A German holidaymaker has been fined Â£1,000 after causing a crash which killed a motorcyclist in Conwy county.

Article: Paul Croft, 19, died in hospital in March 2005, a week after being attacked in an alleyway in Pendlebury, Salford.
Greater Manchester Police's Cold Case Unit reopened an investigation into his death in 2015.
Paul O'Neill, 35, of Broomhall Road in Pendlebury, was remanded into custody by Manchester magistrates.
A 28-year-old man from Swinton was charged with Mr Croft's murder in November.

Summary: A cold case investigation into the death of a teenager who was beaten with a baseball bat has led to a second man being charged with his murder.
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Article: Angus Carpenter, 62, has played the Scottish instrument in Liverpool city centre for more than 30 years, usually dressed in kilt and piper's regalia.
Liverpool Crown Court heard he gave the impression he was collecting for charity three times in 2015.
He denied three charges of fraud and told the court he was busking.
Sgt Chris Gaynor told the court Mr Carpenter was spotted by police on three occasions in 2015, each time giving the impression he was collecting cash for charity.
On one occasion his collecting bucket was adorned with stickers resembling the Help for Heroes logo and the other two with a Hillsborough Justice Campaign banner draped on his bagpipes.
Passers-by would have assumed he was collecting on behalf of those organisations, the court heard.
Mr Carpenter said he has piped for charity in the past but on these occasions he was busking.
The court heard Kenneth Derbyshire, chairman of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign, said he had given Mr Carpenter permission to design and display a banner featuring the eternal flame and the word justice.
But he said he had made it clear to Mr Carpenter he was not use it to collect funds for the charity.
Mr Carpenter told the court the banner was a tribute to the victims not an attempt to deceive anyone.
He told the court he was a busker who made money from performing on the streets and he never intended to give the impression he was raising money for charity.
On occasions when he did fundraise, he said, he always insisted that representatives from the relevant charities collected the cash.
The trial continues.

Summary: A bagpiping busker used a Hillsborough charity banner to dupe big-hearted Scousers into handing over money, a court has heard.
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Article: The co-payment scheme would have required doctors to decide whether or not to charge patients an extra A$5 ($4.1, Â£2.6) for a visit.
Health Minister Susan Ley said on Tuesday that the idea had been dropped because of a lack of support.
Critics of the policy said it shifted the burden of financing healthcare to doctors and patients.
The proposed scheme had been heavily criticised by medical professionals.
It replaced a previous and equally unpopular plan in December to charge patients a A$7 fee to see a GP.
How does Australian Medicare work now?
Under the updated version of the scheme, doctors would have seen their Medicare rebates for some patients cut by A$5, with doctors given the option to pass that cost on to the patient.
The government claimed the scheme would save A$3.5bn over five years but critics said the cost to patients would rise.
Professor Heather Yeatman, president of the Public Health Association of Australia, said in December that GPs were "being forced to do the dirty work of the government".
Ms Leys said it was clear the proposal for a co-payment did "not have broad support and will not proceed".
"We recognise that we cannot introduce reforms to build a strong, sustainable Medicare without the support from the public and the parliament."
She said she would be consulting on short, medium and long-term policy options to ensure the government could continue to support high quality care and treatment.
Australian Medical Association President Dr Brian Owler welcomed the move, telling the Australian Broadcasting Corporation the policy was "never one which was going to improve general practice or make the healthcare system more sustainable".

Summary: Australia's government has scrapped plans for a widely criticised medical payment scheme.
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Article: Taylor, 18, captained England at the recent Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh, where the team finished fifth overall.
The off-spinner, who made his Hampshire debut in August 2013 aged 16, is looking to make a big impact in 2016.
"I'd definitely like to be pushing my way into that team with a few solid performances," said Taylor.
Taylor failed to make a first-class appearance last season and faces competition for a slow bowling place with all-rounder Liam Dawson and leg-spinner Mason Crane.
"With potentially Liam Dawson being away on England duty early season, it might bring up an opportunity, " Taylor told BBC Radio Solent.
"I'm batting well at the minute, if I can put some performances in with the ball too, who knows?"
Taylor took just two wickets in six games in the Under-19 World Cup, but admitted leading his country was "an amazing opportunity".
"It was a bit disappointing to go out in the quarter-finals with the ability and potential we had," he added.
"Going to a country you've never played before, I definitely think it makes you a better player in terms of dealing with pressure.
"I definitely enjoyed the captaincy. It was a brilliant learning curve for me and I took a lot out of it, especially seeing what other captains did, in an environment you're not used to."

Summary: Hampshire slow bowler Brad Taylor is targeting more appearances in first-class cricket this summer.
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Article: The region was also highly rated in global rankings for primary reading -  being placed fifth in the world and second in Europe, behind Finland.
NI also surpassed England, which was placed ninth in global maths and 11th in world primary reading rankings.
The NI education minister said the local results were "truly impressive".
Source: TIMSS 2011
The global rankings are the result of two studies - the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS).
The research was carried out by US academics who examined the results of tests taken by 900,000 pupils in over 60 countries.
The TIMSS is produced every four years while the PIRLS is published every five years, but this is the first time Northern Ireland has taken part in the test results study.
The studies reveal that Asian countries continue to dominate the top of the global tables in maths, science and reading.
In global maths, NI took sixth place behind five Asian countries.
In reading, NI made the top five group - alongside such education superpowers as Finland and Hong Kong.
In terms of the proportion of pupils reaching the highest ability levels in primary reading, Northern Ireland was even more successful, ranked third place in the world.
In science, NI was placed 21st in the world, six places behind England which came 15th.
Source: PIRLS 2011
The NI Education Minister, John O'Dowd, said the "importance and significance of these findings cannot be overestimated".
"This is the first time we have measured our primary level schools against international standards and the results are truly impressive.
"In numeracy we rank just behind a group of high-performing Pacific-rim countries, whilst in both reading and numeracy we are the highest-ranked English speaking region in the world," Mr O'Dowd added.
The minister said the statistics showed the "exceptional results our system is producing at primary level education" and he paid tribute to staff in the sector for their "hard work and...

Summary: Northern Ireland is the best performing education system for primary maths in Europe, and the sixth best in the world, according to a major US study.
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Article: Hospital radiographer Aidan McNicholl, 36, died following the collision on the A5 at Cerrigydrudion on Sunday.
Andreas Werner, 46, of Leipzig, failed to spot the motorcyclist as he turned his VW Transporter right causing the fatal crash.
The father-of-four pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving at Llandudno Magistrates' Court.
He was fined Â£1,000 and also banned from driving in the UK for two years.
Prosecutor Sarah Marsh told the court the victim's family saw no value in Werner, who was staying in a cottage with his family near Bala, being sent to jail.
She said: "They accept it was a momentary lapse and nothing will bring him back."
Craig Hutchinson, defending, said Werner was remorseful and could offer no explanation for the crash.

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Lakes that have been forming near Mount Everest could threaten settlements downstream if they overflow.

Article: The ambitious plans for the revamp includes demolishing many of the existing buildings on The Kingsway.
They also include a large raised public square bridging Oystermouth Road, linking the city centre to the marina.
The plans will go before Swansea council for approval on 20 January.
If the council gives the proposals the go-ahead, developers would need to be found with the aim of of work starting in 2016.
Part of the plans also include selling off the civic centre on the seafront to help fund the plans.
Council leader Rob Stewart told the South Wales Evening Post the plan was to build something with a "Swansea flavour" rather than just copying developments in other cities.
He said: "The regeneration of the city centre is a key priority not just for the council but for the people of Swansea as a whole.
"A new, vibrant Swansea city centre is of benefit not just to the residents and businesses of Swansea, but to people across the Swansea Bay City Region.
"We want to develop a thriving, vibrant and viable city centre. We don't want to copy from elsewhere but we do want to learn from successful development elsewhere.
"Our new city centre needs to be unique and retain a special Swansea identity and character that is not found anywhere else."

Summary: A proposed redevelopment of Swansea city centre could see the construction of a "business district" and a major shopping, leisure, cinema, office and housing complex.
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Article: The demonstration involved Racetrack memory - a system which stores information as magnetic patterns on tiny wires.
IBM said the technology promised faster data access speeds than were possible using hard drives or flash disks.
However it faces a challenge from other next-generation memory technologies being explored by other companies.
The team - based in New York, California and Taiwan - has been working on the process since 2008.
The prototype chip consists of 256 Racetrack cells.
Each cell consisted of a single magnetic nanowire, 60-240 nanometres wide and 15-20 nanometres thick. A nanometre is a billionth of a metre.
Electric pulses are applied to the wires creating "domain walls" with "regions" between them.
These regions pass over a magnetic read/write head which faces them in one direction or another, representing the 0s and 1s of computer data.
The small magnetic regions can be "raced" at speed along the wires - giving the technique its name.
Advocates of Racetrack claim it could potentially read and write data hundreds of thousands of times faster than is possible on commercial hard disks.
That would put access speeds at roughly the rate offered by DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) chips. These are already used in current PCs to run programs, but "forget" data as soon as the computers' power supplies are switched off.
"This breakthrough could lead to a new type of data-centric computing that allows massive amounts of stored information to be accessed in less than a billionth of a second," said a statement from IBM.
The scientists noted that the circuitry involved was created using IBM's standard microchip-making technologies, highlighting its potential as a realistic replacement to existing memory storage techniques.
Racetrack may also prove more durable. IBM aims to create a device that can be wiped and rewritten millions of times. By contrast many flash memory drives can become unreliable after any single bit has endured about 100,000 writes.
However, the researchers acknowledge that more work...

Summary: Details of the first real-world test of a new memory chip technology have been revealed by IBM scientists.
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Article: Leader Nick Clegg said the party's candidate Mike Thornton had pulled off a "stunning victory" which had been secured "against the odds".
UKIP leader Nigel Farage said its best-ever performance in a Westminster poll showed it had "connected with voters".
David Cameron said the Tories would recover from a "disappointing" result.
The by-election was called after former Lib Dem cabinet minister Chris Huhne resigned as an MP following an admission he had perverted the course of justice over driving licence points.
But the party, which has held Eastleigh since another by-election in 1994, won despite a fall in its share of the vote of more than 14 percentage points since the 2010 general election.
Nick Robinson: Disbelief, despair, concern
UKIP candidate Diane James got 11,571 votes, on a 19.3% swing from the Lib Dems.
Conservative Maria Hutchings won 10,559 votes, representing a 14 percentage points fall in her share of the vote since the general election, when she came second to Mr Huhne.
Labour's John O'Farrell was fourth with 4,088 votes.
Lib Dem Mr Thornton, who has been a parish and borough councillor since 2007, said: "The people of Eastleigh recognise that the Liberal Democrats have always had a superb record of delivery, we've always listened to what people want, and we always make sure that we do a good job."
By Robin  BrantBBC News political correspondent
What does this result mean?
At a victory celebration in the constituency, Mr Clegg said the party had won in the "most exceptionally difficult circumstances" - given the manner of Huhne's departure and allegations surrounding the party's former chief executive Lord Rennard.
"We held our nerve. We stood our ground... We overcame the odds with a stunning victory," he said, adding that the result proved the Lib Dems "can be a party of government and still win".
UKIP's Nigel Farage said the surge in support for his party was not a "freak result" but a continuation of a trend which had seen it rise in the national polls.
"We have really connected with...

Summary: The Liberal Democrats have won the Eastleigh by-election, with the UK Independence Party pushing the Conservatives into third place.
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Article: At least 150 men booked in for the 20-minute procedure which involves severing the tubes that carry sperm.
Doctors performed the vasectomies on stage behind a curtain at the Kenyan National Theatre in Nairobi.
Kenyan men considering a vasectomy often fear the stigma of being seen as having lost their masculinity.
The World Vasectomy Day organisation was behind the event, which was broadcast on Facebook and included a panel of experts discussing "the myths and misconceptions about vasectomy".
Campaigners reiterated that it was a safe form of family planning and why it was important in terms of "the country and the planet".
"Many men have this perception that vasectomy causes a man to turn into a woman," Dr Jack Zhang, a Canadian doctor at the event, told the BBC.
"Some men fear that in Africa there's a high mortality rate so they need to have more children."
The BBC's Abdinoor Aden in Nairobi says some of the men who came to have a vasectomy were driven by economic concerns about having a large family.
Others said it was to help their partners.
"The family planning methods my wife was using have had bad effects on her so I opted to go and do vasectomy so that she can be relieved," one man told the BBC.
What is a vasectomy?
Source: World Vasectomy Day

Summary: Vasectomy operations on men in Kenya have been live streamed from a theatre in the capital as part a campaign to promote the sterilisation procedure.
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Article: It suggests house prices will rise at an average of 5% a year, pricing the typical home at Â£360,000 by 2020.
Industry figures show that first-time buyers typically need to find a deposit of 18% to secure a mortgage.
Using PwC data, that would equate to a requirement for Â£64,800 in savings to get on the property ladder in 2020.
"Driven by a decade of soaring house prices before the financial crisis and lower loan-to-value ratios post-crisis, the deposits needed by first time buyers have risen significantly. As a result, a generation of private renters have emerged and this will increasingly be the norm for the 20 to 39 age group," said Richard Snook, senior economist at PwC.
"There is also a rising dichotomy in the market between those - mostly older - households who own outright and those - mostly younger - households who still have a mortgage or rent to pay."
Ownership issues for young adults would become more acute owing to a lack of supply in affordable housing, the PwC report suggested.
The contrast between young and old would be marked by the number of people owning their homes having bought in cash or having paid off a mortgage.
The number of homes owned outright would rise from 8.4 million now to 10.6 million by 2025, accounting for 35% of the total, PwC said.
Overall, it predicted that the proportion of residents who owned the home they lived in would drop from its peak of 70% in the middle of the last decade to about 60% in 2025.
About 7.2 million households would be private tenants in 10 years' time, it suggested.
The recently-published English Housing Survey found that, in 2013-14, some 48% of households made up of 25 to 34-year-olds rented their home from a private landlord.
This had risen from 45% a year earlier, and from 21% in 2003-04.
Over the same 10 years, owner occupation in this age group dropped from 59% to 36%.
In 2013-14, of the 22.6 million households in England, 7.4 million owned their property outright, and 6.9 million had a mortgage, the survey showed. The rest rented their...

Summary: More than half of the under 40s will be renting homes from private landlords in the UK in 10 years' time, accountancy firm PwC has predicted.
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Article: Ponds on the surface of the Khumbu glacier in the Himalayas have expanded and joined together to form larger bodies of water.
Climbers need to cross the glacier, including the treacherous Khumbu Icefall, to climb the mighty peak.
The accelerated meltdown of glaciers in the region is causing concern against a backdrop of rising global temperatures.
Scientists say the warning is the first of its kind for Khumbu, although other glaciers in the Himalayas have seen an increase in the number of lakes formed.
Such newly formed glacial lakes can overflow causing flooding, and with it loss of life and damage downstream.
This is the first scientific team to visit the region after the devastating earthquake last April.
"A decade or so ago, there were individual ponds on the Khumbu glacier but in the past five years or so they have begun to get larger and join up," said Ann Rowan, who led the field study team from the universities of Sheffield and Leeds.
Dr Rowan's team has been studying the behaviour of debris-covered glaciers, focusing on Khumbu.
"Particularly, on the left hand side of the lower reaches of the glacier, there is a series of about seven or eight large ponds that are now starting to link and form a big chain," she told the BBC.
"There is water flowing from the upper part of the glacier through the series of these ponds and that is going to encourage them to join up.
"At present, the glacier appears to be disintegrating, and may form a few large and potentially hazardous lakes on the glacier surface."
Dr Rowan's team has studied satellite images of the Khumbu glacier dating back 15 years and has also conducted three ground surveys since 2009.
The scientists found that parts of the lower region of the debris-covered glacier have been shrinking because of loss of ice underneath. This has allowed the formation and expansion of water bodies.
The study says measurements for the past 15 years show that the surface of the debris-covered glacier has been declining at the rate of two metres per year.
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Nineteen people, including 17 foreign tourists, have been killed in a gun attack on the Bardo museum in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, the PM says.

Article: Analysis of data on vehicle accidents showed that drivers aged 70 are involved in 3-4 times fewer accidents than 17-21 year old men.
By observing older drivers, the study found that most mistakes made occurred on right turns and overtaking.
Young men are more likely to be involved in incidents resulting from driving too fast and losing control.
The research findings were outlined at the British Science Festival in Swansea.
Charles Musselwhite, associate professor of gerontology at Swansea University's Centre for Innovative Ageing, found that dangerous driving is not generally an issue for older people.
While the elderly are more likely to be involved in an accident than the safest-driving cohort in their 40s, they are less likely than very young drivers to be involved in accidents.
Older drivers tended to make mistakes when they felt under pressure from other road users, the study found.
The most accident-prone age group, by a substantial margin, is young men. Indeed, 17 to 21 year-olds are three to four times more likely to have an accident than 70 year-olds.
There is an increase in accidents among the over-75 age group, which Prof Musselwhite puts down to increasing physical frailty.
Older and younger drivers are also involved in different types of accident. While young men are more likely to be involved in single vehicle incidents, usually caused by speeding and losing control, older people tend to have smaller impact collisions.
Older women are more likely to have small accidents when doing tight manoeuvres. Older people are also more likely to be involved in accidents involving other older drivers, suggesting they make similar errors.
However, Prof Musselwhite said that older drivers compensate for their declining powers by driving more carefully, slowing down, leaving larger gaps, and choosing better weather and quieter times to go out in the car.
He also noted that this may change as people work and live longer.
Road safety concerns have prompted discussion about re-testing older drivers, but such...

Summary: New research from Swansea University challenges the idea that older people are dangerous drivers.
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Article: On the wall behind his counter, a sign announces that besides the real - Brazil's legal tender - he accepts the "bem", an alternative currency from a local community development bank, Banco Bem.
The bank was founded in 2005 by an association of seamstresses who decided to lend their profits to a group of furniture makers so that they too could start their own collective.
There are some 100 similar microfinance banks in Brazil, as well as many barter initiatives that also involve social currencies. The banks' aim is to promote the principles of a "solidarity-based economy" which, in their view, is fairer and more sustainable than the dominant capitalist model.
Their clients can pay with colourful bills called, for example, palm-trees (palmas), chestnuts (castanhas), sunflowers (girassois), and kisses (beijos).
Even Cidade de Deus, the Rio de Janeiro's favela made famous through Fernando Meirelles's film City of God, has its own money, the CDD.
Like Cidade de Deus, Sao Benedito used to be extremely violent and drug trafficking was rife. But like several Rio slums, it has now been heavily occupied by the police and local people say they feel much safer.
Sao Benedito residents also say life has improved in recent years thanks to the social policies of the governments of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his successor, Dilma Rousseff - and thanks to local projects like Banco Bem.
"Through Banco Bem, they started to encourage me, to help me, to support me," Mr Rodrigues da Silva, a former bricklayer, said.
He has taken out two loans from the bank, the first one to build his shop and the second one to enlarge it.
"Trade has grown a lot recently. Many more people are coming to spend their money here and a lot of them are paying with bens," he added, with a big smile.
Banco Bem was inspired by Banco Palmas, Brazil's first community bank founded 15 years ago in the north-eastern city of Fortaleza.
"The goal of having a social currency is to encourage people to use that money within their community and...

Summary: Shopkeeper Heraldo Rodrigues da Silva, 55, owns a small store in Sao Benedito, one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Vitoria, the capital of the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo.
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Article: The manifesto pledges to launch fast 5G mobile networks in every country within the European Union by 2020.
However, it also says current net neutrality regulations could hamper innovation and cause "significant uncertainties".
The signatories include BT, Nokia, Orange, Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom.
The concept of net neutrality refers to all internet data traffic being treated equally, with no content provider able to gain an advantage over another.
Campaigners believe it is the best way to enable free and open competition on the internet.
"The EU and member states must reconcile the need for open internet with pragmatic rules that foster innovation," the 5G manifesto says.
"The telecom industry warns that the current net neutrality guidelines, as put forward by BEREC [the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications], create significant uncertainties around 5G return on investment.
"Investments are therefore likely to be delayed unless regulators take a positive stance on innovation and stick to it."
The document also outlines the businesses' commitment to launching 5G in a minimum of one city per EU country by 2020.
5G is the fifth generation of mobile networks, and is likely to be significantly faster than the currently available 3G and 4G.
In October 2015, the European Parliament voted against amendments backed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Netflix and Reddit designed to safeguard net neutrality, creating an unequal internet campaigners fear could stifle future innovation.
"Telecom companies cannot blackmail Europe into weakening net neutrality in exchange for investment in 5G networks, and it is disappointing that the European Commission appear to have endorsed their manifesto," said Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group.
"True innovation is not about protecting the vested interests of large telcos.
"BEREC need to publish net neutrality guidelines that will protect the free and open internet for small businesses and consumers as well."
One analyst told the BBC the telecom...

Summary: Some of the world's largest telecoms companies have signed a 5G manifesto, aimed at driving forward the deployment of next-generation mobile networks.
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Article: The plan lists regeneration priorities, including making it more attractive to visitors, and encouraging town centre living.
It focuses on areas like Queen's Square, which hosts the town's outdoor market, and Bodhyfryd - home to the town's Waterworld leisure centre.
The plan will become part of wider development plans for Wrexham.
It was approved by councillors during a meeting on Tuesday.
"Change has to be needed because Wrexham stagnated a little bit over the last few years," said Neil Rogers, a member of the council's executive board.
"What we are trying to do is to attract private sector investment as well. The council can't pay for it - it is virtually impossible."
The authority recently won almost Â£11m in a bid to help kick-start regeneration projects in the town, through the Welsh Government's Vibrant and Viable Places scheme.
That cash is being used to develop plans for a cultural arts hub in the town centre, as well as bringing empty shopping areas back into public use.
It will also be used to redevelop the brownfield Bridge Street site over the coming three years.
All those themes play into the latest masterplan, which lists its priorities as:
Dr Jan Green, senior lecturer at Glyndwr University's North Wales Business School in Wrexham, said challenges for Wrexham included improving transport links to bring people into the town, and then competing with the nearby English city of Chester.
"It's attracting vibrant businesses, a range of businesses, and saying to people in Wrexham: 'What do you need and will you do your shopping here?' she said.
"Perhaps provisions - routine types of shopping - maybe Wrexham should focus on that. If people are looking for more, shall I say, exclusive items, then maybe you do need to go to a larger city, where that choice is always going to be really more diverse.
"So Wrexham needs to focus on local produce, local businesses and what's attractive to the day-to-day shopper."

Summary: A "masterplan" to improve Wrexham town centre has been adopted by the local authority.
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Article: About 8% of the UK population living in private households acted as informal carers last year, Department of Work and Pensions figures show.
The ONS calculates that it would cost £56.9bn to replace these unpaid carers with paid workers.
Both sexes spent more time on unpaid care in 2015 than in 2000, it says.
The ONS links the rise in unpaid care by family members to "a rapidly ageing population and a higher life expectancy".
"At age 65 a man will spend, on average, 44% of the rest of his life in poorer health, and a woman, 47% of her life," says the ONS document.
Women are more likely than men to be informal carers, with women making up 59% of carers.
The Department for Work and Pensions definition of care is quite broad, including doing someone else's shopping or helping them with paperwork.
The ONS also looked at figures for "active caring", which is the amount of time washing someone or replacing bandages.
On average, women over 50 spent one minute and 15 seconds "actively caring" for someone each day, the ONS found.
The figure for men of the same age was just 45 seconds.
But the amount of caring time spent by both sexes had risen between 2000 and 2015, by 15 percentage points for men and 21% for women.
The ONS analysis of the 2011 Census indicates that when women reach 50 they are likely to spend 5.9 years of their remaining life as unpaid carers.
"In contrast, men at 50 are likely to spend 4.9 years of their remaining life as an unpaid carer," it says.
By 65, these figures reverse, with 65-year old women likely to spend 2.6 of their remaining years as unpaid carers, and 65-year-old men 2.7 years, the ONS says.
The analysis found that half of adult carers were employed either part- or full-time.
And almost a third of these (29%) said they spent 35 hours or more a week as informal carers.
The value of unpaid care outweighs the amounts spent on formal social care, the document suggests.
The latest figures show that NHS England spent almost £17bn on social care in 2015-16, while Wales spent £1.4bn.
Scotland...

Summary: Unpaid carers save the UK economy almost £60bn a year, suggests a new analysis of official figures by the Office of National Statistics.
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Article: Those killed included citizens from Japan, Italy, Colombia, Australia, France, Poland and Spain, PM Habib Essid said.
Two Tunisians, one a police officer, were also killed, he said.
Security forces killed two gunmen and were searching the surrounding area for accomplices, Mr Essid added.
At the time of the attack, deputies in the neighbouring parliamentary building were discussing anti-terrorism legislation. Parliament was evacuated.
Following the attack, Mr Essid said: "It is a critical moment in our history, and a defining moment for our future.
"We have not established the identity of the two terrorists... Reports are not final, these two terrorists could have been assisted by two or three other operatives."
Security operations were "still under way", he added.
According to Prime Minister Essid, 19 people were killed, although some of the countries involved have different totals:
Earlier reports said that a total of 20 tourists had died, with at least 22 tourists and two Tunisians injured. Other reports suggest up to 50 could have been hurt.
Italian, Polish, South African, French and Japanese tourists were among the injured, Mosaique FM radio reported.
Parliament held an extraordinary session on Wednesday evening.
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi said: "We are in a war against terrorism... we will fight them without mercy."
Analysis: BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner
Sadly, this attack did not come out of the blue.
While Tunisia has been spared the catastrophic levels of violence that have plagued other Arab Spring countries like Syria, Yemen and Libya, the country has still suffered from occasional but deadly attacks carried out by Islamist extremists.
In 2013, 22 people were killed. This included a suicide bomber who attacked a beach resort in Sousse. Last year 45 people were killed and already this year the death toll has reached 23, with Wednesday's museum raid following an attack on a mountain checkpoint in February that killed 4 police officers.
In all cases the perpetrators are believed...

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An 85-year-old woman has died after the car she was in crashed into a wall in Barnsley.

Article: The company plans to use the gas as a raw material for its chemicals plants, including Grangemouth in Stirlingshire.
Grangemouth is currently running at a loss, but Ineos believes shale gas will transform the economics of the plant.
Shale gas extraction is promoted as an important potential energy source, but has sparked opposition from environmental groups.
Ineos chairman Jim Ratcliffe said he wanted his company "to become the biggest player in the UK shale gas industry".
The firm added that "substantial further investment would follow if the company moved to development and production".
Shale gas is extracted through a technique known as fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, in which water and chemicals are pumped into shale rock at high pressure.
Numerous anti-fracking groups have formed and protests have been staged at several sites over fears of earthquakes, water pollution and environmental damage.
Ineos is currently building Europe's largest shale gas import facility to feed its petrochemicals plant at Grangemouth - but it wants to produce home-grown shale gas as well.
In recent months it has been buying up rights to explore across hundreds of square miles of the Midland Valley around the Stirlingshire site.
Ineos is also thought to have applied for further licences as part of the government's ongoing onshore licensing round.
The company outlined plans on Thursday to invest $1bn (£640m) in UK exploration.
"I believe shale gas could revolutionise UK manufacturing and I know Ineos has the resources to make it happen, the skills to extract the gas safely and the vision to realise that everyone must share in the rewards," said Mr Ratcliffe.
BBC industry correspondent John Moylan said the move will be seen as a significant vote of confidence in the sector, and will position Ineos as one of the major players in the emerging industry.
But, he added, it will also put Ineos in the sights of protesters who believe shale gas and fracking are dangerous and harmful to the environment.
A spokesman for Greenpeace UK...

Summary: Chemicals giant Ineos has announced plans to invest up to £640m in shale gas exploration in the UK.
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Article: They have published the results of a trial involving 600 women from Glasgow in the British Medical Journal.
More than 20% of the women offered vouchers stopped smoking, compared with 9% given normal NHS support alone.
The Royal College of Midwives said incentivising healthy behaviours using money was "not ideal" - and expensive.
Women taking part in the trial had breath tests - as well as providing saliva and urine samples - to check whether they were smoking. Blood samples were monitored too.
In the randomised controlled trial, the researchers assigned the women into two groups of around 300.
All were from the area covered by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, which has large pockets of deprivation.
The control group were offered a face-to-face appointment with a smoking cessation adviser, as well as four follow-up phone calls and free nicotine replacement therapy for 10 weeks.
The financial incentive group received that standard support - as well as £50 in their first appointment, £50 if a breath test later suggested they had stopped smoking, and then a further £100 after another 12 weeks.
The final £200 voucher was given if another breath test at 34-38 weeks in pregnancy confirmed there was no carbon monoxide exhaled.
After a year, 15% of women who received the vouchers had managed to stay off cigarettes, compared with 4% in the control group.
The women used the vouchers at High Street stores such as Iceland, Argos and Mothercare.
The researchers from Glasgow and Stirling universities say providing the vouchers is cost-effective for the NHS, because smoking in pregnancy raises the risk of miscarriage and stillbirth.
But schemes using financial incentives to promote healthy behaviour have been criticised as "bribery" - and this remains a controversial area of research.
The authors say in the BMJ: "This study provides substantial evidence of a promising and potentially cost-effective new intervention to add to health service support.
"Smoking during pregnancy remains a major health problem, resulting in the...

Summary: Offering shopping vouchers worth a total of £400 to pregnant smokers makes them more likely to quit the habit, say researchers.
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Article: That is a stark improvement on the 3% found in Ramon Armando Rodriguez's 1957 encyclopaedia of Venezuela.
Yesterday's encyclopaedias were a product of their time, and the "gender gap", a form of systemic bias, was rarely addressed.
But this is the 21st century, and Wikipedia, the encyclopaedia of our time, also struggles with it.
There are 295 different language Wikipedias. Each has gender-equity issues in two forms: the people who write articles, and the content which they produce.
As it happened:Women take over Wikipedia
"We've decided to team up with Wikipedia because, like the BBC World Service, they're a non-profit organization with a global and multilingual reach... As we've discovered during all our 100 Women seasons, there are so many untold stories all over the world about inspiring women both past and present. The edit-a-thon is aimed at capturing more of those stories for posterity. This is all part of a wider discussion about women's experiences online."
Fiona Crack: 100 Women editor
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Ranked as one of the 100 most popular websites, Wikipedia's objective is to provide the sum of all human knowledge to everyone on the planet. How can we honour our mission when fewer than 16% of the people who edit Wikipedia are women?
Researchers have tried to sort out the reasons for this - lack of time, lack of confidence, and negative reactions to critical feedback, are among the answers. Some editors of Wikipedia stop taking part if they encounter harassment or trolling, while others bicker to no end. For some women, this is enough to deter them from even starting.
In 2011, Sue Gardner, then Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), described nine reasons women don't edit Wikipedia. Though she set a goal of increasing women contributors to 25% by 2015, it appears the goal was not reached.
If we were to compile a list of every notable person who has lived on planet Earth since the beginning of time, and we were to agree that "notability" could only be established through the use of...

Summary: Did you know that as of 27 November 2016, only 16.72% of the English language Wikipedia's biographies were about women?
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Article: As reported earlier this week on the BBC, the UK's biggest banks have lost some customers following a change to the switching system.
It now takes seven working days to change accounts, rather than up to 30 as was the case previously.
All regular payments are automatically moved over to the new account.
For 36 months after the switch, payments accidentally made to or requested from the old account are automatically redirected to the new one.
Banks including Barclays, NatWest, HSBC, Lloyds Bank and RBS were among those recording the biggest losers of customers using the switching service between July and September last year, figures show.
Meanwhile, Halifax, Santander, Nationwide Building Society and Tesco Bank made net gains in current account customers using the switching service.
The Payments Council, which oversees the switching system, said 1.14 million current account customers switched to another deal in the past 12 months, a 7% year-on-year increase.
Andrew Hagger, of MoneyComms, said: "The figures show that although more people are voting with their feet and looking for a more suitable banking relationship, the vast majority are refusing to budge from their existing provider despite the array of enticing upfront cash incentives on offer.
"The confusing array of different tariffs on offer for credit interest, cashback, rewards and overdraft charges means the current account market remains a minefield for customers looking to find the most appropriate deal."

Summary: Major High Street banks are among the biggest losers of customers switching current accounts, figures have confirmed.
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Article: Forty-six were detained in 2015, compared with 13 in 2013, with the youngest aged only 13.
Attempts to prevent young people travelling to Syria could be a factor in the rise, said independent terror legislation reviewer David Anderson QC.
The Home Office has not yet responded to a request for comment.
The BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme obtained the figures through a Freedom of Information request to the National Police Chiefs' Council.
The data relates to schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000, which grants police special powers to question and detain for up to six hours any individual passing through a UK port, airport, international rail terminal or border area.
The figures show those identifying as Asian or Asian British were six times more likely to be detained than those who were white.
Under the Act, there is no requirement for an officer to have a "reasonable suspicion" that someone is involved with terrorism before they stop an individual. Failure to co-operate with officers can result in three months in prison, a fine or both.
A further 190 under-18s were examined, but not detained, by police between July 2015 and March 2016 - allowing them to be questioned and searched for a maximum of an hour.
Sabah Choudhry, 21, from London, was stopped and questioned by police while travelling to Turkey with friends last summer.
"It's a really uneasy feeling. I understand why they did it, because at that time there were lots of young people going to Turkey, possibly trying to get into Syria. But it feels like collective punishment for the actions of a few Muslims. I think it was stereotyping," she explained.
Ms Choudhry says one of her relatives was stopped on a separate trip while under the age of 18, and "questioned for more than an hour".
"She wears the hijab, so she was visibly Muslim. She was asked questions on whether her family let her go to university and if she has to have an arranged marriage.
"She is so embarrassed to talk about it," she added.
David Anderson QC, the independent reviewer of...

Summary: The number of under-18s detained under the Terrorism Act when entering or leaving the UK has more than tripled over two years, new figures suggest.
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Article: Three other people in the grey Ford Mondeo, an 82-year-old woman, a 77-year-old woman and a 67-year-old man, were taken to hospital with minor injuries.
The crash happened at 23:00 GMT on Wednesday on Sheffield Road at Hoyland Common.
The 85-year-old was taken to hospital where she later died.

Summary:


Two brothers who tortured two other children in South Yorkshire have been granted lifelong anonymity.

Article: Scots hip-hop act Hector Bizerk took to Twitter recently to voice frustration about the situation.
Fellow performer Leopold Aleksander has contacted the BBC to say he has suffered similar problems.
Festival director Graham Main said outstanding payments should be made this week.
Hector Bizerk performed at the Spiegeltent venue but complained late last month that their payment was two months overdue - a situation which has now been resolved.
However, strongman Leopold Aleksander - who was part of the Le Haggis show, a centrepiece event which ran throughout the Big Burns Supper - has encountered similar problems.
He told the BBC Scotland news website earlier this week that he was still awaiting payment and said other artists from the show were in the same position.
He added that he had been frustrated by claims earlier this month that the situation would be tackled "immediately".
He said festival organisers should be "ashamed of themselves".
"I'm in contact with other artists from the show and they're in the same situation too," he said.
"They constantly say things like 'payment has been processed today' and 'the payment will be triggered'.
"The money never arrives and they just keep avoiding calls and not replying to emails."
The performer said that regardless of what happened with his payment he wanted to highlight the situation "as widely as possible" so others would not end up in the same position.
Mark Kydd, who also performed at the festival, voiced some concerns on Twitter.
He said he had been told he would get paid this week.
"Based on this experience, I certainly would have to think long and hard about whether I'd be willing to participate in Big Burns Supper again," he added.
Mr Main said: "We very much regret the inconvenience that has been caused to certain performers as we are hugely grateful to them for their work and their support.
"Outstanding payments are being made this week. Indeed, some have already gone out."
The fourth edition of the Big Burns Supper ran over nine days from 23 to 31...

Summary: The Big Burns Supper festival has encountered fresh complaints about the time it has taken to pay some of the acts at this year's event.
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Article: It has been redeveloped to be more spacious and now boasts a new artists' garden and better visitor facilities.
A previously unseen painting by LS Lowry and a ceramic figure by Grayson Perry are among the new exhibits.
Tourists are being charged a £7.50 entrance fee after the body that runs the gallery had its council subsidy cut by 60%. Entrance fees were scrapped in 2002.
A decision on whether people living in York should also be required to pay has been delayed until later in the year.
The gallery, which reopened at 10:00 BST, includes a new Centre of Ceramic Art featuring an installation by Claire Twomey of 10,000 ceramic bowls piled in towering columns and Grayson Perry's figure Melanie.
Three oil paintings by Lowry - Clifford's Tower,  Wilson's Terrace and the previously unseen A View of York (From Tang Hall Bridge) - that were commissioned by the gallery in 1952 are being shown together for the first time.
Other notable works by 20th Century artists, including David Hockney, are also on display, along with the gallery's collection of Italian old masters.
York Art Gallery is one of four attractions run by York Museums Trust, which has seen its subsidy from City of York Council fall from £1.5m in 2012 to £600,000 this year.

Summary: York Art Gallery has reopened to the public after an £8m revamp.
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Article: He said the move would mean 360,000 firms offering on-the-job training.
The Business Secretary said companies would be offered exemptions from National Insurance and apprenticeship grants as extra incentives.
The other main parties have already made pledges to create more apprenticeships for young people.
Labour says it would guarantee apprenticeships for every school leaver in England who "gets the grades" by 2020, while the Conservatives have promised three million new apprentices under a Tory government.
David Cameron said earlier this month the coalition government had created 2.2 million apprenticeships since 2010.
Main pledges
Policy guide: Where the parties stand
Mr Cable said: "The world is changing at an accelerated rate and we need to equip our young people with the skills they need for the future, to ensure they can compete in a global marketplace, in ever- changing technologies and the digital economy.
"That is why the Liberal Democrats will double the number of employers providing apprenticeships over the next five years and create more apprenticeship starts per year than Germany.
"To achieve these objectives requires significant investment in skills by both government and the private sector. As we grow our economy, the Liberal Democrats believe we must enhance adult skills training and our further education colleges."

Summary: The Lib Dems would double the number of employers offering apprenticeships to young people if the party wins its way back into government, Vince Cable says.
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Article: The NSPCC responded to 691 NI contacts over a 12-month period in 2011/2012.
More than half of the calls (353), resulted in referrals to police or children's services.
The NSPCC said one third of callers from NI had child protection concerns for six months before speaking out.
A further 21% delayed reporting their concerns by between one and six months.
The NSPCC operates a telephone helpline and an online service for adults who are concerned about the welfare of a child or young person.
The calls that were referred to local authorities in Northern Ireland involved a total of 717 children.
Margaret Gallagher, campaigns co-ordinator for the NSPCC in Northern Ireland, said delays in reporting concerns could contribute to the distress and suffering of a child experiencing abuse or neglect.
"We understand that it's incredibly difficult to pick up the phone, and we are really grateful to those people who do take action when they have concerns," she said.
"People clearly have the desire to act but are unsure how or when to do it. What we would emphasise is that trained professionals assess the information given and either give advice and support to the caller or make a referral to children's services or police if required."
The charity has launched a local campaign to encourage the public to report their concerns at an early stage.
Ms Gallagher said most of the referrals from helpline concerned "neglect, physical abuse and sexual abuse" and many of the children identified by callers were not known to existing services.
"The majority of contacts leading to referrals came from members of the public, not from family members or professionals.
"While many of the contacts to the helpline simply result in our counsellors providing child protection advice and guidance to parents, relatives, friends and members of the public, the key message we want to send is 'don't wait until you're certain'," she said.
The NSPCC has also signed up to a memorandum of understanding with the Health and Social Care Board (HSCB), that aims to...

Summary: A child protection helpline has reported a 58% rise in the number of calls it received from Northern Ireland last year, compared to the previous year.
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Article: Earlier this week, Belfast Metropolitan College said it may have to reduce its workforce by more than 100.
Colleges NI is the membership body (umbrella body) for the six further education colleges in Northern Ireland.
The colleges are being forced to cut their budgets by Â£12m and say the only way they can do that is by reducing staff.
Gerry Campbell of Colleges NI said they were looking to develop a proposed voluntary exit scheme that would operate for 2015/16.
He said the scheme was seeking funding from the Government Restructuring and Reform Initiative (RRI) budget which requires the further education sector to submit a business case for approval.
Mr Campbell said the outcome of this process and the level of allocation would not be known until June.
He said that although the scheme was still awaiting funding approval, expressions of interest could be submitted up to Friday 17 April at 12 noon.
"The scheme is necessary to address the significant budget pressures facing the colleges in the context of the agreed 2015-16 Budget," he added.
"It is one of a number of measures being implemented to deliver the required pay-bill reduction.  The proposed compensation paid on voluntary exit under the terms of the scheme is one month's gross salary for every full year of continuous service up to a maximum of 21 months.
"We have consulted with all recognised trade unions on the terms of the scheme."
Mr Campbell said the number of staff to be released under the scheme "would be constrained by the number of applicants, the budget available to fund compensation payments and the need to manage the exercise in such a way that colleges can continue to meet their current and future financial commitments".

Summary: Colleges NI has said the further education colleges it represents could lose up to 550 jobs due to budget cuts.
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Article: The boys, then aged 10 and 11, lured their victims to a ravine and carried out a "sadistic" attack in Edlington, near Doncaster, in 2009.
They were sentenced to five years' detention in 2010 and granted anonymity until the age of 18.
The High Court has now given them lifelong anonymity on the grounds they would be "at serious risk of attack".
Live updates on this story and others from South Yorkshire
The boys were released earlier this year after a decision by the Parole Board, but lawyers sought an injunction to extend their anonymity as one of the boys approached his 18th birthday.
The brothers claimed that to identify them would breach various sections of the Human Rights Act.
The High Court ruling places them alongside only four other individuals who have lifelong anonymity orders in place:
The brothers' victims, aged nine and 11, were throttled, hit with bricks, made to eat nettles, stripped and forced to sexually abuse each other in the attack.
A sink was dropped on the older boy's head, and the younger boy had a sharp stick rammed into his arm and cigarettes pushed into the wound.
Parts of the attack were recorded on a mobile phone.
The brothers had moved to Edlington just three weeks before the attack to live with foster parents.
Sentencing them at Sheffield Crown Court, Judge Justice Keith said they had committed the "prolonged, sadistic" crimes for no other reason than they got "a real kick out of hurting and humiliating" their victims.

Summary:


A court in the Indian capital has formally charged a driver of the Uber web-based taxi firm with the rape and kidnapping of a passenger last month.

Article: After 270 council election results, the anti-immigration party won two seats but with a net loss of 11 councillors.
The BNP lost all five of its seats in Stoke-on-Trent, where it launched its election campaign in England, and one of its two councillors in Burnley.
BNP candidates finished ahead of Liberal Democrats in four seats in the Welsh Assembly, but failed to win any.
Before the vote, party leader Nick Griffin said he was confident a candidate would reach the 7% needed to gain a seat, but none reached the threshold.
In Stoke-on-Trent the wards previously held by the BNP were all subject to boundary changes, and due to those changes there were 16 fewer seats available.
The party, which had two MEPs elected in 2009, lost almost half its council seats in last year's local elections, losing all 12 of its seats on east London's Barking and Dagenham Council.
As well as elections in England, the BNP also fielded 32 candidates for the Scottish parliament and candidates for the assemblies in Wales and Northern Ireland.
However, the party had to rein back on its campaign spending with debts of more than Â£500,000, which it has said it expects to pay off by the end of the year.
The BNP has been hit by internal divisions and was facing doubts over its future after costly court cases brought against it including one by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
The party has said it will not be incurring any more debts as a result of Thursday's elections.
The BNP contested 338 seats in the 2010 general election and lost its deposit in 266 of them.

Summary: The British National Party has lost many of the seats it held on local councils in England.
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Article: They say that fossilised traces of the 540-million-year-old creature are "exquisitely well preserved".
The microscopic sea animal is the earliest known step on the evolutionary path that led to fish and - eventually - to humans.
Details of the discovery from central China appear in Nature journal.
The research team says that Saccorhytus is the most primitive example of a category of animals called "deuterostomes" which are common ancestors of a broad range of species, including vertebrates (backboned animals).
Saccorhytus was about a millimetre in size, and is thought to have lived between grains of sand on the sea bed.
The researchers were unable to find any evidence that the animal had an anus, which suggests that it consumed food and excreted from the same orifice.
The study was carried out by an international team of researchers, from the UK, China and Germany. Among them was Prof Simon Conway Morris, from the University of Cambridge.
He told BBC News: "To the naked eye, the fossils we studied look like tiny black grains, but under the microscope the level of detail was jaw-dropping.
"We think that as an early deuterostome this may represent the primitive beginnings of a very diverse range of species, including ourselves. All deuterostomes had a common ancestor, and we think that is what we are looking at here."
Degan Shu, from Northwest University in Xi'An, Shaanxi Province, where the fossils were found, said: "Saccorhytus now gives us remarkable insights into the very first stages of the evolution of a group that led to the fish, and ultimately, to us."
Until now, the deuterostome groups discovered were from between 510 to 520 million years ago. These had already begun to diversify into not just the vertebrates, the group to which we and our ancestors belong and animals such as starfish and sea urchins.
Because they looked so different from one another, it was difficult for the scientists to determine what an earlier, common ancestor might have looked like.
The study suggests that its body was...

Summary: Researchers have discovered the earliest known ancestor of humans - along with a vast range of other species.
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Article: The researcher said other details had also been taken that would let attackers pinpoint where the equipment was being used, making more targeted hacks possible.
Pen Test Partners' Ken Munro wants thousands of routers to be replaced.
But TalkTalk said it had not seen evidence to confirm the thefts.
"As is widely known, the Mirai worm is affecting many ISPs [internet service providers] around the world and it has affected a small number of TalkTalk customers," a spokeswoman said.
"We continue to take steps to review any potential impacts and have deployed a variety of solutions to ensure customers' routers remain safe.
"We have also employed additional network-level controls to further protect our customers."
The BBC revealed last week that TalkTalk's D-Link DSL-3780 routers had been struck by malware causing connectivity issues for those customers using the model.
The firm subsequently published advice online telling affected users to reset the equipment - which forced it to install an update to protect itself against the attack - and then "use the wireless network name and password on the back of the router" to get back online.
Security researcher Mr Munro obtained one of the affected routers to study the attack.
He said his "honeypot" router was hit by the variant of Mirai, which is now being referred to as TR-06FAIL.
But in addition to the connectivity issue, Mr Munro detected that a follow-up attack involving the same malware caused the device to disclose its wi-fi password and Service Set Identifier (SSID) code.
An SSID code can be used to reveal where a machine is located via online tools such as Wigle.
As a consequence, he said, even after subscribers had restarted their routers they could remain at risk if they continued using the same password as before.
"Most consumers never change the wi-fi keys written on the back of their router, so the fix didn't actually fix the problem," Mr Munro explained.
"Once an attacker has got the wi-fi key, if they go near to the house they can get nearly everything from...

Summary: TalkTalk customers' wi-fi passwords have been stolen following a malware attack that blocked their internet access last week, an expert has warned.
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Article: A new report from Glasgow City Council sets out challenges the area will face after the referendum result in favour of the UK leaving the European Union.
It says "specific policy decisions" are needed from the UK and Scottish governments to support the city region.
Among these is for EU funded projects to be picked up by both governments.
Glasgow City Council leader Frank McAveety said action was needed from both governments to avert a potential crisis.
"I believe that Brexit will confront Glasgow with major economic challenges," he said.
"I also believe these can be overcome if special action is taken by the Scottish and UK governments.
"If that happens then the problems associated with Brexit can become an opportunity for economic growth and not a threat of crisis."
The report, "Brexit and the Glasgow Economy: Impacts, Actions and Asks", was produced by the council, Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and Glasgow Economic Leadership board - a partnership group comprising the council, chamber of commerce, Scottish Enterprise and Skills Development Scotland.
The council said the report was compiled with the help of more than 100 senior business, local government and academic leaders.
It will now be submitted to the first minister's Standing Committee on Europe, led by Professor Anton Muscatelli, Principal of Glasgow University.
The report makes six "main asks of the Scottish and UK governments" to mitigate the effects of Brexit. These are:
Professor Sir Jim McDonald, chair of the Glasgow Economic Leadership board and Principal of Strathclyde University, said: "There is no doubt that Brexit is a fundamental system shock and one that poses challenges to us all.
"We will now position our city to meet the challenges of Brexit and exploit longer-term opportunities to grow our economy.
"Only by working together can we boost our economic fundamentals: our skills, innovation and entrepreneurship. It is on these foundations that our future will and must be based."
Stuart Patrick, chief executive of Glasgow Chamber of...

Summary: Scotland's largest council has said the greater Glasgow area will suffer unless there is specific government action to mitigate the effects of Brexit.
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Article: Victims told IOM that after being detained by people smugglers or militia groups, they were taken to town squares or car parks to be sold.
Migrants with skills like painting or tiling would fetch higher prices, the head of the IOM in Libya told the BBC.
Libya has been in chaos since the 2011 Nato-backed ousting of Muammar Gaddafi.
Hundreds of young sub-Saharan African men have been caught up in the so-called slave markets, according to the IOM report.
A Senegalese migrant, who was not named to protect his identity, said that he had been sold at one such market in the southern Libyan city of Sabha, before being taken to a makeshift prison where more than 100 migrants were being held hostage.
He said that migrants held at the facility were told to call their families, who would be asked for money to pay for their release, and some were beaten while on the phone to allow relatives to hear them being tortured.
He described "dreadful" conditions where migrants were forced to survive on limited food supplies, with those unable to pay either killed or left to starve, the report adds.
Another witness, who was able to raise the funds needed for his release after nine months, was later taken to hospital with severe malnutrition, weighing just 5.5 stone (35 kg).
Women, too, were bought by private Libyan clients and brought to homes where they were forced to be sex slaves, the witness said.
The IOM's chief of mission for Libya, Othman Belbeisi, told the BBC that those sold into slavery found themselves priced according to their abilities.
"Apparently they don't have money and their families cannot pay the ransom, so they are being sold to get at least a minimum benefit from that," he said.
"The price is definitely different depending on your qualifications, for example if you can do painting or tiles or some specialised work then the price gets higher."
An IOM staff member in Niger said they confirmed the reports of auctions in Libya with several other migrants who had escaped.
"They all confirmed the risks of been sold...

Summary: Africans trying to reach Europe are being sold by their captors in "slave markets" in Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says.
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Article: Shiv Kumar Yadav has also been charged with "criminal intimidation" of the 26-year-old woman, reports said.
The victim had used the Uber smartphone app to book a taxi home but said she was taken to a secluded area and raped.
Delhi later banned Uber and several other web-based taxi firms for failing to carry out adequate driver checks.
Although the driver has not yet given a statement in public, police say he has confessed to the crime. They say he has also been identified by the victim.
Rape and the issue of sexual violence against Indian women have been in the spotlight in recent years ever since a 23-year-old physiotherapy student was gang-raped and murdered in Delhi in December 2012.
The crime prompted global outrage and a tightening of the laws on sexual violence, but correspondents say they have failed to act as a deterrent.
Earlier this month, five men were arrested in Calcutta for kidnapping and repeatedly raping a Japanese student.
And in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, two policemen were arrested for allegedly abducting and raping a teenager.

Summary:


Royal Mail shares have fallen after the company reported lower profits and increased its target for cost savings.

Article: A civil society group found FGM to be common among Muslims in mountain villages in Dagestan. Girls' genitals were cut in primitive homes.
Regional Muslim leader Ismail Berdiyev suggested all women should undergo FGM but later withdrew the remark.
But a senior Orthodox Christian priest, Vsevolod Chaplin, had backed him.
In a Facebook post (in Russian), Archpriest Chaplin expressed "my sympathies for the mufti, and I hope he doesn't retreat from his position because of the howls and hysterics which will start now".
"We Orthodox Christians have different traditions - but that never stopped us respecting the traditions of neighbouring peoples," he wrote.
He said FGM was not necessary for Orthodox Christian women "because they're not promiscuous anyway". But he approved of the mufti's statement that God had created "woman so that she could give birth and bring up children".
"Feminism is a 20th-Century lie," he added.
Mr Berdiyev, the mufti of the North Caucasus, had said earlier that FGM was practised in some villages in Dagestan and that it was necessary to curb women's sexuality.
"It would be very good if this were applied to all women," the Islamic cleric said, adding, "It doesn't stop women giving birth and there would be less debauchery."
Speaking later to Russian media, he said his "joke" had been "twisted" by journalists to make it look like he advocated FGM.
Some Facebook users lambasted the priest's position on FGM. Arik Elman said "you don't have to sympathise with Islam in order to know that FGM is not a commonly accepted part of Muslim tradition, but has regional, tribal roots".
Igor Tetyuev said it was "not the role of a celibate monk" to "discuss women's bodies, childbirth and children".
Irina Gubernatorova said "burning heretics at the stake and drowning witches in sacks were also ancient and glorious Christian traditions - shall we go back to them?"
In its report (in Russian), the Russian Justice Initiative (RJI) said it had interviewed many women in Dagestan and discovered that FGM was widespread...

Summary: A report on female genital mutilation (FGM) in the North Caucasus has sparked a fierce debate in Russia, with some clerics defending the practice.
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Article: Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian national of Moroccan descent, grew up in Molenbeek, a district of Brussels known for its many Arab immigrants and blighted by high unemployment.
The 28-year-old was an associate of attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam, who is on the run and whose brother Brahim blew himself up in Paris on 13 November.
Brahim died in the Comptoir Voltaire bar, without killing others, while at least six other jihadists carried out deadly suicide attacks elsewhere. They are all believed to have been recruited by the Islamic State militant group (IS).
Abaaoud had been implicated in four out of six foiled attacks since this spring in France and sentenced to 20 years in prison in absentia, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.
He added that all the thwarted plots had the same modus operandi, saying the "planning from abroad of a violent act by jihadists (was) from European countries, trained in the use of weapons and then sent to our territory to carry out the attacks".
An international arrest warrant was also issued for Abaaoud, Mr Cazeneuve said.
Abaaoud - alias Abu Umar al-Baljiki - is believed to have joined IS in early 2013.
Who were the Paris attackers?
The Belgian connection
There was confusion about his whereabouts prior to his death, with IS claiming he was in Syria.
The group may have lied about his location to divert attention from him following the Charlie Hebdo attacks and the Verviers raid.
Jihadists often mislead intelligence agencies about the whereabouts of their militants, invoking the concept that "war is deception".
But his presence in France raises big questions about security failings in France and the 28-member European Union.
"No information from European countries he could have passed through before arriving in France was communicated to us," Mr Cazeneuve said.
He added that it was only on 16 November - three days after the attacks - that "intelligence services of a country outside Europe indicated they had knowledge of his presence in Greece," he said, without saying...

Summary: French investigators believe Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the jihadist killed in a police raid on Wednesday, organised last week's Paris attacks which killed at least 129 people.
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Article: Ian Murray wants to see Yvette Cooper replace Ed Miliband.
But he said if Mr Corbyn triumphed he would take on the shadow Scottish secretary role.
Voting in the election, being fought by Ms Cooper, Mr Corbyn, Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall has closed and the winner will be announced on Saturday.
Mr Murray told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that he had made clear in the past that he would "think about serving in a Corbyn shadow cabinet".
He said: "But I think anyone who asks me to serve as shadow Scottish secretary, I'll be accepting of that because we need a Scottish voice in that shadow cabinet. We need to work with the leadership."
Mr Murray added: "I would serve under Jeremy Cobryn's leadership if I'm asked to do so."
The contest has been plagued by internal rows over Labour's direction and concerns that non-party supporters have tried to influence the outcome.
The Labour leadership election was sparked by Mr Miliband's resignation following the party's poor performance at the general election.
The surprise emergence of left-winger Mr Corbyn, a last-minute addition to the race, has led to warnings from his rivals and senior Labour figures, including former prime minister Tony Blair, against a lurch to the left.
The party is also in the process of choosing a new deputy leader, with the result of the ballot also to be unveiled at the leadership conference on Saturday.

Summary: Scotland's only Labour MP has said he would serve in the shadow cabinet of left-winger Jeremy Corbyn if he were to win the leadership of the UK party.
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Article: The network said in a statement that Mr Trump's decision is "unprecedented" and accused him of "terrorising" debate host Megyn Kelly.
Mr Trump clashed with Ms Kelly at a Fox News debate last year and had demanded she be removed from Thursday's panel.
His decision to pull out has been mocked by his Republican rivals.
The debate is the final one before the first real test of the election campaign, the Iowa caucus on Monday when voters in the state pick their presidential nominee.
"Capitulating to politicians' ultimatums about a debate moderator violates all journalistic standards, as do threats," the Fox News network said in a statement.
There are plenty of reasons Donald Trump's last-minute withdrawal from the Republican debate could be a bad move.
He's on the verge of winning the Iowa caucuses, so why shake things up now? His past debate performances haven't hurt him, and his most recent was probably his best.
What's to gain from squabbling with the most powerful conservative media company in the nation? Already his opponents are blasting him for being afraid of a fight, with Ted Cruz's campaign labelling him "Donald duck".
Yet every time it seems like Mr Trump has made a grievous miscalculation that - at last - will sink his campaign, it ends up as either brilliant strategy or his political armour is just too strong.
So maybe this will work out for the New Yorker. He's dominating the headlines once again. And his plan to hold a rally to support wounded veterans, while his opponents aim their criticisms at an empty lectern, could prove a winning contrast.
Did Mr Trump just turn the whole Fox Thursday night event into a "kids' table" debate?
"We're not sure how Iowans are going to feel about him walking away from them at the last minute, but it should be clear to the American public by now that this is rooted in one thing - Megyn Kelly."
It added: "We can't give in to terrorizations toward any of our employees."
Ms Kelly accused the New York billionaire of misogyny in the first debate last August and he...

Summary: Fox News has fired back at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for his refusal to participate in their debate on Thursday night.
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Article: Councillors are being advised to chose it over Tweedbank when they meet later this month.
The Galashiels proposal would see the town's post office brought back into use, a former Poundstretcher demolished and a new building erected.
The council has been told that could deliver "a successful tourism and regeneration proposition".
The final decision will be taken on 22 December but advice from the due diligence process has come down in favour of Galashiels.
"The Galashiels proposal provides the opportunity for additional education and community use that is not a feature of the Tweedbank proposal," it concluded.
"Furthermore, the Galashiels site benefits from a significant degree of community support and is consistent with the Scottish government's Town Centre First Principle in relation to place-making and regeneration."
The Scottish government has also confirmed that its Â£2.5m funding pledge - previously for Tweedbank - would be available for the Galashiels project.
Council leader David Parker said: "The Great Tapestry of Scotland is of national and international importance and siting it in the Scottish Borders will create a world-class tourist attraction.
"The Galashiels proposal now being recommended was not available for consideration when the tapestry project commenced, but earlier this year, due to the former Poundstretcher site becoming vacant and positive discussions with Royal Mail, an affordable and deliverable site in Galashiels has been identified.
"The site in Galashiels will benefit from enhanced support from a range of funders and the site provides greater accommodation with more flexibility for the tapestry and other exhibits and facilities."
He said the town centre site would have a "significant regeneration impact on Galashiels" and bring "many benefits to nearby local businesses".
Mike Gray, chairman of community group Energise Galashiels, said: "Galashiels as the home of the Great Tapestry of Scotland would be a game-changing boost to the town.
"This investment, if councillors decide to...

Summary: Galashiels has been recommended as the site for a permanent home for the Great Tapestry of Scotland in the Borders.
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Article: Its shares slid 7.6% to their lowest level since March, and the company was the biggest faller on the FTSE 100, the UK's main share index.
Operating profit before transformation costs for the six months to 25 September fell 5% to £320m from £342m.
Royal Mail is now seeking cost savings of £600m a year, up from a previous target of £500m.
Royal Mail reported a 1% rise in revenue to £4.6bn for the half year to 25 September, but analysts said this was lower than forecast.
The trend of fewer letters being sent through the post continued, with total letter revenues falling by 3%, although parcel revenues grew by 3%.
"The fall in the volume of letters and an 8% dip in marketing mail after the Brexit vote in June is causing concern about what can be assumed going forward," said David Kerstens, equity analyst at Jefferies.
He added that pension costs were set to rise sharply and that cost savings would be very hard to achieve without sacrificing quality of service.
Moya Greene, Royal Mail's chief executive. said the Christmas period would be crucial for the full-year results.
"Extensive planning, which began in the spring, will help us to manage our busiest time," she said. "This includes the recruitment of over 19,000 temporary staff and opening nine temporary parcel sort centres."
Also on Thursday, Royal Mail competitor UK Mail - which is being bought by Deutsche Post - said half-year revenues had fallen to £230m from £237m a year earlier, although pre-tax profits rose to £5.8m from £2.2m.

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Volkswagen says it will not release its results nor hold its shareholders' meeting on time, as it needs more time to work out its accounts as a result of last year's emissions crisis.

Article: Hedley McCarthy has been leader of Blaenau Gwent council since May 2012 and leader of the Labour group for eight years.
He said the council is having to make more "stringent reductions" than they did under ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
Mr McCarthy will continue to serve as a ward councillor for Llanhilleth.
"To have to make cuts on the scale that we're having to do in local government is horrendous - horrific," he said.
"This has been the most difficult and challenging time in the history of local government - worse than the Thatcher years - and I am weary of the cuts imposed by the Conservative government," he said.
"I do not believe I am necessarily the right person to lead Blaenau Gwent into the Welsh assembly election next May, given that I have serious concerns about the way the so-called local government reorganisation has been handled, or for that matter even share the definition of the word local."
Mr McCarthy will be replaced by his deputy, Stephen Thomas, from Wednesday.

Summary: The leader of a south Wales council has quit after enduring what he calls "horrific" Tory government cuts.
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Article: The proposals also include the formation a two-tier structure of Test cricket, with those three nations immune from relegation.
Fica "are extremely concerned about the future of international cricket," said executive chairman Paul Marsh.
The plans will be discussed at an International Cricket Council (ICC) executive board meeting next week.
The proposals, drafted by the ICC's Finance & Commercial Affairs (F&CA) committee and leaked to the media last week, suggest the formation of a four-man executive committee, on which the boards of England, India and Australia would be guaranteed a place. The other position would be selected by the three boards annually.
The Future Tours Programme, which guarantees regular fixtures between all full ICC members over a cycle, would be abandoned in favour of bilateral agreements.
"This proposal is designed to vest control of the game in the three boards of India, Australia and England," added Marsh.
"It is not in the best interests of the global game and we have real fears that it will only serve to strengthen the 'big three' countries whilst the rest are left to wither on the vine."
Cricket South Africa (CSA) and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) have also spoken out against the plans.
CSA, whose national side are currently ranked as the number one Test nation in the world, called on the ICC to withdraw the 'fundamentally flawed' initiative, arguing that it breached the ICC constitution.
"These proposals should first be referred to the relevant ICC committees or sub‐committees for proper consideration and to make recommendations to the ICC board," CSA president Chris Nenzani wrote in a letter to ICC president Alan Isaac.
1. South Africa
2. India
3. Australia
4. England
5. Pakistan
6. Sri Lanka
7. West Indies
8. New Zealand
9. Zimbabwe
10. Bangladesh
"Although there is nothing to prevent a review of the ICC funding model or finances, the proposal self-evidently is inextricably tied up with a fundamental restructuring of the ICC, which has far‐reaching constitutional...

Summary: The international players' union (Fica) opposes plans to give England, India and Australia more control of cricket.
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Article: Many schools were evacuated as a precaution, meaning some GCSE, A-level and Higher exams had to be abandoned.
The BBC News website answers some of the key questions on the issue.
Yes. There is a procedure for schools to follow in the event of an emergency such as a fire or bomb alert during public examinations.
This is set out by the Joint Council for Qualifications, which represent the seven largest UK exam providers.
Exam invigilators are advised to stop candidates from writing, collect the attendance register (in order to ensure all candidates are present) and evacuate the examination room.
Students should be told to leave all question papers and scripts in the exam room and must leave the exam hall in silence.
Staff must make sure that the candidates are supervised as closely as possible while they are out of the exam hall, to make sure there is no discussion about the examination.
Invigilators should make a note of the time of the interruption and how long it lasted and allow the candidates the full working time set for the examination.
The guidance says if there are only a few candidates, schools should consider the possibility of taking the candidates (with question papers and scripts) to another place to finish the examination.
Schools have to make a full report of the incident and of the action taken and send this to the relevant exam board.
Students whose public exams were disrupted can rest assured that the situation will be fed back to the examiners. Schools will document how the exams were affected and send this to the exam boards. The boards will make any adjustments as they see fit, on a case-by-case basis.
A spokeswoman for the AQA exam board said: "We need to look at each case on an individual basis because there are a range of ways in which students might have been affected - they might have taken all, part or none of the exam, or been affected by the incident in different ways.
"Once we know the full circumstances from the schools, we can decide on the best course of action. In the...

Summary: Hundreds of pupils across the UK have faced disruption to exams following a spate of hoax calls.
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Article: Trouble flared at the fourth Norwich Sci-Fi and Film Convention at the University of East Anglia, organised by Norwich Star Wars Club.
Police were called after members of the rival Norwich Sci-Fi club arrived to get autographs from two Doctor Who actors at the event on Sunday.
Norfolk Police confirmed officers attended and spoke to both parties.
A spokesman said they had been called to reports of a man being assaulted at the convention.
"After a lengthy investigation, talking to witnesses and reviewing good CCTV footage, it was confirmed that there was no assault," the spokesman said.
"The two rival groups were spoken to and advised to keep out of each other's way."
Jim Poole, treasurer of Norwich Sci-Fi Club, said there was a history of rivalry and disputes between the two clubs, which both hold their own conventions in the city.
He said he had attended Sunday's event with another club member to get the autographs of actors Graham Cole and Jeremy Bulloch for a Doctor Who diary to be auctioned for charity.
Mr Poole said he was wearing a club top and his fellow member was dressed as the fifth Doctor, as played by Peter Davison.
He said once inside the hall, he received verbal abuse from a member of the rival club and called the police.
"I was put in a police car. We were both interviewed by the police and told to stay away from each other," he said.
Mr Poole said two other members of his club, one dressed as the 10th Doctor and the other as Judge Dredd, had waited outside the venue.
"This wasn't a fight between Star Wars fans and Doctor Who fans with lightsabers and sonic screwdrivers drawn," he said.
"It's a bit sad and pathetic. We're all in the same boat. We're not in competition.
"We'd like to extend the hand of friendship."
Mr Poole said his club was considering having uniformed security guards at its own Norwich Sci-Fi Convention in September in case of further trouble.
Dominic Warner, secretary of Norwich Star Wars Club, said: "It's been blown up as if it was a fight. There was no fighting."
He...

Summary: Police were called to a science fiction convention after an argument between two rival groups of fans.
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Article: The Lib Dem peer said he could not back the plan for a £26,000 annual limit in a vote on Monday without measures to cushion the impact on those affected.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said a limit was justified but he would look at "transitional arrangements".
Critics have urged a rethink, including exempting child benefit from the cap.
But Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has urged those opposed to aspects of the cap, including leading bishops, to think of those who pay taxes while some unemployed people live in large houses at public expense.
In an interview with the Sunday Times, Mr Duncan Smith admitted his plans for a cap on working-age benefits of £500 a week or £26,000 a year - equivalent to the average wage earned by working households after tax - could face defeat in the Lords on Monday.
Q&A: Welfare changes row
Lord Ashdown has become the most senior figure to say he is opposed to the plan as currently drafted, telling Sky News that the proposals as they stood were "completely unacceptable".
"I have voted with the government on everything until now," he said.
"But this legislation, in its present form, I cannot accept."
He suggested senior Lib Dems were pushing "very hard" for measures to help those most dependent on benefits to cope with the change and prevent them falling into greater hardship.
Earlier, Mr Clegg told the BBC he was willing to look at how the changes were implemented but he "completely backed" Mr Duncan Smith on the principle of the cap.
"Of course we need to look at transitional arrangements and Iain Duncan Smith has made it quite clear that we need to do that," he told the Andrew Marr Show.
Things that could be looked at, he added, included "the place of children who were born, if you like, innocently into another set of rules".
But he added: "The basic principle that that cap should be £500 [per week] so that you can't on benefits earn more than if you went out and worked, I think that's got to be a simple principle that most people would subscribe to."
Mr Duncan...

Summary: Former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown has said he will vote against coalition plans for a cap on the total benefits paid to a single household.
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Article: The company was due to release results on 10 March and hold its shareholders' meeting towards the end of April.
It has not said by how much these events will be delayed.
It says results will be about the same as in 2014, although the cost of the crisis will eat into those.
It said it was working on "valuation calculations".
Sales in VW-branded cars dipped last year after the scandal - which affected 11 million cars - came to light in September. Deliveries fell 5.3% in October, 2.4% in November and 7.9% in December compared with those months in 2014.
It was its first drop in VW-branded sales in 11 years as the company continues to cope with the emissions scandal.
VW has promised it will have a fix in the coming weeks for the millions of US cars with defeat devices that disguised emission levels in diesel cars.
Sales of VW-brand cars fell 4.8% in 2015 to 5.82 million cars from 6.12 million a year earlier.
The US Environmental Protection Agency is suing the company over what it says were 600,000 affected vehicles and a US law firm is conducting an investigation into who made the decisions to cheat.
Volkswagen says it is sticking to its plan to publish the findings of its investigation into the scandal in the second half of April.
Results from Porsche, which is owned by Volkswagen, are also being delayed.

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Parts of Cardiff University's main building will remain closed on Wednesday after a fire.

Article: The British Polio Fellowship (BFP) said only 7% of people in the UK were aware of "post polio syndrome".
Symptoms include chronic fatigue, muscle weakness, joint pain and breathing problems.
Up to 12,000 people in Wales could be affected, more than 60 years after the first polio vaccine was developed.
Coral Williams, 71, from Cwmbran, Torfaen, is a volunteer with the charity and was contracted polio when she was three.
She was diagnosed with post-polio syndrome in 1984 after chronic pain in her legs forced her to give up work.
"There are people out there, not only people but doctors as well, who are not finding out about people who have had polio and what they're suffering now is the late effect of polio," she said.
Her daughter, Angela Locke, BFP's chairwoman in Wales, said raising awareness among families and doctors could improve outcomes for sufferers as they receive appropriate treatment more quickly.

Summary: Thousands of people who had polio when they were younger should be aware of developing further health problems, a charity has warned.
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Article: Masayoshi Son made the comments to the media as the Japanese technology giant reported a 50% rise in quarterly operating profit.
It is the first time the group has said it is interested in Uber.
Softbank has already invested in Asian ride-sharing firms Grab and Didi Chuxing.
Mr Son, who founded the company in 1981, described the US as "the most important market".
"We are interested in discussing with Uber. We are also interested in discussing with Lyft," he said, but added that he hadn't decided "which way" to go.
"Whether we decide to partner and invest into Uber or Lyft, I don't know what would be the end result," he said.
"We are definitely very much interested in the US market."
Softbank has already shown an appetite for ride-sharing and backs China's Didi Chuxing.
Last month, the company joined with Didi Chuxing to pour $2bn (Â£1.5bn) into Grab, South East Asia's most popular ride-hailing firm.
As an early investor in Alibaba, Mr Son has a reputation for spotting potentially transformative industries and trends.
In 2016, Softbank partnered with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund to launch a technology fund worth as much as $100bn.
The company also has stakes in a number of British technology firms including virtual reality firm Improbable.

Summary: Softbank's chief executive has said he is considering investing in Uber or Lyft, as the company eyes a move into the US ride-sharing market.
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Article: In England, surveys measuring typical drinking habits account for only around 60% of alcohol sold, the medical journal BMC Medicine report said.
Report author Dr Mark Bellis said this was because many studies do not include drinking on special occasions.
More than 6,000 people in England were interviewed for the study.
Accounting for special occasion drinking added more than 120 million UK units of alcohol - equivalent to about 12 million bottles of wine - to the population's alcohol consumption in England every week, it found.
The results could have important implications for public health, researchers said.
"Nationally, we underestimate how much we drink - and as individuals we can turn a blind eye to our heavier drinking periods when we calculate personal consumption," said lead scientist Dr Bellis, from Liverpool John Moores University.
"For many people, though, these sessions add substantial amounts of alcohol to their annual consumption and inevitably increase their risks of developing alcohol-related ill health."
The equivalent of more than three-quarters of a bottle of wine (or about three pints of beer) per drinker every week goes unaccounted for, he said.
The survey measured a medium glass of 12.5% ABV wine as 2.2 UK units, and a 440ml can of 4.5% ABV beer as 2 UK units, but the amount of alcohol units in drinks varies depending on their size and strength. The NHS has a guide to calculating alcohol units.
Researchers conducted telephone interviews with 6,085 randomly-selected members of the public aged 16 and over in England.
Participants were asked about normal drinking patterns and those outside their usual circumstances, such as summer holidays, bank holidays, and weddings.
Most categories of drinkers, based on age groups and levels of typical consumption, reported increased consumption during holidays or special occasions.
The biggest increase was seen in 25 to 35-year-olds, who had the highest level of typical consumption.
People in this drinking category drank an extra 18 units (144g) of...

Summary: The amount of alcohol people in England drink has been underestimated by the equivalent of 12 million bottles of wine a week, according to new research.
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Article: Newly discovered fossils suggest Drepanosaurus had huge hooked claws to dig insects from bark, much like today's anteaters in the forests of Central and South America.
Scientists say the creature defies the convention on how reptiles evolved and flourished.
Their research is published in the journal Current Biology.
The new fossils, found in a New Mexico quarry, suggest Drepanosaurus was the size of a cat and lived in the trees.
It had a bird-like head on a chameleon-like body, but the most unusual feature was its forearms, said Dr Adam Pritchard, of Yale University, who led the research.
"Drepanosaurus itself has extremely massive arms and forearms - very muscular," he said.
"The index finger is much much larger than any of the other fingers and supports this gigantic claw, which is easily the most massive bone of the entire arm."
The forelimbs of tetrapods are known for their versatility, used to walk, dig, fly or swim.
However, the basic plan of the forelimb has stayed much the same throughout 375 million years of evolution.
"The arm of tetrapod animals almost always follows some very consistent rules," Dr Pritchard said.
The US team made 3D reconstructions of the reptile based on micro-CT (computerised tomography) scans of dozens of bones.
Other fossils that have been unearthed were partly crushed, making interpretation difficult.
"In your forearm, in the forearm of Tyrannosaurus rex, in the forearm of an elephant, you have two bones - the radius and the ulna, which manifest as these elongate, slender, parallel shafts," he explained.
But the Drepanosaurus did not have these parallel bones.
"So all of these consistent patterns that we see across a huge range of tetrapods, regardless of their ecology, regardless of their ancestry, are violated by this animal," Dr Pritchard said.
"On the one hand, it extends the bounds of what we think the arm of tetrapod animals - those four-footed animals in the world - is capable of in terms of its development, in terms of evolution.
"And, it is also remarkable in what it...

Summary: A 200-million-year-old reptile is rewriting the rulebooks on how four-legged animals conquered the world.
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Article: Researchers in Austria say dogs can mirror the anxiety and negativity of owners.
And dogs that are relaxed and friendly can pass this on to humans, perhaps helping their owners cope with stress.
More than 100 dogs and their owners underwent various tests, including measurement of heart rate and their response to threat.
Saliva samples were also taken to measure cortisol levels, a marker for stress.
The owners were then assessed for the big five hallmarks of personality: neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness.
The personality of dogs was also assessed with a questionnaire.
Dr Iris Schoberl, of the University of Vienna, said both owners and dogs influenced each other's coping mechanisms, with the human partner being more influential than the dog.
"Our results nicely fit to experience from practice: owners and dogs are social dyads [a group of two], and they influence each other's stress coping," she told BBC News.
She said dogs are sensitive to their owners' emotional states and may mirror their emotions.
Dogs have lived alongside humans for more than 30,000 years.
Evidence shows they can pick up emotional information from people and adjust their behaviour accordingly.
The research is published in the journal, PLOS ONE.
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Summary: The idea that a dog takes on the personality of its owner has received scientific support.
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Article: The building at Cathays Park was evacuated, with all staff and students told to leave, after a blaze broke out in a fume cupboard on Tuesday.
The main building will remain shut on Tuesday with access to most areas reopened on Wednesday.
But two chemistry labs on the first floor and the restaurant will be shut until further notice.

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