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Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard knocked down shortstop Alcides Escobar with the first pitch of the game, a 98mph fastball that whizzed past his head.
Syndergaard said he had thrown the ball to "make a statement".
The Mets trail the best-of-seven series 2-1, with the fourth game taking place at Citi Field on Saturday nigh... | The Kansas City Royals were angered by aggressive tactics from the New York Mets as they lost game three of the World Series 9-3. | 34687048 |
The honour recognises those who have made an outstanding contribution to broadcast entertainment throughout their careers.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) said "no one is more deserving" of the award than Cleese.
The Rose d'Or awards go to the best online, radio and TV shows from the previous year.
Cleese, who al... | Monty Python and Fawlty Towers star John Cleese is to receive the Rose d'Or Lifetime Achievement award in Berlin. | 37093116 |
Gloucestershire police boss Martin Surl said he was "hugely disappointed" an offer to discuss the idea with the county council was rejected.
The authority has paid about £25,000 to look into the government proposals.
Gloucestershire County Council said the interim report suggested it would cost money to transfer contr... | A council has rejected plans to give responsibility for the county fire service to the police and crime commissioner, it has been claimed. | 38907701 |
Defender McGee, 29, will now remain with Royals until June 2018.
McGee, who joined Reading from Portsmouth in 2014, made 19 appearances for the club last season.
"I'm really grateful to have been given the opportunity to continue my full-time career," McGee said. "It's a really exciting time to be at the club with the ... | Reading Women's captain Kirsty McGee has signed a new contract with the Women's Super League One club. | 38883860 |
About 500 armed police officers were involved in the operation.
Dozens of addicts reacted in anger, vandalising cars and looting shops.
Sao Paulo's centre-right Mayor Joao Doria said the operation marked the end of impunity in the area, widely known as Cracolandia or Crackland.
Critics say the move will merely push the... | Brazilian police have arrested nearly 40 people for drug trafficking offences in central Sao Paulo where crack cocaine has been sold and consumed freely for years. | 39994177 |
It has taken just over three years to build the facility in Iskandar, Joho, and will house to about 3,000 students.
The campus is made up of two buildings, centred around an atrium known as the 'Heartspace' - a space where students can relax.
Spokesman Trevor Hawkins said the campus would promote research and economic ... | The University of Reading has officially opened its £25m Malaysia campus. | 35658862 |
Lorenz was preoccupied with the idea that tiny changes to a complex system like the weather could produce dramatic and wholly unpredictable consequences.
But it's unlikely that even Lorenz could have imagined what would happen next when Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta received an email in March notifyi... | In 1972, the mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz gave a lecture entitled: "Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?" | 38303381 |
The yacht Iolaire was wrecked on a reef called the Beasts of Holm just off the Isle of Lewis in the early hours of 1 January 1919.
The boat was carrying home hundreds of sailors after the end of World War One.
The memorials are planned as part of events commemorating the centenary of the tragedy.
A number of communitie... | Every community that suffered losses in the Iolaire disaster nearly 100 years ago could have a sculpture remembering the 205 men who died. | 40340958 |
Ryan Hedges tapped in for the only goal of the game on 36 minutes to leave the Chairboys still in search of their first league victory on the road this season.
Yeovil came close early on when Nathan Smith drilled a low shot from the edge of the area and drew a good save out of Jamal Blackman, before Garry Thompson spur... | Yeovil ran out winners at home to Wycombe to end a run of two straight defeats in League Two. | 37527778 |
Writing in the Church Times, Bishop North said the Church joined a middle-class "bandwagon of outrage and horror" in its response to Brexit.
But he said it was important the Church stopped "condemning" those who voted for Brexit and listened to them.
The Church said it was considering how to better serve "outer urban e... | The Church of England would not have been surprised by Brexit had it still been present in the UK's most deprived areas, the Bishop of Burnley has said. | 38195260 |
Figures from 125 councils in England and Wales obtained by a Freedom of Information request found a huge range in responses to assessment requests.
On average half of all requests by parents to get help are turned down.
The Local Government Association says standards are clearly set to try to meet the needs of each chi... | Families of children with special educational needs are facing a postcode lottery to get extra help at schools, BBC 5 live Investigates suggests. | 31858681 |
The 27-year-old British number two failed to trouble Babos as the Hungarian claimed victory in just over an hour in Mexico.
Babos, 23, will face second seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarter-finals.
Defending champion Heather Watson takes on Russia's Ekaterina Makarova in her second-round tie at 22:15 BST. | Britain's Naomi Broady was beaten 6-3 6-2 by fifth seed Timea Babos in the second round of the Monterrey Open. | 39512091 |
There were 67 attacks on postmen in Northern Ireland from April 2016 to April 2017.
That was a rise of 20% on the previous year, whereas throughout the UK the number of attacks dropped by 7%.
Over the last five years, there have been 329 attacks on postmen in Northern Ireland and 14,500 across the UK.
"I was just going... | Northern Ireland had the highest number of dog attacks on postal workers in the UK last year, according to Royal Mail. | 40480096 |
That they will now be beaten in both the Test and the series is a result of a first-innings collapse and some really poor bowling.
"Plunkett's dismissal summed it up. We thought the nightmare of Australia was over but it is still here. I don't know where this side go.
"Cook is in terrible form. He will get tenser, it w... | From an England perspective, the fourth day of the second Test against Sri Lanka was entirely deflating and leaves the home side facing defeat in a match they had no right to lose. | 27988471 |
Ms McFarland, an ex-Fox News analyst, has been offered the role of ambassador to Singapore instead, Bloomberg and Reuters report.
It comes days after Mr Trump removed his senior strategist Steve Bannon from the National Security Council (NSC).
The NSC advises the president on national security and foreign affairs.
Mr B... | President Donald Trump's deputy national security adviser, KT McFarland, has been asked to step down after just three months, US media say. | 39546360 |
Fish will be relocated during the work at Tinsley Locks using electrofishing - when a low voltage stuns them and allows them to be moved.
The 30-year-old gates on the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal will then be removed with a crane and new ones installed.
The work - on locks 5, 6, 10 and 11 - is being carried out by the C... | A well-known section of canal in Sheffield is being drained ahead of a £500,000 lock repair project. | 35500620 |
So the oil producers' group has agreed in principle to take action to try and lift the price, in the shape of a target for how much the member countries will produce.
A meeting of the group's energy ministers in Vienna will try to hammer out the details. And that is where the devil lies.
Opec currently consists of 14 m... | Oil prices are too low for the taste of Opec, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. | 38137125 |
The Clydesdale Bank will issue two million of the polymer £5 notes, which it says are more secure and durable than paper notes.
The bank is one of three in Scotland authorised to issue banknotes.
It is releasing the limited edition notes a year before the Bank of England puts plastic banknotes in general circulation.
T... | Plastic bank notes are going into circulation in Britain for the first time. | 32000610 |
The victory over the visiting Ghanaian side sees the Algerians through to the last four on the head-to-head rule.
A goal shortly after the break from France-born Chadian international Morgan Betorangal proved to be the winner for Bejaia.
It was only the second goal the Algerian side have scored in the six matches of th... | Algerian club Mouloudia Bejaia edged into the semi-finals of the Confederation Cup with a 1-0 win over Ghana's Medeama on Tuesday. | 37156482 |
The Frenchman fired home his first after being played in by Lewis Grabban, but James Chester soon headed home Conor Hourihane's corner to equalise.
Mendes squandered an easy chance, but made no mistake after the break as he swept home his second of the game.
Grabban sealed the win from the spot after Leandro Bacuna fou... | Joseph Mendes scored early in each half as Reading climbed back up to fourth in the Championship by ending Aston Villa's five-match unbeaten run. | 39536417 |
The Electoral Reform Society (ERS) said the general election results gave the leading parties in each nation far more seats than justified by voting share.
In Wales, Labour won 37% of the vote but got 63% of the seats.
The society said the first-past-the-post electoral system could not cope with "modern multi-party dem... | The UK is being "artificially divided" by a voting system which exaggerates political differences between the four nations, a campaign group has warned. | 33077661 |
Friends said Trudy Moorhouse, from Badingham, had been at the Co-op in Laxfield for eight years without any complaints about her appearance.
Yolanda Howard said after a shop refit Mrs Moorhouse was asked to "dress more appropriately".
The Co-op said it had a "clear dress code". Mrs Moorhouse would not comment.
Hundreds... | A woman has had to cover her tattoos and wear a wig over her pink hair to appear "more normal" while working at a Suffolk shop. | 32993960 |
UK landline calls will go up from 7.6p a minute to 7.95p a minute. Line rental prices will also rise, but calls to mobiles will be unchanged.
The changes come after a 10% rise in call charges a year ago, and a 9% increase in April.
But BT said these prices would now be frozen until 2013.
In July, BT group said profits ... | Telecoms giant BT is to raise call charges for residential customers by up to 5% on 3 December - the second increase this year. | 14677298 |
The bottles were seized as part of an operation to tackle organised crime within the city's Albanian community, Sussex Police said.
Several premises are being investigated for breaching licence conditions, a spokeswoman added.
Earlier raids also saw eight people charged with drugs offences and 11 people arrested.
Detai... | More than 100 bottles of illegal alcohol have been seized from a pub, cafes and other businesses in Brighton. | 36506451 |
Most of these deaths were caused by accidental electrocution, Bijayshree Routray told Press Trust of India news agency.
Over a third of the elephants were killed by electric shock and hanging electricity wires, he said.
There are around 26,000 wild elephants in India where it is a heritage animal.
"The government has s... | Nearly 300 wild elephants have died in India's Orissa state in the past five years, the state's forest and environment minister has said. | 20150702 |
However, sales to the rest of the United Kingdom expanded by 6% to £13.8bn.
Great Britain sales have become relatively more important to Northern Ireland businesses in recent years.
The Republic of Ireland continues to be the single, biggest export market with sales of £3.4bn.
The figures come from the Northern Ireland... | The value of goods and services exported by Northern Ireland companies fell by 5% in 2015 to £9.1bn. | 38981105 |
Jim Sherrit's restored three-man bunker is 20ft (6m) below ground and only accessible by hatch and ladder.
The Maggie Ewing - a renovated ex-boat wheelhouse - is owned by David Carter and made from one of the last boats ever commercially built in Caithness.
The entries are among a shortlist of 32 from around the UK.
Co... | A nuclear bunker in Brechin and a fishing boat cabin in the Highlands are in the running for this year's coveted Shed of the Year award. | 36378840 |
The Briton, 31, finished second in the last race in Italy, behind Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg, after dropping from pole to sixth at the beginning.
"If you gauge my season, then the championship could be lost by starts," he said. "From a lot of pole positions, I've lost the race from the start."
He leads Rosberg by ... | Lewis Hamilton says his title chances this year could depend on whether he can end his problems with race starts. | 37379809 |
Adam Lockwood's side took the lead when Will Hatfield netted with an outstanding strike from outside the penalty area, the effort veering past an unsighted Rory Watson.
The visitors refused to buckle though and Reece Thompson nearly equalised early in the second half when his deflected effort hit the post.
The same pla... | North Ferriby gave their survival hopes a boost with a vital win at 10-man Guiseley. | 39012256 |
John Fahy, 25, of Groagagh, Grange in County Sligo, was acquitted of two charges of causing death and grievous bodily injury by careless driving.
Nineteen-month-old Ryan Cox died in the crash on Boa Island Road near Belleek in January 2013.
The jury reached a unanimous verdict at Dungannon Crown Court in acquitting the... | A man has been found not guilty of causing the death of a toddler in a car crash in County Fermanagh. | 35055167 |
The contract will see 660 "state of the art" carriages built from the Bombardier factory in Derby.
It is part of a £1.4bn boost to rail services for passengers across East Anglia, announced by the Department for Transport.
The DfT said it is one of the biggest ever orders for British-built trains.
Live reaction in East... | One of the UK's last train makers has been awarded a £1bn contract as part of "the biggest investment in the railways since the Victorian era". | 37031833 |
Operations director John Stoddard, 41, was killed at the Higher Kings plant at Cullompton, Devon, in 2011.
Exeter Crown Court heard DS Smith Paper had failed to act on 73 urgent safety recommendations from a report compiled 11 months earlier.
The company admitted failing to ensure safe working.
Mr Stoddard died instant... | A paper company has been fined £400,000 after a number of "serious safety failings" led to an employee being crushed by a machine. | 33871908 |
Wigan went ahead through Joel Tomkins' try before Luke Walsh replied in an intense first half that ended 6-6.
George Williams scored a fantastic solo try for Wigan, but Adam Swift danced in to reduce the deficit to two points.
Jon Wilkin's high kick was collected by Jones three minutes from time to seal St Helens' come... | Josh Jones scored a late try as St Helens came from behind to beat Wigan and move to within a point of Super League's top spot. | 34263121 |
Pc Ruth Goldie said she spotted a tied up bundle while searching a cavity beneath a caravan close to one owned by Carol Anne Taggart.
Mrs Taggart's son Ross denies murdering her between 21 December last year and 11 January this year.
He is alleged to have struck her on the head and compressed her throat.
Pc Goldie, a p... | A policewoman who helped search for a missing woman told a murder trial she found a body after a hatch underneath a Fife caravan was opened. | 34860070 |
The ex-Welsh national champion beat Stuart Hardy in the singles final before also winning the doubles.
Le Tocq, 33, has not been beaten at the Senior Closed championships since 2002.
"I've got a decision to make as to whether it's good for me to play until someone beats me or if it's someone else's turn," he told BBC G... | Paul Le Tocq says he is unsure whether he will continue to defend his Guernsey badminton title after winning the men's singles for a 10th time. | 35004230 |
When I worked with Pietersen in commentary at the World Cup he was very focused indeed. He is absolutely determined to win back his England place, and I am sure Pietersen sees this decision as an extra incentive for him to work on his comeback and what he will see as an even more realistic opportunity now.
The Kevin Pi... | Kevin Pietersen is not guaranteed a return to international cricket because of Paul Downton's departure from the England and Wales Cricket Board - but he will definitely see it as another stumbling block cleared out of the way. | 32226796 |
Former UK regulator Sir Alasdair Breckenridge said new cancer drugs could be among those affected.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he did not expect the UK to remain within the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
The Department for Health said Brexit offered new opportunities to bring timely access to new drugs.
Sir Ala... | Patients in the UK could face delays getting new drugs if Britain withdraws from the EU's medicines regulator, ministers have been warned. | 38922366 |
Young Muslims were having "poison dripped into their ear" through "foreign-funded" mosques.
Prime Minister David Cameron said liberal values would prevail in what he called a "battle of ideas".
Muslim leaders have condemned the Paris attacks, saying there is "nothing Islamic" about the perpetrators.
French investigator... | Faith institutions should have to declare all sources of funding as part of efforts to counter radicalisation, UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said. | 34838977 |
The three-span cable-stayed structure that will stretch between Castletown and Pallion is supported by a 115m (379ft) A-frame pylon.
This was manufactured on the continent and has been transported from the Port of Ghent in Belgium.
It travelled on a massive barge which docked at the Port of Sunderland.
Over the next fe... | Part of a new road bridge being constructed over the River Wear has completed a two-day journey across the North Sea. | 38542038 |
The charges relate to an attack in the North Seaton area which occurred in the early hours of Tuesday.
Northumbria Police said 40-year-old Munawar Hussain, from Ashington, had been charged with two counts of rape and one of assault by penetration.
A force spokesman said Mr Hussain was due to appear before magistrates i... | Police have charged a man in connection with a rape in Northumberland. | 36601031 |
Jim Sharp, 66, suffered multiple injuries in an accident at Newbigging Walls farm, near Lauder, in March.
A fatal accident inquiry heard that his shoe lace became entangled in a rotating blade inside a grain silo.
NFU Scotland and the Health and Safety Executive have reminded farmers to use the safe stop procedure when... | Safety guidelines have been issued following the death of a sheep farmer from the Borders. | 30477276 |
Police told the BBC the bomb was detonated at the gate of the New Kabul Bank branch in Lashkar Gah.
The Taliban say they planted the explosives.
Members of the security forces are reportedly among casualties, as well as shoppers preparing for the Eid religious festival.
Earlier, Tolo News reported that armed attackers ... | At least 34 people have been killed and 58 wounded in a car bomb blast outside a bank in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, government officials say. | 40366098 |
EnQuest will secure 25% of BP's Magnus stake, and a 3% share of the Shetland facility.
It is expected that about 100 BP staff linked with Magnus, and about 240 at Sullom Voe, will also transfer to EnQuest.
The company will have future options to take full ownership of Magnus and a larger Sullom Voe stake.
The deal also... | BP is to sell part of its interests in the Magnus oil field and Sullom Voe terminal in Shetland for £68m ($85m). | 38730082 |
Exit polls suggest his coalition will win most of the 121 seats in contention, increasing its majority.
If he secures a two-thirds majority to match that in the lower house, he could hold a vote on constitutional change, easing constraints on military action.
But Mr Abe says it is too early to talk about this controver... | Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has claimed victory in an election for the upper house of parliament, saying voters backed his economic policies. | 36757872 |
But a new invention could provide the answer to cleaning up the ocean - by sifting off all the rubbish.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a massive area of ocean in America between California and Hawaii, where loads of plastic waste gathers.
But now a Dutch company hope they've come up with an idea that will make clea... | Plastic rubbish dumped in the sea causes big problems for sea life, and can pollute the water we drink. | 39921749 |
Statistics from July show 75.3% of vehicles responding to life threatening "red calls" arrived within eight minutes - exceeding the target of 65%.
It comes as the average number of calls handled by the ambulance service each day went up by 3.4% in a month.
But Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said there was more work t... | Ambulances around Wales have met their response times target for the tenth month in row - an achievement hailed as "encouraging" by the health secretary. | 37228758 |
The Care Quality Commission said there were 3,500 beds in locked facilities across the country, but it believes more people could and should get care in residential settings close to home.
The report said safety on mental health wards was another major concern.
NHS England said progress was being made with higher fundi... | Too many patients are locked into mental health rehabilitation wards far from home, a review of England's psychiatric services suggests. | 40660081 |
The craze of real life escape rooms, or exit games, has really taken off in the past couple of years.
Less than two years ago there were only seven of them in the UK. Now there are nearly 100, and new ones are opening almost every week.
A bit like the fondly remembered TV programmes The Adventure Game and The Crystal M... | Just what is the attraction of paying to be locked in a room for an hour, and having to discover clues and solve puzzles to get out? | 35074346 |
Katie Redford was due to play the 14-year-old granddaughter of Gail McIntyre later this year.
Producers were led into believing the actress was 19-years-old. Her real age is 25.
A press release sent out by the ITV soap last week revealed Katie would take up the role in what she described as a "dream come true".
"It was... | Coronation Street has sacked the actress who was due to play Bethany Platt because she lied about her age. | 30883668 |
The teams have to officially close their factories down for two weeks and are not allowed to do any work on their cars, or even use work email.
But team bosses and drivers have mobile phones, and there is a lot to sort out in the coming weeks.
Driver contracts need to be sorted out for 2018, some teams could change eng... | Formula 1 heads off on its official summer break at the end of this week but away from the cameras there will be plenty going on. | 40776162 |
Four lanes of traffic will be reduced to two while repairs to the Bromley Heath Viaduct on the Avon Ring Road take place, starting in the summer.
A South Gloucestershire Council report projects queues back to the Dramway roundabout beyond Emersons Green, almost three miles (4.8 km) away.
Traffic is also predicted to qu... | Roadworks on a ring road around Bristol are predicted to cause tailbacks of up to three miles for up to a year. | 38650414 |
"Your father is ruining the country," the man shouted as the aircraft prepared for departure from JFK airport in New York, a passenger told TMZ.com.
Witnesses said Ms Trump ignored the man and distracted her children with toys.
JetBlue airlines said in a statement that "the decision to remove a customer from a flight i... | An airline has thrown a passenger off a flight after he accosted Ivanka Trump, the eldest daughter of President-elect Donald Trump, on a plane from New York. | 38409836 |
The arrest was made on Thursday as part of a joint operation between Wales Extremism Counter Terrorism Unit and West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit.
The man is being questioned at a police station in the West Midlands.
A warrant for further detention was granted by magistrates on Friday which gives detectives a furthe... | A 26-year-old man from the Swansea area has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences. | 38696861 |
"I think we should've done better to try and get the game on," he said.
Mark Jones, head of operations at Rodney Parade, was "disappointed" by Sheridan's comments.
"The pitch was in a playable condition... It then started raining heavily at 12:45," said Jones.
Newport had been confident earlier in the week that the mat... | Newport County manager John Sheridan criticised the club's ground staff after their FA Cup third-round tie against Blackburn was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch at Rodney Parade. | 35271820 |
The blast hit a train at Taipei's Songshan station before midnight leaving some passengers badly burned.
Police told local media they found a broken tube with explosive material inside that looked like a firecracker.
Premier Lin Chuan told media it appeared "malicious" but police have not ruled out an accident.
Police ... | An explosion ripped through a busy commuter train in Taiwan's capital, Taipei, late on Thursday injuring at least 24 people, police say. | 36742640 |
The High Court in Edinburgh heard how Simon Johnston subjected the 71-year-old woman to a violent ordeal which lasted for several hours.
The attack happened at a property in Kirkcaldy, Fife, in June 2015.
Judge Lady Stacey told Johnston she considered him to be a "very serious risk to public safety".
The court heard th... | A 39-year-old man who forced his way into a pensioner's home with the intention of raping her has been jailed for seven years. | 36344599 |
A spokesman for the heavyweight told the Tass news agency the 36-year-old returned "low concentrations" of the substance in a blood sample in April.
Povetkin's promoters say the WBC will now decide whether the 21 May fight with Wilder in Moscow can go ahead.
The World Anti-Doping Agency said in September it was adding ... | Russia's Alexander Povetkin has tested positive for meldonium ahead of his WBC world title fight with Deontay Wilder. | 36290163 |
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Evans, who was convicted in 2012, was released from prison in October and saw a move to Oldham collapse this week.
The 26-year-old has been refused the right to appeal, but the Criminal Cases Review Commission is studying his case.
"I might be upsetting people but there is... | Hull City boss Steve Bruce has questioned the conviction of rapist Ched Evans and says the footballer should be given a chance to play again. | 30742947 |
Crews were called to a kitchen blaze at a house in Edmonton, north London, at about 12:20 GMT on Christmas Day.
After making sure the fire was out, they took the family's dinner back to the station to finish cooking it.
Watch manager Adam Baker said the family had had a "lucky escape" because they had no working smoke ... | Firefighters in London rescued a family's Christmas dinner after the oven caught fire while the turkey was roasting. | 35179101 |
Viktor Sedov, 65, a veteran of the opera house's orchestra for four decades, played in the second violins.
Bolshoi spokeswoman Katerina Novikova confirmed the incident happened on Tuesday and Sedov died of his injuries in hospital on Wednesday.
She added Sedov was much loved in the theatre for his "sense of humour and ... | A senior violinist at Russia's Bolshoi Theatre has died after falling into the orchestra pit below the stage. | 23348430 |
Clashes occurred after counter-demonstrators flocked to oppose rallies called by right-wing groups Reclaim Australia and United Patriots Front.
One anti-racist campaigner declared victory "against the racists".
But police said the violence meant the message from either side was lost.
Dozens answered the nationalists' c... | Australian nationalist protesters and anti-racist groups have staged rival demonstrations in Melbourne, with police using capsicum spray and horse squads against crowds. | 33581746 |
The ancient humans have been dubbed Denisovans after the caves in Siberia where their remains were found.
There is also evidence that this group was widespread in Eurasia.
A study in Nature journal shows that Denisovans co-existed with Neanderthals and interbred with our species - perhaps around 50,000 years ago.
An in... | Scientists say an entirely separate type of human identified from bones in Siberia co-existed and interbred with our own species. | 12059564 |
The front-runner is a former state governor and Dalit (formerly untouchable) leader, Ram Nath Kovind.
He is being challenged by opposition candidate and India's first woman speaker Meira Kumar who is also a Dalit.
Indian presidents are not elected directly by the people but by an electoral college made up of members of... | Voting is being held in India to elect a new president. | 40628027 |
The 54-year-old left Mercedes in January and a move to Williams has been mooted since December, but the deal took longer than expected to complete.
Lowe, one of the most highly regarded technical leaders in Formula 1, will have responsibility for the engineering side of the entire Williams business.
This includes the F... | Former Mercedes technical boss Paddy Lowe has joined Williams as chief technical officer. | 39289682 |
There is no clear link between infection with Xylella fastidiosa and the dessication symptoms affecting trees in the area, authorities claim.
Ten people in Puglia have been placed under investigation over their handling of the outbreak.
Italy is the EU's second biggest producer of olive oil.
Disease 'major threat' to E... | Prosecutors in southern Italy have halted a cull of olive trees in Puglia, ordered by the European Union over fears of a bacterial infection. | 35144056 |
The rebels carried out the attack in the central region of Cusco - the same area where they kidnapped a group of gas workers in April.
The Shining Path has been severely weakened since it started its insurgency in the 1980s.
However remnants continue to be active in parts of the country and have allied themselves with ... | Left-wing Shining Path rebels in Peru have burned three helicopters used by a private gas consortium, officials say. | 19858757 |
Speaking at the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report on Tuesday, he said he wants the government to accept responsibility.
The report found a school system for indigenous children separated families and tried to weaken their culture.
Over 3,000 children died while at the schools over the la... | Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged "full reconciliation" with Canada's indigenous peoples after a report detailed decades of abuse. | 35105339 |
The Samoa scrum-half, 33, has been with Northampton since joining from the Ospreys in 2013 and was part of their Premiership title-winning side in 2014.
Ford said that the signing of Fotuali'i will add experience to his side.
"We've got some great youngsters but we're going to get that experience, Luke Charteris in, (T... | Bath are to sign Northampton Saints' Kahn Fotuali'i, head coach Mike Ford has revealed to BBC Radio Bristol. | 36248244 |
The 29-year-old only joined Atletico last summer from Bayern Munich and scored 20 goals in 43 games for the Spanish side.
He has agreed a four-year deal with the beaten Champions League finalists, who said the fee could rise to £15m.
"I like Juventus and I like the city [Turin]. I hope I will be happy here. I will figh... | Juventus have signed Croatia striker Mario Mandzukic from Atletico Madrid for £13.6m. | 33219028 |
Ministers are due to publish draft laws modelled on Irish legislation introduced in 2010, with prison sentences of up to seven years.
However, a senior Irish drugs officer has admitted the law can leave police powerless to prosecute.
The Home Office said the UK system would be "flexible and proportionate".
The Irish Ps... | The UK government is being urged to put off a ban on so-called legal highs after claims similar legislation in the Republic of Ireland is flawed. | 33226526 |
The referendum over whether to remain as five states or form a single region runs until Wednesday.
It is being held amid ongoing insecurity and many displaced people have not been registered to vote.
The US has said the vote will not be credible but President Omar al-Bashir insists it will be free and fair.
Bashir defi... | The western Sudanese region of Darfur is to vote on its administrative status, 13 years after the start of a conflict which has left 300,000 dead. | 36012016 |
But there is something about this picture of Richard Keble - the Keeper of the Great Seal under Cromwell - that has recently led to a few MPs performing double takes when they pass it in the Smoking Room.
Has the Parliamentarian and Judge, who was banned from public office after the Restoration and the return of King C... | There are so many portraits of parliamentary titans of the past on the walls of the Palace of Westminster, that MPs and Peers almost tune them out. | 34294556 |
His wife greeted him at their home in Toronto, Canada, and he was seen on the estate grounds by 14:00 (16:00 GMT).
Black, 67, who controlled an empire including the Daily Telegraph in the UK, and US papers including the Chicago Sun-Times, left prison early on Friday.
Earlier, Canada said he would be allowed to live the... | Former media mogul Conrad Black has been released from prison in Miami after serving just over three years for defrauding investors. | 17959389 |
The 26-year-old Swede, who has played 25 times for the Championship promotion chasers, will undergo surgery on his left knee.
He suffered the injury in Saturday's 1-0 loss to Ipswich.
"The feeling for this type of injury is around the nine months mark to get back," said Hornets head of medical Richard Collinge. | Watford defender Joel Ekstrand is expected to be out until December with a cruciate knee ligament injury. | 32037895 |
Gareth Pugh, 29, from Glynnaeth, Neath Port Talbot, was found in the water at Peterstone Lakes Golf Club, Newport, in February 2016.
Dale Pike, 25, of Glynneath, and Jonathan Pike, 47, of Aberdare, appeared at Cardiff Crown Court accused of manslaughter by gross negligence.
They did not enter a plea and were bailed to ... | Two men have appeared in court on manslaughter charges following the death of a golf club greens keeper. | 38678264 |
If some teachers interpret their new role as propagandists for this kingdom's existing system of governance, that would be a shame, because right now our democracy is not serving this country particularly well.
Far from providing the stability and legitimacy it promises, our peculiar democratic system has served to exp... | Parliamentary democracy is one of the British values that English schools are now required, by statute, to promote during lessons - not debate, not discuss - promote. | 40245805 |
Evans, 25, was convicted of rape in April 2012 and jailed for five years. He is due to be released in October.
The Blades have refused to comment on a possible return for the striker they signed for £3m in 2009.
However, Alan Smith from the official Sheffield United supporters' club said: "I've been told he will be ba... | More than 60,000 people have signed a petition calling on Sheffield United not to re-employ disgraced footballer Ched Evans. | 28769026 |
In 1983, The Conservative MP wrote he "would not rest" until the Paedophile Information Exchange was outlawed.
Lord Brittan wanted to see if existing laws proved adequate first.
Before his death in January this year, the Tory peer had faced questions over his handling of child abuse allegations during his time in offic... | Letters from the 1980s have been released, in which MP Geoffrey Dickens called for then-Home Secretary Leon Brittan to ban a pro-paedophilia group. | 32992155 |
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Station F cost 250m euros (£212m) to renovate and its central section will be able to seat more than 3,000 entrepreneurs.
The site will open later in 2017.
BBC Click finds out more.
See more at Click's website and @BBCClick | A former railway station in Paris is being turned into the world's largest incubator for tech start-ups. | 39705684 |
The NSPCC responded to 691 NI contacts over a 12-month period in 2011/2012.
More than half of the calls (353), resulted in referrals to police or children's services.
The NSPCC said one third of callers from NI had child protection concerns for six months before speaking out.
A further 21% delayed reporting their conce... | A child protection helpline has reported a 58% rise in the number of calls it received from Northern Ireland last year, compared to the previous year. | 21858911 |
Wolff admitted to phoning the 19-year-old's father, Jos Verstappen, but said: "I didn't say to move out of the way, nor to race in any different way."
Verstappen starts Sunday's Brazilian GP fourth with Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg on the front row.
Wolff said the phone call was "a complete non-story".
Red... | Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff has denied claims he asked Max Verstappen's father to tell the Red Bull driver not to interfere in the title fight. | 37964535 |
A tweet on Mr Gandhi's timeline addressed his "haters" and was retweeted by the official account of the Congress party.
The new message appeared shortly after a series of abusive tweets on both accounts were deleted.
Mr Gandhi has said the hacking reflects badly on India's digital security.
He also used the incident to... | The Twitter account of India's main opposition Congress party and its leader Rahul Gandhi have been repeatedly targeted by hackers. | 38166319 |
The Shen Neng 1 hit a shoal in April 2010, leaking tonnes of heavy fuel oil.
Conservationists have described the settlement, which is less than a third of the full clean-up cost of $105m (£80m), as "woefully inadequate".
The clean-up operation will begin mid next year.
The 230m (750 ft) ship had ground against a coral... | The Australian government has agreed a $29.6m (£22m) settlement with the owners of a Chinese coal carrier that caused significant damage to the Great Barrier Reef more than six years ago. | 37406917 |
The man, 72, and his 71-year-old wife have not been named.
An investigation was launched after a suitcase with some of the woman's body parts was found by a man walking near Traunsee lake on Sunday.
A day later, the German man's body was found in 5m (15ft) of water, with his wrists weighed down by bags of stones.
Inves... | A German man strangled and dismembered his wife before encasing her head in a concrete block and drowning himself in an Austrian lake, police say. | 35238925 |
Robert and Christianne Shepherd, from Horbury, Wakefield died in Corfu in 2006.
The brother and sister were on holiday with their father and step-mother at the Louis Corcyra Beach Hotel, booked by Thomas Cook. | The coroner at an inquest into the death of two children from carbon monoxide poisoning on holiday has told jurors the conclusion must be unlawful killing. | 32708202 |
Fifa's taskforce was set up in 2013 to help tackle the issue of racism.
Fifa general secretary Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura said: "It had a specific mandate, which it has fully fulfilled."
Blake said: "It's almost turning a blind eye. It's almost justifying it [racism], saying 'we've done that and moved on' because it's n... | Former Wales striker Nathan Blake has branded Fifa's decision to scrap an anti-racism taskforce as "shameful". | 37479180 |
Iyengar was credited with his own brand of yoga and taught author Aldous Huxley and violinist Yehudi Menuhin, among other celebrities.
He died in 2013 in the western city of Pune, aged 95.
Iyengar yoga is now taught in more than 70 countries and the guru's books have been translated into 13 languages.
The Google doodle... | Google has honoured Indian yoga guru BKS Iyengar with an animated doodle on his 97th birthday. | 35090136 |
Shadow education secretary Lucy Powell says schools face "chronic shortages" of teachers and blamed the government for "talking down the profession".
Last week head teachers warned MPs of deepening recruitment problems.
The Department for Education said Labour's claims were "misleading".
"The number and quality of teac... | Schools in England struggling to recruit teachers are spending £1.3bn per year on supply staff, an increase of more than a quarter over two years, says the Labour Party. | 35092066 |
Jason Demetriou deflected Adam Hammill's shot past his own goalkeeper after Winnall's pass as Barnsley took the lead on the stroke of half-time.
Winnall got the second from the edge of the box before ending a 50-yard run with a classy finish two minutes later.
No side has ever overturned a three-goal first-leg deficit ... | Sam Winnall scored two and made a third as Barnsley took hold of their League One play-off semi-final with Walsall. | 36243178 |
Governor Takeshi Onaga ordered work to stop at the site in northern Okinawa last week pending a wildlife survey.
But the central government strongly backs the controversial project and has ordered preliminary work to continue.
Okinawa, Japan's southern-most prefecture, is home to about 26,000 US troops and several base... | Japan's fisheries minister has overruled an order by the Okinawa governor suspending work on a new US military base, in a growing stand-off. | 32111862 |
The Guardian gave the 1930s set crime caper four stars, while Variety praised its "sly intelligence and depth of feeling".
A notable absentee from Berlin is the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died on Sunday of a suspected drug overdose.
He had been due to attend the festival to promote his film God's Pocket.
In... | Wes Anderson's latest movie The Grand Budapest Hotel has opened the Berlin Film Festival to rave reviews. | 26080757 |
Emergency services were dispatched to meet the BE851 flight from Birmingham at about 19:00 on Tuesday.
A Flybe spokeswoman said the aircraft landed safely and the passengers disembarked as normal.
The technical fault is the third which the airline has experienced in five days.
On Thursday 23 February, a Flybe plane fro... | A Flybe flight with 60 passengers sparked a full-scale emergency response at Edinburgh Airport after it had a problem landing due to a wheel fault. | 39125637 |
This is slower than the 7.5% growth recorded for the previous quarter, and lower than expected.
India and China - which also posted 7% growth in the second quarter - are now the joint fastest growing major economies in the world.
But some economists have expressed concerns that India's official figures do not accuratel... | India's economy grew at an annual rate of 7% between April and June, official figures have shown. | 34107648 |
The incidents both happened at the Ladywell Pharmacy, Fernbank, Livingston at 16:40 on Saturday 7 September 2013 and at 10:10 on Saturday 14 June 2014.
Police are appealing for people who can identify him to come forward.
He is white, 5ft 7ins, of medium to heavy build, with short dark coloured hair and has a Scottish ... | CCTV images have been released of a man police wish to trace in connection with two robberies in West Lothian. | 29520234 |
The charity says that in the year to March there was a 14% increase in the numbers getting into financial difficulty, as a result of having to pay the money back.
But HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has denied that people are being harassed to repay what they owe.
The overpayments happen when people's income rises unexpe... | There has been a sharp rise in debt problems caused by tax credit overpayments, Citizens Advice has said. | 27633444 |
The study, involving 10,000 mothers and their babies and in journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, says that may be because of the make-up of breast milk.
Or, it says, breastfeeding may lead to better mother-baby interaction.
Breastfeeding is already associated with other health benefits for babies, including lower ... | Children who are breastfed for four months or more develop fewer behaviour problems, Oxford researchers say. | 13336986 |
A YouTube video marketing the game's November release shows a Rhyl street submerged in December, 2013.
The town's former mayor, councillor Andrew Rutherford, told the Daily Post it "put people's misery into a game".
Activision, which publishes Call of Duty, has been asked to comment.
About 400 people were forced from t... | The makers of computer game Call of Duty: Black Ops III have been criticised for using images of a flood-hit Denbighshire town in a promotional video. | 34454243 |
Kim Wall was last seen alive on Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen's submarine on 10 August.
He initially said he had dropped her off safely near Copenhagen, but has since said she died in an accident and that he had "buried" her at sea.
The body has been sent for forensic analysis, but is yet to be identified.
Ms Wall, ... | A woman's headless torso has been found by police searching for a Swedish journalist who went missing during a trip with a submarine inventor. | 41007410 |
Police said four youths in Crosshill Street in Moss Side were attacked by a gang at about 20:30 BST on Tuesday.
The teenager died in hospital while two 17-year-olds and an 18-year-old remain in hospital with serious injuries.
Police said there was no evidence to suggest it was linked to the conviction of a gang earlier... | An 18-year-old man has been stabbed to death in a "large fight" in Manchester, prompting a murder investigation. | 40873112 |
The rules, which were not meant to be made public, say children living with a gay parent cannot be baptised until they are 18 and only when they renounce homosexuality.
The new rules also say members can be expelled from the church if they enter into a gay marriage.
Both liberal and conservatives Mormon groups have cri... | A group of Mormons have planned a "mass resignation" after leaders changed church policies regarding gay people. | 34815338 |
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