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The British astronaut has launched a mass experiment to grow the seeds of the salad leaf rocket.
They want to compare them with seeds that have not been in space to see if there are any differences.
The experiment is being run by the Royal Horticultural Society's campaign for school gardening and the UK Space Agency.
T... | Thousands of schools in the UK will be receiving seeds that have been in space with Tim Peake. | 36038508 |
A small Potter-themed event with stalls and games had been planned for Bearsden Cross, on the outskirts of Glasgow,.
But the Reverend Roddy Hamilton of New Kilpatrick Parish Church said the plans had been "blown out of the water" by the massive interest on Facebook.
The festival has been cancelled amid concerns that i... | The church minister whose Harry Potter festival attracted worldwide interest has said he was taken by "surprise" by the scale of the reaction. | 39442792 |
The move is now subject to the player agreeing personal terms.
The 23-year-old centre-back, who has represented the Netherlands at under-21 level, will travel to Wales for negotiations in the coming week.
Swansea will go into the 2016-17 campaign under new backers, having been taken over by an American consortium.
Subs... | Swansea City have agreed a deal with Dutch giants Ajax to sign defender Mike van der Hoorn, BBC Wales Sport has learned. | 36634119 |
Joint teams of social care workers and NHS staff such as nurses and physios will become available seven days a week under the changes being unveiled.
The move is part of the government's Better Care Fund to join up the NHS and council-run social care systems.
It comes as a new analysis showed hospitals were under growi... | Vulnerable patients in England will get better support in the community as part of plans to ease pressure on hospitals, ministers say. | 29823763 |
Authorities said the plane crashed as it approached Iles-de-la-Madeleine Airport amid heavy winds and snow.
Jean Lapierre, a broadcaster and former Canadian transport minister, and members of his family were among the victims.
Mr Lapierre, who was 59, worked as a political analyst for CTV and other Canadian media outle... | Seven people have died after a small private plane crashed on an island off the east coast of Quebec. | 35922225 |
One blast took place near the former military academy for women, while the other struck close to the interior ministry.
Emergency crews rushed to the scenes of the blasts, which were cordoned off.
It is the first deadly bomb attack since the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi last year.
The bombs struck at dawn close to the i... | At least two people have been killed in a twin car bomb attack in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, security officials say. | 19310528 |
Cafodd yr Heddlu alwad am 12:10 yn adrodd bod dyn wedi disgyn lawr hafn ar ochr ogleddol mynydd Tryfan.
Cafodd Gwasanaeth achub mynydd Ogwen a'r hofrennydd chwilio ac achub eu galw i'r digwyddiad.
Dywedodd y Cwnstabl Gethin Jones o Heddlu'r Gogledd: "Fe gafodd dyn sydd ddim yn lleol i'r ardal ei ddarganfod a'i gludo i ... | Mae Heddlu'r Gogledd wedi cadarnhau bod dyn wedi marw ar un o fynyddoedd Eryri ddydd Sul. | 39917530 |
Massaro, seeded fifth, beat the Egyptian on the way to winning the British Open last month, but could not repeat that performance in El Gouna.
El Welily won the quarter-final 8-11 11-8 12-10 11-6 in 46 minutes to make it three Egyptians into the last four.
That came before an unexpected rain shower in the Red Sea resor... | England's former champion Laura Massaro lost 3-1 to third seed Raneem El Welily on a day when rain stopped play at the squash World Championship in Egypt. | 39581576 |
This is according to a study of the performance of chimpanzees in a test called the "ultimatum game".
Traditionally, the game is employed as a test of economics; two people decide how to divide a sum of money.
This modified game, in which two chimps decided how to divide a portion of banana slices, seems to have reveal... | The human tendency to share may have more ancient evolutionary routes than previously thought. | 20973753 |
The travel company said pre-tax profits fell to £42m from £50m last year.
It said the fall in demand for holidays in Turkey had been offset by the rise in popularity of other destinations.
Chief executive Peter Fankhauser told the BBC: "We are pleased with what we have achieved."
"We have had to follow the demand of ou... | Thomas Cook's profits have fallen after a tough year for the tourism industry, with trading affected by terror attacks in Europe and political instability in Turkey. | 38075005 |
Gary Anthony Burgess, 50, left open prison HMP Sudbury in the early hours of Thursday.
He was jailed for 10 years for burglary offences at Teesside Crown Court in 2011.
Burgess, who has links to the Middlesbrough area, is described as white, 5ft 8in (1.73m) tall, with brown hair, blue eyes and heavily tattooed.
Derbysh... | A police hunt is under way for a Teesside burglar who absconded from a jail in Derbyshire. | 30534051 |
Martin Goldberg, 46, deputy head of a Southend private school, had images of children undressing in changing rooms.
UK authorities were alerted in 2012 in a global operation but Essex Police did not speak to him until 9 September.
Jim Gamble, the ex-Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) head, said the ... | Failings to fully investigate a teacher who took indecent photographs of pupils were "an accident waiting to happen", an ex-child protection chief has said. | 29440457 |
It is the first series to be played against Australia since England became a fully professional side.
"We talk a lot about the brand of cricket that we play and the excitement that we want to showcase," she said.
"Those are the things that will bring the crowds in and hopefully the younger generation will see and aspir... | Seam bowler Kate Cross says England will accept "nothing short of 100%" in terms of their own performances in the upcoming Women's Ashes. | 33571983 |
Cyprian Okoro, 55, from south-west London was found guilty of five counts of possessing extreme pornography and one indecent image of a child.
The Old Bailey heard the videos were of a "grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise obscene character".
Okoro was bailed for sentencing on 30 September.
Some of the five video... | A GP has been found guilty of having a stash of pornography, including a video of a man having sex with a snake. | 37247160 |
The 21-year-old has joined the 2010 Champions League winners on a five-year contract that runs to June 2018.
"Inter are a great team, I'm really delighted and I hope to do well here," said the player who came through the ranks at French club Lyon.
Last season Belfodil scored eight goals in 33 matches for Parma. | Inter Milan have sign Algerian forward Ishak Belfodil from fellow Italian Serie A side Parma for a fee believed to be about US$13m. | 23197876 |
David McNally's Twitter account said he had left following his club's defeat against Manchester United. The tweet was later deleted and the club did not comment.
Norwich City Football Club confirmed on Monday that McNally had resigned.
"Everyone at Carrow Road wishes him all the very best for the future," it said.
McNa... | Norwich City chief executive David McNally has quit the club following a tweet on Saturday in which he seemingly announced his resignation. | 36241151 |
David Pipe went close for bottom club County in a scoreless first half, but after the break eighth-placed Barnet took control.
Goalkeeper Joe Day was County's hero, saving brilliantly to foil Simeon Akinola and making an outstanding double stop to deny Mauro Vilhete.
John Akinde fired wide in the dying minutes for The ... | Newport County survived a late Barnet onslaught to claim a second successive draw in League Two. | 38619887 |
The visitors had a goal disallowed in the first half when Stina Blackstenius' header was ruled out for offside.
Gilly Flaherty then tripped Lotta Schelin in the area but Chamberlain saved Kosovare Asllani's penalty.
England manager Mark Sampson had made 10 changes to the side that lost to Norway on Sunday.
The Lionesse... | Siobhan Chamberlain saved a penalty as England ended their pre-season training camp in Spain with a battling goalless draw against Sweden. | 38713682 |
The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un died last week after apparently being poisoned while waiting for a flight at a Kuala Lumpur airport.
There has been growing speculation that his son, Kim Han-sol, has travelled to Malaysia to claim the body.
Malaysia says the cause of death remains unknown.
Laboratory... | Malaysian authorities are yet to formally identify the body of Kim Jong-nam as no family member has come forward, officials say. | 39036376 |
Called the Orb, the mark is used to identify tweed made from cloth woven by hand in the Western Isles with wool yarn from island sheep.
Last year, the trademark was officially recognised as a coat of arms.
Edinburgh-based SnapDragon Monitoring has been commissioned to check ecommerce, social media and auction sites for... | The Harris Tweed Authority has appointed a firm to monitor for misuses of its legally-protected trademark. | 39627877 |
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) said on Monday Infantino will arrive in Abjua on 24 July and will meet "a legion of African FA presidents".
Infantino, elected in February this year, will be accompanied by new Fifa secretary-general Fatma Samoura.
NFF president Amaju Pinnick met Infantino for talks in Paris on Sun... | Fifa president Gianni Infantino will meet senior football association leaders from across Africa on a two-day working visit to Nigeria in July. | 36767975 |
The 29-year-old ex-Scarlets captain, has left "by mutual agreement".
He played for Wales Under-21s and Wales Sevens before a senior call-up to tour New Zealand in 2010.
McCusker's Wales debut against South Africa in November that year and won his last cap in the 22-18 tour win over Japan in 2013.
He joined Scarlets in ... | Six-times capped Wales back-rower Rob McCusker has left Scarlets to join Aviva Premiership side London Irish on a one-season deal. | 34333625 |
Two bombers blew themselves up as worshippers were coming out of the city's historic All Saints church after attending Sunday Mass, police say.
Relatives of the victims gathered at the scene to protest against the government's failure to protect them.
Militants linked to Pakistani Taliban have said they carried out the... | A twin-suicide bombing outside a church in Peshawar in Pakistan has killed at least 75 people, in one of the worst attacks on Christians in the country. | 24193734 |
Forward Bowditch has scored 48 goals in 227 appearances for MK Dons, helping them reach the Championship in 2014-15.
"I've enjoyed some fantastic memories during six years at MK Dons but all great things come to an end and it's time for a new challenge," he said.
The 30-year-old joins Darren Potter and David Martin in ... | Dean Bowditch will leave Milton Keynes Dons at the end of the season after six years at the League One club. | 39707555 |
Barry Imray, 35, of no fixed address, denies killing Lee Irving, who was found dead near a footpath in Newcastle last year.
Another man, James Wheatley, 29, from Studdon Walk, also denies murder.
Mr Wheatley's mother, Julie Mills, 51, and his girlfriend, Nicole Lawrence, 22, deny "causing or allowing" Mr Irving's death... | A man accused of murder has told a court he was told to move the body and was too scared to refuse. | 37944949 |
He was taken to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff after the accident with a white Skoda Octavia taxi on Barry Road at 22:30 GMT on Tuesday.
South Wales Police has confirmed the boy died from his injuries on Wednesday.
Officers are appealing for witnesses following the incident near to the Llewellyn Street jun... | A 16-year-old boy has died of his injuries after being hit by a taxi in Barry. | 38515718 |
He was responding to a comment from the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Archbishop Eamon Martin.
Archbishop Martin had said any Catholic politician who supported abortion would not be "in communion with the church".
The deputy first minister spoke to BBC's Inside Politics on Friday.
"I try and be the best Cat... | Sinn Féin's support for a woman's right to an abortion in certain limited circumstances is not incompatible with Catholicism, Martin McGuinness has said. | 30855440 |
The plane will be part of a £16m Bristol Aerospace Centre and museum at the former Filton airfield in neighbouring South Gloucestershire.
Labour and Conservative general election candidates for Filton and Bradley Stoke called on George Ferguson and Bristol City Council to invest in the project.
The BBC has invited Mr F... | Bristol's mayor has been urged to help pay for a permanent home for Concorde. | 32146429 |
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Armson, who is a college education examiner by day, guided Brackley to a 4-3 extra-time first-round replay win against Gillingham.
"I left the house to go to work at 6:30am," Armson told BBC Radio Oxford.
"I didn't finish until 4:30pm and then it was straight in the car to... | Brackley Town hat-trick hero James Armson had to change into his kit in his car before causing an FA Cup upset on Wednesday. | 38012629 |
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Torres is re-joining the La Liga champions from AC Milan seven-and-a-half-years after leaving for Liverpool.
His loan, which runs until the end of the season, will be made official on Monday but he watched Atletico's win over Levante on Saturday.
Torres, 30, said: "The clu... | Atletico Madrid unveiled Fernando Torres to 45,000 fans at Vicente Calderon Stadium on Sunday with the striker targeting winning trophies. | 30672923 |
Renowned cosmologist Roger Penrose said that analysis of this cosmic microwave background showed echoes of previous Big Bang-like events.
The events appear as "rings" around galaxy clusters in which the variation in the background is unusually low.
The unpublished research has been posted on the Arxiv website.
The idea... | Evidence of events that happened before the Big Bang can be seen in the glow of microwave radiation that fills the Universe, scientists have asserted. | 11837869 |
Brian McKandie, 67, was found dead at Fairview Cottages in Badenscoth, Rothienorman, on Saturday 12 March.
Two men were reportedly seen speaking to Mr McKandie on the Friday beforehand between about 17:00 and 18:00.
Police Scotland said it was thought Mr McKandie suffered a "violent attack".
Det Ch Insp Iain Smith said... | Police investigating the murder of a man in Aberdeenshire want to trace two people who may have visited the victim the day before he was found. | 35863239 |
Jenner, formerly US Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner, will feature in the Women: New Portraits show next year.
Other portraits will include tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams and American comic Amy Schumer.
Leibovitz took the high-profile Vanity Fair magazine cover photo of Jenner earlier this year.
The exhibition is a... | Transgender reality star Caitlyn Jenner is to feature in a new exhibition of portraits of women by photographer Annie Leibovitz. | 34662317 |
Wednesday's attack close to the heavily protected diplomatic area killed about 90 people and injured about 350 others.
No group has said it carried out the attack, but Afghan intelligence officials suggested the Haqqani network - militants allied with the Taliban - carried it out with Pakistan's support.
Pakistan's for... | Pakistan has rejected an Afghan claim that it was involved in a massive bomb attack in the capital, Kabul. | 40117199 |
The government order comes after President Pierre Nkurunziza launched a campaign "to moralise society".
A government spokesman said a crackdown on informal relationships was needed to combat a population explosion.
He said too many schoolgirls were getting pregnant and men were taking advantage of women by cohabiting w... | Cohabiting couples in Burundi have until the end of the year to get married or face legal consequences. | 40063401 |
The 29-year-old forward, who helped England to a series win over New Zealand on Saturday, joined the Giants from Castleford in July 2012.
Injury limited him to just 13 Super League appearances last season.
The Giants confirmed in a statement that they would not be making any further comment at this stage. | Huddersfield Giants have suspended England international Brett Ferres "pending an internal investigation into conduct away from the club". | 34856329 |
Morton had looked the more likely side to score, with Lawrence Shankland driving an effort off the bar before Andy Murdoch hit the post.
Vaughan latched on to a Ross McCrorie pass and applied a neat finish after the break.
Scott Tiffoney became the third Morton player to hit the woodwork late on.
The defeat means Morto... | Lewis Vaughan's second-half goal was enough to give Dumbarton the points and move Steven Aitken's side above Raith Rovers into seventh place. | 39390612 |
The Germans face the African champions in Jeju on Wednesday with a quarter-final place at stake.
After an evening training session on Monday, Streichsbier predicted a tough fixture against the Zambians but added that the match could go either way.
Germany only sneaked into the second round on goal difference and Streic... | Germany coach Guido Streichsbier rates his team's chances of beating Zambia at the Fifa Under-20 World Cup as no better than 50-50. | 40083786 |
Ahmed Abu Khattala, 43, appeared in court on 17 new charges, some of which may be punishable by death.
He did not speak during the hearing in Washington but his lawyer entered the plea on his behalf.
US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others were killed in the attack, which became a political lightning rod.
The new ... | The suspected ringleader of the September 2012 raid on a US diplomatic post in the Libyan city of Benghazi has pleaded not guilty to all charges. | 29694230 |
A hearing on Tuesday will decide what punishment the club will receive over crowd trouble after a Greek Cup semi-final first leg defeat by AEK Athens.
The Piraeus club are six points clear of PAOK with one match left, but they could still get a six-point deduction.
If that were to happen, PAOK would go top if they won ... | Olympiakos celebrated winning the Greek league for a 44th time on Sunday, but they may still miss out on the title. | 39687563 |
In euphemistic railway speak, it was ranked as a 25 SPAD at SN45.
To you and me, a charter steam train carrying hundreds of leisure passengers ran through a red light approaching a junction on a main line, about a minute after an express train had gone through at about 70mph.
The close call happened just before 17:30 o... | There has not been much about it in the media, but at the beginning of March Britain was less than a minute away from what might have been one of the country's worst train crashes. | 32622534 |
The 16 bison were moved to the Banff National Park in Alberta last week.
On Monday officials said the transfer had gone smoothly and the animals were adapting well to their new home.
The move will restore their role in the park's ecosystem, officials say, and has been welcomed by indigenous groups.
The bison will be ke... | A herd of plains bison have been successfully reintroduced to Canada's oldest national park, more than 100 years after they were nearly hunted out of existence. | 38888269 |
The opposition won a two-thirds majority which enables it to challenge socialist President Nicolas Maduro.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court said some losing candidates had filed challenges but it did not specify the grounds on which the appeals were made.
Members of the new National Assembly are to take up their seats on ... | Members of Venezuela's Socialist party are disputing the election of eight opposition candidates in legislative elections held on 6 December. | 35198665 |
The winners of England's second-tier competition will be promoted if they satisfy 'minimum standard criteria' to play in the top-flight.
Promotion this term will again be decided via the four-team play-offs.
Championship clubs also get a funding boost as part of the new agreement between the RFU and Premiership Rugby.
... | Automatic promotion to the Premiership will be introduced in 2018 after the Rugby Football Union decided to scrap the Championship play-offs. | 39157046 |
The Italian will have the final say on selection while working alongside Alan Curtis - who had been placed in interim charge - until the end of the season.
Swansea, who sacked Garry Monk last month, are 18th in the Premier League.
Guidolin, 60, was at the Liberty Stadium for Monday's game with Watford but a club statem... | Swansea City have appointed former Udinese manager Francesco Guidolin as their new head coach. | 35339215 |
Lufthansa chief executive Carsten Spohr spoke of such checks in an interview with the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). They could be like sports doping tests, the paper said.
A Germanwings co-pilot deliberately crashed a plane in the Alps in March.
It remains unclear why he did so.
Andreas Lubitz, 27, is tho... | The German airline Lufthansa is considering random medical checks for pilots, to help prevent any future disaster like the Germanwings crash that killed 150 people. | 32842265 |
The firm, Davidson Ryan Dore, is distributing recordings and pictures, smuggled out from Ms Karimova's house in the capital Tashkent, where she says she is being held.
New pictures earlier this week showed Ms Karimova apparently being manhandled by security guards.
The images are a far cry from the glamorous photograph... | A London-based public relations firm is acting on behalf of Gulnara Karimova, the once powerful daughter of Uzbekistan's authoritarian president who has been under house arrest for months. | 29251609 |
A selection of photos from across the African continent this week: | Images courtesy of AFP, AP, EPA and Reuters | 37309357 |
The footage from the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network shows Canadian Joshua Boyle and American Caitlan Coleman with two young boys, who appeared healthy.
In the clip Ms Coleman begs for an end to their "Kafkaesque nightmare".
The couple were abducted in Afghanistan in 2012 during a camping trip, while she was pregnant.
... | An Afghan insurgent group has released video of a kidnapped North American couple, featuring two children apparently born to them in captivity. | 38378250 |
In the state capital, San Cristobal, most shops and businesses are closed and guarded by soldiers.
Three people, including two teenagers, were killed in Tachira this week.
Since the rallies for early elections and an end to the economic crisis began in early April, 43 people have died across the country.
President Nico... | Venezuela says it is sending 2,600 troops to the western region of Tachira to quell looting and rioting amid continuing anti-government protests. | 39957222 |
One visiting reverend, John Gillison, said the "devil entered" but failed to "take control of your church".
A black cloth was placed over the chair of Reverend Clementa Pinckney, who was one of those killed by the gunman.
Hundreds of people packed the Emanuel AME church for the service on Sunday morning, amid tight sec... | The names of the nine people shot dead at an African-American church in South Carolina have been read out in its first service since Wednesday's attack. | 33214205 |
One of the main treatments has become useless against the new strain of the sexually transmitted infection.
Twelve cases have been confirmed in Leeds and a further four have been reported in Macclesfield, Oldham and Scunthorpe.
However, there are likely to be more undiagnosed cases.
The strain in this outbreak is able ... | Highly drug-resistant gonorrhoea is spreading in the north of England with an outbreak centred in Leeds, sexual health doctors have told the BBC. | 34269315 |
Leicestershire police are handing out the garments to cover up gold necklaces and prevent them being snatched.
They have been made by people completing unpaid work on the Community Payback scheme with fabric donated by businesses in Belgrave, Leicester.
Officers said they had seen spikes in thefts over previous summers... | Ex-offenders on probation have been making scarves for Asian women to prevent jewellery thefts. | 33966034 |
The sale follows the restitution of the painting to its subject's heirs.
Painted in 1902, the portrait of 19-year-old Gertrud Loew was left behind when Loew, fearing Nazi persecution, left Vienna for the US in 1939.
The portrait came to be acquired by Gustav Ucicky, a film-maker who made propaganda for the Nazis.
Ucick... | A portrait of a young Jewish woman by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt is expected to fetch up to £18m when it is auctioned in London later this month. | 33004202 |
On Monday, Mrs May met the first and deputy first ministers on a one-day visit to Northern Ireland.
She stressed that no-one wanted a return to the "borders of the past".
Her meeting with Mr Kenny is understood to have focused on the impact of Brexit on British and Irish relations.
Earlier in July, shortly after her ap... | Prime Minister Theresa May has held talks with Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Enda Kenny at Downing Street. | 36888838 |
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Glenavon had taken the lead in the 28th minute through Eoin Bradley whose shot was deflected past keeper Sean O'Neill.
Crues striker Jordan Owens headed the equaliser from Michael Carvill's ball midway through the second half.
Glenavon's Bradley was then sent off after a h... | Champions Crusaders were held to a draw by Glenavon but extended their lead at the top to seven points as nearest rivals Linfield lost to Portadown. | 35564516 |
The aerobatics team flew over Saudi Arabia, before making stops in Pakistan and India.
They will visit a total of 12 countries on the tour, which will include the team's first ever display in China.
The Red Arrows left their base at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire on 29 September. | Photos from the first leg of the Red Arrows' 60-day world tour - aiming to promote "the Best of British" - have been released. | 37590584 |
The classroom is crammed.
Four or five children squeeze into 1.5m-long wooden desks with the ones at the end forced to stretch a leg out into the aisle to stabilise them.
They are not sitting comfortably but they do seem to be concentrating on the maths lesson.
At the front one of the class is working out a conversion ... | Kenya has been praised for introducing free primary school education, in line with one of the Millennium Development Goals, but the country is now battling to raise education standards, as the BBC's Anne Soy has been finding out in Nairobi. | 33340946 |
In 2014, Barry Hughes, 38, was fined for illegally obtaining £1,287,955 for two mortgages, and laundering £150,000.
At Glasgow Sheriff Court on Monday, his QC Gordon Jackson said Hughes had offered to repay £500,000 to bring the matter "to a complete end".
He told the pre-proof confiscation hearing the Crown claimed th... | A former boxing promoter who admitted a £1.2m mortgage fraud could lose nearly £6m under proceeds of crime laws. | 38742834 |
Bayley, 27, and Shilton, 16, defeated Jordi Morales and Alvaro Valera 3-1 in the men's class 7 final in Lasko.
Fellow Briton Megan Shackleton, 16, and Slovakian playing partner Alena Kanova took silver in the women's class 4 team event, after losing to Serbia 3-2.
Jane Campbell and Sara Head won women's class 3 team br... | Will Bayley and Billy Shilton won Para table tennis team gold for Britain at the Slovenia Open by beating world champions Spain. | 32678597 |
Wales has 735 of the councils handling over £43m of public money but only an estimated 30% received qualified audit opinions on their last accounts.
The warning comes as community councils are being asked to take on more services by cash-strapped county councils.
The auditor has had to warn some councils for "serious ... | Community councils have been urged to improve their financial management by the Auditor General for Wales. | 38800559 |
HDR videos display millions more shades of colour and extra levels of brightness than normal ones, allowing images to look more realistic.
However, to view them members will need a new type of TV or monitor and a premium-priced Netflix subscription.
Some HDR content had already been available via Amazon's rival Instant... | Netflix has confirmed it has begun its rollout of high dynamic range content on its TV and film streaming service. | 36033205 |
Adam Armstrong put the Tykes ahead as Conor Hourihane's free-kick was nodded down by Marley Watkins and fired in.
Scott Hogan had a fine chance to level as he got in behind the visitors' defence, but Adam Davies was quick off his line to deny the Brentford forward his ninth goal of the season.
The win was sealed when R... | Barnsley's first win in eight matches condemned Brentford to defeat in their 4,000th league game. | 37663412 |
Former England captain and BBC pundit Alan Shearer, who scored 30 goals in 63 games for his country, explains why he thinks Tottenham striker Harry Kane can carry his impressive club form into international football in Friday's Euro 2016 qualifier against Lithuania.
I spoke about him recently to one of his former coach... | Harry Kane has already shown he has the ability to be a top Premier League striker, but it is his attitude that will help him make it at international level too. | 32013113 |
The team asked 14 volunteers to view pictures of people and faces, while recording the activity of single brain cells.
Scientist said they spotted "dramatic" differences in nerve activity at the exact moment a participant learnt of a new link between a person and place.
The early work is published in the journal Neuron... | Researchers have used "mind games" to reveal clues about how nerve cells may change when making new memories. | 33343511 |
Julianne Moore, Robert Pattinson, Jake Gyllenhaal and Emma Thompson are among those set to be walking the red carpet.
The festival opens with Ismael's Ghosts - a French film starring Marion Cotillard - on Wednesday.
As the French Riviera resort welcomes the film world for the 11-day event, here's what to expect.
It's f... | Stars from around the world are heading to Cannes for the prestigious film festival, celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. | 39928766 |
"The shame of the two big parties' manifestos is that neither sets out an honest set of choices," the deputy director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies said.
Does that mean there is no point in reading them?
Not quite.
The importance of the manifestos is that, economically, they propose quite different approaches to ... | As Carl Emmerson came to the end of his presentation on the Tory and Labour manifestos presented to the voters, there was an "ouch" moment. | 40058068 |
He was one of golf's dominant players in the 1950s and early 1960s, winning seven major titles over seven seasons.
Tiger Woods said: "Thanks Arnold for your friendship council and a lot of laughs." The US Golf Association called him "golf's greatest ambassador".
President Obama posted a photo of a lesson Palmer gave hi... | Tributes have flooded in for legendary US golfer Arnold Palmer, who died on Sunday aged 87. | 37475454 |
It has said it will do all this while decarbonising, or reducing the amount of carbon used per unit of growth, by 35% of its 2005 levels.
In the same breath, it says: "More than half of the India of 2030 is yet to be built."
But the kind of country that India wants to make - mines, airports, seaports, big cities, indus... | In the lead up to this week's critical UN conference aimed at agreeing on a new global approach to climate change, India has indicated its intent to build infrastructure and vastly increase industrial manufacturing as a means of giving hundreds of millions of citizens a better quality of life. | 34960929 |
About 90 machine gun rounds were fired at the object, which has not been identified. North Korea has flown drones over the border in the past.
In a statement, the South Korean military said it was "maintaining high vigilance".
The incident comes amid continuing high tension on the Korean peninsula.
On Sunday Pyongyang ... | South Korea says it has fired warning shots at an object that flew across the demilitarised zone from North Korea. | 40012499 |
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The 32-year-old led 7-2 overnight but Milkins won the first four frames of the day.
But the 2014 champion hit back, his famed matchplay helping him win the next three frames to seal victory.
Selby said: "Rob played some great snooker. But I knew he would let his arm go at ... | World number one Mark Selby survived a determined comeback from Robert Milkins to move into the second round of the World Championship with a 10-6 win. | 36083753 |
Mike Christie and Jonathan Ansell were attacked at a recreation ground in Yardley, Birmingham, during the early hours.
Christie was hit over the head and Ansell received a blow to the eye as he wrestled back a stolen laptop.
Both singers were treated at Heartlands Hospital but did not report the attack to police.
Ansel... | Two members of X Factor operatic group G4 have been treated in hospital after an attempted mugging. | 38950854 |
Diego Costa slid in the opener, a Rolando Aarons error let in Pedro to run clear and fire home, and Costa set up Willian to make it 3-0.
Pedro and Bertrand Traore added further goals in the second half, before Andros Townsend's late consolation.
The only thing to spoil Chelsea's night was an injury to captain John Terr... | Newcastle dropped into the relegation zone on goal difference after three goals in the first 17 minutes set Chelsea on their way to an easy win. | 35510139 |
Anthony Levandowski, previously worked on self-driving car technology at Waymo, owned by Alphabet.
He is accused of downloading 14,000 confidential files before leaving the company in 2016.
Uber denies it is using stolen technology.
In a court filing last month, Uber maintained its technology is different. It described... | Uber has fired the engineer accused of stealing secrets from Google-owner Alphabet after he failed to assist with an investigation related to the lawsuit. | 40097286 |
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The Patriots trailed by 25 points in the third quarter but recovered to level at 28-28 and force the extra period - the first in Super Bowl history.
Thanks to everyone back in Boston... we're bringing this sucker home!
Quarterback Tom Brady led the recovery, finishing with... | The New England Patriots produced the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history to beat the Atlanta Falcons 34-28 in overtime and claim a fifth title in the most dramatic of circumstances. | 38876834 |
Steel beat team-mate Kate Avery in a sprint finish in Bulgaria last year, and repeated that result at the trials in Liverpool last month.
Scotland's Laura Muir switches from success in the 1500m to the under-23 team in Hyeres.
GB have topped the medal table at the last 12 European Cross Country events.
The team won nin... | Gemma Steel will hope to retain her European Cross Country title when she leads a 36-strong British team in France on Sunday. | 35062418 |
"It will be tough game - Larne have started the season well and they will enjoy coming to Windsor," he said.
"I expect they will probably sit in and hit us on the counter-attack."
Cliftonville are chasing a fifth straight League Cup success and the Reds host Lisburn Distillery in one of 16 second-round games on Tuesday... | Linfield boss David Healy is predicting a stern test against Championship leaders Larne in the League Cup clash at Windsor Park. | 37213152 |
Mercury's sojourn between Earth and our star lasts from 11:12 until 18:42 GMT.
It will not make another transit until 2019 and then 2032.
The event is impossible - and dangerous - to view with the naked eye or binoculars, but astronomy groups worldwide are offering the chance view it through filtered telescopes.
Live v... | Skywatchers across the globe are observing Mercury transit the Sun, the little planet's third such pass of 14 it will make this century. | 36228327 |
His ban is longer than the 10-game suspensions handed to Luis Suarez for biting and Rotherham defender Kirk Broadfoot for misconduct.
Andrew, 29, was not punished on the field, but was later cited after a Football Association video review.
Rochdale won Saturday's League One derby match 1-0 at Spotland.
The usual tariff... | Rochdale striker Calvin Andrew has been given a 12-game ban - one of the longest in English football history - for elbowing Oldham's Peter Clarke. | 37876911 |
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The GB1 crew were lying fourth after two runs, 0.02 seconds off bronze, but they rolled over on corner nine.
Lamin Deen, Ben Simons, Bruce Tasker and Joel Fearon emerged unscathed but they missed out on a fourth run for the top 20 sleds.
"It's hugely disappointing," said p... | Great Britain's hopes of winning a first four-man bobsleigh medal in 77 years ended with a crash at the World Championships in Igls, Austria. | 35626564 |
But in the world of cricket the two proud counties could be willing to put differences aside and come together, if it offers them a chance to play at the highest level.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is currently reviewing the structure of the domestic game and one possibility could be to increase the County... | Separated by the Tamar and conflicting views about whether clotted cream or jam goes first on a scone, Devon and Cornwall have always had a keen rivalry. | 33240250 |
Council finance convenor Willie Young claimed pulling out could have cost the authority £100m in cancellation fees.
The council later said there would be no financial penalty.
SNP Aberdeen Central MSP Kevin Stewart said he had written to council chief executive Angela Scott calling for an investigation.
Mr Young said ... | An MSP has called for an investigation into whether the public has been "misled" about aspects of the Marischal Square plans in Aberdeen. | 31041033 |
Donetsk grew up around the works built by John Hughes of Merthyr Tydfil in the 1870s to make plating for a naval base.
The settlement was originally named Hughesovka in honour of the man whose fame had reached Tsarist Russia.
Writer and documentary maker Colin Thomas said of the city: "There's very much a pride in John... | The Ukrainian city where England played France in Euro 2012 owes its existence to a 19th Century Welsh ironmaster. | 18282468 |
Police said a 51-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of fraud in Scotland on Thursday, and is being questioned by officers in Preston.
The Space Centre in Ashton thought it had secured £800,000 in grants, only to find they never existed.
About 200 groups a month use the centre's facilities, which include multi-se... | A woman has been arrested over an alleged fraud at a charity for disabled people in Lancashire. | 21374639 |
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Using his trusty metal detector, Paul Coleman dug up an old bucket which was full of silver coins around a thousand years old.
In total Paul found around 5,200 of the old coins, which are worth over a million pounds in today's money.
Now, the coins are now going on display at ... | A man from Buckinghamshire has discovered thousands of ancient coins buried in the ground. | 31363189 |
They claim that if their funding does not improve courses could be cut, jobs could go and research work might not happen.
They argue public funding from the Scottish Funding Council has fallen by 12% in real terms since 2010.
Universities get their money from a wide range of sources.
The Scottish government, which fina... | Universities are warning that current funding levels are "unsustainable". | 38187506 |
It says the Royal College of Midwives has overhauled its professional guidance and women will now no longer be advised that they should have babies without medical interventions, including caesareans and epidurals.
In an interview with the paper, the chief executive of the RCM, Cathy Warwick, denied that what is known ... | The Times leads with a report that midwives have dropped their campaign for natural childbirth on the grounds that it has been making women feel bad. | 40907545 |
That's why the social network has written to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) telling them to stop setting up fake accounts.
Chief security officer, Joe Sullivan, instructed the DEA that their terms and conditions ban anyone from lying about who they are.
The DEA is part of the US Justice Department.
It is ... | It doesn't matter who you are, Facebook's rules must be obeyed, according to Facebook. | 29673357 |
The Hatters, trailing 3-2 from the first leg, fell further behind when Nathan Delfouneso opened the scoring.
Kelvin Mellor's own goal, Scott Cuthbert's header and Danny Hylton's penalty then hauled Luton in front.
But Armand Gnanduillet made it 5-5 on aggregate, before Stuart Moore's own goal sent the visitors to Wembl... | Blackpool reached the League Two play-off final as an injury-time own goal ended Luton's promotion hopes at the end of a remarkable, see-sawing tie. | 39879758 |
A Stephen Cole goal gave Ireland an early lead which they held until the end of the first quarter.
However, second-quarter goals from Simon Gougnard and Cedric Charlier helped Belgium lead 3-1 at half-time.
With Tom Boom notching a hat-trick, Belgium moved 6-1 ahead before Alan Sothern's late reply.
Ireland keeper Davi... | Ireland's hopes of qualifying for next year's World Cup suffered a setback as they were beaten 6-2 by Belgium at the World League semi-finals tournament. | 40576205 |
Kettering General Hospital cancelled routine operations and some outpatients clinics on Friday for doctors and nurses to deal with over capacity.
The hospital said it would see patients who need emergency surgery.
In-patient paediatrics, obstetrics and accident and emergency services are all under threat at the hospita... | Operations at a Northamptonshire hospital where services are under threat have been cancelled due to a "surge" in A&E cases. | 21385049 |
Kane broke through the Saints defensive line and finished coolly for a 10th goal in his past 10 games.
Soon after, Dele Alli benefitted from some lax defending to score from close range and put Spurs firmly in control.
Spurs managed the game superbly in the second half against a Saints side who are now without a win in... | Harry Kane scored on his 100th Tottenham appearance as they moved into the Premier League top four with victory at struggling Southampton. | 35078557 |
David Goodwillie, who has played for Dundee United and Aberdeen, was not represented by a legal team in court.
Judge Lord Armstrong asked him: "I take it by your presence you wish to insist on your defence in this action?" Mr Goodwillie replied: "Yes."
The player has denied raping the woman at a flat in Armadale, West ... | A former Scotland international footballer has told a judge he will be defending a damages claim brought by a woman who alleges he raped her. | 37589418 |
Sendles-White was released by Swindon in May after making 17 appearances.
The 23-year-old, capped 12 times by Northern Ireland at under-21 level, started his career at QPR and has also had spells with Hamilton and Mansfield.
Dayton, 28, most recently played for Cheltenham Town, where he turned out 36 times for the club... | Leyton Orient have signed defender Jamie Sendles-White on a one-year deal and midfielder James Dayton on a two-year contract. | 40789578 |
Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed M'khaitir was arrested in January 2014 for an article criticising those who use religion as a means of discrimination.
M'khaitir has apologised and said he never meant to insult the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.
The Supreme Court can pardon him if it feels his repentance is sincere.
The original ... | An appeal court in Mauritania has upheld the death sentence of a blogger convicted of apostasy, but referred his case to the Supreme Court. | 36111386 |
The men were executed at jails in Karachi and Hyderabad.
They hijacked a Pakistan International Airlines flight in May 1998 and ordered the pilot to fly to India but the plane was diverted and stormed by troops.
Pakistan has put at least 130 people to death since lifting a moratorium on executions in December.
The men ... | Pakistan has hanged three Baloch insurgents, 17 years after they hijacked a passenger plane with 30 people on board. | 32911257 |
The Church of Ireland parish invited Elvis impersonator Andy Rogers to lead the service through the music of The King.
American flags adorned the altar as Rev Paul Hoey took to his feet to encourage the congregation to "sing, dance, clap and enjoy the music".
Most of all he asked them "to be open to the message of the ... | Almost 200 people gathered at St Canice's Church, Eglinton, on Sunday night for a rather unusual service. | 39251118 |
Dobey, 26, reached the last eight of the Grand Slam of Darts in November and also appeared in the European Championship in 2016.
Pipe won their previous meeting 6-4 in Coventry in May.
"You can't be friends on stage, you've got to want to beat who's in front of you," Dobey told BBC Newcastle.
"He's a great lad, I've pl... | Bedlington's Chris Dobey says friendship will be put aside for his PDC World Championship first-round tie against Justin Pipe. | 38328738 |
His answer to a question in the chamber - the old one up the hill, that is, not the new one - was slowly approximating to a conclusion.
You could see Mr McConnell concluding that he had troubled the chamber long enough on the particular topic, whose details I forget. He told MSPs: "I'm haverin' so I'll sit down." And ... | As I recall, one of the finest contributions to Scottish Parliamentary discourse came from the former First Minister Jack, now Lord, McConnell. | 32831222 |
IT consultant Chris Norman, 62, received the Legion d'honneur from French President Francois Hollande, alongside three Americans, in Paris.
The passengers overpowered an armed suspected radical Islamist on a high-speed train bound for Paris on Friday.
Mr Hollande said the men "gave a lesson in courage, in will, and thu... | A British man who helped foil a suspected terror attack on a train has been given France's top bravery honour. | 34039225 |
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