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The Salisbury Scouts have travelled to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, where they'll be able to witness the amazing event.
Millions of Americans are getting excited about the eclipse, with long queues to buy solar glasses and heavy traffic across states where the eclipse w... | A scouting group from the UK has arrived in America to watch the total solar eclipse on Monday and we've been following their adventures. | 40992723 |
The Church of Scotland and the Scottish Humanist Society have told MSPs the title "religious observance" in non-denominational schools is outdated.
They said changing the legal definition to "time for reflection" could ease the concerns of parents who withdraw their children from such events.
They claimed this would gi... | Calls are being made for a "symbolic change" to the description of religious assemblies in some schools. | 25921394 |
Slash, with whom Weiland performed in rock supergroup Velvet Revolver, wrote on Twitter that it was "a sad day".
"RIP Scott Weiland," said Dave Kushner, another Velvet Revolver member.
Tom Vitorino, Weiland's manager, confirmed the singer's death at the age of 48 on Thursday night, saying he had "passed away in his sle... | Tributes have been paid to US singer Scott Weiland, former frontman with Stone Temple Pilots, following his death while on tour in Minnesota. | 35003719 |
The Manchester United striker, 35, has played for eight different clubs in six countries, including spells at AC Milan, Inter Milan, Barca and Paris St-Germain.
The Swede, who was a free signing from PSG this summer, told Inside United that there was room for improvement in his performances on the pitch, but added he ... | He has played for clubs in Paris, Milan and Barcelona, but Zlatan Ibrahimovic has said Manchester is the best city he has lived in during his playing career. | 37909844 |
An early Romane Menager try was followed by two more Caroline Ladagnous touchdowns as the French ran Ireland ragged to lead 21-0 at the interval.
Ireland produced intense second-half pressure but could only manage an injury-time Cliodhna Moloney try.
France will face England in the semi-finals in Belfast on Tuesday wit... | Hosts Ireland's World Cup dreams were ended as three first-half tries set up France's emphatic victory in Dublin. | 40952046 |
UKIP's assembly group leader accused Plaid of not being a real opposition party but "Labour's lapdog".
In the 2016 assembly elections, Labour won 29 seats, Plaid 12, the Conservatives 11, UKIP seven and the Liberal Democrats one.
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood dismissed the statement from Mr Hamilton as a "dead cat def... | Plaid Cymru should "come together" with UKIP to "take Wales forward", according to Neil Hamilton. | 40918885 |
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will examine asset managers, and individuals who provide advice.
The inquiry will focus on how investors choose a manager, and whether there is sufficient competition between them.
The level of charges - and how well those charges reflect performance - will also be scrutinised.
Con... | The UK's financial regulator is to investigate whether consumers are getting value for money from companies who invest their savings and pensions. | 34855048 |
His investment in terror imbued the collective Spanish psyche with a determination never again to undergo such civil conflict or to suffer another dictatorship.
That remains the case to this day, exactly 40 years after his death.
However, unlike Hitler's Germany or Mussolini's Italy, where external defeat led to denazi... | Spain's Gen Francisco Franco fought a brutal war against democracy with the aid of Hitler and Mussolini and thereafter presided over a regime of state terror and national brainwashing through the controlled media and the state education system. | 34844939 |
Blatter, 79, who is serving a 90-day suspension from football, spent six days in hospital earlier this month with a stress-related illness.
"I was between the angels who were singing and the devil who was lighting the fire, but it was the angels who sang," said Blatter.
"I was close to dying. At some stage the body say... | Suspended Fifa president Sepp Blatter has said he feared he was dying during a recent health scare. | 34898229 |
The rapist, who cannot be named as he was a minor at the time of the crime, was sentenced to a maximum three years in a reform facility in August 2013.
He was released from detention recently and is currently housed with a charity because of fears over his safety.
Under the current law, his detention cannot be extended... | India's Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal against the release of the youngest convict in the notorious 2012 Delhi gang rape case. | 35149409 |
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The Commons Environmental Audit Committee is calling for drastic measures to be introduced to reduce the harmful effects in a new report.
BBC London's Tom Edwards spoke to Debbie Bourne of St Paul's Primary School, chairman of Envir... | A group of MPs has described air pollution as "a public health crisis" - 62 years after London was struck by the great smog. | 30386281 |
A report found South Yorkshire Police changed witness statements after the Hillsborough stadium tragedy in 1989.
Michael Mansfield QC said "similar misdemeanours" occurred in 1984 after police and miners clashed at Orgreave.
Current Chief Constable David Crompton admitted there was "far less scrutiny" in the 1980s.
But... | Police cover-ups in South Yorkshire went at least as far back as the 1984-5 miners' strike, the lawyer advising the Hillsborough families has said. | 19587118 |
Shoppers called Hertfordshire Police at 12:40 GMT on Monday, after spotting the children, aged seven, three and one, in the car at a retail park in Watford.
Temperatures in the town reached 30C (86F) on Monday.
Officers were called to Waterfields Retail Park where they found and spoke to the mother.
A spokesman for the... | "Strong words of advice" were given to a mother who left her three children in a car on one of the hottest days of the year, police have said. | 36850660 |
Bogus ads for shoes briefly appeared among the selection of banners displayed on DailyMail.com.
Instead of online shops, the advertisements linked to malware that can expose computers to "ransomware".
Ransomware encrypts files on a victim's computer and asks for a payment to decrypt them again.
The practice is known as... | Readers of the Daily Mail's website were shown fake advertisements that linked to malware, a security company has discovered. | 34541915 |
Upper tier tribunal judge Lord Doherty dismissed the appeal against a first-tier tax tribunal decision but referred several issues back to the panel.
The tax authority had argued that payments made to players and other employees should be taxable.
The Murray Group, which formerly owned Rangers, argued they were loans.
... | HM Revenue and Customs has lost its appeal over Rangers' use of Employee Benefit Trusts (EBTs) - the so-called "Big Tax Case". | 28231598 |
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has compared the advantages in incomes of UK graduates from the mid-1980s with those from the mid-1990s.
Despite student numbers more than doubling in that time, the wage premium for graduates remained unchanged.
Researchers also found that the number of graduate jobs had expanded... | The ability of a university degree to pave the way for higher earnings has not been eroded by the increase in student numbers, say researchers. | 37106997 |
The saddles were initially piloted in 2012, to help transport women in labour in mountainous regions of Afghanistan.
SaddleAid, based on Anglesey, has been working with their donkey 'Queenie' to help adapt and improve the design.
"They can be used for a range of different activities," said Peter Muckle, from SaddleAid.... | An inflatable saddle for donkeys developed in Wales is helping mothers-to-be in some of the remotest parts of the world. | 35151804 |
Costa, 28, has reportedly been the subject of an offer to move to China.
Shearer said: "It depends how bad an apple he becomes. If it affects the dressing room, you have to get rid."
The former England captain added that Dimitri Payet was in the wrong if he is refusing to play for West Ham.
The Hammers recently turned ... | Chelsea will struggle to win the Premier League if striker Diego Costa leaves the club, but they should sell him if he is disruptive, says MOTD2 Extra pundit Alan Shearer. | 38629345 |
Emma Watson got another trophy for her collection, the British Style Award.
Model of the year went to Cara Delevingne, who was playing up for the cameras backstage with her sister Poppy and some of her model mates.
Victoria Beckham picked up the prize for Brand of the year for her fashion range.
Other celebrities who e... | Harry Styles, Ellie Goulding and Kendall Jenner helped boost the celebrity count at Monday night's British Fashion Awards in London. | 30292853 |
In a first half of few try-scoring chances, Gopperth and Newcastle's Andy Goode exchanged penalties in tough conditions to make it 3-3.
Nili Latu crossed from close range to put Falcons ahead after the break, while Wasps had tries from Christian Wade and James Cannon disallowed.
But two Gopperth penalties against his o... | Jimmy Gopperth's late penalty gave Wasps their third straight Premiership victory as they edged out Newcastle. | 35474559 |
The incident happened at about 20:40 on Friday 16 December in Saughton Mains Park after the pair - aged 16 and 20 - left a house party.
They became involved in an argument with a passerby who then allegedly assaulted them both before running off.
A 31-year-old man has been arrested and is due to appear at Edinburgh She... | A man has been arrested by police investigating an "unprovoked attack" on two young men in Edinburgh. | 38508796 |
But Arsenal full-back Emma Mitchell could miss this summer's Euro 2017 finals after undergoing surgery.
Celtic 22-year-old Kelly Clark has been named in the squad for the first time for the 11 April friendly with Belgium.
Fellow central defenders Barsley, 29, of Eskilstuna United, and Howard, 23, of Hoffenheim, await p... | Vaila Barsley and Sophie Howard, both previously involved with England, are poised to be drafted into a Scotland squad badly hit by injuries. | 39435012 |
Customers had raised concerns over the smell and taste of the water, which is manufactured in Macduff, Aberdeenshire.
The Food Standards Scotland (FSS) said it was aware of an incident involving bottled water and an investigation was under way.
The FSS advised people not to drink the brand in the meantime. The owners o... | Scotland's food watchdog is advising people not to drink the Macb brand of water as a "precaution". | 40367625 |
Cédric Herrou was sentenced by an appeal court in Aix-en-Provence, near Marseille in the south of France.
He has housed dozens of migrants in caravans on his farm in the Roya valley, in south-east France.
In February he received a suspended 3,000 euro (£2,700) fine.
Prosecutors had sought an eight-month suspended jail ... | A French farmer who helped migrants to enter France illegally has been given a four-month suspended jail sentence, after prosecutors argued that an earlier suspended fine was too lenient. | 40860138 |
The international team compared entries in these medieval annals with ice core data indicating volcanic eruptions.
Of 38 volcanic events, 37 were associated with directly observed cold weather extremes recorded in the chronicles.
The report is published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
In the dim light of... | Researchers have been able to trace the impact of volcanic eruptions on the climate over a 1200 year period by assessing ancient Irish texts. | 22786179 |
Five sand companies and the Shaftesbury estate, which owns the bed of the lough, are challenging a direction to cease extraction.
But an appeal also serves as an application for planning permission, and that will cost each of the six parties more than £40,000.
They were ordered to stop dredging by the environment minis... | An appeal against an order to stop dredging sand from Lough Neagh could end up costing £250,000 in fees. | 33431654 |
The man driving the car had been flagged down by two men in Banbridge at about midnight who asked him to take them to the town centre.
The driver agreed but when the men got into his vehicle they threatened him and demanded he take them to Hilltown.
The pair then tried to steal the car in Rathfriland Road, Hilltown, bu... | Members of the public have come to the aid of a motorist during an attempted hijacking in County Down overnight. | 33663520 |
The historic overhaul of the existing tax legislation was carried out at a special midnight session of parliament.
India says introducing GST will cut red tape and increase tax revenues, fuelling economic growth.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley says the reform will help the economy grow by 2%.
But businesses have been as... | India has replaced its numerous federal and state taxes with the Goods and Services Tax (GST), designed to unify the country into a single market. | 40453774 |
Following a tip off, police searched the property in North Elgin Street, in the Whitecrook area, on Thursday.
A woman aged 58, two men aged 17 and a 61-year-old man were arrested in connection with alleged drugs offences.
All four were expected to appear from custody at Dumbarton Sheriff Court on Friday. | Four people have been arrested after amphetamine, cocaine and cannabis worth £11,000 was seized at an address in Clydebank. | 34290256 |
President Jacob Zuma said the nation had lost a leading pioneer of jazz who promoted a "cosmopolitan culture".
Born to a shoemaker and a domestic worker in racially segregated South Africa, she performed with US stars such as Roberta Flack and Patti LaBelle in a career of more than 50 years.
Klaasen was battling pancre... | South Africans have been paying tribute to renowned jazz musician Thandi Klaasen who has died aged 86. | 38635861 |
It came after the company entered negotiations with the German firm ThyssenKrupp over a merger.
Tata has put the sale of its Welsh operations on hold in the meantime.
The meeting was organised as unions are increasingly frustrated with how the process is being handled.
Alan Coombes of the Community Union said the meeti... | About 100 Tata steelworkers gathered for a meeting in Port Talbot on Thursday evening to discuss the latest developments in the efforts to secure the future of the plant. | 36913109 |
In a speech to pro-government lawyers, Ms Rousseff said Brazilian democracy was under attack.
"I have committed no irregularity. I will never resign," she said.
Opposition lawmakers are seeking to remove her over allegations that she manipulated government accounts to hide a growing deficit.
Ms Rousseff, a former polit... | Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has said impeachment proceedings launched against her in Congress amount to a coup attempt. | 35877230 |
The poll found parents spent an average of one hour and 26 minutes a week reading with their children in 2011, up from one hour 18 minutes in 2009.
For the majority (71%) reading with their child is one of the highlights of their day.
But the poll of over 1,000 parents found 18% felt too stressed to do so.
Two-fifths (... | Parents in England and Northern Ireland are spending more time reading to their children for pleasure, a survey for the reading scheme Booktime suggests. | 15635733 |
Forty of the jets will be bought by leasing company Macquarie AirFinance in a deal worth about $3bn (£1.84bn), based on current prices.
The company has an option to buy 10 more.
Bombardier now has 243 firm orders for the C-Series, edging closer to the company's target of 300 by the time the plane enters service in lat... | Bombardier's C-Series aircraft programme has been boosted by one of its biggest orders to date. | 29412099 |
He will give Congress six months to draw up legislation to replace the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca), sources quoted by US media say.
The decision, first reported in Politico, is considered a compromise amid strong support for the scheme.
However, the sources cautioned that Mr Trump could still change ... | US President Donald Trump has decided to scrap a programme that protects young undocumented immigrants, according to reports. | 41144231 |
Counting starts at 10:00 BST on Friday and the result will be posted on the council's website.
The local authority has been led by a coalition of Liberal Democrats and Independents since 2013.
One contest, in Bodmin St Petroc, has been delayed following the death of Liberal Democrat councillor Steve Rogerson.
The Counc... | Voters have been to the polls to elect 122 of the 123 members of Cornwall Council. | 39796755 |
The 82-year-old was found dead at her Leven home on 5 January.
Sandra Weir, 41, denies murder and has lodged a special defence of alibi claiming that around the time of the murder she was elsewhere in Leven.
Paramedic Alan McIntyre said Mrs Logie was on her side when he found her.
He said he was surprised at the amount... | A paramedic has told the Mary Logie murder trial of the moment he realised he could feel her brain through a hole in her skull when he was called to her home in Fife. | 38223271 |
NHS Lanarkshire took the decision despite the results of a consultation which showed a majority of patients questioned backed the service.
More than 200 people each year in Lanarkshire are referred to the Centre for Integrative Care, formerly Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital.
NHS Lothian and NHS Highland previously voted ... | A third health board in Scotland has voted to stop sending patients to the country's only homeopathic hospital. | 30402134 |
Wooden coffins and metal caskets have been the traditional means of carrying the dead to their final resting place, but more people are looking for an alternative form of carriage, illustrating the changing face of the funeral industry.
In the digital age, personalisation is at a premium.
Coffin supplier Desmond Stephe... | It is the last journey we will make and, as with any form of travel, there will always be some who want to mark it in style. | 38923790 |
Led by four horses, it set off from Cardiff Mail Centre on Penarth Road and made its way to the Pierhead Building in Cardiff Bay.
The coach driver, horn blower and grooms dressed in traditional Royal Mail costume.
They were joined by current Royal Mail employees, friends and family.
All proceeds from the parade will be... | A Royal Mail coach paraded through Cardiff city centre on Saturday to celebrate 500 years of postal services in the UK. | 36445225 |
Belgian survivors of Nazi persecution appealed to the government to stop the payments, and Pensions Minister Daniel Bacquelaine "shares their indignation", his spokeswoman told the BBC.
But Germany manages the payments and "we have no official figures" for the recipients, Geraldine Lamoureux added.
After the 1945 liber... | A Belgian minister has voiced concern that as many as 2,500 Belgian ex-Nazis are receiving German pensions. | 36489700 |
Mogwai, Bloc Party and Rag'n'Bone Man are also set to perform at the Portmeirion festival, the organisers announced on Thursday.
Welsh acts include film director Kevin Allen talking about the sequel to cult movie Twin Town, Charlotte Church's Pop Dungeon, Gulp and Yucatan.
The event takes place between 7-10 September.
... | American rock band The Flaming Lips have been announced as a headliner at this year's Festival No6 in Gwynedd. | 39065136 |
Nicola's Brown trial heard how her son Jake suffered a brain injury and a fractured skull before he died.
The 43-year-old from Portsmouth was found guilty in December and given a life sentence with a minimum 14-and-a-half year term in February.
The Court of Appeal said Brown's appeal was in the "very early stages". A ... | A mother who murdered her 19-day-old baby is appealing her prison sentence. | 39855151 |
After surviving several attempts on his life, he was killed in a US drone strike in western Yemen on 30 September 2011.
In recent years, Awlaki's overt endorsement of violence as a religious duty in his sermons and on the internet is believed to have inspired new recruits to Islamist militancy.
US officials say he was ... | Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American Muslim cleric of Yemeni descent, was linked to a series of attacks and plots across the world - from 11 September 2001 to the shootings at Fort Hood in November 2009. | 11658920 |
One of the original Winter Olympic sports, skating in the UK has enjoyed a renaissance with the rise of reality TV - but the sport requires serious skill and dedication to be successful.
Why is it good for you?
Figure skating is reported to burn almost 900 calories per hour at its most intense, though beginners won't b... | Figure skating is a lot more than sequins and skates. | 23254799 |
All Stars Cricket is an eight-week course that will be introduced in May through local cricket clubs and centres, offering youngsters a first experience of the sport.
Children will receive a backpack of cricket gear, while participating clubs will be given kit to deliver the programme and training for volunteers.
From ... | The England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has launched a grassroots programme for five- to eight-year-olds, with the aim to get 50,000 more youngsters participating in the game this summer. | 39327833 |
Zambia forbids homosexuality and can pass a jail sentence of up to 15 years.
But Faz is undertaking a constitutional review aimed at upgrading its statutes to put them in line with football's world governing body Fifa.
Fifa prohibits discrimination against sexual orientation and can suspend or expel offenders from foot... | The Football Association of Zambia (Faz) has proposed changes to its constitution which contradict the country's laws regarding homosexuality. | 38013040 |
Yan, who is still at school, secured a shock 4-2 victory over the 2015 Masters winner and 2005 world champion.
Murphy described his opponent, who had a top break of 74, as "potentially a great player in the making".
"Shaun is a tough opponent so I had nothing to lose and that took the pressure off," the teenager said.
... | Former world champion Shaun Murphy was knocked out of the Champion of Champions event in Coventry by 15-year-old Chinese amateur Yan Bingtao. | 34804688 |
The former Kilmarnock manager is in charge of Derry City, who compete in a February-October calendar in Ireland.
Rivals Dundalk came within one tie of the Champions League group stage before competing in the Europa League.
"There's only one negative with the summer season, the pre-season training is done in very wet co... | Kenny Shiels has urged Scottish football to make the transition to a summer season. | 39583047 |
The authority is carrying out a pay review across more than 70 schools in the city involving 7,000 people.
The union Unison said it would mean staff such as teaching assistants and site managers could lose up to 25% of their pay.
The council said it needed to ensure all its staff were treated equally.
Nicole Berrisford... | School support staff in Derby face pay cuts of thousands of pounds a year due to proposed changes to their terms and conditions, a union said. | 34336732 |
The electoral blueprint complies with guidelines from China's legislature that candidates for the 2017 election will be screened.
Democracy activists said this amounted to a "fake democracy".
When the guidelines were announced last August there were weeks of street protests and some violent clashes.
Carrie Lam, Hong Ko... | Hong Kong's government has unveiled proposed reforms for the next election, which do not concede to pro-democracy demands for a fully free vote. | 32397179 |
Norwich City fan Matt Grimmer from Bradwell discovered Freddie the cockapoo had chewed up part of the tickets for Monday's game against Middlesbrough at Wembley.
"The barcode which you use to go through the gates at Wembley was totally defaced," he said.
Norwich City have reprinted the tickets for him and two of his so... | A football fan was left in panic after his dog ate three tickets for his club's Championship play-off final. | 32844906 |
Chinese exporters into the US - including Suntech - will now face customs tariffs of between 2.9% and 4.73%, the Commerce Department said.
In 2011, imports of solar cells from China into the US were valued at $3.1bn (£1.96bn), it added.
The price of solar panels dropped more than 30% last year, mainly linked to cheape... | The US has imposed duties on Chinese solar panel manufacturers after it said that they received unfair subsidies. | 17450718 |
Natalia Fedorova was leaving her house when a man splashed the substance in her face and ran away, Moscow party branch head Sergei Mitrokhin said.
She had lost vision, but may regain her sight in time, he told Interfax.
He said he believed the attack was related to her campaign against property development in her area.... | A Russian political activist has suffered burns to her eyes after an attacker splashed her with a chemical, the opposition Yabloko party has said. | 39748903 |
Nick Davies, his wife Jane Boulter-Davies, and Pierre-Yves Garnier were banned on 10 June, and cannot now hold office until 31 January 2017.
Davies stood down as chief of staff to IAAF president Lord Coe last December.
The IAAF ethics board said more time was needed to "conclude the process".
The provisional suspension... | Three senior members of athletics' world governing body have had provisional suspensions extended over allegations they took money to delay naming Russian drug cheats. | 36497906 |
Samuel Baxter trapped the officer's leg against a police vehicle after he was stopped from passing through security lines on Twaddell Avenue, Belfast Magistrates Court heard.
The 53-year-old was also found guilty of disorderly behaviour during one of the nightly demonstrations in the area.
Baxter, of Canmore Close, wil... | A motorised wheelchair user has been convicted of ramming a policeman during a loyalist protest in north Belfast. | 29666122 |
Plaid leader Leanne Wood said the US president was "deeply irresponsible" while Lib Dem Mark Williams accused him of "environmental vandalism".
Wales Green leader Grenville Ham said he was "repaying political favours".
But UKIP's Neil Hamilton claimed Mr Trump was "right to call time on the climate change scam".
Mr Tru... | Donald Trump's decision to withdraw US support for the Paris climate change agreement has been condemned by Plaid Cymru, Welsh Lib Dems and the Greens. | 40134033 |
A chimpanzee couple named Adam and Eve smashed windows to get out of their enclosure at the Sa Coma Safari Zoo on Monday.
Eve was surrounded as she neared the town of Son Carrio and shot dead.
Local media say that Adam is believed to be hiding in a wooded area close to residential housing.
Police have closed off a near... | Police in Spain are searching for a chimpanzee in Majorca, two days after it escaped from a zoo popular with tourists. | 32609747 |
An investigation into the incident at RAF Lossiemouth found a collision avoidance system was ineffective because it had not "warmed up".
The incident in August last year involved a Typhoon and a Tornado from separate aircraft formations.
The RAF has taken action to avoid a repeat of the incident, which was investigated... | Two fighter jets came within 300ft (91.4m) of each other near a Moray air station. | 38768929 |
The 28-year-old from Castledawson died after an assault outside a bar and nightclub complex on the Hillhead Road on Sunday morning.
It is understood the accused will appear in court in Londonderry later on Thursday.
Three other men who were also arrested have been released on bail pending further inquiries. | A 24-year-old man has been charged with the murder of James McDonagh near Toomebridge, County Antrim. | 35307358 |
The error - caused by mixing up measurements from older imperial meters with modern metric ones - is thought to have affected thousands of people.
The regulator has ordered gas suppliers to refund any affected customers.
The problem came to light after energy firm E.On discovered that it had overcharged 350 of its cust... | Some householders have been paying nearly three times too much for their gas, after at least one energy supplier got its maths wrong. | 37079287 |
Either Leo Varadkar or Simon Coveney will become the new Fine Gael leader on Friday 2 June.
Almost certainly, within a fortnight, that person will become taoiseach or Irish prime minister.
Enda Kenny, 66, who was elected taoiseach in 2011, resigned as Fine Gael leader earlier this month.
He will continue as taoiseach u... | Voting is under way in the contest to succeed Enda Kenny as leader of Fine Gael, the political party that leads the Republic of Ireland's government. | 40083133 |
It will be the first time doctors have ever removed cover from areas such as A&E and intensive care.
The British Medical Association said it had been left with "no choice" in its fight against the imposition of a new contract in England.
But Mr Gummer said the government could not be "held hostage".
Previous junior doc... | Junior doctors will put patients "in harm's way" by withdrawing emergency care during strikes next month, health minister Ben Gummer has said. | 35890910 |
And, if the past two years have set a precedent, Vladimir Putin will turn up on Sunday and sit with F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone proudly overseeing his creation.
The aim? To make the host city the highest-profile and most glamorous resort in the region.
The setting is attractive enough. Sea? Check. Mountains? Check. Theme... | The Russian president ensured a reputed $50m a year is paid to make it happen, building on the 2014 Winter Olympics as part of a branding exercise for the Black Sea resort of Sochi. | 36131787 |
Prince Charles, who also had a meeting with leader of the opposition Andrew Little, discussed climate change and issues facing the country.
The Prince and the Duchess of Cornwall are on a 12-day tour of New Zealand and Australia.
Day six saw the couple visiting a garden party in New Plymouth on the North Island's weste... | The Prince of Wales has met New Zealand Prime Minister John Key for talks in Auckland. | 34763994 |
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The races have been pushed back to Thursday, a scheduled day off.
Rules state that winds between six and 24 knots are required to race.
Ben Ainslie's Land Rover BAR team will face both New Zealand and France on Thursday, while France will also race Japan, who will then go ... | Wednesday's four races in the America's Cup Qualifiers were postponed after organisers decided winds were too light to let sailing go ahead in Bermuda. | 40115063 |
The 25-year-old signed a short-term deal in August when he returned for a second spell at Fratton Park after leaving Dagenham & Redbridge.
His only three appearances for Pompey this season have all come in the group stage of the EFL Trophy.
The former England Under-19 international also previously played for Barnet and... | Portsmouth goalkeeper Liam O'Brien has extended his contract with the club until the end of the season. | 38575394 |
At the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, Carly Fiorina captured a lot of airtime, accolades and new fans on the crowded stage of 11 candidates. She claimed the third most speaking time (and interrupted the most). She gained 22,000 Twitter followers. And her rebuttal to Donald Trump's "look ... | After the Wednesday evening Republican presidential debate, Carly Fiorina emerged as a clear standout. | 34282816 |
Unless, of course, it's the Conservative Party when it's in the mood.
Just now, the Tories are in more of a mood than they've been since the chaotic days of the Major administration, and possibly since 1990, the year the party hacked down Margaret Thatcher in an orgy of political regicide prompted, naturally, by DNA-de... | Anyone who's followed politics for any length of time knows no party's more prone to suicidal bouts of indiscipline than the Labour Party. | 36407446 |
To many it was obvious that the owner, who protested that his restaurant was a franchise of a Turkish company and not of the American chain, had clearly misjudged the current mood.
Iran is still far from opening up for business with the outside world.
In the past few weeks hardliners have launched a rearguard action ag... | When police and judiciary officials turned up last week in north Tehran to shut down a newly opened restaurant billed as the city's first Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet, few Iranians were surprised. | 34793719 |
Evan Mosey scored the winner with four minutes, 25 seconds of overtime left, two days after the Panthers had beaten the Welsh side 6-1 in the Elite League.
The victory keeps alive Corey Neilson's fourth-placed Panthers side's hopes of a league-and-cup double this season.
It was a fourth consecutive defeat in all compet... | Nottingham Panthers saw off defending champions Cardiff Devils in overtime to lift the Challenge Cup for the sixth time in seven years in Sheffield. | 35716850 |
Edmund, 21, defeated Czech Rosol, 30, in one hour and 44 minutes.
Aljaz Bedene, Britain's number two, went out of the Barcelona Open, losing 3-6 6-3 7-6 (7-2) to Russian qualifier Karen Khachanov in the first round.
Britain's Johanna Konta lost 6-3 6-3 to Germany's Anna-Lena Friedsam in the first round of the Stuttgart... | British number three Kyle Edmund reached the second round of the Nastase Tiriac Trophy with a 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-5) victory over Lukas Rosol. | 36074119 |
John Michael Pio Roda denied receiving over $1m (£645,000) from the Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ) for a 31 December concert hosted by the sect for which Brown failed to show up.
Mr Roda has been held at the capital's Bureau of Immigration detention facility for nearly two weeks.
His legal counsel described his ... | Chris Brown's promoter has refuted claims he defrauded an influential religious sect in the Philippines. | 33817814 |
Artefacts buried alongside the Viking in his boat found in Ardnamurchan suggest he was a high-ranking warrior.
In a report published by Antiquity, archaeologists describe the finds including a sword, spearhead and 213 of the boat's rivets.
The weapons indicate the burial of "a warrior of high status".
Archaeologists, i... | The excavation of a rare, intact Viking boat burial in western Scotland has been set out in detail for the first time. | 38730046 |
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City, who reached the FA Cup semi-finals with a 2-0 win at Middlesbrough on Saturday, take a 5-3 lead to Monaco for the return leg of their Champions League last-16 tie on Wednesday.
Guardiola's side, third in the table, then host fourth-placed Liverpool in the Premier Lea... | Manchester City are facing a week that will "define our season", according to manager Pep Guardiola. | 39245423 |
Trevor Gray, 49, of Watnall, Nottinghamshire was found not guilty at Birmingham Crown Court of the rape of a 43-year-old woman.
The former detective sergeant was sentenced to eight years in jail in 2012 but the verdict was quashed in 2013.
A jury cleared Mr Gray in a unanimous verdict after the four-day retrial.
The fo... | A former Nottinghamshire detective has been cleared of rape following a retrial. | 26079983 |
It said those travelling to the continent should take plenty of food and water and check with travel operators before starting out.
The Port of Dover says roads are clear and it is not expecting severe delays.
Last weekend drivers queued for up to 14 hours because of extra French security checks.
Latest information fro... | Motorists heading towards Dover are being advised by Kent County Council (KCC) to prepare for possible delays and congestion. | 36922772 |
Shares in the biggest US car maker rose more than 2% after it raised its 2016 earnings forecast by 25 cents to between $5.25 and $5.75 per share.
GM also plans to raise its stock buyback programme by 80% to $9bn and extend it to the end of 2017.
In total it plans to give $16bn back to shareholders by the end of 2017.
G... | General Motors (GM) shares have jumped after the firm said it would be more profitable and return more money to shareholders. | 35303790 |
The 43-year-old Scot was formerly assistant to Ashley Giles, who is now coach of England's limited overs side.
The Bears won the County Championship last summer, but Brown insisted there would be no resting on laurels.
"Last year's success is now just that - as champions every other team will be looking to take our sca... | Warwickshire have named former all-rounder Dougie Brown as their new director of cricket. | 21273750 |
The discovery was made in undergrowth at the Tesco Extra store in North Harbour at about 11:00 GMT.
A Hampshire spokeswoman said a cordon was in place to protect the area.
"At this current time we are unable to confirm any further details as investigations are at a very early stage," she added.
Police said a post-morte... | Human remains have been found next to a supermarket petrol station in Portsmouth. | 35767251 |
Scientists are waiting for the first new data to begin flowing from the underground particle smasher, paving the way to a new era in physics.
On Wednesday, the vast machine clattered proton beams together at much higher energies than were achieved during its first run in 2010-2013.
This should allow physicists to hunt ... | The Large Hadron Collider has re-started scientific investigations after a two-year pause. | 32976838 |
They will play the USA, who beat Germany 3-0, while Belarus will face Switzerland in the other semi-final.
Two-time Wimbledon champion Kvitova is recovering from hand surgery following a knife attack in her home in December.
"Of course this was for her," said Czech world number 17 Barbora Strycova.
"We hope she comes b... | Defending Fed Cup champions the Czech Republic beat Spain 3-2 to reach the semi-finals for the ninth successive year and dedicated the win to the absent Petra Kvitova. | 38951713 |
Gavin Moore, 40, was with a group of cyclists on the Newtownards Road, Conlig, when the crash happened on Tuesday afternoon.
They were all members of the North Down Cycling Club. Two other cyclists suffered injuries which are not life-threatening.
A 59-year-old man arrested at the scene has been released on bail.
In a ... | A cyclist has died after being involved in a collision with a car in Newtownards, County Down. | 40576123 |
James Dwerryhouse suffered brain damage as a result of cardiac arrest following an operation at Portland Hospital in central London on 25 August last year.
A serious incident report found the equipment monitoring him overnight was turned off for almost three hours.
The hospital said it was "co-operating with all invest... | A seven-year-old boy died at a private hospital after vital equipment needed to monitor his sleep apnoea was switched off, a report says. | 39155682 |
Some students at Mirfield Free Grammar have said they no longer have access to facilities to pray inside the building.
The school, near Huddersfield, said it was "a broadly Christian Academy" and sixth form students could leave the site to attend a mosque.
A solicitor representing the pupils and families said the next ... | A school may face legal action from a group of sixth form students who claim they have been forced to pray outside. | 34995250 |
Here is a list of all the local authorities that run crematoriums in the UK - showing their prices for a daytime adult cremation from 2010-11, 2015-16 and the percentage change.
Different councils provide different services for the basic fee listed below.
Where 2015-16 figures were unavailable the 2014-15 figures have ... | The average cost of a cremation at a public crematorium has risen since 2010, according to a BBC Freedom of Information request. | 33862761 |
Stephen Thomas Hughes, 29, and Shaunean Boyle, 25, are jointly accused of murdering Owen Creaney at Moyraverty Court, Craigavon, in July 2014.
On Tuesday, the court heard transcripts of police interviews conducted after they found Mr Creaney's body in a bin.
In them, she described the moment when Mr Hughes told her he ... | A woman jointly accused of murdering a man and dumping his body in a bin has said she was "gobsmacked" to hear he was dead. | 37617258 |
But as ever with big political set-piece statements, the real crunching of the numbers takes some time. Some of those details just released by the independent think-tank the Resolution Foundation, make abundantly clear that the same kind of families still stand to lose out in the longer term.
While existing claimants t... | George Osborne was in the end not just for turning, but for totally reversing his position on those controversial tax credits that were set to hit millions of working families. | 34930480 |
The man died outside TJ Hughes in the Trongate at about 09:10.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said that, following a post-mortem examination, his death was being treated as unexplained.
However, she said there were no suspicious circumstances. | Police are investigating the death of a man in Glasgow city centre. | 39340339 |
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This is something that hasn't been achieved since a woman called Amy Johnson made the journey in 1942.
Amazingly, Curtis-Taylor is now planning to make the 13,000 mile flight in the same type of old aircraft that Amy flew in.
She will fly across 23 countries, making 50 refuellin... | Tracey Curtis-Taylor is a pilot who is attempting to become only the second ever female to fly single-handedly from Britain to Australia. | 34419209 |
John Kerr, from Paisley, Renfrewshire, was asked by the boy's mother to look after the child on 6 November 2015.
On leaving a pub and returning to the house after a one-hour absence, Kerr found police had been alerted after the tearful child had called 999.
Kerr admitted wilfully abandoning a child in his care in a man... | A 50-year-old man has been fined £280 for leaving a seven-year-old boy at home to go to the pub. | 35540553 |
When the adult female was finally captured north of Brisbane on Tuesday, she was also carrying a baby kangaroo, Australia Zoo said in a statement.
Doctors performed surgery to remove the arrow, which came very close to her skull and brain.
The kangaroo and her joey (baby) were released back into the wild after the oper... | A kangaroo has survived for four days with an arrow lodged in her head after being shot in Queensland, Australia. | 33160713 |
The measures are among five recommendations put forward by Food Standards Scotland (FSS) to tackle the growing obesity crisis.
About 61% of Scots admit they need to eat more healthily, up 10% in a year.
FSS said the issue was costing the Scottish economy £2.37bn a year and that tougher regulation was needed.
They want... | Calorie labelling, smaller portions sizes and healthy options should be available to anyone eating out, according to Scotland's food watchdog. | 39204156 |
Visits to GPs and hospital admissions have all increased with 277 patients being confirmed since mid-December, mostly in hospitals and care homes.
At least 3,000 people have also visited their GP with flu-like symptoms.
But the proportion is still classed within low activity for the winter season.
Nevertheless, public ... | The number of patients being treated for flu in Wales is now the highest for four years, according to the latest figures for Public Health Wales. | 30778651 |
Farmer Robert Fidler 66, built the four-bedroom home near Redhill, Surrey, without planning permission.
He was told on Monday he would be jailed for his "defiance" if the property was not demolished by June.
Reigate and Banstead Borough Council said it would send in the bulldozers if Mr Fidler did not knock down the ho... | A council is standing by to demolish a mock-Tudor castle built behind a stack of hay bales if its owner fails to comply with enforcement notices. | 34777566 |
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The defender scored his first goal since November 2011 when he thrashed in from six yards just before half-time after Wilfried Zaha had played him in.
Spurs went close on several occasions, with Dele Alli's first-half shot striking both posts.
Harry Kane had two strikes br... | Crystal Palace ended Tottenham's hopes of a treble as Martin Kelly's first-half strike sent the Eagles into the last eight of the FA Cup. | 35572137 |
Dawn Butler told BBC 5 Radio Live she was in a members-only lift when an unnamed Commons member told her: "This lift really isn't for cleaners."
The Labour MP for Brent Central said it had been one of "so many incidents" of racism she had encountered while in Parliament.
The 46-year-old became an MP in 2005 and was re-... | A black MP has said she was the victim of racism in Westminster when she was mistaken as a cleaner by an MP. | 35685169 |
But if you find yourself feeling lonely, what can you do about it?
For many people, loneliness is not solved overnight - but people from all walks of life, including single fathers, millennials in a new city, widows, teenage mothers, and happily married husbands, have told the BBC their tips for making their days a bit... | Loneliness in the UK is an epidemic affecting people of all ages and backgrounds, according to a commission started by the murdered MP Jo Cox. | 38814960 |
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Pino Pagliara was one of three agents filmed by the Daily Telegraph seemingly making accusations over transfers.
The Italian told BBC sports editor Dan Roan he wanted to "impress" businessmen and secure a lucrative contract.
"I allowed them to believe the managers would no... | The agent at the centre of English football's corruption scandal says his claim eight current and ex-Premier League managers took bribes was a lie. | 37524416 |
He said he would be "going for a cup of tea" with Caerphilly MP Wayne David, who said on Tuesday Mr Corbyn had "a heck of a lot to learn" on leadership.
Mr Corbyn also told BBC Wales said there was "no problem" with greater autonomy for the Welsh Labour party.
He is in Swansea, on his first visit to Wales as Labour lea... | Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he will campaign in "all parts of the UK" in 2016, and the party was "united" despite criticism from MPs this week. | 34857595 |
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