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The company argued the £1.25m it was told to pay in total was "out of all proportion" to the harm done.
In May, Mr Justice Mann awarded damages to eight people including actor Shane Richie and ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne, saying the invasions of privacy were "serious" and "prolonged".
The Mirror Group agreed it should pay but had disputed the amounts.
Lady Justice Arden, Lady Justice Rafferty and Lord Justice Kitchin upheld Mr Justice Mann's judgment in the Court of Appeal.
In court it also emerged there is to be a Victims' Right to Review of the decision on Friday by the Crown Prosecution Service not to charge 10 individuals who worked for Mirror Group Newspapers with phone-hacking offences.
Gerald Shamash, the solicitor for Gascoigne and Alan Yentob, the BBC's former creative director, said his clients were "mightily relieved" with the ruling.
Actress Sadie Frost won the largest compensation payment - £260,250.
Richie, Gascoigne, Mr Yentob, Lucy Taggart, Robert Ashworth, Lauren Alcorn and Shobna Gulati were awarded between £72,500 and £201,250.
The compensation to each exceeded the previous record for a UK privacy case - the £60,000 the News of the World was ordered to pay former Formula 1 boss Max Mosley in 2008.
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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."
The 21-year-old joined the Women's Super League One club from Arsenal before the start of last season.
Manager Emma Hayes told the club website: "Jade Bailey has unfortunately suffered a season-ending injury.
"She had started the season so well and it's been a huge disappointment for the squad to see that happen."
Chelsea, who were knocked out of the Women's FA Cup by Birmingham City on penalties on Monday, begin their 2017 WSL 1 Spring Series campaign at home to Yeovil Town Ladies on Sunday, 30 April.
The authority said it had no choice but to approve the rise - the first increase in six years.
The 3.95% increase will mean an extra £45.90 on the annual bill of an average band D property.
The council said it was faced with an extremely tight budget for 2016-2017.
"It is with a heavy heart but a clear head that we have decided to raise council tax this year," said leader Louise Goldsmith.
"We have challenging times ahead and we have had to make some very difficult decisions.
"I am confident this budget will safeguard critical frontline services and protect the most vulnerable whilst still ensuring the economic prosperity of the county."
The council said its government grant had been cut by over 20% - above the national average and more than it had expected.
But it had been given temporary funding of £6.2m for the coming year and £6.3m for 2017-2018.
The council tax increase includes the 2% extra announced by Chancellor George Osborne in his Autumn Statement to help councils pay for social care.
Similar increases have already been agreed by East Sussex, Surrey and Kent county councils.
Orient had a first-half lead when Dean Lewington mis-kicked Dean Cox's cross and debutant keeper Cody Cropper's slip prevented him keeping the ball out.
MK looked to be going out, but with the game nearing full-time Orient defender Mathieu Baudry headed into his own net.
In the 92nd minute, Simon Church laid off Carl Baker to slot in for victory.
MK Dons boss Karl Robinson had made 10 changes to the side who beat Rotherham 4-1 on Saturday, and struggled to create any clear chances until late on in the game.
Orient should have put the game to bed earlier as Ollie Palmer hit the post, with the ball bouncing to safety off Cropper.
Orient forward Jay Simpson had a great chance with four minutes left, but United States Under-23 goalkeeper Cropper was equal to his effort.
The result means the Dons - who humbled Manchester United in the competition last season - have reached the second round for the sixth year running.
MK Dons boss Karl Robinson told BBC Radio Three Counties:
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"I think Leyton Orient deserve an awful lot of credit for what they did and they deserved to get more out of the game than they did. We weren't great but when you make 10 changes you are going to get that in periods of the game.
"The players' grit and determination was the pleasing thing for me and that never-say-die attitude.
"I thought Carl Baker's goal was excellent and I thought Matthew Upson really showed his class."
Violets are blue,
I wrote this algorithm
Just to find you.
If you're not being wined and dined this Valentine's Day here's some encouraging food for thought - mathematician Chris McKinlay from Los Angeles may not be a hopeless romantic but he programmed his way to true love using data freely available on dating website OKCupid.
Mr McKinlay decided to put the data into dating during a lull in his PhD research.
"I was frustrated with what I was supposed to be working on so I picked up OKCupid as a side project," he said.
"I just wanted to see if I could do it. I thought, if dates came out of it, that would be great, but it was proof of concept."
Being somebody's "proof of concept" doesn't exactly sound like the stuff of fairy tales but his method was so effective that, after three weeks of what he describes as "heavy part-time work", Mr McKinlay was averaging 70 unsolicited introductory emails a week through the site from potential girlfriends.
Three months and 90 dates later, Mr McKinlay met Christine Tien Wang, now his fiancee, and his "side project" was over.
So how did he do it?
Users of OKCupid have to answer multiple choice questions as part of building their online dating profile. The questions vary but include lifestyle, religion and political subject areas.
Chris McKinlay reasoned that by trawling all the answers he would find that the respondents would fall into clusters - those who were liberal and enjoyed shopping, or liked horror movies and tattoos, for example.
"I reasoned their answers would bunch up around belief systems," he explained.
"If they were going to clump up there were going to be answers that were more important [to me]."
He chose a locally-based target group of women on the site and created code, in the form of bots, to trawl the questions they had answered - giving him a dataset of some six million answers.
He is unapologetic about such personal data gathering.
"I collected a bunch of data that was publicly available online," he said.
"I didn't break into OKCupid's servers. I did use it for my personal gain, that's true. Big companies do it all the time."
Data analysis sorted the profiles into seven distinct clusters.
"I think humans in general aren't all over the map when it comes to questions about lifestyle, politics, religion - there tends to be common threads," Mr McKinlay said.
"What was surprising was how well grouped these different sets of people were."
He selected two clusters that appealed most to him and set up two dating profiles specifically written to get their attention.
The responses soon flooded in.
Chris McKinlay began dating in earnest. Evening dates and lunches became quick coffee dates as his diary filled up - and he soon began observing surprising patterns within the dates themselves.
"A lot of the people who were on these dates with me had answered several hundred multiple choice questions with a high degree of statistical similarity that would bleed into the dates in weird ways," he said.
"At one point eight out of nine people in a row ordered the same odd coffee drink - a flat white - which at the time was not on the menu in a lot of coffee places in LA and certainly wasn't in the questions or profiles.
"The [women] had the same colour iPhone case, similar dress, the tendency to ask the same questions in a similar order.
"I got really good at these dates because in a sense they were all the same date."
It was also a little heartbreaking, he admitted.
"To put myself in one of those people's shoes - they saw me online and I was at or near the top match they'd ever had on the website, in some cases after years of being on it, so there was a strong incentive to meet me and really bring their A game.
"Me, on the other hand, I already had seven or eight dates lined up after that one, I knew what they were going to say, and I knew how to maximise their sexiness, or mystique, or whatever I wanted to on the date.
"I started looking for the outliers - someone who was a little bit different. About three times in the experiment I met someone really different, I kind of fell [in love] a bit."
Then one day, Christine Tien Wang got in touch.
"Christine went online and searched for something and found me at the top of the list and wrote to me," Chris recalled.
"So from her perspective she did all the work. All I did was just make myself more visible."
He told her about his experiment on their first date.
"She thought it was cool - a little dark and cynical but interesting," he said.
She's "a bit fatigued" with it now though, he added, and doesn't want to be interviewed about it.
A triumphant Mr McKinlay has since helped a few friends find partners using the same method.
There has been a lot of research into the role of smell in identifying a potential partner.
Daniel Davis, author of The Compatibility Gene and professor of immunology at Manchester University, believes that what we might actually be trying to sniff out is our potential mate's immune system.
"An experiment was done where men were asked to wear T-shirts for two days without washing or entering a smelly room," he said.
"Women were then asked to rank the smell of those T-shirts as to how sexy they thought they smelt - the results of how they ranked were compared with the versions of immune system genes that the men and women had.
"It turned out the smell of T-shirts that women found most sexually attractive were from men who had different versions of particular immune system genes to themselves," he explained.
The experiment itself proved controversial, not least because it was impossible to see whether it influenced the subjects' behaviour in any way.
"If you ask people generally what would be the difference between people - you might think about genes that affect hair colour or eye colour or skin colour but those are very narrow ranges in diversity - by far the biggest difference from one person to the next is in immune system genes," he said.
"It's highly possible that some aspects of mate selection and reproduction are linked in with how our species has evolved to fight off disease."
Then one day Mr McKinlay said OKCupid changed its algorithms and closed his side door.
Founder Christian Rudder however said there were no hard feelings.
"What he did was turn the tables on us, but I'm fine with that," he told the BBC.
"He gamed our system, but it's hard to do, it's so rare.
"Maybe one in every 200,000 people could or would want to do what he did.
"I think it's cool."
Fellow mathematician Matt Parker suggests using a theory called optimal stopping point if you haven't got the time for some seriously intensive dating.
"The number of people you should date depends on the number of people you are prepared to date," he explained.
"So let's say you are prepared to date 100 people, at which point you give up and settle for the last person.
"You calculate the square root of that number of people - so for 100 people that's 10 - you date that number of people and they are your survey period... you reject them all."
So far, so brutal.
"You tell them it's nothing personal, they're just your sampling candidates," is Mr Parker's advice.
"And then at the end of that, having remembered the best person you met in that sampling people you continue dating until you meet someone who is as good or better than that."
But what if your chosen one has by that point found somebody less, well, picky?
It is a flaw in the plan, Mr Parker conceded.
"The general rule of thumb is to not settle down too quickly, Mathematically that will give you a better potential life partner further down the road," he said.
"But as always people tend to follow their heart, not their calculations."
Not everybody is convinced that data and dating go hand in hand.
"I think if you're talking data as in what do you want for a partner or what are you offering yourself, it's a very good starting point," says relationship expert Susan Quilliam.
"But if you're talking algorithms and using them to find the love of your life there's a problem which is, when you meet face to face all the data in the world doesn't tell you whether there's chemistry or not."
The former business secretary said his party was in the same predicament as the late 1980s and had made "terrible mistakes" in strategy since 2010.
Meanwhile Liz Kendall became the first Labour MP to confirm she will stand.
Other likely contenders Chuka Umunna and Tristram Hunt also set out their visions and said they may stand.
However, backbencher Dan Jarvis - a former paratrooper tipped as a candidate - has ruled himself out.
The Barnsley Central MP, who recently remarried after losing his first wife to cancer, wrote in the Times: "It's not the right time for my family. My eldest kids had a very tough time when they lost their mum and I don't want them to lose their dad."
Earlier, Mr Umunna told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show Labour could win the next election "if it made the right decisions now" and said he wanted to play "the fullest part in rebuilding our party".
Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt told BBC 5 live's Pienaar's Politics he was considering his options and wanted to be "one of the voices" contributing to the party's rebuilding process, saying Labour found itself in a "terrible hole".
In other election news:
Following Ed Miliband's resignation on Friday prospective Labour leaders have been setting out their views about why Labour lost and what it needs to do to win again.
Mr Umunna said the party was "down but not out" and rejected suggestions it could take a decade to recover. While it was "too early" to say whether he would stand for the leadership, he said he wanted to be involved in taking the party forward.
"We can do this in five years as long as we make the right decisions," he told the BBC's Andrew Marr. "You can change the leader but if you unless you get the message right we won't win."
Labour election rules
MPs wishing to stand as leader and deputy leader have to be nominated by 15% of their colleagues in the Parliamentary Labour Party to be eligible to stand. As Labour now has 232 MPs, this means prospective candidates must get at least 35 signatures.
The party's national executive committee is expected to set out the timetable for the election next week.
Under rules agreed last year, all Labour Party members, registered supporters and affiliated supporters - including union members - will be allowed a maximum of one vote each on a one member, one vote system. When the election is held, they will be asked to rank candidates in order of preference.
If no candidate gets 50% of all votes cast, the votes will be added up and the candidate with the fewest votes eliminated. Their second preference votes will then be redistributed until one candidate has 50% of all votes cast.
Who's in the running to replace Ed Miliband?
Both Mr Umunna and Mr Hunt suggested Labour had focused too much on those at the top and bottom of society and had too little to say to the millions of those in the middle.
"We often had a message which spoke to people on zero hours contracts and the minimum wage. But for middle-income voters, there was not enough of an aspirational offer there," Mr Umunna told Andrew Marr.
Mr Hunt told Sky News the "cumulative effect" of Labour's proposed tax changes, including its plan to raise the top rate of tax and introduce a mansion tax, "made people fearful about whether we were on their side".
As she confirmed she was running, Ms Kendall told the BBC's Sunday Politics that Labour had to set out something "genuinely new and positive rather than being the moaning man in the pub".
Labour, she said, had to move on from the Blair-Brown era by "keeping our working class supporters while reaching out to Conservative supporters and Middle England".
Lord Mandelson, a key architect of Labour's three election victories under Tony Blair, said the party could have won the election but instead had lost "badly".
He suggested Labour "discarded" the centre ground in 2010 instead of "revitalising" its approach in the face of new economic times and thought it could "wave our fists angrily at the nasty Tories and wait for the public to realise how much they miss us".
Comparing Labour's economic strategy to a polo mint "with a great hole in the middle", he said it gave the impression it was "for the poor, hate the rich, ignoring completely the vast swathe of the population who exist in between who do have values like ours".
"The scale of the challenge we face and the need for rethinking and re-modernisaton of the party is akin to the sort of the scale of challenge we faced in the late 1980s," he told Andrew Marr. "That is how serious it is."
"Far from embarking on a sort of short term beauty contest of leaders what we really need is a very through debate in the party of the sort that was denied us in 2010."
But Labour MP Ian Lavery told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend he did not believe Ed Miliband's agenda could be called too "left-wing" and the party, between 1997 and 2010, seemed to some to "forget" the working classes.
After his election victory, prime minister David Cameron is continuing to piece together his new Cabinet.
He has named Michael Gove as justice secretary, succeeding Chris Grayling who becomes leader of the House of Commons.
Nicky Morgan has been reappointed as education secretary and minister for equalities while Mark Harper has been given the crucial job of chief whip - responsible for maintaining discipline among Conservative backbenchers.
Former Conservative leader Lord Howard has urged MPs to exercise "a considerable degree of self discipline", particularly in the run-up to a planned referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union in 2017.
And senior backbencher David Davis said the leadership should treat his colleagues "with respect".
David Cameron's latest Cabinet appointments follow the reappointment of Chancellor George Osborne, Home Secretary Theresa May, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and Defence Secretary Michael Fallon..
Mr Gove, a former chief whip and education secretary, will be in charge of implementing the Conservatives' pledge to scrap the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. He will also take on the role of Lord Chancellor.
A wider reshuffle is expected on Monday, with posts held by Liberal Democrats under the coalition yet to be filled.
More than one million people are estimated to have lined the route of the stage, from Leeds to Harrogate.
Froome said riders needed "a bit of space" so they did not have to stop to file between lines of spectators.
His fellow Briton Geraint Thomas said: "It was great to race on home roads, but it is quite dangerous at times."
As defending Tour champion, it doesn't get much better than this
Froome, 29, finished the stage, won by Marcel Kittel, in sixth place while Team Sky colleague Thomas was 17th.
Welshman Thomas, 28, said: "It was so noisy. My ears are ringing now; it was like being in a disco for four hours.
"Everyone's going on about how good it was."
Froome, the second Briton to win the race after Sir Bradley Wiggins, said the crowds were "second to none".
He added: "As defending Tour champion, it doesn't get much better than this."
But compatriot Simon Yates warned fans must be careful if they are taking pictures with passing riders.
The Orica GreenEdge rider, 21, said: "The only real complaint is people taking selfies in the middle of the bunch and having their back to the peloton.
"Everyone is out there having fun and a lot of people don't realise we're coming past at 60kph (37mph) and we use every inch of the roads."
Mark Cavendish, the fourth British rider in the race, dislocated his right shoulder and suffered ligament damage after crashing near the end of the stage.
Sunday's second stage takes the cyclists from York to Sheffield.
The move comes as the council prepares to invest in major capital projects including the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, school and housing developments and roads construction.
Credit rating agency Moody's has assigned Aberdeen an Aa2 rating.
That is one level below the United Kingdom as a whole.
The council said the rating would allow it to consider "innovative" new funding mechanisms, including access to debt capital markets.
In a statement, Moody's noted the authority's "strong institutional framework" as well as a "strong track record of operating performance".
It also noted Aberdeen's "wealthy local economy, albeit dependent on key industries".
However, the council's rating was given a negative outlook, mirroring the UK sovereign rating.
Moody's wrote: "The council benefits from strong access to liquidity due to sovereign level access to capital markets for the LA (local authority) sector, facilitated by the Public Works Loan Board.
"The council has demonstrated a solid financial record for the last five years maintaining a net surplus against budget for each year."
It added: "The Aa2 rating also reflects our assessment of support from the UK government (Aa1 negative) and the very high likelihood that it would intervene in the event that ACC (Aberdeen City Council) were to face acute liquidity stress."
In January, a £250m "City Deal" was announced for Aberdeen, which will see the UK and Scottish governments jointly invest in the area.
The agreement includes funding for an energy innovation centre and the expansion of Aberdeen harbour to help the city compete for oil and gas industry decommissioning work.
Aberdeen City Council leader Jennifer Laing said: "Being assigned a credit rating, a first for a Scottish local authority, is a vital step forward for us as we explore options to fund what is a comprehensive capital programme designed to support the city's growth and diversification during a crucial period for Aberdeen.
"We are committed to investing in a bright and prosperous future for the people of Aberdeen and the businesses in our city, with transformation already well under way.
"Today's announcement is another significant step towards realising our ambitions."
The council's finance, policy and resources committee convener, Willie Young, said: "This process and our achievement in gaining an Aa2 credit rating serves as a very positive independent assessment of Aberdeen City Council's stability and strength.
"It is a clear demonstration of confidence in the financial management and controls we have in place, which provide us with the solid foundations we need as we build for the future."
Aberdeen City Council provides local government services to 115,000 households and 8,650 businesses, and employs about 8,600 staff.
The council's total spend is £911m, comprising £136m capital and £775m revenue expenditure.
The move has generated great controversy in Japan.
A nuclear reactor generates power with nuclear fission, the decaying of unstable materials like uranium contained in fuel rods.
This generates radiation which in turn gives off heat, and this heat is transferred to electricity-generating turbines by a coolant - usually water.
The process, if unchecked, could create a dangerous release of energy. It is controlled by inserting rods containing material whichs absorb some of the radiation.
You stop a nuclear reactor by inserting enough of these control rods. "Although the nuclear fission is still happening, it's not generating enough radiation for electricity," says Shaun Hendry, a physics professor with the University of Auckland.
To restart a reactor, workers remove enough of the control rods so that nuclear fission ramps up until it reaches a point called criticality - where it is generating enough heat to produce electricity and the process is self-sustaining.
Sendai's plant is expected to reach criticality by the end of Tuesday.
The Fukushima meltdown in 2011 happened because the plant lost power after it was swamped by the tsunami. It lost the ability to cool the nuclear reactor, leading to an explosive build-up of heat and gas.
Critics said that nuclear plants near the sea should have higher sea walls and better back-up generators.
The Japanese government has since required energy companies to implement better safety measures.
These range from more stringent safety checks on nuclear plants' ability to withstand earthquakes and meltdowns; better back-up power systems; and improving remote control systems so that reactors can be safely shut down from a distance.
They are also required to have more reliable evacuation and contingency plans which cover a wider area than before.
Japan, a resource-poor country, has relied on nuclear power to supply up to 30% of its energy needs.
But since the shutdown of reactors, the country's nine energy companies have had to buy expensive fossil fuels to cover the shortfall. They have been paying 3.6 trillion yen (£18.5bn, $28.9bn) more every year.
Some of these costs have been passed on to consumers, resulting in electricity prices going up by about 30%.
Using fossil fuels has made it more difficult for Japan to meet its targets in reducing carbon emissions.
Energy companies have also been saddled with huge amounts of spent fuel and plutonium, which are usually recycled into usable nuclear power fuel.
The companies have heavily lobbied the government to restart the Sendai power plant.
Though many Japanese are unhappy with having to pay more for electricity, they remain wary of another nuclear meltdown after Fukushima, which not only contaminated surrounding land but had a huge social impact on evacuated communities.
Many have called for greater reliance on renewable energy. But while the government intends to eventually have wind and solar energy make up 30% of Japan's energy supply, it is still less constant and reliable than nuclear, says Nobumasa Akiyama, a public policy professor at Hitotsubashi University.
He adds: "The basic idea now is a mix of reducing fossil fuels, increasing renewable energy, and keeping nuclear power, as well as investing in more technology to save energy."
There are 25 other plants applying to restart, but the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo says it is doubtful that all will get approval soon because of the significant public opposition.
Whiley, 23, won 6-4 0-6 6-1 against 31-year-old Kamiji of Japan in her first appearance in a major singles final.
Fellow Briton Gordon Reid, 23, won his second Grand Slam title as he paired with France's Stephane Houdet to clinch the men's wheelchair doubles.
The top seeds beat French pair Michael Jeremiasz and Nicolas Peifer 6-3 6-1.
"It feels like a dream," said Whiley, who was beaten with Kamiji in the doubles at Flushing Meadows. "I said at the beginning of the year that I wanted to win the singles title here and I've actually done it.
"To play Yui, who is my best friend, was pretty hard. I know her game so well so it is an advantage but at the same time it was hard to see her in tears at the end.
"I've always said to people that I'm not just a doubles player, I am a singles player and one day I'll show you. Today is that day and I'll take it further by winning more singles Slams."
The party bloodbath could even drag on to the Republican convention in July - and, perhaps, get much worse.
Here's a look at the possible ways the process could, at last, be resolved.
Donald Trump has a commanding lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination and is the only candidate with a realistic shot of clinching the prize without a convention fight.
Still, his path to the magic number of 1,237 delegates is a narrow one that requires victories in winner-take-all states like Delaware and New Jersey, and strong showings in delegate-rich states like California, New York, Indiana and Pennsylvania.
For Mr Trump to secure the nomination he'll have to win 53% of the remaining delegates. That number rises to 56% if he is convincingly beaten in Wisconsin on Tuesday.
He could fall slightly short of that number and still cross the finish line before the Republican convention's opening gavel if he can pick up the support of enough of the hundred-plus unpledged delegates, which include those from candidates who already dropped out or from states that don't holding nominating contests, as well as party officials.
If Mr Trump continues to see his head-to-head match-up numbers against potential Democratic candidates tank while he is buffeted by controversies and conflagrations, however, such a consolidation of support grows less likely.
Even if Mr Trump enters the convention without enough delegates to secure the nomination on the first round of voting, he could still end up the Republican standard-bearer.
If he holds a sizeable lead in the delegate count and can point to the support of millions more Republican votes than the next closest candidate, it may be too difficult for his opponents to deny him the nomination. Rallying behind Mr Trump, no matter how ill-fated his candidacy may seem, could be the best move for the long-term health of the Republican Party.
On Tuesday Mr Trump announced that he has assembled a team of operatives knowledgeable in back-room party politics who will manage his convention war room. Paul Manafort, who heads the operation, is a veteran of the past Republican conventions - including the 1976 event in which President Gerald Ford entered without enough delegates to secure the nomination.
"Paul Manafort, and the team I am building, bring the needed skill sets to ensure that the will of the Republican voters, not the Washington political establishment, determines who will be the nominee for the Republican Party," Mr Trump said in a statement announcing the move.
It may be a bit late, but the front-runner is forming his convention battle lines.
Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that even though Mr Trump won the Louisiana primary, his closest rival, Ted Cruz, could emerge from the state with more delegates, thanks to the intricate, often Byzantine rules governing the Republican delegate selection process. It's also why Mr Cruz could end up the eventual party nominee at an open convention.
Mr Cruz has been making contingency plans for a convention fight practically since he launched his campaign more than a year ago. While his expected opponent, Jeb Bush, crashed and burned, the strategy remains the same - to ensure that he has the upper hand if no one has a majority come convention time.
He apparently has been successful in winning over uncommitted delegates in Louisiana, as well as those who had supported the now-suspended campaign of Marco Rubio. If Mr Cruz can repeat this process in other states, he could finish much closer to Mr Trump in the delegate count than his popular vote totals would suggest. In addition his campaign has sought to place friendly delegates on key committees that control convention rules and resolve delegate credentialing disputes.
Then there's the prospect that Mr Cruz could target delegates currently pledged to Mr Trump. Although they're required to support the New Yorker on the first ballot at the convention, many effectively become free agents in subsequent rounds of voting. Just because a delegate was originally pledged to Mr Trump doesn't mean they will stay that way.
Although campaigns select their delegates in some states, in others the delegates are party officials who may not be sympathetic to Mr Trump's anti-establishment rhetoric. Mr Cruz's team could also instruct loyalists to surreptitiously pose as Trump supporters in the hope of being selected as Trump delegates.
In the murky world of convention politics, what's permissible may not always be what's the most fair.
Republicans at their 2012 convention implemented a rule that a candidate has to win a majority of the vote in at least eight states in order to become the party's nominee. Rule 40, as it's called, would guarantee that the 2016 standard-bearer will be either Mr Trump or Mr Cruz, barring a miraculous comeback by Ohio Governor John Kasich.
Today's convention rules can be scrapped in July by the 112-member rules committee, however. If neither Mr Cruz nor Mr Trump can wrangle the support of a simple majority in a nomination vote, delegates could go looking for someone else to step in. And while Rule 40 would stand in the way, any prospective candidate who has enough votes to win would probably have more than enough support on the rules committee to open the door.
So fans of Mr Rubio or Scott Walker may not want to give up hope just yet. Miss 2012 nominee Mitt Romney? He could make a return appearance. Could Paul Ryan, the reluctant House speakership, become an even more reluctant Republican presidential candidate? Although stranger things haven't happened in recent memory, this could be the year.
If Mr Trump and Mr Cruz continue to drag each other deep into the political muck and look like general election poison, the convention could start searching for a white knight.
Republican Gotterdammerung. Twilight of the Grand Old Party. If things go badly at the convention, acrimony could turn into outright civil war. Such a possibility has been theorised in the past, but this doomsday scenario is closer than at any time in modern political history.
If Mr Trump wins, a faction of #NeverTrump conservatives could bolt and run a true believer as an independent presidential candidate. This would likely put some traditionally Republican-voting states at risk and do little to dent Democratic states. It also may at least encourage the party faithful to show up on election day and keep down-ballot candidates from getting swamped in anti-Trump fervour and handing control of Congress to liberals.
If the nomination is wrested from Mr Trump at the convention - either by Mr Cruz or a mystery nominee - he and his loyal followers could stage their own walkout. Mr Trump has predicted a "riot" if such a development unfolds, and he recently rescinded his promise to support the nominee if he's not the man. Once free of the party, Mr Trump could decide to make an independent run in the autumn.
These scenarios are complicated by the fact that a prospective candidate must apply for ballot access on a state-by-state basis, and the deadlines for 11 states - including Florida, Illinois and Texas - will have passed by the time the Republican convention is held in late July. Many of the other states have onerous petition-gathering requirements that would require considerable time and effort to meet.
California's deadline is 12 August, for instance, but getting on the ballot requires gathering the signatures of 178,039 registered voters.
A candidate could stage a write-in campaign in states where the deadlines are missed, but such efforts are usually futile.
The end result of these scenarios is likely an easier victory for the Democratic candidate and Republican fratricide that continues for years. It's not so much an end to the Republican bloodbath as the start of a new, more gruesome chapter.
Burns and Dominic Sibley put on 208 for the first wicket before the former was caught at first slip off home leg-spinner Mason Crane just before tea.
Zafar Ansari then went for five before Sibley fell just one run short of his second-ever first-class ton.
Aaron Finch (56 not out) and Steven Davies (21 not out) closed out the day as Surrey look in charge on 332-4.
That is despite England one-day opener Jason Roy being out leg before for a duck to Gareth Berg as the Hampshire seamer took his second victim of the day, following the dismissal of Sibley.
Burns' century was not only a personal landmark, but one for his county, as his century was the 2,000th by a Surrey player in first-class cricket.
Hampshire bowler Gareth Berg told BBC Radio Solent:
"The weather played a massive part. It was muggy, sweaty and took a lot out of us as a bowling unit.
"We thought we were in with a chance of taking some early wickets but to be fair they batted very well. We didn't hit our straps early so we gave them the momentum.
"We tried our best but when you're chasing the eight-ball after a few overs when they've set themselves some runs, it's difficult to come back from that. We brought it back toward the end with the new ball, taking a couple of wickets."
Surrey batsman Rory Burns told BBC Radio London:
"I am delighted to be able to contribute for the first time this year really. We have spoken about starting matches well, so being 332-4 is where we want to be,
"If I was asking for a ball to get to a hundred it was the one I got, so I was pretty happy.
"I was pretty disappointed to get out when I did, I felt as though I may have left a few runs out there.
"The ball swung most of the day and the pitch looks dry so there may be a little bit there for the spinners as the match goes on."
The 28-year-old scored three goals on loan at Tannadice last term from Brentford.
He becomes manager Alan Stubbs' second summer signing after full back David Gray joined up last week.
"As soon as I came here the move felt right and I felt good about playing for Hibs," El Alagui told the club website.
I'm thrilled he has seen the potential and, after we had a chat, he bought into my vision for Hibernian and the direction where we want to go
The Moroccan notched 18 goals during an impressive season with Falkirk in 2011-12, and will once again be playing in Scotland's second tier next term following Hibs' relegation to the Championship.
"I think the Scottish Championship will be a very exciting league next season," El Alagui said.
"I had a few other offers to consider before I chose Hibernian. I thought this was the most exciting challenge and it was very clear in my head that I wanted to be here."
Stubbs, who revealed he is hoping to bring in more new faces ahead of the start of the season, said: "We've had to fight off competition from Scottish Premiership clubs and also competed with clubs from down south in order to bring Farid here to the club.
"I'm thrilled he has seen the potential and, after we had a chat, he bought into my vision for Hibernian and the direction where we want to go."
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Chancellor George Osborne has said the UK and China are exploring how to link their stock markets.
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David Murdoch is full of confidence as he prepares to lead his Scotland team into the men's curling world championships in Canada next month.
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A group of 350 migrants from Myanmar have told an activist by phone that they have been stranded at sea without food or water for four days.
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Fun Home was selected as "shared experience" reading for the Class of 2019 at the North Carolina university.
The novel is an autobiography of Alison Bechdel, a lesbian, whose father was a closeted gay man.
But some have taken issue with the novel's depiction of sex and nudity.
"I feel as if I would have to compromise my personal Christian moral beliefs to read it," student Brian Grasso wrote in a post to fellow students on Facebook.
Other students called the graphic novel, which inspired a Tony-winning musical, "pornographic".
The debate comes as US universities continue to grapple with students who disagree with assignments or lectures because of their religious or political beliefs.
Some activists have pushed for universities to use "trigger warnings" to alert students about provocative content.
Duke's Vice President for Public Affairs and Government Relations Michael Schoenfeld said the assignment is voluntary and the book was selected by a panel of students and staff members.
"Fun Home was ultimately chosen because it is a unique and moving book that transcends genres and explores issues that students are likely to confront," Mr Schoenfeld told the Daily Dot website. But he added that "with a class of 1,750 new students from around the world, it would be impossible to find a single book that that did not challenge someone's way of thinking".
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In January 2015, the ZX Spectrum games console - originally launched by Clive Sinclair in 1982 - went back into production in the UK and will be sold pre-loaded with 1,000 classic games.
The same month, Sony brought a 21st Century twist to its classic personal stereo the Walkman, a brand it launched in 1979 and retired in 2010, in the form of a high-end digital music player.
Ion Audio also unveiled a new record player - the Air LP, a turntable equipped with bluetooth for music streaming. It also has USB connectivity so it can be plugged in to a computer.
And in the gaming zone at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, nestling between the Xboxes, Playstations, 4K graphics and virtual reality headsets, was a machine with origins dating back at least 250 years.
That device was the humble pinball machine - the earliest recorded being the bagatelles of 18th Century France.
So why can't we let go of our old tech?
"As is the case in fashion or furniture, retro is quite attractive," said analyst Carolina Milanesi from analysts Kantar.
"With tech, however, it gets tricky as you need to deliver value. In some cases, vendors deliver new tech in a retro package while in others the technology, while improved in specs, remains pretty close to the initial offering."
While using a brand like the Walkman is a good sales tactic, ultimately it is a long way from the original in terms of what it offers - and its price tag (£949) is steep, she added.
"Personally, I believe, that design versus tech would work better as a retro offering - but even so the appeal would be limited."
In America, old arcade games are enjoying a revival thanks in part to the success of drinking establishments like the chain Barcade, where drinkers can quaff locally produced beers while indulging in some classic arcade entertainment.
"Our most popular games are the classics like Ms Pac Man and Donkey Kong and also the multiplayer games like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Simpsons, NBA Jam and X-Men," said Barcade CEO Paul Kermizian.
"We only feature classic video games."
Some traditional games have had to adapt to survive however.
Chicago-based manufacturer Stern Pinball, founded in 1986, treads the line between offering a nostalgic product but with a contemporary hook - the firm has just released three new pinball tables based around cult franchises WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment), Star Trek and the Walking Dead.
"We think we're part of the future," said founder Gary Stern.
"It's not just a ball bouncing round - it's a game, there is a sport to this."
While the majority of Stern's individual customers are "50 plus, used to play pinball in their 20s", the 25-30-year-old crowd is also becoming a target market.
"We realised we had to make different games for different people - one size doesn't fit all," said owner Gary Stern.
"We're trying to interest new players while keeping our core customers.
"But it's still basically a bat/ball mechanical action machine," he added.
"When you hit the door of the prison in the Walking Dead it opens and you see a zombie - it's not a programmed game."
The mechanics underneath the bonnet certainly look more complex than they would have done even 20 years ago. Semi-smart node boards have enabled each game to have more features, and LED lights rather than fluorescent tubes are now the norm.
As part of the design process, all of Stern's staff help out with the user testing.
"Staff have to play for 15 minutes every day. If you don't want to play pinball, don't work for a pinball company," said Mr Stern.
"I'm 69 - I'm old and slow. I represent the player in the pub who's had a bucket-and-a-half of beer."
With the machines, retailing at between $5,000-$6,000, it is not a cheap hobby. Mr Stern says his biggest customers are arcade owners, cinemas, collectors - and record buyers.
Record buyers are fast becoming a hot target market for other tech retailers too.
Martin Talbot, managing director of the UK Official Charts Company, predicts that vinyl sales alone are set to soar from £3m five years ago to being a £20m business in 2015.
Last year, more than one million vinyl record sales were made in the UK for the first time in 18 years.
"In an era when we're all talking about digital music, the fact that these beautiful physical artefacts are still as popular as they are is fantastic," Mr Talbot told BBC Radio 5 live recently.
"It's really remarkable."
The Official Chart Company is now planning to relaunch a separate chart for record sales in the UK - and firms making and selling turntables are also feeling the love.
"To be honest, we've always stocked and sold turntables at a fairly steady rate, but the past year has seen a 70% jump in the number of units we've sold," said Lol Lecanu, spokesperson for hi-fi specialists Richer Sounds.
Celebrity endorsement always helps of course - rockstar Dave Grohl, whose bands include the Foo Fighters and Nirvana, has spoken about his love of records.
In a podcast with comedian Marc Maron he described getting a turntable for his then six-year-old daughter and giving her some Beatles records.
"I walked out of the room, an hour later she had all the records out on the floor, she had listened to them all," he said.
"She was looking at the liner notes, she was dancing, it was unbelievable."
Grohl added that he did not feel he was doing his daughter a disservice by introducing her to the Fab Four accompanied by the legendary scratch and hiss of the humble turntable.
"This is what it sounded like when I was a kid," he said.
"I'm not going to give her the audio file version."
Accounting firm EY found Scotland attracted 80 separate foreign direct investment (FDI) projects during 2014.
It was the third highest number on record, but slightly down on the 16-year high recorded in 2013.
Almost half of all projects coming to Scotland - a total of 37 - involved the US.
That represented a 10-year high in American investment.
EY attributed the increase in part to the high international profile enjoyed by Scotland in 2014, thanks to events such as the Commonwealth Games and Ryder Cup.
The firm's latest annual attractiveness survey suggested that the small decline in project numbers in 2014 was accompanied by a larger fall in the number of jobs generated by FDI.
However, EY said this could be put down to an "encouraging" rise in scientific research project numbers, which are potentially high-value but generate fewer jobs than some other sectors.
The financial services sector saw investment bounce back in 2014, according to the report. The five FDI projects recorded from the sector represented the highest level Scotland has secured from that industry since 2006.
Last year the number of manufacturing projects which attracted inward investment more than doubled from 15 to 31.
The report indicated growth was led by machinery and equipment projects. There were 15 in 2014, more than double the figure in the previous year.
EY partner Mark Harvey said: ""In an uncertain world, Scotland is punching above its weight in securing global FDI but challenges remain.
"The world economy continues to struggle for growth and FDI values globally fell in 2014. Scotland faces fierce competition for projects from locations not just across the UK, but also worldwide.
"The challenge now for Scotland is to build further on the achievements to date and tackle the areas where it can do better, making Scotland the most successful place it can be."
Deputy First Minister John Swinney said: "This is not just a positive year for Scotland but a continuation of a pattern of competitive excellence - over the last 10 years Scotland has secured over 37,000 jobs from FDI, a narrow second only to London and well ahead of all other parts of the UK."
The Citizens face the Danish side at home in the Europa League qualifying first round, second leg on Thursday.
"All we're focusing on at the moment is that we deliver the best possible performance we can," said Nicholson.
"If we do that then hopefully the result takes care of itself."
Bangor have only won two European ties, the last in 2010 when they beat FC Honka of Finland 3-2 on aggregate.
"Everyone around the club is very excited and we're just going to do the best we possibly can," added Nicholson.
The winners will face either Slovan Bratislava of Slovakia or Armenian side Pyunik in the second qualifying round.
Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne visited the pier to see the destruction first-hand earlier.
On Wednesday, up to 80 firefighters, along with RNLI crews, tackled the blaze on the Grade-II listed pier.
Sussex Police said the fire was not believed to be suspicious.
No-one was injured in the blaze, which destroyed a third of the 1,000ft (305m) long structure.
Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne also visited Eastbourne fire station to meet some of the firefighters who helped tackle the blaze, and attended a meeting involving community leaders.
After the meeting, the prime minister said the pier was insured and that its owners said they wanted to rebuild it.
He said: "Obviously it's a scene of some devastation, with the burnt and twisted metal, but what strikes you really very early on is really how much of the pier has been saved by the incredible bravery, professionalism and hard work of the firefighters and also the RNLI and the police who did a brilliant job in getting to the scene so quickly.
"I think that £2m can make a lot of difference to help the traders who have lost their livelihoods, to help promote the town as a tourist destination, to make sure people know that it's open for business."
On Thursday, uninsured kiosk holders whose businesses may have been wrecked by the fire, were promised help.
The Eastbourne Pier Benevolent Fund has been set up offering free market stall pitches, and it is hoped empty stores can also be used as "pop-up" shops.
The fire has come at the height of the town's summer tourist season.
The resort is due to host its biggest summer tourist event, the annual Airbourne air show, which draws tens of thousands of people.
Mr Osborne said the fire had been "devastating news", but a package of financial support would aim to "minimise the effect on business and tourism".
"We will work with Eastbourne as a matter of urgency to ensure that the funding is provided without delay so people can start enjoying the pier again," he said.
Eastbourne's Liberal Democrat MP Stephen Lloyd said he hoped the pier could reopen again next year.
Helen Brook and Stuart Pearce were due to get married on the pier in three weeks' time.
Although the couple were due to wed on a section that is still intact, they said the blaze had left them "shell-shocked".
The fire damaged a foul sewer line underneath the pier, which led to a temporary discharge onto the beach from connected services on the building.
The Environment Agency also said red flags had been put out on the beach around the structure.
East Sussex Fire and Rescue said the cause was officially "unexplained" and the investigation would take "a number of days".
Sussex Police has called on people to submit pictures or video footage they shot to help investigators piece together the cause of the fire.
Dundee and Kilmarnock joined holders Ross County as Premiership sides taking an early exit.
Rangers, Hamilton Academical, Partick Thistle, St Johnstone, Greenock Morton also progress as group winners.
Ayr Utd, Queen of the South and Motherwell are through as runners-up, with the two qualifiers from Group C to be decided on Sunday at Tannadice.
Dundee United entertain Dunfermline Athletic needing to win by at least seven goals to oust Inverness Caledonian Thistle from top spot after the Highland side thumped Arbroath 7-0.
The Pars could overtake their hosts and qualify as runners-up with a victory.
Thanks to winning their groups with the highest number of points, Alloa, Morton, Thistle and Rangers will all be seeded in Sunday's draw, which takes place after the game at Tannadice.
Joining them among the seeds are Aberdeen, Celtic, Hearts and Hibernian after Scotland's representatives in European competition received byes into the last 16.
Peterhead pipped East Fife to top place after a thrilling fightback and penalty shoot-out victory away to Dumbarton.
Kevin Dzierzawski had given the League One side an early lead, but the Sons hit back through Robert Thomson, David Smith and, after the break, a penalty from Ryan Stevenson.
However, Leighton McIntosh and Rory McAllister's 69th-minute penalty sent the match into penalties to decide who gained the bonus point.
Peterhead edged it 6-5 on penalties to finish level on points with the Fifers and send their League One rivals out of the competition on goal difference.
It meant that Dundee finished third despite the Premiership side thrashing Forfar Athletic of League Two 7-0 at Dens Park.
St Johnstone's 4-0 win over League Two part-timers Stirling Albion, which meant the Premiership side cruised into the last 16, was overshadowed by an injury to visiting goalkeeper Chris Smith.
He landed awkwardly on his neck handling an 80th-minute Paul Paton corner.
The former St Mirren and Dunfermline Athletic goalkeeper was stretchered off with his neck in a brace.
Stirling, who needed a win themselves to qualify, announced soon after the match on their Twitter account that Smith had been taken to hospital for precautionary checks after being knocked out on the pitch.
The club added that the 30-year-old was conscious and alert and said "the immediate concern of a serious neck injury has dissipated".
Steven Anderson, Steven MacLean and Liam Craig had all scored before the break for Saints and substitute David Wotherspoon added a late fourth.
Meanwhile, Championship outfit Falkirk finished their campaign with a 2-0 win over Brechin City of League One following second-half goals from Luca Gasparotto and Nathan Austin.
Inverness Caledonian Thistle will almost certainly progress as group winners after their 7-0 hammering of League Two visitors Arbroath.
They lead Dundee United by three points and only an unlikely collapse by Dunfermline Athletic at Tannadice on Sunday would allow the Terrors to overhaul the Premiership side on goal difference.
The Pars travel to Tayside one point behind United and will progress as runners-up should they win.
Brian Graham plundered a hat-trick as holders Ross County ended their disappointing campaign with a 7-0 hammering of Highland League champions Cove Rangers.
Alex Schalk's powerful finish was all that separated the sides until Mitch Megginson was sent off for a reckless tackle on the striker.
County added six more after the break, with Graham scored with an angled drive and header either side of Schalk's close-range finish.
A Craig Curran lob and tap-in had County easing to victory before Graham headed another.
Meanwhile, Alloa secured top spot with another impressive victory - their fourth in a row - away to Raith Rovers, the 1-0 defeat meaning the Championship side failed to qualify despite finishing runners-up.
Partick Thistle comfortably progressed to the last 16 with a 100% record after beating League One newcomers Queen's Park 2-0 in the Glasgow derby at Firhill.
Chris Erskine set the Premiership side on their way with a looping header after only seven minutes and then set up Liam Lindsay to seal a commanding victory for the Jags.
Queen of the South joined Thistle in the last 16 after the Championship side beat League One outfit Stenhousemuir thanks to a Jamie Hamill goal 12 minutes from time.
With Rangers having already won the group after playing their four games, Motherwell cruised into the last 16 as runners-up with a convincing 3-0 win away to Stranraer.
The League One side, who started level on points with the Premiership side, created the better chances despite Well dominating the early play and it took until the second half before Chris Cadden's excellent strike broke the deadlock.
Cadden set up Marvin Johnson for the second and Scott McDonald headed the killer third to ensure progress for Mark McGhee's side.
In the group's other game, League Two outfit Annan Athletic secured their first points with a 2-0 win away to Lowland League outfit East Stirlingshire.
Meanwhile, group winners Rangers were suffering in a 3-1 defeat by Burnley in a friendly at Ibrox.
Striker Andre Gray's hat-trick had the visitors on their way to victory before Ben Mee's own goal in a disappointing day for Joey Barton, the midfielder who rejected a new deal with the Clarets to join Rangers after helping them win promotion to the Premier League.
Hamilton Academical edged nervously through as group winners on goal difference after a 2-1 win over Livingston.
Accies finished level on points with Ayr United and St Mirren, with the Paisley side exiting the tournament despite finishing on nine points after a 3-0 win over Edinburgh City.
Alex D'Acol's excellent strike put Accies ahead, but the Premiership side's League One opponents struck back when Sean Crighton's looped over Remi Matthews, struck the crossbar and hit the back of the goalkeeper before going over the line.
However, Louie Longridge fired the ball into the bottom-right corner for the winner.
On-loan pair Lawrence Shankland, the Aberdeen striker, and Tom Walsh, the Rangers midfielder, plus Jack Baird had St Mirren three up before the break at home to SPFL newcomers City.
Jamie Lindsay scored within two minutes of his Morton debut as the Greenock side finished off their fine group campaign by beating Berwick Rangers 2-0 to top the group.
The opener from the 20-year-old, who arrived on loan from Celtic in midweek, was added to after 16 minutes by Jai Quitongo - the 18-year-old winger's second goal in two games.
It meant Morton finished three points ahead of Kilmarnock, with the Premiership side exiting the competition after a disappointing 0-0 draw with Albion Rovers, with the League One side taking the bonus point after a penalty shoot-out.
The supermarket chain sold 140 M local shops to a team led by entrepreneur Mike Greene for £25m. The stores made an operating loss of £36m last year.
Morrisons opened its first convenience store in 2011, but the majority have been open for less than two years.
The 2,300 staff at the stores have been kept on, with an extra 200 jobs created by reopening 10 closed sites.
Mr Greene, a former chairman of the Association of Convenience Stores, founded the Association of News Retailing. He has also appeared on Channel Four's The Secret Millionaire.
The new owners are planning on setting up a new redistribution model, including a deal with convenience store chain Nisa.
Mr Greene said: "As we looked around the country, we realised we didn't have any local beers or local award-winning butcher's products and so on.
"We're going to make the product range far more appropriate to the catchments that we trade in."
The 10 shops reopening under My Local are:
The Newcastle-based bank has pledged £4m over four years with the government committing the same amount.
The application process is now open for grants of £10,000 to £50,000.
Virgin Money previously gave £1.5m to the Northern Rock Foundation following its acquisition of the bank but that fund is likely to close.
There will be two rounds of grants over the next nine months, with the first awards for projects in the North East expected to be made in November.
The foundation said it aims to "promote the sustainable regeneration of economically and socially deprived communities" and an independent board of trustees has been appointed.
Chief executive officer Jayne-Anne Gadhia said: "Virgin Money takes its social responsibilities very seriously in all of the communities in which we operate, but particularly in the North East of England, given our acquisition of Northern Rock.
"The foundation can make a positive and sustainable difference, initially in the North East and over time across the whole of the UK."
The Northern Rock Foundation was created in 1997 after the now defunct Northern Rock Building Society was demutualised. A percentage of Northern Rock's profits were used to support charities with more than £200m being handed out.
Virgin Money then took over as its main backer but it was decided last year to close the scheme after future funding could not be agreed.
A four-figure sum of damage was caused at the Kirkcaldy club's Stark's Park between 17:30 on Tuesday and 09:00 on Wednesday
The press box was vandalised and items including a scoreboard, electronic equipment and a bicyle were stolen.
Club chief executive Eric Drysdale said: "This was an appalling act."
Mr Drysdale, who has been a director at the club for 17 years, said they faced a race against time to repair the damage before the next home game against Falkirk on 23 April.
He said: "There is paint and sick all over the press room. There is a four-figure sum of damage.
"This is an appalling act of vandalism and theft, and I am glad that arrests have been made.
"Police inquiries are continuing, but if anyone can help us recover any of this equipment, I'd be very grateful.
"Obviously, the priority for the club meantime will be to try and get a press area operational in time for next Saturday's game."
There had been calls for Greens to stand aside in SNP seats which are being targeted by the Conservatives.
A full list of where the party is standing is expected on Wednesday, but sources confirmed they were not looking to contest more than ten seats.
The decision means the party will not qualify for party election broadcasts.
But it is expected that co-convenor Patrick Harvie will still take his place in a Scottish leaders' debate hosted by BBC Scotland, political correspondent Nick Eardley said.
The Scottish Greens fielded 32 candidates at the general election in 2015 but failed to win any seats. They currently have six MSPs at Holyrood, and won 19 seats in last week's council election.
Asked by the Press Association whether the Scottish Greens plan to stand fewer than 10 candidates in next month's general election, a party spokesman said: "That's the way it's looking."
He said the party had written to a broadcaster saying it will not be supplying a party election broadcast.
To qualify for a party election broadcast for the election, the Scottish Greens must stand in at least 10 constituencies.
The spokesman added: "By targeting resources in key constituencies, such as Glasgow North where Patrick Harvie will be our candidate, we can build on our strong support to win Scotland's first Green MP, offering a bold alternative to the other parties."
Tommy Sheppard, the SNP incumbent candidate for Edinburgh East, had previously called on the Greens to avoid splitting the pro-independence vote in key constituencies.
He said: "They will want to stand some candidates as they are a national party and will want to put their case to their base, but in deciding which seats to contest and not to contest I think they should be mindful of not splitting the pro-Yes vote and certainly not splitting the anti-Tory vote."
Scottish Conservative MSP Murdo Fraser accused the Greens of "propping up" the SNP.
He said: "This is the Green Party reaffirming themselves as a pointless presence in Scottish politics.
"The propping up of the SNP is embarrassing and a complete disservice to their voters. Quite simply, they might as well not exist.
"If they are so determined to become the SNP, they should disband and merge with the nationalists."
The Greens had earlier confirmed they would not be fielding any candidates in the Highlands and Islands in the election on 8 June.
The seats affected include Moray, which is held by the SNP's deputy leader Angus Robertson but which has been identified as a key target by the Tories.
The Greens made breakthroughs on Highland and Orkney councils in the recent local elections, winning seats in the area for the first time, and has a list MSP at Holyrood from the region in John Finnie.
Highlands and Islands Greens Convener James MacKessack-Leitch, who stood in Moray in 2015, said the party would instead seek to push other candidates "on a progressive path", without directly endorsing anyone.
He said: "At any normal election we would be proud to field candidates and run a positive campaign, however, this is no normal election. This general election has been called for naked party political purposes as the Tories attempt to crush Labour in England and Wales.
"This immature behaviour has no relevance in the Highlands and Islands, let alone Scotland or Northern Ireland, but will only serve to increase voter apathy and anger at the way politics is conducted in this country, at a time when there are far bigger issues at stake."
Scottish Labour's general election campaign manager, James Kelly MSP, said: "This embarrassing revelation makes a mockery of the Greens' claims to be a credible party.
"Patrick Harvie has only decided to stand in Glasgow North himself in a desperate attempt to prove that he really isn't just a backbench SNP politician - and now it emerges his party could stand fewer than 10 candidates."
Willie Rennie said only his Liberal Democrats could "save the Highlands from the SNP", saying most seats in the area were "a straight choice between the Liberal Democrats and the SNP".
Shares in Associated British Foods (ABF) rose by 6% after annual results that were better than expected.
Income went up 5% to £13.4bn and pre-tax profits rose 5% to to £1.1bn. The firm said it expected to benefit from Britain's vote to leave the EU.
Shares in Marks and Spencer opened higher but fell back 5%.
The retailer announced plans to cut store numbers both at home and abroad.
M&S is closing 30 UK clothing outlets, converting dozens more into food-only stores, and shutting 53 international stores in 10 overseas markets.
The retailer also reported a sharp drop in half-year profits and a fall in underlying sales at both its clothing and food businesses.
"Closing the foreign stores makes sense as M&S never quite understood its customers outside the UK," said Neil Wilson at ETX Capital.
"[Chief executive Steve] Rowe wants to focus on Mrs M&S, the retailer's core customer, and this means doing its own version of Brexit by focusing solely on the UK market."
Shares in Imperial Brands fell 3% despite the cigarette maker reporting a near 10% rise in full-year revenues and a 10% increase in adjusted operating profit.
On the currency markets, the pound was down 0.2% against the dollar at $1.237, and was slightly lower against the euro at €1.1213.
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The road it had become stuck on collapsed and was swept away and took the bus with it.
Everybody on board escaped unhurt.
These dramatic pictures show the bus dangling over the edge then being swept away.
The question is pertinent and timely, given that Standard Chartered, a UK bank, was accused this week of violating US law.
Not, that is, as a result of the bank's relatively limited activities in America.
Rather, the bank stands accused of hiding transactions for "Iranian financial institutions" that were subject to US economic sanctions. The bank denies the allegations.
The case is just the latest example of how the US has been extending its so-called extraterritorial powers in recent years - where the US has been flexing its legal muscle outside its own territory.
"The issue boils down to the following concept," says Jacob Frenkel, chair of securities enforcement, white-collar crime and government investigations practice with the law firm Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker.
"Any sovereign, whether a country, province, state or municipality, has a right to expect that a company or person doing business in that territory is subject to the laws of that territory.
"Just as a party doing business enjoys the protection of the laws, so too must a party comply with the laws."
That definition raises two further questions. First, how should "doing business in that territory" be defined? In other words, when is an individual or firm deemed to be doing business in the US?
It does not take much, according to David Pitofsky, a member of law firm Goodwin Procter's litigation department, who is currently involved in client work connected to the Libor scandal, and is representing the administrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, which deals with claims from victims of the Deep Water Horizon oil spill.
"As long as dollars are involved, they will eventually touch a US institution," he says, referring to how almost all banking transactions, particularly in US dollars, will at some point in the process flow through the Federal Reserve Bank in New York.
The courts have made clear over the years that such flows of funds through New York is sufficient for asserting jurisdiction.
"Even if a transaction is done, say, in Japanese yen, if a blip in the system turns these into dollars - however briefly - that in theory could mean it falls under US law," says Mr Pitofsky.
American patent lawyers are also eagerly eyeing activities abroad.
"Through both judicial and legislative efforts, [US patent law] has evolved from a strict territorial based set of laws asserting jurisdiction only over those infringements taking place on American soil," according to University of Alberta professors Moin Yahya and Cameron Hutchison.
US patent law, they say, has expanded into "a more expansive set of rules asserting jurisdiction over any event that may harm patent holders in the United States regardless of where the infringement is taking place".
"This, we argue, is contrary to the original purpose of patent law and inconsistent with American obligations under the International Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property," they write in a paper.
Another example of how the US legal system is extending its tentacles abroad is the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a controversial piece of legislation that provides for extraterritorial jurisdiction for US courts over actions brought where US investors or markets are harmed by actions outside the United States.
Dodd-Frank, with its numerous registration and clearing requirements and its ongoing revisions, has caused considerable legislative uncertainty in a number of financial markets.
The act has resulted in particular concern among players in the so-called over-the-counter derivatives markets, which include interest-rate, currency or commodity swaps that are used by companies in a wide range of sectors to reduce investment, currency and trading risk.
"We have a rule that's being extended beyond its original scope, and that's concerning," says Don Thompson, managing director and associate general counsel at JP Morgan in New York.
The second question raised by Mr Frenkel's definition of what the issue relates to is should non-US individuals and companies be bound by US law even when they operate outside the US, simply because they also do some business in America?
According to US anti-corruption laws, they should.
Two examples illustrate how such laws are increasingly used to target activities that take place in other parts of the world.
The media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's US-based global media group News Corporation is co-operating with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) which is looking into possible breaches of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
The DoJ is examining allegations its now defunct UK newspaper subsidiary News of the World paid UK officials for information, something prohibited by the Act.
In 2010, industrial group Daimler, the owner of Mercedes-Benz, pleaded guilty in the US to corruption charges after admitting to paying tens of millions of dollars in bribes to government officials in at least 22 countries. The bribes were not paid in the US, yet the German company agreed to pay US authorities $185m (£118m) to settle the case.
Similarly, back in 2008 the German industrial group Siemens paid $800m to settle a US investigation into bribes paid to government officials in Argentina, Bangladesh, Iraq and Venezuela.
Individuals have also been targeted.
In 2009, Gary Kaplan, the boss of London-based gambling company BetOnSports, fell foul of a US law that bans Americans from placing bets online even on websites outside the US. He was jailed for four years.
In 2006, three British former NatWest bankers were extradited to the US to face fraud charges, in a case sparking anger in the UK business community.
At the time, the bankers said their crimes had taken place in the UK and the victim was a UK bank hence they wanted to be tried in Britain. But the US authorities said their actions had been linked to the collapse of the energy giant Enron and as such it was a US matter.
And earlier this year, retired UK businessman Christopher Tappin was extradited to the US on charges of exporting parts for Iranian missiles.
In fact, the US is tightening its sanctions against Iran, and thus the potential for legal action against anyone trading with the country - and not just those doing deals that would aid it in building a nuclear reactor.
Earlier this month, US Congress voted to impose sanctions that meant anyone who provided commercial goods, technology or financial services to Iran's energy sector could face punishment.
Critics of the international reach of US legislation do not necessarily disagree with US ambitions, which range from protecting the global financial system to curbing the nuclear or military ambitions of a number of dictatorships.
But companies, whether in the financial services sector or in industry or elsewhere, do object to the one-sided approach of US legislation, pointing to a lack of reciprocity that would allow other countries' legal systems to also cover US firms.
That, however, is "an issue for the 'affected' sovereign", according to Mr Frenkel.
"There is nothing that prevents other sovereigns from adopting laws and courts of other sovereigns from enforcing laws as sweeping and with the breadth of US enforcement programs. That becomes an issue of sovereign willpower and allocation of enforcement resources."
Non-US critics have also vented their anger in instances where they deem US rulings unfair.
And many complain about the increased complexity of doing business, both within and outside the US.
The thicket of new regulations has the potential to create an uneven playing field in international markets, according to Dan Cohen, managing director and head of government relations for the Depository Trust and Clearing Corp, a non-commercial co-operative that serves as the primary post-trade infrastructure organisation for US capital markets.
Moreover, it could impede global regulatory co-operation and undermine efforts to increase market transparency and mitigate risk in the over-the-counter derivatives market, he says.
Others point to the added complexities for companies required to deal with the vast and growing number of regulatory bodies in the US.
Not only will they have to comply with the rules of federal bodies such as the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, there are also state bodies, such as The New York State Department of Financial Services, which is the regulator that accused Standard Chartered.
It is 10 months old and supervises some 4,500 institutions with assets of about $6.2 trillion.
Yet many had not even heard of it until this week.
This afternoon, while denying the Withdrawal Bill is a power grab, promising that MPs will have a say on any issue they want, David Davis dangled possible solutions to one of Brexit's very specific issues - and also, to one of the most fundamental problems of all.
In recent days there have been rumblings of a rebellion over our membership of Euratom, the European nuclear safety agency.
MPs are worried about the implications for science research, for healthcare, and for nuclear safety. And the rebels believe they have the numbers to force the government to shift on its position.
This afternoon, Mr Davis suggested that the UK might pursue some kind of "association" membership - some kind of relationship where we are still bound by the same rules and regulations and keep our close ties.
The details have clearly not yet been decided, and the legal situation is not completely clear (lawyers disagree, just for a change!) but it seems that the government is in the process of concluding that to be stubborn on this issue will give them a political problem.
Right on cue, the chair of the UK nuclear authority has spilled the beans, saying that the Business Secretary Greg Clark also told him that associate membership was on the cards. Working out those arrangements won't be straightforward, but ministers seem to want to show flexibility.
Second, one of the biggest clashes right across the negotiations is over the European Court of Justice.
Theresa May has said repeatedly that the ECJ must not, and will not, be able to overrule the UK courts any more. Essentially, after Brexit, British courts must be totally in charge.
For Brussels the reverse is true - the EU 27 believes the EU's courts must still be in charge of policing issues such as EU citizens' rights - basically situations that were created by European law must, in their view, be monitored by the EU even after we leave.
It has been clear for ages that some kind of compromise arrangement where separate legal panels with lawyers or judges from both sides could be set up to provide a way through that brick wall.
Even the prime minister hinted as much at the last EU summit in Brussels. Today though, for the first time, the Brexit secretary talked more explicitly about "arbitration mechanisms", like the agreement between the EU and Canada that will monitor the trade deal between the two, suggesting they were part of the solution.
It's clear they are determined that the supremacy of EU law here will come to an end, but now the negotiations are actually under way, and the legislation is starting its long, and likely tetchy, journey through Parliament, ministers are starting to be more open about where they might budge.
With 27 other countries lined up against them, and no overall majority in Parliament, a vague whiff of compromise might just be starting to circulate - because, in truth, they have no choice.
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The Kangaroos to claim the World Cup for the 10th time in their history.
New Zealand deserved it in 2008 but I thought we deserved it today
Australia went through the tournament unbeaten, winning all six matches.
"I probably told a little white lie along the way that what happened in this final would not mean much against 2008," said Smith.
"But standing out on the field after the match, a little bit of the disappointment from back then was erased."
The last try Australia conceded in the World Cup was towards the end of the opening game on 26 October when Josh Charnley scored for England.
The Kangaroos then went 404 minutes without having their defence breached, the only points they conceded being one penalty apiece by Fiji and New Zealand.
Smith, who revealed the team had received a good luck message from cricket skipper Michael Clarke in the build-up to the final, said the defensive performance was a source of great pride.
"It is something that we can look to build on," said the Melbourne Storm hooker.
Australia have won the World Cup on a record 10 occasions, ahead of Great Britain (three) and New Zealand (one).
"We are very proud of the defensive effort since the first game. We were challenged by [coach] Tim Sheens and assistant coach David Furner to be the best defensive team in the tournament and I believe we have come away with that mantle."
Australia full-back Billy Slater was another to take satisfaction after the disappointment of the last World Cup.
"I don't know about banishing demons - we can't change the past - but I've always tried to put the past behind me and focus on improving my future," Slater told BBC 5 live.
"I haven't looked back too much but it is great to hold one of these medals and be a part of one of these sides. New Zealand deserved it in 2008 but I thought we deserved it today."
Asked whether he had seen a better Australian side, coach Tim Sheens said: "Not in my time. I am extremely proud. We came over and performed extremely well. It is a great privilege for me to coach this team."
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Sheens has been in charge of the Kangaroos since 2009 but is now out of contract.
The 63-year-old refused to be drawn on whether he would sign a new deal, focusing instead on his team's performance against the Kiwis.
New Zealand coach Stephen Kearney admitted his team had been well beaten on the day and said it was the best performance by the Kangaroos he had seen.
"Australia's performance today was nothing short of outstanding, we could just not get ourselves into the contest," said Kearney.
"Their performance was pretty faultless and they gave us a real lesson. That is as good as I've seen them play."
For a gallery of images from the Rugby League World Cup final at Old Trafford, go to the BBC Sport Facebook page.
The wantaway Argentina striker returned as a substitute in City's on Sunday after seeing a move to Corinthians break down last month.
There have been no other offers for the 27-year-old, and Mancini is hopeful of keeping him at the Etihad Stadium.
"His family is here now. Now that his family is here I think that he can stay," City manager Mancini said.
"I think this is a good moment for this club. Carlos is one of the best players that we have."
I think with the good players that arrive, they can think next year we can win the title
Tevez has repeatedly spoken of being unsettled in Manchester, and has said that he will not return to the city once his contract with the club comes to an end.
City accepted a bid from the Brazilian side for him last month, but they later withdrew it leaving Tevez with no option other than to return to Eastlands following Argentina's unsuccessful Copa America campaign.
Mancini has added Tevez's compatriot Sergio Aguero and Arsenal midfielder Samir Nasri to his squad as he prepares for the club's first Champions League campaign, and believes that may convince last season's top scorer to stay with City.
"I think so," said Mancini. "He is not fit, he has only worked for two weeks.
"But I think with the good players that arrive in this team - after we won the FA Cup last year - they can try to think next year we can win the title.
"I think Carlos can play also next year."
Nicola Urquhart's comments came after it emerged "devastating" mistakes led to delays in searching a landfill site where police believe her son's remains will be found.
Supporters on social media responded by telling her "never be sorry".
Suffolk Police are currently searching the landfill site near Cambridge.
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Mr Mckeague, 23, from Dunfermline, went missing during a night out in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk on 24 September.
He was last seen going into a loading bay, known as the "Horseshoe", which contains waste bins.
Initial records suggested a bin collected within an hour of his last sighting weighed 11kg (1st 10lb), meaning it could not have contained a person.
But on Tuesday it emerged the true weight was 100kg (15st 10lb).
The Find Corrie Facebook page set up by Mrs Urquhart has gathered 120,000 followers.
Speaking to the BBC, Mrs Urquhart said: "I'm so upset that I've brought over 120,000 people into this with us.
"I'm making other people upset because I needed their support when maybe this didn't have to happen."
Andy King, the chairman of Suffolk Lowland Search and Rescue, which has been helping to try to find Mr Mckeague, said Mrs Urquhart had "nothing to apologise to anyone for".
"I think I can say on behalf of 120,000 people and certainly on behalf of the team that she doesn't need to apologise to anybody for anything that she's done.
"She's been quite amazing."
On the BBC Look East Facebook page, users told Mrs Urquhart her comments were "heartbreaking".
Melanie Turner commented: "Never feel you have upset anyone Nicola Urquhart, you have done what any mother would do!"
A response from Chloe Clark read: "We are corries army and we decided to be!! SO PLEASE don't feel bad!! My heart breaks for you."
Police said finding out about the bin weight mistake "a few weeks ago" was "sobering" and "frustrating".
It had been known that Mr Mckeague's mobile phone tracked the same route, and at the same pace, as a bin lorry since early on in the investigation.
Det Supt Katie Elliott said the line of inquiry was not pursued at the time because of the weight given and details of the waste disposal process.
"We understood it would've been such that it would've been likely that Corrie would have been identified through the processing before he could've got here.
"We've done further lines of inquiry in to that processing and we understand there is the possibility that Corrie could've got to this landfill site without having been identified through that processing."
She said the new information has come to light because of detectives "checking and re-checking".
Plans to search the landfill site started early in the new year and has taken weeks to organise, she added.
Mr Mckeague, a gunner in No 2 Sqn, RAF Regiment, was based at Honington in Suffolk.
In January it was announced that Mr Mckeague's girlfriend, April Oliver, is pregnant with their child.
Cancer Research UK has promised £8m to its Edinburgh centre where researchers are focusing on brain tumours.
Another £8m will go to its Glasgow centre which is a world leader in pancreatic cancer research.
Much of the funding will go towards training the next generation of researchers, including 30 PhD students across both cities
The Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre is a partnership between the charity, the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian.
Prof Margaret Frame, science director at the Edinburgh centre, said: "From research into how brain tumours develop and grow, to identifying genetic and environmental markers that could help diagnose bowel cancer sooner, Edinburgh is home to world-class cancer research.
"This award represents a critical investment in the research infrastructure at Edinburgh, equipping us with the key laboratory and clinical tools needed to advance the understanding and treatment of cancer for the benefit of people in Scotland and beyond."
The Cancer Research UK Glasgow Centre is a partnership between the charity, the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, and the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde.
Prof Owen Sansom, interim director at the Beatson Institute, said: "This investment is fantastic news for cancer research in Glasgow.
"The city is home to a thriving community of world-class cancer scientists and doctors, who are working to reduce the devastating impact of this disease, not only locally, but around the world.
"This award means we will be able to further develop our work in translational research - getting cutting-edge discoveries from the laboratory to patients and learning as much as possible from patients to initiate new research."
The grants are part of £190m committed to 13 Cancer Research UK centres over the next five years.
The women said their families were going hungry because of severe food shortages in Venezuela.
Hours later, they crossed back into Venezuela carrying basic goods and singing the Venezuelan anthem.
Venezuela is going through an economic crisis and many Venezuelans say they struggle to feed their families.
The women said they had organised to meet at the border via the instant messaging service WhatsApp.
Dressed in white, they gathered on the bridge linking the cities of Urena in Venezuela and Cucuta in Colombia.
Hundreds of them pushed past the Venezuelan National Guard and walked across the border, which has been closed for almost a year.
One of the women told Colombian media: "We're desperate, we have nothing: no cooking oil, no sugar, no rice."
After buying food and other goods which are scarce in Venezuela, they again gathered at the the border post asking the Colombian guards to let them pass.
They crossed back into Venezuela singing the national anthem. Others shouted "yes, we can" and thanked the Colombian security forces for letting them through.
Venezuela closed large parts of its border with Colombia in August 2015 to prevent subsidised good from being smuggled from Venezuela into Colombia.
Venezuelans who want to cross into Colombia in states where the border has been closed need a special permit to do so.
But as the scarcity of food gets worse in Venezuela, many have crossed the porous border illegally.
Colombian officials said a similar incident had happened in Puerto Santander, 60km north of Cucuta, in June, when 400 Venezuelans crossed into Colombia to buy essential goods.
Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin is due to travel to Cucuta on Wednesday to speak to the local authorities about a possible plan of action, officials said.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has blamed the shortages on an "economic war" being waged against his government.
At a military parade to mark independence day on Tuesday, he said that Venezuela's military power had to keep growing to counter the "unconventional war" he was facing.
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The authority said the speed limit on the Sychnant Pass should be cut from 60 to 40 mph, and hazard signs used.
Horse riders and farmers have called the road a "dangerous rat run".
The council also expressed concern about "a lack of information" from the Welsh Government about roadworks on the A55.
It said the works could lead to more cars using the pass, which would further compromise safety.
The Conwy tunnel has been reduced to one lane for three weeks from 14 February as part of improvement works.
The authority are to write to the Welsh Government to request a "meaningful and ongoing dialogue" about the scheme.
It will also ask for more information on the economic impact of the roadworks, and for train operators to provide more services to tackle congestion.
The Welsh Government have been asked for comment.
The Northern Ireland Secretary said EU rules do not permit part of a country remaining within the European Union.
She was speaking ahead of a British Irish meeting to discuss the political way ahead after the referendum result.
"The EU rules are very clear - membership is at member state level, it's a national question," she said.
In Northern Ireland, the majority of voters (56%) voted for the UK to stay in the EU in last week's referendum.
But overall, the UK electorate voted to give up its EU membership by 52% to 48%.
"This decision has been made - the people of the UK have voted to leave the EU," Ms Villiers, who pushed for a Leave vote, said.
"That decision is going to be respected, that's what the government will take forward."
Ms Villiers is to host the Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan to discuss the fallout from the EU referendum result.
Northern Ireland Executive ministers have also been meeting to consider the implications of Brexit and the potential impact on their government departments.
The politicians who are meeting at Stormont today are deeply divided about the issue.
Scotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon travelled to Brussels on Wednesday to seek to protect her region's relationship with the EU.
Gibraltar, which, like Scotland and Northern Ireland, voted to remain in the EU, has signalled it wishes to explore its options..
Both Sinn Féin and the SDLP have said they do not want to be "dragged out of the EU" on the basis of English votes.
But First Minister Arlene Foster and and her Democratic Unionist Party campaigned for a Leave vote
She said: "The campaign is over, the decision has been taken, and now it is our job to go ahead and to represent the people of Northern Ireland in terms of the negotiations that are going to take place now.
"That's certainly my focus, to get the best deal for Northern Ireland in terms of the Brexit from the European Union," she said.
Lynn Brown, 70, was helping out at a friend's clothing store in Canterbury, Kent, when council officers walked in and cautioned her for failing to produce commercial waste licence.
She said: "I was intimidated. Every time I close my eyes, I see these two fat men, in their black outfits, stab vests and reflective glasses."
Canterbury City Council has apologised.
The men walked into Revivals in St Peter's Street while the owner, Debbie Barwick, was at a hospital appointment.
Ms Brown said they used "bully-boy tactics" when they cautioned her before explaining why she was being fined.
After telling her to "just let me finish" one of the men pointed to her half-eaten sandwich and told her it was "commercial waste", she said.
"I said, 'I brought it from home, I'm going to eat it, fold up the wrapping and take it home with me'. He said 'Well then you're guilty of transporting commercial waste'."
Mrs Brown said the whole thing was ridiculous but she was slapped with the fine, and told it would increase to £300 if not paid within 10 days.
"I couldn't pay that out of my pension. It's really undermined my confidence."
The council has now confirmed the fine has been dropped.
Douglas Rattray, head of safer neighbourhoods with Canterbury City Council, added: "It may sound mystifying to people but trade waste is any kind of waste going to be disposed of from those premises, obviously we're not really interested in a sandwich wrapper.
"We made a mistake there. We fully apologise to her for that. We should not have issued any form of penalty to her personally as a temporary worker."
He said the officer was new and will now have "proper training".
Mr Metzker's body was found on Monday in a rural area near the town of Padre Paraiso, five days after went missing.
He had been tortured and decapitated.
Colleagues said Mr Metzker, 67, had been investigating drug trafficking and child abuse in the Jequitinhonha Valley region, one of Brazil's poorest areas.
Local journalists said they were afraid to work in the region.
"There is a climate of terror in the region that intimidates reporters from doing their job," the president of the Minas Gerais journalists' union, Kerison Lopes, said.
Mr Lopes told Spanish news agency Efe that "everything led them to believe that Mr Metzker was killed because he was reporting on robbery, drug trafficking and the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents".
He said the brutality of the murder had thrown local journalists in the region into panic.
According to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 14 Brazilian journalists have been killed since 2011 over their work.
However, a local police officer said they were not ruling out the murder could have been "a crime of passion".
Adam Lallana opened the scoring with a delightful 65th-minute strike after he had nutmegged defender Pablo.
But with nine minutes remaining Jussie fired high into the net after the Reds failed to clear their area.
Liverpool also went close through Philippe Coutinho and Danny Ings.
Brazilian Coutinho, who was one of the few experienced players in the starting XI, rattled the post with a fierce 20-yard drive, while Ings forced a very good low save from goalkeeper Cedric Carrasso.
The Frenchman also produced a very good stop to deny Lallana prior to the goal.
FC Sion, third in the Swiss league, lead Group B after recording a 2-1 victory over Rubin Kazan. Senegal forward Moussa Konate scored twice.
The ex-Southampton midfielder featured for the club for the first time since picking up a thigh injury against Bournemouth last month.
He did not make much of an impact in the opening 45 minutes, but produced two outstanding moments in the match after the break.
The first was a deft turn-and-shot which Carrasso did well to turn away, but the 33-year-old stopper had no chance with the second.
It was a goal reminiscent of his Saints days. He collected a pass from Alberto Morento, nutmegged Pablo before stroking his effort past the reach of the Bordeaux keeper.
Both the goalscorer and Coutinho were the only standout performers in attack for Liverpool, with strikers Divock Origi and winger Jordon Ibe - talked about in England terms recently - failing to make an impact.
The Reds XI and bench featured five relatively inexperienced players who had graduated from the academy.
In the spotlight, was Maghull-born midfielder Jordan Rossiter. The 18-year-old, who became the club's second youngest goalscorer last season when he scored in the League Cup, was named in the starting XI and took up a position just in front of the defence.
Rossiter impressed with the ease in which he linked defence and attack. Of the 42 passes he attempted, he completed 38.
Fellow 18-year-old Pedro Chirivella joined him in the middle following an early leg injury to defender Kolo Toure. Despite the surprise early introduction, the Spain youth international also looked comfortable against lively opponents.
Midfielder Cameron Brannagan, 19, made a second-half appearance, while teenagers Daniel Cleary and Connor Randall remained on the bench.
Adam Lallana on BT Sport: "Before the match we might have taken a point, but we're disappointed. They scored with five or 10 minutes to go.
"A couple of the young lads did really well, Pedro Chirivella when he came on and Jordan Rossiter were brilliant.
"It's a positive performance. We've lost our last two Premier League games and need to get back to winning ways now.
"We've got a tough game on Sunday against Norwich, so we need another good performance and have to make sure we win.
"It's a point away from home. We need to win our next game in the league and in this competition and then things will look much better."
Match ends, Bordeaux 1, Liverpool 1.
Second Half ends, Bordeaux 1, Liverpool 1.
Hand ball by Andre Biyogo Poko (Bordeaux).
Jordon Ibe (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nicolas Maurice-Belay (Bordeaux).
Corner, Bordeaux. Conceded by Emre Can.
Attempt missed. Cameron Brannagan (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Pablo.
Substitution, Bordeaux. Frederic Guilbert replaces Milan Gajic.
Attempt saved. Alberto Moreno (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Joseph Gomez.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Pablo.
Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Andre Biyogo Poko (Bordeaux).
Goal! Bordeaux 1, Liverpool 1. Jussie (Bordeaux) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner.
Substitution, Liverpool. Cameron Brannagan replaces Jordan Rossiter.
Corner, Bordeaux. Conceded by Emre Can.
Foul by Emre Can (Liverpool).
Nicolas Maurice-Belay (Bordeaux) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Bordeaux. Andre Biyogo Poko replaces Henri Saivet.
Attempt saved. Enzo Crivelli (Bordeaux) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Danny Ings (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Adam Lallana.
Substitution, Liverpool. Danny Ings replaces Divock Origi.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Pablo.
Divock Origi (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Henri Saivet (Bordeaux).
Substitution, Bordeaux. Jussie replaces Wahbi Khazri.
Jordon Ibe (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Maxime Poundje (Bordeaux).
Goal! Bordeaux 0, Liverpool 1. Adam Lallana (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Alberto Moreno.
Attempt saved. Nicolas Maurice-Belay (Bordeaux) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Jordan Rossiter (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Maxime Poundje.
Pedro Chirivella (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Dangerous play by Diego Rolan (Bordeaux).
Attempt missed. Henri Saivet (Bordeaux) header from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Wahbi Khazri with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Bordeaux. Conceded by Mamadou Sakho.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Cédric Carrasso.
Attempt saved. Adam Lallana (Liverpool) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Philippe Coutinho.
Emre Can (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Enzo Crivelli (Bordeaux).
The Lost Songs of St Kilda sold out within a few hours of its release and has become the fastest-selling posthumous artist debut in history.
The album was recorded on a £3 microphone in an Edinburgh care home by pensioner Trevor Morrison.
The tracks have been reworked by a number of leading composers.
They include Sir James Macmillan, Craig Armstrong, Mercury Prize nominee Christopher Duncan, Rebecca Dale and Teenage Fanclub drummer Francis Macdonald.
To celebrate the release of the album, Sir James undertook the eight-hour boat journey to perform a special piano concert on the islands - the first time music had been heard on St Kilda since its evacuation in 1930.
It was also the first time a piano had ever been taken there. The instrument had to be dismantled for the journey, then reassembled.
Sir James said: "It has been a delight being involved in this project. Trevor Morrison's playing of the old St Kilda songs are genuinely poignant and haunting.
"He plays with a true musician's sensitivity, and communicates the beauty and simplicity of this lost music.
"It was marvellous that so many Scottish musicians and composers from different genres have responded to the originals with their own unique perspectives."
As a 10-year-old child on the west coast island of Bute during World War Two, Trevor had been taught piano by a former resident of St Kilda.
While living in a care home and suffering ill health, Trevor managed to remember the tunes his teacher had shown him.
And Stuart McKenzie, who had been volunteering in the care home, offered to record them.
Before Trevor died in 2012, he wrote a letter thanking those who helped him record the songs which he said had haunted him all his life, conveying his wish "that these few tunes from the long-forgotten isles can be preserved and given a future".
The last islanders left St Kilda on 29 August 1930 because life on the remote archipelago had become too difficult.
Gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 0.3% in the first quarter, compared to 0.5% in last month's preliminary reading.
The annualised rate of growth was cut to 1% from the initial reading of 2.2%.
The data was weaker than expected and was due to an unexpected decline in oil inventories and private consumption.
Business investment increased though, rising by 0.6% in the quarter compared with the first estimate of 0.2%.
Japan's central bank meets next week and is now expected to keep policy unchanged following the latest data.
However, analysts say the outlook remains positive for the world's third-largest economy and that its recovery is set continue.
"Both retail sales and core household spending recorded strong gains in April, and industrial production finally surpassed the peak reached before 2014's sales tax hike," Marcel Thieliant from Capital Economics said.
"The current [economic] expansion already is the longest in more than a decade," he added.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been pushing Japanese consumers and companies to spend more in the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. Private consumption accounts for about 60% of GDP.
Exporters have been helped by a weakening currency, which has made their products more competitive and has boosted the value of profits earned overseas.
By-elections will be held in the central Madhya Pradesh state next week.
But a test of a voting machine in the state appeared to show it printing out votes for the prime minister's party, regardless of what button was pressed.
The election commission said it was sending more officials from Delhi to oversee the vote.
The problem was spotted in a video widely circulated on social media in India last week.
It showed a mandatory test of a Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machine, which dispenses a slip of paper with the symbol of the party the voter selected.
In the test, the image representing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was printed on every slip.
Decisive victory in key state for Modi
A spokesman for India's election commission said it had requested "a detailed report" from the district election officer and that it would send two teams, headed by senior officials, to Madhya Pradesh. They will stay until the final votes of the 9 April by-election are counted.
Indian media reported that one election official and a senior police officer in the state's Bindh district, where the video was filmed, had been transferred. The move has not been confirmed by the election commission.
The Times of India newspaper said demonstrators had gathered on Sunday to protest against the decision to remove staff.
Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of the anti-corruption Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), told media he had not trusted electronic voting machines "from the start". "When the whole world is using ballot paper for elections, then what objection should we have?" he said on Saturday.
The security of the voting machines has long been a matter of debate. In a 2010 report, a group of Indian computer security experts said the machines were vulnerable to fraud, but a high court ruling two years later stated they were not.
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Quins have not disclosed the length of the 21-year-old South African's deal at the Twickenham Stoop.
"Cameron is a tough, uncompromising, physical individual who will create real competition for places," director of rugby John Kingston said.
"He has been signed with a mind that he will be challenging hard for a starting berth in the not too distant future."
The first stage of the bill is a brief procedure lasting no more than a couple of minutes.
The bill will be debated and put to a vote when on it reaches its second stage on Monday next week.
It has been described as a fantasy or phantom budget as it presupposes the parties will be able to resolve their differences over welfare reform.
Simon Hart was accused of sending letters supporting a Conservative candidate using pre-paid Commons envelopes ahead of the 4 May poll.
The claim was made by rival Plaid Cymru candidate, councillor Jonathan Preston.
The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards rejected the complaint after Mr Hart explained two mailings had been confused.
Using parliamentary stationery for campaigning would have been a breach of the rules and an investigation was launched by commissioner Kathryn Hudson.
Responding to the inquiry, the Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire MP said he sent out two letters to constituents in March and believed they had been confused.
One letter, inviting residents to a public meeting, was posted in parliamentary envelopes on 11 March.
The second, which supported the Tory council election candidate, was sent out by the local Conservative Association on 30 March using plain stationery paid for using its own Royal Mail account.
The MP also explained the two mail shots were different sizes and it would have been difficult to fold the election campaign letter into the parliamentary envelope.
The commissioner accepted Mr Hart's explanation and rejected the complaint.
Root led England to a 211-run win over South Africa at Lord's in his first Test match as captain since succeeding Cook, who resigned in February after a record 59 Tests in charge.
Cook was impressed by the way Yorkshire's Root, 26, handled himself.
"By playing it a bit more low-key, certainly in the dressing room, his message will grow," said Cook.
"It will get clearer and stronger as he goes."
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Root, who is known for his dressing room spirit, had only captained in four previous first-class matches before taking on the England job.
"You often see a captain who comes in and thinks he's got to do the speech at the start of his reign, saying that this is what he wants and stuff," added Cook.
"Then you've forgotten everything he's said after two minutes.
"But actually because he didn't do that, everyone was still waiting for it and when he did speak, he spoke very clearly and very concisely on what he wanted to do."
Cook, 32, does not think that Root's personality will be dampened by the new role.
"I still think you'll see the glint in his eye," he said.
Some questioned whether Cook would struggle under a new captain at Test level.
However, the Essex batsman thinks his relationship with Root will continue to flourish.
"As he feels more comfortable in the role and I feel more comfortable, I will maybe throw a few more suggestions at him, but in the first Test it was probably business as usual," added Cook.
"We were both still at first and second slip. It was me bouncing ideas off Joe and him deciding which idea he might take or not.
"You go back a year and it was him giving me the ideas and me making the decisions."
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Cook said he is not contemplating retirement from the Test stage and wants to carry on playing for as long as possible.
"I genuinely love playing cricket, " he said. "I genuinely love, whether it's an Essex shirt or an England shirt, trying to score runs and trying to set up wins for the side.
"Hopefully I can be part of it for as long as I can, because one day some bloke will tap me on the shoulder and say 'we don't want you any more'."
Newcastle Falcons player Rob Hawkins has completed his first shift as a volunteer officer for Northumbria Police.
The 32-year-old hooker, who previously played for Bath and Leicester Tigers, said he is considering a career in the force when he retires from rugby.
Northumbria Police said they hope he will inspire others to volunteer.
Ch Insp Sarah Pitt, said: "We're really pleased that Rob has joined us as a special constable and we hope it encourages other people to think about getting involved.
"Our volunteers are a vital link between us and the communities we serve and we welcome the different skills they bring from their own professions."
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Appearances for Bath Rugby, Leicester Tigers and Newcastle Falcons
5ft 11 in (1.8m) tall
15.7 stone (100kg) weight
32 Years old
2 Trophies won, the Aviva Premiership in 2011 and LV= Cup in 2012
SC Hawkins said: "I'm probably in my twilight years with my rugby career, so I'm starting to think heavily about the transition into the real world and I've always been interested in the police.
"Whilst I've got the opportunity to give it a whirl as a volunteer I decided to try it.
"I've played in front of 80,000 people before but I don't think I was as nervous then as I was starting my first shift.
"I've been getting a bit of a ribbing. I'm not looking forward to seeing a few of the boys in town when they've had a couple of jars as I'm sure they will probably try to steal my hat and other pranks, but I've told them they'll be in trouble."
The proposals, from the Commons Procedure Committee, would extend a system of e-petitions which already exists for government departments.
A new Petitions Committee would be set up to consider the documents and communicate with petitioners.
Petitioners would be called to give oral evidence in parliament and their campaigns would trigger debates.
Since 2011, people have been able to lobby government departments electronically. Petitions receiving more than 100,000 signatures can trigger a debate in the House of Commons.
Under the new plans, the existing e-petition site would be redesigned and jointly run by the House of Commons and the government.
A new Petitions Committee would back up the system.
Its proposed chair, Conservative backbencher Charles Walker, said: "Our proposals will enable the House to respond more effectively to petitions than it does now. Setting up a committee of MPs to consider the petitions presented to the House, hear petitioners' concerns and scrutinise the government's response to them is a fundamental part of the system we propose."
"This should improve the information available to the public about what the Commons does and the many ways in which MPs can respond to the people's concerns.
Proposed role of Petitions Committee:
The proposals will now be submitted to the government and will be subject to a vote in the Commons. They are expected to be agreed early next year so the new e-petitions system will be available by the start of the next Parliament.
On-loan midfielder Ryan Tunnicliffe rounded Leeds goalkeeper Rob Green to make it 1-0 to the 23rd-placed Latics.
Chris Wood scored his 30th goal of the season from the penalty spot after Eunan O'Kane went down under Michael Jacobs' challenge to level the scores.
Kemar Roofe struck the crossbar from 25 yards, but Garry Monk's side could not find a winner and finish in seventh.
Leeds had already all but dropped out of the play-off race, surrendering sixth place to Fulham after their poor run of form, but started the better side with Pablo Hernandez firing an early chance wide.
However, it was Tunnicliffe who made the breakthrough, gathering Jacobs' pass to beat the onrushing Green and find the net for his first goal since scoring for parent club Fulham in a 4-1 win over Bristol City on 31 October 2015.
Buoyed by the goal, Wigan pushed for another and Green had to be alert to smother Omar Bogle's shot and keep out another Tunnicliffe effort.
But after the break Leeds got back into the match with O'Kane's driving run drawing a foul and allowing Wood to send goalkeeper Matt Gilks the wrong way from 12 yards.
Monk's side finished the stronger team but could not force a second goal, with Roofe's volley the closest they came to ending their season with a win.
Leeds were without left-back Charlie Taylor, who was not in the matchday squad, with Monk saying he refused to play having been "terribly advised".
Taylor, 23, is out of contract at the end of the season and West Bromwich Albion manager Tony Pulis has confirmed the Premier League side are interested in signing him.
Leeds manager Garry Monk:
"There's no sugar-coating this - Charlie refused to play the game. I think he's been terribly advised...I think he's been poorly advised all season.
"To refuse to play the game, for me as a manager and for the club, that's unacceptable. I've got a lot of time for Charlie, as we all have at the club.
"He's not very experienced in these situations, and you need proper guidance, and people around you who can help you do things right.
"He'll learn from this but, as a manager and a club, you cannot have a player refusing to play. The club will have a strong stance on this, I'm sure."
Wigan interim manager Graham Barrow:
"It was a decent way to finish the season, and we had chances at the end to have won it.
"We had to dig in a few times in that second half, because Leeds are a good side - one of the better sides we've played.
"I'm impressed with what Garry's done there, so fair play to him, but it was one of those games that we could have won."
Match ends, Wigan Athletic 1, Leeds United 1.
Second Half ends, Wigan Athletic 1, Leeds United 1.
Attempt missed. Max Power (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.
Foul by Luke Ayling (Leeds United).
Omar Bogle (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Gaetano Berardi (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Callum Connolly (Wigan Athletic).
Kalvin Phillips (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Max Power (Wigan Athletic).
Kemar Roofe (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alex Bruce (Wigan Athletic).
Foul by Chris Wood (Leeds United).
Matthew Gilks (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Leeds United. Kemar Roofe tries a through ball, but Alfonso is caught offside.
Foul by Eunan O'Kane (Leeds United).
Ryan Colclough (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Alfonso (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Chris Wood following a corner.
Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Stephen Warnock.
Offside, Wigan Athletic. Alex Bruce tries a through ball, but Omar Bogle is caught offside.
Foul by Gaetano Berardi (Leeds United).
Nick Powell (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Leeds United. Kalvin Phillips replaces Ronaldo Vieira.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Ryan Colclough replaces David Perkins.
Foul by Kemar Roofe (Leeds United).
Stephen Warnock (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Alfonso (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Gaetano Berardi.
Attempt missed. Chris Wood (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Alfonso with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Callum Connolly.
Substitution, Leeds United. Hadi Sacko replaces Stuart Dallas.
Attempt missed. Eunan O'Kane (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Kemar Roofe (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Eunan O'Kane (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alex Bruce (Wigan Athletic).
Attempt blocked. Callum Connolly (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jamie Hanson.
Substitution, Leeds United. Alfonso replaces Pablo Hernández.
Hand ball by Stuart Dallas (Leeds United).
Kemar Roofe (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Callum Connolly (Wigan Athletic).
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Nick Powell replaces Michael Jacobs.
Attempt saved. Stuart Dallas (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Eunan O'Kane.
When it finally came, it was in dramatic form.
A few bits of rusty scrap metal, unveiled in front of the assembled reporters at a press conference marking the publication of the investigation report.
Ever since the South Korean warship, the Cheonan, was split in half by an explosion and began sinking in the darkness with the loss of 46 lives, North Korea has been the prime suspect.
But why has it been so difficult to prove?
Stealth is the name of the game in submarine warfare.
It is entirely plausible that a ship, on routine patrol in its own shallow waters, would not pick up any signs of an enemy sub, or even a torpedo fired from one, on its sonar system.
So the fact that North Korea was not caught in the act has meant that the investigation team has had to embark on a painstaking and slow process, attempting to piece together what happened by examining the shattered wreck of the ship, salvaged in two pieces from the sea bed.
It was announced early on that the Cheonan had been hit by an external "non-contact" explosion.
That ruled out a simple collision with a rock, or an internal malfunction of the ship's own weapons systems.
Whatever sank it had exploded underwater, close to the hull of the ship but not in contact with it.
That is exactly the way that many torpedoes are designed to work, because exploding a few feet away from the ship causes a far more devastating blow than a direct hit.
The trouble for the investigation team was that many sea mines are designed to explode in exactly the same way.
Could the Cheonan have been sunk as the result of an accidental collision with an unexploded mine left over from the Korean War perhaps?
It was crucial to find direct evidence of the type of weapon involved.
To that end the South Korean navy even designed its own special nets and they have been dragging them, up to eight times a day, across the seabed close to the site of the sinking.
Just five days ago, they found what they were looking for - the propellers, a propulsion motor and a steering section of a torpedo, a perfect match for a model known to be manufactured and exported by North Korea.
The markings, in Korean script, are said to be consistent with those on a previously obtained model.
It was these fragments that were put on display at the news conference. They were clear evidence that the weapon used with such devastating effect was a 1.7 ton torpedo with a net explosive weight of 250kg, and apparent proof of North Korea's involvement.
There is other evidence of course.
The investigation report says that a number of small submarines, escorted by a support ship, left a North Korean naval base in the Yellow Sea a few days prior to the attack and returned a few days after it took place.
The investigation itself was given an added air of impartiality by the presence of 24 foreign experts from America, Australia, Britain and Sweden. They are all said to support the conclusions reached.
The only big question that remains is why?
Using a submarine to launch an unprovoked attack on another country's warship is such an extraordinary act of aggression with such serious potential consequences.
And despite the difficulties in obtaining proof after the event as outlined above, such an action certainly runs a substantial risk of detection.
Why would North Korea have taken such a calculated risk, and for what purpose?
Some observers have suggested that it may have been a simple act of retaliation.
The Cheonan sank close to the disputed sea boundary between North and South Korean territorial waters, along which the two navies have clashed a number of times in the past decade.
The most recent incident, last November, left a North Korean ship in flames, with reported casualties amongst the crew.
But torpedoing a warship would be a very dramatic response indeed.
Another theory suggests that the incident is a worrying indication of the tensions within the North Korean power structure.
Perhaps the order was given by the ageing and ailing North Korean leader to keep the military on side. Or perhaps the military were acting alone.
The speculation will continue, as will the debate about the appropriate response.
But for now, one thing seems to be beyond reasonable doubt, the Cheonan was sunk by North Korea, and South Korea has the evidence to prove it.
The ice dance duo, now based in Novi, Michigan, scored 173.17 to eclipse their ninth-place finish in 2014.
"We really wanted to leave it all out on the ice tonight and we did that," Buckland, 26, told BBC Sport.
France's Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron retained their world title with a score of 194.46.
Maia and Alex Shibutani (188.43) were second, with fellow Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates, who train alongside Coomes and Buckland, third (185.77).
Coomes and Buckland, from Nottingham, were making a comeback having missed last year's World and European championships through illness.
"I was so in-the-moment, so involved in that performance," said Coomes, who turns 27 on Wednesday. "I lived every second and thoroughly enjoyed it."
Luca Gasparotto saved the Bairns early on when he reacted quickly to clear David Smith's prod at goal.
When Luke Leahy headed against the crossbar in the second half for Peter Houston's men, it looked as if the breakthrough would never come.
But, in the 86th minute, Leahy crossed for Miller to slam in at the back post and snatch his side a victory.
Match ends, Falkirk 1, Dumbarton 0.
Second Half ends, Falkirk 1, Dumbarton 0.
Attempt missed. Darren Barr (Dumbarton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Robert McHugh (Falkirk) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Lee Miller (Falkirk) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Daniel Harvie (Dumbarton).
Substitution, Falkirk. Aaron Muirhead replaces Lewis Kidd.
James Craigen (Falkirk) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Daniel Harvie (Dumbarton).
Substitution, Dumbarton. Garry Fleming replaces David Smith.
Goal! Falkirk 1, Dumbarton 0. Lee Miller (Falkirk) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Luke Leahy.
Substitution, Dumbarton. Darren Barr replaces Ryan Stevenson.
Attempt missed. Craig Sibbald (Falkirk) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Mark Docherty.
Attempt blocked. Mark Kerr (Falkirk) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Robert McHugh (Falkirk).
Craig Pettigrew (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Craig Sibbald (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Stevenson (Dumbarton).
Corner, Dumbarton. Conceded by David McCracken.
Attempt saved. Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Falkirk. Lee Miller replaces John Baird.
Substitution, Dumbarton. Andy Stirling replaces Joseph Thomson.
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Ryan Stevenson.
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Craig Pettigrew.
Attempt missed. John Baird (Falkirk) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Foul by Luca Gasparotto (Falkirk).
Robert Thomson (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Luke Leahy (Falkirk) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Gregor Buchanan (Dumbarton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Gregor Buchanan (Dumbarton).
Luca Gasparotto (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Robert Thomson (Dumbarton).
Substitution, Falkirk. James Craigen replaces Tom Taiwo.
Attempt missed. Grant Gallagher (Dumbarton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt missed. Tom Taiwo (Falkirk) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Josh Todd (Dumbarton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Mark Docherty.
Mark Kerr (Falkirk) wins a free kick on the left wing.
An investigation by Health Protection Scotland found a link to certain products produced by Highland Game.
Nine people contracted the same strain of E. coli O157 after eating venison purchased raw and cooked at home.
Highland Game said there was "no substantiated evidence" of the source of the "very rare" outbreak.
Food Standards Scotland said the affected products, including Scottish Slimmers venison sausages, Scottish Slimmers venison meatballs, grillsteaks, and venison steaks with pepper sauce, had use-by dates from 4 September to 1 October.
A spokesman said the products "should not present a risk to health if they are handled and cooked properly", but said consumers should contact the company or retailer if they had concerns.
He added: "Food Standards Scotland is working closely with Highland Game, who have confirmed that they have taken immediate precautionary action."
A spokeswoman for Highland Game said a full inspection of the Dundee premises had been undertaken and "every assistance" given to FSS.
She said: "This is a very rare incident and venison has an excellent track record of safety and standards, and there is no substantiated evidence to support the actual source of the outbreak.
"Our stringent hygiene controls at Highland Game are second to none, however as with all meats there can be a risk of contamination somewhere in the food chain."
Stephen Gibbs, chairman of the Scottish Venison Partnership, added: "We believe this is an isolated, rogue incident in an industry that has an exemplary record in terms of food safety.
"Consumers should have every confidence in continuing to eat venison - but we cannot stress enough that storage and cooking instructions should be carefully followed exactly, as with any other meat product, as well as good personal hygiene in relation to food preparation."
Gintare Suminaite's baby was the result of a secret affair and she kept her pregnancy hidden, the Old Bailey heard.
Suminaite, of Bognor Regis, denied murder but admitted infanticide as she was mentally disturbed by giving birth. The 30-year-old had suffered significant blood loss and an injury.
Mr Justice Nicol said her circumstances were "tragic in themselves".
He sentenced Suminaite, who had spent 298 days on remand, to a 24-month community order with a rehabilitation requirement order.
"You were overwhelmed by the stress of your situation and in a state of partial denial during the pregnancy," he told her.
"At the time of giving birth you were in a state of extreme anxiety and panic."
The court heard Suminaite kept her pregnancy hidden from the authorities and her long-term partner, with whom she already had a child.
She planned to run away with her lover, a fellow Lithuanian, but did not want to be separated from her child and he went alone.
On 5 April last year, she left work early saying she had "big problems", and gave birth.
Her partner, who had been in another room in their Aldwick Road home, found her lying bleeding and pale in the bathroom surrounded by blood and a baby bath full of what appeared to be clothes.
He called an ambulance but the child lay undiscovered as medics initially did not spot the body in the baby bath.
Ambulance staff and police later returned to find the baby hidden in wet towels with a ligature around her neck, prosecutor Ed Brown QC said.
After her arrest, Suminaite said she did not know why she strangled her baby.
The court heard she had been emotionally and socially isolated during her life in England.
Her former boyfriend has cut all ties, but Suminaite remained in contact with her lover who has returned to England.
Suminaite appeared in court by videolink from Bronzefield jail.
Eddie Bilbey, from Ripley, Derbyshire, died shortly after the bout in South Normanton on 24 March.
The teenager was a Nottingham Forest supporter and the event will reflect this, with ex-players due to attend.
Organiser Rhyce Hallsworth said the Eddie's family had been "overwhelmed" by the love and support shown following his death.
Eddie was competing in an East Midlands youth welterweight contest. He collapsed and later died in hospital.
Mike Shinfield, the boy's step-grandfather, who owns Somercotes Elite Boxing Academy where Eddie was a member, told the BBC that he was fit and healthy and there were no concerns relating to his health.
A post-mortem examination into how the teenager died has taken place, but the cause of death will not be made public until May.
Mr Hallsworth, who coaches one of Eddie's brothers at football, said: "The [Bilbey] family have been going through a torrid time and it was a case of what can we do to help?
"They are a lovely family and they help a lot of other people so we needed to do something for them.
"Eddie was a fine young man, dedicated to his sport, always happy to chat and a genuine credit to his family."
He said money raised from the event will go towards charity Bloomin Dementia and the Eddie Bilbey Foundation, which has been set up in the teenager's memory.
Nottingham Forest fans started a round of applause for Eddie during the 17th minute of the match against Huddersfield on 8 April.
Mr Hallsworth said Reds fans have been "absolutely fantastic".
The ticketed event is due to be held at Saltbox, in Nottingham, on Sunday, ahead of Forest's match against Ipswich Town.
Brosnan caused a stir in India when he appeared in an ad for Pan Bahar, a product many associate with a highly addictive form of chewing tobacco.
He told People magazine he was "distressed" by the row.
He has asked Ashok & Co, the company that produces Pan Bahar, to remove his image from all their advertising.
Many have associated Pan Bahar with pan masala and gutka, a potent mixture of tobacco, crushed betel nut, lime, and clove among other ingredients. It is chewed and then spat out in bright red streams by millions of people, who get addicted to its mildly psychotropic effects.
Both pan masala and gutka have been linked to cancer, with many Indian states banning their sale and running campaigns to discourage people from buying them.
Representatives from Ashok & Co. were not available for comment, and their website displays a sign saying it is "under maintenance".
However, speaking to the BBC when the advert first appeared, the company said the outrage was the result of "public misconception", adding that there was no tobacco or nicotine in the product.
However, such clarifications did little to quell social media anger at the time, with many accusing Brosnan of "promoting cancer" in endorsing Pan Bahar.
Brosnan said that the company had "manipulated" media agencies into thinking he was an ambassador for the product and apologised to anyone he may have offended.
"Having endured, in my own personal life, the loss of my first wife and daughter as well as numerous friends to cancer, I am fully committed to supporting women's healthcare and research programs that improve human health and alleviate suffering," his statement said.
There has been some social reaction to Brosnan's statement, but nowhere near the levels as when the advert first appeared.
Owen Cathcart, 14, beat off all competition at the Open World Junior Circuit on Sunday.
The event, which is run by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), was held Belgium.
Owen won the Cadet Boys' Singles title beating Spain's Sergi Grau at the final hurdle in a hard fought five games.
Currently listed at number 57 in the Under 15 Boys' World Rankings, the Aquinas Grammar pupil put in "an inspired performance", according to the ITTF.
Keith Knox, who has coached Owen at Belfast's Ormeau Table Tennis Club since he was eight years old, said that the win is likely to push him much higher up the ranking.
"For myself and his Ireland coach John Murphy, this was equivalent to Carl Frampton winning the WBA," he said.
"No one from Northern Ireland or Ireland has won this tournament before.
"We're a small club at The Mount, near the Short Strand - right at an interface - and kids from both communities train together here and support each other.
"He's such a hard working lad, you could put him into any sport and he'd succeed. We're just really proud of him."
Police Scotland said the blackface sheep had disappeared from open hill ground in the Trotternish Ridge area.
The sheep vary in age but are all the animals were marked with black paint on their shoulders
Officers are asking local crofters to check their land and be vigilant for any suspicious activity.
Con Katherine Tindall, who is leading the investigation, said: "We are asking that crofters in the Trotternish area check their land and also to report any suspicious activity including unfamiliar vehicles with animal trailers in the area.
"Rural crime - be it the theft of animals, machinery or damage to property - hits hard at the heart of small communities and by all being vigilant we can make the area a hostile place for those intent on committing such crime."
Last week Police Scotland issued a similar appeal after 50 sheep were stolen from a farm in Moray.
The senate voted 59 to 21 in favour of going ahead with the trial against Ms Rousseff, which is likely to be held at the end of this month.
The Senate suspended Ms Rousseff in May over alleged illegal accounting practices.
She says they were common practice under previous administrations.
Following a marathon debate that ended early on Wednesday, the senate easily surpassed the required simple majority needed to decide on whether to try Ms Rousseff.
A two-thirds majority is needed in the final vote following the trial, which is due in the week after the Olympics closing ceremony.
As the debate got under way on Tuesday, Supreme Court President Ricardo Lewandowski told senators that they were about to "exercise one of the most serious tasks under the constitution".
Ms Rousseff has been accused of spending money without congressional approval and taking out unauthorised loans from state banks to boost the national budget ahead of the 2014 election, when she was re-elected.
Her allies in the Workers' Party have pointed out that many of the members of the Brazilian congress who have accused her are implicated in corruption cases themselves.
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Ms Rousseff is not facing corruption charges in Brazil's wide-ranging scandal around the state oil company, Petrobras.
But she has been tainted by the scandal, in which her Workers' Party is accused of lining its campaign war chests with some of the missing money.
If she is removed from office, the interim president, her former running mate Michel Temer, will remain in the presidential chair until the next elections in 2018.
Ms Rousseff has accused him of orchestrating a political coup against her.
At the Olympics opening ceremony on Friday, Mr Temer drew boos from the crowds as he declared the games open.
There have been various protests against him before the games as well as peaceful protests at a number of Olympic venues.
6 April 2017 Last updated at 17:04 BST
It is found in about half of the products that you might find at the supermarket, so it is a very popular ingredient.
In order to grow it, forests are being cut down to make room for oil palm trees to grow.
But this means that orangutans are losing their homes.
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The 19-year-old made his Championship debut against Hampshire in May and scored his first half-century against Warwickshire in his next match.
"It is really pleasing to get asked to sign a long-term contract. I'm absolutely thrilled," said Clarke.
"I see Worcestershire as a good place to develop my career," said the Shropshire-born wicketkeeper/batsman.
Clarke, from Trefonen, learned his formative cricket with his native county before graduating from the Worcestershire academy.
He has blossomed since being given his first-team chance, hitting three more half-centuries - against Hampshire, champions Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire.
He also struck an unbeaten 131 - his maiden century - against Gloucestershire in the One-Day Cup in August.
"I feel, as a youngster, there are a lot of opportunities at Worcestershire to play first-team cricket," added Clarke.
"It is a massive opportunity in these next three years for me to push myself and become a first-team regular, do well and push for international honours in the future."
Although he is concentrating on his batting at the moment, with Ben Cox the first-choice wicket-keeper, Clarke says having former England keeper Steve Rhodes as the county's director of cricket is helping him to develop his skills behind the stumps.
"He's been really assuring and made it a lot easier for me to have no hesitation in signing," said Clarke. "He has helped a lot with my keeping and is good to speak to about my batting as well. I see him really improving my cricket in the years to come."
Mr Varadkar made his pledge as he addressed the annual Pride festival in Dublin on Saturday.
It was the first time an Irish leader has marched in Dublin's Pride parade.
Mr Varadkar, 38, was elected as taoiseach earlier this month, becoming the youngest ever, and the first openly gay, leader of the Republic of Ireland.
In his address to the crowd on Saturday, he said: "I pledge as taoiseach to use my office, for as long as I hold it, to advance the cause of LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender] rights, to press for marriage equality across Ireland."
He also promised to "speak up for LGBT rights around the world where they are under attack, and to push for the implementation of the sexual health strategy here at home at a time when it is more important than ever".
Same-sex marriage is legal in the Republic of Ireland but not in Northern Ireland, which remains the only part of the UK not to introduce same-sex marriage legislation.
Mr Varadkar said he would be "pressing for marriage equality in Northern Ireland where currently our citizens do not have the same rights as we do".
Same-sex marriage has been a contentious subject at the Northern Ireland Assembly, where members have voted five times on the issue.
On the fifth time of asking, in November 2015, they voted in favour by a slim majority of 53 votes to 52.
However, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) used a Stormont veto, known as a petition of concern, to prevent any change in the law.
During his first official meeting as taoiseach with DUP Arlene Foster on 16 June, Mr Varadkar raised the issue of same-sex marriage.
He later said there was "not a meeting of minds" on the subject, but added he believed it was "not a matter of if, but when" Northern Ireland changed its law.
This year's Dublin Pride festival is not the first one that Mr Varadkar has attended, but it is the first time a serving taoiseach has participated in the event.
His election as taoiseach on 14 June has been hailed as an embodiment of dramatic change in Irish society.
Homosexuality was a criminal offence in the Republic of Ireland until June 1993.
But in 2015, it became the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage through a popular vote.
Shortly before the 2015 referendum, Mr Varadkar came out as gay during an interview with Irish broadcaster, RTÉ.
Speaking at the time, the then minister for health said: "I won't be allowing my own background or my own sexual orientation to dictate the decisions that I make."
He added: "I just kind of want to be honest with people. I don't want anyone to think that I have a hidden agenda."
When he was elected taoiseach, much of the international media attention focused on his Indian heritage and his sexual orientation, whereas Irish mainstream media focused mainly on his age and economic policies.
As he addressed the 30,000-strong crowd at Dublin Pride on Saturday, Mr Varadkar acknowledged that shift in Irish attitudes.
"I don't think my election as taoiseach actually made history, it just reflected it - reflected the enormous changes that had already occurred in our country," he said.
"So, I don't think that I have changed things for you; I think people like you have changed things for me."
Mourinho, who was sacked in December, said he will be "back soon" after it was revealed his representatives had held talks with United.
Van Gaal said: "When there is such nonsense written about me, I cannot believe there is already a relationship between Jose Mourinho and United."
Chelsea host United on Sunday.
Mourinho's dismissal from Chelsea ended his second spell in charge at Stamford Bridge.
"I always say I need competition - I need competition every week," the Portuguese, 53, told the Mail on Sunday. "For sure I'll be back soon."
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Van Gaal has been under pressure at Old Trafford after a difficult second season in charge, which has seen his team's style of play repeatedly criticised.
However, defeats by Stoke on Boxing Day and Southampton on 23 January have been followed by an improvement in form, including a 3-0 win against the Potters on Tuesday.
The Old Trafford side are fifth in the Premier League, five points adrift of the Champions League places.
The 64-year-old has another year left on his contract - and insisted at the end of January that he wants to stay until it expires.
He added: "I cannot believe that [reports about Mourinho] because I have seen what is happening in the past two months and it was difficult for me, my wife, kids, grandchildren and friends to cope with that.
"It is the football world nowadays. It is a pity but it is like that."
Mourinho, who has also managed Inter Milan and Real Madrid since his first spell in charge of Chelsea ended in 2007, is adamant that his family will remain in England.
"At this moment I don't know where football will take me, because in football you never know. But as a family, our home will be in London," he added.
"No, I am not enjoying it [not working]. I can have my family, I can have my friends, I can have my quiet life, which I also like, and I can have my football.
"I can have everything together and I don't need to give up on one of them.
"To be fully happy I need everything, so I go back to football. I think it's my natural habitat. I have worked since I can remember, and as a manager since 2000."
South Belfast MP Alasdair McDonnell faces a challenge from Foyle MLA Colum Eastwood.
Activists will vote in the leadership election later this month.
SDLP elected representatives are expected to donate money to the party annually.
The BBC understands a number of SDLP MLAs have criticised attempts to stop them voting if monies are regarded as outstanding.
The BBC has also been told that some payments to the party by elected representatives have been delayed because of concerns about the way money is being spent.
One of those who is understood to be critical of the attempt to bar some representatives from voting is Mr Eastwood.
Sources close to his campaign team have questioned the motivation behind the party executive's decision and insist that the Foyle MLA will be voting at the party conference as planned.
The party executive's decision was discussed by MLAs at Stormont and it is understood a number of assembly members were openly critical of the party executive's move.
In recent days, discussions between a number of SDLP elected representatives and party officials have taken place and one source told the BBC that the issue of payments "was being resolved".
A spokeswoman for the SDLP declined to comment in detail saying the issues raised were "internal matters".
Party activists will gather in Armagh on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 November when voting for the leadership takes place.
About 300 party members are entitled to vote
The attacker blew himself up in a crowd gathered for a funeral in western Baghdad's affluent Harthiyah area.
Dozens have been killed in similar attacks in recent weeks that have been widely blamed on Islamic State (IS).
IS militants, who control territory straddling Syria and Iraq, were engaged in battles with Kurdish fighters around the Syrian town of Kobane all weekend.
Earlier this week, the Kurds in Kobane said they had beaten back the Islamists.
But IS apparently launched a renewed effort to retake the town over the weekend.
Kurdish commanders said they had again repulsed the Islamists, thanks to help from US air strikes.
And Reuters news agency reported that the Iraqi army had launched an operation to retake the city of Baiji, near Iraq's biggest oil refinery.
However, the operation had to be aborted after a military vehicle reportedly exploded as part of an ambush by IS that killed four soldiers.
"The attacker surprised our forces as he was driving a military armoured vehicle. We thought it was our vehicle," an army officer told Reuters.
IS has caused chaos across the region, forcing many thousands to flee from their homes and cracking down on anyone who disagrees with their interpretation of Islam.
The US is leading a coalition of countries providing air power and technical support to Iraq's forces.
Australia, one of the biggest contributors to the coalition, announced earlier that a 200-strong special forces group could now be deployed in Iraq after a legal wrangle was resolved.
In addition, the US is also carrying out air strikes over Syria - although this is controversial because the Syrian government has not given permission.
A senior garda officer told RTÉ News that he communicated with Nóirín O'Sullivan on official business through a commercial email account when she was deputy commissioner.
Gmail accounts are set up by the garda's IT section on official garda phones and iPads but should not be used for official business.
The senior officer told the Irish broadcaster that he sent Ms O'Sullivan an official report on at least one occasion.
The officer said on another occasion he received an email from Ms O'Sullivan from the same email address on a separate garda matter.
The Sunday Times first reported that Ms O'Sullivan had been using a private email account to send and receive official correspondence.
When Ms O'Sullivan was deputy commissioner in charge of operations, she was responsible for all crime and security matters as well as state security and intelligence.
RTÉ News said it had seen a print out of an email from 2013 when Ms O'Sullivan was deputy commissioner but said it did not appear to relate to any of these sensitive matters but to another area of garda policy.
When contacted by BBC News NI, a garda spokesperson said: "An Garda Síochána has strict security controls in relation to the use of and access to Garda IT systems.
"Devices issued to the commissioner are secured by secure connections and utilise strong encryption technologies.
"Access to the Pulse database on any Garda Síochána devices is segregated by secure containers which does not store any garda data on the device. This is coupled with strong users password policies and strong authentication."
The Pulse (Police Using Leading Systems Effectively) system used by Irish police is intended to store all the information available to the force and to track the progress of crime investigations.
The Department of Justice said it had nothing to add to the garda statement.
The Policing Authority said while it had not received any information from An Garda Síochána it would follow this up with the force and brief itself during the week.
Cyprus joined the EU in 2004. Yet the island's breakaway, Turkish-controlled north is not internationally recognised, and EU laws don't apply there.
The UK's sovereign military bases in Cyprus are also outside the EU and have a special status.
The EU showed flexibility for Cyprus. It might do the same for Scotland and Northern Ireland, where majorities voted Remain (62% and 55.8%, respectively).
The EU managed to find a way to admit the Republic of Cyprus, even though Turkey occupied the north in 1974 and the authorities there created the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).
Cyprus country profile
Cyprus adopted the euro as its currency in 2008, yet the north uses the Turkish lira. And the massive body of EU law - called the Acquis - does not extend to the occupied north.
A UN buffer zone - the Green Line - divides the island. But in recent years peace efforts have facilitated contacts between the Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot communities.
Free movement of people - as British voters well know - is a thorny issue in the EU. It is one of the EU's cherished "four freedoms", enabling workers to move easily to another EU country. But it is problematic because it sets no upper limit on immigration.
And it does not operate across the Green Line.
The other three EU single market freedoms are: free movement of capital, goods and services.
To control the movement of people and goods in Cyprus the EU adopted the Green Line Regulation. The Republic of Cyprus has to check the IDs of everyone crossing the Green Line, and check all goods entering the EU from the island's north.
Cyprus and the UK are not in the EU's Schengen passport-free zone, where border checks are generally minimal.
Cyprus aims to heal its great divide
The UK government says it will not trigger the two-year exit procedure - EU Article 50 - until next year.
But when the formal exit negotiations begin, "some lessons can be learnt" from Cyprus's experience, as parts of the island required new agreements with the EU, Cypriot centre-left MEP Costas Mavrides told the BBC.
Because of the size of Scotland's Remain vote, Scottish resistance to Brexit appears stronger than that in Northern Ireland.
But constitutionally neither nation can stop the UK - as a state - going ahead with Brexit.
The UK's constitutional wrangling over Brexit and its consequences looks likely to be complex and take years.
But if pressure for Scottish independence grows, the Cyprus model could help serve as a transitional arrangement, according to lawyer Nikos Skoutaris.
The EU Law lecturer at the University of East Anglia says in an analysis that Scotland and Northern Ireland might reach separate arrangements with the EU as "a tangible alternative to secession [from the UK]".
The UK might then become "almost a confederation, but it will still be one recognised state".
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That is the UK government's position - and EU politicians have also stressed that the formal negotiations will be with the UK. So, no "Brexit lite" for Scotland or Northern Ireland.
Under the Sewel Convention, the Scottish Parliament should be asked to give consent to any UK legislation that affects Scotland - and that would clearly be the case with Brexit.
But Scotland cannot veto Brexit. According to Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, "Scotland cannot delay Brexit - it can only pass resolutions.
"Westminster can overrule the Scots on this issue, it's a matter of sovereignty," he said.
The EU will negotiate Brexit only with the UK, because "traditionally EU institutions are strongly opposed to separatism, as a destabilising force in the EU," he told the BBC.
Spain, worried about the strong independence campaign in Catalonia, does not want Scotland to create a precedent in the EU.
Mr Grant is on an expert panel advising the Scottish government on EU relations, as is MEP Alyn Smith of the Scottish National Party (SNP).
Mr Smith insisted that "everything is on the table, all options are to be explored". "[EU] membership is one thing, status is another, involvement in EU programmes is another," he told the BBC.
While he admitted that Westminster could overrule Scotland on Brexit, he said he was "loath to talk about vetoes or delays".
"But there is recognition that Scotland is looking for something different - the Brussels people know there's a plurality of interests in the UK."
Yes - there are many different EU arrangements to accommodate national differences.
As part of the Brexit process the UK will have to re-examine its sovereign bases in Cyprus.
The Cyprus government voiced concern about Brexit's impact on the 15,000 Cypriots living in the Sovereign Base Areas. They are EU citizens, living in British territory.
"Living in areas exempted from the EU, now their status is not very clear," Mr Mavrides said.
Mr Smith says Scotland's SNP government is looking at the status of territories contained in other EU member states. Among them: the Aland Islands (Finland), the Faroes (Denmark) and Guadeloupe (France).
But dealing with small overseas territories is one thing - Brexit quite another.
The only territory to have left the EU is Greenland, part of Denmark. Its exit, in 1985, came after three years of negotiations. A fishing dispute triggered it - and Greenland's population is just 57,000.
The reality is that no existing model matches the Brexit case, as the UK is one of Europe's biggest economies.
Players at the Golden Oldies World Rugby Festival joined members of the public at the University Fields in the Llanrumney area.
The previous record of 1,198 was set at Twickenham during the Rugby World Cup.
Welsh referee Nigel Owens, who started the bid, also received a Guinness World Records award for refereeing the most international rugby matches.
On receiving his certificate, Mr Owens said: "It's obviously an honour and privilege to get a Guinness World Record.
"I didn't referee to get any awards, I started refereeing because I enjoyed the game.
"When people do attempt records it's a challenge. But refereeing is a challenge in itself."
Finance Minister P Chidambaram said 36 stalled projects in oil, gas, power, road and railways sectors were cleared.
"The message we are sending is that the investment cycle has restarted, and we are pushing it," he said.
The announcement came on a day the rupee hit a new record low, touching 65.6 against the US dollar.
Recent attempts to reduce volatility in currency markets have so far failed to have any result.
The finance minister told reporters on Tuesday that the rupee had "overshot its true level", but said that India was not the only country facing problems.
"As I said in parliament, every emerging market is challenged today. So India is also challenged, and the impact is felt both on the equity market as well as the currency market," news agency Reuters quoted him as saying.
"I think we'll simply have to be patient, be firm, do whatever is required to be done, and the rupee will find its appropriate level.
"What I said a few days ago, I still maintain it. The rupee has overshot its true level, it's undervalued.
"Others have confirmed it. And we have to be patient and we have to be firm and we have to do what requires to be done," he said.
Mr Chidambaram also tried to allay fears over the impact of the Food Security Bill on the country's finances.
The bill, which was approved by the lower house of parliament on Monday night, is aimed at providing subsidised food to two-thirds of the population in an effort to eradicate the widespread hunger and malnutrition plaguing India.
But the ambitious legislation will cost 1.3tn rupees ($19.76bn; £12.75bn) a year. Critics say it is a profligate plan that will hurt India's economy.
However, the minister said it would not lead to the government overshooting its fiscal deficit target.
"After providing for the Food Security Bill, we will remain within the limit I have set for myself in the budget," he said.
The country has already been hurt by a slowdown in growth and a widening current account deficit.
Its economy, Asia's third-largest, grew at an annual rate of 5% in the 2012-13 financial year, the slowest pace in 10 years.
The former Great Britain and England half-back started his career with the club and returned for the 2017 season, becoming the first player to commit to the reformed outfit after Bradford were liquidated.
Pryce also had spells with St Helens, Catalans and Hull FC.
He won four Super Leagues, five Challenge Cups and three World Club Championships in his career.
Pryce made 11 appearances in all competitions for the Championship side this season.
He said: "After playing rugby since a young boy I am finally done. I wished to have one more year at Bradford but I just couldn't do it."
Callum O'Dowda and Kemar Roofe have been sold in the space of a week for what could rise to a combined £4.6m.
And Appleton says finding a replacement for Republic of Ireland midfielder O'Dowda is now his immediate priority.
"We've lost the best part of 40 goals in the last week, so we need some more additions," he told BBC Radio Oxford.
O'Dowda, 21, joined Championship Bristol City on Thursday in a three-year deal while Roofe moved to Leeds United last week for £3m.
"Callum has ambitions to play in the Championship," Appleton said. "He made that pretty clear.
"The irony is I've had conversations with a number of players over the last couple of months on a similar subject and I believe we as a club can match those ambitions.
"That's the frustration from my point of view. I was going to build a team this season around Callum."
O'Dowda scored 10 goals for Oxford United last season during their automatic promotion from League Two and run to the Football League Trophy final.
Appleton, who has already brought in eight players this summer, has plans in place to further bolster the squad.
Among his targets had been Bristol Rovers striker Matt Taylor, before the 26-year-old agreed a new deal with Rovers on Friday.
"It's an interesting one as without speaking too much out of turn, I did think we'd shook hands on an agreement," he said.
"But I'm being told by his representative that he hasn't got a desire to play for his hometown club.
"They'll be players out there who will become available," Appleton added. "That might not be until later in the window or it could be as quick as the next 24 hours."
25 May 2016 Last updated at 08:35 BST
The world number 10 from Antrim produced a best break of 58 to level the game at 2-2 in the Motorpoint Arena on Thursday afternoon.
But his Chinese opponent knocked in breaks of 55 and 50 to win the next two frames and the match.
Allen enjoyed a 4-0 win over England's Sydney Wilson in the opening round before beating Boonyarit Kaettikun 4-1.
The militants' activity is not limited to attacking Western capitals, bombing planes or shooting peaceful citizens.
But when fighting such radical groups, governments may also, intentionally or not, strengthen authoritarian regimes and undermine democratic values.
A vivid example of this is Uzbekistan. This Central Asian nation is considered to be one of the most repressive states in the world.
Independent watchdog organisation Freedom House ranks it in the same category as North Korea - the "worst of the worst" when it comes to political rights and civil liberties.
Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov has warned that IS is approaching the country's borders, raising the threat of "belligerent extremism and religious radicalism" in the region.
According to the estimates of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, about 500 Uzbekistan citizens, from a nation of just under 30 million, have joined militants in Syria and Iraq.
But other than some isolated attacks, the threat IS and other jihadist groups pose for Uzbekistan seems to be very limited. Their ideology does not appeal to almost the entire population of Central Asia, where Islam is very secular, a legacy of the atheistic Soviet past.
Many people know next to nothing about the Sunni-Shia split and this sectarian divide is largely absent there.
The growing number of mosques and increased observance of Islamic rituals are often mistakenly taken as signs of radicalisation.
But as John Heathershaw, associate professor at the University of Exeter, and David Montgomery from the University of Pittsburgh argue in a research paper published by the Chatham House think tank, Islamisation does not mean radicalisation and "there is little or no evidence of significant levels of Islamic extremism and political violence" in Central Asia.
Yet a whole campaign focusing on IS has been launched in Uzbekistan, clearly with permission, or perhaps a direct order, from the president's office.
Muslim clergy and government officials discuss the threat of terrorism and religious extremism on TV talk shows. Films and plays illustrate the evils of jihadism. Community leaders appeal to the youth not to join militant groups like IS.
This is all odd because Uzbekistan's government never acknowledges any problems it faces. "Uzbekistan is the state with a bright future" is its main propaganda slogan, so discussing social problems is a taboo.
Uzbekistan country profile
There are no films or plays depicting poverty in the country. There are no talk shows discussing corruption in state institutions. There are no community leaders who openly talk about the use of forced child labour.
So why did the government launch a whole campaign about IS?
It is simple. The government is creating in people's minds an image of the only possible alternative to the existing regime. After watching a video about IS fighters, one Uzbek citizen told me: "If our president leaves, then these crazy Islamists will come to power in Uzbekistan."
This threat from IS justifies tightened security measures. It allows the state to spy on citizens, make illegal arrests and use torture to crush any dissent. It also discourages citizens from challenging the government's actions.
Uzbek police have been increasingly raiding houses to question residents. In November, rights activists in Uzbekistan reported that more than 200 people had been arrested on suspicion of IS membership.
These arrests are not a new development, says Steve Swerdlow from Human Rights Watch. "There is a well-documented pattern of security services of Uzbekistan arresting largely peaceful independent Muslims and sentencing them to incredibly lengthy jail sentences without any evidence of wrongdoing."
What is new, Mr Swerdlow says, is the name of the group they are accused of belonging to - IS.
Indeed, the phrase "Islamic extremism" has been widely used in Uzbek propaganda before. But none of the organisations that appeared in the news until recently were as savage as IS.
And the bigger the danger in the eyes of the population, the easier it is to control them.
The threat of radical groups is not completely imaginary and some of those who were detained last month may indeed be connected to IS. But since Uzbekistan is so closed and does not allow any independent media or human rights organisations to assess the situation "we are left to make conclusions based on the overwhelming evidence of the past", says Mr Swerdlow.
Population 28.1 million
Area 447,400 sq km (172,700 sq miles)
Major languages Uzbek, Russian, Tajik
Major religion Islam
Life expectancy 66 years (men), 72 years (women)
Currency Uzbek som
However, why would the state arrest so many people under fake charges? It is unlikely that all these people were opposing the government, so they could hardly be dangerous for the regime.
Again, these mass arrests help to create fear. The government is trying to convince its people that those jihadists are posing an imminent threat, that they have reached the country's borders and even infiltrated society.
People may not be happy with their impoverished lives and the repressive state but when they believe that the alternative is IS, they accept the existing order. As a result, they do not protest against illegal arrests, rampant poverty or daily problems such as the absence of heating.
And this is exactly what authoritarian regimes want.
It is important to note that fear can corrupt not just authoritarian states but mature democracies too.
It creates an environment where it seems logical to abandon some democratic principles for the sake of national security. But as history shows, this method only creates more problems than solutions.
The 29-year-old, from Cardiff, was collecting the MBE she was awarded in the New Year Honours list.
Mills won gold at the Rio 2016 games with Saskia Clark in the women's 470 class.
She said Princess Anne asked her "if I had had any luck finding a new partner" following her crewmate's retirement.
Cyclists Laura and Jason Kenny and showjumping champion Nick Skelton were among the other sports stars to collect their accolades.
Mills said the ceremony was "nerve-wracking" but she got a warm reception.
Since Rio, she has changed boats and said: "This year is about learning as much as we possibly can - so for me a new boat is exciting, it means I'm upping my skill level - whatever boat I end up sailing I'll be a better sailor for it.
"It's just a new challenge and I'm loving it, and I think this first year if you can still be loving your sport and enjoying the training and excited to get fit and everything again then it's a good place to be because it's a long cycle - you can't expect everything to happen in year one."
MPs voted to give the Immigration Bill a second reading by a margin of 49, after Labour's bid to block it was rejected by 40 votes.
It proposes a new offence of illegal working and requires landlords to carry out checks on prospective tenants.
The plans now face detailed committee-stage scrutiny from MPs.
Home Secretary Theresa May said the measures embodied in the bill would mean "greater fairness to British citizens and legitimate migrants".
Its objective, she told MPs, was to protect those who "play by the rules".
But her Labour counterpart, Andy Burnham, branded the bill "unpleasant and insidious".
The shadow home secretary said it was "driven by a desire to generate headlines" and would do nothing to bring the government closer to its target of reducing net migration from more than 300,000 currently to the tens of thousands.
The debate came after Mrs May was criticised by business groups and political opponents for an uncompromising speech to Conservative Party conference in which she pledged to crack down on immigration, warning that high migration made a "cohesive society" impossible.
Under the Immigration Bill, people who work illegally in England and Wales would face up to six months in prison, and the police would be given the power to seize wages as the "proceeds of crime".
A Right to Rent scheme will require landlords to carry out checks on prospective tenants, such as seeing their passport or visa, to ascertain their immigration status.
Failing to do so would be a criminal offence leading to a fine or a jail sentence.
It would also become an offence for businesses and recruitment agencies to hire abroad without first advertising in the UK - a policy which featured prominently in Labour's election manifesto.
And it would introduce a duty on public authorities to ensure that public sector workers in public-facing roles can speak fluent English.
Opening the debate, Mrs May told MPs that the capacity to work illegally was one of the "pull factors" encouraging people to come to the UK, where they often ended up working in "depressing and dangerous conditions" and being exploited by organised criminal gangs.
Illegal working was affecting "reputable businesses", she added, by depressing pay and conditions in different industries and parts of the country.
She also defended plans to require landlords to check the immigration status of their tenants, saying they were not "expected to become immigration experts" but would be able to call a new helpline where they would be given a "very simple message" about what to do.
The legislation was welcomed on the Conservative benches with Damian Collins, the MP for Folkestone and Hythe, telling MPs that it was right to give enforcement agencies more powers and "those who have most to fear from the bill are the exploiters".
Labour supports certain aspects of the bill - including greater sanctions against employers of illegal immigrants and the English-speaking requirement - but opposes other measures, including new requirements on private landlords which Mr Burnham claimed would make the UK a "more hostile and unwelcoming country".
"Landlords are not border or immigration experts," he told MPs. "They are not trained in reading official paperwork...They are not experts in spotting forged documents. On what basis are we planning to outsource immigration control to them?"
He insisted that immigration had had a net positive impact on the British economy but there needed to be "rules that make immigration work for everyone" - including a new "rapid migration fund" - paid for out of EU structural funds - to ensure poorer areas of the country with disproportionately high levels of immigration had the ability to provide extra school places and GP appointments.
He also questioned why the government should be given "sweeping powers" to deport migrants and asylum seekers before they had the chance to appeal, saying it would prevent people "exercising their legitimate rights".
For the SNP, spokesman Stuart McDonald described the bill as "regressive, illiberal, ill-considered and inhumane" and said the party would be voting against it at second reading.
And Lib Dem spokesman Alistair Carmichael said there had been seven immigration bills in the last eight years and 45,000 changes to the immigration rules since Mrs May became home secretary in 2010, but decision making by border agencies did not seem to have improved.
"This immigration bill is not fit for purpose," he said. "With the refugee crisis showing no sign of slowing down, not one of the bill's 56 clauses looks at finding a solution or easing the pressure on Europe's borders."
The bill was given a second reading by 323 votes to 274, majority 49, meaning it can progress to the next stage. But there is still a long way to go before it becomes law.
There will be the committee stage in the Commons, where MPs undertake detailed scrutiny of the plans. The bill will then return to the Commons for MPs to consider any changes, Once that is completed the bill then goes to the House of Lords, where parts of it may face considerable opposition.
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They fall into three main areas:
It has come as a shock to many that the referendum result itself is not legally binding in UK law and it alone does not trigger the UK's departure from the EU.
That has to be done under the withdrawal process laid down in Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.
In other words, the referendum has changed nothing legally but everything politically.
Article 50 is the mechanism by which the UK will end its 40-year relationship with the EU.
Once notice is given by the prime minister, the clock starts ticking and there is a two-year time limit to negotiate an exit deal.
That time period can be extended only with the unanimous agreement of the remaining 27 member states.
If there is no extension, the UK ceases to be a member of the EU on the conclusion of an agreement within the two years, but in any event two years after notice has been given.
Article 50 says any EU member state can leave "in accordance with its own constitutional requirements".
That phrase has given lawyers pause for thought as to what is lawful under our constitution.
In a piece co-authored by three legal experts, for the UK Constitutional Law Association, it is argued that under our constitutional settlement, the prime minister cannot issue a notification under Article 50 without being given authority to do so by an act of Parliament.
The argument rests on the fact that without Parliament's backing any prime minister would be exercising what are known as prerogative powers.
These are a collection of executive powers held by the Crown since medieval times and now placed in the hands of ministers.
They are often used in foreign affairs Parliament has largely left to the government.
However, case law establishes these executive powers cannot trump an act of Parliament.
Legislation can only be altered by legislation.
And so, by extension, if a prime minister triggered Article 50 and so put the UK on a one-way road out of the EU without Parliament's backing, he or she would be overriding the 1972 European Communities Act, which provides for the UK's membership of the EU and for the EU treaties to have effect in domestic law.
The Article 50 process would cut across and emasculate the 1972 act, and so, the argument goes, the prime minister needs the backing of a new act of Parliament to give him or her the constitutional authority to push the Leave button.
Writing in the Times newspaper, the crossbench peer Lord Pannick QC, an eminent specialist in public law, said: "Whether Parliament would enact legislation to allow for an Article 50 withdrawal is a matter for it.
"However, without such legislation, the prime minister cannot lawfully give a notification."
Similar views have been expressed by Lord Lester QC and Sir Malcolm Jack, a former clerk to the House of Commons.
There is also an attempt to crowd-fund legal advice on the issue: "Should Parliament decide?"
The Crowd Justice website says a legal challenge could be "the most important public law case in living memory".
If it was decided that a prime minister acting alone under prerogative powers lacked the constitutional authority to trigger Article 50, an act of Parliament would need to be passed giving him or her that authority.
The passage of that act would of course provide the opportunity for MPs (a majority of whom favour Remain) to express their views on Brexit and in theory vote according to their consciences.
However, it seems constitutionally inconceivable that Parliament would fly in the face of the Leave vote secured through a national referendum and refuse to pass an act that gave the prime minister authority to begin the "divorce" process.
Scotland's first minister has raised the prospect of Scotland attempting to block a Brexit. Could it?
The short answer is: "No." But how could it try?
Nicola Sturgeon is referring to a parliamentary convention, known as the Sewel convention, that says the Westminster Parliament will not normally legislate - ie interfere - on devolved matters, without the consent of the devolved parliament.
The Scottish Parliament's powers are limited by EU law.
So, the argument would be that if Brexit legislation enacted by the UK removed those limits, it would free the Scottish Parliament to make laws that breached EU law.
That would be to alter its powers, and that triggers the need to get the Scottish Parliament's consent under the Sewel convention.
So, could the Scottish Parliament block Brexit by withholding consent?
The UK Parliament is sovereign.
Under devolution, it authorised devolved legislatures to make law in certain areas.
However, it retained the right to make any law it liked.
Consider also that Article 50 arguably does not need legislation and can be triggered by a prime minister using prerogative powers.
In other words, the two-year period could run its course without any agreement and thus any legislation by the UK Parliament.
That would mean the Scottish Parliament would have no legislation to withhold its consent from.
More significantly, the Scottish Parliament cannot block UK legislation on Brexit or any other issue.
It can withhold consent, but the UK Parliament can override that.
The petition calling for a second EU referendum has been signed by more than four million people.
It was, ironically, created by Leave supporter Oliver Healey, before the referendum, when a Leave victory looked unlikely, in an attempt to make things harder for Remain.
It called for a change in the referendum rules requiring a second vote if either side achieved less than 60% on a turnout of less than 75%.
Before the vote, it had 22 signatures.
The sovereignty of Parliament is a cornerstone of our constitution, so it is possible it could pass a law calling a second referendum.
However, although constitutionally possible, this is politically unthinkable.
It would take something akin to a revolution and full-blown constitutional crisis for it to happen.
If the petition grew to show a clear majority of the electorate now favoured Remain, that might be tantamount to the revolution and might possibly trigger the unthinkable.
But four million is a long way off that.
While lawyers may raise arguments, it seems impossible to see a legal challenge stopping the great democratic juggernaut now chuntering towards the EU's departure gate.
There are times when politics simply outstrips the law.
This feels like one of them.
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The film, about an alliance between gay rights campaigners and pit workers during the 1984 strike, collected three awards in total.
Andrew Scott and Imelda Staunton won the best supporting actor and actress prizes for their roles in the film.
Brendan Gleeson was named best actor for Calvary and Gugu Mbatha-Raw won best actress for Belle.
Accepting the top award of the night, Pride director Matthew Warchus said: "We're getting reports from up and down the country of audiences standing up and applauding. That doesn't really happen in British cinemas.
"It's just extraordinary. It's a real tribute to the source material."
Writer Stephen Beresford added that the film had one "simple, compelling message: unite".
"When I was first told the story I was blown away by it - people ask 'is that really true?'
"It took 20 years to convince anyone that a film about vegan lesbian activists was a sure-fire hit."
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Northern Ireland thriller '71 went into the awards with nine nominations but only picked up one prize on the night - best director for Yann Demange.
Frank Sidebottom-inspired film Frank won best screenplay for its writers Jon Ronson and Peter Straughan. It also picked up a second award for technical achievement, for its music.
Sameena Jabeen Ahmed was named most promising newcomer for her role in thriller Catch Me Daddy.
"Independent film allows subjects to be approached that are not massive crowd-pullers," Gleeson said, after winning his best actor trophy for Calvary.
"Fantastic films are made in the independent circuit. It's whether people want to pay for something that's going to challenge them," he added.
Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard won best debut director for Nick Cave film 20,000 Days on Earth and drama The Goob won best achievement in production.
The best documentary award went to sports film Next Goal Wins, while The Karman Line was named best short and the Raindance award went to fantasy drama Luna.
Richard Linklater's Boyhood won best international film. The director accepted the award, giving a "a big shout-out to my friends on table one".
He dedicated the award to If... and This Sporting Life director Lindsay Anderson.
Although he lost out on winning the best actor prize, Benedict Cumberbatch was awarded the Variety award for helping "focus the international spotlight on the UK".
The 38-year-old told the audience: "This award will inspire me to work harder, to make me feel like I deserve it - which won't be difficult, because I love my job."
Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson was presented with the Richard Harris award for outstanding contribution to British film.
Joking about being given the award by a body honouring independent film, the actress - whose career has included a role in the blockbuster Harry Potter franchise - confessed: "I have taken small roles in big studio films for money, and I am sorry."
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General Secretary Calum Steele said this was the "ridiculous yet brutal reality" of the "dire financial straits" Scotland's police force is in.
He also said the public was being "misled" about the reality of policing.
Police Scotland acknowledged "budget challenges" but said officers "did not routinely or regularly" make purchases from charity shops.
The federation, which represents many of Scotland's police officers, had previously warned that the force cannot take any more operational cuts.
In a post published on the SPF website, Mr Steele highlighted two alleged cases, including;
Mr Steele wrote: "General and criminal inquiries are passed from officer to officer to officer, grossly diminishing the care for victims and increasing the likelihood of mistakes being made, evidence being lost and greater costs and abstractions should the issue subsequently progress to court.
"Rural communities are seeing their police services diminished and access is very much a post code and bank account lottery. Let us not kid on that decisions to send policing responses are firstly judged on need when a budget built on cuts needs to be balanced.
"Cash is king and woe betide anyone who isn't playing their part in making cuts. Theorising on paper that the service will be improved by cutting is a fool's errand and the public is being misled over the policing realities of today. At a time when so much emphasis is being placed on the cost of policing, it's long overdue that we had a real conversation about its value."
Responding for Police Scotland, Deputy Chief Constable Rose Fitzpatrick said the force "acknowledges the current financial challenges" and was working to "develop sustainable solutions".
Responding to the specific allegations, she said: "Dog handlers do not automatically stop searching if they are going to occur overtime, they ask for authorisation to stay beyond their tour of duty if the search cannot be completed within rostered hours.
"Officers do not routinely or regularly purchase items from charity shops to support operational requirements. On this occasion an officer bought a sun shade - something we do not carry in stock - to protect the identity of a vulnerable witness, a highly commendable action by our officers."
She added: "The Scottish Police Federation rightly recognise there are budget challenges however, public confidence in policing remains strong and we look forward to working with everyone who has an interest in improving the service we provide to our local communities."
A spokeswoman for the Scottish government insisted that police budgets had been protected, noting that it was down to the force to decide the best way to use its budget.
She said: "The Scottish government is committed to protecting the police revenue budget in real terms for the entirety of this parliament, delivering an additional £100m of investment over the next five years, in addition to £55m of reform funding in 2016-17.
"Clearly, it is for SPA and Police Scotland to determine the best possible use of the budget according to national and local priorities."
She also criticised the Westminster government, claiming the Scottish Police Authority "remains the only police authority in the UK unable to recover VAT, which is liable to an annual cost of around £25m".
The Scottish Conservatives said the claims were "deeply worrying", with justice spokesman Douglas Ross calling on the government to look at them "very seriously".
He added: "I am certain that this is something the parliament's justice committee will want to examine.
"Our officers must feel valued for the work they do and have the freedom and equipment to ensure they can investigate crimes effectively. These comments suggest that is not the case and, if accurate, will be having a huge impact on officer morale."
During her first speech in post, Lucy Powell also told her party's conference in Brighton that academy chains would be made accountable.
Critics of free schools complain they are expensive and often not in the areas where school places are needed.
The government argues free schools are providing places where they are needed and that parents should have a choice.
Ms Powell accused the government of wilfully neglecting its "basic duties of providing a school place and teachers to teach".
She said it was "no wonder there's a crisis in school places when local authorities have neither the means or the resources to open or expand good schools. This, we will change," she added.
Local councils should be able to ensure there are sufficient places for children in their area as well as fair admissions, she said.
But the government's "fixation" with turning all schools into academies and its "political positioning" on free schools had meant the Tories had been failing to address the big challenges in education.
Ms Powell said she, and her team, would hold "the government to account on the areas where they are wholly failing".
She said teacher recruitment had been "botched", that teacher retention was "in freefall" and that teacher shortages were "dangerously high".
This was because ministers were "doing down the profession" and "ignoring the views of the workforce", she said.
"They are leaving in their droves and it's our children who are paying the price," she added.
There are 252 free schools open in England, with a further 52 set to open this term, out of a total of about 22,000 schools in the state sector.
The Conservatives have pledged to open 500 extra free schools by the end of this Parliament.
Nick Timothy, director of the New Schools Network which supports opening free schools, said: "Free schools are better placed to give parents what they want and drive up standards because they give more control to head teachers, teachers and governors, rather than politicians and bureaucrats.
"It is time to accept that free schools are here to stay and we hope Labour will support the creation of more of desperately needed schools."
A Conservative Party spokesman said Lucy Powell had "confirmed" the Labour Party "don't have a single idea about how to raise standards in our schools".
He added: "Rather than trusting heads and teachers to run their schools, Labour would return to the failed model of schools micromanaged by bureaucrats and politicians, undoing everything we've done to extend opportunity and give families security."
The statement added: "Our reforms have seen more 11-year-olds leaving school able to read, write and add up properly, a narrowing of the achievement gap between pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers and a million more pupils in good and outstanding schools."
The EarlyBird Project in Plymouth, which concluded this week, monitored 300 children for the disease over 12 years.
It recruited the healthy five-year-olds in 2000 and tested them twice a year by getting them to wear activity monitors, scanning their bones and taking blood samples.
Type 2 diabetes used to be considered a disease of middle and old age, but three of the youngsters who volunteered for the project have already developed the condition and researchers believe a further 55 are showing clinical signs of developing it.
Prof Terry Wilkin, director of the EarlyBird Diabetes Research Study, said: "We were aghast at the finding that 55 of these children have shown impaired fasting glucose, suggesting that today's children, contemporary children, are really at quite substantial risk."
The number of children developing the condition has rocketed in recent years, making it the fastest growing childhood disease. Left unchecked, one in five children born today will develop diabetes.
Georgina Mayhew, an EarlyBird volunteer, said: "Because my granddad has Type 2 diabetes I think that it is quite a big influence.
"If there's anything I could have done to help him possibly not get diabetes in the future then I'm going to do it. The data I'm providing will hopefully help other people."
The project found that the seeds of diabetes are sown very early in life, probably before children go to school.
It has also challenged some beliefs about exercise, suggesting that while it is vital for fitness, it does not prevent obesity, although being overweight does stop children from being active.
The study also suggests initiatives to get children playing sport will not make a difference unless they cut their calorie intake first.
While the project has officially finished, the collection of 4,000 blood samples from the EarlyBird children and their parents provide a unique archive.
Medical researchers in Britain and Switzerland are now using cutting edge science to unlock further secrets from the samples.
It is hoped that the knowledge gained will further improve the understanding of diabetes and help detect and prevent it in future.
Tracey Kennedy's employer Cordia argued that she could have decided not to go out in freezing conditions to visit a terminally ill client in December 2010.
But a judge ruled Cordia was obliged to identify and reduce reasonable risks.
Imminent legal changes will limit an employer's civil liability for health and safety breaches. This ruling gives workers protection under common law.
The Court of Session in Edinburgh heard how 43-year-old Ms Kennedy had gone out with another member of staff to visit a client in Crookston during severe weather in 18 December 2010.
While attempting to walk to the client's door she slipped on ice, which was below recent snow, and fell backwards injuring her wrist.
Ms Kennedy's legal team argued that under the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992, Cordia had a duty to ensure that suitable equipment was provided to staff if they could not control the risk of slipping on ice.
It was also put to the court that the Management of Heath and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 requires an employer to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to the health and safety of its employees.
Cordia, which is an arms-length care services firm of Glasgow City Council, argued that Ms Kennedy could have made the decision not to go out that night because conditions were too hazardous.
Judge Lord McEwan rejected this and accepted evidence that Ms Kennedy was providing an essential service to a vulnerable elderly client who might otherwise have spent the night sitting in a chair, in pain, without her medication.
The court found that a relatively cheap over-shoe attachment was available and being used by other local authorities and employers.
This would have provided grip when walking on ice and would have been effective in preventing the accident.
Lord McEwan said that the health and safety of people working in dangerous conditions in Scotland should be paramount, noting that "everyone has to live and work through winters" and that fundamentally "safety is to be levelled upwards".
The value of damages to be awarded to Ms Kennedy will be decided at a later date.
Following the judgement, Ms Kennedy's solicitor, Iona Brown, from Digby Brown Solicitors said: "The ruling has particular significance given the changes that are due to be introduced on 1 October by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013.
"The act removes civil liability for breach of various statutory health and safety regulations which until now impose liability on employers.
"By finding the defender liable under common law, employees in similar circumstances will continue to receive protection in the future."
The dead include women and children whose vehicles were swept away by a rush of water near the town of Hildale.
Three people were rescued. The floods followed heavy rains in the canyons just north of the town.
Hildale once served as a home base for polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, and there are concerns flood warnings may not reach members of the sect.
Three more bodies were found on Tuesday, bringing the death toll up from nine to 12.
One person remains missing in the floodwaters but three children believed missing did in fact survive.
The women and children were travelling in two vehicles when the flash flood hit, Hildale assistant fire chief Kevin Barlow said.
The National Weather Service had issued a flash flood warning earlier, leading nearby Zion National Park to close canyons as a precaution.
But members of Jeffs' sect, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), are discouraged from having contact with the outside world and may have not received the warnings.
The FLDS broke off from the official Mormon church when the main church denounced polygamy in the late 19th century .
In 2011, Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting underage girls whom he considered brides.
He is believed to have up to 70 wives, according to ABC News, which interviewed former members of FLDS in May.
However, the community is split between loyalists who still believe Jeffs is a victim of religious persecution and defectors who are embracing government efforts to pull the town into modern society.
Jones, 24, has never won the global title with her leading result a silver medal won in 2011.
The Welsh fighter is part of the Great Britain squad who will compete in Muju, South Korea (June 24-30).
"Korea is the nation of taekwondo and where it all started. "I want to tick this off my list," she told BBC Sport.
"I always love going to Korea with the respect and different culture."
Jones has claimed gold at the last two Olympics in London and Rio at her -57kg weight category but has yet to produce the same result in the world event.
Jones feels her failure to replicate her Olympic success in the World Championships is a mental issue that she can address.
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"The World Championships is the only one I have had a bit of trouble with and I haven't quite got there yet," she said.
"Every time I have lost, it has just been mentally. My main aim is to be mentally on it and not go in there thinking I have never won it before.
"I normally get gold so it's about doing what I normally do.
"Enjoy it, have a scrap and hopefully come away with the gold medal."
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Jones is not the only Welsh hope in South Korea with Blackwood teenager Lauren Williams competing in the -68kg category.
Williams, 18, is the European senior champion and Junior World Championships gold medallist and admitted she had been inspired by Jones' Olympics success at London 2012.
"Jade was the reason I started the sport," said Williams.
"Watching the Olympics was the first time I discovered the sport.
"To be training with her and basically living around Jade is amazing.
"To have that motivation every day, that's what drives me because I can see the work Jade has put in.
"I need to match that and perform at that level."
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Williams has already won two golds on the senior circuit this season, most recently at the President's Cup in Athens, and is targeting a world medal.
"It's a big time for me," said Williams.
"I am excited about seeing how the work I have put in will show on the world stage.
"I have not really fought girls from other continents so am looking forward to challenging myself against these players.
"Hopefully I will win a medal but it's about performing under pressure."
Jones is set for action on Thursday, 29 August and Friday, 30 August, while Williams is due to compete on Monday, 26 August and Tuesday, 27 August.
Bianca Walkden is hoping to defend her world title crown while Olympic silver medallist Lutalo Muhammad returns to international action for the first time since just missing out on gold at Rio 2016.
Nine fire engines were sent to Ladywood Road in Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield, at about 23:20 GMT on Sunday.
West Midlands Fire Service said the derelict property was destroyed but there were no reports of any injuries.
The cause of the blaze was being investigated and a structural engineer has been called out to assess the damage.
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The road is the location of some of the most expensive properties in the West Midlands with houses selling for millions of pounds.
Two fire engines were deployed from Sutton Coldfield and Perry Barr and one appliance was sent from Erdington, Aldridge, Ward End, Sheldon and Ladywood.
Crews from one or two fire engines were damping down from dawn.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is monitoring events after an attack by Islamist militants in Dhaka last week left 22 people dead.
England are scheduled to play two Tests and three one-day internationals in Bangladesh, the first on 7 October.
"It is quite a big concern at the moment," said Morgan, 29.
"We've always left the big decisions to the ECB. They write reports, send guys out to see if it's safe, then come back to the players to see if they're happy or unhappy.
"But certainly it's a concern."
Asked about the possibility of playing the series at a neutral venue, Morgan said it "could be feasible if that came to it".
Australia pulled out of a Test tour of Bangladesh in October 2015, citing an independent security assessment that found "a risk of terrorism" in the country targeting Australian nationals.
That followed the shooting of an Italian aid worker in Dhaka, an attack claimed by the so-called Islamic State group.
IS also claimed responsibility for last week's attacks, although the Bangladesh government has denied this.
In March 2009, gunmen in the Pakistani city Lahore attacked a bus carrying the Sri Lanka team, killing security staff and civilians, and injuring players and coaches.
The country was stripped of its co-host status for the 2011 World Cup, and since 2009, the only international cricket Pakistan has hosted against a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) was a limited-overs series against Zimbabwe in 2015.
Pakistan was also removed as host of the 2008 Champions Trophy after some teams expressed their fears over security.
On the face of it, this is hugely impressive. In the space of just five days, Jay-Z has landed the sixth biggest-selling album of the year.
His first-week sales are now expected to double those of Kendrick Lamar's Damn! - previously the year's fastest-selling album - which shifted 603,000 copies back in April.
The feat looks even more impressive because 4:44 is only available on Tidal, the streaming service Jay-Z owns.
But then Variety magazine noticed something odd: The photograph of Jay-Z receiving his platinum award was taken before the album was released.
How could the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) be so sure he'd pass the sales barrier?
Well, it turns out that Jay-Z had done a deal with mobile company Sprint (a major shareholder in Tidal), who gave away copies of the album to their subscribers.
Crucially, Sprint paid for each of those copies, making every "free" album eligible for a platinum award; and the RIAA says Jay-Z's label RocNation had to provide evidence that the downloads were in fact initiated by consumers.
But still - the RIAA rules state that the wholesale price of the album only needs to be $2 (£1.55) to register as a sale - so Sprint probably paid Jay-Z less than it would cost to air an advert during the Super Bowl (up to $3.8 million for 30 seconds).
It's almost certain that these downloads are what spurred Jay-Z's album to platinum status. To do it on streaming alone, the album's tracks would have had to be streamed 1.5 billion times, since 1,500 streams of a song count as one "sale" under current chart rules.
Given that Tidal has, at best, 3 million subscribers, each of them would have needed to listen to the album 500 times to push sales over the one million mark - an impossibility in just five days.
The album's performance in the UK - where the album is only available on Tidal - is instructive here. On Monday afternoon, when the Official Charts Company publishes its midweek sales flash, 4:44 hadn't been streamed enough times to make the Top 100.
(In the US, the free-but-paid-for downloads aren't chart eligible, so Jay-Z won't make a huge impact on the Billboard countdown, either).
So why go through this rigmarole? Well, the benefit to Jay-Z, in marketing terms, is huge. Music executives believe that gold and platinum awards have a bandwagon effect, leading to even-bigger sales.
And the RIAA has been accused of massaging the figures that count towards their awards before.
In 1994, for example, the music industry body claimed that the Lion King soundtrack had sold 7 million copies. SoundScan, which compiles the charts, contested the actual figure was 4.9 million. It turned out the RIAA had counted records that had been shipped to stores, but were still sitting on shelves and in warehouses (it also counts music distributed by non-retail record clubs, mail order houses, specialty stores and direct marketing sales).
So while you should take Jay-Z's figures with a pinch of marketing salt, it's also worth noting that 4:44 has been illegally downloaded almost a million times this week.
Fans are still eager to hear it, no matter how they're getting the music.
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Nick Alexander, 35, of Colchester, Essex, was killed at the Bataclan concert hall where he was selling merchandise.
The service was held at St Andrew's Church in Weeley, which he had attended since he was a child and last visited a few weeks before he died.
He was one of 130 people killed in the attacks on 13 November.
His parents Barry and Sheelagh Alexander led mourners at the funeral, along with their daughter Zoe Alexander.
The service included the song Across the Universe by The Beatles.
Reverend David Newman, who conducted the service, said the family has shown "considerable strength" and "great dignity".
"They have become very aware of the suffering of others especially those whose families are mourning those who died along with Nick," he said.
Updates on this story and more from Essex
Mr Alexander was selling T-shirts for the band Eagles of Death Metal when he was shot in the concert hall, where 89 people died. It was one of a series of co-ordinated attacks by gunmen across the city.
An inquest heard he died from gunshot wounds to his stomach and chest.
An online fundraising page for Mr Alexander's family has raised more than £70,000.
In a message posted on the page, his sister said the family were "truly overwhelmed" by the "unbelievable support" they have been shown from across the world.
"We knew Nick had a lot of friends and had touched a lot of lives but we had no idea quite how many," Ms Alexander said.
"To see donations from people who never met Nick but have been touched by his story alongside those from friends and colleagues in the music world is unbelievably touching and we cannot thank you enough for your kindness and support."
She said the family is setting up a charitable trust in her brother's name, with the money used to cover funeral costs and the remainder to be held in the trust.
The striker scored two stoppage-time goals, after Marcus Maddison had given the visitors the lead, to help Posh avoid a third consecutive League One defeat.
After an even start, Peterborough took the lead after 20 minutes when Maddison cut in from the right-hand side and curled the ball past Leonardo Fasan.
And it was the Vale keeper, making his debut after joining on loan from Celtic, who had kept the scores level a minute earlier, denying Maddison from the spot after Callum Guy fouled Tom Nichols.
Despite coming under heavy second-half pressure as the home side pressed for an equaliser, Morias made sure of victory in the first minute of stoppage time, burying the ball into the bottom corner.
And five minutes later, the 21-year-old Jamaican added gloss to the result when Maddison played him through following a Peterborough break and he slotted past Fasan.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Port Vale 0, Peterborough United 3.
Second Half ends, Port Vale 0, Peterborough United 3.
Goal! Port Vale 0, Peterborough United 3. Junior Morias (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Marcus Maddison.
Anton Forrester (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Martin Samuelsen (Peterborough United).
Goal! Port Vale 0, Peterborough United 2. Junior Morias (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Ben Purkiss.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Martin Samuelsen replaces Gwion Edwards.
Substitution, Port Vale. Anton Forrester replaces Anthony de Freitas.
Attempt missed. Chris Eagles (Port Vale) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Junior Morias replaces Craig Mackail-Smith.
Remie Streete (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Craig Mackail-Smith (Peterborough United).
Foul by Tyler Walker (Port Vale).
Jerome Binnom-Williams (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Danny Pugh (Port Vale) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Tom Nichols (Peterborough United) is shown the yellow card.
Tom Nichols (Peterborough United) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Danny Pugh (Port Vale) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt missed. Chris Eagles (Port Vale) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Craig Mackail-Smith (Peterborough United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Port Vale. Chris Eagles replaces Olamide Shodipo.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Jerome Binnom-Williams.
JJ Hooper (Port Vale) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Craig Mackail-Smith (Peterborough United).
Substitution, Port Vale. Danny Pugh replaces Callum Guy.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Scott Tanser.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Anthony Grant.
Olamide Shodipo (Port Vale) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United).
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Jerome Binnom-Williams.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Michael Smith.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Bradden Inman replaces Leonardo Da Silva Lopes.
Gwion Edwards (Peterborough United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Tyler Walker (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gwion Edwards (Peterborough United).
Leonardo Da Silva Lopes (Peterborough United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Scott Tanser (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Leonardo Da Silva Lopes (Peterborough United).
Hand ball by Jerome Binnom-Williams (Peterborough United).
The proposed changes were announced on Tuesday by Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould.
The law would clarify that someone cannot consent while unconscious, and expands "rape shield laws".
Many of the proposed changes had already been introduced by the courts, but had yet to be written into law.
"I am hopeful that the proposed changes to the sexual assault provisions will go a long way towards ensuring that complainants are treated with the compassion, dignity and respect they deserve," said Ms Wilson-Raybould in a statement.
The proposed laws were introduced as part of Bill C-51, which would also require the minister of justice to table a statement for each new government bill on how the bill would affect Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The bill is expected to pass given the Liberals have a majority in Parliament.
In 1992, Canada introduced "rape shield laws" that ban a complainant's sexual history or medical records from being used as evidence that she was likely to have consented to sex or that she was unreliable. The changes proposed on Tuesday would expand these laws to include sexual texts, emails, pictures and videos.
Similarly, in 2011 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that someone cannot consent to sex while unconscious. But this provision had not been written into the Criminal Code, and advocates say more clarity is needed.
The law would also specify that a complainant has the right to an attorney when the courts are deciding whether a complainant's sexual history is admissible or not.
Welsh Rugby Union chief executive Martyn Phillips has said the WRU will consider taking over the east Wales team if it fails to attract new funds.
"You can't be allowed to be mediocre and that is what has happened," said ex-Dragon Owen.
Owen has suggested the region could move to Pontypridd or north Wales.
Dragons' management have previously unveiled plans to establish themselves as an independent region - with the WRU relinquishing its 50% stake.
They have finished as the lowest-ranked Welsh region in eight out of 12 seasons in the Pro12 and have struggled to attract big-name signings and retain top Wales internationals.
Owen, who joined Dragons from Pontypridd in 2003 when Welsh rugby's old top-flight club structure made way for regions, told Scrum V Radio: "While investment is obviously vitally important, you need ideas and drive and determination as well.
"There hasn't been that driving force at the Dragons dragging it up by its bootlaces and making it a really special region and a vibrant place, which it has the potential to be.
"This is a long time coming. What incentive has there been for the Dragons to get better?
"Maybe someone would be willing to invest in a region elsewhere, like in Pontypridd or north Wales or something like that.
"If that is the case, they should take the region there, rather than try and force it to work somewhere it isn't working and have it like a franchise system."
Owen also cited the examples of Irish province Connacht, who won the Pro12 in 2015-16, and Scottish team Glasgow Warriors, who are highly regarded throughout Europe.
"Look at Connacht and Glasgow and where they were five years ago," said Owen.
"But they have had people there driving them forward.
"The Dragons have that potential, but they have no divine right to stay there, accepting mediocrity.
"The whole point of professional rugby is to aim for the stars."
Another former Dragon Luke Charteris feels the region needs to remain in Gwent, however.
The Wales and Bath lock said: "Someone needs to come in and if they can't get a new investor then I think it is imperative the WRU do step in.
"What you can't afford is to lose the Dragons. They are one of the original regions and this is a strong region for rugby.
"The Dragons still have the youngsters coming through. They always have, so you have to have that that team for them.
"If the WRU took them over, perhaps the chance for those youngsters would even increase."
A man, aged 52, and woman, 50, were held on suspicion of human trafficking for labour exploitation following a dawn raid by Kent Police in Maidstone.
It is claimed the men were threatened with violence and forced to live in squalid conditions while working as chicken catchers for the food industry.
Police say a total of 32 workers could be at risk from exploitation.
Friday morning's raid on the offices of a licensed gangmaster followed a multi-agency investigation.
Liam Vernon, from the UK Human Trafficking Centre (UKHTC) at the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), said: "We suspect the people arrested today were involved in the trafficking of Lithuanian men into the United Kingdom for exploitation within the food industry.
"It's alleged that the men, who will now receive specialist care and support from Soca's vulnerable persons team and the Salvation Army, were subjected to slave-like conditions and controlled through the use of violence."
Chicken catchers are employed to grab several of the animals at a time and take them to their desired destination, as they cannot be herded.
Det Insp Keith Roberts said the migrant workers were reportedly forced to work in an environment giving little or no regard to their safety or well-being.
The men also spent hours being transported around the country in minibuses without pay, it is further alleged.
The Gangmasters' Licensing Authority (GLA) said it was determined to drive out those who abused and exploited vulnerable workers.
Chief executive Ian Livsey said: "There is no hiding place for those who exploit the vulnerable, and neither we nor our partner law enforcement agencies will tolerate abuse of the vulnerable worker."
Bank of England staff have been showing the new currency to members of the public at Gateshead MetroCentre.
Retailers have also been given advice on how to identify genuine examples.
The redesigned note, which features an image of Winston Churchill, is harder to counterfeit than current ones, which will remain legal tender until May.
Made of polymer produced in Wigton, Cumbria, it is 15% smaller, but also stronger.
The bank's chief cashier, Victoria Cleland, said: "Bank notes are really important, everyone in the country uses them.
"The key driver is to make sure we keep up with modern technology.
"So although the Bank of England has been producing paper bank notes for 322 years, we're about to move to a new polymer one.
"We believe this gives the best level of security features to make it very difficult to counterfeit.
"Also it stays a lot cleaner and more durable, so no more tatty fivers in your pocket."
It is another step towards Pendleton's aim of racing in the Foxhunter Chase at the Cheltenham Festival.
Pendleton, made her debut on a racecourse in a charity event at Newbury last month.
The 34-year-old only started training as a jockey earlier this year.
"There's still a long way to go to achieve the ambitious goal of riding in the Foxhunter Chase," said Britain's most successful female Olympian.
"I'm more than happy with my progress so far."
Pendleton won sprint gold at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and then won the keirin title in London four years later.
In the clash, Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood rejected "arbitrary deadlines" to cut the budget deficit, but said it should fall from £90bn to £30bn by 2020.
She argued Wales should receive an additional £1.2bn in annual funding, to bring spending into line with Scotland.
UKIP's Nigel Farage pledged to re-draw the Barnett formula that distributes cash to the devolved governments.
"The Welsh negotiated a very bad deal in 1978 and the canny Scots negotiated a very good deal," he said.
Labour leader Ed Miliband rounded on Conservative leader Prime Minister David Cameron over tackling the deficit.
"Cuts will have to come, but we can do it in a balanced way," he promised.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg accused his former coalition partner of wanting to cause "chaos" with big spending cuts.
During exchanges on the health service, Mr Cameron said: "There's only one group of politicians that have cut the NHS, Labour in Wales."
Mr Farage attracted criticism from Plaid's leader when he highlighted the number of foreign nationals with HIV who he said were treated by the NHS, saying: "We have to look after our own people first."
Ms Wood said Mr Farage "ought to be ashamed of himself" for deploying "scaremongering rhetoric".
Green Party leader Natalie Bennett began the debate with an anti-austerity message, saying there was an "alternative" to making the poor pay for the mistakes of bankers.
SNP leader and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon had a message of "friendship" for the rest of the UK, saying the SNP will work with other "parties of like mind" to end the "bedroom tax" and protect the NHS.
After the debate, Labour's shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith said the general election was a "two horse race" and claimed Mr Miliband had "edged further ahead".
Praising Mr Cameron for giving Wales a "clear choice", Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said the prime minister had cut taxes for more than a million people and "delivered record investment for Wales".
For Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams, Mr Clegg's "strong performance" showed the Lib Dems were the only way to "keep the economy on track and ensure public services receive the funding they need".
UKIP Wales leader Nathan Gill said Mr Farage appeared "honest" and as a man with a "credible plan who believes in Britain".
A Plaid Cymru spokesman said Ms Wood proved herself the "principled" and "authentic voice of Wales" during the two-hour debate.
Polls after the debate gave a mixed verdict:
It is being looked at by an assembly committee and would bring the Senedd in line with the House of Commons.
Petitions at Westminster of more than 100,000 names are automatically considered for debate but the figure is expected to be lower in Wales.
Supporters said the move would enhance democracy and liven up the chamber.
A threshold for the number of signatures required is yet to be agreed by the assembly's petitions committee, which is expected to make a recommendation in three weeks.
The proposal has the support of all four members of the cross-party committee.
Plaid AM Neil McEvoy, who is a member of the committee, said: "I think it's a great idea.
"The assembly already has a petitions committee but anything we can do to make sure this government has to face up to the consequences of its decisions is very welcome.
"A new route to the floor of the Senedd for voters can only enhance our democracy."
An assembly report in February had recommended the committee brings in an automatic system where petitions are considered for debate after a certain number of people have signed it.
The report suggested a threshold of 10,000, saying a much lower figure than 100,000 was required "to reflect the smaller population of Wales".
But one source suggested that the threshold could be closer to 5,000.
Westminster debates that have resulted from petitions have included calls for Donald Trump, the US Republican presidential nominee, to be barred from travelling to the UK.
UKIP AM Gareth Bennett said plenary - the formal term used to describe debates and other sessions in the Senedd - "needs a bit of livening up".
"We already seem to be debating a lot of the same things even though we have been here for five months," Mr Bennett, who is also a committee member, said.
The Conservative representative, Janet Finch-Saunders, said it was an "exciting addition that could invigorate the process".
Chairman of the committee, Labour's Mike Hedges, added: "It is a proposal that I personally support in principle.
"The committee is looking at how feasible it is and what number of signatures it should be."
Currently the committee considers petitions of ten or more names. Petitions cannot ask the assembly to do anything which is not within its power.
AMs on the committee have a range of actions at their disposal, including seeking information from the Welsh Government and carry out inquiries.
The assembly's business committee of senior AMs will make the final decision on whether to go ahead with the plan.
Scientists have long recognised that cannibals operated at Gough’s Cave in Somerset, but were unsure whether the practice of eating other people had any symbolic significance.
Reporting in the journal Plos One, researchers say the unusual cuts on a forearm bone are deliberate.
They are not simple butchery markings.
Nor are they teeth marks.
What is more, the zig-zags appear to match designs used on other engraved objects from the same time period.
"The engraved motif on the Gough's Cave bone is similar to engravings observed in other Magdalenian European sites," said Silvia Bello from London’s Natural History Museum.
"However, what is exceptional in this case is the choice of raw material (human bone) and the cannibalistic context in which it was produced.
"The sequence of modifications performed on this bone suggests that the engraving was a purposeful component of the cannibalistic practice, rich in symbolic connotations.
"Although in previous analyses we have been able to suggest that cannibalism at Gough's Cave was practiced as a symbolic ritual, this study provides the strongest evidence for this yet."
Gough's Cave is situated in the Cheddar Gorge, a deep limestone canyon on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills.
Palaeo-investigations first started there more than 100 years ago. It is famous for the discovery in 1903 of "Cheddar Man", the complete skeleton of a male individual dating to about 10,000 years ago.
In 2011, Dr Bello and colleagues presented three skull cases that they said could have been used as drinking vessels.
The braincases had been fashioned in such a meticulous way that their use as bowls to hold liquid seemed the only reasonable explanation.
That interpretation looks even more likely now given the latest research.
The forearm comprises two large bones - the radius and the ulna. In this case, it is a radial bone that the scientists have been studying.
It shows signs of being disarticulated, filleted and chewed - but the zig-zags look nothing like the damage you would expect from these actions.
Mark Strachan, 55, was found guilty by majority verdict after a 10-day trial at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.
Strachan had denied falsely claiming travel allowances and mileage fees on 341 instances between March 2006 and November 2010.
Sentence was deferred until 14 March for reports and Strachan was bailed.
The court heard that Strachan had homes in Aberdeenshire, West Lothian and Edinburgh.
When he was in Aberdeen on business, he would sometimes see a number of people on the same day.
He then charged the board the full fee of £100 travel allowance and £108.80 mileage for a 272-mile return journey to the central belt, at 40p a mile, for each person he saw.
He was entitled to claim only one travel and mileage allowance.
The Crown held that Strachan was not making the return journey to Linlithgow or Edinburgh every trip, as he claimed, but was staying with his wife, Elaine, at their home in Old Leslie, 30 miles from Aberdeen. This was denied by Strachan and her.
Strachan's defence counsel, Brian McConnachie QC, had told the jury his client was no longer practising as an advocate, but was studying for a degree in oil and gas law at Aberdeen University.
Fiscal Depute, Keith O'Mahony, told Sheriff Kenneth Maciver that Strachan had no previous convictions.
He added that the Faculty of Advocates' financial section had repaid £4,509, but nothing more had been received by the board since September 2011.
The Crown, he said, was seeking a confiscation order under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
The sheriff told Strachan it had been a serious and significant fraud.
He added: "The court has to consider not only the scale and nature of the crime, but also the issue of a breach of trust, because as an advocate you are in a special position".
The sheriff warned Strachan: "You must prepare yourself for the possibility the court may require custody."
More than 170 students are putting work on display at the university across the weekend.
One project offers a first-person perspective of the "confusing" and "unsettling" onset of dementia.
Other submissions include a challenge-free meditation game, and one drawing on American military research.
The annual collection of work from final-year students at the university regularly showcases new approaches to games and digital art.
Alexander Tarvet was keen to use his project, titled "Forget-Me-Knot", to raise awareness about the impact of memory loss for people who have Alzheimer's, on the patient themselves and their family.
He said: "Computer games are one of the greatest ways to let people safely explore a situation they've never experienced, as you're creating a whole new world to explore. Many games deal with fantasy and fiction, but I wanted to look at something much more serious.
"Alzheimer's disease is a devastating condition for everyone affected and their loved ones, and through playing Forget-Me-Knot the player gets an immediate sense of the confusion the character feels.
"They're in their living room, which should be a safe and comforting space, but it has become hostile and unsettling as they've lost memories of the personal objects all around the room.
"The player is in exactly the same position as the person with Alzheimer's - both have to explore the room and try and piece together an understanding of photos and letters through clues left on shelves and in drawers."
Another project on display attempts to recreate the experience of meditation through a game.
Amy Stevens developed Presence as a game where players could lose themselves in a calm, serene world without any need to complete challenges or finish levels.
She said: "While the complexity and challenge that a lot of games have is really fun, there are times when this can be a barrier to just escaping into the story or world, especially when you're feeling stressed and don't want any frustration.
"I'm trying to create a feeling that's similar to meditation, where focusing so much on the present moment makes worries and stresses drift away. I think there's a similarity between this feeling and the way a player gets immersed in a game, even if they might not recognise it.
"I think games have huge potential as an art form and we've only just scratched the surface of what's possible."
Computer Arts student Jess Hider based her game on the work of the US Air Force's chief scientist, in a bid to create more believable animations.
She used military research into "situational awareness" to start developing animated characters who respond more believably to the environment they are in.
She said: "At the start of the year, I was playing many games trying to work out what I wanted to do for my dissertation and during this time I realised that in most games I had played, the character was great at reacting to the physical environment, but barely reacted to the tone of their surroundings.
"This bothered me, as I found it most noticeable in areas where the rest of the environment was clearly emitting a specific atmosphere.
"If the lighting, textures and sound are creating a certain atmosphere, why can't character animations be aligned with this?"
The Abertay Digital Graduate Show is open from 16:00 to 20:00 on Friday, between 12:00 and 16:00 on Saturday and Sunday, and between 09:00 and 12:00 on Monday.
At 03:30 GMT in Crossmaglen on Sunday, a police vehicle was rammed by a van and two officers were hurt.
At 05:00 GMT, police officers in two other vehicles who had been called to investigate the first incident, were rammed by a car at Dundalk Road.
Four officers were injured in that attack.
PSNI Sergeant Sam Hoey said: "We now have six officers, who were out working to keep the people of south Armagh safe, off work with their injuries and three police vehicles off the road."
Police have appealed for information.
It says Mr Kabore, a former prime minister, secured 53.5% of the vote on Sunday.
It was the first election since last year's popular uprising which toppled longstanding President Blaise Compaore.
The vote was due to have been held last month but was delayed by a failed coup in September led by members of the elite presidential guard.
Mr Compaore, 64, is now living in exile in neighbouring Ivory Coast.
The Independent National Electoral Commission says Mr Kabore, 58, won the elections outright, and there is no need to hold a second round.
It says his main rival, former Economy and Finance Minister Zephirin Diabre, gained 21.6% of the vote.
Mr Diabre has already congratulated Mr Kabore, according to the AFP news agency.
Mr Kabore served as chairman of the Congress for Democracy and Progress party (CDP) before leaving it in 2014, after opposing plans to extend Mr Compaore's rule.
On Sunday, long queues were reported outside many polling stations.
Security was also raised, with up to 25,000 troops and police deployed across the country and foreign observers oversaw the poll.
The election was meant to mark the end of the transitional period following Mr Compaore's removal.
Mr Compaore was forced from office by street protests in October 2014 over his plans to serve another five-year term. He had been in power for 27 years.
A transitional government was installed but the country was thrown into turmoil again in September when members of the elite presidential guard led a short-lived coup. The attempt failed and the guard was disbanded.
With its forest-clad mountains, famous long beaches and diverse communities living cheek-by-jowl, there has probably never been a more stunning backdrop for an Olympic Games.
Those who backed its bid for the 2016 Olympics against much more "established" and "stable" venues in the northern hemisphere say Rio is now a city transformed.
A city that had almost been in a state of decay, since it lost its status as capital of Brazil in 1960, has been reborn and rediscovered its pride.
Cheerleader-in-chief for Rio is its charismatic and controversial mayor, Eduardo Paes.
I've met him many times over the last three years and have always been struck by his ability to defend the sometimes questionable decisions made in putting on the 2016 Olympic Games.
Mr Paes' strongest argument is that much of the regeneration in areas like Rio's old port zone would simply not have happened had it not been for the impetus of the Olympics.
New museums, urban light rail and sports venues have appeared in recent years. The odd project has missed the Olympic deadline but in time-honoured Brazilian fashion, most work is being finished before Friday's opening ceremony and the arrival of more than half a million tourists.
Indeed, in those areas where tourists congregate there is a palpable sense of anticipation that the Games are almost upon us.
Concerns about Rio's extraordinarily high levels of crime are allayed by the presence of 85,000 soldiers and police on the streets.
The new metro line linking the hotel zone to the main Olympic Park has just been inaugurated and, for the duration of the Games, will only be used by Olympic officials, journalists and those with tickets for the events.
It's been tight but all is just about coming together - at least for the competitors, visitors and the press.
But what about the locals?
It's an almost criminal abrogation of responsibility, say many critics including Christopher Gaffney, now a professor of urban planning at Zurich University but a long-time student of and specialist on big projects in Brazil.
"It's going to be a party, just like the World Cup was, and people will say they pulled it off," Prof Gaffney tells me.
"Millions of the city's residents live in favelas that have had no improvement, so when we see the equivalent of $15bn (£11.3bn) being spent on the Olympics, that money should have been directed to attend the basic needs of the citizens of Rio."
Rio 2016 organisers and supporters, like Mr Paes, are quick to counter. Their strongest defence is that Rio has spent much less public money than either London or Beijing to put on the Games.
There has, instead, been a heavier reliance on private spending by big construction firms that stand to make substantial profits from Olympic spaces and buildings once the Games are over.
Olympic officials often say the International Olympic Committee (IOC) should not be compared to Fifa, the governing body of world football.
Fifa walked away from Brazil with a reported $4bn profit from the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, accused of leaving little behind in tangible benefits.
With the Olympics, there is a clear social dividend, say officials like Tania Braga, the Head of Legacy and Sustainability at Rio 2016.
"In the Deodoro area (where some Olympic events are located), they now get access to basic sanitation, clean water and better public transport - many things that these poorer areas didn't have before the Games," says Ms Braga.
There probably isn't an Olympic city that, somewhere along the line, hasn't come up short in delivering some of the lofty commitments it made during the bid process.
But in some areas Rio has failed miserably.
Guanabara Bay is the huge, wineglass-shaped lagoon around which this "marvellous city" is built. Tales, some from not that many years ago, talk of its abundant marine life and stunning scenery.
Today the Bay is a stinking mass of sewage, household rubbish and industrial pollutants.
Treating 80% of the sewage that enters the bay, from the favelas, towns and industries that feed into its many tributaries, was a key Rio pledge when it won the right to host the Games.
Brazil, a technologically gifted nation, certainly had the expertise and finances to meet the challenge.
The impetus was there too because surely Rio wouldn't allow hundreds of the world's top Olympic yachtsmen and women to compete in its mucky, stinking waters?
City and state officials admit that they have failed to keep this key promise. They claim to be treating about 50% of the sewage, whereas several scientists who monitor the water quality daily say the real figure is about 20%.
Corruption, a worsening economic situation and poor political leadership mean the waters are still teeming with sewage, bacteria and viruses harmful to humans.
It's a travesty that could have an impact on Olympic sailors in coming weeks but, more importantly, on the city's residents for years to come.
While the failure to clean Guanabara Bay is an embarrassment to Rio's politicians, whose responsibility it remains, the IOC and Rio 2016 organisers say their obligations have been met and the Games are ready.
Maybe, as a fellow correspondent says, we should "cut Brazil some slack". After all, the sporting venues are complete and while many of the country's problems will remain after the visitors have gone, Brazilians love sport and they love a party.
And, despite everything, for the second time in two years, Brazil is hoping to show the world it can successfully stage a global sporting mega-event.
Michael Coe, 35, saw the two 16-year-olds hugging in east London and demanded to know if they were Muslims.
Southwark Crown Court heard the Muslim convert then called the girl a "whore", before throwing the boy to the ground.
Coe, who left the boy unconscious and bleeding after he kicked his head, was found guilty of assault and battery.
The married father-of-two had previously admitted "shoving" the boy, who is half his size, but said he was acting in self defence.
The attack happened on 15 April as Coe was driving along Wilson Road in Newham.
The court heard that passing schoolteacher Boutho Siwela tried to come to the teenager's aid, but Coe then attacked him as well.
Judge Michael Gledhill described Coe as a danger to the public and said he would face a "substantial" term of imprisonment when he is sentenced on 21 September.
The court heard that Coe was convicted of a similar offence in May 2013 when he confronted teenagers about their "inappropriate language".
He also has a long record of violent offences starting when he was 16, including assaults, burglary, robbery and violent disorder.
While serving an eight-year term in 2007 for firing a shotgun at police during an arrest, he was radicalised in prison by Al-Qaeda terrorist Dhiren Barot.
Coe, since known as Mikaeel Ibrahim, became a close associate of Choudary when he joined the banned organisation Al-Muhajiroun.
In November 2014, he was jailed for 15 months after being found in a lorry with false ID documents in Dover, Kent.
Coe was accused of plotting to travel to Syria to join IS but was acquitted of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts.
Brooklands Museum said the displays on Sunday and 27 September had been cancelled as a result of "enhanced risk assessments" carried out by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
The CAA had concerns the displays were to he held over a "particularly congested area", Brooklands said.
The museum said people's safety was "paramount".
A Hawker Hunter jet crashed on the A27 at Shoreham on 22 August, killing 11 people.
Following the crash the CAA brought in new controls over air displays.
Allan Winn, director of the aviation and motor museum, said: "The CAA has identified Brooklands as being situated in a particularly congested area, and we will be discussing options for future flying displays here with them as soon as possible."
"The safety of both people - whether they be our neighbours, display pilots or our own visitors, staff and volunteers - and property must be paramount in considering such issues."
The air displays were to have included a Spitfire, Tiger Moth and a biplane with a wing walker, the museum said.
Brooklands, near Weybridge, houses old aircraft including Wellington bombers, Sopwiths and Hurricanes.
A spokesman for the museum said other activities at the Brooklands Aviation Day and Great War 100 events over the next two weekends would go ahead as planned.
"We fully understand the increased caution being shown by the CAA," Mr Winn said.
The home side dominated possession at Anfield and took the lead when Christian Benteke headed in James Milner's cross from the right.
But with four minutes left, Mane bundled in when Gaston Ramirez's header across goal was palmed by keeper Simon Mignolet into the body of the forward.
Mane was then sent off in stoppage time after picking up two late yellows.
The draw moves the Saints up to eighth, with Liverpool up to ninth and level on 14 points.
Relive the action from Anfield
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Played three, drawn three. Klopp has laid the foundations of how he wants his side to play, but does he have right equipment to emulate his achievements at Borussia Dortmund?
The Reds have appeared to become, in such a short space of time, a team that is hard to defeat.
The energy spent by the hunting packs in closing down space when Southampton had the ball was impressive. Known as a form of gegenpressing - immediate closing down of counter-attacks - the Reds enjoyed over 60% possession and limited the Saints to just three efforts on target.
But on the flip side Klopp does not appear to have the necessary attacking players to make that possession count in the opposition's third.
Liverpool barely threatened as an attacking force and prior to Benteke's goal they managed just one effort on target.
How Liverpool could do with forwards like Mane and Graziano Pelle, who now have 13 goals between them in all competitions this season.
Klopp - his options limited by injuries to Danny Ings and Daniel Sturridge - opted to start with Divock Origi as his lone frontman. After a poor display, it is now three matches and no goals for the Belgium international under Klopp.
The disparity in performance between the Reds forward, who was replaced by Benteke at half-time, and Pelle was stark.
The Saints frontman was the busier of the two despite his side having less possession than the opposition, while Origi managed 10 touches in his 45 minutes - the fewest of any player on the field.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp:
"Of course this moment is not the best moment in the week because we wasted a lot of energy.
"Southampton haven't lost away from home so we had to work hard. You score the goal and you want to win, but it didn't happen tonight.
"Football is not a fairytale. Sometimes we write stories like this but it doesn't happen. You see these guys can play football, are technically strong and physically strong but you saw how big the disappointment was.
"It's only a goal, only a game of football. It's like it's the last thing in your life and we have to calm this down."
Read more of Klopp's thoughts on the game
Southampton manager Ronald Koeman on BBC Sport:
"We deserved at least one point but honestly it was not our best performance but we had a good reaction after going down to a great goal from Benteke.
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"Our defensive organisation is good, it is difficult to create chances against us.
"Teams like Liverpool, if they have a change in management, there is always a change in expectation. I know that, I have played for big teams and I know the expectation on the manager of Liverpool is always bigger than that of Southampton."
Liverpool have a League Cup encounter against Bournemouth midweek before they travel to Chelsea, with Jose Mourinho's side in turmoil. The Saints on the other hand face Aston Villa, who are without a manager, in the cup and then host the Cherries next week in the battle of the south coast.
Match ends, Liverpool 1, Southampton 1.
Second Half ends, Liverpool 1, Southampton 1.
Second yellow card to Sadio Mané (Southampton) for a bad foul.
Alberto Moreno (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Sadio Mané (Southampton).
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Cédric Soares.
Sadio Mané (Southampton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sadio Mané (Southampton).
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Cédric Soares.
Mamadou Sakho (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Graziano Pellè (Southampton).
Goal! Liverpool 1, Southampton 1. Sadio Mané (Southampton) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Gastón Ramírez with a headed pass following a set piece situation.
James Milner (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by James Milner (Liverpool).
Ryan Bertrand (Southampton) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Martin Skrtel (Liverpool).
Victor Wanyama (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Cédric Soares.
Substitution, Liverpool. Jordon Ibe replaces Philippe Coutinho.
James Milner (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sadio Mané (Southampton).
Attempt missed. Sadio Mané (Southampton) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is too high. Assisted by Cédric Soares.
Substitution, Southampton. Gastón Ramírez replaces Steven Davis.
Foul by Roberto Firmino (Liverpool).
James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Liverpool. Lucas Leiva tries a through ball, but Philippe Coutinho is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Graziano Pellè (Southampton) header from the left side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Steven Davis with a cross.
Goal! Liverpool 1, Southampton 0. Christian Benteke (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by James Milner with a cross.
Attempt missed. Graziano Pellè (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Cédric Soares with a cross.
Substitution, Southampton. Juanmi replaces Jordy Clasie.
Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jordy Clasie (Southampton).
Attempt missed. Emre Can (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Jordy Clasie.
Attempt missed. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by James Milner.
Substitution, Liverpool. Roberto Firmino replaces Adam Lallana.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Adam Lallana.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Nathaniel Clyne.
Substitution, Southampton. James Ward-Prowse replaces Dusan Tadic.
Miami Football Club will play in the North American Soccer League - the second tier, below Major League Soccer.
Maldini, 46, will be the co-owner of the side that will provide competition for Beckham, who hopes to enter a Miami team into the MLS in future.
However, Beckham suffered a setback when plans to build a new 25,000-capacity stadium were rejected in 2014.
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Beckham and Maldini briefly played together at AC Milan in 2009.
Television rights entrepreneur Riccardo Silva is also a co-owner of Miami FC, with the project backed by a group of international investors.
A statement said the club would play in "one of the existing world-class stadiums of Miami".
Maldini - who won the European Cup five times during a 24-year career with Milan - added: "I strongly believe in the growth of soccer in USA, and this is the perfect project to develop a top-class soccer team in one of the most important cities of the world.
"Miami has been my second home for 15 years, so I look forward to spending more and more time here.''
Maldini won 126 caps for Italy and reached the final of the World Cup in 1994 which was played in the United States
Beckham, 40, played for MLS side LA Galaxy from 2007 to 2012 and in February 2014 announced he was starting a new Miami-based franchise to play in the MLS.
But plans to build a new stadium on a city waterfront next to a basketball arena were rejected.
In February, Beckham remained confident of his project succeeding. He said: "Delays are frustrating but we will get it right and it will happen."
Poppy Widdison collapsed at her home in Grimsby and died in hospital from a cardiac arrest in June 2013.
Her mother Michala Pyke, 38, and her former partner John Rytting, 40, were found guilty of child cruelty, last month.
The pair were also jailed for supplying drugs.
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Passing sentence, Judge Jeremy Richardson QC said the defendants "existed in a swamp of drug addiction and drug peddling" and Poppy was "plunged into mire of drugs".
"The life of Poppy can only be characterised as tragic from the moment she was conceived," he added.
The jury at Hull Crown Court heard Pyke, of Ladysmith Road, and Rytting, of Frederick Street, encouraged the girl to eat sedatives because they felt she was an inconvenience to their relationship.
Text messages between the pair talked about Poppy having a "blue Smartie" - believed to be a reference to diazepam, and going to sleep, the court heard.
A post-mortem examination could not establish a cause of death, but toxicology tests found she had ingested significant amounts of heroin and methadone for a period of between two and six months before her death.
In a statement, Poppy's father Brendan Widdison said his daughter loved playing with animals and was "everything to us".
"Her bedroom remains untouched just as she left it with all her toys from her birthday that she never got chance to play with," he said.
"I agree that there was failings at different times in Poppy's life but none of this resulted in her death. This was down to two people [and their] despicable acts of unbelievable vileness."
A serious case review into Poppy's death found agencies missed several chances to protect her.
The review found council services did not know the extent to which "she was exposed to risk and harm" daily.
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The charity saw lifeboats at its 30 stations across Wales launch 1,175 times in 2016, an 11% rise on the previous year.
Mumbles RNLI in Swansea was the busiest station for the second year running, with 83 launches.
RNLI lifeguards also had a busy year, responding to 1,271 incidents across 39 patrolled beaches.
Matt Crofts, RNLI lifesaving manager, said the charity was "extremely grateful for the dedication show by its lifesavers" who spent almost 28,000 hours at sea last year.
"But we really do see our rescue service as a last resort," he said.
The 2016 Wales figures also showed:
The latest figures came as the charity celebrated the official opening of a new visitor centre in Vale of Glamorgan.
The Barry Island venue claims to be the first of its kind in the UK, focusing on drowning prevention.
The RNLI hopes to help teach 30,000 visitors a year about water safety, using bespoke interactive exhibitions.
It is part of the charity's bid to cut drowning deaths in Britain by 50% by 2024.
Speeding this process up - without compromising on safety or efficacy - would seem to be in everyone's interests.
And cloud computing is helping to do just that.
"Cloud platforms are globally accessible and easily available," says Kevin Julian, managing director at Accenture Life Sciences, Accelerated R&D Services division.
"This allows for real-time collection of data from around the world, providing better access to data from inside life sciences companies, as well as from the many partners they work with in the drug development process."
Clinical trials - testing how a new drug works on people once you've tested it on animals - are a crucial part of this process. But they can be very complex to organise and run.
There are three main phases, starting with a small group of healthy volunteers, then widening out to larger groups who would benefit from the drug.
"A big phase three trial will cost anything from $30m-$60m (£24m-£48m) for a pharma company," says Steve Rosenberg, general manager of Oracle Health Sciences Global Business Unit.
These trials may be conducted over 30 to 50 countries and involve hundreds or even thousands of patients - this takes a lot of time and money.
"Patient recruitment has always been the number one problem," says Mr Rosenberg.
And as drug development targets more specific groups of people, largely thanks to the insights coming from genomics, finding the right patients for such clinical studies is becoming even harder.
This is where the cloud can help.
"With cloud and related technologies, we are now able to mine real-world data to find patient populations better, and utilise globally available technology to conduct trials in an even more distributed and inclusive manner," says Mr Julian.
Cloud and increasing digitalisation is also helping to improve the efficiency of data collection and analysis.
"Data collection used to be very inefficient, with data being written on paper forms, faxed and then entered into computers manually," explains Tarek Sherif, co-founder and chief executive of Medidata, a company that has developed a cloud platform for clinical trials.
"Then it had to be double-checked for errors. It could take up to a year before you could draw any conclusions from the patient data."
Digitising the process and automating the checking process in the cloud has reduced this time to "one to two weeks," says Mr Sherif.
And cloud offers many additional advantages to pharma companies, says Mr Rosenberg.
"These days health data is coming from a wide variety of sources, like labs, wearable devices, electronic diaries, health records. Pharma companies can't necessarily handle all the data that's coming in to them.
"So cloud computing helps them do that and gives them a whole bunch of other advantages - the technology is kept up to date, you get the latest security, the latest features and so on."
A spokesman for pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) told the BBC: "Advances in computing and data analytics are providing new opportunities to improve the efficiency of our research and increase our understanding of a disease or a patient's response to medication."
Speeding up the clinical trial process also cuts costs.
"We were able to save one of our clients about 30% on the cost of running a trial," says Mr Sherif, whose firm facilitates nearly half of all clinical trials in the world and counts 17 of the top 25 pharma companies as clients.
And Accenture's Mr Julian says: "We've seen overall savings of 50% - in some cases up to 75% - on the historically labour-intensive parts of the drug development process."
Of course, not all prospective drugs work, or they're shown to work but not any better than existing drugs on the market.
"So the Holy Grail is to fail faster so you're not failing in the very final phases of drug development when you've already spent most of your money," says Mr Sherif.
Winning regulatory approval for a drug is only half the battle. Pharma companies also have to convince health services and insurance companies that's it's worth paying for.
This means collecting reliable patient data.
In the past, patients were often asked to keep written diaries of their experiences with a drug being tested, but these were "horribly inefficient", says Mr Sherif.
So the rise of electronic diaries and wearable devices is helping to improve the evidence a pharma company can present in defence of their latest drug.
With this is mind, Oracle is helping add "mHealth" capability to Accenture Life Sciences' cloud platform.
And GSK says: "We've been conducting clinical studies with biosensors and mobile devices for some time.
"Today's digital technology is enabling us to collect and analyse data in new ways - monitoring activity and vital signs in patients, and collecting patient feedback in real time, improving the quality of data we use in the development of new medicines."
The cloud is also encouraging more pharma companies to co-operate on molecule development [the building blocks of a potential drug], says Mr Rosenberg, as well as on data analysis.
And all this anonymised patient data - historical and recent - can potentially be shared in the battle to combat disease.
"We are seeing clients increasingly use 'virtual studies' - using external and historical data to perform advanced statistical analysis and reduce the need for complicated, costly site-based study activity," says Accenture's Mr Julian, citing a collaborative Alzheimer's project between some of its clients and the Coalition Against Major Disease.
But while efficiencies in the drug development process are undoubtedly being found, discovering the initial molecule is still very difficult, experts warn.
Cloud computing is having a big practical impact, but won't necessarily result in a flurry of "miracle" cures.
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The chief executives of Belfast International, Belfast City and the City of Derry airports want a review into the impact of scrapping the tax.
And they want it to begin as soon as possible.
The confidence and supply deal struck between the Conservatives and the DUP in June contained a commitment to review air passenger duty.
In a letter to First Secretary Damian Green, the airport chiefs said it would be helpful if they could be advised of the timescale for the review and who will carry it out.
They said they stand ready to put the case for removing air passenger duty on the grounds of both economic growth and jobs.
The three airports have said they "already have a number of our existing and potential airlines ready to commit to flying from Northern Ireland should air passenger duty be removed".
They asked that the review could be "initiated, completed and the result implemented as soon as possible".
The Rt Rev Michael Perham was told by police last month he faces no action over two claims of indecent assault.
The Bishop of Tewkesbury, the Rt Rev Martyn Snow, said of the cancellation: "I know this will be the cause of huge frustration and deep disappointment."
Bishop Perham is due to retire officially on 21 November.
Since the allegations were made, the Bishop of Gloucester stepped back from his duties and they were handed to the Bishop of Tewkesbury.
Bishop Snow said: "Church House, Westminster has confirmed to me the process is still ongoing and there is no formal timetable for this process as it must be completed with fairness to all.
"The diocese must therefore await the conclusion of that process."
Bishop Perham was questioned in August over allegations of historical sex offences dating back more than 30 years.
The special service had been planned for 8 November.
Correction 11 November 2014: A quote from Bishop Snow has been amended to clarify that there is no formal timetable for the investigation
Seven-year-old Georgia Allen and her five-year-old brother Geordie were injured at Killowen Primary School.
Their father, 36-year-old George Allen, remains critically ill.
Staff at the school used a defibrillator on Mr Allen after the incident, and he was resuscitated at the scene.
His son was also originally said to be in a critical condition.
The Russian president signed similar documents last week, so the New Start treaty will come into effect when the papers are exchanged this weekend.
The treaty was approved by the US Senate in December and by the Russian parliament last month.
It replaces the 1991 Start treaty which expired in December 2009.
The New Start treaty, agreed to by Mr Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in April, limits each side to no more than 800 deployed nuclear warhead delivery systems (including bombers, missile launchers and nuclear submarines), a cut of about 50%. It limits each side to 1,550 deployed warheads.
It will also allow each side visually to inspect the other's nuclear capability, with the aim of verifying how many warheads each missile carries.
The White House barred reporters from the Oval Office when Mr Obama signed the treaty, but allowed still photographers.
The pact, opposed by many Republicans, could become an issue in the 2012 US political campaign.
Among other criticisms, US opponents of the treaty argued Russia would have reduced stockpiles anyway as its arsenal aged, so the US had no reason to agree to scrap its own nuclear arms.
About 100 fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) took part, some crossing the border from Iraq, some moving from inside Turkey.
The toll - of 24 dead and 18 injured - is the largest suffered by the Turkish security forces since 1993.
The response by the Turkish military has been a predictable one: more raids by jets and helicopters on targets inside Iraq, with ground forces moving around 8km (five miles) across the Iraqi border.
The military says it killed 15 of the PKK insurgents; it claims to have killed as many as 160 in air raids carried out since July.
The PKK has proved before that it is capable of such an attack, and of inflicting heavy losses.
In June last year, it carried out a very similar night-time raid, using large numbers of fighters, and killed 13 soldiers stationed at a remote outpost along the border.
The government vowed then that the soldiers would be better protected, and questions were posed about the suitability of a young, conscript army for tackling an entrenched insurgency.
If lessons were learned, they do not appear to have helped those battling the PKK in the latest attacks.
Bigger questions hang over why the PKK has escalated its operations against the military over the past four months, and why the Turkish government, which repeatedly says it wants to pursue reconciliation, has been unable to stop the harsh treatment of Kurdish nationalist figures by the judiciary.
Time and again, apparent windows for peace have been shut down abruptly.
In October 2009, following Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's unprecedented offer of a new beginning for relations between Turkey's largest minority and the state, 34 Kurdish activists, including eight PKK fighters, crossed the border from Iraq, and turned themselves over to the Turkish authorities.
It was presented as a gesture, a test of the government's intentions. The activists were allowed to go free, instead of being prosecuted.
But then it all went wrong.
A jubilant welcome for the activists by tens of thousands of Kurds, waving PKK symbols, provoked a strong nationalist reaction in a Turkish public conditioned to think of the PKK only as an evil, terrorist organisation.
The government had rushed into a badly thought-out peace initiative, without preparing the Turkish people for it.
By the end of 2009, the main Kurdish party had been banned - for the seventh time - by the constitutional court, and dozens of Kurdish community leaders were being prosecuted under the draconian, catch-all anti-terror laws.
One Kurdish editor was sentenced to 166 years in prison, merely for the pro-PKK sentiments published in his newspaper.
It was a similar situation after the general election in June this year, in which Kurdish candidates did well.
This opened the possibility of Kurds pressing their demands through parliament, and working with the government on a new constitution - one of their central demands.
But a court decision to strip one Kurdish MP of his seat, and give it to the ruling AK party, poisoned the atmosphere.
Kurdish MPs boycotted parliament, and announced what they called their own "democratic autonomy" initiative, taking greater control of local government.
There has never been a constructive dialogue between the AK, Turkey's most successful democratic party, and Kurdish leaders.
They just seem to talk, or shout, past each other, even though both have acknowledged that the use of military force by both sides has brought about nothing but hatred and the loss of more than 40,000 lives.
This despite the fact that the AK is the first party to attempt to address the grievances of the Kurds, and has managed to ease some of the restrictions on Kurdish expressions of identity.
The terrible atrocities committed against Kurdish communities in the 1990s have left a searing anger towards the Turkish state, compounded by the poverty, unemployment and ill-treatment that blight the Kurdish south-east.
But such is the engrained hostility of millions of Turks towards the Kurdish nationalist movement, that any attempt to negotiate with it could cost a government significant numbers of votes.
The lack of leadership on the Kurdish issue has left a vacuum, now filled by the armed hardliners of the PKK.
It is hard to interpret its decision to increase its attacks on the army and police as anything else but an attempt to sabotage any future peace initiative, should it ever get off the ground.
In the current, bitter climate of mutual recriminations, that is unlikely to happen.
"We're a lot fitter than we ever have been, we're scoring more goals and we look like a right good team," said the Ladbrokes Player of the Season.
"We're closing people down and we're playing with a high intensity.
"Last season I was struggling with injuries and now I feel I can go for two, three or four seasons more."
The midfielder, 32 next month, has been a key player under Brendan Rodgers, the league sponsor's manager of the season, as the League Cup winners and Premiership champions seek to extend their unbeaten run of 45 domestic games to the Scottish Cup final against Aberdeen on 27 May.
"I'm enjoying my football and playing with a smile on my face," said Brown, adding that the award was "thanks to all the players for digging me out a hole now and then".
"We check GPS and heart rates and make sure everybody is working hard.
"Against Partick, in the 91st minute I ended up on the left wing and trying to close the goalie down.
"That's never been seen before by me in the last five or six years. It shows I still have the energy and desire to keep going for 90-95 minutes.
"It's been enjoyable this season but it's been really hard, with dedication from everyone and the way the gaffer wants high intensity for 90 minutes."
Rodgers may make use of statistical data but he said it "can't measure the size of a player's heart".
He described Brown as "inspirational" and said that, should Celtic complete the treble, "it would be very fitting for a captain of his quality to do that".
"As a manager it's very important that you have that chemistry between you and your captain," continued the Celtic boss.
"It was pretty clear early on when I met him that he was top class in his outlook. He hasn't let up.
"He has been absolutely sensational in how he has led the team and how he's taken on the football idea that we've tried to impose on the team - his tactical positions to get on the ball, the variety so that he can move freely to create space for himself.
"He presses with a real aggression, he anticipates and he blocks and he doesn't need to be jumping in. That has been consistent, whether it's League Cup, the league or Champions League."
Rodgers revealed that he advised Brown last summer that if he looked after his fitness he could play until he was at least 35.
He said: "You have to ensure that everything about your life is perfect.
"He readjusted his diet, took on board everything we were looking to impose and that has given him confidence.
"He will run all day for you; it was just guiding that and making sure it was consistent. I look at his physical shape, he's in great condition - fit, strong.
"He has never let up in any day. I've given him a few extra days off through the season but he has never wanted it. Even in training, he brings intensity."
David Coombs also targeted people in hospitals in Hampshire and Dorset, pretending to be a wealthy businessman.
The 52-year-old, of Hunston Road, Chichester, had previously pleaded guilty to nine fraud offences committed in 2015.
He received a four-year sentence at a hearing at Southampton Crown Court.
Police said his victims were aged between 49 and 83 years old.
Coombs would strike up relationships with them before asking to borrow money claiming his wallet had been stolen or his card mistakenly blocked by his bank.
He purported to be a wealthy businessman, employed by an interior design company, and claimed to have multiple properties and offshore bank accounts.
Coombs came to the attention of police after one woman he had been in a relationship with contacted them when he began to harass her.
Det Sgt Will Whale said he had been "spinning a web of lies" over 22 months.
"His persistent offending has had an immeasurable effect on the lives of his victims, not just financially but also psychologically."
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The video is for The Next Day, taken from his comeback album of the same name.
It depicts Bowie as a messianic figure, dressed in a robe and fronting a band in a basement bar.
Oldman plays a priest who dances with Cotillard before she bleeds from stigmata marks on her palms.
Bowie's last video, for The Stars (Are Out Tonight), featured another Oscar-winner, Tilda Swinton.
The new film was directed by photographer Floria Sigismondi and features characters dressed as clergymen amid heavy religious imagery.
As it ends with the characters arranged in a tableau, Bowie says: "Thank you Gary, thank you Marion, thank you everybody."
Oldman previously worked with Bowie in the 1990s when they performed a duet on guitarist Reeves Gabrels' 1995 album The Sacred Squall of Now.
Imperial War Museum Duxford plans to overhaul the offering at its American Air Museum, built in 1997.
It also plans to put 15,000 rarely seen prints and slides online and carry out conservation work on its aircraft.
Robyn Llewellyn, from the Heritage Lottery Fund, said the grant would allow "fascinating stories" to be told.
The museum said the first phase of the project involves putting its Freeman Collection online, which contains thousands of pictures and artefacts about the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in Britain during World War Two.
Mr Llewellyn said: "The American Air Museum has possibly the best collection of US military aircraft outside the USA.
"This project will give IWM Duxford the opportunity to overhaul the displays and galleries and bring many of the fascinating stories of the First World War, Second World War, and more recent conflicts to life in new and exciting ways."
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Selby, 33, made a stunning comeback on Monday to beat Scotland's John Higgins 18-15 and win his third Crucible crown.
"I am determined that Mark's achievements should be celebrated," mayor Peter Soulsby told BBC Sport.
Last year, Leicester's footballers had their Premier League title win marked by several murals around the city.
Players such as Riyad Mahrez and Jamie Vardy, as well as manager Claudio Ranieri, had their portraits painted on the side of buildings in the streets.
In 2016 Selby, a boyhood Leicester City supporter, potted the winning ball in the final against China's Ding Junhui to secure his second world title just 12 minutes after the Foxes became top-flight champions for the first time.
Two years prior to that, Selby won his first world title against Ronnie O'Sullivan, which came in the same year as the football club achieved promotion back to the Premier League.
Soulsby added: "I am sure Mark will understand, being a City fan himself, that last year there was a danger of his win being overshadowed by Leicester City's Premier League victory, but not so this time.
"I think we should have a mural for him, similar to the murals we have in the centre of Leicester celebrating the football club's win.
"This is a fantastic win for Mark, and for Leicester. It is an amazing achievement."
Selby had fallen 10-4 behind in this year's final, before a run of nine out of 10 frames helped him towards victory.
A 17-year-old boy and a girl, aged 16, remain in hospital after the collision on Battersea Park Road on Monday morning.
Their injuries are not believed to be serious, the Metropolitan Police said.
Five other pedestrians - four boys and a girl, all in their late teens - were treated for minor injuries but were later released from hospital.
One victim is understood to have fallen onto the back window of a parked car on the street below the bridge where the accident occurred, the Evening Standard reported.
The 35-year-old driver of the red Ferrari 458 stopped at the scene and was arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
He remains in custody at a west London police station.
Emergency services, including London's Air Ambulance, attended the incident and road closures were put in place.
It was initially reported that six people were hurt in the crash, but that figure was updated by the Met on Tuesday.
There are 24 award categories and, this year, performers in the four-hour ceremony will include Rita Ora, Lady Gaga and Adam Levine.
Radio 1's Film Critic, Rhianna Dhillon, has shared her predictions for the top categories with Newsbeat.
But, as well as who she THINKS will get an award, she also revealed who she WANTS to get one.
I think Boyhood will win, not necessarily because it's the best film but because there has been SO much campaigning around it. I think the dedication of everyone involved (12 years!!) will resonate with voters.
Seeing a fantastically, well-made film is not rare at the Oscars but watching actors grow up and mature before your eyes is such a unique experience and that is what makes Boyhood stand out.
I want Whiplash to win. I wasn't expecting a tense thriller about a jazz drummer but that's what I got.
Again I think it will be Richard Linklater.
Boyhood is not the most action heavy film but it's beautifully shot and captures moments that almost everyone can empathise with. It's got the awkwardness of growing, embarrassing parents, falling in and out of love. It's such a natural story.
I want it to go to Birdman. Alejandro G. Iñárritu should get it for his unnerving and excellent 'all shot in one take' experience.
I reckon Eddie Redmayne will probably take home a little golden man in this one. Mainly because he's just so transformative in the Theory of Everything. His performance goes so much further than just a good impression of Stephen Hawking.
It would have been easy to make the film sad or depressing but he makes it an inspirational and uplifting watch.
It's what I want to happen as well! Eddie's performance is stand-out and he deserves the award.
Julianne Moore has given two stunning performances, for Maps to the Stars and Still Alice. Her characters in those films are poles apart and it's incredible that someone so experienced can still surprise with her versatility.
Still Alice is a film that will stay with audiences for a very long time after they've watched it, not for the script, not even necessarily for the plot, but for Moore's acting ability.
Just because she's pulling a double during the awards season, I want Julianne to get this one.
Patricia Arquette. She's won SO MANY awards already for her role as a single mum struggling to bring up 2 children in Boyhood. It's a very human role and one that audiences can recognise.
She almost makes you forget you're watching a film because she's so natural and portrays such raw emotion in it.
I want Emma Stone to get it for Birdman. That would be brilliant because of the way her character rebelled her egotistical dad.
JK Simmons as the vicious, megalomaniacal conductor in Whiplash is such a alteration from the smaller, character roles we usually see him play.
He shows us a super-villain in an ordinary situation and it is breath-taking and gripping in equal measure. This was the role that came out of nowhere and wowed audiences. He deserves an Oscar.
If JK doesn't get it, I'll eat all the M&Ms in that picture.
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Mr Phillips said the decision was to focus on building Swansea's regional and national profile although details of his new role are not yet known.
It comes a week after he was told to expect a leadership challenge after sacking two cabinet members in a reshuffle but he would not comment on whether his departure was linked.
Mr Phillips led the council's Labour group for 10 years.
The Labour group has been in power at the authority for the last two years.
The selection process to find a new leader begins on Monday.
He said from the back benches he will continue to give his "complete support to the new cabinet and the group as we work to continue to deliver on our manifesto commitments for the good of the people of Swansea and the wider region".
Labour group chairman Robert Francis Davies said: "David Phillips has made an enormous contribution to Swansea and to Labour and will continue to do so in the future. We want to keep his talents working for our city."
James Healy-Pratt, of Stewarts Law, said aircraft owners Canfield Hunter Ltd admitted responsibility in 2015.
He said the firm had resolved two claims and nearly resolved a third.
The owners said the admission was a statutory requirement and they could not comment further on compensation.
The Hawker Hunter jet crashed on to the A27 in West Sussex during the air show on 22 August last year.
The pilot, Andy Hill, is at the centre of a manslaughter investigation. The final AAIB report into the crash has not yet been published.
Mr Healy-Pratt said: "We obtained an admission of responsibility from the owners of the Hawker Hunter at the end of 2015.
"Through their aviation insurance in London, we have already negotiated several compensation packages for some of our families, and the other ones we're continuing to negotiate and they'll probably get resolved this year."
He said his firm was representing just over half of the families involved.
He said the compensation packages were final and did not not depend upon the final AAIB report or any criminal prosecution.
A spokesman for Canfield Hunter said the owners could not comment any further given that the AAIB and police investigations were ongoing and the inquest had not yet taken place.
"We remain committed to doing everything we can to assist those affected by this tragic incident," he said. "We continue to be in contact with the authorities and are co-operating fully with the various ongoing investigations."
Events to mark the first anniversary of the crash on Monday include a minute's silence on a toll bridge, where thousands of tributes were laid after the disaster. A church service is also being held on Saturday.
The partner of Mark Trussler, 54, one of the men who died, has said it is getting harder to deal with his death.
The father-of-six from Worthing went to watch the last flight of the Vulcan bomber, which was due to take place that day.
Giovanna Chirico, his fiancee, said: "I don't feel anything's got any easier, if anything it's got harder."
She said: "With it coming up to the year, I think I've become more emotional - it's really hard to explain really, just lost."
Ms Chirico said the toll bridge was a hard place to be: "There are just so many emotions when I'm up there.
"I sit there and I think why Mark? Why the other 10? Why the accident? I feel like I'm always overpowered by questions in my own head."
Lamara Bell, 25, and John Yuill, 28, died after lying in a crashed car for three days after the incident was first reported to police.
Officers had failed to follow up a call received about the crash.
The couple were eventually discovered in the vehicle, close to the motorway at Bannockburn on 8 July, 2015.
The case was subsequently referred to the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc).
Former Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland QC, who stepped down from the role earlier this year, said he would expect an FAI to be held, given the level of public concern over the incident.
In a letter to Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie, the new Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC, wrote: "As you know, the former advocate considered that this was a case of the utmost seriousness.
"He was committed to ensuring the matter was investigated thoroughly. I share that view.
"When the investigations, which go beyond the work the procurator fiscal has directed the Pirc to do, are completed the case must be reported to Crown counsel."
Mr Wolffe said that all options that were open to Crown counsel when considering a sudden death would be available.
He added: "One of these options is for Crown counsel to instruct that a fatal accident inquiry should be held.
"Like my predecessor, I consider it inconceivable that a fatal accident inquiry will not be held given the public concern over this tragedy.
"The investigations are, at present, ongoing and there is considerable work to do before the case can be reported to Crown counsel."
An interim Pirc report into the case was submitted in November last year and a supplementary report submitted in June.
A Pirc spokesman said: "The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) is currently considering the content of both reports submitted by the Commissioner on her independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of John Yuill, 28, and Lamara Bell, 25.
"We have received no instruction from the COPFS to undertake any further enquiries in relation to this investigation.
"The Commissioner will undertake further enquiries as required."
Mr Rennie said: "The fact that the new Lord Advocate holds the same view as his predecessor is welcome.
"This will help ensure that no stone is left unturned as we seek the answers that we need over the tragic M9 crash.
"An FAI is the best way to ensure that the circumstances that led to the crash and the failure to respond are fully understood.
"The families deserve nothing less."
Mr Quang, 59, has been head of the ministry of public security, which has been the focus of Western criticism of the nation's human rights record.
He had been nominated for the largely ceremonial role at January's communist party conference.
One of his first tasks will be to welcome visiting US President Barack Obama next month.
Mr Quang won 91.5% of a rubber-stamp vote in parliament on Saturday.
"I sincerely thank the National Assembly for electing me," Mr Quang said as he was sworn in. He is the first police general to fill the post.
The Communist Party in January re-elected Nguyen Phu Trong, 71, in the leading role of general secretary for a second term.
His re-election came after reformist Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung withdrew his candidacy.
The National Assembly will vote next week on a new prime minister - set to be Deputy PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc,
Earlier in the week, the assembly elected its first woman Speaker - Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.
Analysts believe one-party Vietnam will continue with economic reforms, but steer clear of major political changes.
Steve Pankhurst, a founder of the website, said the platform was still used by "a handful of members" but that it was "no longer used for the purpose it was built for".
The term "Friends Reunited" has been among the top trending topics in the UK on Twitter.
Here, people who have been Friends Reunited users share their stories on how the website has affected their lives.
Emma Hetherington [pictured above with husband John] said it was a "sad day" for Friends Reunited.
"It was thanks to this early social media platform that my husband John and I saw each other again, 18 years after we'd split up in our early 20s," she said. "Over that time he'd married, had two kids and was in the process of divorcing. I had been widowed for five years with a young daughter.
"John looked me up on Friends Reunited in 2002 and got in touch. We've been together ever since and married in 2014 in Cuba."
On Facebook, Rachel Hughes recounts being found on Friends Reunited by an old boyfriend:
@neil_taylor_ tweeted about meeting his wife on the site:
As did @seanymogs:
Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes could even give Graeme the task of marking midfield playmaker Andrew, who is on loan at cup holders Hibernian from Birmingham City, out of the game at Hampden Park.
It will be the first time that the former Inverness Caledonian Thistle team-mates have played against one another in a competitive senior game.
The Aberdeen-born siblings have only been in opposing colours once - when Birmingham faced Caley Thistle in a friendly at a time when Graeme was still operating more regularly at full-back.
But Graeme believes that destiny has played its hand and that facing his older brother on Saturday was "meant to be".
"It just had that feeling about it that it was going to go that way," he said.
"We have had a bit of banter about it. We both know it's a massive occasion for both teams and we both will just be focused on doing well.
"We're both professionals. We both know, when it comes down to the day, we've both got a job to do for our teams."
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Andrew, two years the elder at 27, had left Caley Thistle by the time a Highland side featuring his brother lost the Scottish League Cup final to Aberdeen at Celtic Park in 2014.
A year later, Graeme captained Caley Thistle to their first major cup success in the Scottish Cup final against Falkirk.
Andrew was also three months too late in joining Hibs to be able to enjoy the celebrations that accompanied them lifting the same trophy for the first time in 114 years.
Then, in November, Graeme was part of the Dons side that lost this season's League Cup final to Celtic.
The younger Shinnie is all too aware that he could help crush Andrew's dreams of reaching a cup final, while Andrew can destroy his own hopes of a first winner's medal with the Dons.
"The relationship of brothers goes out the window for that 90 minutes," he said. "It's all about doing what we've been doing all season.
"It'll be a different experience but one that can't get in the way of what either of us are trying to do.
"We just need to treat it as a normal game."
Although rivals this weekend, the sibling rivalry has run in the family for a lot longer.
"We were both really competitive - probably one of the worst things for our parents," said Graeme, whose fine strike secured the Dons a place in the semi-final at the expense of Partick Thistle.
Andrew, who can boast one more Scottish Cup goal this season after hitting the net against Bonnyrigg Rose and Hearts, agreed.
"We have always been like that from a young age," said the Hibs midfielder. "Everything we did was to the max.
"We argued quite a lot when we were younger as brothers because we are that competitive, whether it was football or computer games.
"But it made us what we are now - we're winners.
"He's a winner and I like winning as well and it bode well for our futures really."
Any brotherly love will be left in the locker room as both insist that winning comes first, especially when a cup final place is at stake.
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"Winning silverware is always the best thing in football," the Dons midfielder explained. "I'm at a club now where it is kind of expected.
"The fans are desperate for us; the players are desperate for it, the management, everyone's desperate for it.
"The whole focus is on the game on Saturday and trying to get through to the final."
Andrew is looking forward to the challenge.
"It's going to be a feisty affair, but you've got to keep your head as well and you've got to keep your composure and play with a bit of quality and that's what's ultimately going to get you there," he suggested.
"Both teams desperately want to be in the final. I know I do and I know Graeme does."
For the brothers, there is happiness that at least one Shinnie will be in the Scottish Cup final.
As for the parents, Graeme suspects: "They'll try find the most neutral seat in Hampden."
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Ferguson, 71, will step down as United manager at the end of the season after winning 38 trophies during his 26 years in charge.
"It is unbelievable to change around probably four different squads and have the success he has," Robson said.
Prime Minister David Cameron described Ferguson's record as "exceptional".
Mr Cameron, an Aston Villa supporter, added: "Hopefully his retirement will make life a little easier for my team."
It's come as an absolute bombshell. I'm sad and disappointed
Former Newcastle and England striker Alan Shearer, who almost joined Manchester United from Blackburn in 1996, said: "If it wasn't for my love of Newcastle, then I would have signed for Sir Alex. I was that close I'd actually found a house in Manchester.
"His know-how, his desire, his hunger, his will to win and longevity are absolutely staggering. He's an absolute genius. If you could bottle that, it'd be worth a fortune."
Labour leader Ed Miliband tweeted: "Proud man. Great manager. Staunch Labour Party supporter. Sir Alex Ferguson will never be forgotten."
A host of former United players joined Robson, who was at United from 1981 until 1994, in paying tribute to Ferguson, who took over from Ron Atkinson on 6 November, 1986.
United legend Sir Bobby Charlton spoke fondly of a "fantastic" and "sensational" manager.
"I am a director at United but I hardly do anything because we are winning all the time and it is all down to Sir Alex Ferguson," said Charlton, who made more than 600 appearances for United between 1956 and 1973.
"He would get up in the middle of the night and travel 300 miles if he thought there was a schoolboy he could sign. He loves the game."
Premier League: 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013.
FA Cup: 1990, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2004
League Cup: 1992, 2006, 2009, 2010
Champions League: 1999, 2008
Cup Winners Cup: 1991
Fifa Club World Cup: 2008
Uefa Super Cup: 1992
Inter-Continental Cup: 1999
FA Charity/Community Shield: 1990 (shared), 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011
Steve Bruce, who captained Ferguson's 1993-1994 double winning team, said his former boss has a "wonderful humility", adding that he would "treat the groundsman the same as he would a star player".
Former England captain Paul Ince, who played under Ferguson between 1989-1995, does not believe there will be another manager who will replicate the Scot's achievements.
"You will never see anyone of his kind again," Ince said. "His standards were so high. He was so demanding. Yes, we had our ups and down. The way he treated me was like a son."
Champions League winning goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel said he could not make sense of the timing of the announcement.
"It's come as an absolute bombshell," he said. "I'm sad and disappointed. I was really, really hoping he was going to stay for another couple of years."
Dwight Yorke, Schmeichel's treble-winning team-mate of 1999, said he could understand why Ferguson has decided now is the time to retire, given that he had regained the Premier League title and was due to have hip surgery in the summer.
The former striker also cited David Gill's decision to stand down as United chief executive as a factor.
"I just feel it's the right time for him to go," said Yorke.
Former England striker Michael Owen, who played under Ferguson at United from 2009 until 2012, said he was proud to have worked with the Scot, while Real Madrid winger Cristiano Ronaldo, who played for United for six years from 2003, simply tweeted a message of thanks along with a picture of the two of them together.
Former United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy, who scored 150 goals in a five-year spell at Old Trafford, tweeted: "It was a unique privilege."
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, current manager of Norwegian side Molde, spent more than a decade at United, playing more than 200 games from 1996 until 2007. He was also a coach for a time.
The former forward told MUTV: "I will never forget the loyalty he showed me. Everything I have learnt I have learnt from the boss."
England manager Roy Hodgson described Ferguson's announcement as "a sad day for English football".
England rugby union coach Stuart Lancaster: "His longevity and what he has achieved as a coach I think is unparalleled in world sport. I admire him hugely for what he has done."
Golfer Rory McIlroy: "An end of an era today. Sir Alex Ferguson, the greatest of all time! United will have a tough time trying to replace him."
"It marks the end of an era in football management," Hodgson added. "No one will be able to match his achievements, his dedication, his support for colleagues in need and his team building know-how."
Senior figures at football governing bodies spoke highly of Ferguson's contribution to the sport as a whole.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter tweeted: "His achievements in the game place him without doubt as one of the 'greats'. It was an honour to present Sir Alex with award at 2011 Ballon D'Or. Will his longevity at the top ever be repeated?"
Uefa president Michel Platini described Ferguson as a "visionary" who "has made a massive contribution to football across Europe", while Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore said he defined the Premier League era.
"The Premier League has had the privilege to witness many great players, managers and teams," he said. "No one has made as great a contribution to the Premier League than Sir Alex Ferguson."
League Managers Association chairman Howard Wilkinson said: "He is the epitome of the mantra 'Survive, Win, Succeed'. In private, with those he trusted, he was the very best sort of friend you could ever wish for."
Jessica Wongso, an Indonesian citizen and Australian permanent resident, said the verdict was "not fair".
The victim, Wayan Mirna Salihin, met Wongso at a Jakarta cafe in January.
She died minutes after sipping a coffee ordered by her friend. An autopsy found traces of cyanide in her body.
The trial of Wongso, dubbed by some as the "Coffee Killer", attracted intense public interest in Indonesia as well as Australia, where Wongso and Ms Salihin had met and lived for several years.
Wongso denied all the charges and her lawyers have said they will appeal against the verdict.
Prosecutors argued she had decided to kill Ms Salihin after the latter had advised her to break up with her boyfriend.
Defence lawyers had argued that police never found cyanide in Wongso's possession, and she had never been seen spiking the coffee.
Australian police agreed to assist Indonesian police with their investigation after receiving assurances that she would not be handed the death penalty.
People had been queuing outside the Jakarta central court from before dawn to get a seat to witness the verdict in this murder trial that gripped the nation. Some in the crowd had travelled from other islands just be here.
Hundreds missed out on a seat and crowded around monitors watching events inside the court. Five hundred riot police were deployed to control the crowd.
Court waiting rooms were turned into TV studios. The entire month-long trial has been broadcast live on all the major stations.
The families of both the victim, Ms Salihin, and the accused have given long, passionate and tearful interviews. The broadcasting commission has criticised a number of stations, accusing them of a conducting a media trial.
Across the archipelago it is hard to find someone who does not have a strong opinion on whether Jessica Kumala Wongso is guilty or not of murdering her college friend by slipping cyanide into her coffee.
Wongso, 28, and Ms Salihin, 27, became friends when they were both studying at a design college in Sydney.
On 6 January, the two met for coffee at an upscale cafe in a mall in Jakarta, together with another college friend.
Wongso had texted earlier to say she would order drinks for all of them.
CCTV footage broadcast during the trial showed Ms Salihin arriving with the other friend and sitting down with Wongso, then taking a sip of her coffee. Within minutes Ms Salihin is seen slumping in her seat.
An autopsy later found cyanide in her stomach.
The trial has played out in packed courtrooms for the past month. Among those present on Thursday was Erikson, who had travelled from North Sumatra to Jakarta to hear the verdict.
"We have never had such an open and public court case..." he told the BBC. "The court case has created so many unanswered questions in my mind. How are we going to know the truth unless we see it for ourselves?"
It is the 26-year-old's first call-up to the senior national team.
Roy Hodgson's team travel to Berlin to face world champions Germany on Saturday, 26 March, then host the Dutch at Wembley on Tuesday, 29 March.
Tottenham full-back Danny Rose and Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge are also included in a 24-man squad.
But Wayne Rooney is left out as he recovers from a knee injury.
Clubs represented in England squad:
Drinkwater, a former Manchester United youth team player, has been an influential figure in the stunning rise of Leicester, who top the Premier League table with eight games to go.
"What he's done has been evident to everybody," said Hodgson. "He's had a fantastic season, but even last year we were aware of him."
Drinkwater's Premier League stats:
Hodgson added that the competition for a place in England's midfield is "quite fierce" but said it was a good opportunity to see if Drinkwater "can reproduce the quality that he's shown for Leicester".
Hodgson says he "deliberately ignored" Arsenal's Kieran Gibbs and Everton full-back Leighton Baines in favour of Rose and Ryan Bertrand.
Manchester United's Michael Carrick, 34, was overlooked in favour of Drinkwater but Hodgson said he could still make the squad for the finals in France.
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Goalkeepers: Jack Butland (Stoke City), Fraser Forster (Southampton), Joe Hart (Manchester City).
Defenders: Ryan Bertrand (Southampton), Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool), Phil Jagielka (Everton), Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur), Chris Smalling (Manchester United), John Stones (Everton), Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur).
Midfielders: Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur), Ross Barkley (Everton), Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur), Danny Drinkwater (Leicester City), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Adam Lallana (Liverpool), James Milner (Liverpool), Raheem Sterling (Manchester City).
Forwards: Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur), Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool), Jamie Vardy (Leicester City), Theo Walcott (Arsenal), Danny Welbeck (Arsenal).
BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty:
Drinkwater is the stand-out name in Hodgson's squad for the friendlies against Germany and The Netherlands - a reward for his outstanding role in Leicester City's dream season.
While Foxes manager Claudio Ranieri often describes attacking pair Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez as "the pinnacle of the iceberg", Drinkwater has anchored the midfield with reliability and no little ability.
He has a real chance to push his claims for a midfield holding role in England's Euro 2016 squad, with Jack Wilshere sidelined and Michael Carrick surely now out of opportunities.
Dele Alli may be in contention for that position but Drinkwater can make a late bolt for inclusion if he impresses.
Like club-mate Vardy, he has been rewarded for patience, persistence and honest professionalism, having had loan spells at Huddersfield Town, Cardiff City, Watford and Barnsley before establishing himself at Leicester.
Rose is another who will hope to make his mark, while Hodgson takes the chance to assess if Sturridge is worth the gamble of taking to France.
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Title rivals Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso qualified fourth and eighth. Alonso will start seventh after a penalty for Williams's Pastor Maldonado.
Maldonado missed a weight check and was given his third reprimand of 2012 which triggers a 10-place grid drop to 16th.
Alonso is 13 points behind Vettel and must finish on the podium to have any chance of overhauling the German.
Red Bull's Mark Webber was third, with Ferrari's Felipe Massa fifth and out-qualifying team-mate Alonso for the second race in a row.
It was a tight battle for pole between Hamilton and Button, who missed out by just 0.055 seconds.
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"I'm grateful to be able to put the car on the front row and to have had my last qualifying with McLaren as a one-two," said Hamilton. "It is a fantastic job by the team and I hope we can turn it into something positive tomorrow."
Alonso has been unconvincing all weekend - he has been slower than Massa.
However, there is a suspicion that the Spaniard compromised his ultimate dry-weather pace to set up his car to favour the wet conditions that are expected in the race.
His engineer Andrea Stella said over the team radio: "We know the situation is good for tomorrow."
Asked if he had made any changes to the set-up in anticipation of a wet race, Alonso said: "No not really. I think in these days the wet or dry set-up is dominated by the aerodynamics, so you can change the level of downforce.
"But here you run with the maximum downforce already in the dry so in the wet it is no big change. I don't think anyone gambled today hoping for tomorrow rain or anything like that and [it was the] same for us."
To win the championship, Alonso must win with Vettel lower than fourth, be second with Vettel lower than seventh or be third with the Red Bull driver below ninth.
There are 25 points for a race win, 18 for second, 15 for third, 12 for fourth, 10 for fifth, eight for sixth, six for seventh, four for eighth, two for ninth, one for tenth.
Vettel was 0.179 seconds slower than Webber and said he was "disappointed", adding: "I need to look at the data and see where I wasn't quick enough."
Alonso will line up one place ahead of Force India's Nico Hulkenberg. The German has now out-qualified team-mate Paul di Resta for five races in a row.
Di Resta was 11th, 0.417secs behind Hulkenberg in second qualifying, which the Scot did not progress beyond.
Michael Schumacher's final qualifying did not go well - he was only 14th, 0.486secs slower than team-mate Nico Rosberg in the second session, which Schumacher did not progress beyond.
Schumacher said he had set the car up in anticipation of a wet race on Sunday.
Alonso may well have been even further from the front had Lotus driver Romain Grosjean not failed to make it beyond the first knock-out session.
The Frenchman collided with the back of Pedro de la Rosa's HRT and broke his front wing.
The Frenchman had time to do one more lap after fitting a new wing and although he briefly made it into 17th place, Toro Rosso's Daniel Ricciardo then beat him by 0.223 seconds.
1. Lewis Hamilton - McLaren 1:12.458
2. Jenson Button - McLaren +0.055
3. Mark Webber - Red Bull +0.123
4. Sebastian Vettel - Red Bull +0.302
5. Felipe Massa - Ferrari +0.529
6. Pastor Maldonado - Williams +0.716
7. Nico Hulkenberg - Force India +0.748
8. Fernando Alonso - Ferrari +0.795
9. Kimi Raikkonen - Lotus +0.840
10. Nico Rosberg - Mercedes +1.031
Drivers have made it clear they would prefer to be able to attack more and not drive conservatively, as the sensitive current tyres require.
Leading drivers reiterated this at a meeting of major players on Tuesday.
But F1's tyre supplier will only start to work on changing the tyres for 2017 once new regulations that will make the cars faster have been finalised.
Teams are trying to conclude them by the end of February after months of dispute.
The drivers' desire for tyres with different characteristics was made officially for the first time by Grand Prix Drivers' Association chairman Alexander Wurz last month, when he told BBC Sport the drivers wanted "a tyre fit for maximum-attack racing".
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Seven drivers attended a meeting of major stakeholders at Pirelli's Milan headquarters to discuss this issue on Tuesday - Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, one of the GPDA directors, his team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, Mercedes' Nico Rosberg, Red Bull drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Daniil Kvyat, and Williams's Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas.
BBC Sport has learned that the drivers asked Pirelli to make some improvements to the tyres, especially to enable them to attack harder and to reduce the amount of tyre management required.
The drivers would like to see an end to the need to nurse the tyres by driving significantly below the physical limit of driver and car. This has been required since Pirelli entered F1 in 2011 because the tyres are designed deliberately to lose performance if they are pushed too hard, as a way of promoting more pit stops.
All parties have agreed not to comment publicly on the content of the meeting. However, one insider said on condition of anonymity that "in terms of ensuring the right people heard the issues, it was a good meeting and we made progress".
The event was hosted by Pirelli chairman Marco Tronchetti Provera and also attended by FIA president Jean Todt, FIA F1 director Charlie Whiting, F1 commercial boss Bernie Ecclestone, Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne, McLaren chairman Ron Dennis, Mercedes head of motorsport Toto Wolff, Red Bull team boss Christian Horner and Williams deputy team principal Claire Williams.
Insiders say Pirelli is happy to accede to the drivers' requests once the regulations for 2017 have been finalised and as long as the teams can agree on a mechanism for testing during 2016.
Pirelli is already hoping to make a small step towards reducing the need for tyre management with changes it has made to the tyres for this season.
The rules permit up to 12 days of testing during this year for Pirelli to use to develop tyres for 2017, when cars are to be made faster and more dramatic looking in an attempt to arrest an apparent decline in interest in F1.
But obstacles remain, particularly how to fit the days into the busiest calendar in F1 history with a record 21 races, and also finding a car that can accurately represent the higher cornering loads that will be generated in 2017. No 2017 cars will be ready until February next year.
The teams and the FIA are discussing ways to resolve those difficulties.
Plans to make the cars up to five seconds a lap faster and more dramatic-looking for 2017 hit a hitch before Christmas.
Pirelli told teams its current tyres could not cope with the increased loads envisaged without being run at much higher pressures, which would negate much of the increased performance from the cars.
As a result, the FIA asked the teams to look at a watered-down set of rules that increased the downforce created by a smaller amount. This revised plan abandoned changes to the underfloor and making the bodywork wider, but retained the greater width between the wheels and modifications to the front and rear wings.
Some teams, however, said F1 should stick to the original plan.
Insiders say that the most likely solution is a halfway house between the original plan and the newer one. The current suggestion is to focus on trying to increase downforce as efficiently as possible - without increasing drag more than necessary. This is likely to mean reinstating some changes to the underfloor, but not as extensively as before, while reducing the scope of changes to the rear wing.
Wider front and rear tyres have always remained part of the plans.
To satisfy the drivers' requirements, though, Pirelli will also have to change both the structure of the tyre and the philosophy it uses for the composition of the tread.
Despite huge growth in UK venison sales, supply of wild and farmed meat has not kept up with consumer demand.
That has led to imports from as far afield as New Zealand to fill the gap.
Ministers said they were supportive of the industry and that farmers were entitled to apply for payments via the Common Agricultural Policy.
In recent years venison has become a staple on most supermarkets shelves, with all reporting a massive increase in sales.
Ali Loder, a red deer farmer at Glenkindie in Aberdeenshire, said the growth in the sector had been driven by its perceived health benefits.
He said: "A lot of the chefs on TV are using it now and that's attracted a lot of people to the meat and its demand has just growth exponentially and we simply can't meet the demand in the UK."
Dick Playfair, secretary of the Scottish Venison Partnership, which is trying to stimulate both growth in demand and supply, said the meat's popularity had grown dramatically in the past ten years.
He said: "Some estimates have been as high as the market growing by 400%. We're slightly more modest in our outlook and really are looking at a 10% growth, which is I think is realistic."
Despite the growth in the market, the number of wild deer being shot in Scotland has remained static, with conservationists saying it is at a sustainable level that cannot grow any further.
That has led to calls for an increase in the number of deer farms to cope with demand.
Until then that demand is being met with imports.
Mr Loder, who has been a deer farmer for 12 years, added: "The problem is that you cannot just turn on a tap and increase numbers. It is not like a factory where you can buy more widgets, you can't just make more venison.
"It takes a while to build up stock and farms."
A Scottish government spokesman said: "We are very supportive of efforts by the deer farming industry to seize market opportunities to grow the rural economy.
"Since 2015, deer farming has been eligible for direct payments through Common Agricultural Policy schemes.
"Venison operations can also apply to the Food Processing, Marketing and Cooperation EU grant scheme for support to expand their processing facilities."
He added: "For example, a grant of £142,581 was recently awarded to Downfield Ltd to enhance their venison processing operations. This will enable the company to supply venison from both farmed and wild deer all year."
System Operator Northern Ireland (SONI), the firm responsible for the reliability of electricity system, awarded the contract last week.
SONI said it was necessary to provide additional capacity to meet a projected shortfall over the coming years.
The three year contract went to AES.
The firm operates the Ballylumford and Kilroot power stations.
The minister, Arlene Foster, said: "There will be some cost impacts, that has never been hidden, on consumer bills.
"But the costs have been minimised through the competitive tendering process and will be around £5 per annum on average to the domestic bill."
It is understood the contract will involve modernising part of Ballylumford.
Under the deal, AES will provide an extra 250 megawatts (MW) to the system, enough to power 160,000 homes
It is estimated that from January 2016, the margin of spare generating capacity in Northern Ireland's electricity system will fall from 600 MW to 200 MW.
The amount of spare capacity in the system is falling for a number of reasons.
The main issue is that EU pollution rules mean that part of Ballylumford power station will have to be shut down.
Additionally, the undersea Moyle interconnector has suffered a series of faults and is currently running at 50% capacity.
It is due to be fixed by the end of 2015, before the cables are completely replaced in 2017.
SONI considers that 200MW is not enough spare capacity to guarantee security of supply, if there was a prolonged fault at a power station.
New sportscars, a four-seater and a small SUV are in the pipeline as the UK company tries to reverse falling sales in the face of stiff competition from larger premium carmakers.
"The brand has to be relevant," chief executive Andy Palmer told a press conference at the Geneva Motor Show.
Aston Martin sales have fallen to about 4,000 from 7,300 in under a decade.
"Aston Martin must be less dependent on a narrow portfolio and one type of customer," Mr Palmer said.
The company's cars may be synonymous with James Bond, but the brand is a favourite among middle-aged sportscar enthusiasts.
Mr Palmer, recruited last year from Nissan to draw up a new strategy for loss-making Aston Martin, said he wants to make the company "relevant to a customer who would never before have considered buying an Aston Martin".
The investment in new vehicles would be the largest in the carmaker's 102-year history, he said, although no details have been released.
Mr Palmer's plans are ambitious, as he hopes to take sales of the core sportscar models back up to about 7,000. However, he said sales would be capped at this level to retain Aston Martin's exclusivity.
Aston Martin underlined its new strategy by unveiling its DBX concept car. It would be the first all-electric, four-wheel drive Aston Martin.
Mr Palmer said that when Aston's design team set to work on the new DBX they had in mind a customer who was a young lady, American - and rich. What's more, the designers dubbed this fictitious customer "Charlotte".
"She's an attractive lady, cool, in her 30s," Mr Palmer said.
It meant that the interior and ergonomics of the new car had to be slightly different than if the designers were targeting a man. "Of course, we will see a lot of guys buying the car as well. But the DBX is about reaching a new market."
The carmaker also showcased its long-awaited Vulcan, a racetrack-only car that will cost more than £1.5m. Mr Palmer said only 24 Vulcans would be made.
But they had to settle for silver in the men's singles and men's fours.
Bex Craig, Lorraine Malloy, Stacey McDougall and Claire Johnston beat their Welsh counterparts 18-14.
Darren Burnett lost 21-15 to England's Jamie Walker, while Stewart Anderson, Neil Speirs, Paul Foster and Alex Marshall were beaten 15-14 by Jersey.
Scotland picked up medals in seven of the eight categories during the two weeks of competition in Cyprus.
It means that they have qualified a place for all eight events at the 2016 World Championships in Christchurch, New Zealand, although it does not necessarily mean the players who won medals in Cyprus will be in the team.
Bowls Scotland high-performance manager Rhona Howie told BBC Scotland: "Our first goal of the Atlantic Championships was to qualify for the next year's World Championships and we achieved that in all eight disciplines.
"But also to go on and win seven out of eight medals was a great performance by the Scottish squad.
"The team produced some outstanding performances over the last fortnight, especially on the ladies' side.
"This is a new ladies' squad, just formed in September, so it really was a great achievement to see them perform so well and to win so many medals."
Last weekend, Craig and Johnston took bronze in the ladies' pairs after losing their semi-final against Cyprus.
However, they did even better as part of the women's fours, defeating Laura Daniels, Jess Sims, Kath Pearce and Anwen Butten of Wales in their final.
Johnston said: "That's the first time we have played as a four.
"We gelled well together and played together well. We just got stronger and stronger as the week went on.
"I was hoping to win a medal, whatever colour it may be. So I was delighted to get the bronze last weekend, and to get the gold a week later was phenomenal."
Also last weekend, Burnett, along with Stewart Anderson and Speirs, won gold in the men's triples, while Commonwealth Games gold medallists Foster and Marshall had to settle for silver in the men's pairs.
Foster and Marshall, who have both won several world indoor singles titles, were also unable to repeat their Glasgow 2014 success in the fours as their team was edged out by Greg Davis, Scott Ruderham, Cyril Renouf and Gus Hodgetts.
Burnett, the Scot who is ranked seventh in the world indoors and also took gold in the singles in Glasgow, was beaten this time by in-form Walker, who won England's national championship this year.
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Police said the woman, armed with a suspected gun, stole money from the 20-year-old man in Great Victoria Street at about 03:00 BST on Thursday.
The suspect was in a blue Volkswagen Golf with two other men at the time and the gang escaped with a sum of cash.
Det Con Gareth Hussey said: "I would ask anyone with any information about this incident to contact detectives."
Paul Feig, who also directed Bridesmaids, confirmed the follow-up to the hit supernatural comedy in a tweet.
Feig wrote: "It's official. I'm making a new Ghostbusters & writing it with @katiedippold & yes, it will star hilarious women.
"That's who I'm gonna call."
There had been rumours about a third instalment to the movie franchise for a while.
As Paul Feig confirmed his involvement he also revealed he is working with Parks And Recreation writer Katie Dippold on a script.
The original Ghostbusters in 1984, directed and produced by Ivan Reitman, was a commercial success which earned nearly $300m (£385m) at the box office.
The sequel movie, Ghostbusters 2 in 1989 wasn't quite as well received with mixed reviews and taking $215m (£132m).
Paul Feig was the favourite to take-over directing the movie franchise since Ivan Reitman - who directed the first two Ghostbusters films - decided in March that he would not be involved.
The first movie starred Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.
They played three unemployed parapsychology professors who start a ghost removal service and end up having to save the world from an ancient god.
Harold Ramis whose character was Dr Egon Spengler in the supernatural comedy, died in February at the age of 69.
Dan Aykroyd, who starred as Dr Raymond Stantz is expected to be a producer on the new film.
Whilst Murray, who played Dr Peter Venkman in the original, gave his backing to the idea of an all-female update to the series.
He told the Toronto Star last month: "I'm fine with it. I would go to that movie, and they'd probably have better outfits too."
Murray tipped Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig - who worked with director Feig on Bridesmaids - The Amazing Spider-Man's Emma Stone and Linda Cardellini from Freaks And Geeks as possible stars.
On Newsbeat's Facebook page, Andy Toogood said: "All female cast? Why? Ruining a classic."
Lee Bateman commented: "Anna Kendrick, Alexandra Daddario and Emma stone are names I put forward.
"I really really really hope Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd make some sort of appearance." He added.
Jonross Swaby said: "I can see Sarah Silverman in this role."
"Jennifer Anderson" was the suggestion Bernadette Pritchard made on Newsbeat's Facebook.
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The bodies were discovered in Dawson Avenue, Spalding, at about 12:15 BST on Friday. Their identities are yet to be released.
Two people arrested on Friday in connection with the deaths remain in police custody for questioning.
Lincolnshire Police said they believed it was an "isolated incident".
The force appealed for anyone who saw anything suspicious in the area on Friday to come forward.
Supt Paul Timmins said: "I would like to make clear that this type of crime is extremely rare and not something we often see.
"There is still a lot of police activity in the area and extra officers in the neighbourhood and I would encourage anyone who has any concerns to please talk to our officers."
The ceremonial lighting will take place in Windsor on the evening of 21 April.
The event will follow a royal walkabout in the town.
Later, members of the Army cadet force will take beacons to the top of the highest peaks of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Some of the beacons will be specially built gas-fuelled structures. Others will be traditional bonfires, or braziers on top of tall wooden posts.
They will be taken by cadets to the summits of Ben Nevis, Mount Snowdon, Scafell Pike and Slieve Donard.
The Queen will be accompanied at the beacon lighting by the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.
Royal jubilees, coronations and birthdays have often been celebrated with the lighting of beacons.
The last such occasion was in 2012 for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
Before the walkabout, the Queen will unveil a plaque for the Queen's Walkway - a four-mile walking trail connecting 63 "points of significance" in Windsor, the palace said.
The walkway was designed by the Outdoor Trust in recognition of the moment on 9 September last year when the Queen became Britain's longest reigning monarch, after more than 63 years on the throne.
The Queen's birthday celebrations also include the Patron's Lunch - a street party on The Mall in London on 12 June for charities of which the Queen is patron.
Tickets for the not-for-profit event were priced at £150 each.
They face having to make £200m of cuts between October and April, equivalent to 4% of all departmental budgets.
While a paper by Finance Minster Simon Hamilton was circulated, it was not formally tabled for discussion and no decisions were taken.
Justice Minister David Ford said there had been "an unwillingness to have a serious, meaningful discussion".
"In the face of difficult spending issues, intransigence on the streets that is causing difficulties for the community, and intransigence around economics at the executive table, we have simply failed to live up to the responsibilities that the people of Northern Ireland gave the executive parties as a whole," the Alliance Party leader said.
"Unless the executive gets agreement, then we have difficult problems and there seems to be no sense of understanding as to where we are."
Regional Development Minister Danny Kennedy said there was a "general discussion but not a formal one".
"It's now clear that irrespective of what is happening to other parties internally, that shouldn't impact on the good government of Northern Ireland and we need to deal with these financial issues as quickly as possible," the Ulster Unionist assembly member said.
Mr Hamilton has been stressing the need to find £200m in savings during this financial year.
That includes nearly £90m in fines imposed by the Treasury because of Stormont's delay in implementing welfare reforms.
The Northern Ireland Executive's financial pressures are estimated to be increasing at a rate of £5m per week.
While DUP ministers said they believe the budget shortfall must be addressed urgently in order to avoid breaching Treasury spending limits, Sinn Féin ministers have continued to resist paying any Treasury fines.
Their party has argued that the welfare changes should be subject to further negotiation with Westminster.
The first half was particularly drab. For the home side, Morgan Ferrier was denied by Nathan Baxter, while at the other end, George Carline had a shot blocked.
In the second period, Harry White nearly scored for Solihull at his old stomping ground, but Grant Smith blocked superbly to deny him.
The Moors took the initiative as the match wore on.
Omari Sterling-James went close when he hit the side-netting, and White struck just over late on as the home side held on for a point.
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Match ends, Boreham Wood 0, Solihull Moors 0.
Second Half ends, Boreham Wood 0, Solihull Moors 0.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Ashley Sammons replaces Omari Sterling-James.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Nortei Nortey replaces Shepherd Murombedzi.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Luke Rodgers replaces Harry White.
Ben Nunn (Boreham Wood) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Boreham Wood. Tom Hitchcock replaces Dan Woodards.
Second Half begins Boreham Wood 0, Solihull Moors 0.
First Half ends, Boreham Wood 0, Solihull Moors 0.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Campaigners from Sussex and west Kent will deliver a protest letter to Downing Street.
They are angry at trials involving changes to flight paths, which they claim have blighted the lives of tens of thousands of people.
Gatwick Airport said it was trying to minimise the impact of aircraft noise.
Ian Hare, from Pulborough Against Gatwick Noise and Emissions, said: "It goes in fits and starts, when we have an easterly wind then we have a very intense and persistent flow of aircraft overhead."
He said in the nine minutes following 0600 BST, there were six flights going over him at between 4,500 and 6,000 feet.
"It's the continuous droning noise which makes it a bit like a motorway in the skies above us," he added.
A Gatwick spokeswoman said the airport was receptive to feedback on all aspects of its operations.
"It is absolutely the right approach for all concerned to work together to agree ways to minimise the impact of aircraft noise," she said.
"We have been doing this for some time at Gatwick but welcome discussions on how this process can be improved."
A spokeswoman for the Civil Aviation Authority said it had "consistently challenged" the industry to be more ambitious in tackling aviation's environmental impacts.
Intan Olivia Marbun was severely burned after an attacker threw petrol bombs at a group of small children playing outside the church on Sunday.
Three other children were injured.
Police arrested a suspect after he was captured by local people following the attack.
The attacker has been identified as a militant linked to local extremists supporting the so-called Islamic State (IS) group.
"The man passed by the church and threw what we suspected was low-explosive cocktail bombs, causing light injuries to four children who were playing there," local police spokesman Fajar Setiawan told the AFP news agency.
Police say the attacker was wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the word "jihad", the agency adds.
"Marbun suffered extensive burn injuries and respiratory problems and doctors could not save her," Mr Setiawan said.
The other children suffered "less serious injuries and were still being treated in hospital" but would likely be discharged soon, according to Reuters, which quoted a hospital spokesman.
Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population and is home to significant numbers of Christians, Hindus and Buddhists.
The country has suffered a series of attacks inspired by the IS militant group in recent times.
Adeyemi, 24, spent last season with Leeds United on a similar deal where he scored two goals in 24 games.
The ex-Norwich trainee joined the Bluebirds on a free transfer from Birmingham in August 2014 but has made just 23 appearances, scoring once.
"He's got real good energy and athleticism," boss Alan Stubbs told the club website.
Meanwhile, midfielder Chris Dawson, 21, has joined Norwegian side Viking FK on loan until January with an option of a permanent move.
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In just five hours he amassed more than 20,000 followers, with more joining in.
His first post read: "Hello China! Looking forward to interacting with Chinese friends through Weibo."
Mr Modi, set to visit China this month, got mostly welcoming responses. But posts calling for India to return territory to China were also popular.
Here are some of the themes that excited and exercised his new Chinese audience in the few hours his account has been in existence.
Thousands posted welcoming messages for Mr Modi. Some invited him to visit their home provinces in China, while others expressed hope of greater Sino-Indian co-operation.
"China and India are the countries that have the biggest influence in Asia and are fast developing nations. There is no reason why we can't advance together," wrote one user.
Others took the opportunity to respond in English using the literal translation of the Chinese greeting "ni hao ma", which means "how are you?" and sometimes came out as "Are you OK?"
A number of Weibo users also called him "ah san" or "san ge".
These are derivations of an old colloquial term for Indians - "hong tou ah san" - which some consider racist or derogatory these days, says BBC Chinese's Martin Yip in Hong Kong.
Mr Modi's second post referenced Buddhism and unity in Asia. India celebrates Buddha's birthday on 4 May.
"I wish everyone happiness on Buddha's Birthday. Today we remember Buddha's ideals and commands, he preached the ideals of harmony and brotherhood and had a vision of a peaceful world. Buddhism is a unifying force across Asian countries. It can be one form of strong cohesion as the world enters the Asian era," he said.
There are believed to be many adherents to Buddhism in China, and an estimated 18% of China's population are Buddhist.
Mr Modi did not reference the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, who has made his home in the Indian town of Dharamsala.
The most popular responses (which garnered the most number of "likes") were on an area under Indian control referred to as South Tibet, called Zangnan in China, and located in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.
The top five replies to Mr Modi all called for India to give back the territory, which was ceded to India in 1962 following a border conflict.
"Zangnan belongs to China", and "Welcome, welcome! By the way, Zangnan is ours," were among the responses.
Mr Modi's countrymen were also intrigued, with some Indians asking on Twitter if he was going to pick up a new language.
Mr Modi joins a growing list of international figures and celebrities, such as David Cameron and Ellen Degeneres, who have signed up for Weibo to connect with a Chinese audience.
Mr Modi is known to be an avid social media user, and has 12 million followers on Twitter alone.
Nearly five million self-employed people, company directors and those with more than one source of income may have to pay tax by 31 July.
The major filing deadline for those in the self-assessment system is 31 January.
However, those who make payments on account face a deadline on Monday.
Paul Haywood-Schiefer, of accountants Blick Rothenberg, said: "Individuals completing annual tax returns within the self-assessment regime and making payments on account should be making a payment.
"Typically self-employed traders, those with rental income and those with large amounts of investment income are included in this group, which paid over £6.6bn to the Revenue in July last year."
Payments on account are based on the previous tax year's income tax liability, assuming that this will not change.
Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the accountancy association, the ACCA, said that summer getaways often led to people forgetting about the deadline - but such a mistake could lead to a fine of 5% of the tax owed.
"Ignorance and naivety are no excuse when it comes to tax filing," he said.
"Many holidaymakers have probably been more focused on exchange rates and how to afford those extra holiday treats.
"However, this [tax payment] is not something that can be left until you come back from your summer break, or even leaving it until the last minute and trying to do it yourself. The consequences of not paying on time or paying the wrong amount are high."
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The 25-year-old former Everton Ladies forward is the first English player to join the Catalan club since Gary Lineker's move to the Nou Camp in 1986.
Duggan has scored 15 goals in 47 senior appearances for England and is part of their squad for Women's Euro 2017.
BBC Sport understands no transfer fee was exchanged, as Duggan's contract had been set to expire in November 2017.
After arriving from Everton in November 2013, Duggan helped City win the Women's Super League One title for the first time in 2016 and was part of the squad that won this year's Women's FA Cup.
She was also part of the England side that finished third in the 2015 Women's World Cup in Canada.
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"FC Barcelona are known all over the world for playing attractive football and I naturally wanted to be part of that," Duggan said. "I think my style of play will suit the team and I'm honoured to be part of the club.
"My new coach Fran Sanchez has told me that their ambition is to win the Women's Champions League and the club have made that very clear with their signings over the years.
"I've had a lot of success in England and I've really enjoyed my time with Manchester City but I wanted to challenge myself even further by playing abroad. I'm also looking forward to learning Spanish and living in the city."
Like City, Barcelona reached the Women's Champions League semi-finals for the first time in their history in 2016-17, and finished second in the Spanish top flight last term.
They have increased their investment in women's football markedly in recent years, re-signing Spain midfielder Vicky Losada from Arsenal in November.
Barcelona are in talks with the American National Women's Soccer League about entering a team for 2018, having opened a permanent office in New York in September.
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The NWSL has never previously included a European side but is fully professional, in contrast to the Spanish top tier, which includes some semi-professional sides.
Duggan scored four goals in four league appearances in the 2017 Spring Series and a fine individual goal in the Women's Champions League.
The Liverpool-born striker will become the only member of the current England Women squad to be based abroad.
In total, she scored 31 goals in 74 appearances for Manchester City.
NHS England said ambulances heading to Medway Maritime Hospital will be diverted to others in Kent on Wednesday and Thursday morning.
This is to allow "breathing space" for the department and extra training.
An NHS spokesman said: "Ensuring the delivery of safe care to patients... is our absolute priority."
Between 07:00 and 12:00 BST ambulances will be sent to either Maidstone Hospital, Darent Valley Hospital, in Dartford, or the Kent and Canterbury Hospital.
However, some will continue to be sent to the Medway Maritime, in Gillingham, if the problem is either paediatric, cardiac or maternity related.
The decision was made after the latest Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection found the hospital could not cope with the number of patients during its busiest periods.
It was already in special measures after being rated inadequate in July 2013.
In a weekly message to staff, chief executive of Medway NHS Foundation Trust Lesley Dwyer said "simple and basic things" were not happening.
She also said: "The final CQC report will not be available for some weeks and this should not be a reason to 'wait' or 'stand still' - there is a lot to be done."
An NHS spokesman said: "Following a recent inspection of Medway Foundation Trust by the CQC the trust has asked for support from across the local healthcare system to help them in making the improvements needed."
Throughout Monday and most of Tuesday, the personal banking site was not allowing customers to log on, while business accounts were running slowly.
HSBC said business and personal customers had been able to log on since Tuesday evening.
In a video posted on Twitter, the bank's chief operating officer, John Hackett, again apologised to customers.
"We continue to monitor the service very closely, and are ready to respond should any issues arise, but all the evidence is positive," he said.
But the bank, which has 17 million customers, has still not given a precise explanation as to what went wrong.
It blamed the problem on a complex technical issue within its banking and mobile systems.
Mr Hackett said that no one's personal data was put at risk during the failure, and that all customers would be compensated for losses caused by it.
The chair of the Treasury Select Committee, Andrew Tyrie, promised to grill HSBC's chief executive on why such failures keep occurring.
HSBC was hit by a previous IT glitch in August 2015, which prevented 275,000 payments going through just ahead of the Bank Holiday weekend.
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Cavendish, 26, recorded the 20th Tour de France stage win of his career on Sunday to become the first British winner of the prestigious green jersey.
"The UK needs to understand we have one of the greatest of all time," Millar told BBC Sport's Matt Slater.
"At the moment, he's the UK's greatest athlete. He is probably the greatest sprinter in the history of cycling."
Millar, who finished 76th overall riding for Garmin-Cervelo, added: "It's sad that it's not appreciated to the degree it should be. In France, Belgium and Italy, he is like David Beckham."
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Cavendish, who rides for the HTC Highroad team, is now joint sixth on the all-time list of stage winners and has won at least four stages in each of the last four years.
Belgian Eddie Merckx holds the record of stage wins with 34 but Cavendish is being tipped to overhaul the tally of the five-time Tour winner by Sean Kelly, who won the green jersey, awarded to the Tour's best sprinter, four times in the 1980s.
"It's incredible in such a short number of starts in the Tour de France to have 20 stage wins," Irishman Kelly commented.
"It's a huge record he has chalked up already. Going forward he should be able to match Merckx's record.
"He has time on his side, he's still very young and, if he's in a team doing what HTC have done this year, there's no reason he can't win three or four stages every year."
Eddy Merckx (Bel) 34
Bernard Hinault (Fr) 28
Andre Leducq (Fr) 25
Lance Armstrong (US) 22
Andre Darrigade (Fr) 22
Nicolas Frantz (Lux) 20
Mark Cavendish (GB) 20
*individual stage wins
Cavendish, whose next big target is September's World Championships in Denmark, has said he is not concentrating on matching Merckx's haul.
"I'll just keep trying to win as many as possible," the Manxman stated. "There's not a number I'd like to win.
"Catching him [Merckx] is not an objective. I'd like to come back and consistently win at the Tour de France."
Cavendish has been linked with a move to Team Sky but was full of praise for his current team-mates after his latest victory.
Lead-out men Matt Goss and Mark Renshaw peeled off at the front with 160m to go to leave Cavendish to accelerate to the line ahead of Team Sky's Edvald Boasson Hagen.
"It's an incredible group of guys," Cavendish reflected. "They got me through this Tour and won me the green jersey."
The overall race was won by Australian Cadel Evans. The BMC rider finished 94 seconds ahead of Luxembourg's Andy Schleck, whose brother and Leopard Trek team-mate Frank was third.
Spain's Alberto Contador, who won the event in 2007, 2009 and 2010, was fifth, almost four minutes adrift of Evans.
Evans said that he "couldn't be any happier" with his win, having finished runner-up in 2007 and 2008.
"What can I say? I've been dreaming of winning the Tour de France for the past 20 years, ever since I was a 14-year-old," he said.
"I went through some difficult periods. For two years I was really unlucky coming so close to winning but maybe it's just made it all that more special now.
"A few people always believed in me. I always believed in me. And we did it.
"To be here wearing the yellow jersey for my team, my country, a group of people around me... it leaves me a little lost for words."
Evans only won the fourth of 21 stages, but always remained within striking distance.
He becomes the first Australian - and at 34 the oldest rider since World War II - to win the Tour de France.
After being 6-3 up at half-time, a Luke McGrath try extended Leinster's lead only for Tom Brown to quickly reply.
Josh van der Flier was gifted a try by Sean Kennedy before a Fergus McFadden score extended Leinster's lead to 25-8.
Ian Madigan's mistake allowed Mike Allen to reply but after McFadden scored his second try, Kennedy's score left Leinster hanging on.
Edinburgh lost centres Chris Dean and Phil Burleigh to injuries at half-time and, despite having to play several players out of position in the second period, fought back impressively to earn a losing bonus point.
Indeed, the visitors went in search of a converted try in the closing stages and Leinster wing McFadden looked fortunate to avoid at least a yellow card for a high tackle on Edinburgh's Damien Hoyland.
Leinster unsuccessfully attempted to bludgeon their way through a dogged Edinburgh defence in the first half and only had two Madigan penalties to show for their efforts, with Tovey scoring at the other end.
A brilliant Luke Fitzgerald break set up McGrath's 43rd-minute score but Tovey's superb looping pass set up Brown to reply in the corner within two minutes.
However, Tovey's missed touch from a penalty on the Leinster 10-metre line and Kennedy's woeful pass gifted Leinster a try almost immediately as Van der Flier ran in unopposed.
McFadden finished off a period of Leinster pressure to extend the lead to 25-8 in the 58th minute but Madigan then gift-wrapped a try to Edinburgh as former Ulster wing Allen read the Ireland fly-half's inside pass.
A second McFadden try on 63 left Leinster 30-15 ahead but Edinburgh dominated thereafter with Kennedy scoring on 70 before Sam Hidalgo-Clyne's penalty left only seven points between the teams with five minutes left.
Leinster's win moves them five points clear of Connacht in the table while Edinburgh edge above Munster into the sixth spot, which would be enough to secure a European Champions Cup place.
Leinster: R Kearney; F McFadden, B Te'o, N Reid, L Fitzgerald; I Madigan, L McGrath; C Healy, R Strauss, M Ross; R Molony, M Kearney; R Ruddock, J van der Flier, J Murphy
Replacements: S Cronin for Strauss 52, P Dooley for Healy 52, Healy for Dooley 75, T Furlong for Ross 52, D Toner for Molony 65, D Ryan for Ruddock 51, E Reddan for McGrath 65, C Marsh for Madigan 65, D Kearney for Fitzgerald 75
Edinburgh: B Kinghorn; D Hoyland, C Dean, P Burleigh, T Brown; J Tovey, S Hidalgo-Clyne; A Dickinson, R Ford (capt), WP Nel; A Bresler, B Toolis; J Ritchie, J Hardie, C Du Preez
Replacements: S McInally for Ford 54, R Sutherland for Dickinson 65, J Andress for Nel 65, A Toolis for Bresler 52, M Bradbury for Kingholm 74, H Watson for Hardie 58, S Kennedy for Burleigh 41, M Allen for Dean 41
At seven, some 20% of Indian children are tutored but only 3% of white children, according to research on 19,000 pupils born in 2000 and 2001.
Ethnic minority children also spend longer on homework, the study suggests.
Academics will present the findings to the British Educational Research Association conference in Belfast.
Researchers from Newcastle University and the NatCen social research institute analysed data on children included in the Millennium Cohort Study.
Children of self-employed parents were the most likely to receive private tuition aged seven, with 7% having extra help in at least one subject.
By the age of 11, some 22% of children were receiving help from private tutors - but again there were differences along ethnic lines:
Extra tuition also broke down according to background:
Most 11-year-olds spent one to two hours a week on homework.
Some spent five hours or more, but again this varied on ethnic lines:
Prof Liz Todd, of Newcastle University, said: "Does this mean some parents are lacking confidence in what goes on during school hours or are they just more likely to see tuition as a worthwhile route to help their children succeed?"
The next step should be to look at gains in pupil attainment across groups "and ask to what extent these are due to changes in teaching, school reforms or the provision of tuition at home", she said.
Members of the Communication Workers Union and Unite began their 24-hour walkout at 03:00 GMT on Monday.
It is the second strike in two months and unions said there could be further industrial action before Christmas.
The latest strike affects larger branches, but the Post Office said most of its network would not close.
The two unions estimated that more than 3,000 workers would take part in Monday's strike across 300 branches - although the final turnout has not been confirmed.
The Post Office said about 80 of its branches had been forced to close.
The action is focused on Crown Post Offices - which are the larger branches usually located in high streets - and workers are also holding a rally at Post Office Headquarters in central London.
Speaking at the rally, Brian Scott, Unite union officer for the Post Office, said members would not be afraid to walk out again if needed.
He told the BBC: "We are hoping the Post Office sees sense and gets around the table, but they can't reject everything we put forward.
"It may well be that there has to be other action in the run-up to Christmas, but we are willing to talk."
Crown Post Office, administration and supply chain workers are involved in the dispute about the closure of the final salary pension scheme, job losses and the franchising of Crown Post Offices.
In April 2016, the Post Office announced plans to transfer up to 61 branches into WH Smith stores over the following year.
It said the move was part of a 10-year plan to cut costs and save cash, and would act as a way of "safeguarding the future of the network."
But the CWU said it faced up to 2,000 job losses as a result and it would lead to the closure of its pension scheme.
In August, over half of the union's 3,500 members voted in a strike ballot, with 83% backing the plans.
The first 24-hour walk-out took place on 15 September and the second on 31 October.
Communication Workers Union general secretary Dave Ward said: "We have had great support from our members and the public on today's strike.
"We are now calling upon the government and the company to bring all stake holders together to thrash out a new future for the Post Office that is more than a glorified closure programme."
The Post Office said moving post office services into retail outlets means longer opening hours.
Speaking before the strike, Kevin Gilliland, the Post Office's network and sales director, said: "The Post Office wants to reach a constructive way forward through talking with our unions.
"More than 99% of people in the UK live within three miles of a Post Office branch, but we must make changes to safeguard that level of service for future generations.
"The Post Office is committed to keeping its branches at the heart of communities. But we must also respond to changing customer needs."
The Ibrox side took a 1-0 first-leg lead to Luxembourg but fell behind to a second-half Emmanuel Francoise finish.
Sebastian Thill sealed progress, scoring only the third European goal in the minnows' history to secure their first ever win in Europe.
Niko Kranjcar, Josh Windass and Kenny Miller hit the woodwork for Rangers.
But the Ibrox men had failed to dominate the game the way they had in the first leg, ensuring their first foray into Europe for six years was short-lived as they went out in the first qualifier.
Boss Pedro Caixinha brought Daniel Candeias, Alfredo Morelos and Jordan Rossiter into his starting line-up as he looked for more of a cutting edge in the second leg.
The visitors had the bulk of the early possession but again lacked the final pass that could punish Progres.
Miller had a shot blocked following a Kranjcar corner but it was all too untidy in the last third.
That seemed to give the hosts the confidence they had lacked in the first half at Ibrox, with Olivier Thill curling a long-range free-kick narrowly wide with goalkeeper Wes Foderingham struggling to get across.
Miller was inches away from connecting with a Lee Wallace cross but it was at the other end where the chances started to come.
Mike Schneider hit one over the bar when in a good position before the home side came very close. Olivier Thill drove forward and fired a long-range shot that had Foderingham beaten but slid just wide.
The second half started with Progres going even closer, this time Francoise bursting clear on the right and drilling a low effort towards the corner that Foderingham saved brilliantly.
As the second half wore on the home side looked the more threatening, with a few nerves evident in the visiting defence.
Home keeper Sebastian Flauss had gone off injured in the first half but Rangers failed to test stand-in Charly Schinker until after the hour, when Ryan Jack's close-range header was directed straight at him.
Moments later Caixinha's side almost grabbed a crucial away goal as Wallace sent in a cross that Kranjcar headed off the bar.
Then came the opener for Progres as Olivier Thill crossed for Francoise to finish at the near post.
The second arrived soon after as Sebastian Thill curled a free-kick into the box that evaded everyone and crept in at the back post.
Rangers rallied in the closing minutes with Windass' diving header coming back off the bar before Miller, in stoppage time, lobbed an effort off the face of the bar.
There was no way through though, and the visitors slumped to a shocking result.
BBC Scotland senior football reporter Chris McLaughlin
"For the Rangers fans it's humiliating. For the players, humbling, and when the dust settles on what some are calling the worst result in the club's history there will be huge questions to answer for the Rangers board and manager Pedro Caixinha.
"Where some saw the appointment of the Portuguese last year as a gamble, the Ibrox board believed it to be progressive. They had patience in their man despite a poor start to his managerial career in Scotland. They backed him with significant funds to rebuild and get Rangers back to where they wanted to be. And where they wanted to be was the group stages of the Europa League.
"Now that has gone, they must count the cost. Caixinha's squad may well improve and they may even go on to close the gap on Celtic in the season ahead, but falling at the first hurdle in Europe is a massive blow financially and psychologically.
"Chairman Dave King has continually pointed to funds gained through European football as being key to them closing the gap on their rivals and now that badly needed revenue stream has gone before the season has even started. Only those providing the loans will know the true cost and implications of that.
"It's not the only thing being cut unexpectedly though. The window of goodwill for the new manager has just been slashed drastically. Caixinha needs a blistering start to the season or he and his new recruits could be under serious pressure."
The locals of Halji village in Humla district of western Nepal practise the Drikung Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, which has an 11th-Century monastery at its heart.
They are very worried that the Rinchenling monastery - one of the oldest in Nepal and highly revered in Tibet - could be swept away or damaged by floods and mudslides caused by the outburst of a glacial lake on the mountain overlooking their village.
For the past five years, Halji has been hit by glacial lake floods almost every summer and the last one, nearly two months ago, damaged two houses and swept away four horses.
Several crop fields were washed away and many remain covered with sands, rendering them barren for many years to come.
Villagers say the historic monastery now stands only around 15m away from the river bank that has been eroded by flood waters.
They fear the next time the Tak Tsho lake bursts like it did this year, it may hit the 1,000 year-old sacred site.
"It is our identity," said Kojuk Objang Tamang, the head of Halji village. "We cannot even imagine about our community without the monastery which is the base of our religious culture," he told the BBC.
So strong is the community's belief in the monastery that they are convinced that it has saved them from the floods and mudslides so far.
"It is because of the blessings of the monastery that the village is hit by floods at day time only and so there is no loss of human lives because we can run to safety during daylight," said Mr Tamang. "Had it happened in the night when we were asleep, God knows how many of us would have been dead by now.
Astrid Hovden of the University of Oslo, who has been conducting her PhD research in Halji, has witnessed how central the monastery is to the community of around 100 households.
"At the night of the flood (last June), after the water level in the river started to get back to normal, the monks performed an elaborate ritual in the monastery to pray for the safety of their village.
"Since the villagers became aware of the problem, they have invited important lamas (priests) from outside to perform rituals to protect their village."
Prayers apart, the villagers have also done whatever they could to save the monastery and their settlement.
Although almost all of them are uneducated, they have knocked on the doors of the prime minister's office in the capital Kathmandu, the local authority and the national planning commission.
Those efforts had secured some funding, which they used to build defences using rocks and gabion wires to tame the flood waters.
"Every family in our village worked free of cost for the construction of those infrastructures," says Tamang.
But villagers say that every year, the floods and mudslides hurtling down from the glacial lake - at a height of around 5,300m on the Gurla Mandhata mountain - become increasingly dangerous.
"Our effort to save the village is proving to be no match for the force of the floods," said Mangal Lama, a social worker from the region.
Mr Lama and other locals said they hiked up to the area where the Tak Tsho lake is located and found that it is hidden behind a hanging glacier.
"We saw huge cracks on the glacier, and that explained why we used to hear big sounds around the same time in June every year before we were hit by floods.
"Apparently, it appears that the huge pieces of ice sheet from the cracked parts of the glacier might have fallen into the glacial lake which then overflowed, causing floods and mudslides downstream."
Some scientists say climate change has accelerated glacial meltdown in the Himalayas, creating many new glacial lakes and filling up existing ones to dangerous levels.
Most of the 4,000 or so glaciers and their lakes in the Nepalese Himalayas are not monitored, like the one above Halji in Humla district.
Nepal's National Adaptation Programme of Action, prepared under the United Nations climate convention, has rated the district's vulnerability to glacial lake outburst flood as "very low" - something which has been disputed.
Mr Lama said some villagers are so frustrated that they are considering going to Tibet across the border to become refugees.
"It takes five days walk to reach the nearest local authority of Nepal while Taklakot (the nearest Tibetan market) is only 12 hours away and moreover the villagers speak the Tibetan language and follow all traditions of Tibet."
Locals say they cannot move the monastery and their settlement to a safe place.
"The moment we move the monastery, its religious and historic value will drop to zero," says Tamang. "And that, in turn, means our century-old intact religious and cultural community will break and it will all be over."
Robert Lighthizer will become America's chief trade negotiator, tasked with reducing the US trade deficits which Mr Trump criticised during his campaign.
Mr Lighthizer, who served under President Ronald Reagan, will "fight for good trade deals that put the American worker first", Mr Trump said.
He is considered to have deep roots with the Republican establishment.
He is known as an advocate for greater trade protection, and an expert in trade law who worked under Mr Reagan in the 1980s as deputy US trade representative to block cheap Japanese imports of steel and vehicles.
"He will do an amazing job helping turn around the failed trade policies which have robbed so many Americans of prosperity," Mr Trump said in a statement.
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"I am fully committed to President-elect Trump's mission to level the playing field for American workers and forge better trade policies which will benefit all Americans," Mr Lighthizer responded.
He has been supportive of Mr Trump's defensive approach to trade with China since at least 2011 when he praised his possible presidential candidacy in an op-ed.
Like Mr Trump, he has opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership pact and has called for tariffs on Chinese imports to the US.
Under Mr Trump, he will work closely on trade issues with Wilbur Ross, who has been picked for commerce secretary, and Peter Navarro, a vocal China hawk who has been tapped to lead the new White House National Trade Council.
A petition for an inquiry has amassed nearly 12,000 signatures, enough for the government to have to respond.
Concerns surround a system on the northbound carriageway that triggers a series of traffic signals and barriers for restricted vehicles.
The scheme was introduced in response to the 2014 Dart Charge scheme, where crossing tolls are paid online.
While southbound vehicles cross via the Queen Elizabeth II bridge, northbound vehicles travelling from Kent to Essex use the Dartford Tunnel.
The latest delays came as one side of the tunnel was closed for scheduled roadworks in the early hours.
Drivers were stuck on the Kent side for up to five hours, while two lanes out of four closed until 05:20 BST.
Haulier Alan Pattison, who is behind the petition, said the removal of toll booths under the Dart Charge scheme in favour of online or phone payments has improved the southbound crossing but made the northbound journey "abysmal".
He said: "It's so much worse, I don't know what they've done.
"If you've been through [the crossing] you know how many sets of lights there are.
"If there's the slightest incident, the dealing with it is so slow... it's a general accumulation of all things."
Mr Pattison said his company, AP Ashdown Ltd, which is based in Essex, can be fined if a lorry misses a delivery slot.
He said: "This year alone we're looking at £4-5,000 worth of losses due to traffic disruption."
Highways England denied the changes had caused problems, adding the removal of tool booths had saved motorists "six minutes" on average.
A spokesman said: "Dartford is successfully speeding up journeys, saving motorists an average of about six minutes.
"The government will respond to the petition in due course."
The 44-year-old leaves the Saddlers fourth in League One, after nearly five years in charge, and will succeed Dutchman Marinus Dijkhuizen.
"We believe Dean is exactly the authentic and strong leader we need to take Brentford forward," co-director Rasmus Ankersen said.
Smith's assistant Richard O'Kelly will also join the Bees, who have paid compensation for the pair.
Dijkhuizen was sacked on 28 September after just eight matches in charge.
Lee Carsley has since been in interim charge, and takes Monday's game at Bolton, but he will leave the club at the end of next month.
"We have been hugely impressed by Dean's work at Walsall and especially how he has managed to turn a club with such a low budget into one pushing for promotion," added Ankersen.
"It is a similar challenge to the one Brentford face. We can't win by spending more money than our competitors so we have to identify competitive edges which will allow us to compete with clubs who enjoy much bigger budgets.
"In that respect Dean is a great fit to Brentford FC."
John Ward, Jon Whitney and Neil Cutler have been put in temporary charge of Walsall.
A former centre-back, Smith made 166 appearances for Walsall before going on to play for Sheffield Wednesday, Leyton Orient, Hereford and Port Vale.
He took over as Walsall boss when Chris Hutchings was sacked in January 2011, and last season he led the Saddlers to their first-ever appearance at Wembley, where they were beaten by Bristol City in the final of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy.
Last month the League One club rejected an approach from Rotherham, who wanted to speak to him about their manager's job.
Smith signed a new one-year rolling contract the following week but was targeted by Brentford after their talks with Swansea assistant manager Pep Clotet stalled.
Walsall chairman Jeff Bonser said: "We categorically did not want him to leave this football club and did all we could to keep him at the helm. "
Zdenek Makar, 31, from the Czech Republic, died near All Saints DLR station in Poplar on Wednesday night.
The Met said it was believed he had been followed and attacked after an altercation inside Perfect Fried Chicken in East India Dock Road.
Two men, aged 19 and 29, have also been arrested on suspicion of murder.
A post-mortem examination revealed Mr Makar died from head injuries.
Woodside Wildlife Park said: "It is with great sadness that we must announce the passing away of Tango the tiger."
The park asked people to share their memories and photographs of Tango, who was moved to Lincolnshire in 2014 after being rescued from a German circus.
Tango and his partner were saved hours before they were due to be put down.
On his 20th birthday, Tango was given a cardboard birthday cake filled with meat to celebrate his milestone.
Speaking at the time, Ben Pascoe, head keeper at the park, said: "He's the equivalent of about an 80-year-old man and I don't know of any 80-year-old men that are still running about."
Tigers usually live to about 16, and occasionally into their late teens, he said.
The world's oldest known tiger, Flavio, a male Siberian/Bengal tiger, died at Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, Florida, in 2014. Staff at the centre said he was aged 25.
The 22-year-old feels the eight-time continental champions are the 'biggest' club in Africa.
The striker has joined on a four-year deal for $1.4 million from Moroccan side Difaa El Jadida.
"Even the national team coach Herve Renard tried to persuade me to choose France," Azaro said at his unveiling on Thursday.
"I know that Mohamed Aboutrika was one of the club's best ever players and I hope that I can emulate him."
"I can assure the Al Ahly fans that I am happy to be here and that I will do my best to help the club to more titles.
Azaro becomes the first Moroccan international to move to Egypt since Abdessalam Benjelloun spent a season at Ismaili in 2010.
Moroccan under-23 player Omar Najdi spent two stints with Misr Lel-Makkasa firstly for a season from 2011 and again between 2014 and 2016.
John Paul O'Rourke from Glengrainne Gardens in Park stabbed his victim three times in the back with a kitchen knife.
The man suffered life threatening injuries after what was described in court as "an alcohol fuelled house brawl".
The judge told the defendant that his actions were cowardly.
O'Rourke also kicked his 45-year-old victim three times to the head and head butted him.
He pleaded guilty to a charge of causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent following incidents which occurred inside and outside a house at Summer Meadows in the Waterside in the early hours of 20 July 2014.
Londonderry Crown Court was told that the victim sustained two punctured lungs and that he would have died if he had not received immediate treatment at Altnagelvin Hospital.
Both men had what the judge described as "a great deal of alcohol" before going to a house at Summer Meadows in the city where a fight broke out.
The police found the victim lying outside the house in a pool of blood, the court heard.
The court was also told that O'Rourke had shouted "I will cut his throat from ear to ear" before he stabbed the victim.
When arrested, O'Rourke told the police he had no memory of stabbing and head butting his victim and denied kicking the victim on the head.
He told the police that the victim had threatened members of his family.
The Judge told O'Rourke that the threats did not justify his subsequent violent behaviour.
Second-row Markham, 24, is leaving for France after four seasons with the islanders to join Stade Rouennais.
Prop Herriott, 23, is moving to fellow Championship side Rotherham.
Meanwhile, hooker Martin Garcia-Veiga, 29, will return to his native Argentina, and back Aaron Penberthy is undecided if he wants to stay.
The 23-year-old told BBC Radio Jersey: "I'm not too sure what I want to do. This season hasn't been my greatest in terms of game-time, so I need to think about what's best for me.
"I'm pretty sure we'll find out what's happening in the next few weeks. I've been through a lot at Jersey and we'll see what happens in the next few weeks."
Herriott confirmed he would be moving back to England to join a side four places below sixth-placed Jersey in the second tier for family reasons.
"I'm going to Rotherham because my girlfriend is pregnant, otherwise it would have been a nice place to stay," he said.
Jersey finished the season with a 34-0 home defeat by Yorkshire Carnegie, the first time this millennium that Jersey have failed to score in a home league game.
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The former Netherlands and Manchester United defender, 44, had one year left on his current deal.
Assistant manager Andries Ulderink and first-team coach Said Bakkati have also signed new contracts.
Reading lost on penalties to Huddersfield in the Championship play-off final last season.
"His presence provides consistency at this football club and his leadership is invaluable going into the new Championship season," director of football Brian Tevreden told the club website.
"On a personal note, I enjoy working alongside him and his team, and he fully deserves this new contract."
A US team were trying to explain why some tissues were millions of times more vulnerable to cancer than others.
The results, in the journal Science, showed two thirds of the cancer types analysed were caused just by chance mutations rather than lifestyle.
However some of the most common and deadly cancers are still heavily influenced by lifestyle.
And Cancer Research UK said a healthy lifestyle would still heavily stack the odds in a person's favour.
So is it time to light-up, drink and eat what you want without a care in the world?
It won't come as a surprise that the answer is no.
All cancer has an element of chance - a roll of the dice that decides whether your DNA acquires a mutation that leads to cancer.
The study shows that two thirds of cancer types are simply chance.
But the remaining third are still heavily influenced by the choices we make.
Too much booze, time in the sun or being overweight mean we are playing with loaded dice and the odds are not in our favour.
Remember smoking accounts for a fifth of all cancers worldwide.
These findings are a reminder that cancer is often just bad luck and the only option is early detection.
But that's not an excuse to give up on those new year's resolutions already.
In the US, 6.9% of people develop lung cancer, 0.6% brain cancer and 0.00072% get tumours in their laryngeal (voice box) cartilage at some point in their lifetime.
Toxins from cigarette smoke could explain why lung cancer is more common.
But the digestive system is exposed to more environmental toxins than the brain, yet brain tumours are three times as common as those in the small intestine.
The team at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health believe the way tissues regenerate is the answer.
Old tired cells in the body are constantly being replaced with new ones made by dividing stem cells.
But with each division comes the risk of a dangerous mutation that moves the stem cell one step closer to being cancerous.
The pace of turnover varies throughout the body with rapid turnover in the lining of the gut and a slower pace in the brain.
The researchers compared how often stem cells divided in 31 tissues in the body over a lifetime with the odds of a cancer in those tissues.
They concluded that two thirds of cancer types were "due to bad luck" from dividing stem cells picking up mutations that could not be prevented.
These cancer types included Glioblastoma (brain cancers), small intestine cancers and pancreatic cancers.
Cristian Tomasetti, an assistant professor of oncology and one of the researchers, said a focus on prevention would not prevent such cancers.
"If two thirds of cancer incidence across tissues is explained by random DNA mutations that occur when stem cells divide, then changing our lifestyle and habits will be a huge help in preventing certain cancers, but this may not be as effective for a variety of others.
"We should focus more resources on finding ways to detect such cancers at early, curable stages."
The remaining third of cancer types, which are affected by lifestyle factors, viruses or a heightened family risk, include some of the most common:
Two common types of cancer - breast and prostate - were not analysed as the researchers could not find a consistent rate of stem cell division in those tissues.
Separate research by Cancer Research UK shows more than four in 10 of the total number of cancers were down to lifestyle.
Dr Emma Smith, senior science information officer at the charity, told the BBC: "We estimate that more than four in 10 cancers could be prevented by lifestyle changes, like not smoking, keeping a healthy weight, eating a healthy diet and cutting back on alcohol.
"Making these changes is not a guarantee against cancer, but it stacks the odds in our favour.
"It's vital that we continue making progress to detect cancer earlier and improve treatments, but helping people understand how they can reduce their risk of developing cancer in the first place remains crucial in tackling cancer."
The 29-year-old Serb is the second big name to withdraw from the event, after world number one Andy Murray did likewise for the same reason.
Defending champion Djokovic apologised to fans who had bought tickets to see him play in Miami.
He lost to Australian Nick Kyrgios in straight sets in the last 16 at Indian Wells last week.
"My doctor has strongly advised against play because my elbow injury, that I keep carrying on for months, got worse in the past week," he said.
"I will do everything in my power to recover and do all the necessary therapy to be able to return on court as soon as possible."
Briton Murray will extend his lead at the top of the world rankings to more than 4,000 points as Djokovic will lose the points he earned from winning in Miami last year.
The Scot will lead the Serb by 3,090 points on Monday - but that will increase to more than 4,045 points at the beginning of next month.
Garden Within A Garden, by Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi, has been painted in Lister Park and City Park, Bradford.
More than one million Muslim, Sikh and Hindu soldiers fought for Britain between 1914 and 1918.
The work, inspired by Pakistani and Indian miniature painting, uses acrylics straight on the city's paving.
Qureshi lives in Lahore, in modern-day Pakistan, but that area as part of British India enlisted a large number of soldiers to fight for Britain.
"War is already about horrific images of blood and lost lives, so I came up with the idea of a garden in a garden", he said.
Councillor Sarah Ferriby said: " It is an opportune moment for us to reflect on the experiences of people from across the world who fought on the side of the Allies in the First World War and the invaluable contribution they made to the war efforts."
India gained independence from the British in August 1947 and split into two separate countries - the secular state of India dominated by Hindus and Muslim Pakistan.
Garden Within A Garden will be on display in Bradford until September.
It has been co-commissioned by 14-18 NOW, the UK's arts programme for the World War One centenary, Bradford Council and Yorkshire Festival 2016.
Mark Carriline, the executive director of children, young people and culture at Bury Council, has quit weeks after chief executive Mike Owen.
A disciplinary panel found him guilty of serious misconduct and recommended he be dismissed without notice.
It related to reports councillor Simon Carter made indecent images of children which he later admitted in court.
Carter, who represented Tottington ward from 2012, was given a three-year community sentence at Bolton Crown Court in October 2015.
Bury Council said its human resources panel had recommended Mr Carriline, who was understood by the BBC to be on more than £100,000 a year, be dismissed without notice last month.
The recommendation was due to go to a full council meeting before he quit.
Bury Council said in a statement: "Mark Carriline, the council's executive director for children, young people and culture, tendered his resignation this week which takes place with immediate effect.
"No payment has been made to Mr Carriline on his departure except that relating to outstanding holidays."
It added that Karen Dolton will continue in the statutory role of interim director of children's services.
Civil servants' latest estimates are that the department will recover just £1.8m of the grant. Officials have also told BBC Newsnight and BuzzFeed News that the now-insolvent charity served fewer people than they had expected.
In its publications, the organisation had claimed to "intensively" help 18,000 young people and to "reach" 36,000.
In correspondence with government, the charity said that its records showed that it supported 15,933 young people. These are the figures that officials had been working from.
Speaking to Radio 4's The Report on August 5, Camila Batmanghelidjh, the charity's chief executive and founder, had said that the figure of 15,933 represented "the most high-risk group of kids, that's what's sucking up all our money".
She said all of these clients had "keyworkers" allocated to them by the charity, to support them.
However, the charity has handed over records from its database relating to just 1,692 London clients - both adults and children. Of these, the charity had designated 331 as "high-risk". Bristol officials have been given details of a further 175 clients.
This week, a court approved a petition to wind up the insolvent charity, which no longer has employees or a spokesperson. One former senior staff member, who was a member of the charity's management at the end, however, insisted that the charity's user base was much larger.
Local and central government officials, however, believe the lower number of clients passed over to them broadly reflects the true size of the charity's client base - with one exception. They are concerned that some of the charity's staff may not have passed on details of clients whom they believed to be at risk of deportation.
The senior former staff member told Newsnight and BuzzFeed News that the charity's client group included people on limited visas, people without leave to remain and undocumented young people.
As the charity was shutting, Ms Batmanghelidjh told local authorities that the charity supported 3,000 clients who have no recourse to public funding because of their immigration status.
Civil servants and social workers do not believe that figure is correct, but are concerned that some vulnerable young people with visa problems may now be without support. Civil servants are also nervous that public funds from the Cabinet Office may previously have been used to support people who are in the UK illegally.
If the Cabinet Office does realise a £1.2m loss on the £3m grant, it will also reignite the controversy about why the grant was made to begin with. The payment, which was paid to allow the struggling charity to restructure itself, was made despite the Cabinet Office's most senior civil servant advising against it.
Richard Heaton, the permanent secretary of the Cabinet Office, sought a "ministerial direction" from ministers before making the payment. This is an unusual process by which senior officials can object to ministerial decisions. It was used just three times across government during the last parliament.
Mr Heaton objected to the payment in a letter on June 26. He noted that £4.3m had been paid to the charity in April to support Kids Company's work and the conditions attached to that grant had not been met.
He added: "the experience this Department has of the charity's management and capacity gives me limited confidence that Kids Company will successfully implement the changes they describe in their new restructuring plan".
Two Cabinet Office ministers, Matthew Hancock and Oliver Letwin, wrote jointly to direct him to pay the £3m. They acknowledged his concerns however: as a condition of the funding, they demanded that Camila Batmanghelidjh resign as chief executive of the charity, as part of an effort to restructure its management.
In their reply to him, they said: "We have noted your concerns about the confidence we can place in Kids Company's ability and capacity to restructure in a way that will secure its long term viability, based on the department's previous experience, and therefore the value for money of making this payment.
"But equally, we are very mindful of the inspirational work that Kids Company does with young people, for which reason the government has contributed to it for several years."
Emails sent from the charity to civil servants in the week before it closed imply that the £1.2m public outlay allowed the charity to remain open for just 5 working days longer, before its sudden closure on 5 August.
Grants to Kids Company and the charity's management will both be scrutinised heavily in coming years. MPs expect that the National Audit Office and Public Accounts Committee will scrunitise the Cabinet Office's decisions.
Meanwhile, the Charity Commission has now opened an investigation, stating this week that it is "conducting a live compliance case into Kids Company. The case is examining and scrutinising various concerns about alleged financial management and governance issues in connection with the charity".
The Metropolitan police are also conducting an investigation involving the charity.
The inquiry is being led by the complex case team of the Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command.
Local authority safeguarding officials and police officers have been investigating allegations that potential crimes that were not reported to the authorities, following concerns first raised by the joint Newsnight and BuzzFeed News investigation.
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The campervan is packed and ready. Flights, ferries and trains have been booked. The Euro 2016 travel checklist has been printed.
Match tickets? Sun cream? Dreams of glory? Check, check and check.
Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland fans are about to take the trip of a lifetime to Euro 2016 - and we want your help to get a fan's eye view of all the football action.
During the tournament, we're asking those travelling across France to tell us your thoughts, views and plans for Euro 2016.
We want everything - pictures, reaction, stories and video - that will tell the fullest story of fans on the road at the tournament.
We'll include them on our Fans' Diary page - a daily look at the Gallic travels of the Green and White Army and The Boys in Green.
To help us on our way, we've enlisted two groups of travelling supporters to chronicle their Euro journey.
For Northern Ireland, the group is headed up by Ian Hughes, brother of 100-cap international Aaron Hughes who'll be on the pitch at Euro 2016.
Ian and company will be updating us on their campervan journey following the GAWA through Nice, Lyon and Paris.
On the Republic of Ireland side, we have Kevin McDaid, from Derry, who'll be travelling to his fourth major tournament to support the team.
We'll be following Kevin and crew's journey as they take planes, trains and automobiles on their way around the tournament.
But, remember, if you have emptied the bank account and are about to set off to Euro 2016 then we want to know how you are getting on too.
You can send us your photos and videos - message the BBC Newsline Facebook page, tweet it to us using the hashtag #Eurofans or send it to BBC News NI on Instagram, #EuroFans .
Whether it's larking in Lyon, driving through Dordogne or pogoing in the Parc Des Princes, keep us up to date on all your movements through the fan experience in France.
And, you never know - with a bit of luck. you could still be on the #Eurofans trail come Sunday, 10 July when the final kicks off at the Stade de France.
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Japan ruled Korea from 1910 until the Japanese surrendered after World War Two in 1945.
Afterwards, Soviet troops occupied the area north of the 38th parallel, and US troops the south.
The tensions between north and south centred on the differences between democracy and communism.
An industrial boom in the decades that followed the Korean War allowed South Korea to prosper. North Korea, however, became isolated under the Kim family dynasty.
It means that the divisions put in place mid-way through the 20th Century remain stark today.
The regulator said that 6.1m gas and electricity accounts had been transferred during the year - about 800,000 more than in 2014.
The news was welcomed by consumer groups, which said competition in the market was improving.
"It's encouraging to see switching levels at their highest level for four years," said Ofgem's Rachel Fletcher.
The big six energy companies have all cut prices for their gas customers this year by at least 5.1%, but there have been no reductions to electricity tariffs.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) - whose report on the energy market is due next month - has said that householders could save up to £234 a year by switching.
However, Ann Robinson, from the price comparison site Uswitch, said that recently consumers had been making much larger savings than that.
In the last three months of 2015 the average switcher's dual fuel saving was £337, she said.
For 10% of people, they were saving as much as £567 a year.
Earlier this year Ofgem accused the energy companies of overcharging many of their customers.
But for the industry, Energy UK said there was a competitive market.
The CMA is due to release its provisional remedies report in March, with a final report to be published on 25 June.
Among other options, it is considering a possible price cap on the most expensive tariffs.
The man, who police say was working on a renovation of the bank, left his phone in his vehicle before getting stuck in the drive-thru ATM's vault.
The unnamed workman was freed after shouting to ATM users, who continued withdrawing cash throughout his ordeal on Wednesday in Corpus Christi.
Police thought it a hoax before kicking in a door to withdraw him.
"Sure enough, we can hear a little voice coming from the machine, so we're all thinking this is a joke, it's gotta be a joke," said police officer Richard Olden.
One handwritten note slipped by the trapped man to a customer said: "Please Help. I'm stuck in here, and I don't have my phone. Please call my boss." The message included the employer's phone number.
The man was freed after spending more than two hours inside the Bank of America machine.
Officer Olden told local media: "Everyone is okay, but you will never see this in your life, that somebody was stuck in the ATM, it was just crazy."
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The 32-year-old woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, telephoned 999 on the morning of 9 April 2014 to say she had killed her five-month-old baby.
Police and paramedics took the child to Royal Victoria Hospital. He died four weeks later.
The woman will appear again for sentencing at a later date.
The court also heard that the woman felt that she had no other option but to kill her five-month old and possibly herself as well as her other son.
The woman, who was said to be suffering from psychotic episodes, was originally charged with murder.
However, a prosecuting solicitor said that medical and legal experts agreed that the appropriate charge was the lesser charge of infanticide.
The prosecutor added that it was also accepted in such cases that the appropriate sentence was probation, a community-based sentenced coupled with continued mental health treatment.
Her defence lawyer described the situation as "a very sad case in which a caring young mother was driven to do something unthinkable due to a depressive episode".
The judge said he wished to review the case before passing sentence.
Staff at William Booth House said it was full most nights after demand for the hostel's services increased.
Principal project worker Graham Di Duca said the 113-bed building had "been on virtually 100% occupancy" for the past six months.
Local charities hope a new £5m hostel, opening next month, will help to address the problem of homelessness.
Mr Di Duca said the number of people seeking the Salvation Army's help had escalated in the past few months due cuts in support services.
He said: "It isn't a change in the causes of homelessness. It is certainly a change provision for the homeless that's creating this pressure.
"Budget cuts have undoubtedly had an impact on most service providers."
A new £5m hostel, named The Crossing, is set to open in August. Funded by Hull City Council and local charities, it will provide temporary accommodation for 46 people.
It replaces an older facility and will increase the total number of hostel beds available to the homeless in Hull by five.
One resident at William Booth House is Fred Clarke who became homeless after his relationship with his girlfriend broke down.
He has been homeless for a month and had to spend several nights on the streets before he managed to get a bed at the hostel.
Mr Clarke, who is visually impaired, said he thought he could not have survived more than a few days living on the streets.
He said: "It does get a bit scary at night-time and especially at weekends when everyone's been out drinking and they're getting a bit rowdy and that, and the police are flying around and ambulances.
"It does worry you a bit you are going to get picked on because you're laid there on a seat trying to get some sleep."
In a video posted to Facebook, the unidentified driver cackles as he steers his truck into a water-soaked stretch of road to spray the riders.
The cyclists reported the incident to police after seeing the footage.
While many have condemned the driver, some on social media criticised the cyclists for riding on a major road.
"So, we hate pushbikes," the driver can be heard saying as he films the video.
"We're not allowed to run them over. But hey, we can [mess] with them. Let's have a crack at [messing] with them."
"Yep - up ahead I see a little bit of water. So, now's a good time to start the overtaking manoeuvre, I believe."
The original video has been removed from social media, along with the profile of the person who posted it.
Regardless of the legal outcome of the incident, in a city of more than five million people, it is another avoidable confrontation between motorists and bike riders.
As someone who cycles in Sydney, it is easy to feel like a second class citizen on two wheels.
Investment in major infrastructure seems to favour suburban sprawl and car culture rather than high-density living and public transport.
New South Wales is building a motorway that will reportedly cost more than the Channel Tunnel, the new public transport ticketing system is seen as a debacle, and it brought in news laws to force cyclists to carry photo identification.
Cyclists, like motorists, aren't perfect. They run through red lights, hog lanes, cut off pedestrians and sometimes ride as though no laws apply to them.
But cyclists are also vulnerable. In a collision, a driver might walk away with a massive dent and steeper insurance premiums; a cyclist might not walk away at all.
One of the cyclists, identified only as Blake, said he thought the footage struck a chord because it "could've been any one of us".
"That's the scary part of being a cyclist in Sydney, 95% of drivers are very courteous, they can sacrifice the 15 seconds we may hold them up occasionally," he told the Sydney Morning Herald.
"It only takes one split-second accident that can really change someone's life for the worst."
But on Facebook, many users were praising the truck driver for his actions and criticising the cyclists for being on a major road.
"Awww boo hoo, they shouldn't be on major roads anyway, got nothing against people cycling but in areas that aren't going to be a hindrance to traffic flow," said one typical comment.
The incident occurred on a stretch of road near Sydney Airport where cyclists are permitted to ride.
The cyclists were in the middle lane because all traffic in the left lane, which the truck driver occupied, is funnelled on to a section of a major freeway where cyclists are not permitted to ride.
A week-long event at Plas Newydd gardens will highlight the importance of hives to the ecosystem.
Keeper Katie Hayward from Felin Honey Bees said the species "could become extinct in my lifetime".
Ms Hayward said people could put sugar water and plant lavender in their gardens to feed bees.
The event is the first bee week run the National Trust gardens, which has hives full of native honeybees.
A glass hive will be on show to offer the chance to see up close how bees go about producing honey and beeswax.
Ms Hayward said bees were "vital to everything we do" and she hoped the week would encourage people to do their bit to help stop bees from dying out.
The bodies, believed to be Shelley Saxton-Cooper, 45 and Simon Saxton-Cooper, 50, were found after emergency services were called to a house in Riddings, Derbyshire.
Post-mortem examinations found Shelley died as a result of stab wounds and Simon died from smoke inhalation.
The cause of the fire is not yet known.
Police launched a murder inquiry after the couple were found dead in the partly-collapsed building on Sunday.
The blaze destroyed much of the building's roof and fire crews had to wait several hours for the remaining structure to be declared safe before they could recover the victims' remains.
On Monday, Ch Supt Sunita Gamblin said: "We believe that Shelley was wounded before the explosion and fire. We are treating her death as murder.
Police and fire services are conducting an ongoing investigation and a report is being compiled for the coroner.
It is not believed anyone else was involved, Derbyshire police said.
A pet dog which escaped the blast is being looked after by relatives of the couple.
Hundreds of people were unable to attend the Bestival music event on the Isle of Wight in September 2015 after £60,000 worth of tickets were mis-sold.
Benjamin Hyland-Ward, 19, of Westfield Avenue South, Saltdean, East Sussex, had pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation at Lewes Crown Court.
He was sentenced on Friday to 21 months in a young offenders' institution.
Bobby Zamora put the visitors in front from close range on 58 seconds after Tomer Hemed's shot hit the bar.
Andre Gray equalised from the penalty spot three minutes later, his 11th goal of the season, after Lewis Dunk pulled Michael Keane's shirt.
Both sides had chances to win it, with Burnley's Chris Long poking the best opportunity wide in injury time.
Chris Hughton's Brighton, who have now drawn eight of their league matches this season, remain second but are level on points with leaders Hull, while the Clarets stay fifth.
Burnley, forced into their first change in five games with Rouwen Hennings coming in for the injured Sam Vokes, had barely touched the ball when they fell behind.
The Clarets' defence failed to clear, which left Zamora the simplest of tap-ins for the 178th goal of his career.
After Gray's composed penalty levelled matters, the game flowed from end to end inside the opening 20 minutes as Brighton goalkeeper David Stockdale pulled off two fine saves and Hemed smashed over.
Things eventually settled down either side of the break but came to life again in the closing stages as both sides went in search of a winner.
Burnley's Scott Arfield dragged a shot inches past the post while unmarked before substitute Long stabbed off target when he should have done better.
Burnley manager Sean Dyche:
"Brighton are a good side and they've made a mark for themselves this season by being unbeaten.
"We've opened up enough chances to win the game. But it was a very close game between two even sides I feel.
"The good thing I like about this group is they don't take knocks to heart. They come and react immediately and I thought they did. I thought we were on the front foot for a lot of the game against a good side."
Brighton boss Chris Hughton:
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"I thought it was a fair result actually. After two very early goals, I suppose a lot of people might have thought it was going to be that type of game.
"But you've got two teams here that are both motivated and want to try and win and certainly don't want to lose.
"I think on the balance of play it was a fair result, particularly with us being the away team and Burnley being a very good team."
The newlyweds, who have not been formally identified, had just married when the Suzuki Ignis they were in and an HGV collided on Friday on the A64.
Joy and Derek Green also died at the scene between Malton and Scarborough at Scampston, according to their daughter who has posted a Facebook tribute.
The 26-year-old driver of the lorry was uninjured.
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Melanie Ann Green said in the tribute: "Yesterday was the worst day of my life.
"I know a great many people loved my parents, they were amazing, wonderful, weird people, they opened their hearts to the entire world. They were my world."
Ms Green named the newlyweds as her "Uncle Paul and his partner Sue".
She said the two couples were returning from the wedding in Leeds.
She has asked people "to respect our grief and our privacy".
Traffic Sgt Paul Cording, of North Yorkshire Police, said people at the scene had been confronted by "the carnage of a very serious road traffic collision".
Officers said those killed were from Scarborough and Leeds.
The road was closed in both directions to allow investigators to examine the scene, with it reopening early on Saturday.
Witnesses have been asked to contact North Yorkshire Police.
The International Cycling Union (UCI) said it was investigating an incident of "technological fraud" in the women's under-23 race.
The race was won by Great Britain's Evie Richards, but none of the podium finishers is under suspicion.
If confirmed it would be the first case of its kind in elite cycling.
The UCI said in a statement that the bike "has been detained for further investigation".
A blog claimed Ben Foday said he was "very against" gay marriage, at a Cardiff South and Penarth constituency hustings.
He has since told BBC Wales he was asked to comment on laws being passed without proper consultation, or without the policy being in a party manifesto.
Mr Foday said he "fully supports" gay marriage and "equal rights".
"In the hustings I was asked for my view on parliament passing legislation without proper consultation, or without the policy having been in the party's manifesto, I said that I was against that," Mr Foday said.
"I am sorry if this was interpreted to mean that I was against gay marriage.
"That is certainly not the case, I fully support gay marriage and equal rights," he added.
A full list of candidates standing in Cardiff South and Penarth can be seen here.
Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz said this week engine supplier Renault's lack of competitiveness was affecting his desire to stay in Formula 1.
Ferrari team boss Maurizio Arrivabene said: "It is easy to be happy when you win four championships and easy to complain when you are not winning.
"You have to accept when something goes wrong and when it goes right."
Red Bull won four consecutive drivers' and constructors' world titles from 2010 to 2013 but have struggled since the start of the new turbo hybrid engine era last year because Renault have been left behind by Mercedes.
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Arrivabene said fluctuating competitive cycles for different teams are a fundamental part of the sport.
"F1 is like this," Arrivabene said. "You could have a couple of years when you are winning and a couple when you are losing and this is the beauty because if everything is predictable it is not a race, it is something different."
Mateschitz said of Renault: "They take from us not only time and money but also the will and motivation.
"There is no driver and no chassis which is able to compensate for this lack of horsepower."
And he reiterated a threat Red Bull could quit the sport if they cannot get a competitive engine.
"You cannot force someone to stay when he wants to leave," Mateschitz said, speaking to the Speed Week website he owns.
An awful lot has changed about the Hammers in that time - although not their manager Sam Allardyce, of course.
But what is new is more than just their improved style of play, an influx of players, the number of goals they have scored or their lofty position in the league table.
The club seems to have a different mentality now, from Allardyce and his team through to their supporters.
That was evident before, during and after Saturday's 2-2 draw with Stoke, a result and performance that, on the face of it, was nothing to get excited about.
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It was not the sort of swashbuckling display that saw them put Manchester City to the sword last weekend and climb to fourth in the Premier League table.
But, in its own way, West Ham's fightback for a point against the Potters - and the way their fans reacted during it - showed what is different about the Hammers this season.
For a start, it did not happen during any of their 19 league games on the road last campaign, when they did not pick up a single point from a losing position away from home.
This season, they had already done that once - in a 2-2 draw at Hull.
That, together with victories at Crystal Palace and Burnley, seemed to have boosted fans' morale for the trip to Stoke as much as the win over defending champions City.
"Last season, we would be going to places like this thinking it would be damage limitation but the players seem to have a totally different outlook now," Hammers fan Tony Clement, 66, told BBC Sport before kick-off on Saturday.
"Everybody is always up for the big teams when they come to your ground but it is when you go to these places you can really notice the difference.
"We were not very good in the first half at Burnley. Last year, we would have lost that game, and quite easily too.
"This time, we stuck at it and we won."
They did not get the win this time, but apart from the result, things panned out pretty much the same at the Britannia Stadium as they did at Turf Moor.
For an hour, West Ham were awful, and deservedly trailed 2-0.
Six months ago there might have been a very different reaction from the stands but, this time, there were no boos, and certainly no banners.
Because of that, there was no in-fighting either. The fans got behind their team, and the players battled on.
"It was always a minority who were in the 'Sam Out' brigade," Keith Meredith, 45, told BBC Sport.
"I was quite near that banner at The Hawthorns, and a few people tried to tear it down.
"This season the atmosphere has been vastly different. People are really behind the team."
It was hard to find any anti-Allardyce fans at all at the Britannia, perhaps understandably given the Hammers' recent form.
They might be below ground right now, but do they actually deserve some credit for their protests last season, if they brought about the investment in the team that has led to its rapid improvement?
Probably the only thing West Ham fans argued about on Saturday was whether that change would have happened anyway.
"I would say the protests prompted the board to go out and spend some money and get the players we needed," Meredith added.
"I was at The Hawthorns and I did not completely disagree with that banner," said Rachel Lynskey, a Hammers season ticket-holder for more than 10 years.
"I did not think getting rid of Sam would necessarily fix things, but something had to happen, and it has."
"I don't think the fans forced the change on their own," added Dan Furey, 30.
"It has been a collective effort - the supporters, the board and Allardyce too."
At least Allardyce can definitely claim all the credit for the turnaround at Stoke.
True, he was initially at fault for playing only one striker in the absence of Diafra Sakho through injury, but he recognised that and changed things around at half-time.
By bringing on Carlton Cole to provide Enner Valencia more support, he could give Stewart Downing a more central role behind the front two, and the latter pair would link up decisively.
And significantly, it was his initiative alone - without needing jeers to tell him where he was going wrong.
In fact, the majority of the West Ham faithful at the Britannia Stadium seemed to be on his side, and say they will stay that way even when their current run of four games unbeaten is over.
"If things go badly, it is not a reason to have a go at Sam anymore," Daniel Morgan, 35, explained.
"If we slip up then people will accept it. I think it is a case of how we slip up as much as anything else."
"I am happy at the moment because we are playing the style I wanted," added Graham Jones, 60.
"As long as we don't go back to playing Andy Carroll and Kevin Nolan up front and playing the long ball, then I think I will be quite happy for the rest of the season."
"Hopefully people will stay off his back," said Paul Gray, 35.
"And hopefully the board will give him a new contract when his current one ends at the end of this season.
"My concern is that he is not the face of what they want at West Ham with us moving to the Olympic Stadium in 2016.
"But in my opinion they should sit him down and offer him a new deal now."
'Big Sam in'? You heard it here first.
Graham Capocci spent seven years amassing the library, which was dubbed a "horror show" by Judge Peter Davies.
Carlisle Crown Court heard police raided the 44-year-old's Wellington Row home in Whitehaven last year and seized computer equipment.
Capocci pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent photographs of a child and was jailed for a year.
The hearing heard how hundreds of the images were said to be classed as category A - the most serious.
Hundreds more were listed as category B and 235,000 were ranked in category C, the court heard.
Wang, 21, began day three as one of nine players with a share of the lead, a European Tour record, and moved to 15 under with a seven-under 65.
He did not drop a shot in his round, which also included three successive birdies on the ninth, 10th and 11th.
Spain's Nacho Elvira and South Africa's Jaco van Zyl are tied second on 12 under before Sunday's final round.
"My irons and putting have been really good this week, so I have a good chance to win," said Wang, who is attempting to win his third European Tour title.
Wales' Bradley Dredge was the first-round leader and held a share of the lead after day two.
But his hopes of his first European Tour win since 2006 faded as a one-over 73, which included a double bogey on the 15th, left him in tied 18th, eight shots off the lead.
English pair Andy Sullivan and Nathan Kimsey are tied fifth on 10 under after rounds of 70 and 66 respectively.
Kimsey, 23, is playing in only his fourth European Tour event and has never finished inside the top 10.
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There is speculation that ex-Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho will replace him in the summer, but the Dutchman intends to honour his three-year contract.
Van Gaal told reporters: "Next year you will see me again."
United host Leicester on Sunday hoping to close the gap on the top four and deny the Foxes the victory that would hand them the title.
Van Gaal added: "We always knew that the process would take three years. I wanted to sign only for two years. The club wanted me to sign for three years, not me.
"Every week for six months I have been 'sacked' - and yet I am still here. But this has happened to me at every club I have been at."
26 July 2017 Last updated at 09:23 BST
You will see the striped flag a lot at Pride festivals. These festivals, which started with an event in London in 1972, celebrate the gay community and show support for equal rights for everyone.
The flag is flown in cities across the world and many people wear it as part of their outfits to show their support for the gay community.
But where did the flag come from?
In a statement, the company said it expected to make between $8.15 and $8.35 a share with revenue between $93bn (£65bn) and $95bn, lower than forecasts of $9.41 per share from revenue of $97bn.
Shares dropped 9% in early trading in New York.
Boeing said it expects to deliver 740 to 745 planes this year, down from 762 in 2015.
Net income in the fourth quarter fell to $1.03bn from $1.47bn a year earlier.
"Boeing extended its leadership of the aerospace industry in 2015 with record deliveries and revenues in commercial airplanes, and solid sales and healthy margins in our defense and space business," said the president and chief executive Dennis Muilenburg.
And he sounded an upbeat note for the year ahead, despite the weaker forecast.
"With clear strategies and strong positions in our markets, a large and diverse order backlog worth nearly $500bn, and multiple additional production rate increases planned yet this decade, we are well positioned for profitable growth and higher cash flow as we move into our second century in business," Mr Muilenburg said.
The jetliner is celebrating 100 years of existence this year.
Last week the company announced it would halve production of its 747-8 jumbo jet, taking production from 12 to six, due to slowing demand. As a result, it took a charge of $569m.
Richard Aboulafia, from the aerospace consultancy Teal Group, was not surprised by the results.
"Many people seemed to expect the amazing supercycle to continue forever. These results and guidance for 2016 show that we're clearly peaking," he said.
"On the positive side, they've made impressive progress on 787 production costs this quarter. They may even start to make money on a recurring basis this year," he added.
Six states vote on Tuesday, with California (543 delegates) and New Jersey (142) the big prizes.
Associated Press said Mrs Clinton had already reached the 2,383 delegates needed, taking into account pledges of support from so-called superdelegates.
Rival Bernie Sanders insists it is too early to call the result.
Donald Trump has already secured the Republican nomination.
Voting also takes place on Tuesday in Democratic primaries in Montana (27 delegates), New Mexico (43) and South Dakota (25), with a caucus in North Dakota (23).
The final primary is in Washington DC on 14 June. It has 45 delegates.
AP says its count has Mrs Clinton on 1,812 pledged delegates and 571 superdelegates.
US media organisations say this means she will now become the first female nominee for a major US political party.
Superdelegates are party insiders who can pledge their support for a candidate ahead of the convention but do not formally vote for them until the convention itself.
It has taken a long 227 years to get even this far.
George Washington was elected president of a newly independent America in 1789. Forty-three men later (42 of them white) Hillary Clinton makes history today by being the first female nominee for the White House.
So why don't I feel more excited?
The lack of exuberance may come from the fact that this has all been going on for so long.
We've really been reworking a version of the "first viable female candidate for the presidency" story since 20 January 2007, the first time Hillary Clinton declared her candidacy for the White House.
We're exhausted. We've run out of superlatives. We've overused every anecdote from the former first lady, former senator, former secretary's well-covered life.
A woman president would be new, Hillary Clinton is not.
Why aren't we more excited about Clinton?
BBC North America editor Jon Sopel says the AP announcement could actually be a problem for Mrs Clinton, as it may depress turnout in Tuesday's primaries and creates the impression that she has only won because of the superdelegates and not the ordinary voters.
The Democratic Party has a far larger number of superdelegates than the Republicans, meaning a candidate would have to win 58.8% of primary and caucus votes cast under the party's proportional system to win by pledged delegates alone. Mrs Clinton has about 55% of the overall vote so far.
She did not claim victory after the AP announcement, telling supporters in Long Beach, California, on Monday: "We are on the brink of a historic and unprecedented moment but we still have work to do.
"We have six elections tomorrow and we're going to fight hard for every single vote, especially right here in California."
Mrs Clinton received another boost on Tuesday when the influential Democratic politician and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi endorsed her for president.
Bernie Sanders is hoping for a victory in California to keep his campaign going to the party convention.
The Vermont senator has commanded huge crowds at his rallies, many of them younger voters, pledging action on income inequality, minimum wages and student tuition fees.
Opinion polls in California have suggested that the race with Mrs Clinton there is close. However, she has a substantial lead in New Jersey.
Reacting to the AP announcement, Sanders team spokesman Michael Briggs said: "It is unfortunate that the media, in a rush to judgement, are ignoring the Democratic National Committee's clear statement that it is wrong to count the votes of superdelegates before they actually vote at the convention this summer."
He said Mr Sanders would attempt to win back superdelegates.
But the BBC's Anthony Zurcher says Mr Sanders has been running an outsider's anti-establishment campaign that has not generated much enthusiasm among the Democratic power players and long-time party stalwarts who comprise the bulk of the superdelegates.
Also, our correspondent says, success in California hardly helped Mrs Clinton in 2008, when Barack Obama - with the support of superdelegates - defeated her.
AP reports White House officials as saying that Mr Obama is preparing to endorse Mrs Clinton in the next few days, although the announcement would come after Tuesday's primaries.
Mr Obama telephoned Mr Sanders on Sunday, AP said. The contents of the call have not been revealed.
On 26 May, Donald Trump passed the number of delegates needed to secure the Republican Party's presidential nomination, AP reported. Republicans are voting in the same states on Tuesday, except for North Dakota.
Mrs Clinton has been saying that Mr Sanders should join her in defeating Mr Trump and hopes for his support soon.
Adam, 30, has played seven times for Stoke this season but has not featured for his country since June 2015.
"He will probably say I've not played enough games but I disagree," Adam told BBC Radio 5 live's Monday Night Club.
"I'm not saying he should call me, but I feel I could add something."
Adam made the most recent of his 26 appearances for Scotland in a 1-0 friendly victory over Qatar.
He is again missing for Friday's World Cup qualifier against England at Wembley.
Strachan's squad includes 11 recognised midfielders, four of whom play in the Premier League.
Adam said: "He has given people an opportunity that have not played at their club for a number of months.
"We are not blessed with 50-60 top players. Obviously my face does not fit at the moment."
Stoke boss Mark Hughes said at the weekend that the former Liverpool and Blackpool player is "in good physical shape".
Adam said there was "no communication" with those left out, though former Scotland defender Gary Gillespie told the Monday Night Club that Strachan was under "no obligation" to make contact.
Strachan's side are fourth in their World Cup qualifying group after three games, behind England, Lithuania and Slovenia.
"There is pressure on him as we haven't started the campaign well," added Adam.
"I hope he stays because he is a good manager. He is the best man but I don't think he is picking the best players he has available."
Adam believes Aston Villa's Alan Hutton - who has made himself unavailable - is "the best right back we've got" and also feels Stoke's Phil Bardsley should be selected.
Meanwhile, former captain Barry Ferguson said new tennis world number one Andy Murray should be invited to the pre-match team meeting.
It comes after the government blocked a bid last year by Eggborough power station to convert from coal to biomass production.
Unions have warned that the full site, in Selby, could close, costing 800 staff and support workers their jobs.
Management at the plant says its future is in the hands of the government.
By Danni HewsonBusiness correspondent, BBC Yorkshire
Could Eggborough's closure really result in the nation's lights going out? Unions certainly want us to think so.
It's true that for the last 40 years the North Yorkshire coal-fired power station has been providing energy to around a million-and-a-half homes.
It's also true that the National Grid released figures in December suggesting the country's electricity reserves could fall as low as 2% next winter. Take out the 4% Eggborough regularly supplies and the maths are fairly straightforward.
But the National Grid's been aware for many years that ageing coal-fired stations would be coming off line; they say they have made allowances for that.
But apart from security of supply, there are bigger issues here; 800 jobs not being the least.
Finally, the Eggborough conversion would have been Britain's biggest infrastructure project in the first quarter of this year and delivered millions of pounds of private investment.
Now it's not quite dead in the water but it's not swimming either.
Paul Tomlinson, chief operating officer, said: "We're trying our hardest to make the future as long as possible for our employees.
"Where we seem to be stuck is that we've had no clarification about what we could have done to change the outcome.
"We're looking at Eggborough surviving beyond [September], but the ultimate decision is with the Department for Energy and Climate Change."
Operator Eggborough Power Ltd said, although one unit was expected to shut by September, it hoped to keep the rest of the site open "as long as we can".
However, failing a solution being found with the government, it was unlikely the plant would operate beyond 2015.
Eggborough worked for more than two years on the biomass conversion project, which was due to start in January.
But ministers rejected the plant's application after "altering the selection criteria" two weeks before announcing the successful projects, said unions.
Gary Smith, GMB national secretary for energy, said: "UK coal stations are becoming uneconomic because of the Treasury cash cow - the carbon tax.
"Stations like Eggborough try to do the right thing moving to renewables and they get a kick in the teeth in return."
Mike Macdonald, from the Prospect union, is demanding a change of heart in Westminster.
He said: "We urge the government to rethink the conversion proposals for the good of the plant, the staff employed there... and for the good of the bill-paying public."
Michael Fallon, energy minister, said: "Business decisions are ultimately a matter for Eggborough's owners.
"The rules and criteria we apply in selecting projects have not changed.
"Final decisions on which projects will receive government support under this process will be made this spring."
JB Kibbler, dubbed the Can Man, is a Vietnam War veteran who earns about $100 (£80) per month collecting aluminium cans in Memphis, Tennessee.
A motorist started a GoFundMe campaign after seeing Mr Kibbler, 65, at a petrol station.
The campaign had raised nearly $30,000 by Friday afternoon.
The fundraiser began with a $20 bill that local musician Matt White recently gave Mr Kibbler after seeing him digging in refuse for cans by a garage forecourt.
When asked if he was homeless, Mr Kibbler said he lived in the area and is "a professional dumpster diver for cans".
He said he uses the meagre income to supplement his disability money to "keep the lights on" and care for his four grandchildren.
Mr Kibbler, whose wife died two years ago, lives with the girls, aged five, six, eight and 10, in a low-income part of town, where they do not even have a door in their bathroom, reports Inside Edition.
He said that despite being legally blind, he is able to collect tin cans "by the grace of God".
He earns about 40p per pound of his precious metal, and has been making his living this way for the past 25 years, according to the GoFundMe page.
"That's all I can do. I can't go out and get a job or nothing 'cause I can't see well enough," he said of his job, which he said he does eight hours a day, seven days a week.
The online campaign was reportedly launched without Mr Kibbler's knowledge.
In this local news report, he is astounded to learn about the tens of thousands of dollars that have been raised for him.
Mr White also raised funds for Memphis teenager Chauncy Jones Black, who lives with his disabled mother.
An online campaign raised over $340,000 for him.
The charitable fundraiser follows similar crowd-sourcing campaigns, including a recent one raised $380,000 for an elderly Chicago popsicle vendor.
Brent crude traded in a narrow range around $62 a barrel, before ending the day up 1.8% at $63.15.
West Texas Intermediate, or light sweet crude, was similarly indecisive, falling before recovering to about $58.9 a barrel, up 1.4%.
Oil prices had fallen 5% over the previous two sessions.
Investors had worried that Opec might increase supply, thereby pushing prices down - oil prices have fallen about 45% over the past year.
But Opec urged member countries to adhere to the production ceiling.
Qatar's Minister of Energy and Industry said: "We have witnessed much volatility in the global oil industry."
Mohammed Bin Saleh al-Sada said the markets have seen continued oversupply.
Opec has 12 member countries that between them sit on 80% of the world's oil reserves and produce about a third of the world's oil exports.
Earlier proposals for a shopping centre on the site in the Rhondda Cynon Taff town fell through in 2012 after the developer went into receivership.
The former Taff Vale Precinct was demolished in 2011 and the site has remained empty since.
The council is investing £1.5m in the site's redevelopment.
The proposals include three buildings with a walkway linking Taff Street to the river with views across to Ynysangharad War Memorial Park.
The council, which already owned the freehold, bought the leasehold of the site in 2015 in a bid to push the scheme forward.
Council leader Andrew Morgan said previous retail-led schemes planned for the area had failed, but he hoped the new office-led plans would bring "hundreds of people into the town, who in turn will spend their money locally and dramatically increase footfall".
"If we just simply brought forward proposals for a retail-only development, we could have potentially pulled existing retailers away from southern part of Pontypridd, even if a retail-led scheme could actually be delivered, which is very doubtful in this current retail climate," he said.
Robert Bevan, cabinet member for economic development and planning, said the project was "incredibly exciting".
"While ambitious, I firmly believe this is a deliverable proposal which will develop upon the potential which the Metro and City Deal have to offer for our wider economy," he said.
Subject to planning permission being granted in autumn, Mr Morgan said work could start in the "near future".
Their statements were read in court before the 84-year-old was sentenced for 12 indecent assaults on four girls, including one aged just seven or eight.
One victim said the abuse had destroyed her "childhood innocence", while another said the assaults made her feel "dirty, grubby and disgusting".
Others described how they had struggled to move on, with one saying the abuse had "haunted her".
Australian Tonya Lee - who has waived her right to anonymity - said Harris had taken her "ability to feel safe", adding that she remained in "a constant state of anxiety".
She was abused three times in one day by Harris while she was on a theatre group trip to the UK aged 15 in 1986.
"What Mr Harris took from me was my very essence," her statement said. "I believe that it was for Mr Harris a forgettable moment but it was something for me I will never move on from.
"I know the person I am today is not the person I should have been."
A statement from another victim - a childhood friend of Harris's daughter Bindi - said the continued abuse she suffered between the ages of 13 and 19 "had a detrimental effect on my life".
The victim, who was in court but spoke through her lawyer, said the assaults made her feel "dirty, grubby and disgusting", adding Harris had "used and abused me to such a degree that it made me feel worthless".
"As a young girl I had aspirations to have a career, settle down and have a family," she said.
"However, as a direct result of his actions, this has never materialised. The knowledge of what he had done to me haunted me."
She said the effects of the abuse have been with her for many years.
"I started drinking at the age of 14 to 15 years old. This was to block out the effects of what he was doing to me," she said.
She said that Harris had a hold over her that made her feel like "a quivering wreck" and "a sexual object".
Judge Justice Sweeney said he had no doubt that Harris had caused this victim "severe psychological harm" and that his crimes against her played a part in her becoming an alcoholic.
Speaking after sentencing, the victim described the jail term as "immaterial".
One victim, who was aged seven or eight when she was assaulted as she queued to get an autograph from the star, said she had "carried" what Harris did to her "for most of my life".
She was indecently assaulted at a community centre in Hampshire in 1968 or 1969 and said she later became "an angry child" who was "unable to trust men" as a result of the abuse.
Harris had taken away her "childhood innocence", she said.
Her statement said: "Something he did to me for fun that caused me physical and mental pain for his own pleasure and then probably forgot about as quickly as he did it has had a catastrophic effect on me."
Speaking outside court, a representative of this victim, said: "[She] had only eight years of her life without this incident going round in her head, and that was her first eight years.
"After these cameras have been dismantled and the media circus has rolled on to another town it will still be with her as it will be with the other girls."
A statement from the fourth victim, who had been working as a waitress at a charity event in Cambridge aged 13 or 14 when Harris abused her, said the experience had had a "huge impact on my life".
She said the star "treated me like a toy" he could play with for his own pleasure, and that he had "absolutely no regard for what he was inflicting".
She said she felt as though Harris acted "as if nothing had happened".
"That an adult man could do what he did to me made me feel so powerless," she added.
After sentencing, the woman told ITV News: "He was a celebrity. He was a family man. So you instantly trusted in him. He was a children's entertainer so by association you should be able to trust such a person.
"Everyone is laughing with him and adoring him, while you're having that done to you. It's an unbelievable feeling of a loss of trust and a loss of innocence."
Another woman, who said she was assaulted by Harris in Cambridge in 1977, has told the BBC he was a "fraud" who "hurt women".
Karen Gardner, who has waived her right to anonymity and who submitted written evidence to the trial, said the entertainer had put his arm round her and touched her breast.
"I was shocked, I was very surprised. This was the man who sang 'Two Little Boys' and painted lovely paintings," she said.
She told the BBC that Harris was not "the man he pretended to be".
Her claims did not form part of charges against Harris at his trial.
One woman told the BBC she met Harris when she was 18 and he was "very kind, very nice" - but then "sexually abused" her.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, gave evidence in the trial but the attack in Malta was not the subject of a prosecution because at the time of the incident the offence was outside the jurisdiction of a UK court.
She told BBC News: "In simple terms, he sexually abused me. It was quite intimate, it was forceful and it was scary.
"Actually at the time, I felt that I was going to be raped."
The 24-year-old prop has played 50 games since joining the club in the summer of 2014 from Buenos Aires-based San Cirano.
Lancuba has not added to his five international caps during his spell in Jersey, with his last Pumas appearance against Brazil in May 2013.
He may not play again in a Jersey shirt having been injured in a recent match against London Scottish.
He is the second prop this week to confirm he is leaving the islanders after Sam Lockwood agreed a summer move to Newcastle.
In a speech broadcast on Iranian television, Mr Rouhani said it was vital that the younger generation had access to the internet.
The president, who was elected in 2013, has vowed to support greater media freedom but has faced opposition.
Last week, prominent Iranian cleric Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi said mobile internet was "immoral and unlawful".
Conservative clerics oppose introducing mobile broadband services, saying they allow immoral images to be shared freely and more easily.
In recent weeks the government has awarded 3G licences to three mobile broadband companies, but experts say the proportion of Iranians using the service is still low.
Speaking on Monday, President Rouhani insisted the internet was crucial to connect with the world of science, saying: "We cannot close the gates of the world to our younger generation".
"If we do not move towards the new generation of mobile today and resist it, we will have to do it tomorrow. If not, the day after tomorrow," he said.
BBC Middle East analyst Sebastian Usher says President Rouhani's comments will resonate in Iran, but it is unclear if they will carry any real weight.
Iranians will be waiting to see if his latest statement of intent produces real change in the face of the usual resistance, our correspondent adds.
Iran's government cracked down on media freedom and internet access after widespread protests against the country's leaders in 2009, banning online services like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Since then, many Iranians have grown used to bypassing censorship controls by using proxy servers or other online tools.
It was his first address to the five million Moroccans in the diaspora since the recent attacks in Europe by Islamist militants.
European citizens of Moroccan origin were implicated in some attacks.
Condemning the murder of innocent people, the king singled out the killing of a priest in France.
Two followers of so-called Islamic State (IS) slit the throat of Father Jacques Hamel, 84, during Mass at his church in a suburb of Rouen.
"Killing a priest is forbidden by religion," King Mohammed said in his speech on Saturday evening.
"Murdering him inside a church is unforgivable madness, for he is a human being and a religious man - even if he is not a Muslim."
Two of the IS militants killed in the aftermath of the Paris attacks in November were Belgians of Moroccan origin, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader, and Chakib Akrouh, a suicide bomber.
The three IS militants who bombed Brussels in March, Khalid and Ibrahim el-Bakraoui and Najim Laachraoui, were also of Moroccan origin.
The king said that those who engaged in terrorism, in the name of Islam, were "not Muslims".
"Their only link to Islam is the pretexts they use to justify their crimes and their folly," he said. "They have strayed from the right path, and their fate is to dwell forever in hell."
Extremists, the Moroccan monarch said, were exploiting young Muslims to spread misleading messages about Islam and distort its peaceful values.
"They think - out of ignorance - that they are engaging in jihad," he said.
"Since when has jihad been synonymous with killing innocent people? The Almighty says: 'Do not transgress limits, for Allah loves not transgressors.'
"Is it conceivable that God... could order someone to blow himself up or kill innocent people? Islam, as a matter of fact, does not permit any kind of suicide - whatever the reasons or circumstances."
Under Mohammed VI, the Moroccan monarchy has taken on a more modern, reformist image.
A letter to Theresa May signed by 56 MPs urges her to review the gender balance of the negotiating team, one of whose nine top members is female.
It warns that women's input is needed to ensure workplace rights, such as maternity leave, are not watered down.
As prime minister, Mrs May is ultimately in charge of the talks.
The negotiations are being led on a day-to-day basis by Brexit Secretary David Davis and civil service "sherpas" led by Oliver Robbins, the permanent secretary at the Department for Exiting the Union (Dexu), and Sir Tim Barrow, the UK's permanent representative to the EU.
Of the nine senior figures listed by the government on the opening day of the negotiations last month, only one - Dexu's director of market access and budget Catherine Webb - is a woman.
Among signatories to a letter calling for the make-up of the team to be reviewed is Labour's former deputy leader Harriet Harman and Yvette Cooper, the chair of the home affairs select committee.
The letter points out that nearly half of the EU's negotiating team, which is led by former EU commissioner Michel Barnier, is female.
"While women form 51% of the population, 32% of Parliament, 50% of the shadow cabinet and 22% of your current cabinet, women form only 11% of the UK's negotiating team," they write.
"Brexit negotiations will need women's voices on mainstream issues like the economy as well as on directly addressing, for example, how we maintain workplace rights - much of which are underpinned by EU legislation.
"A watering-down of workers' rights would impact women the most."
Ms Harman told the Guardian that the team the UK was sending into battle was "out of touch with modern Britain" and looked like "the Kremlin from the 1950s".
"This is the old boys' network at the top of the civil service laid bare," she said. "This is not a meritocracy, it is a boys club... This is a self-perpetuating oligarchy of men at the top of the civil service."
There is one woman in Dexu's four-strong ministerial team, Baroness Anelay, while senior civil servants in the department include director of strategy and planning Joanna Key, director of planning and analysis Susannah Storey and director general Sarah Healey.
The first substantive week of Brexit talks is taking place in Brussels, with the issues on the table including citizen's rights, Northern Ireland, financial settlements and separation issues.
It happened on the A497 between Porthmadog and Criccieth at about 11:30 BST on Friday.
The road was reopened after the lorry was recovered. No-one was injured.
About 1,000 demonstrators gathered in Cardiff, with more in Swansea, Bangor, Aberystwyth and Cardigan.
First Minster Carwyn Jones has said a state visit to the UK by the US president "should be put on hold".
But the UK's Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said he would welcome Mr Trump to Wales.
On Friday, Mr Trump signed an executive order indefinitely banning all Syrian refugees and suspending the entry of all nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries.
The ban applies to nationals from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
Cardiff has one of the largest Somali communities in the UK.
Youth worker Ali Abdi said: "I think it's important to get behind protests like this. Today it's the Muslims, tomorrow it could be any other community just like us who are going to be persecuted.
"I think it's great to be standing side by side in solidarity."
American student Ash Cox organised the protest in Cardiff.
She said: "My ancestors on my father's side were Jewish immigrants seeking religious freedom.
"For us to turn away those seeking religious freedom now is really hypocritical."
Shavanah Taj, Welsh Secretary of PCS union accused President Trump of "normalising hatred, racism, bigotry, inequality and injustice."
"That is not something we should be signing up to," she said.
Katie Gill joined the protestors in Bangor.
"If it makes the person who delivered my daughter - a man from Libya - feel a little more assured that people don't think the same, that's something in my eyes."
Swansea protestor Bailey Ann said: "There could be a lot of young people that agree with Trump that will start being nasty to people of the same age from a different culture.
"There's no need for it. We should all be living in a peaceful, sound world."
Former Plaid Cymru assembly member and chief executive of Youth Cymru, Helen Mary Jones attended the protest in Cardiff.
She said: "A lot of young people in minority communities are feeling really frightened in this kind of environment and they need to hear the message that we're sending today.
"Refugees are welcome in our communities and we won't put up with people not being allowed to travel because of the colour of their skin or the faith that they believe in."
Downing Street has rejected calls to cancel the state visit, saying it would be a "populist gesture".
Mr Jones has told Prime Minister Theresa May that a state visit from Mr Trump would be "difficult in current circumstances" at their meeting in Cardiff on Monday.
He said the UK has to "deal" with the US government, "but that doesn't mean we simply accept without criticism everything that is said."
Mr Cairns said while he disagreed with the immigration ban, he would "of course" welcome Donald Trump to Wales.
He told the BBC's Good Morning Wales programme that "positive engagement" was the best way to work with the new US president.
Protestors began gathering in Cardiff's Queen Street before 19:00 GMT on Monday, swelling to about 1,000 people despite the rain.
A further 700 demonstrators descended on events in Swansea, on Aberystwyth's prom, and in Bangor's city centre in Gwynedd.
About 40 anti-Trump protestors gathered outside Cardiff City Hall where the Joint Ministerial Committee, which included Prime Minister Theresa May, was held earlier in the day.
Some unfurled a banner reading: "Deals with the Devil", and as Mrs May left City Hall there were boos and shouts of "Theresa the Appeaser".
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said: "Trump's actions have rightly been met with anger around the world and should be condemned without reservation by us all."
Shadow Defence Secretary Nia Griffith told the House of Commons she was "embarrassed and ashamed" by Theresa May's decision to "hold Trump's hand instead of holding him to account".
She said: "Her belated and limp reply of 'we do not agree' was pathetic."
Stephen Talbot, 58, from Wamphray, was last seen at about 16:00 on Monday.
He had been on a camping trip at Garrogill, near Moffat, where mountain rescue teams and a police helicopter had been carrying out extensive searches.
Police Scotland said the search has been suspended while identification of the body takes place.
Educational material on dementia is being made available to schools, in conjunction with the Alzheimer's Society.
Education Minister Kirsty Williams said the resources would help develop young people's "understanding and compassion for people affected by dementia".
It is estimated there are 45,000 people with dementia in Wales.
The initiative was launched at Ysgol Maesydderwen in Ystradglynlais on Friday.
Ms Williams said ministers were committed to making Wales a "truly dementia-friendly nation" and that "starts with education and raising awareness".
Sue Phelps, director of the Alzheimer's Society in Wales, added: "These resources will help young people to better understand dementia and how to support people living with the condition in their family or community.
"Young people today have an important role to play and can change the future for people with dementia in Wales."
Hospital statistics revealed there were 632 new cases between September 2014 and March 2015, a report from the West Midlands Police and Crime Panel said.
Between January and November last year 118 cases were referred to the West Midlands force.
A new task force to tackle mutilation was being launched, the panel said.
Further work could be carried out to consider "how to achieve best outcomes in tackling FGM", it said.
The panel said there was "inconsistency across the region" and "different areas and organisations are at different places to deal with this form of child abuse".
Muslim Women's Network UK said flashbacks at least twice a week were common in the women it had been talking to, the report stated.
A regional task force would ensure "better co-ordination of agencies" to eradicate the practice, which has been illegal in Britain for 30 years, the panel said.
The report said: "We call upon all relevant authorities, including those involved in law enforcement, the justice system and public health, to do everything in their power to protect young girls from this life-endangering, health-threatening crime."
There had been no reports to West Midlands Police of mutilation in the area but there had been some intelligence to suggest girls "are brought to Birmingham to be cut", the panel said.
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The attacker rammed a car carrying explosives into General Mohamed Jimale Goobale's convoy near the defence ministry headquarters in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital.
Al-Shabab claimed the attack and accused the general of plotting against them.
He had survived several previous assassination attempts.
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Witnesses in Mogadishu reported hearing a huge explosion.
"The suicide car bomb hit the car they were in. May God rest their souls," police colonel Abdikadir Farah told the Reuters news agency.
A radio station linked to al-Shabab reported a "martyr" had killed the general.
Voting for a new parliament begins on 25 September in Somalia. Lawmakers will then choose a president on 30 October.
Al-Shabab opposes the government of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who is backed by Western powers and seeking re-election.
The INVENTORS! Project asked over 450 children in Sunderland in the north of England to draw their inventions.
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Johnson-Thompson came into the final event, the 800m, needing a 17-second swing to finish with bronze but failed to achieve the improbable feat.
Belgium's Olympic champion Nafissatou Thiam won gold with 6,784 points.
Meanwhile, Briton Holly Bradshaw finished sixth in the pole vault after failing to clear 4.75m.
The 25-year-old, who set a new British record of 4.80m in May, cleared 4.65m on her third attempt.
Johnson-Thompson came into the second day of competition in fourth place after a mixed Saturday.
She produced only 1.86m in the high jump and was 13th in the field after a 12.47m shot-put. However, a superb 200m saw her move her up to fourth by the end of the first day.
The 24-year-old then improved a place with a leap of 6.56m in the long jump. However, both Dutch athlete Anouk Vetter (58.41) and Cuba's Yorgelis Rodriguez (47.41m) threw much further than Johnson-Thompson (41.72m) in the javelin to leapfrog the Briton going into the final event.
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The 24-year-old said she would focus on the positives.
"I feel like one of these days it will happen for me," she tells BBC Sport.
"There is a lot to work on. It's been completely stripped down... my mental attitude, the way I approach training, the way I approach each competition.
"Everyone said it was going to take a couple of years but I wanted it to come together at London 2017. But I feel very positive for the future."
Germany's Carolin Schafer took silver with 6,696 points and Vetter of the Netherlands, who produced a championship best javelin throw of 58.41m, claimed bronze with 6,636.
Three-time world champion Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill suggested that Johnson-Thompson could seek advice from her former coach Toni Minichello.
"I would offer advice if she came to me and if she wanted to hear my experiences. But the mental side of things is quite a hard thing to master and that is part of our event, unfortunately," she said.
"Toni is a fantastic coach. He's been brilliant for me throughout my career and we've worked really well together.
"She could definitely take advice from him but it's her decision, it's her path that she wants to take and she's made a big decision to move to France already and I'm imagining she's going to want to see that through a bit longer and see where that takes her next year."
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"It was really frustrating," Bradshaw told BBC Sport. "I'm not sure what happened because I am in great shape, but the conditions were difficult.
"I don't want to use that as an excuse but everything seemed to go against me, but fair play to the other women who performed out there.
"I am really heartbroken. I've worked so hard over the last few years to overcome injuries and I'm in the best shape of my life, but I am just really confused and disappointed.
"Just to be here is such a privilege and I'm trying not to lose sight of that. The crowd were amazing and I need to look to the future now and move on."
Greece's Katerina Stefanidi's took gold with 4.91m and American Sandi Morris (4.75m) claimed silver. Venezuela's Robeilys Peinado and Cuba's Yarisley Silva both took bronze with 4.65m after clearing the height by fewer attempts than Bradshaw.
UK Sport has set Great Britain a target of six to eight medals. Mo Farah's gold in the 10,000m on Friday is the only medal Britain has won so far. That total could improve on Monday as double European indoor champion Laura Muir goes in the 1500m final.
Kelly Sotherton, former British heptathlete, told BBC Radio 5 live: "We're supposed to have home advantage and the team will look at things they can do better, but it's a bit premature to judge the British performance this early. We should have this conversation next weekend.
"There are lots of great youngsters who could potentially use this home advantage and step up. We can't be too downbeat at the moment.
"We have put so much pressure on the team and that hasn't been dealt with very well. The success of the championships - are they viewed on how many medals the team win or how well we've hosted the championships?"
Its portrayal of female characters such as assassin Black Widow by Scarlett Johannsson had been called sexist.
Comic-book fans had also criticised Marvel's Avengers superhero film's plot, on the social network.
Immediately prior to deleting his account, Whedon tweeted: "Thank you to all the people who've been so kind and funny and inspiring up in here".
Soon after, a search for an account under the @josswhedon handle returned a "page not found" error.
One critic had created a widely shared montage image showing many of the messages sent to Whedon.
Many called him sexist and misogynistic and said he had done a "hatchet job" on Black Widow, also known as Natasha Romanoff.
One asked why the words "strong female character" were not in his vocabulary.
But many of Whedon's fans have now turned on the critics, subjecting some to harassment and abuse.
Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt accused them of having "chased Joss Whedon off Twitter".
Whedon had been a high-profile user of Twitter, calling it "enormous work - very fun".
In early April, he issued an apology after tweeting a clip from the forthcoming Jurassic World film was "70s era sexist", saying his criticism of another person's work in this way had been "bad form".
In the past, Whedon has used his Twitter account to voice his support for activist Anita Sarkeesian, who has done work to highlight the misogyny and sexism in many video games.
Prior to directing the two Avengers films, Whedon was best known for writing and directing the Buffy: The Vampire Slayer TV series.
The 35-year-old had played less than an hour of rugby all season before coming back from a shoulder problem on Sunday.
"To be out that long I feel pretty guilty about it - I haven't done much for the club, so I felt I owed a big performance," he told BBC Bristol.
"The main thing I was thinking was 'just don't get injured.'"
Henson slotted a drop-goal and kicked three penalties as Bristol, bottom of the Premiership, beat Bath for the first time in 11 years to move to within two points of 11th-placed Worcester.
He lasted just 12 minutes on his previous injury comeback in November and has spent almost four months on the sidelines since.
"It's been tough being out for so long and I become a loner when I'm injured," he added.
"I was so tired. I was tired from the first minute and I was just thinking maybe the second wind will come in, and it didn't.
"I've got a lot of friends at Bath because I played there not so long ago so I was a little bit nervous. Obviously because I've been out for four months and the last thing I want to do is get injured again.
"I had a little bit of everything I think. I'm 35 and still making those breaks, it's pretty good, so hopefully I've got a few years left."
Vicki Kirby was forced to stand down as an election candidate after tweeting that Jews had "big noses" and suggesting Hitler was a "Zionist God".
Labour said her suspension had been lifted after she had been warned about her future conduct.
MPs took to social media to say they were "appalled and shocked" by the ruling and the statement it sent out.
It comes in the wake of the recent expulsion of a far-left activist, Gerry Downing, following criticism of his views about 9/11 and so-called Islamic State.
Ms Kirby was selected to represent Labour in the Surrey constituency of Woking at the last general election but was suspended for a series of comments she made on social media in August 2014.
In one of those, she tweeted: "Point about Jews is that they occupy Palestine. Used to live together, now slaughter the oppressed."
Ten days later, she wrote: "Apparently you can ask IS/ISIS/ISIL questions on ask.fm. Anyone thought of asking them why they are not attacking the real oppressors Israel."
It emerged on Monday that Ms Kirby - whose Twitter account has been protected - is now vice-chair of the Labour constituency party in Woking, a development first reported by the Guido Fawkes website. It prompted an angry response from a number of Labour MPs on Twitter.
Ian Austin said it was "completely unacceptable". He tweeted: "How was someone with these views allowed back in to the Labour Party? Would be shocking if she's not booted back out."
And Wes Streeting said he "despaired" at the decision. He tweeted: "This can't be right because Jeremy Corbyn has said there is "no place" for anti-Semitism in our society."
In response, a Labour spokesperson said: "Vicky Kirby was suspended from the Labour Party following comments on social media in 2014. Following her resignation as a parliamentary candidate she received a warning from the NEC on her future conduct and the suspension was then lifted.
"If new evidence comes to light, the Labour Party will review that evidence and make sure the rules of the Party are upheld."
Labour is currently carrying out an investigation into allegations of anti-Semitism in the Oxford University Labour Club and the BBC understands that the inquiry has been widened to consider a complaint at a second university.
A 37-year old man was assaulted at about 20:30 on Thursday in the Carrickknowe area in the city.
He was first involved in an altercation with two men before another three men got out of a parked car and joined in the attack.
Police are now appealing for witnesses to the incident, which took place on Featherhall Avenue.
The victim managed to run off and was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary where he was treated for serious but non-life threatening injury.
The suspects are all described as white males in their 20s.
Det Insp John Kavanagh said: "This incident happened at a busy time of night and it's very possible someone would've seen this attack.
"The vehicle that the men got out of may have been a silver BMW, but anyone who has further information is urged to contact us."
Andrew McGowan, 35, of Cockburn Street, Dingle, pleaded guilty to the charge at Liverpool and Knowsley Magistrates' Court.
The toddler suffered serious head and body injuries in the "horrific attack" in a garden on Sunday.
McGowan was bailed until 6 June when he is due to be sentenced.
The injured child's father wept as he attended court.
The dogs also hurt a 57-year-old woman, who tried to rescue the girl in the garden on Cockburn Street.
The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was taken by air ambulance to Alder Hey Children's Hospital after the alarm was raised at about 15:40 BST.
Neighbours said they heard the girl screaming and shouts of: "The dog's got the baby! The dog's got the baby!"
One neighbour described the attack as "shocking", adding there had been previously "no problems at all with any of the dogs".
Five dogs and six puppies were seized after the attack, two of which were put down.
American bully dogs are not a banned breed, police said.
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The party has also proposed an industry-wide levy, dubbed a "Twitter tax", to fund "preventative activity to counter internet harms".
Labour said it had "pressed for tough new codes" in the past but the government had "categorically refused".
The Liberal Democrats said more needed to be done "to find a real solution".
The Conservatives said the levy, proposed in their election manifesto, would use the same model as that used in the gambling industry, where companies voluntarily contribute to the charity GambleAware to help pay for education, research, and treating gambling addiction.
All social media and communications service providers would be given a set period to come up with plans to fund and promote efforts "to counter internet harms".
If they failed to do so, the government would have the power to impose an industry-wide toll.
The Conservatives say the exact details, including how long the industry will be given to comply and the size of the levy, will be consulted upon.
A Labour spokesman said: "If the Tories are planning to levy a new tax on social media companies, they need to set out how it will work, who it will affect and what it will raise.
"Labour has pushed for a code of practice about the responsibilities of social media companies to protect children and young people from abuse and bullying."
The Conservatives have also pledged to introduce "a sanctions regime" that would give regulators "the ability to fine or prosecute those companies that fail in their legal duties, and to order the removal of content where it clearly breaches UK law".
Social media platforms and internet service providers would have clearer responsibilities regarding the reporting and removal of harmful material, including bullying, inappropriate or illegal content, and would have to take down material.
"It is certainly bold of the Conservatives to boast that they can protect people on the internet," Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Alistair Carmichael said.
"Government and technology companies must do more to find a real solution to problematic content online."
And Labour's digital economy spokeswoman Louise Haigh said: "The Home Office were crystal clear they did not want to legislate and that they believed the voluntary framework was sufficient.
"The fact is that in government the Tories have been too afraid to stand up to the social media giants and keep the public safe from illegal and extremist content."
Elsewhere, Airdrieonians took a 1-0 lead over Alloa Athletic at the Excelsior Stadium.
Both matches in the League One play-off semi-finals ended in draws. Annan and Forfar are tied at 2-2, while Montrose and Peterhead drew 1-1.
All four second legs will take place on Saturday.
And the Championship and League One play-off finals will be played over 17 and 20 May.
At Glebe Park, hosts Brechin took the lead through Ross Caldwell's first-half penalty, which was awarded after Jean-Yves M'Voto had fouled Andy Jackson.
M'Voto and Rudi Skacel both netted with headers in the opening 45 minutes but neither counted with M'Voto being penalised for his challenge on goalkeeper Graeme Smith and Skacel ruled offside.
But Raith's equaliser did arrive 20 minutes from the end. Midfielder Ross Matthews was fouled 25 yards out and McManus stepped up to find the corner of the net brilliantly.
The visitors had a couple of decent chances to go in front, with Kyle Benedictus's half-volley bringing a good save out of Smith towards the end.
The eventual winner will take on Airdrie or Alloa for a place in next season's Championship.
Andy Ryan headed home Ryan Conroy's cross to give the Diamonds a slender advantage to take into the weekend's return leg in Clackmannanshire.
The deficit could have been harder for the Wasps to overcome had their goalkeeper Neil Parry not blocked Adam Brown's effort.
At Links Park, Peterhead took an early lead against hosts Montrose when Ryan Strachan fired a 35-yard shot into the top corner.
But the visitors' advantage did not last long, Liam Callaghan setting up Chris Templeman to slot home.
Gary Fraser threatened to put Montrose ahead in the tie but there would be no further goals in the first leg.
The evening's highest scoring encounter was at Galabank.
Annan raced into a two-goal lead with the experienced Peter Weatherson heading home Aidan Smith's cross and Smith then scoring a rebound after his penalty had been saved by Grant Adam, the goalkeeper having fouled the 19-year-old.
However, Forfar scored twice in the final 10 minutes to level the tie. Michael Travis nodded home then Martyn Fotheringham equalised by firing home a free-kick.
For John Hughes' Raith Rovers, the play-offs are about trying to avoid relegation after finishing second bottom of the Championship.
And he told BBC Scotland: "We started very slow and with a bit of apprehension on a tricky surface. There wasn't much football played - not one for the purists, that's for sure.
"Their goalkeeper had two or three great saves, we should have scored a header at the back post. It's half-time and still all to play for.
"All credit to Brechin who gave as good as they got.
"McManus hit that sort of knuckle ball and we were absolutely delighted to see it hit the back of the net.
"If we play like we did in the second half tonight with a bit more quality added to it, we'll be good enough to win this tie."
And Brechin boss Darren Dods said: "We knew it was going to be hard with us having a few injuries and Raith being full-time, but we wanted to keep ourselves in the tie and I thought the effort and work-rate was excellent.
"Andy Jackson battled away hard and it was a great first touch he took in the box to draw the foul and Ross Caldwell slotted it away well.
"Ally Love was out injured tonight with his ankle strapped up but another 48 hours and he'll be close to starting at the weekend.
"If we can hit them on the break on Saturday and give it one final push, we'll see where it takes us."
Russia annexed Crimea in March 2014, while the collection was on display at the Allard Pierson museum in Amsterdam.
Four museums in Crimea asked for the collection to be returned, but Ukraine argued that it was state property.
The court decided that under Unesco rules the treasures should be handed back to the sovereign state.
As Crimea was not a sovereign state, the court ruled that it was for Ukraine to decide where the collection should go.
The judges said it would be up to the courts in Ukraine to decide who was the rightful owner of the collection. They ordered the government in Kiev to pay the museum €110,000 (£93,000) for looking after the treasures over the past two years.
The Dutch exhibition "Crimea - Gold and secrets of the Black Sea" ran from February to May 2014, and featured gold pieces dating back to when the ancient Greeks colonised the peninsula. While four of the Ukrainian museums that loaned items to Amsterdam were in Crimea, a fifth was in Kiev.
Part of the collection was a Scythian ceremonial helmet from the 4th Century BC.
Ukrainians were jubilant at the court's decision. "Ukraine has won on every count," said vice culture minister Svitlana Fomenko. President Petro Poroshenko said the court's decision meant not merely that "the Scythian gold belongs to Ukraine, but Crimea too".
However, Crimea archaeologist Valentina Mordvintseva, who was involved in the exhibition itself, had earlier appealed for the case to be above politics. "It's like tearing a page out of a special book. These artefacts come from our soil, so they must go back to Crimea," she told Dutch media.
Russia's culture ministry denounced the Dutch ruling, complaining it "grossly violates the principles of international exchanges between museums and the right of the people of Crimea to have access to their own cultural heritage".
The collection will not be sent back to Kiev immediately. The Crimean museums have three months to appeal against the decision.
The former airbase buildings, now known as the Liberty Ballroom, are said to have hosted stars like Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash.
The Ceroc Black and White Ball was the final ever event held on Sunday.
The owner says no final decision has been made on the venue's future but it can no longer subsidise the operation.
Julian May, spokesman for Greenham Common Trust, said: "We understand that many residents, and particularly the dancing community in Newbury and surrounding areas, feel deeply attached to the building.
"A conservative estimate to repair the ballroom roof and building could be approaching £500,000 to £750,000, along with significant annual maintenance costs.
"It would be wrong of us to pour money into one amenity that needs a great deal of work and is sadly beyond its economic life, when that same amount could be used to help many other local charitable causes."
Harry Cobb, director of Liberty Newbury, which leases the ballroom from the trust, said: "On a monthly basis, when there are a lot of good events, we can get upwards of 2,000 people through the doors, if not 3,000.
"We have tried our best and we have invested significant amounts but, without the help and support of the trust, it's just not feasible for us as a limited company to invest those sums in the premises."
Steph Guyatt, who met her husband Steve at the venue on 24 December five years ago, said: "We are genuinely devastated, not just for ourselves... it's a place where you have an age range of 20s through to their 80s - you wouldn't get that in the pubs or the restaurant culture in Newbury.
"There are a lot of elderly people who come and dance with us who wouldn't go out normally. We feel if that's lost to them they'll end up back in their homes and isolated the same as so many other people and that's what we're trying to avoid as a society."
The complex of buildings, which first sprang up on the former airbase in the late 1950s and early 1960s, has evolved over the years and includes a sports hall and a competition-grade maple-sprung dancefloor.
It was reopened as the Liberty Ballroom in 1994, two years after the military left the site, and taken over by Liberty Newbury in 2013.
Trevor Banning remembers the venue during the days of the military.
He said: "I was a Greenham boy. I grew up at Greenham and my mum met her second husband at the Liberty Ballroom - or The Bar as it was at the time - in 1981. As a result, I spent a lot of my youth, particularly from the age of 13 to 15, in and around that building."
Ballroom regular Mo Stoner said: "It was handed back from the US to the Ministry of Defence in 1993 and since then it's been once of those venues you always go to - it's got an amazing floor - it's just once of those venues you can't replace.
"It's just a shame because there are 700, maybe 900 members but you just get 100 people turning up on a regular basis.
"Until you've lost it, you don't know what you've lost."
It is understood she had been taken there after arriving from Sierra Leone.
The Home Office had suspended the detention or release of detainees from Dungavel while the investigation continued. Staff and visitors were still allowed in and out of the centre.
An outbreak of Ebola in Africa has claimed the lives of 1,069 people.
A statement from NHS Lanarkshire earlier said: "We are currently investigating a possible case of Viral Haemorrhagic Fever (Ebola).
"This is a precautionary measure and it would appear at this stage to be highly unlikely the patient will test positive for Ebola."
The Ebola epidemic in Africa began in Guinea in February and has since spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.
Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with the body fluids of a person who is infected.
Initial flu-like symptoms can lead to external haemorrhaging from areas such as eyes and gums, and internal bleeding which can lead to organ failure.
Pte Cheryl James, 18, from Denbighshire, was found with a bullet wound to her head at Deepcut Barracks in Surrey in 1995.
Her father told the Telegraph witnesses "in double figures" claim they were exploited or recruits were ordered to have sex with other soldiers.
A fresh inquest begins on Monday.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "Our thoughts remain with the family and friends of Pte Cheryl James.
"The inquest will now be a matter for the coroner, but we will of course continue to cooperate with and provide support to the coroner where needed."
Lawyers from human rights campaign group Liberty have asked the coroner, Brian Barker QC, to allow the new witnesses to give evidence and he is expected to make a decision on Monday.
Des James's solicitor Emma Norton said: "We have made an application to the coroner to investigate evidence that has come to light that appears to suggest there might have been a system of ordering recruits to have sex with other staff.
"We have had a witness come forward to say Cheryl herself disclosed to him that she had been ordered to have sex with another soldier.
"With that evidence in mind, we wanted to say to the coroner 'look, anyone else who is suggesting a similar pattern of behaviour, you ought to hear from.'"
Pte James, from Llangollen, was one of four soldiers who died at the barracks between 1995 and 2002 amid claims of bullying and abuse.
The new inquest was granted by the High Court in 2014 after the open verdict recorded at the original inquest in December 1995 was quashed.
Mr James, from Llanymynechm, Powys, has said he hopes the fresh hearing will uncover the truth about what happened to her.
"I don't have a result in mind. I just want the truth," he told BBC Radio Wales' Eye on Wales Programme.
"As long as the process is impeccable, as long as I can look back and say everything we could do, we've done, that's the important thing."
More than 100 people are due to give evidence when the inquest begins in Woking, Surrey.
They will play the USA, who beat Germany 3-0, while Belarus will face Switzerland in the other semi-final.
Two-time Wimbledon champion Kvitova is recovering from hand surgery following a knife attack in her home in December.
"Of course this was for her," said Czech world number 17 Barbora Strycova.
"We hope she comes back and we will welcome her with open arms. We are thinking about her every day and we were talking to her."
The tie was level at 1-1 after the opening day in Ostrava.
The Czech Republic lost Sunday's doubles rubber but world number three Karolina Pliskova beat French Open champion Garbine Muguruza 6-2 6-2 before Strycova beat Lara Arruabarrena 6-4 6-4 to seal their semi-final place.
Coco Vandeweghe beat Andrea Petkovic 3-6 6-4 6-0 as the USA whitewashed Germany in Hawaii to reach their first semi-final since 2010.
Belarus, who were without two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka as she gave birth in December, beat the Netherlands 4-1, while Switzerland beat France 3-1.
The semi-finals will be played on 22-23 April.
Great Britain will find out who they will play from Chinese Taipei, Romania, Italy or Australia when the draw for April's World Cup II play-offs is made on Tuesday.
Staffan de Mistura told the BBC the move was positive, but stressed that Russia would now have to get its ally President Bashar al-Assad to agree.
The US also had to persuade the rebels to abide by the truce, he said.
The initiative came as photos of a young boy from Aleppo who was hurt in an air strike caused worldwide outrage.
Five-year-old Omran Daqneesh was photographed sitting alone in an ambulance, caked in dust and blood and looking dazed, after being pulled from the rubble of his home in the rebel-held Qaterji district.
A doctor who treated the boy for a head wound said he was lucky to be alive.
"He was afraid, he didn't cry and we cleaned his face blood and dust to see the wound. He has a lucky chance he didn't have any brain damage," Dr Mohammed told the BBC.
Opposition activists said the boy's home was bombed by Russian warplanes, but the Russian defence ministry insisted its forces never targeted civilian areas and said it was "more likely a mine or a gas tank explosion, which are used by terrorists".
BBC chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet says stories like Omran's are repeated day in, day out in Syria, and many are much worse.
On Friday, doctors shared a photo they said showed the body of boy who was killed in a fresh air strike, as well as a brother and sister who were injured.
Aleppo, once Syria's commercial and industrial centre, has been divided roughly in two since 2012, with the government controlling the west and rebels the east.
Fighting has escalated in recent weeks, with rebels severing the government's main route to the west of the city. The offensive sought to break a siege by pro-government forces, who encircled the east in July and stepped up air strikes.
Russia's offer of a 48-hour "humanitarian pause" in the city came hours after a rare display of anger by the UN envoy, our correspondent says.
For months, Mr de Mistura has urged the warring parties to agree even a temporary truce to allow food and medicine to reach Syrians trapped in besieged areas, some two million of them inside Aleppo.
But on Thursday, he revealed that not a single aid convoy has been allowed through since the start of August and asked for a "gesture of humanity".
Russia responded by saying that deliveries of food and medicine to Aleppo could start as early as next week, but that it required security guarantees from the US.
"We welcome the reply because it was a clear reply to answer to our strong, reiterated appeal. So it's a positive reply," Mr de Mistura told the BBC. "Now, of course, the devil is in the detail but that's where the challenge is."
A US state department spokesman said any effort to stop the bombing was welcome, but that a nationwide cessation of hostilities was what was really needed.
Our correspondent says it will take far more than an envoy's anger and a child's distress to bring this war to an end. But there is now, at the very least, another effort to ease the suffering of millions of Syrians, she adds.
Lucy Jones, 23, was voted Womenswear Designer of the Year of Class 2015 at the New York Parsons School of Design's annual fashion benefit.
She also jointly won the Parsons and Kerings Empowering Imagination contest.
Ms Jones said the motivation for her designs came from a conversation with her cousin, Jake, who has a condition which means half his body is paralysed.
He has hemiplegia and told his cousin about the daily struggle he goes through putting on his own clothes.
"I realised that we, in the fashion industry, need to create more accessible solutions in clothing," Ms Jones said.
"I thought if Jake could dress himself, he would be able to be more independent. Clothes have the power to do that."
She started developing her line of clothes by working with a woman who has multiple sclerosis and limited mobility.
Ms Jones noticed some of the most complicated problems arose in designing trousers, as standard pairs were too short at the ankles and too low at the back.
She also had to consider that kneecaps change shape when bent, leading her to remove extra fabric at the bend of the knee, so trouser legs can fall flat.
And she took account of how thighs and bottoms spread when seated, as well as eliminating uncomfortable fabric bunching at the crotch.
For tops, she reinforced elbows that are always leaning on armrests, removed excess bulk and made room for the more developed muscles that people in wheelchairs develop in their shoulders and arms from propelling themselves in their chairs.
Ms Jones has now made it her mission to raise awareness on the issue of designing for disabilities.
She is the first Welsh design student to attend Parsons School of Design, securing her place in 2011 after receiving an award for art excellence and a distinction in fashion and textiles from Glamorgan University.
"I am thrilled to be named Designer of the Year. Having this accolade from a leading world-wide design school is amazing and I am hoping this will help further my career in design - I can't wait to see what the future holds," she said.
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The Royals go to Old Trafford for an FA Cup third-round tie on Saturday.
"I like the way he works and what he does for the team - he gets things going," Stam told BBC Radio Berkshire.
Former Netherlands defender Stam spent three seasons as a Manchester United player between 1998 and 2001.
He was part of Sir Alex Ferguson's treble-winning side of 1998-99, but he left for Lazio in unhappy circumstances following an apparent falling-out with Ferguson - something Stam says has subsequently been made too much of.
"I get sick of it, Fergie gets sick of it," Stam said.
"United maybe get sick of it sometimes. I talk to the press and sometimes I get a question about what happened, again.
"You try to give a decent answer, but they always try to find a way of making it interesting. I'm not focusing on what happened when I was a player, or what the papers say.
"It's not going to be an emotional return in the sense I'm going to be crying.
"It's nice to go back. I love the club, I love the fans and I had a great time there. But this game is not about me, it's about Reading facing Manchester United at Old Trafford.
"People don't need to write about me, they need to write about the team and what they can do against such big opponents."
Stam, 44, has guided Reading to third in the Championship with a possession-based style in his first full season in management and the chance to face Mourinho is something he says excites him.
"I've spoken to him a couple of times and he's a great manager," Stam added. "I admire all the success he has had and the trophies he's won.
"Hopefully I can be up there as well at some point, but I still have a long way to go. It is good to play against managers like that because you can learn something."
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Police said the pilot, in his 60s, and his passenger, in his 50s, died when their microlight crashed at Enstone Airfield, near Chipping Norton, shortly after 19:00 BST on Friday.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) is on the scene.
Both victims' next of kin have been told, but their identities have not been disclosed.
Mick Clarke, from Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue, said: "This was a tragic incident that has led to two lives being lost. Our thoughts are with the family of those involved."
The aerodrome has declined to comment while investigation work is carried out.
The small airfield near the village of Enstone was originally built by the RAF during World War Two and is now regularly used by civilian light aircraft.
Though it's unclear what a British divorce from Europe may look like, the decision may have caused unintended consequences for many Americans. Here's a look at six ways the Brexit may affect the US.
About one in 10 visitors to the UK is American. And the exchange rate for the dollar is better for Americans in the wake of Brexit - it's now worth $1.48, down about 8% from a year ago, and at its lowest level since 1985.
This means Americans going to see Big Ben, Stonehenge or Edinburgh Castle this summer can expect their dollar to go a lot further, at least for now.
Michael Stitt, president of North America for Travelzoo, told the BBC that he advises any American travellers to the UK to check on the exchange rate right before a trip and to consider taking GBP out while the exchange rate is low and the dollar is strong.
UK hotels will almost certainly offer deals and specials, he said, and vacation operators will likely put together some "pretty aggressive" packages for going on holiday to the UK.
On the inverse, British travellers may think twice before booking a trip to the US because it will be more expensive, he said.
Though an attractive exchange rate makes a summer trip to London more affordable now, Brexit could make flying in and out of the UK more expensive in the long term.
The UK currently operates under a single aviation market that allows British airlines the freedom to fly between EU countries and the right to fly within an EU country. The EU also has a similar agreement with the US.
The outcome of last night's vote means the UK may lose its rights to fly in and out those countries if new contracts are not negotiated, according to Andrew Meaney, the head of transport for economic consultancy Oxera.
Ultimately, airlines could struggle to meet the same amount of demands with fewer services in and out of the UK. US airlines could also consider replacing London with a city such as Dublin as an entry point into Europe.
For American bankers living in London, the Brexit signals uncertainty about the capital's status as the world's largest foreign exchange market.
US banks will have to decide on moving thousands of jobs to other major European cities such as Dublin, Frankfurt or Paris depending on whether the UK is able to negotiate new trade deals to retain access to the world's largest single market, the EU.
In a memo to staff on Friday, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon indicated that though the company planned to maintain a large presence in Britain, it would face significant hurdles.
"In the months ahead, however, we may need to make changes to our European legal entity structure and the location of some roles," Mr Dimon said.
If Scotland should seek another referendum vote to leave the UK in the wake of Brexit, American bankers may find themselves packing their bags for Edinburgh, the second largest financial hub in the UK.
The Brexit has roiled global financial markets, with the US, UK, Europe, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney markets dropping at the opening bell.
Many Americans are exposed to the stock market through their retirement plan, also known as a 401(k) plan.
In fact, about half of America's full-time employees participate in their company's 401(k), according to the Pew Charitable Trusts.
The UK's exit from the EU has already hit current market prices and could potentially trigger a recession. Investments in global stock markets expose Americans to such market turmoil, and could result in one's equity portfolio losing value.
The state of the UK economy is volatile, so American property is looking like a very safe investment right now.
"Any time there is a recession in significant markets such as London, it bodes well for the US," international real estate lawyer and consultant Edward Mermelstein told the BBC.
"Investment will be attracted to a safe haven, and there's no safer location than the US market... the US will be the beneficiary of continued foreign investment due to the uncertainty created by this vote."
Americans looking to buy property should expect prices to rise in the next year - making right now a better time to buy rather than waiting.
But in the meantime, as the Washington Post pointed out, current mortgage rates will continue to be at an all-time low as foreign investors seek US government debt, pulling down interest rates.
The UK film and TV industry will be badly hurt by Brexit, the chairman of the Independent Film and Television Alliance told the Verge..
"The decision to exit the European Union is a major blow to the UK film and TV industry," Michael Ryan told the website. "Producing films and television programs is a very expensive and very risky business and certainty about the rules affecting the business is a must."
HBO series Game of Thrones is largely filmed in Northern Ireland, partly funded by the European Regional Development fund. It has also been filmed in Spain, Croatia, Iceland and Malta. That funding could go away, depending on how UK's EU exit is negotiated.
The incident happened after torrential rain passed near Coalisland on Thursday afternoon.
Stephanie Shepherd said part of the roof landed in her next door neighbour's back garden.
"We have never seen the trees bending so much, we thought they were going to be uprooted," she said.
"We looked out the back and the roof of the shed had been blown off, as well as a pigeon house."
Ms Shepherd said the pigeon shed roof had been fixed, but the shed was "still damaged".
A number of weather warnings had been issued across Ireland by the Met Office and Met Éireann for heavy showers, thunder and lightning, as well as hail.
There were reports in a number of places of flooding and travel disruption.
Motorists were caught up in at least 20cm of floodwater on Belfast's Shankill Road.
Part of the Racecourse Road in Londonderry was also submerged in floodwater for a time.
Lightning was caught on camera as storm clouds passed over Naas in County Kildare in the Republic of Ireland.
Police blamed the attacks on suspected rebels from a faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).
Reports say one suspected rebel was killed in the gun battle with security forces in Kokrajhar district.
The NDFB wants an independent homeland for the Bodo ethnic group to be carved out of Assam.
Assam police chief Mukesh Sahay told the BBC that the attack took place in a market in Balajan, an area just outside the town of Kokrajhar.
"Many civilians sustained injuries when militants opened indiscriminate fire. They also lobbed grenades," he said.
The banned National Democratic Front of Bodoland is one of many such tribally-based factions in India's remote north-east.
The area where the attack happened already enjoys a degree of autonomy.
But the insurgents want Bodoland to be given full statehood.
There have been years of sectarian and ethnic clashes there and hundreds of thousands remain displaced from their homes.
One gunman was killed by the security forces and troops were pursuing five others who had fled. Several homes and shops were damaged in the attack.
In 2014, NDFB rebels killed at least 62 people in Sonitpur and Kokrajhar.
The Bodos now have an autonomous territorial council which one of their parties, the Bodoland People's Front (BPF), controls.
The council offers considerable local autonomy to more than 3,000 villages that are home to Bodo tribesmen.
Lenin Avenue runs like a spine through Zaporizhya, a major city in Ukraine's industrial heartland. At the top of the avenue is Lenin Square, adorned by a giant statue of the Russian revolutionary leader himself.
He points towards a hydropower dam, which bears his name and also has a huge bas relief depicting an Order of Lenin on one of its walls.
Behind the dam is Lake Lenin with Lenin Island in the middle, and all of this is located in the city's Lenin District.
This is the kind of legacy Ukraine's legislators are trying to get rid of.
On 9 April, they passed a bill banning communist propaganda as well as Nazi symbols. The ban applies to monuments, place and street names, which will have to go within six months once the president signs it into law.
Hundreds of statues will have to be removed, millions of street signs replaced and tons of paperwork processed. Clearly this will be an expensive exercise that Ukraine may struggle to afford at a time of war, but supporters argue it is a price worth paying for Ukraine to break with its totalitarian past.
"The issue of renaming was a serious destabilising factor, and by making this decision parliament has removed this factor from our level," Zaporizhya's mayor, Oleksandr Sin, told the BBC.
Critics, however, argue that the ban will worsen the sharp political differences within Ukraine.
"Laws like this only add to the tensions. They aren't what our society needs," political expert Kost Bondarenko told Segodnya, a Kiev-based daily.
After Ukraine gained independence in 1991, many communist names were removed from its map by local councils.
Later, the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych and the subsequent rise in Russia-backed militancy in the east triggered a wave of attacks on statues of Lenin across the country. They were toppled by activists angry at what they saw as the Kremlin's meddling in Ukraine.
But the Soviet legacy lingers, particularly in eastern parts of the country.
Several towns and cities may even have to change their names because of the new law.
Among them is Dnipropetrovsk, which lies about an hour's drive north of Zaporizhya and is partly named after Grigory Petrovsky, a Communist revolutionary and functionary.
Vadym Shebanov, a senior official at the Dnipropetrovsk city council, told the BBC that a commission was already being set up to choose a new name.
Reverting to the city's previous name will hardly work. Until 1926, it was called Ekaterinoslav in honour of Ekaterina (or Catherine) the Great, the 18th-Century Russian ruler who dismantled the Cossack movement, an important pillar of Ukraine's national identity.
The commission will also draw up a list of streets to be renamed. "Many still bear the names of people who tried to obliterate the Ukrainian nation," Mr Shebanov said.
Predictably, the Ukrainian parliament's move to ban communist symbols outraged Russia. Its foreign ministry called the move "sacrilege" and said officials in Kiev had "a perverse idea of good and evil".
"The country's leaders have declared war on their own past by banning communist symbols and turning Hitler's accomplices into heroes," state-run Rossiya-1 TV said at the top of its prime-time news bulletin on 9 April. It made no mention that the Ukrainian parliament had banned Nazi symbols, too.
Russia itself is no stranger to anti-communist measures.
It banned the Soviet Communist Party after the failed coup attempt against reformist President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991.
The names of many Russian cities reverted to what they were before the 1917 Bolshevik revolution: Leningrad became St Petersburg, Sverdlovsk became Yekaterinburg and Gorky became Nizhny Novgorod.
After the Soviet Union collapsed, many of its former republics and allies banned communist symbols, too.
In Poland, anyone convicted of disseminating them may face a jail term of up to two years. Georgia also removed communist street and place names and outlawed Soviet symbols. Similar bans are in place in Latvia and Lithuania.
Ukraine's journey away from its communist past will be long and arduous, but commentators within the country are hopeful. "Our ship has left the communist harbour," analytical daily Den said. "Fair seas and a following wind!"
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The 18th-Century philosopher, whose work on ethics and metaphysics, heavily influenced Western thought, spent his life in what was then Koenigsberg.
Now the phrase "Kant's a sucker" has been sprayed on a ruined house in green paint, along with a heart and flower.
It is not the first time that Kant's philosophy has provoked hostility.
A man was reportedly shot and wounded in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-don two years ago, when a conversation in a shop about the philosopher turned to violence.
The authorities in the Russian Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad have promised to remove the latest insult.
But mystery surrounds the vandal's identity and what might have led the person responsible to deface the dilapidated house, which has been given historic status, in the village of Vesolovka.
Memorials to Kant, one of Koenigsberg's most illustrious sons, can be found in the present-day city of Kaliningrad, but not in Vesolovka some distance to the east.
Kant is believed to have lived in the village for three years from 1748, when it was known as Yudshen. He went on to live in Koenigsberg, then the capital of Prussia.
The ruined house that stands on the site dates back to the 19th Century, but the foundations of the original building still exist, according to local journalists from the Noviy Kaliningrad website who discovered the graffiti.
Nicola Edgington attacked Sally Hodkin, 58, with a butcher's knife in Bexleyheath, south London, in 2011.
The attack happened six years after Edgington had killed her own mother.
On the day of the murder, Edgington repeatedly called police and told A&E staff she needed to be sectioned because she felt like killing someone.
Edgington was taken to Oxleas House mental health unit in Greenwich to be admitted, but was allowed to walk out of the unit on 10 October 2011 to commit the crime.
She got a bus to Bexleyheath, bought a large knife from Asda and stole a steak knife from a butcher's shop.
She then stabbed grandmother Mrs Hodkin and another woman in the street.
She was convicted of murder and attempted murder for those two attacks.
Edgington had previously been convicted in 2006 of the manslaughter of her mother Marion at her home in Forest Row, East Sussex, and ordered to be detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act.
The damning report commissioned by NHS England and released on Friday found staff at the Bracton Centre, run by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, deemed Edgington fit for discharge after three years.
It said Bracton Centre staff were too willing to accept Edgington's version of events and said documents failed to detail all concerns about her behaviour before discharge.
She was released in 2009 and allowed to live in the community.
After she was freed, Edgington was moved to accommodation with low levels of supervision and was also allowed to visit her husband in Jamaica.
Oxleas staff also failed to take seriously warnings made by her brother and sister that Edgington was still unwell and potentially dangerous, the report said.
The report found correspondence from the trust to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), which approved the discharge, "did not fully reflect" concerns that had been raised about her disruptive, abusive and rude behaviour on the ward.
It also did not document her denial of any memory of killing her mother and her "fixation on making fast progress to discharge".
Overall, "reports... did not accurately reflect disruptive and aggressive behaviours described in the clinical notes", NHS England concluded.
The MoJ also asked for details of any concerns during the Jamaica trip, which could have led to Edgington being readmitted to a mental health unit, but these where never handed over by the trust.
When Edgington was discharged, Greenwich Police should have been informed of her release but the trust failed to forward on the paperwork, the report added.
On the day of the murder, when Edgington was taken to Oxleas House following several hours in A&E asking to be sectioned, a member of Oxleas staff missed an opportunity to give her the highest risk rating.
She was put down for 15-minute observations - a level deemed "inadequate" by investigators, who believed she should have had one-to-one monitoring while waiting to be admitted to the unit.
The report also pointed to missed opportunities by the police to section Edgington under the Mental Health Act on the day of the murder. Police staff also did not carry out a Police National Computer (PNC) check during their repeated interactions with her which would have alerted them to her conviction for manslaughter.
Mrs Hodkin's son Len, 40, a solicitor from Eltham, said Edgington should "never have been released in the first place" after killing her own mother and should have been "recalled to hospital when her behaviour deteriorated" after she was discharged.
He added his mother's death was "entirely preventable".
The Fed said while conditions have improved, the central bank is still waiting for inflation to reach 2%.
In its statement the Fed said it would "carefully monitor actual and expected progress toward its inflation goal" as it weighed when next to raise rates.
Most investors expected rates to remain on hold, and were looking for changes to the Fed's assessment of the economy.
In its statement accompanying today's decision, the Fed's Open Market Committee pointed to strengthening in the labour market and improved household spending, as positive signs.
"Labour market conditions have improved further even as growth in economic activity appears to have slowed," the Fed said.
The unemployment rate fell below 5% in January.
The central bank appeared to be less focused on global financial risks to the US economy.
A slowing economy in China and falling oil prices have weighed on the Fed's past decisions, but appeared to be less important this time around.
Its latest update omitted the line "global economic and financial developments continue to pose risks," which was included in its March statement.
"The omission of the warning about global risks leaves the door open to a June rate hike, but whether the Fed follows through will depend on what happens in financial markets over the next six weeks," said Paul Ashworth from Capital Economics.
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In its statement the Fed said low oil prices and poor exports early in the year had contributed to weak inflation.
Additionally, while the housing sector has continued to strengthen, the Fed said business investment and exports remained "soft".
Chair of the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen has continually called for a gradual adjustment to rates.
But she has always maintained that the Fed should consider new information as it becomes available, and stressed that the Fed could raise rates at any of its future meetings.
Most economists only expect two rate increases in 2016. The bank's next chance to raise rates will be when it meets in June.
Esther George, president of the Kansas City Fed, voted against the decision to keep rates on hold.
Ms George said in February that interest rates should rise because the US economy was in a "generally good position" despite volatile movements on the stock markets.
Six other athletes from the men's -94kg final tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs when their 2012 samples were retested this year.
They included all three of the original medallists - Ilya Ilyin, Aleksandr Ivanov and Anatolie Ciricu.
Zielinski was sent home from Rio 2016 after a failed drugs test in July.
Moldovan Ciricu's ban, imposed this week, means that Iran's Saeid Mohammadpour, originally fifth, is the new champion.
South Korea's Kim Min-jae, who was eighth in London, has risen to the silver medal position following the disqualifications, with Zielinski now taking the bronze.
Kazakhstani weightlifter Ilyin was awarded the gold medal in London, breaking two world records - one for the clean and jerk category and one for total weight lifted - as he defended the title he had won four years earlier in Beijing.
Russia's Ivanov took silver after producing his best-ever lift, as did Ciricu to take the bronze.
But in May, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said that it had started retesting hundreds of doping samples from the 2008 and 2012 Games, applying the latest scientific analysis methods.
On 15 June, the IOC announced that Ilyin was one of four London weightlifting champions from Kazakhstan to have tested positive.
Little more than a month later, another four athletes from the -94kg final were suspended by the International Weightlifting Federation.
Silver medallist Ivanov was sanctioned, as were fellow Russian Andery Demanov, who was originally placed fourth, and Kazakhstan's Almas Uteshov, who was seventh.
Azerbaijan's Intigam Zairov - who had finished sixth, and had already been suspended following an earlier retest of a 2008 sample - was the fourth weightlifter named by the sport's governing body.
That left Ciricu as the new 2012 champion - until Wednesday's announcement. As it stands, Mohammadpour, Kim and Zielinski are now the medallists - with six of the original top seven disqualified.
Chief Supt Harry Breen and Supt Bob Buchanan were shot dead in an ambush in March 1989 as they crossed the border into Northern Ireland after a meeting in Dundalk Garda station.
The report was published on Tuesday after almost eight years of painstaking investigations. It runs to 434 pages, with more than 1,000 pages of appendices.
Here are some of its key findings.
Mr Justice Smithwick said there was much evidence that Chief Supt Harry Breen was "the specific target of his operation".
Chief Supt Breen had been a hate figure for the IRA since undercover British army soldiers shot dead eight of its members and a civilian at Loughgall police station in County Armagh, in 1987, when he was pictured afterwards with weapons recovered by police.
His colleague Bob Buchanan had visited Dundalk about 20 times in the seven months before his death, and the judge said it was "plausible" that the ambush could have been mounted with knowledge of his regular travel combined with surveillance.
However, he said that would have been an "extraordinary piece of good fortune", and it was "significantly more likely" that the IRA knew Chief Supt Breen was coming.
Mr Justice Smithwick said there were two phases to the IRA operation:
With the first phase, the judge said the circumstances pointed towards information having been leaked to trigger the beginning of the IRA operation.
He said he found no evidence this information had come from the RUC, and it was "more likely" to have come from Dundalk Garda station.
He said this was supported by information received by both the PSNI and An Garda Síochána from reliable sources "indicating that there was collusion".
With phase two of the IRA operation, Mr Justice Smithwick said it "seems beyond doubt that the IRA acquired information that the two officers arrived at the station".
While the report concludes that the IRA's information about their arrival came from within Dundalk Garda station, the tribunal does not identify what individual or individuals were responsible.
The judge said he had received "live and of the moment" PSNI intelligence that the IRA had received information about the two officers from a Garda detective "who was not publicly associated to the Smithwick Tribunal".
The names of three Garda officers featured heavily in the Smithwick Tribunal's hearings, who all denied any role in the operation - Finbarr Hickey, Leo Colton and Owen Corrigan:
The Smithwick Tribunal interpreted collusion in its widest sense, covering not just direct actions but deliberate omissions, failures to act and turning a blind eye.
In his final report, the judge said the tribunal had not uncovered direct evidence of collusion.
"There is no record of a phone call, no traceable payment, no smoking gun - this is not surprising," he wrote.
However, he said he had built up a picture of how and when the ambush was mounted and executed through a detailed examination of the day's events.
It emerged that there were three aborted attempts to carry out the gun attack, according to written evidence submitted by the IRA to the tribunal.
"Twice the car didn't show, on the third occasion it was tracked using the Edenappa Road on the return journey," the IRA's evidence said.
"However, due to unconnected high levels of enemy activity in the general area (an Army helicopter) we were unable to execute the operation."
The statement by former IRA personnel set out their account of how the day's events unfolded. The judge said that while it was not a "signed witness statement of any individual" and had not been tested in cross-examination, it remained a valuable resource.
Three IRA members also held a face-to-face meeting with the tribunal's legal team in April 2011.
One of them said that 90% of the IRA's operations were based "on the human weakness of habit".
On the day of the murders, three or four people were used for the surveillance, while a total of "30 or 40" IRA people "were on the ground for the operation as a whole".
Other witnesses put this figure as much higher, such as retired Army brigadier Ian Liles, who said it would have involved up to 70 personnel, including people acting as lookouts and checking roads for security patrols.
The tribunal heard evidence that area around Edenappa Road, where the two officers were shot, had been "out of bounds" for a week before and was only withdrawn at 11am on the day of the shooting.
The judge said this was "noteworthy, and indeed tragic".
He said it appeared there had been a British army operation to monitor and protect the main Belfast to Dublin railway line that passed nearby.
The judge said two earlier investigations examining the question of Garda collusion were inadequate.
"The best opportunity of establishing the truth of the matter arose in the days and weeks following the ambush," he wrote.
"In these circumstances, it is particularly regrettable that both police services acted swiftly to dismiss speculation of the possibility of collusion rather than to deal with that by means of a thorough and credible investigation."
He said it was an example of "the prioritisation of political expediency in the short term".
The RUC chief constable at the time, Sir John Hermon, had told journalists he had spoken to the Garda commissioner and they could categorically rule out the possibility of a mole within Dundalk station.
The tribunal heard from a number of witnesses who questioned the true nature of the relationship between the two police forces.
Among them was former RUC officer Alan Mains, who had been Harry Breen's staff officer and knew both of the murdered men well.
He said that on the morning of the killing, Ch Supt Breen had told him he felt uneasy about going to Dundalk and expressed concern that some members of the gardaí were on the IRA's payroll.
However, he said that when he met Sir John Hermon the next day, the chief constable did not believe him.
"The chief constable was very dismissive of me making that remark and said that that was rubbish, or he disagreed, and he quickly said that that man had been investigated and he had been cleared," he told the tribunal.
The judge said evidence suggested there were attempts by superior officers to "sanitise" Mr Mains' account of events.
"I am of the view that Mr Mains was encouraged not to refer to Mr Breen's uneasiness and specific concerns about Mr Corrigan in the interest of a greater expediency, namely not to do anything which could destabilise the relationship between the RUC and An Garda Síochána," the judge wrote.
The judge said he hoped the Dublin-based tribunal had "contributed one small part" to changing a culture of failing to adequately address suggestions of wrongdoing.
"Either for reasons of political expediency or by virtue of misguided loyalty," he said, this had been "a feature of life in this state".
He said taking such allegations seriously was essential to the integrity of An Garda Síochána.
Nayantara Sahgal, 88, received the coveted Sahitya Akademi award in 1986.
Hindi poet Ashok Vajpeyi has also returned his award, saying the government had failed to protect "people and writers".
Both say the BJP government is not doing enough to stop Hindu zealots from targeting minorities and writers.
In a statement titled "The Unmaking of India", Ms Sehgal, who is the niece of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, alluded to last month's killing of a Muslim man over rumours that he had consumed beef and the murders of rationalists, MM Kalburgi, Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare.
Although Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed to protect all religious groups, he has not spoken about the recent attacks.
"The prime minister remains silent about this reign of terror. We must assume he dare not alienate evil-doers who support his ideology," Ms Sahgal said in the statement.
She said India's culture of diversity and debate was now "under vicious assault".
"Rationalists who question superstition, anyone who questions any aspect of the ugly and dangerous distortion of Hinduism known as Hindutva - whether in the intellectual or artistic sphere, or whether in terms of food habits and lifestyle - are being marginalised, persecuted, or murdered."
Ms Sahgal told NDTV news channel that under Mr Modi "we are going backwards, regressing, narrowing down to Hindutva... there is rising intolerance and lots of Indians are living in fear".
Poet Ashok Vajpayee has also returned his Sahitya Akademi award, saying that the government has been "promoting violation of rights".
"It's a disturbing trend. It is allowing extra-constitutional agencies to dictate things, whereas it is duty-bound to protect people and writers," he told The Indian Express.
Harry Gleeson was executed for the murder of Moll McCarthy, who was shot dead in County Tipperary in November 1940.
A government review of the case was carried out following pressure from justice campaigners.
It found police and prosecutors withheld crucial evidence from the farm labourer's trial.
The review found that Mr Gleeson was convicted and executed "as a result of a case based on unconvincing circumstantial evidence".
Mr Gleeson will become the first recipient of a posthumous pardon from the Irish state.
In a statement, the Irish government said it "deeply regrets that a man was convicted and executed in circumstances now found to be unsafe".
"All that can be done now by way of remedy is to clear his name of the conviction, which this pardon will do, in the hope that this will be a proper tribute to his memory," it said.
"Equally the government regrets that this decision leaves unresolved the brutal murder of Ms Mary McCarthy, whose children were deprived of their mother in terrible circumstances."
The 53-year-old driver of a Mercedes car died at the scene of the crash on the A78, near Hunterston Roundabout.
The male bus driver and a female passenger were taken by helicopter to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.
Both are being treated for serious head injuries.
A further eight bus passengers, six women and two men, were taken by ambulance to either Inverclyde Royal Hospital or Crosshouse Hospital for treatment.
Police said the driver was the sole occupant of the Mercedes car.
The road between Hunterston and the Clydeport roundabout was closed for several hours while emergency crews were at the scene. It re-opened shortly before 18:00.
A spokesman for Stagecoach West Scotland said: "We can confirm that a car was in collision with one of our vehicles operating the 585 service near Largs.
"Our first thoughts are with the people who have been involved in the incident. The safety of our passengers and staff is our highest priory and we are assisting the police fully with their investigation into the circumstances."
A spokesman for the Scottish Ambulance Service said: "We received an emergency call shortly after 10am this morning for a road traffic accident involving a bus.
"We responded with multiple vehicles, including six ambulances, one paramedic response unit, a full special operations response team, area services managers, the EMRS (Emergency Medical Retrieval Service) and two helicopters.
"This was a serious road traffic accident. We worked with our colleagues from Police Scotland and the fire service.
"We conveyed 10 patients to multiple hospitals, including Inverclyde, Crosshouse and Queen Elizabeth University Hospital."
The US says it carried out the September strike to protect Puntland forces who came under fire during an operation against al-Shabab militants.
The strike sparked anti-American protests among local communities.
The Somali army said the dead were civilians and Galmudug regional forces.
The US provides military support to Somalia in its fight against al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda affiliate, which is waging an armed insurgency in the country.
After the strike, officials in Galmadug accused rivals authorities in Puntland of feeding the US military false intelligence to trick them into launching the strike that killed its soldiers.
Puntland and Galmadug, both semi-autonomous regions, have been fighting each other for decades over territorial disputes.
The US has denied that any civilians were killed in the attack.
"If we had known who they were, we would have done everything we could to prevent it," an unnamed US military official told the Washington Post, discussing the unpublished report, which has also been seen by Reuters news agency.
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A Scottish government consultation on police powers to search children for alcohol closed on 15 July.
In its response to the consultation, the Law Society of Scotland said the searches could alienate young people.
A Scottish Government spokeswoman said stop and search was a "valuable tool".
The consultation was carried out after an independent advisory group recommended that non-statutory, or consensual, shop and search should end when a new code of practice comes into force next year.
From that point on, the police will be able to search a person only where they have a specific legal power to do so.
But in their report, the advisory group highlighted a potential legislative gap once consensual search ends, as the police do not currently have a specific legal power to search children and young people for alcohol.
However, the group's members were unable to reach a view on whether a new search power was desirable or necessary, and recommended the Scottish government should carry out a public consultation.
The consultation document published by the Scottish government stated that only 9.7% of searches of people under 18 resulted in alcohol being found between 1 June and 31 December last year.
The paper argued that "not having a search power could put children and young people at risk of harm", but also stated that: "A new search power would not give the police any new powers to take alcohol away from a young person."
In their response, the Law Society of Scotland said "we do not consider legislation would be necessary, or indeed desirable. "
Ian Cruickshank, convener of the society's Criminal Law Committee, said: "Giving the police new powers to stop and search young people for alcohol could alienate them and may have long term negative effects, both for Police Scotland and young people in general.
"There is a risk that a new power to search a child or young person for alcohol would generate a disproportionate negative perception of children, as evidence shows only a small number of searches actually result in the finding of alcohol."
A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "Stop and search can be a valuable tool in combating crime and has led to the seizures of dangerous weapons, drugs and stolen goods. However, clearly it is important to get the balance right between protecting the public and the rights of the individual.
"The contents of the new Code of Practice have been put out to a full consultation to ensure they are informed by a wide range of views.
"No decision has been made on the power to search children for alcohol.
"As recommended by the independent advisory group a full and thorough consultation has been undertaken to inform the way forward and any future proposals will be subject to further scrutiny by parliament."
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The John Gosden-trained filly took the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot last month, to add to wins in the English and Irish Oaks.
She is one of 49 horses entered for the Champion Stakes, with last year's winner Almanzor among potential rivals.
A total of £4.3m prize money will be awarded in the five championship events on Champions Day on 21 October.
Europe's top 10 horses are all set to compete, with 242 entries overall.
Enable is also entered in the British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes and Gosden says "all possibilities are open".
The filly is due to make her next appearance in September's Yorkshire Oaks while the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe has been pencilled in as Enable's primary autumn target.
Almanzor has not yet run this year, but is set to make a return before a final decision on his fitness will be made by trainer Jean-Claude Rouget.
Other Champion Stakes contenders include French-trained colt Zarak and Coral-Eclipse one-two Ulysses and Barney Roy.
Aidan O'Brien is the trainer with the most entries on Champions Day with contenders in the 10-furlong showpiece including Winter, Churchill and Highland Reel.
Champions Day provides the climax to the Qipco British Champions Series which features 35 Flat races staged at 10 of the UK's leading racecourses.
The research by accountants and business advisors BDO pointed to a rise in output levels as evidence of a "summer of success" for Scottish businesses.
A separate survey by the Bank of Scotland also suggested economic output had increased.
But both reports suggested there had been a fall in employment levels.
Martin Gill, head of BDO LLP in Scotland, said: "Political certainty has bolstered short-term business confidence. The result is a thriving economy, despite global economic unrest.
"However, as business success continues to exceed other markets, the strong pound will make it harder for our exporters - particularly manufacturers - to find customers. We can't let confidence tip over into complacency; keeping us competitive should be a government priority."
Donald MacRae, chief economist at Bank of Scotland, said its PMI figure for July - which is based on survey data from approximately 600 companies - was the highest so far this year.
"Activity grew in the services sector while manufacturing output showed a welcome return to growth after the contraction of the last three months," he said.
"New orders rose in all sectors while the pace of decline in new export orders slowed. Although employment fell the Scottish economy continued the recovery from the slowdown in the first quarter of the year. Moderate growth is expected for the rest of 2015."
The Bank of Scotland PMI report for July found private firms "reported further growth of output and new orders".
In the service sector the amount of new business placed with companies grew for the fifth month in a row, while the manufacturing sector reported a rise in output in July, reversing the trend for the past three months.
Manufacturing firms also saw a growth in new orders last month, following a decline in June.
But the report said: "Scottish private sector firms reported the first decline in staffing levels since October 2011 during July, largely a result of job shedding in the service sector."
While it said that some companies "linked job cuts to internal restructuring efforts" it added that the "rate at which workforce numbers were reduced was modest".
BDO's research also indicated a growth in output but a fall in employment levels, with the output index up to 104.4 in July - an increase on the previous month's total of 104.1 and higher than the 103.7 recorded 12 months ago.
The latest employment index was recorded at 108.4, compared to 109.1 in June and 109.6 in July 2014.
Reacting to the Bank of Scotland PMI report, Deputy First Minister John Swinney said: "This survey is further welcome evidence of the strengthening of Scotland's economy, with the strongest PMI output reading of 2015 so far and an improvement reported in new orders across both manufacturing and services.
"While the data points to a slight dip in staffing levels in the services industry, it is encouraging to see manufacturers increasing their hiring activity and falling cost pressures across all sectors.
"This survey is in addition to latest official figures which also show Scotland's economy growing and unemployment falling."
The charity said the step was "wholly unacceptable" as it was a registered trademark not to be used politically.
Andrew Charalambous, UKIP candidate in Cambridgeshire North East, apologised.
"The poppy is entirely non-political, non-partisan and non-sectaria and its use in this context is entirely unacceptable," the Legion said.
"The Legion red poppy is the registered trademark and device of The Royal British Legion and its only lawful use is in the support of our charity and the Poppy Appeal.
"We will take all necessary steps to ensure that this does not happen again."
The poppy was shown next to a picture of UKIP leader Nigel Farage.
A UKIP spokesman said: "Mr Charalambous is embarrassed and deeply apologetic that he used the Royal British Legion poppy in his advertisement.
"A member of the Royal British Legion for many years, he apologises profusely. He is adamant he will not do so again."
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The ministry said the claims were "completely untrue and intended to harm Syria's reputation".
Amnesty said mass hangings took place every week at Saydnaya prison between September 2011 and December 2015.
It said executions had been authorised at the highest levels of the Syrian government.
The human rights group interviewed 84 people, including former guards, detainees and officials at the prison, north of Damascus, for its report.
In a statement carried by the official Sana news agency, the justice ministry dismissed the claims as "baseless" and said that all executions in Syria followed due process.
"The justice ministry denies and condemns in the strongest terms what was reported because it is not based on correct evidence but on personal emotions that aim to achieve well-known political goals," the statement said.
Amnesty said the Syrian government had not responded to its request for comment ahead of the report's publication.
The government has previously denied killing or mistreating detainees.
In its report, Amnesty said that every week, and often twice a week, groups of between 20 and 50 people, mostly opposition supporters, were executed in total secrecy at the facility.
Before their execution, detainees were brought before a "military field court" in the capital's Qaboun district for "trials" lasting only a few minutes, the report says.
A former military court judge quoted by Amnesty said detainees would be asked if they had committed crimes. "Whether the answer is 'yes' or 'no', he will be convicted... This court has no relation with the rule of law," he said.
On the basis of the testimony of witnesses, Amnesty estimates that between 5,000 and 13,000 people were executed at Saydnaya over five years.
The group said such practices amounted to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Last August, Amnesty reported that an estimated 17,723 people had died in custody as a result of torture and the deprivation of food, water and medical care between March 2011 - when the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began - and December 2015. That figure did not include those allegedly hanged at Saydnaya.
Also last year, UN human rights experts said witness accounts and other evidence strongly suggested that tens of thousands of people were being detained and that "deaths on a massive scale" were occurring in custody.
Saints threatened with Danny Swanson hitting a post and Craig Gordon having to deny Steven Anderson's looping shot.
Celtic took a firm grip on the game, only for Scott Sinclair to miss one of several chances as Saints held firm.
But their resistance was finally broken when Dedryck Boyata headed past Saints goalkeeper Zander Clark.
Boyata had previously lacked confidence and assurance and his displays were often hapless. But he has become a player reborn.
There was little pressure on him defensively, since flurries of attacking intent from St Johnstone in the first half petered out after the break. But he was calm at the back and passed the ball in assured form.
This game, though, called for a decisive figure and while Celtic players cursed missed opportunities, it was Boyata who eventually provided the clinical touch.
He had already seen a first-half header cleared off the goalline by David Wotherspoon, before then racing back into his own penalty area to execute a perfect sliding tackle on St Johnstone striker Chris Kane.
There was less demand to be swashbuckling after the break, but he saw another header pushed away before rising to bullet a header past the St Johnstone goalkeeper Clark.
Celtic captain Scott Brown has delivered more eye-catching displays in previous games, but perhaps a strong-willed, unbending performance was fitting in his 400th match.
He was everywhere on the pitch and cleared from a St Johnstone corner kick in the second half. He barely flinched.
He watched in frustration as Stuart Armstrong saw several curling shots saved or fly wide. Moussa Dembele, too, was off the pace, and failed to convert two Sinclair crosses.
In the midst of Celtic's dominant second-half possession, there were two moments of typical Brown play. One was a driving run into the penalty area that carried him past three St Johnstone players and earned a corner. Minutes later, he clipped a shot from the edge of the area that Clark saved.
If there was an emblematic moment, it was Brown's dogged clearing from his own penalty area late on, defiant and strong.
There is never any doubt that a fixture against St Johnstone will be combative. They are well-drilled and organised. It was not unusual to see Chris Millar bravely stand up to Dembele and rob the striker of the ball.
Paul Paton, too, was relentless. Challenges tended to be physical, uncompromising, and no quarter was given. Runs were blocked, tackles were fierce, there were occasional tussles, and in Kane there was a willing runner up front.
St Johnstone were entirely subdued after the break, but in the first-half there were moments of attacking hope, mostly at set-pieces. Anderson saw one header drift wide and then the centre-back's lob was pushed over the bar by Celtic goalkeeper Gordon.
When Celtic failed to clear a corner, the ball bounced in front of Swanson and his carefully executed volley sent the ball off the upright.
The visitors were adamant they should have been awarded a penalty just after Boyata's goal, when Brown appeared to push Anderson over inside the area. Referee Andrew Dallas was unmoved, though.
For all their effort and resistance, St Johnstone could not hold Brendan Rodgers' side at bay.
Match ends, Celtic 1, St. Johnstone 0.
Second Half ends, Celtic 1, St. Johnstone 0.
Foul by Leigh Griffiths (Celtic).
Tam Scobbie (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Scott Brown (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Tam Scobbie.
Attempt blocked. Nir Bitton (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Liam Craig (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Patrick Roberts (Celtic).
Foul by Nir Bitton (Celtic).
Chris Millar (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Celtic. Erik Sviatchenko replaces Cristian Gamboa.
Corner, St. Johnstone. Conceded by Cristian Gamboa.
Scott Brown (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Steven MacLean (St. Johnstone).
Craig Gordon (Celtic) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, St. Johnstone. Conceded by Scott Brown.
Corner, St. Johnstone. Conceded by Scott Brown.
Substitution, St. Johnstone. Steven MacLean replaces Christopher Kane.
Substitution, St. Johnstone. Graham Cummins replaces Danny Swanson.
Attempt missed. Patrick Roberts (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Paul Paton (St. Johnstone) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kieran Tierney (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paul Paton (St. Johnstone).
Substitution, Celtic. Leigh Griffiths replaces Moussa Dembele.
Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic).
Blair Alston (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Celtic 1, St. Johnstone 0. Dedryck Boyata (Celtic) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong with a cross.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Zander Clark.
Attempt saved. Dedryck Boyata (Celtic) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Joe Shaughnessy.
Attempt blocked. Patrick Roberts (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Scott Sinclair (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Keith Watson (St. Johnstone).
Attempt saved. Cristian Gamboa (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) left footed shot from very close range is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Celtic. Patrick Roberts replaces James Forrest.
Attempt saved. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Scott Brown (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
The 65-year-old's last appearance on the BBC Two show will during the next series, which begins on 20 July.
"I do not plan to make any further investments on the programme so thought it fair to offer my seat to someone else," said the health club mogul.
Bannatyne's departure will leave Peter Jones as the last remaining original dragon on the show.
The other dragons include Deborah Meaden and Kelly Hoppen.
The programme sees businessmen and women present their money-making ideas to the panel of "dragons", who either invest in schemes or pronounce "I'm out".
Mark Linsey, the BBC's controller for entertainment commissioning, said: "Duncan has been the most formidable Dragon and we are going to miss him enormously. He has inspired many entrepreneurs to come on the show and helped make Dragons' Den a huge success for BBC Two."
"His seat is going to be a difficult one to fill, but he leaves the show on a high, with this next series being the best yet," he added.
Bannatyne said: "The series that is about to be transmitted is my final season and I'm delighted that it is full of exciting, high quality pitches. I have made a number of investments and it really is must-see business TV."
His business success took off with the purchase of an ice-cream van, which he later sold before investing in a chain of nursing homes.
Bannatyne sold that business in 1996 and built up a chain of health clubs and spas.
According to the Dragons' Den website, he has invested almost £2m in schemes on the programme to date.
More than 100 people have contacted an investigating commission to report abuse between the 1960s and 1980s.
They told the inquiry that "vicious and humiliating" attacks were often part of initiation rituals.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was set up in 2013.
Thousands of people have made submissions since it began its work investigating the abuse of children in institutions across Australia.
Much of its recent investigation has focused on abuse by Roman Catholic priests in the 1970s and '80s.
Some former Australian Defence Force (ADF) recruits told the commission on Tuesday they were physically punished and threatened with dishonourable discharge when they complained.
The commission is also investigating child protection measures in the military's current cadet programme, which has 25,000 members and encourages young people to pursue a career in the armed forces.
A total of 14 witnesses are expected to give evidence to the ADF in person.
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Andy Carroll's superb first-half header allowed England to establish comfortable control - but poor defending allowed Sweden to score twice and take the lead before the hour.
Hodgson will be judged on the impact and results of his big calls and he could not have done much better both in acting on a tactical theory and reacting when it threatened to go wrong.
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England manager Roy Hodgson required inspiration and found it in the shape of substitute Theo Walcott as the Arsenal attacker turned the game around with a spectacular equaliser and a penetrating run to set up Welbeck's deft back-heel with 12 minutes left.
Hodgson's side had been derided in some quarters for their conservative approach in the opening 1-1 draw with France but there could be no complaints about the entertainment value on offer here in Ukraine - although not all of it was intentional or admirable.
He will take heart from England's positive response to adversity but will be hugely concerned that trouble came as the result of a collective lapse of defensive concentration that gave Sweden an all-too-easy route back into this contest.
England know a draw against co-hosts Ukraine in Donetsk next Tuesday will put them through to the Euro 2012 quarter-finals, but they will face a team with ambitions of their own in that direction in what will be a hostile atmosphere inside the Donbass Arena.
Hodgson's plan was clear and was revealed by Carroll's recall. Sweden's defence had a weakness in the air and England were intent on probing it.
England's first threat came from midfield man Scott Parker when he saw his rising 25-yard shot clawed away by Sweden goalkeeper Andreas Isaksson.
And there was a hint of things to come when Welbeck rose to meet James Milner's cross, but his glancing header was weak and lacked the direction to trouble Isaksson.
When England broke the deadlock it came from a move that was straight from Hodgson's strategy both in creation and execution.
Gerrard's cross from the right wing was met by the soaring figure of Carroll as he got in between Andreas Granqvist and Mellberg to power a header past Isaksson.
Sweden were carrying few attacking threats, although the ease with which Zlatan Ibrahimovic brushed Parker off the ball and then won a straight race with a ponderous-looking John Terry were causes for concern.
Kim Kallstrom shot just over after Glen Johnson lost possession and Hart had to dive at the feet of Johan Elmander as the Swedes attempted to restore equality before the break.
After looking relatively settled, England were set back by a scrappy mess of an equaliser for Sweden four minutes after the restart. Ibrahimovic's free-kick, conceded needlessly by Carroll, was not cleared and Mellberg's shot was palmed on to Johnson before going into the net.
Sweden had emerged with a sense of purpose they never showed in the first half and were ahead just before the hour - but once again England were guilty of defending in a manner that manager Hodgson will find unacceptable.
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Mellberg was allowed to rise unmarked amid a mass of dozing defenders to meet Seb Larsson's free-kick and send a downward header past Hart as England's players looked bemused at the fate that had befallen them.
Hodgson's reaction was to introduce Walcott for Milner and it was a change that reaped a rich reward as the Arsenal attacker played a decisive part in England's recovery.
Walcott's swerving finish for his first international goal in nearly four years brought England level after 64 minutes before his darting run into the area and cross allowed Welbeck to apply an instinctive back-flick finish.
In the closing moments captain Gerrard could have given the scoreline a more convincing appearance but Isaksson did brilliantly to block his close-range volley.
The victory was secured, but Hodgson and England will be well aware they survived a scare caused by their own carelessness.
Full Time The game is over, as the referee blows his whistle.
Headed effort from deep inside the penalty area by Jonas Olsson goes harmlessly over the crossbar.
A cross is delivered by Theo Walcott, Shot by Steven Gerrard from 12 yards. Andreas Isaksson makes a save.
Steven Gerrard has an effort direct from the free kick.
Booking The referee cautions Anders Svensson for dissent.
Sebastian Larsson is penalised for a handball.
Substitution Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain replaces Danny Welbeck.
Corner taken left-footed by Kim Kallstrom from the right by-line, save made by Joe Hart.
Joleon Lescott challenges Markus Rosenberg unfairly and gives away a free kick. Free kick crossed left-footed by Kim Kallstrom from right wing, clearance by Andy Carroll.
Ashley Cole fouled by Anders Svensson, the ref awards a free kick. Free kick crossed right-footed by Ashley Young from left wing, clearance by Martin Olsson.
Anders Svensson sends in a cross.
Effort on goal by Scott Parker from just inside the penalty area goes harmlessly over the target.
The ball is swung over by Mikael Lustig, Andy Carroll manages to make a clearance.
Substitution Christian Wilhelmsson joins the action as a substitute, replacing Rasmus Elm.
Substitution Markus Rosenberg on for Johan Elmander.
Assist on the goal came from Theo Walcott.
Goal! - Danny Welbeck - Sweden 2 - 3 England Danny Welbeck scores a goal from close in to the bottom left corner of the goal. Sweden 2-3 England.
The ball is delivered by Theo Walcott,
Sebastian Larsson takes the inswinging corner, save by Joe Hart.
Effort on goal by Zlatan Ibrahimovic from 25 yards. Save by Joe Hart.
Effort on goal by Kim Kallstrom from just inside the area clears the bar.
Foul by Kim Kallstrom on Ashley Young, free kick awarded. Ashley Young has a direct shot on goal from the free kick.
Booking Booking for Jonas Olsson for unsporting behaviour.
Inswinging corner taken from the right by-line by Kim Kallstrom, comfortable save by Joe Hart.
Effort on goal by Andy Carroll from outside the box goes harmlessly over the bar.
Kim Kallstrom takes a shot. John Terry gets a block in.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Scott Parker by Anders Svensson. Ashley Cole takes the free kick.
Substitution Andreas Granqvist leaves the field to be replaced by Mikael Lustig.
Goal! - Theo Walcott - Sweden 2 - 2 England A fantastic goal is scored by Theo Walcott from outside the penalty area high into the middle of the goal. Sweden 2-2 England.
Steven Gerrard takes the free kick. John Terry takes a shot. Andreas Isaksson makes a save. Ashley Young takes the inswinging corner, Jonas Olsson manages to make a clearance.
Booking The referee cautions Olof Mellberg for unsporting behaviour.
Olof Mellberg gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Andy Carroll.
Corner taken by Steven Gerrard from the right by-line. Glen Johnson takes a shot. Jonas Olsson gets a block in.
Substitution Theo Walcott comes on in place of James Milner.
Ashley Young produces a cross, Jonas Olsson makes a clearance.
Assist by Sebastian Larsson.
Goal! - Olof Mellberg - Sweden 2 - 1 England Olof Mellberg scores a headed goal from close range. Sweden 2-1 England.
Centre by Sebastian Larsson,
Booking James Milner is shown a yellow card for unsporting behaviour.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Martin Olsson by James Milner.
The ball is delivered by Kim Kallstrom.
Handball decision goes against Scott Parker. Free kick taken by Andreas Granqvist.
Steven Gerrard takes a shot from 25 yards. Olof Mellberg gets a block in.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic provided the assist for the goal.
Goal! - Olof Mellberg - Sweden 1 - 1 England Goal scored by Olof Mellberg from deep inside the penalty box to the bottom right corner of the goal. Sweden 1-1 England.
Kim Kallstrom fouled by Andy Carroll, the ref awards a free kick. Zlatan Ibrahimovic produces a shot on goal direct from the free kick.
A cross is delivered by Andreas Granqvist, clearance made by John Terry.
Martin Olsson sends in a cross, John Terry manages to make a clearance.
Danny Welbeck challenges Kim Kallstrom unfairly and gives away a free kick. Direct free kick taken by Anders Svensson.
The second half has started.
Half Time The referee blows for half time.
Outswinging corner taken from the right by-line by Steven Gerrard.
A cross is delivered by Zlatan Ibrahimovic, save made by Joe Hart.
James Milner produces a cross.
Andy Carroll fouled by Olof Mellberg, the ref awards a free kick. Free kick taken by Joleon Lescott.
Unfair challenge on Sebastian Larsson by Ashley Young results in a free kick. Andreas Isaksson takes the direct free kick.
Effort on goal by Kim Kallstrom from outside the penalty box goes harmlessly over the bar.
Ashley Cole produces a cross.
Ashley Young produces a right-footed shot from the edge of the box and misses to the left of the goal.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic takes a shot. Save by Joe Hart.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Ashley Young by Anders Svensson. Joleon Lescott takes the direct free kick.
Foul by Rasmus Elm on John Terry, free kick awarded. Free kick taken by Joe Hart.
The ball is swung over by Rasmus Elm.
Martin Olsson takes a shot. James Milner gets a block in.
Rasmus Elm crosses the ball.
Steven Gerrard provided the assist for the goal.
Goal! - Andy Carroll - Sweden 0 - 1 England Andy Carroll finds the back of the net with a headed goal from inside the area. Sweden 0-1 England.
The ball is delivered by Steven Gerrard,
Ashley Cole has an effort at goal from outside the box which goes wide left of the target.
A cross is delivered by James Milner, Jonas Olsson makes a clearance.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic takes a shot. Save made by Joe Hart.
James Milner produces a cross, Header by Danny Welbeck from deep inside the penalty area misses to the left of the target.
Foul by Steven Gerrard on Rasmus Elm, free kick awarded. Sebastian Larsson takes the direct free kick.
Shot by Sebastian Larsson from 25 yards. Save made by Joe Hart.
Andy Carroll concedes a free kick for a foul on Olof Mellberg. Andreas Isaksson takes the direct free kick.
Olof Mellberg gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Andy Carroll. Glen Johnson takes the free kick.
The ball is delivered by James Milner, clearance made by Olof Mellberg.
Scott Parker takes a shot. Save made by Andreas Isaksson.
Scott Parker fouled by Sebastian Larsson, the ref awards a free kick. Scott Parker delivers the ball from the free kick right-footed from left wing.
Unfair challenge on Andy Carroll by Andreas Granqvist results in a free kick. Ashley Young takes the direct free kick.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Andy Carroll on Anders Svensson. Sebastian Larsson takes the direct free kick.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Andreas Granqvist by Andy Carroll. Andreas Granqvist restarts play with the free kick.
Joleon Lescott fouled by Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the ref awards a free kick. Scott Parker takes the free kick.
The ref blows the whistle to begin the match.
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After about 90 minutes in the air the plane landed safely back at Pudong airport in Shanghai.
The plane is a key symbol of Beijing's soaring ambitions to enter the global aviation market.
Made by state-owned firm Comac, it has been in planning since 2008 but the flight was repeatedly pushed back.
For Friday's maiden flight, the plane carried only its skeleton crew of five pilots and engineers and took off in front of a crowd of thousands of dignitaries, aviation workers and enthusiasts.
Ahead of the flight, state television said the plane would fly at an altitude of only 3,000m (9,800 feet), some 7,000m lower than a regular trip, and reach a speed of around 300km/h (186mph).
The C919 is designed to be a direct competitor to Boeing's 737 and the Airbus A320.
In an interview carried out in March but released on Chinese television shortly before the launch, test pilot Cai Jun said he had full confidence in the plane.
"A pilot knows clearly the condition of a plane. He knows very well whether it will work. So I'm not afraid at all, but focusing more on whether the plane is in its best shape now," he said.
He also described halting an earlier taxiing test in late 2016 because of a problem with the brakes.
"It's just like driving a car. I put the brakes on, and the plane started to shake," he said.
He said he had had to argue with the plane's engineers help refine the design.
"For the designers, the plane is their baby, which they believe is perfect. But our task is to tell them that their baby is not perfect, it has strengths and weaknesses, and they have to make improvements," the pilot said.
The plane still relies on a wide array of imported technology though, it is for instance powered by engines from French-US supplier CFM International.
Orders have already been placed for more than 500 of the planes, with commitments from 23 customers, say officials, mainly Chinese airlines. The main customer is China Eastern Airlines.
Europe's aviation safety regulator has started the certification process for the C919 - a crucial step for the aircraft to be successful on the international market.
China has had ambitions to build its own civil aircraft industry since the 1970s, when leader Mao Zedong's wife, Jiang Qing, personally backed a project.
But the Y-10, built in the late 1970s, was impractical due to its heavy weight and only three of the aircraft were ever made.
It's estimated that the global aviation market will be worth $2tn (£1.55tn) over the next 20 years.
The Justice Secretary "regretted" prison rules at Feltham Young Offenders Institution had been breached, the High Court has heard.
But her lawyer denied the boy, who has mental health problems, was held in "inhuman and degrading" conditions.
Tom Weisselberg QC said he was isolated because of his "challenging" behaviour.
Ms Truss is contesting claims brought forward by the boy's mother, that his confinement in a cell by himself for 23-and-a-half hours a day amounted to inhuman or degrading treatment.
Mr Weisselberg said the boy, known as AB, had a "history of assaulting staff" and had used "rude, racist and threatening language" to them and other inmates at Feltham.
Mr Weisselberg admitted it was "unlawful" that the boy was unable to do activities with other young people.
AB's "removal from association" breached Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights - the right to a private and family life - and did not comply with prison regulations, the court heard.
He also said AB did not receive the statutory minimum of 15 hours' education per week - also in breach of prison rules.
But Mr Weisselberg said the teenager had made racist remarks to Muslim and black inmates which had inflamed tensions at Feltham.
"That racism has led him to be a target," he said, adding that AB's "challenging" behaviour required "very careful management".
"The prison has not sat on its hands," he said.
The hearing continues.
Channel 4 will take on the BBC's F1 broadcast rights from next season.
"The current financial position of the BBC means some tough and unwanted choices have to be made," said Barbara Slater, the BBC's director of sport.
However, BBC Radio 5 live has extended its commentary rights for F1 until the 2021 season.
BBC Sport broadcast 10 live races of Briton Lewis Hamilton's world championship-winning season in 2015 with a one-hour build-up to each grand prix. It also offered extensive highlights of the nine other races.
But as part of a £150m gap in the corporation's finances from next year, BBC Sport was asked to deliver £35m of savings.
"A significant chunk of BBC Sport's savings target will be delivered through the immediate termination of our TV rights agreement for Formula 1," added Slater.
"Any decision to have to stop broadcasting a particular sport or sporting event is hugely disappointing and taken reluctantly.
"There are no easy solutions; all of the options available would be unpopular with audiences."
BBC Sport regained F1 rights from ITV in 2009 but - in another cost-saving move - had been sharing the broadcast rights with Sky Sports since the 2012 season.
"These are very challenging times for the BBC and sport is not immune to those financial pressures," added Slater.
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Mr Trump told a gathering of police chiefs in Washington DC that he has the right to enact his executive order.
His remarks came a day after an appeals court heard a challenge to the Republican president's policy.
It temporarily suspends the US refugee programme and bans travel for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries.
Democrats and other critics have said Mr Trump's comments about the judiciary undermine a core principle of US democracy that courts are supposed to be independent.
The judiciary is a co-equal branch of the US government, along with Congress and the president's executive branch, under the Constitution.
Addressing police chiefs on Wednesday morning, Mr Trump said he would not "ever want to call a court biased".
He added: "Courts seem to be so political and it would be so great for our justice system if they would be able to read a statement and do what's right. And that has to do with the security of our country, which is so important."
During his remarks, the president also said a Boston federal judge who had ruled in favour of his policy was a "highly respected" and "perfect" jurist.
His criticism of the judges has sparked condemnation, even from within his own party. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned "it is best not to single out judges" when asked on Sunday.
Also on Wednesday morning, Mr Trump criticised retailer Nordstrom after it decided not to stock the new clothing line of his daughter, Ivanka Trump.
"My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom," Mr Trump tweeted.
"She is a great person - always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible!"
Shares of the retailer fell 0.7%, before rallying.
In Tuesday's hearing, the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals posed tough questions at those challenging and defending Mr Trump's travel ban.
The court is expected to issue a ruling this week.
But the case will probably end up at the Supreme Court, the nation's top judicial body.
The court must decide whether Mr Trump acted within his authority or violated the US Constitution's prohibition on laws favouring one religion over another, as well as anti-discrimination laws.
The 9th Circuit is expected to rule on whether a lower court judge in Seattle - whom Mr Trump described as a "so-called judge" - acted properly last Friday in temporarily halting enforcement of the president's order.
Mr Trump's 27 January order seeks to bar travellers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering the US for 90 days.
It would also ban all refugees for 120 days and indefinitely exclude those from Syria.
In its latest update, the WMO says the 2015 occurrence will be among the three strongest recorded since 1950.
Severe droughts and significant flooding in many parts of the world are being attributed to this El Niño.
The WMO warn these impacts are likely to increase and this event is now in "uncharted territory".
El Niño is a naturally occurring weather episode that sees the warm waters of the central Pacific expand eastwards towards North and South America.
The phenomenon, which happens every two to seven years, usually peaks late in the calendar year, although the effects can persist well into the following spring.
This year's El Niño seems to be following that pattern.
According to the WMO, the peak three month average water surface temperatures in tropical Pacific will exceed 2C above normal.
It is the strongest event since 1998 and is expected to be among the three most powerful ever recorded.
El Niño tends to see higher global temperatures than normal but its regional impacts are highly variable.
This year has seen active hurricanes in the eastern Pacific. In South East Asia, El Niño has been associated with a drought which helped increase wildfires in Indonesia and caused a dense haze in parts of the country.
El Niño is also believed to have played a role in reducing the impact of this year's monsoon in India.
In East Africa, enhanced rainfall is expected between October and December. Southern Africa is experiencing prolonged dry weather amid worries over the survival of crops and cattle.
"Severe droughts and devastating flooding being experienced throughout the tropics and sub-tropical zones bear the hallmarks of this El Niño, which is the strongest in more than 15 years," said WMO secretary-general Michel Jarraud.
The authorities in California are expecting that El Niño will bring extremely wet conditions to the state in the early part of 2016. Sandbags are being stockpiled, storm drains are being cleared and extra staff are being taken on to deal with possible flooding.
While stressing that El Niño is not the only factor driving global climate patterns, the WMO says that the implications of the weather system in a warmer world are uncertain.
"This event is playing out in uncharted territory. Our planet has altered dramatically because of climate change, the general trend towards a warmer global ocean, the loss of Arctic sea ice and of over a million square km of summer snow cover in the northern hemisphere," said Mr Jarraud.
"So this naturally occurring El Niño event and human induced climate change may interact and modify each other in ways which we have never before experienced," he said.
"Even before the onset of El Niño, global average surface temperatures had reached new records. El Niño is turning up the heat even further," said Mr Jarraud.
Scientists are meeting in New York this week to try and increase our understanding of El Niño and to predict the anticipated global socioeconomic shocks.
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Last week, BBC News reported many children's addresses had been accessed.
And, on Monday, Vtech confirmed five million customers had been affected and suspended trading in its shares on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
The US states of Connecticut and Illinois are investigating the attack.
Vtech makes many technology products with cameras, such as child-friendly tablet computers and a smartwatch, which can be used to chat with parents.
And the hacker told Motherboard they had accessed archived chat logs but were not planning to release them.
However, Motherboard has released what it says is an audio recording of a conversation between a parent and their child.
But the BBC has been unable to confirm the authenticity of the message.
And Vtech has not responded to requests for comment on the matter.
A statement from the Hong Kong-based company, posted on Monday, made no reference to pictures or audio recordings.
It reiterated no credit card or social security data had been stolen in the breach.
Security experts have rounded on the company for failing to provide what they said were basic protections against cyber-attacks.
Troy Hunt, an Australia-based security researcher who was able to analyse the hacked data, posted a detailed breakdown of Vtech's services on his website.
He said: "All communications are over unencrypted connections, including when passwords, parent's details and sensitive information about kids is transmitted."
Security experts also warned other connected toys could be targeted by hackers.
Thirteen other Vtech services have been taken offline by the company as a precautionary measure.
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Tamara Rojo told Radio Times magazine that children were often praised for quick results rather than hard work.
"We live in a society that rewards fast success based on little talent or commitment, which is transient and a dangerous place to be," she said.
"Do we want to promote instant success and instant failure, or do we want to promote self-esteem and hard work?"
The Spanish dancer, who is also the artistic director of the ballet company, began classes at the age of five, and joined her first ballet company aged 11.
She said her success was based upon persistence and hard work.
"I never had natural flexibility or the physical abilities that some people had.
"I had a strong technique and was hard-working - I trained for six hours, six days a week from the age of 11 - and that made up for the things I didn't naturally have.
"I rose up the company very fast and was a principal by 18."
Carlos Acosta, who has partnered Rojo in several productions, including Romeo and Juliet, once attested to the ballerina's perseverance, saying she had "no sense of pain or exhaustion".
Rojo took over at the English National Ballet two years ago, shortly before her 38th birthday.
Since then, she has overhauled its programme with a new production of Le Corsaire, and a bold, contemporary season of works inspired by World War One.
One of those, Akram Khan's Dust, was performed at Glastonbury; while earlier this year, Rojo announced a triple-bill dedicated to female choreography for the ballet's 2015/16 season.
The ballerina, who is a judge on the BBC Young Dancer award, has previously spoken of her desire to create a legacy.
"I hope to inspire a whole new generation of dancers that will in turn become teachers, choreographers and managers themselves," she told the Telegraph last year.
"I think you can really transform attitudes both for the audience and the artists and therefore you can grow a healthy, productive and interesting art form."
Rojo is also a strong believer in government subsidies for the arts - which she says are necessary for companies to take creative "gambles".
She told the Radio Times it was "a shame that during the elections there is no money promised for the arts", adding: "We have proven the business case and we have proven the social case."
Five men died after being pulled from the water at Camber Sands in East Sussex, while two-year-old Mckayla Bruynius and her father died after being swept off rocks in Cornwall. Other fatal incidents included a mother and son who died in the sea off Aberdeen.
So what are the greatest risks at the seaside and how can they be avoided?
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) urges people to "respect the water and visit a lifeguarded beach".
This year, the RNLI has lifeguards on 238 beaches across the UK and the Channel Islands.
It says "seconds count" in emergencies at the beach - and its lifeguards responded to more than 17,000 incidents last year.
"For the best chance of survival, you need someone on the beach who can see the dangers develop: someone who can prevent accidents before they happen and respond instantly if they occur," it says.
Basically, a rip current is a narrow channel of fast-moving water.
"Rips can be very difficult to spot, but sometimes can be identified by a channel of churning, choppy water or debris on the sea's surface," the RNLI says.
These can be dangerous because they can drag people out to sea, and can reach up to 4.5mph (7.2km/h).
That may not sound fast, but it's quicker than Team GB swimmer Adam Peaty's world-record pace in the 100m breaststroke at the Rio Olympics.
Keep calm, raise your hand and shout for help.
If it's a rip current, don't swim against it. As explained above, it's almost impossible to swim faster than a powerful rip, so attempting this will lead to exhaustion.
Stand rather than swim if the water is shallow enough. If not, swim parallel to the shore until free of the rip, then head for shore.
If you find yourself in the water unexpectedly, the initial shock may cause you to gasp and panic.
The RNLI advises people in this situation not to attempt swimming straight away, but to relax, float and try to find something buoyant before swimming towards safety if possible.
Call 999 and ask for the Coastguard.
If you have something that floats or something the struggling person can hold on to, throw it to them.
The RNLI says: "Don't go in the water yourself - too many people drown trying to save others."
Many coastal emergencies happen when people get cut off by rising water.
Visitors are advised to check tides before walking along beaches, as well as watching out for signs about hazards such as falling rocks.
Tide timetables are available from the BBC.
"Respect the water," says RNLI lifeguard manager Kester Sheppard.
"It's like a fire. If you could see a fire burning, you wouldn't walk towards it would you?"
He says many people who go near the sea in rough weather - for example, to take pictures - get caught out by an unexpectedly large wave, and he urges: "Don't go too close."
What is safe will depend on the conditions, but people should be aware of the risks and follow any advice from nearby signs and authorities, Mr Sheppard adds.
The artwork was commissioned by the chairman of the Matthew of Bristol Trust, Alderman Royston Griffey.
Located on the prow of the ship, the greyhound figure is the work of carver Michael Henderson who has created a number of other pieces in the city.
The Matthew is a replica medieval caravel built in 1997 to mark the 500th anniversary of John Cabot's voyage from Bristol to the New World in 1497.
The ship is permanently moored on Princes Wharf on Bristol Harbour.
Mr Griffey said the new figurehead depicts the White Greyhound of Richmond with a Tudor Rose badge.
"It is the emblem of King Henry VII. This is a Tudor ship, he was the first Tudor king, and as Duke of Richmond that was his symbol." Mr Griffey added.
Mr Griffey said for inspiration, the monarch granted Cabot Letters Patent for his groundbreaking voyage.
The Matthew decided to officially unveil the figurehead on 2 May, the anniversary of the original Matthew's - and the replica's - voyage to Newfoundland.
Mr Henderson has designed and carved a number of works around Bristol, including the signpost in the grounds of The Mansion House.
It points to the seven cities that are linked with Bristol and includes a medieval ship on top - the Matthew of Bristol.
The German missed last week's first test because he had not recovered from a back injury sustained in a crash at January's Race of Champions.
A statement from the Swiss team said Wehrlein, 22, would be "ready to hit the track with the C36" car on Tuesday.
Wehrlein was replaced by Ferrari third driver Antonio Giovinazzi in the first test, the Italian impressing onlookers.
Wehrlein owes his drive at Sauber, who use Ferrari engines, to funding from Mercedes, to whom he is under contract.
The German company decided against promoting him to the seat left vacant when world champion Nico Rosberg retired at the end of last season, feeling he was not ready after just one year with the now-defunct Manor team.
But Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff, who signed Finn Valtteri Bottas to partner Lewis Hamilton in the factory team, wanted to give Wehrlein further time to prove himself.
Mercedes has another of its young drivers, Frenchman Esteban Ocon, at the Force India team this year.
Investigators continue to focus on the main suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who died after a police shootout, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, who is now recovering from bullet wounds.
Meanwhile, the number of people involved in the case as suspects, lawyers and experts continues to grow. Here are the individuals playing an important role:
Ms Clarke, a 60-year-old lawyer based in San Diego, is defending Tsarnaev. A "master strategist" in death penalty cases, according to the New York Times, she has represented some of the most difficult clients in recent US history.
"She has stood up to the plate in the kinds of cases that bring the greatest disdain from the public," as Gerald Goldstein, a Texas lawyer who knows her well, told the newspaper.
She represented Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, and al-Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui. Another one of her clients, Jared Lee Loughner, shot and killed six people and wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
Mr DesLauriers, 53, has for years been involved in high-profile cases. He announced the arrest of Boston crime boss James Bulger in June 2011, for example.
He is known as "meticulous" and "a perfectionist" in his approach to investigations, a former law enforcement officer who has been involved in federal cases told the BBC.
"Rick is the real deal," David Kris, former US assistant attorney general for national security, told Time magazine.
A native of Rhode Island, Ms Russell, 24, met her future husband while a student at Suffolk University. Her father is a physician and her mother a nurse.
Ms Russell married Tsarnaev in 2010 and afterwards converted to Islam. They have a three-year-old daughter. They liked to take walks on Norfolk Street in Cambridge, where they lived. "She wore her ethnic scarf," a neighbour, Lila Lyman, told the BBC.
Her attorney, Amato DeLuca, has said she does not speak Russian and had nothing to do with the bombings.
The 19-year-old Kazakh was arrested on 20 April on suspicion of immigration violations. He was later charged with destroying evidence in the bombings case.
He is a former student at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, where Tsarnaev had been enrolled. He reportedly drove a car with a license plate that read "Terrorista #1".
A University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth student who is also originally from Kazakhstan, Tazhayakov, 19, was a roommate of Mr Kadyrbayev.
He was in the US on a student visa and has also been charged with destroying evidence in the bombing case.
A former University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth student, Mr Phillipos, 19, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, went to high school with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
They were both students at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School. Mr Phillipos was recently charged with lying to impede the investigation.
The plan may resolve the long-running row over who is responsible for managing risks to the public in the area.
The stretch of Fife coastline affected is contaminated with radium from scrapped aircraft instrument panels.
The MoD has said it expects the work to be completed by the end of 2018. It said costs are "still being finalised".
The plan, which was commissioned by the MoD's Defence Infrastructure Organisation, has been endorsed by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa).
As well as the removal of the hazardous radium, the plan calls for the reinforcement, replacement and extension of coastal rock armour.
A replacement slipway will be constructed at Dalgety Bay Sailing Club.
Defence minister Andrew Murrison said: "We are committed to supporting the Dalgety Bay community and, whilst the risk to the public has always been very low, this report sets out a clear and strong strategy to address the radium contamination on the beach.
"We continue to work with Sepa and the council to achieve agreement on their future responsibilities and a definitive solution as soon as possible."
Previous attempts to tackle the contamination have been hampered by disagreement between the MoD, Sepa and the local authority about who is responsible.
Sepa Executive Director Calum MacDonald said: "The proposed works outlined today by MoD provide a long term solution to the radium contamination of Dalgety Bay which if successful will allow the public to use the entire area again in an unrestricted manner.
"We welcome the proposals and will continue to work with MoD, Fife Council and other partners as detailed plans for the works are developed and implemented."
Councillor David Ross, the leader of Fife Council, added: "I am pleased with the commitment in principle from MoD to deliver the necessary remedial coastal protection works.
"The council looks forward to being involved through the design and planning phases and in the development and implementation of the proposals."
The council has said in principle that it could take on the long-term maintenance of the coastal protection measures.
Mr Ross explained: "Further detailed discussions will now need to take place and the council will work with all interested parties, including the MoD, SEPA and the local community in order to bring this to an acceptable conclusion."
In England, surveys measuring typical drinking habits account for only around 60% of alcohol sold, the medical journal BMC Medicine report said.
Report author Dr Mark Bellis said this was because many studies do not include drinking on special occasions.
More than 6,000 people in England were interviewed for the study.
Accounting for special occasion drinking added more than 120 million UK units of alcohol - equivalent to about 12 million bottles of wine - to the population's alcohol consumption in England every week, it found.
The results could have important implications for public health, researchers said.
"Nationally, we underestimate how much we drink - and as individuals we can turn a blind eye to our heavier drinking periods when we calculate personal consumption," said lead scientist Dr Bellis, from Liverpool John Moores University.
"For many people, though, these sessions add substantial amounts of alcohol to their annual consumption and inevitably increase their risks of developing alcohol-related ill health."
The equivalent of more than three-quarters of a bottle of wine (or about three pints of beer) per drinker every week goes unaccounted for, he said.
The survey measured a medium glass of 12.5% ABV wine as 2.2 UK units, and a 440ml can of 4.5% ABV beer as 2 UK units, but the amount of alcohol units in drinks varies depending on their size and strength. The NHS has a guide to calculating alcohol units.
Researchers conducted telephone interviews with 6,085 randomly-selected members of the public aged 16 and over in England.
Participants were asked about normal drinking patterns and those outside their usual circumstances, such as summer holidays, bank holidays, and weddings.
Most categories of drinkers, based on age groups and levels of typical consumption, reported increased consumption during holidays or special occasions.
The biggest increase was seen in 25 to 35-year-olds, who had the highest level of typical consumption.
People in this drinking category drank an extra 18 units (144g) of alcohol per week on special occasions, the research suggested.
Last year, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development found that people over the age of 15 in the UK drank an average of 10.6 litres of pure alcohol a year - equal to 115 bottles of wine.
According to the Institute of Alcohol Studies, in 2012, men consumed an average of 17 units in the week before they were interviewed, compared with 10.2 units for women.
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Alcohol is related to over 200 different health conditions with recent estimates suggesting it was responsible 3.3 million deaths in 2012, according to the World Health Organisation.
James Nicholls, from the charity Alcohol Research UK, said: "Patterns of consumption have a significant influence on the health impacts of alcohol.
"For instance, it is widely recognised that any protective effects of moderate drinking on the heart are cancelled out by heavy drinking episodes.
"If we can better quantify where peaks in consumption occur, among which groups of drinkers, and at what scale, we will be much better placed to target interventions aimed at reducing harm."
Family and friends were joined by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan in paying their respects to the "special little boy" at St Phillip's Church, in Battersea.
Isaac was one of at least 80 people who were killed in the North Kensington fire last month.
He reportedly got separated from his family in the fire and was found on the 13th floor.
It is thought 255 people survived the fire on 14 June, which engulfed the 67m (220ft) high tower block.
Isaac lived in Grenfell Tower on the 18th floor with parents Genet Shawo and Paulos Petakle, and three-year-old brother, Lukas.
An obituary, read out at the funeral by family friend Abenet Amenshoa, described him as a "smart and generous little boy" who loved swimming, football and playing games with his friends.
A letter from Mr Amenshoa's daughter, aged 5, said: "Isaac can still play in heaven with the other children. He is also with the angels."
Isaac was a pupil at Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School and has been described by his mother as a "beautiful boy".
A tribute from his uncle, Alem Tekle, read: "I have you in my heart. Today and every day."
Later on Friday, the funeral of one of the oldest victims, 82-year-old Ali Jafari will take place.
Members of the community surrounding Grenfell Tower are expected to take part in a silent march to remember those who lost their lives and others who are still missing.
Speaking to LBC Radio on Friday, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, said officers were "sifting every bit of material they can find" to see if there were any more victims' remains in the tower.
"If it takes a year to do the job, it takes a year," she added.
Meanwhile, the BBC has learned that high ladders, which could have potentially "prevented the spread" of tower block fire were sent automatically to the building in the past.
On 14 June, London Fire Brigade took 24 minutes to send a 30m (100ft) ladder. The brigade said its policy has changed since the Grenfell Tower blaze.
Another one of the young victims of the fire has been formally identified by the Met Police as 13-year-old Yahya Hashim, who is believed to have died with his parents Nura Jamal and Hashim Kidir.
Speaking on behalf of his family, his aunt said he was "my most kind, handsome, pure hearted, sweet nephew".
"I have no choice but to accept the fact that you are in a better place now," she said.
"I love you to the end and will miss you for ever."
Andreas Lubitz killed 150 people by crashing the plane - apparently on purpose - after the plane's captain left to use the toilet.
Airlines now say the two-person rule has no safety benefits.
Eurowings, which merged with the Germanwings brand, is one of the airlines now dropping the requirement.
The German airline association BDL announced the change, which will come into effect by 1 June, on its website. It said its airlines will be re-introducing their original cockpit safety procedures.
The European Aviation Safety Agency, which was behind the original rule change, relaxed the requirements last year to allow individual airlines to evaluate their own safety needs.
BDL said that its airlines had "independently" reviewed the rules and decided that the two-person rule had no safety benefits - and could actually be more dangerous.
The group said the changes caused "more frequent and predictable" opening of the cockpit door and expanded the number of people with access to the cockpit.
It also said that the risk of a similar incident to the Germanwings crash was extremely low, and the risk of criminal or terrorist activity was much higher.
Lufthansa, the country's biggest airline, is one of the groups removing the requirement. Its airlines include Austrian Airlines, Swiss Airlines, and Eurowings - which was merged with Germanwings in 2015, a process which had begun before the company's high-profile crash.
However, other airlines in Europe have said they will be maintaining the two-person rule.
The investigation into the 2015 Germanwings crash found that co-pilot Lubitz locked the plane's captain out of the cockpit when he left to use the toilet, before putting the plane into a dive.
It struck the mountains at 700km/h (430mph) an hour, instantly killing everyone on board.
Investigators later discovered he had been suffering from psychiatric issues he had hidden from his colleagues. He believed he was losing his sight - although he was not - and had been taking psychotropic medication which made him unfit to fly.
Since the Germanwings crash, additional screening measures for mental health have been introduced for pilots.
The US Capitol police have accidentally left their guns in the building's toilets three times in 2015.
The officers involved have been disciplined. One gun was found by a child.
"We are now providing additional training on what to do when you have to go to the bathroom," Capitol Police Chief Kim C Dine told Congress.
The Capitol Police are responsible for protecting senators, congressmen and women, other staff and visitors to the Capitol in Washington DC.
They also police the Capitol grounds and the surrounding area.
Mr Dine was testifying to the House Administration Committee after a series of embarrassing episodes affecting the police force.
He said there was no excuse for leaving guns behind in toilets and more lockers are being installed to store firearms.
A first-time offender is typically suspended for five days but this could be increased to 30 days, he said. There could be sackings for individuals who re-offend.
"I would be remiss if I did not say that the officers involved in these recent weapons cases reported in the media in no way intended to leave their weapons unattended.
"But as noted, this is not acceptable and they will be held accountable,'' he said.
The Scottish Parliament voted by 69 to 59 on Tuesday in favour of seeking permission for another referendum.
Nicola Sturgeon argues Scotland should have the choice on what path to follow in the wake of the Brexit vote.
The UK government has already indicated that any referendum should wait until the Brexit process has been completed.
Prime Minister Theresa May, who met Ms Sturgeon for talks in Glasgow on Monday, has repeatedly insisted that "now is not the time".
She argues that the focus should be on getting the best Brexit deal for the whole of the UK, and Scottish voters can only make an informed choice once the terms are clear.
By Sarah Smith, Scotland editor
Sitting on the sofa, her shoes kicked off, putting the final touches to that letter
It couldn't be more different from the very formal portrait of Theresa May signing the Article 50 letter in Downing Street. Very different images - and that is no accident.
But while the picture may look quite casual, the contents of this letter are not.
In it the first minister asserts that she has a clear mandate to ask for another referendum since the Scottish parliament voted to back her on Tuesday.
And she repeats her request for a vote in 18-24 months time. She says by then the shape of the Brexit deal will be clear.
But she knows what the prime minister is going to say in reply.
Constitutional matters are reserved to Westminster so the Scottish government must ask for the powers to hold such a vote to be transferred to Holyrood under a Section 30 order, as was done before the 2014 referendum.
The Scottish government released a photo of Nicola Sturgeon drafting the letter to Theresa May, with her feet curled up on a sofa at her official residence, Bute House in Edinburgh.
The letter is expected to be sent to Downing Street on Friday.
Ms Sturgeon is seeking a referendum between the autumn next year and spring 2019 - but has indicated she would be willing to negotiate the timing.
If, as expected, the request is declined, Ms Sturgeon has said she will set out her government's next steps in April, when MSPs return to the Scottish Parliament after the Easter recess.
The two-day debate at Holyrood on an independence referendum began last week but was suspended as news of the terror attack at Westminster emerged.
When it resumed on Tuesday, the minority SNP government was backed by the pro-independence Scottish Greens in the vote, with the Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems opposed.
Scottish voters rejected independence by 55% to 45% in a referendum in 2014, but Ms Sturgeon believes the UK voting to leave the EU is a material change in circumstances which means people should again be asked the question.
While the UK as a whole voted to leave, Scotland voted by 62% to 38% to remain in the EU.
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An Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) report looked at 576 cases across eight forces and suggests there was an "inadequate" response in 220 cases.
The National Police Chiefs Council acknowledged that forces had to "fundamentally change" their approach.
The Home Office said police would be given the resources to improve.
The report - In harm's way: The role of the police in keeping children safe - found "weaknesses and inconsistencies" at all stages of the child protection system.
Inspectors looked at the way the Norfolk, South Yorkshire, West Midlands, Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, Nottingham, Dyfed-Powys and West Mercia forces had conducted investigations involving vulnerable children.
Of the 576 cases examined since 2013, 177 were found to have been dealt with to a good standard, while 220 were viewed as inadequate and 179 were deemed as adequate.
The HMIC said it was "surprised" to find that some officers accused children of crimes rather than treating them as potential victims. It also noted delays in gathering evidence, and said too little was done in some cases to arrest suspects.
It highlighted a case in which police and social services agreed, without consulting a medical practitioner, that the likely cause of vaginal bleeding in a four-year-old was eczema even though the child had made sexual allegations against a family member.
As a contrast, the way a detective who helped a 13-year-old who was having a sexual relationship with a 20-year-old, was also cited. The detective had quickly involved child care services, arrested the alleged perpetrator and took action to safeguard other children.
Dru Sharpling, who led the inspections, said police were being "reactive rather than proactive".
"There is too much bureaucracy in the system so police officers are not really listening to children properly... they are perhaps more concerned with ticking boxes and filling out forms unnecessarily," she said.
"The degree of child abuse and child exploitation is probably unprecedented as far as we are aware so it seems to us that the police need to evolve and change in the way society has evolved."
BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said the inspectors were calling for an end to a target-driven approach to policing, where success is measured by crime figures, which has encouraged a focus on burglary and car crime.
Further HMIC reports were also published examining how police deal with online exploitation of children and the way different forces share information.
Home Office minister Karen Bradley said: "This is difficult and complex work but police forces must do all they can to improve their response to child sexual abuse and exploitation.
"We are committed to ensuring police have the resources they need and we have prioritised child sexual abuse as a national threat, providing a clear mandate for forces to collaborate across force boundaries, to safeguard children and to share intelligence and best practice."
The National Police Chiefs Council - which represents senior ranking officers - said the HMIC found that "protecting vulnerable people is a priority for all police forces".
But Chief Constable Simon Bailey from the NPCC added: "We are at a crossroads. We have got to fundamentally change our approach to policing so that our absolute focus is on working proactively with other agencies to protect the public from harm committed on or offline."
NSPCC chief executive Peter Wanless said a suggestion from HMIC that improvements were also needed in police investigations into online abuse was a "damning indictment".
He said: "Despite national commitments and the dedication of officers tackling these darkest of crimes, at a local level vital opportunities to protect children are being missed."
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British Transport Police officers were called to Hainault Station, north-east London, at about 18:30 BST on Friday to reports a man had been attacked.
The injured man was taken to the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel by air ambulance with what were believed to be serious injuries.
Hainault Station was cordoned off while police investigated.
Anyone with any information about the incident has been asked to contact British Transport Police.
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The measures, if approved, would limit the salaries of top managers to no more than 12 times the wage of the lowest-paid worker in the same company.
The 1:12 initiative is backed by Switzerland Young Socialists, who gathered the necessary 100,000 signatures to call a referendum.
It is the second time this year the Swiss have voted on top salaries: in March they voted overwhelmingly to curb big bonuses, and to ban golden handshakes and goodbyes.
Both votes reflect growing anger in Switzerland at revelations that some of the country's chief executives are earning more than 200 times what their employees take home.
It emerged earlier this year that Swiss banking giant UBS had awarded $2.6m (£1.6m) in bonuses - the figure matched exactly the bank's losses over 2012.
"In the last couple of years these managers were really earning a lot - too much," says Corinne Fankhauser, of the Young Socialists.
"For example, the chief executive of Credit Suisse, he was earning at one point 820 times what his [lowest-paid] employees were earning. So it's kind of crazy these wages. We want to stop this."
The Young Socialists have devised some clever campaign tactics: handing out free chocolate chip cookies on the streets, and telling passers by they can take as many as 12 if they want.
Of course, no-one does, because no-one wants to appear quite so greedy. The same attitude, the young socialists argue, should apply to executive pay.
But while the multi-million-dollar salaries paid out at the big banks are hitting the headlines, they are not the full picture.
The real backbone of Switzerland's economy are the hundreds of small and medium-sized enterprises across the country. The scheme would also affect them, and among their managers opinions are mixed.
Thomas Gerber is owner and chief executive of Amarena AG, a kitchen and furniture company. The business is small, but it has clients on four continents.
Mr Gerber has eight staff members and earns just 1.3 times what his employees do. He has no desire for more.
"I think it's very bad for Switzerland's image, for us as manufacturers, if we're only ever in the headlines because of these exorbitant salaries for managers," he explains.
"Switzerland is not just a lot of big companies, we are a society. I think we have to return to quality products… They are the important part of our business, not huge salaries."
But not everyone shares Mr Gerber's point of view. Many owners and managers fear the proposed restrictions risk punishing all of Switzerland's enterprises because of the high-profile mistakes of a few.
In line with company policy, Kurt Schaer, owner and director of BikeTec AG, which makes electrically powered bicycles, earns about five times what his staff earn, and he, too, says he does not want more.
"Of course I'm against too high salaries," he insists. "It's not good for the image. But basically we don't want to have influence from the government into the companies. It's a free decision of the shareholders how much they want to pay the management and the employees."
And, Mr Schaer warns, passing 1:12 would cost his company time and money proving to government auditors that BikeTec is obeying pay restrictions it already adheres to.
"We would have to hire more people in our accounting department," he says.
"I'd like to spend money to create new products, to create new markets… not spend money just to follow some stupid rulings."
The Swiss government, too, is not keen on 1:12, pointing out that Switzerland has a relatively successful tradition of social partnership between business leaders and workers.
"Our way of agreeing salaries has led to lots of good jobs and very low unemployment," claims Economy Minister Johann Schneider-Ammann.
"I call it the Swiss recipe for success. I don't want to put this valuable system at risk.
"[If the vote is passed] the lowest wages would not really rise, it's far more likely all salaries would be driven downwards."
Some business leaders have also argued that limiting salaries in such an extreme way would mean Switzerland's leading enterprises would not be able to attract the top people if they could not pay top salaries.
But this argument has not been aired too widely, simply because over the last few months polls have shown that the very mention of high salaries irritates Swiss voters.
What has had more resonance has been the argument that foreign businesses might decide against setting up in Switzerland because of salary restrictions - something which opponents argue would lead to an increase in unemployment, and a decrease in tax revenue.
But ultimately neither the government nor business leaders will have the final say. Instead, in the long tradition of Swiss direct democracy, the voters will decide.
The opinion polls have been close, although the latest indicates that voters may believe 1:12 is a step too far.
But the fact that Switzerland is holding a nationwide referendum at all, just months after clamping down on bonuses, is a message to those high-earning bosses in the really big companies that excessive salaries - like 12 cookies - looks just plain greedy.
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Denis Hays, 72, was teaching at Greasbrough Primary School, Rotherham, when he invited pupils to his home for inspections between 1975 and 1977.
He was dismissed in 2015 when claims emerged that three pupils, aged between 11 and 14, had taken part part in his so-called "child development study".
A disciplinary panel found Mr Hays' behaviour was sexually motivated.
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Giving evidence to the panel, one of the boys, Pupil A, described how Mr Hays had measured each of the boys' various body parts.
He said this included measuring his and Pupil B and C's head, arms, legs, neck, chest, penis and testicles, while the boys were naked.
The three pupils attended Mr Hays' home once every three months over the two-year period having recently left the primary school, The National College for Teaching and Leadership panel heard in March.
Neither the primary school nor the boys' secondary school was aware of the study.
Mr Hays had been teaching at the school for 46 years when he was dismissed for gross misconduct in 2015 after Pupil A reported the allegations.
He claimed the private study was designed to help him gain further qualifications and promotion, but no such study was ever completed.
The panel rejected the teacher's claim that he did not grasp the seriousness of his conduct and that he was merely "naive" .
It said in its report: "The panel considers that, on balance, Mr Hays was intentionally trying to keep a true account of the study from others in the knowledge that the study was inappropriate."
Mr Hays claimed he had parental permission for the boys to participate in the study, but the panel heard the parents were unaware of what the measurements involved and that Mr Hays was often the only adult present during the examinations.
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The city is a popular tourist destination for holidaymakers and a number of tourists caught up in the attacks have been speaking to BBC News about their ordeal.
Kevin Kwast from Texas in the US, is on holiday with his family in the city. He said: "I was eating with my family in La Boqueria market very near where the first crash occurred."
"Hundreds of people started stampeding through the market running south east. We started running with them going outside right where casualties were already on the ground near Maccabi restaurant.
"A smaller crowd was running away from that scene to the north west. We got trapped between the crowds and the heavily-armed police running around the area.
"Police pushed us into a money transfer shop and we were sheltering there for over an hour."
"My friends and I were in a shop near Las Ramblas when we were told of the attack," said Robert Yelito from Texas who was in a pop-up shop.
"At first we were locked in the store then we were allowed out.
"Everyone was outside trying to find out what happened then a stampede began.
"We ran into a random apartment."
Richard Gregg from Kent, UK describes the confusion moments after the attack: "We were just waking into Las Ramblas as the crash happened."
"Half the crowd didn't know what was going on but others were shouting about someone driving into the crowd. There was a woman shouting 'there's blood everywhere'.
"People understood it was serious given the number of police piling into the area.
"The police were arriving at the scene from surrounding roads. When we got there the place was swarming with officers.
"In less than five minutes it was clear it was something serious. That set up a chain reaction. There was a bit of a panic.
"We made our way to our apartment as police were clearing Las Ramblas.
"Within minutes there were police officers running and driving through the streets obviously looking for someone.
"We could see the emergency services on Las Ramblas. Shops were shutting down and people running to get away.
Stephanie Walton from Lincoln, UK was in a bar on Las Ramblas when she noticed a crowd running towards her.
"I heard a loud bang followed by screaming while I was having a drink with my boyfriend," she said.
"A crowed rushed towards me and it was mayhem. I wanted to run, but my boyfriend who is ex-military said to stay put.
"We went into the cafe and hid in the corner. I could see bodies in the road before we closed the shutters.
"Two local boys offered me some water. When I told them what had happened they burst into tears."
Katie K is on holiday with her friends in Barcelona. She says she felt overwhelmed by what had happened.
"We were heading to the shops and everything got very busy. We went into one and the security guard closed the doors.
"We were confused as to what was happening. The guard then let us out of the shop.
"There were lots of ambulances and people screaming, as well as helicopters. The roads started to clear, and we started to worry.
"We went to get a drink from a supermarket. When we came out people started to run towards us.
"Feeling very scared, we ran away from the crowd not knowing yet what had happened.
"We looked up and realised a van had driven into the crowd.
"We are still shaken. We were told tourists should stay inside."
Scott Strudwick and his family from Jersey were in a shop when it was evacuated. He said: "We were in the Placa De Catalina when people started fleeing the street as we heard a large number of police sirens."
"Police then ushered us into shops and we went in to El Corte Ingles shopping mall on the Placa.
"Then there was panic in the shop as there were rumours that there was gunfire in the shop. There was more panic when we were ushered to the back of the shop. We ran to hide in a store room.
"People were crying and on their phones trying to understand what was happening.
"It was very frightening for our young children.
"We were ultimately evacuated out of a side exit of the shop, and then there was more confusion as we didn't know where we were.
The police ushered us away from the area, but we did now know how to get back to our hotel."
As people were still coming to terms with what had happened at Las Ramblas, a second attack was foiled in the nearby town off Cambrils in the early hours of Friday morning.
Spanish police shot dead five suspected terrorists. The attackers' vehicle overturned and when the men got out they were quickly fired upon by police, media say. One was reportedly brandishing a knife.
The men were wearing explosive belts, police said, and a series of controlled explosions was carried out. The belts proved to be fake.
Fitzroy Davies from Wolverhampton in the UK is on holiday with a group of friends. One of whom was hit in the leg by shrapnel.
"We were sitting at a bar when three girls came running in with fear on their faces.
"Next thing one guy stood up and said 'look down the road - run!'.
"I thought it was a hoax so I started filming. But then I saw the guy halfway down the road with things strapped to his chest. Someone was shouting at him. Then the attacker ran at everybody.
"The police came and started shouting at the guy. They shot him several times and he fell over - he stood back up and the police shot him again.
"He was smiling at them when they shot him."
Miquel Murriadamas, from Cambrils, was having a drink with some friends outside a bar.
"People started running and shouting for us to get up and leave. At first I wasn't sure what was happening, I thought it might have been an accident.
"Then I saw a man walking towards us with his arms up and what looked like an explosive belt on.
"Suddenly a car pulled up and two agents got out and they shouted at him to stay still. He kept walking forwards and there was gunfire.
"He stayed still and then started to walk forwards again. There was another blast of gunfire.
"We were moved into the bar and those who could watched through the windows. I was actually pretty calm because I could see that the situation was under control and there were enough people in hysterics.
"We had to stay there for two and a half hours and then we left with the police."
By Rozina Sini, BBC's UGC and Social News team
The 26-year-old is one of three stand-offs in the squad for June's tour along with Sam Davies of Ospreys and Leicester's Owen Williams.
Anscombe, who renewed his national dual contract on 12 May, has started one of his nine internationals at fly-half.
"I don't feel I've probably had a chance to really cement myself nationally yet," he said.
"I have a chance now on the summer tour to potentially get a bit more game time and try and play 10 which is obviously what I want to do and stay injury free."
Anscombe's one start at stand-off for Wales was against Japan in November 2016, when Davies came off the bench to win the match with a late drop-goal.
The Blues player has not appeared for Wales since, missing the 2017 Six Nations following surgery in December 2016, with Davies acting as understudy to Ospreys fly-half Dan Biggar.
With Biggar on tour with the British and Irish Lions next month, the Wales number 10 shirt is up for grabs.
"My last test was against Japan and I think that was a pretty tough test in terms of us being caught in the middle of trying to change the game plan with Wales," he added.
"I've been a little unlucky with injuries and something I can't really control but it's been a really frustrating period for me particularly when you're trying to play well for your region.
"The last 10 weeks have been nice being on the field and I have been able to show what I can do and hopefully get a chance now with Wales on the tour.
"Obviously there's a bit of competition there with Sam and Owen so we'll have to see how that pans out. It's a big year for me heading into next season."
Before the tour the New Zealand-born, Anscombe is hoping to help the Blues claim a place in next season's European Champions' Cup through the play-offs.
They face European Challenge Cup winners Stade Francais in Paris on Friday, 19 May.
If they win that the Blues will face the winners of the other semi final between Connacht and Northampton Saints.
"If you look at the top 14 Stade are one of the form sides of the last few weeks," said Anscombe.
"And I guess they've shown in the Challenge Cup they've had some good wins against the Ospreys and Bath and to finish it against Gloucester.
"We have nothing to lose and we're going out there to play a bit,.
"It's going to be a tough challenge but one we're pretty excited about."
More than a million civil servants began an indefinite strike on Wednesday, calling for higher wages.
Earlier, police fired rubber bullets and water cannon at crowds of strikers protesting outside a Soweto hospital.
Military doctors, nurses and soldiers have been deployed to three out of South Africa's nine provinces.
More unions joined in on the second day of industrial action.
Gauteng province's health minister said they were investigating whether the deaths overnight of five people in a hospital east of Johannesburg were linked to staff shortages because of the strike.
Unions affiliated with Cosatu, South Africa's main union federation, have been holding out for an 8.6% pay rise.
But South Africa's government says it can barely afford the 7% offer it has put on the table for the police, teachers, doctors and nurses.
President Jacob Zuma has condemned the union's threat of violence against non-striking workers and said the government reserved the right to fire the strikers.
"If you declare a strike in that manner and you can't sit for a year without the kids going to school," he is quoted by the South African Broadcasting Corporation as saying.
"If the time goes, it means the government will have to take other actions."
"The [SA National Defence Force] has been instructed to render support to any government department that may require assistance during the public service strike," South Africa Press Association quoted defence ministry spokesman Ndivhuwo Wa Ha Mabaya as saying.
The BBC's Jonah Fisher in Johannesburg says the conditions at South Africa's hospitals have been causing the most concern to the authorities.
Many health workers who are not taking part in the strike have found themselves targeted by union members, he says.
Access to hospitals has been blocked - and on several occasions those on strike have gone into wards and dragged nurses away from their patients, our correspondent says.
Military armoured vehicles have been now deployed inside some hospital premises.
When rowdy strikers in Soweto stopped patients from entering the hospital grounds on Thursday morning, the police - forbidden by law from joining the strike - moved in.
Police spokeswoman Captain Nondumiso Mpantsha said the protesters were also trying to force their way in to picket inside the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital.
"Police had to use minimum force and fire rubber bullets to disperse the crowd... there is a heavy police presence at the scene," she told the BBC
Johannesburg's Eyewitness news website reported that a police helicopter was flying over the city's main Helen Joseph Hospital.
There have also been reports of intimidation at schools and teachers have threatened to disrupt classes at private schools.
But police stopped protesters planning to block one of the busiest motorways in Johannesburg on Thursday.
The scheme to bore through the Peak District to improve links between Sheffield and Manchester is feasible, but further investigation is needed.
Such a tunnel would result in quicker journey times and avoid delays caused by poor weather in the winter months.
Highways England, which produced the report, said a more in-depth study will be ready by the autumn of 2016.
The government study looked at the feasibility of tunnelling under the A628 Woodhead Pass, in a scheme which would reportedly cost £6bn.
The document says it is possible the tunnel could cut current road journey times by up to 30 minutes and avoid the delays caused by bad weather over the Pennines .
The planned new link between Sheffield and Manchester would "include a tunnelled section, which could range from between 20-30km (12.4 -18.6 miles), making it one of the longest road tunnels ever built."
The authors say: "The construction of a new strategic road link between Manchester and Sheffield is technically feasible, although it is likely to include a tunnel (or series of tunnels) that could be longer than any road tunnel constructed in Europe to date."
The paper's preliminary findings include: "The development of a combined road and rail corridor through the tunnelled section could offer some additional benefits, although road and rail would need to occupy separate tunnel bores and we have not yet established the operational case for this type of solution."
Although the paper only looks at the early ideas for such a scheme, Highways England said no means of funding the plan had yet been identified, but there could be a toll levied on tunnel users.
The report says: "We have not had time yet to do any transport modelling of benefits and costs from a trans-Pennine tunnel.
"The analysis presented in this report is purely to determine whether there is a case to do more intensive work on investigating tunnel options."
Highways officials said the tunnel would need to have an operational life of 120 years and "anticipate quite radical changes in technology and tunnel use".
"Our initial conclusion is that, in tunnel sections additional bores would be required to accommodate rail alongside road.
"Light rail could, in principle, share road space with highway traffic, but low operating speeds and the fact that this mode is more suited to dense urban areas, may make it undesirable."
The options in the report are separate from the Department of Transport's £15bn package to transform major roads across England.
The final report looking at the transport, social, economic and environmental aspects of the scheme will be produced in October 2016.
Bidhya Sagar Das, 33, believed to be the children's father, had been wanted in connection with an incident at a flat in Finsbury Park, north London.
The children, thought to be twins, were found at the flat with critical injuries on Saturday night.
The boy died in the early hours of Sunday and the girl remains in a critical condition in hospital.
Officers said they had been called to Wilberforce Road, in Finsbury Park, at 23:10 GMT on Saturday by a "distraught" member of the public following a "domestic incident".
One child was taken to the Royal London Hospital by air ambulance and the other by ambulance.
Witnesses said they had heard a woman shouting for help on the street outside the Finsbury Park flat and two children were later seen being carried out of the property.
A woman living opposite the building, named as Gui Gui, said she had heard a woman shouting late on Saturday and opened the window to offer help.
Mr Das was arrested at 19:15 GMT on Sunday in Hackney, east London, and taken to a nearby police station where he remains in custody.
Det Ch Insp Dave Whellams, who is leading the investigation, said: "This is clearly a tragic incident, and our thoughts are with the family of the two young children.
"Despite the best efforts of medical professionals, a baby boy sadly died in the early hours of this morning.
"A baby girl currently remains in a critical condition and is receiving specialist medical care.
"Whilst we remain in the early stages of the investigation, a man has now been arrested.
"I would still like to hear from anyone who may have any information regarding this terrible incident."
At least 37 people, including many children, were killed in the clashes, along with at least nine militants, the defence ministry said.
A number of hostages were seized in the 26-hour attack but the Afghan army says it has now regained control.
This is the latest in a series of ambitious raids by Taliban fighters.
The Taliban briefly seized the northern city of Kunduz in September.
The group described its fighters as "martyrdom seekers" who had launched "thunderous attacks on foreign and hireling personnel".
The attack continued until one gunman who had held out on his own for several hours was killed late on Wednesday.
At least 35 people and one Taliban fighter were also injured in the attack, the defence ministry said.
The airport compound houses Afghan military and civilian sections as well as a Nato base.
Tolo News TV said the insurgents were dressed in military uniform and were equipped with light and heavy weaponry.
They breached the first gate and then entered an old school building, trading fire with security forces.
Witnesses reported that some of the militants took families hostage and used them as human shields. They said they could hear Afghan soldiers calling on the fighters to let the women and children go.
Kandahar airport director Ahmadullah Faizi told AFP news agency that some passengers waiting to board a commercial flight to India had been trapped inside the airport's civilian terminal, at some distance from the fighting, during the attack.
US Army Col Michael Lawhorn said the Taliban fighters "never physically entered the airfield". There were no coalition casualties.
Correspondents say the attack is a huge security failure because the attackers were able to smuggle weapons into an area supposed to have been made secure by the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).
Kandahar army commander Sher Shah told reporters that radio intercepts had found that some militants were speaking in Urdu - a language more common in neighbouring Pakistan. Afghan officials frequently blame Pakistan for the unrest.
The statement by the Taliban claimed that they had killed up to 80 soldiers. This figure could not be verified.
Separately, the Taliban claimed to have captured Khanashin district in southern Helmand province. A local official confirmed the district had fallen.
Militant violence has increased across Afghanistan since the departure of most Nato and US forces last year.
The latest violence came as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani called for help to defeat terrorism, at a regional conference in Pakistan.
Mr Ghani condemned the Kandahar attack as cowardly and expressed his condolences to the families of the victims.
Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani, speaking at the conference, called on Pakistan to help restart stalled peace talks with the Taliban.
Starting early or late could alter the risk of nearly 48 separate conditions, including the age of menopause.
The analysis of half a million people, published in Scientific Reports, showed early puberty increased the odds of type 2 diabetes by 50%.
The researchers said it was "astonishing" that puberty was having an impact on health in mid-life.
The team at the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge used data from a huge study of the health of British people - the UK Biobank.
The project recorded the age of girls' first period, but a measure of the start of puberty is harder to define in men, so they were asked if they were earlier or later compared to the rest of their peer group.
In girls an early puberty was defined as starting between eight and 11, while a late puberty started between 15 and 19. A normal puberty was between nine and 14 in boys.
The study showed that early and late puberty was linked to a wide range of health conditions, such as:
Hormones have been implicated in some of the conditions, such as cancer, although the researchers admit that they have "very little idea" what might contribute to diseases such as asthma.
Dr Felix Day told the BBC News website: "From a biological point of view, it's actually quite fascinating that something that happens when you're a teenager can have an effect on diseases that you wouldn't encounter until middle age. I find that quite astonishing."
The age of puberty is changing around the world. In the UK it is currently starting about one month earlier every decade. In China it is more than four months earlier every decade.
Dr Day said this was "something people involved in public health should be aware of".
"The move towards earlier puberty is an added risk factor in terms of development of particularly metabolic diseases."
However, as the study showed an increased risk for both early and late puberty, there could be a decrease in the incidence of some conditions.
He added that because someone had an early or late puberty did not mean they would develop these conditions - it just altered the odds.
Dr John Perry, from the MRC Epidemiology Unit, added: "We are continuing to work to understand how puberty timing impacts later health and how this information may be used alongside efforts to support healthy lifestyle changes and prevent disease.
"It is important to note that the increase in disease risk attributable to puberty timing is still relatively modest and represents one of many factors that contribute to the overall risk of developing disease."
But the same remoteness became an obstacle to rescue when an earthquake struck, and the hotel was destroyed by a powerful avalanche.
Rescuers struggled to reach the Rigopiano, nestled in the beech forests near Farindola.
In the past, guests had adored the seclusion.
"If you enjoy beautiful vistas, mountains, forests and great spas then this place is for you," one Canadian reviewer wrote on TripAdvisor.
Another, from Liverpool, reviewed it just three weeks before the tragedy as a "fantastic spa hidden in the mountains of Abruzzo".
The hotel and spa complex is a four-star hotel, offering not just rooms, but a full restaurant and spa service.
The hotel staff are also known for their friendly character - as were the venue's two Abruzzese guard dogs, Lupo and Nuvola, who had just given birth to a litter of pups.
In another post from just a few days before, staff posted a slow-motion video of the heated outdoor pool steaming at night, during a heavy snow flurry .
Hours before the avalanche collapsed the roof of the Rigopiano, hotel staff posted to their Facebook page that their phone lines were out of service due to the bad weather - and encouraged guests to contact them by email.
The resort's Facebook page is now flooded with comments from well-wishers and those concerned for people they know.
"You and your staff are special beings that don't work for mere profit, but for passion," wrote one member of the Italian public.
"You gotta hold on, I'm begging you."
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) said the man who died at the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre had already been giving cause for concern.
Visitors with colds and flu-like symptoms have been asked to stay away from the Beatson to prevent the spread of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV).
Four of the patients have been discharged.
Ten patients remain in two wards but they are not said to be giving any cause for concern.
In December 2015, three patients at the same centre died after contracting the virus.
In-patients at the Beatson are "particularly susceptible to viruses", prompting the NHS to ask that any visitors who have experienced cold or flu-like symptoms avoid visiting friends and family until at least 48 hours after the end of symptoms.
Visitors who do not have cold or flu symptoms have been asked to observe temporary visiting times of 14:00-16:00 and 18:00-20:00.
Dr Teresa Inkster, consultant microbiologist and infection control doctor at NHSGGC, said: "If you have any cold or flu-like symptoms, please do not visit loved ones in the Beatson until at least 48 hours after the symptoms have cleared up.
"All visitors are being urged to remember the importance of hand hygiene when entering and leaving hospital premises."
Dr Inkster also expressed her sympathies for the family of the patient who died.
Wards with patients showing symptoms will not be admitting new patients as a precautionary measure and the wards are being closely monitored with strict infection control measures in place.
RSV is a viral illness which normally resembles a cold and is self-limiting. It is particularly prevalent at this time of year and is common in the community.
It is more common in young children but can occur in people of all ages. It is spread by tiny droplets and sneezing or by touching surfaces with the virus on it.
An extra 250 compliance officers will be employed by Transport for London (TfL) by September 2017.
The mayor said it would "drive up standards... and help our world famous cabbies continue to thrive."
They will be funded as part of changes to private hire operator licensing.
The alterations mean larger firms will have to pay a greater share of enforcement costs.
There are currently 82 compliance officers employed by TfL.
The uniformed officials are deployed across the capital and ensure cab drivers have the correct documents and insurance, and that vehicles are road legal and safe.
They also take part in operations with other bodies to ensure cab drivers comply with wider regulations.
For example, an operation between May and July involving TfL officers, Scotland Yard and Westminster City Council led to:
Steve McNamara, the general secretary of the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association (LDTA), said drivers would welcome the move.
"This is fantastic news for Londoners and the black cab trade," he said.
Steve Wright, chairman of the Licensed Private Hire Car Association, said many drivers who were illegally touting for business on London's streets didn't work in the industry.
He said: "Many of these people simply don't work in the industry at all or they're partly in the industry, they're not fully in the industry, and for that reason we shouldn't have to pick up all the cost".
Steve Garelick, branch secretary of the Professional Drivers branch of the GMB union said: "Whilst we broadly accept the need for improved compliance and enforcement for London and its many visitors we want to assure the travelling public that the majority of journeys are safe.
"Protection against illegality is paramount. We are concerned however that the costs borne by operators will be passed on to drivers creating further hardship."
The RMT's Mick Cash said the measure "fails to regulate the virtual plying for hire of private hire vehicles" by app-focused services.
Earlier this year TfL rejected proposals to impose restrictions that would stop "e-hailing" firms from showing users where nearby available vehicles were.
Tom Elvidge, general manager for Uber London, backed the decision to increase the number of officers.
"It is important that people only use a properly booked car from a licensed private hire operator", he said.
Data was collected on hundreds of thousands of men from 15 European countries.
For British men, the average height at age 21 rose from 167.05cm (5ft 5in) in 1871-75 to 177.37cm (5ft 10in) in 1971-75.
A public health expert said height was a "useful barometer" but it was crucial to focus on improving health overall.
The paper, published in the journal Oxford Economic Papers, looked at data from sources including military records and modern population surveys from the 1870s to 1980 in 15 European countries.
It looked only at male height because there was too little historical data for women.
Genes may be commonly seen as the main determinant of height, but although they explain the difference between individuals, they would not explain the trend seen in this paper, its lead author said.
Prof Tim Hatton of the University of Essex said there was no "Darwinian explanation" to the trend. "People are surviving in the 20th Century who would not have survived in the 19th," he added.
The researchers said the gene pool "cannot account for substantial increases in mean stature over four or five generations".
Growth is significantly affected by what happens in the first two years of life, they said.
So, a high rate of illnesses such as respiratory diseases or diarrhoeas - which caused many infant deaths - would also affect survivors' development and therefore their subsequent height.
Infant mortality rates fell significantly throughout the period studied.
Another factor taken into account by the researchers was an increasing move to smaller families - meaning fewer people to feed.
Higher income, more sanitary living conditions and better education about health and nutrition could also have had an effect, they said.
The paper also shows that height patterns varied across different countries.
Contrary to what might have been expected, in northern Europe - including in Britain - there was a significant surge in average height in the period covering the two world wars and the Great Depression, before the introduction of the national health service.
Prof Hatton suggested this was because the benefits of long-term improvements in sanitation, hygiene and nutrition were being seen.
During periods of war, he explained, more women were earning an income and rationing actually improved diets for some.
However, in southern Europe there was a sharp acceleration in average height seen after World War II.
This was when those countries saw significant income growth and adopted some of the social measures that northern European countries had adopted more slowly in previous decades, Prof Hatton said.
He added: "Increases in human stature are a key indicator of improvements in the average health of populations."
Dr John Middleton of the UK's Faculty of Public Health said: "Does how tall we are really tell us how healthy we are? This interesting research suggests that it's certainly a factor.
"Increasing height is a reflection of how the availability of food and nutrition had broadly improved until the recent excesses of fat and sugar.
"However, we can't conclude that shorter men are somehow unhealthier. Like a lot of research, this paper prompts more questions than it set out to answer.
"While our average height is a useful barometer to bear in mind, what we really need is to tackle the many reasons for poor health that we can address.
"Employment is one of the best ways to do that, which is why we need to focus on more than just diet and exercise when it comes to improving the nation's health."
The 31-year-old had an operation in his native Argentina to remove his left testicle in September after the discovery of a tumour, before undergoing chemotherapy treatment.
Writing in Spanish on Twitter, the Argentina international said: "Today I was given a medical discharge.
"Thank you very much to all who accompanied me at this time."
Newcastle expressed their joy at the news on social media, writing: "Everyone at #NUFC is delighted to share the news that @elgalgojonas has been discharged from hospital in Argentina."
Gutierrez, who had a spell on loan at Norwich last season, has scored 10 goals in 177 league appearances for the Magpies since joining the club in 2008.
He became a fans' favourite when he played a starring role in helping the club win the Championship in his second season in the north-east.
After being largely overlooked by manager Alan Pardew last season, Gutierrez joined Norwich for the second half of the campaign, where he made his last league appearance in a 1-0 defeat by West Bromwich Albion in April.
The German, 24, will join the Canaries on a two-year deal when his contract at Dortmund runs out on 1 July.
He played 29 times for Dortmund II last season under Norwich's new boss Daniel Farke who took over in May.
"I'm extremely delighted and very honoured for the opportunity. I'm already counting the days to get started," Zimmermann said.
"I've had a really positive first impression, so I'm looking forward to meeting all the guys and I cannot wait to start working."
Zimmermann joined Dortmund's reserve team in 2014 after two seasons with Borussia Monchengladbach II where he progressed through the youth teams.
Farke said: "He's very big, tall, strong and powerful and he's an intelligent boy.
"He was my captain of my under-23 team at Borussia Dortmund, and he fits English football because of his powerful way.
"We're very happy he's chosen to come to Norwich."
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Officers were called to the Cornton area of the city at about 21:45 on Friday after reports that two children had become unwell.
The pair were both taken to hospital where they are being treated for non-life threatening injuries.
A man has been arrested and charged over the incident.
Police Scotland has now issued a drugs warning as officers believe they suffered an "adverse reaction".
Chief Inspector Damian Armstrong said: "This incident is very concerning and highlights the dangers of taking illegal drugs.
"I would urge members of the public to be aware of the dangers of illegal drug use and advise anyone who has taken drugs and feels unwell to seek urgent medical advice.
"Additionally I would ask anyone with information that can assist us with our ongoing investigation to please get in touch."
Bannview Medical Practice in Portadown faced closure after its last remaining doctor resigned. It has 5,200 patients on its books.
The BBC understands that the new contractor, who is based in Belfast, had agreed to take over the practice.
However, that GP has now withdrawn from the contract, according to the Department of Health.
Previously, Health Minister Michelle O'Neill said she had hoped that the new provider would be in place from early March.
However, late on Monday afternoon, the minister expressed disappointment at the development.
"This is extremely disappointing news and I have asked for an urgent meeting with the Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) to ensure that patients continue to receive safe and high quality healthcare.
"The HSCB will continue to manage the practice in the interim period until a new contractor is appointed."
The minister added: "No decision has been made to close the practice and the HSCB will be writing to all patients to advise them of the current arrangements."
Bannview Medical Practice once had four full-time GPs tending to its 5,200 patients.
Clare McConville-Walker, a patient at the surgery, said she felt "let down and disappointed".
"I don't feel we were given enough information throughout this process," she told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.
"We had little bits of information, mostly through the media, and had to hear that the contractor had pulled out again through the media.
"We're worried and fearful that the surgery will close now."
Ms McConville-Walker, who has elderly relatives who use the surgery on a daily basis, said they were currently receiving treatment from locums. But she said there was no "continuity of care" and her relatives sometimes see a different professional every day.
Earlier this month, the BBC reported how the last remaining doctor had said she could simply no longer cope with the pressure.
In an emotional letter, which was presented to the Stormont Health Committee and published in the Portadown Times, Dr Heanen said she simply "couldn't cope" with 12 to 14 hour working days with no breaks.
"I often didn't eat until 9pm at night," she said.
"One of the GPs went on maternity leave in March 2016 and then a GP partner left in August 2016.
"This left me and one heavily pregnant GP trying to provide a service for 5,200 patients. We barely scraped by."
Dr Heanen advertised for staff and locum GPs, but to no avail.
When the only other GP in the practice left, she had 5,200 patients to tend to herself - almost quadruple the Northern Ireland average.
Ulster Unionist MLA for Upper Bann, Jo-Anne Dobson, said the contract withdrawal was a "bitter blow to the people of Portadown".
Ms Dobson added that she has submitted an urgent oral question to "compel" the health minster to "explain this situation to the public via the assembly chamber".
In 2015, the dog found a home after a Canadian animal adoption group posted a heartrending photo of the young lab mix that went viral.
The second owner recently returned Lana, so the rescue group said she was again up for adoption and had until 20 May before possibly being put down.
They have since been flooded with some 5,000 emails and adoption offers.
"I'm sure we're going to find her a place," said Brenda Dobranski from Rescue Dogs Match in Cambridge, Ontario. "Third time's a charm."
The organisation admitted "there is still work to be done" despite "tons" of training when it comes to Lana's behaviour. They say she should ideally be able to spend the bulk of her time outdoors because she is "skittish" inside.
Ms Dobranski described Lana as being a bit like a cat in that she preferred to keep her distance.
"When you see Lana she reminds you of the type of dog you want to hug and cuddle on the couch with," she said.
"She's not that type of dog. She's very touch sensitive from humans, she's just learning now that it's OK to play with other dogs. Right now the trainer that she's been living with can pet her on the head for a few strokes but then you see her body tense up."
Lana's story first made headlines in 2015 when the dog rescue group posted about how she "shut down" after being placed in a kennel. Her first adoptive family surrendered her after snapped at one of the owners over food.
She found a foster family and then a second adoptive home, but that too was short-lived.
While she is described a "loving and silly", she can be cautious around new people and "possessive" with her food, a behaviour that developed when she was a puppy and the runt of the litter.
Rescue Dogs Match says she needs a home with no other pets and no children, and a fenced in backyard. Lana turns three years old this month.
Ms Dobranski said that while Lana's story has tugged on people's heartstrings since first being featured on The Dodo, a website geared towards animal lovers, it is important not to adopt a pet simply out of emotion.
"People just want to save, and that's great - it's absolutely wonderful. But it has to be the right fit for the people as well as other pets and that specific dog," she said.
Lana was first brought to Canada as a rescue puppy from Mexico.
Ms Dobranski says her story helped Rescue Dogs Match raise C$15,000 (US$11,000/£8,500) for the organisation in 2015, funds that went towards medical bills and boarding for all their rescues.
Officers were called to an address in South Shields on Saturday amid concerns of the welfare of the woman and a 35-year-old man.
The woman was treated by paramedics but died at the scene. The man remains in hospital under observation.
Northumbria Police said the type of drug she took was not known. Police have reminded people about the dangers of taking illegal drugs.
The warning comes after four people were treated in hospital earlier in the month after taking what was thought to be ecstasy.
Anna Sexton died on 8 June soon after collapsing at her home in Cheltenham and being taken to hospital.
The teenager weighed nearly 22 stone and was receiving help and support to control her weight.
Gloucestershire Coroner's Court reached a conclusion of death by misadventure.
Assistant coroner Caroline Saunders said: "She had a propensity to gorge on food, particularly pickled eggs at night."
The court heard Anna lived with her paternal grandparents, Michael and Sally Sexton, but regularly saw her parents and siblings.
The couple said the teenager would regularly "sneak downstairs" to eat the eggs.
Coroner's officer David Peake said: "Anna had been eating a pickled egg and choked.
"Her grandfather slapped her on the back in an attempt to clear her airways but she collapsed on the floor."
He added that after she was taken to hospital, ambulance staff struggled to find an airway and found egg in her windpipe.
"Airway blockage was consistent with the account given by the grandparents.
"Pieces of egg were found in her tracheal pipe," Mr Peake said.
Pathologist Dr Linmarie Ludeman, who carried out the post-mortem examination, concluded the teenager died from asphyxia.
Ms Saunders added: "Despite engaging in services to support her weight loss, she continued to experience significant problems which were typified by a tendency to overeat."
Irish police began a criminal inquiry after a woman came forward and claimed she had been abused as a child.
She alleged she was abused in the early 1990s.
The man, in his 60s and originally from Belfast, had been living in Dublin before moving to Alicante in the 1990s.
He appeared in court in Madrid on Wednesday.
He is now in custody pending further proceedings in connection with his extradition.
The party previously denied it had broken electoral law by using the Blue Telecoms call centre.
South Wales Police said the probe was of "scale and significance" in a letter to Labour MP Wayne David.
The party said it was unable to comment on an ongoing investigation.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) also confirmed it was "currently investigating the Conservative Party in relation to a possible breach of Regulation 21 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR)".
A Channel 4 News report earlier this year claimed the UK Conservatives contracted Blue Telecoms to conduct marketing campaigns ahead of the vote on 8 June.
The undercover investigation claimed the 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 report claimed calls were made to voters in key marginal seats, including Bridgend, Gower, Clwyd South and Wrexham.
The Conservative Party had said it did not break the law by using the company, which it said was hired to carry out legal market research and direct marketing.
In a letter to Mr David, South Wales Police said there was no timescale for the investigation because it is of "sufficient scale and significance that South Wales Police are unable to offer any".
Mr David, Labour MP for Caerphilly, said: "I am pleased that both the police and the Information Commissioner's Office are conducting detailed investigations.
"The allegations that the Conservative Party and Blue Telecoms broke electoral law during a general election campaign are extremely serious and the public need to have confidence in our electoral process. That is fundamental to our democracy."
A spokeswoman for South Wales Police said: "South Wales Police can confirm it is investigating allegations relating to the Representation of the People Act 1983.
"As an investigation is underway, it would be inappropriate to comment any further at this time."
One is a challenge faced by many employers in rural and remote areas - finding suitably-qualified applicants for skilled, professional jobs.
The bulk of people from rural areas who become teachers leave home aged around 18 to begin their studies. Inevitably many might not want to return, at least while they are in their 20s.
The problem here is age-old. Some call it rural depopulation, others the brain drain.
Luring people back is easier said than done. Advertising the benefits or attractions of an area can help. So might practical schemes like subsidised housing for people settling there.
Alternatively, can people - especially graduates who are settled in an area - be persuaded to train to become teachers with a view to filling vacancies in their area? For instance, might graduates who already work for a council be supported through teacher training?
But is the problem with teacher vacancies a local problem or a national one?
It is a local one in so far as it is confined to particular areas. Unions and the Scottish government insist there is no problem with the number of places in teacher training in Scotland, or with the overall number of people who are qualified as teachers.
By implication, there are qualified teachers in Scotland who prefer the thought of supply work or temporary posts in an urban area to a permanent job in a remote location.
It is also important to distinguish between any planned reduction in teacher numbers and practical difficulties filling posts. The current funding deal between councils and the Scottish government means councils have to try to maintain the number of teaching posts at current levels.
So could some sort of national workforce planning help? Probationary teachers are paid more if they offer to work for any council in Scotland rather than specify where they want to go.
Aberdeen and parts of neighbouring Aberdeenshire seem to suffer a different problem - the cost of living. One potential solution could involve looking at "north-east weighting" in salaries although a way would need to be found to do this without moving away from nationally-agreed terms and conditions of employment.
A final point concerns just who can become a teacher in Scotland.
There has been some debate over the fact that the minority of teachers in England who effectively learned on the job as graduate trainees, and who did not go on to obtain the equivalent of a Postgraduate Diploma in Education, cannot register to teach in Scotland.
However, the majority of teachers from England do meet the standards of the General Teaching Council (GTC) for Scotland - typically 300-400 teachers a year from England register with it, so can apply for vacancies in Scotland.
Naturally, the vast majority of teachers in Scotland who did not qualify here come from other parts of the UK.
The GTC is currently consulting on whether to change the requirements for registration.
But it insists any changes would not be made to find a stop-gap solution in a particular area - while unions would fight any move to allow people they would see as "unqualified" being allowed to teach in Scottish state schools.
The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (Alva) said the London venue attracted 5.6 million visitors.
Artist Damien Hirst's retrospective contributed to a 9% rise in Tate Modern visitors, which had 5.3 million.
Despite bad weather and the Olympics, there was an overall 5.1% increase in visitors at all UK attractions, from 87.7 million in 2011 to 92.1 million.
Visitors were briefly deterred from central London during the games, but Alva director Bernard Donohue called the recovery "almost immediate".
At the British Museum, the exhibition curated by Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry, which explored the depths of the museum and showed 170 objects alongside 30 of his own creations, was in part responsible for helping it continue its reign as the most popular visitor attraction.
However its 5.6 million visitor figure was a 4.7% drop year-on-year.
Tate Modern on London's South Bank moved up a place to second position with 5.3 million visitors - a 9% rise from 2011.
1. British Museum - 5,575,946
2. Tate Modern - 5,318,688
3. National Gallery - 5,163,902
4. Natural History Museum - 5,021,762
5. V&A - 3,231,700
Source: Association of Leading Visitor Attractions
The Victoria & Albert Museum had its best year on record, with a 16% rise to 3.2 million visitors, thanks to its Hollywood Costume exhibitions in Autumn 2012.
While The National Portrait Gallery's Lucian Freud Portraits exhibit helped moved it up one place to eighth position and saw an increase of 12%, with 2.1 million visitors.
Although the Olympic and Paralympic Games affected visitor numbers in Central London for a brief period, it was the weather that had the biggest impact in 2012.
Of the 30 attractions which saw more than a 10% drop in numbers, 27 were gardens or outdoor attractions.
Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum in Glasgow achieved a 5.8% increase with around one million visitors, making it the most visited combined art gallery and museum.
One of the largest rises year-on-year (53%) was seen by the new Museum of Liverpool, which opened in July 2011 and was the most visited museum in England, outside of London.
Other galleries in Liverpool - the Walker Art Gallery and the Tate - also saw increases.
"We are delighted with the visitor figures," said Mr Donohue.
He added: "This year, 2013 looks like it is going to be a promising year for Alva members. The Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich is likely to see a marked increase in visitors because of its role as a backdrop in the hugely popular and award-winning film Les Miserables."
Openings in 2013 include a £35m heritage project to build a museum to house Henry VIII's warship, the Mary Rose, in Portsmouth.
Kenwood House, Robert Adam's 18th Century masterpiece and home to an extensive art collection, will also re-open in November after being closed for 20 months due to repair work and refurbishments.
Marian Clode (formerly Coyle) from Glasgow Terrace in the Rosemount area of the city, was on holiday with her family when it happened on 3 April.
The teacher had been living in Ashton-under-Lyne, in Greater Manchester.
Her daughter, Lucy Rowe, said her mother, who was 61, had been "flipped like a ragdoll" over a fence.
Mrs Clode and her husband, daughter, son-in-law and two grandchildren had been walking along a public path through farm land when the incident happened.
The family said one of the animals approached Mrs Clode and "repeatedly headbutted" her.
"It flipped my mum like a ragdoll over the fence that she was stood up against and into the next field," said Mrs Rowe.
"In the words of the consultant, the injuries that my mum had sustained.... were worse than any that they had ever seen and only equivalent to a high speed crash.
"Immediately, her lips went blue and I was screaming her name."
Lucy Rowe's husband, Kevin, said: "I could see the cows at the top of the hill and I could see they were really running fast.
"I'll never forget the sight of that bull, or aggressive cow, scraping its legs."
Mrs Clode was airlifted to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Newcastle but died two days later.
The Health and Safety Executive have confirmed that an inquest into her death is under way.
Driver Louise Small, 33 said she was threatened by Fergus Beeley in a Sainsbury's car park off the M27 near Hedge End in Hampshire on Saturday.
Her 50-year-old mother, 14-year-old son Joshua and partner Simon Gale, 33 were also in the car.
It followed a two-car crash involving the family's Mazda at about 11:30 BST. Police said no arrests had been made.
No-one was injured in the collision.
During the heated exchange Mr Beeley told the family he was "trying to stop a death on the roads".
He said he was placing the family under a citizens arrest and added: "I do want you dead.
"In fact I want you dead right now. Get back in your car before you die."
Mr Beeley, whose car was not involved in the crash on the M27, said he had intervened "because people nearly lost their lives on the motorway".
Ms Small said she believed the other driver involved in the crash was Mr Beeley's wife who was travelling in a separate car.
Ms Small said: "He opened the passenger side door and he just flipped - he was just so crazy - he just ranted at my mum.
"I stayed in the car in case he tried to grab my son."
The family from Salisbury had been travelling to Portsmouth for a day out, but abandoned their plans after the heated exchange.
Mr Beeley, who has worked on Sir David Attenborough's The Life of Birds, Planet Earth - The Future, and BBC Natural World, has been contacted by BBC News for a response.
He has not worked with the BBC for 10 years and is not a BBC employee.
Hampshire Constabulary said the non-injury crash had involved a Mazda 3, a Peugeot 107 and a Skoda Octavia.
A spokeswoman said nobody had been arrested but an allegation of common assault was subsequently made by a 33-year-old man from Southampton and a 54-year-old from Gloucestershire.
Advice was given to both parties and they were told the two assaults would be recorded and filed.
The programme gets another nomination in the challenge show category, ahead of its move from BBC One to Channel 4.
Berry, 81, is up against by Strictly Come Dancing's departing head judge Len Goodman in the TV judge category.
Mel and Sue face competition for the TV presenter award from Ant and Dec, who have won the accolade 15 years running.
The pair will not be following Bake Off to its new home, with Berry also opting to leave the show.
Out of the original line-up, only Paul Hollywood will also move to Channel 4.
A new award for period drama pits BBC shows Call the Midwife, Peaky Blinders and Poldark against ITV's Victoria and Netflix's Stranger Things.
The nomination for the Netflix's '80s-based drama marks the first NTA citation for a drama series broadcast on a streaming service.
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Transport Secretary Philip Hammond confirmed the government broadly agreed with the chosen HS2 rail route.
But he said 50% of the preferred route published in March had been amended.
He said there would be compensation for those whose homes had to be destroyed to create the line and also for those whose homes were set to lose value.
The £33bn rail link proposals were announced by the last government in March and the coalition has been examining the plans.
Trains would travel at more than 200mph, cutting journey times between the cities by about 30 minutes.
The plans will be put out for consultation next year and Mr Hammond said it would be "one of the biggest and most wide-ranging ever undertaken by government".
Mr Hammond insisted the scheme would help tackle the north-south divide by slashing travelling times to and from the capital.
He said the planned route had been altered to deal with serious concerns about its impact on local communities and countryside.
The line will start at a redeveloped Euston station in central London and terminate at a new station at Curzon Street/Fazeley Street in Birmingham's Eastside regeneration area. HS2 will join the West Coast Main Line near Lichfield.
In a statement to the Commons, he said: "I am confident that solutions have now been found which can significantly mitigate the impacts of the railway at local level which, when properly understood, will reassure many of those who have been understandably apprehensive about the potential impact on their lives and their property values.
"But despite our best efforts at mitigation, we will not be able to avoid all impacts on property values.
By Iain WatsonPolitical correspondent, BBC News
The high speed rail line won't bring benefits to travellers for another 15 years - but what's worrying the government is the friction it's causing now with some of its own MPs.
Sixteen Conservative constituencies could lie along the eventual route - including the Chesham and Amersham seat of Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan.
She's said she would, if necessary, defy the party whip to oppose the scheme and Foreign Office minister David Lidington, the MP for nearby Aylesbury, has said he is "personally against it".
The transport secretary signalled that he had listened to concerns by diverting the line away from some historic sites - and away from the city of Lichfield, a seat represented by the Conservative MP Michael Fabricant - and there would be more tunnels and deeper cuttings to reduce noise.
But it won't be possible to assess whether any potential rebellion has hit the buffers until a full consultation on the route has been completed next year.
Watch statement on high-speed rail link in full: from BBC Democracy Live
"I have asked my officials to prepare a range of options for a scheme to assist those whose properties would not be required for the construction of the railway, but who would nonetheless see a significant diminution of value as a result of the construction of the line."
Mr Hammond said a spur line to Heathrow airport would not be part of the London-Birmingham stage of the project, but would be included in the second phase that will also see extensions to Manchester and Leeds.
Amendments to the route include:
Mr Hammond said public consultation on the proposals was likely to start in February 2011.
A number of Conservative MPs have expressed concerns about the rail link, which passes through Tory heartlands, including the Chesham and Amersham constituency of Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan.
Under proposed changes to the route between Amersham and Wendover in Buckinghamshire, Mr Hammond said there were opportunities for a "green bridge" over the cutting and a longer "green tunnel".
Shadow Transport Secretary Maria Eagle said Mr Hammond was likely to face more opposition from within his own party than from Labour MPs.
"I suspect that he's got more support on this side of the House than on the benches behind him," she said.
"No doubt he'll find out in due course if he's done enough today to persuade the Secretary of State for Wales not to resign in protest at his plans."
TransportSense, which represents more than 50 local community groups opposed to HS2, said: "This project is the wrong priority for Britain.
"When we can't afford planes for an aircraft carrier, we are seeing cuts across local government and we're expecting students to run up thousands of pounds of debt, our politicians want to spend billions of our money on a rail link that will shave just 30 minutes off a trip from London to Birmingham."
The CBI said the project had the "potential to deliver real economic and environmental benefits" and the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry said it would have "an enormous impact on connectivity between the UK's major cities".
Rail watchdog Passenger Focus said: "Wherever this new line is built, there will be winners and losers.
"It is important that the government and industry continues to discuss the implications of this decision with affected communities and addresses concerns."
The officers from Chessington Safer Neighbourhood team were sprinting to the aid of colleagues who were pursuing a suspect.
They are now trying to trace the female learner to thank her for her help.
At around 20:00 BST on Thursday two officers were on foot patrol in Merrett Gardens when they spotted a man acting suspiciously.
As they approached, he decided to run and a lengthy foot chase began.
In a post on Facebook, Kingston Police said that about 500m into the chase the officers lost sight of the suspect as he went round a corner.
A passing member of the public pointed out where the suspect was hiding and the officers closed in.
They attempted to arrest the suspect but struggled and called for assistance from their colleagues.
Two police officers who were on foot patrol answered the call and began to run the 1.2 miles to reach their colleagues.
While running they attempted to flag down passing cars.
The first car that stopped was a learner driver, who along with the instructor kindly offered to help.
The female learner driver dropped the officers off near to the scene of the attempted arrested and they ran the last part.
The officers arrived in time to help with the arrest, preventing any further injuries.
The News Corp co-chairman is leading a consortium to buy the struggling broadcaster.
Australia's media laws would need to be changed for the takeover to proceed.
The government has moved to relax the rules which put limits on media ownership.
In a statement on Thursday, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said the proposed buyout of Channel Ten would not harm competition.
"While this transaction will result in some reduction in diversity across the Australian media landscape, we have concluded it would not substantially lessen competition," it said.
Proposed changes to media law in Australia would remove the so-called "two out of three" rule, which prevents a single party owning print, radio and television assets in the same market.
The laws, which have passed the lower house of parliament but face opposition in the senate, must be changed for the Ten deal to go through.
Mr Murdoch owns a radio station and News Corp publishes about two-thirds of the country's newspapers. His buyout partner Bruce Gordon owns regional television licences across Australia.
Mr Murdoch is already a shareholder of Ten, which was placed into administration earlier this year.
Media owners in the country argue current laws are outdated and hurt their ability to compete for advertising revenues from newer, online players like Facebook and Google.
The Health and Safety Executive statistics showed there were 40 cases in 2014 with eight in the N postcode.
Labour London Assembly Member Murad Qureshi claimed it was a result of poor maintenance and it was "fortunate" it had not resulted in a fatality.
But UK Power Networks said it "worked tirelessly" to maintain and invest in London's network.
Why pavements explode
Blasts and fires can be caused by electrical faults, often when water has leaked through to exposed cables.
They can also be caused by gas leaks ignited by sparks underground - or gas coming into contact with faulty cables.
The statistics, retrieved by Mr Qureshi through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, specified incidents involving link boxes or cable pits - underground connections and the access chamber - which required the fire service.
Mr Qureshi said: "I think we're very fortunate that the incidents... haven't actually resulted in any fatalities of any sort.
"They're making good money out of running the network. It's time UK Power Networks did everything possible to crack down on this potentially life-threatening problem."
The HSE said the increase may be down to water getting into the wiring due to wet weather .
UK Power Networks said: "Although such incidents are extremely rare, we do everything in our power to mitigate the risk."
It said it was set to invest about £1.5bn over the next seven years in London's network.
The body of Bernadette Fox, 57, was found in Bootle, Merseyside in April 2015, the day after Sarah Fox, 27, was found at a different property.
Peter Fox, 27, will serve a minimum of 12 years and seven months and will be detained at Ashworth Hospital until deemed fit to be transferred to prison.
Passing sentence, Judge David Aubrey said Fox was "extremely dangerous".
The court heard Fox thought he was being abused by his mother and sister but in reality the judge said both had showed him tolerance and kindness.
A victim impact statement prepared on behalf of the family said: "It is absolutely unbelievable that we all find ourselves in this horrendous situation.
"Never in a million years could any of us have foreseen such an awful act would happen in our family.
"Our lives have been ripped apart and we have lost two beautiful people at the hands of someone who should have protected them, yet their own flesh and blood did the opposite.
"Peter's decision to take the lives of his own mum and sister - with no regard for the effects it may have on others - is unimaginable."
Fox, who was arrested at London's Euston Station three days after his mother's body was discovered, was initially charged with murder but in April this was changed and the prosecution accepted his plea of guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
Post-mortem examinations found Ms Fox died from asphyxiation and her daughter from multiple stab wounds.
Det Chief Insp Dave Rooney, of Merseyside Police, said: "There is no doubt that Peter Fox was mentally ill at the time he took the lives of his mother and sister.
"However, we will never be able to comprehend why he undertook the course of action he did, and it must be remembered that a family is still trying to come to terms with the tragic and untimely loss of their loved ones."
The woman's bones, including a skull and teeth, were discovered at Achavanich in Caithness in 1987.
Unusually, she was buried in a pit dug into solid rock and her skull is an abnormal shape which some suggest was done deliberately using bindings.
Maya Hoole believes advances in technology could reveal more about the remains known as "Ava".
Since the discovery and archaeological dig almost 30 years ago, plans of the site that were drawn by local authority archaeologists have been lost. Ms Hoole believes Ava's story has become largely forgotten.
The archaeologist has set up a website dedicated to new research on the bones, a decorated beaker buried with the woman and the Middle Bronze Age burial site, which lies close to the A9 between Latheron and Thurso.
Tests already done on the remains suggest the woman was aged 18 to 22 when she died.
She was buried in an unmarked rock-cut pit rather than underneath a cairn or in a pit dug into soil, which are the most commonly discovered burial sites from the Bronze Age.
Ms Hoole said she was only aware of a handful of other pits dug into solid rock that have been found in Scotland.
She said: "A lot of time and energy was invested in this burial.
"It just makes you wonder - why go to all that effort? What was so unique about the individual buried here to receive such special treatment?"
The decoration on the beaker found with Ava appears to be unique, the archaeologist said.
She said: "I've looked far and wide for comparable examples, but there's nothing else out there quite like it, again making this burial significant.
"I have closely examined the beaker decoration and discovered that at least three different tools were used to create the design, likely meaning that the artist had a specially-made tool kit and was prepared and likely experienced."
Ms Hoole added: "Like many others, I'm sure, I find skeletal remains completely mesmerising.
"The evidence shows that this was a young female, aged between 18 and 22, but we have no evidence of cause of death.
Since she was discovered in the 1980s we have made great advances in technology and it makes you wonder what we could still learn from her. I've been working on recreating the lost site plans, and interpreting the position this individual was buried in.
"My interpretation suggests that the layout of the burial fits into a much wider trend extending as far south as North Yorkshire, and possibly much further beyond."
What is known about Ava is that she was part of a much wider European group known as the Beaker people.
Short and round skull shapes were common amongst this group, but Ms Hoole said the Achavanich specimen is exaggerated and of an abnormal, uneven shape.
The archaeologist said: "There has been much debate amongst the archaeological community for many decades about the shape. Some argue it is a hereditary trait, whilst others think there may have been a practice of head-binding which creates the distinct shape.
"Perhaps this site can contribute more to the debate if further research is undertaken."
She added: "She has been fondly nicknamed 'Ava', an abbreviation of the place she was found.
"Although potentially a controversial decision, I want people to remember that this is not just a cluster of bones, but that she was once a human being, with a name, an identity and a place in a long lost community."
The figure was calculated by how much an individual is paid per hour, so takes account of part-time workers.
The DfE is the first government department to publish the difference between the pay of men and women.
The national gap is 18.1%, but the DfE uses a different methodology so cannot be compared directly to the Office for National Statistics figure.
Education Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities Justine Greening said her department was setting an example on promoting gender equality.
The DfE reported a mean pay gap - the difference between average salaries for men and women - of 5.3% and a median pay gap of 5.9%.
Pay gap data will be published by all government departments and large private companies by April 2018.
The ONS national gender pay gap for full and part-time workers is the lowest since records began in 1997.
Ms Greening said: "I'm proud that the DfE has taken an important step in reporting its gender pay gap, setting an example to other employers as we build a stronger economy where success is defined by talent, not gender or circumstance.
"The UK's gender pay gap is at a record low, but we are committed to closing it.
"As one of the UK's largest employers, the public sector has a vital role to play in leading the way to tackle the gender pay gap which is why the DfE's step to publish our gender pay gap matters."
The department says it has introduced a range of initiatives to support women in the workplace, such as supporting women returning to work, monitoring pay and helping women progress in their careers.
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Fiona McFarlane, 39, was named winner for The High Places on Wednesday after six works were shortlisted.
The £30,000 prize is given annually to a writer aged 39 or under - the age of the Swansea-born poet when he died.
It is in its 11th year and is awarded ahead of International Dylan Thomas Day, which is on Sunday this year.
Chairman of judges, Prof Dai Smith from Swansea University, said The High Places was chosen from an initial long list of 12, adding it "brought the reader to characters, situations and places which were haunting in their oddity and moving in their human empathy".
Short stories included one about a scientist living on an island with only a giant squid and the ghost of Charles Darwin for company and a farmer who turns to the Old Testament to relieve a drought.
The prize is considered one of the richest in the world for young fiction writers and is given for a published work.
Those shortlisted this year included Pigeon by Alys Conran from Bangor, Gwynedd, while the first winner in 2006 was Fresh Apples by Rachel Trezise from Cwmparc, Rhondda Cynon Taff.
International Dylan Thomas Day is marked on 14 May - the date his play under Milk Wood was first read on a New York stage in 1953.
Mr Meshaal "praised the positive stance of the kingdom's leadership towards the Palestinian cause", Saudi Arabia's SPA state news agency reported.
It is four years since a Saudi monarch last had publicly acknowledged talks with Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip.
Ties between Saudi Arabia and Hamas have been strained in recent years.
This was caused by the Saudi support for the Egyptian military in ousting the country's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
Hamas has strong links with Mr Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood movement.
Hamas is also traditionally aligned with Iran - the country seen by Saudi Arabia as a regional rival.
However, correspondents say that Saudi officials and Hamas are in regular contact behind the scenes.
Mr Meshaal has been living in exile in the Gulf state of Qatar since 2012, when he abandoned his base in Damascus, after Hamas sided with Syrian rebels against President Bashar al-Assad.
They were woken by the sound of a huge explosion.
The house shook. The windows shattered. There was shrapnel in the walls.
Abu Khalil ran out and saw that his neighbour's house had collapsed. The neighbour was frantic and shouted to Abu Khalil to help him find his six-month-old baby.
"I could hear people calling from underneath the rubble," said Abu Khalil. "My neighbour's mother was crying out. She's 70."
It was an air strike, but not by the regime. The villagers say it was the US-led coalition against the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), and that some 47 civilians were killed, half of them children.
If that is true, this was one of the worst accidental bombings of the campaign against IS.
We spoke to Abu Khalil by phone. He is an Arab man in his 30s but did not want to be further identified. He said he was afraid of reprisals by the Syrian People's Protection Units (YPG), which controls much of Hassakeh province and is a key ally of the US-led coalition.
He told us the casualties were so high in the attack on al-Khan because the house hit in the initial strike - by a rocket - was packed with people who had fled other villages. The village was also strafed from the air, he said.
Abu Khalil managed to drag his neighbour's mother from the wreckage of the house, along with a boy and his mother. They were OK - at first.
He described the scene as others in the village came running to help: "My mother and my aunt were both digging through the rubble with me. But while we did this, a helicopter came overhead. It fired. They had machine-guns with explosive bullets. I was hit. I still have the shrapnel in my body.
"I fell into the hole made by the air strike. That was what saved me. The helicopter circled round again and fired a second time. My mother and aunt were killed. The woman and her son who I'd rescued were killed. Everyone but me was killed."
Abu Khalil said the initial air strike was a rocket or missile fired by an Apache helicopter. It left a 2m-deep hole in the ground.
"Anyone could see the hole until the PKK [Turkish rebel Kurdistan Workers Party] filled it. They don't let anyone go near the place or take pictures.
"It was the Americans. For the past year-and-a-half, the only aircraft that have flown over our area have been American."
When the first, sketchy reports came in about al-Khan in early December, the US military's Central Command (Centcom) said it would investigate.
Centcom now says it has looked at its records and did not attack the village. A spokesman stated, however, that there were air strikes in the area of al-Hawl, a small town a few kilometres away.
Al-Khan is a tiny village. According to Abu Khalil, fewer than 100 people live there. Local activists have looked at a map provided by the US military marking the location of the air strike - they say that is exactly where al-Khan is located.
There was confirmation of an air strike on al-Khan from another important source - the Kurdish forces on the ground.
A web page apparently published by the YPG, states: "Coalition aircraft made several raids on IS targets in al-Khan and finished off many rats."
The page purports to come from Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RIBSS), a human rights organisation known for its brave opposition to IS. But RSS has told us the page is nothing to do with them.
The whole thing has the whiff of propaganda about it - an exercise in denying there has been any kind of serious incident because that might undermine support for an air campaign.
Abu Khalil told us that the Kurdish militia had filled the hole made by the initial strike and would not let anyone go near it or take pictures.
He accepts that there was an IS presence. But he said: "There were fewer than 10 fighters in the village, including two locals. And they all stayed together at one place."
He said the village did not support them: "People in al-Khan didn't like IS and always avoided talking to them."
The villagers even tried to expel IS, he said. According to one report, there was an altercation that escalated into an exchange of fire - and IS responded by sending reinforcements.
This convoy, it seems, was spotted by the Kurds, who no doubt thought they were seeing a big movement of troops to the frontline - and called in air support.
If all this is correct, the village's opposition to IS resulted in a devastating attack by US aircraft.
There are many things that are unclear about the events in al-Khan. How many IS fighters were there? How many of them were killed? Were they close to the house that was hit?
There are no independent witnesses, but there is testimony from survivors such as Abu Khalil and others.
And while the villagers counted 47 dead, the coalition counted none.
To some, what happened at al-Khan tells you why the US military's own estimate of civilian casualties in the war against IS is simply not credible.
In an 18-month-long campaign, during which coalition aircraft have conducted 7,550 air strikes in Iraq and Syria, the US military so far acknowledges causing the sum total of 22 civilian deaths.
By contrast, an independent monitoring group called Airwars says that at least 846 and as many as 1,166 non-combatants have died in coalition strikes in Syria and neighbouring Iraq.
Of course, IS makes the most of civilian casualties. One of the most effective - and upsetting - IS propaganda videos I have seen is of the aftermath of an air strike on the hospital in the town of Abu Kamal, in eastern Syria. It is professionally shot and edited, in high definition as we have come to expect from the jihadist group.
A trail of blood is shown going up the stairs to the neonatal unit. Inside incubators and other equipment are strewn around. The camera points to the floor to get a close-up of the face of a dead baby. The baby's face is coated in plaster dust and fills the screen.
"This is the work of the Crusader Coalition," the video says.
"They accuse the Islamic State of killing civilians! What do you call this? Destroying a hospital with newborns - this is terrorism, not what the Islamic State does. When the pilot falls into our hands, we will bring down justice upon him!"
Was this the coalition or could it have been an air strike by the Syrian regime, or shelling by one of the armed groups fighting IS?
While there is no record of a coalition air strike on Abu Kamal on the day the hospital was hit - 6 March - a coalition press release does talk about an oil pipeline nearby being bombed.
In one sense, it does not matter. IS claims it was a coalition air strike and uses it as propaganda in the battle for Sunni Muslim public opinion.
While the coalition is extremely cautious about estimating the number of civilians killed, there is no such reticence when it comes to the number of enemy dead - at least 23,000, according to briefings given by officials to US media.
This figure may be exaggerated. The CIA has repeatedly said IS can put 30,000 fighters in the field. Can it really be that they have lost three-quarters of their strength to US bombs? And since the CIA estimate has not wavered, has IS really been able to replace 100% of its losses?
But even if total IS casualties are only half what is claimed, or a quarter, something remarkable is happening. Thousands of the enemy are being killed with, so far, very few coalition casualties. Just a single US death is classed as being caused by hostile action.
It is a vastly uneven contest and one in which, ultimately, the industrial and military might of the US will almost certainly prevail.
IS militants have been steadily losing territory. They may be on the point of abandoning much of Aleppo province, with the latest reports speaking of senior figures leaving the main IS-controlled town there, Manbij.
The seriousness of the situation - even the possibility of defeat - was acknowledged in late December in an audio message purportedly from IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
"If we are victorious then God has promised it to us," he said. "But let us not get bewildered if death, injuries and defeat overcome us because it's God's promise to us as well."
We spoke via Skype to Abu Haider, a defector from IS. First of all, he said, the militants had adapted to the coalition's bombing.
"Air strikes won't affect them. They are well trained, they use walkie-talkies to warn of an attack. They have made shelters."
But, he went on, morale was low among ordinary fighters as the group fell back. "They are frustrated because the entire world is fighting against them," he explained.
There was another reason for poor morale. People were disillusioned - the so-called Islamic State had not lived up to its promise.
A medical student when the protests in Syria began, Abu Haider was very religious, much more so than his family. From the start, he saw the uprising as jihad, not a revolution for democracy. But IS turned Muslim against Muslim.
"We went to the Islamic State because they said they were establishing Sharia and protecting Muslims. But we witnessed something very different," he said.
"They were killing Muslims - from the Free Syrian Army, from al-Nusra Front, from Ahrar al-Sham. This is unacceptable... I joined the Islamic State to fight the regime."
That disillusionment does not mean Abu Haider would take arms and money from the US to fight IS.
"I would never join the coalition led by the US," he said. "I would never choose Americans over Muslims, even if they are IS."
"The Americans are our enemies, although their time hasn't come yet. We are already fighting against the Shia and the Russians."
That declaration illustrates the problem for the US that many of those fighters opposed to IS share the same basic aims.
Abu Haider believes in a scriptural prophecy of a final battle marking the end of days, a prophecy he said was constantly invoked by IS commanders and clerics.
They would tell him that the battle would be at the village of Dabiq in northern Syria, against the "forces of Rome", the "Crusader coalition".
Some IS members will not leave the group but will fight to the last bullet. The death throes of IS could be drawn out - and with it the US coalition's air war.
Captain Beaky, who also struggled to eat, went under the knife to have his broken bottom jaw fixed.
The operation means the cockerel from Lancaster can now easily feed himself but he is yet to give the famous call.
He had to travel to Northern Ireland for the operation as it was hard to find a vet to do the job in England.
However, the rooster then went on to have a foul accident while recuperating at the animal hospital when he bashed his new beak into a wall and needed a second operation.
The procedures have cost owners Tina and Martin Wilkinson a total of £500, along with travel expenses.
The rooster was adopted by the couple after he had been found abandoned in a woodland near their house.
The family have 80 chickens, 10 ducks, two turkeys, four cats and two dogs.
They decided to raise money for Captain Beaky's operation because they wanted to "make his life easier".
Mrs Wilkinson, who set up Hedwig's House for Chickens in Hestbank, Lancaster, in 2014, said: "He was struggling but we saw his will to live."
She added she had been shocked to hear about the accident after the first operation.
"He is fine but I feel guilty because he had a major operation. I worry about him," she said.
"He doesn't realise he can eat because he has always struggled."
The couple said Captain Beaky was still trying to learn how to use his new beak.
It counts forehands and backhands, serves and smashes. And when play is finished, the coach compares your stats with existing tennis data that it has easily to hand.
But this coach is not kitted out with tracksuit and trainers. Rather it relies on sensors and chips.
It sounds futuristic but technology like this is already available, embedded in one of the newer tennis racquets on the market - the Babolat Play Pure Drive.
Packed with sensors detecting string vibration and movement, the device works with a smartphone (over Bluetooth) or plugs into a computer (via USB). The company says it is the first connected racquet in the world.
"We integrated sensors inside the handle of the racquet, but it does not change the specification. And these sensors will analyse your tennis game, so your swing - your motion - and all this information will be collected by the racquet," Gael Moureaux, tennis racquets products manager at Babolat's HQ in the French city of Lyon, tells the BBC.
He adds: "During the development process of the racquet, we did a lot of lab tests with a lot of players around the world to make sure the data is accurate and to have the right data for the player."
Babolat's take on personal sporting analytics has the potential to greatly impact professional tennis.
That is because it is the first company to put a connected racquet through the International Tennis Federation (ITF) approval process.
The ITF, aware of the growing influx of hi-tech equipment into the sport, has set up a programme called Player Analysis Technology (PAT) to regulate such "virtual coaches" as the Babolat racquet.
It defines PAT items as being "any equipment that collects, stores, transmits, analyses or communicates information on player performance, and may be a standalone device or incorporated within existing equipment".
Successful approval from the ITF would mean that top players could use the French racquet in Grand Slam tournaments such as the French Open this spring at Roland Garos in Paris.
But why is an approval process needed at all?
A quick delve into tennis history shows technology consistently at the heart of the game, and innovation has generally moved at a quicker pace than the game's regulators can keep up with.
Over the past 50 years, wooden racquets were replaced by metal, then carbon fibre mixed with other materials, and now computer-connected models.
This time round the governing body wants to be calling the shots on where and how innovation can be used, as in the past it has found itself having to ban some products already on the market and in use, such as the so-called "spaghetti-strung" racquets (with double stringing).
Since the profound impact of the metal racquet, testing has been carried out with the idea of ensuring every player has a fair chance of winning - with approved equipment.
Machines at the ITF's high-tech lab at Roehampton, south-west London, strenuously test racquets and balls for approval on the court.
"One of the biggest revolutions in tennis was when a gentleman called Howard Head discovered you could make racquets with bigger faces and larger frames using a material other than wood," says Stuart Miller, of the ITF.
Players using metal racquets would have the advantage over equally skilled opponents using wooden frames.
This was because a metal racquet enabled the player to have a greater hitting area. They would be more likely to hit the ball and less likely to hit it on the frame.
"Eventually racquets became lighter and could be swung faster, generating the kind of serve speeds and spins that we're seeing in today's game," adds Mr Miller.
"That was a fundamental shift, and no matter how much some people would like to think that the wooden racquet has a place in tennis today, I'm afraid there's no going back now."
It is this delicate balance between tradition and technology that remains particularly relevant to the tennis world.
In conjunction with its PAT approval programme, the ITF has also brought in a new rule - Rule 31 - to reflect the growing use of connected equipment, and its possible role in tournament play.
The ITF's existing rules currently ban touchline coaching, and to now prevent hi-tech "coaching" - in this case players potentially studying their strokeplay data between games - the new regulation has appeared.
It states that a "player may not have access to data collected by Player Analysis Technology during play, except when play is suspended and coaching is permitted".
But despite the innovations coming thick and fast, one trainer does not think he is in danger of being upstaged by a smart racquet.
"I think that it's great for feedback but you still need someone to analyse it. At the end of the day it's the practice and the ability of someone that makes the player, not necessarily the equipment in their hand," says Nik Snapes, racquets manager and tennis pro at Roehampton Club.
With the player analytics revolution come the consequences that might arise from using this technology.
Approved devices need to be secure and protected against unauthorised access, to prevent "sporting espionage'" whereby data could be stolen. Knowing when an opponent's right hand gets tired during the second set would be a huge advantage.
Player analytics, like the metal racquet, is here to stay.
But though it will have a huge impact on the evolution of tennis, the game should remain as popular as ever - provided players have the opportunity to compete on skill and strategy alone.
More than 500 people are thought to have died in the sinking on 9 April, but there has been no official inquiry.
Newsnight has established that the boat set sail from Egypt - not Libya, as the UNHCR stated at the time.
The head of Europol, Rob Wainwright, said the case was "uncomfortable".
He welcomed the Reuters-BBC Newsnight investigation and promised "to look at it again" given "the absence of any clear answers".
The UN estimates that 4,663 people have died this year attempting to cross the Mediterranean, making it the most deadly year on record. But the shipwrecks are frequently not investigated.
Reuters and BBC Newsnight spent months piecing together the story of what happened to the ship that sank on 9 April 2016 - speaking to survivors, to relatives of the victims, and eventually tracking down the smugglers, the brokers, and the details of the ship that sank.
Thirty-seven people survived the shipwreck, but more than 500 are believed to have died. Those who perished came from Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Syria, Egypt and a number of other countries.
Each had paid around $2,000 (£1,600) to smugglers in the hope of reaching Italy.
Newsnight understands that the main boat - a trawler - set sail from the port of Rashid, just to the east of Alexandria in Egypt. At about 02:00 local time on the night of Saturday 9 April a fishing boat with around 200 additional migrants attempted to join the trawler, which by that time had around 300 people on board.
It began to list towards the fishing boat. The migrants tried to correct that by shifting to the other side, but they over-compensated and the trawler capsized.
According to survivors of the disaster, the fishing boat sped off, leaving about 100 people who were still alive and swimming in the water, to drown. One survivor told BBC Newsnight that he was threatened with a knife by a smuggler when he tried to help fellow migrants.
The first that was known of the shipwreck was a full week later when the Italian coast guard received a distress call from one of the survivors.
The smugglers had instructed those on board to say they had come from Libya - in order to avoid being repatriated to Egypt. A few days later, based on interviews with survivors in Greece, the UNHCR issued a press statement stating that the ship had left from Libya.
When presented with BBC Newsnight's findings, the UN's refugee agency said: "The UNHCR is not a law enforcement agency and investigating sea disasters or transnational organized crime is beyond our means, mandate and expertise.
"But with many thousands of lives having been lost on the Mediterranean… the need to bring to account those involved in the organized trafficking and smuggling of people couldn't be clearer. The loss of life at sea has been truly appalling and we have been very vocal in denouncing it."
Our investigation understands that the Greek coastguard did not refer the case to a criminal prosecutor because there was no indication any crime had been committed on Greek territory. Both the coastguard service and Nikos Paraskevopoulos, the Greek justice minister, declined to comment.
The Egyptian government has never publicly acknowledged the sinking, nor that the boat set sail from one of its harbours - leaving many of the victims' families in limbo.
In July, a court in Alexandria convicted seven people in absentia - but for the lesser charge of fraud, rather than manslaughter or murder. Those convicted are still at large.
In a statement, the Egyptian Ministry of Justice told BBC Newsnight a new law had been ratified in November to help tackle illegal migration.
The ministry could not say what inquiries had taken place into the 9 April sinking, but added: "If the occurrence of such a crime is proven, Egypt certainly will not hesitate to conduct necessary investigations to uncover it."
John Sweeney and James Clayton were reporting for BBC Newsnight. Watch their full investigation at 22:30 on BBC Two.
This was a joint investigation with Reuters. Read more from Stephen Grey here
Our World: The Forgotten Shipwreck is on the BBC News Channel at 21:30 on Saturday and Sunday 10/11 December and on BBC World News. It will be available to watch later via BBC iplayer
The system was first used on Wednesday to award a penalty in Kashima Antlers' 3-0 win over Atletico Nacional, with the referee alerted by his assistant.
Marco van Basten, Fifa's chief officer of technical development, said the decision "took a few seconds too much".
But Infantino said "transparency and justice have been brought to the game".
Replays were again used as Real Madrid beat Club America 2-0 in the semi-finals on Thursday.
Referee Enrique Caceres briefly asked for a consultation before allowing Cristiano Ronaldo's late goal to stand.
"In the end it was good and the right decision was made," said former Netherlands striker Van Basten. "Only the communication between the video assistant referee and the referee was not optimum."
Video assistant referees have assisted officials during two international friendlies this year, but the Club World Cup represents their first use in Fifa competition.
Previous usage has been in what Fifa call a "semi-live" scenario, where the referee was not able to review decisions on a pitchside monitor.
A lifeboat from Lerwick and the Coastguard helicopter were sent to help the Lerwick-registered Ocean Way, which reported taking on water at 06:50.
As rescuers arrived the fishermen jumped into the sea, less than a minute before the vessel sunk.
The crew were pulled one by one aboard the lifeboat before being taken back ashore to Lerwick.
Alan Tarby, the coxswain of the Lerwick lifeboat, described the rescue. "Just as we got along, the boat started to sink and the boys all jumped off the boat into the water alongside the lifeboat and we sort of fished them into the boat and hoisted them aboard.
"The final moments of the boat were of it sticking out the water. It slid into the water so quickly. It went down within seconds - it was less than a minute from when they decided to jump to when she disappeared."
Mark Rodaway, commander for the UK Coastguard, said: 'This was a difficult rescue in awful weather."
He added: "The lifeboat was finding it hard to get alongside. But I'm pleased to say that all five fishermen were rescued."
A Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) investigation is under way.
With the conflict there now in its second month the UN estimates more than 1,200 people have been killed and thousands more displaced, amid a growing humanitarian crisis.
But according to the official, who asked not to be named, Gulf Arab governments decided they had to intervene to stop the Houthi takeover of Yemen after new intelligence emerged in January this year.
He said the US government had confirmed that satellite surveillance revealed some of Yemen's estimated 300 Scud missiles, under rebel control, had been moved close to the Saudi border.
With a range well in excess of 300km (186 miles), that would have placed several Saudi cities within striking range of the missiles, he said.
Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab allies were not going to tolerate what they call "an Iranian-backed militia taking over a country in their backyard", he said, adding that "the Gulf Arab states want an end to Iranian interference in Arab affairs".
They are determined to confront what they see as Tehran's expansionist ambitions across the Middle East.
When asked what proof he had of any material backing by Iran for Yemen's Houthi rebels, the official declined to give a specific answer, nor did he provide any photographic evidence of the alleged Scud bases on the Saudi border.
Iran denies giving any military support to the rebels.
But the Gulf official told invited journalists from several leading media organisations that Tehran had given extensive political support to the Houthis, who share Iran's Shia branch of Islam.
He said the assessment of the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) was that before the Saudi-led coalition began its air campaign to dislodge the rebels on 26 March, there had been up to 5,000 Iranian and Iraqi trainers in Yemen, helping the rebels.
At least three trainers from Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) had been caught in Aden, he said, and handed over to Oman. It is the only Gulf Arab state to have maintained a neutral stance in the Yemen war.
Among the hundreds of Gulf Arab military pilots and crews deployed at Saudi airbases for the air war over Yemen, a growing number now have significant combat experience, said the official.
This has been acquired in flying missions over Syria, Iraq, Libya and Kosovo as well as Yemen.
The Saudis are flying the most sorties, followed by the Emirati pilots. Gulf Arab states are among the most prolific buyers of western military equipment in the world, spending large amounts of oil revenues on sophisticated hi-tech aircraft and munitions.
Yemen, by contrast, has an ageing arsenal of mostly Soviet-era weapons with a huge number of AK47 machine-guns in private hands.
Saudi Arabia announced an end to the initial air campaign over Yemen on 21 April after coming under US pressure to halt the bombing.
Washington was fearful of derailing its proposed deal with Iran to place curbs on its nuclear programme.
But the official said the very next day Houthi rebels took six of their MiG fighter planes out from cover and began a renewed onslaught on government defenders in Taiz and Aden.
This, said the official, was why coalition air strikes had resumed.
The Saudi-led coalition now has control of Yemen's air space and most of its ports, putting in place an arms embargo on the whole country.
Because of the worsening humanitarian situation in Yemen, the Saudis were allowing in aid flights but insisted planes from Iran needed to stop off first at a Saudi base in Bisha to be searched for arms.
The official said that an Iranian plane was detected flying direct to the Yemeni capital Sanaa on 28 April and that its pilots had ignored calls from Saudi and Omani air traffic control.
Suspecting it of carrying weapons, the coalition then responded by bombing the runway at Sanaa to prevent it landing, while the Yemeni government-in-exile complained to the UN Security Council that Iran was trying to break the arms embargo.
The Gulf official admitted that early attempts to broker a peace deal with Yemen's deposed former president Ali Abdullah Saleh through his son had failed.
Saleh, who the official dubbed "Yemen's Machiavelli" for his constant behind-the-scenes scheming, ruled the country for more than 20 years before he was driven out by the Arab Spring protests in 2012.
But the officials said that within the military, 36 brigades had been run by his son and a further 17 by his son-in-law.
Yemen's officer corps was largely drawn from the same Zaidi Shia sect that the Houthi rebels come from. The Zaidis make up around 30% of Yemen's population.
Much of the army is still loyal to Saleh, who is still "manoeuvring" but, he said, the Gulf Arabs are hopeful they can eventually break the current alliance between ex-President Saleh and the Houthi rebels, which had "opened the door to Iran in Yemen".
Gulf Arab leaders have a number of expectations from the upcoming summit with US President Barack Obama at Camp David on 14 May, the official said.
Above all, they want US reassurance that their own security concerns about Iran are not going to be ignored in the White House's push for a nuclear deal with Tehran.
If the summit ends with little more than a photo-op and a statement then it would be a disappointment, he said.
Instead, the GCC are hopeful of a clear agreement, perhaps a formal memorandum, that settles on measures to "contain Iranian influence".
He added that the US administration still needs to "sell" the proposed Iran agreement to its Gulf Arab allies.
Iran, he maintained, is very adept at building client militias in the region and has ambitions in six countries, naming them as Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Bahrain, Yemen and eastern Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi-led coalition has come in for considerable criticism, notably from human rights groups, for its extended bombing campaign which has seen mounting civilian casualties.
But the Gulf official said there is a multi-pronged strategy, which comprises maintaining control of the air and sea, enabling humanitarian aid, planning reconstruction and development and buying the allegiance of tribal leaders.
"This has already begun, but it will take time," he said.
Yemen needs a political solution - that, at least, everyone is agreed on.
But the Gulf Arabs want a return to the political road map, sanctioned by the UN Security Council, while Saleh and the Houthis want to renegotiate on their terms.
The Gulf Arab official concluded his briefing by telling journalists that Arab governments in the Saudi-led coalition will do "everything that is required to win in Yemen".
He said the days of maintaining a policy of what he called "benign negligence" in that country are over.
South Somerset Council stopped 39 cars, with one in four turning out to have defects, including brake pads that were close to the legal limit.
Council licensing manager Nigel Marsden said spot checks kept "drivers on their toes".
Yeovil Radio Cabs manager Andrew Rossiter said he was surprised at the number of problems found.
Mr Rossiter's firm has 65 taxis, and he said if it was a reflection on his firm he would be concerned.
"If it was a reflection on my firm I'd be desperately worried, because of the ongoing maintenance we do, we MOT a vehicle every three or four months, and the vehicle comes in for a service regularly every 10,000 miles," he said.
"And when it has got a fault the driver lets us know and obviously we go and repair vehicles."
Mr Marsden said: "I think over the last six or seven years standards of taxis operating in south Somerset has increased and that's mainly because we've been doing these regular spot checks.
"With the recession drivers may be trying to cut a few corners in terms of their maintenance regimes, but the type of operation we did the other day, that we do frequently, keeps them on their toes."
Other councils in Somerset had lower percentage of problems in their latest spot checks.
Turlough had lived at the park since 2011, and was described by staff as a "much loved" member of the family.
Bosses at the Warminster site had become "increasingly concerned" about his health over recent months.
The "fantastic" tiger had to be put to sleep following a degenerative spinal illness that had led to a progressive loss of his hind limb function.
Ryan Hockley, head of safari, said: "At 19 years and 4 months, Turlough was the oldest Amur tiger in the UK having lived at Longleat since 2011.
"Turlough was a much loved member of the Longleat family."
Jon Cracknell, director of operations, said the death was a "great loss" to Longleat.
"Turlough had settled in well here and we are sad to see him go," he added.
"We initially supported this condition with pain relief and palliative care, however as it became progressively worse and following extensive consultation with the veterinary team and internal ethical review, we made the decision to put Turlough to sleep on welfare grounds."
Mr Cracknell said the 19-year-old tiger, who arrived at Longleat from Dublin Zoo in 2011, "touched the hearts" of both visitors and staff.
The park's three other female tigers, who shared an enclosure with Tulough, are in good health but will be monitored to see how they react to his loss, Mr Cracknell added.
According to WWF, Amur tigers, also known as the Siberian tiger, were once found throughout the Russian Far East, northern China, and the Korean peninsula.
By the 1940s, hunting had driven the Amur tiger to the brink of extinction.
The population is now endangered, with around 400 tigers believed to be remaining.
By 14:00 BST on Sunday, one of those three will be a League One club.
It is 37 years since Blackburn Rovers were in England's third tier, 22 for Birmingham City and only nine for Nottingham Forest.
Rovers and Forest are in most danger of being relegated from the Championship on Sunday, while Blues could also fill the one remaining spot in the bottom three.
BBC Sport assesses why these three struggling sides find themselves in trouble.
Blackburn will survive if they better Nottingham Forest's result, which would send Forest down. If they match Forest's result, Rovers must effect a two-goal swing on Forest to finish above them, as Forest's goal difference is better by one and they have also scored nine more goals. Blackburn will go down if both clubs draw.
Birmingham will be safe if they win, regardless of results elsewhere. However, if Blackburn and Forest both win, anything less than a victory for Blues would send them down. A draw would not be enough in that scenario as they have the worst goal difference of the three clubs, who would all finish on 51 points.
Andy Bayes, BBC Radio Lancashire: "The season comes down to one last match, which has been likened to a cup final. For Blackburn Rovers, it's more important than that.
"'Unthinkable' has been the word used in terms of relegation all season. It would be a shattering blow for a club still feeling the effects of relegation from the Premier League in 2012 and poor recruitment decisions in the aftermath.
"A victory might not secure their status. A defeat might. They just have to look after themselves, with an ear on what's happening at Ashton Gate and The City Ground."
Tony Mowbray, Blackburn manager: "We have to go into the last game knowing that we are a decent team in this league.
"It should be a pretty even match. Over the last 14 games we have shown that we are better than the league position we are in, but over 45 games we have shown we are not.
"We have to use the extra adrenalin, intensity and desire that we could have on the day.
"I am positive we can go and get a result, find a performance and then see what everyone else does.
"Sometimes knowing that you have to get result can help. There is no grey area, we have to go win.
"I will try to inspire the players before the game, give them a cause to fight for and send them out to get a victory."
Colin Fray, BBC Radio Nottingham: "Forest's problems are both short and long-term, but they've added up to a season of disaster. Owner Fawaz Al-Hasawi's five years in charge have seen the Reds finish lower each season than the previous one so it's almost inevitable that - without a new owner - a relegation scrap would follow.
"Takeovers have twice come close, and another attempt to buy the club by Evangelos Marinakis - the owner of Greek champions Olympiakos - is well advanced.
"But poor leadership and failed takeovers have led to an alarming lack of infrastructure. There's still no chief executive, and though Frank McParland is now trying to rebuild things as director of football, the lack of a scouting network has been bemoaned by a series of managers.
"Speaking of managers, there have been three this season. Philippe Montanier signed 12 players and five more were added in January, by which time he'd left and Gary Brazil was in charge.
"Of those 17 newcomers, one has been in the starting line-up in recent matches. Hardly great recruitment for a club haemorrhaging money, and when you throw in the sale of prized young asset Oliver Burke, it's not a policy that's gone down well with supporters.
"On the pitch, some things have been embarrassing: schoolboy errors, arguments between players about who would take a penalty, a player changing the formation without reference from the coaching staff.
"All that said, with Mark Warburton at the helm, McParland recruiting, the core of a good squad and a potential takeover looming again, Forest fans have cause for optimism - if they can get the job done against Ipswich."
Mark Warburton, Forest manager: "'Bravery' is the key word. We use that word a lot and we ask the players to take the ball in tight areas and deal with the situation; don't come away from the game with any regrets.
"These type of games and challenges ask questions about your strength of character and I think we have enough to deal with it. These games are where you define yourself."
Chris Cohen, Forest club captain: "It's probably the biggest game since I have been at the football club [joined in 2007]. We have to thrive in a big situation. It will test what we are like as characters.
"It's about being brave. It will be a nervy atmosphere I am sure. The fans will be nervous, the same as we are. We have to set a really high tempo to start - that is crucial. We need to show the fans how much it means to us.
"The support is vital. We understand their frustrations - lots of us have similar frustrations. But there is nothing we can do about it. The past is the past.
"We need them all for one more game. We need it be loud, we need it be encouraging. It is down to us to give them something to roar for."
Richard Wilford, BBC WM: "You can't really view Birmingham City's late relegation scrap as anything other than a self-inflicted wound.
"When new owners Trillion Trophy Asia unexpectedly dispensed with the services of manager Gary Rowett in December, the club were flirting with the play-offs, and though they were unlikely to sustain that challenge, there were few signs of danger.
"Gianfranco Zola arrived for an ill-fated four months at St Andrew's. Although he was almost bewilderingly short of good fortune, there were clearly many issues on and off the field.
"Attempting a wholesale change in playing style without a pre-season and with modest incomings in the January transfer window was, at best, optimistic.
"Ultimately it proved foolhardy as Zola managed only two wins in 22 league games and friction in the squad resulted in an unseemly squabble in the post-match warm-down at Rotherham.
"Zola's resignation gave Harry Redknapp, Steve Cotterill and Paul Groves three games to save the club's Championship status. That may have been just enough. The victory over Huddersfield in the final home game, playing most of the match with 10 men, was the stuff of real togetherness, spirit and mettle.
"But it should never have come to this."
Harry Redknapp, Birmingham manager: "The lads are in good shape. We've got pretty much everybody fit and the atmosphere around the place seems good.
"We've tried not to complicate the game for the lads too much and play to our strengths and I think we've done that so far.
"But Bristol will be a tough place to go in front of a full house and what will be their biggest crowd of the season.
"They went to Brighton and did a job on them last weekend and they beat Huddersfield 4-0 a few weeks ago, so they've got some form.
"They'll be up for it as everyone wants to win their last home game of the season, but so will we.
"A draw's no good. A point will make no difference, so it's win or bust for us."
It is believed the suspension, announced on Wednesday, is not directly related to a critical internal review.
The report, by new chairman Paul Thomas, has been leaked to BBC Wales.
It is understood that Welsh ministers decided to intervene after a vote of no-confidence in Mr Thomas at a Sport Wales board meeting earlier this week.
The organisation, which promotes grassroots and elite sport, received £22.4m of Welsh Government funding for 2016/17.
The report by Mr Thomas said Sport Wales was in "danger of stagnating" and accused its managers of not listening and engaging with people outside its Cardiff base.
He also said it had been spending an "unacceptable" amount on its board.
In a written statement on Wednesday, Social Services and Public Health Minister Rebecca Evans said the Welsh Government had intervened as a result of matters that had emerged in recent days.
Welsh Government officials are now investigating Sport Wales, with the probe not expected to be completed until the end of the year.
Speaking on BBC Radio Wales, Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford said: "The really important message for people who rely on the activities of Sport Wales is that its day-to-day activities absolutely continue as normal."
Welsh Conservative economy spokesman Russell George called for "greater transparency" from ministers.
"The Welsh Government has made a very serious intervention into the running of a publicly funded organisation, and this statement raises more questions than it answers," he said.
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Had things gone according to her father's plans, she would have been married as a teenager and followed a traditional rural lifestyle - living off produce grown on the family farm.
But she decided to move south and live a different life.
"I was a rebel and went against my parents' wishes," says Ms Nascimento, now aged 44.
She is a small entrepreneur - and her story illustrates the recent social change that has transformed the lives of millions of people in Brazil - many of them women.
Her journey was not easy.
She left her family home at 17, moved to Rio de Janeiro and became a maid, a popular job among poor Brazilian women who have little education.
She says she faced prejudice and was so naive she thought she did not have the right to be paid a regular salary because she lived in her employer's home.
Ms Nascimento soon grew tired of the job and its uncertainties. She moved to the vast sprawling city of Sao Paulo, where she sold domestic supplies.
By then, she was already thinking of ways of fulfilling her dream of having a business of her own. It was 2007, and eco-friendly products were all the rage in Brazil.
Ms Nascimento spotted her opportunity. She rang the local Greenpeace office to ask what would be the best material for replacing plastic supermarket bags.
"And it turned out to be raw cotton, which was precisely one of the things we used grow on my family farm up north," she recalls.
She started crafting the bags at home, after a full day working as a saleswoman, and sold them to other small companies.
Her business grew steadily, and today she makes about 10,000 bags per month, employing four people in her small factory in Sao Paulo - including her husband and older son.
Her family in the north-east used to think of her as the "black sheep", she recalls.
Now she is their pride and joy, as well as a role model for the whole family.
"We are a big, humble family of seven siblings. Growing up, we didn't even have electric power. My father was worried about us moving to big cities, he wanted me to marry young and lead a quiet rural life.
"But my parents always trusted me, so I thought it was my responsibility to grow in life," she says.
"Back then, there was little education in my family; their only plans for the future was to have children of their own.
"But I kept telling them that it was important to get an education. Now they all live in the city and many are starting university."
With Ms Nascimento's help, her sister's small business selling home-cooked meals has turned into a fully fledged churrascaria - a traditional Brazilian meat restaurant.
Ms Nascimento's experience is becoming more common in Brazil, a developing nation where the gap between rich and poor has been narrowing.
The changes have been particularly marked for Brazilian women. Falling birth rates mean mothers have smaller families to care for and often do better in their chosen professions.
According to Sebrae, a body that promotes entrepreneurship, the number of Brazilian women who became business owners grew by 21% in the past decade, at twice the rate of men.
Still, gender inequality persists in the Brazilian labour market. According to official figures, the average Brazilian woman makes almost 30% less money than her male colleague.
Ms Nascimento plans to triple her sales in the next few years at her business, Edilu Eco-bags.
"Women still face some prejudice, but it's changing. And it's up to us to break the cycle," she says.
And her concerns are now those of a typical urban Brazilian woman.
"I've learned to delegate tasks to my husband and kids, they help me with the company and with the dishes and handle their own school work.
"Now I want to make more time for girly things, for chatting with my girlfriends. I've learned that life is more than work and family!"
Hampshire Constabulary said it is "increasingly concerned for their welfare".
Jobie Cross, 15 and Michael Cross, 11, were last seen on 20 January in the Bitterne area of Southampton.
Jobie is 5ft 6in (1.68m), has brown hair, brown eyes and a slender build. Police said Michael is 4ft 10in (1.47m) and of large build.
The older brother is wearing a hoodie, tracksuit bottoms, chequered jacket and Caterpillar boots.
He also wears gold sovereign rings.
Michael has mousy brown hair, has his left ear pierced with a stud and is wearing a hoodie and tracksuit bottoms.
Aerial searches of the mountain, also known by its Maori name Aoraki, have turned up no sign of the men.
Sydney doctor Michael Bishop, 53, Yohann Viellehner, 58, from Germany and his 27-year-old son Raphael were last seen in the early hours of Monday.
Police said the men were roped together when they set off for the summit. They failed to return to their hut that day.
Police spokesman Brent Swanson said the families of the men were upset the search had stopped, but were aware of why the decision was made.
"The search team are obviously disappointed with the result and our thoughts are with the families in Australia and Germany," he said in a statement.
He said police would re-evaluate their search plans if they got any new information or sightings.
Mt Cook, in the South Island, is New Zealand's tallest peak at 3,724m (12,217ft). It is a popular challenge for climbers from around the world because of the skills required to reach its summit.
More than 230 people have died on the mountain since it was first climbed in 1894.
The investigation by the force's professional standards department relates to two Brighton-based officers, a Sussex Police spokeswoman said.
Supt Lisa Bell said the investigation was linked to an online message sent to a third person, who was a colleague.
The officers are "quite new in service" and have not been suspended.
The families of the 11 people who died when a Hawker Hunter aeroplane crashed into the A27 during the Shoreham Airshow are being informed, Sussex Police said.
In a statement, Deputy Chief Constable Olivia Pinkney said: "I want them to work to earn their pay while this is investigated.
"In the meantime they have been assigned duties away from public contact."
Their colleague "swiftly reported" the message, police said.
Deputy Chief Constable Pinkney said: "I cannot emphasize how upset I am that we are investigating such an allegation.
"My colleagues have informed the victims' families and apologised to them for the unnecessary distress it will undoubtedly cause them."
She said the allegation "detracts from the professionalism of hundreds of colleagues who have worked so tirelessly on this operation".
Following the crash, which happened on 22 August, Ch Supt Tony Blaker said he was aware of images and videos from the scene that had been placed online.
He urged people to "consider the feelings" of those who had lost loved ones.
The court said regulators were right to condemn the cost of its interchange fees - the fees retailers pay banks to process card payments - and has rejected an appeal.
Mastercard was investigated last year for the amount it charged for card transactions in Europe.
The company's president said the ruling was "disappointing".
Javier Perez, president of MasterCard Europe said despite that, the ruling would have "little or no impact on how MasterCard operates".
He said: "We will continue to comply with the decision as we have been doing for a number of years. This means we would maintain our European... cross-border consumer interchange fees at a weighted average of 0.2% for debit and 0.3% for credit."
Mastercard is the second-largest credit and debit card company after Visa.
UK retailers welcomed the court's decision. Helen Dickinson, director general of the British Retail Consortium, said: "We are delighted with this historic ruling.
"Capping these excessive and anti-competitive fees will support the UK retail industry and others, boosting our ability to invest and innovate while continuing to deliver lower prices and value for customers."
The decision ends MasterCard's seven-year battle against a decision made by the EU's competition watchdog.
Since leaving office in 2010, the former UK prime minister has produced a series of reports on education in developing countries.
Earlier this year he launched a campaign for an international fund to bring education to all children.
Mr Brown said his new role would be a "great privilege".
"Ensuring that every child in the world has the opportunity to go to school and to learn is a longstanding passion of mine," said Mr Brown.
"Education breaks the cycle of poverty and unlocks better health and better job prospects."
The announcement, made in New York, means Mr Brown becomes a UN envoy - supporting UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon.
He joins the likes of the former US President, Bill Clinton, and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
Mr Brown has been campaigning in support of the millennium development goal that by 2015 all children should have access to at least a primary school education.
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This unpaid position is the first big job for the former prime minister since he left Downing Street two years ago.
But it does not mean that he will be leaving domestic politics.
His office told the BBC that Mr Brown definitely remained the MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.
That could lead to further criticism from those who have attacked him for attending few debates and voting in Parliament on only a handful of occasions.
While it seems increasingly likely that some of the millennium goals will be missed, Mr Brown has called on the international community to try to keep its pledge on primary education.
Mr Brown earlier this year published a report warning of the "silent emergency" of millions of children not receiving any education - and called for an urgent investment to change this.
He reported that in South Sudan, girls were more likely to die in childbirth than complete a primary school education.
Mr Brown says he wants to support the UN secretary-general's initiative, Education First, which aims to prioritise education within development projects.
"Enrolling an additional 61 million children and ensuring a quality education for all by the end of 2015 will not be easy - but it is a goal which, working together, we can achieve," says Mr Brown.
Mr Brown has worked with his wife Sarah on a number of international education projects, including promoting the cause of children in conflict zones who miss out on education.
In a report on South Sudan published in April, he said that more than 40% of the world's children missing out on education lived in "fragile states" or those affected by violence.
He warned that at present, only 2% of humanitarian aid goes into education.
Mr Brown has said he will continue to serve as MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.
Attorney Andre Birotte, who oversaw an earlier inquiry, had said a previous decision not to prosecute still stood.
However, ABC News reported that: "Agents are actively investigating Armstrong for obstruction, witness tampering and intimidation".
It added that Birotte "does not speak for the federal government as a whole".
Armstrong confessed to taking performance-enhancing drugs during all seven of his Tour de France wins in an interview with Oprah Winfrey last month.
Legal experts said Armstrong exposed himself to possible charges of perjury or obstruction of justice.
But Birotte insisted his stance remained the same. "We've been well aware of the statements that have been made by Mr Armstrong in other media reports. That does not change my view at this time."
Regardless of any fresh charges, Armstrong still faces a stream of legal worries.
The 41-year-old American is being sued for £6.9m by a US insurance company, and around £1m by the Sunday Times.
There is also an ongoing "whistleblower" case involving former team-mate Floyd Landis, who was stripped of his own 2006 Tour de France victory.
That suit could see the US federal government reclaim money used to fund Armstrong's US Postal Service team, with Landis possibly receiving 25% of any amount recovered under the Federal False Claims Act.
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Mr Strasser, 56, of the conservative Austrian People's Party (OeVP), was one of four MEPs caught up in a "cash-for-laws" scandal last year.
He resigned as an MEP in March 2011 after reporters from the UK's Sunday Times newspaper alleged he had accepted offers of cash in exchange for proposing amendments to EU laws.
Mr Strasser has denied wrongdoing.
He was accused of bribe-taking after a 15-month investigation spanning five countries, in which Austrian authorities questioned 90 people, carried out house searches and examined various bank accounts. He could face up to 10 years in jail if found guilty.
Austrian media say the EU anti-corruption agency Olaf is still investigating Mr Strasser.
Prosecutors in Vienna accuse him of having asked for a 100,000-euro (£79,000; $129,000) annual payment in exchange for influencing EU legislation in the European Parliament. The indictment was triggered by the Sunday Times investigation, in which two journalists posing as lobbyists had met Mr Strasser and three other MEPs.
Mr Strasser and Slovenian MEP Zoran Thaler resigned after the revelations. A third, Romanian MEP Adrian Severin, was expelled from the centre-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D) bloc in the parliament, but remains an independent MEP.
Pedro Zalba, an MEP in Spain's centre-right Popular Party (PP), also met the reporters but denied doing any "cash-for-laws" deal with them.
But they are looking at possible overseas sponsorship avenues.
That response came after reports the Swans are talking to possible investors from USA, Russia and Asia.
A club spokesman told BBC Wales the board: "always speaks to anyone who knocks on the door" as they continue to try to compete with richer Premier League rivals.
According to reports the Swans are holding discussions with potential foreign investors who might be interested in injecting funds into the club.
The club, who are in their fourth Premier League season, survive mainly on television money and transfers.
And chairman Huw Jenkins said in September that Swansea were "miles behind" most of their rivals in terms of commercial income.
Swansea City currently sit fifth in the Premier League table six points behind leaders Chelsea after drawing 0-0 at Sunderland last weekend.
The vase, created on the first day of Josiah Wedgwood's Etruria factory in the 18th Century, had been on loan to The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.
But it was withdrawn by its owner and sold at auction to an overseas buyer last year, the city council said.
Art Fund has promised a £90,000 grant and £83,000 had already been raised.
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The Friends of the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery group is involved in a campaign to raise the £482,500 purchase price to keep the vase in Stoke-on-Trent and put it back in the museum on permanent display.
A temporary export ban was placed on it by the government in December and this had now been extended, the council said.
A £60,000 Arts Council England grant is part of money that had already been raised during the campaign, more than £83,000.
The £90,000 Art Fund money meant a deadline, which expired on Tuesday, to raise the £482,500 to keep the First Day's Vase in the city had now been extended to 14 July, the council said.
The vase is one of only four made by Wedgwood that survive from the first day at Etruria.
Two of the other vases are owned by the Victoria and Albert Museum while the third remains in the Wedgwood family, the council said.
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The OX was created by ex-Formula 1 racing car designer Gordon Murray.
He came up with the idea of a folding truck which flat-packs just like furniture, which could help reach people in hard-to-get-to areas of the world.
The car can be folded up and then re-made again in under 12 hours, and it can also cope with extreme heat and bumpy roads.
Gordon hopes his invention will help transform travel for thousands of people in developing countries.
More than 50 works will be showcased in Scotland for the first time when the exhibition opens at the Palace of Holyroodhouse on Friday.
The exhibition in the Queen's Gallery is called Maria Merian's Butterflies.
It marks the 300th anniversary of the death of German artist and scientist Maria Sibylla Merian.
Among the works are images acquired by George III for his scientific library in Buckingham House, later Buckingham Palace, which are part of the Royal Collection.
Firefighters were called at about 11:50 BST to Swan Road in Banbury after the car partially crashed through the wall of Laser Sailboats Ltd.
The driver was taken to Horton General Hospital with non-life threatening injuries and one person was treated at the scene by paramedics.
Emergency services personnel stayed on the scene to make the building safe.
Station manager Mark Ames said: "When we arrived the powerful BMW was embedded in the wall of the factory, and our immediate concerns were for the driver of the car and the workers inside of the factory.
"Once we were assured that everyone was in safe hands we focused on the stability of the building structure.
"Our colleagues in the district council have specially-trained building surveyors that can give advice on the safety of the building."
Derren Tomlinson, 44, pleaded guilty to the charges, and an additional count of sexual assault, at Shrewsbury Crown Court last month.
He was suspended from West Mercia Police in November 2014 and dismissed at a disciplinary hearing this month.
Judge Robin Onions described Tomlinson as a "significant risk".
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The court heard how Tomlinson, of Riverdale Road in Shrewsbury, filmed himself having sex with a dog.
Still images and video footage of abuse was found on his mobile phone.
As well as a custodial sentence he was handed an extended licence period of four years and eight months, placed on the sex offenders register for life and banned from working with children.
Steve Cullen, temporary assistant chief constable at West Mercia Police, said: "He has violated the trust that both the public and his colleagues placed in him in the most heinous of ways."
The move comes ahead of a report by the Scottish government's Health Environment Inspectorate, which is expected to be critical.
NHS Borders new chief executive Jane Davidson said training and new procedures had been introduced.
She insisted there were no criticisms of cleanliness during surgery.
Ms Davidson said inspectors highlighted issues about cleaning practices like mopping and changing masks and gowns.
She said she was "really disappointed" with the findings.
The chief executive added: "But I wasn't on my own in that, the theatre teams were disappointed.
"While we didn't do ourselves any credit, what I have to say is that staff responded absolutely on the nail, immediately and with patients in mind."
NHS Borders said the inspection and its knock-on effects, including staff training, led to a high number of cancelled operations in May.
More than two thirds of operations cancelled in the Borders in May were called off for "capacity or non-clinical reasons".
A spokesman for the Health Environment Inspectorate said the report on Borders General Hospital will be published at 10:00 on Monday.
Mr Powell, 83, from Cheltenham, won the silver and gold diploma for his kite at the Exhibition of New Inventions and Techniques in Geneva in 1975.
In 1976, the Peter Powell kite was elected toy of the year by the British Association of Toy Retailers.
In a statement, his family said he died on 3 January "after a stroke and a short stay in hospital".
In the 1970s millions of Peter Powell kites were sold and flying steerable kites became a worldwide craze.
Mr Powell's son Mark said he was very happy producing about 300 kites a week until he appeared on the BBC television programme Nationwide.
"It went from 300 a week to 25,000, and we opened two factories but that wasn't enough so we opened three more making 75,000 kites a week - it was massive," said Mark Powell.
Film stars including James Stuart and Henry Fonda owned one of the kites.
Other tributes have been posted on social media.
Skip Cole wrote: "I originally owned a Peter Powell kite in the 70s giving me an amazing childhood."
Penny Merrie Was Wood said: "Due to him flying kites with lights on from Shurdington playing field, when some of the locals reporting seeing UFO's."
Mohammed Shahir of the One India Kite Team expressed "hearty condolence" to the family calling him "the father of stunt kites and legend in the history of kite flying".
James Linton recalled memories of growing up in New Zealand in the mid '70s as "the envy of my friends as they were a new phenomenon".
While Matthew Wynne said simply: "Every middle aged kiter's first kite. x"
Speaking to the BBC in 2014 Peter Powell said the fun of kite flying is "the freedom on the hills - you can steer it and just land it".
"What it leaves in the sky - it tugs at the heart strings - you'll never forget it."
Joshua won his title with a seventh-round knockout of Dillian Whyte, and has a perfect record after 15 fights.
"Why not?" said the 26-year-old when asked about meeting Chisora next.
"I need to be fighting people who are hungry and good enough but who I still have a good capability of beating."
Chisora, 31, is a former world title challenger who lost a unanimous decision to Vitali Klitschko in February 2012 as well as suffering defeats by Fury and Haye.
He appeared on the undercard of Joshua's win over Whyte on Saturday, coasting to a third-round win over Croatia's Jakov Gospic.
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"I could fight Haye, people want me to fight Fury, but you can't just come into professional boxing, show a little talent and be thrown in the deep end," continued Joshua in an interview with Sky Sports.
"I don't need do-or-die type fights yet.
"I need to build myself so that when I get to the top I have been in deep waters, done 12 rounds, been hurt and come back. That is how people become champions."
Haye, who will return to the ring for the first time in three and a half years when he faces Mark de Mori in January, says that he would like to fight Joshua next summer.
"I think Chisora's a good opponent next for Anthony and then me and him in a big fight in the summer," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I definitely have the superior skill and speed to beat Anthony
"It just down to [promoter] Eddie Hearn and Joshua's people if they are ready for that challenge."
Joshua, who won Olympic gold at London 2012, also said he would also entertain the possibility of a rematch with Whyte despite a rancorous build-up that spilled over into the fight with the pair twice having to be separated after the bell.
"Kevin Johnson and Denis Bakhtov were supposed to give me rounds, but it was Whyte who actually did it, so why not use him again?" he added.
"I learned more against Whyte than I did in all 14 of my previous fights. I enjoyed it - it was a good fight."
President Rafael Correa said he had contacted the Venezuelan authorities for help extinguishing 17 major fires across the country and that they had promised to send helicopters.
He said he would also ask Brazil, Colombia and Peru for support.
Ten people have been arrested on suspicion of setting fires in the vicinity of the capital.
The government has asked people to denounce firebugs and has offered a $50,000 (£32,500) reward for information leading to their capture.
One of the biggest fires is burning in the hills of Auqui, north-east of Quito.
Dozens of firefighters are trying to stop the flames from spreading to residential areas.
Three firefighters were killed last week and many more injured.
The derelict North Wales Hospital in Denbigh has been at the centre of a long-running dispute over its future.
On-duty police officers saw the roof collapse when they attended the scene responding to reports of trespassers.
It failed to sell at auction in May after its £2.25m price was not met.
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A brain-computer interface was used to read the thoughts of patients to answer basic yes-or-no questions.
One man was able to repeatedly refuse permission for his daughter to get married.
The study on four patients in Switzerland - published in PLOS Biology - also showed they were happy despite the effects of being "locked-in".
The patients all had advanced forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, in which the brain loses the ability to control muscles.
It eventually traps people in their own body - they are able to think, but incapable of moving or talking.
When they become "locked in", it can still be possible to develop ways of communication using eye movements.
But all the patients in the study, at the Wyss Center in Switzerland, were "completely locked in" and could not even move their eyes.
The activity of brain cells can change oxygen levels in the blood, which in turn changes the colour of the blood.
And scientists were able to peer inside the brain using light to detect the blood's colour, through a technique called near-infrared spectroscopy.
They then asked the patients yes-or-no questions such as: "Your husband's name is Joachim?" to train a computer to interpret the brain signals.
The system achieved an accuracy of about 75%.
It means questions need to be asked repeatedly in order to be certain of a patient's answer.
Prof Ujwal Chaudhary, one of the researchers, told BBC News: "It makes a great difference to their quality of life.
"Imagine if you had no means of communicating and then you could say yes or no - it makes a huge impact."
In one case a daughter wanted the blessing of her completely locked-in father before marrying her boyfriend.
But eight times out of 10 the answer came back no.
"We don't know why he said no," said Prof Chaudhary.
"But they got married… nothing can come between love."
The form of communication is being used for more practical day-to-day means such as finding out if patients are in pain or want a family visit.
Prof John Donoghue, the director of the Wyss Center, told the BBC: "If a person who is totally locked-in is able to communicate, you're freeing the mind to interact with the world around them.
"That is remarkable."
In a televised address, Mr Maduro said that he wanted to set legal limits on businesses' profit margins.
His announcement followed the seizure on Saturday of shops accused of selling electronic goods at inflated prices.
The National Assembly is expected to vote this week on his request to govern temporarily by decree.
The president demanded there be "zero tolerance with speculators" in his speech broadcast on Sunday. "This is beyond usury, this is theft," he added.
On the weekend, soldiers occupied a chain of shops selling electronic goods which, according to Mr Maduro, had sold items at vastly inflated prices.
Hundreds of people flocked to the Daka stores after they were forced by the government to sell their goods at lower prices, some of them at a quarter of the price listed earlier in the week.
"We're doing this for the good of the nation," the president said, accusing the managers of the stores of waging an "economic war" against Venezuela.
He also announced the arrest of five managers from the Daka, JVG and Krash electronics stores on suspicion of hiking up prices.
Five more people were arrested for allegedly looting a Daka shop in the city of Valencia.
But President Maduro said reports of looting had been exaggerated by factions of the press, which he accused of "complicity with the bourgeois parasites".
The president announced that he would next turn his attention to stores selling toys, cars, food items, textiles and shoes.
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles said the move proved that the president "is a failed puppet of the Cuban government".
"Every time he opens his mouth, he scares away the investments that create employment, and he worsens the crisis," said Mr Capriles, who narrowly lost to Mr Maduro in April's presidential election.
Official figures suggest inflation is running at more than 50%. Price hikes have become an important issue in next month's local elections.
Mr Maduro blames most of Venezuela's economic woes on "sabotage" by opposition forces, but critics say government mismanagement is behind the country's problems.
Opponents say the president's crackdown on price inflation is an attempt to boost his popularity with poor voters ahead of the local polls on 8 December.
Mr Maduro has asked the National Assembly to give him special powers to fight corruption and "economic sabotage". The measure is expected to be voted on this week.
Adam Lyth top-scored with 59 as Yorkshire made 223-5 in their 20 overs.
But Hales struck four sixes and 14 fours in his 47-ball 101 before Steven Mullaney hit a six to win the game with five balls to spare.
Elsewhere, Joe Clarke hit eight sixes in an unbeaten 124 as Worcestershire beat Durham by eight wickets.
Clarke faced only 53 balls as he steered his side to victory with 11 balls remaining after former England batsman Paul Collingwood struck his and Durham's first Twenty20 century, finishing 108 not out as his side posted 201-2.
Jos Buttler made an unbeaten 80 off 43 balls but ended up on the losing side as Adam Hose marked his debut with 76 to guide Birmingham Bears to a five-wicket win over Lancashire at Edgbaston.
That victory takes the Bears level on points with Yorkshire at the top of the North Group, where they are also joined by Derbyshire, who beat Leicestershire by seven wickets in a low-scoring game.
Yorkshire's 223-5 was their joint third-highest total in T20 cricket and the most they had ever made in an away match.
In reaching their target, Nottinghamshire pulled off their biggest run chase in this format of the game and the second highest in all T20 cricket in England, beaten only by the 226-3 Sussex made to beat Essex by seven wickets at Chelmsford in 2014.
Riki Wessels and Hales got Notts' reply off to a flying start, putting on 87 for the first wicket in just 5.4 overs.
Hales went on to become only the second batsman to score a T20 century for the county after Wessels became the first to reach the landmark in the victory over Derbyshire on 21 July.
When Hales was finally removed by David Willey, Notts still needed 47 off 5.3 overs but Mullaney's 17 off six balls saw them home with plenty to spare.
Notts head coach Peter Moores said: "Today we saw an unbelievable innings by Alex Hales. He is becoming a bit of a specialist in producing extraordinary performances and in some ways he made batting look simple but still scored at an unbelievable rate."
Glamorgan moved two points clear at the top of the South Group with a 25-run victory over Kent at Canterbury.
An unbeaten 77 from former South Africa batsman Jacques Rudolph, 43 not out off 26 balls by compatriot David Miller and 50 from Aneurin Donald helped the Welsh county post 199-2.
Joe Denly hit 68 and Sam Northeast 60 in Kent's reply but they fell well short, closing on 174-4.
Somerset moved up to second after beating Sussex by 32 runs on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method at Taunton in a game shortened to eight overs per side because of rain.
Corey Anderson hit three sixes in his 41 off 17 balls, while Steve Davies contributed with 25 off 13 deliveries as Somerset made 102-3.
Only Stiaan van Zyl (42 not out) could make double figures as Sussex could only muster 71-4 in response.
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The Florida Gun Supply website says he is raising legal funds for himself and the store's owner, who in July declared his business a "Muslim-free zone".
The Confederate battle flag is seen as a symbol of slavery to its critics.
But its supporters today say it is an important part of southern heritage.
Florida Gun Supply owner Andy Hallinan said he teamed up with Mr Zimmerman, who was acquitted in 2013 of killing black teenager Trayvon Martin, to sell copies of his Confederate flag artwork.
Mr Zimmerman later tweeted about his reason for painting the flag.
"I painted the confederate flag backed by the American flag because I believe that anything can stand with the American flag behind it."
He added: "My confederate flag painting also represents the hypocrisy of political correctness that is plaguing this nation."
A post on the store's website said Mr Zimmerman painted it "in honour" of Mr Hallinan "for being a true patriot and leading the country into a better, safer America".
Andy Hallinan courted controversy last month when he announced in a YouTube video that his Florida shooting range was closed to Muslims.
Mr Zimmerman said he decided to paint the flag after hearing that the Council on American-Islamic Relations was taking legal action against Mr Hallinan.
At the time, Mr Hallinan said his decision was inspired by the Chattanooga shooting, which was carried out by a man born in Kuwait who spent several years living in the US.
Copies of the painting are selling for $50 a piece, each signed and numbered by Mr Zimmerman. It is unclear how many copies have so far been sold.
Mr Zimmerman's last painting, which features a blue American flag with the words "God, one nation, with liberty and justice for all", sold on Ebay for over $100,000.
His acquittal in 2013 stirred fierce debate on racial profiling and self-defence laws in the US.
It also helped spark the #BlackLivesMatter movement and continues to be a rallying cry for civil rights campaigners.
There has also been a backlash over the Confederate flag in recent months, after the man charged with killing nine black people at a church in Charleston in June was pictured holding it.
Geoff and Terri Hudson tied the knot at St Peter's Hospice in Bristol on Tuesday with only 36 hours' notice.
The couple, who met nine years ago, said they always planned to marry but the diagnosis brought things forward.
Mrs Hudson said the ceremony organised "in a whirl" had been "wow, wow, pow, pow".
The couple had to apply for a special licence to marry at the hospice as a register office would have been impractical for Mr Hudson.
Mrs Hudson, 68, said: "Yesterday I was Terri King and today I am Terri Hudson. The celebration has been absolutely wonderful - St Peter's has been absolutely fantastic - it's just been a whirl."
She said her 65-year-old new husband had proposed to her just a few weeks after they met and "I said ,'oh, all right' and then he didn't mention it for years".
However, she added he did buy her an engagement ring.
"Last August he asked my father permission to marry me and he said 'yes, of course you can'. Sadly Dad passed away in October.
"We just decided to get married now and because he [Geoff] wasn't well enough to go to the registry office, Neil at the hospice said we could get married here and today it happened - wow, wow, pow, pow."
"It's difficult because he is ill but the people at St Peter's Hospice have been lovely, amazing," she said.
Johnny Flanagan, from the hospice, said: "It was an absolute honour to be a part of Geoff and Terri's special day at St Peter's Hospice.
"The whole team at the hospice worked incredibly hard to make it happen, and for it to be a memorable day for Terri, Geoff and their family."
The image was taken using mirrors, enabling the photographer to capture full-length pictures of the Queen from the front, back and sides.
Prince William and the Duchess of Cornwall have also posed for similar shots.
All of the images, taken over the last few years, will be used in the exhibition The Queen's People.
Mr Rittson-Thomas, who has photographed people including the Dalai Lama and David Cameron, spoke of technical problems during his session with the Queen.
"The camera had a digital seizure but luckily I was about two-thirds of the way into the shoot. She was very calm and cool and put me at ease," he said.
Mr Rittson-Thomas said he captured the Queen's smile after he asked the passionate horse-owner how she would feel if one of her horses won the Epsom Derby - the only classic to have eluded her.
The photographs were taken in 2013 at Windsor Castle.
Prince William, Colonel of the Irish Guards, was photographed in 2012 when he and wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, joined the regiment to celebrate St Patrick's Day.
He was wearing his Irish Guards frock coat for the occasion.
The exhibition features members of the Royal Household and senior ceremonial figures in their traditional uniforms depicted using the same quadruple portrait effect.
Others featured in the exhibition include the Bishop of London Richard Chartres, who is Dean of the Chapel Royal, and Lieutenant General David Leakey, who is the senior House of Lords officer Black Rod.
The Duchess of Cornwall's picture was taken earlier this year wearing formal attire, designed by Bruce Oldfield, together with family jewellery.
The project was inspired by 16th and 17th Century paintings of monarchs such as Elizabeth I and her court, often painted against a black or dark background which emphasised the rich colours of the outfits worn.
The Queen's People exhibition will be held at Eleven Gallery in London from 19 August to 19 September.
Rivers died days after she suffered a cardiac arrest while undergoing a procedure to examine her throat.
Her family had claimed the Yorkville Endoscopy centre performed unauthorised procedures on the comedian.
It also alleged the clinic failed to take appropriate action when her vital signs weakened.
The family said it was pleased with the settlement but did not reveal the amount of compensation.
Joan Rivers's daughter, Melissa, filed a malpractice suit in January 2015, alleging doctors posed for selfies with her mother while she was unconscious.
In a statement, she said the settlement allowed her to "put the legal aspects of my mother's death behind me and ensure that those culpable for her death have accepted responsibility for their actions quickly and without equivocation".
The Rivers' lawyers said the doctors had not denied responsibility.
Shortly before the lawsuit was filed, a government health agency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, cited the Yorkville clinic for failing to follow standard protocols during its treatment of Rivers.
After the settlement was announced, the Yorkville clinic said: "Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to the Rivers family.
"We remain committed to providing quality, compassionate healthcare services that meet the needs of our patients, their families and the community."
In a light, airy office on the ground floor of Europol's brutalist headquarters in The Hague, David Ellero, one of its senior officials, is reflecting on how the organisation has changed since he joined in 2007. In those days, some people confused Europol with Interpol and others thought it was just an annoying part of the EU's bureaucratic machinery.
"Our counterparts, or the investigators in the member states, didn't really know what we did," Ellero says.
Now, the European Police Office, to give it its official title, is recognised across the law enforcement world, with a budget of almost £100m, and a workforce of more than 1000, to match.
Its effectiveness certainly isn't lost on the UK government, which is preparing to start negotiations about Britain's role in Europol after the country leaves the EU. Amber Rudd, the Home Secretary, has said that the agency plays an "incredibly important role in keeping us safe in Europe".
"The phone rings quite often," says Ellero, with typical understatement.
A former detective - much of his career was spent in Italy investigating Mafia killings - he now heads a department tackling the top organised crime groups across the Continent.
"For a criminal to communicate with his counterparts across Europe it takes a second on WhatsApp.
"We need to make sure that... police (can act) at the same speed even if they have different judicial set-ups and and even if they speak different languages," adds Ellero, pointing out that "even pickpockets" operate transnationally.
The main function of Europol, which started work in 1999, is to act as a hub for the exchange of intelligence between 750 global agencies. It also oversees databases containing tens of millions of pieces of information on criminals, offences and suspect vehicles, and it helps co-ordinate crime-fighting operations against drug dealers, human trafficking gangs and terrorists.
Forty countries - including the EU member states and others such as the US and Australia - communicate via a system called Siena - hundreds of thousands of encrypted operational messages are sent every year.
The agency's main intelligence database - Europol Information System (EIS) - keeps track of crimes, suspects and convicted criminals, including terrorism cases. Only Europol members have direct access to the EIS; other countries must put in a request.
Europol uses a unique database known as the Analysis Work File (AWF). More than 100 specialists based in The Hague use AWF to help investigators across the EU better understand and tackle crime and organised crime groups - the system has more than 33 million active entries.
Outside Europol, other pan-European intelligence systems help in the fight against crime including the Schengen Information System (SIS). Although the UK is not among the 26 countries that have open borders under the Schengen agreement it can access the database which records cross-border movements and associated intelligence.
In 2015, the SIS was interrogated three million times by law enforcement officers across Europe with 64 million "alerts" placed on the system every day relating to stolen vehicles and missing children to foreign fighters returning to Europe from Syria and Iraq.
Indeed, one of the fastest-growing areas of work at Europol involves countering the spread of propaganda from terrorist groups and extremists. A 26-strong team in the Internet Referral Unit spends each day combing the web for material and then persuading social media companies and service providers to remove it.
The head of the unit, Vincent Semestre, likens it to "emptying the ocean with a spoon". He says they've identified 91 internet platforms that have contained extremist content, more than 50 of which have co-operated with Europol in deleting the material.
Over the past 18 months the team's most intense periods of work have come after terror attacks in Europe, when it's had to act quickly to prevent the spread of extremist images, videos and postings.
"You need to have capacity in-house, which is understanding this ideology in its original language: which means staff speaking Arabic, speaking Russian, speaking Turkish," says Semestre, who worked for the French judicial police before joining Europol.
"Multiplying these resources needed by all the member states would be quite difficult.
"You need to have continuous monitoring of the technological environment so it made sense to have this centralised in Europol in order to provide these centralised services to all the member states," he adds.
Despite the serious nature of their work, there's a relaxed and friendly atmosphere inside the Europol building - it looks more like an art college than a police station.
Nevertheless, security is tight: everyone is searched on entry, bags are X-rayed, identity documents are taken away to be checked. Around the atrium, blinds are drawn on the windows of meeting rooms, signifying that confidential briefings are taking place.
On the second floor, there's another layer of protection, with extra ID checks and access possible only via a palm print scanner. It's known as the "secure zone" and it's here, and on the floors above, that each of the EU's member states, plus 14 other countries, have their own staff.
In total, there are more than 200 of them - they're called liaison officers - and they specialise in crimes such as gun-running, trafficking and drug smuggling.
The main benefit is that representatives of each country can meet in person to sort out the complexities of cross-border police work. For Britain's 17 liaison officers, who work from an office which neighbours the bureaux of Luxembourg, the Republic of Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands, an added advantage is that the language of Europol is English.
Kenny Dron, who's in charge of the UK office, says there's no need for long-distance phone calls, texts... or emails.
"Emails just don't work when you've got people to protect and lives to protect back in the UK," says Dron, who's spent 30 years in border policing and intelligence work.
"So you've got to have that face-to-face contact to ensure that the other country and your colleagues understand the severity of the situation."
Although Britain will almost certainly continue to have liaison officers at Europol after Brexit (America isn't in the EU and it has more than 20 staff based there) what's far less clear is the future of the 50 other UK law enforcement employees in the Hague. They're currently overseeing a range of cross-border policing operations, on child sexual exploitation, excise fraud and heroin trafficking, among others.
One of the British officers, Laura Clark, seconded from the National Crime Agency to work in Europol's migrant smuggling centre, says it would be a "real shame" if Britain can't continue to play a major part in the organisation.
"We would miss a lot of the intelligence that goes through. There's a lot of juicy intelligence that I see that wouldn't be able to get given to countries, a lot of support for investigations wouldn't happen," she says.
In January, reflecting on Britain's likely relationship with Europol after Brexit, Amber Rudd told the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee: "I expect and hope us to have an active role going forward," pointing out that the UK was "one of the largest contributors" to the EU agency's database.
Rob Wainwright, Europol's director since 2009, goes further, saying Britain is "rightly regarded as a natural leader" on security issues.
"There is no doubt that if you look over the last 20 or 30 years the evolution of police co-operation in Europe, not just at Europol, there is a heavy British footprint around that," says Wainwright, who declares himself to be a "proud Brit".
But he says the "fullest benefits" of the organisation go to EU-member states, and if, after Brexit, Britain has an arrangement with Europol akin to that of non-members such as the USA or Norway, Wainwright says there'll be "some diminution" in the UK's rights and responsibilities. They have limited access to intelligence and less say over operations and decisions.
"The opportunity therefore to share that experience, the opportunity to leverage that influence, is going to change and maybe diminish and I think those in charge of running that in Britain will need to find alternative ways therefore of making sure that Britain can still have a real voice in European security affairs," he says.
By then, Rob Wainwright, who's credited with introducing reforms to Europol that have enhanced its standing and effectiveness, will have left the Hague headquarters, as his contract expires in April 2018.
His successor will inherit an organisation in good shape - but one that will have to adjust to a different relationship with the UK.
The Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange fell 5.4% on Sunday, while the Qatar Exchange closed down 7% and Dubai's stocks dropped 4.6%.
Those exchanges are dominated by energy firms who fear oil will fall further from its current 12-year low of $29 when Iran resumes oil exports.
Iran has said it will sell up to 500,000 extra barrels of crude oil.
Economic sanctions, in place for nearly 40 years, were lifted after inspectors confirmed on Saturday that Iran had taken the required steps to limit its nuclear programme.
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Investors reacted immediately in the first day of trading in the Muslim week.
The Saudi Tadawul All Share Index, the largest market in the region, dropped during trading to its lowest level since early 2011, closing at 5,520 points.
Share prices in all six of the other Gulf stock exchanges also dropped, as investors weighed up a stronger Iranian economy and extra oil in an already over-supplied market.
Saudi Arabia's oil minister Ali al-Naimi said it would take "some time" to restore stability to the global oil market, but added that he remained optimistic.
It's a bit surprising that markets are surprised - Iran has promised since the Vienna agreement was signed in July to pump 500,000 additional barrels of crude per day when sanctions were lifted.
Most oil traders have accelerated their sell-off of oil, gas and energy companies in the run up to Saturday's well flagged announcement by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency).
And yet there's been a rout on Gulf stock markets today (Sunday is a full trading day in the Middle East).
In fact, the Tadawul All Share Index in Riyadh has halved since the summer of 2014 when oil prices started their precipitous fall from $115 to $29 per barrel.
Although Gulf nations are petroleum-based economies, listed companies in most sectors were down - apart from Iran of course. That's because Iran is now expected to be the main beneficiary of billions of dollars of new investment from the West - money which might have previously been spent in other Gulf nations.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday that the deal was "a turning point" for Iran's economy.
The lifting of sanctions also enables Iran to use the global financial system for trade.
Estimates say close to $100bn (£70bn) of Iranian assets will be unlocked under the nuclear deal.
Fans will flock to the ExCel centre for the latest in comics, graphic novels and related memorabilia.
Talks and autograph sessions are also held with comic book creators.
Jaw-dropping costumes can be seen at the event, although organisers stipulate they must have "enough body coverage to be worn in public".
Mr Ghomeshi was fired in October after media reports detailing sexual assault allegations made against him surfaced.
The CBC said it was severing ties with Chris Boyce and Todd Spence, who were previously suspended.
The report, created by lawyer Janice Rubin, was released on Thursday.
Mr Ghomeshi, who hosted a popular radio show called Q, faces seven counts of sexual assault and one count of choking.
He has denied the allegations and said that they originated from consensual "rough sex". His lawyer says he will plead not guilty to all charges.
Ms Rubin's report said that CBC management knew about Mr Ghomeshi's behaviour, or should have known. It said the members of management did not take steps to stop it.
The lawyer spent five months compiling the report and interviewed 99 people during the process.
A majority of witnesses said Mr Ghomeshi engaged in "a pattern of behaviour and conduct" that was "deeply disrespectful to employees".
That behaviour included playing pranks and cruel jokes, yelling, humiliating and belittling others, and in a small number of cases, sexually harassing colleagues.
"We saw no compelling evidence that Mr Ghomeshi was ever told his behaviour would have to improve, or he would have to refrain from certain types of behaviour, or else face disciplinary action including termination,'' the report said.
Hubert Lacroix, the president and CEO of company, and Heather Conway, an executive producer, apologised to the company's employees and all Canadians during a conference call on Thursday.
Ms Conway said the company will be working with the Canadian Media Guild to review the report's nine recommendations and to "implement as many of those as we can, as quickly as possible".
Mr Ghomeshi is expected in court on 28 April. He is currently free on a bail of 100,000 Canadian dollars (£54,720).
For decades now, these two cities - and the surrounding states that collectively make up the "rust belt" - have been aching reminders of industry's decline, and of the devastating impact that outsourcing and globalisation wreaked on those living and working in manufacturing in the heart of the US.
Yet over the past five years, a curious thing has been happening in one of those rusty states: Indiana.
Look away from the abandoned mills in Gary, and draw your eye a little further south down the map of the state and you'll notice that there are factories in almost every industry imaginable, spread across Indiana's vast cornfields.
It's not Michigan or Illinois or Ohio, but this relatively unassuming flyover state that has become the nation's leader in manufacturing.
"When we moved, I couldn't believe that there was that much manufacturing activity going on here," says Ball State University economics professor Michael Hicks.
"It is shocking."
The reality is that beyond Gary, manufacturing never really left Indiana - which first saw its fortunes rise during the turn of the 20th century, when the state's young men who had previously been subsistence farmers suddenly found themselves on hard times as agriculture became more mechanised.
Manufacturers recognised that Indiana had an able and willing workforce and set up across the state, building mostly small and medium factories that primarily served US car manufacturers.
"We didn't have a single concentration of factories - we didn't have a Detroit or a single-industry town," explains Professor Hicks.
"That means that Indiana has been able to maintain its manufacturing presence - primarily because it wasn't as susceptible to the downward shocks that the steel industry was to Pittsburgh, or that the car industry was for Detroit."
Now, manufacturing makes up an astounding 30% of the state's economic output - compared to 12% of overall US gross domestic product (GDP) - and produces almost everything from cars and motor homes to pharmaceuticals and biomedical devices.
When indirect and induced jobs (that is, the retailers that choose to open up in a town to cater for manufacturing workers) are factored in, nearly two-thirds of the state's economic activity is due to manufacturing.
Cummins is a nearly 100-year-old maker of engines and power systems that first started in Indianapolis when - along with 100 other companies - Plessy Cummins imported a license to make diesel engines.
Since then, the Cummins firm has focused relentlessly on improving engine performance and innovation, growing to a global business with over $20bn (£13bn) in sales and 50,000 employees. It is typical of manufacturers in the state, employing around 7,000 workers at various sites.
At the firm's engine plant in Columbus - about a 45 minute drive south of Indianapolis - nearly 700 employees work six days a week assembling 600 engines a day that primarily go into Chrysler's RAM trucks.
Dana Sims - whose mother, brother, and cousin all work at the plant - says that she was attracted to the facility because it was a good job, and then fell in love with the engineering.
As she wanders around the plant, she points out machines nicknamed Big Igor and Mega Torque, and then stops in front of the company's latest robotic arm.
"That machine takes 51 seconds to do what we used to do in five minutes," she says. When asked if she was worried it would one day take her job, she laughs and says it simply makes her job easier, relieving workers like her of repetitive tasks that can cause injuries.
It is this combination of advanced manufacturing as well as educated, knowledgeable workers that has kept Cummins profitable - and in Indiana.
Chief executive Tom Linebarger, who is only the sixth leader the company has ever had, says that these factors, in addition to the changing nature of supply chains, were one reason the firm chose to invest $200m (£130m) in another plant further south, in Seymour.
"We did a global study of manufacturing - costs of efficiency and for global supply - we looked at plants in India, China, even the UK, and Seymour came out the best from a total point of view," says Mr Linebarger.
He chalks up the firm's success not only to its relentless pursuit of global opportunities, but also to its roots.
"There is no question that the company's culture is a Midwest culture - it's modest and it's one that wants to support communities," he says.
It's not just Cummins that is expanding: General Motors has promised to invest $1.2bn (£670m) in a plant in Fort Wayne, and the state has managed to lure businesses such as steelmaker T&B Tube and shelving firm Edsal Manufacturing away from Illinois over the border to Gary.
This growth is even more surprising because during the recession, economic forecasters had been predicting that the state's unemployment rate would rise as a result of the susceptibility of manufacturing to economic downturns (most consumers first cut back on big purchases like home appliances and cars, which often disproportionately affect manufacturers).
This didn't happen mostly due to a series of prescient actions by Indiana's state government.
"Indiana is seen as an island of reasonability," says Brian Burton, the incoming head of the Indiana Manufacturers Association.
"We have made major regulatory and tax structure changes over the last 10 years which have helped our competitive advantage."
In a move that some have credited to Midwestern prudence, Indiana funded its pension plan for state workers - unlike many other states like Illinois - allowing it to enact a series of tax cuts prior to the recession that made the state attractive to businesses.
Furthermore, the state passed "right to work" legislation in 2012, which meant that unions could not force everyone in a unionised plant to pay dues - a move that is potentially crippling to organised labour, but that is viewed favourably by firms.
Although some academics - including Professor Hicks - have questioned whether or not right to work legislation truly drives manufacturing growth, a study by the Indiana Economic Development corporation found that after the law was changed, 12,000 jobs and more than $1.2bn (£670m) in investment were added to the state by companies said they chose Indiana because it was a right-to-work state.
Industry participants express concern that a coming wave of retirements could impact the workforce, as nearly 40% of the state's current manufacturing employees are expected to retire in the next few years.
That's why politicians, companies like Cummins, and local schools are investing in educating yet another wave of potential employees - to ensure that an industry that has powered the state since those agricultural days continues to provide an economic engine.
The long-expected move comes on the day senior team Red Bull announced they would continue with Renault.
Toro Rosso are to use 2015-spec Ferrari engines, while the factory Ferrari team and customers Sauber and Haas will use the new 2016 design.
Toro Rosso will continue with drivers Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz Jr, who impressed in their debut seasons.
The drivers' positions were not announced by the team along with the engine deal on Friday but were confirmed by Red Bull motorsport adviser Helmut Marko in an interview with the drinks giant's Speedweek website.
Identical joint statements from Toro Rosso and Ferrari were not completely clear on the specification of the engine the team would use, referring only to the "current Ferrari power-unit".
However, a Toro Rosso spokeswoman confirmed that the team would be using the specification of engine that Ferrari used at the end of this season.
The deal raises the intriguing possibility of the junior Red Bull team out-pacing the senior outfit.
That's because the Ferrari engine was this year significantly more powerful than the Renault and the Toro Rosso car was not far off the Red Bull in terms of chassis performance.
Renault has found it difficult to make progress with the performance of its engine since the introduction of the turbo hybrid formula in 2014 - a development version of the engine introduced at the penultimate race of the season in Brazil proved to have less power than the previous version.
However, Marko has expressed confidence in the developments planned by Renault, who will be assisted by British engineering company Ilmor.
"The concepts presented by Renault look good," Marko said. "Now they need to be implemented and respected in practice what they promise in theory. The question is how quickly that will be possible."
The costume is available on the store's website for $27.44 (£17.90) ahead of Halloween this Saturday.
Some users of social media expressed outrage at the costume. It comes at a time of spiralling violence between Israel and the Palestinians.
The store's "Sheikh Fagin nose", also available on its website, has likewise drawn criticism.
The latex prosthetic nose is described on the website as being "perfect for an Arab Sheik".
Its large, hook-nosed appearance and the use of the name Fagin - referring to a character in Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist - appear also to play into anti-Semitic stereotypes.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) costume was also heavily criticised by many on Twitter. Walmart has not as yet reacted to the criticism.
More than 40 Palestinians have died in unrest in Israel and the Palestinian territories this month, many killed carrying out attacks on Israelis. Nine Israelis have been killed and dozens wounded in stabbings and some gun attacks.
Earlier this year, an outfit inspired by transgender reality star and former athlete Caitlyn Jenner's Vanity Fair cover was condemned as "transphobic" and "deplorable."
Another costume based on famed Zimbabwean lion Cecil, who was shot by an American dentist, was criticised by an animal welfare charity.
In 2013 UK supermarket chains Tesco and Asda - which is owned by Walmart - withdrew outfits for a "mental patient" and for someone from a "psycho ward" after they were criticised for stigmatising people with mental health issues.
The attack on Mr Karpeles seems to have been motivated by growing frustration over the actions of MtGox.
Last month MtGox stopped trading and filed for bankruptcy after finding out that $465m (£279m) in bitcoins had been lost via a security bug.
Many have called on the exchange to release more information about what happened to the lost bitcoins.
The attacks were mounted on the personal blog and Reddit account of Mr Karpeles and left the hackers in charge of both social media accounts.
The attackers used their access to grab detailed information about trading activity at MtGox. They then shared their findings by posting a 716MB file containing much of what they had found.
The material posted included an Excel spreadsheet of more than one million trades, entries from MtGox's business ledger and information about its back-office administration software.
"It's time that MtGox got the Bitcoin community's wrath instead of [the] Bitcoin community getting Goxed," wrote the hackers in a message accompanying the data dump. The word "Goxed" has been used to describe the sudden interruptions in trading MtGox imposed when it was going through technical problems before its final closure.
It was not yet clear whether the information dumps were real or shed new light on what had happened at the exchange, said Forbes staff writer Andy Greenberg.
He pointed out that although $465m in bitcoins (approximately 744,000 coins) had supposedly gone astray from MtGox, no activity suggesting they had been traded had been seen in the blockchain - the central list of buying and selling that underpins the entire Bitcoin network.
Hospital bosses said it was "an important milestone" in a £3.2m project to cut patient handover times at Queen's Medical Centre (QMC).
Nottinghamshire University Hospitals NHS Trust said the helipad could reduce patient transfers by up to 10 minutes.
It is hoped the helipad, which is set to be built on stilts, will be in use from early 2018.
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The hospital trust had plans to build the helipad on top of a new research building approved in 2015, but that project was deemed unviable and was never completed.
The helipad will now be built on stilts on top of one of the hospital's car parks.
Patients will then be transferred from the helipad to a lift and then a land ambulance, which will take them for treatment.
Helicopters currently land at a helipad at Highfields Park a mile away and patients are transferred by road ambulance.
Andrew Chatten, from the trust, said: "There remains much to do but this formal planning approval is an important milestone.
"This facility will help improve the care to the most critically injured patients from across the region helping them to be treated more quickly, reducing the transfer time from 15 minutes to less than five minutes from helicopter to our major trauma centre."
The helipad is being funded by a £2.5m donation from the Nottingham Hospitals Charity and a £700,000 investment from the hospital trust.
The ex-work and pensions secretary said "uncontrolled migration" drove down wages and increased the cost of living.
He appealed to people "who may have done OK from the EU" to "think about the people that haven't".
But Labour's Alan Johnson said the EU protected workers and stopped them from being "exploited".
The former Labour home secretary accused the Leave campaign of dismissing such protections as "red tape".
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Mr Duncan Smith's speech came after he told the Sun Germany had a "de facto veto" over David Cameron's EU renegotiations, with Angela Merkel blocking the PM's plans for an "emergency brake" on EU migration.
Downing Street said curbs it negotiated on in-work benefits for EU migrants were a "more effective" way forward.
In his speech in London, Mr Duncan Smith said EU migration caused a "downward pressure" on wages.
He singled out the Olympic Park in the capital, saying workers from Eastern Europe had undercut UK workers.
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He warned of an "explosion of have-nots" and an increasing divide between "people who benefit from the immigration of cheap nannies and baristas and labourers - and people who can't find work because of uncontrolled immigration".
His speech was dismissed by Mr Johnson, who leads the Labour In campaign.
"For Iain Duncan Smith to suggest that those rights that actually help workers and stop them being exploited is part of the problem… many of the people in Iain Duncan Smith's camp call that red tape," he said.
"When they say they want to get rid of red tape they want to get rid of the right for part- timers to be paid the same as full-timers etc."
He also rejected the "haves and have-nots" argument, saying major trade unions were backing Remain because the EU had a "social dimension that's protected workers".
Mr Johnson also said it was an "extreme view" to believe there was "nothing right at all" about the EU.
Asked about "being called extremist", Mr Duncan Smith responded: "Those people in Remain really need to stop throwing threats and ridiculous terms like that around."
Launching Labour's EU referendum battle bus alongside Mr Johnson, party leader Jeremy Corbyn said immigration was "not necessarily" affecting wages or putting a strain on services.
"We actually don't need to start blaming people, we need to work together to deal with the issues of minimum wages and conditions," he added.
Mr Duncan Smith faced questions after his speech about his comments about the PM's renegotiation, telling reporters the EU was "absolutely point blank refusing to change what they do".
He echoed Boris Johnson in seeking to expose what he said was the gulf between the goals Mr Cameron set for himself in his "Bloomberg Speech" in January 2013 - when he announced plans for the referendum - and the reality of what he subsequently achieved.
In the Sun, Mr Duncan Smith, a former Conservative leader who resigned as work and pensions secretary last month in a dispute over disability benefit cuts, described the concessions gained as "very marginal" and suggested that, in return, the UK had lost its veto on future fiscal and political integration within the eurozone.
"The EU knew that our veto was very powerful and we have given it away," he told the newspaper.
"The reform failed. We got nothing on border control at all. We are now in a worse position than we were before.
"We have gone from wanting to lead in Europe to being on the end of a lead in Europe."
Mr Duncan Smith's remarks are considered preposterous in Berlin where there is a real sense of frustration at the direction in which the Brexit debate is heading.
The notion that Germany in effect sat on David Cameron and forced him to change his speech at the 11th hour is completely rejected here.
It's true that Germany wouldn't have supported an all-out brake on migration.
But that wouldn't have come as news to the British; Angela Merkel had always made clear she was unprepared to support any changes that undermined the European principle of freedom of movement.
For the Germans, this was always about compromise. German support was considered vital but, of course, David Cameron had 26 other member states to persuade and many here feel Mrs Merkel went out on a limb to help him with his renegotiation.
The Brexit referendum really matters in Berlin; Germany doesn't want to lose an important economic and ideological ally within Europe. And there is a degree of despair here at the tone of the debate in Britain.
Mr Duncan Smith suggested that Mr Cameron dropped calls for an emergency brake on all EU migration from a speech he gave in November 2014 - setting out in broad details his reform demands - amid German opposition.
"I saw the draft. I know that right up until the midnight hour, there was a strong line in there about restricting the flow of migrants from the European Union - an emergency brake on overall migration.
"That was dropped, literally the night before. And it was dropped because the Germans said if that is in the speech, we will have to attack it.
"The whole thing was shown to them. The Germans said from the outset, you are not getting border control. Full stop."
Mr Cameron told MPs last week that his renegotiation package - which included limits on access to tax credits and child benefits for new EU migrants, an opt-out for the UK from ever-closer union and safeguards for countries outside the eurozone - was substantial and an "additional reason" to stay in the EU but should not be taken in isolation when weighing up the broader benefits of EU membership.
But Mr Duncan Smith said the limits on in-work benefits would be "very complex" to implement and their impact would be limited as most EU migrants coming to the UK were doing so to find work not to claim benefits.
Responding to Mr Duncan Smith's claims, a Number 10 source said: "The prime minister made clear at the time that the government had looked at an emergency brake but he decided it was not the most effective way forward.
"That is why he decided to impose restrictions on benefits instead to end the something-for-nothing culture."
A Pittsburgh federal judge dismissed the case "with prejudice" meaning it cannot be amended and refiled.
Renita Hill filed the claim saying she had been "emboldened" by the actions of Mr Cosby's other alleged victims.
Seven women are suing him, claiming he portrayed them as liars when they went public with their accusations.
Mr Cosby filed a counterclaim, alleging their claims were only for financial gain.
The 78-year-old is also seeking unspecified monetary damages and said the women inflicted emotional distress.
Ms Hill's defamation case said she was made out to be a "liar" and "extortionist" when the comedian, his wife and his lawyer issued blanket denials.
But judge Arthur Schwab agreed with Mr Cosby's legal representatives that the statements were opinions protected by the First Amendment.
"Even considering these three statements together as a combined, single statement, this newly 'conjoined' statement does not lead to an inference that the plaintiff is a 'liar and an extortionist'," he said.
Ms Hill's legal representative, George Kontos, said he would be appealing the decision, adding he strongly disagreed with the judge's reasoning.
"The basis of his opinion is these are constitutionally protected, 'pure' opinions,'' said Mr Kontos.
"But, looked at as a whole, they contain all sorts of innuendo and undisclosed facts."
Mr Cosby has not responded specifically to Ms Hill's allegations that he drugged and assaulted her several times after they met on the TV show Picture Pages in 1983.
She claims she was 16 at the time and the abuse continued for four years. She also says Mr Cosby helped pay for her college fees and travel to cities where he was performing.
Mr Cosby has repeatedly denied all accusations against him made by more than 50 women.
He has, however, admitted in court proceedings that he obtained and gave women sedatives over the years, but he maintained the women took the drugs willingly.
At the end of 2015, prosecutors in Pennsylvania charged the comedian with an alleged sexual assault in 2004. It was the first time Mr Cosby had been charged with any offence after months of accusations.
He is currently on $1m (£675,000) bail.
The world champions avoided a third straight loss as Toni Kroos opened the scoring before reported Liverpool target Mario Gotze doubled the lead.
Left-back Jonas Hector, another rumoured Liverpool option, then scored a header with a Mesut Ozil penalty making it 4-0 with 15 minutes left.
Stephan El Shaarawy grabbed a late consolation for Antonio Conte's team.
Upper Coll grazings committee was dismissed last month by the commission amid a row about its accounts.
Former committee members say they have done nothing wrong and are preparing to challenge the dismissal in court.
A constable is a person appointed by the commission to administer common grazings in the absence of a committee.
The Crofting Commission, crofting's regulatory body, said it would not be commenting further on live cases and has urged shareholders in common grazings to work together to resolve any disputes.
A spokesman added that shareholders and committees which adhere strictly to their own grazings regulations need not be concerned.
The Scottish Crofting Federation, a group that represents crofters' interest, said the commission's behaviour in the row was causing "widespread resentment and bewilderment".
Common grazings are areas of land shared by crofters and others who hold a right to graze stock on that land.
There are more than 1,000 common grazings covering at total of 500,000ha across Scotland, according to the Crofting Commission.
Grazing committees manage these areas of land and their members are elected by crofters.
As of October last year the country has 127.1 million people, 0.7% fewer than in the last census.
Demographers have long predicted a drop, citing Japan's falling birth rate and a lack of immigration.
The rapidly ageing population has contributed to a stagnating economy and worries of increasing health costs.
Japan now has 947,000 fewer people than when the last census was conducted in 2010, figures released by the internal affairs ministry show.
Only eight prefectures, including the capital Tokyo, saw a population increase, national broadcaster NHK. reported.
The remaining 39 all saw declines, including Fukushima which saw the largest drop of 115,000 people.
Fukushima, site of the doomed nuclear power station, was hit especially badly by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Japan has seen population growth for much of the past century, but this has been slowing rapidly in recent decades. The last census showed the population had completely stopped growing.
Friday's numbers mark the first time a decline has been recorded in the census, which has been taken every five years since 1920.
Researchers are predicting a sharp drop-off in the working population and a simultaneous rise in the number of elderly in coming decades.
According to government projections, by 2060 about 40% of its citizens will be sixty-five or older, and the general population will be one-third smaller than it is now.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made it a priority to boost the birthrate from 1.4 children to 1.8 children per woman, including improving childcare and tax incentives. Advanced economies usually require a rate of at least 2.1 for a stable population.
They played drums and bass, respectively, with Caribbean comedy outfit The Cuban Brothers at the Big Feastival in Oxfordshire.
Wearing baseball caps and shades, the musicians claimed to have formed the "supergroup of the Cotswolds".
The festival, now in its second year, is held at James's farm in Oxfordshire. About 14,000 attended the event.
James told the BBC: "I've had a great time and so have my children. We've been blessed by the weather. Let's do it again next year."
The Blur star, who charged £150 per head, repeatedly turned his back to the crowd to show off his low slung jeans which exposed his black underwear.
Cuban Brothers frontman Miguel Mantovani, aka Scotsman Mike Keat, told the BBC: "It was unrehearsed. They jumped on stage with us and they can hold their own.
"They're great guys and it was nice to have them join us. They have many, many talents. Jamie is a very impressive young man. Not only is he a stick man, he's cooking. Alex is doing his cheese making. He's hanging out with guys like Jeremy Clarkson. It's a Cotswolds thing."
The Feeling closed the festival, with Mark Owen, KT Tunstall, Lianne La Havas and Dodgy among the other performers.
The Cuban Brothers had flown back into Britain early on Sunday morning for the Big Feastival from Moscow where, they said, they had performed at an "oligarch's party".
Mantovani would only say: "He was called Dmitri. I can't reveal or pronounce his other name." But he added: "My pockets are considerably fatter now."
Their, at times risque, show included daredevil break dancing and was one of the best received performances at the weekend's festivities.
The Cuban Brothers are currently promoting their new album Yo Bonita, which includes collaborations with Mica Paris, KT Tunstall, Omar and Kurtis Blow.
Last year, James and Oliver played together in a one-time-only band called The Farm Lovin' Criminals.
Jonny Evans recorded his first United goal, from a corner, before Ronald Zubar saw red for two yellow cards.
That handed the impetus to the visitors with Antonio Valencia scoring on the break and Danny Welbeck tucking in.
Javier Hernandez then headed in and finished Valencia's cross with Steven Fletcher going closest for Wolves.
The Scotland striker's headers either side of half-time were all the hosts could muster in a game that might have proved a daunting enough challenge even before Zubar's dismissal left them a man short with more than half the match remaining.
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Wolves have now won once in 14 league games and, having put Terry Connor in charge four games ago to try to lift them out of trouble, they now sit bottom of the table.
This was Connor's third defeat in four since taking charge and they have conceded 12 goals in their last three games without scoring.
For Sir Alex Ferguson's side, the emphatic scoreline had the additional benefit of reducing the goal difference between City and themselves to just three goals.
A perfect pick-me-up after Thursday's Europa League exit, the win means United's title rivals face Chelsea on Wednesday with a four-point gap to close.
Last February, Wolves beat United at Molineux to end the visitors' long unbeaten start to the season, and Connor had spoken before the game of aiming to replicate that upset.
If that rallied the troops, the effect lasted only until Evans put Ferguson's side ahead, whereupon Wolves lost all momentum.
It was a poor goal to concede, Michael Carrick being given plenty of space at the back post from Wayne Rooney's corner to set up the Northern Ireland defender.
The hosts' plight was made worse when Zubar followed his booking for a lunge on Rooney on 28 minutes with another yellow card for a similar challenge on Welbeck 12 minutes later.
Ferguson had named Rooney, Welbeck and Hernandez in an attacking line-up and once Wolves were down a goal and a man, the visitors' attacking trio clearly sensed an excellent opportunity to get on the scoresheet.
Valencia's goal came from a Wolves corner, Rooney setting clear the Ecuadorian who, with no covering challenge, steered the ball into the corner after a break down the right.
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And Wolves' fate was as good as sealed before half-time when Rooney switched the ball out to the right and Welbeck tucked in Valencia's cutback.
Any hope that United might take their foot of the gas in the second half soon disappeared when Hernandez headed in from close range from Rafael's clipped cross following a short corner.
And his finish after neat work from Valencia completed a miserable afternoon for the hosts.
Wolves did rally with Michael Kightly and Fletcher testing David de Gea, but on a straightforward afternoon for United the only surprise in the end was that leading scorer Rooney did not join the party.
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Thousands of job cuts have recently been announced in Teesside, Scunthorpe and Lanarkshire, with unions fearing more to come.
The TUC-organised rally urged the government to stem the influx of cheap steel from China.
Business Minister Anna Soubry said her department was doing all it could.
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "The crisis in British steel isn't over. One in six steelworkers face losing their jobs.
"Britain desperately needs a long-term industrial plan, but ministers have refused to commit to one.
"The closure of factories will devastate surrounding communities, and cause jobs losses throughout the supply chain. The chancellor's 'Northern Powerhouse' has to be more than a slogan for a party conference."
The banners on the streets of Sheffield told the story as the march snaked through busy streets towards the city hall.
Angry steelworkers and their families have come from as far afield as Scotland, Wales, Teeside and Scunthorpe to add their voices to those from South Yorkshire.
They feel the government is standing aside as their their once mighty industry rapidly heads towards meltdown.
They blame Chinese dumping of steel on European markets for plummeting prices and high energy costs for making the UK industry uncompetitive.
The result has been the heartbreak hitting thousands of families as the consequent economic squeeze has led to the forced loss of plants and jobs in recent weeks.
And unions warn there is more to come unless action is taken now.
The Save Our Steel march was in part a protest over last month's announcement by Tata Steel that it is cutting 1,200 jobs at plants in Scunthorpe, Motherwell and Cambuslang.
Sarah Champion, MP for Rotherham, said the demonstration was a warning to ministers to help save the steel industry.
"Today's rally in Sheffield brought together steel workers, Labour MPs and unions from across the UK to try and make the government understand that unless it acts now, British steel has no future.
"We're not asking for a bailout, just a level playing field for British steel to compete on."
Rob Middlemiss, chairman of the Multi Union Tata Steel at Skinningrove in North Yorkshire, took part in the rally and said the scale of job losses would be devastating for communities.
"For every steelworker that loses their job, two or three more people lose it in the supply chain," he said.
"If there's 30,000 people left in steel, we're talking 100,000 affected, so the economy is those areas is going to be decimated."
Ms Soubry said the government was "working tirelessly" to help.
"It was the UK that helped persuade the European Commission to launch an investigation into steel rebar imports and the UK that secured an emergency EU council meeting this month," she said.
"We will continue to do all we can to achieve a level playing field for our steel industry and workers."
The Mandika-language phrase can be translated as "chief bridge builder" or "conqueror of rivers".
A statement from the presidency said Mr Jammeh should now be known as "His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya AJJ Jammeh Babili Mansa".
He had taken the title once before, in 2014, only to drop it four months later, the Point newspaper reports.
President Jammeh seized power in 1994 as a young army lieutenant and has won four widely criticised multi-party elections since then and faced down several coup attempts.
He told the BBC in 2011 that he would rule for "one billion years... if Allah says so".
The BBC's Mamadou Moussa Ba says that since President Jammeh has been in power, The Gambia has been transformed with the building of numerous infrastructure projects, including bridges.
However, he says there is some frustration in Senegal that The Gambia seems reluctant to build a bridge over the River Gambia to link the southern Casamance region of Senegal to the capital, Dakar, as Senegal has long requested.
Instead, travellers have to queue for many hours for a ferry across the river.
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The Year 11 pupil brought a BB gun - an airgun firing lightweight pellets - to Pembroke School on Tuesday and fired a pellet across a PE changing room.
The council said it struck another pupil in the face causing what are believed to be superficial injuries.
Staff at the school called the police and helped to track down the pupil and recover the weapon.
The injured student was taken to hospital.
He retained his seat in South Belfast with 9,560 votes.
Mr McDonnell was first elected to the seat in 2005.
The South Belfast MP told the BBC's Sunday Politics Show he would talk to party colleagues and "set processes in train" to find a replacement.
"I will be talking to the party about the process of moving now that I have secured the Westminster seat for the third time and that's a major achievement," he said.
"South Belfast is still a unionist majority constituency."
The SDLP also held onto its Westminster seats in Foyle and South Down.
The DUP won the largest number of seats in the general election securing eight.
Sinn Féin won four seats, the UUP two and Lady Sylvia Hermon retained her seat in North Down as an independent.
In 2014, the Northern Ireland Office passed an act banning MPs from double-jobbing.
The section of the law banning double-jobbing comes into force "the first day after this act is passed on which the Northern Ireland Assembly is dissolved".
Barring an early election, the next Stormont dissolution should be in March 2016, ahead of assembly elections in May 2016.
Mr Karamouzis confirmed to me that the European Central Bank (ECB) has agreed to keep Greek banks alive today.
But he warned there was a genuine risk of Greek banks being forced to close their doors tomorrow and cease dispensing cash for days, if the Greek government led by Alexis Tsipras fails today to convince eurozone finance ministers and government heads that it is taking credible steps to balance its books.
He said that because of the pace of withdrawals of cash from Greek banks by anxious savers - which he said was running at €700m (£501m) a day - all the banks can only keep going thanks to life-saving loans to them made by the Bank of Greece, with approval of the ECB, under the Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) scheme.
There was a serious risk, he said, that the governing council of the ECB would end ELA, and terminate Greek banks' full access to the eurosystem payments arrangements, if there was no sign today that Greece is back on a path to solvency.
In that dire eventuality, all the banks would have to cease trading, as soon as tomorrow. And they could only reopen as and when the Greek government passed legislation to restrict cash withdrawals, or introduce capital controls, which - he said - would take days.
Mr Karamouzis said the imposition of capital controls in that way would inflict desperate misery on Greece.
Which is why he is hoping upon hope that there is a deal in Brussels later today to rescue his country.
In 2013/14 it took 73.3 weeks to decide on projects like wind farms or large-scale housing developments.
Its latest annual report showed that was reduced to 27.6 weeks in 2015/16.
Councillor Ron Smith said it had taken a "great deal of work" to bring down the timescales but added that further improvements were planned.
Shots started brightly and thought they had taken the lead inside 10 minutes only for Scott Rendell's close-range effort to be ruled out for offside.
The home side's constant pressure finally reaped dividends in the 17th minute as Shamir Fenelon got in front of a marker to convert Bernard Mensah's cross with a neat flick.
Aldershot doubled their lead seven minutes before half-time after Nick Arnold swung in a deep cross for Mensah to sweep home from three yards.
The Daggers pulled one back in the second half as Aldershot failed to clear a deep 57th-minute corner and skipper Scott Doe looped a header inside the far post, but Matt McClure's 25-yarder into the bottom corner made the points safe seven minutes from time.
Daggers keeper Elliot Justham prevented a fourth with a brilliant save to keep out Arnold's free-kick.
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Match ends, Aldershot Town 3, Dagenham and Redbridge 1.
Second Half ends, Aldershot Town 3, Dagenham and Redbridge 1.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Jonny Giles replaces Idris Kanu.
Goal! Aldershot Town 3, Dagenham and Redbridge 1. Matt McClure (Aldershot Town).
Paul Benson (Dagenham and Redbridge) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Anthony Straker replaces Cheye Alexander.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Matt McClure replaces Bernard Mensah.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Paul Benson replaces Oliver Hawkins.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Luke Howell replaces Fejiri Okenabirhie.
Goal! Aldershot Town 2, Dagenham and Redbridge 1. Scott Doe (Dagenham and Redbridge).
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Elliott Romain replaces Jordan Maguire-Drew.
Second Half begins Aldershot Town 2, Dagenham and Redbridge 0.
First Half ends, Aldershot Town 2, Dagenham and Redbridge 0.
Goal! Aldershot Town 2, Dagenham and Redbridge 0. Bernard Mensah (Aldershot Town).
Frankie Raymond (Dagenham and Redbridge) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Aldershot Town 1, Dagenham and Redbridge 0. Shamir Fenelon (Aldershot Town).
Joe Widdowson (Dagenham and Redbridge) is shown the yellow card.
Will Evans (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The Italian coastguard, which is conducting a search, said eight bodies had been recovered from the water, and four people had been rescued.
But dozens were still believed missing after darkness fell, in difficult search conditions.
The boat sank between Libya and Italy, about 30 miles (50km) from the Libyan coast.
A French naval ship, two trade vessels, and aerial support are involved in the search.
It is unclear what the nationalities of the migrants involved are.
The number of migrants travelling to Europe by land have dropped since the height of the migrant crisis in late 2015, but sea crossings remain both popular and dangerous.
On Friday, the Italian coast guard rescued about 550 migrants making the journey across the Mediterranean.
Doctors Without Borders, which was involved in the rescue, said that in once case it found 123 people crammed on to a single inflatable dinghy.
More than 1,000 people have arrived in Europe by sea in the first two weeks of 2017, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) estimates. Before this incident, it estimated 11 people had died or were missing.
In 2016, the UNHCR said 5,000 people died trying to reach Europe by Mediterranean routes - the highest number yet.
The agency said the increase was due, in part, to human traffickers loading more people on to each craft, many of which were not suitable for the crossing attempt.
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.
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Some of the younger talent in the country deserve the chance to impress and the Ulster centre has been knocking at the door by virtue of his consistent performances at provincial level this season.
It takes time to adapt fully to international rugby but you have to learn by experience and there is maybe a chance for the likes of Stuart to show Joe Schmidt what he can do over the next few weeks.
Also, with Jonathan Sexton increasingly prone to injury, Paddy Jackson should be afforded the opportunity to nail down a position as the regular back-up at fly-half.
It's England up next for Ireland and if we lose at Twickenham, then regardless of what happens against Italy and Scotland, it won't have been a very successful Six Nations for the reigning champions.
You can't make 10 changes for a game like that, but you can maybe make one or two, keep the other guys on their toes, and then maybe make a few more for the match against the Italians in Dublin.
At half-time in Paris, I couldn't see the French team getting into the game at all but they had their purple patch and the Irish scrum just creaked.
I said before the tournament that the Six Nations is not usually a time to experiment, but now that Ireland's chances of winning it have probably gone, maybe it is time to shake things up a bit.
The centre partnership of Jared Payne and Robbie Henshaw is not busting any holes and giving the team a bit of go forward. I think that's what's missing.
If McCloskey was given the number 12 shirt against England or Italy it would make those guys think that they would have to buck up their ideas and put in some better performances because at the moment there is no-one challenging them.
Stuart would offer more penetration at centre and give you that in abundance.
Jared has often played full-back for Ulster so there is always the possibility of moving him to the number 15 shirt.
The outcome against the French proved what I thought beforehand, that the bench was just not strong enough, especially in the back line.
When Sexton went off injured, Ian Madigan came off the bench and kicked the ball straight into touch, gave them a penalty and that put France on the front foot.
You have to question whether he is used to dealing with pressure situations given that he is usually sat on the bench for Leinster, coming on at 12, 15 or 10 at some stage during the game.
For me, you want to have players coming on who do not weaken the team and you have to have a reliable replacement number 10 who knows exactly what he has to do.
Fergus McFadden was another replacement who had no impact on the game whatsoever.
Stephen Ferris was speaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Sportsound programme.
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The dollar started about 0.4% lower around $0.7435 though it later edged back up to $0.7516 in light trading.
Australia's ASX/S&P 200 share index fell at first, but closed up 0.7% at 5,281.78 due a rally in commodities.
Neither the ruling Liberal-National Coalition nor the opposition Labor parties secured an outright majority.
The result will not be decided until at least Tuesday, which is when vote-counting resumes.
The uncertainty, together with an increased risk of Australia having its "AAA" credit rating cut has "dented" the country's currency, according to Vishnu Varathan from Mizuho Bank.
Australia's central bank is also expected to hold fire at its policy meeting on Tuesday, analysts at Capital Economics said.
"The fallout on the economy and financial markets from the uncertain outcome of the Federal election will probably be relatively mild and short-lived and is unlikely to prompt the Reserve Bank of Australia to cut interest rates from 1.75% to 1.50%.
"It is concerns over the weak outlook for inflation, not the political outlook, that will trigger a rate cut to 1.50% in August," Capital Economics said.
Elsewhere in Asia, markets were mostly higher as traders turned their focus from the UK's decision leave the EU to the prospect of policymakers unleashing more easing measures to boost growth.
Japan's Nikkei 225 share index closed 0.6% higher at 15,775.80, while South Korea's Kospi index ended up 0.4% at 1,995.30.
In Greater China, the Shanghai Composite closed 1.9% higher at 2,988.60 while in Hong Kong the Hang Seng index finished trading 1.3% up at 21,059.20 points.
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Former Dundee United defender Dods, 40, replaces Ray McKinnon, who moved to Raith Rovers last month.
Scottish League One Brechin is Dods' first managerial charge, having played with Forfar Athletic over the past two seasons.
"I have experienced what Brechin City has to offer in our battles over the past two seasons," he told Brechin's website.
"I greatly look forward to meeting and working with the players who have already demonstrated their commitment to the club as we look to build a squad for the new season.
"I am clear on our objectives as we look to be challenging amongst the best of the part-time teams in Scotland. I thank the club for showing faith in me as a young manager and I look to repay that faith through hard work and endeavour."
Chairman Ken Ferguson added: "There is much work to be done in building a squad for the new season, however we have good players already signed up and we are confident Darren has the contacts in the game to create a team capable of competing in this highly competitive league."
Last season, Brechin qualified for the Scottish Championship play-offs but were beaten over two legs by Alloa Athletic in the semi-finals.
The watchdog scrutinises government tax and spending pledges and Labour wants it to do the same for its economic programme before the 2015 election.
OBR boss Robert Chote said this could benefit policy making but said it might be better to wait until the 2020 poll.
Rushing the process could be "damaging" for the independent body, he told MPs.
Under Labour's plans, the OBR would be able to study parties' manifesto pledges to see if they add up without passing judgement on individual policies.
This would ensure a "more informed debate" at the election without undermining the watchdog's impartiality, Labour's shadow chancellor Ed Balls has said.
Chancellor George Osborne is opposed to the idea, insisting the OBR was set up in 2010 specifically to provide growth and borrowing forecasts and assess the impact of government policies on its own fiscal targets.
The Lib Dems have said the idea of letting the OBR do the same for opposition parties has merit but is unlikely to be viable in time for next year's general election.
Mr Chote has already warned that the law would need to be amended to change the OBR's remit.
In written evidence submitted to the Treasury committee of MPs, he said independent scrutiny of pre-election policy proposals may contribute to "better policy making" and could help "facilitate" the formation of coalitions in the event of inconclusive poll results.
But he said it would have major repercussions for political parties and civil servants as well as the watchdog itself.
"First and foremost, it would be essential to establish clear 'rules of the game' for all involved, well before the election, and to ensure that adequate resources were in place to do the job properly," he told the Treasury Select Committee.
"To embark on this exercise in a rush, or with insufficient resources, could be very disruptive for the parties and very damaging to the OBR.
"Putting it bluntly, if Parliament wished us to play this role in the 2015 election, we would need a clear steer in the very near future to have any hope of putting the necessary practical arrangements in place in time to deliver a smooth process."
He went on to suggest the idea may need to be put on the backburner until after the general election.
"Indeed advocates of the reform may now feel that it would be better to consider these issues at the beginning of the next parliament - with a view to being fully prepared before the subsequent election - rather than rush into it for 2015 and risk undermining support for the idea in the longer term."
The cross-party committee has said the OBR should have "absolute discretion" over the work it undertakes, including the scope to examine "the fiscal policies of political parties".
In response, Labour said there was growing cross-party support behind the idea.
"If the political will is there by the early summer then, as Robert Chote says, it is still possible to make this reform happen before next year's election," Mr Balls said.
Man on a Bench by Giles Penny was unveiled in Bruton in June and now attracts a number of visitors who sit on it to have their photograph taken.
Town mayor Steve Hall, said he was certain it "won't heat up to griddle levels" this summer but it could be a "shock" to those wearing shorts.
The sign warning that the "surface will be hot" in the sunshine, is to erected.
The sculpture by the renowned artist - who also has works at Canary Wharf in London - was installed next to the town's Packhorse Bridge two months ago.
Since then, according to Mr Hall, it has become a "star attraction".
"It's not a bench, it's a piece of art but because you can sit on the bench next to the sculpture a lot of people are going up and having their photograph taken," he said.
"You can sit on it comfortably, 99% of the time but I decided if we did get a real 1976 summer again it would probably be very, very uncomfortable and may even result in burns."
As a precaution the sculptor had been asked to make a sign, warning people to "test it" before sitting on it.
Engineers have been working to repair the line after a large tree fell onto the track between Llanrwst and Blaenau Ffestiniog on Thursday.
But the work has unveiled an unstable rock formation directly next to the track which requires further attention.
Network Rail said it would be "unsafe" to reopen the line on Monday as planned.
Arriva Trains Wales will operate a shuttle train service between Llandudno Junction and North Llanrwst, with a bus replacement service in place between Llanrwst North and Blaenau Ffestiniog.
Andy Thomas, Network Rail's route managing director for Wales, said: "Passenger safety is our absolute priority and our repairs have revealed significant damage to the embankment which only became apparent when work started.
"We are working with Arriva Trains Wales to minimise the disruption to passengers and we apologise for the inconvenience this has caused.
"We will provide more updates on when the line can reopen in the coming days when the weather conditions improve."
The libertarian-leaning son of former congressman Ron Paul effectively ground Senate action on renewing key provisions of the Patriot Act to a halt. Due to his efforts, the legal authority for the National Security Agency's bulk data collection programme have expired - at least temporarily.
It was a personal victory that he trumpeted from the floor of the Senate. "Tonight begins the process of ending bulk collection," he said, adding: "The point we wanted to make is, we can still catch terrorists using the Constitution."
Mr Paul's opponents didn't see it that way, however. Those who weren't accusing him of endangering US national security blasted him for what they saw as grandstanding in the interest of advancing his presidential interests.
"I know what this is about - I think it's very clear - this is, to some degree, a fundraising exercise," Arizona Senator John McCain told Politico on Sunday. "He obviously has a higher priority for his fundraising and political ambitions than for the security of the nation."
Mr Paul's adversaries point to his tweets leading up to Sunday night urging supporters to take pictures of themselves watching the senator's speech on TV and repeated exhortations to "stand with Rand" in opposing extended NSA powers.
Last week it appeared Mr Paul's campaign also may have run afoul of congressional rules when it used footage of one of his recent Senate speeches in a YouTube video.
Mr Paul bristled at the criticism, saying on Sunday: "People here in town think I'm making a huge mistake. Some of them, I think, secretly want there to be an attack on the United States so they can blame it on me."
Regardless of the motivations behind the senator's actions - and his staff adamantly insists that his moves were based on long-held principle, not political expediency - Sunday's events put the Kentucky senator squarely back in the national spotlight. As recently as last week, some political wags were wondering whether the Kentucky senator's stands on issues like national security and criminal justice were sinking his campaign.
"Though Paul may think his Republican Party's brand sucks, the primary voters don't necessarily share his view that the party is too old and too white," Dana Milbank of the Washington Post wrote. "His candidacy has so far failed to ignite - and, indeed, he seems to be fading as a force within the party."
But by successfully blocking extended NSA powers, Mr Paul has a new feather in his cap that might rally voters to his side.
"He's never brought the Senate to its knees as he has done now," Politico's Manu Raju wrote. "He has a rare opening to stand out in dramatic fashion from a very crowded GOP field - on an issue central to his presidential campaign."
Tim Mak and Olivia Nuzzi of the Daily Beast said Mr Paul's "human roadblock" strategy could pay dividends convincing the libertarian true believers who supported his father's presidential campaigns that he, alone, is with them.
"Paul's surveillance-ending stunt places him happily in opposition to the Obama administration and his rivals in the Republican primary field," they write. "Chris Christie, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio favour a robust metadata collection program. Ted Cruz was an early co-sponsor of the USA Freedom Act, which would reform the Patriot Act and end the government's bulk collection of American metadata."
Mr Paul's recent moves could come with a high price, however. It has attracted the renewed ire of much of the party's foreign policy establishment and may have cost him the support of Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell - the powerful Kentuckian who had earlier expressed support for his candidacy.
"The senior senator from Kentucky - who is not known for his capacity to forgive and forget - was clearly displeased with his home state colleague," wrote Buzzfeed's John Stanton.
One of Mr Paul's fiercest opponents on the campaign trail could turn out to be the man who formally declared in South Carolina on Monday, Senator Lindsey Graham.
Mr Graham has regularly taken shots at the Kentucky senator, calling his foreign policy views "to the left of President Obama" and noticeably rolling his eyes when Mr Paul recently spoke in the Senate.
Candidates for presidential nominations usually end up successful because they find a way to unite their party's disparate interests, cobbling together a large enough coalition to prevail over their opponents. For Republicans, however, the NSA issue is deeply divisive.
If Mr Paul's opposition to NSA surveillance is going to prove a winning issue for him, he needs to hope that it allows him to consolidate his support while the rest of the field continues to be split among a variety of candidates.
Recent polls in Iowa, for instance, show how the current political playing field could work to his advantage. According to the latest Bloomberg survey, Mr Paul is tied for second place with 10 points, seven behind Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.
"Paul's support from independents is a key reason he's in the top tier of candidates in Iowa, as is his strength among those under age 45, a group where he gets support from 19% - the most of any candidate," wrote Bloomberg's John McCormick.
If Mr Paul's senatorial efforts this weekend bring in new young and independent voters, it's not impossible to imagine that he inches closer to the lead.
The question, however, is what happens when the field narrows. Sunday may have put Mr Paul back in the presidential game - but how long can he stay there.
David Little, head of the Scottish Youth Football Association, said a backlog of vetting through the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme had been completed.
But he told MSPs that 488 people had been automatically debarred.
This was because they had not submitted an application to the process.
The suspended coaches and officials would previously only have had access to children under supervision from PVG-approved officials, Mr Little told members of the Scottish Parliament's Health and Sport Committee.
There are about 15,000 volunteer coaches and officials who help run 39 SYFA leagues and coach 60,000 young players.
The SYFA set a deadline of 28 February to clear a backlog of about 950 applications., but Mr Little said a further 1,170 were now being processed after an influx in applications for next season.
He added: "The backlog that existed has now been cleared. That process has now been completed and people who were not compliant have been dealt with.
"As of today, with the new members coming in in February, there's 1,170 new members who have joined the SYFA."
Asked by committee member Clare Haughey how many people had been placed on an automatic suspension for not submitting a PVG application, Mr Little said: "In respect of the backlog, 488.
"They are precautionary suspended, that means they are completely debarred from participation in any football under the jurisdiction of the SYFA."
When asked how long they were coaching in the SYFA before they were suspended, Mr Little said: "That would vary from official to official. They would have had access (to children) only via supervision."
The Holyrood session on child protection in sport follows allegations of historical abuse in football. Police Scotland is investigating and the SFA has set up an independent review.
Last month, Disclosure Scotland, which runs the PVG scheme, told MSPs the SYFA turned down an offer of help to clear the backlog of checks.
SFA chief executive Stewart Regan told the committee his organisation had also offered to help.
He said: "Back in February 2015, we offered support on child protection matters to the SYFA which was rejected at the time in favour of further financial support."
Mr Little said: "I think at this particular stage we're trying to get the ability to bring more volunteers in to do more of the work (process applications).
"It would certainly assist if we had the ability to increase staff. The help that was on offer was in respect of the checking of the forms at meetings.
"With all due respect, that wasn't the assistance we required at that particular time. We've since had meetings with Disclosure Scotland where we've spoken about training and process."
30 September 2016 Last updated at 15:38 BST
The spacecraft made a planned crash-landing on to the surface of the comet on Friday afternoon, sending back lots of information to Earth in the process.
It left Earth back in 2004, with the mission to chase down 67P and study it.
It reached the comet in 2014, after a 10-year journey, and landed a space probe, called Philae, on to it.
But things didn't all go to plan, as Ricky's been finding out...
Last year, Network Rail released images that included a wave effect roof but this has now been stripped back to a more standard glass-fronted entrance.
There would also be new retail space and a mezzanine floor.
The work coincides with plans to revamp that area of the city centre which is where the new BBC building will be.
A new bus terminal is also being built in the area.
The earliest work on the station could start in 2019 but Network Rail has yet to fully cost the multimillion-pound plans.
Other works at the station are being carried out, including a new south entrance.
Currently, 13 million people use Cardiff Central per year and that figure is expected to grow to 23 million by 2023.
Mark Langman, route managing director for Network Rail Wales, said: "Our railway is carrying almost 50% more passengers than we were 10 years ago and that number is predicted to grow significantly in the years ahead, with up to 32m passengers forecast to use Cardiff Central station by 2043.
"There is still more to do to meet future demand and to build a station fit for a capital city."
A number of guns have been confiscated from the home of the detained 48-year-old former policeman.
Annecy prosecutor Eric Maillaud also confirmed a second man was being held.
Saad al-Hilli, 50, an Iraqi-born British citizen, was found dead in his BMW car; his wife Iqbal, her mother and a French cyclist were also killed.
The 48-year-old man from the Haute-Savoie region, who was arrested on Tuesday, has been described in reports as a gun enthusiast, a bit of a loner and somewhat difficult.
Police found a Luger pistol during a search of his home in Talloires, about 10 km from the murder scene, but it was not the same model as the Luger used in the shooting.
Mr Maillaud said: "There is no direct link at the moment."
Mr al-Hilli and his family lived in Claygate, Surrey, and were on holiday at the time of the attack, along with Mrs al-Hilli's mother, Suhaila al-Allaf, who lived in Sweden.
Mr and Mrs al-Hilli's two young daughters, aged seven and four at the time, survived the attack, which took place in a car park near Lake Annecy.
The older daughter, Zainab, was shot and beaten. Her sister, Zeena, was found traumatised but physically unscathed after hiding under bodies in the car.
The body of the cyclist, Sylvain Mollier, was found nearby.
On Wednesday, Mr Maillaud said the ex-policeman's arrest did not mean the case was solved.
The man was described as having a strong resemblance to an identikit image of a motorcyclist seen near the murder scene.
"We are talking about one person who resembles the description of another man who was near the scene at the time," Mr Maillaud said.
"We do not know what he was doing there. As I speak to you, that person is still in detention but we have nothing that would link him to the crimes so far."
Mr Maillaud said the second man in custody was a friend of the ex-policeman.
The prosecutor said police "discovered a great number of munitions, explosives and detonators" during their search.
He said they believed the pair may have been involved with the trafficking of firearms.
Mr Maillaud said the Luger pistol recovered "is not the same arm" as the actual gun used in the shooting.
"It is not the same calibre, which is absolutely essential to note," he said.
Investigators have stressed that the presumption of innocence must prevail.
A 4x4 that police have been looking for since the shooting has still not been found.
Meanwhile, the UK side of the investigation continues.
More than 100 police officers in France and the UK have been involved in investigating the case and about 800 people have been interviewed.
French prosecutors previously said the "reasons and causes" for the killings had their "origins" in the UK and they investigated an alleged feud between Mr al-Hilli and his brother Zaid over inheritance.
Zaid al-Hilli, 54 and also from Surrey, denied involvement in the murders and accused French police of "covering up" the real target of the killings.
He was released from bail last month after being arrested last year on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder.
Surrey Police said there was not enough evidence to charge him.
The motive for the shootings has remained elusive.
Speculation has focused on possible links to Iraq or Saad al-Hilli's work as a satellite engineer.
In the year that saw the UK vote by 52% to 48% to leave the EU, Mrs May said there was an "historic opportunity" to forge "a bold new role".
However, UKIP's Paul Nuttall used his Christmas message to call for faster progress on Brexit in 2017.
Labour's Jeremy Corbyn highlighted the plight of the homeless while Lib Dem Tim Farron focused on child refugees.
The Green Party urged people to fight for a future based on equality and hope in its Christmas message.
The prime minister said there had been much to celebrate in 2016 - with the Queen's 90th birthday and British successes in the Olympics and Paralympics.
She added: "As we leave the European Union we must seize an historic opportunity to forge a bold new role for ourselves in the world and to unite our country as we move forward into the future."
She pledged to "stand up for the freedom of people of all religions to practise their beliefs in peace and safety" and paid tribute to those who work over Christmas, including health and care workers, emergency services and the armed forces.
"Wherever you are this Christmas, I wish you joy and peace in this season of celebration, along with health and happiness in the year ahead," she said.
In a separate message to the armed forces, including the 5,000 deployed on operations over the holiday period, she said: "Just as your commitment to our country is unfaltering, so in return we owe you the same deep commitment and unflinching support."
She pledged to "honour the commitments" to help service personnel buy their own home and support their children in school.
UKIP's Paul Nuttall used his first Christmas message since becoming leader to say his top priority would be to ensure "much faster progress" on Brexit.
He warned MPs who attempt to disrupt the process of leaving the EU "will find their prospects for re-election greatly diminished".
Mr Nuttall added that Brexit alone would not be sufficient for the "revival" of the UK to help those forgotten by the "political elite", adding that it was time to reorder the priorities of our governing class.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn used his Christmas message, which he posted on Twitter, to point to Shelter figures suggesting 120,000 children would spend Christmas without a home to call their own while rough sleeping had increased by 30% in the last year.
He praised charity workers, adding: "It's the goodwill and generosity of ordinary people, public service and charity workers who give tirelessly to help the most vulnerable and the lonely.
"They remind us of Christmas values: love for your neighbour, working together and hope, hope that things can be different."
In a message filmed at a child refugee centre in Paris and posted on YouTube, Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said the Christmas message should encourage the UK to open its doors.
He said the children were fleeing "appalling circumstances" and wanted to come to the UK "because of Britain's reputation as a place of peace and of security and tranquillity" to start afresh, urging Britons to "be true to British values and be really proud of our country".
The Green Party's newly elected co-leaders, Jonathan Bartley and Caroline Lucas, praised people who worked with refugees and those who campaigned on climate change, as well as NHS workers.
Noting that 2016 had brought the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump in the US, Mr Bartley said: "Nobody owns the future.
"Not Donald Trump. Not Nigel Farage. Not Theresa May. We have to fight for the future we want to see - a future based on fairness, on equality, on hope."
It comes after a consultation found a new Girlguiding UK promise was needed to include "more explicitly" the non-religious and those of other faiths.
They currently vow to "to love my God, to serve my Queen and my country".
The new oath drops the reference for the first time since Guides began in 1910 and will see them promise to "be true to myself and develop my beliefs".
The revised wording from September will also see members of the 540,000-strong organisation promise "to serve the Queen and my community".
I promise that I will do my best
To be true to myself and develop my beliefs
To serve the Queen and my community
To help other people
and
To keep the Guide (Brownie) law
The consultation earlier this year involved nearly 44,000 Girlguiding UK members and non-members.
Chief Guide Gill Slocombe said: "Guiding has always been somewhere that all girls can develop their beliefs and moral framework, both inside and outside the context of a formal religion.
"However, we knew that some people found our promise confusing on this point and that it discouraged some girls and volunteers from joining us.
"Guiding believes in having one promise that is a clear statement of our core values for all our members to commit to. We hope that our new promise will allow all girls - of all faiths and none - to understand and feel proud of their commitment."
The promise has been changed 11 times in the organisation's history, most recently in 1994 when the long-standing phrase duty to God" became "to love my God" and "serve the Queen" was supplemented with "and my country".
On my honour I promise that I will do my best
To do my duty to God and the King
To help others at all times
To obey the Guide Law
The British Humanist Association (BHA), which gave a response to the consultation, welcomed the change, noting it was the first version of the oath to "open guiding up fully to non-religious girls".
BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson said: "The new promise is about personal integrity and ongoing and active self-reflection, both of which sit well alongside a sense of responsibility to others and to the community."
Stephen Evans, campaigns manager at the National Secular Society said: "By omitting any explicit mention of God or religion the Guide Association has grasped the opportunity to make itself truly inclusive and relevant to the reality of 21st century Britain."
The Church of England was among the groups which had urged Girlguiding UK to keep the reference to God in the promise.
In December last year, the UK Scout Association announced its own consultation to see if its members would support an alternative Scout Promise for atheists, who are unwilling to pledge a "duty to God".
And in July 2012, the Girl Guides in Australia dropped their allegiance to both God and the Queen, agreeing to serve their community and be true to themselves instead.
A parade, wreath laying and church service have been held in the Canadian military hero's birthplace of Guernsey, in the Channel Islands.
Gen Brock, dubbed the Hero of Upper Canada, died in 1812 leading a British, Canadian and First Nation army to victory over an invading American army.
The events started with the raising of the Canadian flag on the memorial mast.
Colonel Paul Keddy, the Canadian Defence Attache, raised the flag at 08:45 BST.
A parade, which included veterans and standards from local emergency services, armed forces groups and volunteer and charity organisations, then marched from the mast to Sir Isaac's former family home which is now Boots.
Wreaths were laid outside the shop before the parade proceeded to the Town Church for a commemoration service.
A 15-gun salute was fired at midday, which due to the time difference with Canada was exactly 200 years on from when Gen Brock was killed at 07:00 on 13 October 1812 at the Battle of Queenston Heights in Ontario.
Plans to unveil a specially commissioned bust were delayed due to the sculptor being ill.
The Brock Memorial Foundation, set up by one of Gen Brock's descendants, hopes to "provide support for projects that celebrate the legacy of Sir Isaac Brock" including raising identical statues of Sir Isaac in both Guernsey and Canada.
Richard Collas, the Bailiff of Guernsey, shared a letter he was sent by the Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper.
Mr Harper wrote: "As Canada celebrates the bicentennial of the War of 1812, I am honoured to join you in recognizing a leading figure in the battles that would define our nation.
"His leadership and bravery at the Battle of Queenston Heights earned him iconic status as the "Hero of Upper Canada".
"Though he died in defence of the colony, his sacrifice was not in vain.
"Brock's thwarting of the American assault was a key victory in the War of 1812 and a step towards forging a strong and united Canada."
The Premier League strugglers are searching for their third manager in under 12 months after sacking Bradley.
He lasted 11 games in 85 days and says fellow Americans Jason Levien and Steve Kaplan were "swayed by negativity".
"They haven't said a word. The chief executive [Chris Pearlman], he's not said a word," said James.
"The three Americans, you don't hear from them. Why?".
Wales manager Chris Coleman and Wales and Manchester United legend Ryan Giggs are among those to have been linked with succeeding Bradley.
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James says Bradley has been put in an unfair position.
"He is an honourable man left high and dry to answer every question that has been put to him," he told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"I would ask a serious question to the two owners and the chief executive - where have you been in support of your manager?
"Because you've been deafening with their silence and that's what frightens me most of all.
"Never once in the difficult 11 games that Bob's had, never once has any of those people actually come out and supported Bob.
"I can't remember a comment by any of the three of them.
"He's their man, obviously, because nobody thought about him before he came in."
James, who scored 27 goals in 98 league appearances for the Swans from 1980-83, says long-standing chairman Huw Jenkins also bears responsibility for Swansea's situation.
"He's as culpable as the owners," he said.
Other names on the bill include Beck, Disclosure, Ellie Goulding, Foals, LCD Soundsystem, PJ Harvey, Madness and Stormzy.
This year's three headliners - already announced - are Muse, Adele and Coldplay.
The festival takes place at Worthy Farm at Pilton in Somerset from 22 to 26 June.
The 2016 line-up also features The 1975, The Last Shadow Puppets, Grimes, Jake Bugg, Fatboy Slim, Guy Garvey, Madness, Wolf Alice, Bat For Lashes, Cyndi Lauper, Ronnie Spector and Earth, Wind & Fire.
Jeff Lynne's ELO occupies the Sunday afternoon "legends" lot, which in recent years has been filled by Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie and Kenny Rogers.
The Syrian National Orchestra, whose members have fled around the world due to the conflict in the country, is also set to perform.
The orchestra is already performing a concert with Blur and Gorillaz singer Damon Albarn at London's Royal Festival Hall on Saturday 25 June.
Labour MSP Monica Lennon says access to the products should be "a basic right".
She wants schools, colleges and universities to be required to provide free items in their female toilets.
In July, the Scottish government announced a six-month pilot project in Aberdeen aimed at women and girls from low-income households.
At least 1,000 people should receive free sanitary products during the trial, which ministers have supported with £42,500 of funding.
Ms Lennon is launching a consultation on a members' bill aimed at ending the problem Scotland-wide.
The legislation, if passed, would create a new duty on ministers to introduce a universal system of free provision of sanitary products.
Ms Lennon says this would operate in a similar way to the NHS C-Card scheme, which distributes free condoms to anyone who wants them, with no questions asked.
But while the free sanitary products would be available to everyone, she believes that most women would continue to buy their preferred brand from shops and supermarkets if they can afford to do so.
Ms Lennon's proposals would also require schools, colleges and universities to provide free sanitary products in their female toilets, which would not just be available to students.
Any students who wanted more free products to take home would be able to get them from the student union.
The duty could be extended to other organisations at a later date following a review.
Ms Lennon, Labour's inequalities spokeswoman at Holyrood, said access to sanitary products should be a basic right, but not everyone can currently afford or obtain what they need.
Speaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, the Labour MSP added: "We're hearing about women and girls using sanitary products for too long, longer than what is safe to do so, people improvising and using other items.
"We are hearing about young people who worry about having their period in class and they know that there is no products available in school toilets.
"There are a lot of stories there that people find hard to speak about, but as this campaign has evolved I feel like we and starting to see the stigma lift a bit and people are speaking out."
Communities Secretary Angela Constance said she agreed it was unacceptable for any girl or woman not to have access to sanitary products.
She said: "We are exploring how to make these products freely available.
"I welcome Monica Lennon's work on access to sanitary products and will be happy to engage further with her as we look at what more can be done to tackle the issue, within the current powers of the Scottish Parliament."
The arms and a quantity of ammunition were found at a house in Church Road, East Wall, at about 13:40 GMT.
A man in his 50s was arrested at the scene. He is being questioned at Mountjoy garda station in the city.
A police spokesman said the search was part of ongoing investigations into the activities of dissident republicans in the Dublin area.
Lamido Sanusi, Nigeria's controversial former bank chief, has achieved a life-long ambition.
It might have been a surprise to some that he was chosen as emir, a post which carries enormous weight among Muslims from Nigeria's Hausa-Fulani community, ahead of his predecessor's eldest son, Lamido Ado Bayero, but he has never hidden the fact that he wished to become the traditional leader of Kano, one of the most historic and colourful cities of West Africa.
His grandfather, Muhammad Sanusi, was on the throne until he was deposed in 1963, and the new ruler - now known as Muhammad Sanusi II - sees this as his calling. He appears to believe that the subtle power and influence of the position could be used for the public good.
In the mid-1990s he quit a well-paid job as banking risk manager to deepen his knowledge of Arabic and Islamic studies by going to study in Sudan.
But he is a man who never shies away from controversy and after the end of military rule in Nigeria in 1999 he opposed the adoption of Islamic law in some northern states.
He argued in newspaper articles that there were more pressing issues that needed to be dealt with.
Who is Muhammad Sanusi II?
His opposition to Sharia put him on a collision course with many conservative Muslims in the north - and his modernising approach is anathema to Boko Haram, which says it is fighting to create a strict Islamic state and opposes all Western values.
The militants had already tried to assassinate his predecessor, Al Haji Ado Bayero, who died last month at the age of 83 after a long illness. Many are waiting to see what the new emir's line on the insurgency will be.
One of the hurdles Mr Sanusi, 53, now faces in speaking his mind is literally the robes that he wears.
When the royal court of Kano is in session, part of the emir's elaborate turban covers his mouth so that courtiers speak on his behalf.
On the few occasions the emir speaks, it is expected to be in measured tones and bereft of controversy - two qualities the former banker is not famous for.
The emir's role
However, unlike his predecessor, he has started giving the weekly Friday sermon at the main mosque in Kano - which may be a way he will make his views known.
It is unclear though if that will be enough to capitalise on his reforming zeal and forthright nature in his new role.
As someone who does not shy away from pointing to the elephant in the room, Emir Sanusi is more likely to use his influence to address challenges like Boko Haram's insurgency, unemployment and poor school enrolment by leveraging his position with Nigeria's political leaders and ordinary people who are sometimes suspicious of the government's intentions.
The role of the emir is that of peacemaker and politics is something that he traditionally stays clear of.
The governing People's Democratic Party (PDP), however, has been affronted by his appointment and in what seemed like a comedy of errors tried to congratulate another candidate on the appointment before the Kano state governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, announced his choice.
President Goodluck Jonathan, who suspended Mr Sanusi in February as bank governor, has yet to congratulate him.
The former bank chief's whistle-blowing over $20bn (£12bn) allegedly missing from the state oil company still rankles and Mr Sanusi is currently challenging his suspension in court.
There are indications that in order to smooth relations with the federal authorities he may discontinue his legal challenge.
But with the calculation that no politician can win a presidential election without achieving a certain number of votes in Kano, one of Nigeria's two most populous states, Mr Jonathan may well have to doff his hat before long to his foe at the palace in order to show voters he respects their ways and traditions.
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The Creative City project hopes to create 100,000 jobs in the region and add £8bn to the local economy.
The new galleries would be part of the new Curzon Square Museum Quarter.
Launching the scheme, Culture Secretary Ed Vaisey urged West Midlands business leaders to invest in creative industries.
The three new galleries would be Ikon 2, built on Curzon Street as a sister gallery to the current Ikon.
A museum of contemporary art will be launched with works from leading modern artists.
And the Curzon Street railway station buildings could house a museum of photography.
Martin Mullaney, cabinet member for leisure, sport and culture at Birmingham City Council, said the building earmarked for the photography museum was currently empty and needed a new use.
He said: "We have probably one of the largest photographic collections in Britain, showing photographs throughout the whole history of Birmingham and it's there in cardboard boxes."
The museum of contemporary art would house works by artists such as Francis Bacon, Henry Moore and David Hockney.
A feasibility study is currently being carried out and will reveal the expected cost of the three museums.
Mr Mullaney said the council was in the process of bidding for a collection of national importance which would bring tourists to the city.
He added the new galleries could be paid for by money from the private sector, the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Arts Council and the government.
"We want to show that we have got a vision for Birmingham and an ambition to put Birmingham on the international stage so that we are up there with the likes of Barcelona and Berlin," he said.
Labour leader Ed Miliband again ruled out a formal coalition with the SNP, saying he would "never compromise" on the issues apparently dividing them.
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said people would not forgive him if he turned down the chance to "lock the Tories out".
The Conservatives say a Labour/SNP alliance would be "a ragbag of chaos".
Meanwhile, UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said he did not lose his temper during the debate when he criticised the audience for what he perceived as their left-wing bias.
The political parties were back on the campaign trail on Friday after the previous night's debate, which was hosted by the BBC.
Prime Minister David Cameron has hailed the last unemployment figures before polling day on 7 May, which showed the jobless total fall by 76,000 to 1.84 million in the three months to February, as a "jobs miracle".
The Conservatives have also seized on remarks by International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde praising the strength of the UK recovery compared with the rest of the European Union.
Mr Miliband has challenged Mr Cameron to a one-on-one debate in the remaining three weeks of the campaign in the aftermath of Thursday's second and final scheduled multi-party debate, in which the prime minister and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg did not take part.
"He won't come and debate me. He wants to duck, weave and dive his way back into Downing Street. And if he had guts, he'd come out and he'd accept my challenge to debate me one-on-one, head to head," he said at Labour's youth manifesto launch.
But David Cameron said: "We've had 146 debates at Prime Minister's Questions, and I think people have seen a lot of those, to get the measure of us. But the key thing people saw last night is that Labour can only get into Downing Street with the support of the SNP."
During Thursday's 90-minute encounter - which figures suggest was watched by an audience of about 4.3 million - Mr Miliband, Ms Sturgeon, Green Party leader Natalie Bennett, Mr Farage and Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood clashed over cuts, the NHS, immigration and defence.
A snap poll taken immediately after the debate suggested that the Labour leader had come out on top.
You can watch the full debate here
Analysis, BBC political correspondent Iain Watson
With polls suggesting a hung parliament - and potentially heavy Labour losses to the SNP in Scotland - it was inevitable that Ed Miliband would face questions about any deal he might strike with Nicola Sturgeon's party to keep the Conservatives out of power.
He has for some time ruled out a formal coalition. So has she. So speculation has moved on to whether they could reach an informal arrangement, where the SNP would guarantee a Labour budget in return for concessions.
For a time, Labour used relatively emollient language towards the SNP as it tried to woo former supporters who had voted "yes" in the referendum.
The rhetoric is now more robust, as the polls refuse to budge. But the underlying thinking is much the same.
But the trickier question is what happens if the Conservatives have more seats than Labour - but not a majority - and Ed Miliband could still become prime minister with tacit SNP support?
Constitutionally it would be possible, but politically it could damage Labour's future prospects in England.
In other election news:
During Thursday's debate, Mr Miliband dismissed overtures from SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon to "work together" to keep the Conservatives out of power in the event of one party not winning enough seats to form a government on their own.
Opinion polls have suggested the SNP is on course to win a swathe of seats in Scotland and to be in a powerful position in the event of an inconclusive result.
The SNP has ruled out any deal with the Conservatives but said they would be prepared to support Labour on a vote-by-vote basis, with Ms Sturgeon suggesting they could "work together to lock David Cameron out of Downing Street".
At Labour's youth manifesto launch in Lincolnshire on Friday, Mr Miliband - who has previously ruled out a formal Labour-SNP coalition - was asked about the prospect of nationalist votes propping up a minority Labour government.
"It's not going to happen," he said, adding: "I will never compromise our national security, I will never compromise our commitment to fiscal responsibility, I will never compromise on the nature of our United Kingdom."
However, Mr Miliband did not explicitly ruled out a looser agreement, known as a confidence and supply agreement, where the SNP could potentially support a Labour government in key parliamentary votes.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith predicted that any deal between the two parties would lead to "a ragbag of chaos" with "a weak leader being hauled all over the place by the Scottish nationalists, who ultimately want to break up the United Kingdom."
David Cameron's absence gave Mr Miliband the chance to taunt the absent prime minister for his lack of political courage.
It also allowed him to focus his fire on the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon, trying to create a distance which he has, so far, struggled to create.
On the other hand... the images of the night, the video clips and the memorable soundbites are all of Ed v Nicola.
Conservative HQ and the Tory press will take delight in using them to conjure up the spectre of a weak minority Labour government being forced to deal with and placate a rampant SNP.
Read more from Nick here.
Both Mr Clegg and UKIP's Nigel Farage have also warned about the danger of the SNP holding the balance of power after the next election but Ms Sturgeon has said her party would use its influence to protect the NHS and other "progressive" ideals.
"Ed Miliband knows if there's an anti-Tory majority in the House of Commons after the May election, the only way David Cameron gets back in to Downing Street is if Ed Miliband stands back and lets him back in," Ms Sturgeon said on a campaign visit to Irvine, Ayrshire, on Friday.
"Now if Ed Miliband does that, Labour in Scotland and I suspect in other parts of the UK will never be forgiven," she said.
At one point in Thursday's TV debate, UKIP leader Mr Farage was booed when he complained of what he said was "a remarkable audience even by the left-wing standards of the BBC".
Asked whether he had lost his temper, Mr Farage said he had not, telling the BBC News Channel: "I was very calm about it. I didn't lose my rag."
Play our coalition-building game
Mr Farage said his protest had been sparked by the hostile audience reaction to his argument that high levels of immigration were increasing pressure on the housing market, something he said would be accepted by "most rational people".
He said it was a "mistake" for the BBC to give the job of audience selection to polling company ICM, but he stopped short of saying he would lodge a complaint, saying: "I've got an election to fight."
Reacting to Thursday's debate, Green Party leader Natalie Bennett said she was "very pleased", as it provided an opportunity to set out her party's policies.
Asked about her performance, she said some Twitter polls suggested she did "particularly well", adding: "I think what matters is obviously the poll on polling day, and that people heard the Green Party message."
Plaid Cymru's leader, Leanne Wood, said she had achieved her aims in the debate: " I managed to speak for Wales, speak against austerity and convey the set of values that Plaid Cymru holds dear."
On a campaign trip to Aberdeenshire, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said he had not watched the debate, but maintained that he would have liked to have taken part, because it lacked "a sensible centre-ground voice - spelling out some of the realities of what we face as a country, and setting out a hopeful vision about how we can finish the job of balancing the books and doing so fairly".
Amelia Helen, Mollie Rose, Lucas James and Lily Grace were born at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin on 26 May.
They weighed between 2.15 lbs and 4.3 lbs.
Their parents, Grace and James Slattery, were given a police escort to the hospital after Mrs Slattery went into labour. She had been due to give birth by C-section.
Joe Storey, 27, was last week found guilty of murdering Kerri McAuley and will serve a minimum of 24 years.
Judge Stephen Holt revealed Storey had 11 previous convictions, eight of those for offences against four women, and had been subject to restraining orders.
He described Ms McAuley's death as one of the worst cases of domestic violence Norwich Crown Court had seen.
Ms McAuley was found dead at her flat in Southalls Way, Norwich, on 8 January 2017.
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Storey initially managed to delay his sentencing after convincing prison staff he did not need to return to court for a hearing.
Simon Spence, prosecuting, said Storey had a "history of violence towards Kerri" and a restraining order had been made in October 2016.
Judge Stephen Holt, jailing Storey for life with a minimum term of 24 years, said it was "one of the worst cases of domestic violence" the court had seen.
He told Storey: "You preyed on a warm-hearted and kind woman.
"She was posting pictures of her injured face on Facebook for all to see but you pressed your way back into her life," said Judge Holt. "It's a deeply sad feature of this case."
My heart bears the deepest break from which it will never heal.
I can no longer look at a photo of Kerri or even think about her in happy times as all my mind sees is that image of my beautiful girl lying on the floor, hair matted with blood, face distorted and swollen.
I can't imagine the fear and pain that my daughter endured that night at the hands of that monster, the man who claimed to love her.
I don't know how to accept that this nightmare I am now living will never end.
There have been times when all I want is to be with Kerri and when I look at the faces of Kerri's sons I see her face looking back at me and my heart breaks all over again.
She had so much to live for, so much unfulfilled promise.
Storey had been in a relationship with Ms McAuley for eight weeks before the violence began, and each time she tried to leave him he "plagued her and pestered her" with texts to keep the relationship going.
The court heard Storey had also been made subject to restraining orders in respect of four other former partners, and had been convicted for violence, including punching a pregnant ex-girlfriend in the stomach.
Andrew Oliver, mitigating, said the murder of Ms McAuley was not premeditated and that Storey had admitted manslaughter before he was found guilty of murder.
Storey, formerly of Murrells Court, Norwich, nodded to the judge as the sentence was read out, and there was a shout of "bye" from the public gallery.
The reigning Premier League champions are in real danger of relegation as they sit just one place and one point above the bottom three after a run of five successive defeats.
The Foxes issued a statement last week backing their Italian manager.
"I don't see how Ranieri can keep his job," Sutton told BBC Radio 5 live.
"Had they finished 12th last season and they were on this run of form everyone would be saying he has to go. Football is a ruthless business. The players are not playing for him.
"I think they are in absolutely enormous trouble."
If Leicester go down, they would be the first defending top-flight champions to be relegated since Manchester City in 1938.
They have not won a Premier League game in 2017 or scored a league goal.
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Ted Marshall, landlord of the Cap 'n' Gown, said five political parties were to take part in debates on issues such as the NHS, education and immigration.
Conservative MP Robin Walker, three parliamentary candidates and a local councillor will discuss Europe later.
Mr Marshall believes the series of debates was very unusual for a pub.
He said hosting such political debates was not allowed in pubs before 2005 under the Licensing Act.
"I think this is quite a unique event and I don't think anybody has had 10 weeks of debate on all the big issues in the run up to the general election," he said.
The Worcester seat, won by Mr Walker with a majority of 2,982 in 2010, is expected to be closely fought.
Mr Marshall, who became landlord at the pub in Upper Tything nine months ago, said the idea came out of his plan to hold a regular discussion group.
He said the debates would give politicians a platform to reach the local electorate.
"There's a lot of talk that politicians are remote and so on, but it actually does bring politics to the people and it's about bringing democracy to people as well."
He said the parties had pledged to send their candidates or alternatives to the debate, including Joy Squires, the parliamentary candidate for Labour, Louis Stephen for the Green Party, James Goad for UKIP and local councillor Liz Smith for the Liberal Democrats, who have still to choose their election candidate.
Mr Marshall said everyone was welcome to the event from 19:00 GMT as he hoped to have a "good cross-section" of opinions.
Ryan McInally, 30, of Monikie in Angus, committed the offence at a house in the Borders between December 2013 and January 2014.
At Selkirk Sheriff Court, he was ordered to carry out 200 hours unpaid work.
He also had his name put on the sex offenders register for three years.
He was supported in court by his partner who is the mother of his two children.
Defence lawyer Robert More said: "His partner deserves enormous credit for the way she has stuck with him in difficult circumstances.
"The offence was admitted to her shortly after he was arrested.
"They have rebuilt their relationship."
He added: "He is a man of high intelligence but was extremely foolish on this particular occasion."
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The former world number one, who would have regained top spot by winning the title, was down 7-6 (7-2) 2-0 when he withdrew with an elbow injury.
Djokovic, 30, had treatment on a right shoulder injury during his last-16 win over Adrian Mannarino and needed further attention against Berdych.
The Serb said he would consider whether surgery was needed to fix the injury.
"I haven't felt this much pain since I've had this injury," said Djokovic.
"It's not the shoulder, it's the elbow that has kept bothering me for over a year and a half.
"I was able, for 30 minutes, to play with some pain that was bearable, but the serve and forehand were shots where I could feel it the most. After that, there was really no sense [in continuing]."
Czech world number 15 Berdych, the 2010 Wimbledon runner-up, will face Roger Federer in the semi-final.
Djokovic had been set to play his last-16 match against Mannarino on Monday but it was delayed as Rafael Nadal's match against Gilles Muller went to five sets and tournament officials decided to not move the Serb on to the available Centre Court.
He beat Mannarino 6-2 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 in Tuesday's opening match but was the only men's quarter-finalist not to have a day's rest between rounds.
Against Berdych, Djokovic called a medical time-out after losing the first-set tie-break and received attention on his right arm before he withdrew.
"It is unfortunate I had to finish Wimbledon in this way. If someone feels bad, it is me," added Djokovic.
"I spent about two hours, two and a half hours, on the table today in between the warm-up and match, trying to do everything I could to make me fit.
"I'm going to talk with specialists, as I have done in the last year, to try to figure out what's the best way to treat it and find a long-term solution.
"The level of pain was not decreasing, it was only increasing as the days went by. Unfortunately, today was the worst day. Probably the fact I played yesterday, days adding up, it wasn't helping at all."
John Lloyd, former GB Davis Cup captain on BBC Two
We called it pretty quickly - he couldn't serve above 115 mph from the start. Once Berdych hung in there and won the first set, Novak knew that there was no chance.
Boris Becker, three-time Wimbledon champion on BBC Two
Most players have niggles and pains; nobody in the second week is 100% healthy. But only Djokovic can say how his body is. He knows whether he can play on or not.
It is the right decision. Murray and Djokovic were dominant last year but they are nowhere near that level now. It is a gruelling schedule and everybody else will put in that extra 10% to beat you.
Five police officers were shot dead while seven others and two civilians were injured in the shooting.
The gunman, identified as 25-year-old Micah Xavier Johnson, told negotiators he wanted to kill whites, especially white police officers,
He was killed by an explosive device detonated by a police robot.
Johnson's victims were a mix of veterans, parents, grandparents, spouses and community leaders.
DART Officer Brent Thompson, 43
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) authority confirmed that Mr Thompson was one of the fallen officers.
Mr Thompson, who joined the department in 2009, is the first officer to be killed in the line of duty since DART began its police force in 1989, said spokesman Morgan Lyons,
Mr Lyons said three other DART officers were wounded in the attack, but they are expected to recover.
Thompson was also recently married and served in the military as a Marine, according to his Facebook account.
He had trained police in Iraq and Afghanistan while working for a private military contractor, according to his interview with the New York Times in 2006.
Officer Patrick Zamarripa, 32
Mr Zamarripa, a Navy veteran and father of two, was one of the four police officers who was killed in the crossfire.
He served three tours in Iraq, his father Rick Zamarripa told the Washington Post.
"He comes [back] to the United States to protect people here", his father said. "And they take his life."
He would have turned 33 next month. He joined the Dallas Police Department after leaving the Navy. Most recently, he was assigned to downtown bicycle patrols. His father wanted him to quit the force because it was dangerous, but he told him he wanted to stay because he liked the action.
"Patrick would bend over backward to help anybody. He'd give you his last dollar if he had it. He was always trying to help people, protect people,'' his father The Associated Press news agency. "As tough as he was, he was patient, very giving."
Officer Michael Krol, 40
Michigan native Michael Krol joined Dallas' police department in 2007.
Mr Krol was a former employee of the Wayne County Sheriff's Office in Michigan from 2003 to 2007.
Krol's mother, Susan Ehlke, told local television station WXYZ her son was a very "caring person".
"He was living a dream of being a police officer. [He] Just turned 40 in April. He knew the danger of the job but he never shied away from his duty as a police officer", she said.
Officer Michael J. Smith, 55
Sergeant Michael Smith was a father of two, according to local media outlets and the Dallas Morning News. He was a former Army ranger and attended the Lamar Institute of Technology.
He served with the Dallas police department for nearly three decades, and was known to be conscientious and professional, even paying for his training if needed.
He received a "Cops' Cop" award from the Dallas Police Association.
Officer Lorne Ahrens, 48
Senior Corporal Lorne Ahrens was a member of the Dallas Police Department for 14 years, according to Dallas Morning News.
"He was always one of the happy ones, with a smile on his face," one of his fellow officers told the newspaper.
The father of two died in hospital from his injuries.
The White House shocked Washington by announcing that James Comey "has been terminated and removed from office".
But Democrats said he was fired because the FBI was investigating alleged links between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The move came as it emerged Mr Comey gave inaccurate information about Mrs Clinton's emails to Congress last week.
Reaction as it happened
James Comey: From 'brave' to fired
Decoding Comey's testimony
President Trump wrote in a letter to Mr Comey that he agreed with US Attorney General Jeff Sessions' recommendation that "you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau".
Mr Sessions said the Department of Justice was "committed to a high level of discipline, integrity, and the rule of law", and "a fresh start is needed".
The White House said the search for a successor would begin immediately.
Mr Comey was addressing FBI agents in Los Angeles when he was handed a note by one of his team informing him he had just been fired.
The 56-year-old - who was four years into his 10-year term as FBI director - reportedly laughed, thinking it was a prank.
Many have expressed surprise that Mr Comey should be fired for his handling of the Clinton emails investigation, given that Mr Trump formerly praised the FBI director's conduct in the matter.
In the final days of the presidential campaign, Mr Trump told a rally it "took guts" for Mr Comey to reopen the inquiry. "What he did brought back his reputation," Mr Trump said.
But on Tuesday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said he "cannot defend the Director's handling of the conclusion of the investigation of Secretary Clinton's emails, and I do not understand his refusal to accept the nearly universal judgement that he was mistaken".
"Almost everyone agrees the Director made serious mistakes; it is one of the few issues that unites people of diverse perspectives".
He said Mr Comey had been wrong to "usurp" the previous attorney general in July 2016 to announce the Clinton emails inquiry should be closed without prosecution.
The deputy attorney general said Mr Comey compounded his error by "gratuitously" releasing "derogatory information" about Mrs Clinton.
Democrats swiftly suggested that Mr Trump had fired Mr Comey to influence the FBI inquiry into Russian whether members of the Trump election campaign colluded with the Kremlin.
The House of Representatives and Senate intelligence committees are investigating the same allegations.
"Were these investigations getting too close to home for the president?" Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer asked a Tuesday evening press conference.
"This does not seem to be a coincidence," he added.
And it is not just Democrats who expressed concern.
Richard Burr, the Republican head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said: "I am troubled by the timing and reasoning of Jim Comey's termination."
The development is drawing comparisons with the so-called Saturday Night Massacre of 1973, when President Richard Nixon fired an independent special prosecutor investigating the Watergate scandal.
But President Trump has repeatedly insisted the Russia allegations are "fake news".
Donald Trump and senior Justice Department officials are framing the firing of James Comey as a result of his botched investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server. They do so using language that even Clinton backers would probably support.
Democrats, to put it bluntly, aren't buying it, however - not from this White House. They are dismissing this Clinton explanation as a smokescreen, and view the suddenness of the move as an attempt to subvert the ongoing FBI investigation into possible ties between Russia and the Trump campaign.
At the very least, their calls for an independent investigation into the matter will become deafening - and some Republicans may now be inclined to agree. The president didn't help his cause by specifically asserting that he was "not under investigation" in his letter to Mr Comey.
Already Democrats are clamouring for the ex-director to testify before Congress about the state of the FBI's Russia investigation at the time of his dismissal.
Just days after becoming president, Mr Trump shook Mr Comey's hand at a White House event and said "he's become more famous than me". That may have been an exaggeration at the time.
It seems less like one now.
Read Anthony's full take
Mr Comey has been criticised by Democrats for the handling of his investigation into whether Mrs Clinton's use of a private email server when secretary of state compromised national security.
The now-former FBI director made two interventions during the 2016 election campaign to make pronouncements about the investigation.
He said in July the case should be closed without prosecution, but then declared - 11 days before November's election - that he had reopened the inquiry because of a discovery of a new trove of Clinton-related emails.
He told the Senate last week it made him "mildly nauseous" to think his intervention could have affected the election, but insisted he would make the same decision again.
Mrs Clinton blames Mr Comey for her shock election defeat last November to Donald Trump.
What was Clinton FBI probe about?
Mr Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee on 3 May that Mrs Clinton's top aide, Huma Abedin, had forwarded "hundreds and thousands" of emails, "some of which contain classified information", to her then-husband.
But the FBI conceded on Tuesday that Ms Abedin had only sent two email chains containing classified information to her husband, Anthony Weiner, for printing.
The clarification was made in a letter from the FBI's assistant director of congressional affairs, Gregory Brower, to the congressional committee.
The majority of the 49,000 emails investigators uncovered on Mr Weiner's laptop were transferred via automatic backup of her work Blackberry device, Mr Brower wrote.
Ultimately, all 12 classified email chains found on Mr Weiner's device were duplicates that had already been reviewed by investigators.
The rhaphium pectinatum was last recorded in Britain 147 years ago in 1868 but was rediscovered in Old Sludge Beds on the outskirts of Exeter.
The fly is from the Dolichopidiae family, a group known as long-legged flies, and is usually found in tropical parts of the world.
Devon Fly Group member Rob Wolton said he was surprised by the find.
The last recorded sighting was on 19 July 1868 when the Victorian entomologist George Verrall caught a male and female at Richmond in south-west London.
Mr Wolton, who is also a member of Dipterists Forum, which specialises in the study of flies, said: "Imagine my surprise when I examined my catch that evening to find it included a fly that was presumed extinct in Britain.
"Nothing is known about its biology, but it seems that it may like brackish conditions like those found at the Old Sludge Beds."
The five hectare site is situated between the River Exe and the Exeter Canal and has been managed by Devon Wildlife Trust since 1979.
Steve Hussey from the trust said: "So often we have to break the news of species that are disappearing, so it's good to be able to announce the discovery of an animal that was thought to be extinct."
The Seagulls were eight points clear of third place in early January but, after winning just three of their last seven, that gap has been cut to four points.
"By our standards of the season, it is a difficult period," Hughton said.
"You have got to go through these periods and it is about how you come through them."
Brighton have been in the top two since October, and were top of the table after beating Fulham on 2 January.
However, defeats at Preston and Huddersfield since then have seen the chasing pack close in on Albion, who still have a far superior goal difference to the sides below them.
Hughton's side were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Ipswich on Tuesday, but the four sides in the play-off places were all victorious.
They have three tricky fixtures remaining in February - a visit to Barnsley on Saturday before hosting fourth-placed Reading and leaders Newcastle.
"We have to remember we are second in the division," the 58-year-old added to BBC Sussex.
"There are too many good sides that are pushing really hard at the top end, but we have to look after our own results.
"We mustn't get too carried away, and have to work hard to make sure we stay there."
Albion fell short of winning promotion to the Premier League last season, finishing third in the table on goal difference and then being beaten in the play-off semi-finals by Sheffield Wednesday.
Midfielder Steve Sidwell has called for his team-mates to retain their composure during the run-in.
"Other teams can pick up points but as long as we do as well, that's fine," the 34-year-old said.
"When you are under pressure you have got to deliver. If you want to go up you need to deal with the pressure."
Sidwell is one of four Albion players to have won automatic promotion to the Premier League, winning the title with Reading in 2005-06, while Hughton led Newcastle to the Championship title in 2009-10.
"I've been there and done it and if I have to pass the experience on then that's what I'll do, but there is a time and place for that," Sidwell said.
"Nothing is given on a plate for you. These are the defining moments that matter and to be a part of it is what we are all here for.
"We have a group of players that can do it and it is just about making sure it happens."
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The Brazilian was predecessor to Sepp Blatter at world football's governing body, serving from 1974 to 1998.
He resigned as Fifa's honorary president in April 2013 following an investigation into bribery allegations and was admitted to hospital the following year with a lung infection.
He was an International Olympic Committee (IOC) member from 1963 until 2011, resigning because of ill health.
"He had one idea in his head, to make football a global game with his slogan 'football is the universal language', and he succeeded," said former Fifa president Sepp Blatter.
Havelange represented Brazil in swimming at the 1936 Olympics - the year he qualified as a lawyer - before his election to the IOC.
As Fifa president he led the World Cup's expansion from 16 to 32 teams, with six competitions held under his tenure.
However, his career was also mired in controversy over bribery allegations.
In 2010, a BBC Panorama programme accused Havelange and son-in-law Ricardo Teixeira of taking millions of dollars in bribes from Swiss marketing agency International Sport and Leisure (ISL) to retain the company as Fifa's sole official marketer.
His resignation from the IOC five years ago avoided an investigation into the ISL allegations, which Havelange had denied.
In 2012, Teixeira stepped down as head of Brazil's football federation, a position he filled for 23 years, and resigned from the 2014 World Cup organising committee after coming under pressure over corruption allegations, which he also denied.
As well as swimming at the 1936 Olympics, Havelange was part of the Brazilian water polo team at the 1952 Helsinki Games and was chef de mission for the Brazilian delegation at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne.
And it was as a sports administrator, particularly in football, that Havelange made his mark.
He embarked on a career which began as president of the Metropolitan Swimming Federation in Brazil. He also became a member of the Brazilian Olympic Committee and joined the International Cycling Union in 1958.
After becoming vice-president of the Brazilian Sports Confederation, he served as president from 1958 to 1973, before he became the most powerful man in world football.
In 1974 he succeeded Britain's Sir Stanley Rous to be elected Fifa president, marshalling support among those unhappy at the perceived European domination of the world governing body.
An imposing figure, with piercing blue eyes, his astuteness as a politician and his adeptness at retaining power enabled him to hold the Fifa presidency for 24 years until being succeeded by Blatter in 1998.
When Havelange was elected president, Fifa's Zurich headquarters housed just 12 staff members. But that figure increased almost tenfold over the next two decades as Fifa's organisational responsibilities and commercial interests grew.
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It was Havelange who launched a wave of new tournaments, notably the world championships at Under-17 and Under-20 level in the late 1980s and the Fifa Confederations Cup and Fifa Women's World Cup at the start of the 1990s.
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Under the deal, he will face a minimum of seven years in prison to avoid going on trial on weapons and drugs charges.
He had been accused of conspiring with a Brooklyn street gang involved in violent drug wars.
Shmurda, whose real name is Ackquille Pollard, is best known for the hit song Hot Boy and the "Shmoney" dance which featured in one of his videos.
The rapper has been in jail since late 2014, along with 15 other defendants who were accused of crimes including murder, attempted murder and drug dealing.
A reporter for TMZ magazine, who was in court, heard their lawyer advising them to take the deal because they would never get a sympathetic jury and some of them were facing life.
If Shmurda had refused the deal and gone on trial, he would have faced decades in prison.
He has already served 20 months, which will be taken into account when a release date is set.
Highland Council have approved the plans for the facility, which will cost £7.5m.
The golf club has to be moved as part of plans to build the controversial new West Link road.
Inverness councillor Jimmy Grey said the move would make a big improvement to the course and bring major benefits to future generations.
The development will include a new clubhouse and the reshaping of a significant area of ground.
The existing course is on the route of the proposed £34m West Link road.
Using the land at Charleston would mean golfers no longer having to cross the A82 and General Booth Road when moving between holes.
The Germans had the best chance of a dour first half but Joshua Guilavogui's 20-yard shot was saved by Matz Sels.
They wrapped up victory when Julian Draxler picked out Schurrle after a driving run to the byeline.
Danijel Milicevic's shot wide from Moses Simon's cross was the closest the Belgian team came to scoring.
Dieter Hecking's Wolfsburg side have dropped to seventh in the Bundesliga after a disappointing sequence of one win in nine games, but they deserved victory against plucky but limited opponents.
Before the game, Gent coach Hein Vanhaezebrouck said his side would need a "miracle", but they lacked the attacking quality to fashion clear-cut chances.
The Belgian champions beat Valencia, Lyon and Zenit St Petersburg to qualify from the group stage, but they never threatened a repeat here.
And Schurrle's late strike ensured that Belgium's wait for a first Champions League quarter-finalist would continue.
Republic captain Seamus Coleman suffered a terrible double leg fracture in Friday's game and O'Shea is relieved he didn't also sustain a bad injury.
O'Shea, 35, played on but later had several stitches put into a shin wound.
"I was lucky considering happened to Seamus. On another night there could have been two red cards," said O'Shea.
Asked if the Real Madrid star's challenge had been late, O'Shea, who will now miss Tuesday's friendly against Iceland, said: "Maybe, but thankfully I'm walking away from it, which is no problem.
"I can't remember how many stitches it was. The doctor had to stick some in deep and a few dissolvable ones on top. Hopefully it will heal quickly."
The Sunderland defender was caught high and late by Bale, who received a yellow card for the sliding challenge in the goalless draw at the Aviva Stadium.
Wales boss Chris Coleman later launched a passionate defence of both Bale and Neil Taylor, who was sent off for his foul on Seamus Coleman, and O'Shea said he had "no problem" with physical challenges.
He said: "When you're playing England, Scotland or Wales, the games are going to be like that. They are the games you want to be involved in.
"As the opposition manager, you're going to protect your own players. In a derby game, you're going to expect some tasty tackles - but, as I said, within reason.
"There's no problem getting a hard tackle - but if it's late, it's a different story."
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O'Shea was significantly more fortunate than Coleman, who faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines after undergoing surgery on Saturday.
The Republic were disappointed not to have made their numerical advantage count during the final 20 minutes or so of the game as Serbia replaced them at the top of Group D on goal difference.
However given that they had gone into it without Robbie Brady, Shane Duffy, Ciaran Clark, James McCarthy, Harry Arter, Wes Hoolahan and Daryl Murphy, there was no sense of despondency in the Republic ranks.
"If you gave us this position at the start of the group, we'd have taken it," added O'Shea, who won his 117th cap in Friday's game.
Real Madrid's Gareth Bale, Manchester United's Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Paul Pogba, and Manchester City's Kevin de Bruyne and Sergio Aguero also feature.
Other Premier League names on the list are West Ham midfielder Dimitri Payet and Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris.
Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona's Lionel Messi are included.
Messi, who claimed a record fifth award in 2015, or Ronaldo has taken the prize every year since 2007, when AC Milan's Kaka took the honour.
Vardy and Mahrez won the Premier League with Leicester last season and Algerian Mahrez was named Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year.
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Bale scored three goals as Wales reached the Euro 2016 semi-final and won the Champions League with Real alongside Ronaldo.
Pogba, Payet and Lloris are included after finishing runners-up with France to Ronaldo's Portugal at Euro 2016.
Luis Suarez and Neymar are included alongside Barcelona team-mate Messi, the trio having scored 106 club goals combined in 2016.
France Football magazine revealed the 30-man shortlist on Monday.
Fifa ended its association with the award in September.
The prize has been awarded by France Football every year since 1956, but for the past six years it became the Fifa Ballon d'Or in association with world football's governing body.
Five Premier League players - City's Aguero, De Bruyne and Yaya Toure, Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez and Chelsea's Eden Hazard - made a 23-man shortlist last year, with Bale the only British player on the list.
Ibrahimovic and Pogba were also included last time for their performances for Paris St-Germain and Juventus respectively.
The shortlist has traditionally been trimmed to three players before the awards evening in January.
Sergio Aguero (Manchester City), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund), Gareth Bale (Real Madrid), Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid), Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City), Paulo Dybala (Juventus), Diego Godin (Atletico Madrid), Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid), Gonzalo Higuain (Juventus), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United), Andres Iniesta (Barcelona), Koke (Atletico Madrid), Toni Kroos (Real Madrid), Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich), Hugo Lloris (Tottenham Hotspur), Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City), Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Luka Modric (Real Madrid), Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich), Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich), Neymar (Barcelona), Dimitri Payet (West Ham), Pepe (Real Madrid), Paul Pogba (Manchester United), Rui Patricio (Sporting Lisbon), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Luis Suarez (Barcelona), Jamie Vardy (Leicester City), Arturo Vidal (Bayern Munich).
Wright cited a PFA Scotland survey that found more than 70% of players would prefer to play on a bad grass pitch than play on synthetic grass.
"The game is about players," Wright told BBC Scotland.
"If the figures they are talking about are a high percentage that are unhappy with them then it's quite right that something has to be looked at."
St Johnstone's McDiarmid Park pitch has come in for flak this season and Wright concedes finding the ideal surface is not easy.
"It's always easy to criticise the grass pitches when the weather is bad but pitches then get work done on them and they do improve," he said.
"Artificial is certainly different but I think it is wrong in a sporting sense.
"For example, we can't play Steven MacLean on it due to medical advice so there is something that needs to be looked at."
MacLean is the Perth club's top scorer this term with 11 goals but does not feature on artificial pitches after suffering two serious injuries while playing on synthetic surfaces.
"A few years ago I played on AstroTurf, I think I was at Hamilton, and a week or so later I had to go and see the surgeon," said the 33-year-old striker.
"I needed an operation as I had a micro-fracture. Then the same happened about a year later.
"I played on AstroTurf again and I needed another operation. I spoke to the surgeon and he advised me not to play on the AstroTurf. Now when an artificial grass game comes around the gaffer [Wright] just takes it out of my hands and tells me straight away I will not be playing."
MacLean says football is "a totally different game" when it is not played on grass, adding: "You can't move as well, it's a lot firmer and it takes your body longer to recover."
A study from the Institute of Education has examined why these children of Chinese migrants are so high-achieving.
It examined Australian schools, where 15-year olds from Chinese families are the equivalent of two years ahead of their Australian classmates.
The study pointed to factors such as hard work and parental engagement.
The high performance of Chinese and other East Asian pupils has become a feature of international education comparisons - dominating international rankings such as the Pisa tests.
But if this reflects the success of Asian school systems, it does not explain why second-generation Chinese pupils are so successful academically when they have migrated to other countries.
The study from the Institute of Education in London examined the maths results in Pisa tests of 14,000 teenagers in Australia - which showed that children from East Asian families, mostly Chinese, were much higher performing than those from Australian families or other migrants, such as from the UK.
If the Chinese in Australia had been counted in the Pisa tests as a separate country, they would have been among the highest performing in the world - only beaten by pupils in Shanghai.
But the researchers suggest there is not a simplistic explanation for this success - and that family background and parental involvement in choices about education is very significant.
The biggest single factor is that East Asian families, from China, South Korea and Japan, seem to be very successful in getting their children into good schools.
This gives pupils a substantial advantage in boosting their results. The parents of the East Asian families were also better educated than the average for Australia.
But there were also differences in how the children behaved.
The East Asian pupils put in an extra six hours of study at home each week, compared with their peers from Australian families.
"They had a very strong work ethic and were more likely to believe that they could succeed if they tried hard enough," says the research.
There were 94% of East Asian pupils who expected to go to university, much higher than the average in Australia.
John Jerrim, reader in educational and social statistics at the Institute of Education, said the study showed how pupils could develop high-level maths skills within an otherwise average school system.
He said it also showed the extent of the impact of the family background and how improving school standards could mean changes outside the classroom.
"The reality is that this may only be possible over the very long term, and will require a widespread cultural shift. All families would have to instil in their children a strong belief in the value of education - along with the realisation that hard work and sacrifice may be needed to achieve it," said Dr Jerrim.
But the analysis did not account for all the difference between the results of East Asian and other pupils in Australia. The family factors, school choice and hard work was estimated to represent about 85% of the advantage.
Dr Jerrim suggested that this could reflect the quality of pre-school education or else it could be that these pupils have "higher inherent ability".
"The influence of such factors remains an important area for future research."
That was easily the most enthusiastic reaction when I took to the streets of Aberdeen to find out how people felt about the UK voting to leave the EU.
Perhaps it was the rush to get to work or university, perhaps it was shock at the result, perhaps it was just the thick pea soup fog, but many people were reluctant to speak. I tried not to take it personally.
While the UK voted to leave, Aberdeen voters were 61.1% in favour of remaining.
Some people did not even know the overall result when I approached them.
One young lady, touching my arm apologetically, said as she rushed off: "I really don't have anything to say."
BBC Scotland took to the streets of towns and cities across the country to find out what people feel about the decision to leave the EU.
Then I spotted a lollipop man. He can't avoid me, I thought.
"I don't know the result," he said when I asked what he thought of the outcome. "You can't do anything about it now," he added, when I told him.
A young man took his headphones out when I approached him.
"I can speak to you if you walk with me," he said.
Walking at a brisk pace, the medical student said: "I have mixed feelings.
"Personally I am quite left wing and believe anything more localised is good. But I think it's quite a xenophobic vote.
"I was a little surprised at the result.
"What will Scotland do now? It's anyone's guess."
Retired architect William Mitchell, 73, said: "I am not surprised. I wanted to come out.
"Things will get bad and then improve. I expect things to dip and then we will get a grip."
Walking dogs was retired 68-year-old carer Percy Humphrey.
He didn't know the result yet. As I patted one of the dogs, I told him.
"That's made my life", he said, his eyes lighting up.
"I thought it was odds on we would not leave because of all the scaremongering.
"It will maybe help sort things out, and we can use any extra money towards all the cutbacks.
"I was hoping it would be a leave vote, but feared it would be like watching Andy Murray getting beat in another final."
He added: "There's too much going on for another independence referendum."
I had spoken to them before it emerged David Cameron announced he would step down as prime minister by October.
So I left breaking that news to others on the streets of Aberdeen to someone else.
The most serious is trust - or lack of it.
Labour insiders tell me they "got Jeremy to the right place on nuclear" - by not just committing to retaining the industry but also no longer opposing new capacity.
Yet very few voters here in Whitehaven that I spoke to this morning believed him - and some were still unaware of his position.
The second problem, though, is with Jeremy Corbyn himself.
Even some left-wing MPs tell me his leadership came up completely unprompted on the doorsteps. So messenger and message aren't fully trusted.
The third problem, though, is that while Labour is in opposition nationally - and Jeremy Corbyn says he will take on the political establishment - in areas which the party has controlled for decades it is seen as part of that establishment.
Voter after voter said to me "look at the town centre here" [pictured above] with pound shops, charity shops and bookies.
"Labour has done nothing for this area, we need new blood," said one. "I am 80 and Labour has been in charge all that time - we need a change," said another.
And that change was from the opposition to the government, standing conventional political wisdom on its head.
The 30-year-old Frenchman has agreed a two-year deal with the Bantams and becomes the League One club's seventh signing of the summer.
Vincelot spent a year with the Sky Blues, scoring four goals in 46 games after joining from Leyton Orient.
"I see Romain fitting perfectly with what we want to do here," Bradford boss Stuart McCall told the club website.
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Caroline Gardner said there was a risk the authority would need a government bailout, despite receiving more than £24.3m from ministers since 2012.
She also cited problems around a new IT system for financial issues at NHS 24.
Ms Gardner said failure to launch the system successfully meant costs were now running 73% over budget.
In her report, the auditor general said NHS Tayside had received more than £5m from the Scottish government this year to alleviate pressure arising from staffing and prescription costs and hitting performance targets.
But she added: "As well as the need to repay this support, the board has set an unprecedented savings target of £58.4m for 2016/17.
"At the same time it is forecasting a potential deficit of £11.6m and does not currently have plans in place that fully address this gap.
"Based on its financial performance to date, there is a significant risk it will require financial aid again in order to break even."
In regard to the out-of-hours service NHS 24, she said they had "invested significantly" to implement a new IT system over the past six years.
However, the crisis-hit project, which is now expected to cost £131.2m, will not be fully rolled out across Scotland until the end of next year.
Ms Gardner said the delays created risks that the service would not meet future financial targets, which would largely depend on efficiency savings.
She said: "Each of these health boards is experiencing prolonged and considerable challenges which continue to have an impact on the way they operate and deliver services.
"While action is under way to try and address these issues, there's no quick fix available and recovery will take time.
"It's important that the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish government closely monitor progress to ensure circumstances do not worsen, to the detriment of staff and service users."
In response to the report, NHS Tayside chief executive Lesley McLay said that while the financial challenges faced by the board were "extremely important", there were "other key issues" which needed to be addressed.
She added: "These include caring for a population where people are living longer and with more medical conditions and care needs, increasing demands on all our services year on year, rising prescribing costs, a large and ageing estate here in Tayside and recruitment issues."
She said that NHS Tayside was building a "five-year transformative programme" to drive change in the health authority and that the local community should be assured that "delivering person-centred and safe health services is our priority".
The auditor general is due to report on the overall financial health and performance of the NHS in Scotland later this month.
The Scottish Conservatives said NHS Tayside and NHS 24 were suffering from the SNP doing a "dreadful job".
Donald Cameron, the party's health spokesman, said: "This report details tens of millions of pounds that have been poured down the drain.
"That's cash which could have been spent on staff, repairing crumbling hospitals, or funding vital drugs."
Scottish Labour called it a "brutal" report for the Scottish government, saying the Health Minister Shona Robinson would now need to address the "huge cuts" to come at NHS Tayside.
The Scottish Greens and Scottish Liberal Democrats have also criticised the government over the report.
Ms Robison said the Scottish government took the report "very seriously".
"Patient safety is our top priority and at no point has this been compromised," she said.
"We have been working closely with NHS 24 to bring the Future Programme back on track. NHS 24 has fully acknowledged there were weaknesses in the past and has worked hard to strengthen the programme's governance arrangements.
"I am pleased that this positive progress is noted by the auditor general, who acknowledges that reasonable steps are being taken to mitigate the risk of further delay."
The minister added: "I acknowledge the issues that the auditor general raises in her report with regard to NHS Tayside and I welcome the fact that the board is putting in place a long-term plan to return to sustainable financial balance.
"The Scottish government will continue to work closely with the board to monitor their progress as they work to strengthen their financial position."
Second-placed Arbroath lost ground on the leaders by losing 2-1 at home to Annan Athletic.
Cowdenbeath missed the chance to move off the bottom of the table as they went down 2-1 to Montrose.
Berwick Rangers, Elgin City, Stirling Albion and Clyde were not in league action, with the latter two drawing 2-2 in the Scottish Cup.
At Meadowbank, David Cox's first-half penalty proved to be enough for Forfar with Aaron Dunsmore having fouled Jamie Bain.
Arbroath went ahead against Annan through Steven Doris' strike but a spot-kick brought Annan level before half time, Darren Ramsay converting after Nathan Flanagan had been felled by Ricky Gomes.
And Raffi Krissian headed the visitors level midway through the second half.
Montrose got the better of Cowden in an eventful match at Links Park.
Gerry McLauchlan's own goal put the hosts in front before the break but they had Matthew Smith sent off for a second booking with 10 minutes left.
Dean Brett struck to bring the visitors level but there was more drama when McLauchlan fouled Gary Fraser in the box.
Fraser scored the resulting penalty but then received a second yellow card for his celebration, meaning the home side finished with nine men.
Dalton Philips was told by Sir Ken, who left the business in 2008, that his plan for the chain was akin to the manure produced by his herd of cattle.
Morrisons lost £176m last year as customers moved to discount chains.
Mr Philips is cutting prices and has only just begun to offer online sales.
He is investing £1bn in price cuts over three years and plans to open 200 discount stores, following in the footsteps of other leading supermarkets.
He told the shareholders that the recent performance, which also saw a 7.1% fall in sales, was "disappointing".
Sir Ken, who is known for his forthright turn of phrase, used strong language while addressing shareholders.
He said: "The results were described by the chairman and chief executive as 'disappointing'. I personally thought they were disastrous.
"When I left work and started working as a hobby, I chose to raise cattle. I have something like 1,000 bullocks and, having listened to your presentation, Dalton, you've got a lot more bullshit than me."
Sir Ken said he had previously warned in 2009 and 2012 that changes being implemented by directors would seriously damage the business - and that the latest results proved him right.
Mr Philips' strategy is in marked contrast to the way the 55-year-old business had been run under Sir Ken, who is the son of the founder of the Bradford-based chain.
Last year Mr Philips said that when he took over four years ago the business had still been using pen-and-paper methods to check stock. Parts of the business had been 20 years behind rivals, he added, with cash still being counted manually in stores at close of business.
Also at the meeting, the chairman, Sir Ian Gibson, said he would "not be seeking re-election at next year's annual general meeting".
Referring to Sir Ian's decision, the company said in a statement: "The board will conduct an orderly process to appoint a successor.
"The board welcomes Sir Ian's continuing support as it implements its strategy. Further announcements will be made as appropriate."
Sir Ian said: "This term will take me into my eighth year on Wm Morrisons board, and this announcement gives the board time to conduct an orderly search for a new chairman and ensure a smooth transition."
In early May, managing director of retail analysts Conlumino, Neil Saunders, described the latest Morrisons figures as "woeful" and said they represented "an alarming deterioration in trade".
"The game now is one of market share stealing: any player that wants to grow has to take share from another," he said.
"Unfortunately, in this 'zero-sum game' Morrisons is a clear loser and is ceding share not only to the deep discounters but also to the other big four players."
Mr Gove told the Sunday Telegraph the next leader needed to have "embraced the vision of independence".
Mrs Leadsom told the paper it would be difficult for someone who voted Remain to see the "opportunities" of Brexit.
But Theresa May said the government "cannot just be consumed by Brexit".
The home secretary, who campaigned to remain in the EU, has become the favourite to become the next leader after Boris Johnson pulled out of the contest.
As of 18:00 BST on Friday, Mrs May had secured the backing of 96 Tory MPs, while Stephen Crabb had 22, Mrs Leadsom had 21, Mr Gove had 18 and Liam Fox had 10.
In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Mrs Leadsom said Mrs May should not become the next prime minister because she did not believe in Brexit.
"I think it's very difficult for somebody who doesn't agree with that, who is reluctantly following the wishes of the people. I think it's quite hard for them to really see the opportunities.
"I genuinely believe that if we want to make a go of it then we need somebody who believes in it."
The energy minister also said she wanted to emulate the leadership qualities of Lady Thatcher, who was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990.
She said: "As a person, she was always kind and courteous and as a leader she was steely and determined.
"I think that's an ideal combination - and I do like to think that's where I am."
The contest to become leader of the Conservative Party follows Prime Minister David Cameron's announcement he would stand down by the autumn after the UK voted to leave the EU in the 23 June referendum.
Whoever is elected Conservative leader will succeed Mr Cameron as prime minister and be responsible for negotiating the UK's exit from the EU.
Mr Gove, writing in the Sunday Telegraph, also said the next prime minister should be someone who had campaigned for Brexit.
"It is clear to me that the prime minister who takes charge of that process must be someone who embraced this vision of independence during the referendum," the justice secretary said.
"I also believe personally that the new prime minister should have experience at the top level of government and a track record of delivering change."
Mr Gove also explained how his confidence in Boris Johnson - a leading Brexit campaigner who had initially been regarded as the favourite to replace Mr Cameron - had "evaporated".
He wrote: "Over the past week, to my deep regret, my confidence evaporated.
"That led me to make the difficult decision, at no little cost, to put friendships aside and act in the national interest.
"Having declared that I didn't want to be prime minister - so often that I might as well have engraved it on my business card - I came to the uncomfortable conclusion that I was the person best qualified to deliver that change."
Former defence secretary Mr Fox, who also campaigned for Leave, also spoke to the Sunday Telegraph and said he would increase defence spending if he became leader of the party.
Meanwhile, in an interview with the Mail on Sunday, Mrs May rejected the suggestion the next leader needed to have backed Brexit.
"The government cannot just be consumed by Brexit, there is so much more to do," she said.
More than 160 Conservative MPs have yet to declare whom they will support in the leadership contest.
The candidates will take part in a series of ballots of the party's 330 MPs, starting on Tuesday.
The two most popular will then go on to a vote of the wider party membership, with the result due on 9 September.
Home Secretary Theresa May: The 59-year-old has replaced Boris Johnson as the bookies' favourite to win the contest. She's held the Home Office brief - often something of a poisoned chalice - since 2010, and is a former Tory party chairman. She says she can offer the "strong leadership" and unity the UK needs, and promised a "positive vision" for the country's future. She backed staying in the EU. Theresa May profile
Justice Secretary Michael Gove: The 48-year-old former newspaper columnist was a key figure in the party's modernisation that led to its return to power in 2010. He was a reforming, if controversial, education secretary between 2010 and 2014, and now holds the Ministry of Justice brief. He was a leading player in the Brexit campaign - which put a strain on his close friendship with David Cameron. He has pitched himself as the candidate that can provide "unity and change". Michael Gove profile
Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb: The 43-year-old was promoted to the cabinet in 2014 as Welsh secretary, and boosted his profile earlier this year when he took over as work and pensions secretary. A rising star of the Tory party he has promised to unite the party and country following the referendum result and provide stability. Raised on a council estate by a single mother, he has a back story to which many Tory MPs are attracted. Backed Remain. Stephen Crabb profile
Energy minister Andrea Leadsom: The 53-year-old former banker and fund manager was one of the stars of the Leave campaign. A former district councillor, she became MP for South Northamptonshire in 2010 and - after serving as a junior Treasury minister and as a member of the Treasury select committee - she was made a junior minister in the energy and climate change department in May last year. Andrea Leadsom profile
Former cabinet minister Liam Fox: It's second time around for the 54-year-old ex-defence secretary and GP, who came a close third in the 2005 leadership contest. His cabinet career was cut short in 2011 when he resigned following a lobbying row. A Brexit campaigner, and on the right of the party, he has said whoever becomes PM must accept "the instruction" of the British people and not "try to backslide" over EU membership. Liam Fox profile
"Pigs are the most efficient converter of food waste to calories - we need calories in this world to feed growing populations, but in the meantime all pigs throughout Europe are being fed soya which is being grown in the Amazon basin.
"Rainforests are crucial, but we are chopping them down to feed our pigs and it is just crazy."
Together with food waste expert Tristram Stuart she has launched the Pig Idea, a campaign lobbying for a return to the age-old practice of feeding leftover food to pigs.
"The Pig Idea is a crucially brilliant idea because man and pig have been living in perfect harmony and synergy for thousands of years," she says.
"Man creates waste; pig eats waste and turns it into food that we eat again. It is a perfect circle which means food has a use."
As recently as the 1990s "pig bins", into which uneaten food was placed, were a familiar sight in schools and canteens across the UK, but all of that changed when the foot-and-mouth crisis hit in 2001.
Concerns that the outbreak had started on a farm where pigs had been illegally fed unprocessed restaurant waste led to a nationwide ban on using waste from homes and catering outlets as animal feed.
Farmers are allowed to give their animals non-meat based products from food manufacturers and suppliers as long they have not reached any form of kitchen.
In 2003 the UK ban was rolled out to the whole of the European Union.
Pig farmers now rely heavily on crops such a soya beans, wheat and maize to feed their herds, food which humans could otherwise eat and which require arable land for cultivation.
"Since the ban on feeding food waste to pigs in 2001, a practice which has been going for millennia all over the world has come to an end.
"As a result we import millions more tonnes of soya from South America and that increases demand for deforestation, which contributes to biodiversity loss, interruption of hydrological cycles and contributes to global warming," Mr Stuart says.
"And of course on top of the environmental impact it puts additional strain on global food supplies... essentially our pigs in Europe are competing with people for food."
Ms Miers says that allowing pigs to eat more left-over food such as unsold bread, fruit and vegetables that are unfit for humans, would not only be good for the planet, but good for pigs and consumers too.
"If a pig is fed an incredible diversity it makes logical sense that it is going to have a better diet and going to taste better having got a much wider range of food," she says.
However, not all pig farmers agree. John Rigby, whose family was involved in the pig swill business before the ban as well as raising animals, says that feeding swill leads to a reduction in meat quality.
"The quality of the meat is far poorer. Swill contains an awful lot of animal fat, and these animal fats produce a very greasy, oily fat on the meat, it's not very presentable, it looks poor quality. No supermarket today would stock it."
Mr Rigby also says that the idea of not being able to fully account for everything that pork-producing pigs have been fed runs counter to the public's current desire to know the exact provenance of what they eat:.
"The horsemeat scandal highlights the need for traceability, the knowing where everything has come from," he says.
"I think the eye was off the ball for a certain period of time and price became very, very important rather than looking at the traceability of the food. I think currently traceability is everything and not necessarily the price tag."
A third of each of the pellets that Mr Rigby's pigs are fed is made of food such as biscuits, cakes and cereals which either have gone past their human sell-by dates, or which were surplus to requirement. The food comes directly from the manufacturers to the feed mill and is mixed in with other ingredients to provide the pigs with a balanced diet.
"Each batch of food delivered to the farm has a batch number; each batch number is traceable back to the feed mill," Mr Rigby says.
"At the feed mill the ingredients can been traced back to the supplier, the supplier holds records tracing them back to point of production, so everything is traceable almost back to the field at which it was produced."
He believes that a return to swill feeding "breaks all of the promises on traceability that the supermarkets want to put in front of the consumer".
He remembers incidents in the 1980s when swill was contaminated with bleach, pan scourers, and even light bulbs.
"If your pigs are getting fed floor cleaner and bleach because the screening process hasn't been adequate then none of it would be fit for human consumption, even if it was boiled - you can't boil bleach, you just get hot bleach."
Zoe Davies from the National Pig Association agrees that following the horsemeat contamination scandal both retailers and customers are very sensitive to where food comes from. She also cites problems with policing swill content as a matter of concern for pig farmers.
"The further you go down the food chain the more risk there is of cross-contamination. People could be well meaning but not fully understanding of why they need to keep food separated.
"Even if it was mainly vegetable, a bit of meat in there could be enough to spark the next foot-and-mouth outbreak."
However, the Pig Idea campaigners insist that they are not proposing a return to how swill was gathered and processed in the past, but a much more tightly controlled, centralised system on an industrial scale as happens in parts of South Korea, Japan and the United States.
This, they says, would instil confidence in producers and customers alike.
"We are not talking about a nostalgic return to the old way of doing things, we're talking about a really well-regulated system where waste is properly collected, properly screened on a conveyer belt, treated and made properly sterile," Mr Stuart says.
"It goes to pig farmers who turn it into pork, then it is sold on the very shop shelves from where the food waste came and nothing moves more than 20 or 30km, and it can be sold as premium eco-pork because we can say we produce pork without negative impact on the environment."
Ms Davies says the Pig Idea campaign is well intentioned, but that assuming the pig industry would take on the extra risk is "naive".
"We only produce 40% of our pork in the UK; 60% is imported," she says.
UK pig farmers are competing with European pig producers on a "really high level" and margins are very important, she said. They would not want to do anything that would risk the public's view of British pig production "or that would risk the long-term viability of their businesses".
In the Republic, energy company EirGrid has yet to seek planning permission with the Republic of Ireland's planning authorities, An Bord Pleanala.
The issue of overground pylons versus underground cabling has become one that may well feature in this year's local and European elections.
Paula Sheridan and her husband Mike live in Drumree, County Meath, about a 45-minute drive from Dublin.
Both keen gardeners, their house is 50 metres from an electricity pylon.
The wires over their property can carry up to 400,000 volts of electricity and they say the proposed north-south interconnector will double that capacity.
Paula describes the nearby pylon as "a monstrous tombstone" hanging over their home.
"What price have we paid for electricity?" she said. "Our house is worthless. We tried to sell it, nobody would buy it. Our health has been destroyed; our children's inheritance is gone. Nobody has considered that in the equation. What price have we paid?"
Paula Sheridan was treated for colo-rectal cancer last year; Mike for prostate cancer three years ago.
And while they accept it cannot be proven that the pylon caused their cancers, Mike believes there is a link.
"Having spent an awful lot of time over the last 30 years out in the garden there, I would make a link between my exposure and the cancer that I had, yeah," he said.
Those opposed to electricity pylons say the metal towers are ugly and ruin the landscape, they lower property prices, but most damning of all, they are a health risk.
But the Irish Minister for Communication, Energy and Natural Resources, Pat Rabbitte, is adamant there is no evidence that overground wires cause cancer.
He said that expert advice from the World Health Organisation suggests there is no reason for health concerns.
"It's a fairly fantastic proposition, to allege that any government or state agency would engage in infrastructural build-out that posed a health risk to people. That really is unconscionable," he said.
The planning appeal process will hear submissions in favour of putting the wires underground - a much more expensive and technically difficult process according to Mr Rabbitte, which is why, he said, more than 95% of cabling is overhead in the developed world.
He also said going underground would put 3% on electricity bills for the next 50 years.
But Colin Andrew, a chartered engineer, a geologist and a member of the North East Pylon Pressure Committee believes the extra cost of putting the cables below the soil, for the two administrations and the two electricity companies, is worth paying.
"There is a better way and all we are requesting is that the governments, north and south, and SOMI in the north and EirGrid in the south, look at the better way, which is acceptable to the communities," he said.
"We believe the total cost to the average bill-payer of undergrounding the north-south interconnector will be less than 70 cents a month or 50p a month in the north."
Overground or underground has yet to be decided on.
But the need for more electricity is not in doubt, especially for Northern Ireland, according to a senior well-informed source.
Mr Rabbitte said he accepts that people have genuine concerns about the visual impact of pylons and how they affect property prices.
However, he added: "There always has been a trade-off between the comforts of modern civilisation and an element of intrusion into the way we live.
"That's unavoidable if you are going to have electricity supply, mod cons and the power to provide jobs and industry in the regions."
For governments, voters and planners the issue of pylons, it seems, is part of the age-old dilemma - what price progress?
Isco gave Real an eighth-minute lead before Tana levelled with a firm shot.
Wales forward Bale was shown red early in the second half for shoving Jonathan Viera, who scored a penalty after a Sergio Ramos handball.
Kevin-Prince Boateng fired in moments later before Ronaldo's penalty and header earned Real a point.
Real Madrid's comeback was not enough to send them back to the top of La Liga. They now trail Barcelona by one point, although they have a game in hand on the champions.
Three days after Zinedine Zidane's side performed a great escape by coming from 2-0 down to defeat Villarreal, they produced a similar trick again.
But this result was even more extraordinary because Real played much of the second half with 10 men and were 3-1 behind until the 86th minute.
After Bale was sent off for an out-of-character shove, Las Palmas took advantage of the shell-shocked home side when Viera fired in from the spot after Ramos had handled David Simon's drive inside the area.
The Gran Canaria club, who had only managed one away win in La Liga this campaign, then added a third soon after when ex-Tottenham player Boateng beat keeper Keylor Navas to the ball to slot in.
Time was running out for Real, but they struck lucky in the 86th minute.
A firm cross from substitute James Rodriguez struck the hand of Dani Castellano. It appeared that the Las Palmas midfielder did not have time to move his hands away, but after short deliberation referee Fernandez Borbalan awarded a penalty. Ronaldo fired in from the spot.
With seconds of the match remaining, the Portugal forward, who appeared frustrated during the night, rose brilliantly to head in Rodriguez's cross.
It was an unexpected flashpoint.
Bale began the match well, setting up Alvaro Morata in the first 30 seconds to tuck home, only for the effort to be ruled out for offside.
But in the 47th minute the night took a turn for the worse for the Wales international, who only recently returned from three months out with an ankle injury.
He twice clipped the heels of Viera before the Las Palmas player reacted. Referee Borbalan was set to show Bale a yellow card before the 27-year-old aggressively shoved Viera which prompted the official to show a straight red.
His suspension will be a blow for Real, with the forward having scored two goals since his comeback.
Match ends, Real Madrid 3, Las Palmas 3.
Second Half ends, Real Madrid 3, Las Palmas 3.
Tana (Las Palmas) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Nacho (Real Madrid).
Hand ball by Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid).
Alen Halilovic (Las Palmas) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Las Palmas. Conceded by Sergio Ramos.
Goal! Real Madrid 3, Las Palmas 3. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by James Rodríguez with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Mauricio Lemos.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Dani Castellano.
Goal! Real Madrid 2, Las Palmas 3. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Penalty conceded by Dani Castellano (Las Palmas) with a hand ball in the penalty area.
Attempt saved. Jesé (Las Palmas) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by David Simón.
Attempt missed. James Rodríguez (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Karim Benzema.
Foul by Jesé (Las Palmas).
Toni Kroos (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez.
Attempt missed. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Toni Kroos with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Aythami Artiles.
Attempt blocked. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by James Rodríguez with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. James Rodríguez (Real Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card.
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Foul by David Simón (Las Palmas).
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Roque Mesa (Las Palmas).
Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Jesé (Las Palmas) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by David Simón.
Tana (Las Palmas) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nacho (Real Madrid).
Dani Castellano (Las Palmas) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid).
Attempt missed. Alen Halilovic (Las Palmas) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Dani Castellano.
Attempt saved. Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Marcelo.
Foul by Vicente Gómez (Las Palmas).
Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Las Palmas. Alen Halilovic replaces Jonathan Viera.
Attempt missed. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez.
The Interception of Communications Commissioner said the force had obtained communications data without judicial approval on five occasions.
Sir Stanley Burnton said the "failures", which affected four people, could "properly be viewed as reckless".
Police Scotland said it had taken "robust and rigorous steps" to comply with requirements in future.
The Interception of Communications Commissioner's Office (IOCCO) launched an investigation in July to determine whether Police Scotland had contravened a new code of practice for communications data introduced earlier this year.
The review is understood to relate to the murder of Emma Caldwell in 2005. A re-investigation of the case had been ordered in May this year.
The watchdog said it was "evident" that police had made applications to access communications data in order to determine a journalist's source, or an intermediary between a journalist and a source.
The report said Police Scotland's applications "failed to satisfy the requirements of necessity and proportionality" or to give due consideration to the European Convention on Human Rights.
Police said none of the four people identified as being affected was a journalist.
Police Scotland's response to the IOCCO investigation was overseen by Assistant Chief Constable Ruaraidh Nicolson.
He said there was no evidence that the breaches had been "an intentional act".
He said: "A detailed action plan was put in place as soon as the issue was highlighted by IOCCO and no further recommendations have been made to Police Scotland.
"IOCCO has also commented on the robust and rigorous steps Police Scotland has taken to ensure processes for all applications for communications data are fully compliant with the Code of Practice and all legislative requirements."
Scottish justice secretary Michael Matheson said HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland had been asked to review "the robustness of procedures around Police Scotland's counter-corruption practices".
He said: "Any breach of the Code of Practice in this area is unacceptable and I expect Police Scotland to comply fully with any recommendations made by IOCCO.
"A free press is the cornerstone of a healthy democracy and we are committed to protecting the privacy of all law-abiding members of the public, including journalists."
Journalist Eamon O Connor was working on an investigation into the Emma Caldwell inquiry in April 2015 when the breaches occurred.
He spoke to former police officers in the course of his investigation, and said the breaches struck at the heart of journalistic freedoms.
He said: "I'm extremely concerned that any source I've been in touch with might have had their communications improperly put under surveillance without judicial approval.
"None of the people I spoke to were interested in anything but getting to the truth about why things had gone so terribly wrong in the Emma Caldwell inquiry."
Mr O Connor also questioned how, if no journalists had been spied upon, the police knew who their sources were in the first place.
Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokeswoman Alison McInnes said Police Scotland and the Scottish government should be held to account over the findings.
She said: "It is not just reckless, it is outrageous that police officers thought they were above the law and simply reinforces the need for a wider inquiry into the workings of Police Scotland. By intruding on confidential exchanges without judicial approval they risk destroying the public's trust in a body that should be focusing on protecting our communities."
Margaret Mitchell of the Scottish Conservatives said it was "hugely concerning to now have confirmation that police have been spying on journalists".
Scottish Labour justice spokesman Graeme Pearson said the "reckless conduct" fell "well below the standards we expect of our police service".
He said: "These breaches must have been approved at a very senior level by someone. I want to know who, why, when and where these approvals were sought and authorised."
They include three sisters who developed breast tumours within 15 months of each other.
The 100,000 Genomes Project in England will look at their DNA, and that of thousands of other patients, to help the search for precision treatments and understand how tumours develop.
Cancer Research UK said the project was "very exciting".
In November 2013, Mary Lloyd was diagnosed with breast cancer, as was her younger sister Kerry two months later. In February the following year their sister Sandra was diagnosed too.
Mary, 61 and from Northampton, told the BBC News website: "It was really unbelievable.
"I had just retired and made plans, then to find out Kerry also had breast cancer - she's got two children still at school - it was just awful.
"Sandra had almost prepared herself [for her diagnosis] and she was devastated as well.
"But because we're sisters together we've been able to support one another. That's really important as the treatment is horrendous."
Cancer is a genetic disease caused by mutations in our DNA that lead to cells dividing uncontrollably.
The sisters are taking part in the 100,000 Genomes Project, run within the NHS, which is trying to understand the mutations that cause or increase the risk of cancer.
It will also determine the drugs that can target tumours. Herceptin works only in patients with specific mutations.
"It's classed as the beginning of the end of chemotherapy," said Dr Julian Barwell, a consultant in clinical genetics at the the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.
He told the BBC: "This is the first step for the NHS into genomic medicine. If successful it will give individual tumour profiles and identify which drugs are likely to benefit you. It's hugely exciting."
Not every patient will benefit from the study, but the understanding of the mutations that lead to their cancer will help in the development of "precision therapies" targeting the weak spots in tumours.
Sir Harpal Kumar, the chief executive of Cancer Research UK, said: "We hope that, one day, treatments based on the specific characteristics of the tumour, including the genetic make-up, can be offered to all patients - and this latest phase of the 100,000 Genomes Project is another important step towards this."
The project will also aim to uncover why tumours develop. The three sisters might have been at a genetically higher risk of developing cancer.
Mary told the BBC: "We agreed to take part because we don't have the common BRCA 1 or 2 genes [which led Angelina Jolie to have her breasts removed] so it could help to find a gene that hasn't been identified yet.
"And it opens it up for the rest of our family to be tested and for everyone else out there that might be facing a similar situation."
The 100,000 Genomes Project is spilt into two halves, one looking at cancer and the other rare diseases.
This month, the first children with debilitating "mystery" rare diseases were given a diagnosis as part of the study.
Four-year-old Georgia Walburn-Green's condition had baffled doctors and specialists.
They had been unable to explain why she was growing slowly, had damaged eyes and kidneys and is still unable to talk.
The 100,000 Genomes Project was able to identify the gene responsible for her condition.
Life Sciences Minister George Freeman said the start of the cancer phase was a "significant milestone in the revolutionary 100,000 Genomes Project".
He said: "It will help to unlock our understanding of the causes of this devastating condition, make the UK a leader in genetic research, and provide better diagnosis and more targeted treatment for thousands of NHS patients across the UK."
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Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union members are set to hold a 24-hour strike from 17:00 BST on 4 June and a 48-hour strike from 17:00 BST on 9 June.
On Thursday the union rejected a fresh pay offer by Network Rail.
Both sides have been talking with conciliation service Acas since Friday.
The workers, including signallers and maintenance staff, are also planning to ban overtime from 6-12 June.
The RMT's 16,000 members at Network Rail work across the company's operations and maintenance departments.
A planned strike over last week's bank holiday was suspended after Network Rail tabled a revised pay offer to workers.
Network Rail originally offered a four-year deal of a single £500 payment followed by three years of rises in line with RPI inflation.
But the revised offer was for two years, with a 1% rise this year, and a rise of about 1.4% next year. It was also established that there would be no compulsory redundancies for the duration of the agreement.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has previously said he considered strike action "unnecessary and unreasonable".
Eloise Dixon, 46, from Gravesend, was in a car with her husband and children in Angra dos Reis on Sunday when the attack happened, according to reports.
Ms Dixon, 46, was shot twice, once in the abdomen, and is now recovering.
Max Dixon, 46, a Bromley firefighter and former paratrooper "dealt with the situation calmly," Hazel Dixon said.
"He just wanted to get out of it as quickly as possible - to the nearest hospital.
"He told me the car was riddled with bullets," she added.
The attack occurred in the first week of their family holiday.
The couple had been travelling in the car with their three children Isabella, 13, Holly, eight, and seven-year-old Alice.
It is believed a language mix-up led the family, from Hayes, south-east London, into the Agua Santa neighbourhood - a coastal resort about 90 miles (145 km) from Rio de Janeiro.
Authorities said a group approached the car and told the family to get out, but the Dixons did not understand the request.
The group then reportedly opened fire.
Ms Dixon said her daughter-in-law, a part-time classroom assistant at a primary school in Hayes, was lucky to be alive.
She said the family, who travelled a lot and liked to go to adventurous places, were just one week into a three week holiday when the attack happened.
The 46-year-old underwent two hours of surgery and is now in a stable condition waiting to be transferred to a private hospital in Rio de Janeiro.
The 23-year-old has agreed a four-year contract with the Championship side.
A product of Chievo's youth system, Ekuban spent last season on loan in Albania with FK Partizani, for whom he played in the the Champions League and Europa League preliminary rounds.
Ekuban will join the Leeds squad on their pre-season tour of Austria later this week.
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Parts of the discussions are expected to involve funding for Northern Ireland. How much government money already goes there?
HM Treasury breaks down public spending between Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Only about 88% of government spending may be divided in this way, the remaining 12% is on things like defence, which are counted in the statistics as benefiting everyone in the UK equally.
Northern Ireland has more of the identifiable spending per head than Scotland and Wales, receiving 21% more than the UK as a whole.
Next in line comes Scotland, which is 16% above the average and Wales at 10% above. England spends 3% per head below the overall UK figure.
The figures include spending by devolved administrations as well as UK government departments.
There are some differences between what counts as public spending - for example, water supply counts as being in the public sector in Scotland and Northern Ireland but in the private sector in England and Wales.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has recently published experimental statistics on the distribution of public spending throughout the UK, which also found that Northern Ireland had the highest per person funding.
The UK is a net contributor, but if you look at how EU structural and investment funds are distributed among the nations, Wales comes out on top by a long way, with 142 euros (£126) per person per year.
Northern Ireland receives 57 euros (£50) per person, which is 58% above the UK average of 36 euros (£32).
While England gets the most funding overall with 1.5bn euros (£1.3bn) a year, it gets the lowest amount per person at 28 euros (£25).
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The hack, quickly claimed by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), raises questions over the consequences of such misinformation and the group behind the string of hacks targeting numerous news websites and their Twitter accounts.
The group of online hackers and activists claim to be supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and seek to counter what it calls "fabricated news" on Syria broadcast by Arab and Western media.
On its website, the SEA describes itself as "a group of enthusiastic Syrian youths who could not stay passive towards the massive distortion of facts about the recent uprising in Syria".
Operating via the social media platforms of Facebook and Twitter, the SEA has launched organised spamming campaigns and denial of service attacks on individual, group and organisation websites that they believe undermine the legitimacy of the Syrian government.
Among the early spamming targets were the Facebook accounts of US President Barack Obama and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
The SEA's goal is clearly political. On its website, the group accuses pro-opposition groups and activists of using Facebook to "spread their destructive ideas…urging demonstrators to terrorise the civilians who refuse to join their demonstrations and attack public facilities".
As yet it is unclear how the SEA is linked, if at all, to the Syrian government, a claim the group appears to have so far rejected. An affiliate website said to be designed by members of the group denies receiving orders from the Syrian authorities.
Toronto University's Citizen Lab Senior Researcher Helmi Noman has been tracking the group since it first surfaced online in 2011.
Mr Noman discovered that the SEA's now defunct website was registered by the Syrian Computer Society which used to be headed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
However, he says while there are "intriguing connections" between the two, this does not go much beyond "tacit support that would be required for such a group to operate on Syrian networks".
The hacking group has been active since 2011, but has upped the ante in recent months.
The group's website posts the latest details of its hacks in English and Arabic, accompanied by screen grabs of hacked Twitter accounts and video clips from media outlets reporting the group's activity. It seems to relish in the media attention it attracts.
The SEA also publishes leaked documents obtained through hacked email accounts, including the inbox of Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi.
US website Buzzfeed has compiled a snapshot of all of the latest hacks, including the attack on CBS's 60 Minutes Twitter account which claimed that "professionals under US regime protection" were behind the Boston Marathon bombing.
The website of National Public Radio was also taken over this month with the words "Syrian Electronic Army Was Here".
The BBC was no exception, with the BBC Weather, Arabic and Ulster Twitter accounts all hacked in March.
Tweets such as "Chaotic weather forecast for Lebanon as the government decides to distance itself from the Milky Way" and "Saudi weather station down due to head on-collision with camel" baffled Twitter users.
These were interspersed with explicit anti-Israel and pro-Assad tweets such as "Tsunami alert for Haifa: Residents are advised to return to Poland" and "Long live #Syria Al-Assad #SEA".
The government of Qatar, which has openly supported and financed the Syrian opposition since the start of the unrest, has been a prominent target of the SEA. Qatari-backed al-Jazeera TV and the Qatar Foundation have both been hacked.
The group has also claimed that it hacked Fifa President Sepp Blatter's Twitter account, focussing on allegations that Qatar bribed officials to win approval for its 2022 World Cup bid.
A bogus tweet supposedly from Fifa's Twitter account wrongly alleged that Mr Blatter was going to step down following corruption charges.
Speaking to the BBC's Newsday, Bloomberg News Social Media Director Jared Keller said the SEA had been active for several years and the cyber attacks had "almost become routine".
"Every few months we can expect to see a media outlet or government institution hijacked by the Syrian Electronic Army and they have hit basically every media outlet on the planet from ABC News, to Reuters to now the Associated Press."
The BBC and AP both reported phishing emails sent to staff around the same time the accounts were hacked.
Soon after the attack on AP's Twitter account, AP reporter Mike Baker tweeted: "The @AP hack came less than an hour after some of us received an impressively disguised phishing email."
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos IT security company, says while it is unclear how the group are hacking into these mainstream media accounts, phishing cannot be ruled out.
"It is possible email accounts were phished. This is where users can be tricked into entering their Twitter passwords through trivial emails that appear to be from Twitter, partner organisations or even your own organisation."
Mr Cluley also suggested staff computers may have been infected with key logging software which allows everything typed to be seen and logged by hackers.
"There are lots of ways to scoop up passwords. It is very simple to do - it happens many thousands of times a day, fairly rudimentary stuff," he adds.
The latest hacking case raises questions over the need for increased password security for websites such as Twitter, with calls for the two-step authentication service.
The BBC says lessons were learned from the hacking incident and it is keeping measures vigorous and up-to-date to prevent future attacks.
In the meantime, Twitter seems to be launching its own battle with the SEA, banning each account set up by the group.
The SEA responds in kind by adding new accounts to the website noting in its Twitter handle the number of accounts set up in defiance of the ban and it has just created a seventh account.
The body of Kirk Cole, 36, was found in a flat in Cairnhill Drive at about 09:15 on Thursday.
Following a post-mortem examination on Friday, police said they were now treating the death as murder.
A Police Scotland spokesman said relatives had been made aware and a report would be sent to the procurator fiscal.
Det Ch Insp Alan McAlpine, of Police Scotland's Major Crime Investigation Team, said: "My officers are currently reviewing CCTV and carrying out door-to-door inquiries.
"Our initial inquiries have revealed that Mr Cole was with a friend within a flat in Cairnhill Drive from around 2100hrs on Wednesday 21 June.
"We also believe that at least one person, possibly more, arrived at the flat during that night and into the early hours of the morning.
"Early indications suggest that there may have been a disturbance at the flat during the night and therefore it is vital that anyone who was with Mr Cole since 2100hrs on Wednesday 21 June until the early hours of Thursday morning contact police immediately."
He added: "A police incident caravan will remain at the scene and there will be extra patrols in the area. However, I must stress that there is no information to suggest that anyone else in the local area is at risk.
"I'd encourage local residents to speak to the officers in the area if they have any concerns."
Petro Poroshenko said the will of the Ukrainian people was to eventually join the Western military alliance.
Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said any decision on future membership would be up to the 29 alliance members.
Russia has repeatedly criticised Nato's expansion in eastern Europe and objects to Ukraine becoming a member.
Ukraine faces many obstacles on the road to membership, including the conflict in the east of the country.
Mr Poroshenko was speaking after holding talks with Mr Stoltenberg in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.
"Ukraine has clearly defined its political future and future in the sphere of security," he said.
"Today we clearly stated that we would begin a discussion about a membership action plan and our proposals for such a discussion were accepted with pleasure."
Such a plan would set targets on political, economic and defence reforms.
But Ukraine could face bigger barriers, such as the demand that any international disputes should be settled by peaceful means, as stated by Nato rules.
That means having to resolve the situation in the Crimean peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, a move not recognised by the government in Kiev.
Given the challenges, analysts say any prospect of membership is still years away.
Nato, the most powerful regional defence alliance
Mr Stoltenberg said he welcomed the fact that Ukraine was moving towards meeting Nato standards, regardless of membership.
In a clear reference to Russia, he said that every nation could decide its own path and no-one else had the right to lean on them or veto the process.
He also called on Moscow to withdraw "thousands of soldiers" from Ukraine, despite Russia's denial of having any troops in the country.
Reacting to Mr Poroshenko's remarks, a Russian government spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said: "For many years Russia has been worried by Nato's military infrastructure moving closer to our borders, potentially this could be the next step.
"It will not boost stability and security in the European continent."
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The magistrate ordered the preliminary hearing to be held behind closed doors after chaotic scenes as lawyers denounced one of their colleagues who had offered to defend the accused.
The next hearing will take place on 10 January. The trial is expected to be referred to a new fast-track court.
The case has shocked India and prompted a debate about the treatment of women.
By Andrew NorthBBC News, Delhi
There could hardly be a more poignant place for this case to be happening. On the other side of the road from the Delhi court and the battalions of TV satellite trucks covering the trial is the cinema where the 23-year-old student and her friend watched the film Life of Pi on the evening of 16 December and then tried to get a taxi home.
After being turned down by several rickshaw drivers, they boarded a bus they thought was offering a legitimate passenger service.
It feels a lot more than three weeks ago now, with the protests and angry debate her rape and killing has started in India.
A wary police force spirited the five accused men into the court unseen - as a whole country now finds itself on trial.
The hearing comes as four policemen have been suspended over the handling of another suspected rape and murder case near Delhi over the weekend.
The father of a 21-year-old woman whose body was found on Saturday has told the BBC she was gang-raped.
He said police initially failed to react when he reported her disappearance, suggesting instead that she had gone off with someone.
The case has triggered protests in the Delhi suburb of Noida, where the woman was employed in a factory.
Two men have been arrested and a third suspect is reported to have fled.
The five men were taken to the court in the Saket district of Delhi on Monday, where they were given the full list of charges against them, including abduction, rape and murder.
The hearing was initially supposed to take place in open court, but there were chaotic scenes as lawyers argued with each other over representation for the accused.
Magistrate Namrita Aggarwal adjourned the hearing, moving it behind closed doors.
It was not the most encouraging beginning to what the government has promised will be a fast-track legal process for this and other rape crimes, says the BBC's Andrew North, who has been outside the court in Saket.
The Saket district lawyers' association has refused to defend the accused because of the outcry the crime has provoked.
A van carrying the five suspects has now left the court, our correspondent says.
A sixth suspect, who is thought to be 17, will be tried separately in a youth court if it is confirmed he is a minor.
If convicted, the suspects could face the death penalty. Prosecutors have said they have extensive forensic evidence.
The five accused have been named as Ram Singh, his brother Mukesh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur.
Two of the suspects have offered to give evidence, possibly in return for a lighter sentence.
The victim and a male friend were attacked on a bus in south Delhi on 16 December. She died two weeks later in a hospital in Singapore.
Campaigners are calling for tougher rape laws and reforms to the police, who - critics say - often fail to file charges against accused attackers.
The victim's father has denied weekend reports in a British newspaper that he wanted his daughter's name published.
He told BBC Hindi last week that he would have no problem with her name being used on a new law against rape.
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The vote was 28-24 in favour of the country which declared independence from Serbia in 2008. The Serbs strongly opposed Kosovo's election.
Kosovo played their first international friendly in 2014 after being granted permission by football's global governing body Fifa.
Joining Uefa means they can now apply to Fifa and could play in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup if accepted.
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Senator Leila de Lima is accused of receiving money from detained drug lords.
She has insisted on her innocence and says the charges are an attempt to silence her criticism of Mr Duterte's war against drugs.
She had spent the night in the Senate in Manila to evade arrest on Thursday.
But on Friday morning she surrendered to police, telling reporters: "It is my honour to be imprisoned for the things I am fighting for.
"They will not be able to silence me and stop me from fighting for the truth and justice and against the daily killings and repression by the Duterte regime."
Ms de Lima's charges stem from when she was a justice minister between 2010 and 2016.
She is accused of abetting the drug trade by extorting money from inmates in the notorious New Bilibid Prison, who in turn raised money by trafficking drugs within the jail.
Ms de Lima has been one of the most vocal critics of Mr Duterte and his brutal nationwide drug war, launched in July last year. More than 7,000 people have been killed.
Critics say the president has encouraged police, vigilantes and mercenaries to shoot suspected drug dealers and users on sight, but the president continues to enjoy a high level of support among Filipinos.
Mr Duterte has defiantly defended the crackdown, saying the country is plagued by drugs and that police were only authorised to open fire when threatened by suspects
President Duterte has had Senator Leila de Lima in his sights for a long time.
As head of the human rights commission she launched an inquiry against Mr Duterte's alleged involvement in death squads in Davao, where he was mayor. She also led the Senate hearings into extra-judicial killings after the president started his war on drugs last year.
In August, Mr Duterte called her "an immoral woman", and accused her of involvement in the drug trade, using her driver, with whom she had been having an affair.
Eight prison inmates were brought to the House of Representatives to testify against her - she said they were coerced or induced, and has accused Mr Duterte of being a serial killer.
The long-standing animosity between the president and the senator has inevitably prompted suspicion that her arrest is driven by personal and political factors. Human Rights Watch has condemned the arrest as an act of "political vindictiveness that debases the rule of law in the Philippines".
How her case is handled now will be a test of the much-criticised criminal justice system in the Philippines. Senator de Lima's high profile will ensure there is close international scrutiny.
There will also be heightened interest in how Mr Duterte deals with his few remaining critics inside the political system. He has now been forced to suspend his brutal drug war, and he faces allegations of past involvement in death squads that just won't go away.
Senator de Lima isn't the only one under pressure.
Double Oscar winner Michael Cimino's body was found at his Los Angeles home on Saturday, Eric Weissmann said.
Cimino, 77, who directed a total of eight films, will be remembered for a career of highs and lows.
While The Deer Hunter has been hailed as one of the best movies in Hollywood history, his next project, Heaven's Gate, was derided as a flop.
Mr Weissmann said Cimino's body was found after friends had been unable to contact him. No cause of death has yet been determined.
The Deer Hunter with its famous Russian roulette scene starred Robert de Niro and Christopher Walken and won five Oscars including the award for the best film in 1979.
It chronicles the lives of a group of friends from a Pennsylvania town and the devastating effect of the Vietnam War, both on those who fought in it and those who stayed at home in small-town America.
"Our work together is something I will always remember. He will be missed," De Niro said in a statement.
Based on the success of The Deer Hunter, Cimino wrote and directed Heaven's Gate, loosely based on the Wyoming Johnson County war of 1889-93.
It was a financial disaster that went four times over budget and a year behind schedule, It nearly bankrupted the United Artists studio.
But the film, starring Christopher Walken and Kris Kristofferson, has more recently been hailed as a masterpiece.
Cimino in his earlier career was an advertising executive who moved into film with the Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges crime caper, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, in 1974.
He also directed Desperate Hours (1990), starring Mickey Rourke and Anthony Hopkins, and the gangster film The Sicilian (1986), adapted from a novel by Godfather author Mario Puzo.
Correspondents say Heaven's Gate led to the demise of director-driven productions in the late 1970s and the imposition of tighter controls on film budgets.
The exact causes behind the Permian-Triassic mass extinction have been much debated.
Two separate pulses of CO2 into the atmosphere - a "one-two punch" - may have helped fuel the die-off, new research suggests.
Changes to ocean acidity would have been one of the consequences, according to the study in Science journal.
Computer models suggested that this CO2 may have been released by massive bouts of volcanism from the Siberian Traps, now represented as a large region of volcanic rock in northern Eurasia.
The Permian-Triassic mass extinction, which took place 252 million years ago, wiped out more than 90% of marine species and more than two-thirds of the animals living on land.
The event is thought to have played out over a 60,000-year period and acidification of the oceans lasted for about 10,000 years.
The team led by Dr Matthew Clarkson from the University of Edinburgh analysed rocks unearthed in the United Arab Emirates - which were on the ocean floor at the time.
The rocks preserve a detailed record of changing oceanic conditions at the time. They then developed a climate model to work out what drove the extinction.
The researchers think the rapid rate of release of carbon was a crucial factor in driving the ocean acidification.
The carbon was released at a similar rate to modern emissions. Dr Clarkson commented: "Scientists have long suspected that an ocean acidification event occurred during the greatest mass extinction of all time, but direct evidence has been lacking until now.
"This is a worrying finding, considering that we can already see an increase in ocean acidity today that is the result of human carbon emissions."
Jet Reaction had hoped to reach speeds of 400mph (643km/h) at Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire, on Saturday.
The bike was to undergo tests on the beach ahead of a world record attempt in the US in September.
The Jet Reaction team tweeted they were hoping for better ground conditions on Sunday to allow a demonstration run.
The bike, which has a helicopter turbine engine, was built by Oxford engineer Richard Brown.
He hopes to beat US rider Rocky Robinson's 2010 world record of 376mph (605km/h) during a world land speed record attempt at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, USA in the autumn.
The bike, which cost £100,000 and took four years to build, had hoped to challenge a number of British speed records during the test runs in Wales this weekend.
If the bike eventually hits its target speed, it would cover 586ft (178 metres) a second.
Talking about his record bid, engineer Mr Brown said: "A land speed record is one of the finest opportunities any team can have to demonstrate engineering innovation.
"The challenge is to engineer a superior machine making it the best in the world.
"It is also an opportunity to demonstrate how a small team of talented individuals without vast financial support can produce a world-class vehicle."
Pendine Sands has been used for numerous world speed records over the decades.
The first person to use it for that purpose was Sir Malcolm Campbell on 25 September, 1924.
He set a world land speed record of 146mph (235km/h) in his Sunbeam 350HP car Bluebird.
The Italian, 60, missed Wednesday's victory over Arsenal, hours after he was first admitted in London.
He saw a respiratory specialist after failing to fully respond to treatment.
"He remains in a comfortable position and is making good progress but doctors have advised he misses this game to continue his recovery," Swansea said.
"He is expected to remain in hospital over the weekend before his release.
"Everyone at Swansea City continue to wish him a speedy recovery.
"Alan Curtis will continue to carry out his duties for the fixture against the Canaries."
Swans coach Curtis took charge of the side at Emirates Stadium and said the win will have lifted Guidolin's spirits.
After Saturday's game against relegation rivals Norwich, the Swans travel to Bournemouth on 12 March and then bottom club Aston Villa visit the Liberty Stadium on 19 March.
Wednesday's victory moved Swansea six points above the relegation zone in 16th place.
The country's currency, the rand, has lost ground, bonds and banking shares have fallen and there is a general air of impending doom.
Of the big three ratings agencies, only Standard & Poors has lowered South Africa's sovereign debt to below investment grade.
Should Moody's or Fitch follow suit, big international investors like pension funds would be forced, under their own rules, to sell their South African government debt. Those rules require two of the three to move to junk status.
South Africa's major banks have been quick to point out that they are financially sound and well-positioned to withstand the impact of sovereign rating downgrades.
Nonetheless, banking shares are taking a significant battering.
But the turmoil on the currency, bond and equity markets will spread to the wider economy soon enough.
As the rand falls, inflation will increase. This is because the price of imported goods rises in local currency terms. The flip side of this is that exports become cheaper and more competitive.
As inflation increases, the central bank, the Reserve Bank, will have to increase interest rates as a counter measure. This makes the cost of mortgages, home loans and any other borrowing ordinary South Africans want to do more expensive.
It also makes the cost of borrowing for companies more expensive and, as such, plays a role in slowing economic growth.
Higher borrowing costs and slowing economic growth can lead to job losses. South Africa's economy grew by just 0.3% last year and is not expected to top 1% this year.
In fact, some economists are saying the downgrade to junk has the potential to trigger another recession.
Getting out of junk status is difficult. According to Bloomberg, over the past 30 years only six of the 20 countries that have fallen into junk status have managed to claw their way out of it.
And the time taken for those who re-acquired an investment grade rating ranges from 13 months to 11 years. The average time is around seven years.
So, has the mirror cracked? Are South Africans in line for seven years of bad luck?
The initial signs are not good. But up until now the ratings agencies have been pretty patient with South Africa.
They warned that political infighting and slow economic growth were the main factors that could lead to a downgrade.
And they have been saying that for over a year.
What kept the finger off the junk status button was confidence in former Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, but also a knowledge that South Africa has strong institutions and a working democracy.
It also has a number of sectors which are among some of the best in the world, particularly mining and financial services.
If a good degree of political stability can be achieved quickly and sustained going forward, the chances of South Africa pulling itself out of junk status in less than seven years improve dramatically.
If not, the country risks falling off the radar of the international investment community. If that happens, times could get tough, and stay tough for millions of South Africans.
The Football League had approved the deal on Tuesday after Eren passed their Owners and Directors Test.
Chairman Dave Pottinger, chief executive Michael Dunford, Ian Carter and Matt Turner have all resigned from Crawley's board of directors.
Eren had been in negotiations to buy the Reds, who were first put up for sale in March 2013, since October.
"We thank supporters for their patience during the sale process and we look forward to an exciting new era in the history of our club," a statement on the Crawley website said.
Eren, who is also involved in football in Turkey, is expected to issue a statement of his own on Thursday, but has set a target of reaching the Championship in eight to 10 years.
"The prospect of making this club fulfil its potential is an exciting challenge," he said last month.
"It has always been a desire to apply my football philosophy in England, the home of football.
"Over the past year, I have actively sought the right club. When we heard of the prospect of Crawley, I knew immediately it was the right choice."
Ok, so it's not a real zebra, but a much loved statue called Gilbert.
It was part of Marwell Wildlife zoo's mass art extravaganza with 149 other sculptures marking a path for visitors to follow through the city.
But disaster struck - Gilbert was stolen and the zoo has launched a campaign for the statue to be returned.
Only one team will be promoted from Division Two this summer to reduce the number of top-tier teams in 2017.
A top division of eight teams will be introduced, down from nine, with 10 counties in the second.
"It makes things more difficult in the short term," Morris said.
"But we've got a slightly stronger squad this year, we've certainly got a slightly deeper squad, and we've got a very motivated squad.
"We've got the balance that can certainly challenge to go up.
"It's not going to be easy, it never is, it's going to be slightly more difficult this year.
"But we want to keep up the momentum we started with at the beginning of last year."
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Glamorgan finished fourth in Division Two in 2015 after being second for part of the campaign.
Despite winning four matches in a row they failed to add to their victories in the latter part of the season.
Former England spin bowler Robert Croft has replaced Toby Radford as Glamorgan's head coach ahead of the new County season, which starts at home to Leicestershire on 17 April.
They have signed Netherlands fast bowler Timm van der Gugten and young Australian batsman Nick Selman, as well as converting all-rounder Craig Meschede's loan spell into a three-year contract.
Morris is confident Glamorgan can be part of any future city-based Twenty20 league, designed to copy the success of Australia's Big Bash.
The counties have voted to continue with a north-south split and an 18-team competition for the time being,
But Morris says the county will be part of continuing discussions with the ECB over the next 12 months.
The former England batsman hopes that Cardiff's SSE Swalec Stadium will host matches even if the number of teams competing is reduced.
"We're very fortunate we have got a great stadium," he said at the launch of a new BTEC Sport Studies qualification in conjunction with Fitzalan High School in Cardiff.
"Cardiff is one of the sporting capitals of the UK, we're using to holding major events and major teams here.
"Any potential changes that are going to happen, we feel we'll be able to respond to really positively."
Martyn Driscoll and Alan Stone ran the length of a marathon to create the art work using the running app Strava.
The 28-mile (45km) route in Upper Brynamman, Carmarthenshire, took them more than eight hours.
The route was plotted by tracing the dragon's outline on a map and then using the app to track their run.
When uploaded to Strava, the route shows up as a picture.
The pair did their dragon run on 1 April and said their friends did not believe it was real at first - but they eventually convinced them it was genuine and not an April Fool.
Mr Stone, 57, from Whitchurch, said: "We needed to chose an area which was quite big, on open land with no fences, major rivers or roads or cliffs to fall off.
"You just have to follow the way the app is showing you. There were a couple of quarries we had to go around, so if you look at the tail it's a bit wobbly.
"I don't think anyone has done anything so detailed over such a large area before. It was great fun and kept us entertained on a wet day."
Mr Driscoll, 38, from Radyr, said the pair were inspired by other people doing similar things on Strava from across the world.
"The images people have created are quite basic and we wanted to test ourselves. What could be better than doing the Welsh dragon?" he said.
"It was quite easy to navigate using an iPhone with a spare battery pack.
"We are both competent runners but it took us a lot longer than we thought. At the bottom there was a huge bog which slowed us down, but we persevered."
A number of "Strava artists" have previously made headlines for using the cycling app to plot drawings.
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Stephane Smith, born in Brazil but raised in the UK, scored from a penalty corner for the host nation's first ever goal at an Olympics.
But the team ranked 30th in the world were soon overwhelmed as GB struck nine goals without reply.
GB, who had lost to Belgium and drawn with New Zealand in Pool A, are third in the table.
The top four from each group progress to the quarter-finals, with Britain still to play Australia and pool leaders Spain.
Brazil, having shipped 12 goals against Belgium and seven against Spain in their opening fixtures, turned out to be the ideal opponents to give GB a much needed first victory of the Games.
And after the Rio crowd had celebrated the opener for the home side, GB responded with two goals each from Barry Middleton, Sam Ward and Ashley Jackson as well as strikes from Adam Dixon, Harry Martin and Mark Glerghorne.
Australia could have gone above Britain with a win, but Belgium's Tanguy Cosyns struck to secure a 1-0 victory, and Spain top Pool A after a 3-2 victory over New Zealand.
The Netherlands registered an emphatic 7-0 win over Canada in Pool B with Mink van der Weerden scoring three goals, while India beat Argentina 2-1. Pool leaders Germany beat Ireland 3-2 to leave the Irish winless after three games.
Callum McGregor's superbly placed finish put the Premiership champions ahead during a dominant first half from Brendan Rodgers' side.
Scott Sinclair squeezed in a penalty after Rangers' James Tavernier had fouled Leigh Griffiths.
Goalkeeper Craig Gordon twice denied Kenny Miller in Rangers' best attacks.
But the Ibrox side could not prevent the first defeat of Pedro Caixinha's reign as manager and must now focus on securing European qualification through the league.
Celtic have already won that tournament and the League Cup and will face the Dons back at the national stadium on 27 May - the second Aberdeen-Celtic cup final this season - hoping to complete the domestic clean sweep for the first time since 2001.
This was a difficult day for Rangers, but one can only speculate as to how much sorer it might have been had Andy Halliday been sent off after lunging in on Patrick Roberts early on. The Rangers midfielder took Roberts out and was fortunate to see yellow instead of red.
Quickly, Celtic took hold of things and their greater intensity, accuracy and quality paid off with the opener. Mikael Lustig hit a long ball over Danny Wilson's head and into Moussa Dembele, who took it down, looked around him and saw McGregor steaming forward untracked.
The Frenchman played it to McGregor, who stroked it coolly into the corner of Wes Foderingham's net.
Celtic were dominant but their mission was not helped when they lost Dembele to a hamstring injury just before the half-hour. Griffiths came on.
Rangers had been fortunate to escape a dismissal earlier with Halliday and were lucky again when Myles Beerman, already on a yellow for fouling Roberts, impeded him again a minute later.
Beerman survived, but it was not long before Rangers' hopes of a cup final appearance were extinguished.
Caixinha made two substitutions at the break - Joe Dodoo coming on for the peripheral Joe Garner and Barrie McKay replacing Halliday - but no sooner had those changes bedded in than Celtic hit their opponents on the counter-attack and smoothed their passage to the final.
It was Dedryck Boyata who broke up a Rangers attack and got his team on the front foot. Roberts took it on and put Griffiths into the box, where he was taken down by Tavernier. The spot-kick from Sinclair found the target via Foderingham's diving hands and then the inside of his right-hand post.
There could have been more. Foderingham tipped over Griffiths' shot, Boyata headed over and Roberts had one saved. Celtic then lost their edge and Rangers got on top and started creating chances - good ones.
Just after the hour, Miller had a close-range header saved by Gordon. The striker might have done a whole lot better.
Then, with 10 minutes left, he had another opportunity - a point-blank shot kicked away by Gordon. Again, it was the type of opening that Rangers had to convert.
Martyn Waghorn headed over from a good position, Dodoo forced a diving save from Gordon and, at the other end, McGregor's replacement Tom Rogic hit a post for Celtic.
Those late chances will give Rangers hope for their Old Firm league meeting at Ibrox on Saturday - but Celtic's victory was well earned and their treble dream remains very firmly on track.
Match ends, Celtic 2, Rangers 0.
Second Half ends, Celtic 2, Rangers 0.
Corner, Rangers. Conceded by Craig Gordon.
Attempt saved. Joseph Dodoo (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Tomas Rogic (Celtic) hits the left post with a right footed shot from outside the box.
Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Josh Windass (Rangers).
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Myles Beerman.
Tomas Rogic (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Tomas Rogic (Celtic).
Jason Holt (Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Martyn Waghorn (Rangers) header from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Corner, Rangers. Conceded by Dedryck Boyata.
Substitution, Celtic. James Forrest replaces Patrick Roberts.
Danny Wilson (Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Leigh Griffiths (Celtic).
Attempt saved. Kenny Miller (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Jozo Simunovic (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Barrie McKay (Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jozo Simunovic (Celtic).
Attempt missed. Kenny Miller (Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Josh Windass (Rangers).
Substitution, Celtic. Tomas Rogic replaces Callum McGregor.
Foul by Scott Sinclair (Celtic).
Jason Holt (Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Rangers. Josh Windass replaces Emerson Hyndman.
Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by David Bates (Rangers).
Foul by Kieran Tierney (Celtic).
James Tavernier (Rangers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jozo Simunovic (Celtic).
Martyn Waghorn (Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Leigh Griffiths (Celtic).
Barrie McKay (Rangers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Kenny Miller (Rangers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Rangers. Conceded by Mikael Lustig.
Mikael Lustig (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joseph Dodoo (Rangers).
Attempt saved. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
The body of Carl Scott was found by a member of the public at a house in the Stanmore area on Wednesday afternoon.
Police confirmed his death was being treated as suspicious and a post mortem examination is being carried out.
Detectives have appealed for information from anyone who had recently been in contact with Mr Scott . Police have cordoned off the scene.
Det Ch Insp Dave Morgan said: "We are in the early stages of this investigation and we are following various lines of inquiry to establish the exact circumstances of what happened.
"In particular, we are trying to build up a picture of Mr Scott's lifestyle and movements.
"Therefore I would appeal for anyone who knew Mr Scott and had contact with him since February 1 this year to contact us. You may hold information that could be vital to our investigation.
Mr Scott was 37 and from Stanmore. His family has been informed.
In that attack, gigabytes of files including emails and other documents that revealed the inner workings of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) were taken.
Technical evidence has now come to light suggesting Guccifer 2.0 has links with Russia, compounding theories that the hack was state-sponsored.
What's the evidence on both sides?
We do not know the identity of the real person behind this hacker alias. It is a pseudonym adopted by someone who claims responsibility for the recent hack attack on the DNC - the organisation that oversees the running of the US Democratic party.
Whoever is behind Guccifer 2.0 is not thought to be connected to the original Guccifer, who is currently in a US jail awaiting sentencing on hacking and fraud charges.
Guccifer 2.0 also claims to be Romanian and, via a blog, has said they have been working alone. Many people are sceptical about these claims and others made on that blog.
Guccifer was the alias adopted by Marcel Lehel Lazar who, from 2013 onwards, targeted high-profile Americans, many of them politicians, and sought to hack into their personal email and social media accounts.
In January 2014, Lazar was arrested in Romania on hacking offences and was given a four-year jail term. In March 2016, he was extradited to the US to face trial on a variety of hacking and fraud charges.
In May 2016, while in jail, he told Fox News that he had repeatedly broken into a private email server set up by Hillary Clinton that handled her electronic correspondence.
Ms Clinton has denied the server was hacked and the US State Department said it could find no evidence supporting Lazar's claim.
Lazar said the Guccifer name comes from simply combining the Italian fashion brand Gucci with the name the Bible gives to the devil, Lucifer, before he was cast out.
For three main reasons:
Yes. The person claiming to be the hacker has openly mocked the different analyses and repeated their assertion that they are Romanian and have no backing from the Russian state.
However, in interviews with the media, Guccifer 2.0 did not seem to speak Romanian well.
A closer look at their responses using linguistic analysis tools suggested they were using a sentence structure heavily influenced by Russian rather than Romanian which draws its roots from Latin in the same was as the French and English languages.
No. Attribution, the experts say, is always difficult. Translated, this means nobody knows who to blame. One of the first lessons that any competent hacker or hacktivist learns is how to cover their tracks and how to use proxies, encryption and other techniques to obscure who they are and from where they are operating.
Yes. It is entirely possible that an individual broke into an organisation and stole a lot of information. It happens all the time. Tools to carry out hacks and videos educating people about how to use them are easy to find online.
But as repeated breaches have shown, sometimes it does not take technical ability to get into a supposedly secure network - anyone stubborn enough to keep trying commonly used passwords might eventually succeed.
However, the DNC hack does not share some of the characteristics of other hacktivist attacks. Politically motivated hackers tend to release documents as soon as they get hold of them because they want to embarrass the target. By contrast, state-sponsored hackers are much more likely to lurk inside a network for months and slowly steal data over time.
Russia and China are both well known for running large-scale cyber-espionage operations. Information taken in these attacks is often used to help diplomatic and commercial negotiations and to further their own ends.
A titan arum is expected to bloom for the first time in a day or two at Cambridge University Botanic Garden.
Another specimen there flowered in 2004. The bloom lasts a few days and emits its smell to attract pollinators.
When it flowers, the garden will be open late to enable visitors to smell it "at its night-time stinkiest".
"Amorphophallus titanum is a very unusual plant. It lives mostly in an underground tuber which every year puts out one gigantic leaf several metres tall that lasts for the growing season," Prof Beverley Glover, director of the garden, said.
"This year it's decided not to put up a new leaf, but to put up a flower instead."
The garden has two titan arum plants.
The current specimen has been at the garden for about 10 years, and this will be the first time it has flowered.
"When it comes out, it's the biggest single flower known in the world," Prof Glover said.
"The flower can be about two metres (80in) across."
In order to attract pollinators, it heats itself up to about 40C (104F) and "produces the most appalling scent of rotting flesh and decay to attract the carrion beetle - the pollinators in Sumatra, which is where it's from".
The smell is a combination of sulphur compounds, Prof Glover said.
"Our plan is, for the two nights that it's open, we'll open until 22:00 BST.
"The tricky thing is, we don't know when it's going to open."
The shootings took place in three separate locations in Lincoln County, south Mississippi.
A male suspect, named in local media as Willie Cory Godbolt, was detained by police on Sunday morning.
Authorities say it is too early to consider any possible motive behind the killings.
Mr Godbolt's mother-in-law, two other relatives, and deputy sheriff William Durr were found dead at the scene of the first shooting in Bogue Chitto, reports said.
The next shooting took place in Brookhaven, where "the bodies of two juvenile males were located", police said.
The third crime scene was in East Lincoln, where a man and woman were killed.
Willie Godbolt spoke to local paper The Clarion-Ledger after he was detained.
He said he was "sorry" and "ain't fit to live, not after what I done".
He said he was in conversation with his wife and her family "about me taking my children home" when someone called the police.
His stepfather-in-law, Vincent Mitchell, told AP news agency that Mr Godbolt's wife and two children had been staying with him after she left her husband.
Mr Godbolt opened fire after the deputy sheriff arrived, Mr Mitchell added.
A 16-year-old, believed to have been taken hostage by the suspect, was safe, The Daily Leader reported.
Mississippi governor Phil Bryant called the incident a "senseless tragedy".
"Every day, the men and women who wear the badge make some measure of sacrifice to protect and serve their communities. Too often, we lose one of our finest," he said in a statement.
Mr Durr, the deputy sheriff killed in the shootings, was described as a "mild mannered officer" who liked making people smile.
In a 2014 interview with The Daily Leader, the 36-year-old said he also worked as a ventriloquist, doing puppet shows for children's groups.
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Rangers fans have complained about the former Celtic player and manager's celebrations at Ibrox on Saturday.
"There's a limit sometimes to what you can take," Smith told BBC Scotland.
"I think there's a certain responsibility within the job as a manager of restraint, but I also think the public has to play a part in this."
Police Scotland is probing fan complaints about celebratory gestures made by Lennon during his side's 3-2 win over Rangers.
And it is also investigating social media comments made towards Hibs' head coach.
Lennon, who was then Celtic manager, was attacked by a Hearts fan who approached the dugout during a game at Tynecastle in 2011 and Smith believes the Northern Irishman receives more abuse than most managers because of his involvement with one of the Old Firm clubs.
"I was never involved in situations where I was getting shouted at by bigots of either side," said former Aberdeen and St Mirren manager Smith, chairman of the League Managers Association.
"It was always about football matters. It was never about that history that keeps dragging our game down and the quicker we get rid of it the better.
"We thought we were getting rid of it and, all of a sudden, it pops up again and it's an absolute nightmare to be honest."
Smith says that, if fans "are over-indulgent in bad language and abuse towards individuals, they have got to understand that people are only human and might respond in ways that they might not be happy with".
He added: "I think the manager's got to be careful how he responds and how he handles that, because it can be volatile I suppose.
"Sometimes some kind of gesture can be miss-read and can be taken in the wrong context.
"That's when it becomes a bit dangerous, but I think, if he's celebrating a goal and he thrusts his hands into the air and jumps around, he's entitled to do that.
"You have to be able to let yourself go at some stage and show some passion. It's very difficult not to.
"I've never know in my lifetime trouble in the terracing caused by managers in the dugout."
Ministers argue the changes are necessary to tackle the rising cost to the taxpayer and cut the budget deficit. They also say it will simplify the system and provide greater incentives for people to work.
However, charities and opposition politicians say the moves will force families into rent arrears and increase homelessness.
What are the key changes, who will be affected and by how much?
From the end of April, the current system of working-age benefits and Tax Credits will be gradually replaced by a new benefit called universal credit. Millions of claimants will be affected.
Universal credit - which applies to England, Scotland and Wales - will replace:
The government estimates 3.1 million households will be entitled to more benefits as a result of universal credit. Some 2.8 million households will be entitled to less, but will receive a top-up payment to protect them from a drop in income. New claimants will receive the lower payment.
Across all households, ministers say there will be an average gain of £16 per month.
The transition to Universal Credit will take place in three phases over four years, between 2013 and 2017.
From 29 April 2013, it will be trialled in Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside, Greater Manchester, before rolling out to Oldham, Wigan and Warrington in July.
The government says the new scheme will mean people are better off in work than on benefits.
From October, more claimants will move on to universal credit as and when they have a significant change of circumstances, such as starting a new job or when a child is born.
Then, from April 2014 until October 2017, the rest of those affected will be moved onto universal credit in stages.
Universal Credit will be rolled out in Northern Ireland from April 2014, six months after rollout in the rest of the UK begins.
For more information about universal credit, visit the Department for Work and Pensions website.
From mid-April, the government will introduce a cap on the total amount of benefit that working-age people (16-64) can receive.
Set at the average earnings of a UK working household, the cap will mean that people of working age will receive up to a maximum amount, even if their full entitlement is higher.
The cap - which will apply to England, Scotland and Wales - is estimated to be £350 per week for a single adult with no children and £500 per week for a couple or lone parent, regardless of the number of children they have.
Ministers had estimated about 50,000 households would be affected by the cap, losing an average of £93 per week.
However, the Department for Work and Pensions now says the number of households affected will be 40,000. The policy was expected to save £275m a year, but will now save £110m.
The government argues the changes to the figures are down to more people finding work.
However, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research says there is "no evidence at all" that the introduction of the cap has been affecting people's behaviour.
The Department of Work and Pensions' original estimates show how lone parents are expected to be the group most affected by the changes, followed by couples with children.
The changes will not affect everyone at once. Four London boroughs - Bromley, Croydon, Enfield, Haringey - will try out the cap from April 2013. Other local authority areas will follow from 15 July, with everywhere affected by September.
The benefit cap is not yet law in Northern Ireland.
To find out how you will be affected, you can use the government's benefit cap calculator, which can be found on the benefit cap information page.
In his 2012 Autumn Statement, the chancellor announced that most working-age benefits and tax credits would be uprated by just 1% - a below-inflation cap - for three years from 2013-14.
Benefits have historically risen in line with inflation and, without any change, would have been due to go up by 2.2% in April.
But the government argues that, with public sector pay rises capped at 1%, a similar limit should apply to working-age benefits such as jobseeker's allowance, employment and support allowance and income support as well as elements of working tax credits and child tax credit.
A total of 4.1 million households will be affected by the 1% limit in 2013-14 - losing an average of £0.90 a week, according to the government.
However, 9.6 million households will be affected by 2014-15 and 2015-16 - losing on average of £3 a week.
Lone parents - who have higher unemployment rates - are most likely to be affected, followed by couples with and without children.
For more information on benefit uprating, read our full guide.
A new benefit called the personal independence payment (PIP) will be introduced from April 2013 for people of working age to replace disability living allowance (DLA).
DLA is the biggest disability benefit payment. In nine years, the numbers claiming the benefit have risen from just under 2.5 million to 3.2 million - an increase of about a third.
The changes are expected to reduce spending by about £2.2bn by 2015-16, with one fifth of current DLA claimants expected to be ineligible for PIP.
By 2015, some 170,000 people are expected to be ineligible, while 150,000 will get a higher award, according to the DWP. By 2018, 500,000 will be ineligible, while 780,000 will receive the same or more than they do currently.
The government argues PIP will be more efficient and easier to understand than DLA. However, disability groups have condemned the plans as a money-saving exercise, arguing DLA is one of the most effectively targeted benefits with an estimated fraud rate of just 0.5%.
The change to PIP will be rolled out geographically over time. From 8 April, people living in Merseyside, Cumbria, Cheshire and North East England will begin claiming for PIP.
From 10 June, all new claims for disability benefits will be for PIP and not DLA.
For more information, read the government's guide.
Families living in council or housing association accommodation whose property is deemed to be larger than they need will receive less housing benefit from the beginning of April.
The new rules allow one bedroom for each adult or couple. Up to two children under the age of 16 are expected to share, if they are the same gender. Those under 10 are expected to share whatever their gender.
Termed the single room subsidy by ministers, or the "bedroom tax" by Labour, the changes will result in £490m savings for the taxpayer in 2013-14.
The government estimates that more than 660,000 claimants will be affected, with an average loss of £14 per week. Families with severely disabled children, foster carers and families of armed services personnel will be exempt.
Couples with no children and older people - those most likely to have spare rooms - will be particularly hit by the changes. The changes will also affect different areas of the country to a lesser or greater degree.
The current system of Council Tax Benefit (CTB), which is claimed by 5.9 million low-income families in the UK, will be abolished from April 2013.
Currently the assessment of CTB is carried out by local councils on behalf of the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), but the rules are nationally set, and are applied in the same way across the UK.
However, from April 2013, the government will provide funding to local authorities in England and to the Scottish and Welsh governments to design their own systems of Council Tax support, know as Council Tax Support Schemes.
This funding will only be 90% of this year's budget for CTB in each local authority area - meaning that local councils will be expected to find a 10% saving.
The Department for Communities and Local Government estimates more than three million families in England will be affected, losing an average of £2.64 a week (£137 a year).
The government believes the new system will save £420m a year in England alone, as well as give councils increased financial independence and establish stronger incentives for local authorities to get people back to work.
However, critics say the changes mean different levels of support in different parts of the country and that this will prevent people being able to move to seek work.
For more information about changes to council tax benefit, read the government's guide.
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His player, Lewis Horner, has been charged by the Scottish Football Association for betting on football stretching back to 2011.
"First of all he needs help," Foran told BBC Scotland.
"This is not just a lad that gambles every now and again. He has a gambling problem."
Foran says that Horner received help for his gambling previously, but fell back into old habits. He received a notice of complaint from the SFA for allegedly placing 353 football bets, including three accumulators involving his own side.
Horner's charges also range from July 2011 to 1 May 2017. The midfielder was at Hibernian and then on loan at East Stirlingshire when 12 of the bets were placed between July 2011 and June 2012.
"He had counselling years back - it worked," Foran said. "He stopped gambling. He stopped going to the counselling - big mistake. He had a relapse.
"Lewis needs our help now. He needs the help of the Scottish FA, he needs the help of the PFA. He needs people around to help him with this addiction and that's what we will do here at the club."
The former Inverness winger Barry Wilson told BBC Scotland that he feels there should be an amnesty in order to draw a line on the past for players.
"Come out there, be open, be honest," Foran said, in support of the idea.
"Maybe they shouldn't be punished for what they've done in the past. Let's help them for their future.
"I don't think it's a huge problem in terms of having a lot of addicts. It definitely goes on in football.
"I'd like to think it's not going on in the club with anyone else here, because I spoke to them three, four months ago. The PFA came in and spoke to them.
"The lads would be very, very silly if they were gambling on football now.
"The only ones maybe gambling now are the ones that have an addiction, so they're the ones that need help."
Faizah Shaheen was reported to authorities by Thomson cabin crew on a honeymoon flight to Turkey in 2016.
Her lawyers told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme she believes she was singled out because of her race.
Thomson said its crew were "trained to report any concerns" as a precaution.
Ms Shaheen - a Muslim, whose work in mental health care in part involves looking for the signs of radicalisation in young people - was reading Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline on the outbound flight.
The book is a collection of literature, photos, songs and cartoons from Syrian artists and writers.
She was stopped by police when she returned to the UK two weeks later.
Ms Shaheen and her husband were taken to a room at Doncaster Airport for questioning under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act.
She said the interrogation lasted around 30 minutes, during which she was asked about the book, her work and the number of languages she spoke.
"I felt upset and distressed, followed by anger. I struggled to accept that I was being singled out for reading a book on art and culture," she explained.
"One year on, Thomson Airways has failed to provide an explanation or apology despite legal involvement.
"This attitude has left me with no option but to seek a declaration from the court under the Equality Act."
Ms Shaheen's legal team said it had written to Thomson telling the company it believed she had been a victim of discrimination.
It argued she believes she was singled out because of her race.
Ravi Naik, of ITN solicitors, said that while Thomson had acknowledged its initial communication, it had not responded to its correspondence since January.
"The Equality Act contains strong protections against discriminatory treatment on the basis of someone's race and religion and for good reason," he said.
"We have asked the airline to apologise, to which we have never received a meaningful reply."
Ms Shaheen said she does not desire compensation, but "an apology and explanation from Thomson Airways to ensure that it never happens again".
Jo Glanville, director of English PEN - a British free speech organisation who helped fund the book Ms Shaheen was reading - said Thomson's actions amounted to "a fundamental violation of our liberty, undermining our freedom to read any text we like in a public place".
She added: "Thomson should review its staff training procedures so that such an error never happens again. Reading a book should never be viewed as grounds for suspicious behaviour."
Thomson said in a statement: "We're really sorry if Ms Shaheen remains unhappy with how she feels she was treated.
"We wrote to her to explain that our crew undergo general safety and security awareness training on a regular basis.
"As part of this they are encouraged to be vigilant and share any information or questions with the relevant authorities, who would then act as appropriate."
Watch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.
Rhodri Colwyn Philipps, 50, the 4th Viscount St Davids, wrote the message four days after Ms Miller won a Brexit legal challenge against the government in November of last year.
Lord St Davids denies three charges of making malicious communications.
He told Westminster Magistrates' Court the posts were not "menacing".
Lord St Davids, of Knightsbridge, London, wrote on the social media site on 7 November 2016: "£5,000 for the first person to 'accidentally' run over this bloody troublesome first generation immigrant."
He described her as a "boat jumper" and added: "If this is what we should expect from immigrants, send them back to their stinking jungles."
Ms Miller, 52, said she felt "violated" by his "shocking" comments about her.
Asked by the prosecution why he had used the term "immigrant", Lord St Davids told the court: "She's not part of the furniture" adding, "She's been here less than a generation."
The viscount also posted two messages referring to immigrants as "monkeys".
In one post, not directed at Ms Miller, he said: "Please will someone smoke this ghastly insult to this country, why should I pay tax to feed these monkeys?"
Ms Miller led the successful legal challenge which, on 3 November, ruled the government had to consult Parliament before formally beginning the Brexit process.
Ms Miller - who was born in Guyana - told the court she had been the subject of death threats since her role in the Article 50 case.
In a statement read to the court, she said she was "very scared for the safety of herself and her family".
"In addition to finding it offensive, racist and hateful, she was extremely concerned that someone would threaten to have her run over for a bounty," prosecutor Philip Stott said.
"She took the threat seriously, and it contributed to her employing professional security for her protection."
Lord St Davids, who was defending himself, accepted writing the posts but told the court they were not publicly visible or menacing.
"If you're in the public eye, people are going to say nasty things about you. It's the rough and tumble of public life," he said.
He insisted he is not racist and told the court: "I know a number of Muslims who are dear friends.
"My own mother is an immigrant from the very same continent (as Ms Miller)."
The case was adjourned until Tuesday afternoon when a verdict is expected.
The Irish Premiership side were embarrassingly humbled 3-2 by the County Armagh minnows who are bottom of Championship One without a point.
Glentoran said ex-Middlesborough and Manchester City player Kernaghan, 49, tendered his resignation afterwards.
Former manager Roy Coyle has taken temporary charge of the Belfast team.
The Glens lie eighth in the Premiership table, with two wins and three defeats from their opening five fixtures.
The East Belfast outfit narrowly missed out on qualification for the Europa League last season, losing 3-2 to Cliftonville in a play-off for the final place in the European competition.
Kernaghan, who has managed Clyde and Dundee, had only been in charge at the Oval for nine months, having been appointed in November 2015 following Eddie Patterson's dismissal.
Glentoran were the only top flight team to lose in Tuesday's second round matches, the other 11 all seeing off lower-ranked opponents.
Immediately after the shock defeat by Annagh, Kernaghan spoke to Radio Ulster's Sportsound and indicated he would be remaining in charge.
"It is a results business and I understand that, and we have had two or three poor results," he said.
"Tonight our performance was better than it has been, but our problem all season has been scoring goals.
"I feel the fans' frustration more than they would believe.
"They vented their feelings in an audible manner, but I cannot do that. I have to try to keep the players going and motivate them.
"That is my job and that is what I am doing."
The East Belfast club's next fixture is away to Ards in the Danske Bank Premiership on 10 September.
More than 1,600 fish were killed after a chemical leaked into Annsborough River, near Newcastle, on Saturday.
NI Water's head of environmental regulation, Angela Halpenny, said her company was "extremely sorry to learn of this very unfortunate incident".
Angler Ed Kilgore said local clubs had been "robbed of this season's fishing".
The Shinma Angling Club committee member said it was "horrible to see so many fish dead".
Mr Kilgore expressed fears that despite plans to restock, fishing and the health of the river could be affected "for the next three years".
Ms Halpenny said the accidental spillage may have been caused by damaged pipe work.
"When we purify waste water, we generate a very thin sludge, so before the sludge is transported off site we use a chemical called polyelectrolyte," she told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.
Polyelectrolyte is used to thicken the sludge before it is removed from the waste water plant.
Ms Halpenny said an "unknown quantity" of the chemical leaked into the river at the weekend.
"Our primary concern was to stop the discharge to the river and assist the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) and the relevant authorities with the clean up exercise," she said.
She added that a full investigation was under way to find out why the spill happened and to prevent any repeat.
"NI Water will work with NIEA, the relevant authorities and the local angling groups to fulfill our obligations and make arrangements for the restocking of the river at the earliest opportunity."
"There is no life but family," wrote Aboriginal poet Ali Cobby Eckermann in her debut collection, Little Bit Long Time, published in 2009. "When I am drunk I reverse-charge my family. When I pass away I unite my family."
Living in a caravan in a friend's back garden in Adelaide, Ms Cobby Eckermann has received one of the world's richest literary awards.
Forcibly taken from her mother when she was a young child, she has won a $162,000 (£132,000; A$215,000) Windham-Campbell prize from Yale University in the United States. It has commended her for confronting "the violent history of Australia's Stolen Generations" and her "use of nature to render the beauty of Aboriginal family bonds, as well as the pain and violence of their breaking".
The Windham-Campbell prizes are unusual because writers, who are nominated confidentially, invariably have little clue they are being considered for one.
"It seemed unbelievable," Ms Cobby Eckermann said of her unexpected achievement. "There have been so many tears of disbelief and tears of gratitude that my work is recognised. Now I just want to write and write and write! I've got a few more things to say."
Born in 1963, in Kate Cocks Memorial Babies' Home at Brighton in South Australia, she was taken as an infant from mother, Audrey Cobby, a Yankunytjatjara woman, and adopted into a German Lutheran family. She had a mostly happy childhood on a farm, but it would be years before she would be reunited with her birth mother.
"Part of the skill [of writing] comes from nearly 20 years of looking for my mum. You talk to anyone from any walk of life and I've always been a bit of a chatterbox and I like meeting people. It has definitely been an asset to writing," she explained to the BBC.
Family ties and kinship lie at her inspirational core.
"My whole family has helped me understand who I am when we reconnected," she said. "They have sat beside me in the desert and the backyard around campfires listening to my poetry and giving me feedback."
"I would hear stories and I might sit there quietly and write a poem. Then we'd read it back in the evening and we'd all celebrate that [indigenous] oral tradition was not losing its power by being transferred to the page," she said.
Her 2013 memoir Too Afraid to Cry has been described as "a narrative of good and evil, terror and happiness, despair and courage". It retraces the author's steps as a child spirited away from her indigenous mother, and a fraught journey into adulthood.
The book, along with a later collection of poems Inside My Mother, condemned Australia's policy of removing Aboriginal children from their parents to place them in orphanages, institutions or white foster families that stretched from the late 19th Century to the end of 1960s. While it has been argued there were genuine welfare reasons for taking the vulnerable to a place of safety, indigenous Australians believe it was child abduction on a mass scale.
"Her work… powerfully articulates Australian indigenous peoples' experience of colonisation and the trauma suffered by the Stolen Generations. Her work is deeply personal but also speaks to a collective experience," said Rachel Bin Salleh, from Magabala Books, which published Ms Cobby Eckermann's 2012 award-winning verse novel, Ruby Moonlight.
"She is one of the most significant writers in Australia and Magabala Books is very honoured to have been part of her journey," she told the BBC. "Ali has inspired and mentored many emerging indigenous writers and poets in Australia. Not only does it prove that, with time, true talent will be recognised, but also there is a place for Australian indigenous stories on the world stage."
The Windham-Campbell prizes will be awarded at Yale in September. As her achievement sinks in, Australia's newest literary star is already deciding what to do with her windfall.
"I'd like to use it to help purchase a property by the beach for my son and daughter and grandchildren to share, and for the desert mob to come down and have somewhere safe to stay. So much fun in just the thought of that," she said.
"The money also allows me to challenge my own journey as a writer. I want to attempt a novel. I've been sitting on a story for a while which I think is very important."
Despite the accolade and the international attention that comes with it, Ms Cobby Eckermann has insisted she'll remain humble.
"My influence will always be grassroots people and cultured people who still find the happiness in everyday - don't need money, we just need to know who we are and the strength of family," she said.
"That is the stuff that will always live in my heart."
The 14-time major champion was two over par when he abandoned his first round after just 11 holes.
The 39-year-old American spoke to his playing partners before walking off the course and into a waiting car.
His early departure comes after he shot a career-worst 82 in the second round at Phoenix last week.
Woods was playing in only his second tournament of the season after returning from surgery on a pinched nerve, which forced him to miss last year's Masters and US Open.
He appeared to hurt his back after hitting his tee shot at the 12th - his third hole of the day - but carried on for eight more holes.
His struggles were made more evident when playing partners Rickie Fowler and Billy Horschel both helped him pick his ball out of holes.
In a brief word with reporters, Woods said his lower back got tight during a fog delay that suspended play for more than two hours.
"My glutes keep shutting off and that causes me pain in my back," he said. "It got worse as we stood waiting on the putting green during the delay and I tried warming up my glutes, but it just wasn't working for me.
"When we went back out, it just got progressively worse."
American Nicholas Thompson hit an eight-under-par round of 64, featuring seven birdies, an eagle, and a bogey, to take a one-stroke lead over compatriot Michael Thompson after the opening round.
England's Ian Poulter leads the British charge, lying in a tie for fifth place on five under, three shots behind the overnight leader, while 2013 Open champion Phil Mickelson was one over par through 15 holes when fog halted play for the day.
It owes much of its wealth to its traditional status as a tax haven, though it has in recent years taken steps to shake off its image as a tax haven and to reposition itself as a legitimate financial centre.
The country has come through a lengthy political wrangle over the role and power of the hereditary monarchy.
After an often bitter campaign, the people voted in March 2003 in a constitutional referendum to give Prince Hans-Adam sweeping new political powers. The following year he handed over practical power to his son, Crown Prince Alois.
Head of state: Prince Hans-Adam II
Regent and crown prince: Alois
Prince Hans-Adam, a successful banker, became head of state following the death of his father, Prince Franz Josef, in 1989. In August 2004 he handed over the day-to-day running of the principality to his son, Crown Prince Alois, while remaining titular head of state.
In 2003 the royals won sweeping new powers in a constitutional referendum, which gave them the power to veto parliamentary decisions and to sack the government.
Prime minister: Adrian Hasler
Adrian Hasler of the centre-right Progressive Citizens Party (PCP) took office in March 2013, after his party came first in the February general election, winning 10 seats in the 25-seat parliament.
He has vowed to reduce the country's budget deficit by cutting back on public spending.
Liechtenstein has a very sparse media scene, with the circulation figures of its newspapers at around 10,000 or less.
Its citizens rely on foreign and satellite broadcasters for most TV and radio services.
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Some key dates in the history of Liechtenstein:
1719 - Liechtenstein acquires its present name and becomes an independent principality of the Holy Roman Empire.
1815 - Liechtenstein becomes a member of the German Confederation until 1866.
1866 - Liechtenstein becomes fully independent.
1919 - The Hapsburg monarchy of Austria is abolished. Switzerland replaces Austria as the representative of Liechtenstein's interests abroad.
1921 - Liechtenstein adopts Swiss currency.
1923 - Liechtenstein enters customs union with Switzerland.
1938 - Prince Franz Josef II ascends to the throne.
1939 - Outbreak of World War II. Liechtenstein remains neutral.
1984 - Prince Franz Josef II hands over executive power to his son, Crown Prince Hans-Adam II. 1989 - Prince Franz Josef II dies. He is succeeded by Hans-Adam II.
1990 - Liechtenstein joins the United Nations.
2003 - People vote in referendum to give sweeping new political powers to Crown Prince Hans-Adam.
2004 - Prince Hans-Adam hands over day-to-day running of Liechtenstein to his son Prince Alois while remaining head of state.
2009 - Signs agreements on the sharing of financial information with a number of countries including the US, UK and Germany. OECD removes Liechtenstein from a blacklist of countries uncooperative on tax matters.
They say Mohamed Abrini told investigators he was at the scene of the 22 March suicide bombings.
Abrini is also wanted in connection with the attacks in Paris that killed 130 people in November.
He is one of six men arrested in Brussels on Friday. Four have been charged with terror offences.
The attacks at Zaventem airport and a metro station in Brussels left 32 people dead.
Officials believe those who carried out the Brussels and Paris attacks were part of the same network backed by so-called Islamic State.
Abrini, a 31-year-old Belgian of Moroccan origin, confessed to being the "man in the hat" after being confronted with the evidence, the federal prosecutor said.
"He said that he threw away his jacket in a rubbish bin and sold his hat after the attack," the statement added.
There is no word from the suspect himself or his lawyer.
Abrini's fingerprints and DNA were found in two "safe houses" in Brussels, as well as in a car used during the Paris attacks, investigators said earlier.
The BBC's Damian Grammaticas, in Brussels, says the apparent confirmation that Abrini is the man seen in the airport footage is a "huge" development for Belgian authorities, whose response to terrorism has come in for criticism.
The other suspects charged on Saturday were named as Osama K, Herve BN, and Bilal EM.
They are all accused of "participating in terrorist acts'' linked to the Brussels bombings. Two other people arrested on Friday have been released.
Osama K, identified in media reports as Swedish national Osama Krayem, was the man seen with the suicide bomber at Maelbeek metro station just before the attack on 22 March, investigators say.
They also say that he bought bags used by the two bombers who struck at Zaventem airport on the same day.
Osama K is believed to have entered Greece from Syria with migrants last year, using a fake Syrian passport. Prosecutors believe he was driven from Germany to Belgium by Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam in October.
Herve BM, described as a Rwandan national, and Bilal EM are both suspected of having offered assistance to Abrini and Osama K.
Abrini is thought to have been filmed at a petrol station with Abdeslam two days before the attacks in Paris in November.
Abdeslam, a Belgian-born French national of Moroccan descent, was detained in Brussels in March, days before the attacks in the Belgian capital.
The latest charges follow days of arrests and raids in Brussels.
On Saturday, heavily armed police carried out a search in the Etterbeek area of Brussels. The target was a flat which police believe may have been used as a safe house by the militants.
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Pictures on social media showed people dancing in the streets as the restriction came to an end at midnight local time (21:00 GMT).
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said he had taken the decision to help normalise life in Baghdad.
It came despite a string of explosions in the capital which killed at least 32 people on Saturday.
Residents had previously had their movements restricted between the hours of 00:00 and 05:00.
Following the decision to lift the curfew, Iraqis ventured out on to the streets flying flags and honking car horns.
"Before, we felt like we were in prison," said cafe owner Faez Abdulillah Ahmed, speaking to AFP news agency. "We were restricted."
Shop owner Marwan Hashem added: "We were waiting for this decision for years."
The curfew was introduced as a security measure in the violent aftermath of the 2003 US-led invasion.
An official from Mr Abadi's office said the decision to lift it had been made "despite the existence of a state of war", AFP news agency reports.
Bombings and explosions remain a fact of life for many in Iraq's capital.
Ministers have also had to deal with the threat of Islamic State (IS) militants seizing large swathes of territory close to the city.
At least one of Saturday's bombings was claimed by IS, according to the Site Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadi activity.
It was carried out by a suicide attacker who detonated his explosives near a restaurant, killing at least 22 people.
There were also a series of separate blasts on Saturday, including one at a central market.
An interior ministry spokesman said he did not believe the attacks were connected with the government's decision to end the curfew, Reuters news agency.
Last year there were fears that IS gunmen might attack Baghdad following their sweep across Iraq and Syria.
But following Western intervention against the group, the government has regained some of its lost territory.
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Brian Reader, 76, fell seriously ill at Belmarsh Prison, where he is being held, and was taken to nearby Queen Elizabeth hospital on Wednesday.
Reader, the oldest member of the gang, had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary last September.
He is due to be sentenced on 7 March with six others over the £14m raid.
A Prison Service spokesperson said: "An HMP Belmarsh prisoner was taken to hospital on 24 February. He remains there in order to receive treatment for an ongoing medical condition.
"Appropriate security measures are in place."
Reader's solicitor Hesham Puri said Reader was being treated for "a number of issues" at the south-east London hospital and it was "unlikely" his client would be able to attend the sentencing hearing at Woolwich Crown Court.
The "largest burglary in English legal history" took place at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd in London's jewellery quarter over Easter last year.
The gang raided safe deposit boxes for jewels after boring into the vault.
John "Kenny" Collins, Daniel Jones and Terry Perkins pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary.
Carl Wood and William Lincoln were convicted of conspiracy to commit burglary and conspiracy to conceal, convert or transfer criminal property.
Hugh Doyle was found guilty of concealing, converting or transferring criminal property.
Another thief, known only as "Basil", is yet to be identified and is still at large.
Reader was also involved in the £26m gold bullion Brink's-Mat robbery three decades ago.
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Conservative leader of Winchester City Council Robert Humby quit after a judge said decisions over the £165m Silver Hill development were "unlawful".
He has been replaced by Frank Pearson, who said he would establish an "independent review" of Silver Hill.
Mr Humby stood down earlier this week, saying he "must take responsibility" for the High Court judgement.
A judge said the council had acted unlawfully on 11 February by allowing the developer to revise the Silver Hill plans without putting the scheme back out to commercial tender.
Campaigners brought the legal action, claiming the development would destroy the historical character of the city centre.
The Liberal Democrat group had been planning a motion of no confidence in the leader at Thursday's full council meeting.
Retired teacher Mr Pearson said he would bring a "fresh approach" to the role.
"I will listen to residents' voices - which we must recognise can be contradictory - and seek to restore their faith in us.
"I am looking to all parties to adopt a co-operative approach so that we can move forward in a way that is best for Winchester," he said.
The Conservatives are the largest single party on the council and form the administration, although no party has overall control.
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European papers are concerned about the effect on the EU in the light of Prime Minister David Cameron's promise to hold a referendum on leaving. And there is speculation that the Scottish nationalists' spectacular gains may herald the break-up of the United Kingdom.
A US daily fears the result may be the harbinger of the end of the US-UK "special relationship", but one Spanish daily is enthralled by a photo of Mr Cameron using cutlery to eat a hot dog.
The Australian daily The Age suggests that "David Cameron's rose-coloured victory comes with thorns".
Austria's Wiener Zeitung agrees. "The question in Europe is what will happen now to the difficult relationship between the UK and the EU. The British referendum on staying or exiting the EU is now coming - the sooner, the better", it says.
France's Le Monde says result from Brussels' point of view is undoubtedly "one of the worst possible scenarios" with the "route towards a referendum on leaving the EU" never having been more open. "The Brexit scenario... will disrupt relations between London and Brussels", it predicts.
But Italy's Corriere della Sera is more philosophical about the prospect. "We will finally know if and how we can count on Great Britain for the future of Europe". The paper concludes that even if there is a Brexit, "it will not be a breakdown. We have too much in common to throw away everything that unites us".
Another Italian daily La Repubblica has a word of warning for David Cameron, saying that Greece has already learned that when it comes to re-negotiating, "the EU can show it is a tough nut to crack".
The Boston Globe says "Britain's exit from the European Union... would be a disaster". The New York Times agrees, fearing an exit from the union "would further distance Britain from a role in setting European policy... That, in turn, would inevitably have an effect on Britain's ties to Nato and the United States".
Canada's CBC website suggests that "the mirror is cracked in more ways than one, leaving a fractured political landscape behind".
And Spanish daily El Mundo thinks the Conservatives are already aware of problems ahead. "Despite the sweet victory... not even yesterday could they hide their fear that the Kingdom is now somewhat less united and more fractured".
France's Le Figaro describes the result as "an electoral tsunami that turns things upside down in the United Kingdom". It believes the challenge of nationalism across all of the UK will be David Cameron's "first challenge".
French daily Liberation disagrees. It thinks the SNP leaders recognise that "their new voters voted for them because of deep-seated rejection of the Conservatives but also of Labour" rather than because of a sudden urge for independence.
Iran's hard-line daily Vatan-e Emruz under a headline "Cameron's success; Sound of Scotland's footsteps" notes that "Britain's most unpredictable elections have proved all poll predictions wrong except one; which is that the louder than ever sound of footsteps of Scotland's independence will be heard in Westminster."
The German newspaper Die Welt is almost lyrical about the election result. The Tories "embody the spirit of times of a progressive, enlightened, liberal Europe better then the imitators of rebellion in Athens or the fan clubs of redistribution in Paris, Rome or Berlin. A good choice for Europe", it enthuses.
But the Washington Post feels the result is "less than good news for American supporters of Britain and the 'special relationship'. It suggests that the problems Mr Cameron will face and British military cuts are "likely to perpetuate what has been a slow deterioration of a US-British alliance"... "critical to US global leadership in the post-Cold War era".
Meanwhile, the Greek newspaper To Vima is impressed with the speed at which the leaders of the losing parties resigned. It says this is worth considering, "especially when comparing it to what happens in Greece", "where leaders who are supposedly not 'stuck to their chair', cannot in reality be unstuck from them".
Finally, Spain's La Vanguardia is taken by a photo of Cameron eating a hot dog with cutlery during a family picnic. "Maybe Cameron is one of the few people on the planet who does not grab a sausage sandwich, but he has managed to catch in his hands lots of votes that opinion polls didn't give him… His image of a prim and smug guy has not cost him votes", the paper says.
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The choice of venue was announced by league officials on Friday and the kick-off is at 17:30 GMT.
Both clubs will be attempting to win the competition for the first time.
Ballymena were runners-up in the 2014-15 season after losing 3-2 to Cliftonville in the final at Windsor Park.
In this season's semi-finals Carrick pulled off a surprise 1-0 win away to Irish Cup holders Glenavon while Ballymena secured a 3-0 extra-time win over Coleraine.
The force has policed 20 protests since 2012, including 14 in Rotherham where a report found 1,400 girls were sexually exploited from 1997-2013.
The chief constable and the crime commissioner (PCC) dubbed the protests "unhelpful" and say they should stop.
But one protest group said they had a right to highlight police "failings".
The force, which was heavily criticised in Professor Alexis Jay's report into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, said it had cost more than £4m since 2012 to police demonstrations.
On Saturday seven people were arrested following a protest in Rotherham organised by Britain First and attended by an estimated 280 people. A further 250 people took part in a Unite Against Fascism (UAF) counter-demonstration.
Chief Constable David Crompton, who said he was taking legal advice about the protests, said the figure of £4m did not include the costs of subsequent criminal investigations.
He said: "Whilst we respect all individuals' right to protest we must balance this against local people's right to enjoy their town centre, the businesses' right to trade and the need to fund wider policing.
"Many of these protests focus on a call for police to do more to tackle child sexual exploitation but their constant desire to protest is not helping us to achieve this.
"I have to ask the question of protesters what it is they are calling for, and whether stripping police resources from South Yorkshire will help achieve it."
Jayda Fransen, deputy leader of Britain First, said: "South Yorkshire Police's call to end demonstrations for monetary reasons is indicative of where their priorities have lain over the last 16 years - not with the children of Rotherham.
"Recent reports state that South Yorkshire Police are still failing the children of Rotherham as reports of similar cases continue to flood in and 160 police officers are under investigation for ignoring the victims pleas - it is therefore no surprise that the police want these protests stopped.
"If Britain First has to take to the streets to highlight the failings of South Yorkshire Police in order to protect innocent children then that is what we will continue to do."
Weyman Bennett, joint national secretary of UAF, said he was not in favour of a blanket ban on protests.
He said: "Instead of just banning demonstrations, because there can be demos about the NHS and other things, the most effective strategy is to say that they can protest, but not in the town centre."
In August the Independent Police Complaints Commission, which is investigating how South Yorkshire Police treated complaints of child sexual exploitation (CSE) in Rotherham, said more than 60 officers had been identified and it was working to identify more than 100 more following referrals from the force.
PCC Dr Alan Billings said: "Every protest diverts funds which could be better used not least in supporting more work in protecting vulnerable people.
"I have never yet had a victim or survivor of CSE or their families ask for this kind of outside intervention."
Rotherham Council also faced massive criticism for its failure to protect children.
Its current leader Chris Read said: "We've asked for the protests to cease in the interests of our town, but the organisers have refused.
"That is why we are backing the new legal avenues being explored by the police."
Pennsylvania officials announced a person of interest on Tuesday as search crews focused on a vast farm owned by the man's parents.
Cosmo DiNardo, 20, was identified and also arrested on an unrelated weapons charge, but later released on bail.
Officials say his arrest was not linked to the criminal investigation.
"I want to be very careful to stress that he's a person of interest," said Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub, explaining that he was not currently considered a suspect.
"Sometimes the chasm between a person of interest, and being a person that is actually accused or arrested, and certainly convicted of a crime, is so wide that we never cross it," he added about Mr DiNardo.
Court records show Mr DiNardo was charged with possessing a shotgun despite having a history of mental health issues, including involuntary commitment.
Search crews using heavy machinery, metal detectors, and cadaver dogs have been scouring the Solebury Township 68-acre farm - about 40 miles (65km) north of Philadelphia.
News helicopters have been hovering overhead broadcasting the workers tearing up concrete and sifting through dirt.
Jimi Patrick, 19, was last seen on Wednesday evening one week ago and was reported missing after he did not arrive for work the following day.
Mark Sturgis, 22, Thomas Meo, 21, and Dean Finocchiaro, 18, were each last seen on Friday evening.
Officials have not yet said what connections the men have to each other or if they believe them to be alive.
Sources tell US media that a ping from a mobile phone belonging to one of the men led investigators to the farmland property.
Cosmo DiNardo was freed after posting 10% of a $1m (£775,000) bail. Authorities had on Monday re-filed weapons charges against him that had already been dismissed in May.
The man's parents, Antonio, 46, and Sandra DiNardo, 47, have been subpoenaed to appear before a county grand jury on Thursday, and have had their mobile phones seized, Fox News reports.
The FBI has been called to aid in the investigation, the district attorney said.
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O'Sullivan led from the off and went 5-1 ahead in the first session, before Trump pulled two frames back to stay within touching distance in York.
He then fell 9-4 behind but a superb revival saw Trump emerge from the brink, making breaks of 120 and 127 to level the contest at 9-9.
But Trump fouled from a snooker in the last as O'Sullivan won 10-9.
O'Sullivan broke his left ankle while out running before the tournament and was in significant discomfort in the early rounds. After the first round, in which he wore a protective brace, he said he might pull out as it was too painful.
However, the pain seemed to ease as he progressed, compiling a magnificent maximum 147 break in his quarter-final.
He collected £150,000 prize money, plus £44,000 for the 147.
"That is the hardest match I have ever played," O'Sullivan told BBC Sport. "I was going through the motions and accepted I was going to get beaten.
"I didn't know what day it was but I found something towards the end and was able to hold my position."
O'Sullivan - who has now won every UK final in which he has appeared - was the highest-ranked player left in the tournament after the surprise exits of world champion Mark Selby, defending champion Neil Robertson and Chinese number one Ding Junhui.
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The 39-year-old looks to be getting better with age and his success in the competition comes 21 years after he won it for the first time in 1993.
He has now won each of the UK, World and Masters titles on five occasions. His 27th ranking win leaves him one behind Steve Davis and nine behind Stephen Hendry in the all-time list.
This match was billed as a contest between two players with attacking and aesthetically-pleasing styles, and O'Sullivan was running away with it at 9-4 before Trump mounted a brilliant comeback.
But a lack of composure when in amongst the balls early on caused the damage, enabling O'Sullivan to pick him off.
"When your opponent is dishing up every time, it is demoralising and dents your confidence," said Trump.
"Towards the end I let go and I made a good clearance to go 9-9. I felt so relaxed and was waiting for the chance in the last but the good safety won it for him."
Labour lost its majority on Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council in February when two councillors stood down after not being reselected to stand in May.
A recount in the remaining Ravenscliffe ward earlier saw Labour's Sarah Pickup gain the seat from independent councillor Gill Burnett.
It means Labour retains 29 seats out of the 60, not enough for a majority.
The Conservatives increased their number of seats by five to 20 in the administration, which elects a third of its councillors each year.
Gill Burnett and Paul Waring stood down from Labour in February after they were not reselected.
Elsewhere in the local elections, Labour has lost overall control in Stoke-on-Trent and the Conservatives have taken control of Staffordshire Moorlands District Council and held onto Cheshire East and Stafford Borough Council.
A total of 92 cases were identified during the outbreak in 2012.
However, an investigation has been unable to identify the source of the bacteria.
Lawyers representing 40 people affected by the outbreak said it was now "crucial" that a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) is held into the case.
The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) said it would consult the families before it made a decision on whether or not to hold an FAI.
Elaine Russell, a partner at Irwin Mitchell Scotland, the firm leading the legal case on behalf of the victims, said: "We have repeatedly called for more information to be shared with the victims but have been met with a wall of silence for years.
"It is embarrassing that they have had to wait so long for the authorities to investigate and share their findings.
"Three years ago four people lost their lives and almost 100 suffered from Legionnaires ' disease, yet the authorities are no closer to knowing what the source of the illness was."
The company's clients include Catherine McDonald, the partner of Bert Air, one of those who died in the outbreak.
She said she was "hurt, angry and disappointed" at the outcome of a meeting between the families and the Crown Office in Wednesday.
"I simply cannot express the frustration that I feel," said Ms McDonald.
"We have waited so long to reach this point but I don't feel we have been provided with any answers as to what happened. I still want to know why Bert died."
Patrick McGuire, a partner with Thompsons Solicitors who is representing nine families affected by the outbreak, said: "This is very disappointing news from the Crown Office.
"This mass poisoning took place in our capital city and yet no one has been brought to book.
"My legal team will now begin immediate work on civil legal proceedings but the Crown Office must also convene a fatal accident inquiry into the outbreak to provide answers for the victims and to stop this ever happening again."
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said the investigation, which saw a team analyse samples from several sites, was one of the most complex it has ever undertaken.
The probe saw a number of companies reported for health and safety breaches unconnected to the outbreak.
It is understood a cluster of cooling towers in the south-west of the city formed part of the inquiry.
Legionella bacteria are commonly found in sources of water such as rivers and lakes.
They can end up in artificial water supplies such as air conditioning systems, water services and cooling towers.
Legionnaires' disease is contracted by breathing in small droplets of contaminated water. It is not contagious and cannot be spread directly from person to person.
The investigation into the outbreak involved the HSE and the police.
Gary Aitken, head of the health and safety division at the COPFS, said: "Following a complex and thorough investigation which involved detailed genetic analysis we can only conclude that there is no scientific basis for any prosecution related to the deaths and as a result no criminal proceedings are instructed by crown counsel.
"This was always going to be a difficult and complex investigation due to the number of potential sources in the Gorgie area but we continued on in the hope that the necessary scientific evidence would come to light. Unfortunately that hasn't happened.
"We will now consult further with the families before making any decision in relation to a fatal accident inquiry."
Alistair McNab, HSE head of operations in Scotland, said: "This was the largest outbreak in Scotland in the last 10 years and one of the most complex HSE has investigated, involving visits to multiple sites and dutyholders including contractors and sub-contractors to check compliance with Legionella control standards.
"As HSE and public health experts made clear at the time of the outbreak the source may never be conclusively identified, based on our experience from previous outbreaks.
"This can be due to the fact that Legionnaires' disease can have a long incubation period of up to 19 days, so by the time an outbreak is notified to HSE and other regulatory bodies and sampling carried out on water systems, the bacteria levels may have changed or the source producing bacteria may have ceased operation.
"In addition, as a precautionary measure to prevent further ill health when an outbreak is declared, companies are encouraged to shock-dose their cooling towers with chemicals, which again can prevent positively identifying the source."
He was a passenger in a Cadillac in Los Angeles when it collided with a Volkswagen Beetle at about 11:00 local time on Friday, according to celebrity news website TMZ.com.
It reported that Harris, who is from Dumfries, suffered a cut in the incident.
He had to pull out of a performance at the Omnia nightclub in Las Vegas.
A statement on the artist's official Facebook page said: "Adam's transport was involved in a collision this evening on the way to the airport.
"As a result he will be unable to perform at Omnia tonight.
"He has been examined by doctors and told to rest for a few days - Calvin HQ."
The Beetle was reportedly driven by a 16-year-old girl and had crossed the centre line before the crash.
The striker curled a left-footed shot past Adam Smith in the 92nd minute to give his side their first victory since late September.
John-Joe O'Toole had given Northampton a first-half lead from close range, but Max Ehmer equalised after the break.
The home team started well, but it was the visitors who scored first in the 36th minute as O'Toole squeezed a header through two defenders after being left unmarked in the six-yard box.
The Gills then hit back early in the second half as Ehmer slid in at the back post to convert a flick from Emmanuel-Thomas.
Both sides had chances to take the lead but the game appeared to be petering out into a draw.
However, Emmanuel-Thomas - Gillingham's top scorer this term - pounced late on to give the hosts a win that moves them away from the relegation zone.
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Match ends, Gillingham 2, Northampton Town 1.
Second Half ends, Gillingham 2, Northampton Town 1.
Foul by Billy Knott (Gillingham).
Zander Diamond (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Paul Anderson.
Goal! Gillingham 2, Northampton Town 1. Jay Emmanuel-Thomas (Gillingham) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.
Bradley Dack (Gillingham) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Paul Anderson (Northampton Town).
Hand ball by Paul Konchesky (Gillingham).
Attempt blocked. Jay Emmanuel-Thomas (Gillingham) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Brendon Moloney (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Kenji Gorré replaces JJ Hooper because of an injury.
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Brendon Moloney.
Foul by Billy Knott (Gillingham).
Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Jay Emmanuel-Thomas (Gillingham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Paul Anderson (Northampton Town).
Foul by Jake Hessenthaler (Gillingham).
John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Bradley Dack (Gillingham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Gillingham. Bradley Dack replaces Frank Nouble.
Attempt missed. Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Foul by Josh Wright (Gillingham).
Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ryan Jackson (Gillingham) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by JJ Hooper (Northampton Town).
Foul by Frank Nouble (Gillingham).
Zander Diamond (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Alex Revell replaces Marc Richards.
Attempt missed. Paul Anderson (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Jay Emmanuel-Thomas (Gillingham) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Frank Nouble (Gillingham).
Paul Anderson (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Brendon Moloney.
Attempt blocked. Frank Nouble (Gillingham) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked.
Attempt missed. John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Ryan Jackson.
Goal! Gillingham 1, Northampton Town 1. Max Ehmer (Gillingham) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jay Emmanuel-Thomas following a corner.
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Zander Diamond.
It is far removed from the city's Kgosi Mampuru II prison, where the athlete has spent the last 12 months.
The Paralympian - who was released from jail a day earlier than expected, presumably to avoid a media scrum - will be under house arrest for the next four years for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013, and for negligently handling a firearm at a restaurant in the same year.
Pistorius was sentenced to five years in prison, but under South Africa's laws an offender can be put under house arrest after serving at least one-sixth of their sentence in jail.
The 28-year-old will be staying at his uncle's home because he had to sell his own house to raise funds for his astronomical legal bills.
The blade-runner, as he was affectionately known - before his fall from grace - because of his prosthetics, will be able do many things while under house arrest.
These include going out to work and doing community service, like cleaning the library - as was suggested during his trial.
His lawyers have argued that track and field training would qualify as work for him, but it is still not entirely clear whether he will be allowed to train.
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But he will not be able to compete in any Paralympic event until 2019, according to spokesman for the International Paralympic Committee.
Craig Spence told the BBC there was a "policy that any athlete who is serving a sentence has to serve that sentence in full".
A close family friend has said that Pistorius is in "poor physical shape", adding that his return to athletics would be unlikely.
I watched his sister Aimee Pistorius driving out of the property, which makes it clear that his parole conditions allow him to receive visitors.
I also noticed other friends and relatives arriving at the house, some accompanied by young children. He is allowed to attend important family gatherings.
However, he will not be allowed to go out of the house at night - and drinking alcohol and taking drugs are banned.
Prison officials can randomly conduct tests to check whether he is abiding by the order.
Given the nature of his crime - he fired four shots through a locked door at his home, saying he mistook his girlfriend for a burglar - Pistorius will also not be allowed to have access to any firearms.
During the trial it emerged that he was fascinated by guns and had placed an order for a small arsenal of weapons for his collection.
The prison department already has a parole officer assigned to Pistorius and therefore he will not be electronically tagged.
The parole board has stipulated that the athlete should continue receiving psychotherapy sessions.
A meeting with Ms Steenkamp's parents has also been encouraged - when they are ready and willing.
In response to his transfer to house arrest, a spokeswoman for the Steenkamp family, Tanya Coen, said: "To them it does not matter whether he was released yesterday, a few hours earlier or a few hours later, whether he remains incarcerated or not. It makes no difference to their lives because Reeva is still not coming back."
Anneliese Burgess, the Pistorius family spokeswoman, told us while we waited outside their home that it was important for them to emphasise "that Oscar's sentence has not been shortened or reduced".
"He is simply entering the next phase of his sentence now. He will serve this under strict conditions that govern correctional supervision."
The Pistorius family is correct: The Paralympian is not totally free and his movements will still be restricted.
Vanessa Padayachee, an official with the non-governmental organisation Nicro, which works with offenders to help them reintegrate into society, says South Africa's parole system is very progressive.
It helps the government to save on funding the incarceration of offenders.
"It's used in many parts of the world including in the United States of America," she told me.
If Pistorius violates any of the parole conditions, he faces various punitive measures - the most stringent of which would be a return to prison.
"We do not send people to prison to punish them. We want to rehabilitate them so that they must not be able to do what they've done," says Ms Padayachee.
"And it's the human connection you get when you are under house arrest that transforms people."
Ensuring that prisoners do not repeat the same crime again is what is important for the prison authorities.
Prison is not necessarily the best environment to do this and some may come out worse than when first locked up, Ms Padyachee explains.
But as Pistorius settles into his new routine, his legal battles are far from over.
Prosecutors want his conviction to be changed from culpable homicide, or manslaughter, to murder - or at the least to have his five-year prison sentence extended to 15 years.
The case will be heard by the Supreme Court of Appeal next month - and if the verdict goes against the athlete, he could find himself back in prison.
The newly elected MP won the seat from the Liberal Democrats' Sarah Olney with a majority of only 45 votes.
Mr Goldsmith lost his seat last year after resigning and calling a by-election in protest at the decision to expand Heathrow Airport .
There were no fewer than four recounts before a result was declared.
Mr Goldsmith won 28,588 votes, with Ms Olney receiving 28,543 votes on a turnout of 79%.
Mr Goldsmith admitted he had won by a "narrow margin" but thanked the voters of Richmond Park for giving him another chance to represent them.
''I hope my constituents know I will never let them down. " he added.
Ms Olney took the seat from Mr Goldsmith, who stood as an independent after his temporary departure from the Tories, last year.
The Lib Dem win was attributed to her opponent's pro-Brexit stance in the largely Remain-voting constituency.
Trevor Bayliss will take over the management of the team for this summer's games, which include the ashes against his native country.
The 52-year-old replaces Peter Moores, who was sacked from the job in May.
Bayliss has previously coached Australia and Sri Lanka, who he took to the World Cup final in 2011.
"It's an honour to be appointed England coach," said Bayliss. "I firmly believe that the team has a bright future."
Bayliss will take up his new role in June, in time for the start of the Ashes series against Australia which begins in July.
A charity owning the land in Wokingham has agreed a sale to the football club.
Golf enthusiasts fear many will not be able to afford to play the sport if Bearwood Golf Club closes.
The land, formerly belonging to the Royal Merchant Navy School Foundation, will become a training ground for Reading FC's first team and academy.
Plans have been drawn up for 15 pitches on the site, with indoor facilities.
A full planning request will be submitted to Wokingham Borough Council in the near future, and the sale will be finalised on receipt of planning permission.
Former Reading captain Graeme Murty said the new academy was key to the club's future.
"You try and get the best young players in your environment, bring them into the culture of the club, and develop them from eight years old all the way up into your first team," he said.
"Hopefully you're saving yourself eight or ten million pounds, better than that, they then become a saleable asset."
However, golf club manager Barry Tustin said he was "disappointed" at the news.
"The club put in a bid to buy the land, but Reading FC came in with a much better deal," he said.
The Royal Merchant Navy School Foundation said the sale was part of a strategic decision to sell off land to obtain funds to focus on charity work.
The foundation is a national children's educational charity, providing funding for education for "needy" British children of Merchant Navy seafarers, professional sea-going fishermen and RNLI lifeboat crew members.
The Alberta city activated its emergency operations centre to deal with flooding for the first time since a massive blaze forced the evacuation of thousands of people in May.
Rising waters led to road closures across the city as emergency crews worked to drain the flooding.
Water levels began to recede on Monday but more rain was expected.
Emergency officials had warned residents to restrict travel and to move any valuables from basements that are susceptible to flooding.
However, a state of emergency has not been declared and residents were not advised to evacuate the area.
The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo tweeted on Sunday that road barricades were being removed as roads reopened.
Images posted on social media showed residents using canoes and jet skis to navigate the flooded streets.
The flooding comes less than three months after the city's 90,000 residents were forced to evacuate in the wake of a massive wildfire.
The blaze destroyed more than 2,000 homes and buildings.
Those evacuated during the wildfires were allowed to return in June.
"It's a bad dream," Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo Councillor Keith McGrath told the CBC. "It just seems like it never ends for us ... It's just not our year".
Mr McGrath also said it was unclear how much damage the flooding has caused.
The measure is the most controversial change to the constitution drawn up after the 13 November attacks in Paris.
France's National Assembly is due to vote on Wednesday on all the measures proposed by the government.
Emergency powers currently in force would be given a new status under the constitution.
The proposal to strip citizenship from offenders was carried by a margin of 162 to 148, after the government removed a reference to dual nationals born in France. That had aroused considerable opposition and prompted the resignation of Justice Minister Christiane Taubira.
If the overall package is approved in Wednesday's formal session, it will then go to the Senate. It will then require approval from a joint session of parliament by a three-fifths majority, a process likely to take weeks.
President Francois Hollande outlined the changes in the aftermath of the gun and bomb attacks by Islamist militants who targeted a concert hall, a major stadium, restaurants and bars - leaving 130 people dead and hundreds more wounded.
But elements have been vociferously opposed by leading figures, including members of his own Socialist party.
With the country united in grief and anxiety, the president said it was important to take tough action in what he called a "war" against terrorism.
Three months on, his vision of constitutional reform has run into the reality of partisan politics.
On the left - even within his own Socialist party - there is opposition to the proposal to strip terrorists of their French citizenship.
In practice, these critics say, that could only apply to bi-nationals - people with a second nationality - which would make two tiers of citizenship.
On the right there are voices saying the reforms are a meaningless diversion, giving the impression of government action against terrorism, where there is none in reality.
Ms Taubira stood down a fortnight ago, citing a "major political disagreement" with the government over its plans for removing citizenship from those convicted of terror offences.
Even without a reference to bi-nationals, opponents say in effect it singles out dual-nationality French Muslims, as under international law, governments cannot make citizens stateless.
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On Monday, lawmakers voted in favour of the other key measure in the package, the move to enshrine the state of emergency in the constitution, giving the security forces greater powers.
Under the terms of the state of emergency, police are allowed to raid homes and hold people under house arrest.
It expires on 26 February but the government wants the powers extended.
In Wednesday's vote, under Article 1 of the constitutional reform proposals, MPs will have to approve a state of emergency beyond 12 days. This rule is already observed, but including it in the constitution is intended to protect it from legal challenges.
Government whips say they are confident of a majority in the lower house on Wednesday - but even if they are correct there is still a long parliamentary battle ahead.
The continent's football association presidents have told football's world governing body Fifa they want at least 10 spots in the 48-team World Cup.
"All associations back the idea to expand the World Cup and there is hope that Africa can have 10 places," said South African FA chief Danny Jordaan.
That would be double the five places Africa has at the 2018 and 2022 events.
Europe is seeking a minimum of 16 places, up from 13, and wants its sides to be separated in the opening group stage. The first phase will see 16 groups of three teams, with the top two advancing to a 32-team knockout phase under plans approved by Fifa last month.
Asia are expected to get eight to nine places, compared to 4.5 now, and South America, which has 10 member countries, a total of six, also up from 4.5.
The Concacaf region, made up of the Caribbean, Central and North American countries, would get 6.5 places, compared to 3.5, with Oceania, the small Pacific Islands confederation, having one automatic place at the finals instead of 0.5.
Inter-continental playoffs between countries with half a place would determine the additional spots at the finals.
The final allocation of places must be passed by the Fifa Council.
The subject of the expanded World Cup featured prominently at a three-day summit between Fifa chief Gianni Infantino and more than 50 presidents of the African FAs.
The talks were behind closed doors but Fifa officials said Infantino had outlined plans for an expanded World Cup and new development assistance for member countries.
It is the first time a summit of this type has been held, giving Africa's FA representatives informal contact with the Fifa leadership, including the world governing body's recently appointed general secretary Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura.
"It has been a very good idea and a chance for the associations to also speak directly to the Fifa leadership about their issues and concerns," said Ahmad, the president of the Madagascar Football Federation.
Ahmad, who uses just one name, is running for the presidency of the Confederation of African Football against long-standing incumbent Issa Hayatou of Cameroon next month.
The summit comes three weeks before the Caf elections in Addis Ababa on March 16 and the FIFA event in Johannesburg has been dominated by intense lobbying, delegates said.
"Most of the business at this summit is actually outside of the conference room, in the corridors and the hotel lobby as different candidates try to persuade associations to vote for them," said one African FA chief, who asked not to be named.
Chantek lived with an anthropologist in Tennessee for about nine years and learned to clean his room, make and use tools and memorise the route to a fast-food restaurant.
He spent his later years in Zoo Atlanta where he was treated for heart disease.
Zoo officials said he had "an engaging personality" and would be deeply missed.
In a statement, Zoo Atlanta said that at 39, Chantek was one of the oldest male orangutans in North American zoos.
His cause of death was not yet known, it said, but vets had been treating him for progressive heart disease. Orangutans are considered geriatric after the age of about 35, the zoo added.
Chantek was born at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Georgia and was sent to live with anthropologist Lyn Miles at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
A 2014 documentary called "The Ape Who Went to College" showed that Chantek had learned various skills there including cleaning his room and directing a driving route from the university to a restaurant.
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The orangutan was also one of only a few apes who could communicate using American Sign Language.
Zoo Atlanta said that Chantek frequently used sign language to communicate with keepers but "he was shy about signing with individuals he did not know and often chose forms of communication which are more typical of orangutans, such as vocalisations and unique hand gestures".
"Chantek will be deeply missed by his family here at Zoo Atlanta," said Hayley Murphy, vice president of the zoo's animal divisions.
"He had such a unique and engaging personality and special ways of relating to and communicating with those who knew him best. It has been our privilege to have had him with us for 20 years."
Activists have been told that unions and "established left organisations" will get a place in its structure.
Momentum - the successor body to Mr Corbyn's Labour Party leadership campaign - has revealed almost nothing about how it is run.
But leaks to the BBC show an outline arrangement has been agreed.
One Momentum source said it may consider affiliating to the Labour Party - a move that could give it a direct say in policy decisions and, potentially, the de-selection of MPs.
Critical Labour MPs fear Momentum could let hard-left activists influence Labour and oust sitting MPs.
Momentum says it is a mass movement for progressive politics.
Jon Lansman - a key figure in Mr Corbyn's leadership bid and in Momentum - is understood to have told activists that trade unions will be involved at a "local, regional and national level".
Sources said the final structure of the organisation was yet to be confirmed.
Elgin climbed up to third after three first-half goals helped them to a 4-0 victory over Stirling at Forthbank.
Basement club Edinburgh City battled back to earn their second point of the season in a 1-1 draw at Annan.
Arbroath played out a 0-0 draw with Cowdenbeath, while Montrose's clash with Berwick also ended goalless.
In the big game at Broadwood, Thomas O'Brien scored the only goal five minutes before the break to hand Forfar their seventh straight league win.
The victory takes Gary Bollan's side eight points clear of nearest challengers Clyde.
Elgin broke the deadlock in the fifth minute when Shane Sutherland fired the ball past home goalkeeper Chris Smith, before Chris Dodd doubled the visitors' lead just three minutes later.
Sutherland made it 3-0 on the half-hour mark and Jim Weir's side added a fourth in the 89th minute when Craig Gunn struck his fourth league goal of the season.
Second-bottom Stirling announced the departure of manager Stuart McLaren following the defeat.
Annan drew first blood against Edinburgh after 29 minutes when David McKenna rifled home, but City were back on terms three minutes into the second half courtesy of an own goal from Steven Swinglehurst.
Mahmoud al-Sarsak, 25, arrived by ambulance to a hero's welcome at a Gaza hospital.
In March, Mr Sarsak launched an intermittent hunger strike in protest at his detention but agreed to resume eating in exchange for early release.
Israel accused Mr Sarsak of involvement with the militant group Islamic Jihad, which Mr Sarsak has always denied.
Mr Sarsak had shed considerable weight during his incarceration, the BBC's Farhana Dawood in Jerusalem reports.
"Thank God he is released, I hope that all prisoners will be released," Mr Sarsak's sister, Wafa, told the Reuters news agency.
After being taken to Gaza's al-Shifa hospital, Mr Sarsak returned to his family home in Rafah.
Members of Islamic Jihad were among hundreds who came to welcome Mr Sarsak in Gaza, and the group issued a statement welcoming Mr Sarsak's "victory over the Israeli jailer".
Mr Sarsak was held under Israel's Unlawful Combatants Law, which allows Israel to indefinitely detain without charge or trial foreign nationals suspected of involvement in organisations or activities hostile to the state. Suspects' cases are reviewed by a court every six months.
Israel says Mr Sarsak, a member of the Palestinian football team, was arrested based on information that he was a member of Islamic Jihad, had planted bombs and recruited and trained other militants.
The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) had urged European football's governing body, Uefa, to ban Israel from hosting the continent's under-21 championship next year over the issue of Palestinian players in Israeli detention.
Palestinian Olympic squad goalkeeper Omar Abu Rois and Ramallah player Mohammed Nimr are also being held in Israel without trial.
The global governing football body, Fifa, had last month expressed its concern over Mr Sarsak's detention and asked Israel's football association to take action.
Former Manchester United player Eric Cantona was among those who signed a petition calling for Mr Sarsak's release.
The deal gives Sports Direct about 50 stores selling sports and casual wear and camping equipment.
Mike Ashley's chain said the "footprint" in US bricks and mortar retail would give it a "platform from which to grow US online sales".
It has bought the debts of parent firm Eastern Outfitters and lent it money.
Eastern filed for protection from its creditors in February.
In the year to 28 January, Bob's and Eastern Outfitters notched up losses of $26m. The assets of the firms amounted to $126m.
Nicholas Hyett, equity analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown said Sports Direct had picked up a "bargain out of bankruptcy proceedings".
He said Sports Direct had been involved in the US sports retail market before, through its stake in Dick's Sporting Goods, "but this time round it has decided to jump in directly".
However, he added that unlike some of the company's previous investments the "rationale for today's deal is pretty clear. Eastern Mountain will serve as a starter pack, providing the group with feet on the ground from which to launch a wider US strategy, a strategy that looks set to be led by online sales.
Analysts at Peel Hunt were critical of the deal saying they were "rapidly losing patience with the company's lack of ability to stick to a strategy".
In a research report they pointed out that Sports Direct had already vowed to take its UK business more upmarket.
"To us, this should be all-encompassing, and should leave absolutely no management time for anything else," they said.
"What is not required, in our view, is a major (and not inexpensive) distraction, 3,000 miles away."
Nick Hyett also sounded a note of caution: "It's unlikely to be an easy road, many UK retailers have run afoul of the challenging US market."
The retailers shares, which initially rose following the announcement have subsequently fallen.
Sports Direct currently has about 700 sports stores in the UK and continental Europe, more than 400 operating under the Sportsdirect.com name.
It also owns brand names including Slazenger, Lonsdale and Everlast.
Sports Direct has attracted controversy in the UK after coming under fire over zero hours contracts and the disclosure that staff at a warehouse were paid less than the minimum wage.
Mr Ashley, the founder and majority owner of Sports Direct, also owns Newcastle United.
England have the youngest squad in the competition with an average age of 26.2. Each player averages 25 caps, the second fewest in Pool A.
"It's hard to make selections when you have an inexperienced team and bringing more inexperience in," said Lancaster.
England face Uruguay at Etihad Stadium on Saturday in their dead-rubber final group game.
Although they beat Fiji in their opening match, defeats by Wales and Australia meant England became the first host nation in history not to progress beyond the group stages.
Lancaster, who has overseen three successive second-place finishes in the Six Nations prior to the World Cup, admitted he was under pressure.
He said: "I understand that, not having nailed a Six Nations or a Grand Slam and certainly not having nailed this World Cup, there is no room for error.
"Obviously that will all be taken into consideration over the next few weeks."
He also stated that there is a "lifespan" to international coaching, explaining that as the players "tend to stay the same" so there is an "inevitability that the coach will have to change".
He added: "Because you only have a few games each year, it takes longer to build.
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"That's not me stating a case for me one way or another. I'll wait and see how I feel and how the RFU feel in the next couple of weeks."
Lancaster, who described the head coach's job as "brilliant but tough", said injuries and "discipline issues" also affected England's preparations for the tournament.
Centre Manu Tuilagi was suspended by England for assaulting police officers, while hooker Dylan Hartley was withdrawn from the squad after being banned for headbutting an opponent in a Premiership game for Northampton.
Lancaster also blamed the absence of several players on the tour of New Zealand in 2014, when "half the squad was in the Premiership final".
He added: "Some of our talented players - 18, 19, 20 years old at the time - learning their spurs and still not even in Premiership. It's hard to bring these players in in one go."
Lancaster said England will regret the 28-25 defeat by Wales in their second group game more than Saturday's 33-13 thumping by Australia, which ended their hopes of reaching the quarter-finals.
"Regret goes back to the Wales game," he said. "We didn't lose the game against Wales because of a lack of creativity.
"We lost because we gave away dumb penalties and Dan Biggar kicked them.
"I had one-to-ones with the boys yesterday. They said Australia were one of the best teams we played against in last four years. We were beaten by the best side."
Bath coach Mike Ford, part of the coaching staff when England lost in the 2011 World Cup quarter-finals, said it is "too late" for the Rugby Football Union to carry out a "root and branch" review.
"Everyone knows what has gone on," said Ford, who has been mentioned as a possible successor to Lancaster.
He is unsure if Lancaster wants to remain in charge, telling BBC Sport: "The interview I saw after the game, he was a broken man.
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"The criticism and scrutiny you get as an England coach is very intense.
"You've got to want it 100% and love coaching 100% and be hard-skinned. It does certain things to you, and I don't know if he wants it."
Ford, 49, said he would turn down the England head coach's role if it was offered because he wants to "leave a legacy" at Bath.
He said: "I've got the best job in the world. I can't walk away because I've made commitments to players to stay with me for the next four years.
"I've not won anything yet. In four years' time, in 2019, who knows."
The British women's team topped the Olympic qualification classification, while the men's team finished fifth.
Zoe Smith is the leading women's candidate, but Rebakah Tiler could come into contention.
However, Jack Oliver, the previous favourite to take the men's spot, missed the competition through injury.
"Two Olympic qualification spots is a tremendous achievement," said British Weight Lifting performance director Tommy Yule.
The British Championships in June are the final opportunity for athletes to prove their credentials before nominations are made to the British Olympic Associate for Team GB selection.
The 45-year-old was arrested on 22 June on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon at the University of California.
He was held in jail before being released on $160,000 (£102,500) bail.
The district attorney has referred the case to the Los Angeles City attorney's office to decide if Combs will face lesser charges.
"We are thankful that the district attorney rejected felony charges in this matter," said Combs's lawyer, Mark Geragos.
"This case never should have been part of the criminal justice system to begin with."
At the time of the incident, officials did not identify the victim of the alleged assault or say what led to the incident.
However, media reports said Combs was involved in an altercation with the university's football coach at the campus's athletic facility.
Combs claimed he was defending himself and his son, Justin Combs, who is on the college football team and had been working out at the time.
Head football coach Jim Mora called the encounter "an unfortunate incident for all parties involved" following Combs's arrest.
University officials have said little about the confrontation, except that no one was seriously hurt.
A spokesman said the school had no comment on the district attorney's decision.
Justin Combs, 21, has played just a handful of games for the UCLA football team since joining three years ago.
Police say a row broke out at Fermo, a town on Italy's east coast, when racist abuse was hurled at the partner of Emmanuel Chidi Namdi, 36.
The violence escalated when a traffic pole was pulled from the ground. The victim later died in hospital.
A local man described as a well-known "ultra" football fan is being held.
Amedeo Mancini, 35, was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of racially aggravated manslaughter. His lawyer said he "did not mean to kill" and that he had punched the Nigerian in self defence.
Emmanuel Chidi fled Nigeria with his partner Chinyery, 24, after their families came under attack from jihadist group Boko Haram.
Their families were killed in an attack on a Nigerian church in 2015, Italian media reported.
As the couple made their way across the Mediterranean, their baby died.
They finally arrived in Fermo last November and were taken in by a local Christian charity. They had a wedding ceremony in January, conducted by local priest Father Vinicio Albanesi, which was unofficial because they had lost their documents, Rai TV reported.
What happened on Tuesday evening is unclear. However, it is thought that the attacker subjected Chinyery to racist chanting and then grabbed her.
At that point the traffic pole was pulled out of the ground as Emmanuel Chidi and his attacker came to blows. He was taken to hospital in a coma but never recovered.
Local churches which have worked with migrants have recently been targeted by small bombs, according to Father Vinicio Albanesi.
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi was among many across Italy who took to social media to express disgust at the killing, using the hashtag Emmanuel.
"The government today is in Fermo with Don Vinicio and the local institutions in memory of Emmanuel. Against hate, racism and violence," he wrote.
Visiting the town, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano told reporters on Thursday that the seed of racism had to be stopped before it could bear fruit. "The heart of Italy isn't represented by those who carried out this murder."
He also announced that Emmanuel Chidi's partner Chinyery had been granted refugee status.
Jamie Adams' 14th-minute header, from Brian Gilmour's cross, had looked like ensuring Ayr halted their three-match losing streak.
Saints' David Clarkson had gone close with a header before Walsh nodded in Lawrence Shankland's long throw.
And St Mirren almost snatched a winner but John Sutton had his shot blocked.
Match ends, Ayr United 1, St. Mirren 1.
Second Half ends, Ayr United 1, St. Mirren 1.
Attempt missed. Gary Harkins (Ayr United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Stephen Mallan (St. Mirren) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ross Docherty (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Stephen Mallan (St. Mirren).
Attempt missed. Gary Harkins (Ayr United) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Attempt saved. John Sutton (St. Mirren) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Goal! Ayr United 1, St. Mirren 1. Tom Walsh (St. Mirren) header from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lawrence Shankland.
Nicky Devlin (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Walsh (St. Mirren).
Jamie Adams (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by David Clarkson (St. Mirren).
Substitution, Ayr United. Robbie Crawford replaces Paul Cairney.
Attempt saved. Stephen Mallan (St. Mirren) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Jamie Adams (Ayr United).
Stephen Mallan (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Peter Murphy.
Attempt blocked. Stephen Mallan (St. Mirren) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, St. Mirren. Lawrence Shankland replaces Kyle Hutton.
Foul by Jamie Adams (Ayr United).
Andy Webster (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. David Clarkson (St. Mirren) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Jason Naismith.
Alan Forrest (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jack Baird (St. Mirren).
Substitution, Ayr United. Alan Forrest replaces Kevin Nisbet.
Kyle Hutton (St. Mirren) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Nicky Devlin (Ayr United).
Jack Baird (St. Mirren) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, St. Mirren. Tom Walsh replaces Jordan Stewart.
Attempt missed. Kyle Hutton (St. Mirren) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt saved. Daryll Meggatt (Ayr United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Jason Naismith.
Foul by Ross Docherty (Ayr United).
David Clarkson (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ross Docherty (Ayr United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Andy Webster (St. Mirren).
Attempt saved. Ryan Hardie (St. Mirren) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Daryll Meggatt (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Former care workers Colwyn Baker, 71, David Hennessy, 74, and Nigel Putman, 62, abused youngsters at the now-closed Swaylands School in Penshurst, Kent, between 1963 and 1979.
Baker was sentenced to 20 years in prison for 20 offences.
Hennessy was jailed for 12 years for six offences and Putman sentenced to three years for two offences.
Sentencing the three men at Maidstone Crown Court at the end of a 12-week trial, Judge Philip Statman said: "This is one of the worst possible breaches of trust a court can deal with."
He said to Baker: "You must have thought as you entered your seventh decade you'd got away with it."
Baker, of Craighouse Avenue, Morningside, Edinburgh, had denied 24 indecent assault and three serious sexual assault charges.
Hennessy, of Westfields in Narborough, King's Lynn, Norfolk, had denied 17 indecent assault charges, one of gross indecency with a child and one serious sexual assault.
Putman, 62, of Kings Road, Slough, Berkshire, had denied three indecent assaults.
The three were found not guilty of 15 charges, and the jury was unable to decide on five counts.
One victim said in a statement issued after sentencing: "At the time I didn't realise it was wrong because the abuse was done in a way that made it seem OK.
"I was sent to the school because I needed looking after. I was a little boy and I wasn't looked after. I was made to do things that I shouldn't. This will always affect me."
During the trial, the jury heard that Baker had been convicted in 1994 of four counts of indecent assault on a boy aged under 16 and one count of gross indecency.
It was also disclosed that Hennessy was convicted in December 1993 of four counts of indecent assault on a boy and two sex offences against a pupil.
The judge praised the victims for their "courage, dignity and restraint".
Speaking to the three men he had just jailed, he said: "What those pupils, as they then were, suffered at your hands is seared in their memory banks, in my judgment, for the rest of their lives.
"They remained scarred by what happened to them and it's clear from their victim impact statements of their shame and embarrassment."
Swaylands School, which was run by Barnet council in north London, was a residential facility for boys with emotional and behavioural difficulties.
It was closed at the end of the summer term in 1994, 18 months after the council and Kent Police became aware of allegations of sexual abuse of students at the school by two staff members.
Following the verdicts, the council said it was "truly sorry" that young boys had suffered at the school.
Tykes goalkeeper Adam Davies twice prevented Thomas Grant putting the home side ahead in the opening half.
And Barnsley took the lead when Joe Davis headed the ball into his own net after Sam Winnall pressured the centre-back into a misunderstanding with Fleetwood goalkeeper Chris Maxwell.
Josh Scowen nodded Adam Hammill's corner home to make sure of the points.
The Information Commissioner's Office said about 370 people a day complain about cold calling, with more than half of those calls now automated.
BBC News found eight of the 20 most prolific calls came from the same company, which is not UK registered.
A spokesman for the ICO said it was illegal to make automated calls to people without their prior consent.
The consumer group Which? has called for new rules to "hold company directors to account" over "unlawful" calls.
Tellows, a web forum for people who find themselves on the receiving end of a nuisance call, has supplied the BBC with data on the numbers most frequently sought by its users.
Cold callers behind 20 telephone numbers resulted in 219,000 searches in a month.
Analysis shows the most common offenders concerned accidents, lifestyle surveys or PPI compensation. Others make calls suggesting people have won £500 in high street vouchers or an Apple iPad. In the run-up to Christmas there was a rise in calls offering oven cleaning services.
Across the UK, a single mobile phone number resulted in 7,624 searches in one day.
Eight of the top 20 numbers for October started with 01895, all with very similar details about the name of the company and the service it was claiming to offer. All but one of the phone numbers is now disconnected, with the latter going only to voicemail.
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People described a woman, identifying herself as a "Julie Smith" and calling from "Sigma Advice Company", inquiring about whether the recipient had had a car accident.
Anyone who said yes would be transferred to a male who would ask for more details.
However, "Julie" was not a real person but was actually a "robocaller" programmed to respond to certain phrases. Anyone saying "yes" would be passed to a human.
There is no Sigma Advice Company registered in the UK. No other registered companies with the name Sigma are involved in accident compensation.
A spokeswoman for the Information Commissioner's Office said there was a 26% rise in complaints between October and November due to a "significant" rise in automated calls reports.
It said there were 7,158 reports during the month compared with 4,120 in October. This accounted for 49% of all reports.
The spokesman added: "We are aware of Sigma Advice Company and have received some complaints. It's against the law for businesses to make automated calls to people who haven't given their specific consent to receive them."
Companies found to be making nuisance calls can face fines of up to £500,000.
ActionFraud, the UK's national fraud and cyber crime reporting centre, shuts down 80,000 rogue phone lines a year.
A spokesman said: "It is possible for scammers to spoof a number so they can pretend they are somewhere they are not.
"This can happen if the caller is in this country or overseas."
One firm in Manchester was ordered to pay £80,000 after the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) received more than 1,000 complaints.
Where it becomes difficult is when callers are based overseas, outside the jurisdiction of UK authorities. Although if they are calling on behalf of UK-based organisations, they should still comply with UK law.
Vickie Sheriff, Which? director of campaigns, said: "Unfortunately, today's research confirms what we have known to be true for far too long - millions of people are still being pestered by nuisance calls everyday.
"Which? has long campaigned to tackle nuisance calls and want to see the new rules to hold company directors to account for bombarding consumers with unlawful calls come into force as soon as possible."
BBC News has created an interactive map for you to check your area.
Nuisance phone calls infuriate people and disrupt their lives.
Citizens Advice consumer expert, Jan Carton, said there were three organisations that could help:
What would you like to know about nuisance calls?
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The Church says it will bid to open 125 of the 500 new free schools promised by the government by 2020 in a "bold and ambitious vision for education".
A report to Church leaders describes the free schools programme as a "unique opportunity" to enhance its contribution to education.
But the British Humanist Association said the plan was "counterproductive".
The Church of England is already the largest single provider of schools and academies in England, educating about a million pupils in 4,700 schools.
A spokeswoman confirmed that the new schools would be largely secondaries in areas where there is pressure on places.
Ahead of the 2015 election, Prime Minister David Cameron committed his party to creating at least 500 free schools, delivering an extra 270,000 places, if re-elected.
The government maintains that free schools (state-funded, start-up schools, outside local authority control) help improve educational standards.
The plan would give the Church "the opportunity to shape and enhance our provision and to influence the debate about what education is for", the Church's education lead, the Bishop of Ely, the Right Reverend Stephen Conway, told its governing body.
The report, Church of England Vision for Education, says the Church's involvement in education "seeks to promote educational excellence for everyone" and "service the flourishing of a healthy plural society and democracy, together with a healthily plural educational system".
Its vision for education "is hospitable to diversity, respects freedom of religion and belief, and encourages others to contribute from the depths of their own traditions and understandings", says the report.
But British Humanist Association chief executive Andrew Copson described the plans as "entirely out of step with the beliefs of the population and the wishes of the vast majority of parents.
"They severely threaten the rights of children to learn with and from those of other religions and beliefs, to be defined by more than simply the religion or beliefs of their parents and to enjoy a balanced education without fear of discrimination or division.
"Creating more faith schools when the number of people they can appropriately cater for continues to decline is counterintuitive and counterproductive," said Mr Copson.
Both Ms Narcisse's party and that of another presidential candidate, Jovenel Moise, are claiming victory.
But official results are not expected before the end of the week.
Vote counting in elections is often slow but has been further delayed this time due to widespread destruction caused by Hurricane Matthew.
Haiti voted in presidential, parliamentary and local elections on Sunday.
Supporters of Ms Narcisse and her Fanmi Lavalas party threw rocks and set tyres alight in the capital, Port-au-Prince, on Monday and Tuesday.
Election officials called for calm and for people to be patient while the counting continued.
They said more than half of the tally sheets had now reached the capital from outlying areas.
They also warned the public not to believe what they called "pseudo-results".
Twenty-seven candidates ran in the much-delayed presidential election.
It was held more than a year after the previous poll was annulled following allegations of widespread fraud.
Observers said that Sunday's elections went off relatively smoothly.
Supporters of Mr Moise, of the Parti Haitien Tet Kale (Haitian Bald Head Party), even sent out text messages saying that a second round would not be necessary given the size of his lead.
In Haiti, a presidential election goes into a run-off if none of the candidates wins more than 50% of the vote.
Whoever is eventually declared the winner will face the challenge of reconstructing a country that has been ravaged by natural disasters.
The most recent, Hurricane Matthew, destroyed 90% of some of Haiti's southern areas.
The Other Side of the Wind, which began filming 45 years ago and stars cinematic legends John Huston and Peter Bogdanovich, has never been seen.
A goal of $2m (£1.3m) has been set on crowdfunding Indiegogo, to fund the editing, score and post production.
This year the 100th anniversary of Welles' birth is being celebrated.
The movie has been described as "a scathing tale of friendship, betrayal, media and ambition in Hollywood".
Fans have until 14 June to donate, with perks including limited edition film prints and invitations to the movie's world premiere on offer for donations.
"Had crowdfunding been around in the 1970s, I believe Orson would have embraced it as a way of engaging filmgoers directly," said one of the movie's producers, Filip Jan Rymsza.
"Shot over five years in multiple formats, finishing the film is a huge technical undertaking."
Welles' daughter Beatrice has also put her name to the campaign.
"My father struggled his whole life to find funding to finish his pictures, but never as much as he did for this one," she said.
"He would truly be ecstatic to know that it was the people who really cared about his work who, in the end, brought his last dream to fruition."
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Demonstrations have been continuing in the port city for months in spite of a government crackdown.
They were triggered by the gruesome death of a fishmonger.
BBC Arabic's Amir Rawash examines why these protests have managed to keep their momentum.
Thousands of Moroccans took to the streets in a number of cities last October when a fish-seller was crushed to death in a garbage truck.
Mouhcine Fikri was trying to rescue his stock, which the police wanted to confiscate.
This incident was reminiscent of the suicide of Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi, which became a catalyst for the so-called Arab spring.
His death - after the authorities had taken his goods - also sparked a wave of protests.
Al-Hoceima witnessed demonstrations in 2011, inspired by uprisings in other Arab countries.
Anti-government protests were called by some activists last October to protest against the death of Fikri.
As the demonstrations have snowballed, corruption and unemployment became central topics for the angry movement.
Whilst the government is the subject of much criticism, there have been no protests against King Mohammed VI .
The demonstrators are also calling for the release of detainees, including well-known activist Naser Zefzafi, who is deemed the leader of the so-called al-Hirak al-Shabi (Popular Movement).
Inhabitants of the Rif region, which has a largely ethnic Berber population, have felt neglected by the central government in Rabat for many years.
They have become increasingly vocal about their longstanding grievances, which include poor living conditions and marginalisation.
The government has recently pledged to implement major development projects in Rif.
However, continuing demonstrations show that there is little trust in these promises.
The Moroccan government sought to control the widespread resentment following Fikri's death.
King Mohammed ordered officials to visit al-Hoceima to calm the angry crowds.
As the protests gained momentum, the authorities opted to crack down on them.
Scores of protesters have been arrested. Tear gas was used to disperse protesters.
Activist Naser Zefzafi was accused of "threatening national security".
"The state had no choice but to enforce the law," Morocco's Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit has been quoted as saying, defending the government's action.
However, human rights groups have voiced concerns about the arrests.
"We fear this wave of arrests may be a deliberate attempt to punish protesters in Rif for months of peaceful dissent," Heba Morayef, North Africa Research Director for Amnesty International warned.
Mother-of-two Patrice Brown, 28, had said her phone automatically started recording while one of Dwayne Kesto's victims gave evidence at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
Kesto was jailed for 16 years in July for raping two girls.
She was found guilty of contempt in December last year.
The court heard suspicions had been raised that Brown, an Aston University student, was secretly recording a victim's evidence during Kesto's trial, and she was arrested on 14 July last year.
She said her phone had malfunctioned after she had dropped it in the toilet, leading it to record without her knowledge.
However, Judge James Burbidge QC told the defendant she had made the 12 minute recording "deliberately".
While no evidence of her sharing the recording has been found, the court heard Brown had been in touch with Kesto's mother in Jamaica to keep her abreast of proceedings.
Brown, of Parkfield Avenue in Birmingham, claimed a custodial sentence would be "ridiculous", citing a lack of childcare arrangements, but Judge Burbidge said the seriousness of the case meant "a message needed to go out to the public".
He said: "If people come to court prepared to give evidence, whether vulnerable or not, and believe what they say is being recorded by a member of the perpetrator's family - and might be used elsewhere - that would undermine the system of justice."
The resolution, drafted by Russia, also calls for rapid access for humanitarian aid to be delivered across the country.
Turkey and Russia led a ceasefire deal that has mostly held since Thursday.
The resolution helps pave the way for talks in Kazakhstan between the Syrian government and opposition, which have the backing of Russia, Iran and Turkey.
Earlier Syria's main rebel alliance threatened to abandon the truce by 18:00 GMT if the government continued to attack areas under its control.
The Free Syrian Army (FSA) issued the ultimatum to Russia - Syria's key ally - amid reports of intense bombardment by government forces on the rebel-held Wadi Barada area of Damascus.
But shelling on the area concerned ceased just minutes before the deadline, the group's legal adviser, Osama Abu Zeid, said.
The new ceasefire deal applies across Syria but excludes the jihadists of so-called Islamic State (IS) and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (JFS), and the Kurdish YPG militia.
A final text of the UN resolution dropped the word "endorsed", stating, instead, that the Security Council "welcomes and supports" efforts by Russia and Turkey to end the crisis in Syria.
It said it had taken note of the documents issued by the two countries, but the French Ambassador to the UN later said the council had not seen any documents signed by the rebel groups and the Syrian government.
"In these conditions, the level of commitment of the parties to this truce remains somewhat uncertain and its implementation rather fragile," Alexis Lamek said.
Some of the rebel signatories have alleged that they were made to sign a version that may differ from that of the Syrian government.
The resolution comes against a backdrop of deadlock among the veto-wielding members of the council, with Russia supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the US, UK and France insisting he must step down as part of any deal to end the war.
Russia and Turkey also back opposite sides in the conflict, with Turkey supporting the rebellion against Mr Assad.
Russia's Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, appealed to council members to give the latest ceasefire efforts a chance, saying: "Don't just keep repeating outdated cliches."
"Let us work very seriously on this and ensure that in 2017 we achieve a political settlement of the Syria crisis," he added.
On Thursday, the UN expressed concern about the fighting in the town, saying fighters were deliberately targeting and damaging springs used to supply some four million people in the Damascus area with drinking water.
Wadi Barada is held by opposition forces, including JFS, which was known as al-Nusra Front until it formally broke ties with al-Qaeda in July.
On Saturday, the FSA accused the government and Iranian militias of "brazen violations" in the town and planning a "massacre" which would "lead to an immediate end" of the truce.
"We call on Russia which signed the agreement as a guarantor for the regime and its allies to bear its responsibility," the rebels said.
The FSA added that it was "fully committed to the ceasefire in accordance with a comprehensive truce which does not exclude any area or faction present in opposition areas".
On the one side, Syrian government forces, allied militias and the Russian military.
On the other, the FSA plus several other groups.
The Russian defence ministry named seven "moderate opposition formations" included in the truce as Faylaq al-Sham, Ahrar al-Sham, Jaysh al-Islam, Thuwwar Ahl al-Sham, Jaysh al-Mujahidin, Jaysh Idlib and Jabhah al-Shamiya.
Ahrar al-Sham, which said it had "reservations" about the deal, and Jaysh al-Islam are Islamist groups that Russia has previously described as terrorist organisations.
IS and JFS and the groups affiliated to them", are not part of the agreement, according to the Syrian army.
JFS said on Friday it would continue to fight President Assad, with a spokesman saying the political solution under the truce would "reproduce the criminal regime".
Members of the group are currently operating as part of a rebel alliance that controls Idlib province.
The FSA also said the deal did not include the Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG).
The militia, which has captured large swathes of north-eastern Syria from IS with US support, is designated a terrorist organisation by Turkey.
The truce is nominally nationwide, although that really only covers the areas where the sides who have signed up have a presence - western Syria.
The Magpies remained in the drop zone following their 3-1 defeat by Bournemouth at St. James' Park.
"In some moments we are not a team, we are not as one. Something has to change," Perez, 22, told BBC Newcastle.
"It's not enough - we have good quality in the dressing room, but during this season we have not shown it. We need to be a team."
The former Tenerife forward scored Newcastle's only goal in the 80th minute in a defeat that followed two wins and a draw in their three previous home games.
"We have been playing good football at home - winning games," the Spaniard continued.
"That has been key for us - playing at home. I don't know what happened but we have to change something."
With only 10 games remaining Newcastle are level on points with Norwich, and a point behind 17th-placed Sunderland and safety.
"We have to think that we have 10 finals," said Perez. "It doesn't matter how, we have to be a team and try to get points as soon as possible because we are in trouble.
"It's our turn, we have to give [the fans] something special because Newcastle, the club, and the fans don't deserve the situation."
There has been widespread speculation about Steve McClaren's position as head coach since the defeat, but Perez insisted the players are behind him.
"He is our manager, we have to be with him," he added.
"If something changes, I don't know what's going to happen - but right now we are with him because he is our manager."
Researchers from Abo Academy University in Finland say that violence in early human communities was driven by personal conflicts rather than large-scale battles.
They say their findings suggest that war is not an innate part of human nature, but rather a behaviour that we have adopted more recently.
The study is published in the journal Science.
Patrik Soderberg, an author of the study, said: "This research questions the idea that war was ever-present in our ancestral past. It paints another picture where the quarrels and aggression were primarily about interpersonal motives instead of groups fighting against each other."
Motives for murder
The research team based their findings on isolated tribes from around the world that had been studied over the last century.
Cut off from modern life and surviving off wild plants and animals, these groups live like the hunter gatherers of thousands of years ago.
"They are the kind of societies that don't really rely on agriculture or domestic animals - they are primitive societies," explained Mr Soderberg.
"About 12,000 years ago, we assume all humans were living in this kind of society, and that these kind of societies made up about for about 90% of our evolutionary path."
Using the modern tribes as an analogy for earlier society, the researchers looked at cases where violent deaths had been documented.
They found 148 such deaths but very few were caused by war.
"Most of these incidents of lethal aggression were what we call homicides, a few were feuds and only the minority could be labelled as war," Mr Soderberg said.
"Over half the events were perpetrated by lone individuals and in 85% of the cases, the victims were members of the same society."
Most of the killings were driven by personal motives, he added, such as family feuds or adultery.
The researchers admitted that modern communities were not a perfect model for ancient societies, but said the similarities were significant and did provide an insight into our past.
Mr Soderberg said: "It questions the idea that human nature, by default, is developed in the presence of making war and that war is a driving force in human evolution."
Instead, he thinks that war may have developed later.
As the hunter gatherers made the transition to farming, groups became more territorial and with a more complex social structure.
"As humans settled down, then war becomes more dominant and present. For these primitive societies, war has not yet entered the picture," he added.
The Irish prime minister (taoiseach) Enda Kenny confirmed the move during a speech to the Irish parliament.
The Irish economy is emerging from one of the deepest recessions in the eurozone, having sought an international bailout in November 2010.
Ireland is due to leave the EU-IMF bailout on 15 December.
Mr Kenny said: "We will exit the bailout in a strong position. The government has been preparing for a return to normal market trading.
"We will set out a path to a brighter economic future for our people, a path from mass unemployment to full employment, from involuntary emigration to the return of thousands of people who have to leave for other countries to find work.
"Today is just the latest step in that ongoing journey, a significant step indeed but also just another step towards our ultimate job of getting Ireland working again."
He added that German chancellor Angela Merkel pledged to work closely with Ireland to improve funding mechanisms for the economy, including access to finance for small and medium businesses.
"The German government has asked KFW, the German development bank, to work with the German and Irish authorities swiftly, in order to deliver on this initiative at the earliest possible date," Mr Kenny said.
International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde said the performance of Ireland bodes well for the future.
"The Irish authorities have established a very strong track record of policy implementation. This bodes well as Ireland exits its EU/IMF-supported programme," she said.
"Although uncertainties remain in Europe and the global economy more broadly, Ireland is in a strong position in terms of its bond yields and has built a sizable cash buffer. We look forward to continuing to work with the authorities as they address the challenges that remain."
It is understood a decision not to seek a special overdraft facility was finalised at an emergency cabinet meeting on Thursday, ahead of Finance Minister Michael Noonan flying out to a summit in Brussels.
Mr Noonan said the decision was in Ireland's best interests, and that he hoped to publish the main outlines of a medium-term economic strategy before 25 December.
The Department of Finance said confidence and sentiment towards Ireland has improved considerably in recent months and domestic and international economic conditions were also improving.
Deputy prime minister Eamon Gilmore told the parliament it was an "historic, important and welcome" announcement.
However, the Labour leader added: "There will be no celebration until our economic fortunes are fully recovered."
Mr Gilmore said the renegotiation of bailout interest rates and the Anglo bank promissory note were among the reasons Ireland can cleanly exit the bailout.
Micheál Martin, leader of the opposition Fianna Fáil party, said a case should be presented by the government on why Ireland does not need a precautionary credit line.
He said there was no need for a "stage-managed" announcement.
Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams welcomed the move but said the government should not applaud itself for decimating public services and leaving families across the state in poverty.
Independent member Stephen Donnelly described it as a "bittersweet moment" for Ireland and said there was a need for retrospective capitalisation.
Another independent member, Shane Ross, said the bond markets would require as much austerity as the Irish government had been "imposing at the whim of the troika (the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund who provided the bailout)".
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Seemingly dead and buried when former player and local lad Mike Flynn took charge with 12 games remaining this term, 11 points adrift of safety and once again at their lowest ebb, County had been written off.
For a club who have adversity running through their DNA and always have done, this was set to be a sad footnote to a glorious resurrection.
The club folded in 1989, rising again via a spell in the depths of the non-league scene before promotion at Wembley under Justin Edinburgh when they were bankrolled by a multi-millionaire lottery winner.
Since Edinburgh's departure in March 2015, six men have arrived and left Rodney Parade, with ex-international players like Warren Feeney and Terry Butcher finding the job no easier than coaches Jimmy Dack and Graham Westley.
Westley exited in March with County looking all but relegated and Flynn given a seemingly impossible task for a rookie boss.
The Exiles completed the unthinkable on Saturday, however, clinching survival thanks to O'Brien's last-gasp strike gifting them the three points they needed to stay up in League Two.
The ramifications for a club that is fan-owned, are monumental.
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Roared on by a record crowd of 7,500, Newport have re-engaged their fanbase, according to chairman Gavin Foxall.
"The whole game was a rollercoaster and the last 10 minutes even more so. At one point we thought we were down and out," he said.
"The way Mark O'Brien popped up and did what he did was just unbelievable and you could see what it meant to all the people.
"The fans of Newport turned out. 7,500 have come, and for me personally, it just shows what an opportunity we've got in Newport with a stadium in the centre. The bars were full, the restaurants did well and sport is really important to the centre of Newport.
"What a job that boy [Flynn] has done. He's been absolutely fantastic. He's Newport through and through. When we appointed him we said 'we want you to put some pride and passion in the shirt.'
"I spoke to the players and said exactly the same to them and they have more than delivered on that.
"Lennie Lawrence [Flynn's assistant] said to me at this level you need somebody who really cares about this club. I'm not suggesting other managers haven't but we've got somebody from the local area who lives in the local area and that can only bode well for us as a club going forward."
Defender David Pipe is a former Wales international as well as being the captain of County's 2013 play-off team, but the loanee re-signed by Westley from non-league Eastleigh says Saturday's win eclipses everything else.
"I've seen nothing like that. Obviously everyone's going to talk about [winning the 2013 Conference play-off final] at Wembley due to it being a milestone," he said.
"You could kind of weigh it up but the pressure that was on this game and the turnaround, the points gap, everyone writing us off, add all that together and I honestly think it would be a struggle for anyone to repeat that in that short space of time.
"Credit to everyone involved. Credit to the fans who have come back in their numbers. Obviously the atmosphere, at the end of the day I think it got us over the line.
"We're on the pitch but when we keep going and going, we knew that we were going down but we didn't stop. The end result is what everyone deserves."
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Pipe feels the Exiles have a bright future under their current boss.
"Obviously, the gaffer is very clever with the people he's brought in, including himself who's galvanised the place like no one's business," he said.
"I think as a collective, the county, the fans, everyone involved, you walk into shops and everyone's buzzing again and it's a massive collective effort.
"If Michael Flynn is not manager next year of Newport County, I might hang my boots up myself because that would be a disgrace."
There seems little prospect of that happening, with Newport finally ready to dream again after somehow escaping a nightmare campaign with their Football League status still intact.
BBC Wales football correspondent Rob Phillips
Fair play to manager Mike Flynn, unlike Steve McQueen, he brought the wire cutters for Newport County's 'Great Escape'.
In that movie, Captain Virgil Hilts (McQueen) ended up back in a cell, that iconic bike ride having ended with him entangled in a wire fence.
In the 'Great Escape' remake, everyone in County colours got away. But what of their future?
The consequences of an unforgettable afternoon, when emotions were put through the ringer at Rodney Parade, could be immense for football in the city.
Flynn inspired a written-off squad to seven wins in his dozen matches, which included games against six of those who finished in the League Two top seven, and all this achieved on the worst pitch in the Football League.
A new contract for Flynn is a formality. His influence in the dressing room has been a key element in the transformation. Don't underestimate his tactical nous, either, nor the choice of backroom team - coach Wayne Hatswell and trusty advisor Lawrence.
A crowd of more than 7,500 shows there is interest in the club and might prompt those with significant funds in the area to help out, too.
Now the club must ensure this 'Great Escape' becomes an 'Escape to Victory'.
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is providing £4m for the work - the bulk of which will be carried out within the Lake District National Park.
Cumbria and the north of England were left with a clean-up bill of more than £500m after last December's storm.
The government says £150m has already been spent aiding flood-hit areas.
The RPA said £3m of the grant would be used in the national park - which saw £5.8m of damage to footpaths and bridges.
Floods Minister Thérèse Coffey said: "This new £4m fund will mean visitors and residents can continue to enjoy all parts of the Lake District.
"We remain committed to continuing to help the people and businesses of Cumbria recover from the devastating winter floods."
Richard Leafe, chief executive of the Lake District National Park, said: "This year we've made a start on repairing some of the areas most affected by the floods, but with limited funding from our own resources and donations, it's been a challenge.
"This £3m will allow us to launch our extensive recovery programme that will not only reconnect flood-damaged public rights of ways, but also make them more robust and resilient for the future.
RPA chief executive Mark Grimshaw added: "The Cumbrian countryside, including the Lake District National Parks, includes some of the most beautiful scenery that England has to offer and is a major feature of the local tourist economy.
"This will help restore rights of way popular with locals and visitors as well as protect them from any future instances of flooding."
The remaining £1m will be shared between local councils and the Canal and River Trust.
Prosecutors in Sweden want to question Mr Assange over sex assault claims.
The 44-year-old Australian denies the allegations. He has been living at Ecuador's embassy in London since 2012.
On Friday, France's Le Monde newspaper published an open letter Mr Assange had written to President Francois Hollande asking for asylum. However, his lawyers later said he had never sought it.
In the letter, Mr Assange wrote: "By welcoming me, France would carry out a humanitarian and symbolic gesture, sending encouragement to every journalist and whistleblower."
He also said his life was in danger.
A statement from Mr Hollande's office said it had reviewed the request and decided not to grant Mr Assange asylum.
"The situation of Mr Assange does not present any immediate danger," the statement said. "Furthermore, he is subject to a European arrest warrant."
Following the letter's publication, Wikileaks tweeted that Mr Assange "did not submit an asylum application to France. He published an open letter in Le Monde to Hollande and the public."
The legal team added that he was only responding to an invitation by French civil rights activists - backed by Justice Minister Christiane Taubira - to visit France.
Mr Assange - a journalist and activist - has not been formally charged, but prosecutors want to question him over allegations of rape and sexual misconduct made by two women he met during a trip to Sweden in August 2010.
He claims the allegations are part of a plot to extradite him to the US because of Wikileaks' publication of thousands of classified US documents earlier in 2010.
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.
Ecuador offered Mr Assange asylum in August 2012, shortly after he sought refuge at the country's embassy in London.
Cha Halliday, 53, from Greenock, and Sean Donnelly, 48, from Inverkip, have been all over Scotland visiting sites linked to Wallace, the Scottish hero of the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297.
But a small reference in a book on Wallace led them to a little known site close to where they lived.
According to Scottish author David R Ross, in his book On the Trail of William Wallace, the Scottish warrior was captured in August 1305 at what is now Robroyston, north of Glasgow, and taken overnight to Dumbarton Castle to await transfer to London to stand trial for treason.
He recounts the local legend that Wallace was taken across the Clyde at West Ferry, and transported along the old Roman road to an area called Broadfield, which is now in Port Glasgow in Inverclyde.
It is said that he was chained to a tree until English troops arrived and he could be handed over and taken down south.
The chains were said to have remained at the scene for many years and each time they rotted away they were replaced.
They were said to be painted red each year by local children to symbolise the blood shed by Wallace in his fight for Scottish independence.
Historian Fiona Watson said there was very little reliable evidence on Wallace beyond his victory at Stirling Bridge, his defeat at Falkirk a year later and his death in 1305.
Wallace was hanged, drawn and quartered on 23 August 1305 after being found guilty of treason.
Dr Watson said: "We know nothing about Wallace between him being chased by the English near Dundee in autumn 1304 and his capture in summer 1305."
She said there was no evidence to place Wallace in Port Glasgow but over the years people across the country had "filled in the gaps" in Wallace's tale with stories associating their area with the great Scottish hero.
She said: "There is little evidence to support many of the associations but it does not mean they are not strongly held."
The truth behind the Port Glasgow legend is hard to establish but it appears the stories of the Wallace Tree have deep roots in the Inverclyde area.
A 1962 Greenock Telegraph article carries an appeal to save the "gnarled oak", saying its loss would be a "tragedy".
It refers to notes from a Mr Scrymgeour who describes a different legend.
He tells of the flight of William Wallace from English soldiers, with a price on his head.
Mr Scrymgeour begins with Wallace's escape from an inn at Elderslie on a horse belonging to one of the soldiers who had cordoned him off at the hostelry.
Wallace, he says, then made off over the hill towards Greenock.
He claims that when Wallace reached the big tree at Broadfield he climbed into its branches to hide himself and his two-handed broadsword from the pursuing soldiers.
Mr Scrymgeour also tells how the 13th Earl of Glencairn sought to save the tree in 1768 when it was showing signs of decay.
The earl had the infected part bored and boiling pitch poured into the hole.
According to Mr Scrymgeour: "He also had the heaviest branches chained in such a fashion that each or all could be tightened at will by the aid of a triple screw."
This could provide an alternative explanation for the chains which have been associated with the tree.
The tree had been located where the Holy Family Roman Catholic Church now stands when it was blown down in heavy storms in 1995.
More than 18 years after the tree was felled, Mr Halliday set about trying to find it.
After some detective work and the aid of Facebook, the tree was tracked down to the former Gourock Ropeworks yard, where it had been taken for safe-keeping.
"They guy who had it said he knew someone would come looking for it one day," says Mr Halliday.
In order to get a date for the age of the the tree, Mr Halliday called in dendrochronologist Dr Coralie Mills.
It was during her visit that a second piece of the tree was found hidden in the undergrowth.
It had a length of chain embedded in its growth, providing more evidence that it was the tree that had been referred to locally as the Wallace Oak.
The age of the chain is unknown but clearly does not stretch anywhere near as far back as Wallace's time. It is likely have come from a local shipyard in the late 19th or early 20th Century.
Dr Mills told BBC Scotland that the oak itself was very old and put a date of 1786 on the section of the tree that she sampled.
Allowing for the evidence that the section of the tree had probably been about 2m from the ground, she put the age of the tree at 1763, if it was a single-stemmed tree.
However, the newspaper article from 1962 held out the possibility that the tree could still be much older.
Dr Mills said the date of her tree sample was very similar to the reputed date of the Earl's boring of the tree and the stimulation of roots growing down through what must have been a rotten or hollow lower stem.
She said: "In other words, the part of the tree we have aged is re-growth above the much older hollow base."
Dr Mills said she could not determine the age of a hollow stem and so could only estimate the age of a tree which was already old and hollow in the 18th century.
"It could easily have been several hundred years old at that point," she said.
The oldest known scientifically aged living trees in Scotland are mid-15th Century.
"We cannot refute the Wallace tradition on the basis of the dendro results," Dr Mills said.
A conclusion which "delighted" Cha Halliday.
He told BBC Scotland: "I liked the story because it was a legend and I was worried Dr Mills might be able to prove the tree was about 100 years old or something.
"But it was a chance we had to take.
"If she could get it anywhere near Wallace's time then it would keep the story going.
"Obviously a lot of people before me have believed in it and if we can keep it going and get something to mark it then I think it is amazing."
Scotland has a rich heritage of notable trees with famous associations.
In 1830, artist and naturalist Jacob George Strutt, in his book Sylva Brittanica, published a special section called Sylva Scotica in which he listed 10 famous Scottish trees.
Most of these trees have not survived into the 21st century, including two trees associated with William Wallace,
The Wallace Oak at Elderslie, in which tradition provided Wallace and 300 of his followers shelter as they were pursued by the English army and The Torwood Oak, near Stirling, beneath which he was said to have made camp.
The latter tree was already dead by Strutt's time, the pieces being carried off as souvenirs.
A similar fate befell the Wallace Oak at Elderslie after it was brought down by a great storm in 1856.
Strutt also mentioned the Bishopton Sycamore in Renfrewshire where Wallace was 'delivered up to his enemies by the treachery of a pretended friend'.
Tina Love, from Dartford in Kent, has been sentenced to six years after previously being convicted of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
The assault took place in the concert area of the holiday camp in Bognor, West Sussex, during a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk in April 2013.
Julie McDonald, from Buckinghamshire, suffered head and facial injuries.
Chichester Crown Court heard Love, 28, of Acacia Road, head-butted Ms McDonald, who was then 47, before biting off part of her nose and spitting it out on to the floor.
The attack in front of 450 people followed a dispute over whose table was whose, the court was told.
Part of Ms McDonald's nose had to be reattached during surgery.
A victim impact statement read to the court by prosecutor Rachel Beckett said the attack left the mother-of-three living a "nightmare".
"The assault on me was unwarranted, unprovoked and has left me scarred for life," it said.
"I was left in the theatre covered in blood with one of my children next to me as I screamed out in shock and pain.
"You can't hide from this. It is there every day staring me in the face when I look in the mirror and I have to deal with this for the rest of my life."
Defending, Neil Guest said Love would lose her local authority home and also be separated from her three children, aged eight, five and four.
In mitigation, he said she had no previous convictions, had not been in trouble since the attack and was at low risk of re-offending.
"She's a true, caring mother who helps strangers and gives to charities," he said.
"What came over her that night we simply don't know."
Sentencing, recorder Mark Milliken-Smith QC said it was a "tragic case" in which everyone had suffered, including Love's own children.
This has been a series of unreal pace and unfathomable change, and its conclusion was entirely in keeping: England's Mark Wood riding an imaginary horse around the Trent Bridge outfield; Ben Stokes downing a bottle of beer in one by the old pavilion; Australia captain Michael Clarke retiring from international cricket three months after winning the World Cup, five days of cricket after his side had drawn level with a 405-run victory and 24 hours after insisting he was fighting on.
Even as Joe Root was receiving a champagne shampoo from his cavorting team-mates, there was an air of disbelief about it all. And why not?
Eighteen months ago England were being thrashed 5-0 down under, Alastair Cook's last act in that series to be lbw in Sydney playing no shot to his second ball. Four months ago they were coming back from the World Cup in disgrace, having been beaten by Bangladesh and having failed to even get out of the group stage. Less than three months ago they were sacking their coach for the second time in a year.
To build an Ashes-winning team from those foundations of sand is remarkable enough in itself. But it is in the flair and pace that they have done so which sets this triumph apart.
Not since the 19th century have England won four home Ashes series in a row. Not in 30 years have they won a home Ashes Test by an innings. And yet by the end it was no surprise at all, the new Ashes order as secure as it was unimaginable four breathless weeks ago.
How good was this Ashes of 2015? It has been a summer of unforgettable sessions but only occasional tension, of matches won at unprecedented pace and thrown away with remarkable profligacy, of new heroes like Stokes and Root and the enforced farewell of old stagers like Clarke and his vice-captain Brad Haddin.
The overall balance of power initially see-sawed. An England win by 169 runs, an Australian victory by 405, that total dominance succeeded by an eight-wicket capitulation less than a fortnight later.
In the individual matches, it was contrastingly one-sided. Not this time the knee-knocking tension of Edgbaston 2005, the last-gasp draw of Cardiff 2009 or the 15-run margin of victory in the corresponding Ashes Test at Trent Bridge two summers ago.
There has been cut and thrust but never in the same match. The side that wins the first day wins the game.
These have felt like two flawed sides. England were bowled out in 37 overs at Lord's, Australia in 36 in Birmingham and then 18.3 in Nottingham.
The difference between the two is the direction they are taking. England are on the ascent, Australia plummeting back down at an alarming rate.
Only one England batsman, Root, has scored a century. It has not mattered, because whenever his team have needed a bowler, one of the attack has taken charge.
In Cardiff it was Moeen, seeing off Australia's best batsman and then their captain. In the first innings at Edgbaston James Anderson took 6-47; in the second, Steve Finn 6-79. At Trent Bridge it was the turn of Stuart Broad with that extraordinary 8-15, and then Stokes with his Flintoff-esque 6-36 in the glorious finale.
It is the first time in Test history that four different bowlers in a team have taken six wickets in consecutive innings. In contrast, Australia's bowlers have been soloists and occasionals.
Mitchell Starc has blown hot and cold. Mitchell Johnson went for 100 in the first Test, blew England away in the second, produced two sensational deliveries amongst the mundane in the third and went away for another ton in the fourth.
Catches won matches. From Alastair Cook's diving slip catch off David Warner in Cardiff and reflex effort at short midwicket to dismiss Haddin in the second innings, England's fielding has been as inspired as it was desultory in the preceding whitewash down under - Root exemplary at third slip, Stokes impossible at point in hanging on to Adam Voges on that flat-out first morning in Nottingham.
Records fell as fast as the wickets - the shortest ever first innings of a Test, the best ever figures for a pace bowler in the Ashes.
The iconic sessions that produced them will also go down in Ashes folklore: the afternoon on the first day at Edgbaston, when Australia lost seven wickets for 53 runs; the morning on the first day at Trent Bridge, when they somehow lost all 10 for just 60.
And it has all played out at an astonishing pace, not just unrecognisable from the Test cricket of old but - in that first session in the fourth Test - not even T20.
Four days in Cardiff and London, two and a half in Birmingham, two and half a session in Nottingham. You would worry about the duration, but for the home support it was all such thrilling fun.
The Ashes of 2013 had been won at a grind, England's cricket effective yet carefully planned and short of improvisation and inspiration. The urn was retained in the rain at Old Trafford and raised in the drizzle and darkness at a half-empty Oval.
This has felt more like 2009, the rebirth of a team from a similarly parlous state, a new coach and new style emerging with every day that passed, the moment of triumph witnessed by a full house in full party mood.
Just as Darren Lehmann's appointment in June 2013 revitalised an Australian side playing uncharacteristic cricket with little contentment, so Trevor Bayliss's arrival on the series' eve transformed England.
Australia turned out to be far less than the side they thought they were, but much of that comes down to England's plans. Australia stuck to their guns by repeating charging straight down the barrel of the opposition's. England preferred the cerebral and the subtle as well as the unfettered - going round the wicket to nullify Chris Rogers, putting a man in at deep point to catch Steve Smith, luring in the lunging opposition with full length and tempting angles.
This England side has a long way to go. They need to learn to win away, to find a reliable opening partner for Cook, to unearth or trust a spinner capable of winning matches or just holding an end.
But even with the new Premier League season upon us, they have managed to push cricket on to front pages as well as back, and made it look like fun again too. A summer of surprises has ended with smiles.
The defence secretary, who was a GP before entering politics, answered a call from the pilot for anyone with medical knowledge to come forward.
He assisted the woman on the flight from Istanbul to London until she was met by paramedics at the airport.
A spokesman for Dr Fox said it was the third time in four years he had been called into action in such a way.
Dr Fox was returning to London after a meeting with Turkish military and defence officials on Monday when the incident occurred about halfway through the four-and-a-half hour flight.
The defence secretary was able to make the woman comfortable for the remainder of the journey, his spokesman told the BBC, and she did not suffer any serious distress.
"Of course being a former doctor, he feels obliged to help. Any doctor would do," the spokesman added.
He confirmed this was not the first time that Dr Fox's medical experience had been called upon: "I think it is the third time over the last four years this has happened."
But he said he was not sure whether the woman was aware of her helper's identity and his other responsibilities.
Dr Fox worked as a civilian medical officer in the armed forces and is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
The former Navy lieutenant met a 70-year-old former member of the Viet Cong, who remembers the 1969 attack.
The pair warmly shook hands.
Mr Kerry, who is in Vietnam as part of his last trip before leaving office, won a medal for bravery for his actions but became an anti-war campaigner after returning home.
Mr Kerry told his former enemy, Vo Ban Tam, he was glad they were both alive.
Mr Vo, now a shrimp farmer, said he knew a man whom Mr Kerry shot and killed and remembered the plan of attack when they first spotted the US patrol boat.
The Viet Cong unit had a rocket launcher and was shooting at the US fighters to try to steer them into its range.
However, Mr Kerry took a bold move by leaping ashore to pursue his assailants, and shot dead the rocket launcher's operator.
Mr Kerry, then aged 26, was credited with saving his crew and was awarded the US military's Silver Star for bravery.
Mr Vo named the dead fighter as Ba Thanh and said he was 24 years old.
"He was a good soldier," he told Mr Kerry, speaking through an interpreter.
Mr Kerry never knew the name or age of the man he shot.
When he unsuccessfully ran for president in 2004, he faced critics who claimed he shot a teenager.
One aide to Mr Kerry told the Washington Post that the former military man had been searching Google Maps for the site of the ambush. On Thursday, he was said to have woken, jetlagged, in the middle of the night in his Hanoi hotel and called one of his old crew members to rack his brains.
Mr Kerry said returning to the scene was weird and a little surreal.
The secretary of state is visiting Vietnam as the first stop on his last foreign trip before stepping aside when the Trump administration takes power next week.
It is his fourth visit to the country as Washington's top diplomat.
Working under President Barack Obama, the veteran is known for taking a specific interest in improving relations between the US and Vietnam.
Mr Kerry was awarded other honours for his service in Vietnam, including three Purple Hearts for being wounded in action, but he became a prominent anti-war activist after returning to the US in 1969.
"It impressed on me the notion that you really need to analyse and understand what lies underneath the slogans," Kerry told reporters on Saturday, according to news agency AFP.
Work is due to be carried out to make the road a full one-way system.
It follows the deaths of two people and a number of accidents.
But Swansea council leader Rob Stewart said he would not consider a two-way traffic system until decisions had been made about the future of Kingsway.
The current traffic system on the road allows two lanes of all traffic to travel west on one side of the road, with two lanes of public transport - one going east and one west - on the other side.
In April, a coroner investigating the death of Daniel Foss, 37, after he was hit by a National Express bus, called for action to deal with "serious design issues" on the road.
Swansea council later installed barriers along the carriageway following the death of Sgt Louise Lucas in March, in a bid to prevent pedestrians crossing.
"We are not going to spend millions of pounds on the road until we are clear what the master plan is for the Kingsway," said Mr Stewart.
"We will do the necessary changes.
"In a few months we will release the full plans for the Kingsway and that may see the introduction of two-way traffic."
Work to regenerate the Kingsway into a business district will begin in October with the former Oceana building being demolished with the site earmarked as a possible new home for the council.
Cottingley Village Primary said in a letter to parents budget pressures left it needing to look at cost cutting without reducing staff.
Parent Anne Villien said the move would cause childcare problems for many.
The three main political parties have pledged more money for schools as head teachers around the country deal with rising costs pressures.
The letter, sent out by head teacher Nichola Geale, urges parents to have their say on the proposals.
It states: "We believe that changing the school day would both save the school a lot of money and also allow us to improve teaching and learning."
It said the change could involve school starting earlier, from 08:30 or 08:40, instead of the existing time of 08:55 and finish "Friday at lunchtime for all pupils".
The letter goes on to say staff would remain in school on Friday afternoon for preparation, planning and assessment time.
It adds: "At the moment, this is done during the week which interrupts learning and also costs the school as we have to pay for other teachers to be in classes".
The school has proposed to bring in the change from September.
Ms Villien, whose daughter attends Cottingley, said: "It is a such a fantastic school and it's disgusting that financial pressures are meaning it has to consider something like this.
"It means a lot of parents are going to have to look for childcare, which is not easy to find for the odd few hours. It's scary to think that this is the way many schools could be forced to deal with budget constraints."
Neither the school or Bradford City Council would comment on the proposals.
The museum in Wilton Lodge will be closed to the public while the audit takes place.
Scottish Borders Council said the review would give staff a "better knowledge and understanding" of the collection as a whole.
The museum will be shut from 24 December until 21 March 2016.
But Etsy has warned its future as a public company may not be profitable.
In a public filing it said its business was subject to "numerous risks" including a history of operating losses.
The share price values the firm at $1.8bn (£1.2bn). It will start trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol ETSY.
"We may not achieve or maintain profitability in the future [and] our quarterly operating results may fluctuate, which could cause our stock price to decline," the firm said.
Founded a decade ago, Etsy is an art-focused marketplace where crafters can sell their wares to like-minded buyers.
Its motto is 'buy good things from real people' and its business values include a focus on long-term sustainability.
Some 1.4 million Etsy sellers together have sold a combined $1.9bn (£1.3bn) worth of knit caps, tables, and other handmade and antique goods to almost 20 million buyers globally.
But the firm has noted that it faces "intense competition" and that it may not be able to compete effectively.
"Adherence to our values ... may negatively influence our short- or medium-term financial performance," the firm said.
The stock offering is expected to close on 21 April and Etsy has said it will set aside a stock participation program for its sellers.
The loan window for Football League clubs opened on Tuesday, 10 September.
To read the day's transfer rumours, visit our gossip column.
For all the latest breaking transfer news, follow Sportsday Live each day.
Biggest transfer deadline day signing: £42.4m switch from Real Madrid to Arsenal.
Biggest summer transfer: Gareth Bale's world record £85.3m move to Spanish side Real Madrid from Tottenham.
Busiest club over the summer: Bury signed 21 players.
Busiest Premier League club over the summer: Crystal Palace signed 16 players.
Zak Whitbread [Leicester - Derby] Loan
Don Cowan [Unattached - Stevenage]
Caleb Folan [Unattached - Bradford]
[Unattached - Fleetwood]
[Huddersfield - Tranmere] Loan
[Millwall - Bolton] Loan
David Fox [Norwich - Barnsley] Loan
Matt Fryatt [Hull - Sheffield Wednesday] Loan
Julian Gray [Unattached - Walsall]
Kevin McNaughton [Cardiff - Bolton] Loan
Paul Reid [Unattached - Northampton]
Adebayo Azeez [Charlton - Torquay] Loan
Jack Butland [Stoke - Barnsley] Loan
Neil Danns [Leicester - Bolton] Loan
Shane Duffy [Everton - Yeovil] Loan
Alex Nicholson [Unattached - Preston]
Billy Sharp [Southampton - Reading] Loan
Paul Taylor [Ipswich - Peterborough] Loan
Shane Cansdell-Sherriff [Preston - Burton] Loan
Javier Chevanton [Unattached - QPR]
Tom Hateley [Unattached - Tranmere]
Tom Eaves [Bolton - Rotherham] Loan
Chris Baird [Unattached - Reading]
Ryan Hall [Leeds - Sheffield United] Loan
[Chelsea - Watford] Loan
Lee Naylor [Unattached - Accrington]
Jamie Sendles-White [QPR - Colchester] Loan
[Bradford - Colchester] Loan
[Chelsea - Nottingham Forest] Loan
Mathias Kouo-Doumbe [Unattached - Northampton]
Jesse Lingard [Manchester United - Birmingham] Loan
John Marquis [Millwall - Portsmouth] Loan
Stephen McPhail [Unattached - Sheffield Wednesday]
Marlon King [Unattached - Sheffield United]
Stuart Urquhart [Rangers - Coventry] Undisclosed
[Crystal Palace - Blackpool] Loan
George Swann [Manchester City - Sheffield Wednesday] Loan
[Unattached - Leicester] Free
[FC United of Manchester - Chesterfield] Undisclosed
[Wolves - Sheffield Wednesday] Loan
[Manchester United - Doncaster] Loan
Craig Conway [Cardiff - Brighton] Loan
Gary Dicker [Unattached - Rochdale]
Luke Garbutt [Everton - Colchester] Loan
Jack Grealish [Aston Villa - Notts County] Loan
Marcus Haber [Stevenage - Notts County] Loan
Gary McSheffrey [Unattached - Chesterfield]
Jordan Pickford [Sunderland - Burton] Loan
James Wilson [Bristol City - Cheltenham] Loan
Andy Bond [Colchester - Bristol Rovers] Loan
Cliff Byrne [Oldham - Scunthorpe] Loan
Josh Carson [Unattached - York]
Paul Connolly [Unattached - Millwall]
Shwan Jalal [Bournemouth - Oxford United] Loan
[Unattached - Newport]
Jeffrey Monakana [Preston - Colchester] Loan
Elliott Whitehouse [Sheffield United - York] Loan
Kayode Odejayi [Rotherham - Accrington] Loan
[Swansea - Huddersfield] Loan
[Unattached - Northampton]
[Sheffield Wednesday - Brentford] Loan
Joao Carlos Teixeira [Liverpool - Brentford] Loan
Gary Woods [Unattached - Watford]
Paul Rachubka [Unattached - Oldham]
Shaun Cooper [Unattached - Portsmouth]
Ben Alnwick [Unattached - Charlton]
Romain Amalfitano [Newcastle - Dijon] Loan
[Unattached - Carlisle]
Morgan Amalfitano [Marseille - West Brom] Loan
Victor Anichebe [Everton - West Brom] £6m
Marko Arnautovic [Werder Bremen - Stoke] Undisclosed
Benoit Assou-Ekotto [Tottenham - QPR] Loan
Barry Bannan [Aston Villa - Crystal Palace] Undisclosed
Gareth Barry [Man City - Everton] Loan
Hamza Bencherif [Notts County - Plymouth] Free
Fabio Borini [Liverpool - Sunderland] Loan
Harry Bunn [Manchester City - Sheffield United] Loan
Jacob Butterfield [Norwich - Middlesbrough] Undisclosed
Paul Caddis [Swindon - Birmingham] Undisclosed
Raphael Calvet [Auxerre - Brentford] Undisclosed
Lee Camp [Norwich - West Brom] Free
Tom Carroll [Tottenham - QPR] Loan
[Preston - Rochdale] Loan
Florent Cuvelier [Stoke - Sheffield United] Undisclosed
Andrea Dossena [Napoli - Sunderland] Undisclosed
Marouane Fellaini [Everton - Man Utd] £27.5m
Liam Fontaine [Bristol City - Yeovil] Loan
Marko Futacs [Leicester - Diosgyori VT] Loan
[Al Ahly - Hull] Loan
Danny Green [Charlton - MK Dons] Loan
Adlene Guedioura [Nottingham Forest - Crystal Palace] Undisclosed
Tiago Ilori [Sporting Lisbon - Liverpool] £7m
[Aston Villa - Stoke] Loan
[FC Zurich - Manchester United] £700,000 (reported)
Brian Jensen [Burnley - Bury] Free
Cameron Jerome [Stoke - Crystal Palace] Loan
Kaka [Real Madrid - AC Milan] Free
Kei Kamara [Sporting Kansas City - Middlesbrough] Undisclosed
Michael Kightly [Stoke - Burnley] Loan
Libor Kozak [Lazio - Aston Villa] £7m
Niko Kranjcar [Dynamo Kiev - QPR] Loan
Genseric Kusunga [FC Basel - Oldham] Free
Romelu Lukaku [Chelsea - Everton] Loan
Georg Margreitter [Wolves - FC Copenhagen] Loan
[Reading - Crystal Palace] Undisclosed
Emmanuel Mayuka [Southampton - Sochaux] Loan
James McCarthy [Wigan - Everton] Undisclosed
Stephen McLaughlin [Nottingham Forest - Bristol City] Loan
Victor Moses [Chelsea - Liverpool] Loan
Dany N'Guessan [Millwall - Swindon] Free
David Noble [Rotherham - Cheltenham] Loan
James O'Connor [Derby - Bristol City] Loan
[West Brom - Cardiff] £2.25m
Bradley Orr [Blackburn - Blackpool] Loan
[Real Madrid - Arsenal] £42.4m
Daniel Pacheco [Liverpool - AD Alcorcon] Undisclosed
Nick Powell [Manchester United - Wigan] Loan
Peter Ramage [Crystal Palace - Barnsley] Loan
[Manchester City - Anzhi Makhachkala] Loan
Jamie Reckord [Wolves - Plymouth] Loan
Bradley Reid [Wrexham - Wolves] £200,000 (reported)
Mamadou Sakho [Paris St-Germain - Liverpool] £18m
Stephane Sessegnon [Sunderland - West Brom] Undisclosed
[Stoke - Wigan] Loan
Cameron Stewart [Hull - Charlton] Loan
Jayden Stockley [Bournemouth - Leyton Orient] Loan
Conor Townsend [Hull - Carlisle] Loan
Marcello Trotta [Fulham - Brentford] Loan
Nathan Tyson [Derby - Blackpool] Free
[Getafe - Swansea] Loan
[Palmero - Arsenal] Loan
Cauley Woodrow [Fulham - Southend] Loan
Marvin Zeegelaar [Elazigspor - Blackpool] Loan
Elsad Zverotic [Young Boys - Fulham] Undisclosed
Christian Atsu [Porto - Chelsea] £3.5m
Christian Atsu [Chelsea - Vitesse Arnhem] Loan
Gareth Bale [Tottenham - Real Madrid] £85.3m
Martin Demichelis [Atletico Madrid - Manchester City] £4.2m
Jack Hunt [Huddersfield - Crystal Palace] Undisclosed
Jimmy Kebe [Reading - Crystal Palace] Undisclosed
The 200-hectare site will be built in Nagoya city, in Aichi prefecture, said Governor Hideaki Omura on Thursday at a press conference.
The park will be based on the popular film My Neighbor Totoro, embodying the movie's theme of "respecting and embracing nature".
The studio's feature films are loved by many and critically-acclaimed.
My Neighbor Totoro was released in 1988 and tells the story of two young sisters who settle into an old country house while waiting for their mother to recover from an illness.
During their adventures, they encounter and befriend playful forest spirits, most notably the massive cuddly creature known as Totoro.
The site of the park, previously the home of the 2005 World Expo, currently has a life-size replica of the house from the film.
Co-founder of Studio Ghibli and producer Toshio Suzuki who was also at the announcement, said the attraction will be "set in the world of Totoro". There will not be any amusement park rides.
"Construction will be planned around existing clearings to avoid felling trees," Governor Omura said.
Ghibli fans around the world reacted to the news of the upcoming park.
"Wow literally reading [about] a Studio Ghibli theme park and I started crying! Not joking. This makes me so happy," wrote a US fan on Twitter.
Notably, there was much excitement from adult Ghibli fans who spoke about wanting to take their children with them to the attraction.
"I think our kids might be able to handle the trip by 2020," Charles Tran said to his wife on Facebook.
"Time to get working on raising funds for the kids," wrote James McGlone from Perth.
But others parents just wanted to go enjoy the experience themselves.
"Leave the boys at home, we're heading to Japan in 2020 for the Summer Olympics and this," said Paul Newman to his wife Anita on Facebook.
"It isn't just children who want to ride the Cat Bus! This makes adults excited," said Maryam Lee.
The proposed park would not be the only Studio Ghibli attraction in Japan. It currently has a museum in Tokyo and many fans visit a bathhouse in Kyoto city which was the inspiration for the Oscar-winning anime Spirited Away.
This year, legendary founder Hayao Miyazaki came out of retirement and announced plans to direct a new movie.
An impeccably dressed, black-suited Italian, he lived in the Pope's shadow and for seven years was always at hand to smooth the pontiff's path through his multiple official duties - in public and in private.
Each morning he helped Pope Benedict to dress and attended his early morning private mass. Usually, he served the Pope's meals and was sometimes invited to sit at the Pope's table.
Known to his intimates as Paoletto, Gabriele would sit in the front of the Popemobile, opening the door when the Pope stepped inside. He handed the pontiff his red cloak when the weather turned chilly.
Despite holding no ecclesiastical qualifications, he perhaps saw more of Pope Benedict in private every day than most of the cardinals and bishops working inside the Vatican.
Private community
The papal household, on the top floor of the imposing Apostolic Palace - the building next to Saint Peter's Basilica - is a small community that has little normal contact with the outside world.
Apart from the Pope himself, this community is made up of his two private secretaries - both ordained priests - Georg Gaenswein, from Germany, and Alfred Xuereb, from Malta, and four Italian consecrated nuns - Carmela, Loredana, Cristina and Rosella - who carry out domestic chores for Pope Benedict, cook for him, and clean the papal apartments.
Paolo Gabriele held the keys to one of the most carefully guarded residences in the world.
He took them over from another long-time Vatican servant, Angelo Gugel, butler and valet to the late Pope John Paul II.
Before and since his arrest, he has lived with his wife and three children in a "grace and favour" apartment just inside the walls of the Vatican.
This was where he hid the many documents that he admitted copying inside the office he shared with the Pope's two private secretaries.
Trials inside the Vatican are very rare. Most petty crimes committed within its walls - such as pickpockets discovered fleecing tourists inside Saint Peter's Basilica or inside the Vatican Museums, are dealt with summarily by Italian police.
Navas escaped a red card for fouling Darko Brasanac, then spilled Antonio Sanabria's shot into his own net.
Cristiano Ronaldo headed Madrid level from a Marcelo cross before half-time.
Betis defender Matteo Piccinini was sent off for dragging back Lucas Vazquez with 12 minutes left, before Ramos powered in a Toni Kroos corner.
Captain Ramos has made a habit of scoring vital goals for Zinedine Zidane's side this season - most notably a last-minute equaliser against Barcelona and a late winner against Deportivo, both in December.
The centre-back's power from set-pieces proved vital as Real did not quite click in attack without the suspended Gareth Bale, and with Karim Benzema named among the substitutes.
Alvaro Morata, given a chance from the start, was unable to make an impact and was replaced by Benzema with 20 minutes left.
Ronaldo provided his usual threat, heading a fine equaliser and seeing another goal ruled out for offside.
But it was Ramos who led by example, as Zidane's side took advantage of Barcelona's surprise 2-1 defeat at Deportivo earlier on Sunday to regain top spot.
Real Betis were beaten 6-1 at home by Real Madrid in October, not long before head coach Gus Poyet was sacked.
This was a much-improved display under the guidance of Victor Sanchez, and they looked for a long time as if they would leave with at least a point.
They did not create many chances - although the lively Ruben Castro did fire a good one well over in the second half.
As the game wore on, their defence became increasingly stretched. Centre-back German Pezzella made a superb goal-saving challenge to deny Ronaldo on the edge of the area when any mistiming would have meant a red card.
In the end, the red card went to Piccinini. Already on a yellow, he was booked again for dragging back Vazquez, as the substitute tried to latch on a sublime Marcelo pass.
All goalkeepers dread the kind of mistakes that Madrid goalkeeper Navas made during five, crazy first-half minutes.
The Costa Rica international was incredibly fortunate not to be sent off following his first-half collision with Brasanac - having missed a through pass with an attempted header and then blocking off the Betis striker.
Navas' night then got worse seemed to have gathered Sanabria's shot, which was straight at him. But then, inexplicably, he allowed the ball to squirm from his grasp, and fumbled it over the line.
It was a goalkeeping howler right up there with the very worst - and unfortunately for Navas, it is one that will become a YouTube classic for all the wrong reasons.
Yet he made amends right at the end with a fine save, diving to his left to keep out Sanabria's header and ensure a home victory.
Match ends, Real Madrid 2, Real Betis 1.
Second Half ends, Real Madrid 2, Real Betis 1.
Attempt saved. Antonio Sanabria (Real Betis) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Riza Durmisi with a cross.
Offside, Real Madrid. Daniel Carvajal tries a through ball, but Cristiano Ronaldo is caught offside.
Corner, Real Betis. Conceded by Sergio Ramos.
Attempt blocked. Rubén Pardo (Real Betis) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Marcelo (Real Madrid).
Dani Ceballos (Real Betis) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Hand ball by Dani Ceballos (Real Betis).
Foul by Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid).
Alin Tosca (Real Betis) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alin Tosca (Real Betis).
Marcelo (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Real Betis. Álex Alegría replaces Darko Brasanac.
Toni Kroos (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Petros (Real Betis).
Substitution, Real Betis. Rafa Navarro replaces Aissa Mandi because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Aissa Mandi (Real Betis) because of an injury.
Goal! Real Madrid 2, Real Betis 1. Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Toni Kroos with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Germán Pezzella.
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Petros (Real Betis).
Substitution, Real Madrid. Marco Asensio replaces Isco.
Second yellow card to Cristiano Piccini (Real Betis) for a bad foul.
Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Cristiano Piccini (Real Betis).
Corner, Real Betis. Conceded by Luka Modric.
Foul by Marcelo (Real Madrid).
Cristiano Piccini (Real Betis) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Isco.
Foul by Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid).
Petros (Real Betis) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Germán Pezzella.
Toni Kroos (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Darko Brasanac (Real Betis).
Offside, Real Madrid. Luka Modric tries a through ball, but Cristiano Ronaldo is caught offside.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Karim Benzema replaces Álvaro Morata.
Foul by Álvaro Morata (Real Madrid).
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The 22-year-old moved to Sydney Roosters in 2016 from Wigan after scoring 51 tries in 57 outings.
He made just four appearances at the Roosters before agreeing a Wigan return in June 2016, and then spent the second part of season at the Rabbitohs.
"They wanted to keep hold of me," Burgess told BBC Radio Manchester.
"I think I could easily have got out of the contract [with Wigan] but I couldn't turn on my hometown like that.
"If it was any other team, and this sounds bad, I would have tried to fight it to stay there but I'm too loyal to Wigan.
"I don't regret it as I can't wait for this season and hopefully we'll win something."
It follows a 2-0 defeat by Bulgaria on Saturday that leaves the Netherlands fourth in their World Cup qualifying group at the halfway stage.
Blind, 55, took over as coach from Guus Hiddink in 2015, but his side failed to qualify for the European Championships in France last summer.
The Dutch FA said recent results left the team "with difficulty qualifying for the World Cup in Russia".
Fred Grim will take charge as interim coach when the Netherlands face Italy on Tuesday.
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Officially it is a Saudi-led military operation with coalition partners including the UAE, Egypt, Morocco, and other Sunni countries.
But most Saudis see it very much as their war, with the fighting right across their border, in Yemen. Over 70% of the sorties by jets pounding rebel targets in Yemen are Saudi.
Officially, the war is also limited in its scope and goals: restore the internationally recognised President Mansour Abdrabbuh Hadi to power and undo the territorial gains of Yemen's Zaidi Shia rebels, known as Houthis, who allied themselves with remnants of the former ruler, Ali Abdallah Saleh.
But almost every conversation with Saudis about the Yemen military operation leads to a wider discussion about the region, the kingdom's new role as the leader of a military coalition and in many cases, people's desire to see this translate into action elsewhere.
At a bowling alley in Riyadh one evening, I met a young couple enjoying an evening out. The man was in the military so he would only give his name as Hamed. His eyes lit up when I asked him whether he supported the war.
"We support the king's decision to go to war 100%, it's long overdue. Hopefully, we will move to help Syria next, and bring down President Assad who has been causing so much death and destruction for his people," he said.
Saudi Arabia has accused regional rival Iran of arming the Houthis - a charge both the Houthis and Iran have denied.
Saudis and Sunnis in general feel they have been taking a beating by Shia Iran across the Middle East as Tehran tries to solidify its influence from Baghdad to Beirut.
The victim narrative is an odd one considering the power of countries like Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) in general and the fact that an overwhelming majority of Muslims in the world are Sunni.
So there is an interesting wave of patriotism on display in the kingdom these days and a sense of pride that Saudi Arabia, under new King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, is asserting itself in a way it has not in the past.
"Saudi Arabia is a reference and a leader for the Arab and Muslim world and we are proud of that," said Hamed.
Some Saudis do quietly express concern about the country entering into a war with no apparent end game. But no-one wants to be openly critical as they ponder the possibility it could all wrong and the kingdom could find itself in a long protracted war.
Already reports of civilian casualties in Yemen and warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe are on weighing on people's minds, anxious about a backlash against the kingdom.
So far there have been only a handful of Saudi casualties and the state is promising compensation for the families of the ''martyrs'' including 1m Saudi riyals ($266,000; ??178,800) as well as other benefits.
Every evening at seven o' clock, Saudis can tune into national television to watch the live transmission of a news conference detailing the progress of the military campaign.
It starts with a short music video of a patriotic song about the nation, as tanks, marching soldiers and jets in action are projected on the screen.
Gen Ahmad Assiri, the coalition spokesperson, conducts his briefing US-style, with slides and black-and-white footage of air strikes, and takes questions from the media. There is no pre-screening of the questioners or the questions. The briefing usually starts with an assurance that all is going according to plan.
After a briefing, I had a more candid exchange with Gen Assiri when I asked him whether he was proud of his country's leadership role in this war.
"It is always a very difficult decision to get a country in war or in a military operation; it is never an enjoyment for any country," he said. "We never had any ambition in Yemen but the situation had to be addressed to avoid Yemen becoming a failed state and ungoverned space."
But the war is also Saudi Arabia's way of pushing back against what it sees as Washington's cosying up to Tehran during the nuclear negotiations and a feeling that the US is stepping away from the region and leaving a void, a feeling shared by Sunni allies in the coalition.
"The majority of people feel that King Salman has taken the right decision, primarily because it is sending a message to Iran: 'We are not weak, we are not reluctant and our national security will exceed our border, south and north if needed'", said Abdel Aziz el Sager, chairman of the Jeddah-based Gulf Research Center.
If the Yemen operation is successful, this new, more muscular foreign policy will have a positive impact on other parts of the region where Iran also wields influence, like Lebanon, Iraq and Bahrain, Mr Sager added.
Everything is seen through the prism of the rivalry with Iran and it boils down to sheer power - the sectarian angle is a useful tool to whip up sentiments on all sides but it puts Saudi Arabia's Shia population, a large minority, in a difficult position.
"Whenever there is war in the Middle East it impacts badly on Shias in Saudi Arabia, because if any war happens in Iraq or Syria they interpret it as a sectarian war, and [a war] against Iran," said Nassima el Sada, a prominent Saudi human rights activist in the town of Qatif in the mostly Shia Eastern Province.
She complained that if Saudi Shias declared their support for the war, they were dismissed as deceitful, and if they dared criticise it they were branded traitors.
"We love our country, we are Arab and we belong in this land, and we have nothing to do with Iran but no one is listening to us, we keep facing this sectarian war against us in social media and in the national media," she added.
With Saudi Shias made to feel like a fifth column, with Sunni allies like Pakistan and Turkey reluctant to fully join the coalition, and with no end in sight for Operation Decisive Storm as the war has been dubbed, Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen will be a tough test of its ability to take on this more assertive role without dragging the region deeper into sectarian chaos.
The former British soldiers were jailed in India for firearms offences.
The men worked on an anti-piracy ship and were arrested in October 2013. They were jailed at a court hearing in January for five years.
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said Mrs May would raise the issue with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a visit next week.
Lisa Dunn, a sister of one of the men, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme she is "sick to death" of being told the UK government cannot intervene in another country's judicial system.
An appeal has been lodged against their sentences, but a judge in Chennai (Madras) ruled the men will not be released on bail in the meantime.
The British men are:
There were 35 sailors on the American-owned Seaman Guard Ohio, which offered armed protection to vessels sailing through an area known as "pirates' alley" between the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea.
Customs officials and police found 35 guns, including semi-automatic weapons, and almost 6,000 rounds of ammunition on board the ship, which did not have permission to be in Indian waters.
An Indian court ruled it was not properly licensed, but the men have consistently denied any wrongdoing.
Nick Dunn's sister, Lisa, said the families have had an email from the Foreign Office saying it "expects" to raise the case, but that this is "not good enough".
"Theresa May has the power the end this now, and that's what we want her to do.
"She cannot waste this opportunity face-to-face with Modi, she has six British men at her mercy, and can't just waste it talking about her trade deals. There were six British soldiers who served this country and they need help.
"It's an absolute travesty if she fails to raise it. The power is in her hands and we're begging her for help."
John Armstrong's sister, Joanne Tomlinson, said that while the men have had consular support from the Foreign Office, "we feel there is so much more they can do".
She added: "They have spent more than 18 months in prison now, and we feel there must be more diplomatic pressure that can be put on [India].
"Six of our veterans are imprisoned there. They should be speeding the legal process up."
Billy Irving's partner, Yvonne MacHugh, says he is "struggling now" after several months in jail.
"Every month there is hope, followed by disaster. Every time there's a court hearing, there is always something that blocks them," she said.
Each of the 35 sailors received a five-year jail term and was ordered to pay 3,000 rupees (£30).
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "We recognise what a difficult time this is for those involved and we have taken significant action on this case.
"The prime minister has been clear that she intends to raise it with Prime Minister Modi during her visit next week.
"Alok Sharma, the Foreign Office minister for Asia, pressed for progress during his first official visit to India in July, and again last month.
"Earlier this year, the then-Foreign Office minister Hugo Swire travelled to India to meet the men personally, as well as meeting their families in Carlisle".
The spokeswoman added that the Foreign Office had been providing ongoing support for all six men and their families and it is "working to make sure the men's welfare is protected in prison".
The visitors were awarded a 69th-minute spot-kick when Johnny Hunt fouled Adam Mekki in the area, allowing Norwood to confidently despatch from 12 yards.
Rovers, who move up to fourth in the National League, were good value for their win, being rarely troubled.
Tranmere's players thought they should have been awarded a second penalty in injury time when Steven Jennings' shot struck the arm of Ben Heneghan.
Chester, who started the game playing three at the back, were disrupted by the early blow of losing captain Ian Sharps, playing against his first club, with a hamstring injury.
Steve Burr's side stay 15th, but are now only six points clear of trouble, going into successive home games against the two sides immediately above them, Bromley and Aldershot.
Chester manager Steve Burr told BBC Radio Merseyside:
"We were dealt a terrible blow after just 10 minutes when we lost Ian Sharps because I then had to rearrange the whole team.
"We stuck Sam Hughes at right-back because I thought playing 4-4-2 would be better, but I never want to see those situations happen.
"Ian was probably the worst player we could have lost because of having to rearrange. But I thought Sam did really well. He's only young and still learning the game."
Police Scotland said a 20-year-old woman had been reported to the procurator fiscal.
The force said it was been working closely with the Care Inspectorate.
The Care Inspectorate said it was currently in the process of inspecting the nursery.
There are certainly worries casting some gloom over the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington this week.
China's latest figures show the economy in the first quarter of the year expanding 6.7% from a year earlier. The slowdown continues. But the data do not give us any definitive answers to questions about how China is going to influence the rest of the world.
The big issue is how will China manage the economic transition it has embarked on: a shift from a pattern of economic growth based on the rapid expansion of industrial output, exports and investment to one more driven by spending by Chinese consumers and growing service industries.
China is also engaged in a shift to growth that is slower than the average 10% per year of the past three decades. That figure is almost universally reckoned to be no longer sustainable.
But if the result is anything like the 6.5% minimum that the authorities are targeting for the next five years, it will still be pretty impressive by international standards.
It is also worth noting the extraordinary role played by investment - by the state and by business. Last year, according to data compiled by the IMF, investment was 43% of national income or GDP. Very few countries can, or would, want to match that.
It is a problem because such high rates of investment are bound to involve many specific projects that are not viable, especially in an economy that is slowing down anyway. That in turn would mean losses for the businesses concerned and for the investors and lenders who provide the finance.
The share of investment in GDP has started to decline - it used to be even higher - but it has further to go. That process and the wider slowdown are already making a mark on the rest of the world and will continue to do so.
A batch of IMF reports this week issued ahead of the Spring Meetings, on the general economic outlook, financial stability and government finances around the world, all show the impact of the Chinese slowdown.
The IMF's World Economic Outlook painted a picture of persistently disappointing performance after the Western financial crisis, a world economy that has failed to gather sufficient momentum to produce a really strong recovery - and China was part of that story.
And its monumental transition remains a potential hazard for the rest of the world, and has already had some adverse effects.
China is very far from being the only factor behind that. But the report points to "concerns about the global impact of the unwinding of prior excesses in China's economy as it transitions to a more balanced growth path after a decade of strong credit and investment growth".
The IMF's Global Financial Stability Report also identifies China as a risk. The slowdown has undermined the financial health of many Chinese businesses, which in turn has increased the problems that banks face from non-performing loans - ones that aren't being repaid.
The IMF thought the situation was currently manageable but it could affect the rest of the world, especially emerging markets, if it were to deteriorate further.
The most direct danger emanating from China is the impact on commodity producers. China's past surge in investment meant high levels of demand for industrial metals and energy.
Already the prices of those items have declined sharply. In the case of oil especially it is not just about demand from China. There has been abundant supply of crude oil, but China's slowdown is also a factor.
The declines in the prices of these commodities have created new dangers to financial stability in countries that export them and they have also hit the finances of those nations' governments.
So what sort of growth rate can we expect from China in the coming years?
The official target is at least 6.5%. That prompted the London consultancy Capital Economics to pose this question in a recent note to its clients: "Is China attempting the impossible?"
Capital Economics said it was extremely rare for countries to manage that kind of performance and concluded: "If China is shooting for a target that no other equivalent economy has reached, we have good reason to be sceptical that it can succeed."
In practice, China's official figures are widely regarded as unreliable. Many independent economists will tell you China's true growth figures are significantly lower.
That does not necessarily mean China will drag the world into a new recession but it does underline the wariness with which the country's economic performance is viewed from outside.
Much of the scrutiny of China's international impact has focused on its demand for goods produced abroad. But there's another important question around integrating China financially.
Martin Wolf in the Financial Times referred to the potential for crises in countries as they open up their financial systems internationally. "The world might fail to cope with a Chinese one (a financial crisis) altogether."
It will matter for the rest of world just how well China keeps its balance on this tightrope of economic transition.
The former England international, who retired from football in 2004, has spent years battling alcoholism.
Gascoigne, 48, knew something was wrong during his playing days and spoke of his relief at finally being diagnosed.
"When it was explained, and when I heard other people's stories, I was like 'thank God'," he said.
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 live, he added: "I didn't know what was going on. Why did I wake up at 5am and want a drink? It was not normal.
"People want to know if there is any medication they can take when they have an illness and it was a relief."
In a wide-ranging interview, Gascoigne also spoke openly about:
"I am happy in life, I am happy with the way things are going," said Gascoigne.
"I know it won't last forever because I know what the press can write. The lies written about me over the last two years have been horrendous and you have to be strong to get through that.
"I accept that is going to be for life for me. I admit I haven't dealt with it properly sometimes and hit the drink, it hasn't been month-long benders, it has been a few days and I have paid the consequences.
"I might drink tomorrow, I might not. Hopefully I don't. When I drink, the only thing I am doing is making things bad for myself."
"I am a nice guy, I would not treat anyone the way I have been treated," said Gascoigne, who starred for England as they reached the semi-finals of both the 1990 World Cup and the 1996 European Championship.
"I don't play football any more so I have to earn money other ways. I get good jobs and the press write lies and I lose that job because they think I am in rehab, or injecting myself with heroin or jumping off a pier, or falling out of a casino drunk - but I am just sitting in the back garden doing nothing.
"I have to ring the lawyer again and it takes two years and in that two years I have lost money again.
"I went from being on the pitch all the time to being in courtrooms. I should become a lawyer and defend myself.
"Everything is good at the moment but I know what is going to happen in time."
Former England defender Kenny Sansom recently revealed he had contemplated suicide after becoming homeless because of his alcoholism, admitting in a Sunday Mirror interview he fears he will never stop drinking.
Gascoigne said: "I have paid about £300K of my money. I am trying. I want to win this over. I went to rehab to help Kenny and he ran out after half a day, he is not wanting that.
"I can't help him, no-one in the world can help unless he puts his hand up and says he needs help."
Gascoigne was capped 57 times by England and made more than 400 appearances for clubs including Newcastle, Tottenham, Lazio and Rangers, before retiring after leaving Boston in 2004.
"I still haven't coped. I hardly try and watch games because I still wish I was playing.
"I cannot handle watching players getting lots of money and not putting 100% in. The fans paid for my house, my car, my holidays - but I've seen players score a goal, even for England, and just walk back.
"There are young kids there seeing that and thinking it means nothing to score goals. I don't like that."
On Sunday, England forward Raheem Sterling was booed by some fans during the goalless friendly draw with the Republic of Ireland.
The 20-year-old Liverpool player has been criticised for wanting to leave the Reds and rejecting a £100,000-a-week contract with them.
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England boss Roy Hodgson said he "trusts" Sterling, but suggested he also needs to work harder and develop a thicker skin.
"There are 11 players on the pitch and Raheem was picked out," said Gascoigne. "That means he is doing something right, because Roy knows he is a great player.
"I'd say to Sterling if you are getting kicked left, right and centre and getting booed it is because they are scared. They don't want you playing and don't want you on the ball because you are dangerous. Take it as a compliment.
"Take a little bit from your club manager, a little bit from England manager and a little bit from what is being said by other people as well. The time to worry is when they stop talking about you."
A spokesman for de Gruchy said the skeleton was believed to be one of only four left in the world and would be on display until 16 April.
It is launching the store's annual challenge to raise £10,000 for a local charity.
John Marquis, store manager, said Durrell had been selected by staff as the chosen charity for 2012.
He said the store planned to set up an area dedicated to selling merchandise, entry tickets and adoption packs to raise awareness of Durrell's work.
Dr Lee Durrell, Durrell's honorary director, said: "We won't compromise on our conservation projects, which put us under continued financial pressure.
"It is with the support of organisations like de Gruchy and the broader community that we continue to undertake our field-work and maintain our wildlife park and training centre in Trinity.
"Giving our charity prime position on the high street, using the dodo to represent the challenges we face daily, is a huge boost to Durrell. We can't thank de Gruchy enough for this opportunity."
Durrell said it was 350 years since the last recorded sighting of the dodo.
The $3.7bn (£2.8bn) Dakota Access pipeline has prompted huge protests, notably in North Dakota where Native Americans have halted its construction.
It will run 1,168 miles through Iowa, Illinois, and North and South Dakotas.
US District Judge James Boasberg said on Wednesday he will make a decision on the issue by 9 September.
Outside the court in the US capital, environmental activists made their feelings clear.
They believe the transporting of up to 570,000 barrels of crude oil a day will imperil local waterways.
The company behind the pipeline, Energy Transport Partners, has said the project will boost local economies and is much safer than transporting oil by rail or road. But protesters disagree.
Activists Desiree Fairooz and Lenny Bianchi were among the demonstrators outside the court, where a federal judge was set to consider the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's request for an injunction that would effectively block the pipeline's construction.
"We're concerned about the Native Americans and the threat to their water supply but we're also concerned about the fossil fuel issue," said Mr Bianchi, a Blue Mountain, Virginia native.
"We don't feel that we should be building pipelines, we feel that the money should instead be spent on alternative sources of energy."
Dozens of protesters convened outside the US District Court, with environmental activists and members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe uniting behind one message - water is life.
The crowd was studded with signs bearing the words "native lives matter", "water is life" and "be on the right side of history, no DAPL [Dakota Access pipeline]."
Valentine Little Shield, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe in South Dakota, took a bus to Washington to show her support for the Standing Rock Nation Tribe.
Ms Little Shield describes the contested pipeline as personal. Her grandchildren use the waters where the pipeline poses a threat to swim, fish and bathe their horses.
"I'm here because of my grandkids and what they're going to go through," she said. "They can't drink the oil, they can't take a bath in the oil."
Generations of native Americans, both young and old, took turns sharing personal accounts of why halting the pipeline was important to them as crowd broke into battle cries and pounded tribal drums.
"We're not here to protest, we're here to protect," said Lance Frazier, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in Eagle Butte, South Dakota .
But for many, the pipeline symbolises a deeper issue among Native Americans.
Denise Desiderio, the policy director for the National Congress of American Indians, called the unilateral support of tribes across the country a "historic" moment.
"We need to make sure our tribal voice is heard and when we raise our voice, we need to make sure it transcends this issue," she said, noting the important symbolism of land to the Native American community.
"We have had enough lands taken away, we can't let what we have left be destroyed."
Hundreds of people have been occupying one of the construction sites in North Dakota, where tensions have been running high between demonstrators, police and builders.
Defender Briggs gave the Lions the lead midway through the first half with a low strike, but was booked for his celebration.
That almost proved costly just before the hour when Briggs was shown a second yellow for a foul on Sido Jombati.
But the Championship side held on as Matt Bloomfield headed wide late on for League Two Wycombe.
Wycombe boss Gareth Ainsworth told BBC Three Counties Radio:
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"Hopefully we've gained a bit of respect form the Championship side tonight.
"I thought we deserved something from the game.
"We've got to build slowly at this club, but the signs are still there.
"We've got a big job to do, on and off the pitch last season wasn't good enough, this season is hopefully a turn around from that."
Mr Obama was answering a series of questions on the highs and lows of his time in office on Fox News.
He said, however, that intervening in Libya had been "the right thing to do".
The US and other countries carried out strikes designed to protect civilians during the 2011 uprising.
But after the former Libyan leader was killed, Libya plunged into chaos with militias taking over and two rival parliaments and governments forming.
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So-called Islamic State (IS) gained a foothold, and Libya became a major departure point for migrants trying to reach Europe.
A UN-backed national unity government arrived in the capital Tripoli earlier this month but is waiting to take charge.
The leader of the faction ruling western Libya has threatened to prosecute any of his ministers who co-operate with the UN-backed administration, contradicting an earlier announcement the ministers would stand down.
President Obama gave the brief but revealing answer speaking to Chris Wallace:
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Obama: Probably failing to plan for the day after, what I think was the right thing to do, in intervening in Libya.
It is not the first time President Obama has expressed regret over Libya. He told the Atlantic magazine last month the operation went as well as he had hoped, but Libya was now "a mess".
In that interview, he also criticised France and the UK, in particular saying British Prime Minister David Cameron became "distracted" after the intervention.
It was a rare rebuke for a close ally and one which BBC correspondents at the time said angered Downing Street.
President Obama told Fox that his biggest accomplishment in office was "saving the economy from the great depression".
He said the best day of his presidency was when he passed the healthcare reforms. The worst, he said, was responding to the mass shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school.
Mr Obama discussed his legacy in a BBC interview last year, saying his failure to pass tighter gun control laws was the biggest frustration of his presidency.
February 2011: Protests against Colonel Gaddafi's regime erupt in Libya
March 2011: UN Security Council authorises a no-fly zone over Libya and air strikes to protect civilians
October 2011: Gaddafi is captured and killed by rebel fighters
2012: Splits emerge as the transitional government struggle to rein in local militias
September 2012: The US ambassador and three other Americans are killed when Islamist militants storm the consulate in eastern Benghazi
June 2014: Disputed elections are held. Two governments are formed: one in the capital Tripoli, the other UN-backed administration in eastern Torbruk
January 2015: The UN announces a new interim government but it is yet to take charge
Air accident experts said the coverings - the fan cowl doors - broke off and punctured the right engine's fuel pipe, damaging the aircraft's systems.
A fire then broke out in the right engine of the Airbus A319 British Airways flight to Oslo.
The jet landed safely and its 75 passengers and crew were evacuated.
The aeroplane returned to Heathrow soon after taking off last Friday when black smoke was seen coming from an engine.
The findings were made in an interim report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB), which is examining the cause of the emergency.
The fire in the right engine broke out as the flight prepared to land, but the left engine was unaffected, the AAIB report said.
"Subsequent investigation revealed that the fan cowl doors on both engines were left unlatched during maintenance and this was not identified prior to aircraft departure," the report added.
Keith Williams, BA chief executive, said: "We continue to co-operate fully with the investigation team and can confirm that appropriate initial action has already been taken in accordance with the AAIB's safety recommendation to Airbus."
Mr Williams added that he could not discuss any details while the inquiry continued.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said the report contained "serious findings", adding that the aviation industry "must act immediately to take the appropriate safety action and ensure that all lessons are learnt from what has happened".
BBC transport correspondent Richard Westcott said British Airways had confirmed that two different engineers would normally check whether a plane's engine covers had been shut before take-off.
"One checks, the other double-checks - that's clearly not happened in this case," he said.
Mr Westcott added that BA's mechanics were all staff of the airline, which would not say if anyone had been suspended.
The aircraft underwent normal overnight maintenance which included opening the cowl doors and checking the oil levels, the report said.
Nothing unusual was noted during the checks before the flight took off, but the cowl doors would have been "difficult to see unless crouched down so that the bottom of the engine is clearly visible".
As the plane took off the 50-year-old pilot reported feeling a "slight bump" and thought the aircraft had run over a light on the runway.
Air traffic controllers alerted the pilot about the flight leaving some debris on the runway, which later turned out to be the detached cowl doors.
When the crew realised the doors had broken off, causing a "significant fuel leak" and affecting the hydraulic system, the pilot decided to return to the airport.
The cowl doors also damaged the tyres, landing gears and the hydraulic brake pipe.
The right engine was "extensively damaged" in the fire, the report said.
Last July Airbus said there had been 32 reported fan cowl door detachment events, but none of the cases resulted in a fire.
"The source of ignition that led to the in-flight fire is still under investigation," the report said.
The AAIB has asked Airbus to inform operators about the 24 May emergency and recommended it "reiterates the importance of verifying that the fan cowl doors are latched prior to flight by visually checking the position of the latches".
The mother of two had to cope with big changes in her life after a back injury ended her participation in endurance mountain bike racing.
Injury or disability doesn't have to define who you are or what you can do
And, after an incredible few years that have seen her go from never having been in a canoe to winning a gold medal at the Rio Paralympics, she is ready to embrace new challenges and pass on what she has learnt to others.
"The last four years in elite sport couldn't have gone any better and it would be difficult to top the experience," says Dickins.
"It's been an amazing adventure but there are still so many other adventures in the world that I want to have."
It's that positive attitude that was severely tested when Dickins, a physiotherapist by trade, ruptured a disc in her back following a freak combination of circumstances and found herself struggling to cope with the consequences.
She started to volunteer as a physio at cycling meetings and, as a result, was taken on as a Games Maker at London 2012.
"The whole Games in London were incredible and the dedication and commitment of the cyclists at the velodrome where I was working was palpable," she reflects.
"It made me want to try a new sport just to see if I could do it."
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A chance conversation over a coffee with a fellow volunteer pointed her in the direction of Paracanoe - as a sport she could do despite her weak leg - and, within weeks, she had gone from a complete novice to being enrolled on the British Canoeing programme with her mind set on Rio.
"I was particularly inspired by Helen Glover's story," adds Dickins.
"She won gold in the rowing after only four years in the sport and seeing her achievement made me think that Rio might be a pathway open to me.
"Everything about becoming an elite athlete was hard, but I looked at it all as a challenge and probably the hardest thing was juggling being a working mum and training at the same time."
But Dickins is also quick to acknowledge the help of others in her journey through the sport.
"I have learnt the power of being in a strong team - you don't have to do it on your own," she says.
And, on 16 September 2016, Dickins put all that work and assistance together to clinch the gold medal by 0.03 seconds at Lagoa in Rio.
"Finding out that I had won my race was definitely the highlight in Rio, as initially I wasn't sure who had won," adds Dickins.
"I can remember standing on the podium and listening to the national anthem as the flag was raised, with everyone cheering, it was surreal."
Since that incredible day, Dickins has been busy sharing her experiences with others.
She has given some 64 talks in the last 12 months to volunteer groups, schools and clubs and even individuals at BBC Sport Personality of the Year.
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"One of my passions has been to give back, so I have done as many volunteer appearances as I could," says the Rio champion.
"I have met a huge variety of people and shared my experiences and I hope in some small way I have inspired the next generation."
It's something that hasn't gone unrecognised within the sport.
"Anne's own story of how she got involved in the sport is unique and it is fantastic to see her commitment to sharing her experiences with so many others," said British Canoeing performance director John Anderson.
So, having walked away from canoeing while she is at the top of her game, how does Dickins look back at that part of her life?
"Taking up a new sport and winning gold in Rio has completely changed my life," she admits.
"I have learnt so much about myself and feel a lot wiser because of it.
"I have learnt to accept that life isn't always fair but that's OK. That injury or disability doesn't have to define who you are or what you can do.
"I've learnt if what you are doing isn't working to try to think differently and find a new approach to make it happen."
The probe into Wiltshire Police stemmed from the aborted prosecution in 1994 of Myra Forde.
A retired senior police officer claimed she had threatened to expose the former prime minister in court as a client to whom she had supplied young boys.
The IPCC found the case was halted when witnesses refused to give evidence.
It was also deemed unclear whether the comment about Sir Edward had even been made.
The officer making the claims worked undercover to investigate Forde's brothel in the early 1990s.
He gave evidence to the Independent Police Complaints Commission alleging a solicitor had threatened that, if the case went ahead, Forde would make the allegations against Sir Edward.
The policeman was relatively junior at the time and did not record the incident in his notebook.
He told investigators that during his career the incident had worried him and, having seen a TV programme about Jimmy Savile in 2014, he decided to come forward.
However, the IPCC spoke to Forde's solicitor and barrister at the time who both disagreed with his story.
His Honour Judge Seed was the prosecuting barrister at the time. He told the IPCC the decision not to go ahead was solely based on "insufficient evidence".
The watchdog said Judge Seed was clear when interviewed that "the comment about Sir Edward would have played no part in that process."
"He said he had never met [Sir Edward Heath] and he would not have spared his blushes," the IPCC said.
Another police officer, Ch Insp Richard Kirven, told the IPCC inquiry he had heard rumours that if Forde was charged she would provide information to the press that would "result in embarrassment to certain persons," but he regarded her as "a bit of a fantasist".
Myra Forde refused to speak to the IPCC but told The Sun newspaper last year she had supplied male escorts to Sir Edward Heath.
The retired senior officer who sparked the IPCC inquiry claims in 1994 he passed on the allegation about Myra Forde and Sir Edward to his superior officer at the time.
But the IPCC concluded Wiltshire Police was unaware of it and could not have been expected to investigate.
The announcement of the IPCC investigation on 3 August last year was followed by a public appeal for "victims" of Sir Edward Heath, by a senior Wiltshire Police officer in front of his former home in Salisbury.
It was strongly criticised as "trawling" for victims.
In a statement today, the force said: "As a result of the appeal, a number of people individually came forward with information. This led to a wider police investigation being established and we are following a number of lines of inquiry."
Operation Conifer employs 16 officers and has so far cost £388,000.
China captured the US vessel in international waters on Thursday. It has not explained why and accused the US of "hyping-up" the incident.
US President-elect Donald Trump accused the Chinese of "stealing".
"We should tell China that we don't want the drone they stole back - let them keep it!" he tweeted.
The incident is among the most serious military confrontations between the two powers for decades.
The Pentagon said the drone, known as an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV), was being used to carry out scientific research at the time it was captured and demanded its immediate return. It warned China not to repeat such a move in the future.
But a spokesman said later on Saturday that an agreement had been reached.
"Through direct engagement with Chinese authorities, we have secured an understanding that the Chinese will return the UUV to the United States," Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement.
The Chinese defence ministry said the vessel would be returned in an "appropriate manner". It is not clear when this might happen.
It criticised the earlier US response, calling it "inappropriate and unhelpful".
Mr Trump had already inflamed the Chinese by speaking on the phone earlier this month with the leader of Taiwan, breaking a long-standing US practice on the China-Taiwan dispute.
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For the earlier tweet, accusing the Chinese of stealing, he drew criticism online for misspelling the word unprecedented - the latest in a series of errors in his Twitter posts. He has now corrected the entry.
A Chinese Navy ship seized the unmanned drone 92km (57 miles) north-west of Subic Bay near the Philippines in the South China Sea on Thursday.
The craft was retrieved and examined to maintain the safety of passing vessels, China's defence ministry said in a statement.
The US said the unmanned drone was being operated by civilian contractors and was about to be retrieved by USNS Bowditch, an oceanographic research ship.
It made a formal diplomatic complaint to China over the incident.
Senator Ben Cardin, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations committee, called the seizure "a remarkably brazen violation of international law", while Senior Republican Senator John McCain said the US should not tolerate "such outrageous conduct".
Observers said the seizure was the most significant military incident between the two countries since a 2001 mid-air collision between a US Navy surveillance aircraft and a Chinese fighter jet that led to the death of a Chinese pilot.
It will likely add to US concerns about the growing military build-up by China in the South China Sea.
China has claimed territorial rights over parts of the region but its claims are disputed. It is not clear if China claims the territory in which the drone was seized.
A US think tank reported this week that aerial imagery shows that China has installed weaponry along seven artificial islands they have built at sea, despite US protests.
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Dave Mackay, the company's chief pilot, spoke to the BBC about last October, when the company's new spaceship broke apart in mid-air over California.
"We were listening out on the radio and it became apparent fairly early that something had gone seriously wrong," he said.
The final report into the accident is due within the next few months.
Mr Mackay, from Helmsdale in the Scottish Highlands, was flying the mother ship, called White Knight Two, that had ferried the rocket plane to around 50,000ft before releasing it to the sky.
We stand overlooking the endless, scrub-strewn desert plains where the accident happened.
"We didn't see anything. We launch the spaceship and it drops below us several hundred feet before it ignites the rocket motor," he said.
"When it was apparent the wreckage had hit the ground, we descended to try to give some support in any way we could. Which involved, basically, finding out where the vehicle was and finding out where the survivor was and relaying that position back to emergency services."
According to investigators at the NTSB, the co-pilot, Mike Alsbury, pulled a lever too soon. It unlocks the spaceship's revolutionary "feathering" system, which then seems to have deployed of its own accord.
If you can picture it, the vehicle has two long tails that actually pivot by 65 degrees. It's an odd sight. Like taking two darts and bending them in the middle.
But by folding up like that, the ship slows down, so it's ready to glide back to earth. If those tails move at the wrong time, however, the consequences can be lethal.
Frankly, it's a miracle that the pilot, Peter Siebold survived the crash. After being thrown from the ship and blacking out, he came to, falling through the air and still strapped in his seat.
Somehow he managed to unbuckle himself, which triggered his emergency parachute. His colleague and friend Mike Alsbury was killed.
Flying just a few hundred feet above them that day, Dave Mackay described arriving back at base.
"I was very proud of the way that everybody reacted. It took some time to get over the shock and the sadness," he said.
Then the figurehead for the whole project arrived on the scene.
"Very soon afterwards, within a few hours, Richard Branson and his son Sam came out. Richard obviously was very shocked and saddened as well. But Richard was as determined as everyone else to see this through."
Sir Richard Branson is under pressure to prove his dream can still come true.
At the Virgin Galactic launch in 2004, he told customers they could be floating 66 miles above the earth within three to four years.
A decade later, his radical plane has only made four powered flights, with heights well short of the 350,000 promised in the brochure. They've barely got above 70,000ft.
And there are still daunting technical hurdles to overcome, including working out which fuel will give them enough power. Sceptics have suggested flying could still be years away, and even some of its hopeful customers recently told the BBC that they were resigned to thinking it may never happen.
I met Virgin Galactic's chief executive, George Whitesides, in the shadow of his new spaceship. Like everyone here in Mojave, he comes with a stratospheric CV. Princeton, Cambridge, former chief of staff at Nasa.
"The vast majority of our customers, so about 98%, have been really terrific, very supportive. What we are doing is not easy, it's an historic thing. What we are doing is opening up space to the rest of us. We are democratising space."
He tells me they are happy they have the right rocket for the job. That the new spaceship is safe, otherwise he wouldn't go in it (he's taking one of the first flights). That the investors are supportive; in other words, the money won't run dry. And that it will make a profit once it's all going.
This thing has already burnt up hundreds of millions of dollars.
Then we spar over flight dates. In the end, the best I could get was that paying customers could be up within 18 months to two years, maybe sooner, but not much longer, so not five years, for example.
As regards the altitude, he says that getting to 70,000ft and the speed of sound is the disproportionately tricky bit. Leaping from there to space should be much quicker.
Virgin have been building a new spaceship since 2012, tucked away in a shiny hangar being battered by the desert wind. They showed us how it's coming along.
Stripped down to the bare, brown carbon-fibre body, it's clearly nowhere near ready to fly. The body was in effect finished last weekend, now engineers are fitting the wires and levers that will bring it to life.
Not that we were allowed to film either the inside, or any of the manufacturing processes going on around us. It's all restricted by the US government, which currently treats the project the same as it would treat a new military weapon.
Filming the wrong bit could land people in prison, we were frequently reminded.
I can tell you that some small changes have been made to prevent a repeat of last year's crash. I don't have details, but I understand it may be made physically harder to unlock the feathering system at the wrong time.
However, Virgin are confident this wasn't a design issue, so some of the improvements may come in the way the pilots communicate their actions with each other and with ground control.
Mojave space port is an odd place.
The 300 or so engineers have often given up a nice, well-paid life in a smart city to come and work in this barren town with hostile sunshine, an airplane graveyard and rusty trains out back and no nice shops. Think Breaking Bad and you get the picture. Partners often find it a difficult move.
Among the five pilots on board is a man who flew the space shuttle four times. Another flew the SR71 Blackbird and was once voted US Air Force test pilot of the year. One man I spoke to told me his wife works for Nasa, driving the Mars Rover. Not your average couple.
They all share a determination to make a mark on this stark landscape.
When I ask him about the future, Dave Mackay often conjures up the past.
"You could look back to Otto Lilienthal crashing in his glider," he says. "If people had said then, you know this flying is dangerous, let's stick to walking on the ground, where would we be today?
"It is hard. It has turned out to be harder than we thought it would. But if it was easy, it would have been done a long time ago.
"We're enjoying the challenge."
The gunmen, dressed in police uniforms, stormed the Badaber air base on Friday morning, Maj Gen Asim Bajwa said.
At least 16 of the victims were killed during morning prayers at a mosque inside the compound, Gen Bajwa added.
The Pakistani Taliban said they ordered the attack. Peshawar has frequently been targeted by militants.
Gen Bajwa said the militants entered the base, which is 10km (6 miles) south of Peshawar, at two points and then split into groups.
A rapid response force was dispatched to the scene and contained the attackers around a guard room, he added.
Thirteen militants were said to have been killed by security forces, although the Taliban said just one of their fighters died.
The total number of gunmen involved is unclear, but Gen Bajwa said his forces were hunting for the remaining attackers.
The exchange of fire also left 29 people injured, the Pakistani military said.
Gen Bajwa claimed that mobile phone intercepts suggested that the attackers had come from inside Afghanistan, though he said there was no reason to blame the Kabul government.
The attack on Badaber air base is the first on a military target since a Pakistan navy ship was attacked in Karachi's dockyard in September last year. It is the bloodiest since last December's massacre of 150 pupils and teachers at Peshawar's Army Public School.
The air base - which is essentially a residential complex rather than an operational one - is located on the southern-most tip of Peshawar's administrative limits. It is surrounded by tribal territory, which has been the hub of criminal and militant activity until recently.
The attack comes amid claims of success by the military in its 15-month operation in the tribal region, and may well be an attempt by militants to show they can still hit hard targets.
It also exposes holes in Pakistan's pre-emptive intelligence gathering mechanisms, mainly due to lack of co-ordination and information sharing among various security agencies.
In an email, Pakistani Taliban spokesman Muhammad Khurasani said a "suicidal unit" had carried out the attack.
An un-named military official told the Reuters news agency that the militants had "explosives-laden jackets and were armed with hand-propelled grenades, mortars, AK-47 rifles".
It is so far unknown if the militants had any insider support, as has been the case in previous attacks.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif condemned the attack, saying: "Terrorists will be rooted out from the country."
The military launched operations in North Waziristan in June 2014 to target militant hideouts, involving air force and ground troops.
Correspondents say this has helped lead to a significant reduction in large-scale Taliban attacks in Pakistan.
According to some reports, militant attacks decreased by 70% in 2015.
They examined Lennie the spaniel after he ate something that made him sick on the Northam Burrows, near Bideford in Devon, on Sunday.
Veterinary surgeon Katherine Garside said Lennie "was twitching a lot" and "hallucinating".
"We were suspicious he had some recreational drugs or maybe some magic mushrooms," she said.
More on the dog on drugs story, plus more Devon and Cornwall news
After being treated at Witten Lodge Veterinary Centre, the plucky spaniel has since recovered and returned home.
"He definitely started hallucinating. He kept trying to catch something that wasn't there," Ms Garside said.
She said it looked as though Lennie was possibly going to have a fit but he became less manic after receiving diazepam.
She said the drugs Lennie wolfed down could also have been amphetamines or cannabis.
Ms Garside added that although it was possible he had ingested toxins from mouldy food, this was "less likely" because Lennie had not suffered from blood abnormalities as would be expected.
Kick-off was delayed by 55 minutes, as Bastia fans tried to attack visiting Lyon players during their warm-up.
Stewards held off fans while players were rushed down the tunnel and a gate closed behind them.
Lyon were then persuaded to start the match - having initially refused - before further incident caused the abandonment at half-time.
The Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), which governs France's professional leagues, will meet on Thursday to decide what action to take.
It called on Bastia to issue stadium bans to the fans responsible, adding: "The LFP condemns with the greatest firmness the incidents which took place before the game and at half-time of the Bastia-Lyon game."
Trouble began before the match as Lyon's players, including former Manchester United forward Memphis Depay, came out on the pitch to warm up.
Their goalkeeper Mathieu Gorgelin found himself caught in the middle of a group of pitch invaders before the players were directed back to the dressing room.
Lyon defender Jeremy Berthod said: "Bastia fans kicked balls into Gorgelin's goal. He and Memphis tried to move them out of the way before being attacked by many SC Bastia fans.
"The players then huddled together. They and the staff are very shocked. The moment it happened, none of them wanted to come out of the dressing room and play this match."
It has been a difficult week for Lyon, with crowd trouble before their Europa League game with Besiktas on Thursday.
Fans clashed before their quarter-final first leg in France, with kick-off delayed by 45 minutes as a result. Lyon went on to win 2-1.
Lyon face four Uefa charges from that game, for the setting-off of fireworks, blocking stairways, insufficient organisation and a pitch invasion after a late winning goal.
Bastia were made to close part of their stadium for three matches after a group of supporters shouted racist insults at Nice striker Mario Balotelli during a 1-1 draw in January.
Match abandoned due to crowd trouble, Bastia 0, Lyon 0.
ends, Bastia 0, Lyon 0.
Enzo Crivelli (Bastia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Nicolas Nkoulou (Lyon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Enzo Crivelli (Bastia).
Foul by Houssem Aouar (Lyon).
Gilles Cioni (Bastia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Ferri (Lyon).
Mehdi Mostefa (Bastia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa (Lyon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Enzo Crivelli (Bastia).
Mehdi Mostefa (Bastia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Memphis Depay (Lyon) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mehdi Mostefa (Bastia).
Attempt missed. Sergi Darder (Lyon) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Rachid Ghezzal.
Nicolas Nkoulou (Lyon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yannick Cahuzac (Bastia).
Foul by Memphis Depay (Lyon).
Abdelhamid El Kaoutari (Bastia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Bastia. Conceded by Nicolas Nkoulou.
Maciej Rybus (Lyon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lassana Coulibaly (Bastia).
Attempt missed. Rachid Ghezzal (Lyon) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Houssem Aouar.
Memphis Depay (Lyon) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Abdelhamid El Kaoutari (Bastia).
Rachid Ghezzal (Lyon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Pierre Bengtsson (Bastia).
Corner, Lyon. Conceded by Alexander Djiku.
Corner, Bastia. Conceded by Anthony Lopes.
Attempt saved. Allan Saint-Maximin (Bastia) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Yannick Cahuzac.
Foul by Jordan Ferri (Lyon).
Mehdi Mostefa (Bastia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Jordan Ferri (Lyon) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.
Corner, Lyon. Conceded by Alexander Djiku.
Offside, Lyon. Maciej Rybus tries a through ball, but Memphis Depay is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Rafael (Lyon) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Rachid Ghezzal following a set piece situation.
Rachid Ghezzal (Lyon) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Mehdi Mostefa (Bastia).
Attempt blocked. Axel Ngando (Bastia) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Rafael (Lyon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Worcestershire are the only club in either division of the County Championship with a 100% record, after an innings victory over Derbyshire.
"We're playing good cricket at the moment," Leach told BBC Hereford & Worcester following their third win in as many Division Two games.
"There's not many sides in the country who would want to come up against us."
Leach took 4-50 and 5-32 in the victory at Derby, taking his tally for the season to 22 wickets. Worcestershire also topped the One-Day Cup North Group, winning six of their eight games, to earn a home semi-final.
The 26-year-old says his side will remain confident going into their next four-day match at Northamptonshire, which starts on Friday.
"At the moment, opportunities seem to be leading to wins which is obviously a great habit to be in," he said.
"It's a hungry group. We're very clear about what we want to achieve this season.
"When you play under Bumpy [director of cricket Steve Rhodes], there's not much chance of there being any complacency."
Dr Hal Maxwell claimed the health service was "bleeding GPs at both ends of their careers" with more doctors needed if the system is to survive.
Dr Maxwell, a GP in South Ayrshire, said many doctors were leaving their jobs early due to workload pressure.
A Scottish government spokesman said the number of GPs had increased by 5.7% since 2006.
Dr Maxwell told the British Medical Association (BMA) annual conference in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, that a fifth of practices in his local area had unfilled vacancies.
He said: "I am a GP in rural south-west Scotland and have been since 1985.
"For the first time in my working life we have 11 out of 55 practices in our county with a vacancy, that is 20% of our practices with a vacancy.
"This is a problem across the UK but reflects the biggest workforce crisis in a generation."
Dr Maxwell said an increasing number of GPs were considering careers overseas and trainee vacancies were remaining unfilled.
He said: "We are bleeding GPs at both ends of their careers. We need more GPs.
"We need to reduce the burdens on our present workforce if Scottish general practice is to survive in the long-term."
A Scottish government spokesman said the number of Scottish GPs had gone up over the past eight years.
He said: "The number of GPs in Scotland has increased by 5.7% since 2006.
"There are more GPs per head of population in Scotland than in England, and we also spend more on GP services per head of population.
"In addition, we have successfully negotiated a General Medical Services contract for 2014/15 which will substantially reduce targets and bureaucracy for GPs, allowing them more time to focus on their patients, and this includes a review of patient access by each GP practice."
The Shanghai Composite was up 4.19% in afternoon trade at 4,806.76.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index was up 1.06% at 27,711.15.
Official numbers from the mainland showed activity in some of China's big factories had increased slightly in May, in line with expectations.
The country's official purchasing managers' index (PMI), which measures items including new orders, rose 50.2 in May from 50.1 in April - its highest since November last year. A reading above 50 indicates expansion.
The PMI figure triggered a rally in shares, despite a separate private PMI survey from HSBC/Markit indicating contraction.
The HSBC/Markit survey - which focuses on small and medium-sized factories - gave a reading of 49.2 in May, the third month of contraction in a row. It also indicated that export orders fell at the fastest rate for nearly two years.
In Japan, the benchmark Nikkei 225 recovered earlier losses to close up 0.03% at 20,569.87, marking its longest winning streak since a 13-day run in February 1988.
In Australia, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed down 0.72% at 5,735.40.
South Korea's benchmark Kospi index closed down 0.59% at 2,102.37 after a private survey suggested manufacturing activity in the country contracted in May for the third month in a row.
Official data also showed the country's exports in May were down 10.9% from a year earlier, while imports were down 15.3%.
The numbers fuel concerns over South Korea's faltering economic recovery.
Jeremy Corbyn has said all his MPs will be told to approve the triggering of Article 50 because they should accept the result of last year's referendum.
Lib Dem Tim Farron says generations to come will not forgive that position.
The Supreme Court will announce next Tuesday whether the government needs to seek Parliament's approval.
Ministers say they already have enough powers under the Royal Prerogative to go ahead with Brexit.
But campaigners argue that starting Brexit in this way would be undemocratic and unconstitutional.
In June's referendum, 51.9% of voters backed leaving the EU, while 48.1% supported remaining in the 28-nation group.
Mr Corbyn said he did not think it was right to block Article 50 in the wake of the referendum result.
"It's up to us to use the opportunity that's provided to stop the Tories from doing this bargain basement, low tax haven on the shores of Europe," he told the BBC.
"What I'm saying to all of my MPs is we've supported the principle of holding the referendum, the referendum was held, it delivered a result - I don't think it's right to block Article 50 negotiations.
"It's absolutely right that we're involved in these negotiations and making the case for a fairer and socially just Britain."
Asked if that meant he would be imposing a three-line whip - the strongest available sanction - on Labour MPs, requiring them to back Article 50, he said: "It means that all Labour MPs will be asked to vote in that direction next week or whenever the vote comes up."
However, a senior Labour source has told the BBC between 60 and 80 of the party's MPs might be ready to defy the leadership if there is a vote in Parliament.
Shadow business secretary Clive Lewis said the government's current position is "unacceptable" and he wants further assurances.
Another Labour MP told the BBC there would be a "swathe" of resignations from the front bench if Mr Corbyn instructed his MPs to vote for Brexit.
The MP said that for colleagues in constituencies that voted strongly for Remain it would be "suicide" to back Article 50.
And Labour's Mike Gapes, who has been outspoken in his criticism of Mr Corbyn in the past, told the Ilford Recorder he would not be toeing the party line.
"I am going to vote against triggering Article 50 and let me be clear, I am going to be as loyal to Jeremy Corbyn as he was to previous Labour leaders," he said.
"I will show the same loyalty he did when he voted, 500 times, against the Labour whip under successive party leaders. The people of Britain did not vote to become poorer and I will not vote in favour of any deal that would see us leave the single market."
BBC political correspondent Ben Wright said nobody expected Parliament to stop Brexit being triggered, but Mr Corbyn could struggle to keep his party's position coherent, whether he insists on a three-line whip or not.
Lib Dem leader Mr Farron accused Labour of "lamely" giving up against the government's drive for a hard Brexit.
He said he believed Mr Corbyn had put the party on the wrong side of the biggest political issue in a generation.
"I think what Labour has done is to believe this is too difficult for them politically, let's just wait for it to go away, and the meeker we are, the quicker it will go away," he told the Guardian.
"I think that's the calculation they've made, and this and future generations are not going to forgive them for that.
"It's not divisive to hold the government to account, and not just to lamely give up as we go over a cliff, and that is what Labour are doing - they are being the most ineffective opposition in living memory."
Mr Farron added that his party, which has just nine MPs, would not consider an electoral deal with Labour because Mr Corbyn is "electorally toxic".
Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas claimed Mr Corbyn was "trying to deny Labour MPs the chance to make their own principled choice on one of the most important decisions of the UK's recent history".
While traditionally the wafer snack has been made using milk chocolate, dozens of different flavours are proving popular in Asia.
Flavours like wasabi and green tea have helped Kit Kat sales in Japan grow by 50% since 2010, Nestle said.
The factory will focus on the more expensive versions of the snack which have been a hit with tourists.
Spending by visitors on confectionery has more than tripled in the past four years, according to government figures, to about $1.2bn (£922m).
"Over the past few years, Nestle was able to demonstrate good growth in Japan despite a challenging environment", a Nestle spokesman said.
"This good performance can be explained with our strategic focus on innovation and premium, for example with Kit Kat."
They swept into the Musa and Sakina mosques here in the Kenyan city of Mombasa, searching for incriminating material and arresting many of those they found.
Two days later, I witnessed officers closing a large padlock on the gates of the Swafaa mosque, as it became the third mosque accused of links with Islamist militants to be shut down.
Yellow police tape with the words "Crime Scene" is now wrapped around the entrances of all three places of worship.
This all follows an announcement in September when, in a rural town in central Kenya, the head of the Criminal Investigation Department, Muhoro Ndegwa, said the government would shut down mosques associated with Muslim radicals.
Back then no-one took the announcement seriously. Not even Muslim leaders.
Some dared him to act on his words. A local newspaper tucked a short story into its inside pages.
And that was about it.
But now this.
A huge contingent of heavily armed police stands guard, 24 hours a day, outside the Musa, Sakina and Swafaa mosques.
Worshippers have been told to go elsewhere.
Surprisingly, police have met little direct resistance from the radical youth, or the Muslim leadership in Mombasa. But at least three people were killed when angry Muslim youths went on a rampage after the police raids, attacking civilians with machetes.
Police now say they have their eyes set on a fourth mosque.
They say their actions are aimed at restoring peace in Mombasa, but the effect has been to unsettle the general public. There is an air of uncertainty and tension here.
Locals are unsure how and when the radicals will react. The anger and motivation is already there. And there is a precedent.
In February, police raided the Musa mosque, once controlled by radical cleric Aboud Rogo, who was killed in August 2012.
Violent protests followed that raid. Muslim youths engaged police in running battles all day, killing one officer by slitting his throat.
Memories of that day have stayed with many people here.
From my conversations with local journalists, politicians, businessmen and ordinary residents, there is a feeling that the police action this week, though bold, may be too little too late for the local economy.
Tourist numbers - already depressed - have taken a big hit because of rising insecurity and the threat of militant attacks, which are very real here.
Local businesses are suffering and industry leaders have been going from meeting to meeting trying to find ways of wooing back tourists.
With no clear answers to hand, people here are resigned to the fact that things will probably get worse in Mombasa, before they get better.
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The 100m breaststroke world record holder, 22, will defend his title when the championships start on 14 July.
Fellow Rio 2016 medallists Jazz Carlin, James Guy, Stephen Milne, Siobhan-Marie O'Connor, Duncan Scott and Chris Walker-Hebborn also make the team.
"It's a good balance between youth and senior," said British Swimming head coach Bill Furniss.
The team has been announced following the British Swimming Championships in Sheffield last week.
Men: Nick Grainger, Luke Greenbank, James Guy, Calum Jarvis, Daniel Jervis, Max Litchfield, Stephen Milne, Ross Murdoch, Adam Peaty, Ben Proud, Duncan Scott, Mark Szaranek, Chris Walker-Hebborn, James Wilby
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It became illegal to produce, distribute, sell or supply the drugs, formerly known as "legal highs", in May 2016
But substance misuse agency CAIS and Drug Aid Cymru said usage has increased in the last three to six months.
The UK Government said it was continuing to work to stop drugs use.
The charities' comments come after images and camera footage from Wrexham was widely shared in March, showing people who appeared to be under the influence of the drugs.
Clive Wolfendale, of CAIS, said there was more awareness of the substances, meaning more people are reporting use of them.
He added that more research was needed into their use.
"In the past few months in north Wales we've seen more people coming forward presenting with issues of using new psychoactive substances," he said.
"Personally I was always concerned the ban would put the market in the hands of criminals, as we've seen with other drugs like heroin and cocaine.
"My fear is that because it's such a prevalent issue and that substances, irrespective of the ban, are so widely available that this is a phenomenon which will be with us for years, if not decades, to come.
"We see very vulnerable people taking them. It might be that they've fallen prey to criminals, but we need more research to understand what's going on."
Rob Barker, of Drug Aid Cymru, echoed his concerns.
"People using NPS (new psychoactive substances) dipped quite a bit since May, since the law came in which was a good sign," he said.
"The main shops that sold NPS closed, so the accessibility for a short time went down quite a lot.
"But actually, recently in the last three to six months we have started to see people presenting to our services with issues around NPS, particularly around synthetic cannabinoids.
"We are seeing people with quite significant effects and issues associated with these drugs."
Figures from January showed there had been no prosecutions or cautions issued in three of the four Welsh police force areas since the ban.
Minister for Vulnerability, Safeguarding and Countering Extremism Sarah Newton said drugs would not be tolerated.
"Our drug strategy, to be published shortly, will build on the work already undertaken to prevent drug use in our communities and help dependent individuals, including homeless people and those in prisons, to rebuild their lives," she added.
A stunning start saw tries from Peceli Yato and David Strettle help Clermont into an early 15-0 lead.
Four penalties from Johnny Sexton then cut the gap to three but a Morgan Parra penalty and Camille Lopez drop-goal seemed to have won it.
Garry Ringrose's score cut the gap to two but Lopez's boot saw Clermont home.
Clermont - two-time finalists but yet to win the tournament - will meet Saracens in Edinburgh on Saturday, 13 May.
Clermont are the nearly men of French rugby, having lost to Toulon in Europe's top club tournament in the 2013 and 2015 finals, and won only one of their 12 French finals - and that at the 11th attempt.
But they started as a side used to the biggest stages, and their early pressure brought them deserved tries from the impressive Fiji flanker Yato and livewire former England winger Strettle.
Both sides are attack-minded but Leinster were struggling to get hold of the ball and it was not until the end of the half they finally enjoyed some pressure of their own.
Ireland fly-half Sexton got them on the board with the last kick of a half in which they had been totally outplayed.
Leinster needed to start the second half the better and duly attacked from deep on their first possession.
They proceeded to come at Clermont from every angle, with three quick penalties enabling Sexton to cut the gap to only three points.
Then came the decisive moment of the game.
The supporting Dan Leavy thought he had scored for Leinster, but the television match official had noticed an infringement back at the start of the move.
His eagle eyes spotted that flanker Leavy himself had held on to Aurelien Rougerie at a ruck to open the gap Leinster had first streamed through 60 metres back upfield.
Not only did Leinster have the try struck off but they also conceded a penalty, which Parra stroked over to put Clermont further ahead.
Lopez banged over a drop-goal from distance to put Clermont more than seven points clear, only for Ireland centre Ringrose to score a fine converted try and cut the gap to two points.
But the outstanding Fritz Lee won the latest in a series penalties at a ruck to halt a Leinster attack and Lopez's accurate boot did the rest to send Clermont into the final.
Leinster fly-half Johnny Sexton:
"I felt that we could still win it at half-time. We should have made them work harder for their scores - they got a 15-point head-start.
"We were beaten by an impressive side, who have been impressive all year. We have to take our hats off and say they were better than us."
Clermont's ex-England & Saracens wing David Strettle:
"We always knew they would have a purple patch. We had to start well, hold on when they got on top after half-time and then finish strongly.
"I think Saracens have got better since I left, but I can see in the two years that I have been here how important this tournament is to the club."
Clermont Auvergne: Spedding; Strettle, Rougerie, Lamerat, Abendanon; Lopez, Parra; Chaume, Kayser, Zirakashvili, Iturria, Vahaamahina, Chouly, Yato, Lee.
Replacements: Penaud for Rougerie (56), Fernandez for Lamerat (65), Radosavljevic for Parra (69), Falgoux for Chaume (64), Ulugia for Kayser (53), Jarvis for Zirakashvili (64), Jedrasiak for Vahaamahina (69), Lapandry for Yato (53).
Leinster: Carbery; McFadden, G Ringrose, Henshaw, Nacewa; Sexton, L McGrath; J McGrath, Strauss, Furlong, Toner, Triggs, Ruddock, Leavy, Conan.
Replacements: Kirchner for Carbery (71), Gibson-Park for L. McGrath (64), Dooley for J. McGrath (60), Cronin for Strauss (49), Bent for Furlong (71), Molony for Triggs (60), van der Flier for Leavy (64).
Not Used: R Byrne.
Sin Bin: Nacewa (8).
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The rice contained bacteria "above permissible limits", a senior Nafdac official said.
Customs officials' claims that the rice seized in Lagos last week was "plastic" sparked confusion and official denials.
The health minister intervened, saying there was "no evidence" for the claims.
Tests on samples of the rice showed that it was "unwholesome for human consumption", exceeding the maximum limit for bacteria including "Coli form", Nafdac said in a statement.
The Nigerian customs service, speaking at the same press conference, said that it had acted on "credible intelligence" that "large consignments of plasticized rice were.... to be shipped from the Far East to Africa".
Regardless of the outcome of the lab tests, intelligence still indicated that "several metric tonnes of expired and dangerous rice are still lying in wait at warehouses in neighbouring countries", with the Nigerian market the ultimate destination, customs chief Ibrahim Ali told media.
Rice is Nigeria's staple food and it is a tradition for people to give bags of rice as a gift during the Christmas period.
Inspectors say that almost half of pupils at secondary schools run by the Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) are in schools that are "less than good".
Ofsted warns that poorer pupils do "particularly badly" in AET schools.
In response the trust said it was disappointed that its "significant achievements" had "not been sufficiently recognised".
The Department for Education is threatening that unless standards are raised there will be "further action".
AET runs 67 academies across England. Such academy chains are independent but publicly funded to run schools. AET has charitable status and a financial report up to August 2014 said there was annual expenditure of £333m.
Inspectors say that 40% of pupils in primary schools run by AET are in "academies that do not provide a good standard of education".
"It is even worse in secondary, where 47% of pupils attend academies that are less than good," says Ofsted.
The performance of AET's secondary schools is described as "mediocre" and there has been a lack of progress since Ofsted highlighted weaknesses in the chain's schools two years ago.
The report says there is a particular weakness in the progress of disadvantaged pupils.
Inspectors also warned about "unacceptably low" attendance levels.
And there was criticism of "insufficient detail" about how the trust is governed.
Ofsted cannot give a judgement on an academy chain, but inspectors can carry out multiple inspections of individual schools it runs.
In this "focused inspection", inspectors visited seven academies and there were discussions by telephone with a further 18 schools.
AET runs schools across a wide geographical area - including the Isle of Wight, Hull, Birmingham, Essex, Leicestershire and Gloucestershire.
The trust's financial report says its expenditure of £333m included more than £9.5m on "fundraising expenses and other costs".
Ofsted's breakdown says four academies are rated outstanding, 35 are good, 20 require improvement, seven are inadequate and one has still to be inspected.
In response to Ofsted's findings, a statement from AET said that its "strong leadership" had seen a doubling in the number of good or outstanding academies and a reduction in those rated as inadequate.
The academy trust says the improvements made so far will be a "springboard which we are confident will enable us to achieve our vision to ensure all our pupils receive an excellent education. We have robust systems in place to sustain and accelerate progress".
Two years ago a report from inspectors accused the academy chain of "low expectations" and said that too many pupils were "not receiving a good enough education".
The chain had responded in 2014 by criticising inspectors' findings as "unfairly negative" and that "turning a school around takes time".
In response to this latest report, AET says the inspection process has "fallen short" in terms of the "consideration of achievement" by the academy chain.
Christine Blower, leader of the National Union of Teachers, said the academy chain had been allowed to expand too quickly and "this speaks to a wider problem with the chaotic system of academies and academy chains".
"The government continues to promote the expansion of academies and the growth of chains against all the evidence."
A Department for Education spokesman said: "While Ofsted's findings show that AET has made some progress, particularly in its primary academies, the trust is letting down too many of its pupils.
"The academies system allows us to spot and intervene in underperformance far more quickly than in council-run schools.
"AET must now show us how they will address the issues identified by Ofsted and we are working with them to raise standards. If we are not satisfied we will take further action."
It is to be developed on the site of a former bus depot between Longman Road and Burnett Road to the north of Burnett Road Police Station.
The new centre would allow the courts service to move out of Inverness Castle.
The 19th Century building overlooking Inverness city centre is to be turned into a tourist attraction.
The Scottish government is to fund the construction of the new two-storey justice centre.
Highland Council's south planning applications committee approved planning permission.
The same committee was also due to consider proposals for other major developments in and around Inverness.
These include a new railway station at Dalcross near Inverness Airport.
Councillors were also to consider a notification of plans for a new prison in Inverness.
The Scottish Prison Service has submitted a document to inform Highland Council that it is preparing a planning application for the new HMP Highland on a site next to Inverness Retail Park on the A96.
The deceased foetus, named Wally, has been held at a public hospital in the city since April.
"We're really happy and relieved," the father, Kevin, told BBC News.
"It's bittersweet, of course, but I'm relieved that we've been able to get closure," he said.
"We will finally be able to bury our baby with the dignity and respect that he deserves."
Under current rules, deceased foetuses younger than 24 weeks are not routinely released to their families for burial.
Instead, they are considered to be "clinical waste" and disposed of accordingly.
Kevin and his wife Angela, who are using pseudonyms to protect their privacy, were only allowed to take their son for burial after the Catholic Diocese agreed to step in.
The Church has agreed to set aside space in its private cemetery in eastern Hong Kong for foetuses born before 24 weeks of gestation.
Called "Angel Garden", the space is only available to Roman Catholic families.
Kevin said Angela miscarried at home in April and after arriving in hospital, he held his son for seven hours.
He recalled the nurses as being sympathetic and kind, offering to dress the child in tiny dolls' clothing.
The trouble started when the couple tried to claim their child for burial.
"When the hospital said our son was hospital property, our jaws dropped," he said.
"If you have a relative die, and the government confiscates the body, it wouldn't make you feel very good unless you have some kind of resolution."
In a statement to the BBC, the hospital authority, which manages all public hospitals in Hong Kong, said foetuses born without signs of life before 24 weeks of gestation were handled according to the legal requirements of the Environmental Protection Department.
It added that parents were entitled to approach hospitals for release of the body.
In the past year, the authority said it had received 18 such applications, of which 14 had been approved.
But Kevin and Angela's lawyer, Michael Vidler, accused the authorities of taking directions from abortion law which stipulates that 24 weeks is the gestational age above which the foetus is considered stillborn and is allowed to be released for burial.
Currently, abortions in Hong Kong cannot be performed after 24 weeks unless it is necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman.
Kevin said the hospital had previously agreed to release his son's body, but without the documentation required for a proper burial.
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"I had nowhere to take him," he explained. "If you take a baby that is considered to be clinical waste, you can't just dispose of it any which way you like. I could bury him in my garden, or hold a bonfire at the beach, but it wouldn't be a legal burial. If someone discovers it, they could call the police."
He said that in May, weeks after the miscarriage, the hospital agreed to release the body and suggested the couple go to a pet crematorium - an offer which they quickly rejected.
He said the solution offered by the Roman Catholic Church mirrors what Hong Kong's Islamic cemetery had been allowed to do for decades.
Roman Catholics believe that life begins at conception, while most Muslim scholars say a foetus in the womb is recognised as a human life.
But Kevin wants all families in Hong Kong, regardless of religion or background, to have the option of taking their deceased children for burial or cremation.
"I don't think it should be available only to people of certain religions or certain backgrounds," he said. "I want to see the government change this policy, or for lawmakers to change the law."
It has been waiting on a review of the Russian Proton rocket, which failed on its last outing in May while carrying a Mexican payload.
Inmarsat's third Global Xpress platform was due to be the next passenger and was grounded as a consequence.
The launch on the Proton is now set for 28 August from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Lift-off will be at 17:44 local time (12:44 BST).
Inmarsat is the world's largest mobile satellite services operator.
Its principal customer base is the shipping sector, but the company also caters for any groups that need telecommunications away from a fixed line. These include oil and gas installations, the aviation sector, armed forces, aid agencies and NGOs in disaster areas, and TV news crews reporting from trouble zones.
Its new £1bn GX network is the biggest commercial UK space project in the process of being rolled out right now.
It is designed to incorporate three spacecraft distributed around the globe to give worldwide coverage.
Two have already gone up, to relay telecommunications from Asia all the way across to the Americas.
The upcoming launch should complete the network over the Pacific, and give customers seamless coverage wherever they are - something that is especially important to the shipping and aviation sectors.
Investigators are now confident they understand the loss of May's Proton.
The natural vibration in the rocket's third stage loosened bolts that held a turbopump in place for a steering engine.
The disruption ultimately broke an oxidizer line and led to the pump shutting down, and the loss of the engine.
Measures have been put in place to make sure this cannot happen again.
The Proton has had a torrid record of late.
Six vehicles and their payloads have been lost in the past five years, and Inmarsat's GX network is roughly a year behind schedule because of all the problems the rocket system has experienced.
"The return to flight is typically the best flight to be on because there is extra caution, extra controls," Michele Franci, Inmarsat's Chief Technical Officer, told BBC News.
The new satellite is insured, but the company has taken the additional precaution of ordering a fourth platform from manufacturer Boeing. This would be available in mid-2016 should anything go wrong this month.
Global Xpress sees Inmarsat take its first, firm step into Ka frequencies to deliver communications.
Traditionally, its spacecraft have worked in the L-band.
The higher frequency of Ka allows faster throughput connections, giving the new satellites broadband speeds that are 100 times faster than the company's previous generation of spacecraft.
"If there has been any benefit from the delay, it's that it has allowed us to fix network issues that we would have had anyway in this period," said Mr Franci
"So, once we go really live at the end of the year, the network will be more stable and more reliable. But we could definitely have done without the delays, that's for sure."
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Work to bring down the building on Kingsway started in October 2015 and was due to take six months.
But the outer structure of the building is still standing as there was more asbestos than first thought.
The council bought the site as part of plans to transform Kingsway into a business district.
All internal works at the building have now been completed, with scaffolding in place to support the exterior's demolition.
The work is scheduled to finish by the spring.
Manchester City's hopes of making the Champions League next season is out of their hands after a draw with Arsenal, with Manchester United, who beat Norwich, two wins from a top-four spot.
Sunderland helped their survival hopes with a dramatic win over Chelsea as arch rivals Newcastle draw with relegated Aston Villa to leave their top-flight status in serious jeopardy.
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Artur Boruc's first-half fingertip save from Craig Gardner after he stopped his penalty didn't get the praise it deserved. The initial penalty save was impressive but to then stop the rebound from going in with his right hand was simply top class. For me Boruc, like many of his team-mates at Bournemouth, has slowly acclimatised to the level required to perform consistently at Premier League level.
It will be very interesting to see if he can continue to improve his game next season because there is no doubt that on his day the Polish international is a good as any keeper in the league. The question is does he have enough of those days?
He's back and looking good. Manchester United have suffered more than most from injuries this season and Antonia Valencia has been conspicuous by his absence. Nonetheless, his return to bolster the defence has come at a very important time for United and, in particular, manager Louis van Gaal.
It is imperative for both that United get into the Champions League and winning an FA Cup will undoubtedly strengthen the manager's position next season. It would appear, based on the last few appearances and against Norwich, that Valencia's presence in the team is critical to both scenarios.
This Leicester City roadshow is getting out of control. The players must have been out until the early hours after Chelsea had crushed any notion of Tottenham winning the title on Monday night. And yet they played like a team whose season had only just begun against an Everton side who looked like they were praying for it to finish.
Their captain and leader Wes Morgan performed like a man who has never seen a drop of alcohol pass his lips and could have played football the entire weekend without food or water. It's what superheroes are made of and right now Morgan looks like he has got a team full of them.
I must say once Southampton equalised against Spurs, Jose Fonte and Virgil van Dijk took control at the back for the Saints. Apart from one outstanding save from Fraser Forster late in the second half, the two centre-backs looked reasonably comfortable.
However, it was Van Dijk who came to the rescue on the few occasions Spurs did threaten to equalise and it is hardly surprising that Saints manager Ronald Koeman has convinced his fellow Dutchman to sign a six-year contract.
This lad has never looked back since the day he left Stamford Bridge for St Mary's. The Southampton defender looks every bit an international footballer and it wouldn't surprise me, as Chelsea begin rebuilding their team, if Ryan Bertrand reappears on their shopping list.
He looked so comfortable against Manchester City last week and at Spurs on Sunday. He seems slightly ahead in the England selection process of his Tottenham counterpart, the more combustible Danny Rose. In the European Championships you are going to need a cool head and Bertrand certainly has that.
Where did Swansea's 4-1 win at West Ham come from? I thought Swansea had packed sun cream and flip flops as they had their minds set on warmer climes. It couldn't have been further from the truth. They were without Ashley Williams and Gylfi Sigurdsson so it was left to Ki Sung-yueng to mastermind Swansea's revival.
The South Korean was involved in Swansea's first goal and scored their third. In fact, the finish was superb and put the game beyond West Ham who looked shell-shocked. Can anyone tell me what is going on at Swansea? I haven't a clue whether manager Francesco Guidolin is staying or going. What I do know is Swansea look like a team again so the sooner they settle the concerns surrounding the manager's future, the better.
I've witnessed some amazing moments in football but nothing quite like the enormity of Leicester City's success. Within this extraordinary achievement lies a player who epitomises the very best the club and its players have to offer - his name is N'Golo Kante. As the season draws to a close, this player continues to quietly go about his business without any fuss. He never complains, hardly misses a game and remains the pulse of a team that has lived well beyond its expectations.
Foxes manager Claudio Ranieri has begged his title-winning players to stay with him for one more year and then they can leave with his blessing. A clever and noble suggestion but I fear that if he loses Kante, in particular, during the summer then this amazing dream will come to an end.
Southampton weren't supposed to go to White Hart Lane and take all the points but Steven Davis had completely different ideas on the matter. The silky midfielder scored two goals, the first gift-wrapped by Hugo Lloris - again - and the second was enough to put the game beyond a tired looking Tottenham.
Southampton have now acquired six points in two very impressive performances in succession and equalled their points tally from last season.
Sunderland threw everything they could at this game, including the kitchen sink. But then again they had to if they had any intention of remaining in the Premier League - nothing else short of a monumental effort would have toppled Chelsea.
The highlight of the game was the finish by Wahbi Khazri. The ball may have struck his shin and not his laces but that was academic because his technique was spot on. Sunderland now need one win from two games and they will send Newcastle, their arch rivals, into the Championship. If that does happen, and it looks likely, will Newcastle owner Mike Ashley ask former boss Chris Hughton to bring them back up again?
His interview on Football Focus earlier in the day provided the viewer with a sharp perspective about the way the striker saw pressures in football as opposed to life. Jermaine Defoe has experienced personal trauma in his family and dismisses Sunderland's fight for survival as nothing more than a wonderful opportunity to show their fans how much they care.
Well, he certainly did that and more against a rejuvenated Chelsea. The striker looked as sharp as ever and took his goal brilliantly. From the moment Defoe brought his first touch under control the game was over. Finishing at its best.
If it wasn't for Sergio Aguero's goals Manchester City would be nowhere, which rather puts their season into context. His strike against Arsenal made it six Premier League goals in a row. But all his goals may still not be enough to see City through to the Champions League next season.
How must Pep Guardiola, who will take over as manager in the summer, and the smug Manchester City board, who were so intent on telling the world that they had clinched the services of the Spaniard, be feeling now? Not so smug I suspect. Aguero could still win the Premier League Golden Boot and have to settle for the Europa League next season. Fat chance he'll stick around for that.
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President Joko Widodo proposed the changes in May following the gang rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl.
The laws were subject to fierce debate in parliament, with two opposition parties voting against castration.
Human rights groups have objected to the punishments, arguing that violence will not be stopped by violence.
The Indonesian Doctors Association said administering chemical castration would violate its professional ethics and said its members should not take part.
The procedure entails injecting convicts with female hormones. It is used on sex offenders in Poland, South Korea, Russia, and some US states, among others. Prisoners in UK jails can volunteer for the treatment.
The new laws also allow judges to sentence paedophiles to death or tag them electronically, and applies a 10-year minimum sentence for child sex crimes.
Human rights groups including the National Commission for Women (NCW) criticised the laws and called for them to be re-evaluated each year to test whether they are a deterrent.
Azriana, the head of the NCW, said: "Other countries that have chemical castration have not seen a reduction in sexual crime against children. Also it's a very expensive procedure and what we should be spending and investing our money in is services to support and help the victims."
Dr Yohana Susana Yembise, Indonesia's Minister for Women Empowerment and Child Protection, said the administration was "praying" that the punishments "will have the desired effect".
She said: "Now we have the harshest punishments: the death penalty, life in prison, chemical castration, the public naming of perpetrators and the electronic chip. These are now law, so even if you hate the idea of them everyone now has to support this."
The punishments follow a number of high profile cases of child sexual abuse in the country. Last year, a British-Canadian teacher and an Indonesian were jailed for 10 years for sexually abusing three children at a Jakarta kindergarten.
And earlier this year, the body of a nine-year-old girl was found in a cardboard box in Jakarta after she had been repeatedly sexually assaulted and killed.
The 40-year-old victim was pushed to the ground and assaulted on Merksworth Way in Paisley, Renfrewshire, at about 02:20 on Sunday.
After the attack, the woman was helped by the residents of a nearby house.
Police said a 38-year-old man had been arrested in connection with the incident. He is expected to appear at Paisley Sheriff Court.
The woman was taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley and treated before being released.
Approval for the project comes with some new conditions attached, including a provision that the UK government has to be consulted if EDF, the French company behind the project, wants to sell its controlling stake.
The proposed new plant, known as Hinkley Point C, will be built next to two existing facilities, Hinkley Point A and B, and is set to begin generating electricity in 2025. But critics are still warning against escalating costs and the implications of nuclear power plants being built in the UK by foreign governments.
Companies and governments want Hinkley Point C to be built.
For the UK, it will deliver 7% of our electricity when most other nuclear power stations will have closed down.
The low-carbon electricity will help towards our climate goals. The huge project will provide an economic stimulus. And the funding arrangements mean the cost will not end up on the government's books.
The French want it built because it furthers their international nuclear ambitions. Despite setbacks in projects in Finland and Flamanville in northern France, Hinkley provides a showcase to export their reactor technology around the world.
The Chinese, via the CGN group, have committed to one-third of the £18bn cost, in order to get a foothold in Western Europe. The Hinkley deal also involves the Chinese taking a stake in a new project at Sizewell and the possibility of building their own reactors at Bradwell in Essex.
Hinkley Point C will be the biggest construction site in Europe, according to EDF.
The construction will provide 25,000 jobs. At its peak, 5,600 people will work on site. The finished power plant will employ 900 people.
5,600
workers on site at peak
4,000km electrical cabling
230,000 tonnes of steel
5.6m cubic metres of earth to be moved
The upfront cost for EDF and its partner over the coming years will be £18bn.
But in return, EDF will receive a guaranteed price for Hinkley's electricity for 35 years. A complex subsidy arrangement will see consumers pay billions.
EDF's expected return on its investment is set to be between 9% and 10%.
EDF's contract with the government guarantees the firm a "strike price" of £92.50 per megawatt hour (Mwh) for the electricity that Hinkley Point C generates. If the wholesale price of power is lower than this set price, consumers make up the difference.
But the government now expects future wholesale electricity prices to be lower than it forecast when it agreed the strike price in 2013.
The National Audit Office says that as a result, the expected top-up payment by consumers has increased from £6.1bn to £29.7bn.
Ever since Tony Blair committed the UK to new nuclear in 2006, successive governments have argued that nuclear power is necessary as part of our generation mix.
Having new nuclear - it is argued - makes the UK less reliant on imported energy.
Nuclear also delivers base load electricity - that is, the amount of power that is needed to satisfy minimum demand - because it is always available. That's important as more intermittent renewables - such as wind and solar power - come on to the grid.
French energy giant EDF is leading the project. It's 85%-owned by the French state.
French nuclear firm Areva, which is also majority state-owned, is supplying the EPR reactor technology that will be used at Hinkley Point C.
But EDF is now in effect buying the reactor from itself. Following years of losses, Areva's reactor unit is being merged with EDF as part of a rescue plan orchestrated by the French government.
China's CGN has a 33.5% stake in Hinkley Point C and will have to fund a third of the £18bn cost.
But 60% of the construction value will flow to UK firms.
EDF's UK boss originally said that he expected Britons to cook their Christmas turkeys with power from Hinkley Point C by 2017. But the project has been hit by a series of setbacks and delays.
Concerns have grown over Areva's EPR reactor, the type to be used at Hinkley. It's technically complex and has proved difficult to construct: EDF's Flamanville project in Northern France is three times over budget and years behind schedule.
As the cost of Hinkley escalated, EDF had to find a partner to share the financial burden.
Falling power prices then hit EDF's revenues. Its finances were further shaken by mounting liabilities, due to the roll-out of smart meters and the upgrading of France's nuclear power capability.
Opposition from French trade unions, which wanted Hinkley Point C delayed, also forced the company to conduct a lengthy consultation with its works council to avoid a legal challenge.
EDF shareholders eventually agreed a French government-backed refinancing plan, paving the way for their decision to go ahead with the project.
Then, in July, when the UK government was expected to sign the deal, the Business Secretary, Greg Clark, announced there would be a review.
If construction begins now, Hinkley could begin generating electricity for the UK market by 2025.
Murtagh missed the World Cup because of a foot injury but has recovered and is named in the 14-man squad.
The rest of the squad featured in the World Cup while Peter Chase and Max Sorensen are the players left out.
It will be a special occasion for captain William Porterfield, who will make his 200th Ireland appearance in the 8 May match near Dublin.
"It's a great honour for me to have played 200 times for my country," said Porterfield, who made his debut against Namibia in 2006.
It will be Porterfield's 80th ODI with Ireland, and he will be hoping to add to his tally of seven centuries, the most by an Irish batsman.
"It's a bit special for it to be against England in front of an expected sell-out crowd at Malahide," added the 30-year-old.
"I've happy memories personally from the last time we played them in Dublin, scoring a century, although the result didn't go our way.
"Hopefully in home conditions we can get the win that our fantastic supporters so richly deserve."
Ireland still hope to have a new coach in place for the game, with the process to replace Phil Simmons, who left to take charge of West Indies last month, continuing.
Ireland squad:
William Porterfield (captain), (Warwickshire), Andrew Balbirnie (Middlesex), Alex Cusack (Clontarf), George Dockrell (Somerset), Ed Joyce (Sussex), Andrew McBrine (Donemana), John Mooney (North County), Tim Murtagh (Middlesex), Kevin O'Brien (Railway Union), Niall O'Brien (Leicestershire), Paul Stirling (Middlesex), Stuart Thompson (Eglinton), Gary Wilson (Surrey), Craig Young (Bready).
The new stadium has a proposed capacity of 34,500 - down by 3,500 on original plans.
The GAA said it was aiming to work within the original budget of £76m and the stadium should open by 2019 in time for the following year's Ulster finals.
The GAA said the plan showed its willingness to "engage and listen".
The new, height, scale and capacity are all reduced from the previous design, the GAA said.
Tom Daly, chairman of the Casement Park Project Board, said the GAA was committed to delivering a "travel culture change".
This means the inclusion of coach travel and park and ride facilities, as well as integrated travel choices with ticket sales.
"This strategy is good for ease of access to and from the stadium, is cognisant of the needs and views of the local community and is good for the wider environment," he said.
Michael Hasson, Ulster GAA president, said: "GAA members and supporters, as well as people across the local community, are looking forward to an exciting new beginning for Antrim and a provincial stadium for Ulster.
"We want to create a positive sporting legacy and iconic stadium that will be a beacon to inspire young GAA players throughout west Belfast, Antrim and across Ulster."
The multi-million pound Casement Park project has been beset with problems and delays.
Planning permission for the sports stadium was overturned in 2014 after objections by local residents.
A whistleblower, safety expert Paul Scott, claimed he was bullied when he raised concerns that, under the initial plans, the stadium could not be evacuated safely in emergencies.
The Woodland Trust says all entrances to Uffmoor Wood, near Halesowen, West Midlands, will be padlocked from Wednesday after it became one of its most "problematic" sites.
It follows reports of dog attacks, dog fouling, drug abuse, the use of off-road bikes and illicit sexual activity.
The trust says the closure is a "last resort".
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It said in some cases dogs have been attacked by others allowed off the lead, while a sheep was killed on neighbouring land.
The trust said the closure of the 209 acres of ancient woodland was "unprecedented" and it had only ever closed a few car parks across the whole of the UK.
It said it had tried to tackle the issues with posters and by speaking to visitors during community action days. Police have also been called on several occasions.
Other problems have included staff being knocked to the ground by dogs and others verbally abused by visitors.
The trust's website page for Uffmoor Wood has a number of comments in which concerns have been raised.
Gareth Hopkins, regional operations manager for the Woodland Trust, said he hoped the action was "not a permanent measure".
"We're very sad to take such severe measures," he said.
"Drug dealing, out-of-control dogs and dog fouling have made this wood unsafe, despite our best efforts to work with and educate the irresponsible dog owners."
Maintenance work will be carried out while the wood is closed.
The Tykes added only 22 runs to their overnight score to end their first innings 208 all out, 238 runs behind.
Following on, Adam Lyth, Alex Lees and Harry Brook then all fell in the space of nine balls to leave Yorkshire 16-3.
The visitors, beaten by Middlesex on the final day last season, were 174 all out for their first loss since April.
Adil Rashid (35) and Steven Patterson (30 not out) were the only two batsmen to make 30 or more in an uncharacteristically poor Yorkshire display.
Five different Middlesex bowlers chipped in with second-innings wickets, with seamers Tim Murtagh and Toby Roland-Jones taking two each and spinner Ollie Rayner returning figures of 4-35.
Sam Robson's 159 and 111 from Paul Stirling on the opening day had set the platform for the hosts, who had won only two of their 13 previous games across all formats this season.
Middlesex captain James Franklin told BBC Radio London:
"We have bounced back strongly after getting a bit of a towelling from Lancashire at Southport last week. It was really important that we fronted up here. To beat Yorkshire inside three days is very satisfying.
"Our bowlers asked some serious questions of Yorkshire's batsmen and, when you got it in the right areas, it was a tough pitch to bat on as it deteriorated.
"Sam Robson and Paul Stirling batted brilliantly to set the match up for us on the first day with their hundreds, and we backed that up beautifully with the ball."
Yorkshire head coach Andrew Gale told BBC Radio Leeds:
"First day, bowling wise, we did quite well without a lot of reward. That was when the pitch was at its best. We got rewarded for that second morning.
"But, from then on we were well below par. From a batting point of view, we were well below par. We had a long chat and some strong words about the batting at Taunton (against Somerset) and some more strong words in this game.
"We expect a response. As well as we bowled, Middlesex were up for the challenge and were a lot more patient than us. To be bowled out twice like we have is poor."
Bake A Cake Catering, in Halesowen, ceased trading on Monday and cannot fulfil or refund orders.
Kirsty Robinson says she may be forced to cancel her wedding next Saturday if she cannot find cake and flowers.
Owner Lisa Holt, 39, said she was forced to shut up shop after her equipment and paperwork were stolen during a burglary.
Miss Robinson, who lives four doors away from Bake a Cake in Albert Road, paid £800 for finishing touches including a cake, flowers, chair covers and table cloths.
And Rachel Hodson, 27, of Wednesfield, said she is now "frantically rearranging" plans in time for her ceremony on 12 September.
The customer service advisor, who is marrying her partner of three years in Walsall, said: "We had our dream wedding all booked and paid for way in advance. Now we've got to start again."
Miss Holt told the BBC she had reported a "hate campaign" to West Midlands Police.
She said: "My whole house had been ransacked. All the business paperwork... the equipment I owned had been taken. So I had to outsource everything.
"I was frightened to stay there. When I went back to check on the place on Friday, I found they had set fire to my back door.
"I can't keep afloat anymore and I've had to cease trading.
"I haven't filed for bankruptcy because I want to pay all these people back.
"I know they are victims of my circumstances but they need to see I'm a victim too. I am sincerely sorry."
A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: "We are investigating a burglary and an arson at Albert Street, Halesowen.
"Enquiries are ongoing and no arrests have been made."
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He told BBC economics editor Kamal Ahmed: "We want to ensure that we pay the right amount of tax."
He added that Google wanted to focus on investing and hiring more people in the UK.
Google has agreed to pay £130m in back taxes after an "open audit" of its accounts by the tax authorities.
Shetland Mussels, which produces rope-grown mussels, will use some of the cash to buy specialised new equipment.
As a result, it expects its harvest to increase from 948 tonnes to more than 2,400 tonnes by 2020.
The firm already provides 17 jobs in Shetland and expects to increase this to 20 within three years.
The family business supplies mussels to restaurants, wholesalers and retailers across the UK.
A local prosecutor in Ohio state, Tim McGinty, called the events that led to the death of Tamir Rice a "perfect storm of human error".
But he said it was not unreasonable for the officer to fear for his life.
Peaceful protests were held in Cleveland and in New York after the decision was announced.
It comes at a time when the deaths of black men at the hands of police have sparked a national debate.
Rice was carrying a non-lethal pellet gun when police approached him in Cleveland in November 2014, in response to a 911 call reporting a man waving and pointing a gun at people.
The officer who shot him did so within two seconds of arriving at the scene, according to surveillance video.
The caller said the gun might not be real and the perpetrator could be a juvenile.
Mr McGinty, who announced the grand jury's decision on Monday, blamed the emergency services dispatcher for not relaying that information to police.
Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback have said the gun looked real and urged Rice to raise his hands three times.
Mr Loehmann shot Rice twice after the boy pulled the gun from his waistband.
The officers said they believed Rice was older than 12. He weighed about 175lbs (79kg) and stood 5ft 7in (1.70m) tall.
The toy gun lacked an orange safety tip and Mr McGinty urged toy manufacturers to stop making replicas that look like real guns.
The Rice family have said police fired too quickly and should have used a Taser, a non-lethal weapon.
Camera footage shows Mr Loehmann firing seconds after getting out of his police vehicle that rolled to a stop just feet away from Rice.
Although the officers' actions were not criminal, Mr McGinty said Cleveland had learnt from the shooting.
"It should never happen again, and the city has taken steps so it doesn't," Mr McGinty said.
Food boxes, which the school says can feed a family of four for a week, are being put together by the chef at Hillstone Primary in Birmingham.
Head teacher Gillian Sparrow said the idea came following concerns about childhood obesity.
The Shard End ward, where the school is based, has high levels of childhood obesity.
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Head teacher Gillian Sparrow, said: "We are concerned about childhood obesity, as many schools are, so we wanted to encourage healthy eating in the community."
The school buys in extra ingredients and sells them on directly to parents. Around 15 have taken part so far.
Boxes cost £22 and contain ingredients for five meals.
Meals are devised by catering manager Matthew Knight and have included cottage pie, chicken pie and chicken burritos.
Ms Sparrow said it was hoped the scheme would "transform the children's eating habits" as well as save money for parents.
She added: "It's going well and growing."
Across the West Midlands, one in four pupils are overweight or obese by the time they start primary school. That number has gone up to one in three by the time they leave.
The temporary Meccano bridge is being built across Belfast's Clarendon Dock.
It has been designed and built by a group of third year civil engineering students and school children.
It will be unveiled at a free public event on Saturday.
The year-long project is part of the university's outreach programme to encourage more children to think about careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
Around 11,000 pieces of Meccano were used to build the bridge, which weighs 600kg (around 1,300lbs).
Representatives from Guinness World Records will be on site to confirm if the project has earned a world record for the world's largest ever Meccano construction.
Dr Danny McPolin from the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering, who led the project, said: "We see this event not only as an opportunity to celebrate the students' and staff's incredible work over the past year, but also a chance to give local children an insight into the exciting courses on offer at Queen's.
"We hope to welcome as many youngsters as possible on the day and cement their interest in studying Civil Engineering and other STEM subjects at university level."
The project has received funding from the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure, AECOM, Meccano and Queen's Annual Fund.
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Hamilton had a mighty let-off after an error-strewn drive because title rival and Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg finished eighth after a late puncture.
The result means Hamilton, in the most unlikely circumstances, extends his lead over Rosberg to 21 points.
Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat took his first career podium in second.
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Vettel's victory - his second of the season - came as a huge surprise, and the German dedicated it to French driver Jules Bianchi, who died last Friday and whose funeral Vettel was one of many active F1 drivers to attend on Tuesday.
A minute's silence was held for the former Ferrari reserve driver on the grid before the race and his family attended the event.
Vettel said in French over the radio on his slowing down lap: "Merci, Jules. Cette victoire est pour toi." (Thank you, Jules. This victory is for you).
He added in English: "You will always be in our hearts. We know sooner or later you would have been in this team."
There was a further surprise behind Vettel as Russian Kvyat took second place despite being one of several drivers to suffer penalties as a result of driving transgressions.
He was handed a 10-second penalty for taking an advantage by going over track limits but held on ahead of team-mate Daniel Ricciardo.
Ricciardo was involved in the incident that dropped Rosberg from second with four laps to go.
The Australian dived for the inside at Turn One, ran wide and Rosberg's trajectory on the inside of the corner took his left rear tyre into contact with Ricciardo's front wing, puncturing it.
Ricciardo had to pit for a new front wing but managed to take the final podium position.
Behind him, 17-year-old Max Verstappen took the best result of his short career in fourth, ahead of Fernando Alonso in fifth, by far the strongest finish of McLaren-Honda's dismal season so far.
Up front, the events that led to Vettel's 41st victory - a number that matches the tally achieved by three-time champion Ayrton Senna - were extraordinary and easily the most exciting race of the season so far.
The win was made at the start, when Vettel got the jump on both Mercedes drivers, fought off Hamilton and took the lead into the first corner.
Behind him, team-mate Kimi Raikkonen passed Rosberg into Turn Two for second place as Hamilton dropped back to fourth.
But the drama on the opening lap was not over, as Hamilton made a mistake at the chicane midway around the track and ran wide, dropping a further six positions.
It was a most uncharacteristic mistake by Hamilton, whose season had until this event been almost flawless. But the errors were not over.
As the Ferraris dominated at the front, with Rosberg surprisingly unable to keep pace, Hamilton set about recovering lost ground.
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He did so with some excellent overtaking moves on Williams's Felipe Massa, Force India's Sergio Perez and, after the first pit stops, Red Bull's Ricciardo.
Hamilton then set about closing the gap to Rosberg and had reduced it to six seconds when a dramatic incident brought out the safety car on lap 43, with 26 laps to go.
Nico Hulkenberg's Force India suffered a total front wing failure on the main straight, smashing into the barriers and leaving carbon-fibre debris all over the braking area for Turn One.
Many drivers behind the top four chose to take advantage of the safety car period to switch to the grippier soft tyre and, crucially, at the head of them was Ricciardo in fifth at the restart, with exactly 20 laps to go.
The Australian got a better exit from the final corner than Hamilton and as the world champion defended to the inside, Ricciardo went for the outside.
Hamilton locked up on the dirty inside line and slid into the side of the Red Bull, breaking his front wing and damaging Ricciardo's bodywork.
After hanging on with the damaged part for a couple of laps, Hamilton bowed to the inevitable and pitted for a replacement. To make matters worse, he then he had to serve a drive-through penalty for causing the collision.
He rejoined in 12th place, saying over the radio: "I'm so sorry, guys. I'm really sorry."
His engineer Peter Bonnington told him to get his head down and chase some points, and Hamilton did so, passing the Saubers of Felipe Nasr and Marcus Ericsson, Jenson Button's McLaren and Romain Grosjean's Lotus to take sixth place and eight points that could be crucial in the title fight in the second half of the season.
Raikkonen lost second place when his engine suffered a hybrid system failure, dropping him down the field and eventually into retirement.
Full race results
Emergency services were called just before 07:30 to an empty detached bungalow that was being renovated in Forthview Road.
Firefighters were still at the scene four hours later, and a cordon was in place. The fire, which was in the roof, has been put out.
A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokeswoman said there was "extensive damage to the property".
Karen Hasson, 59, of Thorndale Park, has been given a combined probation and community service order.
She had previously pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter.
Samuel Carson, 91, died after a fire spread from Hasson's garage to his bungalow in September 2014.
Mr Carson's family said they were disappointed with the sentence, but "glad that this now brings closure to the terrible circumstances" of his death.
Downpatrick Crown Court heard that it was evident from an investigation by fire crews at the scene that Mr Carson "had tried to escape" from his ground floor bedroom, before he was "overcome by smoke".
Judge Piers Grant told Hasson he accepted that she started the fire without contemplating that it would result in the death of an extremely decent individual.
He also said he was satisfied that Hasson was a seriously troubled individual at the time the offences occurred.
The court heard that the defendant had been suffering from emotional and psychiatric problems for some time.
Hasson started the fire in the garage of the marital home from a lit cigarette on 1 September, 2014, following a row with her husband.
The judge described the two-year probation order with 100 hours of community service as "a merciful sentence".
He told the defendant: "I want to make it clear to you that you will not get a second chance."
Speaking after the sentencing, Det Sgt Ian Davis, from the PSNI's Serious Crime Branch, said: "The reckless act carried out by the defendant led to the needless death of a much loved father, grandfather and great grandfather.
"Police carried out a rigorous investigation and, in partnership with the PPS, gathered the evidence required to bring about this defendant's guilty plea.
"This was a tragic case and the thoughts of the investigation team are very much with Mr Carson's family today."
The £19m 350-seat Shakespeare North Playhouse is planned for Prescot, where the first Elizabethian indoor theatre outside of London was built.
It will be built alongside a new international university college focusing on Shakespearean drama.
Among the project's patrons are Vanessa Redgrave and Dame Helen Mirren.
The Shakespeare Trust hopes a combination of public finance and private donors will pay for the project.
See more updates on this and other stories on Merseyside Live.
Shakespearean scholar and trust member Prof Kathy Dacre said: "The plans are now submitted and it is very exciting."
She said it was also hoped that the project will help the regeneration of the Knowsley area, which was named one of the most deprived in England in 2015.
The theatre will be built based on designs for The Cockpit in Whitehall drawn by Inigo Jones in 1629.
The theatre's production season will run annually from October and include other performances by the local community, schools and touring companies.
It is hoped the new theatre will form part of a Shakespearean triangle linking Prescot with Stratford Upon Avon and The Globe in Bankside, London.
Merseyside's historic connection to Shakespeare involves a troupe of actors called Strange's Men, named after their sponsor Ferdinando Stanley, Lord Strange, the future Fifth Earl of Derby and patron of the bard.
The actors, who were the first to stage Shakespeare's Henry VI, in 1592 at the Rose Theatre in London, fled to Lord Strange's ancestral home at Knowsley Hall during an outbreak of the plague.
They performed in the Elizabethan mansion and later at a purpose-built theatre called The Playhouse in Prescot.
The plans for the new playhouse are due to be considered by Knowsley Council Planning committee.
Police closed off Culduthel Road near its junction with Hill Park for a time while they investigated the incident.
Emergency services were alerted to the cyclist at about 12:00.
He was taken to Raigmore Hospital where he died. Police Scotland said his next of kin had been contacted.
On Arney Bridge was written by the Irish painter T P Flanagan.
It recalls a time when courting couples would meet at the bridge on the old coach road between Enniskillen and Derrylin.
The poem was recently rediscovered and has been carved in stone to form a seat beside the riverbank.
The artist, who died in 2011, was renowned for his landscape paintings of Fermanagh, Sligo and Donegal.
T P Flanagan's works inspired his friend, the late poet Seamus Heaney.
He would often cycle the country lanes around Fermanagh and would have crossed the bridge which is thought to have been built in 1620.
Sean Cox, chairman of Cleenish Community Association, said T P Flanagan's poem captures the romanticism of the bridge and evokes days gone by.
"In the days before the telephone and TV, the bridge was a meeting place for local people who gathered to hear the news and meet up especially on weekends," he said.
"It was also a place where courting couples met for some peace and quiet and even to plan their future together.
"If future couples both young and old want to meet up again at this place they'll now have a seat to rest on and reflect on this specially inscribed poem."
The seat was unveiled by the artist's son Philip Flanagan who said his father would be impressed by the work.
"I think what would give him a lot of pleasure is the fact that his poem has been taken and translated into a work of art in its own entity."
On Arney Bridge, so some men say,
On Arney Bridge, where the winds are sweet,
There's noise of maidens' dancing feet;
There's tossing arms and flying hair
Flashing eyes and faces fair
There's moon-fire in the water
And haunting girlish laughter;
And sylph-like forms bend and sway,
Like reeds in the bud-tossing Winds of May.
On Arney Bridge, so some men say.
Poem courtesy of the Estate of T P Flanagan
Mr Flanagan added: "It'll be used and shared by the local community and maybe at some point some youngster will come along and be inspired and create something out of it, so there's a nice follow through and I think that would please him very much."
Emma Watson got another trophy for her collection, the British Style Award.
Model of the year went to Cara Delevingne, who was playing up for the cameras backstage with her sister Poppy and some of her model mates.
Victoria Beckham picked up the prize for Brand of the year for her fashion range.
Other celebrities who enjoyed the night out with the fashion crowd included Kylie Minogue, Rita Ora, Lana del Rey and even Jack Whitehall.
Kate Moss was at the awards as well, and enjoying a night off was Lewis Hamilton with girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger.
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Yonhap news agency quoted a South Korean official saying that Mr Kim's personal train departed on Wednesday. One report said he was accompanied by his son and possible heir Kim Jong-un.
He visited a school in China's Jilin province, teachers and students said.
North Korean and Chinese officials traditionally do not confirm Mr Kim's visits until his return to Pyongyang.
The reclusive leader, who rarely travels abroad, last visited China in May.
The visit comes amid renewed speculation about a successor to Kim Jong-il, who is believed to have suffered a stroke two years ago.
"Chairman Kim's special train has been confirmed to have left Manpo for China's Jilin around midnight Wednesday," an unnamed South Korean official told Yonhap news agency.
Teachers and a student at Yuwen Middle School in Jilin separately told the media that Mr Kim paid a 20-minute visit to their school on Thursday morning.
His father, Kim Il-sung, reportedly attended the school between 1927 and 1930.
It is not yet clear how long Mr Kim will remain in China or what the main purpose of his visit might be.
Trade could be a motive for the trip, says the BBC's John Sudworth in South Korea's capital, Seoul.
North Korea relies on aid and trade from China to prop up its tottering state-run economy.
But the succession to the ailing Mr Kim could be on the agenda, says our correspondent.
Mr Kim is reported to have had a stroke two years ago and is thought to be manoeuvring to make his third son, Kim Jong-un, his heir.
A major conference of the ruling party of North Korea is to be held in September, and some analysts expect some kind of succession-related announcement there.
One South Korean TV station cited a South Korean official as saying Kim Jong-un was with his father on the trip.
Another possible motive for the trip, say analysts, is discussion of North Korea's nuclear programme.
China has been making moves to resume the six-nation talks on disarming the North, after the sinking of a South Korean warship in March inflamed tensions between Pyongyang and Seoul. North Korea has been blamed for the sinking.
Meanwhile, former US President Jimmy Carter has spent the night in Pyongyang trying to secure the release of a US citizen detained by North Korea since January.
Aijalon Mahli Gomes was sentenced to eight years' hard labour for illegally entering North Korea.
There are reports that he could leave with Mr Carter some time on Thursday.
Faisal Mekdad said there was a schism between Western security officials and politicians who are pressing President Bashar al-Assad to step down.
The growth of jihadist groups among rebels fighting President Assad has caused international concern.
The Syrian opposition says it has "a real dilemma" over the alleged links.
Khaled Saleh, spokesman for the Syrian National Coalition, told the BBC that if the reports of European intelligence contacts with Damascus were true, "it would show a clear contradiction between the words and actions of the Friends of Syria group" who had "clearly identified the Assad regime as a source of terrorism in the region".
The UK government denied allegations its intelligence officials had been involved in such co-operation.
Syrian government officials are due to attend peace talks in Geneva next week.
However, the National Coalition has still not decided whether or not to take part.
Correspondents say the growing disarray of the opposition is frustrating the West and bolstering the confidence of the Syrian government.
In a recent interview, Mr Mekdad told BBC Newsnight that many Western governments had finally understood that there was no alternative to the leadership of President Assad.
Asked if Western intelligence agencies - including British intelligence - had recently visited Damascus, he said: "I will not specify but many of them have visited Damascus, yes."
By Lyse DoucetChief international correspondent
There is common concern between the West and Syria about the threat posed by Islamist groups and the growing number of foreign fighters from Europe.
What is not clear is how far the West is prepared to make common cause with a regime it still holds responsible for this brutal war.
Damascus has long maintained the West would eventually come round to accepting its narrative that this conflict is a battle against terrorism.
Western politicians still insist President Assad must eventually step down.
But informed sources say there have been meetings between Western and Syrian intelligence officials including Security Chief General Ali Mamluk.
It is hard to confirm the extent of contacts. Foreign nationals detained in Syria would have been on the agenda but there is said to have been broader discussion of security threats.
As this devastating war drags on, there is growing anxiety in many capitals over how to bring it to an end.
As one Western official put it: "This is a losing situation for absolutely everyone."
On the subject of whether Syria was getting more requests from Western countries to have their diplomats return to Damascus, he added: "Yes, there are many countries who are approaching us.
"Of course some are waiting for Geneva, some are saying we are exploring the possibilities, some are saying we want to co-operate on security measures because those terrorists they are sending from Western Europe into Turkey, into Syria, have become a real threat to them."
The BBC's chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet said informed sources had confirmed meetings between Western and Syrian intelligence officials.
On Tuesday, French President Francois Hollande told a press conference in Paris that 700 French nationals had joined the ranks of foreigners fighting in Syria.
The growing numbers of foreign Islamist fighters from Europe means there are common concerns, our correspondent says, but it is not clear how far the West is prepared to make common cause with a regime it holds responsible for the Syrian civil war.
An official from the National Coalition recently said the US and Britain had warned they would rethink their support if the group failed to join the peace talks.
Meanwhile, a donor conference to raise funds for the humanitarian crisis in Syria is taking place in Kuwait City on Wednesday.
Kuwait announced a pledge of $500m (£304m) towards efforts to combat the crisis, while the US promised $380m (£231m) in new contributions.
The UN says it is asking for $6.5bn (£4bn) over the coming year for Syria, its biggest ever funding request for a single crisis.
It is believed that more than nine million Syrians have been displaced by the uprising that began nearly three years ago.
Refugee camps outside Syria's borders are barely coping and reports from some besieged communities inside the country have warned of imminent starvation.
The UN says more than 100,000 people have died since the uprising began.
Edwin Mee, 45, of Tavistock Road, Croydon, allegedly targeted 11 victims aged 15 to 25 when he was a recruitment sergeant in Croydon and Cheam.
He has denied 17 counts of sexual assault, three rapes and one count of assault by penetration, alleged to have occurred between 2010 and 2011.
Sgt Mee's trial is expected to begin at Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday.
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Baidu's fourth quarter revenue was 14.05bn yuan ($2.26bn; £1.5bn), missing market forecasts of 14.12bn yuan.
The tech giant also forecast revenue for the current quarter well below analyst expectations.
The revenue miss was due to more users switching from PCs to mobile devices.
That results in less space for different forms of online advertising for the company.
Search revenue from mobile surpassed that from PCs for the first time in December, said chief executive Robin Li in a statement on Wednesday.
"For the upcoming quarter, our guidance reflects the combined impact of both the late timing of Chinese New Year this year and mobile's growing traffic contribution, which monetises at a rate lower than that of PC," he said.
"We expect mobile's monetisation rate to trend up throughout the year."
The company, which is often referred to as China's Google, expects revenue of up to $13.07bn yuan in the January to March period, compared to a market forecast of 13.62bn yuan.
Baidu has been facing stiff competition in the mobile space from the likes of e-commerce giants Alibaba and Tencent, while rivals Qihoo 360 and Sogou are growing fast in online search.
But the market leader has been investing heavily in marketing and content to keep up with rivals on mobile devices.
"2015 will be an important year for Baidu as we execute on our plan and invest for the next phase of mobile growth," Mr Li added.
Tristram Wallace, 36, died after an attack in Arden Street on Monday.
Warwickshire Police said a post-mortem examination had taken place, but further tests were required.
Peter Mallon, 41, and 39-year-old Tony Jelf, both of no fixed address, were charged with murder on Thursday, officers said, along with Neil Potter, 36, from Clopton Road.
They were remanded in custody at Leamington Magistrates Court on Friday.
Two women also appeared in court charged with theft and attempted theft.
Both players will stay with the League One side strugglers until the end of the season.
Williams, 19, made his Liverpool debut as a substitute in the League Cup game with Middlesbrough earlier this season.
Burke, 21, made three appearances on loan with Shrewsbury last season, but has yet to break into Villa's senior side.
Everton winger Aaron Lennon is currently receiving treatment for a stress-related illness after being detained under the Mental Health Act.
Last year, 62 current and 98 former players requested support from the PFA player welfare department.
"That is growing year on year," said PFA head of welfare Michael Bennett.
"Key for me is making our members aware of what is in place, and the more we raise awareness the more people will use the service.
"We are telling them it's OK to talk and there is plenty in place to support them when they do come forward."
Despite being taken to hospital for assessment, Lennon, 30, is not suffering from a long-standing mental health issue and is expected to make a full recovery in the short term, BBC Sport understands.
Bennett said former players and high-profile figures such as Prince Harry talking about their experience of mental health issues "brings the taboo down" and helps to change the "male mindset that it is seen as a weakness".
Former England captain Rio Ferdinand discussed his experience of grief after losing his wife Rebecca to cancer in a recent BBC documentary, while former Burnley defender and ex-PFA chairman Clarke Carlisle has spoken out about depression and suicide in professional sport.
"We are trying to change that mindset because if you were to twist an ankle or pull a hamstring - because you can physically see it - you can treat it," added Bennett.
"But because mental illness is something you can't see it is not viewed the same."
The PFA's player welfare department was set up in 2012 and offers a range of support options, including a 24-hour phoneline and access to a psychiatrist.
PM George Papandreou is to stand down once the government is formed but his replacement has not yet been named.
The new leadership will be tasked with ratifying a vital EU bailout package.
Greece is under huge international pressure to resolve its political crisis, in order to calm the global markets and protect the eurozone.
An agreement on an interim leader had been expected on Monday but by Tuesday morning, there was still no announcement from the negotiations between Mr Papandreou and opposition leader Antonis Samaras, of the New Democracy party.
An emergency cabinet session chaired by Mr Papandreou on Tuesday ended still without an announcement.
"Today is the last chance for the two main parties," daily newspaper Nea wrote in an editorial on Tuesday.
"They have to come up with a government strong enough to take the country out of the moving sand of political impasse that leaves us defenceless, at the mercy of the crisis. Time is up."
"A national unity government, right now," the daily newspaper Ethnos wrote on its front page, adding: "The country and the society cannot endure any more."
Greece must approve the EU bailout if it is to avoid going bankrupt by the end of the year. But the deal demands stringent austerity measures and spending cuts which have proved hugely unpopular with many Greeks.
By Mark LowenBBC News, Athens
The waiting game continues in Greece as the name of the next prime minister remains unknown.
Lucas Papademos, a former vice president of the European Central Bank, is the front runner. He helped Greece move from drachma to euro, a process he would hope will not have to be reversed as the debt crisis worsens.
And though the political turmoil is not over, MPs have broadly welcomed the coalition deal. The new government will be faced with a deeply disillusioned population and a crisis which threatens the whole eurozone.
The concern is that Greece's long-term financial prospects remain bleak. But this country is taking things day-by-day for now. It is too hard, perhaps too dangerous, to peer too far into the future.
Mr Papandreou agreed to stand down on Sunday, after days of upheaval caused by his call - now revoked - for a referendum on accepting the bailout.
Since then, he had been trying to build a national unity government to replace his Pasok party administration. However, Mr Samaras was refusing to negotiate unless his rival resigned.
The first steps in forming the new government were finally announced after late-night talks on Sunday between the two men, hosted by President Karolos Papoulias.
A Greek government spokesman said a new administration would be sworn in and a confidence vote held within a week, if all went well.
Greece's new political roadmap envisages elections being held - possibly on 19 February - once the new government has approved an EU bailout package.
Government figures spent Monday locked in discussions on the framework of the interim authority and their roles within it.
Lucas Papademos, a former vice president of the European Central Bank (ECB), is widely seen as the frontrunner to become interim prime minister, while Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos - for a time considered to be a candidate - is expected to remain at the finance ministry.
The BBC's Mark Lowen in Athens says it is believed Mr Papademos expressed doubts that an interim administration could be effective until proposed elections in February.
It appears he wants to stay in power longer if chosen, he adds.
Our correspondent says there will be immense pressure on whoever takes over, while European leaders will be hoping that person will work with them in trying to contain the country's debt crisis and prevent it from spreading further across the eurozone.
Eurozone finance ministers held talks in Brussels on Monday, adding to the pressure on Greece to find an early solution to the political deadlock.
Mr Venizelos also attended the talks, telling reporters that the move towards a unity government was "proof of our commitment and of our national capacity to implement the programme and to reconstruct our country".
But eurozone finance ministers have asked for written assurances from Mr Papandreou and Mr Samaras that they are committed to passing the rescue package.
Eurozone chief Jean-Claude Juncker said he was "quite confident that now the situation in Greece is developing in the right direction" but that it "should have been done months ago".
The EU says no more of the funds which have been promised to Greece will be released until the new bailout deal has been approved.
The hard-fought bailout deal for Greece agreed by the EU last month gives the government 130bn euros (£111bn; $178bn) and imposes a 50% write-off on private holders of Greek debts, in return for deeply unpopular austerity measures.
But Mr Papandreou faced the wrath of fellow EU leaders when he announced that he would put the deal to the people of Greece in a referendum
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The idea was dropped days later, but not without sparking a deeper financial crisis and triggering the political crisis which led to the confidence vote last Friday.
Mr Papandreou narrowly won that vote, but had been under continuing pressure to resign amid chaos over the debt crisis.
The possibility of Greece leaving the euro has also been raised by EU leaders, if Athens fails to resolve its political and financial problems.
There are fears that the crisis could spread to bigger eurozone countries like Italy.
Archaeologists from the Basque region hope to build a working version of the ship after they complete a similar project in Spain.
Wood from the region was used to build the vessel, which was found buried on the banks of the Usk 15 years ago.
Friends of Newport the Ship said a replica would be "wonderful".
Archaeologists from the Basque heritage body Albaola are already working to restore a 16th Century whaling ship called the San Juan.
Members of the Friends of the Newport Ship (FONS) have travelled to the Basque region to discuss the possibility of a replica of their ship being built.
FONS chairman Phil Cox said: "They've always had an interest because we have the absolute designs for the ship, we have the physical ship, we have the model here in one-tenth scale.
"They can recreate that almost exactly."
Mr Cox said there was a strong link between the Basque country and the ship, and funding for a replica could come from the authorities in the region and the Spanish government.
"Our ship was Basque-built, built somewhere on the northern coast of Spain in the Basque Country," he said.
"The timbers were cut from the forests probably behind Bilbao and brought long to somewhere near San Sebastian for the ship to be built, to be in service by 1451 - and only in 1451 was Columbus born."
The Newport Medieval ship is the most complete example of a 15th Century clinker-built merchant vessel ever discovered in the UK.
It was found during building work for the Riverfront Theatre in 2002.
Its timbers are currently being refurbished, with the hope of eventually putting it on display in a museum in Newport.
That's the conclusion of an inquiry into the failure on 16 October 2016.
The report outlines failings during the development process and makes several recommendations ahead of a rover mission to Mars set for launch in 2020.
That mission will require more testing, improvements to software and more outside oversight of design choices.
The Schiaparelli module was intended to test the European Space Agency's (Esa) capability for atmospheric entry, descent and - finally - landing on the surface of Mars.
The report confirms some details already released in the preliminary findings. For example, during the descent - and after the parachute had been deployed - a component called the inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensed rotational accelerations in the probe that were larger than expected.
This led to the IMU data becoming "saturated". When this information was integrated by the onboard guidance, navigation and control (GNC) software, the probe erroneously updated where it thought it was in the descent.
The mistaken measurement was propagated forward, and at one point the GNC software calculated a negative altitude for the probe - it thought that Schiaparelli was several metres below the surface of Mars, even though it was still falling.
The descent thrusters turned off and the test module was destroyed as it slammed into the ground in Mars' Meridiani Plain at a velocity of about 150 m/s. But the authors believe the craft could still have landed safely after the wrong handling of the IMU data if other checks and balances had been in place.
The report rules out a fault with the IMU itself and suggests a number of other root causes leading to the failure. These include:
In order to ensure that lessons are learned before a joint Esa-Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) rover is sent to land on Mars, the inquiry panel made several recommendations.
The report authors catalogue a series of necessary upgrades to onboard software, as well as suggesting improvements to the modelling of parachute dynamics.
They also recommended a more stringent approach - including better quality control - during the procurement of equipment from suppliers.
Crucially, the inquiry also recommends greater outside oversight of the design process for the upcoming rover mission by partner organisations with specific competencies.
These suggested partners include Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) - which has already overseen the successful landing of several robotic missions on Mars.
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The North American leg of their 360 tour had been due to start on 3 June in Salt Lake City but Bono had to undergo surgery in May.
New dates begin in May 2011 in Denver and end on 23 July in Minneapolis.
In a video message on U2's website, Bono apologised and said: "Thank you for standing by us."
Their 2010 European tour will begin as scheduled next month in Turin.
Bono said he was "feeling strong, feeling confident".
'Serious injury'
He added: "I'm going to be fighting fit next summer in the US. Looking forward to this summer in Europe. I actually wanted to apologise for the trouble that this injury has put you all through.
"Those of you who bought tickets, organised hotels, travel plans, it's a very big deal. People go to a lot of trouble to get U2 tickets and we don't take that for granted."
He thanked fans for "standing by us in our hour of need" and said the injury "was not a lot of fun for me",
"The injury was quite serious," he said.
"It happened the day after my birthday and I was staring at the ceiling, which has some advantages - we got some great songs."
The new dates have been published on the band's website.
Manager Paul McGuinness said the band were delighted the dates had been rescheduled in the same venues as originally planned and thanked fans.
"They're the best and the band wants to get back to where they belong - surrounded by their audience," he added.
U2 also pulled out of Glastonbury Festival because of Bono's injury.
The luxury car maker sold 4,063 cars, up 12% on last year, and marking the fifth consecutive year of record sales.
Sales in the US increased by almost a third, by 40% in Europe and in the Middle East by 20%, the firm said.
Its Wraith model and strong orders for its new Ghost Series II helped drive the strong performance.
The firm said it sold more cars worth more than €200,000 (£157,000) than any of its rivals, with demand for bespoke customisation remaining high.
"A record number of customers spent personal one-on-one time with Rolls-Royce's Bespoke design consultants commissioning their personalised vehicles," it said.
Chief executive Torsten Muller-Otvos told the BBC's Today programme that about 80% of its buyers were entrepreneurs and business owners, with the remainder celebrities.
He said the firm's strong performance was helped by its emphasis on ensuring a "balanced global sales picture", meaning overall demand remained strong.
He also said the firm was "mulling" creating a four-wheel drive SUV vehicle.
The company, which is owned by Germany's BMW and based in West Sussex, said it had created 200 new permanent jobs over the past 18 months to meet the strong demand, employing more than 1,500 people.
The vote in favour of change will allow the SNP's National Executive Committee (NEC) to "direct" local branches to introduce gender balance.
An amendment set out to reject the plan was defeated.
Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, who is the party's national women's officer, said she welcomed the result.
She added: "Women represent 52% of the population in Scotland - yet for too long have been massively underrepresented in Scottish public life. And while the SNP has made some progress in our selection of candidates for the General Election, it was always clear that more action needed to be taken.
"Women are bearing the brunt of the Tory government's austerity cuts, suffer from the effects of a gender pay gap and a clear lack of representation.
"In 21st Century Scotland this is simply unacceptable and shows exactly why we need Scotland's women to be fully represented in our national parliament."
The new NEC powers will be used ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections in May 2016.
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Mobile phone footage captured Calista, a female rescue llama, fleeing the field in Littleborough after being scared by a dog on Monday evening.
The terrified creature was then spotted running amok in the town's streets.
Calista was eventually tracked down by her owner near Hollingworth Lake several hours later, before being led back home.
That's how President Barack Obama introduced comedian and talk show host, Ellen DeGeneres, before awarding her the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday.
He said her bravery in coming out as gay helped "push our country in the direction of justice".
DeGeneres came out in 1997 at a time when gay rights had not made such great strides.
Civil partners were not eligible for benefits, same-sex marriage was illegal and sodomy laws were in place in several states.
So what did DeGeneres do? What cultural and political events have happened to change American attitudes towards the gay community?
Ms DeGeneres came out in 1997 on her self-titled series "Ellen", aired on ABC in an episode entitled The Puppy Show.
The move generated uproar, causing advertisers like US department store JCPenney and car manufacturer Chrysler to turn down advertising slots on the programme. Ms DeGeneres even received a death threat.
Months later, ABC put a parental advisory on the show after a kiss between two female characters was shown on air. The following year the show was cancelled after running for five seasons.
A Massachusetts court ruled gay marriage was legal in the Goodridge vs Department of Public Health court case. It was the first decision by a US court which found same-sex couples had the right to wed.
Julie and Hillary Goodridge who acted as lead plaintiffs in the case, were speedily married, along with several other couples.
The same day President George W Bush repeated his call to Congress to amend the US Constitution defining marriage "as a union of a man and a woman".
The hit Hollywood film, Brokeback Mountain, was released, breaking major taboos by telling the story of two male lovers in the American West.
Critics hailed the film which was nominated for eight Golden Globe awards, winning three.
But some critics accused the Oscars of homophobia when the film lost out to Crash. Brokeback Mountain did win three Academy Awards, including one for director Ang Lee.
Some film experts suggested the success of Brokeback Mountain was due to its broad appeal - instead of focusing on the fight for gay rights, the story was more human, centring around two lovers.
A ban on openly gay men and lesbians serving in the military, first introduced in 1993, was repealed under President Obama.
The act meant service members could reveal they were gay without fear of investigation or being discharged.
It also allowed service members who had been previously discharged under the ban to re-enlist.
The US Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage was a legal right across the United States.
The decision meant that the 14 states with bans on same-sex marriage were no longer be able to enforce them.
Couples lined up in courthouses minutes after the ruling to tie the knot. President Obama said the decision was a "victory for America".
"When all Americans are treated as equal, we are all more free " he said.
Gary Hoy, who lived in Kincora, said the memories would always be there but he would like to see the building gone.
Survivor Clint Massey said demolishing the building would bring a kind of closure for victims like him.
Margaret McGuckian, of pressure group SAVIA, said they hoped to speak to the home's owners about the next step.
Three senior care staff at Kincora were jailed in 1981 for abusing 11 boys.
At least 29 boys were abused at the home between the late 1950s and the early 1980s.
One of the men who was later convicted, William McGrath, is believed to have been an MI5 agent.
Allegations remain that some members of the British intelligence services knew of the abuse and helped to cover it up.
Mr Massey said the building was "serving no purpose".
"While this is here, this building stands for one thing only - not happy memories at all. Once it's gone, it's a closure of sorts," he said.
Ms McGuickan said the victims "grieve every night" about the abuse they suffered in the home.
"What we're hoping [is] that we enter into consultations, and perhaps this building will be bought over, razed to the ground and maybe something could be set up in its place far away from here for the victims," she said.
There have been calls for the home to be included in a Westminster led inquiry into abuse at state run institutions.
The government declined to do so, saying child protection was a devolved matter and Kincora was covered by the work of the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry led by retired judge Sir Anthony Hart.
Critics say that inquiry doesn't have the power to compel witnesses and won't get at the truth of alleged security service involvement. The government said it would ensure the sharing of information.
Spaces at the 3,600-space park, in Stanford West, Kent, will be available from next summer in a bid to reduce congestion on the M20.
During Operation Stack, which was in force 32 times last summer, the motorway was turned into an HGV park for up to 5,000 lorries.
Critics have accused the government of being "too hasty" in its plans.
Stack was activated last year when cross-Channel services were disrupted by the Calais migrant crisis and French ferry worker strikes.
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It was blamed for widespread congestion on the motorway and in the surrounding area - sparking concerns for the local economy and hauliers' income.
Ministers previously said it would provide up to £250m for a permanent lorry area.
In June, the contract to build the site was awarded to Balfour Beatty.
Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) said it was "dismayed" at the decision to build the lorry park at Sanford.
CPRE Kent tweeted: "Spending £250m on lorry park the size of Disneyland in Kent countryside is not the solution to Operation Stack - dismayed at today's decision."
Last month the Transport Select Committee listed possible alternatives, including upgrading the M20, the A2/M2, increasing the capacity of cross-Channel services, or building a network of smaller lorry parks.
During a public consultation, two thirds of those who took part said Stanford West should be the preferred site over the alternative - north of junction 11 at Westenhanger.
New entry and exit slip roads will be built on the eastbound carriageway of the M20, providing direct access to the lorry park, the Department for Transport said.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin, said: "Operation Stack is only ever used as a last resort but we recognise the impact it has on roads in Kent, and are determined to deliver an alternative solution.
"The new lorry area by the M20 will deliver better journeys for drivers and will not only support the region's economy but also businesses as far away as Scotland that rely on the M20 to access the Port of Dover and the Channel Tunnel."
3,600
lorries can use the proposed park
Ministers have pledged £250m
In summer 2015 Operation Stack was implemented 32 times
The cost to the Kent economy each day was estimated to have been £1.45m
Operation Stack was first introduced as a temporary measure in 1988
Matthew Balfour, the Kent County Council cabinet member for environment and transport said: "For years we have argued that a solution to the problem of Operation Stack - blighting not only Kent's residents and businesses but much of the UK - needs to be considered.
"Last year's Stack had an estimated cost to the Kent and Medway economy of around £1.45 million a day and across the country it was estimated to be about £250 million a day."
The Freight Transport Association has welcomed the announcement, saying the lorry park will "end the misery for thousands of residents and businesses".
Natalie Chapman, from the association, said: "However, the design of the lorry site is crucial to ensure that trucks can be quickly moved to the port and Eurotunnel as soon as capacity is available.
"It is important that the lorry park doesn't become out of sight, out of mind. We still need to tackle the causes of Operation Stack."
Finding comparable international health data is not straightforward. With devolved administrations as well as Westminster running health there are added complications. But the Economist Intelligence Unit has had a go at putting the NHS in a global context.
The EIU has gathered statistics from the OECD (the group of wealthier economies), some of which admittedly are for no later than 2012. The analysis looks at the UK performance, bringing together the service in England and the NHS in the devolved administrations.
The report says that rather less per head is spent on health than in many other leading economies.
The UK is in the lower half of a league table of 30 nations for health staffing. In 2012, the UK had 2.8 doctors and 8.2 nurses per 10,000 people, compared with averages across the OECD of 3.2 and 8.9, respectively.
The EIU argues that the starkest differences are apparent when it comes to physical resources ,with the UK sitting near the bottom of the OECD league table. The UK has just 2.8 hospital beds per 1,000 people against an OECD average of 4.8. For equipment such as CT and MRI scanners, availability is less than half the average.
The report argues that the main political parties are on the right lines in calling for more NHS funding above the rate of inflation. The scale of the immediate financial challenge was apparent again today in a document prepared by NHS Providers, which represents health trusts in England, and made public by Labour. The paper, based on a survey of members, shows that two-thirds expect to be in deficit over this financial year, and to the tune of more than £750 million in total - three times higher than the figure in 2014/15.
But the EIU analysis also concludes that the NHS is relatively cost-effective compared to other health systems. It says administrative costs are low. Being a centralised system rather than one reliant on competing healthcare insurers helps contain spending, as does the fact that there is no need to organise payments by patients.
As regards outcomes, the report suggests that NHS performance is "mediocre", though this may have something to do with lower levels of resourcing.
The UK's record on cancer survival rates is said to be "patchy". But the NHS does better on international comparisons for cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
As has been noted by the Commonwealth Fund and others, the NHS scores highly against international peers on equal access to healthcare. The EIU report concludes that the gap between the care available to low income groups and the wealthiest is smaller than in most advanced economies.
All in all, this is an intriguing contribution to the often vexed debate about the future of the NHS.
We spend less on health than many of our peers. There seems to be a consensus that more money needs to be invested in the NHS even after ambitious efficiency savings. But finding that cash in what's set to be a tough spending review later this year will be no easy matter for whoever forms the next Government.
This issue includes NHS funding, GP access and social care, particularly of older people.
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Brazilian striker Vagner Love fired Monaco ahead, before Gaetan Charbonnier turned in a cross to equalise.
Love restored Monaco's lead when he pounced on an error but Diego's late finish earned Reims a point.
PSG, who are 22 points ahead of second-place Monaco, are at bottom-club Troyes on Sunday.
If Laurent Blanc's side win they will move 25 points clear with just 24 left to play for in the remaining eight games.
Greg Gianforte was accused of attacking a journalist from the UK's Guardian newspaper a day before his election.
The congressman said he was making a $50,000 (£38,000) donation to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
The Guardian said the apology and donation was "part of an agreement that settles any potential civil claims".
A letter sent by Mr Gianforte to journalist Ben Jacobs offered a "sincere apology".
"My physical response to your legitimate question was unprofessional, unacceptable and unlawful," it said.
Mr Gianforte, who won the election, is still facing a criminal charge of misdemeanour assault, for which the maximum penalty is a $500 fine and a six-month jail term.
He "grabbed Jacobs by the neck with both hands and slammed him into the ground" after the reporter persisted in trying to question him about healthcare policy, another reporter from Fox News, who witnessed the confrontation, said.
"I watched in disbelief as Gianforte then began punching the reporter. As Gianforte moved on top of Jacobs, he began yelling something to the effect of, 'I'm sick and tired of this!'" Alicia Acuna said.
Mr Jacob's glasses were broken during the incident.
Mr Gianforte initially claimed Mr Jacobs had grabbed his wrist, pulling them both to the ground. His spokesperson called it "aggressive behaviour from a liberal journalist".
But in his formal apology to Mr Jacobs on Wednesday, he said: "Notwithstanding anyone's statements to the contrary, you did not initiate any physical contact with me, and I had no right to assault you. I am sorry for what I did and the unwanted notoriety this has created for you.
"I take full responsibility," he added.
The apology also detailed the donation to the CPJ, "in the hope that perhaps some good can come of these events".
The CPJ is an independent non-profit group that promotes press freedom globally.
In a tweet, the group said it had accepted the donation for what it called Mr Gianforte's "unacceptable behaviour toward a journalist just doing his job".
In the Guardian, Mr Jacobs said he had accepted the apology.
The newspaper had previously covered Mr Jacob's acquisition of a new pair of glasses from a London optician - noting that he donated the pair broken in the clash to Washington DC's press museum, the Newseum.
Would he score points? Would he make the podium? Would he - whisper it - go out and win the thing?
Whatever was swirling in his mind before the race in his home city of Sao Paulo, the very last thing he would have wanted was a retirement - yet that is exactly what he got.
But in a weird and wonderful way, that was perhaps the best thing that could have happened, because what followed was one of the most heart-warming sights ever witnessed in this usually hard-headed and ruthless sport.
On lap 48 of 71, Massa's Williams crashed on the pit straight and retired on the spot. Crestfallen, the Brazilian climbed from his broken car to be greeted by a wall of applause and cheering from the home crowd.
He broke down in tears as he walked back to the pits draped in the Brazilian flag - cheers ringing in his ears throughout - and then members of other teams, including Mercedes and his old employers Ferrari, walked out of their garages and gave him a guard of honour.
Then came an embrace from his wife and young son Felipe Jr, and the tears came anew.
Massa will officially retire from F1 after next weekend's season-finale in Abu Dhabi, but his goodbye to the sport has already happened.
Nothing will top Interlagos.
Rewind to 2002 and, to be blunt, there was not a great deal to excite your average fan when presented with a new 20-year-old F1 driver named Felipe Massa.
A former Italian and European Formula Renault champion, and the reigning Euro Formula 3000 champion, Massa was nevertheless a largely unknown quantity when he was handed a Sauber drive after impressing in a test session at Mugello, Italy.
While team owner Peter Sauber was in no doubt about Massa's "remarkable" potential, to outside observers he appeared just another erratic F1 rookie. Quick, yes, but ragged. Sauber even sat him out of a race late in the season after he incurred the wrath of the FIA for a wild move on Pedro de la Rosa at the Italian Grand Prix.
When Peter Sauber shuffled him out of the team to spend 2003 testing with engine supplier Ferrari, some undoubtedly presumed that was the end of Massa in F1.
How wrong they were.
Re-signed by Sauber for 2004, Massa's career began to flourish. He proved more than a match for the highly-rated Giancarlo Fisichella in that first season, and then the following year he outscored his new team-mate - 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve, no less.
And then came the defining moment of his career. A call from Ferrari. They wanted him as one of their drivers for 2006. His team-mate? Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher.
Opportunities and challenges do not come much bigger.
Eight seasons followed as a Ferrari driver, delivering 11 wins and 36 podium finishes, yet the affection that those inside and outside the sport grew to feel for the Brazilian in this period was never going to defined by numbers.
It was instead shaped by three of the most famous moments in recent F1 history - two extraordinary near misses and one infamous radio instruction.
The story of the final corner, of the final lap of the final race of the 2008 F1 season has been told ad nauseam, so let's be brief here and focus on its impact.
For starters, 2008 was never meant to be about Felipe Massa. His Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen was the reigning champion and it was to him that the sport was looking when assessing Ferrari's chances that season.
Yet Raikkonen's title defence quickly faltered, and instead it was Massa who bubbled to the surface.
He was, of course, a race winner by this point, picking up two victories in 2006 - including a memorable home win in Brazil - and three in 2007. But 2008 elevated him to another league.
By the final race in Brazil he and Lewis Hamilton were tied on five race wins each but the Briton had a seven-point lead in the standings. To take the title, Massa had to win and hope Hamilton finished sixth or lower.
Under enormous pressure, Massa did exactly what was required, and with Hamilton down in precisely sixth place as he crossed the finish line, Massa, his family and the Brazilian nation celebrated wildly for a few glorious seconds only to then face the devastating realisation that Hamilton had sneaked fifth place in the final metres.
The outpouring of sympathy was immediate - and when Massa took to the podium just minutes later, tears in his eyes and beating his chest, his place in the affections of all but the most flint-hearted of F1 fans was secure.
Nine months later and 6,000 miles away, Massa experienced misfortune of another magnitude entirely when he was lucky to survive a freak accident in qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix.
With that year's Ferrari having fallen behind its rivals, a world championship challenge was a distant dream for Massa and he was instead fighting more often than not at the blunt end of the top 10.
But his frustrating 2009 season was about to come to an abrupt halt.
During the second segment of qualifying at the Hungaroring, a suspension spring from the Brawn car of fellow Brazilian Rubens Barrichello broke free and bounced down the track.
Massa collided with the 800-gram spring while travelling at 162mph. It hit him an inch above the eye, fracturing his skull and causing a brain concussion. The F1 world held its breath, fearing the worst.
He underwent surgery after being taken to an intensive care unit in Budapest, and mercifully made a swift recovery.
There's little room for sentiment in F1, but even by its usual standards the events of 25 July 2010 seemed incredibly harsh.
It was the one-year anniversary of his Hungaroring accident and for the first time since that day Massa had the chance to win a race as he led the German Grand Prix from Ferrari team-mate Fernando Alonso.
But then came a fateful call from the pit wall, a ham-fisted coded message designed to circumvent the ban on team orders - but its true meaning came through loud and clear.
"OK, so, Fernando is faster than you," came the message from Massa's race engineer Rob Smedley. "Can you confirm you understood that message?"
He did. And he duly moved over to aid his team-mate's title chances.
"Sorry, mate," Smedley added, helplessly.
As in Brazil 2008, Massa took the setback stoically and with dignity. The anger was instead vented, long and loud, on his behalf by pundits and fans, and for a time Ferrari's name was dirt.
Massa was the moral victor for many that day - and amid all the outrage his army of admirers grew that little bit larger.
"It's a very sad, emotional day," said Williams deputy team principal Claire Williams after Massa announced his intention to retire in early September.
"He's what we love at Williams - a true gentleman. We were so lucky he honoured us to come and drive for us."
Ultimately, however, Massa's three seasons at Williams will stand as the epilogue to his career, just as the three at Sauber were the foreword.
When history remembers Massa's time in F1, it will be for those 11 wins in Ferrari red, for the day he nearly won the world title, for the day he was robbed of an emotional victory, and for the day he nearly died.
And most will also remember him as one of F1's good guys, a family man with a ready smile and easy-going nature seemingly unaffected by his fame and success.
One man who would vouch for all of that is Massa's long-term race engineer and good friend Smedley, who followed the Brazilian to Williams in 2014 and has shared in his highs and lows.
Asked about Massa's recent Interlagos send-off, he said: "To see all of that, just to see the amount of love for him, was incredible.
"Mercedes is a team he's never had anything to do with, or been near, and all their guys came out and showed him so much love.
"All the Ferrari guys came out because he's so loved down there, but it was still quite incredible.
"He's done such a great job in F1, and such a great job for his country.
"We're all just really, really proud of him."
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His report comes after a loss of £307,778 for 2016.
Morris describes the results as "satisfactory", with a profit forecast for 2017.
He will also outline hopes of staging city-based T20 cricket from 2020 to Welsh Assembly members on Thursday, 30 March, hours before the AGM.
The 2016 loss rises to £898,298 when depreciation of assets is taken into account.
Glamorgan will stage five days of international cricket in 2017, compared to just two in 2016, leading to the more optimistic financial forecast.
"The club has come a long way since the financial crisis of 2011... however, it has some way to go in improving its position further and providing the investment in the team, stadium and related infrastructure that is required," writes Morris in his report.
"It remains crucial that the club improves its underlying income through memberships, gate receipts and sponsorship which are still not at satisfactory levels to drive investment.
"Overall, the results for the year have been satisfactory, despite posting a loss. It was planned, and whilst finances remain tight, we look forward to a financially successful 2017."
Glamorgan benefitted from a multi-million pound debt write-off from Cardiff City Council, Allied Irish Bank and former chairman Paul Russell in 2015.
The county is hoping its SSE Swalec Stadium in Cardiff will be one of the host venues for the eight-team, city-based T20 competition which the England and Wales Cricket Board plans to launch in 2020.
Counties would stand to benefit by £1.3m a year, but would not retain their identities in the new centrally-controlled tournament.
Morris and chairman Barry O'Brien will try to gather political support for the Welsh cause at the Senedd, before addressing members at the AGM.
Off the field, the club's turnover on conference and dining facilities went up by 25% to £1.35m.
But a venture into concert staging with the Kaiser Chiefs and Simply Red failed to yield a profit.
The accusations came after she fell ill and was taken to hospital, meaning she missed her appearance on Saturday's X Factor and her contestant Andrea Faustini leaving the competition.
She was back for Sunday's final, but without her wedding ring.
Fans tweeted about apparent bruising on her face and scratches on her arms.
The X Factor announced on Saturday, that on doctor's advice, Mel B was told not to take part in the show.
Her husband Stephen Belafonte said that he found accusations that he had been "hitting" his wife, "disgusting and untrue".
So far there is no word from Mel B herself.
The couple married in secret in June 2007 in Las Vegas.
Ben Haenow was voted winner of this year's X Factor.
Tulisa Contostavlos replaced Mel B on Saturday's show.
On her return, the former Spice Girl thanked the medical staff who cared for her during her illness but didn't reveal what was wrong with her.
She said: "I really missed being here but thanks to all the doctors and nurses who took care of me and got me here tonight."
Asked by host Dermot O'Leary if she was feeling better, she replied: "Yes - ish."
There has been speculation that Mel B's chauffeur drove her to hospital after the singer suffered stomach pains on her way to X Factor rehearsals.
Her sister also posted a tweet asking for information.
She wrote: "This is ridiculous and cruel! Evil! How can NO one tell me and my family where my sister is and what is going on?
"Just a simple call to say she gonna be OK is all it takes!"
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Being at the mercy of the elements can be both exhilarating and medicinal as you feel the stress of the week melt away, but it can also be risky if you don't have the right equipment.
Take the worry out of walking by reading through our checklist of hiking advice.
To find out out more about the benefits of walking, and to find other styles to suit you, see the Get Inspired guide to walking. To get ready for your outdoor adventure, read on.
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Remember the mantra - Layer, layer, layer.
A thin layer of wool or man-made fibre next to the skin to 'wick' moisture away from your skin. On top of this a mid-weight or heavier layer for insulation. Wind protection should be a lightweight wind-shell. Always carry a good breathable waterproof jacket with hood and trousers. And don't forget a hat - even in the summer! Gloves - depends on the season, but keep them handy just in case.
Never buy new boots just before you start!
You need lightweight boots, trail walking shoes or fell running/walking shoes for the easy bits and slightly heavier, more supportive waterproof boots for the wet days.
If you can't use two sets of boots then go for the mid-weight boots and make sure you dry them thoroughly each night. Oh, and change your socks regularly - always keep a spare pair in your backpack.
It's essential to have good map-reading skills and to be able to navigate accurately with a compass.
If it's been a while since you did this then get out and practise. Handheld GPS devies are much cheaper now and are easy to use - but you do have to learn how to use them and also to practise. To use a GPS safely you need to apply normal hill navigation skills to the GPS or you could end up trying to walk directly up a cliff, over a cliff or across a river.
Smart phones work well in some areas and you can use the GPS apps with no problem - but remember there could be big sections of the walk with no signal so don't rely on your mobile or map apps.
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Carry a first aid kit and know how to use it. There is no point in taking a huge one. A few sensible essentials are:
It's a good idea to let someone know that you have gone on your hike, and tell them where you started the walk and where you intend to walk to.
Mobile phones work well for sections of the walk, but there are long areas without any signal. So do carry a phone but don't rely on it too much. A battery pack charger or a second phone saves you being out of battery when you really need to make a call.
Don't carry too much. Remember that weight is not your friend!
Always carry a compass, map, headlamp and multi-purpose knife, but leave anything heavy at home. And don't forget to bring some water to keep you hydrated and some snacks for energy.
If you are going on a long hike that could take more than a day, it might be a good idea to use a baggage carry services. Walking trails like the Pennine Way are used to ramblers and this kind of service is widely used. When you leave the B&B your overnight bags are delivered to your next stop which means that you walk each day just with a small pack.
Are you inspired to try walking? Or maybe you are a keen enthusiast already?
Get in touch and tell us your experience of the activity by tweeting us on @bbcgetinspired, visiting us on Facebook or email us on [email protected].
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Barry Dodson, 67, is alleged to have assaulted the girl, then aged 13, at Boston Castle in 1987.
Sheffield Crown Court heard she came forward after Mr Dodson became the town's mayor in June 2014.
Mr Dodson, of Cranworth Road, Rotherham, denies one charge of indecent assault.
In police interviews played to the jury, the woman said she wanted people to know "what sort of man he was."
The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told officers her "life had been ruined" and she "couldn't live with it any longer".
Mr Dobson stood down from the role following the allegations and also resigned from the Labour Party, which he has represented in Rotherham East since 2000.
The trial continues.
An analysis by experts at Imperial College London looked at rates for men and women aged 30-64 and over-65s.
The research, in the International Journal of Epidemiology, is thought to be the first to burrow down to look at individual electoral wards.
Heart experts said targeted interventions were needed.
The study looked at data from 1982 to 2006 across the almost 8,000 wards in England.
The places with the highest death rates were areas around Manchester and Liverpool, parts of Yorkshire, around Birmingham, and deprived boroughs of London.
Some - mainly in the north - were areas that were performing poorly in the 1980s, and have been doing well since but could not keep up with the best.
Others, spread across England, were doing averagely well - but had also fallen behind.
Deaths from cardiovascular disease (CVD) have more than halved across England overall.
However the rates for men and women aged 65 or older, the decline was smaller in the most deprived communities, which has meant that the gap between the richest and poorest areas is wider.
For men in that group, CVD deaths fell nearly five times more in the best performing 1% of wards than in the worst performing 1%.
For women, there was a 10-fold variation.
The researchers say the findings are important because the current poor economic situation and austerity measures are likely to disproportionately affect more deprived communities.
And they warn that the forthcoming devolution of public health responsibilities to local authorities might also put some communities at risk.
Dr Perviz Asaria, who worked on the study, said: "If people's jobs are less stable, they may be forced to change their diet, or drink and smoke more.
"So we need to be concerned about these issues if we are going to carry on bringing death rates down."
She added: "As public health gets taken up by local authorities, there's a danger that health budgets will have to compete with other services such as schools.
"It's essential that cardiovascular screening and prevention programmes don't get cut as a result."
Prof Majid Ezzati, who also worked on the research, said a major aim of the study was to find out what was being done to help people in different places and what could be done differently.
He said: "We know how to reduce cardiovascular mortality: we have to reduce major risk factors like smoking, and provide good health services that help both with prevention through high-quality GP services and with treatment.
"We need to focus on putting these into practice in places that are behind."
Mubeen Bhutta, policy manager at the British Heart Foundation, said: "The overall decline in heart disease death rates should be something to celebrate but, worryingly, that improvement has not benefited everyone equally.
"If we're going to make a proper job of tackling England's biggest killer, eradicating inequalities must be at the heart of the government's new cardiovascular disease strategy."
She added: "The communities that need help the most must not be forgotten, and targeted interventions in the poorest neighbourhoods will help address a problem which has dogged this country for decades."
Chris Coleman's side - top of Group B and unbeaten in eight qualifiers - need just one point from their final two games to secure a Euro 2016 place.
Roberts believes Israel's defensive display in Sunday's 0-0 draw in Cardiff is indicative of the effect Wales' success has had on opposition teams.
"That's what this group of players have earned now, that respect," he said.
"Teams are not going to be open and going toe-to-toe with us. That's because of the standards we've set and other teams fear us."
Wales are one point ahead of Belgium and five in front of third-placed Israel, with the top two guaranteed qualification.
Wales have risen to their highest Fifa world ranking of ninth, having been ranked 117th as recently as 2011.
Victory against Israel would have sealed the country's place at their first major tournament since the 1958 World Cup with two matches to spare.
But they were denied by a resolute Israel team who offered little in attack and were instead content to defend and hold on for a point.
Roberts added: "They came here and changed their shape to frustrate us because of the respect opponents are now showing us."
Dons captain Russell Anderson's volley rattled the post in a first half of few chances.
Niall McGinn fired wide for Aberdeen near the end of regulation time and Inverness winger Aaron Doran came close but could not prevent the shoot-out.
Billy McKay's spot-kick was saved and Greg Tansey lifted his over, allowing Adam Rooney to claim victory.
The Dons, looking to claim their first trophy since winning this tournament in 1995, had been pre-match favourites and their support dominated the 51,143 crowd at Celtic Park, which hosted the final instead of the under-development Hampden Park.
Aberdeen were hopeful Peter Pawlett would recover from injury in time to feature in Glasgow, but manager Derek McInnes had to do without the influential winger.
And Pawlett's heartache was shared by team-mate Jonny Hayes when a shoulder knock forced the winger to be replaced by Cammy Smith in the opening minutes.
That substitution prevented any early momentum being built up and it took 25 minutes for either side to seriously threaten.
Inverness struggled to clear from a corner and, when Anderson chested the ball down and struck firmly towards goal, the Highlanders were relieved first by the shot coming off the post and then for Richie Foran's presence on the line.
John Hughes, who started James Vincent ahead of Doran, had urged his players to show cool heads in their first major final, but it was captain Foran who picked up the game's first booking for a couple of late challenges.
The final sprung to life again when former Caley Thistle favourite Rooney went down in the Inverness box following a tackle from Josh Meekings and the defender was perhaps fortunate not to be penalised.
Having been bettered for territory in the first half, Inverness were much more forceful at the start of the second period as they sought to win their first major honour.
Jamie Langfield dropped a cross and was relieved to see the ball cleared by Anderson as Foran closed in.
The goalkeeper was much more assured when dealing with a Tansey free-kick, but the momentum was firmly with Inverness.
However, the lack of decent efforts at goal was typified when Marley Watkins took a fresh-air swipe from a promising shooting position.
The pendulum swung back towards Aberdeen for a short spell and shots by Ryan Jack and Barry Robson drew saves from Dean Brill.
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At the other end, Foran headed off target before claiming unsuccessfully for a foul against Andrew Considine.
And, as extra-time beckoned, McGinn spurned a glorious chance to seal a Dons win when he fired wide following a mistake by Tansey, Meekings just doing enough to deflect the striker's effort over.
Doran came closest to making the breakthrough in the additional half-hour, his awkward bouncing shot pushed out by Langfield before penalties ensued.
Though Nick Ross and Doran were able to find the net from 12 yards after McKay and Tansey had been unsuccessful, solid strikes by Robson, Nicky Low, Scott Vernon and Rooney secured the trophy for Aberdeen.
With McInnes's men also in the Scottish Cup semi-finals, this victory could pave the way for a trophy double in his first season in charge of the Pittodrie side.
Hogan, 34, who was already under contract for 2016, has agreed a two-year extension with the club.
The Australian has been Glamorgan's leading wicket-taker for the last three seasons since joining in 2012.
Bull, 20, has been handed his first senior professional contract.
Hogan, who is currently preparing for the four-day campaign with Western Australia, did not play first-class cricket until the age of 28.
He has spoken of playing until the age of 40 if his form is good enough.
"I'm really pleased to commit my future to Glamorgan, my family and I are enjoying living in Wales and I have been able to put some performances on the board over the last three years," Hogan said.
"We are determined to build on some encouraging performances in all forms of the game in recent years and hopefully we can kick on again in 2016 and bring some success to the club."
Haverfordwest-born Bull played two Championship and two One-Day Cup matches in August 2015.
But had his season curtailed by a stress fracture of the back but is looking forward to the new season.
"There's a good balance in the team, with a mix of experience and some younger players, with the senior players always on hand to provide tips and support," Bull said.
Batsmen Chris Cooke and Aneurin Donald also signed until the end of the 2018 season in recent contract extensions.
In addition to the contract renewals, Glamorgan chief executive Hugh Morris has highlighted the need to recruit seam bowlers and a top order batsman for the 2016 season.
Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson said he had already informed current EU president Latvia and the European Commission about the cabinet's move.
Iceland gave no reason for dropping its bid to join the 28-member bloc.
But after winning the 2013 elections two Eurosceptic parties said the nation already enjoyed most full membership benefits through deals with the EU.
The island nation has free trade arrangements with the bloc and is part of the Schengen visa-free travel zone.
In a statement, Mr Sveinsson said he had "delivered a letter to the Presidency of the Union and the Commission announcing that the government of Iceland had decided at its cabinet meeting last Tuesday that it did not intend to restart accession negotiations with the EU".
"Hence, the government considers that Iceland is no longer a candidate country and requests the EU to act in accordance with this from now on," he added.
However, Mr Sveinsson stressed the importance of continued strong relations and co-operation between Iceland and the EU, saying Reykjavik wanted to strengthen the ties "even further".
Iceland made an EU membership application in 2009 and later began accession talks.
However, the government in Reykjavik suspended the bid in 2013, arguing that a referendum on the issue should be held first.
Arsenal defender Shkodran Mustafi, Paris St-Germain's Julian Draxler, Ajax winger Amin Younes and Bayer Leverkusen's Julian Brandt also scored.
Germany top Group C having won all six games and are five points ahead of second-placed Northern Ireland.
Bayern Munich's Robert Lewandowski netted a hat-trick for Poland in their 3-1 victory over Romania in Group E.
He has now scored in his last 11 European Championship and World Cup qualifiers for Poland, netting 20 times in those games.
In the same group, Tottenham midfielder Christian Eriksen scored a penalty as Denmark recorded a 3-1 win in Kazakhstan.
Former Manchester City striker Stevan Jovetic grabbed a hat-trick for Montenegro as they beat Armenia 4-1.
Match ends, Germany 7, San Marino 0.
Second Half ends, Germany 7, San Marino 0.
Corner, Germany. Conceded by Elia Benedettini.
Attempt saved. Joshua Kimmich (Germany) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Diego Demme.
Amin Younes (Germany) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Michele Cervellini (San Marino).
Offside, Germany. Sandro Wagner tries a through ball, but Timo Werner is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Leon Goretzka (Germany) right footed shot from very close range misses to the left. Assisted by Julian Brandt with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Germany. Conceded by Cristian Brolli.
Substitution, San Marino. Cristian Brolli replaces Davide Cesarini because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Davide Cesarini (San Marino) because of an injury.
Goal! Germany 7, San Marino 0. Sandro Wagner (Germany) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Joshua Kimmich with a cross.
Leon Goretzka (Germany) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adolfo Hirsch (San Marino).
Foul by Diego Demme (Germany).
Marco Bernardi (San Marino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Emre Can (Germany) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Emre Can (Germany) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michele Cervellini (San Marino).
Substitution, San Marino. Adolfo Hirsch replaces Danilo Rinaldi.
Attempt missed. Sandro Wagner (Germany) right footed shot from very close range misses to the right. Assisted by Emre Can.
Substitution, Germany. Diego Demme replaces Julian Draxler.
Timo Werner (Germany) hits the right post with a header from the right side of the six yard box. Assisted by Joshua Kimmich with a cross.
Goal! Germany 6, San Marino 0. Julian Brandt (Germany) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Joshua Kimmich.
Corner, Germany. Conceded by Davide Cesarini.
Substitution, San Marino. Marco Bernardi replaces Pier Filippo Mazza.
Offside, Germany. Timo Werner tries a through ball, but Julian Brandt is caught offside.
Foul by Sandro Wagner (Germany).
Juri Biordi (San Marino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Pier Filippo Mazza (San Marino) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Emre Can (Germany) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Pier Filippo Mazza (San Marino).
Leon Goretzka (Germany) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Pier Filippo Mazza (San Marino).
Attempt missed. Marvin Plattenhardt (Germany) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right from a direct free kick.
Michele Cervellini (San Marino) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Sandro Wagner (Germany) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michele Cervellini (San Marino).
Offside, Germany. Julian Draxler tries a through ball, but Amin Younes is caught offside.
The Associated Press news agency asked Mr Penn if he was worried about images that claimed to show Mexican officials watching him before the visit.
"I've got nothin' to hide," he wrote back in an email.
Guzman was captured on Friday, three months after their meeting and six months after escaping from prison.
Mr Penn did not answer questions about whether he should have let Guzman read his story in advance of publication, or whether he did enough to protect his source.
The actor was criticised for the interview - a White House spokesman said Guzman's boasts about his exploits were "maddening", while Republican Marco Rubio said the interview was "grotesque".
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The US has filed a request for Guzman to be extradited to face charges of smuggling vast amounts of drugs into the country.
On Monday, Mexican officials said the process to extradite him to the US could take at least a year.
The interview was conducted in the Mexican jungle, and unnamed Mexican officials have said the meeting helped them catch the 58-year-old boss of the Sinaloa drug cartel.
Guzman has been returned to the maximum-security Altipano jail.
In July, he had escaped from there via a tunnel dug to the shower in his cell.
In the Rolling Stone article, Guzman said he was the world's leading supplier of heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana.
The Mexican authorities have not said whether they would investigate Penn and Mexican actress Kate del Castillo who arranged the interview.
His death was announced on Monday night by his wife and fellow former Parti Quebecois politician, Lisette Lapointe.
"He was surrounded by love," wrote Mrs Lapointe on social media. "We love him and will love him forever."
Parizeau led the Parti Quebecois during the 1995 sovereignty referendum which was rejected by a razor-thin margin.
"His ideas light the way for the future," Jean-Francois Lisee, a former adviser and current member of the Canadian legislature wrote on twitter.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper tweeted: "On behalf of all Canadians, Laureen & I extend our deepest condolences to the family & friends of former premier Jacques Parizeau."
In 1995, Quebecers voted 49.6% "Yes" in favour of seceding from Canada, falling just short of the required majority.
For the second time, voters had rejected sovereignty, but the result was much closer than in 1980 when 60% of voters responded "No".
In a speech on the night of the referendum, Parizeau blamed the loss on "money and the ethnic vote", a phrase that sparked accusations of racism.
He resigned the next day and apologised for his comments, but continued to hold significant influence in Quebec politics as he campaigned for sovereignty.
A graduate of the London School of Economics, Parizeau worked as an economic adviser to Quebecer politicians during the Quiet Revolution, a period that expanded the reach of the Quebec government.
The moustachioed politician earned the nickname "the Monsieur" for his use of precise language, his high level of education and penchant for three-piece suits, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Police cordoned off an area around the Waterfront and Level Street in Brierley Hill, close to the Merry Hill shopping centre at about 13:00 GMT on Saturday.
A man was arrested shortly after 15:00 GMT, police said.
A 23-year-old man has been charged with possession of an imitation firearm with intent, and is due at Dudley Magistrates' Court on Monday.
An imitation firearm was later recovered, police said.
The company, which made its name manufacturing distinctive bag-less vacuum cleaners, said profits were up 13% to £367m.
It now sells 90% of its products outside the UK with a turnover rising to nearly £1.4b.
Dyson said it had doubled the size of its business in China.
It has a strong presence in other Asian markets, such as Japan and also showed strong sales in Europe.
It has focused research on cordless technology, sales of which grew by 68% last year.
Half the 2,500 workforce at its Wiltshire headquarters work in research and development, helping to produce new technology such as bladeless fans, purifiers and humidifiers.
Sir James said "We spent an additional 40% on research and development last year and now spend £3m a week as we develop expertise in entirely new areas."
Previously he has said the government should do more to encourage engineers to stay in Britain so they can produce hi-tech exports.
In 2014 the company invested £1.5bn in its global technology programme
However, it has accepted a change which would see Hawick lose the famous battle site of Hornshole.
The move is one community leaders have said they would continue to oppose.
While not accepting some details of the boundary plans, the council has conceded the number of councillors should fall - from 34 to 32.
There has been considerable debate of plans for Hawick which would see two three-member wards replaced with one four-member ward.
The council has accepted those proposals in principle with parts of the hinterland shorn off into an enlarged Jedburgh ward.
Moves to include Newcastleton in that area have been opposed with the recommendation that it remains part of Hawick.
A similar argument to put Denholm in the Hawick ward was defeated.
Despite opposition from all of the Hawick councillors, and two motions of alternative proposals from Watson McAteer and Ron Smith, both asking for the historic battle site of Hornshole to stay within the Hawick boundary, councillors voted their initial plans through by 26 votes to five.
Community leaders have said they will continue to fight the loss of Hornshole - the site of a battle commemorated with a monument in the town.
In 1514 a group of Hawick youths defeated an English raiding party and captured their standard at Hornshole.
Hawick historian Ian Landles pointed out that the site was just outside the proposed Hawick ward - so a small "corridor" could include the site - without taking in any houses.
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Philip Cullen, 57, was given a six-month suspended sentence for capturing two butterflies at reserves in Somerset and in Gloucestershire in 2015.
He was convicted in March of six charges, relating to killing, capturing and possessing the endangered species.
His is believed to be the first prosecution in the UK involving offences related to the species.
Bristol Magistrates' Court heard that Cullen was seen chasing a Large Blue with a child's net at Daneway Banks in Gloucestershire in June 2015.
He was later spotted with a small net at Collard Hill in Somerset.
It was reported to police who raided his home and found up to 30 trays of butterflies, including Large Blues.
Prosecutor Ian Jackson told the court the charges had been brought "on the grounds of endangering a species".
Michael Hartnell, defending, said in mitigation the 57-year-old had accepted the "enormity" of what he had done and was "extremely remorseful".
Cullen, of The Grove, Warmley, Bristol, was given a six-month prison sentence suspended for two years and ordered to carry out 250 hours of unpaid work.
He was also given a five-year criminal behaviour order banning him from three nature reserves popular with the Large Blue and was ordered to pay £300 prosecution costs and an £80 victim surcharge.
The Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust (GWT), said it was the "first UK conviction for collecting a butterfly" and a "breakthrough in the battle against wildlife crime".
Source: Butterfly Conservation
The Large Blue (Maculinea arion) species became extinct in Britain 1979.
It was reintroduced at sites, including Collard Hill and Daneway Banks, in the 1980s and in 2004 it was found at nine locations in the country.
It has a wingspan of more than two inches and can be identified by a row of black spots on its upper forewing.
A person who collects and studies butterflies is called a lepidopterist after the branch of zoology that deals with butterflies and moths.
Joko Widodo won a closely fought presidential election in July 2014 on promises to break with the authoritarian past, improve welfare for the poor and take on corruption.
The election commission declared the Jakarta governor the winner with 53% of the vote.
His rival, former army general Prabowo Subianto, who won 47%, alleged widespread fraud and said he would challenge the result in court.
Mr Widodo is seen by many as relatively untainted by the county's endemic corruption and in touch with ordinary Indonesians as a result of his humble background.
Known as "Jokowi", the former furniture maker is especially popular with the urban and rural young.
His campaign platform called for "mind-set revolution" to end the corruption, nepotism and intolerance Mr Widodo believes flourished during the 31-year-long dictatorship of former President Suharto.
He also promised a strong focus on education and modern technology, including e-governance.
Critics said he lacked political experience and would struggle to push through his agenda, as his Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDI-P), has only 37% of seats in parliament.
Opponents claimed he would be the puppet of the PDI-P's veteran leader, Megawati Sukarnoputri, a former president and daughter of Indonesia's independence leader, Sukarno. Mr Widodo's allies insist he will be his own man.
Born in 1961 in Solo as the son of a wood-seller, Mr Widodo was elected mayor of Solo - a city in the centre of Java - in 2005 and gained popularity with policies aimed at boosting small and local businesses.
Mr Widodo then went on to run for the position of governor of Jakarta, winning an emphatic victory in 2012.
The singer is suing the BBC and South Yorkshire Police and is seeking "very substantial" compensation because he says the coverage invaded his privacy.
He was investigated over historical sexual assault allegations, which he denied. The case was dropped in June.
The BBC has apologised for his distress but is disputing the claim for damages.
Legal papers have been lodged at the High Court in London pending the start of any court hearings.
Gavin Millar QC, who is heading the BBC's legal team, said: "It is denied that the claimant is entitled to damages or compensation as alleged at all.
"It is admitted that the claimant suffered distress."
He added: "The BBC has already told the claimant it is very sorry that this was the case."
In June, the Crown Prosecution Service announced it was taking no further action against Sir Cliff because there was insufficient evidence.
The star suffered "profound and long-lasting" damage from the live coverage of the search in Sunningdale, Berkshire, and from being publicly named as a suspected sex offender, his lawyers have said.
They also say South Yorkshire Police contravened guidance on "relationships with the media".
South Yorkshire Police has apologised to the singer for the "distress and anxiety" it caused him.
On Wednesday, a BBC statement said: "As we have said on several occasions, we are very sorry that Sir Cliff Richard has suffered distress.
"However, we have now submitted our response to this claim and will defend ourselves vigorously."
Reporting on police investigations into prominent figures was "squarely in the public interest", the statement said.
The statement added that the corporation "stands by the decision to report the investigation undertaken by the South Yorkshire Police and the search of his property".
The analysis found that the Troubled Families programme had "no discernible" effect on unemployment, truancy or criminality.
The initial scheme sought to "turn around" 120,000 households at a cost of around £400m.
The local government department denies that the report has been suppressed.
A spokesperson said: "There were several strands to the evaluation work commissioned by the last government and there is not yet a final report."
The report, which the government has had since last autumn - and seen exclusively by BBC Newsnight - is embarrassing for ministers, who not only implemented the scheme, but have since decided to extend it. Officials have told Newsnight that they believe it would have been published, had it been positive.
Ministers had trumpeted previous data related to the scheme, which had suggested that 98.9% of families participating in the scheme had been "turned around".
Furthermore, a second wave of the Troubled Families programme was announced in June 2013, and began to roll out in April 2015. It covers another 400,000 families at a further cost of £900m.
The scheme was aimed at those affected by high unemployment, truancy and anti-social behaviour, and ran across England. It was intended to save money and prevent future rioting by reducing the problems of this group of disadvantaged families.
A senior civil servant told Newsnight that the report is "damning", and attacked the scheme as "window-dressing".
Troubled Families was a project pushed by the last prime minister. In August 2011, shortly after the riots, David Cameron announced that he would "put rocket boosters" under existing plans being drawn up in Whitehall "with a clear ambition that within the lifetime of this Parliament we will turn around the lives of the 120,000 most troubled families in the country".
In December 2011, the then prime minister added: "Some in the press might call them 'neighbours from hell'. Whatever you call them, we've known for years that a relatively small number of families are the source of a large proportion of the problems in society."
The government also committed that the effectiveness of the policy would be measured by a consortium of analysts led by a consultancy called Ecorys. The evaluation was expected to be published. But the document has been kept under wraps thus far in Whitehall.
This official analysis of data from 56 local authorities covering the first 18 months of the programme states: "The lack of obvious effect from the programme across a range of outcomes indicates that the programme did not have a measurable impact on families within the time-frame over which it was possible to observe its effects."
It found "no discernible impact on the percentage of adults claiming out-of-work benefits" and "no obvious impact on the likelihood that adults were employed" 12 or 18 months after starting on the programme.
The analysis also found it "did not have any discernible impact on adult offending" seven to 18 months after the family was booked into the programme.
They added: "Whilst it was more difficult to match the treatment and comparison groups when looking at child outcomes, the findings suggested that the programme also had no detectable impact on child offending."
Their analysis of truancy got different results depending on how the data was analysed, leading analysts to conclude that "any impact that the programme had on the absence rate was not robust".
The researchers reported some problems with data quality and representativeness. "The sample sizes that the national administrative data provided meant that it was feasible to detect impacts which were relatively small in magnitude," they wrote.
The Troubled Families programme always had strange design features.
Each local authority was given a target number of families to identify and recruit for the scheme - getting a payment of £3,200 for each household that they signed up.
The choice of families - households with some combination of factors such as truancy, anti-social behaviour and adult joblessness - did not seek to identify people involved in rioting. The ambition of the scheme was that the family would be assigned a single, co-ordinating key-worker who adopts a "persistent, assertive and challenging" approach and can "get to grips" with the whole family and look at the family "from inside out rather than outside in".
But the success criteria were very vague - families could be deemed "turned around" even while the children were still persistently truant or committing crime, just so long as they did so less frequently than they had done before. And councils received a further payment of £800 when the family met certain criteria that meant they were deemed turned around. Local authorities, therefore, had strong incentives to declare successes: lots of councils claim to have had 100% success rates.
Nationally, 98.9% of the 118,000 families in the scheme were deemed "turned around" - a remarkable success rate in any policy, let alone one working with people who have complex and multiple disadvantages. These figures were taken as proof of the success of the scheme.
Speaking in June 2015, Dame Louise Casey, until recently the civil servant in charge of the scheme, said: "It's fantastic news that the programme has now turned around the lives of so many troubled families. That's almost 117,000 families where kids are back in school and youth crime and anti-social behaviour has been cut, and in more and more of these homes an adult has now moved off benefits and into work."
Stephen Crossley, a researcher at Durham University who has been examining the scheme, has described the success rate as "unbelievable".
A civil servant involved in the Troubled Families scheme, however, argued that while the programme might not work effectively "more money for social work probably can't be a bad thing right now".
For more on this story, watch Chris Cook's report on BBC Newsnight at 22:30 BST on BBC Two - or catch up afterwards on iPlayer
The Scotland United Against Austerity event in George Square took place as a demonstration was staged in London.
Organisers of the London event said the protests would be the biggest for years.
The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) joined forces with the Peoples' Assembly, which organised the protests.
Speaking at the rally, STUC general secretary Grahame Smith told BBC Scotland: "We know austerity does not work.
"It is not a sensible economic policy.
"It is entirely about ideology and it is about protecting the position of the already privileged in society."
The trade union leader added: "We have seen over the past few years the impact of austerity: growing queues at food banks; people being thrown out of their house because of the bedroom tax; and the unprecedented decline in real wages.
"But at the same time we have seen the rich getting richer. That's the impact of austerity and that's why we oppose it."
Mr Smith said the vast majority of the people in Scotland and across the UK did not vote for the Tory government and he questioned the legitimacy of its cuts.
Other speakers at the rally included Larry Flanagan, general secretary of the Educational Institute of Scotland, and Pat Rafferty, Scottish secretary of Unite.
Olivia Campbell, from Bury in Greater Manchester, died following the explosion at Manchester Arena on Monday night, her mother Charlotte said.
Hours earlier she had made an emotional appeal as the family desperately searched for her.
"RIP my darling precious gorgeous girl... go sing with the angels," she wrote on Facebook.
In her emotional appeal, Ms Campbell said Olivia had been to the concert with her friend, Adam, who was receiving treatment in hospital.
She said she had heard from her daughter during the concert.
"She'd just seen the support act and said she was having an amazing time and thanking me for letting her go," she said.
Olivia was a pupil at Tottington High School, where head teacher Brian Duffy described her as "a delightful young girl".
"As a school community we are absolutely devastated and heartbroken at the news that Olivia has passed away," he said in a statement.
"Our prayers and deepest sympathies go to her family and friends. Our thoughts also go out to the many families across the region affected by this tragedy."
Olivia, along with eight-year-old Saffie Roussos, John Atkinson, 28, and Georgina Callander - thought to be 18 - are the first four victims to have been named.
Twenty-two people were killed in the explosion at the concert by US pop star Ariana Grande at Manchester Arena.
A further 59 people, including children, were injured and taken to hospital.
Happy to describe herself as "still a radical", in her youth she was a committed anti-apartheid activist who picketed outside the headquarters of UK companies that did business in then white-ruled South Africa.
Today the 49-year-old is a leading light in the fair trade movement, which aims to ensure that farmers and workers in the developing world get better prices and working conditions.
The business Ms Tranchell has led for the past 15 years, London-based Divine Chocolate, is not just fair trade, but actually 45% owned by a collective of cocoa farmers in Ghana in West Africa.
The farmers get the same percentage of profits, and have two seats on the board of the company.
Ms Tranchell, who criticises what she sees as a global shift of power in recent decades "from elected governments to corporations", hopes that Divine more than shows that fair trade companies can be successful.
"I have always been interested in who is controlling what... and I'm very keen that people don't feel hopeless," she says. "If we all do something we can make a difference.
"I think the anti-apartheid movement made a difference, as does fair trade. We are proving that you can do business differently, and do it well."
Divine Chocolate was set up in 1998 by the Kuapa Kokoo collective of Ghana cocoa farmers, and Twin Trading, the UK fair trade company that established coffee business Cafedirect.
Investors who came on board included Christian Aid, retailer Body Shop and Comic Relief.
Meanwhile, the UK government's Department for International Development recognised the good work that Divine could do in Ghana, and so gave a loan guarantee to help the company secure bank finance.
Divine placed a small advert in a newspaper for a boss to lead the new company, and Ms Tranchell applied and got the job - despite having no chocolate industry, or even retail sector, background.
Instead, London-born and bred Ms Tranchell had been running a film distribution and cinema business, bringing foreign-language films to the UK.
She says that Twin Trading was instead likely to have been impressed by both her campaigning background and her experience of doing business overseas.
Also her lack of experience meant she questioned everything.
It was Ms Tranchell's work running campaigns that helped Divine get its chocolate bars - which are made for it under contract by a company in Germany - into UK supermarkets.
After Sainsbury's agreed to stock Divine's products at 50 of its stores, she came up with a plan to get this extended nationwide.
Ms Tranchell did this by teaming up with Christian Aid to do a mailout to its UK members. Each got sent two postcards, one a money-off coupon for Divine's bars and the other a request for Divine's products to be stocked in someone's local store if they currently were not.
"And so we had Christian Aid members across the UK handing in these postcards," she says. "And it really worked. It absolutely proved the power of purchasing."
With Sainsbury's going on to stock Divine's products UK-wide, the other big supermarkets then followed suit.
In 2006, seven years after it was launched, Divine made its first profit.
However, the growth of the company has not always been smooth, and it was badly affected in 2008 and 2009 by the global financial crisis, which, Ms Tranchell says, "gave us an absolute kicking".
"We have always had a risk register, of things that could go wrong. And suddenly everything on the list happened."
While Divine was hit by the falling value of the pound and higher cocoa and milk prices, the UK's supermarkets cut back on how much space they gave to luxury chocolate brands like Divine, recognising that fewer people would be able to afford them.
With Divine's profit margins badly hit, Ms Tranchell says she had no choice but to to cut back on its promotional work, which meant it lost ground against its competitors. However, it did not have to cut any jobs among its 15 UK staff.
"It really strangled our growth," she says. "But you can't spend what you haven't got."
The business has since recovered, and is now growing again, by 8% per year. However, with annual UK sales of £7.5m in a market worth £3.9bn, it remains a tiny company compared with market leaders Mars, Kraft and Nestle.
With a degree in philosophy and politics from Warwick University, Ms Tranchell has no formal business training.
Yet proving that social activism and financial prudence are not mutually exclusive, she says she has always had a good head for figures.
"Running a business is not rocket science," she says. "You just have to keep on top of it, and don't hide from the figures. Don't spend money you haven't got."
Focused on the continuing growth of the company, Ms Tranchell says she is pleased that the success of the business has proved a lot of people wrong.
"People said it [the company] wouldn't work," she says.
"I do hope that Divine will inspire people to think that their dream is possible, because it was so unfeasible that we would make a success of it."
Ms Tranchell also finds time to be an ambassador for the Business is Great campaign, which aims to highlight the numerous publicly-funded schemes and organisations that offer help, funding and guidance to small businesses.
None of the blogs will be deleted, but they will no longer be publicly visible, the tech giant says.
People currently posting adult content are advised to either remove it or make their blogs private themselves.
Blogs created after the March deadline may be taken down if they contain adult material, the updated terms state.
Under the updated adult policy terms, nudity will be allowed on Blogger blogs only if it "offers a substantial public benefit, for example in artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific contexts".
Bloggers are already asked to use the tag "adult" if their site contains explicit material, which means a warning page appears before the site can be accessed.
Under its current terms, Google reserves the right to add that tag itself even if the blog author disagrees.
In 2013 the company banned Blogger sites from carrying adverts for adult websites.
Yahoo-owned Tumblr also adjusted its policies on hosting sexual content in 2013, hiding "adult" themed sites from its search tool but reinstated them after a social-media backlash.
Critics have dismissed Google's move as an unnecessary form of censorship.
"Adult content has historically been at the forefront of fighting for free speech and political dissent, and this won't be changing anytime soon," wrote journalist and sex columnist Violet Blue on ZDNet.
"Sexual and erotic expression is protected speech, and pornography is not illegal."
Paul Rowland was speaking after sister title the Daily Post made its Senedd reporter redundant.
Mr Rowland is editor-in-chief of Trinity Mirror South Wales, which also publishes the Western Mail, Echo and South Wales Evening Post.
The Daily Post is not managed by Mr Rowland, and is published by Trinity Mirror North Wales.
He said: "We have absolutely no intention at all of removing our reporter from the Senedd.
"It is integral to our position as a national publisher, it would be ridiculous for us to remove anyone."
Mr Rowland said his newsroom was producing more political coverage than at any other time in its recent history.
"One of the areas that has not been cut in any sense, certainly in my time here in the last decade, is our political coverage.
"We produce more political coverage now than we ever have in the last 10 years. Could we do more? Absolutely, yes.
"But we are also committed to providing a mix of content for all our audiences."
1,454,466 2015/16
995,444 2014/15
+46.1% Year-on-year growth
124,000 Twitter followers
287,712 Facebook likes
Politicians and academics have previously blamed diminishing coverage of Welsh politics for creating a "democratic deficit" of information about Welsh affairs.
But Mr Rowland argued that improved political engagement required more than an increase in press coverage.
"I think there is a much, much bigger issue in Wales around covering the political process properly than just putting pressure on us to send an extra reporter to one council meeting or another," he said.
"There is a bigger issue with regard engaging the public in politics. And using the media as a scapegoat for that only gets us so far, I think."
Trinity Mirror publications have faced criticism from politicians and the National Union of Journalists for increasing their coverage of lifestyle issues, including the opening of restaurants and the publication of nostalgic lists.
But Mr Rowland said digital news titles had to cater to a wide audience, and increased lifestyle content was not at the expense of its scrutiny of Welsh affairs.
"I think it's very arrogant for us to sit here and say, 'these stories are important'. Because if a story is important then it's our job to be able to explain to our readers what's important about it. And in most cases, we can do that," he said.
"We are all interested in the same thing. We all want to see a successful Wales, we all want to see scrutiny, and we all want to see politicians held to account.
"And obviously we have a role in making that happen. And there is absolutely no disputing the fact that the media has changed in the past 10 years. I've been here since 2005 and the landscape has changed significantly in that time.
"Ultimately we are a business and we need to make profit, and we have the resource that we've got. Us suddenly doubling our resource is not going to get us to a sustainable future.
"But there are different ways we can address that democratic deficit.
"One of them is by making sure the public is engaging more with our content, and I think politicians who are making these criticisms of us have a role to play in making sure that we are able to do that, because we all have the same objective which is to engage the public in the democratic process and to have them want Wales to succeed."
3,460,000 2015/16
3,480,000 2014/15
-0.57% Year-on-year growth
1,016,000 Facebook andTwitter followers
A spokesman for BBC Wales said its online services "continued to perform very strongly" this year with nearly 3.5m weekly unique browsers to its English language content.
Meanwhile, Welsh language online more than doubled its traffic to 193,000 unique browsers.
Followers of BBC Wales Facebook and Twitter accounts have also more than doubled in a year.
A spokesman added: "The Euro 2016 football qualification campaign, for example, witnessed a real audience appetite for such content. In the week Wales qualified for Euro2016, BBC Wales Sport on Facebook attracted 3.8m views.
"The other major change to which the BBC is responding to is the growth of mobile. Here we are seeing a decline in the number of desktop users and a rapid growth in users who want tailored content for mobile platforms."
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Former Oxford chairman Thomas said in a statement: "We are still trying to purchase the majority shareholding of Northampton Town Football Club at this time, but only just."
The club is subject to an administration petition from the local council over a £10.25m loan.
They have also received a winding-up petition from HM Revenue & Customs.
Thomas described the situation as "incredibly complex and challenging" but remains "very interested" in buying the club despite the current owners having talks with other interested parties.
The statement said a deal had been agreed with David and his father Tony Cardoza, and Thomas had held talks with Northampton Borough Council, met with the supporters' trust and "had an understanding" with contractors over the redevelopment of the Sixfields East stand.
"Unfortunately it has taken too much time for David and Tony Cardoza to complete the share purchase agreement and we are now stuck wondering if they really want to complete the deal as agreed," the statement added.
Last week, Northampton Borough Council applied for the administration petition prior to Monday's HMRC hearing at the High Court in London over £166,000 in unpaid tax, which was adjourned until 30 November.
Administration petitions have to take precedence over winding-up petitions, and the council decided to bring it against the club to give it "more control over the club's future".
That petition will be heard on 27 November.
Thomas' statement added: "We were not interested in the development land (around the stadium) as we are businessmen with experience in football clubs, and not large scale developers that a project like that requires.
"It was very important for us to conclude a deal prior to any insolvency event, as we did not feel that was in the best interests of the club.
"Points are hard fought for at the best of times in this league and to lose 12 at this stage would be very damaging for any promotion push."
In response, David Cardoza said that he had to speak to other parties to ensure the club was going into the right hands.
"It's a negotiation that's been going on, to be fair, it's been going on for far too long, but I'm not going to have a bad word about Kelvin," Cardoza told BBC Radio Northampton.
"But over the last week or so there's been a number of interested parties. Obviously they needed to be talked to, we need to find the best solution, it's not a solution for ourselves - we're selling the club for £1.
"It's about the best deal for the club. There's the loan situation that needs to be sorted out and then there's the future of the club. We needed to explore exactly what's out there."
Meanwhile, Northampton Borough Council have announced they will investigate how they managed the loan to Northampton Town and prepare a public interest report.
A statement added: "Alongside this investigation, we continue to work with Northamptonshire Police on understanding what has happened to the money and if a formal complaint can be made to them, we will do so."
The 31-year-old Welshman was second overall when he broke his collarbone in a crash on the damp descent of the Col de la Biche during stage nine.
He also crashed out of the Giro d'Italia in stage nine in May.
Writing on Instagram he said: "Jersey for sale... Only worn once, slight signs of use. Might need a wash."
Knox-Johnston, the first man to sail single-handed non-stop around the world, admitted drink-driving.
A taxi driver in Portsmouth alerted police to his standard of driving in a Suzuki Vitara on 28 October.
He gave a breathalyser reading of 77 micrograms (mcg) in 100 millilitres of breath - the legal limit is 35mcg.
At Portsmouth Magistrates' Court, the 77-year-old was fined £440 and ordered to pay a £44 victim surcharge and £85 court costs.
Knox-Johnston, of Tower Street, Old Portsmouth, set his circumnavigation record when he competed in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race on 22 April, 1969.
He sailed into Falmouth aboard his 32ft (9.8m) boat Suhaili, 312 days after he left the Cornish port.
He also became the oldest yachtsman to complete a round-the-world solo voyage in the Velux 5 Oceans Race finishing in 2007 at the age of 68 and in 2014, at the age of 75, he finished the solo Transatlantic race the Route du Rhum in third place in the Rhum class.
The grandfather-of-five, who was born in Putney, London, is the chairman and founder of Clipper Ventures which runs the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, the biennial event which sees amateur sailors from around the world completing a 40,000-mile (64,000km) global circumnavigation.
Neither of Google's two co-founders, including chief executive Larry Page, will get a bonus though.
Executive chairman and former boss Eric Schmidt will get $6m - the largest reward.
The rest of the money will go to its top lawyer, chief financial officer and chief business officer.
Lawyer David Drummond is getting $3m, while Patrick Pichette and Nikesh Arora are to receive $2.8m each, the company said in regulatory filings.
Mr Page and co-founder Sergey Brin have usually settled for a $1 salary since Google went public in 2004 - but through their stock are worth billions.
It comes on the same day it agreed to pay a $7m fine in the US for collecting people's personal data without authorisation as part of its Street View service.
As well as agreeing to delete all the harvested data, Google has also been required to launch an employee training program about privacy and data use which it must continue for at least ten years.
It must also launch a public service advertising campaign to education consumers about how to secure their information on wireless networks.
In January, Google said its net profit for the final three months of last year was $2.89bn, up 7% on a year earlier. Revenues were up by more than a third at $14.4bn.
Famously called the "champagne of teas", it is grown in 87 gardens in the foothills of the Himalayas in Darjeeling in West Bengal state. Some of the bushes are as old as 150 years and were introduced to the region by a Scottish surgeon.
Half of the more than 8 million kg - 60% of it is certified organic - of this sought-after tea produced every year is exported, mainly to the UK, Europe and Japan. The tea tots up nearly $80m (£60m) in annual sales.
Darjeeling tea is also one of the world's most expensive - some of it has fetched prices of up to $850 (£647) per kg. The tea is also India's first Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) product.
Since June, Darjeeling has been hit by violent protests and prolonged strikes in support of a campaign by a local party demanding a separate state for the area's majority Nepali-speaking Gorkha community.
The upshot: some 100,000 workers - permanent and temporary - working in the gardens have halted work. Production has been severely hit. Only a third of last year's crop of 8.32 million kg had been harvested when work stopped in June. If the trouble continues, garden owners say they are staring at losses amounting to nearly $40m.
"This is the worst crisis we have ever faced. Future orders are being cancelled, and there is no fresh supply. Connoisseurs of Darjeeling may have to soon switch to other teas until the situation improves," Darjeeling Tea Association's principal advisor Sandeep Mukherjee told me.
The shutdown in the gardens couldn't have come at a worse time.
The harvesting season in Darjeeling extends to roughly a little over seven months - from March to October. It is also divided into four distinct seasons called "flushes".
The ongoing impasse came in the middle of the second - or summer flush - season which gives the tea an unique "muscatel" scent and accounts for half of the yearly crop and and 40% of annual sales. The separatist agitation in Darjeeling has disrupted life in the region since 1980s, but in the past the strikes usually happened during the lull between seasons.
Tea buyers are already feeling the crunch. In India, the tea is fast going off the shelves. Some supermarkets in Japan have said their stocks will run out by November if supplies don't resume. An importer in Germany says the tea runs the risk of becoming a "limited edition" beverage.
Even if the agitation is called off tomorrow and the workers return to the gardens, it will take more than a month to begin harvesting. The gardens have been idle for more than two months, and are full of weeds. Tea bushes have become "free growth plants", say owners. Workers have to clean and slash the bushes before they can begin plucking the leaves again.
Clearly, if the political impasse is resolved this month, the gardens of Darjeeling will be humming only next year - India is heading into a season of yearly festivals, marked by long holidays.
"For the moment, Darjeeling looks like becoming a limited edition tea all right," says Ashok Lohia, who owns 13 gardens in the region. "But I'd just request the connoisseurs to bear with us, and we promise to be back with the our very best quality soon". For the moment, tea drinkers may have to learn to live without their favourite brew.
Colin Farmer, 61, was stunned by police following reports of a man walking through Chorley with a samurai sword.
Ch Supt Stuart Williams, of Lancashire Police, said the force had "deep regrets" and had "clearly put this man through a traumatic experience".
Mr Farmer was taken to hospital for treatment and later discharged.
"It felt like I was grabbing an electricity pylon," he said.
Mr Farmer, who has suffered two strokes, said he thought he was being attacked by thugs.
He was walking to a pub to meet friends on Friday when the officer fired the Taser. It forced him to drop his stick and he fell to the ground, he said.
He said the experience had left him "shaking like a leaf" and scared to go outside.
The case has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
A Lancashire Police spokesman said the incident was being investigated and the officer's Taser had been withdrawn.
Mr Williams said police had "received a number of reports that a man was walking through Chorley armed with a samurai sword".
"A description of the offender was circulated to officers and patrols were sent to look for the man," he said.
"One of the officers who arrived in Chorley believed he had located the offender.
"Despite asking the man to stop, he failed to do so and the officer discharged his Taser."
Mr Williams said it "became apparent that this man was not the person we were looking for and officers attended to him straight away", taking him to Chorley Hospital.
He added that the force "deeply regrets what has happened".
"We have clearly put this man through a traumatic experience and we are extremely sorry for that," he said.
"We have launched an urgent investigation to understand what lessons can be learned."
A man carrying a samurai sword was later arrested on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly.
Addil Haroon, 19 and from Rochdale, claimed he drove from Leeds to Rochdale in 11 minutes on the M62 on 8 November.
The following day he killed another driver Joseph Brown-Lartey, 25, when he drove at 80mph on a residential street.
The attorney general will review Haroon's six-year prison sentence after complaints it was unduly lenient.
Haroon caused Mr Brown-Lartey's Audi A5 to split in half when he sped through a red light and crashed into him at the junction of Bury Road and Sandy Lane, Rochdale, at 04:40 GMT.
Mr Brown-Lartey died at the scene.
It happened hours after Haroon, of Essex Street, took a photograph of the speedometer while speeding on the motorway in a hired Audi A6.
He sent it in a Snapchat message to a friend which read: "Leeds to Rochdale 11mins catch me."
Leeds to Rochdale is trip of about 34 miles.
Haroon pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and driving without a licence or insurance.
Sgt Paul Higgins, of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), said experienced traffic police officers described the crash scene as the "worst" they had ever seen.
The attorney general's office said: "We have been asked to consider whether Addil Haroon's sentence is unreasonably low, under the unduly lenient sentence scheme.
"The attorney or solicitor general will make a decision by 25 June as to whether the case should be referred to the Court of Appeal."
Councillors paved the way for the order and collect store - at the Wellington Road industrial estate - last month.
Ikea hopes the store - which will also have a cafe - will be ready to open in Spring next year, subject to final approvals.
Recruitment of about 30 staff is now under way.
Harbinder Singh Khatkar raped and sexually assaulted six women in one night in Derby in February 2013 - three in the street and three in their homes.
He tried to challenge his convictions at the Court of Appeal.
But judges rejected his case as "totally without merit" and said the appeal "should never have been made".
His appeal attempt included a series of allegations against his trial judge, the police and even his own lawyers.
Lord Justice Irwin, sitting with Sir Wyn Williams and Judge Mark Brown, said: "There is no basis whatever for the claim of bias on the part of the trial judge, for the criticism that the jury should have been discharged, for the criticism in relation to his former legal representatives or for the allegation of police interference or suppression of evidence."
As a punishment for wasting judicial time, the judges ordered Khatkar to serve an extra month in prison before he can seek parole.
The 41-year-old, from Sinfin in Derby, is serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 14 years.
Judge John Burgess, who originally sentenced Khatkar in 2013 at Derby Crown Court, said at the time: "In the course of his trial he behaved in a way that demonstrated contempt for the court, the prosecutor, and anyone else that got in his way.
"If he can behave like that in court with everyone watching him, what must he be like with a vulnerable woman alone in her own home?"
In December 2012, Khatkar had been tried for raping and sexually assaulting a woman in 2011 - but the jury found him not guilty.
He then attacked the six women on 1 February 2013.
One of those victims was repeatedly raped in her home over several hours and he also threatened to kill her children.
Following his arrest for those offences, the Crown Prosecution Service successfully overturned his previous not guilty verdict and he was retried for the 2011 crimes.
His was the first retrial in Derbyshire under the amended double jeopardy law, which came into effect in 2005.
But for now the plan will only apply to 66,000. The other 54,000 will only be moved when governments decide where they should go.
In emergency talks the 28 EU interior and justice ministers argued over how to help Italy, Greece and Hungary, which lack the resources to register and house so many refugees and other migrants.
Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania voted against the plan, but they were overruled.
What is the plan?
The idea was to distribute 120,000 refugees over two years: 54,000 from Hungary; 50,400 from Greece and 15,600 from Italy.
But Hungary objects to being considered a "frontline" state in this crisis, and has rejected the relocation proposal. So Hungary's 54,000 will instead be transferred from Italy and Greece.
The 120,000 total corresponds to about 43% of all the refugees most in need who arrived in Italy and Greece in July and August, an EU statement said.
Despite Tuesday's vote, much uncertainty remains. Slovakia plans to take legal action against the decision.
Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec tweeted in dismay: "Very soon we'll realise that the emperor is naked. Today was a defeat for common sense! :("
The scheme will only apply to refugees most in need of international protection - not economic migrants. Vulnerable groups, including unaccompanied children and rape victims, get priority.
Only refugees from Syria, Iraq and Eritrea will qualify, because there is a threshold: at least 75% of refugees from those countries get international protection in the EU, according to official data.
The European Commission proposed a mandatory distribution key - a mechanism that would oblige even reluctant EU member states to take in refugees. It would be based on several indices, including an EU state's total GDP, its total of asylum applicants and its unemployment rate.
But that automatic mechanism was dropped from the final agreement.
After initial screening and fingerprinting a refugee will be relocated to another EU country, which will get €6,000 (£4,337; $6,700) per refugee in EU aid towards their integration.
Consideration will be given to a refugee's language skills and family connections when deciding which country he/she goes to.
The European Parliament supports the plan.
What happens next?
The four "refusenik" countries can now argue that they were coerced into it by the EU, despite being ill-equipped to integrate refugees.
They argue that Germany is exerting a strong "pull", as the destination of choice for most refugees. Many of the refugees will still try to get there, they argue. It is easy to move around in the EU's Schengen passport-free travel zone, they say.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said "as long as I am prime minister, mandatory quotas will not be implemented on Slovak territory".
The 22 September vote by qualified majority was highly unusual and contentious, because it directly affects national sovereignty. Traditionally each EU member state has its own rules concerning migrants from non-EU countries. The recognition rates for asylum seekers vary enormously across the EU.
There were hopes that the EU could have agreed by consensus, without having a divisive vote.
At least two other former communist states - Latvia and Poland - previously objected to mandatory quotas, but chose to vote with the majority.
Germany, France and Italy pushed hard to get mandatory quotas accepted.
Germany is currently taking in by far the largest number of non-EU asylum seekers - it expects at least 800,000 this year.
Despite much domestic opposition the German government says the influx is manageable, and the country - with its ageing population - will need more workers in future anyway.
Chancellor Angela Merkel sees helping refugees as a humanitarian duty, reminding EU partners that they signed up to such human rights standards by joining the EU.
But Germany is demanding EU "solidarity", saying its partners should take their fair share of refugees too.
The influx of migrants has created serious tensions between EU neighbours, notably since Hungary put up a razor-wire fence on its border with Serbia, criminalised illegal entry and tear-gassed migrants trying to get in.
Croatia has exchanged angry words with both Hungary and Serbia. Hungary is completing a razor-wire fence on its border with Croatia too.
Would all EU states take part?
No. Italy and Greece will not, because the idea is to ease their refugee burden. Hungary, which would have been exempt under the original plan, will now have to accept refugees.
The UK has opted out of this EU policy area. Denmark also has an opt-out, but said it would voluntarily take an extra 1,000 refugees.
Ireland has offered to accept 2,900 extra refugees, even though it also has an opt-out like the UK's.
The UK plans to resettle 20,000 Syrians over the next five years - Syrians currently housed in makeshift camps in the Middle East.
The EU also plans to set up "hotspots" around the Mediterranean, including in Turkey, Italy and Greece, to identify genuine refugees and prevent economic migrants entering the EU illegally.
EU migration: Crisis in graphics
Can the relocation plan really work?
There are serious doubts about this.
Legal wrangling might delay it, or even scupper it. The EU has an "emergency brake" which could provide grounds for blocking the relocation, if a country feels its national security is affected.
However, the plan was drafted in line with Article 78(3) of the Lisbon Treaty, allowing for emergency measures to deal with a migrant influx.
In July the EU agreed to relocate 40,000 refugees - that is, Syrians and Eritreans currently in Greece and Italy. But they have not been relocated yet, some countries will only accept far fewer than 1,000, and so far the country totals have only been agreed for 32,256.
The figure of a further 120,000 is dwarfed by the size of the problem. In January-July this year 438,000 refugees applied for asylum in the EU, compared with 571,000 for the whole of 2014.
Nearly half a million migrants have risked their lives crossing the Mediterranean to reach Europe this year. And about four million Syrian refugees are living in squalid camps in the Middle East, with no jobs - many of them longing for a new life in Europe.
The EU plan says host countries will have to warn migrants of the consequences if they try to move elsewhere in the EU. They can be deported if they enter another EU country illegally.
Faced with a right-wing, anti-immigration backlash across Europe, the EU has pledged to strengthen the bloc's external borders and do more to remove failed asylum seekers, as currently the deportation rate is below 40%.
The Essex singer has enjoyed a successful career in the music industry but said football was his first love.
He has played for Coggeshall Town but was not impressed by the facilities.
"I said listen, let me put some money in and get it sorted," he said. "I rang up my plumber and said can you sort the showers out, and he has."
Murs, who is from Witham, sprang to fame in the 2009 series of X Factor and has since had three number one albums.
Speaking to the Ipswich Town Football Club website ahead of a friendly match, he said he had been training with Coggeshall for "nearly two years".
"I think we're a really up and coming exciting club that everyone wants to be a part of," he said. "That's exciting for me, as a football fan.
"I have a fantastic career and get to do amazing things, but part of my life, a huge part of it, is football. It's all I've ever done since I was a kid.
"Forget about music, music is kind of the second thing - my second love. Football has always been my first."
Murs said he asked a plumber who works for West Ham to fix the showers.
"Ipswich Town wouldn't worry about them, but for us down here having a good shower after the game is amazing," he said.
Coggeshall play in the 11th tier of English football. The game with Ipswich ended 1-1.
A flock of 6,000 turkeys has been diagnosed with the H5N8 strain of avian flu, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said.
Some of the birds at Low Farm in Fulstow, near Louth, East Lindsey, have died. The rest are due to be culled.
Defra said it was "unlikely to be directly linked to the previous case" at the nearby Austen Fen Farm.
A 1.8-mile (3km) protection zone and a six-mile (10km) surveillance area have been set up around Low Farm to reduce the risk of the disease spreading.
Chief Veterinary Officer Nigel Gibbens said: "We have taken swift action to limit the risk of the disease spreading with restrictions in place around the affected premises.
"A full investigation is under way to determine the source of the infection."
The protection zone at Austen Fen Farm, near Louth, was removed on 9 January but surveillance continued at the site, Defra said.
The same strain has been discovered in birds in Settle, North Yorkshire, a swannery in Dorset and flocks in Carmarthenshire, south west Wales.
Last month, the government introduced an avian influenza prevention zone, which lasts until 28 February, to help protect poultry and captive birds from avian flu after the strain was found in 14 European countries including Germany and France.
Ms Suu Kyi will meet President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang, but no other details have been provided.
Relations between the countries have cooled in recent years, partly because of violence near their mutual border.
Myanmar has been fighting rebels in its eastern Kokang region, which borders China's Yunnan province.
China is concerned about violence spilling over and has sent patrols to the border in response.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman told reporters on Wednesday that Ms Suu Kyi's visit would "move forward China and Myanmar's friendly and co-operative relations".
He added that China hoped Myanmar "would answer to relevant requests put in by China, stop the warfare, ease the tension, and restore peace, stability and normal order to the China-Myanmar border area at an early date."
This visit is meant to improve ties between Myanmar's opposition leader and China but her comments will be closely scrutinised.
Many are already calling on Ms Suu Kyi to recognise her similarities to fellow Nobel Peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo during her visit.
The Chinese dissident and writer is serving an 11-year prison sentence for "inciting subversion of state power".
But authorities said on Wednesday they would not release him as there was "no reason to alter the judgment".
Analysts say the government was furious after he was awarded the prize a year after being imprisoned, and will not take kindly to any criticism from Ms Suu Kyi.
When China's state news agency announced Aung San Suu Kyi's imminent arrival in Beijing, she was described as a parliamentarian, the leader of a key political party. The fact that she is also a Nobel Peace prize laureate did not merit a mention.
And that hints at the political risk that Beijing is taking by hosting Ms Suu Kyi. Her presence will highlight the notable absence of China's own Liu Xiaobo.
Mr Liu is one of the principal authors of a petition calling for democracy and an end to one-party rule in China. Just like Ms Suu Kyi, he is being punished for speaking out against authoritarian rule.
Mr Liu's wife, who lives under strict house arrest, said she was "very, very happy" to hear about Ms Suu Kyi's visit. But she declined the BBC's request for an interview, explaining over the phone: "I am under close watch from the government and comments I make can delay my visits to Xiaobo and affect how my family is treated (by police)."
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While Myanmar's military junta was under Western sanctions and Ms Suu Kyi was under house arrest, China remained a loyal ally.
But since reforms were introduced in 2011, the government of President Thein Sein has allied itself closely with the US, although China continues to help develop major infrastructure projects in Myanmar.
Correspondents say that a democratic Myanmar is a much harder partner for China, but given that Ms Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy party may do well in forthcoming elections, Beijing wants to build a relationship with a woman whose politics it deplores.
Ms Suu Kyi is expected to play a key role in the presidential elections this November. But she is unlikely to run as the constitution blocks her from standing because her husband and children are foreign citizens.
Madge Elliot is renowned for her fight to save the Waverley Line, which ran between Edinburgh, Hawick and Carlisle, before it closed in the 1960s.
Just 95 days until the first passengers travel on the new Borders Railway, a locomotive bearing her name has been unveiled at Waverley Station.
From 6 September, the maintenance train is expected to appear on the new line.
During a campaign to keep a railway line in the Borders in the 1960s, Mrs Elliot collected a petition of 11,768 signatures.
With her 11-year-old son Kim, and Liberal MP David Steel, she delivered it to Prime Minister Harold Wilson at 10 Downing Street on 18 December 1968.
Since then the Hawick woman has actively campaigned for the re-opening of the line as a member of the Campaign for Borders Rail.
On 6 September, her work will finally bear fruit as rail services begin the new 30-mile track from Edinburgh to Tweedbank, near Galashiels.
At the ceremony in Edinburgh, Mrs Elliot's son Kim said: "For as long as I can remember, the railway has been a passion for my parents, but for my mother in particular, and it's become a life-long interest for us all.
"We are delighted that, just days before trains start running on the railway once again, the project team has taken the opportunity to honour the role my mother played in re-establishing this link.
"It's a fitting tribute to her that the engine carrying her name has been used to build this railway and hopefully many more."
Infrastructure minister Keith Brown was also at the event to pay tribute to Mrs Elliot.
"We are now just a heartbeat away from seeing this historic railway come back to life, and that is undoubtedly in huge part thanks to the tireless campaigning work of Madge Elliot," he said.
"This is an incredibly exciting time for the rail industry, and for the communities up and down the new railway, and I am delighted that we have been able to share this with Madge and honour the work she has done over the years."
A giant artwork, created by design student Jane Flemming, was also unveiled near to the platforms to be used for many of the departures to the Borders.
Her work was selected from 80 entries by students at the Heriot-Watt School of Textiles and Design in Galashiels.
Mr Trump called himself the Republican "presumptive nominee" after victories in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
The results bring him closer to the number of delegates he needs before the party's national convention in July.
For the Democrats, Mrs Clinton was denied a clean sweep by Bernie Sanders.
The Vermont senator won in Rhode Island and vowed to fight to the end of the primaries process.
Speaking at the Philadelphia Convention Center after securing the four other states, Mrs Clinton said her campaign was setting "bold, progressive goals" to improve lives in the US.
"We believe in the goodness of our people and the greatness of our nation," she said.
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Full results state by state
After his sweep of the five states, Mr Trump said of the battle for the Republican nomination: "It's over. As far as I'm concerned, it's over."
He told supporters in New York he would not moderate his policies if elected president.
He said: "You know I went to the best schools. I'm like a very smart person. I'm going to represent our country with dignity and very well.
"But I don't really want to change my personality. You know, it got me here."
There's winning, and then there's WINNING.
Donald Trump's night is shaping up to be the latter, as he steamrolled his opposition in all five mid-Atlantic states.
This campaign season has been punctuated with a series of theories about how and why Mr Trump's presidential ambitions would eventually be thwarted. The latest was that he'd never be able to win more than 50% of the vote as the field narrows. It appears likely that he'll easily surpass that mark across the board and claim the lion's share of the delegates at stake.
During a primary night speech that took place before the polls even closed, Texas Senator Ted Cruz promised that his campaign was now heading to "more favourable terrain". He's setting up a firewall in Indiana, but there's a Trump-fuelled conflagration heading his way.
The New Yorker still has work to do to clinch the Republican nomination, but after his latest performance, such a prospect seems increasingly likely.
Trump and Clinton deliver decisive blows
After their victories, Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton turned their fire on each other.
Mr Trump said his Democratic rival's only advantage in the presidential race was being a woman.
"Frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don't think she'd get 5% of the vote," he said.
Mrs Clinton hit back at his accusation that she was playing the "woman card".
"Well, if fighting for women's healthcare and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman card, then deal me in," she told cheering supporters in Philadelphia.
Mr Trump's rivals, Ted Cruz and John Kasich, have already shifted their attention to forthcoming states.
As part of a new campaigning pact, Mr Kasich will give Mr Cruz a "clear path" to tackle Mr Trump in Indiana on Tuesday, with Mr Cruz reciprocating for Mr Kasich in the Oregon and New Mexico primaries.
Mr Trump has condemned their pact as a sign of weakness and desperation, and another sign of the Republican party colluding against him.
Neither Mr Kasich nor Mr Cruz has a chance of securing the Republican nomination outright. The hope of a contested convention this July in Cleveland is keeping them in the race.
This scenario would see party delegates - Republican officials and activists - choose the nominee.
Analysts believe that Indiana, with its 57 delegates, will be crucial if Mr Trump's rivals are to stop him securing the 1,237 he needs to win outright.
Opinion polls suggest Mr Trump has 39% support there, Mr Cruz 33% and Mr Kasich 19%.
Mr Cruz told supporters in Indiana on Tuesday night they could look forward to some success as the race moved to more conservative states.
His event was held at a basketball court where some scenes were filmed for the 1986 film Hoosiers, about a small-town high school basketball team that wins the state championship.
The Texas senator attempted to recreate a scene from the film but was mocked on social media for referring to a basketball "ring" rather than a "hoop".
Meanwhile, speaking in Huntington, West Virginia, after the vote, Bernie Sanders vowed to fight to the end of the nomination process, saying he would attract broad support in November's election.
"The reason that we are generating this enthusiasm is because we are doing something very unusual in contemporary politics. We are telling the truth," he said.
But he admitted to Associated Press he had a "very narrow path and we're going to have to win some big victories".
But compatriots Naomi Broady and Katie Swan lost in the women's tournament.
British number three Broady went down 7-5 6-4 to New Zealander Marina Erakovic.
Teenager Swan, the world number 338, was beaten 6-3 6-3 by a player ranked more than 250 places above her, Risa Ozaki of Japan.
The Cubans are travelling north, trying to reach the United States by land.
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.
Nicaragua accused Costa Rica of "hurling thousands of Cubans at Nicaragua's southern border posts".
The Cubans said they had flown to Ecuador from where they had made their way north through Colombia and Panama to Costa Rica.
They reported being stranded in Costa Rica after the trafficking ring which they had paid to get them to the US was broken up by the authorities.
On Saturday, Costa Rica issued seven-day transit visas to more than 1,700 Cubans detained after crossing illegally into Costa Rica from Panama.
Nicaragua's left-wing government, which has close ties to Cuba, said that move had "unleashed a humanitarian crisis with serious consequences for our region".
The Cubans told Nicaraguan media they had waited for hours to be granted Nicaraguan transit permits before getting impatient and entering the Penas Blancas border post by force.
They continued on foot on the Panamerican Highway north, where they were met by Nicaraguan security forces who took them back to Costa Rica.
Some migrants said Nicaraguan security forces had fired tear gas and rubber bullets.
Costa Rican Foreign Minister Manuel Gonzalez criticised Nicaragua's response.
"When other countries take the irresponsible decision to close their borders, people will use any means to reach their destination," he said.
One Cuban migrant told Nicaraguan newspaper El Nuevo Diario that "most of us have been travelling for more than two months".
"We're fleeing unemployment [in Cuba] and among this group, which started gathering in the past days in Costa Rica, are children and pregnant women," the 50-year-old migrant said.
Another migrant told Reuters news agency that "we don't want to stay in any of these countries, our aim is to reach the United States, that's our objective".
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.
Historically, Cubans reaching US soil have been given preferential treatment over migrants from other countries.
Under the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act, they can be granted asylum much more easily than applicants from other countries.
But with relations between the former Cold War foes improving, many Cubans fear this policy, which dates back to the Cold War, could be abolished.
According to US Customs and Border Protection figures, more than 25,000 Cubans entered the US through its southern border between October 2014 and September 2015.
The current tyres prevent drivers from racing flat out because they degrade quickly and need to be nursed.
Cars will be as much as five seconds a lap faster in 2017.
Pirelli has already indicated its willingness to produce a racier tyre next year but says it needs more track testing to fulfil its work.
It has been allocated 12 days for this purpose in 2016.
The BBC has learned that the FIA, which governs F1, will instruct Pirelli to design a tyre that will allow drivers to push hard for longer.
Pirelli chairman Marco Tronchetti Provera told teams and drivers at a meeting earlier this month, where dissatisfaction with the current tyres was discussed, that it could produce whatever the F1 wanted as long as it had clear commission.
Pirelli has been given preliminary information about the performance the cars are expected to have in 2017 so it can start working on tyre design.
The FIA plans to outline how it wants tyres to perform and will provide all necessary data to the company by the end of March.
Pirelli entered F1 in 2011 and was asked to ensure races had multiple pit stops. It did this by producing tyres that suffer from thermal degradation.
Those tyres start to lose performance above a certain temperature - and never recover it.
That means drivers often race below the limit throughout most races in order to manage the tyres and produce the best possible race time.
Sometimes, they cannot even push to the limit on a qualifying lap because they need to keep the tyres below their temperature ceiling.
The drivers have never liked this, but the situation came to a head last season following two 200mph tyre failures at the Belgian Grand Prix.
Alexander Wurz, chairman of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association, recently told BBC Sport that drivers want tyres "fit for maximum-attack racing".
Pirelli has changed the tyre characteristics for 2016 in an attempt to make it less predictable when they run out of grip.
It hopes this will development will enable the drivers to push harder.
However, world champion Lewis Hamilton is not impressed with the new tyres after testing them this week in Barcelona.
"It's definitely not better, that's for sure," he said. "It just feels like a harder tyre and it's not giving me any more grip. I think I prefer last year's."
Plans to speed up the cars for 2017 were briefly derailed when Pirelli said its would have to run its tyres at abnormally high pressures if they were to cope with planned increases in cornering forces.
Teams and the FIA began work on a watered-down set of changes, only for analysis to show that these would not meet performance targets.
New rules agreed this week represent a compromise, based on a proposal put forward by McLaren.
The aim is to have a greater proportion of the aerodynamic downforce produced by the underfloor and to have a greater proportion of mechanical grip.
The cars will be made wider - both in terms of the sideways distance between the wheels and the bodywork - while tyres will be bigger.
The expectation is cars will be four to five seconds a lap faster in 2017.
Dame Zaha Hadid was a mathematics graduate and a master of the unexpected.
Which explains - perhaps - why the first thing you encounter when walking into the Science Museum's new Maths gallery is a 1929 Handley Page bi-plane suspended from the ceiling.
This was to be Dame Zaha's design touchstone, the airflow from its wings dictating a dynamic design of sweeping curves and a huge sculptural form that frames the gallery's central space.
There is, though, a function beyond the decorative to this particular form. It acts as a barrier to stop visitors using the gallery as a thoroughfare, which had been the case before its £5m upgrade.
The space is lit with a serene purple light, giving it a womb-like feel, creating a contemplative aesthetic, which is badly undermined by noises off; namely the arcade-like soundtrack emanating from the interactive displays in the Energy Gallery nearby.
Had the architect lived to see her design realised, I suspect she would not have tolerated such audio pollution of her thoughtful, peaceful vibe.
The displays are arranged around broad themes: Trade & Travel, War & Peace, Maps & Models, Life & Death, Trade & Travel, Form & Beauty.
The idea is to show how maths plays a central and essential role in our everyday life, and is not some abstract activity undertaken by nerdy individuals in back rooms.
Stories are brought to the fore illustrating where maths is present in our lives, which is a perfectly understandable curatorial strategy. But it does relegate the hard arithmetic, calculus and geometry that enabled the creation of the objects on display to a very minor role.
I think that's OK. This gallery is an introduction to a massive subject, and is aiming to offer as wide an audience as possible a way into what can be perceived as a very dry subject.
There are some real hits. The Heath Robinson-looking Moniac machine is a real winner.
It was designed by Bill Phillips in 1952 for the London School of Economics to model the British economy. For two decades, this marvellous looking contraption, where water=money, was used to teach some of the world's finest economic minds Keynesian principles. It did have one major shortcoming, though. It didn't account for human behaviour…
There's plenty more in the Winton Gallery to enjoy. William Froude's Swan and Raven hulls, for instance, are really compelling. Here we are shown how the engineer's quiet experiments on the River Dart led to the redesign of the world's super-tankers.
I could go on. The Turner sketches on perspective are great. As is the PDP-8 minicomputer (1965), which the display label tells us was the first successful computer small enough to fit into offices. It couldn't do much, but by golly, it looked good.
So does this new gallery. That's down to Dame Zaha's team.
But the imaginative and instructive displays were put together by the Science Museum's David Rooney. He has taken a calculated risk by privileging story-telling over pure maths, which won't please everyone but I think - on balance - is a good decision.
You could say: the sum is great and so are the parts.
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He tweeted: "F-35 program and cost is out of control. Billions of dollars can and will be saved on military (and other) purchases after January 20."
The F-35 is the Pentagon's most expensive weapons programme, costing about $400bn (£316bn).
Lockheed shares were down 4.2% at $248.51 in morning trading.
Jeff Babione, Lockheed's F-35 chief, said the company understood concerns about affordability, but added: "It's an amazing programme. It's great value and I look forward to any questions that the President-elect may have."
He was in Israel on Monday with US Defence Secretary Ash Carter as the country prepared to take delivery of first F-35 fighters.
Israel is among a small number of US allies to buy the plane.
Mr Trump's missive comes a week after he condemned as "out of control" the cost of a new Air Force One plane being built by Boeing.
Israel - which signed a deal this year for $38bn in US military aid - has ordered 50 of the new fighter jets, each priced at around $100m.
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The serial killer, 69, who was convicted of murdering 13 women, has been housed at high-security Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire since 1984.
The BBC understands a report by medical experts suggests he be moved from the psychiatric unit to prison.
The Ministry of Justice said the final decision would be made by Justice Secretary Michael Gove.
Decisions to move prisoners from secure hospitals are based on "clinical assessments" by independent medical staff, it said.
Any transfer back to prison is likely to take in the region of six months.
The son of Sutcliffe's first victim Wilma McCann said he was willing to leave the decision to medical experts and had let go the anger over what had happened to his mother.
Richard McCann said: "My initial thoughts were that, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't really change a great deal for us; it does not bring Mum back.
"But, having thought about it, I've woken up thinking it's only right that he's returned to prison, as is any prisoner who is deemed fit to return to prison.
"There is a difference between Broadmoor and prison, but I'm not in a position where I'm full of anger and hatred and want to see him in a cell.
"I am not sure whether he needed to be in Broadmoor or not, but what I do believe is, he is ill, he must have been ill to have done the things that he did.
"It is 40 years since it happened and I'll let the professional make the decisions. Hopefully they've made the right one."
Former lorry driver Sutcliffe was originally held in HMP Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight following his conviction in 1981 for the murder of 13 women.
He was later moved to Broadmoor after he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
David K Ho, a consultant forensic psychiatrist who has previously worked at Broadmoor, said the decision would have been made by the staff who were treating Sutcliffe.
"Loosely speaking, schizophrenia is a little like diabetes in the sense that when you treat it its symptoms get less, when you stop treating it, it may recur," said Dr Ho.
"So I don't think it's the case that his mental disorder has completely been cured, but I think it perhaps has reached a stage where its symptoms are under control."
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a diagnosis doctors use if someone is experiencing a cluster of psychological symptoms.
These include "psychotic experiences, such as hearing voices or seeing things that don't exist (hallucinations) and having unusual beliefs that are not based on reality (delusions).
There are different subtypes of schizophrenia - paranoid schizophrenia is one example and this is when the person experiences false beliefs of being persecuted or plotted against.
Schizophrenia is a fairly common mental health condition, affecting about one in every 100 people.
He said it was not uncommon for patients to be returned to prison after a long period of assessment and treatment.
Dr Ho added that while a psychiatrist makes a recommendation pertaining to the Mental Health Act, the approval for a transfer needs to come from the Ministry of Justice.
In 2010, the High Court ordered that Sutcliffe, who was given 20 life sentences, should never be released.
Brian Dow, director of external affairs at the charity Rethink Mental Illness, said: "There's no cure as such. There's no medication that will make it go away, but people will often be able to manage their symptoms to a point where they can lead a very normal life.
"Presumably... he is sufficiently well that he no longer needs to be treated in a clinical setting.
"That's very possible as the treatments he may have had may have got him to a point where they deem him to be able to be incarcerated in a prison rather than a high-security ward."
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RLC will be the first tenant of Global Point Business Park, Invest NI's largest industrial development site.
The company makes components for some of the best-known names in the aerospace sector, including Martin Baker and Rolls-Royce.
RLC, which is based in the Isle of Man, already employs more than 250 people at its facility in Crumlin, County Antrim.
The Crumlin facility will stay open.
RLC will also use it as the base for a research and development project focusing on engine components.
The company is investing £35m with Invest NI providing £6.5m in job creation and research and development grants.
The location of the factory, Global Point, was supposed to begin operating as a business park more than 10 years ago.
However, it was hit by the withdrawal of a private sector developer, planning issues and the economic downturn.
Iraqi-British Hadid is the first woman to win the top prize in the competition, now in its seventh year.
The Heydar Aliyev Centre features Hadid's signature elaborate curves and undulations.
Previous winners include the London 2012 Olympic Torch, the Plumen light bulb, and the British government's Gov.uk website.
The overall winner was chosen by a panel of experts from more than 70 nominated designs in the categories of architecture, digital, fashion, furniture, graphics, product and transport.
The judges also chose winners in the other six categories. Winners included Prada for the fashion award and Volkswagen for transport.
The winner of the first social vote category, which gives design lovers from all over the world the chance to vote for their favourite nominated design, was the modular smartphone concept Phonebloks by Dave Hakkens.
Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Centre is the first architectural design to win the award.
Chair of the jury Ekow Eshun, a writer, journalist and broadcaster, said: "It's beautiful, it's inspiring, it's the clear vision of a singular genius and we thought it was a remarkable piece of work."
Hadid said: "We're absolutely delighted to receive the Design of the Year Award.
"The surface of the Heydar Aliyev Centre's external plaza rises and folds to define a sequence of public event spaces within; welcoming, embracing and directing visitors throughout the building.
"It's an architectural landscape where concepts of seamless spatial flow are made real - creating a whole new kind of civic space for the city."
The Baku building is named after Heydar Aliyev, the leader of Soviet-era Azerbaijan from 1969 to 1982 and president of Azerbaijan from October 1993 to October 2003.
The centre houses a conference hall, a gallery hall and a museum and was devised to help the redevelopment of Baku.
Hadid's other recent notable work includes designing a main station for Saudi Arabia's ambitious underground system in Riyadh and she has also created the design for Tokyo's 2020 Olympic Park.
She is a previous winner of the Sterling Prize for Architecture in both 2010 and 2011.
In 2004, she became the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
She designed the first of London's Serpentine Gallery's annual Pavilions in 2000, and many other noteworthy buildings around the world.
In addition, she has well-known interior designs to her name, including the Aquatics Centre for London's 2012 Olympic Park.
All the nominated designs for the Design of the Year Award are on display in an exhibition at London's Design Museum until 25 August 2014.
Mike Porter, 66, from Edinburgh, was killed in the cattle attack on a public footpath through Elbow Field in Turleigh, Wiltshire, in May 2013.
Brian Godwin, 83, admitted not keeping people not employed by him safe.
The judge at Swindon Crown Court suspended the farmer's sentence for two years because of his age.
Godwin was also ordered to pay £30,000 costs.
The court heard there had been at least four previous incidents, in which six people suffered injuries needing hospital treatment, and involved Mr Godwin's beef cattle, going back to 2004.
These incidents did not include the fatal attack on Mike Porter on 13 May 2013.
Mr Porter had been visiting his older brother John Porter, from Monkton Combe near Bath, when they walked dogs on leads across the footpath through Elbow Field.
The men were knocked to the ground by two cows and stamped on. Mike Porter died at the scene of internal bleeding.
John Porter said he "didn't have any fear" before entering the field but added "now of course, it's a little different".
He said: "It's a national problem. It happens all over the country. We're privileged in having these footpaths but they do need to be managed.
"I think it requires an understanding by the walker. I think the signage is one factor which can be improved."
Nick Porter, Mr Porter's son, said the sentencing showed his death was "avoidable".
"While nothing will bring Dad back to us, we can at least take some comfort that lessons have been learned which will prevent others in the future being needlessly killed or injured," he said.
Dawn Lawrence, HM Inspector of Health and Safety, said: "The agency hopes that Mr Godwin's conviction and sentence will send a clear message to farmers they must take adequate steps to protect members of the public using footpaths on their land."
After failing to unpick Atletico's defence with intricate passing, the hosts took the lead as Ivan Rakitic glanced in Andres Iniesta's cross.
Lionel Messi was forced off with an injury on the hour and Atletico took quick advantage as Angel Correa danced through the defence to equalise.
Gerard Pique and Diego Godin went close but neither La Liga side could score.
A point means Luis Enrique's side could only match Real's earlier draw with Villarreal as they remain third in the league behind their fiercest rivals and Sevilla.
The hosts were undoubtedly rocked by the loss of Messi on 59 minutes, with Barcelona subsequently tweeting the star striker will be out for three weeks.
A seemingly innocuous challenge from Godin saw the Argentine forced to hobble off with a recurrence of the groin injury that forced him to fly back early from international duty this month for treatment.
The hosts then switched off shortly after, allowing Correa to burst through largely untroubled and equalise for Atletico.
Without the spark provided by Messi and the organisation of Busquets, who also was withdrawn through injury shortly after the break, Barcelona lost their way.
Diego Simeone's tactical acumen is no secret but the Atletico boss proved his shrewdness once again as his double substitution resulted in instant success.
Kevin Gameiro and the ineffectual Saul were taken off for Fernando Torres and Correa, with the former providing a deft flick for Correa to run on to, taking advantage of Javier Mascherano's slip to pick his spot and slot the ball inside Marc-Andre ter Stegen's near post.
Simeone took full advantage of the misfortune suffered by Barcelona's own Argentine master as he urged his side forward against an increasingly ragged opposition.
And had Ter Stegen not produced a fine fingertip save in the final moments to deny Godin's powerful header, then Simeone would have been celebrating another underdog victory.
In a match full of attacking talents, both sides also showed their defensive strength, as exemplified by Godin and Pique.
Both centre-backs organised their defences brilliantly and each had a chance to win the tie for their sides as they stole a march on their respective markers to go close late on.
Match ends, Barcelona 1, Atlético de Madrid 1.
Second Half ends, Barcelona 1, Atlético de Madrid 1.
André Gomes (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Fernando Torres (Atlético de Madrid).
Attempt missed. Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Neymar following a corner.
Corner, Barcelona. Conceded by Juanfran.
Attempt blocked. Neymar (Barcelona) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrés Iniesta.
Neymar (Barcelona) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Juanfran (Atlético de Madrid).
Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Thomas Partey (Atlético de Madrid).
Offside, Atlético de Madrid. Koke tries a through ball, but Juanfran is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Koke (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Jordi Alba (Barcelona) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sergi Roberto.
Corner, Atlético de Madrid. Conceded by Marc-André ter Stegen.
Attempt saved. Diego Godín (Atlético de Madrid) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Koke with a cross.
Foul by André Gomes (Barcelona).
Juanfran (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Filipe Luis (Atlético de Madrid) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Barcelona. Conceded by Juanfran.
Attempt blocked. Jordi Alba (Barcelona) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ivan Rakitic.
Neymar (Barcelona) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Juanfran (Atlético de Madrid).
Luis Suárez (Barcelona) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Luis Suárez (Barcelona).
Filipe Luis (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Gerard Piqué (Barcelona) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Neymar with a cross following a set piece situation.
Thomas Partey (Atlético de Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Neymar (Barcelona) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Thomas Partey (Atlético de Madrid).
Neymar (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Thomas Partey (Atlético de Madrid).
Attempt saved. Neymar (Barcelona) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ivan Rakitic.
Foul by Arda Turan (Barcelona).
Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona).
Koke (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona).
Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Police told state media that they had found almost 27 million tablets after inspecting the vehicle.
Myanmar, also known as Burma, has long been notorious for opium production, but in recent years production of synthetic drugs there has risen.
Methamphetamine use has seen a sharp rise in the region in recent years.
Police said the tablets seized had a street value of around $4 each.
Sunday's find was "the biggest stimulant tablet seizure during this government", an unnamed police officer at the anti-drug trafficking department told AFP.
Last month the government set fire to seized drugs worth hundreds of millions of dollars to mark the UN's International Day against Drug Abuse.
Myanmar is the world's second-largest producer of opium after Afghanistan, with production concentrated in its northern Kachin and Shan regions.
What do we know about who attacked Minnesota, New York and New Jersey?
On Saturday morning, a pipe bomb exploded on the route of a charity race in New Jersey. Nobody was hurt, because the road was empty at the time. The race had been delayed due to an unattended bag. The event, which was planned to raise money for Marines and sailors, was cancelled.
That evening, a man dressed in a security uniform stabbed eight people in a shopping centre in a town in Minnesota. They all survived and none of their injuries are life-threatening. The attacker was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer. It happened in St Cloud, 70 miles (110km) from the major city of Minneapolis. The town's police chief said the man had asked at least one person if they were Muslim.
At roughly the same time, more than 1,200 miles (1,900km) away in Manhattan, New York, a pressure cooker filled with shrapnel exploded. It happened in the Chelsea area where there is a bustling nightlife, and 29 people were injured. All were released from hospital by Sunday. The same kind of bomb had been used in the Boston marathon attack in 2013.
A second, similar, bomb found four blocks away was removed safely.
Overnight on Sunday and in the early hours of Monday morning, up to five explosive devices were found in a backpack inside a rubbish bin in Elizabeth, New Jersey. One of them exploded while being handled by a robot. The city's mayor has said this was "not a controlled explosion".
On Monday, Ahmad Khan Rahami was arrested after a shootout with police in Linden, New Jersey, a city four miles (6.4km) south-west of Elizabeth, where more devices were found on Sunday. Rahami, 28, a suspect in the New Jersey and New York bombings, was born in Afghanistan and later became a US citizen.
Earlier on Monday, the FBI sent text message alerts to millions of New Yorkers warning them Rahami "should be considered armed and dangerous".
Dahir A Adan, a 22-year-old student, was identified by his father as the assailant in the Minnesota knife attack. Adan, a Kenyan-born Somali man, had lived in the US for 15 years according to his father. Ahmed Adan said he had "no suspicion" his son was involved in extremist activity.
It's hard to say - not least without a consistent definition of what terrorism is. The authorities have said the motive for all three attacks was unclear.
New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo originally said the bomb in the city was "obviously an act of terrorism, but it's not linked to international terrorism", and clarified that no link to the so-called Islamic State (IS) group "et cetera" had been found.
But after the suspect was identified, Mr Cuomo said: "Today's information suggests it may be foreign related, but we'll see where it goes."
So-called Islamic State said the Minnesota attacker was one of its "soldiers", but the FBI says it has not been able to find any link. IS has called for "lone wolf" attacks and has been known to claim attacks by people who were later found not to have been in contact with the group.
They already have. About 1,000 extra security personnel have being deployed to New York's transport hubs as President Barack Obama arrived in the city. He was scheduled to be there on Tuesday to open the UN General Assembly, attended by leaders and delegates from around the world.
"If you look at a number of these incidents, you can call them whatever you want: they are terrorism, though," said Chris Christie, the Governor of New Jersey.
The Democratic Party's candidate for the presidency, Hillary Clinton, said: "This should steel our resolve to protect our country and defeat ISIS and other terrorist groups."
Republican candidate Donald Trump was one of the first to say Chelsea was a bomb attack. He later tweeted: "Best wishes and condolences to all of the families and victims of the horrible bombing."
Saturday 09:30 local time (13:30 GMT): Pipe bomb explodes on route of charity race in Seaside Park, New Jersey
Saturday 21:00 local time (01:00 Sunday GMT): Manhattan pressure cooker bomb explodes
Saturday 23:30 local time (03:30 Sunday GMT): Manhattan second pressure cooker bomb found but does not explode
Saturday 20:00 local time (02:00 Sunday GMT): eight people stabbed in Minnesota
Sunday 20:30 local time (01:30 Monday GMT): first of five pipe bombs found in a bin in Elizabeth, New Jersey
One in 20 women (5%) aged between 16 and 59 reported using an illicit substance in the past year, the Crime Survey for England and Wales found.
This was the lowest level since the records started in 1996. It had peaked at 8.8% in 2000 and 2003-04.
Among men, 11.8% reported using drugs over the past year - a figure which has also fallen in recent years.
Susanne Hakimi, from the charity Action on Addiction's Hope House - a residential treatment centre for women - said drug use among women has been "hidden away behind closed doors".
She said: "Some women tell us they are afraid to seek help for fear of losing their children. Although addiction generally is still highly stigmatised, we are seeing more women coming to us for treatment for drug use and being a little more open about their recovery.
"Once this starts to happen, we believe it can be contagious and one person in recovery can, with the right support, encourage and support someone else to recover from addiction."
The Home Office figures suggested drug use was higher among young people. Nearly one in five (18.0%) of young adults aged 16-24 had taken an illicit drug in the last year- around 1.1 million people, the figures show.
This was similar to the 2014-15 survey (19.5%), but lower compared with a decade ago (25.2% in the 2005-06 survey).
Professor Kevin Fenton, national director of health and wellbeing at Public Health England, commented: "These new figures show that drug use has been largely stable over the last five years and continues to be considerably lower than 10 to 15 years ago."
However, usage of cocaine and ecstasy jumped among people from wealthier households, the figures suggested.
In 2015/16, 3% of people aged 16 to 59 from households with incomes of at least £50,000 reported taking cocaine - up from 2.2% in 2014/15.
The proportion in the same category who had used ecstasy was 2.2% - up from 1.5%.
Simon Antrobus, chief executive of the charity Addaction, said the increases reflected factors including wider availability and "a cultural shift which has increasingly normalised those substances".
It comes as separate figures showed that the number of people being admitted to hospital after being poisoned by illegal drugs has soared by more than 50% in the past 10 years.
There were 14,279 hospital admissions where 'poisoning by illicit drugs' was the main diagnosis in 2014-15, a rise of 57% since 2004-05, figures released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre, showed.
That's the view of James Lewis, a cybersecurity expert at the Washington DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Mr Lewis says that no company can prevent an attack launched by hackers who have the resources of a nation-state behind them from succeeding.
He believes the hackers who breached Sony's network in late 2014 and leaked huge amounts of confidential information were backed by the North Korean government.
"It is simply not possible to beat these hackers," Mr Lewis says. "Criminals want to make money, and if they find it difficult to get into your network they will move on to another target.
"But the Sony hack was not done for money - it was politically motivated and vindictive."
Other experts have expressed doubts, though, over whether Pyongyang was really behind the hack, and North Korea has consistently denied involvement in the security breach.
Government-backed attackers have far greater resources at their disposal than criminal hacker gangs, and if necessary they may be able to make use of "other measures" such as human agents or communications intercepts to successfully bypass any security measures, he explains.
"Government-backed hackers simply won't give up - they will keep trying until they succeed," Mr Lewis adds.
This calls for a fundamental rethink in the way the companies calculate security risk and how they mitigate it, he believes.
"Right now most companies are underestimating risk. So the question they need to be asking is, 'How do I change what I do to take into account this risk?'"
Many security experts believe the answer to this question is to focus efforts on detecting security breaches as quickly as possible and then responding appropriately to minimise the harm they can do.
"This is where I would find fault with Sony - not in the breach itself, but in not detecting it quickly, and failing to prevent the exfiltration of large amounts of data," says Rick Holland, a security and risk management analyst at Forrester Research.
"But this is pretty typical of many companies out there," he adds.
Effectively many companies have erected high walls to try to deter intruders, but they are failing to post guards on the walls to spot when intruders climb over them.
Mr Holland believes that minimising the damage hackers do when they inevitably force their way on to corporate networks involves making big changes to the way that those networks are designed.
"If you look at the way networks are at the moment, most of them are fundamentally insecure," he says.
"Once an attacker gets into an environment it's like a shopping trolley dash but without the clock - you can just take whatever you like."
He recommends companies make more efforts to segment their networks. This involves separating one part of the network from another in such a way that if hackers get on to the network they only get access to the data in that segment and no more.
"What you need is a bulkhead approach like in a ship: if the hull gets breached you can close the bulkhead and limit the damage," Mr Holland says.
In some industries, such as oil and gas, there is a practice of "air gapping" important computer infrastructure such as control systems - physically disconnecting them from corporate networks so that hackers can't get to them from the rest of the network.
While this approach can be effective Mr Holland believes it would be impractical for most businesses, because it would be too inconvenient for employees and productivity would suffer. As a result they would probably close the air gap somehow - perhaps by setting up an unauthorised wi-fi link.
The Sony hackers are likely to have damaged Sony's reputation significantly by leaking some of the confidential email exchanges that they stole.
One measure that Mr Holland suggests companies adopt to prevent this is to reduce their "embarrassment footprint" by ensuring that unnecessary data is deleted promptly so that there is less for hackers to steal.
"Companies can certainly have too much data, and they need to identify the data they don't need and kill it," he says.
This leaves many companies with something of a dilemma, because of the growing popularity of big data analysis. Big data projects require that data is collected and stored rather than deleted so it can be analysed to uncover previously unknown patterns, trends and correlations.
"The problem with big data infrastructure is that all the data is in one basket," says Mr Holland.
"In many companies, if a hacker could compromise the big data container they could get everything."
The use of encryption to protect data from intruders is also important, but Anton Chuvakin, a security expert at Gartner, points out that when hackers get on to a network and aren't detected quickly there's a risk that they will be able to steal the keys required to decrypt any data they steal.
"The problem is that encryption is very easy, but key management is hard. How do you manage the keys so that they are always available to every legitimate user that needs them, but never available to criminals?"
Nonetheless, he believes that encryption - and other security measures such as network segmentation - are valuable because they make things harder for hackers. They present obstacles which, while not insurmountable, hamper their progress.
"What companies need to be doing is switching away from trying to prevent hackers from getting into their networks," Mr Chuvakin says.
"Thinking about how they can slow hackers down so they can catch them is much more sensible. If hackers steal your encrypted data but then have to spend three days searching for your encryption keys then you have a much better chance of detecting them."
This begs the question of how companies can detect sophisticated hackers intruding on their networks: current anti-virus and intrusion detection systems are clearly not powerful enough to prevent Sony-style attacks, Mr Chuvakin says.
But he is optimistic that new, cutting-edge systems that use machine learning and, ironically, big data analysis may give a huge boost to the powers of corporate security teams.
The bad news for businesses is that new systems cost money, and CSIS's James Lewis says that companies are going to have to invest more in new security infrastructure to have a chance against the new breed of state-sponsored hacker.
"Having a low perception of risk is cheap," he concludes, "but unfortunately those days are over."
10 May 2015 Last updated at 11:44 BST
Amongst the nominations for best entertainment show are Strictly Come Dancing, The Voice and The Great British Bake Off.
But which programme will be leaving with a world-famous BAFTA award?
The TV awards are being held at the Theatre Royal and hosted by Graham Norton.
If you can't make it to the red carpet the event will be shown on BBC1 at 8pm on Sunday.
A Seattle Times investigation found searching for "Stephanie Williams" on the professional networking service would trigger a prompt for "Stephen Williams" instead, for example.
At least a dozen of the most common female names in the US were affected.
LinkedIn has updated its algorithm to avoid proposing alternative names.
Prior to the update, searches for 100 of the most common male names in the US did not result in prompts suggesting female versions of those names, the Seattle Times said.
"Suggestions of similar spelt names that are frequently searched for on LinkedIn will follow the search query," said a LinkedIn spokeswoman.
"The search algorithm is guided by relative frequencies of words appearing in past queries and member profiles, it is not anything to do [with] gender."
A fix had been rolled out to "explicitly recognise people's names" so that alternative names - of the same or a different gender - would not be proposed, she added.
Microsoft announced that it would purchase LinkedIn for $26.2bn (£19.6bn) in June.
Social network algorithms have faced much scrutiny over alleged hints of bias recently.
Last month, Facebook overhauled its Trending feature - which recommends online content to users - after some complained that it was biased towards left-wing stories.
Music pounded across the yard from a loudspeaker and Russian flags fluttered above a party banner. But the folding chairs stood stubbornly empty with red blankets draped over their backs.
If Ilya Yashin was perturbed by the low turnout when he eventually strode up to shake the hands of five pensioners, he did not show it.
The chief candidate from Russia's beleaguered opposition is running for a local parliament seat in Kostroma this weekend and he knows that every vote counts.
"I've come to discuss the problems that bother us all, and most importantly - how to resolve them," the 32-year-old informed his audience through a loudspeaker.
He talked of corruption, potholes the size of bomb craters and the vast gulf between measly state pensions and the astronomical salaries of senior officials - allies of Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
After more than 130 such encounters in under a month his manner is assured, his banter smooth. It has to be: the opposition has been granted the bare legal minimum of airtime on state media and has no presence at all on city billboards.
"We have no alternative, we have to go to the people and shake a thousand hands," Ilya Yashin explains, between meetings. He hopes the handful of voters who do turn out will spread the word.
A few hours' drive north-east of Moscow along roads lined with warnings of wild moose, Kostroma is the only region where his party, Parnas, managed to register.
The liberal opposition draws what support it has from Russia's urban, educated middle-class - those with access to information other than that provided by the heavily controlled state media.
But attempts to run in more promising regions were blocked. Parnas was only cleared to field a list of candidates in Kostroma on appeal.
"They don't like [us saying] that they don't give us access, because they're afraid of us," is how campaign manager Leonid Volkov interprets the authorities' change of heart.
"Instead the region is chosen so that our chances are minimal. But still, we are working hard," he adds, at Parnas HQ.
Crowded with volunteer activists, the office walls are pasted with flyers and a handwritten countdown to election day.
The big push for this campaign is aimed at reinvigorating support for the opposition ahead of national elections next year.
Allegations of vote rigging last time led to mass street protests against President Putin and his party - the most significant challenge yet to his power. But a wave of arrests soon followed.
Some activists are still in prison or facing criminal charges; others have left the country and just over six months ago the opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was shot and killed beside the Kremlin.
"Because of all these sad stories, people don't believe in politics anymore. They don't believe in change," Mr Volkov explains. "This campaign is about generating optimism again."
But it is not easy.
An activist was physically attacked earlier this week; others have been threatened by youths in balaclavas.
We are asked not to speak English openly around Ilya Yashin, as pro-Kremlin activists and the media accuse the opposition of working to undermine Russia, for the West.
And the attempts to discredit Parnas are increasingly elaborate.
Midway through one rally a young, black man appeared in a suit and hovered for a moment at the back of the crowd. A second man filmed from a distance on a smart phone.
Moments later an opposition activist spotted a car parked nearby with fake, adhesive diplomatic number plates from the US.
"What on earth will they think up next?" Mr Yashin wonders, incredulous.
Ahead of the previous meeting, activists had found bundles of fake newspapers 'outing' him as gay: four pages of photoshopped images and suggestive commentary.
Leonid Volkov calls all this effort for a small, regional vote proof that the authorities are worried.
"Politics is always a pendulum and my guess is that support is swinging back in our favour," the campaign manager argues, suggesting that patriotic euphoria over the annexation of Crimea is giving way to the everyday grind of rising prices and economic hardship.
"They need to do something for us pensioners," one lady who's been listening to Mr Yashin agrees, apparently won over.
"They're young - they can do anything!" she says.
Behind her, the chief candidate is already rushing off to yet another yard, and another meeting.
It is a gruelling campaign, but Ilya Yashin is determined.
"This year, they killed my friend. Another is in prison, the chief of staff of my campaign.
"Boris Nemtsov is dead. We can't stop, we should keep on fighting," he insists.
"It's a question of the future of our country. If we stop, that means they win."
Omar Bogle, Will Grigg, Andy Kellett, Donervon Daniels and Ryan Tunnicliffe are all still out.
Barnsley's Adam Hammill (toe), Andy Yiadom (shoulder), Aidy White (pelvis) and Sessi D'Almeida (knee) are out.
Paul Heckingbottom's side are looking for back to back wins for the first time since January.
BBC Radio Manchester's Paul Rowley
"Frankly, every game now is a 'must win' for the 'Tics if they're to avoid their third relegation in five seasons.
"Saturday's stoppage-time victory over already doomed Rotherham United after twice going behind revived memories of the club's great survivals in their Premier League days.
"But, with most of their rivals winning, Graham Barrow's side are still seven points from safety with five matches left.
"Victory over Barnsley, promoted with Wigan from League One last season, will narrow the gap, but with away matches upcoming at promotion-chasing Brighton and Reading, the task may be too great."
A report from British Marine, which represents the leisure, superyacht and small commercial marine industry, said superyacht revenues for the year to April 2016 had reached £605m.
Revenues for the whole sector rose 1.6% to £3.01bn, the first time the £3bn mark has been breached since 2008-2009.
However, the report predicted growth would slow during 2017.
It said uncertainty over Brexit negotiations was likely to curb demand.
Total revenue fell in the wake of financial crisis, reaching its lowest point in the financial year 2011-2012 of £2,85bn and has been gradually picking up since then.
Increased revenue from engine and equipment manufacturing, as well as a jump in sales of hire and charter boats, are believed to have driven the sales increase.
Exports for the year were down 0.7% to £882m but British Marine said that in the last few months the industry had benefited from the fall in the pound against the dollar and the euro since the referendum, as it has boosted buying power from overseas customers.
However, marine businesses surveyed for the report expected that the support from the strong pound would be a short-term benefit.
Howard Pridding, chief executive of British Marine, said: "The industry remains robust - revenue is growing and we are taking on more employees.
"Despite the post-referendum volatility impacting on business and consumer confidence, the industry remains bullish."
The report said industry growth was expected to slow in 2017 "as economic volatility increases closer to and during negotiations over the UK's exit from the European Union."
Sunseeker and Princess are the UK's biggest superyacht companies. Globally, the industry is the fourth largest in terms of turnover.
Gareth James, 41, broke into a house in Brecon, Powys, believing it was the home of someone who owed him £400.
But when he opened the laptop he stole, he saw the wrong name on the screen, Merthyr Crown Court was told.
James, of Llanfaes, near Brecon, admitted burglary and was jailed for four months, suspended for a year.
Prosecutor Rachel Knight told how James confessed to a barmaid at the Boar's Head pub about his crime.
Miss Knight said: "He told her he had done something stupid. He felt embarrassed he had gone into the wrong house."
James told her he had gone into the house thinking that the occupier owed him £400 for building work but his only intention was to keep the laptop until he paid up.
But when he saw the wrong name he realised he had gone into the wrong house.
He was caught and arrested when he went back to return the laptop, letting himself in through an open door.
Sentencing him, Judge Richard Twomlow jailed James for four months suspended for 12 months with supervision and ordered him to complete the thinking skills programme.
Patrick Clarke, from Mill Hill Court in Castlewellan, County Down, is an independent elected member of Newry, Mourne and Down District Council.
He was given a suspended sentence at Downpatrick Magistrates' Court after being convicted of a number of charges.
They included breaching his probation for a previous fraud offence in 2010.
A prosecuting lawyer told the court that in the most recent fraud case, Clarke was accused of defrauding £750 from the Dundrum Village Association in September 2014, by lodging a cheque from the Housing Executive meant for the village group into his own account.
The offence came to light a year later, and when arrested and interviewed, Clarke made "full admissions" to the police, the prosecution said.
Around the same time in September 2015, Clarke was arrested when his neighbour told police Clarke had "forced his way in" to his home, armed with a hammer, and smashed a ceramic cup.
The probation breach was a result of Clarke failing to turn up for community service work as part of his sentence imposed for an earlier fraud case.
During that previous case, the councillor had admitted defrauding a fund set up to rebuild a church hall out of almost £2,000.
A defence barrister told the court her client was "deeply regretful" and has repaid the money he took.
She said he was now re-engaging with probation which was helping him to address his mental health difficulties.
The judge imposed a seven-month jail term, suspended for three years and warned Clarke he would go to prison if he committed any further offences.
Dogan Akhanli, who has written extensively on human rights in Turkey, was detained at the request of Turkish authorities in the city of Granada.
German Green MP Volker Beck said the move was politically motivated and that he had requested that Mr Akhanli should not be extradited to Turkey.
It is unclear on what grounds the arrest warrant was issued.
The move, Mr Beck said, showed that President Erdogan was prepared to "extend his power beyond his country's borders" to "intimidate and pursue [his critics] around the world".
Since a failed coup in July last year, tens of thousands of people have been arrested in Turkey - including officials, academics and journalists. Opposition media outlets have been closed down.
Mr Akhanli, 60, has written about the killing in 2007 of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink and the 1915 killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, which was labelled as genocide by the German parliament last year.
His lawyer, Ilias Uyar, told Der Spiegel magazine that it was "unbelievable that Turkey is now simply chasing critical minds abroad".
In February Deniz Yucel, a German-Turkish journalist who works for Germany's Die Welt newspaper, was detained in Turkey over allegations of producing terrorist propaganda. He remains in police custody.
German-Turkish relations dipped to a new low on Friday when Germany accused Mr Erdogan of interference after he urged Turkish voters in Germany not to vote for the country's main parties.
Relations soured in March after Mr Erdogan accused German officials of acting like Nazis following Germany's cancellation of rallies among ethnic Turks ahead of a referendum on greater powers for the Turkish president.
Despite these tensions, the two countries remain major trade partners and allies in Nato.
Forwards Matej Vydra and James Wilson and winger Ikechi Anya joined during the international break.
All are available when the Rams face Newcastle United in the Championship at home on Saturday.
"We talked about the implications of missing out on opportunities to gain promotion so personalities have a big impact," Pearson told BBC Radio Derby.
"You also get players who want fresh starts so they bring positive aspects into a dressing room that has qualities already.
"The idea of bringing in new players was two-fold - to freshen up the dressing room, which is something I have been mindful of, and also to compliment what we already have."
Pearson reluctantly allowed Jeff Hendrick to join Premier League side Burnley, while Chris Martin left on a loan deal to Fulham.
"Jeff is a player I was not overly keen on losing but the player made it clear he wanted to leave," said Pearson, whose side are 18th in the table and have scored only one goal in their five league games.
"It's never easy allow players who have great potential to go but the driving force was Jeff and the fee that was agreed gives us a very good return."
Although happy with his side's business, former Leicester manager Pearson described the summer transfer window as an "absolute nonsense".
He added: "The final week becomes a bit of a circus. It's farcical that even the biggest clubs in the world get sucked in to what has become a sideshow - or bigger than a sideshow and what has now become a huge part of the industry.
"I don't see that transfer windows are healthy being in place when the season is already started."
Pardew became Palace boss on a three-and-a-half-year deal in January 2015.
He led the club to 10th in the Premier League last season, but the club have struggled in the second half of this campaign, slumping to 17th from fifth.
"Once we're safe hopefully I'll sign a new contract here, because I want to stay," said Pardew, who spent four years playing at the club from 1987.
Palace, who play Watford in the FA Cup semi-finals on 24 April, beat Norwich on Saturday for their first league win since late December. Back then they were just outside the Champions League spots.
Victory moved them 10 points clear of the relegation zone, and on Wednesday they host Everton, who are two points above them in 14th.
"We weren't expecting that run to go on as long as it went on," Pardew added.
"The first half of this season we got it right, but the second we haven't. We need to address that. The confidence levels, hopefully, have gone up, and our nervousness has disappeared."
Halfpenny, 27, could leave French club Toulon in the summer and Wasps are among the clubs interested in him.
"We would obviously love to have [him]," Young told BBC Coventry and Warwickshire. "We're probably one of six or seven options Leigh's got."
Halfpenny signed a two-year deal when he joined Toulon in January 2014.
The British and Irish Lions full-back is currently recovering from the knee injury that kept him out of this year's Rugby World Cup.
Cardiff Blues and Scarlets are keen to bring the player back to Wales, but it is Premiership Wasps who appear to have emerged as favourites for his signature.
"I couldn't say what Leigh's going to do, but I know he's looking to make a decision over the next two weeks and we're one of the clubs that's an option," Young said.
Wales have adopted the so-called Gatland's Law, under which players based in the the country would be favoured for international selection. However, national team coach Warren Gatland can make exceptions.
"I'm sure that's something Leigh will consider," added Young. "International rugby and playing for Wales is a big part of the agenda."
It all began when Trevor Morrison sat down at the piano in Edinburgh's Silverlea Care Home 10 years ago and began to play.
The magic did not go unnoticed.
The tunes were simple, naive even, but memorable and with an extraordinary emotional depth.
As a 10-year-old child on the west coast island of Bute during World War Two, Trevor had been taught piano by a former resident of St Kilda.
His teacher had left the remote archipelago in the outer Hebrides when they were evacuated in 1930.
Somehow, a lifetime later and in failing health, Trevor managed to remember the tunes his teacher had shown him.
Stuart McKenzie, who had been volunteering in the care home, offered to record them.
"He played the most astonishing tunes. They were so different. Complicated, but simple," Mr McKenzie says.
"I went home, got my computer, downloaded a bit of software and went along to a local electrical store and paid £3 for a microphone we could put down the back of the piano for him. And away he went."
Trevor died in 2012, but the recordings eventually got passed on to Decca Records, which also saw the magic and commissioned a number of top composers to develop the tunes along with the Scottish Festival Orchestra.
The end result is a whole album entitled The Lost Songs of St Kilda, featuring some of Trevor Morrison's solo recordings in their pure form, others mixed in with orchestral arrangements and some completely new pieces inspired by the music.
Composer Sir James MacMillan is one of the contributors.
At his home overlooking the Firth of Clyde, James MacMillan can just about see the island of Bute where as a boy Trevor Morrison learned the songs.
"There's something very haunting about it," he says.
"What I decided to do was take Trevor Morrison's recording and play it alongside a sort of wrap-around effect from the string orchestra - making almost a kind of canon out of it."
Also recruited to create a piece was award-winning film composer Craig Armstrong.
He decided to use Trevor Morrison's recording as a basis for inspiring a new composition heavily influenced by Hebridean psalm singing.
Armstrong says: "In a lot of classical music people can tend to think that something that is very complicated is good and something that is very simple is not so interesting, but of course that's not really the case because these pieces I found quite deep and very emotional."
Mr McKenzie says the 10-year journey from making a recording for an old man in a care home, to seeing the album come to fruition has been an amazing process.
He says: "It's a wonderful thing to be able to do and it certainly took a lot of pressure off Trevor trying to remember them. At the end of it he said he was so glad to have got them down so he could start thinking about other things."
The last permanent residents of St Kilda left the archipelago in 1930, but it remains an icon of a long-lost way of life and the islands have just celebrated their 30th anniversary of being a World Heritage Site.
Now - thanks to a care home volunteer armed with a computer and a £3 microphone, plus the remarkable memory of Trevor Morrison - there's one more link back to that long lost way of life.
The blackout began at about noon local time and affected all parts of the country linked to the national grid.
Within a few hours some power plants began operating again but they have since failed. It is not clear when supply might resume.
Bangladesh began importing electricity from India in October last year.
Officials said engineers were working to restore supply. They had hoped to fix the problem by Saturday evening.
The exact cause remains unknown, but the head of the national grid in Bangladesh, Chowdhury Alamgir Hossain, told the Dhaka Tribune newspaper that the power cut began after a technical glitch at a substation distributing power from India.
That had caused all the country's other power plants to close down one by one, he said.
The high-voltage transmission line runs from Baharampur in West Bengal, India to Bheramara in Kushtia district, in south-west Bangladesh.
He played a long, dogged innings, and though he could not lead his team to victory, he has avoided a defeat.
His party has emerged as the largest in the north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, a region that has borne the brunt of attacks by Taliban militants.
He has also won one, and may win another, of the 12 parliamentary seats from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), a strip of land adjacent to KP where Taliban militants fighting the Nato forces in Afghanistan have sanctuaries.
It wasn't until final results were released that it emerged that Mr Khan had only narrowly missed out on securing the legally important position of leader of the opposition in the national parliament.
For many, however, his has been a remarkable achievement, and one which will see his party make further inroads into the Punjab heartland from where it bagged a substantial amount of votes, though fewer seats.
But that will depend on how quickly he can recover from the back injury he sustained when he fell off a fork-lift during an election rally last week.
He suffered three minor fractures in the spine but his nervous system was unharmed. His doctor has told the BBC that Mr Khan will have another two weeks of bed rest before walking again with the help of a brace. He is set to make a full recovery over the coming weeks, his doctors say.
In an end-of-the campaign speech from his hospital bed last week - which was broadcast to a rally in the capital Islamabad via a video link - he seemed to open his heart to his audience when he talked about the long struggle which was about to come to fruition, and the sacrifices he had had to make, including the pain of losing his wife.
"My wife, poor woman, she had to leave me because they wouldn't let her live in peace," he said in an emotional moment.
An international cricketing celebrity, Mr Khan led Pakistan to its cricket World Cup triumph in 1992.
But he made a shaky start of his political innings back in the mid-1990s.
He was harassed by the conservative and Islamist circles who accused him of being a "Zionist agent".
This was because he had married an English heiress, Jemima Goldsmith, whose father, Sir James Goldsmith, came from a Jewish background.
The marriage lasted nine years and produced two children, both boys.
To the electorate, he came across as a political lightweight who had no ideological moorings and only ambiguous views on crucial issues.
His message of Islamic values and the formation of an Islamic welfare state that would not be a slave of the West were interpreted by many as the ramblings of a "playboy-turned-puritan".
He suffered an early scandal when a widely respected welfare activist, Abdus Sattar Edhi, took temporary refuge in London, saying he was being threatened by a group that included Mr Khan and Hamid Gul, a former chief of Pakistani intelligence (ISI).
In a 2010 interview, Mr Edhi explained: "They wanted to topple [Prime Minister] Benazir Bhutto's government, and wanted to fire their guns from my shoulder. When I refused, they threatened to kidnap me. I'm not the political type, so I caught a flight to London."
The charge was denied by Mr Khan's party which said that Mr Khan only wanted Mr Edhi to join him in a pressure group "to push the government into spending more on health, education and welfare".
More recently, there were allegations that another former ISI chief, General Shuja Pasha, helped boost his political support, a charge the party denies.
Despite his celebrity appeal and hero's status, he could only win one seat in the 2002 elections. He boycotted the elections in 2008.
But during the last couple of years he seems to have burst into aggressive batting, and has suddenly caught the fancy of the crowds.
He has done this by promising a "new" Pakistan, and getting rid of the old guard who he says have been "fixing the matches so that they can take turns at power".
As election results show, he holds greater appeal in the north-west - inhabited by ethnic Pashtuns - presumably because he himself comes from the Pashtun Niazi tribe, settled in the Mianwali region of Punjab province.
And his opposition of the US-led war against militancy has also touched a chord with the people of this region.
His argument that militancy in Pakistan is the direct result of the American invasion of Afghanistan, and that it would end once the Western troops leave that country, has gone down well with the youth in the north-west.
His rhetoric to shoot down the American drones also appealed to the Pashtun people in the tribal areas, who have been at the sharp end of the drones for several years.
Whether he will interfere with Nato's 2014 exit through Pakistan if he is able to form a government in KP is a question that only time will answer.
One thing is clear. He is going to have a solid block of votes on the opposition benches in the national parliament and he will use them to maximum effect to pave the way for a victory in the next elections.
He is just 61 years old and generally in good health. If nothing serious has happened to his back, he will soon be back on his feet. The match is over, but the series is on.
Warburton, experiencing his first Old Firm derby, was delighted as Rangers prevailed on penalties at Hampden.
However, he was quick to stress that Sunday's result could not be used as a gauge for next season.
"Again, there's a gap, don't be fooled, but the better team won on the day," said Warburton.
"Celtic are a team packed with international players and we've got to work hard to close the gap. What today showed is that the gap is nowhere near as big as certain people have made out.
"We've made dramatic strides but we've got to keep moving forward. Rangers can't afford to stand still.
"We can't be satisfied going into next season being second, third or fourth. We've got to be highly competitive."
Tom Rogic levelled in the second period of extra time to make it 2-2, only for the Celtic substitute to miss the vital spot-kick in the shootout.
Kenny Miller had given Warburton's side a first-half lead, with Erik Sviatchenko equalising five minutes after the break and Barrie McKay firing in an unstoppable shot early in extra time to re-establish Rangers' lead.
Rangers, who won the Challenge Cup at Hampden last weekend, will face Celtic in the Premiership next season, having wrapped up the Championship title with four matches to spare.
Before Warburton considers upsetting Celtic's recent top-flight dominance he has a final with league rivals Hibernian to look forward to on 21 May.
The Easter Road side also went through on penalties, following a drab 0-0 draw with Dundee United on Saturday.
"That will be a tough test," said the former Brentford boss. "Hibs have got a strong squad and they'll be keen to end the season on a high."
A cup final victory would also bring European football back to Ibrox and Warburton admitted: "That would impact our recruitment.
"If we win the final we'd have to add one or two more players in terms of depth to the squad. That type of competition has to go on."
With top-scorer Martyn Waghorn and winger Harry Forrester injured and Michael O'Halloran cup-tied, Warburton chose to name just five substitutes at Hampden.
"You saw we were down to the bare numbers today so all credit to them," he enthused.
"No one hid from the occasion, all over the park they were superb, so I'm delighted for the squad."
Darlington was part of Wrexham's coaching staff under Kevin Wilkin and was briefly caretaker manager before leaving in May 2015.
He re-joined Welsh Premier League champions New Saints in December 2015 but left his role earlier this month.
"I had different offers on the table to go to different places," Darlington said.
"I've been speaking to Dean Keates since he had the job, and it (the challenge) excited me.
"It's a different challenge to when I first went to Wrexham because we're starting from scratch."
Darlington will combine his role at Wrexham with his role as head of coach education for the Welsh Football Trust.
He said continuing with the Trust was was one of the main reasons why he accepted Wrexham's offer.
"One Football League club was interested, but I wasn't prepared to give up my role with the FAW Trust," Darlington added.
"I love developing Welsh coaches and Welsh players.
"The other opportunities I had were other clubs in the National League.
"But when National League teams come asking then I was only going to go to Wrexham."
Manager Keates released nine players following a disappointing season which saw the Dragons finish 13th in the National League.
Midfielders Mark Carrington and Paul Rutherford and goalkeeper Chris Dunn have signed new deals while youngster Leo Smith has signed his first professional contract.
James Hurst became Wrexham's first signing of the close season as Keates rebuilds the squad.
"We can bring the players that we want in," Darlington added.
"We haven't got to inherit any players that we don't want so we'll bring a brand new squad together.
"We will get that blend right and we will get the balance right.
"But bringing 18 new players into the club, not knowing each other and not knowing the dynamics, the balance and how things work and operate, is going to take a while.
"We want them to get on to that Racecourse and grow with the fans."
The Briton was due to fight Avtandil Khurtsidze on 8 July in London.
But following his arrest in New York, the Georgian's promoter Lou DiBella has confirmed he will be unable to travel.
Thirty-three members and associates of a Russian crime syndicate, including Khurtsidze, have been detained.
In a statement, acting Manhattan US Attorney Joon H Kim said: "The dizzying array of criminal schemes committed by this organised crime syndicate allegedly include a murder-for-hire conspiracy, a plot to rob victims by seducing and drugging them with chloroform, the theft of cargo shipments containing over 10,000 pounds of chocolate, and a fraud on casino slot machines using electronic hacking devices."
Khurtsidze earned the bout with Saunders after winning the interim belt by stopping Britain's Tommy Langford in April.
Saunders' most recent fight was a successful title defence against Artur Akavov in December.
With Sam Warburton struggling to force his way into the starting XV for the first Test, flanker O'Mahony is the favourite to lead the side at Eden Park on Saturday.
"He's a great captain - we all know that," said Stander.
"He's ready to do it."
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O'Mahony is the man in possession having captained the Lions to victory against the Maori All Blacks last weekend.
Number eight Stander added: "He's my captain at Munster and his heart is on his sleeve. I don't think there are a lot of leaders like him. I think he's going to make us proud."
Who should captain the Lions against New Zealand?
Head coach Warren Gatland says there will be some "lively" debate when he and his coaches finalise the match-day squad to take on New Zealand.
Before the Auckland showdown, the midweek team crushed the Chiefs 34-6 with some players "putting their hands up", according to Gatland.
There will be a final selection meeting on Wednesday.
"I have no doubt there will be some healthy debate," the Kiwi said.
"The selection meeting will be with all the coaches - it's always a consensus of the group, it's never one person's call or decision.
"I am sure there will be some lively debate and discussion, but once a decision will be made we will agree on it 100%."
The bulk of the Test side will be the one that comprehensively beat the Maori, although Gatland says wing Elliot Daly has "possibly" played his way into contention.
Both Jack Nowell and Liam Williams were also sharp against the Chiefs as the Lions scored four tries.
"Someone like Jack Nowell - it just hadn't happened for him the last couple of games," Gatland added.
"I was pleased to see him play well, Elliot was sharp as well and Liam [Williams], and as a group they looked pretty dangerous and pretty potent.
"It's pleasing we created [chances], and now we are starting to finish them."
Gatland added: "The selection meeting will be tough and that's the way we want it.
"We spoke about the quality of the squad before we left and some players haven't disappointed us.
"On Saturday we are up against the best team in world in their own back yard where they haven't lost since 1994. It's going to be a big test for us."
Meanwhile, after Gatland was accused of devaluing the Lions shirt by calling up six replacements over the weekend, only prop Allan Dell actually took to the field at the Waikato Stadium.
Kristian Dacey, Tomas Francis, Cory Hill, Gareth Davies, Finn Russell were all unused replacements.
"We wanted that group of players to go 80 minutes," he said.
"The guys that were on the bench we said all along they were coming in for cover."
Sexton comes in at fly-half with Farrell at inside centre, the first time the combination has started in New Zealand.
Captain Sam Warburton replaces Peter O'Mahony on the blind-side flank, with Maro Itoje preferred to George Kruis.
Robbie Henshaw and George North have been ruled out of the rest of the tour.
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Ireland centre Henshaw (pectoral) and Wales wing North (hamstring) were injured in the 31-31 draw against the Hurricanes in Wellington and will return home after Saturday's match.
Wales second row Alun Wyn Jones keeps his place in the starting XV despite a difficult outing in the first Test, and strong midweek performances from Courtney Lawes and Iain Henderson having given Lions head coach Warren Gatland "food for thought".
Lawes, CJ Stander and Jack Nowell are among the replacements after playing in the midweek draw with the Hurricanes on Tuesday.
Ken Owens, Jack McGrath, Kyle Sinckler, Rhys Webb and Ben Te'o also make the bench.
The Lions lost the series opener 30-15 in Auckland, with Lions boss Gatland citing a lack of physicality in the forwards, which he has sought to address with the inclusion of Saracens lock Itoje and Cardiff Blues flanker Warburton.
"You have to make the tough calls," Gatland said.
"We saw Maro's impact in the first Test and he will bring an edge and a physicality, as will Sam Warburton in terms of pressure on the ball."
But while those changes were expected, Gatland has been reluctant to field Sexton and Farrell in the same midfield in the tour matches.
"Both have played well and it gives us that attacking option in the 10-12 channel," Gatland continued.
"We created opportunities in the first Test and there were a few that we didn't finish."
New Zealand have made two changes - Waisake Naholo comes in on the wing and Anton Lienert-Brown at outside centre.
They replace injured pair Ben Smith (concussion) and Ryan Crotty (hamstring).
Experienced Welshman Jones retains his place in the second row and will partner England's Itoje, who was selected ahead of countryman George Kruis.
"It's a big game for him," Gatland said of Jones.
"He was a bit disappointed with last week and how it went.
"He's pretty focused and pretty motivated. Normally in the past when he's had those sort of challenges he has really fronted the next game.
"He's trained well this week and I think he's looking forward to Saturday night."
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Following the first Test defeat, Gatland accused Jerome Kaino of targeting Lions scrum-half Conor Murray, something the New Zealand flanker denies.
"I never go into a game thinking that I am going to target someone and intentionally hurt them," Kaino said.
Gatland was then caricatured as a clown in the New Zealand Herald after his claims while All Blacks boss Steve Hansen described the Lions coach's comments as "desperate".
The Lions lost a 14-point lead as they drew with the Hurricanes in their final midweek match.
British and Irish Lions: L Williams, A Watson, J Davies, O Farrell, E Daly, J Sexton, C Murray; M Vunipola, J George, T Furlong, M Itoje, AW Jones, S Warburton (c), S O'Brien, T Faletau.
Replacements: K Owens, J McGrath, K Sinckler, C Lawes, CJ Stander, R Webb, B Te'o, J Nowell.
After decades of austerity following the Islamic Revolution, middle-class Iranians have developed a taste for high-end designer goods, and for Tehran's young rich, shopping has become the new religion.
"Exposure to foreign trends through travelling, the internet and satellite television has created a desire for branded products," says Bahar, a 30-year-old fashion blogger.
"Showing off is a big part of the story. By spending huge amounts of money on big brands, well-off Iranians want to show they've made it."
One group of super-rich young Tehranis have taken showing off to new levels with their own Instagram site - Rich Kids of Tehran, where without any perceptible sense of irony, they post pictures of their designer clothes and designer lifestyles.
When the site first appeared last year it prompted fury and resentment among poorer Iranians and the conservatives who dominate Iran's political and legal institutions.
But the Rich Kids seem undeterred by the controversy.
Recent postings include pictures of Tehran Fashion Week and a question about where people are going on holiday this year - the responses range from Italy and Istanbul to Japan and Dubai.
Because luxury brands are still the preserve of the rich, they don't yet show up in the Iranian Customs Authority's list of top 100 imports.
But there is an indication of the potential for growth in the most recent figures for cosmetics imports.
In the year to March 2015, cosmetics made up 0.1% of the country's $52bn (£32.8bn) total imports - many of them big name brands snapped up by increasingly image-conscious consumers.
In big cities all across Iran, traditional bazaars now face fierce competition from American-style urban shopping centres where big name Western brands are on conspicuous display.
But although these luxury shopping centres look exactly the same as retail outlets anywhere in the world, the designer goods on display have actually been brought in by third-party importers via Turkey and the Gulf States.
The outlets that sell them have no connection to the big brand manufacturers.
Big Western fashion brands are not banned from doing business in Iran.
But international banking sanctions in place against Iran over its nuclear programme make it very difficult for them to get their profits out.
To date Spanish clothing retailer Mango, Italian fashion boutique Benetton, and luxury women's designer Escada, are among the very few Western companies to open shops in Iran.
The backdoor way in which foreign brands are imported into Iran means they are more expensive than they would be abroad, but so far this doesn't seem to be deterring the shoppers.
Mariam, an office worker who earns the equivalent of just $17,000 a year, has just blown more than a month's salary on a new Burberry bag.
She bought it online from an Iranian website that offers clothes and accessories from big brands and Western High Street retailers.
The site takes payments via local credit cards, and offers a free home-delivery service.
Mariam told BBC Persian she would rather pay more for good-quality brand names than cheaper but inferior, locally made equivalents.
But she concedes that status also plays a big role in how she decides to spend her money.
"There's a lot of pressure on middle-class people to go out wearing designer clothes or an expensive watch," she says. "Personally I feel more confident when I'm wearing brands."
Fashion houses like Burberry currently have no control over this so-called "grey market" of their brand names in Iran.
But that is clearly something which could change.
Despite years of sanctions, the International Monetary Fund puts Iran's per capita GDP (gross domestic product) at $16,500.
That means Iranian consumers on average have more money to spend than their counterparts in emerging markets like Brazil, China, India and South Africa.
With the prospect of banking sanctions being lifted if a nuclear deal is finally reached, the big brands are waking up to the potential of a barely tapped market which could offer big dividends in the future.
The 21-year-old has made two substitute appearances for the Saints, including a Premier League debut in February 2015, but has not featured for them since.
He played four times in a month-long loan spell at Crewe in the 2015-16 campaign, scoring once.
"I'm really happy to be here and I'm excited by the challenge ahead," Seager told the club website.
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The 33-year-old South African, who has won his first event of the calendar year in four of the last five years, carded seven birdies at Doha Golf Club.
Spaniard Larrazabal, 32, also made seven birdies in a bogey-free round.
Andrew Johnston is a shot off the lead following a round of 66, with fellow Englishman Tommy Fleetwood and Scot Paul Lawrie both on five under.
Defending champion Branden Grace from South Africa and 2014 winner Sergio Garcia from Spain both shot 70s.
The development off the A41 Oxford Road would have included three stores, three restaurants, a gym and car park.
The initial application was refused by Cherwell District Council in October 2015.
Planning inspector Martin Whitehead said there would be an "unacceptable" impact on traffic should the site go ahead.
He added there would be a "harmful effect" on the surrounding highway network which would not be adequately mitigated.
Councillors rejected an outline planning application in October, citing concerns over traffic and the appearance of future residential developments in the area.
CPG Development Projects said the park would have prevented shoppers travelling to Oxford and Milton Keynes - a situation they described as "increasingly unsustainable".
The firm lodged an appeal and a six-day planning inquiry led by the government planning inspector took place in June.
Mr Whitehead's decision to dismiss the appeal was delivered last week, ending the developer's hopes.
The council's lead member for planning, councillor Colin Clarke, said residents feared the site would increase traffic around the already heavily congested town.
"Until we can be assured that enough provisions are in place to mitigate congestion, which this development is sure to generate, the inspector agrees we cannot justify approving these proposals," he said.
The photo-themed social network took the measure after being asked to respond to an investigation by #BBCtrending - a new social media series.
The journalists had uncovered many pictures and videos of narcotics posted alongside text advertising their sale.
Instagram is owned by Facebook.
The firm has a policy of acting on posts reported as being inappropriate, but it believes it would be impractical and invasive to search for such material.
"Instagram has a clear set of rules about what is and isn't allowed on the site," a spokeswoman told the BBC.
"We encourage people who come across illegal or inappropriate content to report it to us using the built-in reporting tools next to every photo, video or comment, so we can take action.
"People can't buy things on Instagram, we are simply a place where people share photos and videos."
Among Instagram's "report photo/video" choices is the option to identify suspected drug use.
The BBC understands Facebook's staff aim to review posts flagged to either of its social networks within 48 hours. They also have the option of blocking terms classed as "bad hashtags" - ones that promote banned activities - if they are mentioned in the press or in user reports.
The only content Facebook does actively search for is images of child abuse.
Most of the drugs-related activity appears to be taking place in the US.
"Just getting a few packs ready for tomorrow morning... Place your order today, it gets shipped out at 8AM tomorrow," read one post placed beneath an image of bags of marijuana.
Another picture showed a variety of pills, adding: "$2 a pop for xans, $10 a pop for roxys."
This refers to Xanax, a psychoactive anxiety treatment, and Roxicodone, an opiate used to treat pain.
Both require prescriptions in the US and the UK, but are sometimes bought on the black market.
Crystals of MDMA and other amphetamine-related substances were among other drugs advertised via photos and videos.
In many cases the buyer and seller arranged to finalise their deals using WhatsApp or Kik - instant messaging apps in which they could keep messages private. Like Instagram, accounts can be set up on these services without revealing either party's true identity.
Instagram is not the only social network on which drugs are advertised.
The BBC has also seen instances of the practice in comments below some videos on Google's YouTube service.
But while it is relatively common for the person who uploaded a drug-themed photo or video on Instagram to be the one advertising the sale of the substance, on YouTube the person posting the ad tends to do so below videos belonging to others.
Like Facebook, Google relies on users reporting a problem before taking action.
"We take user safety seriously and have guidelines that prohibit any content encouraging dangerous, illegal activities," said a spokeswoman for YouTube.
"This includes content promoting the sale of drugs. YouTube's review teams respond to videos flagged for our attention around the clock, removing millions of videos each year that violate our policies."
One drugs abuse researcher - who has advised the UN, World Health Organization and the UK government - said he was concerned by what he had seen.
"I'm not particularly sophisticated on the internet, and it took me 10 seconds to see posts selling class-A drugs on Instagram," said Prof Neil McKeganey, founder of the Centre for Drug Misuse Research, in Glasgow.
"Here is a public space being used to trade some of the most dangerous substances that we know are being abused.
"I absolutely feel there is a responsibility to take proactive action.
"It seems to me far too serious for those who own the companies that provide the public space through which this is occurring to simply say it's up to contributors to bring this to their attention."
UK-based drugs treatment charity Addaction said it too wanted social media companies to act "swiftly and vigilantly", adding that it believed the companies could make a positive difference if they did.
"Social media is a great way of reaching out to millions and millions of people," said spokesman Elliot Elam.
"That's why we'd like to see providers of these sites work with organisations like ours, so they can find ways to engage with any users who may be struggling with drug or alcohol problems."
Google and Facebook are not the only companies that rely on user reports to indentify potential drugs deals.
Yahoo's blogging service Tumblr confirmed it had the same policy.
"For legal reasons, we do not proactively monitor the site," said a spokeswoman.
"We respond to reports of activity that is illegal or against our policies pursuant to those policies and relevant law."
Although the BBC found photos of illegal drugs on Tumblr, searches for the terms that brought up associated adverts on Instagram did not appear to do so on Yahoo's service.
This is not the first time Instagram's self-policing policies have been called into question.
In August the Fusion.net blog suggested that the illegal psychedelics 2C-I and 2CB were also being advertised via the app.
Vice Magazine also highlighted that marijuana and several kinds of prescription pills were promoted on the service.
However it suggested that banning related hashtags would not solve the problem, saying "users would get more creative and choose other labels".
More recently US senator Edward Markey wrote to the service's chief executive, Kevin Systrom, asking him to look into reports that unregulated gun sales were being conducted through the app.
"Other companies that enable online sales have enacted commonsense protocols," he wrote.
"I encourage Instagram to take similar steps and adopt safe business practices that curb the marketing and sale of guns."
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Taking place in Northern Ireland for the first time, this year's event is live at The SSE Arena on 20 December.
Tickets cost £45 and will be restricted to six per person.
They can be bought on the arena's website, by calling the box office on 028 9073 9074, or in person from the box office at the venue.
The first wave of tickets went on sale last month and sold out in 35 minutes.
Gary Lineker, Clare Balding and Gabby Logan will again present the show, which will be live on BBC One, the BBC Sport website and BBC Radio 5 live.
Ella Henderson and Sigma, performing with the Belfast-based Ulster Orchestra, will open the show.
The contenders for the Sports Personality of the Year award will be announced on BBC One's The One Show at 19:00 GMT on Monday.
The Sports Personality of the Year award will be determined by a public vote on the night with the 10-strong list of contenders selected by the following panel:
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Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton won last year's Sports Personality of the Year award in Glasgow, taking 34% of the 620,932 votes cast, with golfer Rory McIlroy second and athlete Jo Pavey third.
Real Madrid footballer Cristiano Ronaldo was named Overseas Personality of the Year, and the England women's rugby union team took the Team of the Year prize.
European Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley won Coach of the Year, six-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Chris Hoy was honoured with a lifetime achievement award, and Young Sports Personality of the Year was given to gymnast Claudia Fragapane, who won four gold medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
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Her attacker is believed to have followed her home on Monday after she had collected her pension from Sea Mills Post Office in Shirehampton Road.
She suffered "nasty head injuries" and is recovering in hospital after being hit several times, police said.
The victim's son, 45, was inside the home and ran to her aid. He fought with the attacker and was also struck.
An Avon and Somerset Police spokesman described the man as white, of medium-build, 25 to 29 years old, with stubble on his face and wearing a light-coloured baseball cap, and a grey long-sleeved top and jeans.
Investigating officer Det Con Andy Jones said: "This was an horrific attack on an elderly woman who was arriving home after collecting her pension.
"We believe the offender may have followed the woman from the Post Office back to her home.
"She suffered nasty head injuries and although she is recovering in hospital this attack could easily have had more serious or even fatal consequences."
The Herald newspaper reported that the website Craigslist featured men across Scotland offering flats to women for "favours" and "romance".
Ms Sturgeon told MSPs the housing minister had written to the website asking them to take action.
She said such landlords would not pass a fit and proper person test.
However, the first minister added that these arrangements were likely to be "informal" so the landlords would not be part of the government's registration scheme.
At First Minister's Questions at Holyrood, Labour MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Claire Baker, asked the first minister for her response to reports of sexually exploitative behaviour in the private rented housing sector.
Ms Sturgeon said: "I was horrified to read the reports that the member refers to and the minister for housing (Kevin Stewart) has already written to the website concerned, that hosted these adverts, asking them to take action."
She added that poverty and inequality can often leave people vulnerable to being exploited.
"Any person always has the right to refuse to consent to sexual activity and forcing someone, in any way, to participate in sexual activity is a crime," she said.
"We continue to keep all laws under review to ensure they are fit for purpose in tackling what I think are unacceptable behaviours."
Ms Baker said there was no way of knowing how many tenants in Scotland had such arrangements.
She said: "The practice opens the door to vulnerable tenants who are already facing homelessness and poverty to finding themselves in commercially-exploitative arrangements."
The first minister said: "Where landlords are behaving unacceptably then clearly there are provisions to seek to deal with that.
"I suspect in cases like the one she is highlighting often the problem will be that there is no formal tenancy agreement.
"These are informal arrangements, which does not make them any more acceptable, but sometimes that will be one of the challenges. These are not formal arrangements where there is a recognised and registered landlord."
Green MSP Patrick Harvie said he was aware that not all such cases involved a registered landlord.
But he added: "Isn't it pretty clear that any such exploitative arrangements should lead to an automatic fail of the fit and proper person test and revocation of any existing landlord registration."
Nicola Sturgeon agreed, saying: "I struggle to see how anyone who placed an advert of this description would pass the fit and proper person test."
She said the housing minister would continue to investigate the matter.
Alexander Monson, 28, was arrested in Diani on suspicion of possessing cannabis in May 2012 and died in police custody.
Kenyan Police have denied any involvement in his death.
The inquest in Mombasa was adjourned until 27 April to allow closer study of the documents.
Mr Monson was heir to his family's Burton estate in Lincolnshire.
An independent pathologist hired by his family found he died from a head injury. The family was originally told he died of a drugs overdose.
The family lawyer said they had been kept in the dark about the findings of three separate investigations into his death.
Erol Incedal, 27, from London, was acquitted of planning a terror attack at the Old Bailey last week.
His friend, Rarmoul-Bouhadjar, who admitted having a manual identical to Incedal's, was given three years.
Most of the trial was behind closed doors and details cannot be reported.
While sentencing, the judge said the bomb-making guide included information for viable explosive devices, although it lacked detail.
Mr Justice Nicol said: "The potential for such bombs to cause death, injury and destruction are obvious."
"The fear, panic and terror which explosions also bring are often a deliberate part of the terrorist's ambition."
He said both men had been to the Syrian-Turkish border and mixed with jihadists. While at a safe house there they had learned about weaponry and explosives.
Incedal has been in custody since he was stopped by police by Tower Bridge, London, in October 2013. Rarmoul-Bouhadjar has also been on remand for about 18 months.
The case involving the two men became a legal first after an attempt by the Crown Prosecution Service to hold the entire trial in secret was scuppered by a media challenge at the High Court.
It led to the defendants, previously referred to as AB and CD, being named for the first time and the decision to split the trials into three parts - public, private with 10 accredited journalists present but barred from reporting, and completely secret.
Before the sentencing process began Mr Justice Nicol refused to lift further reporting restrictions, and said he could not give further details.
Lawyers representing several media outlets, including the BBC, had asked the judge to allow some of the secret evidence to be reported.
Analysis: BBC home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani
Erol Incedal has been sentenced for possessing a bomb-making plans - but he's been cleared of a far more serious charge of plotting some kind of terrorist attack in the UK. All clear?
Here's the problem: We don't really know what's been going on in this trial.
Incedal insisted he had a legitimate reason for carrying those plans - but we were never allowed to hear it in open court.
The judge has now blocked our media requests to report the main allegations - and the reasons why the jury dismissed them.
If I knew the truth, I'd go to prison if I told you what it was.
The journalists who were accredited to sit in some of the secret parts of the case can't tell you either. Their notebooks have been taken away and remain under lock and key.
Last week Turkish-born Incedal was acquitted in a retrial of plotting with a terrorist in Syria to either murder an individual of significance, such as former prime minister Tony Blair, or launch an attack such as that in Mumbai.
The jury deliberated for a total of 27 hours.
The prosecution said Incedal's plans were thwarted by police who bugged his car after he was stopped for speeding in September 2013 and taken into custody.
During a search of Incedal's car while he was in custody, officers found a slip of paper inside a glasses case which had the address of a property belonging to Mr Blair and his wife, Cherie.
Incedal was released and the listening device recorded him talking about buying a gun and his time in war-torn Syria.
After two weeks, armed police stopped him and Mounir Rarmoul-Bouhadjar, also 27, as they were driving in central London.
Inside Incedal's phone case was a memory card and on it were instructions on how to assemble a bomb.
Ashutosh Maharaj was declared dead by authorities in Punjab on 29 January after a suspected heart attack.
But, confident that he was merely in a state of deep meditation, his followers froze his corpse.
He led the Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan (Divine Light Awakening Mission) which claims more than 30 million followers.
"He is not dead. Medical science does not understand things like yogic science. We will wait and watch. We are confident that he will come back," his spokesman Swami Vishalanand told the BBC.
He said that although doctors had declared Maharaj "clinically dead", he was actually alive and in a state of samadhi, which is the highest plane of meditation.
The guru is thought to have been in his seventies.
Swami Vishalanand said the guru had "often indicated that he would not be with for us a long time, and we would have to manage the organisation in his absence".
He said after the doctors declared him dead, his devotees watched over the body for a week at the centre in Punjab's Jalandhar city.
"The body did not decompose before we put it in the freezer. It was a spiritual experience. We thought of embalming it, but somebody told us that his chances of revival were less if we did it," Swami Vishalanand said.
"He has assured us that he will come back," another devotee, Lakhwinder Singh, told the Indian Express newspaper.
The decision to place the body in the freezer was challenged in court by a man, claiming to be a former driver of the guru, who alleged that his devotees were not releasing the body because they wanted a share of the guru's properties.
"The court rejected his pleas after the Punjab government said that the man is clinically dead and that it is up to his followers to decide what they want to do with the body," Punjab legal official Reeta Kohli told the AFP news agency.
Senior police official Gurinder Singh Dhillon said police "cannot interfere" now that the court had made its ruling.
The website of the Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan says it was established in 1983 and aims to "achieve world peace". It claims to have 350 branches in 15 countries.
In 1993, the devotees of a Calcutta-based guru Balak Brahmachari refused to cremate his body for nearly two months, insisting that he would recover from a "meditative trance".
Eventually, some 450 policemen entered his religious centre on the outskirts of the city and took away his decomposing body for cremation in the face of fierce protests by the devotees.
The man, named locally as Huw Smith, who was in his 60s, died on Wednesday evening at a farm in Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd.
Mr Smith is understood to have been working on the vehicle when he was killed.
North Wales Police said the death was not being treated as suspicious and the case would be handed to the coroner.
The firm said shares would be sold at 180p each, up to a third less than the expected price range of 220p to 270p.
Biffa chief executive Ian Wakelin said the stock market listing was "a significant milestone" for the company.
The UK's second-largest waste management group, which employs more than 7,000 staff, announced plans for the flotation in September.
The 100-year-old company has not had its shares listed on the stock market since 2008, when it was bought by a group of private equity firms.
This should be a fantastic time to sell shares. After all the FTSE 100 is hovering near record highs, so why has waste management company Biffa been forced to offer a discount on the shares it is selling?
It is not the only one to scale back its ambitions. Software firm Misys has cut the amount it hopes to raise by ??1bn, while several other companies have decided to shelve their plans to list on the stock market - at least for now.
Meanwhile in the US, floats - or IPOs - are going gangbusters, with Snapchat about to sell a slice of the company that would value the whole around 20 billion.
So what's going on. City sources tell me there are a few concerns about new flotations in general. Companies that have previously been owned by private investors typically owe more money to their banks as they were acquired in the first place with borrowed money.
Second, their track record of making profits is either shorter or less transparent than established public companies.
Third, in the case of Biffa, the company is UK focused and relies on the public sector for a chunk of its revenue - an uncertain income stream going into a period where the public finances are likely to be shaken up by the upcoming Autumn statement.
Add all that to general disquiet about prospects for the UK economy and it's enough to make investors think twice - or a least want a discount - before buying anything new.
The flotation, which is expected to raise about ??262m, comes at a difficult time for investors. Many are wary of committing cash amid the fall in the pound and until the details of the UK's exit from the EU are clearer.
Last week, fitness chain Pure Gym blamed "market volatility" for its decision to abandon its London stock market flotation.
Vehicle parts manufacturer TI Fluid Systems also cited "uncertain market conditions" for its decision to postpone its float.
And earlier this month, doughnut maker Krispy Kreme UK announced it was being bought by its American parent, instead of going ahead with a London stock market listing thought to be worth about ??200m.
Biffa said the price for the share sale would value it at ??450m, and its shares are expected to start full trading on Thursday.
It plans to use the money raised from the float to reduce debt and pay HMRC in connection with a dispute over landfill tax.
The Public Accounts Committee found a "lack of clarity" over the role of the Treasury, Downing Street and the Cabinet Office in reforming services.
Meanwhile, ministers had to overcome "resistance" among some civil servants to change, it added.
But the government said it had strengthened efficiency in Whitehall.
The committee found disagreement within government, saying: "The civil service remains committed to departmental autonomy whilst ministers want an effective, smart and challenging centre.
"This lack of agreement means that there is no clear definition of the role of the centre and the accountabilities for implementing cross-government initiatives are not always clear."
The committee cited problems with Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith's Universal Credit benefit reforms, which had to be "reset" last year amid concerns over progress.
It also said there had not been an "overall strategic view of risks" in relation to NHS reforms.
The committee's chairwoman, Labour MP Margaret Hodge, said: "Confusion exists at the heart of government about what exactly the role of 'the centre' - Number 10, the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury - should be.
"This current lack of clarity about the precise role and responsibilities of the centre jeopardises government's ability to deliver value for taxpayers' money in key public spending areas."
Mrs Hodge said the centre of government "often responds only after crises occur rather than picking up on the warning signs".
Departments were making "unacceptably slow progress" on some efficiency initiatives, such as shared back-office services and debt collection, she added.
But a government spokesman said: "As part of this government's long-term economic plan, we have worked since the 2010 general election to strengthen commercial, project management and digital capability at the centre of Whitehall.
"Last year alone, the Efficiency and Reform Group worked with the Treasury and departments to save taxpayers £14.3bn compared with a 2009-10 baseline. There's more to do to improve efficiency but we have just appointed a new chief executive to accelerate reform and strengthen control over key functions.
"We thank the committee for their report and will consider the recommendations carefully."
A 73-year-old woman was robbed at an ATM near the Cenotaph, in Paisley town centre, at about 16:00 on Saturday.
The next day, a 56-year-old woman was robbed outside the Tesco store in Newmains Road, Renfrew.
In both cases the man came up behind the women and stole the cash from the ATM. He is described as white, 6ft tall, of medium build with dark hair.
He was wearing a dark jacket and trousers, with black trainers that had a white sole.
Det Con James Craig said: "The two locations where the thefts took place are extremely busy and I am sure that there are people that saw this man approaching both victims.
"Also, if anyone was in these areas around the times of the incidents and witnessed anything suspicious, then please come forward.
"I would also ask people to be extra vigilant when using cash machines and to be aware of who is standing behind you."
Dutchman Chris Bruil, who competed in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics, has been coaching Gilmour since just after the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
But he won't be with the 22-year-old at her first Olympics because of a lack of accreditation for individual coaches.
"In Holland we would never do that - we think it's ridiculous," Bruil said.
"That's just the system in the UK, and that's the way she has to work.
"I'm not able to coach her and we knew that up front. We have to try to make it the best we possibly can so she can work together with the GB coaches in Rio.''
Gilmour, ranked 15th in the world, has risen 22 places in the world rankings in the past year and is hoping to challenge for a medal in Rio.
Bruil, speaking to BBC Scotland, admits he finds the accreditation system frustrating, saying "we laugh about it" in Holland.
"That's the system and they won't change that," he added. "So I can't change the law or the system, I can only make sure she has the best preparation for her Olympics and I think we take it in the most positive way we can."
Jon Austin, performance director of GB Badminton & Badminton England, said restrictions on accreditation for individual coaches exist across all Olympic sports.
''There's limited accreditations in Rio for badminton as there is for all sports," he told BBC Scotland. "We have to consider how best to support the whole team which means we are not in a position to cater for individual coaches.
"We will be sending eight players and three coaches to the Olympics, all of whom will support the GB badminton team across the five events.
"Kirsty is an important part of the GB team and is fully engaged and fully integrated with the coaches and staff who will be supporting her in Rio."
Gilmour herself seems relaxed about the situation, despite not training in the same place as the GB coaches.
''Working with Chris has been really good over the last couple of years, but inevitably I will be working with the GB coaches come the Games," she said.
"I'm training up here in Glasgow and they're down in Milton Keynes, so there's a lot of communication, a lot of dialogue between everyone. We all know each other really well, we've got plans in place on how to go about match prep and everything, so we've got most things covered I think.''
Mother-of-two Louise Docherty, 27, died at Dykebar Hospital in Paisley in 2014 after being found unconscious in a hospital toilet.
Her death followed that of 44-year-old Kenneth McRae at Stobhill Hospital in 2012. Both patients had been assessed as high risk.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde admitted health and safety failings.
The health board acknowledged that it had failed to carry out proper observations, leading to the two deaths.
The court heard that medical student Mr McRae had been forced to give up his studies in his final year due to mental health difficulties.
He had been visited at Stobhill Hospital, in the Springburn are of Glasgow, by his sister and brother-in-law on 1 September. They had found him to be "quite unwell", the court was told.
Procurator fiscal depute Catriona Dow said that when Mr McRae was seen by a staff member at 23:40, he was noted to be "alert but not engaging".
At about midnight the member of staff saw only part of his body from outside the room.
Ms Dow added: "From her position in the corridor, outside Mr McRae's room, her view was restricted to the lower part of Mr McRae's body."
A short time later he was found to be unresponsive.
Ms Dow told the court Louise Docherty had suffered mental health difficulties following the birth of her sons in 2011.
In March 2014 she was admitted to Dykebar Hospital following a deterioration in her mental state.
She was being observed by a senior charge nurse who left her alone to take a phone call nearby.
Ms Dow said that when the staff member returned minutes later to allow Miss Docherty to speak to her social worker on the phone, she was found unconscious in the toilet.
Attempts were made to revive her and she was transferred to the RAH hospital by emergency ambulance but died later.
The court heard that "had constant observations been properly implemented" neither Kenneth McRae nor Louise Docherty would have been able to take their own lives without being noticed.
Sheriff Bill Totten fined NHSGGC £100,000, reduced from £140,000, after they admitted failings.
He said: "In this case the plea of guilty by Greater Glasgow Health Board recognises that the deaths were avoidable and accepts responsibility for the defects which lead to them."
Culture Secretary John Whittingdale is expected to set out a tougher regime for the broadcaster in plans for a new royal charter for the next 11 years.
Reports have claimed the BBC will scale back online services, including losing recipe pages and magazine content.
The BBC said it was reviewing online services but such claims were "speculation".
The royal charter expires at the end of December and a public consultation into its future was launched last year.
Earlier in May, Labour accused Mr Whittingdale of "meddling", following reports he would allow commercial broadcasters to challenge the BBC over peak-time scheduling, a claim that was denied.
Mr Whittingdale, speaking in the Commons on Wednesday, said media reports ahead of the publication of the paper had ranged from "complete fantasy" to "quite well-informed", adding: "But certainly not informed by me or my department."
A government source told the Sunday Times the White Paper was intended to "set a broad set of principles and guidelines".
"How that is applied to individual programmes and scheduling is a matter for them. But they will be subject to external regulation."
The Guardian has claimed the licence fee would be subjected to "top-slicing", with a portion of it being handed to commercial rivals in areas such as children's programming.
Newspapers have also speculated Mr Whittingdale will make the BBC publish how much it pays top talent earning more than £150,000.
At Sunday night's TV Bafta awards, Wolf Hall director Peter Kosminsky was one of a number of people who spoke out against alleged government plans.
He claimed ministers were trying to "eviscerate" the BBC and that now was "a dangerous time for broadcasting in Britain".
In a speech at the British Museum, Prime Minister David Cameron said the broadcaster was one of the "most recognised brands on the planet", while Liberal Democrat peer Lord Lester of Herne Hill warned a public protest march would follow any "stupid" decisions in regards to the BBC's future.
The White Paper is also expected to address the conclusions of Sir David Clementi's report into the BBC Trust, which recommended "fundamental reform" of the body.
The document follows 2015's Green Paper, which was a consultation paper about the future of the corporation.
In that paper, Mr Whittingdale said there was a "need to ask some hard questions in charter review if we are to ensure the future success of the BBC and, indeed, UK broadcasting".
"I believe the BBC can continue to thrive. But to do that it will need to evolve," he said.
In an email to staff, BBC director general Tony Hall said the White Paper "must give us a mandate for a secure future".
He said he would address staff following the paper's publication.
Lord Hall wrote: "It's a big moment. Of course, every Charter matters - but perhaps this one even more so, as it's taking place in the middle of a global media revolution."
He said the BBC must have a "certainty of funding, as well as control over its own revenue streams".
"This debate should lead us to a position where our creativity can flourish rather than be constrained...
"We need to change the way we're governed to make it simpler and clearer. But, any changes must protect the independence of the BBC."
Meanwhile, the corporation has announced the commissioning, publishing and some of the production of BBC Three's short-form content is to move from London to Birmingham by 2018.
The TV channel, which became online-only in February, will create new commissioner and assistant commissioner roles in the city.
Birmingham will also be the home of a team within BBC News supplying content for BBC Three's Daily Drop web stream.
The BBC said its proposed partnerships with local news organisations are also expected to be based in Birmingham, alongside the existing English Regions HQ.
The department of tourism admitted that some of the pictures shared on social media were of Finland and Slovakia.
The images ran under the slogan "Real is Beautiful".
"I have decided to step down as the head of the state tourism department," Jurgita Kazlauskiene told journalists.
Responding to the gaffe, the department and local media agencies insisted the overseas pictures were sufficient to "communicate emotion" - a claim widely mocked online.
The Real is the Beautiful page on Facebook had reportedly used stock photos from Shutterstock and the picture hosting site Flickr.
Local Facebook users have seen the funny side, with many posting shots of international landmarks, captioned as Lithuanian, with the hashtag #realisbeautiful.
Even the country's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis joined in the joke, sharing a picture of the EU Commission's Berlaymont building in Brussels.
"From tomorrow, we start working in the new government building in Karoliniskes," he wrote.
Karoliniskes is a suburb in Lithuania's capital, Vilnius.
The post was signed off with a smiling emoji.
In a second more serious post, the prime minister promised an investigation into the "fraudulent" episode.
Lithuania launched the Real is Beautiful campaign in October last year, aiming to draw more tourists to its sandy beaches and lush woodlands.
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His FA Cup strike against Reading took Rooney, 31, to 249 goals in 543 games, reaching the landmark 215 matches and four seasons quicker than Charlton.
"It's a proud moment," he said.
"We've got two home games coming up this week so hopefully I can get the next one in one of those."
United play Hull City in the first leg of their League Cup semi-final on Tuesday (20:00 GMT kick-off), before taking on Liverpool in the Premier League at 16:00 on 15 January.
"This club is a huge part of my life and I'm honoured to be up there alongside Sir Bobby," said Rooney after Saturday's 4-0 win over the Royals at Old Trafford.
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United manager Jose Mourinho said: "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."
Reading boss Jaap Stam, who played 127 times for United, added: "Wayne has been a great player from the beginning. He is a player who works very hard for the team and you could see that in the game. With the quality he has as an individual and the quality players he is playing with, it makes him an outstanding player.
"It is not surprising he has scored this many goals. Even when they are 4-0 up, he is still sprinting and running for the ball."
In 2015, Rooney surpassed World Cup winner Charlton's England scoring record of 49 goals and has since taken his international 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.
Former United manager David Moyes, now at Sunderland, added: "First of all it's congratulations. To even get mentioned in the same breath as Sir Bobby Charlton, who for so many people is a great for what he did with England and Manchester United, is an achievement.
"You have to give Wayne Rooney credit for the limelight he has had to work under and the pressure people continually put on him.
"He has had a great career. It comes to an end at some time in football and sometimes you drop off a little bit but Wayne was always going to break the records in my eyes. The times I have worked with him he was always very good. A great player, a great trainer and someone who always wanted to go about his business well."
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.
The mother was at Derby Bus Station on Wednesday evening when she was seen slapping the child.
Police arrested the 35-year-old mother on suspicion of common assault, interviewed her and gave her two cautions.
Derbyshire Police said the child was now being looked after by social care.
It is legal for a parent to physically punish a child in the UK if the punishment is "reasonable".
However, the Children Act 2004 removed the defence of "reasonable chastisement" in England and Wales for any punishment towards a child that leads to bruising, swelling, cuts, grazes or scratches.
Scotland and Northern Ireland have similar laws.
A United Nations report suggested the UK should pass laws to ban parents from smacking their children.
A total of 268 people - including scores of high school students - remain missing after Wednesday's disaster.
Twenty-eight people are now known to have died and 179 were rescued.
It is not clear why the ferry sank, but experts have suggested it either hit a rock or turned sharply, unbalancing the vessel as cargo shifted.
The vessel - named Sewol - had been travelling from Incheon, in the north-west, to the southern resort island of Jeju. It capsized and sank within a period of two hours, officials said.
A major search and rescue operation has been under way. Bad weather, poor visibility and strong currents hampered the divers' search on Thursday.
Some of the divers have managed to enter the cargo bay of the ship, a coast guard official confirmed in a press conference on Friday.
By Martin PatienceBBC News, Jindo island
Dozens of ambulances have arrived at the port - a sign, perhaps, that this massive operation is about to enter a grim new phrase.
Just after midday local time a coast guard boat drew into the port. Three bodies were then offloaded onto a small pier. They were then carried from the pier through a police cordon to ambulances that ferried them onwards to the morgue.
This is the third day of the search and rescue operation. Many of the relatives of the missing are angry about the government's handling of this operation. I saw one man shouting at the police demanding to know why oxygen tanks sitting on the portside were not being loaded on to boats and taken to the scene of the stricken ferry - around 20km away.
The coast guard has continued to take relatives on boats to where the ferry sank. I saw around 20 or so boarding one vessel for what must be the most harrowing voyage of their lives.
But they could not identify or rescue any people due to items obstructing the way, the unnamed official added.
Air was also now being injected into the ship to help any people trapped inside - though officials have said that survivors are unlikely - and to help refloat the vessel.
Coast guard officials, quoted by AFP, say the bodies picked up were found floating in the water, and none had been retrieved from the ship itself.
Three salvage cranes have also arrived at the scene, to raise the ship or move it to another area with weaker currents.
Our correspondent at the scene described "an absolutely desperate development for the families" as three more bodies were brought in from the rescue site on Friday.
"We will review the options very carefully, as the salvage operations may hurt survivors trapped inside," Yonhap news agency quoted a coast guard officer as saying.
Meanwhile, investigators have stated that the captain of the ferry, Lee Joon-seok, was not in charge when the ferry ran into trouble.
"It was the third officer who was in command of steering the ship when the accident took place," state prosecutor Park Jae-Eok told journalists.
"Whether or not they took a drastic turnaround... is under investigation," he said.
"Though surviving crews have different testimonies about the situation, we've been investigating the captain as he was suspected to leave the steering room for an unknown reason," Mr Park added.
It is not unusual for the captain to leave the bridge, former ferry Captain Malcolm Shakesby has told the BBC.
Source: Yonhap news agency
"Depending on whether or not is was in pilotage waters, then yes, the master would be expected to be on the bridge, but if it wasn't in pilotage waters it's a common practice for one of the officers to be doing navigation," he added.
In a separate development, reports say the vice principal of Danwon High School, who was rescued from the ferry, was found dead on Friday.
Yonhap news agency quotes police as saying Kang Min-Kyu, 52, was found hanging from a tree near the gym where many of the relatives of missing passengers have been staying.
Witnesses have accused the crew of telling passengers to remain where they were, rather than evacuate the sinking ship.
Messages and phone calls from those inside painted a picture of people trapped in crowded corridors, unable to escape the severely-listing ferry.
Some 350 of those on board were students from the same high school in a suburb of Seoul who were on a field trip.
Their relatives have endured a long wait for news - their anguish compounded by conflicting information about numbers of survivors issued early on.
In a public statement issued on Friday, families of the missing called for more urgent action.
"Nobody told us about what went wrong and what was happening out there. There was not even a situation room in charge by late Wednesday," a representative said.
"Our children would be shouting for help in the freezing water," he said. "Please help us save our children."
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A letter by the group says that in constituencies where Labour does well it "makes sense" for voters to "aid a progressive party like Plaid", and "to block any party that trades in fear".
They said Labour will have to work with others after the 5 May poll.
But Labour said the only choice was between them and a "rag-bag coalition".
The letter, published in the Western Mail on Saturday, is signed by ex-special advisor to David Miliband, Ian Hargreaves, former Welsh Government advisor Prof Gerry Holtham and chairman of the Yes for Wales 1997 pro-devolution campaign Prof Kevin Morgan.
It is also signed by National Museum Wales trustee Dr Hywel Ceri Jones, former Labour MP Prof David Marquand and former Welsh Development Agency economist Prof Brian Morgan.
The letter reads: "As long time supporters of the Labour Party, we are totally committed to the return of a Labour Government in Wales next week.
"But if the polls are correct Labour will not secure a majority in the assembly election and therefore it will have to cooperate in some shape or form with another party.
"Where Labour does well in the constituency section, it fares poorly in the regional list section, which is why so many people think that a second vote for Labour in such areas - like south Wales for example - is a wasted vote.
"In these areas it makes sense for voters to cast their vote in a purposeful fashion - to aid a progressive party like Plaid Cymru and to block any party that trades in fear and prejudice."
The letter adds that a "new political world" is emerging that is "more complex, more uncertain and more challenging than ever before".
The academics say that "no single party has the knowledge and the talent to deal effectively with this world".
They add: "To meet these challenges the Labour Party needs to be at the centre of a progressive political movement and we can start in Wales next week."
A Welsh Labour source said: "The choice people face next Thursday is between a Labour Government and a rag-bag coalition.
"Voting for Welsh Labour is the only way to stop UKIP in Wales."
A UKIP spokeswoman said the comments were "insulting and idiotic scaremongering".
She said: "This is the left wing trying to consolidate their chances of returning a Labour-led government when they know they are slipping in the polls and when they have failed the public catastrophically since devolution.
"How arrogant to assert that the significant percentage of people who support UKIP should not be represented by AMs."
The spokeswoman added: "UKIP is campaigning on a platform of better investment in the NHS, improving cancer care in Wales, a dynamic and bespoke education system where every child has the best chance and better devolved economic development to help boost Welsh business, which, according to these so-called academics, is scary stuff."
A Welsh Conservative spokesman said: "Welsh Labour must be really rattled if they're wheeling out prominent supporters to endorse rival parties just days before an election.
"Ultimately, there's nothing progressive about five more years of Labour failure, and we will continue to offer voters an ambitious alternative and a vision to secure real change for Wales."
Simon Thomas, Plaid's candidate for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, said: "It is true that those who want to see Wales follow a progressive path after the 5th of May need to vote for Plaid Cymru.
"Labour has proven that after 17 years in government, it is out of steam and out of ideas."
Prof Gerry Holtham is an economist and a former Welsh Government advisor.
Prof Kevin Morgan, of Cardiff University, was the chairman of the Yes for Wales pro-devolution campaign for the 1997 Welsh referendum. He was one of the leaders of the campaign by Rhodri Morgan to become Welsh Labour leader in 1999.
Prof Brian Morgan, of Cardiff Metropolitan University, is a former chief economist of the Welsh Development Agency.
Prof Ian Hargreaves is former special advisor to David Miliband.
Prof David Marquand is a former Labour MP and is a principal of Mansfield College at Oxford University.
Dr Hywel Ceri Jones is a trustee of National Museum Wales. He is a former European advisor to the Secretary of State for Wales in 1998-99.
Voters in assembly elections have two votes - one for a candidate to be their AM in a constituency area, and a second for a party to serve them in their region.
The first past the post principle is used to elect constituency AMs - where the candidate with the largest number of votes gets the seat.
For regional seats it is more complicated.
In simple terms, regional AMs' seats are handed out to the different parties according to:
If a party wins most of the constituencies in a region, it is very difficult for that party to win regional seats.
So if Labour gets a large vote in a region but already has lots of AMs elected in the constituency votes, they will not necessarily pick up any regional seats.
Regional party lists are nominated in the order that candidates will be elected if the party is successful.
For example, if party X only gets one seat in a region, then only their first candidate on the party's list is elected.
If they get two, its first and second candidates on the list are elected.
Her comments came after new forecasts wiped £9.6bn off expected North Sea revenues over the next five years.
Ms Sturgeon said the Scottish and UK governments as well as the Office for Budget Responsibility had put prices at between $100-120 a barrel.
Her comments came after big changes to the North Sea tax regime were announced, to support the sector.
The industry was hit after the price of Brent crude oil dipped below $50 a barrel, after having been at about $110 between 2010 until mid-2014.
'Bad news'
During first minister's questions at Holyrood, deputy Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said the latest oil projections had exposed "dodgy sums" at the heart of the SNP's UK election strategy and plans for "full fiscal autonomy".
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), set up to provide independent analysis, has downgraded its projections for oil receipts in 2016-17 from £2.4bn in December to £600m, with its forecasts for each of the five years to 2019-20 now less than £1bn.
Ms Sturgeon said: "When the Scottish government was projecting an oil price of $110 a barrel, the OBR was projecting an oil price of $100 a barrel and the UK's department of energy and climate change was projecting an oil price of upwards of $120 a barrel.
"So I think it's fair to say, everybody's projections about oil were wrong."
The first minister went on to accuse Labour of being prepared to "gleefully pounce on anything they can describe as bad news".
Wednesday's budget saw Chancellor George Osborne announce Petroleum Revenue Tax (PRT) would be cut from 50% to 35% to support continued production in older fields.
He added that the existing supplementary charge for oil companies would also be cut from 30% to 20%, backdated to January, effectively reversing the hike in the 2011 Budget.
The case was brought by a teenage girl and her mother who live in Northern Ireland.
Unlike the rest of the UK, abortion is only allowed in very restricted circumstances in Northern Ireland.
The appeal was dismissed on Wednesday.
The Court of Appeal also refused leave to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Last year it was ruled that women from Northern Ireland are not legally entitled to free abortions on the NHS in England,
More than 1,000 women each year travel from Northern Ireland to have an abortion in other parts of the UK.
Those who do travel must pay for their transport, accommodation and the cost of the procedure.
The court heard the total cost is around £900.
The case was brought by the girl, who was 15 at the time (claimant A), and whose identity cannot be revealed for legal reasons.
After becoming pregnant, she travelled to England with her mother (claimant B) in October 2012.
The court was previously told her mother had struggled to part-raise funds to pay for her daughter to have a termination privately in England.
Abortion law in Northern Ireland meant it was impossible to have the termination there.
In his judgement last year, Mr Justice King, said the differences in the legal position had "not surprisingly led to a steady stream" of pregnant women from Northern Ireland travelling to England to access abortion services not available to them at home.
But he ruled that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt's duty to promote a comprehensive health service in England "is a duty in relation to the physical and mental health of the people of England", and that duty did not extend "to persons who are ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland".
The judge, in his ruling, said that devolutionary powers have to be taken into consideration.
Because Northern Ireland is not covered by the 1967 Abortion Act, which applies in the rest of the UK, the judge ruled this was not a discrimination issue.
Opinion is split over whether the inquiry has been an essential examination of one of the most infamous events of the Northern Ireland Troubles or a pointless waste of money.
Earlier this year, Northern Ireland Justice Minister David Ford said the inquiry had "enriched lawyers but not necessarily achieved anything for the families".
But Michael Mansfield QC, a barrister who represented relatives of some of the victims, said: "The families would say you can't measure any grief and loss of your loved ones in terms of finance and the need to know the truth about what happened was vital to them."
And the Bloody Sunday Trust, which aims to preserve the memory of those who died in the shootings, said: "The issue of costs is the one which has excited most attention of the media and some politicians, not whether the soldiers committed murder or why it took so long for a proper inquiry to take place."
About half the money spent on the inquiry has gone to lawyers. It opened in April 1998 in Londonderry and heard evidence from more than 900 people between 2000 and 2005.
The report was initially planned for release the following year but instead has only been published now, after years of analysis of the evidence heard.
Thirteen people died after paratroopers opened fire during a civil rights march in Derry on 30 January 1972. A 14th person died some time later and his family believe the death was related to injuries he sustained on the day.
An inquiry was held in the weeks after the deaths, chaired by Lord Widgery, but lasted only a month. The Bloody Sunday Trust and Mr Mansfield are both highly critical of it.
The Saville Inquiry has been chaired by Lord Saville, 74, a high court judge.
Among the costs of the inquiry to be revealed in parliamentary debates or written answers are the £34m spent on IT and £26m on accommodation, including hire of venues and office space.
In February 2009, then Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward revealed the inquiry's lead QC Christopher Clarke had been paid £4.5m and Edwin Glasgow QC, representing the army, had received £4m. About a dozen other individual lawyers received more than £1m.
Unionist victims campaigner Willie Frazer, founder of Families Acting for Innocent Relatives, disputes the cost of the inquiry, claiming it is actually more than £300m - and says it is a waste of money.
Mr Frazer said: "There should have just been a police investigation.
"In South Armagh, 98% of the murders were never solved and in my own family I had five killed and six of my mates, that's almost as many as died on Bloody Sunday.
"We've never had anybody prosecuted and compensation was never an issue with us. What's the difference between those killed on Bloody Sunday and our people who were killed doing a day's work?
"We are realistic enough to know that it would do more harm than good because that amount of money could go into hospitals or other investments that would be more use than spending it on the inquiry.
"The only people getting anything out of this are the legal people.
"I just think all this is going to create is a waste of money and more resentment in the communities of Northern Ireland."
In March, Alliance Party leader Mr Ford, who became justice minister the following month, said: "I personally don't think that I am the only individual in Northern Ireland who feels the spending of £200m on enriching lawyers rather than dealing in a different way with the needs of the victims is a fairly ineffective way of dealing with the problem."
But the Bloody Sunday Trust says the inquiry had to be held, being the "only full and detailed investigation" into the events of the day.
The trust compares the Saville Inquiry costs with the £173m Manchester City spent on new players in 2009.
A statement from the organisation said: "A proper police inquiry and an inquest would be taken for granted had (that many) people been shot and killed or wounded in any other part of the United Kingdom, as recent events in Cumbria so tragically underline.
"Hundreds of young men and women joined the IRA as a direct result of what happened on Bloody Sunday and the subsequent Widgery Inquiry.
"Many people died or were imprisoned because of the failings of Widgery.
"This should put any discussion about costs of the Saville Inquiry into perspective."
Mr Mansfield also said the need to find out the truth about what happened overshadowed the cost.
He said the Saville Inquiry was unique, having been set up at an important time in the peace process, and was a "stepping stone" to the power sharing agreements now in place.
Mr Mansfield said: "The inquiry wasn't really limited to the 30 minutes or so when the firing took place. They decided it could not be seen in isolation, it was part of a sequence of events and it was necessary to look at why so many thousands of people turned out for a march of this kind.
"It was the families who campaigned for this inquiry and they have to stand very proud."
But the Committee on the Administration of Justice, a human rights organisation based in Belfast, said the length of the process had been traumatic for the families.
Deputy director Aideen Gilmore said: "It is regrettable that the families of those killed on Bloody Sunday have had to wait so long both for an inquiry and for the report of this inquiry.
"If there had been a full and thorough investigation in the first place, and those responsible held to account, the families of victims could have been spared the trauma of such a lengthy delay."
All the key action from the Olympic Park will be on BBC Radio 5 live, with Radio 5 live sports extra providing listeners with additional coverage.
John Inverdale will front the coverage across the day, joining Shelagh Fogarty for a special show between 12:00-14:00 on each weekday of the Games, and he will also bring listeners the best of the action during 5 live Drive and 5 live Sport.
Paralympic gold medallists Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson and Marc Woods will give their expert views on proceedings along with swimmer Kate Grey, who narrowly missed the cut for the London team.
Double cycling gold medallist from the Beijing Paralympics Mark Bristow MBE will offer insight on cycling, along with Paralympians Alan Ash on wheelchair rugby and Caroline Matthews and Joe Jayaratne on wheelchair basketball.
Presenter Russell Fuller will be among those leading the coverage on 5 live sports extra.
Olympic swimming medallist Steve Parry and former 400m runner Allison Curbishley will give their opinions and analysis, while commentary will be provided by the likes of Mike Costello, Ed Harry, Simon Brotherton, Chris Mitchell, Philip Studd and Mike Sewell.
In addition, the 5 live Breakfast Sports Desk with George Riley will be coming live from the Olympic Park each weekday.
For the latest 5 live sports extra Paralympic schedules, go to the station's website.
Updates and live coverage throughout the day on 5 live
06:00-09:005 live Breakfast - Live from the Olympic Park including interviews & reaction
09:30-13:005 live Sports Extra - Russell Fuller brings you continued coverage from the Games including athletics, swimming and cycling
19:00-22:00 5 live Paralympics - John Inverdale live from the Olympic Stadium.
Updates and live coverage throughout the day on 5 live
06:00-09:005 live Breakfast - Live from the Olympic Park including interviews & reaction
09:30-13:005 live Sports Extra - Russell Fuller brings you continued coverage from the Games including the marathons and wheelchair rugby finals
20:30-23:005 live Paralympics - John Inverdale brings you the colour of the closing ceremony
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BBC Get Inspired caught up with Diane who says running has helped her overcome depression, stress and anxiety and that she encourages anyone to take it up.
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In recent weeks a string of world leaders have expressed their views on the UK's EU referendum. And the vast majority of them back Britain remaining in the EU.
"If the countries that are closest to you, those who you have a special relationship with, are suggesting you might be better off staying in this relationship with Europe, it's worth paying attention," said US President Barack Obama.
"The United Kingdom needs Europe and Europe needs the United Kingdom," said European Council President Donald Tusk.
And what has Russian President Vladimir Putin said about Brexit?
Absolutely nothing. The Kremlin has been keeping silent on the matter.
That has not prevented Russia from being sucked into the Brexit debate. Prime Minister David Cameron said recently that Mr Putin "might be happy" if Britain left the EU.
UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond was even more direct. "The only country, if the truth is told, that would like us to leave the EU is Russia," he said. "And that should probably tell us all that we need to know."
Assertions like that leave Russian officials rolling their eyes.
"Russia is blamed for everything," Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told me. "Not only in the UK but all over the world.
"We're watching, for example, the presidential campaign in the United States and we're also mentioned there. So it's not surprising for us. But Russia has nothing to do with Brexit at all. We're not involved in this process. We have no interest in this field."
Russia is, indeed, "not involved": after all, it's not Russian voters who will decide whether the UK is in or out of the EU.
But "no interests in this field"? That is debatable.
"If there's a Brexit, if there's a crisis in the European Union, this will be a local propaganda victory," claims Prof Sergei Medvedev from Moscow's Higher School of Economics. He believes the Kremlin's calculation is a simple one: Brexit = a weaker EU = a stronger Russia.
"Moscow sees everything as a zero sum game," Prof Medvedev says.
"So, what's bad for the European Union is good for Russia. It's as simple as that. They don't think further, about the EU being their biggest trading partner, about the question of visa-free travel, that there'll be bigger transaction costs for Russian business. No, they don't think in this way: it's either/or."
As part of this geopolitical "game", Moscow has been cultivating bilateral relations with those EU states it sees as "friendly" to Moscow, such as Greece, Austria, Hungary and Slovakia.
One of the aims is to break the EU's unanimity over sanctions against Russia. Even in those EU countries that have adopted a tougher stance towards Moscow, the Kremlin is seeking friends.
Sanctions were imposed over Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, and ratcheted up when pro-Russian separatists took over parts of eastern Ukraine.
Earlier this year, Mr Putin hosted the Bavarian leader Horst Seehofer, a fierce critic of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The invitation came across as classic "divide and conquer" tactics.
Some Western governments also accuse the Kremlin of trying to sow discord in the EU by supporting nationalist parties in Europe.
"Russia will not cry very much if the EU will be in deeper decline, but to be honest we don't have to make big efforts," says Fyodor Lukyanov, editor-in-chief of the journal Russia In Global Affairs.
"That's because the European Union is in a very deep conceptual crisis. All anti-European and xenophobic forces are arising not because of support from Moscow. They are because of profound domestic contradictions in the European Union. The fact that any outside rivals or opponents try to use domestic problems in their own interest - that's unfortunately the normal thing for politics."
Aside from sanctions, there is another reason why Russia resents the EU: it sees it as an exclusive club designed to marginalise Russia.
Earlier this year I attended a meeting in Moscow between Russian senators and European politicians and policymakers. In his speech, the head of the foreign affairs committee of the upper house of parliament, Konstantin Kosachev, claimed that the EU and Nato had broken the 1990 Paris Charter, which formalised the end of the Cold War.
"This document referred to three international organisations that would define the future of Europe and the world - the UN, the OSCE [Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe] and the Council of Europe," Mr Kosachev said. "You won't find a single mention of Nato. And the EU is mentioned only once in the economy/trade section.
"It was envisaged that Europe's future would be decided by national governments. But Nato and the EU had no intention of building a Europe of equals."
Mr Kosachev failed to mention that a year after the Paris Charter, the Soviet Union fell apart and the face of Europe changed. The European Union itself was only established in 1993, when it replaced the European Economic Community (EEC). And when EU-Russian relations were enjoying warmer times, Moscow rarely accused Brussels of violating the Paris Charter.
Even if Brexit were to weaken the EU, Moscow knows it still needs a relationship with Brussels.
"Even a weakened European Union is still a union," says Fyodor Lukyanov. "For Russia it would be easier to deal with individual countries, especially the big countries of the EU. But I don't think anyone in Moscow thinks this is possible."
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Police were sent to Brae Hill Park at about 02:00 BST on Sunday, 29 March and found Lawrence Pritchard when they arrived.
He was given first aid by officers until an ambulance arrived and took him to hospital.
Mr Pritchard, from north Belfast, died in hospital on Friday night.
A man in his 40s was arrested at the time and later released on police bail pending further enquiries.
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Nicola McDonough, 23, and her mother Margaret, died after being found injured at the Premier Inn in May 2013.
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Krystof Jedizejczyk, 40, admitted dropping a tablet into a soup bowl during a night shift, but his victim spotted it and reported it.
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He was also handed a 12-month community order and 150 hours of community service.
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The probationary officers made the video while working near the scene where 11 people died after a jet crashed on to the A27 on 22 August.
The recording was made by the police cordon and accompanied by an inappropriate and offensive message.
Sussex Police said the outcome of the interviews would be known this week.
Both officers attended Regulation 13 meetings - which are specific to probationary officers - on 30 September.
After the evidence had been assessed, a recommendation will be made to the Chief Constable as to their future, a spokesman for the force said.
Last month, Sussex Police Deputy Chief Constable Olivia Pinkney said the pair would face disciplinary proceedings over the video, which was sent on social media, and a private message.
Ms Pinkney said they had behaved in a "wholly disrespectful way".
The ballot was called over fears of forthcoming redundancies.
UCU said 74% of those who voted backed strike action, and 79% said they were prepared to take action short of a strike.
The university said it was disappointed, and aimed to continue talks with UCU officials.
Industrial action was called off in June after an agreement to prevent compulsory redundancies was reached.
Hopkins, a multiple world champion at middleweight and light-heavyweight, will contest his 65th bout at the Los Angeles Forum on 17 December.
"A lot of people will focus on my age, the history of my run in the sport, the titles, but I'm focused on one thing - knocking Joe Smith out," said Hopkins.
Hopkins made his pro debut in 1988.
That fight, a loss to Clinton Mitchell, took place 11 months before Hopkins' next opponent was born.
The veteran American has since won 55 of his bouts with 32 knockouts.
He won his first world title in 1995, at the age of 30, before defending his middleweight crown 20 times.
His most recent fight, for the WBA, IBF and WBO light-heavyweight titles in November 2014, ended in a points loss to Russia's Sergey Kovalev.
American Smith, 27, has lost only one fight since his 2009 debut, compiling a 22-1 record with 18 knockouts.
China's President Xi Jinping has pledged $124bn (£96bn) for the scheme, known as the Belt and Road initiative.
"Trade is the important engine of economic development," Mr Xi said at a summit of world leaders in Beijing.
The plan, which aims to expand trade links between Asia, Africa, Europe and beyond, was first unveiled in 2013.
Part of the massive funding boost, which is aimed at strengthening China's links with its trading partners, includes 60bn yuan ($9bn; £7bn) in aid to developing countries and international institutions that form part of the Belt and Road project.
Mr Xi used his speech to assure Western diplomats that the plan, described as the new Silk Road, was not simply an attempt to promote Chinese influence globally.
"In advancing the Belt and Road, we will not re-tread the old path of games between foes. Instead we will create a new model of co-operation and mutual benefit," Mr Xi said at the opening of the two-day summit.
"We should build an open platform of co-operation and uphold and grow an open world economy," he added.
A Chinese idea but for everyone's benefit. That's how Mr Xi presented his Belt and Road vision to drive trade and prosperity through Chinese built infrastructure.
President Putin of Russia and President Erdogan of Turkey were among those applauding from the front row as the Chinese leader talked of a big family of harmonious co-existence and pledged billions of dollars in loans and investment.
But neighbours Japan and India have stayed away from the summit, suspicious that China's development agenda masks a bid for strategic assets and geopolitical ambitions. And some economists are cautious about the viability of projects in areas of political instability and poor governance.
In his keynote address on Sunday, Mr Xi ignored the doubters. He talked of a new model of win-win co-operation, an implicit bid for Chinese global leadership at a time when other big economic powers like the United States and the European Union are preoccupied with internal problems.
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Mr Xi said that it was time for the world to promote open development and encourage the building of systems of "fair, reasonable and transparent global trade and investment rules".
"China is willing to share its development experience with all countries. We will not interfere in other countries' internal affairs," he said.
"No matter if they are from Asia and Europe, or Africa or the Americas, they are all co-operative partners in building the Belt and Road."
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Mr Xi did not give a timeframe for the distribution of funds pledged for the projects outlined on Sunday.
Leaders from 29 countries are attending the Belt and Road forum, which ends on Monday, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayep Erdogan.
Several other European leaders, including the prime ministers of Spain, Italy, Greece and Hungary, are also attending the summit.
Industrial action on Thursday and Friday has been called off for negotiations to resume.
RMT members began a five-day walk out on Monday but Southern said it was encouraged its offer of talks had been accepted.
Union chief Mick Cash said he had contacted Southern with a way forward.
A spokesman for Southern said: "For our passengers' sake, we truly hope these talks will be productive and bring this long-running dispute to an end."
The RMT is fighting plans by Southern owner Govia Thameslink (GTR) to turn conductors into "on-board supervisors" from 21 August, with drivers taking over responsibility for opening and closing carriage doors.
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The rail operator said the strike timetable - which is running 60% of normal services - would run on Thursday.
"Regrettably, this means tomorrow's service will be based upon the present strike timetable but we will do our very best to add services in and extend the hours of operation wherever possible," a spokesman said.
The company said it planned to revert to the revised timetable that had been operating before the strike on Friday.
The revised timetable was brought in last month to cope with ongoing disruption. It saw 341 trains axed per day from the 2,242 weekday services Southern had provided.
Mr Cash said in a message to members he had heard from Acas that Southern would enter into negotiations "without any preconditions".
He said: "The National Executive Committee (NEC) has had time to consider this matter and have acknowledged that some progress is being made.
"As the company have now agreed to meet with our union officials without the caveat of any preconditions, the NEC has therefore instructed me to inform you and your colleagues that the strike action has now been suspended with immediate effect until further notice."
Mr Cash told members they were instructed to return to work for all shifts starting from 22:00 BST on Wednesday.
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Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said it was "good news for passengers".
He said: "It's important now to leave the union and the train operator to undertake these necessary talks. I hope they reach a positive conclusion as quickly as possible."
Passengers have joined a protest march from London's Victoria station to the Department for Transport (DfT) in central London.
Summer Dean, from Brighton, spokeswoman for the Association of British Commuters said: "We are directing our attentions towards the DfT.
"Obviously we know they are playing a large role in the relationship and situation that is going on here.
"We've now recognised that the DfT needs to play a bigger role. So we're here to ask for fare freezes, we're here to ask for them to meet with us and other passengers and the companies, and for meaningful compensation."
The Campaign for Better Transport and the Association of British Commuters were presenting a 6ft-high letter to rail minister Paul Maynard calling on him to attend a "passenger assembly" to answer questions and arrange better compensation for customers affected by the dispute.
England's one-day series defeat in Sri Lanka was their fourth in a row under Cook, who scored 119 runs in six games.
They have a maximum of five ODIs before their opening World Cup game against Australia on 14 February.
"It would not be too much of a gamble. It should have happened months ago," Hussain wrote in the Daily Mail.
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"More dynamic players should have been given time to bed into the side."
Left-handed opener Cook, who turns 30 on Christmas Day, has not scored a half-century in his last 22 ODI innings.
Early this month, he was named as captain of England's provisional 30-man squad for the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, which must be reduced to 15 players by 7 January.
On Saturday, England will announce a 16-man party for January's tri-series in Australia against the host nation and India.
Head coach Peter Moores has said there is no guarantee of Cook being captain for the World Cup, while England and Wales Cricket Board managing director Paul Downton said he would be surprised if Cook did not lead the side.
"We put Test cricket first in this country and that means that predominantly Test batsmen in myself, Michael Vaughan and Andrew Strauss have been in charge for the last three World Cups," said Hussain, who led England at the 2003 tournament in South Africa.
"The fact that Cook is still having to work out his best way to play spin in one-day cricket is a disgrace."
Eoin Morgan, the England vice-captain, scored only 90 runs in seven innings in Sri Lanka, including 62 when he deputised for Cook in the fourth ODI.
"He is England's most important batsman in the one-day game, but his form has in many ways been worse than Cook's," said Hussain, who played 96 Tests and 88 ODIs.
"The captaincy seems to have brought something like the best out of him recent times so maybe that would galvanise him now.
"It is a question of whether they want to rock the boat and hurt the captain they have put such store in by admitting they were wrong and giving the captaincy to Eoin Morgan or, at a push, Joe Root."
England have never won the World Cup, and have failed to progress beyond the quarter-finals since 1996.
He has been with the Championship side for seven years and took over in the role back in 2012.
Coaches Gavin Cattle and Alan Paver, who have both played for the side under Davies, will take charge next season.
"I'm absolutely devastated to be leaving, not only the Pirates but also Cornwall," said Davies in a statement on the club's website.
"I am certain Gavin and Alan will continue to do the fantastic job they are currently doing for us and I have assured them I am at the end of a telephone if they need a sounding board."
Davies has accepted a new role as director of rugby at Christ's Hospital School in Sussex, whose most high-profile graduate in recent times is England international Joe Launchbury.
"(There's been) a lot of soul-searching, a few tears between myself and my wife and then we came to the decision that ultimately I've got to move on," Davies added.
"Ever since I've been here there's been a promise of it (new stadium) being built, and it's still not happened yet - hopefully it does in the future because if it doesn't there are dark times ahead."
During his time with the Pirates, starting as forwards coach, the club won the inaugural British and Irish Cup in 2010 and reached the Championship play-off final in 2011.
"Delays to the 'Stadium for Cornwall' project have created budget pressures for the Cornish Pirates and as a consequence, playing budgets have had to be reduced for next season," said a club statement.
"Priority to signing players has been the key focus and the budget restrictions have imposed some challenging options - a consequence of these budget limitations is that Ian's time at the Pirates cannot continue beyond his current contract."
Davies took over as boss at the Mennaye from Chris Stirling, who returned to New Zealand four years ago.
The Cornish side are ninth in the second tier and reached the last four of the British and Irish Cup on Sunday with a 38-19 win over Doncaster.
"We're hugely indebted to Ian Davies for his major contribution during the Chris Stirling years and for his even greater contribution as director of rugby," added chairman Ian Connell.
"Everyone connected with the Cornish Pirates will wish Ian and his family every good wish as they relocate along the south coast to Sussex."
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Leigh Halfpenny kicked two penalties as Wales edged a tight first half 6-3, but the game burst into life after an hour.
Dan Biggar crossed for a slick Welsh score only for France to hit back with Brice Dulin's try in the corner.
Another Halfpenny penalty eased Welsh nerves as they sealed a fourth straight win over France for the first time since 1957.
Having lost to England on the opening weekend, Wales knew only a win would suffice for them to have a chance of claiming a fifth championship in 11 seasons.
And following their latest Parisian triumph - a fifth win in nine visits to Stade de France - they host Ireland on 14 March with their title dreams intact.
Wales assistant coach Rob Howley said beforehand they would be on "red alert" defensively, wary of a French side they expected to adopt a more expansive approach than in previous matches.
The omission of juggernaut centre Mathieu Bastareaud did not hinder their physicality, however, as Yoann Huget set the tone for a confrontational start with a thumping tackle on opposing wing Liam Williams.
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Wales centre Jamie Roberts was prominent as a battering ram in midfield, and the away side's forays into French territory were rewarded as two Halfpenny penalties either side of one from Camille Lopez put Wales 6-3 up.
Genuine scoring opportunities were at a premium, although France thought they had the opening try after half an hour, only for Huget's touchdown to be disallowed for a forward pass.
Wales then threatened as George North galloped into the French 22 but, after that period of pressure yielded no points, the visitors could count themselves fortunate to lead at half-time as Lopez missed two penalties.
The fly-half redeemed himself with a penalty early in the second half but Halfpenny's third soon restored Wales' lead.
After an hour of attrition, Warren Gatland's side extended their advantage with a stylish try.
Scrum-half Rhys Webb made the initial sniping break before passing to flanker Dan Lydiate, whose deft sleight of hand allowed Biggar to scamper over in the corner.
It took only seven minutes for France to strike back, their forwards pounding the Welsh line before the ball was spread wide for Dulin to squeeze over for a first French try against Wales since 2011.
Halfpenny soothed fraying Welsh nerves with another penalty, before the visitors had to withstand a late flurry of French pressure to secure a memorable victory.
France: Dulin, Huget, Lamerat, Fofana, Guitoune, Lopez, Parra, Ben Arous, Guirado, Slimani, Taofifenua, Maestri, Dusautoir, Le Roux, Chouly.
Replacements: Bastareaud for Lamerat (17), Tales for Fofana (70), Tillous-Borde for Parra (52), Debaty for Ben Arous (52), Kayser for Guirado (52), Atonio for Slimani (52), Suta for Taofifenua (61), Goujon for Chouly (74).
Wales: Halfpenny, North, J. Davies, Roberts, L. Williams, Biggar, Webb, Jenkins, Baldwin, Lee, Charteris, Jones, Lydiate, Warburton, Faletau.
Replacements: Priestland for Biggar (74), James for Jenkins (71), Hibbard for Baldwin (70), Jarvis for Lee (79), B Davies for Charteris (70), Tipuric for Warburton (70).
Att: 80,000.
Referee: Jaco Peyper (South Africa).
Police are looking for three males and three females in connection with the attacks on six women on 10 September.
Authorities initially investigated the incident as a possible hate crime after a Scottish tourist's traditional Muslim clothing was set on fire.
But of all six victims, only one was wearing Muslim attire.
The 35-year-old tourist, from Glasgow, was returning from sightseeing when she realised the clothing on her arm had been set ablaze and she saw a man next to her with a cigarette lighter.
She was able to pat out the fire.
The NYPD's Hate Crime Task Force had been assisting in the investigation, but police said the incident was no longer deemed "bias-related".
The other reported attacks included a woman who said a suspect tried to light her leg on fire; a teenage girl walking with her mother who said someone tried to set her shirt alight; and another woman whose skirt was set on fire by a suspect in a nearby group.
Two women also reported a man holding a lit lighter close to their arms as they headed down into the Bryant Park subway the same night.
Three goals in the first 16 minutes set the tone before Oriol Romeu, Fernando Torres and Victor Moses found the net.
Gary Cahill had opened the scoring with a close-range header, before Ryan Bertrand and Juan Mata added to Wolves' misery before half-time.
Terry captained the side despite his ongoing FA disciplinary hearing.
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The carmaker confirmed it made the move earlier this year following complaints that staff's work and home lives were becoming blurred.
The restriction covers employees in Germany working under trade union negotiated contracts.
Campaigners warned that the move would not be suitable for all companies.
A spokesman for VW said: "We confirm that this agreement between VW and the company's work council exists", but would not comment further.
Under the arrangement servers stop routing emails 30 minutes after the end of employees' shifts, and then start again 30 minutes before they return to work.
The staff can still use their devices to make calls and the rule does not apply to senior management.
"We wanted to take a preventative approach to tackling the issue," said Gunnar Killian, VW's works council spokesman.
"At Volkswagen flexitime is between 0730-1745, with our new arrangement workers can only receive emails between 0700 and 1815."
The move follows criticism of internal emails by Thierry Breton, chief executive of the French information technology services giant, Atos. He saidworkers at his firm were wasting hours of their lives on internal messagesboth at home and at work. He has taken the more radical step of banning internal email altogether from 2014.
Last month the maker of Persil washing powder, Henkel, also declared an email "amnesty" for its workers between Christmas and New Year saying messages should only be sent out as an emergency measure.
Industry watchers say the moves reflect growing awareness of a problem.
"It's bad for the individual worker's performance being online and available 24-7. You do need downtime, you do need periods in which you can actually reflect on something without needing instantaneously to give a reaction," said Will Hutton, chair of the Big Innovation Centre at The Work Foundation.
"Secondly it has a poor impact on an individual's well-being. I think that one has to patrol quite carefully the borderline between work and non-work.
"So I can see why some firms are taking this action, the problem is that a universal response is impossible... but certainly we should have the capacity to be opted out of it rather than be opted in."
Union officials in the UK have also cautioned other firms against repeating Volkswagen's move without consultation.
"The issue of employees using Blackberrys, computers and other devices out of working time is a growing one that needs to be addressed as it can be a source of stress," Trades Union Congress (TUC) secretary general Brendan Barber told the BBC.
"However other organisations will need different solutions and what works in VW may not work elsewhere.
"By working in partnership with their union, Volkswagen's policy will have the support of all their employees. Where employers simply introduce policies on their own, however well-meaning they may be, they are unlikely to be successful."
Mr Strauss-Kahn resigned as IMF managing director in 2011, after being accused of a rape at a New York hotel - allegations which were later dismissed.
He will join a newly-formed supervisory board at Bank Credit-Dnepr.
Mr Pinchuk is the son-in-law of former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and is reported to be worth $1.4bn (£1bn).
During the 1990s he built Interpipe into one of Ukraine's biggest industrial firms, making steel, pipes, wheels and axles.
Since then Mr Pinchuk has diversified into other industries, including banking.
Last month he settled a dispute with two other Ukrainian businessmen, over the 2004 purchase of a mining company in Ukraine.
The case, due to be heard in London, was expected to be one of the most expensive court cases in English legal history and promised to reveal details about the business dealings of some of Ukraine's wealthiest men.
It was settled just days before the trial was due to begin.
In 2012 Mr Strauss-Kahn faced allegations of pimping. The case became known as the Carlton Affair, named after the Lille hotel where sex parties took place.
Mr Strauss-Kahn acknowledged attending the parties, but always denied knowing that some of the women who took part were prostitutes.
He was acquitted in 2015.
The Norwegian joined initially on 1 September and has now signed a two-and-a-half-year deal.
The 24-year-old has made 11 Premier League and three EFL Cup appearances for the Premier League's bottom club.
"It feels very good," said Henriksen. "My form has been up and down so far, but hopefully I can show everybody my best."
He joins a day after the Premier League's bottom club appointed Marco Silva as their new manager.
"The training was very good, done at high intensity and he is very clear on how he wants us to play," added Henriksen.
"He wants us to work as a unit and he has made it clear that we are all in this together. We're all fighting towards achieving the same goal."
Bennett plays in the Six Nations opener after shaking off a shoulder injury.
"Mark is a terrific game-breaker, which is what you need at this level. It's a great boost that he's fit," Scott said.
"He is laid-back, you wouldn't think he hasn't played for a while. He hasn't shown any nerves, he's confident. I'm looking forward to playing with him."
Bennett, who has scored six tries in his 13 Tests, was injured in Glasgow Warriors' European Champions Cup defeat by Racing 92 on 9 January.
Initial scans suggested the 23-year-old might be out for up to eight weeks, but he has made a swift recovery to face England four weeks later.
"There was a point last week where I was the only fit centre training, which is extremely unusual because it is usually me on the physio bed," joked Scott.
Alex Dunbar, Peter Horne and Richie Vernon have suffered injuries, while Duncan Taylor - named among the replacements for Saturday's Calcutta Cup clash - will undergo a late fitness test on a back problem on Friday.
"But Mark has come through well," said Scott. "Hopefully I can put him through a few gaps and let him run some tries in."
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Scott, who will win his 34th cap on Saturday, will link up with Bennett for a sixth time from the start for Scotland.
The Edinburgh man's return in place of the injured Horne is one of only two changes - John Barclay for Blair Cowan is the other - to the side beaten by Australia in their World Cup quarter-final in October.
Scott, 25, believes that continuity could be an advantage for Vern Cotter's side against an England team playing their first game under new coach Eddie Jones.
"We have had Vern as head coach for a decent period of time now," he said. "We know exactly what he expects and the style of play he wants.
"I know what it is like when you get a new coach in - sometimes it is hard for things to run smoothly from the off.
"But sometimes players get a new lease of life and are rejuvenated by a change of personnel.
"So we have to be extremely wary of England coming out and looking to get their big strike runners into the game.
"We have to be prepared for anything that comes our way on Saturday.
"The punters are right to expect a lot from us. We are aware of that pressure, but we can't go in with it burdening us.
"We have to take the shackles off and play the game we have been practising for the last 12 months."
Andy Street said he "had not spent quite £1m" as reports suggested but accepted he had "spent a substantial amount more than my opponents".
The ex-John Lewis boss said the cost was "absolutely appropriate" and the 4 May election was "a new start in democracy" for the region.
Other candidates said it was unfair and called for the rules to be tightened.
Spending in the final weeks of campaigning is capped at £130,000, but there is no limit before then.
On Thursday, six people will bid to become the region's first metro mayor, taking on powers over economic development, education and skills, housing and transport.
All six raised £5,000 to be included in a West Midlands Combined Authority booklet.
Mr Street said: "Everyone has the same rules to work within, we were able to raise that money."
The candidate was asked by BBC Radio 4's Today programme about being referred to as the "Donald Trump of British politics".
He replied: "Everyone loves that line. There's one similarity of course, a business background... but there the similarity ends in terms of our beliefs."
Labour's candidate Sion Simon told Today the regulated period begins much earlier for general elections.
He added: "You can't blame Andy for sticking to the rules but it does beg the question whether the rules are right.
"No rules at all, a complete free-for-all, until six weeks before polling day - I don't think that's the right way to go about this.
Labour's campaign, which was partly focused on social media campaigning, has cost up to £200,000.
"We've spent nowhere near - not even in the region of - what the Tories have spent," a campaign spokesman said.
Beverley Nielsen, the Liberal Democrat candidate, said she had raised about £50,000 for campaigning and could not afford to leaflet every house.
She said mayoral elections should have the same funding regulations as other elections, adding: "The public should hear the voice of all parties."
UKIP's Pete Durnell said a spending cap was needed to give "small parties a chance".
"Aside from the booklet, my campaign would have cost £3,000. It is not a level playing field - we are not even on the same field."
Graham Stevenson, the Communist candidate, said his total cost was about £12,000.
The Green Party's James Burn, who raised nearly £6,000 for the campaign through a crowdfunding website, expects the party will spend £15,000 to £20,000 in total.
Ben Megarry, who has autism, was charged with making a total of 23 hoax bomb threats between March and September 2012.
The 19-year-old, from Harmin Park Newtownabbey, pleaded guilty to 14 of 23 charges but denied a further nine.
The schools included Columbine High School, the scene of a massacre in 1999.
Each of the offences states that Mr Megarry "communicated certain information which he knew to be false ... with the intention of inducing a false belief that a bomb or other thing was liable to explode or ignite."
Appearing at Belfast Crown Court, he admitted making two hoax bomb threats to Columbine High School in Colorado on 16 and 18 April 2012, as well as Malibu High School and Chico High School.
He also admitted making calls to LAX Airport in Los Angeles, both Kansas International and Kansas City Airports, the Royal Stadium in Kansas and a Walmart store in Missouri.
Mann's Chinese Theatre
He then denied making a third hoax bomb threat to Columbine High School on 20 April 2012, and of making a further eight hoax bomb threats to other schools in Texas and California, as well as JFK International Airport in New York and Mann's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.
Mr Megarry's lawyer spoke of the "complexity of the case", and asked that it be reviewed again later in the month.
The judge agreed to this request, before releasing Mr Megarry on continuing bail.
The 34 year old was arrested by Gloucestershire Police on Friday after a match at Kingsholm Stadium in Gloucester.
The arrest is in connection with an alleged assaulted on a woman in the Brewery Quarter of Cardiff on 6 March.
Mr Muliaina had been in the city after his Irish team Connacht played against Cardiff Blues.
Connacht rugby club said it was a legal matter and made no further comment.
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The 29-year-old is currently ranked 23 in the world and reached the final of the Nantes Open in France last weekend.
"I think the last few seasons I've progressed with my squash and I've very much based it on performances rather than outcome," Simpson said.
"This season it's going to be a lot more outcome driven and trying to push up the rankings to the top 16."
Simpson has still to make a quarter-final of a World Series event, but is hopeful that will change this season.
"My draws have been quite unlucky in the last 18 months," he told BBC Radio Guernsey.
"We have two or three players who have created a bit of a gap in standard to the rest of the players, so ideally you want to try and stay away from those guys before a possible semi-final berth.
"I've managed to meet them in the first or second round in most of the events so far, so that definitely plays it's part.
"But these things are done randomly and that can't continue forever, so it's just about playing well enough that I take the opportunities that I do get."
Supporters' Group OxVox confirmed on Saturday talks had begun with Mr Kassam to buy the 12,500-seater stadium.
"If you want to do a deal and there's a willing buyer and willing seller, it shouldn't take more than 10 to 12 weeks," Eales told BBC Radio Oxford.
OxVox want the stadium to become a community-owned asset.
Kassam still owns the stadium which bears his name, despite selling the football club for £2m in 2006.
Eales has made three bids of his own to buy the ground, which has been Oxford United's home ground since 2001, with two of them rejected by Kassam and the third "still on the table".
"Firoz made it clear he didn't want to sell to an individual and that's his prerogative," Eales added.
"I've said consistently since I've owned the club that this isn't a property play for me.
"This is about building sustainable success for Oxford United both on and off the pitch for the community."
Amnesty says migrant workers are often subjected to non-payment of wages, dangerous working conditions and squalid accommodation.
The rights group said one manager had referred to workers as "animals".
Qatari officials have said conditions will be suitable for those involved in construction of World Cup facilities.
It has not yet commented on the latest report.
Amnesty said it conducted interviews with 210 workers, employers and government officials for its report, The Dark Side of Migration: Spotlight on Qatar's construction sector ahead of the World Cup.
By Andrew NorthSouth Asia correspondent
Nepal's World Cup trail brings misery
The report includes testimony from Nepalese workers employed by a company delivering supplies to a construction project associated with the planned Fifa headquarters.
The workers said they were "treated like cattle", working up to 12 hours a day, seven days a week, including during Qatar's hot summer months.
Amnesty said some of the abuses amounted to "forced labour".
Some migrant workers were threatened with penalty fines, deportation or loss of income if they did not show up to work even though they were not being paid, Amnesty said.
More than 1,000 people were admitted to the trauma unit at Doha's main hospital in 2012 having fallen from height at work, Amnesty said, citing an unnamed hospital representative.
Some 10% were disabled as a result and the mortality rate was "significant", AI said.
"It is simply inexcusable in one of the richest countries in the world, that so many migrant workers are being ruthlessly exploited, deprived of their pay and left struggling to survive," said Salil Shetty, Amnesty's secretary general.
"Our findings indicate an alarming level of exploitation.
"Fifa has a duty to send a strong public message that it will not tolerate human rights abuses on construction projects related to the World Cup."
It follows a report by the UK's Guardian newspaper in September, which likened workers' conditions to "modern-day slavery".
The Guardian investigation drew a strong response from the world professional footballers' association Fifpro, which collaborates with the Uni Global Union, the voice of 20 million service sector workers.
Qatar must protect the rights of the workers who are to deliver the 2022 World Cup, it said.
FifPro board member Brendan Schwab said it was "inexcusable for workers' lives to be sacrificed, especially given modern health and safety practices in the construction industry".
The proposals at the Knoll Hospital in Duns have received planning approval from the local authority.
The old mortuary is currently used for storage and a council officer said the conversion plans were "modest in scale" and appropriate to the building.
Planning permission was granted on condition that external materials should match the existing building.
In a letter to parents, Plymstock School in Devon says although "some girls leave their homes with their skirts at a reasonable length", they "roll them up for school".
From September, all students will have to wear dark grey trousers.
The letter said "time wasted addressing skirt issues would be better spent focusing on teaching and learning".
The school and Plymouth City Council were unavailable to comment.
One mother, who did not want to be named, said: "I've heard it's a small number of girls who have caused this, so the minority are spoiling it for everyone else.
"My daughter has a right to wear a skirt. Now she's worried she's going to be bullied in trousers."
Another mother, whose daughter is due to start at Plymstock in September, said she was so upset she had asked another school to take her daughter, but they were full.
The woman, who also did not want to be named, said: "She's really disappointed. I don't feel the school did enough to consult with parents."
The letter said: "Recent fashions have led to girls wearing skirts that are too short to be acceptable in the workplace.
"I am sure that some girls leave their homes with their skirts at a reasonable length but 'roll them up' for school," the letter said.
In 2014, the school attempted to tackle the issue of short skirts by placing "warning stickers" in the planning diaries of those pupils who had worn skirts "deemed too short".
"This will be the only warning and should they be found wearing an unacceptable skirt again they will forfeit their right to wear a skirt to school and will be required to wear trousers," a letter to parents at the time stated.
In 2011, Guiseley School in Leeds announced it was banning girls from wearing skirts after guidance on the length was ignored and the year before St Aidan's Church of England School in Harrogate also took the same action.
As experiments go, it doesn't look terribly impressive.
Yet the paint she is using is highly sophisticated - the result of intensive research. It is also probably one of the blackest materials ever created.
What the research team at UCSD are trying to do is make large-scale solar power generation more viable, by creating a material which can absorb a greater quantity of sunlight than existing coatings, and last longer.
The paint is being developed for a new generation of so-called concentrating solar power plants (CSP).
These use thousands of mirrors to focus sunlight on a central tower, which is coated with a dark, light-absorbing material. The light is converted into intense heat, which is used to make steam. The steam can then be used to drive turbines, in order to produce electricity.
It is a very clean form of power generation, and existing plants which use coal or other fossil fuels can be converted to use the technology. In addition, heat can be stored so that power generation can continue even when the sun isn't shining.
However, there's a catch. The light-absorbing coatings which are currently used aren't really up to the job.
They aren't efficient enough, can't withstand the highest temperatures and, out in the elements, bombarded with intense sunlight, they don't last very long either.
According to Professor Renkun Chen, who is helping to lead the research, the new material will be very different.
"First of all, it can absorb the light at a very high efficiency. And secondly, it can withstand very high temperatures in air, above 700 degrees Celsius. That isn't possible with existing materials", he says.
The secret of the new paint lies in nanotechnology - creating a surface made up of layers of microscopic particles. It is designed to minimise reflection.
The research team claims that it can convert up to 90% of the sunlight it captures into heat.
"The size of these particles matches the wavelengths of light, which is in the order of a few nanometres", Prof Chen says.
"So when light gets in, it will get trapped. It's as though it gets lost in a miniature forest, and never comes out".
That is the theory, at any rate. But the mosaic of small metal tiles lined up in the lab for testing is testament to how challenging it is to put that theory into practice.
Each one represents a slightly different technique or chemical formula, as the team searches for the right balance of light absorption and durability.
Fifty shades of black, if you like.
"Right now we're just playing with a lot of different ideas that we've been talking about for the last few months and years" says Lizzie Caldwell.
"We want to make sure we get the perfect, blackest colour".
The research has been funded by the US government's SunShot initiative, which hopes to make solar energy as financially competitive as other forms of power generation by the end of the decade.
There is clearly a very long way to go. Solar energy still accounts for less than 1% of all mass electricity generation in the US, according to the US Energy Information Administration.
But that figure doesn't tell the whole story.
Solar capacity is growing rapidly, particularly in energy-hungry California. Moreover, the number of homes and businesses using solar panels to generate their own power has risen dramatically over the past five years.
It isn't just happening in the United States. In China, generous subsidies have led to a very rapid growth of solar power generation over the past few years.
This has come partly in response to the country's voracious appetite for power and the need to curb severe urban pollution. But China has also become a major exporter of cheap solar technology, which has brought prices down worldwide.
And according to Professor Chen, CSP in particular has the potential to become a major source of clean energy in developing countries, reducing their reliance on burning fossil fuels such as coal.
Renowned environmentalist Denis Hayes, who now leads the Seattle-based Bullitt Foundation, thinks that we could be heading for a golden age of solar power.
"With solar, if you take a unit of area, there's only so much sun that is going to strike it," he says.
"So if you can get twice as much electricity out of that sunshine, and it costs no more or even less than before then suddenly you've transformed the market".
He thinks that one day, entire cities could be powered by the energy of the sun, with the fabric of the buildings themselves being used to trap solar energy.
It's fair to say that such a sunny utopia remains a very long way off. However, research such as that being carried out at UCSD just might bring it a little bit closer.
So if there is a golden age approaching, it may owe a debt to some very, very black paint.
The rally was organised by the opposition party CHP but was backed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AK party, in a rare show of unity.
Amid a sea of red flags, banners bore slogans such as "We defend the republic!"
The CHP's leader said "democracy won!" but he also warned against the dangers of authoritarianism.
One banner read: "No to the coup, no to dictatorship".
Many of the CHP supporters gathered in Taksim Square waved flags with a picture of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey.
Despite Turkey's political divisions, Istanbul's mayor and other AK party leaders joined the opposition demonstrators.
Posters at the rally proclaimed "No to coups".
In his speech, CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu said that amid the turmoil, "the parliament stood proudly, Turkey stood proudly, MPs stood proudly, people in this square have stood proudly, and democracy won!"
But he also stressed the importance of a free press and freedom of assembly, as well as the dangers of dictatorship and authoritarianism.
He said: "The state cannot be governed by grudge, anger and prejudice. Those responsible for the coup should be tried lawfully, with the understanding of abiding by the rule of law."
In a rare move, pro-government television channels broadcast the speech live.
President Erdogan launched a widespread crackdown following the attempted coup, arresting thousands of service personnel and sacking or suspending thousands of judges, government officials, school teachers and university heads.
Human Rights group Amnesty International said it had received credible evidence of detainees being subjected to beatings and torture, including rape, since the coup attempt.
"It is absolutely imperative that the Turkish authorities halt these abhorrent practices and allow international monitors to visit all these detainees in the places they are being held," said Amnesty's Europe director John Dalhuisen in a statement.
A state of emergency was declared on Wednesday, allowing the president and cabinet to bypass parliament when drafting new laws and to restrict or suspend rights and freedoms.
Mr Erdogan has also extended the period in which suspects can be detained without charge to 30 days.
Ankara's chief prosecutor Harun Kodalak has been reported by Turkish media as saying that 1,200 soldiers detained in the wake of the coup have now been released.
Those freed were said to be low-ranking soldiers. Thousands of other service personnel, including more than 100 generals and admirals, remain in detention.
On Saturday, Turkey's elite presidential guard was disbanded after nearly 300 of its members were detained following the failed coup.
Whether it is photo albums or special decorations handed down through generations, this is a period of making memories.
In keeping with this tradition, the North Down Museum in Bangor has gathered a collection of items from Christmases past.
Here, we take a look at some of the most special objects in the collection and what they mean to local people.
Among the finds in the collection is this rare Boer War tin, sent to the troops by Queen Victoria at Christmas 1899.
The tin was branded as Cadbury's and contained a bar of chocolate.
However, because all three of the chocolate-making families of the time were pacifist Quakers, the chocolate inside would have been made by either Cadbury, Fry's or Rowntree's.
The tin was received by Private Moyes, who ate his chocolate on the front line in South Africa.
He survived the Boer War and joined the Veterinary Corps on his return but died in 1918, while serving in World War One.
This collection of postcards are from Hugh Hull, who writes about his anxiety to get home for Christmas 1912.
He had been working in Bavaria and, as these postcards show, he was not enjoying it. Fortunately, Mr Hull finally made it home for a visit in January 1913.
Postcards were the easiest and cheapest way to keep in touch at the time. They were treasured by families at home and by those serving or living abroad.
This anonymous card was never sent, but it is believed the man who wrote it survived World War One.
Sister Lucy Sinton Kelly served in France during WW1.
She encouraged the men under her care to write in a logbook that she kept - one young man, pining for Christmas, drew this sketch of a classic English rural scene, complete with copperplate writing.
As the 20th Century wore on, Christmas shop window displays became popular.
The window display at Neill's Coal Shop was renowned in North Down and featured these teddy bears in different costumes.
One of the bears even had a daring Torvill and Dean Bolero costume. Unfortunately, the ice skates are too big for her.
For North Down Museum manager Heather McGuicken, these baubles are a little piece of home - literally.
Her family made these tree decorations, complete with sand from their local beach.
Results showed the PAP had secured 83 of 89 seats, winning nearly 70% of the ballots cast. The party has won every election since independence in 1965.
Patriotic feeling over the death of long-term leader Lee Kuan Yew may have swelled the vote, analysts said.
The opposition, running in all constituencies for the first time, had hoped to challenge the PAP's dominance.
But the results were a marked improvement over the 2011 vote for the PAP, when it took 80 of the 87 seats but saw its share of votes drop to an all-time low of 60%.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the eldest son of PAP founder Lee Kuan Yew, said he was "humbled" by the result.
"Tomorrow will be better than today," he told supporters.
The turnout was 93.56% among 2.46 million voters, the Elections Department said. Voting is mandatory in Singapore, with few exemptions allowed.
The PAP's main rival - the Workers' Party - ended up with six seats, less than the seven it held in the outgoing parliament. A number of smaller parties also ran.
The PAP's success has been attributed to its widespread popularity among Singaporeans - who have seen their country rapidly evolve into a first-world economy - as well as its tight political control.
But government stumbles in managing immigration and infrastructure, coupled with a greater desire by younger Singaporeans for political plurality, have led to gains by opposition parties over the years.
If the last election was the PAP's nadir, then this one marked its return to glory.
In 2011 it scored 60% of the vote share - a good showing by most counts, but it was the party's worst ever performance - thanks to public unhappiness over an influx of foreigners, a housing shortage, and transport breakdowns.
It sought to resolve these problems, promised to listen to citizens more, and put in place slightly more generous social welfare policies. On Friday, voters rewarded the party with a bigger mandate.
Lingering feel-good vibes from last month's jubilee celebrations, and a renewed sense of gratitude to PAP founder and revered leader Lee Kuan Yew, triggered by his death in March, no doubt also played a part in voters' decisions.
The PAP's return to power was widely expected but its large margin was a surprise to many, not least to the main opposition Workers' Party (WP). It campaigned on a platform of providing an effective check on the PAP, but lost a constituency and saw its winning margins reduced in the few seats it retained.
The results thus cement the PAP's long-running political dominance in Singapore and highlight the long slog ahead for those pushing for political plurality with an electorate which, for now, appears unconvinced of its merits.
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Nerves were settled for the hosts after five minutes when Danny Whitaker opened the scoring from Danny Rowe's corner, and four minutes later they were celebrating again as Paul Lewis doubled their lead.
James then netted on 25 minutes with a tidy finish from a well-timed pass by skipper Andy Halls before Chris Holroyd shot just wide as the hosts continued to dominate.
With the points all-but secure for Macclesfield, Southport scored a late consolation through Ashley Grimes.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Macclesfield Town 3, Southport 1.
Second Half ends, Macclesfield Town 3, Southport 1.
Goal! Macclesfield Town 3, Southport 1. Ashley Grimes (Southport).
Substitution, Macclesfield Town. Neill Byrne replaces Danny Whitaker.
Substitution, Macclesfield Town. Jack Mackreth replaces Jack Sampson.
Substitution, Southport. Ashley Grimes replaces Jonathan Royle.
Substitution, Southport. Keil O'Brien replaces Ross White.
Substitution, Southport. Connor McCarthy replaces James Gray.
Second Half begins Macclesfield Town 3, Southport 0.
First Half ends, Macclesfield Town 3, Southport 0.
Goal! Macclesfield Town 3, Southport 0. Kingsley James (Macclesfield Town).
Goal! Macclesfield Town 2, Southport 0. Paul Lewis (Macclesfield Town).
Goal! Macclesfield Town 1, Southport 0. Danny Whitaker (Macclesfield Town).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Luke Guttridge opened the scoring from close range following good work from Jordan Maguire-Drew after 27 minutes, before Maguire-Drew doubled the hosts' lead himself seven minutes before the break.
Sutton, who had been largely second best throughout the first half, struck back with two goals in three minutes from Maxime Biamou just after the break.
The draw leaves Dagenham in fourth place, five points clear of sixth-placed Dover with two games remaining in the race for the play-offs.
Match report supplied by Press Association.
Match ends, Dagenham and Redbridge 2, Sutton United 2.
Second Half ends, Dagenham and Redbridge 2, Sutton United 2.
Craig Eastmond (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Kieron Cadogan (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Dean Beckwith (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Sutton United. Adam May replaces Gomis.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Elliott Romain replaces Luke Guttridge.
Goal! Dagenham and Redbridge 2, Sutton United 2. Maxime Biamou (Sutton United).
Goal! Dagenham and Redbridge 2, Sutton United 1. Maxime Biamou (Sutton United).
Substitution, Sutton United. Craig Dundas replaces Jack Jebb.
Substitution, Sutton United. Louis John replaces Ben Jefford.
Second Half begins Dagenham and Redbridge 2, Sutton United 0.
First Half ends, Dagenham and Redbridge 2, Sutton United 0.
Goal! Dagenham and Redbridge 2, Sutton United 0. Jordan Maguire-Drew (Dagenham and Redbridge).
Goal! Dagenham and Redbridge 1, Sutton United 0. Luke Guttridge (Dagenham and Redbridge).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Scientists in the US "decoded" the calls of male elephant seals, revealing that vocal communication played a crucial part in their social lives.
This showed seals communicating their identity with deep, rhythmic calls.
In their Current Biology paper, the team says this is the first example of non-human mammals "using rhythm" in everyday life.
Just as humans can identify a particular song based on its distinctive rhythm, this research revealed that male elephant seals could identify each other from the pulsing pattern of their calls.
Lead author Prof Nicolas Mathevon, from the University of Lyon and St Etienne, described these grumping vocalisations as "distinctive".
They were "very rhythmic, like a metronome", he told BBC News.
"In the colony, everyone knows who is who… they recognise the voice of all the other males in the colony."
And this is important in a congested beach colony - at the site the team studied, more than 4,000 seals are packed on to the beach, so it is important to know your neighbours.
"If you think about the social life of a male elephant seal, it's actually quite complicated," said co-author Caroline Casey, from the University of California Santa Cruz.
"Within his own social network, he's potentially interacting with 20-30 other individuals."
In these situations, it can be crucial to distinguish quickly between dominant and subordinate males - to avoid a potentially lethal conflict.
"If he gets it wrong, the costs of that mistake are pretty high. We saw a male die last year from a canine through the skull," Ms Casey said.
In this context, the rhythmic call of a male elephant seal acts as a distinctive "fingerprint", helping other males decide whether to flee the vicinity.
The research team spent six years studying the colony of more 4,000 elephant seals in Ano Nuevo National Park, California.
They recorded the vocalisations of dominant males, then played back those calls through loudspeakers to subordinate males.
As expected, less dominant males fled the sound of the high status seals, which are referred to as "beachmasters".
Crucially though, when the researchers artificially modified the rhythm of a call, subordinate males no longer recognised it and did not respond.
If they did not recognise a voice, "they wait and see", said Prof Mathevon. "It's their strategy."
While doing nothing might seem lazy, this "very efficient strategy" is also potentially life-saving.
During the breeding season, elephant seals haul out from the ocean and stay in the colony for almost 100 days without any food or water.
So, if males do not recognise the rhythm of a call, they simply do not move, and therefore avoid a waste of vital energy.
Prof Patricia Gray, from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, who was not involved in the research, said it had captured "natural animal behaviour in the wild" and shown how important producing and recognising rhythm was to their survival.
She added that understanding how other species used rhythm could "unlock many answers" about how they perceived other animals and their surroundings and how these qualities related to human perception.
Prime minister David Cameron has said he will take part in only one.
Mr Clegg accused the Conservatives of attempting to "dictate the terms" of the debates.
Broadcasters have said plans for three TV general election debates in April will go ahead.
"It is a little bit arrogant of the Conservatives to somehow assume that they can, you know, dictate terms - these aren't the debates run by the Conservative Party. They belong to the British people," Mr Clegg said.
He added: "If David Cameron is too important or too busy to turn up, if he doesn't want to defend the record of this coalition government, then I will."
Labour leader Ed Miliband on Saturday formally accepted invitations to appear in all three of the live TV debates on April 2, 16 and 30.
He told the Scottish Labour conference: "I say to David Cameron: You can refuse to face the public, but you can't deny your record. You can try to chicken out of the debates, but don't ever again claim that you provide strong leadership."
Downing Street has said it will not back down on its "final offer" of one seven-way debate in March.
It has blamed broadcasters for creating a "chaotic" situation during negotiations around the debates.
Sky, the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV have invited the leaders of the Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems, UKIP, the SNP, the Green Party of England and Wales and Plaid Cymru to take part in two debates lasting two hours each during the election campaign.
As it stands, the broadcasters have said the debates will go ahead as originally planned, while a planned head-to-head encounter between the Conservative and Labour leaders will also continue on 30 April.
Mr Clegg's comments are similar to those previously made by SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, who said that David Cameron "simply cannot be allowed to dictate terms to everyone else taking part."
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood has also put forward a similar point of view when she said: "It would have been wrong for one individual to dictate and change the terms of these debates."
However, Peter Robinson, leader of the DUP and First Minister of Northern Ireland, said it was the broadcasters who were trying to "set down a diktat" with their plans.
Mr Miliband has previously accused Mr Cameron of "running scared" from TV debates, and "cowering from the public".
However, Mr Cameron has said he wants to "unblock the logjam" the "broadcasters helped to create" by appearing in one debate.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said UKIP will "accept the challenge" of the debates, but has criticised broadcasters for changing the original proposals and agreeing to let more parties take part.
The Greens have said the proposed format of the debates is "very fair" and that Mr Cameron's stance was damaging to the reputation of politics.
Firefighters were called around 23:30 (12:30 GMT) on Wednesday after reports of an explosion.
It took them 40 minutes to extinguish the blaze before finding three bodies inside. Local media say the victims are believed to be two men and a woman.
The factory was often used as a shelter by homeless people.
Arson experts will investigate the cause of the fire, police said.
One witness, taxi driver Mohamed Ali, said he had heard screams coming from the factory in Footscray, in the city's west.
"A few minutes later I saw the fire engines come," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
"For me, it's a horrible situation because we couldn't help. I haven't seen anything like this in my whole life. I'm not feeling good."
Prominent Melbourne youth worker Les Twentyman said homeless people often took refuge at the site.
"There is a little alcove near the car park - people sleep in that little alcove,'' he told the Herald Sun.
"It just shows how desperate they are."
The site was originally Victoria's largest ropeworks and operated from 1903 to 2002. After the factory shuttered, the state government backed plans to build a large apartment complex on the site.
Figures reveal 90% of officers employed by one force have not been vetted in line with current policy.
Vetting aims to help prevent corruption in the police by checking an officer or potential officer's background.
Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary Mike Cunningham said forces "need to address this matter urgently".
Responding to a request from the BBC under the Freedom of Information Act, Northumbria Police admitted almost 3,000 or nine out of ten of its officers still had not been vetted in line with the most recent policy.
Peter Bunyan was a PCSO employed by Devon and Cornwall Police.
He was jailed for misconduct in 2013 after a court heard he used the police database as a "dating agency" and turned down his police radio on shifts while he had sex with women.
He was employed in 2003, three years before Devon and Cornwall Police set up its Central Force Vetting Unit, and nine years before the Association of Chief Police Officers' National Vetting Policy was introduced.
A subsequent investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission revealed that if Bunyan had gone through the current vetting policy used by the force "he would have been rejected".
But by the end of 2016 there were still 62 PCSOs employed by Devon and Cornwall Police who had not been through the vetting process and 181 police officers.
Devon and Cornwall Police said it was working hard to tackle the delays and had reduced the backlog to 73 police officers and 55 PCSOs.
Mr Cunningham said the "unacceptable" backlog was down to a lack of resources and needs to be given "higher priority".
He said: "I think it is simply a question of volume outstripping the supply of people to do the tasks.
"There is no doubt that forces who have not vetted or re-vetted large numbers of their staff are subject to a vulnerability."
Out of 48 police forces in England and Wales, 17 responded in full to the Freedom of Information Request. Around 14,000 police officers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland had not undergone up-to-date checks.
Vetting aims to help prevent corruption in the police service by checking an officer or potential officer's background.
The process, which can take several months, looks at an individual's finances, employment history and family associations, as well as a detailed search for any convictions.
Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) are also affected by the delays.
Chief Constable Martin Jelley, from the National Police Chiefs' Council, said forces were "working hard to reduce any backlog".
The Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said it was disappointed to see such huge backlogs in vetting.
Its chairman Steve White said: "Police officers are privy to an enormous amount of confidential data and information.
"What we can't risk is the prospect of dishonest people abusing that position and being able to access this information or exploit situations for their own ends."
The figures show the number of officers still waiting to be vetted under the current policy at the end of 2016.
Northumbria Police said there was "a planned programme of retrospective vetting for all officers and staff, who are not vetted at the 2012 standards due to start".
Jhon Jairo Velasquez, better known as Popeye, said two men on motorbikes pulled up alongside him as he was driving in his car.
They pointed guns at him and robbed him of his luxury brand glasses, two gold bracelets and a mobile phone, he said.
Velasquez was released in 2014 after spending 22 years in prison for murder.
Velasquez confessed to killing 300 people and also claimed a hand in up to 3,000 killings in the 1980s and 1990s, when he led a team of hired killers working for the Medellin drugs cartel.
Since his release, he has been living in Medellin and regularly broadcasts messages on his own YouTube channel commenting on everything from Colombian politics to the escape and recapture of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
Velasquez said it was the second time he had been targeted in such a way but police said he had not reported the incidents.
He said the same had happened to him a few months back but at that time he had managed to knock one of the robbers over with his car.
Velasquez said that this time he did not put up any resistance because his lawyer had advised him to make sure he stayed within the law.
He criticised Medellin mayor Federico Gutierrez for what he said was a lack of security in the city.
"The mayor is an idiot, this city is totally in the hands of these motorcyclists," he said.
In response, Mayor Gutierrez tweeted [in Spanish]: "It's disconcerting that someone who caused so much damage should now lecture me about morality. We are fighting the illegality he helped create."
Residents of Medellin also took to Twitter to marvel at the irony of the man who once caused terror in the city falling victim to crime himself.
One woman suggested starting a collection for the "poor victim" so he could buy a new pair of Cartier glasses while another joked that she hoped he would get psychological help to overcome the shock.
But many others also said that the robbers must have been extremely brazen to target one of the most feared men in the country and wondered what that meant for the security of ordinary citizens.
The new Aberystwyth fire station will be built on the same site as the current one on Penparcau Road, Trefechan.
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it would take about 10 months to finish.
Work began on Monday with demolition set to start later this week. Firefighters are being temporarily housed in the town's TA Centre.
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It comes a day after clashes broke out at a rally in support of Qadri, who was executed last month for the 2011 murder of reformist politician Salman Taseer.
There were new clashes on Monday as police made a number of arrests and cleared some areas of protesters.
Qadri killed Mr Taseer over his opposition to strict blasphemy laws.
His supporters say he is a hero and should be considered a martyr.
Critics say the blasphemy laws, which allow the death penalty to be imposed in some cases, are often misused to oppress religious minorities.
The protest was not given much prominence in local media, which is increasingly under official pressure to tone down coverage of events that might encourage unrest.
The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says protests are now concentrated in the so-called Red Zone of the capital, home to parliament and many government buildings.
Reports put the number of demonstrators at several thousand.
Sunday's unrest involved an estimated 25,000 people. Police fired tear gas at protesters who threw stones, damaged property and started fires in the street.
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Thousands of supporters of executed Islamist killer Mumtaz Qadri are staging a sit-in outside Pakistan's parliament in Islamabad.
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Ryanair cancelled 22 flights on Wednesday night and 72 on Thursday.
Aer Lingus also said a number of flights have been cancelled.
Flights that normally route through French air space are affected. Passengers are advised to check the status of their flights.
BA declined to say how many flights had been affected, saying the information goes out of date quickly.
BA said: "Unfortunately, if the threatened strike does go ahead, we will have to cancel some flights, and other short haul flights may also experience some delays and disruption, given how many flights would normally use French airspace each day."
It said it would use larger aircraft, where possible, to help affected customers.
Ryanair warned there could be more delays.
Ryanair said: "This French... strike will impact hundreds of thousands of European consumers and throw their travel plans into chaos once more.
"It's high time that the European Commission takes action to prevent these repeated... strikes from continuously disrupting the travel plans of millions of Europe's citizens and their families."
BA has offered customers due to fly to or from France on Thursday the opportunity to rebook.
The lobby group Airlines for Europe (A4E), which represents airlines including EasyJet, Ryanair and BA's parent company IAG, has called on the European Commission and governments to take action to reduce the impact of air traffic control strikes.
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BA and Ryanair have cancelled flights on Wednesday and Thursday as French traffic controllers start their fourteenth bout of industrial action this year.
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The pair made the decision following a discussion with head coach Stuart Lancaster shortly after returning from international duty in South Africa.
"I cannot thank them enough for the support they have given me and this young squad," said the England boss.
Position: Fly-half
International debut: v Romania, November 2001
Caps: 38
Points scored: 269 (8 tries)
Saracens fly-half Hodgson, 31, made 38 international appearances while Bath hooker Mears, 33, won 42 caps.
"Both Charlie and Lee in the last six months have been outstanding senior players," added Lancaster. "With 80 caps between them they have a vast amount of experience and that has been invaluable.
"I had chats with both of them in South Africa and our thoughts were not too dissimilar - that if we are building a team for 2015 then, just as we did in January, we have to decide on which players will take us forward and be in the mix in three years' time."
Position: Hooker
International debut: v Samoa, November 2005
Caps: 42
Points scored: 5 (1 try)
For Hodgson, the decision brings to an end an 11-year Test career with England after making his debut in 2001, when he scored 44 points against Romania.
He toured South Africa with England earlier this month but failed to win a place in the match-day squad for any of the three Tests, with Owen Farrell and Toby Flood ahead of him.
"I have been very proud to represent England over the last 11 years," said Hodgson.
"Wearing the shirt has always been the highest honour for me, not least in the last six months, and no one would want to give that up."
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England fly-half Charlie Hodgson and hooker Lee Mears have retired from international rugby.
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Stagecoach West wants to hire a Zumba instructor to run "mini workouts" at the station for bus drivers, people waiting for buses and local workers.
Charlotte Potter, from the firm, said: "It will be once a month to start off, then maybe every week or twice a week."
Depending on the level of interest, the firm is hoping to introduce Zumba Wednesdays this summer.
Zumba is a Latin dance-inspired fitness programme created in Colombia that has become a global fitness craze.
"It was something we came up with in the office and we thought 'Well, everyone loves Zumba' and it's great for people of all abilities and ages," said Ms Potter.
"People can come along and join in for five or 10 minutes while they're waiting for their bus.
"It's an opportunity for people to let their hair down and have a bit of fun."
The bus and coach operator said it had already received emails from people saying "they'd be up for it".
But it said it wanted to gauge interest before introducing Zumba Wednesdays "throughout the region".
Michael Lever, 43, strangled Caroline Lever at hospital accommodation at Law Hospital, Carluke, while she was pregnant between 1997 and July 1998.
He was also convicted of attacking her son between July 2001 and March 2004 and his 16-year-old daughter between January 2008 and January 2010.
Glasgow Sheriff Court heard the General Medical Council had been informed.
Mrs Lever, 42, told the court Lever moved in to the flat she shared with her son, Patrick George, at Dowanhill Street, Glasgow, within months of them becoming a couple.
She recalled the time when he attacked her after they moved to hospital accommodation at Law Hospital.
The witness confirmed Lever knew she was pregnant and she had no memory of how the incident began.
Mrs Lever told the jury: "He strangled me over a table."
In his evidence Mr George described how he recalled Lever strangling his mother.
He told the court: "I was scared that he was going to kill her."
The court also heard of an incident when Lever held a knife to his own throat during an argument with his wife and threatened to kill himself.
The incident, which took place at Sydenham Road, Glasgow, was also seen by Mr George and his mother, who were said to be scared.
The court heard that when the family lived in Denholm in the Scottish borders, Lever slapped Mr George on the side of the face for taking one of his university books with him to school.
Sophie Lever, 16, also gave evidence against her father and told how she was hit by a can of beer after an argument.
She told the jury that the family were living in Marchmont Terrace, Glasgow, when the assault happened.
Lever, from Nether Auchendrane, Ayr, denied the charges but was found guilty by a jury at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
That dismal description comes from the country's own Finance Minister, Alexander Stubb.
New figures for the economy's performance in 2015, showed that it managed to avoid a fourth consecutive year of declining economic activity. Even so, it was very lacklustre growth and the longer picture remains pretty bleak.
The broadest measure of that, GDP, is still about 7% below the high it reached at the end of 2007, just before the global financial crisis.
Most, though not all, eurozone countries have got back to those earlier levels and a bit above. Even one country that was bailed out, Ireland, is among those relatively strong performers.
Finland's disappointing performance has also shown up in the unemployment figures, which rose from 6.2% of the workforce in early 2008 to 9.5% in the most recent figures.
So who is to blame?
The slightly flippant answer is: the late Steve Jobs, founder of Apple. But there is a serious point behind that - well two actually, although it's not the whole story of Finland's economic troubles.
In 2014 Mr Stubb, who was the prime minister at the time, told a newspaper that: "Steve Jobs took our jobs."
Not literally of course. What he meant was that Apple products had created serious challenges for two very important Finnish industries.
One was forestry - in particular, paper. It's a huge industry with a long history in Finland. The country's extensive forests are not just pretty; they are a very valuable commercial resource.
But Finland has been affected by what an independent economic research agency in Helsinki (ETLA) called "the reduction of demand for print paper due to the substitution of print media by internet services". It's not just Apple's doing of course, but the company is a key player in that development.
Finland's other Apple-related casualty is Nokia, which incidentally began life as a paper producer in the 19th Century.
Nokia branched out and eventually became the world's biggest supplier of mobile phone handsets. But it failed to respond to the challenge presented by Apple's iPhone and other smartphones.
It's just one company, but a huge one that overshadowed a small economy. According to the ETLA report: "Its direct contribution accounts for 1/3 of the GDP decline and its shedding of employment for 1/5 of the reduction of total employment between 2008 and 2014."
The impact is even bigger if you include the wider technology sector of which Nokia is a part.
So there you have it. Finland's economic troubles are due to Steve Jobs and the business he created.
Well, no. There have been a few other things going on too.
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There has been another external problem, this one supplied by one of Finland's neighbours, Russia. Not for the first time, trouble across the eastern border has made itself felt in the domestic Finnish economy.
The collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s hit Finnish exports. So have the more recent problems in Russia, which were the result of lower oil prices and Western sanctions related to the crisis in Ukraine. Russia's trade retaliation against the EU has also hit Finland, as it banned some EU imports. To take one example, for the country's leading dairy business, Valio, that was a serious blow.
There are other issues that can't be blamed on bad luck descending from overseas. The population is ageing. That means a lower proportion of the population is working, generating wealth and paying income taxes.
There is also an issue with competitiveness. One measure is known as unit labour costs. According to data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, that rose by 25% between 2007 (just before the crisis) and 2014.
Wages continued to rise after the crisis while productivity, the amount produced by each worker, declined.
The government is seeking to tackle these issues with a range of reforms to business, benefits and employment intended to reduce labour costs.
A related issue is the very large share of state spending in Finnish GDP - the largest in the OECD (which is made up mainly of rich countries). That partly reflects increased spending due to higher unemployment and an older population. It also means taxes are relatively high.
The government's strategy for addressing competitiveness is sometimes called "internal devaluation", which means in essence taking steps to reduce costs for business. It's an alternative to devaluing the national currency to improve competitiveness, an option that is not available because Finland uses the euro.
It was widely recognised that one potential risk of a currency union was the loss of a flexible currency to respond to economic developments that affect different members differently - sometimes called idiosyncratic or asymmetric shocks.
So would Finland's economic problems have been any milder if there had been a national currency to devalue?
Perhaps. Exchange rates are determined by financial markets, but it is certainly possible that bad news about the economy would have weakened the currency and given something of a boost to competitiveness.
The ETLA report suggested things might have been different: "The weakness of growth in Finland can best be explained by a series of exceptional negative shocks in combination with a too weak capacity of the economy to improve its cost competitiveness in the absence of exchange rate flexibility."
It's a nuanced report. The conclusions of Tuomas Mallinen, an economist at Helsinki University, are more stark: "The main blame on our economic woes should be placed where it belongs, namely on the euro membership."
This view is rejected by the governor of the Bank of Finland, Erkki Liikanen, who sits on the European Central Bank committee that makes monetary policy decisions.
He told the Daily Telegraph: "If we had a little weaker Finnish markka (the national currency before the introduction of the euro), I wouldn't believe that Nokia would beat iPhones or that young people would suddenly start to read printed books and newspapers, thus creating demand for the products of Finnish paper mills. Our challenges are based on structural facts. An adjustment of our currency would not make up for those challenges."
Finland continues to struggle with a battery of forces that have hit its economy since the international crisis.
Still, it's worth recalling that, as the OECD said in a recent assessment, "Finland enjoys a high level of income and well-being" and despite the rise in unemployment "social safety nets keep income inequality low".
It's just that if Finland had adjusted better to all the shocks, incomes would probably be quite a bit higher.
David Nugent opened the scoring with a header from Tom Ince's cross before Bradley Johnson smashed in a second.
Wolves winger Ivan Cavaleiro was sent off for an off-the-ball incident, but Ben Marshall fired into the roof of the net to make it 2-1 at half-time.
But Craig Bryson put in Jonny Russell's cut-back to secure the points and move Gary Rowett's side up to ninth place.
Derby had gone three weeks without a win, but started the brighter side and took the lead after 12 minutes when Nugent planted a header beyond goalkeeper Harry Burgoyne.
Johnson doubled the Rams' lead midway through the second half when he ran onto Russell's whipped cross and found the net with a powerful finish.
Russell nearly got on the score sheet himself when a loose ball fell to him from a corner, but his attempt was cleared off the line.
Wolves' task was then made much harder when Cavaleiro was shown a straight red card by referee Chris Kavanagh.
Marshall beat Scott Carson from Nouha Dicko's pass to give them hope on the stroke of half-time, but Bryson benefitted from another Russell run and cross to put the game beyond the away side, who stay 15th after a third game without a win.
Derby manager Gary Rowett:
"The attitude was excellent and we had lots of chances and there were a lot of good performances out there.
"I thought we hunted the ball down really well, I've been critical of us out of possession and I thought we were much better today.
"But we need to stop giving stupid goals away, that was the disappointment before half-time.
"I think if you have control of the football you should be looking to penetrate the opposition, whether that's a pass, or a run. I'm not a big fan of keeping possession for possession's sake."
Wolves manager Paul Lambert:
"We get it back to 2-1 and we are in the game but it's dead difficult when you are down to 10 men but credit to the team, we never capitulated, but the first two goals were really poor and then the sending off makes it even harder."
On Ivan Cavaleiro's red card: "I can't defend it, he's a young lad who has just moved to this country and he's a talented footballer but I can't sit here and defend it.
"I've seen it for myself and as soon as you do that you know the consequences."
Match ends, Derby County 3, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1.
Second Half ends, Derby County 3, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1.
Attempt missed. Jacob Butterfield (Derby County) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Cyrus Christie.
Attempt saved. Bright Enobakhare (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by David Edwards.
Substitution, Derby County. Ikechi Anya replaces Markus Olsson.
Foul by Jacob Butterfield (Derby County).
George Saville (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Cyrus Christie (Derby County) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Bradley Johnson.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Jón Dadi Bödvarsson replaces Nouha Dicko.
Markus Olsson (Derby County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Conor Coady (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Attempt blocked. Cyrus Christie (Derby County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Markus Olsson with a cross.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Bright Enobakhare replaces Ben Marshall.
Attempt missed. Kortney Hause (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Ben Marshall with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Chris Baird.
Attempt blocked. Lee Evans (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ben Marshall.
Corner, Derby County. Conceded by Lee Evans.
Attempt blocked. Tom Ince (Derby County) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Cyrus Christie.
Substitution, Derby County. Cyrus Christie replaces Alex Pearce.
Craig Bryson (Derby County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nouha Dicko (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Johnny Russell (Derby County) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Conor Coady (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Offside, Derby County. Jacob Butterfield tries a through ball, but David Nugent is caught offside.
Alex Pearce (Derby County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Alex Pearce (Derby County).
Nouha Dicko (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Derby County 3, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1. Craig Bryson (Derby County) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Johnny Russell.
Attempt missed. Richard Keogh (Derby County) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Jacob Butterfield.
Attempt blocked. Craig Bryson (Derby County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Johnny Russell.
Bradley Johnson (Derby County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mike Williamson (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Hand ball by Markus Olsson (Derby County).
Second Half begins Derby County 2, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1.
First Half ends, Derby County 2, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1.
Goal! Derby County 2, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1. Ben Marshall (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Nouha Dicko.
Lee Evans (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Bradley Johnson (Derby County).
Johnny Russell (Derby County) hits the bar with a left footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Markus Olsson with a cross.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Johnny Russell.
The club said it would be inviting Danny Simpson to contribute to an internal hearing this week.
The 28-year-old former Manchester United player avoided jail after he was found guilty of the attack.
He was ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work at Manchester Magistrates' Court on Monday.
Simpson was arrested on 29 December after police had been called to reports of a row at a house in Worsley, Greater Manchester.
During his trial, he had denied trying to strangle his ex-girlfriend and mother of his child, Stephanie Ward.
Ms Ward later withdrew her statement and did not support the prosecution.
On Tuesday, the Foxes said they had now noted Simpson's sentence.
A statement read: "Now that legal proceedings have concluded, Danny will be invited to contribute to an internal hearing in the coming days where the extent of any club disciplinary measures will be determined."
Simpson, from Eccles, Greater Manchester, has also played for Newcastle and QPR.
He previously said he intends to appeal against the conviction.
The West Bromwich Albion player will be in Michael O'Neill's squad for the opening Group C qualifying match away to the Czech Republic on 4 September.
The full squad for the match in Prague will be announced on Wednesday.
When Northern Ireland bowed out of Euro 2016, some wondered if 36-year-old McAuley had played his last NI match.
But boss O'Neill said the 63-times capped stalwart had opted to play on for the World Cup campaign.
"He has started the season in fine form for West Brom and I am delighted he made the decision he did," said O'Neill, whose team reached the last 16 at the summer's European Championship finals in France.
"He had a great championship for us. I have never left him out of the team in my four and a half years in charge and I do not envisage doing it in the next two either."
While McAuley is certain to be in the squad to face the Czech Republic, O'Neill has hinted another long-serving defender, Aaron Hughes, may be left out.
The 36-year-old former Newcastle United and Aston Villa man has signed for Indian Super League team Kerala Blasters after leaving Melbourne City.
"The Indian season does not start until the end of December and Aaron has been training on his own in Australia," O'Neill said.
"He has not done pre-season work of any description and it is a conversation me and Aaron have been having over the last few weeks.
"I have to decide if it is worth taking him."
Northern Ireland's other opponents in qualifying Group C are Germany, Norway, Azerbaijan and San Marino.
Their first home match is against San Marino on 8 October.
They want the same power as London, where vehicle owners can be fined if someone drops litter from their car.
Councils say they cannot currently tackle the problem effectively as they have to identify who threw the rubbish.
The Environment Department (Defra) said the government was considering the best way to support councils.
Clearing up plastic bottles, cigarette butts, food wrappers and other rubbish thrown from vehicles is difficult, dangerous and expensive, the Local Government Association (LGA) said.
Some 80 tonnes of litter from cars was lifted in an annual clear-up on 18 miles of A-roads in north Hertfordshire, it said.
Council workers recovered 20 tonnes of rubbish along a 16-mile stretch of the A42 in Leicestershire, the body added.
Almost a quarter of motorists (23%) admit to having thrown litter out of the car, its research suggests.
LGA environment spokesman Peter Box said: "The litter louts who blight our roads and cost council taxpayers millions in clean-up costs are currently getting away scot-free thanks to a legal loophole."
He added: "We are calling on the government to urgently give councils the appropriate powers to tackle this issue head-on."
A Defra spokeswoman said: "Litter blights communities and poses a risk to human health which is why tackling this issue remains a priority for government.
"We want everyone to enjoy a cleaner, healthier country and we will build on our recent successes increasing powers to seize vehicles suspected of use in fly-tipping.
"This way we can clamp down on those few people who spoil our local areas with litter."
Midfielder George, 23, joined from Southport last season, but was restricted to 23 appearances this term because of injuries.
Former Derby forward Richards, 21, scored three goals in the final six games of the season to help Blues stay in non-league football's top flight.
"There's a real prospect," boss Jon McCarthy told the club website.
"Everybody saw Kane's potential at the end of this season. He played a big part in keeping us up."
On George, McCarthy added: "He is a leader - his drive and ambition makes him a hungry player."
Two families on holiday unearthed the prehistoric predator at a free fossil-finding site in north-west Queensland.
The remains are thought to be from the Australopachycormus hurleyi, a 3m-long ray-finned fish with a pointed snout.
"Part of what makes this specimen so special is that it is so complete," Dr Patrick Smith told the BBC.
The curator of Kronosaurus Korner says that the centre has assembled the ancient creature's skull, backbone and fins.
"We know that it was a high-tier carnivore and that it ate other large fast-moving fish, a bit like marlin do today," he said.
"Because it does fit that swordfish-like shape we know he probably lived in that same ecological niche."
Dr Smith said he wanted to encourage other amateur palaeontologists to make their way to the tiny outback township 1,700km (1,000 miles) from Brisbane.
"Come to Richmond, because there's an awful lot of material to be collected," he said.
Fossils have been turning up since the 1930s in the region of north-west Queensland, which is described as "Australia's Dinosaur Trail".
The famously black-clad country singer wrote a song about the prison, and also played a historic series of concerts for inmates there in the 1960s.
Aphonopelma johnnycashi is among 14 new tarantula species from the southern US which have been described by biologists in the journal ZooKeys.
Their study completely rewrites the family tree of the Aphonopelma genus.
One of dozens of tarantula genera, this group was previously considered to include more than 50 separate species.
As part of his PhD research at Auburn University in Alabama, Chris Hamilton carefully whittled that down to 29. He eliminated a lot of double-counting, but also defined 14 species that were entirely new to science.
"We really tried to clean the taxonomy up," said Dr Hamilton, now a postdoctoral researcher at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
"The only way we could do that was by looking at over 3,000 specimens, both from the wild and from natural history collections.
"A lot of previous names got eliminated. But there were 14 that were genuinely unique and new."
It is a telling example of the biodiversity to be found - sometimes literally - in our own backyards, he added.
"A lot of people think of new species as coming from areas of the Earth that not many humans have been to before... but that's really frankly not the case."
In particular, existing collections are a precious resource for scientists who want to study life's family tree.
"The majority of species, described or undescribed, have probably already been collected," Dr Hamilton told BBC News. "They're sitting on shelves waiting to be discovered."
Aphonopelma johnnycashi, however, was found roaming the wilds of California.
"It's found along the foothills of the western Sierra Nevada mountains, and one of the places that's there is Folsom Prison," Dr Hamilton explained - and it wasn't a giant imaginative leap from there to the species' new moniker.
"It's a perfect name. It fits the spider - it's found around Folsom and the males are predominantly all black, so it fits his image.
"I have a Johnny Cash tattoo so I was very happy that it worked out that way."
Dr Hamilton thinks that one reason the species had not been previously recognised is its similarity to other species of tarantula, such as Aphonopelma iodius which is common in the Mojave desert further south.
"They look fairly similar, particularly the females. The males, because they're more black, they're a little bit different.
"But if you were just looking at specimens that had been collected, and they were in a jar on a shelf, they would look pretty similar."
So wild collecting of johnnycashii males, before their dark hairs could fade in jars of preservative, was key.
"Then once we looked at the genomics and looked at some of the ecological constraints, we could see this species was pretty unique and independent from the others that it's closely related to," Dr Hamilton said.
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The Sweden and Chelsea goalkeeper helped her country win a silver medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics with her shootout heroics against USA in the quarter-finals and Brazil in the semi-finals.
"I had studied them so closely and the last save in that penalty shootout [against Brazil] is probably the one I'm most proud of because it was so far out, and I could stretch and I was really explosive to get there," she said.
"No-one could have expected us to come away with the silver, so we performed over everyone's expectation."
In December 2016, Lindahl joined Sweden's most famous footballer, Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, on stage as they won Sweden's female and male Footballer of the Year awards respectively.
The pair started their football careers 16 years ago at the same club - Malmo - but their lives have gone in very different directions.
"What a difference it is, what kind of life he has, what kind of life I have, it's just interesting," Lindahl said.
"I remember I was part of the 2003 World Cup squad that came second - I thought everyone would know who I am because I'd been in the World Cup final squad and then I woke up and realised it's women's football and it's not really like that.
"Growing up, you thought that being a footballer would bring fame and fortune, but being a female footballer means for me now that I am part of something that opens doors for so many other women in the world that still struggle with their own rights and right to play football."
Lindahl signed for London-based Women's Super League club Chelsea Ladies in December 2014 and within a few months it proved to be a dream move.
At the 2015 FA Women's Cup final, staged at Wembley Stadium for the first time, Lindahl kept goal in Chelsea's 1-0 win over Notts County.
It was Chelsea's first major trophy and later that year they secured their first FA WSL title for a league and cup 'double'.
The goalkeeper says none of her success with Chelsea would have been possible without the support she received from wife Sabine.
"My proudest moment is the birth of our two sons, but my wife Sabine made a massive sacrifice to come with me to England," she said.
"I'm very, very thankful because that decision has made me excel, which means I didn't have to become that bitter, old woman in a sports bar saying, 'I could have been that one!'
"It's an exciting time to be part of women's football wherever you are in the world right now. It's like it's boiling, it's just waiting to really take off and if I can stretch my career a few more years to be part of that - maybe all of my years that I struggled will be worth it because of the years that lie ahead."
"Please vote for me if you think I'm worth it and also because I've always had a dream about being the best goalkeeper in the world and if you vote for me that's solidifying my dream and hopefully that could inspire other girls out there to reach for their dreams."
On the morning of 17 January 1917, Nigel de Grey walked into his boss's office in Room 40 of the Admiralty, home of British code-breakers.
It was obvious to Reginald "Blinker" Hall that his subordinate was excited.
"Do you want to bring America into the war?" De Grey asked.
The answer was obvious. Everyone knew that America entering World War One to fight the Germans would help break the stalemate.
"Yes, my boy. Why?" Hall answered.
"I've got something here which - well, it's a rather astonishing message which might do the trick if we could use it," De Grey said.
The previous day, the German foreign minister, Arthur Zimmermann, had sent a message to the German ambassador to Washington.
The message used a code that had been largely cracked by British code-breakers, the forerunners of those who would later work at Bletchley Park.
Zimmermann had sent instructions to approach the Mexican government with what seems an extraordinary deal: if it was to join any war against America, it would be rewarded with the territories of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
"This may be a very big thing, possibly the biggest thing in the War. For the present, not a soul outside this room is to be told anything at all," Hall said after reading it.
Part of the problem was how the message had been obtained.
German telegraph cables passing through the English Channel had been cut at the start of the War by a British ship.
So Germany often sent its messages in code via neutral countries.
Germany had convinced President Wilson in the US that keeping channels of communication open would help end the War, and so the US agreed to pass on German diplomatic messages from Berlin to its embassy in Washington.
The message - which would become known as the Zimmermann Telegram - had been handed, in code, to the American Embassy in Berlin at 15:00 on Tuesday 16 January.
The American ambassador had queried the content of such a long message and been reassured it related to peace proposals.
By that evening, it was passing through another European country and then London before being relayed to the State Department in Washington.
From there, it would eventually arrive at the German embassy on 19 January to be decoded and then recoded and sent on via a commercial Western Union telegraphic office to Mexico, arriving the same day.
Thanks to their interception capability process, Britain's code-breakers were reading the message two days before the intended recipients (although they initially could not read all of it).
A coded message about attacking the US was actually passed along US diplomatic channels.
And Britain was spying on the US and its diplomatic traffic (something it would continue to do for another quarter of a century).
The cable was intelligence gold-dust and could be used to persuade America to join the War.
But how could Britain use it - when to do so would reveal both that they were breaking German codes and that they had obtained the message by spying on the very country it was hoping to become its ally?
Hall had all the copies locked in his desk while he decided what to do and asked for the rest to be decoded.
London was betting that Germany's use of unrestricted submarine warfare - attacking merchant shipping - would be enough to draw America into the War.
When the signs were that an extra push might be needed, it was decided to deploy the Zimmermann Telegram.
Room 40 asked one of its contacts to get hold of a copy of anything sent to the German embassy in Mexico from the US. This provided another copy of the telegram.
Britain could then plausibly claim this was how it had got hold of the message and get round the problem of admitting it was spying on its friends.
Britain also had to convince the Americans that the message had not been concocted as part of a ruse to get them into the War.
Eventually, the US obtained its own copy from the Western Union telegraphic company, and De Grey then decoded it himself in front of a representative at the US embassy in London.
This meant technically all parties could claim that it had been decoded on US territory.
"Good Lord," President Wilson said when he was told of the details.
The telegram was then leaked to the American press and published to general amazement on 1 March 1917 (with credit attached to the American Secret Service rather than the British to avoid awkward questions of British manipulation).
Whatever scepticism was left was dispelled when Zimmermann himself took the odd move of confirming he had sent it. A month later, America was in the War.
It would be too much to claim the Zimmermann Telegram single-handedly brought America into the War.
Germany's policy of unrestricted submarine warfare can take more credit for that.
But the telegram was useful for convincing the American public that it should be sending its men over to Europe to fight.
The telegram had proved the perfect justification for a change of policy and to convince some of the sceptics.
It was, many believed, the single greatest intelligence triumph for Britain in World War One.
It was also an early sign of the potential impact of intercepting communications, a lesson which the few British and American officials in on the real story were determined to learn from as they set about building their capability.
Early in World War Two, before America had formally entered the War, it would send a team of its best code-breakers on a clandestine mission to Britain to establish a relationship with their counterparts.
The Road to Bletchley Park exhibition at the former wartime site features a copy of the Zimmermann Telegram and details of its role.
Today, the two allies have GCHQ and the NSA - two vast intelligence agencies involved in interception and code-breaking.
They also have a pact which means that - on the whole - they are not supposed to spy on each other.
The BBC World Service Witness programme recently told the story of how the British managed to intercept the telegram, and heard from some of the code-breakers involved.
Listen to the programme online or download the programme podcast.
Wilder, 29, dominated against his 36-year-old Canadian rival, with the three judges scoring the bout 118-109, 119-108 and 120-107 in his favour.
The win was the first time Wilder had not won by knockout as he extended his unbeaten record to 33-0.
"I answered a lot of questions tonight," said Wilder.
"I already knew I could go 12 hard rounds and take a punch. I am just excited," he added.
Ukraine's Wladimir Klitschko holds the WBA, IBF and WBO titles.
Wilder had not gone past the fourth round in any of his previous fights, but he constantly outpunched a lacklustre Stiverne in Las Vegas on Saturday.
"I want to bring excitement back to the heavyweight division," said the American, who won an Olympic bronze at the Beijing Olympics and knocked out Britain's Audley Harrison in one round in 2013.
After Boston's John L Sullivan became the first gloved champion in 1885, the heavyweight division was dominated by American fighters for more than 100 years.
However, the last American to own a portion of the world heavyweight crown was Shannon Briggs, who briefly held the WBO title.
Stiverne suffered his second defeat from 26 pro fights.
"It just feels like I was flat in the ring," he said. "I didn't do what I know I can do. I need to go back and work on the mistakes.
"I couldn't cut the ring. I couldn't move my head like normal."
Gareth Williams' side started the day with a narrow 14-12 win against France after Ethan Davies scored late on.
Morgan Williams scored a hat-trick as Wales pulled off a surprise 28-15 win against back-to-back series winners and Olympic gold medallists Fiji.
In their final game, Wales drew 7-7 with Samoa to finish top of Pool B.
The day marks a turnaround for Wales, after the disappointment in Wellington a week earlier, where they were beaten by Canada and made just the Challenge Trophy semi-final.
The "drive hate out" campaign is designed to give victims and witnesses more confidence in reporting crime.
A charter for public transport reassures the travelling public reports of verbal and physical abuse will be pursued by the authorities.
Transport minister, Humza Yousaf, said it would be rolled out across the country if successful.
Lesley Macinnes, City of Edinburgh Council's transport and environment convener, said: "Edinburgh is a diverse and thriving city that does not tolerate any form of hate crime.
"The city is a safe place to live, work in and visit but sadly there is a small minority who behave in an unacceptable manner. This charter - a first in Scotland - is a fantastic step forward."
Mr Yousaf said: "There is absolutely no excuse for hate crime or prejudice towards people working or travelling on our transport network and I am extremely grateful for the work of City of Edinburgh Council and partners in developing and implementing the charter."
The 48-year-old served as a minister in the Labour government and had a stint as the party's deputy chairman, garnering a reputation - which he rejects - as a heavyweight political bruiser.
The MP for West Bromwich East is also known as a campaigner, including on historical child abuse and a recent legal challenge to the government's surveillance laws. But his most famous crusade was over phone hacking.
He took one of the starring roles in the interrogation of Rupert and James Murdoch in 2011, as a member of the Commons culture select committee.
His dogged investigation won plaudits, and he co-wrote an account of his hacking adventure - Dial M for Murdoch - and became a familiar figure on rolling news channels.
He has since pressed for tougher press regulation and for the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry to be implemented in full.
In the aftermath of his select committee grilling of the Murdochs, he was drafted into Labour leader Ed Miliband's top team as the man charged with organising the troops to secure an overall majority at the next general election.
Mr Watson's record as campaign chief was mixed - the party famously lost safe Bradford West to a resurgent George Galloway but scored other by-election victories along the way.
His downfall came in the wake of a row over trade union influence over Labour candidate selection.
Following Labour's general election defeat, he put himself forward for the job of deputy leader, pledging to "rebuild the party across the UK".
A former trade union official himself, who once shared a flat with Unite leader Len McCluskey, Mr Watson entered Parliament in 2001 as MP for West Bromwich.
After an initial stint in the whips' office, he was sent to the Ministry of Defence, where he was credited with helping secure pardons for soldiers shot for cowardice during World War One.
But in 2006, he resigned as a defence minister, calling for Tony Blair to quit in the interest of the Labour Party and the country - a move that hastened the then prime minister's departure from office.
He was accused of conspiring against Mr Blair with Gordon Brown when it emerged he had visited the then chancellor at his home in North Queensferry, Fife, shortly before stepping down.
Both men denied any plot, but many - inside and outside Labour - did not believe them.
When Gordon Brown took over as leader and prime minister in 2007, Mr Watson was brought back into government as a whip, and in 2008 was appointed minister for digital engagement.
In that role, he found a niche.
Known as an early adopter of social media, he was the first MP to have a blog and has described himself as "an apprentice nerd" for his love of all things technological.
But during this period Mr Watson was accused of being involved in the scandal surrounding a plot by Gordon Brown's spin doctor Damian McBride to spread smears about senior Tories.
The Mail on Sunday accused him of "encouraging" Mr McBride while the Sun published a cartoon of him under the headline "Mad dog was trained to maul".
Mr Watson subsequently won "substantial" libel damages from both newspapers in the High Court, which ruled the stories linking him to the plot were not true.
He resigned from his ministerial role in the wake of the McBride row for family reasons, he insisted - he wanted to take a step back from front-line politics and concentrate on his wife and children.
Hoping for what he called "a productive life as a backbencher", he decided to join the culture select committee to pursue his interests in sport and the arts.
But just two days after joining, the Guardian newspaper put phone hacking back on the agenda and the committee decided to investigate it - once again thrusting Mr Watson into the spotlight.
"The first thing News International did was try to have me removed from the committee," he claimed in 2011.
"I realised then that these people were never going away. Something had clearly gone wrong with newspapers and somebody had to get to the truth.
"There weren't many MPs who were prepared to do that for fear of being targeted, so I decided I had to do it.
"People then started coming to me - whistleblowers and victims - and I felt I had a responsibility towards them. I couldn't walk away."
A prolific Tweeter about politics, as well as his latest discoveries in music, film and video games, he managed to squeeze in a mention of little-known blues-rock band, Drenge, in his resignation letter from the job of general election co-ordinator in 2013.
In the letter, Mr Watson, the son of a union official and a social worker, who has two children with estranged wife Siobhan, said it was better for the "future unity" of the Labour Party that he went.
His resignation was prompted by a row over the Falkirk seat being vacated by Labour's Eric Joyce - the Unite union was accused of hijacking the process to select a new candidate to replace him, and Mr Watson's office manager was the union's preferred candidate.
In his letter to Mr Miliband, Mr Watson said he was not quitting because of "unattributed shadow cabinet briefings around the mess in Falkirk... though they don't help".
He said some within the party had still not forgiven him for resigning as defence minister in 2006, but added: "I fully accept the consequences of that decision and genuinely hope my departure allows the party to move on."
As deputy leader, he is now at the forefront of the party's attempts to move on, this time from its general election defeat.
The 19-year-old is the junior world number one and will make his debut in the competition as the team's youngest member.
MacDonald, who trains at the British Judo Centre of Excellence in Walsall, won silver at the 2016 Junior European Championships in Malaga.
He is currently the top-ranked 60kg junior judoka in the world.
The 11-strong British team heading to Poland from 20-23 April contains a mixture of experienced judoka - among them Olympian Natalie Powell - and debutants.
In 2016 British Judo had its best return from the European Championships in 10 years with Colin Oates and Powell winning silver and bronze respectively.
GB Judo squad: Chelsie Giles, Kelly Edwards, Nekoda Davis, Bekky Livesey, Alice Schlesinger, Amy Livesey, Natalie Powell, Ashley McKenzie, Neil MacDonald, Max Stewart, Ben Fletcher
Charles Chestnut reduced his home in Login, Whitland, to a "smouldering shell" after a four-year row with the Yorkshire Building Society.
Swansea Crown Court heard fire crews arrived at the property to find him having a barbecue and playing guitar.
Chestnut, 55, was convicted of arson in January.
The court had heard Chestnut ended up squatting in the house after it was repossessed, but set fire to it on the day he was due to attend court.
He had hung two signs on his farmhouse gate which greeted fire crews - one read "Free Scrap" and the other said "Danger keep out. Private property undergoing complete renovation".
Chestnut told police he started the fire but refused to take part in his trial and was convicted in his absence.
After the blaze, the value of the farmhouse fell to £80,000.
Previously, Chestnut had told a judge to pass the longest sentence possible but had a change of heart during his sentencing hearing and asked him to "open the door and let me go".
But Judge Geraint Walters imposed an immediate five-year jail term.
He said: "The farmhouse had been completely burned down. It was a smouldering shell. You were found outside seemingly preparing a barbecue while playing a guitar.
"You began defaulting on your mortgage payments and the property was repossessed. You became involved with a campaign against the Yorkshire Building Society for a number of years and showed determination not to be beaten by them.
"But the reality is, this was their property and not yours. You played a game of cat and mouse and decided to have the last laugh - or so you thought."
HIV mutates in order to survive the onslaught of a patient's immune system.
However, some patients develop highly effective antibodies that can neutralise huge swathes of HIV mutants.
A North Carolina team analysed the arms race between body and virus, published in the journal Nature, and has shown how these antibodies are made.
When someone is infected with HIV, their body produces antibodies to attack it. But the virus mutates and evades the offensive, so the body produces new antibodies that the virus then evades and the war goes on.
However, after about four years of this struggle some patients hit on to a winner by targeting something the virus finds harder to change - an Achilles heel.
"Even though the virus mutates and there are literally millions of quasi-species of virus because of all these mutations, but there are parts the virus can't change otherwise the virus cannot infect - these are the vulnerable sites," Prof Barton Haynes, of Duke University, in North Carolina, told the BBC.
At this stage of the infection it is far too late to make a difference for the patient as the virus is hiding in untouchable reservoirs.
However, some researchers believe that vaccines that encourage the body to produce these "broadly neutralising antibodies" may give people immunity to the virus.
The research team's study is based on a patient in Africa who had a rapid diagnosis, about four weeks after being infected with the virus.
They were eventually able to produce an antibody named CH103 that could neutralise 55% of HIV samples.
It was not produced in one easy step. Rather it was the product of the war of the immune system and HIV trying to out-evolve each other.
However, through regular genetic analyses of both the immune system and virus, researchers could piece together each of the steps that culminated in the production of CH103.
It is like a training manual for the immune system.
Prof Haynes said: "What we were able to do was map out the arms race of both virus and antibody, and in doing so we have now a map.
"This is the first time we've been able to see the actual road map."
He said the challenge now was to see if re-creating those steps could lead to a viable vaccine.
However, he said it would almost certainly need to be a vaccine combining multiple "Achilles heels" - in the same way that HIV therapies are a combination of drug treatments.
Prof Jane Anderson, consultant at Homerton hospital in London and chair of the British HIV Association, said: "The study gives important insights into the ways in which the human immune system responds to HIV infection and increases our understanding about the relationships between the virus and the human host.
"This is another welcome step on the path to develop vaccines against HIV."
Dr Sarah Joseph, who tests HIV vaccines at the Medical Research Council clinical trials unit, said: "This paper is really interesting. Some people do make antibodies that neutralise a lot of HIV virus, bit it is not of use to them as they produce it way too late."
She said harnessing these antibodies "could be a big deal" and there was "even talk about mass-producing antibodies and infusing people with them".
Doyle, 21, has joined from Morecambe and O'Brien, 24, from Bury.
Centre-back O'Brien spent last season on loan at Halifax, while Doyle had loan spells at Chorley in 2014 and 2015, making 59 appearances.
O'Brien is is eligible for Saturday's league opener against Dagenham & Redbridge but Doyle is sidelined for up to four weeks with an injury.
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"With one less ground, you could say that the competition won't be quite as tough," Bransgrove told BBC Sport.
Durham's Test status was withdrawn on Monday as part of a series of sanctions over the county's financial problems.
They also included Durham's relegation from County Championship Division One, with Hampshire reinstated.
Hampshire's Ageas Bowl near Southampton is yet to stage an Ashes Test, whereas Durham's Riverside hosted one in 2013.
Its next chance to host an Ashes Test will come in 2023 after it was overlooked for the next series in 2019.
"There's a lot of very good grounds in the country and they all deserve plenty of opportunities," Bransgrove told BBC South Today.
"I've always felt that we've been more than unlucky in the allocation of international cricket in the past. This (the Ageas Bowl) is an amazing venue and everyone who visits here says so."
Hampshire last staged a Test match in 2014 when England beat India. This season, it hosted a T20 match against Sri Lanka and a one-day international against Pakistan.
"I don't have any bad feelings towards any of the other grounds at all," Bransgrove added. "Everyone is trying to do the same as what we're trying to do here, which is the best we can with our ground."
Governor Paul LePage, who has a history of making controversial statements, made the remarks while speaking about the state's heroin epidemic.
The governor's spokesman had initially said Mr LePage, who is white, was not making a statement about race.
But opponents said it was implied and called the remarks "fear mongering".
"I was going impromptu and my brain didn't catch up to my mouth," Governor LePage said on Friday. "Instead of Maine women, I said white women ... If you go to Maine, you can see it's 95% white."
Mr LePage made his controversial comments at a town meeting in Bridgton, describing out-of-state dealers as "guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty" and said "half the time they impregnate a young white girl before leaving".
"This is one of the most blatantly racist statements he's ever made," said Lance Dutson, a moderate Republican activist.
States, especially in the north-east, are dealing with a sharp rise in heroin use. How to treat addicts and curb lethal overdoses has become a major issue in the US presidential race.
His spokesman, Peter Steele, had earlier said Governor LePage was referring to the effect heroin addiction has on the state, not on issues of race.
"Race is irrelevant," Mr Steele told the Associated Press. "What is relevant is the cost to state taxpayers for welfare and the emotional costs for these kids who are born as a result of involvement with drug traffickers."
Governor LePage is known for his blunt talk. In the past, he has told President Barack Obama "go to hell", and members of a state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to "kiss my butt".
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The Foxes will clinch the Premier League title if Tottenham fail to win at Stamford Bridge.
"I'd like to watch the Tottenham match but I'm on a flight back from Italy," Ranieri said.
"My mother is 96 years old and I would like to have a lunch with her. I will be the last man in England to know."
The Italian has never won a top-flight league title in his managerial career, but Leicester are just two points from glory following their 1-1 draw with Manchester United on Sunday.
However, Ranieri expects Spurs, who have three matches left, to prolong Leicester's wait. If Tottenham win at Stamford Bridge for the first time since February 1990, then Leicester can secure the title by beating Everton next Saturday.
"In my mind, Tottenham will win all three matches," he said. "I am now focused on the Everton match. We must continue to concentrate."
Defender Danny Simpson said Leicester's players would be watching to see if Tottenham slip up.
"We'll try to get together tomorrow and watch the game," he said. "We'll see what happens."
Ranieri said he was "satisfied" to take a point from Old Trafford.
"We didn't come here to win the title, we came here to make a performance because we knew it was a difficult match," he said.
"The draw was the right result. In the first 15 minutes, we were a little scared, but we scored in the right moment and then got more confidence."
Captain Wes Morgan, who scored Leicester's equaliser, described the result as a "step in the right direction".
He said: "It was very tough. Manchester United dominated possession and we had to dig in and be resilient. [The title] is not ours until we get two hands on the trophy."
Ranieri questioned some of the decisions made by referee Michael Oliver, in particular the dismissal of midfielder Danny Drinkwater for a second yellow card when he pulled back Memphis Depay.
Drinkwater will miss the game against Everton.
"It wasn't [a red card] in my opinion," Ranieri said. "And when Rooney stopped Demarai Gray on the edge of the box, it was a [second] yellow card. But I accept the referee's decision."
He also described Marouane Fellaini's elbow on Robert Huth - not punished by the referee - as "not a good show from him".
Consultation with staff ended last month and there is now a "gradual decline" in worker numbers at the site.
A spokesman said employees had put forward several proposals but none could provide a "timely financial return to profitability".
About 12 staff have so far found alternative employment.
The company announced in May that it was considering ending its production operations at the Buccleuch Street site.
It has now confirmed that staff numbers are being reduced "as each section completes the work in front of them".
"Peter Scott will remain trading with the retention of nine members of staff with the proposal to outsource the ongoing product lines now being put into place," a spokesman added.
Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire MSP John Lamont renewed his call for the creation of an Enterprise Zone in the town.
"This is desperately sad news for those who are involved and unfortunately the latest in a string of closures in Hawick," he said.
"Textiles has such a rich heritage in Hawick that it certainly has a bright future, but it is clear that the industry is going through a difficult transition and that new highly skilled jobs must be found elsewhere.
"The most important thing for Hawick is that we attract new businesses to create much needed jobs, which is why we need meaningful action as soon as possible."
The 26-year-old fly-half won BBC Cymru Wales Sport Personality 2015 after an outstanding international season.
Coach Warren Gatland has a limit on the number of non-Wales based players he can select, and Biggar says that was a factor when he agreed a dual contract.
"Playing in front of 70,000 whenever you pull on that [Wales] shirt is pretty special," said Biggar.
"I didn't want to risk that by moving away.
"It took a long time [to decide to stay] because your career is short and there were some great offers on the table."
Biggar's deal will see him remain with Ospreys potentially until the 2019 World Cup with his salary paid 60% by the Welsh Rugby Union and 40% by the region.
The dual contracts are designed to keep high-profile players in Wales.
His Ospreys and Wales half-back partner Rhys Webb is also in talks over extending his deal while second-row Alun Wyn Jones' contract ends next summer.
One of the terms of the funding and management agreement between the WRU and the regions means Gatland can pick only two players who have chosen to play outside the country rather than accept a contract with one of the regions.
Biggar says loyalty to the Ospreys also played a part in his decision.
"Ospreys is somewhere I've racked up a fair amount of games and I've got some loyalty towards there as well," he added.
"It was a long a long, hard decision.
"But I'm here for the next two years, guaranteed, and then we'll see where we go from there."
The brother and sister-in-law of gunman Syed Rizwan Farook were among those held after raids in California.
The third person arrested is the wife of Enrique Marquez Jr, a friend of Farook who faces charges himself in relation to the deadly attack.
Fourteen people were killed when Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, opened fire at an office party in December.
The killings were described by authorities as the deadliest terror attack on US soil since 9/11.
The three arrested are being held on charges of conspiracy, marriage fraud and false statement charges, officials said.
Mariya Chernykh, a Russian citizen, is accused of marrying Enrique Marquez in an immigration scam, the US Department of Justice said in a statement.
Her sister is married to Farook's brother and all three face conspiracy charges connected to the marriage.
The raids on Thursday were conducted at homes in the cities of Corona and Ontario.
Farook and Malik were killed hours after the attacks, in a police shoot-out following a car chase.
Mr Marquez was arrested earlier this year. He denies plotting terrorism and supplying weapons.
The Blades, back in the second tier after six seasons away, went in front just before half-time when skipper Sharp headed in Leon Clarke's cross.
Sharp might have had another after the break when he tapped in a rebounded free-kick but was ruled offside.
Brentford rallied and had chances but were unable to find an equaliser.
There will have been extra satisfaction at this result for manager Chris Wilder, not only as a boyhood Blades fan but also as it was his first experience of the Championship as a manager.
Bramall Lane was suitably buzzing with 26,746 fans and it was a happy coincidence for the home support that another fan in Sharp netted the key goal.
Brentford, who had not won on the opening day in five attempts, saw that run extended despite a much improved second-half which saw Nico Yennaris, Lasse Vibe and Neal Maupay all denied.
Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder:
"We've had it tough in this city, a football city as it is. That is a reward for the outstanding support, loyalty and love of their football club that they've shown through thick and thin.
"The atmosphere was right up there today. Outstanding effort against a brilliant Brentford side. The roar that greeted us, the positivity allowed the players to lift their game at times when they were very, very tired.
"Billy's goalscoring record speaks for itself and I think we've created chances today. We didn't play particularly well with the ball - we can play a lot better."
Brentford boss Dean Smith:
"A disappointing result, probably not what our performance deserved. I thought first half was a bit of a nothing game, it looked a little bit slow and the pitch slowed up.
"We didn't move the ball as quick as we normally do and I don't think they did either.
"There wasn't a lot of goalmouth action in the first half. I thought we had a couple of good chances. Billy Sharp's had one chance and scored but that's what he does."
Match ends, Sheffield United 1, Brentford 0.
Second Half ends, Sheffield United 1, Brentford 0.
Offside, Sheffield United. Kieron Freeman tries a through ball, but Caolan Lavery is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Neal Maupay (Brentford) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Ollie Watkins.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by Chris Basham.
Attempt missed. Neal Maupay (Brentford) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Ollie Watkins.
Foul by John Egan (Brentford).
Richard Stearman (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Caolan Lavery (Sheffield United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Leon Clarke.
Neal Maupay (Brentford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jack O'Connell (Sheffield United).
Foul by Neal Maupay (Brentford).
John Fleck (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Neal Maupay (Brentford) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ryan Woods.
Corner, Sheffield United. Conceded by Jota.
Substitution, Sheffield United. Caolan Lavery replaces Billy Sharp.
Substitution, Brentford. Neal Maupay replaces Josh McEachran.
Ryan Woods (Brentford) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Billy Sharp (Sheffield United).
Foul by Lasse Vibe (Brentford).
Jack O'Connell (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Sheffield United. John Lundstram replaces Samir Carruthers.
Ryan Woods (Brentford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paul Coutts (Sheffield United).
Attempt blocked. Lasse Vibe (Brentford) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ollie Watkins with a through ball.
Foul by Ollie Watkins (Brentford).
Chris Basham (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Lasse Vibe (Brentford) header from very close range is just a bit too high.
Nico Yennaris (Brentford) hits the bar with a header from the centre of the box.
Attempt saved. Jota (Brentford) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Henrik Dalsgaard with a headed pass.
Attempt saved. Nico Yennaris (Brentford) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jota.
Substitution, Brentford. Ollie Watkins replaces Florian Jozefzoon.
Substitution, Brentford. Nico Yennaris replaces Kamohelo Mokotjo.
Attempt missed. John Fleck (Sheffield United) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Kieron Freeman.
Hand ball by Andreas Bjelland (Brentford).
Henrik Dalsgaard (Brentford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Enda Stevens (Sheffield United).
Offside, Sheffield United. John Fleck tries a through ball, but Billy Sharp is caught offside.
John Fleck (Sheffield United) hits the left post with a left footed shot from outside the box. Assisted by Paul Coutts following a set piece situation.
Foul by John Egan (Brentford).
Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) had its busiest year on record in 2016 and has been involved in "four lengthy call outs" since the start of January to help "ill-prepared" groups.
They said walkers need to prepare for arctic weather and shorter days.
A group rescued on Sunday night was found using a single mobile phone light instead of torches.
Another incident on Monday involved a person suffering a serious arm injury after slipping on an icy path close to Snowdon summit.
George Jones, Llanberis MRT secretary, said the accident could have been avoided by wearing crampons - spikes fitted to boots for grip on snow and ice.
He said other groups "would have done well to have started much earlier in the day to allow sufficient daylight to complete their walk."
The team's vice chairman, John Grisdale said he would encourage visitors to the mountains of Snowdonia, but they should have the "wisdom to respect them" by checking the weather conditions, carrying the appropriate equipment and allowing sufficient time.
He added that they were grateful for the support offered by members from Ogwen and Aberglaslyn teams and the coastguard rescue helicopter from Caernarfon.
All 330 workers at the Wolverhampton plant are expected to lose their jobs.
Trevor White, who has worked at the factory for 40 years, said the closure would be "another nail in the coffin for the manufacturing industry in Wolverhampton".
Goodyear "considered all options" before deciding to shut, bosses said.
Wayne Devaney, who has been at the plant for 27 years, said the workforce had "grafted really hard and done everything it could to make the factory viable", and that the announcement had "come out of the blue".
Eric Fric, managing director of Goodyear Dunlop Tyres UK, blamed the impact of inexpensive imports, the cost of transport and "the strength of the pound".
Goodyear said its plans were subject to consultation with staff and unions, and it was "determined to find responsible and fair solutions for all affected employees".
The plant, which has been at the site since 1927, is due to close by the summer of 2017.
A taskforce, led by Wolverhampton City Council, is being set up to support staff.
A spokesperson for the Department for Work and Pensions said it would be working with the local authority to help workers find new jobs.
The chairman of Goodyear's branch of the Unite trade union, Cyril Barret, said the Wolverhampton plant had been regarded as one to aspire to.
"When you review it, the performance of the workforce, the Goodyear management globally were bringing people in here to witness the transformation of the plant, its improvement in productivity.
"The workforce was trusted to deliver products all over Europe.
"The news of the closure is devastating."
The accused, who were all Muslims, had pleaded guilty, the head of Kano's religious police, Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa, told the BBC.
The trial was speedily done in secret after a section of the court was burnt down by angry protesters last month.
It is not known if they will appeal against the sentence.
The alleged offence was committed last month at a religious gathering in honour of Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse, the Senegalese founder of the Tijaniya sect, which has a large following across West Africa.
The nine, eight man and a woman, were reported to have said that "Niasse was bigger than Prophet Muhammad", triggering unrest.
The venue was burnt to the ground by an angry mob and the nine were arrested,
"There has been consensus among Muslims scholars that insulting the prophet carries a death sentence," Mr Daurawa told the BBC Hausa service.
"We quickly put them on trial to avoid bloodshed because people were very angry and trying to take law into their hands," he added.
Kano has a predominately Muslim population and Islamic courts operate alongside secular courts.
BBC Kano reporter Yusuf Yakasai said people celebrated in some parts of the city when news of the judgement emerged.
Tijaniya at a glance
The Sufi sect of Tijaniya was founded in Algeria in 1784 by Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tijani.
It spread all over the world, with large following in north and west Africa. It also has followers in South Africa, Indonesia and other parts of the world.
There are other Sufi sects in Islam but Tijaniya is the largest.
They have three main daily practices: Asking the forgiveness of God; sending prayers to the Prophet Muhammad and affirming the Oneness of Allah.
Senegalese-born Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse was credited with reviving the sect in the 20th Century. People travel from across the continent to visit his shrine.
They have several factions including the Haqiqa (Realist) group, whose leaders were convicted accused of blasphemy in Kano.
Several states in predominantly Muslims northern Nigeria have introduced Sharia law after the country returned to civilian rule in 1999.
This is the first time a death sentence has been handed down for blasphemy in northern Nigeria.
The sentence has been delivered for other offences such as adultery but none has been carried out.
Pakistan moved to within 30 runs of Zimbabwe's total of 172 without losing a wicket, before a batting collapse almost cost them the Twenty20 match.
Skipper Shahid Afridi hit his first ball for four to give his side victory with three balls to spare in Lahore.
Gunmen attacked buses carrying the Sri Lanka team in the city six years ago.
Beforehand, fans waited at the Gaddafi Stadium in temperatures of 43 degrees Celsius and faced frequent security checks.
Both teams arrived at the stadium in a fleet of vans carrying armed guards.
Dozens of CCTV cameras were installed in the surroundings of Nishtar Park, where the Gaddafi Stadium is located.
Tickets for both Friday's and Sunday's T20s in Lahore were sold out within two days, and the teams will also play three one-day internationals at the venue next week.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala, who's originally from Pakistan, rose to fame after her efforts to increase awareness about girls' education in her home country.
The asteroid sits in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Nasa say they hope the decision will be an inspiration to others.
NASA's Amy Mainzer, who discovered the asteroid, said she wanted the naming to be an inspiration to young women.
Writing on the Malala Fund Blog, Mainzer said she wanted the naming to be an inspiration to young women.
"We desperately need the brainpower of all smart people to solve some of humanity's most difficult problems, and we can't afford to reject half the populations."
In October 2012 Malala was shot whilst getting on her school bus in Pakistan.
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She's become a worldwide sensation, speaking in front of the UN and elsewhere about the right to education.
And although Malala may never get to see her asteroid, it's rather nice to know it's up there.
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The Real Madrid player also refused to shake the hands of the Iceland players after the group match in Saint-Etienne.
"I thought they'd won the Euros the way they celebrated at the end," he said.
"It was unbelievable. We tried hard to win the game and Iceland didn't try anything. This, in my opinion, shows a small mentality and they are not going to do anything in the competition."
But former Iceland international Hermann Hreidarsson called Ronaldo "petty" and a "sore loser".
The former Ipswich, Charlton and Portsmouth defender, 41, told BBC Radio 5 live: "He thought he could have goals handed to him on a plate.
"If he would have worked as hard as every Icelandic player, he wouldn't have had to say anything because I'm sure he would have got his rewards.
"He didn't fancy it on the day and he just got beaten up."
Ronaldo, making his 127th appearance for Portugal, said it had been a "lucky night" for his opponents and accused them of putting "the bus in the net".
Portugal had 72% of the possession and 26 shots on goal to Iceland's four.
"Portugal try to play football and try to win the game," said skipper Ronaldo, 31. "Iceland didn't try anything.
"They were just defend, defend, defend and playing on the counter-attack."
Ronaldo's words have drawn plenty of comment on social media.
DunsbyOwl tweeted: "Great Result for Iceland. Shame Ronaldo couldn't show a bit of magnanimity."
Paul said: "Just when Ronaldo was winning the footballing world over with his talent, he opens his mouth again..."
AndyG added: "Cristiano Ronaldo has just reminded me of all the reason why I just can't like the bloke. Still recall his wink after Rooney's Euro red card."
Iceland, appearing in their first major tournament, boast a population of just 330,000 and are the smallest nation to play at a European Championship finals.
They finished second in their qualifying group, above Turkey and the Netherlands, who failed to make it to France.
Birkir Bjarnason's volley earned them a point against Portugal after Nani had opened the scoring in the Group F game in Saint-Etienne.
Hungary top the pool after beating Austria 2-0 earlier on Tuesday.
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In a tame first half, Jon McLaughlin thwarted Rangers pair Pawel Wszolek and Tjaronn Chery, while Jamie Ward's free-kick was tipped wide for the hosts.
Ward put the Brewers ahead, stooping to head his first goal for the club after Lloyd Dyer's deflected shot.
But just after coming on, Polter poked home Massimo Luongo's cross on Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink's return to Burton.
Both sides remain in the bottom half of the table and are on five-game winless runs in the league.
In the first ever league meeting between the sides, Dyer had the best chance to claim all three points, blasting over from 20 yards after a Lucas Akins cutback.
Polter, who had been an injury doubt, headed just wide for QPR late on as Hasselbaink's side chased victory in his first match at the Pirelli Stadium since leaving Burton in December 2015.
Match ends, Burton Albion 1, Queens Park Rangers 1.
Second Half ends, Burton Albion 1, Queens Park Rangers 1.
Foul by Lucas Akins (Burton Albion).
Joel Lynch (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Kyle McFadzean (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers).
Foul by Lucas Akins (Burton Albion).
Joel Lynch (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Jackson Irvine (Burton Albion) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Tjaronn Chery with a cross.
Hand ball by Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers).
Attempt missed. Nedum Onuoha (Queens Park Rangers) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Tjaronn Chery with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by Ben Turner.
Kyle McFadzean (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers).
Jamie Ward (Burton Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Grant Hall (Queens Park Rangers).
Matthew Palmer (Burton Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Pawel Wszolek (Queens Park Rangers).
Corner, Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by Lucas Akins.
Attempt blocked. Joel Lynch (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Tjaronn Chery.
Offside, Queens Park Rangers. Joel Lynch tries a through ball, but Sebastian Polter is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Joel Lynch replaces Jake Bidwell because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Jake Bidwell (Queens Park Rangers) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Lloyd Dyer (Burton Albion) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Lucas Akins.
Tom Naylor (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tjaronn Chery (Queens Park Rangers).
Attempt saved. Marcus Myers-Harness (Burton Albion) right footed shot from long range on the left is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jackson Irvine.
Tom Naylor (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Karl Henry (Queens Park Rangers).
Goal! Burton Albion 1, Queens Park Rangers 1. Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Massimo Luongo with a cross.
Jamie Ward (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Karl Henry (Queens Park Rangers).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Kyle McFadzean (Burton Albion) because of an injury.
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Sebastian Polter replaces Ariel Borysiuk.
Attempt blocked. Lloyd Dyer (Burton Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
But instead of feeling sorry for herself, she started to write a wish list of 100 things she wanted her husband and two sons to experience after she was dead.
Mrs Greene, from Clevedon, near Bristol, died in January at the age of 37, two years after she was diagnosed.
She and husband Singe had already been through a tough time before she was diagnosed with the illness.
In 2005, a tumour was found in their first son Reef's abdomen and the two-year-old was given two weeks to live.
"It was a very aggressive type of tumour and our world just fell apart," Mrs Greene's widower Singe said.
At the same time Mrs Greene gave birth to their second son, Finn, seven weeks early so both of their boys were in separate hospitals at the same time.
Reef managed to recover from the tumour, but in 2008 Mrs Greene found a lump in her breast.
Her husband said: "She started chemo within a week of it being found.
"It's just one of those things where everything about you is falling apart... you can either fall apart with it, but I don't think Kate would have let me do that.
"Once she realised her time was going to be limited, then she started planning for 'her three boys' to do, the activities she wanted us to do."
The 44-year-old said the idea for a wish list was dreamt up by his wife one day at 4am, and from then on they worked on it together.
"It was horrendous. Kate was at home, she was on oxygen, she was in bed and she was pretty frightened to go to sleep because she didn't think she would get through the night.
"Everything she thought about she would write down in a little diary and if she couldn't write she would text it to me on the phone."
Mr Greene said his wife had been a part-time scuba diving instructor and wanted both of their sons to learn to snorkel and scuba dive.
"She really wanted them to snorkel and scuba dive with the fishes in Egypt, so we've booked that one up for Christmas."
Another of her wishes was for them to attend an international rugby match.
"When she was going through all the chemo we used to sit and watch the rugby together in the hospital bed.
"There were four of us on one of the gurneys with the TV in front of us, squished in cuddling up. That used to be brilliant."
He said Reef and Finn had started playing rugby.
"We've also got an extension to build so we get a dining room table in the house, and she wants us to make sure the boys have a play room. All those sorts of things that every mum would probably want for their children."
Other requests were more simple, such as kissing the boys goodnight and teaching them not to be late.
The list also includes "do nots" such as not letting the boys ride a motorcycle, smoke or join the Armed Forces.
"The list is not a chore, it's a pleasure really," Mr Greene said.
But one wish on his wife's list he has so far put off is finding a girlfriend.
Mr Greene said his "soul mate", whom he met at a roller-skating rink 23 years ago, was "a hard act to follow".
"I guess it will come in time. The boys need me so it's quite difficult at the moment. It's something for the future."
South Wales Police are "concerned over the well-being" of Alec Warburton, 59, who has not been seen since 31 July.
Officers have been searching in and around his home in Vivian Road and a police tent was erected on the street on Thursday.
Police are searching for Mr Warburton's tenant, David Craig Ellis, who they think may have information about his disappearance.
Police are also trying to locate Mr Warburton's green Peugeot 205, which CCTV inquiries have confirmed was being used until 2 August.
A CCTV image of the car, registration M805 HFJ, has been released by officers in the hope somebody will recall seeing it.
Det Supt Simon Davies, said: "We are concerned for the well-being of Mr Warburton as he does not seem to have spoken to, or been seen by anybody, since 31 July.
"We urgently want to speak to David Craig Ellis - a tenant of Mr Warburton - as we believe he may have vital information which could help with our investigation."
Former England Under-21 striker Marvin Sordell scored the only goal with a close-range shot in the first half.
Elsewhere, Adebayo Akinfenwa scored to help League Two side Wycombe beat League One Millwall 3-1.
Bradford City also reached the last 16 with a 1-0 win over Cambridge thanks to Nicky Law's second-half header.
The draw for the third round takes place at 11:30 GMT on 8 December, with three second-round matches still to be decided.
Walsall host Oldham on 13 December, Southampton and Reading's development squads face each other at St Mary's on 21 December, while Leicester's development team travels to Cheltenham on 10 January, in a match postponed because of the Foxes' Champions League schedule.
Scott Coupland was found guilty by a jury after a four day trial at Perth Sheriff Court.
Coupland, 48, of Crieff, made two false VAT repayment claims between March 2011 and November 2012.
He claimed his computer had crashed and he had lost vital information which meant his VAT returns ended up being for the wrong amounts.
But the jury found him guilty on two charges of being "knowingly concerned in the fraudulent evasion of Value Added Tax".
Coupland was found guilty of submitting false repayment claims for £124,172 between 1 March 2011 and 6 June 2012.
He was also found guilty of submitting a false claim for £37,056 between 1 June and 30 November 2012.
A trial heard that Coupland, sole director of WDR Coupland (Produce) Ltd, aroused suspicion because of the large sums he claimed to have made in net value sales.
HMRC compliance officer Chrystal Symons told the court that she became suspicious about the company when Coupland claimed to have sold over £2m worth of potatoes in two months.
She told the trial: "You would need to have a large company to be doing that amount of business."
A raid on Coupland's home and business was carried out to search for the company's records, but he repeatedly avoided meeting investigators.
The court was told that Coupland had cancelled a number of interviews at the last minute as the investigation was carried out.
Coupland told that court that on one occasion he was unable to meet the tax inspectors because he had been stranded on a business trip to sell seed potatoes in Nigeria.
Sheriff William Wood deferred sentence for the preparation of reports.
Claire Keatinge told the BBC that care being provided is failing to meet older people's needs due to underinvestment.
Her office has carried out a wide-ranging report on home care services.
It asks why many people have to be assessed as "critical" before receiving any care, and also queries the pay and training of domiciliary staff.
The report, entitled Domiciliary Care in Northern Ireland, calls on the government to match need with resources.
Ms Keatinge said older people deserve better.
"You cannot provide personal care in the amount of time - often 15 minutes - that is often being awarded to older people," she said.
"Older people don't want to be put to bed at 5.15pm having had their afternoon meal at 3.15pm."
It is the first time Northern Ireland's domiciliary care services, including the commissioning, regulation, inspection and delivery of care, have been held to scrutiny.
Demands on the service will continue to grow, according to the commissioner.
"Since our summit in September, I have spoken to lots of different people in the sector and those getting care at home.
"I was shocked to hear of care workers being expected to provide incontinence management when they aren't trained or experienced to deal with that level of care - it really is shocking."
One worker, who spoke to BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, said the care has gone out of caring as people are reduced to "numbers on a spreadsheet".
The man, who chose to remain anonymous, said the care industry has worsened since he began working in it almost 14 years ago.
"Whenever I first started, we would have a personal care-call in the morning and we would have an hour for that, to get someone up out of bed, washed, dressed, get them their breakfast, things like that.
"Now, it's 15 minutes to get somebody out of bed, dressed, ready for the day. Fifteen minutes and you're out the door."
He said the timeframe within which care workers are expected to operate wasn't feasible.
"You constantly run over your time. You can't really talk to the client because you're rushing about trying to get it done and on to the next one."
He explained that when he first started, he had time to build up a relationship with his elderly clients because he was assigned to each one for sustained period of time.
"Now our clients could have different carers every single day. I know of one case where the person had 19 different care-workers in a week."
The man believes that those he cares for appreciate the work he and his colleagues do, and he says they understand the pressure they are under.
"They know it's coming from the top down. Morale in the health service is rock bottom at the minute. We have that many people to report to, everybody is under strain."
He suggested that if care-workers were given more control of the rotas and the assignments, the work would be done more efficiently.
"We cannot get from a call on, say, the Cregagh Road, to the top of Carryduff in rush hour traffic in ten minutes. It's just not possible.
"They should let us work in the same areas, with the same people. That way, all the calls will get done and the clients will be happy.
"It's just simple little things, but it's not thought of."
He blamed budgets cuts for the ongoing problems.
"It's just a case of doing the job as fast as you can and getting out.
"Nobody is happy but we do this job because we love it - if I didn't I'd have left years ago."
This is Claire Keatinge's final day in office as the commissioner for older people.
On taking the job, she described herself as a champion for older people - someone who would be their voice before government.
Now she makes a final parting shot to Stormont Health Minister Simon Hamilton.
She said her office attempted to make appointments with the minister but he was never available.
"Without a doubt, being unable to see the minister for health as he wasn't always in office made a significant difference," she said.
"I haven't been able to present the findings of my work on home care to him directly and to have that direct conversation about what needs to be done, and that's a disappointment.
"We must have government in place with certainty they will listen, pay attention and act."
The BBC has also learned that the commissioner's post has yet to be advertised, despite it being known in March that she was leaving her post.
It has been a tough tenure, but in the past 12 to 18 months, Ms Keatinge had begun to rattle cages.
Many will regret her leaving. Others will see the fact there is no replacement in the wings as disappointing and unfortunate.
While the domiciliary care service is currently described as fragile, there are concerns it will become worse as demand grows.
"Northern Ireland has an ageing population with the number of people aged 65 and over projected to increase by 44% in the next 15 years," the report said.
"This increase, coupled with growing demand on the health and social care system, is likely to further drive up the demand for community-based care."
The report has highlighted that visits of 15 minutes or less are too short to provide dignified personal care.
In a worrying development, it also said pressures on the service were so high that many are not receiving a package until their needs are assessed as "critical".
The Health and Social Care Board said financial constraints meant trusts had to focus on providing care to those with critical or substantial needs.
It said that the 15-minute visits referred to by the commissioner were "not a basic currency for determining what service a person receives".
Brief visits were "entirely appropriate" for some people but not suitable for those with "high levels of clinical need", it said.
"Domiciliary care services are coping with increasing numbers of people with high-level needs, and the number of intensive domiciliary care packages has been increasing in recent years," a spokesperson said.
"It is also important to note that, due to financial pressures, care packages are subject to ongoing monitoring and review, and that the level of service can increase or reduce in response to changing circumstances."
The BBC has spoken to one older couple who can continue living together in their own home as a result of a domiciliary care package.
Margaret Johnston, from Ballymoney in County Antrim, suffers from dementia, but she can remain at home with her husband.
Dr John Johnston said the four visits a day meant he still had a little bit of contact with his wife.
"That is so important to me because, although I am not doing the heavy work and I am not doing that type of care, I am hanging around the other side of the door when they are there," he said.
"And I appreciate it so much that I can keep a thread of communication that would be cut if she had to go into a nursing home."
But this standard of package is not typical across Northern Ireland.
Instead, the report has referred to a postcode lottery system, with the commissioner citing poor leadership as a major problem.
As well as focusing on the needs of those who are older and more vulnerable, the commissioner also looks at the worker - their pay, training and working conditions.
Northern Ireland has the lowest average hourly rate paid for domiciliary care in the UK.
With more than 300 local private domiciliary contractors, the report suggested that any costs, including transport and uniform, are reimbursed by the employer and that zero-hours contracts are reduced.
It also said that all domiciliary care staff should be trained to the level required to provide safe and effective care.
The report has highlighted a number of gaps in the system, including that there is currently no reliable data on the number of domiciliary care workers looking after the elderly and vulnerable in Northern Ireland.
In September, Northern Ireland began the compulsory registration of workers, and it is hoped that will be completed by March 2017.
Joe Lynch of the Unison union, said he believed the report would only make a difference if "people listen to it".
"We want the older person to stay at home for as long as possible, but in order for that to happen you need to have staff going in that are well trained that are feeling valued, respected and supported by their company and that are receiving mileage that is not costing them £20 or £30 to go to work," he added.
As election campaigning resumes after the attack in Manchester, the Labour leader will point to links between wars abroad and "terrorism here at home".
In a speech, Mr Corbyn will say the "war on terror is simply not working".
Security Minister Ben Wallace told the BBC his comments were "inappropriate and crassly timed".
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Theresa May will chair a session on counter-terrorism with G7 leaders in Sicily, Italy, on Friday.
She is expected to focus on what can be done to deal with the threat posed by extremists online.
In London, Mr Corbyn will deliver his speech as the bigger political parties return to the campaign trail following Monday night's suicide bombing at Manchester Arena that killed 22 people, many of them children, and injured 116.
According to pre-released excerpts from his speech, Mr Corbyn will pledge a "change at home and change abroad" if Labour wins power.
He will say that "many experts... have pointed to the connections between wars our government has supported or fought in other countries and terrorism here at home".
"That assessment in no way reduces the guilt of those who attack our children. Those terrorists will forever be reviled and held to account for their actions.
"But an informed understanding of the causes of terrorism is an essential part of an effective response that will protect the security of our people that fights rather than fuels terrorism."
Mr Corbyn, who opposed UK military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, and voted against strikes in Libya and Syria, will say: "We must be brave enough to admit the 'war on terror' is simply not working.
"We need a smarter way to reduce the threat from countries that nurture terrorists and generate terrorism."
He will add: "No government can prevent every terrorist attack. If an individual is determined enough and callous enough, sometimes they will get through.
"But the responsibility of government is to minimise that chance - to ensure the police have the resources they need, that our foreign policy reduces rather than increases the threat to this country, and that at home we never surrender the freedoms we have won and that terrorists are so determined to take away."
Shadow international trade secretary Barry Gardiner said there was no "simple causal relationship" between foreign intervention and terrorism, but "we need profoundly to reassess the way in which there are linkages".
Speaking on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Gardiner said it was "undeniable that young radicalised men from this country have used the excuse of British foreign policy and the chaos that has often resulted".
He used the example of British foreign policy in Libya - where the Manchester attacker Salman Abedi is known to have visited - as one that had failed to deal with the aftermath of military intervention.
Libya is in "complete chaos", he said.
But Conservative Security Minister Ben Wallace told Today Mr Corbyn's timing was "appalling".
"We have to be unequivocal, that no amount of excuses, no amount of twisted reasoning about a foreign policy here, a foreign policy there, can be an excuse. The reality is, these people hate our values.
"The way to see that off is not to feed excuses, not to allow these people - that right now our police are trying to find - to give them any cause to think: Well I'm slightly justified.
"They are not justified.
"In this country it's democracy, the rule of law, equality that we stand for and we absolutely reject terrorism - and so should Jeremy Corbyn - on all fronts."
Mr Corbyn is also expected to say that a Labour government would fund more police and ensure the security services had sufficient resources "to keep track of those who wish to murder and maim".
Labour's former home secretary, Charles Clarke, told BBC Two's Newsnight that Mr Corbyn was "simply wrong" about the war on terror.
He said the primary motive of radicals was not the UK's foreign policy but was instead "about the destruction of all the core elements of our society", adding: "It's about a totally opposed vision of what society should be."
Former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown said: "Some political leaders have sought to politicise the events of the week, but now is not the time, and this is not the event, to seek political advantage."
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Several hacks on US institutions have been blamed on China, including one involving millions of government staff.
Mr Obama said the US needed to be more rapid in its response to such attacks.
Separately, the White House said Mr Obama will no longer stay at New York's Waldorf Astoria hotel, which was bought by a Chinese company last year.
White House Spokesman Josh Earnest would not comment on whether the purchase raised concerns about Chinese spying.
"There are a range of considerations that influence where the president will stay when he's not at the White House... everything from available space, to cost and to security," Mr Earnest said.
Mr Obama made his remarks after meeting members of the US military at Fort Meade, Maryland, with Mr Xi due in Washington later this month.
"We have been very clear to the Chinese that there are certain practices that they are engaging in, that we know are emanating from China and are not acceptable."
He suggested the two sides would have to agree on common rules in cyberspace, arguing "there comes a point at which we consider this a core national security threat and we will treat it as such".
But he said that China should fear confrontation online: "I guarantee you we will win if we have to."
Aside from China's suspected involvement in the attack on the Office of Personnel Management, US prosecutors last year charged five Chinese army officers with economic espionage.
But China has said it is the victim of US cyber attacks, allegations Beijing said were supported by the revelations from US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
"If you have a little question you can type it in," he says showing off his app, Babylon Health.
"We'll have a doctor respond to your question in minutes."
Babylon Health is a subscription service which you access via a smart-phone app.
For a monthly subscription of £4.99 ($7.55/€7.99) customers can get unlimited medical consultations by text and video. Once you've had an online exchange, a doctor can send a subscription to your nearest pharmacy and arrange a referral for a follow-up consultation.
"If you had something wrong and wanted to see a doctor you used to take half a day off and go to the surgery," Dr Parsa says.
"Today you can make an appointment in seconds, see a doctor in minutes and get an answer straight away."
250,000 people are already using Babylon Health in the United Kingdom and Ireland either as direct subscribers or through a private medical insurance policy.
But can seeing a doctor on your phone compete with visiting one in person?
Dr Maureen Baker, Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, the professional membership body for family doctors in the UK and overseas says "Mobile phone apps and medical devices have huge potential to support patients and the health professionals who provide their care."
But she adds, "We have concerns about the patient-safety implications. Patients will be having consultations with GPs who are unfamiliar with - and won't necessarily have access to - their medical history, or information about drugs that they have been prescribed."
"Medical histories provided by patients themselves will rarely be as comprehensive as those held by their family doctor. There are also many signs and symptoms that GPs look out for when making a diagnosis, that the patient might not think to raise."
Babylon says that if a patient wants to see a doctor they have already seen on the app they can request it but they may have to wait longer to see them.
The company adds that: "Records of all our patient consultations are stored so GPs can look over the history before they speak to a patient. Patients can also access videos and notes from their previous consultations."
Doctors and patients can also access the medical and health data that many phones now collect.
The idea for Babylon came while Ali Parsa was working in the British health system.
"I used to run hospitals," he says. "But most healthcare doesn't have to do with hospitals"
In 2012, he quit as the boss of the first privately run hospital in Britain's National Health Service and that hospital has since been returned to being run by the NHS.
However, the NHS is offering Babylon Health to customers in limited areas and the company tells the BBC that other tie-ups with the service will be announced imminently.
Babylon is also looking beyond the UK and Ireland and plans to launch in East Africa in 2016.
"50% of the world's population don't have access to the very basic healthcare that they need," Ali Parsa says.
"Yet we have a device that they all carry, on which we can deliver healthcare to wherever they are."
The global application is part of what is making the business investment community interested in Babylon and its competitors.
"As an investor, healthcare or med-tech is hugely important to us," says Eileen Burbidge from Passion Capital.
"The addressable market is the whole world, it's every individual in the world, they're going to need healthcare, they require healthcare or they'll benefit from healthcare."
"A company like Babylon Health, by using mobile devices and mobile technology is hugely interesting because it's not as capital intensive, you don't require quite as much investment as a life-sciences business or a pharmaceutical company."
But competition is intensifying.
"Self-serve healthcare on your mobile phone sounds massively appealing," says Ben Wood of CCS Insight. "But the challenges are: can it scale? And is this the company which is going to break through, as so many people are chasing the opportunity?"
Ali Parsa is determined to turn Babylon into a global player.
"The biggest problem is to get London to think like Silicon Valley," he says.
"If today we can deliver 95% of your healthcare over your mobile phone, imagine what we can do in three years time, five years time, ten years time."
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Kane broke through the Saints defensive line and finished coolly for a 10th goal in his past 10 games.
Soon after, Dele Alli benefitted from some lax defending to score from close range and put Spurs firmly in control.
Spurs managed the game superbly in the second half against a Saints side who are now without a win in six matches.
It represents a shocking start to what Southampton manager Ronald Koeman had described as a crucial two weeks for his team, who remain seven points clear of the relegation zone but in need of an upturn in form to avoid slipping closer to danger.
In contrast, Tottenham gave the perfect riposte to last weekend's surprise defeat at home to Newcastle with a professional performance to take them to 29 points from 17 league games.
For much of the first half, it was an even encounter between the sides, but Tottenham seized a control they would not relinquish with two goals in the space of three minutes just before half-time.
In Kane, they had the one quality striker on the pitch and he proved his class with a superb show of strength, skill and composure to give them the lead.
Erik Lamela broke on the halfway line and found Alli, who managed to move the ball on to Kane shortly before being taken out by a wild challenge from Jose Fonte.
Kane did the rest, darting between two home players before poking the ball past Virgil van Dijk, running in on goal and finishing neatly past Southampton keeper Paulo Gazzaniga for the 47th goal of his Spurs career.
Clearly shaken, Southampton gifted the visitors a second as the excellent Alli went from provider to scorer, finishing unchallenged at the back post after Kyle Walker's low cross made its way through a host of static defenders.
During their poor recent run, Koeman has complained that his side's biggest problem has been a failure to convert the numerous chances they have created.
This was certainly the case in the opening 20 minutes on Saturday as Sadio Mane spurned a number of good opportunities.
The best two saw the forward's angled drive blocked by the boot of former Saints defender Toby Alderweireld, before Hugo Lloris saved his first-time shot from the edge of the area.
Having conceded twice before the break, Southampton failed to recover as Tottenham withheld their limp and increasingly desperate forays forward with ease.
They only seriously threatened in added time when Lloris produced a superb low save to palm away a shot from substitute James Ward-Prowse, but by then it was a case of much too little, way too late.
Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino left Southampton to take over at Spurs in May 2014, following 18 months in which he helped sculpt Saints into an effective Premier League outfit.
It has taken time for the Argentine's preferred high-energy pressing game to bed in at White Hart Lane but, with the addition of the likes of Alli in midfield, Alderweireld in defence and significant contributions from Lloris and Kane at either end, they are reaping the rewards.
Prior to Saturday, they had given away more points - 11 - from winning positions than any other Premier League club this season, including three last Sunday against Newcastle, which can be an unfortunate by-product of such an attacking style.
However, Tottenham ensured they did not add to this unwanted stat with a pragmatic and intelligent display in the second half to see the game out, playing largely in the Saints half to earn a deserved and impressive win.
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Southampton manager Ronald Koeman: "If you analyse the game and watch the first goal, I am very worried because the defending was at amateur level and not the level you need to win this kind of game. It was so naive.
"One of my criticisms this season is that we are too nice people. Until the first goal, Southampton was the better team but they showed us what is a 'killing mentality'. They won the battles and second balls and were more clever in one-on-one situations.
"It might also be about confidence, but we need to be more clinical. If you get three or four good chances, you have to score. We maybe need to change players because they are not responding to our strategy."
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Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: "I am very happy because it was a very difficult game. Southampton are a very good team and the first 20 minutes were difficult but after that we settled and managed the game and deserved our victory.
"I am pleased with the victory after a difficult week and after our defeat by Newcastle.
"The table is not the important thing at the moment. We need to keep working hard because the Premier League is very tough."
Southampton are at home again in a week's time, on Boxing Day, when they face Tottenham's north-London rivals Arsenal at St Mary's.
Tottenham's 26 December fixture is against Norwich, who beat Manchester United at Old Trafford on Saturday.
Two officers were on patrol in Bute Street just before 03:00 GMT on Thursday when they saw a woman in labour.
Police said she was trying to make her way to hospital, but gave birth in the street with an ambulance attending soon afterwards.
Mother Mary and baby Princess are understood to be doing well.
Here are a few other things were learned backstage and on the red carpet.
Rotterdam, about a lesbian couple, one of whom wants to start living as a man, won the award for outstanding achievement in an affiliate theatre.
"It's really exciting that trans-narratives are being brought into the mainstream," said Anna Martine Freeman, who plays the lead character of Fiona/Adrian.
"As far as we have been made aware, it is the first transgender-themed play to be nominated at an Olivier Awards."
Jon Brittain's comedy started at fringe venue Theatre 503 and transferred to Trafalgar Studios, and will play in New York next month.
"It's come from what feels like humble beginnings and is really flying," Anna told the BBC.
"With everything going on, I'd love for Rotterdam to have a larger effect on inclusion and understanding around the world."
Sir Kenneth Branagh and Andrew Lloyd Webber were among those who spoke out on stage in support of arts in education.
So too did Cursed Child director John Tiffany who admitted backstage he got angry about cuts to arts subjects in state schools.
"I'm doing what I'm doing because of free guitar lessons, because I had a grant to go to university... and they don't exist anymore," he said.
"If I was graduating from high school now I certainly wouldn't be holding this," he added, waving his Olivier statuette.
"And I'm not being dramatic!"
Groundhog Day, which won best new musical, is about to open on Broadway after its run last year at the Old Vic.
"The production here was gorgeous and came after thousands of hours of grind and self-doubt," songwriter Tim Minchin told us.
"It closed and that was always the plan, but we'll be back here within the year," he added.
In the West End? "Certainly that's the plan. It'll come back before you know it."
Which all sounds a bit like the plot of Groundhog Day.
"I'm in a show where the three leads are three black women - I think that's exceptional," said Amber Riley backstage after picking up her award for best actress in a musical.
"In the theatre you want to see people who look like you sometimes," the Dreamgirls star said.
"I'm not ashamed to say I'm not necessarily the standard of what the industry may feel is beautiful or could be a star, but I'm doing it anyway because I'm making my own way."
Last year's best actress winner Denise Gough presented this year's award to Billie Piper.
The Irish actress will be back on stage at the National Theatre soon - after her acclaimed performance in People, Places and Things - in the epic Angels in America.
Tony Kushner's two-part play is set in mid-1980s New York in the midst of the Aids crisis.
Gough plays Harper Pitt in a cast that includes Andrew Garfield (her co-presenter at the Oliviers), Nathan Lane, James McArdle and Russell Tovey.
"It's the hardest job I've ever done," Gough confided on the red carpet. "There were three rehearsal rooms going at one time. It's been a big gig."
So could we be seeing Gough bag another Olivier for Angels in America?
We'll find out in 2018...
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Police said Kyle McCusker lost control of his black Ford Mondeo and hit a traffic light pole and a bus stop pole.
The car then overturned and hit the parked Vauxhall Corsa.
The incident happened near the White House pub on Main Street in Holytown at about 00:35. Mr McCusker, from New Stevenston, died at the scene.
Pc Craig Martin said: "We have spoken to a number of people from the pub who came out to help, but would also appeal to anyone who witnessed the crash, who has not already come forward, to contact officers at the Road Policing Department at Motherwell via 101."
Mourinho, 53, who was sent to the stands by referee Jon Moss, was charged with improper conduct on Monday.
He has until 18:00 GMT on 1 December to respond.
It is the second charge for the Portuguese in two months after he was sent off against Burnley on 29 October.
Mourinho received a one-match ban and an £8,000 fine for that incident.
Because Mourinho has already been sent off this season, the punishment for Sunday's offence will be determined by a commission, whether he accepts or denies the charge.
The former Chelsea, Inter and Real Madrid boss was also fined £50,000 for comments he made about referee Anthony Taylor before the Liverpool match at Anfield on 17 October.
In Sunday's game, Mourinho reacted after Paul Pogba was booked for diving following an apparent incident with West Ham captain Mark Noble.
Replays showed Noble did not make contact with the 23-year-old France midfielder.
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The team sitting eighth in League One were second-best for much of the first period against Southern League Premier Division opponents.
Posh eventually hit the front through a long-range thunderbolt from Coulthirst five minutes before the break.
Marcus Maddison, Michael Smith and substitute Gwion Edwards all squandered glorious opportunities in the second half before Coulthirst doubled the lead with 20 minutes to go, sliding in to meet a low Smith delivery from the right.
But Chesham, who are 94 places below their hosts in the English football pecking order, refused to roll over.
They halved their arrears when Ryan Blake - who struck in their famous first-round win at Bristol Rovers last season - pounced on a weak Michael Bostwick back pass to score.
Chesham were not far away from earning a replay when Bruce Crilley put a late diving header over from a corner, but there was no fairytale fightback for Andy Leese's men.
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Match ends, Peterborough United 2, Chesham United 1.
Second Half ends, Peterborough United 2, Chesham United 1.
Foul by Lee Angol (Peterborough United).
Ben Crilley (Chesham United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United).
Matt Taylor (Chesham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Bradley Wadkins (Chesham United).
Lee Angol (Peterborough United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Matt Taylor (Chesham United).
Foul by Paul Taylor (Peterborough United).
Toby Little (Chesham United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Ashlee Jones.
Attempt saved. Paul Taylor (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Paul Taylor (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Martin (Chesham United).
Attempt missed. Shaquile Coulthirst (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Ben Crilley (Chesham United) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Chesham United. Conceded by Chris Forrester.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Ashlee Jones.
Attempt saved. Andrew Hughes (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Goal! Peterborough United 2, Chesham United 1. Ryan Blake (Chesham United) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Chesham United. Barry Hayles replaces Sam Youngs.
Substitution, Chesham United. Toby Little replaces Bruce Wilson.
Attempt missed. Sam Youngs (Chesham United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Paul Taylor replaces Marcus Maddison.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Bruce Wilson.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Ashlee Jones.
Delay in match Ashlee Jones (Chesham United) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Shaquile Coulthirst (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Lee Angol replaces Tom Nichols.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Ashlee Jones.
Attempt saved. Gwion Edwards (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Goal! Peterborough United 2, Chesham United 0. Shaquile Coulthirst (Peterborough United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Michael Smith.
Attempt missed. Tom Nichols (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Chesham United. Ryan Blake replaces Drew Roberts.
Attempt blocked. Gwion Edwards (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Ricardo Santos (Peterborough United).
Bradley Wadkins (Chesham United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Michael Smith (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant has been invested in sites of natural, industrial, maritime and sporting heritage.
It includes opening up the historic pilgrimage site at St Dyfnog's Well, Denbighshire, and documenting Connah's Quay's maritime history in Flintshire.
The HLF grant aims to celebrate Wales' "rich and diverse past".
Grant awards include:
She will have to remain lying down as much as possible in the next three weeks and several visits will be cancelled, Steffen Seibert said.
She also suffered heavy bruising in the accident, in the alpine Engadine region of eastern Switzerland.
Ms Merkel was not skiing fast at the time, the spokesman added.
He called the injury "severe bruising linked with a partial fracture on the left, rear part of the pelvis".
Immediately after the accident, during the Christmas holiday in December, Ms Merkel was not aware that part of her pelvis had been fractured, the spokesman said. It was a visit to her doctor on Friday that revealed the exact injury.
He did not give details about how it happened. She was skiing near the resort of St Moritz.
Ms Merkel still intends to chair a cabinet meeting on Wednesday - the first gathering of all her coalition ministers. She is now walking with the aid of crutches.
But mostly she will be working from home. She has cancelled a trip to Poland this week and will not receive Luxembourg's new prime minister Xavier Bettel in Berlin, the spokesman said.
Ms Merkel's injury comes just days after fellow German Michael Schumacher's life-threatening skiing accident in France.
The Formula One motor racing star, who retired in 2012, is in a medically-induced coma and has had brain surgery after slamming his head on a rock while skiing off-piste at the French alpine resort of Meribel.
His injury has sparked much debate about speed on the slopes and the risks some skiers take.
Mourinho could not afford any mistakes in this third-round tie after Premier League defeats by Manchester City and Watford, with a Europa League loss to Feyenoord sandwiched in between.
It was eventually smooth passage, assisted by Northampton keeper Adam Smith, who endured a nightmare evening and played a big part in two of United's goals.
The highly rated 23-year-old picked up a back pass in the 17th minute and when Wayne Rooney's resulting free-kick was blocked, the recalled Michael Carrick fired home the loose ball emphatically.
Alex Revell gave the Cobblers hope of a shock from the penalty spot just before half-time after Daley Blind fouled Sam Hoskins - but this was not the night for an upset.
United regrouped and Ander Herrera's powerful drive put them in front after 68 minutes before Smith's misery was complete seven minutes later when he missed a simple long clearance to allow substitute Marcus Rashford to roll the ball into an empty net.
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Jose Mourinho has been reluctant to use the 35-year-old England midfield man since his arrival at Old Trafford. This was his first start since Manchester United's win against Leicester City in the Community Shield at Wembley.
On this evidence he surely has a strong case to force his way into Mourinho's plans - not least because he possesses the style and composure to bring the best from United's £89m world record signing Paul Pogba.
Pogba has looked restricted in his early performances and the selection of Carrick, so reliable in possession and even chipping in with a goal here, would allow the France midfield man freedom, play to his strengths and give him the opportunity to do damage further forward.
Carrick's experience and expert reading of the game adds to Mourinho's options and could finally bring the best from his showpiece summer signing. Surely he will start against Leicester City at Old Trafford on Saturday.
As Pogba got the night off and Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Rashford started on the bench with Mourinho making nine changes from United's 3-1 loss to Watford at Vicarage Road, there was no respite for Rooney.
United's embattled captain, who has bore the brunt of much of the criticism aimed at the side this season, was in the starting line-up but endured another night of frustration.
He worked hard but nothing is coming off for the 30-year-old. He missed one easy chance early on and when he did hit the target after Timothy Fosu-Mensah's header hit the bar, he was adjudged offside.
With Carrick and Herrera excelling and with a host of attacking options available to Mourinho, will Rooney's place come under threat against Leicester City at Old Trafford at the weekend?
Northampton may not have been able to spring the big shock and increase the woes for Mourinho by knocking Manchester United out of the EFL Cup - but there was still plenty for the club lying 11th in League One to be pleased about.
The neat Sixfields stadium was packed with a record crowd of 7,798. With a new stand in the process of being built, the club can be proud of the way it handled the big occasion.
Northampton's 31-game unbeaten run ended with defeat by Chesterfield on Saturday and for spells they showed United too much respect. This is, perhaps, understandable, but this was a night when Northampton as a club did itself great credit.
If there was a sadness, it was the disappointment suffered by keeper Smith, who has attracted Premier League attention but was badly at fault here.
Smith was included in the League Two team of the season as the Cobblers clinched the title in the previous campaign. There will be better days ahead for a talented young goalkeeper.
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho: "It was as difficult as I was expecting but we looked to be in control for the first 35 minutes and then we looked to be in control for the last 45. I think the team was in control from the beginning and the subs were just a contribution.
"The game should be easier, we should have been playing against 10 men very early in the second half. Northampton fought and they tried to cause us problems which sometimes they did but it was a positive performance overall.
"I don't like to individualise the players, I think it was fine, the midfield were in control."
Northampton manager Rob Page: "When you get back in to it at 1-1 you never know.
"I'm really proud of the players, we had to be disciplined. They've had a tough week by their standards but we knew we had to be strong. When you give away soft goals you will get punished.
"He (goalkeeper Adam Smith) was outstanding last season and he'll bounce back from this. He's a strong character, we've all had moments like that as players."
Match ends, Northampton Town 1, Manchester United 3.
Second Half ends, Northampton Town 1, Manchester United 3.
Attempt missed. Alex Revell (Northampton Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Alfie Potter with a cross.
Attempt saved. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Wayne Rooney with a cross.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Wayne Rooney.
Alfie Potter (Northampton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Alfie Potter (Northampton Town).
Ander Herrera (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town).
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Gabriel Zakuani.
Attempt blocked. Alfie Potter (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Matthew Taylor.
Attempt missed. Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Chris Smalling.
Attempt saved. Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Zlatan Ibrahimovic with a through ball.
Daley Blind (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marc Richards (Northampton Town).
Goal! Northampton Town 1, Manchester United 3. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ander Herrera following a fast break.
Daley Blind (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Daley Blind (Manchester United).
Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Manchester United. Marouane Fellaini replaces Morgan Schneiderlin.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Marc Richards replaces Jak McCourt.
Foul by Marcos Rojo (Manchester United).
Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Northampton Town 1, Manchester United 2. Ander Herrera (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Alfie Potter replaces Kenji Gorré.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Ashley Young (Manchester United) because of an injury.
Morgan Schneiderlin (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town).
Ander Herrera (Manchester United) hits the right post with a left footed shot from outside the box. Assisted by Ashley Young.
Foul by Michael Carrick (Manchester United).
Jak McCourt (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Manchester United. Marcus Rashford replaces Timothy Fosu-Mensah.
Substitution, Manchester United. Zlatan Ibrahimovic replaces Memphis Depay.
Substitution, Northampton Town. John-Joe O'Toole replaces Harry Beautyman.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Sam Hoskins.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Brendon Moloney.
Attempt saved. Memphis Depay (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Michael Carrick.
Labour-run Sandwell Council said it would co-operate with the police when their work began in October 2014.
Former deputy leader Mahboob Hussain and former economy chief councillor, Ian Jones, stood down from the ruling cabinet after the investigation began.
A separate internal investigation is ongoing, said the council.
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Mr Jones said he had been told he would not be allowed to run in local elections this year on a Labour ticket because he remained in "administrative suspension" from the party as he had voluntarily stood down to await the police and council's findings.
He said: "I've been left in limbo because of a witch-hunt. My reputation of 25 years as a Walsall Council officer and 18 years as a Sandwell councillor has been threatened by malicious allegations.
"It's been a nightmare for myself and for my family and friends but I would like to thank them for supporting me throughout."
He said he was taking legal advice over the council investigation.
Mr Hussain said he was "pleased" the investigation was over.
Insp Jonathan Jones, of West Midlands Police, said the probe had followed "serious allegations... suggesting irregularities regarding the sale of former Sandwell Council properties between June 2012 and September 2014".
He said after a "thorough" investigation there was insufficient evidence to bring charges.
Sandwell Council chief executive Jan Britton said the authority "co-operated fully throughout" and was satisfied no further police action would be taken.
The former HM Coroner's office in Smethwick, West Midlands, was put up for sale in December 2012.
The council's asset land and disposal committee, which was formerly chaired by Mr Hussain, approved council officers' recommendations to sell the office.
It was bought in May 2013 by Azeem Hafeez - according to the Land Registry, Mr Hussain's son - for £80,000. In December 2013 it appeared for auction for £120,000.
Although there was no suggestion Mr Hussain knew his son would bid for the property, when the committee authorised the sale, or that either Mr Hussain or Mr Hafeez behaved improperly with regard to the sale, the difference in value of the office building at the time led to calls for an investigation into whether the council obtained best value on the sale to Mr Hafeez.
Mr Hafeez was arrested in April 2015 but has already been told he would face no action and previously said he was considering taking legal action.
In October 2014, Oldbury ward councillor Mr Hussain stood down as chairman of the committee. Mr Jones was also on that committee but stood down in February 2015.
At the time, the council said Mr Hussain's resignation was a neutral act that did not imply any wrongdoing.
The council first agreed to sell the site after a kitchen fire in October 2012 that made it unusable and the Coroner's Service moved to alternative accommodation.
In a personal statement issued in 2014, Mr Hussain said: "I fully expect the audit service's investigation to clearly show I have followed all the proper rules and procedures."
Robson, whose name adorns the pavilion at Chester-le-Street, was the driving force behind the move from Minor Counties to the Championship in 1992.
Since then the county have won three titles and limited-overs silverware as well as hosting international cricket.
"Don played an integral role," the club said in a statement.
"He campaigned long and hard to turn the dream of a first-class venue at Chester-le-Street into a reality."
In addition to his work for the cricket club, Robson was also a former leader of Durham County Council.
Councillor Simon Henig said: "'Don was a hugely respected figure across County Durham and the North East.
"Under Don's leadership, the council prioritised economic development and growth and he helped the county attract hundreds of millions in grant funding and a series of major investment projects."
But that is not how this group of largely amateur players is recovering from the 65-3 drubbing inflicted upon them by Australia in Group A.
Facing Fiji on Tuesday, the team is confident it has got a chance of winning.
"These are athletes," Pablo Lemoine, Uruguay's head coach says.
"We don't go onto the field to lose, and Fiji is one game we think we can win."
It is the first time in 12 years that Uruguay qualified for the World Cup and Lemoine, a former Stade Francais prop, says it is a steep learning curve.
"The difference between us and some of the teams we play is just enormous, so losing by a big margin is normal."
What is important for Lemoine is the progress the team has made in the past four years.
He says the players, almost all of whom were very inexperienced when they were chosen, have come a long way.
Some of them gave up their jobs to be able to train regularly.
This kind of sacrifice and dedication has given the team a level of cohesion which some better funded teams do not have, he insists.
Uruguay's number eight, Alejandro Nieto, embodies his coach's sentiments.
Nieto started playing rugby in school and joined a club at the age of 12.
He had to put his job as a financial consultant on hold to be able to dedicate more time to his team, which is called Los Teros (southern lapwings), after the birds which used to nest on the playing fields.
"We know we're fighting against the odds, but we actually enjoy measuring ourselves against stronger teams to see at what level we really are," he says.
"But within the team this makes us stronger, we don't play for money or fame, we play because we like to play and that shows on the field."
Commentators praised Los Teros for aiming to score a try in their match against Australia rather than just chasing points and kicking penalties.
Their failure to score a try so far at this year's World Cup is cited by the players as their biggest regret.
At 21, hooker German Kessler is Uruguay's youngest player.
He only took up rugby five years ago when he went along to a club with his older brother.
He has put his studies on hold to play for Los Teros.
For Kessler it is all about the future of the sport in his country.
"You're not going to get rich playing rugby in Uruguay," he laughs, "but I would like to see rugby evolve and more people to take up the sport."
That is also key for Los Teros' manager Santiago Slinger.
He says that the team's presence at the World Cup has led to a surge in interest in the team and the sport back in Uruguay, a nation traditionally focussed on football.
One secret weapon Uruguay are hoping will give them an advantage over Fiji is their diet.
The team has brought its own beef from Uruguay, provided by the country's National Meat Institute.
And as they assemble for a traditional barbecue, or asado, in the backyard of the residence of Uruguay's ambassador to London, team captain Nicolas Klappenbach is adamant his men are going to give everything in the upcoming match.
"We are all competitive. Even though we are amateurs, we play our hearts out and when we step onto that pitch we want to win."
Taking a big bite out of a steak sandwich, he reassures me that they have not come just to watch other teams.
"We've come here to play and to give our all."
The Save Farm Terrace Allotment group has asked for a judicial review into a decision to allow land behind Watford Football Club to be developed.
Campaigners say the historic allotments could be part of the plan.
Mayor Dorothy Thornhill said that would lead to an "inferior scheme".
Developers behind the Watford Health Campus project on a 30-hectare site say it is designed to regenerate land between the club and the hospital.
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust plans to move key clinics and some surgery there from other parts of the county.
The overall scheme would include shops, a school, new homes and affordable housing, Watford Borough Council said.
Allotment holders won an appeal against the council's first plan last August, when Communities Secretary Eric Pickles reversed his original decision to grant permission to close the allotments.
But this was overturned in December, when a revised scheme was accepted by Mr Pickles.
Sara Jane Trebar from the campaign group said it was challenging this decision on the grounds the secretary of state was "misled" about the allotment land being "critical to the viability of the project".
It believes the allotments could be included "without risking the development".
"The allotments have supported communities throughout centuries and it is very important it stays the green land that it is," she said.
Elected Liberal Democrat mayor Ms Thornhill said the decision to include the allotments in the development area had been taken with "regret and sadness" but the area contributed to the health campus project's "viability".
"[Experts told us] if you want the quality scheme you want, if you want the best shot for the hospital to stay in Watford in the future then we have to include the allotments," she said.
"[If not] it actually means there is a financial risk to the scheme and we would then lose the ability to give the hospital the flexibility it needs to plan its future," she said.
"You would have a completely inferior scheme."
Mr Lewis, who joined in August 2014 from Unilever, took home a total of £4.63m for 2015/16.
He did not receive a bonus in 2014/15 but was paid £3.3m in lieu of shares forfeited when he left his old role.
The base salary rose by £500,000 to £1.25m and his pension contribution rose £170,000 to £313,000.
The company posted a £162m profit for the year to 27 February - far better than the £6.3bn loss for the previous 12 months.
In a video released with the annual report, Mr Lewis said it had been "a good start in difficult circumstances" to the year.
However, Tesco shares fell sharply last month after Mr Lewis warned that profit improvement would slow in the first half of this year.
The stock has fallen by almost a third in the past 12 months and declined slightly on Friday to 155p.
Chief financial officer Alan Stewart, who joined in 2014 from Marks & Spencer, was awarded a bonus of £1.6m on top of his £750,000 salary to bring his total pay to almost £2.6m.
Both Mr Lewis and Mr Stewart were given 95.7% of the annual bonus available to them under Tesco's remuneration policy.
Half of Mr Lewis's bonus was due to be paid in cash, with the remainder in shares, but he has chosen to take half of the cash element as shares. Those shares are due to pay out in July 2018, or when the company resumes paying a dividend, whichever comes sooner.
Tesco expects both its chief executive and financial officer to hold shares in the company to the value of four and three times their base salary within five years of their appointments.
Mr Lewis owns shares worth £3.4m, while Mr Stewart has shares worth almost £1.9m.
John Allan, the chairman, said that it had been a "very challenging year" for Tesco but he was confident about its future, adding: "It is important that we get Tesco back to investment grade and paying dividends."
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Sixteen sides with Category One academies are involved in 2016-17 but League One and Two teams must play a certain number of first-team players.
"How can we have a development trophy for Premier League teams who can do what they want, yet we can't develop our own players in it?" said Robinson.
In response, the EFL said it will "continue to assess the format".
An EFL spokesman said: "The revised format of the Checkatrade Trophy, which is a one-year pilot, is part of the EFL's long-term commitment to help the nation produce more and better homegrown players.
"It has also been designed to help reinvigorate the competition for the benefit of League One and Two clubs as it was widely felt that it had lost some of its purpose in previous seasons."
Robinson's Dons face Peterborough in the group stage of the competition on Tuesday, and must have in their starting line-up the five highest appearance-makers in the team, five players who played the preceding fixture or five who play in the next league match.
Sides with Category One academies in the competition, such as Leicester and Chelsea, must start at least six players under the age of 21, but the rest of the squad can come from their first team if they choose.
Robinson told BBC Three Counties Radio: "I think the rules need to change drastically, or don't have the competition.
"I don't think it is conducive to development anymore. I think it's rubbish.
"If they made this an open competition where we could all play our under-21s, play players to get fit, close half the stands, and make it more of a competition for development.
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It holds gas supply licences for two separate domestic markets within Northern Ireland - greater Belfast and a market known as the Ten Towns area.
Within the greater Belfast licence area, tariff prices will fall by 6.38%.
It follows a number of price cuts by Northern Ireland energy firms, after the recent drop in wholesale costs.
Firmus Energy's managing director, Michael Scott, said: "Our approach is always to keep our natural gas prices as low and as stable as possible for our customers.
"We have consistently offered the lowest tariff prices for domestic customers and we are delighted that this will continue."
He added: "In the 'Ten Towns' licence area, our current regulated tariffs, although not changing, will remain over 3% lower for domestic consumers compared to the average of the 'Big Six' companies in Great Britain after their recently announced reductions have been put in place."
The chief executive of Northern Ireland's Utility Regulator, Jenny Pyper, said reduction for Firmus Energy's Belfast customers was "further good news for consumers and demonstrates the responsiveness of the market".
"Whilst there is no reduction in the Ten Towns' tariff, this announcement signals stability and confidence for consumers in the area, who will continue to enjoy gas prices that are among the lowest in the UK," Ms Pyper said.
In 2005, Firmus Energy was formally awarded supply and distribution licences for the development of a natural gas network in 10 towns and cities outside of Belfast.
They included; Antrim, Armagh, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Banbridge, Coleraine, Craigavon, Limavady, Londonderry and Newry.
Firmus Energy's gas network has since expanded and the licence area - still known as the Ten Towns - now also includes: Ahoghill, Ballyclare, Bessbrook, Broughshane, Bushmills, Cullybackey, Lurgan, Maghaberry, Magheralin, Moira, Newbuildings, Portadown, Portstewart, Tandragee, Templepatrick and Warrenpoint.
The licence area known as greater Belfast includes; Belfast, Bangor, Castlereagh, Carrickfergus, Carryduff, Comber, Glengormley, Donaghadee, Holywood, Larne, Lisburn, Mallusk, Newtownabbey and Newtownards.
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) said it was "unfortunate" that both the federal and Uttar Pradesh governments had failed to clean the river.
A petitioner told the NGT on Monday that dead bodies were still being dumped in the heavily-polluted river.
The Ganges is considered holy and supports a third of the country's population living on its floodplains.
"It is really unfortunate that the Ganges continues to be polluted. Why don't you [the state and federal governments] do something? You raise slogans [about cleaning the river], but do exactly opposite of that," the NGT said.
The watchdog was hearing a petition filed by environmental activist Gaurav Bansal.
Mr Bansal told BBC Hindi that people still dump dead bodies in the Ganges from the northern city of Varanasi and the government hasn't been able to stop the practice.
"Millions have been spent to clean the river, but nothing has changed. All governments of the past and the current one are responsible for the situation," Mr Bansal said.
Environmentalists say unchecked industrial waste and sewage heavily pollute the river. And the Hindu practice of using the river for cremation also causes pollution.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised to clean up the Ganges during his election campaign speeches in 2014 and his Bharatiya Janata Party government subsequently set an "ambitious" target to complete the task within three years.
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The vehicle's tyres had to be deflated to free it from beneath the Grade I-listed Newport Arch.
City of Lincoln Council said it did not believe there was "any permanent structural damage". However, it said the arch had suffered "a small number of superficial scrapes".
The arch was built in AD200 and was a gate on the Roman London to York road.
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It had to be repaired in 1964 after a lorry crash caused extensive damage.
Experts who helped restore it again in 2014 have been called in by the local authority "as a safety measure" to provide expert advice.
The transport firm involved has posted an apology online.
RASE Distribution said in a tweet that an investigation was under way.
Police Commissioner William Bratton has confirmed Detective Joseph Lemm was killed in the Bagram Airfield attack.
A militant riding a motorbike rigged with explosives targeted the group on Monday, killing six and injuring three.
Lemm had been in the US National Guard and deployed twice to Afghanistan and once to Iraq.
He was married with three children and had worked for the New York City Police Department for 15 years.
In New York, he worked in the Bronx warrant squad and was promoted to be a detective last year.
"Detective Joseph Lemm epitomized the selflessness we can only strive for - putting his country and city first... We remember this public servant who dedicated his life to protecting others," said Mr Bratton in a statement.
Lemm is the third NYPD officer to be killed while serving overseas in Iraq or Afghanistan, the New York Daily News reports.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Lemm's death is "horrible news" and it "serves as a painful reminder of the debts we owe to the brave men and women in uniform who put themselves in harm's way... to keep us all safe."
Attacks on foreign troops have risen while troops continue to withdraw from the country.
Though Nato formally ended combat operations last year, 9,800 US troops remain in Afghanistan.
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Bryony Shaw, Britain's first ever women's windsurfing medallist with bronze at Beijing 2008, finished ninth.
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But now, in comments given exclusively to BBC Uzbek, the younger sister, Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva has revealed an extraordinary rift at the heart of one of Central Asia's most prominent ruling families.
"My sister and I have not spoken to each other for 12 years," Ms Karimova-Tillyaeva says.
"There are no family or friendly relations between us."
Ms Karimova-Tillayeva's frank comments about the complete breakdown of her relationship with her sister, Gulnara, are a rare crack in the secrecy and media silence that usually surrounds Central Asia's all-powerful political dynasties.
They are also highly unusual in a culture where family bonds are hugely important.
Their father, Islam Karimov, has ruled Uzbekistan with an iron fist for more than 20 years. He is accused of presiding over a country where no dissent is tolerated and where torture is rife in prisons.
While the ruling elite enjoys wealth and privilege, hundreds of thousands of ordinary Uzbeks work as migrant labourers abroad because they can't earn a living at home.
Mr Karimov's elder daughter Gulnara regularly makes headlines, having forged a public persona as a pop star, diplomat, fashion designer and philanthropist. She is also an influential businesswoman and tipped as a possible successor to her 75-year-old father.
Her younger sister, Lola, currently serves as Uzbekistan's ambassador to the UN cultural organisation, Unesco, and lives in Geneva.
Lola is notorious for having unsuccessfully sued a French online journal after being labelled a "dictator's daughter",
Despite the parallels in their lives and career paths, the two sisters apparently have little in common.
"Any good relationship requires a similarity of outlook or likeness of character," says Ms Karimova-Tillyaeva.
"There is nothing like that in our relationship, has never been and is not now. We are completely different people. And these differences, as you know, only grow over the years."
Ms Karimova-Tillyaeva answered a series of 18 questions put to her by BBC Uzbek via e-mail.
Distancing herself so openly from her sister may suit Ms Karimova-Tillyaeva at a time when Gulnara Karimova has been linked to a wide-ranging fraud probe in Europe.
Prosecutors in Sweden and Switzerland are investigating current and former associates of Gulnara Karimova on suspicion of bribery and money-laundering.
Some of Ms Karimova's properties in France and Switzerland have reportedly been searched.
Ms Karimova-Tillyaeva remains tight-lipped about the investigations and says she does not know whether her father is aware of what is going on.
"All the information about my sister, I get from the foreign media, including the BBC website," she says.
"Regarding your question whether the Uzbek president is aware, I don't have such information. I am only two to three times a year in Uzbekistan. During the meetings with my father, we don't discuss political issues."
Because of his age, there is continuous debate about President Karimov's eventual successor.
In the clan and family politics of Central Asia, presidential offspring are often considered contenders. But Ms Karimova-Tillyaeva says she is not interested and that her priority is her husband Timur Tillyaev and their three children.
"The question often seems relevant in respect of members of presidential families in the former Soviet Union," she says. "For now I cannot see myself developing as a politician."
Gulnara, by contrast, has been highly visible in Uzbekistan. Her "Fund Forum" foundation is active in many parts of public life, from promoting Uzbek arts and culture to health and social campaigns.
She has also hinted that a presidential bid may not be out of the question.
Ms Karimova-Tillyaeva dismisses her sister's chances outright.
"I would assess these odds as low," she says in a brief comment.
Even though Ms Karimova-Tillyaeva's remarks to BBC Uzbek have been widely reported in regional media, her sister has so far not responded and routinely refrains from responding to BBC requests for comment.
What she makes of her younger sister's extraordinary revelations is anyone's guess.
The Karimov daughters seem to go head-to-head in almost all spheres of life.
Both run their own separate charity organisations.
Ms Karimova-Tillyaeva talks in detail about her "You are not alone" foundation in support of orphaned and disabled children in Uzbekistan, work which she describes as "her calling".
But even on this topic she appears to criticise her publicity-savvy sister who regularly tweets about her own charity work.
"I have noticed that the more you talk about what you're doing, the less pleasure you get from your business," she says.
It seems that Ms Karimova-Tillyaeva is not just distancing herself from her sister, but from the image of her country which is regularly portrayed as one of the worst dictatorships by human rights organisations.
In 2011 she took legal action in France against the news website Rue 89 over an article which described her as a "dictator's daughter".
The article also claimed she tried to whitewash her country's image by paying big sums to celebrities like the Italian actress Monica Bellucci to appear at charity events.
The case was thrown out.
At the time most media interpreted her action as a defence of her father's record. But in her comments to the BBC, Ms Karimova-Tillyaeva appears lukewarm in support of her family.
"I did not question the rightness or wrongness of using this word, because I understand that this is a political term," she says.
"However, in that context, the definition of 'dictator's daughter' in the press uniquely affected my personality. Each person is born with the inalienable right to be judged on his personal qualities, business, attitudes and actions."
She also appears to hold some critical views of her father's government's policies.
Uzbekistan has been criticised for years over the use of child labour during the annual cotton harvest.
"I find it difficult to assess the situation, but if there are such facts, it is sad and should not take place in any country of the world," she says.
"I categorically reject any use of force, whether it is forced labour or other forms of violence against any person, especially children."
Ms Karimova-Tillyaeva is also forthright when asked about accusations that her father suppresses any dissent under the pretext of fighting Islamic extremism
"The problem of radicalisation is more a result of unemployment and a lack of opportunities," she says. "These two factors are the most important sources of discontent among the population and in turn inextricably linked to the problem of extremism."
More remarkably still, she says she believes that using force to deal with these problems is wrong.
Her words are in stark contrast to her father's beliefs.
President Karimov made headlines in June when he launched an unprecedented attack on the county's migrant work force, calling Uzbeks seeking jobs abroad "lazy people" who were a disgrace to the nation.
"One feels disgusted with the fact that Uzbeks have to travel there for a piece of bread. Nobody is starving to death in Uzbekistan," Mr Karimov said.
But despite Ms Karimova-Tillyaeva's apparent attempt to distance herself from her family, there has been much media interest in her own significant wealth.
In 2010 she and her husband Timur bought a mansion in the exclusive Vandoeuvres area of Geneva, reportedly for $46m (£29m).
The couple were also named in a list of Switzerland's richest people by the business magazine Bilan.
Ms Karimova-Tillyaeva is evidently aware of the sensitivity of such reports, given the economic difficulties suffered by most Uzbeks at home.
"We ourselves were surprised when we saw we were ranked among the richest people in Switzerland. I still joke about it with my husband," she says, adding that the figures suggested by the press were "far from reality".
Asked to explain their wealth, Ms Karimova-Tillyaeva says that her husband has a share in a trade and transport company.
In a carefully worded statement, she says that Mr Tillyaev has never been involved in public tenders, been associated with national resource industries like gas or cotton, and does not enjoy tax exemptions or monopoly status.
She also says that they have not benefitted from her family connections.
Reports say that Timur Tillyaev runs the Abusaxiy transport and import company, a profitable market leader in Uzbekistan.
As for their luxury home, Ms Karimova-Tillyaeva says that the couple took out a mortgage and only paid 18% of the price outright, a sum of around $8m if the reported purchase price of $46m is correct,
"Our family home in Geneva is our primary residence," she says. "We sold all real estate in Uzbekistan, leaving only an apartment in Tashkent where we stay with the children when we go to Uzbekistan."
Those trips back home are rare, only two or three times a year.
And given how far the president's youngest daughter has gone in distancing herself from her family and her country's image, they may become even rarer in the future.
Johannes Dell, Jenny Norton and BBC Uzbek reporters contributed to this piece.
Officers are appealing for witnesses to the incident on Lavernock Road, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, on Tuesday at 17:10 GMT.
A silver Peugeot car struck the pedestrian who was taken to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales.
The accident happened between the junctions of Augusta Road and Forrest Road.
Mr Doherty has represented West Tyrone as an abstentionist MP for the past 16 years.
The party has selected Barry McElduff, a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, to stand in the 8 June poll.
Sinn Féin has four MPs but they do not take their seats in the House of Commons, in protest against British rule in Northern Ireland.
On Friday, Germany's constitutional court said that the European Central Bank's (ECB) bond-buying scheme could be "incompatible" with EU law.
The European Court of Justice will now decide the legality of the so-called debt "backstop", introduced in 2012.
Although the ECB has not used the emergency power, its existence calmed turmoil in European financial markets.
When he announced the Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) programme, ECB President Mario Draghi said he would do "whatever it takes" to save the single currency.
But the German court has said there was good reason to think the OMT violated a ban on the bank funding governments.
In a statement, the court added: "There are important reasons to assume that it exceeds the European Central Bank's monetary policy mandate and thus infringes the powers of the member states."
However, the court also said it "considers it possible that if the OMT decision were interpreted restrictively" it could conform with EU law.
By Andrew WalkerBBC World Service Economics correspondent
The ECB has not spent a single euro on the government bond-buying programme announced in 2012. And yet the mere fact that it declared itself willing to act put an end to the turmoil in European financial markets, laying a foundation for a recovery of sorts in the wider economy.
Borrowing costs fell sharply for the eurozone countries in financial stress - notably Italy and Spain. In the meantime, some of the struggling economies have started to grow again and they have made progress in reducing their borrowing needs, so the need for the ECB's backstop has, perhaps, diminished a little.
And the European Court of Justice is seen as less likely to rule against the ECB. The German Court has raised some important questions and created new uncertainty about the response to the crisis. But, in practice, the impact would have been much greater had it come sooner, or not involved a referral to the EU's top judges.
Even though the OMT has not yet been used, confidence was restored to the markets at the suggestion that the ECB could buy unlimited amounts of a country's debt if investors pulled out.
If it were declared illegal, there could be big implications for the bloc and its single currency.
The euro fell to a session low against the dollar in response to the court's finding.
However, it's thought unlikely the European Court of Justice (ECJ) will block the OMT policy.
"The (OMT's) chances are better in Luxembourg than in Karlsruhe," said Bert Van Rossebeke, from the Centre for European Politics in Freiburg.
Gunnar Beck, a European law expert at the University of London, said it would be unusual for the ECJ to obstruct a large, bloc-wide measure.
"Practically speaking, the court is not an independent organisation but is pre-disposed to interpret legal questions in the interest of the European Union," he added.
"The court of justice doesn't take account of national sensibilities... There is no doubt of the outcome now."
Analysts say it could take the ECJ up to two years to rule on the OMT programme.
The 128-year old company will outsource £3.6bn of equity investment to eight or more other investment firms.
Each will pick at least 20 stocks. This is to spread risk for investors, from 60 up to around 200 stocks.
Some job losses are possible among the 50-strong investment staff but most of the firm's employees in Dundee and Edinburgh will be unaffected.
The main intention of the move is to boost the Alliance Trust share performance.
It follows hostile demands from an activist investor, Elliot Capital, that the previous leadership team should leave.
The investment strategy developed by chief executive Katherine Garrett-Cox and chairwoman Karin Forseke was dumped.
Forcing its own director nominees on to the board, Elliott demanded that Lord Robert Smith - who was installed as chairman to handle the shareholder challenge - find a new business model that delivered better results.
Alliance Trust Investment, the asset management team which employs about 200 people in London and Edinburgh, is being sold to Liontrust Asset Management.
That £30m sale could involve some duplication and loss of jobs.
The investment team will retain Alliance Trust's £3.6bn fund until March. It will then be transferred to the new management contractors.
Overseeing the arrangements for about eight different managers will be Willis Towers Watson Investment, which advises on other firms' investments worth $2.3 trillion.
Liontrust is understood to want to retain the Alliance Trust Investment specialist knowledge of environment-related equities.
It currently handles £2.3bn of assets for other companies, including Aviva, with a focus on investments which meet green criteria.
The remaining workforce in Dundee and Edinburgh are expected to remain in place, as most of them work for Alliance Trust Savings.
After a disappointing start, that retail finance division is expected to turn a profit this year.
The battle over control of Alliance Trust, which raged from late 2014 until October 2015, pitted the US-based Elliott partnership against a wide array of retail investors, many with long-standing family links to the Dundee company.
Although it is not necessary to put the change to a shareholder meeting, directors propose that happens by the end of January.
As an attempt to drive up the share valuation, the company is to resume its buy-back of shares. That was suspended while it reviewed strategy.
Speaking about the announcement, Lord Smith said: "The board has evaluated carefully a broad range of options, with an open mind and a clear line of sight on how best we could improve the trust's performance.
"We are proposing a new approach to the investment management of the equity portfolio. Our proposal is that we will move from a single manager to multiple equity managers. All managers will be rated best-in-class and each will create a focused portfolio of their vest investment selections."
The board has pushed up its performance target, from 1% more than comparable stocks, to 2% more.
Analysis by Douglas Fraser, Business/Economy Editor, Scotland
Beware of trying new, more ethical, greener approaches. In the financial world, if you don't get quick results, hard-nosed money will flush you out.
That's what happened to the team who wanted to develop Alliance Trust into a Tayside-based niche. People and institutions could take their investments there if they had strings attached of social, environmental and governance standards.
The niche is still there, and investors can still place their money with that team. But that expertise is being sold on. It no longer belongs on Tayside. Some investors thought they were losing money on "tree-hugging".
Alliance Trust, which began in 1888 as a vehicle for Dundee's wealthy Victorian merchants to invest in the colonies and the USA, reverts to a tighter focus on financial returns, delivered out-of-house.
The plea comes in response to a poll which found more than half of consumers do not use the most suitable settings on their equipment.
One expert said poorly set-up TVs made images look "more like a soap opera rather than a Hollywood movie".
Website AVForums has published a series of instructional videos to help people tune their sets.
Two leading British film directors, Michael J Bassett and Neil Marshall, have supported the campaign.
"As a film-maker it's very important to me that TVs are set up properly so viewers can watch my movies in the way they are intended to be seen," said Mr Marshall, who is best known for films such as The Descent and Dog Soldiers.
Several TV manufacturers have endorsed the campaign, including the likes of Panasonic, Sony, LG, Sharp, Loewe and Toshiba.
Retailers Argos and Richer Sounds have also backed the efforts.
"The default settings of most TVs are optimised for shop conditions and not for viewing content at home," explained Phil Hinton, editor of AVForums.
"These settings could compromise picture detail and colour - undermining the work of movie and programme directors."
In addition to the viewing benefits, imaging specialists THX said using the right settings could also save energy.
"The findings of a THX test indicates that setting up your TV with a picture mode such as Movie, Cinema or THX, uses less energy than your TV's Vivid or Dynamic mode."
The federal government also apologised "for any role Canadian officials may have played in relation to his ordeal abroad and any resulting harm."
Canadian-born Khadr, 30, was captured in 2002 in Afghanistan at the age of 15, and spent a decade in Guantanamo.
He was convicted in 2010 by a US military commission of killing US Army Sgt Christopher Speer.
"We hope that this expression, and the negotiated settlement reached with the Government, will assist him in his efforts to begin a new and hopeful chapter in his life with his fellow Canadians," said Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and the Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale in a statement.
The Liberal government refused to officially disclose the the amount of the legal settlement despite the figure being widely leaked to numerous media outlets.
Khadr was suing the government for $20m on claims Ottawa conspired with the US in breaching his constitutional rights.
Khadr was the youngest prisoner ever detained at the US military prison in Cuba. He became a cause celebre for opponents of the Guantanamo Bay naval base and his case received international attention.
He was convicted of five crimes, including throwing a grenade that killed Speer in 2002.
Khadr said his confessions to US officials were made under duress.
His detention dragged on during the mandates of three previous governments, both Liberal and Conservative.
Canada's Supreme Court twice found that Canada violated Khadr's constitutional rights, holding that Canadian officials had been complicit in Khadr's mistreatment and contributed to his ongoing detention.
In 2010, Canada's Supreme Court ruled that he was interrogated under "oppressive circumstances."
Mr Goodale said at a news conference on Friday that reaching a settlement "was the only sensible course".
On Friday, the Canadian Press wire service reported that the Liberal Trudeau government wanted to get ahead of an attempt by Speer's widow and another US soldier wounded in the 2002 firefight to prevent Khadr from receiving any funds.
In 2015, the pair won a $134m (£103m) settlement in a Utah federal court in a lawsuit filed against Khadr.
The Globe and Mail reports their lawyer filed a court application in an Ontario Superior Court in Toronto this summer in a bid to block any possible payment to Khadr.
Mr Goodale denied any claim the settlement was rushed to block legal attempts to halt the payout by the pair.
He said "they will no doubt seek the redress that they think is appropriate and due to them and the legal process will take its course".
Khadr was repatriated in 2012 after agreeing to a plea deal to leave Guantanamo and serve the majority of his eight-year sentence in Canada. He was released on bail in Canada in 2015.
His case has long divided public opinion in Canada.
His defenders describe him as a child soldier. Others argue he was a radicalised fighter at the time of his capture.
Khadr was taken to Afghanistan by his father, a member of the al-Qaeda terror network. He spent his childhood in Canada and Pakistan.
News that Khadr would be receiving compensation re-ignited the controversy.
A petition by low tax advocacy group The Canadian Taxpayers Federation collected over 50,000 signatures in two days opposing any compensation for Khadr.
In an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation released on Friday, Khadr said he was now a different person from the teenager captured in Afghanistan.
He said he hoped the "talk about settlement or the apology does not cause people pain and if it does, you know, I'm really sorry for the pain".
Ralph Clarke, of Birmingham, faces 15 indecent assault charges, two of inciting a girl to commit an act of gross indecency, 10 of gross indecency and two of attempting a sexual offence.
The charges relate to three children and are said to date from 1974 to 1983.
He did not enter a plea at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Monday.
Mr Clarke, of Holly Lane, Erdington, has been released on unconditional bail ahead of a plea hearing at Birmingham Crown Court set for 6 June.
More on this and other stories from Birmingham and Black Country
Tens of thousands of larvae have stripped a number of trees almost bare in the Belvoir Estate.
If you listen carefully you can hear them eating the foliage. And if you stand under the trees, the larvae rain down on your head.
They were spotted a week ago by Adib Ma'ani and his wife Bahia.
They spent several days trying to establish where the larvae had come from.
They contacted the BBC after failing to get answers from officials.
"It's a bit disconcerting," said Adib.
"We've posted some images and video on social media but our friends are enjoying this much more than we are."
It emerged that the larvae are from the ash sawfly.
Andrew Crory, a moth expert with the Ulster Wildlife Trust, visited the site on Wednesday to help with identification.
He said the recent warm weather may well have kick started the infestation.
"Everything in the insect world goes in cycles of boom and bust," he said.
"It's uncommon and it's always spooky when you see it."
Experts from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs are to be sent for a look.
But, local residents say the same thing happened last year and there were no detrimental effect on the trees.
Many people believed that there would be a late shift to Remain in the final days. And the very final polls to be published gave credence to that view. Clearly, they gave a misleading picture.
Looking at the last polls published by each of the main pollsters, the majority of them over-estimated support for Remain, by varying amounts.
*Excludes the on-the-day YouGov poll published after voting closed, which put Leave on 48%, Remain on 52%.
However, that wasn't the picture throughout the campaign. As we reported on the BBC referendum poll tracker, the polls suggested that the result was in the balance right up to the end.
A persistent feature of the referendum polls was that there was a significant gap between those conducted by phone and those conducted by internet.
There was also a lot of discussion about which type of poll was more accurate.
Various theories were put forward: that internet polls failed to capture the views of people with socially liberal attitudes; that phone polls contacted too many people with degrees; or that it was because online polls make it easier for people to say 'don't know' when they're asked how they'll vote.
A widely-discussed paper by Matt Singh of Number Cruncher Politics and James Kanagasooriam of Populus argued that the phone polls were probably closer to the truth because their samples were more representative of the population as a whole in terms of their social attitudes.
The veteran analyst Peter Kellner also publicly stated his view that, based on the polls, he thought Remain would win - although he added the caveat that "if the phone polls have been systematically overstating support for Remain throughout the campaign, then a victory for Brexit is perfectly possible."
With hindsight it looks as though the internet polls were broadly right - with some notable exceptions, including the final Populus poll.
Throughout almost the whole campaign they put the two sides neck and neck, frequently with small leads for Leave, whereas phone polls tended to put Remain ahead, sometimes by quite wide margins.
On the final polls TNS and Opinium were within 1% of the actual result - easily within the margin of error.
ICM's record of polls close to the actual outcome stretches back for many weeks.
Interestingly, their last poll was published ten days before the referendum.
YouGov's online polls, taken as a set, were good as well.
This isn't to say that online polls are better than phone polls in all cases and for all elections. But for this referendum they were more accurate.
After the result, Andrew Hawkins of ComRes published an interesting statement which set out some of the possible issues that had made accurate polling especially difficult at the referendum.
Regional differences and a large proportion of voters switching between the two sides created unique challenges.
He suggests that it has become harder than ever to forecast national vote shares.
Throughout the campaign, and in post-referendum polls, people were also asked about the issues that affected their decision.
Two issues stood out again and again as being critical: the economy and immigration.
A third issue which was also highlighted, under various different descriptions, was sovereignty - or the ability of the United Kingdom to decide its own laws.
Ipsos MORI found that as 23 June approached, immigration overtook the economy as the most-commonly cited issue that would help people decide how to vote. That could be part of the explanation for the result.
They also found that only 17% believed the Remain campaign's claim that leaving the EU would make households £4,300 per year worse off.
That compared to 45% who believed the Leave claim that Turkey would be fast-tracked into the EU, if we stayed in, with their population given the right of free movement to the UK.
ComRes's post-referendum poll revealed a striking difference between Leave and Remain voters about the relative importance of each issue.
For Remain voters the economy was by far the most significant issue. But for Leave voters it was sovereignty and immigration.
Q: When casting your vote, what was the most important issue in your decision? The impact on…
They are also the sixth best at maths in the world.
They are only behind primary pupils in the East Asian countries Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan.
In primary science, however, Northern Ireland ranked above average but in 27th position.
The international rankings - Trends in International Maths and Science Study (TIMSS) - have been published every four years since 1995.
TIMSS latest rankings are based on tests taken in 2015 by more than 580,000 students aged nine to 10 and 13 to 14 in 57 countries.
Northern Irish pupils only participate in the primary school tests, and they were also placed sixth in the world in maths in 2011.
Their global ranking of six puts them ahead of pupils in England in 10th and Ireland in 9th.
It also puts Northern Irish pupils ahead of countries like Finland and Norway which are usually high achievers.
The results also revealed that there was almost no difference between how girls and boys in Northern Ireland performed in either the maths or science tests.
Teachers in Northern Ireland said they spent more than 20% of classroom time teaching maths, and the study suggests Northern Ireland had one of the highest rates of computer use in the subject in the world.
The TIMSS study also suggests that pupil attendance has a significant impact on performance, with better attenders scoring higher in the tests.
However, global results also suggest that there is no apparent link between class sizes and level of achievement.
Other global findings from the TIMSS study suggest that pupils are more confident in maths and science in primary school than in secondary school, and that most pupils felt safe in school.
The majority of teachers were also found to be satisfied in their jobs.
Although boys and girls also performed almost equally in the science tests, Northern Ireland dropped from 21st in 2011 to 27th in 2015.
That drop in rankings was despite Northern Ireland pupils performing marginally better in the tests than in 2011.
For both primary and secondary levels in maths and science the top places are taken by Asian countries.
The tests are run by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement in the Netherlands and Boston College in the USA.
Twelve other people died in the attack at Mr Khanzada's office in District Attock, about 80km (50 miles) north-west of the capital, Islamabad.
Mr Khanzada was seen as the man in charge of the anti-terror campaign in Pakistan's biggest province.
A Sunni militant group with ties to al-Qaeda has said it ordered the attack.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi said it was in response to last month's killing of its leader, Malik Ishaq.
Shuja Khanzada is the most senior Pakistani politician to have been killed by militants this year.
The minister's death is being seen as a significant blow to Pakistan's recent gains in the fight against militancy and extremism, says the BBC's Shahzeb Jillani in Islamabad.
Our correspondent says questions are being asked about his security as the home minister had reported threats made against him.
Mr Khanzada was meeting supporters in his hometown of Attock when a large bomb exploded, causing the roof to cave in, trapping dozens under the rubble.
Leading tributes to the home minister, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said: "The courage and valour of Shuja Khanzada is message to the masterminds of terrorists that they are bound to be defeated."
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has been behind some of the most violent attacks in recent years.
It was banned in Pakistan in 2001 and designated a terrorist group by the US in 2003. It has claimed the killings of hundreds of mainly Shia civilians in Pakistan.
Mr Maduro said the UN had the expertise to normalise the supply and distribution of drugs in the country.
Venezuela's Medical Federation said recently that hospitals had less than 5% of the medicines they needed.
The president blames the problems on an economic war against his government and the sharp fall in oil prices.
``I've asked for support from the United Nations to help treat the economic and social injuries that have hit our people,'' he said Friday on television.
The opposition says Mr Maduro's mismanagement is to blame for the country's worsening economic crisis.
Shortages of food and many other essential items mean Venezuelans have to face long queues almost daily to buy basic goods.
Medicines are no exception.
Correspondents say Mr Maduro's acknowledgement that Venezuela needs outside help is indicative of the dire situation the country is in, despite having some of the largest oil reserves in the world.
Joshua Parsons, 22, and James Fairbairn, 25, had denied their actions of February 2015 were racist in nature.
Their co-accused, fellow Chelsea fans Richard Barklie, a 52-year-old former policeman, and William Simpson, 27, were tried in absentia.
They were also ordered to pay the victim 10,000 euros in compensation.
Souleymane Sylla was targeted at Richelieu-Drouot station as football fans made their way to a Champions League match between Paris Saint Germain and Chelsea.
The hearing at the Palais de Justice saw a video recorded by a passenger of fans pushing him off the Metro train.
Supporters can be heard chanting "we are racist, we are racist and that's the way we like it".
The AFP agency reported that after giving evidence Parsons apologised to Mr Sylla, a Frenchman of Mauritanian origin, but denied there was any racist aspect to what had happened.
Turning to Mr Sylla in court, Parsons said: "I am very sorry to Mr Sylla, but I was not racist in any way."
Parsons, Fairbairn and Barklie have already been banned from football stadiums in Britain.
Ann Barnes crashed in September 2014, raising questions as to whether the journey was for business and if she was adequately insured.
Tuesday's report said there is evidence an offence may have been committed.
The report has now called for all police and crime commissioners to have valid insurance for business use.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigation was sparked after Mrs Barnes's Mercedes was in collision with another car in Princes Road, Dartford, on 16 September 2014. Nobody was seriously hurt.
It said: "It is the investigator's opinion that there is evidence upon which the IPCC Commissioner could determine that an offence of using motor vehicle without insurance on 16 September 2014, contrary to The Road Traffic Act 1998, may have been committed by Mrs Barnes."
The IPCC said Mrs Barnes had visited the Kent Police Safety Shop at Bluewater shopping centre and was on her way to a meeting at Dartford Borough Council.
The report said Mrs Barnes was a named driver for a car insured and registered in her husband's name. She later produced a valid certificate which defined her insurance cover as "social, domestic and pleasure" including "to and from a permanent place of work".
It added insurers Oak Underwriting said it had not paid out under a commuting clause but because it was a non-fault claim.
In February, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it was not in the public interest to prosecute.
Responding to the report, Mrs Barnes issued a statement which said: "This issue was dealt with last February when the CPS, having reviewed the evidence supplied by the IPCC, took the independent decision not to charge me.
"I have fully co-operated with the IPCC's lengthy investigation, and I am pleased that the matter has finally been resolved."
But Kent and Medway's Police and Crime Panel criticised the IPCC for taking 13 months to complete the report and the five months it took the watchdog to interview Mrs Barnes.
It said the time taken meant the CPS had to take a decision on prosecution without further investigation.
The process had damaged the PCC, her office, and the administration of justice, the panel said.
It said it had sought an assurance from Mrs Barnes that she had set up a system to ensure she and her staff regularly proved they were fully insured when driving on business.
Politicians have questioned Mrs Barnes's future.
South Thanet Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay said the IPCC report followed controversy over Mrs Barnes's youth commissioner appointments, a Channel 4 documentary, and her vehicle nicknamed Ann Force One.
He said: "It really doesn't end. She's the PCC that keeps on giving. Thankfully we've got elections next year. I don't know if she's considering standing. I hear she might be.
"The people of Kent will have a choice as to who they want to be a rather-more-competent PCC to represent them."
Medway Labour councillor Tristan Osborne has called for Mrs Barnes to be transparent about her intentions to stand again in May.
He said: "After four years of PR disasters, I think it's time she does think about that very closely."
Saving Banksy explores attempts to preserve and profit from the anonymous Bristol artist's work.
The premiere is being held on Saturday 15 April at the Belmont Filmhouse, as part of the NuArt Aberdeen festival.
Belmont manager Colin Farquhar explained: "Banksy is a cultural phenomenon and we are sure the showing will be popular."
Banksy's images are daubed on walls around the world, and are worth vast sums of money.
James Finucane, general manager of the NuArt Festival, said: "Saving Banksy has received widespread critical acclaim since its release in the US earlier this year.
"It's a great coup for Aberdeen and a fascinating insight into current debates about street art practice and the traditional art establishment's efforts to remove the 'street' from 'street art'."
NuArt Aberdeen has been brought to the city by Aberdeen Inspired and Aberdeen City Council.
Adrian Watson, chief executive of business-led initiative Aberdeen Inspired, said: "Banksy symbolises the debate that goes on around street art and this film is a brilliant platform for discussion.
"We want to get people talking about art and bring it to a new audience in the city and are hugely looking forward to the premiere."
The Shakers lost 5-0 at AFC Wimbledon in their FA Cup first round replay, three days after a 4-1 defeat at home to Southend in League One.
Flitcroft's side have also lost seven straight league games and dropped from from second at the end of September to their current 16th place.
"I'm hurting, the fans are hurting and I understand that," he said.
The 42-year-old told BBC Radio Manchester: "That hurt makes me even more determined to put it right for them.
"I want to put it right and out of that hurt I'm hoping will come some real fight. Sometimes when you're down to your lowest point the only way is up and to fight and I have to instil that in my team."
Bury are in their worst run of form since 2004 which is in contrast to September when they won six games straight.
"I need to apologise to the travelling fans who have taken time off and spent a lot of money coming down here," he added.
"That was an experienced group of players and the preparation led me to believe I would not see a performance like that, so I just have to apologise for the manner of the defeat."
Lost sales and a "significant impact" on growth in south east Asia have contributed to the company cutting its near-term trading outlook.
Sales tumbled after laboratory tests in India revealed high lead levels in some packets of the hugely popular noodles.
In its trading statement, Nestle said it remained in talks with authorities to get Maggi back on the shelves.
Nestle, the world's largest packaged food company, said group sales for the nine months to the end of September fell 2.1% to 64.9bn Swiss francs ($68bn; £44bn), missing analysts' forecasts.
The company cut its 2015 growth outlook to around 4.5%, below its long-term forecasts for 5%-6% growth.
Chief executive Paul Bulcke said: "After a good performance in the first half of the year, we were impacted in the third quarter by exceptional events, with Maggi noodles in India and a rebate adjustment in Nestle Skin Health."
He added that growth in China continued to be lower than expected.
Mr Cotton lived on narrow boat The Spirit at Sawley Marina and was last seen on 11 March.
Police discovered the body near Nottingham's Attenborough Nature Reserve at about 13:00 BST on Tuesday.
A post-mortem exam failed to determine the cause of death but it is not being treated as suspicious.
Further tests will be carried out later in the week.
The site where the body was found is located near Long Eaton, Derbyshire, and sits on the borders of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire.
It's a scenario that's brought to life in Gemma Bovery, a re-imagining of Gustave Flaubert's 19th Century classic Madame Bovary.
Gemma Arterton, who was born in Kent and who, until this production, did not speak a word of French, takes the title role of naive young Londoner Gemma who, with her older husband Charles, moves to Normandy, just a few miles from where Flaubert's book is set.
Since the novel's publication in 1856, Emma Bovary has become one of literature's classic heroines - a woman who brings about her own ruin by having adulterous affairs and getting deeply into debt while attempting to cope with the boredom of provincial life.
Arterton believes that modern twists on classic literature "can be deeply satisfying and very relevant, because they can still be the original characters, but you can see their motivations more clearly in the modern context.
"You can see, for example, that Gemma Bovery isn't bad," she tells the BBC. "She's just not ready to settle down yet, and she's chosen the wrong man."
The 29-year-old, known for her roles in James Bond film Quantum of Solace and the West End musical Made in Dagenham, says she sees "plenty of real-life modern-day Madame Bovarys".
"But I'm not sure if we can blame the man, the Charles Bovary figure, if a woman is bored in her relationship and life."
Directed by Coco Before Chanel's Anne Fontaine, Gemma Bovery is an adaptation of a 2000 graphic novel of the same name by British author Posy Simmonds, that was first serialised in The Guardian.
Simmonds, 70, claims she was inspired to write it "by seeing a woman in a cafe overloaded with designer handbags and treating her boyfriend like a dog. He had no idea how to make her happy. I thought, 'Emma Bovary, right there.'"
Simmonds is also the author of Tamara Drewe, another graphic novel that became a film in 2010 in which Arterton also starred. "I was initially reluctant to consider doing [Gemma Bovery]," the actress admits.
"But I really wanted to experience learning French and working in French film. Anne Fontaine is the most French of French film directors - she's scarily chic."
Just over 170,000 British ex-pats currently live in France - a figure that has dropped since the beginning of the 21st Century, when areas of rural Aquitaine were nicknamed "Dordogneshire" because of the number of British people buying property there.
Fontaine describes the movie as "Woody Allen" in tone. "It investigates the British belief that France is a green haven and the French puzzlement and suspicion when they arrive in town," she says.
"It plays on the British dream of the French rural idyll," Arterton continues. "We loved every minute of filming it, but I'm not sure about the reality of countryside living - it could get boring.
"But I suppose I have signed up in part for the French dream myself, since I now live in Paris as well as London. This film literally did change my life."
Arterton insists her French skills were non-existent before filming began in the summer of 2013. Now, though, she speaks it fluently.
The actress moves between London and the Paris home she shares with her director boyfriend Franklin Ohanessian - a two-city existence, she says, that "works really well".
"What London lacks Paris has, and vice versa," she explains - though she refuses to be drawn on which is better, saying "you can't compare the two".
The French media appear to have taken Arterton to their hearts, with one magazine describing her as "la Brit girl qu'on adore" (the British girl we love).
Could she become the next Dame Kristin Scott Thomas, an actress able to move easily between French and English roles? Possibly: her current projects include Orpheline, a French comedy-drama co-starring Adele Exarchopoulos.
"I'm so grateful for the new doors that are opening to me," says Arterton. "I love French cinema. That sounds really pretentious, but it's not a job to them.
"Everyone in the crew seems to be really invested, and also they're really well-dressed. The cashmere quota is probably the major difference between working in France and England."
Gemma Bovery is out in the UK on 21 August.
Wagner, 29, who has featured in 18 Tests, will predominantly play first-class cricket during his time at Old Trafford.
"Neil is a world-class bowler with a tremendous pedigree," head coach Ashley Giles told the club website.
"Having him available for such an extended period will give our Division One campaign a real boost."
South Africa-born Wagner made his Test debut for the Black Caps against the West Indies in 2012 and has taken 67 Test wickets at an average of 33.34.
He had a stint in England with Northants in 2014 and has taken 431 first-class wickets at an average of 27.20 since making his first-class debut in 2006.
"I have always admired Lancashire, ever since playing in the Liverpool Lancashire league for Ormskirk in 2008," Wagner said.
"I'm very much looking forward to joining up with the squad and working with Ashley and the rest of the team."
Mrs Johnson, 78, died on 18 August without being able to fulfil her last wish of giving her son a proper burial.
After being diagnosed with cancer last year, Mrs Johnson appealed again to killer Ian Brady to reveal the location of Keith's body, without success.
More than 200 people attended the service, held at St Chrysostom's Church, Victoria Park.
The hearse included floral tributes reading 'Gran' and 'Mam', with a smiling photo of Winnie on top of the coffin.
A book of condolence opened at the church, with a private burial taking place following the service.
Keith was one of five children murdered by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between 1963 and 1965.
The then 12-year-old was abducted on 12 June 1964, and was the only victim whose body has never been found, despite several large-scale searches of Saddleworth Moor.
During the service, hymns The Old Rugged Cross, Lord Of All Hopefulness and The Lord Is My Shepherd were played.
Elizabeth Bond, a friend of Mrs Johnson, gave a eulogy calling her a "woman ahead of her time".
She said: "Her mother was a great influence in her life, and when she became a mother herself she described it as the best thing that she ever did.
"Sadly in 1964, Keith was taken away from his family and Winnie became more and more of a public figure under the tagline - Keith Bennett's mother.
"I don't want us to forget that Winnie was so much more."
She added: "I hope you are playing bingo with the angels like you said you would and all the ones you loved are by your side when you shout house."
Floral tributes at the funeral included wreaths from Greater Manchester Police and her local bingo club.
Assistant priest Father John Grant, said Winnie was a regular face at St Chrysostom's Church.
"The abiding memory is of her arriving and leaving church in the electric scooter and she used to come in the side door, scoot across, park up and into the front pew," he said.
"At the end of every Sunday service she would go and light a candle for Keith.
"We have commended her into God's care, we have prayed that she will be at peace, we have prayed that she is reunited with Keith."
The day before Mrs Johnson's death, police said they were looking at claims Brady had revealed details about Keith's grave to his mental health advocate, Jackie Powell, from Carmarthenshire, south Wales.
Mrs Johnson's solicitor John Ainley said she had not known about the latest development as "she wasn't capable of accepting it".
Teresa Walsh, who helped Winnie search Saddleworth Moor for any signs to where Keith's body might be, attended the service.
She said: "She was a very strong lady, she loved her family.
"She just never gave up looking for Keith, she just wanted to find her son, that's all she wanted, to find him and lay him to rest."
A fund has been started to provide a memorial to Mrs Johnson inside the church and a community garden at the side of the building.
His rival Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by a landslide - at least among those in Barack Obama's ancestral village in western Kenya.
The mock poll in Kogelo gave Mr Trump just a quarter of the votes in a place he might not have heard of, were it not for his accusations that it was the outgoing president's birthplace.
"The people of Kogelo are very much annoyed," said one resident.
"Being a woman of great substance and Donald Trump being a reality show personality… Clinton should have won," said one another.
But they would say that - President-elect Trump won't get anything like the reception President Obama received last year when he came to Kenya.
He had strong connections here - his father was Kenyan - and he launched his Power Africa project, which aims to double the number of people with electricity across the continent.
President George W Bush brought the continent the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar) - which provided millions of people with the drugs to help them fight HIV.
The US spends billions in Africa through aid and investment, but there is uncertainty over what Mr Trump will do, or even how much he knows about the continent.
"Trump has said very little about Africa - I don't think he knows much about Africa," said Jakkie Cilliers, chairman of the Institute of Security Studies (ISS), a think tank in South Africa.
"It is just not on his radar - it seems like he will be an insular president focused on US interests - in some sense, isolationist."
He questioned what it might mean for Pepfar or the African Growth and Opportunities Act (known as Agoa - a hugely valuable American free trade deal with African countries), and efforts to tackle malaria.
"The fact he doesn't know that much is perhaps our best protection," said Mr Cilliers, only half joking.
The other key pillar of America's involvement in Africa is security.
The US military footprint has slowly and secretly been spreading across the continent in reaction to radical Islamist militants.
There are drone bases and special forces troops watching, and acting against so-called Islamic State and al-Qaeda linked groups across the continent.
The key things that need to be in the new President Trump's Africa in-box include:
How America manages its approach to Africa could have a major impact on stability across the continent.
"Obama has done the US proud with his strategic approach," said Mr Cilliers.
The ISS put out what he called a "tongue-in-cheek" article a day before the vote, asking what would a Trump presidency would mean for Africa.
"About a third of American foreign aid is directed at health programmes, and much of that at Africa," ISS researcher Zachary Donnenfeld wrote.
"This means that any reduction in American foreign aid will have far-reaching effects on health outcomes on the continent.
"If Donald Trump were elected and implemented the foreign policy he campaigned on, he could become the single most-effective recruiting tool for terrorist organisations across the globe," he added.
But with a shift from aid to investment, isn't a businessman a good man to have at the helm?
Kenyan tech entrepreneur Mark Kamalu is not convinced.
"We have investments in US dollars and the first direct impact is the markets tank and that's a worry from a business perspective," he said.
"The rhetoric we have heard, the hard-line stance, the America first nationalism, the volatile and lose language makes everyone who is not white and American wonder where they stand."
Some will welcome his conservative values on homosexuality and abortion, but there is a lot of uncertainty over what President Trump will mean to Africa.
Elected with little by way of policy, the continent will have to wait and see how much of what he said on the campaign trail will translate into action.
The Rev Gregory Jacobs joined police on Wednesday in his first public comments since her death to urge anyone to come forward with details on what happened.
The 65-year-old judge was found dead in the Hudson River with no signs of foul play or criminality, police say.
But Mr Jacobs dismissed the possibility that she may have taken her own life.
"These reports have frequently included unsubstantiated comments concerning my wife's possible mental and emotional state of mind at the time of her death," Mr Jacobs wrote in a statement to NBC News.
"Those of us who loved Sheila and knew her well do not believe that these unfounded conclusions have any basis in reality."
Ms Abdus-Salaam, the first black woman to serve in New York's highest court, was discovered on 12 April, a day after her husband reported her missing.
Senior New York judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam found dead in Hudson River
Police had reportedly treated the death as a possible suicide, but an initial autopsy last week was inconclusive and the cause of death is still pending, according to Medical Examiner's Office spokeswoman Julie Bolcer.
Police are now treating the case as suspicious.
"Until such a determination is made, the death may be classified as suspicious, in that the circumstances have not been clearly established," the NYPD said in a statement to CNN.
Robert Boyce, chief of detectives for NYPD, told reporters there were no apparent injuries to her body and her death did not appear to be criminal in nature.
Surveillance footage showed the judge walking alone near the river in the Harlem neighbourhood about 12 hours before her body was found in the water, according to the New York Police Department (NYPD).
She was seen dressed in the same clothing she was wearing when her body was found, according to Sergeant Brendan Ryan.
Ms Abdus-Salaam's extended family has also pushed back on what they said are inaccurate reports that her mother and brother had committed suicide.
"Sheila's mother, the matriarch of our family who died at age 92 in 2012, did not take her own life," the family said in a statement.
"Shelia's younger brother, who died in 2014, lost his battle with terminal lung cancer."
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who appointed her to the New York Court of Appeals in 2013, hailed her as a "trailblazing jurist whose life in public service was in pursuit of a more fair and more just New York for all".
It is thought the silver Vauxhall Astra had been signalled to stop by police in Glenmavis Road in Airdrie, just before the collision.
The car crashed into the wall in Commonhead Street at about 06:20 on Friday.
The 33-year-old man driving the car and a 30-year-old female passenger were both injured.
The woman is in hospital in Glasgow, where staff have described her condition as critical.
The man has been treated for minor injuries.
Spiral galaxies like ours have these satellites, but some are made of "dark matter" that is impossible to see.
The idea is to look for tracks they leave in hydrogen gas at the galaxy's edge, like the wake behind a boat.
Observations based on the idea suggest the existence of a far-flung satellite galaxy weighing up to 10 billion Suns.
Presenting her work at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle, Sukanya Chakrabarti, from the University of California, Berkeley, said her method could solve a long-standing problem in cosmology.
Around our Milky Way are a number of satellite galaxies - these and other galaxies form the Local Group that is our conurbation in the cosmos.
However, theory predicts that there should be far more satellites orbiting the Milky Way.
What may account for these missing galaxies is that they are composed overwhelmingly of dark matter - a mysterious counterpart to matter that is believed to make up 85% of matter in the Universe.
But dark matter does not interact with light and cannot be seen down a telescope like normal matter - it is known only because it exerts gravitational forces on matter we can see.
But Dr Chakrabarti explained one aspect of the dark matter theory that is lacking.
"One of the current outstanding problems in cosmology is there's this missing satellites problem," she told the BBC.
The current dark matter theory, she said, "is very successful at recovering the large-scale distribution of galaxies, but when you look on sub-galactic scales, it far overpredicts the number of dwarf galaxies relative to what we actually observe".
"So we wanted to develop a method that allows you to find very dim dwarf galaxies without having to see them directly."
Dr Chakrabarti and her colleagues hope to exploit dark matter's indirect effects to solve the conundrum, by using radio telescopes to carefully analyse disturbances in the vast clouds of hydrogen gas at the farthest reaches of the Milky Way.
A dark matter-dominated galaxy passing through the gas, she said, should leave ripples in the dust that are an indication of not only where the galaxy is, but how big it is.
The method has already been successfully tested out on galaxies that have visible satellites, including the famous Whirlpool Galaxy, as Dr Chakrabarti explains in a paper that will be published in the Astrophysical Journal.
Using the method, Dr Chakrabarti found a set of ripples that indicate a comparatively huge satellite galaxy, 260,000 light-years from the centre of the galaxy.
The satellite - dubbed Galaxy X in deference to the 19th-Century discovery of Neptune that named it Planet X - should weigh between three and 10 billion times as much as the Sun, about a hundredth as much as the Milky Way itself.
Now all that remains is to confirm it. That will have to wait until Dr Chakrabarti's collaborators are granted time to use the Spitzer Space Telescope.
"This is the first time in my work that I've really gone out on a limb and made a very specific prediction - I didn't give myself any elbow room," Dr Chakrabarti told the meeting.
"If we're right, then it's a huge success and you can find very dim or effectively dark galaxies simply by analysing disturbances in the gas disk."
Dr Chakrabarti said that the method should work for far smaller dwarf galaxies - down to a thousandth the mass of the Milky Way.
Pending the granting of time on Spitzer, the many proposed dark and mysterious galaxies surrounding our Milky Way could be spotted later this year, and a big problem in cosmology could be neatly solved.
Yu Yingzeng, a Chinese-born US citizen, was jailed with her husband Peter Humphrey as part of the GlaxoSmithKline corruption scandal last August.
Mr Humphrey was released earlier this week.
They are expected to leave China in the coming days.
Yu Yingzeng was detained along with Mr Humphrey in 2013.
She was sentenced last year to two years in prison and had been due to be released on 11 July.
The couple were detained after helping GSK investigate a secretly filmed sex tape of its then top manager in China.
GSK was fined £300m ($465m) by the Chinese authorities for bribes to hospitals and officials in an attempt to boost sales.
The couple were found guilty of illegally obtaining Chinese citizens' data and selling it to firms including GSK China.
They both admitted buying background information, but said they did not realise this was illegal.
Mr Humphrey was released on health grounds and has been moved to a Shanghai hospital for tests relating to cancer.
He will be deported on release from hospital.
The couple's family has been told their departure from China could take several days.
Their son, Harvey, a university student in the UK, has not had access to them.
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County Armagh native Hinds was known as one of the 'flying doctors' who provided medical cover at motorcycling events throughout Ireland.
Dr Hinds, 35, died after being in an accident at the Skerries 100 meeting.
"We accept this for John but also for the volunteer teams that John was part of," said his partner Dr Janet Acheson.
Mr Hinds worked as a consultant at Craigavon Area Hospital and saved the lives of many riders at spectators in his role which provided fast-response medical treatment at meetings throughout the island of Ireland.
His colleague Dr Fred McSorley said Mr Hinds's death had been a "tragedy".
The BBC award was aimed at celebrating his work as a volunteer within the sport that he loved.
Dr Hinds had led a campaign for an air ambulance service to be introduced in Northern Ireland.
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The 25-year-old victim was shot in Chatsworth Road in Lower Clapton just after 13:00 BST.
Police arrested a man in his 20s close to the scene on suspicion of murder and he is being held at an east London police station.
The shot man, who died at the scene, has not been named but police said his next of kin had been informed. A post-mortem examination will take place.
Police said roads were closed off around the scene of the shooting and they have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
Falcao nodded in his 20th league goal of the season from close range before Kylian Mbappe's trickery left Bernardo Silva with a simple tap-in before the break.
Teenage forward Mbappe turned provider again when his cushioned square pass allowed Falcao to volley in the third.
And there was more misery for Lille when away defender Junior Alonso diverted Thomas Lemar's dangerous low cross into his own goal.
Leonardo Jardim's side are three points above reigning champions Paris St-Germain, who have one game left, and have a far superior goal difference.
But PSG, who have been hoping to be crowned French champions for a fifth successive season, thrashed seventh-placed Saint-Etienne in a 5-0 away win to stop Monaco mathematically clinching the title on Sunday.
Monaco will, however, wrap up the title on Wednesday with a point at home to Saint-Etienne.
PSG delayed the inevitable as two goals apiece for Edinson Cavani and Lucas Moura, plus an injury-time strike from Julian Draxler, secured an easy win.
Match ends, Monaco 4, Lille 0.
Second Half ends, Monaco 4, Lille 0.
Foul by Yves Bissouma (Lille).
Thomas Lemar (Monaco) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Yves Bissouma (Lille).
Bernardo Silva (Monaco) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Monaco. Guido Carrillo replaces João Moutinho.
Own Goal by Junior Alonso, Lille. Monaco 4, Lille 0.
Attempt blocked. Sébastien Corchia (Lille) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Sébastien Corchia (Lille) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Benjamin Mendy (Monaco).
Corner, Lille. Conceded by Djibril Sidibe.
Substitution, Monaco. Benjamin Mendy replaces Kylian Mbappe.
Attempt missed. Nicolas de Preville (Lille) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Fares Bahlouli.
Foul by Eder (Lille).
Tiemoué Bakayoko (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Sébastien Corchia (Lille) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Lille. Conceded by Danijel Subasic.
Attempt saved. Fares Bahlouli (Lille) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Fares Bahlouli (Lille) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by João Moutinho (Monaco).
Yves Bissouma (Lille) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kamil Glik (Monaco).
Substitution, Monaco. Valère Germain replaces Falcao.
Attempt missed. Naim Sliti (Lille) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Yves Bissouma.
Franck Beria (Lille) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Thomas Lemar (Monaco).
Attempt blocked. Fares Bahlouli (Lille) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Djibril Sidibe (Monaco) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Bernardo Silva.
Attempt blocked. Fares Bahlouli (Lille) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Youssouf Kone.
Substitution, Lille. Yves Bissouma replaces Ibrahim Amadou.
Substitution, Lille. Fares Bahlouli replaces Yassine Benzia.
Goal! Monaco 3, Lille 0. Falcao (Monaco) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kylian Mbappe.
Substitution, Lille. Nicolas de Preville replaces Ricardo Kishna.
Corner, Monaco. Conceded by Ibrahim Amadou.
Attempt missed. Naim Sliti (Lille) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sébastien Corchia with a cross.
Rio Mavuba (Lille) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Rio Mavuba (Lille).
Tiemoué Bakayoko (Monaco) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Lille. Conceded by João Moutinho.
Webbe will be arriving in Shieldinch this autumn, among other new faces that are set to join the weekly drama.
The BBC said Webbe had filmed his first River City scenes this week as the new character Andy - a former army man and friend of the Roth family.
Blue is an English R&B group that formed in 2000, releasing their first hit All Rise in May 2001.
Other new actors joining BBC Scotland's flagship drama soon are Rebecca Atkinson (Shameless), Alana Hood (Bridget Jones's Baby, Field Of Blood, Lip Service), Juliet Cadzow (Balamory, Skins) and TV newcomers Louise McMenemy and Libby Dye.
Webbe's first episodes will air in November.
He said: "It's an amazing feeling getting a role on River City. Getting into acting and being taken seriously is something that I've always wanted to do.
"Going from being a TV extra into being in a boy band, it's an absolute dream come true. River City is full of feisty characters and I can't wait to get my teeth into Andy's storylines."
It is the first time Webbe, who is from Manchester, has acted in Scotland, but the singer-songwriter has toured with Blue and Strictly Come Dancing.
He added: "My experience has always been, the further north you go, the louder the fans get - and that's the vibe I always get in Scotland.
"People recognise you in the street and are always welcoming. I can't wait to get started on River City."
The executive producer of River City, Kieran Hannigan, said: "We're delighted to welcome our new cast members to the River City family. I'm sure Simon will be a huge hit with our fans and will turn heads as Andy when he hits the screen in November.
"Rebecca Atkinson is a fantastic addition to the cast and her character, Belinda, will send sinister shockwaves through the Murdoch clan.
"And we are really thrilled to bring on board some brilliant Scottish actors in Alana Hood, Juliet Cadzow and Louise McMenemy."
River City is on BBC One Scotland every Tuesday at 20:00.
Two goals by Leicester's Harvey Barnes and another by Sunderland's Elliot Embleton saw a team mainly aged 19 or under reach the final.
England face Ivory Coast or the Czech Republic in Saturday's final in France.
Earlier, England also reached the final of the Under-20 World Cup for the first time by beating Italy.
Gareth Southgate was in charge when an England U21 side beat France 2-1 in the 2016 Toulon Tournament final.
At this year's event, England won all three of their group games against Angola, Cuba and Japan to advance to the semi-finals.
Scotland had bounced back from a 3-2 defeat by the Czech Republic in their opening group game to beat Brazil and Indonesia and book a last-four spot.
Saturday's final kicks off at 16:30 BST.
This year's line-up includes The Stranglers, Feeder, The Wonder Stuff, Fatherson, Galleon Blast, Little Mammoths and Ullapool Pipe Band.
Loopallu - Ullapool backwards - takes place on Friday and Saturday.
The event, which is now in its 12th year, will also see performances by Eliza and the Bear, Hunter and the Bear, Manran and Lional.
An air strike on a market in Idlib killed up to 60 people while at least 45 died in strikes on Aleppo province, opposition activists say.
A 10-day truce is meant to start on Monday, followed by co-ordinated air strikes against jihadist militants.
Turkey and the EU welcomed the plan but warned that further action was needed.
Turkey said aid must be delivered from the very start while EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini looked towards a "political transition".
A spokeswoman for Syria's opposition said the plan provided some hope but more details were needed about how it would be enforced.
In the capital, Damascus, the government endorsed the deal, the state news agency Sana reported.
There has been no official reaction from Iran which, like Russia, is allied to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The conflict in Syria, which began with an uprising against Mr Assad, has raged for five years and claimed the lives of more than a quarter of a million people.
Millions have fled abroad, many of them seeking asylum in the EU, but nearly 18 million people remain in Syria, which has been carved up by fighting between government and rebel forces.
When a busy vegetable market was targeted in Idlib, as many as 90 people were injured in addition to those killed, media and opposition activists say.
Some of Saturday's air strikes are believed to have hit the towns of Anadan and Hreitan near Aleppo, Syria's second city.
In other fighting:
Getting a deal was an achievement, given the sour atmosphere between Moscow and Washington. It offers some fragile hope about stopping the slaughter.
But there is scepticism about its chances. That is because a lot is going to have to go right, quite quickly, if the agreement is to work. One necessity is President Assad's consent. A week-long ceasefire might be possible, but a political deal to end the war is still out of sight.
The Assad regime's survival depends on the Russians, so he will listen to them. But with Russia's help, the Assad regime is looking more robust. So it is hard to see why the president, or his Russian allies, would want him to go.
The war in Syria is made up of layers of conflict, which connect up to regional and global rivalries. That makes it very hard to calm, let alone end.
The truce is due to take hold at sunset on Monday, at the start of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
Under the plan, Syrian government forces will end combat missions in specified opposition-held areas.
In an unexpected development, Russia and the US will then establish a joint centre to combat jihadist groups.
These include IS but also Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, the group known until recently as the Nusra Front, when it was allied to al-Qaeda.
The deal was reached in Geneva, Switzerland, between US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.
Jihadist groups like so-called Islamic State and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (formerly known as Nusra Front) face the joint might of the Russian and US air forces
Moderate rebels and civilians in the areas they hold will no longer face the threat of indiscriminate air strikes such as barrel-bombing although the Syrian air force will not be grounded completely; aid deliveries will be allowed to areas currently under siege
President Assad will be in a stronger position as the US and Russia engage two of his most effective military opponents while moderate rebels observe the truce with his forces
Mr Lavrov said only the Russian and US air forces would operate in areas designated for co-ordinated strikes but added that the Syrian air force could operate in other areas.
Welcoming the deal, Turkey, which launched its first major military incursion into Syria last month, said it was essential to halt fighting across Syria and deliver humanitarian aid to those in need "from the first day".
"The agreement... is very welcome," said Ms Mogherini, stressing that a UN proposal for a political transition would be "the starting point for resumption of the intra-Syrian talks".
Previous diplomatic initiatives have foundered on President Assad's refusal to give up power, leading to widespread scepticism about the latest initiative.
February 2012: Syrian government "categorically rejects" an Arab League plan calling for a joint Arab-UN peacekeeping mission
June 2012/January 2014/January 2016: Three failed UN-sponsored peace conferences in Geneva
September 2013: Kerry and Lavrov negotiate a deal to strip the Syrian government of its chemical weapons in return for the US backing away from air strikes. Since then, the government has again and repeatedly been accused of using toxic chemicals against rebel-held areas
February 2016: World powers agree in Munich on a nationwide "cessation of hostilities" in Syria excluding jihadist groups. There is no agreement on any joint US-Russian operations. The "pause" quickly unravels as Assad promises to regain control of the whole country
March 2016: President Vladimir Putin declares "mission accomplished" in Syria and orders removal of "main part" of Russia's air army in Syria. Russian air strikes have continued ever since
John Cridland published the independent review on Thursday, proposing that those under the age of 45 may have to work a year longer, to 68.
He told BBC Radio 4's Money Box that there should be no repeat of the issues currently facing women in their 50s.
Many say they were not told directly of two rises in their state pension age.
Their campaign, known as Waspi - Women Against State Pension Inequality - argues that poor communication meant many were surprised to discover they had to work for longer.
The Cridland report, one of two published earlier in the week addressing the future of the state pension, examines the cost of increased longevity to the state pension.
In the report, Mr Cridland, the former boss of the Confederation of British Industry, said that the long-term future of the "triple-lock" needed to be considered. The triple-lock promises that the state pension will rise in line with average earnings, prices or 2.5%, whichever is highest.
"There will come a time in the future when that needs to move to earnings," he told Money Box.
"It won't be done in this parliament. Government has a choice of when it moves it. By the 2060s, almost 1% of GDP will be spent on the state pension in addition because of the triple lock.
"It has done a lot of good but it costs £20bn a year and in the long run it may not be affordable."
He added that the Winter Fuel Payment, a universal benefit of between £100 and £300 tax-free to help pay heating bills, may need to be means-tested in the future.
"There are those of us who wouldn't be pushed into cold winters if we didn't have a winter fuel allowance and there are people for whom the winter fuel allowance is the only thing that keeps the heating on. There may come a time when we need to target it rather than have it as a universal benefit."
One thing Mr Cridland examined, but did not recommend, was variable state pension ages, which would allow some people to retire earlier.
He also insisted that in the long term employers' attitudes to taking on workers aged in their late 50s and 60s would need to change.
"I've suggested statutory carer's leave so that somebody who is trying to work while looking after an aged parent can't be told off by their employer when they don't turn up for work because their mum's slipped in the shower.
"I say that every employer should have an elder care policy so that they can demonstrate what they're doing to help their older workers cope with the fact that many people aged 63 will be looking after their aged parent who's 93.
"I do think in 20 years time the aging society will be the dominant thing that's being talked about by politicians. We have the chance now to plan for that future."
Listen to the full interview on Money Box on Radio 4 on Saturday at 12:00 GMT
Four compartments of the Bangalore-Nanded express derailed in the incident in Andhra Pradesh early on Monday.
Karnataka politician Venkatesh Nayak was among the dead, as well as the driver of the lorry.
The incident comes weeks after two express trains derailed on a flooded bridge in Madhya Pradesh, killing at least 24 people.
"The level crossing was manned and had a red light on. The lorry overshot the speed breaker and rammed through the level crossing gate before crashing into the train", Sanjeev Agarwal, the divisional railway manager of Bangalore told BBC Hindi.
India's Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu tweeted that it was an "unfortunate accident", adding that immediate medical relief had been sent to the site of the accident.
The 33-year-old is in police custody. He is expected to appear at Paisley Sheriff Court on Monday.
The body of Mr Quail, 42, was found at about 10:45 at his home in Greenend Avenue on Saturday, 25 February.
The discovery followed reports of a disturbance at the address earlier that morning.
The list of potential targets includes recent MPs.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), which is part of GCHQ, disclosed the request in a document released early on 16 May.
The BBC understands that the number of victims is currently understood to be in single figures.
Candidates have been asked to look for suspicious emails received after Jan 2017.
The NCSC declined to say if any data had been taken.
A report in the Financial Times said it was "likely" that the phishing campaign had been orchestrated by a state.
In a document titled Phishing: guidance for political parties and their staff, the centre says it has "become aware of phishing attacks to gain access to the online accounts of individuals that were MPs before dissolution of Parliament" and "other staff who work in political parties".
The NCSC said the attacks were likely to continue "and may be sent to parliamentary email addresses, prospective parliamentary candidates, and party staff".
The BBC understands that so far victims' personal emails have been affected but no successful phishing attempts have been made via parliamentary email addresses.
It is believed that the NCSC has contacted the Electoral Commission about the threat and that the commission will help to alert candidates.
The centre said that potential victims should look out for "unexpected requests to reset your password for online or social media accounts (such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook or Twitter)".
"Or you might have been asked to approve changes to your account that you've not requested."
The NCSC did not say whether it knew who was behind the phishing campaign.
The warnings to political parties come as cyber-security officials brace themselves for some kind of incident during the elections.
No-one can be sure that anything will take place, but the experience of the US and more recently France has led them to believe that some kind of theft and then dump of information is possible.
In both those cases, a Russian hand is suspected.
Intelligence agencies have historically kept their distance from the communication of politicians due to the doctrine that says MPs should not be monitored.
But parties and politicians themselves have been asking for advice and guidance in recent months amid growing concerns.
Concern about elections being targeted by hackers has been running high, following the attack on the Democratic National Committee during the US presidential election.
US authorities attributed that incident to Russia and said that a significant component of the attack involved phishing.
More recently, the electoral campaign of President Emmanuel Macron in France was targeted by a similar campaign.
The NCSC has said the UK has "systems in place to defend against electoral fraud at all levels and [we] have seen no successful cyber-intervention in UK democratic processes".
The BBC understands that since last month, the NCSC has delivered cyber-security seminars to the UK's political parties, with the aim of helping them reduce the risk of succumbing to an attack.
Advice has also been offered to local authorities and the electoral commission.
Donovan Kitching committed 33 offences in custody before he knocked down 62-year-old Gwen Valentine in April 2014.
The Karran Inquiry highlighted "a total lack of coordination" and "confusion" between the prison, parole board and police.
The Department for Home Affairs said it was working to address the findings.
Kitching, who had 44 previous convictions, had served almost two-thirds of a six-year sentence for aggravated burglary and robbery when he was granted parole on 2 April 2014.
Less than a month later, he struck and killed Ms Valentine, from Winchester in Hampshire, as she walked on the Tholt-y-Will Road.
He had no valid licence and was fleeing police at the time, as he was still serving an eight-year driving ban and had just been arrested for drink-driving.
Kitching pleaded guilty to causing Ms Valentine's death by dangerous driving and was sentenced to 10 years and 72 days in jail.
An investigation of the parole system was ordered after the court was told of his "shocking record" while in custody, which included assaulting another prisoner and threatening a prison officer.
In his report, Mr Karran said while no-one "broke any law, rule or regulation" in relation to Kitching's release, there were a number of issues with "the practice that had evolved" on the island.
He said a probation officer had recommended Kitching be freed because it was only three months to his automatic release date and there was "little to be gained" by keeping him in custody.
Another said, had she known details of his offences in prison, she would have reconsidered her decision to support parole.
Alongside the lack of a new risk assessment ahead of his release, the report said a key meeting to review his licence conditions and plan a "probation regime" did not take place due to the speed of his release and there was a "total failure" in the monitoring of him after release.
It also gave details of Kitching's previous convictions, which included:
Ms Valentine's son Stuart said it was a "profoundly shocking report" which showed there had been "a systemic failure, not an individual one".
"Nobody has resigned or been dismissed, and they should not - this is sometimes what happens when good people imperfectly follow flawed processes," he said.
"Failing to prevent the circumstances that led to a crime is not remotely the same thing as committing it, but that does not make this in any way acceptable."
He added that of the 37 recommendations, 30 had been accepted by the authorities, two had been rejected and five were as yet unresolved.
Juan Watterson, who was Minister for Home Affairs at the time, said improvements in the parole system had already been made.
"Whilst I may have my regrets about the decision that I made was one of a series of circumstances which cost an innocent lady her life, it is right that politicians ensure that the policy framework, overseen by the home affairs minister, balances justice, rehabilitation and accountability," he said.
"I was glad that I could evidence critical thinking and an evolution of the parole process during my tenure and I am sure that this is something that will be further developed in the years ahead."
Bob McColm, the governor of Isle of Man Prison, said the report highlighted a series of "embarrassing" failures, including "confused communications" between the prison, parole board and police.
"I can't guarantee something like this will never happen again but I can guarantee that the system is improving," he added.
The move comes after similar downgrades from Fitch and Standard and Poor's.
The South African economy has been struggling of late, amid industrial action on the platinum mines earlier this year and recent electricity blackouts.
South Africa's economy narrowly avoided recession in the first half of the year.
Moody's downgraded South Africa one notch to Baa2, just two notches above "junk status".
While South Africa retains an investment grade, Moody's said its decision was based on "poor medium-term growth prospects due to structural weaknesses, including ongoing energy shortages as well as rising interest rates".
Earlier this week, the state-run electricity generator, Eskom, announced the possibility of rolling blackouts, after a coal silo collapsed at a power station in the east of the country.
Last month, South Africa's finance minister, Nhlanhla Nene, slashed this year's growth forecast for the economy to 1.4%, down from a previously forecast figure of 2.7%.
The slow growth has meant that the amount of tax the South African government has been able to raise fell below expectations, which pushed the budget deficit to 4.1% of GDP.
The country is also struggling with stubbornly high unemployment at around 25%.
Nonetheless, Moody's also changed its outlook from negative to stable, indicating that another ratings downgrade is unlikely any time soon.
It said that the government has provided a commitment to rein in its debt.
Reacting to the Moody's downgrade the South African Treasury said: "Government is committed to narrowing the budget deficit, stabilising debt and rebuilding the fiscal space that enabled South Africa to escape the worst effects of the global economic crisis."
South Africa is the continent's second largest, but most developed, economy and is much more exposed to the global financial system than its African counterparts.
Part of the slowdown in South Africa's economy is being blamed global conditions and its reliance on external capital.
Most analysts were unsurprised by the move by Moody's, given that both Standard And Poor's and Fitch had cut their ratings earlier in the year.
"Moody's has for some time now both stuck out versus the other agencies and been highlighting the weak structural position of the sovereign," said Peter Attard Montalto of Nomura.
Scotland's Reid beat Stephane Houdet in the semi-finals of the NEC Wheelchair Masters to confirm his status.
The 25-year-old, who won singles gold and doubles silver at the Rio Paralympics, won 6-2 6-1 at the Olympic Park in London.
"It feels incredible to be world number one," Reid told BBC Sport.
"It has been the best year of my career and to come here in the last tournament of the year and take the number one spot off Stephane shows I have earned it.
"Tomorrow's final is bonus territory."
Jamie Murray is part of the world's best men's doubles team with Brazilian Bruno Soares, while his younger brother Andy beat Novak Djokovic to cement his place as world number one in singles.
Reid came into his match having only dropped one set in his three round-robin games and he was in superb form against the Frenchman, who occupied the top spot coming into the season-ending event.
He raced into a 4-0 lead in the first set and with Houdet struggling to cope with his power and precision, he quickly wrapped up victory over the 46-year-old.
He will face defending champion Joachim Gerard in the final after the Belgian beat Sweden's Stefan Olsson 7-5 6-3.
Lapthorne lost his quad semi to Israel's Itay Erenlib but still finishes the year as number one in doubles.
He had won all six of his previous meetings against Erenlib but struggled to make an impact on Saturday and went down 6-2 6-4.
"I played horrible out there," the 26-year-old said. "I think I am cursed here - I had bad luck in 2012 at the Paralympics and every time I come back here I don't play well.
"It's a difficult one to take, especially as I had so many people here to support me, but there is nothing I can do."
Created during World War II, 617 Squadron carried out the "bouncing bomb" raid to destroy dams in Germany.
Now based at RAF Lossiemouth in Moray and flying Tornados, the reformed squadron will be stationed at RAF Marham in Norfolk.
The F-35B is also to be operated from aircraft carriers.
When it reforms in 2016, 617 Squadron will have both RAF and Royal Navy personnel.
There will also be another squadron flying Lightning II jets. It will carry a Royal Navy squadron number but have personnel from both services.
There are about 175 personnel in 617, who will transfer to other Tornado squadrons, retrain on the Typhoon aircraft, or move to another part of the organisation.
The disbandment forms part of the RAF's Tornado force drawdown and opens the way for the move of Typhoon squadrons from Leuchars in Fife to Lossiemouth.
Those squadrons will transfer from next year, with about 350 service personnel relocating to the Moray station.
Lightning IIs will be operated from the Royal Navy's two new Queen Elizabeth aircraft carriers, the first of which is nearing completion at Rosyth, in Fife.
Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton, made the announcement on the disbandment at a Royal United Services Institute conference on air power.
In a speech to senior representatives of air forces from around the world, Sir Stephen said 617 Squadron would disband on 1 April.
He said the move formed part of a planned drawdown of the RAF's Tornado GR4 force.
Sir Stephen said: "I am delighted to announce that 617 Squadron's outstanding contribution to the United Kingdom's air power - past and present - will unequivocally continue when it reforms as the UK's first operational F-35B Lightning II squadron."
He added: "Lightning shall be operated jointly by the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm pilots, from land or from the Queen Elizabeth Class carrier.
"Overall, a hugely flexible and futuristic joint capability."
Previously, 617 Squadron was disbanded when crews switched from Lancaster bombers to Vulcan jets - Britain's nuclear bomber - and then Tornado aircraft.
The 70th anniversary of the Dambusters raid was marked in May this year.
It was carried out by 133 airmen, flying 19 Lancaster bombers armed with the "bouncing bombs" designed by Sir Barnes Wallis.
Codenamed Operation Chastise, 56 of the men who took off on the mission did not return.
Out of 19 bombers, eight were shot down. Three men were captured and 53 were killed.
During a visit to Glasgow, Labour's Treasury spokesman Ed Balls will say Labour's first budget would end "Tory austerity".
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg will also be in Scotland to outline his plans to triple paternity leave.
The SNP will vow to cut VAT for emergency services and the Scottish Conservatives will focus on justice.
Elsewhere, the Scottish Greens will renew their election pledge to bring the railways back in to public ownership.
Voters across the UK go to the polls on 7 May.
On day three of the campaign Mr Balls is expected to say a vote for the SNP is a vote for continued Tory cuts. He said Labour would invest in the NHS, education and jobs in Scotland.
He will say: "Our tough but balanced plan, set out in our fiscal pledge, means we won't do this by increasing borrowing but with fair tax changes across the UK."
Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats will pledge to increase paternity leave from two weeks to six.
Mr Clegg will say: "For too long, mums have been told their place is at home with their child, while dads return to work.
"I want parents to choose for themselves how to balance work and family."
Scottish Justice Secretary Michael Matheson will campaign in Edinburgh for the SNP, calling for a change to VAT rules for emergency services.
Speaking ahead of the event, he said: "At a time when public services are being hammered by unprecedented Westminster budget cuts, it beggars belief that the UK government won't grant Scotland's police and fire services this vital VAT exception.
"Reversing these unfair rules would free up £23 million for police and £10 million for fire services - and this money could be invested in frontline staff."
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson will give a speech at the Scottish Police Federation Conference on law and order.
She is expected to say her party would end automatic early release, reintroduce life imprisonment for the most serious crimes, and make those who break a community payback order spend a night in jail.
At an event at Stirling railway station, the Scottish Greens will make their vow to bring the railways back into public ownership once current contracts expire.
It comes as the Dutch, state-owned company Abellio takes over the ScotRail franchise. UK law currently prevents public sector bids for rail franchises.
Scottish Green MSP Alison Johnstone, said: "Greens believe that the infrastructure arteries of our economy should be publicly-owned as default, so we'll continue the fight to change the law that prevents this."
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The umpires called play off at 16:30 BST without a ball being bowled.
The match had been well poised after day three, with Lancashire 178-4 in their second innings, leading by 130.
Earlier in the contest, Warwickshire's Andy Umeed (113) had struck the slowest century in County Championship history, reaching his ton in 429 minutes.
Emily Price, from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, had recently handed in her Aberystwyth University dissertation where she studied maths and physics.
She was also due to study for a Master's degree in the town next year.
The council held a minute's silence at its meeting on Monday, where Ms Price was due to make her declaration to become a councillor.
She was taken ill after being elected to the town's central ward, representing the Liberal Democrats.
Ceredigion MP Mark Williams posted a photograph of Ms Price on Twitter and wrote: "Terribly sad news today. We have lost a truly wonderful member of our Liberal family here in Ceredigion. RIP Emily."
Ms Price was also the incoming vice chair of the Welsh Young Liberals, IR Cymru.
Mark Cole, Honorary President of IR Cymru, said: "She will be greatly missed by all who knew her but she will be remembered with great fondness and love for everything that she achieved in her tragically short life and for everything that was left undone.
"Emily's time with us may have been heartbreakingly short, but what she gave to those around her will inform, inspire and motivate her friends for the rest of their lives."
He added Ms Price was a "real character" and a "beloved member" of the Aberystwyth University students' group, of which she was a former president.
"I was delighted when Emily herself was elected to Aberystwyth town council... she was going to contribute so much more to the civic life of her university town."
An Aberystwyth Students' Union spokesperson said: "Her passing will be deeply felt by many and our thoughts go out to all those who are close to Emily."
Prof Qiang Shen, director of the Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Sciences, said: "Emily had a particular interest and talent in communicating science to young people and encouraging them to study the subjects that she cared about so much.
"She was always the first to volunteer as a student ambassador and to help with outreach events within the university and at schools and festivals.
"With her quiet smile and enthusiasm, Emily will be fondly remembered and sorely missed by all her fellow students and staff at Aberystwyth."
But that's exactly what's happened to 9-year-old Billy Byron.
A chance meeting with top kids' author Michael Morpurgo has led to Billy's name being used in the bestselling writer's latest book, The Right Thing.
The book follows the life of Billy, a soldier, from the time of the First World War up until the start of the Second World War.
In September 2014, Michael Morpurgo told Newsround how the lead character came to take Billy's name: "At a reading, a little boy came up to me and said: 'I'd love you to use my name in a book'.
"It was Billy Byron, and I'm going to use it. I was looking - I am looking - for a hero's name in the next book that I'm writing."
When we spoke to Billy, he told us: "I was right at the back of the queue, and he was saying how patient I am.
"While he was signing my book, he asked my name, and my granny told him "Billy Byron", and he liked it. I thought, wow, this is exciting!"
Michael sent a special message to Billy, thanking him for letting him use his name, and saying the book's now finished.
Billy told us that he's "so excited to read it".
The creature was found on Wednesday in the grounds of The Coach House Care Home in Goldthorn Hill.
A wooden pole had been pushed through him and he was so badly hurt he had to be put down by a vet.
The RSPCA is appealing for information. RSPCA inspector Vicky Taylor said: "This was a really gruesome case and definitely deliberate. It was outright cruelty."
The charity said the area the hedgehog was found in was inaccessible to care home residents but could have been entered by the public.
Lee Stewart, RSPCA centre manager, said: "We always do all we can to save animals brought to us but sadly there was nothing we could do on this occasion, the stake had almost pierced through to the underside of the body.
"This poor hedgehog must have suffered terribly."
It is against the law to inflict unnecessary suffering on a wild mammal, with a maximum penalty of a £5,000 fine and six months imprisonment.
In the one-minute film, scenes of violence against children appear as animated tattoos on the former footballer's body.
David Beckham, now a Unicef goodwill ambassador, said he had been shocked by children's accounts of violence.
He is urging people to share the film on social media.
Beckham, 41, said his real tattoos represented happy or important memories, but the film was highlighting the fact millions of children bore marks they had not chosen - the long-lasting scars of violence and abuse.
The animations in the film depict forms of violence that children endure in places where they should be safe, such as their homes, schools, online and in their communities.
The father of four, said he was committed to doing "everything I can to make the world a safer place for children and to speak out on issues that are having a devastating impact on children's lives".
"One of those issues is violence," he said.
"Every five minutes, somewhere in the world, a child dies from violence.
"Millions more are in danger of physical, emotional and sexual abuse that could destroy their childhoods forever."
On a trip to Cambodia last year with Unicef, he heard children's first-hand accounts of the violence they had suffered.
"I was shocked by what I heard, and I saw how violence can leave deep and lasting scars," he said.
"No child should have to endure this.
"Yet in all corners of the world, in their homes, schools and on their streets, children are suffering similar violence."
Two-thirds of 190,000 children and young people around the world who responded to a Unicef call for information via its online U-report tool, said they had personally experienced physical or verbal abuse or knew someone else who had.
The responses suggested the biggest perpetrators were:
The campaign promotes a series of strategies to end violence against children, including:
Pond, 31, who joined Fleetwood from Lancaster City in 2003, is the club's all-time record appearance holder.
"It's terrific business and terrific news for us. He epitomises what we want to create within this club," manager Steven Pressley told the club website.
Pressley's side, captained by Pond, finished 19th in the league in 2015-16, five points above the relegation zone.
Syrian officials and activists reported on Sunday that Islamic State (IS) militants had blown up the temple.
In a statement, Unesco said it was "an immense loss for the Syrian people and for humanity".
IS took control of Palmyra in May, sparking fears for the site, considered one of the ancient world's most important cultural centres.
Syria's head of antiquities Maamoun Abdul Karim was quoted as saying the temple was blown up on Sunday, causing "much damage". The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that it happened a month ago.
The ancient city, which is a Unesco World Heritage site, is famed for its well-preserved Graeco-Roman ruins, and the Baalshamin temple, built nearly 2,000 years ago, is one of the city's best-known buildings.
"The systematic destruction of cultural symbols embodying Syrian cultural diversity reveals the true intent of such attacks, which is to deprive the Syrian people of its knowledge, its identity and history," Unesco Director-General Irina Bokova said.
Ms Bokova said those responsible "must be accountable for their actions".
The Islamic State group has destroyed several ancient sites in Iraq, which Unesco has also said was a war crime and an act of "cultural cleansing".
The militants believe any shrines or statues implying the existence of another deity are sacrilege and idolatry, and should be destroyed.
Emma Loosley, a professor at Exeter University who lived near the ancient city for three years, said the temple's cella (inner area) was "pretty much perfect".
"I can't think of another temple as beautifully preserved as the temple of Baalshamin, and what was special about Palmyra was that it was a unique culture," she told the BBC.
"It had its own gods, its own form of art and architecture that you don't get anywhere else."
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A week ago, it emerged that the archaeologist who had looked after Palmyra's ruins for four decades, Khaled al-Asaad, had been beheaded by the militant group.
Mr Abdul Karim said the 81-year-old had refused to tell IS where some treasures had been hidden, in an effort to save them.
The modern city of Palmyra - known locally as Tadmur - is situated in a strategically important area on the road between the Syrian capital, Damascus, and the eastern city of Deir al-Zour.
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She was woken up at about 00:30 BST on Saturday at her home in Chorley, Lancashire, to find the man assaulting her and demanding money.
The attacker pulled her from the bed and continued the assault before ransacking her house.
A 35-year-old man from Chorley has been arrested on suspicion of aggravated burglary.
The victim is being treated at Wigan Hospital for non life-threatening injuries, police said.
After her attacker ran off, she managed to crawl to a neighbour's house in Aspen Gardens and police were called.
Det Insp Warren Atkinson, of Lancashire Police, said: "This was a brutal and sustained assault on an elderly lady in her own home.
"The level of gratuitous violence used on this vulnerable woman simply beggars belief and it is a miracle she was not more seriously injured."
Police arrested the man following an "incredible response" from the public to an appeal for information.
"As a result of their help and through police inquiries we now have a man in custody and he will be questioned in due course," Det Insp Atkinson added.
The 13-7 loss means Chiefs have been beaten in all three of their matches and are 10 points behind group leaders Clermont Auvergne and can do no better than 15 from their remaining games.
"Three wins in the group last year were enough, but I can't see that happening.
"I would say it would be very tough for us, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to play for," Baxter said.
Exeter topped their pool last season after all four teams registered three wins and three losses.
"These games are very important, you've got to take them with a great deal of pride, as we saw with the way things wrapped up in our pool last season," Baxter told BBC Radio Devon.
"We owe it to everybody else to work very hard and make sure we make Bordeaux have to fulfil a huge fixture next week and when we have Ulster here, I'm expecting us to really turn up and make sure that is a huge fixture and the same when we go to Clermont.
"We're not just going to throw the hat in and we're not just going to fulfil them as non-fixtures. Far from it, they're going to be very important fixtures and very important for us as a side, developing individual players and have us absolutely flying in the Premiership."
US researchers studied the sleeping patterns of traditional societies in Africa and South America, whose lifestyles closely resemble ancient hunter gatherers.
They monitored 98 people for 1,165 nights, and found that they slept for an average of 6.5 hours per night.
By comparison, the scientists said that most people in the US get about seven hours, according to a large sleep poll.
The new study, published in the journal Current Biology, also finds that temperature played a greater role than light in shaping sleeping patterns.
Prof Jerome Siegel, from the University of California, Los Angeles, said: "The issue is: what is the data on how sleep has changed?
"And it occurred to me that these groups, which are rapidly disappearing, give the last opportunity to really know what human sleep was like before we all created our various civilisations.
"What is absolutely clear is that they don't sleep more than we do."
No naps
From artificial lights, to late night TV, and now the ever-present glow of our smart phones, modern life is often blamed for ruining our sleep.
To put this to the test, the researchers studied the Hadza of Tanzania, the San of Namibia and the Tsimane of Bolivia, fitting their volunteers with wristwatches that monitor sleep.
"All three groups have pretty much the same sleep duration and pretty much the same timing of sleep," said Prof Siegel.
"This gives me reasonable confidence that they reflect the common human biology and they are not a function of their particular situations, which are different."
As well as discovering that the average sleep duration was six hours and 25 minutes, the researchers also found the participants very rarely took naps.
While some European documents suggested that people used to wake up for a while during the night, sleeping in two shifts, the researchers found this was not the case with the hunter gatherers.
Surprisingly, natural light did not have as big an influence as was thought.
Most people fell asleep on average 3.3 hours after sunset.
However, temperature was an important factor.
"What we saw was quite striking - that sleep is occurring during this period of falling temperature and when the temperature hits bottom, they wake up," said Prof Siegel.
"This is quite surprising."
And despite the fact that these traditional societies slept less than the National Sleep Foundation's recommended seven to nine hours a night, the researchers said they did not grumble about being tired.
Insomnia was also extremely rare - and two of the groups did not even have a word for it.
Commenting on the research, Prof Derk-Jan Dijk, from the Surrey Sleep Research Centre at the University of Surrey, said that it was an important study but he did not agree that the data showed that our ancestors slept less than us.
"There are people in our society who don't get enough sleep, there is no doubt about it," he told BBC News.
"The question of whether we sleep that much less than so many years ago has been unanswered in ways - we need to be careful in interpreting that data."
He said that while the hunter gatherers did not fall asleep until several hours after sunset, artificial light was keeping us awake for even longer.
He explained: "We have artificial light in abundance and we have our clock-determined social commitments and the timing doesn't have anything to do with sunrise or sunset. We are to a large extent disconnected from those natural cycles.
"I think we need to re-evaluate the timing of our social schedules, including work, relative to the natural environment. Our social environment has an impact on when we decide to go to sleep and wake up.
"Also if we look at our environmental variables in the light-dark cycle in our homes and the temperature, I hope his paper will make us see how relevant are they for the timing of our behaviour."
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Police said Liverpool Football Club had cleared the stadium at 15:00 GMT as a "precautionary measure".
A search of the ground has been completed and officers are satisfied the stadium is secure, police said.
The club later confirmed the matter had been "resolved" and Wednesday night's Capital One Cup clash with Bournemouth would not be affected.
Merseyside Police said: "Officers and the club are satisfied that there are no people unaccounted for inside the ground."
Staff and visitors had been evacuated from the stadium, with club spokesman saying: "Our priority is to ensure the safety and wellbeing of everyone at the ground."
Later, Liverpool said in a statement: "The stadium was temporarily closed as a precautionary measure on Tuesday due to an incident, which has since been resolved.
"Therefore, the fixture with Bournemouth will be contested as scheduled, with Anfield unaffected by the incident that led to the temporary closure."
Apedelrazak Badram, 32, has been charged with three sexual offences and two counts of impersonating a police officer, Scotland Yard said.
The girl was raped near Sandhurst Road in Edmonton, north London, on Wednesday.
Detectives said it was linked to a second attempted assault on another 12-year-old girl the same day.
The girl attacked in nearby Shirley Grove managed to escape.
Mr Badram, of Enfield, north London, is also charged with false imprisonment, two counts of breaching a sexual offences prevention order, possession of class B drugs and theft.
He appeared in custody at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Saturday and will return to court next week.
People living up to 120m from the line who do not want to sell up will be offered a cash sum equivalent to 10% of the "unblighted" value of their home.
And those living between 120m and 300m from the proposed route will be eligible for up to £22,500 in support.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said people would be "looked after".
But the HS2 Action Alliance said "barely 3,000 homeowners" would benefit despite the fact that 172,000 households were within 1,000m of the phase one line, and 43,000 within 500m.
The announcement, which follows a government consultation, came as MPs said they were "sceptical" about whether the £50bn project would deliver value for money.
The Commons Public Accounts Committee said the budget for the scheme included a "generous contingency" which could be used to mask cost increases and suggested ministers lacked a "clear strategic plan" for the wider rail network.
The first phase of HS2 is due to open in 2026, followed by a V-shaped phase two taking the line from Birmingham to Manchester and Yorkshire.
Friday's package of compensation comes on top of existing guarantees to those living closest to the line.
Anyone living within 60m is being offered the chance to sell their properties to the government for their full value plus 10%, with stamp duty on a new home, legal costs and a share of moving costs also paid for.
As an alternative to the voluntary purchase scheme, the government is now offering assistance - in the form of a cash sum linked to the value of the property - to homeowners and businesses who want to remain where they are.
Those living between 120m and 300m from the line will qualify for cash payments of either £7,500, £15,000 or £22,500 depending on their proximity to the line.
Ministers say the payments, which will apply only to those living in rural areas and will be available if and when the legislation authorising the construction of HS2 is passed by Parliament, will enable people to "share early in the benefit of the railway".
Finally, the government said it was relaxing the criteria for helping those who live along the route "at any distance" from the route who want to sell their houses but cannot do so at their market value.
Those who have a "compelling reason" to sell will be eligible for a new "need-to-sell scheme" paying the full "unblighted value", including those who do not need to move immediately.
HS2 Ltd, the government-backed firm overseeing the project, said it had so far purchased 192 properties for phase one of HS2 and 41 for phase two of the line, at a total costs of £157m.
Mr McLoughlin said the package of support went "well beyond" the government's legal obligations and a new "residents' charter", overseen by a commissioner, would ensure people were treated fairly.
"This comprehensive package of compensation and assistance is looking after those people who live along the HS2 route while balancing our responsibilities to the taxpayer," he said.
But campaigners opposed to the rail line said it was "a white elephant trampling through the countryside" and restated their calls for the project to cancelled immediately.
"It is deeply unfair that so many ordinary people, who through no fault of their own happen to live near to the planned HS2 line, continue to be left to bear these losses with no help from the government," HS2 Action Alliance director Hilary Wharf said.
"People were promised 'full and fair' compensation and this promise has been broken time and time again."
The Commons Public Accounts Committee, which scrutinises government spending, has said it remains concerned about the government's ability to deliver HS2 on time and on budget.
The contingency fund gives the government a 95% assurance of delivering within budget, the committee said, but it added: "We are concerned that this will simply be used to mask cost overspends, rather than valid calls on contingency funds."
This week HS2 Ltd executive chairman Sir David Higgins told a House of Lords committee: "We should not assume the contingency will be spent."
The committee said the government had yet to publish proposals for how Scotland would benefit from HS2 and questioned the recent government backing for an "HS3" link between northern cities. Labour MP Margaret Hodge, who chairs the committee, said the government had not assessed HS3 before giving the go-ahead to HS2.
Executive director Brown said Dennis initiated his arrival before he was forced out of the company.
"Ron at the end of the day is the one who recruited me," said Brown at his first official engagement for McLaren at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
"The last couple of years he left the door open. He turned up the volume in pursuit of me. I wouldn't be talking to you right now if it wasn't for him."
Dennis, who retains the roles of chairman and chief executive of McLaren for now, has been put on gardening leave pending the end of his contract in mid-January.
From that point, Dennis's only involvement will be as a 25% shareholder and board member. He will have no active role in running the company.
Brown left his role as boss of the sports marketing agency JMI in September and chose the McLaren role over one working for new F1 owners Liberty Media, who are in the process of taking over the commercial rights of the sport.
Brown said he chose McLaren because he had been a lifelong fan and his task was to "be part of a team that gets back to winning world championships".
He said saw McLaren's task as three-fold - attract more fans and more sponsorship and thereby raise the money needed to succeed.
Dennis' failure to find a title sponsor for the last three years was one of the reasons for his departure, but Brown has a reputation as F1's foremost sponsor-finder.
He said he and chief operating officer Jonathan Neale were jointly responsible for "the collective efforts of running the F1 both commercial and motorsports operations".
"I have more of a commercial background. Jonathan has a technical background," Brown said.
"The two of us are working very closely together on the phone and we report to the executive committee, which is made up of Sheikh Mohammed and Mansour Ojjeh."
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That makes him senior to McLaren Racing's new chief executive Jost Capito, who joined the company in September from his former position as head of Volkswagen Motorsport.
There are reports of friction between Capito and McLaren's racing director Eric Boullier, but Brown said it was too early to say whether any changes were needed.
"I have not started yet," Brown said. "I don't know what I don't know.
"Jonathan is much closer to the technical side so we are going to be sitting down and working out what's the best way for McLaren to get into the winners' circle."
Brown said he had "no idea" how long it would take McLaren to return to winning ways but "I just hope it is sooner rather than later".
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Unlike infections such as influenza, Ebola was not airborne, it said.
As a consequence, Kenya Airways has rejected pressure to suspend its flights to the Ebola-hit states of West Africa where more than 1,000 people have died of the virus this year.
Meanwhile, two people have died in Nigeria after drinking a salt solution rumoured to prevent Ebola infection.
The BBC's Ishaq Khalid in Nigeria says text messages began circulating in Nigeria towards the end of last week recommending that people drink and bath in a salt solution as a way to stop getting the virus, for which there is no cure or vaccine.
Despite the health minister scotching the rumour, many people have been admitted into hospital after drinking salt water.
Dr Joseph Lumba, the director of public health in the central Nigerian state of Benue, told the BBC that two patients had died in Makurdi city hospital on Wednesday.
But he also said such admissions were now lower following an intensive public campaign to dispel the salt myth.
A fourth Ebola death has been now been recorded in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation.
An official at Nigeria's National Disease Control Centre told the BBC the victim was another nurse who had come into contact with Liberian government employee Patrick Sawyer, who brought the disease to the city of Lagos in July.
Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with the body fluids of a person who is infected. Initial flu-like symptoms can lead to external haemorrhaging from areas such as eyes and gums, and internal bleeding which can lead to organ failure.
On Wednesday, a WHO official had said that Kenya had been classified as a "high-risk" country for the spread of the deadly Ebola virus because the East African nation was a major transport hub, with many flights from West Africa.
But on Thursday, Dr Isabelle Nuttall, director of WHO global capacity alert and response, said the agency was advising against trade or travel bans to and from affected countries.
Usually Ebola victims were too unwell to travel, and as a result, the likelihood of other passengers and crew having direct contact with them was small, Dr Nuttall said.
"Because the risk of Ebola transmission on airplanes is so low, WHO does not consider air transport hubs at high risk for further spread of Ebola," she added.
Instead, countries should identify and care for travellers originating from known Ebola-infected areas who arrive at airports or major land crossing points with "unexplained fever and other symptoms", the WHO said.
The outbreak began in Guinea in February and has since spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, which have all declared a national health emergency.
There have been a total of 1,069 lives lost to the virus and 1,975 cases, according to latest WHO figures.
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Polling stations opened their doors at 07:00 BST and will close at 22:00.
Votes are being cast in elections at Southampton and Portsmouth city councils, eight other district councils as well as for Hampshire's PCC.
Across England elections are taking place for more than 120 councils, and to elect 36 PCCs.
Ming Pao's management said on Wednesday that Keung Kwok-yuen was dismissed in a cost-cutting exercise.
But journalist unions and the paper's staff have said they believe it was a politically motivated move.
Ming Pao ran a story on Wednesday about Hong Kong politicians and individuals named in the Panama Papers leak.
The papers, leaked from a Panama law firm, exposed offshore business dealings by the rich and powerful around the world.
The sudden departure of veteran editor Mr Keung comes amid increasing concern in Hong Kong about the territory's freedoms within China.
Mr Keung, who was executive chief editor, was dismissed late on Tuesday night with immediate effect.
Editor-in-chief Chong Tien Siong said it was a resources decision in a "difficult business environment".
But the paper's staff association expressed "extreme dissatisfaction and anger", and asked whether the sacking was about "punishing staff members who have different opinions on editorial issues".
On Wednesday, staff members staged a protest outside the newspaper's offices. A joint statement by eight other journalists' associations in Hong Kong said the public was owed an explanation.
The sacking comes two years after the paper's then chief editor Kevin Lau was also dismissed, and replaced by Mr Chong, who was widely seen as more pro-Beijing.
Mr Lau was later stabbed by two men who fled to mainland China and were subsequently jailed. They alleged they had been paid to carry out the attack but refused to say by whom.
Hong Kong is part of China, but enjoys many civil liberties, such as freedom of speech, expression and assembly, because of its status as a special administrative region.
Selica Winiata scored an early try for the Black Ferns but Ireland were only 5-3 behind at the break.
New Zealand surged clear in the second half with three tries from Portia Woodman while Winiata and Kelly Brazier also touched down for the tourists.
Niamh Kavanagh went over for a late consolation try for the Irish at the UCD Bowl.
The try was converted by full-back and captain Niamh Briggs, who returned to the team after missing the defeats by England and Canada because of a hamstring injury.
It is the first time Ireland have failed to win any of their games in the November Series.
Ireland: Niamh Briggs; M Coyne, N Fowley, S Naoupu, C McLaughlin; N Stapleton, L Muldoon; L Peat, C Moloney, A Egan; ML Reilly, O Fitzsimons; C Griffin, C Molloy, P Fitzpatrick.
Replacements: L Lyons, F Hayes, F Reidy, N Fryday, C Cooney, M Healy, J Shiels, N Kavanagh.
The defending champions, who won all four Grand Slams in 2014, progressed to this year's final with a 6-0 6-3 victory over Britain's Louise Hunt and Germany's Katharina Kruger.
Whiley and Kamiji will face Aniek Van Koot and Jiske Griffioen on Sunday.
The Dutch second seeds beat Britain's Lucy Shuker and Germany's Sabine Ellerbrock 6-2 6-4 in their semi-final.
The former Australia and Japan boss last week signed a four-year contract to replace Stuart Lancaster.
Ford, likely to be a key part of Jones' plans in the Six Nations, said: "I'm sure all the English boys are trying to put their best foot forward.
"He obviously did a great job with Japan in the World Cup and he has a great CV which speaks for itself."
The 55-year-old Australian, England's first foreign coach, will start work in December and his first match will be England's Six Nations opener against Scotland at Murrayfield on 6 February.
Ford told BBC Radio 5 live: "I've spoken to some team-mates [at Bath] who have worked under him, and they are all full of positive things, so I'm looking forward to it."
Ford kicked a late penalty to seal victory for Bath against Leinster in the European Champions Cup on Saturday, and impressed along with another England hopeful, centre Kyle Eastmond.
"Ultimately you've got to play as well as you can [for your club], and perform on the weekend," Ford added.
Meanwhile, Bath head coach Mike Ford said the Rugby Football Union had made the right call in appointing someone of Jones' experience.
"The more experience you have, the better coach you are," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"He's been to a World Cup final with Australia, was a consultant when South Africa beat us in 2007, and he's done really well with Japan.
"He's coached in different continents, he's got loads of experience, so I think it's a good appointment."
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Its foreign ministry said the Syrian government would participate "in order for Syrians themselves to find a political path to a solution".
It follows efforts to get all the sides involved in the peace talks.
Syria's main opposition group entered a second day of talks Friday aimed at finding an approach to the conference.
"We note with satisfaction that we have received an agreement in principle from Damascus to attend the international conference, in the interest of Syrians themselves finding a political path to resolve the conflict, which is ruinous for the nation and region," Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said.
The international conference, backed by Russia and the US, aims to find a political solution to the conflict in Syria, based on the final communique of the UN-backed Action Group for Syria meeting in the Swiss city in June 2012.
The communique called for an immediate end to violence and the establishment of a transitional government that could include officials serving under President Bashar al-Assad and members of the opposition.
US Secretary of State John Kerry warned the Syrian president on Wednesday that if he was not prepared to make "a commitment to find peace in his country", the US and others would consider increasing backing for his opponents.
"Our understanding [is that] if Geneva 2 were not on the horizon, all we would be looking at is the continued tragic disintegration of the county that will go down further into more violence and more destruction," he added.
On Thursday, the outgoing leader of Syria's main opposition coalition Moaz al-Khatib put forward a detailed plan for the transition of power in Syria.
The proposal came at the start of three days of talks in Istanbul aimed at revamping the membership and leadership of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces.
It stipulates that Mr Assad must leave office, a demand likely to be rejected by Mr Assad and his key backer, Russia. It also calls for Mr Assad and his family to be given a safe exit if he stands down.
The National Coalition demanded on Friday that the Syrian government confirm for itself whether it would be taking part in the international peace conference, the news agency AFP reports.
The UN says that more than 80,000 people have been killed since the uprising against the Syrian president began in March 2011. There are 1.5 million refugees taking shelter in neighbouring countries and an estimated 4.25 million internally displaced people.
The PM said Britain and the US had an "enduring and special relationship" and would remain close partners on trade, security and defence.
Labour's Jeremy Corbyn said an economic system that "isn't working for most people" had been rejected.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon urged Mr Trump to "reach out" to those feeling "marginalised" by his campaign.
UKIP's Nigel Farage drew parallels with the Brexit campaign and said he would "hand over the mantle" to the Republican.
In a statement issued by Downing Street, Mrs May - who had previously criticised some of Mr Trump's remarks - said: "I would like to congratulate Donald Trump on being elected the next president of the United States, following a hard-fought campaign.
"Britain and the United States have an enduring and special relationship based on the values of freedom, democracy and enterprise.
"We are, and will remain, strong and close partners on trade, security and defence.
"I look forward to working with President-elect Donald Trump, building on these ties to ensure the security and prosperity of our nations in the years ahead."
In December 2015 she criticised the Republican's call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States, saying it was "divisive, unhelpful and wrong".
At the time Mrs May, who was then home secretary, also said Mr Trump's remark that police were afraid to enter some parts of London because of radicalisation was "nonsense", saying: "I just think it shows he does not understand the UK and what happens in the UK."
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson tweeted his congratulations to Mr Trump and said he was "much looking forward to working with his administration on global stability and prosperity".
Like Mrs May, he has previously attacked Mr Trump's comments about London, saying that "the only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump".
Mr Corbyn said Mr Trump's victory was "a rejection of a failed economic consensus and a governing elite that has been seen not to have listened".
He added: "And the public anger that has propelled Donald Trump to office has been reflected in political upheavals across the world."
The Labour leader also said Mr Trump's campaign had been "nasty and divisive" and that he looked forward to "robust discussions" with the president-elect about climate change and the importance of the United Nations.
Ms Sturgeon congratulated Mr Trump but said his victory was not the outcome she had hoped for, adding: "I hope the president-elect will take the opportunity to reach out to those who felt marginalised by his campaign and make clear - in deeds as well as words - that he will be a president for everyone in modern, multicultural America."
Her predecessor Alex Salmond said Mr Trump - who has extensive business interests in Scotland - said the President-elect was a "protectionist" when it came to trade but he hoped that his views would change in the White House.
"The difficulty with Donald Trump is not when he's winning, it's when he's not getting his own way," he said.
"He's nice as nine pence when he's getting his own way. It's what happens when he reaches road blocks, obstacles, when somebody says no to him... In these circumstances we'd better all just hope that the Presidency changes a man."
Mr Trump was criticised by a number of UK MPs during the campaign, including during a Commons debate in January on banning him from the country.
As Westminster reacted to his victory, Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said the values of "moderation, freedom, respect for the rule of law, openness and concern for one another" had been defeated, while Green Party joint leader Caroline Lucas said it was "a devastating day".
However, Conservative MP Michael Fabricant highlighted Mr Trump's reported enthusiasm for a trade deal with the UK, comparing this with the outgoing president's "back of the queue" comment.
Mr Farage, who joined Mr Trump on stage during the campaign, congratulated him on his "brave" campaign.
"We now have a President who likes our country and understands our post-Brexit values," he said. "Voters across the Western world want nation state democracy, proper border controls and to be in charge of their own lives."
Steve Hilton, a former adviser to David Cameron in Downing Street, said the Republican tycoon won because Americans could see in him "someone who might make a difference to their lives".
Sir Peter Westmacott, who was UK Ambassador to the US until earlier this year, said Mr Trump had been a "law until himself" during the campaign and it was not clear who would form his foreign policy team.
While there were significant policy differences that would need to be "ironed out", he told BBC Radio 4's World at One that the UK's relationship with the US was strong and it was natural for Mrs May to want a "fresh start" following Trump's election.
The Tony Martin-trained gelding sustained the injury while working at the Curragh on Saturday.
County Meath-based Martin spoke of his sadness after the seven-year-old's death.
"He did everyone proud and was more than a horse, he was some character and so genuine," said Martin.
"So many people wanted him when he retired because he was such a lovely horse.
"He took us to so many places and the plan this season was to go back out to Melbourne and have another whack.
"He was having a gallop ahead of running on the Flat next week at the Curragh."
Heartbreak City won the Ebor at York last August before heading to Australia where he was beaten just a head by Almandin in the Group One feature at Flemington in November.
Darren Dance, whose Australian Thoroughbred Bloodstock syndicate raced the seven-year-old in partnership with the Here For The Craic Partnership, also paid tribute to the six-times winner.
"It's just so tragic because he was such a lovely, quiet animal and he gave us so much joy."
HSBC shares climbed 4.2%, making it the biggest riser on the FTSE 100, after Morgan Stanley raised its rating on the bank to "overweight".
The FTSE 100 index though shed its earlier gains to end down 37.48 at 7,350.32 points.
Mining companies were higher with shares boosted by rising metals prices.
Glencore and Rio Tinto and Antofagasta were both up by more than 2%.
Shares in Sky also performed well despite a probable referral to competition authorities of Murdoch giant Fox's plan to take it over fully.
It closed up more than 3%.
In the FTSE 250, shares in packaging firm DS Smith rose 8% after it said it had entered the US market by buying an 80% stake in US firm Interstate Resources for $920m (£709m).
However, shares in sportswear chain JD Sports fell 8% after if said it was facing pressure on profit margins and added that recent trading had been affected by the timing of the Islamic festival of Eid.
On the currency markets, the pound continued to strengthen. Against the dollar it was up 0.4% at $1.2984, although it was flat against the euro at 1.1365 euros.
On Wednesday, the pound had jumped by nearly 1% after the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, suggested that interest rates could rise if business investment grows.
Det Sgt Andrew Mottau is alleged to have told the woman to make him cups of tea "when the black monkey starts to sing", Thames Valley Police said.
He is also accused of making racist remarks and asking her to "embrace" the monkey in the period between 15 August and 15 September 2016.
A four-day misconduct hearing will start in Oxford on 24 April.
The force, which covers Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, said it could not say where Det Sgt Mottau is based.
The city has an above average number of people claiming out-of-work benefits, despite rising employment in Scotland.
UK and Scottish government ministers will meet representatives from Dundee City Council, businesses and universities.
Scotland Office Minister Andrew Dunlop and Deputy First Minister John Swinney will attend the event at Malmaison.
Official figures show that in Dundee the proportion of the working-age population claiming out of work benefits was 3.2% in January, compared with a Scotland-wide figure of 2.2%.
Dundee City Council's director of city development Mike Galloway told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: "We need to stimulate investment that grows and diversifies our job space.
"On the supply side, we need to prepare our citizens to take advantage of the emerging work opportunities when they arise."
Mr Galloway said the opening of the V&A Museum of Design in Dundee in 2018 would attract a "huge number" of new tourists.
He said: "We need to develop the hotels and restaurants and hospitality side that will support that.
"Also, the offshore renewable market, we believe, offers a fantastic opportunity to bring properly-paid engineering jobs back into Dundee."
The city's employment rate was 63.3% between October 2014 and September 2015, below the average rate for Scotland of 73.1%.
Lord Dunlop said: "Dundee is a city with huge potential and promise, but unemployment is a significant issue which needs to be tackled.
"The best way of doing that is if Scotland's two governments work with the local authorities, businesses, entrepreneurs and other organisations with the city's best interests at heart."
Van Praag, 68, has headed the Dutch FA since 2008, and is also vice-president of European football's governing body.
The Dutchman is up against Slovenian FA president Aleksander Ceferin, with the vote taking place on 14 September.
"Mr Van Praag would provide the strong leadership European football requires," said FA vice-chairman David Gill.
"In all, he has a proven track record across domestic and international matters that can only help Uefa go forward."
The announcement comes after Spanish football boss Angel Maria Villar Llona pulled out of the presidency race.
Uefa is seeking a new president after former France midfielder Michel Platini quit on 9 May, after failing to overturn his ban from all football activities.
Platini was found guilty of ethics breaches over a 2m Swiss Franc (£1.3m) payment he received from world football's governing body Fifa.
The population of the Outer Hebrides is 27,070, according to the most up-to-date figure which was released in June last year.
The number of people is 180 fewer than there were in 2014.
The comhairle said the framework for a policy to tackle population decline would be developed at the seminar.
Islands Minister Humza Yousaf will be invited to attend the event in autumn, the local authority added.
Councillor Angus Campbell said: "Attracting people to our islands is something we have worked on for many years and positive net migration is an essential part of counteracting the negative natural change that the Outer Hebrides continues to experience.
"These islands offer a good quality of life, but we also need to provide the infrastructure for people to fulfil their aspirations and for that we need good and affordable housing, good services and most importantly a multi-agency approach."
Depopulation has been a long running issue for the Western Isles.
Nine years ago, research commissioned by the comharile suggested that more women than men were leaving the islands.
The Hebrides Migration Study also found that fewer women were moving to the islands.
The study said there had been long-term decline between 1901 and 2001, which was steepest in Harris, the Uists and Barra.
But it also gave a forecast that there would be more people by 2019 - but fewer schoolchildren, people of working age and women of child-bearing age.
Mark Denton, a promising middleweight when he was younger, was attacked with an axe in front of onlookers at a house in Hutton Avenue, Hartlepool.
The 31-year-old suffered 55 separate injuries as the pair took it in turns to hack at him, and died in hospital.
David Sowerby, 24, and Anthony Middleton, 21, denied murder but were found guilty at Teesside Crown Court.
Both received a life sentence, with Sowerby to serve a minimum of 27 years in prison and Middleton to serve at least 23.
The trial heard that Sowerby, of Allerton Close, Hartlepool, had a grievance against Mr Denton following an argument a few months' earlier.
Along with Middleton, of Bruntoft Avenue, he set upon Mr Denton, who at one point was left with an axe embedded in his skull.
Afterwards, the pair washed and burnt their clothes and disposed of the axe on wasteland, before handing themselves in to the police the next day.
The court was told that a number of those who were at the party and witnessed the murder had to receive counselling.
Mr Denton's parents, Ann and Brian Denton, said the outcome of the trial would not bring their son back, but did provide "some justice" for him.
They said in a statement: "We wake up on a morning thinking we have had the worst nightmare possible, until we realise that it's actually real and Mark is gone.
"They have not only killed Mark, but killed us both inside"
They described Mr Denton as a "big softy" and a "good lad at heart".
Det Ch Insp Anne-Marie Salwey from Cleveland Police said: "In my career as a detective I have never known such a brutal and horrific murder, and one that was played out in front of so many innocent witnesses."
She described the murder as "cold-blooded" and said Sowerby and Middleton had shown no remorse for their crime.
The civil servants, many of them from HMRC, will be relocated from offices in Whitehall, the Cabinet Office said.
Barclays said the deal would save £35m a year as part of a cost-cutting plan.
The bank has about 3,300 staff in the office - mainly back office teams for the investment bank and other support staff.
The Barclays staff will move to Barclays' two other Canary Wharf sites - its main headquarters at 1 Churchill Place and its building on 5 North Colonnade, where its investment bank is based.
The UK Cabinet Office lease on the 10 South Colonnade building will run for 15 years. The building is owned by Canary Wharf Group.
"This new hub will provide a better working environment for many London-based civil servants at considerably less cost to the taxpayer," said minister for the Cabinet Office Ben Gummer.
The 22-year-old is a USA Under-23 international and started his career with MLS side Colorado Rapids, playing 53 times.
He could make his debut for the U's in Saturday's game against struggling Dagenham & Redbridge.
Shaun Derry's men are currently 11th in League Two, three points outside the play-off places.
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The force has released images of the suspects and said the stolen gold, worth a lot for sentimental reasons, is "irreplaceable".
A 39-year-old man is being hunted in connection with the crime.
More than 1,400 people were arrested over burglary offences from 21 September to 14 December, the Met said.
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Simon Letchford at the Met's Territorial Policing arm said he was stepping up efforts to find and arrest "outstanding wanted suspects" to tackle burglary in the run up to Christmas.
He asked anyone with information to get in touch.
Mr Letchford added: "We will use every means at our disposal to catch those wanted so they can face justice, so our message is clear, 'if your face is on this list, hand yourself in - don't ruin Christmas for your family'."
But what about the man who will bring the character to life?
Chadwick Boseman will first appear in Captain America: Civil War in 2016, before taking on the lead role in Black Panther the following year.
The 38-year-old's first major credit on screen was as a reporter called Reginald "Reggie" Porter Montgomery.
That was in long-running US soap opera All My Children in 2003.
From there, he went on to make appearances as an extra in a string of shows including Law & Order, CSI and - as many up and coming actors before him - ER.
The athleticism needed for his Marvel roles shouldn't be too much of an issue based on his experience in sport-based films The Express, Draft Day and 42.
His most recent role as James Brown in Get On Up also confirmed the man's got moves, as well as giving him a solid slab of critical acclaim and a taste of being on set with A-listers Dan Aykroyd and singer Jill Scott.
Taking on Black Panther will see him acting alongside Robert Downey Jr (Iron Man) and Chris Evans (Captain America).
Speaking at the Marvel launch in Hollywood, Boseman said: "I'm blessed to be a part of this Marvel Universe."
Although no details were given about the plot of Black Panther, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige suggested the character has the potential to become a large part of the Marvel franchise.
He said: "He's a bit of a prince, he may even become a bit of a king."
Real Name: T'Challa
Height: 6'
Weight: 200 lbs
Powers: T'Challa's senses and physical attributes have been enhanced to superhuman levels by the heart-shaped herb.
Abilities: Marvel describes Black Panther as "a brilliant tactician, strategist, scientist, tracker and a master of all forms of unarmed combat whose unique hybrid fighting style incorporates acrobatics and aspects of animal mimicry".
Back story: T'Challa is a royal descendent of a warrior race who "will go to extreme measures to achieve his goals and protect the kingdom of Wakanda".
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Unite the union will call eight 24 hour strikes across four sites, starting on 19 April and ending on 24 May.
It will be the first time that staff at BMW's UK operations have staged a walk-out.
BMW employs about 8,000 people and Unite says that the action could involve up to 3,500 workers who are in final-salary pension schemes.
Unite claims that BMW's intention to close the pension scheme by 31 May could reduce employees' retirement income by £160,000.
BMW said it was "disappointed" at the prospect of industrial action.
The German company said it had always provided "excellent pensions" for staff but wanted to protect future pension provision and to improve the competitiveness of its UK operations.
The company has put a number of options on the table to help employees transition to the proposed new pension arrangements and it remains open to negotiation," BMW said.
Unite's general secretary, Len McCluskey, urged the company to step back from its May deadline to find a settlement.
"Bosses in the UK and BMW's headquarters in Munich cannot feign surprise that it's come to this point. Unite has repeatedly warned of the anger their insistence to railroad through the pension scheme's closure would generate and the resulting industrial action," he said.
"BMW's bosses need to get their heads out of the sand and recognise their pension pinching plans will not go unchallenged."
The strikes will take place at several sites. BMW makes the Mini at Cowley near Oxford and Rolls-Royce cars at Goodwood.
It also manufactures engines at Hams Hall, Birmingham and has a plant that makes parts for the Mini at Swindon.
The review shows only 16 of 142 hospital sites offer specialists on site 24/7.
The report is the first since the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway was scrapped.
NHS experts acknowledge steady improvements in the last two years, but warn there is still work to do.
The Liverpool Care Pathway was phased out amid criticisms it had been misused as a tick-box exercise, leaving some patients without food and water.
In its place a series of guidelines has suggested moving away from a one-size-fits-all approach, instead focusing on individual care.
This report, led by the Royal College of Physicians, shows there have been broad improvements in all areas.
Researchers found, for example, that communication with patients and relatives had improved.
But there were still a number of concerns.
In 18% of the 9,000 patient notes researchers examined, there was no written evidence to suggest that do-not-resuscitate decisions had been discussed with relatives or friends.
And in around 3,000 notes there was no evidence that the patient's ability to eat and drink had been assessed on the last day of life.
But the researchers' main concern was that many patients and doctors did not have full access to on-site palliative care specialists at evenings and weekends.
The majority of hospitals did offer a specialist telephone helpline at all times and 53 of 142 hospital sites offered face-to-face palliative care on Monday to Sunday between 9am to 5pm.
But for 26 trusts there was no record of face-to-face specialist palliative care involving doctors at any time.
Study-lead Dr Sam Ahmedzai, argues the situation is not good enough.
He said: "We know that most front-line doctors and nurses giving end-of-life care do it to a very good standard.
"But the problem happens when things start to go wrong and often they go wrong out-of-hours in the middle of the night and at weekends.
"Then doctors and nurses who may be inexperienced need to be able to access specialists in palliative care."
He says without this, patients with complex problems may not get the care they need.
Julie Coombes' father found out he had bowel cancer in May 2015. He was in and out of hospital for three months. But Ms Coombes, 33, from Plymouth, says her father didn't feel he had good care there. She says his symptoms and sickness couldn't be controlled, so the family decided to take him out of hospital to die at home.
She said: "While he was in hospital the palliative care team came for about five minutes, while he was in his bed with everyone around and just said you are going to die.
"Apart from that we did not get any leaflets or any help... It is not something I would want anyone else to experience."
Dr Kevin Stewart, of the Royal College of Physicians, said in general he was encouraged by the improvements.
But he added: "We are disappointed that there are still major deficiencies in the provision of specialist palliative care at nights and weekends by many trusts; patients and their families deserve the same level of service whatever the day of the week."
Dr Adrian Tookman, at the charity Marie Curie, which part-funded the review, said "We can't ignore the fact that the vast majority of dying people and those close to them still have limited or no access to specialist palliative care support when they need it in hospital. This is not right, nor good enough.
"Care of the dying has no respect for time, so if we are to deliver a consistent 7-day service by 2020, it is critical that funding is directed towards recruiting and training doctors and nurses to provide specialist care now."
NHS England, which commissioned the review, welcomed the improvements, but said it was clear that more could be done.
A spokesperson added: "Although this audit presents a snapshot of end-of-life care within NHS hospitals, there are clear variations in the support and services received - and there are areas where improvements must continue to be made."
Winston Blackmore, 61, is accused of having 24 wives and his former brother-in-law James Oler, 53, is alleged to have married four women.
They are both former bishops of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS).
The landmark polygamy trial is expected to test the boundaries of religious freedom in Canada.
Polygamy is illegal under Section 293 of Canada's Criminal Code.
Mr Blackmore's lawyer has argued that criminalising polygamy infringes on his client's freedom of religion.
Both men face a maximum sentence of five years if found guilty.
Their trial took place in a British Columbia (BC) court this spring over the course of two-and-a-half weeks.
The two are from Bountiful in southeastern BC, a religious community of about 1,500 people and founded in 1946.
Residents are part of a breakaway Mormon sect, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) and have practised polygamy for over 70 years.
Mr Blackmore was excommunicated from the FLDS in 2002 and replaced by Mr Oler.
The sect has branches in the US, including Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, and about 10,000 members.
The FLDS split from the mainstream Mormon church over a century ago after it banned the practice of polygamy.
FLDS sect members are said to see polygamy as necessary for reaping reward in the afterlife.
The American former FLDS leader, Warren Jeffs, was sentenced to life in prison in 2011 by a Texas court for sexually assaulting two underage girls that he took as brides.
This June, his brother Lyle Jeffs was arrested in South Dakota after fleeing house arrest in 2016 while awaiting trial with 10 other sect leaders for alleged food stamp fraud and money laundering.
Authorities in the US and Canada have collaborated on building cases against FLDS leaders.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has had Bountiful in its sights since the 1990s over allegations of child abuse, coerced marriages, and the trafficking of teenage brides between the US and Canada.
Attempts to bring the case to trial stumbled over a lack of clarity around anti-polygamy laws in Canada.
In 2011, the BC Supreme Court upheld Canada's anti-polygamy law as constitutional following a request for clarification from BC's government.
According to the 335-page ruling, the law is a reasonable restriction on religious freedoms.
Justice Robert Bauman wrote that the "salutary effects of the prohibition far outweigh the deleterious" and noted that the institution of monogamous marriage "seeks to protect against the many harms which are reasonably apprehended to arise out of the practice of polygamy".
Those "many harms" cited included the possibility of early sexualisation of girls, physical or sexual abuse, and the ostracisation of young men.
Queens University law professor Nick Bala, who was an intervenor in the 2011 BC court reference, says that questions around the constitutional validity of the law as well as difficulty gathering admissible evidence from the women involved with the sect made a case a struggle to build.
Mr Bala expects Monday's verdict will be closely watched not just in Canada but in the US and Europe as well, where the debate around plural marriages is a significant issue.
Polygamy is illegal throughout the western world.
"This is a matter of national and indeed international significance and it's likely to end up in the Supreme Court of Canada," he said.
Mr Bala says there is still sufficient legal doubt around the constitutionality of the anti-polygamy law that he is not willing to predict Monday's verdict.
After a draw with Lithuania and defeat by Slovakia, the Scots can ill-afford a loss at Wembley, but Fletcher believes a draw would be a good result.
"Even with a couple of disappointing results, we are by no means out of it. We can't be get drawn into these "must win" games.
"A point would be a decent result for us," Fletcher said.
"We are [not] playing for a draw [but] if we can get a result, we are still involved in the group with big games coming up in 2017."
Fletcher says the prospect of facing their oldest rivals will give Scotland added motivation going into the Group F clash.
"It doesn't get much bigger than this - there will be a little more fire in the belly, it being England v Scotland," the West Brom midfielder explained.
"Every time you lead your country out it is important but there is no bigger stage than Wembley in front of 90,000 fans.
"We went out to the stadium and had a look around. It's a great excitement. It will be a great occasion and hopefully we can get the result to remember it by."
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Fletcher will lead the team out at Wembley - if selected - despite the return from a brief international retirement of Celtic midfielder Scott Brown.
He welcomed the personal and playing qualities that his fellow midfielder adds to the squad now that he is back, and admitted the prospect of such a significant competitive fixture against old rivals England is inspiring.
Fletcher warned, though, that the passion of the Scottish players and fans will be matched by their opponents, who will be expected to prevail at Wembley - where they haven't lost a competitive game since 2007.
"It will be a bit of a derby game," Fletcher said. "It is a big game for England as well, let's not forget.
"They are at home, they are under pressure to perform in front of their own fans. Wembley is not the easiest place to play when there is expectancy on you, especially with 90,000 people there.
"It will be difficult for them but the passion will not call come from the Scotland side, English players have plenty passion. I [saw] that at Celtic Park in the friendly [in 2014], they came out all guns blazing, it meant so much to them, [and] that was a friendly match.
"Every time you represent your country and lead your country out it is massive there is no bigger place to do it as a Scotsman, to walk out at Wembley in front of 90,000 fans and 10 teammates behind you, desperate to get a result and create a bit of history. It is a monumental moment and one I am relishing.
"We are not going in here with fear or on a real low, we get disappointed after results but it gives you a bit of steel and determination to go out there and try to put it right.
"It is an occasion I am going to try to enjoy. I looked around the stadium and it is exciting, a great arena to play football in. I am sure there will be many more than 14,000 fellow Scotsman cheering us on and hopefully we can get the result we can remember it by."
"I'm a terrible punter!" he insists.
The 36-year-old does, however, often get asked for tips because of the university course he is enrolled on - an MBA (Master of Business Administration) in thoroughbred horseracing industries.
Launched in 2015, the two-year course at Liverpool University has been specially designed for people who want to take up a senior administrative or leadership role in the sport.
A sister MBA at the college is called football industries.
While the two courses sound like a most enjoyable way to spend your time at university, they are in fact part of a growing trend - the rise of specialised MBAs.
MBAs have long been considered a must-have for ambitious young people seeking a fast-tracked and successful career in business.
The celebrated post-graduate qualification is supposed to teach you all you need to be a future company leader, and places on MBA courses at the world's most prestigious universities are highly sought after, and therefore very difficult to get accepted on.
Yet while it used to be the case that having a standard MBA was all you needed, such has been the rise in the number of colleges offering them, and people gaining the qualification, that specialised MBAs are now being increasingly offered with the aim of giving people an advantage in the industry they wish to join.
"Specialisation gives universities and students a way to stand out," says Anke Arnaud, associate professor of management at Embry-Riddle Aeronautics University in Florida.
"If everyone is offering an MBA programme, you have to find a way to differentiate, to innovate.
"It starts with attracting lecturers who have a depth of knowledge, and courses that are hip, in the now, and sexy.
"There's a need to offer something different to cater to specific careers."
At Liverpool University the horseracing MBA includes the study of marketing, sponsorship, the media, sports law, regulation, and horse welfare, explains the head of the course, Neil Coster.
Students also go on a number of field trips, including seeing behind the scenes at a race day at Haydock Park, near Liverpool, and a visit to the UK's National Stud in Newmarket, in the east of England, the country's centre of racehorse breeding.
The idea for the course came from industry bodies the British Horseracing Authority and the Horseracing Betting Levy Board.
Mr Coster says: "They saw a need for a master's level education programme that would assist people already working in the industry to prepare and upskill for senior management positions, and help career changers to facilitate a move into the industry."
Those enrolled on the football MBA at Liverpool get to visit the headquarters of European football governing body Uefa, which is based in the Swiss town of Nyon.
And if that wasn't prestigious enough, last year they also visited nearby Tranmere Rovers.
Liverpool's football MBA is in fact one of the oldest specialised versions of the qualification, and is now in its 20th year.
"There was clearly a need for graduates with an excellent knowledge of management disciplines and their applications to football," says Babatunde Buraimo, a senior lecturer on the course.
The football MBA takes one year to complete full time, and costs £15,000 for UK nationals, or £21,500 for overseas students. The horseracing qualification costs from £7,500 per annum for two years.
Marie-Pierre Serret says she knows all about the value of a specialised MBA because without one she had struggled to secure a fulfilling job in the aviation industry.
Despite having a masters degree in international business and marketing, the 43-year-old Frenchwoman says she spent a number of years being bumped from job to job, including working as a flight attendant and a check-in clerk.
So a few years ago she sold her house and enrolled on an MBA in aviation management at Florida's Embry-Riddle Aeronautics University. It wasn't cheap, costing £33,000 for the course, which takes between one-and-a-half and two years.
"This specialised MBA is the missing link," says Ms Serret, who now works as a research assistant for an Embry-Riddle aviation business professor. Projects she has been involved in include working out the marketability of an aeroplane prototype, and advising the Puerto Rican government.
Some 1,200 miles (2,000km) north of Florida, Schulich Business School in Toronto, Canada, offers a 16-month MBA in global mining.
Marcia Annisette, associate professor of accounting at Schulich, says: "A cookie cutter MBA is so popular now that there's a push to have a strong subset of skills."
Despite the rising popularity of specialist MBAs, they do have their critics, who argue that as so much time is dedicated to focusing on the specific industry, not enough hours are dedicated to teaching business fundamentals.
"With only so much classroom time, taking a focused MBA would lead one to miss valuable lessons," says John Paul Engel, lecturer of entrepreneurship at the University of Iowa.
Meanwhile, Michal Strahilevitz, marketing professor at Duke University in North Carolina, cautions that she has seen scores of individuals who have pursued specialisation only to then discover that the specific profession wasn't quite for them.
Others warn that holders of specialised MBAs may struggle to secure the really senior jobs because the qualifications don't yet have the kudos of a general MBA.
Marlena Corcoran, chief executive of Athena Mentor, an international university admission counselling company, says: "A person with a specialised MBA is likely to wind up working for a person with a [general] MBA."
Halfpenny is free to leave Toulon in the summer and Scarlets were among the clubs linked with the 27-year-old.
But Pivac accepts Halfpenny, who joined Toulon from Cardiff Blues in 2014, will remain in France for a third season by accepting the option of another year.
"He's staying at Toulon this year, what he's doing after that will be up to Leigh," Pivac told BBC Wales Sport.
Scarlets and Halfpenny's previous team Cardiff Blues both expressed an interest in bringing him back to Wales, with financial support from the Welsh Rugby Union.
Wasps were also in the market for him, but director of rugby Dai Young admitted in December they were out of the running.
Toulon coach Bernard Laporte has said he expects Halfpenny to stay for the optional third year of his contract.
"That's common knowledge, isn't it?" said Pivac. "He's not with us for 2016-17."
The Scarlets coach said it was too soon to talk about where British and Irish Lions back Halfpenny might play the following season.
Halfpenny will not be included in the restricted number of players based outside Wales available to national head coach Warren Gatland, because he is continuing with an existing contract.
Scarlets look set to lose Wales tight-head prop Rhodri Jones, who has been linked with a move to the neighbouring Ospreys.
The 24-year-old has to compete with Wales' current first-choice Samson Lee at Parc y Scarlets.
New Zealander Pivac admitted it was difficult to satisfy two international players in the same position.
"His contract is through to the end of the season and that's as far as the discussions have gone with us," Pivac added.
"We've talked to him about a possible extension, but that hasn't happened at this stage.
"If I was in his shoes, coming out of the shadow of Samson would definitely be an option, so it's something he has to think about."
Wales full-back Liam Williams is back training with the Scarlets' squad and remains on course to feature against Connacht on 30 January, a week before the Six Nations starts.
Williams, 24, has not played since a reoccurrence of an ankle injury during the World Cup in October.
Scrum-half Aled Davies, lock/flanker Lewis Rawlins, wing Tom Williams and flanker Will Boyde are all available again after injury.
Scarlets face Northampton Saints in their final European Champions Cup group match on Saturday having lost all five games in this season's competition.
Day, who has also regained the world number one slot, dominated the final at the Austin Country Club in Texas to beat the South African 5&4.
Earlier, Australia's Day, 28, beat defending champion Rory McIlroy one up in the morning's semi-finals.
McIlroy went on to lose 3&2 to Spain's Rafa Cabrera Bello in the play-off for third place.
Day's victory made it back-to-back tournament wins after he also won the Arnold Palmer Invitational last week and further aided his preparation for the US Masters in less than two weeks' time.
Oosthuizen, the 2010 Open champion, won the opening hole of the final but Day was in front by the fourth and led by three holes at the turn.
Birdies on the 13th and 14th then secured victory for Day, who joins former world number one Tiger Woods and fellow Australian Geoff Ogilvy as multiple winners of the event.
Day said: "I'm very, very thrilled. It's been a memorable week, not only to win the Dell Match Play Championship but also to get back to number one in the world."
And in an unexpected twist, he wants the White House press corps to decide where it should go.
Before taking office, Mr Trump told CBS's 60 Minutes that he would not claim his presidential salary.
It was confirmed that it would be donated after multiple media outlets asked if he was keeping that pledge.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told a press briefing: "The President's intention right now is to donate his salary at the end of the year, and he has kindly asked that you all determine where that goes."
Mr Spicer joked that letting the media choose a beneficiary would be "a way to avoid scrutiny".
"In all seriousness, I think his view is he made a pledge to the American people he wants to donate it to charity and he'd love your help to determine where it should go," Mr Spicer told the press.
The president's salary has been fixed at $400,000 a year since 2001. Mr Trump had previously said he would take only $1 a year, because the president is required by law to receive a salary.
It is unclear which organisation the press corps will choose to support.
Suggestions have included setting up a fund for journalism scholarships via the White House Correspondents' Association.
Mr Trump is not the first US leader to forego a salary. Herbert Hoover, who made his fortune in mining before taking office, and John F Kennedy, who inherited his wealth, both donated their pay to charity.
About 70% of lights have been turned off between midnight and 05:00 since March 2013 to save £1m annually.
Safety and crime concerns led some local councils to offer to fund the night lighting themselves.
Essex County Council said the lights would now be turned off between 01:00 and 05:00 six days a week, costing an extra £300,000 a year.
Rodney Bass, Conservative cabinet member for highways and transportation, said the decision to roll out the new scheme followed a successful trial in Epping Forest.
He said it was "not a change of policy", but a "fine-tuning" of the system, particularly to help those living closer to London who arrived back on trains late from the capital.
The lights will remain off between 00:00 and 05:00 on Mondays due to fewer commuter journeys, except near the Epping Forest underground.
The changes come into effect on 30 March.
Harlow Council voted last month to raise council tax by 1.5% to pay for the cost of having the street lights turned back on all night.
It followed complaints of theft, robbery and injury as people walked in the darkness.
But the county council rejected the £121,000 offer, saying it was "bizarre" as it had seen no evidence of a rise in crime or injury.
Colchester Borough Council said it had allocated up to £185,000 in its budget to pay for the lights to be turned back on. Tendring District Council is due to debate the issue later.
Jon Clempner, leader at Harlow Council, said: "I am pleased that the Essex County Council's position of inflexibility has changed to illustrate that it can respond to local needs."
Michelle Sadler was told she was not eligible to receive Crimestoppers money after she told police James Fairweather was hiding in bushes in Colchester.
Fairweather, 17, was given two life sentences for the murders in April.
Megan Rowley, who set up the JustGiving page, said she wanted "give people the chance to thank" Mrs Sadler.
"Michelle never expected to get any money for what she did, but we want to show we're grateful," Miss Rowley said.
Fairweather was found guilty of stabbing James Attfield and Nahid Almanea to death in Colchester in 2014, when he was 15.
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Mrs Sadler, a hairdresser, was walking her dog in May 2015 when she saw him hiding in bushes near the same spot he had attacked his second victim.
She rang police on 101 after recognising his jacket from appeals, and he was arrested and taken into custody.
As first reported in the Colchester Gazette, Crimestoppers said rewards were only given to people who ring its number rather than the police.
The charity told the BBC its position had not changed after recent coverage, and it would not be making any further comment.
"If that's what Crimestoppers says in its guidelines and those are its terms, then that's its choice," Miss Rowley said.
"But that's not going to stop people from giving money if they think Michelle deserves it."
Miss Rowley, from Colchester, said she was hoping to raise £4,000 and would feel "happy that I was able to give something to Michelle on behalf of the community" if she succeeded.
The BBC has contacted Mrs Sadler for a comment.
He will run Brazil amidst some of its most turbulent and eventful times.
The country is facing its worst recession and political crisis in 25 years and in August will host the Olympic Games for the first time in its history.
Ms Rousseff could still come back to office later this year, when she will be tried. But if she loses that battle, Mr Temer will become Brazil's seventh president since the end of the military dictatorship in the 1980s, with a mandate to rule until 2018.
Whether his tenure is short or long, it will be full of challenges.
Brazil's economy is a mess. It grew 7.5% only six years ago, but last year it contracted 3.8%. A similar number is expected this year.
Inflation ran above 10% last year and more than 10 million people are unemployed, with many jobs closing in the past 12 months.
Mr Temer's answer to the crisis is not different from Ms Rousseff's in principle. He believes Brazil must bring down its level of public debt, which could amount to 80% of the country's GDP three years from now, according to the credit ratings agency Moody's.
A lower debt ratio would mean consumers and investors regaining confidence in Brazil's ability to pay off its debts without having to print more money (which would push inflation even higher).
The key to achieving that is by cutting spending, as there is no political support for raising taxes. Ms Rousseff committed to achieving a budget surplus in 2015 and 2016, but failed to deliver on that promise - which got Brazil downgraded to junk by credit ratings agencies.
Henrique Meirelles, the man Mr Temer has chosen to become finance minister, says Brazil must set realistic budget targets and effectively meet them to regain consumer and investor confidence.
To be successful, they will need to work with the country's Congress, which seems very volatile in its opinions at the moment.
The Workers' Party implemented a host of social programmes that have benefited the poor - schemes that promote better housing, minimum income, technical education and access to universities.
In times of budget cuts, Mr Temer says the scope and effectiveness of all these social programmes will have to be reviewed.
Even for a popular president, those would be tough decisions to take. In the case of Mr Temer, who was not directly elected to office, this task is likely to be even harder.
Ricardo Paes de Barros is chief economist at the Instituto Ayrton Senna charity and professor at Insper Business School, and has close links with the people who will run Mr Temer's social policies. He says programmes must be carefully reviewed, but spending should not go down.
"In general the government budget should be countercyclical, so you should have higher social spending when you are in a crisis. When the economy is booming you should have lower social expenditures," he told the BBC.
Mr Temer is not being formally investigated in the massive probe into corruption at state oil giant Petrobras, but his name has been mentioned in some of the testimonies of people who are under investigation.
But his presidency is facing two formal challenges.
Brazil's electoral court will rule next year whether the Rousseff-Temer ticket received illegal donations.
And the country's Supreme Court is looking into whether Mr Temer himself should be impeached for breaking the same fiscal rules that brought down Ms Rousseff.
And then there is the fact that many Brazilians simply do not want him as president. One poll suggests that only 8% are happy with the current solution to the political crisis.
He will face strong opposition from the Workers' Party and unions, who say Ms Rousseff's impeachment is nothing but a coup and have branded Mr Temer a "golpista", or putschist.
Mr Temer's party, the PMDB, has been seriously implicated in the Petrobras scandal.
Many of the party's top officials - including the Speaker of the Senate, Renan Calheiros - are being formally investigated for corruption.
The federal police, who come under the Justice Ministry, have played a key role in the investigations that seriously aggravated the political crisis.
Many in Brazil have raised concerns that Mr Temer could undermine the efforts to bring corrupt politicians to justice, in order to stave off the political crisis.
Mr Temer will also not be able to afford to make enemies in Congress, because the future of virtually all his policies depend on getting approval from MPs and senators.
Meagan Abell was sifting through a box of vintage photographs in Richmond, Virginia when she found four sets of "transparency slides".
She took them home to scan them and was "shocked" at the level of detail.
"I thought 'holy wow they are beautiful'. I'd love to find the women or the photographer who took them."
Ms Abell believes the pictures date back to the 1950s or 60s because of the way the women are dressed.
She has launched an internet campaign to track down the models - one of whom she believes could be "Hawaiian or bi-racial" - along with the owner of the film.
"I have had some pretty awesome leads," she told the BBC.
"I think they may have been taken at Dockweiler in Playa del Rey in California. A girl who surfs near that beach emailed me with some pictures.
"When I overlaid them with the images I found, they were a perfect match."
Ms Abell is a professional photographer and regularly spends time raiding boxes of old photographs.
"I'm used to seeing old scratched up negatives. I'd never seen anything like this," she added.
The owner of the thrift store was unable to shed any light on the photographs' origins - but that has not deterred Ms Abell.
"I am absolutely excited," she said.
"Based on conversations I've had with film photography veterans, I would say it was a professional shoot for fine art imagery, or for a magazine cover or spread.
"According to the vets, it's highly unlikely an amateur photographer in that time period would use this type of film and shoot these kinds of images."
Ms Abell is urging anyone who recognises the women or the style of photography to get in touch with her.
José Gregorio Pernalete went to the Supreme Court to hand in a request for it to open a case.
Juan Pablo Pernalete was killed on 26 April by a tear gas canister fired by the National Guard, Venezuela's chief prosecutor said in May.
No arrests have been made so far.
Shortly after the student's death, government officials including Information Minister Ernesto Villegas, then-Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez and deputy leader of the governing socialist PSUV party Diosdado Cabello denied the National Guard was responsible.
Mr Cabello blamed "gunmen in the service of the bourgeoisie" for Juan Pablo Pernalete's death and insisted there were no National Guard personnel in the area at the time.
They said evidence suggested that the 20-year-old student had been killed by a bolt gun by fellow protesters, whom they described as "terrorists".
But their version was dismissed by chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega, who gave a press conference on 24 May announcing that the young man had died of cardiogenic shock after being hit in the chest by a tear gas canister fired by a member of the National Guard.
Mr Pernalete's parents accuse the officials of deliberately twisting events to suit their narrative and of deceiving the public by trying to cover up the role played by the National Guard.
The parents want to sue the officials, which also include Defence Minister Gen Vladimir Padrino López and the head of the National Guard at the time, Gen Jose Benavides, for the psychological damages they said they suffered as a result of their alleged attempts to cover up the murder of Juan Pablo Pernalete.
The Supreme Court has three days to rule on whether there are sufficient grounds for the case to proceed.
Russian athletes are banned from competing because of state-sponsored doping, while Usain Bolt is to lose an Olympic gold medal after a relay team-mate tested positive for banned drugs.
European Athletics (EA) president Svein Arne Hansen has ordered the review.
All records should be "100% believable and credible", Hansen said.
"However, there is a view that this is currently not the case with some of the performances on the European Record list, and so I have ordered this review," he added.
"Claiming a European record - after being crowned European Champion - is the pinnacle of our sport in Europe. The holders of these records should be aspirational heroes whose performances are respected and recognised as beyond question by their fellow athletes and the fans of our sport."
The task force will report back its findings by September.
More than 1,000 Russians, across at least 30 sports, benefited from a state-sponsored doping programme between 2011 and 2015, according to the second part of the McLaren report, released in December after a World Anti-doping Agency (Wada) commission.
The EA website currently lists 15 European indoor and outdoor athletics records held by Russians.
Additional current records include those set in the 1980s by athletes from Soviet Bloc countries, including East Germany, which operated its own extensive doping programme.
Meanwhile, the International Olympic Committee is re-testing hundreds of samples taken at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games using up-to-date detection methods. So far it has sanctioned almost 100 athletes for using banned substances.
The latest include Jamaican sprinter Nesta Carter, who was part of a Jamaican quartet featuring Bolt that won the 4x100m relay in Beijing in 2008.
The IOC has ordered that Jamaica be stripped of its medal as a result.
Hansen said he had spoken about his review with Lord Coe, head of the IAAF, athletics' world governing body.
He added: "The IAAF will monitor this work closely before deciding on any actions at the world level."
City of London-based Kleinwort Benson works internationally putting in place funding for large development projects.
Nigel Spray, managing director of private merchant banking, said it would bring in £100m "as the last piece" of private funding for the project.
A sticking point for the project so far has been over the Welsh Government being asked to be guarantors.
On a visit to the Senedd, Mr Spray told BBC Wales that part of the bank's role was to help Circuit of Wales bring in more investors.
"We will be bringing in, roughly speaking, another £100m into the project which is largely funded, but that is the last piece of the funding," he said.
In July, plans for the motor racing circuit, hotels and an industrial zone were rejected for a second time by the Welsh Government.
The issue was that the Welsh Government was being asked to underwrite or guarantee a large proportion for the project.
Economy Secretary Ken Skates said that proportion, about 75% of the project cost, was too large and he told developers to look at reducing that to 50%.
Mr Spray said: "We believe that there is a team here that is very experienced and this is exactly the kind of project that investors, not just UK investors, international investors are very keen to be involved in."
Asked about the Welsh Government underwriting the project, Mr Spray said: "They are there to encourage private investors.
"Although the government is there as a support, really the whole project is being funded by private finance and that I think is the reason why we will see this completed."
He added: "The walls are there - it's our job to put the roof on. There are already very significant private investors in this project and we're looking to specialist investors to come in and do that final piece."
Mr Spray said the bank had spent a lot of time with the management team, which was "very professional and focused and can deliver a project like this".
Since the last funding package was rejected by the Welsh Government, Circuit of Wales officials have been working on new proposals with more private sector involvement.
Nothing new has yet been formally given to Welsh Government.
Mr Spray added: "We see this as a very exciting project to be involved in. It's a huge regeneration project, a good news story, an opportunity for the motor industry to come into Wales but also significant for the tourist industry."
Messi and his father Jorge, who manages his finances, were both convicted in 2016 of defrauding Spain of €4.1m (£3.5m; $4.6m) in taxes.
Jorge Messi's jail term was reduced because he paid some of the taxes.
In Spain, prison terms of under two years can be served under probation.
The case will now return to the court in Barcelona that handed down the original judgement.
Lionel Messi, a five-time world footballer of the year, has denied any involvement and told his trial in June 2016: "I only worried about playing football."
But in its decision on Wednesday, the court said: "It defies logic to concede that someone who earns a large income does not know that he must pay taxes on it."
Both men were originally convicted of three counts of fraud, for using tax havens in Belize and Uruguay between 2007 and 2009, and were also given heavy fines.
They were found guilty of resorting to fictitious companies to evade Spanish taxes on income from companies using Lionel Messi's image rights.
Jorge Messi's jail term was reduced from 21 months to 15 by the Supreme Court to take into account the money he had since handed to the tax authorities.
Lionel Messi's career in photos
Messi statue unveiled in Buenos Aires
Messi's high-profile trial is not the only one involving Barcelona stars and the Spanish government.
Defender Javier Mascherano - also an Argentine - admitted to tax fraud, escaping a jail term with a one-year suspended sentence.
Brazilian star Neymar is also facing allegations of corruption and fraud over his transfer to Barcelona in 2013 - a case which also involves his parents. Prosecutors allege the transfer cost much more than publicly declared, and that millions were concealed from authorities.
And in the same week as Messi's sentence was upheld, former president of the club, Sandro Rosell, was arrested as part of a money-laundering investigation.
Portuguese Bancessi, 19, signed for his parent club from Benfica in 2013 but has yet to play a first-team game.
He could feature against Shrewsbury in League Two on Saturday.
Gornell's request comes after he scored in Wednesday's 3-1 Johnstone's Paint Trophy defeat by Bristol City, his first goal in almost a year.
The club have confirmed they have received interest for the 24-year-old striker from another club but the player has rejected the move.
Manager Mark Yates told the club website: "Terry wants to go on the list, so we'll see what happens, but I don't have any problems with him.
"He is a great lad and no bother around the place, but I understand why he wants to go out and play because it's not quite happened for him here.
"At this moment in time, maybe it will take a change of scenery to spark something to maybe he can come back here and do well again."
Sushma Swaraj said "large numbers" of Indians had lost their jobs in the kingdom, leaving them with not enough money to buy food.
The Indian community in Jeddah, with the government's help, has distributed food to those in need at the weekend.
Growth has slowed in Saudi Arabia as the country suffers the effect of lower oil prices.
Ms Swaraj appealed on Twitter for the three-million-strong Indian community in the country to "help your fellow brothers and sisters".
"I assure you that no Indian worker rendered unemployed in Saudi Arabia will go without food," she wrote.
A government minister is travelling to Saudi Arabia, Ms Swaraj said. He is expected to help with arranging an airlift of laid-off Indians who are unable to afford the air fare home.
Indian worker’s tearful plea to leave Saudi Arabia
The Indian consulate in Jeddah said it had distributed more than 15,000kg (34,000lb) of food on Saturday alone, with the help of Indian nationals in the city.
The embassy in Riyadh was asked to distribute as much food as they could to those in need.
Reports in India on Saturday said 800 Indian workers had lost their jobs at Saudi Oger, a large Saudi-Lebanese construction company.
The Saudi-based Arab News website reported on Sunday that hundreds of Saudi Oger's employees, who said they had not been paid in seven months, had led protests in Jeddah.
The Saudi government has not commented on the situation of the Indian workers.
In the past, Human Rights Watch has criticised Saudi Arabia for "rampant employer abuses of migrant workers, including forcing them to work against their will or on exploitative terms".
A visa system that ties workers' residency to employment "grants employers excessive power over workers and facilitates abuse", the group said.
Workers laid off in Kuwait were also suffering food shortages, Ms Swaraj said, but the situation there was more manageable, she added.
The couple duetted on Drunk In Love, an explicit ballad that drew complaints from viewers when they performed it at last month's Grammy Awards.
They shared a lingering hug as the song ended, leaving Beyonce to finish the remainder of her two-hour set solo.
The Mrs Carter Show was last year's second highest-earning tour behind Bon Jovi, earning just over $188m (£112m).
It first came to the UK in April 2013 and was supposed to promote a new album. However the record remained unfinished until December, when it was finally released, without warning, on iTunes.
The stealth strategy paid off, with the self-titled, x-rated record selling almost a million copies in 24 hours and earning the pop star the best reviews of her career.
The tour has since been overhauled and, by Friday's date at London's O2 Arena, a third of the set list was culled from the album, with a raunchy sequence in the middle of the show featuring the album's most explicit tracks Blow, Partition and Drunk In Love.
But the star, who employs an 11 piece all-female band, also made a virtue of her feminist credentials.
After opening with the empowerment anthem Run The World (Girls), she segued into the defiant album cut Flawless, which quotes author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's talk We Should All Be Feminists.
The star's show makes extensive use of back-lit silhouettes, pyrotechnics and a mobile, stage-wide video screen.
During an intricately choreographed Baby Mama, Beyonce and her dancers appeared to emerge from, disappear into and interact with pre-filmed graphics, a neat illusion she first pulled off at the 2011 Billboard Awards.
Before settling into a groove, the star's show flitted restlessly between fragments of songs and video clips.
Even towards the climax, her signature song, Crazy In Love, was dispensed with in under a minute before giving way to another musical interlude.
Beyonce's sheer stage presence held the show together, whether she was commanding her band to turn on a pinhead or engaging the audience in a sing-along during Irreplaceable.
And her new material showcases an unparalleled variety of vocal styles, ranges and phrasing, from the hushed and sultry Haunted to the urban swagger of Yonce.
As the show drew to a close, she recalled that she had first played London with Destiny's Child in 1997 and picked out a few familiar faces who had been coming to her shows since.
"I'm so honoured to be here again," she said. "Thank you guys for having me. Thank you for saving up money to come to the show, for waiting in line and making such a beautiful sound."
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Ian McGuigan, 39, of Ty Croes, Anglesey, was locked up for eight years after admitting conspiracy to supply cocaine and a firearms offence.
Anthony Donovan, 33, and Brian Townsend, 36, both from Liverpool were jailed for four years and eight months for the drugs charge.
Caernarfon Crown Court heard it was an "unsophisticated" drugs enterprise.
On 5 September, McGuigan was filmed by police handing over more than £35,000 in cash to Donovan and Townsend, who officers described as "drug couriers".
North Wales Police said McGuigan was watched stashing cocaine in a field, which officers searched and found drugs worth up to £176,000.
Officers also found eight hollow point bullets "designed to expand on impact" in his car and a taser disguised as an iPhone in his home.
McGuigan was given a concurrent five year sentence for these offences.
Speaking after the case, Det Ch Insp Brian Kearney said: "Ian Paul McGuigan was considered by some as 'Anglesey's drug lord' where in fact he was a leech preying on the vulnerable in our towns and villages whilst portraying himself as a legitimate car dealer and horse breeder.
"Until his recent arrest he believed he was untouchable."
Christian-owned firm Hobby Lobby has agreed to hand over the smuggled items and pay $3m (£2.3m) in a settlement.
US attorneys say it violated federal law by importing thousands of clay tablets and tokens as "tile samples".
Hobby Lobby said it "did not fully appreciate the complexities" of the import process when it began.
The retailer is well-known for being at the centre of a 2014 US Supreme Court battle to avoid paying for female workers' contraception on religious grounds.
Lawyers in New York said the company had imported "thousands of cuneiform tablets and clay bullae" - a way of recording information before the widespread use of paper.
The ancient artefacts were smuggled into the US through the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel to Hobby Lobby's Oklahoma offices, with falsified shipping labels claiming the packages contained "ceramic tiles", and originated in Turkey and Israel.
"The company imprudently relied on dealers and shippers who, in hindsight, did not understand the correct way to document and ship these items," Hobby Lobby said.
But prosecutors said the company was warned by an expert that such items from Iraq were likely to have been looted from archaeological sites and needed to be carefully verified.
But the company purchased some 5,500 artefacts despite the warning, spending $1.6m.
"While some may put a price on these artefacts, the people of Iraq consider them priceless," the agent in charge of the customs investigation, Angel Melendez, said.
Prosecutors said the purchase "was fraught with red flags", and the company never met the dealer, working with a middleman instead, and making the payments to seven private bank accounts.
The company's president, Steve Green, is also chairman of the planned museum, which is under construction in Washington DC, just a few blocks from the National Mall.
At 430,000 sq ft (40,000 sq m), it will be one of the largest museums in the city.
The museum's website says its collections will "convey the global impact and compelling history of the Bible in a unique and powerful way".
"Developing a collection of historically and religiously important books and artefacts about the Bible is consistent with the Company's mission and passion for the Bible," Hobby Lobby said in a statement.
"The Company was new to the world of acquiring these items, and did not fully appreciate the complexities of the acquisitions process. This resulted in some regrettable mistakes," it added.
Mr Green also said the company never purchased items directly from within Iraq, but has "learned a great deal" from the investigation.
"Our passion for the Bible continues, and we will do all that we can to support the efforts to conserve items that will help illuminate and enhance our understanding of this great book," he added.
They told BBC Hindi about a nudity clause introduced by a Bollywood director, who has already persuaded two other stars to sign up to it.
But many say such films may prove a little too risque to get past India's conservative censor board.
There is little or no nudity in Indian films, save for rare exceptions like an adaptation of the Kama Sutra.
Bollywood filmmaker Ekta Kapoor, who has scored some big box office hits, says she wants to strike gold again in her new film named XXX.
That means more sex and nudity - something virtually unheard of in Bollywood.
She said she first approached Sunny Leone, an Indo-American former porn star. But she refused the idea, wanting to put erotica behind her.
Ms Kapoor then took her nudity clause to two young actors making their debuts - Kyra Dutt and Rithvik Dhanjani, who had little hesitation in signing.
Ms Dutt said there was a limit to how long an actress would want to go on playing the "girl next door".
In theory, signing that clause sets them up to appear in three nude scenes, said to include full-frontal female nakedness and male buttocks.
When BBC Hindi talked about the nudity clause to some established Bollywood stars, they were hesitant.
Actress Richa Chadda said the clause would have advantages.
"I don't know about other camps, but I know Ekta Kapoor has done this for one of her films and she said it's better to be clear in advance," she said.
"If an actor is presented with this she or he can decide whether they want the role or not - at least this will prevent last-minute cast changes or bad publicity for the director."
Six younger, up-and-coming, actors and actresses told the BBC that they would be ready to sign a nudity clause if the drama and script demanded it.
Chirantana Bhatt, a journalist and stage actress, isn't surprised.
"There have been scenes in Hindi films where there is lip-locking sequences or love-making sequences. They are done quite aesthetically. Things have been happening in our films and it's not as conservative as people think."
The Foxes' squad was assembled for £57m, the cheapest of any currently in the top half of the table.
"If you take Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez as individuals, you're looking at £70m there," said agent and sports lawyer David Seligman of Leicester's attacking duo.
"You're looking at a team of upwards of £200m."
Leicester paid £1m for 29-year-old former non-league striker Vardy in 2012, while winger Mahrez, 25, joined for £400,000 in 2014.
Mahrez and Vardy have scored or assisted 48 of Leicester's 64 league goals this season, and have both earned international caps for England and Algeria respectively.
France midfielder N'Golo Kante, 25, was bought from Caen for £5.6m and has also been a key asset for Claudio Ranieri's side this term.
In January, research conducted by the International Centre for Sports Studies valued Vardy and Kante at 25m euros (£19.8m), with Mahrez at 40m euros (£31.7m).
Those figures differ from the values provided by market value analysis website Transfermarkt in the above graphic, although Seligman believes Leicester's star names could command even higher prices.
"If people are paying £50m plus for Raheem Sterling, then Mahrez is worth more than that. He's still got his peak to come," said Seligman.
"Kante signed an initial contract a year ago and hasn't signed another one and only has a year left. His rise has been meteoric.
"They're all going on to be international players and that adds to the price tag. They're better players now and also they're superstars commercially. Their values are going to increase massively."
Vardy signed a new three-year contract with Leicester in February, but has been linked with moves to former champions Manchester United and Chelsea.
"If you've got clubs like Chelsea, United and Arsenal coming in I don't think you can turn them down - even if you wouldn't be playing week in week out," added Seligman.
"But Leicester are champions with billionaire owners. If United can pay someone £200k a week then so can Leicester."
David Birks, 42, hid the drugs beneath a seat in a rented flatbed truck travelling from Belgium to the UK.
The consignment was discovered by National Crime Agency (NCA) officers in 2014 when the vehicle arrived in Dover.
Birks, of Dale Street, Rotherham, was found guilty of importing class A drugs at Canterbury Crown Court.
The court heard Birks had driven out to Belgium on the same day as the rented truck, hidden the drugs and then returned separately.
The driver of the truck, a Lithuanian national, was convicted in December for his involvement but was later given an absolute discharge on mental health grounds, the NCA said.
Nick Tuffs, from the NCA, said: "David Birks played a key role in an attempt to smuggle class A drugs worth almost £2m into the UK.
"There is no doubt that those drugs would have ended up on our streets."
A warrant has been issued for Birks's arrest and Mr Tuffs said the NCA was "determined" to catch him.
But that didn't stop Lewis Hamilton taking pole position for Mercedes.
He finished 0.074 seconds ahead of Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel, whilst Nico Rosberg came in third.
It's Hamilton's 40th finish in pole position; he'll be hoping to win again on Sunday.
The 39-year-old started his Irish League career with the Ports in 2001, winning league and cup medals during his time at Shamrock Park.
The attacking full-back then won another championship medal with Glentoran in 2009.
Neill moved from the Oval to Mourneview Park the following year.
Portadown will look to the experienced Neill to bolster their attempt to secure an immediate return to the Irish Premiership.
Niall Currie's side will start next season in the Championship, having finished bottom of the top division in April.
"I think it is fitting that Kyle plays his last season at Portadown - perfect in fact," said Ports boss Currie.
Recently, Portadown signed another former Glenavon player in seasoned midfielder Andy Kilmartin on a two-year contract.
Former Ards, Dundela and Carrick Rangers striker Ben Roy has also signed for Portadown.
Steven Fletcher has been the preferred choice throughout the Euro 2016 qualifying campaign, with his three Group D goals coming against Gibraltar.
Fletcher netted for Sunderland on Saturday and Leigh Griffiths, Chris Martin and Jordan Rhodes also scored for their clubs.
"Each of the strikers have different assets," said Strachan.
"But we don't have an all-round guy who has every one of these.
"Then you've got to say, 'what type of game should it be?' That's the kind of game you've got to try and envisage as a coach or coaches and pick the player or players that would suit that game.
"In saying that, we have a decision to make in midfield, where we've got good players."
Scotland can, at best, finish third in Group D and reach the play-offs. Losing to Poland would end their chances of reaching the finals.
If they draw, the Scots must hope Germany beat the Republic of Ireland to keep alive their hopes of a play-off place going into the final qualifier against Gibraltar in Portugal on Sunday. Scotland would also need the Irish to lose to Poland in this scenario.
Victory for Scotland over both Poland and Gibraltar and another defeat for the Poles against the Irish would allow the Scots to claim the play-off place with Martin O'Neill's side progressing automatically to the finals in France.
Strachan believes his side face a Poland team that have made a "terrific" improvement throughout the campaign.
Scotland beat the Poles 1-0 in a friendly in March 2014 and, a year ago, the two sides drew 2-2 in their first Group D encounter.
"They're definitely a better side and we've got better as well," Strachan explained.
"They've got better because they've improved as a group, but they also have some good players back in their side.
"Most of our work has been done on group defending, group attacking and group defending will hopefully nullify anything their top players in areas they want to play in.
"The secret is actually if you keep the ball long enough and you keep the ball longer than them then their chances of scoring a goal are reduced."
Strachan was also asked about media reports suggesting the Poles were expecting rough treatment from their hosts at Hampden.
He said: "All I know is over the tournament, they've had at least 30% more fouls against them than we have, they've had more yellow cards than we have, so that's the reality."
Sharon Smith, 52, repeatedly took a "vulnerable" man to a bank branch to withdraw the cash in an "appalling breach of trust".
Gambling addict Smith no longer works at Rowan House in Saltash, Cornwall.
Smith, of Burraton, was previously found guilty of fraud and sentenced on Friday at Truro Crown Court to two years in jail, suspended for two years.
The court heard that Smith, who had been regarded highly by her employers, had a serious gambling addiction, leading her to devise the plan.
She told her 68-year-old victim the money taken from the bank was to pay for fees for his care.
She was convicted on 17 March of one count of fraud after a trial.
In a victim impact statement, the resident said he was angry at the "betrayal of trust" he had suffered, and his mental and physical health had deteriorated as a result.
Sentencing, Recorder Andrew Maitland said Smith was previously an "unblemished character" and had committed an "appalling breach of trust".
Jason Beal, for the defence, told the court Smith had become a "shell of her former self".
Smith was also ordered to attend a rehabilitation program and undertake 200 hours of community work.
Armed officers were called after reports of a woman being assaulted at a property in Tracey Court, off Hibbert Street, Luton, at about 13:30 GMT.
The 24-year-old man was shot by an officer during the incident.
He was taken to hospital and died at 14:50 GMT. The force has referred the incident to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
A spokeswoman for Bedfordshire Police said the man, who was described as white and British, was initially treated at the scene by officers and paramedics.
His family has been informed.
Chief constable Jon Boutcher said: "First and foremost our thoughts are very much with the family of the man involved in this tragic incident.
"The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has been informed, as is standard protocol when someone has died following police contact, and as such it would be inappropriate for us to comment any further at this stage."
The police watchdog confirmed it had sent investigators to the scene and also to the hospital.
In a statement. the IPCC said: "The investigation is in its early stages and no further information is available at this time."
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The world number four dropped four shots in five holes in the middle of his second round but carded a level-par 71 to remain on two under par overall.
"That stretch was difficult and I am just glad I got a shot back coming in," said the 27-year-old.
His fellow Northern Irishman Graeme McDowell just made the cut by one.
Phil Mickelson (-10) leads by one from Sweden Henrik Stenson at the halfway stage.
When McDowell finished his round on Friday he was disappointed to have fallen to four over, having been on level par at the turn.
At that stage the cut was projected at two over, but it was later changed and McDowell's rounds of 75 and 71 seemed likely to be just enough.
McIlroy, six shots off the pace after the first round, got birdies on the fourth, sixth and seventh to move to five under par and into a share of fifth place.
The 2014 winner's impressive effort was stalled by missing short putts for par on the ninth and 10th and there were further bogeys on 12 and 12 with a birdie on the 16th restoring him to two under par.
"It was tough out there. I feel I have played two good rounds but I am still eight shots behind," added McIlroy who had the worst of the difficult conditions on the second day at Royal Troon.
"I need a fast start tomorrow, something like 30 on the front nine to get up the leaderboard."
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Europe's Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke and two-times Open winner Padraig Harrington safely made the cut, both sitting on one over going into the weekend.
Ireland's Shane Lowry (+7) and Paul Dunne (+13) did not make the cut.
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10 February 2015 Last updated at 16:05 GMT
It's thought to have been caused by a build up of cooking fats and oils that people have washed down their sinks.
This video was taken during an attempt to clear the sewer this month and shows a blockage roughly one metre wide.
The company that look after the drains in Wales has started a campaign to get people to think more about what they put down their sinks.
Although a 'fatberg' isn't dangerous for our health, blocked sewers can cause flooding in homes and communities.
It isn't the first time it has happened in the UK - last year a fatberg was discovered in West London.
Christopher and Sharon Bell, from Killingbeck in Leeds, have been described as "hard-working" by neighbours.
The BBC understands the couple had two grown-up children and a third, teenage child.
In a statement, their family said they were "deeply saddened" by the deaths.
There was "very little information surrounding the circumstances of the tragedy", the family said, but they would work with authorities to establish what happened.
"Our thoughts are with all those affected", they added.
Adrian Thompson, of Northern Rail, said Mr Bell worked for the firm at Leeds station.
He was "a much loved and highly valued colleague who will be sadly missed", he said.
Mrs Bell was said to be a health and care worker.
Mark Brady, a neighbour of the couple who had known them for 28 years, said: "It's absolutely devastating, I've watched his kids grow up and his grandkids grow up.
"It's absolutely ridiculous and sad.
"They worked hard saving up to have nice holidays like this."
Norman Jarvis, the couple's next-door neighbour, said the Bells were a hard-working couple who worked unsociable hours
Thirty of the 38 victims of the attack, at a beach resort in Sousse on Friday, are thought to be British.
Tunisian authorities have arrested several people on suspicion of helping gunman Seifeddine Rezgui.
The 23-year-old student, who had links to the Islamic State jihadist group, was shot dead by police after the killings.
Stephen Hearle, 63, attacked his victim - who was then aged between 16 and 19 - in Alvechurch, Worcestershire, in 1987, police said.
He admitted a total of four charges, including rape and indecent assault, when he appeared at Worcester Crown Court.
Hearle, of Hunters Walk in Birmingham, was remanded into custody to await sentencing on 24 November.
Police intervened to calm the incident in Bonifacio, local media reported.
Staff and pupils at French schools are banned from wearing religious symbols - but parents are not.
Tensions between Muslims and other locals have been simmering in southern France, particularly after a jihadist in a lorry murdered 86 people in Nice.
Monday's incident in Bonifacio took place as children returned to school after the summer holiday.
The parents who blocked the women said they were unhappy because their children were reprimanded if staff saw their Christian crosses.
Tensions have been simmering in southern France and Corsica, especially following the jihadist massacre of 86 people by a lorry driver on the seafront at Nice on 14 July.
Up to 30 towns and villages imposed bans on women wearing full-body swimsuits known as "burkinis" but the top French court has since said the action breaches basic freedoms.
Last month two villagers and three men of North African origin were hurt in a brawl on a beach in the Corsican village of Sisco. The local prosecutor said the three North African men, from a nearby town , had wanted the beach for themselves.
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France, where the separation of state and religion is enshrined in law, introduced in 2004 a series of bans on overt religious symbols in various public and state-run places.
In May a top EU court adviser said EU employers may be able to ban Muslim staff from wearing headscarves to work as long as it was part of a general prohibition on all religious symbols.
The full-face Islamic veil, or niqab, has been banned in public places in France since 2011.
Vladimir Anikeev's group "Shaltai Boltai" (Humpty Dumpty) was notorious for hacks including the Twitter account of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
He was tried amid tight secrecy and convicted of unauthorised access to computer information.
Anikeev argued he was defending freedom of information and the internet.
A former journalist, he denied that Humpty Dumpty was political or had links to the FSB security service. Two other men have also been accused in the case, Alexander Filinov and Konstantin Teplyakov.
Among the Kremlin figures he was accused of targeting were presidential aide Andrei Belousov, the prime minister's press secretary Natalya Timakova and state TV presenter Dmitry Kiselyov, who also heads the Sputnik news agency.
Anikeev's defence said it would not contest the sentence but would make a plea for early release, news agency Ria Novosti reported. He has already spent several months in custody.
Earlier this year, the BBC interviewed another member of the Humpty Dumpty group, Alexander Glazastikov, in Estonia.
Initially the group was "a politically-oriented project in opposition to the Kremlin" that targeted domestic corruption, he said.
Then he claimed that last year Anikeev had been approached by a senior member of the FSB. An FSB official was among those arrested earlier this year.
Skills Development Scotland, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, ScotlandIS and Education Scotland are backing the £250,000 fund called Digital Xtra.
Among the aims of the scheme is to support extracurricular computing clubs for youngsters aged 16 and under.
A panel will evaluate submissions for funding.
Representatives from technology businesses, Scottish government and education will be on the panel.
Steuart and Tom Walton and their firm RZC Investments will now own a controlling stake in the business.
Founder and chief executive Simon Mottram, who has only ever held a minority stake, said the deal marked "an exciting day" for the company.
Current shareholders, including Mr Mottram and private equity firm Active Investors, will retain smaller stakes.
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Mr Mottram said the investment would enable Rapha to accelerate its global expansion plans.
"It heralds the start of the next stage of our journey and is testament to the growth and potential that people see in Rapha and in cycling," he added.
Rival firms, including Aston Martin shareholder Investindustrial, were reported to have been interested in Rapha, which was valued at a reported £200m.
Founded in London in 2004, selling directly to consumers via its website and from a handful of shops, Rapha is today one of the biggest names in cycling clothing.
The firm is popular among serious amateur cyclists, and previously supplied the kit to Team Sky, the leading British professional cycling team that includes Chris Froome, the four-times winner of Tour de France.
Rapha saw its revenues grow by 30% in the year to January to £63m.
Despite the firm's current success, Mr Mottram faced difficulties when he was first trying to secure funding to start the business back in 2001.
Mr Mottram told the BBC he was seen as a risky investment at the time because it was a number of years before the current boom in the popularity of cycling began.
"No bank would touch me," he said.
"Who was really interested in cycling back in 2001 and 2002? It was just something us weirdos did."
Mr Mottram, who had previously worked in brand development, was finally able to secure the funding from six wealthy private investors and "a long trail of friends and family".
The overall investment deal meant that from day one he only had a minority stake in the business.
The company tweeted on Thursday: "Forecast: Winter weather ahead! @DisneyAnimation developing #Frozen2."
It was accompanied by a picture of sisters Elsa and Anna, with Sven the reindeer and Kristoff.
Disney also confirmed that the directors of the first film, Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, are returning.
Jennifer Lee tweeted: "At last, I can say - FROZEN 2!!!! I'm beyond excited to create alongside my Frozen family!"
There's no news on a release date yet.
Those of you who can't wait for the sequel can see a seven-minute follow-up film called Frozen Fever in cinemas later this month.
It's being shown at screenings of new Disney film Cinderella.
Frozen was released at the end of 2013 and went on to become the highest-grossing animation of all time, and the fifth biggest film overall.
So far it's raked in $1.274 billion (£857 million) worldwide.
The movie won two Oscars in 2014 - best animated feature and best original song for Let It Go.
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The boy, who is in his mid-teens, approached the girl on a cycle path in South Queensferry at about 14:00 on Friday.
The girl immediately went home and told her parents what had happened.
Officers said it was a "deeply concerning incident" that had caused great distress to the girl.
The teenager left on foot shortly after the incident, which took place behind the South Queensferry Bowling Club.
He walked east in the direction of Newhalls Road and may have been seen by several drivers in the area.
Police described him as white, about 5ft 4ins, of a medium build with brown hair brushed forward. He was wearing a royal blue round neck t-shirt, navy jeans and was possibly carrying an old black and blue rucksack.
Det Insp Julie Marshall said: "This is a deeply concerning incident that has caused a great deal of distress to the young victim as well as her family.
"She has shown tremendous courage and has been able to supply us with a very strong description of the suspect and I urge anyone who has relevant information to contact police immediately."
She added: "Our inquiries are ongoing but I can reassure the public that we will use all resources at our disposal to trace this individual as quickly as possible."
The procession of decorated cabs ferried groups of children with special needs and illnesses for a day.
The children were taken to Yellowcraig beach in East Lothian.
The tradition, which dates back to 1965, sees prizes awarded for fancy dress and unsuspecting passers-by soaked by water pistols.
The BBC comedy last aired on Christmas Day in 1978.
The sketch reunites Crawford, 74, with on-screen wife Betty (Michele Dotrice), and features an appearance from Olympic cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins, leading to one of Frank's typical disasters.
"I am thrilled and delighted to have been asked to bring Frank back," he said.
Dotrice said it would be an "absolute joy to be reunited again with Frank" and that it was fitting "for it is such a wonderful cause".
Sir Bradley added: "I am a huge fan of Michael so it's an absolute honour to be asked to be involved alongside such an icon of British television... and all for a great cause."
When the show wrapped in 1978, Crawford went on to star in the original production of The Phantom of the Opera and other successful Andrew Lloyd Webber productions such as The Wizard Of Oz.
Sport Relief Night airs on BBC One on 18 March from 19:00 GMT.
Sales were down by 15% at General Motors, 10% at Fiat Chrysler and 7.5% at Ford compared with July 2016.
After several years of record growth, July looks set to become the fifth month in a row to see a fall in overall US car sales.
The fall comes amid weak in consumer income and spending growth in the US.
Consumer spending edged up by just 0.1% from May to June, while income growth was basically flat, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported on Tuesday.
Mustafa Mohatarem, chief economist at General Motors, said he expected sales to improve in the coming months although they were unlikely to match last year's record.
"Key US economic fundamentals remain supportive of strong vehicle sales," he said in a statement.
"Under the current economic conditions, we anticipate the second half of 2017 will be much stronger than the first half."
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US car manufacturers have been deliberately scaling back sales to rental car companies, because they often bring them little in the way of profits.
It is that strategy that drove some of the steepest sales declines last month.
But the retail sector has also softened, despite strong demand for SUVs.
Overall US vehicle sales at four big firms - Ford, General Motors, Fiat Chrysler and Toyota - have fallen by between about 3% and 7% so far this year.
Ford expects retail sales across the industry to fall by about 6% for the year as a whole.
Ford vice president Mark LaNeve said he thought the figures were skewed by strong incentives some firms offered to families, which boosted sales last year.
"I don't think it's as bad as it looks," he told analysts and reporters on Tuesday.
Shares in US car companies fell after the latest figures were released.
General Motors closed 3.39% lower, while Ford finished down by 2.41%.
Toyota, which is listed on the stock exchange in Tokyo, saw its shares rise after its sales report showed it was one of the few companies to buck the trend last month.
The company sold 222,057 vehicles in July in the US, up 3.6% compared with the same time last year. The firm's US sales are down 2.5% for the year so far.
The vote - starting on 5 November - has been expected since the union's leaders agreed to a ballot last month.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and the BMA leadership have since met in an attempt to resolve the dispute.
But it now appears more than 50,000 medics will get the chance to vote over whether they want to take action.
The last time doctors went on strike was over a pension dispute in 2012.
The current row is over a new contract, due to be introduced in August 2016.
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Critics have argued the deal could mean 15% pay cuts for doctors, with "normal hours" re-classed as being from 07:00 to 22:00 from Monday to Saturday.
It means extra payments for unsociable working will only be given outside of these times, rather than for work outside the current arrangements of 07:00 to 19:00 Monday to Friday.
The government has described the current contracts as "outdated" and "unfair", pointing out they were introduced in the 1990s.
Ministers drew up plans to change the contract in 2012 but talks broke down last year.
The government has indicated it will impose the new contract in England next year.
Scotland and Wales have said they do not want to introduce the changes, while Northern Ireland has yet to make a decision.
BMA junior doctors leader, Dr Johann Malawana, said the decision to ballot members had not been "taken lightly".
"The government's refusal to work with us through genuine negotiations and their threat to impose new contracts that we believe are unsafe for patients and unfair for doctors, leaves us with few options," he said.
The landslide hit early on Sunday at a site in Fujian province's Taining county, where a hydropower project was being built, Xinhua news agency said.
The landslide is believed to have been triggered by heavy rain.
China's president and prime minister both called for an all-out effort to save the missing men.
Officials said on Sunday evening that more than 600 rescuers were at the scene, using sniffer dogs, specialist equipment and heavy excavator vehicles.
Thirteen injured people are in hospital in a stable condition, Xinhua reported.
The agency said rainfall in the Taining region had been 35% higher than average this year. In the 24 hours before the landslide, 215.7mm of rain fell in the area around the construction site.
A leaked report also alleges Mahboob Hussain tipped off his son about the upcoming sale of a Sandwell Council property
Author James Goudie QC suggested Labour's Mr Hussain committed six council code of conduct breaches.
Mr Hussain, now suspended by Labour, has previously denied any wrongdoing.
He said he could not comment now as the contents of the report were "confidential".
Former economy chief councillor Ian Jones and Mr Hussain stood down from the ruling cabinet after investigations began, but both had their suspensions from the Labour party lifted before elections on 5 May.
Mr Hussain has been suspended afresh, the party confirmed.
The authority commissioned law firm Gowling WLG to investigate alleged irregularities in the sale of the authority's former properties from 2011-2013.
Publication of this report has been delayed after legal action by "one of the parties named", the council said, but documents leaked to the BBC shed light on its findings.
On the parking tickets, Mr Hussain gave evidence denying he sought favourable treatment.
Mr Goudie QC found Mr Hussain requested "in effect" for parking tickets for his wife and an unnamed son to be cancelled.
He said the wife's penalty was cancelled, while his son's was reduced.
This was among three occasions Mr Hussain allegedly broke the Member Code for councillors to help his family, according to the QC.
Gowling WLG investigated alleged irregularities in the sale of the authority's former properties from 2011-2013, including three old public toilet blocks and a former coroner's office in Smethwick.
A parallel police investigation ended in March with no further action.
Mr Goudie said publication of the Gowling report was "strongly in the public interest".
The QC suggested Mr Hussain's breaches of the Member Code included:
Mr Hussain gave evidence he did not know who was buying the toilet blocks because the purchase was through a company name, not the name of his friend.
He said he had not been consulted and had not been aware of the price.
Mr Jones gave evidence saying he did not know the relationship between Mr Hussain and the toilet blocks' buyer. The QC said this meant there was no misconduct issue by Mr Jones.
Mr Jones also said he could not comment now because the report was confidential. He has previously dubbed the investigations a "witch-hunt" and disputed the truth of the allegations.
Mr Hafeez, who was arrested last year, provided no evidence to the council's solicitors despite requests, the QC wrote. He has not yet responded to further questions from the BBC.
Police told him in November 2015 he would face no action.
He said in November his arrest "did not relate to the sale or purchase of any former Sandwell Council properties" and he was "considering taking legal action against a number of individuals and organisations".
Caoimhin McSherry, 22, from Belfast, was also disqualified from driving for five years.
He earlier pleaded guilty to causing serious injury to Malcolm Robinson by driving dangerously last September.
Sentence had been deferred at Edinburgh Sheriff Court until Thursday.
McSherry had also admitted failing to stop after the accident on 27 September failing to report the accident, and, having 29 microgrammes of alcohol in his breath when the limit is 22.
Fiscal Depute Rosanna Chapman told Sheriff Norman McFadyen that McSherry had been working in Edinburgh since July 2015 along with two colleagues.
They were staying in the Travelodge at the airport, socialised with each other at the weekends and planned to watch the Ireland v Scotland rugby international after work.
The men finished work at 14:00 and went to a pub in Victoria Street.
"They consumed a number of pints of beer," said the fiscal.
She added that the men had discussed buying some food and getting a taxi back to the hotel, but McSherry said he would drive them home.
Ms Chapman said: "His colleagues told him that was not a good idea as he had been drinking."
As the men were walking towards Waverley Bridge, the fiscal said McSherry refused to get a taxi and told the others he would drive them to the hotel.
"The others decided it was best to go with the accused," she added.
At about 21:50, Mr Robinson, who had been in the Grassmarket also watching the rugby match, was making his way over a pedestrian crossing.
McSherry was approaching in his car and, said the fiscal, one of his colleagues told him to "watch out".
"The accused attempted to apply the brakes, but struck Mr Robinson on the right hand side of his body causing him to go up on the bonnet of the car and hit the right-hand side of the windscreen which cracked," said Ms Chapman.
She continued: "Mr Robinson fell off the bonnet onto the ground and was lying unconscious.
"The accused accelerated his car and drove over Mr Robinson. A number of people saw him just driving over the man and dialled 999 for the police and ambulance."
Ms Chapman said Mr Robinson was placed on life-support and suffered a collapsed lung, damage to his liver and abdomen, damage to his right shoulder, hip and fractured ribs and spent six weeks in hospital.
He still had restricted movement in his shoulder and the psychological impact of the accident had led to insomnia and anxiety. He was still receiving physiotherapy.
Defence solicitor Ewan Roy told Sheriff McFadyen that his client's actions had been "deplorable" and he would have to live with the shame of the incident.
Sentencing McSherry, Sheriff McFadyen described the events as "a shocking sequence of drink-driving".
Clever clogs Lloyds, that most politically astute of banks, has responded by announcing that if you want to borrow more than £500,000, you will only get the loan if its value is no greater than four times the income of your household.
"Wah?" you may say, if you are of a certain age. "When I was a lad, you were lucky to get a loan of three times income."
Which only goes to show that some pretty racy mortgages are being written by banks and building societies in the London and south east.
Perhaps the most amazing thing said by Lloyds yesterday is that this new constraint would have an impact on 8% of its London home loans business (and see my piece on last night's News at Ten for more on all of this).
Bloomin' 'eck.
So to repeat what I said yesterday, it would be a bit odd if the Bank of England's new Financial Policy Committee did nought next month to take some of the heat out of the residential property market.
Anyway, this is a long pre-amble to a tangential point, which is that not all Mark Carney's colleagues at the Bank regard the bubblelicious housing market as the most worrying possible sinkhole on our journey to the sunny uplands of renewed prosperity.
Which may surprise you a bit. But they take the view that after years of stagnation, property prices were bound to get a bit racy, once we all got a sniff of economic recovery. But that the Bank has important new tools to insulate banks and the wider economy from extreme housing-related shocks.
Hmmm. We'll see. The Financial Policy Committee's new tools are untested. Gawd knows whether they'll be used in a timely and appropriate way, or whether they'll have adverse unexpected consequences.
But I suppose the bigger point is that British homes aren't the only asset currently looking a bit toppy, in the jargon.
I am prohibited from recounting the contents of private conversations with Bank brains on all this. But I can give you this resonant quote from Charlie Bean, the retiring deputy governor of the Bank of England, who last night gave a valedictory speech at the London School of Economics.
This is what Mr Bean said: "Implied volatilities in many financial markets have been at historically low levels for some time. Together with low safe interest rates in the advance economies, that has underpinned a renewed search for yield and encouraged carry trades [where investors borrow cheaply to invest in assets offering a nominally higher return, but where that return is not necessarily higher when underlying risk is taken into account].
"Taken in isolation, this is eerily reminiscent of what happened in the run-up to the crisis".
Or to put it another way, those controlling the world's great pools of money believe the world is a much safer place than it really is, and are taking foolhardy risks with their investments.
In fact, the Bank's internal analysis shows that investors are behaving more irrationally and exuberantly even than perhaps implied by Mr Bean - the volatility of a raft of the world's most liquid and important assets, from shares, to currencies to government bonds, is lower even than at the peak of the boom before the devastating crash of 2007-8.
So as and when any of the following possible accidents materialise - exacerbation of turmoil in Ukraine, a hard financial landing in China, cack-handed end of the era of free money in the developed economies, inter alia - "we may yet encounter a few potholes".
Or so Mr Bean puts it, perhaps euphemistically.
One of the great possible sources of future instability is the great overhang of government and official debt acquired by the central banks of the big rich economies through the money-creation exercise known as quantitative easing.
Mr Bean signals that the Bank of England will not wish merely to sit on the £375bn of gilts or UK government bonds it has bought, and see that debt mountain gradually shrink as the Treasury repays on the assorted due dates.
If the Bank were to do that, the unwinding of quantitative easing, the withdrawal of the new cash from the economy, would take around 50 years - which would be too long, he seems to think.
So at some point, he says, the Bank of England will start to flog some of this stuff back to investors.
When?
Well it ain't going to be very soon. Because there is a risk that investors and the market would react quite adversely - pushing down the price of debt, and increasing implied interest rates pretty sharply.
There could, therefore, be an over-reaction, in which the price of money would rise sharply, to the detriment of the wider economy.
Which is why Mr Bean says the Bank cannot start to sell its gilts till the official interest rate has been raised to a high enough level, such that the Bank could make an emergency cut in it, as a form of evasive action.
But in spelling that out, Mr Bean has telegraphed to hedge funds and other investors the rules of a potentially lucrative game - the losers of which could be all of us. In that the rational thing for any investor to do would be to dump gilts in size as the Bank's policy rate was raised, to pre-empt and perhaps even deter possible gilt sales by the Bank (such that the investors could buy the gilts back at a depressed price, in the expectation of a bounce).
Lucky Mr Bean is, of course, exiting the crucible of all this potential future mayhem before we find out whether the Bank of England will show wisdom and sensitivity in disposing of the debt and withdrawing £375bn of cash from the economy, or will emulate his famously accident-prone namesake.
28 August 2015 Last updated at 08:18 BST
After winning gold in the 200m sprint, Usain ran over to thank the audience for their support.
However, a Chinese camerman riding a segway, lost control and crashed into Bolt knocking them both over.
Luckily they weren't hurt and Bolt sprang back up again.
Usain said he doesn't think the fall will impact his next race in the men's 4x100m relay on Saturday.
Kevin de Bruyne was the first to miss in the opening period, seeing the Dutch goalkeeper push his effort away, and Sergio Aguero saw the same outcome in the second half.
Despite dominating possession, City went behind as Romelu Lukaku opened the scoring with a cool finish.
Nolito headed in for the hosts from David Silva's inch-perfect cross, but De Bruyne had a drive brilliantly saved by Stekelenburg, as City failed to find the winner.
Following their perfect start to the season when they won their opening six games, City have stumbled in their past two with defeat at Tottenham and this draw against Everton.
Boss Pep Guardiola stood scratching his head on the touchline in the second half, during a game in which his side had 19 shots and 72% possession but only found the net once.
Leroy Sane was given his first Premier League start for City and the German international showed his promise with an impressive performance, while Raheem Sterling also threatened with his pace.
But it was the host's philosophy of trying to work the ball into the net which let them down, finding a resolute Everton defence that sat deep to snuff out wave after wave of opposition attack.
Having somehow fallen behind, City did manage to grab an equaliser through substitute Nolito's header from close range.
Ronald Koeman's side could have broken into the top-four with victory, and took the lead against the run of play through Lukaku, who ran clear from the halfway line and slid home the opener.
Team-mate Ashley Williams showed his steeliness at the back by making 13 clearances - more than any other player on the pitch.
But defensive partner Phil Jagielka had a shocker, conceding both penalties after tripping Silva by sticking his leg out and a hack on Aguero inside the area.
Everton had goalkeeper Stekelenburg to thank for keeping out two spot-kicks, as well as further excellent stops from Aguero - who started on the bench - and De Bruyne.
The Belgian, in his attempts to get City on the front foot, lost possession 32 times in the match.
Centre-back John Stones made 77 league appearances for Everton before joining City in the summer for a huge £47.5m.
Although he is now learning to bring the ball forward at the right time and clearing it to safety when required, there is still work to do on the Englishman's game.
For Everton's goal, he found himself beyond the halfway line, failing to win the ball as Bolasie intelligently nipped in front to nick the ball.
It left City with a gaping hole in defence, and Lukaku against Gael Clichy was no contest as the Belgian shrugged past the Frenchman to score.
Former England defender Martin Keown on BBC Radio 5 live:
"It was a good, honest performance from Everton and they deserve this point today. For all Manchester City's dominance you have to praise what has been a gallant performance by Everton.
"You look at the two managers and Ronald Koeman will be happier than Pep Guardiola. City dominate and play football of the highest quality but just missed that little bit in the final third today."
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola: "We did absolutely everything. Everton created just one chance which was a goal. I'm a little bit sad and disappointed for the players. But it's a big compliment to Everton and Ronald Koeman so I say to them 'well done'."
Everton manager Ronald Koeman: "I am satisfied with a point because not many teams leave this stadium with a point. You need to be a little bit lucky and a goalkeeper to have the match of his life, and you need a work-rate from your team. A big compliment to the team because we fight."
Everton travel to Burnley in the league on Saturday, 22 October (kick-off 15:00 BST), while City host Southampton the next day (kick-off 13:30).
Match ends, Manchester City 1, Everton 1.
Second Half ends, Manchester City 1, Everton 1.
Foul by David Silva (Manchester City).
Kevin Mirallas (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Gareth Barry (Everton) because of an injury.
Foul by Fernandinho (Manchester City).
James McCarthy (Everton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Everton. Ramiro Funes Mori replaces Tom Cleverley.
Substitution, Manchester City. Vincent Kompany replaces Ilkay Gündogan.
Fernandinho (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kevin Mirallas (Everton).
Ashley Williams (Everton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ashley Williams (Everton).
Substitution, Everton. Kevin Mirallas replaces Yannick Bolasie.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Maarten Stekelenburg.
Attempt saved. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by David Silva.
Seamus Coleman (Everton) is shown the yellow card.
Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gareth Barry (Everton).
Attempt missed. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is too high. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Bryan Oviedo.
Foul by Fernandinho (Manchester City).
Romelu Lukaku (Everton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Offside, Everton. Tom Cleverley tries a through ball, but Seamus Coleman is caught offside.
Foul by Sergio Agüero (Manchester City).
Phil Jagielka (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Manchester City 1, Everton 1. Nolito (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by David Silva with a cross.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Maarten Stekelenburg.
Attempt saved. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by David Silva.
Substitution, Manchester City. Nolito replaces Leroy Sané.
Penalty saved! Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the top right corner.
Penalty Manchester City. Sergio Agüero draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Phil Jagielka (Everton) after a foul in the penalty area.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Bryan Oviedo.
Goal! Manchester City 0, Everton 1. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Yannick Bolasie.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Phil Jagielka.
Attempt blocked. Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Ashley Williams.
Robin Barton was prevented from selling Art Buff after a charity obtained a High Court injunction following its removal in 2014.
The tenant of the building, Dreamland Leisure Limited, was told it did not have rights over the painting.
Mr Barton said he only later discovered a freeholder owned the building.
Art Buff, which depicts a woman staring at an empty plinth, appeared on a wall in Folkestone in September 2014.
Mr Barton said he had been under the impression the mural was owned by Dreamland Leisure Limited which is linked to Dreamland park owners, the Godden family.
He admitted he should have checked who owned the painting.
"It was only months later it was discovered there was a 'larger freeholder'," he said.
"I work on handshakes only, so it was a mistake on my part," Mr Barton told BBC South East Inside Out programme.
Art Buff appeared in the heart of Folkestone's Creative Quarter during the 2014 Folkestone Triennial and was removed before the end of the art festival.
In September 2014 Mr Barton sent the painting to Miami to be sold at auction on behalf of the Godden family, expecting it to fetch up to £470,000, but it did not sell.
"They tend to take two or three years to sell," he said.
"With the Art Buff piece itself, it's not a pretty thing so you have to have a back story which is going to make it collectable to someone."
The Creative Foundation, a charity which runs the Folkestone Triennial art event, obtained an injunction in the High Court against Dreamland Leisure Limited and Jeremy and Jordan Godden preventing them from selling or otherwise dealing with it.
It was returned to Folkestone in October but has not gone back on public display.
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The deal to bring the 24-year-old to Teesside exceeds the £12.7m paid to Dutch side Heerenveen for Brazil striker Afonso Alves in January 2008.
Forest said the fee agreed met a buyout clause in Assombalonga's contract.
Assombalonga overcame a career-threatening knee injury to score 14 goals in 33 games for Forest last term.
"I can't wait to get started and train with the boys," he told Boro's club website. "There's a good feeling around the place. From the minute I walked in it felt right."
Assombalonga, who had signed a new five-year deal at the City Ground in September 2016, also broke Forest's record fee when he joined from Peterborough in August 2014 for around £5.5m.
He caught the attention of Forest with 33 goals in 58 games in his one season at London Road after prolific spells at Braintree and Southend United.
Boro have already added Denmark forward Martin Braithwaite from Toulouse, Norwich midfielder Jonny Howson and Derby defender Cyrus Christie to their senior squad on permanent deals this summer, as well as signing defender Connor Roberts on loan from Swansea.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
When you think where Bangladesh were after lunch - 171-1 - to be bowled out for 220 is a real transformation.
I thought Bangladesh, who were just 23 runs short of their victory target in Chittagong, having never beaten England before, played it very well to start with.
From that Chittagong Test they realised England are vulnerable in these conditions and they thought they'd go out and chase them.
They played very aggressively, trying to set up a game to bowl England out twice.
Tamim played brilliantly for his 104 and had great support from Mominul Haque, who made 66 in that second-wicket partnership of 170.
It was the introduction of Ben Stokes that changed the game and he's a real talisman for England now.
He's feared by the opposition, deeply respected and he has earned it.
Man of the match in the first Test, he bowled brilliantly again, with 2-13 from 11 overs.
He switched ends to bowl from the far end and got his line right, he reverse swung the ball both ways, not much - just enough - and had them guessing.
Stokes just didn't give them anything and with the Bangladesh batsmen trying to be positive against Moeen at the other end, they got out and the spinner picked up 5-57.
You do bowl as a pair and those two teamed up brilliantly.
The worry for England is how they are going to rest Stokes, who contributes so much with bat, ball and in the field.
They rested Stuart Broad here ahead of the five-match series in India starting next month, but how are they going to give Stokes a break?
They are going to have to try. Yet how do you leave a player like Ben Stokes out of your team - you just can't do it.
You certainly wouldn't want to play him just as a batsman, so he's not going to have a break all winter I wouldn't think. He's going to be worn out by the end of the India Test series in mid-December.
It's possible they will rest him for the three one-day matches and Twenty20 internationals that start on 15 January but for now it's Tests all the way and England face a really hard tour of India, where they simply can't leave him out.
Stokes thrives on a heavy workload in any case. All-rounders are generally like that, they relish being in the game.
Stokes gave England real control again with the ball from the one end and Moeen tightened up as well, improved his confidence and got into the wickets.
The three spinners were all a bit disappointing to start with, Tamim was positive against them and they didn't bowl very well.
They were picked off and easily milked for runs.
Left-arm spinner Zafar Ansari looked a bit nervous, which is perfectly understandable on Test debut, and Adil Rashid bowled a couple of nice googlies to the left-handers but overall they weren't creating any pressure.
They didn't bowl a maiden between them until about the 20th over they bowled as a unit, and that's an indication of the lack of control they had.
That still remains an issue but Moeen bowls good balls and gets people out.
It will continue to be a case of trying to get some consistency out of him and build pressure with maidens, but he is still England's number one spinner.
England lost early wickets again and the top order is struggling.
When you are batting and the ball is spinning you need a fair amount of luck to survive and, at the moment, England don't seem to have a lot of that, but then Bangladesh didn't either.
All it does is put into context how brilliantly Tamim played for his third hundred against England. We were very lucky to watch it.
Jonathan Agnew was speaking to BBC Sport's Jamie Lillywhite
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It began in the housekeeping quarters of the Chewton Glen Hotel in New Milton just after midnight.
The hotel said all guests and staff were accounted for.
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service, which sent five fire engines, said the blaze incinerated all the items in the hotel's laundry.
Spokeswoman for the hotel, Angela Day, said the fire was contained and guests returned to their rooms at about 04:00 GMT.
A fire service spokesman said the operation to put out the fire required 24 sets of breathing apparatus.
He added: "Our attendance was two pumps from New Milton, two from Lymington and one from Redbridge.
"Also to support we had our response support vehicle from Redbridge, environment protection support from Romsey, a co-responder from Ringwood, command support from Beaulieu and Eastleigh, and our incident command support unit from headquarters."
An investigation into the cause of the fire is under way.
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Rooms in a five-star hotel in Hampshire had to be evacuated in the early hours after a fire broke out in a laundry room.
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The woman, who had been using the smartphone app Periscope, reportedly jumped under a train at a station about 25 miles (40 km) south of Paris on Tuesday.
The video is no longer available on Periscope, which is owned by Twitter.
Twitter said it did not comment "on individual accounts".
According to French newspapers, the young woman died in Egly, Essone at about 15:30 GMT on 10 May.
Previously, she had filmed herself in her flat discussing how she intended to make a video to "send a message", warning younger viewers not to continue to watch what would be a "shocking" act, it was reported.
During the filming, the young woman claimed to have been raped and named her attacker, according to the reports.
The death is currently being investigated and the data on the young woman's phone is being looked at, said local prosecutor Eric Lallement.
It is not the first time that Periscope has been linked to inappropriate content.
In April, a woman from Ohio was charged with streaming the rape of a teenage girl via the app. She denied the charge.
Other incidents include:
Periscope has strict guidelines about content that is allowed and also provides a link to allow users to report issues.
It does not monitor the feeds around the clock, although it has previously said that it was able to respond "within minutes".
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Phone for free: 116 123
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Survivors' Trust
The Survivors' Trust provide support and signposting for women, men and children who are survivors of rape, sexual violence or childhood sexual abuse.
Phone: 0808 801 0818
SOS Amitie
In France, SOS Amitie offers a similar service to the Samaritans.
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Simon Zebo limped from the field, to be replaced by Paddy Jackson, with three minutes remaining, but the Munster back was not mentioned as being an injury concern in Monday's medical bulletin.
The squad has been released for a week and will reassemble on 23 August.
Their third warm-up game is against Wales in Dublin on Saturday 29 August.
Ireland beat the Welsh 35-21 in their opening preparation game for the World Cup in Cardiff on 8 August.
Ulster winger Andrew Trimble missed the victory over the Scots with a foot injury but is making good progress in his recovery, while the medical team continue to monitor Cian Healy as he recovers from neck surgery.
Prop Marty Moore could feature for Leinster against Ulster in a friendly in Belfast on Friday as he continues to recover from shoulder surgery.
Ireland face Canada in their first World Cup Pool D game in Cardiff on 19 September.
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Ireland have reported no fresh injury worries following their 28-22 World Cup warm-up win over Scotland at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on Saturday.
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Maternity units in Ludlow, Oswestry and Bridgnorth are being closed due to staffing challenges at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust (SaTH).
The decision was made as a report was published reviewing stillbirth and infant deaths at the trust, which found they were still "too high".
Expectant mothers will be offered an alternative location for their births.
See more stories from Shropshire here
Staff sickness combined with a drop in the number of midwives prepared to work overtime has led to "significant challenges in our ability to fully staff teams", SaTH said in a statement.
This has meant a number of services have had to be suspended at Midwife-Led Units (MLUs) at short notice.
Simon Wright, chief executive of Shropshire's hospitals said suspending services for a length of time would be better because "then the mums have certainty".
In the meantime, women due to give birth at Ludlow, Oswestry or Bridgnorth be offered appropriate alternatives either at home or hospitals in Shrewsbury, Telford, Hereford or Wrexham.
The announcement of the closures comes on the same day as a review into the trust's maternity services.
It is one of three reports following deaths of babies caused by errors in labour, with another commissioned by Jeremy Hunt.
It stated that while perinatal mortality - stillbirths and deaths in the first week of a child's life - has fallen, it is "still too high and requires additional action".
However, it concludes that "safety in maternity is protected by the efforts of staff".
This review set out to ask two main questions of the trust - are maternity services safe and did we learn from previous mistakes?
This badly written report uses lots of words to say very little. Neither question is clearly answered.
Talk of a "high degree of energy to provide safe maternity services" doesn't say services are safe.
As to the second question, there is a clear insinuation that major cultural problems within the maternity service has not resulted in learning from avoidable deaths.
Curiously, the person who many blame for the setting that culture, the long-term former head of midwifery, Cathy Smith, has been promoted to lead cultural improvements across the trust.
Many of the recommendations have been made previously - some, years ago - and why they haven't been implemented raises continuing serious questions of the trust.
This quick, six-week review will not take any pressure off the trust as it fails to answer the fundamental questions both bereaved parents and the wider public have raised.
Mr Wright said: "It is important that all women who are currently using our services or who are about to access them, as well as their partners, are reassured about the safety of those services.
"However, we know that we can still continue to improve.
"We have made a determined effort to improve monitoring of babies' heartbeats, including regular training and investment in equipment to promote safer use and better interpretation of results."
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Three rural maternity units in Shropshire will close for up to six months from 1 July.
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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."
In pictures: Battle for Misrata
Koussa Lockerbie meeting 'in days'
Libya rebels to export first oil
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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He said the resolution would threaten "extremely serious" consequences if Syria breached its conditions.
The move follows Russia's announcement of a plan to put the chemical weapons under international control.
Syria has said it accepts the Russian proposal, though details are sketchy.
"We held a very fruitful round of talks with [Russian] Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov yesterday [Monday], and he proposed an initiative relating to chemical weapons. And in the evening, we agreed to the Russian initiative," Russian news agency Interfax quoted Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, who is in Moscow, as saying.
This would "remove the grounds for American aggression", he said.
Source: UN
Earlier, Mr Fabius, who was speaking at a news conference in Paris, said the resolution, based around five points, would demand that Syria "bring fully to light" its chemical weapons programme.
The measure would also set up international inspections and controls of the dismantling process.
The resolution would be tabled under Chapter 7 of the UN charter covering possible military and non-military action to restore peace, Mr Fabius added.
The plan had been discussed before, he said, but had probably been advanced by the pressure applied in recent weeks.
The Russians have blocked all previous French-led efforts at the Security Council, says the BBC's Christian Fraser in Paris.
Both France and the United States are wary of an Iraq-style game of cat and mouse - but they are prepared to give the Moscow-backed plan a chance, our correspondent adds.
What the French are keen to avoid, Mr Fabius said, is a plan that is only there as a delaying tactic, which is why all options, including the threat of a strike, will remain on the table, our correspondent says.
On Tuesday, the Arab League signalled its support for the Russian initiative.
Its head, Nabil al-Arabi, said the League had always backed a political solution.
There have been few details so far of Russia's plan, but Mr Lavrov said in Moscow that it was "preparing a concrete proposal which will be presented to all interested sides, including the US... a workable, specific, concrete plan".
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Mr Muallem said: "We are convinced that the position of those striving for peace is much stronger than that of those trying to fuel war."
Mr Lavrov said he had spoken to US Secretary of State John Kerry on the telephone about the plan on Monday.
Mr Lavrov said the Russian initiative was "not a purely Russian initiative... It grew out of contacts we've had with the Americans".
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama discussed the idea on the sidelines of a G20 summit last week, Mr Putin's spokesman said on Tuesday.
Mr Lavrov noted Mr Obama's suggestion in a US TV interview that this may be a "breakthrough".
Overnight, Mr Obama said the Russian proposal could be a breakthrough. He is to hold working lunches with senior senators on Tuesday and his prime time television address is still scheduled to go ahead in the evening.
The White House said Mr Obama still planned to use the address to argue that Congress should authorise the use of force if required.
5-6 Sept Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama discuss idea of placing Syria's chemical weapons under international control on sidelines of G20 summit, Putin spokesman says
Monday 9 Sept
07:30 GMT At press conference with Russia's Sergei Lavrov, Syria's Walid Muallem hints at chemical weapons plan
09:12 In UK, John Kerry says Mr Assad could avert an attack if he "turn[s] over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community"
14:00 In second press conference, Mr Lavrov says he has urged Mr Muallem to "not only agree on placing chemical weapons storage sites under international control, but also on their subsequent destruction". Mr Muallem welcomes proposal, and it is prominently reported on Syrian state TV, suggesting Damascus is behind plan. Mr Obama says a military strike is "absolutely" on pause if Syria yields control of its chemical weapons
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Spokesman Jay Carney said there were ample reasons to be sceptical about how serious Syria was on implementing the Russian plan.
"Before this morning, the Syrian government had never even acknowledged they possessed chemical weapons. Now they have,'' Mr Carney said in an interview on MSNBC.
The US Senate had been expected to vote this week on a resolution authorising military force, but the Russian plan has led to a postponement.
Republican Senator John McCain, who has been an advocate of military action, said on Tuesday that a bipartisan group of senators was now working on a new resolution that would set Syria a specific period of time to turn over its chemical weapons.
Senator McCain told CBS he was "extremely sceptical" about the Russian proposal but that "to not pursue this option would be a mistake".
Opinion polls suggest that a majority of voters are opposed to Mr Obama's calls for intervention in Syria.
According to a survey by the Associated Press news agency, 61% of Americans want Congress to vote against authorisation for military strikes.
The US claims that Mr Assad's forces carried out a chemical attack in Damascus on 21 August, killing 1,429 people.
Mr Assad's government blames the attack on rebels fighting to overthrow him, in a conflict that the UN says has claimed some 100,000 lives.
Watch President Obama's address to the nation live on the BBC News website at 21:00 EDT on Tuesday (01:00 GMT/02:00 BST Wednesday).
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McGeehan scored his 10th of the season with a half-volley that looped over debutant keeper Ryan Allsop.
The hosts, who drop to 10th, had the ball in the net after the break, but Paris Cowan-Hall's header was disallowed for a push on the keeper.
Paul Benson hit the post late on for Luton as they held out for the win.
Wycombe manager Gareth Ainsworth told BBC Three Counties Radio:
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"It's just a lack of goals for me, we dominated the first 35 minutes. I thought we were outstanding. We have got to stick them in, somebody has got to step up and say 'I'm going to start scoring for Wycombe Wanderers'.
"With no money it is really tough to get players in, I haven't got a penny to spare, we will have to get players out before we get any more players in.
"I cannot fault the efforts of the players today - it's just sticking it in the opponents' net, and we will be working on that."
Luton boss Nathan Jones told BBC Three Counties Radio:
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"I was really thrilled with the contribution from the Luton fans, they filled the away end and sang all the way through. We gave them a performance they can be proud of.
"I'm so, so proud of them today - what a shift, what a graft, I'm really proud of my team. Today we showed a different side to us - in the second half, we were outstanding."
The charity says nearly two-thirds of people fear a diagnosis would mean their life is over.
But it says an early diagnosis can actually help people to live as well as possible.
And it wants everyone to confront head-on the challenges posed by dementia.
In a survey of 2,000 adults, almost half thought they would have to stop driving immediately while one in five feared losing their partner or friends if they were diagnosed with dementia.
Nearly 60% thought they would struggle to join in conversations and almost half worried people would think they were "mad" if faced with a diagnosis.
But the charity said these myths about dementia were stopping people from getting the best possible treatment and also preventing them from planning for the future.
There are many possible symptoms of dementia, and anyone experiencing them is encouraged to see a doctor as soon as possible. Common symptoms include:
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One in three people surveyed said they didn't go and see their GP because they thought memory problems were just a natural part of the ageing process.
Jeremy Hughes, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society, said delays in seeking medical attention were something they wanted to change.
"Too many people are in the dark about dementia - many feel that a dementia diagnosis means someone is immediately incapable of living a normal life, while myths and misunderstandings continue to contribute to the stigma and isolation that many people will feel."
He said he wanted to reassure people that life doesn't end when dementia begins.
"There's no question that it can have a profound and devastating impact on people, their family and friends - but getting a timely diagnosis will enable people with dementia to live as well as possible."
There are around 850,000 people in the UK with a form of dementia - a figure that is predicted to rise to one million in less than 10 years and to two million by 2051.
The MSPs have been looking into the use of the machines, which allow players to bet on the outcome of games and events with fixed odds returns.
The games can include roulette, bingo, simulated horse and greyhound racing and a range of slot machine games.
The committee heard evidence that the machines were highly addictive.
And it was told that players could sometimes lose hundreds, or even thousands, of pounds while playing the fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs).
The Scotland Bill which is currently going through Westminster would give the Scottish Parliament the ability to limit the number of machines allowed in new bookmaker shops.
But Holyrood's local government and regeneration committee concluded that this did not go far enough given the high number of terminals already available.
Committee convenor Kevin Stewart, an SNP MSP, said he believed the maximum stake of £100 per game and the ability to play three games per minute meant FOBTs were a form of "hard gambling" and should therefore be banned from the high street.
He said: "The casino industry told us these machines are a form of hard gambling and unsuitable for the unsupervised environment of a bookmaker's shop.
"We were given evidence about the clustering of bookmakers in some communities - for example, one parade of shops in Glasgow with three bookmakers each offering four FOBT machines - and local authorities have told us they feel powerless to do anything to restrict the number of bookmakers."
£1.6bn
profit made by bookmakers from the machines in a year*
£100 maximum stake per bet
£2 what campaigners believe the maximum stake should be
£500 maximum win per bet
34,874 number of FOBTs in betting shops in the UK*
He said planning rules should be changed to give local authorities more control and the ability to address the clustering of machines.
And he said the Scotland Bill would not give the Scottish Parliament any "real and effective powers" to tackle FOBTs.
In its submission to the committee, the Association of British Bookmakers argued that gaming machines "pose no greater risk than any other gambling product".
It said: "Since the introduction of gaming machines into shops over 10 years ago levels of problem gambling have remained relatively stable and declined year on year."
It also argued that reducing the number of fixed odds betting terminals would "disproportionately impact the viability of the (bookmaker) sector which has a strong history in Scotland and risks customer displacement to non-regulated environments".
On Sunday, the BBC reported that a bid to cut the maximum bet on some high street gambling machines in England had been resubmitted.
Newham Council said the machines had "sucked the life blood out of local communities" and urged ministers to reduce the highest stake from £100 to £2.
Abdul Hafidah was stabbed after he was hit by a car on Moss Lane East on 12 May and died later in hospital.
The 17-year-old has been bailed until 25 July pending further inquiries.
Nine other people, eight men and another 17-year-old boy, are on bail after also being detained on suspicion of Adbul's murder.
Police believe Mr Hafidah had been chased near Greenheys Lane before being struck by a blue Vauxhall Corsa and then stabbed.
Current rules require only one space for firms to comply with the Equality Act.
Bridgend Coalition of Disabled People chairman Simon Green said transport companies will always do the legal minimum.
The Department for Transport (DfT) has been asked to comment.
Bus companies said an additional wheelchair space was possible, but would result in reduced capacity, requiring increased tax-payer subsidies on some routes.
In January, the Supreme Court ruled bus companies had to consider further steps when disabled spaces are occupied by pushchairs.
However, even when pushchairs are not in the disabled space of a bus, there can sometimes be a capacity issue.
Mr Green said an increase in wheelchair users meant the rules should change.
He said: "Accessibility on buses has vastly improved. When I first started using a wheelchair I was lucky if I could get on any bus.
"The vast majority of buses, with my very-lightweight wheelchair, I can get onboard it without a problem.
"The problem is that, if I'm onboard, very often someone else in a wheelchair can't get onboard."
He said some buses have two spaces but often a bar does not leave room for a wheelchair and a push chair or two wheelchairs, which is a "huge issue".
Mr Green called for "bigger, wider" spaces with fold-down seats toward the front of the bus, to allow for flexibility.
"I think the law and the regulations should be changed. I think each bus should be able to carry at least two people in wheelchairs," he added.
The plea came after two women in Monmouthshire told BBC Wales they no longer use public transport, after being stranded when the single wheelchair space was already occupied on the last bus home.
Bethan Watkins, from Raglan, tries to regularly catch a bus to and from Abergavenny, which runs every two hours.
She said on one occasion when the wheelchair space was already taken on the last bus home she was left stranded.
"I was left at the bus stop with very little charge on my phone and I didn't think I was going to be able to get home.
"It really did knock my confidence and after the first time I got stranded I barricaded myself in the house and I didn't want to come out."
Phil Anslow, whose company runs the Monmouth-to-Abergavenny route Ms Watkins uses, said he understood the difficulties faced by disabled people, as his father was also a wheelchair user.
He told BBC Wales putting an extra wheelchair space on the bus was not a problem, but it would impact on capacity for other users because of DfT regulations.
"At the end of the day we are a bus service company - we carry people from A to B.
"The more people we carry the better for everybody, but we can only do what the law allows us to do," he said.
Sarah Griffiths, from Abergavenny, said she tried to board a bus from Abergavenny to Cwmbran last month but was refused because another wheelchair user was already onboard.
"It really put me off - I've got to have a taxi everywhere.
"There are quite a few people who have the same problem and it's happening time and time again. They apologise, but it just keeps happening," she said.
A spokesman for Stagecoach, which runs the route, said the company would investigate the incident.
"We recognise that different passengers have different requirements and we work with bus manufacturers to make sure our vehicles are accessible to as many customer groups as possible.
"We have been commended on our approach by disability groups and we work closely with them on improving our services.
"Over the past decade, we have also invested more than £1bn in new accessible buses, which benefit wheelchair users, customers with restricted mobility and families with young children."
The Department for Transport is yet to comment.
In the wake of the Supreme Court decision in January, it said "public transport should be accessible to all" and it would consider the ruling.
"We are working with operators, disability groups and local authorities to ensure that disabled people can easily get onto buses," the DfT added at the time.
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The Englishman took advantage of a nervous Ding to open up a 6-0 lead, before Ding pulled two back.
China's Ding had breaks of 103, 89 and 86 in the second session, as well as taking a 66-minute 15th frame.
But Selby, the 2014 champion, won the last two as play ended at 00:24 BST after a tactical 49-minute final frame.
The final resumes at 14:00 BST on Monday, with the last session due to start at 19:00.
Leicester's Selby, competing in his third final, looked fresh despite a late semi-final finish against Marco Fu on Saturday, and took advantage of Ding's edginess early on.
Having not shown his best snooker in the tournament, the 32-year-old signalled his intention with breaks of 91, 76, 70 and 120 to surge ahead.
However, his opponent - playing in his first Crucible final - won the seventh and eighth frames to stay in touch.
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Ding, 29, had to come through three qualifying matches to qualify for the main draw after slipping to 17th in the world rankings.
He is bidding to become only the third qualifier after Terry Griffiths in 1979 and Shaun Murphy in 2005 to lift the trophy, and the first Asian world champion.
Selby looked like he might run away with the final when he won the first frame of the second session, but he suffered an unfortunate miscue when in amongst the reds in the next.
That gave Ding a reprieve as he jumped out of his seat to make a counter-attacking 76 break.
He followed it up with a century, his 13th of the tournament, and a cool 89 under pressure to reduce the deficit to 7-5.
Ding grabbed two of the next three, including the marathon 15th frame to go 8-7 behind, but it seemed to take a lot out of him.
Selby, who was clearly struggling with tiredness, pinched the final two frames of the session, punching the table and raising his cue in delight on his way to finally bringing the session to a conclusion.
Six-time world champion Steve Davis: "There were two warriors out there today. When you require one or two snookers you've got to go for them, but the standard of safety play was astonishing and a frame can go on a long time. Nobody is giving an inch. Ding looked as fresh as anything.
1991 champion John Parrott: "Mark Selby has got tremendous stamina. It was a phenomenal performance. His eyes are so tired, he's absolutely gone, but he keeps finding something."
1997 champion Ken Doherty: Mark Selby has shown incredible resolve and mental strength. It looked like Ding was closing to within one frame or even possibly levelling the match, but he came back very strongly despite his tiredness."
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It has some oil and gas and a developing gold mining sector, but relies on imports for most of its energy needs.
Resentment at widespread poverty and ethnic divisions between north and south have spilled over into violence, and the country's first two post-Soviet presidents were swept from power by popular discontent.
Settled by Kyrgyz tribes from southern Siberia in the 17th century, the area was ruled by various regional powers before coming under Russian, and then Soviet, rule.
Most of its six million people are Turkic-speaking Muslims.
In 2014 Kyrgyzstan shut a US military base which had supplied US troops in Afghanistan with personnel and cargo since 2001. Russia retains a military airbase in the country.
Population 5.4 million
Area 199,900 sq km (77,182 sq miles)
Major languages Kyrgyz, Russian
Major religions Islam, Christianity
Life expectancy 64 years (men), 72 years (women)
Currency som
President: Almazbek Atambayev
Almazbek Atambayev, a businessman and former prime minister, won more than 60% of votes in the October 2011 presidential election, trouncing his nationalist rivals.
His inauguration marked the first peaceful transfer of presidential power in Kyrgyzstan's post-Communist history.
Under pro-Russian Mr Atambayev, Kyrgyzstan joined the Russian-dominated Eurasian Customs Union.
He also refused to extend the lease on the US air base at Manas - a logistics hub for the Afghan conflict - in 2012, soon after accepting a loan from Russia; the base closed in 2014.
1685 - Kyrgyz people settle in the area that is now Kyrgyzstan; area conquered by the Oirats, a Mongol people, after centuries of Turkic rule.
1758 - Oirats defeated by Chinese Manchus and Kyrgyz become nominal subjects of Chinese empire.
Early 19th century - Kyrgyz come under the jurisdiction of the Uzbek khanate of Kokand, to the west.
1876 - Russian forces incorporate what is now Kyrgyzstan into the Russian empire.
1991 - Kyrgyzstan acquires its present name, and declares independence. Askar Akayev is president.
2005 - Mass protests force President Akayev from office in the Tulip Revolution.
2010 - Opposition protests sweep President Kurmanbek Bakiyev from power.
The claim: Migration to the UK puts a heavy burden on housing stock - we would need to build 240 houses a day for 20 years to cope.
Reality Check verdict: The sums add up. Note that the figures include migration from outside the EU and are a projection based on the past.
"We need to build around 240 houses every day for the next 20 years just to be able to cope with increased demand from future migration," he said.
That works out at a total of 1.75 million houses.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) makes assumptions about future levels of migration in its population forecasts. In the latest release, published last October, the suggested figure for population increase due to net migration over a 25 year period is five million. Over the 20-year period from 2014 to 2034, the figure is approximately four million.
The average UK household size is 2.3 people so four million people does indeed equate to about 1.75 million homes, or 240 a day.
There are a couple of caveats. One is that the ONS figure is for immigration from both inside and outside the EU. At the moment, the EU accounts for just under half of total net migration.
And second, the ONS numbers are not a forecast of what they expect to happen. They are an assumption made on the basis of what has happened in the past.
Read more: The facts behind claims in the EU debate
The 24-year-old played under current Crawley head coach Dermot Drummy in Chelsea's youth setup.
He has most recently been playing for Finnish top-flight outfit PS Kemi, for whom played 27 times this season.
"He's been playing at a good standard in Finland and we think he is more than capable of doing very well for us," Drummy told the club website.
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Children's Commissioner Tam Baillie said children could not be expected to thrive unless they were well-nourished.
The Scottish government is consulting on the new social security powers devolved under the Scotland Act 2016.
Mr Baillie said research suggested that almost one in five children in Scotland was living in relative poverty.
And foodbank provider Trussell Trust has estimated that about a third of its food parcels go to children.
Mr Baillie said: "This can only harm children's physical and mental well-being; unless their basic need to be well nourished is met, we cannot expect children to concentrate at school or on other activities."
In June, the government's Independent Working Group on Child Poverty urged ministers to use new social security powers coming to Holyrood to fund an increase in child benefit.
The group said an increase of £5 per child per week would lift 30,000 children out of poverty at a cost of £256m a year.
Publishing a report on the issue - entitled Living is more important than just surviving - the commissioner highlighted the lack of accurate data about the numbers of children experiencing food insecurity.
Food insecurity means children not having enough food to eat or not being certain that there will be enough food for them and their families.
Mr Baillie said the report was prompted by the "rapid" increase of food insecurity in Scotland and the absence of children's input in discussions on the causes and solutions to poverty.
According to the research, conducted with 32 children in four local authority areas in Scotland, young children have well developed ideas around solutions to food insecurity including:
The commissioner said: "The greatest insight of this research is of young children's desire and ability to solve the challenges they see in the world around them, which raises a number of questions about the inclusion of children in public policy and decision making more generally."
Pete Ritchie, executive director of the Nourish Scotland campaign group, said there was currently no population wide monitoring of food insecurity in Scotland or the rest of the UK.
He added: "The Scottish government could include a child-specific measure of food insecurity in the Child Poverty Bill."
The bodies of about 800 children aged under six were unearthed by archaeologists in January during the Freckleton Street link road works.
A total of 1,967 bodies were exhumed from 200 graves from the 1800s
The Bishop of Blackburn Rt Rev Julian Henderson led a service at 12:00 BST at the memorial gardens reburial site in Wainwright Way.
He acknowledged the support given to the project "particularly in the light of the sensitivities involved".
"I am grateful for the care taken by contractors and archaeologists in overseeing the work to ensure this will continue to be a site of remembrance for future generations," he said.
The land where the bodies were found was formerly the burial ground at the old St Peter's Church which opened in 1821 in Blackburn.
The large number of children discovered was put down to a lack of good sanitation and medicines leading to a high mortality rate.
Experts believe one of the men buried at the site was a soldier injured in the Crimean War.
St Peter's Church, which would have seated 1,500 parishioners, became dilapidated in the mid-20th Century and was demolished to ground level in 1976.
Eventually 100,000 eels will be released in UK waterways, including in Shropshire, east of England and Wales.
Eel numbers are falling as they cannot reach their breeding habitats due to man-made barriers in their way.
Andrew Kerr, from the Sustainable Eels Group, said: "You want to see the eel doing well and prospering as it tells us how well we are managing our water."
Mr Kerr added: "What we've had to do is catch them in hand nets and then put them in tanks.
"Sometimes we immediately move them on past the barriers but on this occasion we've taken 100,000 and we've grown them on from two inches long, to four, five, six inches long."
UK Glass Eels used licensed fishermen who caught the baby eels in hand nets during the spring tides along the River Severn earlier this year.
The first batch was released into Blagdon Lake on Monday.
This site was chosen as it has shallow water, lots of reeds for protection from predators like birds, and plentiful food.
The young eels will then grow and mature over the next 15 to 20 years as they live low down in the water.
Once mature they will return to the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic to breed and spawn.
A total of £45,000 is being spent on the project organised by the Bristol and Avon Rivers Trust, the Sustainable Eel Group and UK Glass Eels.
In a message on Facebook she said the blackout was caused by faulty equipment and that only the Southern and Western provinces - supplied by a hydroelectric power plant at the Victoria Falls - were unaffected.
The incident is a repeat of a similar blackout on 11 December.
Zambia - a hydroelectric-dependent country - has had erratic rainfall.
The 1.4 million people who live in the capital Lusaka are suffering after an inconsistent rainy season from last October to March this year.
The rainfall shortages have left some reservoir water levels too low, resulting in load shedding - as a result of which the government says it has had to impose planned power cuts - sometimes lasting eight to 14 hours a day.
Zambia had one of Africa's fastest growing economies - expanding on average 7% annually over the past five years - driven by mining of its huge copper and cobalt reserves.
But global prices for minerals have dropped, coinciding with low rainfall and power cuts. On top of that, Zambia's local currency, the kwacha, has recently tumbled against the US dollar. Many businesses cannot absorb such unplanned costs.
Power cuts typically add 40% to businesses' costs in emerging economies, the World Bank estimates.
Analysts say that Zambia's - and sub-Saharan Africa's - energy crisis is caused by a lack of planning, a lack of investment as a result of low tariffs, prevarication by politicians and poor management of resources.
His opening tweet was: "Can you hear me now?"
In his profile, Mr Snowden says he "used to work for the government. Now I work for the public". He quickly gathered thousands of followers.
So far, Mr Snowden, who is wanted in the US for leaking secrets, only follows one other Twitter user - the US National Security Agency (NSA).
He is believed to be living in Moscow where he is sheltering from US prosecutors.
In his second tweet - a reply to US astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson - Mr Snowden joked: "Now we've got water on Mars! Do you think they check passports at the border? Asking for a friend."
And in another tweet he said: "Hero, traitor - I'm just a citizen with a voice."
The @Snowden account was verified by Twitter and within nine hours of joining, Mr Snowden had accumulated more than 710,000 followers.
In June, former Olympian and reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner became the fastest person on Twitter to reach one million followers - in just over four hours.
Mr Snowden left the US in 2013 after leaking to the media details of extensive internet and phone surveillance by US intelligence.
His information made global headlines when the Guardian newspaper reported that the NSA was collecting the telephone records of tens of millions of Americans.
Mr Snowden is believed to have downloaded 1.7 million secret documents before he left the US.
Although some consider him a traitor for his revelations, many others around the world say he is a champion of civil liberties.
In the US he faces charges that could put him in prison for up to 30 years.
Earlier this year, speaking via video-link to a Geneva audience, he said he would like to be granted asylum in Switzerland.
He has previously worked in Geneva undercover for the CIA.
Regarding a possible return to the US, he told the audience that authorities there had given him no assurances of a fair trial.
"The only thing they've said at this point was that they would not execute me," he said. "That's not quite the same thing as agreeing to a fair and open trial."
The 29-year-old played 42 games for the Us after joining from Scunthorpe in the summer of 2014.
The former Huddersfield player spent time on loan at York City earlier this season, making seven appearances.
"There's a new challenge ahead for me and I've enjoyed my time at Oxford" Collins told the club website.
Named Quinto by staff at Whitehouse Farm Centre in Morpeth, it was among three born on Sunday.
The additional front limb is fully formed and does not appear to be causing the animal any problems, according to manager Heather Hogarty.
Ms Hogarty said a vet was due to assess Quinto in the next day or so and a decision made whether or not to amputate her extra leg.
Quinto has quickly become one of the star attractions at the farm, which also features llamas, wallabies and meerkats.
Ms Hogarty, who has run the farm's visitor centre for 16 years, said: "We've never come across anything like this before and neither has anyone we've spoken to.
"She's doing absolutely fine at the moment and does not appear to have suffered any adverse effects from being born with an extra leg.
"It looks like it's fully formed, although it's a bit limp in the middle of her lower body.
"As she was being born we just thought it was one of the front legs in an awkward position.
"She and her two sisters are a very healthy weight.
"Having five legs isn't stopping her running about even though it's about the same size as the other legs.
"She is definitely the most unusual birth we've had here.
"We've asked the vet to have a look at her and we would expect the extra leg to be amputated. But that should be straight forward and shouldn't affect her health too much."
Sam Prescott, director of Robson and Prescott Veterinary Centre in Morpeth, said: "It is certainly rare but we will see mutations of different sorts and always have done.
"We'll see lambs born with two heads and Siamese twins, there can be all sorts of deformities that make them nonviable."
Over the 17 days that followed, Great Britain's team enjoyed its most successful Winter Games since the very first edition in Chamonix in 1924.
GB athletes brought home four medals - skeleton gold for Lizzy Yarnold,silver and bronze in curling and a snowboard bronze for Jenny Jones - Britain's first Olympic medal on snow.
Twelve months on, how are winter sports faring in the United Kingdom?
Mike Hay, a former Great Britain curler, was in overall charge of the Team GB delegation in Russia.
He believes the performance in Sochi was a "step change" and stands Winter Sports in good stead in the lead up to the next Games in Pyeongchang in 2018.
"I think we're in pretty good shape. I think that's reflected in the funding. UK Sport have confidence we have podium potential in Pyeongchang," said Hay.
"We have a great age profile of athletes coming through, and we've got much more strength in depth than we've ever had before, so I'm very positive about our chances in Pyeongchang."
UK Sport funding in Winter Olympic Sports has more than doubled for the four-year cycle running up to Pyeongchang.
For the six funded sports the amount awarded has risen from pre-Sochi total of £13,444,638 to £27,374,333.
"I think we can safely say Sochi was a watershed moment for British winter sports," said Simon Timson, UK Sport director of performance.
"Many are still working with a relatively small cohort of athletes, but ones that have the potential to be even more successful in Pyeongchang in three years' time.
"However, no one in British winter sport can afford to rest on their laurels and sit still; we need to make the most of the opportunity that Sochi created.
"We don't expect to see all the fruits in performance terms on the world stage yet."
In skeleton, the extra funding has enabled Team GB to run a talent search programme in order to bring its number of athletes up from 15 to 24 by 2018.
More money is going to sled research and development, while the extra funds have helped send athletes to the Olympic Youth Games and led to the appointment of full-time coaches for the World Cup and Europa Cup.
However, three sports - bobsleigh, short-track speed skating and figure skating - have conditions to meet in year one or they could face cuts to their money.
National Ice Skating Association chief executive Nick Sellwood said the conditions imposed were "only right and proper".
"You've got to keep assessing whether people are on track to deliver medals," he added.
"Our figure skaters have very specific performance targets at the world championships. If they reach those targets, they remain on the programme. If they don't, they'll move off the programme.
"In short-track, UK Sport recognise that we are excelling - we're delivering world, European and world cup medals regularly. But what we haven't done is convert that to Olympic medals.
"We've reviewed all of our programmes and put new strategies and resources in place to address some of the weaknesses in our system so that we're more confident of delivering the medals we're being asked to do."
Many GB athletes who took part in Sochi have built on the team's success in the past year.
Lizzy Yarnold has added to her Olympic gold with three World Cup wins so far this season.
The GB women curlers followed up their bronze with European bronze representing Scotland, although the GB men who won silver in Russia failed to qualify for the event.
There have also been successes for athletes who did not manage to get on the podium in Sochi.
Katie Summerhayes became the first British woman to win a Freestyle World Championships medal when she took slopestyle silver in Kreischberg in January.
In short track, Elise Christie, for whom the Winter Olympics went so badly, refocused to take a world silver medal and was crowned European champion for the first time.
Andrew Musgrave, the cross-country skier who described his Olympic performance as like a 'tranquilised badger', has rediscovered his speed with the best ever finish by a Briton at a World Cup, coming 13th in Lillehammer in December. He also clocked the fastest time by a Brit in a World Cup race earlier this year.
And although they were unable to win another European Championships medal this year, ice dancing pair Penny Coomes and Nick Buckland scored a personal best and won their first prestigious Grand Prix medal with a bronze in Moscow in November.
Ed Leigh is a former professional snowboarder and now co-presents Ski Sunday. He feels snow sports in the UK are enjoying a post-Sochi boost.
"Snow sports in this country are in such rude health," he said. "Jenny Jones's medal has had such an affect on the domestic industry.
"That medal had a genuine trickle-down effect of bringing people into the sport.
"We are the only snowboard industry in the world that is growing at the moment."
Leigh added that Summerhayes's silver medal at the world championships is "an indication of the progress that we continue to make".
Another one of the key things that Sochi has provided is something called 'performance profiling', which looks at the times and performances of the world's best and measures UK athletes against that.
"Snowboard riders like Billy Morgan, Jamie Nicholls and Aimee Fuller are all benefiting from that and we're starting to see real results and a lot of progress being made using that system," Leigh added.
Participation can be tricky to gauge.
Some sports, such as bobsleigh or skeleton, are not readily accessible to a recreational athlete. Other sports have different ways of measuring their numbers - whether it is by website traffic or facility surveys.
However, the general trend is upwards.
Curling recorded over 5,000 people trying the sport in the aftermath of the Sochi Games through the Try Curling website. That number compares to roughly 1,000 people in each year after the 2010 Vancouver Games.
And at the only dedicated curling rink in England they are still witnessing 60% more visitors than they were at this time 12 months ago.
"Immediately after the Games we had so much interest we had to stay open longer than we normally would," said Tracey Brown, manager of Fenton's Rink in Tunbridge Wells.
"We shut between May and October and expected it to level out again but there were still more people coming. We don't know when or if interest will drop."
Ice skating sports have recorded 2,500 more people taking part each week, while in the three months after Sochi Snowsport England recorded a 12% increase in participation at several indoor centres around the country compared to the same period in 2013.
The Army's 5th Division is among three regional headquarters closing to save money under the Strategic Defence and Security Review.
The work of the three will move to a central HQ in Aldershot, Hampshire, with the loss of about 440 civilian jobs, including 63 in Shrewsbury.
Copthorne Barracks will remain the base for 143 (West Midlands) Brigade.
The MoD said the 5th Division's disbandment had meant some staff leaving on voluntary terms, while others placed in the "redeployment pool" may be found jobs with the MoD or other government departments.
A ceremony was held at the Shrewsbury barracks on 29 March to mark the disbandment of the division.
Brigadier Mark Banham, Commander of 143 (West Midlands) Brigade, said the modern day 5th Division was established in 1995 but its roots dated back to 1811.
"I would like to pay tribute and give my thanks to the generations of people, both military and civilian, who spent their careers here at 5th Division, their contribution lives on in its memory," he said.
He added that he wanted people to understand "that just because the division is disbanding as a result of changes to the structure of the Army, Copthorne Barracks and 143 (West Midlands) Brigade, are very much open for business".
There were currently no plans to close Copthorne Barracks, Brig Banham said.
Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Nick Harvey, said in December that the Aldershot move would mean 440 job losses among civilian staff.
However, he said 104 civilian jobs would be created at Aldershot's new Support Command HQ.
About 42,000 MoD civilian and armed forces jobs are to be cut by 2015 as defence spending falls by 8% over four years.
The We Love Manchester Emergency Fund raised £2m in just 24 hours and has now topped £4m. But what checks do crowdfunding organisations make to ensure so-called fake fundraisers are not duping well wishers?
Just Giving, one of the online pages people can use to donate to the fund, was criticised over an appeal for victims of the Westminster terror attack which was thought to be fraudulent.
However, it said it now takes "pre-emptory action" and places all pages set up after an event like the Manchester tragedy into a "quarantine".
"This means that we prevent any money being removed from the accounts until we have spoken with the page owner, worked out if they have a plan to distribute the funds and if not, then we intervene and do it for them," a spokesperson said.
"Therefore, it's unlikely there would be a possibility of any money going to the wrong place."
GoFundme, another online donation page, said it also vetted "every single campaign" to check they were safe for donors to give to.
"We do this by contacting organisers, making sure they are who they say they are and that they have a clear way of getting the money to the intended recipient.
"If they're not clear on that, we'll help them make that connection, but they won't be able to withdraw any donations," its spokesman John Coventry said.
Has there been any fraudulent activity suspected?
Earlier this month, the Fundraising Regulator told BBC News more needed to be done to protect people from fraudulent crowdfunding pages after concerns were raised that a JustGiving page for one of the Westminster terror attack victims could be fraudulent.
Just Giving said it had received about 30 queries relating to crowdfunding pages on the Manchester attack.
GoFundMe said it had spotted "a handful" of fake pages.
"If we spot any suspicious activity we immediately suspend the campaign and contact the campaign organiser. This has happened just a handful of times this week, and were all caught before they had raised any money," Mr Coventry said.
Greater Manchester Police has issued a warning for people to be aware of fraudulent fund raising pages.
The money raised by We Love Manchester Emergency Fund will be used to help the victims of the attack, their families and dependants.
The page said that in the unlikely event that more money was raised than could be "reasonably and efficiently spent", the surplus would be used in the aftermath of similar events in the UK that charity trustees agreed upon.
Pages should always state what any money raised will be used for.
What do you do if you think you have spotted something suspicious?
The sites ask users to immediately flag up anything they feel is suspicious so it can be investigated.
Just Giving said it was currently working through more than 200 pages set up since the attacks and was speaking to the page owners.
GoFundMe is also hosting about 200 pages. It said its biggest campaigns included one for homeless man Chris Parker who comforted an injured girl and a woman who died in his arms, student Georgina Callander and eight-year-old Saffie Roussos.
Be vigilant - tips to avoid donating to a fake page:
Source: GoFundMe
5 August 2016 Last updated at 14:18 BST
As the red warning lights started flashing at the Oulton Broad crossing, the driver carried on across the railway line - narrowly missing the descending barriers.
The driver, who was caught on camera on Thursday, also nearly struck a woman pushing a buggy and another woman with a young child on the footpath.
Suffolk's Police and Crime Commissioner Tim Passmore described the driver's antics as "dangerous, reckless and completely unacceptable".
Finola Cash, 32, was out buying crack cocaine when her son Ricky's bath seat fell into water in their hotel bedsit in Edgware, north London, in August.
Cash had been visited by social workers on multiple occasions, including on the day Ricky died, the Old Bailey heard.
The judge said Cash was "grossly negligent".
The baby, who was subject to a child protection plan by Harrow Social Services, died in September 2014 - a month after he was found - in a children's hospice after suffering brain damage.
Judge Charles Wide said: "You were grossly negligent. This was not the result of momentary inattention, this was the culmination of the continual failure to care for him.
He added: "You were more concerned with receiving your consignment of drugs than looking after your child."
Doctors found the 11-month-old had crack cocaine in his bloodstream, which was either the result of passive smoking or contamination from a surface or a finger.
He was also suffering a severe nappy rash caused by neglecting to change soiled nappies.
Cash pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to six years, of which Judge Wide said she is expected to serve half on licence.
Cash, who is from the travelling community, was known to social services because of her history of drug abuse and domestic violence.
She had been moved into the hotel so social services could supervise the family, the prosecution said.
On the morning of Ricky's death on 23 August, a social worker made an unannounced visit to Cash and noted that she had no concerns, the court heard.
Tests on her blood and hair revealed she had taken crack cocaine in the 12 hours before Ricky had drowned and had been a user of heroin and methadone for the previous nine months.
Sarah Plaschkes QC, prosecuting, said Harrow Social Services became "increasingly concerned" about Cash who had already been evicted from two other hotels for disruptive behaviour before she arrived at the Madonna Halley Hotel, in Whitchurch Lane, in August 2014.
Social workers suspected Cash may have been taking drugs after reports from from neighbours, but Cash failed to turn up for drug testing.
A statement from the Met Police said Harrow Council had launched a multi-agency serious case review commissioned by Harrow Local Safeguarding Board.
The television maker has apologised to its customers and told the BBC it would issue an update to correct the problem.
UK-based IT consultant Jason Huntley, who raised the issue in a blog, welcomed the "positive step".
Viewing information helps manufacturers deliver relevant advertising and programme recommendations.
"I hope that their future products will reflect this decision and keep customers clearly informed as to their data collection practices before they take place," he said.
LG launched an investigation in the wake of his blog, which was reported widely in the media.
"We have verified that even when this function is turned off by the viewers, it continues to transmit viewing information, although the data is not retained by the server," LG said in a statement.
"A firmware update is being prepared for immediate rollout that will correct this problem on all affected LG Smart TVs so when this feature is disabled, no data will be transmitted."
It later added: "LG does not, or has ever, engaged in targeted advertisement using information collected from LG Smart TV owners."
Since the issue became public it has emerged that Sony's PlayStation also collects data from every Blu-ray disc that is played.
Samsung, the world's largest TV maker, is yet to respond to questions about its operations.
LG stressed that the information gathered was not personal but viewing information.
"This information is collected to offer recommendations to viewers based on what other LG Smart TV owners are watching," the firm said.
A document uncovered by Harvard's student newspaper included ratings of the attractiveness of female players as well as sexually explicit comments.
University President Drew Faust called the behaviour "appalling".
The team, currently in first place in the Ivy League, will forfeit the rest of its games this season.
In what reports indicate may be a yearly tradition, male soccer players at Harvard circulated documents with pictures of their female counterparts, rating their attractiveness from one to 10 and giving reasons for their decisions.
They also noted which sexual position they thought the women in question would prefer.
Until recently, the Harvard Crimson newspaper reports, documents from 2012 were publicly accessible through a former team's Google Group.
Ms Faust said an investigation had found that the practice had continued to the current season.
She wrote that she "was deeply distressed to learn that the appalling actions of the 2012 men's soccer team were not isolated to one year or the actions of a few individuals".
Ms Faust added in a statement: "The decision to cancel a season is serious and consequential, and reflects Harvard's view that both the team's behaviour and the failure to be forthcoming when initially questioned are completely unacceptable, have no place at Harvard, and run counter to the mutual respect that is a core value of our community."
The discovery of sexually explicit comments made by male Harvard athletes is at the milder end of what has been dubbed US college "rape culture".
Banners regularly appear at the beginning of the academic year bearing slogans such as: "Rowdy and fun. Hope your baby girl is ready for a good time".
Studies have found that members of US college fraternities are three times more likely to commit rape than other male students while members of sororities were 74% more likely to experience sexual assault.
Past scandals include an email sent around one fraternity entitled "Luring your rapebait" and fraternity members chanting "No means yes".
The most recent case involved a Stanford University swimming champion who sexually assaulted an unconscious female student before being jailed for six months - a term condemned by many as too short.
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Last week after the original story came out, the female players in question said they were "appalled that female athletes who are told to feel empowered and proud of their abilities are so regularly reduced to a physical appearance".
In an opinion piece published in the Crimson, they said: "More than anything, we are frustrated that this is a reality that all women have faced in the past and will continue to face throughout their lives."
The university's director of athletics, Robert Scalise, said: "It's very disappointing and disturbing that people are doing this.
"Any time a member of our community says things about other people who are in our community that are disparaging, it takes away from the potential for creating the kind of learning environment that we'd like to have here at Harvard."
The men's soccer coach Pieter Lehrer wrote in a statement to the Crimson that the team was "beyond disappointed that our season has ended in this way, but we respect the decision made by our administration".
Mark Jones, 45, of Cwmbran, denies murdering Amelia Jones while babysitting in Pontnewydd in November 2012.
On Tuesday, Amelia's mother told Newport Crown Court she had "trusted" Mr Jones with her daughter's life.
She said the baby had previously been "quite distressed" in his care.
Sarah Jones, 26, said her father appeared to have had a difficult evening with five-week-old Amelia when she returned home from a night out with friends on 16 November, 2012.
She said Mr Jones swore and said "Amelia had been a nightmare".
She added: "I didn't think anything of it at the time. I trusted him with my life and my children.
"I had no reason not to. He was my father."
Ms Jones left Amelia with her father at 21:30 GMT the next day, on 17 November, 2012, to go to the cinema.
But she said that within a minute of her sitting down in the cinema, Mr Jones phoned her and said: "Love, love she's not breathing, I can't get her to breathe".
Ms Jones said her street "was lit up with blue" when she got home.
She added: "Amelia was being carried from my front door."
Mr Jones was in tears, saying "I'm sorry", his daughter said.
Amelia was initially treated at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, but then transferred to the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.
Ms Jones said that when a doctor told her Amelia had a skull fracture she "went into denial" and "thought they had got it wrong".
She told the jury her father said at the hospital: "Whatever you do, don't give up on her, don't allow them to turn her machine off. I'll be there no matter what."
Earlier, Ms Jones told the court Amelia had become "quite distressed" when left in Mr Jones's care in a car during a shopping trip, days before her death.
"Amelia was out of her car seat and sitting on Mark's lap", she said.
"For a normal cry, that wasn't Amelia," she added.
Ms Jones said her father had also made a "shocking" comment a few days before the baby's death, when the youngster's father, Ian Skillern, was leaving the couple's home.
She said it came "completely out of the blue" when Mr Jones said "Even though I don't like her father, I don't hold grudges against a baby".
Ms Jones added: "I was just quite in shock about where that comment had come from."
On Monday, the court heard Mr Jones duped his daughter into thinking he was gravely ill by posing as a doctor in bogus phone calls in a bid to repair their relationship.
Mr Jones claims he dropped Amelia accidentally on the two separate evenings while babysitting on his own.
The trial continues.
Putting Kelis, Gareth Malone, Chaka Khan and Mel Giedroyc together in the same room is, quite simply, a magnificent idea.
Having clearly recognised this, BBC One has duly recruited this dream team to appear in its upcoming singing contest Pitch Battle.
Judges Kelis and Malone will be joined by a different guest judge each week, which will see Chaka Khan rotate with Will Young, Bebe Rexha and Seal to critique the contestants.
Choirs and a capella groups will be pitted against each other in a format you just might recognise from the many, many other talent shows which have preceded it.
"I remember seeing Popstars back in 2001 and it being a genuinely fresh and exciting idea," says Julia Raeside, TV critic for The Guardian.
"To watch the hopes and dreams of these young kids, it didn't feel quite so manipulated back then, and the concept of a judge being a bit of a villain was relatively new."
But, perhaps inevitably, the success of the show sparked a new wave of singing contests such as Popstars: The Rivals, Pop Idol, The X Factor and The Voice.
A number of successful groups and singers such as Girls Aloud, Little Mix, Leona Lewis and Olly Murs came out of these shows over the years - but there were also plenty of potential careers which never took off.
The Observer's pop critic Kitty Empire says: "If you are an artist, quite often going on TV talent shows might not be the best idea for your career, because for every One Direction there are a thousand No Directions.
"If you want a career in music, that sometimes doesn't happen as a result of going on a talent show. However, if you're more versatile and more willing to go on the West End stage, you can certainly turn the TV exposure to your advantage."
It's true - there are plenty of contestants who applied for talent contests as singers, and ended up taking their careers in totally different directions after receiving the TV exposure.
Rylan-Clark Neal was something of a novelty act in the 2012 series of the show, but has gone on to be a successful TV presenter and even released an autobiography last year.
Elsewhere, 2005 X Factor winner Shayne Ward and Popstars' Kym Marsh can now be seen acting in Coronation Street.
While Marsh's bandmate Myleene Klass is now a radio presenter and X Factor 2008 victor Alexandra Burke has starred in multiple theatre productions.
Certainly some of these former contestants have had success, but Empire points out: "There is a wider issue of whether great art is being made.
"For a country that produced people like David Bowie, who is universally acclaimed, we're not seeing that quality of talent on TV shows.
"People are just entertained by these programmes, and a singing contest is something that lends itself to TV watching by all generations. It gets kids and grandparents in front of the TV, in an age when most people are on YouTube.
"So it's much more about the format being successful TV than it is about creating meaningful musical careers."
A successful TV format it clearly is, but it's perhaps surprising that 16 years on from Popstars, singing contests continue to dominate TV schedules.
"I understand the heavy reliance on singing contests - the idea that a show needs a result to make you tune in for the next instalment," Raeside says.
"But I think it's a shame that, by now, light entertainment producers haven't come up with something to replace it.
She adds: "I used to work in TV development, and the wheels do tend to move quite slowly.
"Back then, they were trying to work out what was going to be the next Big Brother. Similarly, these singing shows have a shelf life, and some would argue they've already reached their sell by date."
Empire agrees: "Increasingly now the talent show formula can get a little tired, and I think many people have realised winning these shows perhaps isn't always the best thing to do.
"In Britain we particularly embrace this format, partly because we love an underdog story, like Paul Potts [the mobile phone salesman who won the first series of Britain's got Talent].
"In America, the underdog stories don't play so well - it's the shiniest people with the straightest teeth who win. Whereas in Britain we love unlikely success stories, so it really serves our market.
Looking ahead to Pitch Battle, Raeside says she can see the appeal of using choirs instead of individual singers to attract viewers and thinks it's a good way to get more mileage out of the talent show format.
"There was something quite shrieky about a show like The Voice, because it's one singer trying to make their mark in a 90-second audition, and there's something unrelaxing about watching that," she says.
"When you watch a choir it has a much more positive feeling, so it could have the edge over a show where teenagers are trying to get their break."
Empire agrees that, on paper at least, Pitch Battle "looks like it's a winner".
"Before Glee, it was a very American phenomenon, but now people getting together and harmonising doesn't seem like such a weird thing to do anymore," she says.
"The idea that there will be choirs and a capella groups battling it out means that you're getting quite a variety of people into the TV studio, and presumably they'll be doing mash ups and cover versions, so I can see how the format has been thought up to appeal to the broadest audience."
But, Raeside adds: "I don't know how much longer these shows can keep going for. I can't see where else they'd take this format now, it feels like we're coming to the end of the line."
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Villa dominated but failed to capitalise on a lethargic Swans display in a goalless first half.
The visitors were made to pay for their profligacy early in the second when Federico Fernandez bundled in.
Swansea are now 11 points clear of the relegation zone in 15th, while Villa remain 12 points adrift of safety.
A third win in four matches made it a happy return to the dugout for Swans head coach Francesco Guidolin, who had missed their last three fixtures with a chest infection.
And despite the unconvincing manner of victory, they will be increasingly confident of a sixth season in the Premier League with seven games of this campaign to go.
For Villa, meanwhile, a sixth successive league defeat makes relegation almost inevitable.
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Aston Villa had endured another turbulent week typical of a miserable season, with chief executive Tom Fox and sporting director Hendrik Almstadt both leaving the club.
Despite their dismal recent form, Remi Garde's side started the strongest at the Liberty Stadium as Joleon Lescott and Jordan Ayew missed the target with the game's first two shots.
Ciaran Clark then headed narrowly over from a corner, though there was a sinking familiarity to Villa's inability to make their dominance count.
In Guidolin's absence, assistant coach Alan Curtis had taken charge of Swansea's past three games, winning two and losing one.
Guidolin's return to the touchline failed to inspire his players in a listless first-half display, with the hosts devoid of direction, intensity and invention.
There was an improvement in all aspects after the interval, though there was an element of luck to Swansea's goal.
Gylfi Sigurdsson's curling free-kick prompted panic from onrushing Villa goalkeeper Brad Guzan, whose hesitation allowed the ball to hit Fernandez's shoulder and loop into the net.
Swansea looked more confident in possession after taking the lead, albeit without the fluency which has become a hallmark of their play in recent years.
Bafetimbi Gomis pulled a shot wide in injury-time but it mattered not to the Swans, who were simply relieved to hold on for victory and haul themselves further clear of the bottom three.
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Aston Villa boss Remi Garde: "Once again it is frustrating to get nothing out of the game. That is something we could not afford in our situation and unfortunately that is the end."
"We deserved a bit more. When we controlled the game, we were not dangerous enough to score a goal. I didn't think they were very threatening for us."
On the departures of chief executive Tom Fox and sporting director Hendrik Almstadt this week: "We showed as a team that we were not too much affected by all this stuff.
"This football club has had a lot of problems in the last few years. We are all in this situation today. The problems are within the club and we have to fight until the end."
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Swansea head coach Francesco Guidolin: "It was not a very good performance but the players were concentrated and focused like a final game.
"Our season has not been a good season. When I came two months ago we had only two points on the relegation zone and we're now better than that.
"This is an important result for us."
Swansea resume their Premier League programme after the international break by travelling to Stoke on 2 April (15:00 BST), when Aston Villa host Chelsea (12:45 BST).
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After 120 tedious and goalless minutes that were in stark contrast to the spectacular shock of the first semi-final between Brazil and the Germans, Argentina prevailed and a repeat of the 1986 and 1990 finals - when they played West Germany - will be played out in Rio.
Goalkeeper Sergio Romero was the hero with penalty saves from Ron Vlaar and Wesley Sneijder, while opposite number Jasper Cillessen was unable to repeat the feats of his deputy, Tim Krul, in the quarter-final win against Costa Rica.
And for Brazil, a nation still coming to terms with their worst defeat after being crushed 7-1 by Germany in Belo Horizonte, there is arguably the even more harrowing prospect of seeing fierce rivals Argentina lift the World Cup in the iconic surroundings of the Maracana.
Germany will be favourites given the manner in which they destroyed Brazil but there is a streak of steel running through Alejandro Sabella's side that offers resilience beyond the genius of Lionel Messi.
Dutch coach Louis van Gaal - who will now complete the formalities by guiding his side in Saturday's third/fourth place play-off before taking over at Manchester United - employed first the returning Nigel de Jong, then Jordy Clasie, to shadow Messi.
The plan succeeded but Van Gaal's problem was his side's failure to pose any attacking threat, with Robin van Persie peripheral and substituted, and Arjen Robben only able to deliver their first shot on target after 99 minutes.
That Argentina's chances were at a premium was down, in large part, to Aston Villa defender Vlaar, the game's outstanding performer at the heart of the Dutch defence. He did not deserve the cruel fate of being one of those to miss a penalty.
"Dutch keeper Jasper Cillessen will be disappointed with that last penalty. That was the one he could have saved with stronger wrists.
"But it was a poor game. A poor level for a semi-final of a World Cup. Let's hope the final is better.
"Argentina have had extra-time, more travelling, you've got to think it's there for Germany to win."
So to Sunday's showpiece and the repeat of the 1986 final, which Argentina won 3-2 to record their last World Cup triumph, and West Germany's 1-0 victory in Rome four years later, which was their last win.
Argentina will see the prospect of winning in Brazil's heartland as the perfect incentive. Earlier in this tournament, their supporters had flooded across the border in thousands in a show of support and they will do so again.
This was not a spectacle of any sort, but as firecrackers went off among Argentina fans and their players celebrated in front of them in the Sao Paulo rain, they did not have a care.
The pattern was set from the opening moments as De Jong's role - upon his surprise recovery from a groin injury - became clear. He was to stay in close proximity to Messi in an attempt to stifle Argentina's main creative force and, to a large extent, it worked.
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Messi, however, cannot be kept completely quiet and he produced the only serious test for either goalkeeper in a stale first half when his free-kick was held comfortably by Cillessen after Vlaar fouled Enzo Perez.
Robben's lack of influence was reflected in the statistic that he only had four touches in the first 45 minutes, also an indication of how the Netherlands had failed to test Argentina's defence.
As heavy rain poured down on the Arena de Sao Paulo's uncovered stands after the interval, and some fans decided to seek shelter out of sight of the game, the stretching Gonzalo Higuain came closest to breaking the stalemate when he steered Perez's angled cross into the side-netting.
Sabella made a double change with 10 minutes remaining, sending on Aguero and Rodrigo Palacio for Higuain and Perez, but still there was no invention or ambition.
Van Gaal even sacrificed the listless Van Persie in extra time - his third change, a move which deprived the coach of the opportunity to introduce Krul again - and the tedium was lifted when Robben produced the first Dutch shot on target after 99 minutes. It was saved easily by Romero.
In a rare spell of excitement, Cillessen saved from Palacio and Maxi Rodriguez but there was no escaping the almost inevitable conclusion of penalties.
Vlaar had his opening penalty saved by Romero and, when Sneijder missed their third, the Netherlands' fate was effectively sealed.
Robben and Dirk Kuyt scored but Argentina were unerring, with Messi, Ezequiel Garay and Aguero on target before Rodriguez's kick sent Sabella's side to Rio.
Match ends, Netherlands 0(2), Argentina 0(4).
Penalty Shootout ends, Netherlands 0(2), Argentina 0(4).
Goal! Netherlands 0(2), Argentina 0(4). Maxi Rodríguez (Argentina) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.
Goal! Netherlands 0(2), Argentina 0(3). Dirk Kuyt (Netherlands) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Goal! Netherlands 0(1), Argentina 0(3). Sergio Agüero (Argentina) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty saved! Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the top left corner.
Goal! Netherlands 0(1), Argentina 0(2). Ezequiel Garay (Argentina) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.
Goal! Netherlands 0(1), Argentina 0(1). Arjen Robben (Netherlands) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Goal! Netherlands 0, Argentina 0(1). Lionel Messi (Argentina) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty saved! Ron Vlaar (Netherlands) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.
Penalty Shootout begins Netherlands 0, Argentina 0.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Netherlands 0, Argentina 0.
Attempt blocked. Dirk Kuyt (Netherlands) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Daryl Janmaat with a cross.
Foul by Arjen Robben (Netherlands).
Javier Mascherano (Argentina) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Maxi Rodríguez (Argentina) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lionel Messi with a cross.
Attempt saved. Rodrigo Palacio (Argentina) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Maxi Rodríguez with a through ball.
Foul by Arjen Robben (Netherlands).
Marcos Rojo (Argentina) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Stefan de Vrij (Netherlands) right footed shot from more than 35 yards misses to the right.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Pablo Zabaleta (Argentina) because of an injury.
Second Half Extra Time begins Netherlands 0, Argentina 0.
First Half Extra Time ends, Netherlands 0, Argentina 0.
Corner, Argentina. Conceded by Daryl Janmaat.
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (Netherlands) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (Netherlands).
Javier Mascherano (Argentina) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Argentina. Maxi Rodríguez replaces Ezequiel Lavezzi.
Attempt saved. Arjen Robben (Netherlands) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Wesley Sneijder.
Corner, Netherlands. Conceded by Javier Mascherano.
Substitution, Netherlands. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar replaces Robin van Persie.
Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lucas Biglia (Argentina).
Foul by Robin van Persie (Netherlands).
Pablo Zabaleta (Argentina) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
First Half Extra Time begins Netherlands 0, Argentina 0.
Second Half ends, Netherlands 0, Argentina 0.
Offside, Netherlands. Georginio Wijnaldum tries a through ball, but Daryl Janmaat is caught offside.
Corner, Netherlands. Conceded by Javier Mascherano.
The idea would use bone conduction technology, a technique that transmits sound to the inner ear by passing vibrations through the skull.
The concept has been developed by ad agency BBDO Germany on behalf of broadcaster Sky Deutschland.
It is already proving controversial.
Comments posted under a video showing off the concept include "This is a violation to a person's right to rest" and "I think I'd take a sledgehammer to the window."
The Talking Window campaign idea was shown off at the International Festival of Creativity in Cannes last month.
The video shows passengers on a German train being surprised to hear ads urging them to download the Sky Go app on to their smartphones to watch streamed video.
The audio is created by a special Sky-branded transmitter made by Audiva attached to the windows.
"Tired commuters often rest their heads against windows," says the ad.
"Suddenly a voice inside their head is talking to them. No-one else can hear this message."
Details posted online note that bone conduction technology has previously been used in hearing aids, headphones for swimmers and runners, and devices used by magicians to make someone think they have had a message planted in their head.
Google also plans to use the tech in its forthcoming Glass headset.
BBDO Germany said it had had a positive response to tests using prototype transmitters placed in public transport in Munich and Aachen.
"If our customer Sky Deutschland agrees, we will start with the new medium as quickly as possible," spokesman Ulf Brychcy told the BBC.
"At present, this is limited to the German market. If we look into the future: everything is possible.
"Some people don´t like advertising in general. But this is really a new technology. [It might] not only be used for advertising, but also for music, entertainment, mass transport information, weather reports and so on."
A spokeswoman for Sky Deutschland said it had yet to make a decision on whether to run the campaign.
Although the firm shares the same logo as the UK's BSkyB's satellite TV service, the two are separate companies, albeit both part-owned by News Corp.
BSkyB said it had not been aware of the campaign before the BBC brought it to its attention, and was not planning to launch anything similar.
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The low-budget, independent movie Ten Years has packed screenings in Hong Kong, but is banned in mainland China.
Set in 2025, it depicts political gangs and persecution of local people for speaking Cantonese not Mandarin.
It comes amid increasing nervousness in Hong Kong about perceived Communist Party interference in its affairs.
Ten Years, which is made up of five vignettes, won the best film prize at the Hong Kong Film Awards held on Sunday.
"Ten Years exposed the fear of Hong Kong people (towards China)," said one of the film's directors, Chow Kwun-wai.
Producer Andrew Choi told the BBC the award came as a surprise.
"It's important for Hong Kong that a film that echoes so much of what people are feeling in their hearts has won."
He said the film won after several rounds of voting by mainly Hong Kong filmmakers and praised the "integrity" of that process.
The film includes scenes such as children in uniform policing adults, reminiscent of the child Red Guards of China's violent 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, and an old woman setting herself alight in front of the British consulate.
In January, China's state-controlled Global Times ran an editorial describing the film as a "thought virus".
Shortly after, many cinemas in Hong Kong stopped screening it, though independent screenings have continued to show the film. It is also expected to appear in limited release or at festivals in Taiwan, Singapore, the US and Italy.
The film's makers have never sought distribution in mainland China, but the awards ceremony was not broadcast there, as it normally is.
Censors in the mainland also blacked out the story when it appeared on BBC World News.
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A controversial film depicting a bleak future for Hong Kong under Beijing's control has won one of Asia's top film awards.
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In December the FCA said it had shelved plans for an inquiry into the culture, pay and behaviour of staff in banking.
Critics say the Treasury successfully put pressure on the FCA to be more "light touch" with financial firms.
But Ms McDermott insisted the FCA was taking action, including a £72m fine imposed on Barclays in December.
Speaking to the BBC she said: "We're not going soft on the banks, we're not being told what to do by the government.
"We have objectives which are set for us by parliament and statute, and we are determined to deliver on those."
Ms McDermott, who took over the role after Martin Wheatley left the organisation in September, gave examples of the regulator's action on Libor and Foreign Exchange Trading, and the FCA fine on Barclays over poor handling of financial crime risks.
"If you look at what I've been doing in the last six months since I've been in the role as chief executive you'll see that we have continued to take action against the industry," she said.
However, critics have pointed to recent decisions by the FCA which they say show it is taking a lighter touch to regulation.
On New Year's Eve the authority announced it was scrapping its inquiry into whether pay, promotion or other incentives had contributed to scandals involving banks in the UK and abroad.
The FCA also decided to take no further action against HSBC after allegations it helped customers of its Swiss subsidiary avoid tax.
Former business secretary Sir Vince Cable told BBC News he was among those who believed the FCA was going soft on banks.
"It was very clearly signalled when the chancellor effectively got rid of the tough regulator Martin Wheatley as head of the organisation.
"And the organisation has been in something of a turmoil since.
"We've had a whole series of measurers, a weakening of legal sanctions, which suggests that the regulators are expected now to soft pedal."
Similarly, Peter Hamilton, who is a barrister whose cases involve the financial services market and FCA regulation, also said the FCA had softened its stance since Mr Wheatley was forced to step down.
Other critics have highlighted the decision not to publish a report on how firms offer inducements to some staff to encourage them to make sales.
The FCA decision to consult on whether to impose a time limit beyond which customers could no longer put in a Payment Protection Insurance claim has also attracted criticism, along with a move to set up an expert panel to consider whether to allow commission-based selling of investment products again.
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The FCA said a focus on the culture in financial services firms remained a priority.
"We have decided that the best way to support these efforts is to engage individually with firms to encourage their delivery of cultural change, as well as supporting the other initiatives outside the FCA," a spokesman said.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Greg Hands said changes introduced by the Conservatives had made the FCA "fundamentally stronger than it was a few years ago".
"From April, reckless bankers will face up to seven years in jail and we have introduced the toughest system of bankers' pay of any major financial centre in the world," he added.
Ms McDermott pulled out of the race to permanently run the City watchdog earlier this month.
She said she withdrew from the recruitment process to become the permanent chief executive for personal reasons and she has not decided whether to stay on at the regulator when her successor is appointed.
Mark Garnier, a Conservative member of the Treasury Select Committee, said the new FCA chief would have to both protect consumers and keep good relations with the banks.
"It's a very difficult tight rope to walk. The next chief executive may feel that they have to do what they think is the will of the Treasury," he said.
"We have to make sure we don't create an impossible environment for the new chief executive who will go into a job which they will be set to fail at," he said.
Chris Philp, also a Conservative member of the Treasury Select Committee, told BBC Radio 4 he was "personally concerned" about the FCA dropping its inquiry into banking culture, but he denied there had been any political interference.
Ms McDermott is due to appear before the committee along with FCA chairman John Griffith-Jones later this month to answer questions.
The rules around Personal Independence Payments, which help with the extra costs of a long-term health condition or disability, will change on Thursday.
The charities claim people will be left without vital financial support.
Ministers said they were forced to act after two court judgements made the benefit more generous.
The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) said about 160,000 recipients of Personal Independence Payments would be affected if the changes go ahead.
Consortium co-chairman Phil Reynolds said: "Across the DBC we have had our helpline and advice services inundated by calls about PIP since it was introduced.
"Instead of supporting disabled people, the benefits system seems increasingly rigged against them.
"The whole system needs urgent improvement, in order to accurately assess the support they need. Disabled people cannot afford to wait."
The consortium comprises charities including Parkinson's UK, The MS Society and Mind.
Charities representing mental health and learning disability groups argue that the changes fundamentally fail to acknowledge that the costs associated with those conditions are just as severe as for other impairments.
The government said the new rules would save £3.7bn by 2023.
There was an average of 212 hours of sunshine last month, provisional figures showed.
It was the sunniest April in records dating back to 1929, beating the previous record in 1942 by seven hours.
Morpeth, Northumberland, where records are longer-running, saw the sunniest April for 110 years - with 265 hours of sunshine, almost double the average.
Last month was also "notably dry", the Met Office said, with less than a fifth of the normal amount of April rainfall in some parts of the UK.
Daytime temperatures were well above average in many areas, particularly southern England.
The highest temperature of the year so far was recorded in Faversham, Kent, which experienced temperatures of 25.6C (78F) on 15 April, the highest recorded April temperature since 2011.
But there were some sharp frosts, with the lowest temperature recorded as -8C (17.6F) at Katesbridge, Northern Ireland, on 27 April.
The Met Office said: "High pressure dominated the weather for much of April, bringing fine, dry, settled conditions, particularly across the southern half of the UK."
Shoppers will now have to pay a minimum of 5p per bag, with many retailers donating proceeds to good causes.
In May, MSPs voted to bring in the new regulations in a bid to tackle Scotland's litter problem, but the fee does not just apply to plastic bags.
It has also been imposed on single-use carriers made from eco-friendly materials.
The minimum charge applies to all retailers, not just supermarkets.
Wales became the first part of the UK to introduce a minimum charge for single-use carrier bags in 2011, followed by Northern Ireland last year.
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The Scottish government has estimated that 800 million single-use bags are given out by supermarkets every year in Scotland alone.
More than 160 retailers including Marks and Spencer, McDonald's and The Co-operative Group have registered for Zero Waste Scotland's Carrier Bag Commitment, launched earlier this year.
This means organisations have agreed to donate the net proceeds from the charge to good causes, which may include environmental causes.
Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead said: "I'm extremely proud that this landmark legislation is now in force.
"Our carrier bag addiction is symptomatic of our throwaway culture and has serious implications for the environment.
"Huge numbers of these bags end up as litter, blighting our communities and clogging up our seas and natural habitats, affecting many sorts of wildlife and marine species in particular.
"We want that to change and for people to stop and think about whether they really need to take another bag.
"Alternatives like bags-for-life are easy to get and are much more sustainable."
The Marine Conservation Society said the Scottish move was "a major step forward in tackling a problem that causes so much harm to marine wildlife".
The society has argued that it will reduce harmful litter on beaches and in the sea, and prevent many wildlife entanglements and choking deaths.
Pollution programme manager Laura Foster said: "We look forward to seeing the results in Scotland following the great example that has been set in Wales and in Northern Ireland.
"A 5p charge on all single-use carrier bags, regardless of the material they are made from, is a really encouraging step forward and millions of bags will now not end up in Scottish waters thanks to this decision by Holyrood."
Environmental group WWF Scotland also welcomed the mandatory fees.
Director Lang Banks said: "We know that in other parts of the world, charges for plastic bags have led to dramatic reductions in their use, as well as positive changes in consumer behaviour.
"A great example is Denmark, which introduced a charge in 2003, and now has the lowest plastic bag use in Europe, using four plastic bags per person per year.
"At present Scots consume nearly 800 million carrier bags every year, with millions ending up in landfill, polluting our environment and threatening wildlife."
The BJP is leading in 250 of 485 seats for which initial indications are available, while the ruling Congress party is leading in 49 seats.
Final results for all 543 seats are expected later on Friday.
Voter turnout was a record 66.38%, beating the previous 1984 poll record.
About 551 million votes from more than 1.8 million electronic voting machines are being tallied to determine the fortunes of 8,251 candidates.
The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Delhi says the scene at the BJP headquarters resembles a carnival.
By Sanjoy MajumderBBC News, Delhi
The scene at the BJP headquarters resembles a carnival.
The entire building has been decorated with the party flag, giant posters of Narendra Modi have been placed outside and large television screens are displaying the vote count.
And as early trends showed the BJP grabbing a lead, the cheers began.
Brass bands struck up patriotic tunes, party supporters have begun dancing on the street outside and firecrackers are going off at a frenetic pace.
Already senior party leaders have started arriving.
"We're very confident," BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said with a big smile as he drove in.
There's also unprecedented security - hundreds of policemen are in place and the entire road has been barricaded and closed to traffic.
There are giant TV screens to project the results, a huge media contingent and a brass band playing patriotic songs, our correspondent says. The entire building is covered with posters of Mr Modi and party flags.
The mood in the Congress office is, however, sombre, says the BBC Hindi's Divya Arya in Delhi.
There are no supporters barring a family that is conducting prayers outside the building, our correspondent says.
The five week-long election witnessed political campaigns marked by bitter exchanges between the main contestants and parties.
Voting was held in nine phases for security and logistical reasons. With 814 million eligible voters, it is the world's biggest exercise in democracy.
The Election Commission said counting would be held at 989 centres and more than 1,100 observers would be deployed to supervise the process. Reports say hundreds of thousands of security personnel will be deployed to ensure it happens peacefully.
Exit polls released by Indian media organisations after the last round of voting on Monday all showed the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) well ahead in terms of predicted seat wins, and the governing Congress party trailing badly.
Five of the six polls projected the NDA mopping up the 272 seats needed to form a majority in the 543-member parliament. Predictions for the 28-party alliance have ranged from 249 to a huge 340 seats.
All the polls projected that the BJP would win more than 200 seats - between 210 and 291- beating its previous high of 182 seats in the 1998 and 1999 elections.
But correspondents say exit polls are notoriously inaccurate in India, partly because of the size and complexity of the electorate. In the last two elections, they were inaccurate and over-estimated the BJP's gains.
On Thursday, BJP supporters in the southern city of Bangalore organised Hindu religious rituals to pray for Mr Modi's success and reports from several cities said party workers had been stocking up on sweets in anticipation of the party's victory.
The election pits Mr Modi's BJP against the Congress, led by Rahul Gandhi, the latest member of India's influential Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.
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India's new anti-corruption Aam Aadmi (Common Man's) Party, which secured a spectacular result in local polls in Delhi last autumn, is challenging the main parties.
Several smaller regional parties are also in the fray and if no single party wins a clear majority, they could play a crucial role in government formation.
Among the key constituencies to watch are Varanasi - from where Mr Modi ran against Arvind Kejriwal of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Ajay Rai of the Congress party - and Amethi, the seat of the Congress party vice-president Rahul Gandhi. Mr Gandhi is being challenged by Smriti Irani of the BJP and Kumar Vishwas of the AAP.
The agency running Yongbyon was quoted by Japan's Kyodo News Agency as saying nuclear tests would continue as long as the US posed a threat.
The North restarted Yongbyon in June, UN inspectors confirmed.
The country has conducted four nuclear weapons tests and several missile tests breaching international sanctions.
The Atomic Energy Institute, which controls Yongbyon, said in a written interview with Kyodo: "We have reprocessed spent nuclear fuel rods removed from a graphite-moderated reactor".
The institute also told Kyodo that North Korea was producing highly enriched uranium, an essential component in nuclear power and weapons. The amount of plutonium and enriched uranium in North Korea is unknown.
"Under conditions that the United States constantly threatens us with nuclear weapons, we will not discontinue nuclear tests," the institute said.
International experts noticed activity at the site in recent months from satellite imagery.
The nuclear reactor at Yongbyon had been shut down in 2007.
UN monitors from the International Atomic Energy Agency have had no access to North Korea since being thrown out in 2009, so they rely largely on satellite data.
At North Korea's most recent ruling party congress, leader Kim Jong-un reinforced his policy of economic development coupled with a strong nuclear programme.
The US recently agreed to install an anti-missile system in South Korea that will be deployed solely to counter the threat from Pyongyang.
Phil Klay's short story collection Redeployment has won the £25,000 Warwick Prize for Writing 2015.
The book examines the effects of the conflict in Iraq, from the perspectives of the soldiers and other people involved.
Head judge, author AL Kennedy, said it was a "scaldingly affecting book".
She added: "There is remarkable control, delicacy and subtlety in the spare style of prose here and a real grip of various psychologies and voices across the collection.
"Within his own terms, the author has reflected a wide range of experience and has translated personal knowledge into living fiction. Redeployment addresses - with remarkable frankness and nuance - one of the defining conflicts of our age.
"We were delighted to give the prize to Phil Klay."
Klay's book chronicles the experiences and effect of the war in Iraq from the perspective of the anguished military wife at home, the military chaplain and the veterans.
The author himself served in Iraq before going on to study creative writing.
US President Barack Obama said: "Redeployment is a quick but powerful and, for me, painful set of stories about the experience of ordinary soldiers in Iraq."
The Warwick Prize for Writing, run by the University of Warwick, is awarded every two years for a substantial piece of writing in the English language and this year's theme was Instinct.
It is an international and cross-disciplinary award, open to any genre or form of writing.
The other shortlisted titles were Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Rebecca Goss's Her Birth, Karl Ove Knausgaard's A Man In Love, Marilynne Robinson's Lila and Mark Vanhoenacker's Skyfaring.
The award was presented at a ceremony hosted by Warwick Chancellor Sir Richard Lambert.
Joan Crilly was struck by a Skoda Octavia car on Campbell Street at about 16:05 on 22 December.
She was taken to Inverclyde Royal Hospital then later transferred to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
She died on Wednesday as a result of her injuries. The 73-year-old car driver was uninjured.
Officers have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
Mrs Crilly was married and had two children, police said.
At least 12 people are known to have died in the fire at a tower block in North Kensington during the early hours of Wednesday.
Concerns have been raised about the cladding installed on Grenfell Tower.
In total, 32 buildings will be checked by the Housing Executive.
The executive's Colm McQuillan said the same type of cladding had not been used on tower blocks in Northern Ireland, as far as he was aware, but that this was being checked.
"We have rigorously tested the cladding that has gone onto our buildings to an extent that it fits and meets all fire safety regulations," he said.
"We're not going to be complacent. We have an emergency meeting set up with the fire and rescue service today to actually go through any of their thoughts in relation to the recent tragedy and indeed we will work very closely with them in terms of what we should be doing."
There are approximately 1,900 homes and 3,000 residents within the units being checked by the NI Housing Executive.
The majority of tower blocks in Northern Ireland are based in Belfast, with others in Lisburn, Newtownabbey and Larne.
The Housing Executive had received calls from residents concerned about safety since the fire, said its director, adding that he wanted to reassure all tenants their safety was being taken seriously.
The re-inspection would be completed by Thursday evening, he said.
Fire safety certificates are in place across all 32 properties owned by the Housing Executive.
The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service has issued the following advice in the event of a fire:
Mr McQuillan said that there were no fire sprinklers installed in the buildings "due to the age of construction", but that the Housing Executive was "fully compliant with fire safety regulations".
"We will do what we need to do to ensure the safety of our residents," he said.
It is understood the Housing Executive will deliver leaflets to all residents about what to do in the event of a fire.
Group Commander of the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) Geoff Summerville described the blaze in London as an "unprecedented incident, one which we haven't seen the like of for years".
He said that tower buildings were usually designed to ensure that each individual compartment can withstand and prevent fire from spreading.
"Fire-fighting in high rises can be very challenging and crews train extensively to respond to these incidents," he said.
"We work very closely with the housing executive and private management companies to make sure that these buildings are safe, and make regular visits."
The former world champion, 81, unveiled a new fleet of karts at Buckmore Park in Chatham with the help of TV presenter Paul Hollywood.
Surtees won seven world motorbike championships before becoming F1 World Champion with Ferrari in 1964.
He now aims to "firmly place Buckmore on the map".
Surtees said: "I would like Buckmore to become a feeder for youngsters into racing careers, and hope to work with various colleges with their educational programmes."
Speaking at the launch, Buckmore Park Karting Ltd Managing Director Chris Pullman said: "We start young. We do the training for the future.
"We start the serious training at six. It's all about progression - a ladder of success."
He spoke of his excitement of working with John Surtees and added: "John is the only person that has won world championships on two and four wheels and I don't think that will ever get beaten."
Over the last 11,700 years - an epoch that geologists call the Holocene - climate has remained remarkably stable.
This allowed humans to plan ahead, inventing agriculture, cities, communication networks and new forms of energy.
Some geologists now believe that human activity has so irrevocably altered our planet that we have entered a new geological age.
This proposed new epoch - dubbed the Anthropocene - is discussed at a major conference held at the Geological Society in London on Wednesday. Yet some experts say that defining this "human age" is much more than about understanding our place in history. Instead, our whole future may depend on it.
The term, the Anthropocene, was coined over a decade ago by Nobel Laureate chemist, Paul Crutzen.
Professor Crutzen recalls: "I was at a conference where someone said something about the Holocene. I suddenly thought this was wrong. The world has changed too much. No, we are in the Anthropocene. I just made up the word on the spur of the moment. Everyone was shocked. But it seems to have stuck."
But is Professor Crutzen correct? Has the Earth really flipped into a new geological epoch - and if so, why is this important?
Dr Jan Zalasiewicz of the University of Leicester is one of the leading proponents of the Anthropocene theory. He told BBC News: "Simply put, our planet no longer functions in the way that it once did. Atmosphere, climate, oceans, ecosystems… they're all now operating outside Holocene norms. This strongly suggests we've crossed an epoch boundary."
Dr Zalasiewicz added: "There are three ideas about when the Anthropocene began. Some people think it kicked off thousands of years ago with the rise of agriculture, but really those first farmers didn't change the planet much.
"Others put the boundary around 1800. That was the year that human population hit one billion and carbon dioxide started to significantly rise due to the burning of fossil fuels in the Industrial Revolution," he explained.
"However, the really big changes didn't get going until the end of the Second World War - and that's another candidate for the boundary."
To formally define a new epoch, geologists must show how it can be recognised in the layers of mud that will eventually form rocks. As it turns out, there is enormous practical advantage in fixing 1945 as the beginning of the Anthropocene.
"1945 was the dawn of the nuclear age," explained Dr Zalasiewicz. "Sediments deposited worldwide that year contain a tell-tale radioactive signature from the first atom bomb tests in the States".
So, thousands of years from now, geologists (if any still exist) will be able to place their finger on that very layer of mud.
Nonetheless, the choice of 1945 for start of the Anthropocene is much more than just convenient. It coincides with an event that Professor Will Steffen of the Australian National University describes as the "Great Acceleration".
Professor Steffen told the BBC: "A few years ago, I plotted graphs to track the growth of human society from 1800 to the present day. What I saw was quite unexpected - a remarkable speeding up after the Second World War".
In that time, the human population has more than doubled to an astounding 6.9 billion. However, much more significantly, Professor Steffen believes, the global economy has increased ten-fold over the same period.
"Population growth is not the big issue here. The real problem is that we're becoming wealthier and consuming exponentially more resources," he explained.
This insatiable consumption has placed enormous stresses on our planet. Writing in the prestigious journal Nature, Professor Steffen and colleagues recently identified nine "life support systems" essential for human life on Earth. They warned that two of these - climate and the nitrogen cycle - are in danger of failing, while a third - biodiversity - is already in meltdown.
"One of the most worrying features of the Great Acceleration is biodiversity loss," Professor Steffen said. "Species extinction is currently running 100 to 1000 times faster than background levels, and will increase further this century."
"When humans look back… the Anthropocene will probably represent one of the six biggest extinctions in our planet's history." This would put it on a par with the event that wiped out the dinosaurs.
But perhaps more alarming is the possibility that the pronounced global warming seen at the start of the proposed Anthropocene epoch could be irreversible. "Will climate change prove to be a short-term spike that quickly returns to normal, or are we seeing a long term move to a new stable state?" asked Professor Steffen. "That's the million dollar question."
If the Anthropocene does develop into a long-lived period of much warmer climate, then there may be one very small consolation: the fossil record of modern human society is likely to be preserved in amazing detail.
Dr Mike Ellis of the British Geological Survey told BBC News: "As a result of rising sea level, scientists of the future will be able to explore the relics of whole cities buried in mud".
In New Orleans, large areas of the city are already below sea level. The disastrous combination of rising sea level and subsidence of the Mississippi Delta on which it is built suggest that it will succumb at some point in the future.
Although the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts less than a metre of sea level rise over the next 90 years, more than five metres of sea level rise is possible over the coming centuries as the Greenland and West Antarctic ice caps melt.
One application for exploring the changing coastlines of the Anthropocene world is Google Flood. It allows users to raise sea level by up to 14 metres and zoom into street level to see the effects.
Sea level rise of this magnitude will mean that the lower storeys of buildings will be preserved intact. Such "urban strata will be a unique, widespread and easily recognisable feature of the sedimentary deposits of the human age", Dr Ellis commented.
Geologists of the future may also hunt for other, more unusual, "markers" of the Anthropocene epoch, such as the traces of plastic packaging in sediments.
But geologists like Dr Mark Williams from the University of Leicester hold much more serious concerns: "One of the main reasons we developed the Anthropocene concept was to quantify present-day change and compare it with the geological record," he explained. "Only when we do so, can we critically assess the pace and degree of change that we're currently experiencing."
Dr Williams added that while the Anthropocene has yet to run its course, "all the signs are that the human age will be a stand-out event in the 4.5 billion year history of the Earth".
All the locks will be replaced at the prison following Friday's disturbances.
A bunch of keys taken from a prison officer as the trouble began was recovered but officials remain concerned about the risk of copies being made.
Justice Secretary Liz Truss has said G4S, the private firm which operates the jail, will cover the costs.
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Prisons Minister Sam Gyimah visited the prison on Wednesday and met staff who were on duty at the time of the 12-hour riot.
Stairwells were set on fire and paper records destroyed during the trouble in four wings of the category B prison.
More than 460 prisoners have been moved out of the prison since the riot.
The disorder came months after a report by the Independent Monitoring Board said staff were concerned inmates were taking substances which can make them violent.
Asked how substances were getting into the prison, Jerry Petherick, managing director of custodial and detention services at G4S, said "a very small minority of staff are corrupt".
He also told BBC WM on Wednesday that contraband was also being thrown over prison walls, taken in by visitors and drones were being used.
Meanwhile, Lord Ramsbotham, a former chief inspector of prisons, said the riot should be investigated by an independent and outside observer.
The Crossbench peer questioned if the Government would bring in someone to examine the disorder.
Ms Truss announced earlier this week that Sarah Payne, adviser to the independent chief inspector of probation and former director of the Welsh prison service, would lead the investigation.
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BBC Sport gives you the lowdown on who is enjoying the Melbourne sunshine and who might want to throw themselves into Albert Park lake.
It is, of course, early days, but it would appear as if last year's dominant world champions are even further ahead of their rivals this season than in 2014.
Hamilton was 1.4 seconds clear of the first non-Mercedes, and if the gap from his German team-mate Nico Rosberg to Williams's Felipe Massa was only 0.8secs, that was more attributable to the German making a bit of a hash of qualifying than anything else.
The unpredictable windy conditions - and a wind direction that had flipped around 180 degrees after final practice - made qualifying perfect for Hamilton's gifts.
The battle between Williams and Ferrari to be best of the rest was expected to be close, and so it proved, with just 0.072 seconds separating Williams's Felipe Massa in third, and Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen in fourth and fifth. It will take more time to discern whether Ferrari are genuinely on the up, but for now the racing between them and Williams looks likely to be just as intense as that between Hamilton and Rosberg.
Red Bull have had a chastening weekend, and typically team bosses Christian Horner and Helmut Marko have not tried to hide their dissatisfaction with engine partner Renault. Renault's engine is worse than it was last season - no more powerful, just as unreliable and with worse driveability.
"I have no idea how they have managed to mess it up so badly," Horner told BBC Sport. Except the word he used was rather less polite than "mess".
So fractured had been Red Bull's build-up to qualifying that new driver Daniil Kvyat said he was "guessing not driving" as he fought for grid positions. The Russian driver was 0.4secs off his team-mate Australian Daniel Ricciardo, who was in at least as bad a position. Kvyat finished qualifying down in 13th position.
As if that was not bad enough, Red Bull will face awkward questions about the comparison with their junior team Toro Rosso, who operate on less than half the budget. Not only did the engines run with no problems in the Toro Rosso, but their rookie driver Carlos Sainz Jr was highly impressive in qualifying - just one place behind Ricciardo and within 0.2secs of the Australian, who took seventh spot.
All of which raises the possibility that Toro Rosso's tiny team under well-regarded technical director James Key has designed a better car than the legendary Adrian Newey. Which would be a bit embarrassing if it turned out to be true.
That Lotus were slightly disappointed with ninth and 10th places on the grid says a lot about how far they have come in 12 months, after designing a dog of a car in 2014. Still, solid points were the aim coming into this race, and that looks very much on the cards, which would be a good start to a season that should be a vast improvement on last year.
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After a tumultuous weekend, including missing all of first practice as a result of the contractual dispute with former reserve driver Giedo van der Garde, 11th place on the grid has to count as a triumph for Sauber and their driver Felipe Nasr. Whether the Brazilian will be in the car at the next race, though, is a different question; as is who will be running the team.
It would appear there was a lot more to the Van der Garde situation than a mere argument over a driver contract. The whispers in the paddock were that the ownership of financially troubled Sauber is at stake, and that the former Caterham, HRT and Midland boss Colin Kolles may be in the background. Things will become clearer in the next few days, it seems.
Force India may not have problems as serious as Sauber's, but they are clearly suffering from the cash-flow issues that led to them only doing two-and-a-half days of testing with their new car.
That number is probably around the equivalent of what McLaren managed in 12 days of pre-season testing. It was clear long ago that they were off the pace, the problems almost entirely down to their new Honda engine, but few were expecting it to be this bad.
Three seconds on paper off the pace of Mercedes in the first qualifying session (Q1), after which McLaren drivers Jenson Button and Kevin Magnussen were eliminated, equated to about four seconds once the fact that McLaren were on the soft tyre and Mercedes on the medium at the time, was taken into account.
Add in that Mercedes will have turned up their engine between Q1 and Q3 and the real deficit between McLaren and Mercedes is in the region of five seconds.
Button and the team bosses continue to talk a good game about the potential of their new car, as long as the engine problems can be sorted out. But it is a big "if".
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The 18 charges include murder, rape and the recruitment of child soldiers.
Evidence has been gathered from more than 2,000 alleged victims, including former child soldiers.
Nicknamed "The Terminator", Gen Ntaganda's trial is the biggest and most complex case in the ICC's history.
He fought for different rebel groups as well as the Democratic Republic of Congo's army.
He made his not guilty plea in a barely audible voice, standing in the dock with his signature pencil moustache, reports the BBC's Anna Holligan from court.
The start of the trial was a historic moment for international justice and for the Democratic Republic of Congo, our correspondent adds.
The 41-year-old is accused of killing at least 800 civilians during separate attacks on a number of villages between 2002 and 2003.
He is also accused of raping girl soldiers and keeping them as sex slaves.
"Humanity demands justice for these crimes," ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told the court.
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The prosecutor used her opening statement to describe the experience of one witness in chilling detail. It was the aftermath of an attack on a village in the Ituri region of eastern DR Congo.
Ms Bensouda said the witness searched though a pile of bodies, and found his wife, toddler son and daughter, whose head was punctured and her throat slit. Then, he discovered his remaining two children who had been killed in the same way. He gathered the bodies of his family and buried them in a field.
According to the prosecutor, the rape and sexual enslavement of girls was so prevalent in Gen Ntaganda's Union of Congolese Patriots (UCP) rebel army, that girls were referred to as "a large communal cooking pot" - commanders, she alleged, could pass the girls around and use them for sex whenever they pleased.
Human rights groups here in The Hague have celebrated Gen Ntaganda's appearance, saying it is proof that even the most powerful leaders may one day be brought to justice.
In 2013, Gen Ntaganda handed himself in at the US embassy in the Rwandan capital, Kigali.
He had evaded capture for seven years after the ICC first issued warrants for his arrest.
Bosco Ntaganda was part of the UCP rebel group, led by Thomas Lubanga, who in 2014 became the first person to be convicted by the ICC.
Gen Ntaganda was one of the leaders of the M23 rebel movement, which had fought government troops until signing a peace deal in 2013.
Eastern DR Congo has suffered two decades of violence linked to ethnic rivalries and competition for control of the area's rich mineral resources.
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The order had been in place at Carlisle's Cumberland Infirmary since 25 January.
The temporary ban has allowed the outbreak to be brought under control, officials said.
All but three wards are now virus-free. Restrictions remain in place in affected areas.
North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust renewed its appeal for people who have had diarrhoea, vomiting or flu-like symptoms in the past 48 hours to stay away.
The policy announced on Friday has a goal of cutting back on nicotine levels in order to discourage addiction and lower the number of US smokers.
The FDA says tobacco is responsible for 480,000 American deaths each year, and $300bn (£228bn) in medical costs.
Stock market shares of tobacco plummeted after the plan was announced.
On the New York Stock Exchange, shares in Altria dropped by up to 17%, British American Tobacco's stock fell as much as 11%, and Philip Morris dropped by 7% before they all recovered some of their losses.
"The overwhelming amount of death and disease attributable to tobacco is caused by addiction to cigarettes - the only legal consumer product that, when used as intended, will kill half of all long-term users," FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a statement.
The goal, Mr Gottlieb added, is to "render cigarettes minimally addictive" by reducing the amount of the harmful and addictive chemical, which they say is the leading cause of preventable death in the US.
Tobacco companies, such as British American Tobacco (BAT), said the announcement will lead to innovation in the industry.
"Dr Gottlieb's comments regarding nicotine and menthol do not come as a surprise to us," said a BAT spokeswoman.
"We believe future success will require transformative, innovative products and changing the conversation about tobacco harm reduction," Joanne Walia told the BBC, adding that their American subsidiary Reynolds American Inc, will continue "the transformation of the tobacco industry".
The agency announced that they will also look into flavoured-tobacco, such as menthol, during this "public dialogue" period, ahead of a firm policy recommendation.
The policy will also apply to e-cigarettes, which are also known as tobacco vaporisers.
The Grecians have an outside chance of making the League Two play-offs, but realistically must win their final three matches to make the top seven.
"The next three games will dictate decisions I make.
"We're not in a position where I can say 'yes, we're plodding along in mid-table and we know what we're going to do'," Tisdale told BBC Sport.
"In isolation there's a reason for everybody, everyone's played their part and has benefit to the squad.
"But from a manager's point of view, structurally you're always trying to develop and eke out more efficiency."
However, Tisdale said that players not currently in the side, could still be part of his longer term plans at St James Park.
"Those that are playing on Saturday aren't the ones that are guaranteed to be in the team in six month's time - that's about the rhythm we have as a team now," he added.
"That doesn't mean that they are ahead of others who may not be on the pitch."
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The public have been asked to help track down those responsible for the massive piles of refuse at a warehouse near Newton Mearns.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said calls about the former Netherplace Dye Works would be treated in confidence.
The waste has been blamed for an infestation of flies in Glasgow's southern suburbs.
The Hague-based OPCW added that it expected more details from Syria in the coming days and had postponed a meeting planned for Sunday.
Syria was given a Saturday deadline to give a full list of its chemical arms.
The US had threatened military action over a chemical attack in Damascus which the UN says was a war crime.
The US, UK and France have accused Syrian government forces of carrying out the 21 August attack, in the Ghouta district, but President Bashar al-Assad has blamed rebel groups.
By Paul AdamsBBC News
The agreement reached last Saturday in Geneva set some very ambitious deadlines. Syria was given just a week to hand over "a comprehensive listing" to the OPCW, including names and quantities of chemical weapons agents, types of munitions, as well as where and how Syria's chemical weapons are developed, produced and stored.
Syria's initial submission to the OPCW clearly doesn't meet this stringent standard, but this may not matter. Together with Syria's quick ratification of the OPCW charter, last weekend, it's an indication that the Assad regime is prepared to engage with this process, even if it would prefer to do so at its own pace.
It's still early days, but the rest of the Geneva agreement's demanding timetable could be hard to meet. It would be surprising if the Assad regime did not play for time to a certain extent. It may not feel it can use its chemical weapons, but that doesn't mean that they're not still valuable.
As long as the international community feels that Syria is co-operating, however reluctantly, the regime knows it's very unlikely to be bombed.
Separately, two Syrian rebel groups have agreed a ceasefire in the northern town of Azaz after two days of fighting that raised fears of a war within a war.
Michael Luhan, a spokesman for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is responsible for policing the treaty outlawing chemical arms, said Syria's submission was an "initial declaration".
Mr Luhan said it was now being examined by the organisation's technical secretariat but he declined to say what was in it.
A UN diplomat confirmed to Reuters that details had been submitted, adding: "It's quite long... and being translated."
The US-Russia-brokered deal aims to have inspectors on the ground in Syria in November, when they will make an initial assessment and oversee the destruction of certain equipment.
The destruction of all of Syria's chemical weapons would then be completed by mid-2014.
The core members of the OPCW were expected to vote on the timetable next week.
However, the OPCW said in a statement on Friday that a meeting of its executive council scheduled for Sunday had been postponed, without giving a reason.
"We will announce the new date and time... as soon as possible," it said.
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Once the OPCW agrees to the plan, the UN Security Council will seek to endorse it.
The five permanent members are still discussing the wording of a resolution, with Russia opposing threats of force against Syria.
The White House said on Friday that the threat of military action remained on the table if Syria broke the agreement.
On Monday, the UN confirmed in a report that the nerve agent sarin had been used in a rocket attack in Ghouta, although it did not apportion blame.
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the mission was unable to verify the number of casualties, but referred to the "terrible loss of life on 21 August".
France, the UK and US insist the report clearly backs their stance that only government forces were capable of carrying out the attack.
Syria's ally, Russia, rejected the argument, saying it had "serious grounds" to believe the attack had been a provocation by rebel forces.
Separately on Friday, the two rebel groups - the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (Isis), linked to al-Qaeda, and the larger Western-backed Free Syrian Army - agreed a truce in Azaz, near the Turkish border.
Isis had seized the northern town from the FSA on Wednesday.
By Paul WoodBBC News, Turkey-Syria border
Clash exposes Syria rebel rifts
Profile: Islamic State in Iraq and Levant
The fighting began when a wounded rebel - either from Isis or from an allied group, al-Muhajireen - was taken to a field clinic and, while there, he was filmed as part of a fundraising exercise.
The wounded fighter demanded the film, and called on friends to come to his aid, prompting a full-scale attack.
The BBC's Paul Wood, on the border, says that under the ceasefire deal the two rebel sides have agreed to exchange prisoners and hand back property.
More than 100,000 people have died since the uprising against President Assad began in 2011.
Millions of Syrians have fled the country, mostly to neighbouring nations, and millions more have been internally displaced.
The historic race, now in its 305th year, paid tribute to The Queen in her 90th birthday year by renaming the Gold Cup in her honour.
Her Majesty had cause for celebration after her horse Dartmouth won the Hardwicke Stakes on Saturday.
About 300,000 people were expected to visit the Berkshire racecourse during the five-day event.
Jordon Begley, 23, died in hospital after being Tasered in Gorton following a row with neighbours on 10 July 2013.
Eleven officers attended Mr Begley's home after his mother called 999 to report he had a knife.
The inquest jury delivered a narrative verdict after a five-week hearing at Manchester Civil Courts of Justice.
Following the verdict, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) "restricted" the operational duties of the officers involved in the case.
Jordon Begley was shot with the 50,000 volt stun gun from a distance of 28in (70cm).
He was hit with "distraction strikes" while being restrained and handcuffed by three armed officers from GMP, the inquest was told.
While the initial Taser shock did not cause his heart to stop, the jury concluded that the use of the Taser and the restraint "more than materially contributed" to a "package" of stressful factors leading to Mr Begley's cardiac arrest.
Another factor, they concluded, was Mr Begley's intoxication at the time of the incident and confrontation with police.
In damning conclusions, the jury said the officer who pulled the Taser trigger, PC Terence Donnelly, "inappropriately and unreasonably" used the stun gun for longer than was necessary.
The jury said PC Donnelly pulled the trigger for eight seconds which was "not reasonable in the circumstances".
After Mr Begley struggled and was restrained by armed police they were "more concerned with their own welfare than his," they added.
The 23-year-old factory worker offered "minimal resistance" and there was "no need" for one officer to punch him a second time in a "distraction strike" as they handcuffed him, the inquest heard.
The ruling concluded he was also left too long face down with his hands cuffed behind his back.
Outside court his mother, Dorothy Begley, 47, described the jury's conclusions as "fantastic" and called for all police officers to wear body cameras.
She said: "After two years of fighting everybody, fighting the system, Jordon's day has come. That is all I ever wanted. The last two years have been hell."
"Someone has got to say sorry, they've got to. That's what we want."
The family is now seeking legal advice.
Assistant Chief Constable Dawn Copley said the verdict had "raised a number of serious concerns, including the way the Taser was used, the use of force by the officers after the Taser was deployed and about the communication between the officers who attended Jordon's home".
"In the interim, I have decided to restrict the operational duties of the officers involved in the Taser discharge and restraint until we have had time to fully consider the coroner's comments and have further dialogue with the IPCC."
Since the introduction of Tasers in 2003, Home Office figures show its use has increased by more than 200%, with one in 10 officers now armed with a Taser and more than 10,000 Taser incidents in England and Wales in 2013.
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says fracking can go ahead if three key tests are met.
And the government says it already plans to meet those tests – on methane leaks, gas consumption and carbon budgets.
Environmentalists argue fracking will make the UK’s climate change targets impossible to achieve.
But the CCC disagrees. Its tests of government policy are:
Though the government is confident these conditions will be reached, a spokesman admitted that any increase in current carbon emissions in future would make current targets even more challenging.
There is already a growing mismatch between the government's long-term promises on climate change and the policies to deliver carbon cuts according to the CCC and National Grid.
There is huge uncertainty about the projections on fracking from the CCC and the government.
The UK currently has no shale gas production, and many observers believe the potential of fracking in the UK has been hyped.
A CCC scenario projecting the most aggressive trajectory of shale gas development with minimum necessary regulation by 2030 estimates emissions of around 11 million tonnes of CO2 a year.
But even that is only a quarter of the UK's emissions from agriculture and land use change. One expert told BBC News: "This is more or less loose change when it comes to the carbon budgets. It’s likely that the local effects like lorry disturbance will prove a more significant issue."
The CCC mostly accepts the government’s reassurances on its three tests. The government is confident it has learned from regulatory failures in the early days of so-called wildcat fracking in the US.
Professor Jim Skea from the committee says with best practice, UK shale gas may have a lower carbon footprint than much of the gas currently imported, which has to be compressed at great energy cost.
But he wants more detail on rules over the completion of wells, when methane can burp out along with the fracking fluid injected into the ground to release the gas. He also wants chapter and verse on how wells will be inspected after they have been decommissioned and before they are abandoned.
He told BBC News: "The CCC accepts that the government plans are mostly on track but wants more detail. Our recommendation is to monitor what government does because we are making the assumption that we have a very well regulated industry and we need some details filled in on that."
The CCC also urged the government to make progress on capture and storage technology, which allows fossil fuels to be burned with minimal emissions of CO2.
The Prime Minister previously said this was vital for the UK before he scrapped a competition to develop it - in order to save cash.
The previous head of the Environment Agency, Chris Smith, said fracking should only go ahead if CCS was imposed, and the CCC report says that without CCS the UK would need to eliminate almost all CO2 from all sectors of the economy by 2050.
A government spokesman said ministers were working on other ways of encouraging CCS without a publicly-funded competition. He also confirmed that the government still intended to show by the end of the year how it would achieve long-term CO2 targets.
The government is to make a final decision on whether to allow fracking at two sites in Lancashire by 6 October.
Energy firm Cuadrilla is appealing against Lancashire County Council's refusal to let it extract shale gas at Little Plumpton and Roseacre Wood.
Professor Richard Davies from Newcastle University, said: “To do what the Committee on Climate Change recommend, and do it transparently, could force the UK to develop the world’s best ‘smart’ monitoring technologies for emissions from well sites. There will be new business opportunities if a shale industry takes off."
Dr Doug Parr, chief scientist at Greenpeace, said: "The idea that fracking can be squared with the UK's climate targets is based on a tower of assumptions, caveats, and conditions on which there is zero certainty of delivery.
"The problem with ramping up a whole new high-carbon infrastructure and the fossil fuel vested interests to go with it is that you can't just dial it down later on if emissions start going through the roof."
Labour's Barry Gardiner said: "The CCC report lays out three fundamental tests but the government has decided to do precisely nothing to increase protection for the public or to deliver security for our climate targets.
"On this basis, it is currently neither safe nor reasonable to approve any fracking in Britain."
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Andrea Cutler carried on living at Sandra Bainbridge's cottage in Belper, Derbyshire, after she had killed the 70-year-old in December 2013.
Cutler, 39, from Derby, has a long history of mental illness.
She was charged with murder but pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
Sentencing her at Nottingham Crown Court, Judge Gregory Dickinson QC said: "Clearly this defendant is very dangerous.
"She presents a serious risk of harm to the public. Her mental illness contributed largely to this terrible crime."
He gave her a hospital order with no time limit.
The prosecution and defence psychiatrists believe she was suffering from schizoaffective psychosis, a severe mental illness, at the time of the killing.
She had a list of criminal convictions, including assaulting her ex-partner and his mother, and an unprovoked attack on a woman who had walked out of a city centre department store.
Prior to killing Ms Bainbridge, she had most recently been in court on 3 December 2013, charged with harassing a woman she had been to school with.
She told psychiatrists she was jealous of Amelia Horne who ran a successful cafe in Derby called Jack Rabbits.
Cutler repeatedly went to the cafe where she would shout and swear at Ms Horne, even threatening to stab her to death.
She left the magistrates court and failed to return after the hearing was adjourned for her to speak to a probation officer about a psychiatric assessment.
Shaun Smith QC, prosecuting, said this "set in train a series of events that would lead to the senseless and brutal killing of Sandra Bainbridge".
Having absconded Cutler returned to her own home in Derby, packed two rucksacks and walked to Belper.
She claimed to have slept rough in an "old man's garden" before finding Ms Bainbridge's cottage in Short Row and treating it as her own.
She used her credit card to buy food and even changed the landline phone number.
Ms Bainbridge returned from Turkey on 9 December 2013, after a week with her friend, Derek Joyner.
Cutler then attacked the pensioner, stabbing her repeatedly to the head, face and vagina.
A post-mortem examination suggested Ms Bainbridge was alive for up to 35 minutes after the attack before eventually losing consciousness.
Cutler took Ms Bainbridge's car and drove to Derby, then returned to the house and tried to clean up the blood using a mop and a dressing gown.
After hiding her body under a duvet in the garden, she remained at the dead woman's home and continued using her car.
Concerned when he could not contact his friend by phone, Mr Joyner went to the house late on 10 December.
He found Cutler upstairs and challenged her, but she tried to attack him and chased him out of the house.
Mr Joyner phoned the police, who found Ms Bainbridge's body.
Cutler had fled to Greater Manchester, where she was arrested.
She told police: "I didn't enjoy it, I didn't want to do it, it's just an event that happened, that I was really unlucky.
"I'm lucky that Mr Joyner didn't get murdered, manslaughtered, well whatever comes out of this, as well."
Or to break a hand and arm and then return to win a race six weeks later either.
Never mind fire ozone - a form of oxygen - up her own backside just to get to the startline in the first place.
And - in a way - she isn't.
"I create my own alter-ego as an athlete - essentially I am playing a character out there," the 35-year-old tells BBC Sport.
"I found that me as Lesley Paterson - nice, chatty, 'no, no, no, you go first' - doesn't work. This alter ego allows me to get feisty, angry, aggressive and be less nervous.
"I think about everything - the character traits, the things I wear, certain things I do before the race. It is like method acting.
"My husband knows that that character sometimes crosses over - I can be a bit of a bitch before racing!"
It may be a character that she is playing, but it is Paterson's name on three triathlon world titles.
She specialises in cross-country triathlon, fighting her way through choppy seas, up mountains and along muddy trails to the ITU Cross World title in 2012 and Xterra world crowns in 2011 and 2012.
On Sunday, in Hawaii, she will aim to add a third Xterra world title to the European title she won in August.
The pineapple fields and soft white sand of the south Pacific are a long way from the rugby pitches of her native Stirling.
But Paterson believes that mixing it with the boys in mini-rugby as a girl toughened her into the athlete that she is today.
"I played for Stirling County from the age of about seven to 12. It was me and about 250 boys each weekend," she explains.
"I walked out on the field and they were all laughing and giggling at me. I had to suck it up and show them that I was just as good and hard as them.
"After rugby I did 'regular' triathlon, but that has become a bit poseur-y. Everyone has got all the gear, it is kind of clinical, a little bit sterile.
"Xterra is gritty, filthy, dirty, with a lot of heart. It has brought me everything that I had in rugby - that grittiness, that muddiness, that camaraderie."
It is glitter- not grit - that characterises Paterson's life away from triathlon.
After combining training with an undergraduate degree in drama at Loughborough University, she moved to the United States, doing a Masters in Theatre at San Diego State University.
An acting career followed with parts in a series of independent productions - including the lead in a David Gray music video.
It seems an unlikely mix - there are not many world champions with an extensive IMDB entry - but Paterson says that it helped her sporting career - and not just making by making that startline persona more convincing.
"Being a professional athlete can be a very selfish, one-dimensional, introspective world - but the arts have opened up my eyes," she adds.
"It has helped me understand characters and emotions and myself - it has given me a very different perspective."
She is now a screenwriter and producer. Her latest project is bringing together the people and finances for a film version of the seminal World War One novel All Quiet on the Western Front. Daniel Radcliffe was initially attached and now Roger Donaldson - best known for his work on Cocktail - has been signed up to direct.
Paterson has faced her own battles in the past few years. In 2011, after suffering from persistent head tics, nausea and fatigue, she was diagnosed with bacterial infection Lyme Disease.
Paterson suddenly had to learn to train smarter - improving her fitness, but without overwhelming her depleted immune system.
"It used to be that I could have an amazing day, win the world championships and then the next I could not keep up with my grandma," she explains.
"What makes me good is my ability to keep pushing through the pain, but that is the very thing that also got me into trouble.
"It is always that innate part of my personality that wants to push. I have had to mature as a person and an athlete to understand when to hold back."
But, as those triathletes who might be dodging raw sewage at Rio 2016 triathlon next summer will attest, open-water swims are particularly risky to those susceptible to illness.
Paterson goes through a regime of Chinese herbal treatments and parasite cleanses as soon as she gets out the water to help her gut cope with whatever nasties are heading its way.
And once back home in San Diego she encases herself in an 'ozone sauna' - a pod that wraps around her body and pumps the gas into her open pores - to try and kill off anything that might still be lurking. She will also administer the gas rectally to take the fight to troublesome bacteria on all fronts possible.
Neither treatment is part of the conventional treatment for the disease. But Paterson says that after trying various options, they work for her.
But perhaps the most powerful remedy comes from within rather than without.
"I just like to overcome a challenge," she concludes.
"We live in a world of people telling us what we can and cannot do.
"How we live our life, how you are supposed to heal - the doctor's standard response to tell you to lay off it for six to eights weeks - but there is no standard individual.
"If you really want to be successful in your life you have to feel those fears, find the boundaries and push against them. That comes with the potential to fall flat on your face, but I would rather do that than live in mediocrity."
The notorious crime boss penned the four letters to Maureen Baker, a personal friend, at HMP Parkhurst while serving a life sentence for murder.
Wiltshire auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said one letter revealed "a real 'what if' moment" in the gangster's life.
The letters from Kray, who died of cancer in 2000 aged 66, were sold for £250 over their reserve price.
Kray ran a huge crime empire across the east end of London in the 1950s and 60s, alongside his brother, Ronnie.
The handwritten letters, mostly illegible, were written to Mrs Baker who he knew from the Tottenham Royal dance hall in the early 1950s.
"The letters offer a fascinating snap shot into the mind of one of Britain's most notorious gangsters," said Mr Aldridge.
"One sentence in particular makes fascinating reading: 'I never did receive the letters in the guard house, if I had it may have changed the direction of both our lives, but it is no good to look back.'
"This letter represents a real sliding doors or 'what if' moment of history on how his life could have been so different if he had have received the letters he mentioned."
Sold by a relative of Mrs Baker, who is now deceased, Mr Aldridge said the lot had attracted interest from London, Rome and Sydney but was eventually bought by a collector from Wiltshire.
The Kray brothers, were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1969 for their involvement in armed robberies, arson, protection rackets, assaults, and the murders of Jack "The Hat" McVitie and George Cornell.
Ronnie died in Broadmoor Hospital in 1995 while Reggie died from cancer in October 2000, eight weeks after he was released from his term on compassionate grounds.
The video shows how a new 5km section of the new M8, between Shawhead and Baillieston, is taking shape.
It also shows 5km of new pedestrian and cycle routes running alongside the route, which is due to be completed by spring 2017.
The drone footage also shows other upgrade work to the M73 and M74.
The £500m project aims to upgrade central Scotland's busy motorways and significantly reduce congestion.
It has been estimated that the road improvements could reduce the average daily car commute between Glasgow and Edinburgh by 20 minutes.
Transport Minister Humza Yousaf said: "This drone footage provides the public with a unique perspective of these major construction works that are currently under way to improve the connection between Glasgow and Edinburgh, but are largely out of sight to road users on the existing A8.
"The significant progress achieved is clear to see, and, as we enter the final phase of works along the A8 corridor, I hope the public can be reassured that, once complete, the benefits will far outweigh the current disruption.
"I'd like to thank road users for their patience to date and would ask that they bear with us during this final push to complete the M8 missing link."
The 23-year-old midfielder sat out last season's final defeat by Barnsley because he was suspended.
But after the U's 3-2 win at Luton Town on Wednesday, Oxford are heading back to Wembley to face Coventry City.
"I am just over the moon that I can finally get the chance to go and put it right this year," said Lundstram.
"Last year was disappointing for us, even me in the stands, so if we can go there this year and do one better than that would be perfect," he told BBC Radio Oxford.
Oxford, who also reached the FA Cup fifth round before losing to Premier League side Middlesbrough. will face the Sky Blues at Wembley on 2 April.
"You do not play at Wembley at often, so to get the opportunity again twice in two seasons, we want to try and make sure that we do it this time around," said head coach Michael Appleton.
The band - who count Dignity and Real Gone Kid among their hits - will follow in the footsteps of The Human League and Simple Minds at the Aberdeenshire town's Open Air In The Square (OAITS).
An OAITS spokesperson said: "This is a major boost to Stonehaven's growing reputation as one of the top Hogmanay venues in Scotland.
"We are delighted to feature one of the biggest names in the pop world."
Lead singer Ricky Ross said: "We are really looking forward to coming to Stonehaven.
"It's a place I know quite well. When I was young I grew up in Dundee and used to come to lots of places along the east coast.
"I haven't been in Stonehaven for a long time and I am looking forward to coming back. It's the first time we will have done a gig there.
"We're not doing a lot of gigs this year so it's one of a few special gigs."
South-African born artist Susanne du Toit won the £30,000 top prize for a portrait in oils of her 35-year-old son Pieter.
Coventry-based artist and teacher John Devane took the £10,000 second prize for a portrait of his three children.
The paintings will go on show at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Gallery director Sandy Nairne called du Toit's painting "simple but outstanding".
Du Toit, who is now based in Crowthorne, Berkshire, also wins a commission from the gallery's trustees worth £5,000.
She painted her son as part of a series of portraits of her family.
She allowed Pieter to find his own pose, with the condition that his hands would appear prominently as she finds them essential to convey personality.
Take a look at this portrait of two well-known family members at BBC Your Paintings, along with other works from the National Portrait Gallery
"Having said that, the averted gaze of this portrait, which was his choice, struck me as characteristic of his reflective character, and became intensely engaging", she said.
This will be the second time Devane's work has been exhibited at the BP Portrait Award - his picture In the House of The Cellist was seen in the 1995 exhibition.
He painted his children Lucy, 25, Laura, 20, and Louis, 15, over a period of three years.
The painting sets out to show how children emerge from childhood and reveal something of their adult selves.
Almost 2,000 artists from 77 different countries entered portraits in the competition.
55 portraits have been selected for the exhibition which opens to the public at the gallery on Thursday (20 June) before travelling to Aberdeen in November and Wolverhampton next year.
Scottish painter Owen Normand, who studied at Edinburgh College of Art but is now based in Berlin, won the £7,000 Young Artist Award.
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Oxford United captain John Lundstram says he is desperate to lift the EFL Trophy after missing out on playing at Wembley Stadium last year.
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Scottish pop group Deacon Blue are to headline Stonehaven's Hogmanay event.
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The winner and runner-up of this year's BP Portrait Award are both artists who have painted portraits of their children.
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They trail leaders Barcelona by three points with one game to go, and Barca have the better head-to-head record so would win if points are level.
Champions League finalists Atletico went 1-0 up through Fernando Torres.
But Levante, who are relegated, hit back with goals from Victor Casadesus and a last-minute Giuseppe Rossi strike.
Relive the drama of the penultimate weeked of the La Liga title race
Plaudits have been paid to Diego Simeone and his Atletico players since they overcame Bayern Munich to set up a 28 May Champions League final with Real Madrid in Milan.
Yet their midweek exploits looked to have caught up with them as they failed to overcome La Liga's bottom club.
It had looked to be going to plan when Torres finished well following Koke's clever pass.
Atletico had kept clean sheets in their previous four league games, three of which had ended 1-0.
But Casadesus' equaliser and Rossi's late breakaway at the Ciutat de Valencia means 2014 champions Atletico, who started with inspirational central defender Diego Godin and top scorer Antoine Griezmann on the bench, now cannot overhaul Barca.
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The Resolution Foundation said there is a need to keep the jobs market growing if the figure to be retained.
It said a significant low pay problem persists, and predicted that one in six Scottish workers will still be on low pay in 2020.
The London-based think tank will publish its full report on Wednesday.
It argues that tackling low pays should be a priority for campaigners in the Holyrood elections this spring.
The Scottish economy has been doing a lot of catching up with the rest of the UK in the past 20 or so years. It closed the gap in growth of economic output, in employment and unemployment, and now, we learn, in pay as well.
The Resolution Foundation report does not spell out the reasons why median pay has caught up and surpassed that of the middle-earning English worker, but there are some likely explanations.
Read Douglas' full blog here.
The long-standing gap in median pay was closing last decade, before the financial crash took place.
In 2004, hourly pay was 7.2% lower than in England. Five years later, that had reduced to 2.9%.
That is a measure of the wage earned by the median worker - the one in the mid-point between the highest and lowest earners, with exactly the same number of people earning more as were earning less.
That figure avoids the distortion of the average, which can be lifted by small numbers of extremely high earners, who are more likely to live in London and south-east England.
When the recession struck, Scottish workers faced a shallower decline in pay than in England.
In 2014, for the first time, median Scottish pay rose above that in England, and by last year, there was a small advantage: £11.92 per hour to £11.84 in England.
The Resolution Foundation analysed figures from the Office for National Statistics to find that Scotland's median pay rose at a faster rate than any other nation or region in the UK over the past two decades. North-east England was second fastest.
The think tank report argues that steady growth, high employment and improved productivity were behind the relative improvement in pay during last decade.
It goes on to say that continued jobs growth and productivity improvements will be required if the "pay premium" is to be maintained.
Median pay should be affected by the introduction of a higher statutory minimum wage from April, which the UK government has dubbed the national living wage, and which will only apply to those aged at least 25.
Conor d'Arcy, a research analyst at the Resolution Foundation, said the continuing low pay problems in Scotland would be improved if more people were moved on to the independently-calculated Living Wage.
It is higher than the statutory level and calculated to be the lowest level of earnings necessary for basic needs.
Mr d'Arcy said: "Scotland's impressive pay performance has been underpinned by high employment and steady economic growth, particularly in the run up to the crash. But its recent employment and growth record has been less impressive.
"While Scotland's strong pay growth has been good news for many workers, it is still the case that one in five employees is low paid.
"With the higher minimum wage for the over-25s expected to reduce rather than eliminate low pay, tackling this longstanding problem should be a top priority for parties in the run-up to May's election."
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Figures from the Great British Tourism Survey also revealed visitors were spending more, with total expenditure reaching £1.7bn in Wales.
Tourists were staying longer too, spending on average 3.5 nights in 2014.
And while Wales saw an increase in visitors in 2014, visitors to the UK as a whole were down 7% on 2013.
Ken Skates, Deputy Minister for Culture, Sport and Tourism, said: "These figures are absolutely fantastic and show that Wales is ahead of the game.
"Getting to 10 million visitors is an important milestone and Wales is gaining market share."
The figures were released by Statistics for Wales, while the survey is a national consumer survey that measures the volume and value of overnight trips by UK residents.
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The 45-year-old, currently in charge at Bayern Munich, will replace Manuel Pellegrini, who will leave on 30 June.
A statement from City said Chilean Pellegrini, 62, was "fully supportive" of the announcement being made.
The club said negotiations with former Barcelona coach Guardiola had been "a recommencement of discussions that were curtailed in 2012".
Roberto Mancini was City boss at the time, and led them to the domestic title that year.
Pellegrini succeeded the Italian in 2013 and took the club to a Premier League and League Cup double the following season.
He has won 64 of his 99 Premier League games as a manager, a record only eclipsed by Jose Mourinho, who won 73 of his opening 99 league matches as Chelsea boss.
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City could yet win four trophies under Pellegrini this season.
They are already through to the final of the League Cup and are second in the league behind Leicester City.
The Blues are also through to the knockout stages of the Champions League and will play Chelsea in the fifth round of the FA Cup.
"I talked to the club and I will finish my contract on the original date," said Pellegrini on Monday.
"We signed a contract for one more year, but with a clause that one of the club or me cannot use that extended contract. So I will finish here on the original date.
"They are not doing anything behind me. I knew this a month ago. But I don't think it's good, this rumour and speculation about different things. I would prefer to finish the speculation today. That's why I told the press, I told the players, and I spoke with the club two weeks ago saying that I would do it."
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Former Man City winger Trevor Sinclair said news of Guardiola's appointment was "a massive, massive statement" by the club and "huge news for all City fans".
He told BBC Radio 5 live: "He's the hottest manager out there. Every club would want him.
"And when you look at the recruitment possibilities now, that's where you really start to get excited. He'll be able to bring in some huge players."
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp spoke to the media before his side's game with Leicester on Tuesday, and said of Guardiola's appointment: "He is one of the best managers in the world, no doubt about this.
"He had two big, big clubs where he has worked at and now he will do his job at Manchester City.
"Pep won everything in Spain, nearly everything in Germany, so I think he wants to win everything in England, that is clear."
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Former QPR boss Harry Redknapp told BBC Radio 5 live: "City are fighting on all fronts still, and you wonder what signal it sends out to the players when they know the manager isn't going to be there at the end of the year.
"Pellegrini is an excellent manager and a really nice guy. I'm sure he'll want to go out as a success. It's a massive move for Man City. Guardiola is really a big statement."
Stoke manager Mark Hughes said: "I don't think the news itself was a surprise, maybe the timing of it?
"I think Pellegrini's done a great job. Coming in after Mancini the club seemed a bit fragmented. He's won trophies, which is what they demanded. It's unfortunate that when a manager with the quality of Pep Guardiola comes on the market, a team like Man City feel the need to go after him."
Phil McNulty, BBC Sport's chief football writer:
The announcement that Guardiola is to be the next Manchester City coach is not a huge surprise - but the timing is.
Manuel Pellegrini is still in charge and is still in serious contention for four trophies.
What is beyond question, however, is that this is the most powerful statement of intent from City's Abu Dhabi owners that they intend to construct a club to stand alongside any in world football.
Guardiola is the game's most coveted coach with a history of claiming the top prizes.
The combination of the charismatic Catalan's coaching brilliance and the financial backing he will receive makes this a partnership the rest of football world could come to fear.
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The Mourne County led for most of the Parc na hEireann contest with Sands' second goal on the stroke of half-time putting Down 2-10 to 0-14 ahead.
Down extended their advantage in the second half to set up a semi-final against Antrim.
Wicklow will face Carlow in the other semi-final.
In ideal conditions, Portaferry clubman Sands registered Down's first green-flag after 20 minutes to hand his side a 1-8 to 0-8 lead.
London bounced back and held a one-point advantage approaching the interval, but Sands bagged his second goal just before the half-time whistle, and Down led 2-10 to 0-14 at the break.
A large number of wides cost London throughout this game, but just four points separated the sides after 53 minutes.
However, Down finished strongly with an inspirational Conor O'Prey point a feature of their final quarter.
The Exiles went into the Birmingham contest as favourites after hammering Roscommon last time out.
In contrast, Down had to battle to beat Roscommon 2-24 to 1-20 a week earlier.
However, Down were boosted by the return to action of Danny Toner after several weeks out because of injury.
Regular free-taker Paul Sheehan also returned to the starting line-up after manager Marty Mallon's decision to start Gareth Johnson in last weekend's 3-15 to 0-11 defeat by Antrim.
London avoided relegation from Division Two A of the League in the Spring as their draw against Armagh proved enough to keep them up on points difference.
Down were unable to muster a significant promotion challenge in the lower-tier Division Two B.
Meanwhile, Monaghan and Armagh secured places in the Nicky Rackard Cup semi-finals after respective wins over Donegal and Longford on Saturday.
Gerard Gilmore's goal helped Donegal take an early 1-5 to 0-3 lead but Fergal Rafter's nine points saw Monaghan fight back to win 1-16 to 1-12 at Inniskeen.
Fiachra Bradley, David Carvill, Ryan Gaffney and Conor Corvan netted for Armagh as they hammered Longford 4-20 to 0-12 at Crossmaglen.
Former Antrim star Liam Watson hit 3-10 for Warwickshire as they beat Fermanagh 6-16 to 3-9 in the Lory Meagher Cup at Enniskillen while Sligo eased past Cavan 1-20 to 0-9 at Breffni Park.
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It happens when winds mix with smoke and flames.
The fire burned around seven acres of land but, thankfully, no injuries were reported.
Fire crews in the state of Oregon managed to put out the blaze after about an hour.
They think it was caused by farming equipment cutting the field.
Video courtesy of Cornelius Fire Department.
For the best part of 50 years Plaid have been hoping for a big breakthrough in industrial Wales, particularly the southern valleys.
Over the years there have been some close parliamentary by-elections, the odd assembly seat won and councils captured for single terms.
What has not happened is the sort of permanent political shift from Labour to Plaid that the party has yearned for for decades.
With Labour in meltdown, though, shouldn't the party be able to capitalise this time?
Probably not, if the polls are to be believed.
The problem may be that, in truth, there is very little difference between Plaid and Welsh Labour's offers to the voters.
While Plaid are, to use their campaign slogans, "Defending Wales", Labour are "Standing up for Wales".
On the key issue of Brexit, the two parties signed up to a common policy.
The real point of differentiation, of course, is independence - and there aren't that many people in Wales who think that's a good idea.
As in the local elections, Plaid could end up making gains this time.
As for that elusive breakthrough though, well, don't hold your breath.
Bankia also restated its results
- now saying it made a 2.98bn-euro loss for 2011 rather than the 309m euros in profit it announced in February.
Earlier on Friday, trading in Bankia shares was suspended on the Madrid stock exchange while its management put together a restructuring plan.
Bankia has already been bailed out because of its bad property loans.
After a meeting of the board on Friday, Bankia's parent Banco Financiero y de Ahorro (BFA) asked Spain's bank bailout fund, FROB, to inject the 19bn euros.
Bankia will then issue 12bn euros in capital that will be underwritten by BFA.
The bank said
that the "recapitalisation measures strengthen the group's solvency, liquidity and stability".
Rating agency Standard and Poor's has also lowered the credit rating of Bankia and four other Spanish banks.
Two weeks ago, Bankia had a 4.47bn-euro loan by the Spanish bailout fund converted into a 45% stake in the bank.
Bankia had to reassure its savers last week that their money was safe after a Spanish newspaper reported a run on the bank.
Bankia was created in 2010 from the merger of seven struggling regional savings banks. It holds 32bn euros in distressed property assets.
Its shares fell 7.4% on Thursday to close at 1.57 euros, which is 58% down from their listing price in July 2011.
There have been four attempts by Spanish governments to shore up the banking system since the global banking crisis of 2008.
As part of the latest plan, lenders are having to make 30bn euros of extra provisions to cover potential losses on property loans, which comes on top of 54bn euros they were ordered to set aside in February.
The health of Spain's banking system is key to whether the country eventually needs to seek a bailout itself from the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund.
Spain's credit rating was downgraded by S&P last month on the basis that it would probably have to take on more debt to support its banks.
Also on Friday, there were appeals for help from another Spanish institution - its wealthiest autonomous region, Catalonia.
"We need to make payments at the end of the month," said Catalan president Artur Mas. "Your economy can't recover if you can't pay your bills."
Catalonia represents one-fifth of the Spanish economy.
It has to take out 13bn euros of loans this year to refinance maturing debt, not to mention funding whatever deficit it has for the current year.
The regions have been having trouble borrowing money commercially, so the central government has given them a special credit facility from the Official Credit Institute (ICO).
Those credit lines run out in June and the government has said it will come up with a new mechanism to provide credit for the regions, but it is unclear what form the help should take.
The spending watchdog found the quality of the tests was also not improving despite more being done face-to-face.
Labour MP Meg Hillier, who chairs the public accounts committee, said the cost was "staggering" and sick and disabled people needed "a better deal".
The Department for Work and Pensions said the quality of tests had improved.
Health assessments for Employment and Support Allowance are carried out to assess people's capability for work.
They were brought in to reduce the number of claimants but the department has constantly struggled with delays and controversy with disability campaigners claiming they have led to rising suicide and depression rates.
Private provider Atos quit its contract in 2014 and was replaced last year by US firm Maximus.
The new contract requires an increased number of face-to-face assessments - with more staff needed to carry them out.
But the NAO said "recent performance shows the department [DWP] has not tackled - and may even have exacerbated" problems over waiting times and targets, and expected savings to the welfare budget had been reduced from £1.1bn over the next three years to £400m.
Key findings in the report said:
Despite increasing the size of its performance management team, the DWP "has not yet achieved value for money", the report said, "Overall it now expects to pay more for assessments, and is still not achieving volume and assessment report quality targets."
Dawn Amos was sent a letter telling her that she was not ill enough to qualify for attendance allowance on the day after doctors turned off her life support machine. She was 67 and had chronic lung disease.
Her husband Mick said her condition meant she could barely walk.
"She started off with a blockage in the leg. It didn't actually get worse for about a year so we thought if it's not getting worse we'll leave it alone. Then when it started getting worse she went to get something done about it.
"By the end she could only just get down to the bottom of the garden, about 45-50ft, and that was about it. She had to sit down before she could walk back. She couldn't even get to the shops on her own. How ill do you have to be?"
Ms Hillier said: "The department's approach has been unclear, its targets untested and consistently missed, and future delivery is under threat.
"With the annual cost of assessments now expected to rise to a staggering £579m in 2016-17, taxpayers have been left to foot the bill.
"The department needs to do more to ensure private providers deliver a better deal for sick and disabled people as assessments have a huge impact on their ability to access vital cash to live with dignity."
The head of the NAO, Amyas Morse, said the DWP had "addressed some of its immediate operational issues in managing contracted-out health and disability assessments".
But he said the government needed to "take action to break a perpetuating cycle of optimistic targets, contractual underperformance and costly recovery".
The DWP said it had reached the best possible deal for new tests following a "strict competitive contract tendering process" and that the extra costs had been taken into account. "This also ensures that the quality of the assessments for claimants improves at the same time," a spokesman said.
"We are determined to support more people into work and provide individuals who can't with the correct support that they need - the effective assessment of people's abilities is key to this."
Shadow minister for disabled people, Debbie Abrahams, said the report exposed a "shambles", adding "too many disabled people have been badly let down by these assessments".
And Dan Scorer, head of policy at the charity Mencap, said "people with a learning disability who rely on the support from benefits are still suffering from a system that fails to help the people it is designed for".
It beat off stiff competition from Linwood, Gourock and Auchterarder to scoop the title at the Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum awards ceremony in Glasgow on Tuesday.
Hazel Cross, from Fife Council, who helped make changes, accepted the award on behalf of the town.
Brian Schultz from Lochgelly Community Council said he was "overwhelmed".
Mr Schultz said: "I'm absolutely delighted that Lochgelly, and the hard work of all of the organisations and volunteers in Lochgelly, is finally getting the recognition it deserves as Lochgelly is a fantastic town that is always improving."
Ms Cross said: "Lochgelly has been on a journey of people and place and the collaborative working over a number of years has helped change the face of Lochgelly by improving the towns assets, creating new housing, leisure and business opportunities.
"The Lochgelly community is strong and determined and have delivered a range of community led projects throughout the town over the years and I know Lochgelly will continue to be successful."
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In a report, they highlight continuing, persistent underachievement by working-class Protestant children, and wider male underachievement in education.
They also say that "prejudice-based bullying is a persistent problem".
They say the inequalities "have worsened over time" and have called for them to be addressed as a matter of urgency by government.
The commission's Draft Statement on Key Inequalities in Education is their assessment of inequalities faced by those in education in Northern Ireland.
The report also points out that while overall levels of educational attainment are increasing, "many inequalities remain persistent and hard to tackle".
The EC published a statement on inequality in Northern Ireland in 2007, and the current report measures progress, or lack of it, since then in education.
They commissioned independent experts from Queen's University to carry out the research.
Dr Michael Wardlow, chief commissioner of the Equality Commission, said that many children in Northern Ireland continue to experience persistent inequalities because of barriers linked to disability, gender, religion and their socio-economic background.
"We've known for a long time that while the education system in Northern Ireland works well for many of our young people, for too long, significant numbers of pupils have struggled to fulfil their potential as a result of that same system," he said.
"Identifying and highlighting these inequalities is only the first step. These educational fault-lines must be followed by action."
The report also claimed some students would not study at certain university and college campuses due to their political beliefs.
Researchers interviewed one unionist and one republican student group.
The republican group claimed they would not consider studying at Stranmillis University College and said they did not think Protestants would study at St Mary's University College.
However, the report admits there is no data to back up that claim.
Stormont education minister John O'Dowd said: "Over the last 10 years, there have been policies introduced which are beginning to show change, but there's a long tale of underachievement here for many reasons which we need to tackle.
"We need the community to involve themselves, and we need community activists and politicians to stand up and admit there's something wrong."
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The pair's first child is due in the next two weeks and the Briton went to the airport soon after his straight-sets defeat by Novak Djokovic.
"I'm proud I got into this position," said the world number two, who suffered his fifth final defeat in Melbourne.
"I'm just quite looking forward to getting home now."
Murray, 28, was beaten 6-1 7-5 7-6 (7-3) by world number one Djokovic, who claimed his sixth Australian Open title, tying the record of Australia's Roy Emerson.
"Regardless of today's result, it's been hard," added Murray, who thanked his wife for allowing him to play in Melbourne.
"Had I lost in the third or fourth round, it still would have been difficult with everything that happened, but she's been amazing and handled everything unbelievably well.
"I have to thank her for allowing me to play and stay here with everything that was going on. It was tough."
There was an added incentive to return home early when his father-in-law Nigel Sears, who coaches Ana Ivanovic, collapsed while watching the Serb at Melbourne Park.
"It was the closest I've been to leaving a Grand Slam," said Murray. "It was a tough couple of days, but thankfully he's fine now."
The Scot left Rod Laver Arena with the local time past 23:00 to carry out his media duties, before heading for the airport.
"It feels like for five days I've been held on almost every single flight," he said. "The first one out of here, I'm leaving."
Murray earned the unenviable record of becoming only the second player since tennis turned professional in 1968 to finish runner-up at the same Grand Slam five times.
While the Scot made early errors, world number one Djokovic raced into a 5-0 lead and would never relinquish control of the match. The Serb moves level with Australian Rod Laver and Bjorn Borg of Sweden on 11 Grand Slam titles.
"I started the last couple of matches quite slowly," he said. "I think understandably in some respects.
"Obviously it's not good to begin matches like that against someone like Novak, but I'm proud of the way I fought and managed to get myself back into the match and create chances for myself."
The former Wimbledon and US Open champion has now lost 11 of his past 12 matches against 28-year-old Djokovic.
"I don't know how far off I was tonight," said Murray.
"The first set, I wasn't there, but the second and third sets I do think were very close. I do think I could have played a bit better.
"Most of the matches we've played in Slams, I think, have been competitive. Whether that looks the same from the outside or not, I don't know."
Russell Fuller, BBC tennis correspondent
"Allowing Djokovic a 6-1 head start is like giving Usain Bolt a 10m start in a 100m sprint.
"Djokovic played another immaculate first set but Murray was very sluggish and only discovered his best when he went a break down midway through the second set.
"Murray attacked gloriously and his net play become more of a threat as he broke back and got to within two points of squaring the match.
"But Djokovic did not offer any encouragement. He was again magnificent all night long - too consistent and too strong for even the second best player in the world."
Cosmology theory predicts that galaxies are embedded in a cosmic web of "stuff", most of which is dark matter.
Astronomers obtained the first direct images of a part of this network, by exploiting the fact that a luminous object called a quasar can act as a natural "cosmic flashlight".
Details of the work appear in the journal Nature.
The quasar illuminates a nearby gas cloud measuring two million light-years across.
And the glowing gas appears to trace out filaments of underlying dark matter.
The quasar, which lies 10 billion light-years away, shines light in just the right direction to reveal the cold gas cloud.
For some years, cosmologists have been running computer simulations of the structure of the universe to build the "standard model of cosmology".
They use the cosmic microwave background, corresponding to observations of the very earliest Universe that can be seen, and recorded by instruments such as the Planck space observatory, as a starting point.
Their calculations suggest that as the Universe grows and forms, matter becomes clustered in filaments and nodes under the force of gravity, like a giant cosmic web.
The new results from the 10-metre Keck telescope in Hawaii, are reported by scientists from the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg.
They are the first direct observations of cold gas decorating such cosmic web filaments.
The cosmic web suggested by the standard model is mainly made up of mysterious "dark matter". Invisible in itself, dark matter still exerts gravitational forces on visible light and ordinary matter nearby.
Massive clumps of dark matter bend light that passes close by through a process called gravitational lensing, and this had allowed previous measurements of its distribution.
But it is difficult to use this method to see very distant dark matter, and cold ordinary matter remains tricky to detect as well.
The glowing hydrogen illuminated by the distant quasar in these new observations traces out an underlying filament of dark matter that it is attracted to it by gravity, according to the researchers' analysis.
"This is a new way to detect filaments. It seems that they have a very bright quasar in a rare geometry," Prof Alexandre Refregier of the ETH Zurich, who was not involved in the work, told BBC News.
"If indeed gravity is doing the work in an expanding Universe, we expect to see a cosmic web and it is important to detect this cosmic web structure."
He added: "What is expected is that the dark matter dominates the mass and forms these structures, and then the ordinary matter, the gas, the stars and everything else trace the filaments and structures that are defined by the dynamics of the dark matter."
"Filaments have been detected indirectly before using gravitational lensing, which allows us to see the distribution of the dark matter.
"Part of the ordinary matter has formed stars, which we can see, but another component is the gas. If the gas is very hot it emits X-rays and can be seen using X-ray telescopes. Other techniques to detect cooler gas now include the method described here."
How close are we to finding dark matter?
Sebastiano Cantalupo, lead author of the article, and others have used the same method previously to look for glowing gas around quasars, and had seen dark galaxies.
"The dark galaxies are much denser and smaller parts of the cosmic web. In this new image, we also see dark galaxies, in addition to the much more diffuse and extended nebula," Dr Cantalupo, from UCSC, explained.
"Some of this gas will fall into galaxies, but most of it will remain diffuse and never form stars.
"The light from the quasar is like a flashlight beam, and in this case we were lucky that the flashlight is pointing toward the nebula and making the gas glow. We think this is part of a filament that may be even more extended than this, but we only see the part of the filament that is illuminated by the beamed emission from the quasar."
While the observations support the cosmological simulations' general picture of a cosmic web of filamentary structures, the researchers' results suggest around 10 times more gas in the nebula than predicted from typical computer simulations.
They postulate that this may simply be due to limitations in the spatial resolution of the current models, or, more interestingly perhaps, may be because the current grid-based models are missing some aspect of the underlying physics of how galaxies form, evolve, and interact with quasars.
"We now have very precise measurements of the amount of ordinary matter and dark matter in the Universe," said Prof Refregier.
"We can only observe a fraction of the ordinary matter, so the question is what form the remainder takes. These results may imply that a lot of it is in the form detected here."
Theresa May intends to establish an offence of "illicit enrichment" for cases where a public official's assets have increased significantly without satisfactory explanation.
It is part of a wider shake-up of measures to tackle money laundering.
But Mrs May said it was not a "knee-jerk" reaction to the Panama Papers.
She said the economy was "at risk of being undermined" by money laundering, illicit finance and the funding of terrorism.
Her new proposals - subject to a six-week consultation period being launched in the Commons later - plan to give the civil courts powers to impose new "unexplained wealth orders".
They would force suspected money launderers to declare their wealth, and those who fail to satisfy authorities will face having their property and cash seized.
The government described the plans as "aggressive" and "the most significant change to the UK's anti-money laundering and terrorist finance regime in over a decade".
Mrs May said: "The laundering of proceeds of crime through UK institutions is not only a financial crime, it fuels political instability around the world, supports terrorists and extremism and poses a direct and immediate threat to our domestic security and our overseas interests.
"We will forge a new partnership with industry to improve suspicious activity reporting, deliver deeper information-sharing and take joint action on enforcement.
"And we will act vigorously against the criminals and terrorists responsible, to protect the security and prosperity of our citizens, and safeguard the integrity of Britain's financial economy."
Under the reforms a new administrative power to designate an entity as being "of money laundering concern" is also being considered.
This would require those in the "regulated" sector - such as banks, legal and accountancy firms - to take "special measures" when dealing with them.
In October last year an official national risk assessment said that taken as a whole, money laundering "represents a significant threat to the UK's national security".
In November the anti-corruption body Transparency International UK said billions of pounds of "dirty cash" was entering Britain every year.
Reacting to the new proposals, the organisation's executive director Robert Barrington said: "There are some excellent ideas here, but the proof of the pudding will be in whether they are put into action.
"The powers that are envisaged could make a real difference and, while it is important they are properly debated in Parliament to allay any concerns over civil liberties, it is equally important that they are not watered down by self-interested lobbying during the consultation process."
A Vegas ice hockey team will play in the 2017-18 season subject to billionaire businessman Bill Foley's ownership group paying the $500m (£340m) expansion fee.
"This is a great day for the people of Las Vegas and it is extremely exciting to deliver the city's first major league sports team," said Foley.
Vegas will be the NHL's 31st franchise.
It is the NHL's first expansion team since the Columbus Blue Jackets and Minnesota Wild came into the league in the 2000-01 season.
NHL (National Hockey League) Commissioner Gary Bettman said an application from Quebec City had been deferred due to the "state and volatility of the Canadian dollar".
Las Vegas will play its home games at T-Mobile Arena, which opened in April, staging Amir Khan's middleweight title defeat against Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez last month.
It is located just west of the famed Las Vegas Strip, with a capacity of over 17,000 for hockey matches, and Las Vegas has said it has already received more than 14,000 deposits for season tickets.
Ibrahim Halawa, now 21, from Dublin, was arrested when he was 17 during a siege at the Al-Fath mosque in Cairo in 2013.
He has been accused, along with more than 400 others, of inciting violence, riot and sabotage.
The trial has been adjourned until 9 May.
Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan said there was some indication that the trial of Mr Halawa was "progressing".
"The Irish Embassy in Cairo has been closely monitoring this trial since it began," he said.
"The relatively short adjournment period and the progress in recent hearings in terms of witness testimony are indications of momentum in the trial process, which is to be welcomed after a very difficult and frustrating period of over three years.
"My expectation now is that the trial will move towards a conclusion. It is important that there should be no further delays in the process.
"The government, my own Department of Foreign Affairs and our embassy in Cairo will continue to monitor all developments in relation to Ibrahim Halawa's case and his health and welfare, which remain matters of the utmost concern.
"We will continue to provide every possible consular assistance to Ibrahim Halawa and his family. A further consular visit will be undertaken by the embassy to Ibrahim Halawa in the coming days."
Earlier this month, the Irish government arranged for a doctor to visit the Dubliner in jail following concerns about his health.
He has staged a series of hunger strikes in protest at being imprisoned without trial for over three years.
Last month, his lawyer said he was so weak that jail staff used a wheelchair to take him to family visits.
Mr Halawa is the son of the most senior Muslim cleric in the Republic of Ireland.
He was arrested with three of his sisters in Cairo in 2013.
The women were released after three months, but their younger brother remained in jail.
Amnesty International said it continued to be "gravely concerned" for Mr Halawa's physical and mental health.
"We reiterate our call on the Egyptian authorities to drop all charges against him and for his immediate and unconditional release," said Colm O'Gorman from Amnesty International Ireland.
"We also urge the Irish government to continue working on his behalf and to use every means at their disposal to secure his release.
"Amnesty has conducted a thorough, independent review of the prosecution evidence and concluded that he was arrested solely for peacefully exercising his right to freedom of assembly and expression."
Operators of such discounted tours try to recoup costs by pressuring tourists to buy goods at selected stores.
Police said the victim, 54, intervened when a fellow tourist got into a fight with a tour guide after refusing to buy anything at a jewellery shop.
At least four people have been arrested and the Hong Kong Tourist Board (HKTB) expressed regret over the incident.
"The HKTB has zero tolerance for any act that impacts the hospitable image of Hong Kong, particularly acts of violence," it said in a statement.
The victim, a male building contractor from north-east China, was found lying unconscious outside the shop in Kowloon on Monday morning.
He tried to mediate in a fight between two women - believed to be the tour leader and one of the tourists - before he and the female tourist were attacked by a group of men who dragged them onto the street and beat them, police said
The two women, aged 32 and 53, have been arrested, along with two men, one a 44-year-old Hong Kong resident and the other a 32-year-old mainlander. Police say they are still searching for two other suspects.
On the mainland the man's death prompted calls for a boycott of travel to Hong Kong.
China has introduced measures aimed at stopping the practice of forced shopping, but they have had little effect.
Tensions between Hong Kongers and mainland Chinese have been rising as the number of mainland visitors has increased.
The visitors have driven a tourism boom - but local residents blame mainlanders for pushing up prices.
They also resent what they see as mainlanders' coarse behaviour, such as eating on the subway and blocking pavements with oversized suitcases.
China's National Tourism Administration has urged Hong Kong authorities to protect mainland tourists' rights.
Hussain Hussain, 19, stabbed Antoin Akpom, 20, with a kitchen knife after a confrontation in Kent Street last year.
Mr Justice Griffith-Williams said the killing was the result of gang-related violence and told the Somali refugee he must serve at least 15 years.
The jury at Stafford Crown Court failed to reach a verdict on a second 19-year-old, Abdul Hakim, who denied murder.
A decision on whether Mr Hakim will face a retrial will be made in the next two weeks.
The trial had earlier been told that Hussain, of no fixed address, stabbed father-of-one Mr Akpom with the 10-inch blade because he "feared for his life".
The jury saw CCTV footage from the Kent Street area of the city showing Mr Akpom getting out of a car to confront Hussain.
Mr Akpom could be seen running towards a gym before returning, followed by a group of up to nine people.
In sentencing Hussain, the judge said the stabbing was "offending arising out of postcode gang rivalry in which you were steeped".
And he added, whatever the failures of Mr Akpom, there was a "good positive side to him" and nothing could justify taking his life.
Mr Akpom's mother, Cheryl Armatrading, read a victim impact statement to the court and described how her son's murder had devastated the family.
She said: "The devastation of Antoin's death is beyond comparison to anything that we, as a family, has ever experienced.
"This has resulted in stress, sleepness nights, fear, anxiousness and feeling insecure.
"I feel pain like never before. It feels like I've been torn to shreds and my insides all knotted.
"Antoin's fiancee, Amber, has lost the financial support and sense of security of Antoin.
"There has been an even greater impact on his one-year-old son who will never be able to share those loving moments, guidance and counselling his father would have given him."
He rose to international fame as the architect of the main government buildings in the futuristic Brazilian capital, Brasilia, inaugurated in 1960.
He also worked with Swiss-born modernist architect Le Corbusier on the UN building in New York.
He continued to work on new projects until earlier this year.
Obituary: Oscar Niemeyer
In pictures: Curvy works
He died on Wednesday at a hospital in Rio de Janeiro.
A memorial service will be held in the presidential palace in Brasilia on Thursday.
Niemeyer's family was informed of the honour in a phone call from President Dilma Rousseff.
"Brazil has lost today one of its geniuses, It is a day to lament his death. It is a day to acclaim his life."
Rio de Janeiro's Mayor Eduardo Paes has declared three days of mourning in Niemeyer's home city.
It is thought he will be buried there on Friday.
Oscar Niemeyer started his career in the 1930s, when Brazil was still copying neoclassical European architecture and designing ornate palace-like buildings.
His bold futuristic designs in Brasilia made the new capital a dramatic statement of confidence in the future of Brazil, and an icon of modern architecture.
A student of Le Corbusier, he developed a distinctive style defined by stark concrete and sweeping curves.
He famously once said the stylised swoops in his buildings were inspired by the curves of Brazilian women.
"When you have a large space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution," he said.
"I once wrote a poem about the curve. The curve I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuousness of its rivers, in the waves of the ocean and on the body of the beloved woman."
A firm communist - and a personal friend of Cuban leader Fidel Castro - Niemeyer left the country during Brazil's military dictatorship and forged an international career in France.
In 1988, he was awarded the prestigious Pritzker Prize.
Architecture is a profession where you need a long period of apprenticeship. You never stop learning, this is something that Niemeyer kept saying. And I think he learned until the end, he was that kind of person.
As an architect you have to be a sociologist, you have to be a builder, you have to be a scientist, you have to be a poet. And to learn to do all those things well takes time. He was one of those people proving this. It was about integrity. In some ways he was more of a moral example, an example of life.
He was also very concerned about political life, and architecture is political in some ways. In the sense of doing things that belonged to the civic life of people in the city. Architecture is the art of making cities not just making buildings. He was a good example of how architecture can be a noble job, a civilised job.
British architect Lord Norman Foster, who designed London's Gherkin tower and the dome on the Reichstag building in Berlin, described Niemeyer as an "inspiration" who "stood accepted wisdom on its head".
Recounting how the two had met in Rio last year, he said: "It seems absurd to describe a 104 year old as youthful, but his energy and creativity were an inspiration."
"He told me that architecture is important, but that life is more important. And yet in the end his architecture is his ultimate legacy.
"Like the man himself, it is eternally youthful - he leaves us with a source of delight and inspiration for many generations to come."
However, Niemeyer's style was not to everyone's taste, and for a communist some people say his work was not very people-friendly - focusing more on the architecture's form than on its inhabitants or functionality.
He went on to create more than 600 buildings around the world. His legacy endures in museums, monuments, schools and churches in Brazil and beyond.
Many of the designs were initially sketched on a table overlooking his beloved Rio de Janeiro and its famous Copacabana beach, replete with the women, waves and hills from which he drew such inspiration.
The idea is from a project in Finland where reindeer antlers were painted.
Blue paint has been placed on privately-owned ponies to see how durable it is, with reflective beads to be added to the paint later.
Conservationists said motorists would not see the animal, but an "alien glow" which should slow them down.
The Dartmoor Livestock Protection Society (DLPS) scheme has been backed by the national park authority.
Karla McKechnie, livestock protection officer for DLPS, said about 60 animals had been killed on the roads across the moor so far this year, an increase on previous years.
She took the Finnish idea to a south-west manufacturer, from where she got complementary tins of paint to test its durability on the animals' coats.
She said two ponies have been painted and the reflective beads could be put on animals on the moor within months.
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Bosses plan to paint the livestock along their sides and above their bottoms and tails, "really to get as much on as possible", she said.
Ms McKechnie said it was "early days, but the trial was going well".
"Motorists will not be able to tell it's an animal, they'll just see this alien glow, which might be able to reduce the speed of these motorists," she added.
The charity, which plans to fund the project, although the exact cost is yet to be calculated, helps ponies, sheep and cattle on the moors.
Rob Steemson, Dartmoor National Park's head ranger, said the authority "fully supports the project to reduce the number of road deaths".
"These horrible incidents would not happen if motorists drove with greater care and anticipated that Dartmoor grazing stock regularly wander on to the roads."
Over four decades, men's champions have morphed from lean endurance sportsmen to brawny power-trained athletes, the Wolverhampton University pair say.
According to them, bulk gives a competitive edge for stronger shots.
It suggests Andy Murray has a good chance of winning the contest again.
But so too does Novak Djokovic.
The researchers studied the physique of players in grand slam tournaments.
Across the majors they looked at - the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open from 1982 to 2011 - a trend emerged in the male players who reached round three or more of the tournaments.
Over time, the players have become heavier and more muscular.
And the amount of muscle a player has appears to boost his chances of winning.
The researchers, Prof Alan Nevill and PhD student Adam Gale-Watts, found a significantly steeper rise in body mass (muscle rather than fat) of the most successful players compared with less successful ones.
The rise began in the 1980s, speeding up in the 1990s and peaking around 2009 - the year when Scottish player Andy Murray was seeded world number two.
At the same time, leanness of players declined, they report in the European Journal of Sports Science.
Prof Nevill says: "Four decades ago, tennis players were quite lean and thin. But they've got more muscle now.
"If you look at Andy Murray at the age of 17, he was quite a skinny little lad.
"He's bulked up since then, and I think that's been the secret of his success over the last four to five years."
Prof Nevill says high levels of muscle mass and low levels of body fat afford competitive advantage, meaning players can generate greater power behind shots, while being speedy and agile on the court.
But he says there may be a trade-off - putting in long hours in the gym and on court can lead to injuries.
Both Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray have experienced periods of injury in recent years, although both appear on top form for this year's Wimbledon contest.
Prof Nevill says his money is on Djokovic to win.
But he adds: "Murray might get to the final again. I hope so anyway."
The researchers did not study female tennis players, but Prof Nevill suspects the game is slightly different for women.
He says: "Serena Williams is a very powerful lady, and some of the other ladies can't survive on a court with her because of the power.
"But it's a balance between skill and power, and the skill factor in ladies' tennis is probably slightly higher."
The researchers have also studied what might be the perfect physique for other sports.
And when it comes to sprinting and football, it would appear being lean wins the day.
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Around 600 out of 5,100 homes have been built on Priors Hall Park in Corby since 2010, but its developers and landowner are in administration.
One home owner said the site - once promoted in an advert voiced by broadcaster Sandi Toksvig - was an "expensive disappointment".
Administrators Deloitte confirmed a new investor was being sought.
The Priors Hall Park website promises an "attractive setting" and "superb rural walks through the rolling Northamptonshire countryside", which it re-branded as North Londonshire.
A radio advert, voiced by Ms Toksvig, described it as "a friendly place to bring up the kids".
"If you think you've grown out of London, see how you could grow into North Londonshire," it said.
Hughie Coull has lived at Priors Hall for five years. He said: "It looked nice and I thought there'd be country walks, a pub, shops and play areas for the kids but we've got nothing."
Another home owner, Julie McCallum, said: "When I look at the advert now it actually makes me laugh.
"It cost us a lot of money to move. What we thought we were buying and what we actually got were two very different things.
"It's been an expensive disappointment for us".
Corby Developments Limited and BeLa Partnership Limited called in Deloitte last October.
A spokesman for Deloitte, said: "We appreciate that some residents are frustrated by the progress of some of the amenities promised by the developers.
"We can confirm that material progress is being made, particularly in respect of the community centre and the district centre.
"House builders are continuing to build, house sales remain strong and the estates team is busy maintaining the site.
"We are now working to find a new investor to complete the development and have already had significant interest."
The man was found in northern suburb of the city, after police released a grainy CCTV image of a person of interest.
The driver fled the scene after Friday's attack on a busy shopping street in the city centre.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has called it a terrorist attack.
More than a dozen people were injured.
The country's borders have been tightened at the prime minister's request.
People filmed fleeing the scene of the lorry attack
Eyewitness: 'I heard the screams'
The lorry crashed into the front of Ahlens department store in the middle of the afternoon on Drottninggatan (Queen Street), one of the city's major pedestrian thoroughfares.
The beer company that owns the vehicle said it was hijacked outside a nearby restaurant, where it was making a delivery.
Police shared the image of the man, dressed in a hooded jacket, early on Friday evening.
They confirmed a man resembling him was arrested in the Marsta area.
"We have investigated several people this evening, who we found interesting in one way or another, and recently we arrested someone we are very interested in," said police investigator Jan Evensson, referring to the Marsta arrest.
Central Stockholm was in lockdown after the incident.
In the immediate aftermath, shoppers took refuge in nearby buildings for hours, waiting for the area to be secured.
The central station, which is near the Ahlens store, was evacuated.
The metro, central roads and various bus lines were also shut.
City authorities made several spaces, including a number of schools, available as temporary accommodation for those who could not get home because of transport disruptions.
Eyewitnesses described horrifying scenes outside the store, as bodies and injured people lay on the ground.
In a speech on Friday night, Prime Minister Lofven said Swedish values of democracy and freedom would not be "undermined by hatred".
Ms Dugdale is battling Ken Macintosh for the top Scottish Labour job.
She told the BBC that she and Mr Corbyn belonged to a party that was a "big family in a broad movement".
However, in a Guardian newspaper interview she had questioned the MP's chances of becoming prime minister.
The 33-year-old made her position clear by saying: "I think that I and Jeremy Corbyn share the same views when it comes to trying to build a fairer more equal economy, in trying to build a welfare state in a system that is fair and protects people who need our help."
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Ms Dugdale recognised that Mr Corbyn - who is hoping to beat rival MPs Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall and Andy Burnham - had a "tremendous amount of support".
She said he was offering "straight-talking, honest politics".
During her interview with BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme, Ms Dugdale defended the newspaper piece in which she said she would need to be convinced that Mr Corbyn, who has defied the party whip 500 times, could be prime minister.
The MSP said all she had done was "ask the question", adding that it was "hardly the most critical thing anybody has said about his campaign".
Ms Dugdale said she was looking forward to meeting Mr Corbyn later in the week when he will visit Scotland as part of his leadership push.
The politician, who became an MSP in 2011, believed she was the right person to lead the party north of the border.
She said: "Scotland has an exciting future and the Labour Party has got a big part to play in that and I am going to earn the right to be heard for our party going forward and try and bring people back by setting out our values."
Ms Dugdale said she was not a tribal politician and had worked with the SNP in the past.
The winner of the Scottish Labour leadership election will be announced at an event in Stirling on Saturday.
He was released from Long Lartin prison, in Worcestershire. He has spent most of the last 10 years in custody.
A UK court approved his appeal against deportation after deciding witness evidence obtained by torture might be used at trial in Jordan.
The government believes the wrong legal test was applied and is to appeal.
"We had received a number of assurances from the Jordanian government - they had even changed their constitution," a spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron said.
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Abu Qatada has lived in the UK for almost 20 years - and he might be here a few more yet because the legal roadblock on deportation is very difficult to remove.
Judges say there is a real risk that the preacher's retrial in Jordan would be unfair because it would include incriminating statements made by men who were tortured by the secret police.
They want to see either an unambiguous change to Jordan's criminal court code to exclude such material, or a ruling by its higher courts to the same effect.
So there is little prospect of Abu Qatada being deported unless the home secretary can convince Jordan to change or convince the UK's Court of Appeal that Siac got the law wrong.
If either of those routes were successful - and that's a very big "if" - it wouldn't end there. The cleric could ask the European Court of Human Rights to examine what Jordan is saying - something that could take years.
"We believe that we have got the right assurances from the Jordanian government."
He added: "The Home Office will be ensuring that we take all the steps necessary to ensure that Qatada does not present a risk to national security."
Jordan's acting information minister Nayef al-Fayez told the BBC his government shared UK authorities' disappointment at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) ruling on Monday.
When Abu Qatada arrived back at his home in London, around lunchtime on Tuesday, a small group of protesters - holding a "get rid of Abu Qatada placard" - gathered outside and chanted, "Out, out, out."
Earlier this year, judges at the European Court in Strasbourg ruled the cleric - whose real name is Omar Othman - would not face ill-treatment if returned to Jordan, citing assurances outlined in a UK-Jordan agreement.
Crucially, however, the judge did not believe he would get a fair trial because a Jordanian court could use evidence against Abu Qatada that had been obtained from the torture of others.
On Monday, despite the UK obtaining additional assurances from Jordan, Siac chairman Mr Justice Mitting ruled he was not satisfied Abu Qatada would be tried fairly.
Speaking to ITV's Daybreak, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said: "He should not be in this country, he is a dangerous person. He wanted to inflict harm on our country and this coalition governs lived in the UK for almost 20 years - and he might be here a few more yet because the legal roadblock on deportation is very difficult to remove.
Judges say there is a real risk that the preacher's retrial in Jordan would be unfair because it would include incriminating statements made by men who were tortured by the secret police.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said people would be "horrified that Abu Qatada is now out on Britain's streets rather than on a plane", and that government efforts to secure his deportation had "clearly failed".
"Home Office ministers should be setting off to Jordan straight away to discuss what additional action would get this sorted out. The Jordanian government have already been very helpful so ministers should act fast," she said.
David Anderson QC, the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, told the BBC: "The key to this case really lies in Jordan.
"What the judge said, what the court said in terms, was that a simple amendment to the Jordanian criminal code so as to remove an ambiguity that is in it at the moment ought to suffice to make deportation possible," he told Radio 4's Today programme.
Home affairs committee chairman Keith Vaz said the visit to the UK of the king of Jordan later this month gave the government "an opportunity to try and persuade him to go that little bit further in terms of the way the criminal code of Jordan operates".
The case had cost taxpayers £1m, he said.
Human rights lawyer Julian Knowles said the case would bring "another year's worth of UK litigation at least".
"And then if Abu Qatada is the loser at the end of the domestic phase, he can then go back to the European Court," he said.
Speaking in the Commons after Abu Qatada's release, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said he was "frustrated" by international court rulings that had led to Monday's decision.
"I do not believe it was ever the intention of those who created the human rights framework that we are currently subject to, that people who have an avowed intent to damage this country should be able to use human rights laws to prevent their deportation back to their country of origin," he added.
On the question of why Abu Qatada had never been prosecuted in the UK, Lib Dem peer Lord Macdonald - director of public prosecutions from 2003 to 2008 - said he had never been shown any evidence to support a criminal prosecution.
"If there isn't any evidence in existence at the moment, it's a little difficult to see how now, 10 years later, anyone is going to be able to acquire any," he told Radio 4's The World At One.
The bail conditions imposed by Mr Justice Mitting on Abu Qatada include being allowed out of his house only between 08:00 and 16:00, having to wear an electronic tag, and being restricted in whom he meets.
Abu Qatada faces a retrial in Jordan for allegedly conspiring to cause explosions on Western and Israeli targets in 1998 and 1999. He was found guilty of terrorism offences in his absence in Jordan in 1999.
The Palestinian-born Jordanian has been described as the spiritual leader of the mujahideen. Security chiefs believe he played a key ideological role in spreading support for suicide bombings.
"We also have other things as well and will use them if necessary," the Russian president said.
Mr Putin was speaking a day after the UN Security Council endorsed a peace plan for the war-torn nation, including calls for a ceasefire.
The Syrian war, heading into its fifth year, has killed more than 250,000 people and displaced millions more.
The resolution, passed unanimously by the UN Security Council, sets out a timetable for formal talks and a unity government within six months,
However, the resolution makes no mention of the future role of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Western countries have called for his departure, but Russia and China say he should not be required to leave power as a precondition for peace talks.
Where key countries stand
Russia - a key ally of the Syrian president - has previously blocked resolutions critical of Mr Assad at the UN Security Council and has continued to supply weapons to the Syrian military despite international criticism.
In September Russian forces began launching air strikes against rebels, saying the so-called Islamic State (IS) and "all terrorists" were targets. However, Western-backed groups were reported to have been hit.
The resolution passed at the UN in New York on Friday foresees talks between the Syrian government and opposition in early January.
The plan sets out a timetable for UN-supervised elections within 18 months, and stresses that the Syrian people will decide the future of their country.
The plan also calls for a ceasefire, but there is also disagreement over which armed groups should be designated as terrorists and consequently excluded from any talks or ceasefire.
Actions against groups considered terrorist organisations would not be affected, allowing Russian, French and US air strikes against Islamic State to continue.
The agreement demands that all parties cease attacks against civilians.
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Evans, the British number two, was beaten 6-2 6-3 by South Africa's seventh seed Kevin Anderson.
British number three Ward later went down 7-5 6-3 to Bulgarian fourth seed Grigor Dimitrov.
Andy Murray begins his title defence against Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu on Wednesday.
Evans, who beat Austria's world number 51 Jurgen Melzer in the first round on Monday, struggled to make an impact against the big serving of 6ft 8in Anderson and went out in 65 minutes.
An early break of serve put the South African in charge and when he moved 4-2 ahead in the second set, there was no way back for the Briton.
"I didn't get a chance to play tennis, really," said world number 139 Evans, who is targeting a good performance at Eastbourne next week to improve his ranking.
"Next week is a pretty big week. Smaller draw, more ranking points. That's the week you're going to pick up your points."
Evans, 24, added that he was confident he could see off the potential threat of Aljaz Bedene, the Slovenian-born player who hopes to qualify for Britain next year, to his Davis Cup place.
Evans is currently ranked seven places below Bedene, but believes he is "a better player" than the London-based 24-year-old.
"I have nothing against him. I just wouldn't do it personally," Evans added. "He's a nice guy. He's played Davis Cup for a different country. I just don't think it would be right if he played Davis Cup for our country."
Ward set up a meeting with Dimitrov after a 7-5 6-4 win against Slovenia's Blaz Rola on Monday.
The 27-year-old produced a gallant display against the world number 13 but was undone after losing his serve at crucial moments in each set.
Unseeded Australian Marinko Matosevic caused an upset as he beat ninth seed Marin Cilic, the 2012 champion and 2013 runner-up, 6-4 6-4.
Matosevic was asked afterwards what he thought about Murray's decision to work with Amelie Mauresmo, and said: "For me, I couldn't do it since I don't think that highly of the women's game. But his mum coached him, and she did a great job with him."
Mauresmo arrived at Queen's Club on Tuesday ahead of starting work as the new coach of Wimbledon champion Murray.
The 34-year-old Frenchwoman's appointment, initially for the grass-court season, was announced on Sunday.
British number one Murray practised at Queen's on Tuesday morning with Bedene. Dani Vallverdu, Murray's long-time assistant coach, oversaw the session along with fitness trainer Matt Little.
Mohammed Mayow, 23, of Dorest Avenue, Hayes, west London, was jailed for five years and two months on Friday after previously admitting distributing a terrorist publication.
Mohanned Jasim, 21, of Montague Street, Southall, was jailed for two years.
He had pleaded guilty to publishing a statement to encourage others to commit an act of terrorism.
Det Supt Ian Hunter, from the South East Counter Terrorism Unit of Thames Valley Police, said: "These arrests were a direct result of good work by Kent Police officers at the Port of Dover who intervened to stop them leaving the country.
"Whilst we cannot be certain exactly where Mayow and Jasim were heading or what they intended to do, the subsequent investigation enabled these offences to be identified and the sentences reflect the seriousness of sharing extremist material."
The pair were arrested by Kent Police at Dover's Eastern Docks on 15 November 2015, just two days after the terrorist attacks in Paris which left 129 people dead.
Hillingdon Council detained Steven Neary, of Uxbridge, for almost a year after he was taken into a "positive behaviour unit" in December 2009.
Mr Neary's father Mark, 52, said he felt relieved after the ruling, which he described as "fantastic".
The council said it had apologised to the family for letting them down.
The judge, Mr Justice Peter Jackson, concluded that the council's use of a "deprivation of liberty" order unlawfully deprived Mr Neary of his freedom.
Mark Neary told the Court of Protection that he viewed the care by the council as a temporary move and expected his son to return home by January 2010.
But the council told the court that staff had concerns about his son's "challenging" behaviour and weight, and argued that the care was intended to be for a longer period.
Mr Neary, a counsellor, said: "Hopefully people will read this judgment and be prepared to fight for the rights of their kids.
"I knew Steven should be at home because I know Steven.
"I was always outnumbered. I would go to case conferences but they were just about me agreeing to whatever they (council staff) had decided. I would come out of these meetings in despair.
"I don't think Steven really understands what it has all been about. For him he just likes seeing pictures of himself on television and the internet."
Earlier Mr Neary said there had always been problems with his son's behaviour around Christmas time because "his routine gets broken".
Mr Neary said he had been unwell and intended Steven to go to his "normal respite place" for three days but the council moved him to the behaviour unit.
He said the council's decision to move him and the deprivation of liberty orders had left him feeling "helpless".
He said: "I felt I had let him down, lost my own son.
"Steven still needs a care package from the council so I have to consider how we can rebuild the relationship."
Mr Justice Peter Jackson said: "Hillingdon had no lawful basis for keeping Steven away from his family between 5 January and 23 December 2010.
"It acted as if it had the right to make decisions about Steven.
"It tried to wear down (Mark) Neary's resistance, stretching its relationship with him to almost breaking point.
But the judge added: "Anyone who believes that the work is simple and the right decision's always obvious is mistaken.
"In the vast majority of cases, it is carried out without fuss, fanfare or public congratulation, but that can be forgotten when attention understandably turns to cases where things have gone wrong.
Following the ruling Linda Sanders, director of social care at Hillingdon Council, said: "I would like to apologise to Steven and his father.
"It is clear that there have been times when we have let both of them down.
"Cases such as Steven's are hugely complex and we always have to carefully balance what we think is right for an individual with the wider issues such as the safety of the public.
"As the judge has said in his findings, at all times my staff were genuinely committed to ensuring that we did the right thing for Steven and had his best interests at heart.
"We recognise that we need to improve our processes and that we should have kept Steven's father more involved during the time that we cared for Steven."
She said the "failings were collective errors of judgment" and the local authority was reviewing its training for staff regarding the Mental Capacity Act and deprivation of liberty safeguards.
"Steven has now been at home for over six months and we will do all we can to support him and his father so they can live a safe and happy life, which has always been our intention," she said.
Steven Neary has been staying with his father since he left a local authority unit under an interim court order that allowed him to return home in December 2010.
Two fragments appear to show burn marks, which if confirmed would be the first time such marks have been found.
MH370, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, had 239 people on board when it vanished in March 2014.
The flight is presumed to have crashed into the southern Indian Ocean after veering off course.
The findings were made by debris hunter Blaine Gibson, who has previously found other parts of the plane.
The most significant finding, according to Mr Gibson, is of the two alleged burnt pieces, recovered near Sainte Luce, in south-eastern Madagascar.
It is unclear, however, if the apparent burn marks were caused by fire prior to the crash or as a result of burning afterwards, he said.
Another small piece was found in the same area and two others in the north-eastern beaches of Antsiraka and Riake, where debris had already been found.
All five fragments have the "honeycomb" material found in other MH370 debris.
It's far too early to say whether Blaine Gibson's latest finds are significant or not.
They may not be from MH370. Even if they are, the apparent fire damage may have happened long after the aircraft came down - the debris could have been used on a beach bonfire.
But if the experts do eventually conclude that some of the debris comes from the plane and that there was a fire on board, they'll be our best clue yet to the fate of the flight.
An on-board fire makes the pilot suicide theory less likely, although not impossible of course.
Everyone dearly wants the underwater search to be successful. But if it's not - and they plan to stop looking in December - these small pieces of the aircraft washing up on remote beaches will be the only chance experts have of working out what happened.
Yet the only person looking for them is a self-funded, amateur American enthusiast.
That's why families of those on board tell me they want more effort put into searching beaches thousands of miles from where it's thought the aircraft came down.
The new discoveries were all sent to investigators at the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), Mr Gibson said.
A number of other pieces of debris, some confirmed to have come from MH370, have been found in countries near Madagascar.
They include a section of the wing called a flaperon, found on Reunion Island, and a horizontal stabilizer from the tail section and a stabilizer panel with a "No Step" stencil discovered in Mozambique.
Mr Gibson, a lawyer from Seattle, has funded his own search for debris in east Africa.
Australia has been leading the search for the missing aircraft, using underwater drones and sonar equipment deployed from specialist ships.
The search, also involving Malaysia and China, has led to more than 105,000 sq km (40,500 sq miles) of the 120,000 sq km search zone being scoured so far.
But countries have agreed that in the absence of "credible new information" the search is expected to end later this year.
Official records suggest David Morris, MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale in Lancashire, claimed mileage 25 times while travelling on foreign trips.
Twelve of those claims relate to either the day he left the UK or arrived back.
Mr Morris said the information the records are based on is inaccurate. The dates on the system are those "the MPs give us," the expenses watchdog said.
The Mail on Sunday alleged Mr Morris claimed £1,400 in expenses over four years while on "fact finding" trips abroad.
Mr Morris said he was in the country on 12 of the 25 occasions referred to by the newspaper and called for an overhaul of the "antiquated" MPs' expenses system.
MPs' declarations of interests show that in April, Mr Morris visited the United Arab Emirates as part of a delegation to strengthen business links, BBC research found.
But on the dates he was there, four expense claims were submitted to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) for using his own car in the UK - one in his constituency and three for travel between London and Lancashire, totalling £390.
In February, while Mr Morris was in the Falkland Islands, there were three claims for UK mileage at £151.
Mr Morris issued a statement on Tuesday saying half the allegations were either before he was flying out of the country or just after he had returned to the UK.
He blamed the expenses watchdog's computer system for other claims, saying a five were a result of it "automatically" selecting "the wrong date".
Mr Morris said three claims "are in dispute" but that these are also down to computer error and "will be investigated with Ipsa."
"I think this exercise highlights the need for a new computer system for MPs' expenses as it appears that the current system is antiquated, resulting in errors that have the potential to do great harm to MPs' reputations", he said.
An Ipsa spokesman said: "We cannot comment on individual cases but the dates we have on our system are the dates the MPs give us."
Mr Morris said solicitors are advising him on "potential legal action against the Mail on Sunday".
The Connacht men hustled and harried the Dubs but own goals from Kevin McLoughlin and Colm Boyle saw them trail 2-4 to 0-5 at the break.
Mayo hit five straight points on the restart to level although Dublin moved three clear late on.
The gap was reduced to one before O'Connor's crucial equaliser.
Mayo started as underdogs although they made an impressive start in their bid to win the Sam Maguire Cup for the first time in 65 years.
Scores from Tom Parsons and O'Connor gave Mayo an early lead but they were soon behind when McLoughlin diverted Bernard Brogan's shot into his own net.
O'Connor levelled but misfortune struck again for Mayo with Boyle's leg propelling the ball into the net as it slipped from the hands of Dublin forward Dean Rock.
It left the Dubs 2-0 to 0-3 ahead after 23 minutes although they lost James McCarthy to a black card two minutes later - he was replaced by Paddy Andrews.
Mayo stayed in touch until Andrews slotted over two points just before the interval to give Dublin a commanding half-time advantage.
That advantage was quickly wiped out early in second half thanks to points from Andy Moran and Paddy Durcin before three O'Connor scores.
The game became error-strewn as the rain fell although there was a dramatic finish at headquarters.
John Small put Dublin in front with four minutes and Jim Gavin's side looked set for victory when it was followed by Dean Rock and Diarmuid Connolly points.
Mayo were three down but their cause was helped by having seven minutes of added time to pull off a late comeback.
O'Connor popped over a free before Donal Vaughan left just one point between the sides.
With just seconds remaining O'Connor cut inside and calmly slotted over to ensure a replay on Saturday, 1 October.
Kerry had earlier defeated Galway 3-7 to 0-9 to win a third successive All-Ireland minor title.
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Three reservoirs which supply the largest city, La Paz, are almost dry, and water rationing is in effect until further notice.
More than 125,000 families are thought to be affected, with some communities only receiving water every third day.
President Evo Morales declared a national state of emergency on Monday.
The supply is so limited that many people only have enough to drink, and cannot bathe or wash clothing.
The recently-created "water cabinet" in the country is planning to distribute water from 100 tankers in La Paz, where long queues for water have formed each day.
"We have gone more than three weeks without a water supply," Rocio Lazarte, a school director, said. "All we had for the children was the water from the hillside."
The water cabinet has also asked foreign companies for help with technical advice, the La Razon newspaper reported.
It quoted the country's defence minister, Reymi Ferreira, as saying a Korean and several European companies were providing help.
He told the newspaper that long-term projects such as the provision of wells and aqueducts, as well as diverting rivers, were being considered, but such ideas would take up to a year to implement.
President Morales has blamed the crisis on global warming, saying he had seen the dry lakes from which the country draws its water first-hand from a helicopter.
There are five league games remaining and although retaining the Premiership title cannot be taken for granted, Celtic's eight-point lead over Aberdeen ought to be enough to see them over the line.
The feeling within the club is that securing a fifth consecutive championship is the priority and that Deila should be afforded some respect, but the announcement the Norwegian is leaving in the summer is a reflection of the strength of feeling amongst the supporters.
The temptation, particularly after a painful loss to Rangers in the Scottish Cup on Sunday, is to crave sweeping changes.
Yet Celtic are well-run financially, stable, and focused on making the most out of their resources. Where the approach has fallen short in recent times is in its implementation.
When Deila was appointed two years ago, his background was pored over. There was promise in the notion of a coach who focused on players' individual development and a manager whose Stromsgodset side upset the odds in winning the Norwegian title playing a high-tempo, high-pressing, modern brand of football.
For both Deila and Celtic, the question is why that work in Norway was not reflected in the Celtic teams he presided over. He might come to reflect that he was not assertive or authoritative enough to impose his ideas fully.
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An element of compromise is necessary in management, but too much becomes a weakness. Deila had a reputation for being focused on fitness and a high energy approach; his Celtic teams did not match that promise. Deila never seemed to fill the role with his own personality or strength of will, instead it seemed to constrict him.
Kris Commons was a case in point. It was clear the midfielder, for all his creative and influential gifts, did not fit into Deila's preferred style. A stronger manager would have dispensed with the player, and so enforced his authority. Instead, Commons was offered a new deal by the club.
Scott Brown, too, was pictured in a newspaper slumped on the pavement during a night out, eating fast food, but Deila took the compromise stance and backed the player, who is club captain, long-serving and hugely influential.
One of those decisions might be considered shrewdly pragmatic, but too many becomes a diminishment of your standards. It is then a short journey to incidents like Commons shouting at the management team after being substituted, and Leigh Griffiths - a player who improved markedly under the Norwegian - hollering at Deila as he ran off at half-time during the semi-final defeat by Rangers at Hampden.
Having started to compromise his tactical approach, in part because the squad did not provide enough players with the right attributes to play that way, Deila should have learned to go further and become more pragmatic at times. Yet he remained committed to an attacking outlook, one that cost him regularly in Europe. He seemed a manager at odds with himself.
The theory behind Celtic's football strategy is sound. Sign players of potential, develop them alongside a core of tried and trusted performers, and sell them for a profit while the team continues to achieve its goals. It worked when the likes of Fraser Forster, Victor Wanyama and Virgil van Dijk were being sold for significant profits.
Yet Celtic have at times trawled the market, and signed too many players who did not develop sufficiently. Some, like Stefan Scepovic (£2.3m), Teemu Pukki (£3m), Derk Boerrigter (£3m) and Amido Balde (£1.5m) made little or no impact on the team. There will always be an element of risk to the approach, but during Deila's reign there seemed to be a lack of focus.
Signings ranged from players on loan from Manchester City like Jason Denayer, John Guidetti and Patrick Roberts, to players from rival clubs like Scott Allan, Stuart Armstrong, Gary Mackay-Steven, Nadir Ciftci and Ryan Christie, to wildcards like Carlton Cole and Colin Kazim-Richards. The result has been a diminishment of the team and an imbalanced squad that requires much work. Allan, for instance, is a player with fine potential, but he is wasted on the periphery.
Recruitment at Celtic has been a collaborative effort, between the manager, the football development manager John Park and the chief executive Peter Lawwell.
That approach can work, since the 'groupthink' should challenge all decisions made and ensure that all recruitment choices are fully sourced and stress-tested, but the process has seemed to lose its way during Deila's tenure.
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The club does not have reserves of cash to radically alter its approach, unless the major shareholder Dermot Desmond is willing to underwrite a bolder strategy.
Otherwise, Celtic need to review and refine, but effectively implement their philosophy better, under a manager better able to command and inspire the dressing room and impose his ideas.
Davie Moyes is a leading candidate - albeit the same applies to other clubs with vacancies, such as Aston Villa - while the likes of Roy Keane and Michael O'Neill will come under consideration.
A return for Neil Lennon is highly unlikely, but the same attributes will be sought this summer as two years ago, since player development, a strong philosophy and a firm grasp of man-management will all be required.
Deila promised those skills, but was unable to fully deliver them. He should be better for the experience, and Celtic need to learn, too.
The exams regulator said an increase in 15-year-olds sitting exams early was mainly to blame.
The A* to C pass rate fell to 62.8% after it had remained stable at 66.6% for three years.
The percentage of the highest A* to A grades also dipped to 17.9%, down from 19.4% in 2016.
Qualifications Wales had warned that an increase in early entries in some subjects was likely to mean lower results.
The Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ), which collates exam data for Wales, England and Northern Ireland, said changes in entry patterns - particularly for 15-year-olds - and the high proportion of pupils who took the two new mathematics GCSEs early in November, had a substantial impact on the results.
It said more students had "banked" a result and not returned to sit the exam again this summer - many whom have achieved a Grade C or above that would otherwise appear in these latest results.
As a consequence, it warned that reliable conclusions could not be drawn from direct comparisons between results this summer and the previous one, or between summer results across the UK.
Education Secretary Kirsty Williams said Wales has seen "some of the biggest changes in qualifications in decades" which had been "really challenging for pupils and teachers".
She said this was reflected in this year's overall GCSE A* to C grade pass rate.
Ms Williams said she was "concerned" about the high number of pupils being entered early for their exams and that the current situation was "unsustainable".
"We have signalled to schools that early entry should only be considered if it is in the interest of individual children, but what we've seen is entire cohorts of children being entered," she said.
Ms Williams added the "perverse incentives" that drive some schools to enter children early "should be taken out of the system".
The overall A* to G pass rate was also down from 98.7% to 96.9%, but the percentage of the highest A* grades remained at 6.1%.
While the fall in grades has been linked to the increase in 15-year-olds sitting exams early, the performance of 16-year-olds also fell by 2.8% for A* to C grades.
This summer's 16-year-olds were the first to complete courses in six reformed GCSE examinations.
But Qualifications Wales said their performance in these exams had either improved or remained stable.
While Welsh pupils were still graded A* to G, students in England received new numerical grades for some subjects.
The new GCSEs are in English language, English literature, Welsh language, Welsh literature, mathematics: numeracy and mathematics, and the regulator said it was confident standards had been maintained.
Mathematics: numeracy was first examined in November and, by collating data for the two mathematics GCSEs from November and this summer, the A* to C pass rate for 16-year-olds was 60% in GCSE mathematics and 58.5% in mathematics: numeracy.
The A* to C pass rate for GCSE mathematics was down on the previous year's figure of 65.6%.
In English language, the JCQ said the lower overall results for English language were explained by the lower outcomes of the large number of 15-year-olds entered for the exam.
About 65% of all Year 10 students were entered for the exam this summer, but the results for 16-year-olds saw an improvement according to the exams board.
There was also an increase in early entries for GCSE Welsh language and results have remained stable for 16-year-olds. Welsh literature saw a small improvement in performance but a substantial fall in entries.
There was also a substantial 44% fall in entries for English literature, but an improvement in results.
The fall in the number of students taking modern languages continued, with a 10.9% drop in entries for French and a 30.8% reduction in German, while Spanish saw a small increase.
The JCQ said French results were considerably lower at the top grades, while German results were up.
It also highlighted a trend towards reduced entries in a range of "optional" subjects.
Meanwhile, girls continued to outperform boys with 67.2% of girls' grades at A* to C compared with 58.2% for boys.
The gap grew this year for the A* grade, with an increase in the percentage of the highest grade for girls to 7.5% while the figure for boys was 4.7%.
Speaking at Cefn Saeson school in Neath, Kirsty Williams said: "We can be proud of the way our pupils and teachers have handled the introduction of these new qualifications that are playing a vital role in raising standards."
Ms Williams also pointed out that for 16-year-olds only, the percentage achieving A* to C was 66.8%.
But she said: "Many of these pupils, who are taking exams before they have completed their two years of GCSE study, have not had the opportunity to reach their full potential.
"This is putting unnecessary pressure on pupils, teachers and also puts an extra strain on school budgets.
"I will respond to Qualifications Wales' rapid review of this issue when I receive it in October, but the current situation is unsustainable and all options are on the table."
Darren Millar AM, the Welsh Conservatives' shadow education secretary, said there had been a "troubling decline" in attainment.
He also called on Ms Williams to rethink her reform of the schools curriculum.
"The drop in attainment of grades A* to C and plummet in uptake of modern foreign languages are particularly disturbing, and do not bode well for Wales' future economic prospects," Mr Millar said.
Plaid Cymru's shadow cabinet secretary for education, Llyr Gruffydd, said: "We know that the new system will take some time to bed down and this will show in the results.
"The Welsh Government now needs to consider these results and what they mean for students who are sitting GCSEs next year and the year after."
There were a total of 334,100 entries for the exams, up from 303,620 last summer.
Emyr George, from Qualifications Wales, said the increase in exam entries was mainly driven by the extra maths GCSE and the increase in Year 10 entries in some subjects.
He said there had been an increase of about 40% in Year 10s awarded grades this summer.
It appears to be the main reason why the overall number of entries for English language this summer is about 24,000 higher than last year at 59,050.
In England, English and maths will be graded numerically this year for the first time from nine at the top end of the scale down to one.
The changes make it more difficult to compare the overall performance of pupils in different parts of the UK.
Scotland has a separate system while Northern Ireland is also keeping the A* to G grading, although some pupils have been taking numerically graded exams.
But the exams boards have published all-UK data which gives cumulative figures for those who achieved A* to C (4 to 9 in England) and A*to A (7 to 9 in England).
It shows that the overall pass rate is stable compared to last year at 98.4%, with slight decreases in the A* to A (20% down from 20.5%) and A* to C (66.3% down from 66.9%).
The regulator says the qualifications remain broadly equivalent across the nations.
Mr George said: "It's quite a significant year and one we've been preparing for to ensure that those students taking the new qualifications in Wales this year can be confident that they've not been unfairly disadvantaged in any way by being the first to tackle those qualifications."
Castle Howard's owners said the auction would help secure the "long-term future" of the estate.
Old Master paintings and 17th Century Italian furniture were among the lots available to the highest bidder.
Ferdinand Bol's Portrait of a Boy sold for £5.2m - almost twice its estimated price tag and a new record for the artist.
The Hon. Nicholas Howard said: "Over the centuries, our family has had the extraordinary good fortune to be the custodians of many great treasures.
"We very much hope that those that were sold today will bring as much joy to their new owners as they have to us and to our ancestors.
"Their sale will help us to secure the future of Castle Howard as it moves into its fourth century."
Castle Howard was designed in 1699 and was the setting for the 1981 TV series Brideshead Revisited.
The house sits in an 8,800-acre estate in the Howardian Hills, north of York. The estate has more than 200 listed buildings and monuments.
The 23-year-old finished second behind Hannah Miley in the 400m individual medley at the British Championships, but her consideration time of four mins 35.52 secs earned her selection.
"Swimming's my job and you don't expect to go along for the ride," she said.
"I need to earn my position and show everyone why I've been picked."
Willmott, from Middlesbrough, came fifth in the heats and missed out on a place in the 400m individual medley final at London 2012, but won silver in the event and the 200m butterfly at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
She told BBC Tees, "It's a huge honour to be picked for my second Olympics and now I know I'm definitely going, I'm going to put the hard work in and Rio will be here before I know it.
"Everyone is hungry to get in and do Team GB proud. The difference this time is everyone wants to swim well for GB rather than just be on the team."
Despite her main event being the 400m medley, the Teessider also won the 200m butterfly at the British Championships in Glasgow and wants to compete in that event in Rio.
Team GB have yet to formally nominate members of the 26-strong squad for specific events.
"I proved by winning the 200m butterfly that I am the fastest person in Britain at the moment on that event and it would be great for me to be picked for it and I would love to do it," Willmott continued.
"If I can do a personal best time or get as close to that as possible in the Olympics or make a final or if I can give myself the best chance of getting on the medal podium, then I'll be happy with that."
Three senior officials received life bans by the International Association of Athletics Federations ethics commission over doping cover-up claims.
Farah said of IAAF president Coe: "He's doing a great job. Obviously it's going to take time, but he's all up for it.
"You don't want to see your sport in a bad way.
"But it's getting rid of the bad ones," he added.
Former IAAF consultant Papa Massata Diack and Russian officials Valentin Balakhnichev and Alexei Melnikov received their bans for multiple breaches of anti-doping rules relating to Russian athlete Liliya Shobukhova.
The news came two days after Coe revealed that the world governing body's anti-doping budget would be doubled as part of his plan to rebuild trust in athletics.
"[Rebuilding trust] is going to take time," said 32-year-old Farah, who won 5,000m and 10,000m gold at the 2012 Olympics.
"We are working on it and that's what we've got to do. We've got to clean up.
"I don't want to see my sport in a bad shadow, but at the same time it's what it needs.
"Hopefully we can live by example. We do the best we can in our country to do what we're doing."
The latest bans come in the wake of Russia's suspension from international competition following systematic doping offences.
Former president Lamine Diack, father of Papa Massata Diack, is under investigation by French police and the ethics commission.
Nick Davies, deputy general secretary at the IAAF, announced he would step aside from his role as the director of the president's office while the ethics commission investigate allegations against him.
Coe, who succeeded Diack in August, has himself come under pressure in recent months over his former ambassadorial role with Nike.
However, Farah believes his fellow Olympic gold medallist will help athletics move forward.
Farah published a series of his own blood test results in the Sunday Times in August to prove he was himself a clean athlete and said he would prefer to focus on running rather than the debate over doping.
"I had my own reasons to publish them," said Farah, who runs in the Great Edinburgh XCountry on Saturday.
"I had nothing to hide, but at the same time I just want to be able to do what I do and that's to run, represent my country, win medals and get on the start line."
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Djokovic won the first set but Federer fought back to claim the second.
World number one, Djokovic, then kicked on to win the final two sets and claim the title, denying Federer what would have been a record eighth Wimbledon win.
Djokovic won 7-6 6-7 6-4 6-3.
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The attempt, made in strong winds, hail and snow, reached the top at 1130 BST.
Volunteers carried wheels, seats and the chassis. Other parts of the car were put into 40 bags weighing 10 pounds (4kg) each.
After being reassembled on the summit the car was again dismantled for the descent.
In 1911, a Model T was driven to the summit in a publicity stunt by a Ford selling agents in Edinburgh.
Landscape conservation charity, the John Muir Trust, which owns Britain's highest mountain, agreed to allow the replica on the peak.
Outdoor pursuits company No Fuss Events was involved in the attempt.
David Munro, of No Fuss, said 71 people had volunteered to help carry the car to and from the summit, which is 1,344 m (4,409 ft) above sea level.
African observers described Tuesday's poll as credible, while former US Secretary of State John Kerry said its integrity remained intact.
The European Union said candidates should accept losing as "natural".
Mr Odinga alleges that results of the presidential poll have been rigged to give incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta victory.
Mr Odinga's supporters celebrated in the western city of Kisumu after his National Super Alliance (Nasa) said he should be declared the winner, although unverified official results give Mr Kenyatta a strong lead.
On Wednesday, Mr Odinga said that the IT system of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) had been hacked, and Kenya was witnessing the worst "voter theft" in its history.
The IEBC said there had been an attempt to hack its system, but it had failed.
Many fear a repeat of the violence after the disputed election 10 years ago when more than 1,100 Kenyans died and 600,000 were displaced.
Scores of people took to the streets of Mathare, a slum in the capital Nairobi, shouting "Uhuru must go", AFP news agency reported.
In the Kawangware neighbourhood, police clashed with opposition supporters, Reuters news agency reported.
Mr Kerry, who is heading the Carter Center's observer team, urged all sides to wait for the final results, and for the loser to accept defeat.
He said there were "minor variances here and there", but none that had so far made him doubt the poll's integrity.
The "bottom-line" was that the IEBC had in place a "transparent process of voting, counting, reporting and securing the vote", Mr Kerry added at a press conference in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
Commonwealth observer mission head and Ghana's ex-President John Mahama said there was no reason to doubt the IEBC's ability to deliver a "credible election".
"We believe that the election has been conducted in a transparent and credible manner and that Kenyans must be commended for that election," he added.
Expressing a similar view, African Union observer mission head and South Africa's ex-President Thabo Mbeki said he was satisfied with the way the electoral commission had conducted itself.
The opposition's hacking allegations should be looked into by the IEBC, he added.
In a statement, the European Union observer mission said the opposition had made "serious allegations" and it was up to the IECB to complete the "remaining steps with maximum transparency and adherence to the law".
"Candidates and their supporters must accept that not winning is a natural part of a democratic competition," EU observer mission head Marietje Schaake said.
"Any irregularities or challenges to the process and outcomes should be addressed through petitions and the courts," she added.
The IECB said it hoped to release final results from the presidential poll on Friday.
Raw polling data published on its website says that with almost all of results in, Mr Kenyatta - who is seeking a second term - is leading with about 54.3%, to Mr Odinga's 44.8% share of the vote.
These suggest Mr Kenyatta is heading for a first-round victory.
Mr Odinga's claim of rigging led to sporadic outbreaks of violence on Wednesday, but a government spokesman denied reports that two people had been killed in election-related unrest.
About 53% of 11- to 16-year-olds have seen explicit material online, nearly all of whom (94%) had seen it by 14, the Middlesex University study says.
The research, commissioned by the NSPCC and the children's commissioner for England, said many teenagers were at risk of becoming desensitised to porn.
The government said keeping children safe online was a key priority.
The researchers questioned 1,001 children aged 11 to 16 and found 65% of 15- to 16-year-olds reported seeing pornography, as did 28% of 11- to 12-year-olds.
They also discovered that it was more likely for the youngsters to find material accidentally (28%), for example via a pop-up advertisement, than to specifically seek it out (19%).
More than three-quarters of the children surveyed - 87% of the boys and 77% of the girls - felt pornography failed to help them understand consent, but most of the boys (53%) and 39% of girls saw it as a realistic depiction of sex.
Some of the children's approach to sex was also informed by pornographic scenes, with more than a third (39%) of the 13- to 14-year-olds and a fifth of the 11- to 12-year-olds boys saying they wanted to copy the behaviour they had seen.
The report also found:
The report is published a week after expert witnesses told the Women and Equalities Committee that girls were wearing shorts under their school skirts to avoid sexual harassment and warned that online pornography was giving children unacceptable messages about sex and intimacy.
One 11-year-old girl told researchers: "I didn't like it because it came on by accident and I don't want my parents to find out and the man looked like he was hurting her. He was holding her down and she was screaming and swearing."
A 13-year-old boy said: "One of my friends has started treating women like he sees on the videos - not major - just a slap here or there."
"It can make a boy not look for love, just look for sex, and it can pressure us girls to act and look and behave in a certain way before we might be ready for it," said one 13-year-old girl.
Another 13-year-old girl said: "A few of my friends have used it for guidance about sex and are getting the wrong image of relationships."
Dr Elena Martellozzo, who co-led the research, said: "Although many children did not report seeing online pornography, it is worrying that some children came across it accidentally and could be sent it without seeking it.
"If boys believe that online pornography provides a realistic view of sexual relationships, then this may lead to inappropriate expectations of girls and women.
"Girls too may feel pressured to live up to these unrealistic, and perhaps non-consensual, interpretations of sex.
"There is a huge task ahead for parents, teachers and policymakers.
"We found that children and young people need safe spaces where they can freely discuss the full range of issues related to sex, relationships and the accessibility of online porn in the digital age."
Anne Longfield, Children's Commissioner for England, said it was worrying that many children were exposed to pornography.
"Only now are we beginning to understand its impact on 'smartphone kids' - the first generation to have been raised with technology that's taken the internet from the front room, where parents can monitor use, to their bedrooms or the playground, where they can't," she said.
"We know from the research that very many children are shocked, confused or disgusted by what they see, and it is our duty to help them to question, challenge and make sense of it."
NSPCC chief executive Peter Wanless said: "A generation of children are in danger of being stripped of their childhoods at a young age by stumbling across extreme and violent porn online.
"Industry and government need to take more responsibility to ensure that young people are protected.
"Some companies have taken the initiative when it comes to online safety, and we will continue to put pressure on those that have not yet done so.
"Age-appropriate sex and relationship education in schools, dealing with issues such as online pornography and children sending indecent images, are crucial."
A Department for Culture, Media and Sport spokeswoman said: "Keeping children safe online is one of government's key priorities.
"Just as we do offline, we want to make sure children are prevented from accessing pornographic content online, which should only be viewed by adults.
"In the forthcoming Digital Economy Bill, we will bring in legislation that will require companies providing pornographic material online to make sure they have a robust age-verification system in place, so that those accessing their websites are over 18."
The IMF will start talks with Pakistani officials in Washington on Monday to assess how best to give help.
Tens of thousands more Pakistanis have been fleeing the floods, with the south now bearing the brunt.
Overall, about 1,600 people have been killed and 20 million affected.
Masood Ahmed, director of the Middle East and Central Asia department of the IMF, said in a statement: "The floods which have hit Pakistan in recent weeks and brought suffering to millions of people will also pose a massive economic challenge to the people and government of Pakistan.
"The scale of the tragedy means that the country's budget and macroeconomic prospects, which are being supported by an IMF-financed programme, will also need to be reviewed."
Mr Ahmed said that the IMF stood by Pakistan "at this difficult time".
The IMF agreed a rescue package with Pakistan two years ago as the country was then weighed down by soaring inflation, shrinking reserves and fighting militancy.
The Pakistan government has said that the cost of rebuilding after the floods could be as high as $15bn (£10bn).
The BBC's Mike Wooldridge in Islamabad says there are concerns about higher inflation and lower growth, along with higher food prices caused by disruption to supply routes.
He says the extensive damage to the agricultural industry as a whole is another heavy blow because this is such an important part of the economy.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands more Pakistanis are being displaced in the southern province of Sindh, which is now being described as the country's worst hit province.
The BBC's Jill McGivering, who has in Sukkur in Sindh, says families are visible everywhere - on riverbanks, open ground and along the roadside.
About one-tenth of the homeless have places in relief camps, the rest are trying to survive alone, without shelter or any assurance of food, she says. Aid is being provided but it is limited and in enormous demand.
Dozens more villages have been inundated and although authorities expect flood waters to drain into the Arabian Sea over the next few days, evacuees who return may find their homes and livelihoods have been washed away.
The UN says it has now raised about 70% of the $460m it called for in its emergency appeal, as donors pledged more money.
Pakistan has also accepted $5m (£3.2m) in aid from its rival and neighbour India.
The floods began last month in Pakistan's north-west after heavy monsoon rains and have since swept south, swamping thousands of towns and villages in Punjab and Sindh provinces.
The UN said on Friday that more helicopters were urgently needed to reach communities cut off by the water.
Experts warn of a second wave of deaths from water-borne diseases such as cholera unless flood victims have access to supplies of fresh drinking water.
If you would like to make a donation to help people affected by the floods in Pakistan, you can do so through the UK's Disasters Emergency Committee at www.dec.org.uk or by telephone on 0370 60 60 900.
Richard Whittam QC, prosecuting, told the Old Bailey jury that on 16 June the two extremes of humanity - Mair's hatred and the goodness of Mrs Cox and those who rushed, in vain, to help her - had come face to face.
Mair was born in Scotland in 1963 to parents who had married after he was conceived.
When he was still a small boy, the family moved to a semi-detached house in Birstall, West Yorkshire, where he still lived at the time of the murder.
He remained at the property, living first with his maternal grandparents, then, after his grandmother died, in 1996, alone.
He attended a local college as a mature student and spent time as a volunteer gardener after attending a centre for adults with mental health problems.
In a local newspaper interview on the topic, Mair said: "Many people who suffer from mental illness are socially isolated and disconnected from society, feelings of worthlessness are also common, mainly caused by long-term unemployment.
"Getting out of the house and meeting new people is a good thing, but more important in my view is doing physically demanding and useful labour."
In the days before Mrs Cox's murder, Mair would visit his local library and use the internet to work out how he was going to kill her.
His chosen weapons were a knife and a small rifle usually used for pest control on farms.
Mair did not have the permission required to possess the rifle. The police say it was stolen in Keighley last year. They are still investigating whether Mair was involved or got it from someone else - and who modified it to make it more likely to kill a human.
But the jury was told he had watched a number of American videos showing men firing a similar sawn-off rifle.
He also looked at web pages about members of the Ku Klux Klan and people murdered in the US because of their civil rights work.
He worked his way through a list of political assassinations, including that of John F Kennedy and the 1990 IRA killing of Conservative MP Ian Gow.
He read up on matricide, the crime of killing one's mother, political prisoners, "lying in state", coffins and arrangements for a pauper's funeral.
And then he asked one of the members of staff about Mrs Cox's constituency surgeries at the library.
No need to make an appointment, just turn up, the librarian said, pointing Mair towards a poster displaying the details.
On 16 June, Mair left home wearing a white baseball cap and carrying a grey canvas shopping bag.
On the street CCTV cameras, he looked like any another middle-aged shopper.
He stood around near the library on Market Street, eating a Cadbury's chocolate flake.
He was carrying a leaflet from the campaign to remain in the EU.
The referendum was seven days away.
Mrs Cox had been doing constituency work all day.
Shortly before 13:00, she and two members of her constituency team drove up to the library to begin setting up for an hour of meeting the public to help solve their problems.
As the MP emerged from the car, Mair fired his gun.
He shouted: "Britain first, this is for Britain.
"Britain will always come first.
"We are British independence.
"Make Britain independent."
Mrs Cox, thrown to the ground by the force of the attack, shouted to her assistants: "Get away, you two.
"Let him hurt me.
"Don't let him hurt you."
Her words drew Mair back in, and he attacked her with the knife.
Bystander Bernard Carter Kenny, 78, ran to intervene.
Mair stabbed him, and the pensioner collapsed in the entrance of a sandwich shop.
Mair shot again at Mrs Cox.
Rashid Hussain, a taxi driver, screamed at Mair to leave her alone.
Mair threatened him and again shouted: "Britain first."
David Honeybell, who had been waiting at the library to meet Mrs Cox, saw Mair stab and shoot the MP.
"I went back in the library and said, 'Call the police,'" he tells BBC News.
"He just turned away, walked down the street as if nothing had happened, just as if he had be going round for an afternoon stroll."
Outside the library, paramedics and a doctor desperately tried to save Mrs Cox.
They performed an emergency thoracotomy - an extreme procedure to open the chest as part of resuscitation.
Meanwhile, Mair strolled on.
Another witness followed from a safe distance and directed the police to the killer.
Officers rugby-tackled him, and, calmly, he confirmed he had weapons in the bag.
When detectives searched Mair's home, they found it as methodically organised as his attack - but also a library of extreme nationalist and racist material.
An ornamental Nazi eagle had pride of place on top of a bookshelf packed with far-right literature.
In drawers, there were books about the SS and pamphlets about white supremacy.
He had a vast collection of literature from the National Alliance, an American neo-Nazi group.
All of this came as a shock to his next-door neighbour Katie Green.
She remembers a man who had some mental health problems and some unusual habits.
"If you ever saw him in the garden, he always had the gloves on," she tells BBC News.
"He shut the garden gate with his gloves on or a piece of tissue if he did not have them.
If we turned the car round at the garages round the back and his door was open, he was always cleaning his kitchen - a precise kind of fellow."
Stephen Lees has known Mair for years, through his brother.
"He never showed any political interest at all, never mentioned it, not even to his brother," he tells BBC News.
"It is shocking to think someone has got that much hatred, because he seemed a very normal lad."
The precise state of Mair's mind at the time of the attack remains unclear.
He has largely refused to engage with the court process, including attempts to assess whether or not he is capable of standing trial on mental health grounds, or even to enter a plea of not guilty.
He said little of use to defence lawyers appointed to ensure he received a fair trial.
At his first appearance, he said his name was "Death to traitors, freedom for Britain".
As far back as 1984, Mair was buying neo-Nazi publications, and he had letters published in a racist South African magazine.
The Southern Poverty Law Centre, an American anti-fascist organisation, has published records showing Mair ordered books on improvised munitions and explosives from the neo-Nazi National Alliance's publishing imprint. Those orders were placed days after David Copeland had attempted to spark a "race war" in a series of bombings across London.
But the mystery of Mair is he appears to have simply got on with forming and reinforcing his views with no contact to any of the known extremist organisations in the UK.
There is no evidence of him having been identified at rallies or marches down the years.
He was not prominent on social media.
He was immersed in his books.
Amid all the Nazi literature in Mair's home, was a book called SS Race Theory and Mate Selection Guidelines.
"Your wife should be at least as racially worthy as yourself," it says.
"In your children, you live on."
Mair will go to prison childless.
But the memory of Mrs Cox lives on, not least, through her children, whom she and her husband, Brendan, were raising to be model citizens: caring for each other and caring about a society built on goodness, not hate.
Nicole Kushner Meyer used her brother's name while promoting an investment-for-visas scheme in Beijing and Shanghai.
Critics were quick to accuse the family business of playing up its connection to the White House at the event.
But the company said on Monday the comments were misconstrued and Ms Meyer was only pointing out he left the firm.
"Ms Meyer wanted to make clear that her brother had stepped away from the company in January and has nothing to do with this project," said Risa Heller, a Kushner Companies spokeswoman.
"Kushner Companies apologises if that mention of her brother was in any way interpreted as an attempt to lure investors. That was not Ms Meyer's intention."
Mr Kushner, 36, who is married to President Trump's daughter, Ivanka, and serves as a White House senior adviser, has come under scrutiny for his private business interests.
Government ethics laws bar government officials from profiting personally from their roles.
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Ms Meyer mentioned her brother on Saturday and Sunday while urging investors to put $500,000 (£386,500) into a New Jersey real estate project in exchange for investor visas and residency cards in the US through the so-called EB-5 programme.
The EB-5 visa programme, often used by wealthy Chinese nationals, allows foreign investors a path to a green card if they invest more than $500,000 in a project that creates jobs in the US.
Critics of the programme say it used as a means of cheap financing for real estate developers.
Ms Meyer brought up her brother as the company's former chief executive before he left in January to join the Trump administration.
She then said the Jersey City project, which the company is developing with real estate firm KABR group, "means a lot to me and my entire family", the New York Times reported.
About 15% of the $976.4m-project, known as One Journal Square, will be funded through the EB-5 programme, according to Kushner Companies.
The company also featured a photo of President Trump on a slide at the event that said "key decision makers" on the EB-5 programme, CNN reported.
The White House said on Monday that it was "evaluating wholesale reform" on the programme to make sure it it was "used as intended and that investment is being spread to all areas of the country".
The administration also said it was "exploring the possibility of raising the price of the visa to further bring the programme in line with its intent".
Reforming visa programmes has been a key part of Mr Trump's immigration policy.
Mr Kushner has said he stepped away from his family's business operations, but government ethics filings show that he and his wife, Ivanka Trump, continue to benefit from their stake in Kushner Companies.
The president's son-in-law, who has no prior government experience, has been entrusted to broker Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and also serves as the lead adviser on relations with China, Mexico and Canada.
Blake Roberts, Mr Kushner's attorney, said on Saturday that he has divested his interests in the One Journal Square project.
"As previously stated, he will recuse from particular matters concerning the EB-5 visa program," Mr Roberts said in a statement.
British Airways flights are cancelled up to and including 14 January and Easyjet services to the Egyptian resort are suspended until at least 6 January.
Easyjet said the move was made to provide some certainty to passengers travelling over the Christmas period.
BA said the decision was made following discussions with the UK government.
Monarch, Thomson and Thomas Cook have cancelled flights until dates in December.
Flights were halted after the UK government said the plane crash in the Sinai desert, which killed 224 people on 31 October, may have been caused by a bomb.
Easyjet said customers on affected flights could go to another destination, receive a full refund or get a flight voucher for future travel.
BA said customers due to travel on affected flights can claim a full refund, rebook to a later date or switch to an alternative destination.
The airline said it was keeping flights, which are scheduled to operate from 16 January, "under review".
It added: "The safety and security of our customers will continue to be our top priorities in any decisions we may make."
Easyjet said on its website: "We are sorry for the inconvenience this will obviously cause, but we hope that being clear with all our customers at this point helps you to manage your plans with more certainty.
"The situation is beyond our control and passenger safety will always be our number one priority."
Other dates flights have been cancelled until are:
George McGregor from London, who had been due to fly to Sharm el-Sheikh told the BBC it was "excellent news" - but Easyjet should have cancelled the flights sooner.
"We were due to fly out on 23 December for Christmas and New Year. Total outlay, £1,444," he said.
"Until today we could not get our money back to fund an alternative holiday, and faced a charge of £180 if we wanted to change flights."
Ian Harrison, also from London, said he was first told he would only receive an exchange of flights but Easyjet has since offered him a refund.
"It was pretty hard to get alternative accommodation that close to Christmas, or alternative flights, so not much of an offer.
"I've pretty much cancelled my holiday."
The Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) said decisions over the use of Sharm el-Sheikh airport were made by the UK authorities rather than airlines.
It said flights would only resume when the authorities were satisfied security was strong enough.
ABTA spokesman Sean Tipton said: "The airlines are setting dates to give people a bit of certainty on where they stand.
"The decision is not theirs about when the airport will be available again to use and there will be a degree of inconsistency in their policies because it is a value judgement."
The Foreign Office, which advises against all but essential air travel to or from Sharm el-Sheikh, says there are currently no UK airlines operating flights to the resort.
Regular flights between the UK and Sharm el-Sheikh were were suspended on 4 November.
Special security measures for flights returning to the UK, such as transporting hold baggage on separate planes, were put in place up to 17 November.
Islamic State militants have claimed responsibility for bringing down the Airbus 321, operated by Russian airline Metrojet.
The US President tweeted that a bilateral trade agreement with the UK after it leaves the EU in 2019 could be "very big and exciting" for jobs.
Mr Trump, who backed Brexit, also took a swipe at the EU accusing it of a "very protectionist" stance to the US.
The US President, whose officials are meeting British counterparts this week, has been accused of protectionist rhetoric by his political opponents.
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The UK's International Trade Secretary Liam Fox is currently in Washington discussing the potential for a UK-US trade deal after the UK's withdrawal from the EU in March 2019. No deal can be signed until after then.
Mr Trump has said he would like to see a speedy deal although free trade agreements typically take many years to conclude and any agreement, which will have to be approved by Congress, is likely to involve hard negotiations over tariff and non tariff barriers in areas such as agriculture and automotive.
On Monday, Mr Fox published details of commercial ties between the UK and every congressional district in the US as a working party of officials met to discuss a future trade deal for the first time. Two-way trade between the two countries already totals £150bn.
Mr Fox is also discussing other issues, including the continuation of existing trade and investment accords, with trade secretary Wilbur Ross and the US Trade Representative, Robert Lighthizer.
At a breakfast meeting for members of the House of Representatives, Mr Fox said his twin objectives were to provide certainty for foreign investors ahead of Brexit and to expand the volume and value of trade with the US.
"The EU itself estimates that 90% of global growth in the next decade will come from outside Europe, and I believe as the head of an international economic department that this is an exciting opportunity for the UK to work even more closely with our largest single trading partner the US," he said.
Sir Vince Cable, the new leader of the UK parliament's fourth largest party, the Liberal Democrats, said a US-UK trade deal could bring significant benefits - but he called on the government to guarantee parliament would get a vote on it first.
"Liam Fox and Boris Johnson must not be able to stitch up trade deals abroad and impose them on the country," he said.
"It is parliament, not Liam Fox, that should be the final arbiter on whether to sacrifice our standards to strike a deal with Trump."
Tries from Jake Webster and Luke Gale, who finished with 15 points, put the visitors 14-4 up at the break, with Morgan Escare grabbing Wigan's points.
Jesse Sene-Lefao then added a third Tigers try early in the second half.
Escare went over again to give Warriors late hope of avoiding a third straight defeat, only for Eden's to seal it.
The win moves Tigers two points clear of Leeds in second, but the Rhinos can draw level on points with them again with victory over Warrington on Friday.
Defeat leaves Wigan fifth in the table and winless in four games, with Wakefield capable of moving above Shaun Wane's World Club Challenge-winning side on Friday if they beat Widnes.
Castleford were restricted to just one serious attacking set in the opening 12 minutes of the game at the DW Stadium, as Wigan piled on the early pressure, but Super League's most prolific side were sparked into life by Junior Moors.
The hard-running forward was instrumental in creating the visitors' opening two tries, his powerful efforts leading to Ben Roberts putting Webster over for the game's first score after 24 minutes before another barnstorming move helped set Zak Hardaker free, with the full-back taking a pass from Sene-Lefao and dishing off for Gale to touchdown two minutes later.
Gale converted both tries and edged Daryl Powell's side further ahead with a penalty, before France full-back Escare hit-back for the hosts with a darting run.
Sene-Lefao powered through a number of Wigan defenders for Tigers third try early in the second half.
And while Escare's second score of the night seemingly set up a nervy finish, Super League leading try scorer Eden intercepted a pass for a near length-of-the-field try to seal Castleford's first win at the DW Stadium in six visits with his 11th try in eight games this term.
Wigan Warriors coach Shaun Wane: "They are flying at the minute and playing a great brand of rugby.
"Our one-on-one defence was poor and the way we ended our sets was not good enough. They're a good team and you need to make sure you finish your sets.
"The players are hurting, it was a tough game to lose, but we look forward to next week."
Castleford Tigers coach Daryl Powell: "I thought it was an awesome performance. The tough edge we've got as a defensive team shows we're growing all the time.
"I think this was our best win of the season because of the nature of it. We've had victories where we're superb with the ball but tonight, just the sheer guts and determination gives us more belief that we can be there at the end.
"If we keep defending like that, teams will find it hard to break us down. It was one of the best defensive efforts since I came to the club. The boys have really bought into the way we're defending and that's really pleasing from a coaching perspective."
Wigan Warriors: Escare; Davies, Forsyth, Isa, Marshall; Williams, Leuluai; Nuuausala, Powell, Flower, J Tomkins, Farrell, Sutton.
Replacements: Clubb, Tautai, Gregson, Bretherton.
Castleford Tigers: Hardaker; Minikin, Webster, Shenton, Eden; Roberts, Gale; Massey, McShane, Cook, Holmes, McMeeken, Milner.
Replacements: Sene-Lefao, Moors, Springer, Chase.
Referee: Robert Hicks
Explicit audio from a pornographic film was blasted out for all to hear. And it kept playing. And playing. For 15 minutes.
Young, who was shopping with her three-year-old twin boys, uploaded the clip to Facebook. (Obvious warning: it has rude audio.)
"People were up in arms," she wrote. "Some people threw their things down and walked out. Others were yelling at employees."
As pranks go, it's fairly low-grade. But Target has a problem. Staff at the store in Campbell, a small city just south of San Jose, were all but powerless to stop it due to how the PA system is designed.
And it's not an isolated incident. According to local media, it's at least the fourth time this prank has happened since April. In one instance, a store had to be evacuated.
So what's going on? Are mischievous staff causing trouble? Have Target's systems been hacked?
Well not quite - but the cause is interesting, and yet another example of how systems are left with vulnerabilities by creators who never imagined people might have malicious intent.
An email obtained by the BBC, sent by company bosses to Target store managers across the US on Friday afternoon, outlines a weakness in the store's PA system being used to carry out the prank.
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"Non-Target team members are attempting to access the intercom system by calling stores and requesting to be connected to line [xxxx]," it reads.
"If connected, callers have control of the intercom until they hang up.
"We are actively working to limit intercom access to the Guest Services phone only. In the meantime, inform all operators to not connect any calls to line [xxxx]."
So in other words, if you ring up Target and ask to be put through to a certain extension, you're suddenly live on the PA system for as long as you like.
Hardly the hack of the century, granted, but a reminder that there are people out there that will find even the most obscure vulnerabilities and exploit them.
Target's spokeswoman Molly Snyder would not confirm the authenticity of the email, but told the BBC: "We are actively reviewing the situation with the team to better understand what happened and are taking steps to help ensure this doesn't happen again.
"Because this is an active investigation, I'm unable to share additional details, but we want our guests to know that we take this very seriously."
Target should be acutely aware of weak systems. The retailer was at the centre of a huge hack attack storm last year.
Some 40m shoppers had their banking details stolen, and the company ended up paying out $10m (£6.5m) in compensation.
There is little danger of any repercussions over this porn prank - just a few red faces. And perhaps some suddenly very inquisitive children.
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In a filing with US regulators, the firm said it planned to raise $314m, valuing it at nearly $2.6bn.
Virtu is one of the biggest so-called high-frequency trading firms that rely on algorithms to execute trades.
The practice came under fire after a "flash crash" in 2010.
The crash wiped 700 points off the Dow Jones index in a matter of minutes, and was attributed to a cascade of sales by computer trading programs.
High frequency trading is where traders create complicated algorithms programmed into computers to buy and sell stocks in milliseconds, faster than any human.
It has grown in popularity in recent years, but has also come under scrutiny for supposed risks.
Journalist Michael Lewis wrote a book on firms that engage in high frequency trading, Flash Boys, which was published in 2014.
The book, which questioned whether or not flash traders rigged markets in their favour, received wide attention, and several US Congressional hearings were called to look into regulations regarding flash trading.
In the wake of the negative press, Virtu was forced to delay its public share offering in March 2014.
Founded by former New York Mercantile Exchange head Vincent Viola, Virtu would be the first high-speed trading firm to become a publicly-listed company.
Ali Mohammed Baqir al-Nimr was arrested in 2012, when he was 17, and convicted of sedition, rioting and robbery.
His mother Nusra al-Ahmed called his sentence of crucifixion - beheading followed by the public display of his body - "backwards in the extreme".
An Obama administration official said it was "deeply concerned" by the case.
Mrs Ahmed told the Guardian on Wednesday: "[Mr Obama] is the head of this world and he can, he can interfere and rescue my son... He would be rescuing us from a great tragedy."
Ali al-Nimr was sentenced to death by the Specialised Criminal Court (SCC), a special security and counter-terrorism court, in May 2014.
The sentence was upheld both by the appeal division of the SCC and by the Supreme Court earlier this year, without his or his lawyer's knowledge, according to Amnesty International.
He could be executed as soon as King Salman ratifies the sentence.
Human rights groups have called for clemency for Ali al-Nimr, but the country's embassy in the UK has said it "rejects any form of interference in its internal affairs".
Saudi state media reported that Ali al-Nimr was found guilty of sedition, breaking allegiance to the king, rioting, bearing arms, using petrol bombs against security patrols, robbing a pharmacy and stealing surveillance cameras. He was also convicted of chanting anti-government slogans at illegal protests and inciting others to demonstrate, they added.
His family strongly denies the charges and say the conviction was based on "confessions" Ali al-Nimr says were extracted under torture.
"We call on the government of Saudi Arabia to respect universal human rights and its international obligations as well as to ensure fair and transparent judicial proceedings that afford requisite fair trial procedures and safeguards in this and all cases," a senior Obama administration official said on Wednesday.
"We have raised this case with the Saudi government including very recently, and addressed it in our 2014 Human Rights Report."
Human rights activists say that in sentencing a juvenile offender to death, Saudi Arabia has violated its obligations under international customary law and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), to which it is a state party.
Ah Van, 28, moved to the club in 2012 from Bradford after starting his career at NRL side New Zealand Warriors.
Wales international Dudson, 25, joined last season from Wigan, having previously played for Celtic Crusaders.
Both players have agreed new two-year deals which tie them to the Vikings until 2018.
"When the club approached me to re-sign I was only ever really going to sign here," Ah Van told the club website.
Dudson said: "I feel I have developed as a player within the team and I am looking forward to building on the exciting things that are starting to happen here."
There have been a number of players who have signed new deals with Denis Betts' side in recent weeks, including Rhys Hanbury, Stefan Marsh and Chris Dean.
The circumstances of his death are unclear. Some media reports suggest he killed himself.
Hamilton had recently denied accusations that he had in the past raped some of his teenage models.
He made his name in the 1960s with soft-focus pictures of young girls published by major magazines.
The emergency services were called to his apartment in the French capital's 6th district (arrondissement) shortly after 20:30 local time (19:30 GMT), where he was found unresponsive.
Local media are reporting that prescription drugs were found nearby.
In a book published last month, prominent TV presenter Flavie Flament described being raped in the 1980s by a famous photographer, without giving a name.
In an interview with L'Obs weekly last week, Flament named Hamilton as her attacker. Other women then levelled similar accusations.
Hamilton, whose work has long raised questions about where art ends and pornography begins, strongly denied the allegations, and said he would sue for defamation.
Flament was left "devastated" by the news of his death on Friday, her editor Karina Hocine told AFP news agency.
"Naturally, we feel horrified and, at the same time, really disgusted that there was not enough time for justice to run its course," she added.
Born in London in 1933, Hamilton settled in France after leaving Britain in the 1950s.
The company, Hensel European Security Services (Hess), was accused of harassing seasonal workers in a TV documentary aired last week.
It prompted calls for an investigation from the German government.
Amazon said it had now terminated its relationship with the firm "with immediate effect".
"Amazon has zero-tolerance for discrimination and intimidation and expects the same from every company we work with," a spokesperson for Amazon said.
The documentary by state broadcaster ARD showed the conditions of employees at the warehouse in Bad Hersfeld, in the state of Hesse, brought in to help with the Christmas rush.
It claimed employees' rooms were searched, they were frisked at breakfast and constantly watched.
Many of the temporary workers came from Spain and Poland, and foreign workers were shown receiving the worst harassment from security guards.
Hess was under contract to an employment agency, not to Amazon itself.
Hess shares its name with Hitler's deputy in the Nazi party Rudolf Hess, and the documentary showed security guards wearing branded clothing linked with the neo-Nazi movement.
Last week the firm denied suggestions that it supported far-right political views.
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He went missing on the highest mountain in England - Scafell Pike.
Owner Adam shared a photo of Jasper on the internet, and hundreds of people offered to help search for him.
Amazingly Jasper was found - and couldn't wait to give Adam a friendly lick on the face.
Hayley met the adventurous pair when they popped into the Newsround office.
Olly Croker was hit when the u-shaped anchor, which had held an FA Respect banner in place, "flew through the air" for almost 100ft (30m).
He died two days later.
Olly suffered "unsurvivable" injuries in the "freak accident", coroner Dr Elizabeth Earland said.
The inquest, in Exeter, heard the two players - including Olly's older brother Liam Hole - had challenged for the ball near the half way line at Bradnich Football Club.
Bampton FC senior secretary Neville England said the pair became "entangled" in the banner.
Health and safety expert, Chris Rudall, said this stretched the barrier ropes, which caused the anchor to fly out of the ground.
Olly was airlifted to hospital after the incident on Saturday 12 September but died on the following Monday night from serious head injuries.
His mother Pippa called him a "gorgeous boy" whose organs had now "given life" to five children.
Dr Earland said she would be writing to the FA to ask them to reach a conclusion over what happened and share it with the public.
"This was an extremely unusual event and one which no one wishes to see a repetition of," she said.
A local authority inquiry is under way to discover the exact circumstances of the accident.
Abell hit 11 fours in his 79 before falling lbw to debutant spin bowler David Wainwright (2-70).
Peter Trego (42) added 69 with Jim Allenby (37 not out) before bad light ended play with Somerset on 257-5.
Earlier, Jack Leach picked up three more wickets after Hampshire resumed on 281-6 for figures of 6-108.
It was a fine effort by the 25-year-old slow left-armer, who now has 40 victims this season at a cost of only 23.5 runs each.
His success meant it was no surprise that Hampshire turned to spin after only six overs of Somerset's reply.
And it was Wainwright, plucked from Minor Counties cricket, who broke an 87-run opening stand when Marcus Trescothick (36) holed out at long-on.
There was brilliant work by wicketkeeper Lewis McManus, when he stumped Chris Rogers down the leg-side off leg-spinner Mason Crane for 11, while skipper Will Smith had James Hildreth (40) leg-before.
The decision to relocate tigers was agreed to in principle at a ministerial meeting in Delhi of 13 Asian nations with tiger populations.
The animals will be moved from countries where they are thriving to nations where they are almost extinct.
The estimated number of wild tigers worldwide has risen for the first time in a century, conservationists say.
The global tiger population is now estimated to be nearly 3,900 - up from 3,200 in 2010.
India alone has more than half the world's tigers with 2,226.
An international campaign aims to double the global population of the big cat by 2022.
Apart from Indian tigers, Amur tigers from Russia could also be relocated to Kazakhstan which has lost all its big cats.
"The meeting has identified relocation of tigers as one of the effective measures for the recovery of population," Rajesh Gopal, secretary general of the Global Tiger Forum, an inter-governmental organisation established to save tigers from becoming extinct, told the BBC.
"Relocation will take place after necessary preparation of habitat and securing enough prey species for tigers."
Indian Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar told the BBC that the government was "ready to cooperate with all countries" to conserve tigers.
Keshav Varma, CEO of the Global Tiger Forum, said tigers could also be relocated within India.
"In Corbett national park, for instance, there are 260 tigers and the density is 20 tigers per 100 sq km (38 sq m) and there are national parks like Rajaji where just two or three female tigers are found."
Sadie Hartley, 60 was stunned with a cattle prod and stabbed 40 times in Helmshore, Lancashire, on 14 January.
Sarah Williams, 35, and Katrina Walsh, 56, both from Chester, deny murder.
The prosecution claimed the pair were "determined and methodical" in their plot to fulfil Ms Williams' desire to be with the man she loved by killing his partner.
In his closing speech to jurors at Preston Crown Court, prosecutor John McDermott QC said the defendants were "cold-blooded murderers" who were attempting to deceive them.
He said: "Sarah Williams spent four days in this court in front of you, cool, calm and collected and as matter of fact as she could pretend to be.
"But the real Sarah Williams is a bitter, obsessive, arrogant woman who stops at nothing to get her own selfish way."
He asked them to recall the evidence of a witness who said Ms Williams went "feral" and acted like "a wild thing" during a row on a ski trip.
Mr McDermott said: "Imagine what it is like when she really hates somebody, as she did. The savagery inflicted on Sadie Hartley takes a special kind of mindset to deliver."
Sales adviser Ms Williams was previously in a relationship with Ian Johnston, 57, which ended when he refused to leave Ms Hartley, the court heard.
The 35-year-old earlier told the jury she was ill in bed at the time of the killing and said the evidence pointed to her co-accused Ms Walsh.
Horse riding instructor Ms Walsh, who did not give evidence, told police she thought she was participating in a game of the Channel 4 programme Hunted - in which teams of two try to go "off the grid" and avoid detection.
She told officers she did not believe Ms Williams was going to harm anyone.
Mr McDermott said the idea she thought she was in a game was "absurd" as discussions of the murder plot appeared in her diary before the programme was broadcast.
He said Ms Walsh had done her best to "remain anonymous" during the trial and she had created "a caricature of a fool" in her police interviews by playing "a grotesque parody of a half-baked, befuddled loon".
"These two were in fact hunters, not hunted. They hunted down Sadie Hartley as you might stalk a deer and then went in for the kill," he added.
Ms Williams, of Treborth Road, Blacon, Chester, and Ms Walsh, of Hare Lane, Chester, deny murder.
The trial continues.
The new deal includes highlights of the opening two rounds of the tournament, as well as live coverage of the decisive Saturday and Sunday rounds.
Radio 5 live and Radio 5 live sports extra will feature live commentary of all four days of the first major of the year from Augusta National Golf Club.
This year's tournament is from 6-9 April and the action can be accessed on PC, tablet, mobile and connected TV.
The audience can access four digital feeds from Amen Corner, holes 15 and 16, featured groups and the driving range.
This is the 50th year the BBC has been broadcasting the major.
"We're extremely proud of our partnership with the Masters Tournament, and this new deal highlights our longstanding commitment to bringing world-class golf to the widest possible audience on free-to-air TV, " said Barbara Slater, director of BBC Sport.
"In addition, our radio and digital offerings will bring audiences closer to the action than ever before. The Masters remains one of the standout events on the sporting calendar, bringing together the world's best players in a truly unique setting."
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Peggy Styles, 86, took eight years to complete the course due to the life-threatening condition.
"The university was absolutely super and agreed to suspend my studies until I felt better. I was determined to finish my doctorate," she said.
She is the oldest ever student to graduate from the university.
Mrs Styles, from Failand near Bristol, fell ill about three years ago, forcing her to suspend her studies for 18 months.
Typically a doctorate degree takes about three to four years to complete.
"I was so ill that I nearly died. I was in hospital for a month and had to learn to walk again," she said.
Mrs Styles will be joined by her family when she collects her doctorate on 19 July.
Sadly her husband John will not be at her side as he died in 2016 just as she was finishing her 48,000-word dissertation.
"Although I'm 86, I don't really feel that old," she said.
"My legs and arms are not what they were but my tongue still wags and my brain still functions. I'd keep studying forever if I could."
Mrs Styles was born in England to Belgian parents in 1931 and was six when the family moved back to Belgium.
They returned to England as refugees in 1940, having escaped on the last troop ship sailing out of St Malo.
Due to the upheaval and being schooled in different languages she left school at 15 with only a qualification in shorthand.
Her grandson Oliver inspired her to return to education when he asked her for help with a school project about World War Two.
The headquarters of South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse district councils in Crowmarsh Gifford were gutted on 15 January last year.
About 400 staff have been working from home or at temporary sites ever since.
Now, exactly one year on, the councils have confirmed they are looking for a new building on a new site.
Andrew Main, 47, from Rokemarsh, admitted starting the fire and has been detained in a mental health unit.
A spokesperson for both councils said: "Whilst no formal decisions have been made, it's likely we won't be returning to Crowmarsh.
"We're focusing on finding a new building on a new site that's fit for purpose and gives the best value for money for our council tax payers.
"We're actively looking at the options for our permanent home and we hope to have a final decision in the next few months."
Both councils are temporarily based at Milton Park in Abingdon after signing a four-year lease.
The estimated cost to the councils of repairing the damage to their offices was put at about £20m.
The paceman's haul (3-45) included the hosts' top scorer Mark Cosgrove (57), giving long-serving wicketkeeper Chris Read his 1,000th first-class catch.
Ben Raine (55 not out) and Clint McKay (33) sparked a home fightback from 169-8 to 251 all out with a stand of 81.
The visitors then reached 52-1 in reply at the close, losing Greg Smith (11).
Like Broad, Australia international James Pattinson could be pleased with his efforts on the opening day of the Championship season, finishing with 3-55 on his Nottinghamshire debut after skipper Read had decided against a toss and elected to bowl first.
The defiant ninth-wicket stand between Raine and McKay was the only partnership of the hosts' first innings to pass 50 as Leicestershire, who were deducted 16 County Championship points for disciplinary offences on Thursday, struggled with the bat.
Mr Trump had called the House bill a "great plan" when it passed by four votes but it was heavily criticised and was unlikely to get through the Senate.
Mr Trump told 13 senators at a lunch that their version should be "kind".
Repealing the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was a key Trump poll pledge.
Sources present at the White House lunch meeting told Politico that Mr Trump said senators needed to "pass a bill that Republicans are able to more easily defend".
"That may be adding additional money into it," he reportedly said.
Mr Trump's remarks on the "mean" House bill are in stark contrast to his previous public position.
Although the bill gave Mr Trump his first legislative win, it was criticised by both Democrats and Senate Republicans.
It was passed before being fully assessed - and a later assessment from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office concluded some 23 million people would lose health insurance over the next decade.
One Republican Senator, Bob Corker, said at the time the bill had "zero" chance in the Senate.
Instead, Senators decided to "start fresh" on drafting their own legislation.
That new bill is being crafted in private by the Senate's Republicans.
The 13 senators invited to lunch at the White House were a mix of conservative and moderate Republicans.
One attendee, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, old Reuters news agency that there still was a lot of work to do before legislation can be unveiled.
"The total bill hasn't been resolved," he said.
While Mr Trump's Republican party has a majority in both the House and Senate, his margin in the Senate is considerably smaller - just three Republicans voting against the bill would prevent it from passing.
Sources at the meeting told Politico that Republicans "risk getting savaged in the 2018 midterms" if they failed to repeal Obamacare, after campaigning against it for seven years.
During his election campaign, Mr Trump consistently criticised President Obama's healthcare policy, vowing to "repeal and replace" the legislation.
The president first attempted to push through a bill in March, but withdrew it at the last minute when House Speaker Paul Ryan told him he would not have the minimum 215 votes needed.
The debacle was seen as a major defeat for the new president, who blamed Democrats for not supporting his bill.
The failure led to a new version of the bill allowing states to opt out of several of its provisions, and allow higher premiums for some patients.
The owner believed the "exceptionally sized" stone was a piece of costume jewellery when she bought it at West Middlesex Hospital in Isleworth, west London, in the 1980s.
Unaware it was a 26 carat, cushion-shaped white diamond from the 19th Century, she wore it daily for decades.
The stone goes under the hammer at Sotheby's in July.
The head of the auction house's London jewellery department, Jessica Wyndham, said: "The owner would wear it out shopping, wear it day-to-day. It's a good looking ring.
"But it was bought as a costume jewel. No-one had any idea it had any intrinsic value at all. They enjoyed it all this time.
"They'd been to quite a few car-boot sales over the years. But they don't have any history of collecting antiques and they don't have any history of collecting diamonds. This is a one-off windfall, an amazing find."
Ms Wyndham said the owner - who does not want to be identified - assumed it was not a genuine gemstone because it was in a "filthy" mount and it did not have the sparkle of a diamond.
She added that because the older style of diamond cutting was "slightly duller and deeper" than nowadays "it could trick people into thinking it's not a genuine stone".
"With an old style of cutting, an antique cushion shape, the light doesn't reflect back as much as it would from a modern stone cutting. Cutters worked more with the natural shape of the crystal, to conserve as much weight rather than make it as brilliant as possible."
After about 30 years of wearing the ring, the owners took it to Sotheby's when a jeweller told them it may be valuable.
"They came in with the idea that it might be real and they had no idea of its value," Ms Wyndham said.
"We had a look and... got it tested at the Gemological Institute of America."
She added: "The majority of us can't even begin to dream of owning a diamond that large."
The Oscar-winning actress says she's giving up the role when asked by a reporter at the premiere of her new movie, Serena.
She told MTV: "It is my last one, actually."
Lawrence started playing a younger version of Mystique in X-Men: First Class in 2011 and reprised her role in last year's X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Her final film as Mystique will be X-Men: Apocalypse, which is out next year.
With a number of new mutants appearing again - Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) and Storm (Alexandra Shipp) - the time could be right for Lawrence to step away from her role.
Former Skins actor Nicholas Hoult, who played the Beast in X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past, has also suggested he won't be part of the franchise after Apocalypse.
He told E! Online that he wasn't signed up for any more films although he didn't rule out a return.
An older Mystique was played by Rebecca Romijn in 2000's X-Men and 2003 sequel X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand in 2006.
She's a member of Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants and frees him from his plastic jail cell.
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Martin Gorman, 41, died in Crosshouse Hospital after being found seriously injured in a house in Croe Place.
Emergency services had been called to the property at about 01:40.
The woman is expected to appear at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court on Friday.
The aim is to raise more than £5m over the next five years for projects that will benefit businesses in the area.
Firms will pay an extra levy on top of business rates to fund the initiatives. Of those who voted, 84% were in favour.
Organisers said it would "allow locally-run city centre businesses a greater say in how Belfast is marketed, maintained and managed".
BID manager Clare Maguire said they had worked to make sure the proposal "demonstrated the things we needed to do to ensure that Belfast city centre remains competitive for the future".
BID task group chairman Chris Suitor said it was "a strong vote of confidence from the businesses who trade here and who clearly see the city's potential for change".
"The investment from local businesses will be used to improve our area, contribute towards a more successful and profitable future, making the city centre a better place for customers and businesses alike," he added.
But that is exactly what happened to Laduma Ngxokolo, a young man from the Xhosa ethnic group, whose colourful range of knitwear had lit up the catwalk.
Laduma is the founder and creator of MaXhosa by Laduma.
Born in 1986, he was taught by his mother how to use a knitting machine.
The design range showcased in Johannesburg was conceptualised as a project titled The Colourful World of the Xhosa Culture while Ladume was studying textile design and technology at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth.
In 2010 his project won the South African Society of Dyers and Colourists' design competition, earning him a trip to London where he was awarded first prize in an international competition.
The success of the project led to the creation of MaXhosa. "The initial aim behind my project was to find design solutions for Xhosa initiates," says Laduma.
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"I decided to develop a Xhosa-inspired collection of knitwear using traditional Xhosa beadwork, colours and motifs.
"I decided to call the name of my brand MaXhosa by Laduma because I wanted to showcase the astonishing beauty of the Xhosa people and translate it in a modern way that actually appeals to the current youth that is influenced by international trends."
His success turns decades of what some see as cultural imperialism on its head.
"European designers like Missoni and Jean-Paul Gaultier have often taken inspiration from African tribes and sold it around the world," says Siphiwe Mpye, a journalist and former assistant editor of GQ, South Africa who hails from the same area as Laduma.
Now Mr Mpye says the attitude of African designers is: "If we don't do it someone is going to come and appropriate it and make loads of money from it, so we might as well do it ourselves and be authentic about it and treat it with the integrity it deserves."
After seeing the growth and potential of his business, Laduma decided to relocate from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town, where he found a knitwear producer that could handle the capacity he needed.
"It was a good market to actually establish my brand because there was already a demand in the city and I could get more publicity in Cape Town as well," he says.
In Cape Town, Laduma met Jacques Burthy from Vuya Fashions who bought into his vision for MaXhosa and began producing garments for him from his factory.
Now Laduma spends most of his time at the factory checking on production and creating new designs.
MaXhosa's garments are made in South Africa and use local raw materials such as mohair that he sources from his hometown in Port Elizabeth.
He has already branched out into other areas like carpets and cushions, by working with new partners.
As his business expands, Laduma admits there is a need to get more investment but this is something he is prepared to set aside for now as he fears it may compromise the brand he is still building.
One such decision was to turn down an offer from a large South African retailer to form a partnership with him to sell his garments.
"I make 100% sure that whichever decision I make won't actually affect the work that I have already done because it was not easy to get here and a wrong decision could take us 10 steps back. I'm trying to take cautious steps as I go forward," he says.
While most of his sales have been from the shop Merchants on Long on Long Street in Cape Town, Laduma has launched his own online store to increase sales. But he is quick to admit that it is not as easy as he thought it would be.
"It is sort of a physical store that is up in the air. You have to control it, so I had to get in a few more people to be involved to actually help me manage," he says.
"It's a great platform for us because we get to connect directly with our customers and service them the way that we feel is best for us."
One of those helping him in his business is his sister Tina, who is also a fashion designer.
As Laduma seeks to grow his local market he is already attracting attention on the international fashion scene.
He has showcased his work in Berlin, London, New York and Paris, and in May, he was one of the speakers at an international conference in Amsterdam, called What Design Can Do, which looks at the power of design as an agent for social renewal.
But whatever success he garners around the world, Laduma will always remain true to his roots.
He says his ultimate goal is to establish MaXhosa by Laduma as an international premium brand - proudly made in South Africa.
The anti-pornography bill, which also outlaws overtly sexual material including music videos, was voted through after a short debate.
When Simon Lokodo, Uganda's ethics and integrity minister, proposed the legislation earlier this year, he said that women who wore "anything above the knee" should be arrested.
The bill needs to be approved by the president before becoming law.
Uganda is a socially conservative country - it is also considering legislation to increase the punishment for homosexual acts, which are already illegal.
According to Uganda's private Monitor newspaper, the new legislation will outlaw material which shows parts of the body including breasts, thighs and buttocks, or any erotic behaviour intended to cause sexual excitement.
It will also ban anything that shows indecent acts or behaviour intended to corrupt morals, the paper reports.
The BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga in the capital, Kampala, says the new rules could affect Uganda's popular tabloid papers.
In just three months the figure has increased by 6,895.
More than two thirds of patients were waiting more than nine weeks, in spite of targets stating that at least 50% of patients should wait no longer that.
The Department of Health statistics also reveal that more than 53,000 men and women have been waiting at least a year to see a consultant.
The target is that no-one should have to wait for longer than one year.
The new statistics show that all relevant targets have been breached.
Derek McCambley, whose health is deteriorating due to his multiple sclerosis, had been waiting two years to see a consultant in 2016.
According to guidelines from the National Institute For Health and Clinical Excellence, he should see his consultant twice a year.
He finally got to see the specialist earlier this year.
"After waiting two years I finally got an appointment but I got to see him for about 10 minutes," said Mr McCambley.
"Before getting in I had to wait an hour-and-a-half in the waiting room - I was frazzled by the time I got to see him face-to-face.
"It's not the doctors' fault, it's the system."
Eighty-four-year-old Laura Price has been waiting for two years for a knee operation, and said she was in "a lot of pain".
"It's not fair really to wait so long - but then again there's nothing I can do about it," she said.
"If the hospitals don't have the doctors or nurses, what can I do? I just have to put up with it."
The figures highlight a system that is heaving under pressure.
With no mechanism in place to tackle the hospital waiting lists, their increase comes as no surprise.
A number of facts remain unchanged, including that there continues to be an uncertain budget.
The numbers requiring care continue to rise against a backdrop of no change in the number of medical staff and hospital beds available.
With the absence of a Northern Ireland Executive and a health minister, there continues to be a lack of leadership.
That position also means that health policies, including one that specifically targets hospital waiting lists, remains unimplemented on the health minister's desk.
The BBC has seen hospital waiting times for the Southern Health and Social Care Trust.
Currently, those waiting for a urology appointment have been told to expect a wait of at least 157 weeks.
Some orthopaedic appointments are showing a 95-week wait, with pain management sitting at 118 weeks.
A consultant who works in the Southern Health and Social Care Trust told the BBC that the system simply cannot cope and patients were suffering.
The lack of leadership and money was having a detrimental impact on the overall running of the health service, the consultant added.
The doctor said that the sooner politics at Stormont started working again, the better.
Another point was that, even if the political wheel starts turning, politicians have to agree that something radical needs to happen about how the service is being managed.
By March this year 121,786 people had attended hospital to see a consultant for the first time.
That marks an increase of 3.8%, or 4,453, in the previous quarter.
However, overall fewer people saw a consultant this March compared with the same time last year, which recorded 148,476 people seeing their consultant for the first time.
The current ministerial target for inpatient and day case waiting times states that 55% of patients should wait no longer than 13 weeks, with no patient waiting longer than 52 weeks.
In March, a total of 71,483 men and women were waiting for admission to hospital - about 700 more than three months previously.
Also 40,037 people had been waiting more than 13 weeks, with 9,615 waiting more than a year.
Targets for urgent diagnostic testing were also missed.
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Will, 14, and Oliver, 15, from King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford, Essex, reached the final of the individual section.
They told education reporter Judith Burns what the competition entailed.
Scott Dann and James Tomkins are also sidelined, so Martin Kelly and Damien Delaney might be paired at centre-back.
Burnley will be without Joey Barton, who has been banned for 18 months, while defender Ben Mee is a doubt with a shin injury.
Stephen Ward should be fit after a knee problem, and Sam Vokes and Scott Arfield could also be available.
Jonathan Pearce: "Nerves will be jangling for this.
"Realistically, Palace need one more win for safety. Six wins in eight games prior to Wednesday's defeat by Spurs suggests they have to form to do it against a Burnley side who have not won at Selhurst Park since 2001.
"But injuries to Dann, Sakho and Tomkins leaves their defence looking vulnerable.
"Burnley have slipped dangerously towards relegation again with just one win in 11. They've not gone a season without an away victory since 1903 but a first of the campaign will surely see them safe as well.
"The Selhurst atmosphere and in-form Wilfred Zaha may edge it for Palace."
Crystal Palace manager Sam Allardyce: "The lads need to motivate themselves to get to the level they have been to beat Burnley and put it to bed once and for all, get past the 40-point mark and be safe.
"It is a big effort I will be asking for the players to give.
"Everyone says 'keep your mouth shut' - you don't want it to bite you back, but I think 41 points will be enough."
Burnley manager Sean Dyche: "It's now about everything we've learned over the season and delivering performances in these last four games.
"We as a club, without a shadow of a doubt, are in really good shape going into this last bunch of games.
"But we aren't naïve enough to think it takes care of itself, because it doesn't. We have to take care of what we need to."
Crystal Palace are running out of centre-halves after losing Mamadou Sakho to injury but, at the other end, they always pose problems.
Burnley were brushed aside by Manchester United last time out and it might take a little while longer before they banish their relegation fears.
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Anne Longfield has written to French authorities to ask them to speed up the asylum claims of 150 children who may be eligible to travel to the UK.
She also claims the French are not properly protecting lone children at the camp, saying 129 have gone missing.
The children, some as young as 10, have fled fighting in Syria and elsewhere.
Ms Longfield told BBC Breakfast that unaccompanied children at the camp were very vulnerable.
"We're talking about cardboard shacks - it rains, they fall down. They're by themselves, it's extraordinarily dangerous, they're at risk of health [problems], trafficking, any manner of danger there.
"They're not being protected while they're there [and] some of those children are actually eligible to join their close family here."
In her letter, Ms Longfield also expresses concern about children who are thought to have disappeared since the French authorities dismantled parts of the camp, known as the Jungle, earlier this year.
"The charities working with them have tried hard to trace them and the authorities must do likewise," she said.
Charity workers are said to have identified the children who are potentially eligible to move to the UK because they have parents or siblings there.
Ms Longfield's call follows a visit to the camp to meet children living there alone while waiting for their cases to be reviewed.
She said: "I have asked the French authorities to urgently determine which of the children in the Calais refugee camp are eligible to come to the UK, to ensure their safety and to process their applications immediately.
"It is unacceptable that at the moment some are waiting up to nine months before they learn whether or not they can come.
"We expect authorities in the UK to make sure vulnerable children in England are looked after and we expect nothing less of the French government."
The French government has yet to comment on Ms Longfield's letter.
The procedure, used by Kent Police and the Port of Dover for lorries waiting to cross the Channel, has been used four times in the past three weeks.
In a letter to the transport secretary, Kent's Police and Crime Commissioner Ann Barnes said the measure had cost the police force more than £700,000.
A spokesman for the government said it recognised the work done by the police.
Ms Barnes urged Patrick McLoughlin "to provide a permanent and comprehensive solution which provides full and continuing reimbursement for the taxpayers of Kent".
She said Operation Stack was putting "immense pressure" on the community and the police, "drawing dozens of officers away from their policing duties each day".
Ms Barnes added: "Kent taxpayers cannot go on any longer subsidising this national issue at the expense of local policing - especially when the force has already lost a fifth of its funding and a fifth of its staff - with more inevitably to come."
In a statement, a Department for Transport spokesman said: "We recognise the work done by Kent Police to manage the traffic disruption caused by industrial action in Calais and the pressures put on surrounding areas.
"We will continue to work with Kent County Council and the police to minimise traffic impacts on the county's roads."
Earlier this month, thousands of lorries were stuck on the motorway in the worst disruption, caused by strikes at Calais.
Last week transport minister Robert Goodwill told Parliament Kent's roads had become "intolerable" because of the issue.
He said several options were being looked at to deal with delays, partly caused by disruption at Calais.
Some 250,000 people have already visited to pay respects to Mr Lee, who died on Monday aged 91.
A state funeral will be held on Sunday, with foreign dignitaries from around the world expected to attend.
India has declared it a national day of mourning, with flags flown at half-mast and no official entertainment.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be attending the funeral.
Public viewing of Mr Lee's body, which has been open day and all night since Wednesday, will end on Saturday night.
Singaporean officials were caught off-guard by the overwhelming crowds that showed up, with the queue snaking through the city centre.
They warned that by Friday afternoon the queuing time to enter Parliament House was nine hours.
Authorities said in a statement that members of the public were "strongly advised" not to join the queue now, and redirected them to smaller tribute sites set up around the island.
The line has since been moved to the Padang, a large field used in central Singapore for parades and cricket matches, where tents and crowd control barricades have been set up.
Water and umbrellas were distributed to those waiting under the sweltering heat.
Mr Lee was the country's first prime minister and led Singapore to independence in 1965. He was hugely respected by Singaporeans.
He will lie in state until Sunday morning, when his body will be moved to a cultural centre in the west of the city for his funeral. The funeral procession will wind through the city centre and his Tanjong Pagar constituency on the edge of the business district.
Past and present world leaders have arrived in Singapore to pay their respects during the public viewing, including former Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Those attending the funeral include UK House of Commons leader William Hague; Indonesian President Joko Widodo; Malaysia's King Abdul Halim; India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi; Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe; South Korea's President Park Geun-hye and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
The US will be represented by former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, while China has sent Vice-President Li Yuanchao.
1700s - Migrants establish pearling and trading settlements along the coast of present-day Qatar.
Qatar became the first Arab country to host the Asian Games in 2006
1867 - Conflict with neighbouring Bahrain over territorial claims; Doha is all but destroyed.
Seeds of independence are sown when Britain signs a treaty which recognises Qatar as a separate entity, rather than a dependency of Bahrain.
1871-1913 - Turkish Ottoman forces establish a garrison at the emir's invitation.
1916 - Deal signed under which Britain controls Qatar's external affairs in return for guaranteeing its protection.
1939 - Oil reserves discovered. Exploitation is delayed by World War II, but oil comes to replace pearling and fishing as Qatar's main source of revenue.
1950s - Oil revenues fund the expansion and modernisation of Qatar's infrastructure.
1968 - Britain announces that it will withdraw its forces from the Gulf; Qatar negotiates with Bahrain and present-day United Arab Emirates on forming a federation.
1971 - Qatar becomes independent on 3 September.
1972 - Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani takes power in a palace coup after infighting in the ruling family.
1990 August - After Iraq invades Kuwait, Qatar says it will allow foreign forces on its soil. Qatari troops later take part in the liberation of Kuwait.
1995 - Sheikh Khalifa deposed by his son, Hamad, in a bloodless coup.
1996 - Al-Jazeera satellite TV launches, as an independent channel funded by the emir. Based in Qatar but broadcasting to much of the Arab world, it establishes a reputation for its news coverage and willingness to tackle controversial issues.
1999 - Municipal elections, the first democratic polls since 1971, mark the start of a democratisation programme.
2000 February - A cousin of the emir and 32 other people are jailed for life for planning a foiled coup in 1996.
2001 March - Qatar settles long-running border disputes with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
2002 - Qatar looms large in US plans for a possible war against Iraq. Its al-Udeid air base is developed and expanded. Washington says it will deploy US Central Command staff to Qatar.
2003 March-April - Qatar-based US Central Command forward base serves as the nerve centre in the US-led military campaign in Iraq.
2003 April - Voters approve a new constitution, which provides for a 45-member parliament with 30 elected members and the rest selected by the emir.
2003 August - In a surprise move, the emir names his younger son Prince Tamim as crown prince, replacing his other son Prince Jassim.
Doha was transformed by oil money
2004 February - Former Chechen president Zelimkhan Yanderbiyev is killed in an explosion in Doha, where he had been living. Qatar hands life sentences to two Russian agents over the killing; relations with Russia deteriorate. The pair are extradited to Russia in late 2004.
2005 March - A car bomb at a theatre near a British school in Doha kills one Briton and injures 12 other people.
2005 June - Qatar's first written constitution comes into effect, providing for some democratic reforms.
2005 November - Qatar and the US launch a $14 billion joint project to build the world's largest liquefied natural gas plant. Most of the gas will be exported to the US.
2007 September - Qatar and Dubai become the two biggest shareholders of the London Stock Exchange, the world's third largest stock exchange.
2008 March - St Mary's Roman Catholic Church becomes the first official Christian church inaugurated in Qatar. Christians were previously not permitted to worship openly.
2008 December - Saudi Arabia and Qatar agree final delineation of borders and pledge to boost co-operation after diplomatic relations restored in March.
2009 January - Qatar cuts trade ties with Israel over Gaza offensive. Was sole Gulf state to have trade ties with Israel.
2010 December - Qatar wins bid to host 2022 Fifa World Cup.
2011 March - Qatar joins international military operations in Libya.
2011 April - Qatar hosts meeting of international "contact group" on Libya, which calls on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to quit.
Qatar reportedly arms Libyan opposition.
2011 November - Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani says elections to the advisory council will be held in 2013, in what would be Qatar's first legislative elections.
2012 January - The Afghan Taliban say they are setting up a political office in Qatar to facilitate talks.
2012 October - Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani visits Gaza, the first head of state to do so since Hamas took power there five years previously.
2013 June - Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani takes over as emir after his father abdicates.
2013 October - Court upholds 15-year jail sentence for poet Mohammed al-Ajami who was convicted of inciting people to overthrow government.
2014 March - Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE temporarily withdraw their ambassadors from Qatar after alleging that it has been meddling in their internal affairs.
2014 September - Qatar and four other Arab states take part in US-led air strikes on Islamic State militants in Syria.
2015 March - Qatar and four other GCC states take part in Saudi-led air strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen.
2016 March - Human rights group Amnesty International, says in a new report that migrant workers employed on construction sites for the 2022 football World Cup in Qatar, face systematic abuse which sometimes amounts to forced labour.
2016 December - Government says it is abolishing the controversial labour sponsorship system or "kafala" that forces foreign workers to seek their employers' consent to change jobs or leave the country.
2017 June - Diplomatic crisis as Saudi Arabia leads an air, land and sea blockade by Arab countries, in an attempt to get Qatar to cut its alleged connections with terrorism and distance itself from Iran.
The development is being supported with Invest NI grants of £5.5m.
The company provides services to other pharmaceutical firms, as well as developing its own products, mainly in cancer diagnostics.
It already employs more than 3,300 people in Northern Ireland and at facilities throughout the rest of the UK, US and Asia.
The investment is in two areas:
A further 26 jobs have also been created within the group.
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster said: "This significant investment will enable Almac to expand the range of services it can offer, allowing it to respond to key trends within the pharmaceutical industry and enhance its market-leading position."
Almac chairman Alan Armstrong said: "We are fortunate to employ an excellent highly skilled workforce at our Craigavon headquarters which has played a major role in our global growth.
"It's fantastic that demand for our services has resulted in the creation of so many new jobs as we embark on further expansion over the next five years."
Last year, Almac increased its pre-tax profit by 33% to £19.2m, up from £14.4m in 2012.
Turnover also increased, up by 8% from £300m to £325m.
The firm is one of Northern Ireland's most successful exporters, and about 95% of its business comes from customers outside the UK.
Almac was formed in 2002, borne out of Galen Holdings which was founded in 1968 by Sir Allen McClay.
Sir Allen died in 2010 and the firm is now owned by the McClay Foundation.
The pharmaceutical sector in Northern Ireland has been one of the strongest economic performers in recent years.
The most recent official figures show the sector growing at an annual rate of almost 10%.
Sir Paul, the general secretary of the GMB union, said the award was for "every trade unionist trying to make the world a better place".
Conservative MP Simon Burns and former Lib Dem deputy leader Simon Hughes also receive knighthoods.
Former Conservative MP Anthony Steen has been appointed CBE for his campaigning work on human trafficking.
Mr Steen stood down from Parliament in 2010 after he was criticised for suggesting critics of his expenses claims were "jealous" of his "very, very large house".
After standing down, he set up the Human Trafficking Foundation and was appointed as a special envoy to Home Secretary Theresa May on the issue.
Mr Kenny is one of only a handful of trade union leaders to be knighted in the history of the honours list.
"I have accepted this as recognition of the crucial role trade unions play in society," he said.
However he went on to say that he would happily give up his title in return for better rights for low-paid workers.
"I would swap it tomorrow for the introduction of the Living Wage," he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.
"In the last few weeks alone I have met with the Pope and he thinks trade unions are great and people should join them, I have met with the President of Ireland and he thinks trade unions are great and people should join them.
"The Queen now recognises that trade unions have a great role to play in a modern society and recognises the contribution that trade unionists make."
The only people criticising the award were "the same old ideological fruitcakes" who refused to recognise the role of the union movement, he added.
The 65-year-old, who was honoured for his service to trade unions, worked his way up through the GMB's ranks having left school at 15 and previously worked at a brewery and as a postman.
He recently said the Labour Party would go "bankrupt" without union support.
Simon Hughes, who lost his Bermondsey and Old Southwark seat at the general election after 32 years, was knighted for public and political service.
He stepped down as Lib Dem deputy leader after being appointed justice minister in 2013.
Simon Burns, knighted for parliamentary and political service, was first elected as Conservative MP for Chelmsford in 1987.
He was a minister in the Department of Health in the last government, and also worked as rail minister.
The Conservative MP was chosen to propose the loyal address after the Queen's Speech last month, making jokes about his clashes with Speaker John Bercow.
Conservative donor and former treasurer Henry Angest has been awarded a knighthood for political service.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the Honours Committee, Sir Jonathan Stephens, said he was "disappointed" that honours for comedian Lenny Henry and actor Benedict Cumberbatch had been leaked to the media before their official announcement.
The Cabinet Office launched an inquiry into the leaking of names in the previous New Year Honours list.
Sir Jonathan said the committee had tightened security since those announcements six months ago, but would have to look again at its procedures to restrict access to the list.
The firm, April, controls a million hectares of forests in Indonesia, and has now said it will allocate nearly half of it for conservation. The environmental group Greenpeace, which has previously been a fierce critic of the company, now called it a "champion" and vowed to closely monitor the implementation of the new policy.
When April launched its sustainable policy last year, which included a pledge to halt forest clearing in 2020, environmental groups said it was "too little too late."
Earlier this year, Greenpeace published photographs of logging and draining of peatland by an April subsidiary, contrasting it with the policy of April's largest competitor, Asia Pulp & Paper, which had committed itself to stop sourcing material from natural forests from 2013.
But when asked whether the company had decided to accelerate its forest conservation plan because of social pressure, Anderson Tanoto, a director and son of the founder of April's parent company RGE, insisted that it was for its long-term survival.
"We want to only commit to something that we're able to do," he said. "We have to ensure that we can actually protect the forests. So we don't feel like we're pressured by the market but we believe that this is fundamentally the right thing to do."
Greenpeace Indonesia's forest campaigner Bustar Maitar said the group's support of the paper producer's new policy was not set in stone.
"We put Greenpeace's credibility on the line to ensure the implementation of this policy," Maitar said.
"If one day April violates its commitment, Greenpeace will not hesitate to pull out our support. We only want to make sure that there will be no more clearing of natural forests."
Indonesia has the third largest tropical rainforest in the world, and a recent report found that it was losing it faster than any other country.
Despite the pressing need, Indonesian forestry laws are still seen to favour production over conservation.
Ida Bagus Putra Parthama, a director general at the forestry ministry, praised April for the new policy, but said he did not see any urgency to require more loggers to do the same.
"If what April does works and the company can still be competitive, we may try to duplicate it for other companies, but we still have to look into whether we can require companies to conserve more," he said.
Activists say that even if the government imposes a stricter no-deforestation rule, it is unlikely to be able to enforce it because of Indonesia's low conservation budget and poor law-enforcement capacity.
To make the maximum impact on reducing Indonesia's deforestation, environmentalists are pushing big corporations to commit to saving the forests and ensuring all levels in their supply chains adhere to the same policy.
"Even conservation land in Indonesia is still felled, sometimes it is unclear by who," says Nyoman Iswarayoga of WWF Indonesia. "So we ask big companies to not buy from any third party that cut down forests."
The island of Sumatra, where April has the bulk of its operations, has lost 75% of its forests, mostly because of oil palm cultivation. Most of Indonesia's remaining forests lie on the islands of Kalimantan and Papua, which are rich in oil, coal and minerals.
Indonesia is the world's largest producer of palm oil, fifth largest of coal, and tenth largest of pulp and paper. Balancing the need to increase production and preserve the environment continues to be a delicate task for the government.
The £200m, 15,000-tonne, 128m-long vessel is being built at Cammell Laird on Merseyside, and is due to become operational in 2019.
Anyone can propose a suitable name on a special website which will accept ideas up until 16 April.
The new ship will replace the existing polar fleet - the RRS James Clark Ross and RRS Ernest Shackleton - and work in both the Arctic and the Antarctic.
Names that have featured on previous UK research vessels will not be used again. But beyond that restriction, the possibilities are wide.
The Natural Environment Research Council (Nerc), which manages British polar science, says it is looking for something inspirational - something that will exemplify the ship's work.
The chosen name doesn't have to be that of a famous polar scientist; it could just as easily be the name of a place or phenomenon.
For example, the German polar research vessel is called Polarstern, or Pole Star; and the ship used regularly by Australian Antarctic scientists is called Aurora Australis - another name for the Southern Lights.
"Nerc's new ship will help put the UK at the cutting edge of polar research," said council chief executive, Prof Duncan Wingham.
"Built in the North West of England, she will help bring an economic boost to the region and to the UK shipbuilding industry.
"Today we are launching our campaign to bring our ship to the UK people, asking for their help to find her a name that encapsulates her role at the forefront of UK science.
"We are excited to hear what the public have to suggest and we really are open to ideas."
The funding of a new British RRS to work in icy seas was announced by Chancellor George Osborne in April 2014, with a contract to build the ship being given to Cammell Laird last year.
Since then, the Merseyside shipbuilder has been going through a detailed design exercise and expects eventually to be employing 400-500 people on the vessel's construction.
The ship will feature a helipad, cranes, onboard labs, and have the ability to deploy subs and other ocean survey and sampling gear.
Some of this equipment will go through an enclosed "moon pool", or "wet porch", inside the vessel.
Dr Robert Larter, a geophysicist working with the British Antarctic Survey, says the ship will have greatly increased scientific capabilities, especially in relation to the importance of the Southern Ocean and the role it plays in Earth's climate system.
"This is an area that has the most powerful ocean currents in the world - the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the link between all the world's oceans; and the seas around Antarctica are the 'factories' of most of the world's bottom water which drives the over-turn of the oceans. So, there's a lot to learn and this new ship will help us do that," he told BBC News.
The introduction of the new ship does mean the UK will be reducing its polar fleet from two to one vessel.
But the hope is this reduction in capacity can be mitigated, in part, by the efficiencies that come from operating a brand new super-ship.
It will have to take on not only all the research activities done predominantly now by the RRS James Clark Ross, but all the logistics work done mostly by the RRS Ernest Shackleton.
The new ship will certainly have greater individual endurance than its predecessors - the number of days it can operate at sea; and with its ice-breaking capabilities will also be able to go to places the earlier vessels could not.
"It's amazing to think of the places we have gone with the existing ships, but there is always an element of risk," said Dr Larter.
"With this bigger, more powerful ship, we'll have the confidence to go to those places, knowing also that we will be able to get out.
"With sea-ice, that's always a factor that plays on the mind of a captain: you can get in, but can you get out? Will you get stuck in ice?"
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Richard Cullen is known for representing high profile clients.
Earlier, US media reported that Donald Trump was being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller for possible obstruction of justice.
Mr Mueller is leading an FBI inquiry into Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Mr Mueller's team is also investigating the finances and business dealings of President Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, the Washington Post has reported.
The Post previously reported that investigators were focusing on meetings Mr Kushner had held last year with senior Russian figures.
Reports in US media have said senior intelligence officials are to be interviewed on whether Mr Trump tried to end an inquiry into his sacked National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and about the firing of FBI chief James Comey.
Mr Trump - who has repeatedly denied any collusion with Russia - said this was the latest action in a "phony story".
"You are witnessing the single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history - led by some very bad and conflicted people!" the US president tweeted.
Mr Pence's office announced the decision to hire Mr Cullen on Thursday. It said the vice-president had earlier interviewed several candidates.
"The vice president is focused entirely on his duties and promoting the president's agenda and looks forward to a swift conclusion of this matter," Mr Pence's spokesman Jarrod Agen said.
Mr Cullen, who is chairman of McGuireWoods LLP law firm, represented high profile clients such as former US congressman Tom DeLay and Elin Nordegren, ex-wife of golfer Tiger Woods.
He was also involved into the Iran-Contra and Watergate investigations.
Last month, President Trump hired his own lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, to handle Russia-related investigations by the FBI and US congressional committees.
The latest media reports say the obstruction of justice investigation began just days after Mr Trump fired Mr Comey on 9 May.
Mr Comey, who had been leading one of several Russia inquiries, testified to Congress last week that the president had pressured him to drop the inquiry into Mr Flynn.
Mr Flynn stepped down as the president's national security adviser in February after failing to reveal the extent of his contacts with Sergei Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to Washington.
Mr Comey testified under oath that Mr Trump had told him during a private meeting: "I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go."
The White House has said the president "has never asked Mr Comey or anyone else to end any investigation, including any investigation involving General Flynn".
Mr Comey said he was "sure" Mr Mueller was looking at whether Mr Trump had obstructed justice.
But Mr Comey also testified that to his knowledge the president had not tried to stop the Russia investigation.
Gwilliam was captain of Wales when they won Five Nations Championship Grand Slams in 1950 and 1952.
He was also in the team that beat the All Blacks 13-8 in Cardiff in 1953.
Away from rugby, he served as a tank commander during the Second World War and was headmaster of the independent Birkenhead School from 1963 to 1988.
Born in Pontypridd, number eight Gwilliam played 23 times for Wales between 1947 and 1954, and captained the team in 11 of those games.
When he led Wales in the 21-0 win over France in Cardiff in 1950, it ended a 39-year wait for a Grand Slam after the first "Golden Era" had yielded three in four seasons between 1908 and 1911.
They did not have long to wait for the next, with Gwilliam captaining the team to a clean sweep in 1952, with France beaten 9-6 at St Helen's in Swansea in the final game.
By 19 December 1953, Gwilliam had relinquished the captaincy to Bleddyn Williams, but was a still a key player as Wales beat the All Blacks at Cardiff Arms Park.
Wales have failed to beat New Zealand since.
Gwilliam was educated at Monmouth School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
He played for the Light Blues and went on to appear for Newport, Llanelli, London Welsh, Wasps, Edinburgh Wanderers and Gloucester.
He was commissioned as an officer in the Royal Tank Regiment in 1942 and saw action in Europe during the Second World War before returning to university to complete his studies.
Gwilliam was described as a physically imposing, religious and austere, and he is remembered at Birkenhead School as a strict disciplinarian.
He was inducted into the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame in 2005, and was a distant relative of ex-Wales football international midfielder Jack Collison.
Jean Hatchet, who writes under a pseudonym, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme she was asked to start fundraising by other women.
Mr Evans's 2012 rape conviction was quashed in April, and he was cleared last week of raping the 19-year-old.
She has been subjected to abuse online and has also had her identity revealed.
Ms Hatchet's fundraising is set to be split between a donation to charity Rape Crisis, which supports women going through the courts in rape trials, and the woman complainant. It has raised more than £19,500 so far out of a goal of £50,000.
The blogger said the efforts made to raise money for the woman were "not about financial support, but about showing that we care and offering solidarity".
She said "there was such a strong feeling among women" about the case, and disappointment that the complainant's sexual history had been brought up in court.
"They wanted to show support. So they got on to me and said they weren't in a position to brave the online abuse which would come, but wanted me to help.
"We wanted to let this woman know that the abusive voices online are not the majority of the British public. We wanted to show support and solidarity."
The complainant in the case, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also had to change her name and move house after being identified on social media following the first trial.
She was named and abused again on social media soon after Mr Evans was cleared. He has issued a statement dissociating himself from anyone naming the woman in the case.
Ms Hatchet said she has contacted the woman through the police team who worked with her, to see if she will accept the money.
"We don't care what she spends it on, but we hope she will accept it, or if not nominate a charity to give it to instead."
She also said the woman wanted to thank those people who have offered their support.
Ms Hatchet said she has "no idea" about reports that the woman is looking to emigrate. "I'm not raising money to send anyone abroad," Ms Hatchet added.
Details of the woman's past sexual behaviour were heard during the second trial, a move criticised by some - including former solicitor general Vera Baird QC - and which Ms Hatchet described as "callous and cruel".
She said: "I'm afraid that the use of previous sexual history will be used more in rape trials in future, because it has now been used in a high-profile one."
Ms Hatchet had been a persistent critic of Mr Evans's attempts to return to football after his conviction for rape.
He was released from prison in October 2014, having served half of his five-year sentence. The former Wales international was then courted by several clubs, including his former team Sheffield United.
However, there was a public outcry against attempts for him to be re-signed by the club, and Ms Hatchet started a petition - which gained about 170,000 supporters - calling on Sheffield United to not reinstate him.
The League One side backtracked amid heavy criticism from supporters and club patrons including Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill.
But Ms Hatchet has also faced online abuse for her campaigns against Mr Evans, and for this latest fundraising drive.
She says one male blogger has harassed her online "pretty much every day for two years", and that she was sent a message on Twitter from someone who "said he liked the idea of someone coming to my house and caving my skull in".
She says this vitriol has come from a "small section of men - and it is men - who are unable to cope with the fact that women are kind and supportive to each other. They even hate men who stand up for other women".
She added: "The misogynistic abuse I've received is tiring and upsetting, but the way I receive messages from women who say my efforts have helped them, more than outweighs any negative voices."
The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.
Police found mobile phone footage of Shaun Davis, from Northampton, driving several high performance cars when he was arrested on an unrelated matter.
One video showed him reach a speed of 192mph (309kmh) in a Nissan GTR.
The 42-year-old was jailed for 28 months after being found guilty of four counts of dangerous driving.
Northampton Crown Court heard Davis, of Woodpecker Drive, had shown "no regard for the safety of other motorists, pedestrians or himself".
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The court was told he had filmed his speeding on several occasions on Northamptonshire roads, including the A45, between 2012 and 2014.
Davis had denied all the charges.
Det Insp Greg Maides, of Northamptonshire Police, said officers found "multiple videos" on Davis' mobile phone after he was arrested earlier this year.
He said footage showed him "driving grossly in excess of the maximum national speed limit with no regard for the safety of other motorists, pedestrians or himself".
Responding to the sentence, the charity, the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) described Davis' actions as "criminally dangerous".
A Freedom of Information request by the IAM in February revealed Britain's two worst speeders had been caught at 146 mph by speed cameras, both by Kent Police on the M25.
A spokesman said 192mph was "certainly way, way above that recorded by a speed camera".
Director of policy and research Neil Greig, said: "You simply cannot control a vehicle at that kind of speed on a normal road - he would have been covering about three miles a minute.
"It's not just about controlling his own vehicle - you have to think about other road users too."
192 mph
Shaun Davis filmed himself in Northamptonshire while speeding
146 mph Two drivers were caught by Kent Police on the M25
145 mph was the speed reached by a motorist on the M6 Toll road
140 mph was clocked on the 60mph A5 near Crick, Daventry
128 mph recorded on the 30mph limit London Road, East Grinstead
Davis was also given a 10-year driving ban and must take an extended re-test before getting his licence back.
His daughter, Jordan, 23, of Hove Road, Rushden, was found guilty of encouraging dangerous driving and was given a two-year driving disqualification and an 18-month conditional discharge.
Police said the footage showed her encouraging her father to drive at excess speeds.
The building, 48 Paultons Square in Chelsea, was home to writer Samuel Beckett in 1934 and physicist Patrick Blackett from 1953 to 1969.
The Irish writer lived there for seven months while undergoing psychoanalysis.
The plaques will be unveiled by Downton Abbey actress Penelope Wilton and astronomer royal Arnold Wolfendale.
Beckett was still looking for literary work when he underwent therapy, paid for by his mother, after his father's death.
His first full-length work, the short story collection More Pricks Than Kicks, was published while he was at the Chelsea house.
The Waiting for Godot playwright won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969.
Blackett, described on his blue plaque as a physicist and scientific adviser, was known for his revolutionary work in U-boat detection, ground-breaking research into cosmic rays and the discovery, with a colleague, of the positive electron.
He was also hailed as one of the heroes of the Battle of the Atlantic. He had already won the Nobel Prize for Physics, in 1948, before he lived at the house.
Ronald Hutton, chairman of the English Heritage blue plaque panel, called Blackett and Beckett "giants in their fields" and added: "These two plaques mark their achievements and celebrate their connection to London."
There are now 19 properties in London which have double blue plaques, including:
So far, about 150 nations have promised the UN to curb (NB: Not cut) CO2 emissions, but analysts say the pledges are not enough.
One think-tank, Climate Analytics, estimates promises so far will lead to a global temperature rise of about 2.7C - well over the 2C "safety threshold".
At the Morocco meeting of 36 nations, governments will judge the pledges for themselves.
The EU proposed at previous climate talks that the UN should hold a meeting before the Paris climate summit at the end of next month to determine the size of what's known as the "emissions gap" - the shortfall between actions governments have promised and actions scientists say are needed.
China blocked that proposal, nervous of being asked to improve on its long-term climate plan, which it already considers more than adequate.
So the EU has taken the initiative to host the Rabat gathering in conjunction with the hosts of next year's UN climate talks, Morocco.
The US and India will take part with others, including the UK, Germany, several African nations and Australia, which has been heavily criticised over the adequacy of its pledge on emissions.
Miguel Arias Canete, EU commissioner for energy and climate action, said the meeting would not be "a punitive exercise which points its fingers at other countries". But China has not been persuaded.
The pledges process is the first time that rich and poor nations have all agreed action plans to tackle climate change together. It is a marked departure from previous "rich versus poor" climate negotiations, and already is being hailed as a diplomatic success (albeit a scientific failure).
Nick Nuttall from Unep, the UN body overseeing the Paris talks, told BBC News: "Without these action plans, we would be heading for a much higher temperature rise - 3C, 4C... some would say even more. What has been put on the table is a floor, not a ceiling, and it is bending the curve quite dramatically.
"We are talking about changing two centuries based on the burning of fossil fuels into a world where fossil fuels will become something of the past. So this is an amazing start."
Bill Hare from Climate Analytics told BBC News: "There is a lot of progress but it's not enough. A lot of countries are not going as far as they could - or even as far as would be in their long-term interests."
He said if governments managed to create policies to deliver their current pledges, "we estimate median warming of around 2.7C, likely below 3C.
"After 3C, we see severe risk to food production, particularly in regions of the world that are already extremely vulnerable to hunger and malnutrition. At 3C, for many parts of world - including Europe, America and Australia - water will be severely at risk.
"Two degrees warming would avoid some of the worst problems, particularly for food production and drought. It would lower the level of sea-level rise, heatwaves and damage to economies. But it is still not safe for many regions."
Indeed, some vulnerable states say global temperature should be allowed to rise no more than 1C - a level we have almost reached already.
Mr Hare's projections are based on computer model findings from the global climate assessment authority, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Some thinkers believe these models exaggerate likely warming. Others warn the models can't foresee potentially irreversible sudden shifts in the climate.
Governments have collectively resolved that the risks of dangerous climate change are so huge, it's imperative to cut emissions, but there is a divergence between what the pledges appear to promise and real investment trends.
Mr Hare said he was very worried about the rising trend of coal in South-East Asia, which he said could keep emissions high for many decades to come.
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The UK government has said Wales will get around £130m a year from its share of the levy, being introduced in April.
All employers with a wage bill of more than £3m a year will pay 0.5% on it.
Julie James told AMs that the proceeds would be offset by cuts in funding elsewhere, and the loss of £30m that Welsh public sector employers will have to pay the UK Treasury on the levy.
Former Chancellor George Osborne announced the plan to raise £3bn to fund apprenticeships in England in his 2015 Autumn Statement.
All employers with an annual wage bill of more than £3m will pay a levy of 0.5% of the total.
As skills policy is devolved, the money would not necessarily be spent on apprenticeships in Wales.
Instead, the Welsh Government is entitled to a population-based share of the proceeds under the UK Treasury's Barnett formula, to be spent as ministers see fit.
The UK government confirmed on Monday that Scotland will get £221m, Wales £128m and Northern Ireland £76m in the first year of the levy, rising after two years to £239m, £138m and £82m respectively.
Questioned by AMs on Tuesday about the prospect of extra money, Ms James said: "The figures that have been released by the UK Treasury do not mean significant new money is coming to Wales.
"They do not take into account reductions made to comparable English programmes, including apprenticeships, and need to be considered as part of the bigger picture, which shows - you'll not be surprised to learn - real terms cuts to the funding available to Wales over the next few years.
"Nor do they show the effect of some £30m which will be paid back to the Treasury by Welsh public service providers through the levy."
Ms James added: "The levy is nothing more than a UK government employment tax which directly conflicts with areas of devolved competence.
"We have our own distinct and very popular approach to apprenticeships ... and this just cuts directly across it.
"Not only do we not have any new money, but clearly all our public services have to pay the levy and so they're deprived of funds.
"It makes no sense at all and we're very cross about it."
A UK Treasury spokesman said it was up to the devolved administrations to decide how the cash would be allocated.
"The levy will provide the Welsh Government with £128m in the first year alone, and puts this funding on a sustainable footing so more and better quality apprenticeships can be created," he said.
The Welsh Government has pledged to create at least 100,000 high quality all-age apprenticeships over the next five years.
The Welsh Conservatives' skills spokesman, Mohammad Asghar, said it was "vital" the proceeds of the levy were reinvested in training and "not frittered away on Labour's pet projects".
"Welsh Conservatives have long called for this money to be ring-fenced to support businesses but Labour's resistance could act as an incentive to take jobs out of the country and discourage potential investors from bringing new jobs to Wales," he said.
A Welsh Government spokeswoman said ministers were planning to spend more on apprenticeships - £111m a year - than they expected to receive from the UK levy.
Plaid Cymru AM Simon Thomas told the Senedd he was concerned for employers such as North Wales Police, which he said did not offer apprenticeships but would still have to pay the levy.
Mr Burnham told the BBC he had not forgiven the paper for its coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.
He said he did not do "special favours" for papers "attacking" him or Labour.
The Sun has not come out in support of any of the four candidates but has praised Liz Kendall, describing her as "the only prayer [the party] have".
Asked specifically about the Sun, Mr Burnham told the BBC's Sunday Politics North West : "I give interviews generally and people can report my words. But I don't do special favours for newspapers that attack me and attack my party."
He remains critical of the paper's coverage of the Hillsborough tragedy - its reporting prompted a campaign to boycott The Sun on Merseyside. The newspaper has apologised several times for its stories.
Ninety-five Liverpool supporters were killed in a crush of fans at Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield on 15 April 1989, where the club was playing an FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest.
The 96th victim was in a coma for three years and died in 1992.
During his interview with the BBC, Mr Burnham also said that while he admired former Prime Minister Tony Blair, he believed he got too close to the concerns of business and the media.
He said: "I was a member of his government and I in the end, you'll remember, went to Anfield in 2009 and we saw what happened when a Labour city expressed its feelings that a Labour government that hadn't been listening to it.
"And why? Because I saw Tony at times get too close to vested interests in business and the media.
"So close that his government couldn't hear a whole city crying injustice. Now that would never happen under my leadership."
Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt, who had been a possible leadership contender at one stage, told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show he would not be taking a similar stand against the Sun.
A lot of Sun readers were Labour voters, he said. "We need to reach out to those votes - we need as many friends as possible."
The other leadership hopefuls are Jeremy Corbyn, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall.
The fee for the 25-year-old forward, who has agreed a four-year contract, could rise by a further £5m.
Benteke joined the Reds for £32.5m in July 2015 and scored 10 goals, but started only eight Premier League games under new boss Jurgen Klopp.
He becomes Palace's fourth signing of the summer after Andros Townsend, James Tomkins and Steve Mandanda.
"I'm very happy to commit my future to Crystal Palace," said former Aston Villa player Benteke, who has six goals in 26 games for his country.
Deila returned to his homeland to manage Valerenga and he will be happy to advise his former side on their Norwegian rivals.
"That's no problem," Deila said. "I'll also [speak to] Rosenborg if they call.
"It's a difficult situation because I want Norwegian football to succeed and I want Celtic to succeed."
After knocking Linfield out of the Champions League second qualifying round, Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers said that Deila might be a source of information on Rosenborg, with the sides meeting at Celtic Park next Wednesday.
Deila is happy to help out his successor, as well as the Norwegian champions, but he expects Celtic to be victorious over the two legs.
"If I can help with information to Celtic or Rosenborg I will do it, but I don't think I am going to be the most important part of this tie, it will be the players," Deila said.
"Celtic are big favourites, but Rosenborg is a team with a lot of tradition and they have everything to win in this tie.
"Also, they are in the middle of their season and they should be in the best shape, so that is an opportunity for them.
"But Celtic is a better team, better player by player and also with their experience in Europe.
"However, it is positive for Rosenborg that they are away in the first leg.
"They will need to get a good result at Celtic Park. They have no chance if they have a bad result at Celtic Park, then the game is finished."
Rosenborg are top of the Norwegian Eliteserien after 17 games, five points clear, and with only two defeats.
They progressed with a 3-2 aggregate win over Dundalk, needing extra time to prevail in Trondheim, while Celtic eased to a 6-0 win against Linfield over two legs.
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He will be replaced by CBS's president and chief executive Leslie Moonves.
There is now speculation that Mr Redstone will also step down as chairman of Viacom, which owns MTV, Nickelodeon and other media assets.
Mr Redstone, who is 92 years of age, has been facing questions and legal action around his ability to lead the companies.
Last year, Mr Redstone's former partner Manuela Herzer filed a lawsuit alleging he was mentally incapable of making decisions.
As part of that legal battle, last week Mr Redstone underwent a mental examination. The results of that test are yet to be made public.
Mr Redstone owns an 80% voting stake in CBS and its sister company Viacom.
His replacement at CBS, Mr Moonves, has served as president and chief executive of the firm since 2006, when it was split off from Viacom. He was widely seen as the successor.
Mr Redstone will become chairman emeritus of CBS and will continue to serve as the executive chairman of Viacom.
His daughter Shari Redstone will continue to serve on CBS's board.
The 45-year-old was placed under formal investigation on 6 March, but magistrates are deciding whether to remand him in custody.
Several alleged victims attended the morning hearing.
The suspect denies the charges, with his lawyer saying there are "real weaknesses" in the case against him.
He is accused of carrying out the premeditated poisonings over a nine-year period from 2008 at two clinics - the Franche-Comté and Saint-Vicente - in Besançon, a city in eastern France.
The suspect is said to have been well-regarded in his field.
According to the investigation, "lethal doses of potassium and anaesthetic" were administered to seven patients, aged from 37 to 53.
They all suffered cardiac arrest, said French news provider Europe1, quoting a judge.
A 53-year-old man died in 2008 during a kidney operation, and a 51-year-old woman died in 2016 during an operation on a fracture.
About 40 other poisoning cases dating from the last 20 years are also being investigated, reported AFP news agency. They account for about 20 additional fatalities.
The agency quoted the suspect's lawyer, Randall Schwerdorffer, as arguing for him to remain at liberty on €60,000 (£52,000; $64,000) bail and barred from medical practice.
Prosecutors are pressing for him to be placed in custody, underlining the gravity of the charges and arguing it is necessary for the investigation to proceed "without pressure".
America's highest court also granted a White House request allowing part of its refugee ban to go into effect.
The justices said they would consider in October whether the president's policy should be upheld or struck down.
Mr Trump seeks to place a 90-day ban on people from six mainly Muslim nations and a 120-day ban on refugees.
The president welcomed the ruling's qualified authorisation to bar visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, which he described as "terror-prone countries".
"As president, I cannot allow people into our country who want to do us harm," he added.
Mr Trump has already said the ban would take effect within 72 hours of court approval.
The Supreme Court said in Monday's decision: "In practical terms, this means that [the executive order] may not be enforced against foreign nationals who have a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.
"All other foreign nationals are subject to the provisions of [the executive order]."
The ruling also said it would permit a 120-day ban on all refugees entering the US to go into effect, allowing the government to bar entry to refugee claimants who do not have any "bona fide relationship" with an American individual or entity.
Mark this down as a win for Donald Trump. The path to entry into the US for immigrants and refugees from the affected nations, if they don't have existing ties to the US - either through family, schools or employment - just became considerably harder.
The decision marks a reaffirmation of the sweeping powers the president has traditionally been granted by the courts in areas of national security. There was fear in some quarters that the administration's ham-fisted implementation of its immigration policy could do lasting damage to the president's prerogatives. That appears not to be the case.
The government, the justices write, has a "compelling need to provide for the nation's security". That includes being able to close the borders based on an evaluation of the potential of foreign threats - at least for now.
The Supreme Court justices will fully consider the arguments on both sides next autumn. Of course, by that time it may not matter. The administration has three months to conduct its "executive review" of immigration policy and devise new guidelines.
In the meantime, the gates to America just got a bit smaller.
Big win for Trump and his travel ban
The ruling clarifies that those who would be deemed to have such a relationship would include a foreign national who wishes to enter the US to live with or visit a family member, a student at an American university, an employee of a US company, or a lecturer invited to address an American audience.
This would not apply, it said, to "someone who enters into a relationship simply to avoid [the executive order].
"For example, a non-profit group devoted to immigration issues may not contact foreign nationals from the designated countries, add them to client lists, and then secure their entry by claiming injury from their exclusion."
Yes. Three of the court's conservative justices - Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch - wrote that they would have allowed the travel ban to go into full effect.
Justice Thomas said the government's interest in preserving national security outweighs any hardship to people denied entry into the country.
Mr Trump restored a 5-4 conservative majority to the Supreme Court when his nominee, Justice Gorsuch, joined its bench in April.
There are five Republican appointees on the court and four Democratic appointees.
The US president insisted his ban was necessary for national security amid a slew of terrorist attacks in Paris, London, Brussels, Berlin and other cities. However, critics called the policy un-American and Islamophobic, and the lower courts broadly seemed to agree.
The president's policy was left in limbo after it was struck down by federal judges in Hawaii and Maryland days following its issuance on 6 March.
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, said in May the ban was "rooted in religious animus" toward Muslims.
The San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said in June: "National security is not a 'talismanic incantation' that, once invoked, can support any and all exercise of executive power."
The original ban, released on 27 January, provoked mass protests at American airports.
It included Iraq among nations whose travellers would be barred from the US, and imposed a full ban on refugees from Syria.
The president issued a revised version with a narrower scope on 6 March to overcome some of the legal problems.
But Mr Trump was unhappy about having to do so, calling it a "watered down, politically correct" version of the first one.
Brendan Rodgers' side had the better of the Hampden match with Scott Sinclair, Tom Rogic, Dembele and Stuart Armstrong drawing saves from Matt Gilks.
Erik Sviatchenko had a goal disallowed for Celtic and Sinclair's free-kick was touched on to the bar by Gilks.
But there was to be a winner, Dembele's heel converting Leigh Griffiths' cross.
Rangers, 5-1 losers at Celtic Park last month, were restricted to counter-attacks, the best of which ended with Jason Holt's shot being blocked well by Jozo Simunovic.
Celtic will return to Hampden to face the Dons on Sunday 27 November.
This captivating semi-final set off at a fair old lick and barely let up all day. It was altogether different to the one-sided encounter at Celtic Park, on the scoreboard at least. Celtic had a huge array of chances but were met with stiff Rangers resistance, most notably from their goalkeeper Gilks.
In the beginning there was controversy. When is there not in this fixture? In the 14th minute, Barrie McKay crashed to the floor in the box under a challenge from Simunovic. The Rangers fans screamed for a penalty. Craig Thomson, the referee, went the opposite way, booking McKay for a dive.
Dembele dived in the Rangers penalty area soon after and got away with it. Not that it needed it, but the intensity cranked up another notch in those moments.
Celtic had so many opportunities but they did not have the ruthlessness of before. They attacked off a Lee Wallace blunder and when Dembele put Sinclair through, Gilks denied him.
Gilks, in the team ahead of Wes Foderingham as per previous rounds of the competition, then almost gifted Celtic a goal when passing directly to Rogic. Had the Australian hit a shot first time he surely would have scored from such close range. Had he squared to a team-mate, it was a goal. Instead, he took a touch and got crowded out. A terrible waste.
In the early minutes of the second half, Sviatchenko headed home only for Thomson to rule it out for a foul on Clint Hill. It was another big call by the referee - and a harsh one. The foul on the defender was highly questionable.
Rangers had their first shot on target in the 50th minute, a tame effort by James Tavernier, playing further forward on the right with Lee Hodson selected at right-back. Celtic drove on. Sinclair forced another save from Gilks after Rangers were sliced open in defence. Then, Rogic had a snapshot that went just wide.
One-way traffic, for sure, but what an almighty scare Rangers gave their rivals just before the hour when Holt had a point-blank shot blocked down by Simunovic. Either side of the big defender and Holt would surely have landed a sucker blow.
Celtic continued to pile on the pressure and create a mountain of chances. Dembele scuffed a shot from close in, then a Sinclair free-kick somehow stayed out, Gilks getting a touch on it and putting it on to the crossbar.
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By now, Griffiths was on the field and Celtic were playing two up front. Stuart Armstrong was also on as Rodgers went for the Rangers jugular. It was Armstrong who had the next chance, seven minutes from time, but once again the quite brilliant Gilks kicked away his effort.
With three minutes left, it looked like extra time beckoned, but no. There was a dramatic last act. Celtic hoofed it out of defence and Wallace lost a physical tussle with Griffiths, who scampered away from him down the right.
He delivered his low cross with the outside of his left boot to Dembele running in at the near post. What Dembele did next was delicious - an improvised back-heel that beat the seemingly unbeatable Gilks. A wonderful goal that finally broke Rangers and sent Celtic into the final, giving Rodgers an early chance to claim the first trophy of his Celtic tenure.
Match ends, Rangers 0, Celtic 1.
Second Half ends, Rangers 0, Celtic 1.
Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Celtic. Cristian Gamboa replaces James Forrest.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Matthew Gilks.
Attempt saved. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Goal! Rangers 0, Celtic 1. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Leigh Griffiths.
Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Matthew Gilks.
Attempt saved. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Clint Hill (Rangers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Rangers. Conceded by Jozo Simunovic.
Attempt blocked. Joseph Dodoo (Rangers) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Scott Brown (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Andy Halliday (Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic).
Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Martyn Waghorn (Rangers).
Joe Garner (Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic).
Attempt missed. James Forrest (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Rangers. Joseph Dodoo replaces Barrie McKay.
Attempt missed. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. James Tavernier (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. James Forrest (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Celtic. Leigh Griffiths replaces Tomas Rogic.
Substitution, Rangers. Joe Garner replaces Josh Windass.
Substitution, Rangers. Martyn Waghorn replaces Kenny Miller.
Foul by Josh Windass (Rangers).
Jozo Simunovic (Celtic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Scott Sinclair (Celtic) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.
Foul by Andy Halliday (Rangers).
Scott Brown (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Lee Wallace (Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tomas Rogic (Celtic).
Attempt missed. Josh Windass (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Celtic. Stuart Armstrong replaces Nir Bitton.
The blast, which ripped through a shopping area, injured dozens more.
Initial reports suggested an electricity generator exploded, but police later said that it may have been a bomb.
Pakistan has been hit by a wave of bombings claimed by Islamist militant groups in recent days. There was no immediate claim for the latest blast.
It happened in Lahore's Defence Housing Authority suburb. Television footage showed buildings, cars and motorbikes damaged by the explosion.
The provincial Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) said that investigators had found traces of explosive material at the site and were trying to establish how and why it was in the building.
Local police chief Haider Ashraf said the blast was in an area that was under construction, adding that work was being carried out by staff at the time.
"Our focus at the moment is to rush the victims to hospitals and secure the scene," Mr Ashraf said shortly after the incident on Thursday.
One witness, Asif, said he saw people lying on the ground before police and security officers arrived.
"As I am not a doctor, it was difficult to tell how many were wounded and how many were dead. But they were many," Asif said.
Last week a Taliban faction said it carried out a bomb attack in Lahore, which killed 13 people and wounded more than 80.
Days later a suicide bomb attack at a shrine in the southern town of Sehwan was claimed by the so-called Islamic State (IS). Police now say 90 people were killed.
In response, Pakistan launched a security crackdown, which included closing border crossings with Afghanistan, and claims it killed 100 militants.
Wallace, 27, the world number 242, shot a final round 69 at the Morgado Golf Resort to finish three shots clear of American Julian Suri.
He finished on 21-under-par and becomes only the second player on the tour this season to win from start to finish.
It was Wallace's fifth start on the European Tour having made the step up from the Alps Tour last year.
"It's the best feeling ever," he said after lifting the trophy. "It's always been a dream to win on the European Tour.
"Those first two days were really easy, that third day was the hardest day of my life and today was tough but it's so satisfying and I'm really happy."
Wallace shot 17 birdies on the first 36 holes and a level-par round on day three left him with a three-shot lead over German Sebastian Heisele going into the final day.
Wallace held off a surge from Suri on Sunday and becomes just the second winner since 2013 to card three bogey-free rounds on his way to victory.
Janet Hart told BBC Scotland that Alexander Gartshore, who died in 2006, attacked her two years after her 11-year-old sister vanished in Coatbridge.
She said police spoke to her after the incident, but nothing more was done.
Ms Hart now lives in Australia, and has come to Scotland to mark the 60th anniversary since Moira disappeared.
She told BBC Scotland she was out during her lunch hour from school when a man called her over to his car.
"He had the bonnet up at the side," she said.
"He told me to hold his dipstick, and under he went and up - groping me.
"I dropped the dipstick and ran."
She said she turned back to note down his registration plate.
Two policewomen came to the school and spoke to Ms Hart, but she said "nothing more was heard".
"Wouldn't you think something would have happened then?" she said.
Afterwards, the school rector spoke to pupils and advised them to go around the community in pairs, she said.
"That was Alexander Gartshore, I identified him, I remembered him so clearly," she said.
"Luckily I was in an area I could get away - it was broad daylight.
"Unfortunately Moira was trapped on his bus."
The last time Moira was seen, she was boarding a local Baxter's bus. But detectives appear to have failed to follow it up properly at the time.
Had they done so, they would have discovered that the bus driver was Alexander Gartshore, who was on bail at the time facing charges of raping his children's babysitter.
Later that year, he was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in prison for the rape of the babysitter.
Ms Hart said Moira was a tomboy who was full of fun, who loved to buy magic tricks and "play fun on everyone".
She said her sister also had a serious side.
"She wanted to be a missionary and she wanted to go to Africa," she said.
"She wanted to give herself to God."
Ms Hart said the Moira Anderson Foundation was her sister's legacy and was continuing to support children who needed help.
"Children now have a voice and someone who will listen," she said.
She was joined at the commemoration by Sandra Brown, the daughter of Alexander Gartshore.
Ms Brown was convinced her father was the killer and campaigned to have him charged.
In 2014, prosecutors took the unusual step of announcing that Mr Gartshore would have faced prosecution for the schoolgirl's murder if he were still alive.
Police have launched a final bid to find the remains of Moira.
Detectives are to examine specific locations in Coatbridge where Moira's body may have been hidden.
Ms Hart said: "I feel that this time that if she is to be found she will be found."
The comments, suggesting that colonialism was not all negative, are likely to roll back some of the significant gains made by the DA into black areas where the electorate is disillusioned with the governing African National Congress.
The DA is already under pressure to take decisive action against Helen Zille for her posts and the party has asked their federal legal commission to investigate the case.
But the controversy will be seen as a major setback ahead of the general election due in 2019 and they come at a time when the ANC itself has been engulfed in a litany of corruption scandals.
The tweets were posted on Thursday.
Radio and television talk shows have been inundated with callers expressing their dismay at the Western Cape premier's tweets.
One caller on local talk radio 702 said praising some aspects of colonialism "is a bit like saying the holocaust was bad but Hitler's engineers were great".
The pressure is now on the young and charismatic black leader of the DA Mmusi Maimane to take a clear and unambiguous stance on this saga.
He replaced Ms Zille as party leader in 2015 with a mission to make the DA, historically seen as a party dominated by whites, more attractive to the black majority.
Last year, the DA gained ground in local elections, taking control of cities such as Johannesburg, Pretoria and Port Elizabeth.
Although it gained 27% of the national vote against 54% for the governing ANC, many analysts had raised the real prospect that the party could take power in 2019 if it continued its upward trajectory.
Especially if the ANC remains bogged down in scandal and in-fighting.
But that progress is now under threat.
What angered many black South Africans, who took to social media to express their disgust, is that these tweets were not just a one-off.
In March 2012, the former DA leader was heavily criticised for describing school children leaving the Eastern Cape education system for the Western Cape as "refugees".
Expressing this kind of thinking in a country that is still fresh from the ravages of the brutal system of apartheid was imprudent to say the least - particularly with her journalism background and extensive coverage of the injustices of white minority rule on the black majority.
In her days as a young newspaper journalist, she eloquently reported about the death of anti-apartheid hero Steve Biko who was killed in police cells in September 1977.
Stories of racial intolerance are reported on a daily basis in South Africa's newspapers.
People accept that there are white supremacists in this country even 23 years after Nelson Mandela was elected the first black president.
But to hear this line of thinking from someone from a group seen as the most progressive in the country has been described as "gut-wrenching".
There are many people who are obviously deeply disappointed by these primitive thoughts.
But for the many black supporters who have walked away from their traditionally left-leaning political parties and joined the DA, it must be cutting like a knife.
Mr Maimane has to demonstrate that under his watch, the DA cannot be seen to be a party of "Uncle Toms".
His inaction so far will certainly give ammunition to those who had been hurling insults at him, suggesting he was just a black face brought in to legitimise a party representing the interests of the white minority.
On the other hand Mr Maimane also needs to hold on to the traditional white liberal establishment vote.
He does not want to send a wrong message which will sound to his white supporters like the Pan Africanist Congress chant of the 1990s - "one-settler-one bullet."
So he has a difficult balance to strike.
Ironically this controversy comes on "anti-racism" week, an annual campaign by the Nelson Mandela and Ahmed Kathrada Foundations aimed at discouraging people from racist behaviour in their daily lives.
Ms Zille's spokesperson, Michael Mpofu, himself a black man, tried to explain the comment away.
"It is important for us to clarify that she was not defending colonialism, she was referring to the Singaporean nation on how they have built a successful economy and she will be responding," he said.
Ms Zille did apologise via the same medium. But the horse had already bolted.
However, sadly for the DA this is not the first time some of its most prominent leaders have been hauled over the coals for making politically incorrect racial comments.
Two years ago, Dianne Kolher-Barnard a DA MP who was the shadow police minister, shared a post on social media suggesting that life had been better under former apartheid leader P W Botha.
She was sanctioned and demoted from her shadow police minister position as a consequence.
Another party supporter Penny Sparrow was forced to resign from the DA after she likened black beach goers in Durban to "monkeys" on Facebook.
And in May 2015, when Mr Maimane was elected at a party conference, the late veteran journalist Allister Sparks, spoke of his admiration for the architect of apartheid Hendrik Verwoerd.
All three were forced to apologise.
Political analyst Ralph Mathekga said Ms Zille's position is untenable and this time the DA must be bold.
"I don't think she's still fit to continue to lead the party as premier of the province. This is a major issue and she's exposing the DA very unnecessarily," he said.
Women in England will be able to get Kadcyla through the Cancer Drugs Fund, but the price tag per patient - £90,000 at full cost - is too high to widen access, say the draft NICE guidelines.
NICE criticised manufacturer Roche for not making it more affordable.
Roche says discussions are continuing, meaning a resolution is still possible.
Kadcyla can add about six months of life to women with incurable disease.
It is used to treat people with HER2-positive breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body and cannot be surgically removed.
Roche, recently agreed a significant price discount with NHS England to stop the drug being taken off the Cancer Drugs Fund - a special fund set up by the government to help people in England access costly cancer drugs that are not routinely available on the NHS.
But the Swiss pharmaceutical company offered a different, smaller discount to NICE for regular NHS use of Kadcyla (Trastuzumab Emtansine) in England and Wales.
NICE says this undisclosed figure is still too high to justify against the drug's clinical merits.
Any person currently receiving the treatment can continue until they and their doctor consider it appropriate to stop, however.
Kadcyla is not available on the NHS in Scotland either.
Sir Andrew Dillon, NICE chief executive, said: "We recognise that Kadcyla has a place in treating some patients with advanced breast cancer, and we have been as flexible as we can in making our recommendation. However, the price that the manufacturer is asking the NHS to pay in the long term is too high."
Roche and other consultees now have until November 17 to challenge the draft guidance.
Roche said: "We need a unified approach, and, moving forward, it is imperative that we work together to build a pragmatic, flexible and sustainable system for assessing medicines that prioritises clinical value. Only then will we be able to ensure the best outcomes for people with cancer in the UK.
"This announcement comes less than two weeks after Kadcyla was retained on the Cancer Drugs Fund. Roche has demonstrated that, when given the opportunity to come to the table with all parties, we can come to an agreement and do the right thing for patients."
Dr Caitlin Barrand, from the charity Breast Cancer Now, said the news was hugely disappointing.
"It's time that the prime minister showed real leadership on this issue," she said.
"People living with incurable cancer don't have time to lose, and a fairer, more flexible system that enables access to the best treatments available on a routine, UK-wide basis is long overdue."
The Cancer Drugs Fund is due to end in March 2016. The government says a replacement is likely to be brought in from April 2016, although there are no details yet.
"We arrived at 12 o'clock at night. It was dead quiet, and frightening to look at," Chaim Ferster says, remembering his first impressions of the notorious death camp.
"We could see from a distance that there were flames coming out from four chimneys. I didn't realise that this was the crematorium."
He had arrived in the middle of two-year ordeal, during which he endured horrific labour conditions, malnutrition and typhus, before finally being freed at the very moment he and his fellow prisoners had been rounded up to be shot, when Allied forces broke into the camp.
Born into an orthodox Jewish family and raised in the Polish town Sosnowiec, Mr Ferster was 17 when war broke out in 1939.
The great-grandfather remembers the rising fears of Jewish communities, as news of the German military expansion began to filter through.
Now aged 93 and living in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, where he settled in 1946, he said: "You could see planes flying over. [The Nazis] came over to Sosnowiec very fast.
"I remember the Jews were very concerned. Very, very concerned about what was going to happen."
Then came the rationing, widespread hunger and illness in the ghettos and, later, the transportation of thousands of Jewish families.
Mr Ferster said: "We'd got ration cards, and there wasn't much food in the shops to fulfil these rations cards.
"We had no medication. People were dying and life was very difficult. Then they assembled various leaders from town and they shot them, just like that."
In 1943, at the age of 20, Mr Ferster was forced from his home. Amid the chaos he had avoided being taken away a year earlier, when his mother and sister disappeared, and his father, Wolf, had died of pneumonia in 1942.
It was widely accepted that people picked up by the Gestapo never returned, Mr Ferster said.
With this in mind, a relative urged him to learn a skill that would make him useful to the Germans, prompting him to learn to fix sewing machines, becoming classed as a "mechanic" as a result.
Between 1943 and 1945 he was moved between eight different camps across Germany and Poland, enduring terrible conditions, in which many died.
At one stage Mr Ferster remembers being forced to shift blocks of cement from a wagon, in freezing weather.
"It was very, very cold, about minus 25 or minus 26," he said.
"The soldiers started beating us and shouting and saying you're not going fast enough. A lot of them couldn't stand it. They got pneumonia. Some of them died."
Towards the end of 1943, Mr Ferster fell seriously ill during an outbreak of typhus in one particular camp. Large numbers died.
Once again though he managed to survive, but describes a horrific scene that remains vivid in his memory.
"There were bodies lying on pallets, six one way, six the other way," he recalls. "There were many many pallets with bodies, very, very high."
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Eventually, Mr Ferster found himself moved to Auschwitz.
He remembers the infamous shower rooms, and the prisoners who were sent there.
"They put us into a block. All of us, one particular large block. Then the following morning, a selection of that block went into the shower room," he said.
"We went to the shower room. It's the same shower room that other people went in and the gas came in. But we got the water that came down and we washed ourselves."
Mr Ferster was one of the few who survived Auschwitz, which was eventually liberated in January 1945.
But in the spring of that year, with Germany losing the war, the Nazis accelerated the programme to liquidate Jewish prisoners.
As a result, Mr Ferster was among a group of prisoners who were marched across Germany to another notorious death camp - Buchenwald.
It was there that Mr Ferster believes he came closest to dying.
Prisoners were being summarily executed from day to day, and the very morning after he arrived Mr Ferster himself was rounded up with a group of fellow inmates, expecting a similar fate.
But, just as he and the others were gathered together, the camp was liberated.
"All of a sudden, the American planes were there and all the German soldiers ran away," he said.
"And after half an hour or an hour, an American tank drove through the gates and the soldiers were shouting, 'You're free, you're free!'."
He later discovered only two other members of his family survived the Holocaust - his sister Manya and cousin Regina.
Through tears, Mr Ferster added: "I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it."
After emigrating to England, he worked for a sewing machine repair business before later setting up a series of successful businesses.
Spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said "in no way was this a personal attack".
He said it was the Pope's long-standing belief that migrants should be helped and not shut behind walls.
Mr Trump initially dismissed the comments as "disgraceful", but later adopted a more conciliatory tone.
The row erupted after Pope Francis said "a person who thinks only about building walls... and not of building bridges, is not Christian", which was roundly condemned by the billionaire businessman.
But Father Lombardi told Vatican Radio on Friday that Mr Trump had not been singled out by Pope Francis and "nor was it an indication on how to vote" in the US presidential election.
He said the Pope believed people "should build bridges, not walls", referring to the thousands of migrants flocking onto European shores over the past 12 months.
"This is his general view, which is very consistent with courageously following the indications of the gospel on offering welcome and solidarity," he added.
The presidential candidate also softened his rhetoric later on Thursday, heaping praise on the Pope at a town hall event in South Carolina where he is leading the polls ahead of the state's primary on Saturday.
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"I have a lot of respect for the Pope. He has a lot of personality and I think he's doing a very good job, he has a lot of energy."
He said the pontiff was misinformed when he criticised the proposed wall, because he was not aware of the drugs coming in and the other security problems that made a strong border a necessity.
His anti-immigration stance is a central plank in his campaign - he wants to deport 11 million undocumented migrants and said Muslims should be temporarily barred from coming to the US.
The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll shows a five percentage point lead for Mr Trump in South Carolina - down by 11 points from compared to last month.
The greatest threat for Mr Trump, who has no political experience but won in New Hampshire, is Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who won the Iowa caucus.
The 18-year-old, who was Glasgow City's top goal scorer in 2016, will join the English side in January, when the WSL transfer window re-opens.
The former Rangers youngster made her senior international debut in June.
"This is a very exciting move for me which will benefit my career greatly," Cuthbert told Chelsea's club website.
"When Chelsea came knocking it felt like something I couldn't turn down. I know it is going to be a big step up but I believe in my ability."
Chelsea boss Emma Hayes added: "I'm am so excited about this signing. She's one for the future but with the ability to make an impact in the here and now."
Norway captain Maren Mjelde and Switzerland forward Ramona Bachmann have also already signed for Chelsea ahead of next season.
However, the beauty of Touch Rugby is that it's minimal contact. In other words, you don't get tackled.
There are also no scrums or kicking.
Also, unusually, men and women of all ages and abilities can play together.
All you need to be able to do, I'm told, is to run.
"Being able to catch and pass a ball helps, but it's not mandatory," says Peter Faassen de Heer of Scottish Touch.
That's lucky because, prior to this, I don't think I have ever thrown or caught a rugby ball.
"The game came from Rugby League originally," says Peter.
"In Rugby League you have six tackles. Here we have six touches before the ball changes hands to the other side."
I'm soon being put through my paces and I'm told to pass the ball backwards to my team mates, while running towards the try line.
The other team attempts to touch the player who is in possession of the ball.
I'm told the aim is to score a try before your team has been touched by the opposition six times.
Any words of wisdom, gleaned from Peter during my practise session, vanish as soon as I pluck up the courage to join in a proper game.
I spend about 10 minutes running forwards and backwards (mostly backwards).
I manage to catch, throw and drop the ball a few times, after it is thrown charitably in my direction.
However, I forget to keep an eye on my opponent, who has been sitting quietly on the wing, before she gracefully catches the ball and glides past me to score a try.
I use the moment, to slope off and catch my breath with the others who are watching the game on the sidelines.
Jackson Thirgood, who previously played Rugby Union, says he enjoys playing a mixed game.
"The girls are actually some of the best people on the pitch," he says.
Iona Smith says: "It's quite daunting at the start because all the boys have played rugby and seem to know what they are doing.
"But once you get the hang of it, it's really good fun."
Iona, and her friend Megan McLaren, have been coming for a year and were recently selected to play for the under 18s Scotland team.
Megan says: "I had no idea what I was doing at the start, but you learn quite quickly.
"I wouldn't have expected to play it as much or to have enjoyed it as much as I did."
Two weeks shy of 60, Dunkan Armstong is the oldest on the pitch. "It's completely inclusive," he says.
"Whatever age you are, whether you're male or female, you can play at any level.
"You can play for fun like we do here, or in a league, or internationally.
"You can come out enjoy being active in the great Scottish weather.
"It's awesome."
As I look around me on a wet Edinburgh afternoon in the Meadows, with the blossom trees in their full glory, and bits of grass stuck to my face, I decide he might just be right.
If you want to find out more about getting more physically active, take a look at the BBC Get Inspired website.
Retired nurse Christine McGuire, 67, from Stranraer, was killed when her car was struck near Penrith, Cumbria, on 7 January 2015.
Appearing at Carlisle Crown Court, Colin McLachlan pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving having previously denied the offence.
The 74-year-old, of Kilmarnock, will be sentenced in September.
Hunter Moore, 28, faces between two and seven years in prison, according to the US Attorney's Office.
He ran IsAnyoneUp.com, on which pictures were posted of naked women without their consent, and was once called "the most hated man on the internet".
Another man allegedly involved has pleaded not guilty and faces trial.
As well as running the site - where people often posted pictures of their ex-lovers, coining the term "revenge porn" - prosecutors said Moore had also enlisted a hacker to steal nude photos from email accounts.
Photos posted between 2010 and 2012 included pictures of an American Idol finalist, the daughter of a major US Republican party donor and a woman in a wheelchair, according to a 2012 article in Rolling Stone magazine.
Moore alleged in the agreement that he had paid Charles Evens to hack email accounts and steal photos.
Mr Evens, 26, of Los Angeles, pleaded not guilty and is scheduled for trial in March. He refused to comment.
Moore is due in court on Wednesday 25 February, although the Attorney's Office spokesman said sentencing could be postponed until March. Moore will also be required to inform his parole officer every time he uses a new device capable of accessing the internet.
Moore was arrested in January 2014 after an FBI investigation. He had previously been ordered to pay $250,000 (£170,000) in damages for defamation after a civil lawsuit.
He was found to have made false claims on Twitter that James McGibney, the chief executive of an anti-bullying website, was a paedophile who possessed child pornography.
The businessman, who owns Sky News and The Sun, wrote: "AUST gets wake-call with Sydney terror.
"Only Daily Telegraph caught the bloody outcome at 2.00 am. Congrats."
He was labelled "heartless" and "insensitive" by Twitter users.
Two people and the gunman died after commandoes stormed the cafe.
One was 38-year-old barrister and mother-of-three Katrina Dawson. The other was Tori Johnson, the 34-year-old manager of the Lindt cafe.
The hostage-taker has been identified as Man Haron Monis.
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Responding to his post, comedian Adam Hills tweeted: "I'm sorry is this real?"
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World champion Brennan, 31, beat the USA's Genevra Stone by half a length in a time of seven minutes 21.54 seconds with China's Duan Jingli claiming bronze.
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He said illegal economic migrants were risking "lives and money" for nothing.
Mr Tusk visited Greece and Turkey on Thursday to discuss ways to reduce the flow of migrants travelling west.
More than 25,000 migrants have been left stranded in Greece by a tightening of border controls to the north, raising fears of a humanitarian crisis.
On Thursday, a group of migrants blocked a railway line on the Greek side of the border with Macedonia to protest at the restrictions.
They were imposed after several Balkan countries decided only to allow Syrian and Iraqi migrants across their frontiers. Austria also decided to limit numbers.
The move effectively barred passage to thousands of people seeking to reach western Europe, including Afghans as well as some more likely to be regarded as economic migrants.
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After meeting Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens on Thursday, Mr Tusk said he was appealing to "all potential illegal economic migrants", wherever they may be from.
"Do not come to Europe," he said. "Do not believe the smugglers. Do not risk your lives and your money. It is all for nothing."
He also said EU member states must avoid taking unilateral action to deal with the migrant crisis.
Separately, UK Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande discussed security and migration issues in the French city of Amiens, including conditions at the French port of Calais, where thousands of migrants hoping to enter the UK have been living rough.
After the talks Mr Hollande warned of "consequences" for management of migrants heading to Britain if the UK voted to leave the European Union in a June referendum.
Earlier, French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron said his country could allow migrants to travel unchecked to the UK in the event of a so-called "Brexit".
He told the Financial Times newspaper that an exit vote could end a bilateral deal allowing the UK to vet new arrivals on French territory.
Authorities in Calais have been clearing part of a sprawling camp known as the Jungle, from where many migrants are trying to enter the UK illegally.
Ahead of an EU-Turkey summit on the issue on Monday, Mr Tusk travelled to Turkey later on Thursday for talks with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
Mr Davutoglu said that the flow of Syrian refugees would lessen if the cessation of hostilities in the conflict held, adding that violations by Syrian government and Russian forces had left it vulnerable.
Turkey already accommodates over 2.5 million Syrian refugees - at an estimated cost of €7 (£5.4bn). The EU has pledged €3bn to Turkey, which is calling for more support.
Mr Davutoglu repeated that they expected the opening of new chapters for Turkey's longstanding EU membership bid and progress on visa-free travel to the EU for Turkish citizens.
Turkey has already offered to sign readmission agreements with 14 countries, a move that could enable it to take back migrants rejected by the EU more efficiently.
Turkish officials also say they have managed to prevent almost 25,000 migrants from travelling to Europe this year. But almost 130,000 have made their way to Greek islands during the same period.
In the EU summit in Brussels next week, there will be calls on Turkey to do more to reduce the numbers of migrants.
Mr Tusk said earlier this week that Europe was ready to grant "substantial financial support" to countries neighbouring war-torn regions such as Syria and Iraq.
"But at the same time we expect a more intensive engagement from our partners as an absolute precondition to avoid a humanitarian disaster," he said.
Turkey has expressed frustration at the lack of a common position from the EU on the crisis.
BBC Europe Correspondent Chris Morris, who is on the Greek island of Lesbos where 75,000 migrants have already arrived so far this year, says the EU wants to see arrivals in Greece drop below 1,000 a day.
New figures suggest last year's total of one million seaborne migrants arriving in Europe could be matched well before the end of the year.
The number of migrants stuck in Greece has soared, after Macedonia began restricting passage to all but a small number. More migrants are en route from Athens.
Earlier this week, the European Commission adopted plans to distribute €700m (£543m; $760m) of emergency humanitarian funding between 2016-18 to help tackle the crisis.
Greece has asked the European Commission for nearly €500m in assistance to help care for 100,000 asylum seekers.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said nearly 129,500 migrants had arrived in Europe by sea so far in 2016, plus another 1,545 by land. It said 418 had drowned or were missing.
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New chairman Steven Hollis has said the club do not fear the drop and will come back "on a stronger footing" if they find themselves in the Championship next season.
But Grant, who followed Alex McLeish from Birmingham to their West Midlands rivals in June 2011, disagrees.
"It would be a nightmare for a club of Villa's stature," he told BBC WM 95.6.
"There are 18 or 19 clubs in the Championship who have been in the Premier League and it is not as easy to automatically come straight back up.
"In one respect you have a chance to rebuild, but there is a different pressure to the Championship. Fans will expect you to win every match and it is not a simple as that."
Since Martin O'Neill resigned as boss before the start of the 2010-11 season Villa have had five managers, with current head coach Remi Garde appointed in November.
Budget cuts saw a number of senior players including James Milner, Ashley Young and Stewart Downing leave the club, with subsequent sides built around younger players.
They are six points adrift at the bottom of the table and Grant believes the fans are "delusional" if they expect the current team to be a force in the top-flight.
"They have changed [managers] too often, too quickly with the amount of young players they have," he said.
"When I talk about the fans being delusional, you've got to accept where you are at this moment in time and give somebody the confidence to build instead of being critical.
"Even if it takes you 18 months to two years you have to give that manager an opportunity to try and get a structure, a way of playing and find a winning formula."
The 20-year-old Northern Ireland Under-21 international has made 18 appearances for Boro this season.
Fellow midfielder Henry Cowans, 21, has had his loan from Aston Villa extended until the end of the season after playing 18 times for Boro.
But striker Harry McKirdy has returned to Villa after the expiration of his loan and two goals in 13 games.
More than 20 ex-footballers have come forward with allegations of historical child sex abuse in the sport, and five police forces are investigating claims.
But Bristow, 59, questioned why they did not "sort out" their abusers "when they got older and fitter".
One of the ex-players, Steve Walters, was "disgusted" by Bristow's remarks.
Writing on Twitter, Bristow, who was made an MBE in 1989, said darts players were "tough guys" and footballers "wimps".
He added the victims should not be able to look themselves in the mirror for not "getting their own back" on their abusers in adulthood.
Several former footballers have waived their right to anonymity in order to go public and raise awareness of alleged historical abuse in football, a step which has won praise from politicians, sport administrators and abuse charities.
Walters has alleged he was abused as a youth player by convicted paedophile and former Crewe coach Barry Bennell.
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Former Crewe player Andy Woodward was the first to speak out about the abuse he suffered as a child at the hands of Bennell.
Ex-Crewe youth team players Walters, Chris Unsworth and Jason Dunford later told BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme they had also been abused by the former coach.
Ex-England and Manchester City striker David White also says he is another victim of Bennell, while former Tottenham, Liverpool and England midfielder Paul Stewart also waived his right to anonymity to speak publicly about being sexually abused by an unnamed coach.
Stewart said the sport could face allegations on the scale of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
Bennell, who also worked for Manchester City, Stoke and junior teams in north-west England and the Midlands, was given a four-year sentence for raping a British boy on a football tour of Florida in 1994 and a nine-year sentence in 1998 for 23 offences against six boys in England.
He was jailed for a third time in 2015 after admitting abusing a boy at a 1980 football camp in Macclesfield.
On Monday, it emerged that Bennell had been taken to hospital after being found unconscious at an address in Stevenage on Friday.
A 39-year-old man was allegedly attacked and robbed on Gibbs Entry near Nicolson Street in the early hours of Friday morning.
Police Scotland said two men, aged 21 and 29, and a 21-year-old woman had been charged.
They were expected to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Tuesday.
The particles are all different forms of the so-called Omega-c baryon, whose existence was confirmed in 1994.
Physicists had always believed the various types existed but had not been able to detect them - until now.
The discovery will shed light on the operation of the "strong force", which glues the insides of atoms.
The centres of atoms consist of particles called neutrons and protons. They in turn are made up of smaller particles called quarks, which have unusual names.
Those inside neutrons and protons are called "Up" and "Down". These quarks are held together by the nuclear strong force. Physicists have a theory called quantum chromodynamics for how the nuclear strong force works but using it to make predictions requires very complex calculations.
The Omega-c baryon is in the same family of particles as the neutron and proton, but it can be thought of as a more exotic cousin. It too is made up of quarks but they are called "Charm" and "Strange", and they are heavier versions of the Up and Down quarks.
Since the Omega-c particle's discovery, it was thought that there were heavier versions. Its bigger brothers and sisters if you like. Now, physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) have found them. They believe that by studying these siblings, they'll learn more about the workings of the nuclear strong force.
Dr Greig Cowan, of the University of Edinburgh, UK, who works on the LHCb experiment at Cern's LHC, said: "This is a striking discovery that will shed light on how quarks bind together. It may have implications not only to better understand protons and neutrons, but also more exotic multi-quark states, such as pentaquarks and tetraquarks."
Prof Tara Shears, of Liverpool University, who also works on the experiment, said: "These particles have been hiding in plain sight for years, but it has taken the exquisite sensitivity of the LHCb to bring them to our attention."
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Jordan Miers, 21, was last seen on a footpath near the River Tawe in Swansea at about 22:30 GMT on Saturday.
Police divers, dogs and a helicopter have searched the area from Park Tawe retail park to his home in Bonymaen.
Family and friends have also conducted their own searches.
While intensive searches have now been completed, it is understood general surveillance of the area and monitoring of the river bank will continue.
Police said one witness who had come forward followed Mr Miers for a time near the retail park on Saturday night because he appeared "intoxicated" and they were concerned for his safety.
Anyone who saw the children's football coach that night is asked to contact police on 101.
The driver is also said to have been robbed during the assault while his car was stationary on West Pilton Place at about 18:55 on Sunday.
Police Scotland said a 17-year-old male is due to appear in court on Monday while a 14-year-old boy is expected to be referred to the Children's Reporter.
Officers said they were "confident" of making further arrests.
Claire Tiltman was repeatedly stabbed in an alleyway near her home in Greenhithe, Kent.
Colin Ash-Smith, 46, has denied her murder during the trial at Inner London Crown Court.
He was jailed for stabbing two women during the 1990s and has admitted going on midnight walks armed with knives.
Claire, who was studying for her GCSEs at Dartford Grammar School, was murdered four days after her 16th birthday.
Local council elections are just days away but these volunteers are not seeking votes on behalf of councillors.
The members of the campaign group We Can Win want to make sure that residents are aware of the unique way that their local authority is elected. It is an electoral system that they object to.
The City of London Corporation covers the so-called Square Mile, which is London's financial centre, and is distinct from the Greater London Authority which covers the whole of the UK capital.
The City has a residential population of less than 8,000 but around 450,000 people work there - and the City Corporation enables a proportion of those workers to vote for councillors too, taking the electorate to almost 19,000.
"I was under the impression, in its simplest form, democracy was about one person one vote," says campaign director Dan Firth.
"But in the City of London Corporation elections, businesses have almost double the votes of ordinary people and to me that feels like an injustice."
We Can Win is targeting the City elections with two main aims: to oppose what it sees as votes for big business and to maximise the number of residents who turn out and vote.
The City is divided into 25 wards with residents mainly concentrated in just four of them: Portsoken, Queenhithe, Aldersgate and Cripplegate, which includes Golden Lane.
Each ward is represented by Common Councillors and an alderman. Elections for Common Councillors take place every four years, with the next election on 23 March, while aldermen are elected at least every six years as their terms expire.
"Some residents I spoke to were already aware of how the voting system worked," says campaigner Georgia O'Brien. "But those who didn't know were shocked. When I explained that workers had almost double the number of votes as residents, they just looked utterly defeated."
Golden Lane resident Beverley Bytheway is active in the residents' association yet unaware that workers as well as residents get a vote. The road straddles the border with the London Borough of Islington and she thought that both councils were elected in the same way.
She is not a fan of the Corporation: "If they could offload the residents, they would... they're really not interested."
Despite an apparent lack of awareness among some residents, the City of London Corporation is quite open about its system of elections and its website contains information on how to register to vote as a resident or as a worker.
"The City is a democratic institution," insisted a spokesman. "All of its councillors are elected."
For residents, it is one person, one vote but for businesses the number of votes depends on the number of employees.
Sole traders and businesses with up to nine employees get one vote, while organisations with up to 50 staff can appoint one voter for every five people who work there. Organisations with more than 50 staff can appoint 10 voters and then one voter per 50 voters after that.
The City's spokesman added: "As the local authority we provide public services to both 7,400 residents and 450,000 City workers. Therefore to reflect the needs of the workers who come to the City each day, businesses located in the City can appoint people to vote in our local elections.
"The votes allocated to a business are proportional to their number of employees - the first 50 staff entitles a business to appoint 10 voters, but every additional 50 members of staff only entitle it to appoint an extra one voter, so the largest firms do not dominate the list of voters as they could do if it was a simple proportional representation of their workforce size."
In its advice to firms wanting to sign up staff as voters, the Corporation says: "It is important that people nominated to vote reflect the make-up of the organisation as a whole - from chief executive to entry-level employees and even regular contractors - so that the City Corporation represents the full range of the City's workforce. Voters nominated should reflect the whole diversity of an organisation's employees, including gender, ethnicity and seniority."
Professional services giant Deloitte employs over 10,000 staff and has 260 voters across two wards.
A spokesperson said: "We value the votes we have in the City of London. The City does have an unusual electoral system due to its high number of workers and small residential population, but there are many local issues that Deloitte people care greatly about.
"For example, a thousand Deloitte people cycle into work every day. Their safety and the safety of all road users in our neighbourhood is important to us.
"The councillors provide a very valuable link between Deloitte and our neighbours - other businesses and local residents."
Local government in the City of London can be traced back to medieval times. It is the oldest local authority in Britain and a contender for the oldest continuing authority in the world.
Non-residential votes in other council areas were abolished in 1969 but the system continued for the City Corporation.
The current electoral system dates from an act of Parliament in 2002, which extended voting rights to companies limited by guarantee and increased the business vote. Boundary changes followed, which reduced the number of councillors.
The City is known for its financial institutions but bodies qualifying for a vote include shops, bars, restaurants, charities and even churches and hospital trusts.
Tobacconist Mukesh Gaglani has been a registered voter in the City for 25 years. As a small business owner with two part-time employees, he gets one vote.
"You have a say in the progress of the City," he tells me, adding that he does not feel that big business dominates.
"As far as I'm concerned, my vote is the same as anyone else's. You don't feel like you are in a minority."
What is his response to proposals that only residents should be allowed to vote?
"I don't think it's appropriate. The City gets most of its revenue from commercial properties."
So how does being elected by workers as well as residents affect the job of a councillor?
Sophie Fernandes has served as one of four independent Common Councillors representing Coleman Street ward since 2009.
"I get queries about rubbish collection, I get queries about the ease with which people get to work, about infrastructure," she says, adding: "The City of London is also a landlord. It owns a few buildings in my ward. I have complaints just like any other landlord has."
When asked how many residents her ward has, she can think of just four, two of whom moved out temporarily as a consequence of work on London's Crossrail transport project.
"We try to break up the wards, depending on whether it's a business vote or a residential vote, so that we can concentrate on the needs of that particular ward, because the needs of residents and businesses are very different," she says.
"It is workers who have a vote, it's not businesses who have a vote," she says.
She adds: "I don't think every worker should have a vote because it would completely outweigh residents but in wards such as mine, it is heavily business orientated without residents, so how would you represent this ward otherwise?"
What does she make of the allegation of Golden Lane resident Beverley that the City Corporation would rather be rid of its residential population?
"That's totally untrue. The residents bring diversity to the City."
To stand as a councillor you need to be a registered voter and a Freeman of the City of London. "If you are voter in the City then you can get freedom without cost, so there is no barrier to standing," Ms Fernandes says.
Like nearly all councillors at present, she sits as an independent and does not take a party whip. She is standing this time on a slate alongside fellow independents Michael Cassidy, Stuart Fraser and Andrew McMurtie and argues that being independent helps the City work with both a Conservative government and a Labour mayor of London.
"We do not want party politics," she says. "I fail to see the benefit that party politics will bring when you can still argue your point of view from an independent platform."
That view is being challenged by the Labour Party, which first ran candidates in 2009 and is contesting wards in 2017.
Paul O'Brien, who is contesting Coleman Street for the party, claims that there is an "urban myth of independents in the City". He argues that many councillors list party memberships in their declarations of interests but only Labour openly fields candidates.
A resident of the City himself, Mr O'Brien nevertheless agrees with Sophie Fernandes on the need for worker representation.
"Clearly there are wards with no, or virtually no residents, so there needs to be a different system," he says.
Both opponents and supporters of the voting system agree that the City of London is an unusual organisation with a reach stretching well beyond the Square Mile.
It owns and maintains housing estates and open spaces across Greater London and beyond, including Hampstead Heath and Epping Forest, and provides money to London boroughs though its City Bridge Trust.
The elections for the City of London's Common Councillors take place on Thursday 23 March - A full list of candidates is available here.
The hosts had started the day poorly, losing their last four wickets for four runs in 18 balls to end on 326 all out.
But Gloucestershire lost regular wickets throughout their reply, with Rob Keogh taking 4-67 and David Payne (56) the only batsman to pass 50.
Northants survived nine overs at the end of the day to close on 44-0.
Ben Duckett clubbed five fours as he reached 31 not out from only 34 deliveries, while his partner Rob Newton remained unbeaten on 11.
The explosions struck near the Sakhi Sarwar shrine in Punjab, as Sufi Muslim devotees gathered for an annual three-day festival.
Sufis, a minority Muslim group who follow mystical beliefs, are regarded as heretical by hardliners.
A Taliban fighter told reporters his group carried out the attack, the third on Sufi shrines in a year.
Ehsanullah Ehsan told Reuters news agency the attack was in revenge for a government offensive against militants in Pakistan's north-west.
Sunday's blasts hit near a shrine to Sufi saint Sakhi Sarwar in Dera Ghazi Khan district, and devotees were reportedly among the dead and wounded.
"We have recovered 41 bodies so far," police officer Zahid Hussain Shah told AFP news agency.
He said both explosions had been caused by suicide attackers, adding: "They came on foot and blew themselves up when police on duty stopped them."
Another police officer told reporters that a third attacker had been caught before he could detonate his explosives
Eyewitness Faisal Iqbal told Reuters he had been standing yards away from one of the explosions.
"People started running outside the shrine. Women and children were crying and screaming. It was like hell," he said.
Thousands of people had been marking the annual festival of Urs at the time of the blasts.
Sufism has been widely practised in Pakistan for hundreds of years - analysts saying it has a much bigger following than the hard-line Taliban version of Islam.
Devotees perform singing and dancing and pray to saints who are honoured with numerous shrines.
Their beliefs are considered un-Islamic by hardliners, who have targeted their shrines several times.
Last October, a suicide bombing at a shrine in Punjab province left six people dead.
And earlier in the year a suicide attack on a Lahore shrine killed at least 42 people, making it the most deadly such attack on record.
For decades, the government has also sought to suppress Sufism, and has put it under strict control.
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Francis Benali, who made more than 300 appearances for Southampton FC, ran a marathon and cycled 75 miles (120km) each day for a fortnight.
Southampton City Council is to vote on a motion giving him honorary freedom of the city.
The 47-year-old said he was "shocked and surprised" by the honour.
The 1,000-mile (1,600 km) route linking 44 football clubs took him into south Wales, the Midlands and the North-West, before crossing the country and returning via East Anglia and London.
He raised more than £390,000 for Cancer Research.
Mr Benali received a standing ovation from fans when he arrived at St Mary's Stadium at half time during a home match against Burnley on 16 October.
It followed a 2015 challenge which saw him running between Premier League stadiums.
A motion before a Southampton City Council meeting on 16 November proposes bestowing the honorary freedom of the city on Francis Benali "in recognition of his fundraising achievements for charitable causes".
Mr Benali said: "I'm very humbled and honoured to be recognised. It was completely unexpected and I'm very grateful."
Other individuals to have been given the honour include former Saints managers Ted Bates and Lawrie McMenemy, former player Matthew Le Tissier, and World War One prime minister David Lloyd George.
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The pair joined Trevor Horn's band The Producers, with Oliver on drums, to play Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Relax.
More than 10,000 people are expected over the weekend at the Big Feastival at James's Churchill Heath Farm.
It comes after James hosted the Harvest Festival last year which led to financial losses.
The Britpop star, who now makes cheese, lent his name and his land to the event.
But despite being attended by the likes of David and Samantha Cameron, organiser Big Wheel folded, leaving 200 people out of pocket by a total of £1m.
Speaking at this year's event James said: "We learnt a lot from last year.
"I found out that Jamie was looking for somewhere to host the Big Feastival in the countryside. I was all over him.
"I said I've got the perfect venue. Music and food, I can definitely help you with that.
"I'm absolutely thrilled to bits. It looks like we've pulled it off."
Saturday night was headlined by Paloma Faith with Texas due to perform on Sunday.
Oliver, who organised the first Big Feastival event in London last year, said: "It's fantastic. We kicked the whole thing off in Clapham last year, but we wanted to bring the whole family thing to it and do camping, and Alex James has been very kind in lending us his back garden.
"What's nice is that I did it on my own last year. Alex did a festival on his own last year. Coming together, we've managed to help each other quite a lot."
The event is raising money for the Better Food Foundation.
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The Irish had more penalty corners and goal attempts than the Dutch but lacked a cutting edge.
After the Irish twice went close, Mink van der Weerden and Jorrit Croon netted for the Dutch inside eight minutes.
In the second half, goals from Van der Weerden, Mirco Pruijser and a Eugene Magee own goal completed the scoring.
After Saturday's opening 3-2 defeat by India, the Irish were always going to be up against it as they faced a nation that they had only beaten once in 39 previous meetings.
However, the underdogs made a promising start as Dutch keeper Jaap Stockmann had to make final early saves to deny Mitch Darling and Jonathan Bell.
But within a minute, the Netherlands had two goals on the board as Van der Weerden punished Alan Sothern's loose sliding tackle and Rogier Hofman then sent up Croon to score.
After the break, a succession of Irish attacks came to nothing before Van der Weerden hammered to the roof of the net in the first Dutch counter of the second period.
Pruijser quickly added the fourth with Ireland's painful night being completed by Magee turning a Jeroen Hertzberger cross into his own net with a minute remaining.
Ireland coach Craig Fulton urged his team to "keep the spirits high" despite Sunday's reverse as they still remain in contention for a quarter-final place.
"We are playing good hockey. We are getting punished for our mistakes as you will at this level," said Fulton.
Ireland next meet reigning champions Germany on Tuesday which will be followed by must-win games against Canada on Thursday and Argentina on Friday.
Ireland: D Harte, J Jackson, R Gormley, M Watt, J Jermyn, E Magee, K Shimmins, M Darling, K Good, P Gleghorne, C Harte. Subs: J Bell, C Cargo, A Sothern, P Caruth, S O'Donoghue
Netherlands: J Stockmann, G Schuurman, B Bakker, S van Ass, J Hertzberger, S de Wijn, S Baart, M Pruijser, R Hofman, R van der Horst, M van der Weerden. Subs: V Verga, R Kemperman, B de Voogd, J Croon, H Turkstra
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Ireland's men remain without a point in their Olympic hockey campaign after suffering a 5-0 defeat by world number two ranked the Netherlands.
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In her first broadcast interview, Alison Johnson told BBC Newsnight that the party had acted insensitively and offered no support to them since the death of their son, Elliott, in September last year.
"They are probably thinking that... we will go away quietly. But we won't. I want justice for my son," she said.
The Conservative Party said: "We would like to again express our very deepest sympathies to Elliott's family and friends."
BBC Newsnight has also learned that 15 key witnesses have called for the removal of a senior Conservative official from any involvement with the party's inquiry into the scandal.
A number of them told Newsnight they would be reluctant to talk to the investigation while the official, who has previously been associated with the former activist at the heart of the scandal, is involved in the handling of the inquiry in any way.
Mrs Johnson's son committed suicide last year after allegedly being bullied by Mark Clarke - the man who ran a road-trip campaign bussing Conservative supporters to marginal constituencies before last year's General Election.
The death of the 21-year-old led to claims the Conservative Party Headquarters (CCHQ) had ignored complaints and warnings about the conduct of Clarke and others.
This prompted the resignation from the government of Grant Shapps, who had been co-chair of the party, and the launch of an inquiry by the London law firm, Clifford Chance.
Mrs Johnson told the BBC she and her husband Ray had been frozen out by the Conservative Party.
"The Conservative Party have not been forthright in coming to speak to us in any way. Anything we've heard we've had to hear through the press. When they engaged Clifford Chance to do the investigation we heard through the press."
She said that they had been particularly offended when it appeared the inquiry wanted to speak to her and her husband separately. She said it left them feeling like suspects whose accounts were being tested.
"We also heard that they wanted to interview me and my husband individually, to find out what our stories are... But it is not a story. It is the facts. We can only deal with the facts. Elliott has now gone, we can only deal with the facts."
A spokesman for Clifford Chance said: "We are sorry to learn of the Johnsons' concerns about the proposed interview format and would welcome the opportunity to discuss alternative arrangements for them to be interviewed."
Mrs Johnson also said it felt like the Conservative Party was keeping them in the dark.
"We live in a backwater so they are probably thinking that if we silence them we will go away quietly, but we won't. We definitely won't. I want justice for my son... no matter how it comes out, I want justice."
Mrs Johnson said Christmas had been awful without her son. An empty chair had been left at the table, she said.
"Every day just drifts into another and you just don't know anything."
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Mrs Johnson spoke as a BBC Newsnight investigation revealed that 15 key witnesses who have potentially valuable testimony about bullying have called for a senior Tory official to step down from the inquiry process.
Though Clifford Chance has been commissioned to conduct the investigation, the firm's final report will be reviewed by group of senior Tories who will decide how the findings are presented.
One of those assessing the conclusions is Rob Semple, chair of the Tory volunteers' organisation, the National Convention. Mr Semple's candidacy for this post was supported by Mark Clarke.
Last year's election was marred by smearing of Mr Semple's rival for the post, Charles Heslop.
Mr Semple told Newsnight he condemned "any alleged negative remarks about another member of the Party that might have been made, without my knowledge, during the National Convention campaign".
However, many potential witnesses to the bullying inquiry believe Mr Semple's presence on the board in untenable - and believe he should step aside from any role in the inquiry.
Ten of the 15 key witnesses told Newsnight that Rob Semple's continued presence on the Board would deter them from giving evidence.
Ben Harris-Quinney, chair of the Bow Group, has been invited to give evidence. He has yet to decide whether he will.
"If Rob Semple doesn't stand down it says that the Conservative Party is not interested in doing the right thing and ensuring this doesn't happen again. They are merely interested in trying to cling on and get away with it and hope that the story goes away as quickly as possible," he said.
John Strafford, chairman of the Campaign for Conservative Democracy, told Newsnight that if Mr Semple refuses to recuse himself, CCHQ should order him to do stand down.
"There is no reason whatsoever in my view why anybody who was involved with Mark Clarke should be participating and it would be a bad thing for justice if that happened."
Mr Stafford said the bullying crisis currently engulfing CCHQ was the worst he had experienced in his 40 years as a member the party.
"This is the biggest of all. This is the absolute biggest of all. The party can no longer treat its members with contempt as it has in the past and which it is still doing."
In a statement to Newsnight, Mr Semple said he would not stand down - and denied he was still in touch with Mark Clarke.
"I am committed to ensuring that the highest possible standards of behaviour are upheld. I will ensure… Clifford Chance's findings will be honoured in full. I urge witnesses to come forward so that the full facts are known."
A Conservative Party spokesman said: "Rob Semple is not being asked to step down from the Board when the report is delivered."
Mark Clarke has consistently denied any wrongdoing.
More on this story on BBC Newsnight on Tuesday 26 January at 22:30 GMT on BBC Two and afterwards on iPlayer. You can follow Newsnight on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube
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Each party set forth a pitch to voters for the coming council vote, clashing over local issues as well as constitutional ones.
Nicola Sturgeon campaigned alongside SNP candidates for both the council and general elections in Leith.
She said "council elections should be about local services", urging people to back her party to protect local services.
She said: "One of the key pledges at the heart of our manifesto is community empowerment. We want to see at least 1% of all council budgets devolved right down to community level, so that through participatory budgeting local people get the opportunity to say how that money is spent.
"I think it speaks volumes that you've got the Tories and Labour going around the country saying that local elections are all about independence - they haven't put forward a single positive policy."
Ruth Davidson gave a speech in Edinburgh, declaring her Scottish Conservatives to be "ready to serve" right across Scotland.
She said her party would prioritise devolution to local areas, criticising an "SNP power grab which has sucked power out of local communities".
She said: "We say at this election: let's restore energy, vitality and power to those cities, towns and villages.
"Because that's where Scotland's powerbase really lies - not in Holyrood or Nicola Sturgeon's first ministerial office. It's in our communities, in the lives and actions of people across our country."
Labour's Kezia Dugdale also gave a speech in Edinburgh, telling voters to "send the SNP and the Tories a message" in Thursday's elections.
She said each Labour councillor would act as "a local champion" who would protect local services against both the Edinburgh and London administrations.
She said: "On Thursday, send the Tories a message - tell them that Scotland does not want their austerity.
"And send Nicola Sturgeon a message as well. Tell her to abandon her plan for another divisive referendum and get on with the day job.
"You can protest against the Tories and protest against plans for a second referendum on Thursday with one vote. By voting Labour."
The Scottish Greens urged teenage voters to turn out on polling day.
Ross Greer, who was elected as an MSP aged 21 in 2016, said: "Young people lose out because too few of us turn out on polling day. This is the first local election where 16 and 17-year-olds can vote and it's an opportunity to change things.
"Our councillors make decisions about local schools, housing, public transport and a whole range of areas which have a huge effect on young people's lives. Green councillors would stand up, not just to defend these services but to improve and invest in them.
Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie hit the streets in Leven in Fife, telling voters about his party's "unique" position on the UK and the EU.
He said the momentum was with the Lib Dems heading into Thursday's elections.
He said: "We're growing in support and we're going to gain more seats, because people want a local champion for their community, not a cheerleader for independence.
"We're standing up for Scotland's place in the United Kingdom, and the United Kingdom's place in Europe - we've got a unique position, and that's why more and more people are coming to the Liberal Democrats."
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Commending the recent restoration of an airfield in the region, he said Russia needed to use every means to protect its national interests in the region.
He was speaking after Canada announced plans to claim the continental shelf under the North Pole.
Russia and Denmark also lay claim to parts of the resource-rich shelf.
Mr Putin has spoken about the need to increase Russia's military capacity in the Arctic before but this was one of his most direct orders yet, the BBC's Daniel Sandford reports from Moscow.
It is a sign of the growing manoeuvring by the Arctic nations for the potentially valuable resources beneath the northern seas, our correspondent says.
The Arctic is estimated to have 30% of the world's undiscovered gas and 15% of the undiscovered oil. Climate change and advances in drilling technology mean these reserves are becoming easier and cheaper to exploit.
At a big meeting of the country's top military officers on Tuesday, President Putin asked them to pay "particular attention to the deployment of infrastructure and military units in the Arctic".
He thanked the defence staff for re-opening this summer an old Soviet airbase abandoned 20 years ago on the Novosibirsk Islands in the high Arctic.
More air bases would follow, he said, in Tiksi and Severomorsk.
"Next year, we have to complete the formation of new large units and military divisions [in the Arctic]," Mr Putin added.
In August 2007, Russian explorers travelling in mini-submarines planted their country's flag on the seabed 4,200m (14,000ft) below the North Pole to further Moscow's claims to the Arctic.
The detention of a Greenpeace ship and its crew after they protested at a Russian Arctic oil platform in September highlighted Moscow's sensitivity to criticism of its prospecting in the region.
On Monday, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said his country intended to extend its seabed claims in the Arctic to include the North Pole.
He said the Conservative government had asked scientists to work on a future submission to the UN claiming that the outer limits of its continental shelf include the Pole.
Under international law, no country has sovereignty over the North Pole, one of the remotest and harshest parts of the planet.
Canada applied to extend its seabed claims in the Atlantic last week, including some preliminary Arctic claims.
Michael Byers, an expert on the Arctic and international law at the University of British Columbia, suggested Canada's new claim had as much to do with domestic politics as national interest.
"We're talking about the centre of a large, inhospitable ocean that is in total darkness for three months each year, thousands of miles from any port," he told the Associated Press.
"The water in the North Pole is 12,000 ft [3,650m] deep and will always be covered by sea ice in the winter. It's not a place where anyone is going to be drilling for oil and gas. So it's not about economic stakes, it's about domestic politics."
All 700 pupils at King's Park Primary School from primary one to primary seven take part.
The extra 15 minutes of exercise a day is in addition to normal PE lessons.
The "daily mile" was originally introduced in Scotland and aims to improve pupils' health and fitness.
King's Park's head of PE Nicola Thompson said that it was an inclusive activity with many benefits.
"It's non-competitive, and every child can run the mile or build up by walking a little bit or jogging a little bit," she said.
"I have a primary four class and they love it.
"First thing in the morning they'll ask me when they are doing their mile.
"We also said to the parents and the children not to see the weather as a barrier, so even on colder or wet days we just get our coats on and get out there."
The daily exercise is not timetabled; teachers take their classes out at a time they feel is best.
Parents have also supported the scheme, and the school's principal Terry Shields said that teachers have also noticed benefits in the classroom.
"Part of the idea is to boost their social and emotional wellbeing too," he said.
"It does, we think, reflect on their work during the day.
"We've seen a big change and a big improvement in the children's behaviour and discipline generally in class and around school.
"All the children without exception have bought into it."
The school began running at the start of May.
If feedback from parents, pupils and teachers is positive, King's Park say they will continue with their daily mile when the new school year begins in September.
The Times reported Mr Coupe had been sentenced in his absence to two years in jail in what Sainsbury's described as "an historic commercial dispute".
The charges relate to a joint venture that Sainsbury's set up with a local businessman in 2001.
Sainsbury's said that Mr Coupe was not employed by the company at that time and he had never met the complainant.
Sainsbury's said the complainant, Mr El Nasharty, bought out its interest in an Egyptian joint venture it had with him in 2001 with cheques that were dishonoured.
It said Mr El Nasharty was now claiming that Mr Coupe was in Egypt on 15 July 2014 and seized those cheques.
But Sainsbury's said this was an impossibility: "Mike Coupe was in London carrying out his normal duties that day. In September 2014 Mike Coupe was convicted, without notice of the proceedings against him and in his absence, in an Egyptian Court.
"We have taken all necessary steps to appeal against these groundless claims and will continue to do so."
It added that its legal team were handling the matter and it did not think the issue would have any material, operational or financial impact on the company.
Pope Francis said "a person who thinks only about building walls... and not of building bridges, is not Christian".
The New York businessman supports deporting nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants.
Calling himself a "proud Christian", Mr Trump blamed Mexico for the Pope's remarks, calling them "disgraceful".
Mr Trump has alleged that Mexico sends "rapists" and criminals to the US.
Pope Francis made the comments at the end of a six-day trip to Mexico.
"A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not of building bridges, is not Christian. This is not the gospel," he said.
He declined to say whether Americans should vote for Mr Trump, who is leading the Republican race for president.
"I say only that this man is not Christian if he has said things like that. We must see if he said things in that way and I will give him the benefit of the doubt," the Pope said.
In response to a question about whether contraception was allowed to prevent the transmission of the Zika virus, the Pope said that for some cases the "lesser of two evils" can be used. He said abortion "is a crime, an absolute evil," but that avoiding pregnancy is not.
Addressing a rally in South Carolina, Mr Trump responded to the Pope's comments.
"For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful. I am proud to be a Christian," Mr Trump said. "No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith."
"[The pope] said negative things about me. Because the Mexican government convinced him that Trump is not a good guy," he said.
Did Mr Trump need to take on the Pope? Well, almost certainly yes.
Because in god-fearing South Carolina, the next state to vote in the primary process - to have the Pope say that he is unchristian is potentially very damaging.
And over the course of the campaign, the billionaire property developer has been at pains to prove his religious credentials, appearing at rallies with a copy of the Bible that his mother had given him as a child
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He also said the Vatican was the so-called Islamic State group's "ultimate trophy" and that if it attacked, "the Pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president because this would not have happened".
Two of Mr Trump's Republican rivals, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush, both Catholics, said they look to the Pope for spiritual guidance, not political direction.
Mr Rubio said the US has a right and an obligation to control its borders.
Mr Bush told reporters he "supports walls where it's appropriate" and that "Christianity is between he and his creator. I don't think we need to discuss that".
Jerry Falwell Jr, the president of the conservative Christian Liberty University and a Trump supporter, told CNN that the Pope had gone too far.
"Jesus never intended to give instructions to political leaders on how to run a country," he said.
Earlier this month, Mr Trump called Pope Francis "a very political person" in an interview with Fox News.
"I don't think he understands the danger of the open border we have with Mexico," Mr Trump said.
American Catholics are seen as an important voting bloc in US elections. Many support Republican candidates because of their opposition to abortion and gay marriage.
Mr Trump has been courting the evangelical Christian vote, often successfully, but his fellow Republican rivals have tried to argue that his religiosity is not sincere.
Ted Cruz's campaign is now running an advertisement featuring a 1999 television interview Mr Trump gave in which he said he was "very pro-choice" when it comes to abortion.
In January, Mr Trump faced ridicule after flubbing a Bible verse when giving a speech to a Christian university in Virginia.
He has said he is a Presbyterian Christian but has had trouble recalling his favourite Bible verse when asked.
He has referred to communion, the Christian sacrament signifying Jesus' last supper, as having "the little wine" and "the little cracker."
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It is part of a wide-reaching programme to modernise the country's military.
Speaking at an arms fair, Mr Putin said the weapons would be able to overcome even the most technically advanced anti-missile defence systems.
It comes after the US proposed increasing its military presence in Nato states in Eastern Europe.
Tensions are high over Russia's role in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Nato and Western leaders accuse Russia of sending soldiers and heavy weapons, including tanks and missiles, to the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. Russia has repeatedly denied this, insisting that any Russians fighting there are "volunteers".
All numbers are approximate estimates
Source: Federation of American Scientists
Russia has increased its defence spending substantially under Vladimir Putin, and is in the midst of a massive modernisation programme, says the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Moscow.
The missiles are high-tech replacements, not additions to Russia's nuclear arsenal, but the nod to the US is clear, our correspondent says.
Russian officials have warned that Moscow will respond if the US carries out its plan to store heavy military equipment in Eastern Europe, including in the Baltic states that were once part of the Soviet Union.
"The feeling is that our colleagues from Nato countries are pushing us into an arms race," RIA news agency quoted Russian Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov as saying on the sidelines of the arms fair outside Moscow.
Amidst the rising tensions with the West, Russian President Vladimir Putin has placed a renewed emphasis upon his country's nuclear arsenal.
This is in part a reflection of Russia's continuing conventional military weakness. Moscow is in the midst of a significant modernisation of its strategic nuclear weapons with new ballistic missiles being deployed, more modern bombers, and new submarines being launched.
Over recent years, older, obsolete weapons have been withdrawn from service, so the size of Russia's overall arsenal has been shrinking.
However, this decline could soon come to an end, raising all sorts of questions for other nuclear powers.
What most alarms the West is the renewed emphasis in Russian rhetoric on nuclear rather than conventional forces.
Threats to deploy short-range nuclear weapons in Crimea have been accompanied by veiled warnings of nuclear targeting against Nato members who might host ballistic missile defences.
"We gave really poor goals away," said Mackay after losing 4-2 at Ashton Gate.
"I'm absolutely not taking anything away from Bristol's performance but as far as we're concerned we gave away bad ball in poor areas.
"It's certainly not like us. If we give them the ball in poor areas then you're going to get punished by good teams."
Cardiff arrived for the Severnside derby having kept clean sheets in their opening two Championship games.
But errant passing in their own half allowed the hosts to score twice before the break through Stephen Pearson and Martyn Woolford.
Joe Mason's early goal after the break gave Cardiff hope, but Woolford struck for a second time and home debutant Sam Baldock answered Heidar Helguson's reply.
"We just have to stop making basic errors like that," added Mackay. "It's not something that's been regular from my team.
"Cardiff had little threat in the attacking third and they lacked that killer pass. They lacked movement and certainly movement up front. Malky Mackay will need to work on making Cardif more effective in possession."
"Defensively we've been tight as a team, but you have days like that when you give away ball between your 18-yard line and the halfway line - poor areas. You expect to be punished and that's what happened."
Mackay gave debuts to forward Tommy Smith and defender Matthew Connolly, both of whom joined from Queens Park Rangers in the week leading up to the match.
They were direct replacement for injured pair Craig Bellamy and Ben Turner, who failed fitness tests on Friday.
"Considering the lack of game time they've had, both of them did well," said Mackay of the newcomers.
"They showed exactly why I bought them. Tommy in the first half got into some great positions and on another day those shots can go in.
"Barring the misplaced pass for the fourth goal, Connolly had an excellent debut."
Two other new recruits, Heidar Helguson and Jordan Mutch, also started, with Etien Velikonja coming off the bench to add to the new-look nature.
A change of formation at half-time contributed to Mackay's tinkering as he searches for the right balance after his summer recruiting.
"That's something we're always striving for but at the same time players have got to play to their normal standard, and the standard I expect them to play to," he said
"We've got players that can play to different systems but it wasn't about systems, it's about making sure you play to your level and to your standard. We didn't have enough [players] that did that."
If approved, the £15m development of the Jersey company's King Street store and creation of a New Street store could be completed by 2017.
The current store, which covers 17,000 sq ft (1,600 sq m), is due to remain open during the work.
Neville Moore, managing director of the firm which employs 200 people, described it as "a very exciting time".
He said agreement had been reached with a leading UK retailer to occupy the development in New Street.
Daphne East, town centre manager, said: "[When] the UK is still seeing a decline in investment... it is heartening to know that Jersey, and St Helier in particular, can still attract development on this scale.
"It is also exciting to see a company that has traded on our high street for the last 200 years making this kind of commitment to the future of retail in Jersey."
The company was founded in 1810 by Abraham de Gruchy and his wife Marie Le Brocq with the original shop located near to St Peter's Church.
The UK government has announced plans for posthumous pardons for men who were convicted under laws now abolished.
There was controversy after an SNP members' bill on the topic was "talked out" at Westminster, with Theresa May's government preferring its own plans.
Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said Scottish-specific plans would be made.
Changes to legislation at Westminster would not apply automatically in Scotland, with justice a devolved area.
Private homosexual acts between men aged over 21 were decriminalised in England and Wales in 1967, but the law in Scotland was not changed until 1980.
The issue was raised at Holyrood by Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, who asked whether the government would "quash the convictions and cautions issued to people for now-abolished gay sexual offences and issue pardons".
She was supported by members from across the chamber, including Lib Dem Alex Cole-Hamilton who wrote to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on the matter and also lodged a parliamentary motion which won cross-party support.
Mr Matheson said it was "shocking" to consider that consensual sex between men was only decriminalised in 1980, and ages of consent not equalised until 2001.
Legislation is to be brought forward to ensure all those with convictions are pardoned, where convictions relate to same-sex activity which is now legal.
Separately, government officials have been working with Police Scotland to find a way to ensure past convictions no longer appear on criminal records, and to have convictions disregarded from centrally-held records.
Pressed by Ms Dugdale on whether men would also receive a pardon, the justice secretary said this should be considered alongside new legislation.
Mr Matheson said: "Such laws clearly have no place in a modern and inclusive Scotland. However, there are people with criminal convictions for same-sex sexual activity that is now lawful and we must right this wrong.
"We will introduce an automatic formal pardon for those convicted under these discriminatory laws so they know they are absolved fully. We want to address the injustice that people experienced simply because of their sexual orientation in circumstances that are now legal and this is one way of achieving this."
Mr Matheson's statement was welcomed by members across the chamber, with Green MSP Patrick Harvie reiterating the importance of an apology, acknowledging that the state acted wrongly.
Ms Dugdale said she was "beyond thrilled", adding that "this public acknowledgement that our laws were wrong is a historic moment for equality, acceptance and respect in our country".
The Westminster government is to introduce a so-called "Turing law" pardoning gay and bisexual men of now-abolished offences, following the pardoning of World War Two code-breaker Alan Turing in 2013.
Mr Turing's work during the war helped break German codes, but he was convicted of "gross indecency" in 1952 and was chemically castrated.
The Sexual Offences Act decriminalised homosexual acts between adult men in 1967, but Scotland and Northern Ireland took longer to change local laws.
UK Justice Minister Sam Gyimah said it was "hugely important that we pardon people convicted of historical sexual offences who would be innocent of any crime today".
The specific changes to the law at Westminster will pardon men who have since died, but thousands of living men with convictions will also be eligible for a pardon by applying to the Home Office.
SNP MP John Nicolson lodged a private members bill calling for blanket pardons for those still living, but Mr Gyimah said this could see people claiming pardons for acts that are still illegal.
Campaign group Stonewall supported Mr Nicolson, pointing out that his bill "explicitly" excluded pardoning anyone convicted of offences that are still illegal, such as non-consensual sex and sex with someone under 16.
There were shouts of "shame" and "shameful" from angry MPs as Mr Gyimah spoke for 25 minutes, using up the time limit allotted for the debate, meaning it never passed to a vote.
Former Stoke City, Preston and Leeds man Pugh, 34, has moved to Vale Park after his deal at League Two Blackpool was terminated by mutual consent.
He has played 23 times this season and has signed until the end of the term.
Italian Fasan, 23, has yet to make a senior appearance for Celtic, but has regularly played for the Under-23 side.
He comes in after keeper Jak Alnwick left Vale to join Scottish Premiership side Rangers on Monday.
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The Mill Hotel, in Alverley, which had a recommended guide price of £250,000, sold for £490,000.
The hotel was damaged by fire on 18 May, causing most of the building's roof to collapse.
Cottons auctioneers, which sold the property on behalf of the receivers, said the property was "unique".
The hotel, formerly a popular wedding venue, closed unexpectedly last September following financial problems of its owner, Elysian Care.
The building dates to the 16th Century and was once a working flour mill. It was restored and turned into a 41-bedroom hotel.
The developer's most recent title was the PlayStation VR release Rigs. Prior to that it had worked on Killzone, LittleBigPlanet and MediEvil games.
The studio has been in existence for 19 years. A spokeswoman for Sony said about 50 people were currently employed there.
She added that all staff were at risk of being made unemployed.
"It is regrettable that this decision will lead to compulsory redundancies," Sony said in a statement.
"Whilst we accept that this decision will mean that we risk losing high calibre staff, by focusing on other studios with exciting new projects in development... we believe we will be in a stronger position going forward and able to offer the best possible content of the highest quality to our players.
"This decision should not take anything away from the incredible games and services that Guerrilla Cambridge has delivered."
The move follows the closure of Sony's Cheshire-based Evolution Studio - best known for its Driveclub game - last March, and Studio Liverpool - which made the Wipeout series - in 2012.
However, Sony did open a development base in Manchester in 2015, and continues to operate studios in London and Guildford.
"It is a shock, because the Cambridge studio had been in existence for so long," said Piers Harding-Rolls, a video games industry analyst at IHS Technology.
"But the games sector as a whole is growing, and it's not unusual for the big companies to realign their resources."
Microsoft also closed a long-established British studio - Lionhead, the developer of the Fable series - in 2016.
But the games industry trade association Tiga said that a tax relief scheme, which came into effect in 2014, had helped create jobs elsewhere.
"It's very sad to hear what is happening to Sony Guerrilla Cambridge, but the actual size of the UK games industry is almost at an all time high and we are in a very strong position," said Richard Wilson, the body's chief executive.
Guerrilla Cambridge's last game - Rigs: Mechanized Combat League - was launched three months ago as a launch title for the PlayStation's virtual reality headset.
It was generally well reviewed.
The Gaming Age described it as "the very best VR experience that this system has to offer".
Sixth Axis said: "So long as you're not affected too heavily by motion sickness... you'll find a fast and fluid multiplayer shooter that gets the best out of PSVR."
However, the title was not a bestseller.
"Guerrilla Cambridge's games have been for the [handheld] PlayStation Vita and most recently PlayStation VR, which have low install bases," said Chris Dring, from the GamesIndustry.biz news site
"So, even though its games have been critically well received, commercially they have struggled.
"That may not have been that important to Sony - obviously it wants to make money from its titles, but platform-holders also use their own games to help sell the hardware in the first place and to help show the way for other studios.
"The move suggests that there's a broader strategy at play, where perhaps Sony is slowing down slightly on its internal VR development to give more opportunity to third-party studios."
Sony said that its Guerrilla Games studio in Amsterdam would not be affected by the cuts.
Architects had put forward their ideas for the former Swindon Advertiser building in Victoria Road, Old Town.
They included 148 new flats, offices and a new community space.
Objectors called on Swindon Borough Council to reject the plans "to save the charm and character of Old Town from a monstrosity of a tower block".
The Quad Group has since withdrawn its plans and is preparing a new submission.
Campaigner Neil Robinson started the online petition because he was "absolutely mortified" by the plans.
"Even though the tower block has been scrapped I still don't think this is the end of it," he said.
"I still think the new plans they're going to come up with aren't going to be in keeping with the architecture of Old Town."
Mike Price, from Quad Group, said the company had listened to the community's concerns.
"We are sorry it caused so much bad feeling, this was never our intention and we will endeavour to get a better understanding of the needs and wants of the local community during the next stage," he added.
While 103 athletes have so far won places for Great Britain at the Games, or hit qualifying standards, Burnell is the first to win a named place.
The 22-year-old's place is expected to be ratified early next year.
"I came for a medal, but the main thing was the Olympic place," said Burnell.
The Scunthorpe-born swimmer finished in one hour 50 minutes and 5.8 seconds, just 5.1 seconds behind bronze medallist Spyridon Gianniotis of Greece.
USA's Jordan Wilimovsky took the title with Dutchman Ferry Weertman second.
The open water marathon only entered the Olympic programme in 2008, when Britain's Keri-Anne Payne and David Davies both claimed silver.
Payne then finished fourth at London 2012, with Daniel Fogg fifth in the men's event.
"To be honest, something just didn't feel right today, but I know I can challenge for a medal in Rio," Burnell, who is the current open water World Cup leader, told BBC Sport.
"Hopefully this is just part of the journey to that."
His official Team GB selection is expected to be ratified by the British Olympic Association in early 2016 at the same time as the pool-based swimmers are selected.
Burnell's team-mate Fogg was in contention for a medal at the halfway stage, but his challenge faded after being involved in a physical battle around a buoy in the final 2kms, which saw him swallow water and lose crucial time.
With no further Rio Olympic qualification opportunities for British male open water swimmers. Fogg admits he may have no future in the event.
"There's no point carrying on with no more places up for grabs," he told BBC Sport after finishing 14th.
"I need to go home, have a rest and a real think about whether I want to come back and try to qualify for the Olympics in the 1500m event now."
On Tuesday two-time world champion Payne will aim to secure herself a place at the Rio Games.
Like the men, she and team-mate Danielle Huskisson need top-10 finishes to attain named spots for next year's Olympics.
Following publication of this story, it emerged modern pentathlete Samantha Murray had already obtained a named place by finishing fifth at the World Championships - although this was not realised by the sport's administrators at the time.
They were arrested as part of an investigation into the funeral of leading Real IRA man Alan Ryan on Saturday 8 September.
Ryan was shot dead in north Dublin on 3 September. Shots were fired over his coffin during the funeral and masked men and women were present.
Fourteen other people who were arrested were released without charge.
In court were 33-year-old Nathan Kinsella of Matt Talbot Court in Dublin, Darragh Evans, 23, of Grange Park Rise in Raheny and 22-year-old Vincent Ryan of Grange Avenue Drive in Donaghmede.
They were remanded in custody to appear again before the court on Friday, 21 September.
The Garda (police) staged a major operation around the funeral, but made no arrests over it on the day.
However, earlier this week they carried searches in counties Dublin, Louth, Meath and Kildare. Sixteen men and a woman were arrested.
Weir will receive up to £36.7m for American Hydro Corporation and Spain-based Ynfiniti Engineering Services.
The businesses, which generated a combined operating profit of £1.4m in 2015 on revenues of £38m, were part of Weir's flow control division.
Glasgow-based Weir said it would record a loss on disposal of about £5m.
However, it added that net debt at the end of June would be lower than previous guidance.
Both sales are expected to complete by 30 June.
US and Canada-based American Hydro supplies and installs large equipment upgrades and servicing for the hydroelectric and water distribution industries.
Madrid-based Ynfiniti provides operation and maintenance services for the wind, solar photovoltaic and thermo-solar energy sectors.
Weir said its asset disposal programme was "progressing to plan".
The company has been looking to cut costs after being hit by the steep fall in oil and gas activity.
In the first quarter, its flow control division saw orders fall by 20% on the previous year.
The company said economic uncertainty had led to "continued customer caution and project delays across the division's end markets".
In an update on the overall group's current performance, Weir said trading in April and May was in line with expectations.
Orders for the five months to the end of May were 15% below the same period in 2015, but it was an improvement on the 21% fall recorded in the first three months of the year.
It added: "As a result, the group remains on track to meet its prior guidance for first half profits, ahead of current market expectations.
"Underlying cash generation remains robust. There is no change to the group's prior full-year guidance as outlined on 28 April 2016."
Yahoo said it is setting up a committee to look into how the business can be reorganised to reverse its current financial woes.
The firm's share price has fallen by more than 40% since the end of 2014.
Boss Marissa Mayer has been under pressure to revitalise the business.
Earlier this month Yahoo confirmed it was cutting 15% of its workforce after reporting a $4.3bn (33bn) loss for the year.
The job cuts will mean the company will have around 9,000 staff by the end of 2016.
Ms Mayer said: "Separating our Alibaba stake from Yahoo's operating business is essential to maximizing value for our shareholders.
"We can achieve this by working with the committee... while in parallel, aggressively executing our strategic plan to strengthen our growth businesses and improve efficiency and profitability."
Marissa Mayer is in the process of drastically slimming the company down - closing global offices and making around 15% of its entire workforce redundant.
Yet despite its troubles, around a billion people still turn to Yahoo's core services each month - 60% by using their mobile phones.
And so, much like sprucing up your house before putting it on the market, Ms Mayer's goal of late has been to cut costs to such a point that Yahoo looks like a good purchase for a bigger company looking to seize that audience.
Who would be interested? Names like Disney and Verizon have been thrown around, but the sense here is that a foreign company seeking to increase its presence in the US would see Yahoo as a massive opportunity.
With Yahoo looking to spin off its 15% stake in Alibaba from the rest of what Yahoo does, some think the Chinese commerce giant will want to buy that 15% back, and then perhaps the rest of Yahoo with it.
One alternative is for Yahoo to be picked apart bit-by-bit. It owns services like Tumblr and Flickr, valuable web properties in their own right.
Although Yahoo is still one of the best-known names on the Internet, and has around one billion users, it has fallen behind Google in Internet search.
The poor performance has led some shareholders to call for the management team including Ms Mayer to be removed.
Paul Kedrosky, a California based venture capitalist, says the break up of the company is inevitable and that many investors were surprised when the firm failed to say as much at its last quarterly report.
He said: "The most valuable asset at Yahoo is its shareholding in Alibaba which is worth in the region of $25bn (£17.5bn). The Chinese internet company may buy it [the stake] back or there will be other interested parties."
"But the core business is likely to be split into two or three separate businesses."
He said it was unlikely that one buyer would be found for the whole business.
Yahoo's market value is currently around $28bn.
In February 2008 Microsoft offered to buy the company for $44bn.
In October 2011 it offered less than half that at $18bn.
Both offers were turned down.
Yahoo has appointed Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and PJT partners as its financial advisers.
The California tech group said it would not be making any further comment on the matter until an agreement had been reached.
Colin Pitchfork was jailed in 1988 for the murder of Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, both 15, from Leicestershire.
The petition, started by Rebecca Eastwood, sister of Lynda, has already got more than 4,000 signatures.
A parole review has begun because Pitchfork is nearing the end of his 28 years minimum term, officials said.
He was caught after the world's first mass screening for DNA, in which 5,000 men in the Enderby area were asked to volunteer blood or saliva samples.
He initially persuaded a friend to take the test on his behalf but this was later discovered.
Mrs Eastwood said: "Obviously we don't want him to be released because of the crimes he committed, we don't think he deserves that second chance.
"But, there is also the fear he will commit crimes again and I could not live with myself if I did not fight him coming out."
The parole review process involves gathering information from probation staff, prison officers and medical experts, probably leading to an oral hearing.
Before sanctioning a prisoner's release, the parole board has to be sure he or she no longer poses a risk to the public.
The 2009 court hearing which cut his original 30 year tariff was told Pitchfork, now 55, had made "exceptional progress" in prison.
Ball, 84, was jailed last year for sex assaults on 18 teenagers and young men in the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
Files obtained by the BBC indicate Lambeth Palace received six letters detailing indecency allegations shortly after an arrest in 1992.
Ball was cautioned but worked in churches and schools for 15 more years.
Richard Scorer, a lawyer at Slater and Gordon, said: "It's an absolute scandal. It is wrong and unacceptable that the Church of England sat on the information and didn't pass it to the police.
"There is no question Peter Ball would have been prosecuted, convicted and jailed for child abuse at that time."
The Church of England has declined to comment.
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey told the BBC last year that he had placed Peter Ball on a list of priests banned from the ministry.
But Sussex police documents, released under an Freedom of Information (FOI) request, suggest Ball's name was not included.
The documents also indicate Ball associated with other sex offenders in the clergy and that he was investigated in 2008 for being part of a suspected paedophile ring.
The police files also suggest Ball covered for and helped other priests accused of sex abuse, including:
Analysis by BBC South East Special Correspondent Colin Campbell:
These files give a further insight into how the church handled Ball's case. It seems the Diocese of Chichester did not share documents which could have jailed Ball earlier.
There is no explanation about how he was able to gain a clear Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check, so he could continue working in the church.
The documents reveal Bishop Peter Ball considered asking the home secretary to overturn his caution in the 1990s.
They also detail the "limited disciplinary action" taken by the-then Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey in relation to Ball and "his return to ministry".
In February, it was announced Dame Moira Gibb was chairing an independent review of the Ball case to consider what information was available to the Church of England, who had it and when.
A month later, Justice Lowell Goddard's inquiry into historical child sex abuse announced it would consider whether there was interference by the Church in the Peter Ball case.
Lord Carey's spokesman, his son Andrew, declined to comment on the new claims but said: "Lord Carey is working with and cooperating fully with two ongoing enquiries - Dame Moira Gibb's review and the Goddard Enquiry".
The 28-year-old was cited following video evidence from the 43-0 European Champions Cup defeat by the Warriors.
Slater, who had already been given a two-week club ban, will be free to play again on 6 February.
His disciplinary record, guilty plea and "expression of remorse" saw the four week sanction reduced by half.
As the Tigers' second-rower would have feasibly been considered for Anglo-Welsh Cup fixtures this past weekend, he is deemed to have already served one week of the suspension.
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When these reptiles emerge from their beach nests, they race down to the sea and start swimming hell for leather.
Their intention is to get as far off shore as possible, away from coastal predators and into currents that will sweep them out into the open ocean.
Now, scientists have documented this mad dash with the aid of little pingers stuck to the turtles' undersides.
These acoustic tags, just 12mm long, enabled Dr Rebecca Scott and colleagues to track the animals' progress through the water.
In a paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the team describes the baby turtles' swimming behaviour, and the dispersal strategies that seem specific to different loggerhead populations.
Dr Scott's research was based in Cape Verde in the central-eastern Atlantic, a key nesting ground for the species.
Eleven hatchlings were released into the swash with their mini-pingers attached.
The team then followed them in boats with a hydrophone in the water to pick up the contact sounds.
The baby turtles were tracked for up to eight hours. The tags eventually fell off. One hatchling is thought to have been eaten by a fish.
The results show the baby loggerheads swam considerable distances. Some covered as much as 15km, moving at 60m a minute on occasions.
"What we demonstrated is that these little guys swim like crazy when they enter the water, and at Cape Verde, where the ocean currents are just a few kilometres offshore, they soon get swept away and on to that journey to the open ocean," Dr Scott, a Future Ocean researcher at GEOMAR, told BBC News.
"For years, people have always spoken about hatchlings being swept away in the currents, but this is really the first good, direct evidence for that happening."
Because of the difficulties of getting tagging equipment that is small enough and will stay on fast-growing infant turtles, the creatures' early lives are often referred to by scientists as the "lost years".
There are many assumptions about what they get up to before they return to feeding and breeding areas as young adults - but not nearly enough hard fact.
Observations indicate a key development period is spent amongst mats of floating sargassum seaweed, where the vulnerable creatures can hide and feed on fish larvae and insects.
Ocean circulation models also provide some information on likely drift patterns in the Atlantic. But all this needs to be anchored with better field data.
Lab studies are a help, and Dr Scott's team supplemented its tagging work with a swimming pool experiment, in which the hatchlings' activity could be monitored from a static position over several days.
In these pools, the turtles can swim but are harnessed to prevent them touching the sides of the container.
This showed up key differences between the Cape Verde loggerheads and the baby turtles from the western Atlantic used in similar laboratory set-ups by other research groups in the US.
The Cape Verde animals do not swim as frenetically for as long as their American cousins, who must cover tens to hundreds of kilometres to reach the ocean currents that flow off the East Coast.
Because the turtles used in these types of experiments are picked up before they have ever swum in the sea, any behaviour they display is likely to be innate, says Dr Scott.
"It shows that these turtles are born knowing how far they should swim," the Kiel, Germany-based scientist added.
"The hatchlings in America are born knowing they have to swim a lot to get to the ocean currents, whereas the Cape Verde animals are born knowing they don't have to swim nearly as much."
Prof Brendan Godley, from Exeter University, UK, was not involved in the study. He said it was another significant step forward in understanding loggerheads.
"This is important work as it starts to allow us to complete missing pieces of the jigsaw and inform oceanographic modelling studies of how hatchlings disperse across the oceans," he told BBC News.
"The tags were innovatively small and relatively low-impact on the tiny turtles, which gives confidence in the findings.
"It would be great to have a larger number tracked for longer durations from a more substantial boat to deepen these insights; and, eventually, when we can deal with the problems of attaching a transmitter sufficiently small, durable and powerful to a small leathery creature that grows very fast, we will break through the subsequent barriers and really know where they spend the 'lost years'."
Dr Scott's research was supported by the Turtle Foundation and the Future Ocean Cluster of Excellence.
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A small chartered plane landed at Traigh Mhor beach runway with the 14-year-old's coffin at about 12:45 on Sunday.
Her parents Roddy and Marion were on board.
Eilidh was among 22 people who died in the terrorist attack at the Ariana Grande concert on 22 May.
Her friend Laura MacIntyre, a fellow pupil at Castlebay Community School on the island, was also seriously injured in the bombing at Manchester Arena. The 15-year-old is still in hospital in Manchester.
On the arrival of the plane, Fr John Paul MacKinnon performed a blessing over the casket, which was draped in the green and white flag of Barra.
A procession of six firefighters and two other groups of men carried the coffin across the sand to the hearse.
Piper Duncan Nicholson, the son of Eilidh's piping tutor Donald Patrick Nicholson, led the procession with three slow airs she had been learning.
They were Mull of the Mountain, Sine Bhan and Leaving Ireland.
Donald Patrick, 76, who taught her since she was eight years old, said: "She was brilliant, a fantastic girl. It's devastating. I've known her since she was in primary school."
Her body has been taken to the family home in Castlebay.
A crowd of around 50 people were at the airport to observe the ceremony. About two dozen vehicles followed as the family made its way home.
Eilidh's funeral is due to take place on Monday at the Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea in the village.
Mother-of-two Julie Parkin, 39, was found dead at an address in Kirkwall Close in the city on 27 June.
She taught at West Boldon Primary School, where staff said they were "deeply shocked" at the loss of the "highly respected" teacher.
A 35-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in police custody.
In a statement released through Northumbria Police, Mrs Parkin's family said: "Julie was the best person anyone could ever meet. She was the perfect child.
"She was beautiful inside and out and she brought something special to everyone she met.
"We are all utterly devastated. Her children are devastated. It is so tragic and we can't ever understand why anyone would do this.
"We would like to thank the school for their support.
"The teachers and kids have been brilliant and their support means so much to us. Julie was like a mam to them all."
Earlier the head teacher of West Boldon Primary School, Joanne Weightman, described Mrs Parkin as a "highly valued" member of staff who was popular with pupils and colleagues.
Clashes developed when police enforced a ban on an Orange Order march in the north of the city on Friday evening.
The order had called for widespread demonstrations over the decision to ban marchers from a short stretch of road that separates loyalist and nationalist communities.
It later said it was suspending its protest.
Many families with children were caught up in the violence.
Petrol bombs, bricks and fireworks were thrown at the police who responded with water cannon and fired 20 plastic baton rounds.
North Belfast MP Mr Dodds was knocked unconscious during the riot and taken away in an ambulance.
The trouble started when the police blocked a road to enforce a determination made by the Parades Commission, preventing Orangemen from passing Ardoyne on the return route of their annual 12 July march.
The area has seen republican rioting in recent years when the parade was allowed to pass.
The Orange Order had called for sustained protests at the decision but has since reeled back from that position.
The BBC's Andy Martin in Belfast says the fear of the police is that the "genie may already be out of the bottle".
Loyalists do not necessarily take their lead from the Orange institutions.
Trouble broke out when the parade was stopped on the Woodvale Road.
Mr Dodds was hit by a missile thrown by loyalists at the junction of Woodvale Road and Woodvale Parade.
A man who treated Mr Dodds at the scene, gave his account of what had happened.
"I was standing right beside him listening to his conversation," he said.
"He grasped his head as he went down. He was knocked out cold. I put him in the recovery position and checked his airway. A crowd gathered and then the ambulance arrived and he was taken away by ambulance. I felt sorry for the fella."
"He was unlucky because he was also hit by water cannon as I was trying to administer first aid and he got soaked," he added.
Northern Ireland executive minister Nelson McCausland, who was with Mr Dodds at the time of the incident, said the MP was "now conscious".
Mr Dodds was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. He was treated and has since been discharged.
Water cannon and baton rounds were used after a sustained attack on police in north Belfast. Police were attacked with ceremonial swords as well as missiles. Later on Friday night, police were attacked with petrol bombs on the Woodvale Road.
The Parades Commission ruling stopped Orange Order lodges from walking on a stretch of road in north Belfast that separates loyalist and nationalist communities.
Trouble also broke out on the Newtownards Road in east Belfast with petrol bombs being thrown at police lines.
Earlier, missiles had been thrown as a parade passed St Matthew's Catholic church.
Petrol bombs, bricks and bottles thrown were thrown, and water cannon was used by police, in both north and east Belfast.
Earlier on Friday evening, Mr Dodds had appealed for calm following trouble.
"People who want to engage in violence should desist immediately," he said.
Northern Ireland First Minister and DUP leader Peter Robinson appealed for "cool heads" and said his thoughts were with those "who have been injured this evening, including my colleague Nigel Dodds".
The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland has also called for calm.
Sinn Fein assembly member Gerry Kelly has blamed the Orange Order and unionist politicians for the violence.
He accused them of having a deliberate strategy that had produced "inevitable results".
Orange Order lodges in north Belfast, marched past the Ardoyne shops on Friday morning.
However, the Parades Commission, which rules on contentious parades, banned them from returning by the same route in the evening.
The ruling was that on their return, lodges would be stopped at the junction of Woodvale Road and Woodvale Parade.
They have been prohibited from walking between that point and the junction of the Crumlin Road and Hesketh Road.
The Parades Commission ruled that marchers would not be allowed to return along the part of the Crumlin Road, at Ardoyne shops, that separates nationalist and loyalist communities.
The marching season in Northern Ireland is a period of events from April to August, with the highpoint on 12 July when Orangemen march to commemorate William of Orange's victory over the Catholic King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland in 1690.
William III is revered by the order as a champion of his faith. The Orange Order commemorate his victory in their annual parades.
Many Catholics see the marches as triumphalist and sectarian with some traditional Orange routes passing through or past areas occupied mainly by Catholics and nationalists.
The Parades Commission ruling on the north Belfast parade was welcomed by nationalist politicians but angered unionists.
The 20-year-old, who scored once in 14 league starts while on loan at National League North Ferriby United earlier this term, was with Lincoln in 2015-16.
He is a product of Scunthorpe's academy and made his senior debut in 2014.
Cheltenham are 22nd in League Two, one point above the drop zone, while United are second in League One, two points off top spot with two games in hand.
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Mountain rescue teams helped 608 people who got into difficulties in 2014, with 12 fatalities.
Safety experts have issued life-saving advice in a bid to avoid further tragedies.
The Scottish government said it will provide a total of £1.81m towards mountain safety this year.
The tips for winter safety include:
Mark Diggins, from Sportscotland Avalanche Information Service, said: "Many thousands of enthusiasts enjoy the Scottish mountains every winter.
"However, the fast changing weather, with its snowfall, avalanche hazard, strong winds and poor visibility, requires us to be much more prepared when going into the mountains in the winter.
"Good clothing, navigational ability, appropriate equipment, movement skills on steep terrain, and use of ice axe and crampons are a necessary requirement for our enjoyment and safety."
Sport Minister Jamie Hepburn added: "Scotland's wild places can be at their most beautiful during the winter months, and we want people to be able to enjoy them right through the year.
"There's no doubt that the weather conditions make this more challenging, and while this challenge is part of the appeal for many, it must be treated with the utmost respect.
"Simple precautions and basic common sense can greatly reduce the risk of getting into trouble."
The Scottish government funding includes a £312,000 annual grant for mountain rescue teams and £1,041,000 for the Sportscotland national outdoor training centre at Glenmore Lodge, near Aviemore.
Sammy, 32, who is currently playing in the World T20 in India, has previously played for Nottinghamshire and Glamorgan in the competition.
The St Lucian will be available for the south coast county from 2 June until his Caribbean Premier League commitments at the start of July.
"I'm really excited to have signed with Hampshire," Sammy said.
"Hampshire have had strong T20 results in the past which I'm hoping will continue this coming summer.
"They also have a rich West Indian history which I'm looking forward to adding to the best I can."
The LGBT support charity Metro, asked 7,000 16 to 24-year-olds across the UK about their experiences.
The results suggested rates of self-harm were also higher in young LGBT people and that they were more likely to need help with depression and anxiety than heterosexual people of the same age.
The survey found:
• 42% of young LGBT people have sought medical help for anxiety or depression
• 52% of young LGBT people report self-harm either now or in the past
• 44% of young LGBT people have considered suicide
Of those who responded, 6,514 were LGBT or questioning, 956 were transgender and 612 heterosexual and non-trans.
The latest available figures from the NHS date back to 2007. They suggested 12% of LGBT (or questioning) young people reported self harming, which is significantly less than Metro's figure.
The charity also says 44% of LGBT young people have thought about suicide, compared to the NHS's figure of 21%.
Aaron is 18 from Liverpool. He told Newsbeat how he threw himself in front of a car when he was 14.
"I was trying to come to terms with my sexuality. I broke both my legs and was in a wheelchair for six months," he said.
He says he'd had a row with his dad about being gay.
"It didn't solve anything and if I'd died I wouldn't be doing everything I enjoy now."
Metro's figures suggest LGBT young people experience significantly higher levels of verbal, physical and sexual abuse.
Taz, 19, studies in Bradford. She came out to her family and school friends when she was 14.
"There was a mix of direct bullying and rumours," she said.
"I'd made friends with someone who wasn't in my year group. There were rumours that we were in a relationship.
"We weren't together but it spread around the school in a matter of days and it hurt a lot.
"I thought it was unfair I should have to suffer, because [straight] people were getting in relationships all the time which no one cares about."
Taz says young LGBT people find can find it hard to access support services.
"The effort you have to go to to seek out help, in some cases, can be off putting."
Dr Greg Ussher is Acting CEO of Metro. He said: "We should all be deeply concerned about the crisis in LGBTQ young people's mental health and wellbeing."
He says the survey responses should be "a wake up call".
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And, after waiting for four years for the chance to box in his home city again, Burnett put in an impressive display at the weekend, stopping Slovakian opponent Elemir Rafael.
A function room in Belfast's Holiday Inn cannot claim to be the biggest or most glamorous sporting venue in town, but the 21-year-old bantamweight Burnett was thrilled to be showcasing his talent in front of family and friends.
The compact setting meant the vocal support for Burnett was amplified as the local prospect claimed a round two stoppage in what was only his second bout as a professional.
If Burnett is to progress, he will meet more difficult opponents than Rafael, a 28-year-old journeyman who is no stranger to defeat in the ring.
And he may have to work on his concentration levels, as the victor admitted afterwards the excitement of boxing in front of his home crowd made him drift from the game plan.
"I couldn't wait to get in and put on a show," said Burnett.
"I got ahead of myself in the first round where I rushed it a bit, but that is expected - it is all about learning."
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On the subject of learning, Burnett believes he could not have a better teacher than former two-weight world champion, Hatton.
"He is someone who has been to the top. He has done it all and brings all the experience. Ricky went to the top of the world."
Hatton believes these fights in Burnett's early years will prove to be an invaluable experience.
"The amateur game and the professional game are very different," said Hatton.
"I think it was a bit of a shock to his system tonight, so it was a good box ticked as far as I am concerned.
"I could see straight away he was getting frustrated, but that was the case for all of us when we turned professional."
The "Hitman" recognises that, although high expectations surround Burnett, it is still very early in his career and they have plenty to work on if he is to fulfil his potential.
"There were lots of things he did wrong believe it or not, which is good for me to go back to the gym and work on.
"You do not improve by being told what you did right, and he did a million and one things right. You improve by being told the things you did wrong."
Although the trainer and promoter believes the seven-time All-Ireland amateur champion still has a lot to learn about the paid ranks, he firmly believes his protege can become one of the great Irish fighters.
"I don't want to put too much pressure on his shoulders because whether it was myself, Steve Collins, Ryan Burnett or Barry McGuigan, we all have to tick the boxes as we're going.
"If he ticks all those boxes, and I think he will do, then obviously with the talent he has got, he can go as far as he wants to go."
Hatton hopes to have more Belfast shows in the pipeline for Burnett, believing it important for his fighter to build a relationship with his local supporters.
"I got my fan base by fighting regularly in Manchester," added Hatton.
"If he fights regularly in Belfast - especially when Belfast is so hot, with Carl Frampton's success - hopefully they'll see what an exciting talent he is.
"He is always in good fights, he fights with his heart. Once he gets that fan base behind him and gets to the very top, I think the Belfast and Irish fans will follow him everywhere."
The 2012 Tour de France winner, who already has four Olympic titles, said: "I'm going to continue to the next Olympics and try for a fifth."
I don't mind admitting that Chris is probably a better Grand Tour rider than me
Wiggins, 33, also told The Times: "It would be nice to finish the career with another Olympic gold."
He was unable to defend his Tour de France crown in 2013 because of injury but wants to ride it one more time.
Wiggins acknowledged that making a return to the Team GB track line-up would not be easy.
"Having lost weight and muscle the last few years I wouldn't be able to walk back into the team pursuit squad, so I'm not taking anything for granted, but I am working towards that."
Having previously indicated he may never compete in the Tour again, he said he would like to take part in 2014 if selected by Team Sky.
He also suggested he was willing to support this year's winner Chris Froome.
"I don't mind admitting that Chris is probably a better Grand Tour rider than me," Wiggins said.
"He is a much better climber, he can time-trial well. [At 28] he has age on his side, he has no kids, that's fine. If Chris wants to, he could potentially win five Tours now.
"So if I want to win another Tour, I'd probably have to leave the team.
"I love this team. This is my home, I'm not going to go, 'I want to be the leader still, so I'm off'."
Wiggins won six Olympic track medals, including three golds, before switching to the road after the 2008 Games.
Froome reportedly said recently that Wiggins had not congratulated him on his Tour victory.
Wiggins said there was a simple reason for that: "For a start, this is a pathetic excuse - and it's not an excuse - but I don't have his phone number.
"Rather than me send him some naff little text message, I would rather wait till I see him, genuinely put my hand out and say 'you know what, that was a good ride'.
"That is more genuine than one text message that might get lost in hundreds of others.
"Obviously once the press got hold of it, it got chewed up a bit and then it would have been really naff to have sent one.
"But I will see him at the World Championships where I will be riding to support him. So this was not me saying, 'I'll never ride for him again'."
Bristow Helicopters is operating the service from a new £7m base.
It was awarded the contract to run all 10 UK bases after a decision to privatise search and rescue in 2013.
HMS Gannet covered an area from Ben Nevis in the north, the Lake District to the south, east to Edinburgh and the Atlantic to the west of Ireland.
Samantha Willenbacher, Bristow Helicopter's director of UK search and rescue services, said some of the key personnel from the Royal Navy operation would be part of the new team.
"We've actually got a lot of the crews from Gannet that have been providing the search and rescue service, so, we actually have a lot of that experience that has transferred over to us," she said.
"We've also got a huge amount of experience within the crews that we operate as well.
"While the colours of the helicopter might be different in the local area, the level of service that local citizens in this area receive, there'll be no change at all."
Bristow Helicopters will operate 10 search and rescue helicopter bases in the UK on behalf of HM Coastguard, a section of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).
The UK firm was awarded a 10-year UK contract by the Department for Transport, in March 2013, following the decision to privatise the service.
The first of the bases operated by Bristow, including Inverness, became operational last year.
The final UK base will be up and running by 2017.
MCA chief executive Sir Alan Massey said he was "hugely proud" to have been "entrusted" with the service.
"For us the launch of the Prestwick helicopter base is an extension of the high-quality service that we have been providing in other parts of the UK for the last 30 years," he said.
"HMS Gannet has set the bar incredibly high, and I would like to thank them for their service and recognise the outstanding work they have done both at sea and inland over many decades.
"We will take their legacy forward with the utmost pride and care."
The companies will be expected to secure private funding to pay for the redevelopment of facilities like the closed Sun Centre pool on the seafront.
The council said it is willing to consider proposals involving any of its land or property in the resort.
Rhyl Sun Centre closed earlier this year due to funding concerns.
It shut along with Prestatyn's Nova Centre and the North Wales Bowls Centre when the trust running them ran out of cash.
In 2001, the council set up Clwyd Leisure to run the facilities on its behalf.
However, the council's cabinet decided to withdraw financial support of £200,000 for 2014/15 and Clwyd Leisure ceased trading in February resulting in the closure of the three sites.
The authority set a Friday deadline for companies to come forward with ideas to develop facilities along the promenade from Marine Lake which includes the site of a miniature railway and boating lake to Splash Point at the opposite end of the resort.
A multimillion pound project has seen rundown properties demolished in the resort as part of the council's bid to regenerate Rhyl.
And last year the £4.3m bridge opened at Rhyl harbour providing a traffic-free cycle and footbridge to Towyn and beyond.
The incident was captured on a CCTV camera outside Jonathan Gwyer's home in Whitstable on Monday afternoon.
The man can be seen picking up the food waste bin, checking it, then dumping the contents into the bin next to it.
Waste company Serco has apologised for the "completely unacceptable" behaviour of one of its agency workers.
Mr Gwyer was shocked and disappointed that his efforts to recycle at his home on Colombia Avenue appeared to be in vain.
He told the BBC: "It puts people off making the effort. You just think: what's the point? Life would be easier if we just put everything in one bin!"
However, he was adamant he held Serco responsible, not the worker. He said: "I don't really want to single out any of the lads. It's a horrible job."
But he added: "They just seem to be rushing everywhere and the last few weeks have been a lot more chaotic."
Serco said in a statement: "We very much value the efforts residents make to separate their waste and we work hard to provide them with a high standard of service.
"This behaviour by one of our agency workers is completely unacceptable and I would like to apologise and reassure residents that we are taking the matter very seriously.
"We have already taken disciplinary action against the individual and I will be speaking to our crews to remind them of their responsibilities."
Canterbury City Council said the video clip was "bitterly disappointing" and apologised to residents for the "poor behaviour".
It added: "We know and appreciate that residents across the district put a great deal of effort into ensuring their recycling goes into the right containers and how demoralising it is when situations like this occur.
"Such action cannot and will not be tolerated and we are pleased that Serco has taken swift action to deal with the matter and the individual concerned."
Jonny finished third on the Gold Coast and second in Cape Town in April, while Alistair finished back in 36th on the Gold Coast as he hunts the form that made him Olympic champion in 2012.
With fellow Leeds residents Non Stanford and Vicky Holland and training partner Gordon Benson, five of the six GB athletes for Rio will be in action.
Britain's round of the series, which has been held in Hyde Park since 2009, has moved to Leeds for the first time and it promises to be an emotional afternoon for the Brownlees, who are assured of passionate support around the city's streets.
"Starting triathlon a long time ago you never thought you'd race on the streets of Leeds with big crowds. I'm very, very proud," said 28-year-old Alistair.
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Younger brother Jonny, who won bronze in London in 2012, added: "It is a bit strange and a bit daunting as well. If we weren't training here it might not have happened.
"You get called a role model and the next thing, there's an event here because of you. At some point, when I've retired I'll step back and think about it and go, 'Wow'."
After a two-lap swim in Roundhay Park, the 40km bike leg winds through the suburbs where they have cycled and run for years, before finishing with a four-lap run that ends in Millennium Square.
With the year's dominant athlete Mario Mola missing from the men's race and reigning world champion Javier Gomez making his 2016 World Series debut, the opportunity is there for the brothers to get their own world-title bids back on track.
Gomez and the two Brownlees have not all raced each other since the Grand Final in Edmonton two years ago, while Stanford and Holland will be taking on the woman likely to go to Rio as favourite for gold, USA's Gwen Jorgensen.
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The reigning world champion has raced sparingly this summer, but with only two more World Series events before the Olympics the world's best are looking to use the first European leg of nine-race series to fine-tune their preparations.
For Jodie Stimpson - overlooked for Olympic selection for the second successive Games this week despite winning in Abu Dhabi and taking second in Cape Town this season - the focus is entirely on the world title.
Currently second in the standings, she knows another strong performance this weekend could not only move her ahead of current leader Flora Duffy but leave her in pole position as her rivals turn their focus to Rio.
The third member of the women's team for Rio, Welshwoman Helen Jenkins, is not racing in Leeds.
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Alicja Dworakowska, 29, was reported missing from her home in Beeston in Leeds on Tuesday.
West Yorkshire Police issued an urgent appeal following the disappearance of the heavily-pregnant mother and young girl.
The force thanked the public and media for their assistance in locating them.
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The 25-year-old joined the French club for a fee of 222m euros (£200m) and he will earn 45m euros (£40.7m) a year.
Neymar, who could play in PSG's first league match of the season on Saturday, said his price was "not a burden".
PSG chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi added that Neymar could have earned more money at another club.
The Ligue 1 club's total outlay on the Brazilian is expected to be £400m.
Asked at his official unveiling at the Parc des Princes if he was motivated by money, Neymar replied: "What I say to these people is they don't know anything about my personal life. I was never motivated by money.
"If I was following the money, I would be somewhere else, with other clubs in other countries. I'm really sad that people still think that way and I'm glad that PSG believe in me."
Al-Khelaifi added: "Neymar came here for motivation, a project that he believed in. He can get much more money than we give him, that's for sure."
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Former Portugal winger Luis Figo left Barcelona for Real Madrid in 2000, for a then world record fee of £37.4m, after Madrid paid his buyout clause. The move was greeted with anger by Barcelona fans.
When asked how he felt about being compared to Figo, Neymar said: "I have done nothing bad. I am sad about the fact that the fans think that.
"You are not obligated to remain at a club, if you wish to leave then the player has that right."
Al-Khelaifi added: "He left as a gentleman. It's not fair to compare him with other players. He was trying to delay the process out of respect for Barcelona's players and fans.
"I'm shocked by the question."
Neymar's move was protracted as La Liga officials rejected the payment of his buyout clause from his lawyers. They instead had to deposit the money at Barcelona's club office.
The La Liga stance is that PSG are violating Uefa's Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules, and Barcelona previously said they would report PSG to European football's governing body Uefa for a FFP breach.
Al-Khelaifi defended the deal, saying: "We will be very transparent with Financial Fair Play. I have a strong team with me. If you are thinking about it, go have a coffee and don't worry about it.
"There is only one decision that matters and that is with Uefa. We are working very transparently with Uefa.
"We don't care about speculation in the media. We care that what we are doing is transparent and completely legal."
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Al-Khelaifi said Neymar has had an instant financial impact, adding: "Before Neymar the value of the club was $1bn, now it is $1.5bn."
Defending the cost of the transfer, he said: "Today is expensive but in two or three years? I do not think it is expensive, we will definitely make more money. This is the power of PSG. It is an amazing transfer."
Neymar, who denied he left Barcelona to step out of Lionel Messi's shadow, added: "It is not a burden. I am 69kg and do not have a burden on my back."
Neymar arrived in Paris by private jet on Friday and was greeted by PSG officials, including the recently retired former left-back and Brazil international Maxwell.
The club's shop on the Champs-Elysees was adorned with images of Neymar and hundreds of fans queued to get their hands on a replica shirt of their new number 10, which set them back over £100.
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North Korea said it was considering a missile strike on the US military base in Guam, after US President Donald Trump threatened Pyongyang with "fire and fury".
The Dow Jones fell 0.17% to 22,048.7 and the wider S&P 500 index dipped 0.04% to 2,474.02.
The Nasdaq lost 0.28% to 6,352.3.
Mr Trump on Wednesday took to Twitter to boast about the US nuclear arsenal, while Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tried to inject calm into the situation, reassuring the American public that there was no imminent threat.
While stocks opened lower, they stemmed losses as the day went on, remaining near the record highs where they have traded for weeks.
Walt Disney weighed on the market. Its shares fell almost 4% after the company said it would invest in the launch of its own ESPN- and Disney-branded online streaming sites and end a distribution deal with Netflix in 2019.
Netflix fell by about 1.5%.
The duchess presented sprigs of shamrock to some 300 soldiers on parade and Irish wolfhound Domhnall - the regiment's mascot.
Prince William was made an honorary colonel of the regiment in 2011.
The event, at Mons Barracks, dates back to 1901.
The presentation of the shamrocks was previously performed by the late Queen Mother.
The 23-year-old is selected alongside fellow fast bowlers Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and James Pattinson in captain Steve Smith's squad.
Australia are in Group A alongside Bangladesh, New Zealand and England, and former bowler Brett Lee says their opponents should be "scared".
"It's a serious pace barrage," he said.
"What Pat Cummins can bring is pace, aggression, control and anything between that. He is a once-in-a-generation bowler and you have got to harness that amazing talent.
"Hazlewood is more of hitting the good length, day in and day out. With Starc you will be getting full, short, good length, yorkers, the whole thing."
Cummins is capable of bowling at speeds in excess of 95mph.
The 50-over Champions Trophy competition begins with England against Bangladesh on 1 June.
Australia squad: Steve Smith (capt), David Warner, Pat Cummins, Aaron Finch, John Hastings, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Moises Henriques, Chris Lynn, Glenn Maxwell, James Pattinson, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Wade, Adam Zampa.
Australia's group fixtures: 2 June v New Zealand (Edgbaston), 5 June v Bangladesh (The Oval), 10 June v England (Edgbaston).
About 150,000 people have been displaced by fighting, according to the UN, with 12 million short of food.
Meanwhile, al-Qaeda militants overran an arms depot in Yemen's Hadramawt province, seizing heavy weapons.
A Saudi-led coalition has been bombing Yemen's Shia Houthi rebels, who are advancing across the country.
The coalition is bombing 18 of Yemen's 22 provinces, exacerbating an existing humanitarian crisis.
The UN said 731 people had been killed and 2,754 injured - many of them civilians - in three weeks between March and April. The numbers were likely to be an underestimate, it warned.
The UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) is now calling for $273.7 million in donations.
"Ordinary families are struggling to access healthcare, water, food and fuel - basic requirements for their survival," said Johannes Van Der Klaauw, UN humanitarian coordinator for Yemen.
"To scale up assistance, we urgently need additional resources. I urge donors to act now to support the people of Yemen at this time of greatest need."
Also on Friday, security officials said al-Qaeda militants overran Yemeni troops and took control of a massive weapons depot in the eastern Hadramawt province, consolidating their control of the region.
The militants reportedly seized dozens of tanks, rocket launchers, and small arms.
The attack came a day after the group captured a major airport in the region, as well as an oil terminal and the main military base.
The fighting in Yemen - between the Shia Houthi rebels, forces loyal to exiled President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, and jihadists - has dramatically accelerated an existing humanitarian crisis.
Even before the current conflict, 15.9 million people - 61% of the population - were estimated to require some kind of humanitarian aid, according to the UN.
Air strikes have worsened the damage to the country's infrastructure, with at least five of Yemen's hospitals now destroyed or badly damaged.
The UN also said it had received reports of serious human rights violations.
At lunch after a very good morning session they would have been entertaining thoughts of wrapping up victory before the day was done; but West Indies fought back superbly in the final two sessions as England, not for the first time in this series, struggled to take wickets.
They ran in hard, set interesting fields, and tried all they could, but the bowling was just too predictable to pose a threat on this slow, docile pitch.
With four right-arm fast-medium seamers, everything is the same, which means the batsmen know where the ball is going to land and can play it with relative ease.
What England desperately need is something unpredictable: whether that's a wrist spinner like Adil Rashid who can bowl variations; or someone like Liam Plunkett who can bowl fast, bowl different lengths and come round the wicket.
It's not as if they can't afford to take a gamble - they've got so much batting that they have all the scope they need to pick somebody a bit different in the bowling department.
In my opinion, playing all-rounders Ben Stokes and Chris Jordan in the same XI is a mistake. They are so similar in terms of their bowling style.
Obviously England will have to assess the conditions on their own merits when they get to Barbados for the third Test, but I would certainly consider letting Jordan go.
I have a lot of admiration for Jordan - he's an excellent fielder, a very capable lower-order batsman and a lovely athlete. But I just can't see him taking a stack of wickets.
It may sound harsh, but when you compare him with someone like James Anderson, who is such a skilful manipulator of the ball, Jordan actually does very little with it.
The other major disappointment of England's bowling display has been the performance of spinner Moeen Ali.
Moeen's had a very average match - in general he's bowled too short and allowed the West Indian batsmen to get after him.
He's struggling because he's been injured, and the England management have expected him to come back immediately, step off a plane and play a Test match.
If you treated Graeme Swann or Derek Underwood like that, they'd probably do a good job, but Moeen is still finding his feet at Test level and doesn't have a wealth of experience to fall back on.
Moeen bowled brilliantly in the home series against India - taking 19 wickets - but when he performs like this, you have to say England have been over-optimistic to think of him as a frontline spinner.
Having said all that, you've got to give the West Indian batsmen a huge amount of credit for the way they played the England bowlers.
At lunch they were in desperate trouble, but they really knuckled down and showed a great deal of discipline, which is not something that recent West Indies teams have been flattered by.
Having a new coach at the helm can often make a difference, and you can only doff your cap in respect at the way they've responded to Phil Simmons's arrival.
England have a stiff task ahead of them, but I still believe they can win this match. They'll need a golden spell on the final day, but they'll have the new ball - they have the opportunity to take wickets and create pressure.
Jonathan Agnew was speaking to BBC Sport's James Gheerbrant.
Duch, born Kaing Guek Eav, was jailed in 2010 for his role in running a notorious prison where thousands of inmates were killed.
He had appealed on the grounds that he was a junior official following orders.
But judges rejected his claim and increased his sentence from 35 years to life.
Duch - the first senior Khmer Rouge official to face charges before the court - was convicted of crimes against humanity in July 2010. He appealed against the verdict in March 2011.
The 69-year-old was the commander of Tuol Sleng prison, where at least 15,000 men, women and children deemed enemies of the regime were tortured and then executed in "killing fields" outside Phnom Penh.
He had argued that he should never have been tried, claiming that he was a junior official following his superiors' orders on pain of death.
By Guy De LauneyBBC News, Phnom Penh
The judges had warned that clapping and cheering would not be tolerated inside the courtroom. But people found it hard to contain their emotions.
Dozens of young Cambodians had gathered in the outdoor cafe which serves as an overflow area, following proceedings on big screens. They cheered as the judges brought the hearing to a close, sending Duch to prison for the rest of his life.
There was also delight on the faces of those who were old enough to have lived through the horrors of the Pol Pot era. One woman told the BBC that she had been too nervous to sleep the night before the hearing. But she thought the life sentence represented justice, and renewed her optimism in the UN-backed process.
There are dissenting voices. Theary Seng, who leads the Association of Khmer Rouge Victims, saw the life sentence as an attempt to make Duch the sole scapegoat for all the atrocities committed by Pol Pot's government.
Others will share her concern that even though the trial of the three most senior surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge is under way, the frail old men may die before the end of the process.
Prosecutors, meanwhile, argued that his sentence was too lenient. Many survivors were outraged when he was sentenced to 35 years, because he could be free in 18 years given time already served.
The appeal court judges ruled that the initial prison term did not "reflect the gravity of the crimes".
"The crimes by Kaing Guek Eav were undoubtedly among the worst in recorded human history. They deserve the highest penalty available," Judge Kong Srim said.
Duch showed no emotion as the verdict was delivered. But prosecutors praised the ruling.
"We can say that justice has now been served after more than 30 years," Chea Leang said. "To us and to the victims, this is a great success."
Hundreds of survivors gathered at the Phnom Penh court to hear the final verdict.
Duch's case is the first to be concluded by the court against perpetrators of crimes committed during four years of Khmer Rouge rule in the late 1970s.
The regime attempted to create an ideal communist society by forcing city residents to work as peasants in the countryside, and by purging intellectuals, middle class people and any supposed enemies of the state.
Up to two million people - about one-third of the population - are believed to have been killed or died of over-work and starvation.
The three most senior surviving leaders of the regime were put on trial for genocide and crimes against humanity in November 2011. Their trial is ongoing.
The cases against them have been separated to speed up proceedings as the defendants are all in their 80s.
Internationally-renowned photographer Spencer Tunick is to create a new work there to celebrate its year as UK City of Culture.
The gathering is to be photographed in the East Yorkshire port on 9 July, with the resulting work unveiled in 2017.
Organisers hope hundreds of people will strip to become part of the work, entitled Sea Of Hull.
Participants are to be covered in cosmetic body make-up, before assembling to form the multiple colours of the sea and create abstract shapes for the camera.
New York-based Tunick has created more than 90 similar human installations worldwide, including at the Sydney Opera House, Place des Arts in Montreal, Mexico City and Munich in Germany.
His work in the UK has used places including Gateshead and Folkestone as backdrops.
"I'm very interested in the history of the city and its place as a seafaring centre and its relationship to a rich maritime past," Tunick said of Hull.
"It intrigues me that in some places where there are major streets or parks today, previously there was water."
He said he hoped he would create "a sea of humanity flooding the urban landscape" and the body paint would help many people to overcome their inhibitions to posing naked.
Kirsten Simister, of Hull's Ferens Art Gallery, said: "It's an opportunity to involve people directly in an amazing live performance that will temporarily transform the city."
The artist is to also create a second installation on 10 July inviting a select group of participants to take part in another event in North Lincolnshire.
Anyone over 18 can take part.
The 15-member council reached rare agreement on the issue in a session in New York on Friday.
The resolution endorses talks between the Syrian government and opposition in early January, as well as a ceasefire.
The Syrian war, which is heading towards its fifth year, has killed more than 250,000 people and displaced millions more, the UN says.
However, disagreements remain over the future of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The US, UK and France called for his departure, saying he had lost the ability to lead the country.
Russia and China, however, argued against a requirement for Mr Assad to leave power as a precondition for talks. The resolution itself makes no mention of his future role.
There is also disagreement over the definition of which armed groups fall within the remit of the ceasefire.
A stubborn gridlock in the UN Security Council has long blocked any step towards a political resolution of Syria's devastating war.
For years, everyone insisted there was no military solution. Nobody made much effort to achieve it.
The UN's first envoy Kofi Annan bitterly blamed the world body when he quit in 2012 after only one year in the job. His successor Lakhdar Brahimi frequently beseeched the Council to do more and often apologised to the Syrian people for failing them.
Now UN Envoy Staffan de Mistura is tasked with organising Syria talks. This unanimous vote is a crucial step forward. But the goal of "credible, inclusive and non-sectarian governance" within six months is hugely ambitious.
President Assad's supporters will welcome a UN resolution that does not mention his role. Russia's growing diplomatic and military weight in this conflict helped achieve that compromise. But, for the opposition and their allies, it will continue to be the issue that will block progress every step of the way.
US Secretary of State John Kerry, chairing the session, said the resolution sent "a clear message to all concerned that the time is now to stop the killing in Syria".
"The resolution we just reached is a milestone, because it sets specific goals and specific timeframes," he added.
The resolution calls for a ceasefire that should be implemented in parallel with the talks.
However, actions against groups considered terrorist organisations would not be affected. This would allow Russian, French and US air-strikes against Islamic State to continue.
France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius welcomed the deal but said that the idea of Mr Assad standing in elections was "unacceptable".
One of the major sticking points so far has been which rebel groups should be considered terrorist outfits and consequently excluded from any talks or ceasefire.
The agreement demands that all parties cease attacks against civilians.
Russia, an ally of Mr Assad, has argued against his departure being a precondition for talks.
10 September 2014 Last updated at 16:41 BST
The games are the brainchild of Prince Harry and will bring together inspiring athletes from around the world.
It's a special sporting competition for people injured when serving in the armed forces.
The prince has served in the Army in Afghanistan and said he was proud to help organise the event.
The word "invictus" is Latin and means "unconquered" - so the games symbolise strength in adversity.
It will go on for four days with more than 400 competitors from 13 nations competing in nine different sports.
Hayley's got more on the games.
The generals, three from each side of the conflict, will face global travel bans and asset freezes.
On Monday, a UN report alleged that government troops had gang-raped and burned alive women and girls in the oil-rich Unity State, during an offensive against rebel forces.
South Sudan, the world's newest state, has been hit by conflict since 2013.
Among those targeted by the sanctions is the commander of President Salva Kiir special guard, Maj-Gen Marial Chanuong Yol Mangok.
On the rebel side, they include Maj-Gen Simon Gatwech Dual, chief of general staff for the opposition forces and a key ally of rebel leader Riek Machar.
The US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, said the Security Council had demonstrated that those who committed atrocities and undermined peace would face consequences.
"South Sudan's political leadership has squandered the international goodwill that accompanied its independence and pursued political and economic self-interest that has produced only violence, displacement and suffering for the South Sudanese people," she added.
A UN report released on Monday described horrific violence in the latest fighting in Unity State.
It quoted witnesses as saying that the army had gang-raped girls and burnt them alive in huts.
The six generals are fairly well known in South Sudan, but are certainly not famous internationally. In some cases, they are fighting men who have hardly ever left their country.
Rebel and government supporters insist these men do not have foreign bank accounts, or plans to travel abroad. If this is the case, what's the point of sanctions?
The decision was probably taken for two reasons: To punish men considered responsible for some of the worst crimes of a particularly bloody war, and to put pressure on their bosses.
The message to Mr Kiir and Mr Riek Machar is this: Hurry up, sign a peace deal - or you could be next.
Not everyone is convinced this will work: The International Crisis Group think-tank has already warned the sanctions risk compromising the peace process.
South Sudan will be marking four years of independence next week after it seceded from Sudan.
At least two million people have been left homeless by the conflict which erupted in December 2013 after Mr Kiir accused Mr Machar, his sacked deputy, of plotting a coup.
Mr Machar denied the allegation, but then formed a rebel army to fight the government.
Various efforts to mediate an end to the conflict have failed.
Earlier this month, the UN humanitarian co-ordinator in the country, Toby Lanzer, was expelled by the government.
Reports say he was kicked out for highlighting the plight of those caught up in the conflict.
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Sarah Outen, from Rutland, is trying to circle the globe by cycling, kayaking and rowing.
The row across the North Pacific to Canada is expected to take six months.
The 27-year-old's new trip had been delayed again by several weeks due to poor weather but she left Choshi Marina at 15:33 local time.
"Butterflies have arrived and my head has now clicked into very focused mode," she said.
"It has been a massive mountain to get back to this point after last year's rescue," she said before leaving in her new boat Happy Socks.
The storm sank her boat Gulliver in June 2012.
She is hoping to become the first person to row single-handed from Japan to Canada.
"It's not a given I will even make it across successfully to the other side," she said.
If she makes it, she will then bike 3,000 miles from the west coast of Canada to Nova Scotia before returning to London over the North Atlantic.
The 24-year-old returned to the Scottish Premiership club ahead of the 1-0 win in Belfast after picking up the injury during training.
Kilmarnock striker Josh Magennis and Aberdeen forward Niall McGinn came off the bench in the second half.
Three other Scottish Premiership players were unused substitutes.
Hamilton Academical goalkeeper Michael McGovern and Dundee United pair Paul Paton and Billy Mckay did not make an appearance.
St Johnstone goalkeeper Alan Mannus was also part of the squad.
QPR striker Conor Washington, who had himself been an injury doubt, scored the winner for Michael O'Neill's side, who were warming up for this summer's Euro 2016 finals in France.
Sandycombe Lodge in Twickenham, south west London, was built by Turner in 1813, but it has fallen into a poor state of repair in recent years.
Turner's House Trust is looking for £125,000 to reach its £2.4m target to allow restoration works to begin.
The house - currently closed to the public - could be open in 2017.
The trust hopes turning to crowdfunding - asking people to invest in the project - will secure the total outstanding.
Turner designed the building as a retreat from his central London studio and as a permanent home for his elderly father, a retired wigmaker and barber, who looked after the house and garden.
The Grade II* listed house has been renovated in the 200 years since it was built including two extensions, changing it from its original design, which the trust - the house's owner - wants to restore.
Damp, damage from tree roots and other problems will also be fixed. Part of the basement ceiling collapsed after heavy rain in 2012.
Earlier estimates pegged the total cost of renovation, due to start in April, at £2m - but the trust said inflation and building costs meant had it to revise the amount.
It hopes to raise the money in the next four weeks.
The funding will add to money raised from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Architectural Heritage Fund and other supporters.
Catherine Parry-Wingfield, chairman at Turner's House Trust, said: "Until all the money is raised our work is not done.
"We do not want to take up a loan we have no funds to repay. Meeting the funding gap is now urgent."
Sydney man Zaky Mallah's appearance on the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) show Q&A last month ignited fierce debate about free speech.
Citing national security, the government launched a review of the ABC's editorial decision.
The ABC has said it will review Q&A's audience and panel selection.
"Given his criminal background and past public statements, the live broadcast meant that the ABC was not in a position to manage unpredictable or inappropriate actions or responses," the ABC Board said on Wednesday.
"There was inadequate consideration given to important issues around his presence in the studio, considering his previous actions, his desire for the media spotlight and some of his public comments," it said.
Last week, Prime Minister Tony Abbott ordered an "urgent" government inquiry into the ABC's decision and said "heads should roll" over the issue.
Speaking from the audience, 31-year-old Mallah confronted Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs Steven Ciobo about the government's plans to tighten citizenship laws.
Under proposed legislation, dual citizens would be stripped of their Australian nationality if they engaged in or supported terrorism.
Mr Ciobo, who was a panel guest, told Mallah he was pleased to be part of a government "that would say that you were out of the country".
Mallah angrily replied the government had "just justified to many Australian Muslims in the community tonight to leave and go to Syria and join [Islamic State] because of ministers like him".
Mallah came to the public's attention in 2005 when he was acquitted of charges of planning a terrorist act.
But at the same time, the supermarket shelf stacker was jailed for two and a half years after pleading guilty to threatening to kill a government officer.
A self-proclaimed media critic and Muslim activist, Mallah had previously been interviewed by several major Australian media outlets and international broadcasters, including the BBC.
More recently, his regular social media posts have attracted criticism, in part, because of crude and sexist references to several female journalists.
Based on the hit movies that starred Danny Glover as a veteran police officer and Mel Gibson as his volatile new partner, the TV show stars Damon Wayans and Clayne Crawford.
The first film came out in 1987 and had three sequels over 11 years.
The TV series will air on the Fox channel in the US in September. The UK screening date has not yet been given.
Set in modern day Los Angeles, ITV said the show marked "the return of acquired content to the primetime schedule" of the channel.
"It's rare that we find an acquisition with that sweet spot potential - the best production values and hugely entertaining drama, that we think can appeal to the biggest and broadest audiences and take up a place in ITV primetime," said Kevin Lygo, director of television for ITV.
Sasha Breslau, who bought the show for ITV, said it was a "superb" reboot, "with the perfect mix of action, heart, humour and terrific chemistry" between Wayans and Crawford.
"I'm thrilled and excited to see the show take its place alongside ITV's popular homegrown dramas," she said.
It was announced in October 2015 that a version of Lethal Weapon would be coming to TV.
Other classic films including Rush Hour, Uncle Buck, Training Day and Minority Report are also being remade for television.
Wayans starred in My Wife and Kids and Crawford appeared in the show Rectify.
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The properties, in Huddersfield and Sheffield, were searched by counter-terror officers after police received a tip-off.
Explosions heard by eyewitnesses in both locations were caused by police accessing properties, officers said.
Two men, aged 24 and 29, were held in Huddersfield and Sheffield on suspicion of terror offences.
The BBC understands the arrests are Islamist-related.
Police said the raids were not linked to the recent Manchester Arena attack.
In Sheffield, residents at the Daisy Spring Works apartment block in Kelham Island told the BBC a door was blown off at a second floor property.
Nick Meeks, who lives on the same floor as the flat which was raided, said he heard an "almighty explosion".
"I stuck my head out of the door and there were fully-armed police pointing guns down the hallway towards me screaming and shouting at me to get back in the flat," he said.
A resident on Rudding Street in Crosland Moor, Huddersfield, who did not wish to be named, said at one point his "house shook".
He said: "I heard a loud bang that sounded like a really big explosion, I thought it was a bomb.
"I ran outside and saw about 30 police and armed officers. People on the street have been kept inside their houses."
The North East Counter Terrorism Unit said the two arrested men, both from Huddersfield, were being held on suspicion of offences under Section 5 of the Terrorism Act.
North Wales Police said a 19-year-old man died at the scene in Bethel Place, Connah's Quay.
Officers were called to the incident at about 20:00 BST on Monday and said there was likely to be a number of people in the area at the time as there is a pub nearby.
A 48-year-old man is being held in custody.
The prison service is discussing the possibility of a new unit at Maghaberry.
It will also hold other high risk and dangerous prisoners.
An inspection report last week described the prison as "unsafe, unstable and in a state of crisis".
It also said that the regime for dissident inmates was part of the problem.
They account for less than 5% of the overall prison population, but a much greater proportion of the resources, with staff from other areas is often diverted there.
"They consume a disproportionate amount of management attention," said Brendan McGuigan of Criminal Justice Inspection.
"Giving preference to maintaining the regime for separated prisoners over every other area in the prison is unfair and has a negative impact on more than 900 men who make up the majority of the prison population.
"This position is untenable and a radical new approach is needed."
There are currently 32 dissident republican inmates at Maghaberry.
They are held behind an internal security fence in separate blocks called Roe House.
Some loyalists are also held in separate blocks called Bush House behind the same fence.
Phil Wragg, who was appointed governor of Maghaberry in August, told the BBC a new approach is being considered.
"How we operate Roe House is under review at the moment to see whether there is an opportunity for us to consider operating a separate regime, a separated facility," he said.
"The discussions at the moment are that the facility, if there was to be one, would be within Maghaberry."
The proposed new facility would hold other prisoners regarded as dangerous or high risk currently held in other parts of Maghaberry.
That would mean the rest of Maghaberry could be run as a Category C prison, which would require lower security and staffing levels.
Police seized the bright green sports car near their Parkside base in Cambridge on Sunday, after it was spotted missing a front number plate.
It had been rented from a Luton car hire company, which has also received a summons.
The Huracan model retails from about £180,000.
Officers from Cambridgeshire Police's roads unit photographed the vehicle outside the station, and later when it was towed away on a recovery truck.
In a tweet, they said: "Even Lamborghinis need insurance."
The driver received a court summons to face an allegation of not being insured to drive the vehicle, and of having no front licence plate.
Cambridgeshire Police said the hire company was summonsed for permitting the vehicle to be driven without insurance.
The owner has been given time to come forward and claim the vehicle, the force said.
"The car is seized and held for 14 days. In that time, if the driver/owner comes forward with the documents required then they can retrieve the car," a spokesman said.
If it is not claimed, the vehicle could end up in a police auction, alongside dozens of stolen or abandoned bicycles usually found in Cambridge.
"Where vehicles are worth more than £800 the proceeds of the sale come back to the police," the spokesman said.
"We keep those proceeds for a certain amount of time and if the owner comes forward during this period they can claim the money.
"If they do not, then it is put back into policing," he added.
Clarke won her 129th cap as England put in a dominant shooting display in Melbourne against the lowest ranked side in the four-team competition.
The 32-year-old is a two-time Commonwealth Games bronze medallist.
England lost their first two games to co-hosts New Zealand and Australia, as the latter won the Quad Series title.
Australia beat New Zealand 60-55 in Sunday's decider in Melbourne to win the inaugural series.
The world's second biggest telecoms equipment maker said its net profit was 27.9bn yuan ($4.5bn; £3bn), up from 21bn yuan in 2013.
That matched the company's forecasts announced in January.
The firm, which is also a major smartphone maker, saw revenues rise by 21% over the year.
"Our cash flow, revenue, and profit all grew over the previous year," said chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou in a statement on Tuesday. "Moreover, our debt and financing structures have continuously improved."
Foreign exchange gains also had a big impact on the company's earnings, because it generates more than 60% of its revenue abroad.
Huawei's growth comes despite it facing challenges in several major economies. In the US, it was branded a national security threat by legislators, because of its alleged close ties with the Chinese government.
Meanwhile, it has been banned from being involved in broadband projects in Australia over espionage fears.
However, the company said it was well positioned to capture business opportunities with heavy investment in innovative areas such as cloud computing and fifth generation (5G) mobile technology.
Thousands of people developed Hepatitis C and HIV after being given infected blood in the late 70s and 80s.
In 2015, the Welsh Government announced extra financial support for patients who had received contaminated blood.
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said only the UK government had the power and the information to hold an inquiry.
In Wales, 280 people were infected, leading to 70 deaths.
David Thomas, from Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, was infected with Hepatitis C after being given contaminated blood products as a teenager in the 1980s.
He said it has put a "black cloud over my life" for the last 20 years since he was diagnosed.
"Your access to things like life insurance is denied and the compensation that has been offered by the government to date has been adequate at best," he told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales programme.
Mr Thomas said he was given a one-off payment of £20,000 in 1990 and a recent revision of the scheme means he receives £3,500 annually, but maintains this is "not enough".
"There is a possibility... I could develop cirrhosis so you have to change your lifestyle," he said.
"Some people are forced out of work due to ill health and are scrabbling around for charity payments when really they should be having meaningful compensation."
He said he "fully endorsed" the calls for a public enquiry, adding: "I think it's the only way we will get to the truth."
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Labour AM for Cardiff North, Julie Morgan, who is chairwoman of the cross-party group on haemophilia and contaminated blood, raised the issue in the Senedd on Wednesday.
She said UK government support for patients was "not sufficient" and a £10,000 payment to families of someone who had received contaminated blood and since died was "totally inadequate".
"I think that the haemophilia community wants to know why this happened, why blood transfusions weren't stopped when it was well known at that time that there was a real risk of contaminated blood, why did documents go missing?
"There are a lot of questions to be answered and I don't think this issue will ever be laid to rest until there is a full blown public inquiry."
Mr Gething told AMs he backed the call for a UK inquiry, saying: "Only the UK government has access to the information, and the powers for the scope and the depth of an inquiry that is required to help people to get to the truth."
Last January, the UK government proposed increasing the amount of money on offer for those affected.
A Department of Health spokeswoman said: "The department is more than doubling its annual spend on the scheme for people affected by this tragedy so that we can provide an annual payment to all infected individuals for the first time."
The Trust launched a £16m bid for the Seasiders in July.
But in a letter on the club website, Oyston said he doubted they had the "money or the experience necessary to support the club" in its hour of need.
He has been the majority shareholder since 1988, but last season saw a series of protests against the way the Oyston family run the club.
Blackpool, who were in the Premier League as recently as 2010-11, were relegated from the Championship last season.
They are currently 19th in League One, having won four of their 14 games so far this season under manager Neil McDonald.
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Launching what it described as a "fair and reasonable bid" three months ago, the Blackpool Supporters' Trust said a change in ownership was a "logical step" to try and move the club forwards.
However, 81-year-old Oyston, whose son Karl is Blackpool chairman, said the Trust had "failed to respond to the questions which, if you were serious, you would have dealt with responsibly and comprehensively" and that if a takeover went ahead, the club would "go to the wall".
Addressing the Trust, he continued: "It would be irresponsible of me to simply hand this over to you as it is clear to any independent observer that you could not operate it successfully.
"I reiterate my admiration for your tenacity, enthusiasm, commitment and love for the club. As I have said before, these are wonderful qualities which I share with you, but these alone are not sufficient to ensure the continuance of our club."
Oyston rejected a takeover offer from an unnamed "third party" in May, since when the Supporters' Trust has been at the forefront of discussions about a possible sale of the club.
Earlier this month, club president Valeri Belokon, who owns 20% of Blackpool, confirmed he was interested in acquiring a controlling stake and was holding talks with local business people about a potential investment partnership.
It fell to 5.2% in the year to the end of October, down from 5.8% in the previous month.
House price inflation has nearly halved since hitting a peak of 10% in March this year, the Halifax said.
However, it said price rises remain "robust". The average price of a house or flat is now £217,411.
"This expected slowdown appears to have been largely due to mounting affordability pressures, which have increasingly constrained housing demand," said Halifax's chief housing economist, Martin Ellis.
"Whilst house price growth may ease further in the coming months, very low mortgage rates and a shortage of properties available for sale should help support price levels."
Last week, the Nationwide said its survey had found house price inflation easing to 4.6% a year.
On a monthly basis, the Halifax figures show house prices jumping by 1.4% during October alone, the largest increase since March this year. However, monthly measures are notoriously volatile.
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The missive to transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin said that creating a third runway at Heathrow would create jobs and economic growth.
Opponents claim it would be cheaper and less disruptive to enlarge Gatwick.
The decision on airport expansion has been put on hold until "at least October" following the UK's Brexit vote and David Cameron's resignation.
The Airports Commission recommended to the government last July there should be a third runway at Heathrow rather than a second at Gatwick.
In December the Department for Transport announced that further investigation into noise, pollution and compensation would be carried out before a decision was made.
The leaders of 34 local authorities said that investment in infrastructure was "even more important" during uncertain economic times and the UK should build on the success of the aviation industry by "future-proofing it".
Councils such as Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Aberdeen and Neath Port Talbot were among those signing the letter.
Heathrow chief executive John Holland-Kaye said: "Councils from across the country recognise expansion at Heathrow will benefit their local economies by creating skilled jobs and connecting exporters to growing markets overseas.
"Their support is further evidence that the next prime minister has the opportunity to make the right choice in the whole of Britain's interest by expanding Heathrow."
Gatwick chief executive Stewart Wingate said his airport was the only one that could "deliver the expansion we need and do so by 2025".
The Hello singer was due to appear in Phoenix, Arizona, for a second night as part of her sell-out world tour.
But the star posted a video on social media explaining she had "pushed too hard" on her first night at the city's Talking Stick Resort Arena.
Adele said she was "so sorry", adding: "It's the last thing I want to do but I have to look after myself."
In the video, posted on Instagram and Twitter, the 28-year-old said: "I'm really, really sorry. I've had a cold for a couple of days and I've been pushing through it.
"I did my show last night and I loved it but I pushed too hard and my cold has gotten the better of me."
Speaking with a croaky voice and appearing emotional, she added: "As you can hear, even if I did the show it wouldn't be very good."
Adele is due to perform two concerts in Los Angeles this weekend and said she would reschedule the cancelled gig, which was due to take place on Wednesday night.
"I'm so sorry to let you down," she said. "I know lots of people will be flying in from all over. It's the last thing I want to do but I have to look after myself because I've got so many more shows to do.
"I will reschedule this show, I promise you. And I will come back and I'll smash it for you."
She said she had been "trying to sing all morning" but added: "Nothing's really happening."
The singer is due to complete her tour in Mexico City in November.
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Pte Matthew Boyd, 20, was off-duty in the barracks town of Brecon when he was allegedly attacked by Jake Vallely.
Mr Vallely, 24, of Brecon, told Cardiff Crown Court Pte Boyd started to fight with him after he got into an argument with his friend Aaeron Evans.
Mr Vallely denies murder. Mr Evans, 23, also of Brecon, denies manslaughter.
Pte Boyd, who served with the Royal Gibraltar Regiment, was on his way back to his barracks when he was found unconscious by police in the early hours of 15 May.
Mr Vallely told jurors he and Mr Evans were sheltering from rain in a doorway when Pte Boyd threw a pint glass near them.
An argument broke out between the three men and Mr Vallely said Mr Evans and Pte Boyd started to "push and shove" each other.
Mr Vallely claimed he intervened and separated the pair but Pte Boyd punched him to the back of the head.
He told the court he gave chase to "grab him and ask him what the hell he was doing - I didn't want to fight him".
He said Pte Boyd started to fight with him "because he thought I would start on him, he obviously thought I was going to throw a punch but I was going to shout at him basically".
"It was a scuffle, we were holding each other throughout. He went to the floor and had hold of me.
"I didn't kick him. I was shouting to say 'let go' and I punched him until he did so I could get away from him."
Mr Vallely told the court he "panicked because I thought I'd hurt him. I don't know how he was when I left him, I don't know if he was unconscious or not".
Mr Vallely said he was worried when he saw the area cordoned off later and sent a text message to a friend saying: "I literally only hit him once or twice after he'd swung for me".
The 22-year-old has pulled out of what was set to be her first WTA Tour event of the season in Monterrey next week.
Robson played in eight events last season after returning from a 17-month lay-off, but had to end her season early after suffering a relapse.
Now ranked 553 in the world, Robson began her latest comeback in two low-key events last month.
She chose not to use her protected ranking of 58 to gain direct entry into January's Australian Open and has targeted the French Open in May as a possible Grand Slam return.
Robson is still hoping to play at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells next month, one of the biggest tournaments on the WTA Tour.
The chairman of the Jewish Labour movement, Jeremy Newmark, would not say whether Labour's track record on dealing with anti-Semitism would cost the party a significant number of votes at the general election. But he does see it as a cause for concern.
"Jeremy Corbyn appears to have failed to understand the nature of contemporary anti-Semitism in the same way that it's understood by most of its target group," he said.
Labour MP Wes Streeting - a frequent critic of Mr Corbyn's leadership - has also criticised the party's record on the issue.
"I don't think many Jewish voters in my constituency have been very impressed with the way the Labour party as a whole have responded," said Mr Streeting.
Mr Corbyn has previously said the party does not tolerate anti-Semitism in any way.
The Labour leader's record on handling anti-Semitic behaviour has the potential to cause problems for the party at the ballot box. While fewer than 0.5%, or 263,000, of Britons described themselves as Jewish at the last census, a majority of them live in just 10 parliamentary constituencies, including some of the most tightly contested in the country.
Since Mr Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party, there have been allegations that he has failed to do all he can to tackle anti-Semitism.
Having repeatedly refused to apologise for calling the Islamist Lebanese militia, Hezbollah "friends", he has also had to deal with a string of anti-Semitic comments from Labour councillors, an MP, and party stalwart Ken Livingstone.
In April, Mr Livingstone was suspended from the party for standing by his claim that Hitler supported Zionism in the 1930s. The party decided to conduct a report into its handling of the issue.
At the launch of Labour's race and faith manifesto this week, Mr Corbyn reaffirmed the party's commitment to "build a society free from all forms of racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
"We will stand up to and take effective action against hate crime, notably, but not only in Muslim, Jewish and non-Abrahamic faith communities," he said.
In June last year, an inquiry led by Shami Chakrabarti - now a Labour peer - a former director of human rights group Liberty - concluded that the party was not overrun by anti-Semitism or other forms of racism but there was an "occasionally toxic atmosphere".
As with any community, a range of issues will influence Jewish voters' decisions, said Simon Johnson, chief executive of the Jewish Leadership Council.
But he says "this is probably the first election at which this has been an issue" to such a big extent.
"People within the Labour party leadership are in no doubt about the concerns of the Jewish community," he said.
One early indication is a Jewish Chronicle opinion poll published this week, which suggested just 13% of British Jews plan to vote for Labour, compared with 77% backing the Tories. The poll by Survation, which polled a sample of 515 British Jews, also suggested Labour would do better with Jewish voters if Jeremy Corbyn was not the leader.
One of the most marginal seats in the country is the leafy north-east London suburb of Ilford North, home to a Jewish community of about 6,600.
Two years ago, Labour's Wes Streeting won it by just 589 votes. He says he is taking no votes for granted. He is relying on his track record to impress voters, including the ones who, he says, have brought up Labour's anti-Semitism record on the doorstep.
He says they have not been impressed by the party's reaction as a whole, "but they have seen that I have been unflinching in my condemnation of anti-Semitism within the party."
He also points to his record of trying to tackle the issue within wider society, which dates back at least as far as his time as NUS president more than a decade ago.
The seat won't be decided on a single issue. On its border sits the large, modern King George hospital whose A&E is threatened with closure.
The NHS, social care and schools will be on voters' minds too.
However, another reason Labour's record on anti-Semitism could be an important issue is that UKIP is not running, in the hope of boosting Conservative candidate Lee Scott's chances.
Born locally, Mr Scott held the Ilford North seat from 2005 until 2015. He said "a number of people" he has met during the campaign have cited Labour's "reluctance to tackle" anti-Semitism as a reason "they cannot vote Labour any longer".
On the other side of the capital is the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency. Crucially for Labour it's also home to the sixth biggest Jewish population in the country - 8,482 according to the 2011 census. However, it's almost certainly grown since then as younger Jews move to congregate around the wider area's Jewish schools, kosher restaurants and other amenities.
Labour's Tulip Siddiq, who has worked hard to build ties with the Jewish community, is defending a majority of just 1,138. In what could be interpreted as a sign that the Conservatives also see the importance of that relationship their candidate, Claire-Louise Leyland, was selected in a meeting at a local synagogue.
According to Marcus Dysch, political editor of the Jewish Chronicle, it's one of a handful of seats around the country, including Bury South, where this issue has made Labour vulnerable.
"Anti-Semitism has become the number one topic of political discussion amongst the Jewish community nationwide," says Mr Dysch. "It is the issue people are talking about above and beyond Brexit, the economy or healthcare."
Other candidates standing in Ilford North are Richard Clare, Liberal Democrat; and Doris Osen, Independent. In Hampstead and Kilburn: Kirsty Allan, Liberal Democrat; Hugh Easterbrook, Independent; John Mansook, Green Party; and Rainbow George Weiss, Independent.
The Glasgow-based company, which has been restructuring in order to improve efficiency, has forecast a pre-tax profit of between £250m and £270m.
The figures match those given in the summer when it issued a profits warning.
It also reported a 7% fall in underlying third-quarter revenue.
In a trading statement, Aggreko said sales from its rental solutions division were down 1% on last year.
It added that the ongoing weakness in the oil and gas and mining sectors had been largely offset by continued growth in other sectors, such as petrochemical and refining.
Aggreko also reported an 11% fall in revenue from its power solutions arm, with the "continuing weak economic backdrop in Brazil" having an impact on its business.
In August, Aggreko reorganised the group into two units following a business review.
It also announced plans to add more engineering resources to its Dumbarton manufacturing facility as part of a consolidation process.
Chief executive Chris Weston said Aggreko continued "to demonstrate its resilience against a challenging market backdrop".
He added: "Whilst we are at an early stage in delivering the specific actions identified at our business review in August, I am encouraged with the progress we are making which, regardless of the prevailing market conditions, will strengthen Aggreko and position it well for the future."
By lunchtime on Monday, Aggreko's shares were up by more than 7%.
School of Rock, based on the 2002 film, is about a group of schoolchildren who turn their lives around by entering a Battle of the Bands contest.
The young cast - aged between nine and 12 - all play their own instruments.
"At this time when there are cuts to music in schools, these are the kids that prove music is vital," Lord Lloyd-Webber told the BBC.
He said music "is a force for the good and empowers young people".
The composer, whose own foundation funds arts education programmes in the UK, said the government should rethink its "counter-productive" cuts.
"At a time when people are feeling alienated from politics, the arts cut right through that," he said.
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, who wrote the musical's book, picked up on the theme.
"One of the main purposes of the education years is to help children find out who they are and what they want to do, and the arts are one of the greatest means of allowing people to discover their identity," he said.
"It really is mad for the country to cut back on that and throw out a whole load of people from school who really haven't found out what they want to do."
Lord Lloyd-Webber and Lord Fellowes were speaking as they unveiled the cast for the West End transfer of School of Rock, which opened to enthusiastic reviews on Broadway last year, earning four Tony Award nominations.
The show, based on the Jack Black film, features three rotating casts of child actors, selected after a nationwide search earlier this year.
They range from experienced actors, drawn from the casts of Matilda and The Lion King, to complete newcomers.
Among them is Amelia Poggenpoel, from Formby, who made headlines last year when her singing reduced Shia LaBeouf to tears.
The 10-year-old approached LaBeouf at his #TouchMySoul exhibition in Liverpool and performed Who's Lovin' You by the Jackson Five. When she finished, the actor stood up and hugged her, sobbing: "You touched my soul."
She will play Shonelle in the musical, her first West End role after several appearances in Liverpool.
Amelia told the BBC she was living in a "School of Rock house" with other cast members, where tutors run lessons before and after rehearsals. The set up is "much better" than regular school, she added.
Other cast members include Isabelle Methven and Eva Trodd, both 11, who previously played Little Cosette in the West End production of Les Miserables, and Natasha Raphael, 10, who toured the UK in the role of Annie last year.
Toby Lee, an 11-year-old from Priors Marston who runs a successful YouTube channel showcasing his guitar skills, is one of three youngsters filling the role of Zack.
The show revolves around failed rock star Dewey Finn who, in need of cash to pay his rent, fakes his credentials as a substitute teacher.
But what starts out as an excuse to get paid for slacking off turns into a life-affirming experience, as he prepares his pupils for a local battle of the bands.
"The reason I loved this story is every character in this story is somehow changed for the better through music," said Lord Lloyd-Webber, who first revealed he had bought the rights in 2013.
For the first time since Jesus Christ Superstar in 1971, he chose to premiere his new show in the US, principally because it has more relaxed child labour laws - meaning the production could have one permanent cast.
He previously expressed misgivings about bringing the show to London, saying he doubted whether he could find 39 children capable of pulling off the live musical elements of the show.
Instead, he said, "we could have found five bands to play".
"The depth of musical talent that we auditioned is something that I have to admit I didn't think we would find. I kind of feared they'd all be into their computers, but this proves that they aren't."
The role of Dewey Finn will be played in London by David Fynn, currently starring in US sitcom Undateable.
He said working with three rotating casts of children helped give the show spontaneity.
"It keeps me on my toes and, as a result, it helps them stay engaged."
The show begins previews at the New London Theatre on 24 October before opening night on 14 November.
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Customers had difficulties making debit card payments in shops and online after problems with the RBS card payments system.
An RBS spokeswoman said: "Our debit cards are now working as normal.
"We apologise to those who experienced difficulties this afternoon. No customer will be left permanently out of pocket."
Cash machine and credit card transactions had been unaffected, a spokesman said, adding that the majority of transactions had gone through.
RBS banking customers have had to deal with payments problems in the past.
In June 2015, hundreds of thousands of payments failed to reach the accounts of RBS customers.
And in 2012, RBS Group suffered a widespread IT system failure that led to a £56m fine by two financial regulators.
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The bill for the North Fringe to Hengrove route has gone up to £117.9m since November, a report indicated.
Drivers in the city have faced months of delays caused by work on the network across Bristol.
South Gloucestershire blamed a series of construction delays for the extra costs.
The £216m MetroBus network aims to provide better public transport and cycling infrastructure across Bristol.
Campaigners said they were "not surprised" the costs had spiralled.
The report to cabinet said the scheme has "faced a number of issues during the delivery phase, which have now resulted in an estimated forecast outturn cost of £117.9m, an increase of £4.6m over the November 2016."
The bill for this section of the network is now £16m higher than forecast two years ago.
The South Gloucestershire authority will need to spend an extra £9.8m above its original £30.5m contribution to the scheme, to cover the increased costs.
It is recommending the extra is taken from the highways maintenance budget over the next 10 years.
Its senior environmental policy officer Jane Antrobus, said in the report: "Failure to support the extra funding needed for completion of this project would put these benefits at risk."
Commuters have been enduring roadworks associated with the scheme in the city centre, on the M32 and various other locations in South Gloucestershire.
In October, the mayor of Bristol said he would investigate complaints about a busy commuter route that was made one-way for the North Fringe-to-Hengrove construction.
Amanda Vinall, from the Stoke Lane Action Group, said costs had soared because multiple contractors had been hired.
"It's crackers and lessons have to be learned," she said.
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Nama, the Irish state asset agency, sold the property loan portfolio to a US investment fund for £1.2bn in 2014.
There have been a series of allegations about impropriety in the sales process.
The Dublin government will discuss options with opposition parties before deciding on the format for an inquiry.
The Nama deal is already the subject of an inquiry by the Northern Ireland Assembly's finance committee.
The Irish government's decision comes after the publication of a report from the country's public spending watchdog that concludes the deal had shortcomings.
The Comptroller and Auditor General's report suggests the portfolio was undervalued by tens of millions of pounds and that restrictions imposed on the sales process reduced competition in the bidding.
The report is also strongly critical of the way in which Nama managed potential conflicts of interest concerning its Northern Ireland advisor Frank Cushnahan.
It said the agency should have considered if his role was "consistent with his ongoing involvement as financial advisor to a significant proportion of the Northern Ireland debtor connections".
Nama has rejected the report saying that key findings are "fundamentally unsound and unstable and cannot be left unchallenged".
The agency's chairman, Frank Daly, said it retains "the strong view that the sale of the Project Eagle portfolio for £1.322bn was the best achievable outcome".
In a statement, the Irish government said it had considered the report in detail.
It said that opposition party leaders will meet Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Enda Kenny on Thursday "with a view to seeking agreement" on an investigation.
"The government recognises that it has its own responsibilities to ensure all matters of public concern with regard to the functions of an important body such as Nama are addressed," it said.
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams welcomed the Irish government's decision but called it a "belated response following over a year of shocking revelations".
He said any inquiry "needs to have a strong north-south dimension" and urged maximum co-operation between the authorities in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
On Monday, Mr Kenny said he was "not opposed" to an inquiry after "extraordinary" allegations about the deal were made in a BBC Spotlight programme.
It showed Mr Cushanhan accept a £40,000 cash payment from a Nama client.
The payment was made by County Down property developer John Miskelly.
Mr Cushnahan was working as an advisor for Nama at the time. He has denied any wrongdoing.
Mr Miskelly has said that any payments he made were "lawful".
It follows claims of cronyism within the land and environmental services department.
A long-running internal investigation has been looking at a number of issues, including alleged procurement irregularities.
The department's executive director resigned last November.
Police Scotland said their inquiries were at an early stage.
BBC Scotland understands officers have taken an interest in issues that arose through Glasgow City Council's internal investigation and that the local authority would be willing to co-operate with police.
It is also understood that a meeting took place recently between the council and police and that some of the issues spoken about involved people outside the council.
The land and services department looks after services such as cleansing, bin collection, park, roads to environmental health and trading standards.
The department has about 4,000 employees and a revenue budget of £190m.
In November 2016 its executive director Brian Devlin - whose salary was about £120,000 - resigned after five years in the role.
It is understood that Mr Devlin was spoken to during the internal investigation.
The others interviewed by the internal investigators included two members of staff with close personal links to housing repair company Mears Scotland, which had also been at the centre of a local controversy over council contracts in neighbouring North Lanarkshire.
One is the son of its managing director who is married to Glasgow's Lord Provost Sadie Docherty.
The other is the partner of an executive with Mears who is now working in a different role at the council.
However, Mears currently has no major contracts with Glasgow City Council and the company has denied wrongdoing.
A spokesman for Labour-run Glasgow City Council said it would not be appropriate to comment on an ongoing internal investigation.
The broader issue of openness and transparency within Glasgow City Council is set to be a key theme in the campaign ahead of May's local elections.
Supporters of the Labour administration may argue that the internal investigation demonstrates that they take such matters seriously.
However, the SNP believe that, in general, the council could do more to ensure it is transparent and seen to be so.
The leader of the SNP group on the council, Susan Aitken, stressed she did not wish to comment on this specific investigation or any of the individuals concerned.
However, she said: "Glasgow SNP have already expressed serious concerns about public trust in the council in the light of a number of incidents over the years and have committed to appoint an independent expert to conduct a root and branch review of governance if elected."
The Times newspaper, which first reported the story in its Scottish edition, claimed the council's ties with Mears and a number of other firms were being looked at by the local authority's internal auditors.
In general, councils are expected to follow tight procurement rules and statutory procedures to ensure an open and transparent process is followed for any contract being awarded - major contracts also have to comply with EU law.
They should not be awarded on the basis of personal connections and no company tendering for a contract should be given an unfair advantage or disadvantage.
It would be seen as bad practice - and possibly a breach of rules - for anyone with a close personal connection to a company to be involved with decisions on whether or not they are awarded a contract.
Any allegation a council employee was able to give one company bidding for work an unfair advantage, through for instance sharing information, would also be taken very seriously.
Recommendations on who to award significant contracts to are made by council officials, although the actual decisions are taken by committees of councillors. It is unusual for these committees to go against the officials' recommendations.
Police Scotland said: "A matter has been raised with the police and inquiries are at an early stage to assess this information."
The car smashed into Lena's Cafe 2 in West End Lane in West Hampstead, north-west London, shortly before 15:00 GMT.
About 20 firefighters helped release the woman, who was treated for non life-threatening injuries. A second woman was treated for minor injuries. Both were taken to hospital.
The driver stopped at the scene and no arrests have been made.
Phil Rosenberg, Labour councillor for West Hampstead, said he heard a "big bang and screaming" while hosting his surgery next door in West Hampstead Library.
He said: "It's really shocking - when you're sitting in a coffee shop you're not expecting a car coming through the window.
"A few minutes later there would have been children walking past" as local schools closed for the day, he said.
The road has temporarily been closed.
Gillian Ayres, whose paintings are featured in the Tate Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, is showcasing her paintings in Cardiff.
Ms Ayres, 87, lived in the Llyn Peninsula, Gwynedd, from 1981-1987. Her work will go on display in the National Museum from Saturday.
Curator Melissa Munroe said Ms Ayres was a "pioneer of abstract painting".
The collection in Ms Ayres' biggest UK exhibition has more than 40 of her works, including a painting inspired by Monet which has not been exhibited since the 1970s.
The display will reflect on the artist's time in Llaniestyn and her vibrant artwork painted during this time.
"I used to visit Wales a lot before I moved there," said Ms Ayres.
"It was lovely, a marvellous place to live and paint."
24 August 2016 Last updated at 19:02 BST
Daniel Sandford told BBC Newsline that the arrest in Somerset on Wednesday was intelligence-led.
The outpouring of revulsion at what Mr Trump said in that now infamous videotape shows how much attitudes towards women have changed.
As women have assumed more influence in the workforce, there's more discussion about what is OK and what is not - and more now falls into the "not OK" pile.
Is the gender playing field level? Of course it's not, but it's clear that what was acceptable in, say, the 1990s, is no longer acceptable today.
Sexual harassment should be zero. It's not, but progress is being made, thanks in part to what Mr Trump condemns as the tyranny of political correctness.
There's a plausible case to be made that Bill Clinton wouldn't be able to get elected today with his past sexual history. The repeated allegations of assault, harassment and even rape would surely have been more of a political liability in 2016.
President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky was consensual. There's no video tape of him denigrating women in general or suggesting he could do anything he wanted to women because he was commander-in-chief.
But there was definitely something unsavoury about a very powerful man having sexual relations with an intern, especially given Mr Clinton's widely reported past.
It all smacked of droit de seigneur.
Many women were appalled at the time, but the Lewinsky affair didn't actually hurt Mr Clinton's poll numbers.
In early 1998, when the scandal broke, his approval ratings were 50%. At the end of that year, they had risen to 70%.
Research by the University of Iowa suggests the affair didn't undermine the public's overall opinion of Bill Clinton's character.
Donald Trump compares himself to Bill Clinton but he's missing the point. Women have more of a voice today and we expect more from the men we work with. Our tolerance for what Mr Trump dismisses as "locker room" banter is wearing thin.
We are mothers, sisters and wives. We are also chief executives, astronauts, generals, prime ministers, chancellors and editors, Why should we have to put up with men talking about us like that, anywhere, even in the privacy of their "locker rooms"?
We know the stats on rape and harassment are still far too high. Somewhere between one in three and one in five women are victims of unwanted sexual advances.
Just look around your office or your school or your family and do the maths. It's not pretty.
But social media is giving women a louder voice.
Take a moment to look at the twitter feed of Kelly Oxford, the Canadian writer who asked women to share their stories of harassment after the video emerged. It's sobering reading.
Thousands of women have tweeted their experiences and at the time of writing this, they still are. A veil is finally being lifted on what was once a taboo subject.
What's heartening is that the overwhelming majority of men seem to be as appalled as women at what Mr Trump has unleashed.
It means Slade is likely to miss the Six Nations, which starts in February.
The 22-year-old, capped twice by England, was hurt during Exeter's Premiership win over Wasps on Saturday.
"It was a pretty major operation but certainly not one we don't expect him to make a full recovery from," head coach Rob Baxter told the club website.
"We are certainly not pencilling in any date for Henry's return because we know it is long term.
"We will start talking about a return date in eight to 10 weeks' time when we know a bit more - it will take a bit of time though and a lengthy rehab process."
Meanwhile, Chiefs have announced that back-rower Dave Ewers, 25, will miss "a fair few weeks" after suffering a knee injury.
"It is difficult to put a timescale on these things but he will be out for a significant period of time," said Baxter.
Russian defence ministry video showed the first group of aircraft taking off from Hmeimim air base in Syria on Tuesday morning and later in flight.
But Russia will continue air strikes, and keep several hundred personnel and air defence systems, officials said.
Peace talks aimed at resolving the conflict are entering a second day.
UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura, who is mediating in the talks, welcomed the Russian decision.
"The announcement by President Putin on the very day of the beginning of this round of Intra-Syrian Talks in Geneva is a significant development, which we hope will have a positive impact on the progress of the negotiations," he said.
The Russian force reduction was announced during a meeting between Mr Putin and his defence and foreign ministers.
Russia is a key ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and his office sought to reject speculation there was a rift between the two countries, saying the move was mutually agreed.
The Russian air campaign started last September, tipping the balance in favour of the Syrian government and allowing it to recapture territory from rebels, but on Tuesday the defence ministry announced the withdrawal.
"The first group of Russian planes has flown out of the Hmeimim air base for their permanent bases on the territory of the Russian Federation," it said in a statement (in Russian).
Aircraft from the base would make the flight to Russia - more than 5,000km - in small groups each led by Il-76 or Tu-154 transport planes, the statement said.
They would then go their separate ways to their own bases after crossing the Russian border, it added.
Su-24 tactical bombers, Su-25 attack fighters, Su-34 strike fighters and helicopters were returning home, the TV said.
Mr Putin, however, said Hmeimim and Russia's Mediterranean naval base at Tartous would continue to operate as normal.
Deputy Defence Minister Nikolay Pankov said some air strikes would continue.
"Certain positive results have been achieved... However, it is too early to talk about victory over terrorism. A Russian air group has the task of continuing to strike terrorist facilities," he said, quoted by Ria news agency.
Russia's military intervention bolstered president Assad's forces on key front lines where they were close to collapse.
Russia now wants to see an end to this war - and it is known to be concerned about the Syrian government's tough line on talks which have just resumed in Geneva, as well as president Assad's recent comments in an interview that he would one day take back, militarily, all the territory he lost.
That is not a war president Mr Putin can afford to be part of.
And he has a bigger game here - his wider relationship with the West and most of all Washington which is also anxious to find a way out of this crisis in Syria - as hard as that is.
Another senior official, Federation Council defence committee head Viktor Ozerov, said as many as two battalions - some 800 servicemen - could remain in Syria after the withdrawal to guard the two bases, Interfax news agency reported.
Military advisers training Syrian government troops would also stay, he added.
Meanwhile Kremlin chief-of-staff Sergey Ivanov said Russia would keep its advanced S-400 surface-to-air missile system in place.
"We are leaving completely reliable cover for the remaining contingent... To effectively ensure security, including from the air, we need the most modern air defence systems," Russian media quoted him as saying.
It is not clear how many military personnel Russia has deployed, but US estimates suggest the number ranges from 3,000 to 6,000, AP reports.
Russia had long insisted its bombing campaign only targeted terrorist groups but Western powers had complained the raids hit political opponents of President Assad.
In a statement, the Syrian government said the plan was agreed between the two countries.
Source: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, quoted by Russian media
Most participants in the Syria conflict agreed to a cessation of hostilities, which has been largely holding despite reports of some violations on all sides.
Meanwhile, the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria has presented its report on war crimes committed by all sides in Syria's war to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Its chairman Paulo Pinheiro said the task of pursuing war criminals should not wait for a final peace agreement as there was now "hope of an end in sight".
In a phone call, Mr Putin and US President Barack Obama discussed the situation in Syria and the "next steps required to fully implement the cessation of hostilities" agreed last month, the White House said.
The Kremlin said both "called for an intensification of the process for a political settlement" to the conflict.
The Russian move has received a guarded welcome from Western diplomats and the Syrian opposition.
An unnamed US official quoted by Reuters said Washington was encouraged by the Russian move, but it was too early to say what it means or what was behind it.
Russia is one of President Bashar al-Assad's most important international backers and the survival of his government is critical to maintaining Russian interests in Syria. Russia has a key naval facility which it leases at the port of Tartus and has forces at the Hmeimim airbase in Latakia.
In September 2015, with rebel forces advancing on Latakia, Russian forces launched an air campaign which President Vladimir Putin said was aimed at "stabilising" the Syrian government and creating conditions for "a political compromise" that would end the five-year conflict.
In March 2016, Mr Putin ordered the "main part" of Russia's forces to withdraw from Syria, saying their mission had "on the whole" been accomplished.
Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said Russian aircraft had flown more than 9,000 sorties over almost six months, killing more than 2,000 "bandits" and helping Syrian government forces regain control of 10,000 sq km (3,860 sq miles) of territory, including 400 population centres.
The claims have not yet been independently verified, but it is clear the air campaign turned the tide of the war in favour of Mr Assad, allowing Syrian government ground forces to regain territory around Latakia, in the southern province of Deraa and around the divided northern city of Aleppo.
Moscow stressed that its air strikes only targeted "terrorists", but activists said Russian aircraft mainly bombed Western-backed rebel groups and civilian areas.
In December, Amnesty International said Russian aircraft appeared to have directly attacked civilians by striking residential areas with no evident military target, which it warned might amount to war crimes. Russia's defence ministry dismissed the report as containing "fake information".
However, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported in early March that 1,733 civilians, including 429 children, had been killed in Russian air strikes, along with some 1,492 rebels and members of the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front, and 1,183 Islamic State (IS) militants.
Some of the affected banks have been asking their customers to change security codes. They are also blocking and replacing debit cards.
The breach is thought to have been caused by malware on an ATM network.
Some customers are complaining that large sums of money have been taken from their accounts.
Indian banks have issued nearly 700 million debit cards.
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which controls all retail payments systems in India, confirmed in a statement that there was a "possible compromise at one of the payment switch provider's systems".
A security breach of this scale is likely to create a lot of negative sentiment among bank customers.
While the government is now investigating the incident and most people don't expect a big monetary impact, the reputation damage will be large.
Already, Indians are suspicious of electronic payments and the country is largely a cash economy. Most people use cash for most purchases - whether it's buying vegetables from the street vendor or buying gold jewellery in high end store.
According to a study by Visa, only 10 digital transactions per capita are carried out in India compared to 163 in Brazil or 429 in Sweden. This poses a huge financial burden on the economy and banks have been trying hard to wean Indians from cash.
But they haven't been very successful. Indian banks had issued 697 million debit cards as of July this year - a small number compared to many other countries.
But while the government has been trying to sell cards as a risk free method of payment compared to using physical money, not many are convinced that banks are taking enough cyber security measures.
Indian banks have reported close to 12,000 frauds related to credit and debit cards and net banking in 2015, the government told the Upper House of the parliament earlier this year.
All Indian Banks have cyber security protocols comparable to their international peers says Mohit Bahl, Head, Forensic Services at KPMG India.
"But they are not as robust in constantly monitoring and updating their security measures. This breach could have happened in anywhere in the world. Banking and financial services sector is particularly vulnerable.''
"All affected banks have been alerted by card networks that a total card base of about 3.2 million could have been possibly compromised," the NCPI statement said.
It added that a total of 13m rupees ($194,612;£159,031) have been withdrawn, mainly in China and the US, through fraudulent transactions so far, affecting 19 banks and 641 customers.
The NPCI has urged customers "not to panic" because "corrective actions already have been taken".
"The advisory issued by NPCI to banks for re-cardification [reissuing of new cards] is more a preventive exercise," it said.
Payment platforms like Visa, Mastercard and RuPay said their own networks were not affected but they were helping Indian authorities in their investigation.
Several banks have also confirmed that they were taking measures to avoid fraudulent transactions.
The State Bank of India (SBI), the country's top lender, said it had found about 620,000 of its more than 200 million cards were "vulnerable". But Mrutyunjay Mahapatra, a deputy managing director at SBI, told the Reuters news agency that he did not expect any significant financial loss to take place.
Standard Chartered, Yes Bank, HDFC, ICICI and Axis bank have also taken similar "precautionary measures".
He is hosting a summit of African leaders, business people and scientists in Nanyuki, central Kenya, to discuss how to save elephants from extinction.
Experts warn Africa's elephants could be extinct within decades.
Appetite for ivory in Asia is fuelling demand, the main trafficking route being via the Kenyan port of Mombasa.
The sale of ivory, even in legal domestic markets, increased risks to the animals, Mr Kenyatta told the Giants Club summit.
"The future of the African elephant and rhino is far from secure so long as demand for their products continues to exist," the president said.
"There is convincing evidence that poaching is aided by international criminal syndicates; it fuels corruption, it undermines the rule of law as well as security and even provides funding for other transnational crime."
Poaching, he added, was a "direct threat" to efforts to achieve social economic development in the region.
The ivory is getting through because people are prepared to pay for it. Stopping the men with arrows and the corrupt officials is just one part of the solution - the other is destroying the hunger for ivory.
The love of ivory goes back millennia. Its pure, translucent beauty and the ease with which a tusk can be carved into intricate sculptures have given it a lasting value throughout the ages.
Tackling demand and destroying the market are both important but there are also ways of making elephants more valuable alive than dead.
In the parks and game reserves of Africa, close encounters with the most remarkable animals on the planet lie in wait - you just need time, patience and a good eye.
Alastair's report in depth
The presidents of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, and Gabon, Ali Bongo, were also at the conference.
After the summit ends on Saturday, Mr Kenyatta will help set fire to more than 100 tonnes of ivory.
That is nearly the entire stock of ivory confiscated by Kenya, amounting to the tusks of more than 6,700 elephants.
The patron of the summit, UK-based newspaper proprietor Evgeny Lebedev, told BBC News it was aimed at raising funds for conservation and coming up with strategies to tackle conflicts between the animals and people.
"Very possibly by 2025, these magnificent creatures will be completely extinct," he said.
Researchers say Africa has only a 10th of the population of elephants it had nearly a century ago.
The continent is home to between 450,000 to 500,000 elephants but more than 30,000 are killed every year for their tusks. Tanzania lost 65% of its elephant population in the last five years.
Experts say rhino horn can fetch as much as $60,000 (£41,000) per kg, more than gold or cocaine.
The Kenyan ivory has been piled into a dozen giant pyres.
It will be seven times the size of any stockpile destruction so far, and represents about 5% of global ivory stores.
Some 1.35 tonnes of rhino horn will also be burned.
The street value of the ivory to be destroyed is estimated at more than $100m (£70m), and rhino horn at $80m.
Does burning actually destroy ivory?
"We don't believe there is any intrinsic value in ivory, and therefore we're going to burn all our stockpiles and demonstrate to the world that ivory is only valuable on elephants," said Kitili Mbathi, director general of the Kenya Wildlife Service.
The Plaid Cymru leader called for police to be "adequately resourced" to keep people safe including at the Champions League final on 3 June.
The threat level has now been reduced in the wake of the attack which killed 22 people and left scores injured.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said the security services and police "have the tools they need".
Speaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr show, Ms Wood said that people should not feel put off from coming to the final in Cardiff at the weekend due to security concerns.
But she said bomber Salman Abedi - who detonated the device at the Manchester Arena - had been brought to the attention of the authorities.
"There are serious questions that need to be answered as to why action wasn't taken earlier to prevent this," she said.
Armed police have been guarding events and high footfall areas across Wales this bank holiday weekend in the aftermath of the attack.
Soldiers deployed across the UK to support the police will be stood down on Monday night, at the close of the bank holiday weekend.
Ms Wood said police needed greater resources to deal with attacks, adding: "We wouldn't need troops on the streets perhaps if there were enough police officers on the streets."
Co-leader of the Green Party Caroline Lucas said there were questions that needed to be answered about reports Abedi was known to the authorities.
First Minister Carwyn Jones said he was "confident" that all was being done to keep the up to 170,000 people expected in Cardiff for the showdown between Juventus and Real Madrid safe.
Speaking to BBC Wales' Sunday Supplement programme, the Welsh Labour leader said more had to be done to prevent attacks.
He said: "We need to just work harder to make sure these attacks can be avoided in the future.
"What's the key to that: good intelligence, making sure that people understand where the attacks might come from, these things are never perfect," he said.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd told the Andrew Marr show that the Conservative UK government were in constant discussions with the police and security services to make sure they had the "right tools" to do the job.
She said that the operation was ongoing, but the security services had foiled 18 different plots since 2013 and were doing a "good job".
"We are not frightened though of learning lessons and improving," she said.
The Slovenian will revive an open bidding process to host the final, and is open to it being staged in New York.
"It might be an idea but we have to speak about it," said Ceferin, who was named head of European football's governing body last month.
The 61 finals have all been held in Europe but Ceferin said travel to the US would be "no problem" for fans.
He added: "To go from Portugal to Azerbaijan for example is almost the same or the same as if you go to New York.
"It's a European competition so let's think about it.''
As it stands, Uefa awards the finals without any tendering process, with stadium hosts decided in secret by the leadership.
"The bidding process should be very clear because if you get the Champions League finals or Europa League finals as a political favour then it's not OK," Ceferin said.
The former Slovenian Football Association chief said he would not sacrifice the competition's success by changing kick-off times, usually 19:45 BST, to suit worldwide markets.
"From a financial point of view it's not ideal," Ceferin said. "We should think also about other markets, but how to do it exactly I'm not sure yet.
"China is financially interesting and the US is not just financially interesting, but football is growing there."
The Champions League final has been played on a Saturday since 2010 and is the competition's only game not played in midweek.
Ceferin said one idea to increase viewers would be to also move the semi-finals to a weekend.
"There are some ideas about that - China is not asleep because it's Saturday and they can watch," he said.
"But there are many problems concerning that with the calendar of the leagues.
"National leagues are too important. You have the Premier League which is very strong."
The North Atlantic League - a proposed alternative to the Champions League involving teams from smaller European nations - is getting closer to reality because of Uefa's mismanagement of the European game, says the chief executive of the Danish Superliga.
A reorganisation of the Champions League means Europe's top four leagues are guaranteed four places each in the tournament from 2018-19.
That move has prompted Europe's smaller league to investigate whether it would make more financial sense to commit to an independent breakaway competition.
"The consideration in the Danish league will be what provides the most value to Danish football, and if Uefa doesn't change its decision, it may very well be the Atlantic League that provides the most value," Claus Thomsen told BBC World Service's World Football show.
"I think it is basically a bad idea, but I think it is an absolutely necessary idea if Uefa leaves the principle of sporting merits being the basic value of European football.
"It is a serious option. Uefa should get back to being for the good of football and I sincerely hope they do so."
Former Scottish Football Association chief executive Gordon Smith believes Celtic and Rangers - Scotland's two biggest clubs - are receptive to joining a breakaway competition.
"I think they are keen on this idea. They are definitely involved in the discussions," he said.
"They see the fact that the money coming in for Scottish clubs is very low compared to across the border in England and the gulf is going to grow."
One person died and four miners escaped when the mine collapsed on Friday.
Since then, rescue workers have managed to pull a number of miners to safety.
China has a long history of industrial accidents. The latest incident comes days after a deadly landslide caused by construction waste in southern China.
Ma Congbo, the chairman of Yurong company which owns the mine, drowned himself by jumping into a mine well early on Sunday, China's Xinhua news agency reports.
His motive is not clear but the Chinese authorities have toughened the punishment of employers who are negligent, says the BBC's Stephen Evans in Beijing.
Mr Ma killed himself two days after the mine collapsed in Pingyi County's Linyi city, Shandong Province, just before 20:00 local time. It is not yet clear what caused the collapse.
Rescuers have drilled a hole to access some of the trapped workers, and are trying to transfer food and water, officials say. More than 700 emergency officials are involved in rescue efforts, according to Linyi Mayor Zhang Shuping.
Xinhua news agency reports that seven people have been rescued so far.
The facility was used to mine gypsum, a soft mineral that is widely used in construction.
The latest incident comes a week after a landslide in the southern city of Shenzhen killed one person and left another 75 people missing, presumed dead.
Authorities say the landslide was caused when a huge man-made mound of earth and construction debris lost stability and collapsed.
It is one in a series of industrial accidents to occur this year, with questions raised about rapid industrialisation and safety standards in China.
This tightening of safety law in recent years is credited with bringing a fall in the number of deaths of miners at work from 7,000 a year in 2002 to 931 last year, our correspondent says.
The Scot, who is ranked fifth in the world, defeated world number 10 Stefan Olsson of Sweden 6-3 7-6 (9-7).
To reach the final, Reid beat the new world number one Stephane Houdet of France in three sets.
"It's a strong field and nice to get back-to-back tournament wins," he said.
"I lost my focus at the end of the second set but I'm happy to win and for us to have the chance to play alongside the ATP event."
The 24-year-old contracted Transverse Myelitis - a disease affecting the spinal cord - aged 13 and claimed his first Grand Slam singles title in Melbourne last month.
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Frome Town, who play in England's seventh tier, say that Nick Bunyard's three-year ban was "excessive" in comparison to more high-profile cases.
The 36-year-old was also fined £3,000 - he has since announced his retirement.
An FA spokesperson said: "It is of the utmost importance that the integrity of football is upheld at all levels."
An independent commission found that Bunyard placed 45 bets against Frome and his former club Paulton Rovers from September 2014 to April 2016.
FA rules prohibit "all those involved in the game" from betting on football "that takes place anywhere in the world".
However, a Frome Town club statement claimed the organisation was "driving people out" of the sport at grassroots level to set an example, while Bunyard described betting as "an epidemic amongst footballers" and said he has been "hung out to dry".
"I'm not a lone person putting bets on," he told BBC Somerset. "It is part of the culture of football.
"I don't know whether [the FA] are really accepting of that fact.
"I don't know whether they genuinely want to do anything about it or whether they just want to have a high-profile case to say, 'he got caught and he got banned' - but if they think that will deter players, I know for a fact it hasn't."
Tottenham's Andros Townsend, Cameron Jerome - on loan at Crystal Palace from Stoke last season - and Dan Gosling, who has joined Bournemouth this summer, are among those who have breached current betting regulations.
Winger Townsend was fined £18,000 in June 2013, striker Jerome £50,000 last August and midfielder Gosling £30,000 in March.
The FA spokesperson added: "Individuals who threaten the image of the game and place bets on their own team to lose - as is the case here - are committing serious breaches of the FA's betting rules, and will be sanctioned accordingly.
"The FA issues education to participants of the game in respect of its rules in relation to betting and other forms of misconduct.
"This education had been sent to Mr Bunyard's club prior to the start of last season."
Frome Town said the manager "deserved to be reprimanded in some way", but criticised the way the case was handled, citing a number of delays to proceedings.
They also claimed they were given "no opportunity as a club, or Nick as an individual to challenge the statement released".
Wild flowers in the meadows, the size of about 10 football pitches, were selected by experts from Sheffield University to bloom during the Games.
The flowers were selected to support the Marsh Fritillary and Meadow Brown butterflies and Burnet Moths.
The meadows are set to become one of the country's largest urban parks.
Nigel Dunnett, of the University of Sheffield, said: "The Olympic Park meadows have been carefully formulated to flower at their peak during the Games, producing exciting, vibrant sheets of uplifting colour, with high biodiversity value.
"To achieve this peak performance, with a beautiful blend of colours at exactly the right time, is no mean feat.
"We are extremely encouraged and excited by the results from the sowings this year."
Olympic Delivery Authority Chief Executive David Higgins said: "The wildflower meadows, wetlands, woods and lawns in the Olympic Park will provide a green and colourful setting in 2012 and a new great park for people and wildlife after the Games.
"We are doing everything possible to ensure this is a great park for the Games and legacy and a showcase for British park design."
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) claimed the Romanian public service broadcaster Televiziunea Romana (TVR) owes 16 million Swiss francs.
The EBU described the action to exclude Romania from next month's contest in Sweden as "regrettable".
Romania has never won the contest, but came third in 2005 and 2010.
The EBU had called on the Romanian government to make satisfactory arrangements to repay the debt by Wednesday (20 April). The organisation regards the Romanian State as legally obliged to underwrite TVR's debt.
'Disappointing'
"It is regrettable that we are forced to take this action," said EBU director general Ingrid Deltenre.
"We are disappointed that all our attempts to resolve this matter have received no response from the Romanian government.
"In recent weeks the EBU has taken note of the Ministry of Finance's suggestion that TVR may be placed into insolvency proceedings which may in turn lead to a profound restructuring of the broadcaster.
"The EBU is a not-for-profit association which represents 73 public service broadcasters in 56 countries. The continued indebtedness of TVR jeopardises the financial stability of the EBU itself."
The Romanian broadcaster will also lose access to other EBU member services, including the Eurovision News and Sports News and the right to broadcast specific sporting events.
Romania first took part in the annual music competition in 1994, and has participated in every final since the introduction of the semi-finals heats in 2004.
Ovidiu Anton was due to perform Moment of Silence at this year's contest in Stockholm in 12 May.
The 24-year-old singer confirmed the news on his website: "Dear friends, I have finally received the official communication. I am trying to smile and not get carried away, but it is unfair."
"I am still the same, same honest artist, same fighter that won fare [sic] and square both from the jury and from the public's vote, but yet, I have to declare I have been "defeated" By whom? Why? Fair? I don't know how to put it nicely, so I abstain."
Moment of Silence has already been included on the official CD for this year's contest. The EBU said it would keep the digital download of the song available for download and streaming, as a courtesy to the artist.
"To take an act out at such late stage is of course a little disruptive, but it will not negatively affect the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in any other way," said Jon Ola Sand, executive supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest.
"It is, of course, disappointing - it's disappointing for the artist, for the fans, and for the viewers in Romania and all over Europe.
"But we have to stay firm on this decision, and I believe it was the right decision. And then we will have to see for 2017, and onwards, how this situation develops."
It is not the first time a country has been barred from taking part in Eurovision. Greece was disqualified from the 1982 contest for entering a song that was based on a national folk tune, and therefore not an original song.
More recently, Georgia's entry in 2009 was disqualified by the EBU for supposedly containing political lyrics.
Construction of the 269m long ship, which will be docked permanently on a reservoir in a rural area of Sichuan province, began on Thursday.
The original liner, built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast, hit an iceberg and sank in the north Atlantic in 1912, killing more than 1,500 people.
It was on its maiden voyage from Southampton and bound for New York.
The ship's story is the subject of immense fascination for many in China.
Interest became particularly intense after the 1997 film starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, which was hugely popular in the country.
The film's director, James Cameron, had a 90% scale replica vessel built for filming purposes, but no full-size replica has ever been built.
Australian billionaire Clive Palmer announced plans to create a replica in 2012, but the project has not yet been completed.
The Chinese replica will feature an interior reflecting some of the grandeur of the original, including a ballroom, theatre, swimming pool and first-class cabins - with the addition of wi-fi - and will be the centrepiece of a theme park hundreds of kilometres (miles) from China's coast.
The company first announced plans for the 1 billion yuan (£115m) project in 2014, AFP reports.
Domestic tourism is booming in China, promoted by the government as a way of fuelling consumer-driven growth rather than its decades-old model of investment and industry.
The homes would instead be converted into accommodation for older people, in proposals being considered by the council over the next few weeks.
If the plans are approved, 210 of the council's 626 sheltered housing units would become retirement housing.
The council said it needed to develop a "more sustainable and affordable" housing solution for those over 60.
The report will be considered by the Social Work and Health Committee on 12 January and by the Communities Committee the following week.
Council leader Iain Gaul said there was a "lessening demand" for other sheltered housing in Angus.
"Five years ago the total losses from void properties was just over £91,000 - last year it was just under £217,000," he said. "We cannot sustain that level of lost income to housing.
"It is well known that the overall financial position for council services has never been so severe. In that context we have to ensure that all of our services operate as effectively and efficiently as possible."
The committee has recommended that community volunteers are used to support the sheltered housing provision for adults of any age that have medical or support needs.
It said that "universal provision" of sheltered housing did not comply with the Scottish government "self-directed support" policy which was introduced in 2013.
The new policy requires that individuals can choose who provides care and support services.
Mr Gaul added: "The council remains committed to ensuring that tenants care and support needs are met, but we must also comply with the requirements of self-directed support."
The council also plans to expand the caretaker service and invest in the communal facilities at the elderly housing complexes over the next four years.
The report follows a consultation with sheltered housing tenants.
Michaels, a former World Wrestling Entertainment champion, was a pioneer in WWE - the billion-dollar company with a global audience that reaches 180 countries.
A main event-level star even though he is only around six foot tall, Michaels' success in the 1990s until his retirement in 2010 paved the way for other wrestlers like Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio and CM Punk to win WWE's top title.
Now a Welshman hopes to follow in his footsteps as Wales' own high flyer, Mark Andrews, gets ready for what he describes as "a chance of a lifetime," with WWE ahead of their inaugural UK Championship.
'Mandrews', as he is known, will be the lone representative of Wales in the two-day tournament on Saturday, 15 and Sunday, 16 January.
With a chance to make an impact in the tournament and earn a deal with WWE, Andrews is desperate to make sure he makes the best of his opportunity.
For 24-year old Andrews, who has travelled around the world wrestling since he took it up aged 13, the opportunity to compete in WWE is a lifelong dream achieved.
"Getting out to America and breaking out in the WWE is the big aim for any UK wrestler," the Cardiff grappler told BBC Radio Wales.
"For me, this tournament is the big time. I would love to sign with WWE in the USA, but for now, it is just great to be flying the flag for Wales.
"This is the holy ground for UK wrestlers and the WWE is where we all want to be.
"To be part of the WWE would be a lifelong dream."
There was a time where success and recognition in wrestling and WWE in particular was about how you looked and how big you were, with larger than life athletes like Andre the Giant and Hulk Hogan seen to be the archetypal WWE superstars.
In 2016, however, there is more opportunity than ever for smaller wrestlers to make a giant splash in the ring, especially with WWE's flagship television show Monday Night Raw now featuring a cruiserweight division for wrestlers under 14-and-a-half-stone.
Andrews says his lack of stature helps to define the kind of wrestler he is as he soars through the air rather than focus on a ground and pound style.
"I grew up idolising guys like Shawn Michaels and the Hardy Boys, who are some of the small wrestlers, like myself," he explained.
"I am only five foot eight, a little short of your traditional seven-foot wrestler.
"You get wrestlers of all different shapes and sizes now and I am the little guy who gets thrown around and takes a few bashes.
"I get to have more fun though I think, flying around and jumping out of the ring."
Andrews believes wrestling in the UK has already been going through a boom period that will only increase when the top 16 wrestlers from Britain compete for the WWE UK Championship.
"This is the first WWE UK championship. The UK wrestling scene has been booming for a long time now and the world has been watching," he said.
"WWE have always taken an interest in the UK, always taken great talent from here and now they are expanding and creating an actual UK tournament.
"That is incredible news for wrestling in the UK.
"I am flying the flag for Wales. It puts a bit of pressure on me to be the only competitor from Wales, but I am also relishing the chance to do Wales proud.
"The tournament is 16 of us from the UK and some of my best friends are in there.
"We have a chance to impress every wrestling fan in the world now on the grandest stage of all.
"I want to get to the top and win the belt and be the top UK performer. That's the aim.
"To be the first ever UK champion would be a dream come true.
"WWE has already been popular here, but I think the British guys will become mainstream after the weekend."
The event was held in the village of Gresford in the constituency of Wrexham - currently held by Labour but targeted by the Tories.
Like other Welsh manifestos, the document restates many of the pledges made at a UK level. You can find more about those here.
The Conservatives' Welsh manifesto says that Britain needs "strong and stable leadership to make the most of the opportunities Brexit brings for hardworking families".
It says that Theresa May "passionately believes in the precious bond between Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and the union is at the heart of her programme for government".
A foreword by Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies and Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns says: "The strength of our commitment to Wales is seen through our determination to deliver more jobs for ordinary, working people, more investment in Welsh infrastructure and a fair funding deal for the people for Wales."
Specifically Welsh pledges in the manifesto include promises to:
The Conservatives promise an industrial strategy with Wales at its "heart".
"We have the fastest economic growth per head outside London since 2010 and the value of Welsh exports has more than doubled since 1999," it says.
The Tories say they would abolish business rates for small firms with rateable values up to £15,000 and would seek to reform them - although this is devolved and the party would need to win power in the assembly elections in 2021 to do it.
The party also promises to:
Pledges include:
The party promises:
The document says the Conservative party has delivered on a commitment to provide a "stronger" devolution settlement for Wales, pointing to the recent Wales Act, with a recent agreement promising a "fair level" of funding.
But it adds that the UK government has in the past tended to "devolve and forget". The party promises that a future Conservative government will "put that right".
Working closely with the Welsh Government "will not be the limit of our actions in Wales", the document said.
The party envisages that the powers of the Welsh Government will increase as the UK leaves the EU, and promises that no decision-making powers devolved will be taken back to Westminster.
The Conservatives claim that PISA league tables show that in Wales "life is still largely determined not by your efforts and talents but by where you come from, who your parents are and what schools you attend".
It acknowledges that education is devolved, however, and says the Welsh Conservatives will work with colleagues in the assembly "to improve standards and extend choice so that our children and young people can compete with the best in the world".
It lists a number of pledges which the Conservatives would be able to implement if the party won the 2021 assembly election, including:
Health and social care is devolved in Wales. The Tories claim that the Labour-led Welsh Government has let down doctors, nurses and hospital staff by a failure to invest.
"The founding intention for the NHS was to provide good levels of care to everyone, wherever they live," the manifesto claims.
"This has not been achieved in Wales over recent times," the document says.
The manifesto makes pledges that would need to be implemented at assembly level and would require the Conservatives to be in a position to lead the next Welsh Government after 2021. They include:
In addition there are pledges to:
The manifesto also says the party will:
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said it has to make immediate changes following concerns about staffing in accident and emergency, clinical protocols and patient transfer times.
It wants all patients to be assessed within 15 minutes of entering A&E.
Hospital bosses will also have to report back to the CQC every week on the areas of concern identified.
The unannounced visit in November was called following concerns about the time it was taking to handover patients from ambulances.
The CQC will publish its full report later this year but the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust said the main rulings are:
In its last full inspection report in March 2014, the watchdog ruled the hospital "requires improvement".
Andrew Furlong, acting trust medical director, said the watchdog had stressed that "staff were trying to do their very best in difficult circumstances" and that the visit came during an internal major incident because of "relentless demand".
But he added: "The CQC is absolutely justified in requiring us to assure them that we take our duty of care to our patients seriously.
"They have told us that they are placing 'conditions' on some of the 'regulated activities'.
The trust is currently building a new £43m Emergency Floor in order to help see more patients.
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GB needed just one point from their final game but a goal with under four minutes remaining handed favourites Ukraine a 2-1 victory.
Head coach Pete Russell said: "We were fantastic all week but we just couldn't get over the line."
Great Britain have not earned a promotion since 1993.
Russell's team must now wait for the result of the game on Saturday evening between Lithuania and hosts Croatia to see if they will collect a silver or bronze medal.
If Lithuania win then they could pip Ukraine for promotion and knock GB into bronze.
GB had thrashed Romania 6-1 on Friday to make it four wins in a row and set up the promotion decider.
Captain Jonathan Phillips put them ahead against Ukraine after they had failed to take advantage of a series of chances.
Ukraine cranked up the pressure in the third period and turned it around with goals from Dmytro Chernyshenko and Aleksander Pobyednostsev.
Russell added: "I am devastated for the players, I believe we were the best team in the tournament and it is heartbreaking they didn't get what they deserved.
"We were behind for just three minutes and 56 seconds in the whole tournament, so it is a cruel blow to miss out on the gold medal.
"It is like last year in Eindhoven all over again."
Ice hockey commentator Seth Bennett
"It was a case of so close, yet so far for Great Britain's men, but this team made some huge strides on and off the ice over the last week.
"The development of 21-year old Ross Venus has been one of the highlights of the tournament in Croatia. The Coventry Blaze youngster has played with real maturity and responsibility. The emergence of Venus is an encouraging sign that the next generation of players are now not too far away from helping the senior side.
"This is been the most complete team performance I can remember from a GB team at a World Championships and the coaching staff team deserve credit for that.
"GB are ranked 24th in the world, but on this evidence they are considerably better than that."
The judges hailed the Scottish writer's work as "tender, brilliant and witty".
A visibly shocked Smith was presented with the £30,000 prize at a ceremony at London's Royal Festival Hall on Wednesday night.
"It's unbelievable, it's glorious and it feels like an astonishing fluke," she told the BBC after her win.
"It was such a strong, versatile shortlist, and I can't believe this has happened."
Smith's book beat novels by writers including Rachel Cusk, Sarah Waters and Anne Tyler.
The writer said she was set to start work on a new novel in July - based on an idea she had 20 years ago - which she said would be a "whole new challenge".
A novel of two halves, How to be Both's dual narrative focuses on the lives of a grieving teenage girl in the present day and a 15th Century Renaissance artist.
The book is published in two versions - with the same cover - but with the two halves switched. It doesn't matter in which order they are read.
"Ancient and modern meet and speak to each other in this tender, brilliant and witty novel of grief, love, sexuality and shape-shifting identity," said chair of judges Shami Chakrabarti, head of civil rights group Liberty.
The other judges were Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, columnist and broadcaster Grace Dent, writer Helen Dunmore and Channel 4 News presenter Cathy Newman.
The idea for the novel took root when Smith saw a picture of a fresco in a 2013 edition of art magazine Frieze.
"I took a mouthful of coffee and opened it at a full-page reproduction of a painting so beautiful that it did something to my breathing and I nearly choked," she wrote in The Observer.
The Bookseller has reported that publisher Penguin Random House is printing 40,000 more paperback copies of the book following her win.
Simon Prosser, Smith's publisher at Hamish Hamilton, said: "We are so, so happy".
How to be Both has already made its mark on the literary scene, having won the 2014 Costa Novel Award and the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize. It was also shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and the 2015 Folio Prize.
Born in Inverness in August 1962, Smith lives in Cambridge. As well as four short story collections, her novels include Hotel World and The Accidental, which won the Whitbread Novel Award.
Smith was made a CBE for services to literature in the 2014 New Year's Honours List.
Formerly known as the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Baileys Prize is open to any woman writing in English.
Last year's prize went to A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Ireland's Eimear McBride.
In addition to the Baileys Prize announcement, Claire Rilett was named as the winner of the First Chapter competition for unpublished writers.
The hotly contested campaign has been marred by internal squabbles within the governing party, which have turned violent.
The township of Atteridgeville, west of the capital, Pretoria, is one of several areas to have experienced some of this violence.
The working class community was outraged when the ANC foisted Thoko Dididza as the party's candidate for mayor of Tshwane, the metropolitan area which includes Pretoria.
More on the riots:
In pictures: Pretoria protests
People took to the streets to express their displeasure; buses were burnt and road barricaded as they demanded that the current ANC mayor, Kgosientsho "Sputla" Ramokgopa be on the ballot again.
The violence spread across many other areas in Tshwane - and five people lost their lives.
Ms Dididza was chosen by ANC head office after the local party could not agree between "Sputla" and his challenger during the nomination process.
Such local feuding has been most prevalent in KwaZulu-Natal province, where 12 ANC councillors have been killed in the last two months. Last week, another was shot dead in the Eastern Cape province.
Atteridgeville itself was established in the late 1930s as a settlement for black people and now has a population of 200,000.
What do Atteridgeville voters want?
It is Mr Ramokgopa's hometown, and is a great example of a politician understanding local issues and addressing them head on.
The paved streets are clean. It is like a mini Kigali, the Rwandan capital, known as the cleanest city in Africa.
To test the temperature a month on from the protests, I walk the streets of "Peli" as locals here sometimes call Atteridgeville.
In central Atteridgeville, I meet 62-year-old street vendor Moses Masemola.
"I am going to vote for the ANC because 'Sputla' delivered for us here. Look at this place. It is clean," he says.
However, 69-year-old Elizabeth Langa, who works as a domestic helper, says she admires the new opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) which promises to do more to tackle poverty and create jobs.
"I'm going to vote for the EFF because I want change," she says.
Down the road outside a local school I see a group of mostly teenage boys huddled together looking at their smartphones.
They tell me they are using the free wi-fi provided to all residents by the city council - the signal is strongest near the school.
They are quick to point out that it is a Sputla initiative, one of his most popular.
However, one among them, 23-year-old McDonald Hopane, a third-year mechanical engineering student, explains that he is going to vote for the main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA).
"The ANC has failed to provide jobs. I'm about to finish my studies and it is clear that I will not have a job come 2017."
Twenty-year-old construction site labourer Happy Makhwiting stops to talk under a huge billboard of President Jacob Zuma.
Pointing at the president and ANC leader, he says: "I will vote for the ANC but not because of this one. I'm voting because of what [Nelson] Mandela did for us through the ANC."
Mr Makhwiting says he would like to be in the army but has taken a low-paid job just to make ends meet.
But it seems the ANC cannot rely on such loyalty any more.
If opinion polls are anything to go by, the governing party is going to have a tough time holding on to some of the major metropolitan regions such as Tshwane, Johannesburg and Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape province.
Local issues such as water, roads, refuse collection, community parks now mean more than anti-apartheid struggle credentials.
People are tired of being fed the same diet of "we liberated you from white-minority rule so keep voting for us".
They want material change on the ground. They want better schools for their children.
They are also angry at the cancer of corruption creeping in - not just at a local level but also among those who hold high office.
Political commentator Justice Malala tells me this is a test for President Zuma's leadership.
"It's about national and local issues all at once. That's why you see President Zuma's face on the campaign trail. And the Democratic Alliance is using [its] leader Mmusi Maimane. There is a lot at stake," he says.
"On local issues, in Nelson Mandela Bay people will tell you about the undignified bucket toilets they still use.
"These issues are big for them. And in Alexandra township some say their lives are no different from the dark days of apartheid."
So this election, as much as it is about local issues on the ground, it also about the ANC's national score card.
All 129 MSPs have been invited to nominate a "local hero" to join the historic Riding of Parliament, from Edinburgh Castle along the Royal Mile.
A football coach, a Brownies leader, and a number of charity fundraisers are among those who have been selected.
The Queen will officially open the fifth session of the parliament.
BBC Scotland has spoken to some of those nominated as local heroes.
Wheelchair athlete Shelby Watson, from Johnstonebridge in Dumfries and Galloway, was born with cerebral palsy.
But the 18-year-old has never let her condition stand in the way of her ambitions on the track.
She currently holds the world records in the T33 class at 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m, as well as the three mile marathon and the seven mile marathon.
The champion was nominated to take part in the Scottish Parliament opening ceremony by her local MSP, Joan McAlpine, who described her as an "exceptional young woman".
"Shelby's achievements are truly inspirational," she said.
"She has only been wheelchair racing for a few years but has already broken international records and collected gold medals for Scotland.
"As well as conducting her own training she coaches younger children. She never lets her disability define her and is a very inspirational young woman."
Over four decades, Gerry Akroyd has become as familiar a figure on Skye as the Cuillins themselves.
A lifelong mountaineer, he began leading the island's mountain rescue team in 1973 - just a year after relocating to Scotland from the north of England.
Now aged 71, he admits that his role is now more about organising and delegating than scaling the mountains.
"I still get up the hill but I'm not as fast as I was," he said.
The grandfather, who became an MBE in 2009, was nominated by MSP Kate Forbes, who wanted to recognise the work of all the mountain rescue teams in her constituency of Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch.
"Volunteers, and it's important to remember that the mountain rescue teams are volunteers, go out in all weathers whenever the call goes out," she said.
The MSP added: "We have fantastic terrain in Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch that attracts thousands of climbers and walkers every year, most of whom come to no harm.
"In the unfortunate cases where rescues and searches are required, it's a blessing to have the ready, sacrificial dedication of the mountain rescue teams."
When the RNLI closed St Abbs lifeboat station in September 2015, residents of the tiny Borders village vowed to fight back.
Led by former London banker Euan Gibson, the community of just over 100 people raised more than £400,000 to establish an independent lifeboat station.
A new lifeboat, to be named after Thomas Tunnock, the grandfather of the largest donor, Boyd Tunnock, is expected to be delivered next month.
Mr Gibson, who was nominated by Paul Wheelhouse MSP, said: "I was surprised - I never did this for any recognition.
"The lifeboat is an integral part of the community and it was something I was always passionate about even before I was involved in the campaign.
"To do anything properly, you have to believe in it."
A retired district nurse, Innes Mathers was inspired to help refugees fleeing Syria while watching distressing television news reports from Lesbos.
In January the 63-year-old travelled to the Greek island where she worked at the Hope Centre, a former hotel converted to help those arriving on the island's shores.
She said she saw mainly families from Syria and Iran land on the coastline but she expressed fears about those who had not made it to land.
"We don't know what's at the bottom of the Aegean Sea because not all the overturned boats have been reported.
"Nobody knows how many there have been - people are just desperate."
Miss Mathers was nominated by Clydesdale MSP Aileen Campbell.
After retiring from his role as a senior officer with the Salvation Army, Keith Banks became chaplain of Glasgow airport in 2009.
As well as supervising the multi-faith prayer room, he offers support to passengers as they travel, and also to the 5,000 staff who work across the airport's campus.
"While a minister has a church, I have the airport," he said. "Our customers, staff and everyone who travels through are my congregation."
Mr Banks was nominated by Maurice Golden, an MSP for the west of Scotland.
He said: 'Keith always makes time for people; whether that be commuters on the red eye to London, holidaymakers bound for Spain or refugees seeking a safe haven.
"He also takes time to get to know the hundreds of staff that make Glasgow Airport run smoothly; from ground crew and air traffic controllers to security staff and those working in the various retail outlets.
"He has numerous informal chats, acts on concerns and supports staff and their families particularly during difficult times."
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Anglia Ruskin University, based in Chelmsford and Cambridge, will launch a masters degree in the subject in 2018.
Centre director Helen Marshall said the "current interest in alternative facts and George Orwell's 1984" made the subject "relevant".
It will also offer science fiction and fantasy modules for undergraduates.
The centre, which will be run within the university's English faculty, will officially open on Wednesday with 10 staff.
Dr Marshall said: "While these genres might be seen to look backwards to the distant past and forward to myriad potential futures.
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With four countries - Wales, Ireland, England and France - all in with a chance of finishing as champions, the 23-year-old says it will be important to stay calm in the heat of battle.
"Flashpoints happen in every game and you just have to do your best and make sure you don't give away penalties, or whatever," said Williams.
The Welsh take on Italy in the first of three crunch games on Saturday.
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That match in Rome is followed by Scotland's contest with Ireland at Murrayfield, then England's clash with France at Twickenham.
Dylan Hartley agrees with Williams that it will be vital to stay composed and says the England dressing room will be "quite calm" before kick-off.
"Gone are the days of head-banging and punching holes in walls," said the Northampton hooker.
After six weeks, 15 games and 1,200 minutes of bone-crunching action, the Six Nations could be decided in the very last minute.
The permutations are almost endless.
Even France can win, should Wales and Ireland lose and Les Bleus beat England by eight points or more.
To give you an idea of what might happen on a gripping final day, BBC Sport has asked a host of famous rugby names for their verdicts.
Who's going to win the three games on Saturday?
Ex-Wales fly-half Jonathan Davies: Wales, Ireland, England
Ex- Scotland scrum-half Andy Nicol: Wales, Ireland, England
Ex-England centre Jeremy Guscott: Wales, Scotland, England
Who's going to win the title?
JD: England
AN: Wales
JG: England
How is Saturday going to pan out?
JD: "Wales need to set a target of at least 10 points to put pressure on Ireland and England, but Stuart Lancaster's men must be favourites because of home advantage."
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AN: "I have a funny feeling that Wales could rack up a big score against Italy, especially as the Italians are without captain and superstar Sergio Parisse. This will heap pressure on Ireland and England, who I think will both win their games but not by much. So Wales win the Six Nations."
JG: "Wales are disrupted by injuries and I don't believe they will score enough points against Italy. Although Ireland will fancy their chances to score a good number of points against Scotland, the Scots will not want to be embarrassed at home and will play hard, showing plenty of pride. England's home record is decent and they're good enough to beat a poor French side by a good margin to lift the title."
JG: "I am intrigued to see how Wales turn round from the Ireland game in the space of a week. The physical effort they put in was of a different scale to anything else we have seen. It was super-human. They will be battered, bruised and mentally drained, despite winning. That will be difficult to recover from in seven days, but they are coming off a high and they know if they score enough points they could win the championship."
Ex-Italy lock Carlo Del Fava: "Italy have a monumental task. Wales are coming to Rome to score points, as England did last year when Stuart Lancaster's men won 52-11. It is going to be a battle and extremely difficult, there is no getting away from that, but it is not an impossible task to keep this Welsh team at bay."
JD: "Wales haven't got great strength-in-depth in the front row and they're fielding two new props in Rome, so it will be a big test for the front five. Bbut Wales should go to Rome and get a result."
Ex-England coach Andy Robinson: "You have got to build the score to start with and kick your goals. Wales have to break Italy's spirit and then run in the tries in the last 20 minutes."
Ex-Wales wing Shane Williams: "I would love to be able to say I am very confident Wales can put 50-60 points on Italy, but that's not going to be case and it is going to be difficult. I can see Wales winning comfortably, but I think the ball is in England's court at the moment."
Ex-Ireland hooker Keith Wood: "I always hated Murrayfield, it was a horrible place to go. But I think the Irish lads will be confident they can go out and do it. I don't think Scotland have that same level of strength that Wales showed, but they will be fearful, too. Although Scotland are without a win and are bottom, they have been close without quite getting there this year. Ireland have to be focused because Scotland will have their day soon - and it could be this week."
AN: "Scotland may have lost all four of their games so far, but I think they will click at some point. They will take some confidence from the last 20 minutes of the first half in the loss against England last weekend. They defended well, really dug in and showed a lot of character there. I have backed Scotland in every game so far and they have lost the lot so I am changing tactics by backing Ireland and hoping I am wrong again!"
KW: "Ireland are pretty much a team in transition. They had a horrible injury list at the start of the Six Nations, they put a conservative game-plan in place to get over the first couple of hurdles, and they retained that against England, but they just didn't enact it against Wales.
"They just have to cut loose a bit against Scotland. It depends what happens beforehand but they need to win, first and foremost, and then rack up the points to set a target for England."
Ex-Ireland prop Paul Wallace: "Scotland are a good team but maybe they don't have that self-belief yet."
JG: "I think England are less favoured now to win the Six Nations, given the France scoreline when they nilled Italy last weekend. But I would back England at home against anybody. If they find the intensity and accuracy they did in the second half against Wales on the opening weekend, I don't think the French will be able to handle it."
AR: "France are not going to do it. They are in a shocking place at the moment and I think England will blow them away in the last 15 minutes."
JD: "France tend to have one performance in them somewhere, but England have to start favourites."
Ex-England scrum-half Matt Dawson: "It is going be an emotional rollercoaster for the England guys and I don't see how you cannot know the results throughout the day. I think England will need to win the game against France by 10-12 points."
Ex-England fly-half Paul Grayson: "Scotland are staring at the Wooden Spoon, so they'll be up for it, which means it will be hard for Ireland. That could play into England's hands. Scotland helping England? Marvellous."
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The former Northern Counties Club on Bishop Street is being converted into a 31-bed hotel.
A former bank building on Shipquay Street will be turned into a 20-bed hotel.
Both projects have received funding from the Department for Social Development and Department of Environment.
Work on the building in Shipquay Street is due to be completed in March while its counterpart on Bishop Street is due to open for business later this summer.
It is expected that 65 jobs will be created at the Bishop Street site, which will also have a restaurant, a cookery school and two retail units, and the remaining 12 will be at the Shipquay Street site.
Social Development Minister Mervyn Storey said: "The projects are a major boost to the local economy, providing jobs for the local hospitality sector, as well as the construction jobs needed to undertake the work."
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan said the projects were important for investment and tourism.
"Derry's built heritage is a unique attraction for tourists and investors and a source of pride for locals. It is important that we strive together to realise its full potential."
The Canadian, Norwegian and Filipino hostages are being held by Abu Sayyaf, Islamist militant separatists who last week beheaded Canadian John Ridsdel.
In the video, the hostages say if the demands are not met "we will be executed like our friend John".
Abu Sayyaf has previously demanded a multi-million dollar ransom.
The Philippines and Canadian government have said they will not give in to ransom demands. The Philippines has also launched a military operation against the militant group.
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Mr Ridsdel was kidnapped from a marina near the city of Davao last September along with another Canadian, Robert Hall, his Filipina partner Marites Flor, and Kjartan Sekkingstad, a Norwegian.
They were taken to an Abu Sayyaf stronghold of the remote island of Jolo where Mr Ridsdel was killed on 25 April after a ransom deadline passed.
Founded in 1991, the Islamist terrorist and separatist group Abu Sayyaf is believed to have only a few hundred armed followers but it has managed to survive numerous assaults by the Philippine army, aided by US military trainers.
Since 2014, when its commanders started swearing allegiance to so-called Islamic State, Abu Sayyaf has intensified its drive to kidnap hostages for multi-million dollar ransoms, mimicking the practices of Islamist terror groups in the Middle East by issuing hostage plea videos with threats of beheading.
In the past, one of the most successful, if controversial, hostage mediations was carried out in 2000 by the late Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi, when he bought the freedom of six western hostages for a reported million dollars a head.
The large sums of money involved both then and since have led to accusations that Abu Sayyaf are really more interested in money than religion but their link to IS, however tenuous, appears to have only increased their fanaticism.
The new video, reported on Tuesday by the SITE Intelligence Group which monitors jihadist media, showed the three hostages with six gunmen standing behind them.
A masked militant warns Canada and the Philippines that the three remaining hostages would be killed "if you procrastinate once again".
Mr Hall is shown saying the governments were being ordered to "meet the demand" of the kidnappers, without giving further details.
He also asked the Philippines government to "stop shooting at us and trying to kill us. These guys are going to do a good job of that."
Mr Sekkingstad says that "if the demand is not met we will be executed like our friend John was a few days ago".
Ms Flor is seen pleading with several Philippines officials and candidates in the upcoming national election, saying "we want to be freed alive", the AFP news agency reports.
Abu Sayyaf is a fragmented but violent militant group with its roots in the Islamist separatist insurgency in the southern Philippines. Several of its factions have aligned themselves with the so-called Islamic State.
It has repeatedly taken hostages over the years but has often released them in exchange for ransoms.
On Sunday, the group released 10 Indonesian sailors they had been holding for five weeks.
It is still holding several captives, including a group of eight Malaysians and Indonesians seized from boats and a Dutch birdwatcher taken in 2012.
Love went twice early on before Scott McBride headed Rovers' opener.
Andrew Barrowman capitalised on a defensive error to make it two and Love finished off a swift counter-attack for the third.
Brechin's Paul McLean pulled a goal back from the penalty spot but Love then scored a spot-kick of his own.
Match ends, Albion Rovers 4, Brechin City 1.
Second Half ends, Albion Rovers 4, Brechin City 1.
Goal! Albion Rovers 4, Brechin City 1. Ally Love (Albion Rovers) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty Albion Rovers. Ross Davidson draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Euan Smith (Brechin City) after a foul in the penalty area.
Foul by Alan Reid (Albion Rovers).
Scott Shepherd (Brechin City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Albion Rovers. Conceded by Willie Dyer.
Substitution, Brechin City. Craig Johnston replaces Andy Jackson.
Darren Petrie (Albion Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lewis Spence (Brechin City).
Attempt saved. Callum McRobbie (Albion Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Spas Georgiev (Albion Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Willie Dyer (Brechin City).
Substitution, Albion Rovers. Spas Georgiev replaces Andrew Barrowman.
Gary Fisher (Albion Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gary Fisher (Albion Rovers).
James Dale (Brechin City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Ross Stewart (Albion Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Albion Rovers 3, Brechin City 1. Paul McLean (Brechin City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.
Penalty conceded by Ross Dunlop (Albion Rovers) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Brechin City. Andy Jackson draws a foul in the penalty area.
Substitution, Albion Rovers. Callum McRobbie replaces Scott McBride.
Substitution, Brechin City. Scott Shepherd replaces Jonathan Tiffoney.
Foul by Darren Petrie (Albion Rovers).
Euan Smith (Brechin City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Jonathan Tiffoney (Brechin City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Albion Rovers. Ross Davidson replaces Mark Ferry.
Foul by Alan Reid (Albion Rovers).
Andy Jackson (Brechin City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Ally Love (Albion Rovers) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses to the left.
Ally Love (Albion Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonathan Tiffoney (Brechin City).
Corner, Brechin City. Conceded by Michael Dunlop.
Attempt blocked. Andy Jackson (Brechin City) right footed shot from very close range is blocked.
Foul by Scott McBride (Albion Rovers).
Andy Jackson (Brechin City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Brechin City. Conceded by Michael Dunlop.
Substitution, Brechin City. Euan Smith replaces Jamie Montgomery.
Alan Reid (Albion Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Tomas Osmena said he would pay policemen $1,060 (£730) for each criminal killed and $106 for each one wounded, in an attempt to instil fear.
He has already rewarded an off-duty policeman who shot and injured two suspects when he came across a robbery.
The mayor's comments echo those of the incoming President, Rodrigo Duterte, who has promised to wipe out crime.
Mr Osmena, who won the mayoral elections two weeks ago, emphasised that any killing must be legal, with a licensed gun.
He gave as an example a robbery where civilians might come to the rescue and shoot the robber.
"What is important is that the robbers will be scared," he said. "I am just giving them a warning."
Police officer Julius Sadaya Regis was off duty when he chanced upon a robbery.
As the three robbers fled, Mr Regis shot two of them and duly received his reward from the mayor.
Mr Osmena said he did not care if the reward would encourage vigilantes.
"I will not compromise the safety of our people," he said. "I will defend them. I don't care who gets in the way."
Mr Osmena's pledge comes after Rodrigo "Digong" Duterte won the Philippine presidential elections on 9 May, largely on a controversial anti-crime platform, vowing to kill tens of thousands of criminals.
Since winning the election, Mr Duterte has also said he will bring back the death penalty, with hanging as his preferred method of execution.
His record as the crime-crushing mayor of the southern town of Davao, once notorious for its lawlessness, earned him the name The Punisher, as well as many voters.
On Thursday, Philippine boxing hero Manny Pacquiao was sworn in as a senator, after being elected to the upper house in elections earlier this month.
He said he supported President Duterte's plans to impose the death penalty.
"Actually God allows this in the Bible," he told reporters.
The charity said there were a further six confirmed or probable cases in the town of Isiro.
The outbreak, involving the Bundibugyo strain, was first reported last week after one person had died.
Last month an outbreak of a more deadly ebola strain in neighbouring Uganda killed 16 people.
The DR Congo outbreak occurred in Oriental province, which shares a border with Uganda.
Medicins sans Frontieres (MSF) has said that the two outbreaks may not be related.
It is not clear when exactly the deaths in Isiro occurred.
A medical coordinator for MSF, Anja de Weggheleire, told the BBC the Bundibugyo strain was still dangerous, if less fatal than the one detected in Uganda.
"It is normally less mortal and less virulent then the one we have seen in other places... But still it stays a very dangerous and mortal disease... we expect normally figures around 25 to 35% mortality," Ms Weggheleire said.
The charity says its staff in the affected area in north-east DR Congo are taking measures to locate and isolate anyone who has been in contact with those infected.
Experts have said that Isiro's position as a transit point could make an outbreak more challenging to control.
The virus, which is transmitted to humans from both monkeys and birds, causes massive internal bleeding and has a very high mortality rate.
It is one of the most virulent diseases in the world and is spread by close personal contact.
There is no vaccine for the virus and symptoms of infection include a sudden onset of fever, weakness, headache, vomiting and kidney problems.
Web users in Cuba are being diverted to another website, which accuses Ms Sanchez of having hidden political interests.
Ms Sanchez said her website, called 14ymedio, would provide daily news about the communist-run country.
She insisted it would not be a platform against the government.
But web users in Cuba reported that they were being diverted to a website calling itself "yoani$landia", which accuses Ms Sanchez of being "obsessed with money".
"This website is from a group of people who had enough of seeing Yoani Sanchez presenting herself as the Mother Teresa of Calcutta of Cuban dissidents," says an article on the site.
It adds that Ms Sanchez is "probably the richest Cuban on the island" and is funded by Spanish and Brazilian media outfits.
The editors of yoani$landia do not identify themselves, but they are believed to be Cuban government officials.
Cuban media, including the country's three national newspapers, are under strict state control.
But President Raul Castro has eased restrictions on dissidents in recent years, allowing opponents of the government - including Sanchez - to travel abroad.
In her blog published in the online paper's first edition, Sanchez says 14ymedio has been an obsession for her for more than four years.
She says she wants the paper to "contribute information so that Cubans can decide with more maturity their own destinies".
Its first edition also features a report from a Havana hospital, describing the work of nurses and other staff on night duty and the victims of violence they attend to.
It also showcases a lengthy interview with jailed opposition writer Angel Santiesteban.
But not all its contents is of a political nature.
There is also advice on how to deal with dry or damaged hair and a sports feature on why Cuban football is getting less coverage and state backing than baseball.
Sanchez achieved international recognition with her prize-winning blog Generation Y, in which she criticised the restrictions on freedom of speech and movement imposed on the island since the 1959 revolution.
The Scots have not won a game in this tournament since 2010.
They have failed to score a single point in 15 of the 25 matches played in the subsequent five championships.
Their points difference stands at 67 for - an average of 2.68 per match, less than a penalty or drop-goal - and 1,061 against.
They have breached their opponents' try-line eight times. Eight tries in 25 games.
If Scotland's men have swum against the tide in recent Six Nations, the women have been kayaking into a tsunami.
Playing catch-up against its international counterparts, Scottish Rugby channelled a portion of its £20m 2014 BT sponsorship into recruiting Sheila Begbie, successful in a similar role with the Scottish Football Association, to head up and restructure the female game.
A year later, Shade Munro, the former Scotland and Glasgow Warriors assistant coach, was appointed to marshal things on the training paddock.
Munro is around seven months into his new role and paints the picture of a pitifully constrained Scotland, labouring merely to cross the start line as their rivals hare off down the track.
"Even speaking to the other [Six Nations] coaches, they're much further down the road than we are," he says.
"They're certainly better-resourced in terms of personnel, money; they have professional players.
"We're still very much amateur; still very much stuck in that amateur culture and ethos. That stems from the club game in Scotland.
"The SRU have done well introducing academies - the difference in players involved in academies and those that aren't is marked. It's just constantly banging that drum really."
This will be as challenging a project as Munro will ever undertake in coaching given how far the set-up is from even the most modest of professional environs.
"When you're a professional coach you know exactly what you're doing every day, the resources are there - it's actually quite easy," he explains.
"This is a different way of coaching, which is actually a good thing.
"My perception when I came in was that the women players weren't very good, they didn't really train that hard. For the last five years, they haven't won a game in the Six Nations, so what are the reasons for that?
"I thought it must be the players themselves. That perception was totally wrong. It's not the players at all - they're hard-working, they have a real desire to succeed, they're willing to learn, they're really coachable.
"It's just not been properly resourced. There aren't that many players in Scotland, which is another reason, but partly the gap is growing because the other teams are moving on down the professional route and we aren't."
Munro has to peel away all the intricacies of coaching elite teams, immerse himself in the realities of his new surroundings.
The old Warriors playbook has been slid back on to its shelf for now and the process of gradually bettering his players, step by punishing step, is underway.
"I started by looking at last year's Six Nations and it's pretty obvious what needs to be worked on," he says.
"Upskilling the players, getting them fitter, improving their all-round skills, getting them to enjoy playing again.
"I'm not saying they didn't enjoy playing last year, but you imagine losing every game, every time you put a Scotland jersey on, it's very tough.
"It's building their confidence back up, allowing them to try things rather than them being scared to do so, pointing out things they're good at."
The towering ex-lock, with seven Scotland caps to his name, will not burden his players with undue emphasis on results in this year's tournament.
Their campaign begins with a Calcutta Cup duel on Friday evening against a visiting England team that has dipped since lifting the 2014 World Cup, but still stuck eight tries past the Scots a year ago.
"That's not the way to coach them at the moment," he says. "What I'm trying to do is break the game down into compartments - defence, set piece, attack, contact - and refer back to that.
"If you succeed in all those areas, you'll win games. So when you don't win games, one, maybe two of those areas you haven't achieved - that's what you then focus on.
"If I can improve them, which I have no doubt I will, and if they can get a win, then fantastic," he adds.
"That may be a time coming, but you never know."
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The Reds have been heavily linked with the 18-year-old midfielder, who has hugely impressed Rodgers.
"I read we had put in a bid or something had been agreed but there has been nothing," said the Liverpool boss.
"I think he is a wonderful young talent who just needs to play football and for me he is probably at the best place he could be."
He added: "I don't normally comment on speculation but [I will] because I have the interest of the player at heart."
Hughes, who came through the ranks at Derby, scored in England U21's 9-0 win over San Marino in midweek.
"This is a very talented young player that either a person or a group of people aren't doing him any favours whatsoever by constantly linking him with coming to Liverpool," said Rodgers.
"This is a young kid learning the game - he is at an outstanding club at Derby, he has a great manager there and we sent one of our young players [Andre Wisdom] there to develop and learn."
Hughes, who joined the Rams from local rivals Nottingham Forest at the age of 12, made his first team debut in November 2011 as a 16-year-old.
So far this season he has made 18 appearances for the Championship side, scoring four goals.
A protection detail of heavily armed commandos met him after his plane from Dubai touched down in Karachi airport. A mass rally in the city was cancelled.
General Musharraf plans to lead his party in the May general election.
Meanwhile, 17 soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber in the north-west of Pakistan overnight.
They were attacked at a security checkpoint in the tribal region of North Waziristan, close to the Afghan border and a known stronghold of the Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked militants.
A recent Taliban video threatened Gen Musharraf with snipers and suicide bombers.
By Orla GuerinBBC News, Karachi
Gen Musharraf moved through the aisles of the plane - greeting supporters, shaking hands and having his photo taken to the bemusement of regular passengers.
There were chaotic scenes with journalists scrambling over seats as the journey became a mini campaign rally.
Gen Musharraf told the BBC he felt emotional about returning to Pakistan, but he said he had mixed feelings because of the risk to himself and his supporters.
When the plane landed, his supporters on board cheered and shouted "Long live Pervez Musharraf".
He faces a string of charges including conspiracy to murder, but on Friday the Pakistani authorities granted him protective bail in several outstanding cases, freeing him from immediate arrest once he sets foot in Pakistan.
One of the charges is that he failed to provide adequate security for opposition leader Benazir Bhutto after she returned from exile in 2007.
Two deadly explosions, in which nearly 140 people died, greeted her arrival in Karachi on 19 October. She was killed that December at a rally in Rawalpindi.
About 1,500 Musharraf supporters gathered near the airport in Karachi, the BBC's Orla Guerin reports.
Earlier, the former leader, 69, tweeted a photo of himself aboard the plane, writing: "Settled in my seat on the plane to begin my journey home. Pakistan First!"
In Dubai, the smiling general told our correspondent the event felt like a wedding party.
A group of about 200 supporters and journalists saw off the former military ruler - including party members from the UK, Canada, Switzerland and the US.
Some of the general's supporters wore white armbands saying they were ready to give their lives for him.
The planned mass rally in Karachi was called off because the authorities had withdrawn permission.
The former military leader has lived in London and Dubai since stepping down five years ago. He left Pakistan in 2009.
He has vowed to return several times in the past, but those previous attempts have been abandoned.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack in North Waziristan, in which 34 soldiers were reportedly also injured.
A car packed with explosives blew up next to a pair of fuel tankers at the check post, intelligence officials told AP news agency on condition of anonymity.
The blast set the tankers on fire and nearby military living areas were destroyed, they said.
Janan Dawar, an eyewitness who lives about 14km (nine miles) away from the checkpoint, said he had heard a huge explosion and had seen flames leap into the air.
Three civilians were also injured.
It appears that most of the soldiers targeted had been working in road construction, part of the army's strategy for winning hearts and minds locally.
Dustin Diamond, 37, is charged with felony reckless endangerment and two misdemeanours.
His lawyer, Thomas Alberti, said there were no witnesses who said they saw the actor stab the man but a judge ruled there was enough evidence for a trial.
The stabbing is said to have happened in a bar in Port Washington, Wisconsin.
The man was not seriously hurt during the fight at The Grand Avenue Saloon.
Diamond's fiancee Amanda Schutz, who appeared in court with him on Monday, told police she shoved a woman who was making rude remarks to them.
Diamond claimed the women then became physically aggressive and that two men held his 27-year-old fiancee by her hair.
Port Washington police officer Ryan Hurda, who testified during the hearing, said that a man pushed Diamond as he moved towards the fight.
The man's brother "intervened when he heard the snap of a knife", said Hurda.
The brother did not see Diamond stab anyone, Hurda added, and there was nothing in the bar's video surveillance that showed the actor stabbing the man.
"No, it's not distinct, but you see he's holding some type of object in his right hand," Hurda said.
Alberti asked for his client to be allowed to leave Wisconsin, Diamond's home state, for a short time.
Diamond was granted permission to perform at comedy shows which he had already scheduled in other states. He remains free on $10,000 (£6,600) bond.
Saved by the Bell aired during the 1990s and followed the lives of a group of high school students.
Since the show ended, Diamond has been sued a number of times for failure to pay taxes and in foreclosure proceedings following missed mortgage payments.
He has appeared on reality TV shows, made a sex tape and made a documentary called The Unauthorised Saved by the Bell Story.
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Chloe Dunn from Portsmouth had received what the judge called "sick and perverted" videos involving children aged under five.
She had also corresponded online about wanting to have sex with children.
Dunn admitted receiving some of the videos at Burnley Crown Court and was given an eight-month sentence, suspended for two years.
The court heard how Dunn, of Eastern Road, corresponded with Sheldon Bateson, 29, from Nelson, Lancashire, about child porn in April 2014.
At her request he sent her videos, classed in the most serious category of indecent images, of young children being raped by adults.
The pair went on to chat online about their desire to meet in person and have sex with children.
Bateson pleaded guilty at Burnley Crown Court to distributing and possessing indecent images and was jailed for three years and four months.
The correspondence and videos were uncovered when Bateson's phone was later sold at a second-hand phone shop.
The phone was traced to Bateson and it emerged he distributed 17 videos and numerous images to a number of people he was in contact with on the internet.
Barry White, defending Dunn, described her as "naive and vulnerable with a desire for a relationship and for someone to find her attractive".
In mitigation, both the defendants said they were engaged in "fantasy role play".
Judge Beverley Lunt ruled it was "not appropriate" to send Dunn, who was 17 at the time of the offences, to immediate custody as she would be "extremely vulnerable in a custodial setting".
Judge Lunt also pointed out there was currently no sex offender treatment programmes for women, which she labelled "short-sighted".
Dunn was ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register.
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It has been reported the striker, who has played nine games this season due to injury, wants to leave Anfield over criticism of his fitness record.
"I think it is astonishing, disappointing - whoever is saying it - but that's football," said 26-year-old Sturridge.
"I am very ambitious, very determined to help Liverpool have success.
"To say a player doesn't want to play is the biggest disrespect you could ever say to a footballer," he added.
Manager Jurgen Klopp has spoken of his frustrations over Sturridge's fitness and several former Anfield stars have said it is time for the club to sign a replacement.
Chris Sutton, who won the Premier League title with Blackburn, questioned the mentality of Sturridge, saying players would say he has a heart 'the size of a pea'.
"I would probably say a lot of the things people say about me aren't true," Sturridge said before Thursday's Europa League match at home to FC Augsburg, with the tie goalless after the first leg.
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"I don't think anyone will understand how much it means to me to play football and I'll continue to do my best and focus on Liverpool.
"It's important to worry about the present. It has been a difficult time being injured but it is part of football and now I'm looking forward to the future, of course with Liverpool."
Sturridge, who has two-and-a-half years left on his contract, has scored five goals since April, when a hip problem forced him to have an operation in New York in May.
He joined Liverpool from Chelsea in January 2013 and went on to score 28 times for club and country in 2013-14.
But he missed five months of last season with a thigh injury suffered on England duty, and also had treatment for calf and thigh problems before returning.
He then picked up a hip injury against Manchester United in March 2015, which cut short the previous campaign.
"That is what we needed: to hear from him not second-hand," said manager Jurgen Klopp, whose Liverpool side face Manchester City in the Capital One Cup final on Sunday.
"He has to start games to get in the best shape. He needs to play football and do the things on the pitch and we will be happy."
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Sean Conway, from Cheltenham, completed the "ultimate triathlon" between Land's End and John O'Groats in May.
And just before 21:00 GMT on Monday, he crossed the finish line again - in a racing yacht.
It is thought Mr Conway is the first person to complete the trek using the four different methods.
He was part of a three-man crew, with skipper Phil Sharp from Jersey and boat owner Alex Alley.
They completed the journey in just under three-and-a-half days.
The trio left Land's End in their Class 40 racing yacht at 08:55 GMT on Friday and arrived in the north of Scotland - 620 nautical miles (1,150 km) way - 83 hours and 53 minutes later.
Mr Conway said it was "amazing" to have completed the challenge.
"This was a very different experience to my previous adventures because they took weeks and months to do.
"I didn't get a lot of sleep and we were battered at sea. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be.
"I think this is it now. I think I'm done with Land's End to John O'Groats.
"No doubt I'll row it or do it on a pogo stick at some point, but for now I'm happy with my four records."
Mr Sharp said: "We are tired but feel quite ecstatic to have finished.
"It was a bit hairy towards the finish... with strong tides and big overfalls in the dark.
"Overall having done it, I think this a good course, and we have now set a benchmark which we think others will go out and challenge."
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He made the comments as Donald Trump was being sworn-in as US president in a wide-ranging interview with Spanish newspaper El Pais.
The Pope condemned the use of walls and barbed-wire to keep foreigners out.
But he said it was too early to judge the new US leader, saying "we'll see what Trump does".
Mr Trump has caused controversy with his comments on Mexican immigrants and his plans for a wall to keep them out.
Asked if he was worried about the rise of populism in Europe and the US, the Pope said: "Crises provoke fear, alarm. In my opinion, the most obvious example of European populism is Germany in 1933.
"Germany is broken, it needs to get up, to find its identity, a leader, someone capable of restoring its character, and there is a young man named Adolf Hitler who says: "I can, I can".
"And all Germans vote for Hitler. Hitler didn't steal the power, his people voted for him, and then he destroyed his people."
On Mr Trump, the Pope said he would "wait and see".
"I don't like to get ahead of myself nor judge people prematurely. We will see how he acts, what he does, and then I will have an opinion," he added.
The pair publicly disagreed during the presidential campaign, with Pope Francis appearing to question Mr Trump's Christian faith over his plans to build a border wall with Mexico.
The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, has moved house three times after being harassed by trolls who cloned her social media accounts and accused her of being a paedophile.
She claims they doctored images of her daughter, then 10, to make them pornographic and uploaded them on to sexual websites before sending the links to the mother over social media.
The trolls also visited her home and took photographs of her child, who has Down's syndrome, as she waited for a bus, she added, saying that despite her reporting the harassment to the police, the family has continued to be targeted.
She said the online hate campaign had left her daughter feeling "scared" and the family were desperate for the harassment to end.
"I'm just tired of it all. I just want someone to put an end to it. I can't go on like this for another six years," she told the BBC News website.
"I go into town and I have to look over my shoulder. My daughter is very nervous. She can't separate what is happening online from real life.
"She gets very scared. It's affecting our lives."
The woman, from Surrey, said the online abuse started when a friend wrote a book about internet trolls - anonymously - and mentioned her by name in the text after she helped with the research.
She said the trolls started abusing her in an attempt to get her to reveal the identity of her friend - but she refused.
"They created clones of my social media accounts. I've had 200 clones made of me. They cloned my little girl's account as well," she went on.
"They used my photographs. I had done an interview about trolling and they took a still from that and changed the caption to read 'paedophile who pimps her 10-year-old child out to men'.
"They started an abuse campaign saying I'm a paedophile and contacted local businesses where I used to live telling them this.
"This is what they like to do. They like to defame people in the hope that if they put enough pressure on you you'll give in to what they want."
The woman claims the trolls were able to get hold of her telephone number and address after she submitted forms to social media sites complaining at the use of the images of her daughter.
She said they turned up at her house and took photographs of her child as she waited for a bus.
"They started calling me non-stop. It was 2am, 3am and 4am," said the woman. "They said they would petrol-bomb my house. It goes on and on.
"The worst of these incidents has been the photos of my child with pornography and the trolls physically coming to my house and taking photos outside of her waiting for the bus and posting them.
Using an abusive term, they had written "Oh look, the... is waiting for the bus," she told the BBC.
"I'm just fed up with it. I don't respond or interact. I block them and report them to the police but it seems like nothing will stop them.
The woman said she reported the harassment to the police in 2010 but the abuse has continued.
A magistrate issued a search warrant for two of the suspects' addresses in August this year and officers attended the homes and confiscated computers and mobile phones.
The woman has spoken out about her ordeal after the Crown Prosecution Service published fresh guidance on Monday identifying types of online behaviour which could be classed as a criminal offence.
She said: "The police need to take trolling much more seriously. They seem to think that it's harmless and people are expressing their free speech, but it's hate speech.
"I hope that these trolls are made accountable for their crimes and they will actually be arrested and prosecuted.
"All these laws are great but the police have to actually arrest these people and get the evidence and I don't see that happening."
Surrey Police said it was investigating the allegations.
A spokesman said: "In August we carried out warrants at a number of addresses and seized computer equipment, which is still being examined. Enquiries are ongoing.
"Surrey Police will not tolerate language used in a public place, including on social media websites, which causes harassment, alarm or distress."
The Environment Agency, which prosecuted the company, said "sewage sludge and solids" were left in and near the Shire Brook on the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire border.
The £426,000 fine is one of the largest ever to be imposed on Severn Trent.
The company must also pay court costs of £38,642 and a £120 victim surcharge.
The Environment Agency hopes the fine will send "the necessary message" to the company and its shareholders.
Severn Trent admitted three charges of contravening the requirements of an environmental permit, for allowing crude sewage effluent to leak into the brook on 9 May 2013, 17 December 2013 and 29 April 2014.
An officer involved with the investigation said: "Severn Trent Water has a responsibility to inspect and maintain its sewers. The discharge of raw sewage into the same brook three times within 12 months is more than unfortunate.
"This is one of the largest fines ever to be imposed on Severn Trent and I hope it sends a strong message that it is far more cost effective to avoid these incidents, as we will continue to take action against companies and individuals where they ignore their responsibilities."
The company previously pleaded guilty to the charges at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on 25 November, but was sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court due to the seriousness of the offences.
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The 85-year-old is taking advantage of training from public transport provider Centro as part of its scheme to get more of us abandoning the car.
Irene says she doesn't want to compete with the serious cyclists but she has no intention of slowing down.
"You don't think of age when you're exercising," she said.
The 26-year-old, who won gold medals in both cycling and athletics in Rio last year, is instead focusing on training for the World Para-Athletics Championships in London this summer.
Cox had her UK Sport funding suspended in January while she took part in Channel 4 programme The Jump.
GB's 26-strong squad includes Rio gold medallists Sarah Storey and Jody Cundy.
Storey, 39, became Britain's most successful female Paralympian when she won her 14th gold medal at the Rio Games.
Cundy, 38, and like Storey a former swimmer, has won seven Paralympic golds - four in cycling.
They are joined in the 'podium squad' by fellow Paralympic medallists Megan Giglia, Karen Darke, Jon-Allan Butterworth, Louis Rolfe, Crystal Lane and David Stone.
With no track events scheduled for 2017 or 2018, British Cycling is happy to allow Cox extended time away from the programme.
It said in a statement: "Kadeena decided to take a break from cycling at the start of 2017 to pursue other opportunities afforded to her by her incredible achievements at the Paralympics, a decision we fully respect.
"Her focus is currently on her training programme for the 2017 IPC Athletic World Championships in London and she has the full support of the Great Britain cycling team."
Tuesday's squad announcement comes a fortnight after British Cycling announced changes to the Para-cycling pathway in the build-up to Tokyo 2020.
Riders on the Paralympic world-class programme are now split into two groups - podium and podium potential - while a foundation programme has also been established.
Great Britain 2017 squad in full:
Podium: James Ball, Steve Bate, Jon-Allan Butterworth, Jody Cundy, Karen Darke, Adam Duggleby, Lora Fachie, Neil Fachie, Megan Giglia, Jon Gildea, Corrine Hall, Crystal Lane, Craig Maclean, Pete Mitchell, Louis Rolfe, Matt Rotherham, Helen Scott, David Stone, Dame Sarah Storey, Sophie Thornhill.
Podium Potential: Will Bjergfelt, Craig McCann, Mel Nicholls, Simon Price, Liz Saul, David Smith.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that this meant the police would have 3,800 soldiers to call on and equipment for "as long as we need them".
The international terror threat scale was first made public in the UK in August 2006, just over a year after the London bombings that killed 52 people.
There are five ratings at which the threat level can stand. Since its introduction, the level has never fallen below what is known as "substantial", and it hasn't been that low since August 2014.
The highest level "critical" has been activated twice before.
The threat level was first raised to "critical" on 10 August 2006, just nine days after the scale was published, following the discovery of a plot to blow up planes flying from Britain to the USA on as many as 10 flights.
The only other time the threat level was raised to "critical" was following the car attack on Glasgow Airport on 30 June 2007, in which the only fatality was one of the assailants.
On neither occasion was the threat maintained at that highest level for longer than four days.
Before being moved up to "critical" on 23 May 2017, the threat level had been held at "severe" for 998 days.
Low: 0
Moderate: 0
Substantial: 1331
Severe: 2610
Critical: 8
In September 2010, additional scales were introduced to rate the threat level from terrorism related to Northern Ireland.
There is one scale for potential action within Northern Ireland and another for terrorist action on the Great Britain mainland. Currently those levels for the risk from terrorism associated with Northern Ireland, are assessed as "severe" within Northern Ireland and "substantial" for the GB mainland.
The threat level for the UK from international terrorism is set by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC), which is a self-standing organisation made up of representatives from 16 government departments and agencies.
MI5 says the scale is intended to be a tool for security practitioners and the police to determine what security response may be required.
Threat levels in themselves do not require specific responses from the public.
The MI5 website says: "Vigilance is vital regardless of the current national threat level," and that "sharing national threat levels with the general public keeps everyone informed."
It adds that making the threat level public "also helps explain the context for the various security measures (for example airport security or bag searches) which we may encounter in our daily lives."
The website urges members of the public with information about possible terrorist activity to call the Anti-Terrorist Hotline on 0800 789 321.
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People in St Ives will also be able to vote in a referendum for a neighbourhood plan that includes a measure to restrict new second homes being built in the town.
There are also local council elections in Exeter and Plymouth and a governance referendum in Torbay.
Polling stations are open until 22:00 BST.
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Other animals like parrots have learnt how to talk but it's the first time a whale has been heard trying to mimic human speech.
This male Beluga whale made human-like sounds according to scientists.
Analysis of the sounds showed that they were much deeper than the calls whales normally use.
Have a listen and see what you think. Pretty good, but what is it saying?
Locations on Skye as well as in and around Shieldaig, Kishorn and Applecross in Wester Ross were used for the Guy Ritchie-directed movie.
Due for release in May, it stars former Byker Grove and Sons of Anarchy actor Chris Hunnam in the lead role.
Katie McGrath, Hermione Corfield, Jude Law and Eric Bana also star.
The landscape of the Isle of Skye will also be seen this summer in Transformers: The Last Knight.
VisitScotland has welcomed the expected exposure of Scotland to global cinema audiences.
Chief executive Malcolm Roughead said: "Skye has provided stunning backdrops to a host of high-profile movies in recent years, including The BFG, Macbeth and Prometheus.
"Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is another opportunity to promote Scotland, not only as a wonderful set-jetting destination, but to highlight this country's connection to the man behind the myth."
He added: "It is particularly fitting in our Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology. From World Heritage Sites to ancient monuments, cultural traditions to our myths, stories and legends - the year-long programme will spotlight some of our greatest assets and icons as well as our hidden gems."
Ashley Talbot, 15, was struck by the bus driven by PE teacher Chris Brooks at Maesteg School, Bridgend county, on 10 December, 2014.
A hearing at Aberdare Coroner's Court on Thursday was told police lines of inquiry still need investigating.
Bridgend and Glamorgan valleys coroner Andrew Barkley set a pre-inquest review for 23 July.
Spending by South Wales Police accounted for more than half of that figure totalling £345,832 from 2011-16.
The data for forces in England and Wales was obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and North Wales Police spent £38,500 - the lowest overall.
A Home Office spokesman said it was "an operational matter for police".
Informants can get anything from a few pounds for basic information, up to several thousand pounds for helping break up organised crime.
Police forces are audited on their use of informants and are inspected annually by the Office of Surveillance Commissioners to ensure they are not breaking the law.
There are no statistics available to show how many convictions have come as a result of paying informants.
Gwent Police and Dyfed-Powys Police spent £140,000 and £66,000 respectively over the five years.
The Metropolitan Police topped the overall list spending £5.2m, while Kent and West Midlands forces each spent more than £1m.
The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) defended the practice of paying informants - or covert human intelligence sources as they are officially known.
Deputy Chief Constable Roger Bannister, the council's lead on the issue, said: "The intelligence provided helps to prevent and solve the most serious of crimes and is vital in bringing offenders to justice through the courts."
But Neil Wood, who worked as an undercover police officer and ran many informants, told Radio 5 live the tactic has its limitations when it comes to drugs.
"Nobody wants to inform on the drug lords because of fears of violent reprisals, so it's only the low-lying fruit that gets caught out - and the trade continues regardless.
"Nobody can call that effective. Overall it does little to bring down the level of overall crime."
Dyfed-Powys and South Wales Police said they had nothing to add to the NPCC statement. The other two Welsh forces have been asked to comment.
Mrs Clinton's double-digit lead, which she has held over the past several months, has vanished - and with it, apparently, Democrats' dreams of a transformational 2016 victory that would leave Republicans wandering the wilderness for a generation.
What happened? A closer look at those poll numbers offers some clarity.
Remember the #NeverTrump movement? No one in the Republican Party seems to. While certain pundits (Bill Kristol) and politicians (Mitt Romney) continue to tilt at the independent-conservative-candidate windmill, the rank and file of the party appear to be falling in line behind their presumptive nominee.
According to a Washington Post survey, 85% of Republicans plan to vote for their man. A New York Times offering finds a similar number.
As for the party establishment, most prominent officeholders seem to either be backing Mr Trump or trying their best to disappear into the scenery. Even Senator John McCain, whose war record was belittled by Mr Trump last summer, has said he'll support the party nominee.
While there still seems to be significant interest in a third-party candidate - 44% of respondents told Washington Post pollsters that they wanted another choice - every passing day makes such a development less likely.
Republicans are deciding that Mr Trump - warts and all - is their guy. The scene last week, where Mr Trump - who once backed an assault weapons ban - received a hero's welcome and an unusually early endorsement from the National Rifle Association, only drove that point home.
A recent Economist/YouGov poll shows that among Sanders supporters, 55% would vote for Mrs Clinton, 15% would back Mr Trump and the rest either don't know or would pick someone else. It's not particularly surprising, given that 61% of Sanders backers view Mrs Clinton unfavourably and 72% say she's "not honest and trustworthy".
Speaking of Mr Sanders, his supporters cite these recent head-to-head polls as evidence that their man should stay in the Democratic race despite delegate maths that make victory seem extremely unlikely. In the YouGov poll, which shows Mrs Clinton with a 42% to 40% lead over Mr Trump, Mr Sanders had a 48% to 39% advantage.
That seems to support the contention that Mrs Clinton's supporters are more likely to back Mr Sanders in a general election match-up than the other way around.
It also could be an indication of what the Washington Post's Philip Bump calls the "special of the house" effect. When presented with two options that they don't like - Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton - some voters are inclined to go for a third, less-known choice.
The response from the Clinton camp is that Mr Sanders has largely avoided being targeted by his opponents on the left or the right, while the former secretary of state has been bloodied on the political battlefield for decades.
The exchanges over head-to-head polling are just part of the increased tension within the Democratic Party that could be having a negative effect on Mrs Clinton's polling numbers.
Earlier this week, the Clinton campaign announced that it would not take part in a proposed California Democratic debate hosted by Fox News, prompting a stern rebuke from the Sanders team.
Although Democratic officials have made some attempts at peace-brokering, including offering Mr Sanders the chance to name members of key national convention committees, the man who only recently joined the Democratic Party has continued to rankle the party establishment.
On Sunday, for instance, he told a television interviewer he planned to back the candidate challenging Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz in her congressional primary.
On Monday Mr Sanders predicted that the Democratic National Convention would be "messy".
"Democracy is not always nice and quiet and gentle," he added.
Then on Tuesday, the Sanders campaign announced it wanted a review of Mrs Clinton's narrow win in the Kentucky primary one week ago.
Each day brings new evidence that Mr Sanders is not giving up the fight any time soon - no matter how it might affect Mrs Clinton's positioning against Mr Trump.
Minorities and women are overwhelming supporting Mrs Clinton. Right now that's being balanced out by whites and men who are backing Mr Trump in large numbers.
Exactly how big are these gaps? According to the Washington Post poll, 57% of whites and men support Mr Trump. Mrs Clinton can count on the backing of 69% of non-whites, and leads Mr Trump 52% to 38% among women.
Among whites without a college degree, 65% support Mr Trump versus only 25% for Mrs Clinton.
Meanwhile, many independents are keeping their powder dry. Although their role is often overstated - they usually end up as reliable partisans when all is said and done - there is a small segment of US voters who are truly free agents. And right now many seem to be balking.
According to the Washington Post poll, 48% of self-professed independents are backing Mr Trump, while only 35% support Mrs Clinton. The remaining 18% either want someone else or no one.
The YouGov poll paints a slightly different picture, with Mrs Clinton up 41% to 34% over Mr Trump, but the number not ready to back either - 24% - is equally sizeable.
Jimmy Carter led Ronald Reagan in early 1980 presidential polls. Michael Dukakis had a commanding lead over George HW Bush in 1988. John McCain edged ahead of Barack Obama at similar point in the general election cycle in 2008. There were several times in 2012 where Mr Romney had a lead.
In other words, polls this far out from election day - particularly when one of the primary races is settled and the other isn't - aren't particularly good indicators of election-day outcomes.
If Mrs Clinton can consolidate her base - and the key is if - then the current Democratic teeth-gnashing may be overblown.
Mr Trump could be at his polling high-water mark only to see demographics, such as his low standing with women and minorities, and the realities of the state-by-state electoral landscape catch up with him.
But here's where we cut-and-paste those words of caution in every Trump polling story published since last autumn. The normal political rules don't seem to apply to the man. Just because things have happened one way in the past doesn't mean they will play out that way this time.
If admonitions that it's too far out to put much faith in polling sound familiar, it's the same thing people were saying last summer, when surveys had Mr Trump on top in key primary states and nationally.
The only thing we know right now is that, at this moment, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are essentially in a dead heat. And Mr Trump has made a lot of pundits and prognosticators look foolish over the past year.
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Tseng Lien-fa, 42, was at a beach in Hualien county on Friday when he was swept away by large waves. He ended up at another beach 75km (46 miles) away.
Mr Tseng held on to a piece of wood to stay afloat, before rescue workers found him on the beach on Sunday.
Medical workers said he was slightly dehydrated and had some sores on his arms from being in saltwater.
Doctor Chen Tien-su told the Agence-France Presse news agency that Mr Tseng's survival "was a miracle", since he did not have any food or water during his ordeal.
Mr Tseng told local media that he managed to elude one of the waves, but "was overwhelmed by the second and bigger wave" as he was swept away.
He added that while adrift, he was hoping that he would get picked up by a passing ship.
He said he started to tread water when he saw lights by the road near shore.
"When my feet touched sand, I relaxed and was pushed by the waves onto shore," Reuters news agency quoted him as saying.
Mr Tseng's wife alerted officials after he did not return home at the usual time. He was catching baby eels to try to sell for extra money, reports say.
England playmaker Farrell, 25, was given the award after Saracens beat Clermont 28-17 at Murrayfield.
He was chosen by a public vote and a panel of rugby experts.
The trophy was named in the memory of former Munster coach Foley, who died in October at the age of 42.
Foley played a key role in Munster's quest to reach the pinnacle of European club rugby throughout the 2000s, making 86 European Cup appearances for the province, playing in three finals and leading the team to victory in 2006.
His death came a month into a season in which they reached the European Cup semi-finals and finished top of the Pro12.
Tournament organiser European Professional Club Rugby said it had commissioned the trophy with the agreement of the Foley family and Munster Rugby.
Foley's widow Olive and son Tony presented it to Farrell.
"This is a fitting way to honour Anthony's memory," said EPCR chairman Simon Halliday. "He was a great player and a great leader as well as a galvanising force in Munster's European odyssey.
"I would like to thank the Foley family and Munster Rugby for allowing us create this trophy for now and for the future."
The other nominees for the award were Farrell's Saracens team-mate Maro Itoje, Camille Lopez (Clermont), Garry Ringrose (Leinster) and CJ Stander (Munster).
Read how Saracens secured back-to-back European titles
The former champions' agreement also includes junior team Toro Rosso, who will switch from Ferrari for 2017.
Red Bull tried to split with Renault last year because of concern over the engine's performance.
However, the team has been encouraged by the French company's progress following its decision to return to F1 with its own works team.
The engine's latest development has increased its performance by about 30bhp, taking it well over 900bhp, and has powered Daniel Ricciardo to pole position for Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix.
The partnership won four consecutive drivers' and constructors' world titles from 2010-13.
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said: "Our partnership has proved very successful over time.
"After the reconstruction Renault has undertaken, clear progress has been made which has made it logical to continue."
The defender, who signed on Friday after being released by Kilmarnock, headed the winner in extra-time in a 3-2 win over Airdrieonians.
Balatoni had earlier been debited with an own goal for the Diamonds.
Goals from Fraser Murray, Brian Graham and Martin Boyle gave Hibs a 3-0 win away to Turriff United.
Murray fired low into the far corner to give the Scottish Championship leaders a 16th-minute lead and Graham headed the second from close range five minutes later.
Highland League side Turriff rarely threatened to recover from those early blows and only the woodwork and saves from Kevin Main prevented the visitors extending their lead before Boyle clipped over the goalkeeper with 15 minutes remaining.
At Somerset Park, Ryan Conroy gave Airdrieonians a 14th-minute lead with a 25-year free-kick, but Craig McGuffie's fine turn and finish drew the Championship side level before Alan Forrest volleyed the hosts ahead on the stroke of half-time.
A Kieran MacDonald strike four minutes after the break deflected off Balatoni past goalkeeper Greg Fleming and no more goals were scored in normal time.
The 25-year-old Balatoni, who had spent a season with Kilmarnock after leaving Partick Thistle, headed the winner from a corner.
The League One visitors' disappointment was compounded when striker Iain Russell was sent off for violent conduct.
Martin Cassidy's side will also take on Menorca and Orkney in Gotland in June.
Holders Guernsey will meet the Shetland Islands, Saaremaa and Aland, and could face a repeat of the 2015 final against the Isle of Man in the last four.
Jersey women are up against the Isle of Wight and Gibraltar as they defend their crown, while Guernsey are not taking a side to the Swedish island.
Dates for the fixtures will be confirmed on 8 February, with only group-winners making it into the men's semi-finals.
Tim Pryor, Channel Islands Sports Editor
I think the Channel Islands teams will be relatively happy with their draws.
All the Channel Islands managed to avoid the hosts, Gotland, and as reigning men's champions Guernsey will definitely fancy their chances of topping their group and going through to the semi-finals.
Because of the way the tournament is structured, Guernsey would not meet Jersey, Menorca or the hosts until the final, if they get that far, but a Guernsey v Isle of Man semi-final is an exciting possibility in a repeat of the 2015 final.
Jersey's men again find themselves paired with Alderney - the Reds won 6-0 when the sides met at the last Games.
The Isle of Wight women face a tricky-looking group against 2015 champions Jersey and Gibraltar. Aland will be among the favourites to go all the way.
What do we know about those jockeying for position in the race for election?
Overall, about 30% of candidates are women - up from the previous record of 26% in 2015, although the actual number of women standing is down from 1,036 to 983. However, parties vary.
Labour is putting forward the highest percentage of female candidates of any major party, at 41%. The Greens are on 36%, the SNP on 34%, and the Lib Dems on 29%.
The Conservatives and Plaid Cymru, both of which are led by women, are neck-and-neck towards the back of the pack with 28% of their parliamentary candidates female.*
The party with by far the fewest female candidates is UKIP, on 13%.
Labour also has a higher proportion of women standing in constituencies that the party won in 2015.
But the two biggest parties are fielding very similar proportions of women in seats they lost by less than 10% in 2015.
So if Labour increases its share of the vote in each of these places by five percentage points, it would gain 16 women and 32 men. A similar increase for the Conservatives would give them 18 women and 30 men.
With candidates in all British constituencies (bar one) and seven of the 18 seats in Northern Ireland, the Conservatives are standing in more of the country than any other party. In 2015 they contested 16 Northern Irish seats. Labour and the Lib Dems do not stand in Northern Ireland.
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The Lib Dems have two fewer candidates than Labour, as they are not standing in Brighton Pavilion, which returned the UK's only Green MP in 2015, or in Skipton and Ripon in Yorkshire, reportedly to bolster the chances of the local Green candidate.
Perhaps because they last stood for election only two years ago, just 14 Labour MPs and 12 Conservatives in the 2015-17 Parliament are not standing again.
Compared with previous general elections, these numbers are quite small. Thirty-nine Labour MPs and 38 Conservatives decided not stand for re-election in 2015. The average number of MPs standing down at general elections between 1979 and 2015 is about 90.
Of the 12 Conservatives standing down in 2017, 11 are men, but six of the candidates vying to replace them are women.
For Labour, 11 of the 14 standing down are men, and 10 of the candidates in their former seats are women.
* The Speaker of the House of Commons is an MP and has to stand for re-election as Speaker in their constituency at every general election.
Traditionally the biggest parties in the House of Commons do not stand against the Speaker however some parties, such as UKIP, do.
The current Speaker, John Bercow, is standing for election in Buckingham.
The Speaker is a neutral figure in Parliament, so Mr Bercow is no longer a member of the Conservative Party as he was before his election to the role (by parliament).
However, for the purposes of calculating the number of seats belonging to each party - and calculating those held, gained or lost by each party - Mr Bercow's seat is regarded as being a Conservative constituency as he won it for the party in 1997, 2001 and 2005 before being elected speaker.
For this reason, Mr Bercow is included in the Conservatives' tally of candidates on this page.
The BBC followed the same principle in 2005, when previous Speaker Michael Martin's Glasgow Springburn seat was added to the Labour party's tally of MPs.
The Dutchman, 63, now has until 18:00 GMT on Tuesday to explain comments made after his team's 0-0 draw at FA Cup fourth-round opponents Cambridge.
He had already said he plans to contest the charge which relates to him saying referee Chris Foy was against his side.
"I do not think I said something wrong," Van Gaal said on Friday.
He added: "In 30 years as a trainer-coach, I've never been charged. You can confirm, as the media, that I never say anything about the referee, in all the matches I have played."
Police said the incidents took place in the Drumchapel area of Glasgow in February and March.
Kevin Ayre, 29, from Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, has been charged with culpable and reckless conduct and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
He appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Monday and made no plea or declaration.
He was released on bail and is expected to appear at court again at a later date.
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The musical was one of the first to marry big show tunes and lavish presentations with serious themes - particularly racial segregation in the American South. And, one of its most famous songs, Ol' Man River, was performed in its 1928 West End production by the legendary civil rights campaigner, actor and singer Paul Robeson playing Joe.
On the face of it, the musical's inspiration - Edna Kerber's book about three generations of performers on a floating theatre on the banks of the Mississippi - was unlikely source material for a Broadway musical. But in 1927, when 200 to 300 performances would have been considered a hit on Broadway, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat ran for 572 performances.
A 2016 revival returns to London's West End on 9 April, via a brief spell at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre, for the first time since a 1998 production by Hal Prince.
Its director Daniel Evans calls the show "the mother of all musicals". Jack Viertel, author of The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Classic Broadway Shows Are Built, agrees, saying: "It was a show which did a lot to shape the definition of what we were going to do in musical theatre."
Professor Larry Stempel, author of Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre, pinpoints three reasons for Show Boat's success.
"It has an engaging backstage story of a family of performers. Its sheer ambition: using a European-style operetta to tell an American saga covering three generations. And the score is consistently tuneful, memorable and often brilliant with musical evergreens such as Make Believe, Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man, and Ol' Man River," highlights Stempel.
Ol' Man River, which contrasts the steady flow of the Mississippi River with the constant travails of the African-American working man (and woman), was written for black actor, singer and activist Paul Robeson. He actually made his debut as Joe in the 1928 London production - and subsequently the 1936 film - having been unavailable for the original Broadway staging,
Emmanuel Kojo, Joe in the show's revival, is convinced the way racial resonances in the musical relate to an audience in the era of a heightened diversity debate in the arts are "vital, vital, vital".
"This show is the first time black and white actors were performing on stage together," he says.
Kojo is convinced that black actors "are not getting the recognition that they deserve".
"The Oscars snubs were just ridiculous. I do always feel as a black actor you have to work four times as hard as your white counterpart to be as successful as they are."
The pressure of interpreting a song associated with Robeson is something he feels keenly.
"I always look back and think if I didn't have the courage to ask to sing it that day, I would not be doing the role right now.
"It has been a dream of mine to do. So there was no doubt about taking on the role and creating my own stamp and our version of Joe. There is definitely a pressure that comes with it, as people come with an expectation of a song everyone knows. But I think we have created our own version of it which we are all very proud of."
Kojo was originally seen for a role in the chorus. "In the audition I politely said to them that I realise I am way too young, but asked if I could sing Ol' Man River. They asked me to sing my audition song first and then that. It all just went from there," he says.
The potency of the song, memorably recorded on film by Robeson, is not lost on Kojo, who learnt it at 17.
"The song sometimes can become just a beautiful song and not the message behind it, which tells of suffering, pain and hope of a better life. I think also understanding what the black people in that time had to experience and go through just drives the song itself so it doesn't become lethargic and wistful," he says.
"So it was hard to get out of me because of how I have always known the song to be sang but with a lot of help and work we were able to do it."
Show Boat's arrival at the New London Theatre, the recent home of huge hits War Horse and Cats, also features in its cast Gina Beck as Magnolia Hawks.
Beck has played celebrated musical theatre roles such as Cosette in Les Miserables, Christine in Phantom of the Opera and Glinda in Wicked.
"Playing Magnolia is wonderful as it's a role that spans 40 years and there's so much to play as she grows older," she says.
She agrees with Kojo and Evans about the musical's contemporary qualities.
"Audiences are surprised by how current it feels," she says. "The storyline of racial prejudice and love and heartbreak between four different couples stands the test of time."
Viertel attests to its contemporary power. "The show ends with the world changing and the ways people adapt to the world changing. That's powerful. The question of how people are going to live together is something we are still trying to figure out."
Director Evans adds: "What's astounding is that the piece is still able to blow audiences away. In Sheffield, there were standing ovations at most shows."
And Evans has another reason why audiences will have a good night out. "While the piece spans 40 years, we manage to tell an epic story and be in the bar by 10.15pm."
Viertel puts things more simply: "I think you just can't resist it."
Show Boat opens at the New London Theatre on 9 April.
Storm finished 100 Euros short of the prize money needed to guarantee his spot for next year.
However, he kept his card after world number eight Patrick Reed's points were deducted because he did not play the minimum five tournaments required.
"I'm relieved. It's been a topsy-turvy time," 38-year-old Storm told BBC Tees
"The rules are the rules - if you don't play your numbers then you know you'll come out of the order of merit and lose your membership.
"[In 2017] I just want a fast start, the last couple of years I've set goals and targets, but not achieved them.
"Now I want to play golf and enjoy it, not push too hard and give myself a headache trying to reach goals."
You can hear more from Graeme Storm on BBC Tees from 18:00 GMT on Monday, 7 November or on the Radio Player.
The midfielder, 30, is also likely to miss Scotland's friendlies against Italy on 29 May and France on 4 June.
"I cannot be 100% sure of that, but I think that he needs a rest now to get ready for next season," said outgoing Celtic manager Ronny Deila.
"He has been injured for three months since the start of this year and pushed himself through a lot of games."
Deila paid tribute to Brown for playing through the pain barrier to help Celtic to a fifth successive Scottish Premiership title, and a second under the Norwegian.
"It has been unbelievably important. On the pitch he is unbelievable, in training as well - always 100%.
"That is what I was saying before I came here, talking to the players on the first day - we need players giving 100% and he has been a good ambassador for that.
"He can handle a lot of pain as well, and also is a leader in good times and bad times.
"I think to get the best out of him - for Celtic and for Scotland - I think it is important to give him some rest now."
Celtic, nine points ahead with three games left and a better goal difference of 35 than second-placed Aberdeen, have effectively wrapped up the Premiership title.
But a point against the Dons at Parkhead on Sunday would confirm their second straight title under Deila's stewardship.
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Spurs are having a new stadium built next to their existing home and had been expected to play at Wembley next season while the project is completed.
But Levy is seeking "greater certainty" over the delivery of the stadium in time for the 2018-19 campaign.
Spurs have until Friday to activate an option on Wembley after an application to host 27 games was approved.
Tottenham have played Champions League and Europa League ties at Wembley this term but won one of just four games at the national stadium as they made early exits in both competitions.
"While everyone is eager to know if this is our last season at the Lane, we shall only make the decision to decommission our historic White Hart Lane when we have greater certainty on the delivery of the new stadium," Levy said in a statement alongside Tottenham's latest financial results.
Should Tottenham stay at their current ground next season, they would likely play home games at Wembley the following year before moving into the new 61,000-seater stadium in time for the 2019-20 campaign.
The club's statement added that the progress of the stadium's construction is "being closely monitored".
Spurs also revealed record revenue of £209.8m for the year ending 30 June 2016, and profit after interest and tax of £33m, up from £9.4m the previous year.
The 35-year-old has left his assistant coach role at NRL side Gold Coast Titans to join the club his father Brian coached between 1995 and 1996.
He has worked at a number of clubs including Penrith Panthers, Sydney Roosters and New Zealand Warriors, as well as being head coach of Tonga.
Smith replaces James Lowes, who stepped down in April for personal reasons.
"I've had a long affinity with the Bulls with my Dad and it was great to be a part of it watching on from the stands," Smith told the club website.
"I was fortunate enough to start coaching at a young age and my path has been a bit different to the path which most coaches take."
Bradford are currently third in the Championship, seven points behind leaders Leigh Centurions with a game in hand.
The team, who have made mainly cosmetic changes to the car, have tempted driver Felipe Massa to come out of retirement after Valtteri Bottas joined Mercedes.
Massa is joined by Canadian rookie Lance Stroll, 18, son of billionaire businessman Lawrence Stroll.
Williams will be looking to reassert themselves after finishing fifth in the constructors' table last season.
"Although cosmetically the 2017 cars will look very different to their 2016 predecessors, the core of the car, the power unit and the areas situated around the power unit, have not changed a great deal," Williams said in a statement.
The new car will take to the track for the first time during a pre-season test, which will start with Brazilian Massa driving it in Spain on Monday, 27 February.
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The challenge for Williams this year is to at least hold on to their fifth place in the constructors' championship, and try to ensure they don't slip back further after falling two places in 2016.
The new car looks clean enough but it appears among the more conservative so far. The rear packaging, for example, is nowhere near as tight and sophisticated as that on the Mercedes, with which the Williams shares an engine.
The driver line-up, too, raises questions.
Felipe Massa was tempted back out of retirement to replace Mercedes-bound Valtteri Bottas. There is no question over his motivation - he didn't really want to retire. But he gives away some performance to the best.
And Lance Stroll is an unknown quantity. European Formula Three champion and bringing millions to Williams through billionaire father Lawrence, but with an awful lot to prove.
Iman Zainab Javed was killed when a lorry collided with two cars on the M61 near Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, at about 22:30 GMT on 23 January.
Her family said she had had a "special bond" with her cousin, who she helped out of the wreckage before she died.
Police said the 11-year-old's father, who was driving, remains "critical".
Iman, of Rochdale, was in the back of a VW Sharan heading southbound that collided with a Renault Clio before a lorry struck both cars.
Three other people suffered less serious injuries in the crash.
Her family said she was " beautiful, caring, fun-loving, inquisitive and sometimes cheeky young girl", who "could play patiently for hours with her younger cousins but could also tell you the impact Brexit had on the pound".
"Iman had a particularly special bond with her three-year-old cousin, Aaima Vasim, who suffers from a serious heart condition," they said.
"Iman's last act in this world was to help Aaima out of the vehicle to safety."
Linda Cotton, Iman's head teacher at Norden Community Primary School, said her death had been a "tremendous shock".
"Iman was a first class student and such a bright, intelligent girl," she said.
The High Street lender is now offering the non-binary "Mx" prefix on its forms.
It said the option will be available to customers opening products such as current accounts, as well as staff.
Metro said it has made the changes in response to feedback from staff and customers and that it could react quickly because it was relatively new.
Danny Harmer, its chief people officer, said "making sure our customers and colleagues feel comfortable and accepted is a real priority for us".
She added that she hoped Metro's move would encourage others to follow suit.
A spokesperson for LGBT lobby group Stonewall said: "The changes that Metro Bank has made to its forms give important and much-needed recognition to people who do not identify as either male or female. It's great to see them taking proactive steps to ensure their needs are met and that they are accepted and included."
Other companies including Royal Bank of Scotland also allow customers to be identified as Mx rather than Ms, Mrs and Mr.
Last year the Oxford Dictionaries website added the Mx honorific, defining it as "a title used before a person's surname or full name by those who wish to avoid specifying their gender or by those who prefer not to identify themselves as male or female".
In September music streaming service Spotify began allowing users in the UK, US and Australia to choose "non-binary" rather than male or female.
Facebook gives users the option to select a gender other than male or female, and pick a pronoun from "he", "she" and "they".
The Beyond the Binary magazine is conducting a survey on UK non-binary people's experiences of organisations both in the workplace and as consumers. It is open until 19 December.
MPs are expected to ask him about British cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins' therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs).
They allow the use of banned substances if athletes have genuine medical need.
Brailsford is also expected to be asked about an allegation in the Daily Mail about a medical package delivered to Team Sky in France in June 2011.
He has previously refused to comment on the contents of the alleged delivery, said to have been made on the day Wiggins won the Criterium du Dauphine in La Toussuire.
Team Sky have said they conducted an internal review and were "confident there has been no wrongdoing".
Brailsford will be one of six witnesses - along with British Cycling technical director and Team Sky coach Shane Sutton, and World Anti-Doping Agency president Sir Craig Reedie - appearing at the hearing.
Sports minister Tracey Crouch told BBC 5 live's Sportsweek programme she would be watching with "great interest".
"He will be asked some extremely important questions and he will have to justify himself and his actions, and it's not for me as sports minister to say otherwise," said Crouch.
Wiggins, a five-time Olympic champion, was granted a TUE to take anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone before the 2011 Tour de France, his 2012 Tour win and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.
His use of the drug, which treats allergies and respiratory issues, was released by Russian computer hackers known as Fancy Bears.
Wiggins' TUEs were approved by British authorities and cycling's world governing body the UCI, and there is no suggestion either the 36-year-old or former employers Team Sky have broken any rules.
Former Team Sky cyclist Jonathan Tiernan-Locke has said painkiller Tramadol was "freely offered" when he was riding for Great Britain at the 2012 World Championships.
British Cycling, the national governing body, put the allegation to the medic in question, doctor Richard Freeman, on the BBC's behalf. He denied it.
UK Anti-Doping says it is investigating allegations of wrongdoing in cycling.
The Mersey Bar lightship 'Planet' was towed from the river in September following a dispute between its owner and the Canal and River Trust.
The 133ft-long vessel was built in 1959 and provided a navigation aid to mariners approaching the entrance to the channel into the port until 1972.
It is listed for offers over £100,000.
Owner Alan Roberts bought the ship in 2009 and opened it as a cafeteria in 2011.
It was later moored alongside the Strand in Liverpool as a bar and tourist attraction before being towed on 21 September after the Canal and River Trust raised concerns about unpaid fees and health and safety.
The ground's owners, the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC), fought a ruling that the contract should be published, but the appeal was rejected this week.
West Ham will pay the sum per year over the 99-year lease, the 207-page document has revealed.
The Hammers move in this summer.
The first £4m of any naming rights deal will go to the LLDC and Newham borough, with anything above that between the two bodies and West Ham, although the amount is capped.
The rent will be halved to £1.25m if West Ham are relegated.
The LLDC, which had spent thousands of pounds fighting the ruling, said the decision could cost the organisation "millions of pounds".
But it has decided not to appeal against the tribunal's ruling.
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The club were awarded tenancy of the London 2012 stadium in 2013, and at least £272m has been spent to convert the site for use as a Premier League ground.
West Ham have contributed £15m towards those costs. Last year a BBC documentary revealed the club was having many of the running costs of the stadium paid for it by the taxpayer under the terms of the tenancy agreement.
The Hammers will not have to pay for a range of things including policing, stewarding, goalposts, corner flags, cleaners and turnstile operators. Heating and lighting costs will also be covered by the stadium managers.
However, stadium bosses point out that this is normal for a rental agreement, using the analogy that you would not expect to hire a badminton court and not have nets supplied.
A coalition of 14 supporters' trusts from around the country submitted a Freedom of Information request to obtain that tenancy agreement and believe the deal gives West Ham, who have played at Upton Park since 1904, a competitive advantage.
West Ham say they have nothing to hide, believe it is a "great deal" for the club and the taxpayer, and say the stadium offers a true legacy.
The club added: "Someone renting the stadium for 25 days a year cannot be responsible for 365 days' running costs."
A coalition of 14 supporters' groups and trusts of several different clubs campaigned for the information to be released. In a statement it said: "This is the right decision for the taxpayer, and the right decision for football."
Pressure group the Taxpayers' Alliance called the deal "ludicrously generous" and said questions remain for "those responsible for offering a deal for which most clubs would have sold their star striker".
BBC Sport's Frank Keogh:
"After a long-running legal row, campaigners have finally succeeded in getting all the details of the Olympic Stadium deal made public.
"That is unlikely to completely end the story, with critics saying West Ham have got a new stadium on the cheap.
"The Hammers are keeping their distance, although insist by becoming a high-profile anchor tenant, the club is helping to ensure the venue does not become a 'white elephant'. As a tenant, it also misses out on benefits of added income which a venue owner enjoys.
"Focus may now turn to the stadium rights arrangement, and quite how much the Hammers might benefit from that."
He will meet President Thein Sein and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
It is part of a three-leg tour from 17 to 20 November that will also take in Thailand and Cambodia.
The government of Burma has begun implementing economic, political and other reforms, a process the Obama administration sought to encourage.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was previously the most senior US official to go to Burma when she visited in December 2011.
Mr Obama's Burma stop is part of a trip built around the summit of the Association of South East Asian Nations in Cambodia, which leaders from China, Japan and Russia will also attend.
In a statement, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Mr Obama intended to "speak to civil society to encourage Burma's ongoing democratic transition".
The BBC's David Bamford says the trip - Mr Obama's first foreign initiative since his re-election this week - reflects the importance that the US has placed on normalising relations with Burma.
This process has moved forward relatively swiftly, our correspondent adds, and it represents an opportunity for the US to have a greater stake in the region and so at least partly counter the dominant influence of China.
Burma "warmly welcomes" Mr Obama's visit, according to a government statement.
The "support and encouragement by the US president and American people will strengthen the commitment of President Thein Sein's reform process to move forward without backtracking", spokesman Maj Zaw Htay said.
Reforms have been taking place in Burma since elections in November 2010 saw military rule replaced with a military-backed nominally civilian government.
Since then many political prisoners have been freed and censorship relaxed.
The party of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was released from years of house arrest after the elections, has rejoined the political process after boycotting the 2010 polls. It now has a small presence in parliament after a landslide win in by-elections in April.
In response, the US has appointed a full ambassador to Burma and suspended sanctions. It is also set to ease its import ban on goods from Burma, a key part of remaining US sanctions.
US Representative Joe Crowley told Reuters news agency that Mr Obama's trip could be "the most significant step" in support of democracy, even though he says "still much more" needs to be done.
"Too many political prisoners remain locked up, ethnic violence must be stopped, and not all necessary political reforms have been put in place," said Mr Crowley, who is active on Burma issues.
Human rights groups are likely to criticise Mr Obama's visit as premature, given that the ruling government has failed to prevent outbreaks of communal violence in the west of the country.
Clashes between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine state have left about 140 people dead and more than 100,000 people - mostly members of the Muslim Rohingya minority - displaced.
On Wednesday, lawmakers from Burma's ethnic minority parties and Ms Suu Kyi called for more troops to be sent to Rakhine to help contain the tensions.
"Everyone is responsible for respecting human rights, without discriminating between majority and minority, ethnicity and religion," the group said in a statement.
There is long-standing tension between the ethnic Rakhine people, who make up the majority of the state's population, and Muslims, many of whom are Rohingya and are stateless.
The Burmese authorities regard the Rohingya as illegal immigrants and correspondents say there is widespread public hostility to them.
Unite will start balloting more than 2,000 drivers who work for seven major fuel distribution firms next week.
It warned that supermarkets, garages and airports could all be affected.
The government said it was aware of the union's ballot plans and urged it "to resolve the issues it raises directly with the employers concerned".
Unite wants to see a forum established to agree industry-wide best practice on safety, training and terms and conditions.
It said the ballot would cover about 90% of drivers supplying petrol to UK forecourts.
"This is not about pay - this is about ensuring that high safety and training standards are maintained so that our communities are safe," said Matt Draper, Unite national officer.
Over the next two days the union will serve notice of the ballot on Wincanton, DHL, Hoyer, BP, JW Suckling, Norbert Dentressangle and Turners.
A spokeswoman at Wincanton said the company had been recognised by the Energy Institute in November as being a leader in terms of health and safety.
One group in Cardigan, Ceredigion, has raised £12,000 as part of its application to the Home Office's community sponsorship scheme.
The money will be used to help the families set up home and find work.
Vicky Moller, who started the group, said residents were so keen to help they took matters into their own hands.
All councils in Wales have now resettled Syrian families with more than 400 people taken in under the UK government's Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme.
It followed criticism of councils over the speed at which they were housing people.
Across the UK, more than 5,400 people have been resettled.
There are about 13 community groups already sponsoring or looking to sponsor families across Wales, including ones in Fishguard and Narberth in neighbouring Pembrokeshire.
They are in contact with their local authorities but are totally independent and self-funded.
Ms Moller said the Cardigan group were looking to buy a house to help with refugees' accommodation needs with the hope of welcoming their first families in the autumn.
She said: "Through groups of neighbours, communities [are] making a plan to integrate people, raising money, finding homes, welcoming them at the airport, showing them how to use the doctors and the bus.
"There's a huge longing by people in the area I live in to do this. People are very, very keen to help."
The group, which featured in BBC's Strangers in a Strange Land programme, invited already-settled refugees from Cardiff to demonstrate what their community could offer and to learn what they needed to provide.
Among them was former surgeon Hussam, who has now been granted asylum after fleeing Syria in 2014.
He said while there may be a number of barriers facing refugees who move to rural areas instead of cities, he was confident they could be overcome.
He said: "It could be challenging as many are Arabic speaking Muslims, we eat Halal food that would be hard to get in the countryside.
"And I think the people here have not had the experience with multicultural environment so this would be difficult but I think they will overcome this."
The 24-year-old British cruiserweight caught compatriot Geoffrey Cave with two solid right hands.
The bout followed Anthony Crolla's points defeat by Jorge Linares at Manchester Arena.
"Sorry to everyone that missed me fighting," Okolie tweeted. "The good news is a Won by KO in 20 seconds!! Bad news is I'm back in the cage for now."
London-based Cave, 33, has now lost all three of his professional fights.
Okolie competed at heavyweight and lost to Cuban Erislandy Savon at the last-16 stage at the Rio Olympics.
He hopes to become a world champion within four years and is scheduled to fight on the undercard of Ricky Burns' super-lightweight unification bout with Julius Indongo on 15 April.
Construction firm Costain has been jointly awarded the contract by the Welsh government, alongside Vinci Construction and Taylor Woodrow.
The plans include 24km of new motorway and a 2.5km long viaduct crossing the River Usk, as well as major remodelling of M4 junctions 23 and 29.
Development work starts immediately.
Government officials said the initial work was the first 'Early Contractor Involvement' contract, to examine development and environmental surveys as part of the statutory work that must take place before construction.
The work will also assist an anticipated public inquiry into the relief road.
Andrew Wyllie, chief executive of Costain, said: "We are delighted to be developing this critical infrastructure scheme for the Welsh government."
However, the new road is already subject to a legal challenge, with a decision over whether a judicial review can go ahead expected on Thursday.
Mr Annan told the Financial Times (FT) that President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto should not have remained free during their trials.
The ICC dropped charges of crimes against humanity against both men but said witnesses had been intimidated.
The cases related to violence after disputed elections in 2007.
Some 1,500 people were killed and 600,00 forced from their homes as ethnic clashes spread around the country.
Both men denied the charges and accused the ICC of unfairly targeting African leaders.
Kenya says it will withdraw from the ICC.
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Mr Annan, who was appointed by the African Union to mediate Kenya's post-election crisis of 2007-08, accused the Kenyan government of using state resources to undermine the ICC.
"The president and vice-president were the ones in the dock and so they put lots of efforts and resources into fighting the case," he said.
The former UN secretary general told the FT that Africans should seek justice abroad if they could not get it domestically.
He also rejected accusations that the ICC was biased against Africa, saying: "Slobodan Milosevic and others convicted of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia had been tried in The Hague before the ICC was established."
The African Union has been critical of the ICC with member states on the continent threatening to withdraw from the court.
Mr Annan also praised the recent conviction of Hissene Habre, the former president of Chad, who was tried in an African Union-backed court in Senegal.
The four photographs were taken in April at their family home in Norfolk.
The princess, who turns one on Monday, is seen walking - with the aid of a baby walker filled with blocks - for the first time in one of the images.
Kensington Palace said the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were "delighted" to share the new pictures of Charlotte.
The princess was last seen in public at her christening last July - the first time the Cambridges had been seen as a family of four.
Photographs of the princess have been released sporadically, the most recent before her birthday pictures being one in which she is sitting on her great-grandmother's knee to mark the Queen's 90th birthday last month.
The Duchess of Cambridge took a series of photographs in the weeks after Charlotte's birth, in which she is seen being cradled by brother Prince George, and another set to mark her daughter's six-month milestone.
In March, the duke and duchess released a series of photographs taken on their skiing holiday to the French Alps.
Kensington Palace said in a statement: "The duke and duchess are very happy to be able to share these important family moments and hope that everyone enjoys these lovely photos as much as they do."
The new photographs show Charlotte wearing a blue collared dress with matching tights and white cardigan, and a similar outfit in pink.
The duke, duchess, Charlotte and Prince George live at Anmer Hall, on the Queen's Sandringham Estate.
Gilles de Kerchove also warned that Western air strikes would increase the risk of retaliatory attacks in Europe.
US-led forces have launched more than 200 air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq since August and on Monday began targeting IS in Syria.
The UK parliament is due to vote on possible air strikes in Iraq on Friday.
IS - also known as Isil or Isis - has seized large parts of Iraq and Syria in recent months.
Mr de Kerchove said the number of 3,000 included all those who have been to the region, including those who have returned and those who have been killed there.
The CIA estimates that IS may have up to 31,000 fighters in Iraq and Syria - three times as many as previously feared.
Mr de Kerchove said that Islamic State's declaration of a caliphate in June may have played a role in drawing more support from Europe.
"If you believe in this, probably you want to be part of it as early as possible," he said.
He warned that air strikes by the US and its Western allies had increased the risk of a violent response from militant Islamists against European targets.
"That was clear with the French because three days ago [IS] issued a statement saying there would be retaliation against the coalition. A French man was kidnapped in Algeria and he has been beheaded. So they did what they announced," he said.
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Mr de Kerchove also warned that groups competing with IS, such as al-Qaeda, may try to launch attacks in Europe to maintain their profile.
"The rise of [IS] may prompt al-Qaeda to do something to show that it is still relevant," he said.
On Friday, Spain's interior ministry said Spanish and Moroccan police had arrested nine people suspected of belonging to a militant cell linked to the IS group.
A statement from the ministry said the suspects belonged to a group based in the Spanish enclave of Melilla, on the northern coast of Africa, and the neighbouring town of Nador, in Morocco.
One of those arrested is reported to be Spanish; the rest are Moroccan nationals.
Earlier this week, the UN Security Council adopted a binding resolution compelling states to prevent their nationals from joining jihadists in Iraq and Syria.
The US military released footage of air strikes on IS-controlled oil refineries in eastern Syria on Thursday, carried out by US, Saudi and UAE aircraft.
Sales of smuggled crude oil have helped finance the jihadists' offensive in both countries.
Three new strikes targeting IS positions in Deir al-Zour in eastern Syria were confirmed by the US on Friday morning.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict in Syria, said the new strikes caused casualties but the numbers were unclear.
Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said the purpose of Thursday's strikes was "not necessarily to kill militants" but to destroy the oil facilities, which were funding IS through the black market.
He said the strikes had been effective but not yet decisive, adding that IS militants "still have financing at their fingertips".
He said it was too soon to talk of "winning" against IS, adding that they still "have plenty of weapons and vehicles and the ability to move around".
The US says more than 40 countries have offered to join the anti-IS coalition.
The Danish government announced on Friday it would be joining the military operations against IS - but only in Iraq.
Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said the move needed to be approved in a vote in Denmark's parliament, but said it was considered a formality. No date was given for the vote.
She told reporters the deployment would consist of seven F-16 fighter jets - four operational planes and three in reserve - along with 250 pilots and support staff.
MPs in the UK are currently debating joining the air strikes on IS in Iraq.
The office of Prime Minister David Cameron said UK forces could legally join the bombing of targets in Iraq after the Iraqi minister of foreign affairs wrote to the UN seeking international assistance.
Mr Cameron told the UN on Wednesday IS was an "evil against which the whole world must unite".
The Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, says his government will decide in the coming days whether to join the air strikes in Iraq and Syria.
Mr Abbott said it was in Australia's interest to play its part in what he called the fight "against the murderous death cult".
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The song in question was Paul McCartney's "Mull of Kintyre", co-written with Denny Laine and featuring the local Campbeltown Pipe Band.
For a number of years it was the biggest-selling single of all time, and was the first UK single to sell more than two million copies.
Co-writer Laine had joined McCartney's group Wings in 1971, having previously enjoyed chart success with The Moody Blues, and over the next decade they wrote a number of songs together.
One morning at breakfast while staying at the former Beatle's High Park Farm on the Kintyre peninsula, McCartney played Laine the chorus of a new song.
Mull of Kintyre
Oh mist rolling in from the sea,
My desire is always to be here
Oh mull of Kintyre
He said: "Paul said he was having a go at writing a Scottish song but wasn't sure how people would feel about it, an Englishman singing a Scottish song."
The next day armed with a bottle of whisky the pair sat on the steps of a cottage in the afternoon sun and wrote the verses.
"We just looked around at all the hillsides and the glens and everything and just wrote the words and the rest of the song that afternoon," Laine said.
But it became more than just another song when McCartney roped in the local pipe band.
In a video on his website McCartney explained how he got the late Tony Wilson, the leader of Campbeltown Pipe Band, on board.
McCartney said: "I said: 'Hey, I've written a song and I'd like you to help me record it with the pipe band'. He said: 'Aye, very good, very good'."
But for the world's most famous Liverpudlian and an ex-Moody Blue from Birmingham it was soon apparent that there was a rather steep learning curve to work out how to incorporate a Scottish pipe band into a rock band.
The song had been written and recorded in the key of A, but pipes can only play in B flat or E flat.
"I don't remember how we did it, whether we slowed it down or sped it up," says Laine.
"But we got the key the same as the pipers' B flat.
"Then we had to transpose one section to E flat when they came in for the second part of the song which was great because it made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
"It gave it that boost, a change of key when they came in, and I think that was the selling point really."
The pipes were recorded outside in the open air and Laine thinks that gave it a special sound that couldn't have been found in a studio.
Meanwhile, McCartney had promised the thirsty pipers a drink or two but was wary about unleashing the booze before they had the definitive take.
McCartney said: "I said we won't drink before the session because it could go horribly wrong. We'll break out the drinks when we've got the take."
But once the recording was in the can the party could begin.
"We were all having a celebratory drink and they were all standing round and beaming," said McCartney.
"They'd never been in a recording studio before so they're all loving hearing the whole track coming out of the speakers."
Pipe Band leader Tony Wilson died in 1994 but among the pipers listening back in the control room that night was a young Ian McKerral, now the main piping instructor for schools across Kintyre.
In his home overlooking Campbeltown bay a picture of the pipe band with the McCartney, his late wife Linda and Denny Laine has pride of place.
"We did a ten to fifteen minute tune up and then just went for it," he said.
"McCartney came out and said that's it boys. We just couldn't believe it. Everybody was just buzzing, it was just a great atmosphere."
And outside his house overlooking Campbeltown bay Ian was more than happy to relive the moment as a duo with John Lang Brown, another piper who played on that session as a star struck 16-year-old.
He remembers listening back that night 40 years ago.
"To be honest I thought that's not us. It sounded so good with everything, the guitars, the bass, the drums. The whole lot put together was an amazing sound. I couldn't believe it. I still don't believe it!"
The rest, as they say, is history.
Mull of Kintyre spent nine weeks at number one over Christmas 1977 and for years it remained the biggest selling single of all time.
Not bad for a song written and recorded on a Kintyre farm by a Brummie and a Scouser and featuring the local pipe band.
Speaking on the White House lawn, he said the relationship with the US "must adapt to the changing times".
He was welcomed by President Barack Obama, who said the two nations "had an unmatched ability to shape the course of the world" if they worked together.
Mr Xi is later expected to make a landmark pledge on climate change and on curbing harmful emissions.
The Chinese and US presidents held informal talks at the White House on Thursday, where they discussed Iran's nuclear programme. Mr Xi's visit has been overshadowed by an ongoing row over cyber security.
Speaking at a welcome event on the White House lawn on Friday, both the US and Chinese leaders emphasised the benefits of closer co-operation.
Mr Obama said the US wanted to see the "rise of a China that is stable, prosperous and peaceful".
Mr Xi meanwhile said the two countries had "no choice but to seek win-win co-operation", and called for building "a new model of major country relations".
A White House official told reporters that Mr Xi would announce on Friday plans to launch a national carbon emissions trading scheme in 2017.
The "cap-and-trade" scheme would see Chinese companies charged to emit pollutants beyond a certain level.
China would also make a "very substantial financial commitment" to developing nations to help them move to low-polluting technologies, the Associated Press news agency quoted the official as saying.
The expected Chinese announcement follows on from a joint US-China climate pledge in late 2014.
Then, Mr Obama set a new goal of reducing US levels by between 26%-28% by 2025, compared with 2005 levels. China did not set a specific target, but said emissions would peak by 2030.
Setting up a national carbon trading scheme is a big step forward for China, but its immediate impact will be political rather than practical.
The announcement draws the sting from one of the biggest objections put up by Mr Obama's Republican opponents: that the US shouldn't sign up to strict carbon limits while its biggest trading partner does nothing.
The impact of the cap-and-trade scheme on the ground, or in the air in China, is more difficult to predict. China has seven regional pilot schemes now running but they have had teething difficulties and Friday's announcement will see the national system come into force a year later than originally planned. There are worries too about corruption and oversight.
And Europe's experience with a carbon trading scheme has been fraught - too many permits given away for free have diluted both the carbon price and the impact of the scheme. Despite this, the Chinese announcement puts flesh on the bones of their plans to peak carbon by 2030. And that will make a strong global climate treaty in Paris this December more likely.
The two countries together produce about 45% of the world's carbon dioxide.
The announcement comes ahead of a major UN climate change summit in Paris later this year, and is one of the few breakthroughs expected during Mr Xi's visit.
Little progress is expected on contentious issues including cyber security and China's territorial ambitions in South East Asia.
Mr Xi is arriving in Washington from Seattle, where he met leaders of the business and technology world, promising to strengthen protections on intellectual property and clear obstacles to investment in China.
The US has recently alleged that the Chinese state was behind a massive data security breach of government databases as well as attacks on private firms, and Mr Obama has said the issue risks putting "significant strains" on the important relationship.
Mr Xi said in Seattle China was "a strong defender of cyber security" as well as a "victim of hacking", though promised to work with the US on the issue.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters on Thursday: "We put more stock in their actions than their words."
The preferred route, south of Newport, would cost £857m to build but factors including buying land increase the bill, a report detailing the Welsh Government figures said.
In November 2015, Carwyn Jones said the M4 road would cost "nowhere near" £1bn.
But the government said revised estimates included ten new bridges.
It comes as officials launch a consultation on the compulsory purchase of land - an important step to launching a public inquiry.
The new six-lane stretch of motorway - the so-called black route - has proved controversial with environmental groups and politicians, and the Labour government currently has no agreement with any other party for the plan.
Ministers will be unable to give the go-ahead until after the assembly election on 5 May.
Despite Mr Jones' previous assurances about costs, the Welsh Government document puts the project estimate, excluding VAT and inflation, at £1.093bn.
The estimate, based on prices at the end of 2015, includes:
The document, called a scheme assessment report, also says that the scheme would involve 35 new bridges. Most would be needed to allow the new motorway to pass over or under side roads.
A new bridge would be needed to carry the M4 over the River Usk. The crossing would be high enough for the passage of ships, the government says.
The figures have emerged ahead of the publication of draft orders on the compulsory purchase of land by the Welsh Government on 24 March.
Some 12 residential buildings would require demolition, including a Grade-II listed vicarage in Magor.
Other draft orders relating to the route and an environmental statement were published on Thursday.
People can object to the plans from now until 4 May and ministers will then decide whether to hold a public inquiry.
The road could be open by autumn 2021, with work potentially starting in spring 2018.
Exhibitions are set to be held in areas affected, including Magor, Newport and Nash.
A Welsh Government spokesman said "revised estimates" show construction costs for the M4 relief road of about £816m.
It is understood that the £816m figure quoted by the spokesman does not include £41m listed in the report as cash to cover risks for the contractors.
The spokesman said: "This revised cost also includes the construction of an additional 10 bridges, including one to accommodate the new 'cycle superhighway' between Newport and Cardiff and, further to stakeholder feedback, additional measures to improve connectivity between the existing and new M4.
"With contingency allowances of £147m and property compensation payments, the estimated overall costs for the project will be around £1bn.
"We remain committed to delivering this vital infrastructure investment at the best value for money."
So we now know that, despite claims from the first minister, the latest estimates from officials indicate that it will indeed cost £1.1bn.
The consultation on compulsory purchase orders ends on 4 May, the day before the assembly election.
There's nothing new in the timeline here but it shows that Labour is pressing ahead and taking things as far as it can before the vote.
If there are significant objections then a decision will be made by ministers before the summer on whether to press ahead with a public inquiry.
By that stage, we will know the make-up of the assembly, and we will know whether all of this has been a waste of time, or whether political agreement can be reached.
The political maths is difficult for all of those who support the £1bn option, rather than upgrading an existing road.
So far Labour is the only party to come out in favour. The only other party that's considering a new motorway is the Conservatives, all of the others have come out against.
On that basis, it seems as if the only way this is going to get through the assembly would be as a result of a Labour-Tory deal.
Syrian-born swimmer Ibrahim Al Hussein and US-based Iranian discus thrower Shahrad Nasajpour will compete as part of the Independent Paralympic Athletes (IPA) team.
It is the first time in the history of the Paralympics that a dedicated team of its kind will compete.
Their Chef de Mission will be British official Tony Sainsbury.
Leg amputee Al Hussein, who is based in Greece and will race in the men's 50m and 100m freestyle S10 events, said: "I have been dreaming of this for 22 years.
"I thought my dream had gone when I lost my leg but now it is back for real. I want to send a message to all those injured that they too can achieve their dreams."
Nasajpour will compete in the F37 discus event.
The pair will stay in the Athletes' Village alongside more than 4,350 athletes from 165 countries. And, for official presentations such as medal and village welcome ceremonies, the Paralympic Anthem will be played.
Sainsbury, a five-time GB chef de mission added: "These athletes will help to raise awareness of the plight of thousands of refugees and asylum seekers who make difficult decisions and journeys, often with impairments."
Four boxes on the Horsendale Estate in Nuthall, Nottinghamshire, have been covered up for more than a week as they cannot be emptied or checked.
The Nottingham Post reported residents have complained about the inconvenience and lack of information.
Royal Mail said specialist new keys had to be made but it was hoped this would be done "in the next few days".
Neil Mitchell, who works in a newsagents, said: "It came as a complete surprise, the first we knew of it was when people came in to ask what had happened.
"Lots of people are confused and annoyed as we have recently lost the local post office and the nearest open box is more than a mile away."
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Broxtowe borough councillor Paul Simpson, who lives in the affected area, said: "It is not satisfactory. The open boxes are, for some people, a car ride away, maybe a bus ride.
"It is inconvenient and has taken too long to sort out."
A Royal Mail spokesperson said: "Leaflets were put on on the boxes to explain what had happened, that they were out of service after the keys were misplaced.
"We would like to apologise to customers for any inconvenience this may have caused."
Bale injured his calf against Sporting Gijon on 17 January, but the world's most expensive player is now ready to return after 44-days out.
Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane confirmed the news and underlined Bale's importance.
"He [Bale] is a fundamental player for Madrid," Zidane told the Real website.
"Of course I would prefer to have him with us.
"Gareth was with us this morning. It is his first full training session. It went well, he did not feel the problem he had. So I am happy with that, his problem is over.
"It is more difficult then to pick the team, but I always want Gareth with us. We will see if he can be back with us this weekend."
Madrid face Celta Vigo in La Liga action on Saturday, 5 March before entertaining AS Roma in the Champions League on Tuesday, 8 March looking to protect a 2-0 advantage.
The five-year-trial, at Knapdale forest, Argyll, is a partnership led by the Scottish Wildlife Trust and the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.
The first Norwegian beavers were released in Knapdale in 2009 and monitoring ended in May.
This report will help ministers decide on the future of beavers in Scotland.
Last month, Scottish Natural Heritage also published six independent scientific monitoring studies.
Researchers noted that the beavers changed the shape of woodland close to loch shores and increased the water level of one loch after building a dam on it.
The presence of the animals at Knapdale boosted visits to the area by "beaver tourists" and volunteers to the project, according to one of the reports.
The same research suggested the benefit to local businesses was "modest".
However, the report also said that shops and firms might be able to boost earnings and job opportunities if the beavers were allowed to stay on a permanent basis.
Beavers were once native to Scotland but died out because of hunting and habitat loss.
A YouGov poll, commissioned for the Scottish Beaver Trial, in April suggested 60% of Scots back the reintroduction of beavers - 5% were opposed.
Scottish Beaver Trial project manager, Simon Jones, said: "If there are any further reintroductions of beavers to Scotland, our story will prove to be essential reading.
"Beavers have never been legally reintroduced to Scotland before, for that reason, this report records the various lessons learned by the Scottish Beaver Trial team during the course of the project."
Field operations manager, Roisin Campbell-Palmer, said the trial allowed for "ground breaking research" and "thorough monitoring".
She added: "We hope our findings will form a template for similar future reintroduction projects across the UK and beyond."
In 2013, the project was named 'Best Conservation Project in the UK' by BBC Countryfile magazine.
The Scottish government will make a decision on the future of beavers in Scotland next year.
The 23-year-old, who can play anywhere on the left, has scored seven goals in 23 appearances this term since joining on a two-year deal in the summer.
He has helped the U's, managed by former Ipswich defender John McGreal, into the League Two play-off places.
Dickenson had previously scored four in 78 games for Gillingham after joining from boyhood club Brighton.
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Evans's breakfast show on BBC Radio 2 dropped by 414,000 listeners compared with the previous quarter to 9.06 million.
But the programme remained the most popular radio show in the UK.
Grimshaw attracted 5.25 million weekly listeners between July and September, dropping 184,000 on the last quarter.
The drops are likely to be down to fewer people listening to breakfast shows during the summer months.
But digital station BBC Radio 6 Music attracted a new record audience of 2.34 million listeners.
It is the fifth consecutive quarter that the digital station has scored record ratings.
Helen Boaden, Director of BBC Radio, said she was "delighted that more and more people are discovering the station's irresistible combination of outstanding alternative music and witty presenters".
While Grimshaw's figures were down, Radio 1 as a whole went up, from 9.46 million last quarter to 9.87 million weekly listeners between July and September.
The figure rose further to 10.9 million when listeners aged 10 to 14 were included in the data. The station is currently trying to attract a younger audience.
Ben Cooper, controller of Radio 1, said the figures "should be seen alongside the increase to 1.5 million views a day on our YouTube channel and our 8.5 million users on social media".
BBC Radio 4 posted a weekly reach of 11.2 million, its second highest audience to date.
The network's flagship Today programme dropped 250,000 listeners to 7.1 million but its sister programme The World At One reached an all-time high of 3.75 million.
In commercial radio, LBC, Heart and Capital all increased their number of weekly listeners compared with the previous quarter - while Absolute Radio added more than half a million.
The breakfast shows on Classic FM and talkSPORT increased their reach nationally, but several commercial breakfast programmes dropped listeners.
Kiss's Rickie, Melvin and Charlie dropped from 2.13 million national listeners in the last quarter to to 1.83 million between July and September.
The Chris Moyles breakfast show on Radio X lost 36,000 listeners in London but increased the overall number listeners across the UK - reaching 703,000.
But Capital's breakfast show, hosted by Dave Berry, George Shelley and Lilah Parsons, dropped slightly, but remained the most popular commercial breakfast show in the UK.
Overall, Rajar - the official body in charge of measuring radio audiences in the UK - said 89% of British people - or 48.2 million adults - listened to the radio at least once a week over the quarter, an increase of 320,000 on last year.
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He took over the role from Dave Brooks in 2013, after previously working at both Surrey and Hampshire.
"It has been a difficult decision to make but I do believe that it is right for me to move on and hand over the reins to a successor," Toumazi said.
The Division Two side began their final County Championship match of the season against Gloucestershire on Tuesday.
BBC Sussex's Adrian Harms: "This has been a difficult season for Zac Toumazi particularly as performances on the field, notably in white-ball cricket, haven't matched the expectations of the Sussex supporters.
"However, it has also been a traumatic period for the club off the field following the tragic death of young bowler Matthew Hobden, and Toumazi deserves great credit for the way in which both he and the club responded to the tragedy with great dignity.
"He leaves at a time of great change in county cricket, particularly with a new T20 competition seemingly inevitable, and the members will expect a prompt appointment to steer Sussex through what are likely to be choppy waters ahead."
Its founder, Jim Allister, a former barrister, broke away from the DUP in March 2007 over its decision to share power with Sinn Féin.
At the time, Mr Allister was the DUP's European MEP, having topped the poll in 2005 when he succeeded Ian Paisley.
Announcing his departure, Mr Allister said he was quitting the DUP with immense sadness, but was taking a principled stand. He declared Sinn Féin "unfit" for government.
However, Mr Allister did not give up his European seat, and from this position, he breathed new life into anti-Agreement unionism.
In December 2007, he launched a new unionist anti-agreement force. The TUV's first electoral test soon followed in a by-election in Dromore, County Down
The party's candidate, Keith Harbinson, polled about 700 votes, and came third behind the DUP and Ulster Unionists. The TUV took an estimated 40% of the DUP's usual vote and deprived it of victory.
Mr Allister declared the 14 February poll result an "unhappy Valentine's day for the Chuckle brothers".
This was a reference to the relationship between the then DUP First Minister Ian Paisley and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
The TUV continued to recruit from the ranks of disaffected unionists, in an attempt to defend the European seat in June 2009.
In June 2009, Mr Allister lost his European seat to the DUP's Diane Dodds. But, nevertheless, he polled 13.5% - some 66,000 votes. This cost his old party its poll-topping position.
In 2014, his European vote rose to 75,000.
Mr Allister stood in North Antrim in the 2010 General Election.
This is the DUP's citadel and he was taking on Ian Paisley Jr, the son of the outgoing MP. Mr Allister came second with 7,000 votes compared to the 19,000 polled by Ian Paisley.
In 2011, Mr Allister was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly and is seen as a thorn in the side of the DUP, as well as a frequently lone voice of opposition to the mandatory coalition.
The company said it was taking the step because only a "tiny number" of its customers still went online using a dial-up modem.
It added that the vast majority of its 6.8 million broadband customers had switched to much faster connections.
However, a small number of people in rural areas where broadband will not work will struggle to get online after the change.
Dial-up customers were first informed about the impending closure in May and June this year, BT said, adding that most of these people would be able to migrate to a broadband service.
The company said that the shut-down meant about 1,000 people who lived in remote areas would not be able to move to broadband as their phone line was incapable of supporting the technology.
These people were likely to be living in some of the most remote parts of the UK, said Oliver Johnson, chief executive of broadband consultancy Point Topic.
"They will be too far from the telephone exchange to get any meaningful broadband. The distance means that the broadband signal degrades," he said.
Those who had to stick with dial-up would still be able to get such services from BT via its Plusnet subsidiary.
"No-one is being left without the option of an alternative service," said a BT spokesman.
Sebastian Lahtinen, from the Think Broadband news site, said the closure was a sign of the times.
"It's a statement of how mainstream broadband services have become, with entry-level broadband being cheaper than the dial-up plans BT is closing down," he said.
Dial-up, or narrowband, was the technology that most Britons used to go online before home broadband became affordable.
It involves modems sending data over lines more typically used for voice calls.
The best dial-up modems despatched data along telephone lines at speeds of up to 56 kilobits per second, although compression could be used to improve this top speed.
By contrast most broadband technologies work in the megabits-per-second range.
About 800,000 people still used dial-up in 2010, the last year for which figures were available, said an Ofcom spokesman.
"The number has now fallen so low nationally that it's quite difficult to get any accurate figures from a survey sample," he said.
"We think it's in the very low hundreds of thousands but we cannot be any more confident than that."
With the vast majority of exchanges equipped to use broadband technologies such as DSL there was little reason to stick to dial-up, he said.
At their early pregnancy loss clinic, a third of the women have PTSD symptoms.
Nicole Martin had three miscarriages in a year, her "dark days".
"Everyone thinks because you've already got a child it's easier. In a lot of respects it definitely is easier than not having a child, but I wanted another child for [my child's] sake."
Nicole and her husband, Ben, started trying for their second child just after their first, Eva, had turned one.
"I was 38 years old and fully aware of the risks associated with having children a bit later in life," she says.
"It took me longer than expected to fall pregnant, and when I did I felt very anxious because many of my friends had suffered at least one miscarriage."
Nicole's story
She was carrying twins, but both died - one at five weeks and the other seven weeks into the pregnancy.
Nicole had to have an operation under general anaesthetic to treat the miscarriage.
Although shell-shocked by the experience, Ben and Nicole continued to try for a baby.
Two months later, Nicole was pregnant, but had another miscarriage at seven weeks.
"The scan showed there was no heartbeat," she says.
"We had to have medical management this time.
"You get given a tablet which breaks down the lining of your womb and you just get sent home to miscarry.
"It's really not pleasant.
"It's your baby, and you have to flush it down the loo.
"It's horrendous."
Post-traumatic stress disorder can develop after a very stressful, frightening or distressing event, or a prolonged traumatic experience.
As many as one in four pregnancies is thought to end in a miscarriage - loss of a pregnancy during the first 23 weeks.
An ectopic pregnancy is when a fertilised egg implants itself outside of the womb, usually in one of the fallopian tubes.
It is not possible to save the pregnancy. It usually has to be removed using medicine or an operation.
Her subsequent third miscarriage a few months later left her a nervous wreck.
"I was a mess," she says.
"Everywhere I went mothers were asking me, 'When are you going to have another child?'
"I never ask a woman now about whether she's having babies, or having a second baby, because you never know their story."
Nicole says she nearly gave up all hope.
"I found it just unbelievably cruel," she says.
"I remember phoning my consultant who was great.
"I said, 'Just tell me what I should do.'
"I really wanted someone from the medical profession to say, 'Just give up.'"
Instead, the consultant told Nicole to keep trying if she had the emotional strength because there was still a good chance she would be able to have a healthy baby.
Two months later - just after Nicole's 40th birthday - she was pregnant with her son, Joseph, who is now nearly two years old.
"I still worry a lot, and I'm having cognitive behavioural therapy to help me cope with that," she says.
"Even though we have two beautiful children, I still feel anxious to this day because I can't quite believe it's all over.
"I feel that something's going to spoil our lovely family unit because it was such a struggle getting there."
Dr Jessica Farren, who carried out the BMJ Open study on nearly 90 women attending the pregnancy clinic at Imperial College London for a suspected miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy, says although only a minority might have full-blown PTSD, many will suffer from moderate-to-severe anxiety.
"It's the tip of the iceberg really," he says.
"There will be a huge number of women who would still benefit from some support. But the NHS isn't geared up for it.
"Once we've looked after these women clinically and discharged them, there's no real opportunity to check how they are coping emotionally."
After a healthy pregnancy, all women get screened for depression at their six-week check. But following a miscarriage, there are no routine emotional checks.
Dr Farren and her colleagues are studying more women at their clinic to see if they can better spot those that will need the most support.
In the meantime, they say help is out there if you know where to look.
"There are some really good charities and organisations that can offer counselling, and your GP is a good place to start if you want some help accessing support," says Dr Farren.
Police were alerted to Eamonn O'Malley's car yard by a tracking device from a stolen BMW.
At least 22 stolen vehicles with a combined value of £448,000 had passed through the yard, police said.
O'Malley, 59, of Ivy Road, Tipton, admitted receiving stolen goods and was sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
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The court heard officers swooped on the car yard, in Oxford Street, Bilston, on 6 October 2015 after a tracking device inside a BMW, which had been stolen in Stockport the day before, was pinging at the industrial unit.
Officers discovered the 1 Series hatchback surrounded by a mass of stripped down vehicle parts.
An expert vehicle examiner linked the parts to cars stolen from across the West Midlands, Manchester, London, Stoke and Nottingham.
On the day police arrived, CCTV showed O'Malley fleeing the car yard using a ladder to scale the 12ft perimeter wall. He was arrested three days later.
Det Con Lee Plant, said: "We found parts, keys and owners' manuals relating to an Audi Q5, two Porsches, BMWs and a Mercedes.
"O'Malley was providing a market for car thieves across the UK, people who were causing misery and huge inconvenience to motorists."
He was sentenced on 20 January.
Once Brazil's richest man, he has been accused of paying millions of dollars in bribes to secure contracts with Rio's state government.
Mr Batista has denied any wrongdoing.
He has promised to help the authorities in their efforts to tackle corruption which he says is widespread in Brazil.
Before boarding the plane and turning himself in to police, Mr Batista said he was returning to Brazil to clear his name.
"I'm at the disposal of the courts," he told O Globo newspaper in New York. "As a Brazilian, I am doing my duty."
Under Brazilian law, Mr Batista would have been sent to a special prison wing if he had a university degree.
But as he dropped out before finishing his engineering degree in Germany, he will be serving time in an ordinary cell with six other inmates at the Bangu penitentiary.
Many Brazilian jails are overcrowded and controlled by criminal gangs.
The authorities in Rio say, however, that is not the case at Bangu.
Mr Batista was met by police as he landed in Rio on Monday morning.
He was escorted off the plane and initially taken to the Ary Franco prison in Rio.
After undergoing medical exams and having his hair cut short, he was transferred to the high security prison in the outskirts of the city.
Mr Batista was declared a fugitive by Brazilian officials after police raided his estate in Rio de Janeiro last week and found he had left for New York just hours earlier.
BBC South America business correspondent Daniel Gallas says there was much speculation on whether Mr Batista would return to Brazil or use his German passport to flee to Europe.
But Mr Batista said the trip to New York was not an attempt on his part to flee justice.
He is now due to be questioned about his alleged involvement in a corruption ring involving powerful business people and influential politicians in Rio de Janeiro state.
Investigators accuse Mr Batista of paying the then-governor of the state, Sergio Cabral, $16.5m (£13.2m) in bribes to win government contracts.
Mr Cabral was arrested in November as part of a larger corruption investigation dubbed Operation Car Wash.
As a result of Operation Car Wash, more than 100 people, including Brazil's most powerful building tycoon, Marcelo Odebrecht, have been convicted of crimes such as bribery, racketeering and money-laundering.
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Rogers Mulindwa, the Cecafa Media Officer, told BBC Sport: "I can now confirm that it is impossible for us to stage the tournaments this year."
Kenya had accepted to host the two events but pulled out for what they called lack of sponsors.
Sudan had initially been selected to host the Challenge Cup, while Tanzania was meant to host the Kagame Club Championship but both countries withdrew.
EL Mnan Osama Atta, treasurer of the Sudan Football Federation, had hoped the government would provide the financial assistance for the Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup to go ahead in December but revealed to BBC Sport "the government told us it was not possible".
Beneath the carpet is a mesh of optical fibres that detect and plot movement as pressure bends them, changing the light detected at the carpet's edges.
These deflected light patterns help electronics "learn" walking patterns and detect if they are deteriorating, for instance in the elderly.
The carpet was demonstrated at the Photon12 conference in Durham, UK.
The optical fibre network at the heart of the effort makes use of the same types of fibres that transmit data to homes and across oceans, in which light bounces along the fibres' length.
To make them sensitive to the deflection caused by pressure, the researchers carved grooves in the fibres along their length so that the bouncing of the light was less efficient at the point where pressure was applied.
Detectors at the carpet's edge convert the light into electrical signals which are then analysed by a computer. That analysis borrows heavily from technology developed at the university for use with medical scanners.
The developers of the network, based at the University of Manchester in the UK, see its primary use in care homes or hospital wards, to raise an immediate alarm in the case of a fall.
The fibres can be easily retro-fitted beneath existing carpet, and future applications could stretch to private homes as well.
The researchers' aim is to address the significant number of falls experienced by the elderly; it is a leading cause of mortality among over-70s and falls cost the NHS millions each day.
They believe their system can be used to build up a profile of movement patterns for given individuals, so that any deterioration in mobility can be monitored and possibly used as an early warning system for falls.
"Falls are a really important problem for our ageing society," said Chris Todd, professor of of primary care and community health at the university's department of nursing.
"More than a third of older people fall each year, and in nursing and residential homes it is much more common than that.
"So being able to identify changes in people's walking patterns and gait in the natural environment, such as in a corridor in a nursing home, could really help us identity problems earlier on."
Many students have been arrested after the brutal attack in the northern city of Mardan, and the campus has been closed.
Reports suggest that two young men were accused of posting offensive content on Facebook. One survived with injuries.
Blasphemy is a highly sensitive and incendiary issue in Pakistan.
Critics say blasphemy laws, which allow the death penalty in some cases, are often misused to oppress minorities.
There have been other cases where people accused of it have been killed by an angry crowd.
The murdered student has been identified as Mashal Khan, who studied journalism. Some reports say he was shot, while others say he was beaten to death with planks.
"He was badly tortured after being shot at a close range... He was beaten with sticks, bricks and hands," senior police official Niaz Saeed told the AFP news agency.
Hundreds of people were involved, the officer said. Graphic video footage of the incident has emerged online.
Police had not been investigating the two accused men, nor had any case been filed against them, and the mob appeared to have acted on rumours, the Dawn newspaper reports.
Last month Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif voiced his support for a wide-ranging crackdown on blasphemous content on social media.
In a statement on his party's official Twitter account, he described blasphemy as an "unpardonable offence".
An official at Abdul Wali Khan University who spoke on condition of anonymity said Mr Khan was disliked by other students for his liberal and secular views.
At least 65 people have been murdered in Pakistan after being accused of blasphemy since 1990, a recent think tank report said.
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The 22-year-old joined the club's academy in 2007 and was already under a long-term deal.
He has now signed a five-year extension that runs until 2026.
Saul was the leading scorer, with five goals, at the recent European Under-21 Championship in Poland, in which Spain reached the final, losing to Germany.
British European Airways was the first operator to fly from Terminal 1 when it was opened by the Queen in May 1968.
The final departure is also due to be a British Airways flight, this time to Hanover.
Its closure will allow Terminal 2 to be expanded and comes in the week the Airport Commission decides whether to permit a third runway at Heathrow.
A spokesman for Heathrow Airport said the industry expected Sir Howard Davies's report on airport expansion to be published later this week.
At its peak, more than nine million passengers a year passed through Terminal 1, which was the largest short-haul terminal in Western Europe.
In recent weeks, flights have been transferred to Terminal 2 and passengers numbers have fallen to just 1,700 and 17 flights a day.
Terminal 2 will be expanded to take the place of Terminal 1 and if the government supports a third runway at Heathrow then Terminal 2 will be extended further still.
Heathrow chief executive John Holland Kaye said; "The closure of Terminal 1 marks another important milestone in the transformation of Heathrow.
"Terminal 1 has served Britain well for nearly 50 years, but will soon make way for the expansion of Terminal 2, giving Britain a world class airport that we can all be proud of."
Sekajja, 21, has been training with the Highland side for two weeks and has impressed manager John Hughes.
He spent time at MK Dons in 2012, but was restricted to just one appearance.
"We've had our eye on Ibra for some time. He has really impressed with his hunger for the game," said Hughes.
Ugandan-born Sekajja scored once in three appearances for Palace and also had short loan spells at Kettering, Bromley and Barnet.
A judge at Birmingham Crown Court told Costco store manager Roger Cooper, 41, and ex-soldier David Cooper, 39, they must serve at least 30 years for killing 34-year-old Sameena Imam.
Ms Imam had been having a two-year affair with Roger Cooper and issued him with an ultimatum to leave his partner.
Her body was discovered buried in an allotment in Leicester in January.
An eight-week trial heard Roger Cooper spent at least a month plotting to kill Ms Imam - one of his three lovers - to prevent her exposing their affair.
The men bought poisonous metals, identified a shallow grave and communicated in text messages written in a Star Wars-based code before killing Ms Imam.
Ms Imam is believed to have been overpowered on a sofa at David Cooper's home in Leicester after being driven to the property from Coventry by his brother.
She was reported missing by family members in Essex after failing to return home for Christmas, sparking a major police inquiry.
Jailing the pair, Judge Patrick Thomas QC told the siblings: "The use of a poison in a case such as this demonstrates a cold-blooded intention to kill, regardless of the consequences.
"You worked together, hand in glove, in planning and carrying out the murder of a joyful and bubbly young woman, brutally betrayed by a man she loved and his brother."
After a jury returned unanimous guilty verdicts on Tuesday, the detective leading the murder hunt described the killing as "the most callous offence" she had ever investigated.
"Most murders that occur are spontaneous events driven by anger or jealousy, whereas in this case what we uncovered was weeks and weeks of planning to kill Sameena, numerous attempts on her life and a really unusual cause of death," said Det Chf Insp Caroline Marsh.
After the conviction, Ms Imam's family said nothing could have prepared them for discovering she had been murdered.
In a statement, her father Imam Din said: "As a family we are absolutely devastated at the loss of Sameena.
"It is hard for us to even imagine that an innocent, kind, beautiful girl could be murdered, let alone our daughter.
"We are still in shock and we are all missing Sameena in so many different ways."
Shay McCartan was the match-winner for the hosts, heading home from Matty Pearson's cross in injury time.
Plymouth had gone ahead in the 23rd minute through Jake Jervis, who nodded in Graham Carey's cross.
Stanley were level in the 85th minute after Kelvin Mellor saw red for pushing Billy Kee, who converted the penalty, before McCartan's strike.
Accrington move up to fifth place, five points above Wycombe in eighth, while the Pilgrims stay third.
Jay Whiston was 17 years old when he was murdered by Edward Redman in Colchester in 2012.
Jay's mother Caroline Shearer, of Clacton, became an active campaigner on the dangers of knife crime after her son's death.
She said she had decided to stand as an independent for the Clacton seat, which has been held by Douglas Carswell.
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In her message on Facebook, Mrs Shearer said: "I've gone and done it.
"I will now be intending to stand for Independent MP for Clacton and Tendring.
"I'm not interested in what other parties have done. It is about what we can do.
"I've created a charity to help reduce crime in the community. That's been my life since my son died.
"I'm now prepared to hand that all over so I can help people."
She said she wanted to try and solve the various problems in the Tendring area of north east Essex.
Former major UKIP donor Mr Banks admitted earlier this week knowing "nothing" about Clacton despite announcing he would be standing for election there. He has not confirmed which party he will stand for.
Following his announcement, the incumbent Mr Carswell, an independent who previously represented UKIP and the Conservatives, said he would not be seeking re-election.
Talbot, 67, was convicted at Lanark Sheriff Court of seven charges of indecent assault.
The offences, against boys aged 15 to 17, took place between 1978 and 1981.
They happened during separate trips to two locations - one near Moffat in southern Scotland, and one on the Caledonian Canal in Inverness.
The four-year sentence will start on 14 August, at the end of the punishment part of a five-year jail term Talbot is already serving for previous sex offences.
Sheriff Nikola Stewart said the former This Morning presenter had taken advantage of the innocence of his victims.
She told Talbot the boys "all trusted and all liked you".
Sheriff Stewart added: "They were keen to go on the camping trips and sailing trips that you organised, both informally and as official school trips.
"That trust and affection was grossly abused by you on repeated occasions as you preyed upon these young boys - some away from home and away from parental care for the first time, and all utterly unsuspecting of the sexual threat you posed to them."
Talbot was a regular on the floating weather map in Liverpool's Albert Dock for ITV's This Morning show during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
At the time of the attacks, he was a biology teacher at a school in the Manchester area and took boys away on camping and boating trips.
During the trial, a succession of witnesses, now men in their 50s who cannot be named for legal reasons, told how Talbot abused his position of trust.
One man told the court he was indecently assaulted as a teenage boy after a visit to a pub on a camping trip left him "very much the worse for wear".
A further witness said he was left "petrified" when Talbot indecently assaulted him on a trip to the Caledonian Canal in 1979.
Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown, 54, who was not an alleged victim, also gave evidence at the trial and said he had never forgotten the moment Talbot invited one of his young friends to sleep in his tent on a school camping trip.
Talbot was previously jailed for five years at Manchester Crown Court in 2015 for the indecent assault of two 14-year-old boys.
NSPCC Scotland described Talbot as "a prolific abuser who carried out a series of attacks on children in his care".
A spokesman for the charity said: "Thanks to the bravery of his victims, he has again been brought to justice.
"Abuse ruins childhoods. Talbot used his position of trust as a teacher to prey on his victims and the attacks he carried out will have had long-lasting effects on them into adulthood.
"We hope the sentence imposed on him will help his victims finally overcome what happened to them.
"This case shows once again how important it is that those who have suffered abuse are able to come forward and see justice done."
The former Florida governor's new handgun, inscribed with his name on the slide, has been re-tweeted more than 19,000 times and met with widespread mockery around the world.
Bush tweeted a picture of his gun alongside the word "America", seeking to burnish his pro-gun credentials and patriotism as his campaign moves into the conservative state of South Carolina.
But if the USA is defined by its relationship to firearms, Twitter provided the answer for how best to represent other countries across the world.
British comedian Joe Lycett put forward this entry for the UK.
Mike Landers suggested that pies and curry would better represent some of Britain's cities.
Professor Herman van de Wernfhorst, a sociology professor from the University of Amsterdam suggested this for the Netherlands.
Meanwhile, Ingo Bousa from Bristol thought that Denmark could present a more peaceful interpretation of Jeb Bush's tweet.
But as the rest of the world gently mocked Jeb Bush, some conservative supporters in America showed their appreciation by tweeting pictures of handguns.
Science fiction writer John Joseph Adams decided that if his country was going to be defined by one weapon, then he wanted to highlight the impact of other weapons on fictional cultures.
"I never thought that my most re-tweeted tweet would consist of one word, a Twitter handle and a picture of a lightsaber" he wrote after his picture of the Star Wars memorabilia was shared more than 1,700 times.
Other science fiction fans were quick to follow Adams's lead. Lisa Morton from Washington DC tweeted a Star Trek disruptor.
Others thought the Doctor should get involved.
Or that Jeb Bush could use some magical assistance with his campaign.
Jeb Bush is pulling out all the stops to revive his flagging campaign to become the Republican presidential nominee, with his brother, former President George W Bush, joining him in on the campaign trail in South Carolina.
He can only hope that the online reaction to his tweet will help help him catch up with frontrunner Donald Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who won the New Hampshire and Iowa contests respectively.
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The circumstances that led to this crushing advantage were not completely to do with Hamilton's superiority, but as an illustration of the gulf between the two title rivals on this day, it was as good as any.
There were others, though, too.
In the soaking wet first 15 laps of the race, when Hamilton was bottled up behind Rosberg, Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo built a 13-second lead on the two Mercedes.
Once the German let him through following a team order, Hamilton pulled 10 seconds on the other Mercedes in five laps, as well as eating slowly into Ricciardo's lead.
After Rosberg stopped to fit intermediate tyres on lap 20, he was unable to pull clear of a train of cars featuring two Force Indias and Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari, despite his car's theoretical performance advantage.
In the course of the next round of pit stops to fit dry-weather slicks, partly because of a slow stop, Rosberg lost places to both Force India's Sergio Perez and Vettel, and found himself behind the McLaren of Fernando Alonso. Which he was unable to pass for the remaining 46 laps.
He was then mugged on the last lap by Perez's team-mate Nico Hulkenberg to finish an eventual seventh.
It was not, to say the least, one of Rosberg's better days.
Hamilton, meanwhile, drove one of his greatest races to take his first victory since he clinched the title in Austin in late October last year, and finally got his 2016 title campaign off the ground.
The tide was always going to turn sooner or later; Hamilton's luck, dreadful so far this season, always going to change eventually.
When it did, it came in the most dispiriting fashion for Rosberg, who throughout the Monaco weekend was reminded in the starkest terms of his team-mate's inherent superiority as a grand prix driver.
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It started in the first half-hour of first practice, with a series of laps by Hamilton that emphasised his innate feel and sensitivity on one of the most challenging race tracks in the world.
For most of those 30 minutes, each driver got progressively faster as they built up speed and came to terms with the proximity of the walls and the quirks of the Monaco track for the first time in a year.
The difference was that Hamilton was well over a second - sometimes nearly two - quicker than Rosberg. No sooner would Rosberg make the margin more respectable than Hamilton would move the goalposts again.
This sort of thing is seen from Hamilton a lot, but it is never more stark than in these sorts of circumstances, which emphasise naked talent much more than similar situations on more modern, sanitised tracks.
Eventually, Rosberg got down to within 0.1-0.2secs of Hamilton, as he generally does. But the point had been made. One suspects it was done deliberately, as if to say, "Mate, you might have a 43-point lead in the championship, but can you do this? Didn't think so. That's what you're up against."
Later that afternoon, Mercedes received a shock in the form of the pace of Ricciardo's Red Bull, which was clearly quicker than them.
Part of their solution to that in terms of changes to the car was to give it a bit more oversteer - or pointy-ness - in a bid to aid rotation into corners.
Rosberg, sources close to him say, was never that comfortable with the car after that.
This could well be at least part of the explanation for Rosberg's lack of pace in the wet first part of the race.
He said he felt "a complete lack of confidence in the car". He didn't dare go near the limit, he said, otherwise he would have hit the barriers.
He was at a loss to explain what had gone on, but it seems likely this may well have led to a vicious downward spiral of contributing factors.
Not being pushed hard, the tyres would lose heat and pressure. Which would mean he was not able to work the brakes as hard as normal. Which would explain the brake temperature problems he experienced. Which would further take the tyres out of their ideal window. And so on.
Somehow, despite being held to Rosberg's pace behind him, Hamilton managed to keep his tyres and brakes in their window so that the pace was immediately there when Mercedes made the only call they could and ordered Rosberg to let him by.
Rosberg said it was "simple" to accept it, albeit "painful", knowing that the reason it had been made was that otherwise Mercedes were throwing away any chance of winning.
But it says a lot for him that he responded to it with alacrity and equanimity, knowing that he was almost certainly consigning himself to losing a significant chunk of his points advantage to Hamilton, who was right to thank him publicly for being a gentleman afterwards.
If his struggles in the race came at an awkward time for a man in the middle of negotiations over a new contract, his behaviour in this situation will have gone a long way to counteracting the impact of his performance.
Once released, Hamilton drove a superb race, matched only by Ricciardo, his only rival for victory.
He and his engineers gambled on staying out on the 'extreme' wet tyres when everyone else stopped for intermediates, knowing that was their only way of getting into the lead.
Impressively, on a drying track, on heavily treaded tyres that were now more than 20 laps old, Hamilton was lapping not far off the pace - and sometimes more or less on it - that Rosberg was doing on the intermediate tyres behind him. While managing to hold off a charging Ricciardo at the same time.
He finally bailed on those tyres after 31 laps. At this point, the valiant gamble should have failed, but the race was handed to him when Red Bull made another terrible strategic fumble - their second in two races.
Ricciardo stopped for slick tyres the next time around, and a stunning in-lap, combined with Hamilton's slow out lap, should have got him comfortably out into the lead, which would almost certainly have become a well-deserved victory.
But because of what Red Bull team boss Christian Horner described as a "communication error", the tyres Ricciardo's engineer chose for the car were at the back of the garage, and a pit stop from the Keystone Cops followed, losing 10 seconds. Ricciardo exited the pits as Hamilton flew by into the first corner.
And this was the next superlative part of Hamilton's race. Now it was his turn to struggle. Ricciardo, one of the most improvisational overtakers in F1, was clearly faster. But the Mercedes held the Red Bull back.
The closest it got was on lap 37, when at one of several re-starts after periods of the virtual safety car, Ricciardo pressured Hamilton into braking too late and going in to the chicane too shallow and deep. He cut a part of the corner, lost momentum on the exit and had to give the Red Bull a bit of a chop on the harbour front to keep it behind.
On another day, he might have been penalised for gaining an advantage by going off the track - Ricciardo certainly felt it worth a question. But the stewards felt it to be within the bounds of acceptability and did the F1 equivalent of waving play on.
Ricciardo never got as close again. Suddenly Hamilton was setting fastest laps, and it became clear he had been measuring out his tyre life to ensure they made the distance - which was a stretch given the 45 laps they were being asked to do.
All in all, it was a weekend that emphasised the difference between a very good driver and a great one.
At 24 points, Rosberg still has a substantial lead. But Monaco was a reminder that in these sorts of races, when steady progression through a weekend is thrown out of the window, when the weather throws up a wildcard, when drivers have to adapt on the hoof, when the car is difficult, Hamilton is more often than not on another level to Rosberg.
He has continued to deny it whenever asked, but Rosberg must know that this year may well be the best chance he ever gets to win a world championship.
It is hard to imagine that circumstances will ever again conspire in the way misfortune has hit Hamilton this year to give Rosberg a 43-point lead after five races.
Whenever the size of his advantage has been pointed out to him this year, he has generally responded by saying Hamilton is still as quick as ever and will inevitably bounce back.
In Monaco, it happened, and the brutal nature of it cannot have done other than knock Rosberg back.
He is a resilient man, who has bounced back from worse than this. But how Rosberg responds - to this and to the extra threat of a now-resurgent Red Bull - will be a significant aspect of what defines the rest of the season, and how effectively he manages to keep Hamilton at bay.
If indeed he can.
The event at the TPC Louisiana was shortened to three rounds after several delays due to rain and thunderstorms.
Stuard, 33, was level at 15 under with compatriot Jamie Lovemark and South Korean An Byeong-hun after 54 holes.
He won at the second extra hole, the par-five 18th, after a superb third shot to three feet led to a birdie.
After disruption on both Thursday and Saturday, only three hours of play were possible on Sunday because of further bad weather.
When the tournament resumed on Monday, world number one Jason Day had four birdies in six holes in a closing 66 to finish two shots off the lead.
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Mr Weston chose the performance to raise funds for the Alzheimer's Society after losing his wife to the disease.
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Harry Starrett was found unconscious in a milking parlour on his grandparent's farm on Ballynahonemore Road, just outside Armagh city, on Tuesday.
An ambulance was called to the farm at 17:15 BST but the child died.
Canon John McKegney said preliminary results of a post mortem examination suggest the cause of death was natural.
He said the tests had ruled out initial reports that the child may have been overcome by slurry gases.
The death is still the subject of a farm investigation by the Health and Safety Executive Northern Ireland (HSENI).
Canon John McKegney, told the BBC: "It has been reported that it was fumes, but actually he wasn't anywhere near the slurry pit, he was in the milking parlour.
"Before the cattle came in he was pulling down the clusters, which is something he often did and helped his grandfather in that way.
"When his grandfather went in, just after him, he was lying unconscious and never recovered."
Canon McKegney is a retired minister from St Mark's Parish Church in Armagh and will conduct Harry's funeral later this week.
He described the child as a "bright, cheerful" boy.
"(He was) full of beans, full of life full of joy and someone who absolutely idolised the farm," he said.
Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill said: "I was shocked and saddened to learn of the death of this young boy.
"My thoughts and prayers go to his family and friends at this difficult time."
DUP councillor Freda Donnelly, who knows the family well, said: "Harry was a lovely, friendly, happy-go-lucky wee boy who just loved farming.
"The family are very well known and highly respected in the area. Anyone I have spoken to is absolutely devastated. The death of a child is every parent's worst nightmare."
President of the Ulster Farmers Union Harry Sinclair said everyone was in a state of shock.
"Our thoughts go to that family and the whole agriculture community will be thinking of that family," he said.
Lord Mayor of Armagh Robert Turner said: "The entire area is in a state of shock that a six-year-old boy has lost his life," he said.
"I know his family and I wish to pass on my sincere condolences."
Cathal Boylan, who is an Sinn Féin MLA for the Newry and Armagh area, described the death as "an absolute tragedy".
"Both I and my Sinn Féin colleagues, and indeed the whole community, will be thinking of this child's family in the days and weeks ahead," he said.
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Benn, 53, and Collins, 52, have told BBC Sport they have agreed to meet again, 21 years after their last fight.
"If it was a charity match, the British Boxing Board of Control might turn a blind eye," said Bunce. "But neither would make enough money."
Benn told 5 live there were "other avenues" for getting a licence.
British fighters David Haye and Dereck Chisora obtained clearance from Luxembourg's boxing federation prior to their fight at Upton Park in July 2012.
"They will not fight in this country under BBBofC rules," said Bunce. "You can forget that.
"That means it will take place under a Maltese licence or some other foreign body."
Londoner Benn feels he could convince the BBBofC that he is fit enough to compete.
But Dublin-born Collins, who beat Benn twice in 1996, and leading promoter Eddie Hearn do not think the organisation will sanction the fight.
BBBofC general secretary Robert Smith said on Thursday that neither Benn nor Collins had applied for a licence to fight again.
He said the only age limit imposed on those applying is they must be over 18, but added: "The older you get, the more unlikely it is."
Smith said he would be "surprised" if anyone wanted to promote the fight.
The BBBofC seeks to "minimise risk" and ensure boxers are "fully prepared" when giving the go-ahead for them to compete.
Obtaining a licence involves a series of administrative tasks but, more importantly, fighters must also pass brain scans, medicals and blood-testing.
Both Benn and Collins say they are healthy.
Bunce said: "They are in sensational shape. Nigel Benn has been as fit for 21 years since he left the ring as Steve Collins has since he left the ring, and they left the ring just 11 months apart.
"They have been close to having fights. Two weeks ago they sat together at a dinner and the penny dropped.
"What is good about this is both of them know they can only fight men of the same age, with the same amount of decline, stamina loss and power loss.
"They are peak for their age but they are their age. At some point, after five or 10 minutes, they will be blowing hard."
Collins says his motivation is purely financial, while Benn hopes to find "closure" from boxing and insists he is fitter than late in a career which ended with his second defeat by Collins.
But his son Conor, who is unbeaten in six fights as a welterweight, feels Benn should "leave it" and says he would refuse to work in his corner on fight night.
Collins' son, Steve Collins Jr, is also a boxer and has lost just one of his 12 fights at light-heavyweight.
After BBC Sport published news of the potential bout involving his father, he tweeted: "When I'm 50-something and have a mid-life crisis, I will just buy a new motorbike. You get me."
Hearn, who oversees Matchroom Sport's boxing events, told Sky Sports: "It would be almost sad to see those guys return to the ring.
"Nigel is in great shape. I watched him growing up and he's one of my favourite fighters of all time.
"For me, sit on the sofa and enjoy the legacy you created in this sport."
Harry Clarke, 58, is accused of driving a car on 20 September despite losing his licence for medical reasons.
Mr Clarke blacked out while driving a council lorry which crashed in Glasgow city centre on 22 December last year.
He had previously fainted while working as a bus driver but failed disclose it when he joined the council.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "A 58-year-old man was arrested in connection with alleged traffic offences. A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal."
Erin McQuade, 18, her grandparents Jack Sweeney, 68, and his 69-year-old wife Lorraine, all from Dumbarton, died in the bin lorry crash in the city's Queen Street and George Square.
Stephenie Tait, 29, and Jacqueline Morton, 51, both from Glasgow, and Gillian Ewing, 52, from Edinburgh, were also killed when the truck mounted the pavement before crashing into the side of the Millennium Hotel.
A further 15 people were injured.
A fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the deaths heard DVLA officials withdrew Mr Clarke's car licence for 12 months and banned him from driving HGVs for 10 years on 25 June this year.
Amid the fanfare of the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals at the UN, the leaders pledged that by 2030 nobody anywhere in the world would live in extreme poverty - currently measured as living on less than $1.25 (88p) a day.
The key aim of the Millennium Development Goals - replaced by the SDGs at the turn of the year - was that extreme poverty would be halved.
That happened during the lifetime of the MDGs and it was no mean achievement. But it was largely because of progress in the world's two most populous nations - China and India.
Development experts say the challenge now of finishing the job in just 15 years will be even more demanding.
Millions who have been left behind so far in the battle against poverty will not be lifted out of it by economic growth alone - instability, proneness to disasters, weak governance, corruption and discrimination of various kinds are among the factors that can make it so hard to escape severe poverty.
After decades of covering the complexities of development and humanitarian crises as a BBC correspondent, I have just made a return journey to countries and to hard-pressed families I have reported on in the past.
When I met Makaru Rana in the late 90s in the state of Odisha in eastern India, he and his family were just setting off to work for several months in the brick kilns of Andhra Pradesh.
Their small farming community had been hit by drought and a bad harvest and many families were undertaking the same long train journey in the hope of earning enough to see them through the lean times. But I followed Makaru to the brick kilns and saw what a tough life they had there and how little they would eventually take away with them.
Much has changed in India in the intervening years. But meeting Makaru and his family again now, it quickly became obvious how little the pattern of their lives has been affected. And drought has hit them once again.
Today there are more schemes to help the poor - including rice rations, 100 days of guaranteed labour and pensions for the elderly. But the actual provision of such social protection is erratic, according to villagers.
Makaru has a black-and-white TV now, run off a car battery. But his 18-year-old daughter Niladri had to finish school two years ago because of lack of funds.
And now they were about to go to the brick kilns again - though today the villagers have been able to bargain for higher wages there.
Even so, while we were with Makaru and his family we worked through their household finances and calculated that their total income last year - from both the brick kilns and the sale of the rice they produce beyond their own needs - was $1,550 (£1,080)
for four people (Makaru, his wife and two youngest children), well below the threshold of extreme poverty.
Back in 2002, I went to Malawi to follow up a letter I received from a post office clerk, Innocent Nkhoma, who had heard me on the BBC. He wrote about famine striking his area and of the loss of his daughter.
Landlocked Malawi remains a deeply impoverished country, despite having received substantial aid and never experiencing the impact of conflict.
Returning to meet Innocent 13 years on, I found that he believes his family are actually worse off today.
The major change in their circumstances is that the post office was privatised in 2003 and he lost his job. It was several years before he finally found a more poorly paid permanent job as an assistant in a small rural health centre.
Innocent and his wife Agnes lost a house that had been provided by the government and they also have to rent a piece of land to fend for the family, now doubled in size to six children.
Innocent told us he earns $50-$60 a month from his job today at the clinic - to take care of the whole family.
In his late 40s, Innocent wants to study further to improve his chances of earning more. And he would like Agnes to run a small business.
The daily lives of such families are the reality check that reaches beyond the rhetoric of the Sustainable Development Goals.
The SDGs call for the income of the poorest 40% in each country to grow at a higher rate than the overall average. But squaring growth with the urgent need to do more to protect the planet is likely to be one of the core challenges.
History tells us that there is no single blueprint for ending poverty, particularly at a time like this when there is such mass displacement of people caused by conflict as well as by impoverishment.
It is also clear today that some of the best solutions to poverty come from the ground up.
But if the ambitions of the SDGs are to be achieved and sceptics confounded, it may also depend on whether the political will behind them is itself sustained.
Officially known as Transforming Our World - the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, they include:
Mike Wooldridge is a former East Africa, Southern Africa, South Asia and World Affairs Correspondent for BBC News. He is the presenter of the BBC World Service documentary, The New Face of Development (a Ruth Evans production).
The Office for National Statistics said 21,000 more Scots were in work, compared with the previous quarter, bringing the total to 2,631,000.
Scotland now has the highest employment rate out of the four UK nations, and is outperforming the UK as a whole.
For the first time, employment in Scotland is now higher than it was before the recession.
The rate north of the border reached 74.9% over the quarter - above the level of 74.6% recorded prior to the economic crisis.
Meanwhile, Scottish unemployment fell by 11,000 and now stands at 152,000.
The unemployment rate was down by 0.7% to 5.4% - the largest quarterly fall since the summer of 2014.
The UK jobless rate fell to 5.1% in the three months to November - its lowest rate since the three-month period to October 2005,
The number of people claiming Job Seeker's Allowance also fell by 2,300 from November to 64,300 in December. The figure is 20,400 lower than the same month last year.
Scotland's Fair Work Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said: "I am very pleased to note this month's figures, which reinforce the positive longer-term trends in Scotland's labour market, notwithstanding recent and ongoing volatility with Labour Market Statistics."
The SNP minister said: "Employment has continued to rise and unemployment to fall - with more Scots in work than ever before. Youth employment figures continue to be strong, outperforming the UK statistics.
"However, we are not complacent and we recognise that a number of significant challenges remain beneath these encouraging headline figures."
The UK government's Scottish Secretary David Mundell said: "These positive figures mean more people in Scotland are in work, better able to support their families and contributing to our economic growth and security.
"The UK government is delivering the foundations for a stronger and more resilient economy and Scotland is benefiting from that.
"But we know that there is more to do, especially with the serious challenge posed by the fall in the oil price and the effect that will have on the north east of Scotland and the wider Scottish economy."
Scottish Trades Union Congress general secretary Grahame Smith said: "There is no doubt that today's figures are very positive with a significant increase in employment and a similar fall in unemployment.
"It is noteworthy that the employment rate has now achieved its pre-recession peak.
"However, once again, men account for all the growth in jobs and most of the fall in unemployment.
"Given that there's no plausible explanation for the rapidly deteriorating relative position of women in the Scottish labour market, the STUC is concerned at the quality of the gender disaggregated statistics and would encourage ONS to reassess its processes in this respect."
Conor D'Arcy, policy analyst at the Resolution Foundation think tank, said: "Scotland has reached an important milestone this morning, finally returning to the employment rate it experienced before the recession.
"However, with this landmark event coming some 15 months after England closed its 'jobs gap', there is still work to be done.
"The challenge now is to convert today's encouraging signs on employment into a sustained long-term trend. This will be essential if Scotland is to maintain its newly-acquired pay lead over England in the coming years."
The 24-year-old is understood to have attracted interest from Championship rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers.
But a senior Cardiff source has indicated the Bluebirds will want "at least £5m or £6m" for the former Republic of Ireland Under-21 forward.
Mason joined Cardiff from Plymouth Argyle in 2011 for £250,000 and has scored 22 goals in 60 League starts.
This season Mason has chipped in with six goals, enjoying a prolonged run in the team having had three loan spells at Bolton Wanderers during previous campaigns.
Cardiff are under a transfer embargo, but chief executive Ken Choo made it clear the club would not be forced to sell their best players as a result of the restriction.
The club are also looking to draft in at least three players on loan.
Mason and midfielder Joe Ralls, 22, are seen by the club as prized young assets.
West Yorkshire Police said the man was taken to hospital at about 15:00 GMT on Christmas Eve with abdominal injuries.
Part of Thornville Road, close to the junction with Alexandra Road, in Burley, Leeds, was cordoned off, while officers carried out forensic searches.
Police said the injured man had undergone surgery and is described as being in a stable condition.
Det Ch Insp Mark McManus said: "The incident continues to be treated as a targeted attack."
He said that two vehicles met at the location of the shooting, close to a BP petrol station.
"Officers have recovered a white-coloured Audi vehicle, but we are still keen to trace a dark or black-coloured hatchback car which we believe is connected to those involved in the shooting."
Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
From December to the middle of April, the organisation assesses the risk of snow slides in five areas - Creag Meagaidh, Glencoe, Lochaber, Northern Cairngorms and Southern Cairngorms.
This winter, Torridon was added on a trial basis.
The latest season recorded one of the highest numbers of avalanches in years. Following a record high last winter, there were no deaths caused by avalanches this time around.
A warning to off piste skiers and snowboarders in the Southern Cairngorms.
Initial figures suggest 350 avalanches were recorded by the SAIS. Service co-ordinator Mark Diggins said: "We have had more reported naturally-occurring avalanches this year than last, although this number is a guide only as many more avalanches may have taken place but not been recorded."
The higher rate of avalanches was largely due to continual stormy weather periods with significant snowfall above 600m (1,968ft) interspersed with sharp temperature rises, said Mr Diggins. He added: "Because of the significant amount of snow accumulation a number of these avalanches were very large and travelled long distances."
The stormy weather - particular frequent high winds that can be seen above blowing streams of water uphill in Lochaber - impacted on the numbers of people visiting Scotland's mountains this winter. Mr Diggins said: "It has been a frustrating winter for climbers, walkers, skiers and boarders, but many mountain goers have been aware of the heightened hazards this winter and have been more selective in what they do and where they go."
The latest SAIS season saw no avalanche-related fatalities, whereas avalanches caused the deaths of eight people during the 2012-13 season - the highest figure in years.
One of the greatest avalanche risks this winter was large overhanging edges of snow, called cornices.
A crack in a large cornice documented by the SAIS Lochaber forecasting team. The overhangs are created by heavy snowfalls and persistent winds blowing in generally the same direction. Mr Diggins said: "In the Lochaber area, senior forecaster Graham Moss identified that we had twice as much snowfall than last winter."
A lump of fallen cornice in Lochaber.
Several of the forecasters were accompanied by their dogs on avalanche risk assessments. The dogs also helped to illustrate the wintry conditions in images uploaded to the SAIS blogs.
An "avalanche hound" at Lochnagar in the Southern Cairngorms.
"The winter has been a challenging one for the SAIS forecaster team," said Mr Diggins. "Not only because of the strong winds and blizzards presenting physical challenges, but also the very dynamic weather systems presenting a continually changing snowpack situation which required considerable focus in producing the daily avalanche forecasts."
The committee said "the gift of longer life" could lead to "a series of crises" in public service provision.
Peers said big changes in pensions, health care and employment practices were needed to help people "sustain a good quality of life" as they aged.
The government said supporting people in later life was a priority.
The Lords committee on public service and demographic change cited figures from the Office for National Statistics that forecast a 50% rise in the number of over-65s and a doubling in over-85s between 2010 and 2030.
Source: Office for National Statistics forecasts
The committee has been looking into the impact of demographic change on the UK for nearly a year and has questioned a number of government figures, including Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, as well as academics, charities and companies such as Alliance Boots and B&Q.
Publishing its findings, the committee said the fact people were living longer offered benefits for many but also threatened a "series of crises" unless action was taken to mitigate the impact on public services.
With the number of people living with long-term medical conditions set to rise sharply, a "radically different model" of care would be needed to support people in their homes and to prevent pressure on the NHS, it said.
The committee is calling on the government to set out its thinking on the issue before the next election and for all parties to consider the implications for public spending, in their next election manifestos.
Whoever was in power after the next election, the committee said, should establish independent commissions to examine how pension and savings provisions could be increased, how equity release could be better exploited and how funding for social care could be improved.
"As a country we are not ready for the rapid ageing of our population," Lord Filkin, the Labour peer who chairs the committee, said.
"The amazing gift of longer life is to be welcomed, but our society and politicians need to address the implications and the changes needed to attitude, policies and services so people are best able to benefit from it."
He warned these challenges were not a "distant issue".
"Our population is older now and will get more so over the next decade. The public are entitled to an honest conversation about the implications," he said.
By Nick TriggleHealth correspondent
A leading think tank said the report should be a wake-up call for government and society as a whole and that individuals would have to take more responsibility for their health and income in retirement.
"Our society is in denial of the inevitability of ageing," said Baroness Greengross, chief executive of the International Longevity Centre UK and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. "We have put off the difficult decisions for far too long."
"The report paints a picture of a health and care system which doesn't work for today's older population. Similarly our communities, housing and transport systems are ill-equipped for the challenges ahead."
Policymakers should not be afraid to tell people they will need to work longer and that state pension ages may need to increase further as healthy life expectancy changes, she added.
The Department of Health said supporting people in later life was a priority for the government.
"That is why we took the decision to invest £7.2 billion over four years to protect access to care and support and for the first time ever are bringing in a cap on care fees to make old age care costs more sustainable," a spokesman said.
Source: Office for National Statistics forecasts
"However, we cannot improve care and support by putting ever more money into the system. Many local authorities are innovating and achieving much greater integration between health and care services, thereby improving care for people and optimising use of resources available."
For Labour, Liz Kendall said: "This excellent report rightly emphasises the huge contribution older people already make to the economy and in their communities, and that more should be done to ensure older people can play an even fuller role in future.
"I particularly welcome the committee's call for radical reform of the NHS and social care. We need far bolder changes to ensure these services are fully integrated, with a much bigger focus on prevention to help people stay healthy and living independently for longer."
The situation has deteriorated since 1 April, when IS launched an assault.
Before that the camp had been under siege by government forces for months, creating a grave humanitarian crisis.
It is unclear whether all Palestinian factions in the camp have agreed to Syrian government intervention.
Anti-government Palestinian militiamen from Aknaf Beit al-Maqdis and some Free Syrian Army fighters have been leading the fight against IS.
"The operation will be conducted in co-operation between the Palestinian groups in Syria and the Syrian government through a joint operation centre," Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) official Ahmed Majdalani - who is heading a Palestinian delegation in Damascus - told the BBC.
Who exactly will do what in the operation, and how the plan will work, is far from clear, the BBC's Jim Muir reports from Beirut.
Aknaf Beit al-Maqdis was not involved in the agreement - it has been co-operating with Syrian rebels battling both government forces and Islamic State, our correspondent reports.
If the new agreement ends up seeing Syrian troops moving into the camp with the PLO's blessing, the government is likely to be accused by some of manipulating the situation to take control of a highly strategic area on the approaches to the city centre, he adds.
On Wednesday, the UN Security Council demanded humanitarian access to the camp, with one UN official describing the situation for the 18,000 refugees there as "beyond inhumane".
The Palestinian ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour, has appealed to member nations to relocate the refugees elsewhere in Syria or abroad.
A few hundred people were reported to have managed to escape the camp over the weekend.
Monitors say IS and the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front, who have fought each other in other parts of Syria, are working together in Yarmouk.
Syria's bloody conflict, which has entered its fifth year, has claimed the lives of more than 200,000 Syrians.
The battle between forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, rebels opposed to his rule and Islamic State has also driven more than 11 million people from their homes.
Yarmouk was first built for Palestinians fleeing the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
Before the Syrian civil war began, it had more than 150,000 refugees living there and had its own mosques, schools and public buildings. But since 2012, the camp has been besieged by fighting.
The stab victim was injured in the chest on 8 March outside property in Sefton Drive, Bomere Heath, and another woman had head injuries.
Wayne Williams, 54, of Sefton Drive, admitted one count of attempted murder and one of grievous bodily harm with intent.
He will be sentenced at Stafford Crown Court on 10 July.
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The prescription drug modafinil, prescribed for sleep disorders, is used to stay awake to increase study time.
Students' health service director Dr Dominique Thompson said she had witnessed a rise in the number of students admitting taking it.
She said she had also seen a handful of students suffering from side effects.
Dr Thompson said modafinil - labelled the "world's first safe smart drug" - would not be prescribed to students to help them study.
She added that she had noticed an increase in the drug's use at the university in the past five years.
She and colleagues had also seen "three or four" students suffering from side effects in the past 12 months, she claimed.
Dr Thompson said the drug can make people "very jittery, anxious and on edge" and "unable to sleep for a very long time".
"The brain continues to form and develop until about the age 25, so if you're 18-20 taking medications that are specifically stimulants and related to amphetamines, I think there's a high risk something might go wrong," she said.
She warned the long-term side effects of the drug's use were "still unknown", and warned against buying the drug online because "you don't know what you're buying".
One university student who has admitted taking the legal drug, Harry Vokins, said he used it because he wanted to "get the best grade I can".
Another student, Luke Higgins, said he had used it "because of pressure to do well".
Dr Thompson said "an estimated 20% to 40%" of university students nationally had used smart drugs.
A spokesman said the university took the issue of "illegal drugs of any sort very seriously" including the so-called study/smart drugs without a medical prescription.
"The number of users of these drugs who seek help from our student services remains a very small percentage of the student population, with just a handful of cases among our 22,000 students," he said.
Among those arrested was a senior official from the cultural agency that looks after archaeological sites in Rome.
Opposition protesters from the anti-establishment Five Star movement called on the mayor to step down.
Mr Marino swiftly rejected their calls.
An estimated 100 people are being investigated as part of the "Mafia Capital" inquiry into allegations that elected officials and business figures were part of a crime syndicate targeting Rome contracts.
The latest six arrests come after 44 people were detained last week on suspicion of links to Massimo Carminati, a one-eyed alleged gangster detained late last year on suspicion of running the syndicate. He is also a former member of an outlawed far-right group.
One of the key contracts being investigated is the restoration of the Julius Caesar assembly hall, where Rome councillors meet on Capitoline Hill.
That was inaugurated in 2010 by former Mayor Gianni Alemanno, who has himself been detained as part of the inquiry.
The corruption inquiry is also looking into alleged rigging of public contracts for the setting up of migrant reception centres, which has become a highly lucrative source of income because of the Mediterranean boat crisis.
Tuesday's developments prompted a crowd of protesters to gather outside city hall, calling for the current Mayor, Ignazio Marino, to stand down.
A centre-left colleague of Mr Marino did resign and some opposition figures said the entire council should be dissolved.
Organised crime continues to affect cities across Italy and when Sergio Mattarella became president earlier this year he singled it out as a "pervasive cancer" and an absolute priority.
Warrington and two other authorities drew up a bid in 2015, but the town's Labour councillors rejected it in 2016.
Council leader Terry O'Neill said it was "the best we can get on the table" after the Labour-led authority approved joining the scheme.
Warrington North MP Helen Jones warned it may "come back to haunt" the town.
Labour councillors had been split over whether to join the Liverpool City Region or pursue a deal with Cheshire West & Chester and Cheshire East councils.
The bid with the Cheshire councils would see the area become a combined authority with an elected mayor.
Mr O'Neill said Cheshire devolution was "a better and simpler deal", adding: "We've got control of our own destiny, and hopefully it will benefit our communities in these very austere times."
A cross-party devolution group had agreed, with a majority, that joining Merseyside councils "would best serve Warrington and best enable it to deliver its aspirations".
However, a report to the council argued that it was "uncertain to what extent Warrington's aspirations and priorities would be reflected in those of the Liverpool City Region".
Ms Jones, who backed the Liverpool City Region plan as the "best option", said she was "far from convinced the economic basis of a Cheshire deal was sound".
Warrington council said the devolution deal would see extra funding for business growth and new infrastructure, a new body to oversee local transport, the creation of up to 127,000 new homes and a programme to "enhance the lives" of disadvantaged families.
The plan for devolved power and funding will be subject to a public consultation later this year, followed by further votes at the three participating councils.
Masked men opened fire on the vehicle, injuring three other soldiers, it said.
It accused the banned Muslim Brotherhood of being behind the attack. No group has claimed responsibility.
It is the latest in a series of attacks on security forces across Egypt in recent months and comes amid a crackdown on the Brotherhood movement.
The BBC's Orla Guerin in Cairo says this attack will raise concerns that Islamist militants are broadening their campaign of violence, which has killed hundreds of police and soldiers in recent months.
Militants have been targeting the army on an almost daily basis in the strategic Sinai peninsula, and they have shown their reach, by attacking police headquarters in Cairo and elsewhere, our correspondent says.
But military sources say this was the first attack on the army in the capital, our correspondent adds.
In a statement on its Facebook page, the military accused "armed men belonging to the terrorist Brotherhood group of targeting an armed forces bus... in Al-Amiriyah district".
The Brotherhood has denied similar accusations in the past.
It was designated a terrorist group in December and thousands of its members have been arrested and many put on trial since the military ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi last summer.
Presidential elections are due to be held in April and military chief Field Marshal Abdul Fattah al-Sisi is expected to stand.
Gracie, 10, walks half a mile from her home to Freeport Braintree, Essex, every day from 09:00 until it closes.
Her owner Lee Johnston said he created a Facebook page after receiving several calls a day from worried shoppers.
"She's savvy with cars. This is what she's always done, and she's always come out unscathed," he said.
Mr Johnston said spreading the word about Gracie's shopping habit had been a "battle at the start", but the Facebook page seemed to have "sorted it out".
"Once I explain how she loves Freeport, people accept it. I have to convince them that's just what she does," he said.
Gracie, who was rescued from a centre in Witham, was originally from Wembley according to her microchip - and no-one is quite sure how she travelled the 60 miles in between.
"We think she likes people and shops because she was brought up in the city," Mr Johnston said.
"She likes to pop into a shop, have a look around, go in another, maybe have a sleep.
"She likes sitting in people's laps, a bit of company. She goes in changing rooms."
Mr Johnston said if shops did not appreciate her company they "kicked her out", but she had been made welcome in most stores.
Freeport's manager Josef O'Sullivan said Gracie had become a "very popular visitor" at the centre since moving to Braintree 10 months ago.
"Gracie has become a frequent visitor to Freeport Braintree and almost treats the centre as her second home," he said.
"[She] has become quite the 'celebrity' amongst our retailers and visitors. If only cats could spend money..."
Chris Foote Wood, the late comedienne's brother, said he was "revising the book to ensure this aspect of her life is reduced and put in its proper context".
Victoria Wood Comedy Genius - Her Life and Work will now be published on 25 November.
It will reportedly feature extracts from diaries written by Wood's father.
Victoria Wood died of cancer in April at the age of 62.
The Sunday Mirror reported over the weekend that Foote Wood's book featured extracts from a journal written by Wood's father Stanley.
The extracts are understood to be critical of his daughter's eating habits, mood swings and penchant for watching television.
A spokesman for Wood's children, Grace and Henry Durham, said they had not been aware of Foote Wood's book and that an "official" biography would be published next year.
In a statement, Foote Wood insisted he had written to Wood's children and his two surviving sisters of his plans to write a biography.
"To say the rest of our family did not know about my book is totally untrue," he said.
"I make no apology for writing this book," his statement reads. "It tells Victoria's... full story, from unpromising beginnings to national treasure.
"It cannot be a 'betrayal' to tell the full, true story, especially as Vic herself has made public her early [weight] problems."
Foote Wood is also behind a campaign to create a statue of the entertainer in her home town of Bury.
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The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) said a radiation emergency was "no longer reasonably foreseeable" at the Trawsfynydd plant, Gwynedd.
It has now lifted a near one-mile emergency planning area around the site in the event of an incident.
Decommissioning began in 1995, two years after it ceased operating.
An ONR report said owner Magnox were due to begin a long term care and maintenance programme from 2016.
It plans to allow remaining structures to be "kept in a passively safe and secure state for a great number of years in order to allow for radiation levels to naturally decay over time".
Gwynedd council and Magnox still have other legal duties and emergency arrangements in place to protect the public, said the regulator.
Robert Zemeckis's film The Walk, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Petit, was the opening night film of the New York Film Festival on Saturday.
The film charts Petit's efforts to tightrope between the towers in 1974.
Mixed reviews have seen critics call the film both a "glimmering dream" and "wholly false".
Petit's tale was first committed to film in James Marsh's award-winning 2008 documentary Man on Wire.
Zemeckis's film uses 3D and visual effects to capture the daredevil crossing between the North and South towers - and opens next month with a nine-day run in Imax theatres.
"Robert Zemeckis's glimmering dream of a film, which opens the 2015 New York Film Festival, takes two buildings that have become emblematic of everything that's frightening and uncertain about 21st century life in the West and redeems them," writes Robbie Collin in the Daily Telegraph.
"When the walk itself begins... everything else - the earlier scenes, the screen, the cinema - just melts away," he continues. "Petit is up there and so are you."
"Even when The Walk inspires the eyes, the brain registers little but banality," counters Nigel M Smith, in the Guardian.
"For the whole of its two-hour running time, it plays like a Disney cartoon, right down to the hammy sidekicks who aid Petit on his mission."
"There is no semblance of reality here. As a live action film, The Walk rings wholly false," he determines.
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The US press fell more on the side of Zemeckis's film, with some caveats.
Industry magazine Variety declared The Walk "a thrilling 3D, all-angles view of an experience that, until now, only one man on Earth could claim to have lived".
But Michael Phillips wrote, in the Chicago Tribune, "I cannot say how I'd feel about The Walk if I'd never seen Man on Wire... I can only say The Walk struck me as an honourable good try of an also-ran".
The New York Times seemed to sum up the dichotomy of feeling: "The first half of the movie treads the boundary between mildly irritating and completely unbearable," begins AO Scott, but ultimately concludes that Zemeckis "used all his brazenness and skill to make something that, once it leaves the ground, defies not only gravity, but time as well".
Speaking at the premiere in New York, where the film was rapturously received by the audience, leading man Gordon-Levitt said the film summed up an experience that could not satisfactorily be described by words.
"There is no visual record of the walk, just a few photographs, and this recreation is the first time you're really getting to see it."
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Dozens of people wearing military-style uniform, berets and dark glasses attended the funeral of Peggy O'Hara in the city on Saturday morning.
Mrs O'Hara was the mother of an INLA man who died in the 1981 hungerstrike.
Police are already investigating reports that shots were fired over Mrs O'Hara's coffin earlier this week.
When footage of Wednesday's shooting appeared on the internet, it was condemned by DUP members.
Ahead of the funeral, the party sought assurances from the police that they would taken action against a repeat of paramilitary-style displays.
On Friday, DUP MLA Nelson McCausland submitted 20 questions to the PSNI Chief Constable about how republican funerals are policed.
On Saturday afternoon, DUP MLA Gary Middleton condemned images showing dozens of masked men marching through the streets during Mrs O'Hara's funeral.
Mr Middleton tweeted: "Despite assurances from @PSNIFoyle, I am disgusted that once again there was no police presence/interference today."
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The appearance of masked men and women at the funeral of a veteran republican in Londonderry has been condemned by the Democratic Unionist Party.
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You can see highlights of Manchester United v Chelsea on Match of the Day 2 at 22:30 GMT on Sunday on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.
Conte has not just won both their previous meetings this season, his Chelsea side are 18 points above United and closing in on the Premier League title.
I did not expect the gap between the two teams to be so big but nobody could have foreseen how well Conte would do in what is a highly competitive league - I certainly didn't.
If you are looking for a comparison, you could say his impact in his first season in the Premier League has been Mourinho-esque - the same as when Jose first came to England in 2004 and blew everyone away.
In many ways, Conte is the new Mourinho - he has only been in England for eight months but has already taken over his mantle.
By that, I mean the way Conte has been the outstanding manager this season with his results and how he has implemented his style of play to build a team that is exciting to watch and a threat going forward.
Just as with Mourinho, you would not exactly say that everyone loves him, but most people admire the job he has done at Chelsea, and his enthusiasm and charisma too.
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Mourinho may see a bit of himself in Conte and I would understand if he is a bit envious of the success the Italian has had. He has stolen his thunder with what is essentially Mourinho's team, and got so much more out of the group of players he was left with after Mourinho's second spell at the club.
I was one of those who thought Mourinho would quickly transform United in a similar way, but they simply have not made the same transition since he took charge.
Yes, there are signs of improvement from the Louis van Gaal era but I still think United will finish outside the top four, which is pretty unacceptable when you consider how much money they have spent.
If they do not qualify for the Champions League by winning the Europa League, then you cannot get away from the fact that this season will be a distinctly disappointing one.
I am not suggesting Mourinho is going to get the sack in that scenario - or that he should do - but, for United and for him, is winning the League Cup and finishing fifth or sixth really enough?
Mourinho has already clashed with Conte on the touchline this season, and he will be absolutely desperate to beat him this time.
I don't think United can play an open game against Chelsea on Sunday because, if they try to go toe to toe with them, the way Conte's team counter-attack will really cause them problems.
So I am expecting a cagey affair. If you asked me to pick a winner I would go with the Blues but I just have a feeling Zlatan Ibrahimovic will play a big part in the outcome.
I would not put it past him to do something special to decide the game - but even if United do come out on top at Old Trafford, they face a huge task to break into the top four now.
Looking at their remaining fixtures, they will need to go on an unbelievable run in some difficult games. At the same time, they have to hope Liverpool or Manchester City slip up because the top two seem to be too far clear now.
You cannot rule United out of winning all of those games, simply because of who they are and the quality they have in their team.
But, on this season's form, I just cannot see it.
United are unbeaten for 21 league games, going back to their 4-0 defeat at Stamford Bridge in October, but it is their inability to score goals that has been the determining factor in where they are in the table, because they have not beaten a lot of teams you would expect them to run riot against.
They have scored one more than Bournemouth and have the lowest total in the top six by a significant amount. I don't think anyone imagined them struggling so badly in front of goal.
Van Gaal, Mourinho's predecessor at Old Trafford, was criticised heavily for his brand of football - but his United team scored more goals in his first season, and so did David Moyes' side.
United's trademark style is 'attack, attack, attack' but apart from Ibrahimovic they have been blunt when they have come forward.
Ibrahimovic has had a fantastic season and bailed them out on countless occasions but it feels like they rely solely on him to score, and that has been their biggest problem.
Mourinho is right when he says his other attacking players need to be more consistent, but to publicly criticise the likes of Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford is a risky tactic.
We have seen something similar with his treatment of Luke Shaw, and now there are rumours he has had a bust-up with David de Gea too.
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I can understand what he is saying about Shaw being in the last-chance saloon but, for whatever reason, there is not complete harmony in the United camp at the moment.
That is the other big difference between what Conte has achieved at Chelsea, and the way he has done it - because it appears there is total harmony there, with everyone pulling in the same direction.
Whatever he is talking about, Mourinho's whole demeanour as a manager seems to have changed - he used to be witty and charming when he spoke to the media, but now he is painful to watch.
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All of that sort of behaviour seems to be an attempt to deflect attention from some of the issues affecting his team.
For example, when he spoke to the BBC's Conor McNamara after United drew at home to West Brom, his emphasis was on pulling Conor up for his question, rather than concentrating on the matter in hand - which is why his team are not doing well enough in the final third of the pitch.
The buck has to stop with Mourinho at some point - he will know himself that he has to do better, and he has a lot of work to do.
This is his first season at United and, in his defence, you could argue this is not his team yet.
But that argument does not really work when you think about how quickly Conte has made a difference at Chelsea, and how far United are behind them.
United have already invested heavily in their team in the past three years - Mourinho has spent about £150m, and Van Gaal about another £250m in his time in charge, which is an astonishing amount to lay out and still be outside the top four.
To change that, it looks like they will have to do the same again this summer, but how much more money will they throw at it, and where does the spending stop?
The United fans have been exceptionally patient with Mourinho so far but I am not sure if that will last going into next season if they miss out on the Champions League again.
Chris Sutton was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
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There is pride, as well as points, at stake at Old Trafford on Sunday because Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho will not take it well if Antonio Conte beats him in his own backyard.
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The Sunday Telegraph reported that he had spoken about his voting stance to students at Reading University.
A spokeswoman for the Speaker, expected to be politically neutral, said his vote against Brexit did not affect his ability to handle MPs' debates fairly.
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson called Mr Bercow "one of the great Speakers".
Mr Bercow, who was a Conservative MP before becoming Speaker, is already facing calls for him to be replaced for voicing his opposition to US President Donald Trump addressing Parliament on his UK state visit.
Talking to Reading students on 3 February, Mr Bercow said: "Personally, I voted to remain. I thought it was better to stay in the European Union than not."
He said this was "partly for economic reasons - being part of a big trade bloc - and partly because I think we're in a world of power blocs.
"I think for all the weaknesses and deficiencies of the European Union, it's better to be part of that big power bloc in the world than thinking you can act as effectively on your own."
He also said immigration was a good thing and expressed concern Labour had not done more to strike a "very clear, resonant Remain note".
Analysis: By Susana Mendonca, BBC political correspondent
As Speaker you're supposed to hang up your political colours at the door.
It doesn't stop you from having a vote in an election, but what you can say publicly becomes subject to scrutiny.
The parliamentary website states that the "Speaker must resign from their political party and remain separate from political issues, even in retirement". John Bercow's former party - the Conservatives - was divided on the EU referendum and so whichever way he voted would not have been party political.
The website doesn't specify, though, whether staying "separate from political issues" means a Speaker is never allowed to express a personal view at all.
Mr Bercow's critics are effectively saying that the Speaker shouldn't state opinions in public on politics in its entirety.
His supporters say Mr Bercow only said he voted Remain long after the actual EU referendum and that he gives every MP a fair go in debates regardless of their political views.
Mr Bercow's spokeswoman said he had voted in last June's referendum "along with millions of others".
"The record shows that he has rigorously facilitated the raising of concerns of those on both sides of this argument, as he does on every other issue," she said.
"The Speaker's impartiality is required on matters of debate before the House, and he has been scrupulous in ensuring that both sides of the argument are always heard."
But Conservative MP James Duddridge, who has tabled a motion of no confidence in him, told BBC Radio 5 live's Pienaar's Politics he was "no longer impartial" and had to go.
"There's absolutely no way Speaker Bercow can sit in the chair on European issues."
But Leader of the House of Commons David Lidington told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that when he had served as Europe minister, Mr Bercow had not been "shy of calling" those "hostile" to the UK's membership of the EU to speak in the Commons.
His future was a "matter for members of the House" as a whole, Mr Lidington continued, and it was "really important... that the government doesn't get involved" in saying who should be Speaker.
He said the Speaker "has his very strong supporters and his critics in the House of Commons", but had to have "the confidence of the Commons as a whole".
On the same programme, Mr Watson said Mr Bercow "absolutely" had the backing of MPs, adding: "He's one of the great Speakers the House of Commons has seen. He gives backbenchers their voice."
On ITV's Peston on Sunday, former Culture Secretary John Whittingdale, a prominent Brexit campaigner, said he was "a bit surprised" Mr Bercow had voted to stay in the EU, adding: "We had been told privately that he was sympathetic to our cause."
Mr Bercow, who became Speaker in 2009, was "coming to the end of his time, in any case", he added.
Earlier this week, Mr Bercow defended his opposition to Mr Trump addressing Parliament.
His comments, including accusing the US president of "racism and sexism", had been made "honestly and honourably" and were within his remit, he told MPs.
Several Conservatives have criticised those remarks, though, with one saying his career could be in "jeopardy" and another that he had damaged the national interest.
Downing Street called his comments "a matter for Parliament".
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Commons Speaker John Bercow insists his impartiality has not been affected after he revealed he had voted Remain in the EU referendum.
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In a statement, the Farc says "incidents which led to the distancing between the groups" have been overcome.
The development comes as Farc leaders resume peace negotiations with the Colombian government in Cuba.
They are discussing how Farc could enter politics if a deal is reached to end five decades of conflict.
According to the Farc statement, the meeting with the ELN (National Liberation Army) at an undisclosed location discussed the need to "work for the unity of all political and social forces" involved in changing the country.
The two groups have clashed in the past but have recently joined forces in armed operations against government targets in Colombia.
The ELN - Colombia's second largest group - is not part of the peace talks in Cuba.
But its leaders have made clear they would like to participate.
Talks between the Colombian government and the Farc resumed in Havana on Monday on the second key issue on the peace agenda: how to bring the rebel group into the political process after a future peace deal.
Q&A: Colombia peace talks
They reached an agreement on land reform late in May.
Farc leaders want general elections be put back a year, to 2015, to allow for a constituent assembly to draw up Colombia's political future.
But the government has warned it will only discuss the previously agreed agenda.
"The political participation discussion is only over these issues. This is what the government is ready to discuss and nothing else," Colombia's chief negotiator, Humberto de la Calle said.
Landmark peace negotiations have been going on in Cuba for more than six months.
The Farc is thought to have some 8,000 fighters, down from about 16,000 in 2001, while the government says the ELN has fewer than 1,500 men.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed since the conflict began in the 1960s, with some three million more internally displaced by the fighting.
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Colombia's largest armed rebel groups, the Farc and ELN, have met "to strengthen" their "unification process".
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The closure of Lyle Bailie International will result in the loss of six jobs.
It said a major factor has been the downturn in government advertising spending.
In an early guise as McCann-Erickson Belfast, the firm produced government advertising aimed at building support for the peace process.
One of the firm's ads was so shocking it was banned from being broadcast before the watershed.
Another campaign, 'crashed lives' featured real victims.
One such advert showed disturbing images of gunmen opening fire on customers in a pub.
Lyle Bailie was established in 2004 following the management buyout of McCann Erickson Belfast by directors David Lyle and Julie Anne Bailie.
Mr Lyle said there have been "ever-reducing budgets amid growing uncertainty about the future".
He added the failure of the Northern Ireland Executive to agree a budget has "been a major factor in this uncertainty".
Mr Lyle thanked his clients and staff who he said had shown unwavering commitment "in the face of these recent financial difficulties".
The company has appointed Baker Tilly Mooney Moore accountants to propose an arrangement with creditors.
All three men were said to be in good health.
It is not yet clear who was behind the abduction, but officials suspect it was an Iranian-backed Shia militia.
The three men were working for a private contractor when they were abducted in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on 15 January.
It was the first such abduction of Westerners in Iraq for several years.
"The three Americans were released in an area near Yusufiya, south of Baghdad. Intelligence forces received them and will hand them over to the American authorities [in Baghdad]," an Iraqi interior ministry official told Reuters news agency on Tuesday.
The US Department of State said it welcomed the news that the Iraqi government had secured the Americans' release, praising the Iraqi security forces, ministry of defence and national intelligence services for their efforts.
The Pentagon said the US military was not involved in the operation to free the men, who were due to fly out of Iraq later on Tuesday. The identities of the three men have not been made public.
The three men were reported missing last month while visiting the home of their interpreter, who was also taken, in the southern suburb of Dora.
They had been working for a construction company in the Iraqi capital.
Shia gunmen are believed to have been behind the abduction last year of a group of Turkish construction workers, who were later freed, and of a party of hunters from Qatar, a situation which is still under negotiation.
Shia militias and the Iranian military have played a major role in helping Iraqi government forces battle Islamic State (IS) militants in the country.
The US is leading a multinational coalition that is conducting air strikes on IS in Iraq and Syria, and providing training and advice to Iraqi government forces.
Guests including Stephen Fry, FIFA president Sepp Blatter, actor Sir Ian McKellen, and activist Malala Yousafzai appear in the Oxford Union video.
Charles Vaughan, union president, said Swift "really defines modern pop".
The song was a worldwide hit for the US singer in August 2014.
It was taken from the album 1989, which was the year's best-selling album globally.
Other members of the video's eclectic cast include Gangnam Style singer Psy, TV presenter Piers Morgan, actors Morgan Freeman, Diane Kruger, Sir Patrick Stewart and Jack Gleeson, as well as biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins.
The video, which took a week to edit, was originally envisaged to showcase the union to new students.
Mr Vaughan said when members realised they had "quite a good product" they wanted to employ it to entice the singer to Oxford.
He added: "She's an international cultural icon.
"It's amazing when you take some famous people who are known for being celebrities… they have amazing things to say despite the fact that they're better known not for their academic content.
"She's a wonderful person to listen to.
"Whenever we have a speaker we try to work with them to make sure we talk about an issue which is close to their hearts.
"If Taylor - fingers crossed - actually accepts the invitation, then we can have that conversation."
The union was founded as a forum for discussion and debate in 1823.
One of its early presidents was W.E. Gladstone, who went on to become prime minister.
From July 2, American will operate only 10 flights per week instead of the current 48.
The move comes as part of a continuing dispute over the repatriation of revenue due to tight currency controls in the oil-rich country.
A number of airlines have already suspended or reduced the number of flights to Venezuela.
"Since we are owed a substantial outstanding amount ($750m, £442m to March 2014) and have been unable to reach resolution on the debt, we will significantly reduce our flights to the country after 1 July," the airline said in a statement.
American said it would only fly to Venezuela from Miami, suspending its flights from New York, Dallas and Puerto Rico.
Tight foreign currency controls make it difficult for foreign airlines to repatriate money from ticket sales in Venezuela.
The authorities have restricted access to dollars and want to make them more expensive to purchase, which may lead to losses for companies that are still waiting for cash from as far back as 2012.
The International Air Transport Association (Iata) estimates Venezuela is delaying payment of $4bn.
American Airlines is the largest foreign carrier serving Venezuela.
Air Canada has suspended service citing security concerns, while others like Lufthansa and Copa Airlines have reduced the number of tickets made available in local currency.
In January, Ecuadorean airline Tame also suspended flights to Venezuela, demanding $43m (£26m) in overdue payments for tickets.
President Nicolas Maduro said at the time that airlines that reduced their operations in Venezuela would face "severe measures".
"The company that leaves the country will not return while we hold power," said Mr Maduro.
Last month, the Venezuelan government announced a deal with six Latin American airlines that would allow them to repatriate revenue from sales in 2012 and 2013.
Strict controls over foreign exchange were first imposed in 2003, following a troubled year which saw a coup against then-President Hugo Chavez.
The government hoped to avoid capital flight, but the economic crisis of the past year has led to a shortage of foreign currency.
The 27-year-old did not report for pre-season training on Monday and his agent told the club he would not see out the final year of his contract.
Sandow made 20 Super League appearances in 2016 and played in the Grand Final.
"The timing of it wasn't great, but Chris is erratic like he is on the field," Smith said.
"I wasn't overly shocked. The timing and the method of informing us was poor, but aside from that there were no grand shocks."
Former Parramatta Eels and South Sydney Rabbitohs back Sandow has stated that he did not return to Warrington for family reasons.
"I should have been a man about it and explained to them what was happening," he told Fox Sports.
"I'm from an Aboriginal community and communication isn't something that always comes natural to me.
"I went over there at the back end of last year and it's a good club to go to. But it's hard to go back knowing what I've got here in Australia and that's family.
"They're number one, family is the most important thing to me and that's why I made the decision not to go back to England."
Warrington have retained the player's registration if he wishes to join an NRL club.
And, asked if he had any regrets about signing the player, Smith told BBC Radio Merseyside: "No, he did some terrific stuff along the way and he contributed.
"We knew what we were getting into and he didn't cause any major hassles off the field. He showed at times how outstanding he can be."
Former Huddersfield, Leeds and Great Britain coach Smith said the club are already looking at potential replacements for next season.
"We've had plenty of contact from a lot of keen and interested people and so we'll be in the market; we've got some money to play with," he added.
"We've promoted from within in the past and we've got some good junior boys within our ranks but we're not going to rush into anything just yet."
Prince William and Catherine saw the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, which represents a graveyard.
One survivor told them about his time at Auschwitz, where his parents were killed, and recalled the smell of burning bodies.
The couple are on a five-day tour of Poland and Germany with their children.
After looking around an underground museum at the memorial, the royal couple learned about some of the stories of the six million Jewish people killed during the Holocaust.
The duke and duchess then met a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Leon Schwarzbaum, 96, told them what life was like inside the camp.
At the age of 21, he worked as a runner for the camp commander.
Mr Schwarzbaum showed the duke and duchess pictures of his family and told the duchess six people slept in one bunk.
He spoke about the smell of bodies while pointing to a chimney, adding: "You could smell the chimney throughout the whole camp. It was a terrible smell."
The couple also met several children on their first day in Berlin, at a centre for mental health and young people and also at the Strassenkinder charity for disadvantaged children.
The duke and duchess also met German Chancellor Angela Merkel and attended a private lunch.
Prince William and Catherine were expected to discuss European politics, global issues and volunteer work.
The royal couple, accompanied on the tour by Prince George, three, and Princess Charlotte, two, arrived in Germany after spending two days in Poland, where they met its first democratically-elected president, Lech Walesa, and visited a former concentration camp.
On Thursday the royals will move on to the German city of Heidelberg, which is twinned with Cambridge.
A boat race is planned which will see William and Catherine cox opposing rowing teams in the race, with crews from Cambridge and Heidelberg.
Bryony Page finished fifth and Kat Driscoll seventh at the Trampoline, Tumbling and Double-Mini Trampoline World Championships on Sunday.
It is the first time GB have earned two female trampoline spots at an Olympics.
Nicole Short then added to her team silver on Saturday with an individual double-mini trampoline silver medal.
"I wanted to carry on the pattern of three, two, one, but I'm thinking about retiring after this one so it's a little bit emotional," said the 21-year-old from Liverpool, who previously won bronze and silver medals at the Worlds.
Sheffield-based Page, 24, briefly led the women's individual trampoline on 55.295 points while team-mate Driscoll, 29, scored 52.935 as China's Li Dan took gold.
However, Mr Ellis told BBC Scotland no decision about the long-term future of the event had been taken.
He said T in the Park could return as an "evolved" festival for over-18s that was more focused on rock bands than electronic dance music (EDM).
T in the Park took a break this year following difficulties at the new site in Strathallan.
It is organised by DF Concerts who also held the TRNSMT festival in Glasgow last weekend.
The company has already announced that TRNSMT - a non-camping festival held on Glasgow Green - would return for a second year.
About 120,000 music fans went to the inaugural festival, with Radiohead, Kasabian and Biffy Clyro headlining. Other acts performing included The Kooks, Belle and Sebastian, London Grammar and Twin Atlantic.
Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland's Kaye Adams programme, Mr Ellis said the atmosphere at TRNSMT had been "incredible" and praised the "fantastic" audience.
Scotland's largest music festival had been held every year since 1994, when Rage Against the Machine and Primal Scream were the headline acts.
The first three years took place at Strathclyde Park, near Hamilton in Lanarkshire, before it moved to Balado in Perth and Kinross.
Over 17 years it grew to a three-day festival attracting 225,000 people, including 70,000 campers.
In 2015 the festival moved to Strathallan Castle in Perthshire.
The move was prompted after "substantial" concerns were raised by health and safety inspectors about an oil pipeline which ran underneath the Balado site.
Planning permission for the July 2015 event was only approved two months before the festival, following public consultations on the move and concerns over a pair of nesting ospreys at the site.
The 2015 event drew the largest number of complaints and negative comments in the festival's history, with "significant traffic congestion" highlighted.
He said he was not ready to make any firm announcements about T in the Park, but added that a 2018 festival was "not looking likely".
"We've not formulated any decisions on the future of T in the Park - it's still too early.
"We want to focus on TRNSMT, the Glasgow Summer Sessions and all the other concerts we've got. As soon as we are ready to make decisions and let people know about the future, we'll tell people," he said.
"The planning constraints are just so complex and costly at Strathallan that we're just not in a position to say yes we'll continue."
The festival's first year at Strathallan in 2015 was plagued by traffic problems, leading to organisers implementing a transport plan for the following year.
There were also planning issues surrounding a pair of nesting ospreys at the site.
At the 2016 event, two teenagers died in separate incidents, while witnesses reported fights and illicit drug use in the campsite area.
T in the Park had been going for 23 years before it took a break this year and Mr Ellis insisted he would be happy for it to continue alongside an urban music festival.
"I've always said a major camping festival and something like TRNSMT can co-exist and they definitely can because they are two different types of event. There are two different needs in the market," he said.
But any future camping event is likely to be geared towards an older audience in an attempt to avoid some of safety issues seen in recent years, Mr Ellis told the BBC.
"There are definitely two tribes now - there's people who like guitar music and people who like EDM music among the under-25s," he said.
"So when we come back with a camping event it probably won't feature EDM and it'll probably be pitched at an older market."
Paul Burgess, 25, who was originally charged with murder, pleaded guilty to the culpable homicide of Zaiidyn Burke in Sunderries Avenue in October 2012.
A court heard he was left in charge of the baby for just over an hour.
Sentence was deferred at the High Court in Glasgow and Burgess was remanded in custody.
The court was told the baby was rushed to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary and then transferred to Yorkhill Hospital in Glasgow.
The baby's father Lee Burke was at the side of Zaiidyn's mother Jade Caven when the baby died on 29 October, two days after Burgess's assault.
The court heard that while Zaiidyn's parents were at his bedside, Burgess went to a Hallowe'en party dressed in a costume and then went out drinking.
Burgess, who had started a relationship with Ms Caven some weeks after she gave birth to Zaiidyn, had been left in charge of the baby for just over an hour while the mother took a four-year-old girl to hospital after she fell and struck her head on a coffee table.
Advocate depute Iain McSporran, prosecuting, said "The accused was left to care for the baby, including giving him a feed."
The court heard that the accused had previously fed the child without incident.
However, when she returned home she realised something was wrong.
The child's lips and face were turning blue and he appeared completely lifeless.
Ms Caven picked up her son and placed him on the couch and gently shook him, but there was no response.
The accused carried out chest compressions, while she phoned 999.
The baby's parents were described by hospital staff as "hysterical and distraught" in contrast to Burgess who appeared unconcerned, detached and very matter of fact.
The court was told that a CT scan of the baby's head and spine at Dumfries showed the type of brain injury caused in baby shaking cases.
A consultant opthalmologist who examined the baby at Yorkhill Hospital confirmed the presence of haemorrhages in the eyes suggestive of a shaken baby.
He said that the extent and degree of the haemorrhaging was the worst he had seen since qualifying as a doctor in 1993.
The court heard that Ms Caven continued in a relationship with Burgess until a hearing held at Dumfries Sheriff Court led her to realise that Burgess had shaken the baby with sufficient force to cause his fatal injuries.
They are no longer in a relationship.
Mr McSporran told the court: "The Crown accepts that the accused, for some reason as yet unknown, but most probably associated with difficulty feeding the baby, suffered a loss of temper and shook him with sufficient force to cause fatal brain injuries."
Judge Lord Boyd deferred sentence until next month when defence QC Edward Targowski will give his plea in mitigation.
The show, based around a sex and spies scandal, opened to mixed reviews just before Christmas, but will close on 29 March after sluggish ticket sales.
Top-price seats in the fourth row of the Aldwych Theatre are still available for performances this weekend.
"I am very sad to see the show close," said producer Robert Fox, adding he hoped it would one day be resurrected.
The musical's opening night on 19 December was attended by stars including Dame Judi Dench, Elaine Paige, Arlene Phillips, James Corden, Jimmy Carr and film director Tom Hooper.
Critics were divided, however. The Telegraph praised the "delightful tunes" and "winning performances" but Variety said the "flaccid" production was guilty of "slack storytelling".
Based on a true story, Lord Lloyd-Webber's 20th musical focused on Stephen Ward, an osteopath and socialite who was instrumental in the Profumo sex scandal, which threatened to topple the Conservative government in 1963.
Put on trial for living off immoral earnings, Ward took an overdose of tablets and died three days after being found guilty.
The musical cost £2.5m to stage, which is relatively low for a new West End show.
But, speaking to The Telegraph shortly before it launched, Lord Lloyd-Webber admitted he was unsure whether it would be a hit.
"It's an amazing piece of work. Whether it's a commercial piece of work is another question," he said.
"I haven't had a hit in 20 years. I've written six musicals in that time. I'm resigned now to the fact that anything I do probably nobody is going to like."
The West End impresario, whose hits include Evita and Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, has had a string of shows close early.
Among them were football-themed musical The Beautiful Game and Love Never Dies, his sequel to Phantom of the Opera, which ran for a disappointing 18 months in 2010-11.
In a statement announcing the closure of Stephen Ward, producer Fox said: "Andrew has never been afraid to embrace difficult and challenging subject matters and Ward's strong and compelling story highlights a serious miscarriage of justice.
"The piece set out to explore his fascinating life as a piece of serious theatre, which has now been told to a new generation.
"I am very sad to see the show close in London but firmly believe this piece will be seen by many audiences in the future."
Phil Dollman's try gave the home side early impetus, but James Wilson crashed over in the corner in reply.
A penalty try was awarded as the Chiefs pack drove towards the line soon after the break, converted by Henry Slade.
He also kicked three penalties and Jamie Elliott's late try for Saints was no more than a consolation.
The victory lifted the Chiefs back into the top four at Leicester's expense, with Northampton remaining six points clear at the top despite what was only their fourth league defeat of the campaign.
Exeter, who won 24-18 at Franklin's Gardens in November, had England's Jack Nowell back in their side at centre, with Dollman returning at full-back.
And after Slade had kicked an early 25-metre penalty, Dollman left the Northampton defence flat-footed with two dummies in a superb run to score the game's first touchdown.
Chiefs lock Dean Mumm was then sin-binned for collapsing a scrum, but Northampton failed to make their numerical advantage count while he was off the pitch, with wing Ken Pisi spilling a pass into touch as he headed for the line.
Dollman sprinted 70 yards to touch down for the second time, but the try was ruled out for a knock-on and it was the visitors who wrapped up the first-half scoring as Wilson got the ball down before being forced into touch by Matt Jess and Slade.
Trailing only 8-5 at the interval, Saints lost Stephen Myler temporarily - the second of three of their players sin-binned during the match - for a deliberate knock-on, which Slade punished with a penalty.
He then kicked a conversion after Exeter were awarded their penalty try.
Carl Rimmer came on as a Chiefs replacement for his 50th Premiership appearance before Slade extended their lead to 16 points with another kick.
They defended superbly as Saints rallied and by the time Elliott found a way through to the corner, it was too late for the visitors, with Myler missing the conversion attempt.
Exeter head coach Rob Baxter:
"It was all about collecting some important league points because everyone has been saying that we have had the toughest run-in for the last five or six games - which is probably true - but that makes for some great games.
"If you look at the first half, it was cat and mouse, but we probably didn't make the most of the conditions; mainly because we didn't force that scrum pressure into being a try.
"But I think that we grew as the game went on and we did do well in the forward exchanges - there is no getting away from that - and ultimately that pressure counts for a lot.
"The league positions don't lie. Look at Northampton and that shows that they have been the consistent achievers and performers over the season. We are back in fourth place and that is probably about right."
Northampton director of rugby Jim Mallinder:
"There were parts of the performance that were pretty good, but we just lacked patience when we got into those really good attacking areas.
"A lot of credit to Exeter because they defended well and they took the opportunity to score that try in the first half really well.
"They put our set-piece - particularly our scrum - under some pressure. We'd talked about the quality of Exeter's scrum before the game. You can't under-estimate that because they are a big heavy pack.
"We know exactly where we are - three games to go and six points clear - so its still in our hands and we are looking forward to the challenge."
Exeter: Dollman; Whitten, Nowell, Hill, Jess; Slade, Chudley; Moon, Yeandle, Francis, Mumm (capt), Lees, Ewers, White, Waldrom.
Replacements: Rimmer for Moon (58), Taione for Yeandle (68), Brown for Francis (56), Lewis for Lees (76), Horstmann for White (25).
Not Used: Skinner, Steenson.
Sin Bin: Mumm (21).
Northampton: Wilson; Ken Pisi, George Pisi, Burrell, Elliott; Myler, Fotuali'i; Corbisiero, Hartley (capt), Denman, Manoa, Day, Wood, Clark, Dickinson.
Replacements: Tuala for Wilson (62), Stephenson for G Pisi (66), L Dickson for Fotuali'i (56), A Waller for Corbisiero (47), Haywood for Hartley (62), Mercey for Denman (47), Dowson for Manoa (72), Fisher for S Dickinson (55).
Sin Bin: Clark (35), Myler (42), A. Waller (51).
Referee: Wayne Barnes
Attendance: 12,139
Well, if you have the potential for good karma, you may consider signing up to Buddhist monk Phra Subin Paneeto's micro-lending scheme, which is spreading across Asia, as Hoang Nguyen finds out.
Meanwhile, Carolina Valladares and Mohamad Chreyteh head to Jordan to find out how aspiring businesswomen are bypassing the banks.
No collateral? No problem....
For the past 24 years, Buddhist monk Phra Subin Paneeto has been the go-to guy for Thai people who need a loan but can't go to a bank as they have no assets a financial institution would be prepared to lend against.
Phra Subin Paneeto, however, has faith in something he believes is far more powerful: the rule of karma.
In the 1980s, the monk witnessed first-hand the poverty and social problems affecting Thailand's remote towns and provinces after he embarked on a country-wide pilgrimage.
But it was not until 1992 that he could gather enough support to start a micro-lending operation to help local villagers in the southern province of Trad to deal with their money-related difficulties.
The scheme, which combines Buddhist teachings with a community-based management method, has resulted in a micro-banking network, which today holds $63m (£43m) of deposits and loans.
Borrowers take out loans for necessities such as food, clothing, medicine and home repairs. Some also seek larger sums for building houses and purchasing land for cultivation.
The scheme, known as Sajja Sasom Sab, is run as a co-operative, accepting only people who live locally. Members contribute a small amount monthly.
The reason they choose to take out loans from this scheme instead of going to banks is because banks require collateral and credit history.
However, borrowers, who are also depositors, pay low or even no interest when they take out the loans. There are conditions though. They have to find at least three guarantors to whom they are not related.
"I'd say to them the money in the community must not be lost; so people need to solve the problem together with the community, by the community and for the community. They can't take out the loan and not pay it back," Phra Subin Paneeto warns. "So anyone who is not honest, there won't be anyone willing to be his guarantor."
He believes that this screening mechanism not only ensures that all members have their say in how the scheme should work but also helps the community to come up with its own solutions to the problems members face.
"This is called the rule of karma, the joint action in the community," he says.
His micro-lending network has spread across 40 provinces in Thailand, with similar schemes introduced in neighbouring Laos and Myanmar.
He says there have been problems in remote parts of Thailand due to ageing populations and a shortage of young, educated workers. Also, much of the countryside's population relies on the agriculture sector, which does not necessarily provide social security.
Therefore any profits the scheme produces are used to take care of the elderly or the sick in the villages instead of being shared out as dividends.
"I always say: do not focus on the profit but on the welfare of the people and the community instead," Phra Subin Paneeto explains.
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Every week Raeda Jaryan drives her car to see Abu Ali, the owner of a banana tree plantation in the Jordan Valley. They greet each other cheerfully, drink tea, and later, they discuss business.
For the next half an hour, she will carefully choose the dried leaves that will adorn her handcrafted baskets.
In Jordan, a country were most women in rural areas are meant to stay at home, with little prospect for employment, Mrs Jaryan had hoped for a better future.
But Mrs Jaryan is a woman who likes to forge her own path and after taking a course on how to make baskets out of banana leaves she turned to a Microfund for Women (MFW) branch in her area asking for a loan.
She impressed them and returned home with not one, but two loans. And with that money she expanded her business, employed several women in her community, and started contributing to the income of her household.
During the past 20 years, about 125,000 women have benefited from MFW, a microfinance institution in Jordan focused on helping poor women with no assets to get out of poverty.
The programme began as a Save the Children initiative in 1994 before operating as a local NGO called the Jordanian Women's Development Society. It went through yet another change in 1999 when it was registered as a not-for-profit limited liability company.
But its success has not been the result of a smooth pathway.
"Women initially came to us in secret. It was not culturally acceptable for a woman to take out a loan. Their husbands were not happy about it and they would come and say to us, 'We are going to take this loan but please can you make sure no-one knows about it,'" says Muna Sukhtian, the chief executive of MFW.
There are 54 branches across Jordan. And, surprisingly, over time it has become common practice for men to ask for a loan too.
"That shows that changes happen," Ms Sukhtian points out.
Yet, challenges persist. Still many women in Jordan, and all over the world, have no access to financial services because they have no assets to begin with, so conventional banks will not lend money to them.
According to the UN, globally women are far less likely to have a bank account than men, with the gap widest in South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
On paper, lending money to poor women with no business experience could be seen as a very risky enterprise. But MFW hasn't found this to be a problem.
Since the scheme began, MFW has given more than 816,000 loans with 96% to women between the ages of 18 to 60. It has become one of the main microfinance institutions in the country.
But, Ms Sukhtian says, they still have a long way to go.
"We exist because we want to empower women, and it is known all over the world, women are the ones with the highest burden of financial challenges that come because of poverty."
She wants to expand the powerful enterprise throughout the region, and has no plans to slow down.
Diaz beat McGregor in their first bout in March, inflicting the 27-year-old Irishman's first defeat since 2010.
Plans for a rematch at July's UFC 200 were scrapped after a dispute between McGregor and organisers.
The fight was announced during the UFC 199 show on Saturday, where Michael Bisping became the first Briton to win a UFC title by beating Luke Rockhold.
Featherweight champion McGregor fought Diaz at 170 pounds, 25 more than his usual limit, at UFC 196 in March.
American Diaz, 31, won by submission in the second round, ending McGregor's 15-fight winning streak.
A crowd of shocked spectators watched the bird grab the boy's green hoodie during a show at Alice Springs Desert Park.
Witnesses said the bird tried to pick him up "like a small animal" before park staff moved in to help.
The boy, thought to be between six and eight years old, was left very upset but escaped with no serious injuries.
"On Wednesday, 6 July, an incident occurred at the Alice Springs Desert Park where an eagle made contact with an audience member," the park said in a statement.
"A thorough investigation regarding the circumstances behind this incident is under way and the eagle will be removed from the show while this investigation is ongoing."
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Mudranov is one of 271 Russian athletes competing in Brazil despite calls for a blanket ban on the country following evidence of state-sponsored doping.
He beat reigning world champion Yeldos Smetov, who eliminated Great Britain's Ashley McKenzie, in the final.
Meanwhile, Argentina's Paula Pareto added the Olympic crown to her world title by winning the women's -48kg.
Pareto, 30, beat South Korea's Bokyeong Jeong to claim her nation's first medal of the Games in neighbouring Brazil.
Later on Saturday, three-time European champion Mudranov, 30, won his first Olympic medal in a tight final against Smetov.
Neither man scored in the initial five-minute contest, with Mudranov eventually winning just 44 seconds into the golden score decider.
Smetov, 23, had earlier ended McKenzie's hopes of becoming Britain's first male judo medallist since Raymond Stevens at Barcelona 1992.
The 27-year-old from Surrey is ranked 20th in the world and was an outside medal chance.
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Under a little-known rule, EU citizens not in work or those looking for work must buy comprehensive insurance.
One man told the Today programme his application had been rejected, despite living in the UK since the age of 13.
Peers are now trying to change the law. The Home Office said securing the status of EU migrants was a priority.
Since the referendum in June, many EU citizens have applied for documents guaranteeing the right to live permanently in the UK.
But the documents can only be obtained by migrants who have consistently either worked, sought work, or bought the insurance for five years.
The Home Office does not remove people for failing to buy insurance, but will not issue them with the guarantee of permanent residence.
As EU migrants can use the NHS, many did not realise they needed health insurance.
Students and full-time parents are among those affected. They are worried they could be vulnerable after Britain leaves the EU.
Tim Strahlendorf moved to the UK from Germany when he was 13.
He said he had been refused a residency document because he had spent time studying in the UK without paying for health insurance.
He said: "It never would have occurred to me that anything like this could have happened."
Nina Hofmann, a married language tutor who moved from Germany to the UK in 2006, said her solicitor told her not to apply for residency because she would be refused.
She took time out of work to care for her children - Benjamin, 6, and Sophia, 8 - and had not bought health insurance.
She told Today: "It is this fear I could be asked to leave in the end sooner or later.
"Maybe not with a knock on the door but with a letter because I've fallen through the cracks."
Migrants worried
Another failed applicant for a permanent residence document was told by the Home Office she should make arrangements to leave.
The government has since re-worded the letter, and failed applicants are not removed from the country, but many are worried they could be vulnerable after Britain leaves the EU.
Liberal Democrat, Labour and crossbench peers want to amend the bill to include a fast track procedure to give EU migrants a reassurance they can live in the UK.
The rule change would give people from the European Union, European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland the right to live permanently in the UK, without having to prove they bought insurance.
The amendment has been tabled by Liberal Democrat Lord Oates, Labour's Lady Kennedy and crossbench peer Lord Cromwell.
It is one of many amendments tabled, but its backers will hope for a concession from ministers as the Lords consider the Article 50 bill.
A Home Office spokesman said EU citizens made a vital contribution and securing their status - and those of British nationals elsewhere in the EU - was a priority.
He said: "The rights of EU nationals living in the UK remain unchanged while we are a member of the European Union.
"For self-sufficient people or students and their relevant family members, it's always been the case that exercising Treaty rights includes a requirement to have comprehensive sickness insurance and sufficient resources to not become a burden on the social assistance system of the United Kingdom."
According to the Migration Observatory at Oxford University, a quarter of applications for permanent residence documents were refused in 2015.
Almost 15,000 EEA nationals received permanent residence documentation in the third quarter of 2016, after the referendum.
The bill - to give the government the authority to trigger Article 50 - was approved by 494 votes to 122 in the Commons, and now moves to the Lords.
A government source said the Lords will face an "overwhelming" public call to be abolished if it opposes the bill.
Brexit Secretary David Davis called on peers to "do their patriotic duty".
Prime Minister Theresa May wants to invoke Article 50 - the starting gun on the two-year process of the UK leaving the EU - by the end of March.
However, after a Supreme Court ruling last month, she first requires Parliament's permission.
Mr Davis said the government had seen off a series of attempts to amend the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill before MPs overwhelmingly voted on Wednesday in favour of passing it unamended.
The bill must now be approved by peers, who will begin debating it after the Lords returns from recess on 20 February.
The Liberal Democrats have vowed to continue trying to amend the legislation after it comes to the Lords, while pro-Europe Tory and Labour peers may also try and make changes to the bill.
Mr Davis said he expected the House of Lords to "do its job and to do its patriotic duty and actually give us the right to go on and negotiate that new relationship".
However, a government source told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg on Wednesday: "If the Lords don't want to face an overwhelming public call to be abolished they must get on and protect democracy and pass this bill."
On Thursday morning a No 10 source distanced Downing Street from that view, saying peers had an important role in scrutinising and debating the bill "and we welcome them exercising this role".
BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said: "It suggests ministers are mindful that threatening peers may simply fuel opposition - and prompt a constitutional clash - that would be a massive distraction from delivering Brexit."
Shadow business secretary Clive Lewis was one of 52 Labour MPs to defy party orders to back the bill in the Commons and he resigned from the front bench.
He said he could not back the bill, given his Norwich constituency voted 56.2% to 43.8% to remain in the EU in June's referendum.
Eleven Labour junior shadow ministers and three party whips also voted against the bill.
Leader Jeremy Corbyn said he understood the difficulties the vote presented some of his MPs but said they had been ordered to back the Article 50 because the party would not "block Brexit".
Mr Corbyn will make decisions on whether to sack frontbenchers who defied the whip and who will replace the shadow cabinet ministers who resigned in the next few days, a Labour source said.
Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, who last week blamed a migraine for a failure to attend a key vote on the bill, backed the triggering of Article 50.
She told BBC's Newsnight: "I respect the result of the referendum and no-one wanted to thwart it in a perverse kind of way.
"But we need to be clear, this is not a Tony Benn Brexit, this is Donald Trump Brexit, and it's got a very ugly side."
Former Chancellor Ken Clarke was again the only Conservative to vote against the two-clause bill.
Earlier the bill survived several attempts to change its wording and add extra conditions.
These included Labour MP Harriet Harman's bid to protect the residence rights of EU citizens in the UK, which was outvoted by 332 votes to 290, with three Conservative MPs rebelling.
Public Services Minister Leighton Andrews confirmed plans to cut the 22 councils to eight or nine.
The shake-up could result in the loss of up to 1,900 jobs as administration services are slimmed down.
But Bob Bright, the Labour leader of Newport council, complained the plans were advancing without "meaningful discussion".
The Draft Local Government (Wales) Bill, published on Tuesday, forms the basis of consultation but will not become law until after the assembly election next May.
The proposals to bring back bigger county councils are broadly similar to pre-1996 arrangements.
The up-front costs of the merger would be between £97m and £246m, but the Welsh government said it expected that will have paid for itself within two to three years.
The number of councillors would fall from 1,250 to between 700 and 900, although the final decision would be taken by the independent Boundary Commission.
And there would be fewer administrative jobs in local government, with the current number of around 9,000 expected to fall by about 1,400 and 1,900.
Decisions on whether those staff are made redundant, offered early retirement or given new jobs would be taken by the new councils.
Reducing the number of administrative posts would cost up to £40m, with redundancies and early retirement for senior managers costing an additional £6.6m to £12.4m.
Mr Andrews said: "Our vision for local government is for activist councils, engaged in delivering modern, accessible, high quality public services with their local communities."
He added: "There is a real opportunity here for local government to make significant savings for taxpayers and if councils work together, plan well and involve their staff there is the opportunity for savings even greater than the £650m we have identified.
"This means more money for front line public services, more money to invest in communities and more money to support local economic prosperity."
Mr Andrews has previously called the case for fewer local authorities "compelling", but the plans have been criticised by the body representing local authorities, some Labour council leaders and an ex-Labour minister.
Dyfed would be brought back by re-merging Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion, and West Glamorgan would return by joining Swansea once more with Neath Port Talbot.
Cardiff would merge with the Vale of Glamorgan, while a merger between Caerphilly, Torfaen, Blaenau Gwent, Newport and Monmouthshire would create Wales' biggest council, with a population of nearly 600,000.
Bridgend would join Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil.
In the eight-council model, Anglesey, Gwynedd and Conwy would merge, as would Denbighshire, Wrexham and Flintshire.
The alternative would see Conwy and Denbighshire merging.
Newport council leader Bob Bright told BBC Wales the lack of "meaningful discussion" with local authorities about the plans "horrifies me".
"We are heading towards this re-organisation in a lemming-like way without any research of the costs and whether it will deliver what the people of Wales deserve and expect," he said.
"If Newport is subsumed into a huge conglomeration, I believe the people of Newport will be short-changed.
"We are in a position of providing regeneration, jobs and economic growth which will radiate out from the city into the valleys and all this will be stunted if we become subsumed into this bigger local government."
Conservative Shadow Local Government Minister Janet Finch-Saunders responded: "We heard similar rhetoric ahead of Labour's last NHS reorganisation, which led to huge deficits and unprecedented pressure on frontline staff.
"Communities will rightly question whether these figures can be trusted and it's local people who continue to be ignored by Labour."
Liberal Democrat AM Peter Black said Mr Andrews was "trying to stitch this process up to benefit Labour", and called for the Boundary Commission to be given the job of making a "fresh map".
Plaid Cymru's Simon Thomas said Labour's "hotch-potch of different educational consortia, health boards and other bodies" with different boundaries proved it was "not capable of planning strategically for a number of different services".
UKIP Vale of Glamorgan councillor Kevin Mahoney said: "While we are all for a reduction in bureaucracy and fewer politicians, this is an arbitrary figure plucked from thin air by failed minister Leighton Andrews, with absolutely no rationale behind the proposed mergers."
Consultation on Welsh ministers' plans is open until 15 February, with a bill due to be presented to the assembly in the autumn if Labour is still in power after the election.
The 500 pages that make up this draft bill will form part of what Labour hope will be an oven-ready plan to dramatically change councils if political agreement can be reached after the election.
And therein lies the problem. The opposition will describe this as the cart before the horse, particularly as agreement has been so difficult to achieve so far.
Nevertheless, there are details here which will be at the centre of a major election debate.
Under these plans, a new administration will have around six months to formally start the process by introducing the legislation in order to hit the timeline of eight or nine new councils being fully operational by April 2020.
The figures that stand out are annual projected savings of £60 to £90m a year; a reduction in "backroom posts" of between 1,400 and 1,900; and a cut in the number of the existing 1,200 councillors - on a basic salary of £13,000 a year - to between 700 and 900.
Officials say the current 22 councils have senior management teams of between eight and 15. They say the senior management teams of the new eight or nine bodies will be the same size.
These will now be pored over in the coming months.
Stokes, 25, has been suffering with a knee injury since returning from the Indian Premier League and was rested for Monday's loss against South Africa.
He missed last year's Test series with Sri Lanka after knee surgery, plus two Tests with Pakistan over a calf injury.
"The worry is how much Ben has played," Anderson told BBC Radio 5 live.
"At some point, you think something is going to break down," the 34-year-old said on the Tuffers and Vaughan Cricket Show.
"It is a worry when someone so young has had a problem with his knee and he's still getting that when he bowls.
"He will play with a broken leg - he loves playing, he charges round the outfield and is a fantastic player for the side. But it's possible he might need holding back."
It's a little bit concerning. He gives you so much, he's the lynchpin of that England side. It's crucial for him to be firing on all cylinders.
Durham player Stokes showed signs of his knee problem in the first one-day international against South Africa on 24 May. And despite making a century in the second ODI to help England seal the series, he only bowled three overs before being rested.
He is set to bowl in England's Champions Trophy opener against Bangladesh at the Oval, but his workload will be determined by a fitness test on Thursday morning. He did bowl in practice on Wednesday.
"It sounds like it is an issue but they can manage him. Getting five or six overs out of him would be a bonus," added the Lancashire player, who also spoke about his own recovery from a groin injury suffered in May.
Anderson has not played in four of England's past 10 Test matches after picking up a shoulder injury last summer, and his fitness for the first Test against South Africa from 6 July had been in doubt.
But he said: "I'm hoping to get a game for Lancashire before the first Test. It feels good at the minute and I've had a couple of weeks of rehab."
The Dens Park club, second bottom in the Premiership, sacked Paul Hartley on Monday.
The Dark Blues' next fixture is away to Motherwell, who are one place and two points above them, on 29 April.
"Yes, we're in a poor position at the minute but, equally, we're not far off of [seventh-placed] Kilmarnock," said McCann, 42.
"I'm excited. I appreciate the opportunity, I'm not going into anything lightly.
"It's not a big risk for me, it's maybe a big risk for the club - a lot of guys will think because I've not been in a job before.
"This opportunity was just too good to turn down."
Dundee are on a run of seven straight defeats, with Hamilton Academical climbing above them after Saturday's 2-0 win at Dens Park.
Scot McCann, who had a previous coaching spell at Dunfermline Athletic, has worked as a pundit covering Scottish football for Sky Sports.
Managing director John Nelms said McCann was "first choice" for the job and the new manager insists the current Dundee squad is "absolutely good enough".
"I am surprised at the position they're in," he said.
"I'm not going to kid anyone on and say, 'it's just going to be easy' because it's not. There's a lot of hard work ahead. The other sides in and around us will have that same mentality. It's a massive job.
"I think most people know the type of person I am, type of character, the standards that I liked to have when I was playing and training - those qualities I would like to think I'll bring to the football club.
"It's my job now to sit with the players and try and get them to understand the requirements that's going to get them that extra yard or that extra wee bit that's going to be enough to see us win games of football."
McCann also said he was "massively confident" of getting Dundee away from relegation trouble.
He started his playing career as a winger at Dundee in 1992 and enjoyed stints at Hearts, Rangers, Southampton and Falkirk before ending his career at Dens Park in 2011. He also won 26 caps, scoring three international goals.
And McCann's former Falkirk and Scotland team-mate Jackie McNamara has backed Dundee's appointment.
"Neil has got great experience in the game," the former Dundee United and Partick Thistle boss told BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.
"I don't think Neil would do this if he wasn't confident. The feelings he has for the club, the affinity he has with them, I don't think he would even consider it if he didn't feel he was confident of getting a reaction from the players inside the dressing room.
"He's obviously an intelligent lad, he's got good ideas in the game. He's quite a fiery character, Neil. I always thought he'd go into management.
"There's five massive games there for them to keep them in the division. They're capable of doing that."
Jeff Cuthbert said the police precept, which is collected with council tax, is likely to be increased each year due to Home Office cuts.
Other Welsh forces are, or plan to be, at similar levels.
The Home Office said the police funding settlement for 2016/17 was "a good deal".
Mr Cuthbert said he had "little choice" if there were further reductions from the UK government.
"Nobody wants to pay more, whether it's council tax, or the police precept - we understand that absolutely," he said.
"But if the UK government continue with their austerity programme and continue to reduce the central grant to us then we have little choice other than to turn to the local population for that input."
In the Gwent Police area the council tax precept was set at £220.06 for a band D property in 2016-17.
That compares to £207.85 for South Wales, £200.07 in Dyfed-Powys and £240.12 in North Wales Police force areas.
Gwent Police has reduced staffing levels by 16% between 2012 and 2015 - the second highest reduction in Wales and England.
And Mr Cuthbert said in five years, if projected 2% cuts from the Home Office continued, about 50% of the Gwent Police budget would have to come from the precept, compared to about 30% in 2008.
He said any increase would not go ahead without explanation or consultation.
Dyfed-Powys Police is also predicting nearly half of its budget - about £47m - will come from residents by 2019, with the remaining £49m coming from the UK government.
North Wales Police already raises 50% of its income from the police precept.
South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), Alun Michael, said he too was being "pushed in the direction" of raising 50% of the force's budget directly from taxpayers.
He said: "Cuts by the Home Office are effectively a tax on local rate payers - we've trimmed back on every part of our operation."
Mr Michael said the rises in the police precept would be used to maintain services and raise officer numbers back up to around 3,000, after about 600 posts were cut in recent years.
The force has previously said it will face a £58m funding gap by 2020 unless efficiency savings are made and precepts are increased.
A spokesman for the Home Office said: "The police funding settlement for 2016/17 is a good deal and overall police spending has been protected in real terms.
"The settlement ensures that no Police and Crime Commissioner is seeing a reduction in their level of funding in cash this year compared to the previous year as long as they increased their local police council tax precept."
They said it was a "matter for PCCs" to decide the level of precept to support local policing priorities and protect the public.
Two studies, in the journal Cell, found a mutation increased the virus' ability to infect human cells fourfold.
Scientists have argued the mutation may have been "pivotal" in the outbreak becoming the largest in recorded history.
There were 28,616 Ebola cases in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
And 11,310 people died during the outbreak.
Researchers at the University of Nottingham and the University of Massachusetts analysed the genetic code of nearly 2,000 Ebola virus samples.
What they noticed was a change on the surface of the virus that allowed it to lock on to human cells more easily.
Prof Jeremy Luban, University of Massachusetts Medical School, told BBC World Service's Science in Action: "The mutation makes the virus more infectious.
"It arose early in the outbreak, perhaps three or four months in."
Prof Jonathan Ball, from the University of Nottingham, said an up to fourfold increase in infectivity was "not trivial".
He told the BBC News website: "When a virus is introduced into a new environment, a new niche, it will try to adapt to that new environment.
"That just happened to coincide with widescale spread of the virus - this was a mutation that appeared when the virus took off."
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa was not just the biggest of all time, but it was bigger than all other outbreaks combined.
One reason for Ebola's explosive spread was that the virus managed to get into dense urban cities such as Monrovia in Liberia.
But Prof Luban added: "One possibility is this mutation, which has never been seen before, in some way contributed to the severity of the outbreak and answering that question conclusively is probably something we cannot do.
"[But] it is hard to imagine the mutation was not relevant."
The research provided other insights into the changes taking place in the Ebola virus.
As the virus adapted to more readily infected people it became less able to infect its likely natural host species - fruit bats.
And the people infected with the mutant form of the virus were more likely to die than those infected with the original version.
This runs slightly contrary to the prevailing thought that as Ebola spent more time in people it would evolve to become less deadly in order to help it spread.
Dr Ed Wright, from the University of Westminster, commented: "One of these changes occurred around the time when the number of cases started to dramatically increase.
"This gives rise to the possibility that this change could have been pivotal in the virus' ability to infect humans and ultimately the scale of the outbreak.
"However, these studies do not definitively answer the latter question."
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The injured juvenile bird was found by walkers near Errwood Reservoir, in Derbyshire, on 5 September and taken to a vet in Ashbourne.
The bird died under anaesthetic while being X-rayed. Post-mortem tests showed it had been hit with shotgun shot.
Sarah Fowler, chief executive of the Peak District National Park, said she was "appalled" by the incident.
It is believed the shooting could have taken place about six days before the bird was found.
Ms Fowler, who was speaking on behalf of the Peak District Bird of Prey Initiative, said: "This case shows what we are up against in trying to reverse [bird of prey] fortunes.
"It is incredibly difficult to catch someone in the act or to collect evidence and make a case for prosecution."
Sgt Darren Belfield said persecution is a "problem" in some of Derbyshire's upland areas with offences taking place away from public view in isolated areas, often in the early hours of the morning.
There have been a number of incidents of raptor attacks within the Peak District this year.
In April, footage emerged of a man apparently trying to attract a protected hen harrier with a decoy bird on National Trust land in the Peak District.
Derbyshire Police were unable to secure a prosecution but the incident led to the trust terminating a grouse shooting lease on its land for the first time.
The force said recent surveys showed seven sites in the Peak District were occupied by peregrine falcon pairs and one by a single juvenile female in the Dark Peak area of the park. Two pairs have bred successfully this year.
West Mercia Police admitted failings over its previous dealings with Jamie Reynolds, who was later jailed for hanging 17-year-old Georgia Williams.
The force called in the police watchdog because Jason Conroy allegedly throttled a teacher in March 2013.
He was later jailed for strangling 18-year-old Melissa Mathieson in Bristol.
A spokesman for the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said: "We received a referral from West Mercia Police in January 2015.
"It concerned the police handling of allegations made against Jason Conroy in connection with an incident in Shropshire in March 2013.
"The IPCC investigation was paused due to the criminal prosecution of Mr Conroy but has now resumed following his convictions."
Reynolds, described in court as having morbid sexual fantasies, tried to strangle a girl in 2008, before going on to hang Georgia five years later.
The force and social services were criticised in a serious case review last week after it emerged they knew about the earlier attack.
A subsequent investigation resulted in misconduct meetings for four officers and a member of police staff.
Reynolds is now serving a rare whole-life term in prison after a judge said he had the potential to become a serial killer.
Conroy allegedly throttled a teacher at a school in Shropshire in March 2013, but it was not reported to police at the time.
A West Mercia Police spokesman said: "Police were made aware of the incident several months later as an officer attended the address for a separate matter."
It is understood the officer advised the victim no action could be taken as a time limit had passed.
Conroy, 18, strangled Melissa Mathieson last year at the Bristol centre where they both lived and was jailed for a minimum of 19 years.
His trial at Bristol Crown Court was told he had indicated as a child he wanted to have sex with a dead woman and he was described as having an "abnormal sexual drive".
Chancellor Phillip Hammond will share £250m between the devolved governments in Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast.
The Welsh Government could use the money to build or repair schools and hospitals.
Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford said he wants permission to borrow more.
Plaid Cymru MP Jonathan Edwards said he believed "Wales is being asked to settle for crumbs from the Westminster table."
UKIP AM Mark Reckless called for a plan on how to spend money saved by Brexit.
Sources in the UK Government have said Mr Hammond will announce that over a billion pounds will be spent to improve roads in England.
As a result, £250m will be made available to share between the nations.
The Welsh Government does not have to spend the money on roads, and could use it for infrastructure projects.
Mr Drakeford said it was "a prime opportunity for the UK government to move away from its damaging policy of austerity and provide the fiscal stimulus needed to support growth".
He also said the proposed investment deal for the Swansea Bay region and a growth deal for north Wales "need to be taken forward as a matter of priority".
A so-called "city deal" for the Cardiff region was approved by former Chancellor George Osborne in the 2015 autumn statement.
Mr Drakeford added that air passenger duty should also be devolved.
"Despite real-terms cuts to our overall budget by the UK government, we are doing all we can to protect our public services from the worst effects of ongoing austerity and fiscal uncertainty," added Mr Drakeford.
"Now is the time for a new approach - that's why we want the UK government to end its austerity politics and provide a much-needed infrastructure investment stimulus."
Plaid Cymru treasury spokesman Mr Edwards said: "Westminster's austerity programme has starved our economy and the chancellor must acknowledge this and act accordingly.
"Some parts of the UK have seen major infrastructure investment but Wales is asked to settle for crumbs from the Westminster table," he added.
"The chancellor must use his Autumn Statement to get a handle on the economy and make it work for all parts of the UK, rather than just the south east of England."
UKIP economy spokesman Mark Reckless AM said his party wanted to see a "fiscally responsible" approach from the government.
He said this would include a reduction in overseas aid, plans for how to deploy money saved from leaving the European Union and abolition of the Severn Bridge tolls within the current Parliament.
The Welsh Conservatives have also been asked to comment.
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Eoin Bradley made it 2-0 eight minutes later, poking in from close-range after Joel Cooper had played the ball in.
Chris Casement pulled a goal back for the Ports but then Bradley made it 3-1 and Portadown's Robert Garrett was sent-off or two yellows cards.
Andy Kilmartin netted a close-range fourth for Glenavon in stoppage time.
When the score was at 2-0 in the second half, Portadown had lost veteran keeper David Miskelly who appeared to suffer a blow to the head.
Miskelly received treatment on the pitch before being replaced by substitute goalkeeper Martin Mallon.
Garrett's dismissal was in the 71st minute and was Portadown's ninth red card in the Irish Premiership this season.
The defeat leaves Portadown nine points adrift of a place in the top six.
During celebrations for the Aymara New Year, Mr Morales said that he found the Gregorian calendar "untidy".
He suggested that Bolivia "reclaim its ancestral calendar as part of the rebuilding of our identity".
Mr Morales is from the Aymara indigenous group.
It is not the first time the Bolivian government has suggested changes to the way time is measured.
Two years ago, the clock on the facade of the Congress in La Paz was reversed so that its hands turned left and the numbers were inverted to go from one to 12 anti-clockwise.
The government dubbed it "clock of the south".
On Tuesday, Mr Morales said the indigenous calendar, in which a year has 13 months of 28 days each, was much "tidier" than the Gregorian one, in which the length of the months can vary between 28 and 31 days.
The 21 of June, the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere, is considered "day zero" in the indigenous calendar and marks the beginning of the new year.
On Tuesday, many Bolivians celebrated the arrival of the year 5,524.
The year is calculated by adding the number of years which have passed since the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas in 1492 to the 5,000 years indigenous people are estimated to have lived in the region.
President Morales declared 21 June a national holiday in 2010.
Traditionally, he sees in the new year at the archaeological ruins at Tiahuanaco, the site of a pre-Columbian fortress.
But due to knee surgery, this year the president held a ceremony at the presidential palace instead.
Members of the EIS Further Education Lecturers' Association are taking part in a fourth day of action.
The union wants to even out pay differences but Colleges Scotland say pay could not be separated from issues like holiday entitlement.
Talks to resolve the dispute will continue on Thursday and Friday.
EIS general secretary Larry Flanagan said: "The EIS engaged in lengthy discussions with Colleges Scotland yesterday [Wednesday] with a view to finding a resolution to this dispute.
"There is a shared belief that progress was made and the EIS is meeting with Colleges Scotland again today and on Friday to continue talks."
A spokeswoman for the Colleges Scotland Employers' Association said: "Both parties believe that we have made progress and have agreed to meet with the EIS tomorrow and Friday to continue talks."
Lecturers were on strike on 27 April, 3 May and on Tuesday. More days of action are planned over the coming weeks if the dispute is not resolved.
Union members began industrial action in March last year over claims that there were disparities of up to £10,000 a year in pay at different colleges.
EIS said lecturers did not want to strike but had been forced to by the refusal of management to honour an agreement reached more than a year ago.
However, Colleges Scotland has insisted the offer it put forward was fair.
Witnesses said the rocket was only briefly visible before making its way into the clouds.
The launch was made from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The rocket booster successfully landed on the ground nine minutes after taking off.
The touchdown is part of the company's strategy of returning rockets to earth so they can be reused rather than jettisoning them in the ocean after a single launch.
Moments after the rocket landed, the SpaceX Dragon supply ship successfully reached orbit, prompting cheers inside the SpaceX Mission Control room.
The Dragon is now making its way to the International Space Station, and is expected to arrive on Wednesday.
On 14 January SpaceX resumed flights by launching a Falcon 9 vehicle from the Vandenberg Air Force Base on the California coast.
It was the first mission by the company since one of its vehicles exploded on the launch pad in September.
Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, wants his company to be at the forefront of the race involving several companies to deploy satellite-based internet services over the next few years.
The company also has a long queue of customers all waiting for a ride to orbit - including America's civil space agency (Nasa), the US military and multiple outfits in the commercial sector.
But September's launch pad mishap was a spectacular reminder of just how unpredictable rockets can be sometimes.
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The link-up will see a school-based basketball league set up for boys and girls aged 11-12, with each co-ed side representing one of the 30 NBA teams.
Players will be kitted out in their corresponding NBA team-branded jerseys.
Squads will be divided into conferences and divisions with a playoffs series ending in a final - a similar format to the NBA.
With the league running from October through December, the programme will aim to teach youngsters the fundamentals of the game, as well as encouraging teamwork, fitness and healthy living.
"We are pleased to partner with Basketball Scotland to promote youth basketball development in Scotland through the launch of our first junior NBA league," said NBA EMEA associate vice president of basketball operations Neal Meyer.
"Together we will offer a programme that fosters healthy competition, teaches the values of the game, and provides an opportunity for children to have fun while learning more about the sport."
During the 2016-17 academic year, there were four junior NBA basketball leagues in the UK, with two based in London, one based in Manchester and another in Birmingham.
Scotland will now join a list of countries to have an NBA junior league, including China, Italy, Spain, Canada, Sweden and Brazil.
"Basketball Scotland are both humbled and excited by the opportunity to partner with the NBA to deliver their junior NBA programme here in Scotland," said Basketball Scotland head of education and development Derek O'Riordan.
"The team is looking forward to engaging with local kids who will benefit from this inspiring programme. The partnership will enable us to use the brand recognition behind the NBA to raise the profile of basketball in areas of Scotland not synonymous or familiar with the sport.
"It is also a ringing endorsement for us as an organisation, and a federation, to be given the prestige of running the junior NBA basketball league. Credit has to go to all the staff at Basketball Scotland for making this happen."
The designer, fired by the Dior fashion house over the affair, said he had no recollection of the two events and denied being racist.
Galliano apologised for his behaviour at a one-day trial in June.
He blamed drug and alcohol addictions for his outburst.
The BBC's Christian Fraser, in Paris, says the greatest punishment has been the damage to Galliano's career; he was sacked by Dior after his arrest and the cost to his reputation has been far bigger than any fine a court can impose.
Our correspondent says the judges were convinced that this was a man who needed help rather than punishment.
A lawyer for Galliano said after the ruling: "Mr Galliano is relieved. Relieved that these eight months are behind him. He is looking forward to a future with understanding and forgiveness, hopefully, and to put all of this behind him."
Galliano did not attend Thursday's sentencing.
In addition to the suspended fines, Galliano was ordered to pay a symbolic euro in damages to each of his victims and to five anti-racism groups who were also complainants. He will also pay legal costs for the plaintiffs.
Galliano had been charged with "public insults based on origin, religious affiliation, race or ethnicity". The offences carried a maximum sentence of six months in jail, but prosecutors did not ask for the designer to be sent to prison.
The fines related to incidents on the evenings of 8 October 2010 and 24 February 2011 at La Perle cafe in the Marais district of Paris.
During his trial on 22 June, the court heard how Galliano harangued museum curator Geraldine Bloch about being Jewish, in the February incident.
He also hurled racist insults at her friend, who is of South Asian origin, for 45 minutes before police came to break up the argument, the court heard.
In a third incident, prosecutors also showed the court an amateur video of Galliano, while drunk, declaring a love for Hitler.
The designer, 50, did not have to enter a plea to the charges at the hearing, but gave mitigating statements to the court about the incident.
He told the court: "They are not views that I hold or believe in. I apologise for the sadness this whole affair has caused."
Galliano blamed mounting pressure at work and said he had developed a crippling addiction to alcohol, Valium and sleeping pills.
So common were these drinking binges his chauffeur was "trained" to telephone a lawyer if the rows became too heated, the court was told.
Galliano says he has undertaken treatment for his addictions.
Galliano took over the creative helm of Dior in 1996 and won British Fashion Designer of the Year on four occasions.
The retailer tweeted the display was "horrible" and "truly awful," and said it would investigate how it came to be.
The image has been widely shared on Reddit and Twitter, with many users questioning how it had happened.
In recent years, the US has seen a number of deadly school shootings.
Charles Crowson, a spokesman for Walmart, told the BBC: "What's seen in this photograph would never be acceptable in our stores.
"We regret this situation and are looking into how it could have happened."
The man has been held on suspicion of "unauthorised access" to a computer, said the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (Serocu) in a statement.
VTech was hit in mid-November when servers holding its customer information were breached.
In total, details of more than six million people are believed to have gone astray.
"We are still at the early stages of the investigation and there is still much work to be done," said Craig Jones, head of the cyber crime unit at Serocu.
"Cybercrime is an issue which has no boundaries and affects people on a local, regional and global level."
In the attack, servers used to support VTech's Learning Lodge app were compromised. The software lets registered customers download extra content such as games and e-books to their handheld devices.
VTech firm sells a wide range of electronic products ranging from toy cars and interactive garages to cameras, games, e-books and tablets.
The Learning Lodge database logged names, email addresses, encrypted passwords, IP (internet protocol) numbers and other personal data. Some of the information was about children including names, dates of birth and gender.
No credit card data was stored in the compromised database.
Details on customers from all over world, including the US, UK, France and China, were taken.
Some of the data is believed to have been posted briefly online before being removed.
When details about the extent of the data loss became known security expert Troy Hunt said he had "run out of superlatives to even describe how bad" it was.
VTech is just one of a growing roster of firms that have suffered data breaches in recent months. Pub chain Wetherspoons and telecommunications firm TalkTalk both recently lost data in attacks.
The woman was in Cadogan Street at about 05:00 when she was attacked by a man.
Police said it was understood that the victim, her friend and the man then boarded a number 61 bus on Hope Street at about 06:18.
The man was described as in his 20s, sallow-skinned and wearing dark clothing.
Det Insp Diane Caldwell said: "We are looking to speak to anyone that was travelling on the number 61 bus around this time who may have witnessed a disturbance involving two women and a man.
"Officers are carrying out inquiries locally, examining CCTV and patrols have been stepped up around the city centre to provide reassurance to members of the public."
Okaka, 27, scored 17 goals last season as Anderlecht reached the last 16 of the Europa League and finished third in the Belgian Pro League.
He also had a four-month loan spell at Fulham in 2010, scoring twice in 11 Premier League appearances.
The ex-Roma player has also scored once in four appearances for Italy but missed out on a place at Euro 2016.
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The mammals are not native to the islands, but in 1974 seven were released on South Uist to eat slugs.
Over the years the population grew and conservationists found the creatures eating eggs of ground-nesting birds.
A project to tackle the problem began in 2001, but SNH now wants to step up the trapping and removal operation.
Hedgehogs are found on South Uist and Benbecula.
SNH said it had started investigating sources of funding for a large-scale eradication project.
The plan, still at an early stage, would build on previous work to catch the hedgehogs and transport them to the mainland for release.
The effort to control hedgehogs followed declines in numbers of ground-nesting birds such as dunlins, ringed plover and redshank.
The Uist Wader Project was launched in 2001.
Initially hedgehogs were culled, but this was soon stopped and Uist Hedgehog Rescue was launched to trap and relocate the animals.
Since 2002, hundreds of hedgehogs have been relocated.
SNH is also involved in other projects to control non-native species, including stoats in Orkney and mink in the Western Isles.
Barker has had recent success on the track, including individual victory in the 25km points race at the World Championships in April in Hong Kong and team pursuit Olympic gold at Rio 2016.
Barker's attention will be back to the road on Thursday, 22 June.
"I am feeling a bit nervous," Barker told BBC Sport Wales.
Barker, 22, had success off the track on a global scale when she won the world road junior time trial in 2012.
"I have missed the Nationals the last couple of years for various reasons, either because of the Olympics or injury or illness," said Barker.
"I have not actually done one for a while so I am really looking forward to it."
Barker will take part in the time trial on Thursday and the road race on Sunday, 25 June.
"Training has been going well and I have been enjoying having a slightly new focus for this year and it has kept it quite interesting," said Barker.
"I am mainly focusing on the time trial at this event and aiming for a podium," said Barker.
"The time trial is my goal for this season so it will help set me up to get selected for bigger races, if I can get a good performance out this week.
"In the road race I am not sure where to go for that.
"There is a big hill in the race which doesn't suit me very well."
Barker is not the only Welsh interest in the Isle of Man with Luke Rowe and Owain Doull competing for Team Sky and Scott Davies aiming for a fourth successive Under-23 time trial title.
"I would like to think I have a good chance of defending my title and it would mean a lot," said Davies.
"I am the first person to win it three time in a row. To win it four times you write yourselves into the history books."
Davies, 21, was forced out of action for two months this year with a virus before returning this month with a fourth-place finish in the Giro D'Italia Under-23 race.
The Carmarthen cyclist is being lined up as a key figure in the Wales road squad for the Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast next April with Rowe, Doull and Geraint Thomas set to miss out because of Team Sky commitments.
But Davies might himself be unavailable if he realises his dream of riding on the World Tour.
"I would love to ride (in the Commonwealth Games)," said Davies.
"It is a goal of mine as it stands but ultimately it depends on what team I am riding for next season.
"If I achieve my long-term goal of being on the World Tour, who knows whether I would be available?
"I will have to wait and see what team I am riding for next season. It's ongoing and I have had no offers yet."
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Many people are unaccounted for, and loved ones have appealed on social media for information.
Jessica, aged 12, is believed to have become separated from her family when the blaze broke out.
Her aunt Ana Ospina says they still haven't heard from her, but they have been calling hospitals as they believe she may have been taken in for treatment.
Actor Noel Clarke, who grew up in the area, is one of many social media users appealing for information on her whereabouts.
Mo Tuccu, a British national from Eritrea, was visiting friends or family at the Grenfell tower with his wife Amalahmedin and three-year-old daughter Amayah.
They had gone to break their Ramadan fast.
A colleague at the Red PR consultancy - where he has worked as a security guard for 10 years - said he was due to win an award for his service to the company.
The company tweeted an appeal for news of his whereabouts earlier today.
Artist Khadija Saye, 24, is a 20th floor resident of Grenfell tower.
Khadija had been filmed for a BBC documentary
Labour MP David Lammy was one of the many appealing for information about her whereabouts. His wife is her employer and mentor.
He tweeted: "If you have any information about Khadija Saye pls contact me. She is our dear friend, a beautiful soul and emerging artist."
Khadija's mother Mary Mendy is also missing
One family from the 17th floor has five people missing. Husna Begum and four other members of her family were last heard of at 03:00 BST.
The family of 66-year-old retired lorry driver Tony Disson told the BBC he lived on the 22nd floor of Grenfell Tower.
Mr Disson, who has lived in the property for eight years, phoned his son at 03:30 BST and said he was being told to stay in his flat.
He has three sons, four grandchildren, and another on the way.
His family say they have been calling hospitals to locate his whereabouts and posted an urgent appeal for any information.
Mariem Elgwahry, 27, is a marketing manager who is believed to have last spoken to someone at 02:30 BST.
Her friend posted this picture with the message: "Seeking any information on our missing friend. She was on the 19th floor."
Ali Yawar Jafari.82, lived on the 11th floor of Grenfell Tower with his wife and daughter.
His son Hamid says his father had a heart condition and had difficulty walking.
His daughter Nadia was visiting on Tuesday evening, and when the fire broke out she got into the lift with him.
But they separated on the 10th floor, and the family have not been able to contact him since.
Mr Jafari has lived in the tower for 16 years. He is a father of six children and seven grandchildren.
The family of 56-year-old Denis Murphy say they last heard from him in the early hours of Tuesday morning sometime between 01:30 and 02:00 BST.
He called from his flat on the 14th floor and said he couldn't breathe because of the smoke.
His family say they have not heard anything since and have been frantically contacting hospitals and care centres.
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Speaking in Singapore, the prime minister vowed to expose the use of "anonymous shell companies" to buy luxury UK properties - often in London.
The PM said his message was "London is not a place to stash your dodgy cash".
Corruption, he added, was "a cancer which is at the heart of so many of the world's problems" and must be tackled.
Mr Cameron is on a four-day tour of South East Asia. On Monday, he announced the UK and Indonesia had agreed measures to counter the "shared enemy" of Islamic State (IS) extremism.
Later in the trip he will travel to Malaysia and Vietnam.
He has been accompanied by 31 British business leaders in an attempt to drum up trade with the UK and has also discussed the fight against terrorism with his counterparts.
Describing corruption as "the enemy of progress", he called for a "global effort" to tackle it, saying the world has "looked the other way for too long".
Citing the steps taken by the UK and Singapore to tackle corruption as part of enforcing a rules-based financial and legal system, Mr Cameron said a zero tolerance approach boosted trust and could improve business profitability and economic growth.
A 2014 report by anti-poverty organisation One said an estimated $1tn (£600bn) a year was being taken out of poor countries because of corruption, warning of the use of phantom firms and money laundering.
And last week the National Crime Agency said foreign criminals were pushing up house prices in the UK by laundering billions of pounds through the purchase of expensive properties.
In his speech, Mr Cameron said properties in the UK, particularly in London, "are being bought by people overseas through anonymous shell companies, some with plundered or laundered cash".
Shell companies are non-trading companies that serve a particular purpose for their owners.
More than 100,000 UK property titles are registered to overseas companies, with more than 36,000 properties in London owned by offshore firms.
About £122bn of property in England and Wales is owned by offshore companies.
The government is to publish Land Registry data later this year, setting out which foreign companies own land and property in England and Wales. It will also consider forcing a foreign company bidding for a government contract to "publicly state who really owns it".
While the majority of foreign-owned business investing in Britain had "nothing to hide" and were welcome, the rules needed to be more transparent to counter those who were seeking to launder "their ill-gotten gains without being tracked down".
"There is no place for dirty money in Britain," he said.
"Indeed, there should no place for dirty money anywhere. London is not a place to stash your dodgy cash."
Welcoming the pledge, Laura Taylor, head of advocacy at Christian Aid, said it was "another step forward in the battle for greater transparency worldwide".
"Countering corruption is of fundamental importance in the fight against global poverty because of its impact on developing countries," she added.
Diane Sheard, UK director of One, said: "Lifting this veil of secrecy will help developing countries to identify and recover these funds, which should be spent on essentials like health and education.
"We hope that making information public about foreign companies that own property in the UK will deter money-launderers from doing business here."
And Robert Palmer, head of the money-laundering campaign at the charity Global Witness, said: "London is a very attractive destination for very wealthy people, including corrupt officials who have looted their state coffers."
He added: "What the Prime Minister has announced today is a really good step forward."
In his speech, Mr Cameron also pledged to boost the UK's trade links with Asean nations, pointing out that Britain had larger two-way trade with Belgium than with Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia combined.
The UK had become "too reliant" on its European market and must "not lose out" on the vast market that South East Asia represented - heralding a "partnership that can drive our shared prosperity for decades to come".
By Tuesday, 12 hours after the blaze, damaged tents had already been cleared away and most of the residents of this sprawling facility had returned after escaping the flames and sleeping out in the bush.
The metaphor of the inferno was clear. For months, anger has been building in Moria as asylum applications were delayed and migrants were held in an overcrowded camp. Moria has capacity for 3,500 - but about 5,000 live here in stretched facilities.
"Fighting broke out between blacks and Afghans," says Kingsley, a Ghanaian man whom we spoke to through the fence, the authorities not allowing us in. "They were throwing stones at each other and there was an argument over food. The fire caused a lot of damage and my luggage was destroyed."
Does he have hopes of staying in Europe, I ask?
"We've been given papers that say we'll probably have to return to Turkey," he replied. "But I have hope in God."
The EU deal struck to deport failed asylum seekers to Turkey and then back to their country of origin significantly cut the numbers of new arrivals here. But the quid pro quo was supposed to be visa-free travel for Turks travelling to the EU's Schengen zone in return.
It hasn't happened, as Brussels says Turkey needs to amend its broad anti-terror legislation. Ankara has refused and the deal is foundering, sparking fears that new arrivals here will again soar.
In the wider Lesbos community, there's also growing anger over the continued migrant presence. The neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party has stoked it, organising protests and exploiting the tension. It could prompt more flare-ups here.
With the burnt tents removed and new ones brought in, Moria has an air of permanence.
There are holes in the fences - the residents sometimes wander out, through the litter-strewn forest around it.
But there's little place to go. The doors of the Balkans remain closed and the desperate are being kept here until Europe decides what to do with them.
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is proposing traffic light symbols in red, amber and green, to warn buyers about the flood dangers.
But estate agents say such symbols would stop buyers even looking at a property, so would block sales.
Around one in six properties would be labelled as either amber or red.
The ABI says the symbols would prompt buyers to investigate flood risks properly.
It claims that at the moment, house-hunters are more likely to ask about parking provision than flooding.
Last December, as many as 16,000 homes in the north of England succumbed to flood waters, as a result of Storm Desmond and Storm Eva.
James Dalton, director of general insurance at the ABI, said: "As the floods of last winter reminded us, being flooded is horribly traumatic and can leave people out of their home or business for months.
"Anyone whose property is at flood risk needs to be aware of that, so they can take steps to protect themselves."
However, estate agents say they are unlikely to take up the idea.
They point out that, under the Consumer Protection Regulations, they are already obliged to tell buyers of any material concerns about a property, including the risk of flooding.
But having such prominent warning symbols would put most buyers off, they say.
"If you see a red, you wouldn't bother to look at it. You'd say, I'm not going to visit," said Mark Hayward, the managing director of the National Association of Estate Agents.
"It would be a pointless and fruitless exercise," said property expert Henry Pryor.
"You would make a huge proportion of homes unsalable and unmortgageable."
He said having just three symbols would also be an oversimplification of many different degrees of flood risk.
The ABI said that if estate agents did not take up the idea voluntarily, it might consider asking for legislation to make it compulsory.
The government appeared to offer qualified support for the idea of the flood risk symbols.
"It's important people understand flood risk, so they can make informed decisions about where they live," said a spokesperson from the Department for the Environment and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
"We're making more data and technology available than ever before through the Environment Agency's free Flood Warnings Service and our advanced flood mapping and forecasting."
Mr Hollande said no agreement had been reached, contradicting an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"Discussions are under way. I will make a decision in the coming weeks," Mr Hollande told a news conference.
France stopped the planned sale after the outbreak of the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
The deal, for two Mistral helicopter carriers, was worth €1.2bn (£843m; $1.3bn). Russia made an advance payment of about €840m.
The first of two - the Vladivostok - was supposed to be delivered to Russia in November 2014.
Vladimir Kozhin, a military technology adviser to Mr Putin, said on Friday that negotiations over compensation were "completely finished".
"Everything has already been decided, both the time-frame and the amount," Mr Kozhin told Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.
But Mr Hollande's comments suggest that the agreement is still in question.
Sources close to the talks, quoted by Russia's Kommersant daily, have suggested France will compensate Russia to the tune of €1.16bn.
That sum includes the amount that Russia has already spent on special training for 400 sailors, on port infrastructure in Vladivostok for the two warships and on developing four prototype Ка-52К helicopters.
The compensation deal was discussed last week at talks between Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and French Defence Secretary-General Louis Gautier, Kommersant reports.
The Mistral contract dates back to a June 2011 agreement reached under the previous French President, Nicolas Sarkozy.
Western sanctions have been ratcheted up against Russia since March 2014, when the Ukrainian conflict erupted with Russia's annexation of Crimea.
Russia denies backing pro-Russian separatist rebels fighting in eastern Ukraine.
Stearman, 29, returns to Molineux less than 12 months after he left Wolves to join Fulham in September 2015.
"I think it will be quite emotional. When I left I didn't really get the chance to speak to the fans which hurt," Stearman said of his return.
"It will be great that I never really needed to say goodbye because I'm back and I can say hello."
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About 400 health physics monitors, who carry out manual radiation checks on staff and equipment, took part in a one-day stoppage last month.
The GMB union has announced two more strikes for later this month, claiming management reneged on a pay rise deal.
Sellafield Ltd said the action would not impact on the site's operations.
A union spokesman said the first stoppage would take place on 25 August from 08:30 BST until 12:30 BST, with a 48-hour stoppage planned to start the following day.
The dispute centres on the re-grading of some monitors and what they are paid.
The company said staff had recently been awarded a 2.5% pay rise and while the principle of a further increase was "not in contention" it did not think there should be a "blanket" rise.
Sellafield employs about 10,000 people and reprocesses and stores spent nuclear fuel from around the world.
Jordan Miers went out on Saturday evening and was reported missing on Sunday afternoon after failing to return home.
The 21-year-old was last seen on a footpath by the River Tawe and he may have planned to walk home to Bonymaen.
Divers have been searching a stretch of the river while coastguards, police and fire crews have also been involved.
Police say a witness followed Mr Miers through the nearby Parc Tawe retail park at about 22:30 GMT because they were concerned about his "intoxicated" state.
They then saw him cross a river bridge and walk down a footpath leading to the river.
The search has also been widened to areas where Mr Miers was known to go, particularly when coming home from a night out.
South Wales Police Ch Insp Chris Truscott appealed for anyone who may have seen the children's football coach to come forward.
Standing at 3ft 7in tall, James, from Colwyn Bay, was born with diastrophic dysplasia, which is known as dwarfism.
When he was three-years-old he needed a major operation on his neck and then had another operation at seven where he started using lizeroth frames to straighten his legs.
Now he is able to live his life as normal and now he will be carrying the Olympic torch in Rhos-on-Sea when it travels through Wales from 25-30 May.
James, 23, was nominated by a friend after they met at the Beijing Paralympics in 2008 on the young advocate programme run by the British Council.
"I'm really excited about it and looking forward to the day," he said.
"It's quite an amazing privilege because the guy who nominated me I met in Beijing at the Paralympic Games. He's in London, I am in north Wales.
"It's quite touching.
"Whenever I see him, during the couple of days we are together, he always says I'm an inspiration to him and drives him to carry on with his life.
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"I've always accepted the way I am and I strongly believe God made me the way I am.
"That's why I live the dream and don't let things get me down."
James is a member of the Dwarf Sports Association and won the association's junior sports personality three times and held the British Class 1 badminton champion within the DSA for nine years.
In nominating James, friend Russell Swannack praised him for his work within disability sport.
"James has worked extremely hard to encourage others to become involved in disability sport and particularly dwarf sport," he said.
"He went to the Beijing Paralympic Games in 2008 to empower others and this is where I was fortunate enough to meet him and be inspired by a truly incredible person who I can now call my friend.
"Carrying the Olympic torch would be a dream come true for James."
The Unite union plans to ballot offshore contractors on industrial action as part of an ongoing dispute over changes to working conditions.
OCA chief executive Bill Murray said: "We believe our offer was fair given the present economic challenges."
"Strike action could cause significant, irreparable damage to the North Sea industry,"
Mr Murray explained: "We proposed a pay freeze at a time when UK inflation sits at 0% and we offered a better deal on sick pay and holiday pay; a package worth up to £7,000 per annum extra per individual when taking into account rota changes.
"While we support the move by some operators to equal time rotas as an important way of increasing efficiency, our offer also guaranteed that no offshore trip would be more than three weeks in duration and committed our members to carrying out meaningful consultation and comprehensive risk assessment before changing any rota patterns in future.
"We encourage all Unite members who are eligible to vote to do so. With no turnout restrictions in industrial ballots it is important that all voices are heard."
The Scottish government said it hoped strike action could be avoided.
Members of the GMB union have already accepted a deal.
The Voice is making its move from the BBC to ITV and is preparing to hit screens in the new year with celebrities will.i.am, Jennifer Hudson, Tom Jones and Gavin Rossdale judging a host of would-be stars solely on their voices.
The channel will also be launching The Voice Kids - for children between seven and 14.
Singer Pixie Lott, who will be one of the coaches for the series, says she enjoyed her own rise to fame, which she was "single-minded" about from the age of five.
Her career kicked off in her early teens after being discovered by an American record producer and she has gone on to sell more than four million singles and 1.6 million albums worldwide.
Now she wants to encourage young people to follow in her footsteps and get that early start through the show.
"I can't wait to join The Voice Kids and help discover the next big star," she said. "I have such a passion for talented young people and I know the UK will have lots - I can't wait to hear them."
Parents seem keen too. The programme has had more than 15,000 applications for its first series, according to ITV.
Hayley Elton, a concert pianist, has two talented children who are already making their mark in television and thinks the opportunity to "play the publicity game" with TV talent shows is a great opportunity.
Her 13-year-old son Curtis is an accomplished pianist - the youngest in the country to receive a degree-level piano diploma - and appeared on Britain's Got Talent aged just seven, whilst her 11-year-old daughter Sophia is following in his footsteps, singing opera and appearing on Channel 4's Child Genius programme.
"When you spot a talent, you need to encourage it," she said. "It you are given two children with exceptional talents, you have to make the most of it.
"They both love the limelight. They are confident when they appear on stage and you have to support it. It would not be fair to hold them back because they are younger.
"I could have told Curtis to wait with Britain's Got Talent, but he wanted to go on the show. And despite the result [he did not win] it didn't matter. It was about the publicity, it is a game, you play it and now he is invited to perform around the world."
She added: "For me, it is incredible to watch them on stage performing, with the crowd applauding and everyone being so proud of them."
But others have concerns about getting young people in front of the cameras at such an early age.
The public has witnessed the effects on stars who became famous as youngsters, including the troubled life of Judy Garland, the drug problems of Drew Barrymore and controversy over the behaviour of Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus.
Dani Harmer was known to millions as Tracy Beaker in the CBBC show and was only 12 when the first episode aired.
She has made a success of her career, appearing on Strictly Come Dancing and in the West End, but says it is a tough path for any young person.
"You get a lot of setbacks in this industry and you have got to have a really thick skin," she told BBC Breakfast.
"I want to impart my knowledge of what I have learnt over the years of how the industry is, because it is not all glitz and glamour and limos likes sometimes it has been made out."
Dr Jane O'Connor, reader in childhood studies at Birmingham City University, who is writing a book on childhood celebrity, said fame when young can be a positive thing, but parents must be careful not to push their child too hard - or the consequences can be devastating.
"Historically, the children who have done the worst out of being in the spotlight have had very pushy parents," she said. "As much as children think they want to be doing it, they don't understand the consequences.
"It can really confuse the adult/child dynamic when parents are meant to be the ones looking after the younger ones. Then the child makes more money, for example, and it can throw that dynamic. It can cause problems with siblings too if one becomes famous.
"And it can be very damaging to a child when they have been praised so much, then their career is over by the time they are a teenager, just as their peers are starting their adult lives."
Her recommendation is to let your child go ahead but give them as much of a "normal life" as possible and don't push too hard - it has to be their choice.
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But even with all this success The Lego Movie still didn't get a nomination for best animated film at this years Oscars - the biggest awards show in the world of showbiz.
Instead it was Big Hero 6, The Boxtrolls, How To Train Your Dragon 2, Song of the Sea and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya that were nominated.
So why wasn't The Lego Movie nominated?
We asked BBC Entertainment reporter Colin Paterson to explain.
It added that bail of €1bn ($1.075bn; £726m) has been imposed.
HSBC said it believed the French magistrates' decision was "without legal basis and the bail is unwarranted and excessive".
It added that it would appeal and "defend itself vigorously".
The French claims relate to the conduct of HSBC's Swiss private bank in 2006 and 2007.
HSBC has come under fire over what it knew about some clients' tax affairs.
Details of some 30,000 accounts at HSBC's Geneva-based private bank were leaked to the French authorities by a whistleblower, Herve Falciani, in 2007.
Information about 3,600 UK account holders were passed to HMRC.
The 25-year-old has penned a three-year deal, with a option of extending it by a further 12 months.
Smith joined Leeds on a free transfer from Oldham last June after starting his career in Cheltenham's youth team.
He scored 14 goals in 48 appearances for Leeds and is reunited with his former team-mate Ross McCormack, who joined Fulham for £11m.
The Colin Tizzard-trained seven-year-old ranged up alongside Willie Mullins' Un De Sceaux (10-11 fav) at the final fence and pulled clear on the run-in.
Fox Norton (5-2), who also won the Melling Chase at Aintree, got home by a length and three quarters.
God's Own (7-1), last year's winner, was just half a length away in third.
The victory gave jockey Robbie Power a seventh Grade One win of the campaign.
Fox Norton has been a model of consistency since joining the Tizzard team, and was a close second to Special Tiara in the Queen Mother Champion Chase.
He was not inconvenienced by the return to two miles, with the strong pace set by Un De Sceaux and Rock The World playing to his strengths.
"Robbie was cool. He didn't get involved in any battles until he had to," said Tizzard. "The horse made a few mistakes and Robbie said he was going flat out the whole time.
"If you saw this horse on the gallops you'd never think he was a champion two-miler. Honestly, slow three-milers would beat him.
"This is why we get up in the morning and why we go looking at horses, to come and win at places like Punchestown. It's fantastic."
Asked if Fox Norton could step up in trip next season, Tizzard added: "I think there's every temptation.
"That was his minimum and if there had been a two-and-a-half-miler here he would have been in that.
"He'd get three miles, but of course Sizing John is there. I think he'd get two and a half or three."
Mullins said of Un De Sceaux: "We've had a fantastic season with him and will put him away now.
"The faster pace over two miles on better ground didn't suit him."
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Robbie Power continues to live up to his surname in great style, adding this prize to a string of big-race success at Cheltenham, Aintree and Fairyhouse.
We've long known he's an excellent rider, but the confidence he must be feeling is being transmitted down the reins to his mounts.
Fox Norton took the notable scalp of Un De Sceaux, who has only previously been beaten in completed races in Ireland and Britain by the great Sprinter Sacre, and continues to live up to the type of expectations the Tizzard team has for him.
Meanwhile, whether it will be enough we don't know, but the second-place prize money and an earlier 1-2 means Willie Mullins put quite a dent in Gordon Elliott's lead in the trainers' championship.
Secretly filmed videos obtained by the BBC's Ghadi Sary show mosques being blown up, abandoned schools, and women being forced to cover up their bodies.
Residents said they were living in fear of punishment according to the group's extreme interpretation of Islamic law.
They also described IS preparations for an expected government offensive.
The fall of Mosul marked the start of a lightning advance across the north that saw the army routed and hundreds of thousands of people forced to flee their homes.
1. Control of women
The videos, filmed over several months last year, reveal the reality of life under IS. The first series shows how women are forced to cover up, with one woman challenged for not having her hands fully covered.
Hanaa: "IS is very strict about the dress code for women. Women have to be fully covered up in black, head to toe.
"One day I felt so bored at home that I asked my husband to take me out, even if I had to wear the full khimar [a long, cape-like veil that covers the hair, neck and shoulders completely, but leaves the face clear]. I had not left home since IS took over the city. As I was preparing, he told me I would be forced to put on a niqab [veil for the face]. I was shocked at this and considered staying at home for a moment, but eventually I relented.
"We went to a nice restaurant by the river we used to frequent during our engagement. As soon as we sat down, my husband told me that I could finally reveal my face as there was no IS presence and the restaurant was a place for families.
"I was very happy to oblige and so I revealed my face with a large smile. Instantly, the restaurant's owner came over begging my husband to ask me to hide it again because Islamic State fighters made surprise inspection visits and he would be flogged if they saw me like that.
"We had heard stories of men being flogged because their wives didn't put their gloves on. Another woman's parents were banned from driving their car. Those who objected would be beaten and humiliated.
"We complied with the owner's request. I started wondering about how ignorant and merciless the state of affairs had become. As we left the restaurant, I saw a father searching for his daughter, who was concealed in a sea of blackness."
2. Persecution of minorities
The footage, which was passed from house to house before being smuggled out of the city, reveals how homes belonging to Mosul's ethnic and religious minority communities have been confiscated by Islamic State. Many residential areas once popular with minorities now stand empty.
Mariam, a gynaecologist who is a Christian: "I'm known to be an avid reader and own a large collection of books. My collection kept on growing as friends and family leaving Iraq used to send me their books because they knew I wasn't going to leave and that I would take care of them.
"I was threatened and harassed [by Sunni extremists] before the capture of Mosul, but I kept on delivering babies for women from all religions and sects. I never differentiate between my patients as I believe everyone deserves equal care.
"However, I had to flee as Mosul fell. I escaped with my body unharmed, but my soul remained where I had left it: at home with my books.
"After moving to Irbil [in Iraq's Kurdistan region] I received shocking news: Islamic State had confiscated my house and marked it with the letter 'N' [for Nasrani - a word used by IS to refer to Christians]. I immediately telephoned my friends in Mosul and begged them to save my books.
"But it was too late. They called back saying my library had been emptied onto the street. However, some of my neighbours were able to rescue some precious books that remain hidden."
3. Intimidation, punishment and torture
Clips also show mosques and shrines being destroyed. Residents speak of brutal punishments for anyone contravening the jihadists' interpretation of Islamic law, which is imposed across the "caliphate" whose creation they proclaimed weeks after seizing Mosul.
Zaid: "Since IS took the city, it has been applying the 'Laws of the Caliphate', as it calls them. The minimum punishment is flogging, which is applied for things like smoking a cigarette.
"Theft is punished by amputating a hand, adultery by men by throwing the offender from a high building, and adultery by women by stoning to death. The punishments are carried out in public to intimidate people, who are often forced to watch.
"I know many people who have been arrested by IS. Some of them are my relatives. Some were killed because they were in the security services. Others have been released. They tell unimaginable stories of atrocities committed by IS in its prisons.
"Many who come out prefer not to speak. They stay silent, because they're terrified that if they speak, they'll be rearrested."
Fouad: "I was arrested by IS. They came to our family home looking for my brother. When they couldn't find him, they decided to take me to prison instead.
"Then they tortured me. The guy who did it wouldn't stop unless he got tired. He was edgy all the time and he wouldn't listen to what his prisoners said. He flogged me with a power cable and also tortured me psychologically.
"When my brother handed himself in, they found out that the accusations against him were false but they still kept me in prison until they judged me well enough to leave.
"They had hit me so hard with the cable that the marks are still visible on my back."
4. Disruption of daily life
Life for the city's residents has changed beyond recognition. The footage reveals how fuel is in short supply, pollution widespread, construction halted and many schools closed.
Hisham: "Daily life has changed in an indescribable way. Those who were in the military and day labourers no longer have any income because there are no jobs anymore. The rich have been relying on their savings, those with a salary are just about getting by, but the poor have been left to the mercy of God.
"I have lost my job and have been forced to abandon my studies. Like everyone else, I am denied my basic rights. According to IS, everything is 'haram' (forbidden) and so I end up just sitting at home all the time. Even simple leisure activities like picnics are banned now in Mosul, under the pretext that they are a waste of time and money.
"IS takes a quarter of everyone's salary as a contribution towards paying for rebuilding the city. People can't say no because they would face harsh punishments. The group controls everything. Rent is paid to it and the hospitals are for its members' exclusive use.
"The group has even replaced the imams in the mosques with pro-IS people. Many of us have stopped going to the mosques because those attending are asked to give an oath of allegiance and we hate that.
"Meanwhile, my brother was given 20 lashes just because he didn't shut his shop during prayer time - as if you can just impose religion by force!"
5. Indoctrination and surveillance
Footage also shows how the militants have used increasingly sophisticated techniques to control the city's population, such as "media points" to disseminate their messages.
Mahmoud: "My 12-year-old brother remained in school despite the fact that it became controlled by IS. We thought that, with no alternative available, he would at least be able to continue some sort of education, and that it would be better than nothing.
"But one day I came home and found my little brother drawing Islamic State's flag and humming one of its most famous songs. I went crazy and began yelling at him.
"I took the drawing and tore it to pieces in front of him. He got scared, ran to our mother and started crying. I warned him that should he ever draw that flag again or recite one of those people's songs, I would ground him, ban him from seeing his friends and stop talking to him altogether.
"We immediately removed him from school, as we preferred that he had no education at all than the one IS is promoting.
"I've come to the conclusion that the goal of this organisation is to plant the seeds of violence, hate and sectarianism into children's minds."
6. IS tactics and logistics
The militants can also be seen moving heavy artillery - some captured from fleeing Iraqi forces - and responding to attacks with anti-aircraft fire.
Zaid: "IS knows the army will try to retake Mosul, so they're taking precautions. They've destroyed the city by digging tunnels, building barricades, planting mines and bombs, and filling the city with snipers, which will make it very difficult for the army.
"Despite this, if the government manages to take Nineveh Plains and Mosul back I will be very happy. I hope that the internally displaced people and refugees will be able to return so that we can work together to build a safe and united Iraq. IS is the enemy of humanity.
"I do worry about how the army will take the city though. I think the violations committed in Tikrit by the Popular Mobilisation [a pro-government volunteer force comprising mostly Shia militias] are going to happen in the Nineveh Plains and Mosul, and that the whole situation will just be whitewashed again.
"The government should arm local people so that they can protect the city themselves. With the help of God, we will defeat IS."
Note: names have been changed to protect people's identities. Additional testimony obtained by Lydia Green.
IS territory data for maps: Institute for the Study of War.
Video production and editing by Olivia Lang, Sunaina Gulati.
Web production by Lucy Rodgers. Maps by Mark Bryson, Tom Maslen, Nzar Tofiq.
He was found by a member of the public at Rottingdean, about three and a half miles east of Brighton's Palace Pier where the men were last seen.
Dan Nicholls, 23, from Brighton, was knocked off his feet by a wave in "dangerous" gale force nine conditions.
The body of Freddie Reynolds, 24, was found at Saltdean on Saturday.
Both men were school friends and used to share a flat together, their families said.
In a statement, Mr Reynolds' family said his loss would leave a "huge void in a lot of people's lives" and described him as "a very loyal and brilliant friend".
Mr Nicholls was described by his family as "very bright" and "well-loved by many".
The pair got into difficulty near Palace Pier at 01:00 GMT on Saturday.
They had been on the beach with three other men, who raised the alarm.
Det Ch Insp Carwyn Hughes said their friends had told how Mr Nicholls was knocked off his feet by a wave, sweeping him out to sea.
"On seeing this, Freddie, with another friend, started to strip and Freddie dived in to rescue Dan but was also swept out.
"Their shocked friends tried to enter the water but were beaten back by the waves," he said.
Det Ch Insp Hughes added that the friends had discussed the dare before seeing the ferocity of the waves.
Mr Reynolds' family praised his "bravery" after formally identifying his body.
In a statement they said: "We are devastated but also extremely proud of Freddie and the bravery he showed in trying to save Dan."
Det Ch Insp Hughes said: "We are relieved that the bodies of the two men have been recovered.
"This has been a traumatic weekend for Dan and Freddie's friends and family.
"What was meant to be a bit of fun turned out so tragically with Dan snatched from the water's edge and Freddie bravely diving in to try to save him.
"Our sympathies go to their families, whom we are supporting."
He added: "This a a tragic incident and I urge people to think of their safety and keep away from the sea when it is so dangerous."
The search for the pair had been co-ordinated throughout the night by the coastguard with two all-weather lifeboats, a rescue helicopter and two shoreline rescue teams from Shoreham and Newhaven.
It was called off at 04:30 GMT.
The 25-year-old Argentina international has not played for Spurs since October because of the problem and will undergo surgery on Saturday.
Tottenham said Lamela had "achieved a good level of function" but was not at a stage to make a return to training, leading to the decision to operate.
"I tried everything to recover but my hip is still not 100%," Lamela tweeted.
"I can't compete at the level I want to. I'll face this challenge with a positive attitude and can't wait to get back with the team and be stronger."
Lamela had made 14 appearances this season for Spurs before the injury.
He joined Tottenham from Roma in 2013 and enjoyed a superb season last term, scoring 13 goals.
Spurs are second in the Premier League, 10 points behind leaders Chelsea, who they also play in the semi-finals of the FA Cup.
Phil Rudd was excused from appearing in New Zealand's Tauranga District Court, with his lawyer entering his plea.
The 60-year-old Australian-born musician was originally charged with attempting to procure the murder of two men.
That charge was dropped because of a lack of evidence.
In an earlier ruling, the names of the alleged murder targets and that of the alleged hit-man were suppressed.
Crown prosecutor Greg Hollister-Jones on Tuesday applied for witness names and any statements they made to be suppressed, according to New Zealand media outlet stuff.co.nz.
The court agreed but ruled that because of strong public interest in the case, details of the charges and a summary of facts should be released by the Crown.
Mr Rudd remains on bail and his case will be called again in February.
The drummer was kicked out of AC/DC in 1983 and rejoined in 1994.
He did not appear in a new photo of band members released in October to promote their upcoming album Rock Or Bust, and was reportedly absent from the filming of a new music video, prompting online speculation about whether he was still in the band.
Moirai Capital Investment Ltd intended to build a ski centre, 5,000-seat concert venue and cinema around the existing Oasis leisure centre.
However, Swindon Borough Council said "key targets" had not been met and it had notified Moirai of its intention to end the development agreement.
Moirai said it had been unaware of the council's decision.
A spokesman added the firm would consider its position in the coming days.
The company has until 12 January to fulfil the terms of the agreement, which was first made in 2012. These include obtaining planning permission for the project.
The council previously extended the planning application deadline for the development after the firm failed to meet the original deadline.
Garry Perkins, from the council, said: "The council has given Moirai enough opportunity to take forward its plans but, ultimately, the council cannot hang on indefinitely and we have had to take this decisive action.
"We have a number of options we can pursue to ensure this ambitious vision is achieved and we're confident we can still create a landmark scheme that Swindon can be proud of."
Moirai's plans for the proposed complex included a skate park, hotel, restaurants and cafes. The company revised its original proposal following a public consultation.
A condition of the lease was to refurbish the Oasis, which was eventually completed at a cost of £3m.
This is because the 58-year-old collects elephant dung that he turns into high quality paper. And for a continuing supply of dung, he very much wants Kenya's elephants to remain alive and well.
While some people might be a bit sniffy about the thought of elephant droppings being turned into paper, it is in fact a small but growing industry in the East African country, with 17 firms now involved, according to official government figures.
"If you ask me 'is paper from elephant dung of reasonable quality?', the answer is a big yes," says Mr Matano, whose business Nampath Paper employs 42 people, and makes an annual profit of 2.3m Kenyan shillings ($23,000; £15,700).
Kenya's elephant dung paper industry is centred on the Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary, a community-owned 36 sq km (14 sq mile) conservation area for elephants, 28 miles (45km) south west of the coastal city of Mombasa.
Making the paper started as a pilot project in 1994, before commercialisation began a decade later when local farmers such as Mr Matano set up their own paper-making businesses.
The sanctuary itself was established in 1993 both to help elephants, but also to assist 200 or so local farmers.
The farmers had for generations had to put up with elephants from the nearby government-owned Shimba Hills National Reserve walking into their farmlands and eating or destroying crops. This resulted in serious and sometimes deadly conflicts between humans and elephants.
So the Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary was established adjacent to the national reserve, with financial assistance and support from the United States Agency for International Development, and UK animal charity Born Free Foundation.
The idea was that the surrounding farmers would receive a share of the tourism revenues from the sanctuary to make up for any crops that are destroyed by elephants. The farmers also ceded part of their lands to create a migratory elephant corridor between the Shimba Hills National Reserve, and the Tsavo West and Tsavo East national parks some 100km to the west.
In addition, the sanctuary aimed to encourage farmers to explore additional income strands, such as bee keeping, and selling elephant dung for turning into paper, or making the paper themselves.
Mr Matano says that making paper from elephant dung "is not complicated at all, it is an easy affair".
The faeces, which is full of grass and other plant fibre that has been broken down by the elephant's digestive system, is first thoroughly washed.
"After washing, clean fibres remain," says Mr Matano. "Then the fibre is boiled for four hours in a vat to thoroughly ensure it is clean.
"Then after that, much of the process is similar to that of making regular paper [from wood pulp]."
Mr Matano adds: "An average elephant eats 250kg of food each day. Out of that amount about 50kg of dung is produced, and 125 sheets of [A4] paper can be produced from each 50kg."
He says that both the price and quality is similar to standard paper, but with the added benefit of reducing deforestation.
"It is saving the indigenous tree populations of nearby forests from being destroyed," says Mr Matano, who now has shops in Mombasa and capital Nairobi.
"The business is very reliable, and has a promising future. It is important for poaching and illegal logging to go down to 0%."
The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), a government agency, says that the elephant dung paper industry is indeed helping both Kenya's remaining 7,000 elephants and to reduce illegal logging.
"Lots of the paper products from elephant dung have been provided to us here at KWS," says Paul Gathitu, spokesman for the organisation.
"It is a good effort, it helps humans coexist with elephants."
Another Kenyan business making paper from elephant dung is established paper manufacturer Nairobi-based Transpaper Kenya.
While most of its products are made from different types of indigenous tree species, 20% now come from elephant dung.
"Paper from elephant dung is equal in quality to regular paper. In price it is also almost the same," says Jane Muihia, of Transpaper Kenya.
"It does not stink as it goes through all the regular stages of manufacture."
She adds that her company produced 2,809 tonnes of paper from animal dung last year, and it expects that figure to triple by the end of this year.
Back at the Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary its manager, Kafe Mwarimo, says that the elephant dung paper industry has so far helped more than 500 local people pull themselves out of poverty.
And with 600 elephants regularly passing through, the raw material is not in short supply.
The latest group to sign up is based in the republics of Russia's North Caucasus, led by a Dagestan jihadist commander who defected to IS from the al-Qaeda-aligned rebel movement known as the Caucasus Emirate.
The first new branches beyond the group's strongholds in Syria and Iraq were announced by IS leader Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi in November last year when he accepted pledges of allegiance from jihadists in Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
Some of those pledges came from existing groups which went on to re-brand themselves as new IS "provinces", or wilayat, such as the Egyptian Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis and Algeria's Jund al-Khilafah.
The most active branches have been those in Libya and Egypt, which have tapped into the IS media network to publish a steady flow of propaganda, highlighting attacks and publicising their attempts at governance.
Others have had a low profile. For example, the IS franchises in Algeria and Saudi Arabia have claimed only a few isolated attacks and there is no sign that the group has a strong presence there.
But the impact of the IS expansion has nevertheless been felt by its jihadist rivals in al-Qaeda, which has branches in many of the areas IS has moved into, and in-fighting has broken out in several areas.
The IS branch in Egypt, Sinai Province, was essentially a re-branding of an existing group known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which first emerged in 2011 in the wake of the Egyptian revolution.
Before the pledge by Nigeria's Boko Haram in March, Sinai was the highest-profile established jihadist group to merge with IS and has kept up the tempo of its operations following the change in November.
The group swiftly changed its name and re-branded its media to reflect the new affiliation, adopting a new logo reminiscent of IS branches in Syria and Iraq.
Its activities are focused on the Sinai Peninsula (where it launched a deadly attack on soldiers on 2 April) but it has also claimed attacks in Cairo and Egypt's western desert, suggesting it might have some ability to link up with the IS branch in Libya.
Full profile: Ansar Beit al-Maqdis (Sinai)
The Libyan branch of IS has been the most active since it was formally embraced in November and its propaganda output has most closely resembled that of IS branches in Syria and Iraq.
Three distinct Libyan IS "provinces" were announced in November - Barqah in the east, Tripoli in the west and Fazzan in the south.
Since then, most activity has been centred on the country's coastal strip, reflected in a steady stream of propaganda highlighting the group's attempts at governance alongside brutal attacks and executions.
The branch's highest-profile operations have taken place in the west - the 27 January attack on the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, which left five foreigners dead, and the beheading of Egyptian Coptic Christians on a beach apparently near Sirte.
It claimed to have taken full control of Sirte in early June.
But the group has been drawn increasingly into conflicts with other jihadist and Islamist forces in Libya, including those aligned with al-Qaeda.
Little has been heard of the Algerian branch of IS since the pledge of allegiance from Jund al-Khilafah was accepted by Baghdadi in November.
The group, which broke away from al-Qaeda's North Africa branch (AQIM) last year, later restyled itself as the Algeria Province of IS.
The group rose to prominence in September when it beheaded French tourist Herve Gourdel.
But it has been largely silent since then, failing to comment on reports that its leader Khalid Abu-Sulayman (aka Abdelmalek Gouri) was killed by Algerian forces in December.
It has claimed a few attacks, but no significant activities.
IS drew the ire of al-Qaeda's Yemen branch (AQAP) when Al-Baghdadi unilaterally announced new "provinces" in Yemen and Saudi Arabia in November.
Those branches have since claimed attacks in both countries, including a devastating series of attacks in March against mosques in the Yemeni capital which left more than 130 people dead.
Opening up shop in the Arabian Peninsula represents a symbolic challenge to al-Qaeda, which is competing for ascendancy in the leadership of the global jihad.
It could also in time lead to an open conflict between IS and AQAP.
The new Afghanistan-Pakistan branch, led by former Pakistan Taleban commander Hafiz Said Khan, was the first franchise to be formally announced by IS following the November flurry of allegiances.
In January, Khan appeared in a video which showed 10 jihadist commanders from Afghanistan and Pakistan pledging allegiance to IS under his local leadership.
Since then it has claimed attacks in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, including the 13 May bus attack targeting Ismaili Shia Muslims in Karachi.
The new branch has taken the name Khorasan Province, after the historical term jihadists use to refer to the region, and covers Afghanistan, Pakistan and "other nearby lands", according to IS.
The move amounts to another major challenge to al-Qaeda and the Taleban, which have been the main jihadist operators in the region.
Open conflict has recently broken out between IS and the Afghan Taleban, which IS has accused of being agents of Pakistani intelligence.
Boko Haram's high profile pledge of allegiance in March was widely trumpeted by IS, which is now referring to the group as its "West Africa Province".
Before the announcement, there had been signs in Boko Haram's propaganda output of growing IS influence on the Nigerian movement, whose ideology and harsh practices mirror those of IS itself.
Since March, the group has continued claiming attacks and releasing videos, but its leader Abubakar Shekau has failed to make any appearances.
A pledge of allegiance by jihadists in Tunisia was promoted by IS in May, two months after the group claimed credit for the 18 March attack on the Bardo Museum in the capital Tunis.
It followed the same format as other pledges of allegiance which have been followed up by IS leadership statements formally embracing the new branches.
But an official branch or province in Tunisia has yet to be formally declared, apparently because the local franchise has yet to organise itself properly.
The Caucasus is the latest jihadist front to be claimed by IS, encroaching on the domain of the al-Qaeda-aligned Caucasus Emirate.
IS announced on 23 June that its leader Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi had accepted a pledge of allegiance from militants in the Russian republics of Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria.
Dagestan rebel leader Rustam Aselderov (Abu Mukhammad Kadarsky) has been appointed as the local IS leader for the Caucasus, which is now being referred to as IS's "Caucasus Province".
Aselderov had been a senior figure in the Caucasus Emirate, which may now struggle to survive as an independent entity.
IS has now expanded into most areas where jihadist groups have a presence, with the notable exceptions of south-east Asia as well as east Africa, the latter region being dominated by the Somali al-Qaeda-affiliated group Al-Shabab.
IS acknowledged in November last year that groups in Indonesia and the Philippines had also pledged allegiance and that IS had accepted them.
But it said further conditions needed to be met before new "provinces" were formally announced.
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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.
Anas Abdalla, Mahamuud Diini and Gabriel Rasmus from Birmingham wanted to join the group, a jury was told.
But they were arrested after being discovered hiding in the back of a lorry at Dover port in April 2015.
Mr Abdalla and Mr Diini, both 26, deny preparing for acts of terror. Rasmus, 29, admits the same charge.
Somalia-born Mr Abdalla and Mr Diini claim their covert bid to get out of the UK had nothing to do with terrorism.
In a defence statement, Mr Abdalla, an IT technician and former asylum seeker, said the secret services had made his life in Britain "intolerable".
He said his university career, job prospects and financial affairs in the UK had been "adversely affected".
Part-time labourer Mr Diini, a Dutch national, said in his defence statement he had rebuffed attempts by MI5 to recruit him.
He claimed his brother Ahmed had been arrested and tortured in Egypt and he was on his way to find him in Turkey after his release.
But prosecutor Sally Howes QC told jurors "The evidence you will hear during this trial will show that their intention was to join forces with Islamic State to offer their services, together with their lives if needs be, to engage in acts of terrorism."
She went on to say how undercover officer "Muhamed" had befriended the trio and secretly recorded their conversations.
Rasmus repeatedly referred to "being out there" in Syria and said: "September 11 was so good" she claimed.
Mr Abdalla said: "Paradise, paradise, I swear to God I cannot wait," the court heard.
On 2 April 2015, they returned to Birmingham following a first failed attempt to leave in the back of a lorry and they told Mr Muhamed they had paid £900 and needed the money back, the jury was told.
Mr Abdalla, of Fox Hollies Road, Acocks Gardens, Birmingham, and Mr Diini, of Coventry Road, Small Heath, Birmingham, deny the charge against them.
The trial continues.
Yn yr un modd, mae mwy o ysgolion wedi eu rhoi yn y categori gwyrdd - lle mae angen lefelau is o gefnogaeth arnynt.
Dyma'r drydedd flwyddyn i'r system liwiau gael ei defnyddio gyda phob ysgol yn cael gradd gan ddibynnu ar nifer o feini prawf.
Mae ysgolion yn cael eu didoli i gategori lliw sy'n mynd o wyrdd, i felyn, oren a choch.
Bydd y manylion yn cael eu cyhoeddi yma maes o law.
Fe gafodd canlyniadau 2016 eu cyhoeddi ar wefan Fy Ysgol Leol.
Yn ôl y ffigyrau diweddara' mae 54 o ysgolion uwchradd yn y categori gwyrdd, a 21 yn y categori coch.
Llynedd, 39 oedd yn y categori gwyrdd, gyda 26 yn ysgolion coch.
O ran ysgolion cynradd, mae 355 o ysgolion categori gwyrdd eleni, a 22 o rai coch.
Llynedd, roedd 294 o ysgolion cynradd gwyrdd, a 32 o rai coch.
Mae'r ffigyrau yn dangos fod cyfran yr ysgolion gwyrdd wedi cynyddu 5% yn y sector cynradd a 7% yn y sector uwchradd.
Hefyd mae'r ffigyrau yn dangos fod cyfran yr ysgolion coch wedi gostwng 1% yn y sector cynradd a 2% yn y sector uwchradd.
Mae 41% ysgolion arbennig wedi'u categoreiddio'n ysgolion gwyrdd.
Dim ond 8% sydd wedi'u categoreiddio'n ysgolion coch y mae angen y gefnogaeth fwyaf arnynt.
Dywedodd Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Addysg, Kirsty Williams: "Nid graddio, labelu na llunio tablau cynghrair amrwd yw nod y system hon ond yn hytrach, mae'n ymwneud â darparu cefnogaeth ac annog ein hysgolion i wella.
"Mae'r ffigyrau rydym wedi'u cyhoeddi heddiw yn dangos bod 84.4% o ysgolion cynradd a 64.6% o ysgolion uwchradd yn y categorïau gwyrdd a melyn erbyn hyn.
"Mae'r cynnydd hwn i'w groesawu, a bydd gan yr ysgolion hyn rôl allweddol i'w chwarae er mwyn cefnogi ysgolion eraill, drwy rannu eu sgiliau, eu harbenigedd a'u harferion da."
Fe gyhoeddwyd y canlyniadau perfformiad cyntaf yn ôl y drefn newydd yma yn 2015, ac ers hynny mae'r nifer o ysgolion yn y categori gwyrdd - ac sydd angen lleiaf o gymorth felly - wedi cynyddu o flwyddyn i flwyddyn.
Yn yr un modd mae'r nifer o ysgolion coch - sydd angen y cymorth mwyaf - wedi parhau i gwympo.
Ond tra bod Llywodraeth Cymru, awdurdodau lleol a chonsortia addysg yn ymfalchïo yn y canlyniadau, mae'n werth nodi bod undebau dysgu'n parhau'n amheus am y modd yma o asesu ysgolion gan ddadlau nad yw'n llwyr ystyried yr holl ffactorau all ddylanwadu ar berfformiad ysgol.
Ac wythnos yn ôl fe gyhoeddodd y corff arolygu Estyn, adroddiad a feirniadodd safon y dysgu mewn ysgolion uwchradd yn enwedig.
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran UCAC fod y ffigyrau yn bositif ond eu bod yn parhau yn amheus iawn "o broses sy'n gosod ysgol yn erbyn ysgol".
"Mae'n dangos fod safonau yn codi yn y sector cynradd ac uwchradd," meddai Ywain Myfyr, sy'n Swyddog Polisi efo'r undeb.
"Mae hyn yn amlwg yn adlewyrchu gwaith caled athrawon wrth addysgu a chefnogi disgyblion o bob oedran.
"Mae yn dangos ymdrechion mawr ysgolion sy'n wynebu heriau enfawr y dyddiau yma o safbwynt llwyth gwaith, diffyg adnoddau ariannol a thoriadau staffio."
Dywedodd David Evans, Ysgrifennydd yr NUT yng Nghymru, fod y ffigyrau yn rhai positif.
"Ond ni ddylwn gamddehongli'r ffaith fod categoreiddio ond yn un fodel o asesu, ac yn ddarlun o un rhan o'r perfformiad," meddai.
"Fe fydd perfformiad ysgolion yn amrywio oherwydd sawl rheswm, gan gynnwys y cyllid sydd ar gael a ffactorau eraill.
"Beth sy'n bwysig yw ein bod yn defnyddio'r canlyniadau mewn modd synhwyrol mewn modd i gefnogi ysgolion."
4 June 2015 Last updated at 09:16 BST
The company wants to take paying passengers on tourism trips into space, but they've faced big questions over how safe this form of travel is.
Last November a Virgin Galactic spacecraft crashed during a test run.
There were no passengers on board but one pilot was killed.
It led to big questions over whether this form of travel really is safe.
The BBC's Richard Westcott sent us this special report from Virgin's spaceship factory.
Northumberland County Council approved proposals for 200 houses, shops and a school at its County Hall site.
The Home Group said it would no longer be pursuing the scheme owing to a "number of reasons" including "current market conditions".
A council spokesman said it "remained committed to progressing alternative options".
Karen Heaney, Home Group director of regeneration, said: "We've gained outline planning approval and we leave at a stage where another developer can now take over, progress the scheme and deliver homes for the people of Morpeth."
The council said it was "concerned at the loss of a significant capital receipt which would have benefited all council tax payers in Northumberland".
Maple Grove Developments said they "remain committed" to the development of shops at the site and has "not considered withdrawing its plans".
There had been criticism of the cost of council plans to relocate its headquarters.
The authority said selling off the land and erecting a new £40m building in Ashington would be more cost-effective than refurbishing the current building.
David Holden of the South Morpeth Coalition residents' campaign group, said: "This is a victory for the will and determination of Morpeth residents.
"The Morpeth Neighbourhood Plan is clear that housing is not an appropriate use for the site... the whole process was a shambles.
"The loss of a capital receipt is entirely the fault of the council and is a result of pursuing a scheme that had no merit in planning terms."
Search dogs found the bodies of an Anglo-Polish woman, 33, and a Slovak woman, 32, on Wednesday. Their German guide, 50, was located on Thursday.
They were climbing 4,100m (13,450ft) Mont Maudit, a Mont Blanc summit, when they were swept away by collapsing ice.
It took some 36 hours before the alarm was raised over their disappearance.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said an investigation would be launched into the circumstances of the incident.
Stephane Bozon, head of the local mountain rescue team, said his team had only been alerted on Wednesday evening.
Two other groups of climbers who had been in the same area had said no-one had been buried by the avalanche.
Some 15 rescuers, two dogs and a helicopter were mobilised in the rescue, and chainsaws used to free the victims from the ice.
The Mont Blanc massif is popular with walkers and climbers but is Europe's deadliest mountain range, claiming some 50 lives each year.
Mr Cazeneuve said there had been eight fatal mountain accidents in France since last Saturday alone, the Associated Press news agency reports.
A British skydiver died after his parachute failed to open during a jump near Sallanches, close to Mont Blanc, on 7 August.
David Reader, 25, suffered severe head injuries and died in hospital in Annecy the next day.
West Midlands Police said officers from its counter-terrorism unit arrested the man on Tuesday afternoon.
The arrest was made at property in the West Midlands, the force said.
The force had issued an alert to officers and staff after receiving an "anonymous but credible" tip-off and said it was taking the threat "extremely seriously".
Officers have been urged to take extra precautions, including not wearing uniform during journeys to and from work.
Staff were first told on Monday night after the force received the call.
Senior officers clearly chose to make this threat public - perhaps to get the message out there to anybody planning such a plot that the police knew what was going on.
The officers I have spoken to have said it is business as usual.
If the force is being called out to, say, a burglary, senior officers are having to say to themselves, "Is this a burglary or is it an attempt to ambush our officers?"
Officers were held on duty to be given the security reminder while others were told as they started their shifts.
Assistant Chief Constable Garry Forsyth said the information received related "to the safety of West Midlands Police officers and police staff".
"We have taken the opportunity to remind all employees of the need to be vigilant. Our priority remains serving our communities and protecting them from harm," he said.
"Officers remain on patrol and our staff continue to respond to calls for service as usual."
The force remains on a "severe" level of terror alert.
"The status hasn't changed," a representative said.
In October, the threat level to police officers across Britain was raised to substantial.
The national security level remains at severe, signifying a terrorist attack is highly likely.
Threat levels indicate the likelihood of a terrorist attack in the UK and are split into five categories:
The inspection will focus on the cable on the east side of the crossing, near the top of the south tower.
Each of the main cables is made up of almost 12,000 individual steel wires. The bridge authorities said there are "no immediate safety concerns".
Special microphones are used to identify the sound of a wire snapping.
The acoustic monitoring system was installed in 2006.
Barry Colford, Forth Road Bridge chief engineer and bridgemaster, said: "The main cable acoustic monitoring system is designed to give us early warning of potential problems within the cable.
"I would therefore stress that, while this increase in wire breaks does merit further investigation, there are no immediate safety concerns and the cables still have more than enough strength to do their job.
"The inspection that we are now carrying out is purely to determine whether the recent increase in the rate and concentration of wire breaks is indicative of a longer term problem.
"Once we know the results of this inspection we will recommend any further action that is required to ensure the bridge remains safe and open to traffic."
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles called for nationwide protests next week.
Election officials had suspended a petition needed to organise the referendum.
The move halted the recall vote that polls said the government would lose.
Henrique Capriles said the coup "had been carried out against all Venezuelans".
He said in the protests, called for Wednesday, "we will take Venezuela from end to end. The whole people will be mobilized to restore constitutional order."
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Earlier the opposition said a court order had barred eight of them from leaving the country.
Reasons for the ban were not given but the council had said fraud had been reported in the referendum process.
The opposition had planned to secure the required signatures for the recall vote next week.
Another of the banned leaders, opposition coalition leader Jesus Torrealba, said: "It's gratuitous aggression. We are the majority, in the street and in Congress.
"They cannot postpone the change that the country is demanding."
The opposition controls the country's Congress but says Mr Maduro has power over key institutions such as the electoral authorities and the courts.
The government has accused the opposition of inventing names on the first of two petitions required to endorse the recall vote.
Mr Maduro said there had been "a gigantic fraud", adding: "Their cheating is coming out."
Diosdado Cabello, also of Mr Maduro's Socialist Party, said: "We hope justice will be served and that those responsible for this swindle will be detained."
The decision to suspend the referendum process came despite intense international pressure on President Maduro from the US and other Latin American countries to allow it to go ahead.
All three judges scored the 10-round contest 100-90 at the London Olympia.
The 28-year-old younger brother of IBF world featherweight champion Lee Selby impressed ringside pundit Andre Ward as he showed off his full repertoire.
"I love seeing a fighter who is a master of what he does," the world champion told ITV.
"If he continues like that, he is going to have a long and illustrious career. He makes it look easy."
Selby, who is the most decorated Welsh amateur boxer in history, says the fight was another important step on his way to the elite level. He has won all eight fights since turning professional and has now won three titles.
"The plan was not to take him out, I had to box," said Selby, who has already won British and IBF intercontinental titles.
"The plan was to hit and move. It was strictly about winning the belt. I did move a lot.
"My aim was to get the win. I want to have a long career."
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The 24-year-old, who won 200m breaststroke bronze at the London 2012 Olympics, was given a provisional ban after testing positive for meldonium.
The International Swimming Federation (Fina) lifted the ban after advice from the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada).
Meldonium is the substance Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova tested positive for earlier this year.
A statement from Fina read: "Wada is to undertake further scientific research on meldonium and have therefore recommended to Fina that the suspension of the swimmer should be lifted."
However, Fina also said the case "is not closed" and a decision will be made "following the outcome of Wada's studies".
The statement added: "After that, Ms Efimova would be entitled to file an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport."
Efimova is facing a life ban having previously tested positive for a banned substance.
The American-based swimmer was banned for 16 months by Fina after traces of the anabolic steroid DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) were found in her system at an out of competition test in Los Angeles in 2013.
Wada added meldonium to its list of banned substances at the start of 2016 and recently gave those athletes who had since failed tests a lifeline with the admission it was unclear how long the substance took to clear the body.
20 October 2016 Last updated at 12:29 BST
She spoke as the SNP led a debate at Westminster asking the UK government to guarantee the rights of EU nationals in Britain following the Brexit vote in June.
Ms Appel told the BBC she hoped there would be a guarantee made for her to stay in the Highlands where she currently lives.
The BBC's Westminster correspondent Nick Eardley reports.
The death of logistics specialist Randall Smith brings to five the number of people killed by gunman Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez. The other four victims were US marines.
Abdulazeez was himself later killed in a shootout with police.
The FBI has said his motives for the shooting were unclear.
However, it says it has found no evidence that he was carrying out an international terror plot.
Abdulazeez first fired shots at a recruitment centre in Chattanooga, then drove about six miles (10km) to a Navy and Marine reserve centre, where he shot and killed the marines, and wounded Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Smith.
"A male Navy Petty Officer succumbed to wounds received in the July 16 shooting at the Navy Operational Support Center (NOSC) in Chattanooga, Tennessee" on Saturday at 02:17 local time (06:17 GMT), the US Navy said in a statement.
It did not name the sailor, but family members confirmed it was Randall Smith.
A relative told the US military newspaper Stars and Stripes that She said Smith was married with three young daughters.
A number of issues have emerged in the first week of the sporting showpiece, including the green diving pool, empty seats at venues and a shortage of food for hungry fans, prompting people to air their grievances online. But is it a fair reflection of what is happening in Brazil?
The hashtag peaked on Monday, with thousands sharing video of alleged muggings on the streets of Rio during the Olympics, although it has not been independently verified as taking place over the past week.
#RioProblems has also accompanied other issues at the host venues, such as the wrong national anthem being played ahead of the Nigerian men's football fixture against Japan.
It has also been accompanied by several Twitter accounts set up under the same name, although they all appear to have been set up before the Games, with some registered as early as two years ago, perhaps in anticipation of issues arising at South America's first Olympics.
Journalists have used the hashtag to highlight the issues affecting them in the media bubble, from late courtesy buses to coffee shortages.
The sign in this tweet translates as: "Due to technical issues, we suspend the coffee service in this refreshment station. We apologise for any inconvenience."
Meanwhile, others spotted an easy opportunity for a joke.
Hundreds of drivers took part in three days of protests against port fees and rising fuel prices in a move which reportedly caused delays to shipping.
A local government spokesperson said port operations were running normally.
Correspondents say it is not immediately clear if the move will end the protests.
Steps by the government will include "lowering standard fees and removing non-standard fees", according to an unidentified spokesperson for the Shanghai city government quoted by Xinhua news agency.
The BBC's Chris Hogg in Shangai says this was the first mention of the dispute in China's heavily censored media.
In recent days, all references to the protest on websites and microblogs had been removed by the authorities.
Drivers began the protest on Wednesday over rising fuel prices and port fees, blockading two cargo ports - Baoshan and Waigaoqiao - in the city.
China has raised fuel prices several times in the past year, blaming the rising cost of crude oil.
Our correspondent says the strike shows the potential of problems caused by inflation to fuel unrest, and the authorities will be worried about possible copycat strikes at other ports where workers have similar grievances.
It is hard to be certain at this stage whether Shanghai's proposals will be enough to end this industrial action, but areas which have seen confrontations are said to be calm, our correspondent adds.
Some drivers told Reuters news agency they had not received enough information about the fee cuts and vowed to continue the strike until concrete results were achieved.
"There is still a strike on. There are supposed to be organisers in talks but I won't believe it until I have the money in my hand," one driver from Henan province told the news agency.
Chinese officials have warned that inflation is likely to remain high for the rest of the year. Consumer prices rose 4.9% in February from the same month a year ago, above the maximum target of 4%.
The gritty drama tells the story of refugees fleeing post-civil war Sri Lanka for a life in France.
The choice made by the jury led by American filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen was a surprise.
Holocaust drama Son of Saul took the Grand Prix. Vincent Lindon won Best Actor while Rooney Mara and Emmanuelle Bercot shared Best Actress.
Dheepan tells of a former Tamil Tiger fighter who links up with two strangers to pretend to be a family and find a life of asylum in a tough, drug-infested housing estate on the edge of Paris.
Audiard, who previously made A Prophet and Rust and Bone, said: "To receive a prize from the Coen brothers is something pretty exceptional. I'm very touched. I'm thinking of my father."
Joel Coen said: "This isn't a jury of film critics. This is a jury of artists who are looking at the work."
The Grand Prix, essentially the runner-up prize, went to Hungarian newcomer Laszlo Nemes for Son of Saul and its depiction of the Auschwitz, gas chambers.
"This continent is still haunted by this subject," he said.
68th Cannes Film Festival top awards:
Palme D'Or: Dheepan
Grand Prix: Son of Saul
Jury Prize: The Lobster
Best Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Best Actor: Vincent Lindon
Best Actress: Rooney Mara and Emmanuelle Bercot
Best Screenplay: Michel Franco (Chronic)
Camera d'Or (Best first feature): La Tierra Y la Sombra
Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos took the jury award, the third prize, for The Lobster, a dystopian comedy starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz.
Best Director went to Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-hsien for martial arts film The Assassin, his first movie in eight years.
Rooney Mara shared Best Actress for her role in Carol, but her co-star Cate Blanchett was overlooked and instead the jury decided to honour Emmanuelle Bercot for her role in My King.
Vincent Lindon's Best Actor award was for his role in Stephane Brize's film The Measure of a Man.
There were 19 in-competition films this year, though several were aired out of competition, including Mad Max: Fury Road and Pixar's Inside Out.
The festival was also overshadowed by a row over footwear.
Several women reported being turned away from screenings for not wearing high heels.
Film producer Valeria Richter, who has part of her left foot amputated, says she was one of those stopped.
The festival denied heels were part of the official dress code.
There were over half a million tickets sold for shows and attractions and footfall was up 5% in the city centre.
Officials said the increase could, in part, be due to a discount scheme for local residents following complaints.
Meanwhile, Edinburgh City Council denied reports of crushing at the city's Hogmanay celebrations.
It said it would be carrying out the usual review of Hogmanay celebrations with the event organisers and emergency services.
Officials said parts of the cordoned off area at the top of the mound were busy but they denied there was congestion or crushing. No one was injured.
Charlie Wood, Edinburgh's Christmas producer, said: "We are obviously thrilled at the figures. It demonstrates the scale and attraction of the festival.
"We set out to make Edinburgh's Christmas one of the world's best places to be at Christmas time and these figures show that we're on our way to achieving that.
"It is also gratifying to note that almost one in five of the tickets sold was at a special discount offered to local families - showing that we listened to concerns from the previous year, addressed them and helped deliver a Christmas celebration for the residents of Edinburgh.
"As ever, we will be working in the next few months to see what worked well, what didn't work so well, and how we can improve the festival to make sure that next year's is an even greater success for the people of the city and visitors to the city to look forward to and enjoy."
Steve Cardownie, Edinburgh's festivals and events champion, said: "Our winter festivals are the envy of the world and rightly so.
"This has been another record-breaking year, and the huge boost to footfall is good news for city centre businesses and the local economy."
Don Cowie's opener for Premiership Hearts was cancelled out by Joe Cardle's stylish finish.
Declan McManus fired the Pars in front but Isma Goncalves equalised before Dunfermline secured a bonus point by winning the penalty shoot-out.
Also in Group B, Peterhead beat Elgin City 3-0 to seal the runners-up spot.
However, the Blue Toon's hopes of going through as one of the four best second-placed teams depends on either Dundee or Dundee United sustaining a heavy defeat in Sunday's derby.
The contrasting form of both sides gave advance warning of what might happen at Tynecastle.
Dunfermline had put five on Peterhead earlier in the group whereas Hearts lost to them. Dunfermline scored six against Elgin whereas Hearts toiled for a 1-0 win. The visitors to Edinburgh were full of confidence; the hosts stymied by lack of pace, creativity, leadership and defensive stability.
What all of this means to head coach Ian Cathro's job is hard to know, but there were cries of "sacked in the morning" from the home support in the second half. What reason do they have to believe in him now? Cathro has been given time but nothing is improving. Those who were completely with him when he was appointed in December are deserting him fast, their faith exhausted.
Hearts, with only seven wins in 2017 so far, did take the lead when Cowie's angled shot from decent set-up play from Kyle Lafferty gave Cathro the beginning he was hoping for. The optimism was short-lived.
To be precise, it lasted eight minutes. John Souttar stood off Cardle and the winger took advantage, curling in a beauty past Jack Hamilton.
Hearts needed energy and trickery but the man they usually turn to, Jamie Walker, was not in the squad, left out for footballing reasons said his manager.
Amid speculation about a move to Rangers, Cathro remarked that Walker has shown a "drop-off" in performance level and focus.
It has to be said that Walker finished last season poorly and has not been good in the early games of this season either. He has one goal in his last 18 games for Hearts.
The best chance the hosts had to go back in front came from a Dunfermline player - Callum Morris - who almost knocked one past his own goalkeeper only for Sean Murdoch to make a superb save.
Boos at the break for Hearts and then, early in the new half, a second goal for Dunfermline.
Panic-ridden defending was at the root of it, Souttar selling himself and opening up the space that Dunfermline executed with composure and precision. McManus received Callum Smith's pass and smashed in his third goal in four games in this competition.
Dunfermline were pushed back in the latter stages. As Hearts grew desperate they managed to cause the Championship side some bother, Nate Wedderburn and Cardle knocking efforts off the line in quick succession.
Hearts did get the equaliser when another deep cross sent into the Dunfermline box led to Goncalves bundling home and they could have pulled off a dramatic comeback in the dying seconds had substitute Cole Stockton not blasted wide on the turn from three yards out.
Dunfermline advanced even before the spot-kicks had taken place and Hearts were out. And how Tynecastle let Cathro know how they felt about it. Cathro cut a lonely figure at the end.
Hearts then added to the feeling of rancour inside the stadium when they lost the most meaningless of penalty shoot-outs. Jordan McGhee, Malaury Martin and Cowie could not even hit the target on a desperately bleak day. One wonders how many more of these experiences Cathro will be allowed.
At Borough Briggs, Paul Cairney struck an early opener for Peterhead and David McCracken headed their second before the break. Jamie Stevenson fired a third for the visitors after the break.
Match ends, Heart of Midlothian 2(1), Dunfermline Athletic 2(3).
Attempt saved. Prince Buaben (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from more than 40 yards on the right wing is saved in the bottom right corner.
Penalty Shootout ends, Heart of Midlothian 2(1), Dunfermline Athletic 2(3).
Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Don Cowie (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot is too high. Don Cowie should be disappointed.
Goal! Heart of Midlothian 2(1), Dunfermline Athletic 2(3). Nathaniel Wedderburn (Dunfermline Athletic) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.
Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Malaury Martin (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot is high and wide to the right. Malaury Martin should be disappointed.
Penalty saved! Declan McManus (Dunfermline Athletic) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Heart of Midlothian 2(1), Dunfermline Athletic 2(2). Kyle Lafferty (Heart of Midlothian) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Goal! Heart of Midlothian 2, Dunfermline Athletic 2(2). Scott Lochhead (Dunfermline Athletic) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top left corner.
Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Jordan McGhee (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot is too high. Jordan McGhee should be disappointed.
Goal! Heart of Midlothian 2, Dunfermline Athletic 2(1). Michael Paton (Dunfermline Athletic) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty Shootout begins Heart of Midlothian 2, Dunfermline Athletic 2.
Second Half ends, Heart of Midlothian 2, Dunfermline Athletic 2.
Attempt missed. Cole Stockton (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Lee Ashcroft.
Corner, Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Lewis Martin.
Corner, Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Nathaniel Wedderburn.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Jean-Yves Mvoto replaces Joe Cardle.
Goal! Heart of Midlothian 2, Dunfermline Athletic 2. Esmael Gonçalves (Heart of Midlothian) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner.
Scott Lochhead (Dunfermline Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jamie Brandon (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Scott Lochhead (Dunfermline Athletic).
Corner, Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Nathaniel Wedderburn.
Attempt blocked. Kyle Lafferty (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Lee Ashcroft.
Christophe Berra (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kallum Higginbotham (Dunfermline Athletic).
Attempt blocked. Lewis Martin (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is blocked.
Esmael Gonçalves (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Scott Lochhead (Dunfermline Athletic).
Cole Stockton (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lee Ashcroft (Dunfermline Athletic).
Attempt blocked. Scott Lochhead (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Malaury Martin (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Malaury Martin replaces Arnaud Sutchuin-Djoum.
Foul by Arnaud Sutchuin-Djoum (Heart of Midlothian).
Michael Paton (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Cole Stockton (Heart of Midlothian).
Lee Ashcroft (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Scott Lochhead replaces Calum Smith.
The death of Mullah Omar - reported by the Afghan government on Wednesday - was confirmed by the Taliban on Thursday, the BBC has been told.
His deputy, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, will replace him, sources close to the Taliban leadership said.
Correspondents say the move is likely to divide the militants, and that many senior figures opposed the appointment.
Pakistan says peace talks it was due to hold between the Afghan government and the Taliban on Friday have been postponed.
The Foreign Ministry said this was at the Taliban's request due to uncertainty over Mullah Omar's death.
The Taliban leader died two years ago in a Karachi hospital according to Afghanistan, but Pakistan has always denied that he was in the country.
A Taliban statement said Omar's family had confirmed his death, but it did not say where or when it had happened. It said he had died of a "sickness".
The naming of Mullah Mansour as Taliban leader was far from unanimous and followed days of intense debate.
Sources close to the movement's leading council, or shura, say many senior commanders and other Taliban heavyweights were dismayed by the decision.
They are thought to include the movement's top military commander, Mullah Qaum Zakir, as well as Tayeb Agha, the head of the Taliban's political office in Qatar, and Mullah Habibullah, a member of the Quetta shura. They would have preferred Mullah Omar's son, Yaqoob, to succeed him, and accuse pro-Pakistani circles of imposing Mullah Mansour on the rebels.
A Taliban statement distancing the movement from more talks with the Afghan government reflects splits over how to proceed.
Mullah Mansour is pro-talks. He is to be given the title of Supreme Leader - not Leader of the Faithful, the title that Mullah Omar had.
The group appointed Siraj Haqqani, a key leader in another major Afghan military group, the Haqqani network, as Mansour's deputy, sources said.
Mansour becomes only the second person to lead the Taliban after Mullah Omar, who founded the group during Afghanistan's civil war in the early 1990s.
His alliance with al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden prompted the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
He had been in hiding ever since, and although was not thought to have significant day-to-day involvement in the group remained a key figurehead.
The failure to prove that Mullah Omar was alive was a major factor behind the defection of several senior Taliban commanders to the so-called Islamic State group, according to the BBC's former Kabul correspondent, David Loyn.
The 32-year-old will take on a full-time coaching role at the club from 1 October.
Pyrah has played 51 first-class matches for Yorkshire since making his debut in 2004, scoring 1,621 runs and taking 55 wickets.
"I have had a wonderful career with Yorkshire and enjoyed every aspect of it," Pyrah told the club website.
"I am now ready for the next chapter in my life and I have always had aspirations of going into coaching.
"It is an exciting period for me and one that I'm relishing," he added.
"In the past, I have had opportunities to leave, but I could never see myself working for another county. Yorkshire is ingrained in my heart and I am look forward to playing my part in the continued success of this great club."
Yorkshire director of cricket Martyn Moxon said: "Rich has been a great servant to the club for over a decade.
"He will be a great asset across all aspects of coaching and will be able to pass on his valuable knowledge to every player he comes into contact with."
Production rose by 2.1% across the 19-member euro area, reversing negative readings in December and November.
It is the highest monthly rise since September 2009, when monthly output jumped 2.3%.
Ireland recorded the biggest increase in production, which rose 12.7% in January compared with December.
Growth was also boosted by a sharp rise in capital goods, such as equipment and machinery, which are an indicator of future industrial investments.
However, while the rise was above expectations of a 1.7% month-on-month increase, analysts warned that growth might not be sustained at these levels.
Howard Archer, chief European and UK economist at IHS Global Insight, pointed to Markit's purchasing managers' index for the manufacturing sector in February which showed that activity had fallen to a 12-month low in February on slower growth of production, new orders, exports and employment.
In February, manufacturing activity was subdued within Germany and France, the eurozone's biggest economies.
Mr Archer said: "It needs to be borne in mind that output can be highly volatile from month to month. Consequently, there is a very real possibility that February will see a marked relapse."
On an annual basis, industrial output rose by 2.8% compared with January 2015. It was the largest annual percentage increase since August 2011.
Across the nation, people have expressed a range of emotions from joy to anger and from hope to fear.
London-based Instagram-user Lmolico was among those posting positive messages after it became clear the Leave campaign had won the day.
Brendan Hoey, a retired watchmaker from Torquay, shares her optimistic outlook.
"I'm absolutely over the moon," he said.
"Britain is a world leader in so many areas. It doesn't need a maternal overseer to succeed. It is dragging us down. There is a lot of scaremongering going on out there but we are not going to fall apart. We are going to be stronger."
In contrast, a Twitter-user from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, @chic77geek, posted a series of despairing tweets in which she laments: "I don't believe in Britain anymore. What future does my son have now? I want to leave, devastated at this result #NotInMyName".
A breakdown of the results reveals some regional divides. In Scotland, there was a majority vote to remain in the EU putting it at odds with the overall UK vote.
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Jenny Cleeton a 22-year-old blogger from Glasgow, is worried about what the referendum result means for her future.
"If we leave the EU, will that mean a second referendum in Scotland? Will our money lose all its value? I am completely unsure about what this means for my future," she said.
Although Cleeton voted to remain in the United Kingdom in the Scottish independence referendum in September 2014 she says she would choose to leave if offered the opportunity again.
"The unity has gone. Why would I want to stay united to the southern part of the country where decisions are made that I don't like and simply don't understand," she added.
Northern Ireland also witnessed a majority vote to remain in the EU.
'Do I need a new passport?' and other Brexit questions
Conor McGale from Omagh, Northern Ireland, is in his 40s and can remember when there used to be border checks between Northern Ireland and the Republic and frets that they may return.
"It comes down to the simple fact that we are the ones with a land border with another EU country and we have the most to lose," he said.
In Wales, there was a majority vote to leave the EU with some pockets of strong support for the Remain campaign.
Jordan Hill is a 20-year-old business and accounting student from Powys which registered a majority of 53.7% in favour of Brexit.
"I got a happy shock when I woke this morning. We have been an outcast in Europe and I don't see us as likely to thrive within it.
"It is scary that there is so little unity in the UK and we face the potential of two possible land borders - one for Northern Ireland and one for Scotland in the future - but I still feel it is in the best interests of all of us to leave the EU."
Although the vast majority of English counties came out in support of the Leave campaign the capital, London, stood out, with most boroughs predominantly voting to remain.
Social media in the capital in the hours following the result was dominated by posts lamenting the success of the Leave campaign.
Members of the public are being invited to express an interest in colourful beach huts on the Borders coast.
Scottish Borders Council recently got planning permission for 11 new buildings at Coldingham Bay.
The sites are owned by the local authority and then leased to tenants who can put up a hut.
There are currently 61 huts of various different colours constructed at Coldingham, some of which are believed to be about 100 years old.
The planning permission recently received also allows owners of the current beach huts to replace their facility, subject to conditions around style and colour.
An SBC spokesman said: "The successful block planning application was made by the council to allow owners to continue to display their individual tastes, while ensuring the huts conform to SBC's long-term plans for the site.
"We would encourage anyone interested in acquiring a beach hut, or renewing their current hut, to get in touch."
The quake hit at 15:36 pm (03:36 GMT) with its epicentre about 66km (41 miles) from the town of Kaikoura.
The US Geological Survey said it was a 5.9 magnitude quake. New Zealand's GeoNet said it was 6.2 magnitude at a depth of 52km.
Residents as far off as Christchurch and Wellington felt the quake but no serious damage is expected.
A store owner in St Arnaud told New Zealand's Stuff news agency that the shock was "very very frightening".
"It started shaking and we just waited. It became very violent so we ran outside," said Sandy Pearce, adding that much of the stock fell off the shelves.
Three unrelated shootings since Christmas Eve included a man being injured in Shipley, a car damaged in Huddersfield and a police vehicle being shot on Christmas Day in Bradford.
West Yorkshire Police said the incidents were being taken "very seriously".
No one was seriously injured.
The first incident happened in Market Square, Shipley, at about 04:00 GMT on Saturday.
One man is thought to have been shot but not seriously injured after a collision between a vehicle and pedestrian.
In the second incident, a car was damaged in Bradley Mills, Huddersfield, at 15:10 on Saturday.
A car, thought to be a black Mercedes, drove down Harpe Inge carrying people wearing masks. One person got out and a firearm was discharged, police said.
Another car, thought to be a grey Mercedes, was shot. No one was injured.
In the early hours of Christmas Day, a police vehicle windscreen was shot on Sackville Street in Bradford.
Officers had been called to reports of an assault and at about 04:40, while speaking to the victim, a shot was fired at the windscreen.
No one was injured by the firearms discharge but one person was injured as a result of the assault and a 19-year-old man has been arrested.
While the firearms incidents are not linked, they are being taken "very seriously" and witnesses should contact West Yorkshire Police.
Assistant Chief Constable Russ Foster said: "Despite this recent spate of gun-related crime, the chances of becoming a victim of such an incident in West Yorkshire are very low."
Last January, 80 illegally-held guns were taken in West Yorkshire in a weapons surrender which is due to be repeated in the new year.
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The former New York Giants star had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a statement released by NBC said.
Dozens of former professional US football players have suffered from the same degenerative disease, which can only be diagnosed after death.
His family decided to have his brain assessed by medics.
He suffered unspecified "cognitive and behavioural symptoms" as he grew older, according to their statement.
They "made the difficult decision to have his brain studied in hopes of contributing to the advancement of medical research concerning the link between football and traumatic brain injury".
Gifford, whose widow is NBC's Today host Kathie Lee Gifford, died at his Connecticut home aged 84 in August.
He played for the New York Giants from 1952-64, selected as the Most Valuable Player in 1956 and an eight-time selection to the Pro Bowl.
In 1977, he was inducted into the American Football Hall of Fame, and he helped the Giants win the NFL title in 1956.
After his playing career he moved into TV commentary, working for ABC's Monday Night Football from 1971 to 1997.
"Frank Gifford was the ultimate Giant. He was the face of our franchise for so many years," Giants President John Mara said after his death.
The author of Concussion, which has inspired a new film starring Will Smith, spoke to the BBC's Babita Sharma about the dangers of American football.
The 22-year-old Ivorian picked up the problem when he tangled with Chelsea's Eden Hazard and was substituted in the 52nd minute as a consequence.
"I am afraid it is a bad injury," said United manager Jose Mourinho. "It is in his knee, the ligament area. He feels it is really bad."
Bailly had played every minute in the league for United coming into the game.
The defender signed from Spanish side Villarreal for about £30m in the summer.
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Noble made 299 appearances for the Clarets between 1973 and 1979, scoring 80 goals and boasting a 100% penalty record with 27 goals from 27 attempts.
He also played more than 200 games for Swindon Town and had spells at Newcastle and Blackpool.
"On behalf of all at Burnley Football Club, we would like to express our deepest sympathies to all friends and family," a club statement said.
Robert Buzalski drank vodka liqueur before setting off for Edzell with Krysztof Birula and another man.
A court heard Buzalski's hire car left the road during bad weather conditions and plunged down an embankment into a river bed.
Mr Birula suffered a broken back in the crash and had to be cut free from the vehicle by firefighters.
Buzalski had denied causing serious injury to Mr Birula by dangerous driving.
A jury at Forfar Sheriff Court found the 36-year-old of Ruthvenfield Road, Perth, guilty of the charge.
The crash took place on 24 August 2013 on a farm road from Cornes Cottage to Dalbog Farm, near Edzell.
Mr Birula was unable to travel to court to give evidence but a statement taken from him recounting the events was read to the court.
The statement read: "Buzalski was driving normally, he did not drive fast.
"Suddenly Marcin Kopij told Buzalski: 'Watch out, we're being drawn off the road'.
"I fell off the seat and I think I hit my head. I said to Buzalski that I could not move an arm or leg.
"The next thing I remember is waking up in hospital."
Giving evidence in his own defence Buzalski, who suffered four broken ribs in the incident, said: "I think about it every day, it's very hard.
"I ask myself every evening, why did it have to happen?"
Sheriff Pino di Emidio deferred sentence until April for social work background reports and released Buzalski on bail.
The results came in the second wave of tests carried out by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on samples from the London and Beijing Olympics.
None of the medallists from London were due to compete in Rio next month.
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) said 11 of its competitors had tested positive.
They include Russian London 2012 silver medallists Alexandr Ivanov, Svetlana Tsarukaeva and Natalya Zabolotnaya.
Armenia's Hripsime Khurshudyan, Moldova's Cristina Iovu and Iryna Kulesha of Belarus - all of whom won bronze medals four years ago - also returned positive tests.
The IWF has imposed mandatory provisional suspensions on all 11 athletes, including Georgia's Rauli Tsirekidze, who was due to compete in Rio.
The other four weightlifters to fail tests were Russia's Andrey Demanov, Turkey's Sibel Simsek, Kazakhstan's Almas Uteshov and Azerbaijan's Intigam Zairov.
All of the athletes tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid dehydrochlormethyltestosterone.
On the day the IOC announced the second wave of results, Turkish weightlifter Sibel Ozkan was stripped of the silver medal he won in Beijing.
The death of Castro, one of the world's longest-serving leaders, was announced by his brother Raul on Friday night.
Castro came to power in 1959, and ushered in a Communist revolution. He defied the US for decades, surviving many assassination plots.
Supporters said he returned Cuba to the people. Critics called him a dictator.
Leeds beat Sheffield Wednesday 2-0 at Hillsborough after a week in which he had reportedly been in danger of being sacked by Leeds owner Massimo Cellino.
Monk had taken one point from his first three league games, but told BBC Radio Leeds: "I'm not under any pressure at all, I have a one-year contract.
"My plan is not an overnight plan, we're not miracle workers here."
The former Swansea manager added: "We've assembled a brand new squad, we're at the start of something new and you can see with the players how much they believe in it.
"It's a long process. We will have ups and downs but what's important is that we have time with this group.
"You can see within time the potential we have to be even better than what you saw today."
The band will play Glasgow's Barrowland Ballroom venue on Sunday 26 March as part of the three-day festival.
BBC Radio 6 Music said they would perform tracks from their new album Spirit along with classic hits.
The full festival line-up, which includes Goldfrapp, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Bonobo was revealed by 6 Music presenter Lauren Laverne.
Other performers booked for the festival are Belle and Sebastian, Anna Meredith, Ride, Cate Le Bon and The Shins, among others. The full programme is available on the BBC Radio 6 Music website.
Depeche Mode, who formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex, have not played at the 2,000 capacity Barrowland Ballroom for more than 30 years, when they performed as part of their Some Great Reward tour.
6 Music Festival events will also be held at the O2 Academy, St Luke's and SWG3.
The radio station said there would also be a "celebration of live music, conversation, comedy and spoken word" at Glasgow's Tramway on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 March from 11:00 to 17:00.
Lauren Laverne said: "The 6 Music Festival is going further north than ever before.
"I love Glasgow and have so many great memories of the city, and the 6 Music Festival is sure to create some more. The music is going to be awesome."
Tickets for the event go on sale at 10:00 on Friday.
Five people were killed, including the attacker who was shot dead by armed police.
On Thursday morning, the UK prime minister confirmed in parliament that the first arrests had been made in the relation to the incident, and the investigations are continuing.
Scotland Yard, who run the police in London, say the attacker was 52-year-old Khalid Masood.
They say they "believe that Masood acted alone on the day and there is no information or intelligence to suggest there are further attacks planned."
The head of counter terrorism at the Metropolitan Police, Mark Rowley, said: "It is still our belief that this attacker was inspired by international terrorism."
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The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner described what happened as the "most serious terrorist attack on London since the 7/7 bombings in 2005".
The following evening, there was a special gathering called a vigil, near to where the attack took place. People came together and lit candles to remember those who lost their lives.
Newsround's guide explains more about the events of that afternoon, who was involved and what happened afterwards.
At around 2:40pm on Wednesday, a single attacker drove a car along Westminster Bridge and hit many pedestrians.
He then crashed the car into railings near the Houses of Parliament, before running towards Parliament where he attacked a police officer.
The attacker was then shot dead by armed police.
Five people were killed in the incident, including the police officer and a woman who was hit by the car.
The police officer was named as PC Keith Palmer, and the three other victims have been named as Kurt Cochran, Aysha Frade and Leslie Rhodes.
Fifty people were also injured.
The extremist group who call themselves Islamic State - or IS - said that the man who carried out the attack was working for them. But this has not been confirmed by the authorities.
Many people who were in the area when the attack took place were told to stay in their buildings to keep them safe. They were later allowed to go home.
Hundreds of people were evacuated from Parliament and kept safe in Westminster Abbey.
The police are working hard to find out more about what happened.
"Hundreds of detectives have been working through the night"
Mark Rowley, head of counter terrorism at the Metropolitan Police, said the morning after the attack
They have also said there will be more security on the streets, both in London and across the country, to make sure everyone stays safe.
The UK prime minister Theresa May said that the day after the attack, "Parliament will meet as normal, we will come together as normal, and Londoners and others from around the world who have come here to visit this great city will get up and go about their days as normal".
"We will all move forward together," she said.
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Roy Green, 78, from Gotham, said he was "devastated" after it went missing on Monday.
Mr Green had also used the tool to build the gates to billionaire Adnan Khassoggi's mansion.
He said the anvil weighed about 300kg (661lbs) and would have taken "two strong men" to lift it.
The anvil was in Mr Green's front garden in Wodehouse Avenue.
"I couldn't believe it at the time," said Mr Green, who was a blacksmith for about 50 years.
"It was upsetting, [it is] more sentimental than anything."
His stepdaughter, Helen Harvey, said: "[We are] devastated. It's news you don't want just before Christmas.
"It's something that's been in the family for years and anybody who could take something that's got so many memories and emotions attached to it, it's really bad news."
Nottinghamshire Police have been making inquiries with local scrap merchants and anyone with any information has been asked to call 111.
The development is part of a £3.4m scheme to regenerate the Pembrokeshire town.
It will be located on the site of the current Riverside Market and will replace the original building, which closed in 2012.
The Welsh Government-funded facility will also house a coffee shop, tourism information office and gallery.
Traders at the indoor market will be relocated to other premises in the town centre, which have yet to be decided.
Reg and Sandra Davies have run their engraving business in the Riverside Market for 33 years.
Mr Davies said being relocated was "not something they initially wanted," but following a "downturn in the market" they were looking forward to moving.
Of the 15 indoor market traders, 10 will be moved and five will be entitled to statutory compensation.
"There's not much resistance with the market traders anymore, there's only a few of us left," he added.
The council called it a "flagship" development and said the new venue could generate close to £1m of spending in the local economy and create eight to 15 additional jobs.
Keith Lewis, Pembrokeshire cabinet member for economy and communities, said the award was "great news."
It is hoped work will start in autumn, with an opening date some 12 months later.
The funding announcement coincided with the unveiling of a "draft masterplan" for the town centre.
Alexteen Roberts's attacker followed her home then pushed to the ground and punched her before stealing her bag containing £300.
Mrs Roberts' grandson heard her shouting in distress. He tried to catch the attacker, who escaped.
"When I'm coming in the house now I'm afraid because of this wicked man," she said.
The attack happened on 23 August and Mrs Roberts has had her 101st birthday since.
Grand-daughter Jacqueline McIntosh said family members now took it in turns to be in the house with Mrs Roberts.
"She's become a bit unsteady now. A lot of other old people live in this area and they have become concerned," she said.
Mrs Roberts' grandson Ashley Aitcheson, 31, said the attacker had pretended to be a council worker before the robbery.
He said the man looked "like a drunk". He was white, about 35 years old, wore baggy clothes and he had a beard.
The attacker was last seen heading towards Seven Sisters Road.
Det Ch Insp Luke Marks said: "This was a despicable attack on a very elderly lady who lived independently and is now fearful to return home.
"At 101 years old she had the sense and foresight to dismiss the suspect when he tried to con her into unnecessary electrical work, but he then decided to mug her instead."
The digital market rose 6.9% to $6.9 billion (£4.6 billion), representing 46% of all global music sales, reported the music industry body IFPI.
CDs, vinyl and other physical formats also accounted for 46% of the market, with rights for performances, films and advertisements making up the rest.
But overall revenue slipped by 0.4%.
Pharrell Williams's Happy was the most-downloaded single globally in 2014, with Taylor Swift the most popular artist, the IFPI said.
The London-based body also noted that vinyl sales had increased by 54.7%, and now account for 2% of global revenues.
The global recorded music industry was worth $14.97 billion (£10.1 billion) last year, down from $15 billion (£10 billion) in 2013.
Although the rate of decline has slowed since the mid-2000s, it is the second consecutive year of falling music sales.
A brief upturn in 2012, when global revenues rose 0.3%, now appears to be an aberration.
But the picture varies from country to country. The US, the world's largest music market, saw an overall increase of 2.1%.
Japan, where falling CD sales have dragged down the global industry in recent years, saw an increase in digital revenue for the first time in five years, as streaming services gained a firmer foothold.
Other large markets saw declining sales - including France (down 3.4%) and the UK (down 2.8%).
And 37 countries - including Sweden, Mexico, Spain and South Korea - saw streaming revenue overtake download income.
Overall, last year saw a steep increase in subscriptions to streaming sites such as Deezer and Spotify, with revenues increasing by 39% to $1.57 billion (£1.06 billion).
That offset a decline in download sales, mostly derived from Apple's iTunes store, which fell by 8%.
The IFPI estimated that, out of the 100 million people who use streaming services, just 41 million were paid-up subscribers, with the rest accessing free, ad-supported streams.
Its annual Digital Music Report said there was "substantial untapped potential for growth within the paid-for category".
The market is still expanding, with new players such as Tidal expected to be joined by an Apple-branded streaming service later this year.
"I think we will be looking, in the next couple of years, at digital surpassing physical," said the IFPI chief executive, Frances Moore.
"We are seeing that streaming is really leading the digital market, and we can imagine a time when digital will be the majority of music sales."
Sony Music chief executive Edgar Berger added: "The industry has shifted from an ownership model to access. I've not met anyone who can see beyond streaming. So this looks like a final destination".
But the IFPI also called on European lawmakers to clamp down on sites like YouTube and Daily Motion, which claim exemption from liability when users upload videos containing copyrighted music.
Shakespeare was Ranieri's assistant and is popular with the club's players.
The 3-1 win over Liverpool on Monday boosted his chances of being given the job until at least the end of the term.
After the win he said: "Could I do the job? I think I can. Does it faze me? No. We have to make sure the owners do what's right for the football club."
No timescale has yet been set for the appointment, but if Shakespeare remains in charge for Saturday's home match against Hull City in the Premier League - a vital game for both clubs - a return of at least four points out of six and improved performances would count in his favour.
"My remit was get them ready for Liverpool and I have done that," Shakespeare said.
"Let's see what happens. I think it might be too early to make an appointment but the club will come to me if there are any changes."
Shakespeare represents continuity, having been at the side of previous managers Nigel Pearson and Ranieri.
And, with just 12 games left this season, other candidates with higher profiles may not feel they have enough time left to arrest the slide.
Shakespeare gets on well with the players and is a highly regarded coach.
Former England coach Sam Allardyce thought enough of him to bring him into his coaching set-up with the national team, despite never having worked with him.
The Leicester hierarchy felt Shakespeare handled himself well in a difficult situation when he met the media after Ranieri's departure, showing just the right amount of steely ambition when asked if he would like the job full-time while dealing diplomatically with some tough questions.
He was also smart enough to avoid publicly shaming the players - knowing he has to work with them for at least a few more days.
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Former Chelsea interim manager Guus Hiddink has massive experience and would command immediate respect from the Leicester players. Money would be no object in securing Hiddink, but it is arguable whether he would want the job after working at, or near, the top of the Premier League.
Although Pearson would be a popular replacement with many senior players who worked with him until the summer of 2015, I understand it is unlikely after the circumstances that led to his departure.
Former Manchester City and Inter Milan boss Roberto Mancini, meanwhile, is seen as a potentially divisive influence, at a time when a strong team spirit is vital.
A panel of three - chief executive Susan Whelan, director of football John Rudkin, and football operations director Andrew Neville - will sift through the candidates, but the decision rests with the owner and chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.
Rudkin is close to the chairman, who relies on his football knowledge, but there is no doubt who will be in charge of the appointment.
Fundamentally, it is all down to the chairman - and having surprised so many when appointing Ranieri, and been vindicated, he will back his judgement after taking the necessary soundings.
The body of Kuwaiti student Mashael Albasman, 25, was found on Sunday in a first-floor flat at a property on St Michael's Road.
An inquest which was opened and adjourned in Bournemouth earlier, heard the cause of death was stab wounds.
A man, 58, who was at the property, has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody.
Police were called to what they described as a "serious incident" shortly after noon on Sunday.
The man was known to the victim, said police, and suffered injuries that later needed hospital treatment.
Just over 4.18 million vehicles were sold in the first half of the year.
That was an 8% increase on second-hand sales in the first half of 2015, and the first time that any half-year sales have risen above the four million mark.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said the increase mirrored the rising number of new cars sold in the past few years.
Mike Hawes, chief executive of the SMMT, said: "The UK's used car market is at its strongest ever."
"The growth in the used car market has reflected the record demand for new cars in recent years, but future growth in high-cost purchases will depend on stable consumer and business confidence," he added.
Car sales are widely seen as a key indicator of economic activity and consumers' willingness to spend money.
The half-year rise in second-hand sales was far in excess of the growth of the wider economy, or of people's incomes.
It was also higher than the 3% rise in first-half sales of new cars.
The trade body's figures show that in the first five years following the 2008 financial crisis, and the subsequent economic recession, second-hand car sales fell sharply, and then stood still.
At one point the government had to bring in a scrappage scheme to encourage people to continue buying new cars, and to stop the industry from potential collapse.
Since then new car sales have revived strongly, hitting a new record high in 2015, and for the past three years second-hand sales have been picking up too.
The SMMT said that the most popular second-hand cars were those between one and three-years old, super-minis, and small family cars.
Simon Makienok volleyed in Callum Robinson's cross from inside the area to give the visitors the lead.
Aaron Wilbraham then headed in an equaliser with 12 minutes to go.
But Johnson found the net with a tame shot from a difficult angle seven minutes later as North End claimed their second win in three games.
Having held firm with the hosts dominating the early stages, North End took the lead as Makienok latched onto Robinson's cross when unmarked in the box.
The visitors should have been 2-0 up by half-time as Robinson collected Makienok's knock-down before firing a shot against the crossbar.
Tammy Abraham hit the post for City in the second half and should have done better when he headed over after Wilbraham had equalised.
But Preston claimed all three points thanks to Johnson, who beat young goalkeeper Ivan Lucic at his near post as Simon Grayson's side extended their unbeaten run against City to seven games.
Bristol boss Lee Johnson:
"We have to work through this period. It feels like Groundhog Day.
"In the first 20 minutes some of the football we played was fantastic, then we give away a really, really poor goal. Bad positioning from our back four has meant we conceded without Preston needing to produce any real quality.
"After that players who were performing at eights and nines dipped to fives and sixes. Then we managed to get ourselves back into the game, but still couldn't see it out.
"Enough is enough and tweaks need to be made. We need a couple of signings in the January transfer window to help the group.
"It's never easy in January, but I know what I want. There is a lot right and a little bit wrong at the moment, but the latter is driving me insane."
Preston North End manager Simon Grayson:
"We have had a good week, with seven points from nine and two good away performances.
"Bristol City came out of the traps fast and we had to weather the storm. We were under the cosh, but we got through it and the first goal was always going to be important.
"It was a great ball in from Callum Robinson and an excellent finish by Simon Makienok. After that I felt we looked comfortable until they equalised.
"A lot of character was shown to win the game from then on. You have to defend well because Bristol City get balls into the box and have some big lads in there.
"Christmas always means a quick turnaround of games, but we go into it with momentum. We won't get ahead of ourselves and have some tough matches coming up, but we will enjoy the next few days."
Match ends, Bristol City 1, Preston North End 2.
Second Half ends, Bristol City 1, Preston North End 2.
Gary O'Neil (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Simon Makienok (Preston North End).
Attempt saved. Tammy Abraham (Bristol City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Gary O'Neil with a cross.
Attempt saved. Josh Brownhill (Bristol City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Gary O'Neil.
Daniel Johnson (Preston North End) is shown the yellow card.
Ben Pearson (Preston North End) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Joe Bryan (Bristol City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ben Pearson (Preston North End).
Attempt blocked. Jamie Paterson (Bristol City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lee Tomlin.
Goal! Bristol City 1, Preston North End 2. Daniel Johnson (Preston North End) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Simon Makienok.
Attempt missed. Daniel Johnson (Preston North End) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Marnick Vermijl following a set piece situation.
Substitution, Preston North End. Jordan Hugill replaces Callum Robinson.
Foul by Jamie Paterson (Bristol City).
Simon Makienok (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aaron Wilbraham (Bristol City).
Greg Cunningham (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Aden Flint (Bristol City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked. Assisted by Jamie Paterson.
Substitution, Preston North End. Marnick Vermijl replaces Aiden McGeady.
Attempt missed. Tammy Abraham (Bristol City) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Adam Matthews with a cross.
Goal! Bristol City 1, Preston North End 1. Aaron Wilbraham (Bristol City) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Adam Matthews with a cross.
Attempt missed. Simon Makienok (Preston North End) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right following a set piece situation.
Foul by Gary O'Neil (Bristol City).
Aiden McGeady (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Bristol City. Jamie Paterson replaces Luke Freeman.
Substitution, Bristol City. Josh Brownhill replaces Bobby Reid.
Foul by Aaron Wilbraham (Bristol City).
Aiden McGeady (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Aiden McGeady (Preston North End) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Simon Makienok.
Attempt missed. Daniel Johnson (Preston North End) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Callum Robinson.
Attempt missed. Lee Tomlin (Bristol City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Joe Bryan.
Tammy Abraham (Bristol City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Tom Clarke (Preston North End).
Substitution, Bristol City. Aaron Wilbraham replaces Marlon Pack.
Attempt missed. Tammy Abraham (Bristol City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Tammy Abraham (Bristol City) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the right side of the box. Assisted by Bobby Reid with a headed pass.
Foul by Bobby Reid (Bristol City).
Callum Robinson (Preston North End) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Offside, Bristol City. Gary O'Neil tries a through ball, but Tammy Abraham is caught offside.
The move comes amid demands from one assembly member for a register of lobbyists in Wales.
First Minister Carwyn Jones told AMs on Tuesday that ministers do not meet formally with lobbyists.
But Plaid Cymru AM Neil McEvoy said that appeared to be a change in stance from the Welsh Government.
The first minister told AMs that the standards commissioner is undertaking work "discussing with other UK Parliaments their arrangements and how they are working in practice".
The commissioner is due to report to the assembly standards committee, which requested the work, later this month.
AMs on the committee are holding their own inquiry into the issue after Scotland and Westminster introduced new rules for the industry. Currently Wales does not have a register of lobbyists.
Mr Elias is due to be replaced by Sir Roderick Evans in December.
Lobbyists are people hired by a business, an organisation or a cause to advocate their case to legislators.
Mr McEvoy has previously said that a register for lobbyists would shed light on who was lobbying for who, and for what.
But an earlier report in 2013 suggested there had been no complaints about the practice in Wales.
Mr McEvoy told Mr Jones during First Minister's Questions in the Senedd that a minister "was pictured on Twitter attending an event with a commercial lobbyist" and that on Wednesday the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children Carl Sargeant "is a keynote speaker at a commercial lobbyist event".
"Maybe you can explain to the public and this chamber the contradiction between what you say here, that they don't have access, and what actually is the reality, because we all know they do," he said.
Mr Jones said: "Ministers do speak at events that are organised by organisations, but ministers do not have formal meetings with lobbyists.
"If he is saying that no minister should ever meet, either formally or informally, with anybody who is remotely connected to a lobbying organisation, that's just impractical, given the size of Wales."
"But what we do not do is meet formally with lobbying companies if they seek meetings with ministers. Those meetings never happen on a formal basis."
Mr Jones had said in July that commercial lobbyists do not have access to ministers.
Mr McEvoy tweeted after the meeting that there was a "seeming change of position from the government".
"Now, it's formal meetings don't take place. Previously, no access."
The police have not commented.
The opposition has been holding weekly demonstrations against the electoral commission, which it says is biased.
Nairobi's police chief had warned opposition supporters not to take part in Monday's protest in the Kenyan capital "if you value your life".
Officers shot dead three people in similar protests in May. They said they were acting in self-defence.
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Journalist Richard Omondi says he has confirmed the latest fatalities with the authorities at the Kisumu hospital where the injured were taken.
A bullet has also been removed from the body of a five-year-old boy, who survived the injury.
Omondi told the BBC that protesters had earlier blocked roads with burning tyres and were heading to the electoral commission's offices when police intervened.
They used tear gas followed by live bullets to disperse the demonstrators.
Presidential spokesman Manoah Esipisu said those shot had been looting supermarkets.
The opposition protest in Nairobi passed off peacefully, the BBC's Anne Soy reported from the city.
She said protesters passed the headquarters of the electoral commission but there was no attempt to enter the building, after marshals from the opposition formed a cordon around it.
Last month, there were complaints of police brutality as officers were pictured assaulting demonstrators in Nairobi.
On Sunday, Nairobi police chief Japheth Koome said police were prepared to use lethal force if necessary, after a Kenyan court had ruled the planned protests illegal.
The ruling was overturned on Monday morning by judge Joseph Onguto, who said the opposition Cord alliance had the right to picket.
Cord, led by former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, wants members of the electoral commission to resign ahead of next year's presidential election.
It says the commission is biased in favour of the governing Jubilee coalition and wants it replaced by a neutral body.
Winchester Crown Court heard 25-year-old Craftsman Sam Dallow from Birmingham thought he was contacting a 14-year-old girl.
In fact it was self-styled paedophile hunter Shane Brannigan, who handed Wiltshire-based Dallow to the police.
A senior police officer warned against vigilante action - saying it risks jeopardising ongoing investigations.
Dallow, of 6th Battalion The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, based at Tidworth, admitted attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming.
The sting was carried out at Andover train station on 11 April where he was greeted by Mr Brannigan and a colleague who filmed their exchange.
The footage and online exchanges were given to Hampshire Police.
The vigilantes claim they are helping budget-stretched police forces.
Mr Brannigan told the BBC: "Saying and crying they've got no money, no resources, no funding, there isn't enough people in the team to do this sort of thing.
"Leave it to people like me who actually care about the investigation."
Police forces have warned that amateur detectives can jeopardise ongoing investigations.
The national policing lead on child abuse investigations, Chief Constable Simon Bailey, said: "They are taking risks they don't understand.
"Revealing the identity of suspected paedophiles gives the suspect the opportunity to destroy evidence before the police can investigate them."
He added that the risks of wrongly accusing people in a public forum can also have serious consequences as the public often assume they are guilty.
Sentencing takes place on 8 June and the judge has warned Dallow may face time in prison.
The Army told the BBC it is considering whether to take any further action after sentencing.
King's School Canterbury's rowing team was "scuppered" in its opening race on Wednesday, after an oar "parted company" from its shaft mid-race.
Canford School's race was then rescheduled after the team lost an oar on the way to the start of a race.
It came as the UK saw the hottest July day on record, with temperatures hitting 36.7C (98F).
A Henley Regatta spokesman said: "Today's extreme heat, it would appear, caused the glue to melt between the plastic 'spoon' and the carbon-fibre shaft of the high-tech oars."
Teams were taking part in the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup for schoolboy eights.
She is accused of sending thousands of dollars to the so-called Islamic State group in Syria through a Western Union money transfer, reports say.
The girl and a male accomplice, 20, who allegedly gave her the money were arrested in raids on Tuesday.
The pair allegedly met in a park on Tuesday to discuss a plan to send money to Syria that day, reports said.
They had reportedly developed a "sophisticated facilitation path" of wiring funds and had completed successful transfers before.
The man, named by media as Milad Atai, was also arrested during Australia's biggest counter-terror raids in September 2014.
The girl is accused of admitting to a police informant that she had wired A$10,000 ($7,600, £5,400) to Syria at the behest of an Islamic State fighter.
She was also allegedly planning to conduct another transfer of A$5,000 when she was caught on Tuesday morning in a park along with Mr Atai, who had handed her the money.
But her lawyer argued that the prosecution's case was based on inferences in her conversations with the police informant and said it may have amounted to entrapment.
Mr Atai faces charges similar to the girl's.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation said Mr Atai was still under investigation over the death of police accountant Curtis Cheng, who was gunned down by 15-year-old Farhad Jabar.
Police have reiterated concerns over extremists targeting young Australians.
"[It is] disturbing that we continue to deal with teenage children in this environment," NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn told reporters on Tuesday.
US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Tom Shannon said if the talks failed, it could lead to both sides "putting people on the streets".
He said such a result would be very dangerous.
It comes after President Maduro rejected calls for an early election.
"From our point of view [the dialogue] really is the last best effort to try to find a negotiated, peaceful solution to this," said Mr Shannon.
He added that it would "unpredictable and can be very dangerous" if Venezuela found itself in a state where either side had to "measure themselves through their ability to put people on to the streets".
Mr Shannon's comments come at the end of a week that saw the progress which had been made at the talks, mediated by a Vatican envoy and former international leaders from Spain, the Dominican Republic and Panama, slowly fall apart.
Mr Maduro remains at loggerheads with the opposition, which dominates the National Assembly after a landslide victory in last year's elections.
He faces calls to step down amid a worsening economic crisis in the country.
Last month, hundreds of thousands of people protested in the capital Caracas after opposition calls for a referendum on Mr Maduro's leadership were rejected.
Mr Maduro was elected in 2013 to replace his late mentor Hugo Chavez, but has seen his popularity plummet to just over 20% amid an unprecedented economic crisis.
Police found Mr Gillies seriously injured when responding to reports of a disturbance at the flat. He was treated by paramedics but died at the scene.
Officers described the death as "suspicious" and launched an investigation.
A 23-year-old man has now been arrested and detained in connection with the incident.
He is due to appear in court on Monday.
Police had been called to the flat in Benalder Street, Partick, at 08:50 on Saturday.
A 25-year-old woman was also injured in the incident and was being treated at Glasgow's Western Infirmary.
Emma Louise Baum was found dead at her home in Penygroes on Monday.
David Nicholas Davies, 25, of Clynnog Fawr, confirmed his name and address at the brief hearing at Caernarfon Magistrates' Court on Friday.
He was remanded in custody and will appear at Mold Crown Court on Tuesday 26 July.
Meanwhile, watchdog the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it would be investigating the response by North Wales Police prior to the body of Ms Baum being found.
A spokesperson said the force had referred itself to the IPCC.
Players forfeited matches and played with little preparation after taking 36 hours to get to the event.
Callum Evans, Daniel O'Connell and Chloe Thomas were all hoping to pick up qualification points for Team Wales.
"I wouldn't say it's a blow but an opportunity missed," said Jenkins.
The players were caught up in the British Airways power failure that led to the airline cancelling thousands of flights over the bank holiday weekend.
They were due to fly from Heathrow to Dusseldorf, but had to travel to Birmingham to catch a flight which was also delayed.
All three were eliminated in the qualifying stages, although fellow Wales team member Charlotte Carey is based in Sweden and was not caught up in the travel chaos.
The Wales number one topped her qualifying group with 4-0 wins over Esmerlyn Castro of the Dominican Republic and Talia Azar of Lebanon.
Jenkins, who also missed the travel problems because he flew from Manchester, said there would still be chances for the other players to impress Commonwealth Games selectors.
"It's a tough event for us, the World Championships, we're not favourites to win any medals or anything," he said.
"But they are trying to get qualification matches in order to qualify for the Commonwealth Games in Australia in 2018, so that's the main purpose of these events to get some qualification and wins.
"We've got the European Championships in September and then the World Student Games in Taiwan this August.
"So Chloe's got the opportunity to get more wins but obviously it's an opportunity lost and something she'll have to put down to experience."
The Irish restricted the Dutch to 86-4 as teenager Lucy O'Reill had the best bowling figures of 2-14.
Cecelia Joyce hit 39 with Clare Shillington contributing 31 as the Irish put on 77 for the first wicket in just 56 balls.
Ireland completed their win with 8.2 overs and nine wickets to spare.
The Irish will be hoping to finish the tournament on a high when they face the Netherlands again and Scotland on Sunday.
The tournament victory completes a memorable year for Irish women's cricket at European tournaments.
The Irish Under 17s and 19s both won their respective ICC Europe Challenge Series against Scotland and The Netherlands while the Under 15s were unbeaten as they won their tournament earlier this month.
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard - a former UK ambassador to the EU - drafted the text in the early 2000s.
The UK government has insisted that Article 50 cannot be reversed and it had no wish to do so.
Lord Kerr told Sunday Politics Wales an election or another referendum was needed before the Brexit process ended.
His comments come after several European leaders including European Council president Donald Tusk and French president Emmanuel Macron suggested they were open to a change of heart from the United Kingdom.
"We are members of the European Union until the moment we leave," Lord Kerr said.
"During the two years [of the Brexit process] - or its extension - it is open to you to say, 'actually we've now changed our mind, do you mind if we stay?'
"Whether they agreed would be a political question of course... they might try to extract some sort of price from us if we'd wasted a lot of their time."
Lord Kerr confirmed his own view that the UK should remain in the EU.
"I would like to believe that it is still possible for the country to change its mind when it sees that it was, in the referendum campaign, told a lot of things that weren't actually true by those campaigning to leave," he said.
"When it sees the economy is slowing down as a result of the referendum decision, I would hope that the country might feel that this question needs to be looked at again."
Asked how he thought the reversal of Article 50 should happen, Lord Kerr said: "Your guess is as good as mine.
"I'm fairly expert at the legal position in Brussels and what would happen if we did change our minds.
"The process, in this country, of getting a change of mind I find much harder to understand.
"I think it probably is the case that it would need a general election, or another referendum, or both, in order to be clear the country had changed its mind."
Lord Kerr also raised concerns that the UK government had not done enough to gain support from the devolved administrations, including the Welsh Government.
The former diplomat was speaking ahead of a conference in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, marking a year since the UK voted to leave the European Union.
The UK government's Department for Exiting the EU has been asked to respond to Lord Kerr's comments.
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Vadims Ruskuls killed Pardeep Kaur during a violent sex attack near Harlington Bridge in west London in October.
Her partially-clothed body was found hidden in undergrowth at the site nearly a week after she was reported missing.
Ruskuls, 25, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey with a minimum 30 year term.
He and his mother were thought be sleeping rough beneath the bridge, which crosses the M4, when he killed the 30-year-old hotel housekeeper.
During the trial, jurors were shown CCTV of Ruskuls following his victim as she approached the bridge in Hayes.
They then disappeared from view for 25 minutes before Ruskuls appeared again, dragging Ms Kaur's partially-clothed body.
Judge Richard Marks QC told the defendant: "It is apparent... that the motive of this attack must have been sexual".
He said Ruskuls sexually assaulted Ms Kaur, killed her and then did his "level best" to conceal her body".
"This was a truly shocking and wicked offence of the utmost gravity," he added.
"Anyone who could do what you did must be regarded as extremely dangerous.
"What a dreadful way for Pardeep Kaur, a decent, hard-working young woman, to die."
Judge Marks told Ruskuls he had not shown "one iota of remorse" for his actions and ordered he be deported once he had served his sentence.
Ruskuls was caught after a police constable recognised the figure in CCTV footage as the man he had spoken to the day after Ms Kaur's disappearance.
Following his arrest, Ruskuls' DNA matched samples taken from Ms Kaur's ankle, sock and bra with a probability of "one in a billion".
Jurors were told Ms Kaur had come to live in Britain in 2011 with her husband, Rachpal Singh.
The pair worked six days a week to send money to their five-year-old daughter, who lived with her grandparents in India.
In a victim impact statement, Ms Kaur's husband said: "I wonder why it happened to lovely Pardeep and why Vadims Ruskuls killed her.
"The circumstances of Pardeep's death will always haunt me because [he] has not given an explanation."
Christopher Metcalfe, 70, from Blidworth, Nottinghamshire, is accused of five sex offences against three girls in the 1970s and 1980s.
At Derby Crown Court he said he remembered swimming trips but insisted no inappropriate touching took place.
Mr Metcalfe said one girl went to his home but only on a simple errand.
The trial had earlier heard accusations that, as a newly qualified teacher in the late 1970s, he sexually touched a nine-year-old girl during "story-time" and again after a swimming lesson.
Mr Metcalfe is also charged with indecently assaulting another girl at around the same time, when she was aged nine or 10.
A teenage girl, who was in care at Skegby Hall, Mansfield, where Mr Metcalfe was a rural studies teacher in the 1980s, said he raped her in his front room.
But he told the jury the offences "simply didn't happen" and the trip to his house was just to drop off his dogs.
He confirmed pupils came to his farm to see animals but said they were always accompanied by parents.
Under cross-examination, he insisted he had initially told police he "wasn't aware" of whether he had kissed a girl in a shower as he was "in shock" at being arrested.
The trial continues.
Mr Murray will stand for the Free United Kingdom Party (FUKP) pledging that the UK will leave the solar system by 2025 and that Greece will be sold to Kent County Council.
The TV star is joining a list of famous figures who've decided to throw their hats into the ring as parliamentary candidates.
Here are some of the more memorable ones - including some no-hopers and some notable successes.
"Death to the Tories" was actor, cartoonist and satirist Willie Rushton's campaign slogan when he ran against Conservative Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1963.
Rushton, who died in 1996, was angry at the machinations in which the patrician Douglas-Home, a hereditary peer, became PM despite not being an MP and had to stand in a by-election to win a Commons seat.
Rushton, who contested the Kinross and West Perthshire seat on behalf of Private Eye magazine, polled just 45 votes, having urged voters to support the Liberal candidate at the last minute.
Douglas-Home won.
Journalist Auberon Waugh ran for the "Dog Lovers' Party" in 1979, challenging the former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe in his North Devon constituency.
Why was Waugh standing up for dog lovers? He was of course referring to Rinka - the dog shot on Exmoor in the scandal involving Thorpe, his alleged homosexual lover Norman Scott and a hitman. Waugh had helped expose the scandal.
Waugh lost his deposit but had the gratification of seeing Thorpe lose his seat.
Surgically enhanced former glamour model Katie Price - aka Jordan - pledged free plastic surgery for all, more nudist beaches and a ban on parking tickets in her campaign as an Independent candidate in the Manchester seat of Stretford and Urmston in 2001.
Despite promising "a bigger, betta (sic) future" Ms Price won just 713 votes, losing her deposit.
Author and former drug smuggler Howard Marks appeared on ballot papers four times in the 1997 general election: Norwich South, Norwich North, Neath and Southampton Test.
He was unsuccessful in all four seats.
No prizes for guessing the single issue in his campaign - the legalisation of cannabis.
"If the voters think it's worthwhile and they want me, here I am," said Esther Rantzen as she launched her campaign as an Independent candidate in the 2010 general election.
Mrs Rantzen, who was made a Dame in the New Year Honours for her charity work, stood on an anti-fraud ticket after the former Labour MP for Luton South, Margaret Moran, was embroiled in the parliamentary expenses scandal.
The voters didn't choose Mrs Rantzen, who came fourth with 1,872 votes, narrowly losing her deposit.
Former footballer and sports presenter David Icke was one of the 26 hopefuls contesting the Yorkshire seat of Haltemprice and Howden in 2008, after the surprise decision of Tory MP David Davis to resign and trigger a by-election focused on civil liberties.
Mr Icke, an author of books on New Age spiritualism and conspiracy theories, appeared on the ballot paper with no label after refusing to declare a party affiliation or even to sign up as an Independent.
His prediction that he didn't have "any chance of winning" was proved right. He won 110 votes - and David Davis was returned to parliament.
Straight-talking newspaper columnist Garry Bushell contested two parliamentary seats in 2005 on behalf of the English Democrats Party, which promotes the establishment of an English Parliament.
Bushell won 1,216 votes (a 3.4% share) in the Greenwich and Woolwich constituency, beating the UK Independence Party, but losing out to Labour's Nick Raynsford.
The Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate is so well known for her political career, some may have forgotten what went before.
Prior to entering parliament in 1992, Ms Jackson enjoyed nearly 40 years as a stage and screen actress, winning two Oscars and many other awards in films including Cleopatra and Women in Love.
The 79-year-old firebrand, who became a prominent critic of Tony Blair, is retiring from the Commons this year.
Now known for his gravitas, the former Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell was once extremely light on his feet.
A former sprinter, and British 100m record holder, he ran for the GB team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, becoming captain of the UK Athletics Team in 1965.
He became a leading barrister when he retired from competing, entering parliament in 1987, where he has served ever since, though he is standing down at this year's general election.
Another high-profile athlete turned politician is Sebastian Coe, a former middle-distance runner who won two Olympic gold medals and set three world records in the space of 41 days.
A Tory MP from 1992 to 1997, he became a peer in 2000 and ran London's successful bid to host the 2012 Olympics.
Broadcaster, panellist, diarist, comedian, scrabble player and collector of jumpers, Gyles Brandreth was also between 1992 and 1997 the Conservative MP for Chester.
"I joined the chamber of the House of Commons because I like the sound of my own voice," he once reportedly said.
While an MP he was responsible for the legislation which led to marriages ceremonies being allowed in premises other than churches or register offices.
He claims as an ancestor Jeremiah Brandreth - the last man in England to be beheaded for treason.
In 1997, former BBC foreign correspondent Martin Bell stood on an anti-sleaze ticket against Neil Hamilton who, as Tory MP for Tatton, had become embroiled in the "cash-for-questions" scandal.
Mr Bell memorably confronted Mr Hamilton during the campaign in the so-called "Battle of Knutsford Heath".
Bell was elected with a majority of 11,077 votes - overturning a Conservative majority of over 22,000, becoming the first successful independent parliamentary candidate since 1951.
Since standing down from parliament in 2001 he has made several unsuccessful bids to re-enter politics.
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Carol said: "I can't wait to learn to dance and hope my experience on Strictly will be a breeze. Whether it will be or not is one forecast I cannot predict!."
More celebrity contestants for the new series of Strictly Come Dancing will be announced in the coming weeks.
The firm is to invest £3m in extending its facility at the M8 Food Park in Port Dundas.
The extension is due for completion in the spring of next year.
McGhee's, which recently won the 2015 Scottish Baker of the Year award for the first time, has further operations in Kilmarnock and Motherwell.
The company is forecasting revenue growth of about 10% in 2015/16.
Managing director Gordon McGhee said: "The business has enjoyed strong growth following our move to the M8 Food Park 10 years ago and we are fully focused on further building our reputation and offering.
"Our significant investment in extending the bakery will help us consolidate and expand that offering to customers, in particular in the export market and frozen food sectors."
"It's not hard to find a small handful of people willing to make false smears," he told a rally on Friday.
Two new accusations came from an ex-Apprentice contestant who cited a 2007 incident and a woman who described a case from the early 1990s.
Polls suggest Mr Trump is losing ground in some of the key battleground states.
During the rally in North Carolina, the Republican candidate said the accusations were "sick" and false, and driven by fame, money or politics.
"Or for the simple reason they want to stop our movement, they want to stop our campaign. Very simple," he told the crowd.
He added: "These claims defy reason, truth, logic, common sense. They are made without supporting witnesses.
"When the media does what they're doing now, that's rigging the system... The election is rigged."
Saying he was ignoring his own advisers by commenting on the allegations, he suggested that he would never have been attracted to Jessica Leeds, one of this accusers.
"Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you."
One of the new allegations involves Kristin Anderson, who told the Washington Post the property mogul touched her through her underwear at a Manhattan nightspot in the 1990s.
Ms Anderson, now 46, said she was "very grossed out and weirded out".
She added: "It wasn't a sexual come-on. I don't know why he did it. It was like just to prove that he could do it, and nothing would happen.
The newspaper said it had approached Ms Anderson after learning of her story through a third party, and she had spent several days deciding whether to go public.
Mr Trump's spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, said in a statement emailed to the Washington Post: "Mr Trump strongly denies this phony allegation by someone looking to get some free publicity. It is totally ridiculous."
Meanwhile, Summer Zervos, who was a contestant on season five of The Apprentice in 2006, said the businessman forced himself on her at a Los Angeles hotel and began "thrusting his genitals".
She had been invited by him to discuss job opportunities.
Ms Zervos, 41, told an emotional news conference in Los Angeles that she met him in 2007 in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where the businessman greeted her by kissing her on the mouth.
She said he asked her to sit next to him on a sofa where he "grabbed my shoulder and began kissing me again very aggressively and placed his hand on my breast".
Ms Zervos fought back tears as she said Mr Trump attempted to lead her into the bedroom and "began thrusting his genitals", even as she fended off his advances.
She was flanked during the press conference by well-known lawyer Gloria Allred, who has previously represented alleged sexual assault victims of entertainer Bill Cosby.
At the time of the alleged assault, Mr Trump was newly married to his third and current wife, Melania Trump.
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Ms Zervos said she was spurred to come forward after Mr Trump denied during last Sunday's presidential debate ever having committed sexual assault.
He rebutted the suggestion on national television as he was asked about a leaked recording from 2005 in which he is heard bragging that he can force himself on women because he is a star.
Meanwhile, his campaign presented a British man who disputed the account of Ms Leeds, now 74. She alleged that when she was 38, Mr Trump groped her on a flight to New York, acting "like an octopus".
The New York Post reported that Anthony Gilberthorpe contacted Mr Trump's campaign to counter the claim. In an interview with the paper he said: "I was there, I was in a position to know that what she said was wrong, wrong, wrong."
Mr Gilberthorpe made headlines in 2014 when he alleged that he had provided underage boys to British politicians for sex parties.
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Officers were called to a house in Borrowash, Derbyshire, on Friday morning after a 22-year-old man with head injuries raised the alarm.
They then went to a house less than a mile away where they found a seriously injured woman, aged 38, who later died.
The murder was then linked to a man who died in a lorry crash on the M1.
Hundreds of drivers were left stranded on the motorway after part of the M1 near Trowell services was closed when a 44-year-old man died in a crash with a lorry.
Ch Supt Jim Allen, from Derbyshire police, said: "I'm very grateful for the patience and understanding of the many thousands of people affected by this incident yesterday.
"Closing a motorway is not a decision taken lightly at any time. In a fast-moving situation, with several scenes of crime, the deaths of two people and another seriously injured, it was vitally important officers established whether any other persons were involved.
"We can now confirm that at this time we are not looking for anyone else in connection with this incident, which involved people who were related to each other."
Det Ch Insp Gareth Meadows said police also wanted to hear from anyone who saw a white Ford Focus on the hard shoulder of the M1 on Friday morning, or two men on an overbridge who may have been behaving in an "out of place" manner.
On Friday a cameraman for BBC East Midlands Today, reporting on the M1 closure, said he saw a body on the carriageway.
Borrowash eyewitness Michael Nightingale, from Station Road, where the injured man was found, said a "young lad" ran into a flower shop with "stab wounds over his face".
"I saw the police wrapping up a young lad in tin foil," he said.
"He was on the ground... and then a police van turned up and cordoned off the house.
"He was shouting: 'Help me, help me'."
The woman's body was found in nearby Charnwood Avenue.
Police have urged anyone who may have information about the deaths, or dashcam footage of the motorway, to contact them.
South African De Bruyn, 40, has replaced Andrew McDonald and is confident he can build on the Australian's success.
McDonald transformed a team who had not won a Championship match for two years into promotion challengers.
De Bruyn said the top four was the minimum aim in red-ball cricket.
"If you end up in the top four in September then you have a very good chance of promotion, when you can really turn the heat up," he added.
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"In white-ball cricket, if you look at that T20 unit there is no reason why we cannot be at Finals Day.
"We have a fantastic signing in Luke Ronchi and the explosiveness and skill levels we have in the squad is phenomenal. We can definitely raise the bar.
"And in 50-over cricket we need to back our gameplan and we need to understand that it is a format that is much longer than you think and we need to be very clever.
"I break all the formats up into what will be a good season, but ultimately we need to have a much better season than previously."
Leicestershire begin their season with a home County Championship match against Nottinghamshire, which begins on Friday.
Bob and Cathy Elmer from Leicestershire were reported missing on Sunday after a planned hill walk took longer than expected.
They sheltered with their dog in survival bags in whiteout conditions before being found by mountain rescuers.
Mr Elmer told BBC Scotland: "The snow was at times up to our waists."
He said: "We eventually got out on to the plateau with the intention of trying to find the summit of Cairngorm then my headlamp gave up so we decided we couldn't go on any further.
"We didn't know really where we were going. You couldn't see your hand in front of your face, so we decided to get the survival bags out."
Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team searched the Cairngorm Plateau overnight in freezing temperatures and deep snow.
The couple were found with their black Collie at around 12:00 on Monday and were walked to safety.
Mountain rescue team leader Willie Anderson said using the bivvy bags was a move that probably "saved their lives".
Conditions in the area at the time were described by Cairngorm MRT as "Arctic".
Footage of the mountain rescue was filmed on a GoPro camera by a member of the mountain rescue team.
Velma Aiken told the BBC it was a good feeling to know that Kamiyah Mobley was "all right and looking good".
Ms Mobley was abducted in July 1998 from a hospital in Jacksonville, in the US state of Florida.
DNA tests confirmed her identity. The woman she thought was her mother was charged with kidnapping.
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said Ms Mobley appeared in good health, a "normal 18-year-old woman".
The office said it had acted on 2,500 tips since the abduction and received one last year to @MissingKids that eventually broke the case.
It showed the original composite images released at the time of the kidnapping, along with a photograph of Gloria Williams, 51, who was arrested on Friday morning at her home in Walterboro, South Carolina, 200 miles (300km) from Jacksonville.
Ms Aiken said the family had a conversation with her granddaughter, in which they introduced themselves and Ms Mobley said she would go to see them.
"All I know are tears of joy and happiness and a good feeling, knowing that she's all right and looking good," Ms Aiken said.
The grandmother added that she always felt that her granddaughter was alive and that whoever she was with was taking care of her.
"We just kept praying, hoping and believing," she said.
The baby was only eight hours old when she was taken by a woman posing as a health care worker at the University Medical Center, now known as UF Health Jacksonville.
The woman told Kamiyah's mother, Shanara, that her baby had a fever and needed to be checked. She took the baby out of the room and disappeared.
The case brought significant media attention as Shanara tried to locate her child.
He will lead first-phase construction of the ground, which is to be shared by rugby side Cornish Pirates and National League South football club Truro City.
The £10m stadium, to be built on the outskirts of Truro, will hold 6,000, with work set to start in spring 2018.
"You just can't be an elite rugby club in England now without having a decent stadium," said Welshman Evans.
"For the guys running the day to day needs of the club this can be rather overwhelming, so my considerable experience in this area, which of course takes a lot of time, is aimed to help."
Evans, who has more recently been CEO at Australian side Melbourne Storm, was at Harlequins when they rebuilt their Twickenham Stoop ground more than 15 years ago.
The body of Michael Freshwater, 49, was found at a flat in Westridge Road, just after 16:15 BST on Friday.
A 25-year-old man from Southampton was detained on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.
Det Supt Becky Riggs said a "significant amount of resources" was being deployed in the murder investigation.
A 26-year-old man from Southampton arrested on suspicion of murder on Saturday has been bailed pending further enquiries.
A 23-year-old woman, and two men, aged 43 and 22, all from Southampton, who were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to supply class A drugs, have been released and bailed until July.
A 24-year-old man also from the city, detained on suspicion of conspiracy to supply class A drugs and assisting an offender, has also been bailed until July.
Ashton Singh, 26, appeared at Southampton Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, charged with perverting the course of justice, and was remanded in custody.
Vitality - formerly known as PruHealth - has emailed users suggesting they download Moves if they want to keep getting a cinema ticket once a week.
Privacy campaigners say the app's connection to Facebook has not been made explicit enough.
But Vitality says the initiative will "motivate healthy behaviour".
Neither the private insurer's emails nor its webpage detailing the activity tracking scheme mention Moves' link to Facebook.
Moves' own homepage and app store listings likewise do not flag its relationship with the social media giant, instead listing its developer as being ProtoGeo.
Facebook acquired the Finnish company in April 2014.
But if users click on a link to the app's privacy policy, and read more than halfway through the 1,276-word document, the connection is detailed.
"We may share information, including personally identifying information, with our affiliates (companies that are part of our corporate groups of companies, including but not limited to Facebook) to help provide, understand, and improve our services," it states.
Facebook told the BBC that it runs Moves as a "stand-alone application" and does not presently combine information collected via the app with people's Facebook profiles.
But privacy group Big Brother Watch remains concerned.
"Whilst the lure of lower insurance premiums and free benefits such as cinema tickets is appealing, the requirement to download an app, provide it with a huge amount of personal data and give it permission to track your every move all day every day will raise concern for some customers," said the organisation's chief executive Renate Samson.
"It is not at all clear that the app is owned by Facebook and there are no specific details about how the social media company intends to use the data, either now or in the future.
"It is critical that both the app and the insurance company are clear about who has access to their customers data and for what purpose.
"Sharing sensitive information may provide interesting algorithms and big data opportunities but exposes users day-to-day habits and personal lifestyles to unwanted scrutiny by unseen and unknown organisations."
Vitality is owned outright by the South African firm Discovery following Prudential PLC's sale of its stake in the business in November.
A month later, the company first contacted members to tell them about its change of movie ticket policy, which comes into effect on 1 July.
Moves is not the only fitness-tracking option offered - members can also log activities via devices and associated apps from Garmin, Fitbug, Fitbit, Polar and Misfit.
However, Moves is listed above the other options and flagged as being the only way to record time-based running and cycling workouts that last long enough to unlock a cinema visit code.
"[Our] model helps members understand how they can improve their own personal health, make it cheaper and easier to get healthy and, offers rewards to keep members motivated as they take steps to get healthier, through a range of discounts and incentives," Vitality's commercial director Nick Read told the BBC.
"This model relies on members opting in to share an amount of activity based data to unlock their rewards, which they can do through a range of devices, one of which is a free app, Moves.
"Before offering Moves to our members we undertook an extensive market review to select a provider who offered a free service available for usage with the majority of smart devices."
A spokeswoman for the firm added: "Third-party and data protection terms and conditions are made available to members who choose to opt in to the rewards programme. We of course value any feedback... and whenever feedback is received, we review accordingly."
She declined to say how many members Vitality has.
Moves does not ask smartphone owners if they have a Facebook account when they activate it.
A health data campaign group said it was concerned that Vitality's promotion of the app might attract users who had deliberately steered clear of the social network.
"Bribing customers to hand over their sensitive personal data - including biometric measurements, activity and location data - is at best questionable, especially when the data is being shipped out of the UK's jurisdiction," said Phil Booth from MedConfidential.
"Burying the fact that if you use the recommended free app, Facebook will get all your data - even if you've never had a Facebook account - is a truly shocking compromise of customer privacy.
"That Discovery hasn't been completely up front about who'll get access to your data and what it'll be used for is deeply unethical."
Facebook stressed that it does not receive health data directly from Vitality itself and said its use of Move's data beyond the app was limited.
"We share information in order to provide a better experience for users," explained a spokeswoman.
"For example, sharing non-identifiable technical data from Moves with Facebook enables Moves to provide a quicker, more secure service to the people who use it."
Problems were first reported by blogger Guido Fawkes who speculated UKIP had "forgotten to renew the domain name of their official website".
Visitors to the UKIP.org address on Tuesday morning were routed to a domain hosting page.
By late afternoon the site had been restored. Party sources said this was after work by technical experts.
A horn has been sounded four times in Ripon's Market Place every night at 21:00 BST since AD886 to "set the watch".
Ripon City Council is advertising for a new member of the Hornblowing Team to work up to three nights a week.
Clerk Paula Benson said: "It is a very old tradition and one everybody in the city loves and is very proud of."
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The job description states the main responsibilities are "to sound the horn at 9pm... provide a brief history of the horn blowing ceremony for the public in attendance... and sound the horn three times outside the mayor's house".
In exchange for their services the hornblower is paid £8.72 an hour and £21.12 for attendance at civic events.
The Ripon Hornblower has set the watch every night since AD886 and it is one of the oldest ceremonies still performed in England.
It is said to have begun following a visit to the city by Alfred the Great who urged residents to be more vigilant and gave a horn to the city as a symbol of it being granted a Royal Charter.
The ceremony involves a horn being blown at the four corners of the obelisk in Ripon Market Square at 21:00 BST and then three times outside the mayor's house.
It commemorates the time in the Middle Ages when Ripon's first citizen, the Wakeman, was responsible for crime prevention in the city from 21:00 BST until dawn and had to compensate victims of burglary.
The job was carried out by a single person until 2015 when the council decided to appoint several hornblowers.
Ms Benson said: "It was decided to have a team of three blowing the horn because to do it every night of the year at 21:00 BST is a massive commitment."
She said the ceremony can attract close to 100 people each night during the summer.
Writers, experts and the city council have come together to submit an application.
It aims to celebrate Nottingham's past - which includes links to Lord Byron, DH Lawrence and Alan Sillitoe - as well as current and future writers.
Other cities which already hold the title include Edinburgh, Dublin and Norwich.
Performance poet Andrew Graves - who goes by the pen name Mullet Proof - said Nottingham's literary scene needed celebrating and nurturing.
Romantic poet Lord Byron lived at Newstead Abbey House, in Nottingham, on and off between 1808 and 1814. He was said to be "mad, bad and dangerous to know".
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DH Lawrence was born in Eastwood, the son of a miner. He became a notorious author, best known for Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley's Lover which was banned for its sexual content.
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The Nottingham-born novelist emerged in the 1950s as one of the Angry Young Men of British fiction. His works included Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, both made into films.
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"The one thing that frustrates me about Nottingham [is that] we don't make enough of our literary heritage," he said.
"I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder, 'what would Manchester do if they had DH Lawrence or Alan Sillitoe?' I just don't think we make enough of it."
Shelagh Gallagher, of Bromley House Library, an independent subscription-based library, said it would encourage work in schools and inspire children, helping to combat Nottingham's traditionally low literacy rates.
"The potential for activities [if we get it] is marvellous," she said.
"We want people and children in Nottingham to see they are part of a city of literature and to find out about our heritage. But it is more about the next generation, ways of increasing literacy through enjoying being part of Nottingham's heritage."
The bid has to be submitted to the United Nations Environmental, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) by March next year.
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Stokes followed-up his first-innings hundred with two wickets in two balls as England dominated South Africa on day four of the third Test at The Oval.
"You want him either batting or bowling in the key moments," said Broad.
"He's a better cricketer when he is fired up. The team are learning how to get him in that mode more often than not."
Nottinghamshire fast bowler Broad, 31, added: "We'll say: 'Stokesy, this is your time. Keep coming at him. Keep trying to get him out.'"
Stokes, 26, has previously allowed emotions to get the better of him - in 2014 he suffered a broken hand punching a locker after being dismissed in a one-day international in West Indies.
He has also had on-field confrontations with the likes of Marlon Samuels, Virat Kohli and Tamim Iqbal.
However, he has taken on the responsibility of the Test vice-captaincy and, in the first innings at The Oval, struck a flawless century in difficult conditions.
"That was a really mature knock," said Broad. "He played slightly out of his comfort zone to keep the team calm.
"He will naturally score quickly, but then he played within his scoring power to set up the game for us."
On Sunday, with South Africa chasing an unlikely 492 to win, Stokes struck twice in successive deliveries to help leave the tourists on 117-4 going into the final day.
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He bowled Quinton de Kock with a yorker, and then had Faf du Plessis out lbw, offering no stroke.
"He bowled as quickly as I have seen him bowl," added Broad, who took the first wicket to fall, bowling Heino Kuhn.
"It felt like one of those intimidating spells Andrew Flintoff used to bowl, heavy and at the batsmen.
"When he gets that momentum, it's great to see. He's a player who goes with the momentum of the game and he dragged the team along with him during that spell.
"Hopefully he can do the same on the final day."
With three former winners in the big race, Nicky Henderson's 10-year-old 5-1 shot, ridden by Nico de Boinville, powered home by seven lengths.
Ruby Walsh, seeking his 50th Festival winner, was second on the Willie Mullins-trained 4-6 favourite.
Outsider Special Tiara (16-1) was third for trainer Henry de Bromhead.
Sprinter Sacre was a dominant winner by 19 lengths three years ago but did not race in 2014 after an irregular heartbeat was detected.
Following two second-place finishes last year, he won by 14 lengths at Cheltenham in November and then added the Desert Orchid Chase at Kempton the following month when he eclipsed Sire De Grugy.
Another former winner, the Gary Moore-trained 10-year-old Sire De Grugy was eighth this time.
"It's been a long, long journey - those were two very, very grim years," Sprinter Sacre's trainer Henderson said.
"That was unbelievable. That was about dreams, wasn't it?"
BBC racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght:
"Nicky Henderson has long proved what a brilliant handler he is of the more delicate of horses, whatever their ailment. Way back in his early training days in the 1980s, he guided the fragile See You Then to three Champion Hurdle victories, while this week, despite two years off the track, My Tent Or Yours ran a screamer to be runner-up to Annie Power.
"But Sprinter Sacre is something else. A dramatic fall from grace with heart problems after such a brilliant 2013 seemed terminal, but Henderson never gave up, kept nursing and keeping faith and that was today repaid in bucket-loads."
Walsh and Mullins had continued their remarkable start to the Festival with victory in the opening race on day two.
Having secured three wins on the opening day, Walsh rode the Mullins-trained six-year-old Yorkhill to another in the Novices' Hurdle.
Walsh, who rode the Mullins-trained Annie Power to victory in day one's feature - the Champion Hurdle - steered Yorkhill on an inside path and turned for home to beat favourite Yanworth by a length and three-quarters.
Its'afreebee stuck on pluckily for third, seven lengths further back.
Walsh was in contention again on Roi Des Francs in the RSA Chase but eventually faded to sixth as the Nigel Twiston-Davies-trained Blaklion, (8-1) ridden by 22-year-old Ryan Hatch, prevailed in a gripping tussle with Shaneshill to win by half a length.
Favourite More Of That, ridden by Barry Geraghty, was third, another eight lengths in arrears.
Gordon Elliott's eight-year-old Diamond King, (12-1) with Davy Russell on board, burst through on the far side to claim victory by a length and a quarter.
Long House Hall, ridden by Harry Skelton for his brother Dan, was second, with Ubak another neck away in third,
The Mullins-Walsh combination Blood Cotil pulled up.
Veteran performer Any Currency (11-1) stuck on gamely to strike for trainer Martin Keighley and jockey Aidan Coleman in the Glenfarclas Chase.
Second in this race for the last two years, the 13-year-old took over from long-time leader Valadom in the final part of the cross-country test over three and three-quarter miles and was the clear leader from the third-last fence.
Josies Orders, the 15-8 favourite, finished with a flourish up the hill to get to within a length of the winner at the line.
Bless The Wings (33-1) was another length and a quarter away in third.
Trainer Paul Nicholls tasted success for the first time at this year's Festival when Diego Du Charmil (13-2) and Romain De Senam gave him a one-two in the Juvenile Handicap Hurdle.
At the final flight Voix De Reve and Campeador fell independently when well placed.
That left Diego Du Charmil in front from long-time leader Coo Star Sivola, but he had to be driven out by Sam Twiston-Davies to thwart a late challenge from stablemate Romain De Senam (20-1) by a head.
Coo Star Sivola was a head away third.
Ballyandy inched home by a nose in the final race of the day, the Champion Bumper, to give both trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies and his jockey son Sam doubles.
In a gritty 23-runner race, Ballyandy (5-1) got the verdict from the Mullins-trained Battleford (25-1).
Mullins and Walsh were third with Bacardys (16-1).
But Pembrokeshire stable boy Paul Sheldrake forged a strong bond with Ellerslie "Tom" and made him a winner.
"He was the Arnold Schwarzenegger of horses," said Mr Sheldrake, who was heartbroken when Tom was moved to a new stable.
Nine years later the pair have had an emotional reunion, thanks to the local horse community.
Tom was advertised for sale for £650 on Facebook as a retired racehorse which had earned almost £100,000 in prize money, but Mr Sheldrake, from near Clarbeston Road, could not afford to buy him.
His friend Kay Sinclair-James got in touch with all their horse friends and together they came up with the money needed to buy Tom for Mr Sheldrake as a gift.
"Thank you just doesn't seem enough," said Mr Sheldrake, 45. "There are some beautiful people in this world."
Mr Sheldrake first met Tom as a four-year-old when working for racehorse trainer Peter Bowen in Letterston.
The 16.2-hands thoroughbred gelding had been passed on by another trainer who found him "very difficult."
"He came to us as a runaway," said Mr Sheldrake, "he had a bit of a temper and would argue if he found anything to argue about."
He compared riding Tom to putting your foot down in a powerful car.
Tom's first two races were "interesting," Mr Sheldrake said.
"In both races he threw himself and his jockey to the floor after going over a jump, which is pretty unheard of.
"It was all in temper. He argued with the jockey and that's what he did."
After that, jockeys refused to ride Tom, branding him "dangerous".
But Mr Sheldrake soon found a way to work with him.
"I just made him have the idea that I wanted and then he was willing. He was a fighter and liked racing, but on his terms."
Mr Sheldrake's friend and jockey Lee Stephens had the first success in racing Tom.
"He pretty much let him do what he wanted and he raced," said Mr Sheldrake.
Tom went on to win many races, including four on the trot, and famous jockeys were soon queuing up to ride him.
But Tom was moved to a new stable in Carmarthenshire.
Mr Sheldrake described it as a "having a piece of his heart torn out" but it was something that happened in racing.
Mrs Sinclair-James followed Peter Bowen's racehorses and tracked their progress.
She described Tom and Mr Sheldrake as "soul mates".
When she saw him advertised for sale, she knew Mr Sheldrake was in no position to buy him.
"I made some phone calls to friends who all know and admire Paul and very soon we got the money together," she said.
"The way he looked at me, he told me he remembered," said Mr Sheldrake.
He said donations have continued to come in for Tom to make sure he has a comfortable retirement.
He added: "He even gets post addressed to him!"
Tom currently has a broken pelvis, and is being nursed back to health by Mr Sheldrake.
Peaches Golding will become the first black woman to be the Queen's representative in the UK this weekend.
Her father, Charles Hauser, won a legal battle in 1947 after he refused to move to the back of a bus in North Carolina.
She said the "fabulous" role would help her "level the playing field for Bristolians".
"My father sat at the front of a bus and, at the time, the people on the bus believed he had to sit at the back because he was black," she said.
"Actually, it turned very ugly but my father was able to get legal assistance and brought a case against the bus company."
Ms Golding, Bristol's High Sheriff in 2010, said watching her father question injustice continued to inspire her, and guided what she wants to achieve.
"The things that makes my heart beat faster are about creating a fairer and just society. So how do we reduce some of our problems around homelessness, around people coming out of prisons?
"This gives me another opportunity to see how we can level up the playing field for Bristolians."
Bristol did not get a lord lieutenant until 1996, although the role has existed elsewhere in the country since the 1540s.
It is largely symbolic, focussing on promoting civic, voluntary and business activities.
The role has never been held by a black woman before and Ms Golding - who settled in Bristol with her husband in 1992 after working in Nigeria - will remain in post for the next 12 years.
"Somebody had to be first," she said.
"Nationally there's a lot of interest in it, but I'm delighted the Queen has appointed me to the role. For me that's the important thing."
The act helped inspire an annual tradition that now sees untold numbers of homes around the world and famous landmarks like Cardiff Castle and the Empire State Building lit up like Christmas trees in December.
In Australia, where Christmas falls on one of the hottest months of the year and only four days after the summer solstice - the day with the most daylight in the year - Christmas lights can look at odds with the environment.
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But in the iconic Sydney suburb of Bondi, the residents of one street carpet their homes with blinking lights of many colours in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Its name is Avoca Street, a bucolic snapshot of an old-school Australia where everyone knows each others' names and children play cricket on the road after school.
"I googled 'best places to see Christmas lights in Sydney' and this street came up," says Sandra Haynes, one of thousands of Sydneysiders who came to see the lights on Avoca Street this year. "It's fantastic to see the huge amount of trouble everyone has gone to. It shows great community spirit."
With inflatable reindeer dancing on rooftops, sensor lights that play Jingle Bells and flashing neon signs, Christmas decorations are serious business on Avoca Street.
"One year someone knocked on the door and dropped a bunch of lights on the veranda and said 'why aren't you putting lights up? You have to if you want to live in this street'," says Sue Carol, a former resident who returns to Avoca Street every year to see the Christmas lights.
"How much do we spend? A lot. Hundreds and hundreds every year," says homeowner Marisa Lyons. "But it's worth it. The amount of people who walk past and tell us how much they love our lights - that to me is what it's all about."
Yet the origins of the Avoca Street Christmas light show are shrouded in mystery; there is no consensus about when or why the tradition started.
"The lights weren't here when I moved in in 2005, so I think it started a few years after that," Lyons says. "It just started organically over time and now everyone's doing it."
A little further down the road, resident Chris McMillan whose home is a riot of blue lights and flashing LEDs says the tradition began about 15 years ago "when a couple of us put up lights and everyone else followed".
But Roland Pisani, who's lived on Avoca Street for 20 years, says the tradition has "been going for six or seven or eight years". He adds: "I think it began as one of those 'keeping up with the Joneses' things where someone put up Christmas lights and then the person across the road thought they'd do it, too, and soon everyone started trying to outdo each other."
On Sunday 11 December, the residents of Avoca Street held their annual Christmas party.
Festivities began at 4pm when a waterslide jumping castle was inflated on the far end of the cul-de-sac for the kids. The adults congregated around a table loaded with sandwiches, salads and pasta and a self-service bar covered with wine and beer as pop music belted out from a large set of speakers arranged on a front lawn.
At 6pm, Santa Claus arrived on the back of a fire engine no less. Children crowded around the vehicle, going giddy with joy as Santa threw handfuls of sweets into the air and posed for selfies.
After Santa departed, homeowner Mark Smith stood on a chair and thanked everyone for attending the event.
"There are two announcements," he said. "First, the Wishing Tree, yes it's still here, and we have little tags so you can write your wishes," he says, pointing to a gigantic fig tree upon which residents pin their wishes - a concept inspired by the Burning Man festival in the US.
In 2013, the local council tried to remove the Wishing Tree after an arborist found it was unlikely to survive. But when the residents united to appeal the decision, council agreed to a six-month stay of execution - at the end of which the Wishing Tree was deemed to be on the mend.
"The second big thing," Smith said, "is that this year for the first time we've got a trophy for the best house. And the winner is Chris [McMillan] from number 43."
McMillan came forward to accept her trophy. "We're all winners. We've all done a fantastic job with the Christmas lights this year," she said. "But next year we have to be a little bit better."
Sixth-tier Darlington FC, Hungerford Town and Poole Town were all bidding to feature in the promotion play-offs in the North and South divisions.
The trio were prevented from doing so as their grounds did not have 500 covered seats across two stands.
The National League's decision was upheld by an independent FA panel at Wembley on Wednesday.
An FA statement said: "The board, after considering the evidence dismissed the appeal and agreed with the decision of the National League which was made in accordance with FA rules and the Grade B criteria document in that the four mentioned clubs have not met the required grading by 31 March of the current season to compete in the National League play-offs.
It added: "This decision is final and binding."
The league declined to make any detailed statement, but recommendations were understood to have been made to change the competition rules next season.
Poole currently occupy the final National League South play-off place in fifth, with a game to play, while Hungerford are two points behind in sixth.
Eighth-placed Wealdstone also confirmed their failure to overturn a decision preventing their participation in the play-offs, which leaves Hampton & Richmond set to take Poole's place.
Darlington, fourth in National League North, declined to make any further comment.
BBC Sport has contacted the FA for a response.
When Mr Juncker made an impassioned defence of the euro - "the single currency didn't split Europe... it defends Europe" - there were howls of derision from the UKIP benches. Nigel Farage weighed in saying that "nobody knew him" and that his name had "appeared on no ballot paper".
Shortly afterwards Marine Le Pen was telling the former Luxembourg prime minister, "You weren't elected by the people… we'll fight you and your institutions."
But this was political knockabout. Mr Juncker knew he had the votes. The Liberals ensured he got 422 votes, 46 more than he needed.
Today - perhaps - we saw the real Jean-Claude Juncker, not the emollient vote-seeker doing the rounds of the parliamentary groupings last week.
Firstly, he is passionate in defence of the single currency which he described as an "affair of the heart".
While some argue that yoking such disparate countries with the same currency has sowed division and paved the way to mass unemployment, he would have none of it. Without the euro, he said, countries were pitted against each other.
He was prepared to lie in its defence. "When things get serious," he said, "you have to know how to lie."
As Commission president he will legislate to "deepen our economic and monetary union".
Secondly he may be a conservative but, as Daniel Cohn-Bendit once remarked, Mr Juncker has been the "most socialist Christian Democrat". He told the parliament today that the internal market was not more important than social affairs.
He described himself as a champion of the social market economy - but he said it would only work with social dialogue. He called for a "re-industrialisation of Europe". He came across as an activist, interventionist president with an ambitious programme of investment, mobilising a 300bn-euro (£239bn; $408bn) war chest over the next three years to be invested in key projects.
He said the growth and stability pact - which limits deficits to 3% and debt to 60% of GDP - would not be altered but flexibility would be explored in order to boost growth. And mindful of the damage done by austerity in countries like Greece, he vowed that no bailout programme would be introduced without assessing the social impact in advance.
Last week and again today he insisted he was not a federalist and had never used the words "a United States of Europe" but then he eulogised another Commission president, Jacques Delors: "He is my friend, my mentor. He inspires me every day." Jacques Delors was one of the architects of the euro.
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He comes across as pragmatic, a man who says he wants a fair deal for Britain but, inside, the fires burn brightly for the European project. He will not allow a watering down of the key pillars like the free movement of people which he regards as an integral part of the internal market. He is very much a man who sees himself as continuing to build the European home.
Whilst he was listening to the speeches, I saw Mr Juncker looking down at his mobile pone. At that moment my own phone announced that Lord Hill would be nominated as the UK's next EU commissioner. In fact Mr Juncker had been given the name the night before by David Cameron.
In Strasbourg almost no one had heard of Lord Hill. There was a desperate online search to define him. In the corridors of the European Parliament there was much shaking of heads. Why once again was it asked had Britain not put forward a big political hitter, a Neil Kinnock, a Peter Mandelson or a Chris Patten?
Some questioned whether it was a tacit acceptance in London that the UK would not land a top economic post like the internal market or trade.
It was being said in government circles that Lord Hill was a good political fixer, who had set up a PR business and who had ably been the leader of the House of Lords when the Conservatives did not have a majority.
Jean-Claude Juncker over the next two months will decide in consultation with the member states who gets what posts.
He will not want to do anything that pushes the UK towards an EU exit but neither will he compromise what he called today the "European dream".
Vince, 25, hopes to reclaim a spot in the England Test side after losing his place at the end of last summer.
The right-hander, who also became a new father recently, feels a rest period before pre-season will help his cause.
"I've not had a chance to look and work on my game for a few years, I've just soldiered on," he told BBC Sport.
"It's great to take a break and look at certain areas. Come the summer, we'll see if those improvements have worked."
Vince scored just 212 runs at an average of 19.27 in his seven Tests against Sri Lanka and Pakistan in 2016 and made his last international appearance during England's limited-overs series in Bangladesh in October.
He was dropped for the series that followed in India in January and instead played three games for Sydney Thunder in Australia's Big Bash T20 league.
In March, he will captain the South side in the inaugural North v South series in UAE as he looks to force his way back into England's Test team under new captain Joe Root.
"I'm still at an age where if I have a good season, I've still got a chance to play for England for a couple of years," he told BBC Radio Solent.
"I want to get back in the side. Hopefully the work I've been doing now in pre-season is moving my game forward."
Jones, 43, who previously had backroom roles at Yeovil, Charlton and Brighton, has won 34 out of 70 matches since he replaced John Still in January 2016.
Luton are currently fifth in League Two following Saturday's 1-1 draw at home to Exeter City.
His contract had been due to expire at the end of next season, but will now run until the summer of 2020.
Luton chief executive Gary Sweet told the club website: "The board are thoroughly delighted to receive Nathan's acceptance to our offer of a longer term contract. It was such an easy and natural progression step for us to take.
"We are very lucky to have a top-class coach rapidly becoming a top class manager and one who lives, breathes and helps develop our culture, our methodologies and one who is passionately intent on helping us achieve our ambitions while he achieves his."
Jones added: "I think we've had a fantastic 14 to 15 months, and to know the club has that much faith in me that they've given me the length of contract and rewarded me in that way is a good feeling.
"I love the club, I love our fans and I love the players I've got. We are in a real good place at the minute, but it's only a start."
Earlier this month, Jones said he had set his sights on becoming "the best manager in the world," but insisted he was not using Luton as a stepping stone.
The Hatters face an away trip to Newport County on Tuesday.
The visitors are 28-3 after three days at Edgbaston having been set 347 to win, with the Bears declaring their second innings on 279-7.
If Hampshire beat Durham, the losers of this game will go down.
However, Lancashire would stay up at Warwickshire's expense if they force a draw and Hampshire win.
The game at Southampton is finely poised with Hampshire 176-7 in their second innings, leading by 226 - and knowing that they must go all out for victory on Friday, while Durham are safe in mid-table.
After resuming on 12-0, the Bears soon lost makeshift opener Alex Mellor, but he proved the only batsman in the top nine not to reach at least 20, as wicketkeeper Tim Ambrose led the way with 59 not out to set up the declaration.
Lancashire's Kyle Jarvis claimed his 50th Championship victim of the season, while spinner Arron Lilley took 3-56, but Ambrose shared stands of 44 with Rikki Clarke, 38 with Keith Barker and an unbroken 45 with Jeetan Patel, who twice cleared the ropes.
Ian Bell's declaration after tea left Lancashire with an awkward 18 overs to face and the visitors began badly, losing Rob Jones to Barker's seventh ball - the 13th lbw dismissal of the match.
Luke Procter was then lbw to Patel offering no shot, and when Karl Brown edged Chris Wright to Ambrose, it left Lancashire's final-day hopes resting on the young shoulders of England's latest Test call-up, teenage opener Haseeb Hameed, who was unbeaten on 11 from 49 balls.
Ashley Giles' side must make the biggest total of the match against his former county if they are to end a winless run that goes back 10 Championship matches to May.
Warwickshire spinner Jeetan Patel told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire:
"It was always going to be tough to set them a decent total. They set defensive fields and bowled really well but credit to our batters.
"We were under pressure in the first part of the game, got out of that and now we have piled it back on them. It is pleasing to get to that position and to take those three wickets was really important as it piles more pressure on them.
"They are going to put a partnership together at some point, we know that. But we have to be patient.
"It has been tense out there with a lot of chat about a lot of things. There is pressure but that's exciting. That's why we play this game."
Lancashire spinner Simon Kerrigan told BBC Radio Lancashire:
"It wasn't ideal us losing that third wicket but I don't mind going out there as nightwatchman. I always want to be out there in the battle and hopefully we can dig in.
"It looked after the first hour that we could be batting for a full session but we managed to slow them down so we faced only 18 overs. Losing three wickets wasn't ideal by any stretch of the imagination but we bat all the way down.
"The sun has baked the pitch. It is a lot slower now and the ball did not turn out of the normal part of the pitch like it did earlier.
"Keith Barker's footholes will leave a decent amount of rough for Jeetan Patel to bowl into so we will have that to deal with, but batting out for a draw is by no means beyond the bounds of possibility."
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Mr Hunt spoke at a memorial service for William Mead, from Cornwall.
William, from Penryn, died in 2014, after an NHS 111 call did not lead to him being admitted to hospital.
Speaking at the private service in Truro, Mr Hunt said: "I as health secretary, the government, and the NHS let down William."
He also accepted he had let down William's parents Paul and Melissa, who had organised the service at Truro Cathedral as a "thank you" to the local community for their support after their son's death.
William's death raised doubts about how able NHS 111 staff were to identify serious medical conditions.
Addressing the congregation, Mr Hunt said: "I've come here to say sorry.
"This weekend William should have been enjoying beautiful Cornish sunshine with his parents.
"We didn't spot his sepsis before it was too late."
An inquest heard William's death could have been avoided if he had been admitted to hospital.
His death also raised fresh concerns the condition was not being spotted or treated early enough.
Mrs Mead, who was involved in creating an awareness campaign for the condition said: "There has been so many people involved in the campaign and they've been pivotal.
"Without the government support, without the support of all the organisations we wouldn't be here where we are today and have made the changes we've made".
Ash Taylor headed them ahead only for Josh Magennis to turn in Rory McKenzie's knock-back.
A diving header by Shay Logan secured a win which was more workmanlike than full of flair.
They stay one point behind the champions with one more game played.
The result means at the other end of the table Killie remain in the sights of bottom club Dundee United, although still eight points clear of the automatic relegation place.
Aberdeen made two changes, leaving out Mark Reynolds and Craig Storrie from their starting line-up, to accommodate fit again Niall McGinn and Barry Robson who came on as a substitute against Partick Thistle in midweek only to limp off injured before the end.
Kilmarnock, with one change in their side - the return of skipper Steven Smith for James McHattie - were under the cosh from the start surviving a number of chances, the closest of which was an effort from Kenny McLean which rattled the post.
Killie were insistent on route one football which seldom threatened and it was no surprise when the Dons took the lead just before half time.
Robson delivered a corner which should never have been awarded - it looked as if goalkeeper Jamie MacDonald didn't touch a nevertheless threatening cross - and Taylor headed home.
But two minutes into the second half Kilmarnock equalised with a goal created by a Greg Kiltie cross from the byline. It was headed back across from the far post by McKenzie and Magennis - a former Aberdeen player - headed home.
That led to a nervous Pittodrie, but Shay Logan had the place bouncing again with a spectacular diving header after Jonny Hayes had drilled a ball in from the left hand side.
Aberdeen were worthy of all three points and if nothing else they are awash with spirit.
However, it spelled out more misery for the visitors whose best hope of avoiding automatic relegation might be continued problems for Dundee United.
"Oddly enough, the older you get, the happier you get," he says.
"When you've passed through crises a few times - when people die, when you experience enough sadness and enough joy - you tend to turn your attention towards the joy.
"The sadness is a constant anyway, so why deliver it as a gift to someone else? 'Here, take my sadness and listen to it for an hour.' I wouldn't do that."
The philosophy underpins his new album, Stranger To Stranger. Lyrically rich, it discusses old age, faith, love, ecology and social inequality - all delivered with a good-humoured faith in humanity.
"It's all jokes," he grins. "I never say, 'Somewhere in here I'd better get in something about mortality, because that's so entertaining'."
But his self-deprecation is dishonest. Simon is an astute craftsman, a master of precision. Like a comedian, he lets those jokes land.
"If I say something that's unusual, or a thought that requires a second to think about, I'll usually follow that with a cliche," he says. "So as you're digesting that, you're not really losing anything."
That's why his album has been four years in the making. Every note, every lyric was honed until it was perfect.
"A lot of people believe first idea, best idea, but I don't. I'll sing a song many, many times before I get the vocal I want.
"I re-write songs, not because I'm trying to make them more commercial, but because there's something about them that's unsatisfying to me.
"My thought is that the ear always goes to the irritant and, eventually, you find the thing you don't like in a song and that's got to go.
"Sometimes it takes me a year or two. I'll be in denial about it. But once it goes, then I'll try and fix it."
It's an approach that has paid dividends. From Sounds Of Silence and Bridge Over Troubled Water, to Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard and Graceland, Simon has a songbook to rival those of Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan.
Yet he is rarely mentioned in the same breath - which is strange, because his recent output beats theirs hands down, possessed of a lyrical wit and musical curiosity that seems to have abandoned his 1960s peers.
For Stranger To Stranger, he sought out Italian dance producer Digi G'alessio - who goes by the name Clap! Clap! - to embellish the grooves, which are inspired and underpinned by the rhythms of flamenco.
The shuffling drum patterns and clattered hand claps are reused and recycled on various songs - giving it a thematic cohesion that amplifies the record's recurring characters and lyrical motifs.
"In jazz you'll find repetition of a theme, transferred to another instrument or inverted," explains Simon. "Not so much in pop music, where the emphasis is on the vocal.
"Then I thought I've used so many different, interesting rhythms over the years, why do I have to go into a studio with a drummer and say, 'Let's find a groove?'
"They're already there. They're all across my albums. I can just take it and digitally alter it and make it into a different sound. Re-contextualise it. And that gives the album a sonic coherence that I think the listener feels without being aware."
The first single from the album is Wristband - the story of a rock star who gets locked out of his own concert after sneaking on to the fire escape for a sneaky cigarette.
But by the third verse, the rocker's inability to get past security becomes an allegory for the social divide in America.
"The riots started slowly with the homeless and the lowly," he sings in that conversational, ageless voice. "Then they spread into the heartland towns that never get a wristband."
It's a funny song that makes a hard-hitting point. And Simon is deadly serious.
"There's inequality and the inequality is institutionalised. A lot of people start off life with such a disadvantage - they're born into poverty, or [they face discrimination] because of their race or gender.
"People are more and more aware of the fact the world is not fair. How that feeling will manifest itself, I'm not sure, but it's powerful enough that we all should be frightened."
This is why Donald Trump has dominated the political conversation for the last 12 months, he says.
"He articulated that anger in a way that was atypical of politics. You know, 'I'd like to punch that guy in the face'. Nobody says that - but he did and people were like, 'Hooray! Hooray for that!'
"As his message became more negative, that connected with deep-seated anger that many people feel in the United States.
"And there is potential for that rage to explode in a way that does enormous damage."
Simon, it goes without saying, does not support Trump - and although he has given Bernie Sanders permission to use his music at rallies he insists: "I am not a political animal."
"But I also feel that if you are attempting to create beauty, that's a value system. The very fact of adhering to that value system makes a political statement vis-a-vis those people who are trying to create ugliness and rage.
"So Graceland was a very political record, but there's no song on there that's talking directly about [apartheid]. It's just that the statement of the record was very political."
The singer's conflicting views on the state of the world are encapsulated in Stranger To Stranger's title track, where he sings: "I'm just jittery. It's a way of dealing with my joy."
"When you become very happy you often feel nervous because, well, maybe this will stop," he explains.
"Unless the desire for beauty is deeply embedded in our DNA, which is actually what I believe."
Stranger To Stranger is released by Virgin EMI on Friday, 3 June.
Things have slowed down. But that's partly because I've done a lot of stuff and I don't feel like repeating [myself]. And also, I have to think, 'Does the world really need to hear this in a song form, or am I just wasting people's time?'
... ON WRITING HOOKS
I was very good at writing hooks for a long time. And I still can - but my interest in hooks is less than it used to be. Like, I may take a chorus that's hooky and do it twice, whereas a pop song would do it four times. Twice is enough for me to make my point.
The idea that people are photoshopping their own pictures has to be very stressful. You don't look like that, but you wish you did. And when somebody actually meets you, you don't look like your picture. So who are you? Who are we?
Are we all just what we look like, and it's not about whether you have a good heart or a conscience? And more and more, you can see that that's the case. There are people who are very attractive and either their morals are reprehensible or their value system is vacuous. You couldn't be elected prime minister if you weren't handsome enough.
"David Bowie spent more time thinking about what he would look like, or what character he would inhabit, than he did thinking about the song. I don't know because I barely knew David Bowie - but it seems to me the way he changed persona from era to era, that he spent a lot of time thinking about that.
"Prince was a very sweet guy, the little bit that I knew him. We hung out once or twice, if you can even say that, because he was very shy. He didn't like to talk too much, but he loved to play. He liked to play, he liked to go to clubs and dance, he liked to make records. That [his death] was shocking news. Shocking and upsetting."
"I'm not frustrated! I do a lot of my recording at home in my studio, and I do it almost daily. I'll spend hours playing a bell sound or maybe a celesta, or a big gong. I wouldn't put down a groove. I'd call the drummer in my band to do that. If I had to play for 16 bars without making an error, I couldn't do it."
"I'll listen to stuff from the 50s a lot. Sometimes I'll just sit by the radio and punch the buttons. And I have the Elvis channel on my car, which is unbearably boring, except when they play the only period I'm interested in, which is 1956 to 59. I still love that music."
The U's hit the front in the fifth minute when Ross Lafayette set up Louis John to smash into the top corner before the two sides exchanged goals just before the break.
On 44 minutes, Sutton went 2-0 up when Kenny Davis sent Tommy Wright clear to finish excellently off a post, only for Chester to hit back immediately when Craig Mahon curled in.
Midfielder Lucas Dawson then drew Chester level on 63 minutes only for Sutton to snatch victory in the final minute.
The visitors' two substitutes combined to great effect as Moses Emmanuel fed Cadogan to chip on-loan Burnley goalkeeper Conor Mitchell.
Jon McCarthy's Chester are still to register their first home win this year - in 14 attempts.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Chester FC 2, Sutton United 3.
Second Half ends, Chester FC 2, Sutton United 3.
Goal! Chester FC 2, Sutton United 3. Kieron Cadogan (Sutton United).
Ross Lafayette (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Sutton United. Moses Emmanuel replaces Kenny Davis.
Substitution, Sutton United. Kieron Cadogan replaces Tommy Wright.
Nicky Bailey (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Sutton United. Josh Taylor replaces Craig Dundas.
Goal! Chester FC 2, Sutton United 2. Lucas Dawson (Chester FC).
Kenny Davis (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half begins Chester FC 1, Sutton United 2.
First Half ends, Chester FC 1, Sutton United 2.
Goal! Chester FC 1, Sutton United 2. Craig Mahon (Chester FC).
Goal! Chester FC 0, Sutton United 2. Tommy Wright (Sutton United).
Craig Dundas (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Chester FC. Jordan Chapell replaces Ross Hannah.
Goal! Chester FC 0, Sutton United 1. Louis John (Sutton United).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Warwickshire were bowled out for 449, missing out on full batting points.
But after reaching tea on 107-1, Surrey collapsed in the final session.
Patel took 5-61, to follow his first-innings 5-62, as Surrey slumped to 177 all out, before the Bears took five balls to reach 5-0 for a 10-wicket win.
Ian Bell's men claimed the extra half hour to avoid having to come back for the fourth day.
Surrey have now failed to beat Warwickshire in their last eight home meetings.
The visitors climb to the top of Division One for the first time this season with only their second Championship victory of 2016 - and Bell's first since being appointed county captain.
After Keith Barker had earlier cracked 65 in 70 balls with 11 fours, Rory Burns led Surrey's fightback against a daunting 176-run first-innings deficit.
But after his departure for 68, the Surrey batting folded, only Worcestershire old boy Steven Davies (44) and Zafar Ansari (50) making double figures.
Patel's match figures of 10-123 were the best of his first-class career, beating the 10-163 he took in an innings victory over Sussex at Edgbaston in 2011.
With the rest of the current round of Championship games still to be completed, Surrey, who last week put in 28 days' notice to sign Durham duo Scott Borthwick and Mark Stoneman, climb 18 points clear of bottom club Hampshire.
Surrey director of cricket Alec Stewart told BBC Radio London:
"Burns and Ansari showed the way. They played tough cricket. Unfortunately, there was then a collapse. The batting is faulty.
"We bowled well. Our bowling is moving in the right direction, but our batting isn't. That is an issue.
"If you are only making scores of 270, and not batting four sessions, you are making it very hard. There are players with talent, but they are not battle-hardened cricketers."
Warwickshire spinner Jeetan Patel told BBC WM:
"It is so hard to win games in this league. Every team is really good. "There is still a long way to go. No-one is talking about being top.
"We went in at tea and the conversation was all about doing the hard yards and then eventually it will pay you back.
"We were lucky when Rory played on, then we got Zafar. All we wanted was a sniff. We knew if we got one wicket we would get two or three."
Opinion polls had suggested a tight race between him and Ms Silva for the second place which secures the candidate a coveted space in the run-off election on October 26.
On the day, he won 34% of the vote, well behind Ms Rousseff's 42% but also firmly ahead Ms Silva's 21%.
In the three weeks until the second round, Mr Neves is likely to remind voters of his family's deep links with the country's path to democracy.
A former governor of the south-eastern state of Minas Gerais, he is the grandson of Tancredo Neves, whose death in 1985 - shortly before he was due to become the first president of post-military dictatorship Brazil - caused commotion in the country.
But stemming from a family from Brazil's traditional white elite has not always been to Mr Neves's benefit.
His love of lavish parties has been described as being out of sync with the needs of a complex emerging country.
Last year, thousands of young Brazilians expressed their discontent with traditional politics when they protested for weeks against poor public services, corruption, police repression, and what they considered the excessive costs of hosting the World Cup.
But Mr Neves says he has settled down. He married former model Leticia Webber, 34, last year and in June she had twins, adding to the daughter Mr Neves has from a previous marriage.
His supporters say he is ready to take on the challenge of leading the world's seventh largest economy.
They point to his remarkable performance from 2003 to 2010 as governor of the state of Minas Gerais - an economic powerhouse and, as it is very populous, of key importance in the election.
During his seven years as governor, he cut state expenditure, boosted tax revenues, improved the level of education and health and turned Minas Gerais into one of the most business-friendly states in the country.
And yet he failed to beat Ms Rousseff in Minas Gerais, where he received less than 40% of the votes, against slightly more than 43% for the incumbent.
Aecio, as he is known among Brazilians who like to call their presidents by their first names, presents himself as the right candidate to take over an economy in which growth - once at 7.5% a year - has stalled.
But the 54-year-old economist's fondness for such terms as "management shock" and "efficiencies" may not go down well with Brazilians who have benefitted from the current government's income-redistribution policies.
Mr Neves has yet to explain how he would tackle inflation and streamline public finances without hurting public services or laying off public sector workers.
Ms Rousseff has warned that a vote for Mr Neves could "revive ghosts of the past", referring to his party's time in power between 1995 and 2003, when then President Fernando Henrique Cardoso ended rampant inflation at the expense of industry, jobs and economic growth.
The two candidates are poised to clash bitterly over their views on the handling of Petrobras, Brazil's state oil giant and arguably the country's main economic asset.
The company's corporate finances have been hit and Petrobras has had to buy expensive petrol abroad only to sell it at lower prices on the domestic market to avoid fuelling inflation.
To make matters worse the company is investigating an alleged bribery scheme reportedly linked to top politicians, some of them members of the governing Workers' Party and groups which back President Rousseff.
Ms Rousseff and her Workers' Party in turn are likely to point to corruption scandals during the time Mr Neves's party was in power in the 1990s.
Mr Neves himself has had corruption allegations levelled against him over the building of an airport in his home state during his tenure as governor.
He has denied the allegations, saying that the airport was built following a proper tender process that had been investigated and cleared by a state audit body.
Mr Neves is currently riding on a wave of sentiment against the Workers' Party generated by a mix of political fatigue following its 12 years in power and a perception that the governing party has mismanaged the economy and been tainted by too many corruption scandals.
But if he is to narrow Ms Rousseff's eight-percentage-point lead, Mr Neves will have to persuade voters that does not just stand for change - but for change in the right direction.
Welsh leader Andrew RT Davies called for a public spending watchdog to review the Communities First programme, which is spending £30m this year.
It was revealed that one project in Merthyr Tydfil spent most of its £1.5m budget over three years on salaries.
Communities Minister Lesley Griffiths defended the spending as "transparent".
The 3Gs Development Trust in Merthyr Tydfil spent nearly £1.3m of its £1.5m budget between 2012-13 and 2014-15 on salaries and £250,000 on "other project costs", according to a response to a Freedom of Information request by the Welsh Conservatives.
Mr Davies told BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme that staff costs were "disproportionate".
"It does seem... that a huge amount of the money is going into offices and salaries rather than actually getting into the projects themselves," he said.
"There needs to be a greater look at these figures now, whether that be the Auditor General looking at it or whether that be the Welsh government themselves."
A spokesperson for Merthyr Tydfil council defended the trust, which serves Gurnos, Galon Uchaf and Penydarren, saying salary costs included those for staff on the ground such as youth workers, not just administrators.
Over £300m has been spent on Communities First by the Welsh government since it was launched in 2001, including around £30m in 2015-16.
Communities Minister Lesley Griffiths told Sunday Politics Wales that spending on Communities First was "transparent" and she was "comfortable" with the way money was spent.
"It's our flagship tackling poverty programme, has been for many years, it's a very people-intensive programme," she said.
"We've got our Communities First staff working face-to-face, one-to-one with many of the most vulnerable in our communities in some of our most deprived areas.
"There is robust monitoring of the programme - we monitor the outputs, we monitor the outcomes, there's financial audits done.
"You cannot see staff costs [as] independent to the project - it's absolutely integral."
Sunday Politics Wales is on BBC One Wales at 11:00 BST on 14 June.
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Gulls reportedly killed a pet tortoise and a Yorkshire Terrier in two separate attacks in Cornwall in recent weeks.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) said it recognised gulls were a nuisance but warned against any "knee-jerk reactions".
Speaking on a visit to Cornwall, Mr Cameron said: "I think a big conversation needs to happen about this and, frankly, I think the people we need to listen to are people who really understand this issue in Cornwall and the potential effect it is having."
It is illegal to injure or kill any species of gull or damage or destroy an active nest or its contents.
Gulls killed Yorkshire terrier Roo in Newquay last week and in May a Chihuahua puppy was killed in Honiton, Devon, according to a local newspaper.
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Play in Hong Kong was washed out for all four days of match without a ball being bowled.
Hong Kong are currently fourth in the table, seven points above Scotland, who are searching for their first win in the tournament after a draw and a loss.
Scotland drew at home with Afghanistan in rain-hit Stirling last June before losing in the Netherlands in September.
Scotland are scheduled to play one-day internationals on 26 and 28 January, followed by two Twenty20 internationals on 30 and 31 January in the build-up to the ICC World Twenty20 in India, which begins on 8 March.
Meanwhile, spinner Con de Lange has returned home from the tour following the birth of his second child.
Scotland squad: Preston Mommsen (capt), Alasdair Evans, Bradley Wheal, Calum MacLeod, Con de Lange, George Munsey, Josh Davey, Kyle Coetzer, Mark Watt, Matt Machan, Matthew Cross, Michael Leask, Richie Berrington, Rob Taylor, Safyaan Sharif.
In a Freedom of Information request, police confirmed the letters were distributed to members of the public.
The estate houses the Queen's residence and Anmer Hall, home to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
One letter said the estate "would take intrusions into their privacy, and that of their guests, seriously".
Norfolk Police handed out 13 letters during 2014 and 36 up to the end of November 2015.
It is not known if the letters were distributed for trespass or harassment, as Norfolk Police could not specify the exact reasons due to the manpower costs involved.
They have been given to photographers and media crews in the area.
An example of a letter seen by the BBC reminds people that Sandringham is a private estate.
"The understandable interest to film and photograph the Royal Family needs to be balanced with their rights to a private family life.
"Whilst in residence on the estate, members of the Royal Family and their guests have more than a reasonable expectation of privacy," said the letter.
The media are encouraged to speak to royal communications should they wish to broadcast or photograph on the estate, it adds.
Anmer Hall, a Georgian mansion, is about two miles (3km) east of the Queen's residence.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's first child, Prince George started attending the local Westacre Montessori nursery close to their family home in Anmer this month, generating much media interest.
Notices warning the media not to harass the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were also handed out by Norfolk Police in May, after the birth of Princess Charlotte.
The new centre is run by Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, a gay Islamic scholar, married to a gay man, and the founder of Homosexual Muslims of France.
Mr Zahed regularly attends the Grand Mosque in Paris, but says he wants to create a more "inclusive" place for gay, lesbian and transgender Muslims.
He says many of them felt uncomfortable praying in established mosques.
"Many gay men don't go to the mosque because they don't want to be recognised," says Mr Zahed.
"They don't want to be ostracised because they wear earrings or because they're effeminate or they're transgender, something that's pretty obviously rejected in many mosques in France," he says.
Mr Zahed's South African gay husband has encountered similar problems. "The first time he came to the mosque he was wearing earrings. After the prayers somebody came up to him and tried to take them off and told him, 'This isn't right, you shouldn't do that here'. It was a kind of soft but very obvious aggression," says Mr Zahed.
He cites another recent case of what he describes as discrimination. "A transgender from a Muslim background died last summer. It was hard to find an imam to pray for her. Nobody wanted to. In the end, we had to do it. We had to pray for her," says Mr Zahed.
For the moment the place of worship is a room in a Buddhist prayer hall. The room holds more than 20 people and is decorated with calligraphy in Chinese characters.
London Imam Ajmal Masroor says that Mr Zahed's meeting room does not constitute a mosque as it does not fully adhere to Islamic preaching and practice.
Mr Zahed says his "mosque" is not trying to be specifically gay-friendly, but "inclusive". He is also trying to integrate the sexes in Islam. He wants men and women to be able to pray together, not just "gay and straight".
Men and women pray together in Mecca, he says, so why can't they in ordinary mosques?
So far the reaction from the rest of the Muslim community in France has been mixed. France has the largest Muslim community in Europe outside Russia.
The Paris Grand Mosque has issued an unequivocal statement. "The fact that he's opening a mosque or a prayer room is something that's outside the Islamic community. The Koran condemns homosexuality. It is banned," said a Grand Mosque spokesman.
Other Muslims have been intrigued enough to ask Mr Zahed how he justifies his stance. "People are trying to understand who we are, where we come from, what our interpretation of this or that verse of the Koran is, and that's diversity and dialogue and I'm happy with it," says Mr Zahed.
He also says he has received messages of support from ordinary Muslims in France.
He is, however, concerned enough about the safety of his new congregation to be reticent about revealing exactly where it will be meeting.
At the moment Mr Zahed is not getting any special protection from the French police and the French authorities have told him they are not aware of any specific threats from within the Muslim community.
But he is still concerned about violence "or a simple demonstration". Not least because if there are "demonstrations [outside] or threats when you are trying to get in, it's not going to be a peaceful context to be connected to each other and to pray".
Traditionally, Muslim religious authorities have opposed gay sex. They argue that the Koranic authority for this is the story of God's destruction of the city of Sodom because of its citizens' sins.
"Homosexuality is a choice, it's a desire, it's not something that you are born with," says the London imam Ajmal Masroor. Homosexuality is not acceptable for either Sunni or Shia Muslims, he says, because God intends for sex to occur between men and women only, within marriage, and "any sexual relationship outside marriage is a sin".
However, that does not mean that Muslims should discriminate against homosexuals, says Mr Masroor. Mosques are open to everyone.
Rather than trying to separate themselves homosexuals should be attending mosque like other Muslims, argues Mr Masroor. But they should not be trying to change the religion. "If you join Islam, you must conform to Islamic teachings."
Mr Zahed says that "Islam has nothing to do with homosexuality".
"Islam is not a totalitarian fascist identity. You should not use Islam to justify your prejudices and try to control the sexuality and gender of individuals," he says.
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed spoke to Newshour on the BBC World Service.
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The Sunday Times alleges football officials took a total of £3m in return for support of the Qatari bid.
Qatar's 2022 bid committee has issued a statement reiterating that it denies "all allegations of wrongdoing".
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Organisers are due to meet Fifa's ethics investigator Michael Garcia in Oman on Monday.
The New York lawyer is already conducting a long-running inquiry into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids.
Football Association chairman Greg Dyke also said a new vote should take place if it was shown a "corrupt system" had led to Qatar's win.
UK Sports Minister Helen Grant said it was "essential that major sporting events are awarded in an open, fair and transparent manner".
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek programme, Boyce said: "I, certainly as a member of the executive committee, would have absolutely no problem whatsoever if the recommendation was for a re-vote.
Bin Hammam was initially banned from football for life in July 2011 after being found guilty of attempted bribery.
The allegations centred around bids to buy votes in the Fifa presidential election of that year.
However, his ban was annulled a year later by the Court of Arbitration for Sport which said there was insufficient evidence to support the punishment.
Bin Hammam then quit football saying he had seen the "very ugly face of football".
Fifa issued him with a second life ban in December 2012 for "conflicts of interest" while he was president of the Asian Football Confederation.
In March 2014, the Daily Telegraph reported a company owned by Bin Hammam had paid former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner and his family more than £1m. Payments were claimed to have been made shortly after Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup.
"If Garcia comes up with concrete evidence and concrete evidence is given to the executive committee and to Fifa, then it has to be looked at very seriously.
"The Fifa executive committee are 100% behind Garcia," he continued. "He will be allowed to go and speak to anyone from around the world to complete his mission."
The allegations of corruption centre on former Fifa official Mohammed bin Hammam, with The Sunday Times claiming to have obtained secret documents that implicate the former Asian Football Confederation president in corrupting members of football's governing body to win the right to stage the 2022 World Cup.
The newspaper alleges the documents, seen by BBC sports editor David Bond, show that Bin Hammam, 65, was lobbying on his country's behalf at least a year before the decision to award the country hosting rights.
They also allegedly show he had also made payments into accounts controlled by the presidents of 30 African football associations and accounts controlled by the Trinidadian Jack Warner, a former vice-president of Fifa.
Qatar's 2022 bid committee and Bin Hammam have always strenuously denied any wrongdoing and that he actively lobbied on their behalf in the run-up to the vote in December 2010.
When approached by The Sunday Times to respond to their fresh claims of obtaining secret documents, Bin Hammam's son Hamad Al Abdulla declined to comment on his behalf.
In a new statement issued on Sunday, the Qatar bid committee said it had "always upheld the highest standard of ethics and integrity in its successful bid to host the 2022 Fifa World Cup".
The committee said it was co-operating with Garcia's inquiry, adding: "We will take whatever steps are necessary to defend the integrity of Qatar's bid and our lawyers are looking into this matter.
"The right to host the tournament was won because it was the best bid and because it is time for the Middle East to host its first Fifa World Cup."
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FA chairman Dyke backed Boyce and said the "serious allegations" had to be investigated, adding: "I think if it is shown it was a corrupt system and that the people who won used bribes and other influences to get the vote, then of course it has got to be done again."
Bin Hammam has previously been at the centre of controversy in the football world. He was initially banned from the sport for life in July 2011 after being found guilty of attempted bribery over votes in that year's Fifa presidential election.
However, his ban was annulled a year later by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which said there was insufficient evidence to support the punishment.
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Fifa issued him with a second life ban in December 2012 for "conflicts of interest" while he was president of the Asian Football Confederation.
In March 2014, The Daily Telegraph reported a company owned by Bin Hammam had paid Warner and his family more than £1m. Payments were claimed to have been made shortly after Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup.
Qatar, which defeated bids from South Korea, Japan, Australia and the United States, has always insisted Bin Hammam never had any official role supporting their bid and always acted independently from the Qatar 2022 campaign.
Meanwhile, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development Jim Murphy told the BBC he had recently travelled to Qatar to investigate conditions of migrant employees working on World Cup infrastructure, amid accusations of abuse and deaths on building sites.
Almost 200 Nepalese men are reported to have died last year working on construction projects in Qatar.
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Murphy said: "The revelations in today's Sunday Times, if proven, now call into question whether Qatar should hold the World Cup at all.
"There now needs to be a forensic inquiry into each and every one of those emails and documents to work out who paid what, when, for what, and what was the ebb and flow of votes and voting allegiances as a consequence.
"If that's proven, then the building work in Qatar has to stop, the vote has to be re-run, it has to be free and fair, because football fans deserve that."
Murphy added: "If Fifa doesn't act, it's lost the right to lead the world of football. Let's hope Qatar won fair and square, but there has to be an investigation."
China's Sinoma will build seven plants across the continent and one in Nepal.
The new factories will add around 25 million tonnes to the firm's existing cement capacity of 45 million tonnes.
Mr Dangote's company also produces food, fertiliser and is investing in oil refineries.
He is keeping a close eye on China's economic problems and the ensuing lower oil price.
"Of course we are affected," he said, "but we are not badly affected because we are not 100% in oil.
"We are a fully diversified company. So today if oil is doing [badly] it doesn't mean we are doing [badly] and that's the good thing about diversification."
Africa's economies have been hit hard by the fall in commodity prices but many are seeing a boom in infrastructure, for which cement is vital.
Oliver Burke's sweet finish gave Forest an early lead before Cardiff responded with Aron Gunnarsson's deflected strike.
The Bluebirds dominated for long spells but were frustrated by a Forest side now unbeaten in seven games.
Tenth-placed Cardiff are now six points behind the play-off spots with Forest up to 14th.
Wayward finishing was the cause of Cardiff's demise as they had lost both their previous matches, and they were similarly unable to make their dominance pay against Forest.
Dougie Freedman's side had to withstand heavy pressure and, although they seemed content with a point, it was the visitors who took the lead.
A quick counter-attack culminated in a pass from Dexter Blackstock to Burke, who used the outside of his right foot to deftly guide a swerving shot into the net for his first Forest goal.
Cardiff's response was swift as, three minutes later, Gunnarsson's 20-yard shot took a sharp deflection to leave Forest keeper Dorus de Vries stranded.
The former Swansea stopper had a busy first half, holding on to a Joe Ralls shot before reacting superbly to deny Tony Watt with a one-handed save low to his left.
Despite Cardiff's dominance, the score remained 1-1 at the interval, and Russell Slade's side continued to press in the second half with Gunnarsson heading wide.
The hosts' attacking threat faded as the game wore on, however, and it was Forest who had the final chance as another former Swansea player, substitute Nelson Oliveira, blazed a close-range rebound over the bar.
Cardiff boss Russell Slade: "They parked the bus in the second half, sat very, very deep and made it difficult for us.
"They lived on the counter-attack and we could not unlock the door which is very frustrating, even though we did a lot of very good things in the game.
"They tried to kill the game and see it out from an early stage, but we should have been adding to our tally with the three good first-half chances we had.
"We will just keep working at it, and we played well against a good Forest side who, had they been any deeper, they would have needed snorkels."
Nottingham Forest manager Dougie Freedman: "I think we should have won it at the end, we had the two best chances of the game during that last 15 minutes.
"We tried to slow everything down and quiet their fans down and we felt that was the best way to do it.
"We made a lot of changes and we didn't complain about the number of fixtures. The younger guys we had come in gave us some freshness and allowed us to keep some guys on the bench and bring them on to try and win the game.
"With our transfer embargo I am going to need to be able to call on these players to get us through to the end of the season."
Match ends, Cardiff City 1, Nottingham Forest 1.
Second Half ends, Cardiff City 1, Nottingham Forest 1.
Attempt missed. Nélson Oliveira (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high following a set piece situation.
Attempt saved. Henri Lansbury (Nottingham Forest) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Nélson Oliveira.
Foul by Matthew Connolly (Cardiff City).
Nélson Oliveira (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Eric Lichaj (Nottingham Forest) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Sammy Ameobi (Cardiff City) header from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Joe Ralls.
Fabio (Cardiff City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Fabio (Cardiff City).
Henri Lansbury (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Henri Lansbury replaces Oliver Burke.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Federico Macheda replaces Craig Noone.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Nélson Oliveira replaces Dexter Blackstock.
Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Craig Noone (Cardiff City).
Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sammy Ameobi (Cardiff City).
Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Peter Whittingham (Cardiff City).
Ben Osborn (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Ben Osborn replaces Jonathan Williams.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Peter Whittingham replaces Aron Gunnarsson because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Aron Gunnarsson (Cardiff City) because of an injury.
Sammy Ameobi (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest).
Foul by Sammy Ameobi (Cardiff City).
Jonathan Williams (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Sammy Ameobi replaces Kenwyne Jones.
Foul by Matthew Connolly (Cardiff City).
Jonathan Williams (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Lee Peltier (Cardiff City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tony Watt.
Attempt blocked. Matthew Connolly (Cardiff City) header from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Anthony Pilkington with a cross.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Jack Hobbs.
Fabio (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Oliver Burke (Nottingham Forest).
Attempt missed. Aron Gunnarsson (Cardiff City) header from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Craig Noone with a cross following a set piece situation.
Attempt blocked. Joe Ralls (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Analysts said investors remained nervous about slowing global growth, uncertainty over US interest rates and further falls in oil prices.
Greece's financial stocks were down more than 20% as the wider Athens Stock Exchange hit its lowest level since 1991.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 296.91 at 15,908.06.
While the Nasdaq Index fell 80.91 to 4282.23.
That followed sharp losses in Europe, as the FTSE 100 fell 2% to 5715.26 and Athens hit a 25-year low.
Brent crude oil futures, a closely watched benchmark, was down 2.3% to $33.28 a barrel at 15:15 (GMT).
On Wall Street, financial stocks were among the worst hit amid concerns that low interest rates in the US, Europe and Japan are hurting bank margins.
Goldman Sachs was the biggest loser in early trading on the Dow, falling almost 4%, while Visa was down 3% and JP Morgan 2.9%.
That followed similar falls for bank stocks in Europe, with HSBC down 3%, Commerzbank slumping more than 7% and BNP Paribas falling 4%.
Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at traders CMC Markets UK, said investors in bank stocks were nervous about poor recent results "alongside the ugly spectre of negative interest rates".
US tech stocks also continued their falls from Friday, with Amazon and Facebook both down 3%.
Investors see tech stocks as particularly exposed to slowing consumer spend, according to Adam Laird, of Hargreaves Lansdown.
He said: "We are still seeing a concern that the world is slowing and perhaps the good times of the last couple of years might not be persisting."
Police officers carried out arrests on Thursday in connection with alleged sex offences against females which occurred between 2008 and 2015.
Six men were charged with the rape of a girl under 16 as well as other sexual offences, while a seventh man was charged with conspiracy to rape.
Six men - all from Oxford - will appear before Oxford magistrates.
They are: Shabir Dogar, 22; Shabaz Khan, 23; Shohab Dogar, 23; Yasin Hamid, 20; Usman Iddris, 22; and Joseph Suraina, 22.
Waqas Hussain, 24, of no fixed abode, will appear at Oxford Magistrates' Court on 4 April.
Mr Hussain has also been charged with the attempted sexual assault of a girl under 13, as have Shabir Dogar and Shohab Dogar.
The raids were part of what the police are calling Operation Nautical.
A further 10 men were also arrested on Wednesday as part of the same operation.
Spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said the strike hit a training camp where a "large-scale" attack was being planned.
"We know they were going to be departing the camp and they posed an imminent threat to US and [African Union] forces," Captain Davis said.
"Initial assessments are that more than 150 terrorist fighters were eliminated," he added.
Mr Davis said the strike, by both drones and manned aircraft, took place on Saturday and targeted Raso Camp, a training facility about 120 miles (195km) north of the capital, Mogadishu.
The camp had been under surveillance for some time, according to Mr Davis. "There was a sense that the operational phase was about to happen," he said.
He said the group had neared the completion of specialist training to conduct "offensive operations", but did not give any details about the alleged plans.
Al-Shabab, an affiliate of al-Qaeda, was pushed out of Mogadishu by African Union peacekeeping forces in 2011 but has continued to launch frequent attacks in its bid to overthrow the Western-backed government.
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The group has said it carried out a string of recent attacks including a twin bombing at a busy restaurant in the Somali city of Baidoa last month.
Also on Monday, the Australian navy said it had seized a huge cache of weapons on a fishing boat off the coast of Oman that was apparently heading for Somalia.
Grenade launchers, machine guns, and 2,000 assault rifles were concealed under fishing nets, a Navy spokesman said.
Crippling al-Shabab is top of a recently-announced US military strategy for Africa, which also includes addressing the situation in Libya and containing Boko Haram in West Africa. With drones from its nearby bases in neighbouring Djibouti, the US has succeeded in striking hard at the heart of al-Shabab operations, including killing Ahmed Godane, the leader of the jihadi group, in 2014.
The jihadis have since learned that they are often watched by surveillance aircraft and so they tend to meet under trees to avoid detection. This method has its limits, as this latest incident shows. They cannot train at will without being seen.
Al-Shabab maintains its determination to establish its rule over Somalia, hence its resilience and increasingly sophisticated attacks. The group is suspected to be behind an explosion at a security checkpoint at the Beledweyne airport which could have been more lethal had the explosives got aboard an airliner.
28 February - on a restaurant and busy junction in Baidoa killing at least 30 people
26 February - on Mogadishu's SYL hotel killing nine people
21 January - on a restaurant at Mogadishu's Lido beach killing 20 people
15 January - on a Kenyan base in el-Ade that Somalia's president said killed at least 180 soldiers
A record-equalling 10 Britons were among the 198 starters in the Dutch city of Utrecht on Saturday, 4 July.
Time trials, crosswinds, cobbles and six-summit finishes, including one atop l'Alpe d'Huez in the penultimate stage, featured in the 102nd edition which climaxed in Paris on 26 July.
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Winner: Rohan Dennis (Aus/BMC)
Report: Dennis in yellow with record speed
The people of Utrecht in the Netherlands poured out in their thousands to watch Australian Rohan Dennis record the quickest average speed ever in a Tour de France stage. The BMC rider was five seconds clear of German Tony Martin in the 13.8km time trial, finishing in a record average speed of 55.446 km/h. Meanwhile, Britain's Chris Froome and the other yellow jersey contenders are within 20 seconds of each other.
Winner: Andre Greipel (Ger/Lotto-Soudal)
Report: Froome gains time on rivals
Amid the coastal winds and sporadic rain on the way to Zeeland, there were plenty of talking points. The conditions created a split in the peloton that saw Chris Froome put as much as one minute and 28 seconds between himself and some of his major yellow jersey rivals. Mark Cavendish failed to win a 26th stage, coming up short against Andre Greipel when moving early in the sprint finish. And Fabian Cancellara also beat Cavendish, coming third to claim the yellow jersey.
Winner: Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa/Katusha)
Report: Froome surges into yellow jersey
Another day of drama as two crashes, one involving race leader Fabian Cancellara, forced the race to be neutralised and stopped. When racing resumed, Joaquim Rodriguez proved strongest up the punishing Mur de Huy but the bigger story was Chris Froome gaining more time on his rivals in the race for the overall Tour victory.
Winner: Tony Martin
Report: Martin wins to take yellow off Froome
A stage that promised so much, delivered on excitement, if not on big time gaps between the riders chasing the overall race victory. Chris Froome, Alberto Contador, Vincenzo Nibali and Nairo Quintana all finished together, three seconds behind stage winner Tony Martin. For Martin, it was a deserved solo win and the reward of the yellow jersey after narrowly missing out on the opening three days.
Winner: Andre Greipel
Report: Greipel strikes for a second time
Andre Greipel - tipped by Geraint Thomas before the Tour to win this one - held off his rivals in a sprint finish as Mark Cavendish finished third. Chris Froome and all of his rivals finished together in the pack.
Winner: Zdenek Stybar
Report: Tour leader Martin in dramatic crash
Race leader Tony Martin smashes his collarbone in a crash inside the final kilometre and is ruled out of the rest of the race. In the confusion that follows, Martin's Etixx - Quick-Step team-mate Zdenek Stybar rides off for the victory. Martin's withdrawal from the race leaves Britain's Chris Froome as leader.
Winner: Mark Cavendish
Report: Cavendish ends drought to claim 26th Tour win
Mark Cavendish times his sprint to perfection as he comes past Andre Greipel in the final 50m to record his 26th career stage victory at the Tour and take third on his own on the all-time list. The Manx Missile has just legendary five-time Tour winners Bernard Hinault (28) and Eddy Merckx (34) ahead of him.
Winner: Alexis Vuillermoz
Report: Froome retains yellow as Nibali loses time
The 2km slog up the Mur de Bretagne sees defending champion Vincenzo Nibali lose a further 10 seconds on his general classification rivals Chris Froome, Alberto Contador and Nairo Quintana, who all finish together. France's Alexis Vuillermoz races clear to take the stage by five seconds from Ireland's Dan Martin.
Winner: BMC Racing
Report: Team Sky edged out but Froome keeps yellow
American team BMC Racing live up to their world champions billing by winning the team time trial but Team Sky pushed them close. In fact, had they not had to wait for Nicolas Roche on the climb to the finish, they would have won the stage.
Winner: Chris Froome
Report: Froome destroys field to extend lead
In a fortnight's time, will we look back at this as the day Froome won the Tour? He broke away with 6.4km left of the first summit finish of this year's race to win emphatically and increase his overall lead to nearly three minutes.
Winner: Rafal Majka
Report: Froome maintains strong lead
Majka's third stage win at the Tour was never in doubt once he pulled away from a breakaway group during the climb up to the Tourmalet. The Pole finished a minute ahead of Ireland's Dan Martin, with leader Froome finishing safely alongside most of his rivals to retain the yellow jersey.
Winner: Joaquim Rodriguez
Report: Froome digs in as Rodriguez wins
Spaniard Joaquim Rodriguez mounted a late surge up the hors categorie climb to Plateau de Beille to claim his second stage victory of the Tour. The 36-year-old had been part of a 22-man breakaway that gradually splintered as the climbs took their toll. Down the road, race leader Chris Froome resisted numerous attacks on the final climb to maintain his strong position in the race.
Winner: Greg van Avermaet
Report: Froome finishes sixth to maintain gap
In temperatures as hot as 38C in the south of France, Belgian Greg van Avermaet held off Peter Sagan in a thrilling sprint to win a stage otherwise short on drama. Team Sky's Chris Froome finished sixth and made sure he kept his solid lead in the general classification.
Winner: Steve Cummings
Report: Cummings takes stage as Froome extends lead
MTN-Qhubeka enjoyed a dream Mandela Day as Steve Cummings got into a 20-man breakaway and then surged past Romain Bardet and Thibaut Pinot at the end to claim the stage victory - his first in the Tour de France. Further down the road, Chris Froome resisted attacks from his yellow jersey rivals before extending his lead in the general classification.
Winner: Andre Greipel
Report: Greipel wins stage as Froome maintains lead
Mark Cavendish was left behind on the climb out of Mende at the start and was not involved as German Andre Greipel won a bunch sprint to claim his third stage victory of the Tour. It was a quiet day for the yellow jersey contenders, with Chris Froome maintaining his advantage.
Winner: Ruben Plaza
Report: Thomas crashes as Plaza takes stage
Warren Barguil got his line all wrong into a corner on the fast descent into the finish at Gap and ended up colliding with Geraint Thomas, who ended up over the side of the road after smacking a telegraph pole on the way. Thankfully, the Welshman emerged unscathed and was soon on his bike, finishing only a short distance behind the yellow jersey group. The stage was won by Spaniard Ruben Plaza, who slipped off the front of the day's 23-man breakaway to finish 30 seconds ahead of Peter Sagan.
Winner: Simon Geschke
Report:Froome leads as Thomas moves fourth
Simon Geschke sped clear on the ascent up the Col d'Allos to win his first Tour de France stage and make it five won by Germans at this year's event. Further down the road, Chris Froome successfully defended attacks by Nairo Quintana to maintain his overall lead, while Tejay van Garderen was forced to retire through illness.
Winner: Romain Bardet
Report: Bardet earns second French stage win
Frenchman Romain Bardet gave the home crowds something to celebrate with a stage win secured with a break on the arduous Col du Glandon. Britain's yellow jersey holder Chris Froome was once again challenged in the mountains, but continued his staunch defence of his overall lead.
Winner: Vincenzo Nibali
Report: Froome's lead cut by Quintana
Chris Froome received his toughest examination yet as he chased Nairo Quintana up the final climb to surrender 32 seconds to the Colombian, who goes into stage 20 trailing by two minutes 38 seconds. Defending champion Vincenzo Nibali won the stage, but his initial break came when Froome had suffered a mechanical fault, which is frowned upon in Tour tradition.
Winner: Thibaut Pinot
Report: Froome set to win second Tour title
Chris Froome is set to become the first Briton to win two Tours de France after a thrilling finish to the penultimate stage on Alpe d'Huez. The Team Sky rider was attacked by second-placed Nairo Quintana on the final ascent of this year's race but he managed to limit his losses and retain a 72-second advantage that will see him crowned champion on Sunday in Paris.
Winner: Andre Greipel
Report:Froome completes historic Tour win
Chris Froome crossed the finish line in Paris arm-in-arm with his Team Sky team-mates to complete his historic Tour de France win. Andre Greipel won the final stage, sprinting to victory on the Champs-Elysees, with Mark Cavendish sixth.
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But even though these might show huge amounts of detail about exams, they will not reveal much about the levels of happiness among pupils.
Sir Anthony Seldon, a university head, former head teacher and mental health campaigner, says school league tables should include measures of well-being.
He says this could help to tackle an "epidemic of mental health" problems.
"As long as the only metric on which schools are being assessed is their exam performance, our schools will never have the incentive to take well-being as seriously as they should," said Sir Anthony, vice chancellor of the University of Buckingham.
He says that the Office for National Statistics regularly measures well-being - and that it would be possible to make school-level comparisons.
This could include comparing the resources put into pastoral care, such as staffing and support services, and surveying a sample of pupils to see their views on school life.
Sir Anthony, speaking on World Mental Health Day, has campaigned for well-being to be taken more seriously in schools.
But he says that despite warnings about rising numbers of young people with mental health problems, schools still are not being encouraged enough to prevent "avoidable suffering".
Exam league tables in England are due to be overhauled again to show how much academic progress is made by pupils.
But Sir Anthony says parents want to know more about a school than its exam results.
"It is perfectly clear to me, as a head of schools for 20 years, that parents will pay more heed to the well-being tables than to the exam league tables.
"They know, even if the government doesn't, that schools that prioritise well-being, which includes challenging and stretching students, also build character and help them to perform better than those schools which are just exam factories."
He says that pupils need help while they are still at school.
"By the time students arrive at 18, the damage has been done."
Figures published last month by the Office for National Statistics, showed the highest number of suicides by 15 to 19 year olds since 1998.
And a succession of reports have highlighted concerns about unhappiness, anxiety and depression among young people.
A report from the Higher Education Policy Institute warned that universities were struggling to cope with rising demand for mental health services.
A study published by the Department for Education showed that teenage girls now were more likely to show signs of "psychological distress" than a decade ago.
This blamed pressures from social media and the fact that young people felt less control over their lives.
A report from the Children's Society showed higher levels of anxiety and unhappiness among teenage girls, compared with five years ago.
An online tool kit to help schools identify and monitor mental health problems has been launched by Public Health England and the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.
The intention is to make staff better informed and better able to evaluate pupils' problems.
"Growing up in today's world can be tough. From negative comments on social media to pressures to look a certain way, the well-being of young people is at risk," said the minister for vulnerable children and families, Edward Timpson
"That's why we want teachers to be able to spot the signs that their pupils are having difficult thoughts or feelings and feel confident about supporting them."
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Bob Bradley was sacked on Tuesday after just 85 days in charge, with the Swans 19th in the Premier League.
Giggs, 43, was interviewed twice before Bradley's appointment in October.
Former Leicester City manager Nigel Pearson, ex-Crystal Palace boss Alan Pardew and ex-Birmingham City manager Gary Rowett are also in the frame.
Bradley's permanent successor is not expected to take charge before their Premier League match at home to Bournemouth on New Year's Eve.
First-team coaches Alan Curtis and Paul Williams will take the reins temporarily for that game, but the Swans are keen to make a swift appointment.
Boxing Day's 4-1 home defeat by West Ham was Swansea's seventh in 11 games since Bradley took over and leaves them on 12 points, above bottom side Hull on goal difference.
At the time of Bradley's arrival, Swansea were above the relegation zone on goal difference but have picked up just eight points out of a possible 33 since, conceding 29 goals in the process.
Swansea Chairman Huw Jenkins is known to be a huge admirer of ex-Wales winger Giggs, who has taken some time out after leaving Old Trafford in the summer following two years working as Louis van Gaal's assistant.
However, after being snubbed in favour of Bradley, it is not known whether Giggs retains an interest in the job.
Swansea-born Coleman, 46, spent four years with the club as a player at the start of his career and has experience in the Premier League as a manager, having spent four years at Fulham after taking over from Jean Tigana in 2003.
He signed a two-year contract extension with Wales in May before guiding them to the semi-finals of Euro 2016 this summer.
However, it is understood Swansea could offer him a bigger salary than the one he is currently on and with Wales presently third in their qualifying group, there is a possibility they may miss out on a place at the 2018 World Cup.
Giggs' only managerial experience was a four-game stint as Manchester United's interim player-manager at the end of the 2013-14 season.
He had worked under David Moyes earlier in that campaign and was assistant manager to van Gaal afterwards, but left in July following Jose Mourinho's appointment.
The former Wales captain spoke with Swansea's hierarchy on two occasions before Bradley was appointed, and the club's chairman Huw Jenkins is thought to have been impressed by Giggs.
Rene Meulensteen, Manchester United's former first team coach, believes Giggs would be well suited to Swansea.
"I don't agree with Ryan not having management [experience]. He's got his apprenticeship in his time as an assistant manager at Manchester United," the Dutchman told BBC Radio 5 Live.
"Is it the right time for him? He has to start somewhere. And in many ways when he was linked with Swansea [in October], I thought it would be a really good club for him.
"The club needs to sort itself out now because it's lost its stability and continuity it's had over the last five or six years."
He headed home his first goal for the club after goalkeeper Rob Elliot raced off his line to punch a corner, but sent it straight to the midfielder.
Georginio Wijnaldum went closest for Newcastle, but his powerful header was saved by Tim Howard.
The win moves Everton up to ninth while Newcastle drop into the relegation zone.
Read about how Newcastle's game with Everton unfolded
Results and reaction to all the Boxing Day games
Jamie Vardy's goals may have propelled the Leicester striker into the limelight this season, but in Romelu Lukaku Everton have the division's deadly striker at the moment. As a result, all eyes were on the Belgium international before kick-off.
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Lukaku had scored in each of the Toffees' previous eight games, and needed one more to equal Dixie Dean's record of scoring in nine games in a row for Everton, which has stood for 88 years.
He should have scored when Everton were on top in the opening stages of the first half, but shot straight at Elliot in the Newcastle goal, and had another chance midway through the second half, turning his marker before seeing his powerful drive stopped.
When Lukaku shot over from a rebound after Funes Mori's header was saved, it looked like not being his, or Everton's day.
That was until Cleverley, without a goal in his 10 previous appearances for Everton, kept his composure to head home.
In what has been a miserable season so far for Newcastle, the emergence of Elliot has been of the few positives.
He started the season as Newcastle's third-choice keeper but got his chance to impress when number one Tim Krul was ruled out for the season after injuring himself on international duty in October.
With Krul's deputy, Karl Darlow, out with an ankle injury, Elliot came into the side against Norwich in October and has not looked back.
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He was on course for a man-of-the-match performance against Everton, producing a string of fine saves from Lukaku and Aaron Lennon.
A weak punch ultimately proved costly, but the game could have been out of sight long before Cleverley struck if not for Elliot.
Newcastle boss Steve McClaren: "Last kick of the game, what a huge disappointment. I am disappointed for the players because they gave everything. They did not deserve to lose.
"All we can do is pick ourselves up and go again. We could have won the game, we shouldn't have lost it but we did."
Everton boss Roberto Martinez: "We knew that Newcastle had been very consistent in their last three performances. I was really pleased with the manner in which we played.
"We had a complete performance. We defended well and created a huge amount of chances. To get it in the last minute it feels emotionally a better win."
Newcastle travel to West Brom on Monday while Everton host Stoke on the same day.
Police found 2,489 packages and envelopes in Grant McCrone's property in Balmoral Avenue in Dumfries in May.
Dumfries Sheriff Court heard that the mail dated back to between September and December 2012.
McCrone, 26, who admitted stealing and intentionally delaying the mail, was sentenced to a community payback order and 180 hours of unpaid work.
The court heard that of the packages discovered, 2,388 were not addressed.
The Royal Mail had a contract to deliver them to certain postcode areas. It was likely they contained promotional material.
The remaining 101 packages were addressed to individuals. A total of 60 had been opened.
Sheriff Brian Mohan was told that McCrone was "a hard working, intelligent and, with the exception of this matter, a law abiding man".
He committed the crime when his father was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
He initially hid the mail at his family home before he moved to Balmoral Avenue after his father's death.
Sheriff Mohan said McCrone had breached the trust of the Royal Mail and its customers and he had narrowly avoided a prison sentence.
The court was told that McCrone was sacked by Royal Mail for gross misconduct on 6 June.
A fuel tank and warehouses were damaged, the Sana news agency said.
But Syrian rebel sources said an arms depot run by Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, which is fighting in Syria as an ally of the government, was hit.
Israel said the explosion was "consistent" with its policy to prevent Iran smuggling weapons to Hezbollah.
But it stopped short of confirming it was responsible.
Israel regards Hezbollah, and its key backer Iran, as its biggest threat. It went to war with Hezbollah in 2006 and the group has grown considerably more powerful since then.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, reported that the powerful blast was heard across the capital at dawn on Thursday and that it was believed to have happened near the main road that leads to the airport.
Sana said several missiles had been fired at a military site south-west of the airport, causing explosions that resulted in some material losses.
Pro-government Al-Mayadeen TV cited sources as saying that missiles had been fired by Israeli jets flying inside the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Two senior rebel sources based in Damascus told Reuters news agency that the missiles had hit an ammunition depot in a closed military area that was used by Iran-backed militias operating alongside the Syrian army, led by Hezbollah.
Appearing to confirm Israeli involvement, Intelligence Minister Israel Katz told Israeli Army Radio: "I can confirm that the incident in Syria corresponds completely with Israel's policy to act to prevent Iran's smuggling of advanced weapons via Syria to Hezbollah in Iran. Naturally, I don't want to elaborate on this."
"The prime minister has said that whenever we receive intelligence that indicated an intention to transfer advanced weapons to Hezbollah, we will act."
The Israeli military declined to comment on the reports.
In the wake of the US cruise missile attack on a Syrian air base at the start of this month, there was a lot of talk about Russia and Syria strengthening their air defences and the likely implications of this for Israel.
Would it hamper the Israeli Air Force's freedom of action in the skies over Syria, where it has been conducting an intermittent air campaign to prevent sophisticated weapons transfers to the Lebanese Shia militia group Hezbollah?
Well, Thursday's attack near Damascus airport seems to provide an answer. Israel - which is widely seen as being behind the strike - clearly intends to continue its campaign against Hezbollah weapons shipments and one must assume that it has a tacit understanding with Moscow.
Sophisticated Russian air defences cover much of Syrian airspace and have a more than adequate capability to interfere with Israeli attacks if Moscow so wished.
Israel is thought to have bombed arms shipments intended for Hezbollah several times since the Syrian conflict began.
In a rare step last month, the Israeli military confirmed that its jets had struck several targets inside Syria in a raid that prompted the Syrian military to fire a number of ground-to-air missiles, one of which was intercepted over Israeli territory.
On Wednesday, a high-ranking Israeli military officer briefed reporters that approximately 100 missiles intended for Hezbollah had been destroyed in the raid.
23 April 2017: Alleged Israeli attack on a training camp used by militia in Syria's Golan Heights region, kills three members of the Syrian pro-government National Defence Forces, according to the group.
17 March 2017: The Israeli military says its aircraft attacked several targets in Syria and shot down a Syrian missile.
22 February 2017: Israeli aircraft reportedly bomb several Syrian air bases near Damascus, including a Hezbollah convoy travelling with the Syrian army.
12 January 2017: The Syrian government accuses Israel of firing several rockets on the Mezzeh air base from the Sea of Galilee.
30 November 2016: Israeli aircraft fire missiles on the Syrian town of Saboura, west of Damascus, according to Syrian military sources.
18 January 2015: Six Hezbollah fighters and several Iranian soldiers, including a general, die in suspected Israeli air strikes in Syria's Golan Heights region.
19 December 2015: Suspected Israeli missiles hit Jaramana district of Damascus, killing nine Hezbollah fighters, including leading figure Samir Qantar.
So far there are no confirmed reports of casualties, although the interior ministry said they were feared.
The explosion sent black smoke billowing into the sky, with emergency services rushing to the scene.
No group has claimed responsibility for the blast, but the Taliban will be the main suspects as they have launched attacks on the city in the past.
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Lizzy Yarnold's skeleton gold, silver for the men's curlers, bronze for the women's curlers and Jenny Jones in snowboard slopestyle equalled the record of four medals Great Britain won at the inaugural Winter Olympics in Chamonix 1924.
UK Sport invested £13.4m from lottery and exchequer funding to achieve their goal, but could have earned more podium places.
Elise Christie's three disqualifications in short track were a bitter pill to swallow, highly-rated slopestyle skier James Woods was hampered by a hip injury in training and John Jackson's GBR 1 bobsleigh crew led briefly on a tense final afternoon in the Sochi sun.
Olympic sport is decided by fine margins - there are winners, losers and those in between. Four years of toil is done. The long road to Pyeongchang begins now.
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Soldiers Lee Jackson and Amanda Lightfoot represented Great Britain in biathlon but both finished outside the top 40 in their events.
In cross country, Britain had four athletes competing with a best finish of 29th in the sprint free by Andrew Musgrave, who recently won the Norwegian national championships.
The 23-year-old was 44th in the 15km classic and 53rd in the 50km mass start, but did not finish the team sprint classic after team-mate Andrew Young suffered from a flare up of a pre-existing heart condition.
Others: Jackson (33) - 67th in 10km sprint, 42nd in 20km individual; Lightfoot (27) - 71st in 15km individual, 75th in 7.5km sprint. Young (22) - 42nd sprint free, 37th in 15km classic; Callum Smith (21) - 67th in 15km classic, 62nd 15km + 15km skiathlon, 62nd sprint free; Rosamund Musgrave (27) - 66th in 10km classic, 42nd in sprint free.
BBC commentator Rob Walker said: "Andrew Musgrave will be pretty disappointed. He came last in his sprint free quarter, and he'll be wishing that worked out differently. It was still the best performance ever by a Briton in cross country (Tom Cairney was 28th out of 30 in 1956) so he is making inroads, albeit slowly, in what is a very competitive field.
"Overall, the fact Britain had four cross-country skiers was absolutely tremendous. Vancouver was first time Britain even had any cross-country skiers since 1994. Hopefully people at home have seen the sport a bit and it's perked the interest.
"The biathlon was OK, but they need a bit more financial support. They are heavily reliant on army people at the moment."
Funding to Sochi: £3,304,250
Previous Olympic success: Gold: 1964 (two-man), silver: 1924 (four-man), bronze: 1936 and 1998 (four-man).
Performance target: 0-1 medal (or 1x 4th-6th for men; 1x 4th-8th for women) Medals in Sochi: 0
GBR 1 pilot John Jackson steered his four-man team into the lead at one stage midway through the fourth run but the remaining crews nudged them down to fifth at the Sanki Sliding Centre.
We listen to music, we eat as much as possible and slap each other in the face
Jackson, who defied doctors by fighting back from a serious Achilles injury, drove his crew of Joel Fearon, Stuart Benson and Bruce Tasker to within 0.11s of an Olympic medal. The quartet, who came to Sochi as European silver medallists, achieved their Games target of a top-six finish.
Lamin Deen's GBR2 four-man squad narrowly qualified for the top-20 to contest the final run and ended 19th.
Britain's women's crew of Paula Walker and Rebekah Wilson finished 12th, while Deen and John Baines in the two-man bob came 23rd. The team only came together the week before competition started after a back injury in training ruled out Beijing Olympic sprinter Craig Pickering.
Former Olympic brakeman and BBC commentator Colin Bryce said: "Paula Walker didn't get on with the track initially and struggled in training, but she stepped it up in competition and although she was not in the top eight as she hoped, I still think it was a solid result.
"Lamin Deen is a pilot for the future. He's a big strong man, improved over the season, especially in the four-man, and bodes well for the future.
"John Jackson and his crew pushed exceptional starts. The athletes they brought into the crew, and the technological help from McLaren and BAE Systems, gave him the chance to drive as well as he did, despite the horrific injury.
"You need a good pilot, a good start and good equipment and for GBR 1, all three elements were exceptional. I hope Jackson stays in the sport for another couple of seasons to pick up some more deserved medals."
Previous Olympic success: Gold: 1924 (men) and 2002 (women)
UK Sport funding to Sochi: £2,055,100
Performance target: 1-2 medals Medals in Sochi: 2 (one silver, one bronze)
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Britain's curlers once again captivated the nation with their ancient and absorbing game. And in winning two medals they achieved at the top end of their performance target, proving the British curling machine is working.
David Murdoch's men beat world champions Sweden to reach the final but went down 9-3 to defending champions Canada in the gold-medal match.
"We just never got off to a good start," said Murdoch. "A silver medal is scarily cool."
Eve Muirhead's women lost to Canada in the semi-final but beat Switzerland 6-5 with the last stone of the match to claim bronze.
"It's a dream come true," said Muirhead. "This is the medal we've been missing and to win it with four of my best friends feels so special."
Former Olympic curler and BBC commentator Jackie Lockhart said: "We've hit our targets, won a silver and a bronze and raised the profile of our sport. It's onwards and upwards from here."
Previous Olympic success: Gold: Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (1984), Robin Cousins (1980), John Curry (1976), Jeannette Altwegg (1952), silver: Cecilia Colledge (1936), bronze: Torvill & Dean (1994), Altwegg (1948) and Ethel Muckelt (1924).
UK Sport funding to Sochi: £174,338
Performance target: Top-10 Medals in Sochi: 0
Britain's six skaters competed in the team event first and placed a not wholly unexpected 10th and last, with only the top five going through to the free programme.
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In the ice dance, Penny Coomes and Nick Buckland - the latter skating less than four months after undergoing heart surgery - met their top-10 target with 10th overall.
The GB pair of David King, 29, and Stacey Kemp, 23, finished 19th out of 20 in the short programme and so also fell short of qualification for the free skate.
Jenna McCorkell, 27, fell one place short of qualification for the free skating after finishing 25th in the short programme.
BBC figure skating commentator Sue Barker said: "Penny and Nick had a really traumatic first week when they were penalised by the judge in the short programme twice, mainly for an extended lift which they didn't get right, which was heart breaking for them.
"They bounced back with a fabulous free dance that gives them a lot of confidence going forward. The 2018 Winter Games were always their goal and they have learned some harsh but valuable lessons in Sochi."
Previous Olympic success: Bronze: Nicky Gooch (1994) 500m
Funding to Sochi: £2,953,400
Performance Target: 0-1 medal (or 2x top 8) Medals in Sochi: 0
Short-track speed skating can be cruel at the best of times, but Elise Christie suffered the worst of times. The 23-year-old was tipped to pick up medals in one or all of her disciplines - 500m, 1500m and 1,000m - but in each she was penalised for racing infringements.
In the 500m final, she crossed the line second but was deemed to have caused an earlier collision. In her 1500m heat she came first but was ruled not to have crossed the proper finish line.
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And in the semi-final of the 1000m - her favourite event - Christie was judged to have impeded a Chinese athlete as they both fell over. Christie also had to endure online abuse, mainly from South Korean fans after an incident with one of their athletes in the 500m.
The only other Briton to reach a final was Jack Whelbourne, 22, but he crashed and hurt his ankle to finish last of the seven in the 1500m.
Others: Whelbourne - 27th in 500m, 21st in 1000m; Jon Eley (29) - 7th in 500m, 25th in 1000m; Richard Shoebridge (28) - 27th in 1000m; Charlotte Gilmartin (23) - 16th in 500m; 28th in 1500m.
Former Olympian and BBC short track commentator Wilf O'Reilly said: "The British team can fly home with their heads held high despite missing out on medals. They can feel proud that they've shown what short track is all about and how you cope with this rollercoaster sport.
"The International Skating Union and the technical committee need to start looking at how they can make the sport, from a rules point of view, more understandable. Everybody keeps asking why Elise Christie was disqualified and so few people know.
"If there is a penalty, the referee should announce it so the whole arena knows what it is, the commentators know and people at home know. Then it becomes far more interesting - you understand it.
"What's important now is we not only have funding for the future to support the high-performance programme, but create funding to improve the grassroots development of the sport."
Previous Olympic success: Gold: Amy Williams (2010), silver: Shelley Rudman (2006), bronze: David Carnegie (1928), John Crammond (1948), Alex Coomber (2002)
Funding to Sochi: £3,447,600
Performance Target: 1 medal Medals in Sochi: 1 (one gold)
On the day of my competition, I got my TV licence bill through on email. There is of course reality but there is beauty in reality because I can't wait to get back into the UK
Lizzy Yarnold followed up Amy Williams's success in Vancouver with victory in Sochi to keep the women's skeleton gold medal firmly in British hands.
The 25-year-old went into the Sochi Games as the clear favourite and her commanding performance maintained Britain's great tradition of winning a medal in every Games the skeleton has been contested - six in all.
Team-mate Shelley Rudman, 32, finished 16th in her third Olympics, while partner Kristan Bromley, 41, was eighth in his fourth Games and Dominic Parsons 10th on his Olympic debut.
BBC pundit and 2010 Olympic champion Amy Williams said: "Lizzy is living proof that the British skeleton performance programme works. By getting the right people involved, making the right decisions, working hard, with the best equipment and the right coaching, you can produce an Olympic champion. It's exciting that when we get back there will be another huge talent search to find the next batch.
"I don't have an answer as to why the men have not performed quite as well, historically, as the girls but there are some good young guys coming through and we've got to keep up the development, do the same things we did with Lizzy, and target four years' time."
Previous Olympic success: No medals (Alain Baxter's "bronze" in the 2002 slalom was rescinded for failing a drugs test)
Funding to Sochi: £0 for alpine, £1,509,950 for freestyle skiing and snowboarding.
Performance target: 1-2 medals Medals in Sochi: 1 (one bronze)
Freestyle skiing and snowboarding
The Sochi Games featured the new discipline of slopestyle, which was tipped as a possible source of British medals - and so it proved. Snowboarder Jenny Jones, 33, bagged Britain's first ever medal on snow with a bronze to kick start the GB medal haul.
In the men's event, 20-year-old Jamie Nicholls was sixth with team-mate Billy Morgan, 24, 10th.
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In the skiing equivalent, Britain's big hope James Woods, the 2012-13 World Cup winner, injured his hip in training and came fifth, while 18-year-old Katie Summerhayes was seventh. Zoe Gillings narrowly missed out on the snowboard cross final to place ninth.
Halfpipe skier Rowan Cheshire, 18, a World Cup winner this season, missed the competition after a training accident put her in hospital with concussion.
Others: Dom Harington (29) - 38th snowboard halfpipe; Ben Kilner (25) - 34th snowboard halfpipe; Emma Lonsdale (29) - 18th ski halfpipe; Murray Buchan (22) - 17th ski halfpipe; James Machon (23) - 23rd ski halfpipe.
BBC commentator Ed Leigh said: "In 2006, we had Zoe Gillings and Lesley McKenna representing GB. In two Olympic cycles we've gone to a medal and six top-10 finishes. It's unbelievable really. They have had a bit of funding but it's down the passion and the grassroots of the sport in the UK.
Hopefully I'll be in a few pub quizzes now
"On a personal level for Jenny it has been a really important achievement, but for British freestyle skiing and snowboarding it could be the starting block of some huge investment both from UK Sport and other sponsorship and the sport could explode in the UK.
"I'm very excited about the future. Woodsy is pretty disappointed, and is beating himself up, but the way he skied and what he managed to achieve with his hip injury was unbelievable."
Alpine skiing
With no lottery funding for alpine skiing in the wake of Vancouver, only two skiers were able to satisfy performance criteria and make it to Sochi.
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
Chemmy Alcott fought back from career-threatening double leg fracture in 2010 and a further break in 2013 to compete in her fourth Games. The 31-year-old finished 19th in downhill and 23rd in super-G. Dave Ryding, 27, fell foul of a devilish gate that caught out some of the world's best but recovered to finish 17th in the men's slalom.
Five-time Olympic skier and BBC commentator Graham Bell said: "We had two top-20 performances, but there should have been more skiers here. I don't think the selection policy reflected the ability we have in alpine skiing and we should have seen the likes of Dougie Crawford and TJ Baldwin representing us in men's downhill.
"They would certainly have been in the top half of the field which I thought was the BOA's rule of thumb for performance.
"In my opinion, alpine selection criteria needs to be looked at, and also the funding needs to be looked at because alpine is the feeder into a lot of the other sports and participation-wise it dwarfs freestyle skiing and snowboarding amongst junior athletes.
"So a good performance from Chemmy and Dave - but there should have been more of them."
The chairman of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) inquiry made the announcement during a preliminary hearing at Stormont, outlining its work.
Sir Patrick Coghlin said his inquiry will investigate failings in the scheme "wherever accountability may lie".
No time limit has been placed on the scheme to produce a conclusion, the retired Court of Appeal judge added.
He said he "will insist" that the inquiry has "complete independence" and it will carry out its work "without fear or favour and free from any external pressures".
The public and the media must understand that the inquiry is a "fact-finding exercise" and not an "adversarial trial", Sir Patrick said.
Statutory notices requiring production of documents have already been served on 125 bodies such as government departments.
Notices requiring witnesses statements have also been served.
The inquiry team expects to view hundreds of thousands of pages of documentation relating to the scheme.
Sir Patrick said another public session could be held in June, when further information about the inquiry timetable may be announced.
The green scheme was set up in 2012 to encourage businesses and other non-domestic users to move from using fossil fuels to renewable heating systems.
In what has been dubbed the "cash-for-ash" scandal, the flawed scheme meant users could legitimately earn more cash the more fuel they burned.
The inquiry was announced in January by the then finance minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir.
It was set up to investigate the design and operation of the scheme, which at one point had a projected overspend of £490m.
Cost controls have now been introduced for the current financial year.
The inquiry will consider the delay in implementing cost controls in 2015 and allegations of political pressure to keep the scheme open at a time when applications were flooding in and the projected costs were spiralling.
The fallout was cited as one of the reasons for Sinn Féin withdrawing from devolved government and forcing the recent Northern Ireland Assembly election.
The party has said it will not share power with Arlene Foster as Democratic Unionist Party leader until the inquiry has fully investigated her role.
Mrs Foster was the minister in charge of the former Department of Enterprise Trade and Investment, which ran the scheme.
She has said she expects to be vindicated.
Meanwhile, some recipients of the RHI subsidy have said cuts to tariff rates have had a significant impact on their business.
The changes were applied from April, but a usage cap means some people who borrowed tens of thousands of pounds to put in a boiler are receiving no subsidy payments and are struggling to repay the banks.
A group of about 500 boiler owners is going to court in an attempt to have the new reduced tariffs set aside.
They say they signed up to a government scheme in good faith and they had factored in the promised subsidy payments to bank loans.
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The 22-year-old was hurt colliding with Terriers goalkeeper Joe Murphy as Billy Sharp scored a late winner for the visitors on Saturday.
He was taken to hospital by air ambulance and kept in overnight for observation.
"Tommy Smith has been discharged and is now home," his club said.
"Huddersfield Town is looking forward to seeing him back in action once he gets the full all-clear!"
Following the collision Smith was treated for nine minutes before being given oxygen and leaving the field on a stretcher.
A Yorkshire Air Ambulance helicopter landed on the John Smith's Stadium pitch after the game to take Smith to Leeds General Infirmary.
After the match Huddersfield manager Chris Powell told BBC Radio Leeds he was "shocked" by the incident.
"He was in and out of consciousness for at least 10 minutes," he said.
Blues lost 38-53 against Worcester in a thrilling match which saw 13 tries and 91 points scored at Cardiff Arms Park.
The defeat means Cardiff Blues have lost all four of their Anglo-Welsh Cup games this season.
Meanwhile the Dragons were defeated 24-13 by Gloucester with neither side able to progress in the competition.
The move to start charging follows the introduction of a new national policy on policing commercial events.
The cost has still to be worked out but Police Scotland deny claims it will be as much as £250,000.
Edinburgh city council wants the charges delayed until after 2015.
Singer Lily Allen is to headline this year's Edinburgh's Hogmanay Concert in the Gardens.
The 29-year-old will play West Princes Street Gardens.
The Hogmanay celebrations are produced by two companies - Unique Events and Underbelly.
When Edinburgh council set the current budget in 2012, policing costs were not factored in.
Last year, more than 300 officers from across the east of Scotland policed the Princes Street event.
Chief Supt Mark Williams, this year's Police Gold Commander, said "We have been working with the City of Edinburgh Council and event organisers for some months to plan and deliver this year's Hogmanay celebrations.
"Part of that dialogue includes the charging arrangements.
"Planning is at an advanced stage and I am certain that all the agencies involved will work together to deliver a fantastic event."
The force told BBC Scotland the bill would be "far less" than the £250,000 figure being quoted by critics, but that the total had still to be worked out.
The new national force, Police Scotland, has introduced a single policy on charging for policing commercial events.
Previously, the old regional police forces had different approaches.
Police Scotland say they cannot absorb the costs of policing commercial events at the expense of the public purse.
In general, organisers should expect to be charged for the full policing costs.
Police say they will work with event organisers to find ways of minimising the costs - for instance, where private security firms are also being used by the organisers.
The number of officers deployed to the Princes Street party has reduced over time.
But with 85,000 party-goers likely to turn out, a considerable number would still be required to police the event.
Councillor Steve Cardownie, Edinburgh's festivals and events champion, said the council was working "hand in hand with both the local police and the event organisers".
He added: "Any decision on charging is for the Scottish Police Authority to take."
"I advise everyone to make sure they buy their tickets for this year's Hogmanay celebrations before the discount for residents runs out on 28 November.
"It is going to be the place to bring in the bells for 2015."
Developed over 15 years for rescue or military use, the $14m (£11m) Cormorant (formerly AirMule) can carry 500kg (1,100lb) at 185km/h (115mph).
Urban Aeronautics says internal rotors make it safer than a helicopter.
And as well as taking off and landing vertically, it can fly between buildings and below power lines.
"It paves the way forward for the evolution of Cormorant from prototype to near-term production and ultimately commercialisation of this groundbreaking technology - for broad applications and markets," said Urban Aeronautics chief executive Rafi Yoeli.
Commercial drones are becoming big business, with Amazon announcing Prime Air, a delivery-by-drone service, in the summer.
In June, another passenger drone - 184 and made by Chinese company Ehang - was given approval for test flights in Nevada.
Dr Mirko Kovac, director of the Aerial Robotics Lab at Imperial College London, said: "The proposed vehicle shows that there is a real potential for personal drones, not just for delivery and environmental sensing but also for transport.
"There still is a lot of technological work that needs to be developed to make such vehicles safe and easy to use, but if the project comes to the market it can disrupt the way humans move in cities and make fast travel through the air accessible to the masses."
Drone expert Ravi Vaidyanathan, from Imperial's department of mechanical engineering, added that the recent flight of the Israeli drone could be a "landmark" moment in low altitude navigation and initially targeting it for humanitarian rescue and military use is the right move.
"Finding a niche application and establishing a safety record is a good idea," he told the BBC.
But while drones for civilian use were likely to follow, not least because such vehicles could help solve issues such as lack of infrastructure and congestion, the timescale remained uncertain.
"There are are lot of regulatory hurdles such as where do you take off? Where do you land? What altitude do you fly at?" he said.
Twelve of the 20 two-bedroom flats in Ninehams Gardens are privately owned by leaseholders, with the other eight owned by Tandridge District Council.
The council said it would try to buy out the leaseholders and replace the flats - built in 1946 - with 35 homes.
The authority said structural surveys had shown that rebuilding was the "most cost-effective option".
Photographs and film footage of the national park will then be showcased online.
Spokesman Andrew Mitchell said he was "intrigued" to see how people had recorded their experiences.
Mr Mitchell said the material would complement the park's library, which includes photographs depicting school visits and bicycle racing.
"It's fun to review the images, but they also provide a fascinating record of how the natural landscape and how we interact with it has changed and stayed the same over the 60 years."
All images featured will be credited to the contributor.
Attractions within the park include the Cheviot Hills, Kielder Forest and Hadrian's Wall.
Material can be emailed to [email protected] or posted on Twitter and Instagram with the hashtag #NNP60.
The victim, in his 30s, was shot in Swancote Green, Bracknell after answering the door to two men in May.
Following an earlier trial at Reading Crown Court, Robert Connor, 37, of Victoria Avenue, Camberley was jailed for 18 years for attempted murder.
Michael Crook, 64 and Scott Kennedy, 29 were jailed for nine and seven years for their part in the attack.
Crook and Kennedy, both of Sturdee Close, Frimley had been found guilty of wounding and possession of a firearm.
The victim was treated in hospital after being shot and later released.
The discovery was made at about 15:30 local time on Saturday in Ardclough, a village south of Celbridge.
People walking along the Grand Canal spotted a suitcase in the water. When they looked closer at it they discovered there was a body in it.
The man is believed to have suffered a violent death and a murder investigation is under way.
Police believe the body was not there for more than a few days, and are appealing for witnesses who saw anything in the area between last Thursday and Saturday to come forward with information.
The area was cordoned off overnight ahead of the arrival of the state pathologist and the Garda (Irish police) Forensic Bureau.
The Garda underwater unit was also due at the scene on Sunday.
Prince William placed the wreath at the police memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
A hand-written note attached to the floral tribute read: "For PC Keith Palmer and all those who have served our community so valiantly; your legacy is our way of life. William."
He was at the site to officially open its £15.7m new Remembrance Centre.
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Prince William is a patron of the National Memorial Arboretum Appeal, which funded the construction of the centre, which opened in October 2016.
During his visit he met with veterans, volunteers and school pupils and also unveiled a commemorative plaque.
He also visited the centre's Landscapes of Life exhibition, which includes interactive activities and an audio guide for use around many of the site's memorials.
In the programme for the event, he wrote: "This is a place for special memories, many of them sad, but hopefully, many of them happy too.
"We all have an important job to do in keeping these memories alive for future generations and this new Remembrance Centre will play a significant role in that duty."
The 150-acre (61 hectare) site contains more than 330 memorials dedicated to all the armed forces, emergency services and civilians.
Large parts of health board and council budgets are being merged in a bid to cut bed-blocking and aid the transition to nursing home care or home care.
People with long-term conditions, disabilities and the elderly are expected to see the greatest benefit.
The Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act has been described as the most substantial reform to the NHS in a generation.
It forces councils and the NHS to work together to provide more streamlined services.
The two organisations have to decide which one of them is going to take the lead in decision-making, or delegate those decisions to a separate body.
There is some evidence that co-ordinating care can have a significant effect on the quality of life of frail older people and people with long-term conditions.
It is also associated with lower costs.
The Scottish government hopes it will ease the pressure on hospitals by speeding up the journey of patients.
In order to drive improvements, a new target is being set for delayed discharges.
From 1 April, no-one should wait more than 14 days to be discharged from hospital into more appropriate care. The current target is four weeks.
In March it was announced that health and social care partnerships would be piloted in 29 areas in England, although so far only Greater Manchester has gone as far pooling its entire health and care budget.
In Scotland, it is estimated that at least 60% of health board budgets and 72% of local authority social care budgets will be handed over to the new "integration authorities".
In Wales an "integrated care framework" was published by the government last year, promising closer working between local government, health, housing and the voluntary sector.
Northern Ireland has had an integrated health and social care system since the early 1970s with its five health and social care trusts.
The Highlands of Scotland have had merged health and social care budgets since 2012.
The NHS became the lead agency for adult care, while the council took over responsibility for children's services.
However, it has not proved a magic bullet. NHS Highland experienced difficulties with blocked beds this winter, which was blamed on a lack of care home places and support packages for elderly patients to return home.
Last year, just under 150, 000 people received some form of social care at home.
In addition there are 35,000 long-stay residents in care homes in Scotland and thousands of other people who use social care services because they have a disability.
SNP MP Alison Thewliss has written to the governor of Hawaii urging him not to scrap the Falls of Clyde.
Launched by Russell and Co, in 1878, it is thought to be the only surviving iron-hulled four-masted ship.
After it finished commercial service, Hawaii's maritime community saved it and opened it as a museum in 1971.
In 2008, after receiving an estimate of at least $30m (£24m) to restore the ship, the Bishop Museum issued a contract to remove all valuable items from the ship and to prepare it to be towed out to sea for scuttling.
Since then discussions between campaigners and the Bishop Museum have been ongoing on how to save the vessel.
Hawaii's department of transportation now wants the ship to be moved out of the port.
During service, the Falls of Clyde sailed under British, Hawaiian and United States flags and visited every continent except Antarctica.
Campaigners Friends of Falls of Clyde are trying to raise $1.5m (£1.2m) to dry dock the ship.
Ms Thewliss told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that tens of millions of pounds would be needed to refurbish the ship and to transport it to the UK.
She said: "I understand there has been interest from international shipping companies who might want to contribute to that.
"There's lots of opportunities for using the ship.
"We've seen with the Waverley and the Glenlee what interest there is with ships from the Clyde and the history of that."
She said it could also be used as a training venue.
Leader of the Opposition - Jeremy Corbyn
Deputy leader, party chair and shadow Cabinet Office minister - Tom Watson
Shadow first secretary of state, shadow business, innovation and skills secretary - Angela Eagle
Shadow chancellor - John McDonnell
Shadow chief Treasury secretary - Seema Malhotra
Shadow home secretary - Andy Burnham
Shadow foreign secretary - Hilary Benn
Opposition chief whip - Rosie Winterton
Shadow health secretary - Heidi Alexander
Shadow education secretary - Lucy Powell
Shadow work and pensions secretary - Owen Smith
Shadow defence secretary - Emily Thornberry
Shadow lord chancellor, shadow justice secretary - Lord Falconer of Thoroton
Shadow communities and local government secretary - Jon Trickett
Shadow energy and climate change secretary - Lisa Nandy
Shadow Commons leader - Chris Bryant
Shadow transport secretary - Lilian Greenwood
Shadow Northern Ireland secretary - Vernon Coaker
Shadow international development secretary - Diane Abbott
Shadow Scotland secretary - Ian Murray
Shadow Wales secretary - Nia Griffith
Shadow environment, food and rural affairs secretary - Kerry McCarthy
Shadow women and equalities minister - Kate Green
Shadow culture, media and sport secretary - Maria Eagle
Shadow young people and voter registration minister - Gloria De Piero
Shadow mental health minister - Luciana Berger
Shadow Lords leader - Baroness Smith of Basildon
Lords chief whip - Lord Bassam of Brighton
Shadow attorney general - Catherine McKinnell
Shadow minister without portfolio - Jonathan Ashworth
Shadow housing and planning minister - John Healey
Dr Stephen Monaghan of the British Medical Association (BMA) told the health committee that existing guidance on hospital food should be set in law.
He added that the Well-Being of Future Generations Bill was a "potential platform" for joint work on health.
But he warned that "many of the levers" on obesity, such as food advertising, were outside the assembly's control.
The health committee was taking evidence on Thursday on the re-introduced Public Health Bill, which includes plans to extend the smoking ban to some open-air public places, and tighten regulation on tattooists and piercing parlours.
Dr Monaghan said many people saw obesity as "the new smoking" as a determinant of health and "probably one of the biggest challenges we face".
Saying the BMA wanted to focus on things within the assembly's power, he highlighted the "early years setting" and care homes where healthy eating standards could be enforced.
"We've also suggested that the hospital in-patient nutritional standards could be placed on a statutory footing, not simply as guidance as they currently are," he added.
The Well-Being of Future Generations bill was a "potential platform" for public organisations to work together on obesity, Dr Monaghan said, "which individually might be small but collectively might amount to something meaningful".
"Many of the determinants of the big issue about carbon and climate change are very similar to the issues about obesity," he said.
"Things like public transport ... some of the things that would help with obesity are the same things that would help with reducing carbon."
Dr Rebecca Payne of the Royal College of General Practitioners said she would support the idea of measures to tackle obesity.
But she warned against adding more amendments to the bill, mindful of the row over e-cigarettes which led to the collapse of a previous public health bill in March.
"We want to see the bill go through this time, and are more concerned to get this bill on the statute books than have an absolutely perfect one which is then put at risk," she said.
The law requires people to use public toilets that correspond to the sex listed on their birth certificate.
It also invalidated several local anti-discrimination measures that protected gay and transgender people.
North Carolina announced on Monday it would sue the Justice Department over its attempt to nullify the law.
"What this law does is inflict further indignity on a population that has suffered far more than its fair share," Attorney General Loretta Lynch said of transgender people. "We see you, we stand with you, and we will do everything we can to protect you."
The law puts North Carolina in direct conflict with federal laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex and gender identity, said Ms Lynch.
"State-sanctioned discrimination never works and never looks good in hindsight."
The justice department is seeking a court order declaring the legislation, House Bill 2, "impermissibly discriminatory".
If the justice department wins the lawsuit, it would expand protections to transgender individuals under the federal Civil Rights Act.
North Carolina could lose funding for state universities if it upholds the legislation.
"I do not agree with their interpretation of federal law. That is why this morning I have asked a federal court to clarify what the law actually is,'' North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory said at a news conference on Monday.
He was responding to a letter from the Department of Justice asking that the state repeal or agree not to enforce the law.
"This is not a North Carolina issue. It is now a national issue," Mr McCrory said.
He said he hopes other states will join in to fight the justice department's argument that the Civil Rights Act ensures that transgender people may use toilet facilities matching their gender identities.
Supporters of the law say policies that allow transgender people to use toilets according to their gender identity increases the threat of sexual assault.
The Latics' hopes of remaining in the Championship are out of their hands and they will go down if Birmingham City avoid defeat by Aston Villa on Sunday.
In a quiet first half, Wigan almost broke the deadlock when Craig Morgan fired over the bar from close range.
Nick Powell could have given the hosts a vital three points but Rickie Lambert was on hand to block his shot.
The result leaves Wigan six points adrift of safety with two games still to play, but they will be relegated if 21st-placed Birmingham draw or beat city rivals Villa in their game in hand on Sunday.
Cardiff, on the other hand, remain in 13th place thanks to the draw, but their winless run on the road stretched to six league games.
Both sides struggled to gain a foothold in a tepid affair, with the first shot on target not coming until well after the hour mark.
Powell had scored five goals in his last three games but could not find the net on a day where Wigan desperately needed to win to have any chance of avoiding the drop.
Relegation for Wigan would see them drop down to League One after only one season in the Championship.
The Latics have been unable to recover from a poor start to the season which saw them take only five points from their first nine games.
Their form resulted in the departure of manager Gary Caldwell just five months after their promotion, but Warren Joyce's appointment failed to produce a turnaround, and he too was sacked in March, replaced on an interim basis by Graham Barrow.
Regardless of who has been in charge, Wigan have been unable to provide a consistent threat going forward, with Nick Powell their leading scorer with only six goals in an injury-hit campaign.
Northern Ireland international Will Grigg, League One's top scorer last season, has scored only five goals this term, while Omar Bogle has found the net just three times since his winter deadline day move from Grimsby.
Those struggles have contributed to the Latics having the second-worst goalscoring record in the division, managing a meagre 39 goals in 43 games.
Wigan interim manager Graham Barrow: "To be honest, the only thing I'm disappointed about is the result. That's probably as good a 90 minutes as we've played for quite a while. I think we've played well in spells, both since I've been in charge and all season. But certainly from start to finish, it was as good as we've played.
"If I'm being brutally honest, I thought we missed our opportunity in the first 20-25 minutes by not being that little bit more ruthless, That's the only thing I can fault about the performance.
"I've said all along I'd like to take it all the way. If we get the right result tomorrow we can take it to the second-last game of the season, which I think would be an achievement. I'm not trying to escape anything but, since I've been in charge, we've never been in charge of our own destiny. I wanted to get in control of that, but we haven't managed to do that."
Cardiff manager Neil Warnock: "It's incredible what they've done since I've been here [to climb above Wigan and away from trouble]. The lads have really knuckled down really well. It wasn't a pretty game but you can see the spine of the team is very good.
"If we can add a few goals and a bit more quality in certain areas I'm looking forward to a good season next year.
"I don't think anyone needs to be asking me what I'd like to get out of the next two games. Huddersfield are my old club and Newcastle are a team I'd love to beat, if I'm honest. Two wins out of two would be nice and we'll definitely be looking to finish like that."
Match ends, Wigan Athletic 0, Cardiff City 0.
Second Half ends, Wigan Athletic 0, Cardiff City 0.
Foul by Stephen Warnock (Wigan Athletic).
Anthony Pilkington (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dan Burn (Wigan Athletic).
Joe Bennett (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Matthew Connolly.
Greg Halford (Cardiff City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ryan Tunnicliffe (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Greg Halford (Cardiff City).
Attempt blocked. Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Greg Halford replaces Kadeem Harris.
Attempt saved. Ryan Colclough (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Reece Burke.
Nick Powell (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Ralls (Cardiff City).
Attempt blocked. Rickie Lambert (Cardiff City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ibrahim Meite.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Bruno Ecuele Manga.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Alex Bruce replaces David Perkins.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Ibrahim Meite replaces Craig Noone.
Nick Powell (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Craig Noone (Cardiff City).
Attempt blocked. Nick Powell (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is blocked.
Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Matthew Connolly (Cardiff City).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Nick Powell (Wigan Athletic) because of an injury.
Attempt blocked. Joe Ralls (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Craig Noone.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Matthew Connolly.
David Perkins (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Joe Ralls (Cardiff City).
Attempt missed. Aron Gunnarsson (Cardiff City) header from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Craig Noone with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Shaun MacDonald.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Craig Morgan.
Offside, Cardiff City. Sean Morrison tries a through ball, but Craig Noone is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Dan Burn (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Nick Powell (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Michael Jacobs with a cross.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Sean Morrison.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Ryan Colclough replaces Jamie Hanson.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Nick Powell replaces Gabriel Obertan.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
At least 26 bodies have so far been recovered from the village of El Cambray Dos, rescue services say.
Heavy rains swept a torrent of boulders and mud on to houses on Thursday, 15km (nine miles) east of Guatemala City.
Relatives have been receiving calls and texts from people trapped under the rubble, reporters at the scene say.
Survivors have been taken to makeshift shelters. Rescuers temporarily called off the search late on Friday because of heavy rains, AP news agency reports.
Julio Sanchez, a spokesman for Guatemala's volunteer firefighters, said 26 people had died, including a number of children, and another 36 people were taken to hospitals.
One man was pulled alive from the rubble more than 15 hours after the mudslide hit.
But Alejandro Maldonado, the head of the Guatemalan disaster agency, has warned that as many as 600 people could still be missing.
He said that a number of people were believed to be asleep in their homes when the mudslide occurred.
El Cambray is surrounded by steep hills that tower over the houses, which are mostly set in the valley bottom.
Mr Maldonado said in a radio interview that the forested hills had been weakening for some time and had collapsed largely because of recent heavy rain.
Team Sky's Thomas, second at the start of the day, finished over five minutes behind new race leader Quintana.
Fellow Brit Adam Yates, who started in third, was also involved in the crash.
"It's ridiculous and shouldn't happen," said Thomas, who will continue to race.
"It could have been a lot worse," added the 30-year-old. "We lost five minutes but I felt like I lost three or four of those on the side of the road.
"There are still stages to go for and we might still be able to move up into the top 10 or better."
The Welshman revealed his shoulder had "popped out" but later added: "I've had worse crashes. My shoulder is sore but it's nothing I can't deal with. There's a lot more racing to be had so we'll get stuck in."
Thomas will have an X-ray on Monday to "tick all the boxes" and make sure "everything is alright and then just rest up".
Colombian Quintana now leads the overall standings after a dominant display.
The Movistar rider finished 24 seconds ahead of Frenchman Thibaut Pinot and Dutchman Tom Dumoulin, to take the race lead from Luxembourg's Bob Jungels.
The 2014 winner attacked with six kilometres to go as the stage approached the summit of the steep Blockhaus climb and looked in a class of his own as he raced clear.
The police motorbike was stopped at the side of the road and Dutchman Wilco Kelderman was unable to avoid it, hitting the officer with his shoulder.
That caused him to swerve to his right into the Sky riders, who were in a line in the peloton, and resulted in the majority of the British team being brought down.
"I'm a bit angry at the minute," said Thomas, who has dropped to 17th in the standings, five minutes and 14 seconds behind Quintana.
"The bike had just stopped on the side of the road, we were all racing for position and someone in front of me hit it and we had nowhere to go, we all went straight down.
"I had felt good and then I crashed and my race was over, it is very disappointing."
Team Sky principal Sir Dave Brailsford told Eurosport: "A motorbike shouldn't have been there. I'm sure the guy who was riding the motorbike realises that too.
"We fight on. That's it."
Team Orica-Scott rider Yates, from Yorkshire, is now in 16th place, four minutes and 49 seconds off the leader.
There is a rest day on Monday, before Tuesday's stage 10, a 39.8km individual time trial from Foligno to Montefalco.
1. Nairo Quintana (Col/Movistar) 3hrs 44mins 51secs
2. Thibaut Pinot (Fra/FDJ) +24secs
3. Tom Dumoulin (Ned/Sunweb) same time
4. Bauke Mollema (Neds/Trek) +41secs
5. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita/Bahrain) +59secs
6. Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita/AG2R) +1min 16secs
7. Tanel Kangert (Est/Astana) +2mins 01secs
8. Ilnur Zakarin (Rus/Katusha) +2mins 20secs
1. Nairo Quintana (Col/Movistar) 42hrs 06mins 09secs
2. Thibaut Pinot (Fra/FDJ) +28secs
3. Tom Dumoulin (Ned/Sunweb) +30secs
4. Bauke Mollema (Ned/Trek) +51secs
5. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita/Bahrain) +1min 10secs
6. Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita/AG2R) +1min 28secs
7. Ilnur Zakarin (Rus/Katusha) +2mins 28secs
8. Davide Formolo (Ita/Cannondale) +2mins 45secs
9. Andrey Amador (Crc/Movistar) +2mins 53secs
10. Steven Kruijswijk (Ned/LottoNL) +3mins 06secs
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The Wales flanker has not played since sustaining the injury against Ulster in the Pro12 on 7 April.
"Today [Monday] I trained fully," Warburton said, adding: "That's all the boxes ticked, and now I can crack on."
Meanwhile, head coach Warren Gatland said he expects to lose between six and 10 players to injury on the tour.
The tourists have already lost England number eight Billy Vunipola because of a shoulder injury, while fellow countryman and scrum-half Ben Youngs withdrew from the Lions squad at the start of May after his brother's wife learned that she is terminally ill.
Wales hooker Ken Owens will miss Scarlets' Pro12 final against Munster on Saturday because of an ankle injury.
Ireland prop Jack McGrath is also a concern because of an arm injury, as are Wales scrum-half Rhys Webb (groin) and Ireland back-row Sean O'Brien (calf).
Despite the casualty list, Gatland seemed confident the injured players will be fit for the tour.
"I think we are pretty good," Gatland said. "The guys are making good progress."
However, with Lions players involved in end-of-season knock-out games and finals over the coming weekend, Gatland has planned for more injury blows before and during the tour.
"There could be a couple more next weekend as well and given the history of the Lions, we've planned to lose anywhere between six and 10 players," he said.
"I mean, that's just the attrition of past tours."
England back-rower James Haskell has replaced Vunipola and Cardiff Blues Warburton said: "Billy was one of the guys I was really looking forward to playing with who I hadn't played alongside before.
"He has been a massive player for Saracens. It is a big loss for us, but James [Haskell] coming in - I think only Rory Best and Alun Wyn Jones have got more caps [for their countries] than him in the squad - means we are very lucky."
Rocío Cortés Núñez, 25, had just given birth by Caesarian section in Seville's Our Lady of Valme hospital when the incident occurred on Sunday.
Her hospital trolley was being wheeled out of the lift when it began to rise with its doors open, leaving part of her body hanging outside.
Firefighters were called to rescue her but she could not be saved.
Some reports say her head was severed.
Ms Núñez had two other children, aged four and five, and her newborn daughter - who was with her at the time - was not harmed.
Her brother-in-law David Gaspar said that the family wanted to know why safety systems appeared to have failed. He added the accident was hard to believe.
Ms Núñez's husband, José Gaspar, said he was devastated by what had happened.
"This can't be so. Today it was Rocío but tomorrow it could be someone else," he told ABC Sevilla.
Regional health minister Marina Alvarez has opened an investigation but told reporters that the lift had passed safety tests earlier this month.
She called it a "rapid, unusual and tragic" accident.
A porter was reportedly moving Ms Núñez to a maternity ward when the doors on the lift they were in opened and closed a few times.
But as he attempted to wheel her out of the lift to try another one, it began to rise, trapping her.
Mr Rouhani and a former President, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, lead the race for the 88-member Assembly of Experts, which appoints Iran's Supreme Leader.
In parliament, reformists are on course to win almost all of Tehran's 30 seats, a major boost for the president.
The election was the first since a nuclear deal with world powers.
The outcome could affect Mr Rouhani's chances of re-election in 2017.
The twin vote was to elect the 290-seat parliament as well as the Assembly of Experts. The assembly might end up choosing a successor to Ayatollah Khamenei, who is 76 and has suffered ill-health.
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Early results gave Mr Rafsanjani, a moderate Conservative, and Mr Rouhani respectively the most votes for the assembly, which is composed of mostly elder and senior clerics.
By contrast, the leading candidate of Islamic hardliners, Ayatollah Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, was hovering near the bottom of the list.
For parliament, former Vice-President Mohammad Reza Araf was topping the list for the capital with almost half the votes counted there. The only conservative so far was former parliament speaker Gholamali Haddad-Adel, in seventh place.
The result is significant because lawmakers from the capital usually determine the political direction of the house, analysts say.
However they add that the picture may be more mixed in smaller towns across the country.
Mr Rouhani said the election gave the government more credibility and clout.
"The competition is over. It's time to open a new chapter in Iran's economic development based on domestic abilities and international opportunities," the official Irna news agency quoted him as saying.
"The people showed their power once again and gave more credibility and strength to their elected government."
Voting was extended three times on Friday as crowds reportedly flocked to polling stations. Turnout was more than 60%.
Reformists, who want better relations with the outside world and more freedoms at home, are hoping to gain influence in the conservative-dominated bodies.
But of 12,000 people who registered as candidates, only half were allowed to stand, including just 200 moderates.
The results of the parliamentary election could take longer to emerge than for the Assembly of Experts and the parliamentary vote is likely to go to a second round in April.
Candidates need 25% of the vote to win outright and there is an average of 17 candidates per seat. Elected MPs will serve four-year terms.
This was the first election to be held since last year's deal between Iran and world powers over the country's nuclear programme and the lifting of sanctions.
BBC Persian's Ali Hamedani says the economy was a key issue in the process.
With sanctions lifted and Western investors beginning to return to Iran, there are high hopes for an improvement in daily life, he says.
Reformists and moderates say they are targeting greater foreign investment which, our correspondent says, will create jobs for young people.
More than half of Iranians are under 35 but the youth unemployment rate is 25% - more than two and a half times the national average.
However, conservatives say strong economic growth is more likely to come from domestic production in what they describe as a "resistance economy" that draws on the ideals of the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution.
A new report by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) has found that automation in the next generation could transform the shape of the Australian workforce.
The tide of technological change can't be resisted, but should be seen as a boon for the economy, it is argued.
Robots and automation could eventually replace everything from some nursing and surgical jobs to meal preparation, driving and washing elderly patients.
In some parts of rural and regional Australia more than 60% of jobs could be lost, said CEDA Chief Executive Professor Stephen Martin.
"The pace of technological advancement in the last 20 years has been unprecedented and that pace is likely to continue for the next 20 years," he said.
A more radical suggestion proffered in the report is the idea that robots could "offer support for lonely people".
If that seems hard to believe, just 10 years ago no-one thought there would be a car that drove itself.
Google has now designed such a car, which has driven around California without any accidents - except when a human driving another car rear-ended the robotic vehicle.
That development alone could dramatically change the Australian workforce where about 25% of all jobs involve driving a car, van, or truck.
Other jobs that could disappear include cytologists who screen calls from patients for signs of cancer and any job that requires routine measurement or pattern recognition.
We might even start growing trees in particular shapes so that robots can pick the fruit.
Machine-learning algorithms are already taking a larger share of skilled jobs such as legal clerks, market research and sales, and credit-risk assessments.
It is vision of the future that isn't all shiny and bright.
The report concludes that while Australia is "uniquely placed" to benefit from digital disruption because of the strength of its service industry and education system, and its proximity to Asia's growing digital markets, Australia will only be able to successfully deal with the disruption technology will bring to the workplace if it is "embedded in the DNA of society".
The National Trust has asked for help to raise £300,000 towards the £500,000 needed to restore Powis Castle's eastern front.
It has been hidden behind locked gates since the trust took it over in 1952.
It is now closed off because it is unsafe and to prevent further damage.
The trust said repair work was urgently needed because damp was eroding the wall holding up the high terrace, which could soon affect the structural stability of the castle's east side.
Work is scheduled to begin in summer and it is hoped the necessary funds will be in place by 27 February.
With the score at 1-1, Inverness midfielder Ross Draper went down under defender Sviatchenko's challenge just outside Celtic's penalty area.
However, referee Don Robertson took no action against either player.
"The referees have got to be brave," Foran said. "It's quite blatant, it's there for everyone to see."
Celtic went 2-1 up shortly after the incident but Caley Thistle drew level again late on through Alex Fisher.
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"It was an obvious free-kick and then it's an obvious sending off," Foran told BBC Scotland.
"Ross has pushed the ball in front of the lad, he's got his body in the way, the player's took him down. I'm very disappointed with the decision, very, very disappointed."
Celtic counterpart Brendan Rodgers said: "I haven't seen it. Some people have said they've seen it seven or eight times and they're not sure."
The visitors took the lead through Tom Rogic's volley but Billy King's impressive strike levelled before Scott Sinclair continued his record of scoring in each of Celtic's Scottish Premiership matches so far this season.
Celtic - who beat Rangers 5-1 last week and then lost 7-0 to Barcelona in the Champions League on Tuesday - dominated the second half but could not get a third goal and eventually dropped league points for the first time this season.
"We should win that game fairly comfortably," said Rodgers. "It was on the back of a tough week, coming to a tough place. If we can't take the three points then one will have to do.
"Some of our movement, the tempo and the speed in which we attacked was brilliant, and I think you've got to credit the goalkeeper.
"The important thing was we were creating the opportunities and on another day we could have had another four or five goals."
Inverness keeper Owain Fon Williams made several impressive saves and Celtic also hit the goal frame on three occasions.
Fisher came off the bench to head in Greg Tansey's cross and secure the point that took Inverness off the bottom of the table.
"I told the boys at half-time we will get one more chance, believe it, we will get one more chance and we did," added Foran.
"The desire is there, the hunger is there, and there's still more to come from us, still more quality. When we do peak we're really going to punish some team, I really believe that."
The Scottish first minister joined her Welsh and Northern Irish counterparts in Downing Street for the talks with Theresa May.
But Ms Sturgeon said the discussions had left her no clearer about the UK government's thinking.
Downing Street has warned the leaders of the devolved administrations against "undermining" Brexit negotiations.
The prime minister's official spokesman said: "We have been very clear that we should be working together to secure the best possible deal for the whole country.
"We expect representatives of the devolved administrations to act in that way and to in no way undermine the UK's position."
Asked about calls for different parts of the UK to be able to opt in or out of the European single market, Downing Street said a united UK negotiating position was "vital to protect the UK's interest as a whole".
Ms Sturgeon and the Scottish government's Brexit minister, Michael Russell, spent about two hours inside Downing Street before emerging to answer questions from the media.
She told BBC Scotland: "We discussed the UK's negotiating position in general, but it is safe to say we got no more information or detail on that than we had before we went into the meeting, and I got the strong sense the UK government itself doesn't know what it is trying to achieve.
"That is why many parts of the meeting were deeply frustrating, because we felt as if we weren't getting any greater insight into the thinking of the UK government."
Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU in the referendum in June, while Wales, like England, voted to leave.
Ms Sturgeon and Welsh first minister Carwyn Jones have both called for votes on the Brexit strategy, saying Article 50 should not be triggered until there is an agreed approach.
The two first ministers have stressed their desire to see continued participation in the single market - a situation that could be at risk if the UK pursued a so-called "hard" approach to Brexit.
Ms Sturgeon has said she will bring forward specific proposals for a so-called flexible Brexit that would keep the nation in the single market even if the rest of the UK was not part of the trading agreement, in the next few weeks.
Downing Street is proposing that Brexit Secretary David Davis chair a new forum bringing together representatives from the devolved nations before the prime minister triggers Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, formally starting the two-year Brexit process, by the end of March next year.
Ms Sturgeon said discussions on Scotland being given a say in the Brexit negotiations were "slightly further forward".
She added: "We have still got a lot of work to do, and I think it is incumbent on the UK government to inform that work by being much more open about what they are trying to achieve.
"I am determined, for my part, to do everything I can to work within this process as far as I can to protect Scotland's interests.
"My frustration is that I am hearing warm words from the UK government, but not yet seeing those warm words backed up by substance or action."
Ms Sturgeon also said she was not prepared to sit back and "watch Scotland being driven off a hard Brexit cliff edge", because the implications for jobs, the economy and living standards were too serious.
She insisted she was determined to find a way of the EU referendum results in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland being respected.
And she said she was not "bluffing" about the possibility of a second independence referendum, adding: "If all we get from the UK government is the door getting closed in our face, then I am absolutely determined that Scotland shouldn't be taken off that hard Brexit cliff edge without at least having the opportunity to choose a better future."
Witnesses say some are now being used to terrorise other captives, and are even carrying out killings themselves.
The testimony cannot be verified but Amnesty International says other girls kidnapped by Boko Haram have been forced to fight.
Boko Haram has killed some 5,500 civilians in Nigeria since 2014.
Two-hundred-and-nineteen schoolgirls from Chibok, are still missing, more than a year after they were kidnapped from their school in northern Nigeria. Many of those seized are Christians.
Three women who claim they were held in the same camps as some of the Chibok girls have told the BBC's Panorama programme that some of them have been brainwashed and are now carrying out punishments on behalf of the militants.
Seventeen-year-old Miriam (not her real name) fled Boko Haram after being held for six months. She was forced to marry a militant, and is now pregnant with his child.
Recounting her first days in the camp she said: "They told to us get ready, that they were going to marry us off."
She and four others refused.
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"They came back with four men, they slit their throats in front of us. They then said that this will happen to any girl that refuses to get married,"
Faced with that choice, she agreed to marry, and was then repeatedly raped.
"There was so much pain," she said. "I was only there in body… I couldn't do anything about it."
While in captivity, Miriam described meeting some of the Chibok schoolgirls. She said they were kept in a separate house to the other captives.
"They told us: 'You women should learn from your husbands because they are giving their blood for the cause. We must also go to war for Allah.'"
She said the girls had been "brainwashed" and that she had witnessed some of them kill several men in her village.
"They were Christian men. They [the Boko Haram fighters] forced the Christians to lie down. Then the girls cut their throats."
It is not possible to independently verify Miriam's claims. But human rights group Amnesty International said their research also shows that some girls abducted by Boko Haram have been trained to fight.
"The abduction and brutalisation of young women and girls seems to be part of the modus operandi of Boko Haram," said Netsanet Belay, Africa director, research and advocacy at Amnesty International.
The Chibok schoolgirls have not been seen since last May when Boko Haram released a video of around 130 of them gathered together reciting the Koran. They looked terrified.
Amnesty International estimates more than 2,000 girls have been taken since the start of 2014. But it was the attack on the school in Chibok that sparked international outrage.
Michelle Obama made a rousing speech a few weeks after their abduction, demanding the girls' return.
Millions of people showed their support for the #bringbackourgirls campaign. The hashtag was shared more than five million times.
Boko Haram has been trying to establish an Islamic State in the region, but it has recently been pushed back by a military force from Nigeria and its neighbours. Hundreds of women and girls have managed to escape during these raids.
Anna, aged 60, is one of them. She fled a camp in the Sambisa forest in December where she was held for five months. She now sits beneath a tree close to the cathedral in the Adamawa state capital of Yola. Her only possessions are the clothes she ran away in.
She said she saw some of the Chibok schoolgirls just before she fled the forest.
"They had guns," she said.
When pressed on how she could be sure that it is was the Chibok schoolgirls that she'd seen, Anna said: "They [Boko Haram] didn't hide them. They told us: 'These are your teachers from Chibok.'
"They shared the girls out as teachers to teach different groups of women and girls to recite the Koran," Anna recalled.
"Young girls who couldn't recite were being flogged by the Chibok girls."
Like Miriam, Anna also said she had seen some of the Chibok schoolgirls commit murder.
"People were tied and laid down and the girls took it from there… The Chibok girls slit their throats," said Anna.
Anna said she felt no malice towards the girls she had seen taking part in the violence, only pity.
"It's not their fault they were forced to do it." she added. "Anyone who sees the Chibok girls has to feel sorry for them."
Exposing women to extreme violence seemed to be a strategy used by Boko Haram to strip them of their identity and humanity, so they could be forced to accept the militants' ideology.
Faith (not her real name) aged 16, who is Christian, described how Boko Haram fighters tried to force her to convert to their version of Islam.
"Every day at dawn they would come and throw water over us and order us to wake up and start praying."
"Then one day they brought in a man wearing uniform. They made us all line up and then said to me: 'Because you are always crying, you will must kill this man.'
"I was given the knife and ordered to cut his neck. I said I couldn't do it.
"They cut his throat in front of me. That's when I passed out."
Faith said she had seen at least one Chibok schoolgirl who had been married off to a Boko Haram militant during her four months in captivity.
"She was just like any of the Boko Haram wives," she explained. "We are more scared of the wives than the husbands."
With hundreds of women and children recently rescued from Boko Haram strongholds in the Sambisa forest, the Nigerian government has set up a programme to help escapees.
Many fled captivity, only to discover that some or all of their family members had been killed by Boko Haram. Others have been cast out from their communities, who now consider them "Boko Haram wives".
Dr Fatima Akilu is in charge of Nigeria's counter-violence and extremism programme. She is currently looking after around 300 of the recently rescued women and children.
"We have not seen signs of radicalisation," she told us. "But if it did occur we would not be surprised."
And she added: "In situations where people have been held, there have been lots of stories where they have identified with their captors."
Dr Akilu said beatings, torture, rape, forced marriages and pregnancies were common in Boko Haram camps.
"We have a team of imams… that are trained to look out for radical ideas and ideology.
"Recovery is going to be slow, it's going to be long… It's going to be bumpy."
As the hunt for the Chibok schoolgirls continues, and questions are raised about what state they will be in if they ever return home, those who have managed to escape are beginning the mammoth task of coming to terms with their experiences.
"I can't get the images out of my head," said Anna, breaking down in tears. "I see people being slaughtered. I just pray that the nightmares don't return."
For others, the nightmare is continuing every day. Miriam is expecting her baby any day now.
"I hope that the baby is a girl," she said. "I would love her more than any boy. I'm scared of having a boy."
Miriam's future is bleak. She is terrified her "husband" will find her and kill her for running away. Her community has also rejected her.
"People consider me an outcast," she said.
"They remind me that I have Boko Haram inside me."
Panorama: The Missing Stolen School Children is on BBC One at 20:30 BST on Monday 29 June and available later via iPlayer.
The 29-year-old all-rounder took over the captaincy from Glen Chapple this season but has only been able to play one County Championship match.
Last summer, Smith took more than 50 wickets in the Championship for the first time and hit 773 runs.
"This is a huge blow for Tom and for the club," said cricket director and head coach Ashley Giles.
"As club captain, Tom remains a very important part of the team and our season, and we look forward to him being able to start the journey to play after the operation."
England's director of cricket Andrew Strauss suggested there would be no impact on future selections for players who chose not to tour. I think that was a mistake because you cannot give guarantees in sport - who could possibly say what is going to happen?
But how can England even think of replacing Morgan as captain because of this decision, having said positions would not be compromised?
Morgan has followed his own course, with the assurance ringing in his ears that nothing is going to happen, and I don't see how they can now sack him.
There has been a lot of knee-jerk stuff about players not respecting the captain anymore but I don't think that is true.
All-rounder Ben Stokes has publicly backed him, and the players all know each other well and understand that different people have different views on things.
The England and Wales Cricket Board must have received assurances from at least 25 people - the whole Test squad, some one-day specialists, management, coaches, medical staff - and only two people have said 'no' to a tour that six weeks ago looked likely to be off because of that awful terrorist attack in Dhaka in July.
To get all those people on the plane is a pretty good effort.
There has been a lot written about Morgan that has been rather unpleasant. He's a quiet, insular fellow, not one of these gregarious types. He's quite calculating - as he is when batting - but the thought that he doesn't care about the team is just nonsense.
Two weeks ago he was being hailed from the rooftops when England won seven out of eight ODIs this summer and made the highest total in ODI history.
England have 14 scheduled ODIs before they begin their Champions Trophy campaign against Bangladesh at The Oval on 1 June. Are they going to ditch the captain who has just led them on one of their best runs?
In my 25 years with the BBC we have been on lots of tours that all start off like this - are they going to be on or off? We happen to go to some parts of the world that can be dangerous.
I understand the modern brand of terrorism is different but I also think the security is much more organised than it was.
England's security expert Reg Dickason has got a massive responsibility - not just to the players but to the media and the supporters. If you make a decision about somewhere being safe to travel, that is a go-ahead for everybody, but Dickason is very well connected, and a very, very thorough individual.
I trust him and am bound by what he says. I had a good chat with him before the last ODI at Cardiff where we went through it all and he told me what his information was, briefing me just as he would have briefed the players.
He was very keen that I hand his phone number round to my BBC colleagues - your partners can ring me, he said, if they want reassurance.
I listened to his information and felt comfortable. The broadcasting rights for the tour have still to be finalised but I am booked to fly there in time for the first Test match. My plans haven't changed.
It will be a strange experience no doubt. There will be armed personnel outside our hotel rooms, but that's the way it is done these days.
Alex Hales has given his Test place away. There were obviously no guarantees whether he would be picked after only one score above 24 against Pakistan and an average of 27 from his 11 Tests, but he is the one that stands to lose the most and I am surprised by his decision.
He has fought hard for his place and I've seen how hard he works.
There is always an outside chance that Hales could get his Test place back in India, depending on how his replacement fares in Bangladesh, but I think it is most unlikely.
Lancashire's 19-year-old opener Haseeb Hameed is the one everyone is talking about to replace him in Bangladesh. He's scored four Championship centuries this summer and has got a lot of promise - and Bangladesh is not a bad place to make your debut.
I think Jos Buttler will do very well as captain of the one-day team out there. I've had it in my mind for some time that he was potential captain material.
He's a very innovative cricketer who thinks a lot about the game, he's a decent bloke, the players like and respect him and he's obviously got a nous for one-day cricket.
The most important thing about one-day cricket is momentum and the object of this tour for England will be to keep that going.
Jonathan Agnew was speaking to BBC Sport's Jamie Lillywhite
The bosses of FTSE 100 companies now make on average £4.5m a year, down 17% from £5.4m in 2015, according to the High Pay Centre's research.
The think tank said the fall was welcome but "limited and very late".
It would take the average UK full-time worker on a salary of £28,000 160 years to earn the same amount, it added.
Stefan Stern, director of the High Pay Centre, said: "We have finally seen a fall in executive pay this year, in the context of political pressure and in the spotlight of hostile public opinion."
However, he added it was "so far, a one-off".
"We need to see continued efforts to restrain and reverse excess at the top."
The report said the pay ratio between FTSE 100 bosses and the average pay package of their employees had also fallen to 129:1 - meaning that for every £1 the average employee is paid, their chief executive gets £129.
In 2015 the ratio was 148:1.
The study also found that, "in contrast to the generous pay packages awarded at the higher levels", just over a quarter of top companies signed up to the voluntary living wage, which is higher than the minimum wage.
The research, which was carried out with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), also showed there were just six women in the top 100 chief executives, and they were paid on average £2.6m last year.
CIPD chief executive Peter Cheese said: "Our analysis also shows a clear gender pay disparity at the top, with female CEOs receiving less than their male peers.
"Quite rightly this issue of fairness is increasingly being called out and this needs to be addressed at all levels of businesses."
The report said one explanation for the fall in top bosses' pay was that "it has become hard for organisations to justify further growth in [chief executive] pay while the wage progression for the typical British worker has been so subdued".
Another was that politicians had become more interested in executive pay, with Theresa May criticising the "growing gap between rewards for those at the top and those who were just about managing".
The report also questioned whether the government would now "devote all its energy on Brexit".
"Our concern is that if the government vacates this space [chief executive] remuneration will accelerate once more," it said.
"Therefore we want to see Theresa May stick to her guns and introduce a bill to reform executive pay before the year end."
But whatever the government does, the report advises firms to adopt the use of pay ratios showing the difference in earnings between the chief executive and average employees.
It said these "should not be seen as a threat or punishment but rather as a mechanism to bring about greater fairness and transparency at work, and avoid the demotivating effects of unjustified wage gaps".
The employers' organisation, the CBI, said: "Where pay does not match performance, business leaders can appear detached from society and not committed to fairness.
"Recent changes in executive pay growth show the vast majority of firms have taken this message on board."
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The visiting defender miscued an attempted clearance into his own net shortly after the interval.
Watford, who made six changes, just about deserved victory, with Miguel Britos and Almen Abdi going close and Etienne Capoue having a goal ruled out.
Leeds' best moment came when Stuart Dallas curled a low effort wide.
But it was a largely disappointing display from the Yorkshire side, who have not made the last eight of the FA Cup since 2003.
Although they were limited in attack, Leeds had defended stoutly for 53 minutes - restricting Watford to just one shot on target - and the match looked to be petering out to an inevitable replay.
But that was before Wootton's inexplicable intervention.
Ben Watson's cross had eluded everyone and was curling harmlessly out of danger when Wootton - playing out of position at right-back - attempted to touch it behind and instead succeeded only in slicing it comically into his own net.
The 24-year-old was visibly distraught, burying his head in his hands and having to be consoled by team-mate Giuseppe Bellusci, and manager Steve Evans said after the match it was "probably the lowest point of Wootton's life".
With Leeds toothless going forward, the former Manchester United youngster's error was always likely to prove decisive.
Hornets boss Quique Sanchez Flores handed an opportunity to several of his reserve players, with striker Nordin Amrabat and midfielder Mario Suarez - signed in January for £6m and £4m respectively - among those brought in.
But the new players failed to catch the eye, with Moroccan international Amrabat having just one shot and 28 touches - 26 fewer than any other Watford outfield starter.
Suarez was scarcely more impressive in the centre of the park - winning only 40% of his duels - while goalkeeper Costel Pantilimon, replacing Heurelho Gomes, barely had a save to make.
Instead, it was regular midfielders Ben Watson and Capoue - who saw a goal chalked off for an off-the-ball push by Troy Deeney - who were by far Watford's most impressive performers.
Watford manager Quique Sanchez Flores: "To win the match is the most important thing for us, and to avoid a replay for us. We were better in the second half than the first half. We took control with the ball and we had more attempts."
Flores on midfielder Suarez and striker Amrabat, handed rare starts: "They are completely ready to be protagonists in the team, they are very important players."
Leeds manager Steve Evans: "I think the performance was good. It was the cruellest way ever to go out of the FA Cup - it was a terrible goal to concede. We dominated the quality of the play until half-time. If you came here in the first half, you'd have thought Leeds United were the Premier League team.
"Scott Wootton's in tears, he's apologised to every member of staff and he'll not sleep for days.
"The time wasting [by Watford] was like something you'd see abroad, you don't want to see that in English football."
Both sides return to league action: Watford take on Bournemouth on Saturday, while Leeds host Fulham on Tuesday.
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Match ends, Watford 1, Leeds United 0.
Second Half ends, Watford 1, Leeds United 0.
Offside, Leeds United. Souleymane Doukara tries a through ball, but Lee Erwin is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Souleymane Doukara (Leeds United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Ben Watson (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Troy Deeney.
Odion Ighalo (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Scott Wootton (Leeds United).
Attempt missed. Giuseppe Bellusci (Leeds United) right footed shot from more than 35 yards misses to the right. Assisted by Liam Bridcutt.
Offside, Leeds United. Giuseppe Bellusci tries a through ball, but Souleymane Doukara is caught offside.
Substitution, Watford. Ikechi Anya replaces Etienne Capoue.
Offside, Watford. Craig Cathcart tries a through ball, but Odion Ighalo is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Souleymane Doukara (Leeds United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Scott Wootton.
Etienne Capoue (Watford) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Sol Bamba (Leeds United).
Substitution, Leeds United. Jordan Botaka replaces Toumani Diagouraga.
Attempt missed. Etienne Capoue (Watford) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Troy Deeney following a fast break.
Substitution, Leeds United. Lee Erwin replaces Mirco Antenucci.
Offside, Leeds United. Scott Wootton tries a through ball, but Alex Mowatt is caught offside.
Foul by Troy Deeney (Watford).
Toumani Diagouraga (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. José Holebas (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Miguel Britos.
Offside, Watford. Ben Watson tries a through ball, but Odion Ighalo is caught offside.
Substitution, Watford. Adlène Guédioura replaces Almen Abdi.
Foul by Troy Deeney (Watford).
Giuseppe Bellusci (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Watford. Troy Deeney tries a through ball, but Odion Ighalo is caught offside.
Foul by Miguel Britos (Watford).
Mirco Antenucci (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Leeds United. Giuseppe Bellusci tries a through ball, but Mirco Antenucci is caught offside.
Foul by Etienne Capoue (Watford).
Liam Bridcutt (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mario Suárez (Watford).
Mirco Antenucci (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by José Holebas.
Substitution, Watford. Odion Ighalo replaces Nordin Amrabat.
Craig Cathcart (Watford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Craig Cathcart (Watford).
Lewis Cook (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Liam Bridcutt (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Toumani Diagouraga.
Attempt missed. Craig Cathcart (Watford) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Ben Watson with a cross following a corner.
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Analysis shows a typical list of 12 items would come to £64.25 to cater for six people.
That works out at a cost of £10.71 per person compared with £9.41 in 2015.
Separate research by Good Housekeeping found shoppers could get a bargain on Christmas food if they were prepared to shop around.
Prices were affected by uncertainty caused by the UK's Brexit vote to leave the European Union, as well as normal economic forces as markets readjust following several years of deflation, analysts said.
Analysis by the BBC's England data unit, using figures provided by mySupermarket, found average prices for turkeys, red wine, potatoes and sprouts have all risen above inflation.
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And figures show the cost of a box of crackers has gone up 41% since 2015 with an average box costing about £10.90, compared with £7.73 a year earlier.
Isn't Christmas meant to be getting cheaper?
The cost of a Christmas dinner is really all about how much shoppers are prepared to pay.
Figures from Good Housekeeping suggest it is possible to feed 8 people for under £20, or £2.48 a head if people shop around and get, for example, their turkey from Asda, sprouts from Aldi, mince pies from Lidl and Christmas cake from Iceland. The magazine says the prices of different Christmas dinner essentials are now 10.8% down since 2009.
However, consumer director Caroline Bloor says the overall cost reduction is down to the big discounters such as Aldi and Lidl. Its figures also look at the cheapest possible options.
The figures from mySupermarket do not take into account discount supermarkets such as Aldi or Iceland but concentrate on the bigger stores, the likes of Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons, who are still seen as controlling the UK shopping scene. Their trolley of goods is also based on averages across different stores and categories of products, rather than shopping around.
Experts said people would find the overall cost of Christmas "stable" thanks to a price war between supermarkets resulting in discounts on other items.
Separate analysis by commodity data expert Mintec found weaker Sterling rates had pushed up the price of raisins, butter and milk, all of which added to a rise in the cost of a Christmas pudding.
Quantities are based on those recommended by BBC Good Food except for Christmas pudding, which is a standard size in supermarkets, and wine, which was based on having enough to give everyone two 125ml glasses.
Despite the rise, sprouts have not reached the peak experienced in 2010 when a hard frost resulted in a shortage and sent prices soaring to £9.56 a kilogram. And the overall cost of dinner is still cheaper than that year, when the same goods would have come to more than £77.
Gilhad Simhony, chief executive of mySupermarket said: "Despite Brexit, inflation worries and other current affairs it looks like the price war between supermarkets is keeping the cost of Christmas stable.
"Many items have risen in price beyond inflation expectations, but shoppers are still able to make a saving on their Christmas basket by taking advantage of offers and the fierce competition between retailers."
There were warnings that retailers may hike prices in January as they had been left with little "wiggle room" following the fall in the value of sterling.
Steven Dresser, analyst at Grocery Insight, said: "Since the EU referendum there's been a lot of uncertainty and that doesn't help anyone. The value of sterling has fallen, which makes imported goods more expensive.
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"We're also coming out of a period of deflation, with prices having come down since 2012.
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