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The Liberal Democrat leader argued that while his party could provide stability, Labour and the Conservatives were in danger of "sleepwalking" towards a "messy" minority government.
Mr Clegg says he will not share power with either the SNP or UKIP.
Polls suggest the Lib Dems will lose some of the 57 seats they won in 2... | Voters face "the biggest political decision of their lives" on 7 May, Nick Clegg claimed as he continues his 1,000 mile campaign tour. | 32605196 |
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Flower was shown a red card after two minutes, having knocked Hohaia to the floor before landing a second punch while the Saints man was on the ground.
Hohaia played no further part as Saints went on to win 14-6 at Old Trafford.
"I don't hold any grudges against Ben," said... | Wigan's Wales international prop Ben Flower has apologised for punching St Helens' Lance Hohaia, who says he is not bitter about the way his Super League Grand Final ended on Saturday. | 29588474 |
The benchmark FTSE 100 index dipped by 0.62%, or 38.05 points to 6,117.76.
Shares in the pub chain Wetherspoons slipped by 0.56%, giving up early gains, after it posted record sales for the year to July.
However, pre-tax profit fell by 25% to £58.7m in the same period due to higher costs.
Biggest loser on the 100-shar... | (Close): London's leading shares drifted lower on Friday, with investors cautious ahead of next week's US rate decision. | 34218577 |
The 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named because of his age, was sentenced at Norwich Youth Court.
The communications firm suffered the data breach in 2015, when email addresses and bank details were taken.
The court previously heard he had used hacking tool software to identify vulnerabilities on target websites.
More... | A teenager who admitted seven hacking offences connected to the TalkTalk data breach has been given a rehabilitation order and had his iPhone taken off him. | 38304392 |
It is included in a list of "racial micro-aggressions" that has been published in a newsletter by Oxford's equality and diversity unit.
It described micro-aggressions as "subtle, everyday racism" which can be alienating.
Oxford University said the newsletter was one way of supporting its staff in its pursuit of equalit... | Staff at Oxford University have been told avoiding eye contact with students could constitute "everyday racism". | 39692673 |
The local authority posted a picture of the Harrow and Wealdstone disaster which happened 37 years later.
Events are taking place in Gretna to mark the 100th anniversary of the Quintinshill crash on 22 May 1915.
The council apologised for the "oversight" and said the picture had now been changed.
The error was pointed ... | Dumfries and Galloway Council has apologised over using an image of the wrong accident on website details of events to mark the Quintinshill crash. | 32843083 |
Thompson, 36, was Buddies captain last season but missed much of the campaign due to injury, with St Mirren relegated to the Scottish Championship.
He joined the Paisley club in 2011 following spells at Dundee United, Rangers, Cardiff City and Burnley.
And Thompson, who won 16 Scotland caps between 2002 and 2004, says ... | Striker Steven Thompson has signed a new one-year contract with St Mirren. | 33291955 |
A jury at Chelmsford Crown Court convicted the 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, of the manslaughter of Arkadiusz Jozwik.
Mr Jozwik, 40, was attacked in Harlow, Essex, on 27 August 2016. He died in hospital two days later.
Rosina Cottage, prosecuting, said the defendant had moved behind Mr Jozwik and ... | A teenage boy has been found guilty of killing a man with a "superman punch". | 40780931 |
England face India in the third one-day international at Trent Bridge on Saturday bidding to recover from a 133-run loss in the second ODI at Cardiff.
Hales hit 40 on his ODI debut and is set to bat with Cook for only the second time on his home ground.
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"I hope our games c... | England opener Alex Hales hopes to forge a strong partnership with captain Alastair Cook in the one-day game. | 28987021 |
The company said it was consolidating its London offices and moving workers to a new site in Paddington.
"Microsoft reviewed some London-based roles and made the decision to unify some engineering positions," it said.
The move will potentially put at risk a number of "globally-focused" roles at Skype and Yammer, it add... | Tech giant Microsoft is set to close the London office of its Skype subsidiary with the potential loss of 220 jobs. | 37405177 |
Quite literally - LA-based street Artist Plastic Jesus (famous for his cocaine-snorting Oscar statue) got annoyed with being held up in traffic recently by a paparazzi scrum surrounding one or another of the sisters leaving a shop.
So he decided to do something about it.
He came up with the idea of banning the family f... | You can't move for Kardashians at the moment, they seem to be everywhere. | 32216878 |
The Independent Jersey Care Inquiry has recommended demolishing the Haut de la Garenne children's home.
The report said the States of Jersey "proved to be an ineffectual and neglectful substitute parent".
Chief Minister, Senator Ian Gorst said: "We failed children who needed our care."
Led by judge Frances Oldham QC, t... | Children may still be at risk in Jersey's care system, a report into seven decades of child abuse has found. | 40485015 |
The two members of the Indian political dynasty were granted bail after a few minutes, and the next court date in the case has been set for 20 February.
The mother and son deny misusing party funds to buy a firm that published the now-closed National Herald newspaper.
The case was brought by a member of the governing B... | The top leaders of India's opposition Congress party, Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, have appeared in court in connection with corruption allegations. | 35129365 |
Ibrahim Halawa, the son of Ireland's most senior Muslim cleric, has been in jail since August 2013, when he got caught up in the Cairo mosque siege.
He faces a mass trial and a possible death penalty with 493 other detainees.
Amnesty has described him as an Irish prisoner of conscience and expressed "deep concern" for ... | Amnesty International has warned that an Irish teenager who has been held without trial in Egypt for more than 19 months could be "at risk of torture". | 32112122 |
Mitchell Butler-Eldridge, 28, had been trying to overtake a lorry before a bend on the A10 in Cambridgeshire on 18 February 2015.
He lost control of his Volkswagen Passat and collided with a Mini.
Butler-Eldridge, of Sydney Terrace, King's Lynn, pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death by dangerous driving at a pr... | A driver who crashed head-on into a car, killing two people, has been jailed for five years. | 37524350 |
At least 20 people have been injured and 80 detained nationwide, a local rights group has said.
Images circulated on social media of injured people on the ground. There are reports at least three were shot.
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to protest against President Nicolas Maduro's government.
In ... | One policeman has been shot dead and dozens of people injured during anti-government protests in Venezuela. | 37783115 |
Mike Reid, 54, has not been seen since he went to save the gannets stranded on rocks at Porthchapel Beach, near Penzance, at about 14:00 GMT on Sunday.
Gusts of 81mph hit the Isles of Scilly as the Met Office confirmed "phenomenal" sea conditions.
Waves of 19.1m were recorded off St Ives as the storm took hold.
Read mo... | An RSPCA inspector has gone missing trying to rescue of dozens of sea birds at a Cornwall beach as Storm Imogen lashes the coast. | 35526721 |
In North America, it took 9 million years for ecosystems to recover.
However, in South America - further from the impact - insect life bounced back after about 4 million years, according to scientists.
US experts studied fossil leaves for insect damage at a site in Patagonia, at the tip of South America.
Lead researche... | Life in the southern hemisphere appears to have recovered more quickly than expected from the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs. | 37872115 |
Mr Goldsmith, a Tory MP, said voters were being "duped" by the Recall Bill which proposed a Commons committee having power over the whole process.
Mr Clegg said he had settled for a "modest" version because of "Conservative Party resistance".
Mr Goldsmith accused Mr Clegg of "desperate backtracking".
The Richmond Park ... | Deputy PM Nick Clegg says he agrees with Zac Goldsmith and other critics of his government's proposals to give people limited powers to kick out MPs. | 27705901 |
Kieran Gillespie, 25, from Birmingham, denies murdering Leon Barrett-Hazle in Handsworth in the city on 23 January, claiming he acted in self-defence.
Mr Gillespie told police he had pulled "a pair of scissors" on his victim after believing he had been stabbed in the face.
Mr Barrett-Hazle, 36, from Smethwick, West Mid... | A bus passenger was knifed to death during a row with a stranger on the vehicle's upper deck, a court heard. | 40661832 |
Peter Stuart, 75, was stabbed to death last June. The body of Sylvia Stuart, 69, has never been found.
Christy Paxman said her father told her an unknown man approached him in his garden in Weybread, Suffolk.
The defendant, named by prosecutors as Ali Qazimaj, denies murder and claims he is a victim of mistaken identit... | A woman whose parents were allegedly murdered told a jury that a mystery man accosted her father in his garden a week before he died. | 38911309 |
She took her temperature every day and logged it in an app called Fertility Friend, but soon found herself succumbing to a fertility-obsessed frenzy.
"I constantly analysed the analytics section of the app to see how my month looked and whether there was a temperature spike that indicated I was ovulating," says Kathy, ... | When Kathy Beaumont started trying for a baby two years ago, she turned to the many fertility apps on the market to discover when would be the best time of the month to conceive. | 39503947 |
The 23-year-old, a Somali detainee at Australia's detention camp in Nauru, says she became pregnant as a result of being raped in July.
She was allowed to travel to Australia to end the pregnancy, but left on Friday without having done so.
The government said she changed her mind, but she has denied this.
Under Austral... | Australia's immigration minister has insisted the government correctly handled the case of a migrant woman who sought an abortion in Australia. | 34568421 |
When filmmaker Joseph Sims-Dennett suffered a nervous breakdown he channelled his energies into making a horror film. Observance was shot on a shoestring budget in Sydney in just eleven days.
In a concrete anonymous city, a private investigator is grieving the loss of his son. Installed in an empty, dirty apartment, he... | The eerie and ancient Australian outback lies at the heart of a horror movie wave that's scaring the wits out of global audiences, writes Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore. | 35800175 |
Sam Davies starts at fly-half instead of Biggar, who is joined as a replacement by Wales team-mate, lock Alun Wyn Jones.
Paul James returns at prop following injury and flanker Justin Tipuric leads the Welsh region at open-side.
Former New Zealand full-back Mils Muliaina makes his Zebre debut after joining from Connach... | Dan Biggar has recovered from a back injury to be on Ospreys' bench for their Pro12 trip to Zebre on Sunday. | 35000603 |
The Tories are the largest party with 18 out of 42 members.
But they will have to continue as a minority administration after elections earlier this month left the council under no overall control.
They are four short of a majority, a figure which includes the defection of councillor Steve Hastings from UKIP to the Con... | The Conservatives will continue to run Portsmouth City Council, following a decision at a full council meeting. | 32807572 |
The company said it would run the normal half-hourly service, which was replaced with buses, from Monday.
It comes the day after its parent company Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) launched a consultation on a massive shake-up of timetables.
The direct services between Brighton and Seaford could be reduced from 2018.
Sou... | Troubled Southern Railway is to restore trains between Seaford and Brighton after the service was cut as part of an emergency timetable 10 weeks ago. | 37416379 |
Actor Michael Sheen and Miriam González Durántez - wife of ex-Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg - will also take the reigns of Today during the guest week.
The guest editors will be live in the studio and will take responsibility for about half the programme's output.
Sir Bradley, who won the 2012 Tour de France, said he wante... | Cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins is to guest edit an edition of BBC Radio 4's Today programme over the festive period. | 35083501 |
Carrick, 35, is the club's longest-serving player, having joined in 2006, and replaces Wayne Rooney in the role after his move to Everton.
"It feels great and it is such a huge honour to captain such a great club," Carrick told MUTV.
"I never thought I could be here for so long and achieve so much. I have grown to love... | Manchester United have named midfielder Michael Carrick as club captain. | 40576089 |
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Adams, 32, beat Poland's Sandra Drabik on a majority points decision to win Britain's 13th gold in Azerbaijan.
Duncan Scott added a 14th with victory in the men's 100m freestyle, lifting Britain up to third in the medal table.
The 18-year-old won in 49.43 seconds, with Ita... | Olympic boxing champion Nicola Adams won flyweight gold on a day when Great Britain claimed a further six swimming medals at the European Games in Baku. | 33266969 |
More than 7,000 people signed a petition calling for plans for the £395,000 sculpture at Flint Castle to be scrapped.
Flintshire council urged the Welsh Government to talk to the community before any "further action is taken".
Economy Secretary Ken Skates has now announced a "pause" to review plans.
He said: "We have ... | Controversial plans for an iron ring sculpture accused of "insulting Wales" have been put on hold following an outcry. | 40732061 |
Richard Maycock, who taught at a school in Coventry, denied inappropriately touching the girl in a disabled toilet.
The girl told police the 44-year-old said she would get into trouble if she told anyone. He will be sentenced at Coventry Crown Court next month.
He had previously admitted to two counts of sexual activit... | A PE teacher has been found guilty of sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl. | 34395660 |
The Department for Communities and Local Government said about 37,080 new homes were started in the last quarter of 2015, up 23% on the previous year.
Completions were up by 22% to 37,230.
Ministers said they had "got the country building again" but housing charity Shelter said the increase was "not good enough".
In th... | There have been sharp increases in the number of new homes being started and finished in England compared with a year ago, according to new figures. | 35661771 |
China's foreign ministry said on Sunday that one fisherman was injured and several detained.
The incident happened on Friday near the Natuna islands, off the coast of Borneo in the South China Sea.
Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla said on Monday that China would be asked to respect his country's sovereignty around... | China has accused the Indonesian navy of opening fire on a Chinese fishing boat in disputed fishing grounds. | 36573291 |
When it last projected oil and gas revenues, in May last year, it estimated up to £7.8bn in tax could flow from the North Sea in 2016/17.
Its oil and gas bulletin has now predicted the figure will be, at best, £2.8bn and could be as low as £0.5bn.
The bulletin's predictions for total revenue from 2016/17 to 2019/20 ran... | The Scottish government has lowered its estimates for how much revenue will be generated from North Sea oil and gas. | 33268851 |
The 26-year-old tested positive for a 'fat burner' pill in March.
He served a provisional 30-day ban, missing the Europa League semi-final and final, but that was not extended as European football's governing body investigated whether the substance was actually prohibited.
The France centre-back admits taking the pill,... | Liverpool defender Mamadou Sakho will plead his case against a ban for a failed drugs test to Uefa on Thursday. | 36724483 |
Portland Stone Firms Ltd bought the rights to quarry on the Jurassic Coast in 2004.
But it claims a "modification order" in 2009 means there is no longer safe access to the site near Southwell.
The company said it has spent nearly £1m on legal fees ahead of a tribunal due to take place on 4 June.
According to the compa... | A Portland quarry firm is attempting to claim £18m in compensation from Dorset County Council following changes to access to a site it owns. | 35661819 |
"I remain a raging bull in relation to China," he told the BBC's Today programme.
WPP saw a 44.5% rise in preliminary pre-tax profit to £710m for the first half. Revenues rose 6.8% to £5.84bn.
He added that Chinese economic growth was fundamental to the company's future.
"China has been the biggest driver of the worl... | Martin Sorrell, chief executive of advertising giant WPP, has expressed optimism about China's growth, despite fears over its economic health. | 34059971 |
In one case, three women and three children were allegedly shot dead after trailing behind while being forced to march from one village to another.
Elsewhere, 15 civilians were reportedly killed and their bodies thrown into a river in an attempt to spread terror.
The UN says this reinforces fears that IS will use civil... | UN human rights staff have received reports of atrocities being committed by Islamic State militants as Iraqi government forces close in on Mosul. | 37761088 |
This has led the trade body for major pharmaceutical companies, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), to condemn price rises by some small operators for prescription drugs as "cynical and exploitative".
So what's the problem and could more than £250m a year be saved?
An investigation by the Ti... | At a time when the NHS is trying to save every penny without undermining patient care, news has emerged that it is being over-charged in one area of its drugs bill. | 36449913 |
Prince William and Catherine visited RAF Valley on Anglesey to mark the end of RAF Search and Rescue (SAR) Force operations after 75 years.
The duke, who was known as Flt Lt Wales, was based on the island from 2010 to 2013.
A disbandment parade was held to formally commemorate the end of 75 years of service on Thursda... | The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have returned to the RAF base where he worked as a search and rescue pilot. | 35602046 |
He was flown to Manchester from Spain on Saturday after his condition improved enough to allow him to travel.
The Mirror reported that Healy was taken ill almost a month ago and had been fighting for his life.
An ITV spokesman said the 64-year-old was "feeling much better" and that filming of the show had been "adjuste... | TV star Tim Healy is recovering in hospital after being taken ill during the filming of the ITV show Benidorm. | 36301915 |
Thirty years later, many still bear the scars - they include children with birth and congenital defects and others whose lives have been blighted by chronic illness.
Nazes Afroz travels to Bhopal to meet children born to parents who were exposed to the gas on 3 December 1984 or who were born in the aftermath of the lea... | A poisonous gas leak from the Union Carbide Corporation plant in the central Indian city of Bhopal 30 years ago killed several thousand people and injured more than half a million. | 30227852 |
Appointed second-in-command of Congress in January 2013, Mr Gandhi led the party into the general election and managed its campaign.
He criss-crossed the length and breadth of India, addressing election rallies and holding meetings with party workers and supporters.
But the race was extremely tough for him - Congress b... | Rahul Gandhi, heir of the powerful Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty that has dominated Indian politics for decades, has accepted responsibility for the party's worst ever election performance. | 17271658 |
The 24-hour walkout - the second in three months - affects bus, train, plane and underground services.
Swathes of the capital Buenos Aires ground to a halt after people were unable to reach their jobs.
The country's powerful transport unions are unhappy with the income tax floor and high inflation in the country.
Strik... | A major transport strike in Argentina has brought parts of the country to a standstill as unions protest against high taxes and inflation. | 33062165 |
Yet since Donald Trump was elected, the sparsely populated communities and dry valleys of Central Mexico have been inexorably linked to events in Washington DC.
Like so much with President-elect Trump, it began with a tweet.
"Make in U.S.A. or pay big border tax!" he tweeted at General Motors earlier this month.
The wa... | The arid desert landscape of Villa de Reyes is a world away from the glitz of the presidential inauguration on Capitol Hill. | 38679914 |
The knowledge of how to craft and design these intricate pieces takes as long as 10 years to amass, and has been handed on from one generation to another, with artisans today working in much the same way as their predecessors two centuries before.
It is in this workshop - which once made all Napoleon's official jewelle... | Pascal Bourdariat - just the 12th workshop director in high-end jeweller Chaumet's 235-year history - is watching as a worker gently polishes a tiny gem, so small it's almost invisible. | 31791937 |
The European Red List, drawn up by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, found 9.2% of nearly 2,000 species are threatened with extinction.
Another 5% are likely to be threatened in the near future.
Threats include loss of habitat from intensive farming, pesticide use, urban development and climate change... | Almost one in 10 of Europe's native wild bees face extinction, according to the most comprehensive expert assessment so far. | 31963056 |
The pontiff said he prayed for the success of recent UN resolutions for peace in Syria and Libya.
The Pope also condemned "brutal acts of terrorism", singling out France, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia and Mali.
Thousands of pilgrims turned out to see the address, known as "Urbi et Orbi" - to the city and the world.
Heavy sec... | Pope Francis tackled war, terrorism and the migrant crisis in a wide-ranging Christmas message, calling for peace and reconciliation around the world. | 35178557 |
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The Jaguars led 23-6 after the third quarter before a Colts comeback.
Indianapolis scored three fourth-quarter touchdowns, but Allen Hurns' 42-yard touchdown catch from Bortles with just over two minutes left ensured Jacksonville's victory.
It was the Jaguars' second win i... | Quarterback Blake Bortles threw for two touchdowns and rushed for another as the Jacksonville Jaguars beat the Indianapolis Colts 30-27 at Wembley. | 37532344 |
Thousands have signed a petition calling for lifeguards on Camber Sands in East Sussex during the summer.
A 19-year-old man died while swimming at the beach in July. A further five people on a day trip to the area died in August.
Rother District Council said it was looking at "all the options" as part of its review.
Va... | A review is under way into whether lifeguards should be deployed at a beach where six people recently died. | 37498694 |
Robert Carr, 39, from Glenrothes in Fife, also throttled the 20-year-old woman during the attack at a house in Lochgelly on Christmas Day 2015.
A court heard that the victim was found crouched behind a car, covered in blood and shaking.
After the attack, Carr sent her a message saying he loved her.
The High Court in Ed... | A man who admitted trying to kill a woman by attacking her with wooden table legs has been jailed for 10 years. | 38921328 |
Two of the attackers were armed, one with a hammer and the other with a knife.
Household items and a car were also damaged in the incident at Rathmore Drive at about 21:30 GMT on Sunday.
The man is being treated in Antrim hospital. A spokeswoman said his condition was stable. | A man has been taken to hospital after he was attacked by four masked men at his house in the Rathcoole estate in Newtownabbey, County Antrim. | 34897904 |
Mr Magufuli picked up rubbish from the street outside State House as part of the scheme, which he had ordered to replace independence day celebrations.
The move is being seen as symbolic of the president's promise to tackle corruption, our correspondent says.
Thousands of people across Tanzania are reported to have joi... | Tanzania's new President John Magufuli has joined hundreds of residents in the main city Dar es Salaam to take part in a public clean-up operation. | 35049628 |
Layton passed away at his home in Toronto early on Monday surrounded by his wife and children, his family said in a statement.
His left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP) surged to become the official opposition for the first time in May's federal elections.
He stepped down only last month as party leader to fight his ... | Canadian opposition leader Jack Layton has died after a second bout of cancer, aged 61. | 14618943 |
1492 - The navigator Christopher Columbus claims Cuba for Spain.
Revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro staged a successful revolt against dictator Fulgencio Batista
1511 - Spanish conquest begins under the leadership of Diego de Velazquez, who establishes Baracoa and other settlements.
1526 - Importing of slaves from Afr... | A chronology of key events | 19576144 |
Special Report: The Technology of Business
How do businesses cope with Bitcoin?
Tapping into the IT cloud crowd
2014: The year of encryption
Stress test: Are you fit for work?
2013: The year we all went 'mobile'
That was the key message emerging last week from FinTech City London, a series of events for financial servi... | Big banks beware - innovative technology challengers are coming to eat your lunch. | 25911784 |
Adams, 49, stood down from his position as head coach of Kent in October, after spending five seasons with the county.
The Jamaican played 54 Tests and 127 one-day internationals, scoring 3,012 and 2,204 runs respectively.
West Indies are still to replace former coach Phil Simmons, who was sacked in September having le... | Former Test batsman Jimmy Adams has been appointed as West Indies' new director of cricket. | 38573902 |
Aftab Alam had worked with the country's largest private broadcaster Geo News.
On Tuesday night, gunmen shot at Geo TV's news van in Karachi, killing a technician and injuring the driver.
A journalist with national broadcaster PTV was also seriously injured when he was shot in an attack in Peshawar.
Police said the mot... | Gunmen in Pakistan have shot dead a former journalist near his home in Karachi, the third such attack on media personnel in less than 24 hours. | 34195950 |
President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said a "major decision" could now be made at a eurozone finance meeting on Saturday.
The proposals are aimed at staving off financial collapse and preventing a possible Greek exit from the eurozone.
Greek PM Alexis Tsipras will put the plan, which contains many elements rejected in a refer... | The Eurogroup has described new Greek proposals on securing a vital third bailout as "thorough". | 33473779 |
Brosnan caused a stir in India when he appeared in an ad for Pan Bahar, a product many associate with a highly addictive form of chewing tobacco.
He told People magazine he was "distressed" by the row.
He has asked Ashok & Co, the company that produces Pan Bahar, to remove his image from all their advertising.
Many hav... | Former Bond star Pierce Brosnan has condemned the "unauthorised and deceptive" use of his image to promote an Indian mouth freshener. | 37724893 |
Police said they were called to the Costcutter shop in Great Hampton Row on Saturday afternoon.
Three men remain in hospital for treatment for their injuries, which are not thought to be life-threatening.
West Midlands Police refused to speculate on any motive for the attack. There were no arrests and no direct appeal ... | Four men were taken to hospital with bullet wounds to their legs after an incident in Birmingham city centre. | 34499730 |
The suspect, who was restrained and held on the floor by passengers, is said to have links to the "radical Islamist movement".
He can be held for four days without being charged.
Security measures aboard Thalys trains have been stepped up.
After a meeting of its national security council on Saturday, Belgium said mixed... | French police are questioning Ayoub El-Kahzzani, a 25-year-old Moroccan accused of carrying out Friday's attempted attack on a high-speed Thalys train between Amsterdam and Paris. | 34032210 |
All sides appear to agree that shifting budgets and decision-making powers from Whitehall to Yorkshire on fundamental economic issues makes sense.
The problem is how to go about it.
Council leaders across Yorkshire have been unable to fully agree on how many mayor-led devolved regions there should be, which neighbours ... | Yorkshire's dash for devolution is stalling as more questions than answers are being thrown up virtually every step of the way. | 34718574 |
Only two other studies have ever reported recovering fingerprints from foods, but the research was carried out in India and Slovenia.
Those studies both used chemical substances that are not routinely used in the UK.
The technique could prove useful to police forces and the justice system.
Recovering fingerprints from ... | Forensic scientists at the University of Abertay in Dundee have become the first in the UK to recover latent fingerprints from foods. | 22107222 |
The GAA's Central Competitions Control Committee imposed the ban arising from an incident involving McGeeney and linesman Joe McQuillan.
McGeeney's initial appeal has been rejected although he has two further appeal avenues.
Armagh face Down in their Ulster SFC opener against Down on 4 June.
As it stands, McGeeney will... | Armagh manager Kieran McGeeney has been handed a 12-week sideline ban following an alleged incident in last month's Football League game against Antrim. | 39716920 |
Sid Ahmed Ghlam, a 24-year-old Algerian national, was detained on Sunday in Paris after he apparently shot himself by accident and called an ambulance.
He is also being questioned over the murder of a woman on Sunday.
France has stepped up security in the wake of recent attacks on the Charlie Hebdo offices and a Jewish... | French police have arrested a man suspected of planning an attack on "one or two churches" in a Paris suburb, the country's interior minister has said. | 32409253 |
Riot police fired tear gas to try to disperse the protesters, many of whom hurled stones at the police lines.
Tahrir Square was the epicentre of February's revolt that led to President Hosni Mubarak being toppled.
Many of the protesters were calling for the prosecution of former officials to be speeded up.
As dawn brok... | Egyptian police have clashed with hundreds of anti-government protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square, leaving several people injured. | 13954250 |
After resuming on 389-7, Kent pushed their first-innings score to 441, with veteran Darren Stevens the last man out for 136.
Hardus Viljoen then took three wickets as Essex struggled with the bat.
Dan Lawrence made 88, but Essex could only close on 289-9, three short of avoiding the follow-on.
It was a crucial error fr... | Kent continued their dominance of County Championship Division Two champions Essex on day three at Canterbury. | 37435362 |
St Mary's University says free meals can be a "misleading" marker for deprivation in schools.
The study warns of the need to support the "hidden poor".
Offiicial figures recently showed two-thirds of children in poverty are now in working families.
Free school meals have been widely used as a way of looking at the soci... | Counting the proportion of pupils taking free school meals is an increasingly unreliable way of measuring poverty and the fairness of admissions policies, researchers say. | 39479028 |
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If you want to receive Breaking News alerts via email, or on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App then details on how to do so are available on this help page. You can also follo... | Man charged with murder of Polish national Marta Ligman, whose body was found in a suitcase in a London canal | 32717123 |
Sam Kelly, 26, was driving on the M6 when his car crashed with a flatbed lorry between junctions 19 and 20 near Lymm in Cheshire on Saturday.
Mr Kelly, from Northwich, was airlifted to hospital and later died.
Paying tribute his family said "Sam the Man" was a "beautiful, fun loving, go getter" who "will be sadly misse... | A man who died in a crash that closed a motorway for five hours "lived and loved life to the full", his family has said. | 40877973 |
The 41-year-old from Dungannon was seriously injured in a crash at last year's North-West 200.
Farquhar said the quick response of medics had saved his life and that he was fortunate to be able to look back on his successful racing career.
He plans to remain involved with the sport but also started competing in skeet s... | Ryan Farquhar has conceded it is unlikely he will ever be fit enough to return to top-level road racing. | 39049937 |
The world's second-largest economy said exports in yuan terms surged 18.7% in March compared with the same period last year.
Investors cheered the data and the benchmark Shanghai Composite index rose 1.4% to close at 3,066.64.
Asian markets were also pushed higher after oil prices jumped on Tuesday.
The rises followed ... | Asian stock markets rose on Wednesday, as stronger-than-expected trade data from China boosted investor sentiment. | 36032193 |
MacArthur, 28, sustained the injury shortly after kick-off in Saturday's defeat by Northampton Saints in the European Champions Cup.
The Scotland cap is expected to be discharged from hospital on Tuesday.
"We look forward to him re-joining the squad when he has fully recovered," said Warriors head coach Gregor Townsend... | Glasgow Warriors hooker Pat MacArthur faces up to six weeks out after having surgery on a jaw fracture. | 34914911 |
The Syrian Observatory for Human rights has released images from the location that appear to show the tail-section of a typical RBK-500 cluster bomb canister. And the Americans - to put it mildly - are far from happy.
It is not just the use of the cluster munitions - which is controversial in itself. But it is also the... | Just a few days ago Russian warplanes, allegedly using cluster munitions, attacked a US-backed Syrian opposition group based near al-Tanf - a small town close to the border with Iraq. | 36578281 |
The zoo and Wild Place Project are home to around 500 species, from tiny fish and insects to gorillas and hippos.
The count is done at the start of each year to verify audit records and check vulnerable populations are thriving.
John Partridge, senior curator, said: "The last 12 months have been very successful in term... | More than 14,000 creatures are being counted at Bristol Zoo as keepers begin their annual stock-take. | 38471252 |
U's winger Brennan Dickenson drilled wide early on before the hosts took a 13th-minute lead when George Elokobi picked up possession 25 yards out and curled a superb shot over stranded Wycombe goalkeeper Jamal Blackman.
Colchester keeper Sam Walker twice denied Wycombe's Paris Cowan-Hall while Alex Jakubiak's low cross... | Colchester moved into the League Two play-off places with a 1-0 win over Wycombe. | 38964958 |
Trish Adudu was walking to her car in Coventry city centre when a man cycled past and made the remark.
The BBC Coventry and Warwickshire presenter said she witnessed the same person abusing an Asian man moments earlier.
Police have vowed to find the perpetrator of the "sickening" attack.
It comes after the West Midland... | A police investigation has been launched after a BBC radio presenter was racially abused in the street. | 36670691 |
However, it was a night of mixed fortunes for the Magpies as Aleksandar Mitrovic, Dwight Gayle and Rolando Aarons all came off injured.
Perez, who was also injured and had his head bandaged, curled in a brilliant opener in first-half stoppage time.
The Spaniard tapped in his second when Gayle pounced on Easah Suliman's... | Ayoze Perez scored twice as Newcastle reached the third round of the EFL Cup with a win over League Two Cheltenham. | 37091289 |
The robbery, which happened at a Bank of Scotland branch in Kirkcaldy, Fife, on Wednesday, sparked a bomb scare.
The taxi driver picked up a man from The Avenue in Lochgelly and was then forced to carry out the robbery at the Mitchelston Industrial Estate branch.
Police had been told that some form of explosive device ... | A taxi driver was abducted by a bank robber before being forced to hand over a note to cashiers demanding money. | 34798186 |
Its talk of "newspeak" and surveillance seem to have struck a nerve recently.
Sales of the George Orwell book rose after US president Donald Trump's adviser said the White House was issuing "alternative facts" over the size of the crowds at his inauguration.
The Olivier Award-nominated play will open in New York in Jun... | Dystopian novel 1984 has been topping US bestseller lists in recent weeks - and now a stage version previously seen in the West End is heading to Broadway. | 38854721 |
Chris Coleman's side fought back from an early Radja Nainggolan goal to triumph thanks to goals from Ashley Williams, Hal Robson-Kanu and Sam Vokes.
The Welsh fairytale in France continues - they now face Portugal in the semi-finals - this is how BBC Sport rated their players at Stade Pierre Mauroy.
Made an excellent e... | Wales are into the semi-finals of Euro 2016 after a superb 3-1 victory over Belgium in Lille. | 36691597 |
The 55-year-old former Yeovil Town, Brighton, Leyton Orient and Cardiff boss has agreed a three-year deal at The Valley.
Slade left his role as head of football with the Bluebirds last week.
He replaces Jose Riga, who resigned as head coach on 7 May after the end of the Championship campaign, in which the Addicks finis... | Relegated Charlton Athletic have appointed Russell Slade as their new manager. | 36460179 |
Charlie, a Border collie, makes weekly visits to the North Wales Cancer Centre at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd as part of the Pets As Therapy (PAT) scheme.
His owner Jane Howatson said patients were able to empathise with him when they heard his story.
Charlie was diagnosed with cancer of the lymph nodes in August 2012.
He is one... | A therapy dog used to help patients going through cancer treatment has a poignant twist to his tale after he had seven months of chemotherapy himself. | 21946007 |
Kazakhstan's Vassiliy Levit and Ireland's Michael Conlan lost bouts in they both appeared to win comfortably.
Under new rules, they cannot appeal against the judges' decision.
Bunce said the judges will "not work again at these Olympics".
"What happened to Conlan and Levit is heartbreaking and wrong," he said.
"After 2... | Olympic boxing judges in Rio are "confused" by a new scoring system and have gone "crazy", leading to controversial decisions which have marred the Rio tournament, according to BBC boxing expert Steve Bunce. | 37100323 |
South Africa-born Strauss, 28, qualifies to play for Scotland before the tournament under residency rules.
Hardie, 27, born in New Zealand with Scottish ancestry, also makes the cut having made his debut in August, as does South Africa-born prop WP Nel.
Back-row forwards John Barclay and Blair Cowan do not make the 31-... | Back-row forwards Josh Strauss and John Hardie have been named in Vern Cotter's Scotland squad for the World Cup. | 34113092 |
The rescue mission went into full swing in Clacton, Essex, after neighbours told police the man had four pets.
It took a week for officers to find them among boxes and papers reaching up to the ceiling. They found unopened boxes of cat food and evidence the pets had been drinking dirty sink water.
The animals are now a... | Four cats living in the home of a deceased "extreme hoarder" were rescued after spending a week evading RSPCA and police officers. | 33649490 |
No-one was seriously injured in the crash on Bumblebee Lane in Sharnford, but the lorry driver had to be rescued from his vehicle.
The owner of the house was not injured, but has been moved out of the property.
His son Steve Rowley said: "This is the second time this happened in a year as a car went thought the other e... | Part of a two-storey house in Leicestershire has been torn off after a lorry crashed into the property. | 33937031 |
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said 549 miners would receive eight weeks' back pay of up to £3,800 each.
The union claimed miners at the North Yorkshire pit, which closed in 2015, received smaller payouts than workers at Thoresby in Nottinghamshire.
It successfully argued the closure of the two pits had been t... | Miners made redundant through the closure of Kellingley colliery are to receive additional payments. | 40816746 |
Bridges into Work 2, backed by £5.4m EU cash, will be on offer to over-25s in Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil and Torfaen.
It aims to find jobs for at least 400 people and qualifications for 1,000.
Finance Minister Jane Hutt said the scheme will "help remove the barriers that prevent people getting ... | Two thousand unemployed people in the south Wales valleys will be offered training and mentoring in a new £7m project to get them into work. | 34017141 |
The Edinburgh hooker, 33, will win his 110th cap in Suva on Saturday in the final match of the Scots' summer tour.
Glasgow's New Zealand-born centre Nick Grigg comes in for his debut in one of 12 changes as coach Gregor Townsend seeks to make it three wins from three.
Scotland beat Italy 34-13 in Singapore and followed... | Ross Ford is poised to become Scotland's record cap holder after being named in the side to face Fiji. | 40364140 |
The risky therapy involves wiping out the person's immune system with strong cancer drugs and then rebooting it with a stem cell transplant.
Doctors say only some patients will be suitable to try it, particularly because it is so high risk.
Out of 281 people who had the treatment, nearly half benefited, but eight died ... | A multiple sclerosis treatment being tested in patients can stop the disease for at least five years, say doctors. | 39026117 |
The Scottish government-owned company said a total of 1,658,423 customers used its airports over the last 12 months - 220,798 more than in 2015-16.
Hial operates 11 sites in the Highlands, Western Isles, Orkney, Shetland, Argyll and Dundee Airport.
Inverness, Sumburgh, Dundee and Barra airports were among its busiest.
... | Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (Hial) has reported a 15.4% overall increase in passenger numbers in its latest financial year. | 39518544 |
Mark Ellis, 57, denies carrying out sex attacks on the child in 1991 when he was aged around 10.
A jury heard claims that Mr Ellis, who ran a football team and training school in South Lanarkshire, threatened to kill both the boy and himself if the abuse was disclosed.
His accuser said he now "wanted justice" for the "... | A boys' football coach has gone on trial charged with the abuse of a young player. | 40349351 |
Hedd Wyn was killed on the battlefields of Flanders in 1917, before being posthumously awarded the National Eisteddfod's Bardic Chair for his work.
The event on Tuesday evening will explore his life and work, along with other World War One poets.
It is hosted by Literature Wales at Passa Porta, the International House ... | A poetry and music event will be held in Brussels commemorating Welsh poet Hedd Wyn. | 39973657 |
The hosts looked to be in control in Colombo when the Windies managed only 32 from the first 10 overs, with Chris Gayle taking 16 balls to make three.
But Samuels smashed six sixes in his 56-ball 78 to drag his side to 137-6.
"People will rejoice that Darren Sammy has got something to show from his years in charge of t... | A Marlon Samuels-inspired West Indies recovered from an awful start to beat Sri Lanka and win the World Twenty20. | 19857255 |
The Rushden Lakes development is due to open in spring 2017, with the 12-screen cinema completed a few months later.
LXB Properties have been granted permission for a bowling alley, climbing structure, cycle hire business and restaurants to replace a planned garden centre.
Local councils had objected, saying it threate... | A cinema and bowling alley are to be added to a £140m shopping and leisure complex in Northamptonshire. | 36101833 |
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A gutsy run saw Farah become the first Briton to win a world medal at 10,000m.
But it had looked like being gold and not silver as the 28-year-old stormed to the front with less than two laps remaining of a thrilling 25-lap race.
Farah told BBC Radio 5 Live: "At the end I ... | Britain's Mo Farah missed out on 10,000m gold in agonising fashion as he was overtaken by Ethiopia's Ibrahim Jeilan just metres from the line. | 14699428 |
Julian Cole suffered a broken neck outside Elements nightclub in Bedford in May 2013.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has examined the circumstances around the arrest.
It said there may be a case to answer for gross misconduct and has made a referral to prosecutors.
Bedfordshire Police has confirmed... | Criminal charges could be brought against five police officers after a man was paralysed following an incident outside a nightclub. | 37372957 |
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