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A team of scientists from Switzerland, America and the UK teamed up to research the eating habits of certain species of spider.
They discovered that spiders from 10 different families were eating nectar, sap, honeydew, leaves, pollen and seeds from things like... | New research has shown that as well as eating insects, toads and small mammals, some spiders also like to eat plants. |
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The replacement Cowes Floating Bridge vessel, linking Cowes and East Cowes on the Isle of Wight, had been due to come into service by the end of March.
However, engineers must wait for spring tides to complete the lowest part of the slipway where the chains at... | The launch of a new chain ferry has been delayed because engineers are waiting for a low enough tide to complete a slipway. |
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The two pages of tax return, revealed by US TV network MSNBC, also showed he declared $103m in losses. It gave no details on income sources.
The White House said publishing the tax return was against the law.
Mr Trump refused to release his tax returns during ... | US President Donald Trump paid $38m (£31m) in tax on more than $150m (£123m) income in 2005, a leaked partial tax return shows. |
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Simon Armitage, 65, of Baydale, Clyst St George, Devon, admitted nine counts of fraud and one of forgery.
Exeter Crown Court heard 10 clients were involved. Armitage got away with the fraud for four years until he merged his firm with another.
Judge Francis Gi... | A solicitor who stole £430,000 from the estates of dead clients to pay off his overdue tax bills has been jailed for four years. |
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The content will be featured on the network's streaming services apps, HBO Now and HBO Go, and other platforms.
The four-year deal also includes the possibility of more traditional television projects.
Stewart stepped down as host in August after leading the n... | Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart has signed a deal with HBO to produce topical videos for the network's internet services. |
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Michelle O'Neill suggested parties should be given a tight deadline from next Monday to restore the government.
The Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) Simon Hamilton described her proposal as a "stunt", saying his party had been ready to form an executive for ... | Sinn Féin's northern leader has written to the UK and Irish governments proposing a formal resumption of Northern Ireland power-sharing talks. |
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The two-year-old boy was taken from his family on Tuesday in Athlone, County Westmeath and returned a day later.
It comes after relatives of a blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl taken into care in Dublin on Monday insisted she is a member of their family.
Police re... | A second child from a Roma family who was taken into care in the Republic of Ireland has been reunited with his parents. |
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Why? It is all down to health and safety, or should we say 'elf and safety?
At previous events in Enniskillen, Santa and his little helpers have thrown sweets into the crowd.
But the Impartial Reporter said it had been contacted by candy-loving parents who not... | Santa no longer throws sweets for children when he switches on the Christmas lights in County Fermanagh. |
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The 31-year-old Briton, who retires after London 2012, adds a second gold to the one she won in the sprint at the Beijing Games in 2008.
Pendleton hit the front at th... | Victoria Pendleton capped a sensational evening for Britain's track cyclists with victory in the women's keirin. |
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They each competed at five Olympic Games and are arguably the greatest exponents of their respective sports that Great Britain has produced.
But while Redgrave and Ainslie have nine gold medals between them, postman Chris Maddocks is perhaps most famous for fi... | What two things do Sir Steve Redgrave, Sir Ben Ainslie and a postman from Tiverton have in common? |
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The plane was diverted to Calgary after turbulence hit and the injured are in a stable condition.
Turbulence injuries cannot always be prevented by passengers wearing seatbelts when instructed to do so, and turbulence cannot always be predicted.
So what causes... | An Air Canada flight bound for Toronto from Shanghai made an emergency landing after severe turbulence injured 21 passengers, including three children. |
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In a phone call with Sergei Lavrov, Mr Kerry said the US held Russia responsible for the use of incendiary and bunker bombs against the city.
The US state department said it was making preparations to suspend talks.
Aleppo has come under heavy aerial bombardme... | US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned his Russian counterpart that Washington will end Syria talks unless Moscow stops the bombing of Aleppo. |
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The city council's public spaces protection orders (PSPOs) would give the police powers to move beggars on and impose fines.
The Society of St James said it would criminalise the needy and vulnerable.
The council insisted it was trying to cut down on "con-arti... | Plans to fine people found begging on the streets of Southampton have been criticised by a homelessness support charity. |
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Alan Wood, 50, was found dead in his home in Lound, near Bourne on 24 October 2009.
The Crimewatch programme on Monday is the second appeal on the murder and will also feature an interview with the victim's mother.
A £60,000 reward has been offered over Mr Wo... | Previously unreleased CCTV footage from an investigation into the murder of a Lincolnshire man is to be shown on BBC One's Crimewatch programme. |
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James McPake was carried off following a challenge on John Rankin and Blair Spittal scored after a free-kick was awarded against the Dundee captain.
But Eiji Kawashima's mistake let Kane Hemmings score and Nick Ross' deflected shot also beat the debutant goalk... | Dundee came from behind to win the second city derby of the season as Dundee United failed to improve their position at the foot of the table. |
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The accident happened at the junction with the M49, near Redwick, Gloucestershire - junction 22 - after 09:30 BST on Thursday.
As a result, the M49 northbound was also shut.
Recovery works are expected to continue into the evening.
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| A slip road leading on to the westbound section of the M4 approaching the Severn Bridge has been closed after a lorry overturned and shed its load. |
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However, the proposed ban will not apply to wearing the veils on the streets, officials say.
Those who flout the ban could be fined up to €405 ($450;£290).
Only a few hundred women in the Netherlands are thought to wear burkas, most of them only occasionall... | The Dutch cabinet has approved plans for a partial ban on wearing the face-covering Islamic veil in public places including schools, hospitals and on public transport. |
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Victorian scientists believed the creature was a giraffe with a trunk and a "missing link" between mammals.
Digital reconstructions of the bones show that while the giraffe was gigantic, the theory that it was as big as an elephant was not true.
The findings, ... | A prehistoric giraffe that died out 10,000 years ago might have been the largest ruminant that walked the Earth. |
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It wants to introduce the letter K into the Welsh language alphabet and re-route any M4 relief road around seaside resorts to boost tourism.
The party is fielding candidates on all five regional lists around Wales.
Spokesman Captain Madness said they were hope... | The Official Monster Raving Loony Party has published its "Manic-festo" for the Welsh assembly election in May. |
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The South African originally signed a two-year deal when he joined the Welsh county in the winter of 2013.
Glamorgan announced the deal on the day all-rounder Jim Allenby left the county to join Somerset and Craig Meschede signed on a season-long loan.
A club ... | Opening batsman Jacques Rudolph has signed a contract extension which will keep him at Glamorgan until 2017. |
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Dutch legend Cruyff died from cancer last Thursday at the age of 68.
An image of Cruyff will appear on big screens in the 14th minute, reflecting the number worn by the former Barcelona and Ajax player and coach.
England will also wear black armbands and ther... | England fans will be asked to take part in a minute's applause for Johan Cruyff 14 minutes into the friendly against the Netherlands at Wembley on Tuesday. |
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An MQM leader, Farooq Sattar, said the move was in protest over an army-led crackdown allegedly targeting the party's supporters in Karachi.
The authorities say the action has improved security and is not politically motivated.
The MQM has long denied charges ... | Lawmakers from Pakistan's fourth-largest party, the opposition Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), have resigned from both chambers of parliament. |
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The magician died on Thursday aged 77 at his Berkshire home, a month after being diagnosed with a brain tumour.
McGee said her husband did not know he was dying in his final days.
"He was in, what the consultants said was, a happy, confused state. He knew who ... | Debbie McGee has said she and husband Paul Daniels lived a "fairytale life" together. |
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Christopher Halliwell was jailed on Friday for the 2003 murder of Becky Godden, having already been convicted of killing Sian O'Callaghan in 2011.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, ex-detective Steve Fulcher said Halliwell told him "police want to int... | A double murderer may be linked to six other murders, according to a former detective who arrested him. |
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Prof Carl Jones, from Carmarthen, has saved birds including the pink pigeon and echo parakeet during 40 years of work in Mauritius.
He also expanded the number of Mauritius kestrels from just four in the wild to more than 300 in a decade.
Prof Jones will be aw... | A conservationist from Wales who has brought back at least nine species from the brink of extinction will receive a £170,000 ($250,000) prize later. |
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Social Development Minister Mervyn Storey will bring the Welfare Reform Bill back to the assembly next week, alongside a new implementation plan.
But Sinn Féin's Conor Murphy said this was "a mistake".
He said his party was already exploring a petition of conc... | First Minister Peter Robinson has warned that the Stormont Assembly could collapse next week if welfare reform is not agreed. |
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Japan's Hirooki Arai, who came home third, was subsequently disqualified for a collision with Canada's Evan Dunfee, but was reinstated to the bronze medal position on appeal.
Heffernan, 38, was eighth in the 20km in Beijing, ninth in London four years later an... | Ireland's Robert Heffernan finished sixth in the 50km walk in 3:43.55 at his fifth Olympic Games in Rio. |
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The £3,500 consignment was discovered after being abandoned at Carlisle railway station in August last year.
During a trial at Liverpool Crown Court, Barry Kelly and Craig Colquhoun denied trying to buy the stash.
Two other men who supplied the weapons, Willia... | Two men have been convicted of being involved in a plot to buy guns and ammunition destined for Scotland. |
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They can have a curious impact upon the unwary politician. Recycled air competes with reheated clichés to dull the senses. Bouts of ennui are followed by spells of frenzied enthusiasm, occasionally genuine.
Ruth Davidson is just back from the Conservative gath... | Having attended party conferences since the Middle Ages, I can attest that they offer an environment every bit as surreal as anything summoned up by Miró or Magritte. |
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Ddydd Mercher fe wnaeth Plaid Cymru lansio eu cynllun fframwaith nhw ar gyfer cynyddu niferoedd y siaradwyr Cymraeg.
Maen nhw'n dweud bod angen buddsoddi yn y cadarnleoedd gorllewinol sydd wedi gweld cwymp sylweddol dros gyfnod y tri chyfrifiad diwethaf.
Bydd... | Mae angen i Lywodraeth Cymru ddangos ewyllys gwleidyddol i sicrhau eu bod nhw'n cyrraedd y targed o filiwn o siaradwyr Cymraeg erbyn 2050, yn ôl Plaid Cymru. |
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The defeat means they have won just one of their last four matches and are not yet certain of avoiding relegation.
But Guidolin insists the players haven't given up on the season.
"This [being on the beach] is a new phrase for me but this is not us at the mome... | Francesco Guidolin has dismissed suggestions that Swansea City's players are 'already on the beach' and maintains they played well during last weekend's 4-0 thrashing by Leicester. |
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David Kennedy will leave his job as chief executive of Northampton Borough Council at the end of July.
It comes as police investigate "alleged financial irregularities" regarding the council's £10m loan to Northampton Town Football Club.
The money, released in... | One of two senior council officers questioned by police over a £10m loan to a football club has resigned. |
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The captain alerted Dyfed-Powys Police on Saturday morning when crew realised Josh Winsper from Cornwall was missing.
Police divers and HM Coastguard were involved in the search.
Police said identification had not taken place as yet and next of kin had been in... | A body has been found in the search for a 24-year-old crewman who went missing while his vessel was at Milford Haven docks in Pembrokeshire. |
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The 40-year-old was infected with the virus while at a treatment centre in Sierra Leone in 2014.
She is alleged to have given dishonest answers to medical staff when she returned to Heathrow airport.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has been investigati... | Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey faces disciplinary action over claims she concealed her temperature at an Ebola screening on her return to the UK. |
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Margaret Hughes, 91, was found dead in her bungalow during floods at St Asaph, Denbighshire, in November 2012.
Witness Steven Green told the Ruthin hearing he knocked on her door at 09:00 GMT and said she should go with him.
But the pensioner, who was eating b... | A "vulnerable" pensioner who drowned during severe flooding refused to leave her home as water levels rose, an inquest has heard. |
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Vladimir Kara-Murza, a dual Russian and British citizen, collapsed in Moscow last Tuesday. The 33-year-old was in a coma for almost a week and has been diagnosed with acute kidney failure.
He has now regained consciousness but still has difficulty communicatin... | The father of a Russian opposition activist has told the BBC he believes the sudden, severe illness of his son is suspicious. |
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The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) website said two vulnerabilities found in the Windows version of QuickTime had been reported to Apple.
But ZDI said it was "advised that the product would be deprecated on Windows" and that Apple would publish software removal ins... | Apple has stopped producing updates for its QuickTime media player software on Windows, according to security experts. |
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The 23-year-old was sent off after a mass brawl in the semi-final on 11 May and missed the final against Ajax, which United won 2-0.
However, the suspension has now been extended to include two more games.
Bailly will miss the Super Cup against Real Madrid on ... | Manchester United defender Eric Bailly has been given a three-match ban for his red card against Celta Vigo in the Europa League. |
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Goldman Sachs, Korean private equity firm MBK Partners and others will keep a 49% stake in the Osaka-based theme park that opened in 2001, Comcast said.
The cable firm already owns Universal Studios and its theme parks through its NBC Universal unit.
USJ, a ri... | US entertainment giant Comcast is to buy a 51% majority stake in Universal Studios Japan (USJ) for $1.5bn (£987m). |
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The woman lost 20kg (44 lbs) - about 40% of her body weight - while working for them, and was given only bread and instant noodles to eat.
Her employers received jail sentences of three weeks and three months.
Many Singaporeans hire live-in helpers from neighb... | A Singaporean couple have been jailed for starving their domestic worker from the Philippines, in a case that has shocked the city-state. |
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Jackie Walker's suspension was lifted following an investigation, the party said.
The Kent activist and vice chair of the Momentum movement wrote about "the African holocaust" and Jews as "chief financiers of the slave trade".
She said the past few weeks had b... | A senior Labour activist who was suspended from the party over alleged anti-Semitic comments on Facebook has been reinstated. |
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Janice McAleese ran the organisation from 2003 to 2007, resigning shortly before serious financial problems came to light.
The NI Audit Office has previously described her conduct as the worst it has seen from a senior public official.
The maximum period that ... | The former chief executive of the NI Events Company quango has been banned from acting as a company director for 14 years. |
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State prosecutor Robert McCulloch said the jury had exhaustively examined the evidence but Mr Brown's family said they were "profoundly disappointed".
News of the ruling sparked the worst night of rioting yet in Ferguson.
Shots were fired and cars and building... | A US grand jury has decided not to charge a police officer over the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. |
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More than a million Algerians were killed in the fight for independence from France in 1962, and the country has recently emerged from a brutal internal conflict that followed scrapped elections in 1992.
The Sahara desert covers more than four-fifths of the la... | Algeria, a gateway between Africa and Europe, has been battered by violence over the past half-century. |
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Germany's Martin Kaymer, 31, and Belgian rookie Thomas Pieters, 24, were also selected to face the US team.
The trio have been added to the nine players who qualified automatically based on their performances.
"Ev... | Europe's Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke said Lee Westwood will be his "general" as he confirmed the Englishman as one of his three wildcard picks for next month's tournament. |
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The Ethiopian Football Federation president Juneydi Basha told BBC Sport that "the main reason for the decision was poor results at CHAN as well as in World Cup and African Cup of nations qualifying."
Gebremedhin Haile has been appointed on an interim basis fo... | Ethiopia coach Yohannes Sahile has had his contract terminated after the team's poor run of form. |
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The dramatic 100th-minute 20-18 defeat in France followed losses against Scotland and England.
"We're bitterly disappointed we finished fifth," he told BBC Wales
"We're not a fifth-ranked team and we feel as a squad we're much better than that. But it just sho... | Wales scrum-half Rhys Webb says the squad feel they are much better than their fifth place finish in the Six Nations shows. |
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The first half was short of action but it was the visitors who looked the more threatening.
With half an hour played, Ched Evans drove in to the Dons area but saw his effort palmed over the bar by Ryan Clarke. Just moments later, Reece Mitchell dragged an effo... | Dom Poleon's last-gasp goal secured AFC Wimbledon their first-ever League One victory as they beat Chesterfield at Kingsmeadow. |
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Migrants are not only joining local congregations, but setting up their own churches too. The number of churches in Northern Ireland led by migrants has risen to more than 30 in recent years.
These new churches are not only attracting people from ethnic minori... | Immigration has brought huge changes to Northern Ireland over the last decade, and religious life has been impacted as well. |
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The event is called The Great Get Together and will be held on 17 and 18 June.
Jo Cox was an MP in West Yorkshire and represented local people in Batley and Spen.
She was killed in June last year. Her husband Brendan said the event would be a "fitting tribute"... | Street parties, picnics and baking competitions will be held across the UK to remember MP Jo Cox. |
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Nigeria striker Oshoala was lively before meeting a Gemma Bonner cross to volley home just before the break.
Oshoala cut the ball back for Fara Williams to make it 2-0 before Aoife Mannion gave Birmingham late hope.
Liverpool's first win of 2015 was overshadow... | Asisat Oshoala scored her first goal in English football to help defending Women's Super League One champions Liverpool overcome Birmingham City. |
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Restaurant staff told the BBC they did not know who had removed the letters.
The NKVD was the forerunner of the Soviet KGB secret police. In the 1930s and 1940s the NKVD arrested millions of people and many were executed.
The restaurant sports a big portrait o... | A Moscow restaurant calling itself "NKVD" - a chilling echo of the Stalin-era communist terror - drew social media protests and the big sign outside has now been taken down. |
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He sang about "mother nature on the run" on 1970's After The Gold Rush. Two decades later, he warned that pollution and deforestation would "trade away our children's days" on Mother Earth.
The latter is reprised on his new album, Earth, an environmentally-the... | Neil Young has been sounding the alarm about environmental issues for more than 40 years. |
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Look no further. French luxury brand Chanel has your back: a boomerang for $1,460 (€1,260; £1,130). A hefty price tag.
Surely it must be designed by a famous indigenous artist. Sadly, no.
The indigenous community in Australia says this is yet another exampl... | You've done your shopping but there's just one thing missing, the thing you absolutely don't need but somehow still want to set yourself apart? |
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Tourists on working holiday visas were set to be excluded from the country's tax-free threshold from 1 July.
Under the plan they would have been taxed at 32.5c for every dollar they earned in Australia.
But the tourism and farming sectors, which rely on tempor... | The Australian government will delay its plan to introduce a so-called "backpacker tax" after a backlash from farmers and the tourism industry. |
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It's only one place behind Finland, which has long been held up as one of the great powerhouses of education and a model for others to admire.
But hold on, wasn't it only a few months ago that the UK was being accused of "stagnating" in its efforts to keep up ... | The latest international education league table shows the UK putting in a very creditable appearance in sixth place overall and second best in Europe. |
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Alicja Dworakowska, 29, was reported missing from her home in Beeston in Leeds on Tuesday.
West Yorkshire Police issued an urgent appeal following the disappearance of the heavily-pregnant mother and young girl.
The force thanked the public and media for their... | Police searching for a pregnant Polish woman and her five-year-old daughter say the pair have been found safe and well. |
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S4C chief executive Ian Jones said there had been a "substantial" decrease in such programming and "we would support on all levels increasing that".
Mr Jones was giving evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on the BBC's future.
BBC Wales said rece... | BBC Wales should make more English language programmes about Wales for the people of Wales, MPs have been told. |
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Former chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa and executives Hisashi Mori and Hideo Yamada pleaded guilty last year to charges of falsifying accounts to cover up losses of $1.7bn (£1.1bn).
Mr Kikukawa and Mr Yamada were given three-year sentences and Mr Mori a two-and-a-... | Three former executives of Olympus have been given suspended jail terms for their roles in an accounting scandal. |
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Charlie Stewart, 21, was the unanimous choice of the judges at the event at Glasgow City Halls on Sunday.
He was praised for a "moving and spirited" performance which set him apart from five fellow finalists.
The student at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland ... | A fiddler from Glenfarg in Perthshire has been named BBC Radio Scotland's Young Traditional Musician of the year. |
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Mike Glover, who has managed the bridge project for the decade since it was first approved, told the BBC its design would make it easy to maintain.
The new 1.7 miles (2.7km) crossing over the river Forth will open to traffic for the first time on Wednesday.
It... | The new £1.35bn Queensferry Crossing could still be operating in 150 years, according to its technical director. |
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An apparent link between alcohol abuse and suicidal behaviour was also identified.
In all, three studies into the suicide and alcohol abuse were commissioned by the Public Health Agency.
Key findings on suicide showed rates were higher in Belfast and other lar... | Research involving 1,000 children in Northern Ireland has suggested that one in five parents were "problem drinkers". |
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The FTSE 100 index was down 149.91 points, or 2.4%, at 6,092.41.
In Germany, the Dax index fell more than 4%, while France's Cac 40 index was 2.6% lower.
Earlier in Asia, trading in China had been suspended after markets fell 7%, triggering new "circuit breake... | (Noon): UK shares fell sharply in the first trading session of the new year, as European markets dropped in the wake of steep losses in China. |
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In June, legislation which made it a crime to pay for sex came into effect.
Northern Ireland is the first part of the UK to ban the payment for sexual services.
Police said the man was arrested last month during a raid on a suspected brothel but would not give... | A man has been arrested by police under the new offence of paying for sex in Northern Ireland. |
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From Saturday, there is full staffing of more than 170 lifeguards covering 32 beaches in Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and the Vale of Glamorgan.
The summer season runs until September.
Lifeguard manager Stuart Thompson... | RNLI lifeguards at beaches across south and west Wales are now at their full complement for the summer season. |
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The 20-year-old joined Chelsea in 2013 and made his senior debut last season, scoring four goals in 16 games.
He is the first Burkina Faso international to score in the Premier League after his two goals last season.
Traore, who had a previous loan spell with ... | Chelsea forward Bertrand Traore has signed a new three-year contract with the club and will now join Dutch side Ajax on a season-long loan. |
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The prince visited the site in the Republic of Ireland where his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten died in 1979.
The bomb, at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, also killed Lord Mountbatten's grandson, Nicholas Knatchbull, 14, and 15-year-old Paul Maxwell.
Paul's mother, M... | A woman whose son was murdered in the same IRA bombing that killed a relative of Prince Charles has spoken of her sense of peace after his visit. |
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The 19-year-old former Barcelona youth player spent last season on loan in the Championship with Brentford, where he scored seven goals in 39 appearances.
The Spain Under-19 international, who joined Liverpool in 2013, made his first-team debut on the final da... | Norwich City have had a £2.5m bid accepted by Liverpool for winger Sergi Canos, reports BBC Radio Norfolk. |
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Known as a "duty of candour", the guidelines make clear that patients should expect a face-to-face apology.
In April, the NHS introduced a rule that told NHS and private healthcare organisations to admit their mistakes candidly, and as soon as possible.
Now th... | New guidelines are being unveiled for doctors, nurses and midwives across the UK on being honest and open with patients when things go wrong. |
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Starting the third day on 140-2, the Black Caps were 419 runs behind after David Warner hit 253 for the hosts.
Taylor almost matched the Aussie's tally, hitting an unbeaten 235 as his side reached 510-6, 49 runs behind.
Kane Williamson scored 166 - his fourth ... | Ross Taylor became the first New Zealander to hit a double century against Australia as the Kiwis fought back in the second Test at the Waca. |
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Four militants wearing army uniforms blew themselves up after gaining entry to a base near Haditha late on Monday.
Of the explosions killed Brig-Gen Ali Abboud, chief-of-staff of the Jazeera and Badiya Operations Command.
Another eight soldiers were wounded in... | An Iraqi army general and nine other soldiers have been killed in a suicide bomb attack by Islamic State militants in western Iraq, security sources say. |
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The family of five, from Aleppo, had applied for a 90-day visa at the Belgian embassy in Lebanon, so they could later seek asylum in Belgium.
Initially, the Court's top adviser said Belgium was wrong to deny them a visa.
Had the Court agreed, the decision woul... | The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has backed a Belgian decision to refuse a humanitarian visa to a Syrian family. |
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Mr Khan said the new Prime Minister should make the final decision on whether a new runway should be built at Gatwick or Heathrow a top priority.
He underlined his support for a second runway at Gatwick rather than a third at Heathrow.
The government said last... | London Mayor Sadiq Khan has urged Theresa May to make a quick decision on airport expansion in the South East. |
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Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (PAT) said it would recruit hundreds of nurses and midwifery staff as well as 35 doctors over the next three years.
The trust runs four Greater Manchester hospitals: the Royal Oldham; Fairfield in Bury; Rochdale Infirmary; and... | A hospital trust rated "inadequate" by inspectors has announced it is investing £30m in frontline services. |
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A surge in the number of people crossing into Turkey has increased the total by one million in just 10 months.
More than seven million others have been displaced inside Syria since the start of the uprising in March 2011.
The head of the UN's refugee agency, A... | More than four million Syrians - a sixth of the population - have fled abroad to escape the conflict in their country, the United Nations has said. |
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They say there is too much room for error in ultrasound scans in the first six weeks, which wrongly label a small percentage of embryos as miscarried.
The true scale of the problem is unknown but researchers said it was "hard to see how there can't be women ha... | Some pregnancies are being terminated unnecessarily after an incorrect diagnosis of miscarriage, say doctors. |
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They have not clarified the nature of the illness, but the Bild tabloid says its research into Andreas Lubitz's background suggests he has a history of depression.
Lufthansa has said that six years ago Mr Lubitz interrupted his pilot training at the company's ... | German prosecutors say Andreas Lubitz appears to have hidden evidence of an illness from his employer, and that he had a note excusing him from work on the day of the crash. |
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The Commons Justice Committee said the ministry, and specifically the National Offender Management Service, focused too much on jails to deliver justice.
But it said the ministry had improved on previous "woeful" inefficiency.
The government said it would publ... | The Ministry of Justice must do more to stop reoffending in England and Wales including giving probation more importance, MPs have said in a report. |
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Keith Hill's Rochdale went into the game knowing that should Millwall and Southend slip up, a victory over the Bantams would earn them the final play-off berth.
And when Stuart McCall named a team with no less than nine changes to the side which had beaten AFC... | A draw at Rochdale saw Bradford finish the season in fifth place and book a League One play-off semi-final against Fleetwood. |
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It is the longest winning streak for the share index since January 1987.
Analysts said Wall Street was buoyed by hopes the US president would set out more on his spending and tax plans in a speech to Congress on Tuesday.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, one o... | The US Dow Jones stock index has closed at a record high for the 12th day running as Donald Trump promised a "big" infrastructure announcement. |
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For 10 years he resisted demands for reform until economic pressures finally saw the demise of Poland's last Communist leader.
Wojciech Jaruzelski was born on 6 Jul 1923 and raised on the family estate in Wysokie.
The signing of the German-Soviet non-aggressio... | By the time Wojciech Jaruzelski came to power in Poland the first cracks were appearing in the edifice of Communism across Eastern Europe. |
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Delegates heard how drones, more usually seen as military tools, are increasingly playing a positive role in civilian life
They are offering new ways of transportation and carrying out vital conservation work.
But, warned one speaker, far stricter controls ar... | Speakers at the TEDGlobal conference have been debating the positive use of drones in society. |
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The free agent, who won 16 Wales caps between 2007 and 2011, has made over 250 senior club appearances.
Eardley, 27, started at Oldham, moving on to Blackpool and Birmingham and had a brief loan spell at Leyton Orient in the 2014-15 season.
Hibs are a point be... | Former Wales right-back Neal Eardley has joined Hibernian until January, subject to international clearance. |
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Northern Irishman McIlroy, 26, has dropped to three in the rankings behind Jordan Spieth and Jason Day but the margin between the top three is small.
"If I can get off to a good start next year, I can get back to number one going into the Masters," said McIlro... | Rory McIlroy will have a busier early-season schedule in 2016 than previous years as he aims to reclaim the world number one spot before the Masters. |
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Musician Example and club management and staff are set to present a 25,000-strong petition to Southwark Council which calls on it to protect the club.
They are concerned about a development near the club's Gaunt Street home.
They fear that if the flats go ahea... | London's Ministry of Sound nightclub could face closure if a development of luxury flats goes ahead nearby, a group of its supporters has claimed. |
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It could mean the end of a regular cycle of university inspections.
There are believed to be proposals for a more "risk-based" approach, with higher levels of scrutiny for less established institutions.
There have also been questions about the future of the cu... | The ways in which university watchdogs protect standards in England, Wales and Northern Ireland face a major overhaul in plans expected next week. |
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Thomas Hutton was jailed for four years and ten months after admitting offences including the sexual abuse of young girls and boys.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard he attempted suicide before he was due in court.
He posted a suicide note through one of his victim's... | A sex abuse victim prevented her abuser's suicide hours before he was due to face charges, a court has heard. |
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Until now, SNCF has said its workers were forced to assist in deportations by the occupying German army.
The change of language is clearly linked to the lucrative market for high-speed rail contracts in the US.
The company has been criticised in the US for fai... | France's state rail company has for the first time publicly expressed regret for its role in transporting Jews to Nazi death camps in World War II. |
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Forced into marrying a man 25 years her senior after he had allegedly raped her, this 23-year-old Tajik woman from Kabul is now in a Greek camp for migrants.
But Lina told the BBC that the abusive husband she ran away from is now following her, threatening to ... | Lina's only crime was "being born a woman in Afghanistan", she says. |
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The 28-year-old England Lions seamer has taken 118 first-class wickets at an average of 28.95.
Brooks announced earlier this month that he was likely to be moving on at the end of the 2012 season after four years with Northants.
He told the Yorkshire website: ... | Yorkshire have signed Northants bowler Jack Brooks on a three-year deal. |
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Rosberg struggled for pace early on and was told by Mercedes to allow Hamilton into second behind Daniel Ricciardo.
A botched pit stop by Red Bull then enabled Hamilton to take a first win of 2016 and cut the drivers' title deficit to Rosberg to 24 points.
"I ... | Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton thanked team-mate Nico Rosberg 'for being a gentleman' and letting him through to help him win the Monaco Grand Prix. |
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An inquest heard Steven Amos died after surgery in Gloucestershire in 2016.
His condition deteriorated over a weekend and he was not seen by a senior doctor until the Monday morning.
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said it was "confident" it had... | Further deaths could occur at hospitals unless changes are made to the way patients are cared for at nights during weekends, a coroner has said. |
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The Dyson Institute of Technology, opening in autumn 2017, will create home-grown talent, says Sir James.
He says he has been complaining to ministers for many years about skills shortages in engineering.
And Universities Minister Jo Johnson had challenged him... | Inventor Sir James Dyson is to open his own institute to train engineers, who he says are badly needed if UK companies are to remain competitive. |
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To be bowled out for 103 in 37 overs on a flat pitch is nothing short of awful, or "unacceptable" as captain Alastair Cook rightly said.
To add insult to injury, Australia batsman Steve Smith claimed that the pitch was even slower on Sunday morning than it had... | England's performance on the fourth day of the second Test at Lord's was desperately disappointing. |
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The man entered a room on the seventh floor of the Cumberland Hotel in Marble Arch where three women and three children were sleeping, police said.
It is believed that when one of the women woke up, they were hit about the face and head with a hammer.
The Met ... | Three women have been bludgeoned by a hammer-wielding attacker in a room at a central London hotel. |
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"If I speak to Trump’s team, Trump's close advisers and even to President-elect Trump himself, none of them think Trump would have won unless Brexit had happened," he told BBC Newsnight.
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| Nigel Farage says Donald Trump and his team credit the UK's Brexit vote for his victory in the US presidential election. |
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The 39-year-old made 101 in the first frame of his 6-1 quarter-final win against Marco Fu at the Masters.
The win was the defending champion's 43rd at the Masters, breaking another record held by Hendry.
"I was a bit nervous because I knew everyone was thinkin... | Ronnie O'Sullivan scored his 776th career century to break Stephen Hendry's all-time record. |
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The plight of Syrian refugees was among the many causes for which Mrs Cox campaigned.
It was an issue for which she worked tirelessly as she routinely called for Britain to do more to help those caught up in Syria's civil war.
Perhaps this is a reason why Syri... | The death of Labour MP Jo Cox has led to a range of tributes from around the world including many from Syrians. |
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Set only 217 to win, Pakistan were reduced to 41-3 by Reece Topley's three wickets, only for Hafeez's 102 not out to seal the win with 38 balls to spare.
Earlier, England were reduced to 14-3, then looked well set when Eoin Morgan (76) and James Taylor (60) sh... | England were well beaten in the first one-day international as Mohammad Hafeez's unbeaten century led Pakistan to a six-wicket win in Abu Dhabi. |
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Halesworth-based Air Artists is selling 30 years' of its work, used by the likes of the Rolling Stones and AC/DC.
The star lot is Algie, which famously halted flights over Heathrow after breaking loose from its moorings over Battersea Power Station in 1976.
Cr... | Iconic inflatable stage props - including Pink Floyd's famous pig "Algie" - are to be sold at auction. |
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