worry of trying to find a job alongside playing cricket.
"In means that in terms of staying in cricket, it is now a viable career option for young women whereas previously it wasn't. You make a living out of women's cricket, like you can with women's football. Before that you would have needed a separate job alongside.
"It is an immense honour to represent your country, One of the strengths of women's sport is that they are playing for the real love of the game.
"I think we are role models for youngsters. I am guilty sometimes of not thinking that I am, but anyone who plays international sport is a role model.
"The game is still in quite a developmental stage, and I am hopeful we will have a young audience growing up alongside the sport."
On ticket pricing, the ICC worked with a specialist agency to look at various ticket prices both at the venues (so including men's and women's cricket domestic and international), cricket as a whole, and also looked at other women's sports events in this country.
"We are not going to make a great deal of money out of it," says Ms Connor.
But she adds: "We are hoping that eventually the event becomes a commercial money spinner.
"For example, we hope that companies see there is an opportunity there to get involved in women's cricket, like Kia did a few years ago, when they became the official car of the England women's team.
"They saw the women's game as a real area of growth. As a challenger brand they were keen to work with women's cricket which they saw as a challenger sport."
Other positives for the women's game are the widespread media coverage being given to the World Cup. In addition to the scheduled 10 fixtures to be broadcast live on TV, the remaining 21 World Cup matches will be streamed live.
There will be radio commentary and video highlights on BBC radio and sport website.
Meanwhile, the ICC has committed to equal prize money for women and men's cricket by 2032.
"There will be a strategic plan to ensure that the game can deliver equal prize money in 15 years time," says Ms Connor.
"The women's game has only been under the ICC's auspices since 2005. If you think of the developments since then, it is a sport transformed. The World Cup will continue that transformation."
He was only told on the day of the 2017 African Cup of Nations tie that the captain's armband had been given to Mathieu Dossevi for Sunday's 2-1 win.
The 31-year-old scored the winner but says he is unsure if he will play against Djibouti in September.
"For now, I don't know - I'll be here and I'll talk with the coach," he said.
"I need to know whether he really needs me in the team or not.
"I have been the captain for seven or eight years and then one morning I'm told I won't be the captain - that means that we can go to Djibouti and he will put me in the stands.
"So I'd rather quit the team than be sidelined or put in the stands there and I think this will be better for me and the team.
"We can change captains everyday if we are playing street games in Lomé - but this is a national team.
"But what is sure I am going on holidays and allow me to enjoy my holidays before I decide."
He has said that if he decides to play again he does not want to captain the Hawks.
"From now on, I will never captain this team again," he added.
"To tell me on the day of the match that I will not captain the team then it is very disrespectful"
Togo's new coach Tom Saintfiet however tried to play down the issue.
"I don't want to talk too much about this topic because I think that Emmanuel Adebayor is a natural captain for the team," the Belgian coach said.
"He does not necessarily need to have the captain's armband when he plays - he is the captain and the greatest Togolese player.
"He has played today as a great captain without armband.
"For me every player is like a captain - so we have eleven captains on the pitch and every player must be responsible as a captain.
"We may have a captain but you can only win a match with eleven players."
Saintfiet and Adebayor had also fallen out in the build-up to the match against Liberia when the striker was dropped from the squad for a friendly against Ghana.
The coach said the Tottenham player and two other players were axed as they had not attended all the training sessions nor stayed at the team hotel.
Adebayor for his part insisted that he had told the coach he wouldn't play in the friendly in the days before the match.
Both men seemed to have made amends before the Liberia match insisting "there was no problems at all."
The striker has taken several breaks from playing international football in the past, including in the wake of the terrorist attack on the Togo team bus at the 2010 Nations Cup finals in Angola.
Cook, 29, has overseen seven defeats in the past nine Tests and failed to make a hundred in 27 innings.
Former England batsman Pietersen, 34, says "only politics are keeping Cook in a job" as it would be "yet another PR disaster" if he were to be sacked.
In his Daily Telegraph column, he suggests Ian Bell as Cook's successor.
Responding to Pietersen's comments, Cook told BBC Sport: "Everyone is entitled to their view and I can't let it get to me. It is a tough job when you don't win and when you don't score runs it's tougher."
Former England captains Michael Vaughan has called for Eoin Morgan to replace Cook as skipper, while ex-England batsman Geoffrey Boycott said Cook is too "stubborn" to quit.
Cook added: "Everyone is piling in a little, but it will give me more satisfaction if we win and I score some runs.
"I'm not in it for sympathy, but to win cricket games for England."
Pietersen, who was sacked by England in February, also wrote:
Pietersen, England's all-time leading run-scorer, said: "Alastair Cook is enduring an experience I would not wish on my worst enemy, but he should do what is right for England and resign the captaincy."
He was also critical of Cook's batting technique and recommended he seek the assistance of Surrey head coach Graham Ford, to whom Pietersen turned during a poor run of form.
"He could have another 10 years left but his batting needs emergency help and he needs to speak to someone away from the England set-up," said Pietersen, who led England in three of his 104 Tests before resigning in 2009.
"Only politics are keeping Cook in a job because the England and Wales Cricket Board backed him so much that it would be yet another PR disaster if it sacked him now.
"But the ECB needs his runs back so a big decision has to be made. Forget the bad headlines for once."
Ahead of the third Test against India, which starts at Southampton on Sunday, Pietersen said Warwickshire's Bell, 32, "has a good tactical brain" and "could grow" into the captaincy.
Many of you told us how he changed your lives with his unorthodox style and music.
Here are your stories.
Chris Chappel in Suffolk told the BBC: "I had the amazing experience of being tour manager for David Bowie on his Glass Spider, Sound and Vision and Tin Machine tours.
"He was amongst the most charming, creative and talented musicians I had ever worked for in my 30 years on the road.
"He had a great sense of humour and was great company, never compromising his art - he was an icon.
"I'm rather sad. He touched everyone he met - he was a revolutionary of the heart and mind and never afraid of failure.
"I remember we would spend a lot of time on tour buses as he didn't like to fly."
Linda Matthews told us: "Mr Jones (David Bowie) was a client of mine in the 80s when I managed an apartment block in Chelsea where the rich and the famous could stay with no risk of the press finding they were in London.
"He stayed several times and sometimes his young son, Zowie, was with him. Like many famous people, Mr Jones hated being recognised and rather than eating out he, or his minder Coco, asked me to find a cook.
"It seemed best for me to cook and he loved simple fare such as stuffed marrow and treacle tart, to the extent that I was offered a job in his house above Lake Geneva - and I said no!
"A boyfriend of mine helped to carry the food up to Mr Jones's apartment and was under strict orders to look straight ahead and never at Mr Jones.
"During one stay Zowie obviously wanted to play with friends of the same age and there was a family staying on the same floor with a boy of his age. But the father worked with CBS so there was panic about publicity. The boys won - front doors to both apartments open and an enormous Scalextric track set out from one apartment, across the landing to the other apartment.
"And the news of who Zowie's dad was did not get out."
Wendy Smith emailed to recall: "He came to the Royal Court Theatre in 1979. I was the usherette on the door upstairs. He came in with a trendy young couple. The only thing I noticed was his flip raincoat - which was uber trendy then. I ripped the ticket and with a nonchalant gesture pointed to the unsparingly uncomfortable seats. Back in the day we usherettes ruled.
"I looked to the doorway to see one agitated manager and a gaggle of other usherettes. 'Don't you know who that was?' he hissed.
"That was David Bowie. Should have kept the ticket."
Sonya Dey tells the BBC: "We just moved into the house formerly owned by the legendary saxophonist Ronnie Ross.
"Back in around 1960-1962 when David lived in Bromley, he contacted Ronnie Ross on recommendation and, with his pocket money, came for saxophone lessons which took place in our now dining room which was originally Ronnie Ross's music room. So the legend that is David Bowie was born and from there he went on to become who he is today.
"We live in Orpington and have today lit a candle in the very room in which David took his lessons. Its quite sad but eerie to know that David as a little boy of 13-15 graced this house with his presence.
"We will be applying for a blue plaque in due course to honour his early years and keep his memory alive."
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South Africa's PM, who had served in Lloyd George's war cabinet during World War I, found his military expertise was again in demand in Churchill's war cabinet.
The future co-author of the preamble to the UN charter was invited to share his thoughts on war and peace with MPs and peers in Parliament's royal gallery, although the Commons library reports that it was not a "formal presentation".
Parliament itself had sustained severe damage by this period in the Second World War, and Smuts noted: "Irreplaceable treasures of a thousand years of almost uninterrupted progress and culture and peaceful civilisation have disappeared forever.
"But one thing is not lost; one thing, the most precious of all, remains, and has rather increased," he continued. "The soul remains."
He paid tribute to Sir Winston as "the embodiment of the spirit of eternal youth and resilience, the spirit of a great, undying nation in one of the greatest moments of history".
"The stage is set," he declared of the war, "for the last, the offensive phase".
The King celebrated victory in Europe with a trip to Parliament, telling MPs and peers of his gratitude to all of them and his subjects for their wartime service.
"There was visibly present in the royal gallery something immensely venerable and at the same time very much alive," reported the Times.
"The King in his Councils in his Parliaments, the organ that through the centuries has been the very heart of England, ceaselessly driving the life's blood of liberty through the veins and arteries of the nation."
The King returned to Parliament to mark overall victory in World War II.
Opening the new House of Commons chamber, which had been destroyed in World War II, the King delivered a speech to MPs and peers.
In his Westminster Hall speech, President de Gaulle recalled how the UK, "heroic and alone, took upon herself the liberty of the world".
He expressed sympathy for the "wounds" of the German people, who he said were "yesterday our enemies but who are today a vital part of the West and our common ally".
But the focus of his speech was on disarmament, and he looked forward hopefully to a summit at which PM Harold Macmillan, President Eisenhower, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and he were to discuss the possibility of detente.
France "wishes, above all, stocks of nuclear weapons to be destroyed", he told MPs and peers.
It wasn't to be: the summit was cancelled after a US spy plane was shot down over Russia.
Queen Elizabeth II's first speech to both Houses of Parliament - besides those at the annual state opening of Parliament ceremony - marked the 700th Anniversary of the Parliament of Simon de Montfort.
Chancellor Brandt assured MPs and peers in the royal gallery of his support for the UK's application to join the European Economic Community, which he predicted would be enriched by British traditions.
French president de Gaulle had thwarted an earlier UK bid to join.
The Queen marked her Silver Jubilee with an address to Parliament.
President Reagan rallied Parliament's support for a crusade towards global freedom and democracy that "would leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash-heap of history".
But the Cold War was not the only conflict coinciding with his visit: UK troops were closing in on victory in the Falklands.
"Those young men are not fighting for mere real estate," the president reminded MPs and peers in the royal gallery.
"They fight for a cause, for the belief that armed aggression must not be allowed to succeed, and that people must participate in the decisions of government under the rule of law."
After meeting communist chief Mikhail Gorbachev at Chequers, then Conservative PM Margaret Thatcher declared: "I like Mr Gorbachev. We can do business together."
The future Soviet leader went on to address an informal meeting of MPs and peers, declaring: "For all that separates us, we have one planet and Europe is our common home, not a theatre of operations."
But his remarks became less diplomatic after Conservative former minister Norman St John-Stevas asked him about Soviet oppression of religion.
"I could quote a few facts about human rights in the UK," he said. "You persecute entire communities and nationalities. You have got 2.3 million unemployed."
The Times reported that one MP later joked he wished unemployment was as low as that.
The Queen marked the tercentenary of the Revolution of 1688-89 and the Bill of Rights with another speech to MPs and peers.
The Christian Democratic party's Francesco Cossiga used his address to MPs and peers in the royal gallery to "take Margaret Thatcher to task", according to the Times.
She was due to attend a European summit in Rome four days later, and President Cossiga urged her to adopt a "more idealistic approach" to the European Community, the paper added.
His advocacy was apparently unpersuasive. After the Rome summit, PM Thatcher reported back to MPs that she had not taken kindly to federalist Commission President Jacques Delors' aim to make the European Parliament the most powerful democratic institution in Europe, with the Commission working as the executive and the Council of Ministers acting as the senate.
"No! No! No!" she declared.
The Queen marked the 50th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day with a speech to MPs and peers.
PM Sir John Major "appeared overcome with emotion" as President Clinton paid tribute to the Conservative's "peacemaking role and spoke of a Northern Ireland where 'the guns are quiet and the children play without fear'," according to the Daily Mail's coverage of his speech to MPs and peers.
"I applaud the prime minister for taking this risk for peace," he had said.
"It is always a hard choice, the choice for peace, for success is far from guaranteed, and even if you fail, there will be those who resent you for trying. But it is the right thing to do. And in the end, the right will win."
The Scotsman tried valiantly to resist the famously charismatic Clinton, describing him as a "purveyor of folksy pieces of meaningless wisdom".
"Mr Clinton said: 'The only way to abolish war is to make peace heroic.' True, but what does it mean?" the paper commented, before succumbing.
"In spite of the simplicity and embarrassingly cliched nature of most of it, it was a good speech," it reported.
"It was refreshing to hear someone speak of high principles... Mr Clinton got away with it, not only because it was novel but because his delivery was superb."
In his second speech to MPs and peers, President Mandela paid tribute to anti-apartheid British politicians.
Labour peer Lord Brockway "was as concerned about our liberty as he was about the independence of India", he said.
He also recalled ex-Conservative PM Harold Macmillan's historic visit to Cape Town in 1960 and his historic speech declaring: "The wind of change is blowing through this country."
"Let our peoples," the president concluded, "join hands to build on what we have achieved together and help construct a humane African world, whose emergence will say a new universal order is born in which we are each our brother's keeper."
In an informal meeting of the all-party parliamentary group on Tibet, the Dalai Lama urged the UK to exert influence on China.
"The reality today is that Tibet is an occupied country under colonial rule. This is the essential issue which must be addressed and resolved through negotiations," he told MPs and peers.
"Tibet - an ancient nation with a unique culture and civilisation - is disappearing fast. In endeavouring to protect my nation from this catastrophe, I have always sought to be guided by realism, moderation and patience.
"However, it has now become clear that our efforts alone are not sufficient to bring the Chinese government to the negotiating table."
According to the Independent, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman responded: "By inviting the Dalai Lama to visit Britain and offering him a forum, the Tibetan group of the British House of Commons abets the Dalai's action to split the motherland. It will bring about adverse effects to the Sino-British relations."
Marking the 100th anniversary of the Australian federation, PM John Howard addressed MPs and peers in the royal gallery with "a graceful speech saying what a great place Australia was", according to the Guardian's Simon Hoggart.
"Let us consign arguments over the past to the annals of the past, as we make history instead of being doomed to repeat it," said Bertie Ahern, the first Irish Taoiseach to address both Houses of Parliament.
Mr Ahern may have been "lacking in suave elegance," reported the Independent, "but as usual that was more than made up for by his evident abilities and all-round political competence."
Labour PM Tony Blair described him as "a true friend of the British people, a man who is changing the history of his own country and of these islands".
The Pope warned MPs and peers in Westminster Hall that religion - and Christianity in particular - was "being marginalised" around the world.
"There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere," he said.
"There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be discouraged, in the questionable belief that it might somehow offend those of other religions or none."
BBC correspondent Peter Hunt described the speech at Westminster Hall as "a rallying call, and a plea - for religion not to be squeezed out by secular society".
Two and a half years later, Benedict XVI became the first pope in centuries to resign.
The UK and US were at a "pivotal moment" in their relationship and "profound challenges" lay ahead, US President Barack Obama told MPs and peers in his Westminster Hall speech.
He praised the role of the UK in spreading the ideals of democracy around the world, quoting Sir Winston Churchill, who said the Magna Carta, Bill of Rights, habeas corpus, trial by jury and common law "find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence".
The Queen said she would rededicate herself to the service of the UK and its people as she celebrated her Diamond Jubilee.
She told MPs and peers in Westminster Hall that the commemoration of her 60 years on the throne was a chance "to come together in a spirit of neighbourliness and celebration".
The Queen also praised Prince Philip for being "a constant strength and guide" over the decades.
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi urged the UK to support the shift towards democracy in Burma in her historic address to both Houses of Parliament.
"My country today stands at the start of a journey towards, I hope, a better future. So many hills remain to be climbed, chasms to be bridged, obstacles to be breached," she said.
"Our own determination can get us so far. The support of the people of Britain and of peoples around the world can get us so much further."
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By mid-morning, the Dow Jones was up 93.2 points or 0.55% at 17,017.95.
The S&P 500 was 12.83 points or 0.64% higher at 2,007.07, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq index gained 44.41 points or 0.93% to 4,827.26.
Boeing was the biggest gainer on the Dow, adding 2.35% as it bounced back from losses suffered on Wednesday.
Mr Jones said leaving the EU would have "devastating consequences" for Wales, and asked what Mr Farage had done to help steel in his role as a Euro MP.
Mr Farage claimed membership of the EU had left the first minister "impotent".
He argued the UK would have more control of its economy outside the EU.
The UKIP leader opened the debate in Cardiff on Monday by asking if the UK wanted to "regain our independence as a nation state" or if it was happy to be a "subordinate member of the club".
Mr Farage claimed it was "scaremongering" to say trade would cease and jobs would be lost upon a British exit from the EU.
The first minister replied by saying membership of the UK and EU was vital to Welsh prosperity.
Claiming 200,000 jobs in Wales relied on EU trade, Mr Jones said "pulling up the drawbridge" would have "devastating consequences".
Focusing on the fate of steel, the first minister said the industry's problems were "nothing to do with the EU".
A glut of steel on the world market, the strong pound and high energy costs were hurting the industry, he said.
Mr Jones said he met Tata Steel bosses in December, adding: "Not once did they mention the European Union as being some kind of obstacle."
Mr Farage responded by claiming British politicians in Wales and Westminster had been unable to protect the steel industry from cheap Chinese exports.
"You didn't do it, not because you don't want to, because you haven't got the power to do it because we've given that away to Brussels," he said.
If the EU referendum campaign is going to be anything like this, it's going to be a lively affair.
It was breathless stuff - within minutes both men were trading insults.
And perhaps surprisingly it was jobs and the economy - not immigration - that dominated.
At times it was a tough night for the first minister with Nigel Farage bossing big chunks of the debate.
Carwyn Jones based his claims on the dangers of taking a risk - in other words, better the devil you know.
Nigel Farage's rhetoric was based around the need to reclaim control of our borders and our laws.
On the issue of immigration, Mr Farage said "the biggest benefit" of leaving the EU would be the UK's ability to set up an Australian-style points system to accept immigrants based on their skills, lack of criminal convictions and ability to speak English.
However, Mr Jones dismissed the suggestion that EU membership had "anything to do" with immigration, saying if the UK was not a member, France would simply allow refugees camped at Calais to pass through.
"Would it be in our interest to turn our backs on our European partners, or isn't it better to work together to find a European solution to what is a European challenge," he asked.
The first minister also attacked the UKIP leader's record as a Euro-MP, saying he had only attended one out of 42 meetings of a fisheries committee in the European Parliament.
"The reality is you don't stand up for Britain," he told Mr Farage.
In reply, the UKIP leader said: "If I spent every living moment there I wouldn't have even been allowed to debate or vote on the issues that affect fisheries - the parliament hasn't got that power."
Eluned Parrott, Welsh Liberal Democrat spokesperson on Europe, said that "neither person came out of this shouting match particularly well", claiming hers was the only UK party united in favour of EU membership.
"Carwyn Jones was right to be arguing the importance of the UK remaining in the EU," she said.
"Yet, his views are in stark contrast to his party in London, where [Labour leader] Jeremy Corbyn remains ambivalent on this major issue."
Plaid Cymru AM Elin Jones was critical of Mr Jones, tweeting: "Well, for the case for Wales staying in EU, that was a set-back. Mustn't be repeated. #IWADebate."
Before the debate, a spokesman for the Welsh Conservatives dismissed the event as having the feel of a "rather gaudy PR spectacle", saying Mr Jones had failed to invite rival party leaders to similar debates about Welsh issues under his control.
A referendum on whether the UK should remain within the EU or leave is set to be held before the end of 2017.
On Sunday, Prime Minister David Cameron suggested the vote could be held as early as this summer.
Researchers examined one skull from a site called the Pit of Bones, which contains the remains of at least 28 people.
They concluded that two fractures on that skull were likely to have been caused by "multiple blows" and imply "an intention to kill".
The findings are published in the journal PLOS One.
As well as providing a clue as to why the bodies were in the cave, scientists say the study provides grisly evidence that violence is an intrinsic part of the earliest human culture.
The international research team studied the skull - cranium 17 - using modern medical imaging techniques.
Their virtual reconstruction showed that two clearly visible fractures on its front were almost identical, strongly suggesting, "that both were caused by the same object".
Lead researcher Dr Nohemi Sala from the Salud Carlos III Institute in Madrid told BBC News: "This individual was killed in an act of lethal interpersonal violence.
"[This is] a window into an often invisible aspect of the social life of our human ancestors."
The forensic investigation of this ancient death provides a piece in the puzzle of how these people came to be in the cave, which is known in Spanish as Sima de los Huesos.
The site has been studied by scientists for more than three decades. In 2013, researchers were able to extract ancient DNA from one of its preserved bones, leading some experts to suggest that the bodies inside were early representatives of the Neanderthal lineage.
The site continues to be a hot topic for researchers trying to unravel the increasingly complicated story of human origins.
And while this study does not tackle that scientific debate, it suggests that the long vertical shaft of this cave was a place where these ancient people deliberately "deposited deceased members of their social groups".
The researchers conclude in their paper that this may have been "a social practice among this group", and may even be "the earliest funerary behaviour in the human fossil record".
"Intentional interpersonal violence is a behaviour that accompanies humans since at least 430,000 years ago," commented Dr Sala, "but so does the care of sick or even the care of the dead."
"We have not changed much in the last half million years."
Professor Debra Martin is an anthropologist from the University of Nevada, who studies ancient human cultures, including evidence of violence.
She told BBC News that she found the researchers' conclusions "completely compelling".
Prof Martin added: "I suspect the farther we push back and find straight up forensic evidence such as these authors have, we will find that violence is culturally mediated and has been with us as long as culture itself has been with us."
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The man, in his 50s, also from York, is being held in police custody after he was arrested on Monday.
Miss Lawrence disappeared from her house in Heworth Road after leaving for work on 19 March 2009. Her body has not been found.
Searches at a property in an area of York were completed on Monday evening, North Yorkshire Police said.
The force urged people and the media not to identify the arrested man. The BBC understands the man has not been arrested before.
The force believes some people locally knew Miss Lawrence but have kept their relationship secret.
Some deliberately lied about a number of issues concerning their association with the chef, police said.
Det Supt Dai Malyn said he was "actively pursuing new leads" and his team has made "significant progress" since the force began reviewing the case in October 2013.
The review has led to two arrests but no-one has ever been charged.
Last month, detectives investigating the York University chef's disappearance re-examined an alleyway behind her home for fresh clues.
Further searches are being conducted and are expected to continue for the next few days.
Claudia's family has been notified about the arrest and are being supported by trained officers, North Yorkshire Police said.
A 59-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder last May and was later released from bail.
A 47-year-old man was held on suspicion of perverting the course of justice last July and remains on bail while inquiries continue.
Last week, police released new CCTV footage to coincide with the sixth anniversary of Miss Lawrence's disappearance.
The Cheltenham Festival is the pinnacle of the sport's jump racing calendar, attracting huge crowds and interest not only within the UK, but also from Ireland and further afield.
The event brings in more than £20m through ticket sales, hospitality, sponsorship and other income, and there is some £4.3m in prize money on offer, the most of any jump festival in the world. Meanwhile the four-day event is also estimated to bring in £100m to the wider Gloucestershire economy.
The 28-race steeplechase event is run by the Jockey Club and culminates in the Gold Cup day on Friday.
On average some 65,000 people will attend the event each day, spending money on accommodation, food and drink, and betting.
Indeed such is the scale of the event that work on it starts the previous autumn.
"At the Jockey Club we reinvest all the money we make back into horseracing," Cheltenham Racecourse managing director Ian Renton tells the BBC.
"So Cheltenham contributes a significant proportion of our total revenues for the year - it is very important for us to be able to put this money back into racing."
In financial terms, the event is the UK's second largest racing festival after the flat racing at Royal Ascot, which lasts one day longer.
The Jockey Club is the largest commercial group in British horseracing, with other assets including Aintree, Epsom Downs and Newmarket racecourses. It is governed by Royal Charter, with all profits invested back into the sport.
This year's festival is the first to be covered by ITV, as part of a four-year deal with The Jockey Club that will see horse racing have the most free-to-air coverage of any sport in the UK.
The 2017 gathering is also the second since the £45m revamp of the course, which included building a new grandstand.
That investment in facilities has enabled organisers to nearly double their income from hospitality, from £4.7m four years ago, to £9m now.
"We have also installed a very pro-active sales team," says Mr Renton. "We have also brought a lot of our sales in-house from agencies, which we believe has allowed us to provide excellent value for money."
Hospitality prices start at £230, up to £900 for packages on Gold Cup day.
Albert and Michel Roux Jnr are hosting their premium Chez Roux pop-up restaurant across all four days of the festival.
Hospitality, along with ticket sales, are the two biggest income strands at Cheltenham, with other money coming from sponsorship, food and drink sales on the course, and also media rights.
Event sponsors include Bentley, Boodles, JCB, RSE, Guinness, Ryanair, St James Place, and Timico which backs the Gold Cup.
Outside of the racing arena, academics at the University of Gloucestershire's Centre of Contemporary Accounting Research estimate that the four days of racing brings more than £100m to the Gloucestershire economy.
"That does not include spending at the racecourse itself but expenditure on things like accommodation, food and drink in the town," says Mr Renton.
"Some locals might think it is a nuisance when a quarter of a million people descend on them, but most are very tolerant and I think they realise the benefits the festival brings to the economy."
The report also points to how many people come from Ireland, stating "they make a holiday of it - they'll book up a year ahead, and save up and spend their money here".
It is estimated that the Irish make up roughly a third of the festival race-goers.
"That figure does not include UK-based Irish who will be attending," says Mr Renton.
The festival comes at an important time for UK horse racing.
The new TV deal will see the ITV main channel showing more than 40 days a year of the sport, including all the top-tier fixtures, and around 60 more days will be shown on ITV4.
In addition a new "tripartite" governance agreement for the sport has been drawn up by governing body the BHA, the racecourses and racing participants.
"British racing has a really effective governance structure now in place that gives the three stakeholder groupings in the sport a proper say on the big decisions," says Jockey Club chief executive Simon Bazalgette.
"That uniting purpose and structure we've all committed to means the sport can make progress without being bogged down in committees or being entirely at the discretion of one super-powerful individual or organisation."
Another area of focus for the sport is making it appealing to the next generation.
"We need to find ways to be interesting and relevant to young people on their terms, including through digital channels, new technologies and the mainstream appeal of our media partners," says Mr Bazalgette.
Meanwhile, from April, British horse racing will benefit from mandatory contributions from all major gambling businesses that take bets on the sport in the UK.
It means any gambling business that takes bets from consumers based in the UK on races held in this country will pay 10% of their gross profits from racing - above the first £500,000 they make - to support the sport and the equine industry.
It will be enforced via a reformed statutory Horserace Betting Levy, which Mr Bazalgette says will "provide a level playing field for all betting firms to compete and long-term certainty and sustainability for British racing".
As well as a best supporting actress Oscar, Duke won an Emmy in 1980 for playing Helen Keller's teacher in a TV movie version.
Duke also starred in The Patty Duke Show in the 1960s in which she took the roles of "identical" teenage cousins.
She was the mother of actor Sean Astin, who played the hobbit Sam in the Lord of the Rings trilogy of films.
Her representative, Mitchell Stubbs, said she died early on Tuesday of sepsis from a ruptured intestine.
She underwent a heart bypass in 2004.
Mr Stubbs said: "She was a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a friend, a mental health advocate and a cultural icon. She will be missed."
A statement from her family read: "This morning, our beloved wife, mother, matriarch and the exquisite artist and champion of mental health, Anna Patty Duke, closed her eyes, quieted her pain and ascended to a beautiful place."
She died in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, according to Astin's publicist.
The actor thanked all those who expressed their condolences over his mother's death.
"We're so grateful to her for living a life that generates that amount of compassion and feeling in others,'' he told the Associated Press.
He said she had "really suffered" with her illness, adding the last few days had been "a really, really, really hard process. It was hard for her, it was hard for the people who love her to help her".
Duke was a child star, making her first TV appearance at the age of 12.
In The Miracle Worker, 16-year-old Duke played blind and deaf girl Helen Keller whose tutor - played by Anne Bancroft - breaks through her isolation and helps her to communicate.
Among those who have paid tribute was Little House on the Prairie star Melissa Gilbert, who appeared as Keller in the TV remake of the film opposite Duke, who played teacher Annie Sullivan.
"I know she's in a better place. I will miss her every day but I will find comfort in the words of Helen Keller: 'The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart'," Gilbert said.
US TV host Larry King said: "I admired Patty Duke for her bravery and work on mental health issues. And, what an actress!''
Actor Chris Colfer, who starred opposite Duke on a 2013 episode of Glee also paid tribute: "So sad to hear of Patty Duke's passing. She was a wonderful and talented person. I loved getting to work with her.''
Among Duke's other awards included Emmys for My Sweet Charlie in 1970 and Captains and the Kings in 1976.
She also appeared in the Broadway musical Oklahoma!.
In her autobiography, Duke revealed that in the 1980s she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
In later life she became a strong advocate for increasing awareness, funding and research for people with mental illness.
The International Court of Justice ruled that the programme was not for scientific research as Japan claimed.
Supporters of the ban say they are "delighted". Japan said it would comply with the judgement, but was "deeply disappointed".
Australia brought the case to the court in 2010. Wellington supported its case.
Announcing the judgement on Monday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said that Japan had killed around 3,600 minke whales since 2005 under its Antarctic whaling programme, known as JARPA II.
While JARPA II could broadly be characterised as "scientific research", the scientific output from the programme was limited, and Japan had not sufficiently justified the whaling quotas it had set, the ICJ said.
During the court case, Australia argued that Japan's programme was commercial whaling in disguise, but Tokyo said the suit was an attempt to impose Australia's cultural norms on Japan.
Following the ruling, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said he was "delighted by the result", while former environment minister Peter Garrett said the ruling vindicated the then government's decision to take the case to court.
The 2010 court ruling was first brought by Mr Rudd's Labor government.
Australia's Attorney-General George Brandis welcomed the decision and said he thought relations between Australia and Japan would not suffer as a result.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott is due in Japan later this month for trade talks.
The ruling was also welcomed in New Zealand, which supported Australia's case at the ICJ.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said he expected Japan to abide by the "decisive" court ruling.
Japan had "always acknowledged the international rule of law", Mr Key told 3News on Tuesday.
Anti-whaling activist group Sea Shepherd said: "We've been saying for 10 years that this is an illegal whale hunt and the court has proven that case."
On Tuesday, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters that Tokyo would consider its response "after carefully examining the contents of the ruling".
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"We want to accept this from a position that respects the international legal order," he said.
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters that whale meat was "an important source of food, and the government's position to use it based on scientific facts has not changed".
Japan can continue whaling if it revises its scientific programme, or withdraws from the International Whaling Commission.
Japan is a signatory to a 1986 moratorium on whaling, but had continued whaling under provisions that allowed for scientific research.
Norway and Iceland rejected the provision and continued commercial whaling.
The moratorium also excludes subsistence whaling among indigenous groups, although catch limits are set.
After a positive start, Barrow took the lead through Byron Harrison, who fired past Bromley goalkeeper Alan Julian after 12 minutes.
The hosts who nearly grabbed a second after the restart, with Richie Bennett failing to hit the target from inside the area.
But they were eventually rewarded with five minutes to go as Turgott struck with the hosts' stopper Joel Dixon unable to deny him.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Barrow 1, Bromley 1.
Second Half ends, Barrow 1, Bromley 1.
Goal! Barrow 1, Bromley 1. Blair Turgott (Bromley).
Substitution, Bromley. Blair Turgott replaces Reece Prestedge.
Alex-Ray Harvey (Barrow) is shown the yellow card.
Euan Murray (Barrow) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Barrow. Andy Haworth replaces Lindon Meikle.
Substitution, Bromley. Alfie Pavey replaces Adam Cunnington.
Moussa Diarra (Barrow) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Second Half begins Barrow 1, Bromley 0.
First Half ends, Barrow 1, Bromley 0.
Danny Livesey (Barrow) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Bromley. Dave Martin replaces Louis Dennis.
Goal! Barrow 1, Bromley 0. Byron Harrison (Barrow).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Britain's Murray and Brazilian Soares upset the world number one pairing 7-5 4-6 6-3 at Flushing Meadows.
They will play Spain's unseeded Pablo Carreno Busta and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in Saturday's final.
Murray and Soares won the Australian Open title in January - their first Grand Slam tournament together.
The Scot, 30, has now reached the final in four of his last six Grand Slam events, and two of four since teaming up with Soares at the start of 2016.
Murray lost to Herbert and Mahut in last year's US Open final when he was playing with Australian John Peers, and asked what he had learned from that experience, he said: "Don't lose. It's not much fun to lose in finals.
"We've had a great tournament so far. We'll give it our very best to try to win - it would be a great end to the week."
Soares, 34, added: "I'm very proud, they're a very tough team.
"They're the best team this year, defending champions, playing an amazing level, but I thought we did extremely well.
"We served well and I think we played really well under pressure, which at this stage of the tournament is important."
Carreno Busta and Garcia-Lopez beat fellow Spaniards Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez 6-3 7-6 (7-4) in the second semi-final.
He and Northern Powerhouse Minister James Wharton met business leaders in Conwy, Flintshire and Cheshire to outline the prospects.
Mr Cairns said north east Wales was "perfectly positioned" to benefit.
The Welsh government claimed the plan was only offering "trickle-down benefits" from growth in England.
The ministerial tour on Tuesday included visits to the Toyota engine plant and an Oriental food factory on Deeside, and a former church in Llandudno converted into a hub for hi-tech firms.
"It's clear that we are seeing a sustained strengthening of the economy across Wales - last week's record employment figures illustrate that," said Mr Cairns.
Paying tribute to major exporting companies in the region, he said he wanted to "urge business leaders in the north of the country to come together and see how we can benefit from the opportunities of closer links".
However, Welsh Labour's Deputy Economy Minister Ken Skates dismissed the plan as a "lowly aspiration", saying the area "should be an economic powerhouse in its own right".
"The UK government should be helping and enabling north east Wales to realise Welsh Labour's ambitious vision for the region, not simply offering trickle-down benefits from economic growth in England's major cities," he said.
Call it crazy, call it complicated, David Curran has put the mind boggling into the mail and had Irish postmen and women scratching their heads.
Suddenly, rabid dogs are the least of their problems.
His is a story of eccentric inspiration on his part and top-rate problem solving skills on the part of An Post.
Curran's blog, Me Versus An Post put the postal service on their toes. But the Dublin man discovered that they deliver almost anything.
The Irish mail service have called him "a postal champion", "a legend of letters", a "king of puzzles" but they'd like a break from the problem solving.
On his blog, Me Versus An Post, Mr Curran explained that the postal service had been known to deliver to addresses in Ireland as vague as:
"Your One Mary, The First Turn After The Bend, Co Cork".
His own interest was sparked by the story of an American tourist who had visited Ireland and on his return, sent a letter addressed simply to: "The man who drives cows through a village in Kilkenny, Ireland."
An Post proved moo-vellous and delivered to the correct cowherd.
So Mr Curran decided he would set them a few more challenges.
He discovered that they could deliver a dice with one line of the address written on each side.
They could deliver a toilet roll with a Yeats poem in the middle - "It was a poem about trees and it was in a toilet roll... paper, trees, it just seemed right."
The letter with the broken-up jigsaw address was solved and delivered with a polite note explaining why they had to open it up.
"Horribly impressive," said Mr Curran.
Even the one made up of crossword puzzle clues was solved with style and delivered.
It took him a whole night to make that one up: "Writing crosswords is no easy task," he said.
Pop-up puzzles and even mirror writing were no problem.
"A Worthy Foe," he remarked on his blog.
In fact, very little has defeated An Post.
There were a few that that did not make it - one was a bizarre mystery puzzle that was intended for a brewery.
It was returned to David Curran's house even though he did not put a return address on it... so they were on to him.
He has enjoyed other people's stories of letters that have got through.
"There is a DJ here called Rick O'Shea and he got a letter addressed simply to Rick O'Shea, The Radio," he said.
"An Post appreciated what I did in the way in which it was meant," he said.
"But what I found was that people from other countries were amazed at our postal service. They said those letters would never have got through in the countries where they lived."
An Post delivered a message of support for David's efforts, stamped with a smile.
But now they would just like him to give them them a break and a little time to do what they do best.. deliver the post.
Finbarr O'Connell, from Smith & Williamson, said Caterham F1 operator 1MRT had made an "inadequate" offer to continue using the Leafield site.
Administrators have taken control of the building, where F1 cars were made.
Mr O'Connell said he was trying to resolve the situation with 1MRT but until then had locked staff out.
Employees from Caterham Sports Limited - which manufactures cars for the F1 team and is run as a separate company - were transferred to 1MRT when the company was placed into administration on Friday.
Mr O'Connell said 200 jobs were at risk and up to £20m was owed to external suppliers.
One employee at the site said: "We've just been given a letter saying we're not allowed in today - it seems to be a very confused situation.
"People are confused and disillusioned by it all.
"It's a shame that it's ended so abruptly. It's not looking good - I think it could be the end."
Tony Fernandes, who owns the Air Asia airline and Queens Park Rangers football club, sold the team to a Swiss and Middle eastern consortium, Engavest SA, in July.
The consortium has insisted Caterham Sports Ltd is not related to them, as they had transferred operations to the team's holding company, 1MRT.
Developments at Caterham have brought into question the team's participation in the forthcoming US Grand Prix, which takes place in Austin, Texas, on 2 November, and the race in Brazil the following weekend.
In a statement, Caterham F1 said: "The administrators' appointment has had devastating effects on the F1 team's activities."
Electronic roadside signs will display fuel prices, enabling drivers to choose the cheapest place to fill up.
Mike Wilson from Highways England, which is behind a trial of the signs, said: "We want road users to be more informed and in better control of their journeys."
The 18-month trial starts next spring.
Mr Wilson said it would help drivers to be "better prepared, more inclined to plan breaks and have a positive driving experience".
He added: "It's still very important for motorists to properly plan their journeys and ensure they have sufficient fuel.
"Running out of fuel on motorways can be hazardous to yourself and other drivers."
Drivers will be alerted to the cost of petrol and diesel from Gordano, Sedgemoor, Bridgwater, Taunton Deane and Exeter services.
If the project is successful it could be rolled out nationally.
Roads minister Andrew Jones said: "This trial will allow drivers to be much better informed about the cost of fuel and make it easier to plan their breaks around the cheapest deals."
Highways England said it would monitor whether there are any safety implications, including drivers running out of fuel.
Mr Modi invited them to "make in India", the name of a national programme which aims to make India a global manufacturing hub.
He said "reform in governance" was his top priority to ensure accountability.
Mr Modi's five-day visit to the US will also see him meet top Silicon Valley leaders and attend a Facebook townhall.
Among the CEOs who met Mr Modi were Citigroup Chairman Michael O'Neill, MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga, Boeing International President Marc Allen and Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn.
Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch tweeted after the meeting that he had a "great hour" with the Indian prime minister.
"Best leader with best policies since independence, but massive task to achieve in most complex nation", the tweet read.
India's ambassador to the US Arun K. Singh told a media conference later that chief executives had been "upbeat" after the interaction and said: "They felt that the initiatives being taken by the government were inaccurately assessed and reported, and appreciated the trend and direction in India."
India's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Vikas Swarup added that "Everyone was happy with the changes in India. Their only demand was that the changes be faster".
Meanwhile the White House has confirmed that US President Barack Obama will meet Mr Modi on the sidelines of the UN summit on Friday.
Senior Obama National Security Aide Ben Rhodes said the discussions would include issues related to a major climate conference, where countries are being asked to set emissions targets, the AFP news agency reported.
It follows a public inquiry last year into the airport's bid to remove a cap on the number of seats it can sell each year on departing flights.
It is currently set at two million seats.
The Planning Appeals Commission (PAC) report does not object to the move.
However, it recommends a stricter system of noise controls than the City Airport has put forward in its planning application.
The Environment Minister Mark H Durkan wants feedback by next month, before making a decision on the airport's application.
The airport has been attempting to lift the seats cap since 2004.
Residents' groups in the surrounding areas have been opposing the idea, arguing it will mean many more flights and bigger aircraft.
The PAC report states: "We strongly believe while the growth of the airport is desirable from an economic perspective, a balance must be struck with the noise impact."
It adds the controls put forward by the airport "would allow noise levels to affect more people than is presently the case".
A spokesperson for George Best Belfast City Airport said: "We welcome the recommendation by the Planning Appeals Commission to remove the seats for sale limit which has been a long standing barrier to our business.
"We will consider in more detail the findings of the report and will submit our views to the department."
Voting numbers show a 34% increase from advance polling in the 2011 election, according to Elections Canada.
Long lines at polling stations included people dressed up in costumes to make political statements.
Voters are allowed to wear costumes and masks as long as they take an oath and provide identification.
Some voters wore costumes and masks to protest over the proposed Conservative law banning wearing niqabs during citizenship ceremonies.
The number of people who came out to vote exceeded predictions.
"So in that sense, it was exciting that so many people are coming out to vote," Elections Canada spokesman Dugald Maudsley told the CBC.
Polls were open throughout the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in Canada.
Some voters waited 45 minutes to two hours to cast their ballot in early polling, according to the CBC.
"One is that usually there is a big rush at the very beginning of advance polls. This has happened every federal election and that, as people tend to get going and get used to the process, things do tend to move more quickly," Mr Maudsley said.
For most of the campaign season, the incumbent Conservatives, the left-centre Liberals and the New Democratic Party have been tied in the polls, but a new poll tips in favour of the Liberals.
Tightened election laws from the Conservative government did not have a large effect on early voting, Mr Maudsley said.
"Maybe it's the good weather, maybe it's the fact that ... it's a weekend and they're on holidays," he said.
• Canadian election day is 19 October. Its formal campaign season lasts 78 days.
• The Canadian Parliament is comprised of 338 constituencies, called ridings.
• Members of parliament are elected in a "first past the post" system where the candidate with the most votes wins.
• Canada's prime minister is chosen by a majority vote in Parliament, either by one party or through a coalition.
He was talking about diversity in UK acting when he made the comment.
Anti-racism charity Show Racism the Red Card says the term is "outdated".
The Oscar-nominated actor was telling American television presenter Tavis Smiley that he believes Hollywood offers more opportunities for black actors than the UK does.
He said: "I think as far as coloured actors go it gets really difficult in the UK, and a lot of my friends have had more opportunities here (in the US) than in the UK and that's something that needs to change."
His comments were quickly criticised online and charity Show Racism the Red Card said that he had "highlighted the issue of appropriate terminology".
They said: "The term 'coloured' is now outdated and has the potential to cause offence due to the connotations associated with the term and its historical usage."
In a statement the 38-year-old said: "I can only hope this incident will highlight the need for correct usage of terminology that is accurate and inoffensive.
"The most shaming aspect of this for me is that I was talking about racial inequality in the performing arts in the UK and the need for rapid improvements in our industry when I used the term.
"I feel the complete fool I am and while I am sorry to have offended people and to learn from my mistakes in such a public manner, please be assured I have.
"I apologise again to anyone who I offended for this thoughtless use of inappropriate language about an issue which affects friends of mine and which I care about deeply."
Newsbeat's entertainment reporter Natalie Jamieson looks at if this could affect Benedict Cumberbatch's career.
"Benedict Cumberbatch has apologised profusely and while no time would've been good for this type of controversy, the timing is particularly bad.
"As you're probably aware, Benedict is a nominee for actor in a leading role at the Oscars and the voting for that is still taking place.
"It's fair to say his fellow nominees Eddie Redmayne, Michael Keaton, Bradley Cooper and Steve Carell probably just got an indirect voting boost.
"Benedict's also nominated for best actor at this year's Baftas.
"If you watch the full interview between Benedict and Tavis Smiley, his words leading up to this comment were all about praise for fellow Brits David Oyelowo and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
"Benedict's career will be fine after this, but any unease he felt before about walking those red carpets at the Oscars and Baftas just intensified."
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The hosts struggled with the bowling of Dan Lawrence (3-35) and Graham Napier (3-50) as they made 219-8 with James Franklin's 55 boosting their innings.
Essex started well, with Nick Browne hitting 79, but they struggled when he was removed by Franklin.
The visitors needed 11 runs off the last six balls but lost Ashar Zaidi and finished five runs short on 215-9.
Toby Roland-Jones (4-40) had kept Essex pegged back in their innings with the paceman doing the damage as time ran out for the visitors.
Despite the defeat, Essex remain in second place in the One-Day Cup South Group table, with a game still to play.
The Austrian will retire from racing after this weekend's World Endurance Championship finale in Bahrain.
However, he has told Manor boss Stephen Fitzpatrick he has other plans.
Wurz, 41, told BBC Sport: "After a period of consideration, I have informed Stephen Fitzpatrick that I have taken the decision not to make myself available to Manor."
Manor team boss John Booth and sporting director Graeme Lowdon have resigned - their last race with the team will be the season finale in Abu Dhabi in November - and Dave Ryan has been appointed as racing director.
Fitzpatrick said he and Wurz had discussed the role of team principal but that a formal job offer was not made.
Former McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh has also been linked with the job.
Fitzpatrick said: "We haven't offered the post of team principal to anyone but I have been talking to a lot of people and asking for advice.
"I have asked a lot of people a lot of things."
Whitmarsh said he had been in contact with Fitzpatrick but added: "I do not intend to become team principal at Manor."
Whitmarsh was ousted by McLaren chief executive Ron Dennis in a boardroom coup in January, and said he was "not looking for a team principal role in F1 full stop".
He added that he would "definitely say no" if he was offered the position by Fitzpatrick.
Whitmarsh is chief executive officer of the Ben Ainslie Racing America's Cup team as the multiple Olympic champion prepares for the next America's Cup in 2017, following his victory with Oracle Team USA in 2013.
Wurz, who is president of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association and also an adviser to the board of the Williams team, praised Fitzpatrick's decision to save Manor from oblivion last winter and his decisions to secure Mercedes engines and a technical partnership with Williams for next year.
Fitzpatrick, the boss of the energy firm Ovo, bought Manor last winter after the team, which raced as Marussia in 2014, went into administration and missed the final three races of last season.
"Stephen did a smart move to buy the team, and his signing with Williams and Mercedes show he's both serious and ambitious about the team's future."
Manor have yet to name any drivers for 2015, but among those linked to the team are current drivers Will Stevens, Alexander Rossi and Roberto Merhi, as well as Indonesian GP2 driver Rio Haryanto and former McLaren driver Kevin Magnussen.
Magnussen, who raced for McLaren in 2014 but has been released by the team after a year as their reserve driver, is also in the running for a position with the Porsche World Endurance team after impressing in a test last week.
The Republicans passed a budget measure that eases passage of a new law and would overcome any Democratic block.
But lawmakers in both parties remained concerned about a lack of replacement for the law, known as Obamacare.
The political showdown raises a big question mark over medical coverage for more than 20 million Americans.
The measure passed in the House nearly on a party-line vote, 227-198, delivering a blow to President Obama's legacy a week before he leaves office.
It instructs four committees on Capitol Hill to draft repeal legislation by 27 January.
The Senate passed the resolution by 51-48 on Thursday.
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"By taking the first step toward repealing Obamacare, we are closer to giving Americans relief from the problems this law has caused," House Speaker Paul Ryan said in a statement following the vote.
"This resolution gives us the tools we need for a step-by-step approach to fix these problems and put Americans back in control of their health care."
Obamacare has provided healthcare subsidies and medical coverage for millions who are not covered through work.
It has banned insurers from refusing coverage to people who are already ill, and curbed medical charges to the sick and elderly.
But the law has been rocked by rising premiums, large fees and national insurers exiting the marketplaces.
Egged on by Donald Trump, Republicans have vowed to repeal the Affordable Care Act but conservatives have not yet agreed on a new plan.
Republicans have provided few details on their plans to replace Obamacare.
It is expected the replacement would seek to end the statute's unpopular requirement that many individuals buy coverage and that larger companies provide it to workers.
However, experts say these mandates are needed to keep the insurance marketplace solvent.
Mr Trump's choice for health and human services secretary, Tom Price, will play a key role in shaping the planned overhaul.
The Georgia congressman has previously touted his own Obamacare replacement plan.
The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget said this month that repealing Obamacare would cost about $350bn (£286bn) over the next decade.
Republicans hope a budget reconciliation bill - which would strip Obamacare of funding - will now be drafted in committee and could pass a month after that.
It would be able to pass with a simple majority in the Republican-controlled Congress, making it filibuster-proof.
He made the comments at a meeting of political leaders in Yangon.
The National League for Democracy (NLD) has won about 80% of contested seats with just a few results still to be announced.
If power is transferred, it will end more than 50 years of military-backed government in Myanmar.
At a gathering of all Myanmar's political parties, the president said all duties would be transferred to the next government systematically and on schedule.
He said: "We will make sure it will be smooth and stable without having to worry about anything."
Thein Sein has made similar comments online before, but he has now repeated them in public.
The president also said that the successful election was a result of the reform process put in place by his Union Solidarity and Development Party, which has won only 41 of the 478 seats that have so far declared. The NLD has 387.
The military has already said it will abide by the election result.
Ms Suu Kyi is expected to hold talks with the president and the army chief in Nay Pyi Taw next week.
The BBC's Jonah Fisher in Yangon says they will face the thorny issue of the upcoming "lame duck" parliamentary session. The old pre-election Burmese parliament is due to gather next week for a final session that runs until the end of January.
Only once the "lame duck" session ends will the new NLD-dominated parliament gather. It will immediately choose a new speaker, quite possibly Ms Suu Kyi, before selecting two vice-presidents and a president.
Election results came in slowly following the vote on 8 November.
It was only on Friday - five days after the poll - that the NLD finally won the two-thirds majority it needs to form the next government. It needs that amount because the constitution reserves 25% of seats in both houses of parliament for the army.
The process of choosing the next president will begin in January, when the new parliament gathers.
Aung San Suu Kyi has told the BBC that she, as the leader of the winning party, will be Myanmar's next de-facto leader.
Does the NLD now control Myanmar?
Not really - it has enough seats in the upper and lower house to choose the president but the army has 25% of seats and controls key ministries, so they will need to work together.
Will Aung San Suu Kyi be president?
No - the constitution, written by the military, bars people with foreign spouses or offspring, as she does, from the top job. The clause was widely seen as being written specifically to prevent her from taking office. But Ms Suu Kyi she has repeatedly said she would lead the country anyway if the NLD won.
Can the NLD just change the constitution?
No - the military can veto any moves to change it.
Was the election fair?
"Largely," said Ms Suu Kyi. But hundreds of thousands of people, including the minority Muslim Rohingya, were not allowed to vote, and no voting took place in seven areas where ethnic conflict is rife.
About 30 million people were eligible to vote in the election - turnout was estimated at about 80%.
It was widely seen as a fair vote though there were reports of irregularities, and hundreds of thousands of people - including the Muslim Rohingya minority, who are not recognised as citizens - were denied voting rights.
Stewards decided the Ferrari driver was "predominantly" responsible for a collision that caused Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg to spin and drop back.
Vettel has also been given two penalty points on his licence for the incident.
The four-time champion felt the clash was a "racing incident" but stewards said he had made a "small error".
The decision was made even though the stewards accepted Vettel's explanation he had not been going excessively fast.
They ruled that "although the cars involved in the incident were all going at relatively similar speed" Vettel should be punished because he had caused Rosberg to "lose multiple positions".
The Japanese Grand Prix takes place next Sunday at the Suzuka Circuit, 30 miles from Japan's third-largest city, Nagoya.
Vettel had been trying to overtake Red Bull's Max Verstappen, who used an expletive in calling the German "crazy", adding: "He smashed into Rosberg like an idiot."
After the race, Verstappen said: "I braked late but I was still behind Nico, and then Sebastian just dived up the inside, just went really deep and there was definitely no space for that and he T-boned Nico."
Rosberg said: "Oh, I just got T-boned by a four-time world champion out of control!"
Vettel said: "If anything I was braking the same point as him [Verstappen]. I was going side by side, he was squeezing me down to the inside. It's racing.
"I think both of us will make the corner, not a problem. Obviously Nico decided to take a different line, he's ahead, he's got nothing to do with it and doesn't have to bother what people are doing behind.
"I think there are two things that are wrong. First that Nico, without any blame, gets turned around. And second that I'm standing here and the race is still going on."
"Racing him is moving around, everybody knows by now," Vettel said.
"If you get squeezed to the inside your angle doesn't get any better for Turn One, and then it was, I don't know the word, it was quite bad, the angle.
"I was trying to do everything to turn and get the corner. I do get the corner no problem, I'm not braking too late. Nico obviously tries to cut back, I guess to fight Lewis. At that point we made contact."
Several homes were evacuated during the search operation in Donegall Avenue off the Donegall Road.
The devices, described by police as viable, were made safe by Army explosives experts before being taken away.
Police said the operation was part of an ongoing investigation into serious crime.
They said on Saturday that their enquiries were continuing.
Elizabeth Edwards, 49, and her 13-year-old daughter Katie were found dead in Spalding in April.
The 15-year-old denies murder, but has admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, at Nottingham Crown Court.
A boy, also 15, has already pleaded guilty to murder.
Neither teenager can be named because of their ages.
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On the second day of the trial a transcript of the girl's police interview was read.
She told officers she and her co-accused, who was 14 at the time, had planned the killing of Elizabeth and Katie Edwards in the days before their deaths on the evening of 13 April.
She also said they had attempted to carry out the killings on two other occasions.
The jury heard her tell police her co-accused had stabbed Ms Edwards in the neck and then smothered her before going into 13-year-old Katie's room and stabbing her.
The trial continues.
The breach came after the laptop of an employee at Hewlett Packard Enterprise working on a naval contract was "compromised", the Navy said.
It added that "unknown individuals" accessed the sensitive information on current and former sailors.
The data included names and social security numbers, but the Navy does not currently believe it was misused.
"The Navy takes this incident extremely seriously - this is a matter of trust for our sailors," said Vice Adm Robert Burke, the chief of naval personnel.
"We are in the early stages of investigating and are working quickly to identify and take care of those affected by this breach."
The US Navy has about 430,000 sailors on active duty or in ready reserve.
Sailors are being contacted in the coming weeks and the Navy said it was looking into credit monitoring services for those affected.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which separated from US computer firm HP last year, informed the Navy on 27 October about the laptop.
After a Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) investigation, it was found that the data of 134,386 sailors had been accessed.
A spokesman for Hewlett Packard Enterprise said: "This event has been reported to the Navy and because this is an ongoing investigation, HPE will not be commenting further out of respect for the privacy of our Navy personnel."
David Davis said a "sustainable" system would take into account the needs of the NHS and different industries.
He also said the government had a "huge contingency plan" for the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
Mr Davis was speaking on a special edition of BBC Question Time ahead of Wednesday's formal Brexit notification.
The government has yet to specify how the UK's immigration system will work once it is no longer bound by EU free movement rules, but has promised to restore "control" to borders with new curbs in place.
Mr Davis said the new system would be "properly managed".
It would be for the home secretary to decide the system to be used, he said, but added: "I cannot imagine that the policy will be anything other than that which is in the national interest.
"Which means that from time to time we will need more, from time to time we will need less.
"That is how it will no doubt work and that will be in everybody's interests - the migrants and the citizens of the UK."
The Brexit secretary was urged by a German NHS worker in the audience to "do the decent thing" and guarantee EU nationals the right to stay in the UK.
He promised the issue would be a priority when talks begin.
On Wednesday Prime Minister Theresa May will invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which begins the negotiation process.
During the Britain after Brexit debate the panellists, who included former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond and Labour Brexit spokesman Sir Keir Starmer, were asked what would happen if no deal was reached.
Mr Davis said the government had spent the nine months since June's Brexit vote preparing a plan.
He said it was not a scenario the government wanted to see, but added: "We have got a huge contingency plan, exercised across all of these issues, every department of government."
Mr Salmond said the government's view that no deal is better than a bad deal was "nonsensical".
But UKIP's Suzanne Evans criticised "hyperbole" about "crashing out" of the EU.
Mr Davis also said the UK would abide by its obligations when it comes to settling outstanding liabilities with the EU, but played down claims these could amount to £50bn.
Former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said the EU was "simply going to ask us to settle the tab before we leave", and Mr Starmer said the UK had to honour its debts "otherwise no country is going to want to deal with us" in future trade negotiations.
But a man in the audience compared the EU's demands with "the bully in the playground taking our lunch money".
On Wednesday, the prime minister will send a letter to the president of the European Council telling him officially that the UK wants to leave.
Triggering Article 50, the letter will set in motion a two-year process in which the terms of the UK's departure from the EU will be hammered out, as will the outline of the UK's future relationship with the remaining 27 EU members.
As things stand, the UK is set to leave the EU on 29 March 2019 although this deadline could be extended if both sides agree.
More than 33.5 million people voted in a referendum last June on the UK's future in the EU. They voted to leave by a margin of 51.9% to 48.1%.
Police said it was believed the men were injured during a fight close to Basingstoke Leisure Centre at about 18:30 BST on Thursday.
The men, both in their late 30s, are being treated in hospital. One of them is described as being in a serious condition.
A cordon was put in place overnight while investigators examined the scene.
Police have appealed for anyone who may have witnessed the attack to come forward.
The suspects have been detained on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
Taxi firm owner Nasser Rezaie, 63, ran down fellow cabbie and mechanic Allan Frampton, 60, with his Mercedes S Class in a cul-de-sac in Chelmsford on 9 May.
The city's crown court heard the killing was premeditated and the new couple had faced threats for months.
Mr Rezaie admits he was driving the car but denies murder.
He claims "loss of control" due to the emotional turmoil, which he argues makes him guilty of manslaughter.
The court heard Mr Rezaie had warned he would cut both their throats and decapitate them.
Jurors heard tracking devices fitted to a car belonging to Mr Rezaie's wife, Jane, sent location alerts to the defendant's mobile phone so he could follow her.
Peter Gair, prosecuting, said: "The defendant was not willing to accept the marriage was over, despite being told a number of times by family and friends."
Mrs Rezaie began a relationship with Mr Frampton, from Hatfield Peverel, who maintained some of the family firm's taxis, in 2012.
He died from multiple injuries after being hit several times by the car in Osea Way in May. The attack was caught on private CCTV cameras in the street.
Before the killing, Mr Rezaie wrote on Facebook he believed Mr Frampton was only interested in Mrs Rezaie's money.
In other posts he wrote "jail is free" and "I believe justice will be done".
A violent attack on Mrs Rezaie was recorded in a voicemail message, on another occasion, jurors were told.
Before the killing Mr Rezaie told her he had earlier considered running Mr Frampton over but did not as he was standing close to somebody else, the court heard.
In another voicemail, he told his wife: "Don't walk to close to him when you walk together."
The trial continues.
The Hong Kong player won eight frames in a row to claim his first ranking event since the 2013 Australian Open.
The Scot, 41, began with three straight centuries and a 78 break to go 4-1 up, but Fu won three frames to level it.
He took the first four before the evening session interval and sealed victory after play resumed.
"I played great at the start and was feeling good but from 4-1, Marco just totally froze me out and played fantastically," said world number three Higgins.
Four-time world champion Higgins had been hoping to move clear of Steve Davis and Ronnie O'Sullivan's 28 ranking titles in the overall list behind Stephen Hendry's record of 36.
For Fu, this was his ninth victory in 15 career meetings and his second ranking title in Scotland, having won his first at the Grand Prix in Aberdeen in 2007.
He hit his 11th ton of the week to get to 3-1 and had runs of 89, 59, 59 and 60 in the second session.
"The way John started the match I thought it was going to be 9-1 or 9-2," said the world number 14, who collected a winning cheque for £70,000 and was presented with the inaugural Stephen Hendry Trophy by the seven-time world champion himself.
"In a short spell I think I kind of dragged John down to my standard a little bit, and those three frames from 4-1 to get to 4-4 were very crucial.
"I was feeling over the moon after the first session, and tonight I played much better match snooker.
"I just can't believe I am the champion. In the first part of the season I was really struggling but I somehow found some form at the UK Championship [where he reached the semi-finals] and now I have won 15 out of 16 matches. It is probably the best win of my career."
Cloak uses public location data from other social networks, Foursquare and Instagram, to determine the locations of others you know.
Users can choose to receive an alert when certain people are believed to be nearby.
It is the latest in the recent trend of "anti-social", or secretive, apps.
Apps such as Snapchat - which deletes photographs and videos seconds after they have been viewed - and Secret - which broadcasts messages anonymously - are growing in popularity.
Likewise WhatsApp, a private-messaging service recently bought by Facebook for $19bn (£11.4bn), indicates a shift back to conducting online conversations in private.
Cloak describes itself as a method to "avoid exes, co-workers, that guy who likes to stop and chat - anyone you'd rather not run into".
It was created by programmer Brian Moore and the former creative director of viral news site Buzzfeed, Chris Baker.
Mr Baker told the Washington Post that his service was typical of the direction social networking was taking.
"Personally, I think we've seen the crest of the big social network," he said.
"Things like Twitter and Facebook are packed elevators where we're all crammed in together… I think anti-social stuff is on the rise. You'll be seeing more and more of these types of projects."
Nick Jones, editor-in-chief of App Magazine, told the BBC he was unconvinced - though tempted.
"It does sound like a gimmick," he said. "But I might use it myself!"
He suggested that these niche apps were being developed not because of any great consumer need, but because developers are keen to corner some of the few remaining untapped social-media markets.
"People are having to diversify their apps and find some unique angle to their app, and then try and sell it to Facebook and make a pretty penny."
However, he admitted: "Secrecy has its advantages for people. It's quite attractive."
2 April 2016 Last updated at 09:43 BST
Autism can affect the way you live your life and see the world around you.
It's not a disease or an illness, but a condition you're born with.
Alex says he finds it difficult to cope in busy environments and can get upset if there are too many people or if it's too noisy.
He's been helping to make the film to try and let other people understand more about autism.
The BBC's disability reporter, Nikki Fox, went to meet him.
A total of 252 soldiers of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers were killed at Festubert in France on 15 May 1915 in what was the first planned night attack of the war.
In total, more than 20,000 men died over 10 days of fighting.
The Enniskillen-based regiment suffered its heaviest losses of World War One, enduring a higher rate of casualties than at the battle of the Somme.
While the Somme lives on in popular memory, evoking military slaughter on an industrial scale, the battle of Festubert is often overlooked.
Inniskillings Museum, which is devoted to the history of the regiment, has released some startling photographs taken of soldiers in the days before they went into battle.
During the month of May 1915, 392 men from the regiment were killed in battle. Some of them featured in photographs taken just a few days before.
In the months following the battle, reports would appear in the regiment's journal, the Sprig of Shillelagh, documenting the extent of what had happened.
Sgt R Langford wrote: "Many of our wounded were buried by shells in dug-outs where they had been placed for safety."
Wives would search for news of their husbands, while others supplied photographs of where their husbands were known to have died for obituaries.
The battle is also being commemorated on the Scottish isle of Skye, where the town of Portree lost 10 men in a single night.
Many of the men from Skye, Kingussie and Beauly who died at Festubert had played shinty, a fact recalled in some of the events.
Shinty commentator and historian Hugh Dan MacLennan is among those taking part in the commemorations.
He said: "Festubert is our focus because it was one of the first great killing battles, which saw death on an industrial scale.
"Not only that, but its impact on Highland communities is beyond belief."
Writing to Mr Jones, Mr Davies called the comment, made on The Wales Report, a "false assertion", and "misleading".
Mr Davies said he had texted Mr Jones an offer to work with him, and had also made other offers publicly.
A spokesman for the first minister called the letter "ridiculous".
Mr Jones was asked on the BBC Wales television programme on Wednesday why other party leaders had not been invited to help formulate the Labour-Plaid Cymru Brexit plan unveiled on Monday.
Referring to Mr Davies, Mr Jones replied: "At no time has he ever said that he wanted to be part of the process to work out what the journey should be for Wales."
In his letter to Mr Jones, Mr Davies said: "I regret that your inability to reflect the truth in a televised interview has forced me to formally wrote seeking an apology for your actions which have distorted my position.
"In light of your false assertions being made publicly, I would expect your apology, which will assert the truth, to be made equally as publicly."
Mr Davies enclosed a copy of a text message sent to Mr Jones on the day after the referendum, 24 June, where he said: "We have disagreed on the outcome we [were] seeking to achieve.
"But the results are in and Wales has spoken. I am ready if you want to work with [me] to deal with the new landscape.
"However appreciate you may find that difficult politically and personally but the offer is there."
According to a copy of the text message, Mr Jones replied: "Thanks. Let's touch base next week."
In his letter, Mr Davies said he had made subsequent offers publicly, and added: "Your misleading remarks are regrettable."
A spokesman for the first minister said: "In the seven years of Carwyn Jones being first minister, this is the most ridiculous letter we've ever received.
"But, we will of course respond within 17 working days."
Secretary of State Theresa Villiers and First Minister Peter Robinson attended the event at Belfast City Hall.
Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan also attended the Belfast commemoration.
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny laid a wreath in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.
More than 200,000 Irish-born soldiers are estimated to have served in the British army and navy from 1914 to 1918.
Thousands of soldiers also left the country and the Irish army to join British forces during World War Two.
Hundreds of people gathered at the cenotaph at Belfast City Hall for a two-minute silence to honour those killed in World Wars One and Two and later conflicts.
The band of the Royal Irish Regiment played during a wreath-laying ceremony.
Ms Villiers said: "I always find Remembrance Sunday profoundly moving as an experience, and it was so today, all the more so, now that we're in this decade of centenaries, with the centenary of the Somme coming up next year which has so much resonance for many people in Northern Ireland."
Ms Villiers said it was important that the Remembrance Sunday service was a shared experience.
"It's a welcome change over recent years that the Irish government has been represented here, because it's undoubtedly true that men from throughout the island of Ireland served incredibly bravely in the armed services over many years," she said.
Mr Flanagan said: "I believe that it's important for all Irish people to reflect on the memory of our loss, and to commemorate it in a way that perhaps we haven't in the past."
In Enniskillen, the Remembrance Sunday commemorations took place 28 years to the day since an IRA bomb at the war memorial killed 11 people.
Mr Kenny became the first Irish prime minister to attend a Remembrance Day service in Northern Ireland when he took part in commemorations at Enniskillen in 2012.
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And the Gloucester scrum-half, 30, insists they are now "proving it to themselves and to others".
After defeats in the opening two matches, Scotland now sit third in the championship table after victories away to Italy and at home to France.
"We felt we were that close right from the start," Laidlaw told BBC Scotland.
"We were bitterly disappointed with the way we played in that England game but the Welsh game I thought we played fantastically well.
"We're delighted to win the last couple of games and prove it to ourselves and to other people as well."
Laidlaw is able to pinpoint the differences that have turned defeats into victories.
"Defensively we have really fronted up as a team," the former Edinburgh player explained.
"We're not conceding as many tries, which goes a long way to solving problems.
"The set piece has been outstanding, you need that to launch into the game, and I think we're just causing teams a lot of problems by holding on to the ball."
Scotland complete their tournament away to Ireland in Dublin on Saturday, when Craig Joubert will be running the line.
The South African refereed Scotland's World Cup quarter-final against Australia last year and awarded a controversial penalty that allowed the Wallabies to earn a narrow victory.
When asked if Scotland would be motivated to play well and show Joubert their displeasure at his handling of that agonising loss to Australia, Laidlaw replied: "I don't know, it's an unanswerable question isn't it?
"Craig Joubert won't affect us as a team come the weekend. You can't worry about referees or touch judges. If we start doing that we take our eye off the ball and on our role."
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Mr Jones was appointed after "second choice" votes were taken into consideration.
Neither him nor UKIP's candidate, Victoria Ayling, gained the required 50% of the vote to win outright in the first round of counts.
The ex-Deputy Leader of Lincoln Council said he was "very pleased" to have been elected.
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Mr Jones, who was elected after gaining 48,033 votes in the the second round, said his biggest challenge would be to fully understand the different aspects of the role.
He said: "There's certain information as a candidate you're not privy to, so it will be a huge learning curve to fully understand what needs to be done.
"With regard to funding, I've already had meetings with the Home Office and the Prime Minister to make sure I get a fair formula for Lincolnshire."
Ms Ayling polled 37,420 in the second round of voting.
Turnout in the election was higher than that of 2012 when Alan Hardwick was voted in with the figure at 21.19%, compared to 15% four years ago.
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Derek Maguire, 55, and Neil Snazel, 42, both of Manchester, worked together to bring the Class A and Class B drugs in 15 crates from the Netherlands.
Maguire's nephew, daughter and her boyfriend, all from Manchester, were then employed to distribute the drugs.
All five were sentenced at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court.
Maguire, 55, of Harbury Crescent, Manchester, was found guilty of eight charges concerning the production, possession and supply of drugs.
Snazel, 42, of Kenworthy Lane, Manchester, was jailed for 14 years after admitting three similar offences.
The pair were caught after Thames Valley Police seized a crate addressed to a courier in October 2015 and found a lawnmower containing 175lbs (80kg) of MDMA - the active ingredient in ecstasy pills.
National Crime Agency (NCA) officers went on to discover 14 similar shipments, all labelled "machinery", were sent by Snazel between July and October 2015, with a total of 2,277lbs (1,033kg) of drugs inside.
An NCA spokesman said Maguire held the crates at a storage unit and was caught on CCTV picking up the fourteenth package 10 minutes after it was dropped off.
He was arrested and found to have ecstasy, ketamine and cannabis in labelled bags in a self-storage unit.
The other four were then arrested after analysis of Maguire's phone records in February 2016.
A courier was also charged but was acquitted at trial.
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Managers at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust said they shared the figure with staff in order to improve services.
One woman, Vicki Adams, of Canterbury, said she found a used dressing stained with blood or faeces in clean sheets.
The hospital said 1.625m items were sent to laundry in the three months and the error rating was 0.0027%.
Ms Adams said she saw many examples of dirt and uncleanliness, the most obvious being the discovery of the used pad stuck to her bed linen.
"It was revolting to see that. It made me feel sick and shocked," she said.
She said she wanted the trust to make sure it did not happen again and added: "Forty examples isn't a small number."
Sue Roberts, director of infection prevention and control, said: "As part of our value of being open and transparent, we recently alerted staff to the mishandling of clinical waste, which we take very seriously.
"We did this to ensure that clinical waste is disposed of correctly.
"Our own laundry processes 6.5m items a year and has very strict procedures to ensure that any clinical waste mistakenly sent to laundry is not included in clean linen sent back to wards."
Trust bosses also told staff the errors posed risks to staff involved with laundry processing.
The trust runs hospitals in Ashford, Margate, Canterbury, Folkestone and Dover.
Mr Andrews said councils had been given "every opportunity" to agree on a new map but had failed to do so.
A consultation on the proposals to cut the number of councils from 22 to eight or nine is due to end on Monday.
Labour AM Alun Davies said telling people to grow up was probably not the best way to get consensus.
There was "titanic disagreement" on what the future structure should be, Mr Davies added.
Giving evidence to the local government committee, Mr Andrews criticised the lack of ambition and lack of agreement from council leaders.
"Everybody can agree on local government re-organisation but nobody is prepared to agree on what it should look like," he said.
"That is not a sustainable position. People need to grow up, bluntly and we need to get agreement on this as soon as we can after the May election because as the trade unions have said, this is leading to some demoralisation among staff who want to know what the way forward is.
"We have given every opportunity to local government to agree on a map, they cannot agree so we as a national assembly are going to have to make those decisions and legislate on those decisions in the next assembly."
Mr Andrews also attacked the chief executive of the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) Steve Thomas for telling the committee it took longer to change councils across Wales than to defeat the Nazis in Europe.
"This kind of rhetoric is unhelpful because we can all indulge in it," Mr Andrews said.
"I can indulge in it just as much as the chief executive of the Welsh Local Government Association. Does it get us anywhere? No it doesn't."
As well as expressing concern about the time re-organisation had taken, Mr Thomas said the debate about structures, which he said had been a "movable feast", had been too narrow.
"The problem is it's been a movable feast, hasn't it, and that movable feast has been partly dictated by the debate in this place itself [the assembly],and it's been partly dictated by the unanswered questions in terms of the cost," he added.
If Labour are still in power after May, a bill will be presented to the assembly in the autumn, with a view to the changes being forced through with legislation.
Mr Andrews said he thought the most likely prospect of political agreement on re-organisation was between Labour and Plaid Cymru in the next assembly.
McCormack has travelled home to compete after achieving the Olympic 10,000m qualifying mark in the US last weekend.
"The event is a national championship and has a lot of history so I feel it is important to run," said McCormack.
This Phoenix Park event is sold out with close to 8,000 runners competing.
The mixing of the sport's grassroots and elite athletes is something that would have delighted Ballymena athletics doyen Kyle, who died after a long illness last November.
Great Ireland Run organiser, former Irish international athlete Gareth Turnbull came up with of incorporating a team match into the event which would pay tribute to the renowned coach, who formed a remarkable partnership with his wife, the three-time Olympian Maeve Kyle at the Ballymena & Antrim club.
The team component will see an Ireland line-up which includes McCormack, facing a Commonwealth select, with the top three scorers in the men's and women's races to count.
"Given Sean's background of guiding athletes who competed for Ireland and Britain and in Commonwealth Games, I think a match between Ireland and Commonwealth teams for the Sean Kyle Cup is very appropriate," Turnbull told BBC Sport Northern Ireland.
"Maeve (Kyle) is coming down for the event to present the trophy and we're very much looking forward to seeing her."
McCormack's Irish women's team-mates will include Deirdre Byrne while Britain's world mountain running silver medallist Emma Clayton and Worthing athlete Rebecca Moore, who has a personal best of 34:27 for 10,000m, will be part of the Commonwealth select.
Twice European Cross Country champion McCormack is likely to have to choose either the 10,000m or the marathon in Rio as the events are only two days apart, with the track event taking place first.
McCormack appears to be leaning towards opting for the longer distance although she is careful to point out that several other Irish female Olympic hopefuls are set to run marathons over the next few weeks.
However, McCormack's marathon time of 2:33:15 set last November, which puts her second fastest of the Irish qualifiers behind Lizzie Lee (2:32:51), is over three minutes faster than next quickest Breege Connolly and is thus, unlikely to be bettered by two Irish athletes over the next month.
McCormack clocked 32:05.08 for 10,000m at the Stanford Invitational meeting last Friday which was almost 10 seconds inside the Olympic standard.
Olympic Games marathon hopefuls Kevin Seaward and Mick Clohissey will compete on the Irish men's team which also includes Joe Sweeney and Brandon Hargreaves, who represented Ireland at last year's European Under-23 Championships.
New Zealander Dan Wallis, who has a personal best of 29:45.47 for 10,000m on the track, will lead the Commonwealth men's team which also includes Englishman Owen Hind and Welsh athlete Rob Samuel.
In addition to the elite women's (13:10 BST start) and men's 10K (13:30) races, a Great Ireland Mile featuring Irish talent John Travers will take place earlier in the Phoenix Park at 11:30.
The 45-year-old director, who left Tehran for Paris as a teenager, has now released her first English-language movie, The Voices, an offbeat horror-comedy starring Gemma Arterton and Ryan Reynolds.
Written by American crime writer Michael R Perry, the film sees Reynolds starring as Jerry, a seemingly regular guy working at the Milton Bathtub factory, with a dog, Bosco, and a cat, Mr Whiskers.
He meets an English girl, Fiona, at work - played by Arterton - and goes home to tell his pets all about her. Surprisingly, they answer him - and that's the start of a bloodbath in small-town Michigan.
"It's a bizarre and twisted tale," says Arterton, who started her film career in the St Trinian's movies, and went on to star as a Bond girl in 2008's Quantum of Solace.
"I was so desperate to do it, it's something quite different for me."
Reynolds, who has starred in a string of Hollywood studio movies including The Proposal and Green Lantern, described himself also as "in hot pursuit of the part of Jerry".
"I really chased it, had to go and meet Marjane and make her believe I could do this quirky indie horror. I had to win her over, and it was a hard fought win, but I so wanted to see the script filtered through her eyes. I think she has a pretty unique vision."
"No one says Ryan Reynolds when you're bringing up the names of actors to play serial killers," says Satrapi.
"It was easy to cast Gemma, she is the new Sophia Loren, she explodes femininity and is easily the first girl in the factory that a boy would fall in love with. But Ryan? Look at that smile of his, you would forgive him anything.
"He really had to convince me to do it, but when we met, his thoughts on the movie completely corresponded with mine."
Reynolds also provides the voices of Jerry's pets, which provide good and bad advice.
Arterton's opinion is that "you have to be slightly special in your head to be able to pull off a funny horror film. Michael Perry, the writer, mainly does crime, and I hope he doesn't mind me saying that he's a bit weird. So is Marjane, and actually Ryan and I are a little special too.
"It's all about the tone and getting the balance right. This one is especially tricky as it vacillates between a Disney tone and then the absolute depths of the horror genre.
"We've done okay in the UK with horror in the past, if you think of Shaun of the Dead and Ben Wheatley's Sightseers, but it's incredibly hard to do well.
"I don't actually like blood and guts, but I do like suspense and I think this has parodies of Hitchcock. I never thought I would play a damsel in distress, but I am a horror cliche in parts here - it's very Hitchcock, to be running through the woods, screaming.
"In reality, it was freezing temperatures and I was in a tiny dress. I kept telling Marjane Satrapi how very British that was."
Arterton is coming to the end of a run on the London stage of Made in Dagenham, a musical based on the movie about women's fight for equal pay.
The Voices, she said, started a year in 2013 "of just being with the girls". After filming with Satrapi, she made a French-language film, Gemma Bovery, with director and screenplay writer Anne Fontaine.
"The Voices was the first time I'd worked with a woman director," says Arterton, "and it changed everything for me. It gave me a different way of working and feeling very confident about myself.
"You just feel that you can totally be yourself and it's really not like that all the time.
"It was like: 'Finally I can be quite grotesque on set around Marjane, and there's nobody there to complain that I am not being feminine.' I'm a bit of a tomboy, you see. Ironically though, I think that this is a very feminine horror film - there's even big musical numbers and sparkles and pink in there.
"Marjane told me that growing up in Iran during the Revolution in 1979 she'd seen enough horror and that she didn't want to see blood and knives on screen. She's created a way of filming horror that was sensitive. Perhaps it's the first flouncy horror film ever."
"With no pun intended, the film is a very unusual voice within the genre," says Reynolds.
"And it's very rare that this type of film even gets made and released. It's much more fun working within independent film, it's not about the financial outcome as it is within the studio system.
"I've never felt safer than within The Voices to drop all my vanity and let go.
"The films I have really been passionate about making tend to be the experimental ones that can provoke a debate in the audience. As long as they're talking about it, I don't mind if they don't like it."
The Voices is released in the UK on 20 March.
The Warrington-born centre-half, 21, who can also play at right-back, returns to League One, having made 25 appearances for Coventry City last season in an extended five-month loan.
Walsall need cover as they have an injury concern over James O'Connor.
Pennington has made two first-team appearances for Everton this season.
Pennington, who has signed a new three-year contract at Everton, played in the early season 5-3 League Cup win at Barnsley and in the 2-0 FA Cup third-round win over Dagenham & Redbridge.
He also had another loan spell with Merseyside neighbours Tranmere Rovers in 2013-14.
"I know a lot about him," said interim boss Jon Whitney. "It'll be his third loan and we've done a lot of profiling on him. I remember watching him when he played against us for Tranmere.
"I've got friends at Everton who know him and he comes really highly recommended. He's always someone who Everton have thought highly of and we've fought off quite a few clubs to get him."
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Llandudno and Conwy Quay has seen a growth in numbers of herring gulls feeding on waste food.
Councillors said the issue was people "deliberately feeding" the birds and the issue had got "out of hand".
Experts will advise the authority while a report said it would cost about £50,000 to erect signage and launch an education campaign..
Speaking at a scrutiny committee meeting councillor Adrian Tansley said: "I have also noticed that the birds have started nesting in chimney pots.
"The kids won't have a chance because they will start dive-bombing them.
"It has got a bit out of hand. The seagulls are coming in droves. I have lived in the area for 69 years and I have never seen it so bad."
Graeme Cotterill from North Wales Wildlife Trust said the public needs to think before feeding gulls food such as chips and ice cream, as this makes the problem worse.
He added: "People should also remember that seagulls are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 so it is an offence to deliberately harm them."
Len McCluskey rejected former flatmate Tom Watson's claims of a "secret" hard-left plan to take over the party.
Mr Watson says Unite have plans to pump cash into left-wing campaign group Momentum, which would "destroy" Labour.
In a Huffington Post blog, Mr McCluskey accused Mr Watson of "sharpening his knife looking for a back to stab".
The row follows comments made by Momentum's Jon Lansman, who was reportedly taped saying Unite could affiliate to his group rather than just to Labour.
Unite is the Labour Party's biggest financial backer but Mr Watson fears that if it started supporting Momentum as well as - or instead of - Labour it would threaten the party's "very existence as an electoral force in the land and it needs to stop".
He urged Mr McCluskey to publicly state Unite would not fund Momentum if he was re-elected as Unite leader in the union's on-going election campaign.
Some Labour MPs fear Momentum, which grew out of the campaign to get Jeremy Corbyn elected as leader, is a "party within a party" and is behind attempts to remove them as candidates and install more left-wing alternatives.
But the group insists it wants to democratise Labour and give ordinary members more of a voice.
Mr McCluskey, who was once a close friend and flatmate of Mr Watson, before their spectacular falling out, said the Labour MP's claims were "a complete fabrication" and "there are no plans to fund anybody".
Mr McCluskey said he had "not met Jon Lansman - there have been no secret meetings with anybody about Momentum", and he accused Mr Watson of "a deliberate attempt to sensationalise something in order to influence the outcome of the general secretary election of Unite".
"Really, Tom and the other right-wing Labour MPs would be best keeping their nose out of our business because the truth of the matter is, my members will reject any attempt from outside bodies to influence and to try to take over Unite - it won't work," he said.
On Monday evening, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn addressed an "explosive" meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party, where there was shouting over the leadership's handling of the issue, with one Labour MP referring to Mr Corbyn as "a so-called leader".
Mr Watson was "cheered to the rafters" as he arrived at the gathering, with senior figures in the party challenging claims he had been isolated and condemned at a "robust" earlier meeting of the shadow cabinet, which prompted Mr Corbyn and his deputy to issue a joint statement agreeing to strengthen party unity.
Mr Corbyn's decision to post a late night video on Facebook pleading for party unity underlines the depth of division and hostility that has erupted again over his leadership.
This followed a furious meeting of Labour MPs where Mr Corbyn was dubbed a "so-called leader" and urged to "look in the mirror". There were warnings the party's plight now was worse than that which it faced in the 1980s.
And there was particular anger over negative briefings by close allies of Mr Corbyn against his deputy Tom Watson.
Mr Corbyn sought to play down the acrimony noting that Labour was a passionate party where spirits can run high.
An aide to the Labour leader denied briefing against Mr Watson and said Mr Corbyn's message had been on the need for the party to talk about the issues which affect Labour voters - not internal issues within the Labour Party.
It is understood the chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party warned that Momentum was operating as a "party within a party" after hearing a tape of Momentum founder Mr Lansman reportedly urging supporters to change the nature of the Labour party.
One senior peer, who is a veteran of earlier internal battles, said it was "like 1985 all over again", while another senior peer said it was "much worse than that".
In the recordings, which were revealed by The Observer newspaper, Mr Lansman said: "Assuming that Len McCluskey wins the general secretaryship, which I think he will, Unite will affiliate to Momentum and will fully participate in Momentum, as will the CWU."
He went on to tell activists it was "absolutely crucial" that they secured a change to the party's rules to ensure that whenever Mr Corbyn stands down, they are able to get a candidate on to the ballot paper to succeed him.
Ahead of Monday's meeting, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said Mr Watson's comments were "disappointing" and suggested he was trying to influence the outcome of the contest for Unite leader - in which incumbent Mr McCluskey - a supporter of Mr Corbyn - is being challenged by Gerard Coyne.
The ballot papers for the contest will be sent out later this week, with the result to be announced next month.
The election is being seen as a proxy battle for control of the Labour movement. Most Unite branches have backed Mr McCluskey in his bid to be re-elected.
Christine Shawcroft, a member of Momentum who sits on the party's National Executive Council, said Mr Watson was "rather right-wing" and wanted to return to a "command and control" system for running the party based on a "Blairite model".
She rejected suggestions Momentum was a hard-left entryist organisation trying to infiltrate Labour, describing the terms as "silly labels".
"Jon said nothing that was at all controversial, but I think this is a concerted attempt to interfere in the internal election in Unite for general secretary, which is really shocking."
The first regards it as a useful sideshow distracting the international community, causing serial headaches for the US and its allies, and diverting hostile diplomatic attention that might be directed towards China.
This is something that China broadly supports and manipulates for its own interests.
The second sees the actions of its ostensibly fellow Marxist-Leninist neighbour as those of a blackmailer of China, a huge liability, a place run by narcissistic leadership stuck in a time warp half a century behind the rest of the world.
The first assumes that China has real influence and power over North Korea and has some level of control of the situation there. The second suggests that it has far less.
With the suspected test of a hydrogen bomb by the DPRK on 5 January, can we see any evidence of which of the two views might be the more accurate description of what Chinese leaders themselves actually think?
There are some things we need to bear in mind when trying to answer this question. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has visited an astonishing 37 countries since becoming president in 2013 - but the DPRK has so far not been one of them.
The DPRK has reciprocated, with young leader Kim Jong-un not once taking the short, hour-long plane ride to Beijing since his elevation in 2011.
We also know that in the last 10 years, Chinese condemnation of the three previous nuclear tests has grown increasingly pointed and blunt.
The Beijing Ministry of Foreign Affairs this time curtly announced that it "strongly opposed" the DPRK's suspected testing of a hydrogen bomb. In 2012, it reportedly also stopped energy supply for three days after the last DPRK nuclear test.
Even something as seemingly trivial as the abrupt cancellation of performances by a visiting DPRK song and dance troupe to China late last year - because they were planning to sing songs celebrating Pyongyang's creation of a new powerful bomb - indicate Beijing's dim views.
Despite this, Chinese leaders do operate within clear constraints. The rhetoric they use towards the DPRK remains full of warm words affirming an alliance based on historic links and unshakable friendship.
This is for the simple reason that much as they regard the current regime in Pyongyang as bad, other options (a unified peninsula under South Korean, and therefore American, dominance, or, even worse, a failed, anarchic state with no governance at all) are worse.
It seems that while there might be some in Beijing (mostly in the think tank community and the more shrill, nationalist press) who believe China has some level of back channel control, all that we have learned in the last couple of days tends to support the idea that China's leaders believe their influence is limited, and their levels of frustration are high.
There is a bigger context for this. China's leaders currently have a lot on their plate.
The current downturn in the economy and the turmoil on the stock exchange in Shanghai, along with serious concerns about what sort of role they might need to play in the ongoing Middle East crisis (source of half of their petrol supply) and other geopolitical issues are more than enough to keep them busy.
Having yet one more problem in their neighbourhood demanding their time and attention is unlikely to be welcome. They could happily live without the drama of this test.
The North Koreans are also driven by a similar distrust and wariness. For them, having a nuclear capacity grants them leverage as much over the Chinese as the Americans, their supposed chief enemy.
The great ancient Chinese philosopher Han Fei said two and a half thousand years ago that while people constantly prepare themselves to deal with their enemies, real calamity comes from those who they view as friends.
For the Chinese leaders, the North Koreans' "alliance" is a real and continuing burden, one that they cannot walk away from, but have no clear plan how to deal with.
So far, strangely enough, they have adopted the same tactics as America has under Obama, choosing simply to try to ignore the DPRK and sideline it. This week we have probably seen that tactic abruptly ended for both China and the US.
Like it or not, now Beijing will need to do something.
It might take the softer form of arranging a Xi presidential visit, or the harder one of placing real pressure on the US to restart the Six Party Talks, dormant since 2009.
If these happen, then Pyongyang will have shown once more that they remain masters of blackmail and manipulation of their vast, and seemingly powerful western neighbour, and that, more than any other country, they continue to show the limits of Beijing's diplomatic clout and influence.
A mix-up in qualification rules meant London 2012 champion Cheban initially missed out on a place in Thursday's final before being reinstated in place of Czech paddler Martin Fuksa.
The 30-year-old went on to claim gold, finishing in 39.279 seconds.
Valentin Demyanenko of Azerbaijan won the silver with Brazil's Isaquias Queiroz dos Santos securing bronze.
Dos Santos, 22, became his country's first canoe sprint world champion in 2013 and has a remarkable back story.
At the age of three, he suffered significant burns to his body after a pot of boiling water fell on him.
Two years later, he was kidnapped and offered for adoption before his mother managed to get him back, and at the age 10 he fell out of a tree after trying to catch a snake and lost a kidney.
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Prentice, 24, scored 1,323 points in the fencing, swimming horse riding and combined run and shoot.
Laura Asadauskaite of Lithuania took the title on 1,364 points, ahead of Margaux Isaksen of the United States. Britain's Francesca Summers was 14th.
Britain's Joe Evans was 15th in the men's event, with James Cooke 32nd. Latvia's Ruslan Nakonechnyi won.
Scientists will have to wait on DNA tests to determine whether it is one of the rare crosses.
The two bears generally inhabit different ecological niches. But some experts suggest climate change and melting Arctic ice could increasingly bring them into contact.
The possible hybrid is said to possess physical features of both species.
The animal was shot by 25-year-old hunter Didji Ishalook in Nunavut, the country's biggest and northernmost territory.
"I think it's 99% sure that it's going to turn out to be a hybrid," Ian Stirling, an emeritus research scientist with Environment Canada, told the Toronto Star newspaper.
Hybrids are known either as a grolar or a pizzly, depending on whether the father is a grizzly or polar bear.
The finds have to be confirmed through genetic tests and are so rare that only a handful have been confirmed in the last decade.
Prof Andrew Derocher, from the University of Alberta, said that the bear did not appear to be an albino grizzly. But its claws appear to be longer and more "grizzly-like" than other hybrids that have been caught and examined.
"We haven't done the genetics on this and, until we do, we won't really be able to say anything conclusively," he told the Toronto Star.
"The unusual thing here is how did a male grizzly bear bump into a female polar bear... Most of the mating activity of polar bears is occurring out on the sea ice, so there's a spatial discontinuity between where a grizzly bear would be in the spring and where a polar bear would be in the spring."
Mixing between the two species probably happened thousands of years ago as ice sheets advanced and retreated.
Today, their interactions could receive a boost as climate change and melting Arctic ice force them into closer proximity.
The centrist Liberals, led by Justin Trudeau, started the campaign in third place but in a stunning turnaround now command a majority.
Mr Trudeau, the 43-year-old son of late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, said Canadians had voted for real change.
Incumbent Conservative PM Stephen Harper - in power since 2006 - has congratulated his rival.
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Addressing jubilant supporters, Mr Trudeau said Canadians had "sent a clear message tonight: It's time for a change".
"We beat fear with hope, we beat cynicism with hard work. Most of all we defeated the idea that Canadians should be satisfied with less.
"This is what positive politics can do," he said, also praising Mr Harper for his service to the country.
During the 11-week election campaign, the Liberal Party said it would:
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It was a sweeping victory that seemed unthinkable five years ago, improbable just months ago and unlikely even a few days ago.
When Mr Harper first announced that this year's general election campaign would be a record 78 days long, conventional wisdom was it would benefit the Conservatives, giving them more time to bring their financial advantages to bear.
In hindsight, however, the lengthy campaign gave Mr Trudeau an opportunity to introduce himself to Canadians and overcome Conservative attacks that characterised the 43-year-old former high-school drama teacher as too inexperienced to lead the Canadian nation.
Mr Trudeau also successfully outmanoeuvred the New Democratic Party, campaigning to that party's left on economic issues.
For Mr Trudeau, the hard work of bringing the Liberal Party back from the ashes is over. Now, as the next prime minister of Canada, the even harder work of governing is about to begin.
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The economy loomed large during the campaign. Mr Harper highlighted his legacy of balanced budget and tax cuts, while Mr Trudeau pointed to sluggish growth to support his calls to boost demand through public spending.
Mr Trudeau's infrastructure policy is projected to cost C$10bn in the first two years, equivalent to 0.5% of Canada's GDP - tipping the federal budget into deficit. But, BBC business reporter Robert Plummer says, if the money is spent on the wrong kind of infrastructure, it may not do any good while saddling the government with unnecessary debt.
Whatever happens, richer Canadians can expect to face a higher tax bill, handing over more than half their income in combined federal and provincial taxes, while ordinary folks can look forward to tax breaks.
And in the short term, Mr Trudeau's policies may help stabilise the economy, making it unlikely that the Bank of Canada will cut interest rates further - meaning borrowing costs should remain low and house prices relatively high.
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Mr Harper, one of the longest-serving Western leaders, had been seeking a rare fourth term.
Speaking after the polls closed, he said he had congratulated Mr Trudeau, and that the Conservatives would accept the results "without hesitation".
Mr Harper will stand down as Conservative leader but remain as an MP, his party says.
There is no fixed transition period under Canada's constitution. Mr Trudeau is expected to be sworn in in a few weeks' times.
Tom Mulcair of the left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP) said he had "congratulated Mr Trudeau on his exceptional achievement".
The NDP is on course to win 44 seats, less than half the number they held in the outgoing parliament.
The England and Wales Cricket Board sent representatives to Bangladesh to assess travel safety.
The squad will meet them on Thursday, before flying out on 30 September for two Tests and three one-day matches.
"I don't think anybody will ever be forced to go on a particular tour," Morgan told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I think it's important for us to get together as a group, and be informed by people who we trust in order to make the right decisions and go from there."
Australia previously postponed their Test tour to Bangladesh in October 2015 due to security concerns, while England have not toured in the country since 2010.
The ECB have been monitoring security in Bangladesh after 20 hostages and two police officers were killed in Dhaka in July.
"I'm pretty open-minded," Morgan added. "You can't really rule out anything until you hear from the people that you trust.
"The ECB have made decisions over the years that have held us in good stead - we've never been in any danger before."
Muslims needing an organ donation, such as a new kidney or liver, wait on average a year longer than non-Muslims.
This is due to a lack of donors coming forward from a matching ethnic background.
As Ramadan begins, doctors are urging Muslims to consider allowing their organs to be used after their death.
South Asia
There are just under three million Muslims in Britain, most of them from a South Asian background.
Migrants from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have tended to settle in major towns and cities - including Birmingham, where more than 21% of the population is Muslim.
While across Britain, Muslim patients wait on average a year longer than non-Muslims, the wait in Birmingham can be even longer.
According to consultant nephrologist Dr Adnan Sharif the wait here can take four or even five years.
Dr Sharif oversees patients receiving regular dialysis on the renal ward at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the city.
"Without a doubt our Muslim patients will spend a lot longer time on dialysis," he said.
"Some of our Muslim patients will die while they're actively on the waiting list because they've not received a kidney transplant. that number, in my opinion, appears to be growing."
The reason for the lack of suitable ethnic donors is uncertainty over whether Islam condemns or condones the practice of organ donation.
There is much confusion, in part because there is nothing in the Koran which can be referred to, and because scholars have differing opinions.
There are two types of organ donation: live donations, where one living person donates an organ to another, and donations from the bodies of the deceased to living recipients.
Dr Yasser Mustapha visits mosques to talk to worshippers about organ donation, and to try to encourage them to carry a special card which signifies the individual will donate their organs after death.
"Regardless of the ethnicity of the Muslim - they might be from Africa, they might be from Asia, they might be native Brits as well, practising Islam - but across the spectrum time and time again it always boils down to one question essentially," said Dr Mustapha.
"And that question is: what do the Muslim religious leaders say about organ donation? Is organ donation actually permissible, is it allowed within the religion of Islam?"
One man who knows much about that is Pervez Hussain, a former British ex-police worker who waited three years for a new kidney.
His previous trips to the hospital for weekly dialysis revealed just how much of a problem this is for Muslims with a South Asian heritage.
"Where I was treated, there were 31 bays, and I would say that at least 25 of them were filled by people from minority groups, without a doubt."
At home in Birmingham, he is scathing about what he sees as the double standards of religious leaders.
He believes they should use their positions to preach about the acceptability of organ transplants.
"I would always ask this question to an imam which is quite simple. If you needed a transplant, would you take it or would you bring religion into it?
"I would say 100% would take it. I'm a believer that most of the people are more than willing to accept [organs].
"And across the community in Birmingham I've seen that, people are willing to accept, but not necessarily to give."
The shortage of donors is not just a British problem.
In April, Islamic scholars came together at Karachi University in Pakistan to discuss the issue.
Although many voiced support for organ donations, one senior cleric - from the Council for Islamic Ideology - was concerned about whether the bodies of Muslims who were raised from the dead on judgement day would be affected if they were not whole.
That is one example of the theological uncertainty around the issue.
Rehana Sadiq is the Muslim chaplain at Queen Elizabeth Hospital and counsels many families at times of crisis.
But says she is yet to be called by grieving relatives to discuss the issue of donating the organs of a loved one who has died.
"This division within the community is quite stark.
"On one side, there are those people who believe it's a form of mutilation, it's disrupting the deceased etc, and there are other reasons.
"And on the other side, we have those who believe very, very strongly that it is one of the greatest of the commendations given by Islam, for someone to give the most beautiful gift - to save a life."
Ms Sadiq says she does not give an opinion on whether individuals should or should not donate organs - instead she advises them to pray and reflect on the subject, with the final decision being theirs.
Figures from the Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation show that there are fewer organ transplants from deceased people in Muslim-majority countries, compared with the rest of the world.
For some states of course, that could be down to a lack of investment in medical facilities.
For others, it is a religious matter.
Secretly filmed on the M60 in Greater Manchester, the man's book was spotted resting on the lorry's steering wheel.
He was given a fixed penalty notice as part of a Greater Manchester Police (GMP) drive against dangerous driving.
He was one of 71 motorists stopped for traffic offences - 50 for using mobile phones - by officers patrolling in an unmarked HGV cab fitted with cameras.
GMP said the elevated position of the cab allowed officers to see into other HGVs and smaller vehicles.
This enabled them to record offences including texting while driving and aggressive driving.
Of those stopped in Operation Tramline since 1 May, 66 were issued with tickets for driving without due care and attention.
One vehicle was also seized.
Insp Susan Redfern said: "I hope those people who have been issued with penalties take their punishments to heart and stop committing offences that are endangering the lives of other drivers."
She said there had been a range of reasons for stopping drivers but said the "most unbelievable" one was the lorry driver reading at the wheel.
They said Junaid Hussain, 21, a convicted computer hacker from Birmingham who fled to Syria in 2013, had been a "high-value target" within the Islamic State group.
The US called it a serious blow to IS.
Michael McCaul, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said his death sent an "unmistakable message".
"We need to maintain vigilance and good intelligence to stop future plotting, and ultimately we must destroy the group's terrorist sanctuary," Mr McCaul said.
Earlier, a UK government spokesman said: "We are aware of reports that an Isil terrorist of British nationality is believed to have been killed in a coalition air strike in Syria."
Hussain's activities made him a key target for the US military, who included him at number three on a Pentagon "kill list" of IS leaders.
He became one of the most important western recruits for IS, playing a key role in radicalising and recruiting others to join the movement and plan attacks.
Whitehall officials have said in the past that his actions caused them great concern and his death would be "significant".
Hussain, a skilled computer hacker, was jailed for six months in 2012 for leaking former Prime Minister Tony Blair's private contacts online and making hoax calls to a counter-terror hotline.
In June, the Sun newspaper reported Hussain was also linked to an IS plot to detonate a bomb made with a pressure-cooker at an Armed Forces Day parade in London.
Hussain was married to former punk musician, Sally Jones, and was a known member of a computer hacking group called Team Poison.
The group has claimed responsibility for more than 1,400 offences where personal and private information has been illegally extracted from victims in the UK and around the world.
It claimed to be behind online hacking attacks involving foreign politicians, major international businesses, and an international humanitarian agency.
US officials say the drone strike that killed Hussain took place near to the city of Raqqa.
Security officials in the UK estimate about 700 Britons have travelled to Syria, and about half have since returned home.
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Bobbi Kristina's aunt, Leolah, left the service after venting anger at the role of another relative, Pat Houston.
Bobbi Kristina, 22, died at a hospice last Sunday, six months after she was found face down and unresponsive in a bathtub.
She is expected to be buried beside her mother at a cemetery in New Jersey.
An initial autopsy found no obvious underlying cause for Brown's death. She was discovered in the bathtub at the Atlanta home she shared with her partner Nick Gordon in January.
Houston drowned in a bathtub at a Los Angeles hotel in 2012 on the eve of the Grammy Awards ceremony.
Speaking to media outside the church, Leolah Brown, the sister of Bobbi Kristina's father, R&B singer Bobby Brown, said the funeral was going "wonderfully" well until Pat Houston started speaking.
"I didn't like that, so I left... I just told her that Whitney is going to haunt her from the grave."
Pat Houston is Whitney Houston's sister-in-law and former manager.
Leolah Brown suggested that the feud between the Houstons and the Browns was far from over.
"It's just getting started,'' she said.
The funeral service at St James United Methodist Church in Alpharetta, which was closed to the public, lasted about two hours.
Those attending included Bobby Brown; grandmother Cissy Houston; cousin Jerod Brown; Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed and R&B singer Monica.
Brown began performing with her mother in 1999, singing duets of My Love is Your Love and recording Little Drummer Boy for a holiday album in 2003.
She was the only daughter of Houston and Bobby Brown.
In a statement after her death, Bobby Brown said the family must find a way to honour his daughter's memory.
"Krissy was and is an angel," he said. "I am completely numb at this time."
Data from NHS England showed in September the health service missed its A&E target to see, treat or discharge patients within four hours.
Performance also fell short on access to cancer treatment, diagnostic tests and ambulance response times.
To make matters worse, hospitals have been struggling to get patients out when they are ready to leave.
A snapshot taken on the last Thursday of September showed more than 5,000 patients in England were occupying beds, even though they could have been discharged.
This was the worst level since records began in 2010 - with the rise in delays over the past few months largely driven by problems accessing social care services, such as help in the home.
Elsewhere in the UK, the NHS has been struggling as well with the four-hour A&E targets being missed everywhere. Scotland is performing the best.
On almost every measure, the NHS in England is in a worse position than this time last year.
And as we enter winter, that spells bad news: last year's was the worst for a generation with A&E waits hitting their highest levels since targets were introduced in 2004.
But the pressures are now spreading more to other parts of the system. Once in hospital, doctors are finding it difficult to discharge patients because the support services in the community needed for the most vulnerable are not available.
Waits for diagnostic tests are lengthening and the key cancer target has been missed for well over a year.
Even on routine treatment - hips and knees - the signs are not good. The target is being met, but on the current trajectory it will be missed by the end of the year. The weather may be mild, but winter has come early for the NHS.
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However, there were some measures the NHS in England did meet. In total six of the eight cancer targets were achieved, while the 18-week target for patients to be seen for non-emergency operations such as knee and hip replacements was met.
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt told the BBC: "The NHS frontline is under a huge amount of pressure at the moment but we have a very good plan put together by the NHS being backed by the government financially on the back of a strong economy and, as we implement that plan, we're confident we can turn these numbers around."
He added: "Winter is always a difficult period for the NHS but staff are working incredibly hard on the frontline right now and we should remember that even despite that pressure nine out 10 people are being seen, treated and discharged within four hours."
The rising problems come as junior doctors are being balloted on industrial action over a dispute with government about their new contract.
The result of that vote is expected next week and could lead to 35,000 junior doctors walking out as winter hits with three dates - 1, 8 and 16 December - put forward by the British Medical Association on Thursday.
The NHS is also under pressure to save money with figures for the first three months of this financial year showing overspending has hit nearly £1bn - more than the total for the whole of the previous year.
Dr Mark Holland, the president of the Society for Acute Medicine, said this was creating the "perfect storm".
He added: "There is already talk of putting ambulances on divert, of taking patients to other hospitals.
"That intensity is beginning to creep up. Not on a day-to-day consistent basis like last December and January, but it's starting and it feels like it is occurring a wee bit too early.
"The question this winter is how resilient we will be and what will be the tipping point. And that is the unknown factor which is very, very worrying."
Shadow health secretary Heidi Alexander said it looks like it will be the "most difficult winter for 30 years".
She added: "There is now clear evidence that the cuts to social care are not only devastating for the lives of vulnerable older people, but are having a knock-on effect on the NHS."
An NHS England spokeswoman said the health service was coping well given the context as it was seeing a "record number" of patients.
"Nobody could argue there isn't ongoing pressure on the NHS but despite this, it is delivering a good service for the vast majority of patients," she added.
Meanwhile, the British Medical Association has released details of the days industrial action could take place. The union said it wanted to give as much notice as possible to avoid disruption for patients.
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Voters recently elected a new council in the Borders and, on 8 June, much of the region will choose not only their new MP but their new MSP also.
And some might be called out again if - as expected - councillor Michelle Ballantyne leaves the local authority having taken a place at Holyrood.
When it comes to exercising their democratic right, they must be among the most expert in the country.
Many eyes will be on Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk when the General Election comes around.
The reason? It was the closest battle in Scotland two years ago with just 328 votes securing victory for the SNP's Calum Kerr over closest rival John Lamont for the Conservatives.
A collapse in the Lib Dem vote saw former MP Michael Moore finish third with Kenryck Lloyd-Jones a distant fourth for Labour.
The two main protagonists of that tussle - which went to a recount - will go toe-to-toe once again.
Caroline Burgess will try to revive Lib Dem fortunes while Ian Davidson hopes to boost Labour's vote.
Unlike two years ago, there are no Green, UKIP or independent candidates - which makes it a straight four-way fight.
Mr Lamont, who gave up his seat in the Scottish Parliament to enter the Westminster battle, insists it will be a two-way tussle again.
He said: "Just like in 2015, this is shaping up to be a close contest between me and the SNP, which is why I need the support of people who don't want a second independence referendum.
"A vote for anyone else risks letting the SNP win in the Borders."
Mr Kerr described that as a "negative, single-issue campaign".
He explained: "The Borders hasn't sent a Tory MP to Westminster in over 50 years, because when it comes to policy, people know that Tory values do not match with the values of the Borders.
"Clearly the only way to prevent turning the clock back is to vote for me on 8 June."
Understandably, Ms Burgess dismissed any suggestion this was a straight SNP-Conservative duel saying anyone who knew the area would "laugh off" that idea.
"The Borders was a Liberal seat for the 50 years prior to 2015," she said.
"The fact is the people I have met are telling me they don't want the hard Brexit of the Conservatives or the second referendum and isolation of the SNP."
Mr Davidson said there was a danger of people voting simply to keep a particular party out.
"It is presently dominated by two very negative campaigns: 'Stop the SNP - vote Conservative' and 'Stop the Tories - vote SNP'," he said.
"The negativity of others is starting to alienate many."
Both Mr Kerr and Ms Burgess highlighted Brexit as the key issue facing the constituency.
The SNP candidate said the challenges facing agriculture, textiles and food and drink meant the region was "on the frontline" of the issue.
His Lib Dem counterpart also flagged up a second independence referendum as a further concern along with the need to revive Borders towns.
For Mr Lamont, however, the "number one issue" is the "continued threat" of another vote on Scottish independence with people keen to avoid a return to "division and uncertainty".
Labour's contender preferred to focus on the outflow of population - especially young people - to be replaced by "Edinburgh commuters and prosperous retirees" as his key concern.
Each one, naturally, reckons they offer the best option for voters on 8 June.
Mr Davidson said he was offering the only positive campaign focusing on class issues with a £10 minimum wage promise.
He also called for a dedicated South of Scotland Development Agency to deliver "better jobs in a better Borders".
Ms Burgess said that her "vibrant new approach" as "not a career politician but a passionate and honest campaigner" might chime with voters.
"People are tired of hearing endless commitments and false promises and want a real person to represent their views in Westminster," she said.
And the two men who were separated by just a few hundred votes?
Mr Lamont said he was a "committed local campaigner" who, as MSP, had "always put the Borders first".
"I've always put local people before party politics," he said. "I have a track record of standing up for the area and will continue to do so if elected as your MP."
While Mr Kerr said that as the local, established MP he wanted to continue to "work tirelessly" on behalf of constituents.
"Now, more than ever, we need a strong voice in Westminster that will always speak up for the Borders," he said.
It will be up to the now-getting-pretty-expert voters in the region to decide which message they prefer.
If recent history is anything to go by, that verdict could be in the balance until the very last papers have been counted.
Police said "a number of weapons" were seized following the attack at a rural property in Devon.
The 24-year-old victim was treated at the scene on Saturday and has now been transferred to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.
Leo Michaels, aged 35, from Hensford Road, Dawlish, has been charged with attempted murder and wounding with intent.
Mr Michaels appeared at Torquay Magistrates' Court earlier and was remanded in custody.
He is due to appear at Exeter Crown Court on 18 August.
Police were called to a property off Hensford Road, Dawlish at 08:00 BST on Saturday, following reports of a man with a crossbow.
They said the victim, from Dawlish, had "injuries consistent with being shot with a crossbow" and he was initially taken to Torbay District Hospital.
Sam Allardyce resigned as boss on 23 May after just five months in the role.
The Eagles are looking for their eighth manager in seven years, but Parish is seeking someone to come in "over a long period of time".
"We do not really want someone who sees it as a stepping stone," Parish told American radio station SiriusXM FC.
Allardyce replaced Alan Pardew in December on a two-and-half-year deal with the Eagles one point above the relegation zone.
He led the club to eight wins in 21 games to guide them to a 14th-place finish.
"In the past we have had managers like Steve Coppell who have been at the club a long time and helped build the club," added Parish.
"If we could get one of those relationships again that would be preferable."
Parish said he wanted a manager who would build on, rather than change, the playing style that has kept the club in the top flight for the past four seasons.
He added: "We have got a personnel and a way of playing. It has served us well. Do we try and change that again?
"That will inform probably where we go on the list of managers. After that you are just looking for somebody who has got a long-term view for the club."
Parry, 35, threw two Commonwealth Games A standards with efforts of 65.25m and 65.32m to put her in contention for a place at the Gold Coast next April.
The Rhondda athlete is looking to add the silver won in Delhi in 2010.
"I am looking to get a medal next year and won't go if I didn't think I was capable," said Parry.
Parry was the only Welsh athlete to achieve a Commonwealth Games A standard at the Welsh Championships. It was her 12th successive Welsh title and 13th overall.
Parry joined Melissa Courtney (1500m), Sally Peake (pole vault), Dewi Grffiths (10,000m), Ieuan Thomas (3,000m steeplechase), Josh Griffiths (marathon), Andrew Davies (marathon) David Omoregie (110m hurdles), Bethan Davies (20km walk), Jon Hopkins (3,000m steeplechase in achieving an A standard for the Gold Coast in 2018.
Brett Morse (discus), Ben Gregory (decathlon), Jennifer Nesbitt (10,000m), Heather Lewis (20km walk), Adele Nicoll (shot putt), Tom Marshall (1500m) have recorded B standards.
"I am absolutely delighted," Parry added.
"I had a bit of difficult winter and this is only my second competition back so I am pleased.
"I was walking my dog in November and I slipped down a bank and snapped my ankle and have had pins and plates put in there.
"I would hope two A standards would get me selected but you have to wait for the letter or phone call.
"It would be my fourth Commonwealth Games.
"I started in Australia in Melbourne in 2006 and maybe this would be full circle."
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Sprinter Mica Moore, who is hoping to compete at both the Commonwealth Games and Winter Olympics in the bobsleigh next year, won the 100m in a time of 11.69 seconds.
Sam Gordon ran a new personal best to win the men's event in 10.32secs.
Other winners included Bethan Davies (3km walk), Brett Morse (discus), Adele Nicoll (shot putt), Dewi Griffiths (5,000m) and Thomas Williams (200m).
Paralympic champion Aled Sion Davies, who was this week named in the Great Britain squad for the World Championships in London 2017, competed in the discus and shot putt.
Leading Welsh athletes David Omoregie, Sally Peake, Hannah Brier, Rhys Williams and Seren Bundy-Davies were not competing.
The 100th Welsh Championship was marked by a parade of more than 100 former winners, including 1964 Olympic long jump gold medallist Lynn Davies, ex-world marathon record holder Steve Jones and Merthyr Tydfil's Venissa Head who won a record 25 Welsh titles in discus and shot.
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Carpeo is hoping to create 300 jobs within five years in Newport, which beat off competition from Teesside.
One major factor was the "consoling" and "empathetic" Welsh accent which, the company said, was important for its market.
It hopes to recruit the first 24 staff to start work next month.
The company, which already employs 250 people in Swindon, is expanding and aims to have 60 people working at its new Carpeo Estates Planning offices in Cleppa Park by the end of the year.
It has been supported by a £500,000 Welsh Government grant based on the number of jobs created.
Account managers will be on £22,000 basic starting salaries.
The business has also teamed up with a legal firm to arrange affordable wills.
Carpeo Estate Planning's chief executive Mike Minahan said: "The quality of people available and their experience of working in a regulated services market is a huge pull.
"On the softer side, the Welsh accent is sympathetic and consoling, particularly important in our market."
Dr Mercedes Durham, a senior lecturer of sociolinguistics at Cardiff University, has studied the Welsh accent and found it was perceived as "funny". But she said: "It's also a friendly accent so that is possibly what people would hope to listen to at a time like that."
32,000
workers
10,000 number of workers in 1999
250 contact centres, from the AA to Zip World
£650m value to Welsh economy
Q&A: Sandra Busby, managing director of the Welsh Call Centre Forum
How strong is the sector in Wales at the moment?
It's very strong. We just represent people in the contact centre side, not the total business - so Admiral have 5,500 people in Wales and 4,700 are in the contact centre.
"We call them contact centres not call centres now because there are multi-channels - people will host web chats, answer phones, emails and, increasingly, look after social media. It's about customer contact.
The sector has changed considerably since 1999. That's due to technology - an example of that is the DVLA which pushed people into self-serving online. The same with booking cinema tickets or paying the bank's credit card bills. You might have expected to see a reduction but we've seen a growth in jobs.
What parts of the UK and abroad is Wales competing with for jobs?
Northern Ireland and the North of England; South Africa, eastern Europe and India.
South Wales is pretty established now as a call centre location. What are the particular attributes its workers offer? What do employers like?
Wales is well placed on competitive salaries, building costs and support from Welsh Government. Staff turnover tends to be lower, a more loyal workforce. When you look at the right behaviours to go with the skills - people turn up for work, they want a career and to progress.
There are some who still say call centre jobs are not 'real' jobs.
In 1999, there were team leaders who are now senior managers. People move up the ranks. Working in customer contact can involve sales, marketing, customer service, a whole variety of jobs and working for some great brands - Barclays, Virgin, HSBC, PPI and cold calling damaged the industry.
Prof Martin Rhisiart, a business strategy expert at the University of South Wales, said computerisation was predicted to have an effect - and this could impact on the traditional call centre.
"We may well be at peak levels. Many leading experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning are themselves surprised by the pace of acceleration and we are at that exciting point where things might happen relatively quickly over the next five or 10 years. We might see entire industries change and entire working patterns change."
Economy Secretary Ken Skates said: "Carpeo has ambitious growth plans with the potential for further future investment in Wales and I welcome their plan to open this new business in Newport that will create a range of jobs and training opportunities for local people."
A spokesman for the Welsh Conservatives said: "Any new jobs in Wales are to be welcomed, and it's further evidence that the UK economy is performing positively under a Conservative government that the company is seeking to create new posts.
Plaid Cymru's economy spokesman Adam Price said it was good news to see jobs created in south east Wales but the Welsh Government continued to "fail the rest of the country". He added: "Important parts of Wales like the valleys, rural Wales, the west and the north of Wales are not getting their fair share of investment."
The Wales Green Party said it was hoping that Carpeo would be the company "to buck the trend of zero hours contracts and pressurised conditions which workers have been subjected to in other call centres".
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He and his wife, Peng Liyuan, took part in a parade down the Mall in London to Buckingham Palace, and will later attend a state banquet held by the Queen.
The trip is the first UK state visit by a Chinese leader since 2005 with officials from both countries hoping to build closer relations.
Watch Ricky's report as he explains why this is such an important visit.
Michael Lawrence Smith, 38, from west Belfast, was last seen on the 7 March in the Finaghy area of Belfast after failing to return to Maghaberry Prison.
The police said he had been "released erroneously" by the prison service to attend a family event.
The PSNI said Mr Smith was arrested in the Carryduff area on Wednesday.
They thanked the public for their help in apprehending him.
Ronnie Armour, the head of the Northern Ireland Prison Service, said: "I welcome news of the arrest and wish to thank colleagues from the PSNI for their efforts in bringing this prisoner back into custody."
He previously said that the release of Mr Smith was a "very serious mistake".
Mr Smith is charged with the murder of Stephen Carson, who was shot dead in his Belfast home in front of his partner and nine-year-old son in February 2016.
He had previously applied for bail, but been refused.
The police had said that Mr Smith had "an extensive history of violence" and urged the public not to approach him.
The committee's clerk asked whether members required the use of a mini-bus to get to a meeting with the Irish parliament's Public Accounts Committee.
Sinn Féin's Máirtín Ó Muilleoir said he would prefer to catch the train.
Ulster Unionist Leslie Cree thought the members should travel together in a bus to save money.
Warming to the idea, Mr Ó Muilleoir asked if Mr Cree knew "any good songs" to sing on the bus.
The DUP's Jim Wells suggested they sing "the Sash".
Self-governing hospitals - known as foundation trusts - have had their private income capped to date, but this is to be lifted in the NHS overhaul.
The Foundation Trust Network believes the move will spark a burst of innovation in the sector.
But campaigners said they were worried NHS services would be harmed.
To get foundation trust legislation through parliament in 2003, ministers agreed to a cap on private work to ensure the hospitals remained true to their NHS traditions.
This has stopped some of the leading hospitals in the NHS competing with private firms for patients.
But that will now change under the proposals unveiled in Monday's white paper. Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said he wanted to create a "vibrant" industry of social enterprises by scrapping the rule and ordering all NHS trusts to become foundation trusts within three years.
More opinion on the reform
Sue Slipman, director of the Foundation Trust Network, said the move would make a big difference.
"It is exciting for foundation trusts. We will have to wait to see what exactly happens, but there are huge opportunities to innovate."
She said one of the most obvious areas for expansion would be in fertility services where treatment on the NHS is severely restricted.
"In the past these patients have had their NHS cycles and then left for private treatment. That is money that has been lost to the system."
She also said mental health trusts may be interested in offering talking therapies to businesses for their workforce health schemes.
Joint ventures with the private sector may also prove popular, she added, covering both services and the development of drugs.
Overstretch concerns
University College Hospital in London has already gone down this route with a private US health firm which has located a private unit on its site for cancer treatment.
The firm leases the space as well as paying for the NHS services it uses, such as intensive care, radiology and cleaning and catering.
The trust has also established a joint venture with a private firm to provide pathology services.
Sir Robert Naylor, the chief executive of the trust, said: "These initiatives bring in money which can then be reinvested in NHS services."
Many NHS hospitals also operate their own private wings, although most of these only bring in a small amount of income. The exceptions are specialist centres such as the Royal Marsden cancer hospitals and Moorfield Eye Hospital.
But John Lister, of the union-funded pressure group Health Emergency, said he had concerns.
"Hospitals could overstretch themselves in chasing private patients which in turn takes away from the NHS side of it.
"It also creates perverse incentives whereby they stand to make more money by getting patients into their private wings.
"They say money is reinvested in services, but I am not sure this is always the case. Some of these hospitals have huge surpluses, the money is moved around and does not end back where it should. If we get more and more of this, it will be a step towards the privatisation of the health service."
A spokeswoman for the Department of Health said trusts were not being privatised.
"This isn't about turning foundation trusts into profit-driven bodies. The legislation will make clear that they are social enterprises and give them more control over their own futures."
Researchers found that removing two non-essential amino acids, serine and glycine, from the diet of mice slowed the development of tumours.
The diet could also make traditional cancer treatments more effective.
But the report's authors warn against following a do-it-yourself diet.
The report by the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute and the University of Glasgow is published in Nature.
The researchers found that the development of lymphoma and intestinal cancer slowed in mice fed a diet without serine and glycine.
The restricted diet also made some cancer cells more susceptible to chemicals known as reactive oxygen species.
These same chemicals are boosted by chemotherapy and radiotherapy suggesting it could make the treatments more effective at killing cancer cells.
Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins but the study's authors warn against anyone cutting out protein from their diet.
"Our diet is complex, and protein - the main source of all amino acids - is vital for our health and well-being. This means that patients cannot safely cut out these specific amino acids simply by following some form of home-made diet," says Prof Karen Vousden, the study co-author and Cancer Research UK's chief scientist.
"This kind of restricted diet would be a short-term measure and must be carefully controlled and monitored by doctors for safety."
She said the next step was to do clinical trials to see if a specialised diet without these amino acids was safe and helped slow tumour growth like it did in mice.
The researchers acknowledged that devising a diet without these two amino acids would be quite difficult and they would test it on healthy people first to see how tolerable it was and "how easy it was to stick to and how it affects our levels of the two amino acids".
They also need to work out which patients are most likely to benefit, as they found the diet was less effective in tumours with an activated Kras gene, which is seen in most pancreatic cancers.
Prof Vousden told the BBC News website the diet would be a "fairly safe and gentle way to supplement conventional therapies, that means you don't have to take yet more drugs".
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The deal is expected to be completed on 11 September. Proceeds from the cash sale will be used to reduce net debt.
The move is part of Burton-based Punch's strategy to sell its non-core pubs at a rate of about 200 a year.
Punch boss Duncan Garrood said the sale would allow it to focus "on our higher quality core pub estate".
The disposal comprises 150 pubs from the non-core estate and eight pubs from the core estate that "no longer meet our criteria as a core pub".
The pubs being sold generated earnings before interest and tax of £7.3m over the past 12 months, and have a current book value of £52.5m, Punch added.
After the sale, the company's core estate will have about 2,900 pubs and the non-core estate will have about 550 pubs.
Punch will issue a full-year trading update for the financial year to 22 August on 1 September.
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Pub company Punch Taverns is to sell 158 mostly "non-core" pubs for £53.5m to New River Retail, an investment trust focused on the UK retail sector.
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Team Sky's Thomas, 29, joins the late Tommy Simpson and Sir Bradley Wiggins as British winners of the race.
The Welshman, who also won the Volta ao Algarve stage race earlier in the year, knows he will no longer be given any leeway by other teams.
"That's part of being successful I guess and dealing with that," he said.
"I'm perfectly happy with that and I'd rather that than people think 'he's useless, just let him go.'
"People know me more and it's not just 'he's a strong rider that might get a win'. Now if I do attacking in some of the big races people are going to watch me, I guess."
Thomas became the first British rider to win the formidable E3 Harelbeke race in Belgium in March 2015 and put in a strong display at last year's Tour de France to help Chris Froome win his second title.
In the Paris-Nice race Thomas held a 15-second lead over two-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador heading into the final stage.
Contador attacked on the final climb of the race and Team Sky's Thomas cracked 1km from the summit, but he made up 30 seconds on the descent to take the win, with Australian Richie Porte, who rides for BMC Racing, third overall.
"Contador is probably one of the greatest stage race riders ever," Thomas told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales.
"I think he's won about seven Grand Tours - the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a Espana - he's won them all multiple times.
"To go head to head against him and come out on top is just an amazing feeling.
"Richie Porte, who was a team-mate last year, he was unbeatable in week races last year. He was the best in the world by far.
"To have those two guys either side of me on a podium is nuts and it's still so surreal."
Thomas competes in the Milan-San Remo one-day race on Saturday before the week-long Volta a Catalunya in Spain.
April's schedule includes classics such as the Tour of Flanders and Liege-Bastogne-Liege.
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Geraint Thomas accepts he will be a marked man following his win in the prestigious week-long Paris-Nice stage race.
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The Red Hands face Cavan at Breffni Park with under-strength Donegal facing Ulster University also in Section C.
Derry and Armagh will have a mix of youth and experience in their Section A game where Down also face QUB.
In Section B, Monaghan host Fermanagh with Antrim up against St Mary's.
Niall Morgan, Peter Harte, Tiernan McCann, Connor McAliskey, Niall Sludden and Ronan O'Neill will all start for Tyrone against Cavan while Sean Cavanagh, Mattie Donnelly and Justin McMahon are named in the subs.
Michael Cassisy, Declan McClure and Cahir McCullagh all make their debuts for Harte's side as will Ronan McHugh and Harry Loughran if they are introduced.
Cathal McCarron is suspended for the Reds Hands following his sending off in last year's McKenna Cup Final
New Cavan manager Mattie McGleenan has named a largely experienced squad for the competition although David Givney is a notable absentee after pulling out of the squad following his appointment to a new job in London.
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With Donegal picking an under-21 squad for the Ulster competition, Ulster University will be favourites to earn an opening win at Ballybofey.
Martin McHugh's Jordanstown squad are likely to include Donegal regulars Paddy McBrearty, Ryan McHugh and Eoin McHugh as well as several Tyrone senior panelists.
Derry manager Damien Barton has named a very unfamiliar looking line-up for their tussle against Armagh at Owenbeg.
Experience will be provided by Niall Forester, Ryan Bell, Emmett McGuckin and Benny Herron but there are several debutants including Patrick Coney, Peter Hagan, Jack Doherty and Michael Warnock.
Armagh boss Kieran McGeeney has indicated he will pick his strongest possible side in the competition but James Morgan and Ciaran McKeever are among players being rested while at this stage, Jamie Clarke also looks unlikely to feature in the January games.
McGeeney has experienced campaigners Charlie Vernon, Mark Shields, Ethan Rafferty, Rory Grugan, Aidan Forker, Stephen Campbell, Gavin McParland and Aaron Findon all available but like all the other managers, the Armagh boss will be without several university-tied players.
Down are also a missing a large third-level contingent with Kilcoo's Aaron Morgan among 10 Mourne County men in James McCartan's QUB squad in line to face their own county at Downpatrick.
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The Queen's Down personnel includes Martin Clarke, who has opted out of Eamonn Burns' squad.
Kevin McKernan is set to feature for St Mary's in the competition while Burns is minus all of his Kilcoo contingent after their autumn club campaign in Ulster.
Newcomers called up by Burns for the competition include former Ballymena United soccer player Alan Davidson, who joins his Bredagh club-mates Conor Francis and Donal Hughes among the fresh faces.
Fermanagh's McKenna Cup absentees include Ruairi Corrigan, Sean Quigley and Ryan Jones who are all recovering from injury although Quigley could feature in the later stages of the competition.
On the plus side, Ryan McCluskey and Eddie Courtney are named in the panel after long periods out because of injury while squad newcomers include James Duffy and Tommy McCaffrey.
Fermanagh open their McKenna campaign at Clones against a Monaghan team which includes debutants James Mealiff and Michael Bannigan.
Conor Forde, Aaron Lynch, Stephen Mc Cabe, Stephen Finnegan, Niall Kearns and Mikey Murnaghan are also in line to make Monaghan debuts after being named in the subs.
Antrim managers Frank Fitzsimons and Gearoid Adams could give debuts to squad newcomers Stephen Tully, Sean Donnelly, Seamus McGarry, Pat Brannigan, Oisin Lenaghan and Eunan Walsh in the other Section B game against St Mary's at Glenavy.
Tyrone players Conall McCann, Kieran McGeary, Conor McShane and Conor Meyler could be in action for St Mary's along with Down's McKernan.
Tyrone: N Morgan; A McCrory, J Munroe, R McNabb; M Cassidy, T McCann, N Sludden, D McClure, P McNulty; D McCurry, P Harte, C McCullagh; L Brennan, C McAliskey, R O'Neill.
Derry: B McKinless; O Hegarty, O Duffin, P Hagan; P Coney, J Doherty, N Forester; G O'Neill, A McLaughlin; M Warnock, N Loughlin, C McWilliams; R Bell, E McGuckin, B Heron.
Monaghan: R Beggan; O Coyle, F Kelly, R Wylie; K Duffy, C Walshe, B Greenan; D Hughes, K Hughes; K O'Connell, J Mealiff, G Doogan; F McGeough, T Kerr, M Bannigan.
2017 Dr McKenna Cup
Round 1: Sunday, 8 January, 14:00 GMT
Section A
Down v QUB (Downpatrick)
Derry v Armagh (Owenbeg)
Section B
Antrim v St Mary's (Glenavy)
Monaghan V Fermanagh (Clones)
Section C
Cavan v Tyrone (Kingspan Breffni Park)
Donegal v Ulster University (Pairc MacCumhaill)
Round 2: Saturday 14 January (19:00 GMT)
Tyrone v Ulster University (Healy Park)
Sunday, 15 January
Section A
Down v Derry (Pairc Esler)
Armagh V QUB (Athletic Grounds)
Section B
Antrim v Monaghan (Corrigan Park)
Fermanagh v St Mary's (Brewster Park)
Section C
Donegal v Cavan (Pairc MacCumhaill)
Round 3: Wednesday, 18 January
Section A
Derry v QUB (Owenbeg)
Armagh v Down (Athletic Grounds)
Section B
Fermanagh v Antrim (Brewster Park)
Monaghan v St Mary's (Inniskeen)
Section C
Cavan v Ulster University (Kingspan Breffni Park)
Tyrone v Donegal (Healy Park)
Semi-finals: Sunday, 22 January
Section C Winner V Best Runner Up
Section B Winner V Section A Winner
Final: Saturday, 28 January
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Tyrone will be fancied to land a sixth straight Dr McKenna Cup after Mickey Harte, in contrast to a couple of the other managers, named a strong squad for the season-opening competition.
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The 31-year-old half-back has only featured twice this season after returning from knee surgery in March.
He went off injured in his comeback game at Huddersfield Giants and was forced off in the first 20 minutes of Friday's win at Leeds Rhinos.
The Robins are currently 10th in Super League, with two wins from their opening 10 games.
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Hull KR captain Terry Campese is facing a further eight weeks out with a hamstring injury.
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The 49-year-old, who also has Premiership coaching experience with London Irish, Newcastle and Bath, arrived in January on an interim basis.
Since then, Worcester have won four of his eight games in charge.
"I've been blown away by this group of players and thoroughly enjoyed coming to work," the South African said.
"I wanted to make sure we were safe in the Premiership before I sat down to discuss it with my family. I've got two young kids who haven't really had dad at home for a length of time.
"But I love what I do. I'm very lucky to work in the environment that I do and I have agreed to stay on for another year."
Warriors' Easter Saturday home win over Bath, coupled with Bristol's home defeat by Wasps, was enough to send their West Country rivals down instead.
Gold, who has already signed 38-year-old former Ireland and British & Irish Lions international lock forward and Warriors captain Donncha O'Callaghan on a new deal at Sixways, is expected to supplement his coaching staff.
That followed the key signing of stand-off Ryan Mills on a new contract to maintain his rapport with South African international scrum-half Francois Hougaard, who signed an extended deal last season.
till will follow suit.
Gold says that his decision to stay on for another year was not part of his original plan when he arrived in January.
"It was never my intention to stay," he told BBC Hereford & Worcester. "This was never a long-term gig.
"I was just going to come in, in a consultant capacity and work with Carl Hogg and the coaches but it's just gone so well here. I didn't expect come in to a club languishing in the doldrums and enjoy it as much as I have.
"I want to build on the work we've done as a group. On paper next season, we'd still be one of the favourites to go down and that's something we need to work at.
"I know the big thing was staying up this season, but 11th is still a bit embarrassing and, with an atrocious away record too.
"Worcester have never been a top six side and I don't believe we're in a position to win this competition, but we want to compete and I do believe we can improve vastly."
Work on the Greater Manchester orbital road will see the hard shoulder become an extra lane between junctions 18 and 20, with lay-bys created at intervals of 1.6 miles (2.5 km).
The AA said this would lead to more broken-down vehicles becoming stranded and causing collisions.
Highways England said traffic flow will improve when the work is completed.
The AA's comments came as commuters hit out at regular delays on stretches of the route which has been subject to roadworks and a 50mph limit for more than a year.
The service recorded 2,826 breakdowns on the whole of the M60 in 2016 - equivalent to more than seven per day.
Jack Cousens, a public affairs officer for the AA, said the small number of planned emergency refuge areas along the route was a "huge problem".
"We've had issues with areas of smart motorway where somebody's broken down in a live lane, they make the call to us and we hear a crash, and it all goes silent.
"We don't want to be hearing that," he said.
"What we've been saying consistently is we want to see twice as many emergency refuge areas, and they need to be twice as long."
Mr Cousens said the most common cause of breakdown was a tyre blowout.
"If you can see [a refuge area], the chances are you'll be able to limp in there and use it," he said.
"But if you can't see one, drivers tend to panic and stop, and that's where we have problems."
Commuter Sylvia Pascoe says she can spend up to three hours per day driving the 18-mile (28 km) journey from Ashton to Altrincham and back.
"It's not acceptable. Enough is enough," she said. "What are the Highways Agency going to do about it?"
Highways England said roadworks on the route would be lifted in sections, starting in September, with all works removed by the end of the year.
The deal had been opposed by US regulators, because of fears it would leave consumers with too few choices.
Electrolux - the world's second-largest appliance maker - was looking for a way to increase its presence in the US.
In a statement, GE said it would "pursue other options to sell the appliances business".
GE has been taking steps to slim down and focus on core businesses like energy generation.
Under the terms of the original agreement, Electrolux must pay GE $175m for the break-up of the deal.
The companies announced the transaction in September 2014.
After the sale was announced, the US Justice Department sued Electrolux and GE, saying the deal would adversely affect buyers of ovens, stoves and other such appliances.
Electrolux would have controlled 40% of the US market if the deal had gone through.
"This deal was bad for the millions of consumers who buy cooking appliances every year. Electrolux and General Electric could not overcome that reality at trial," said deputy assistant attorney general David Gelfand of the Justice Department's anti-trust division.
Writing in the Guardian, Prof Frank Kelly said fewer cars, not just cleaner ones, were the key to cleaner air.
Electric cars produce particulates from their tyres and brakes which are linked to serious health problems.
Prof Kelly said that London should lead the way in promoting non-polluting transport policies.
Just last week the government unveiled its strategy for tackling illegal levels of nitrogen dioxide in the air.
The key element was a promise to end the sale of all new diesel and petrol cars from 2040.
The government said there would be significant investments in ultra-low emission vehicles, with some £600m going into the development and manufacture of such vehicles by 2020.
But according to Frank Kelly, who is professor of environmental health at Kings College London, and chair of the government advisory committee on the medical effects of air pollutants, these steps would not go far enough.
"Our cities need fewer cars, not just cleaner cars," Prof Kelly writes.
"One issue is that electric vehicles will not sufficiently reduce particulate matter (PM), the other toxic pollutant emitted by road transport.
"This is because PM components include not only engine emissions, but also a contribution from brake and tyre wear and road surface abrasion," he added.
The government has focussed on dealing with nitrogen dioxide because of consistent breaches of legal limits in many areas of the country.
However levels of PM are not above the law, although they do breach World Health Organisation recommended safety guidelines.
According to the Royal College of Physicians the early deaths of around 29,000 people in the UK each year are linked to particle pollution, which is more than the 23,500 premature deaths attributed to nitrogen dioxide.
The combined total is estimated to be around 40,000 as some people are harmed by both pollutants.
Particulate matter has also been found in human brains and there are concerns that exposure to PM may have a role to play in developing debilitating conditions such as Alzheimer's disease.
Prof Kelly's views have been supported by environmental lawyers, ClientEarth, who used the courts to force the government to come forward with their air quality strategy.
"Electric vehicles have a role to play in tackling air pollution but they are not the only solution," said lawyer Anna Heslop.
"What we need, and what the government has so far failed to deliver, is a comprehensive plan to bring down air pollution in the UK."
In his article Prof Kelly puts significant emphasis on the role of London in showing the way forward for other big cities in tackling these sources of pollution.
He says that as London's population is growing quickly, there needs to be more and better public transport, instead of letting people rely on owning cars and using them for short journeys.
There should be "as much active transport in the form of walking and cycling as is feasibly possible," he says.
Prof Kelly believes that attitudes towards cars are changing rapidly, with younger Londoners in particular opting for car club membership and ride-sharing apps instead of buying a car.
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has already committed the city to a future of fewer car journeys, aiming to cut the number by three million per day from 2041.
In his draft strategy, unveiled in June this year, he proposed making the entire transport system in London free of emissions by 2050.
"Leaving the car at home must be the affordable, safest and most convenient option for Londoners going about their daily lives," Mr Khan said.
"This is not only essential for dealing with congestion as London grows, but crucial for reducing our toxic air pollution, and improving the health of all Londoners."
Lord Bramall, 92, was interviewed under caution by police on 30 April 2015.
The peer, who was not arrested and has always denied the allegations, told the BBC he had received a letter from the Metropolitan Police clearing him.
The Met confirmed on Friday it had told a man in his 90s that no further action would be taken against him.
Lord Bramall, a Normandy veteran who retired from the House of Lords in 2013, told the BBC "there wasn't one grain of truth" in the allegations, made against him by a man in his 40s.
He said the letter the Met sent him was "pretty grudging, but at least I'm in the clear".
Lord Bramall added it was "complete self-justification" by the police, who he claimed "had not behaved very well".
The Met said it had informed a man in his 90s who was interviewed on 30 April 2015 by officers working on Operation Midland that he would face no further action.
The force added: "Following a thorough investigation officers have concluded there is insufficient evidence to request the Crown Prosecution Service to consider charging the man with any offences."
Operation Midland is part of a wider umbrella of investigations by Scotland Yard, dubbed Operation Fairbank, into allegations of abuse involving senior politicians and high-profile figures.
It has focused on the Dolphin Square estate in Pimlico, south-west London.
A field marshal and baron, Lord Bramall served during the Normandy landings during World War Two and commanded UK land forces between 1976 and 1978.
He became chief of the general staff - the professional head of the Army - in 1979, and in 1982 he oversaw the Falklands campaign.
Later that year he became chief of the defence staff - the most senior officer commanding the UK's armed forces.
His body was found after a friend called emergency services. Police say he apparently died of a drug overdose.
Many fellow actors have been paying tribute to him. He was 46.
Hoffmann made his name in the 1990s in films including Boogie Nights and the Big Lebowski, before winning the best actor Oscar for his 2005 portrayal of writer Truman Capote.
Throughout his career Hoffman featured in independent films as well as Hollywood blockbusters such as Mission Impossible III.
His latest role was in the Hunger Games series of films.
Hoffman's family called his death "tragic and sudden".
"We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Phil and appreciate the outpouring of love and support we have received from everyone," they said in a statement on Sunday.
British actor John Hurt, who starred alongside Hoffman in the 2003 drama Owning Mahowny, said the news had hit him "very hard".
"He was a great actor, a great member of the film and theatre community. An extraordinary talent, directorially as well as an actor. He'll be greatly missed," he told the BBC.
Hollywood stars have also paid tribute.
Tributes for Philip Seymour Hoffman
Tom Hanks said: "This is a horrible day for those who worked ‎with Philip. He was a giant talent. Our hearts are open for his family."
"Dear Philip, a beautiful beautiful soul," tweeted actor Jim Carrey.
"For the most sensitive among us the noise can be too much. Bless your heart."
As well as films, he also starred in Broadway plays and was nominated for two Tony Awards.
The actor was found dead in the bathroom of his Manhattan apartment shortly before 11:30 local time (16:30 GMT) on Sunday, police say.
Last year, Hoffman told celebrity news website TMZ that he had sought treatment for drug abuse.
He told the website he had used prescription drugs, and briefly heroin, before seeking help.
Hoffman has over 60 film credits to his name, including Magnolia and The Master with director Paul Thomas Anderson, for which he was nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar.
He made his debut as a film director in 2010 with the New York-set Jack Goes Boating, in which he also starred.
British film critic Jason Solomons said he "lit up the screen".
"He'd take the weirdest parts and give them a human element. He was a fantastic director as well and showed a real touch with actors," he said.
Eleven-month-old Ava-Jayne Corless was attacked while sleeping at a house in Blackburn, Lancashire in February.
Her inquest heard she suffered multiple injuries to her chest and neck.
Coroner Michael Singleton said her death met the coronial definition of an accident, but such a verdict would be "an affront" to her memory.
"While every death I deal with represents a personal tragedy for someone, in more than 20 years of doing this job I have to say the circumstances of the death of Ava-Jayne represent by far the most horrendous that I have had experience of," he said.
The hearing at Blackburn King George's Hall was previously told Ava-Jayne's injuries were "unsurvivable", the pattern of which was "compatible with her sustaining a number of dog bites".
The attack happened at her mother Chloe King's then boyfriend Lee Wright's house.
The inquest was told Ms King and Mr Wright were asleep on a sofa and thought the pit bull terrier-type dog was in the kitchen, blocked in by a golf bag stand and a speaker.
Both Ms King and Mr Wright were both initially held on suspicion of manslaughter but in April were released without charge.
Addressing the hearing, Det Insp Peter Simm said he released Ms King because "I was of the opinion she was a victim herself of what happened that night".
"She was a very young mother who cared deeply for her child," he said.
He told the coroner neighbours had not expressed worries about the dog being aggressive and no concerns about it were raised by the RSPCA.
However, vet Sian Smith told the inquest the dog had shown signs of aggression to male members of staff while being treated for a broken leg.
Returning his verdict, Mr Singleton said it would be inappropriate to call the 11-month-old's death an accident.
"The conclusion I shall use is this was an attack by a pit bull terrier-type dog," he said.
The coroner said he had considered whether a verdict of unlawful killing could be returned by reason of gross negligence manslaughter, but that needed to be looked at with foresight rather than hindsight and required a gross breach in duty of care, which amounted in law to a criminal act.
He also needed to consider whether there was an obvious and immediate risk of serious injury to Ava-Jayne, he said.
As a result, he said, he shared the view expressed by the Crown Prosecution Service that the facts did not amount to gross negligence.
"I offer my heartfelt sympathies to the family and friends of Ava-Jayne for their most grievous loss [and] to those people directly involved in the aftermath of these most horrific events," he said.
"I recognise that those circumstances were life changing."
In a statement released following the hearing, Ms King said she was "relieved that the inquest has finally concluded".
She said she and Dean Corless, her daughter's father, were "still grieving for the loss of Ava-Jayne who we loved very, very deeply".
"There is still a hole in my heart. I now want to be left to pick up the pieces of my life."
The visas, allowing international students to stay in Scotland to work after graduating, were dropped in 2012.
The Home Office has said there are "no plans" to bring them back, although Scottish Secretary David Mundell said he would listen to concerns.
All of Holyrood's parties support bringing back the visas.
The committee took evidence from universities and graduates on the impact of the visas being withdrawn, and said more than £250m had been lost to the Scottish economy since 2012.
Edinburgh University warned of a "brain drain of global talent" caused by top talent moving away from Scotland after graduation.
In their report, members unanimously recommended that Home Office immigration minister James Brokenshire come to Holyrood to explain what evidence the UK government would need to bring about a change in policy.
Committee convener Bruce Crawford said there was a "clear consensus" between Scotland's political parties and colleges, universities and businesses.
He said: "The committee considers there is robust evidence that identifies the decision to remove the post-study work visa scheme as a major factor in the Scottish education sector falling behind competitor countries in attracting international students.
"As a direct result of this policy, domestic business is being deprived of world-class talent that's trained and developed in Scotland. Given the demographic profile of Scotland, that's a position we can ill-afford.
"We need talented graduates to be able to stay on in Scotland so that we can grow our economy and grow our economically active population."
The Home Office has previously said there were "no plans" to bring back the visas, saying the old system "undermined the UK's work migration routes and damaged the reputation of our education system".
Appearing before the Scottish Affairs Committee after MSPs voiced concerns with this position, Mr Mundell said the UK government was open to "reasonable suggestions".
England made it four wins from four thanks to Lewis Baker's first-half penalty, the Chelsea midfielder's third goal of the competition.
Gareth Southgate's side meet hosts France in Sunday's final in Avignon.
England have scored 13 goals en route to the final, with wins also coming against Portugal, Paraguay and Guinea.
Warren, 35, reached halfway in 30 shots, with four birdies and an eagle, and a nine-under total put him two clear of Thai Phachara Khongwatmai.
Khongwatmai, 17, playing in only his seventh European Tour event shot a 65 at Saujana Golf and Country Club.
The teenager is one stroke ahead of a group of six which includes England's US Masters champion Danny Willett.
Warren, a three-time winner on the European Tour, nearly lost his playing card last year but a fifth-place finish at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in October set up a strong end to 2016.
He overcame a missed cut at last week's Dubai Desert Classic to card four birdies and an eagle on his opening nine holes, before adding back-nine birdies on 12, 14 and 17 in his bogey-free round.
"I got off to a really nice start, six under for the first nine holes," said Warren. "Once the wind picked up on the back nine it was just a case of staying solid and hitting the greens.
"More of the same tomorrow. My iron play was very good today and recently I have been making a lot of birdies but a lot of mistakes as well. It was nice to get around without a bogey.
"Last week I made 11 birdies in two days and missed the cut so it's just a matter of trying to keep the positive stuff going, making the birdies, and cutting out the slack stuff which was good today."
Prof Noel Sharkey said that society as a whole needed to consider the impact of all types of sex robots.
His Foundation for Responsible Robotics has conducted a consultation on the issue.
Only a handful of companies were currently making sex robots, said Prof Sharkey.
But, he added, the upcoming robot revolution could change that.
The report, Our Sexual Future With Robots, was written to focus attention on an issue barely discussed at the moment, he said.
The report acknowledged that finding out how many people actually owned such robots was difficult because the companies that made them did not release the numbers.
But, said Prof Sharkey, it was time society woke up to a possible future where humans and robots had sex.
"We do need policymakers to look at it and the general public to decide what is acceptable and permissible," he said.
"We need to think as a society what we want to do about it. I don't know the answers - I am just asking the questions."
Companies making sex robots include Android Love Doll, Sex Bot and True Companion. Most have previously made realistic, silicone-skinned sex dolls and are now considering or starting to ship dolls that can move and speak.
The most advanced of these is San Diego-based Abyss Creations, which ships a product known as Real Doll and is due to release a sex doll with artificial intelligence later this year. Called Harmony, the robot moves its head and eyes and speaks via a tablet-enabled app.
The company has already released the app, which allows users to program moods and voices for an existing doll.
The report considers a few options for how such robots could be employed as:
The last of these was the most problematic, said Prof Sharkey.
Sex dolls that resemble children do exist, and a court in Canada is currently determining whether owning one is illegal.
Newfoundland resident Kenneth Harrison ordered a doll from a Japanese business called Harumi Designs.
The company is on a Canadian watch-list, and the doll was intercepted at the airport. Mr Harrison was charged with possessing child pornography but has pleaded not guilty.
In Asia, there are already brothels that use adult sex dolls. And there are reports that a doll-maker operated one in Barcelona, although this has not been verified.
Dr Kathleen Richardson, a robot ethicist at De Montfort University, agreed with the report authors that child sex robots should be banned but stopped short of calling for a ban on all such sex dolls.
"The real problem here is not the dolls but the commercial sex trade. Sex robots are just another type of pornography," she said.
She believes such robots would inevitably "increase social isolation".
She also criticises the report for what she said is a failure to address the issue of gender.
"Why does the report have a picture of a male robot on the cover when we know that the doll market - which is driving this - is mainly female dolls?
"It is perpetrating the idea that this is gender-neutral, but the truth is that there are not many women buying such dolls, it is largely driven by men and male ideas of sexuality."
Prof Sharkey said that there was currently a mismatch between what those selling such dolls wanted their customers to believe about the dolls and the reality of what they offered.
"The manufacturers of sex robots want to create an experience as close to a human sexual encounter as possible," he said.
"But robots cannot feel love, tenderness or form emotional bonds. The best that robots can do is to fake it."
Sex robots are a relatively new phenomenon and an obvious next stage for sex dolls, which have become increasingly sophisticated in recent years. Most have silicone skin, articulated metal skeletons and realistic features such as hair and eyes.
In the main, these dolls are designed in female form, although Sinthetics has had some commercial success with its male sex dolls.
But Prof Sharkey has doubts about how human-like such dolls will become.
"I can't see them as being like humans in the next 50 years. They will always be slightly spooky, and their conversation skills now are awful," he said.
Dr Richardson also questioned whether such robots would become mainstream or even be possible technologically.
"The report assumes that you can create a functioning robot that can respond to humans, but in fact it is incredibly complex," she said
Twins Muriel and Bernard Burgess, aged 59, were discovered on New Year's Day.
The pair, both from the village of Elton in Cheshire, were found when Kent Police began a search for the body of 45-year-old Scott Enion, 45, from Manchester.
His death is not connected to the twins and all three deaths are being treated as non-suspicious.
Kent Police have appealed for help tracing the last movements of the twins.
They were wearing dark wet-weather clothing and police believe they may have been seen at the top of the cliffs between Boxing Day and New Year's Day.
The Gouster has never been put out as a complete album before, though a spokesman said tracks from it "morphed" into the 1975 release, Young Americans.
The seven-track work includes that subsequent album's title track, along with a re-recording of Bowie's 1972 single, John, I'm Only Dancing.
Bowie's producer Tony Visconti said it was "40 minutes of glorious funk".
The work, which Visconti said came about because he and Bowie wanted to make "a killer soul album", will be released as part of the David Bowie - Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976) box set.
A post on Bowie's Facebook page said the release date would be announced next week.
Bowie released three albums between 1974 and 1976 - Diamond Dogs, Young Americans and Station To Station - and took on a new persona, known as the Thin White Duke.
Side one
Side two
Writing in the sleeve notes, Visconti said Gouster was "a word unfamiliar to me, but David knew it as a type of dress code worn by African American teens in the '60s in Chicago".
"In the context of the album, its meaning was attitude, an attitude of pride and hipness.
"Of all the songs we cut, we were enamoured of the ones we chose for the album that portrayed this attitude."
He said the pair had had "a long infatuation with soul" and were fans of the American TV show Soul Train.
"We weren't 'young, gifted and black', but we sure as hell wanted to make a killer soul album, which was quite insane, but pioneers like the Righteous Brothers were there before us."
He added that John, I'm Only Dancing (Again) was an "outrageous brand new, funkafied version" of the original.
The box set is a follow-up to Five Years (1969 - 1973), which was released in September 2015.
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Maurice McCloughan and his friend, Killian Doherty, were killed when two cars collided on the A5 Doogary Road just after 08:00 GMT on Saturday.
There was a guard of honour from his sports club when the cortege arrived at St Lawrence's Church in Fintona.
Mr McCloughan's family said he was their "golden boy" and "never without an infectious smile".
They also said that Mr Doherty was "another fantastic young man that didn't deserve to go so soon and leave behind another shattered family".
"We have laughed together, cried together, danced together and now, without our centrepiece, our baby, we have to mourn together," said the family's statement.
The van was taken from outside Lickety Split on North Terrace in Seaham, on Friday night.
Witnesses said they saw the red and white VW being towed away and it was later seen being driven north on the A19 at Dalton Park.
Managing director Carl Thompson said it was a distinctive Japanese import and he is devastated at its theft.
He said: "My mum got it for us and it's been at the shop for six years.
"It was very popular with customers and we also go out to schools and the like in it.
"We are devastated it's gone and we just want it back, I don't see why anyone else would want it because it is very distinctive and very obviously ours."
Mr Thompson said he has reported the theft to Durham Police who are yet to comment.
The conceptual designer created the look of characters including Darth Vader, Chewbacca and R2-D2 and C-3PO.
He also worked on the original Battlestar Galactica TV series and Steven Spielberg films ET and Cocoon, for which he won an Oscar.
A tribute on his websitesaid: "We'll miss you Ralph. You will forever be the brightest star in our galaxy."
Born in Gary, Indiana, McQuarrie began his career as a technical illustrator for aeroplane manufacturer Boeing and designing film posters.
He also animated US TV network CBS's coverage of Nasa's Apollo space programme.
In 1975, he was hired by Lucas to design some of the characters and scenes for his "space opera" Star Wars.
As well as designing some of the sets including the desert planet Tatooine, McQuarrie also did the conceptual drawings for many characters.
His rewards included an uncredited role in the sequel The Empire Strikes Back, as General Pharl McQuarrie, and his own action figure.
In a statement, Lucas said: "His genial contribution, in the form of unequalled production paintings, propelled and inspired all of the cast and crew of the original Star Wars trilogy.
"When words could not convey my ideas, I could always point to one of Ralph's fabulous illustrations and say, 'do it like this'."
McQuarrie also designed the alien spaceships in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind and ET.
In 1985, he was presented with an Academy Award for Visual Effects for the film Cocoon - about the residents of an old people's home given a new lease of life by visiting aliens.
The statement on his website praised "an especially kind, sensitive, deep, modest, funny and fascinating gentleman.
"His influence on design will be felt forever. There's no doubt in our hearts that centuries from now amazing spaceships will soar, future cities will rise and someone, somewhere will say... 'that looks like something Ralph McQuarrie painted'."
Manned checkpoints, rising street bollards and crash-proof barricades are among the measures proposed.
It follows advice from MI5 and counter-terrorism police.
A Corporation of London report said they "had identified that the area was highly sensitive to... a hostile vehicle-borne security threat".
The advice comes in the wake of the Berlin Christmas market terror attack on Monday in which Tunisian Anis Amri, drove a lorry at shoppers, killing 12 and injuring 49 people.
The ring of steel is believed to be the best way to protect the heart of London's financial district.
London's first ring of steel was a response to IRA bombs in the Baltic Exchange in Bishopsgate in 1992.
It would be the first time since the late 1990s that manned checkpoints were used.
Such checkpoints were phased out after the IRA announced a ceasefire in 1994.
The new protective ring will border Liverpool Street, the Bank of England and Fenchurch Street - an area which is home to some of the capital's newest and most recognisable skyscrapers.
"This eastern section of the City of London is especially of importance in as much as there are going to be a number of major landmarks developed around the area that could be of interest," the report said.
The new plan would be subject to a consultation but could be fully implemented by 2022.
Will Geddes, founder of International Corporate Protection said: "Although we've seen of late 'lo-fi type' attacks, like the Berlin Christmas market where a lorry that was hijacked and driven into a crowded area, we cannot discount the type of attack that will... include a large truck packed with explosives"
The visitors almost went in front in the ninth minute but Shay McCartan was denied by a brilliant one-handed stop from Bobby Olejnik.
However, Olejnik was beaten three minutes later when McCartan fired home a brilliant free-kick.
Exeter were disappointing in the first half - David Wheeler missing their best chance with a downward header which was tipped over the bar.
In the second half McCartan was foiled again by another smart stop from Olejnik, but from the resulting corner Matty Pearson headed into an empty net as the goalkeeper went walkabouts.
Ollie Watkins fired a free-kick wide and Joel Grant also failed to hit the target as Exeter tried to find a way back into the contest, but Accrington held firm to claim a well-deserved win.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Exeter City 0, Accrington Stanley 2.
Second Half ends, Exeter City 0, Accrington Stanley 2.
Attempt saved. Jake Taylor (Exeter City) header from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Ryan Harley (Exeter City).
Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Joel Grant (Exeter City) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Ollie Watkins (Exeter City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
David Wheeler (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mark Hughes (Accrington Stanley).
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Jake Taylor.
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Jake Taylor.
Foul by Pierce Sweeney (Exeter City).
Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Ollie Watkins (Exeter City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Matty Pearson (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Liam McAlinden (Exeter City).
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Omar Beckles replaces Sean McConville.
Substitution, Exeter City. Liam McAlinden replaces Craig Woodman.
Attempt missed. Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner from a direct free kick.
Foul by Jake Taylor (Exeter City).
Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Exeter City 0, Accrington Stanley 2. Matty Pearson (Accrington Stanley) header from the right side of the six yard box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Sean McConville with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Robert Olejnik.
Attempt saved. Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Harvey Rodgers (Accrington Stanley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ryan Harley (Exeter City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Harvey Rodgers (Accrington Stanley).
Jordan Moore-Taylor (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley).
Substitution, Exeter City. Jack Stacey replaces Luke Croll.
Substitution, Exeter City. Ryan Harley replaces Lloyd James.
Attempt missed. Ollie Watkins (Exeter City) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Marek Rodak.
Attempt missed. Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from long range on the left is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Foul by Jake Taylor (Exeter City).
Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Jordan Clark (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
David Wheeler (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Janoi Donacien (Accrington Stanley).
Luke Croll (Exeter City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
The plan means up to 10 of its 176 UK stores may be closed over the next five years.
A central distribution warehouse and about 10 smaller warehouses could also be shut.
Meanwhile, the group said its half-year pre-tax profits fell by 6.4% to £88m.
Debenhams shares were down by nearly 5% following the announcement.
Chief executive Sergio Bucher, who joined the company last October, said its customers were changing the way they shopped and therefore Debenhams was also changing.
"We will be a destination for social shopping, with mobile the unifying platform for interacting with our customers," said Mr Bucher, who was appointed with a view to shaking up the business.
Debenhams said that leisure activities accounted for an increasing share of consumer spending and that the "leisure experience is an important part of shopping", while "mobile interaction" was growing fast.
In an effort to capture this market, Debenhams plans to step up investment in its in-store cafes, restaurants and beauty services.
Retail analyst Steve Dresser, of Grocery Insight, said it would be tricky for Debenhams to make its new approach work.
"Without a core reason to visit Debenhams, or a point of difference, footfall and sales fall, which in turn impacts profitability," he said.
"Shopping centre locations overcome footfall concerns, but in turn, rents are expensive."
Debenhams said it had no "tail of loss-makers" in its 176 UK store estate and, in fact, many were "highly profitable".
However, it added, it wanted to "ensure they are fit for the future".
The 10 stores under review for closure, if they are deemed not profitable enough, have not been named.
Debenhams said the rest would be "refreshed" and "remerchandised" to raise their profitability.
In January, it began "decluttering" its stores by reducing the number of lines for sale.
It is also switching about 2,000 of the stores' backroom staff to jobs where they deal directly with customers.
The group also has plans to open four new shops in the UK.
Debenhams has 82 stores in 26 other countries.
It said it would leave some "non-core" international markets, with details due to be announced in October.
The department store chain announced earlier this year that it had begun consulting on the closure of one central distribution centre in Northamptonshire which employs about 200 people.
It is hoped all staff will be redeployed.
Debenhams is also consulting on the closure of about about 10 smaller regional warehouses which are connected to stores.
Those staff will be moved into the stores.
Sir Ian Cheshire, the chairman of Debenhams, said "this is a strategy about growth", not job losses, and that the plans should lead to the creation of more jobs.
However, independent retail analyst Nick Bubb said he was "disappointed" that the strategy did not include any targets for sales and profits, despite the talk of growth and efficiency.
This would be enough seven-inch records to stretch 16 times round the earth, the study of sales since 1952 stated.
The Official Charts Company said purchases peaked in the 1980s, before digital formats were established, when 640 million singles were sold.
Its managing director Martin Talbot said the figures gave an insight into singles sales never seen before.
He said: "Working on historic statistics from so long ago to create data reflecting sales to consumers has required diligent research and attention to detail.
"And, while it is unlikely to ever be possible to arrive at exact totals for those early years due to the nature of the data available, we are confident that these figures give us the clearest picture yet published of the development of singles sales across the six decade history of the Official Singles Chart."
The biggest selling single in the boom time for chart sales was Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas?, released in 1984.
There have been more than 1,200 number one singles since the first chart was published in the NME six decades ago.
Take That frontman Gary Barlow, who has topped the chart 14 times in his career, said: "Number ones are incredible and I don't care how many you've had in the past it still feels amazing to have a number one, in some cases even better if it's your 12th or 15th or whatever it is. It's a brilliant feeling."
Surveys conducted by Kyodo news agency and major newspapers found Mr Abe's ruling coalition could retain its two-thirds majority in parliament.
Such a win could help boost Mr Abe as he pursues unpopular policies.
But observers suggest the figures reflect opposition weakness, rather than a wave of support for Mr Abe.
The prime minister called the 14 December election last month, two years ahead of schedule.
He is seeking a new mandate for his "Abenomics" economic reform agenda - loose monetary policy, fiscal stimulus and structural reforms - which he launched two years ago.
Under the policy Japan's GDP growth initially saw a lift, but the economy continued to slide and Japan entered a technical recession this quarter.
This was partly because of a rise in sales tax in April, from 5% to 8%. It was aimed at curbing Japan's public debt, the highest among developed nations, but instead stopped consumers spending.
A second increase, to 10%, was set for October 2015 but Mr Abe has said that will be delayed by at least 18 months.
Campaigning on Tuesday, opposition Democratic Party leader Banri Kaieda said the election "was launched to hide the failure of Abenomics".
"It has been two years now since Abe put forth his economic policy. In these two years, has it really helped the people's lives? This is the question that needs to be reflected upon when voting."
But while Mr Abe's approval ratings have fallen, trust in the opposition remains low in the wake of its comprehensive 2012 election defeat after an unstable three years in office.
On Tuesday, Mr Abe said the poll would judge his economic policy.
"I promise to win this election, push through the recovery efforts, return the economy to a strong state and put this region and Japan back at the glowing centre of the world," he said.
The polls showed that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party could win more than 300 of the 475 seats in the lower house, with more coming from junior coalition partner New Komeito.
Lawro's opponent for the Boxing Day fixtures is You Me At Six singer Josh Franceschi.
When Arsenal fan Josh last took on Lawro, in February 2014, the Gunners were top of the Premier League and his band's fourth album, Cavalier Youth, was top of the UK album charts.
With Arsene Wenger's side fourth, nine points behind leaders Chelsea, it looks unlikely that they will be top of the table again by the time You Me At Six's latest album, Night People, comes out at the beginning of January.
Could Josh top Lawro's guest leaderboard as well as the charts this time, though? He will have to do a lot better than his last effort, when he scored zero points - although he did fare better when he returned to predict the outcome of that season's FA Cup final.
The Gunners have suffered two defeats in their past two games, at Everton and Manchester City, and also got a tough draw in the last 16 of the Champions League despite winning their group.
Franceschi told BBC Sport:"Getting Bayern Munich was classic Arsenal, really, and it has been a bad week but I am not sitting here like some of our fans thinking it is all doom and gloom for us.
"Everton and City were two tough away games but it is not the end of of our season. We have got three very winnable games over Christmas - against West Brom, Crystal Palace and Bournemouth - and it is important we do win them to get some momentum back."
You can make your Premier League predictions now, compare them with those of Lawro and other fans, and try to take your team to the top of the leaderboard by playing the BBC Sport Predictor game.
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
Last week, Lawro got five correct results, with one perfect score, from 10 Premier League matches. That gave him a total of 80 points.
He lost to tennis legend Boris Becker, who got seven correct results, with two perfect scores, for a total of 130 points.
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Watford 1-1 Crystal Palace
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Josh's prediction: With the players they have, Crystal Palace should be doing better than they are. Watford are not in great form at the moment either, though, so I am going for a draw. 1-1
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Arsenal 1-0 West Brom
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Josh's prediction: West Brom are having a good season. Tony Pulis's teams might not play great football but they are hard to beat and they have got some excellent players like Nacer Chadli, Matt Phillips and Salomon Rondon.
But we are at home and, with the form Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil are in at the moment, I do fancy us to win regardless of how well set up the Baggies are. 3-1
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Burnley 1-0 Middlesbrough
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Josh's prediction: Burnley are the sort of team that have a real go at a top-six side at home but lose to a lesser team. I can see them being beaten by Boro, especially with Alvaro Negredo looking sharp. 1-2
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Chelsea 3-0 Bournemouth
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Josh's prediction: Chelsea's confidence is through the roof at the moment and the other teams at the top need someone to come along and batter them. Either that or the Blues have to lose a couple of games at home that they are expected to win comfortably, to knock their self-belief a bit.
I am not sure Chelsea will slip up here but I think Bournemouth can cause them some problems. Cherries boss Eddie Howe is doing a great job and maybe their on-loan Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere has got an extra incentive to do us a nice little favour. 2-1
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Leicester 0-2 Everton
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Josh's prediction: Leicester will be feeling good after spanking Manchester City in their last home game and, overall, their form at King Power Stadium has been very strong.
I am going for a Leicester win but I think it will be a tight one. Everton are not the prettiest team to watch but, as they showed against Arsenal, they are another side who should be doing better than they are. The Toffees have got some great players but they don't always click. 2-1
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Man Utd 3-1 Sunderland
Lawro's prediction: 3-0
Josh's prediction: Everyone was writing United off not so long ago but they are getting stronger and stronger and closing in on the top four. A big part of that is the quality of their midfield.
Paul Pogba, Ander Herrera and Henrikh Mkhitaryan have all been playing well, and Michael Carrick is important too. Our drummer Dan, who supports United, is probably Carrick's biggest fan of all time - he always complains Carrick never gets the credit he deserves for always playing the right pass whenever he gets the ball.
I feel a bit sorry for Moyes, but I get the feeling a big United win is coming. 3-0
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Swansea 1-4 West Ham
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Josh's prediction: West Ham have climbed up the table in the past few weeks but only on the back of a couple of jammy wins - I still think they are lacking that spark.
Swansea are even worse off, though, and have been all over the place in the last couple of weeks. I don't see this one being a very high quality game. 0-0
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Hull 0-3 Man City
Hull played well in their defeat against West Ham last time out and created plenty of chances.
The Tigers might be bottom of the table but their manager Mike Phelan has got them playing - he does not lack organisation or tactical nous.
Phelan's team lacks a bit of quality, however, and I do not see them causing Manchester City too many problems.
City are finding it hard to keep clean sheets under Pep Guardiola - they have managed only three in 17 league games this season - but they should be able to keep Hull quiet.
Lawro's prediction: 0-3
Josh's prediction: Things are looking pretty grim for Hull and, after the way they beat Arsenal last weekend, I can't see anything other than a Manchester City win - unless they all have a heavy one on Christmas Day. 1-3
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Liverpool 4-1 Stoke
Lawro's prediction: 3-0
Josh's prediction: Even without the injured Philippe Coutinho, Liverpool look very dangerous when they come forward and I don't think Stoke have much of a chance here. The Potters keeper is going to be busy. 2-0
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Southampton v Tottenham (19:45 GMT)
The good thing from Southampton's point of view is that it does not look like they will miss injured striker Charlie Austin - they have a few other options up front.
Jay Rodriguez and Sofiane Boufal have done well recently and I think Shane Long gives a lot for the team too - he is not a regular goalscorer but he would chase a paper bag down the street all day for you, even in a hurricane.
Saints will be a test for Tottenham on Mauricio Pochettino's return to his old club, but his Spurs side have won their past two games and I just get the impression that they might just go on a bit of a run again now.
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Josh's prediction: The only member of the Spurs team that I would have at Arsenal is Hugo Lloris - partly because he is a classy goalkeeper and also because I am half-French so I have a bit of soft spot for French players, even when they play for Spurs - I felt the same about David Ginola too.
As an Arsenal fan I am obviously going to go for a Southampton win here anyway, but I don't think it will be as comfortable as I would like it to be. Christian Eriksen has hit a bit of form for Spurs and they will cause Saints a few problems. 2-1
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Lawro's best score: 160 points (week thirteen v Tim Vine)
Lawro's worst score: 30 points (week four v Dave Bautista)
Datta Phuge shot into the global limelight in 2013 when he bought a shirt made with more than 3kg of gold and worth $250,000 (£186,943).
A money lender based in western Pune, Mr Phuge was called "the gold man".
Four persons have been detained for questioning. Police suspect a dispute over money led to the murder.
The police said some 12 people attacked Mr Phuge, 48, in Pune on Thursday night.
One of the suspects had invited Mr Phuge and his 22-year-old son to celebrate a birthday at an open ground in Dighi area when the men attacked him with stones and a sharp weapon.
Police said the son had witnessed his father being murdered and had been spared by the alleged killers.
"However, we are investigating how Mr Phuge reached the open ground where he was murdered," Dighi police station inspector Navnath Ghogare told the Press Trust of India news agency.
Mr Phuge often wore gold all over his body: his knuckles, neck, and wrists were weighed down by signet rings, chunky bracelets, and a medallion.
"Some people ask me why I'm wearing so much gold but it was my dream. People have different aspirations. Some elite people want to own an Audi or Mercedes, and have big cars. I chose gold," he told the BBC in 2013.
Thousands of people lined the streets to watch throughout the afternoon.
The theme of this year's parade was 'Demand Change' and focused on efforts to overturn Northern Ireland's ban on same-sex marriage.
Northern Ireland is the only region of the UK in which same-sex marriage is not allowed.
The parade was led by Belfast Lord Mayor Nuala McAllister and was the main event of the nine-day long Pride festival, which finishes on Sunday.
Festival goers and musicians gathered in Custom House Square before parading through the city centre.
PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) and Gardaí (Irish police) officers marched in uniform in the parade for the first time.
A small protest against the Pride parade was held outside City Hall.
Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar, the Republic of Ireland's first openly gay taoiseach, told a Pride breakfast event on Saturday morning that it is "only a matter of time" before the law in Northern Ireland is changed.
In 2015, the Republic of Ireland voted to legalise same-sex marriage in a referendum.
Denise Hart, from the Pride organising committee, said that the theme was chosen because the LGBT community are demanding the "same rights as the rest of the United Kindom".
"Having looked at the rest of the UK, Northern Ireland is still lagging behind the rest of the UK in terms of laws that have enacted there that have not been enacted here.
"It really is time that we as a community demand change."
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DUP MP Emma-Little Pengelly was among those to tweet well wishes to those taking part in Pride.
The DUP is opposed to same-sex marriage and has used a Stormont veto known as a petition of concern to block motions to change the law.
The party has previously rejected accusations it is homophobic and said that it is protecting the "traditional" definition of marriage between a man and a woman.
The issue of same-sex marriage is one of the major stumbling blocks in the ongoing Stormont crisis, with Sinn Féin demanding that the DUP stop blocking a law change.
Other politicians who attended the Pride march included Sinn Féin's northern leader Michelle O'Neill, Alliance Party leader Naomi Long and SDLP leader Colum Eastwood, who tweeted a picture of him with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
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Judge Carlos Castro Martins barred any work that would interfere with the natural flow of the Xingu river.
He ruled in favour of a fisheries group which argued that the Belo Monte dam would affect local fish stocks and could harm indigenous families who make a living from fishing.
The government says the dam is crucial to meeting growing energy needs.
Judge Martins barred the Norte Energia company behind the project from "building a port, using explosives, installing dikes, building canals and any other infrastructure work that would interfere with the natural flow of the Xingu river, thereby affecting local fish stocks".
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He said the building of canals and dikes could have negative repercussions for river communities living off small-scale fishing.
The judge said building work currently underway on accommodation blocks for the project's many workers could continue as it would not interfere with the flow of the river.
The consortium behind the project is expected to appeal against the decision.
In June, the Brazilian environment agency backed the construction, dismissing concerns by environmentalists and indigenous groups who argue that it will harm the world's largest tropical rainforest and displace tens of thousands of people.
The agency, Ibama, said the dam had been subjected to "robust analysis" of its impact on the environment.
The 11,000-megawatt dam would be the third biggest in the world - after the Three Gorges in China and Itaipu, which is jointly run by Brazil and Paraguay.
Lake Tanganyika is Africa's oldest lake and its fish are a critical part of the diet of neighbouring countries.
But catches have declined markedly in recent decades as commercial fleets have expanded.
However this new study says that climate warming and not overfishing is the real cause of the problem.
Estimated to be the world's second-largest freshwater lake, Tanganyika is an important resource for the countries that border it: Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Zambia.
As well fish from the lake providing up to 60% of the animal protein consumed in the region, it is also an important biodiversity hotspot.
But there have been growing concerns about the impact of overfishing, land use change and changes in climate on this key ecosystem.
In an attempt to understand what's happening, researchers have examined samples of sediment from the bottom of the lake.
The chemical analysis of the cores and the fossils found there indicate that fish numbers have been dropping in parallel with a rise in global temperatures.
The scientists say that in tropical lakes a warming of the waters reduce the mixing between the oxygenated top layer and the nutrient-rich layer at the bottom.
This increasing stratification of the waters means fewer nutrients get to top, meaning less algae which means less food for fish.
The authors conclude that sustained warming is associated with reduction in mixing in the lake, stagnation of algal production, and significant shrinking of the habitat of the lake's key bottom dwellers, such as molluscs and crustaceans.
"Our idea was to look at the fish fossil record and to see when that decline actually started," said Prof Andrew Cohen from the University of Arizona,
"If it happened before the start of the industrial fishing in the 1950s, you'd have strong evidence that the decline is not simply driven by this fishing activity and that's exactly what we found."
The scientists don't discount the impact of fishing over the past six decades. They recognise that there has been a significant increase in the 1990s as refugees from numerous regional conflicts poured into the areas around the lake.
"Fishing in the lake is a Wild West activity, there are nominal controls but no teeth," said Prof Cohen.
"Given the current trends of warming, the lake stratification will get stronger and the productivity will continue to be affected by that. The people in charge of these decisions need to be thinking about alternative livelihoods for people in the region."
Other researchers are alarmed about the future of the lake. One said: "We are sleepwalking into a disaster."
Others point to the fact that the in Europe and North America, a warming climate is increasing production in lakes. But the tropics are very different.
"In tropical regions, the increased stratification is doing the reverse, at least in some lakes," said Prof John Smol from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada.
"Decreasing algal production means that the base of the food chain is being affected - and this can cascade though the food chain up to fish and organisms - like humans - who depend on these resources."
Besides the threat to food supplies and jobs, the impact of warming on the biodiversity of Lake Tanganyika is of great scientific concern as well. Prof Cohen argues that we should think of the lake as being as significant as some of the world's key hotspots.
"Think about the Galapagos, and how iconic they are, Lake Tanganyika has many times more endemic species and nobody knows about it," he said.
"It's coming to bite us in terms of really impacting livelihoods for people around the lake, and the fact they have so many unsettled people in the region.
"These social and environmental trends are converging and I would say it's a really urgent issue to be aware of and start doing something about."
The research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.
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Ali Qasemi, 45, of Birchtree Avenue, Peterborough, was delivering pizzas when the attack happened in Shrewsbury Avenue, in the early hours of Sunday.
He was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital, in Cambridge, but died on Tuesday afternoon.
In a tribute to her husband, Mrs Qasemi said: "My husband was my everything; my best friend, my soul mate, my life partner and an amazing father."
Anyone with information is asked to call Cambridgeshire Police.
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Defender Vincent Sasso starts a three-game suspension, but Tom Lees could return after missing nine games with a knee injury.
Reading hope to have defenders Liam Moore (hamstring) and Paul McShane (back) available after injury.
Midfielders Liam Kelly and Jordon Mutch are both doubts with hamstring problems and Tiago Ilori (knee) remains out.
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"We're in the position we are now because we've played well throughout the course of the season.
"Of course you want to win every game, but you have to be realistic as well. We're not in a position where we can beat everybody.
"The thing is in how we've played and lost in the past couple of games away, is the little mistakes we've made not because the other teams were better than us."
The 30-year-old was out of contract and was offered a new deal following Vale's relegation to League Two.
But, having appeared 83 times in two seasons for Vale after joining from Yeovil, he has opted to sign a two-year deal at Sixfields Stadium.
The move reunites him with Cobblers boss Justin Edinburgh - his manager at Newport County.
Foley told BBC Radio Northampton: "Justin being here has been the big lure for me. I've worked hard in my career with Justin previously, I know what he wants from his players and football and sort of aligns with what I want.
"Also, Northampton being a League One club, it's where I want to play my football and I'm thankful they wanted to sign me. The opportunity to play at a higher division was too good to turn down."
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The force says its effort has "almost entirely" stopped UK campaigns by the car, food/drink and property sectors being placed on the illegal web pages.
The scheme involves a blacklist, which is shared with ad brokers whose software determines what ads go where.
But one expert said the effect on the sites' earnings might be "negligible".
Operation Creative was launched by the City of London Police's Intellectual Property Crime Unit (Pipcu) in the summer of 2013.
It led to the creation of the Infringing Website List (IWL) - a database of online services that the police have confirmed provide access to unauthorised content.
Hundreds of sites now appear on the list, which has not been made public. Owners are given a chance to remove illegal material before their platforms are included.
Two years on, Pipcu says there has been a 73% drop in advertising from the UK's "top ad spending companies" on the affected sites, which it suggests both reduces their income and removes their "look of legitimacy".
The figure is based on research carried out by Whitebullet - a firm that provides online intellectual property services.
It surveyed the ads placed on 17 sites that offer unauthorised access to TV shows, movies, music and games - both over a 12-week period between June and September 2013 and again between March and June 2015.
The firm's chief executive explained that ads are typically targeted at a local audience - so, a UK-based web user will normally see ads funded by a British campaign, even if the site in question is based elsewhere.
"The effort in the UK means that the advertising profile changes considerably," Peter Szyszko told the BBC.
"You start getting less and less high value advertising - big brands, household name - and you start moving towards either no advertising or different formats of advertising that tend to pay less or are less credible from a consumer perspective - adult sites or sites advertising 'free games' that ultimately contain malware, are fraudulent or are generally just inappropriate."
Mr Szyszko acknowledged, however, that some big-name ads were still getting through.
Brokers used by the leading media buying agencies are supposed to filter the sites they direct ads to, in order to screen out those on the blacklist.
But Mr Szyszko explained that sometimes brokers sub-contracted the work out to other third-parties who were less diligent, meaning the process was not foolproof.
"Holes can appear, and that's why you can still get the premium advertising appearing," he said.
One expert had mixed feelings about the effort.
"It shows copyright enforcement activities are no longer focused on violating internet user's fundamental and civil rights by monitoring all internet traffic, censorship, and shady political deals, as was the case just a few years ago," said Bendert Zevenbergen from the Oxford Internet Institute.
"However, if a few [advertising] sectors do indeed pull out, others will automatically take their place, and the effect on the website's income may be negligible.
"The strategy also does not tackle the underlying problem.
"Internet users demand ubiquitous access to quality content - for which they would gladly pay - so the creative industries would do better to focus their efforts on making their catalogues available on innovative internet-based distribution channels, like Spotify and Netflix, or invest in creating new user friendly services online."
A police spokesman said the man - earlier named as Adem Karadag - was the figure in a yellow shirt seen on CCTV leaving a bag at the shrine.
Thai police had earlier said neither of two men in their custody were the main suspects for the 17 August attack.
The motive for the bombing, which killed 20 people, remains unclear.
Fourteen foreigners were among those killed.
Police have released warrants for a total of 17 people over charges stemming from the attack.
The suspects are believed to carrying Chinese, Thai, Turkish and Pakistani passports, though their exact origins are unclear as some are thought to be using fake documents.
Mr Karadag, who has also been named as Bilal Mohammed, was arrested in late August in a raid on a flat on the eastern outskirts of Bangkok.
Thai police had said DNA samples taken from him did not match the DNA found on evidence that the bomber is believed to have left behind on the night of the attack.
Police also appeared to rule out that a second man in their custody - identified as Yusufu Mieraili - was a main suspect in the attack.
However, on Friday, police spokesman Prawut Thornsiri said one of the warrants issued was for "Bilal Mohammed, who is the man in yellow who placed the rucksack at the Erawan shrine".
"All the information we have leads back to him."
Many of the suspects named by Thai police have Muslim-sounding names, prompting speculation that they may be linked to jihadist networks or to Uighur separatist militants from China.
However, the police have not suggested that the attack was politically motivated.
The Erawan shrine - centred around a four-faced golden statue of the Hindu god Brahma - is considered sacred by Thai Buddhists, and attracts many foreign visitors.
Resuming on 141-3, Glamorgan collapsed to 223 all out, only Aneurin Donald (57) offering any real resistance.
Openers Daryl Mitchell and Brett D'Oliveira fell cheaply, but Tom Fell's 15 not out saw the visitors to 28-2.
Glamorgan were beaten in under two-and-a-half days, having failed to last two days in their opener with Northants.
Six ft 5 in paceman Tongue, 19, was making only his second Worcestershire appearance, having taken four wickets in the match in his first-class debut against Oxford MCCU earlier in April.
Glamorgan coach Robert Croft told BBC Wales Sport:
"It is frustrating to everybody. There is a group of players that are very disappointed. As support staff we are, and I am sure every supporter that followers Glamorgan is.
"It is certainly not the start that we envisaged or imagine or hoped for, but it is where we find ourselves. The crucial thing is as a squad, and I include support staff and players in that, is we work our way out of it. And when we work our way out of it we remember how it feels so we don't go back here.
"It is inevitable that confidence gets dented when you have got hurt badly in the first innings in Northampton and the same happened here. We've been very much behind the eight ball from the first session of the game."
Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"I'm really proud of the boys. It was a terrific effort. The toss was important, and we soon had them in trouble in helpful conditions.
"It was so good to see the young players such as Josh Tongue and Tom Kohler- Cadmore perform so well. It bodes well for the remainder of the summer.
"There's more to come from Josh Tongue. He's certainly got some pace in him. We saw that when he hit Donald on the helmet. However, he still has two screws in his back, following a stress fracture, and it's very important that we do things right for him."
That would be an increase from the tally of five places that the continent currently holds.
A tenth African country will take part in a six-nation play-off tournament to decide the last two spots.
Football's world governing body has revealed its plans for how all 48 places will be allocated, with 16 Europeans teams set to qualify.
"The Bureau of the Fifa Council, comprised of the Fifa President and the president of each of the six confederations, agreed on (the) proposed allocation," said a Fifa statement.
The recommendations will be voted on by the Fifa Council at its next meeting on 9 May.
Fifa members voted in January to expand the World Cup from 32 to 48 teams, starting with the 2026 edition.
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Instead, the prime minister and his senior ministerial colleagues on either side of the European divide are competing to convince the country their rivals are the worst liars.
David Cameron declined to use the "l" word today, but he didn't need to.
This will hurt the Conservative Party. It will damage the credibility of senior ministers. It will erode trust in government departments like the Treasury, where some degree of trust is essential.
It will eat away at whatever may be left of public faith in the political process. And it will make David Cameron's job reuniting his party - assuming he survives the vote - much harder.
Far more worrying for the Remain side - and encouraging for the Leavers - is that, just now, the grotesque self-harm the Conservative Party is inflicting upon itself is beside the point.
Comparatively unnoticed, cast into shadow by the pyrotechnic light-show in the Tory party, the Labour Party has come to realise it is losing the argument, and may be in real danger of losing the referendum for the Remain campaign.
This morning, Labour's shadow cabinet agreed the party needed to "up its game" and to do so urgently. Alarmed backbench MPs have been excusing themselves from parliamentary duties to kick-start what they describe as the near-torpid campaigning in their constituencies.
MP after MP has returned to Westminster with depressing tales from their home turf; of door-knocking in staunchly Labour areas where apathy towards the EU question has given way to rank hostility. One former minister contacted dozens of local Labour councillors urging them to mobilise behind the Remain campaign. To the MP's fury, the appeal elicited one single reply.
Among the most ardent pro-Europeans on the Labour side, there is private frustration that leader Jeremy Corbyn has not been more active in support of the cause. Yet at today's shadow cabinet, Mr Corbyn is said to have shared the general sense of alarm.
Often, according to another shadow minister, the antipathy to the EU has little or nothing to do with Europe. "People just want to kick the establishment," he said.
Another shadow cabinet member told me: "We have never really set out to make the case for Europe. The sceptics have been winning the argument by default. Now we're playing catch up."
So the word has been sent out to energise the support for British membership of the EU among Labour voters.
There is still just over a fortnight of campaigning to come. The outcome is not settled.
But among Labour MPs representing areas which will be crucial to the outcome of the referendum, the nagging fear is starting to take hold that it may already be too late.
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The Scot won 6-1 6-4 6-2, despite a hip injury which disrupted his build-up.
Murray, the world number one, hit 29 winners and maintained his form either side of a rain break in the third set to win in one hour and 44 minutes.
The 30-year-old will face Germany's Dustin Brown - the man who beat Rafael Nadal in 2015 - in round two.
Murray is trying to match fellow Briton Fred Perry as a three-time singles champion and claim his fourth Grand Slam title.
He also faces a battle with Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Stan Wawrinka to keep hold of his number one ranking.
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Murray finally got his first grass-court win of the year as he saw off the confident but inexperienced Bublik with few problems.
The Scot lost in the first round at Queen's Club two weeks ago, and then picked up the hip injury which forced him to withdraw from two exhibition matches and curtail his practice.
Murray declared himself fit over the weekend and had the honour of opening play on Centre Court as the defending champion, but there were still signs of discomfort between points against Bublik.
A modest average service speed of 113mph suggested he was taking things carefully, but 29 winners at the net showed Murray was still able to move forward when necessary.
"With the adrenaline, it helps numb some pain that you might have and I moved well," Murray told BBC Sport.
"I thought I did pretty well for the first match."
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Bublik, 20, was not lacking in confidence, arriving for his Centre Court debut wearing headphones and clearly relishing the big stage.
However, the gulf in experience was vast, and it soon showed.
Bublik, ranked 135, had lost in qualifying but made it through as a lucky loser following withdrawals from the main draw, and was playing only his seventh Tour-level match.
He had two chances to unsettle the champion, and the home crowd, with break points in the opening game, but Murray steered his way calmly out of trouble and took control.
Two breaks of serve brought him the first set as he deftly moved his opponent around the court, while Bublik did not help his cause with some erratic play.
By the time he fell a break down in the second set, the Kazakh had hit nine aces but eight double faults, and 20 errors to just four from Murray.
There was a danger moment to overcome when Murray fell 0-40 down while serving for the second set, but one rasping forehand winner among five consecutive points brought him a two-set lead.
A rain delay threatened to disrupt his rhythm, but with the roof kept open he returned to win four of the next six games and seal a comfortable victory.
"I wasn't thinking about the rain too much. I felt comfortable underfoot," said Murray.
"In the first few days, normally the court is a bit lush and can be a bit slippy, but I didn't feel like I was losing my footing at all."
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In his post-match news conference, Murray was asked about fellow Briton Dan Evans, who last month revealed he had tested positive for cocaine.
Evans, the British number three, failed a drug test in April and was given a provisional suspension by the International Tennis Federation.
"It will be a difficult time for him but he put himself in that position," said Murray.
"The rules are very clear. He broke those rules, and deserves his suspension.
"You make your decisions. He's obviously made a really, really bad one there."
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The pair's history of animosity with Barcelona and Real Madrid in Spain's La Liga meant their first Premier League meeting since assuming control on either side of Manchester provided a colourful backdrop to the build-up to this derby.
And when the action got under way on the field, it was City who put a marker down and put Manchester United in their place with a peerless first 40 minutes followed by resilience to maintain their 100% start to the season.
This was always going to be much more than the Manchester derby - this was as much about Mourinho against Guardiola on the Premier League stage, fighting for supremacy in Manchester.
And this was Spaniard Guardiola's day on every level as City claimed the win and his celebrated methods were on show for all to see at Old Trafford, the fiercest enemy territory.
Mourinho was a chastened figure post-match, reduced to blaming referee Mark Clattenburg for not awarding two second half penalties for what he felt was City keeper Claudio Bravo's foul on Wayne Rooney and Nicolas Otamendi's handball.
It was an act of straw-clutching, although the Portuguese fully accepted City's first-half superiority when he admitted he and his players got it wrong.
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The bottom line is United were second best and this was something of a cold shower for the over-excitement of some who believed 'The Special One' could apply an instant fix to the faults of the past three seasons under David Moyes and Louis van Gaal.
Mourinho's decision to play Henrikh Mkhitaryan on the right in his first start since his £25m summer move from Borussia Dortmund was a dismal failure - and he admitted some of his players struggled to cope with "the dimension of the game".
The Armenia captain was removed at half-time in a reshuffle that also saw Jesse Lingard taken off, Marcus Rashford and Ander Herrera sent on, and the completely anonymous £89m midfield man Paul Pogba and Marouane Fellaini pushed forward, with Wayne Rooney shunted out to the right.
In other words - Mourinho's selection went wrong.
He said: "I had two or three players in the first half that, if I know what is going to happen, I don't play them. This is football, though, and sometimes players disappoint managers.
"It's my fault because I'm the manager and it's always my fault because it's my choice."
Guardiola was bold enough to play Kelechi Iheanacho as replacement for the suspended Sergio Aguero and the 19-year-old responded with his ninth goal from just 13 shots on target in the Premier League.
And his introduction of Fernando for the youngster after 53 minutes demonstrated a pragmatism that is often overlooked amid Guardiola's purist instincts. He was prepared to use a shield when required.
City were also prepared to work for their success, running a total of 119.63km in comparison to United's 111.34km. Guardiola demands the full package from his players.
It was not all perfect as his selection of the uncertain Claudio Bravo in goal ran a fine line with failure - but all's well that ends well.
The embraces with long-time foe Mourinho at the start and finish were cordial enough - and if Guardiola did get around to having that glass of wine in the Old Trafford manager's office when his media duties were completed it would have tasted sweet.
Manchester City made their intentions clear when they lured the most coveted man in management to Etihad Stadium - and Guardiola's team have wasted no time in making big statements of their own.
The Catalan has opened up with four straight Premier League wins, this victory at Old Trafford marking them out as the team to beat in the title race this season.
It is, of course, early days but City's ability to win with key players either suspended, injured or working their way to full fitness means a significant marker was put down in this derby win.
It was a win achieved without the banned Aguero and without influential captain Vincent Kompany who is nearing a return, as is summer signing Ilkay Gundogan, who was also absent.
Leroy Sane, the £37m summer signing from Schalke, made a lively appearance as a substitute here and will be a formidable force when fully fit.
John Stones was outstanding when United's second-half siege came, demonstrating why Guardiola was satisfied to spend £47.5m on the young England defender to bring him from Everton.
Kevin de Bruyne was also a key figure, scoring one goal and being involved in the other. He has been directly involved in 32 goals in 46 appearances for Manchester City, scoring 17 and assisting in 15.
And when Guardiola studies the statistics, an 81.8% passing success rate will please even this perfectionist, who expressed his satisfaction with this two-dimensional City display - glorious, clinical football in the first half and solid resilience in the second.
City restricted United to their fourth lowest home possession share in the Premier League since the 2003-04 season, just 39.9%
Manchester City's squad looked short of inspiration and motivation in the understated presence of Manuel Pellegrini last season - this problem looks to have been cured already by Guardiola.
It has been an impressive start. Those with Premier League title aspirations now know what they have to beat.
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Pep Guardiola has invested a lot of faith in Claudio Bravo after showing England goalkeeper Joe Hart the door and paying £17m to bring the 33-year-old Chile international from Barcelona.
It was, therefore, no surprise to hear Guardiola mounting a passionate defence of his man despite a performance that left City and their supporters living on their nerves.
In Bravo's defence, he has barely had any training sessions with his new team-mates and a debut at Old Trafford is always a daunting introduction.
Guardiola's backing for his keeper, while understandable, was at odds with a display that occasionally threatened to spread panic in City's ranks.
He was hesitant and occasionally too slow to clear with the ball at his feet and once he came from his line to claim a first-half free-kick, Bravo had to catch it. He did not, allowing Zlatan Ibrahimovic to score and give United hope.
Guardiola praised Bravo's willingness to take responsibility and is happy for his keeper to take a high-risk approach in exchange for the rewards he believes it brings.
It is too early to say whether Bravo will be an upgrade on the banished Hart but those who believe England's first-choice keeper has been sent into exile too soon will not have had their worries eased by this performance.
They will have to trust Guardiola's judgement - and he has not got anything wrong so far.
While Mourinho bemoaned those players who struggled to cope with the unique demands of the Manchester derby, he had no such complaints about Marcus Rashford.
Mourinho said the 18-year-old looked like he was "playing against Salford City under-18s" in a second half performance that combined pace and a fearless approach - and almost an equaliser only for an offside Zlatan Ibrahimovic to get a touch on his goal-bound shot.
The question will continue and the clamour will grow for Rashford to start in an area of Mourinho's squad that is starting to look over-crowded.
Rashford was the player who put City on the back foot with his speed. It will be one of Mourinho's most urgent tasks to integrate this brilliant young talent into his team.
It then begs further questions, with Ibrahimovic seemingly untouchable as the main man, about where Rooney fits in and how Mourinho can shuffle his resources to maximise the potential of Rashford, Antony Martial, Mkhitaryan and Juan Mata.
Ibrahimovic had all of United's three shots on target as well as four of their six off target, so it is likely to a case of who plays with the 34-year-old Swede.
Rashford, on this showing, cannot be denied his starting place for much longer.
Father-of-two Sean Kelly, 37, from Cardiff, died in hospital on Sunday following a serious assault in Theodora Street, Adamsdown on Thursday.
An 18-year-old and 45-year-old have been charged with murder.
Both men, from the Cardiff area, are due to appear at the city's magistrates' court on Wednesday, South Wales Police said.
Following his death at the University Hospital of Wales, Mr Kelly's family paid tribute to "a fun loving guy".
In a statement, they added: "He was a great son, father, brother and uncle. He was a doting dad to his two children and he's going to be extremely missed by all."
An injury-hit Irish squad is in South Africa for a three-test series having never beaten the Springboks away.
Ireland play South Africa at Newlands on Saturday in the first test.
"It's important if we want to do better than getting to the quarter-final of the next World Cup," said coach Easterby.
"We have to beat them outside of Dublin."
Ireland's last match away against one of the three southern hemisphere giants was a record 60-0 defeat in Hamilton by the All Blacks four years ago.
Their last win over one of the 'big three' was at the 2011 World Cup in New Zealand when they beat Australia and Easterby believes they must start to get those results more regularly.
"We need to start to build that now, not three years time when it comes to the World Cup.
"We need to beat them outside of Dublin.
"It has got to be something we are striving towards now. It's a fantastic challenge for everybody."
Ireland have travelled without injured key players like Johnny Sexton, Tommy Bowe, Sean O'Brien, Cian Healy, Rob Kearney and Simon Zebo.
Easterby claims they have accepted the injury situation and must learn to adapt to a difficult environment.
"The players understand that it is going to be different to what we are used to.
"The Six Nations Championship is a credible tournament with a lot of parochial rivalries but down here we are a long way from home.
"We want to come and lay down a marker and make a statement over the next three weeks. The squad will want to leave here feeling like we have achieved something."
Ireland also play the Springboks in Johannesburg on June 18 and Port Elizabeth on June 25.
He was removed as the head of The Energy and Resources Institute in Delhi (TERI) in July when a female employee accused him of harassment.
However, he was recently awarded a newly-created senior post at TERI.
The latest accusation by a second employee has caused widespread outrage.
Dr Pachauri has denied all accusations against him.
"Dr RK Pachauri, who had been at the head of the institute since 1982 will be on leave from TERI, TERI Governing Council, and TERI University till this is reviewed by the Governing Council given the subjudice nature of the matter," the think tank said in a statement on Friday evening.
Earlier this week, TERI appointed Mr Pachauri to a newly-created post of executive vice chairman, after his successor took over his previous position as director general.
The latest complaint by a former employee came just after news of his new job emerged.
In a statement issued by her lawyers, the woman who joined TERI in 2003 and worked there for over a year accused Mr Pachauri of making "sexually loaded remarks", kissing her forcibly and asking "intrusive questions" about her personal life.
She described him as a "serial sexual harasser" and said harassment by Mr Pachauri was an "open secret" in the think tank.
After the first accusation was made in February last year, a court barred Mr Pachauri from TERI's offices. It later allowed him to return while still on bail, on condition that he stayed away from his alleged victim. He was also removed as chief of TERI for a year.
He resigned as the head of the UN climate change panel in the wake of the allegations.
In 2007 he collected the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the organisation, for its work in the scientific assessment of the risks and causes of climate change.
The IPCC shared the award with former US vice-president and environmental campaigner, Al Gore.
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The 23-year-old beat Sweden's Nikita Glasnovic in the -57kg final to claim gold in Switzerland on Friday.
"I'm absolutely over the moon. The road to Rio has been harder than it was for London, so to tick that off my list and be European champion, I feel on top of the world," Jones told BBC Sport.
"Rio is going to be really hard, but I believe on my day I can win."
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Jones won 11-5 in a one-sided final to take gold having previously earned two bronze medals and one silver in the continental event.
A quick start gave the Welsh athlete a three-point advantage and a trademark head shot early in the second doubled her lead and effectively sealed the contest against one of her chief rivals for the Olympic crown.
Bianca Walkden and Mahama Cho have also secured their places at this summer's Olympic Games. The final place will go to either Lutalo Muhammad and Damon Sansum.
Sacha Parkin admitted he wrote to SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh and also named a young child he said he wanted to abuse.
The 46-year-old, from Perth, was placed on the Sex Offenders Register for three years.
He was also banned from owning more than one computer and mobile phone.
Perth Sheriff Court heard that Parkin had also written in the email: "I'm not being funny. Why are you and your colleagues, including Nicola Sturgeon, being so stupid?"
The police were called in and Parkin was arrested. He told officers he was trying to get help for people who needed it.
Parkin admitted sending an offensive email to Ellen Forson, for the attention of the MP, in which he outlined his sexual attraction to children.
Fiscal depute Lisa Marshall previously told Perth Sheriff Court: "The complainer is the office manager at the SNP office in Alloa and works with Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh.
"Miss Forson contacted the police after receiving the email from the accused, which had the subject heading 'How the SNP can help reduce child sexual exploitation.'
Sheriff William Wood prevented further details of the email, which is understood to contain graphic content, being read out in open court.
The court was told that Parkin had recently been diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome and was now undergoing mental health treatment for his difficulties.
In March this year, Parkin was given a community payback order after he admitted telling the NSPCC charity helpline he had fantasies about abusing and murdering children.
Parkin later told police he was "struggling to control" his thoughts and wanted support.
The eggs are alleged to have been stolen from a collector in eastern Zhejiang province.
One of the suspects, known only by his surname of Wang, is alleged to have visited the collector while feigning interest in making a purchase.
All four suspects are all now in custody. They are accused of dividing the eggs between them, Xinhua reported.
Mr Wang is accused of taking taking 27 eggs to his home in Heilongjiang province where they were recovered by police. But the remainder - about 50 eggs - are not accounted for.
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Three of the suspects are accused of helping Mr Wang steal the eggs on the evening of 9 January and then fleeing to Shanghai.
China is one of the world's biggest sources of fossils, especially the southern city of Heyuan,
Many fossils found in China and nearby Mongolia are often exported illegally and sold for large profits to collectors.
The Northern Irishman shot a bogey-free four-under 66 while overnight leader Johnson carded a one-under 69 that included a double bogey at 16.
Victory for Johnson would see him secure the $10m (£7.7m) prize money on offer in the FedEx Cup.
McIlroy is one of three others who could claim that season-ending bonus.
Johnson, the US Open champion, had trebled his one-shot overnight lead by the turn thanks to birdies at the fourth, fifth and sixth.
But dropped shots at the 14th and 15th saw his advantage cut before a wayward tee shot at the 16th contributed to two more dropped shots.
McIlroy, meanwhile, continued his good form on the back nine at the East Lake Golf Club with birdies at 13, 16 and 18.
The world number three was joined on six under by American Ryan Moore, who also shot a 66.
Patrick Reed, Adam Scott and England's Paul Casey are the other players who could win the FedEx Cup at the final PGA Tour event of the season.
Of those, Casey is best placed, but a one-under 69 leaves him trailing the leaders by five shots.
World number one Jason Day was also a contender, until he withdrew with a back injury during Friday's second round.
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Ex-Southampton player Gobern, 25, who joins from Mansfield Town, has signed a deal until the end of the season.
Lalkovic, 24, joins on loan from Portsmouth, who signed him from Walsall last season.
The additions follow Wednesday's captures of St Mirren full-back Jason Naismith and Shrewsbury Town winger Jim O'Brien.
"Milan is an exciting left-winger who gets forward and puts teams on the back foot," Staggies boss Jim McIntyre told the club website.
"He comes with a great pedigree having played for a number of big clubs in England and Europe, including Chelsea and Portsmouth. We tried to bring Milan in during the summer so when he became available we moved for him immediately.
"Oscar is left-footed, plays in centre midfield and at six foot three brings a real presence. He is another one we looked at in the summer so we had no hesitation in moving for him when he became available.
"Mansfield offered him a contract extension, but we are delighted he has chosen to move to Dingwall."
The 63-year-old Genesis star said he had amassed more than 200 artefacts after becoming fascinated with the 1836 battle as a child.
Collins said he was donating the collection - thought to be the largest in private hands - to ensure it was better cared for in the future.
It includes items such as a rifle owned by folk hero Davy Crockett.
At an event announcing the donation in San Antonio, Collins joked he had spent "all the money I made from music" on his collection related to the battle where 1,500 Mexican troops laid siege to 200 Texans fighting for Texas independence.
"Some people would buy Ferraris, some people would buy houses, I bought old bits of metal and old bits of paper," he said. He explained he first became interested in the Alamo after watching the 1950s TV series Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier.
"I've had a love affair with this place since I was about 5 years old. It's [all] at my home, in my basement in Switzerland. I look at it every day, but no one else was enjoying it."
The collection also includes Crockett's leather shot pouch, a pair of powder horns which the soldier is believed to have given to a Mexican officer before his death, muskets belonging to Mexican soldiers and one of the original Bowie knives, made famous by Alamo defender Jim Bowie.
Texas land commissioner Jerry Patterson said Collins would pay to ship the collection to Texas with the understanding the state would use public funding and private donations to redevelop the Alamo site - including a new building to house the collection.
The collection will begin arriving in Texas in the next few months and will be displayed on a rotating basis at the museum.
Collins said he would continue buying Alamo memorabilia and "once I've lived with whatever I buy for a month, I'll ship it over here".
It has been suggested he would quit before the 2021 assembly election.
But Mr Jones told BBC Wales a change of Welsh Government during Brexit was "the last thing that should happen".
At the party's Welsh conference, Shadow Welsh Secretary Christina Rees praised Labour councils' record, but said May's local elections would be "tough".
She was speaking on the final day of the conference in Llandudno on Sunday.
Speaking from the event, Bridgend AM Mr Jones told the Sunday Politics Wales programme there was a "lot of work to do" over leaving the European Union.
"I just turned 50," he said. "I'm still much younger than Theresa May, younger than David Cameron.
"There's a lot of work to do particularly with Brexit.
"I'm still as enthusiastic as I ever was, and I've given no thought as to when I stand down."
Mr Jones, who became Labour leader in 2009, said: "What I'm absolutely focused on now is delivering the best deal for Brexit.
"The last thing that should happen is for there to be a sudden change in government in Wales or for anywhere else for that matter.
"We need to make sure that people who have been there for a while who've seen what's happened in the past - and I know I'm the longest serving head of government in the UK - then we can get a the point where we have not a hard Brexit, not a soft Brexit, but a sensible Brexit."
The conference later backed a call to formalise Mr Jones's role as Welsh Labour leader, in a vote delayed from Saturday after a problem with voting cards.
Until now, although he has been described as Labour leader in Wales, his official title was leader of the party's assembly group.
Making her first speech to the conference as shadow Welsh secretary, since being appointed by Jeremy Corbyn in February, Ms Rees said she understood how important councillors were.
"You deliver public services in a climate where the UK Tory government has slashed the Welsh Assembly's block grant," she said
"In spite of brutal Tory cuts from Westminster, our Labour councils have a proud record of delivery across Wales.
"Our Welsh Labour government has supported local authorities across the country and each Welsh Labour council has worked hard to maintain vital local services, invest in regeneration, and to provide buildings and facilities that are fit for the future."
Calling the local elections on 4 May "tough" for the party, Ms Rees said she was being "positive" about them.
Labour currently has a majority of 10 of Wales' 22 councils and runs minority administrations in a further two, with Mr Jones admitting it will be difficult to avoid losses.
Akbar went missing on Sunday on the island of Sulawesi, after leaving to harvest palm oil.
In the search for the 25-year-old, police told BBC Indonesian that they had found a huge snake they suspected had swallowed the man.
The reticulated python, reported to be 7m (23ft)-long, was cut open and the man's body was found.
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Mashura, a spokesperson for the police in West Sulawesi province told BBC Indonesian that villagers reported to police that Akbar had been missing for 24 hours.
Police then conducted a search and found the snake near the family's palm plantation.
"They didn't find him (Akbar), but the villagers saw an unmoving python in the ditch. They grew suspicious that maybe the snake had Akbar. When they cut it open, Akbar was inside the snake," Mashura, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, said.
Village secretary Salubiro Junaidi told The Jakarta Post: "People had heard cries from the palm grove the night before Akbar was found in the snake's stomach.
"When the snake was captured, the boots Akbar was wearing were clearly visible in the stomach of the snake.
"Resident[s] cut open the belly of the snake and Akbar was lifeless."
Nia Kurniawan, from Brawijaya University, told BBC Indonesian that a python of this size would hunt for large prey, such as boars or wild dogs.
While they normally avoid human settlements, they would see palm oil plantations as a good hunting ground, he said, as they attract animals like boars, primates or dogs.
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Chuanfang Zheng had been trusted to babysit seven-month-old Phoebe Guo at a flat in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, on 22 March 2015.
The baby became unconsciousness and died four days later.
Zheng, 31, of Mortlock Close, Southwark, London, will be sentenced on 24 February.
The judge warned her she could expect a long prison sentence.
Det Ch Insp Natalee Wignall, who led the investigation, said that while the conviction "would not bring Phoebe back", justice had been done.
Leicester Crown Court was told Phoebe suffered "significant bleeding" on the brain and behind the eye within half an hour of being left with Zheng.
Adrian Langdale, prosecuting, said it would never be possible to establish exactly what happened behind closed doors that evening.
"Chuanfang Zheng must have caused significant abusive head trauma described historically as 'shaken baby' and described by an expert as being 'very much at the severe end of the range'," he said.
"It would have been immediately apparent to Chuanfang Zheng what she had done."
With the unconscious baby in her arms, Zheng ran to a Chinese takeaway next door on Linden Drive where the baby's parents worked.
Phoebe was then rushed by car to hospital and there were '"extensive" medical efforts to save her, the court heard.
However, she died four days later from her severe injuries, having never regained consciousness.
The jury was told Zheng made a concerted effort to lie about the events leading up to the incident and had tried to cover up her actions.
Zheng also tried to blame the mother's efforts to resuscitate the baby for causing the serious injuries.
Commenting on the case, the NSPCC warned that "just a moment's loss of control" can result in a tragedy.
An NSPCC spokesman said: "There is no excuse for a carer to inflict such appalling injuries no matter what pressure they might be experiencing."
The actor suffered a heart attack and was found at his home in California on Sunday.
Pugsley was the oldest child of Gomez and Morticia Addams in the 1960s TV series.
The show featured a family of macabre oddballs who believed they were normal, and was famed for its catchy finger-snapping theme song.
The dysfunctional family were first created by cartoonist Charles Addams in the New Yorker magazine.
The characters were made into a TV show, which aired on ABC from 1964 to 1966, had a total of 64 episodes.
Weatherwax, who also voiced the role of Pugsley in an animated version of the series in the 1970s, played Pugsley senior in a TV special Halloween With the New Addams Family in 1977..
Three films based on the show were made during the 1990s. The first two starred Anjelica Huston, the late Raul Julia and Christopher Lloyd, while the third, released for TV in 1998, featured Darryl Hannah and Tim Curry.
Following his role in The Addams Family, Weatherwax featured in several TV commercials and served in the army.
He also worked for Universal Studios as a grip - providing support to camera operatives - according to his niece Shanyn Viera.
In a 2007 interview on Fox News, Weatherwax said he enjoyed taking on the role of Pugsley but found it hard to find work because of typecasting.
Weatherwax also said he had been teased at school about his character's name.
He retired a few years ago for medical reasons, Ms Vieira added.
Scottish Labour, the Scottish Conservatives and the Scottish Lib Dems said Scots did not want another ballot despite SNP claims it had a mandate.
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale dismissed claims she had not been clear on the issue.
And Ruth Davidson ruled out any second ballot until after 2021.
The SNP has said it has a mandate to hold a second referendum, despite the 2014 vote being a "once in a generation" event.
It said it included the right to hold another independence ballot in the event of a "material" change to Scotland's circumstances.
It insisted that the Brexit vote, in which 62% in Scotland voted to remain in the EU, a majority, albeit reduced at Holyrood last year, and a vote in March by the Scottish Parliament to stage another referendum, constituted a mandate.
Speaking on the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland Ms Dugdale, who has previously said Labour MPs and MSPs could campaign for independence if a second referendum was staged, insisted she would block any second ballot.
She said: "Everywhere I go I meet people who are distressed, upset and worried about the instability a second referendum would cause and indeed the damage independence would cause.
"We have been very clear we are opposed to independence and a second independence referendum.
"The reality is now, our job is to block a referendum here in Scotland. Because the people of Scotland don't want it, nor do they want independence."
And Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson who has seen her party stage an electoral revival on the back of her vocal opposition to another independence vote, said she did not believe the SNP had a mandate for a second referendum.
She insisted on the programme that there was no "public consent" to hold another vote and if there had to be one it could only be after 2021 at the earliest.
She said: "the SNP are going to argue for another referendum till the cows come home. I don't accept they have a mandate. There has got to be both political and public consent for this."
And she said there could not be any second vote held until after a Brexit deal had been negotiated and its effects "played out on the ground" including the new powers devolved from the EU back to Scotland.
She added: "I am absolutely not going to advocate for this to be held in the next while or within the next generation."
And Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie joined in the chorus against staging a second referendum while campaigning in East Dunbartonshire.
He said: "The Scottish economy is teetering on the edge of a recession, the performance of Scottish education is dropping down the international rankings and mental health services are failing to deliver the care we expect.
"People should use their vote to change the direction of the country away from another divisive independence referendum."
But SNP deputy leader Angus Robertson, said there was only one way for Scotland's "voice to be heard" adding: "Scotland needs MPs who will speak up for what is right, not simply do whatever Theresa May tells them.
"Now more than ever, it is vital to have strong SNP voices standing up for Scotland at Westminster."
Shabir Ahmed, 59, of Oldham, was one of nine men convicted of sex offences against children at Liverpool Crown Court in May.
He was not named at the time because he faced further charges, but was jailed for 19 years.
He has been found guilty at Manchester Crown Court of raping and sexually abusing a girl for more than a decade.
Prosecuting, Rachel Smith said Ahmed, of Windsor Road, had treated his victim as a "possession" which he used for his own sexual gratification.
She said he had been "a violent and controlling man" who had abused the girl on "an almost weekly basis".
"She tried to make him stop, but it was to no avail," she said.
The court was told the victim felt a sense of shame about what happened to her, which had stopped her reporting it to the police for many years.
Ms Smith said the reality of what he had done "was never far from her thoughts" and that she had described "having dreams about it".
Judge Mushtaq Khokhar adjourned sentencing until August to allow for the preparation of a pre-sentence report.
Speaking after the verdict, Det Ch Supt Mary Doyle said Ahmed's victim had "shown phenomenal bravery to come forward and tell the police about what happened to her".
"We already knew Ahmed was an integral part of the Rochdale grooming case - now we can also say his horrific campaign of abuse began many years ago with the systematic rape of this one victim," she said.
Ahmed was one of the nine men from Rochdale and Oldham who were found guilty of exploiting girls as young as 13 at two takeaway restaurants in the Heywood area of Rochdale.
Ms Doyle said he had been "the ringleader of a loosely connected on-street grooming ring" and had been "the common denominator in a group of men who raped and abused girls aged between 13 and 17 at the time of the offences".
The case sparked protests and vandalism in Heywood and caused national debate about the safety of children in care and whether race was a factor in on-street grooming.
Ahmed was found guilty at Liverpool Crown Court of two rapes, aiding and abetting rape, sexual assault and trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation.
Sentencing him in May, Judge Gerald Clifton said Ahmed was an "unpleasant and hypocritical bully" who had ordered a 15-year-old girl to have sex with one of his fellow gang members as a birthday "treat".
Nama, the Irish National Assets Management Agency, was behind the biggest property deal in the history of Northern Ireland in 2014.
Spotlight reporter Mandy McAuley uncovered secret recordings exposing hidden dealings during the transaction.
It won a prestigious Royal Television Society (RTS) Journalism Award.
The programme team were presented with the RTS Nations and Regions Current Affairs award at a ceremony in London on Wednesday night.
Peter Johnston, Director BBC Northern Ireland said: "This recognition from the Royal Television Society continues Spotlight's long tradition of making award-winning programmes and is a reflection of the dedication of our Spotlight team producing hard-hitting, high quality investigative journalism."
The heads of almost every school in Essex, West Sussex, East Sussex and Cornwall have written a joint letter warning of budgets at "breaking point".
They say it will mean staff cuts, bigger class sizes and fewer support services, such as for mental health.
The Department for Education says school spending is at record levels.
The letter, sent to MPs and parents, from the heads of more than a thousand schools, accuses the Department for Education of being "entirely irresponsible" over school finances.
"School leaders from Penzance to Bognor Regis to Eastbourne and onto Colchester are joining together and are united by a common purpose; we all want adequate funding for every school," says the letter.
It calls on local MPs to support their schools' campaigns for better funding.
Heads have been protesting that school budgets have failed to keep up with rising costs - highlighting a National Audit Office report of a £3bn funding gap.
The heads were further angered when this week's Budget allocated £360m extra funds for new free schools and grammars, but nothing more for running costs for existing schools.
The West Sussex school funding campaign said the decision was "little short of disgraceful".
The joint letter from heads says they are no closer to any "meaningful proposals" to address the "school funding crisis".
The letter has been sent to MPs across the four authorities, many of whom represent Conservative heartland constituencies.
The letter calls on MPs to vote to ensure that all schools have an adequate level of funding and that spending plans are "credible".
It warns that schools will have to make cuts in staff, subjects and pastoral care for pupils with mental health problems.
"It is also misleading for the DfE to continue to state that more is being spent on education when in fact, real terms cuts are occurring," say the head teachers.
The letter to MPs asks them to examine the priorities for school spending.
It highlights £120m for four land purchases for free schools, £384m for subsequently abandoned plans to make all schools academies and £150m for the expansion of grammar schools.
Schools in other parts of England have been warning parents about running out of cash.
In Warrington, pupils from 11 schools have recorded a song about their concerns about funding levels, called "Funds, glorious funds," which has been put on to YouTube.
The Education Secretary Justine Greening is due to speak to the ASCL head teachers' union conference on Friday.
The Department for Education says school funding is higher than ever before - more than £40bn for 2016-17 and rising with extra pupil numbers to £42bn next year.
"We are going to end the historic post code lottery in school funding and under the proposed national schools funding formula, more than half of England's schools will receive a cash boost," said a Department for Education spokeswoman.
"West Sussex, Cornwall, East Sussex and Essex would all see an increase in funding, totalling over £47 million for schools in those areas.
"We recognise that schools are facing cost pressures, which is why we will continue to provide support to help them use their funding in cost effective ways, including improving the way they buy goods and services, so they get the best possible value."
In her inaugural address, Ms Rousseff, 67, vowed to extend social welfare programmes that have lifted millions out of poverty.
She also promised to investigate a major corruption scandal involving state-run oil company Petrobras.
Ms Rousseff, a left-wing economist who was arrested and tortured under military rule, was re-elected by a narrow margin in a run-off vote.
Thousands of Ms Rousseff's supporters turned up for the ceremony in the capital, Brasilia.
Many were wearing the red colour of Ms Rousseff's Workers' Party (PT), which has been in power since 2003.
While most of the country woke up drowsy after the New Year celebrations, Brazil's capital rose early to prepare for the solemn inaugural events that launched President Dilma Rousseff into the start of her second term.
Ms Rousseff's new mandate starts amid a grim mood with problems ranging from a stagnating economy to the major corruption scandal hitting Brazil's oil giant Petrobras, once considered the jewel in the Brazilian crown.
But even with this atmosphere, and after a narrow victory that divided the country, Ms Rousseff went ahead and announced a controversial cabinet.
Critics say she has distributed posts to please the parties of the government's coalition rather than appointments based on political expertise.
It seems to be the old way of doing politics in Brazil.
Ms Rousseff travelled in an open-top car from the official residence, the Alvorada Palace, to the National Congress building, waving to thousands of people who lined the streets.
"We have lifted 36 million people from extreme poverty," she told lawmakers in the Congress building.
"It is time to pursue new goals. Brazilians want high-quality health and education services, security and that corruption be tackled.
The motto for her second term will be "Brazil, a country of education," Ms Rousseff announced.
She also promised to get the economy growing again, but said millions of jobs had been created in Brazil over the past four years "despite difficult circumstances" in the world economy.
Representatives from more than 130 countries attended the swearing-in ceremony, which also saw Vice-President Michel Temer take his oath.
The presidents of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro; Uruguay, Jose Mujica; Bolivia, Evo Morales, and Chile, Michelle Bachelet were among the leaders present.
US Vice President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Li Yuanchao also attended, according to Agencia Brasil.
Ms Rousseff won 51.6% of the vote in October, edging out centre-right candidate Aecio Neves, who took 48.4%.
Her government faces a challenge from the ongoing Petrobras scandal, which emerged during the election campaign.
Ms Rousseff served as chair of the Petrobras board for seven years until 2010, but has denied any knowledge of wrongdoing.
So far, 39 people have been indicted on charges that include corruption, money laundering and racketeering.
They are accused of forming a cartel to drive up the prices of major Petrobras infrastructure projects and of channelling more than $3.9bn (£2.5bn) money into a kickback scheme at Petrobras to pay politicians.
"Corruption must be wiped out," Ms Rousseff said in her swearing-in speech, adding that Petrobras must be better managed but also defended "from its internal predators and also from its external enemies".
"That is why we will carry out a thorough investigation and avoid that a similar scandal happens again," she said.
In her first four-year term, Ms Rousseff enjoyed the benefits of the social policies initiated by her predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who was constitutionally barred from seeking a third term.
But economic growth declined over the past two years and discontent with spending for the 2014 football World Cup and the 2016 Olympics in Rio led to months of street protests.
Italy appointed Conte boss in 2014 and he will stand down after Euro 2016.
Guidolin said he was unaware he had been touted as a possible successor to Conte, who is tipped to join Chelsea.
"These are rumours. At the moment I think only about Swansea to help my team, my club and my players," said Guidolin.
"I can say though, two years ago before Conte took over at the national team we were in similar positions to get the job.
"In the end Conte got it, but I was very very close.
"I am happy if my name is on the list, but I don't know anything about it."
Guidolin will return to the touchline for Swansea on Saturday for the first time since being admitted to hospital with a chest infection.
He took training for the first time since his return to club duties on Wednesday and confirmed all decisions regarding team selection and substitutions will now be made by him.
Guidolin has also denied any decisions over his future at the club beyond the end of this season have already been made amid reports suggesting he will leave the Liberty Stadium in the summer.
"It is not a problem for me, I have an agreement with my chairman and it is very clear," he added.
"The future is not important at the moment, only now.
"The chairman called me two months ago and asked me to help the club, the team and the players.
"I am doing that. My head and my heart is in this situation. Other things are not important.
"I agreed with my chairman that I will work for four months and then we can look at other situations.
"But it is important at the moment that we only save Swansea City in the Premier League."
Swansea go into Saturday's match against Aston Villa eight points clear of the relegation zone.
"But they will once again be without Ghanaian forward Andre Ayew who is still struggling with the ankle injury that forced him to miss last weekend's defeat at Bournemouth."
Ian Stewart, 55, of Baldock Road, Royston, has also been charged with perverting the course of justice and preventing lawful burial in April.
A post-mortem examination is due to take place on Monday. Searches at the 51-year-old's home in Royston continue.
Mr Stewart appeared before Hatfield Remand Court on Saturday.
He was remanded in custody to appear at St Albans Crown Court on Monday.
Northumberland-born Ms Bailey created the Electra Brown series for teenagers and also wrote a blog called Planet Grief after her husband of 22 years drowned on holiday in Barbados in 2011.
She was last seen walking her pet dachshund near her home on 11 April.
It is now understood the body of the dog was also found during a search of the grounds.
Hertfordshire Police said they would not be commenting on exactly where Ms Bailey's body was discovered, or how the dog died.
In a statement released by police on Saturday, her family said: "We share with Helen's friends, neighbours and fans our shock, disbelief and sadness at the news of her tragic death.
"As a family we also stand in solidarity with those around the world who have also suffered loss under tragic circumstances.
"Helen was immensely witty and talented. We love her deeply and are immensely proud of her achievements. She is now at peace and we shall all miss her terribly.
"We wish to express our gratitude to the police as well as all those who supported us in the search for Helen in whatever way they could."
Flowers have been left outside Ms Bailey's home.
A handwritten card on one bouquet says: "Heartfelt wishes are with your family. Tragic news. From a neighbour."
Another reads: "Helen, you are now at peace at last. With love, thoughts and prayers for your family and friends xx".
Substantive talks brokered by the United Nations with the aim of reuniting Cyprus start on Wednesday, after a lengthy period of stalemate.
The recent election of Mustafa Akinci as Turkish Cypriot leader is widely seen as a game-changer - one that has significantly increased the chances of finding a solution.
His first act on assuming office was to abolish the "entry visa" for visitors to northern Cyprus - something that had long angered Greek Cypriots.
For the first time since Greek Cypriots rejected the UN's 2004 reunification plan, the communities now have leaders with both the will and political acumen necessary to reach a solution.
The sight of Mr Akinci and the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Greek Cypriot Nicos Anastasiades, sitting together at a theatre in the southern city of Limassol, clearly relaxed and enjoying one another's company, sent a message to both sides that they were ready to do business.
Mr Akinci, an astute pragmatist, well-versed in the art of the possible, cut his political teeth as mayor of Nicosia in the aftermath of the 1974 Turkish invasion. The city had effectively been divided in two and its integrated sewage system had stopped working.
There was a strong stench in the air and the threat of an imminent health crisis. Mr Akinci and his Greek Cypriot counterpart succeeded in fixing it. On the face of it, a prosaic, but mutually beneficial arrangement.
But this was at a time of heightened tension, when Greek and Turkish Cypriots were angry and frightened.
The conflict was still uppermost in people's minds. There were no telephone lines between the two sides and any kind of official meeting between the two men was out of the question.
By night Mr Akinci secretly crossed the mined buffer zone dividing Nicosia, for private meetings at the Greek Cypriot mayor's home.
Like Mr Akinci, President Anastasiades is an experienced politician. A political heavyweight, who is capable of being combative, he is not afraid to speak his mind.
He was one of a handful in his party to endorse the doomed UN reunification plan, and more recently pushed through painful economic reforms - a condition of the recent IMF bailout - in the face of considerable public opposition.
So, with two pragmatic pro-solution leaders, the odds should be very good indeed. Except, as ever with Cyprus, it is a bit more complicated. The problem is getting all the squares on the Rubik's cube aligned simultaneously.
Mr Akinci, despite having a public mandate to reach a deal, has Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan looking over his shoulder.
The Turkish Cypriot leader has already said he believes that the traditionally close relationship between northern Cyprus and its "motherland" Turkey should move towards a more fraternal "brother-sister" relationship. So differences of opinion with Turkey can be expected.
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Mr Anastasiades, for his part, would have to win over an electorate which is historically suspicious of Turkey and is now smarting from the financial crisis of 2013.
He has repeatedly emphasised that a political solution would bring significant economic benefits. But the recent hardship has only deepened Greek Cypriots' mistrust of their leaders.
Both men need to deal with the fact that little has been done to educate the public about what living together would actually mean.
Dr James Ker-Lindsay of the London School of Economics says that "for many observers, the key question is whether a united front will emerge to take on the hardline opponents to a deal".
Mr Akinci and Mr Anastasiades may well be the best hope for reunification in several decades, but they are not there yet.
Despite the optimism, there are now several generations of Greek and Turkish Cypriots who have no experience of living together and have passed through education systems that teach Greek and Turkish patriotism, rather than emphasising a shared Cypriot identity.
Tabitha Morgan is a Cyprus analyst and author of Sweet and Bitter Island: A history of the British in Cyprus.
Dean Doherty came off his bike on Sunday at a dirt track in Magilligan. He was airlifted to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.
Doctors have told the family that he suffered serious spinal injuries.
His brother, Erol, said they are praying for a full recovery.
"He went in for surgery today (Monday) and they somehow secured his spine in place," he said.
"The doctors said he has a chance of walking, they said might walk, they didn't say for definite."
Erol said the family were remaining hopeful and that there were some good signs.
"The spinal cord is intact which is a good thing," he said.
"He has a little bit of feeling in his legs. We're hoping through physiotherapy that things will get better but the doctors reminded us that it's an uphill struggle."
Erol first became aware of the accident after a phone call from his mother.
"My mum was ringing me up and crying and saying he had been in some kind of motorbike accident," said Erol
"It was on his scrambler at a circuit he was on, the bike had somehow left him and, whatever way it had fallen, he had fallen on his pelvis and that had pushed up into the back of his spine.
"It just goes to show you the danger of bikes."
The family have said they are receiving lots of messages of support and said they were grateful for all the well wishes and prayers.
The bottom club's full-back broke his leg in a first-half challenge by Isco.
Cristiano Ronaldo slotted a shot under goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu to put the visitors in front, but Sergio Leon ran clear to chip an equaliser.
Isco then darted on to a loose ball to steer a shot inside the far post, and Lucas Vazquez chipped in a late third.
A few minutes before Isco's goal, Real wing-back Danilo was carried off with an ankle injury, having been caught by David Garcia, Tano's replacement.
Real's victory moved them a point ahead of Barcelona, with two games in hand, hours after Luis Enrique's side had gone top by winning 6-0 at Alaves.
It was an untidy performance from Real, who looked uncomfortable with the 3-5-2 formation that manager Zinedine Zidane chose to go with at first.
They looked far better when they reverted to their usual 4-3-3 set-up after Danilo was replaced by James Rodriguez.
Keylor Navas, the visitors' keeper, had to be sharp on several occasions, getting down to push aside Fausto Tienza's deflected shot when the game was goalless, and saving well as on-loan Newcastle forward Emmanuel Riviere fired at goal on the turn just before half-time.
Navas was on form again shortly after half-time as goalscorer Leon cut in from the right to hit a left-footed curler towards the far corner, and dived full length to his left to save the striker's 20-yard shot in the final 10 minutes.
Sirigu, the goalkeeper Osasuna signed on loan from Paris St-Germain in January, reacted brilliantly at the other end to stop Karim Benzema at point-blank range in the first half, and prevented Ronaldo getting his second as he ran clear in the final 20 minutes.
Sadly, though, the game will be remembered chiefly for the injury to Tano, in what looked nothing worse than a committed challenge by Isco.
It was clear immediately that the defender had broken his leg, and both sets of players were visibly upset by the incident.
Osasuna, on their third coach of the season in Petar Vasiljevic, look certain to be relegated at the end of the season, but can take encouragement from a spirited performance in defeat.
Match ends, Osasuna 1, Real Madrid 3.
Second Half ends, Osasuna 1, Real Madrid 3.
Goal! Osasuna 1, Real Madrid 3. Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Marcelo.
Goran Causic (Osasuna) is shown the yellow card.
James Rodríguez (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Goran Causic (Osasuna).
Attempt missed. Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) left footed shot from very close range is too high. Assisted by James Rodríguez.
Attempt saved. Emmanuel Rivière (Osasuna) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jaime Romero.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Mateo Kovacic replaces Isco.
Foul by Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid).
Oier (Osasuna) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Sergio León (Osasuna) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nikola Vujadinovic.
Attempt missed. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by James Rodríguez.
Isco (Real Madrid) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Goran Causic (Osasuna).
Casemiro (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Oier (Osasuna).
Offside, Real Madrid. James Rodríguez tries a through ball, but Cristiano Ronaldo is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid) header from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by James Rodríguez with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Salvatore Sirigu.
Attempt saved. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Marcelo with a through ball.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Jaime Romero (Osasuna) because of an injury.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Lucas Vázquez replaces Karim Benzema.
Isco (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jaime Romero (Osasuna).
Offside, Real Madrid. Nacho tries a through ball, but Cristiano Ronaldo is caught offside.
Goal! Osasuna 1, Real Madrid 2. Isco (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
James Rodríguez (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by James Rodríguez (Real Madrid).
David García (Osasuna) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Osasuna. Raoul Loé replaces Fausto.
Foul by Casemiro (Real Madrid).
Emmanuel Rivière (Osasuna) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Alex Berenguer (Osasuna) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is high and wide to the right.
Substitution, Real Madrid. James Rodríguez replaces Danilo because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Danilo (Real Madrid) because of an injury.
Foul by Raphael Varane (Real Madrid).
Sergio León (Osasuna) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Victoria, who was joined by her husband and parents for the investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace, was recognised for her 17-year career.
Former heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill was made a Dame, and celebrated actor Mark Rylance received a knighthood.
David Beckham, former England football captain, was made an OBE in 2003.
On being given the title, Victoria said: "It was an absolute pleasure to be at Buckingham Palace today. I'm proud to be British, honoured and humbled to receive my OBE from the Duke of Cambridge.
"If you dream big and work hard you can accomplish great things.
"I'm so happy to share this very special occasion with my parents and husband; without their love and support, none of this would be possible."
Earlier this year, several of the British press printed details of leaked emails in which David Beckham criticised the honours system and the honours committee.
A spokesman for David Beckham said at the time that the emails were "hacked", "doctored" and "private".
Jessica Ennis-Hill announced her retirement from athletics in October 2016 and says she is looking forward to being a spectator at the World Championships this summer.
"I've had more than I could ever imagine out of my career so I can't stand here receiving a damehood and wish for any more - it's been incredible.
"For me, I'm in a very privileged position, having achieved what I've achieved, and hopefully I can just inspire people and encourage people that being sporty and healthy is a great way to go", she said.
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The project, a live stream entitled He Will Not Divide Us, began in New York in January but moved location twice when opponents tried to disrupt it.
It was taken on by the Fact arts centre in Liverpool on Wednesday.
But it was halted by police on Thursday when people climbed on to the roof to reach a flag that was being streamed.
The project has become a target for pro-Trump activists since it began at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York on 20 January - the day of the president's inauguration.
It was meant to be a live stream of people chanting "he will not divide us" for four years - but became the scene of numerous arrests and threats of violence.
The New York museum shut down the stream after three weeks and it moved to Albuquerque and then a secret location in the US, but each time disruption forced it to close.
LaBeouf is best known for films like Transformers, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, as well as his performance art.
Speaking before its move to Liverpool, LaBeouf and his collaborators Nastja Ronkko and Luke Turner said: "Events have shown that America is simply not safe enough for this artwork to exist."
Fact said it was "pleased to be able to offer the support that the project needs". At Fact, the project took the form of a flag that was streamed online.
But a Merseyside Police statement said officers were called on Thursday after reports that a group of men "were believed to be trying to get to a flag on the roof of the building".
The statement continued: "The males had left the area when patrols arrived. Advice was given to staff at the venue about the location of the flag which has since been removed."
Fact said: "On police advice, Fact and LaBeouf, Ronkko & Turner have removed the installation HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US due to dangerous, illegal trespassing."
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She is claiming constructive dismissal and is also bringing separate legal action against Jose Mourinho.
The former manager called her "daughter of a whore" in Portuguese when she treated a player, the tribunal heard.
Lawyers for Chelsea revealed that she chose to take the case to a hearing rather than accept the payout.
Dr Carneiro, 42, alleges the comment was made by Mr Mourinho, who left Chelsea in December, when she ran on to the pitch at Stamford Bridge during a Premier League match against Swansea in August to treat injured forward Eden Hazard.
She is claiming sex discrimination and harassment against the club's former manager following the incident and constructive dismissal against Chelsea.
"This is a tale of two employees, one good (Dr Carneiro) and one bad (Mr Mourinho)," said Mary O'Rourke QC, appearing for the claimant
"The bad employee forces the good employee out of the job of her dreams and the employer does nothing to stop it.
"The bad employee berates, sexually harassed and demoted the good employee for carrying out her professional duties, namely her health and safety duties as the first team doctor, pitch-side.
"Rather than investigating and disciplining the bad employee, the employer allows the bad employee to confirm demotion... and to continue with his job."
Documents submitted by Dr Carneiro's legal team allege Mr Mourinho - now manager of Manchester United - suggested she should work with Chelsea Ladies following the Swansea game.
They allege that on 10 August Mr Mourinho told Steve Atkins, head of communications and PR at Chelsea, that he did not want the first team doctor on the bench at the next match, saying: "She works in academy team or ladys (sic) team not with me".
They also claim Chelsea took no action following complaints about sexually explicit chanting at various away games - in particular at Manchester United and West Ham - and a lack of female changing facilities.
Dr Carneiro claims she was not provided with a club suit, and regularly had to endure sexually explicit comments from her colleagues.
She also alleges she was called a "filha da puta" - Portuguese for "daughter of a whore" - during the Swansea game by Mr Mourinho and that she was verbally abused after the match when the team returned to their dressing room.
"As she ran on to the pitch she heard clearly from behind her the words filha da puta," said Mary O'Rourke QC, for the claimant.
"She's a Portuguese speaker. It was not filho da puta, it was filha da puta… you say filha da puta when you are denigrating a woman. He is saying it to the back of the claimant who is doing something he didn't like… that is the context."
However, Daniel Stilitz QC, for Chelsea, said Mr Mourinho's evidence was that he shouted 'filho da puta'.
"Filho da puta is a phrase he often uses," Mr Stilitz said, adding that it meant son of a bitch. "There is no sexist connotation."
He said that Mr Mourinho used the phrase frequently at the training ground and during matches.
The FA ruled on 30 September 2015 that "the words used do not constitute discriminatory language" after consulting an independent academic expert in Portuguese linguistics.
Dr Carneiro was "preoccupied with developing her profile" and associating herself with the first team in a way discouraged by the club for backroom employees, Chelsea's legal team added.
This involved signing autographs and having photographs taken with members of the public, nominating a high-profile first-team player when she uploaded a video to YouTube as part of the "Ice Bucket Challenge", and seeking to position herself behind Mr Mourinho during televised matches.
Chelsea and Mr Mourinho, 53, will also argue that Dr Carneiro would still be in her job if she had not resigned - she argues that she had no choice but to leave the club and was therefore constructively dismissed.
The football club's legal team said it would show the club had taken steps to settle with Dr Carneiro because it believed that it was "in no-one's interests that this dispute should be determined through litigation".
"They are conscious that, whatever the facts of the matter, it is likely to be widely and incorrectly assumed that they could have avoided this coming tribunal," Chelsea's legal team added.
The tribunal, which is being heard at the London South Employment Tribunal in Croydon, was adjourned until 14:00 BST on Tuesday.
The case is anticipated to be heard over seven to 10 days
Within hours of the decision, US officials said Russia appeared to have carried out its first attack.
Senior Kremlin official Sergey Ivanov said no ground troops would be involved in Syria, only the air force.
President Vladimir Putin called this week for a broad anti-terror coalition.
He told the UN it should be similar to the alliance that opposed Adolf Hitler in World War Two.
A US-led coalition has been carrying out air strikes against IS in Syria and Iraq for more than a year.
But Mr Ivanov, the president's chief-of-staff, said US and French air strikes in Syria circumvented international law, since they had not been authorised by a UN resolution or by the Syrian government.
President Bashar al-Assad, he said, had officially requested military assistance from Moscow. That was later confirmed in a statement from the Syrian president's office.
As Russia stepped up its involvement in Syria, reports said Syrian government planes had carried out attacks on three towns north of the city of Homs. At least 17 people were killed, including five children, activists said.
Russia has provided weaponry and military advisers to the Syrian armed forces throughout the war, but satellite images from Syria in recent weeks have revealed a build-up of Russian air power at a base outside the Mediterranean port city of Latakia, the heartland of Mr Assad's minority Alawite sect.
There have been widespread reports of military planes and cargo ships arriving from Russia with supplies. Latest speculation has centred on Russia's most modern fighter bomber, the SU-34 or "Fullback". Unconfirmed reports suggested that six SU-34s had flown into Latakia on Tuesday.
The upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, took a similar vote in March 2014, responding to a request by President Putin to authorise the use of Russian forces in Ukraine, although that was revoked two months later.
Mr Ivanov said that Russia was seeking to target IS because "thousands" of Russian citizens had joined its ranks and would pose a threat upon their return to Russia. Earlier this month a top Russian security official put the number of Russian recruits at 2,400 and at least as many from Central Asia.
"This is not about achieving any foreign-policy goals or satisfying any ambitions, which our Western partners often accuse us of. This is exclusively about Russia's national interests," he said.
Earlier this month, Russia's Human Rights Council said it had been contacted by soldiers who feared they were about to be sent to fight in Syria. But Interfax news agency reported that only officers or professional soldiers would be sent there.
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US and Russian leaders have long differed over the Syrian conflict, which has claimed more than 250,000 lives and forced four million people to flee abroad.
The US insists President Assad must leave office, and President Barack Obama told the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) there could not be a return to the pre-war status quo "after so much bloodshed".
But Mr Putin said it was an "enormous mistake" to refuse to co-operate with the Syrian government against militants.
Some Western leaders have recently softened their stance towards the Syrian president, conceding that he might be able to stay in power during a political transition.
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More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed and one million injured in four and a half years of armed conflict, which began with anti-government protests before escalating into a full-scale civil war.
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More than 11 million others have been forced from their homes, four million of them abroad, as forces loyal to President Assad and those opposed to his rule battle each other - as well as jihadist militants from IS. Growing numbers of refugees are going to Europe.
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Regional and world powers have also been drawn into the conflict. Iran and Russia, along with Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, are propping up the Alawite-led government. Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are backing the Sunni-dominated opposition, along with the US, UK and France.
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American world champion Gwen Jorgensen took Olympic gold ahead of Swiss defending champion Nicola Spirig.
"I think the first thing I said to her was 'I'm so sorry'," Holland said.
"I knew it would come down to me and Non, which was the worst thing ever because I wanted it to be us together."
The 30-year-old became the first British woman to win an Olympic triathlon medal.
And her bronze was Britain's third triathlon medal in Rio after Alistair Brownlee won gold in the men's race and brother Jonny took silver.
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Jorgensen and Spirig broke clear of the pack on the early stages of the 10km run, which followed a 1,500m open-water swim from Copacabana Beach and a 40km bike stage.
The American - world champion in 2014 and 2015 - moved out on her own to win in a time of one hour 56 minutes 16 seconds.
Spirig faded to finish 40 seconds back and claim her second Olympic medal after gold in London four years ago.
Welsh triathlete Stanford, the 2013 world champion, looked on course to win bronze, but was overtaken by Holland in the charge for the line and lost out by three seconds.
The third Briton, Helen Jenkins, came 19th, with the Republic of Ireland's Aileen Reed 21st.
Fabienne St Louis of Mauritius competed despite being diagnosed with cancer in December, but pulled out after the swim.
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Holland said: "I've had a rollercoaster 24 hours. I've been a bit sick and didn't know how I would feel today.
"I had to put out of my mind that we're best mates and housemates.
"Non is a huge part of what I do. Half of this medal is hers. I wouldn't be the athlete I am if it wasn't for her. I moved in with Non at the end of 2013 and I've become an exponentially better athlete for it."
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Stanford said: "I feel a bit mixed. I'm delighted Vicky got the medal we came as a team to get.
"I don't think I could ask much more of myself. Fourth is probably the worst place to come but it's still fourth at the Olympics. We have one medal in the home now and we can put it on display."
Jenkins said: "I haven't been 100% the last couple of days. I thought I was fine but when we got to the hill I didn't really have that top end power.
"I don't want to make excuses; I wasn't good enough. It isn't anything too serious, on this kind of course if you are a per cent off it is not going to happen.
"I gave it everything, I finished and I know I couldn't have done any more."
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The plan reverses an earlier decision to phase out nuclear power by a previous government.
It will set the stage for the government to restart some reactors, all of which are currently idled.
The move comes days after the first Fukushima evacuees returned to their homes inside the exclusion zone.
"We aim to opt for an energy supply system which is realistic, pragmatic and well balanced," Japanese Trade and Industry Minister Toshimitsu Motegi told reporters.
Under the plan, the government would proceed with reactivating nuclear power plants that had met tough regulatory standards, Kyodo News agency reported, while also working to reduce nuclear dependence as much as possible.
The plan did not specify Japan's future energy mix, but promised to increase its reliance on renewable energy.
The opposition Democratic Party of Japan, which was in power during the time of the 2011 tsunami and earthquake that triggered the Fukushima nuclear disaster, had promised to phase out nuclear power.
Until the Fukushima crisis, Japan had relied on nuclear energy for about 30% of its energy needs.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was elected in December 2012, has spent several months persuading lawmakers to back his stance.
The move is likely to prove unpopular with a wary public.
The 23-year-old, whose father Jonathan was an F1 driver between 1983 and 1989, is the first British driver to win the title since Lewis Hamilton in 2006.
"The first priority was to win GP2," said Palmer, after recording his fourth race victory of the season.
"Now that's done and I'm confident I'll be in Formula 1."
Palmer is the 10th GP2 champion since Formula 1's feeder series began in 2005, and six of the previous nine have gone on to race in F1, including Hamilton and his Mercedes team-mate and title rival Nico Rosberg.
"GP2 is the perfect series to feed into Formula 1 - the same tyres, the same tracks, the cars are even now a similar speed, especially into the corners," added Palmer, who has been competing in GP2 for four seasons.
"I feel absolutely ready for it and I am confident it can happen."
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The sparrow-sized tree-dweller lived ''just a geological blink of an eye" after the mass extinction.
Bird fossils from that time period are very rare.
Analysis suggests the ancestors of most modern birds, from owls to woodpeckers, had taken to the wing within four million years of the asteroid strike.
Like mammals, the birds that survived the extinction were able to expand and diversify to become one of the most successful animal groups on Earth.
Analysis of the fossil and its relationship to other members of the bird family tree suggests as many as 10 major bird groups had appeared within four million years of the extinction.
Dr Daniel Ksepka, curator of science at Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, said Tsidiiyazhi abini was a very special little bird for several reasons.
''It is very old, very small, and had zany little feet,'' he explained.
''The age is between 62.2 and 62.5 million years, just a geological blink of the eye after the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.''
DNA evidence suggests birds recovered rapidly from the extinction event 66 million years ago that wiped out most animals on land, including flying reptiles, dinosaurs and primitive birds.
The origins of modern birds can be traced back to this time. However, bird fossils from this era in geological history are very rare because their bones are so small and delicate.
This has made it difficult to resolve how modern birds arose and diversified, leading to some controversy. The discovery of Tsidiiyazhi abini, an ancient species of mousebird, is a new source of evidence.
''When we place the bird in the evolutionary tree, it reveals that other closely related groups must have also split off by then because they occupy lower branches,'' Dr Ksepka told the BBC.
''So this discovery shows not only mousebirds but things like owls, raptors, the Coraciimorphae (a group that includes birds like kingfishers and woodpeckers) and many other groups were all showing up just a short time after the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.''
Tsidiiyazhi abini, or ''little morning bird'' was found in 62.5-million-year-old rocks in the Nacimiento Formation of New Mexico.
Dr Thomas Williamson was on a fossil hunting trip with his twin sons, when the birds' bones came to light.
''They discovered an unusually rich site that had some skeletons of small mammals,'' the curator of Palaeontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science explained.
''Over the next several months, I collected some bulk samples from the site and within these I discovered the bones of a small bird.''
He said the new birds were close to modern mousebirds (Coliiformes), a group now found only in Africa, but which was geographically more widespread in the Palaeogene [from 66 million years ago to 23 million years ago].
The bird was able to flip the fourth toe on its foot to face backwards - something that is useful for climbing and grasping. This feature is also seen in other birds, such as modern owls.
Tsidiiyazhi lived at a time when the planet was undergoing great change, with placental mammals and flowering plants also diversifying rapidly.
The bird lived in forests and dined on fruits and seeds from flowering plants.
Today, there are more than 10,000 living species of bird.
The research is published in the journal PNAS.
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Egypt's minister of youth and sports must enforce the judgement, which is final and cannot be appealed.
Two candidates who had participated in the 11 October 2012 election had filed a case alleging that the results were rigged at that time.
Election for the federation's next board is scheduled for September 2016.
The executive director will continue to run the EFA until then.
The same court also ordered the dissolution of Cairo-based Al Ahly club's board over similar reasons.
In November, a lower court had ordered Al Ahly's board be dissolved, but an appeal was filed against that order.
On Sunday, the higher court upheld the earlier verdict.
Here are the winners and nominees in full:
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty
Les Miserables
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Moonrise Kingdom
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Silver Linings Playbook
Ben Affleck, Argo
Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Richard Gere, Arbitrage
Denzel Washington, Flight
John Hawkes, The Sessions
Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Ewan McGregor, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Bill Murray, Hyde Park on Hudson
Jack Black, Bernie
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
Helen Mirren, Hitchcock
Naomi Watts, The Impossible
Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Emily Blunt, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Judi Dench, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Maggie Smith, Quartet
Meryl Steep, Hope Springs
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Alan Arkin, Argo
Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Hope Springs
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Django Unchained
Zero Dark Thirty
Argo
Silver Linings Playbook
Lincoln
Life of Pi
Anna Karenina
Argo
Cloud Atlas
Lincoln
Skyfall, Skyfall
Safe and Sound, The Hunger Games,
Suddenly, Les Miserables
Not Running Anymore, Stand Up Guys
For You, Act of Valor
Amour
Rust and Bone
The Untouchables
A Royal Affair
Kon-Tiki
Brave
Frankenweenie
Rise of the Guardians
Wreck-It Ralph
Hotel Transylvania
Jodie Foster
Homeland
Breaking Bad
Downton Abbey
The Newsroom
Boardwalk Empire
Girls
The Big Bang Theory
Episodes
Modern Family
Smash
Game Change
The Girl
The Hour
Hatfields & McCoys
Political Animals
Damian Lewis, Homeland
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Jeff Daniels, The Newsroom
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Claire Danes, Homeland
Connie Britton, Nashville
Glenn Close, Damages
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Michelle Dockery, Downton Abbey
Don Cheadle, House of Lies
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Louis CK, Louie
Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Lena Dunham, Girls
Zooey Deschanel, New Girl
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Kevin Costner, Hatfields & McCoys
Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock
Toby Jones, The Girl
Woody Harrelson, Game Change
Clive Owen, Hemingway & Gelhorn
Julianne Moore, Game Change
Nicole Kidman, Hemingway & Gelhorn
Sienna Miller, The Girl
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story
Sigourney Weaver, Political Animals
Ed Harris, Game Change
Max Greenfield, New Girl
Danny Huston, Magic City
Mandy Patinkin, Homeland
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family
Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family
Sarah Paulson, Game Change
Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife
Hayden Panettiere, Nashville
CATE BLANCHETT
Age: 46
Nominated for: Carol
The character: Carol Aird, a glamorous older woman going through a difficult divorce who begins an affair with a young aspiring photographer.
Oscar record: Won best supporting actress for The Aviator in 2005 and best actress for Blue Jasmine in 2014. Two best actress nominations for Elizabeth in 1999 and Elizabeth: The Golden Age in 2008. Two best supporting actress nominations for Notes on a Scandal in 2007 and I'm Not There in 2008.
The critics said: "Carol ultimately belongs to Blanchett, and rightly so... As searing as [she] was in her Oscar-winning turn in Blue Jasmine, she arguably achieves something even deeper here by acting in a much quieter, more underplayed register." [Variety]
BRIE LARSON
Age: 26
Nominated for: Room
The character: Joy, aka "Ma", a woman abducted and held captive in a room with only her young son for company.
Oscar record: No previous nominations.
The critics said: "Larson has been threatening for years to truly break out, and Room should be the film to make it happen. She's so raw as to verge on unwatchable, the pain she conveys just too upsetting to sit with." [Empire]
JENNIFER LAWRENCE
Age: 25
Nominated for: Joy
The character: Joy, a divorced single mother who seeks to change her circumstances by inventing and marketing a revolutionary new mop.
Oscar record: Won best actress for Silver Linings Playbook in 2013. Best actress nomination for Winter's Bone in 2011. Best supporting actress nomination for American Hustle in 2014.
The critics said: "Lawrence has played larger-than-life characters in Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, but in Joy she's dialled down appreciably, playing a woman who once considered herself special but has been systematically beaten down by adulthood enough to believe that her creative spark has died." [Screen Daily]
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING
Age: 69
Nominated for: 45 Years
The character: Kate Mercer, a married woman who learns shattering news about her husband just as they are about to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary.
Oscar record: No previous nominations.
The critics said: "Rampling... is a symphony of physical cries and whispers, her worried eyes and strained smiles choreographed with breath-taking precision." [The Guardian]
SAOIRSE RONAN
Age: 21
Nominated for: Brooklyn
The character: Eilis Lacey, a young woman from rural Ireland who leaves her home to find job opportunities in the US in the 1950s.
Oscar record: Best supporting actress nomination for Atonement in 2008.
The critics said: "Ronan captures brilliantly her character's strange mix of vulnerability and steeliness. Her Eilis manages to maintain her dignity [even] when throwing up into a fire bucket during a stormy Atlantic crossing." [The Independent]
Police were sent to the Bilford Road area of Worcester at about 20:50 BST on Thursday after concerns were raised over the safety of a youth.
The teenager, named by police as 17-year-old Sean Stevens from Worcester, was recovered from the canal by firefighters.
He was taken to Worcestershire Royal Hospital but pronounced dead at 23:15.
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Supt Kevin Purcell, from West Mercia Police, said a "full and thorough investigation" was taking place, and asked anyone with information to contact the force.
West Midlands Ambulance Service said a person who is believed to have jumped in the water to try to rescue Sean was also taken to hospital as a precaution.
The 17-year-old forward has signed a three-year deal with PSG, the club George represented from 1992 to 1995.
There have already been hints that it is a case of like father, like son.
In September 2016, the younger Weah scored a hat-trick in an 8-1 win over Bulgarian side Ludogorets on his Uefa Youth League debut.
"I am very proud to continue the adventure," said Weah, who was born in New York and joined New York Red Bulls before moving to PSG's academy in July 2014.
"I am in a big club and I look forward to continuing to progress so that I can one day play for the first team."
His 50-year-old Liberian father is a former three-times African Footballer of the Year and the only African to win the Ballon d'Or in 1995.
He made his name at Monaco from 1988 and enjoyed success with PSG and AC Milan over the next decade.
He also played for Chelsea and Manchester City in the Premier League later in his career.
The league leaders will tie up their sixth consecutive title on Friday night if Aberdeen lose against Dundee.
Failing that, Celtic can secure the championship when they play Hearts at Tynecastle on Sunday.
"People will tell you it's better to do it yourself but if it happens tonight it's purely because of all the great work done beforehand," Rodgers said.
"We are close to the finish line and however we get over it, I am not too bothered.
"But if there is a preferential way I would probably say win on Sunday and celebrate."
Rodgers said he would watch the Dundee-Aberdeen game before his team take on Hearts, where their league season began with a 2-1 win in August.
"If I look back at the season we've had until coming back (to Tynecastle) it's been remarkable," he said.
"It is a great mark of how the team has progressed. I look back to that game and we won it, it was tough, we played well in patches but it was only really the beginnings of the team working together.
"To go back there this early with the chance to win it, it really shows the level and how much the players have developed."
Rodgers says that has been the most pleasing aspect of his first season in charge.
"We have had many outstanding performances throughout the course of the season but that personal satisfaction comes from watching that relationship between the training and going into the game," he said.
"We have only just begun really because there's still an awful lot of development in this team and that's the real exciting part of it.
"It will be a huge honour for me, taking the club in my first year here to the title.
"I said when I came in that my job was to win it in the best way we possibly could.
"You can win something and it is not the same feeling but if you win and foster the spirit that you have here at this club can make it really special, and the way we have played football.
"For me, to share that with the players and the coaching staff and everyone at the club, to make everyone a champion, of course will be really special."
The man was taking part in a "routine" activity at the time, the Department of Defence said. It did not give details of the incident.
The army has suspended all training exercises involving combat brigades while it reviews safety procedures, officials said.
It is the second death of an Australian soldier in training since last week.
Trooper Stuart Reddan, 21, was killed by a falling tree branch on 4 May while travelling in an armoured vehicle in Queensland.
The latest incident happened on Wednesday at the Mount Bundey training area near Darwin, the department said.
"He received immediate first aid at the scene and was transported to the Royal Darwin Hospital for treatment," a statement said.
"The soldier was subsequently pronounced deceased."
Relatives of the soldier, who has not been named, have been notified.
Defence Minister Marise Payne expressed "great sadness" over the soldier's death and sent sympathies to his family.
"Whether on deployment or while training, the men and women of the Australian Defence Force undertake hazardous activities to ensure our safety and security," she said.
The dusty subterranean science laboratory built by the French nuclear waste agency Andra is designed to find out whether this could be the final resting place for most of France's highly radioactive waste, the deadly remains of more than half a century of nuclear energy.
Emerging from the industrial lift there are a series of passageways about the size of an underground rail tunnel.
The walls are reinforced with steel ribs and sprayed with grey concrete and there are huge bore holes drilled 100m into the rock walls which would hold the capsules of radioactive waste. If the scheme gets the final approval, the first waste could be inserted here in around 10 years.
France generates around three quarters of its electricity from nuclear power but despite decades of activity it is no nearer a solution to the perils of nuclear waste.
Many countries agree the hazardous material - some of it at temperatures of 90C - has to be disposed of deep below ground where it can be isolated from all living things for tens of thousands of years whilst the radiation slowly reduces.
Despite advanced schemes in Finland, not a single country worldwide has an operational underground repository.
"What we did first was to demonstrate that safety can be achieved through a repository in this clay formation," says Gerald Ouzounian, the head of international affairs for Andra, told Costing the Earth on BBC Radio 4.
Since 2006, they have been developing experiments to prove they can do it technically. Equipment has been set up to simulate the heat the waste will generate and to monitor the impact on the clay.
"There are still risks of water ingress especially from the shafts and the top," says Mr Ouzounian, so they are testing ways to seal the waste using a bentonite clay plug.
French law requires companies to build a retrievable scheme, meaning that for the first few hundred years at least, they can remove the waste again should future generations find a better way to get rid of it.
But it is above ground that the real battle is taking place.
Repository plans have foundered in Britain and America due to local democratic opposition.
Britain copied the Scandinavian model based on voluntarism which allowed local communities to opt in but also built confidence by giving them a right to say no.
The British scheme was set to explore an underground laboratory in Cumbria near the Sellafield nuclear site. The local district council approved the scheme but the strategic authority - the council in Carlisle - blocked it in January 2013, sending the nuclear planners back to the drawing board.
A UK Government white paper to be published in the summer is widely expected to tweak the approval process to curb a county council's influence. The hunt is now on for a new location.
In France, the cash was the answer. They are already spending £50m ($80m / 60m euros) every year to support local community projects and massage consent in what is a sparsely populated and neglected area.
They even arranged the underground laboratory to ensure its two entrances were in different communities so they could pay them both off and ensure wider approval.
"I supported the laboratory from the start and I won't go back on that now," says the local mayor Francois Henri. But he admits that if his community had wanted to block the project there would be little they could do to stop it.
"It is a project which is of national interest. Nobody has the power to stop or to block it," says Gerald Ouzounian.
He says the nation as a whole has benefited from nuclear power and all the stakeholders will help the government make the final decision.
Local resistance is muted and comes mainly from the pressure group "Bure Zone Libre". Its members who gave me their view but not their names said it had been largely ignored.
"The voice of the people is nothing, they make public debates after decisions," one protestor tells me.
"First stop nuclear energy and after we can talk about the waste."
French law required a national consultation or debate on the waste dump to take place but it was troubled from the start; meetings were disrupted forcing it to conduct its deliberations online.
When the debate finally concluded recently, it recommended slowing down the repository scheme to allow for more scientific tests.
"Having a six-month debate on a project that will last 100,000 years sounds a bit ridiculous," says Ariane Metais, one of a team of facilitators who run the engagement process around the policy.
"For a project with such environmental and ethical consequences, 'it is just not enough'."
If Britain were to copy the French and opt for a deep repository in clay for the vast quantities of UK waste it wouldn't be hard to find, chuckles Gerald Ouzounian.
"You have a lot of suitable (rock) formations in the south east of England," he says.
"The name of the clay is Callovo-Oxfordian which comes from Oxford."
As to whether it would be easy politically to sell a nuclear dump to the citizens of Oxford, he says, is another matter.
Between 2008 and 2016 investors quintupled the amount of money they put into such platforms, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said.
Companies such as Hargreaves Lansdown, Nutmeg and Interactive Investor now manage £592bn of savers' money.
The FCA will examine whether such firms help investors make good decisions.
It follows a previous inquiry into those who manage the funds that are sold on investment platforms, which found high levels of profitability.
The study found typical profit margins in the industry of 36% - and concluded that investors should be quoted a single fee, rather than a complex mix of charges.
Savers putting money into investment platforms pay a fee to each fund manager, as well as to the platform itself.
"With the increasing use of platforms, and the issues raised by our previous work, we want to assess whether competition between platforms is working in the interest of consumers," said Christopher Woolard, the FCA's executive director of strategy and competition.
"Platforms have the potential to generate significant benefits for consumers, and we want to ensure consumers are receiving these benefits in practice."
The FCA will look at:
One of the UK's biggest investment platforms, Hargreaves Lansdown, saw its share price hit in May when US firm Vanguard announced a cut-price service for UK investors.
Vanguard plans to charge investors a maximum fee of 0.15% on its tracker funds, capped at £375 a year.
Hargreaves Lansdown charges 0.45% to hold investments in its Vantage service.
The FCA will also look at investment platforms' "model portfolios" where they suggest recommended funds to their clients.
The infant was found in a bag wrapped in a towel in the Stechford area of Birmingham in October.
She was named Jade by hospital staff, after the dog that found her, then given a new name and put into foster care.
The woman in her 20s, who cannot be named for legal reasons, will be sentenced on 3 July.
West Midlands Police said the baby could have died within an hour if she had not been found, due to her low body temperature.
She was discovered inside the bag in a bush by Roger Wilday, who was out walking his German shepherd dog in the park on 31 October.
The baby, who was thought to be about 24 hours old when she was found, was taken to Heartlands Hospital where she stayed for a week while being treated for an infection.
She is now eight months old, has been renamed and is in foster care, police said.
At Birmingham Crown Court the woman admitted wilfully abandoning the baby "in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury to health".
Det Insp Richard Cox, who led the investigation, said: "Jade was a helpless newborn child, abandoned by her mother on a cold winter day in a park, in a place where she was not visible to passers-by and where she could easily have been attacked by wild animals.
"It was only a huge stroke of luck that a local dog-walker stopped to investigate after his dog became interested in a carrier bag hidden in undergrowth."
Judge Murray Creed ordered psychiatric and probation reports to be prepared on the woman, who was granted conditional bail until the sentencing hearing.
It has been confirmed, although still unofficially, that ministers are seriously looking in that direction for the next education watchdog for England.
Sir Michael Wilshaw's term of office will end this year and the government - it's up to them rather than Ofsted - is casting its recruitment net overseas.
In particular, they are considering candidates who have been involved in the charter school movement, state-funded independent schools, with a similar ideological DNA to academies and free schools in England.
The big impact of charter schools has been in the most deprived urban areas, credited with re-energising schools that had been in a state of chronic decline.
It's a claim rejected by their opponents, particularly in US teachers' unions, who say that the successful glitz and PR around charter schools is not backed up by any significant long-term advantage.
Some charter schools do well, some do badly... like any other type of school, they argue. The current mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, has been accused by charter school groups of putting up "roadblocks" to their expansion.
But what kind of candidates are likely to emerge?
The names in the frame so far include Dave Levin, co-founder of the Knowledge Is Power Program, which runs more than 180 schools.
Another name is Doug Lemov, who runs Uncommon Schools - and for anyone reading the tea leaves in such things, he tweeted about Arsenal's game after being mentioned by the Sunday Times as a possible candidate for this London-based job.
Eva Moskowitz of Success Academy is also mentioned, a deeply controversial figure in US education, whose school chain is currently firefighting a viral video of a teacher ripping up an infant pupil's homework in front of them.
A much stronger candidate, so far not mentioned, might be Geoffrey Canada, president of the Harlem Children's Zone.
Also suggested by other insiders has been Michelle Rhee, who runs an education reform group and is a former head of state schools in Washington DC.
But there are also informed opinions arguing that the idea of a US watchdog might be a smokescreen and there are a lot of practical complications that might make such a transatlantic transfer unlikely.
For instance, the salary might be a barrier. It has to be enough to tempt someone over - but if it's too much it's going to be a constant source of complaints.
It's categorised as one of those "sounds great on paper" ideas.
And a candidate closer to home might be the frontrunner, such as the national schools commissioner, Sir David Carter.
There are also some big differences between the US and England's school systems. First of all, there is no US school system - it's organised at state and city level, with all the variability in standards and resourcing that come with that.
In terms of international education rankings, the US is a pretty unimpressive performer. In the Pisa tests, run by the OECD, the United States is behind the UK on every measure.
This mediocre average conceals an even more depressingly polarised underlying picture.
Academics at Harvard and Stanford have looked at Pisa results for individual US states, comparing them to other countries. It found that some, such as Massachusetts, have standards that would match most other places in the world.
But there were other states, particularly in the south, which had some of the worst results in the developed world.
In individual cities there are also some calamitous problems.
In Detroit, according to the results of US tests, only 4% of 13- to 14-year-olds in the city's state schools are proficient or better at maths. This is a city where teachers have been banned from striking and are closing schools by calling in sick on the same day.
These kind of extremes do not really have a parallel in England.
Another big difference is that much of the talk around charter schools is about rescuing failing schools in places such as New York.
But in England's school system, London is the jewel in the crown, outperforming the more comfortably quilted shires.
The narrative of evangelical educators working in the bleakest urban, violent wastelands doesn't really translate.
An American in Ofsted would be more likely to have to take on the rusting arcades of a rainy seaside town, counting the bookies and pound shops rather than the gang victims.
National Association of Head Teachers' leader Russell Hobby was not enthused by the idea of a US import, saying that "seeking home-grown talent might be wiser".
"Quality of leadership is usually considered higher in the UK, so there's a good pool to draw from. Our unions are nothing like the US unions in terms of restrictive practices."
And Christine Blower, leader of the National Union of Teachers, said: "If the government is scouring the world for a new head of Ofsted they should look to Finland.
"It is universally agreed to have an excellent education system characterised by co-operation, collaboration and trust. A far cry from the charter school ethos of the US."
There is another major dimension to this story. As well as talking about who gets the job, perhaps the more important question is about how the job is going to be redefined.
Sir Michael Wilshaw is probably the most influential figure in England's education system, with his views and rulings often overshadowing education ministers.
Although he has faced much criticism from the teachers' unions, Sir Michael has been a powerful force in defending a comprehensive school system, rooted in public service and the public sector.
The teachers' unions have long complained about the Ofsted head, but they might come to regret his departure.
The more free-market advocates of academies have resented the regulatory, interventionist force of Ofsted - and they would not be unhappy to see its power being cut down to size.
Ofsted's willingness to take on academy chains has been intended to raise standards, but will also have raised hackles.
When Sir Michael steps down, it will be the chance for ministers to decide how sharp they want the teeth to be on their new watchdog.
Two-time champion Froome remains 29 seconds behind prologue winner Fabio Felline, who retains the yellow jersey.
But Britain's Alex Dowsett, who was second, fell down the classifications in Switzerland after dropping away on the final climb to Champery.
Albasini crossed ahead of Diego Ulissi and Jesus Herrada on the 172km course.
Britain's Simon Yates finished in 28th place for Orica-Scott, leaving him 16th in the overall standings, 18 seconds off the pace.
The six-day five-stage race is an early indicator of form leading towards July's Tour de France, which Team Sky rider Froome will be bidding to win for a fourth time - and third in succession.
Thursday's second stage is a hilly 161.3km race from Champery to Bulle.
Tour de Romandie stage one result:
1. Michael Albasini (Swi/Orica) 4hrs 33mins 10secs
2. Diego Ulissi (Ita/UAE Team Emirates) Same time
3. Jesus Herrada (Spa/Movistar)
4. Natnael Berhane (Eri/imension Data)
5. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky)
6. Pello Bilbao (Spa/Astana)
7. Wilco Kelderman (Ned/Sunweb)
8. David De La Cruz (Spa/Quick-Step)
9. Richard Carapaz (Ecu/Movistar)
10. Pierre Latour (Fra/AG2R)
Overall classification after Stage one:
1. Fabio Felline (Ita/Trek) 4hrs 39mins 07secs
2. Maximilian Schachmann (Ger/Quick-Step) +8secs
3. Jesus Herrada (Spa/Movistar) Same time
4. Primoz Roglic (Svn/LottoNL) +9secs
5. Ion Izagirre (Spa/Bahrain) +12secs
6. Bob Jungels (Lux/Quick-Step) Same time
7. Jose Goncalves (Por/Katusha) +13secs
8. Ruben Fernandez (Spa/Movistar) Same time
9. Michael Albasini (Swi/Orica) +14secs
10. Jonathan Castroviejo (Spa/Movistar) Same time
Selected others:
16. Simon Yates (GB/Orica) +18secs
39. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) +29secs
59. Peter Kennaugh (GB/Team Sky) +53secs
88 Alex Dowsett (GB/Team Sky) +4mins 59secs
16 August 2017 Last updated at 08:30 BST
The aircraft carrier called HMS Queen Elizabeth, cost three billion pounds to make and weighs 65,000 tonnes.
It set sail from Rosyth dockyard in Fife, where it was built, and has been carrying out sea trials since June.
The warship won't have any aircraft on board just yet though, but flying trials are due to begin next year.
Check out our fun facts about the warship here.
It followed an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA).
Two men were observed packing 167kg of cannabis resin into a van in Camlough, County Armagh, in April 2015.
The drugs, with a potential street value of £800,000, had been hidden among orange juice cartons in pallets imported from Spain via Dublin.
Mark Fleetwood, 53, of Dingle Side, Hall Green, Birmingham and Paul Green, 63, of Weatherfield Road, Tyseley, Birmingham, were sentenced to two years and four months, half in custody, half on licence, at Newry Crown Court.
They had admitted importing a Class B drug and possession of a Class B drug with intent to supply.
The group's fixer, Stephen Dainty, 54, of Pool Farm Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham, received the same sentence for importing a Class B drug.
The court heard that over a period of two months, Dainty rented a unit in a retail park, organised logistics around the consignment, and arranged for Fleetwood and Green to travel from Birmingham to Newry to take delivery of the drugs and facilitate their onward distribution.
Following their arrests, NCA officers searched Dainty's home and found documents relating to the orange juice delivery.
They were able to place the three together on flights between Birmingham and Dublin by analysing telephone and computer communications.
Rob Burgess of the NCA said: "We caught Mark Fleetwood and Paul Green with a substantial amount of cannabis resin which, if sold on, would have generated significant cash to potentially fund more criminality.
"We are grateful for the support of PSNI in disrupting the group's activities and ensuring the drugs did not make it to the streets of Northern Ireland.
"The NCA will continue to work in partnership to protect Northern Ireland from criminals who try to exploit borders and bring them to justice."
The 27-year-old will be riding Nicky Hayden's 2016 World Superbike spec Honda CBR1000RR in both the Superbike and Senior TT races.
Fermanagh man Johnston said: "I want to be back at the front again, winning races and I think this is the bike that can help me to do that."
He will also campaign Hondas in the Superstock and two Supersport Races.
He continued: "I had plenty of offers for this year and in the end it was all of the little things coming together that sealed the deal.
"I'm hungrier than ever and I just want to win more races."
Johnston made his TT debut in 2012 and has a best lap of 130.851mph.
Johnston will also ride for the team at the North West 200, Ulster Grand Prix and Macau Grand Prix international road races.
"I'm really glad to have my team sorted for 2017 and to have finally announced it after a few months of speculation.
"I'm really happy with the new team, it's pretty similar to my last team in terms of its size and the way of doing things, I get to have my input into things and I think it's a good fit.
"The machinery I'll be riding this year has me pretty excited; Ten Kate is preparing both my superbike and 600 in Holland and it's great that they want to be involved with road racing."
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Claudio Ranieri's champions are level on points with the Swans after a revival that saw Clement named Premier League manager of the month.
"It can change things quickly, it is a six-point fixture, definitely," he said.
"We will not play each other again this season. That makes it more important."
Clement admits he is surprised at the level of turmoil the champions are currently experiencing.
"I suppose it is surprising," he said. "It just shows how quickly things can change. I don't even mean from last season to this. I think they had four losses, they were doing okay, they were never up the top, but that has seen them slide.
"It can happen to anybody. The bottom of the table can change really quickly this weekend with it being so tightly packed. One team wins and everyone else loses and it is going to look really good for that team."
The former Derby County manager is pleased that Swansea's recent revival has increased the number of Premier League sides now looking nervously over their shoulders.
"When I took the job it looked like four teams, now it's six. It is absolutely six, but who knows after this weekend whether it is going to be that, whether it is going to be seven," he said.
"Bournemouth could be dragged into it. They play Man City in Bournemouth so very difficult game for them."
Clement believes Leicester will be motivated by the speculation over the future of manager Claudio Ranieri.
"It's going to sharpen us," he told BBC Wales Sport.
"We expect a very good team coming down. We've had to go to some very difficult places recently. Anfield and Manchester City, you know that you have to be absolutely focused. The hype and speculation regarding Leicester is just going to focus us even more."
Clement, for a long time associated with Carlo Ancelotti as an assistant boss, admits defeat hurts all the more as a head coach.
Swansea were beaten in injury time by Manchester City last time out and Clement admits the feeling was worse than tasting defeat as an assistant.
It hurts a hundred times more," he said. "It's terrible when you're the head coach.
"After the game I'm looking back at all the situations where players could've done better, if I had my time again, what I might've done differently to stop us getting to that point. ]
"But I said to the players about moving on quickly, emotionally, from a victory or defeat. It doesn't mean you have to forget about the technical or tactical things about where you can do better.
"But from an emotional point of view, you have to move on fast. You can't dwell on it, good or bad."
The Pure Wafer factory was damaged in a blaze before Christmas last year.
A total of 68 firefighters tackled the fire at the silicon chip recycling plant on Millbrook Drive, Llansamlet.
Gleeds Management Service, on behalf of Pure Wafer, have now submitted plans for external cladding, a new roof, structural steel frame and internal works at the site.
At the time of the incident, chief executive Richard Howells said he was thankful no one had been injured at the factory which employs 130 staff.
Caron Smyth, 40 and Finbar McGrillen, 42, were beaten to death at Ravenhill Court in December 2013.
Shaun Hegarty, formerly of Grainne House in the New Lodge area of Belfast, was jailed for a minimum of 18 years.
Ciaran Nugent, formerly of the Simon Community on the Falls Road, will serve at least 14 years in prison.
The double murder was described in court as a savage and sustained attack during which the victims were punched, kicked, stamped on and cut.
Hegarty and Nugent, who are both 35, had initially denied the murders and were due to stand trial, but they later pleaded guilty.
Ms Smyth was a former girlfriend of Hegarty and their relationship ended just days before the murders.
The judge at Belfast Crown Court said the killings were cruel and utterly senseless and had been initiated by Hegarty's jealously and anger.
He said the men would served every day of their minimum jail terms before before they would be considered for parole.
The judge said that the murders took place while Hegarty was on bail, and it was part of his bail conditions that he stayed away from Ms Smyth.
Nugent was given a lesser minimum term than his co-accused after he pleaded guilty to the double murder on the grounds of joint enterprise.
He had admitted that he anticipated Hegarty was going to carry out a serious assault and that he assisted in efforts to clean the scene of the attack, but that he did not inflict any injuries.
The judge told the pair they had carried out a "truly shocking" crime that had a devastating impact on the victims' relatives.
"The lives of their close families have been permanently blighted by these dreadful crimes so casually committed," he said.
Last week, the 36-year-old won the Paul Hunter Classic, his first pro title since having the all-clear in December.
"I came into my house after being diagnosed with the lung tumour and Max looked at me and said 'Daddy, you're my best friend'," he told BBC Essex.
"I went upstairs and cried my eyes out. I don't know why he said it at that time, he obviously sensed something and I said to myself this cannot go wrong."
He continued: "(I said to myself) 'I cannot afford to leave my son, he needs my guidance and help in life'. That was my driving force to get through it.
Carter, who also suffers from Crohn's disease and previously recovered from testicular cancer, moved up to a world ranking of 25 by beating Shaun Murphy in the final of the tournament in Germany.
The former world number two has lost twice in the World Championship final, both times to fellow Essex player Ronnie O'Sullivan, but says that if he can still win the biggest tournament in the sport.
"I definitely can do it (win the World Championship)," he said.
"If I can get through what I've gone through and go and win a tournament like that, anyone can do anything if they want it bad enough. Hopefully people can look at me as an inspiration."
The Paul Hunter Classic is named after snooker player Paul Hunter, who died after a battle with cancer in October 2006.
And Carter says it was fitting that this was his first tournament to win after his own battle.
"It was by far the best win of my career," said Carter. "It just seemed like fate that I won this tournament after what Paul suffered with and I suffered with.
"He had a horrendous battle, so to win that tournament is extra special."
The Women and Equalities Committee reveals Muslim women are three times as likely to be unemployed and looking for a job than women generally.
Below are edited excerpts of the stories the BBC has received of varying experiences in the workplace.
"I am a qualified legal professional. I have a very good academic record and experience that surpasses many of my peers who are of a similar age.
"I have had interviews with five big household name companies for the role of in-house lawyer in the last year alone and have always worn my hijab.
"After four consecutive rejections I decided to walk into my fifth job interview without my hijab. Bingo, I got the job. I now feel I have betrayed my principles for a job I could do just as well with my hijab on.
"I do not know if I would still have got this job had I worn the hijab in the interview. I wish I had the guts to start wearing it again. Hopefully, one day I will have the courage and my employers won't batter an eyelid." Ayesha
"I am a Muslim woman who wears the headscarf and I am a qualified secondary school teacher.
"I have never had the experience of applying for a non-teaching job before I chose to wear the hijab and was also always successful in retail jobs pre-hijab.
"I chose to wear the hijab after I completed my PGCE and I have found that it has so far worked in my favour.
"For all my five teaching jobs except one, I have been the only hijab-wearing Muslim employee. I have in fact found I have experienced positive discrimination to tick all the boxes." Aalia
"I work part-time and my colleagues treat me like an alien because I am Muslim.
"I see disinterest in their faces. I am always friendly but they never bother with me. They talk amongst themselves as though I am invisible.
"Most of the time they assume a position of superiority over me. I am not apologetic for being me and have now given up being so friendly.
"It's sad that it is not us Muslims who are failing to integrate but others and their ignorance about other cultures." Sara
"As a young female Muslim woman who wears a headscarf and also as a working mother, I do feel in the past I have faced some discrimination when job hunting.
"This usually happened once I've passed the application stage and have been offered an interview.
"As soon as I walked into some interviews I felt I already knew I was not going to be successful - I can see the disapproval on the interviewers' faces as they quickly glance up and down at what I am wearing.
"This knocked my confidence and made me feel like no matter how much experience I have and how good my education is, there are just some jobs I won't get.
"I have been completely put off from applying for any corporate jobs where I just know the culture does not support a Muslim lifestyle.
"I now work part-time for a university, which is an excellent employer, and where I feel completely welcome and I am seen as an individual, not judged on my race, colour or religion." Vasha
"I hate it when the discrimination banner is used to explain the lower statistics of Muslim women in the workforce.
"I am a Pakistani Muslim woman and have worked both in the voluntary and paid sectors since the age of 16.
"The real issue is not employers discriminating against Muslim women, but the fact that the majority of Muslim communities frown upon women working.
"I have always faced problems from within the Muslim community. Muslim men simply hate it. Responses from Muslim women are 'Your husband should provide for you!' or 'Who looks after your children?'
"In their view as a working woman, I can't be a good wife/mother/housekeeper as well.
"So I feel the real issue is actually Muslim culture preventing women from working!" Nargis
"This is about Muslim women being economically inactive. I have been one of them for the past 15 years, because I chose to be.
"I chose to look after my children while they were young and at the same time studied for a degree in Environmental Studies with the Open University and was very happy like that.
"Society cannot dictate how people should live. As Muslims often live more traditionally than the rest of society, these numbers should not be a surprise.
"But as I start training this year for a PGCE in primary education, I do expect to have the same employment opportunities as any other woman once I qualify.
"I wear the scarf and the abaya and had an interview for a job as a French tutor. At the interview, I was told not to speak of my religion to the pupils and I obviously agreed but felt judged because of my clothes.
"Employers sometimes see us as a more complicated bet than a non-Muslim person." Catherine
"I hadn't given this much thought until quite recently.
"I have never wanted to believe that my being a Muslim woman would in turn have an impact on people's perceptions of me as an individual, mainly because ignorance is bliss and also because I just thought surely I am part of a time that knows better than to discriminate.
"My parents have always pushed me to get an education and get myself a job.
"In the past though I applied for numerous jobs - very few replied and telephone interviews always went better than face-to-face interviews.
"I say this because I have been wearing a hijab for the last two years now and I've noticed the shift in attitude of some individuals.
"I don't blame them. Muslims are not painted in the best light, but it's still disappointing.
"One thing it does reinforce in me is to not judge a book by its cover." Anon
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The 30-year-old striker, who has netted 41 senior international goals, was unattached after leaving fellow-top-flight side Reading in December.
The former Arsenal and Chelsea Ladies player had been at Reading since 2013, helping them win the 2015 WSL 2 title.
She joins Yeovil for the 2017 WSL 1 Spring Series, which starts in April.
"She brings a wealth of experience both on and off the field and she will be an excellent addition to the squad in our first campaign in WSL 1," manager Jamie Sherwood told the club website.
In 1996, a BBC TV programme aimed to find out how the stones for the largest trilithon were put into place, and how the lintel was placed on top.
Since then the concrete replicas have remained untouched and forgotten about at an army base on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.
They have now been rediscovered and the experiment will be repeated.
Archaeologist Julian Richards is teaming up with farmer Tim Daw see if modern techniques are any more efficient.
A prehistoric structure or monument consisting of three large stones, two upright and one resting upon them as a lintel.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
Mr Daw, who farms at All Cannings, near Devizes, and who created the first "Neolithic" long barrow to be built in the UK for 5,500 years, also works part-time at Stonehenge.
He said one of the most popular questions asked by visitors is 'how were the giant stones moved?'.
"When Julian Richards mentioned there was a life-sized replica of the largest stones at Stonehenge that were looking for a home that we could do some experiments on I said 'let's do it'."
The 45-tonne replicas were used in the BBC documentary Secrets of Lost Empires: Stonehenge, which was broadcast in 1996.
They have remained at Larkhill Camp, about a mile from Stonehenge ever since.
The experiment was partially successful, but now new theories have emerged about how the stones may have been moved.
Mr Richards said: "Over the last 20 years I've had lots of ideas come to me from different people from all over the world saying, 'there's a much better way of doing it, we know how it was done really, you've made it too complicated'."
He said the new project would get together some of the original team to test out the new theories.
"We're going to have to get at least 200 people together for about a week to make this happen."
Mr Daw added: "The first thing is to collect the stones from Salisbury Plain where they have been languishing for the past 20 years and get them back to my farm," said Mr Daw.
"Hopefully next year we'll get some teams of people [to take part in the experiment]"
Mr Daw said different theories had now emerged about how the huge stones could have been moved.
"The experts certainly think they know more. Whether they actually do know more is an interesting question.
"Without trying all the wonderful ideas of how you do it Neolithic style, just using man power - no wheels, no draught animals, no machinery - we can't tell what is practical and what is just fantasy."
It is hoped the result of the experiment will be turned into another television programme to air next year.
In a keynote speech at the Oxford Media Convention, Rona Fairhead said reform of the current model was the "minimum" required.
She said an external regulator would need to have "fairly strong powers" to hold the BBC to account.
The Trust is the body in charge of overseeing the BBC.
Mrs Fairhead said responsibilities for strategy, financial and operational management needed to sit with the BBC Executive, to allow them to respond to "a rapidly changing environment".
However, responsibilities for regulation and broader accountability needed "to sit at one remove", she said in her speech on Wednesday.
"That way, there should be no possibility of vagueness or uncertainty about who will be held responsible for what, when the chips are down," she added.
"The cleanest form of separation would be to transfer the Trust's responsibilities for regulation and accountability to an external regulator," she went on.
"That's an approach we want to explore further. I think it's the front-runner."
The external regulator she proposed, Mrs Fairhead continued, "would have responsibility for all matters of regulation and those matters of licence fee payer representation which require a broader, more regulatory perspective.
"For it to work, the regulator would need to have fairly strong powers and levers - to hold the BBC to its public purposes and to the standards that audiences expect; and to prevent undue damage to the commercial market."
The BBC Board and its regulator, she said, would need to be able to act as "a protective buffer" between the government and BBC management, to ensure the organisation's independence.
There needed to be a "bespoke regulator" for the BBC, she continued, because of the "higher expectations" that audiences have for its editorial and creative standards.
"There should be a single body responsible for setting those standards for the BBC, licensing and regulating its activities, and holding it to account for the way it spends public money."
The Trust, she said, had "some concerns" about MPs' proposal for a public service broadcasting commission to monitor the corporation's performance.
The proposal was made in last month's report about the future of the BBC by the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee.
"We question [a commission's] ability to exert real authority if it were unable to set BBC service licences and editorial standards," said Mrs Fairhead.
Mrs Fairhead, former head of the Financial Times Group, replaced Lord Patten as chair of the BBC Trust last year.
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Vidar, a Belgian Malinois, hunted out roadside bombs and weapons with the Army in Helmand Province.
Medic Angie McDonnell, from the Vale of Glamorgan, adopted him and wrote Gun Shy about his exploits.
It was launched on Tuesday as part of the Welsh Book Council's quick reads.
After two years of service, five-year-old Vidar suddenly became "gun shy" - a term used in the Army to describe dogs who are scared of loud noises.
Ms McDonnell of 3 Medical Regiment described sniffer dogs as "the real heroes, they do the job of several soldiers".
After finding Vidar cowering, she said: "I couldn't bear to think of him being left in the kennels.
"He is such a big, frightened dog, I was worried that he might not get re-homed, that he would get overlooked and might end up being put down."
The story launched at the Senedd as part of the quick reads initiative, aims to encourage adults who struggle to read to pick up a book.
Bannon headed into her own net on two minutes before poking in another, and Natalia's double put Arsenal 4-0 ahead.
After Dominique Janssen's fine fifth, Beth Mead grabbed a late consolation.
Sunderland, who last won a league match in July 2015, are three points above bottom-club Doncaster Rovers Belles, who have played four matches fewer.
In the first match after the WSL's mid-season break, Arsenal made it three wins from an unbeaten run of four matches, which includes' May's Wembley win over Chelsea.
If the Gunners' first two goals were scrappy, Natalia's brace was superb, first finishing from close range after good skill from Vicky Losada before combining with her fellow Spaniard again to send a sweet volley into the bottom corner.
Bannon did well after the break to clear a Losada effort off the line, but nothing could stop Janssen's powerful drive to make it 5-0.
Mead's low finish provided a late cheer for the visitors, who had just two shots on target and have now conceded 12 goals in their last two visits to Arsenal, following April's 7-0 cup semi-final loss.
Arsenal Ladies striker Natalia: "We didn't start very well in the league. We missed a few points and that's not very good for our confidence.
"Now, after the break, I think the new players are settling in and giving really good things to the team.
"We are a better team now and we can play like that, so we're fighting for the league until the end. It's great to be back after the break with three points."
Sunderland Ladies head coach Carlton Fairweather: "The positives from the game were that we came out in the second half and did really well.
"We got a goal, put them under pressure a bit, created a couple of chances - obviously the one we took from Beth was positive.
"At half-time I told them that we needed to be more ruthless in terms of the opportunities that we get in front of the goal, but also be positive and make sure we defend well.
"The fact we've given away two own goals and the deflected goal doesn't help, especially the first own goal, which was scored in under 90 seconds."
Match ends, Arsenal Ladies 5, Sunderland Ladies 1.
Second Half ends, Arsenal Ladies 5, Sunderland Ladies 1.
Corner, Arsenal Ladies. Conceded by Steph Bannon.
Dominique Janssen (Arsenal Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Beth Mead (Sunderland Ladies).
Corner, Arsenal Ladies. Conceded by Victoria Williams.
Goal! Arsenal Ladies 5, Sunderland Ladies 1. Beth Mead (Sunderland Ladies) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Abbey Joice.
Stephanie Roche (Sunderland Ladies) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Substitution, Sunderland Ladies. Abbey Joice replaces Keira Ramshaw.
Foul by Dominique Janssen (Arsenal Ladies).
Brooke Chaplen (Sunderland Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Beth Mead (Sunderland Ladies) header from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left.
Goal! Arsenal Ladies 5, Sunderland Ladies 0. Dominique Janssen (Arsenal Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.
Foul by Daniëlle van de Donk (Arsenal Ladies).
Brooke Chaplen (Sunderland Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Danielle Brown (Sunderland Ladies) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Natalia (Arsenal Ladies).
Attempt missed. Katie McCabe (Arsenal Ladies) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high following a corner.
Corner, Arsenal Ladies. Conceded by Stephanie Roche.
Substitution, Arsenal Ladies. Dominique Janssen replaces Fara Williams.
Corner, Arsenal Ladies. Conceded by Danielle Brown.
Attempt blocked. Daniëlle van de Donk (Arsenal Ladies) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Jemma Rose (Arsenal Ladies) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Arsenal Ladies. Conceded by Stephanie Roche.
Attempt saved. Keira Ramshaw (Sunderland Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Jemma Rose (Arsenal Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rachel Furness (Sunderland Ladies).
Foul by Fara Williams (Arsenal Ladies).
Beth Mead (Sunderland Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Arsenal Ladies. Chloe Kelly replaces Alex Scott.
Attempt missed. Vicky Losada (Arsenal Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Natalia (Arsenal Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Vicky Losada (Arsenal Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Arsenal Ladies. Conceded by Steph Bannon.
Corner, Arsenal Ladies. Conceded by Steph Bannon.
Attempt blocked. Vicky Losada (Arsenal Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Vicky Losada (Arsenal Ladies) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Vicky Losada (Arsenal Ladies).
Rachel Furness (Sunderland Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Vicky Losada (Arsenal Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Arriva Transport Solutions, which carries non-emergency patients in Leicestershire and Rutland, was fined nearly £45,000 last month.
The family of a man who was left waiting nine hours for a hospital transfer after a stroke said it should not be allowed to renew its contract.
The local NHS group said most patients were happy with the service.
Arriva boss Paul Willetts said "it was not good enough" and apologised for missing targets for getting patients to and from hospitals on time, which he said was partly down to increased demand.
He also apologised to the family of Michael Burden, 76, but his daughter Emma Purcell said the company should not be "rewarded" by having its contract renewed.
"When they're consistently letting people down, why would they get the contract again?" she said.
West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Group, which manages the contract, has fined Arriva in each of the three years its contract has been running.
The group's chief executive Toby Sanders said 88% of patients would recommend the service to family and friends.
"We don't always get it right and Arriva have recognised that... We have used fines as part of our contract but actually it's not the fines that improve outcomes for patients," he said.
"What we've been focusing on is improving the service, improving the response times and also making sure we've got the right connections with the other parts of the service."
He said there were 18 months left on the contract and it "would be a poor use of public money" to terminate the agreement before then.
The 30-year-old has moved in a bid to resurrect his career, having made only two first-team appearances for Dragons during the 2015-16 season.
Dragons have stated that Brew has left them "by mutual consent".
Brew has won nine caps for Wales, but has not featured for his country at international level since June, 2012.
Dragons' statement said: "He has struggled with injuries during his latest spell with the Dragons following his return from Biarritz Olympique.
"His opportunities have been limited as a result and he leaves by mutual consent."
Dragons head coach Kingsley Jones said Brew had left the region on good terms.
"This is a decision that suits both parties and will hopefully allow Aled to gain a fresh start and more game time at another club. We wish him well," Jones said,
Former Dragons boss Darren Edwards is now part of Bath's coaching staff.
The US granted his request to have his wife artificially inseminated with his sperm while he was still in jail.
Hernandez is one of the Cuban Five, a group of Cubans convicted on spying charges in the US and sentenced to lengthy prison terms in 1998.
Their case long soured relations between the two countries.
Hernandez, who was serving a double life sentence for spying, was hailed as a hero upon his return to Cuba in December.
His frozen sperm was transported to Cuba via Panama.
Pictures of the smiling father holding baby Gema were published in the Cuba's state-run newspaper, Granma.
BBC Cuba correspondent Will Grant says some newspapers have dubbed it a "diplomatic conception" in reference to the unusual co-operation between historic rivals Cuba and the US to grant the couple's wish for children.
US Senator Patrick Leahy, who has long campaigned to restore US relations with Cuba, said he had been approached by Hernandez's wife, Adriana Perez.
Ms Perez told him she feared she was running out of time to have children and asked him to intercede with the US government on her behalf.
According to Senator Leahy, he worked with the Obama administration to arrange the artificial insemination.
On the second attempt, Ms Perez, 44, became pregnant.
Hernandez and two remaining members of the Cuban group were freed on 17 December in return for the release of US contractor Alan Gross from a Cuban prison.
Shortly after the release, President Obama and his Cuban counterpart, Raul Castro, announced plans to restore diplomatic ties frozen since 1961.
The other two members of the Cuban Five had already been freed in 2011 and February 2014 respectively after serving their sentences.
Ministers who might not automatically see themselves as her bosom political buddies report that she gives "a fair hearing" and "you can really influence her decisions" if arguments and information are rationally debated and presented.
That formal style irritates some and raises accusations that it is impossible to deal with the Number 10 "bottleneck".
But it has, in some quarters, won her grudging respect.
On one particular issue, however, even some of her supporters believe she is not following the natural logic.
That's her decision, so far, not to take people like Lord Hague's now very public advice and call an early election.
The case for is obvious.
Labour is dazed and confused. She has years of torturous negotiations over the EU ahead of her. The prime minister has only a wafer-thin majority and has an appetite for some controversial reforms at home like grammar schools in England and tackling the social care system.
There are years of controversial cuts to come. And creeping inflation and sluggish wages mean many people may be feeling the pinch and are increasingly politically grumpy by the time of the scheduled next election.
The consensus in Westminster is that if she were to go to the country, Mrs May would end up with a thumping majority. What better reserves of support to have at her back as she contemplates a hard road ahead.
Some senior Westminster players believe the case is a simple slam-dunk.
But Number 10 (until now at least) rebuts it clearly and the fabled consensus can often be wrong.
So what are the arguments against such an overtly persuasive case?
First the technicalities. The Fixed-term Parliaments Act means the government has essentially to collapse itself on purpose to call a vote.
It would be a temporary embarrassment, but one sources close to Mrs May don't discount.
She has publicly ruled out holding a snap election, and trite as it may sound, this government hopes to be one that sticks to what it said it was going to do. (Easier said than done, let's see what their record is in a couple of years.)
The first question in any interview were she to announce an election would be: "Of course, you promised not to hold an election, did you mislead the public?"
There is also a risk, of course, that what looks like an easy victory in theory, could become much, much harder in practice.
Politics is so unpredictable right now it is hard to be sure of anything.
And for the prime minister, on the verge of starting the process of Brexit, maintaining stability is key.
Other Tories, looking at Labour in doldrums wonder aloud: "Why would we go for four years, when we could almost be guaranteed to have nine?"
But sources at the top of government say Mrs May decided firmly not to hold an early election.
Just as she is known to be open to evidence while making up her mind, once she has made a decision she is hard to budge.
It seems holding off from calling an election is one of them, although in time, it's a political temptation even the self-described vicar's daughter may find too hard to resist.
The ballot is being organised by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), which described the move as "unprecedented".
The RCN said Northern Ireland was the only part of the UK where nurses have not received a pay rise for 2015-2016.
But a spokesman for Stormont's Health Minister Simon Hamilton claimed trade unions "refused" talks on the issue.
The ballot will ask nurses to vote on a work-to-rule protest, that may result in them refusing to work unpaid hours or carry out non-nursing activities.
The RCN's director in Northern Ireland, Janice Smyth, said: "Not only are our members now paid less than their counterparts in England, Scotland and Wales, but many other public servants in Northern Ireland have received a pay award, leaving nursing, a predominantly female profession, subjected to unfair treatment.
"An experienced staff nurse in Northern Ireland is now paid £279 a year less than in England and £561 a year less than in Scotland," she added.
"The message that the care they provide to the people of Northern Ireland is not valued is being made loud and clear."
However, the health minister's spokesman said Mr Hamilton "values the essential role that nurses play in the continued provision of a high standard of care in Northern Ireland".
The spokesman added that Department of Health officials had "repeatedly sought to engage with trade unions who have refused to enter into discussions on a settlement for 2015-16".
"The department remains hopeful this will change and that unions will engage," the spokesman said.
As well as refusing to work unpaid hours, the RCN said the industrial action could include refusing to carry out activities "imposed on nurses" that its members believe are "not directly related" to nursing care.
The investment will fund an Economics Centre of Excellence and a Data Science Campus at its headquarters.
The ONS said the money would support the initiatives over the next two years.
The new hub would "cement the status of the Welsh site as the home of the UK's economic statistics", it added.
The Economics Centre of Excellence will enable the ONS to work with leading academics and experts on "cutting-edge research" while the Data Science Campus will act as a hub for the whole of government.
Rahama Sadau's appearance in a music video where she was hugged by Nigerian pop star Classiq has led to her being banned from the Hausa-language film industry, known as Kannywood.
The industry body, the Motion Picture Practitioners Association of Nigeria (Moppan), was responding to comments from many people including other Hausa actors.
One of them, Nura Hussain, took to Instagram holding a sign calling for Ms Sadau's punishment. The picture got hundreds of comments supporting his demand.
In Hausa culture, any open show of romance is frowned upon, and this was where Ms Sadau slipped up.
But the actress also has her fans, some of whom have tried to fight back on social media setting up online groups to show their support.
She herself has apologised to anyone she may have offended, but described what she did as "innocuous touching".
And she seems less than remorseful, posting repeatedly on Snapchat a photo of herself being hugged by a man on her recent visit to India, where she was when the row erupted.
A typical Kannywood film:
As the film opens parents are seen discussing who their successful city-dwelling son should marry. They decide on a cousin who they deem meets all their expectations of a good wife.
But there's a hitch, their urban, and urbane, son is in love with an educated city lady. He wants to marry her.
The family confronts their son with their choice of wife for him. The dispute generates tension and finally the parents force their son to marry the cousin.
He goes through with the wedding but stays in touch with his preferred partner. They go on romantic outings during which he mentions his loveless marriage.
Throughout the film, dancing and singing punctuate the action. If there is to be any suggestion of sex, the screen will go dark.
Ms Sadau speaks some Hindi, like many fans of Bollywood films in the mainly Muslim northern Nigeria where Indian cinema has been appreciated for years for its conservative values.
Kannywood, which took off around 2000, is similar but more restrained.
Its films would never go as far as Classiq's music video and show a man and a woman hugging, but even scenes showing young people expressing love towards each other have been deemed offensive by some.
But this controversy has not emerged in a vacuum.
Anger towards Kannywood actors and films has been building up for some time in Nigeria and the industry has been on the defensive.
Islamic clerics in the north blame them for spreading immorality and bringing it into the home. Ms Sadau's video appearance proved their point.
Parents say the films and the antics of the actors divert their children's attention from more important things.
The recent problems can be traced back to 2010 when a video was leaked of a Hausa actress having sex with her boyfriend.
Criticism from clerics has not let up.
Earlier this year the government cancelled plans to build state-of-the-art film facilities in Kano state - from where the industry gets its name - after pressure from religious leaders, who said it would promote immorality.
This is why the industry is keen to see that it is upholding a strict ethical code.
And it appears as if Ms Sadau has been made an example of.
Moppan said it hoped the ban would serve as a deterrent to other actors and actresses who are "expected to be good ambassadors of the society they represent".
Its chairman, Muhammadu Kabiru Maikaba, told the BBC Hausa service that this "was not the first time that she has been doing these wayward things. We have been warning her, but she still went ahead to dent out image".
What has happened to her has grabbed the attention as she is currently one of the best known faces of Kannywood.
She emerged in 2013, featuring in films alongside the industry's big names, and became famous for being adventurous and daring in her films
Her profile was raised further following commercial endorsements from various companies.
In 2015, she was embroiled in a row after she accused popular actor Adam Zango of sexual harassment.
Mr Zango denied the accusation.
But this year's row may have topped that as she has come in for some vitriolic abuse.
Some of Ms Sadau's defenders have said that she is being picked on because she is a woman.
They point to pictures of Kannywood actors where they are seen hugging women and argue that they have not been castigated in a similar manner.
The actress has urged people to calm down and said that people should be "more tolerant and forgiving towards one another and to cease the senseless abuse, name calling and backbiting".
But this row, whatever the outcome, is unlikely to be the last time that morality and ethics get debated when it comes to Kannywood movies.
With the proliferation of satellite channels showing Hausa films and smartphones on which people can download clips the battle between the vanguards of morality and Kannywood may have only just begun.
Lawyer Gloria Allred, who represents Judy Huth, said her client would seek a second deposition - giving out-of-court evidence - of Mr Cosby on Thursday.
Ms Allred added that a judge would decide in December if either testimony could be made public.
Mr Cosby, 78, has previously said Ms Huth's claims are "absolutely false".
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Ms Huth has accused the former Cosby Show star of forcing her to perform a sex act at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 1974 when she was aged 15.
It was the first time the veteran comedian has testified under oath since dozens of women came forward with accusations of sexual abuse, many of which are historic claims.
Mr Cosby has never faced criminal charges over the allegations which he has denied.
He also faces two other cases: a defamation case brought by three women who claim he abused them decades ago and a civil case filed last Tuesday by a model who alleges he drugged and sexually assaulted her.
In relation to the defamation case, a federal judge in Massachusetts on Friday ruled it could go ahead.
The women - Tamara Green, Therese Serignese and Linda Traitz - claim that Mr Cosby's representatives damaged their reputations by denying their allegations in sometimes disparaging language.
Mr Cosby's lawyers had asked the judge to dismiss the case, arguing the remarks were personal opinions protected by the First Amendment and legal declarations made in his defence.
But in his ruling on Friday, US district court judge Mark Mastroianni rejected Cosby's bid to dismiss the case before it goes before a jury.
The trio have accused Cosby of drugging them and then having unwanted sexual contact with them.
The 5,500 patients of Stow Surgery are now being urged to take action against Cotswold District Council's refusal of the plans to build on Gypsy Field.
Dr Tim Healy said they had reached "the end of the line" after a 14-year search to find a suitable new site.
The authority decision was based on two reasons, including the "negative visual impact" on the local area.
Mr Healy said: "We had this surgery [Well Lane] built in the 1970s, but 15 years ago it became a little too small for us and its been shrinking ever since as the tasks we have to do in primary care have increased.
"We've been trying for 14 years to find the right piece of land for us and we've now done so."
The proposal for Gypsy Field - the venue for the 538-year-old Stow Horse Fair - is to build a health care centre, pharmacy and five residential units, along with parking and landscaping.
However council planners believe this plan would negatively impact "the character or appearance of the locality" as well as harming the surrounding Cotswold Area of Outstand Natural beauty.
Further pressure is on the surgery from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) which last November rated the Well Lane surgery as good but said the services required improvement.
As a result Mr Healy believes their inspectors need convincing the facilities will soon be upgraded to avoid "further negotiations about the continuation of the surgery".
"We're about a third of the size we should be. We need brand new premises," he added.
"If the council won't let us build it, but the CQC say we're not good enough here, that's the end of the surgery here."
The lough stretches from County Londonderry in Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland's County Donegal.
Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire was asked about the territorial claim in the Commons.
He replied that the British government's position "remains that the whole of Lough Foyle is within the UK".
However, the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said there is "uncertainty concerning the extent to which each side exercises jurisdiction within Lough Foyle".
In a statement to Irish broadcaster RTÉ, it added that this had "created practical difficulties for the conduct of a number of activities there".
The DFA statement confirmed that five years ago, the territorial dispute was discussed by the then Irish minister for foreign affairs and the British foreign secretary.
It said both governments "agreed to seek to address and resolve jurisdictional issues relating to both Lough Foyle and Carlingford Lough" and added that Anglo-Irish talks have been taking place since that 2011 meeting.
The DFA said the issues involved are "complex" but added it did not envisage the dispute forming part of the Brexit negotiations.
Territorial claims over the ownership of waters between the Republic of Ireland and the UK have ebbed and flowed since the partition of Ireland in 1922.
This time, the issue resurfaced when David Anderson, a Labour MP from the north east of England, submitted a written question to the Northern Ireland secretary of state.
He asked Mr Brokenshire "whether the boundary of County Londonderry with Ireland is on the western shore of Lough Foyle; and if he will make a statement".
On Wednesday, Northern Ireland secretary responded with one sentence: "The government's position remains that the whole of Lough Foyle is within the UK."
In particular, the prime minister has promised to give English MPs a greater say over legislation that affects England. He made clear this would cover the same issues over which Scotland will have greater control - tax, spending and welfare. And the changes will be agreed at the same pace with draft legislation by January.
But David Cameron did not spell out the detail, leaving a policy vacuum that will now be filled by Conservative MPs and an army of constitutional experts and think tanks. Everything from a full English parliament to complicated plans for English grand committees will be discussed.
The risk for the PM is that he loses control of this debate.
The politics of this, though, are clear. Mr Cameron has presented a huge challenge to Labour. Ed Miliband now faces the prospect of being forced to accept a diminution of power for Labour MPs in Scotland.
If he wins the next election, he could find it hard to get much of his programme through. The Labour leader may hope to move the debate on to other issues at his party conference next week. But it will be hard to shake off talk of what must now be called once again "the English question".
The other issue is the speed of this process. The prime minister has announced constitutional reform at a breakneck pace. And yet there is disagreement between the parties over the substantial detail. And who knows what all those constitutional experts in the House of Lords will do to oppose what many there see as rushed reform.
The danger for all the Westminster parties is that they have made a solemn vow to the people of Scotland to give greater powers to Holyrood. If they live up to that vow, then potentially this process could be a catalyst for massive constitutional change that helps to fix what many see as Britain's broken politics.
But if they fail to honour that vow because of disagreement over the English question, they risk the greatest breach of public trust that would tarnish Westminster's name forever.
Disciplinary matters concerning chief executive Mike Suarez, monitoring officer Bill Norman or chief finance officer Peter Bates will be considered.
The authority will not reveal details of the allegations or which of the three officials they relate to.
The allegations are to be discussed on Monday.
The council's cross-party Disciplinary and Investigation Committee can authorise investigations into the allegations relating to any of the three senior officers.
The committee has the power to appoint an independent investigator, order disciplinary action, or recommend dismissal.
A Cheshire East Council spokesperson said: "We can confirm that potential concerns have been raised about officer conduct.
"It is important that the committee are able to make an objective decision on the matters that are put to them and therefore we are not able to make any further comment at this stage."
Police could smell the class B drug when they stopped a car being driven by Andrew Smith on the M6 near Carlisle.
They found 8.75kg of cannabis inside a sports bag in the boot, Carlisle Crown Court heard.
Smith was jailed along with his passenger Joseph Broadhurst, both from Liverpool, after they both admitted possession with intent to supply.
The court heard Smith, 28, was making a one-off trip north in October to pay off a drugs debt.
His task was to drive to a location chosen by Broadhurst, 50, who was said to have a more significant role in the enterprise.
Broadhurst, of Storrington Avenue, was jailed for 15 months while Smith, of Coral Avenue, was sentenced to nine months.
Volunteer nurdle hunters on the Great Winter Nurdle Hunt searched their local shorelines in early February and the survey has found that 73% of 279 shorelines contain the plastics.
In one 100m-stretch of beach in Cornwall, beachcombers found 127,500 of the lentil-sized pellets - but that is just a fraction of the 53 billion nurdles that are estimated to escape into the UK environment each year.
The microplastics pose a significant threat to fish and animals that ingest the plastic.
Experts warn that nurdles can soak up chemical pollutants from their surroundings and then release the toxins into the animals that eat them.
After the BBC reported the story some nurdle hunters have been getting in touch to explain why they do what they do.
Sarah Marshall, a 49-year-old former speech and language therapist, started collecting nurdles two years ago and says she is now addicted to finding the pellets.
"They look like tiny eggs, some are bigger than others, some are thicker, and they are all different colours," she says.
"They congregate on the tide line and I often use my hands to pick them up - whenever I go to the beach, I cannot help but pick them up.
"I even found some in Martinique. My daughter says 'mum let's go look for nurdles' - it's like a competition between us," she adds.
The threat posed by nurdles to wildlife and the marine ecosystem is the main motivation for Sarah to spend her time picking them up from beaches.
She normally throws away the collected nurdles but she has also sent samples to the International Pellet Watch who analyse nurdles for the presence of toxic chemicals.
Jay Lowein, who is 59 and runs a business, is a recent recruit to the Great Nurdle Hunt.
She went on her first hunt in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight in February and explained that she used tweezers to pick up the pellets.
Together with a friend, she collected over 1500 nurdles in one hour.
"I'd never even seen them but when I went on the nurdle hunt, I was really shocked at how many there are," says Jay.
"I collect them because I think it's horrible that there is all this plastic floating around.
"I want to do my bit - I don't want to eat fish that has ingested plastic pellets", she explains.
Daniel Moore, a 29-year-old PhD student in Durham, found these nurdles at James Bay in March 2015.
Maranda, a self-employed embroider, took part in her first nurdle hunt this year in the freezing Scottish rain by her house at Dunnet Sands at Britain's most northerly point.
"I go beachcombing every day - but on this hunt I collected 355 nurdles in 45 minutes," she explains.
"It is back-breaking work - my hands get cold from the freezing water and my specs are always falling down.
"I do it because I care about the environment - I want to do a bit of good for the world when I'm out there," she adds.
Maranda, who is 44, uses some of the refuse for craft, including twine to make pictures, and she recycles the plastic rubbish she finds.
Nurdles are not the only plastic material occupying beaches in the UK.
Emily Cunningham, a 26-year-old marine biologist in Durham, found plastic ribbon and latex from 101 balloons on a beach in Anglesey.
She believes that they are the remains of balloons sent into the air on mass balloon releases.
Emily collects nurdles almost weekly, whenever she visits the beach, and says that often she finds more plastic than seaweed on Britain's beaches.
Tina Triggs, who is 44 and works in a supermarket, found 66 plastic cotton buds on a beach in February at Barmouth in north Wales.
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It was designed by Prince Albert for his wedding to Queen Victoria in 1840.
Eventually it could be brought by an international buyer and exported unless a UK buyer matches the £5 million price tag.
But experts say it's one of the most important jewels of Queen Victoria's reign and want it to remain in the UK.
The diamond crown is 11.5 cm and has 11 sapphires, which are all set in gold.
Luther Burrell and Jonathan Joseph form a new-look centre partnership, with James Haskell coming in on the blind-side flank for the Cardiff match.
Danny Cipriani and Nick Easter are both on the bench.
Only nine members of the England team which beat Australia in the autumn are in the starting XV.
England's injury crisis means Burrell and Joseph are just the latest pairing to play in the centres, while five players - Anthony Watson, Joseph, George Ford, Dave Attwood and George Kruis - will be starting their first Six Nations match.
Head coach Stuart Lancaster revealed that the England squad trained in front of loud speakers on Wednesday, a move designed to mimic the raucous atmosphere at the Millennium Stadium.
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Lancaster said it was a tactic to replicate the "intensity" and "reverberation" for those players yet to experience a Six Nations game in Cardiff, adding that it helped underline "how clear your communication has to be".
Wales coach Warren Gatland has challenged England to agree to play with the stadium roof closed.
But Lancaster said he would make a decision after consulting the weather forecast on Wednesday night, adding: "It looks like it's set fair and - if it is - we'll probably want it open."
Cole, who is finally free of long-term injury problems, is one of four British and Irish Lions who have returned to the 23-man squad, along with Tom Youngs, Mako Vunipola and Tom Croft.
Lancaster said Cole has "trained fully all week" and that his experience "tipped the balance" in his favour for selection.
On the combination of Burrell and Joseph, Lancaster said: "Jonathan has been one of the form centres in the country.
"He and Luther have trained well together and this is a big opportunity for both of them."
England will be without a number of regular players for Friday's match at the Millennium Stadium, with Manu Tuilagi, Owen Farrell, David Wilson, Joe Launchbury, Courtney Lawes, Tom Wood and Ben Morgan all unavailable because of injury.
Morgan's broken leg has given Billy Vunipola a chance at number eight, while in the second row, where England have been hit hardest by injury, Bath's Attwood will partner Saracens lock Kruis, who has not played for three weeks after being banned for a dangerous tackle.
"We've had to make some tight calls but we are excited about the side selected for what will be big challenge," added Lancaster, whose team finished second in last year's championship.
"Billy Vunipola has been playing well for Saracens and it's good to be able to give George Kruis his first international start after his impressive run off the bench in November.
And Lancaster added that a calf problem for fly-half Stephen Myler made the decision to opt for Cipriani on the bench "an easy one".
"He's ready to take his chance," said Lancaster. "This isn't a new guy coming back into camp."
England team to face Wales:
Mike Brown (Harlequins); Anthony Watson (Bath Rugby), Jonathan Joseph (Bath Rugby), Luther Burrell (Northampton Saints), Jonny May (Gloucester Rugby); George Ford (Bath Rugby), Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers); Joe Marler (Harlequins), Dylan Hartley (Northampton Saints), Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers), Dave Attwood (Bath Rugby), George Kruis (Saracens), James Haskell (Wasps), Chris Robshaw (Harlequins, capt), Billy Vunipola (Saracens)
Replacements: Tom Youngs (Leicester Tigers), Mako Vunipola (Saracens), Kieran Brookes (Newcastle Falcons), Nick Easter (Harlequins), Tom Croft (Leicester Tigers), Richard Wigglesworth (Saracens), Danny Cipriani (Sale Sharks), Billy Twelvetrees (Gloucester Rugby)
The Institute for Public Policy Research Scotland said 46% of jobs - about 1.2 million - were at "high risk" of automation in the period up to 2030.
The think tank's research says that, by then, adults are "more likely to be working longer, and will often have multiple jobs".
It said skills qualifications "should be reviewed".
IPPR Scotland said changes were needed so people could get more training and career support when they were midway through their working life.
The think tank wants to see the establishment of an Open Institute of Technology to achieve this, saying this could bring about "improved rates of career progression, pay and productivity, starting in low-skill sectors".
It also recommends the establishment of a new unit to tackle what it calls the "progression gap" - poor levels of career progression which can hold back low-skilled workers.
It said it suspected this problem was "related to the attainment gap at school" and added that addressing the issue would "work to tackle rates of in-work poverty and drive social mobility in Scotland".
It put forward the recommendations in its Scotland's Skills 2030 report, which said: "The world of work in 2030 will be very different to that in 2017. People are more likely to be working longer, and will often have multiple jobs, with multiple employers and in multiple careers.
"Over 2.5 million adults in Scotland (nearly 80%) will still be of working age by 2030. At the same time, over 46% of jobs (1.2 million) in Scotland are at high risk of automation.
"We will therefore need a skills system ready to work with people throughout their careers.
While qualifications levels "have been steadily improving and are higher than levels in the UK as a whole", the report said that Scotland "continues to have lower rates of in-work progression" than the UK as a whole, while pay rates have reduced in real terms and are behind those for the UK.
It added that there is a "clear gap in mid-career provision, which employers are not addressing".
The think tank suggested that skills qualifications "should be reviewed to ensure they remain fit for their purpose" and also called for the Scottish government to consider how business tax allowances could be used to encourage investment in skills by employers.
IPPR Scotland director Russell Gunson said: "Scotland urgently needs to design a skills system better able to work with people already into their careers to help them to retrain, re-skill and respond to world of work of 2030."
He added: "Scotland has a really strong record on skills in many ways, and in this report we find that Scotland is the highest-skilled nation in the UK.
"However, our system has a clear gap in that we don't have enough provision for people who have already started their careers, and employers are not investing to fill this gap.
"To respond to the huge changes facing Scotland around demographic, technological and climate change - and of course Brexit - we're going to have to focus on retrofitting the current workforce to provide them with the skills they need, to deliver the inclusive economic growth we wish to see.
"Our report makes a number of recommendations to help Scotland plot a path through these challenges, to reform the skills system in Scotland, to help to secure an economy that delivers fairness and reduces inequality.
"Without reform of the skills system we could see changes to the economy harm whole sections of population, and whole communities, leaving many behind."
A Scottish government spokesman said: "Our Labour Market Strategy recognises that Scotland's workforce is highly educated, flexible and adaptable. It's already responding well to the challenges of the 21st Century.
"We know the pace of technological change will be relentless in the years ahead, but we are confident there will be opportunities, as well as challenges, for a country with Scotland's fundamental economic strengths."
Demand for rhino horn is at an all time high and South Africa, which has the largest reserves of the wild animal, is a prime hunting ground for poachers.
Over the past three years, gangs are said to have killed more than 800 rhinos for their horns, which can fetch £22,000 ($35,055) per kg on the black market.
Poachers use a chainsaw to cut away the rhino's horns, after darting it with a tranquilizer - drugged and helpless the animal bleeds to death.
Large syndicates are involved in this multi-billion dollar trade worldwide - exporting the horns from Africa to parts of Asia and the Middle-East.
Despite many anti-poaching measures 310 have been killed in South Africa this year, more than 330 had been killed at the end of last year - and the numbers are set to increase, experts warn.
In the five years up to 2005, an average of 36 rhinos were killed each year.
Some say today's efforts are "too conventional" and are not enough.
Sources: WWF and Campfire Zimbabwe
Now South Africa has commissioned a study into whether legalising trade in rhino horn could in fact help to bring down poaching, the Department of Environmental Affairs announced recently.
"We are impartial at this stage but we are looking at all the suggestions which could help us in the fight against poachers," the department's spokesperson, Albie Modise, told the BBC.
"We are awaiting submissions and would consider this if we get authentic scientific backing that this would be effective," he said.
The idea is that legalising rhino horn trade would make South Africa directly responsible for meeting the demand for the horns - taking power out of the hands of poachers and placing it in the hands authorities who would also be sensitive to current conservation efforts.
These authorities would do market research into global markets of the trade, said Mr Modise.
The department says rhino horn stock piles could also be sold to fund further rhino conservation efforts.
Mr Modise says the suggestion first came up at a rhino summit held last year to find ways of tackling poaching in southern Africa.
Rhino horn trade is regulated by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) and at present South Africa allows the export of horns only as hunting trophies.
But the consideration has drawn heavy criticism from international conversation group WWF, which says this would be a setback by decades the efforts made to stabilise the rhino population.
"We understand the need to come up with new ways of combating the rhino horn trade but we are against the notion that legalising it is the answer," said Morne du Plessis, of WWF in South Africa.
"How can we control legal rhino horn trade when we can't even control illegal trade. There are too many unknowns for us to even start thinking in that direction," Mr du Plessis said.
If WWF believed legalising the industry would be of benefit - it would be done research on the matter itself, he added.
Instead, WWF believes that such a move would only further endanger the lives of rhino - and possibly drive them to extinction.
There are currently 4,500 of the critically endangered black rhino (Diceros bicornis) spread across southern African nations - a shocking decline from the 1980s when 75,000 of the mammals were mostly found in Zimbabwe.
The two sub-species of white rhino (Ceratotherium simum) have a population in the region of 20,000 in South Africa alone.
But Campfire Association Zimbabwe - which advocates being able to make a living from wildlife - supports the idea of legalising the trade, saying it is time efforts looked at untested measures as opposed to the current ones which are not always effective.
"We view this as part and parcel of placing value on the rhino species. We are looking forward to a time when communities would benefit directly from living with the species," says Charles Jonga, who heads Campfire Zimbabwe.
He said his organisation, which was founded in the 1980s, had found that communities which were directly involved in conserving wildlife and were also able to earn a living from it were more keen to protect the animals from poachers.
If the trade were legal, Campfire Zimbabwe says, it would give power to countries with rhinos to set appropriate conditions to the sale - for example insisting that the horn not be used for medicinal purposes or perhaps to get clarity on what markets use the horns.
Mr Jonga said the demand needed to be met and not shunned, adding that there were ways of doing this without driving the rhino population to extinction.
"We must be open to the idea of engaging with the markets and finding ways which would make Africa benefit from the demand and indeed the communities where the rhinos are found," said Mr Jonga.
"We must also look at possibilities of breeding the rhino in our communities," he added.
Conservationists suspect that most of the illegally harvested rhino horns destined for south-east Asia are used for medicinal purposes.
In Vietnam many believe that ground rhino horn can be used to cure cancer - although there is no scientific proof of this - and those horns taken to the the Middle East are used to make handles for ornamental daggers.
Some measures have been put in place to curb poaching in South Africa including the deployment in recent months of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to protect the animals from poachers by patrolling "hotspots".
Millions of dollars have been invested over the past few years on high-tech technology, upping conservations efforts and starting up range expansion programmes all in a bid for counter the effects of poaching on the rhino population.
While many countries are desperate for answers to the poaching problem - and many agree that a lot more can be done to save rhinos, critics says South Africa's idea might be too unconventional and untested to get the supports it needs.
Just five senior players from last season remain at the club as new boss Terry Butcher opted to overhaul their squad to fit his smaller budget for the new campaign.
The off-field future for the Exiles is also uncertain after chairman Les Scadding stood down over the summer. The supporters' trust remain in talks to take over.
County were arguably the surprise package of the season for most of the campaign and came agonisingly close to a play-off place.
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After losing their first three league games, the Exiles then went on a terrific run, losing just two of their next 22 matches to force their way into the automatic promotion places at the turn of the year.
Edinburgh's departure had a huge impact and without him at the helm things began to unravel under Jimmy Dack and the goals dried up.
They remained in contention for the play-offs until the final day of the season but struggled to put together enough victories to secure a top seven finish.
They limped over the line with five defeats in their last six games and missed out by six points.
Butcher is adamant the off-field situation will not affect their season, but with so many new faces and so little time to gel as a team before the start of the campaign, it will take a huge effort to match last season's exploits.
Fifteen players from last season have gone, 10 new players have come in but the squad still looks like it is short in a few areas.
The manager is keen to add another striker to improve their fire power before the end of the transfer window but his hands could be tied because of the Exiles' reduced playing budget.
Finances have dictated that the bulk of their new signings have come from the division below, whether they're good enough to replace what's been lost remains to be seen.
No one knows quite what to expect from a new group of players and a new manager, both having so much to prove at this level. It is easy to see why so many have tipped them for a year of struggle, but as they remain such an unknown quantity it could easily go the other way. A good start to the campaign could make all the difference.
Lenell John-Lewis. He will start the campaign as Newport's main striker and already a terrace favourite. The fans love to sing the 'his name is a shop' chant, but the pressure will be on him to score the goals County need to keep them out of trouble.
Eighteen goals last season, including one in the play-off final defeat to Bristol Rovers at Wembley, he has a proven track record in non-league but can he replicate that at Rodney Parade?
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Manager sacking - not available
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After so much change over the summer Newport need stability this season. The fans will not want to hear talk of mid-table finishes, but I think if they stay in the Football League they've had a good campaign. A good start is essential.
League Two: 18th. FA Cup: Second round.
Terry Butcher:
"Newport County has done ever so well, in the last three or four years especially."
"There's a fresh, new team coming in. New behind-the-scenes staff coming in. And there could be a new board coming in."
"We'll wait and see but whatever the situation we want to make this club stronger."
Former Wales striker and BBC Wales pundit Iwan Roberts: "I think every club needs someone who's willing to put their hand in their pocket. Those days are gone now and they have to cut their cloth accordingly.
"They've got an experienced man in the job, I think it's over 500 games he's managed at various levels. If he can reproduce the work he did at Inverness then they've got a chance."
The Brimstone strikes targeted a vehicle near Raqqa - a stronghold of IS - as well as the Omar oilfield in the east of Syria, said Downing Street.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the UK was "playing a key role" in the fight against IS, also known as Daesh.
Brimstone missiles are viewed as more accurate than their rivals.
Sold as the "most accurate precision strike product on the market", they are radar-guided and able to be used against targets moving at up to 70mph.
What is the Brimstone missile?
The UK and Saudi Arabia are the only two countries to have purchased Brimstones, and while laying out his case for British action against IS in Syria, David Cameron argued that their use would make a "meaningful difference" to the battle.
MPs voted in favour of extending UK action into Syria on 2 December, but strikes have so far been few in number.
RAF activity has instead been focused on Iraq - most recently in the battle for Ramadi - but it appears there has now been a surge of activity over Syria, said BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale.
In its latest update on UK actions against IS, the MoD outlined the four missions carried out on Sunday:
The MoD said the RAF also carried out a number of missions over Iraq last week, supporting troops on the ground, including destroying two machine-gun positions and two armoured personnel carriers near Ramadi.
The defence secretary said: "Britain is playing a key role in the fight against Daesh, whether helping Iraqi ground forces retake Ramadi or by striking targets near its Raqqa heartland.
"Our Reaper drones have now flown 1,000 missions against Daesh and we will maintain this tempo with RAF pilots flying day and night over Iraq and Syria."
He added: "The Royal Navy continues to support our allies as HMS St Albans will shortly join the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier group as we unite to destroy Daesh."
Mr Fallon said he would meet other coalition defence ministers next week "to plan the next stage of the strategy".
Meanwhile, the UK is helping to fund a United Nations mission to deliver aid to the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, where there are reports of people starving to death.
The Department for International Development said UK money would help provide food parcels, nutritional supplements, essential drugs and non-food items, such as tents, for up to 40,000 people.
Currently, 428 hydroelectric dams are planned, with 140 already built or under construction.
Researchers warn that this could affect the dynamics of the complex river system and put thousands of unique species at risk.
The study is published in the journal Nature.
"The world is going to lose the most diverse wetland on the planet," said lead author Prof Edgargo Latrubesse, from the University of Texas at Austin, US.
The Amazon basin covers more than 6.1 million sq km, and is the largest and most complex river system on the planet.
It has become a key area for hydroelectric dam construction.
But this study suggests that the push for renewable energy along the Amazon's waterways could lead to profound problems.
The international team of researchers who carried out the research is particularly concerned about any disruption to the natural movement of sediment in the rivers.
This sediment provides a vital source of nutrients for wildlife in the Amazon's wetlands. It also affects the way the waterways meander and flow.
“[The sediment is] how the rivers work, how they move, how they regenerate new land, and how they keep refreshing the ecosystems," said Prof Latrubesse.
The Texas researcher said that at present environmental assessments were being carried out for each dam in isolation, looking at their impact on the local area. But he argued a wider approach was needed for the Amazon.
"The problem is nobody is assessing the whole package: the cascade of effects the dams produce on the whole system."
The researchers have highlighted the Madeira, Maranon and Ucayali rivers - all tributaries of the Amazon River - as areas of great concern.
These rivers are home to many unique species, and the scientists say these would be under threat if even a fraction of the planned dams go ahead.
Prof Latrubesse said: “All of these rivers hold huge diversity, with many species that are endemic.
“Thousands of species could be affected, maybe even go extinct.“
The researchers warn that any damage could be irreversible, and they say any risks must be considered before the dams are allowed to go ahead.
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The dating site for married people was hacked in the summer.
Security expert Graham Cluley blogged he had received "a steady stream of emails" from the site's users worried about the hack.
Mr Cluley advised anyone receiving such a letter to "ignore it".
Ashley Madison - which has the tagline 'Life is short, have an affair' - was hacked in July, and data belonging to its 33 million members was leaked on to the so-called dark web, meaning it was accessible via encrypted browsers.
A month later, police in Canada reported that two individuals associated with the leak of data had taken their own lives.
It has left many members concerned about how their data could be misused.
One such user wrote the following note to Mr Cluley: "I just received a physical postal letter to my house asking for $4,167 [£2,748] or exposed my AM account to people close to me."
In response, Mr Cluley blogged: "I understand how it would be distressing for Ashley Madison members to receive a letter like that through the post, but I'm strongly of the opinion that - in the majority of cases - blackmailers are trying their luck, hoping that a small percentage of those targeted will pay up."
He advised users to ignore the demands but also to share the letter with the authorities.
"If you pay up, there is no guarantee that the blackmailer won't ask for more," he told the BBC.
It has previously been revealed that blackmailers were sending emails to users of the dating site, asking for money.
Mr Cluley told the BBC that he received up to "half a dozen" notes a week from Ashley Madison users who had received such threatening emails but added that the news some were now also getting letters "stepped it up a gear".
He thinks it is unlikely that it is the original hackers who are sending such letters.
"Typically they like to cover their tracks," he said.
"This is more likely to be opportunists who have got their hands on the data."
He believes that hack-mailing will become a common threat in 2016.
"Increasingly we will see hackers stealing companies' databases and then demanding cash to stop them exposing the data on the dark web," Mr Cluley said.
West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue said the ducklings got stuck on Two Laws Road in Keighley after they were separated from their mother.
Fire officers helped the RSPCA with the rescue after the charity received reports the ducklings were trapped.
The fire service tweeted that the birds had "waddled back to their fretful mum and siblings" after the rescue.
Last month, three ducklings were rescued from a sewer in Essex after falling through a drain cover.
The Lions created the better of the chances, with Jed Wallace forcing Robins goalkeeper Frank Fielding into a fine safe after half-time.
Left-back Joe Bryan went closest for the hosts, hitting the crossbar after exchanging passes with Bobby Reid.
Bristol City are now without a victory in their past three matches.
Having snatched a last-gasp draw at Brentford on Tuesday, Lee Johnson's side were again short of their best against a hard-working Millwall side.
Steve Morison and Conor McLaughlin missed further opportunities for the Lions, who have two draws and two defeats from their first four games.
Millwall manager Neil Harris:
"I was delighted with the way we nullified Bristol City's strengths and kept them under pressure. All we lacked was a bit of luck in front of goal.
"Our defending as a team was terrific and my strikers also looked dangerous going forward.
"If they keep playing like they have been this season victories will come soon. It is only a matter of time before we get the right reward."
Bristol City head coach Lee Johnson:
"I'm slightly disappointed, but still proud of my players for the commitment they showed to achieve our first clean sheet of the season.
"It was a very tough game for us and Millwall deserve credit for that.
"The fans will probably be disappointed that we weren't as creative as in our previous home games, but it was asking a lot to maintain that standard."
Match ends, Bristol City 0, Millwall 0.
Second Half ends, Bristol City 0, Millwall 0.
Attempt blocked. George Saville (Millwall) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Fred Onyedinma (Millwall) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Eros Pisano (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tom Elliott (Millwall).
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Nathan Baker.
Foul by Gary O'Neil (Bristol City).
Shaun Williams (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Steve Morison (Millwall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Bailey Wright (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Steve Morison (Millwall).
Attempt saved. Bailey Wright (Bristol City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jamie Paterson with a cross.
Corner, Bristol City. Conceded by Shaun Williams.
Attempt blocked. Cauley Woodrow (Bristol City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jamie Paterson.
Gary O'Neil (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Shaun Williams (Millwall).
Bailey Wright (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Steve Morison (Millwall).
Attempt missed. Tom Elliott (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by George Saville.
Bobby Reid (Bristol City) is shown the yellow card for dangerous play.
Dangerous play by Bobby Reid (Bristol City).
Jordan Archer (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Bobby Reid (Bristol City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Shaun Hutchinson (Millwall).
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Callum O'Dowda.
Foul by Eros Pisano (Bristol City).
Tom Elliott (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Callum O'Dowda (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Shaun Hutchinson (Millwall).
Substitution, Millwall. Shane Ferguson replaces Jed Wallace.
Foul by Gary O'Neil (Bristol City).
George Saville (Millwall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Millwall. Tom Elliott replaces Lee Gregory.
Offside, Millwall. James Meredith tries a through ball, but Lee Gregory is caught offside.
Gary O'Neil (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Fred Onyedinma (Millwall).
Callum O'Dowda (Bristol City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by James Meredith (Millwall).
Bailey Wright (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Lee was convicted of bribery in a scandal that also saw the impeachment of South Korea's former president.
The case has gripped the public amid growing anger against South Korea's biggest companies, known as chaebols.
Lee, who denied all charges, had faced a jail sentence of up to 12 years.
Also known as Jay Y Lee, the de facto head of the world's largest smartphone maker had been detained since February on a string of corruption charges.
These included bribery, embezzlement and hiding assets overseas.
What did he do?
The 49-year-old is accused of giving donations worth 41bn won ($36m; £29m) to non-profit foundations operated by Choi Soon-sil, a friend of South Korea's former President Park Geun-hye, in return for political favours.
Prosecutors said the donations were made to Ms Park's confidante to win government support for a big restructuring of Samsung that would strengthen Lee's control over Samsung Electronics.
But Lee's defence team said that the payments were signed off without his knowledge.
Lee has previously admitted that the firm also gave a horse and money to help the equestrian career of Choi's daughter, Chung Yoo-ra, but denied seeking favours.
His lawyer said on Friday they would appeal against the court's decision.
"We are confident the ruling will be overturned," Song Wu-cheol said.
The case contributed to President Park's eventual impeachment and she now faces trial for corruption herself, something she denies.
Her friend Choi has already been jailed for three years after being found guilty of using her position of influence to solicit favours for her daughter.
On Friday, two other Samsung executives, Choi Gee-sung and Chang Choong-ki, were also convicted in the same trial as Lee and sentenced to four years in prison. Former Samsung Electronics president Park Sang-jin and executive vice-president Hwang Sung-soo were handed suspended sentences.
Analysis - by the BBC's Yogita Limaye in Seoul
This isn't the first time a top executive of a big conglomerate has been convicted for corruption in South Korea.
But in the past, they've either been given suspended sentences or have been pardoned by the president.
The new president, Moon Jae-in, has already said there will be no more presidential pardons.
So if Lee's sentence is upheld by higher courts and he ends up serving his complete sentence in jail or a significant part of it, that will be a departure from what we've seen in South Korea in the past.
And the new government says that will be a strong message to chaebols that they need to clean up the way they do business.
The conviction represents a huge blow to South Korea's biggest and most well-known business empire. Since the verdict, Samsung shares fell by 1%.
It also raises questions about the future leadership of the family-run conglomerate. Lee has been standing in as chairman since his father, Lee Kun-hee, suffered a heart attack in 2014.
Lee has two sisters, who are in management roles in different parts of the Samsung group, but it is unclear whether they could be brought in to higher positions.
Since Lee's arrest six months ago, the group's business operations have continued largely unaffected.
Samsung Electronics posted a record profit of 11tn won for the latest quarter and the firm has released its new flagship Galaxy S8 smartphone, closing the book on the disastrous recall of the exploding Galaxy Note 7.
The Samsung Group, made up of 60 interlinked companies, is crucial to the South Korean economy, with sales equivalent to about a fifth of the national GDP.
The chaebol includes a shipbuilding division, a construction company, and pharmaceuticals and advertising arms.
Read more: Chaebols: S Korea's corporate fiefdoms
They said Pakistan-born Khuram Butt, 27, of Barking, London, had been known to police and MI5 but there had not been any intelligence about an attack.
The other attacker was Rachid Redouane, 30, from Barking, who police said had claimed to be Moroccan-Libyan.
The attackers were shot dead by police. All 12 people arrested after the attack have now been released without charge.
The seven women and five men were arrested in Barking on Sunday following the attack in which seven people were killed and 48 injured.
The attackers drove a hired van into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing people in the area around Borough Market.
A vigil was held at Potters Field Park near London Bridge on Monday evening to remember the victims.
NHS England said 36 people remained in hospital, with 18 in a critical condition.
Redouane, who was a chef, also used the name Rachid Elkhdar. He had not been known to police.
Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner Mark Rowley said: "Inquiries are ongoing to confirm the identity of their accomplice."
He said the investigation into Butt had begun two years ago but "there was no intelligence to suggest that this attack was being planned and the investigation had been prioritised accordingly".
He added: "Work is ongoing to understand more about them, their connections and whether they were assisted or supported by anyone else."
Butt featured in a Channel 4 documentary last year about Islamist extremists with links to the jailed preacher Anjem Choudary.
The attacker, who had older siblings and was married with at least one child, could be seen in the programme arguing with police officers in the street.
An online CV seen by the BBC shows that Butt had achieved an NVQ Level 2 in business administration.
He went on to work in an administrative role for a company called Auriga Holdings, based in East Ham, which manages Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets.
He had also worked for London Underground for just under six months as a trainee customer services assistant, before leaving in October last year, Transport for London said.
And Butt was the sole director of a now-dissolved company called Kool Kosmetics.
The vigil began as a sombre and quiet gathering under the trees in Potters Field Park, where people stood in quiet contemplation looking out over the Thames.
So many spoke of their desire to stand together with others and show love.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan's speech roused the quiet crowd of thousands into hearty applause when he spoke of his disgust and defiance over the horror of Saturday's events.
After a minute's silence, many went forward to lay flowers beneath the flagpoles of City Hall.
It was a dignified show of solidarity and strength in the face of fear and hate.
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BBC home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani said two people in Barking had raised concerns about Butt.
One man called the anti-terrorism hotline in 2015, while a woman went to the local police station because she was scared Butt was trying to radicalise her children.
Security officials made him a lower priority than other targets because of a lack of information that he was involved in attack-planning, our correspondent said.
Sources in Dublin said Redouane was understood to have been carrying an identification card issued in the Republic of Ireland when he was shot dead, the Press Association reported.
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said he was not a member of a "small group" being monitored by Irish police in respect of radicalisation.
Canadian national Chrissy Archibald, 30, was the first victim to be named. Her family said she had died in her fiancé's arms after being struck by the attackers' speeding van.
The sister of 32-year-old James McMullan, from Hackney, east London, said he was believed to be among those who died, after his bank card was found on a body at the scene.
A French national was also killed in the attack, according to foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.
Among other developments:
It is the third terror attack in the UK in three months, following the car and knife attack on Westminster Bridge in March, in which five people were killed, and the Manchester bombing on 22 May, in which 22 people were killed.
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Ahead of the service, Biggs' coffin travelled from Barnet to Golders Green Crematorium accompanied by 13 members of the motorcycle club.
Mourners included Biggs' son Michael, gangland celebrity author Dave Courtney and former gangster Freddie Foreman.
The robber, infamous for his 30 years on the run, died in December aged 84.
When he was last seen in public, at the funeral of fellow Great Train Robber Bruce Reynolds, Biggs stuck two fingers up at journalists.
A floral display of the salute travelled in the back of the hearse, behind Biggs' coffin which was draped with a Charlton Athletic scarf, a union jack and the flag of Brazil, the country where he spent many years as a fugitive.
Ronald Arthur "Ronnie" Biggs, who spent more than three decades on the run, had been living at Carlton Court Care Home in East Barnet after suffering several strokes in recent years.
His carers at the home were among those who joined the funeral procession.
A six-piece Dixie band also joined the cortege for the final part of the journey to the crematorium, playing songs including When the Saints Come Marching In and When You're Smiling.
Floral tributes at the crematorium included one from Charles Bronson, one of the country's longest-serving prisoners, who sent a bouquet containing an old ten-bob note with the words "Ronnie Biggs RIP" scrawled across it.
Leading the service, Rev Dave Tomlinson said: "People have asked me 'How can you take part in the funeral of a Great Train Robber?'
"What we need to remember is that Jesus didn't hang out with hoity-toity folk, he just treated people as people."
Michael Biggs paid tribute to this father, saying that he "always had a way of looking at things and saying something that was fair and often funny".
He said Biggs had "embraced the culture" of Brazil after arriving there and become a "carioca, someone from Rio".
"He always had a soft spot for the underdog and he considered himself to be one, he always had a few pennies for the street beggars.
"He spoke the lingo and enjoyed the samba."
He added that the congregation should "celebrate his life with a proper booze up later on, ashes to ashes and dust to the beach".
Biggs was part of the gang which escaped with £2.6m from the Glasgow to London mail train on 8 August 1963.
Train driver Jack Mills was struck over the head during the robbery and never worked again. He died in 1970.
Biggs was given a 30-year sentence for his part in the theft but escaped from Wandsworth prison in 1965.
In 2001, he returned to the UK seeking medical help but was sent to prison. He was released on compassionate grounds in 2009 after contracting pneumonia.
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The funeral of Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs, complete with a Hell's Angels guard of honour and a floral two-fingered salute, has taken place.
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