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Pedro Godinho, 22, died in hospital after being discovered in Canonsleigh Road, Leicester, on Sunday morning. Ezekiel Braithwaite, of no fixed address, has been charged with murder and attempted grievous bodily harm. Taome Stabanner, 21, of Rowena Court, Mountsorrel, has been charged with assisting an offender. Both ar...
A 19-year-old man has been charged with murder after another man was found fatally stabbed after an attack in a residential car park.
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Several Australian bars have dumped Coopers Brewery after it was featured by religious group the Bible Society. The video shows two MPs debating their opposing views on same-sex marriage - which is not legal in Australia - as they clutch Coopers beers. It has led to claims Coopers is against marriage equality, a claim ...
Australia's largest independent beer company has found itself at the centre of a boycott over a video discussing same-sex marriage.
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Operators Serco said it was a "peaceful protest" and it was talking to the women involved. Two members of staff had earlier been suspended following allegations of abuse. Undercover filming by Channel 4 News had shown staff referring to inmates as "animals", "beasties" and "bitches". The facility houses up to 400 women...
About a dozen female detainees at Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire were involved in a "small" protest on Tuesday night.
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Northumberland County Council is planning to scrap Haydon Bridge station as well as downsizing West Harton Community Station. Dave Ledger, chairman of the Northumberland Fire and Rescue Authority, said the council had "no choice" but to make the cuts. The council also plans to scrap engines in Ponteland, Seahouses and ...
A fire station in Northumberland is facing closure amid £500k budget cuts.
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Vern Cotter names his squad for the Championship on Tuesday, three months after a 35-34 quarter-final defeat. Referee Craig Joubert awarded the Wallabies a late penalty that replays suggested was an incorrect decision. "You feel you're over it and then you see something and it brings it all back," Hogg told BBC Scotlan...
Scotland full-back Stuart Hogg says memories of their controversial World Cup exit to Australia are still raw as they prepare for the Six Nations.
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Habyarimana Mucebo, a senior member of the Rwandan FDLR rebel group, was captured in Rutshuru, north-eastern DR Congo. Members of the FDLR fled into DR Congo after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The slaughter of some 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus sparked years of unrest in the region. Mr Mucebo, the FDLR intel...
A Rwandan Hutu rebel commander wanted for atrocities committed on Congolese soil has been arrested in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Stuart Clancy, a Conservative councillor on Broadland District Council in Norfolk, was arrested by police in September 2014. The Crown Prosecution Service said there was "insufficient evidence for there to be a realistic prospect of a conviction for any offence". The council, on which he represents Taverham South ward,...
No further action is to be taken against a deputy council leader arrested on suspicion of fraud.
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Sports minister Dayasiri Jayasekara told Sri Lanka's players they were too fat after they failed to reach the Champions Trophy semi-finals. Malinga, 33, responded by saying he did not care for criticism "from those who are simply warming chairs". "What does a monkey know about a parrot's nesting hollow?" he added. "Thi...
Fast bowler Lasith Malinga is being investigated by Sri Lanka's cricket board after comparing the country's sports minister to a monkey.
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Ashya King was taken out of Southampton General Hospital by his mother and father against medical advice. Hampshire Police believe he may have been taken to Spain and police are at a Marbella property owned by the family. Officers said they now thought his family had "taken steps to be able to feed him". It was unclear...
A European arrest warrant has been issued for the parents of a five-year-old boy with a brain tumour, missing from hospital since Thursday.
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The service said it had a shortage of 24 staff - the equivalent of 12 ambulance crews - that could have led to delays for "less serious calls". It said support was sought from voluntary and private ambulance crews. The shortage was due to a factors including rostered leave, sickness, vacant shifts and cancelled overtim...
The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) has said it had to operate a reduced level of cover on Saturday night due to a shortage of staff.
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The New Zealand spinner fell two runs short of a century when he was stumped off Jack Leach, who also finished with career-best figures of 7-106. After bowling Warwickshire out for 324, Somerset then slumped to 9-3 as Keith Barker picked up three early wickets. Patel's devastating spell saw the hosts bowled out for 110...
Jeetan Patel took a career-best 7-38 after hitting 98 as Warwickshire fought back against Somerset.
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About 12 students stormed the offices of LSE director, Sir Howard Davies Students and 150 held a rally outside. The LSE says it is reconsidering links with Libya "as a matter of urgency". But the students demanded the university paid back the £300,000 it had accepted of a £1.5m grant from a charity wing of the regime. ...
Students at the London School of Economics have staged a protest against the university's association with the regime in Libya.
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In a letter sent to the court that convicted him, he says it would be easier - and less expensive - for his family to visit him in Africa. He also said he feared being attacked in a British prison. Taylor was convicted of aiding rebels who committed atrocities in Sierra Leone during its civil war. Last week, a UK minis...
Ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor has asked to serve his 50-year sentence for war crimes in Rwanda, rather than the UK.
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The RSPB said a male hen harrier vanished from a Forest of Bowland nest three weeks ago, with males at two others not seen for a week. Male hen harriers disappearing while part of an active nesting attempt is "exceptionally unusual", the charity added. Police are investigating. The reward is for any information which l...
A £10,000 reward has been offered after three rare birds of prey disappeared in Lancashire.
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The technical error has directed people searching for the national park more than 150m (241km) away to a location between Chelsea and Knightsbridge. Brecon Beacons National Park Authority posted the image online with the caption: "We have now moved. Londoners get an upgrade thanks to Google Maps." Chief executive John ...
A glitch on Google Maps has located the Brecon Beacons in the heart of London.
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He was repeatedly asked by MPs for evidence of his claim and a Muslim group has made an official complaint. The 22 March bomb attacks at Brussels airport and Maelbeek metro station left 32 dead and hundreds more wounded. Separately a new report says one bomber worked at the airport for five years. Mr Jambon, whose cent...
Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon has come under fire for saying that a "significant part of the Muslim community danced" in response to the Brussels bomb attacks.
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They will play hosts France in the quarter-final on Sunday after goals from Ragnar Sigurdsson and Kolbeinn Sigthorsson knocked out England and forced manager Roy Hodgson to resign. Iceland, ranked 34th in the world, were surprise qualifiers for what is their first international tournament. "We all believed. The rest of...
Iceland's European Championship last-16 win over England "shocked the world", according to defender Kari Arnason.
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That is the warning in a report from economists at the World Bank. But there are some more upbeat aspects of their assessment. They don't reject the idea that this might just be a temporary soft patch. And they say emerging economies are not as vulnerable as they were in previous decades. The starting point for this re...
The emerging market countries are at a crossroads, facing the possibility of new era of slower economic growth.
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Nicholas Briggs, 28, went missing from HMP Leyhill in South Gloucestershire last Thursday. He is serving an 18-month sentence for domestic assault and was arrested by Gwent Police on Sunday night. A second inmate, Anthony McCormick, 52, who absconded at the same time, and who was handed a life sentence in 1998 after be...
A second inmate who absconded from an open prison has been arrested.
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She died in Milan after a long illness, Italy's Ansa news agency reports. Jonathan Newhouse, chairman of publishers Conde Naste International, described her as "one of the greatest editors who ever made a magazine". Celebrities including Madonna, Kanye West and Victoria Beckham paid tribute to her. In a post on Instagr...
Franca Sozzani, editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia for 28 years and a champion of Italian fashion, has died at the age of 66.
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A mayday call was made at about 05:00 BST from the Pegotty, a motor cruiser taking on water just north of Grimsby dock, the Humber coastguard said. A pilot vessel from Grimsby took two people off the boat, which sank about 25 minutes after the emergency call. The Humber and Cleethorpes RNLI lifeboats were also launched...
Two people have been rescued from a sinking boat in the Humber estuary after a collision with another vessel in the fog.
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The artist and photographer David Gwinnutt was part of the 1980s art scene that centred around the Blitz club in London's Covent Garden, leading to the creatives who frequented it being dubbed the "Blitz kids". Although they were known for their flamboyant makeup and performances, Gwinnutt captured these young men and ...
David Gwinnutt: Before We Were Men runs at the National Portrait Gallery from 16 March-24 September 2017.
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All are members of the Diocese of West Yorkshire and Dales Motorcycle Club, formed for clergy and lay motorcyclists. Ten bikes will start the trip on Monday from Leyburn in North Yorkshire. Reverend Michael Hepper from St Matthew's in Leyburn said it would be a "very different kind of retreat". The 725-mile round trip ...
Five Yorkshire vicars are preparing for a five-day motorbike "pilgrimage" from Yorkshire to Iona off the west coast of Scotland.
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The fighter gave himself up when he was approached near the town of Sinjar on Monday morning, an Iraqi Kurdish general said. He was reportedly carrying a large quantity of cash, three phones and a US driving licence. The US is leading an international military coalition against IS. The US state department said that it ...
US officials are checking reports that an American member of the so-called "Islamic State" group (IS) has been held in northern Iraq.
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Production would never reach that level again, with the strike heralding the long slow decline of an industry they once called King Coal. Thirty years later, China's growth in coal consumption - just its growth - was not far off the UK's 1983 total output. In 2013, China consumed an extra 93 million tonnes of the stuff...
In 1983, the year before the coal miners' strike - one of the most bitter industrial disputes in British history - the UK produced 119 million tonnes of coal.
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In a prosecution case running to 12,000 pages, the charges against him cover a 16-year period between 1991 and 2007. On 23 June 2017 the Loyalist supergrass pleaded guilty to the following charges: Between 16 May 1997 and 19 May 1997 he murdered John Harbinson. On 24 February 1994 he murdered Sean McParland. On 17 May ...
The list of 200 charges Gary Haggarty has admitted runs to 82 pages.
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The senior west London coroner Chinyere Inyama "inadvertently disposed" of a 30-page document of evidence against the chief suspect Arnis Zalkalns in November, police said. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) tried to recover the file but concluded it had probably been destroyed. Alice went missing in August and her ...
A copy of the police investigation file into the murder of schoolgirl Alice Gross was left by a coroner on a train.
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A gunman opened fire on a 33-year-old man in Dornoch Place, Bishopbriggs, at about 15:10 on Thursday. The victim, who was collecting a child from St Helen's Primary, suffered non-life threatening injuries. Detectives are treating the incident as attempted murder. Pupils were being offered support from social workers. O...
Police investigating a shooting outside a primary school in East Dunbartonshire said a number of young children may have witnessed the incident.
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McDowell has dropped to 89th in the world rankings and as is stands, is not in the field for the Masters or the WGC Match Play in Mexico in early March. "The Masters is not something I'm going to beat myself up about," said the 2010 US Open champion, who is now 37. "If come Bay Hill (mid-March) I'm not in, I'm not goin...
Graeme McDowell says he will not frantically chase a spot at this year's Masters as he prepares to begin his season at this week's Qatar Masters.
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Alcohol Concern said many young people recognised more alcohol brands than those of ice cream or cake products. It is calling for new rules on what alcohol adverts can mention and it also wants them banned in film trailers. Advertising body Isba said there was no strong evidence to suggest advertising influenced young ...
Alcohol advertising should be banned at music and sports events to protect young people from excessive exposure, a charity says.
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More than 2,000 pigs would be bred at the farm on the Moys Road and slurry spread on nearby land. Thousands of people have objected claiming it would impact on their health and the environment. However, an environmental statement said that the scale of the proposed development would have "no adverse impact" on either. ...
Campaigners opposed to plans for a controversial pig farm outside Limavady have met to voice their concerns.
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Media playback is unsupported on your device 13 May 2014 Last updated at 13:00 BST The mechanical hands have joints and fingers like real hands. They are very sensitive and can be used to pick up delicate objects like eggs. The new arms make it easier for people who have lost a limb to care for themselves and do everyd...
New high tech robotic arms which can be used for delicate tasks have been approved for use by people in America.
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France centre-back Sakho, 27, is out of favour at Anfield after falling out with Reds manager Jurgen Klopp on the 2016 pre-season tour of the USA. He was sent on loan to Crystal Palace last season, where he made eight appearances, and was nominated for their player of the year award. The news comes after the Baggies re...
West Brom are interested in Liverpool's £30m-rated defender Mamadou Sakho.
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In a letter to Pope Francis this month, Krzysztof Charamsa accused the Church of making the lives of millions of gay Catholics globally "a hell". He criticised what he called the Vatican's hypocrisy in banning gay priests, even though he said the clergy was "full of homosexuals". Pope Francis has yet to respond. Until ...
A senior Vatican priest, stripped of his post after admitting being in a gay relationship, has launched a scathing attack on the Roman Catholic Church.
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There were delays on Monday at airports in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Berlin, and Brussels, where visibility reportedly dropped to just 100m. The situation was worsened at Duesseldorf Airport by the discovery overnight of an unexploded World War Two bomb. A controlled explosion closed the airport to flights f...
Heavy fog is causing disruption across western Europe, with low visibility leading to significant flight delays.
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The hotel, which claims to have invented the tradition of the afternoon tea, was opened by the Prince of Wales - later Edward VII - on 10 June 1865. It became renowned for what were at the time luxury touches, such as electric lighting and hydraulic lifts. Over the years, the Langham has played host to many notable gue...
Billed as London's first "Grand Hotel", it is exactly 150 years since the Langham began serving the whims of the rich and famous.
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The company, which is based in Stokesley, is building a third fermenter at its site in Billingham to increase production by up to 50%. The deal will create about 100 new jobs during construction then a further 300 to operate the facility. Stockton North Labour MP Alex Cunningham said it was "tremendous good news" for l...
About 400 jobs are to be created across Teesside and North Yorkshire thanks to £30m of investment from Quorn Foods.
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Russian athletes remain banned from next month's Rio Olympics after claims of a state-sponsored doping programme. No British athletes are on governing body IAAF's list of sanctioned athletes but Warner guarded against complacency. He added GB athletes know "at all times if they cheat they'll be caught". Last week's McL...
UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner admits he could "never say never" that British athletes were 100% clean - but stressed Britain remained a "great standard bearer" in the battle against doping.
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The BBC understands the report suggests the number of UK workers unemployed due to non-EU immigration is well below the figure previously cited by ministers. No 10 denied claims the report had been suppressed, saying it was not ready. But it insisted it would be published in "due course", possibly within days. The BBC'...
Labour has called for the immediate publication of a government report about the impact of immigration on the UK economy following suggestions that it has been withheld by Downing Street.
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Spaniard Michu top scored for the Swans with 22 goals in his first season after a £2m move from Rayo Vallecano in 2012. However, within two years of helping Swansea finish ninth in the Premier League, he was playing fourth-flight football in Spain after a recurring ankle injury. Michu spent the 2016-17 season with Ovie...
Michu, the forward who helped Swansea win the League Cup in 2013, has been forced to retire at the age of 31.
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In his speech to the Conservative Party Conference, Mr Cameron promised to open these religious schools to inspection. He said there was no problem with children learning about their faith in supplementary schools, but minds must be broadened, not "filled with poison". The Muslim Council of Britain said it had concerns...
Religious supplementary schools in England that teach children intolerance will be investigated and closed down, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.
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Prince William made the comment when asked how many children he would like, during the second day of the couple's Diamond Jubilee tour to Singapore. A teenager at one walkabout said the prince had responded by saying "he was thinking about having two". The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge also said they would like their "...
The Duke of Cambridge has reportedly revealed he would like to have two children with his wife.
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Many of us can rarely put down our phones, which are filled to the brim with social apps such as Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat. In recent years, emergency services and public authorities have been getting in on the act too. Social media applications allow them to share information faster, easier and with a wider audie...
Let's face it - most people use social media in some form to communicate these days.
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The crash happened early on Monday in the city of Bareilly, 251km (155 miles) from the state capital, Lucknow. A senior police official said all 22 victims had been charred badly and could not be immediately identified. The passenger bus had caught fire following the collision. Police are searching for the driver of th...
At least 22 people have been killed after a bus they were travelling in collided with a truck in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
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The 32-year-old former Namibia captain has made 113 appearances since joining Sarries in 2009 and helped the club win two Premiership titles. Burger, who won 41 caps and appeared at the 2015 World Cup, will return to Namibia to become a farmer. "It is sad that it's coming to an end but playing rugby is something that I...
Saracens back row Jacques Burger will retire from rugby after Sunday's Premiership game against Newcastle.
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John Renouf, 63, went missing on 3 July after leaving his home to take photographs. Recording a narrative verdict, coroner Deputy Viscount Mark Harrison said it was likely Mr Renouf lost his footing and fell from the cliffs at Portelet. He said this led to massive injuries which killed him immediately. The inquest hear...
The death of a popular Jersey teacher who fell from cliffs has been described at a inquest as a tragic accident.
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Some youngsters fail to achieve the grades they need to get into university. Relatively few places are available to Scots through the clearing system which is designed to allocate "spare" places. Yet a week or so later, they may feel aggrieved to find places are available to applicants from other parts of the UK. The c...
Every year the exam results bring disappointment as well as joy.
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This week the UK government followed France in announcing it would ban the sale of such vehicles by 2040, while the mayors of Paris, Madrid, Mexico City and Athens plan to banish diesels from their city centres by 2025. Almost all car makers now offer hybrid cars and many sell fully electric vehicles. But the electric ...
The clock may be ticking for petrol and diesel-powered cars, but it's vans, trucks and buses that are driving the electric vehicle revolution on the world's roads.
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His victory in the small West African nation's presidential poll is arguably an even bigger shock than that of fellow property mogul in the US, Donald Trump. Mr Barrow's opponent Yahya Jammeh, has ruled the country for more than two decades, but said if God willed it, his presidency could go on for "a billion years". B...
Adama Barrow, a successful property developer who has never held public office, has defied the odds to score a shock victory in The Gambia's elections.
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A pregnant traveller, 18, said she was put in a ward on her own and not allowed visitors, as "she was a Gypsy". It was one account uncovered in a study into Gypsy and travellers' experiences of the Welsh NHS. Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said there were "real challenges" and more needed to be done. Chairwoman of th...
Gypsies and travellers are facing barriers to accessing health care in Wales due to discrimination, a report suggests.
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Police were first called to St James Boulevard in Newcastle just after midnight due to concerns for a man, 21, and an 18-year-old woman. Her condition is described as potentially life-threatening. An hour later, another couple, both 18, also had to be taken to hospital after becoming ill in the city centre. Northumbria...
Four people had to be treated in hospital after taking what is thought to be ecstasy.
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The defending champions have been criticised in recent times for a series of uninspiring displays. Victory at Hearts on Saturday will seal a fifth straight title, should Aberdeen fail to secure maximum points. "The players know there is a good game coming up and of course we want to do it tomorrow," said Deila. "We are...
Manager Ronny Deila says he expects the lure of securing the Premiership title this weekend will help raise the performance of his Celtic players.
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World number three McIlroy has missed the cut at his home event for the last three years and has recorded just two top-10 finishes in nine attempts. "My performances haven't been what I'd want but it's a tournament I would love to win one day," said the 27-year-old. "I feel like my game is in good enough shape to do th...
Rory McIlroy is confident he can improve on his poor record in the Irish Open when he competes at this week's event at the K Club in County Kildare.
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Then playing for Walsall, the 24-year-old won his first senior cap for Wales in their defeat by Ukraine in March, giving him the chance to rub shoulders with the duo. Injury dashed his hopes of joining them at Euro 2016, however. "They constantly want to improve and get better so that's something every footballer shoul...
Barnsley striker Tom Bradshaw says every footballer can learn from the examples set by Wales stars Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey.
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The 64-year-old minister, who has a history of chronic diabetes, was admitted to a hospital in Delhi earlier this month. She tweeted to her followers on Wednesday that she was currently on dialysis. Ms Swaraj is one the most high-profile ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet. Officials at the hospital tol...
Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has said that she is undergoing tests for a kidney transplant.
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Goodes, an Indigenous Australian, is regularly jeered and racially abused by spectators. The #IstandwithAdam campaign was trending on Saturday, with actors like Cate Blanchett offering their support. Some fans have defended the booing, claiming it is not racist, but simply a response to Goodes' performance. Ms Blanchet...
Social media users have been rallying around Aussie Rules footballer Adam Goodes, after he became embroiled in a racism row with fans.
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Cummings was in the right place at the right time to convert David Gray's cross for his first. And the 21-year-old rolled in an opportunistic second from a tight angle when he capitalised on a mix-up in the Buddies' defence. New signings Andrew Shinnie and Brian Graham both came off the bench to make their debuts for H...
Jason Cummings' brace against St Mirren helped Hibernian continue their perfect start to the Championship season.
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The match, in Montevideo on Friday, 30 May, will be broadcast on the Red Button and also be streamed on the BBC Sport website. You can press the Red Button on either BBC One NI or BBC Two NI to watch the match. Kick-off for the match at the Estadio Centenario is 00:30 BST and the commentator will be Michael McNamee. Ur...
Northern Ireland's friendly against Uruguay is to be shown live on the BBC.
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Foster, a former European 5,000m gold medallist and a Commonwealth champion at 10,000m, began his commentary career in 1980 and has since gone on to cover nine summer Olympic Games for the BBC. "I have loved every minute of my time working for BBC Sport," said Foster. It just seems the right time and the right place - ...
BBC commentator Brendan Foster is to retire following August's World Athletics Championships in London.
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The 24-year-old clocked 101.76 seconds to finish behind Slovakia's Michal Martikan and Sideris Tasiadis of Germany in the third leg of the series. Martikan took victory by 0.69 seconds on the Markkleeberg course to secure the 20th World Cup gold medal of his career. "The manner in which I did it today is what I'm happy...
Great Britain's Adam Burgess won bronze in the men's C1 at the Canoe Slalom World Cup in Markkleeberg, Germany.
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The incident happened at the One Stop Shop in Usk at about 06:00 GMT. A 15-year-old, from Little Mill, is currently in police custody after being arrested on suspicion of robbery. Gwent Police said a 36-year-old man from Blaina and a 42-year-old from Little Mill had been arrested and released on police bail pending fur...
Police investigating an armed robbery at a shop in Monmouthshire on Sunday have arrested a teenager and two men.
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The 25-year-old, who finished last season on loan at Northampton, has agreed a three-year deal with the Reds. Collins is Crawley's 12th signing of the summer transfer window. "James wants a new challenge and he comes with a very good goalscoring record in League Two," Reds boss Dermot Drummy told the club website. Coll...
League Two side Crawley Town have signed James Collins after the striker's contract at Shrewsbury Town was cancelled by mutual consent.
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The Troup seat has been vacant since the death in September of Conservative councillor John Duncan, who had represented the ward since 2002. Independent Jack Moodie resigned from the Kirkwall West and Orphir seat on Orkney in the same month. Votes can be cast between 07:00 and 22:00, with the counts being held on Frida...
By-elections to replace councillors in Aberdeenshire and Orkney are being held.
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However, Sutton insists his statement is not a criticism and that Sir Chris Hoy has had similiar problems. He said: "Nicole's become one of these people that most people do in life - they don't cope with success." Road race gold medallist Cooke says there were no examples for her to emulate after the 2008 Games. Cooke ...
Team GB cycling head coach Shane Sutton says 2012 Olympics hopeful Nicole Cooke did not cope with her gold medal success at the 2008 Beijing Games.
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His journey towards the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games as a para-canoeist has been one filled with life-changing obstacles and defined by a steely resolve. He began as a record-breaking junior world champion powerlifter. Then, after suffering a serious spinal injury, he embarked on an illustrious handcycling career. Marsden...
Ian Marsden has lifted, cycled, fired and paddled for Great Britain during a sporting career that has seen him requiring reconstructive spinal surgery which left him needing to use a wheelchair.
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Antonio Horta-Osorio told shareholders that the bank is "just days away" from returning to full private ownership. A sale of the final 0.25% stake would be a "major milestone", he added. The government said recently that the value of its share sales had surpassed £20.3bn, although this did not account for inflation. Mr...
The taxpayer will make a profit of about £500m on the £20.3bn bailout of Lloyds Bank Group during the financial crisis, its chief executive said.
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The Common dolphin was discovered on the high water line at Gyllingvase near Falmouth early on Wednesday. Members of British Divers Marine Life Rescue covered the animal with wet towels and seaweed to keep it comfortable. A vet who was called to the scene assessed that it was too sick to be returned to the sea. There h...
A dolphin found stranded on a Cornish beach has been put down, say marine rescuers.
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Researchers said seven out of 10 companies had reported an increase in sales - some by more than 50%. The Scottish Technology Industry Survey also found that 82% of businesses were predicting sales to increase in 2017. Predicted employment growth is also on the up, with 78% of firms expecting to employ more people this...
Scotland's digital technology industry enjoyed "sustained growth" in 2016 and is optimistic for the future, a survey has found.
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The opening session of the Scottish Parliament was largely devoted to ceremony, including swearing in MSPs and electing the presiding officer. Members found time to lodge 51 questions and motions - 28 of them from Willie Rennie on the China agreement. There was controversy about the issue during the election campaign. ...
Dozens of questions about the Scottish government memorandum of understanding with Chinese firms were lodged during the first session at Holyrood.
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England, who have never won the competition, were knocked out at the group stage this year. "We were a long way off the pace. Unless we focus on it, we will sleep walk our way into the next one," Strauss told BBC Test Match Special. "If we have a core of specialists we can prioritise both teams." Test skipper Alastair ...
England director of cricket Andrew Strauss says "more separation" of the Test and one-day teams will improve their chances of winning the World Cup.
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American businessmen Jason Levien and Steve Kaplan lead a consortium that is in talks to buy a 60% stake. Swansea City Supporters' Trust will retain its full 21.1% holding, but former player Nurse, 78, is worried the club could lose its identity. "I'm concerned because it's going out of the hands of local people," he s...
Mel Nurse, who led the group that helped save Swansea City from bankruptcy in 2002, has concerns over plans for a US takeover of the club.
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Eleven of Scotland's 14 territorial health boards were hit by the "ransomware" attack linked to other IT attacks around the world. The hack has encrypted information on NHS computers, denying access unless a payment is made. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said work to fix the systems affected had entered a "recovery ph...
The Scottish government says it is working closely with health officials following a global cyber hack.
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The supermarket chain said like-for-like sales, excluding fuel, rose 0.2% in the nine weeks to 3 January. Analysts had expected a fall in sales at Morrisons, which has been under intense pressure from rivals. It is the first time the supermarket has reported a rise in sales for more than a year. The results sent shares...
Morrisons has reported better-than-expected sales over the Christmas shopping period compared with a year earlier.
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The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, now part of the National Crime Agency, took more than a year to pass the details on to police. Canadian police sent files to CEOP on about 2,000 men, including Myles Bradbury, convicted in September of abusing boys at a hospital until 2013. NCA head Keith Bristow tol...
A law enforcement chief has apologised for delays in acting on information about possible British paedophiles.
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9 November 2015 Last updated at 07:22 GMT Onlookers described how they were eating their meals when the lights suddenly went out and they heard a loud crash. Tests are going to take place to find out why the ground opened up swallowing 12 cars. The large hole measured 120m long and 11m wide. Luckily no one was hurt.
Cars were swallowed up when a large sinkhole opened up in a restaurant car park, in Mississippi in America
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Captain John Rankin got the Doonhamers off to the perfect start with a seventh-minute opener from the edge of the area. Derek Lyle then turned in from close range following a corner. Jean-Yves Mvoto gave Rovers hope with a 61st-minute header but John Hughes' side could not find a way back. Home goalkeeper Lee Robinson ...
Queen of the South kept their slim play-off hopes alive with a win against Raith Rovers, who remain without a win in 16 games in all competitions.
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The first minister outlinedt details of new funding for those hit by recent severe weather during a visit to Inverurie in Aberdeenshire. She said more than £12m would be made available to help areas struck by storms and flooding. Businesses whose trade was affected can also apply for an extra £3,000. Hundreds of people...
Every household, business or charity in Scotland directly affected by flood water will get a grant of £1,500, Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
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The first "fight" with Brussels already loomed large on Monday in the British papers. The front-page lead story in The Times reported that "Brussels forces Britain to accept Med migrants". Migration is clearly a huge story, and a controversial one for the UK and Europe. It has been for years, with an economic downturn ...
The first days in office are challenging for any new government and this will certainly be a busy week for UK Prime Minister David Cameron - who, amongst other things, says he has already rolled up his sleeves to change the UK's relationship with Europe.
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Crawford Falconer will take up the post of chief trade negotiation adviser at the Department for International Trade. Leaving the single market would mean the UK would have to establish new bilateral trade agreements, but cannot formally do so until after Brexit. However, one economist suggested Mr Falconer would alrea...
The man in charge of negotiating the UK's trade deals once Brexit is finalised, starts his job this week.
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The world-first procedure at Necker Children's Hospital in Paris offers hope to millions of people with the blood disorder. Scientists altered the genetic instructions in his bone marrow so it made healthy red blood cells. So far, the therapy has worked for 15 months and the child is no longer on any medication. Sickle...
A French teenager's sickle cell disease has been reversed using a pioneering treatment to change his DNA.
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Helen Hinks, of Talybont, and her son William, aged three, discovered the boat while walking along Borth beach. It had been launched by youngsters at St Andrew's School of Math and Science in Charleston, South Carolina, in May 2015 as part of a school project. Ms Hinks said it was "magical" to find the boat nine months...
A toy boat set sail by American school pupils has been found thousands of miles away by a family in Ceredigion.
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The transit was a very rare astronomical event that would not be seen again for another 105 years. Observers in north and central America, and the northern-most parts of South America saw the event start just before local sunset. The far northwest of America, the Arctic, the western Pacific, and east Asia ...
Planet Venus has put on a show for skywatchers by moving across the face of the Sun as viewed from Earth.
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Media playback is not supported on this device "Football is not in a crisis, only some difficulties," said the Fifa president. Blatter brushed off suggestions, from the British government among others, that Wednesday's presidential election - for which he is the only candidate - should be suspended. "If governments try...
Sepp Blatter has insisted that Fifa is not in crisis, despite the "great damage" done to its image by ongoing corruption allegations.
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Analysts said June's hot weather had helped to lift sales at the company, which also includes Argos. The UK's second biggest supermarket said like-for-like sales - which strip out the impact of new stores - grew by 2.3%, excluding petrol. Chief executive Mike Coupe said he was "pleased" with the results - its best grow...
Sainsbury's has said sales of clothes, summer food and paddling pools helped speed up growth in the past few months.
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The former Home Office minister said Labour must not be "afraid" of the argument and had a moral responsibility to talk about immigration reform. He also said UKIP voters were "darkly pessimistic" about their lives, whereas progressive politics was optimistic. David Cameron and Ed Miliband clashed on the issue this wee...
Labour must have the "courage" to make talking about immigration policy a priority, Liam Byrne has said.
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Ahead of the vote, here are seven things you need to know about the West African country - once hailed as a model of stability. The economy has boomed in recent years and Ivory Coast is the world's biggest exporter of cocoa, producing around 40% of the planet's beans used to manufacture chocolate. But this year, it als...
Ivory Coast is holding its first elections this weekend since a civil war sparked by polls in 2010.
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Although prostitution is legal in France, soliciting in public and pimping are not. The National Assembly voted 16 months ago to impose a €1,500 (£1,090; $1,600) fine on clients, shifting the criminal burden from prostitutes. The upper house's decision to scrap the fine will now go back to the assembly. Social affai...
France's Senate has rejected a planned 2013 law penalising people who pay for sex, and has chosen to maintain the offence of soliciting.
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The discovery was made during an unannounced visit to HMP Bronzefield near Ashford, Surrey, in April. Nick Hardwick, the chief inspector of prisons, said it amounted to "cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment". The prison's director said it would only segregate a prisoner if it felt there was no other option available...
An inmate at a women's prison was held in segregation for more than five years, an inspection report has revealed.
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The 2014 Commonwealth Games silver medallist improved her English record to 65.10 metres at the New South Wales Championships in Sydney. It puts her second in the all-time British list behind Scotland's Margaret Ritchie, who threw 67.48. It is the second time she has thrown an Olympic qualifying mark in three days. The...
Jade Lally has produced the longest discus throw by a British woman since 1983 to move to fourth in the 2016 world rankings.
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One migrant, who said he had spent £15,000 so far on trying to reach the UK from Syria, also said many of the criminals were British nationals. The BBC saw cars with UK number plates at a camp on Dunkirk's outskirts. The mayor of nearby Teteghem, Franck Dhersin, said UK-registered cars - driven by what he called Englis...
British traffickers are involved in smuggling migrants into the UK from northern France, a mayor has alleged.
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A high resolution microscope at a £7m new laboratory at Newcastle University has found evidence of microbes in 400-million-year-old basalt rock recovered from the Pacific Ocean floor. The rock is similar to those found on Mars and scientists will now study an actual piece of Martian rock. It is hoped that the detailed ...
Scientists believe they could be a step closer to finding out whether there was life on Mars.
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How can it in a country divided into two "ethnic entities", governed by 14 prime ministers and with three presidents acting as head of state? But even by Bosnia's bizarre standards, it is going through challenging times - with the notion of its continued existence once again a live topic. The president of the majority ...
Business as usual is a concept which does not apply to Bosnia.
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Developer Allied London bought the Quay Street site in a joint venture with Manchester City Council and plan to build flats, shops and offices there. The ITV soap was filmed there from 1982 until January 2014, when production moved to MediaCityUK at Salford Quays. Manchester City Council's planning committee voted to a...
The former Coronation Street set in Manchester is to be demolished, despite a campaign to save it.
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About 20 pupils fell ill at Flash Ley Community Primary School and Nursery in Stafford in October amid reports of a mystery smell. An investigation has concluded that work to floor ducts last summer led to high levels of the chemical, Staffordshire County Council said. The Hawksmoor Road school has been shut on safety ...
A primary school will be closed until September after high levels of formaldehyde were discovered last year.
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Norrie and Claire Aitchison said that Liam's killers should have been kept in custody before and during their trial. The Aitchisons said they will campaign to have the rules changed. On Monday, Johnathan MacKinnon and Stefan Millar, both 22, were convicted of murdering Liam. The two men had lived on Lewis. Following th...
The father and step-mother of murdered Western Isles teenager Liam Aitchison have called for bail to be refused to people who are charged with murder.
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And the classic BBC comedy series Fawlty Towers is being deployed by some teachers in an attempt to give Japanese students an example of spoken English - rather than focusing on written language and grammar. Japan's government and businesses want to use the Olympics to boost tourism and global trade and to present a po...
Japan is struggling to make sure it has enough proficient English speakers when it hosts the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2020.
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It's an event that regularly sees a torrent of corporate deals, and has played a key role as a marketplace for Britain's aerospace and defence firms. It is a showcase for a sector worth £55bn a year, the fifth-largest industry in the UK that employs 340,000 people. Indeed, the last show in 2014 saw a record $204bn (£...
Farnborough: a small town in southern England; the birthplace of aviation in the UK and home for almost 70 years of arguably the world's most important air show.
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South Africa's instruction was that the money was for a Diaspora Legacy Programme which should be "implemented directly" by Mr Warner, Fifa said. The US says the $10m was a bribe in exchange for Mr Warner supporting South Africa's 2010 World Cup bid. Mr Warner and South African officials have denied any wrong doing. So...
Fifa says it paid $10m (£6.5m) to a Caribbean football body led by Jack Warner, who is charged by the US with corruption, at South Africa's request.
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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled that the PSNI was wrong to allow the protests to take place in the city. The court found in favour of a resident who claimed the police failed in its legal duty to stop the parades. Loyalists protested for weeks after Belfast City Council opted not to fly the union flag every day o...
PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton has apologised to residents in the Short Strand area of Belfast over the handling of the union flag protests.
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They analysed the trigger conditions for a glaciation, like the one that gripped Earth over 12,000 years ago. The shape of the planet's orbit around the Sun would be conducive now, they find, but the amount of carbon dioxide currently in the air is far too high. Earth is set for a prolonged warm phase, they tell the jo...
The next ice age may have been delayed by over 50,000 years because of the greenhouse gases put in the atmosphere by humans, scientists in Germany say.
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