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Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Chancellor George Osborne said the £6bn health and social care budget would be taken over by the region's councils and health groups. Mr Osborne said it was a "really exciting development". A Labour spokesman said NHS workers would "want to be persuaded of the...
Greater Manchester is to become the first English region to get full control of its health spending, as part of an extension of devolved powers.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: John Conway, who ran Meteor Electrical in Cookstown, recorded the footage. He provided the material to BBC NI's Spotlight programme. The employee, Kelley Toner, who subsequently left the bank, was filmed saying: "All I am going to say, you will be visiting me ...
A Bank of Ireland employee was secretly filmed discussing a fraudulent insurance claim as a way to recoup losses surrounding a collapsed business.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Neil Thomas Douglas boarded a flight on Thursday night and came face-to-face with his lookalike. Mr Douglas, a photographer from Glasgow, said: "Everyone around us had a laugh, we took a selfie and that was it." The selfie was posted on Twitter and has been re...
A man has spoken of the "total weirdness" of encountering his doppelganger on a flight.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The group pleaded guilty or were convicted of conspiracy to transfer prohibited weapons at Birmingham Crown Court in November and January. Solicitor General Robert Buckland referred their case on the basis that the prison terms were unduly lenient. The men sol...
Sixteen members of a Birmingham gun gang have had their sentences increased at the Court of Appeal.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: A former wrestler, the election results prove that he can still pin his opponents down. His drive - combined with the skill to bounce back from seemingly hopeless political setbacks - has made him a formidable political adversary in Uttar Pradesh, India's most...
Mulayam Singh Yadav has bounced back with his Samajwadi Party winning the assembly elections in the politically-crucial Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The X Prize was set up to push the boundaries of technology to solve issues such as climate change. The winner, which will be announced at TED in 2020, will win $5m (£3.4m). It will be awarded to the team that is deemed to have used artificial intelligence to...
A new X prize designed to advance artificial intelligence has been announced at the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: His comments came in an email to members after a fresh row erupted over alleged bullying of MPs who voted to bomb so-called Islamic State in Syria. Shadow home secretary Andy Burnham, who opposed air strikes, has called for a new code of conduct to curb abuse....
Labour will not accept abuse and intimidation "from whatever quarter it comes", Jeremy Corbyn has warned.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The game had to be postponed on 25 November only 90 minutes before the scheduled kick-off because the Kingspan Stadium pitch was frozen. Ulster will face Zebre in Italy on Sunday, 26 February and then take on the Pro12's other Italian club Treviso on 3 March a...
Ulster's Pro12 home game against bottom club Zebre has been re-arranged for Saturday, 11 March.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: In a blue plastic bucket is a macabre sight - the head of a small gazelle stares straight ahead, as a woman chops meat from its limp body to the the strains of a popular song on radio. Angola is not for the squeamish. Bushmeat is everyday fare here. They call ...
Angola is home to Africa's biggest bushmeat market but is now ramping up efforts to stop the illegal trade, reports the BBC's Karen Allen from Luanda.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Wales and West Utilities said 755 homes were affected when a water leak flooded pipes in Nantyglo, Blaenau Gwent, and gas has been restored to over 600. A spokesperson said staff were continuing door-to-door visits to re-connect those still without gas. More t...
Engineers are trying to restore gas to nearly 150 houses which have been disconnected since last Thursday.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: She was the favourite to win gold and didn't disappoint with her routine showing off her power and agility. Biles went ahead straight away, scoring 15.866 on vault, but she dropped back to second place with 14.966 on the uneven bars. She then wowed the crowd w...
USA superstar Simone Biles has won all-around gymnastics gold in the Rio Olympics.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The Unite and GMB unions said members had "overwhelmingly" rejected proposals by the Offshore Contractors Association (OCA) following a consultative ballot. They added they were seeking a meeting with OCA to try to reach a negotiated settlement. OCA said it re...
Two unions have rejected a pay and conditions offer by oil industry contractors.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Sgt Alexander Blackman received a life term in 2013 for murder, but his conviction was reduced to manslaughter. The 42-year-old from Taunton, Somerset, has served more than three years of a seven-year sentence. Judges at the Court Martial Appeal Court were tol...
The Royal Marine jailed for shooting dead a wounded Taliban fighter has been released from prison.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Media playback is not supported on this device Mourinho made his comments after his side were denied a penalty in the 1-1 draw with Southampton on 28 December. The Football Association ruled Mourinho's quotes were "improper and brought the game into disrepute"...
Jose Mourinho has been fined £25,000 for comments claiming there is a "campaign" to influence referees' decisions against his Chelsea side.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The Divergent star was arrested at a construction site as she was broadcasting the protest, which involved about 200 people, on Facebook. Police say she was one of 27 people arrested on charges of criminal trespass and engaging in a riot. The Dakota Access pip...
US actress Shailene Woodley has been arrested during a protest in North Dakota against a huge oil pipeline project that will cross four states.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The double amputee was jailed for five years in October for killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Judge Thokozile Masipa said prosecutors could appeal against the acquittal, but not the five-year sentence given for the lesser charge of culpable homicide. Pi...
A South African judge has ruled that prosecutors can appeal against the acquittal on murder charges of Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The Women in IT scorecard looked at gender trends from secondary education through to the work place. It indicates women account for just 16% of the UK IT workforce. And the problem starts early - despite consistently out-performing boys in computing A-level r...
The UK faces a worsening gender gap in its flourishing IT industry, according to a new study.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The 48-hour stoppage, which follows a 24-hour strike on Tuesday, will begin at 06:30 on Thursday 4 August. Members of the Unite and RMT union are in dispute with their employer Wood Group over pay and conditions. Wood Group said it was "hugely disappointed" th...
Workers on seven Shell installations in the North Sea are to stage a second strike next week.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: This guy that they'd known for his fearsome reputation as one of national hunt racing's hardest, and most difficult opponents to beat, was now motionless from the neck down, and struggling at times to breathe let alone speak. But, remarkably, McNamara and his ...
Former colleagues and one-time rivals who visited John Thomas - JT - McNamara when he was lying in hospital, terribly injured, in the days and weeks after his paralysing Cheltenham Festival fall, understandably found it difficult to contain their emotions.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Figures obtained by the BBC show that there have been more than 300 disciplinary incidents in the past three years on the navy's 13 submarines, including 42 cases of misconduct or unfitness through alcohol or drugs. The list of disciplinary offences, provided ...
How serious is the problem of drunkenness and indiscipline within the Royal Navy's submarine service?
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: It was just bought by Chinese buyers for A$88,888,888.88. The number eight is considered lucky in Chinese as it sounds like the word for "prosperity". That luck might come in handy - the deal comes just as Sydney was awarded the fourth spot on UBS's global hou...
Business sense suggests you try to buy property at the lowest possible price, but that was not the case for one property in Sydney, Australia.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Iraqis previously "rose up in large numbers and were killed in very large numbers", the former UK PM said. Mr Blair also warned the West could pay a high price if it decided not to intervene in Syria. He spoke to the BBC ahead of the 10th anniversary of the in...
Iraqis would have rebelled against Saddam Hussein if there had been no invasion and it would have been "a lot worse than Syria", Tony Blair has said.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: It estimates that 65.3m people were either refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced at the end of 2015, an increase of 5m in a year. This represents one in every 113 people on the planet, the UN agency says. Meanwhile, the UN refugee chief says a worry...
The number of people displaced by conflict is at the highest level ever recorded, the UN refugee agency says.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Currently economy and transport minister, Mrs Hart's previous posts included local government and health. Mrs Thomas has been deputy social services minister, chaired committees and led a safeguarding children review. The announcements follow news that Labour ...
Gower AM Edwina Hart and Neath AM Gwenda Thomas are to stand down at the 2016 assembly election.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Fraser of Allander Institute (FAI) analysis suggested the rate of recovery was constrained by companies in the north east. New business levels eased during the three months to the end of November with an overall balance of just 3%, compared with 18% a year ago...
The Scottish economy slowed down towards the end of 2015, according to new figures.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: It is not really the weather for it but you might have one of these in a drawer somewhere. A hand-warmer. A small plastic pouch filled with a gel. Click the little piece of metal inside and you set off a chemical reaction. The gel begins to turn into a waxy so...
A tech firm has taken the principle behind hand-warmers and turned them into big batteries that can heat a house using solar power.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The musician has won the Nobel Prize for Literature for creating "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". Here is just a small selection of lyrics that have helped make his reputation as one of the world's greatest singer-songwriters....
Over a career lasting more than five decades, Bob Dylan has written hundreds of songs - ranging from elegant ballads to anthemic protests.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The world number two will play at Dundonald Links the week before The Open at Royal Birkdale in July. McIlroy, 28, has been troubled by a rib problem this year but insists he is "totally fine" to play in this week's US Open at Erin Hills, Wisconsin. The four-t...
Rory McIlroy has added the Scottish Open to his schedule as he works his way back from injury.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The three-part documentary series, produced by independent company Top Hat, will be aired later this year. Filming will take place over several months, in a format similar to the Inside the Commons documentary which was broadcast on BBC Two last year. It aims ...
BBC Two has commissioned a series filmed inside the House of Lords which it says will give "unprecedented" insight into peers' work.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Two men, aged 34 and 37, were detained in Newham, while a third man aged 33 was arrested at an address in Waltham Forest. All three have been taken to a south London police station. The arrests are not connected to the attacks on London Bridge and in Borough M...
Three men have been arrested on suspicion of terror offences following a series of raids involving armed police, in east London.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: James Young rode the Raptor rollercoaster at Cedar Point amusement park and then jumped over a fence to get his phone when he was hit. A coroner confirmed he was looking to retrieve his mobile phone. The park confirmed Young's death in a statement. "At 5pm, a ...
A man trying to retrieve his mobile phone has been struck and killed by a rollercoaster at a theme park in Ohio.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The US firm reported profits up 74% to $1.84bn (£1.4bn) for the three months against the same quarter last year. The gain came as investment banking and bond trading revenues jumped, and the bank was able to set aside less money for credit losses. The growth ...
Morgan Stanley profits rose sharply in the first quarter as the Wall Street giant became the latest bank to see growth in the period.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The artwork, titled DHEAD, was originally donated for the fundraising ARTAID 98 exhibition in the city in 1998. His portrait was auctioned during Lyon & Turnbull's contemporary paintings sale, making £22,500. It had been valued at between £3,000 and £5,000....
A self-portrait by David Bowie has gone under the hammer in Edinburgh, making four-times its valuation.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Alan Pearmain added a comment to a post of an ape wearing lipstick saying: "Forget the London look, get the Diane Abbott look" in December. The deputy chairman of the South Ribble Conservative Association tweeted: "Nice lips kid. But a shade too much rouge". B...
A Conservative politician suspended over an offensive tweet aimed at Labour MP Diane Abbott has admitted his actions were inappropriate.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Dennehy, 33, from Peterborough, is serving life for murdering three men whose bodies were found in ditches in Cambridgeshire in 2013. She also attempted to murder two men in Hereford. Dennehy had claimed continued isolation left her "tearful and upset". More o...
Triple killer Joanne Dennehy has failed in a bid to get compensation for solitary confinement in jail after claiming it was a violation of her human rights.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Pre-tax profit was $13.6bn (£8.7bn) in the first six months, compared with $12.3bn a year ago - higher than forecasts which were for $12.5bn. The lender also announced the sale of its Brazil unit to banking giant Banco Brandesco for $5.2bn. The move comes as ...
Profit at Europe's largest bank, HSBC, was up 10% in the first half of this year compared with a year ago on strong earnings in Hong Kong.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: James Purdie was caught with 115 images on his computer after police raided his home in Ardrossan. The 32-year-old, who had file-shared with other paedophiles, told officers: "Everything you have found is mine." Purdie admitted downloading and possessing the i...
A man from North Ayrshire caught with images of children being tortured and sexually abused is facing jail.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Roger Marshall testified on 2 and 8 October that he policed 27,500 fans at a rugby league match at the ground on 26 December 1989 with 12 officers. The court was told he was not at the tie and it was not held in Sheffield. In a statement read to the jury, Mr M...
A former superintendent who served at Hillsborough has apologised after discovering part of the evidence he gave to the inquests was incorrect.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The four men were arrested on Wednesday in connection with suspected tax evasion. The Irish News reports HMRC has asked to see files held by C&H Jefferson. The firm says it is "complying with this request". C&H Jefferson is not accused of any wrongdoing. The f...
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has made a request to access client files held by a Belfast law firm as part of its investigation into four KPMG partners.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The 26-year-old clocked 42.335 seconds - beating Fan Kexin's 42.504 - in her quarter-final, but then fell in the closing stages of the final. The Scot took 500m gold in the opening event of World Cup series in Calgary. The Livingston-born skater won a silver m...
British speed skater Elise Christie broke the 500m world record at the second World Cup event of the season in Salt Lake City.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The seasonally adjusted figure is at its lowest level since a year after German reunification in 1990. The head of the Federal Labour Office, Frank-Juergen Weise, said strong consumer consumption was helping to drive the downward trend. A recent survey showed ...
Germany's jobless rate has fallen by 6,000 to 2.78 million, as Europe's biggest economy continues to recover.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: "It was like a miracle," said Narcis Bardalet, who was in charge of embalming Dalí's body 28 years ago, adding that the hair was also intact. The body was exhumed in the north-eastern Spanish city of Figueres to settle a paternity case. A woman says her mother...
Salvador Dalí's moustache is intact in the "10 past 10" position, the surrealist painter's foundation has said, a day after his body was exhumed.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The claim: People receiving funding from the European Union would continue to get it until 2020 if there was a vote to leave the EU, and more money could be spent on the NHS and tax cuts. Reality Check verdict: There would be the money to fund these spending p...
Vote Leave campaigners sent out a letter on Tuesday saying that if the UK left the European Union, then people who were receiving EU funding would continue to do so until 2020.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: David Cumming, head of equities at Standard Life Investments, said that HSBC was being put at a "competitive disadvantage" by "ever-increasing capital requirements". "Logically, we would be supportive of a move if they chose to do that," he told Radio 4's Toda...
Shareholders would back banking giant HSBC if it decided to move its headquarters out of the City, according to one of its bigger investors.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Media playback is unsupported on your device 17 September 2015 Last updated at 18:43 BST She is now settled in Cardiff with her baby son Nabil, although her husband is still a refugee in Jordan. Her story starts in 2011 with bombing in her home city of Daraa, ...
Syrian refugee Asmaa Al Fashtaki, 29, arrived in the UK last November and was five months pregnant.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The woman, who police have not named, was subdued by a police officer who had joined the force two weeks earlier. A passenger on Southwest Airlines Flight 4519 told KHOU-TV that the woman was behaving erratically throughout Sunday's morning flight. "She wrote ...
A plane travelling from Los Angeles to Houston was diverted after a woman tried to open an emergency exit near the end of the flight, passengers say.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: David Warner (122) and Mitchell Marsh (102 not out) helped Australia set a daunting total of 330-7 in Sydney. But Pandey's 104 not out led the charge to guide the tourists to victory by six wickets with two balls to spare. India opener Rohit Sharma had earlier...
Manish Pandey scored a maiden one-day international century as India beat Australia with a ball to spare to avoid a whitewash in the five-match series.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The top two sides in the world are not due to meet until the autumn of 2018. However, the RFU are understood to be interested in a fixture between the two sides this November, despite the fact the fixture schedule has already been finalised. England will play ...
The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has confirmed it is looking into arranging an "out-of-window" match between England and New Zealand this year.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Out of 724 test purchases carried out by London Trading Standards, 96 retailers sold knives and blades to the volunteers. It is illegal to sell knives to anyone under the age of 18. As a result, 19 traders have been prosecuted while others received warnings an...
Children as young as 13 bought knives in London when teenage volunteers were used to test if shops were complying with the law.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: While Scotland's Martin Laird led on 10 under, former world number one and 14-time major champion Woods was last in a field of 132 and missed the cut. The 39-year-old was playing in his first PGA Tour event of the season. "I've got to keep this in perspective....
Tiger Woods recorded the worst round of his professional career with an 11-over-par 82 in the second round of the Waste Management Phoenix Open.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The special recognition award will honour his 50-year career and will be presented by his friend, actor Dustin Hoffman. Connolly, 73, has just performed the first of 16 nights at the Apollo Hammersmith in London. In 2013, he was treated for prostate cancer and...
Comedian Billy Connolly is to be presented with a special prize at the National Television Awards later this month.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Due in part to some cosmic geometry, the Moon will momentarily obscure the Sun and cast a lunar shadow across the Earth's surface, blanketing parts of the US in darkness, causing temperatures to drop and illuminating stars and planets in the middle of the day....
On 21 August, more than seven million people across the US are expected to witness the first total solar eclipse to cross the North American continent from ocean to ocean since 1918.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The Italian musician topped the charts in 12 countries with the track, which was first released in 1995 and reached number two in the UK in 1996. Miles's radio station OpenLab confirmed he died "after a courageous battle with stage four metastatic cancer". Pet...
DJ Robert Miles, best known for his trance hit Children, has died at the age of 47 after a short illness.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: He said his father and the Paisley family had been hurt by the way some in the Free Presbyterian Church and in political life "took him for granted". He quoted Edward Carson talking about a friend who used him as a ladder only to kick him away at a convenient ...
Ian Paisley Jr has described critics of his father, the former DUP leader and first minister who died last Friday aged 88, as "pygmies in his shadow".
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Real and Atletico are banned from registering players in the next two transfer windows after losing an appeal against their own punishments. Fifa has given the Spanish FA six months to improve its transfer system. It has strict rules restricting Under-18 playe...
The Spanish football federation has been fined 220,000 Swiss francs (£180,940) for violating youth player transfer rules in the case involving Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The winner earns a place in qualifying for April's World Championship. Hendry, 48, has consistently said he has no intention of entering qualifying for the Crucible, and has declined previous opportunities to participate. "It is certainly not a foray back into...
Seven-time world champion Stephen Hendry, who retired from the professional snooker tour five years ago, is to play in the World Seniors Championship in Scunthorpe in March.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Lord Hanningfield made the claim when challenged to explain his own attendance record. The Daily Mirror alleges on 11 of 19 occasions he attended the Lords in July he spent less than 40 minutes there. There is no suggestion the peer broke any rules. Members of...
Half the members of the House of Lords clock in and out of Parliament for a few minutes a day in order to claim a £300 daily attendance allowance, a former Conservative peer has said.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Knights in Bell Street, Reigate, is closing after 130 years, with its owners blaming an "increasingly competitive market place". Manager Eric Shields said many customers had expressed disappointment. "A lot of them have been coming here since they were small c...
One of Surrey's oldest department stores is to shut its doors for the final time.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Wilkinson was part of a Stevenage side that lost just one of their last nine games in League Two as they finished 14 points clear of relegation. The 25-year-old former Portsmouth trainee joined the Boro from Luton in the January transfer window. Wilkinson, who...
Stevenage defender Luke Wilkinson has signed a new contract at the club.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The central bank - People's Bank of China (PBOC) - fixed the yuan rate at 6.4589 to the US dollar on Friday. That is the biggest increase in nearly 11 years. China only allows the yuan to rise or fall 2% on either side of the PBOC's daily fix, to avoid volatil...
China has raised the exchange rate for its currency, the yuan by 0.56% against the US dollar, from the previous day.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The 44-year-old's departure follows quarter-final defeat in both the One-Day Cup and T20 Blast. He was promoted from second-team coach in July 2007 and guided them to Friends Provident Trophy victory in 2008. Essex have since failed to win any silverware, and ...
Essex head coach Paul Grayson has left the county by mutual consent after eight years in charge.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Twenty slopes across the country will offer taster ski and snowboard sessions as part of the Snowsport England initiative, which encourages schools to introduce their pupils to snowsports. The week is targeted at individual pupils or full classes at primary an...
Snow slopes across England are set to offer free or heavily discounted activities as part of the second National Schools Snowsport Week, which runs from 24-30 April.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Specialisterne Northern Ireland plans to link people with high functioning autism with employers. More than 50 digital content and film production companies will be attending. Young people and adults on the autistic spectrum from across Northern Ireland and un...
An initiative aimed at matching the specific skills of people with autism with the creative industries is to be launched later.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The 28-year-old has nine caps for his country, appearing in the 2015 World Cup and as a replacement at Twickenham against England in November. Tight-head Alec Clarey, 23, will join from Bristol, with Jordan Brodley, 23, and Roy Godfrey, 27, also signing. Meanw...
Jersey Reds have signed four props for next season, including Fiji international Lee Roy Atalifo.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: 14 June 2017 Last updated at 15:16 BST They're a type marine fish, related to a sea horse, and can be found in the ocean around Australia. Nick-named 'Weedies', scientists are now worried that the little seadragons might be endangered. So, they are asking dive...
This colourful little creature is a Weedy Seadragon, and scientists are worried they might be endangered.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The 22 year old cruised to an eight-shot win over Patrick Reed after a six-under-par 67 at the Kapalua Resort on the island of Maui. Spieth won the Masters and the US Open in 2015 and wants more success. He said: "I'll try and continue exactly what we were doi...
World number one Jordan Spieth matched Tiger Woods by winning his seventh PGA Tour event before the age of 23 with a dominant victory at Hawaii's Tournament of Champions.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The former US Open winner is ranked 101st in the world and outside an automatic qualifying place, but he has been invited by the PGA of America. McDowell has missed four of his past five cuts and the 37-year-old Northern Irishman exited the Canadian Open at th...
Graeme McDowell has received an invitation to play in next month's US PGA Championship at Quail Hollow.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: In the build-up to the World Cup and through the tournament, I never believed Ireland were good enough to win the Webb Ellis Cup, but I was certain their campaign would not end in a hammering. Coach Joe Schmidt just would not let that happen. Alas it did, in h...
Well, what an anti-climax that turned out to be.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: 4 April 2016 Last updated at 11:16 BST Philby then fled to Russia in 1963 and when he died in 1988, he was given a burial in a Moscow cemetery with full military honours. Now, the BBC has uncovered previously unseen footage of Philby describing his career as a...
Kim Philby denied being a Soviet agent while working for MI6 during the 1950s and early 1960s.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Right-back Purkiss, 33, spent most of his career at York and Walsall, before moving to Vale in 2015. Centre-half Lancashire, 28, has signed a two-year deal after having his Shrewsbury contract cancelled. The former Rochdale man made his senior debut for Southa...
Swindon Town have signed defenders Ben Purkiss and Olly Lancashire on free transfers from Port Vale and Shrewsbury respectively.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Consequently, a fist can strike with twice the force of an open-handed slap. Prof David Carrier from the University of Utah said this supports his argument that fighting, as well as dexterity, drove the evolution of the human hand. Other researchers are scepti...
In macabre experiments which saw dead, severed arms swing punches on a large pendulum, US scientists have measured the extent to which a clenched fist shields fragile bones in the hand.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: In all the fuss and dust surrounding the referendum, the Tory leadership campaign and the creation of a brand new cabinet it has been easy to lose sight of this fact. George Osborne has been chancellor of the exchequer for six long years of austerity. He and h...
Britain's economic policy has changed radically almost overnight.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The 31-year-old, who was the Team GB flag bearer last year in Sochi, made his Olympic debut at Turin 2006 and twice won world relay bronze medals. He cites being a new father and "not wanting to just make up the numbers" at the next Games in Pyeongchang 2018 a...
British Olympic short track speed-skater Jon Eley has retired, ruling out a bid for a fourth Winter Games.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Ten people have been killed in the gun battle at the Maka al-Mukarama hotel, including the Somali ambassador to Switzerland, Yusuf Bari Bari. Other diplomats escaped by jumping from windows. US-trained Somali special forces have been able to take back control ...
Somali government forces are fighting to regain control of a hotel in the capital, Mogadishu, which has been stormed by al-Shabab militants.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The 25-year-old left the field in the second half after prolonged treatment. Scarlets were more hopeful about full-back Liam Williams who came off after 13 minutes, having rolled his ankle. He left Allianz Park in a surgical support boot but Scarlets coach Way...
Wales lock Jake Ball could be a doubt for their autumn internationals after sustaining a rib injury in Scarlets' 44-26 Champions Cup defeat at Saracens.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The blaze broke out at the property in Furrlongs, Newport, shortly after 05:20 BST. Police said the death was being treated as "unexplained" and inquiries were being made by the joint services' Arson Task Force into the fire's cause. Detectives said a police c...
A 79-year-old man has been found dead following a fire at a bungalow on the Isle of Wight.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The first was at 22:00 BST in Faraday Square in which a woman was shot in the arm. She is currently in hospital. Shots were then reportedly fired in Lovell Road at about 01:00 , Foxglove Way at 01:20 and in Romsey Way at 05:00 and are being linked by police. S...
Police say they have mounted a "large scale investigation" after gun shots were reported at four properties in Bedford.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Differences in height across the globe can partially be explained by genetics, but healthcare, sanitation and nutrition also play an important role. Research says there's a longer life expectancy for tall people, although they also face a bigger risk for certa...
New research has confirmed that Dutch men are the tallest in the world and Guatemalan women are the world's shortest.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Lions coach Warren Gatland names his squad on 19 April and Pivac believes a number of players are in with a chance. "I think we are in a position at the Scarlets where I am hoping we get a record number, I wouldn't be surprised if we get four," said Pivac. Sca...
Scarlets coach Wayne Pivac hopes the region could have a record number of players on the British and Irish Lions tour in New Zealand this summer.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: With a distinct history stretching back to the early middle ages, many Catalans think of themselves as a separate nation from the rest of Spain. This feeling is fed by memories of the Franco dictatorship, which attempted to suppress Catalan identity, and is no...
Proud of its own identity and language, Catalonia is one of Spain's richest and most highly industrialised regions, and also one of the most independent-minded.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Three decades ago, it was referring to itself as part of the Muslim Brotherhood and laying out its aim to obliterate Israel, creating an Islamic state on "every inch" of historic Palestine. In its 36 articles, the 1988 document often uses anti-Semitic rhetori...
There have long been reports of possible changes to the 1988 founding charter of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, best known by its acronym, Hamas.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The billboard, which has displayed electrical advertisements for more than a century, went dark at 08:30 GMT for work to take place. It is the first time since World War Two the lights have gone off, except for power cuts and special events. A temporary advert...
The iconic billboard lights at Piccadilly Circus have been switched off for renovations and will stay off until autumn.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The proposal, known as the "Enforcement Initiative", has been put forward by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP). It is not the first such vote: in 2010, the Swiss backed proposals to deport foreigners convicted of murder or sexual violence. That policy ...
Swiss voters are going to the polls on Sunday to decide on a proposal to automatically deport foreigners who commit minor crimes.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Zoran Zaev, leader of the opposition Social Democrats, had talked up the possibility of a crowd numbered in six figures angered by covert recordings that appeared to show ministers plotting vote-rigging and covering up a murder. But half an hour before the sta...
At first it seemed that the protest movement, building in Macedonia for months, was heading for an anti-climax on what was supposed to be its big day.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Some 22 survivors have so far been pulled from the rubble, and 40 others are feared trapped in the debris. More than 70 workers were in the 11-storey building which was under construction when it toppled in heavy rain late on Saturday. India has seen frequent ...
At least 17 people are now known to have died when a building collapsed in the southern Indian city of Chennai.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Clenching the right hand for 90 seconds helps in memory formation, while the same movement in the left improves memory recall, say US psychologists. In an experiment, 50 adults performed better at remembering words from a long list when they carried out these ...
Memory can be improved simply by clenching the fists, a study suggests.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Derek Slade, who set up a school in Asia and worked at one in Africa, stole a dead boy's identity to hide his past. The findings are featured in a BBC documentary by journalist Roger Cook. An Abuse of Trust is being screened almost 30 years after the veteran r...
A paedophile exploited his friendship with a prominent politician to get a job which he then used to gain access to vulnerable children abroad.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Pools goalkeeper Joe Fryer made an 11th-minute save to deny Brennan Dickenson, who also fired straight at Fryer midway through the first half. Chris Porter had an effort disallowed for offside and Sean Murray's deflected effort whistled just over for Colcheste...
Colchester boosted their play-off hopes with a win over struggling Hartlepool.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Media playback is not supported on this device Uefa general secretary Infantino, 45, is one of five candidates looking to replace Sepp Blatter on 26 February. Blatter, 79, announced in June he would resign, amid a corruption scandal at world governing body Fif...
The Football Association agreed to back Gianni Infantino's candidacy for the Fifa presidency, at a board meeting on Wednesday.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Northampton Borough Council initially prevented the sale of the house in an attempt to recover some of the £10.25m it loaned to Northampton Town Football Club while Mr Cardoza was chairman. The house can now be sold and his wife Christina, its legal owner, is ...
Solicitors are to keep half the proceeds of any sale of David Cardoza's £1.2m family home in case of further legal action, a court has ruled.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: In 2015-16, 20 churches in Caerphilly, Newport and Swansea opened their doors and, since 2014, parishes have given land to create 30 affordable homes. The Church in Wales launched a project to help more homeless people, ex-offenders and migrants. Housing Justi...
Churches provided shelter to 135 homeless people last year with volunteers giving 18,000 hours to help them, new figures have shown.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Media playback is not supported on this device Hartley, 29, succeeds Harlequins flanker Chris Robshaw, who has been the national side's skipper for four years. The Northampton hooker has had a controversial playing past, having been banned for a total of 54 we...
Dylan Hartley says he has "learned from his lessons" after being named England captain for the Six Nations.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Intermune, which is based in Brisbane, California, makes a medicine for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a deadly disease which scars the lungs. The deal is the latest in a string of mergers in the drugs sector. It is also the largest by Roche since 2009 when it...
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche has said it will buy maker of lung disease therapies InterMune for $8.3bn (£5bn).
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: You can also take a look at the nominees for best actor, best actress, best supporting actor, best supporting actress and best director. Director: Adam McKay Cast includes: Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt What's the story? Four investors ...
A look at the best picture nominees at the 88th Academy Awards, announced on 14 January 2016.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Two of four reaction wheels are now faulty. At least three are needed to orient the telescope correctly. "I wouldn't call Kepler down and out just yet," said Nasa administrator John Grunsfeld, saying scientists were working on the problem. Kepler was launched ...
The planet-hunting space telescope Kepler has been hobbled by a broken wheel, say scientists at Nasa.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Media playback is not supported on this device The Uefa secretary general succeeds fellow Swiss Sepp Blatter, polling 115 votes, 27 more than closest rival Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, at Friday's election. Blatter quit in May amid allegations that le...
Gianni Infantino wants to reunite football after becoming president of world football's governing body Fifa.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: The six-month-old girl "died peacefully in her mother's arms" on Wednesday, a lawyer involved in the case confirmed. Mr Justice Keehan's ruling meant the girl could be moved to a palliative care regime, allowing her to die. She was in the care of Nottingham Ci...
A seriously ill baby - who doctors said did not seem able to smile - has died after a High Court judge ruled medics could stop providing life support.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Sean Cronin's 37th-minute try was the difference between the teams in a dour game dominated by defences. Jonny Sexton and Paddy Jackson traded penalties with Leinster leading 8-3 at the interval, and neither side scored in a slow-paced second half. Ulster had ...
Ulster failed to break Leinster's firm defence and slipped to a disappointing Pro12 derby defeat at the RDS.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: From the beginning of the year, boats had to start landing unwanted fish which were caught in their nets. Incidents of throwing dead fish back into the sea had increased due to EU quotas on which fish could be landed. UK Fisheries Minister George Eustice has u...
Measures to ease pressure on boats which will be affected by a European discard ban have been welcomed by Scottish fishing leaders.
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary. Text: Apple's feted design chief teamed up with industrial designer Marc Newson to create the device as a bespoke item for a charity auction. While some may want to see it go into wider production, the amount of work that went into it means that the price would be o...
If you've ever wondered what an iCamera might look like, a Jony Ive-designed Leica might offer a few hints.