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38,995,424 | It is one of the oldest tools in the book to get rid of someone who is either too powerful, too dangerous or too inconvenient.
But most assassins choose a straight-forward method: Julius Caesar was stabbed to death, Abraham Lincoln was shot.
It is now being speculated that the death of Kim Jong-nam - Kim Jong-un's olde... | There is nothing new about a high-profile or outspoken person being assassinated. |
36,776,681 | The government allowed councils to increase council tax by 2% this year to spend on care - and most have done so.
But, according to a survey of all 151 social care directors, there is still a shortfall of nearly £1bn.
The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services said councils had no option but to reduce the se... | Care services are facing cuts this year as rises in council tax have failed to plug the gaps in budgets in England, town hall chiefs are warning. |
33,089,423 | The Dutch-owned firm suspended deliveries last month after losing funding.
It had been delivering about 3m letters every week in the three cities, in direct competition with Royal Mail.
The private equity arm of Lloyds bank decided not to invest, triggering a review.
Parent group PostNL said the firm had begun a consul... | Postal business Whistl has confirmed it is ending its home delivery service in London, Liverpool and Manchester, putting up to 1,800 jobs at risk. |
15,130,282 | The supervised injection site opened in Vancouver in 2003 with a federal exemption permitting illegal drug use.
Its supporters say it has helped prevent overdoses, reduced infections, and curbed crime and open drug use.
But the federal government said in 2008 that the facility should close, arguing it promoted addictio... | North America's only legal drug-injection site can stay open, Canada's Supreme Court rules, in a defeat for the country's conservative government. |
35,420,983 | In the latest mishap, US citizens Bob Weise and Steve Shapiro, both 71, had to seek help in Hayle Harbour, Cornwall, when their sailing boat tipped over, causing a fire on board.
Veteran sailor Sir Robin Knox-Johnston is among those criticising the pair.
The duo previously told BBC News they were experienced enough for... | Two yachtsmen who have been rescued nine times in seven months have been described as a "catastrophe waiting to happen" and urged to "leave UK waters". |
32,148,371 | Police said the 61-year-old man had left his own vehicle when he was struck by the lorry shortly after 13:00. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The eastbound carriageway was closed at Junction 3 while emergency services attended, but has since reopened.
Police said they were attempting to establish the full circumst... | A man has died after being hit by a lorry on the M8 at Livingston in West Lothian. |
36,072,556 | The South Africa-born 30-year-old claimed 6-66 on his debut against Nottinghamshire at Old Trafford.
Wagner, who had a stint with Northants in 2014, joined the Red Rose as their overseas player for the 2016 campaign.
"It's a great club and a great place. I always had something for Lancashire when I played here for Orms... | New Zealand seamer Neil Wagner has spoken of his pride at being able to play for Lancashire this season. |
40,740,359 | The president should not be "afraid" to choose his heir and his word would be "final", Grace Mugabe said.
Mr Mugabe is the world's oldest ruler, and his Zanu-PF party has nominated him to stand for re-election next year.
But rival factions have been vying to strengthen their position as concern about his health mounts.... | Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, 93, has been urged by his wife to name his successor in order to end divisions over who the next leader will be. |
22,210,453 | The US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) said the 35-year-old failed to provide details of his whereabouts for testing on three occasions within 18 months.
He will be stripped of any result he achieved from 17 November, 2012, the date of his third failure to comply.
Gold: 2004 Olympic 200m, 2001 World Indoor Championships 200... | America's Shawn Crawford, the 2004 Olympic 200m gold medallist, has been banned for two years for not complying with out-of-competition drugs testing. |
36,357,749 | Moses John, 14, and Pauline Watson, 46, vanished in May 2015 from their home in Northampton.
It is believed Ms Watson has links to various parts of London.
Moses, who has special educational needs, was at the centre of family court proceedings, in which children are not normally identified.
For more stories, visit BBC ... | A teenage boy who disappeared with his mother a year ago has been named by a High Court judge in an "exceptional" attempt to trace him. |
41,009,237 | A brick was hurled through the window of the house, followed by a petrol bomb and a pipe bomb, which did not explode.
Supt Gordon McCalmont said it was a "reckless act at the hands of what we believe to be a loyalist paramilitary gang".
A meeting to discuss ongoing tensions in the area was held on Tuesday.
On Saturday ... | Police are investigating a possible sectarian motive for an overnight attack in Londonderry's Waterside area. |
38,993,389 | The group wants to hold the events on 4 March in Locharbriggs - where it is based - and nearby Dumfries.
Dumfries and Galloway Council's licensing panel is being asked to issue permission for both events.
However, a parish priest in Dumfries has objected to the march saying it has "no reason whatsoever, historical or o... | An Orange Lodge in southern Scotland is seeking approval for two processions to mark its 25th anniversary. |
35,898,885 | Normally, clocks are put forward an hour on the last Sunday in March, and then put back an hour on the last Sunday in October.
In 2016, summer time will last from 27 March to 30 October.
During that time, we move our clocks forward by an hour - so, if you normally get up at 8am, it will feel like 7am.
The change is cal... | At 1am on Easter Sunday, the clocks moved forward by one hour, marking the start of British Summer Time. |
39,939,246 | His return comes after an invitation of fellow co-founder Jack Dorsey, who was brought back as chief executive in 2015.
Mr Dorsey has been trying to reboot Twitter, which claims more than 300 million monthly users, but has struggled to turn a profit.
Twitter's stock bounced nearly 2% on the news.
Mr Stone said he will ... | Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has said he plans to rejoin the social media site in the next few weeks. |
40,286,108 | Unite said workers at the Atomic Weapons Establishment's (AWE) two Berkshire sites would strike for 12 days over a pensions dispute.
AWE, which builds the UK's Trident submarine warheads, said it had put "resilient measures in place".
It added that its pension scheme was "very competitive".
The walk-out of around 700 w... | A union claims strikes have resulted in "serious disruption" to the UK's nuclear weapons programme as it announced further industrial action. |
35,483,600 | Since George Osborne applauded Google's tax agreement with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) two weeks ago, public sentiment has been mounting against what many feel are unduly favourable tax arrangements for the world's multinationals.
In front of MPs, Google's president for Europe, Matt Brittin defended the company's UK ta... | When Google's European boss, Matt Brittin, appeared before the House of Commons' Public Accounts Committee on Thursday he faced a wave of indignant questioning from MPs. |
34,811,078 | Máiría Cahill won a by-election to fill the seat left vacant after Jimmy Harte of the Labour party resigned.
Labour candidate Ms Cahill won 122 of the 188 valid votes cast by serving senators and members of parliament.
Last year, she told the BBC she had been raped by an IRA man when she was 16, with the organisation f... | A Belfast woman who has accused the IRA of a sex abuse cover-up has won a seat in the Irish senate. |
40,234,860 | Tourists may have caught a glimpse of the future monarch in uniform riding his horse Wellesley in The Mall.
As Colonel of the Irish Guards, Prince William inspected the troops ahead of the parade on 17 June.
More than 6,000 spectators watched the inspection in Horse Guards Parade.
There were more than 200 military hors... | The Duke of Cambridge has taken part in the military rehearsal for the Queen's Birthday Parade, also known as Trooping the Colour, for the first time. |
38,645,836 | Victoria and South Australia are experiencing higher than expected numbers of mice, the CSIRO said.
The agency characterises a mouse plague as more than 1,000 mice per hectare (2,471 per acre).
If conditions bring enough food, the population could hit that number within months, researcher Steve Henry said.
"We had a te... | Australia's science agency has warned that spring rains have created ideal conditions for a mouse plague in the country's breadbasket. |
37,419,382 | The decision comes as some clinicians warned it could put patients at risk.
The unit would carry out complex vascular surgery for potentially life-threatening conditions like abdominal aortic aneurysms.
However, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said this only represented about 20% of its vascular treatments.
The... | Health chiefs in north Wales have confirmed plans to site a specialist vascular unit at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Denbighshire. |
37,628,358 | City had led 2-0 from the first leg after their European debut on Thursday.
Defenders Jennifer Beattie and Lucy Bronze fired in from first-half corners to extend the new English champions' lead, as they controlled possession.
Beattie headed in her second after the break, before Isobel Christiansen slotted in City's fou... | Manchester City reached the last 16 of the Women's Champions League as a 4-0 victory in Russia sealed a dominant, 6-0 aggregate win over Zvezda 2005. |
35,651,943 | The number of Welsh MPs will fall from 40 to 29 at the next general election as part of a move to reduce the number of MPs across the UK from 650 to 600.
The changes are being made as a result of rules that require broadly equal numbers of voters in each constituency. Welsh constituencies currently have, on average, fe... | Wales will lose more than a quarter of its MPs under a review of parliamentary constituencies. |
38,091,786 | Solomona scored 40 tries in the 2016 season, including a record total of 40 in Super League.
Tigers chairman Steve Gill said in October that the 23-year-old Samoan was not for sale and would be returning to the club on 7 November.
BBC Sport understands Solomona has held talks with rugby union side Sale.
The Premiership... | Castleford Tigers are to take legal action against winger Denny Solomona after he failed to return to the club for pre-season training. |
40,654,753 | Mark Jennens, 40, was accused of manslaughter when his mother died after a row at their West Midlands home over Christmas dinner in 2015.
The prosecution argued he threw her to the floor causing a fractured hip.
But after a jury cleared him, he said: "For the first time in 18 months I can look myself in the eye in the ... | A son cleared of killing his mother has spoken of his relief, saying: "Who wants the stigma of being known as 'the bloke who kills their mum?'" |
35,615,939 | In November 2014, Charlie was training in Sweden when she lost control of her skis, veering off course into the forest and landing on a boulder.
After a year of rehabilitation, she is back in Austria training.
Following a race on Sunday, she has now been launched up the rankings for alpine slalom skiing to number 84.
C... | Just over a year after breaking her spine, Scottish skier Charlie Guest has made it into the list of the world's top 100. |
34,525,812 | The world number two dropped serve in the first game of the match but was rarely troubled by the American in his first outing since GB's Davis Cup semi-final victory over Australia on 20 September.
Murray, 28, said: "I played well, moved well and it was a good start for me."
He will face another American, John Isner, i... | Britain's Andy Murray had a comfortable 6-2 6-4 victory over Steve Johnson in his opening Shanghai Masters match. |
36,807,092 | The 14% fall in net income to $4bn (£3bn) was not as bad as feared. In June, chief executive Michael Corbat warned of a 25% fall in net income.
Consumer banking in North America had a weak quarter. Net income fell 22%, hit by falling sales and higher costs.
But its trading operations were strong in the April-to-June p... | Citigroup's profits fell in the second quarter because of weakness at its consumer banking business. |
36,216,684 | Hayley Court was employed by South Yorkshire Police (SYP) just after the hearings began in 2014.
Documents seen by BBC News show she was told a "performance issue" was her "failure" to "redress the imbalance" in the media's reporting of the inquests.
SYP said her claims of "unethical practice" were "not substantiated".... | A former South Yorkshire Police press officer claimed she was asked to "spin" news during the Hillsborough inquests, the BBC can reveal. |
37,777,939 | A planned December bout fell through because the fighters "ran out of time", said Klitschko's manager Bernd Boente.
"That'll be the biggest heavyweight fight for years," former world champion Klitschko, 40, told German newspaper Bild.
The WBA has yet to state whether its vacant title would be on the line.
Promotor Eddi... | Wladimir Klitschko says he wants to fight British heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua in "March or April". |
39,403,396 | Steven Preston went missing on 18 September 1992 from his home in Wirral.
New information suggests Mr Preston, then 23, may have "been murdered and buried in a specific area near junction 5 of the M53", said Supt Ian Hassall.
Officers are carrying out an "extensive land search" in the Eastham area of Wirral, Merseyside... | New information suggests a man who disappeared almost 25 years ago may have been killed and buried on land in Merseyside, police say. |
34,656,006 | Works by Matisse, Picasso, Gustav Klimt and Ben Nicholson will be offered at auction at Christie's in February, as well as Sting's Steinway piano.
The auction house said the couple had collected the works "with passion and knowledge" over 20 years.
One painting, Nicholson's March 55 (amethyst) could fetch up to £500,00... | Musician Sting and wife Trudie Styler are selling more than 200 items from their art collection, previously housed in their former family home in London. |
40,833,914 | The Yemeni troops, along with a force of local tribesman, were backed by the United Arab Emirates and US forces.
The US views Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) as the most dangerous wing of the terror group.
AQAP has taken advantage of the chaos of the Yemeni civil war to expand in the oil and gas rich south.
Th... | Forces backing Yemen's government have reportedly driven al-Qaeda fighters out of the main cities of the southern province of Shabwa. |
40,917,397 | The tournament saw the leading 24 after Saturday's third round playing a series of six-hole knockout stroke play games.
Santos remarkably holed from 255 yards for his albatross on 18 to beat Chile's Nico Geyger at the last-16 stage.
But Santos soon exited and 23-year-old Sciot-Siegrist beat Italy's Alessandro Tadini in... | France's Robin Sciot-Siegrist won the Northern Ireland Open as Portugal's Ricardo Santos carded an albatross on a dramatic shootout Sunday. |
28,189,070 | The arrests come after more than 5,700 complaints about the websites were made to the Advertising Standards Authority and Citizens Advice.
Most were linked to alleged scams over fees charged for tax return, driving licence and passport applications.
Those held last week under the Fraud Act are on police bail, trading s... | Five people have been arrested as part of a crackdown on websites made to look like official government sites. |
35,110,909 | The European Union has approved significant changes to data laws, aimed at putting individuals back in charge of their information.
It is the biggest shake-up to privacy regulation for 20 years, according to experts.
The changes would make privacy "a board-level issue", one lawyer said.
Peter Church, a technology lawye... | Technology companies could face fines of up to 4% of their global annual turnover under new European rules on data protection. |
33,486,420 | Reports in Australia say that it could knock as much as £200m (A$425m) off its value.
The parent company of the bank plans to float the Glasgow-based lender in Australia later this year.
Chancellor George Osborne announced he was phasing out the bank levy.
He also announced plans to introduce an 8% surcharge on bank p... | The surcharge tax on bank profits announced in the Budget is being seen as another blow for the sale of Clydesdale Bank. |
36,329,825 | The car bonnet would be sticky so that if it hit a person, they would stick to the car.
This would stop the them falling back onto the road after the collision, which could injure them even more.
Google's idea is aimed at driverless cars but could be used on regular cars too.
Don't worry, the sticky layer would be cove... | Google's got a new idea to keep pedestrians safer on the roads - having sticky cars! |
39,882,815 | Moi Ali, who quit the board amid a row over meetings being held behind closed doors, told Holyrood's public audit committee she felt she was bullied.
MSPs and the police watchdog are looking into transparency at the SPA.
Current board members defended Mr Flanagan, saying there was a "changing atmosphere".
The public au... | A former Scottish Police Authority board member has claimed its chairman Andrew Flanagan is "not fit to continue on any public board". |
37,548,123 | The North East county have been demoted after accepting a £3.8m financial aid package from the ECB.
"The ECB have to hold their hands up and look at the system they have created," said Vaughan.
Counties currently have to bid to stage international matches at their grounds.
Durham reportedly paid £923,000 to stage Engla... | Durham's relegation to Division Two of the County Championship is a warning to others but the England and Wales Cricket Board is also at fault, says former England captain Michael Vaughan. |
39,429,583 | The Rams are 10th in the Championship, nine points adrift of the top six.
Scotland international Bryson said: "This season's not been good enough. The players must take responsibility.
"If we don't make the play-offs this season we have to build for next season and put things right."
Derby face QPR at Pride Park on Fri... | Derby County's players must show pride in the last eight games of a season of underachievement even if they fail to reach the play-offs, says midfielder Craig Bryson. |
14,751,187 | Nicolas Sagar was working as a pianist on the island and had gone swimming. It is believed he got in to difficulties and drowned.
The 33-year-old was found at Maho Beach by tourists who could not resuscitate him and called emergency services.
Medics pronounced him dead at the scene on Sunday morning and his body was id... | A musician from Alloa has died after drowning off the coast of the Caribbean island of St Maartens. |
36,854,544 | If the team had to change the gearbox as a result of damage from Silverstone, Rosberg would be hit with a five-place grid penalty in Hungary this weekend.
Mercedes said Rosberg would run the gearbox in practice on Friday at the Hungaroring "to make sure it is OK".
A spokesman added: "We are optimistic that it will be."... | Mercedes say they are "optimistic" Nico Rosberg will avoid a grid penalty after the gearbox problem that afflicted him at the British Grand Prix. |
25,861,977 | The woman contacted security staff after her waters broke at the Intu Lakeside Shopping Centre in Essex.
Although an ambulance was called and arrived quickly, the baby girl was delivered before they got to the scene on Thursday evening.
Paul Lancaster, regional manager of Intu, said the woman had been in "distress" but... | A shopper ended up giving birth outside a Primark store after she suddenly went into labour. |
27,980,344 | Researchers, who have carried out a four-year review of the literature, say the evidence of damage is now "conclusive".
The scientists say the threat to nature is the same as that once posed by the notorious chemical DDT.
Manufacturers say the pesticides are not harming bees or other species.
Neonicotinoids were introd... | Neonicotinoid pesticides are causing significant damage to a wide range of beneficial species and are a key factor in the decline of bees, say scientists. |
33,009,823 | During the election campaign, David Cameron talked about how the government needs to save £1 from every £100 it spends - so 3% should put it well ahead of where it needs to be.
Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Today's announcement highlights why that 1% cuts figure was not entirely helpful.
The first problem is tha... | The chancellor announced today that Whitehall departments have found £3bn of savings this financial year, which is equivalent to around 3% of unprotected departmental spending this year. |
26,678,796 | A spokesman said it was the longest tunnel found to date and was meant for use in attacks on Israeli civilians.
The military wing of Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, dismissed the find, saying the tunnel was not new.
The tunnel is longer than one which Israel announced it had discovered last October which reached 1... | The Israeli military says it has uncovered a tunnel dug by militants from the Gaza Strip which runs hundreds of metres under Israel. |
40,242,702 | Needing another 132 for victory with eight wickets in hand on the final day at Grace Road, Wells finished unbeaten on 90 as Sussex strolled home on 234-5.
Anchored by Wells' 190-ball innings, Sussex never looked in any trouble despite losing three wickets.
Sussex have now won back-to-back games, while Leicestershire ar... | Luke Wells continued his superb batting form to guide Sussex to a five-wicket win over Leicestershire in Division Two of the County Championship. |
32,540,852 | Stephen Kavanagh also said the airline only entered into a pricing arrangement for flying out of the airport.
BIA is suing Aer Lingus for £20m in damages over the switch to George Best Belfast City Airport in 2012.
Proceedings centre on a dispute over the terms of a deal said to have been reached back in June 2007.
It ... | Aer Lingus lost up to 44m euros (£32m) from having a base at Belfast International Airport (BIA), its chief executive has told a court. |
35,373,314 | The blue Peugeot bike was hit by a blue Jaguar X-type at the Carr Lane East and Dwerryhouse Lane junction in Norris Green, Liverpool, on Wednesday 13 January.
The 27-year-old motorcyclist was left with internal injuries and remains in a critical condition in hospital.
A 39-year-old man is in police custody.
An investig... | A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a crash between a motorcycle and a car which left the rider in hospital. |
32,209,048 | Instead of the familiar 0700 jingle-and-bulletin that got us moving kettlewards, listeners to the news channel France-Info have had to endure 21 days of recorded messages and music.
Non-striking journalists periodically manage to put together short sequences on the station, but it is a pale shadow of the real thing.
Ma... | For three weeks the morning ritual for millions of people in France has been rudely interrupted by a strike at one of the country's great public sector institutions: Radio France. |
32,387,214 | Based on the 1993 comedy film with Bill Murray, the show will be directed by the Old Vic's new boss Matthew Warchus.
Other plays in his inaugural season include Ibsen's The Master Builder, starring Ralph Fiennes, and Pinter's The Caretaker, with Timothy Spall.
Warchus is taking over from Kevin Spacey, the Old Vic's art... | A new stage musical of Groundhog Day is to have its world premiere at the Old Vic in London next year. |
37,495,774 | Last year, National Grid said it would use underground cables instead of pylons between Anglesey and the mainland in Gwynedd.
It said this would protect the Menai Strait's natural beauty.
The tunnel will be based on a network of power tunnels in central London.
Plans to connect Wylfa Newydd at Cemaes Bay to a substatio... | A tunnel under the Menai Strait, which will contain cables linking Wylfa Newydd nuclear power station to the National Grid, is set to cost £100m and take up to five years to complete. |
35,342,664 | Managing director of ITV Studios Kevin Lygo will replace him next month.
Fincham said it was "time to do something different" but added that while he had "no firm plans", he would consider a return to the indie sector.
ITV's chief executive Adam Crozier paid tribute to Fincham as a "great creative partner" and added th... | ITV director of television Peter Fincham is leaving the post after eight years, it has been announced. |
39,006,501 | Business rates, charged on property in England, are due to change in April for the first time in seven years.
Calculations by consultancy Gerald Eve suggest changes to the rateable value of schools mean some will face 40% bill increases.
The government said its own figures suggested state schools overall would see a 2%... | A sharp rise in schools' business rates could push some budgets beyond breaking point, say head teachers' leaders. |
40,198,727 | The carrier reported a pre-tax loss of £19.9m in the year to 31 March, despite revenues rising 13.4% to £707.4m.
Flybe said it would start to reduce the size of its fleet after it saw slowing growth in consumer demand.
However, it insisted the current year was going well and efforts to turn a profit again were well und... | Regional airline Flybe has hit turbulence, running up a near £20m loss after previous expansion plans proved too ambitious. |
37,857,527 | Media playback is not supported on this device
Ashton Hewitt went over to put the hosts in the lead while Angus O'Brien kicked the Dragons further ahead.
Two Jack Carty penalties put Connacht back into the game at the break before Hewitt touched down once more.
O'Brien's two drop-goals extended their lead but Niyi Adeo... | Newport Gwent Dragons won just their second game in the Pro12 this season as they overcame a late Connacht comeback at Rodney Parade. |
40,541,776 | The pupil was on a bus carrying 21 students from Barton-under-Needwood in Staffordshire when it crashed in Birmingham.
She was confirmed dead at the scene in the Castle Vale area of the city.
The teenager was a pupil at John Taylor High School.
Tributes have been paid to Holly, with one person writing on social media: ... | A 14-year-old girl who died after a minibus carrying school pupils on a field trip collided with a bin lorry has been named in reports as Holly Brown. |
38,651,506 | Patrick Mugadza announced last week that the 92-year-old head of state would die on 17 October this year.
His lawyer, Gift Mtisi, told the BBC that he was relaying a "message from God. Police would have to prove that God didn't say it".
Mr Mugabe mocks frequent rumours of his death, saying he has been resurrected more ... | A Zimbabwean pastor who predicted the death of President Robert Mugabe has been arrested, his lawyer says. |
35,277,289 | Connie Jennings, 96, died following the crash on Friday morning, near Murthly on the A9. Ms Jennings was from West Yorkshire.
She was a passenger in a Mazda CX5 which collided with a D&E Coaches single-decker bus.
The driver of the car, a woman in her 60s, sustained less serious injuries. No one else was hurt in the cr... | Police have released the name of a woman who died after a collision between a car and a bus in Perthshire. |
23,778,279 | 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. |
30,619,889 | British producer Ronson got his first number one with Uptown Funk on 14 December, and the single has now claimed the final top spot of 2014.
It was released five weeks early after it was performed by Fleur East on The X Factor, later topping the iTunes chart.
Haenow had topped the Christmas chart with OneRepublic's Som... | Mark Ronson's collaboration with Bruno Mars has reclaimed the number one spot in the singles chart, pushing X Factor winner Ben Haenow down to number two. |
35,541,642 | Mr Deby took power in a coup in 1990 and later introduced elections.
A referendum in 2005 scrapped a clause restricting presidents to two terms, but Mr Deby said that if he gets re-elected he will reinstate it.
In the last year, Burundi, Rwanda and Congo-Brazzaville have all changed their constitutions to allow their p... | Chad's President Idriss Deby has announced he will run for a fifth term in April's elections. |
39,416,747 | The Serbian club had been banned for three seasons because of the issue.
European football's governing body Uefa said Partizan had broken rules on unpaid debts three times in the past five years.
However a Court of Arbitration for Sport statement said Partizan had provided "new evidence" to show it had paid its tax bil... | Partizan Belgrade have had their European ban lifted after providing evidence they had cleared unpaid debts. |
35,416,537 | Their name, "luk thep", literally translates as "child angels" and people believe they bring good fortune and they are pampered by their owners as if they were children.
But the privileges lavished upon them have also drawn a backlash and warnings from Thai authorities.
After purchasing a doll, the owner brings it to a... | A craze for eerily lifelike supernatural dolls has swept Thailand in recent months. |
35,843,305 | David Lee Cartwright, from Cefn Mawr, Wrexham, was travelling towards Mold where he worked at the town's Tesco store when the incident happened on Tuesday evening at Pontblyddyn.
He died at the scene.
North Wales Police are appealing for witnesses to the crash involving his red Volkswagen Bora on the A541 road at 21:50... | A 31-year-old man who died after his car crashed on a Flintshire road has been named by police. |
35,681,713 | The 24-year-old Welshman, who competes in the F42 category, managed 16.14m with his penultimate throw against his able-bodied rivals, finishing fifth.
It beat his previous best of 15.93m set at last year's championships.
Davies is aiming to compete in the shot at the Rio Paralympics after his discus event was removed f... | Paralympic champion Aled Davies improved his own shot put world record at the British Indoor Championships in Sheffield. |
33,641,919 | The suspects, 16 and 18 years old, ran away when officers arrived at their house in Broken Arrow, outside of the city of Tulsa.
A child at the home was taken to hospital and is in critical condition. Another child was found unhurt.
Police are investigating the deaths as homicides.
The dead include both adults and child... | Two teenagers have been taken into custody after five relatives were found stabbed to death inside their home in Oklahoma. |
14,084,455 | Thomas Condliff, who weighs 22 stone (140kg) and has type 2 diabetes, is challenging a decision to refuse him a gastric bypass operation.
NHS North Staffordshire says he does not meet its criteria for weight loss surgery.
Decisions about exceptional funding are based on medical factors alone.
Mr Condliff, 62, was initi... | The Court of Appeal will consider if a patient's personal circumstances should influence the NHS when it decides whether to fund treatment. |
39,076,391 | Llanelli MP Nia Griffith said "everything" will be discussed in the wake of the loss of the English safe seat.
She failed to give Mr Corbyn her full support in a BBC Radio Cymru interview.
Mr Corbyn has said he will not step down in the wake of the loss to the Conservatives.
Copeland had been held by Labour for more th... | Jeremy Corbyn's future will form part of discussions around the fall out of the Copeland by-election, Labour's shadow defence secretary has said. |
40,732,632 | Out of 39 mental health trusts that provided figures for their crisis teams, 27 had seen their workload increase - 70%.
And some had seen referrals rise by as much as 60% - but without a comparable rise in funding.
NHS England said an extra £400m would be spent on crisis resolution teams.
BBC Radio 5 live contacted al... | Services for people who are suicidal or self-harming are facing unprecedented demand in England, a BBC Radio 5 live investigation has found. |
35,496,147 | Rhys Bennett, who was 12 at the time, was chased by the dog in a Leicestershire park, pulled to the ground and bitten on his face and body.
The dog handler said he had released the dog because he did not realise Rhys and his friends were children.
Leicestershire Police confirmed that an out-of-court settlement had been... | A man who needed facial reconstructive surgery after being attacked by a police dog as a child has been given £10,000 in compensation. |
39,509,234 | Winch operator Paul Ormsby and winch man Ciarán Smith have been missing since Rescue 116 crashed off the County Mayo coast on 14 March.
The Irish Coast Guard said the search would now also cover coastline along Counties Donegal and Galway.
Four people were on board the helicopter when it came down.
Capt Dara Fitzpatric... | The search for two Irish Coast Guard crew members missing since a helicopter crash has been extended along the Irish coast. |
35,163,322 | The firm failed to meet a deadline to provide fuel tank safety instructions to airlines, among other issues, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
Boeing has agreed to pay the fine and take action to improve certification.
The agency said it "does not allege that these issues created unsafe conditions".
"It is impe... | Aircraft maker Boeing is to pay a $12m (£8m) fine for "multiple pending and potential enforcement cases", the US air regulator has said. |
33,869,395 | The Fringe act Dolls, who work with the Cirk La Putyka, carried out the stunt above traffic on Friday.
Josa Koelbel and Bellina Sorensson, from the Czech Republic, dangled from the bridge in a bid to promote their show at the Underbelly Lafayette tent.
Edinburgh City Council said the performers had failed to apply for ... | A police investigation has been launched into a Fringe trapeze stunt from an Edinburgh city centre bridge. |
32,395,024 | Teresa Kidd, 44, admitted stealing the cash from Glasgow-based Maclay Murray and Spens LLP, where she worked as a purchase ledger supervisor.
Glasgow Sheriff Court heard how she duped bosses into signing documents that paid money into bank accounts owned by her and her then partner.
Sentence on Kidd was deferred and sh... | A financial worker is facing a jail term for embezzling £176,696 from one of Scotland's top legal firms. |
34,468,384 | The Insolvency Service said enough coal would be bought to keep the ovens alight as talks with "interested parties" continue about their future.
A spokesman said a further decision would be made next week.
The steelworks are with receivers after owners SSI UK went into liquidation, blaming a slump in global steel price... | Coke ovens at the SSI Steelworks in Redcar will remain lit until at the least the weekend, the site's receivers have confirmed. |
40,449,768 | Mae'r Ysgrifennydd Addysg, Kirsty Williams wedi dweud mai cau ysgolion ddylai fod y cam olaf, ar ôl ystyried yr holl effeithiau ar y gymuned leol.
Am y tro cyntaf, bydd ysgolion gwledig yng Nghymru yn cael eu diffinio'n benodol, gyda Llywodraeth Cymru yn ffurfio rhestr o 'ysgolion gwledig' er mwyn eu diogelu ymhellach.... | Mae rheolau newydd ynglŷn â chadw ysgolion gwledig ar agor wedi cael eu cyhoeddi gan Lywodraeth Cymru. |
36,757,795 | The report on business trends from the accountancy and services group BDO said the UK economy was already showing signs of slowing ahead of the EU vote.
Manufacturing had the gloomiest outlook, and job creation in the economy slowed to a two-year low.
BDO's Peter Hemington said uncertainty prompted by Brexit had also d... | Uncertainty around Brexit has dragged UK business output and optimism to three-year lows, a report suggests. |
37,437,454 | A house and a number of cars in the city's Hazelbank area have been targeted in recent days.
It is believed youths fill a drain pipe with mud before launching it like a catapult at homes and vehicles.
Sinn Féin councillor Eric McGinley has called on those involved to stop immediately.
"Apart from the mess which has bee... | Drivers are being put in "very real danger" by youths throwing so-called muck bombs in Derry, says a local councillor. |
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But visitors to Niagara Falls in North America got a shock when they saw adventurer Will Gadd climbing UP a frozen section.
Niagara Falls is actually a collection of three waterfalls - he made it up an icy part of Horseshoe Falls, th... | When you think of waterfalls, you tend to picture stuff going down... |
38,324,237 | Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of sight loss in the developed world.
Patients are usually treated with ongoing monthly injections directly into their eyes.
Australian and Chinese researchers believe gold nanoparticles could help better deliver drugs to the eye.
Their study, published this w... | Gold nanotechnology could help reduce the number of injections needed to treat a common form of blindness, researchers believe. |
35,559,426 | If you have a picture you would like to share, please see below the images for details on how to submit yours. | Each day we feature a photograph sent in from across England - the gallery will grow during the week. |
38,696,450 | Tunnicliffe, 24, worked with Wigan boss Warren Joyce when he was coming through the Manchester United youth system.
Browne, 19, made his professional debut in the Europa League this season and has also played in the EFL Trophy.
"Marcus is a young player with great potential and will strengthen our group," said manager ... | Wigan Athletic have signed midfielders Ryan Tunnicliffe and Marcus Browne from Fulham and West Ham on loan until the end of the season. |
34,172,410 | They studied 156 stroke patients with different patterns of brain injury.
More of those with insular cortex damage successfully gave up smoking and reported fewer withdrawal symptoms than the other stroke patients.
Experts say targeting this brain area may help other smokers quit.
Most stop smoking medicines currently ... | A particular region of the brain may drive smoking addiction, say scientists who found stroke survivors with damage to their insular cortex more easily kicked the habit. |
40,366,071 | About 170 people are set to climb the Brecon Beacons peak on Saturday.
The washing line is visiting well-known sites across the UK throughout June.
The chief executive of Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, said she wanted people to talk about the "taboo subject" of baby death.
Dr Clea Harmer said the cam... | A washing line pegged with 15 babygrows is to be carried up Pen Y Fan to raise awareness of the number of babies who die shortly before, during or after birth in the UK each day. |
28,686,114 | The surrogate says they deliberately left Gammy behind, but took his healthy twin sister. The couple deny this.
It later emerged that the man had previously been convicted for child sex offences.
Officials say they have now managed to reach the couple, but have no major concerns at present.
The contact follows days of ... | Australia's child protection services have contacted a couple accused of abandoning a baby with Down's syndrome to his surrogate mother in Thailand. |
39,278,421 | Rex Tillerson, who has no previous political experience, will be visiting countries in the shadow of North Korea's nuclear programme.
Global superpower China may be the key to that problem, and to stability in the region, but relations with the US are strained at the moment, partly over comments Mr Tillerson himself ha... | The new US secretary of state is heading off on his first trip to Asia, where diplomatic tensions run high. |
33,969,640 | Researchers studied more than 1,000 fossils of the Montsechia Vidalii species as part of the study.
The plant resembled a pond-weed but bore fruit containing a single seed - the defining characteristic of a flowering plant.
The scientists say it grew in Spanish lakes more than 125 million years ago.
"A 'first flower' i... | Botanists in the US say an ancient plant that grew underwater in what is modern day Europe may have been the world's first known flowering plant. |
39,913,418 | Police found the injured 18-year-old after they were called to Hertford Road, Enfield, on Saturday at 22:30 BST over reports of a fight.
He was taken to hospital but was pronounced dead an hour later. Two others also suffered stab wounds.
In a separate incident, a man was shot and stabbed to death in broad daylight nea... | A man has been stabbed to death and two others injured during a large brawl in north London. |
33,262,906 | According to reports, he was a member of the firm's UK team.
He was understood to have been attending the Cannes Lions event, an annual gathering of people in the advertising and marketing industry.
In a statement, Google said: "We lost a loved and respected member of our team. We are deeply saddened and our thoughts a... | A Google executive has been killed in an accident in Cannes, France, the search company has confirmed. |
39,747,570 | Spanish forward Jose Callejon scored the winner for the Naples-based club, who are now one point behind second-placed Roma with four games left.
The top two qualify for the Champions League group stage.
Inter are now without a win in six league games and are in seventh spot in the Serie A table.
Earlier, Roma lost 3-1 ... | Napoli increased the pressure on Roma in the race for a Champions League group stage place with a narrow victory at Inter Milan. |
35,862,732 | Addicks supporters have staged a series of protests aimed at the Belgian businessman in recent months, prompting a statement claiming some fans "want the club to fail".
"Whether you like protests or not, the fans feel they need to be heard," Powell told BBC Radio London.
"They want answers and, quite clearly, they are ... | Former Charlton boss Chris Powell says fans deserve to know what owner Roland Duchatelet has planned for the club. |
23,612,377 | John Radford is in a critical condition after being airlifted to hospital following the incident last week.
The 69-year-old is the chairman of Huddersfield and District Cyclists and was promoting a campaign calling for better investigation of road accidents.
Two men have been arrested and bailed in connection with the ... | Hundreds of cyclists took part in a charity ride in Huddersfield to support a cyclist who was left in a coma following a collision with a car. |
34,614,272 | Work to build the Pontio centre at Bangor University began in 2012 - and it is already a year late opening.
The new centre houses a theatre, digital cinema, students' union, bars and restaurant and business innovation spaces.
A full programme of artistic events is due to get under way from December.
Prof Jerry Hunter, ... | A £50m arts and innovation centre project in Gwynedd is finally getting its finishing touches, university officials have said. |
34,003,292 | Dyfed-Powys PCC Christopher Salmon has called on the Welsh government to adopt the same plans floated in England.
It follows a report in The Times that PCCs would replace fire authorities under UK government plans to be announced next month.
The Welsh government said it would be better to devolve policing.
Mr Salmon we... | The control of fire services in Wales should be offered to police and crime commissioners (PCC), it has been argued. |
39,276,636 | The Irish News says in the last three years the equivalent of 15,000 tins of beer have been seen seized from the streets of Belfast's Holylands.
The paper says in the same period 1,800 complaints of anti-social behaviour have been made.
These included drunkenness, verbal abuse and "loud partying".
Police and other agen... | Binge drinking in an area of south Belfast, a loyalist feud in Carrickfergus and claims of bullying make the front pages on Wednesday. |
29,438,699 | Sturridge, 25, is not in Hodgson's latest squad after suffering a thigh strain on England duty last month.
Reds boss Brendan Rodgers criticised England's handling of the player, and did not want him to be called up for games against San Marino and Estonia.
"It's simply a fact, an unfortunate fact, that he's not recover... | England manager Roy Hodgson has rejected talk of a rift with Liverpool over injured striker Daniel Sturridge. |
40,496,613 | John Fleming, of Anstruther-based ICS Fisheries Ltd, stole nearly £500,000 during the six-year scam.
He reclaimed VAT on expenses his business had never incurred.
Fleming, 59, from Balmullo, pleaded guilty on indictment to a charge under the Value Added Tax Act committed between May 2007 and July 2013.
His lawyer said ... | A Fife fisheries boss who faked invoices to scam "astronomical" sums from the taxman has been jailed for two years and eight months. |
34,402,278 | A hospital trust official emailed mid Wales politicians to say it had failed to recruit foreign nurses because it could not get Home Office approval.
Nursing is not on the Shortage Occupation List, giving priority to migrants with specific qualifications.
UK ministers said they took independent advice on the list and t... | The UK government's immigration policy is contributing to an NHS staff crisis, the Welsh Liberal Democrats have said. |
38,809,920 | The victim, a 33-year-old man, was left in a serious condition in hospital after a "violent attack" on Friday, police said.
A 29-year-old man has now been arrested in connection with the incident and is due to appear at Paisley Sheriff Court later.
The incident took place after the victim left a friend's flat in Argyle... | A man has been arrested over an attempted murder in Paisley. |
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