document
stringlengths 0
78.8k
| summary
stringlengths 1
333
| id
stringlengths 8
8
|
|---|---|---|
Russell was instrumental in their 46-10 demolition of Scarlets, scoring two tries and 21 points in an eighth straight win for the champions.
"It's definitely the goal of ours to get a home semi-final," Russell said after their biggest away win this term.
"If we play like we did today, keep building on the momentum that we've got, we'll hopefully get it."
Wing Lee Jones also bagged a brace of tries, with scrum-half Henry Pyrgos, centre Mark Bennett and wing Tommy Seymour also crossing as Glasgow ran riot in Llanelli.
The win keeps Warriors breathing down the necks of Leinster and Connacht - who beat Munster on Saturday - at the top of the table, and Russell believes the momentum is with his side.
"Six weeks ago we were mid-table with a couple of games in hand," the Scotland fly-half told BBC Scotland.
"I think beating Leinster and then beating Zebre was a big help for us. Getting a couple of bonus points over in Italy over the last couple of weeks, and then today, the home semi-final is definitely reachable. It's in our hands I'd say."
Head coach Gregor Townsend agrees that Glasgow are now in control of their own destiny with two matches of the regular season left, at home to Zebre on 29 April before finishing with a trip to Connacht on 7 May.
"If we do win next week it probably gets us there (into the play-offs)," Townsend said.
"It'll be down to that Connacht game whether we get a home semi-final or not. We know Connacht is going to be a really tough game.
"The fact we've hit form is really pleasing for us as coaches. We know we've created an opportunity now and it's up to us to take it."
Townsend was effusive in his praise for man-of-the-match Russell, who excelled on his return to the side.
''Finn was in the zone today," he added. "His first try is a touch of class. To notice that there's nobody in behind, and to then actually have the conviction, the courage to go for that chip and execute it really well was fantastic. He played well throughout.
"I thought he defended very well. He had some big tackles which really helped us. It was great to see him in form." | Finn Russell says a top-two finish must now be the aim for Glasgow Warriors to guarantee a home Pro12 semi-final. | 36065284 |
The total includes a $203m fine after UBS pleaded guilty to the charge it rigged Libor benchmark interest rates.
US and UK authorities are expected to hand out penalties to major banks totalling about $5bn related to the foreign exchange investigation.
Details of these settlements are expected to be announced later. | Swiss bank UBS has paid US authorities a total of $545m (£352m) to settle an investigation into the manipulation of foreign exchange rates. | 32807864 |
Both sides spurned plenty of good openings, before the former Dagenham winger struck decisively in the closing seconds.
Nicky Bailey headed over after five minutes for the visitors and Matt Tubbs fired wide following a scramble from a corner.
George Porter missed two good chances for the hosts in the closing stages of the first half, firing over Blair Turgott's pass and missing the target from David Martin's cross.
Adam Cunnington fired wide from Turgott's cross, and winger Turgott was then denied by Ross Worner.
Alan Julian made a good save at the other end and Bradley Goldberg missed a great chance late on as he fired wide.
The game appeared destined for a draw until Dennis struck in injury time.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Bromley 1, Sutton United 0.
Second Half ends, Bromley 1, Sutton United 0.
Goal! Bromley 1, Sutton United 0. Louis Dennis (Bromley).
Adam Cunnington (Bromley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Nicky Bailey (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Sutton United. Maxime Biamou replaces Bradley Hudson-Odoi.
Substitution, Sutton United. Dan Fitchett replaces Matt Tubbs.
Substitution, Bromley. Bradley Goldberg replaces George Porter.
Substitution, Sutton United. Gomis replaces Craig Dundas.
Simon Downer (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Bromley. Louis Dennis replaces Dave Martin.
Connor Dymond (Bromley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Second Half begins Bromley 0, Sutton United 0.
First Half ends, Bromley 0, Sutton United 0.
Craig Dundas (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Louis Dennis fired a stoppage-time winner as Bromley beat Sutton United 1-0 in the National League. | 38361265 |
Anna Lewis, 27, had been seen on CCTV leaving her work placement at Southmead Hospital on Thursday 13 April.
Avon and Somerset Police said she walked into a police station in North Devon on Wednesday afternoon, and was "safe and well".
Previously police said they were "growing concerned for her welfare" and the disappearance was out of character.
Ms Lewis was reported missing by her family last Friday and specialist police teams began searching areas in north and central Bristol on Tuesday. | A student nurse who was reported missing after she was last seen leaving a hospital, has been found. | 39721662 |
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue service was called after the dog was spotted on Long Row, Llanelli.
A crew used a 10ft (3m) ladder to bring it down safely.
It is not clear how the dog got there, but firefighters said it was safe and well after being rescued at about 20:20 BST on Monday. | An adventurous dog caused a bit of a stir after getting stuck on the roof of a house in Carmarthenshire. | 40421930 |
The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) has taken blood and urine samples from the boxer, who has denied the charges.
On Wednesday night, Punjab police arrested the boxer's sparring partner, Ram Singh.
Vijender Singh was questioned last month after police seized 26kg (57lbs) of heroin from a flat in Mohali.
Fifteen people, including a Canada-based Indian, were held in connection with the drug haul, believed to have a street value of 1.3bn rupees ($24m; £16m).
One of the arrested men allegedly said he had sold drugs to the boxer.
The boxer had refused to take a dope test ever since the scandal broke, but finally agreed to give samples on Wednesday.
"The blood and urine samples of Vijender and other boxers have been taken," Sports Minister Jitendra Singh said late on Wednesday.
"I will wait for the results before deciding on any action. I don't want to speculate. But even if Vijender has made a mistake, he should of course be punished or penalised, but after that his rehabilitation should start," the minister said.
Meanwhile, Punjab police on Wednesday night said the boxer's sparring partner, Ram Singh, had been arrested "for custodial interrogation".
They said they had recovered 5kg of a party drug from the home of one of his relatives at the weekend.
A few days ago, the police said in a statement that investigations had revealed that Vijender Singh "had consumed heroin about 12 times and Ram Singh about five times" between last December and February.
The police also said that the boxer had spoken on the phone a number of times to a man described as the main suspect, said to be based in Canada.
Vijender Singh became a national hero when he won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
He also represented India at the London Games, although he did not win a medal.
The boxer has endorsed big brand names and makes regular appearances on reality television shows and at Bollywood parties.
He has also been awarded India's highest sporting honour, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, | India's Olympics medal-winning boxer Vijender Singh has taken a dope test after charges that he took heroin procured from alleged smugglers. | 22023422 |
It is Friday afternoon and children around the age of 12 are gathered in the computer lab of a public school in Itatiba, a small town an hour away from Sao Paulo.
Class time is already over for the week, but these students have chosen to stay in school for extracurricular activities.
They are learning Scratch, a piece of software developed by MIT experts that aims to teach kids how to code.
Most public schools in Brazil don't have computer coding in their curriculum. In fact, most schools are struggling to get kids to learn the basics, such as maths and Portuguese, as Brazil ranks among the worst countries in the world in school exams.
Students and staff in Itatiba have little interest in Formula 1. But much of what is going on in the classroom is part of the legacy of legendary driver Ayrton Senna, killed in a tragic accident during the San Marino Grand Prix on 1 May 1994.
The coding class is a project run by the Ayrton Senna Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that was founded by Ayrton's sister Viviane a few months after his death.
Most of the money for the Foundation comes from managing Senna's brand and legacy.
Ayrton Senna is still one of the most valuable sporting brands in the world.
In the past five years, the foundation drew in about 1bn Brazilian reais (£250m; $320m) for the NGO.
And it's all a family affair. While Viviane is the CEO of the foundation, her daughter Bianca is head of branding.
The foundation uses the money it raises to fund ambitious educational projects, which are today its core business.
"Usually companies have a philanthropic arm that helps society with social projects. We are the other way around. We are the only NGO I know that has a sports branding company inside it," says Bianca.
Ayrton Senna is still a goldmine in terms of marketing.
The strongest markets for Senna products are Brazil, the UK and Italy.
Research conducted in 2015 by the Boston Consulting Group suggests Senna is in the same league as tennis superstar Roger Federer and basketball legend Michael Jordan in terms of product endorsement potential.
Another survey of Brazilian athletes who competed in last year's Rio Olympics - many of them too young to have seen Senna race - ranked him as their biggest source of inspiration, above past and present idols such as Neymar and Pele.
The foundation does its best to fully explore the marketing potential, licensing hundreds of products with Senna's face and name on it.
It caters for two groups of consumers. The first are Formula 1 fans who buy products such as books, DVDs, helmets and collectible souvenirs.
And then there are products for the general public who may not necessarily enjoy racing, but like Senna for his charisma and values. These include toys and comic books for children and a food line of ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise.
Marketing specialist Marcos Machado, from TopBrands Consultancy, says Senna's tragic death while at the top of his game crystallised his image in the eyes of the public as a winner.
Most sports stars eventually lose their appeal when they get older and retire. Some devalue their own brands by getting involved in scandals - think Ryan Lochte and Tiger Woods.
"If you consider Senna as a brand, I don't think he has many competitors," says Machado.
F1's greatest drivers: Ayrton Senna
One of the brand's strengths is that virtually all money from licensing goes to charity, not profit.
Education is the foundation's core business. Over the past two decades, it has become one of the biggest NGOs in Brazil, helping 1.9 million children and training 60,000 teachers per year.
It invests heavily in research to come up with what Viviane Senna calls "vaccines" - smart solutions that can be applied to many schools with low costs.
Last year it achieved one of its greatest successes in Colegio Chico Anysio, a public school in Rio de Janeiro with students from low-income families.
The institute revamped the curriculum, training students in social and emotional skills such as resilience, discipline and determination, instead of focusing solely on traditional subjects, such as maths and languages. It even came up with special metrics to identify these skills.
And in the national students' exam, Colegio Chico Anysio was ranked the fifth best school for its income level.
This year the institute is applying its "vaccine" to 20 other schools in the south of Brazil.
Its work does not come without criticism, though.
Teachers' unions complain that social and emotional skills are personal traits - not skills to be measured - and that the foundation sees schools and teachers too much as enterprises.
Viviane Senna disagrees.
"If someone from the 19th Century travelled to our time, he wouldn't see any difference in classrooms. But the rest of the world has been through a technological and scientific revolution.
"And it's not just about bringing tablets and mobiles into students' hands. It's about giving them social and emotional skills to face our world."
Despite some successes, Brazil's level of education has been slipping recently in the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) global rankings.
Brazil has 50 million children in school, aged between six and 16. Only one in five end up graduating from high school. All others are lost along the way.
The future is fraught with challenges for the foundation. All the work it does with schools needs to be approved by state and city governments, but public finances are collapsing in Brazil thanks to the recession.
On the branding front, it must keep the interest in Senna's name alive, a task that is likely to get harder as years go by.
"The foundation has done outstanding work. And interest in Senna can be sustained, but not forever," says Mr Machado.
"We have to be realistic. One day, Senna is going to be more of a distant memory than a real idol for young generations. You can keep his name alive, but not forever."
On the racetrack, Ayrton Senna made a name for himself as a driver who could do things that seemed impossible. The foundation that now carries his name is trying to live up to that legacy. | Twenty-three years after his death, former Formula 1 world champion Ayrton Senna's name is almost as valuable as when he was alive - and it is making a difference in his home country of Brazil. | 39640707 |
The 25-year-old's score was England's second highest in ODIs, in a total of 366-4 batting first at Taunton.
Katherine Brunt picked up five wickets and Anya Shrubsole (2-20) and Laura Marsh (3-29) helped dismiss Pakistan for 164 in the 45th over.
England have clinched the ODI series 3-0, with three Twenty20s to come.
Beaumont's innings was the joint-fourth highest ODI score in women's cricket history and only five short of Charlotte Edwards' effort from 1997 on the all-time England list.
She hit 20 fours in her 144-ball innings, and shared two century stands - 166 with Georgia Elwiss (77) and 119 with Natalie Sciver (48).
The Kent batter had scored her maiden ODI century in the record-breaking second game at Worcester, where the shorter boundaries had made aggressive scoring easy.
At Taunton, Beaumont failed to hit a six, but showed plenty of variety in her boundaries, including reverse-sweeping the Pakistan spinners on several occasions.
In this ODI series, Beaumont's scores read 70, 104, and 168 not out.
Their latest defeat saw Pakistan's fielding let them down again. They spilled numerous catches off Beaumont and Elwiss, and gave away several avoidable boundaries - but the hosts had their moments to forget as well.
England dropped a couple of catches at the start of the tourists' innings, Lauren Winfield and captain Heather Knight the culprits, both off Brunt's bowling.
The ground fielding also dipped in quality, allowing Pakistan to provide some resistance with the bat, and much like the second ODI, England had to wait until late in the run chase to confirm the victory.
Brunt was rewarded for her efforts with wickets in successive 43rd-over deliveries, and fittingly finished off proceedings with her fifth victim.
England captain Heather Knight: "Captaincy is easy when the girls play like that! The pleasing thing is how many different people have stood up and contributed. It's exciting cricket to watch and hopefully it will be the same going forward.
"There was a lot of change and talk about our batting order and I can't be more pleased how we responded. It was different tactics with bigger boundaries and we adapted well.
"Katherine Brunt bowled well and cleaned up the tail, and Laura Marsh did well too. Laura reads the game superbly and changes her pace up smartly as well."
Pakistan captain Sana Mir: "All credit to England for the way they have played throughout the series. If you're not on target, you will be punished. We knew the England bowlers are pretty good. It was difficult for us to chase such a big total and it was important for us to bat 50 overs, which we've been unable to do.
"We've not been able to play a lot of one-day cricket. We're more into T20 and hopefully we can take the positives out of this series and play well in the T20s." | Tammy Beaumont smashed 168 not out as England beat Pakistan by 202 runs in the third one-day international to complete a series whitewash. | 36643565 |
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. | Northern Ireland cannot maintain any kind of special status within the EU after the UK withdraws from the union, Theresa Villiers has said. | 36653270 |
Ms Koch-Mehrin, aged 40, also stepped down from the board of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP).
The University of Heidelberg is re-examining Ms Koch-Mehrin's academic work on currency unions.
In March, German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg was forced to quit over plagiarism charges.
Mr Guttenberg, a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), was also stripped of his PhD by the University of Bayreuth.
On Wednesday, Ms Koch-Mehrin said in a statement that she also resigned as chairwoman of the FDP in the European parliament.
"I hope to make it easier for my party to make a fresh start with a new leadership team," she said.
The move comes after an investigative website - VroniPlag Wiki - raised doubts about the liberal politician's 2001 thesis, called Historical Currency Unions between the Economy and Politics.
Ms Koch-Mehrin allegedly failed to source the 227-page document properly.
She has not publicly commented on the allegations.
The resignation is seen by some German analysts as a fresh blow to the FDP - the junior party in Mrs Merkel's coalition - which is trying to recover from plunging popularity ratings.
Last month, party leader Guido Westerwelle was forced to step aside. A new head is expected to be chosen later this week. | Germany's Silvana Koch-Mehrin has resigned as a vice-president of the European Parliament, after claims that she plagiarised her university thesis. | 13369608 |
The autoimmune disease, triggered by a reaction to gluten - found in wheat, barley and rye - can cause severe symptoms.
It is treated by following a lifelong gluten-free diet.
Experts say they believe the increase is due to better diagnosis, rather than more people developing the condition.
Left untreated, coeliac disease can lead to infertility, osteoporosis and bowel cancer.
The University of Nottingham research, published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology and funded by the patient groups Coeliac UK and CORE, looked at the GP data from 1990 to 2011 to see how many cases had been diagnosed.
It found the rate increased from 5.2 per 100,000 in 1990 to 19.1 per 100,000 in 2011.
Previous studies have suggested around 1% of the population would test positive for the condition - but the data from this study suggests only 0.25% are diagnosed.
Coeliac UK say this means many are unaware they have the condition.
Sarah Sleet, the charity's chief executive, said: "Of course, increasing numbers with a diagnosis is good news and will inevitably mean there will be an increased demand for gluten-free products in supermarkets.
"But the three-quarters undiagnosed is around 500,000 people - a shocking statistic that needs urgent action."
Diagnosis rates vary by area, with a higher incidence in more affluent places.
The researchers suggest this is probably down to differences in diagnostic rates and not down to more people actually having the condition in particular areas.
Joe West at the University of Nottingham led the study. He said: "The study shows something has obviously changed in the last two decades and what I think is more likely is that we've got better at diagnosing coeliac disease.
"We now have better, and more available, tests."
Dr Anthon Emmanuel, consultant gastroenterologist at UCL, said: "This [increase] is a diagnostic phenomenon, not an incidence phenomenon. It is exactly what we had anticipated."
He said testing for the disease had got much easier in recent years, and was now a simple blood test rather than the "palaver" of the more intrusive test used previously.
Sarah Sleet added: "We were hoping diagnosis rates had gone up, as they were appallingly low.
"There has been increased public awareness in the past 20 years, and we have been working with professionals to develop frontline testing which is easier to use and cheap." | The number of people diagnosed in the UK with coeliac disease has increased fourfold between 1990 and 2011, a study suggests. | 27339919 |
The Gunners missed out on a place in the Champions League for the first time in 20 years after finishing fifth.
Arsenal face Chelsea at Wembley on Saturday (17:30 BST), with the Blues aiming for a league and cup Double.
"In football, winning trophies is what it is all about," said the midfielder.
"The season has been an odd one and if you look at the table, we finished on 75 points. In other years, that might have left us in a different situation.
"Times change and you have to move forward with the other top teams. We have failed to do that in the league and that is why we missed out on the top four.
"We wanted to finish higher up in the league, there is no doubting that. We cannot hide from that and we need to own up to that.
"The FA Cup is a big trophy, one we want to win and which would definitely boost morale going into next season."
The north London side's season has been beset by fans calling for manager Arsene Wenger to end his long association with the club.
The Frenchman has been with the Gunners since 1996 and said on Wednesday he "does not know" if the match against Chelsea will be his last as boss.
If his side win, Wenger will claim his seventh FA Cup - matching the number of times Liverpool and Chelsea have won it in. In addition, he has also won three Premier League titles.
As well as the manager, there has also been speculation surrounding the futures of star players Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil, who both have one year remaining on their current deals.
Reports say Chilean Sanchez, 28, has been offered a new £300,000-a-week contract, while German Ozil, 28, has refused to sign a £250,000-a-week deal.
Striker Danny Welbeck said: "It is obvious to see how important [Sanchez] is to that team with his great abilities on the pitch and his attitude off it.
"I can't comment on his situation at the moment but it is not great to lose your best players." | Arsenal failed to "move forward with the other top teams" in the Premier League this season, says Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain as they prepare for the FA Cup final. | 40052559 |
The Guardian's Lucy Mangan called His Last Vow "perfect", praising the series finale for its "ceaseless flow of wit, invention and intelligence".
Calling it the "best of the lot", the Daily Telegraph's Serena Davies singled out writer and producer Steven Moffat.
Sunday's final episode drew an average audience of about 8.8 million.
That was less than the average of 9.2 million people who tuned in on New Year's Day to see Sherlock's opening episode, the first instalment since in 2012.
The second episode, which saw Martin Freeman's John Watson wed his fiancee Mary, saw a slight drop, with an average audience of 8.84 million.
The Telegraph's Davies praised Moffat for getting "the wary dance between plot and character just right".
Her review also saluted Danish actor Lars Mikkelsen for his performance as media mogul and master blackmailer Charles Augustus Magnussen.
"As Magnussen, he licked one of his appalled victims. And in one sequence, excellent in its understatement, he repeatedly flicked Watson in the eye as if his finger were the tongue of a snake," she wrote.
"If he'd chopped him up with a saw it couldn't have been more horrid."
Metro also paid tribute to the former star of The Killing, suggesting the storyline of a manipulative media boss tapped into public fears about phone-tapping and intrusion.
"From his position as a media mogul, he acquires compromising evidence on people, which gives him the power and wealth to gain even more information and therefore influence.
"That's a notion which strikes a chord with modern-day concerns about surveillance and personal data."
"After the bromantic lull of last week's wedding episode, in which the mystery plot was half-drowned in sentiment, there was reason to fear Sherlock had gone soft," said The Independent's Ellen E Jones.
"We should have had more faith."
In a different review on the newspaper's website, however, Neela Debnath called it "a disappointingly desperate finale".
"Sherlock is known for being clever, but this time it is trying far too hard and is coming across a tad foolish," she wrote.
The latest episode was something of a family affair for the production team, featuring Freeman's partner Amanda Abbington as Mary and Cumberbatch's real parents as the parents of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes.
It also featured Moffat's son Louis in the flashback role of Holmes during childhood.
In his review, the Daily Mirror's Josh Wilding said the programme had featured "some amazing visual sequences, a number of clever twists, a truly detestable villain and a strong story".
Thanks to these, he continued, Sherlock "continues to show why it is simply one of the greatest TV shows of all time." | The final episode of BBC One drama Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, has been reviewed enthusiastically by TV critics. | 25710734 |
And only seven of the 42 SPFL clubs are categorised as having no risk supporters.
A BBC Scotland investigation also found police are concerned by a return of the 'casual culture' prevalent in the 1980s and 1990s.
The Scottish government has issued a total of 579 football banning orders since their introduction 10 years ago.
"It's fair to say that in the last couple of years we have seen a resurgence in the casual hooligan element," said assistant chief constable, Bernhard Higgins.
"In the last two seasons we have had a number of very high profile incidents where fans have clashed a mile away from the stadium or clashed two-and-a-half hours before a match.
"People can get in touch with each other much easier through social media and through mobile phones.
"If you look at the European scene there's been a resurgence in the Ultra fans groups, so that might be percolating down to Scotland.
"I have to make it clear though that the vast majority of games pass off without incident."
SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster is also keen to stress that point and highlights the work being done to make stadiums safe places.
"We strive continually to improve in this area and help make the game as accessible as possible for all generations, with designated family areas and positive initiatives such as free tickets for young people common across many of our clubs," he said.
"We are very clear in the message that anyone who doesn't behave is not welcome at or around our stadiums and, indeed, these people are not entitled to call themselves football supporters.
"As a wider, societal problem only a collaborative and thoughtful approach can begin to tackle the unacceptable behaviour which these people choose to indulge in, not to mention the issues behind them happening in the first place.
"Scottish football has a part to play in this - tens of thousands of great people attend our matches every week and they are a force for positive change."
Earlier this month, the SPFL recruited Karyn McCluskey, of the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit, in a non-executive director role.
And the governing body has set up a working group to examine the issue of unacceptable conduct.
However, one former football hooligan believes the current problems pale in comparison with days gone by.
"In the 1980's you had young men coming from urban areas into city centres to cause large scale disruption involving CS gas, petrol bombs and knives - a huge gang culture," explained Bradley Welsh, a once notorious casual who followed Hibernian.
"What you have now is a bunch of young middle class lads wearing designer clothes and going along seeking high-jinx for self-esteem - there's a huge difference." | Organised hooligan gangs have attached themselves to two-thirds of Scotland's senior clubs, say Police Scotland. | 35544730 |
It has been signed by a group of mainly retired medical staff, and criticises the treatment of whistleblowers at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
Ms Robison said she had full confidence in the NHS's whistleblowing procedures.
The health board said it will not discuss matters involving individual members of staff.
A total of 22 medical professionals, including former hospital consultants, have put their names to the letter.
They claim that whistleblowers have been "isolated, dislocated from their work to the detriment of patients, subjected to damaging psychological pressure and finally referred to the GMC and suspended from duty".
The letter also accused the health board of "appearing to go completely against the clear public interest of effective and stable service delivery" in dealing with two suspended surgeons.
The letter stated: "Last year, with the departure of most of the executive board members from NHS Grampian, including the chairman, CEO and medical director, and with the publication of the report from Health Improvement Scotland, many people felt relief that NHS Grampian was now on course to recover from the catastrophically self-destructive process which had incrementally been eroding patient care while dramatically inflating expenditure by replacing established staff with temporary locums.
"We are glad to have the new chairman and CEO in post, both men of substance, experience and integrity.
"Most regrettably, the recent suspension of professor Zyg Krukowski and his colleague, Dr Wendy Craig, indicates that this process of suspension and referral to the General Medical Council as a substitute for proper management still appears to remain the method of choice for dealing with anyone who dares to raise a contrary opinion."
The authors have asked for the reinstatement of the two recently suspended surgeons "widely recognised for the excellence of their work".
While the authors acknowledged that they did not know the "precise details of the 'serious allegations' against Professor Krukowski and Dr Craig", the letter continued: "To suspend people of this calibre would need to be justified by either clinical incompetence or criminal act".
It concluded by calling for the reinstatement of the two surgeons, and demanding "an urgent and wide-ranging judicial review of medical management in NHS Grampian, focussing particularly on the use of suspensions and other disciplinary measures taken against medical staff in the last few years".
Ms Robison said: "The NHS in Scotland has clear, robust whistleblowing procedures in place, which enable all NHS employees to speak out and be heard. I have full confidence in these, which we are clear all NHS boards in Scotland should adhere to.
"It would not be appropriate for the Scottish government to comment on any on-going employment matter between a health board and its employees. Boards should act in accordance with NHS procedures and in line with the values and behaviours expected of everyone in NHS Scotland.
"These procedures are being followed and need to be allowed to conclude. It would be completely inappropriate for any politician to become involved."
A Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) review released in December warned that patient care at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary faced a "serious impact" if problems were not "urgently addressed".
It identified concerns about leadership and culture which were impacting on the quality of care, and made 13 recommendations for improvements
The review was one of three critical reports into health care in the north east of Scotland published on the same day.
A whistleblower subsequently told BBC Scotland that staff at Aberdeen Royal were being "stretched almost to breaking point".
NHS Grampian said that it would "continue to fully support staff who raise patient safety concerns and investigate each case thoroughly".
A statement from the health board said: "NHS Grampian has been subject to reviews by Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) and the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSE). These reports found issues with leadership and management, culture and behaviour, accountability and governance within NHS Grampian. We accepted all of the recommendations made at the time.
"We acknowledge this has been a challenging time for NHS Grampian. We firmly believe we are making good progress in addressing the issues raised.
"The HIS review did not raise any consistent or widespread concerns about patient safety or about the quality of care across NHS Grampian."
In March, NHS Grampian's refusal to publish in full a report into general surgery at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary was branded a "failure of transparency" by MSP Lewis Macdonald.
BBC Scotland was given a heavily redacted version following a Freedom of Information request. | A letter calling for an urgent judicial review of medical management at NHS Grampian has been sent to Health Secretary Shona Robison. | 33103769 |
Children from St Ives School, Cornwall, were uninjured in the crash on the A30 near Penzance at about 12:00 GMT.
Witness John Mackie said children were climbing out of the 62-seater coach owned by Williams Travel on to the grass verge.
The A30 was closed in both directions between Newtown Roundabout and Crowlas Cross while the coach was recovered.
For more on the coach crash and other news
The coach was travelling towards Penzance and swerved across the wrong side of the road before going up the verge.
St Ives School said all of the children, aged between 11 and 16, were "safe and well". | A coach carrying 30 schoolchildren to a swimming gala veered across a main road and crashed through a hedge. | 38747492 |
Richardson made 20 appearances for the Millers last term, but has been without a club since being released in May.
The 33-year-old started his career at Leeds United and has also had spells with Stoke, Charlton, Southampton, Middlesbrough and Ipswich.
"I haven't had too much football but I've been keeping myself right so I'm good to go," he said.
"There's a really good set up here, a great bunch of lads and Darren Ferguson and his backroom staff are a good management team."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Former Rotherham defender Frazer Richardson has joined League Two side Doncaster Rovers on a two-month deal. | 37220749 |
Fifteen British and foreign awards contained in 12 lots went under the hammer at Christie's in London.
A lot of four British medals easily surpassed the £30,000 estimate to sell for £230,500.
The decorations were the Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, British War Medal and Victory Medal.
Shackleton was knighted as a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in recognition of the 1907-1909 Nimrod Expedition when he reached the furthest south ever explored.
Sir Ernest's Chilean Order of Merit beat the guide price of £4,000 to £6,000 to go for £74,500.
The medal recognises the survival and rescue of his crew after the ship Endurance was crushed by ice in 1915.
A Royal Geographical Society's Silver Medal, awarded for the the successful British Antarctic expedition aboard Discovery, more than doubled the £40,000 estimate to sell for £86,500.
Born in Co Kildare in 1874, Shackleton was aiming to circumnavigate the Antarctic continent on his fourth expedition when he died of a heart attack off South Georgia in 1922.
The medals were sold as part of Christie's Travel, Science and Natural History auction.
Nick Lambourn, director of Christie's London, said: "We are thrilled with the results of Shackleton's decorations.
"The 15 medals sold together for over £580,000, each soaring above their pre-sale estimates and demonstrating how Shackleton's legacy continues to capture imaginations today.
"The sale continues Christie's tradition of selling polar artefacts on behalf of the families of the great explorers from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration." | A number of medals awarded to Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton have raised £585,000 at auction. | 34482326 |
Four people were injured after stones were thrown at the bus and smashed a number of windows.
One woman had to be treated in hospital for serious facial injuries.
Fr Aidan Mullan told the BBC's Sunday News programme that the attack "did not represent the views of the people in Dungiven".
He said he was getting ready for a vigil mass at Dungiven Parish Church when he heard about the attack.
"What is very annoying is that it was pre-meditated, these people had to be there, armed with these stones in a pre-meditated, cold-blooded fashion," he said.
"They do not represent the good people of Dungiven and that was what people were saying to me in the church, one woman had tears in her eyes saying 'we get painted in a bad name and it's not fair, it's not right, that doesn't represent us'.
"It is shameful, we're rightly ashamed, and this attack does not represent the feelings of the vast majority of people in Dungiven."
A 16-year-old boy arrested after the attack on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm has since been released on bail pending further inquiries.
You can listen back to The Sunday News programme on the BBC iPlayer. | An attack on a bus carrying spectators of the Apprentice Boys parade in Londonderry on Saturday was "shameful", the parish priest of Dungiven has said. | 33841341 |
Lavery, 23, left the Owls in July after rejecting a new contract offer, but the Blades had to pay compensation as he is under 24 years old.
The Wednesday academy graduate scored six goals in 39 games for the club.
He spent most of last season on loan at League Two side Portsmouth, scoring four goals in 13 appearances.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | League One side Sheffield United have signed ex-Sheffield Wednesday striker Caolan Lavery on a three-year contract for an undisclosed compensation fee. | 37221602 |
Monaco 1984 is one, so is Donington 1993. Then there's Barcelona 1996, Silverstone 2008 and Nurburgring 1968. All wet-weather races. All exceptional.
Mention these grands prix to F1 devotees and they will nod approvingly, because these were occasions when a driver delivered something remarkable that marked him out as a cut above his peers.
In the case of Brazil 2016, we may well have another entry to that list - and the man responsible was a 19-year-old named Max Verstappen.
"We witnessed something very special," Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said of his driver. "The way he drove was outstanding. It stands out to me like Ayrton Senna in Monaco and other great drives in history."
High praise indeed for a man occupying the third step of a podium.
Verstappen dropped to 16th after a pit stop with 16 laps to go but fought back to finish on the podium in treacherous wet conditions.
Yet his drive was about more than this late climb through the field.
He also overtook Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen early on and produced a superb pass on Mercedes' Nico Rosberg to take second place midway through the race.
He would have finished there, behind winner Lewis Hamilton, had Red Bull not put him on intermediate tyres at a crucial point. The decision turned out to be an error and Verstappen had to pit again for extreme wet tyres, prompting his climb back.
He also rescued a huge spin on the pit straight, preventing the car from hitting the wall and managing to hold on to second. He said it was "50-50" between skill and luck.
Horner said: "His move earlier in the race on Rosberg was brave, skilful and totally courageous and later in the race the inter tyre looked like the tyre to be on.
"We could see others starting to go quicker and we took the gamble and then the rain just intensified slightly, particularly around Turn 12. We had to abort that and fit a new set of extreme and then it was over to Max."
Verstappen looked completely out of the picture when he pitted under the safety car for extreme wet tyres late on. But Red Bull knew what their man was capable of, and so did he.
"Can you make your way through the field on full wets?" came the question from the pit wall. Verstappen said he could and dived in for fresh boots.
What followed was hugely impressive, to say the least.
The midfield runners were swiftly dispatched and, within a couple of laps, Verstappen was up to 12th place. That became 11th when he passed the Williams of Valtteri Bottas, while team-mate Daniel Ricciardo had no answer either as the teenager moved back into the points.
Daniil Kvyat was next, then Esteban Ocon's Manor and the Sauber of Felipe Nasr.
Nico Hulkenberg? No problem. Sebastian Vettel? Done in a few corners. Verstappen even rudely ran the Ferrari off the track for good measure.
Carlos Sainz was his next victim as he moved into fourth, and then came the podium-clinching move on Sergio Perez - a gutsy, around-the-outside pass at Turn 10 that he completed in Turn 11 having corrected a big slide on his way through.
The Mercedes were too far up the road to do anything about, but Verstappen had made his point. Thirteen places made up in 16 laps. Job done.
"It was a lot of fun, with some scary moments," Verstappen said. "I was a bit disappointed after the last pit stop, but I kept my head down and just kept pushing and I went for it. To come back on to the podium was amazing.
"It was crazy. I thought 'now my race is over'. But the car was great. We had great grip. All the race we had good pace. We could have definitely fought for second but to come back in such a style is also a lot of fun."
Verstappen said it was "one of" his best races and his "best ever" in the wet. But he said that his win in the Spanish Grand Prix in May would have a bigger place in his heart.
"Barcelona will always be better because it is a race victory but to come back from 16th felt like a race victory."
Nico Rosberg on Verstappen's amazing half-spin: "I arrived in the straight and saw him pointing 90 degrees towards the wall - I was thinking, 'what the hell?!'"
Jos Verstappen, Max's father, who started 106 Formula 1 races: "I have never seen something like this, he has surprised even me. I have seen many races he did, but today it was incredible. He did himself proud. It is what we want to see more of in F1."
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolf: "It was the Verstappen show. It was really unbelievable driving, great entertainment. Physics are being redefined."
Mercedes non-executive chairman Niki Lauda: "Verstappen was outstanding, the way he passed everybody so it was an interesting race. I knew the guy is good but he proved to everybody what he can do."
Horatio McSherry: Max Verstappen is driving like a man possessed. Utterly extraordinary. One of the greatest drives I've seen in nearly 30 years of F1.
Lauren McCarthy: This driving by Verstappen is simply ridiculous. How on earth is he 19, absolute genius.
JavelBleach: Wow. Best race I've seen from one driver for a very long time.
Ayrton Senna - 1984 Monaco GP
A race remembered as the moment Ayrton Senna truly announced his arrival in the sport.
Starting 13th on the grid, the Brazilian, in only his sixth F1 race, came through the field in atrocious wet conditions, passing established front-runners to sit second behind Alain Prost's McLaren when the race was brought to a premature halt on lap 31.
It was just a second place and only half points were awarded, but a statement had been emphatically made. F1 had a new star.
Ayrton Senna - 1993 European GP
Fast-forward nine years and Senna was at it again.
By now his reputation as master of wet conditions was legendary, but even so his charge from fifth to first place on the opening lap at Donington had jaws on the floor.
It is routinely held up as the best single-lap performance in the history of the sport - and to back it up he won the race by over a minute from second-placed Damon Hill, and by a lap from great rival Prost.
Michael Schumacher - 1996 Spanish GP
The drive that gave Michael Schumacher his first Ferrari win and earned him the reputation as a legend in the wet.
Just two weeks earlier he had slid out of the lead on the first lap at a wet Monaco, but in Barcelona - with the rain pounding down once again - he delivered one his most celebrated drives.
The Ferrari was a long way from the best car in the field, but on this day and in Schumacher's hands it was peerless. He took the chequered flag by 45 seconds from Jean Alesi.
The 'Regenmeister' had landed.
Lewis Hamilton - 2008 British GP
We knew Lewis Hamilton was good by midway through 2008, but maybe it took this race to tell us just how good.
Hamilton trailed Ferrari's Felipe Massa in the drivers' championship heading into the ninth race of the season, and the two could not have had more contrasting fortunes on this soggy Silverstone day.
Massa spun five times en route to a miserable 13th place, two laps down on race winner Hamilton, who judged the conditions to perfection, keeping the car on the island and winning by more than a minute from the chasing pack.
Come season's end, he would be champion by a point from Massa, and this was arguably the race where the tide turned.
Jackie Stewart - 1968 German GP
A truly startling drive from a man who in a few short years would retire from Formula 1 as a three-time world champion.
On 4 August 1968, Jackie Stewart had no world titles and just two wins to his name, but by the end of the day the sport had a new superstar.
In wet and foggy conditions at the unforgiving 14-mile Nurburgring, and sporting a broken wrist, Stewart produced a performance of immense skill and bravery to win by four minutes from Graham Hill.
Stewart later described it as "a tremendously satisfying race to win, but I was very pleased to get it over with". | More than 900 Formula 1 races have been held since 1950, yet very few are rooted in the collective consciousness of fans. | 37970205 |
Media playback is not supported on this device
O'Neill's current deal expires after the final World Cup qualifier against Israel later this month, in what has been a disappointing campaign.
The former Northern Ireland player has won just one of his 12 games in charge.
"I've had discussions with the IFA board and they have been positive - I've said all along that I would like to continue in the role," said O'Neill.
"I think there has been a major transition in the squad, it's a very young squad with not much experience.
"They will be better for the experience of taking part in the qualifying campaign and I'll certainly be better for the experience of managing during it.
"I would like to get the opportunity to take this squad forward to the European Championship qualifiers."
IFA president Jim Shaw gave his backing to O'Neill following last month's humiliating 3-2 defeat by Luxembourg.
"I still see him as the man to take us forward to the European Championships," said Shaw in the wake of the shock result.
Following the squad announcement on Thursday for the Azerbaijan and Israel games, Shaw confirmed that talks with O'Neill had started but there was "no substantive input" so far. | Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill has revealed he is in talks with the IFA over a new contract. | 24378901 |
NHS Grampian said on Tuesday that patients were being redirected due to "seasonal pressures".
Twenty operations were affected and the health board said a further 45 planned procedures were being postponed on Wednesday.
NHS Grampian said it "categorically" denied suggestions of shortages of mattresses or drugs.
A spokesperson said: "We have opened additional areas to cope with the current pressure which may mean that in the lead up to these areas receiving patients, equipment may be in transit and not immediately available.
"Aberdeen Royal Infirmary remains very busy but staff are working hard to care appropriately for their patients and we thank them for their tremendous dedication.
"We are also grateful to the public for their understanding at this time." | More procedures have been postponed as Aberdeen Royal Infirmary has experienced another "very busy" day. | 30711280 |
Earlier this month, members including police community support officers (PCSOs) backed action in protest over a 1% pay offer. They are calling for a 3% wage increase.
It will be the first pay strike by police civilian workers for 25 years.
Unison said members would hold four weeks of industrial action short of a strike after 22 December.
Unison general secretary Dave Prentis said: "Police staff have been hit hard by the cost-of-living crisis. Since 2010, two years of pay freeze and a below-inflation pay deal last year has seen the value of their pay decline by 13%.
"It is rare for police staff to take industrial action and the strike is a clear sign that they've had enough."
He urged employers to return to the negotiating table, adding: "Police staff have had a raw deal. All we're asking for is fair pay. Our members' contribution to community safety is immense and it needs to be reflected in their pay."
Unison represents some 30,000 police staff in England and Wales. | Civilian police workers in England and Wales will stage a 24-hour strike on 22 December, the Unison union has said. | 30416780 |
They led at half-time courtesy of Berry's 19th-minute goal, which came when he charged down goalkeeper Adam Collin's kick and saw the ball rebound into the net, before blowing their opponents away in the second half.
Uche Ikpeazu made it 2-0, slotting the ball under Collin following Blair Adams' surging run out of defence, before Berry doubled his tally four minutes later.
His first effort was saved by Collin but he was able to scoop the ball in off the underside of the bar despite being on the ground.
On 69 minutes, Piero Mingoia added a fourth, benefiting from another defensive error as Harrison Dunk robbed Louis Laing and allowed Mingoia to finish easily beyond Collin.
Notts County barely threatened a response, with Will Norris beating a powerful Curtis Thompson shot away with virtually his only action.
They have now lost nine league games in a row while the Us have dropped only two points in their last seven league matches.
Report supplied by Press Association.
Match ends, Cambridge United 4, Notts County 0.
Second Half ends, Cambridge United 4, Notts County 0.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Conor Newton replaces Uche Ikpeazu.
James Dunne (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Adam Campbell (Notts County).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Notts County. Adam Campbell replaces Jon Stead.
Delay in match Greg Taylor (Cambridge United) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Michael O'Connor (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United).
Haydn Hollis (Notts County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Leon Davies replaces Piero Mingoia.
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Louis Laing (Notts County).
Attempt saved. Curtis Thompson (Notts County) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael O'Connor (Notts County).
Foul by Max Clark (Cambridge United).
Michael O'Connor (Notts County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Cambridge United 4, Notts County 0. Piero Mingoia (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Harrison Dunk.
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Louis Laing (Notts County).
Piero Mingoia (Cambridge United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Piero Mingoia (Cambridge United).
Michael O'Connor (Notts County) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Greg Taylor (Cambridge United).
Jon Stead (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Cambridge United 3, Notts County 0. Luke Berry (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the top right corner.
Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Louis Laing (Notts County).
Substitution, Notts County. Aaron Collins replaces Jonathan Forte.
Goal! Cambridge United 2, Notts County 0. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Max Clark (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Piero Mingoia (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Blair Adams.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Harrison Dunk replaces Ben Williamson.
Attempt missed. Curtis Thompson (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Greg Taylor (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonathan Forte (Notts County).
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Mark Roberts. | Luke Berry scored twice as Cambridge eased past Notts County 4-0. | 38433456 |
The governor of the Turkish border province of Kilis said 35,000 refugees had reached the border area - up from an estimated 20,000 on Friday.
Turkey says it is prepared to help the refugees but the frontier remains shut.
They are fleeing a Syrian government offensive on rebel-held positions near the northern city of Aleppo.
In the past few days, the Syrian army - backed by Russian air strikes - has made a series of gains around Syria's largest city.
In other developments:
On Saturday, Kilis Governor Suleyman Tapsiz said Turkey was able to help refugees inside Syria.
"Our doors are not closed, but at the moment there is no need to host such people inside our borders," he said.
Turkey has been providing food, shelter and blankets to thousands of civilians who are stranded on the Syrian side of the border.
The Turks have so far refused to open the border crossing.
EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn on Saturday urged Turkey to do so.
"The Geneva convention is still valid which states that you have to take in refugees," Mr Hahn said, as EU foreign ministers discussed the crisis in Amsterdam.
The call was echoed by Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders, whose country currently holds the EU presidency.
"I look at these images of people standing at the Turkish border and I just wanted to underline the message people who are in humanitarian need should be allowed in," he said.
The thousands fleeing Aleppo have spent their first night in temporary shelter at the Turkish border but the crossing remains closed.
Turkey has welcomed more than two million Syrians since the start of the war and it is unclear whether it will accept another huge wave in one go.
Human rights groups are calling for the gates to open but at a time when the EU is trying to reduce the flow of refugees to Europe, there will be diplomatic pressure on Turkey to act with caution.
The Turkish government is using the new refugee exodus to take aim at Russia, whose air strikes on Aleppo have prompted thousands to flee. But there is no sign that Russia is pulling back and as opposition fighters retreat, the Assad regime is strengthened and thousands more civilians will flee, hoping for sanctuary in Turkey.
In November, the EU clinched a deal with Turkey, offering it €3bn (£2.3bn; $3.3bn) to care for Syrian refugees on Turkish soil.
On Thursday, 60 donor countries meeting in London pledged billions of dollars to ease the plight of Syrian refugees.
About 4.6 million people have fled Syria during the civil war that began in 2011. Another 13.5 million are said to be in need of humanitarian assistance inside the country.
Turkey hosts the largest number of refugees - 2.5 million.
March 2011: Anti-government protests erupt across Syria, but Aleppo is initially untouched as a result of a state crackdown
February 2012: As the rebellion turns into a conflict, clashes between rebels and the government are reported with increasing frequency in Aleppo province
July 2012: The battle for Aleppo begins. Rebels make swift advances, but are unable to consolidate their gains and the city becomes divided
2013: The government begins bombarding rebel districts with barrel bombs, causing thousands of casualties
September 2015: Syria launches a fresh offensive in the wake of Russia's intervention in the conflict
February 2016: The government captures towns north of Aleppo, threatening to encircle the city
Aleppo profile | The number of Syrians trying to cross into Turkey amid an upsurge of fighting in northern Syria has nearly doubled, a Turkish official says. | 35512498 |
The German side allowed the 44-year-old speak to the Swans, who are bottom of the Premier League.
Clement was interviewed by the club before Bob Bradley was appointed as their manager in October.
He is set to be Swansea's third manager of the season and it is likely he will be at Selhurst Park for their game against Crystal Palace on Tuesday.
The former Chelsea and Real Madrid assistant manager was in charge of Derby County for eight months before he was sacked by the club in February of 2016.
After Bradley was sacked following a spell of seven defeats in 11 games, Clement emerged as the frontrunner to be Swansea's next manager
Former Manchester United assistant Ryan Giggs, Wales boss Chris Coleman and former Birmingham City manager Gary Rowett were also linked with the job.
The Swans are four points adrift at the bottom of the table and have lost their last four games, including Saturday's 3-0 home defeat by Bournemouth. | Bayern Munich assistant Paul Clement has agreed a two-and-a-half year deal to become Swansea City's next manager. | 38490554 |
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.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Jay-Z's latest album, 4:44, has been certified platinum less than a week after it was released - reflecting sales of one million copies in the US. | 40517529 |
But Guzman can appeal any decision to extradite him and his lawyers say they will "fight until the end".
He faces multiple charges in the US, including drug trafficking and murder.
The leader of the notorious Sinaloa drug cartel is being held in a maximum security prison in Ciudad Juarez, near the US border.
He was arrested in January after six months on the run following his escape through a tunnel in his jail cell.
He had already escaped a maximum security facility once before, spending 13 years at large.
Renato Sales Heredia, Mexico's national security commissioner, said in a TV interview that the government hoped to extradite the cartel boss "in January or February".
But lawyer Jose Refugio Rodriguez said there were too many appeals pending for the extradition to happen so quickly.
"That's not enough time," Mr Rodriguez said, adding that the only way to send Guzman to the US by early next year would be "to take him out [of jail] by force".
Mexico agreed to transfer Guzman in May after the US guaranteed he would not face the death penalty.
A judge began reviewing the case last month, but it is unclear when a ruling will be announced. | Mexico expects to extradite drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States by February, the country's top security official says. | 37663107 |
Read, 31, has not played since April because of a broken thumb.
Wing Rieko Ioane will win his third cap, while Ryan Crotty partners Sonny Bill Williams in the centre.
"This was a really tough team to pick. There were a number of players in great form vying for positions," said All Blacks head coach Steve Hansen.
Read, who has won 97 caps, and Crotty, who had a rib injury, missed world champions New Zealand's 78-0 victory over Samoa on Friday.
"They've both been on target to return for this game all the way through, are both in great shape and, together with the rest of the squad, they're really excited at what's ahead of us," added Hansen.
Ioane, who is selected ahead of the prolific Julian Savea, has featured twice against the Lions on this tour, scoring a try in the Blues' victory in Auckland.
Hansen added: "I'd also like to congratulate Rieko on getting his first start for the All Blacks. His outstanding form throughout the season this year, including against the Lions, has earned him his start on the wing."
The Lions play three Tests against New Zealand, who have not lost at Eden Park since 1994.
"We know this is a very good British and Irish Lions team, probably one of the best to have toured here," said Hansen.
"The players are well aware of the history of the All Blacks and the Lions and are determined to respect that history with their performances.
"We know the importance of this match and we will bring real energy and intensity. It'll be a physical Test but, just as importantly, it will be a mental test."
Aaron Cruden and Lima Sopoaga have been named as fly-half cover, with a decision to be made on Thursday.
The Lions have won four and lost two of their warm-up matches on the tour of New Zealand.
New Zealand team: B Smith; I Dagg, R Crotty, SB Williams, R Ioane; B Barrett, A Smith; J Moody, C Taylor, O Franks, B Retallick, S Whitelock, J Kaino, S Cane, K Read (capt).
Replacements: N Harris, W Crockett, C Faumuina, S Barrett, A Savea, TJ Perenara, A Cruden/L Sopoaga, A Lienert-Brown. | Number eight Kieran Read will return from injury to captain New Zealand in the first Test against the British and Irish Lions in Auckland on Saturday. | 40358581 |
The three-year-old, trained by John Gosden, also claimed the Eclipse and Irish Champion Stakes this year.
The colt, second in the Breeders' Cup Turf under Frankie Dettori on 31 October, has now been retired to stud.
A win would have seen Golden Horn become the first horse to win the Derby, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and Breeders' Cup Turf in the same year.
Found - for trainer Aidan O'Brien - proved too strong for Anthony Oppenheimer-owned Golden Horn in Kentucky.
Former Horse of the Year winners include Frankel, who triumphed twice, Sea the Stars and Hurricane Run.
In the 25th year of the big racing awards, a special presentation was made to Jack Berry, a tireless fundraiser for injured jockeys.
The rehabilitation centre, Jack Berry House, was opened in Yorkshire earlier in 2015 in honour of the 78-year-old former rider and trainer.
As well as Golden Horn, other equine stars honoured at the awards included top older horse Solow, and leading sprinter Muhaarar.
Horse of the Year - Golden Horn
Three-year-old Colt - Golden Horn
Older Horse - Solow
Sprinter - Muhaarar
Three-year-old filly - Legatissimo
Stayer - Simple Verse
Two-year-old colt - Air Force Blue
Two-year-old filly - Minding
Merit Award - Jack Berry | Derby and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Golden Horn has been named Cartier Horse of the Year for 2015. | 34782582 |
He said his previous two "births" were the day he survived an assassination attempt by Israeli agents in Jordan in 1997, and his actual birth in 1956.
Mr Meshaal had not set foot in the Palestinian territories for decades.
His visit follows a ceasefire that ended days of violence between Israel and Hamas. The Islamist militant group has governed Gaza since 2007.
Mr Meshaal entered Gaza from Egypt at the Rafah border crossing, touching his head to the ground in celebration. Officials there said his wife had arrived late on Thursday.
In a statement to the media, he said: "I consider this moment my third birth, and I pray to God that my fourth birth will be the moment when all of Palestine is liberated."
"Gaza is always in my heart," he said.
By Yolande KnellBBC News, Gaza
Posters of Khaled Meshaal can be seen all over the Gaza Strip, but until today he had never seen it himself. We stood on a street corner with a welcoming committee waving green flags as the Hamas leader drove by in a convoy. Armed men in balaclavas carrying guns and rockets kept the crowds back.
This is an intensely important personal trip for Mr Meshaal but it is also politically significant. It is often suggested that the external leadership of Hamas is sidelined by the officials who govern its stronghold in Gaza. By coming here just after negotiating last month's ceasefire with Israel through Egyptian mediators, Mr Meshaal is taking his share in what he describes as the "victory" over Israel.
It is also a chance to complete the secretive internal Hamas leadership process and plot strategy going forwards. At a mass rally on Saturday, Mr Meshaal is expected to refer to the need for reconciliation with his political rivals in the Fatah faction headed by President Mahmoud Abbas. Finally he's expected to lay out plans concerning Israel.
In Pictures: Meshaal visits Gaza
Just after arriving in Gaza, Mr Meshaal inspected the charred remains of the car in which military commander Ahmed Jabari was killed in an Israeli strike last month.
He later visited Jabari's home, and that of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
Jabari's death marked the start of an eight-day Israeli offensive which Israel said was aimed at halting militant rocket attacks. Some 170 Palestinians and six Israelis were killed.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in a statement that Mr Meshaal's visit was "a fruit of the victory of the resistance over the occupation".
In the past, Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak never allowed him to use the Rafah border crossing to come here, and it was seen as too risky in terms of his personal security.
An Israeli official told the BBC that no guarantees for Mr Meshaal's safety in Gaza had been requested and none had been given.
"Hamas is Hamas, it doesn't matter who heads it," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor. "It's position is known - violence as the only tool to promote its racist and extremist ideology."
Israel, the US and the EU consider Hamas a terrorist organisation.
Mr Meshaal also visited relatives of the Dalou family, 10 of whom were killed along with two neighbours in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City on 18 November.
Earlier, Human Rights Watch urged Israel to provide a full account of the incident, saying the man whom Israel said it had targeted, Mohammed Jamal al-Dalou, was a low-ranking police officer.
The Israeli military said the Dalou home had been a hideout for a senior "terror operative", and that civilians were never a target.
For the centrepiece of his three-day tour, Mr Meshaal is scheduled to address a rally on Saturday in Gaza City, where a stage has been set up with a replica of a type of rocket Hamas has fired into Israel.
1956 - Born in Silwad in West Bank
1967 - Moves with family to Kuwait after Six Day War
1971 - Joins Muslim Brotherhood
1987 - Hamas created
1991 - Moves to Jordan after Iraq invades Kuwait. Runs Hamas fundraising
1997 - Survives Israeli assassination attempt
1999 - Expelled from Jordan. Moves to Qatar
2001 - Moves to Syria
2004 - Named Hamas political leader after assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin
2012 - Leaves Damascus for Egypt and Qatar
Profile: Khaled Meshaal
Who are Hamas?
He is also expected to discuss reconciliation moves with the Fatah movement, which Hamas removed from Gaza by force in 2007 after winning elections there. Fatah now rules parts of the West Bank.
In 2011, Mr Meshaal and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas - the Fatah leader - endorsed an Egyptian plan to reconcile the rival factions.
Although attempts to forge a Palestinian government of national unity have since stalled, Mr Meshaal told Reuters news agency ahead of his Gaza visit that "there is a new mood that allows us to achieve reconciliation".
Barring a brief visit to the West Bank in 1975, Mr Meshaal had not visited the Palestinian territories since his family left in 1967.
He survived an Israeli assassination attempt in Jordan in 1997 only after the King Hussein demanded an antidote to poison used by Israeli agents.
Mr Meshaal became Hamas's political leader in exile in 2004 when Sheikh Yassin was assassinated by Israel.
He ran operations from Damascus until February this year, when the unrest there prompted another move. He now bases himself in Qatar and Egypt.
Hamas was created in 1987 after the beginning of the first intifada - or Palestinian uprising - against Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
Under its charter, Hamas is committed to the destruction of Israel. But the group has also offered a 10-year truce in return for a complete Israeli withdrawal from territories it occupied in 1967. | The political leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, has called his first visit to the Gaza Strip his "third birth". | 20636413 |
Richard Simpson also wanted licensed shops in problem areas to mark cans and bottles so they could be traced.
He told MSPs there was a problem with "proxy" purchasing for teenagers.
However, ministers argued that the issue could be better dealt with through the government's alcohol misuse strategy.
When the members bill was scrutinised at committee stage, BMA Scotland expressed concerns about some aspects of it but it supported the section aimed at banning alcohol advertising around schools.
Figures analysed specially for the Scottish government in 2009 estimated that Scotland had the eighth highest level of alcohol consumption in the world.
The World Health Organisation has linked alcohol to more than 60 types of disease, disability and injury. | MSPs have voted down a members bill which would have resulted in a ban on alcohol advertising within 200 metres (656ft) of schools. | 35491563 |
The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) said in a letter that the money to pay her came from "government corruption and human rights violations".
Minaj, 33, entertained thousands in the Angolan capital, Luanda, on Saturday.
The Christmas event was hosted by mobile phone company Unitel, which is part-owned by the family of Angola's President Jose Eduardo dos Santos.
Since the end of the conflict in 2002, Africa's second-largest oil producer has witnessed an economic boom, but critics of the elected government say the wealth has only benefited a small elite.
HRF's Thor Halvorssen wrote in the letter to Minaj last week that her participation in a performance sponsored by a government "involved in gross human rights violations would be improper".
Mr Halvorssen points out that Unitel is controlled by Isabel dos Santos, daughter of the president and said to be Africa's richest woman.
Transparency International recently named the billionaire as one of 15 symbols of grand corruption worldwide.
Two days after the accusation, Ms Dos Santos's company Fidequity issued a statement insisting it is an independent company and does not use public funds.
Before going on stage on Saturday, Minaj posted a photo of herself with Angola's flag on Instagram along with one of her posing with Isabel dos Santos with the words: "She's just the 8th richest woman in the world. (At least that's what I was told by someone b4 we took this photo) Lol. Yikes!!!!! GIRL POWER!!!!! This motivates me soooooooooo much!!!!"
Minaj also shared the stage with several local acts.
Her performance came a day after a judge ordered the release of 15 Angolan activists, including prominent rapper Luaty Beirao, who were arrested six months ago during a book reading where one of the books on the agenda was about non-violent resistance to repressive regimes.
The group will return to court next month for their trial's conclusion on charges of "rebellion" and attempting to carry out a "coup".
Minaj is not the only performer to be criticised by rights groups for their choice of gigs.
Singer Jennifer Lopez was criticised in 2013 for singing Happy Birthday to the leader of Turkmenistan, who was accused of human rights violations.
In 2011, Nelly Furtado said that she would give away $1m (£615,000) she was paid to perform for the family of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. | US rapper Nicki Minaj has gone ahead with a concert in Angola despite a rights group asking her to cancel it. | 35145300 |
The former Manchester United and Wales winger is embroiled in a High Court dispute over money with wife Stacey.
He is no longer pursuing a bid to exclude the media from the hearings, it has emerged.
However, a ban on naming the pair's children and reporting financial details heard during litigation remains.
During a hearing on Friday, Mr Justice Cobb also said media outlets could report the couple's identities and the fact they were involved in a dispute.
Neither Giggs nor Mrs Giggs were present.
After the hearing, a lawyer representing Mrs Giggs said she "wishes to make no comment on the current proceedings other than to ask that her privacy and that of her family is respected".
"She understands that coverage of these matters has the potential to cause upset and distress, something which she is determined to avoid at all costs," said James Brown, a partner at Hall Brown Family Law.
Giggs, who was born in Cardiff, retired as a player in summer 2014.
He made a record 963 appearances for United and won 64 Welsh international caps.
The 43-year-old worked as United's interim manager for a short spell after ending his playing career. He has also become involved in property development.
Specialist lawyers are currently debating how much the public should be told about people involved in big-money divorce battles after High Court judges outlined opposing views. | Ex-footballer Ryan Giggs has dropped a bid to ban reporters from covering a court battle with his estranged wife. | 39005330 |
The husband-and-wife duo went down 21-12 21-12 in 30 minutes to China's Siwei Zheng and Qingchen Chen.
The Commonwealth champions became the first Britons to win a Superseries title at the event last year.
They reached a second successive mixed doubles final after beating Indonesia's Praveen Jordan and Debby Susanto.
Badminton is one of five sports to lose its UK Sport funding for the 2020 Olympics, but is appealing against the decision. | England's Gabby and Chris Adcock were unable to defend their World Superseries Finals title after losing in the final in Dubai on Sunday. | 38356635 |
Interview day is not the day to sleep in and miss the train.
"You never should be late for an interview," says Lauren Ferarra, a recruiter with Creative Circle, a US staffing agency in New York.
"On time is 15 minutes early. If you're more than 15 minutes early, you're going to be waiting around a while and it comes off a little sketchy. So 15 minutes early, non-negotiable, you should be in the building ready to go."
Try to anticipate the questions by re-reading the job description and seeing what questions they might prompt.
"To do a good job you really need to know who you're talking to," says Kristy Stromberg, of the online jobs listing site SimplyHired.com.
"Do your research on the company and the person who is interviewing you. This is not the time to wing it. You're not gambling, you're selling."
Candidates should rehearse succinct answers to questions such as "Tell me about yourself" and "What are your goals?" - the responses should be relevant to the position on offer.
"You will be asked questions about your experience. Anticipate what the company is looking for. Who do they want to hire and what types of problems are they trying to solve?"
First impressions are vital to making a lasting impact on an interviewer. Being personable and friendly speaks volumes.
"I think the handshake and the eye contact are incredibly important and a smile," says Ms Ferarra.
"People really underestimate smiling and having that personality. You tend to be so nervous and tight in an interview, and you really want to come off and show that you are someone they want to work with."
Lisa Johnson Mandell, author of Career Comeback, says:
"Shoes are very important to the way they make you feel. I advise women to get a pair of power heels. It makes them feel really confident. They have to be comfortable for walking. From a man's perspective, when you wear a nice pair of shoes you walk more confidently."
Lauren Ferarra, recruiter with Creative Circle, says:
"You should be dressed appropriately. If you are interviewing for something in the fashion world, you should be trendy and fashion-forward. If you are interviewing in a creative world, you shouldn't be afraid to show some personality in your wardrobe. If you're interviewing in more of a corporate environment, you should be a little bit more buttoned-up and polished."
Even the best-prepared candidate can feel the jitters on interview day. Michael Weiss, a public speaking coach, says it is important that people focus on their voice to avoid sounding nervous.
"You can have a lot of adrenalin running through your body and that's when you get the wavering voice. Practise questions out loud. Do some breathing exercises, calm down and just focus," he says.
Dealing with a prickly interviewer can also be unnerving.
"You need to read the personality of the person that you are interviewing with. If they're very staid and very buttoned-up, you probably want to be a little succinct and short with your answers and mirror their personality."
As the process gets under way, the jobseeker should allow the interviewer to lead the conversation. But it should be a two-way process, says Ms Ferarra.
"Don't be afraid to jump in and ask questions as the conversation is flowing. Don't feel you need to save them all to the end."
"In today's world of LinkedIn and other social networks, it's very easy for someone to do a back-channel reference," says Ms Stromberg.
"That is, speak to people they know through a common network to check out your story. They can consult people that you have not offered up as a reference to see if you really do what you said you did. You want to make sure that story and your message is consistent."
Once it is all over, the only thing left to do is send an email or written note to the interviewer. According to Ms Ferarra, it is hugely important to leave a good impression.
"Make sure you get that person's card. Follow up with an email, a thank-you, and they'll remember that in the long run." | In today's world of social networks a face-to-face interview can seem outdated, but online resources can help you ace the interview and land the job, especially if mixed with some old-fashioned common-sense advice. | 25191591 |
Worshippers leaving the Arrahma mosque in Avignon were approached by two hooded suspects at about 22:30 local time (21:30 GMT) on Sunday.
The suspects, carrying a handgun and a shotgun, arrived in a Renault Clio before opening fire on the crowd, La Provence newspaper reports.
Police said they were not treating the incident as a terrorist attack.
Four people were wounded outside the mosque and a family of four - including a seven-year-old girl - also suffered injuries from shrapnel while in their apartment, located some 50 metres away, La Provence said, citing a source.
Two of the eight wounded were hospitalised, according to the source, who also said that worshippers leaving the mosque had not been the intended target.
The Avignon attack is not being treated as a terrorist incident, the prosecutor's office said. Laure Chabaud, a district magistrate, said that the incident was likely to be the result of a dispute between youths.
On Thursday, a man was arrested after trying to drive a car into a crowd in front of a mosque in the Paris suburb of Creteil. No-one was injured in the incident.
France remains on alert amid heightened security following a deadly attack on Paris police in April and a series of terrorist incidents in recent years. | Eight people have been injured in a shooting outside a mosque in southern France, officials have confirmed. | 40476825 |
The 23-year-old cyclist was part of the the men's cycling pursuit team which won in a world record time at the London Velodrome on Friday.
Isle of Man Post said it had marked the cyclist's "outstanding achievement."
The postbox outside the cyclist's hometown post office in Onchan will remain gold for several weeks.
Kennaugh's win came 100 years on from the island's last Olympic gold medal, when Sulby-born Sidney Swann was part of the victorious British eights rowing team at the 1912 games.
Isle of Man Post Office's chief executive, Mike Kelly said: "He certainly did the Isle of Man proud.
"Royal Mail are painting a post box gold in the hometown of every gold medal winner and we don't want Peter to be left out, and therefore have chosen Onchan post box - the village where his family live - in which to do this.
"I'm sure many fellow islanders would agree when I say we are very proud of both Peter and fellow cycling star Mark Cavendish's efforts in the London 2012 Olympic Games - they've done a fantastic job."
Before the games, Kennaugh said the Olympics would not mean anything unless he "wins a gold medal".
He also featured on specially-issued stamps from the Royal Mail alongside his team mates Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas and Steven Burke who beat Australia in the Olympic final, setting a world record time of three minutes 51.659 seconds.
He began his racing career at the age of six, taking part in BMX events in the Isle of Man. | Manx Olympic gold medal winner Peter Kennaugh's achievement at the London Olympics has been recognised with a golden postbox in his home town. | 19177937 |
Transport Minister Binali Yildirim, who is in charge of internet issues, said the government had been in contact with Google, which owns YouTube.
Mr Yildirim said there was no longer any reason to ban the website, because the offending videos had been removed.
Insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk or "Turkishness" is illegal in Turkey.
The video clip prompting the ban was reportedly posted by Greek users of the website and dubbed Ataturk and Turks homosexuals.
Turkey goes into battle with Google
The move was nevertheless widely criticised by many Turks, including by President Abdullah Gul, who asked officials to find a solution.
Speaking on Turkish television on Saturday, Mr Yildirim said the ban had been lifted after "common sense prevailed".
"But we didn't get here easily - we have been through a lot in the process," he told NTV.
"I hope that they have also learned from this experience and the same thing will not happen again. YouTube will hopefully carry out its operations in Turkey within the limits of law in the future," he added.
In a statement, YouTube said that it had received reports that some users in Turkey were once again able to access its content.
"We want to be clear that a third party, not YouTube, have apparently removed some of the videos that have caused the blocking of YouTube in Turkey using our automated copyright complaint process," it explained.
"We are investigating whether this action is valid in accordance with our copyright policy," the company added.
In 2007, Turkey's parliament adopted a sweeping law that allowed a court to block any website where there was "sufficient suspicion" that a crime had occurred.
The eight crimes listed include child pornography, gambling, prostitution, and "crimes against Ataturk".
In June, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe said the law was being used to block access to more than 5,000 sites, making internet censorship in Turkey amongst the heaviest in the world. | Turkey has lifted its ban on YouTube, two years after it blocked access to the website because of videos deemed insulting to the country's founder. | 11659816 |
The Conservative peer said the project had "a pretty good pedigree" and would "hopefully be on BBC screens" in 2014.
Dramatised by the BBC in 1990, Dobbs' House of Cards novel recently inspired a US remake starring Kevin Spacey.
Borgen, created by Adam Price, tells of a politician who becomes Denmark's first woman prime minister.
Lord Dobbs confirmed to Sunday's edition of The World This Weekend on Radio 4 that he had "got together" with Price to work.
No details of the collaboration were forthcoming, though the author and politician did express an interest in telling the "real story" of Denis Thatcher.
"What a brilliant, brilliant character to base a play on," he said of Margaret Thatcher's late husband, describing him as "misunderstood" and "wonderfully strong".
The original House of Cards told of a conniving chief whip, played by Ian Richardson, who uses duplicity and guile to have himself elevated to the post of Conservative prime minister.
The US remake, produced by the online streaming service Netflix, stars Kevin Spacey and relocates the action to Washington DC. | House of Cards author Michael Dobbs has revealed he is working on a "very major project" with the creator of Danish political drama Borgen. | 22057148 |
Now that he has won the presidency, what has he promised - and can he deliver?
Where the next president stands on key issues
Pledge: Start process of "removing the more than two million criminal, illegal immigrants"
Can it be done? It might be difficult, mainly because there are only an estimated 178,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records currently in the US. Even if there were two million, beginning a mass deportation on that scale would be hard. However, he could start to recruit and train the thousands of extra people needed to enact such a deportation - although it is not immediately clear how he would afford the billions some have suggested it would cost.
Pledge: Build a wall dividing the US and Mexico
Can it be done? Perhaps the most famous, or infamous, or Mr Trump's ideas, the President-elect says he wants to begin implementing plans for the construction of a "beautiful" wall along the southern US border immediately. Beginning it will be one thing though, finishing another. Tightening border security and building on US territory is well within his mandate, but details on the cost and practicalities of the scheme are yet to be worked out. Mr Trump insists the Mexicans will foot the bill.
How realistic is Donald Trump's wall?
Pledge: Denying visa-free travel to countries who refuse to take back their citizens
Can it be done? In theory he can, under Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. In fact, President Barack Obama has used the act to block visas for certain groups. But he restricted it to very specific groups, like people under UN travel bans and those helping the Syrian government commit human rights abuses, and it has never been applied to entire countries.
Pledge: Take action to appoint a new Supreme Court judge
Can it be done? There is a vacancy in the top US court after the death of conservative Antonin Scalia. President Obama has nominated a replacement but the Republican-controlled Senate has refused to consider it. Mr Trump will now be able to fill Mr Scalia's seat, tipping the balance towards conservative-leaning officials. What's more, with others on the panel aged over 70, he could get to make further appointments should they die, influencing decisions on everything from abortion to freedom of the press for years to come.
Pledge: Repealing every Obama executive order
Can it be done? Yes. His vow to overturn the executive orders would be within his powers bequeathed by the office. President Obama made 32 executive orders during his time in office, including one lifting the remaining sanctions on Myanmar (Burma). His most wide-reaching and controversial one was probably his plan to lift the threat of deportation to millions of undocumented migrants and give them the right to work. That faced legal challenges and is now set to be reversed.
Pledge: Scrapping Obamacare
Can it be done? Mr Trump has called President Obama's healthcare reforms a disaster and says he will ask Congress to repeal them on day one of his term. Senior Republicans share Mr Trump's view and the party now controls both houses. Despite this, repealing Obamacare will be difficult, with Mr Trump having to find a way to overcome a Democrat filibuster in the Senate, scrap thousands of pages of associated regulations, and not least tackle what will replace it for the millions of America now receiving affordable care.
Pledge: Restrictions on White House officials becoming lobbyists
Can it be done? In theory he would need the support of Congress, which some have suggested is unlikely considering its impact on members' future earning potential.
Pledge: Term limits for members of Congress
Can it be done? This idea was first tabled back in 1994 by the GOP and still hasn't come to fruition. Whether Mr Trump can do it remains to be seen. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said soon after Mr Trump's election: "I would say we have term limits now - they're called elections".
Pledge: Cancellation of all payments to UN climate change programmes
Can it be done? Mr Trump has widespread support for scrapping the payment to the Green Climate Fund among his Republican colleagues - who have retained control of both Houses - so he won't face much opposition should he choose to repeal it. His distrust of the Paris Agreement is also shared with many Republicans. But the deal has been ratified so it's now international law, and would take him four years to withdraw from it.
Pledge: Using that money to fix US infrastructure
Can it be done? Putting money into infrastructure has been a popular campaign pledge for both Mr Trump and Hillary Clinton. But Mr Trump will need every cent he can find to fund the $1tn (£800bn) plan he unveiled in the last days of the campaign.
Pledge: Cut taxes
Can it be done? Mr Trump's promise is traditional Republican territory and is likely to appeal to even the most anti-Trump party members in Congress. The major question is whether Mr Trump can get along with the Republican party's leaders. Conciliatory gestures have been made, though - House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, who distanced himself from Mr Trump during the campaign, now says "we will work hand-in-hand on a positive agenda to tackle this country's big challenges". Generally, presidents submit their first budgets in February.
Pledge: To label China a currency manipulator
Can it be done? Mr Trump could sign an executive order labelling the country a currency manipulator on his first day in office. However, it is likely it would have little impact, beyond annoying China. | Throughout the campaign, Donald Trump spelled out on several occasions what his priorities would be in his first 100 days in office. | 37862521 |
An amendment to the Housing Bill, currently going through Parliament, will limit occupation rights for new tenancies to five years at the most.
Labour said the move would break up communities.
But the government said it would improve the ability of councils to give homes to those who need them most.
Up to now, most council tenants have been allowed to remain in their homes for as long as they wanted.
In some cases, tenants can even pass their properties to a next of kin.
"People will be astonished that ministers are legislating to deny families a stable home," said John Healey, Labour's housing spokesman.
"This will cause worry and upheaval for tenants, and break up communities."
If the amendment is passed into law, councils will have to provide fixed-term tenancies of between two and five years.
At the end of the term, local authorities could extend the lease or ask a tenant to move.
However, the rule change will only apply to new tenants. Existing householders will not be affected.
"It is only right that tenancies are reviewed after several years, to identify whether the circumstances of tenants have changed," said a spokesperson for the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG).
"This is about ensuring we make the best use of our social housing, based on need and income." | Future council tenants in England are likely to lose the right to stay in their homes for life, the government has said. | 35065282 |
GoFundMe removed some campaigns, saying they fell foul of its rules regarding hate speech and abuse.
James Alex Fields Jr, 20, is being held in police custody after a car rammed into a crowd of protesters.
One woman died in the incident, and 19 other people were injured.
GoFundMe had removed "multiple" campaigns for Mr Fields, a spokesman told Reuters.
"Those campaigns did not raise any money, and they were immediately removed," said director of strategic communications Bobby Whithorne.
Kickstarter and Indiegogo, fellow crowdfunding platforms, said they had not seen any campaigns in support of Mr Fields and a spokesman for Kickstarter pointed out that the site did not allow fund-raising for personal needs or legal defence.
Both platforms added that they were monitoring the situation.
A check by the BBC found no evidence of such fundraising efforts on any of the three sites.
There are several GoFundMe campaigns in support of victims injured while protesting against the white nationalist march.
However, there are at least two campaigns in support of those who marched at Charlottesville at an "alternative" crowd-funding site called Rootbocks, which uses the slogan: "No Censorship. No Limits."
One seeks to gather funds for Nathan Damigo - the founder of a white nationalist group - to bring legal action against the city of Charlottesville.
The campaign argues that Mr Damigo's First Amendment rights were "violated" when he was arrested at the event.
About $9,000 (£6,900) has so far been raised out of a $50,000 goal.
Other technology sites are closely managing the discussion of incidents at Charlottesville.
Facebook said it would remove links to an article on a neo-Nazi website denigrating Heather Heyer - the woman who died - unless links to the piece condemned it.
The site in question, the Daily Stormer, was also forced to switch domain registrars twice in 24 hours after GoDaddy and Google both expelled it from their services that allow customers to register web addresses.
Later on Monday, other tech platforms used by the site - including email newsletter provider Sendgrid and business software firm Zoho - said they had also terminated services.
Companies responsible for content posted on their websites were in a difficult position when it came to policing offensive speech, said Prof Eric Heinze at Queen Mary University of London.
"The problem is with Facebook [and others] you have these large platforms that basically replace the town square and public park," he explained.
"You're giving a private company a censorship function."
He added that while companies are within their rights to remove content that offends them, the action can still prove controversial.
"This issue is not a solved one, it's something our society will not be able to completely iron out in the foreseeable future." | GoFundMe and other crowdfunding sites have taken a tough stance on campaigns for a man arrested following violence at a far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. | 40935650 |
Media playback is unsupported on your device
18 January 2015 Last updated at 17:51 GMT
Sudesh Patel has been running the shop since it opened in February last year but the raids have meant losses of more than £15,000.
Met Police believes one gang is behind the robberies. Mr Patel said more police patrols in the area would help to make them feel more safe.
Islington Council said it had spent more than £2 million on CCTV in the area. BBC London's Emilia Papadopoulos reports. | The manager of a shop that has been raided three times in six months has warned it could "disappear" if the council and police do not act quickly. | 30869382 |
The mathematician and computer scientist was one of the world's foremost AI experts.
As a student, he built one of the first neural-network learning machines, using vacuum tubes.
He went on to cofound the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Artificial Intelligence Lab, in 1959, with John McCarthy.
Prof Minsky's ideas and influence were wide-ranging - from computational linguistics, mathematics and robotics - but underpinning it all was a desire, in his own words, "to impart to machines the human capacity for commonsense reasoning".
He viewed the brain as a machine whose functions could be replicated in a computer.
And his 1985 book, The Society of Mind, is considered a seminal work in exploring the diversity of mechanisms that interact in intelligence and thought.
His last book, The Emotion Machine, continued the theme, offering a new model for how minds worked.
Some experts have said the field of artificial intelligence is currently experiencing something of a golden age, with deep-learning neural networks making advances in both speech and image recognition.
But, in one of his last interviews, with MIT Technology Review last year, Prof Minsky said there had been "very little growth in artificial intelligence" in the past decade, adding current work had been "mostly attempting to improve systems that aren't very good and haven't improved much in two decades".
By contrast, he said, "the 1950s and 1960s were wonderful - something new every week".
And he hinted he was against large technology companies such as Google and Facebook getting involved the field of AI.
"We have to get rid of the big companies and go back to giving support to individuals who have new ideas because attempting to commercialise existing things hasn't worked very well," he said.
Daniela Rus, director of the lab that Prof Minsky cofounded, now known as the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, said: "Marvin Minsky helped create the vision of artificial intelligence as we know it today."
"The challenges he defined are still driving our quest for intelligent machines and inspiring researchers to push the boundaries in computer science."
Meanwhile, Prof Nicholas Negroponte, cofounder of MIT's Media Lab, said: "Marvin talked in riddles that made perfect sense, were always profound and often so funny that you would find yourself laughing days later.
"His genius was so self-evidence that it defined 'awesome'. The lab bathed in his reflected light."
Prof Minsky helped advise the director Stanley Kubrick about AI for his movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. One of the characters in the film, Victor Kaminski, was named in his honour.
He was also a talented pianist and, in 1981, wrote an influential paper on the connections between music, psychology and the mind.
He also invented the earliest confocal scanning microscope.
He received many awards over the years, including the Turing Award - the highest honour in computer science - in 1969.
Prof Minsky is survived by his wife, Gloria Rudisch Minsky, and three children, Henry, Juliana, and Margaret Minsky. | Marvin Minsky, one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, has died of a cerebral haemorrhage, aged 88. | 35409119 |
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office also noted a history of heart disease, asthma and substance abuse.
Weiland, who was 48, was found dead on his tour bus outside a hotel in Bloomington, Minneapolis, on 3 December.
The medical examiner determined his death was an accident.
Bloomington police said at the time they recovered a small amount of cocaine on the tour bus.
Weiland rose to fame with the Stone Temple Pilots, becoming one of the most commercially successful US bands in the early 1990s.
After the band split up in 2003, Weiland went on to front supergroup Velvet Revolver alongside Slash, Matt Sorum and Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses and Dave Kushner of Wasted Youth.
Weiland had a long history of substance abuse-related arrests - in 1995, he was convicted of buying crack cocaine and sentenced to probation.
He was jailed in 1999 for violating his probation after being convicted of heroin possession in 1998, and four years later was sentenced to three years' probation for drug possession.
In 2008, he was sentenced to eight days in jail after pleading no contest to a drink driving charge.
Velvet Revolver frequently had to alter schedules to accommodate Weiland's court appearances and spells in rehab, parting ways the following year, blaming the singer's "erratic behaviour".
He later returned to the reformed Stone Temple Pilots - but in 2013 they, too, ejected him from the band, claiming he had been "misappropriating" their name to further his solo career. | Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland died from a toxic mix of drugs including cocaine, alcohol and ecstasy, a US medical examiner has said. | 35132631 |
Kingsley Burrell was detained in March 2011 after West Midlands Police attended a disturbance in Birmingham.
Mr Burrell, 29, was taken to a unit in the city and then moved to hospital where he died from a cardiac arrest.
Four police officers face a misconduct hearing at the end of June.
The six-week inquest also found a covering placed over Mr Burrell's face should have been removed by ambulance workers, hospital staff and police.
Speaking outside the court, Mr Burrell's sister Kadisha Brown-Burrell said if there had been an unlawful killing verdict the family would "see that as having justice".
"But having a narrative verdict is like telling a story but not naming any individual in order to prosecute those individuals", she said.
Assistant Chief Constable Garry Forsyth said: "We do not underestimate the impact Kingsley Burrell's death and the subsequent investigation has had on both his family and the wider community.
"Crucial lessons have been learned from this tragic case and how the force manages people who are detained with mental and physical health needs.
"In 2013 West Midlands Police launched its street triage scheme. This has seen the force team up with regional NHS Trusts to launch specialist units that crews officers with psychiatric nurses and paramedics to answer calls involving people thought to be experiencing mental ill health."
Ms Brown-Burrell said she was "sick of hearing about lessons learned" because in the past "nothing has been learned".
Restraint is used when agents of the state - including police officers, medical staff, hired security workers and even teachers - need to deal with potentially violent situations.
The aim is for staff to bring the person - or people - under control quickly.
For example, a prison officer might consider using restraint if a confrontation between prisoners was escalating.
Professionals who use restraint are required to undergo training. They have to be able to assess a volatile situation quickly, choose the right method to deal with it and be able to move from one technique to another in a fluid situation.
The Home Office says custody officers who escort detainees have to have passed a course on escorting safely.
Read more: Q&A: How is restraint used in the UK?
The West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson said he would ask for a detailed report and "would scrutinise the case in detail and hold the police to account".
He said: "Lessons need to be learned by the agencies involved so that these tragic incidents are not repeated.
"One death is one too many, whatever the circumstances."
Mr Burrell's sister Kadisha Brown-Burrell told Birmingham Coroners Court she had visited the mental health unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and had been concerned by his condition.
"He couldn't move his head, couldn't move his body, couldn't move his shoulders.
"[He] had three lumps, one on his forehead."
She told the inquest when she visited the following day her brother had urinated and had been left on the floor in handcuffs for five or six hours.
"He said that while he was in the QE during assessment he was on the floor, and all he wanted was a glass of water," she said.
The jury concluded its findings by saying there had been a "gross failure to provide or procure" basic medical attention in response to an obvious need. Members of Mr Burrell's family reacted with applause.
Campaigners have called for a public inquiry and that those responsible are held to account.
Ms Brown-Burrell said the family would be approaching the Crown Prosecution Service to review last year's decision not to bring criminal prosecutions against anyone involved.
"There is obviously a culprit out there", she said.
The Birmingham Coroner, Louise Hunt, promised she would write to the Home Office, the College of Policing, the Association of Ambulance Service Chief Executives, and the secretary of state for health to ensure lessons are learned nationally. | Prolonged restraint and a failure to provide basic medical attention contributed to the death of a student who was detained under mental health laws, an inquest jury has ruled. | 32754484 |
Swindon have won six of their ten League One games since Williams took interim charge in December after Martin Ling resigned citing "health reasons".
In January, the 35-year-old former Brighton Under-21 and reserve team coach was made manager until the end of the 2015-16 season.
"Luke's come in and results speak for themselves," Power told BBC Wiltshire.
"That is something that we're looking at at the moment and, you know, it might happen fairly soon."
Swindon have risen to 12th in the table under Williams' management and are now only seven points outside the play-off spots.
"This season has been a bit transitional, it wasn't meant to be like that but through injuries and other reasons it's turned into one of those," Power said.
"At the moment we're on a good run and if we finish strongly it might actually be a fruitful season.
"But definitely, the crux of the team and a lot of the players that wouldn't necessarily have played if those injuries hadn't occurred have come on and are now some of the strongest players in the side
"It's definitely a team we're excited about for next season." | Swindon Town chairman Lee Power says manager Luke Williams could be given a new contract "fairly soon". | 35753712 |
North Wales Police said the incident occurred in the area around Love Lane and High Street in Denbigh at 04:00 BST on Saturday.
The arrested man remains in custody.
Det Ch Insp Alun Oldfield said officers were "at the scene within minutes" and the "public have been assisting officers with their enquiries". | A man has been arrested after a stabbing incident which left two people injured in Denbighshire. | 40911667 |
Pond Park Primary School got the call just after 09:00 BST saying a device had been left there.
Police initially asked for the children to be kept in the school while they carried out a search of the grounds.
They then evacuated the school and have begun to search inside the building.
So far nothing has been found.
The 611 children have been moved to the nearby Laurelhill Community College. | Around 600 children have been moved out of a Lisburn primary school after a bomb warning call this morning. | 32513592 |
Michael Brown, from Herefordshire, said he was offered £1,850 for his prize-winning cow, even though he claims it is worth up to £15,000.
The charbron formal is one of two of his herd to be culled after testing positive for the disease.
Defra said it has a "clear and well-established" system in place for determining compensation.
The system takes into account an animal's pedigree status, type, age and sex.
But Mr Brown said it does not take into consideration the higher prices some cattle can reach.
More updates on this and other stories in Herefordshire
"It's tragic. Tragic to think they are going to go off at that stupid price when they're worth an awful lot more than money," he said.
"How can they average everything with different breeds and quality when we are talking about probably the best cattle in the country - I hope anyway...
"We can see prices for these cattle well into the £20,000's and bulls up to £100,000.
"It's going to have a very serious impact."
He said the charbron formal was one of the best cattle he had ever had.
Mr Brown, who breeds pedigree Charolais cattle in Leominster, has bulls that are free of TB but he cannot move or sell them due to restrictions in place because of the testing.
Almost 11,000 badgers were killed in 2016 as part of government plans to control the spread of bovine TB.
Defra said England - which has the highest incidence of the disease in Europe - will apply for Officially TB-Free (OTF) status for half the country this year, two years earlier than planned.
•Bovine TB is an infectious disease that mainly affects cattle
•It also infects other animals, including the badger
•Cattle with bovine TB are most often identified through testing using the tuberculin skin test before they develop obvious signs of the disease
•This is because the disease usually progresses slowly and it can take some time for clinical signs to appear
•When TB breaks out in a herd, affected cows are destroyed, and movement restrictions are placed on a farm
•The English and Welsh governments estimate they have spent about £500m in the last decade on testing, compensation and research | A cattle breeder wants the government to increase compensation to farmers whose livestock are infected with TB. | 39644312 |
Root leads England for the four-match series after being named as Alastair Cook's successor five months ago.
"I'm really excited for what we could potentially be capable of in the future," the 26-year-old Yorkshire batsman told BBC Sport.
Hampshire all-rounder Liam Dawson retains his place in the side.
England, ranked fourth in the world, are looking to beat South Africa in a home Test series for the first time since 1998.
Former England batsman James Taylor, who retired from the sport in April 2016 because of a serious heart condition, will ring the bell to signal five minutes before the start of play.
The forecast is largely dry for the next five days, with temperatures in north London expected to reach 29C on Thursday.
Dawson, 27, who made his Test debut in India last year, has been picked ahead of Middlesex seamer Toby Roland-Jones.
With Dawson joining Moeen Ali, England will field two spinners in a Lord's Test for the first time since 1993.
"Liam's character is exceptional. I thought the way he bowled in India, and the way he's performed throughout this season, has been brilliant," said Root.
"When he came into the side he bowled with great control, he looked very at home in the environment and I think he'll complement the rest of our attack very well.
"Look at Moeen - he's one of our best batters, he's one of the best batters in the country, and his bowling can be an add-on to that, so he can be very aggressive when he gets the opportunity to bowl, so I think it's a very exciting team.
"I'm really looking forward to getting out there and getting stuck in."
The recalled Gary Ballance is set to bat at three, with Root at four and wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow at five.
Dawson, a right-handed batsman and left-arm spinner, made an unbeaten 66 on his Test debut in Chennai and will bat at number eight.
England XI: Alastair Cook (Essex), Keaton Jennings (Durham), Gary Ballance (Yorkshire), Joe Root (Yorkshire, capt), Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire, wk), Ben Stokes (Durham), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), Liam Dawson (Hampshire), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), James Anderson (Lancashire). Mark Wood (Durham),
South Africa (probable): Dean Elgar (capt), Heino Kuhn, Hashim Amla, JP Duminy, Temba Bavuma, Theunis de Bruyn, Quinton de Kock (wk), Vernon Philander, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Morne Morkel.
Media playback is not supported on this device
It has been a long wait for Root, with England concentrating on limited-overs action since his appointment was announced in February.
"Every time you go out and play, you are under a huge amount of pressure anyway, and you don't want to put yourself under any more," said Root, who is England's 80th Test captain.
"Whenever we can offload that and have a bit of fun in the dressing room then that should happen.
"I think it's really good for the environment - the guys naturally get on well with each other, it's not something that's fake."
With a Test average of 52.80 and ranked third in the world, Root is hopeful that captaincy will not affect his performances with the bat.
"I want to go about my batting as I would in any other Test match," he told BBC Sport.
"I'll still try to make sure I react quickly to the situation and play what's in front of me."
Opener Cook, who retains his place, is back in the ranks for the first time since 2012.
"It has felt forever since that announcement, so now I am really looking forward to the next five days," said Root.
"I have been speaking to a few people, and thinking about how I want things to go because I want to be quite natural and instinctive when I get out there, with a good balance of both.
"I spoke to a few of the players, ex-captains as well, and it was nice to pick their brains to see what they went through in their tenure, to get prepared for what is around the corner."
Having not played a Test match since an innings defeat by India in Chennai in December, England now have seven Tests in the space of nine weeks this summer before the Ashes series in Australia begins in November.
After taking on South Africa, they face West Indies in three home matches.
South Africa head into the series with a number of high-profile absentees, including captain Faf du Plessis, who is temporarily unavailable after the birth of his first child.
Opening batsman Dean Elgar will skipper the tourists in his absence for their first Test in England since winning the 2012 series 2-1.
He is looking forward to unleashing fast bowler Kagiso Rabada on England again.
The 22-year-old , who has 71 wickets in his 17 Tests, took four wickets as the hosts collapsed to defeat in May in the final match of the one-day series which England won 2-1.
And at Centurion in January last year, he took 13 wickets in a 280-run home victory which reduced the Test score to 2-1 in England's favour.
"He's been a find and he's taken to international cricket brilliantly," said Elgar.
"You can see the way he's bowling in the nets. He's fresh and willing to go. If he hits his straps he's going to be something exciting to watch." | New England Test captain Joe Root is relishing the prospect of taking charge for the first Test against South Africa which starts at Lord's on Thursday. | 40507467 |
Conservative leader David Cameron said an SNP-backed Labour government was a "chilling prospect" as he appeared with Boris Johnson in London.
Ed Miliband said Labour would not end up borrowing more than the Tories if he formed the next government.
Nick Clegg said the Lib Dems would "guarantee stability" after 7 May.
The deputy prime minister warned of the prospect of a "second election before Christmas" if no party won an outright victory and either the Conservatives or Labour attempted to govern on their own.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage is spending the day in the Kent seat he hopes to win for his party, after taking out a two-page advertisement in the Daily Telegraph urging people "to vote with their heart".
With two days to go before polling day:
Polls suggest the election is still too close to call, and in the final days the parties are focusing on their core messages amid speculation about post-election deals if there is a hung Parliament.
What are the top issues for each political party at the 2015 general election?
Policy guide: Where the parties stand
In an interview with the BBC, Mr Miliband said he did not accept the Institute for Fiscal Studies' assessment that debt would be £90 billion higher in 2019/20 if Labour's plans were implemented rather than the Conservatives.
And referring to his 8ft stone monument of pledges, he claimed his campaign vice chairman Lucy Powell had been wrong when she said no-one had suggested carving them into stone meant "he will absolutely not" break them.
The Labour leader also acknowledged for the first time that he might not win an outright victory on Thursday, by making clear his plan to abolish non-dom status for foreigners would be non-negotiable in any post-election deal.
He spoke as Labour was out campaigning on the NHS, publishing what it calls a leaked document suggesting 98 of England's 240 trusts are expected to have run up a combined deficit of £750m by next April.
Speaking in the target seat of Bedford, Mr Miliband said the NHS was facing a "financial bombshell", which would result in two-thirds of hospitals having to make substantial cuts this year.
Appealing to undecided voters as he seeks to improve on the 258 seats his party won in 2010, the Labour leader said the election would be "the closest we have ever seen in our history".
Mr Cameron told BBC Radio 5 live that the NHS had made "real progress" in the past five years.
"We have put the money in, we have got rid of bureaucracy, which has kept money on the front line," he said. "The key thing for the future is to make sure we have the strong economy that can support the strong NHS."
Analysis by political editor Nick Robinson
By 10 o'clock on Thursday evening the people will have spoken but the questions which will then follow look likely to be - "What on earth did they mean by that? Who actually won? Who has the right to govern?"
Unless the polls are wrong - which they very well might be - and unless there is a late switch in opinion - which there still could be - most players and pundits are now expecting an election that is too close to call and may produce a result which could allow for either David Cameron or Ed Miliband to become prime minister.
So, what is obsessing politicians of all parties behind-the-scenes is the debate about what a legitimate government would look like.
Read Nick's blog
The Conservatives, which won 307 seats in 2010, are targeting seats held by Liberal Democrats, as well as appealing to UKIP supporters and Conservatives who might not bother to go to the polling station, in an attempt to win an overall majority.
While SNP MPs were perfectly entitled to make their voice heard in Westminster, Mr Cameron told the BBC, it would be "unhealthy" for a future government to be reliant on a party that "did not want the UK to be a success".
Mr Clegg said his party would do a "lot better" than commentators were suggesting as he launched a 1,000 mile "dash" from Land's End to John O'Groats, taking in key marginal seats in Cornwall, Somerset, South Wales and the Midlands.
Opinion polls suggest the party could lose up to half of the 57 seats it won five years ago.
Amid speculation about possible coalition deals in the event of another hung Parliament, Mr Clegg said the party with the "greatest mandate" in terms of seats and votes won should have the "space and time to try and assemble a government".
The Lib Dems, he told Radio 4's Today programme, would be prepared to talk to other parties - except UKIP and the SNP - in a "grown-up" way, saying they would be "guarantors of stability at a time of great uncertainty".
But he warned of a "shambles" if the Conservatives or Labour try to form a minority government and rely on the informal support of other parties to get their legislation through Parliament.
"The last thing Britain needs is a second election before Christmas," he said. "But that is exactly what will happen if Ed Miliband and David Cameron put their own political interest ahead of the national interest."
Meeting the voters on the campaign trail can be fraught with danger for any politician seeking election, as a quick delve into the BBC archives displays.
Watch video from the vaults on the BBC News Timeliner
The best of BBC News' Election 2015 specials | The main party leaders are criss-crossing the UK appealing to undecided voters in key seats as the election campaign enters its final two days. | 32586421 |
It happened on the A93 at Bridge of Canny, near Inchmarlo, shortly after 09:20.
The woman - believed to be in her 40s - was freed by firefighters.
She was then taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary with what were thought to be potentially serious, but not life-threatening, injuries. | A woman has been taken to hospital after being freed following a crash in Aberdeenshire. | 40302459 |
Warriors took a 17-0 lead through a Tom Heathcote penalty and converted tries from Wynand Olivier and Matt Cox.
But Graham Kitchener replied for Tigers with Donncha O'Callaghan in the sin-bin, before the Worcester lock was red carded minutes into the second half.
Home duo Gareth Milasinovich and Matt Cox were also sin-binned as Tigers capitalised through Telusa Veainu, a penalty try and Lachlan McCaffrey.
Worcester, previously unbeaten at home this season, looked dangerous from the off and opened up a 17-0 lead within 22 minutes.
Heathcote kicked an early penalty and then added two conversions as Olivier collected the fly-half's pass following a Worcester scrum to score under the posts before Cox dived between the sticks.
But Leicester put Warriors on the back foot and with O'Callaghan sent to the sin-bin for an offside offence, former Worcester forward Kitchener barged through just minutes before the break.
Worcester, who played the first half with the wind, were down to 14 men soon after the restart when O'Callaghan received a second yellow for bringing down the Leicester maul.
Milasinovich came on to make his Premiership debut but was binned shortly after and Tigers made their men advantage count as Veainu dived over in the corner.
Heathcote and Owen Williams then exchanged penalties before referee Wayne Barnes awarded Leicester a penalty try, with the conversion putting them in front for the first time.
Worcester ended the match with 13 men as Cox was also sin-binned, allowing Leicester to sneak a crucial fourth try though McCaffrey.
And Williams' conversion ensured Worcester also missed out on a losing bonus point as Leicester moved up to second in the Premiership table.
Worcester director of rugby Dean Ryan:
"Donncha O'Callaghan is distraught. He has a red card and I am not sure it needed to be one. I am not sure why Wayne Barnes needed to go to that. He (O'Callaghan) has been great for us since he came here.
"We were under enormous pressure. They were on top in the scrum and in the drive. We played really well and were under massive pressure near the end with 13 men. We played some decent stuff.
"We are frustrated that we didn't win. We are capable of winning that game and we have to start talking that language.
"We just made some silly mistakes near the end which was under huge pressure."
Leicester director of rugby Richard Cockerill:
"The game is 80 minutes and we did some good things and exerted some good pressure. The penalty count was pretty heavy.
"That wind was strong and we made some basic errors in the first half to let them in. We were good for our win although it was tough for Worcester to get nothing because they played pretty well.
"We created some opportunities but we were pretty inaccurate at times as well. If Worcester play like that, they will have no problems staying in this competition, I have no doubt of that.
"As for the yellow cards, Barnes is a world-class ref and refereed it to the letter of the law. They were under a lot of pressure."
Worcester Warriors: Pennell; Heem, Olivier, Mills, Vuna; Heathcote, Arr; Leleimalefaga, Annett, Rees, O'Callaghan, Barry, Cox, Betty, Dowson (capt).
Replacements: Bregvadze, Ruskin, Milasinovich, Cavubati, Mama, Mulchrone, Lamb, Howard.
Sin-bin: O'Callaghan, Milasinovich, Cox
Red card: O'Callaghan
Leicester Tigers: Veainu; Thompstone, Betham, Bai, Goneva; Williams, Harrison; Aguero, Bateman, Cole, Slater (capt), Kitchener, Williams, Croft, Crane.
Replacements: Youngs, McCaffrey, Ayerza, Balmain, Barrow, Kitto, Bell, Smith.
Ref: Wayne Barnes
For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter. | Leicester overcame 14-man Worcester in an extraordinary encounter at Sixways. | 34976972 |
The Quins skipper is a leading contender to captain England in the upcoming Six Nations.
Evans told BBC London 94.9: "He's Richie McCaw-like, in the way that he leads by example.
"He's not one of those guys that will mouth off but he leads by example round the field."
Media playback is not supported on this device
The former All Blacks international continued: "He's one of those guys that you need in the pack when things are going tough. He's always the guy that puts his hand up.
"He showed that especially in the Northampton game on Friday. He really stood out even though we were going backwards."
Robshaw has been named alongside team-mates Joe Marler, Jordan Turner-Hall and Mike Brown in England's 32-man elite player squad for the Six Nations.
Harlequins are preparing for Saturday's Heineken Cup match against Gloucester, having won the reverse fixture 28-9 at Kingsholm in November.
Evans said: "We've parked the Premiership for a while, top of the table there, so looking forward to a couple of really exciting games in the Heineken Cup and hopefully set ourselves up for a quarter-final if we can.
"Every year you come across a team you play lots. Last season it seemed to be Wasps and this season it seems to be Gloucester. I think both teams will know each other inside out.
"We're really looking forward to getting back to the Stoop, seven of our last 10 games have been away so we're looking forward to getting back there and taking on a team that will be smarting after losing to Worcester."
You can hear more from Nick Evans and Harlequins director of rugby Conor O'Shea on "The Scrum" on BBC London 94.9FM on Thursday at 2100 GMT. (Also available on iPlayer and London Rugby Union Podcast) | Harlequins fly-half Nick Evans has likened Chris Robshaw's leadership to that of New Zealand's World Cup-winning captain Richie McCaw. | 16516874 |
The tie is level at 1-1 after Saturday's first leg and Reading will hope to exploit home advantage.
"There's still a long way to go," he told BBC Radio Berkshire. "We'll still need to be focused on what will be a very tough game at home.
"It's about having the belief in ourselves and the will to win."
Reading will be without captain Paul McShane on Tuesday following his red card in Saturday's first leg.
Their goalscorer at Craven Cottage, Jordan Obita, may also miss out after the left-back was carried off on a stretcher with an ankle injury at full-time.
"We're happy with the draw and we're going into a home game, which is good," Stam said.
"But, we've always talked about experience and what experienced players can do for the team and that's going to be key. Are they willing to do everything in their power to get that result?
"By doing that and trusting in their abilities to get a result, that's what has worked for us throughout this season." | Reading manager Jaap Stam expects his players to cope with a renewed test from Fulham in their Championship play-off semi-final second leg. | 39921054 |
Bonnyrigg Rose FC said 30-year-old Shaun Woodburn died in "tragic circumstances" on Sunday.
In an online post, they said he was a "true gentleman" who decided to take a break from football in July 2015 to concentrate on his young family.
Police said they were treating Mr Woodburn's death as murder.
He died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary after suffering serious injuries in an incident in Great Junction Street at around 02:00 on Sunday.
Bonnyrigg Rose said Mr Woodburn joined the the club in February 2012 and he was part of the team which won the East of Scotland Cup in 2013.
Paying tribute to him, a team statement said: "He didn't have a bad word to say about anyone and nobody had a bad word to say about him, which makes this all the harder to understand.
"Still only 30 he had his whole young life ahead of him to look forward to.
"Am sure like many of our supporters who have heard the news over the past 24 hours and who knew Shaun, we are truly heartbroken."
He had also played with Newtongrange Star, Whitehill Welfare and Loanhead Amateurs.
In a post on their Facebook page, Newtongrange Star said Mr Woodburn was a "very fine player" and a "good man".
Police said a 16-year-old boy and an 18-year-old man had been arrested in connection with the incident.
They are expected to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court later.
Det Insp Graham Grant appealed for help from anyone with information which could help the police investigation.
He added: "My thoughts are with the family and friends of the man who has sadly passed away.
"A murder inquiry is now being carried out and there will continue to be a police presence in Leith as we conduct our investigation and provide support to the local community following these tragic events." | A man who died after a disturbance in Leith on New Year's Day has been named on social media as a former junior footballer. | 38488122 |
Unite wants a meeting in the United States with senior executives with planned production of the new Dragon engine cut in half from 2018.
General secretary Len McCluskey said the scaling back of the investment was "extremely concerning."
The Welsh Government said "high level discussions" were planned to ensure the plant "continued to play a key role."
Mr McCluskey is hosting an emergency meeting of senior Unite Ford officials at the union's headquarters in London on Thursday.
Last week, the American car giant blamed changes in global demand for cutting back the planned investment in Bridgend from £181m to £100m.
The plant makes 500,000 engines a year for Ford's own cars but it is due to stop producing 250,000 engines for Jaguar Land Rover in two years' time.
But now, with plans to make only 125,000 of the new Dragon engines a year, unions say these figures suggest job numbers are "clearly" unsustainable.
A total of 1,850 workers are employed at Bridgend, which has been in operation since 1980.
Union officials said they feared last week there were attempts to run down the factory.
Mr McCluskey said: "It raises serious questions over Ford's long-term intentions for Bridgend and its commitment to its entire UK operation.
"Ford needs to provide answers fast if it is to head off speculation that it has a hidden exit plan for its UK sites.
"The Welsh Government has already backed Unite's calls for more transparency from Ford and it is now time for Theresa May and the Westminster government to do the same.
"Ultimately, the decisions around Ford UK are made around the boardroom table in Detroit.
"Today we are calling on the most senior Ford executives in the US to meet with myself and Unite to discuss these critical matters."
Ford had planned to build 250,000 of the new engines a year from 2018, but that figure has been halved.
On Wednesday, a joint statement from Economy Secretary Ken Skates and Unite's Wales secretary Andy Richards called for long-term jobs protection.
"Whilst changes in global demand create challenges, by working together with the company and by investing in innovation we believe that there is a way to ensure Ford keeps high quality production and good quality jobs here in Wales," they said.
Ford said it did not plan any job losses among the 1,850-strong workforce and said it still had a "substantial commitment" to the plant.
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said it was "great to see the trade unions stepping up to the plate" on the matter.
Criticising the first minister's efforts, he added: "Carwyn Jones was in America last week and should have moved heaven and earth to secure a meeting with the board in Detroit.
"But workers were instead left with a leadership vacuum - and an anxious wait for reassurances." | Union leaders have called for assurances over the long-term future of Ford's Bridgend engine plant. | 37366633 |
Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace displays images by the photo-journalist Michael St Maur Sheil.
It looks at how the battlefields of World War One have changed over the past 100 years.
Michael said he had started the project in 2005 and explained what he wanted to achieve with the exhibition which has already been viewed in various locations including Paris, London and Istanbul.
"I am trying to show that what were places 100 years ago of horror and death, time and nature heals the wounds of war and actually they have now become landscapes of great peace and beauty," he said.
"The war is no longer a war of memory it has now become history, but the landscape still reflects that history.
"This project I started shooting in 2005 and the last picture was actually shot in December of last year so it has been a long process.
"Many of the pictures are shot early in the morning, because that is the time soldiers on both sides would be standing to with their weapons because you expected to be attacked at dawn."
Modern landscapes are portrayed alongside archive pictures in the exhibition.
The Somme experience is a particular feature and Michael draws on the contribution of soldiers from Ireland - north and south.
"I am delighted that it is here in Belfast, this exhibition after it is in Belfast will be going to Dublin and it is deliberately being done as part of reconciliation because for many years it has been impossible in the south to really pay honour to the soldiers that went off in 1914 for a very good reason, they thought they were proving themselves to be worthy of nationhood but when they came back in 1918 it was a different country," Michael added.
"With the Somme, July 1st is the day of the Ulster Division, but of course you have September 3 and September 9 when you have the Irish division at Guillemont and Ginchy and that again is reflected in this exhibition.
"If you like it is trying to show there is a shared experience, a common experience whichever persuasion you are - the Somme provides that."
Two photographs Michael picked out reflect the experiences of the 36th Ulster Division and the 16th Irish Division.
The first is a cemetery at Grandcourt in the north of France. The village was reached by part of the 36th Ulster Division on 1 July 1916.
"The Ulstermen had not only took their objectives on the day they went and got up against the German second line and they were held there," Michael said.
"They couldn't get reinforcements, they were running out of ammunition, they had no water and they basically thought they were surrounded and that is where they fought and died.
"This cemetery is for those men who were isolated in that lonely place, they died on July 1st. They were not buried until January and February of the next year when the ground was taken and that is why these are mass graves.
"For me this is one of the most significant cemeteries on the Somme battlefield."
The second photograph shows a location in Ginchy in France which was the scene of one of the main offensives by Irish nationalist troops during the Battle of the Somme in September 1916.
"The 16th Irish division actually attacked Guillemont on 3 September and this is Ginchy where they attacked on 9 September," Michael said.
"It is where a man called Tom Kettle was killed. Tom Kettle was a barrister, a professor in Dublin and a leading light of the Irish republican movement.
"In fact when war broke out he was actually in Belgium trying to buy weapons for the republican movement in Ireland.
"He is killed somewhere in this field and falls back into the arms of a man called Emmet Dalton who is an interesting character, because Emmet Dalton wins a military cross on the day. He is promoted to major in the British army and goes back to Dublin and joins the Irish Republican Army.
"We probably know him these days as the man who produced films like The Lion in Winter and The Spy Who Came in From The Cold."
Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace will be in the grounds of Belfast City Hall until 31 August. | Many people from Northern Ireland have travelled abroad to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of Somme this summer, but a new photographic exhibition in the grounds of Belfast City Hall allows them to reflect on the experiences of relatives from a vantage point closer to home. | 36826690 |
The 35-year-old former Liverpool captain, making his first league appearance for anyone other than the Reds, levelled in the 37th minute after Keane's penalty made it 2-1.
Gerrard, who was wearing Liverpool shinpads, charged forward from his own half and played the ball to Keane, who found Baggio Husidic and Gerrard turned his cross home from 10 yards.
Quincy Amarikwa had put the Earthquakes 2-0 up with a brace in the opening 25 minutes.
Former England midfielder Gerrard then won the penalty from which his former Liverpool team-mate Keane got Galaxy's first goal when San Jose's Tommy Thompson elbowed him.
And in the second half after levelling for Galaxy, Gerrard's low free-kick was turned in by Galaxy captain Keane on 64 minutes to make it 3-2.
Gerrard also hit the crossbar and had a goal disallowed when the referee called it back for a penalty following David Bingham's foul on Husidic. Keane stepped up to complete his hat-trick on 80 minutes.
Liverpudlian Gerrard left the pitch late on to a standing ovation and Sebastian Lletget added a late fifth.
"It was very pleasing to get off the mark. I'm starting to feel a little bit sharper, I'm very close to full fitness," Gerrard said.
"Galaxy coach Bruce Arena was shouting 'how you doing?' from about 60 minutes but I was pretending I couldn't hear him and kept looking away.
"I felt like a kid out there again. I didn't want to come off - I want to play as much football as I can. One of the reasons why I've come to this team was to start all the games and play as many minutes as possible.
"I was determined not to become a squad player. I still feel like I've got energy, I still love the game, I'm enjoying training and I'm settling in pretty nicely."
Gerrard made his Galaxy debut on Tuesday night as a half-time substitute in the US Open Cup defeat by Real Salt Lake.
But this was his first competitive start since leaving Liverpool at the end of the season and he made it in style. He became only the third player to score a goal, assist one and win a penalty in an MLS game this season, with former Serie A stars Sebastian Giovinco and Kaka the other two.
But, just like when he was presented on the pitch before their match with Toronto earlier this month, it was Republic of Ireland captain Keane who came away with the match ball following a hat-trick.
Gerrard said: "Robbie and I had that chemistry in Liverpool. When you're playing with good players, it's easy to connect. Robbie's on the wavelength - he's a very intelligent player. We've got a great understanding." | Steven Gerrard scored on his Major League Soccer debut and had a role in two of Robbie Keane's three goals as LA Galaxy beat San Jose Earthquakes 5-2. | 33086012 |
Jude Scott, the head of Cayman Finance which is part funded by the islands' government, said that publication of the ultimate beneficial owners of businesses in offshore centres would not be effective.
His comments come ahead of David Cameron's anti-corruption summit today where the Prime Minister will announce new rules on revealing foreign owners of property in Britain and a crackdown on businesses that fail to tackle fraud.
Mr Scott's comments appear to put paid to Mr Cameron's pledge in 2013 to "tear aside the cloak of secrecy" surrounding offshore tax jurisdictions by creating a publicly available register of beneficial owners.
Sources close to the British Virgin Islands government I have spoken to also said there was no push from the UK government for such a register in Britain's overseas territories as there was no international agreement for other countries to follow suit.
Both the Cayman Islands and the BVI have agreed to sharing details of any business owners with tax authorities and law enforcement bodies to tackle tax evasion and money laundering.
"When we look at moving to standards like those [public registers] they would really only be effective if they are applied to all financial centres whether they be G20 countries or in other international financial centres," Mr Scott told me.
"We are very confident that our model in the Cayman Islands will stand up to transparency at whatever level is implemented as a global standard.
"Where the problem comes in is when there is picking and choosing which jurisdictions need to live up to a higher standard.
"That creates problems."
The lack of movement on public registers of beneficial owners is likely to be criticised by campaigners for transparency.
Earlier this week, Mark Goldring, the chief executive of Oxfam in Britain, said the Prime Minister needed to "stand-up" to the UK's overseas territories.
"It's not good enough for information about company owners in UK-linked tax havens to be available only to HMRC [the UK's tax authority] - it needs to be fully public to ensure that governments and people around the world can claim the money they are owed and hold tax dodgers to account."
But Mr Scott said that critics of the Cayman Islands and other overseas territories were mistaken.
"There's an element of privacy that we should expect when we are doing legitimate transactions - much as if we go to our bank and we do a transaction," he said.
"There is an expectation that won't be made public and I think those are reasonable expectations.
"If we do breach laws then of course we should expect that our information is going to be provided to appropriate authorities."
He said that although the Cayman Islands allows investors to reduce what he described as "tax friction" it was not a way of avoiding tax as taxes were still paid in an investors home country and in the country investments were made.
I asked Mr Scott if critics who said that all offshore tax free jurisdictions should be closed down and had no economic purpose were wrong.
"Absolutely they are wrong and we would love to have the opportunity for them to be exposed to what is the proper and accurate and very positive story of how the Cayman Islands contributes in many different ways working with tremendous clients around the world to provide benefits in the global market place. | The head of the Cayman Islands' main finance organisation has said that critics of the offshore centre are "absolutely wrong". | 36273450 |
The Spitfires beat Barrow 3-1 on Tuesday to extend their unbeaten league run to eight matches.
Eastleigh have a game in hand on fifth-placed Tranmere, with four fixtures remaining in the regular season.
"You can't control other results. We have to keep concentrating on ourselves," Todd told BBC Radio Solent.
"You can only control your own games. It's hard not to look at the table, but you can't worry about it."
Eastleigh host fellow promotion chasers Tranmere in their final home game on 23 April and have taken four points from an available six from their last two games at Grimsby and against Barrow.
"We've got what we wanted from those games," said Todd. "The boys believe in themselves and they're really tight and working for each other." | Eastleigh manager Chris Todd has urged his players to focus on their own results after moving within a point of the National League play-off places. | 36033926 |
The 36-year-old world number 73 was in line for an automatic place after McIlroy withdrew on Wednesday because of fears about the Zika virus.
But he said he would not compete because his wife is due to give birth.
"I made the decision many months ago, before I was on the team, that I would not travel," he said.
In addition to McIlroy, Fiji's Vijay Singh and Australia's Marc Leishman have already pulled out of the Games because of the Zika issue, while major winners Adam Scott and Louis Oosthuizen have chosen not to appear for scheduling and family reasons.
World number one Jason Day says he will talk to his family about the risks of the Zika virus before deciding whether to play at the Games.
Find out how to get into golf with our special guide.
US-based McDowell, who won the US Open in 2010, says his decision centred around his wife Kristin being due to give birth to their second child shortly after the Olympic tournament from 11-14 August.
His statement added: "I have always been a proud member of Ireland's golf teams, from my amateur career through to playing in four World Cups of Golf and I wish the Irish Olympic team the very best of luck in Rio."
We've launched a new BBC Sport newsletter ahead of the Euros and Olympics, bringing all the best stories, features and video right to your inbox. You can sign up here. | Former US Open champion Graeme McDowell has ruled out the possibility of replacing Rory McIlroy for Ireland at the Rio Olympics this summer. | 36607729 |
With an agreement between the body's two largest political groups having broken down, this year's contest is unusually open.
Two Italians - social democrat Gianni Pittella and centre-right MEP Antonio Tajani - lead a packed field of seven candidates vying for the top job.
They are racing to secure votes to replace German Martin Schulz, who is not standing for a third term after five years in the post.
Whilst in recent years the position has emerged from agreements between the heavyweight groups, no such unity candidate is running this year.
Regardless of the result, Mr Pittella has warned that the time has now come for his group's informal co-operation with the centre-right to end.
That decision could have important consequences for the assembly's internal politics and the future direction of the EU.
As well as deciding on a new president, MEPs will also elect 14 vice-presidents and allocate MEPs to the body's 20 standing committees.
They will also debate intelligence sharing between national security agencies and the future of EU social and employment law.
Here's what's coming up in the week ahead...
In lieu of a full day's proceedings, there will simply be official announcements of the candidates for President, at 17.00 GMT.
The day will get underway at 08.00 GMT, when each of the candidates can make a short speech to outline their reasons for standing.
Voting by a secret ballot will get underway thereafter, with a candidate requiring a majority of the total valid votes that are cast - not necessarily a majority of the total number of MEPs - to be elected.
If no winner can be found after the first round, then there will be a second and then possibly a third secret ballot involving all the candidates.
If this is the case, then this may be the point when we see some candidates decide to withdraw.
If a winner has not been found after three ballots, then a fourth and final ballot will take place between the two candidates with the most votes in the third round.
The election has only been pushed to this final stage once before - when four ballots were required to elect Dutch MEP Piet Dankert in 1982.
If this happens, then it means the election could turn into an all-day affair.
The morning session has been earmarked for the first ballot for elections for the Parliament's 14 vice-presidents.
If required, then filling these posts may also require and second, and potentially third ballot in the afternoon.
MEPs will also vote to approve the size of the Parliament's 20 standing committees and two sub-committees.
The allocation of specific MEPs to different committees will be announced in the evening, before a confirmation vote on Thursday.
The chairs and vice-chairs of the committees will be chosen next week, when the new committees meet for the first time.
Before lunchtime, MEPs will have their first substantive debate, on Malta's time in charge of the EU's rotating presidency, which began this month.
Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat will make a speech outlining how his country's priorities for the role, due to last until the end of June.
In the afternoon MEPs will also be joined by European Council President Donald Tusk to debate last month's summit of EU leaders.
The occasion could provide an opportunity to chew over the many problems facing the bloc in the coming year.
After balloting to elect five parliamentary quaestors - or administrative MEPs - the evening will see a debate on talks for an EU-wide financial transactions tax.
Plans to introduce the tax were scuppered in mid-2012 after not enough member states agreed to it.
However a group of 10 EU states remain committed to implementing the plan under the controversial enhanced co-operation procedure.
The plans are strongly opposed by the UK, which has even launched an unsuccessful legal challenge against the plan.
In the evening, MEPs will also debate plans to get EU states to share more information on potential terror suspects, and a report outlining recommendations for the EU's freight transport sector.
The final sitting of the week will see a debate on plans announced last year to create a "European pillar of social rights".
An outline of the plan has been out for public consultation for around ten months, with concrete proposals promised early this year.
It it not yet clear which moves - if any - the European Commission will propose making to EU social and employment law.
At lunchtime MEPs will vote on a draft motion will calls for any changes to apply to the entire single market, not just the eurozone as suggested by the Commission.
Their draft text also calls for changes to EU law to guarantee "decent working conditions" for internships and apprenticeships.
This will be followed by a debate on whether the EU should send more aid to migrant camps affected by recent freezing weather.
After this, there will be short debates on this month's three human rights motions - relating to Indonesia, the Central African Republic and Burundi.
At the lunchtime voting session, there's a notable vote on a draft motion to reject a proposed blacklist of countries with possible links to money laundering and terror financing drawn up by the European Commission.
The list names eleven countries whose companies and individuals would face stricter checks when doing business in the EU.
Two parliamentary committees have recommended rejecting the list, describing it as overly limited.
The short afternoon sitting will see just one debate - on moves to improve the EU's data economy.
Please note: This agenda is subject to modification at the opening of the session on Monday afternoon.
A guide to how the European Parliament's plenary sessions can be found here. | This week will see a changing of the guard in Strasbourg, with members of the European Parliament selecting the assembly's next president. | 38639370 |
The 78-year-old recently returned for the former landlady's final episodes.
Her character, who had been suffering from cancer, was seen talking to the ghost of her friend, Pat Butcher, before talking some unidentified pills.
"I will go as I have lived," she said. "Straight back, head high, like a queen."
In a poignant final scene, Peggy hallucinated the return of her former love rival-turned-friend Pat, played by Pam St Clement, who passed away in the soap from cancer in 2012.
"I'm being eaten alive and it hurts and I can't wait," Peggy said.
"I don't want that to be me, I don't want to be that little old lady in the bed, with people saying, 'Remember her? Peggy Mitchell? She's all skin and bones.'"
After the credits rolled, the camera returned to the room, showing an empty glass of water, empty bottle of pills, an envelope addressed to her son, Phil, and a clock.
Dame Barbara joined the BBC One soap in 1994 and has been one of the show's best-loved matriarchs.
Magazine programme The One Show was live in Albert Square to mark her exit and a feature, Peggy Mitchell: Last Orders, debuted on the BBC iPlayer.
Picking up the role from the original Peggy Mitchell, Jo Warne, Dame Barbara went on to feature in some of the soap's best-loved moments.
As the Mitchell family matriarch, her biggest storylines have included her battle with breast cancer, her marriage to Frank Butcher, her feud and friendship with Pat Butcher and her marriage to Archie Mitchell, which resulted in the family losing The Queen Vic pub.
She played the role full-time until 2010 and has returned occasionally since for special appearances.
When her final departure was announced in January, Dame Barbara said Peggy was "a character close to my heart but I made the decision a while ago that I need to say goodbye to her once and for all".
"Otherwise, she will always be there, urging me to go back, and that is something I need to shut the door on."
Her final scenes have also seen Ross Kemp, who plays her son Grant Mitchell, return to the soap after a 10-year absence, to join his on-screen brother Phil, played by Steve McFadden. | Dame Barbara Windsor has said her final farewell to EastEnders with her character Peggy Mitchell seen apparently taking an overdose of pills. | 36311929 |
The leader of the suffragette movement, who was born in the city, gained over half the votes in the WoManchester Statue Project poll.
A statue of Queen Victoria in Albert Square is currently the only woman portrayed across 17 city centre works.
The statue, which will be privately funded, is due to be unveiled in 2019.
Mrs Pankhurst beat five other women shortlisted to be commemorated with 56% of the 5,301 votes cast.
Didsbury councillor Andrew Simcock, who started the project, said none of the funding for the £200,000 memorial would come from Manchester City Council's budget.
Mrs Pankhurst, who was born in 1858, was instrumental in the movement for women to get the vote and founder of the Women's Social and Political Union.
The group held its first meeting at Mrs Pankhurst's Chorlton-on-Medlock home on 10 October 1903. The building has since become a museum and community centre named in her honour.
•Organised campaigns for women's suffrage began in 1866
•When Parliamentary reform was debated in 1867, John Stuart Mill proposed an amendment to give the vote to women on the same terms as men but it was rejected by 194 votes to 73.
• Women's rights activists were involved in direct action, including chaining themselves to railings and jail hunger strikes
• In 1918 the Representation of the People Act gave women over 30 the vote, which was extended to all women over the age of 21 in 1928.
Manager Rachel Lappin said she was "thrilled to bits [that] the legacy of Mrs Pankhurst's campaign and the movement she led lives on".
The other nominees were author Elizabeth Gaskell, anti-racism campaigner Louise Da-Cocodia, Manchester councillor Margaret Ashton, businesswomen and writer Elizabeth Raffald and MP Ellen Wilkinson. | Women's rights activist Emmeline Pankhurst is to be the first woman to get a statue in Manchester for more than 100 years following a public vote. | 35360244 |
Google said a "majority" of users were affected by the short-term software problem.
While people could still access and use Gmail many people saw "unexpected behaviour" because of the problem.
Many reported the errors via Twitter seeking clarification from Google about what had gone wrong.
The error messages started appearing early on 4 April and hit people trying to send email messages from Gmail and some of the firm's messaging apps.
The problems arose because Google had neglected to renew a security certificate for Gmail and its app services. The certificate helps the software establish a secure connection to a destination, so messages can be sent with little fear they will be spied upon.
Google's own in-house security service, called Authority G2, administers the security certificates and other secure software systems for the search giant.
Information about the problem was posted to status pages Google maintains for its apps and email services.
In the status message, Google said the problem was "affecting a majority of users" who were seeing error messages. It added that the glitch could cause programs to act in "unexpected" ways.
The problem was resolved about two hours after it was first noticed.
The glitch comes soon after Google started refusing security certificates issued by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). Google said a security lapse by the CNNIC meant the certificates could no longer be trusted. CNNIC called the decision "unacceptable and unintelligible". | Gmail users around the world saw errors and safety warnings over the weekend after Google forgot to update a key part of the messaging software. | 32194202 |
Struggling to picture it? Fair enough.
Many Athletic Bilbao fans would also probably have laughed if you suggested a few years ago that Aritz Aduriz would be mentioned in the same breath as Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suarez.
But he is. The soon-to-be 35-year-old has gatecrashed the Spanish top-flight's goalscoring charts, netting more than Messi, Suarez, Karim Benzema and Neymar this season.
Those who don't regularly follow Spanish football might be wondering who exactly Aritz Aduriz is...
Aduriz bagged a brace in Sunday's 5-2 home win against Basque rivals Eibar, taking his personal tally to 25 goals in all competitions this season.
Real Madrid superstar Ronaldo is the only Spanish-based player to have scored more (although admittedly Messi, Suarez, Benzema and Neymar all have superior goals-to-games ratios to Aduriz).
But it is not just Aduriz's sheer volume of goals that has caught the eye.
The athleticism, audacity and astonishing execution of his spectacular bicycle kick against Eibar has staked his claim for Spain's goal of the season - and put his name on the lips of many La Liga lovers.
Head to your favoured internet search engine now - you have to watch it. It's similar to Christian Benteke's goal against Manchester United earlier this season.
How has Aduriz managed to join La Liga's goalscoring aristocracy? Through patience and opportunism.
He returned to Athletic Bilbao for a third spell in 2012, having failed to make an impression as a youngster - spending two-and-a-half seasons in the second tier with Burgos and Real Valladolid - and finding his first return between 2005 and 2008 hampered by Fernando Llorente's presence.
Athletic's preference to play Llorente as a lone striker meant Aduriz had few opportunities, seeking regular football at Mallorca and Valencia instead.
But another well-known Spain international, Roberto Soldado, stopped his progress at the Mestalla, paving the way for a return to Bilbao.
Llorente again threatened to block Aduriz at San Mames, only for his contractual stand-off and subsequent move to Juventus opening the door.
And Aduriz's 87 goals in 161 matches have made Athletic's 2.5m Euro (£1.9m) move for their previously-unheralded striker look like a steal.
Not only is Aduriz proving a menace to Spanish defences - he is also causing bother in Europe.
Six goals in the Europa League group stage makes him the joint leading goalscorer in the continent's secondary club competition.
Back in December, Spain coach Victor Del Bosque appeared to be fed up of being asked about Aduriz's chances of an international call-up.
"He might or might not get one in March, but until then it's all speculation that really doesn't count for much," he snapped. "We can't call anyone up to the squad in December or January."
But Aduriz's hopes of a recall received a boost recently when the veteran boss described him as "fantastic".
"I am flattered that Vicente del Bosque, whom I like both as a person and as a manager, has remembered me," said Aduriz.
Del Bosque says he is considering a number of attacking options ahead of the pre-Euro 2016 friendlies against Italy and Romania - but the numbers stack up in Aduriz's favour.
So, how about it Jurgen... why not give Rickie Lambert a call?
"Aritz Aduriz has always been popular with Athletic Bilbao fans, so he was well received when he returned for his third spell with the club in 2012.
"But even his biggest admirers have been pleasantly surprised by his goalscoring exploits in the last couple of years, which have easily outstripped anything he achieved earlier in his career.
"He has become the club's emblematic player, adored by the fans and hugely respected by opponents, and further cemented his place as an Athletic legend by scoring a hat-trick in August's Super Cup thrashing of Barcelona, sealing the club's first trophy since 1984.
"Aduriz's greatest strength is his aerial ability, which is guaranteed to give opposition central defenders a tough encounter and has seen him score some spectacular headed goals.
"He's also a proficient finisher with his feet, possessing the knack of creating space for himself to shoot, and is an extremely hard-working team player who leads by example with his efforts in closing down defenders."
Hear more stories from across the continent on BBC Radio 5 live's European Football Show on Monday, 25 January (20:30 GMT) | Imagine Rickie Lambert returning to boyhood club Liverpool again, establishing himself as their first-choice striker and being more prolific than he ever has been. | 35400191 |
Saad Emarati was one of the founders of the IS group's Afghanistan-Pakistan branch, and led several attacks against the Taliban and the government.
Afghan officials say he was one of about 120 suspected militants killed in an operation in Kot district.
It comes days after a bomb attack in Kabul claimed by IS killed 80 people.
Emarati was formerly a Taliban commander, but switched allegiance to IS following the death of Mullah Omar, the Taliban founder.
Analysts say he was one of the most important leaders of IS in the region, and that his death, if confirmed, would be a serious setback to the group's ability to operate in eastern Afghanistan.
Afghan officials have released photos following the overnight raid in Kot, showing IS courts and recruitment centres seized by the military.
Afghan special forces commander Gen Basmullah Wazari said the operation had received foreign air support.
Who was Saad Emarati? By Dawood Azami, BBC World Service
Emarati was one of the first militant commanders in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region who pledged allegiance to IS's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
He was a former Afghan Taliban commander in central Logar province who was sidelined and disarmed by the Taliban leadership for "unauthorised activities" in 2013.
After that, he spent time with the Pakistani Taliban (TTP), and, on 12 January 2015, appeared in a video with two other Afghan Taliban commanders, and nine ex-TTP commanders, pledging allegiance to IS.
Two weeks later, IS announced the establishment of its branch in "Khorasan" - an old name for Afghanistan and parts of neighbouring Pakistan, Iran and Central Asia - and Emarati became one of its most important commanders.
After the IS's Khorasan branch established its base in the eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, Emarati led several attacks against the Afghan Taliban and government forces to expand the new group's control and influence. He was accused of kidnapping for ransom among other actions and was known for his ruthlessness.
The operation is seen as a step up in the Afghan government's efforts to combat IS, following Saturday's deadly bombing in the capital.
Afghan intelligence sources have suggested that the suicide bombers had been sent from Nangarhar province to carry out the attack.
Self-styled IS has a presence in eastern Afghanistan, but had not previously admitted carrying out assaults in Kabul.
The Taliban and Islamic State have been locked in frequent battles in Afghanistan since January 2015.
The Taliban's dominance in a region home to numerous local and foreign militant groups is facing a serious challenge from IS, which has been gaining some support.
There has also been evidence that IS is trying to recruit Taliban fighters, with several Taliban commanders declaring allegiance to IS.
Why Taliban special forces are fighting Islamic State
Afghanistan fighters 'linked to Islamic State in Syria'
Islamic State 'recruiting Afghan fighters' | A key commander with the Islamic State militant group has been killed in a military operation in Nangarhar, Afghan security forces say. | 36892100 |
Blues were denied a penalty when Clayton Donaldson appeared to be fouled by Ben Marshall just before Danny Graham doubled Blackburn's lead.
"You look back to the biggest moment in the game, that would have turned it on its head and the officials didn't do their jobs properly," he told BBC WM.
"The referee said [Donaldson] went down easily then said there was no contact."
Rowett continued: "There was another big decision when Jordi Gomez went right over top of the ball against Stephen Gleeson, which was a disgusting challenge.
"There's a massive gash down Gleeson's leg. The referee is 10 yards away, he decides to have a lovely little chat with Gomez about it but doesn't book him. I have to say I think it's the most inept officiating I think I have seen this season.
"I'll see the referee and ask his opinion [about the incidents]. He'll do what they usually do and say 'sorry if I've made a mistake, I apologise'. But it doesn't make any difference, it's not going to get us the points back."
Rowett was also critical of his team and was particularly unhappy with their defensive shape, having seen them concede their fourth goal in two games on the road.
"There's no excuse, it's very poor defending." he said. "The first goal [comes from] a ball that bounces in between two of our defenders in the box and we don't deal with it." | Manager Gary Rowett says Birmingham were the victims of "inept officiating" in Tuesday's 2-0 defeat at Blackburn. | 35764195 |
The tournament is designed for locally based African footballers playing in their domestic leagues.
The initial phase separates the 16 countries into four groups.
Hosts Rwanda will be in Group A alongside Gabon, Morocco and Ivory Coast.
They will play at the Amahoro Stadium in Kigali.
Winners of the first CHAN finals in 2009 - Democratic Republic of Congo - are in Group B with 2011 losing finalists Angola, Cameroon and Ethiopia.
The Group B teams will be based in Butare.
Group C has 2011 champions, Tunisia, Nigeria, Niger and debutants Guinea, and they will play at the Nyamirambo Stadium, also in Kigali.
Gisenyi will host Group D which will feature Zimbabwe, Mali, Uganda and Zambia.
The finals will take place from 16 January to 7 February 2016 in Rwanda. | The draw for the 2016 African Nations Championship (CHAN) finals in Rwanda was made by the Confederation of African Football (Caf) in Kigali on Sunday. | 34828279 |
Tear gas was fired and security forces were seen outside his house before he was detained, a BBC reporter says.
Mr Ravalomanana's previous attempts to return were blocked by Andry Rajoelina, who seized power in 2009.
Last year, the rivals agreed not to contest elections intended to end years of political unrest.
Former Finance Minister Hery Rajaonarimampianina - an ally of Mr Rajoelina - become president in January.
Before his arrest, Mr Ravalomanana told his supporters in the capital, Antananarivo: "I am here to support peace and democracy."
The BBC's Tim Healy in Antananarivo says security sources confirmed the arrest, which was reported on local news channels.
Mr Ravalomanana was ousted in 2009 following a military coup and two months of bloody protests that left more than 100 dead.
He fled to Swaziland before later moving to South Africa.
In 2010, he was sentenced in his absence to life imprisonment with hard labour over the deaths of 30 opposition protesters by his guards in February 2009.
Despite this, he made attempts to return home. In 2012, a plane taking him to Madagascar was turned back during the journey.
A spokesman for the South African department of international relations, Clayson Monyela, told news agency AFP he had no information on Mr Ravalomanana's return.
Madagascar has become more politically stable following the elections in late 2013 that saw Mr Rajaonarimampianina elected president.
The elections were a bid to end Madagascar's economic paralysis after the international community imposed sanctions following the coup.
The country was also allowed to rejoin the Southern African Development Community and African Union. | The former president of Madagascar, Marc Ravalomanana, has been arrested on his return to the country after five years in exile in South Africa. | 29594895 |
But first he's going to try it out on the world's political leaders. Not those of the United States, Japan, India or much of the European Union. They've declined the invitation.
But this weekend Mr Xi is gathering all the presidents and prime ministers he can muster in Beijing, hoping to inspire them with a vision about China as a force for good in the world.
Xi Jinping came to power five years ago with a determination that China should stop hiding its light under a bushel. Instead of creeping up timidly on the world order, he felt it should walk tall as a mighty and ancient civilisation which had gone from marginal economic player to the world's biggest trading nation in less than four decades.
"The relationship between China and the rest of the world is undergoing historic changes. Tell China stories well," he urged the nation's media, diplomats and think tanks, adding that they must present China as a builder of world peace and contributor to global development.
This weekend he himself takes the stage as storyteller in chief at Beijing's Belt and Road Forum. It helps that there is currently no competing global narrative from the United States or the European Union, as President Trump turns inward to "Make America Great Again" and the EU struggles with Brexit and a slew of other challenges.
China's underlying narrative is well known to all Mr Xi's guests. Economic transformation and breakneck growth have returned it to its traditional position at the centre of the East Asian economy.
And now Mr Xi wants to use Chinese money and construction might to rebuild much of Eurasia's infrastructure of ports, roads and rails and put China at its heart. A giant exercise in joining the dots whose buzzword is connectivity.
Critics in Washington, Tokyo and New Delhi observe that some of the biggest belt and road projects seem to be for strategically significant assets. Like the oil and gas pipelines across Central Asia, and the Indian Ocean ports in Pakistan and Sri Lanka which might serve military as well as commercial uses.
Many observers see an obvious geopolitical agenda to the belt and road initiative, but in a suspicious and prickly neighbourhood China firmly denies it. To make the plan less threatening, it frames it as a revival of the ancient Silk Road whose camel caravans carried Chinese goods west across Asia more than 1,000 years ago.
The aim is a soft-power message of a China which is mighty but peaceful, delivering what it can to the world in exchanges of mutual benefit. But the belt and road is much more ambitious than a camel caravan.
By land and by sea, through transport networks, telecoms, energy pipelines and industrial hubs, it promises to integrate more than 60 countries and 60% of the world's population.
And for domestic Chinese audiences, the story of the belt and road is told with a different emphasis, focusing less on the wins for foreigners and more on opportunities for China's impoverished west and assisting China's push up the value chain into industries like high speed rail and nuclear power.
There's even a narrative aimed at foreign children. Mr Xi may be the headline act on stage this weekend but in the scramble to offer the warm up, the state-owned China Daily newspaper is running online videos of an American father telling his daughter bedtime stories about the belt and road as "China's idea which belongs to the world".
And in a catchy music video, ukulele strumming multi-ethnic children surrounded by cut-out camels sing the praises of the belt and road.
"We're paving new roads, building more ports, finding new options with friends of all sorts, It's a culture exchange, we trade in our wealth, we connect with our hearts, it strengthens our health," it goes.
Mr Xi has been telling the belt and road story for four years now. Why gather the world's decision makers in Beijing for a grand rendition now?
One short answer is that he needs to drum up growth. China's domestic economy is slowing and exporting Chinese construction capacity to the belt and road would help boost the domestic economy in the short and medium term.
If even some of the infrastructure projects succeed, they might in turn contribute to growth in the long term by spurring demand from China's neighbours.
But a more personal reason for the timing is Mr Xi's own political cycle. In the one-party state, being Communist Party leader is more important than being president and this year China will hold a vital Party Congress.
Hosting the world this weekend burnishes Xi Jinping's aura of invincibility by reminding his party and public that he is increasing China's clout on the international stage.
A third reason for the timing is the international picture. Many of America's friends and allies in the region were dismayed by Mr Trump's decision to walk away from the TPP trade agreement, an agreement which his predecessor had said was vital to the US setting the rules of the road in Asia rather than letting China set them.
Mr Xi's new push for the belt and road initiative is the same kind of canny political opportunism that spurred his defence of globalisation at the Davos forum in January.
So China's president has been lucky in his timing and bold in seizing the stage. And it will certainly look to his guests as if he usually gets what he wants. No country puts on a grand spectacle of purpose and progress quite like China does.
This weekend Beijing's sky will be blue. Smog, traffic snarl and ghost towns littered with white elephant infrastructure will be safely far from view.
This is the show and tell of Xi Jinping's story… China the can-do master builder inspiring awe in all beholders and giving hope that what China has achieved at home it might replicate elsewhere.
But the truth is that Mr Xi's will works as an organising principle only for some of the people some of the time, and usually only for a very small number of highly specific objectives. Even in Beijing, the sky is not always blue, the traffic is often snarled and resources are often misallocated.
How much more is this true beyond the glittering capital. China is an economy with a perilous debt overhang precisely because its investors are just as fallible as those of other countries.
Yes, on the right project and for the right price, Chinese money and Chinese master builders can work infrastructure wonders. But that was always the case. The belt and road is an important initiative, but one of indeterminate boundaries, duration and outcome.
Mr Xi's guests should not make the mistake of thinking all Chinese players will do his bidding and all bedtime stories will come true. | China's President Xi Jinping intends to tell you a story. | 39880163 |
Coty, which makes cosmetics and perfume, said it intends to shut its plant in Seaton Delaval.
The US-based company said after a study of global manufacturing capacities it wanted to consolidate its fragrance operations into "fewer core centres".
The factory will close by the end of 2018, subject to consultation and board approval.
Coty said in a statement: "These proposals are the result of a detailed study of our expanded global manufacturing capacities and capabilities for each of our divisions following the merger with P&G Specialty Beauty brands and with the objective to enable our future growth.
"Specific timelines are still under consideration and subject to consultation in relation to these proposals."
Kay Plumley, site leader at Seaton Delaval said: "I am committed to fully supporting all our colleagues through the coming months.
"Our priority is to work closely with them and their families throughout the consultation and to ensure that everyone is treated fairly and with respect."
Councillor Grant Davey, leader of Northumberland County Council, described it as "worrying news".
He said: "The loss of so many jobs would have a massive impact, not just on individuals and their families but also the wider economy and future prosperity of the area.
"Along with our partners, we are exploring all avenues to see what support the council can provide in the short, medium and long term." | Four hundred jobs are set to be lost with the closure of a cosmetics factory in Northumberland. | 39266647 |
Australia said the location was consistent with models of where ocean drifts could carry debris.
The 1m-long (3.3ft) piece of metal was found on a sandbank at the weekend.
MH370 disappeared in March 2014 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, carrying 239 passengers.
Despite an extensive deep water search, led by Australia, the plane and all its passengers remain missing.
Malaysia's transport minister Liow Tiong Lai said on Twitter that based on early reports, there was a "high possibility debris found in Mozambique belongs to a B777".
But he said: "I urge everyone to avoid undue speculation as we are not able to conclude that the debris belongs to MH370 at this time."
He said Malaysian aviation teams were working with their Australian counterparts to retrieve the debris.
Australia's minister for infrastructure and transport Darren Chester said in a statement that the location of the piece was consistent with drift patterns of debris and "reaffirms the search area for MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean".
He said the piece would be transferred to Australia where it would be examined.
Missing Malaysia plane MH370: What we know
MH370 search: Does debris solve the mystery?
MH370: Missing Malaysian's wife seeks $7.6m in damages
If confirmed, the object found in Mozambique would be the second piece of known debris from the aircraft to be found. Last year authorities found a piece of the plane's wing on the shore of Reunion island in the Indian Ocean.
According to reports, the new object was discovered on a sandbank off the coast of Mozambique. NBC News said it was found by an American man who had been tracking the investigation into the missing flight.
Mozambican authorities have no information on the sighting of the object, interior ministry spokesman Inacio Dina told Reuters.
The US National Transportation Safety Board and aircraft manufacturer Boeing declined to comment.
Based on satellite communications data, MH370 is thought to have crashed in the Indian Ocean. | Malaysia's transport minister has said there is a "high possibility" that debris found in Mozambique came from a Boeing 777, the same model as missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. | 35709867 |
Angela Cockburn, 49, her husband David, 48, his two daughters Carley Ann, 21, and Bethany, 18, and Bethany's one-year-old daughter Lacie were killed on the A18 in Laceby near Grimsby in 2013.
The family, from Ouston, were going to a dance competition.
The Crown Prosecution Service had "considered the circumstances of the collision", Humberside Police said.
Det Ch Insp Matthew Baldwin said: "No criminal charges will be brought in connection with the incident. The family and the coroner have been notified."
The Grimsby stretch of the A18 featured in a BBC television programme, Britain's Killer Roads, in 2011.
The programme claimed it was 25 times more dangerous than the average British motorway, with 20 crashes in the preceding three years.
North Lincolnshire Council said after the crash that the speed limit on the road would be cut from 60mph to 50mph.
The lorry driver had minor injuries. | No charges will be brought after five members of a County Durham family died when their car crashed with a lorry. | 33538483 |
The 30-year-old played 79 times for the north London side after joining from Super Rugby franchise Sharks in 2012.
Hargreaves, who won four international caps for South Africa, captained Sarries to the Premiership title in the 2014-15 season.
"After seeking medical advice I've come to the conclusion that the risk is outweighing the reward," he said.
"I've suffered a number of concussions in the last two seasons.
"Although this was a hard decision for me, personally it's one that I feel is the right one to make."
Hargreaves is the second player to retire because of concussion in recent weeks, following Ireland and Connacht prop Nathan White.
Listen to BBC World Service Health Check programme on concussion in sport here. | Saracens lock Alistair Hargreaves has retired from rugby following a concussion injury. | 37562620 |
But turning your "killer app" or web service into a global giant attracting millions of users and stratospheric valuations is much more difficult.
Yes, we've had the likes of Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Uber, and Spotify, but the reality is that 90% of all early stage businesses fail, whether through lack of investment, customers or sales.
There are just 143 tech "unicorns" worldwide, according to research company CB Insights - defined as privately held tech start-ups worth more than $1bn (£650m) - and over half are based in the US.
So how do you build your own tech giant?
Clearly, every tech business begins with an idea.
Mark Zuckerberg dreamt up Facebook in his college dorm room and Chris Barton thought up Shazam, an app that recognises songs, in the bath.
But very few ideas actually come from "pure inspiration", says Ajay Chowdhury, partner and managing director of venture capital firm BCG Digital Ventures and former chairman of Shazam.
"What I call 'research' innovation is far more prevalent," he says. "This is where you're looking for pain points in an industry and saying how do we address those pain points."
In other words, what problem does your technology solve? What service does your tech provide that has never been provided before?
He gives the example of Airbnb, which tapped into the $550bn global hotel market by enabling people to rent out their spare rooms.
Its co-founder Brian Chesky once advised other tech entrepreneurs to "build something 100 people love, not something one million people kind of like."
Having a good idea is only part of the battle, though.
"People can come up with a great idea but it might not be a real business," says John Somorjai, executive vice president of Salesforce Ventures, an investment subsidiary of cloud-based sales and analytics platform, Salesforce.com.
"Before we invest we consider the size of the market opportunity, the quality of the management team and whether they are building customer traction."
Greg Wolf, of corporate finance house Widebridge Group, adds that an idea must also be "protectable".
This is because in many sectors there is only room for one market leader, particularly if you're targeting a consumer audience, he says.
"The software for social networking is pretty easy to build, but you don't see anyone displacing Facebook," he says.
"Similarly, there is only one really big e-commerce business in Amazon and one big search business with Google. It really can be a winner-takes-all game."
One major challenge for a fast-growing tech company is retaining its culture and values as the number of employees swells, says Zack Sabban, founder and chief executive of Festicket, a London-based start-up specialising in packaging music festival tickets with accommodation, travel and other services.
"If you have a strong company culture, people will be more independent, autonomous and entrepreneurial," he says.
"Keeping the same culture while you are tripling your team size, and therefore need more corporate processes in place, is very challenging."
Another related challenge is finding enough skilled people who share your vision for the company, says Chris Morton, co-founder and chief executive of online fashion platform, Lyst.
"If you hire great people, then good people will want to work for you; if you compromise then you won't be able to attract talent," he says.
Where you set up shop may also influence how successful you are.
More than 60% of today's biggest privately held start-ups are based in the US, with 23% in Asia and 13% in Europe, says CB Insights.
California's Silicon Valley still dominates the global tech scene, attracting "the world's best engineers and an abundance of capital", says Mr Wong. That concentration of money and skills produces "a lot of successful ideas," he says.
According to Dow Jones, European start-ups raised $8bn in venture capital in 2014 while US companies raised about $52bn.
Mr Chowdhury believes this is because investors in Europe are simply too risk averse.
"Historically, Europe's venture capital firms have been staffed by bankers and accountants and they are not usually risk-taking people.
"In the US, the investors have often been tech entrepreneurs and built successful companies, and they are more willing to take a chance on a new idea."
That's not to say you can't grow your own tech giant outside the US.
Skype, the internet phone and video company founded by a Dane and a Swede, was sold to Microsoft in 2011 for $8.5bn.
Sweden's music-streaming service, Spotify, is now valued at more than $8.5bn, while peer-to-peer payments firm TransferWise, founded by two Estonians, has processed about $3bn of payments to date.
And China's online retail phenomenon, Alibaba, now has a US stock market valuation of more than $210bn.
There's no shortage of funding for the right idea either, it seems. Lyst has raised $60m of investment over the last four years, while the younger Festicket has raised nearly $4m.
"Raising money hasn't been an issue," says Lyst's Mr Morton. "All of our money has come from fashion savvy cities like London, New York, Hong Kong and Paris."
US tech start-ups have the advantage of having a huge ready-made - and largely monolingual - market on their doorsteps. Non-US start-ups don't have that luxury - China notwithstanding.
"Companies really need to think globally from the start, but many do not," says Mr Wolf.
In 2013 - against the advice of some of his investors - Jens Wohltorf took the bold decision to expand his Berlin-based Uber-style taxi service, Blacklane, into 100 cities in 100 business days.
This meant automating a lot of processes, recruiting a lot of new drivers, and promoting the service in many new languages.
"These were all challenges we had to overcome," he says. "But the effort we put in to doing this paid off."
Blacklane now operates in 180 cities worldwide and has raised €25m ($27m; £18m) in venture capital funding.
But perhaps the best way to ensure your tech start-up blossoms into a tech giant is to resist selling out the moment Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple come knocking, chequebooks in hand. | Launching your own tech start-up propelled by dreams of becoming a paper billionaire is undoubtedly exciting - and relatively easy these days. | 34731456 |
The 30-year-old, who reached the French Open final in 2012, tested positive for banned drug letrozole.
Errani's mother had been using the drug as part of her breast cancer treatment.
But she had dropped some pills on a kitchen worktop where tortellini and broth were later prepared.
A tribunal panel accepted the player probably ingested the substance through accidental food contamination.
But it was ruled Errani, now ranked 98, could have done more to protect herself, leading to the two-month sanction.
Letrozole increases lean body mass and was banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) over concerns it was being abused by bodybuilders.
An independent tribunal, appointed by the International Tennis Federation, said there was no evidence it would enhance the performance of an elite tennis player.
It is the most high-profile drugs case in women's tennis since that of Maria Sharapova, who beat Errani in the 2012 French final.
The Russian returned to the tour earlier this year after she was banned for 15 months on appeal following a positive test for meldonium.
Errani's mother and father told the tribunal hearing in July that after the positive finding, they carried out an experiment which found the drug dissolved in a broth, plus a meat mixture for tortellini, without being detectable.
"Together with my family we have tried to understand how this contamination could have happened because I am 100% certain I haven't taken a pill by mistake," said Errani in a statement.
"The only viable option has been that an accidental food contamination occurred at some stage in the house."
She accepted a charge of violating anti-doping rules in April. The ban is effective from 3 August.
Errani said she was "very frustrated" and "extremely disappointed" by the sanction but was "at peace with my conscience and aware I haven't done anything wrong".
In 2012, she stopped working with Luis Garcia del Moral, one of the doctors at the centre of cyclist Lance Armstrong's doping scandal.
"I'm not interested in keeping working with a person that is involved in these things," said Errani at the time. | Italy's former world number five Sara Errani has been banned for two months after failing a drugs test - because her mother's cancer drug accidentally contaminated a family meal. | 40854182 |
After Norman Campbell's double, Newtonmore are now beyond the reach of Kyles Athletic, who beat Inveraray 4-1.
Elsewhere, Oban Camanachd defeated Lochaber 2-0 at Mossfield Park.
Camanachd will consign Kingussie to the relegation play-offs should they win both sides meet on 31 October.
At the Eilan, following a goal-less first half of a game which More only needed to draw, Fraser MacKintosh opened and Campbell made it 2-0.
Kevin Bartlett pulled one back for Lovat but Campbell soon took it to 3-1 before Lovat's second came from Lorne MacKay.
This rendered the outcome of Kyles' game irrelevant. Sandy MacKenzie got a first-half double and Innes MacDonald's in the second was split by a response from Gary MacPherson.
Newtonmore's six-title streak signals a remarkable turnaround in their league fortunes. Even before the Premiership succeeded area competition in 1996, More's best run in the North League, and in the absence of the top South clubs, was their 1975-79 string of five successes.
Apart from Newtonmore's own revival, the other key to these changed fortunes has been the recent decline of Kingussie, who won the North League and then the Premiership in 23 of the 24 seasons before Newtonmore's current resurgence.
Indeed, Kingussie's decline means that, hitherto unthinkably, their Premiership survival is now in increasing doubt.
A Lorn Dickie penalty and a goal from Connor Howe at home to Lochaber still leave Oban Camanachd in the second-bottom relegation play-off place, but now just a point behind Kingussie, and with two games in hand.
And the drama is further heightened with Kingussie now set to play their next and final game away to Camanachd.
A defeat would consign one of the most successful clubs in the history of shinty to a relegation play-off with Kilmallie. | Newtonmore gained a club record sixth consecutive Marine Harvest Premiership title with a 3-2 defeat of Camanachd Cup holders Lovat at the Eilan. | 34561382 |
With nearly all votes counted his governing centre-right VVD party easily beat the anti-immigration, anti-EU Freedom party of Geert Wilders.
The race was seen as a test of support for nationalist parties that have been gaining ground across Europe.
Mr Wilders insisted "the patriotic spring" would still happen.
With more than 90% of votes counted, the VVD had won 33 out of 150 seats, a loss of eight seats from the previous parliament.
Mr Wilders' Freedom Party (PVV) was in second place on 20 seats, a gain of five, with the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and the liberal Democrats 66 (D66) close behind with 19 seats each.
The Green-Left party also did well winning 14 seats, an increase of 10.
The Labour Party (PvdA), the junior party in the governing coalition, suffered a historic defeat with only nine seats, a loss of 29.
Turnout was more than 80%, the highest for 30 years, which analysts say may have benefited pro-EU and liberal parties.
In the run-up to the election, some opinion polls had forecast the PVV winning the biggest number of seats, sending alarm bells ringing across European capitals.
Mr Wilders had pledged to take the Netherlands out of the EU, close all mosques and ban the Koran.
"The Netherlands said 'Whoa!' to the wrong kind of populism," said Mr Rutte, now poised for a third successive term as prime minister.
"We want to stick to the course we have - safe and stable and prosperous."
Mr Rutte's victory was warmly greeted by other European leaders.
French President Francois Hollande said Mr Rutte had won a "clear victory against extremism" while German Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff, Peter Altmaier, tweeted: "The Netherlands, oh the Netherlands you are a champion! Congratulations on this great result."
Many had been watching the vote in the Netherlands closely, as an indication for how populist parties may fare in other elections in EU countries.
France goes to the polls next month to elect a new president, while Germany is due to hold a general election in September.
Martin Schulz, president of the European Parliament until earlier this year, said he was "relieved" Mr Wilders' party had lost.
"We must continue to fight for an open and free Europe!" he added on Twitter (in German).
However, Mr Wilders warned that Mr Rutte "has not seen the last of me".
"It's not the 30 seats I hoped for but we have gained seats," Mr Wilders said, adding: "This patriotic spring will happen."
As parliamentary seats are allocated in exact proportion to a party's vote share, the VVD party will need to go into coalition with other parties.
The VVD had ruled out a coalition with the Freedom Party but not with the other two runners-up, the CDA and D66, which are both pro-EU.
Coalition talks could take weeks, or even months. | Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says the Netherlands has rejected "the wrong kind of populism" as he celebrated victory in parliamentary elections. | 39287689 |
Ellen Conlin Hair & Beauty, which has salons in Glasgow and Giffnock said it paid 1,000 euros in bitcoins through a third party after its system was hacked earlier this month.
The hackers had locked its database and threatened to delete information.
The firm said it decided to pay because it could not afford to lose business.
Police Scotland said its cyber crime unit was investigating the incident.
Last week, TalkTalk reported that it had received an email demanding a ransom following a cyber attack. A 15-year-old boy was later arrested in North Ireland in connection with the attack.
Ellen Conlin revealed the attack on its own business in a statement on Facebook last week.
Ellen Conlin commercial director Ken Main told BBC Scotland that the hackers had used a Russian email address.
He said they broke into a system used to store appointments, wage details, client histories and stock information but stressed that the attack did not involve any personal data of clients.
He said: "We paid the ransom and have now got some of the information back. However, our appointments system was wiped and we are asking our customers to contact us to confirm their bookings."
Mr Main, who jointly owns Ellen Conlin, said it was unclear which police force was investigating the hacking attack as the company that runs the software used by the salon is based in the south of England.
In a statement, Police Scotland said: "Inquiries were undertaken initially to establish where the crime took place.
"Police Scotland's cyber crime unit is currently investigating an inquiry in relation to a Glasgow-based business and an associated ICT company in England.
"Inquiries are ongoing and it is inappropriate to comment further at this time."
Colin Borland, of the Federation of Small Businesses in Scotland, said the Ellen Conlin case was the first of its type he had heard of in Scotland but "would put a substantial amount of money on the fact it's not the first time it has happened".
He said: "Cyber crime is massively under-reported and it is partly because people don't want to admit they have been conned or caught out for fear of scaring customers.
"You don't want to give the impression that you might be a soft touch, but it can happen to anyone as we've seen recently, and as big companies tighten up their online security then these criminals are going to be looking elsewhere.
"We advise members to follow the advice of the Scottish Business Resilience Centre to stay safe online and look into insurance against this kind of attack of data loss.
"Everyone will have insurance for their property or vehicle but very valuable data is often not insured and people should consider that." | A Scottish hairdressing business has warned firms about the threat of cyber attacks after being forced to pay a ransom to hackers. | 34647780 |
Baggies boss Tony Pulis says the 23-year-old will only leave if there is an "unbelievable offer" and Berahino is wary of going with the season started.
Stoke and Crystal Palace made bids for Berahino, whose contract expires next summer and who has turned down an extension to the deal.
"Nobody is more keen for Saido to stay than me," said Pulis.
The chances of Berahino moving to Palace have receded after the Selhurst Park club agreed a £27m deal to sign Liverpool's Christian Benteke.
Stoke's offer remains open, with manager Mark Hughes saying on Friday morning that "nothing had moved forward".
Berahino has concluded that a change of club would be better for his career but is weighing up whether he would be better served remaining where he is this season before moving on.
In 12 months' time, West Brom would still be entitled to compensation for the player, who joined them when he was 11, although the sum would be vastly reduced if he opted to move outside England.
Earlier this month, West Brom agreed a takeover with a Chinese investment company headed by businessman Guochuan Lai.
Never want to miss the latest West Brom news? You can now add the Baggies and all the other sports and teams you follow to your personalised My Sport home. | West Brom's England U21 striker Saido Berahino could remain at the club for the rest of the season. | 37129418 |
He is watched constantly by three masked guards, even when he uses the toilet, his partner says.
Ms Coronel complained to the National Human Rights Commission about Guzman's living conditions.
The leader of the Sinaloa drugs cartel is notorious for escaping from two maximum security jails.
His first escape came in 2001, from the Puente Grande maximum security prison, reportedly hidden in a laundry basket.
He used his 13 years at large to consolidate his criminal empire before being re-arrested in Sinaloa state.
But in July 2015, after less than two years at the Altiplano prison in central Mexico, he fled again, this time through a 1.5km-long (one mile-long) tunnel.
This time, he was on the run for six months before he was caught in Los Mochis in Sinaloa state.
He was first taken back to the Altiplano jail but was transferred to a prison in Ciudad Juarez in May.
"He hasn't been informed about any activities he could do in the jail, nor has anyone devised a plan of activities to match his needs, preferences and skills," Ms Coronel's complaint reads.
His lawyer, Jose Refugio Rodriguez, stressed that Guzman did not expect special treatment.
"Joaquin Guzman does not want a five-star hotel, he doesn't want a spa, he just wants to be treated like a human being," he said.
Guzman's 2015 escape was a huge embarrassment for the government of President Enrique Pena Nieto.
After his re-arrest, the Mexican government said it would extradite Guzman to the US, where he is wanted on drug trafficking charges.
A Mexican judge last week rejected Guzman's appeal against his extradition. Mexican officials say they expect to send him to the US by February. | Jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman "fears he could lose his mind" before the end of the year, his partner Emma Coronel says. | 37763383 |
The Italian, 36, was pipped to the 2015 title by team-mate Jorge Lorenzo and insisted he could compete for honours in 2016 and beyond.
"I would like to race also after 2016. In any case, I will end my career with Yamaha," he said.
"I want to try to be at the level I've had for the past two years. Then we'll see whether I can fight for the title."
He also called for "respect" from Lorenzo, with whom he has had a fractious relationship at Yamaha.
"I've always respected Jorge Lorenzo - he's respected me a little less," said Rossi, at the launch of Yamaha's new M1 bike on Monday. "Let's hope the respect will be mutual this season."
Lorenzo secured the 2015 Moto GP crown by just five points after Rossi was forced to start from the back of the grid in the final race of the season in Valencia, Spain.
It was a punishment for his collision with Spaniard Marc Marquez in the previous race in Malaysia.
Rossi needed to finish second in Valencia to take his first title since 2009 but could only manage fourth.
Lorenzo played down any bad feeling between the team-mates.
"I hope next season finishes like last season, in the sense that our rivals will be behind us," said the Spaniard, 28. "I hope to win again or, if not, Valentino. I don't have problems with anyone, neither with Rossi, Marquez or [Dani] Pedrosa."
The 2016 Moto GP season begins on 20 March with a night race at Qatar's Losail International Circuit. | Nine-time Moto GP world champion Valentino Rossi says he will finish his career at Yamaha. | 35346272 |
Adam Elliott, 26, had been convicted for driving with his head poking out of a Ford Ka car roof, in Gateshead.
Elliott, of Newcastle, got a suspended jail term after he admitted dangerous driving but denied he was standing up.
But 6ft 7in (2m) tall Elliott, has now been jailed for 18 months over the collision with two vehicles that happened as police pursued him.
Newcastle Crown Court heard that while he was being sentenced for the driving-while-standing-up offence, in December 2016, the judge was unaware that days earlier he had been involved in the crash.
He was not arrested for the crash offence until May this year.
The court was told that during the crash, he smashed his Ford Galaxy into a stationary bus and an oncoming car as he tried to get away from police.
The crash happened in Gateshead before he was due to be sentenced for driving the convertible Ford Ka near the Tyne Bridge while sitting on the headrest, steering with his knees and waving to other motorists.
He had initially claimed he was too tall for the small car.
In relation to the crash, he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, failing to stop, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.
The court was told Judge Robert Adams was unaware of the crash when he gave Elliott, of Aldwick Road, Newcastle, a suspended sentence in March.
In a statement via prison video link, Elliott, said: "My love and passion for cars has now dwindled - they have caused me nothing but trouble." | A man who drove a car while standing up has been jailed for other offences that involved him fleeing a crash scene. | 40305657 |
"Many Australians don't have any associations with bush food at all, have never tried it [and] feel it belongs around a campfire," explains Ms Mayall, deputy chair of the sector's top body, the Australian Native Food Industry Limited (ANFIL).
Early white settlers considered native cuisine a "poor man's food", she adds, and thought it had "no nutritional value whatsoever".
The stigma stuck. Gimmicky "Bush Tucker" restaurants, which sprang up in the 1980s serving often tasteless cuisine and sporting gaudy interiors, only served to reinforce popular opinion.
Today, that is changing as uncultivated, sustainable, and foraged food becomes fashionable.
In cities across the world chefs are just as likely to serve wild handpicked mushrooms as farmed potatoes, and Australia is following suit.
Acclaimed Danish chef Rene Redzepi, who has done so much to highlight the value of foraging and wild food with his award winning Copenhagen Noma restaurant, is relocating his entire restaurant staff to Sydney next year with a menu inspired by native flora and fauna along the shoreline.
Restaurants such as Attica in Melbourne, Billy Kwong and Quay in Sydney, and Bistro Dom in Adelaide, are incorporating native foods such as old man saltbush, warrigal greens and wattleseed into their menus.
Italian-born artist and forager, Diego Bonetto, who offers guided wild harvesting trips in Sydney, links the growing interest in eating foraged foods to "environmental guilt".
"We as a society are becoming - rightfully - concerned with the impact we are having on other species and resources," he says.
"Attention to provenance and seasonality is an answer to that, trying to reduce the environmental costs of a distribution chain that transport items back and forth all over the world."
Meanwhile, scientific research is starting to show the health benefits of indigenous foods that grow wild in native soil, free from fertilisers and genetic modification.
Many are rich in antioxidants, enzyme regulators and anti-inflammatories; others, such as the Kakadu plum, are being pegged as super-foods.
Foraging was not always the domain of chefs and tourist tours, however. Growing up in Scotland, Jock Zonfrillo remembers it was commonplace for ordinary families.
"It was pretty normal having that connection to the land," says the UK chef, who relocated to Australia in 2000, and has his own TV show, Nomad Chef.
"That all disappeared when food got fancy and everyone got obsessed with Michelin stars."
Used by indigenous Australians for tens of thousands of years, the recent rediscovery of bush foods is due to "new fads" in the industry, says Mr Zonfrillo.
At Adelaide restaurant Orana, (which means "welcome" in many Aboriginal languages), Mr Zonfrillo uses no less than 68 wild and foraged ingredients in his tasting menu.
He hired a forager in Byron Bay, Peter Hardwick, and trained his chefs to search for ingredients more local to the restaurant in the Adelaide Hills or along the South Australian coast.
Crucially, Mr Zonfrillo, spends time with rural Aboriginal communities in the bush to learn about their cuisine.
He is now in the process of setting up the Orana Foundation, which will categorise local native ingredients and protect and preserve Aboriginal food knowledge by connecting with Indigenous Australian elders.
"We would never ever go down that path without having authorisation [from Aboriginal people] to be on that land and secondly to find out from an Aboriginal community what that use of an ingredient is, its nutrition, or how it's ingrained in their culture," he says.
Foraging is not without issues, including the risk of depletion of native plants as it becomes more popular.
Mr Bonetto warns: "Never over harvest, leave no trace, be nice to soils and colonies."
Foragers also have to be careful not to pick from areas sprayed with herbicides or near industrial sites where they may have been contaminated by heavy metals.
In 2012, a chef and his kitchen hand in Canberra died after accidently picking and cooking death cap mushrooms on New Year's Eve.
"If you are unable to identify it, don't pick it - rule number one," insists Mr Zonfrillo, who has ingredients tested by scientists at local universities before adding them to the menu.
Ms Mayall wants Australians to move away from hackneyed ideas of native cuisines and recognise it is easy to incorporate them into everyday life.
"I just think, quite simply, eat what the land provides and you couldn't get closer," she says.
"It's not hard to put some wattleseed into muffins, make a jam with Davidson Plums or use Tasmanian Mountain Pepper on our eggs and bacon. It really is that simple."
Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore is a Sydney-based arts writer. | When Jude Mayall first launched her Australian native food business, Outback Chef, "no one wanted to know" about the complex, strong flavours of indigenous Australian herbs and plants. | 34332885 |
After visiting the spartan house in a rundown Delhi neighbourhood where she lived with her parents and brothers, you could see how much they had put into helping her realise the dream, shared by so many hundreds of millions of Indians.
Many of the young and middle class Indians - men as well as women - who've joined protests in recent weeks said it was that sense of shared identity, as well as the shocking nature of the attack, that had propelled them onto the streets.
Yet the victim - who legally still can't be named in India - seems to have been much closer to the accused, in her background and means, than to the many wealthier Indians who've been confronting police lines for the first time.
That was the impression I took away after her family invited us in - having also seen the homes of most of the six arrested for this gruesome crime.
The woman's home in a narrow alley doesn't have a proper roof, so the place was damp and water-logged after recent rain storms.
Next-door neighbours were looking down at us through the gap from their tiny dwellings just feet away, as we climbed the stairs to her bedroom - a curtain serving as a door because the lower half was missing.
The walk there took us along muddy streets strewn with rubbish, in a far western suburb of Delhi its rich elite would never visit. Until last year, the area was still classified by city authorities as an illegal slum.
The lanes of Delhi's Ravi Das colony, the slum district where four of the accused had their homes, were if anything in better shape.
Like the student's family, at least two of the accused are from impoverished villages in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, and source for many of the thousands of migrants who come to Delhi every year hoping for a better life - the same journey her father made nearly 30 years ago.
And the other men are from similar migrant backgrounds. Where they differ, though, was in what they did about it.
"We gave our all to our daughter," her mother told us, still devastated with grief.
She says she can barely leave her bed, complaining of frequent headaches and chest pains.
And their support was working: her daughter was studying at a college in Dehradun in northern India and was on course to qualify as a physiotherapist, while working overtime in a call centre.
"We never gave our sons better treatment," said the mother. In that respect they were also different from many among India's middle class.
Figures show they are just as likely as poorer groups to favour male children, even before they are born - and afterwards in care and medical treatment.
It means India is in a rare category - along with only China - of having higher rates of infant mortality among girls than boys.
The student's mother also lashed out at India's sexist attitudes, attacking the many politicians and other public figures who've suggested she brought the rape on herself.
One well-known spiritual guru even said she should have embraced her attackers as "brothers" to stop them assaulting her.
"Either they don't have daughters," her mother said, "or they are clearly backing these crimes."
Her stance is also a sign of how it's simplistic to see the outcry over this brutal crime as being a kind of "Arab spring" by the more educated middle class.
Her father, sitting on the bed where they laid her body after she was brought back from Singapore, is now left with the memories of his determined daughter.
Echoing his wife's criticisms, he said India had to change to make sure such crimes never happened again. "The character of our society is very poor," he said.
But his daughter's example, he said, was that "you should stand up for yourself. Don't lose, only win."
What makes this story even more tragic is that the young student was clearly so close to doing that. | Neat stacks of medical text books, a sharply-designed carrier bag from a clothes store, an English novel and pairs of smart shoes in the draughty bedroom of the 23-year-old Delhi gang rape victim, tell the story of a woman determined to make the leap to a middle class lifestyle for her and her family. | 21121412 |
However the BBC Three programme broke accuracy rules by playing fast and loose with footage filmed last year in the New South Wales town of Wilcannia.
A party scene purportedly shot on a single night was actually filmed at four separate gatherings.
The BBC Trust said it was "a serious breach of its editorial guidelines".
It also said the BBC would not be commissioning any new programmes from Sundog Pictures - an independent production company co-founded by Sir Richard Branson's son Sam - until further notice.
Broadcast in January, Hidden Australia: Black in the Outback portrayed extreme drinking among the Aboriginal community as rife.
What it didn't make clear was that it cut together footage filmed on four separate days, some of it at a wake for a member of that community.
The BBC said it had not been informed before broadcast and only became aware when Australia's ABC network wrote a story on the matter.
The Trust said it was "deeply troubled" by what it described as a "grave lack of judgement by those concerned with the production".
The findings did not mention Addicted to Ice, the second Hidden Australia film, which is still available on iPlayer.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Reggie Yates's Hidden Australia was meant to be a hard-hitting look at the derivations and inequalities suffered by the country's indigenous people. | 39459310 |
All three missed Sunday's 3-0 friendly defeat in Sweden but have resumed training at Wales' base in France.
Ledley's return is particularly significant, given the Crystal Palace player broke his leg on 7 May.
"If the situation stays the same, the three will be available this weekend," said Wales boss Chris Coleman.
Ledley resumed light training last week following the injury and his condition, along with the fitness of Robson-Kanu and Allen, has improved of late.
Robson-Kanu has had a leg injury while Allen has had a minor knee problem.
"All three players came through sessions yesterday, fully integrated with the squad, so it's positive news," Coleman continued.
"All three players are good, lacking game-time but physically they look very good."
Wales' match against Slovakia in Bordeaux will be their first in the finals stage of a major tournament since the 1958 World Cup.
Ledley, Allen and Robson-Kanu all played prominent roles in Wales' qualifying campaign but have seen their recent international involvement hampered by injury.
Wales' absence from major competitions means they were the fourth and bottom seeds when the Euro 2016 groups were drawn.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Slovakia were third seeds after beating reigning European champions Spain on their way to qualifying.
Jan Kozak's side also claimed an impressive friendly victory away against World Cup holders Germany on 29 May.
"We know it's a tough test against a very tough Slovakian team, who will probably be favourites because they're a good team and had some great results," said Coleman.
"If you look at the four teams in the group, then we are the underdogs.
"We knew that before we got to the tournament. That doesn't mean we can't get enough points that we can't progress because we're capable of that - we know that.
"We know why we're here, but what's coming is something we've never experienced. It's a huge challenge for us, and one we deserve. This is what we've been screaming for."
Who do you think should start at Euro 2016? Step into Chris Coleman’s shoes and pick your XI - and then share it with your friends using our brand new team selector. | Midfielders Joe Ledley and Joe Allen and striker Hal Robson-Kanu are set to return from injury for Wales' Euro 2016 opener against Slovakia on Saturday. | 36471486 |
They say the natural ranges of these key pollinators are being compressed in both Europe and North America.
The analysis indicates that warming is having a greater impact than pesticides or land use change.
To ensure bees survive, humans may have to help move them to cooler areas, the European and American researchers add.
Many creatures, including butterflies, have responded to a warming climate by moving towards the poles or towards higher ground.
Bumblebees have dealt with the increasing heat by disappearing in large numbers from portions of their southern ranges, but the insects seem to have baulked at moving north.
The study was carried out by a team of scientists from Europe, the US and Canada.
They examined more than 420,000 historical and current records of bumblebee observations between 1901 and 2010 relating to 67 different species.
Taking the period between 1901 and 1974 as their baseline, the researchers found that in recent decades when temperatures have increased, the bees started to die off in the southern part of their ranges in both Europe and North America, at the same time.
"These species are at serious and immediate risk, from rapid human induced climate change," said lead author Prof Jeremy Kerr from the University of Ottawa.
"The impacts are large and they are under way - they are not just something to worry about at some vague future time."
The researchers say the losses amount to a retreat of around 300km or around 9km a year from the bumblebees' traditional southern limits in Europe and North America.
"This is a surprise," said Dr Leif Richardson, one of the authors, from the University of Vermont.
"The bees are losing range on their southern margin and failing to pick up territory at the northern margin - so their habitat range is shrinking."
The researchers argue that the bees are "hitting a wall" on their northern ranges. They believe the insects are struggling to go further towards the pole because the lack the capacity to rapidly grow a new population when they move.
"This population growth rate limitation we suspect may be implicated as the key limitation on their capacity to track shifting climate conditions northward and into colder areas," said Prof Kerr.
The authors believe that the squeeze has not been caused by two other significant threats to the bees' survival: pesticides and land use changes.
In the US, spatially detailed annual pesticide measurements including neonicotinoids have been available since 1991. The researchers say that they have been unable to relate these data to the observed shifts in the bees' range.
"The result is widespread, rapid declines of pollinators across continents - effects that are not due to pesticide use or habitat loss," said Prof Kerr.
"It looks like it's just too hot."
The authors say that bumblebees may need the help of humans to overcome the challenges of warming.
Scientists believe that moving the insects to cooler climates, a process called assisted migration, might be necessary.
"If we are serious about preserving species like bumblebees for the future, it is possible we will need that to intervene in a significant and extensive way to help them adapt," said Prof Kerr.
But not everyone is convinced that human intervention is the best plan. Some researchers point to the fact that not every species of bumblebee has been affected in the same way by warming.
"There seem to be some interesting level of variation in bumblebee species' response to changes in climatic conditions, something that isn't discussed in the paper," said Dr Nathalie Pettorelli from the Zoological Society of London.
"This level of inter-specific variability might be important to consider when thinking about mitigation strategies, as one solution might not fit all."
The research has been published in the journal, Science.
Follow Matt on Twitter @mattmcgrathbbc. | Climate change is threatening the survival of bumblebees, significantly reducing the habitats in which they can survive, researchers say. | 33442006 |
She has photographed some of the more colourful characters who shop on her high street in the Bristol suburb of Bedminster.
"A lot of people put a lot of effort into dressing up in Bedminster," she said, "I don't see it in other parts of Bristol."
"I often just ask people if I can take their picture because I really like their hat," she added.
An outdoor display of East Street Tales runs until October 22.
The photographer captures some of the characters she sees on a daily basis on East Street in Bedminster, including this man who takes his two pet chickens for a daily walk.
"I find myself going to people who dress differently but that doesn't give an overall picture of people in Bedminster. So there is a little bit of a dilemma as, being a photographer, I like to be objective," said Ibolya.
The BBC has gathered some of the most beautiful and interesting photographs from across England on its Pinterest board. | Photographer Ibolya Feher rarely leaves her house without her camera. | 37641068 |
TV footage showed an amphibious "Ride the Ducks" vehicle - a type used for tours in several US cities - smashed into the side of the bus on a bridge.
The four victims were foreign students from North Seattle College. Several people were critically injured.
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray described the crash as "a terrible tragedy".
It happened at about 11:00 local time (18:00 GMT) on Thursday. Two smaller vehicles were also involved in the crash.
Most of the victims were on board the charter bus. Officials have not said which countries they were from.
Forty-five students and staff members from the school's international programmes were taking an orientation trip ahead of the school year starting on Monday.
Fifty-one people were taken to hospitals. Fire department officials said 12 had critical injuries.
"Today, the North Seattle College community learned devastating news that four of our students were tragically killed in a vehicle accident on the Aurora Bridge," the school said in a statement.
"Additionally, several students remain in critical condition, and other students and a North employee sustained serious injuries."
Government officials were working to contact next of kin.
A witness said the duck boat signalled to move left when it lurched and the front left wheel came off. It then clipped a vehicle before colliding with the bus.
Two witnesses travelling in the opposite direction, Brad Volm and Bradley Sawhill, told the Associated Press news agency they saw the duck boat's left tyre "lock up" as it swerved into the charter bus.
"It all happened so fast. I got out of my car, and there were just bodies, just everywhere. People lying in the street,'' Mr Volm said.
Tim Gesner, who was on the duck boat, told The Seattle Times the vehicle started to fish-tail and he heard the driver say "Oh, no".
Mayor Murray said the company had voluntarily suspended trips for the time being.
"Ride the Ducks" tours, using vehicles which can drive on roads and float on water, are known for guides who play loud music and quack through speakers when leading tourist groups.
The amphibious vehicles have been involved in multiple fatal accidents.
Two people died when one collided with a barge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 2010.
The "Duck" name is derived from DUKW, the six-wheel amphibious vehicles used by the US military during World War Two. | A tour vehicle and a charter bus carrying foreign students have collided in Seattle, Washington state, leaving four people dead, US officials say. | 34353935 |
One machine was pulled from the wall on Mill Street in Gamlingay near St Neots, Cambridgeshire, at about 01:45 BST on Saturday morning.
About two hours later, a machine six miles away at Morrisons in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, was hit.
Police said the thieves left empty-handed and abandoned vehicles at both crime scenes.
John Mercer, who lives on Mill Street, said: "We were woken by the noise and looked out to see an agricultural vehicle pulling the machine out of the wall, which took about two minutes.
"We called the police, but while we were doing so a Bedfordshire Police car arrived and the thieves sped off in a car empty-handed and they left behind the agricultural vehicle and a loader."
Officers have also recovered a stolen vehicle which was used at the Morrisons raid in Market Square.
Meanwhile, Hertfordshire Police said a cash machine was removed from the outside wall of the Co-op on High Street in Stanstead Abbots near Hertford at about 03:00 BST on Sunday morning.
A number of people who lived above the shop were evacuated from the building amid concerns about its structural safety.
The cash machine was left behind, but it was unclear if any money had been removed.
A Hertfordshire Police spokeswoman said: "We are aware of incidents elsewhere in the region and are linking in with colleagues from other forces as part of our inquiries." | Raiders have attempted to steal two cash machines from separate buildings in East Anglia. | 34436164 |
The 25-year-old, released by Torquay before Christmas, has agreed a deal until the end of the season, with the option of another year.
The 6ft 3in forward scored five goals in 21 appearances for the Conference side before his departure.
The Highland club tweeted: "Delighted to welcome Alex Fisher to #ICTFC."
The signing follows news that top-scorer Miles Storey has extended his loan from Swindon until the end of the campaign, while Tobi Sho-Silva has returned to Charlton.
Inverness CT, who sit sixth in the Premiership, are the Scottish Cup holders and begin their defence of the trophy at Forthbank, with Stirling Albion mid-table in League Two. | Inverness Caledonian Thistle have signed striker Alex Fisher in time for Saturday's Scottish Cup visit to Stirling Albion. | 35272076 |
The hives and bees, worth about £2,000, were taken on 26 April from the Hooton Pagnell Hall estate, near Doncaster.
Beekeeper Amanda Clayton said she was heartbroken by the theft.
South Yorkshire Police said it was investigating the incident, which is reported to be the first case of bee rustling in the UK this year.
More on this and other local stories from across Yorkshire
Ms Clayton said: "It takes a lot of hard work and money to keep bees - and to turn up and find they were all gone is heartbreaking."
"The bees were active, and the hives were full."
She believes the theft of her entire stock was carried out by someone who knew how to handle and transport them without being stung.
A bee smoker was left at the scene, possibly used to calm the bees before they were taken, she added.
Ms Clayton, who only started keeping bees about a year ago, said she intended to start again, and had taken advice about branding equipment to deter thieves, and to make it easier to find if it is stolen.
Diane Roberts, from the British Bee Keeping Association, said it was the first case she had heard of this year.
She concurred with Ms Clayton that the culprits would have had a knowledge of beekeeping.
"For a start you couldn't just load a hive into the back of a car", she said.
"People would be stung from head to foot."
She said the thieves would have probably sedated the bees using a smoker, before blocking up the entrances to the hives.
It is thought the bees are being divided up and resold by unscrupulous keepers, she added. | The owner of 24,000 bees stolen from a private estate in South Yorkshire said the theft must have been carried out by someone with expertise in beekeeping. | 39816267 |
The Blood Swept Lands And Seas of Red exhibition, by artist Paul Cummins, involves 888,246 ceramic poppies planted in the dry moat at the Tower.
A poppy has been made for each British and Colonial death during the conflict.
The first ceramic poppy was planted last month, with the final one due to be installed on Armistice Day.
During the visit, Prince William was heard telling the artwork's creator the piece was "spectacular".
Mr Cummins said he was inspired by a line from the will of a Derbyshire serviceman who died in Flanders.
In the will the soldier describes "the blood swept lands and seas of red, where angels fear to tread".
Britain declared war on Germany at 23:00 on 4 August 1914, with thousands of soldiers engaged in the bloodiest conflict the world had known until the armistice was signed on 11 November 1918.
The Tower of London was where more than 1,600 men swore an oath to the crown after enlisting for war.
It was also used as a military depot, ceremonial setting-off point for regiments who had been stationed there and the execution location for 11 German spies.
The poppies are currently being sold for £25 each, which it is hoped will raise an estimated £15m for six armed forces charities.
General Lord Dannatt, former head of the Armed Forces and Constable of the Tower of London, said: "This is incredible and it's really moving.
"This installation, when it's complete... brings it home individually. It was a life lost, a family ruined, a community shattered. And I think it's absolutely right that in the mass, you pick out the individuals."
Lord Dannatt said he hoped the poppies would go "right across the land, right across the world" after their sale.
He said: "The money raised will be important because it can go to help the wounded, injured and sick of our current generation, so I think the previous generation will be very pleased that their sacrifice has produce this.
"It's a wonderful coming together over the 100 years."
Chief Yeoman Alan Kingshott, who is overseeing the planting of the poppies, said about 140,000 had so far been planted, although some had been broken during the process because they were so delicate.
He said: "It's so devastating when you break it because it's representing a life.
"They have to be treated with care and it's a long process to actually plant them and so it's not a thing you can do lightly."
The visit to the Tower by members of the Royal Family comes a day after they joined political leaders and relatives of the fallen to remember the sacrifices and losses exactly a century on from Britain's entry into the war.
A "lights out" event on Monday saw people across the country invited to turn off their lights for an hour until 23:00, the time war was declared in 1914. | The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry have "planted" a ceramic poppy at the Tower of London marking the centenary of World War One. | 28654710 |
"Meeting our objective is about credibility. If a central bank sets an objective, it can't just move the goalposts when it misses it," he said in a speech in Germany.
Eurozone inflation is currently 0.2%, way below the ECB's target of near 2%.
But Mr Draghi insisted that the central bank would meet its obligations.
"Confidence comes from every party fulfilling its mandate. And that's what the ECB will do," he said.
Mr Draghi rejected criticism of the ECB's €60bn-a-month stimulus programme, saying that no one had discussed the risks of doing nothing.
"What would that mean for our price stability mandate, and therefore for growth and jobs, and eventually, for the future of our monetary union?," he asked.
Mr Draghi also rejected criticism that the bank's low interest rates could lead to higher house prices because of cheap loans.
"Though low interest rates can encourage risk-taking, there are no warning signs of serious financial instability," he said.
The speech comes just days after Mr Draghi said the bank would "review and possibly reconsider" monetary policy at its next meeting in March.
Analysts interpreted the speech, where he said that there would be "no limits" to action to reinflate the eurozone, as an indication the bank was willing to ease policy further.
His comments come after the ECB decided to keep the bank's main borrowing rate unchanged at 0.05% earlier this month. | European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has fought back against critics, insisting the bank's policies will help to raise inflation. | 35405938 |
Subsets and Splits