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35,260,953 | MiHomecare had not been paying employees to travel between clients, meaning their hourly rates of pay did not comply with the legal minimum.
Richie Lewis, of the Unison union, said the firm was "rectifying systemic errors" and valuing its staff.
MiHomecare said it had taken steps to ensure there were no future problems... | About 100 home care workers in Swansea and Carmarthenshire are to be paid up to £2,500 each after a company breached minimum wage rules. |
37,115,036 | Known as the Queen of Ranthambore, Machli was described as one of the world's most photographed tigers. She had distinctive fish-shaped markings on the left side of her face.
She featured in many documentaries and amazed viewers when her fight with a 14-foot crocodile was caught on film.
She was one of the biggest draw... | India's most famous tiger, 19-year-old Machli, has died, officials say. |
39,946,042 | Christophe Hillairet expressed concern that food produced outside the European Union could easily cross a "soft" Irish border and enter EU markets.
He is the president of the Chamber of Agriculture of Ile de France.
However, his comments were criticised as "disappointingly self-centred" by an Irish dairy industry leade... | The president of a French farming union has called for the re-introduction of a hard border between Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland after Brexit. |
35,808,699 | Monsignor Angel Lucio Vallejo Balda has said he was manipulated by a woman co-defendant with whom he was romantically entangled.
He was questioned as the so-called Vatileaks II trial resumed.
It centres on two books that depict a Vatican plagued by graft and where Pope Francis faces resistance to his agenda.
The books ... | A Spanish priest has admitted to leaking classified Vatican documents to journalists, saying he had felt intimidated. |
40,545,777 | The man was hit by a vehicle also involved in the road repairs on Calderwood Road at about 16:30 on Saturday.
Police said he had died at the scene. No-one else was injured.
Firefighters and an air ambulance was sent to the scene. The Health and Safety Executive and South Lanarkshire Roads Department have been informed.... | A worker has been killed after being hit by a truck during resurfacing work in East Kilbride. |
39,479,513 | Khashayar Ghaharian called another member of staff a "cockroach" in his native Farsi, a Medical Practitioners Tribunal heard.
It also found he asked staff about their sex lives and made references to his sexual activities on holiday.
In total, 22 misconduct allegations against the Nottingham GP were proved.
Live update... | A "deplorable" doctor has been struck off for calling his receptionist "the fat blob" and using expletives to describe patients. |
39,316,245 | Sundowns went to Uganda leading 2-1 from last weekend's home leg, with the Kampala City outfit buoyed by their away goal.
It was KCCA who went ahead in the second leg of the last-32 tie, leaving the defending champions stunned.
Geoffrey Sserunkuma, who had scored in all three of Kampala City's African Champions League ... | The African Champions League title-holders, Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa, survived a scare in Kampala on Saturday as they drew 1-1 at KCCA to progress to the group phase of this year's competition. |
28,490,502 | Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan travelled aboard the first train in the service from Ankara, stopping at a town en route to make a campaign speech.
The tracks allow trains to reach speeds of up to 250 km (155 miles) per hour.
Mr Erdogan, a candidate in presidential elections in August, has pledged to overhaul Turke... | Turkey has inaugurated a high-speed rail link between Istanbul and Ankara, slashing by half the seven-hour journey time between the two cities. |
37,676,272 | He is refusing to stand for the The Star-Spangled Banner in protest against the plight of black people in the US.
On Sunday Kaepernick, 28, threw his first touchdown pass in 364 days in the 49ers' 45-16 loss to the Bills.
"To be honest, I was focused on football," Kaepernick said.
"I really wasn't listening to what was... | San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who has polarised opinion by kneeling during the national anthem, was booed on his return to the starting line-up against the Buffalo Bills. |
38,704,934 | The Robins have lost 11 of their past 12 league games, winning just once in that time, and are 20th in the table - two points above the relegation zone.
"It is a horrendous statistic," Johnson told BBC Radio Bristol.
"I'm ashamed of that. It hurts. We have to keep fighting."
Former Barnsley boss Johnson arrived at Asht... | Bristol City head coach Lee Johnson admitted he was "ashamed" to see his side set a new club record of eight straight league defeats with a 1-0 loss at fellow-strugglers Nottingham Forest. |
39,765,838 | The hosts were a threat from Jed Wallace's set-pieces, twice forcing the Iron to head over their own crossbar.
Lee Gregory missed the game's biggest chance, his low shot saved by the legs of Joe Anyon when put in one-on-one.
Skipper Tony Craig volleyed over for Millwall as they pressed, while the visitors had just one ... | Millwall were held to a lacklustre goalless draw at home in the first leg of their League One play-off semi-final by a determined Scunthorpe side. |
34,867,198 | The 66-year-old was placed in interim charge of the R's after Chris Ramsey was sacked on 4 November.
He oversaw the 0-0 draw with Preston on 7 November and has brought in Kevin Blackwell to assist him at Loftus Road.
Warnock, who was boss of QPR from March 2010 to January 2012, returned to the Championship club in an a... | Neil Warnock expects to be in charge of Queens Park Rangers for two more games, BBC Radio London reports. |
40,431,254 | The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) confirms that bills and emissions have been forced down since 2008 by EU energy efficiency rules.
Appliances like fridges, freezers and boilers are now designed to use less energy for the same work.
Ministers say they will make new energy efficiency policy in the Autumn.
But the go... | Household energy bills and carbon emissions will rise unless ministers devise new policies to save power, a report says. |
40,470,133 | Police, fire and ambulance personnel were called to scene at about 15:00. They were assisted by a coastguard rescue helicopter.
Unconfirmed reports have said a Ford Transit van and a campervan collided head-on.
One person is thought to have been taken to hospital by helicopter with serious injuries.
Traffic Scotland ha... | The A9 Perth to Inverness road has been closed in both directions following an accident near Kincraig. |
38,352,742 | Crowds gathered outside the presidential palace on Saturday morning and then marched to parliament.
Inside parliament itself, opposition MPs have continued a sit-in that began on Friday.
Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, in a televised address, called the MPs' actions "scandalous".
She said people were free to protes... | Demonstrators in the Polish capital Warsaw have renewed their protest against government plans to restrict journalists' access to parliament. |
39,681,270 | While Leyton Orient conceded the fact that their 112-year stay in the top four tiers had come to a sad end, Swindon brought a whole new meaning to avoiding relegation - by completely glossing over their fall to League Two in their club website match report.
It was not all doom and gloom in the EFL, though, with plucky ... | It was an afternoon when two clubs in the English Football League had to accept the reality of relegation - or did they? |
37,093,907 | It comes after 17 schools in Edinburgh were closed earlier this year due to safety concerns.
The BBC sent Freedom of Information requests to councils across the country asking what, if any, structural faults had been found at schools in their areas in the last five years.
So what schools have been affected and when?
In... | A BBC Scotland investigation has revealed that a total of 30 schools in Scotland have had to make repairs due to structural defects in the last five years. |
37,165,465 | The young sparrowhawk - nicknamed Jack - had spent three days among pipes and beams of the ceiling Monkton Stadium.
Staff dragged soft toys along the floor to imitate live prey, then brought in a Harris hawk to frighten it outside.
Eventually paper was hung from the ceiling which encouraged it to fly lower down, and it... | Soft toys, paper and a hawk were used in a bid to lure a bird of prey which had taken up temporary residence in a South Tyneside sports hall. |
40,583,718 | The World War Two cipher machine was bought at a flea market by a cryptography professor, who apparently recognised its true worth.
It was sold to an online bidder in Bucharest, Romania, on Tuesday.
Enigma machines were used to carry coded military communications during the war.
First developed in Germany in the 1920s,... | A 100 euros typewriter has sold for 45,000 euros (£40,000; $51,500) at auction, after it was discovered it was actually a German Wehrmacht Enigma I. |
38,342,973 | The 33-year-old has not played for Celtic since Brendan Rodgers took over as manager at the start of the season, and will provide midfield cover.
Hibs are currently without John McGinn and Fraser Fyvie until January, while Dylan McGeouch suffered an ankle injury in training this week.
Commons could feature against Mort... | Celtic midfielder Kris Commons has joined injury-hit Hibernian on an emergency loan until 15 January. |
38,653,359 | In June, a coroner found the shooting of the 29-year-old, from Silverbridge, County Armagh, was not "necessary, reasonable or proportionate".
He stated his intention to name the soldier in a hearing on Tuesday when he concludes the case later this month.
Father-of-six Mr Thornton was shot in the head after his van back... | The now-deceased soldier who shot and killed Henry Thornton in Belfast in 1971 will be named, a coroner has said. |
35,275,802 | The blaze broke out at Coed Eva Primary School, in Cwmbran, at about 02:25 GMT on New Year's Day.
Most pupils returned on Monday, though nursery children will have to wait until 25 January when temporary classrooms will have been installed.
Six people, including four teenage boys, arrested in connection with the fire h... | An infants and nursery school in Torfaen has reopened 10 days after it was gutted by fire. |
40,230,902 | After mopping up Kent's first innings for 236 in the morning session, despite Sam Northeast racking up a century, Durham had a 212-run lead.
Graham Clark's career-best 83, helped by skipper Paul Collingwood's 51, saw Durham declare with a lead of 483.
Kent survived the final 10 overs of the day to end of 35 without los... | Durham put themselves in strong position to earn a first Championship win of the season after declaring with a big lead on the third day at Kent. |
34,761,310 | The Highways England scheme will take place between Low Newton junction and Meathop roundabout near Grange-over-Sands.
Resurfacing, drainage and sign improvements will also be carried out near the Brettargh Holt roundabout.
The work is due to be finished on 20 December and will involve some overnight closures. | A £330,000 project to improve the A590 in south Cumbria by installing new safety barriers begins later. |
37,266,217 | The facility at Brow Top, which has a 24m pool and squash courts, had to been due to open to the public on Saturday.
However, because of "a small number of snagging and technical issues" relating to the learner pool, the opening date has been put back by a least a week.
The council's deputy leader, Mark Fryer, said the... | The opening of a new £11m leisure centre in Workington has been delayed. |
40,576,540 | The number of victims has risen from 560 to 741, with 96% aged between four and 20.
Meanwhile, 276 potential suspects have been identified - a rise of 24 in the past three months.
Some 328 football clubs, spanning all tiers of the game, are involved in the inquiry, called Operation Hydrant.
A hotline was set up to repo... | Police have identified 181 new victims in the investigation into child sex abuse within football in the UK since April. |
36,377,407 | The collapse took place very close to the famous Ponte Vecchio, a medieval covered bridge over the Arno.
The hole is about 200m (650ft) in length and 7m (23ft) across.
Firefighters believe the chasm has been created by the failure of a large water pipe beneath the surface.
Florence's Mayor Dario Nardella tweeted (in It... | A section of the embankment of the River Arno in central Florence collapsed on Wednesday morning, sending part of the road and at least 20 parked cars into a newly formed ditch. |
36,539,723 | Manbij sits on an intersection of roads linking the IS stronghold of Raqqa to the Turkish border and other areas under its control in Aleppo province.
The routes have become key to the group's ability to move fighters, weapons and supplies into and out of Syria.
On 31 May, a US-backed alliance of Syrian Kurdish and Ara... | We travelled along the road to Manbij, a small town in northern Syria that has become the new frontline in the battle against the jihadist group Islamic State (IS). |
35,628,426 | Chile beat Argentina on penalties last year to win a first major trophy.
The 100th anniversary of football's oldest international championship sees hosts USA drawn with Colombia, Costa Rica and Paraguay.
Uruguay, the tournament's most successful team, play Jamaica, Mexico and Venezuela, while 2007 winners Brazil face E... | Holders Chile have been drawn in the same group as Argentina, Bolivia and Panama at the 2016 Copa America. |
35,050,630 | Last month, the BBC learned an undeclared payment of £6,195 was made to Conservative David Mackintosh's party by the director of a company overseeing work at Northampton Town FC.
Northamptonshire Police said the Electoral Commission (EC) was not investigating the payments.
The EC and Mr Mackintosh have been approached ... | Undeclared payments made to an MP's office by a businessman will not be investigated by police. |
32,149,983 | He said: "With significant Tory and UKIP power blocks in the next parliament, we will be the left-of-centre backbone of a Labour administration.
"Along with the SNP and Plaid Cymru, (we) will ensure that the next Labour government remains true to its values."
Dr McDonnell said that, while his party had always worked cl... | SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell has said if Labour leader Ed Miliband becomes the next prime minister "it will be with our support, on our terms, that he takes power". |
30,573,434 | Druids and pagans were joined by a mass of revellers at the ancient monument, accompanied by a soundtrack of pounding drums, chanting and dancing.
Although Sunday was officially the shortest day, Monday's sunrise was the closest to the moment when the North Pole was tilted furthest from the sun.
However, a heavy blanke... | The winter solstice has been celebrated by about 1,500 revellers who gathered to watch the sunrise at Stonehenge. |
36,255,546 | The Brit Award winner and three-time Mercury Music Prize nominee tops the bill at the 13th annual festival at Glanusk Park, Powys, on 20 August.
Fellow UK acts Belle and Sebastian, on Thursday, James Blake, on Friday, and Wild Beasts, on Sunday, have already been named as the other headliners.
The festival was a sellou... | Alt-folk singer-songwriter Laura Marling has been unveiled as a headline act for the 2016 Green Man festival. |
39,260,379 | He died on Monday, aged 89, in a nursing home in Newmarket-on-Fergus in County Clare, following an illness.
Bishop Casey resigned as Bishop of Galway following the revelation he had been making payments to a woman in the United States for a long period.
He had a relationship with an American divorcee and was the father... | Former Bishop of Galway, Eamon Casey, who was at the centre of a scandal that rocked the Catholic Church in the early 1990s, has died. |
36,644,030 | This comes after the country's highest court ruled earlier this year that Mr Zuma repay some of the $23m of public funds spent on his house in 2009.
The upgrades included an amphitheatre, pool, chicken run and cattle enclosure.
Mr Zuma must now repay the money - about 3% of the total spent - within 45 days.
An anti-cor... | South Africa's treasury has recommended President Jacob Zuma pay back $509,000 (£385,000) to the government for upgrades made to his private home. |
35,406,135 | The mission would have a mandate for a year which could be extended if both sides request it.
Negotiators for the two sides issued a joint request for the UN's involvement last week during peace talks in Cuba.
They have set a deadline of 23 March for the signing of a peace accord.
The UN "political mission" will consis... | The UN Security Council has approved the creation of an unarmed mission in Colombia to oversee a bilateral ceasefire, if Farc rebels and the government sign a peace agreement. |
34,763,847 | The players in question are believed to include Sam Burgess and Danny Care.
Reports suggest they invested in an oil-drilling firm and lost a combined total in excess of £100,000.
An RFU spokesperson said: "The RFU takes the allegations extremely seriously. It is an internal matter and we are taking the appropriate acti... | England kit man Dave Tennison is under investigation by the Rugby Football Union over claims he urged players to buy shares which fell in value. |
29,470,443 | The 33-year-old freelancer has been working in the country for three years for a number of media outlets, most recently NBC News.
More than 3,330 people have died in four West African countries in what has become the world's worst outbreak.
President Barack Obama has pledged federal support to contain the spread in the... | A cameraman working in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola and is to be flown home to the US for treatment. |
39,406,385 | The University of Glasgow's £32m Imaging Centre of Excellence (ICE) aims to bring clinical academics together with industry to improve patient care.
It is the first time a 7 Tesla MRI scanner will be used in the UK in a clinical setting.
It will be used to improve treatment for conditions such as stroke, vascular demen... | A new state-of-the-art medical research facility, which houses a powerful MRI scanner, is to be officially opened. |
36,703,784 | The tests have been made tougher and Mrs Morgan says lower results should not be interpreted as a decline in performance by pupils.
"They simply cannot be compared directly," says Mrs Morgan.
Heads have called for this year's test results not to be published.
Mrs Morgan's warning comes in advance of the publication of ... | The results of Sats tests taken in primary schools in England, due to be published on Tuesday, should not be compared with previous years, says Education Secretary Nicky Morgan. |
37,362,656 | Atherton, 28, became the first rider in history to complete a perfect downhill World Cup season and then won a fourth World Championship title a week later.
However, the downhill discipline is not an Olympic sport.
Atherton said: "I'm proud and content with what I have achieved. I don't need the validation of an Olympi... | British world champion Rachel Atherton does not feel the need to go chasing Olympic medals despite dominating downhill mountain biking. |
32,799,703 | The contents of 56 safe deposit boxes were taken during the raid in London's jewellery district over Easter weekend.
Twelve addresses in the London and Kent area were raided by about 200 police officers on Tuesday morning.
Nine men were arrested and a number of high-value items were recovered, police said. Searches of ... | Detectives hunting the gang behind the Hatton Garden safe deposit raid have arrested nine suspects. |
38,778,989 | Glovers midfielder Matty Dolan was born in Hartlepool and has spent two loan spells at the club.
But, presented with a second-half penalty to level the scores, he made no mistake, sending keeper Adam Bartlett the wrong way from 12 yards on 69 minutes.
The penalty came after Andrew Nelson, making his Pools debut after s... | Hartlepool were denied victory by one of their own as Yeovil earned a draw against Dave Jones' side. |
39,673,408 | The Dragons explained in a statement that Jackson suffered a 'non-rugby related injury on 8 April.'
"He has undergone a neck operation, which was a success, and the surgeons are satisfied with the results. Ed is making significant progress and is currently recovering," Dragons said.
Jackson, 28, signed a contract exten... | Newport Gwent Dragons forward Ed Jackson is recovering in hospital after undergoing surgery for a neck injury. |
34,909,158 | Olympic Games-qualified O'Flaherty will defend her Seeley Cup title in Ormeau Park after finishing fourth at Sunday's Irish Cross Country Championships.
Men's holder Pollock will not compete in the Belfast race.
Pollock has opted to return to his regular training base in London ahead of the European Cross Country tests... | Kerry O'Flaherty will race in Belfast on Saturday after booking her place at the European Cross Country Championship in France on 13 December. |
39,026,975 | As part of a discussion paper on the future of Defined Benefit (DB) pensions, it said financially "stressed" companies might be allowed to water down previous promises.
About 5% of businesses are in that category, according to the green paper.
As many as eleven million people are members of private sector DB schemes, w... | Firms in financial trouble could be allowed to reduce the generosity of pensions, the government has suggested. |
35,945,407 | Welsh economy minister Edwina Hart said despite criticism of UK ministers, her counterparts in London know how important the industry is.
She met UK Business Secretary Sajid Javid on his visit to Port Talbot steelworks on Friday.
Tata Steel has said it would sell its UK business, putting thousands of jobs at risk.
Mr J... | The UK and Welsh governments are working to keep steel production in Britain, a minister has said. |
41,019,608 | In a statement on Twitter, the band said it was "with great regret, due to illness, we cannot perform at Customs House Belfast".
Organisers said they were working to re-schedule the concert.
Many concert goers said they were disappointed with the last-minute cancellation.
Stephen Nelson said the stage was set-up for th... | Rock band Kasabian have cancelled a concert in Belfast minutes before they were due to take to the stage on Tuesday night. |
38,945,211 | The 18-year-old was walking through Cardonald Cemetery at about 15:30 on Friday when she was attacked.
Police have said she was touched inappropriately by a man who approached her from behind.
She managed to push him away and he ran off towards Corkerhill Road. The woman was not injured and did not require medical trea... | A young woman has been indecently assaulted in a Glasgow cemetery. |
34,892,072 | Luis Suarez scored twice, while Neymar and Andres Iniesta also scored as Barcelona moved six points clear of Real at the top of the table.
BBC Sport reviews each player's performance, with BBC Radio 5 live co-commentator Chris Waddle, who was at the Bernabeu, giving his ratings out of 10. | Barcelona took the honours in the first El Clasico of the La Liga season with a dominant 4-0 win at Real Madrid on Saturday. |
36,280,481 | So, you'd think that when one of the tech sector's biggest events - TechCrunch Disrupt New York - moved to the birthplace of hipsters, that cutting-edge development and a good amount of facial hair would be on display.
But this year's New York Disrupt didn't seem very disruptive.
TechCruch's biggest Disrupt conference ... | The Brooklyn Cruise Ship Terminal opened in 2006 - the same year that Twitter launched. |
37,752,746 | It has proposed setting up a new Scotland-wide statutory board to co-ordinate the activities of Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE).
The government said services already provided in the Highlands and Islands would be protected.
A new service has also been proposed for the south of Scotland.
T... | The Scottish government has set out plans to reform Scotland's enterprise and skills agencies. |
27,585,765 | Is the new popularity of anti-EU parties in the UK, France, Greece and Spain a hangover from the crash of 2007-8, the euro crisis of 2010-13 and long years of squeezed living standards - a protest from those who feel dispossessed in an economic sense?
Or does the surge of UKIP, the Front National and Syriza, inter alia... | How much of the rise in Europe's anti-establishment parties of right and left is cyclical and how much is long-term and secular? |
36,397,859 | Members of the Unite union working for Wood Group on eight Shell installations will vote on whether to strike.
The union said its members were "deeply worried" and felt they had no other option but to consider industrial action.
Wood Group said it was "extremely disappointed" at the news during the consultation process... | Hundreds of North Sea workers are to be balloted for industrial action in a dispute over pay cuts. |
38,827,061 | Each week in the UK, about 12 seemingly healthy people aged 35 or under are victims of sudden cardiac death, largely due to undiagnosed heart conditions.
If you have a family member who has been diagnosed with an inherited heart condition, or has a family history of premature deaths, doctors will suggest you be tested.... | About 620,000 people in the UK have a faulty gene that puts them at risk of developing coronary heart disease or sudden death, and most are unaware, heart experts have warned. |
39,978,141 | The 133-year-old statue depicted General Robert E Lee, the top military leader in the Confederacy, crossing his arms as he faced north towards his old enemy.
Critics say monuments to the Confederacy are racially offensive, but supporters say they are important symbols of the city's Southern heritage.
The three other st... | Masked city workers in New Orleans have removed the last of four monuments to the pro-slavery rebellion defeated in the US Civil War. |
18,294,193 | From mid-June councils will have powers to issue penalty charge notices to the registered owner of a car, regardless of who littered.
CCTV images will be used to record number plates and trace owners, said London Councils.
The AA said the majority of its members wanted tougher penalties for people who drop litter from ... | Car owners in London will face fines of up to £100 if someone drops litter from their vehicles, under a law change. |
38,254,605 | Players involved in the incident with Morpeth Town, following Newton's 3-2 FA Vase defeat, have also left the club.
Dixon was dismissed "due to the on-going ill-discipline" of some players.
"It's not been easy but we've acted straight away and want to draw a line under it," chairman Allan Oliver told BBC Sport.
"If the... | Newton Aycliffe sacked their manager Peter Dixon after players from the non-league club fought their way into their opponents' dressing room. |
38,730,611 | Tree surgeon Jon Sterkel told the BBC he used an explosive rifle target which sent blue smoke billowing into the air.
The blast was reportedly so loud that it was heard nearly 5km (3 miles) away.
Mr Sterkel has apologised after causing a police alert. He said that he was not aware his actions were illegal.
"The explosi... | A US man who celebrated news that his wife was expecting a baby boy by setting off an explosion in Nebraska is facing police action which could result in a year in jail and a fine. |
39,083,265 | Brett this week told BBC Scotland he hoped to have a future with Cowdenbeath but would accept their decision.
And the 24-year-old has now been dismissed by the Central Park club.
This week Brett was also banned by the Scottish FA for four matches, with a further four suspended, for offensive posts on Twitter.
Brett was... | Cowdenbeath defender Dean Brett has been sacked by the League Two club after admitting betting against his own team. |
40,242,538 | The company's board met on Sunday but has not released any details on Mr Kalanick's future yet.
The board also voted on a review of its policies and corporate culture by former US Attorney General Eric Holder.
The review was instigated in February after former Uber engineer Susan Fowler made claims of sexual harassment... | Uber's chief executive could be forced to take a leave of absence under changes being considered by the firm, reports say. |
35,119,852 | Cheap Trick, and Steve Miller also made the 2016 list, but Chic - nominated for a record tenth time - missed out on the honour.
The five acts were chosen by fans and more than 800 voters of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation.
They will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in a ceremony in April.
To be eligible, art... | Ground-breaking rap act NWA, Deep Purple and Chicago have been announced as inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. |
23,786,210 | Continuing changes to secondary education mean the situation can be confusing.
With only a few days to secure a sixth-form place or take an alternative path, such as an apprenticeship or vocational college course, getting the right advice is key.
Vicky Coleman, an adviser with the National Careers Service, is offering ... | What do you do if your grades are different from those you were expecting? |
33,085,977 | Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez slotted in the winning spot-kick after Argentina's Gonzalo Higuain fired over and Ever Banega was denied by Claudio Bravo.
Higuain had earlier missed from close range after 90 minutes of few chances.
Sanchez came closest in extra time for Chile, who scored all four of their penalties in the sho... | Chile secured the first major trophy in their history on home soil courtesy of a penalty shootout win over Argentina in the Copa America final. |
37,743,001 | The law is to be changed in Spring 2017 to make directors personally liable for breaches of regulations.
At the moment only firms can be fined for ignoring rules on cold calling, but many declare bankruptcy - only to open up again under a different name.
Consumer group Which? said it was a "massive victory".
Companies ... | Company directors could be fined up to £500,000 if their business is behind nuisance phone calls, under government moves to clamp down on the problem. |
33,333,701 | Media playback is not supported on this device
A feeling every professional footballer has when thinking about pre-season is pure dread - even while the tans are being topped up on a beach far, far away from a sweaty British gym or open field.
Just how hard can it be, though? Are they just overpaid moaners or are they ... | Profusely sweating, panting for air and feeling lunch turning in my stomach - I thought to myself 'Why did I volunteer for this?' |
40,845,541 | End of Instagram post by chloeayling
The 20-year-old woman, named in reports as Chloe Ayling, had travelled to the city to attend a photo shoot.
Italian police said she was attacked by two men on arrival on 11 July and drugged and abducted, apparently to be sold in an online auction.
The officers said they had arreste... | A British model who was allegedly kidnapped in Milan and held captive for six days has returned to the UK. |
36,283,943 | Explosives lit up the sky and loud bangs were heard as the fire took hold at 05:00 BST on Bitterne Road West.
Homes and properties within 100 metres (328ft) of the fire on the site of the Southern Fireworks Factory and the Flower Factory were evacuated.
No-one was injured. Surrounding roads are expected to remain close... | A huge blaze broke out at a shop in Southampton, setting off dozens of fireworks stored inside. |
35,025,846 | Nearly one-third of voters backed the anti-immigration FN, which won in six out of France's 13 regions.
Despite the FN surge, a second round on 13 December will be the decider.
It was the first electoral test since last month's Paris attacks, in which jihadist gunmen killed 130 people.
The nationalist FN got about 28%,... | The triumphant leader of the far-right National Front (FN), Marine Le Pen, says French voters rejected the "old political class" in regional elections that put her party top. |
40,976,072 | The story - which originally appeared in the Huffington Post - says the mayors will be left off the speakers list at the event in September.
It says the Labour leader and four shadow cabinet members will be given prime speaking slots in Brighton.
Mr Corbyn said the conference agenda had not been drawn up yet.
Asked abo... | Jeremy Corbyn has hit back at a report in the Sun newspaper claiming Labour mayors Andy Burnham and Sadiq Khan will be "frozen out" of Labour's conference. |
40,589,521 | Police were called to the gorge, near Blair Atholl, at about 17:50.
Officers have been joined by the fire service, ambulance crews, a helimed and the local mountain rescue team for the search.
A spokesman for Police Scotland said: "There is currently no sign of the individual who is missing." | Emergency services are carrying out a search after a person went missing in the Falls of Bruar in Perthshire. |
30,828,450 | The 32-year-old St Eunan's clubman won the All-Ireland title with Donegal in 2012 and was in the side which lost to Kerry in last year's decider.
Kavanagh also helped Donegal to three Ulster Championship triumphs and a National League title.
He made his debut against Cork in 2001 and clocked up 132 Donegal appearances.... | Donegal midfielder Rory Kavanagh has announced his retirement from inter-county football because of work and family considerations. |
33,912,059 | The new P1 pupils will have teachers across the area seeing double when they begin the new term on Monday.
The new intake means there will be a total of 72 sets of twins at primary schools in Inverclyde.
Education officials were surprised when the number of twins rose to 16 in 2011. The huge increase since then has lef... | Schools in Inverclyde are preparing to welcome a record 19 sets of twins. |
37,471,794 | The pair, who were wearing stage make-up, fake blood and white contact lenses, were returning from filming online sitcom Dead Town on Sunday.
Steve Lowe and Diane Holden of Ashton-under-Lyne were on the M62 near Warrington when they were pulled over.
Police shared a picture and tweeted "posing as Zombies - takes all so... | A couple dressed as zombies were stopped by concerned motorway police responding to reports of a woman being assaulted in a car. |
29,714,095 | State department spokeswoman Marie Harf confirmed that Mr Fowle was on his way home on Tuesday following negotiations.
She said the US was working to secure the release of two other US nationals, Matthew Miller and Kenneth Bae, who remain in detention in North Korea.
The US has accused North Korea of using the detained... | Jeffrey Fowle, one of three US citizens detained in North Korea, has been released, US officials say. |
34,245,947 | 14 September 2015 Last updated at 11:49 BST
Brothers George Skrzynecky and Lucian Poznanski were born in Germany after their Polish mother was sent to a forced labour camp.
When she became ill and could not look after them, the twins were taken to Poland and adopted separately.
For many years they did not know each oth... | A pair of twins, separated at birth at the end of World War Two, have been reunited after almost 70 years apart. |
33,088,868 | Negotiators have been accused by charities and NGOs of not moving fast enough at interim talks in Germany.
Countries are working towards options to limit greenhouse gas emissions from 2020 ahead of a crunch December summit.
But the UN said progress had been made in streamlining the text of a new agreement.
The climate ... | International talks towards a new global climate deal are due to end on Thursday, amid concern that progress has been slow. |
39,152,112 | The annual hand ba' game took place in Jedburgh on Thursday - one of a number of Scottish Borders towns to stage such events on their streets. | All images by Dougie Johnston. |
29,222,232 | Such unannounced inspections treated staff like "naughty children", says Brian Lightman, head of the Association of School and College Leaders.
On Monday, Ofsted said there would be 40 no-warning inspections this month.
These will test the feasibility of unannounced inspections, proposed after the Trojan Horse inquirie... | Head teachers have attacked the idea of Ofsted inspectors visiting schools in England without any warning. |
35,254,478 | The Gobbins is a dramatic cliff face walk in Islandmagee, County Antrim.
The pathway had been damaged by storms and record rainfall, according to Mid and East Antrim Borough Council.
Its bridge structures have not been damaged and the council plans to restore access and reopen the coastal pathway "as soon as possible".... | A coastal tourist attraction, which reopened to the public five months ago after a £7.5m revamp, has been forced to close because of storm damage. |
37,156,764 | 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. |
40,857,379 | US biologists used homing pigeons to test the potential impacts of oil spills on birds' flight.
"Lightly oiled" pigeons, they found, veered off course and took longer to return and longer to recover than birds with no oil on their feathers.
The results are published in the journal Environmental Pollution.
It is the fir... | Even light exposure to oil from disasters like the Deep Water Horizon oil spill makes flying more difficult for birds, a study has revealed. |
35,987,351 | Ernst Tremmel was accused of 1,075 counts of accessory to murder for his time working at the death camp in German-occupied Poland.
Tremmel worked at the camp from November 1942 to June 1943.
The trial was to have started on Wednesday in the western city of Hanau, where Auschwitz survivors were expected to give testimon... | A 93-year-old former guard at Auschwitz has died a week before he was due to stand trial in Germany. |
24,543,581 | Upper chamber leaders resumed work overnight on a deal to raise the US borrowing limit and end a partial government shutdown.
Amid the congressional disarray, a top ratings agency warned of a possible downgrade in US creditworthiness.
The US must raise its $16.7tn (£10.5tn) debt limit by Thursday or risk default.
Poli... | Frantic US political attempts to avert a federal debt default have pivoted back to the Senate after plans in the House of Representatives collapsed. |
33,694,695 | It follows an upsurge in attacks blamed on the Nigerian militants.
Three suicide bombings killed 33 people in Cameroon's main northern city, Maroua, since last week.
The reinforcements will raise the number of troops deployed to the north to 8,500, AFP news agency reports.
Cameroon's army uses Maroua as the headquarter... | Cameroon will deploy an extra 2,000 troops along its northern border with Nigeria to fight militant Islamist group Boko Haram, state television reports. |
35,099,476 | Arvind Kejriwal blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the "raid", calling him a "coward and a psychopath".
"When Modi couldn't handle me politically, he resorts to this cowardice," he added.
Officials from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) have denied the allegations.
"It is not a raid on Arvind Kejriwal's of... | The chief minister of India's capital, Delhi, has alleged that his office has been raided by the country's federal investigation agency. |
39,844,095 | Taylor is out of contract in the summer and has been linked with West Brom, Middlesbrough and Crystal Palace.
The 23-year-old pulled out of the 1-1 draw with Wigan as Leeds failed to reach the Championship play-offs.
"I'm hugely disappointed with Charlie. I think he's been terribly advised all season," Monk told BBC Ra... | Leeds United manager Garry Monk has blamed Charlie Taylor's withdrawal from the squad at Wigan on Sunday on the defender's advisors. |
36,091,583 | Boro are unbeaten in their last seven matches and are two points clear of second-placed Burnley, who drew 1-1 with Karanka's team on Tuesday.
"We are top of the table because we have an amazing squad and we have an amazing club," Karanka told BBC Tees.
"We are in a privileged position and we showed everyone we are a go... | Middlesbrough head coach Aitor Karanka says his side fully deserve to be top of the Championship table with three games left to play. |
36,856,106 | Care worker Alec Wallbank, 30, of Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff, is alleged to have carried out the offence between July and September 2014 in Cardiff.
He appeared at Cardiff Magistrates Court wearing a black shirt and tie.
He was released on bail and the case was sent to Cardiff Crown Court.
A plea and case managemen... | A deputy manager of a mental health ward has appeared in court accused of engaging in sexual activity with a woman patient. |
33,454,729 | Pensions have become increasingly difficult to understand, especially for those in final salary schemes and higher earners.
This Budget has added further traps for the unwary.
As expected, the amount that can be saved in a pension free of tax over the course of a lifetime is to be reduced from £1.25m to £1m from April ... | This Budget not only chipped away at the pension tax regime, but also suggested that the entire edifice might be pulled down and replaced. |
22,392,536 | Senior Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi and several government ministers from the state of Punjab were among the large crowd attending the state funeral in Singh's home village.
Singh, sentenced to death by Pakistan in 1991, died after being attacked with bricks by inmates in Lahore's jail.
Delhi called the attack "b... | Sarabjit Singh, the Indian convicted of spying in Pakistan and killed in a Pakistani jail last week, has been cremated in India amid mass outrage. |
34,631,508 | Angus MacColl was victorious at the solo competition, which was held at Blair Castle in Perthshire.
To win the accolade, Mr MacColl performed against nine of the best pipers in the world.
The competition was in its 42nd year, with Mr MacColl winning the event for the fourth time.
He said: "All competitors are part of a... | A piper from Oban has won the prestigious Glenfiddich Piping Championships. |
36,471,930 | The Care Quality Commission (CQC) blames a "lack of urgency" to treat people because there are not always enough senior doctors or nurses.
The emergency department has been rated inadequate and the trust as requiring improvement.
The trust claimed it had addressed many of the areas identified as needing improvement.
Cl... | Patients in Torbay Hospital's emergency department are "at risk of avoidable harm" say inspectors. |
37,570,848 | Profits for the July to September period are forecast to be 5.6% higher at 7.8 trillion won ($7bn; £5.7bn).
Analysts had expected worse numbers after the Note 7 recall over faulty batteries and "exploding" phones.
The earnings guidance does not give any details about the performance of individual businesses.
The flagsh... | Samsung Electronics says its operating profits are expected to have risen in the third quarter, despite the recall of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone. |
36,710,221 | The Scot's brother Jamie, Kyle Edmund, Dan Evans and Dom Inglot are in the team for the round-two tie in Belgrade.
Murray, 29, is into the last eight at Wimbledon after beating Nick Kyrgios.
"Both Murrays are still involved at Wimbledon so we'll have to see how it pans out," captain Leon Smith said.
"It's a brutal sche... | Andy Murray is one of five players named by Great Britain for this month's Davis Cup tie with Serbia, although the world number two will not confirm his involvement until after Wimbledon. |
36,812,863 | International figures having been responding to the unfolding situation in the country.
The White House said US President Barack Obama had spoken to US Secretary of State John Kerry and agreed that all parties in Turkey should support the "democratically elected" government.
The pair urged all sides to "show restraint ... | An army group in Turkey says it has taken over the country, with gunfire heard and military jets flying low over the capital, Ankara. |
35,416,932 | Manning, 39, has described the allegations, made by broadcaster Al Jazeera, as "complete garbage".
Its source - Texas-based pharmacist Charlie Sly - has since recanted.
The allegations surfaced in an Al Jazeera report that said Manning's wife received deliveries of HGH, which is banned by the NFL, at their home.
At the... | The NFL has opened an investigation into allegations that Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning had human growth hormone sent to his house. |
35,050,436 | The Food Standards Scotland (FSS) board was set up in April.
It has recommended that Scots should increase their fibre intake to 30g per day and have no more than 5% of their total energy from sugar.
Previous dietary goals, including a target to have no more than 11% energy intake from sugar, have not been met.
The cur... | Scotland's new food standards body has recommended tougher targets for healthy eating after finding "little or no progress" over the past 15 years. |
35,600,500 | It follows recent controversy over MLAs' expenses.
The Assembly Commission has asked IPSA, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, to update a report on the Stormont system it compiled last year.
The commission held a meeting on Wednesday to discuss the matters raised over the last few days.
There was a publ... | The cross-party body which runs the assembly has asked the Westminster expenses regulator to do some more work reviewing the Stormont expenses system. |
22,853,594 | Some 7.2 million people tuned in to the three-hour show, hosted by How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris.
The telecast came second to an NBA finals game between San Antonio and Miami, watched by 11.6 million.
Kinky Boots dominated the awards, winning best musical as well as five other prizes.
Harris, who made ... | This year's Tony Awards scored its best US TV ratings since 2009, with viewership up 20% from last year's show, according to the CBS network. |
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