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The male suspect was arrested in Sa Kaeo province, east of Bangkok on the border with Cambodia, Prayuth Chan-ocha told reporters.
He described the man as "a main suspect".
A foreign man was arrested in Bangkok on Saturday over the blast at Erawan shrine, which killed 20 people.
Thai military authorities have been interrogating the 28-year-old man, but they have not yet released his name or nationality.
Bomb-making materials and forged passports were found at the apartment where he was detained in Nong Jok on the outskirts of Bangkok, and he has been charged with possessing illegal explosives, police said.
It is unclear whether either of the two arrested men are the suspect seen on a security camera leaving a backpack at the crowded shrine shortly before the bombing on 17 August.
Thai authorities have issued three more arrest warrants - making seven in total.
The Thai investigation into the Bangkok bombing is gaining momentum, says the BBC's Jonathan Head.
The latest developments in this case suggest police are dealing with a militant network - a network that could have been planning more attacks, he says.
But the motive for the bombing - unprecedented in its scale in Thai history - is still unknown, although several analysts have suggested it may be linked to the deportation of Muslim Uighurs from Thailand to China.
"We have arrested one more, he is not a Thai," Mr Prayuth told journalists after his weekly cabinet meeting, calling him "a main suspect and a foreigner".
Images of the detainee in military custody showed a tall, thin man with trimmed facial hair, wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap.
At a press conference, Thailand's national police spokesman Lt Gen Prawut Thavornsiri said the man was intercepted as he attempted to cross the border illegally into Cambodia.
Thai media circulated a photo of a Chinese passport which was claimed to belong to the man detained on the border. On the passport, he is identified as Yusufu Mieraili, 25, from Xinjiang province - home to a significant Muslim Uighur population.
One police investigator also identified him as "Yusufu", Thai media said.
Thailand controversially repatriated more than 100 Uighur Muslims to China in July.
China will be watching the investigation in Bangkok closely.
Speculation about who was behind the bombing has ranged widely, but has included the suggestion that it was carried out by sympathisers of China's predominantly Muslim, Uighur minority.
China has long faced criticism for the perceived harsh restrictions it places on religion and culture in its western Xinjiang region - where the majority of Uighurs live - and Thailand recently found itself in the spotlight following its forced repatriation of more than 100 Uighurs to China.
If it is confirmed that the suspect was found in possession of a Chinese passport, it will throw the spotlight on an ethnic conflict that China has long argued poses an international threat.
Attacks allegedly carried out by Xinjiang-based groups against Chinese targets have intensified in recent years, including a suicide attack in Beijing's Tiananmen Square and a knife attack at Kunming Station that left more than 30 people dead.
But although some Uighur militants have reportedly been involved in foreign conflicts, there has been little evidence to show any more sophisticated cross-border links.
Thai authorities have also released details of the three new suspects for whom they have issued arrest warrants. One suspect is an unidentified Turkish man, another a foreign man named Ahmet Bozoglan and a third a foreign man named Ali Jolan.
All face charges of illegally possessing explosives.
On Monday, Thai police issued arrest warrants for two suspects - a 26-year-old Thai Muslim woman, Wanna Suansan, and an unnamed foreign man.
However, a woman who claims to be Ms Suansan told AFP news agency from Turkey that she had last been in Thailand three months ago.
She said she was "shocked" to have been named as a suspect.
Also on Tuesday, police said they had transferred 16 officers - including senior officers - from their posts in Bangkok districts for negligence.
An additional six immigration officers were transferred from their posts in Sa Kaeo, where Tuesday's arrest took place, reported Reuters news agency.
Police chief Somyot Pumpanmuang was quoted as saying the immigration officers had been transferred because it had emerged that foreigners had been able to enter the country illegally.
The transfers came just a day after the same police chief said he would reward his own men for making the first arrest. | A second foreign suspect has been arrested in connection with the deadly bombing at a Bangkok shrine in August, the Thai prime minister has said. | 34114100 |
Another 29 people were injured, said Nigerian military spokesman Col Dahiru Abdussalam.
The market in Potiskum, Yobe state, was set on fire by gunmen armed with explosives.
Police say the attack may be in revenge for the killing by traders of a man who had earlier tried to steal cattle.
The joint taskforce, a combined operation between Nigeria's army and police, is pursuing the "unidentified gunmen", Col Abdussalam said.
"A group of gunmen armed with around 20 explosives and assault rifles attacked the Potiskum cattle market," police spokesman Toyin Gbadegesin told the AFP news agency.
"They threw explosives and shot indiscriminately, setting fire to the market, killing lots of livestock and wounding many people, mostly cattle dealers," he said.
A gang of men locked the gate of Potiskum's fenced cattle market, trapping many traders and livestock inside, residents told the BBC.
The market - a bustling trading hub, with cattle on sale from neighbouring Chad, Cameroon and Niger - was razed to the ground late on Wednesday and many animals were also burned to death, residents say.
Witnesses say they saw several bodies being removed from the market.
Correspondents say the attack does not appear to be the work of the radical Islamist group Boko Haram, which has carried out deadly bombings and shootings across northern Nigeria, including Potiskum, in the past 20 months.
Cattle raids are common in the north of Nigeria. | At least 34 people have been killed in an attack on a cattle market in north-eastern Nigeria, security officials have told the BBC. | 17936549 |
The total rose by £9m in 2014 to £81m.
The sum represents just over 1% of the entire benefits expenditure at Stormont's Department of Social Development (DSD) of £5.7bn.
It relates to payments like housing benefit and employment and support allowance.
The figure is contained in Tuesday's report by the Audit Office on the annual accounts of government departments and other public sector bodies.
Kieran Donnelly, the auditor general, said the "vast majority of (audit) opinions were clean".
However, the DSD's books were among 18 sets of accounts which were "qualified", partly due to the benefits fraud and error.
Under the Fresh Start political deal agreed at Stormont last week, there will be £125m for the Social Security Agency, under the DSD, to tackle fraud and error.
The assumption is that the investment will allow the agency to detect up to £300m of additional fraud and error over the next five years.
Stormont will be allowed to keep half of that money. | Benefit payments due to fraud and error in Northern Ireland have increased to their highest level since 2007, according to an Audit Office report. | 34902291 |
In a letter addressed to the finance committee, Nama chairman Frank Daly accused it of making "unsubstantiated and unfounded" claims.
Nama is the Republic of Ireland's "bad bank".
The finance committee is investigating the £1.2bn sale of Nama's Northern Ireland assets to US firm Cerberus.
A committee report published this week said that Nama's refusal to answer questions at an oral hearing was unhelpful given Project Eagle's importance to the Northern Ireland economy.
Mr Daly said no effort was made to contact his agency ahead of the publication of its report earlier this week. | Nama has criticised the assembly finance committee's report on the sale of its Northern Ireland loan portfolio, known as Project Eagle. | 35789882 |
Welsh leader Andrew RT Davies called for a public spending watchdog to review the Communities First programme, which is spending £30m this year.
It was revealed that one project in Merthyr Tydfil spent most of its £1.5m budget over three years on salaries.
Communities Minister Lesley Griffiths defended the spending as "transparent".
The 3Gs Development Trust in Merthyr Tydfil spent nearly £1.3m of its £1.5m budget between 2012-13 and 2014-15 on salaries and £250,000 on "other project costs", according to a response to a Freedom of Information request by the Welsh Conservatives.
Mr Davies told BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme that staff costs were "disproportionate".
"It does seem... that a huge amount of the money is going into offices and salaries rather than actually getting into the projects themselves," he said.
"There needs to be a greater look at these figures now, whether that be the Auditor General looking at it or whether that be the Welsh government themselves."
A spokesperson for Merthyr Tydfil council defended the trust, which serves Gurnos, Galon Uchaf and Penydarren, saying salary costs included those for staff on the ground such as youth workers, not just administrators.
Over £300m has been spent on Communities First by the Welsh government since it was launched in 2001, including around £30m in 2015-16.
Communities Minister Lesley Griffiths told Sunday Politics Wales that spending on Communities First was "transparent" and she was "comfortable" with the way money was spent.
"It's our flagship tackling poverty programme, has been for many years, it's a very people-intensive programme," she said.
"We've got our Communities First staff working face-to-face, one-to-one with many of the most vulnerable in our communities in some of our most deprived areas.
"There is robust monitoring of the programme - we monitor the outputs, we monitor the outcomes, there's financial audits done.
"You cannot see staff costs [as] independent to the project - it's absolutely integral."
Sunday Politics Wales is on BBC One Wales at 11:00 BST on 14 June. | Money to help the poorest communities in Wales is being spent on "shiny new offices" and staff instead of improving lives, the Conservatives have claimed. | 33108982 |
His exhibition is called Dismaland and features the work of lots of other famous artists.
The art works are all meant to look like the sorts of things you would normally expect from a theme park, but with a twist.
Here are some of the best pictures... | The mysterious artist known as Banksy has created an art exhibition on the site of a old, abandoned theme park called Tropicana in Weston-super-Mare in the south-west of England. | 34014714 |
The minnows qualified for the 2017 finals with a 3-2 win over Zambia.
But Zambian Football Association CEO Ponga Liwewe told BBC Sport there was an "issue related to the game".
He added: "If the Confederation of African Football rules in our favour, it will have far-reaching implications. That is what we are waiting for."
Guinea-Bissau top their group with an unassailable 10 points - four ahead of both Congo and Zambia - with just one round of matches left.
There have been reports the Zambian FA's protest centres on the eligibility of Guinea-Bissau goalkeeper Pape Massa Mbaye Fall, who was born in Senegal.
However, Liwewe would not be drawn when asked about the nature of his organisation's protest.
"After the game in Guinea-Bissau, the FA sat down, consulted among themselves and sent some correspondence to Caf about several queries and issues we had," he said.
"It's premature to make pronouncements until we get some feedback from Caf."
The ultimate sanction, should Guinea-Bissau be found guilty of any wrongdoing, is disqualification. | Guinea-Bissau's shock qualification for their first Africa Cup of Nations has been cast into doubt after a complaint from a rival football association. | 36475362 |
Reports seen by the BBC state former chief executive Mike Owen and head of children's services Mark Carriline failed to act quickly enough after claims were made against a councillor.
Simon Carter later admitted 16 charges of making indecent images of children.
Mr Owen apologised for any errors but denied any political motivation.
Mr Carriline could not be contacted while Mike Connolly, the former council leader, declined to comment.
At an extraordinary meeting later, Bury councillors will vote on whether to publish the results of two independent reports into the council's handling of the situation.
The contents of those reports have, however, been seen by the BBC.
They found Mr Owen and Mr Carriline had "inexplicably" and "deliberately" delayed implementing safeguarding procedures when allegations about Carter first came to light in the spring of 2015.
The then Tottington councillor was on the adoption register at the time.
Later that year, Carter was given a three-year community sentence and placed on the sex offenders register for five years, at Bolton Crown Court.
Although Carter was immediately removed from the council's list of people approved to adopt children, the reports found Mr Owen and Mr Carriline waited up to five weeks to carry out a string of child protection measures that should have been implemented within 48 hours of the allegations being made.
That included taking eight days to inform the two schools where Carter was a governor.
Mr Owen quit the day before a disciplinary hearing while investigators found Mr Carriline guilty of serious misconduct and recommended his immediate dismissal, but he resigned before the recommendations were put before the council.
Mr Owen demonstrated a misguided desire to "help" Mr Connolly, investigators concluded, which manifested itself in inappropriate briefings, a desire to control the proper flow of information and a failure to adhere to the council's policies and procedures.
The disciplinary panel concluded this was a misguided attempt to protect the former administration and its leader Mr Connolly from public scrutiny in the run-up to the 2015 elections.
In relation to Mr Carriline, the disciplinary panel found he was overly compliant to Mr Owen and, in so doing, lost sight of his statutory duties.
Mr Owen told the BBC that he accepted his position as chief executive was "untenable irrespective of the outcome of the [disciplinary] hearing".
He said he had always denied "any deliberate wrongdoing", adding he was "truly sorry" for making "procedural errors of judgment".
He "absolutely refuted abhorrent allegations" that his actions were intended to "help [Mr Connolly] and to impact the result of the election".
Mr Connolly, who is still a councillor, told investigators he had been wrong to give Carter a written reference on council-headed notepaper ahead of his sentencing, describing him as "trustworthy, honest and reliable".
Mr Connolly refused to comment when contacted by the BBC. | Senior officials "deliberately delayed" carrying out child protection measures to help Bury Council's ruling Labour group before an election, reports say. | 40673349 |
The prince's communications secretary said Harry has not expressed any views about the Iraq Historic Allegations Team's (IHAT) work.
A senior source was quoted in the Sun's report on 17 October, saying Harry was "furious" with the investigation.
The Sun would not comment on Harry's denial but stands by the story.
Speaking to the newspaper, the source said Prince Harry was "furious at the treatment of some British troops" and "frustrated" he could not intervene.
They added: "He thinks the whole thing is a joke and is very concerned about the support these men and women are getting."
But Prince Harry's communications secretary Jason Knauf said the prince was passionate about his work in supporting veterans and that it will be "a cause he champions for the rest of his life".
But Prince Harry, who served as an Army officer for 10 years and was deployed twice to Afghanistan, wanted to respond to the claims because it was "only fair that people know the facts".
Mr Knauf denied that Harry had spoken about his views on the topic to anyone as he didn't think it was appropriate.
He said: "Prince Harry does not comment on issues like this because to do so would actually undermine his ability to support veterans both in the UK and overseas."
Established in November 2010, IHAT was set up to investigate allegations of murder, abuse and torture of Iraqi civilians by UK military personnel between 2003 and 2009.
The claims have ranged from ill-treatment during detention to assault and death by shooting with some wrongdoing being exposed.
However in September, Prime Minister Theresa May said every effort must be made to stop the legal system being abused over allegations of serious misconduct by UK troops.
The prime minister told defence chiefs she was determined to stop "vexatious" claims being brought against the armed forces.
Last month she raised concerns over the "industrial scale" of claims lodged with IHAT.
More than 1,500 individuals have put in a claim to the body, with 326 cases being settled, and around £20 million being paid in compensation. | Prince Harry has denied that he told friends an investigation into allegations UK troops abused Iraqi civilians is "a joke". | 37679852 |
The crash happened on the A496 near the pumping station at Ty'n y Cefn, between Blaenau Ffestiniog and Maentwrog, at about 17:30 GMT on Tuesday.
A person with life-threatening injuries was flown to North Staffordshire University Hospital, Stoke, and one woman was taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor.
The road remains closed on Wednesday morning due to the fuel spillage.
Emergency repairs are also being carried out on the road.
North Wales Police has appealed for witnesses to call 101. | Two people were taken to hospital after a two-car collision in Gwynedd. | 38154918 |
Net profits fell less than forecast to $6.2bn (£4.6bn) in the three months to the end of June, compared with $6.29bn last year.
In the previous quarter, the bank's profits had fallen by 6.7%.
"JP Morgan Chase continued to perform well in all of our major businesses," said chief executive Jamie Dimon.
"We saw strong underlying performance, with record consumer deposits (up 10%), credit card sales volume (up 8%), merchant processing volume (up 13%) and broad core loan growth (up 16%) - particularly in mortgage and commercial real estate.
"Outside of energy, both wholesale and consumer credit quality remained very good," he added in a statement.
Profits were dented by the bank's provisions for loan losses, which rose to $1.4bn in the second quarter from $959m in the same period a year earlier. The bank was building up its reserves for potential bad corporate loans in the oil and gas sector, and bad credit card and car loans.
"JP Morgan continues to execute really well in a tough environment," said Evercore ISI analyst Glenn Schorr.
JP Morgan is the first of the big US banks to report results for the second quarter, and the first since last month's vote by the UK to leave the EU.
"Throughout the recent uncertainty and turbulence in the markets, we continued to be there for our clients - solid and steadfast to meet their needs, execute their transactions and provide liquidity," said Mr Dimon. | US bank JP Morgan Chase has reported better-than-expected quarterly profits, helped by growth in loans and a clampdown on operating expenses. | 36792045 |
The carmaker said it would withhold a portion of bonus payments for now, but could award them at a later date.
Last year VW admitted to cheating on diesel emissions tests, with net losses for 2015 reaching €5.5bn.
Chief executive Matthias Mueller apologised for the firm's actions.
At a press conference, he acknowledged that the carmaker "disappointed many people who trusted Volkswagen".
Mr Mueller has been promised a 2015 pay package of €4.76m, of which €880,000 has been postponed.
Meanwhile former chief executive Martin Winterkorn, who resigned in the wake of the scandal, agreed to delay 30% of his variable pay but will still collect a total of €7.3m.
Hans Dieter Posch will receive €5.2m for his previous work as chief finance officer, as well as fixed pay of €13.4m for his new role chairing Volkswagen's supervisory board.
The German company has set aside €16.2bn to pay costs associated with the scandal, almost half of which is devoted to buying back or repairing diesel cars that possess the emissions cheating software.
Mr Mueller said that the recall process would be the company's "most important task until the very last vehicle has been put in order".
Earlier this week, Volkswagen said it was postponing a recall plan for tens of thousands of Passat models in Germany, while it waited for the repair process to be approved by regulators.
The company has previously failed to win approval for a recall of its Golf models, as it struggles to fix 8.5 million vehicles in Europe alone. | Volkswagen is to pay a dozen current and former senior managers a total of about €63m (£49m, $71m) for 2015, despite reporting record annual losses following its emissions scandal. | 36157731 |
LacPatrick is the second largest milk processor in Northern Ireland, behind Dale Farm.
The investment means its Artigarvan plant - formerly part of Town of Monaghan Co-Op - will increase capacity to 2.5 million litres of milk per day.
It will also underpin the future of more than 1,000 family farms that supply milk to the creamery.
The money will be used to build an evaporation tower at Artigarvan.
The company is expanding to meet demand in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
The expansion will mean 15 new jobs, whilst up to 150 construction workers will be involved in building it.
Work has begun already and is due for completion in April 2017.
The company, LacPatrick, was formed when two creameries merged in July. They were formerly Ballyrashane Co-Op, Coleraine, and Town of Monaghan Co-Op. | The LacPatrick Group has announced a £30m investment at its milk powder processing plant in County Tyrone. | 34781257 |
At Westminster and Holyrood in recent months there's been a building sense that she has made up her mind to call a vote.
Those close to her are careful to emphasise that there is no final decision. She, herself, is at pains to say she has not reached a conclusion. But even if it's still an "if", she seems clearer on the "when".
In a documentary tonight, the first minister told me the "common sense time" for such a vote would be in autumn 2018. Others have speculated as much, but she is in charge. And her more explicit remarks display how expectation is building.
If Ms Sturgeon is now willing to discuss the timing of a second vote in public, consideration of another independence referendum is far beyond the hypothetical.
The crucial facet of that calculation is that the SNP believes its best chance of winning is before the EU negotiations are complete.
Senior sources suggest Theresa May will be at her most vulnerable when the UK government is consumed with the Brexit negotiations, and that if Scotland is to be offered independence again, that choice must be made before the UK has actually left the European Union.
There is though not just the problem that just as her supporters may be enthused, many other Scots will be enraged by being asked to go there again.
Just as the first independence referendum galvanised Scottish politics, for others it was divisive, even distressing.
But also, it's up to the Westminster government to permit another referendum.
There are huge risks for them in denying it, but ministers in London certainly would not grant a vote at the time of the SNP's choosing without a fight.
My interview with Nicola Sturgeon will be broadcast on Britain's Biggest Deal on BBC 2 at 21.00 GMT. I have also spoken to Boris Johnson, David Davis and Tony Blair among others. | Nicola Sturgeon has hardly made a secret of her belief that Scotland's different attitude to the EU possibly justifies a second independence referendum. | 39214115 |
Passengers said they had endured limited amounts of food and backed-up toilets during the three nights they spent adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
The Carnival Splendor was 200 miles (310km) from San Diego when the fire broke out in its engine room on Monday.
"I love being back on land," passenger Ken King told the Associated Press.
The 952ft (290m) ship, which is owned by Carnival Cruise Lines, was pulled into San Diego Bay at about 0830 local time (1630 GMT) by six tugboats and escorted by several Coast Guard vessels.
Individuals on the ship and about 100 people onshore cheered loudly as the Carnival Splendor reached land.
By mid-afternoon on Thursday, about 2,500 passengers had disembarked the ship, which a Carnival Cruise Lines official said was better than anticipated.
The evacuation of the passengers and crew was slowed by disabled elevators.
"The staff was excellent. Only a few people on board were rude. The food was horrible. Starting at 5am on Monday, we didn't have toilets for 13 hours," Mr King said.
The cruise line has promised to refund the passengers' fares, reimburse them for their travel costs and give them a voucher for another cruise. | A disabled cruise ship that caught fire off the coast of Mexico has arrived in San Diego and disembarked its 4,500 passengers and crew. | 11739570 |
The government recommends no more than 2-3 units for women and 3-4 for men every day or most days, and 48 alcohol-free hours after heavy drinking.
The Royal College of Physicians said the liver needed time to recover from more than just a small alcoholic drink.
It advises two to three alcohol-free days a week and 0-14 weekly units for women and 0-21 for men.
The Department for Health said it had no plans to change its guidance.
Sir Ian Gilmore, special adviser on alcohol and former president of the RCP, said: "In addition to quantity, safe alcohol limits must also take into account frequency.
"There is an increased risk of liver disease for those who drink daily or near-daily, compared with those who drink periodically or intermittently.
"We recommend a safe alcohol consumption limit of between 0 and 21 units a week for men and 0 and 14 units a week for women provided the total amount is not drunk in one or two bouts, and that there are two to three alcohol-free days a week.
"At these levels, most individuals are unlikely to come to harm."
In an interview with Radio 4's Today show, Sir Ian added: "If someone drinks one drink a day, one small drink every day of their life, they're most unlikely to run into harm. But if you are going out and having a lot to drink then you should perhaps rest your body."
The latest NHS figures showed that alcohol-related hospital admissions reached record levels last year.
More than one million people were admitted in 2009-10, compared with 945,500 in 2008-09 and 510,800 in 2002-03. Nearly two in three of those cases were men.
In a written submission to MPs on the House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee, the RCP said government advice on sensible drinking limits should be regularly reviewed.
It said: "Government guidelines should recognise that hazardous drinking has two components: frequency of drinking and amount of drinking.
"To ignore either of these components is scientifically unjustified.
"A very simple addition would remedy this problem, namely a recommendation that to remain within safe limits of alcohol consumption that people have three alcohol-free days a week."
The RCP also quoted a recent report by the Royal College of Psychiatrists that recommended safe limits for drinking alcohol by older people should be drastically cut.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists suggested a "safe limit" for older people was 11 units per week for men and or seven units per week for women.
The RCP's submission to MPs added: "The current guidelines are based predominantly on evidence for younger age groups and there is concern that current guidelines are not appropriate for older people."
Speaking to the BBC News Channel after his address to the Royal College of GPs' conference in Liverpool, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said alcohol abuse needed to be addressed.
"Essentially in this country we have two ways in which people abuse alcohol. One is binge drinking - far too much drink at one time - the other is chronic alcohol abuse and we need to act on both, and we are acting on both." | Doctors say the government's alcohol guidelines could be improved to ensure they do not sanction daily drinking. | 15415713 |
Now don’t worry - it’s not shrieked amidst some kind of panicked, cold sweat. I’m not having nightmares about search engines, or even the prolonged suffering of Google+ (though someone surely should be).
For the past month, saying “Google” is the way I’ve been turning off my alarm, ever since being sent a review unit of Google Home, the new smart assistant.
That’s how you wake it up. With “Okay Google”.
Okay Google.
Not content with controlling much of our online - and offline - lives, Google now wants us to shout out its name in our own homes.
The first morning I did it I felt ridiculous, but figured I should give it time. After a month, it’s time up, and it doesn’t feel any better. I’ll now attempt to explain why this may pose a problem.
Piece of metal
I often tease my predecessor in this job, Richard Taylor, for being the only person I know who uses Apple’s personal assistant Siri to its fullest.
You’ll be standing there, minding your own business, and Richard will pull out his phone and start dictating a text message. Right there. In front of strangers. I find it awkward, he finds it convenient.
I can see the appeal - he uses it often enough so the voice recognition is pretty much spot on. But what I don’t think I’ll ever understand is his lack of self-consciousness when it comes to talking to a piece of metal in his hand when there are people around.
You’d have to snap all my fingers off before I’d consider such a thing in public - but one place I thought I might just get over myself is in my own home.
And so, in the corner of my kitchen, I have an Amazon Echo, the stylish little black cylinder that glows blue when it’s listening to me.
And in the corner of my bedroom, the equally-stylish Google Home, with its little whizzy-blob lights that spin to attention.
Both devices are very neat - the voice recognition is accurate, the speaker quality is terrific, and the computing power behind them both is smart enough to mostly decipher even my cryptic commands.
I talk to them in a voice that’s only barely audible so as not to alert the neighbours to the super-nerd next door.
Out the door
But here’s the difference. To access Amazon’s assistant, you ask for it by name.
“Hey Alexa, tell me the news.”
It’s the same for the other players in the digital assistant game like Apple’s Siri or Microsoft’s Cortana. You don’t necessarily have to say the name to get started, but you feel you’re interacting with a character nonetheless.
There’s a reason why all our favourite sci-fi artificial intelligence have that human factor. Knightrider’s Kitt. Holly in Red Dwarf. Samantha in Her.
Even the heuristically-programmed Algorithmic computer was humanised as HAL. It makes us feel warmth towards them. One famous exception might be C3PO, but then, he was a humanoid.
Behind the scenes, I realise it makes no difference whether I’m saying “Okay Google” or “Hey Alexa”. There’s no added privacy implication, nor practical benefit, to either approach. Both devices are doing precisely the same thing - using my data to help me out (and later sell me something or other).
But I’m talking about the awkwardness factor which I feel can’t be understated. When I use the Amazon Echo, I’m talking to Alexa. When I use Google Home, I’m forced to address a corporation. Or as Buzzfeed’s Mat Honan put it: “I actively hate saying ‘Okay Google’ because it makes me so aware I am interacting with a brand.”
Achilles heel
Back in October, when Google held glitzy events around the world to launch Google Home, I managed to get in a brief chat about all this with Michael Sundermeyer. He leads the product design team for the device.
Giving it a friendly name was considered, he told me, but said the reason they dropped the idea was pretty straight-forward: they wanted to constantly give the impression you were accessing Google directly. Not an assistant, but all-powerful, all-knowledgeable Google.
“What this does, this Google assistant… this is Google,” Sundermeyer said.
“This is what Google’s been working on for 18 years.”
He paused briefly when his mention of “Google” brought the nearby Google Home to life, before adding: “Where other companies, the voice assistant may be a part of what they do, for Google it is Google.”
Friendly face
The grand pitch for why we should all want one of these personal home assistants is that it will blend into family life and become indispensable.
Being able to talk to the device as if it were a real person helps greatly to achieve that aim.
Talk to anyone who owns an Amazon Echo and they’ll soon tell you about how they find themselves having an odd fondness for Alexa - I can’t be the only one who often adds “please” and “thank you” to my commands.
But as long as Google forces you to bark “Okay Google”, Google Home will surely fail to become a personal assistant. It will be an assistant, sure, and a very good one at that. But it won’t be personal.
Given Google Home has the full might of the Google ecosystem behind it, it stands the best chance of providing a smarter service than Alexa, Siri or Cortana. And so it seems silly to me to let something like this get in the way.
And so I’m going to attempt to use whatever moderate influence this blog has to change Google’s fate and come up with an alternative.
A friend pointed out that all the mainstream assistants (with the exception of Siri) so far have female-sounding names, arguably gently reinforcing the idea that being an assistant is still somehow solely a woman’s job.
So let’s take it in a different direction: make Google Home’s wake-phrase an homage to one the company’s founders, Larry Page. I could definitely get on board with “LARRY! Turn up the volume!”
It means I’d be starting each morning in bed saying hello to “Larry”, but whatever. The neighbours are confused enough anyway.
Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC and on Facebook | The first thing I say when I wake up every morning is “Okay Google”. | 38193676 |
The glasshouse building, which is part of Parc Tawe, is home to more than 5,000 plants, many of which are extinct from their natural habitat.
Swansea council needs to save £75m over the next three years and closing Plantasia is on the list of new savings proposals.
It was opened in 1990. | Swansea's Plantasia attraction could be closed in a bid to save £400,000 as part of planned cuts by the city's authority. | 30449418 |
But the same remoteness became an obstacle to rescue when an earthquake struck, and the hotel was destroyed by a powerful avalanche.
Rescuers struggled to reach the Rigopiano, nestled in the beech forests near Farindola.
In the past, guests had adored the seclusion.
"If you enjoy beautiful vistas, mountains, forests and great spas then this place is for you," one Canadian reviewer wrote on TripAdvisor.
Another, from Liverpool, reviewed it just three weeks before the tragedy as a "fantastic spa hidden in the mountains of Abruzzo".
The hotel and spa complex is a four-star hotel, offering not just rooms, but a full restaurant and spa service.
The hotel staff are also known for their friendly character - as were the venue's two Abruzzese guard dogs, Lupo and Nuvola, who had just given birth to a litter of pups.
In another post from just a few days before, staff posted a slow-motion video of the heated outdoor pool steaming at night, during a heavy snow flurry .
Hours before the avalanche collapsed the roof of the Rigopiano, hotel staff posted to their Facebook page that their phone lines were out of service due to the bad weather - and encouraged guests to contact them by email.
The resort's Facebook page is now flooded with comments from well-wishers and those concerned for people they know.
"You and your staff are special beings that don't work for mere profit, but for passion," wrote one member of the Italian public.
"You gotta hold on, I'm begging you." | The remote, idyllic nature of Italy's luxurious Hotel Rigopiano was part of the reason it was so highly rated by tourists escaping to the mountainside. | 38682043 |
Rea, 29, from Northern Ireland, swapped the lead with Ducati rider Davies on the final lap in Phillip Island before edging the verdict by .063 of a second.
Dutchman Michael van der Mark was a further .43 seconds back in third while Huddersfield's Tom Sykes took fifth.
The second race in Phillip Island will take place on Sunday.
This year's World Superbike series has a new format with race one at the meetings taking place on Saturday afternoons as opposed to Sunday mornings.
Race two will continue to be staged on Sunday afternoons.
In Saturday's opener, Davies, 29, produced a tremendous charge from ninth on the grid to challenge an early lead group which also included Sylvain Guintoli and Alex Lowes.
Englishman Sykes led at one stage before dropping back after being passed by Rea.
By the start of the final lap, Davies was Rea's closest challenger and the Welshman took the lead as the riders approached the final corner before the defending champion produced a daring move on the outside to snatch victory.
After being prominent for much of the race on his World Superbike debut, 2006 MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden has to settle for ninth place.
Rea is aiming to emulate the achievement of Carl Fogarty, who successfully defended his title twice in the 1990s.
The Northern Irishman won 14 of the 26 races last year and was on the podium 23 times. | Jonathan Rea began the defence of his World Superbike title with a thrilling victory over Welshman Chaz Davies in Saturday's season opener in Australia. | 35630807 |
Portugal led through Ronaldo's 71st international strike and an Andreas Granqvist own goal.
But a Viktor Claesson double and Cavaco Cancelo's injury-time own goal secured a remarkable turnaround for the Swedes.
Ronaldo is expected to attend a naming ceremony at the airport on Wednesday.
The 32-year-old Real Madrid star, who captained his country to become European champions last year, was born in the Madeira capital of Funchal before joining Sporting Lisbon and then Manchester United.
Some local politicians had opposed the decision to change the name of Madeira Airport to Cristiano Ronaldo Airport.
"Sometimes, national gratitude has short memory, but Madeira doesn't," Miguel Albuquerque, the president of the Madeira government, said when the name change was announced last year.
Funchal already has a Ronaldo statue and museum, as well as a hotel complex in honour of the Portugal captain.
This was his first appearance for Portugal on his home island, where he paraded the European Championship trophy before kick-off.
But the celebration was somewhat tarnished by a superb Sweden comeback, earning them a third consecutive international win.
Both sides are second in their respective World Cup qualifying groups at the midway point.
Match ends, Portugal 2, Sweden 3.
Second Half ends, Portugal 2, Sweden 3.
Own Goal by João Cancelo, Portugal. Portugal 2, Sweden 3.
Foul by Renato Sanches (Portugal).
Isaac Kiese Thelin (Sweden) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Eder (Portugal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Niklas Hult (Sweden).
Foul by Ricardo Quaresma (Portugal).
Sebastian Larsson (Sweden) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Sweden. Oscar Hiljemark replaces Filip Helander.
Corner, Portugal. Conceded by Sebastian Larsson.
Attempt blocked. Nelsinho (Portugal) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ricardo Quaresma.
Foul by Renato Sanches (Portugal).
Jakob Johansson (Sweden) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Sweden. Marcus Berg replaces Christoffer Nyman.
Foul by Nelsinho (Portugal).
Isaac Kiese Thelin (Sweden) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Portugal. André Gomes replaces Gelson Martins.
Renato Sanches (Portugal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Christoffer Nyman (Sweden).
Goal! Portugal 2, Sweden 2. Viktor Claesson (Sweden) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jimmy Durmaz with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Sweden. Conceded by Nelsinho.
Attempt blocked. Viktor Claesson (Sweden) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Christoffer Nyman.
Hand ball by Viktor Claesson (Sweden).
Substitution, Sweden. Mikael Lustig replaces Emil Krafth because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Viktor Claesson (Sweden) because of an injury.
Substitution, Sweden. Jimmy Durmaz replaces Sam Larsson.
Bruno Alves (Portugal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Pontus Jansson (Sweden).
Corner, Sweden. Conceded by Nelsinho.
Attempt missed. Ricardo Quaresma (Portugal) right footed shot from long range on the left is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Renato Sanches.
Attempt saved. Viktor Claesson (Sweden) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Portugal. Ricardo Quaresma replaces Cristiano Ronaldo.
Goal! Portugal 2, Sweden 1. Viktor Claesson (Sweden) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the top right corner. Assisted by Christoffer Nyman with a through ball.
Attempt saved. Isaac Kiese Thelin (Sweden) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Niklas Hult.
Luís Neto (Portugal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Isaac Kiese Thelin (Sweden).
Attempt missed. Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
João Cancelo (Portugal) wins a free kick on the left wing. | Cristiano Ronaldo scored on his home island of Madeira, a day before the local airport is to be named in his honour, as Portugal surrendered a two-goal lead to lose to Sweden. | 39338821 |
The Commons Public Accounts Committee said ministers had taken too long to consolidate the "alphabet soup" of agencies tasked with stopping attacks.
Cyber attacks are ranked among the top four risks to UK national security.
The government said it had acted with "pace and ambition" on the issue.
In November, Chancellor Philip Hammond said that hostile "foreign actors" were developing techniques that threatened the country's electrical grid and airports.
And in a speech on Thursday night, Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon warned that Russia was carrying out a sustained campaign of cyber attacks targeting democracy and critical infrastructure in the West.
Moscow was "weaponising misinformation" in a bid to expand its influence and destabilise Western governments and weaken Nato, he said.
Russian hacks 'aim to destabilise West'
The committee of MPs found that the role of the Cabinet Office, which is responsible for protecting all government information from attack, remained unclear.
"Its approach to handling personal data breaches has been chaotic and does not inspire confidence in its ability to take swift, coordinated and effective action in the face of higher-threat attacks," said Labour MP Meg Hillier, who chairs the committee.
"In this context, it should concern us all that the government is struggling to ensure its security profession has the skills it needs."
Reporting of data breaches varied across Whitehall, with some departments highlighting thousands while others recorded none at all, a system the MPs described as "inconsistent and chaotic".
"Without a consistent approach across Whitehall to identifying, recording and reporting security incidents, the Cabinet Office is unable to make informed decisions about where to direct and prioritise its attention," the committee said.
A spokesman for the Cabinet Office said: "The government has acted with a pace and ambition that has been welcomed by industry and our international partners right across the globe.
"Our comprehensive and ambitious national cyber security strategy, underpinned by £1.9bn of investment, sets out a range of measures to defend our people, businesses, and assets; deter and disrupt our adversaries; and develop capability and skills."
A spokesman for the UK's National Cyber Security Centre, which has been operational for four months, said the unit had "transformed how the UK deals with cybersecurity".
It had provided "real-time cyber-threat information to 3,000 organisations from over 20 different industries, offering incident management handling and fostering technical innovation".
Prof Alan Woodward, a computer security expert from the University of Surrey, said the report was "a little unfair".
"Could we say that we are cyber-bomb proof? Probably not, but I'm not sure anyone could," he said.
"But we are getting better, and the government is taking strides to get its own house in order."
The weakest link in any cybersecurity clampdown remained people, Prof Woodward said.
"There are still people who copy things they shouldn't on to laptops or people who decide to connect a nuclear power station to the internet," he said. | A skills shortage and "chaotic" handling of personal data breaches are undermining confidence in the government's ability to protect the UK from cyber attacks, MPs have warned. | 38845582 |
The council, University of the Highlands and Islands and Highlands and Islands Enterprise are keen to strengthen the link with Augsburg.
They believe businesses and research involved in medical technologies could benefit.
In their report, officers said the link was not dependent on EU membership.
In June, the UK as a whole voted to leave the European Union, but a majority (62%) in Scotland voted to remain.
The officers at Highland Council delayed their report on efforts to strengthen the twinning link, to advance life sciences work being done in both cities, until after the result of the referendum was known.
In the document, to be considered by councillors on 1 September, they said: "Town twinning with Augsburg was a result of the post-war settlement in Europe and pre-dates our membership of the EU by almost 20 years, so EU membership was not crucial to the development of links.
"However, from a financial point of view, EU membership or a relationship with the EU is important if we want to carry on accessing funding."
Highland Council has been able to access EU budgets such as the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework and also education initiative, Erasmus.
This access to funds and projects looks uncertain following the referendum, although the UK government said this month that EU funding for farmers, scientists and other projects will be replaced by the Treasury after Brexit.
The officers said Norway could be a model for how Highland Council, University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) and Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) might maintain Inverness's links with Augsburg and wider continental Europe.
The report said: "In the case of Norway, although they are not a member of the EU they participate in Horizon Programme opportunities by contributing financially to specific projects.
"UHI remain positive about developing their links with Augsburg, and will still want to collaborate internationally.
"The town twinning link will also remain once the UK has formally left the EU." | Brexit should have no effect on Inverness' 60-year-old twinning link with a German city, Highland Council officers have said in a new report. | 37196511 |
The victim was found injured in Doyle Gardens, Kensal Green, just before 15:30 GMT on Monday.
Ambulance crews treated the boy at the scene and took him to hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Metropolitan Police murder detectives have yet to release the boy's identity but said his next of kin had been informed. No arrests have been made but witnesses are being sought.
Capital City Academy in Willesden has confirmed the stabbed teenager was a pupil at the school.
A friend of the victim, who did not want to be named, told BBC London Radio: "He was one of the most loved people in the whole of our school.
"I gave him hug and said, 'Get home safely', and then I come out of school and I see that he's stabbed.
"There's all these teenagers out here running with knives and guns. What's the point? Where does it lead us?" | A 15-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in a London street. | 38726896 |
The incident happened in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The 23-year-old was arrested in Ardcarn Park for endangering aircraft. He has since been released on bail to appear for questioning at a later stage.
In a tweet, PSNI Air Support said the incident had happened while the helicopter was supporting police officers in the area.
Earlier this month, the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA), called for laser pointers to be classed as "offensive weapons" after a pilot was injured by a beam, shortly after taking off from Heathrow to New York. | A man has been arrested after a laser was shone at a police helicopter in Newry, County Down. | 35793984 |
The possibility of changing the timing of Africa Cup of Nations finals is also on the cards, as well as the qualification process for junior tournaments.
"I will be discussing with as many stake holders as there around African football to come up with the best solution for the problems," Ahmad, who uses only one name, told a media conference in Johannesburg after meeting with presidents of southern Africa's football associations.
The new Caf president, who comes from Madagascar, pulled off an upset triumph over long-term incumbent Issa Hayatou in last month's elections.
Ahmad said he was concerned about a 12-year television deal that Caf signed last year with French-based Lagardere Sports.
"This contract is the subject of a judicial challenge in the Egyptian courts at the moment and it was to protect the integrity of Caf in this issue that the general secretary Hicham (El Amrani) submitted his resignation, which we accepted," he said.
"We will investigate but I am concerned about the length of the contract. I would never sign anything for longer than three years."
Lagardere Sports hold the television and marketing rights over all Caf's major properties and have guaranteed African football a minimum of $1bn (£807m) in income over the next 12 years. Last month's Caf Congress was told this could be more in the region of $1.5bn (£1.2bn).
Ahmad said he would also consider switching the hosting of the Nations Cup from January to mid-year and also look at its two-year frequency.
"It is the big stars who make this tournament and I will be talking to them to see how they feel. This is something where we need to consider many different points of view," he said.
African footballers at European clubs are under increasing pressure to forego the tournament because it falls in the middle of their club season.
Ahead of January's finals in Gabon, nine players took the unprecedented step of turning down call-ups to play for the country in order to stay at their clubs.
Ahmad said Caf would also look at regionalising qualification for its Under-20 and Under-17 Championship. | Contentious decisions on African football's television rights and tournament hosting agreements will be reviewed in the coming months, new Confederation of African Football president Ahmad said on Friday. | 39528246 |
Savita Halappanavar was 31 when she died at University Hospital in Galway in October 2012.
Her husband Praveen had issued High Court proceedings against the HSE for negligence over her death.
The deal is thought to have significant financial implications for the HSE.
But details of the agreement have not been made public.
Proceedings were due to begin at the High Court on Friday, but the Irish state broadcaster RTÉ has reported that the agreement was reached within the past few days.
Mrs Halappanavar had asked for a termination after being told she was having a miscarriage, but staff refused.
Days later, she died from infection.
The jury at the inquest into her death returned a verdict of medical misadventure.
Two subsequent reports into the circumstances of her death and the care she received at the hospital found several failings.
A report by the Health Information and Quality Authority found a failure to provide the most basic elements of care.
The 257-page report found that there were many missed opportunities, which, if acted on, might have changed the outcome for Mrs Halappanavar.
Praveen Halappanavar now lives in the US, having moved there in recent years for work. | The Republic of Ireland's Health Service Executive (HSE) is understood to have made an out-of-court settlement with the husband of a woman who died in hospital after a miscarriage. | 35771734 |
It will be the first time Iran - an ally of President Bashar al-Assad - has attended such a summit with the US.
Representatives of Russia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey will also attend the talks.
Earlier, the US said an invitation had been extended to Iran - a move Syria's Western-backed opposition questioned.
Meanwhile, Russia said its aircraft had struck 118 "terrorist" targets in Syria over a 24-hour period - a new record - as a result of what its defence ministry said was new intelligence.
The main round of talks on Syria is expected to take place on Friday, but diplomats say some preparatory meetings could happen on Thursday evening.
Aside from inviting Iran to attend the talks in Vienna, the US has also said it could live with a political transition in Syria that would leave Mr Assad temporarily in power, potentially removing an obstacle to building international consensus.
For some time, Iran has been pushing a four-point plan for Syria that calls for a ceasefire, followed by the formation of a national unity government, constitutional reforms and, finally, free elections. The plan could now, conceivably, be used as a basis for further discussions.
But perhaps more surprising than the change in US policy, has been Saudi Arabia's acquiescence to Iran's involvement in the talks in Vienna.
Many in the region see the rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia as being at the heart of the deepening conflicts in the Middle East.
And, in addition to potentially ending the destructive and bloody war in Syria, the talks in Vienna might therefore offer a way to calm that rivalry.
Iran now seen as part of solution to Syria conflict
Washington struggles for clear line on Syria
"We have reviewed the invitation, and it was decided that the foreign minister would attend the talks," Iranian foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said.
Egypt and Iraq also confirmed they had accepted invitations to the meeting.
BBC diplomatic correspondent James Robbins says that while the US is certainly not welcoming Iran to the Syria talks, it will now tolerate Tehran's involvement.
Iran's Fars news agency said Mr Zarif had discussed participation in the Vienna talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov by phone on Tuesday.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov later told reporters that Russia wanted a "widening of the dialogue" on Syria.
Iran is believed to have spent billions of dollars over the past four years propping up President Assad's government, providing military advisers and subsidising weapons.
However, Syria's political opposition has warned that Iran's involvement will only complicate the meeting in Vienna.
Both Iran and Russia - another ally of President Assad - have recently stepped up their military role in the Syrian conflict.
Iran has long acknowledged sending military advisers to Syria, but has denied the presence of any ground forces.
Despite that, unconfirmed reports earlier this month said that hundreds of Iranian troops had arrived in Syria.
They were reported to be joining government forces and fighters from the Lebanese Shia Islamist movement, Hezbollah, in assaults on rebel positions in northern and central Syria.
Russia began its military intervention in Syria at the end of last month, launching air strikes in support of President Assad.
Russia and Iran have insisted that Mr Assad must be part of any transition government and that the Syrian people must be allowed to decide who governs them.
The US has indicated it could only tolerate President Assad during a short transition period, after which he should step down.
Why is there a war in Syria?
Anti-government protests developed into a civil war that, four years on, has ground to a stalemate, with the Assad government, Islamic State, an array of Syrian rebels and Kurdish fighters all holding territory.
Who is fighting whom?
Government forces concentrated in Damascus and the centre and west of Syria are fighting the jihadists of Islamic State and al-Nusra Front, as well as less numerous so-called "moderate" rebel groups, who are strongest in the north and east. These groups are also battling each other.
What's the human cost?
More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed and a million injured. Some 11 million others have been forced from their homes, of whom four million have fled abroad - including growing numbers who are making the dangerous journey to Europe.
How has the world reacted?
Iran, Russia and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement are propping up the Alawite-led Assad government, while Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar back the more moderate Sunni-dominated opposition, along with the US, UK and France. Hezbollah and Iran are believed to have troops and officers on the ground, while a Western-led coalition and Russia are carrying out air strikes.
Iran's growing role in Syria's war
Syria crisis: Where key countries stand | Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will attend multilateral talks on finding a political solution to the conflict in Syria in Vienna this week, a government spokeswoman has said. | 34656543 |
The pair were caught buying cocaine near the Champs Elysees avenue at around 03:00 (02:00 GMT) on Saturday morning, police sources said.
Williams, 35, plays for Racing 92 and O'Connor, 26, is at Toulon.
Last October two other New Zealanders playing for Racing 92 were cleared of doping charges.
The side are current champions of French rugby.
Two dealers are also in custody.
Racing 92 said in a statement (in French) that it had suspended Williams "temporarily".
"If the investigation confirmed the possession of cocaine and the transaction, it would not only be against the law but also a serious breach of our ethics," the club said.
Williams earned 77 New Zealand caps between 2002 and 2012.
O'Connor has made 44 appearances for Australia between 2008 and 2013. | Two former rugby internationals, New Zealander Ali Williams and Australian James O'Connor, have been arrested in Paris on drugs charges. | 39090252 |
The French firm said in its annual results statement that it had decided "to explore all strategic options regarding The Body Shop's ownership".
It said this would give the chain "the best opportunities and full ability to continue its development".
It added: "No decision has been taken so far."
The Body Shop has more than 3,000 stores in 66 countries and employs 22,000 people, but has been suffering a slowdown in sales.
Its results for 2016 show total sales were 920.8m euros (£783.8m), down from 967.2m euros in 2015, which L'Oreal blamed on market slowdowns in Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia.
The sales were a tiny proportion of L'Oreal's overall 25.8bn euros of sales for the same period, up from 25.3bn euros in 2015.
The French group's overall operating profit last year was 4.54bn euros, up from 4.4bn euros a year earlier.
The Body Shop was founded in 1976 by Dame Anita Roddick, who died in 2007.
It was a pioneer using natural ingredients for its beauty products when it started out.
It initially thrived and by the 1980s, it was one of the best-known brands on the High Street. | Cosmetics giant L'Oreal has confirmed reports that it is looking to sell The Body Shop chain of stores, which it acquired in 2006. | 38920864 |
The system will be re-launched next week with farmers asked to submit Basic Payment Scheme claims on paper forms.
Farmers say they have struggled with the £154m website for months.
Mark Grimshaw, chief executive of Defra's Rural Payments Agency (RPA), said the decision had been made "having listened intently" to farmers.
He made the announcement on BBC Radio 4's Farming Today programme.
Defra made the decision to "blend" new and existing forms and processes "to ensure that everyone who wants to make a claim this year can do so", the chief executive added.
The Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) is the European Union's biggest rural payments subsidy scheme for the farming industry.
Defra has said the registration part of the system will continue. The RPA will then input the data on to the system.
However, a digital "mapping tool" to measure farmland boundaries - which has been the most problematic element of the system - has been replaced with paper maps and forms.
Farmers and their agents will be able to receive assistance at 50 digital support centres in England, which will now act as drop-in centres.
I usually leave it to the last minute with the paper forms because it only takes about three hours to do, but so far I have spent three days doing the online version and I am only halfway through it.
We don't have all the codes - we have to put down what you're growing in each field and a code for each crop.
It is just lack of information really, there is just no information and the people on the switchboard when you ask the helpline are as much in the dark as we are.
Also talking to Farming Today, Guy Smith, from the National Farmers Union, said he had found the mapping programme "beyond comprehension".
"Our patience is worn really thin now and if we think that they've launched this again half baked, not ready to go, without proper back-up we will be complaining in the strongest terms," he said.
Brian Glick, editor in chief of Computer Weekly, said: "The system hasn't been permanently abandoned, it's an embarrassment rather than a failure."
For anyone who's been farming for a decade or more, this kind of Defra IT system fiasco will be horribly familiar.
The head of the Tenant Farmers Association has called it "the ghost of Christmas past".
When the Common Agricultural Policy was last reformed in 2005, the £350m, implementation IT system disintegrated.
Farmers ended up not being paid the EU funds they were entitled to, or they got paid the wrong amounts.
It took years to sort out. The system was dismantled and the Rural Payments Agency was told that it "must learn" from its costly mistake.
This time another eye-watering sum has been paid to technology suppliers and consultants: £154m.
Defra officials had reassured farmers they would ensure there was "no repeat of the 2005 payments fiasco".
So it is time to ditch the keyboard and download the claim forms.
Scotland had already prepared its paper-based forms. The question will be asked: why was there no plan B in England?
The European Commission has extended the deadline for basic payment scheme applications until 15 June.
"We've put in place some processes which we know (farmers) are familiar with, so they can have the certainty of being able to submit their applications on time," Mr Grimshaw added.
Farmers have repeatedly been reassured the online system would be fixed.
Defra has said two forms will be available to download from the RPA's website from 23 March.
Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have their own rural payment schemes. | A multi-million pound government IT system to process EU subsidy payments for farmers in England has been largely abandoned after "performance problems". | 31976230 |
The 21-year-old centre-back has agreed a three-year contract at Oakwell after making 42 appearances for Scottish Premiership club Thistle last season.
"He comes off the back of an exceptional season in Scotland and we believe he will kick on here," said Barnsley boss Paul Heckingbottom.
Lindsay rejected the chance to join League One club Oxford United last week.
He is Barnsley's third summer signing following the arrival of St Mirren midfielder Stevie Mallan and Southampton full-back Jason McCarthy.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Barnsley have signed defender Liam Lindsay from Partick Thistle for an undisclosed fee. | 40376026 |
The fever, it said, is behind a spike in cases of micro-encephalitis - an inflammation of the brain contracted in the first months of pregnancy.
It has recorded two adult deaths and 739 cases of the disease, which can stunt the growth of the foetus's head.
A World Health Organization team arrives in Brazil next week.
The ministry said doctors had found Zika virus in the blood and tissue of a baby with micro-encephalitis in the north-eastern state of Ceara.
It said it was also the first time in the world that adult deaths from Zika virus had been registered.
Most cases have been in the north-east of Brazil but cases also rapidly appeared in the south-east, in Rio and Sao Paulo.
The first confirmed case of death was of a man in the city of Belem, in Para state, who was being treated for Lupus, a disease of the immune system.
The second case, also in Para, was of a 16-year-old girl who was admitted with suspected Dengue fever but who was found to have died of Zika.
The virus was first detected in Brazil in April and has spread rapidly to 18 states.
It appears relatively harmless at first, causing a rash and a fever for a few days.
But ministry officials have issued warnings to women to think carefully about getting pregnant at the moment in areas where there are Zika fever cases.
Zika is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, also known to carry the yellow fever, dengue and chikungunya viruses.
The ministry said Zika had become a serious risk to public health and that Brazil must embark on an emergency programme to control the Aedes aegypti mosquito to prevent the virus's spread. | The Brazilian health ministry has confirmed a link between a mosquito-borne virus from Africa, Zika Fever, and a high incidence of birth defects. | 34956646 |
The drugs were discovered when a lorry was searched on Moorfields Road on 7 May 2016.
The man, who is 25, was arrested in Manchester on Friday morning and brought to Northern Ireland for questioning by the PSNI.
He is due to appear before Ballymena Magistrates' Court on Saturday
He faces charges of supplying a class B drug and being concerned in the supply of a class B drug. | A man has been charged over the seizure of cannabis with a street value of about £300,000 in Ballymena, County Antrim, last year. | 38617834 |
Conservatives, Labour, Greens and the SNP say they will restart low-key local campaigning on Thursday before resuming national events the next day.
UKIP's Paul Nuttall will be launching his party's manifesto on Thursday.
Theresa May will not be taking part in Friday's events as she will be in Sicily for the G7 summit.
Buckingham Palace has confirmed there will be a minute's silence at 11:00 BST on Thursday to honour the victims of the suicide bombing in which 22 people, including children, were killed.
Announcing Labour's plans, leader Jeremy Corbyn said: "The British people are united in their resolve that terror will not prevail. It will not prevent us going about our daily lives or derail our democratic process.
"Resuming democratic debate and campaigning is an essential mark of the country's determination to defend our democracy and the unity that the terrorists have sought to attack."
All the major parties suspended national campaigning after Monday's bombing at the Manchester Arena.
Local Labour activists did some low-key campaigning on Wednesday, such as delivering leaflets, but nothing which involved contact with voters.
Mr Nuttall, who is a UKIP Member of the European Parliament for the North West of England said everyone was "horrified by the horrific events that took place in Manchester" and it had been "right and proper" for political parties to suspend their election campaigns "for a short period as a mark of respect to those who lost their lives or suffered appalling injuries".
"But we cannot be cowed or allow our way of life to be undermined by those who wish to do us harm," he said.
"These people hate the way we live, hate our freedom and hate our democracy.
"The best response we can make is to ensure that the democratic process continues and therefore I have decided that we must to go ahead with the launch of the UKIP general election manifesto tomorrow.
"For those who say that nothing must change, but then complain, it is by prolonging the disruption to normality that we allow the terrorists to win. Politics has never been more important, politicians must deal with these issues." | General election campaigning will get back under way nationally on Friday after a three-day pause following the Manchester bombing. | 40026416 |
The suspected Class B drugs were found in two vehicles during a stop and search at Dargan Road, north Belfast, on Tuesday evening.
Two men, aged 36 and 24, were arrested on suspicion of possessing a Class B controlled drug with intent to supply.
The pair are currently assisting police with their enquiries.
The vehicles have been seized for further examination.
Appealing for anyone with information about the seizure to contact the PSNI, Det Insp Keith Gawley said: "This was a proactive policing operation which has stopped a huge amount of drugs from entering Northern Ireland." | Police in Belfast have seized herbal cannabis with an estimated street value of about £1m. | 35416154 |
The workers and their families from south Wales and the north east of England are claiming the illnesses were caused by working conditions.
It is hoped the judge will grant an order to allow a small number of cases to be pursued on behalf of all workers.
The UK government will not comment ahead of Tuesday's hearing.
Coking took place in plants, mostly attached to collieries and steelworks, from the 1950s to the early 1980s.
In the process, coal was purified at high temperatures to make coking coal, which was used for iron and steelmaking.
A letter of claim was issued two years ago against British Coal and British Steel on behalf of 300 former workers who became ill after working at coking plants and steel works.
It claimed the former companies failed to correctly assess the risks of working on coke ovens and failed to adequately protect workers from dust and fumes.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change is the defendant in this week's hearing involving the ex-NCB workers.
At its height, the coking industry in Wales extended to 13 plants, mostly in south Wales but one in Shotton in Flintshire.
It offered well-paid and steady work to thousands of men, including 81-year-old Trevor Evans from Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taff.
He spent nine years working in NCB coking plants helping to produce the smokeless, solid fuel by baking coal in ovens at high heat to drive off volatile compounds including gases and coal tar.
"It was dusty, really dusty," he recalled.
"When they were shovelling the coal in to make the coke, the black smoke coming back over the top was terrible."
Mr Evans retired from the coking plants more than 25 years ago. Soon afterwards he began to experience difficulty breathing and was diagnosed with emphysema.
His hopes for compensation rest on a judgement from 2012 that workers at the former Phurnacite smokeless fuel plant in the Cynon Valley were eligible for compensation for lung cancer, certain types of skin cancer and chest complaints including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
Kathryn Singh of Cardiff-based solicitors Hugh James was involved in both the Phurnacite case and the latest litigation.
"That litigation paved the way for the coke oven litigation that we are currently representing hundreds of claimants in because the working conditions were very similar in the Phurnacite plant to what we now see in the coking plants."
In his former role as general secretary of the mining union Nacods in Wales, Bleddyn Hancock was also involved in the Phurnacite case. More recently, he has been helping to lay the foundations for the latest court action.
He expects the judge at next week's hearing to take the significant step of issuing a group litigation order.
"That's where all the cases are amalgamated and the judge will say 'we'll pick half a dozen, perhaps ten, cases and we'll just look at those'.
"That small group of cases will represent all the coking plants that we're looking at and therefore a judgement will affect everyone, at all the coking plants.
"It will dramatically speed up the process of bringing these cases to a conclusion and hopefully getting compensation for all the other people who were affected."
While the former NCB workers, or their close family, are the first to see their case go to court, actions are also being prepared on behalf of former British Steel workers and employees at the sole privately-owned coking plant in Wales at Trethomas, near Caerphilly.
There will be more on this story on BBC Radio Wales' Eye On Wales which is on at 12:30 BST on Sunday and on BBC iPlayer. | Lawyers for more than 350 ex-National Coal Board coke workers are hoping for a landmark High Court ruling in their compensation fight over illnesses. | 33652692 |
The 23-year-old joined the Nethermoor Park side on a three-month loan deal in September and has made 12 appearances for the National League strugglers.
The Lions are bottom of the table, four points adrift of safety.
"We've been really impressed with Jon while he's been with us so we were keen to get him under permanent contract," football secretary Adie Towers said. | Guiseley have signed Forest Green goalkeeper Jonny Maxted for an undisclosed fee. | 38107302 |
The 28-year-old joined Hampshire in July following his release by Derbyshire, having previously also played for Nottinghamshire.
Carter took 170 wickets across all formats and his final game was against Yorkshire earlier this month.
"It's the right time for me to move to the next chapter and I'm excited about it," Carter said. | Seam bowler Andy Carter has announced his retirement from first-class cricket after a seven-year career. | 37450677 |
The unmanned craft, which has no one aboard, spun out of control minutes after it was launched last Tuesday from Kazakhstan.
The spacecraft is carrying three tonnes of equipment and will break up as it enters Earth's atmosphere.
Any parts to reach Earth should hit the sea and not land and scientists have said people do not need to worry.
The Progress M-27M was supposed to deliver food, water, fuel, oxygen and clothing to the crew of six people on the International Space Station (ISS), that orbits about 250 miles above Earth.
But after scientists on the ground couldn't communicate and talk to the craft it began spiralling out of control.
Since then, it has been slowly coming back to Earth, and orbiting our Planet in a pattern that takes it over the eastern United States, Colombia, Brazil and Indonesia.
Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, said on Wednesday it expected the spacecraft to enter Earth's atmosphere between 10.23pm on Thursday and 6.55am on Friday.
It said: "Only a few small parts of elements of its construction could reach the surface of our planet."
A special investigation has been set up in Russia to investigate why Progress was lost.
In 2011 another craft was destroyed when it crashed soon after take-off in Siberia.
The astronauts on board the ISS have enough supplies to keep them going until the next expected delivery on 19 June. | A Russian spacecraft that has been out of control since launching will fall back to Earth and burn up on Friday, scientists say. | 32620524 |
Northern Irishman Frampton, 29, beat Santa Cruz in a thrilling bout in July to become the first Irish fighter to win world titles at two weights.
Frampton believes his second bout with the Mexican will be "one of the biggest fights in world boxing".
"Our first fight in July was a war," said the defending champion.
"I believe that January 28th will be exactly the same."
Frampton, who has won all 23 of his professional bouts, said he is thrilled about the prospect of the the Las Vegas contest which will take place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
"It's a dream come true for me to be headlining in Las Vegas, where some of the biggest fights of all time have taken place.
"I've learnt a lot from our first fight. Leo is a warrior but I'm going to win even more convincingly the second time around."
Frampton, who had previously held the IBF and WBA super-bantamweights titles, moved up a weight to take on the unbeaten three-weight world champion in New York.
One judge saw the contest as a draw but the other two had Frampton as a clear victor.
Frampton first became a world champion in September 2014 when beat Spain's Kiko Martinez on a points decision in their IBF super bantamweight clash. | Carl Frampton's WBA world featherweight title rematch against former champion Leo Santa Cruz will take place in Las Vegas on 28 January. | 37770128 |
As usual, the Queen will be holding court during what is acknowledged as her favourite week of the year.
However, her statement following the Grenfell Tower fire, speaking of a "sombre national mood", may set a more subdued tone for the week.
Since 1825, when the Queen's great-great-great uncle George IV started the tradition, the Royal party arrives by open-top carriage in a procession along the racecourse.
Timings are precise, though that may be a challenge on the Wednesday, with the Queen's Speech being delivered at the State Opening of Parliament and roadworks on the M4 motorway said to be causing headaches for equerries.
Since Choir Boy's Royal Hunt Cup win in 1953, there have been 22 more in the Queen's silks, none perhaps greater than the breathless victory of Estimate in the 2013 Gold Cup, the first time a reigning monarch had won the fixture's historic centrepiece.
In 2017, the Sir Michael Stoute-trained Dartmouth, winner of the Yorkshire Cup, will be seeking back-to-back successes in the Hardwicke Stakes on Saturday.
Forget champions Willie Mullins and Nicky Henderson, and even, dare I say, Aidan O'Brien, there is a case to be made that it should be Jessie Harrington who is named trainer of the year.
Harrington, based at Moone, County Kildare, has claimed a string of steeplechasing feature victories this year, notably the Cheltenham Gold Cup with Sizing John and the Irish Grand National with Our Duke.
Now she is looking for her first success among the flat racing prizes at Royal Ascot.
Two very smart two-year-olds head the charge. There is the unbeaten colt Brother Bear, who is likely to line up as favourite in Tuesday's Coventry Stakes, and Alpha Centauri - also unbeaten and also a strong fancy - in the Albany Stakes on Friday.
In between, Torcedor, who has two wins from two starts since the joining Harrington stable, looks to add another of racing's very shiniest pots to the tally in the Gold Cup.
While the team from Moone are out to make hay while the sun shines, so are their Irish compatriots, all looking to improve on a record 10 successes in 2016.
Aidan O'Brien will be in the spotlight the most, with well-fancied contender after well-fancied contender.
His Caravaggio is rated something of a banker in the Commonwealth Cup on Friday, although there looks to be a corker of a showdown in Tuesday's St James' Palace Stakes between Churchill, winner of the Newmarket and Irish 2000 Guineas, and Barney Roy and Thunder Snow, the two runners-up.
The scriptwriters making a film about the life of Australian jockey Michelle Payne may be chewing on their pens as they watch her first Royal Ascot mount Kaspersky in action.
They already have a terrific story to tell of the first female rider to win the horse race that 'stops a nation', the Melbourne Cup, on board 100-1 shot Prince Of Penzance in 2015.
Actor Rachel Griffiths - of Muriel's Wedding fame - is set to direct the movie, which she has described as a "classic tale of the underdog".
Were the Jane Chapple-Hyam-trained Kaspersky to defy his outsider odds to beat Ribchester and company in the fixture's opener, Tuesday's Queen Anne Stakes, alterations to the planned screenplay would follow.
Payne said: "It's been crazy since I won the Melbourne Cup, and I can hardly believe I'm about to take part at such a prestigious event.
"The horse is in fantastic order, he's a quality galloper and if he's in good shape, you never know."
Payne, 31, will be hoping for a smoother passage during the race than she found travelling to the UK: had Kaspersky not been Australian-owned, tough immigration rules might well have barred her way.
The date of 16 June 2009, the first afternoon of that year's Royal Ascot, is highly significant in the fixture's long and colourful history.
On that day, the Wesley A Ward-trained two-year-old Strike The Tiger led all the way and held on by a neck to win the Windsor Castle Stakes. It gave the USA its first win at British flat racing's summer highlight.
Ward, based between stables in California and Florida, struck again the very next day with another front-running juvenile, Jealous Again, in the Queen Mary Stakes.
Though it is perhaps an overstatement to say a flood of runners has followed, it has certainly become a steady stream as Royal Ascot added another string to its international bow, and that despite the much tougher drugs laws in Europe.
This time, five American trainers are expected to field a total of 14 runners, with Ward producing the biggest squad as he hopes to improve on a record of seven Royal Ascot wins - all bar one in races for two-year-olds.
The interest will be reflected in the television coverage too. For the first time, American broadcaster NBC will have a daily show covering the races.
Ward nominates the filly Happy Like A Fool - named after a lyric from the OneRepublic song Good Life - as the best chance of victory among his well-developed two-year-olds, and she will run in the Queen Mary Stakes on Wednesday.
But it is a previous Queen Mary winner, the brilliant Lady Aurelia, whose appearance in Tuesday's King's Stand Stakes is most anticipated.
Ward said: "She's a world-class sprinter."
The diplomatic crisis between Qatar and much of the rest of the Middle East, which has seen the closure of the oil and gas-rich state's sole border, with Saudi Arabia, may seem a world away from Royal Ascot.
However, with Qatar's ever-growing influence in a sport long dominated by the Maktoums, the ruling family of near-neighbours Dubai, there will be plenty of reminders of that tension.
The extra dynamic will be evident from the very first race of the week, the Queen Anne Stakes, when Ribchester, owned by Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum's Godolphin operation, faces Qatar Racing's Lightning Spear.
Racing speculation has surrounded what might happen come the presentations were one grouping or the other, both of whom are extensive sponsors, to win a race backed by their rival.
The races at Royal Ascot have no direct race sponsorship, avoiding potential embarrassment, though the top owner and leading trainer awards - for which the Godolphin team will be fancied - have the support of Qatari investment giant QIPCO.
With a long list of fancied Coolmore-owned and bred runners, Aidan O'Brien is odds-on favourite to be top trainer, ahead of John Gosden.
However, Sir Michael Stoute should never be underestimated. It is 40 years exactly since Stoute won the first of his 75 Royal Ascot trophies, when Etienne Gerard took the Jersey Stakes.
Most of O'Brien's leading hopes will be ridden by Ryan Moore, the favourite to be top jockey, though equalling his own record of nine wins in 2015 will be challenging.
Frankie Dettori was expected to figure prominently too before injury forced his withdrawal, but the most in-form rider going into this year's £6.665m meeting is Brazil-born former champion Silvestre de Sousa.
In the words of The Kinks, officials at Royal Ascot have demonstrated themselves "dedicated followers of fashion".
For 2017, changes to the exacting dress code have been sanctioned, and, for the first time, women in jumpsuits will be admitted to the Royal Enclosure.
However, alongside dresses and skirts "of a modest length" and headpieces "with a base of four inches or more in diameter", fashionistas will have to take care that their one-piece outfits are "full-length to the ground".
One official said: "It's like trouser suits in the 1970s, fashions change."
For the record, spaghetti straps, fascinators and bare midriffs remain barred.
For guys, it is so much less complicated: top hat and tails - black or grey - continue to be de rigeur, as do black shoes. | Royal Ascot: The most famous horseracing festival in the world… with arguably the world's most famous woman at the centre of it all. | 40315847 |
More than 80,000 people have predicted their final Premier League table this week in our special selector, with 78% putting City in top spot.
Chelsea and Arsenal are next, while Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool have been tipped to qualify for the Champions League.
Manchester United - who finished fifth last season - have been predicted to repeat that feat, with Burnley, Sunderland and Hull favoured for relegation.
Manchester City have won every game this season, so it is perhaps no surprise that BBC Sport users backed them so heavily to win the Premier League for the third time - and a fifth English title overall.
Liverpool and Manchester United were the only other teams tipped to finish top by more than 5%.
Middlesbrough received the fewest nominations for the title, just behind Swansea and Stoke.
Last year's winners Leicester were only the ninth-most popular choice to win the title, finishing eighth overall.
Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool have been tipped to qualify for the Champions League - but 32% did think that Arsenal would miss out this time around.
Manchester United were predicted to finish fairly evenly between first and sixth but overall it's a fifth-placed finish and another season in the Europa League forecast for Jose Mourinho's side.
Everton have made a strong start to the season under Ronald Koeman but it has not been enough to persuade most users that they hold a serious Champions League challenge - it's seventh for them.
Burnley were the most popular choice for 20th place - with 35% of all users putting them dead last. In total, 72% chose the Clarets for a place in the bottom three and relegation.
Sunderland (64%) and Hull (45%) were the next most common choices for relegation, with Mike Phelan's fine start with the Tigers obviously not making enough of an impression.
Bournemouth are the side making the equivalent of a final-day escape, while West Ham have been predicted to end up bang in the middle in 10th.
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England, champions in 2009 and runners-up in the past two tournaments, were taken to their total of 153-7 by 60 from captain Charlotte Edwards.
Bangladesh, who have only won five of the 29 T20 matches they have played, never threatened the target.
Katherine Brunt conceded 17 runs from her four overs and Anya Shrubsole took 2-27 as Bangladesh closed on 117-6.
Tougher tests lie ahead for England, starting with hosts India in Dharamsala on Tuesday.
Here, led by Edwards, the highest runscorer in T20 internationals - men or women - they professionally dealt with mediocre opposition.
The captain mixed accumulation and powerfully dealing with the bad ball, guiding England through a potentially difficult moment when they lost Sarah Taylor and Heather Knight for the addition of only one run.
At 71-3, she was joined by Nat Sciver, who made 27 out of a partnership of 47, while Danni Wyatt and Brunt added late power as England took 35 from the final three overs.
The chase was always likely to be too much for Bangladesh, a team who had never previously made more than 115 in a T20 international.
Opener Sharmin Akhter was bowled by the impressive Brunt in the first over of the reply and, from there, England were always in control.
Nigar Sultana and Salma Khatun did add a Bangladesh record 64 for the fifth wicket, but the match was already over as a contest.
England coach Mark Robinson told Sky Sports: "I thought we went backwards today. We were safe and we don't want to be safe. We lost our way in the middle with the bat and made poor decisions with the ball. Maybe that's a good thing, because it leaves a bit in the tank.
"We weren't bad. Six out of 10. We're going in the right direction, but today we didn't quite get to the heights.
"That's not how we said we are going to play. In the middle of the innings, you can't settle for six an over. We're better than that."
England captain Charlotte Edwards: "It's always nice to start with runs, but the win was the most important thing. It was a good total, there's a bit of work we can do on our bowling and fielding but we're pretty pleased.
"Bangladesh played really well towards the end, and we've got a big game next against India. The new coaches have challenged us to express ourselves, there's still a lot to come from us as a team."
Ex-England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent on BBC Test Match Special: "I'd like to have seen more from the middle order, where there was a little bit of a flutter of wickets. That will be punished by Australia or India.
"We've talked about the reliance on Edwards and Taylor, and I'd like to see a big score coming from Heather Knight as this tournament flows, because she is the next generation." | England women began their World Twenty20 campaign with a routine 36-run victory over Bangladesh in Bangalore. | 35831525 |
The body of Daniel Smith, 23, was discovered by firefighters in a homeless camp under a railway bridge in Irwell Street, Salford, on 20 January.
Adam Acton, 24, and Luke Benson, 25, attacked Mr Smith after he accidentally "urinated on bedding within the camp", the Crown Prosecution Service said.
The pair were jailed for life at Manchester Crown Court on Thursday.
Acton and Benson, both of no fixed address, attempted to dispose of the body of Mr Smith by setting fire to him.
Senior Crown Prosecutor Gail O'Brien said the men "carried out a brutal and sustained attack on Daniel" and showed "no remorse throughout the case".
"Their attack was utterly disproportionate to the disagreement they had had with him. They also attempted to cover their tracks by taking Daniel's belongings from him, destroyed them and hiding them from the police," she said.
Mr Smith was hit with a hammer, a bat and a broom handle, which was later found broken in two, police said.
Emergency services were called after flames and smoke were seen in the camp, where Mr Smith was found with serious injuries to his face and body.
Supt Emily Higham paid tribute to a witness "who had the courage to come forward" to talk about the men's "horrifying actions".
Benson was ordered to serve a minimum jail term of 20 years and 165 days, while Acton was given a minimum of 21 years and 166 days.
He also received 12 months to run concurrently after pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice for removing and hiding Mr Smith's Sim card.
Acton's girlfriend Amanda Briggs, 28, and a 17-year-old male pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice for their role in removing, damaging and concealing items belonging to Mr Smith. | Two men have been jailed for the murder of a fellow rough sleeper who they beat before setting him on fire in his tent. | 37050613 |
Doctors and politicians said the annual figures reflect a "public health time bomb".
But numbers of adult smokers have dropped to a record low of 19%, and binge drinking has also decreased.
The Welsh Government said the survey showed "signs of encouragement" but there was "work to be done."
Less than a third of all adults, 32%, reported eating five or more portions of fruit and vegetables a day.
Around a third did less than half-an-hour moderate physical activity a week.
More than half of all adults are being treated for an illness; a fifth suffer from high blood pressure and 13% have a mental illness.
A total of 13,700 adults and 2,600 children took part in the survey.
Dr Charlotte Jones, chair of the British Medical Association's (BMA) Welsh GPs' committee, called the reduction in smoking "pleasing".
But, she said, "soaring rates of obesity" have led to an increase in type II diabetes, with 7% of adults in Wales now suffering from the disease, as well as more heart disease and cancer.
She added that the cost of the NHS would increase, unless the problem was tackled.
"We need to start with children, to prevent children from becoming overweight in the first place and to equip them with good habits for the future.
"Parents, schools, health professionals, the media, food manufacturers and the government all have an important role to play."
Although 94% of children were reported as having good health, around only half eat fruit and vegetables every day.
Dr Mair Parry, officer for Wales at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said Wales still has the worst rate of child obesity in the UK.
"It's clear that more needs to be done to address these shortfalls. Concerns still remain over the number of children who eat fruit and vegetables every day and those who do exercise."
She said there should be more restrictions on fast food outlets opening near schools and colleges, as well as 20 mph speed limits to encourage children to "scoot, walk and cycle" to school.
Welsh Conservative health spokesman Darren Millar said the report "paints a bleak picture for the health of our nation".
He said it is a "very real indicator of the Welsh Government's failure to get a handle on what is fast becoming a public health time bomb".
"It is vital to health of our nation and the future of our health service that the new deputy minister for public health uses her post to drive forward preventative initiatives, which have to date simply not worked, as this report glaringly demonstrates."
Public health minister Rebecca Evans said the Welsh Government was close to achieving a 2020 target to reducing smoking to 16%.
"While the results of the survey show signs of improvement - especially in regards to smoking - there are still areas where there is work to be done.
"We need to make more progress on obesity and activity levels, and I am confident our decision to integrate grassroots sport and health policy will help us do this." | Around one in four adults in Wales is obese, and almost 60% are overweight, according to the Welsh Health Survey 2015. | 36428922 |
Mr Trump sparked anger by attacking the military record of Senator McCain, a former prisoner of war, saying: "I like people who weren't captured."
The Republican presidential candidate said his remarks were misrepresented and Mr McCain is a "very brave man".
Rival Republican contenders have hit out at Mr Trump over the comments.
He made them while addressing a gathering of conservatives in Iowa on Saturday when the moderator referred to the Arizona Republican as a war hero.
Mr McCain was held for more than five years after his plane was shot down in Vietnam. Mr Trump avoided military service through student and medical deferments.
"He's not a war hero," Mr Trump said to gasps from the audience. "He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."
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Mr McCain played down the attack on Monday, telling the MSNBC TV news network: "I think he may owe an apology to the families of those who have sacrificed in conflict and those who have undergone the prison experience in serving our country."
Mr Trump, who has portrayed himself as an outspoken, outsider Republican candidate, has since tried to reframe his attack on Mr McCain.
Writing in the USA Today newspaper on Monday, he accused the Mr McCain of abandoning the nation's veterans, making the US less safe, and sending "our brave soldiers into wrong-headed foreign adventures".
He also lashed out at his Republican rivals, calling them "failed politicians" and saying he did not need "to be lectured by any of them".
Jeb Bush, the current Republican frontrunner, led the criticism of Mr Trump's remarks, tweeting: "Enough with the slanderous attacks".
"It's not just absurd," Florida Senator Marco Rubio said. "It's offensive. It's ridiculous. And I do think it is a disqualifier as commander-in-chief."
Rick Perry, another Republican candidate, said: "We're seeing an individual who's more interested in throwing invectives and this hyperbolic rhetoric out there, rather than laying out solutions."
There are currently 15 people running to be the Republican presidential candidate.
Mr Trump has led in some early polls, although analysts have predicted his appeal is likely to wane as the contest develops. | John McCain has urged Donald Trump to apologise to US military veterans after he appeared to question the "war hero" status of captured soldiers. | 33599838 |
In a memo before he retired in April as head of Joint Forces Command, Gen Sir Richard Barrons said key capabilities had been stripped out to save money.
He said Whitehall was "preserving the shop window" with items like aircraft carriers, the Financial Times reports.
Defence officials said Sir Richard had backed the last defence review.
The FT said it had obtained the 10-page private memo, which had been sent to Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon.
It followed the government's decision to raise defence spending by nearly £5bn by 2020-21 and its pledge to meet Nato's target to spend 2% of GDP on defence for the rest of the decade.
Sir Richard said: "Capability that is foundational to all major armed forces has been withered by design."
He said critical technical and logistical capabilities had been "iteratively stripped out".
"Counter-terrorism is the limit of up-to-date plans and preparations to secure our airspace, waters and territory," he said.  
"Neither the UK homeland nor a deployed force could be protected from a concerted Russian air effort."
The Army "has grown used to operating from safe bases in the middle of its operating area, against opponents who do not manoeuvre at scale", he said.
Manpower in all three services was dangerously squeezed and Navy ships and RAF planes had become used to depending on US support, he said.
"Key capabilities such as radars, fire control systems and missile stocks are deficient," he said.
"There is a sense that modern conflict is ordained to be only as small and as short term as we want to afford, and that is absurd...
"The failure to come to terms with this will not matter at all if we are lucky in the way the world happens to turn out, but it could matter a very great deal if even a few of the risks now at large conspire against the UK."
Sir Richard served as head of Joint Forces Command between 2013 and 2016, a role that saw him in charge of more than 20,000 military and civilian personnel across all three services.
It is not the first time a senior British military commander has spoken against defence cuts.
But BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said other criticism had not contained so much detail or been expressed as starkly.
A defence source has questioned the motive behind the release of the memo, wondering if it was "sour grapes" as Sir Richard had been one of the candidates put forward for promotion as head of the armed forces but was turned down.
Major General Tim Cross, who served in the British army for 40 years, told BBC Radio 5 live that the UK was no longer prepared to fight a "conventional war".
And he said any suggestion of sour grapes on Sir Richard's behalf was "wrong and unfair", and that he was "simply highlighting a reality".
Gen Cross added that in recent years the UK has "gone through a period of what's called the wars of choice - in other words, we've decided whether we want to engage or not".
"The concern today, and it's not a new concern, it's been emerging over the last few years, is the re-emergence of Russia, of China, and the need to be capable of fighting a conventional war in the old style sense, as opposed to those in Iraq, Afghanistan and counter-terrorism.
"There's no doubt that we need to look at the issues Richard has highlighted, because the problem is the equipment for this sort of campaign is hugely expensive."
Gen Cross also told the Today programme that Sir Richard had established the "hugely important" Joint Force Command, which "looks pan-defence", examining areas such as cyber warfare, medical, logistics, information and surveillance.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "Our defence review last year put in place a plan for more ships, planes and troops at readiness, alongside greater spending on cyber and special forces. That plan was backed by a rising defence budget.
"And, crucially, it was backed by all of the service chiefs, who were heavily involved putting it together." | The armed forces are ill-prepared to defend the UK against a serious military attack, a senior commander has warned the defence secretary. | 37391804 |
Pavey, 20, has impressed since arriving on a three-month deal in January and will now be available for the Shots' final six matches of the campaign.
He has made 12 appearances for the National League side, five as a substitute, and has scored two goals.
Pavey spent much of last season on loan at Barnet, where he made three league appearances. | Aldershot Town have extended Millwall striker Alfie Pavey's loan spell until the end of the season. | 35937157 |
The 2013 US Open champion was joint leader with four to play but missed two short putts to fall out of contention.
Hahn, who had missed his previous eight cuts, beat fellow American Roberto Castro in a play-off after both finished on nine-under par.
Defending champion Rory McIlroy fired a 66 to be tied fourth on seven-under.
McIlroy shared fourth with American Phil Mickelson, who also posted a final-round 66.
Overnight leader Rickie Fowler also finished on seven-under after carding an error-strewn two-over 74, including a double-bogey seven at the seventh.
It was a frustrating closing round at Quail Hollow for Rose who was well placed for his first PGA Tour win since the Zurich Classic of New Orleans in April 2015.
He missed a four-foot putt for birdie at 15 and a putt of similar length at the next, which cost him a bogey.
Hahn, who carded a 70, earned the second PGA Tour win of his career but only after Castro (71) failed to record a par at the last to claim his first title.
Castro found water with his drive at the first play-off hole, handing the initiative to Hahn, who found the fairway and then set up victory with a solid second to the heart of the green.
Hahn told Sky Sports: "It feels incredible. Rory has won this tournament twice and Rickie has won it, too, so to be considered among those top golfers makes me smile."
On winning after missing eight straight cuts, he added: "You have just got to believe, tell yourself you are good enough and surround yourself with great people who encourage you."
Never want to miss the latest golf news? You can now add this sport and all the other sports and teams you follow to your personalised My Sport home. | England's Justin Rose carded a one-under 71 to finish one stroke behind winner James Hahn in the Wells Fargo Championship. | 36244379 |
For the Rail Minister is asking passengers in East Anglia for comments about the service they receive and how it could be made better, which in our neck of the woods is surely asking for trouble.
Let's face it, rail travellers are a forthright breed, who will not pass up on an opportunity to express an opinion about their regular commute.
"The view of passengers are critical to improving services," says Mrs Perry. "We really do want to hear from people about their views and we really hope we get a good response."
Words she might come to regret.
"It is a comprehensive consultation document that includes some challenging questions. These things can be very unwieldy but I've tried to cut it down to make it very pertinent."
The consultation comes as the government starts to draw up the tender for the new Greater Anglia franchise, which will start in October 2016.
The government knows what MPs and the local business community think; they have fought a very successful lobbying campaign which culminated in the Transport Secretary promising to upgrade the main London to Norwich line at some stage in the future.
But up until now passengers haven't really had a say.
The consultation will last until March 16th and asks passengers for their views on a range of subjects.
It acknowledges that "the current rail service in East Anglia has remained unchanged for many years" and promises that the new franchise will "ensure that the service meets the needs of passengers and businesses in an important region of the UK which contributes significantly to the UK economy".
Regular travellers may let out a hollow laugh when they read the claim that " the Government is forging ahead with plans to reduce journey times between Norwich and London to 90 minutes". While a few improvements will be made next year, most of the serious spending isn't likely to happen until after 2019.
But if they can get through that, they will find 19 questions to answer.
Some are fairly predictable: What should be the key priorities of the new franchise, how many trains an hour should there be, do passengers value cross country services like the one between Norwich and Liverpool?
But there are also some fairly contentious ones: Should first class seating be removed to allow more space for standard class passengers and should there be more staff on duty at stations and on the trains?
And there are a couple of questions which are guaranteed to get respondents going.
"Are there any examples of outstanding customer service experiences which you believe the East Anglia rail franchise should aspire to?"
Or how about this one: "How can the franchise operator help you better during planned and unplanned disruption?"
Passengers could have a field day with that after a year that's seen a catalogue of problems on the main line through Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk.
Government consultations are normally responded to by local politicians and a handful of pressure groups but already social media has been buzzing with suggestions and comments about this one.
Mrs Perry is likely to have a lot of reading to do. | We hope Claire Perry knows what she's letting herself in for. | 30419079 |
The "defeat device" allows cars to pass lab testing even though they actually emit 40 times the emissions standard.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been taking a more aggressive stance on car pollution and violations of the country's Clean Air Act.
The recall and fines could cost the carmaker more than $18bn (£11.5bn).
It affects 2009-14 Jettas, Beetles, Audi A3s and Golfs and 2014-15 Passats.
"Using a defeat device in cars to evade clean air standards is illegal and a threat to public health," said Cynthia Giles, assistant administrator for the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.
The illegal system allowed cars to detect when they were undergoing smog emission test and lowered the rate of pollution. Those emission controls were then turned off during ordinary use.
The state of California which assisted in the investigation has also issued a notice of violation to Volkswagen.
In 2014 the EPA fined Korean automakers Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors $300m for misrepresenting the fuel economy in 1.2 million of their cars. That settlement is the highest to date. | German carmaker Volkswagen has been ordered by US regulators to recall half a million cars because of a device that disguises pollution levels. | 34298259 |
Now the top US commander in Afghanistan, Gen John Allen, has been linked to another woman already tied to both Gen Petraeus and Mrs Broadwell.
Who is involved in the scandal?
David Petraeus' downfall is down to his liaison with Mrs Broadwell, a former military officer, academic researcher and fitness enthusiast.
She graduated from the West Point military academy, then spent 15 years in the US Army as a defence policy analyst and intelligence officer in South Korea and Germany.
In 2000 at Heidelberg Castle in Germany, she married Scott Broadwell, a flight surgeon (now a radiologist). They live in Charlotte, North Carolina, and have two sons.
After Mrs Broadwell left the army, the family moved to Boston, where she enrolled at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. There she began a career as an academic military researcher, a path that brought her into contact with Gen Petraeus.
Mrs Broadwell, now 40, met the then-lieutenant-general in 2006 when she approached him to write an academic project on his leadership style.
Over the following years she went with him to Afghanistan as he took command of the Nato operation there and spent months working closely with him, before distilling her research into the glowing biography, All In: The Education of David Petraeus.
A friend of Gen Petraeus has said his affair with Mrs Broadwell only began in late 2011, after he had left the military to head the CIA.
In the spring of 2012, Mrs Broadwell is said to have become jealous of another woman. She allegedly sent anonymous emails to the woman, Jill Kelley, apparently warning her to stay away from Gen Petraeus.
Mrs Broadwell was listed in her North Dakota high-school yearbook as "most likely to be remembered".
Jill Kelley is a Tampa, Florida socialite who reportedly hails from a Catholic Lebanese family that immigrated to Philadelphia in the 1970s.
Mrs Kelley, 37, and her husband Scott Kelley, a surgeon, describe themselves as having been friends with Gen Petraeus and his family for more than five years.
Now Gen John Allen is under investigation after being accused of sending "flirtatious" messages to Mrs Kelley beginning in 2010.
There is no suggestion that Mrs Kelley, a mother of three daughters, had an affair with either Gen Petraeus or Gen Allen.
Both men wrote letters in September 2011 on behalf of Mrs Kelley's twin sister, Natalie Khawam, attesting to her good character in a messy custody dispute. A judge had earlier denied Ms Khawam custody of her young son, saying she appeared to lack honesty and integrity.
In May, Mrs Kelley received threatening emails accusing her of seeking an intimate relationship with the general. FBI officials say those emails were traced to Mrs Broadwell.
In Tampa, Mrs Kelley has served as an unpaid "social liaison", helping to organise gatherings at MacDill Air Force Base, which is the home of US Central Command.
Since the Kelleys moved to Tampa, they have been involved in at least nine legal actions, according to court records. Most involve real estate transactions, including a home repossession and an $11,000 (£6,930) judgment against them in a Pennsylvania case.
Gen Petraeus was stationed there before he moved to Afghanistan to run the Nato operation. Gen Allen was deputy commander there from July 2008 to June 2011.
Frederick Humphries, 47, is a veteran FBI counter-terrorism agent based in Tampa, Florida, said to have triggered the investigation that led to the discovery of the extramarital affair between Gen Petraeus and Mrs Broadwell.
Described by colleagues as a diligent agent, Mr Humphries is said to have been part of the team that investigated a foiled terror plot in 1999.
He is a personal friend of Mrs Kelley. The two are thought to have met when Mrs Kelley attended an FBI-run "citizens' academy" in 2011, the Associated Press reports. She reported anonymous email harassment to Mr Humphries in May.
But Mr Humphries was not allowed to investigate the case himself amid concerns from his superiors that he was personally involved. It has been reported that he once sent Mrs Kelley a picture of himself without a shirt on.
However, Mr Humphries is said to have been persistent in his interest in the case. According to the New York Times he contacted Washington state Republican congressman Dave Reichert to voice his concerns about those apparently involved.
Mr Reichert then arranged a phone call between Mr Humphries and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, whose office contacted FBI director Robert Mueller.
The FBI says it was already taking the case seriously before Mr Humphries raised concerns. Whoever raised the alarm, the email trail eventually connected Jill Kelley, Paula Broadwell and David Petraeus.
Natalie Khawam, said to be currently living with her twin sister and brother-in-law, is reported to be involved in a web of legal battles including a custody dispute in which Gen Petraeus and Gen Allen have intervened.
The generals both submitted letters in support of her case to a judge in a Washington DC Superior Court. Gen Allen's letter, dated September this year, says he has known Ms Khawam for about three years and notes that she "clearly dotes" on her son.
Ms Khawam is reportedly trained as a lawyer and was previously employed by Barry Cohen, a prominent Tampa attorney.
Earlier this year she took legal action against Mr Cohen's firm, saying the company owed her money and had not acted properly on her complaints of sexual harassment with a financial officer working with them, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
Holly Petraeus, Gen Petraeus' wife of 38 years, was the daughter of the general in charge of West Point when David Petraeus was a cadet there.
Mrs Petraeus, who has long been an advocate for soldiers' families, has been without her husband for long periods in recent years, even testifying before the Senate about the impact of extended deployments on military spouses.
In January 2011 she was hired to run a veterans' affairs office at the newly established Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
In that position, which was created as part of the Democrats' overhaul of financial services industry regulation, Mrs Petraeus is tasked with protecting armed services members from predatory lending practices.
Mrs Petraeus' father, Gen William Knowlton, was the superintendent of West Point and Gen Petraeus was a cadet there in 1973 when the couple met.
The couple have two adult children, including an army officer deployed in Afghanistan.
"This unrelenting pace of deployments is a retention issue," Mrs Petraeus said in 2003 after testifying before a Senate committee.
"Families will not be willing to go it alone forever with little relief in sight." | Gen David Petraeus, one of America's most prominent military officers, resigned on Friday after admitting he had had an affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell. | 20301476 |
Propelled from veteran opposition leader to a hands-on, apparently dynamic, president, Mr Wade campaigned on the platform of his slogan Sopi - "change".
Senegalese now complain that his leadership has been a change for the worse.
After 12 years in office, Mr Wade's support has dwindled - even among the young Senegalese who helped propel him to power.
He faces a barrage of criticism - including tarnishing Senegal's credentials as a mature, stable and peaceful democracy with a republican army that has remained in its barracks.
His opponents say Mr Wade's most egregious offence is his determination to impose his son, Karim, on the nation as Senegal's next leader.
Colossus proves sore point
Karim Wade is nothing short of a super minister in his father's cabinet - in charge of powerful portfolios such as energy.
The Senegalese resent the fact he is being groomed by his father to take over - without the say-so of the electorate.
Mr Wade accuses his opponents of temper tantrums and petulance and predicts he'll beat them hands down in the scheduled 26 February vote.
His advancing age is also an issue. At more than 85, Senegalese say it is time for Mr Wade to retire graciously, although he blithely ignores all hints that it is time to go.
This shaven-headed octogenarian with owl eyes, switches effortlessly from Wolof to English to French - and from Senegalese grands boubous to smart Western suits.
He loves showing off models in his presidential office of his pet projects and grand plans - for Senegal, West Africa and the continent.
But the malaise goes deeper than the opposition.
From the monstrous Renaissance Monument that Mr Wade had built - which offended traditional, cultural and Islamic sensibilities - the Senegalese have long felt he has stopped listening to their wishes and needs.
The youthful Y'en a Marre - "we are fed up" movement was sparked by Mr Wade's rather arrogant decision to try to lower to 25% the threshold for a presidential candidate to win an election in the first round.
That backfired and he was forced to withdraw the proposal after unprecedented riots on 23 June last year.
Senegal is tired of a president who swans around the globe as a self-styled international conflict mediator, when their own country has its own problems that need resolving.
But Mr Wade is a cunning political survivor.
The question is - in the face of such overwhelming public opposition to his continued presence on the political scene - can he pull another trick from under his sleeve or out of the hat? | When Abdoulaye Wade swept to power in 2000, he was the toast of Senegal - hailed by the youth as the hope of the West African country. | 16815521 |
The motion was defeated by 483 votes to 111, after all Tory, Lib Dem and Labour MPs had been instructed to oppose it.
In total 81 Tories are known to have defied the whips, while others abstained.
Labour leader Ed Miliband said the revolt was a "humiliation" for the prime minister.
"If he can't win the argument with his own backbenchers, how can the country have confidence that he can win the arguments that matter for Britain?" he said.
A Downing Street spokesman said many people who voted for the motion felt very strongly, and their views were respected.
"However, the government has to do what is in the national interest. The easy thing to do would have been for us to have avoided expressing a view. It was important to take a strong lead - because Britain's best interests are served by being in the EU."
The five-hour Commons debate on the issue was prompted after a petition was signed by more than 100,000 people.
The motion called for a referendum on whether the UK should stay in the EU, leave it or renegotiate its membership.
The government was expected to win easily - and even if it had lost, the result would not be binding on ministers.
This is by far the biggest rebellion Mr Cameron has suffered since entering Downing Street.
The previous largest Tory rebellion over Europe was in 1993, when 41 MPs defied John Major on the Maastricht Treaty.
Education Secretary Michael Gove insisted on Tuesday that the time was not right for a referendum to take place.
He told the BBC: "The most important thing is to make sure we get powers back, so we take more decisions here about employment, about growth, about jobs. These are critical issues.
"At the moment David Cameron is battling in Europe in order to make sure that we can have those decisions taken here. It may be that in the future as a result of the battle David Cameron is fighting for Britain that a referendum may be needed, but my judgement is that we need to get those powers back."
BBC political editor Nick Robinson says Mr Cameron will now face pressure to spell out what he means by promising "fundamental change" in the UK's relationship with Europe.
Conservative MP David Nuttall, who proposed the motion, argued there were more than 40 million people of voting age in the UK who had not been consulted on the question of Europe.
By Ross HawkinsPolitical correspondent, BBC News
The Conservative leadership thought it would be bad. And it was.
In fact, it was almost twice as bad as the worst rebellion David Cameron has suffered so far.
The prime minister has always cast himself as a Eurosceptic.
Many in his party have decided he is not nearly Eurosceptic enough.
Some Tories think a referendum on EU membership is now a certainty.
That is far from settled. After all, the Eurosceptics lost this vote.
But they think they have won a place for an in-out referendum in the mainstream of Conservative thought.
Commentators: Is this the end of Britain's EU debate?
And he said the UK Parliament was becoming "ever more impotent" as the "tentacles" of the European Union "intruded into more and more areas of national life".
In a statement to the Commons, Mr Cameron said he shared the rebels' "yearning for fundamental reform", and promised "the time for reform was coming".
He insisted he remained "firmly committed" to "bringing back more powers" from Brussels, but on demands for a referendum, he said amid an economic crisis the timing was wrong and Britain's national interest was to be part of the EU.
"When your neighbour's house is on fire, your first impulse should be to help them to put out the flames - not least to stop the flames reaching your own house," he said.
Labour leader Ed Miliband, who saw 19 Eurosceptic MPs within his own party rebel, likened the Tories' divisions of Europe to a rerun of an old movie.
He called the Tories an "out-of-touch party tearing itself apart over Europe".
However, he did agree with the prime minister that it was the wrong time for a referendum.
"The best answer to the concerns of the British people about the concerns of the European Union is to reform the way it works, not to leave it," he added.
Tory backbenchers voiced their dismay at the three-line whip - the strongest order a party can give - on Conservative MPs, which meant any who voted against the government would be expected to resign from government jobs.
Conservative MP Stewart Jackson told the Commons he would vote for the motion "with a heavy heart" and "take the consequences", which may mean losing his position as parliamentary private secretary to Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson.
He said he wished there could have been a well-informed reasonable debate, instead of "heavy-handed whipping" and "catastrophic management" by his party.
Fellow Tory MP Adam Holloway, a parliamentary private secretary to Europe minister David Lidington, rebelled and voted for the motion but said he still believed the prime minister was doing a good job.
Anger was also directed towards Foreign Secretary William Hague, who earlier tried to quell the rebellion by calling the motion "a piece of graffiti".
Later in the Commons, he said a referendum would "add to economic uncertainty at a dangerous and difficult time" and suggested most British people did not want to "say yes or no to everything in the EU".
Tory MPs accused him of going native and abandoning his Eurosceptic views.
The Lib Dems came under attack too, accused of being "charlatans" by Conservative MP Philip Davies for abandoning a manifesto pledge for an in-out referendum on the EU.
But Lib Dem Martin Horwood insisted the party committed to an in-out referendum at the time of a fundamental shift (in Britain's relationship with the EU).
Deputy Prime Minister and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has said it is the worst time for a debate about Britain leaving the EU as a "firestorm" engulfs the eurozone.
One Liberal Democrat MP, Adrian Sanders, defied his party's leadership and voted for a referendum.
The UK Independence Party, which campaigns for the UK to quit the EU, said the Conservatives were "tearing themselves apart" over Europe. Its leader Nigel Farage had urged MPs from all parties "to vote with their conscience, ahead of their party or career".
In the coalition agreement, the Conservatives and the Lib Dems, a traditionally pro-European party, agreed to "ensure that the British government is a positive participant in the European Union, playing a strong and positive role with our partners". | David Cameron has defeated a bid to grant a referendum on EU membership, despite the largest rebellion against a Tory prime minister over Europe. | 15425256 |
We see Hugh Dallas' bloodied face during the title decider in May 1999. We see the targeting of Neil Lennon; bullets and bombs in the post, physical assault on the streets and an attack on the touchline while managing Celtic at Tynecastle - "a campaign of terror" as the journalist Kevin McKenna puts it.
It was deeply disturbing back then and, if anything, it's even more shocking now. The passage of time has only increased the sense of outrage at what Lennon was subjected to.
Finance is a big issue in episode two - particularly television finance. The deal with BSkyB, the push for SPLTV, the bitterness when the Old Firm pulled the plug on it and the arrival, and later, the demise of Setanta and the horrible fallout.
Clubs that thought a bad day would never come suddenly realised the insanity of their spending on expensive imports. Motherwell went into administration. A young Roberto Martinez, then on the books at Fir Park, is interviewed as the club was folding around his ears. "It's a war between football and business," he says.
If it was a war then it was a phony one. Football, as some clubs practiced it, was never going to win. Dundee, who had splurged on global names, also went into administration. Even what appeared to be real turned out to be a mirage.
The surreal rise and fall of Gretna was a morality tale for anybody who cared to listen - "an ego driven fantasy," says the broadcaster, Stuart Cosgrove. "It was an absolute Ponzi scheme. It was a con of the worst kind."
Scottish football has not lacked for false prophets. In the capital, one came from the east, Vladimir Romanov saving Tynecastle from the bulldozers but then, at the end of his reign, almost dynamiting the club's future.
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Romanov's bluster played well with the fans. Footage shows him promising to make Hearts champions of Europe in 10 years and vowing to build a new stadium "with the best atmosphere in the world."
Steven Pressley was captain of Hearts in that era and, along with Paul Hartley and Craig Gordon, one of the fabled Riccarton Three who called a press conference and memorably spoke of the "significant unrest" within the dressing room over Romanov's madcap meddling.
"At no time did Vladimir ever come and face me after I made that statement," says Pressley now. "I don't think he had the courage to face me."
When the administrators moved into Hearts they said it was about as grim as situation as they'd ever seen at a football club. The room they were sitting in when making the pronouncement had a leaky roof when the rain fell and a carpet that hadn't been washed in an age.
They had older supporters being held to ransom - donate money or else - and young fans turning up with their money boxes, anything to keep their club alive.
Hearts have recovered. Through their Foundation and the stewardship of owner, Ann Budge, they are stable and looking forward. What has happened at Tynecastle over the past few years is one of the great stories of the past 30 years of Scottish football.
The fall of Rangers looms like the darkest cloud over episode two. There's footage of David Murray from 2001 dismissing those who were claiming that money was running out.
"Of course there's money available - this is Rangers football club," he says, before rounding on the critics who were saying otherwise.
"It makes great, sensational copy for you people who want to make it look as if we're in a crisis or something."
Murray had found a loophole in the tax system, giving him more disposable cash than the rest of Scottish football, allowing him to buy more players. Employee Benefit Trusts (EBTs) brought Rangers talent and trophies but they also brought a whole heap of trouble.
Alex Thomson, the Channel 4 investigative reporter who covered the EBT story, says: "What Rangers were doing was no more than part of that Wild West, out of control, global culture where tax avoidance, as opposed to tax evasion - which is of course illegal - is ingrained in everyone's culture; everybody is doing it, and if you're doing it better than the others, you gained commercial advantage.
"You wind up being a football club which is buying players - in its own words - they couldn't afford to gain, presumably and seemingly for sporting advantage, otherwise why would else would you do it? It gained a sporting advantage - they win 12 trophies in the first decade of the century - and lo and behold, no-one's paying tax."
From the archive, David Murray says he will only sell the club to somebody who has its best interests at heart. Against the advice of some of his board at Ibrox, he sold it to Craig Whyte, the only man who was prepared to buy it - for £1 - while the threat of a £50m EBT tax bill hung over its head.
Murray allowed Whyte in the door and the consequences were disastrous for the club. In a statement, Murray denies being responsible for the fall of Rangers. He puts the blame squarely at Whyte's door.
What happened then - and what happened next -will be talked about for the rest of time; Rangers in the Third Division working their way up. The seemingly endless array of characters flitting in and out of Ibrox. The fear and loathing.
For 30 years the Scottish game has convulsed violently. Year after year the things that we spoke about the most had nothing to do with football and everything to do with the business of football.
Maybe that's changing now. And if it is, it's long, long overdue.
Scotland's Game, a social history of football in this country over the last 30 years, continues on BBC One Scotland on Thursday at 21:00 BST. | Episode two of Scotland's Game is called 'The Perfect Storm' and it's an hour detailing turmoil, hatred, hubris and collapse - an examination of the one area where Scottish football is in a world of its own: chaos. | 37223791 |
However, a documentary called Tickled shines a spotlight on those who take part in it, when a TV reporter from New Zealand, David Farrier, uncovers not just a quirky sport, but a whole industry, and an underworld with allegations of cyber bullying.
Two years ago, Farrier, known for his "and finally" news pieces at his local TV station, discovered what was described as "competitive endurance tickling" videos online.
They featured young men in professional sportswear tickling each other.
A US-based company, Jane O'Brien Media, was producing the videos and offering substantial fees for anyone selected to take part in the shoots in Los Angeles.
"Right in the beginning I thought it was entirely innocent, perhaps with a subtext," explains Farrier. "I thought it was someone's idea of a funny strange sport, as it was in a photography studio, a professional space. All the men were wearing sportswear so I thought it was someone's odd idea of a tickling league."
"I was intrigued and thought about doing a two-minute feature on it for my show, "he adds, "so I got in touch with them. Really, a short feature was all I was aiming for."
In response however, Farrier, who is bisexual, says he received emails stating that the company did not want to deal with "a homosexual journalist".
"I was a little upset but part of me thought it was funny," he adds. "I didn't understand why a company that makes men-only tickling videos would say that."
"Instinct, intrigue and fascination" drove him and his co-director Dylan Reeve on to find out more about the videos, despite representatives of the company flying to Auckland to threaten legal action. Farrier successfully raised the money for a documentary using the crowd-funding platform, Kickstarter.
"We probably did go into it quite naively," he believes.
"We never expected to find what we did. If you watch the film you'll find it's not really about tickling - it's about power.
"We were interested in the psychology of what made these men take part in the videos, and it was mainly guys who were athletes or military, and from poorer states."
Although being tickled usually provokes laughter, science has long been interested in whether it's involuntary. Ten years ago, a study at the University of California at San Diego concluded that tickling did not necessarily produce pleasure, just the outward appearance of it.
Alan J Fridlund, a social and clinical psychologist, points out that whether it's enjoyable or not "depends upon the social context of the tickle. Charles Darwin thought that infant tickling was the basis of adult humour and I agree".
He added: "But the insidious side of tickling is that if the tickler has a perverse motive, they will interpret the reflexive responses to tickling as a sign of approval, even when the social context turns dark.
"As the tickler proceeds, he or she is abetted by the nasty fact that strong tickling begins to cause cataplexy, a generalised weakening of the body's striate muscles, and one that many of us have known if we've been 'tickle tortured'. "
That phrase is repeated by a participant of the tickling videos called TJ, who tells Farrier on camera that he was told taking part "was for a project, as tickling was being considered as a military tactic for the army, tickle torture. I thought that was untrue".
TJ says the reason he did it was "because I was a little desperate for money. I was young at the time and I didn't think anything of it. I would get $2,000.
"On the day, I noticed it was all guys, and I didn't know I would get tied down, but there were athletes there, bodybuilders, a couple of actors I had seen on TV commercials - completely normal people. I still thought, 'I hope no one finds out about this'."
In the documentary, TJ alleges that after the videos surfaced online, he asked them to be taken down, and was subjected to a campaign of abuse and harassment - including emails being sent to his employer at a high school.
The film claims others involved with making tickling videos have suffered controlling and abusive behaviour. However, Jane O'Brien Media strongly denies any wrongdoing.
The director confesses that his own viewpoint on tickling has shifted since making the film - and getting tickled himself for the purpose of making the documentary.
"There is pain in tickling, it's not always enjoyable. You're not laughing in the way you laugh as a joke. It can be used as torture and power play. There's also always one who is dominant, and one who is submissive. It's a metaphor for the power and control we talk about in the film.
"The innocence of it has gone for me - I don't tickle my nieces any more."
The one word to sum up his experience, Farrier adds, is "weird".
"I was completely bemused a lot of the time about what I was discovered. You couldn't actually make it up. Some people though think we have - they think it's so unbelievable that it's a spoof mockumentary."
Tickled is on release in the UK now
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk. | Of all sports that are unlikely to be considered for the next Olympics in Tokyo, "competitive endurance tickling" might be at the top of the list. | 37158370 |
Here are a selection of their reactions.
Thank you to the Hollywood Foreign Press for this honour. It's so exciting to be nominated for a film I really enjoyed making.
Adams is nominated for best actress in a comedy or musical for Big Eyes, in which she plays a US painter whose husband took credit for her work.
My gosh - my jaw is on the ground. To be recognised for doing something that I love, something so refreshing, it's amazing.
Aniston is nominated for best actress in a drama for Cake, in which she plays a woman dealing with chronic pain.
Thank you to the Hollywood Foreign Press for embracing the Baker's Wife and recognising this film that I am so proud to be a part of.
Playing this part made me stretch myself as an actor and muster up any courage I could to find my singing voice.
British actress Blunt is nominated for best actress in a comedy or musical for Into the Woods.
This is all very gratifying and I am so thankful to Bennett specifically for thinking of me for the role. It's just so exciting that any of this is happening.
I'm also so happy for Mark who is truly one of the nicest people I've ever met. He is so deserving of all this attention.
Carell is nominated for best actor in a drama for Bennett Miller's sports-based thriller Foxcatcher, for which Mark Ruffalo has received a best supporting actor nomination.
I felt so lucky to have portrayed Joan Clarke, such an extraordinary woman who defied convention and was part of a moment in history.
Thank you to the Hollywood Foreign Press for this honour and for recognising our film.
British actress Knightley is nominated for best supporting actress for her role as a Bletchley Park code breaker in The Imitation Game.
I jumped so high for Ava I think I've shattered my kneecap. We're going to celebrate by getting on a plane to Washington to show the film to Congress.
British actor Oyelowo is nominated for best actor in a drama for Selma, which also earned a nomination for director Ava DuVernay.
I'm very honoured to be nominated alongside actresses I have long admired. Thank you so much.
British actress Pike is nominated for best actress in a drama for Gone Girl, David Fincher's film of Gillian Flynn's best seller.
I am beyond thrilled to be nominated alongside such a stunning quartet of actors. The fact that Felicity, Johann and the film are nominated means the world.
I am hugely grateful to the HFPA - and to Professor Stephen Hawking for his personal support in helping me to share his story with the world.
I'm about to have a few mulled wines to celebrate.
British actor Redmayne is nominated for best actor in a drama for The Theory of Everything, for which co-star Felicity Jones and composer Johann Johannsson have also been shortlisted.
I have no words. I am so incredibly honoured and grateful for this and feel insanely lucky to have had the chance to work with Alejandro, Michael, Edward and the whole cast and crew of the beautiful madness that is Birdman.
Now can someone please explain who this Meryl Streep woman is?
Stone is nominated for best supporting actress for her role in Birdman, for which director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and actors Michael Keaton and Edward Norton have also been shortlisted.
It's a wonderful thing. It's a very prestigious award and I'm grateful for the glow that these nominations give our show.
Ray Donovan star Voight is nominated for best supporting actor in a series, mini-series or TV movie.
I'm extremely thankful that the film is being recognised in this way. Wild is truly my baby and was a labour of love from the beginning.
Witherspoon is nominated for best actress in a drama for Wild, in which she plays a woman who finds herself through hiking. | Several of those nominated for the 2015 Golden Globe awards on Thursday have been expressing their delight at being shortlisted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). | 30430970 |
It would be an unremarkable statement for a woman of her age in conservative El Salvador, were it not for the story she has just told me.
At the age of 17, Ms Vazquez was raped by the neighbour of the family which she worked for as a maid.
The crime went unreported because she was scared of his threats.
When the baby was due, she started bleeding heavily.
Not allowed to go home to her family to give birth, she had the baby in the house where she worked.
Her baby died.
She was eventually taken to hospital after her employer saw the poor state she was in and said she did not want two deaths to occur in her house.
Ms Vasquez woke up the next day handcuffed to her hospital bed and accused of murdering her baby.
She recalled how in the weeks that followed she was given no chance to explain what had happened.
"A policeman said to me that if I had been his wife he would have blown my head off," she recalled.
She was sentenced to 30 years in jail for aggravated homicide.
Women in El Salvador used to be allowed to have abortions in cases of rape, or if the health of the baby or the mother were at risk.
But in 1998, a new law enacted under a conservative government completely outlawed it.
El Salvador is not the only country in Latin America to have such strict laws, but it is particularly strict in enforcing it.
Doctors have to inform the authorities if they think a woman has tried to end her pregnancy. If they fail to report such cases, they, too, could face long sentences in jail.
The result is what human rights groups are calling a criminalisation of miscarriages and medical emergencies.
The punishment for abortion is up to eight years in jail.
But in many cases in which the foetus has died, the charge is changed to one of aggravated homicide, which carries a minimum sentence of 30 years.
According to the Citizens' Coalition for the Legalisation of Abortion, 129 women were convicted of abortion-related crimes between 2000 and 2011.
Twenty-six are facing charges of murder.
Ms Vasquez is one of the lucky ones - if you can call her that.
Earlier this year, she walked free after seven years and three months in jail.
She was pardoned after authorities recognised "judicial errors" in her original prosecution.
Maria Teresa Rivera did not have such "luck".
Her nightmare began in November 2011 when she woke up to go to the toilet and started bleeding heavily.
She told her mother-in-law to call the emergency services. A 911-call that she hoped could save her life instead landed her in jail.
When she got to hospital, the nurse said: "Where's the baby?".
"What baby?" Ms Rivera asked.
She said that was the first she knew of being pregnant.
Police found the baby at the bottom of the latrine at the back of her house. Ms Rivera was sentenced to 40 years in jail.
Lawyer Dennis Munoz says that "an air of legal uncertainty has emerged" since hospitals started reporting miscarriages and stillbirths, leading to women being presumed "guilty from the start".
"It threatens the rights to health, to life and to due process," he says.
The president of El Salvador's legislative assembly, Sigfrido Reyes, has called the legislation "medieval".
Speaking to Amnesty International last week, Mr Reyes said that it demonised women who were victims.
According to Amnesty International's Americas Director Erika Guevara-Rosas, the system discriminates against those who are poor.
"A woman who has access to financial resources to pay for a private doctor isn't going to be denounced by a private doctor," she said.
"This is really criminalising women who are from marginalised communities."
Some medical professionals have decided to perform abortions despite the risks involved.
A doctor going by the pseudonym of Dr Hell said he carried out up to three abortions a month, charging those who can afford it as much as $1,000 (£660), but offering the procedure for free to those who do not have the means to pay.
"As a health professional, if a woman tells me, 'look I want to continue with my pregnancy,' I help her. But if she turns round to me and says: "This pregnancy is a problem for me," I can give another form of help, despite the laws that exist in this country," he said.
"It's a health issue and I have to respond to it, independently of my emotional and religious views."
Many in El Salvador hold deeply religious views, with a recent survey suggesting around 50% of Salvadoreans consider themselves Catholic and another 35% professing to be evangelical Christians.
San Salvador's auxiliary bishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez told me religious principles needed to be adhered to.
"Every human life is sacred. To get rid of that is committing murder. If there are two lives in danger, you have to save the one that's most fragile and that's the child," he said.
But for many, that denies the rights of Salvadorean women who, after suffering the tragedy of miscarrying a baby, risk facing decades in prison for another miscarriage - a miscarriage of justice. | Twenty-five-year old Carmen Guadalupe Vasquez Aldana laughs when she tells me she does not want to leave it too late to become a mother. | 32480443 |
It's not the kind of place you'd expect to be a centre of Conservative activism.
But Nathan Wilson - born and bred in the North Lanarkshire town - is part of a new generation of Scots Tories trying to sell the party to other young people.
The 21-year-old student says: "A lot of people are quite baffled by it - specifically a lot of friends and people I went to school with.
"They say, 'how can you be a Tory, we've got Ravenscraig down there'.
"It's something you just need to laugh off, I suppose. You're going to get it being a Conservative in Scotland - particularly in an area like Motherwell."
Despite the constant ribbing, Nathan reckons young, pro-Union voters are crying out for a party which supports aspirational working people, following a collapse in Scottish Labour's vote in the election.
"Last September, me and a group of others were able to establish the first ever Conservative Association at Strathclyde University," he says.
"If we can establish a branch at Strathclyde - an institution which is not exactly friendly to the core beliefs of Conservatism - we can certainly attract young people from all over Scotland."
Much of this so-called attraction has been put down to Ruth Davidson. Her image as a young, female, openly-gay politician has certainly broken the traditional Conservative leader stereotype.
And May's UK election established the Conservatives as Scotland's third-biggest party in terms of votes (434,097).
But that's still a world away from the near 1.5m votes won by the SNP.
And of course, the SNP have 56 Westminster seats in Scotland. The Tories have one.
When it comes to capturing the youth vote, the Scottish Nationalists have shown everyone else how it's done, from their positive campaign which won the hearts and minds of the next generation, to achieving, in government, a lowering of the voting age to 16.
The election in May of 20-year-old Mhairi Black as the country's youngest MP - while still a student - is testament to that.
So might the Scottish Conservatives ever be able to replicate this kind of success?
It's a very tall order, but the decision by several long-serving Tory MSPs to step down at the Scottish election next year has served as a reminder that all political parties need new blood.
Among those calling it a day include several who were elected to the first parliament in 1999, such as Highland veteran Mary Scanlon, former Holyrood presiding officer Alex Fergusson and one-time party leader Annabel Goldie.
Ms Goldie - aka Baroness Goldie of Bishopton since entering the Lords in 2013 - argues the Scottish Conservatives have become better at reaching an age group to which the party has not appealed for the last 20 or 30 years.
She said: "Politics is like any other activity in life - it has phases, it has spans, and I think particularly when the Conservative Party lost all its MPs in 1997 - I think a lot of younger people thought, 'they're from a former generation , they're from a former age , we more readily connect with this emerging SNP'.
"To be fair to the SNP, I think it made a very significant success in engaging with young people - but I think the Conservatives are catching up.
"Largely thanks to Ruth Davidson's appeal to a younger generation, a lot of younger people in Scotland are saying, 'this isn't an old hat, boring fuddy-duddy party, this is actually a really vibrant, interesting party, with policies that could work for us.'"
The Scottish Tories do have an official youth wing - Conservative Future - although a look at its website lists no upcoming events in the diary. Clearly, it may have a thing or two to learn from the SNP approach.
Nevertheless, back in Motherwell, Nathan Wilson is looking forward to the battle of the 2016 Scottish Parliament elections where the PR voting system works to the Tories' advantage - and maybe even standing as a candidate himself at some point in the future.
"I think we've got a few very bright decades ahead of us," he says optimistically, but the party knows it still has a mammoth task. | Think of a town like Motherwell and it may well bring to mind images of the great Ravenscraig steelworks, now long gone, and a Labour heartland, now dominated by the SNP. | 33382584 |
Ashley Hughes, 19, who had only been at the University of Lincoln a few months, died of an overdose after taking two ecstasy tablets in December last year.
Reis Bilal, Luke Green, both 19 and Haydon Watson, 21, admitted drugs supply charges following his death.
They were given jail terms of between one and three years.
Lincoln Crown Court heard the teenager, from Gateley, Cheshire, had collapsed after taking drugs and was pronounced dead a short time later.
His friend Luke Green admitted buying them for him from fellow student Reis Bilal after they pooled their cash to get eight tablets.
It was later discovered Bilal obtained the drugs from third year student Haydon Watson.
Following the sentencing, Ashley's mother Lisa Leigh said: "I find it very hard to accept what has happened just because of Ashley's nature.
"In my heart I knew he didn't drink, smoke, and certainly was not interested in drugs. What people don't see is the pain and hurt for the family and friends left behind.
"If it was a car accident I could accept it, but not this. It was so out of character. He was at university for 13 weeks but people don't change in that short time.
"I have read text messages on his phone in his own words saying that it was peer pressure."
She added: "There should be no mercy for people who sell drugs and prey on the innocent minded.
"I feel sorry for the boys' families at what monsters they have become. I would gladly swap places with them as at least they can still see and speak to their boys."
Bilal, 19, of Ruston Way, Lincoln, was sentenced to two years in a young offenders' institution; Green, 19, of Grantham Street, Lincoln, was handed a 12 month sentence.
Watson, 21, of High Street, Lincoln, was jailed for three years. | A mother has blamed "peer pressure" for the death of her son as three fellow students are jailed for supplying the drugs that killed him. | 33660579 |
Urdd Gobaith Cymru, a Welsh-speaking organisation, needs to attract more interest from those who do not speak the language, according to Sioned Hughes.
She thinks the Urdd is "very good" at connecting with the people who know about it.
But, she added, a "better connection" is needed with non-Welsh speakers.
This includes parents, Welsh learners and English language media.
The organisation, which has 55,000 members, was established in 1922 to help children and young people socialise using Welsh.
Ms Hughes has just started her role and said she hopes to "strengthen the Urdd, increase membership, raise awareness and ensure that we understand our members' aspirations, needs and requirements to go from strength to strength". | A Welsh youth movement must do more to widen its appeal, its new chief executive has said. | 35262384 |
In future, all applications from drivers with convictions for sexual or violent offences will be refused, except in "exceptional circumstances".
Last month it was revealed that Nadeem Ahmed Kiani, who was convicted of rape in 1994, had been given a taxi licence.
The new guidelines were agreed at a council meeting on Monday night.
They will allow council officers to consult the police in future applications.
Two extra enforcement officers are to be employed to cope with the extra workload.
Licence applications will also take longer, allowing more time to consult law enforcement agencies and to interview drivers.
The Labour leader of Milton Keynes Council, Peter Marland, has called the decision to grant a taxi licence to Kiani "inexplicable".
Mr Marland said: "These changes will make things clearer. There will be a phased improvement plan of licensing regulations.
"Over the next two months, the council will conduct checks on all 1,300 drivers. Those which raise concerns will be interviewed and we will involve the police if necessary."
Kiani, 44, was imprisoned for rape and serious sexual assault. His taxi licences have been revoked.
Milton Keynes mayor Subhan Shafiq, who had vouched for Kiani, has resigned from his post. | More than 1,300 taxi drivers in Milton Keynes will undergo fresh police checks, after it was discovered a convicted rapist was granted a licence. | 29123245 |
A further 19 motorists were charged with offences including drink driving, using a mobile phone, and driving with no insurance or MOT.
The checks were carried out on the A9, M9, M876 and A876 on Sunday.
Police Scotland said three vehicles were seized by officers for various motoring offences.
A woman was also arrested for a warrant offence after her vehicle was stopped.
Road policing area commander Ch Insp Stevie Innes said: "Speeding and drink driving were the most serious crimes detected and I want to reiterate our message to motorists that should you be caught driving at excessive speeds or while under the influence, you will be charged and face the loss of your licence." | A 26-year-old man was caught driving at 111mph during a police road safety day of action in the Falkirk area. | 35629950 |
The Ibrox side took a 1-0 first-leg lead to Luxembourg but fell behind to a second-half Emmanuel Francoise finish.
Sebastian Thill sealed progress, scoring only the third European goal in the minnows' history to secure their first ever win in Europe.
Niko Kranjcar, Josh Windass and Kenny Miller hit the woodwork for Rangers.
But the Ibrox men had failed to dominate the game the way they had in the first leg, ensuring their first foray into Europe for six years was short-lived as they went out in the first qualifier.
Boss Pedro Caixinha brought Daniel Candeias, Alfredo Morelos and Jordan Rossiter into his starting line-up as he looked for more of a cutting edge in the second leg.
The visitors had the bulk of the early possession but again lacked the final pass that could punish Progres.
Miller had a shot blocked following a Kranjcar corner but it was all too untidy in the last third.
That seemed to give the hosts the confidence they had lacked in the first half at Ibrox, with Olivier Thill curling a long-range free-kick narrowly wide with goalkeeper Wes Foderingham struggling to get across.
Miller was inches away from connecting with a Lee Wallace cross but it was at the other end where the chances started to come.
Mike Schneider hit one over the bar when in a good position before the home side came very close. Olivier Thill drove forward and fired a long-range shot that had Foderingham beaten but slid just wide.
The second half started with Progres going even closer, this time Francoise bursting clear on the right and drilling a low effort towards the corner that Foderingham saved brilliantly.
As the second half wore on the home side looked the more threatening, with a few nerves evident in the visiting defence.
Home keeper Sebastian Flauss had gone off injured in the first half but Rangers failed to test stand-in Charly Schinker until after the hour, when Ryan Jack's close-range header was directed straight at him.
Moments later Caixinha's side almost grabbed a crucial away goal as Wallace sent in a cross that Kranjcar headed off the bar.
Then came the opener for Progres as Olivier Thill crossed for Francoise to finish at the near post.
The second arrived soon after as Sebastian Thill curled a free-kick into the box that evaded everyone and crept in at the back post.
Rangers rallied in the closing minutes with Windass' diving header coming back off the bar before Miller, in stoppage time, lobbed an effort off the face of the bar.
There was no way through though, and the visitors slumped to a shocking result.
BBC Scotland senior football reporter Chris McLaughlin
"For the Rangers fans it's humiliating. For the players, humbling, and when the dust settles on what some are calling the worst result in the club's history there will be huge questions to answer for the Rangers board and manager Pedro Caixinha.
"Where some saw the appointment of the Portuguese last year as a gamble, the Ibrox board believed it to be progressive. They had patience in their man despite a poor start to his managerial career in Scotland. They backed him with significant funds to rebuild and get Rangers back to where they wanted to be. And where they wanted to be was the group stages of the Europa League.
"Now that has gone, they must count the cost. Caixinha's squad may well improve and they may even go on to close the gap on Celtic in the season ahead, but falling at the first hurdle in Europe is a massive blow financially and psychologically.
"Chairman Dave King has continually pointed to funds gained through European football as being key to them closing the gap on their rivals and now that badly needed revenue stream has gone before the season has even started. Only those providing the loans will know the true cost and implications of that.
"It's not the only thing being cut unexpectedly though. The window of goodwill for the new manager has just been slashed drastically. Caixinha needs a blistering start to the season or he and his new recruits could be under serious pressure." | Rangers suffered one of their worst ever results as they were knocked out of the Europa League qualifiers by Luxembourg minnows Progres Niederkorn. | 40475647 |
The Welsh Government asked Carno Station Action Group and the community council to consult with residents on two potential locations.
One of the sites is the original station closed in 1963 as part of the Beeching cuts to Britain's railways.
The old station then became a part of the Laura Ashley site in Carno.
The village lies on the Cambrian line between Aberystwyth and Shrewsbury.
A campaign to re-open Carno station started in 2002.
In 2011 Mid Wales Transportation, a group working with the Welsh Government, said there was a strong case for future investment in the station after carrying out an out an appraisal.
The site could be developed into a tourist information centre centre and a Laura Ashley museum if plans are given the go-ahead.
Action Group chairman, Jeremy Barnes said the week-long consultation ended on 22 March and the results would be processed before being passed on to the Welsh government.
He added: "We have talked to the Welsh government about the possibility of the new station including a tourist information centre, cafe, an office for the community council's clerk and a small museum dedicated to Laura Ashley should the existing site be chosen."
"Carno is a growing village with a population of about 750 and this proposed development will create employment and allow residents affordable access to work further afield."
"It is located on the longest stretch of railway without an intermediate station in the whole of Wales, the 22 miles between Caersws and Machynlleth.
"There is a strong consensus that the capital asset of the railway line passing through the village is being wasted as long as the trains pass through without stopping."
The consultation followed a meeting between the action group and Transport Minister Edwina Hart last October.
Fashion designer Laura Ashley had strong links with Carno for nearly a quarter of a century before her death in 1985.
Carno was the original Welsh base of the Laura Ashley company when she moved with her husband Bernard from Kent in 1961.
She is buried in a churchyard in the village.
Laura Ashley's former headquarters in Carno, where many of her products were manufactured, closed in 2004. | Residents of a mid Wales village have voted on proposals to install a new train station in the area. | 26688564 |
Integration of Iran into the world economy may bring some social and political changes too, but for reformers the ride will not be an easy one.
Before there was a deal, Iran's opponents were talking of Tehran's ambitions to build an atomic bomb and the need to stop it.
After the deal, they moved the goalpost to the Islamic republic's behaviour, namely its poor human rights record and its regional "expansionist" aspirations, saying a deal that lifts international sanctions will empower Iran to fund the latter.
Both Iran and the US have now embarked on a mission to reassure the Arab countries of the Gulf that this will not be the case.
US Secretary of State John Kerry is touring the region trying to sell the 14 July deal - reached between Iran and the US, Russia, China, the UK, France and Germany- that limits Tehran's nuclear programme in return for the lifting of international sanctions.
"Every country engaged in this endeavour and the Gulf states hopes that (Iran's) behaviour will change," Mr Kerry told reporters in Doha, Qatar.
"But we have to prepare for the eventuality that it won't," said Mr Kerry, quoting a long list of military and material support for Arabs to counter Iran's growing regional power.
As America's chief diplomat was courting the Arab countries in their capitals, his Iranian counterpart chose to do the same on a different platform.
On Monday, Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote a piece published in four Arab newspapers in Lebanon, Kuwait, Qatar and Egypt.
"We must all accept the fact that the era of zero-sum games is over, we all win or lose together," wrote Zarif.
When grilled by US congressmen over the deal, Mr Kerry repeatedly said he hoped an Iran that rejoins the international community will not only be less of a threat to its neighbours, but will also open up to the world outside and change from within.
This is exactly what frightens hardliners within the Islamic republic.
They fear that an end to the nuclear conflict and improving ties with the US could lead to an end to a revolution that for 36 years has revolved around fighting "the Great Satan" and strictly imposing religious values on people's everyday lives.
The popularity of President Hassan Rouhani and his government is likely to rise following the nuclear deal and Iranian hardliners will try to counter this on the domestic front by actively blocking any attempts to implement social and political reform.
And they have the means to do so.
Key institutions such as the Judiciary, state radio and television, the police and the military are not controlled by the Rouhani administration, rather by conservatives appointed by the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
This strategy has been seen before. Under reformist former president Mohammad Khatami, (who led the government from 1997 to 2005) the more foreign and trade ties opened up, the more pressure was exerted on journalists and civil activists.
A crackdown on media, human rights and political activists would send a clear message to Iranians that striking a nuclear deal does not mean an end to revolutionary values.
President Rouhani's possible failure in delivering change in those areas could also fuel disappointment with his government.
The next big battleground will be the elections next February for both parliament and for the Assembly of Experts, the body tasked with appointing and supervising the Supreme Leader.
Ayatollah Khamenei has shown in the past that he prefers to balance the power of a moderate executive branch with a conservative parliament, rather than handing over both to reform-oriented forces that could weaken his own base.
With the prospect of sanctions being lifted, battalions of foreign businessmen have been flocking to Tehran in the past few weeks trying to secure "first mover advantage" before contracts are signed.
Scores of French, German, Italian and Austrian firms have started talks with their Iranian counterparts in anticipation of the day sanctions officially end in the next few months.
Iranian officials have now revised their estimate of the country's GDP growth from the current 2% to 3-4% this year owing to increased oil revenues and access to frozen accounts.
President Rouhani's government hopes this growth will create jobs and improve living conditions for millions of Iranians.
Across the country many people share their president's hope that things will get better.
"If the government turns around the economy, other aspects such as human rights will get better by themselves," Mohammad, who preferred not to use his family name told BBC Persian over the phone from Tehran.
But for many others that optimism is tinged with a note of caution.
"Look at China," said Maryam another Iranian caller.
"Economic growth does not necessarily mean better human rights." | Some advocates of the nuclear deal say it will transform Iran's behaviour over time and make the Islamic republic domestically more liberal, regionally more responsible and internationally more pro-West. | 33784480 |
Now the Conservative party has announced plans to scrap the Human Rights Act if it wins the next general election.
Prime Minister David Cameron wants to replace the legislation - which allows European rulings to overrule UK courts - with a British Bill of Rights.
Here's a reminder of some of the reasons the Tories and other critics want to scrap the act.
When the UK wanted to deport the radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada to Jordan to face trial on terrorism charges, the European Court of Human Rights blocked the move.
Judges feared that evidence obtained by torture would be used against him.
Ministers in the UK fought a long and expensive legal battle until the cleric finally agreed to drop his case.
He was eventually flown to Jordan in July 2013 and has now been cleared of terror charges.
It was nine years ago that the European Court of Human Rights first told the UK it had to change the law to allow some inmates to vote.
But most MPs in the UK don't agree, and parliament still wont let any prisoners put an x on a ballot paper.
A political compromise means the saga will go on for yet another year.
Europe says it will take no action until at least September 2015.
The Ministry of Defence has had more than 1,000 damages claims made against it for breaching human rights during conflicts overseas.
Some challenges are from former enemies on the battlefield.
Others have been brought by the families of soldiers who have died on active service or during training.
All this takes time and cost money. Some say it undermines the ability of the forces to do their job and keep us safe.
But supporters of the Human Rights Act say it's essential for our human rights to be protected by the European court.
Tim Hancock, from Amnesty UK, says under the Tories' plan, "human rights would be reserved for only those people the government decides should get them."
Here are some ways people from around the UK say the Human Rights Act has helped them.
Steven Neary has autism. He was 21 when his father, Mark, put him in temporary care for a few days.
But the authorities were concerned over Steven's behaviour there and moved him to a special unit, where he was kept against his family's wishes, for a year.
Mark took the case to court and a judge decided the west London council had violated Steven's human rights to liberty, and respect for private and family life.
Mark told Newsbeat "Steven wouldn't have come home if it hadn't been for the Human Rights Act".
In 2013 a teenager known in court as ZH was awarded damages of £28,250 after it was found that police breached his right to be free from inhuman and degrading treatment, and his right to liberty.
When he was 16, he was taken on a school trip to a swimming pool in West London.
As he stood by the side of the pool, he became fascinated by the water and wouldn't move.
The pool staff were concerned, and called the police. But when they arrived, he jumped into the pool. Several police officers got into the pool, lifted him out, pinned him down, put him in handcuffs and leg restraints, and placed him in the back of the police van, alone.
Jenny and Tim Paton and their three children lived in the same house in Poole for more than 10 years.
But, their local council received an anonymous tip-off that they were lying about living in a particular school catchment area.
The local authority set up covert surveillance and for three weeks officials sat outside their home, making notes and taking photographs.
The family felt violated and took the case to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal and the council was found to have breached their human rights. | It has been blamed by its critics for allowing prisoners to vote, stopping Britain from deporting terror suspects and hindering UK soldiers in Afghanistan. | 29476725 |
Social worker Neil Swaby, of North East Lincolnshire Council, refused to explain why he did not support their case for adoption, they told the BBC.
A judge said Mr Swaby, fellow social worker Rachel Olley and another colleague were "biased" against them.
But Unison said it was "unacceptable" social workers should "carry the can".
The union that represents council social workers said Ms Olley had been made a scapegoat in the case.
Speaking to the Today programme, the couple said they challenged the authority when it decided to put the three-year-old boy up for adoption after his mother died.
They said they asked Mr Swaby: "Who do you think you are - God?"
They said he replied: "In this situation, yes. Get used to it, your grandson will go for adoption."
Judge Simon Jack, sitting at Hull Family Court, was asked to decide on the future of the boy, known only as J.
In a ruling published on Tuesday, the judge criticised evidence given by Mr Swaby, Ms Olley and a third social worker.
Ruling in favour of the couple, he said Mr Swaby had been "very begrudging" in his evidence.
He said Ms Olley's evidence was "totally discredited" after she told the court the boy had behavioural problems, contradicting her written statement.
"I have never, in over 10 years of hearing care cases, taken the view, as I did in this case, that the local authority's witnesses were visibly biased in their attempts to support the local authority's case," he said.
"It is very unfortunate and I hope I shall never see that again."
The boy's grandfather said it was only then that he thought they might win their 16-month case.
He said: "The judge asked [Ms Olley's] advocate to stand up and he said to her, 'Basically your case is a shambles,' and he threw it out of court.
"I could have hugged that judge, I could. I've never known anything like it."
In a statement, Unison said: "This blaming culture in local authorities is likely to have an impact on an already depleted workforce. [This] type of case will only drive more social workers away from the profession."
Mr Swaby did not respond to requests for comment.
A spokesman for the council said that the authority had carefully considered the judge's comments, and that there had been a "rigorous process" to prepare the social workers to give evidence.
He said: "North East Lincolnshire Council is committed to ensuring the best outcomes for children and young people and, where possible, allow them to stay within their extended family.
"We have a growing number of young people supported in this way and we continually review and update our policies and practices to assist with that aim.
"This case illustrates the complexities and difficult decisions that have to be made while striving to act in the best interests of children." | A couple say a local authority set out to adopt their grandson even though they wanted to care for him and his brother who already lived with them. | 30234549 |
Former energy secretary Lord Howell had said there was less concern there than for "beautiful natural areas".
He was criticised by the Archbishop of Canterbury and Friends of the Earth.
Apologising, Lord Howell of Guildford said there were parts of both the North East and the south that were "less densely inhabited than others".
Fracking - short for "hydraulic fracturing" - involves drilling deep under ground and releasing a high-pressure mix of water, sand and hundreds of chemicals to crack rocks and release gas stored inside.
Water companies are worried the process could contaminate drinking water aquifers that lie above shale gas reserves. But supporters of fracking say it is safe and essential to making the UK more energy self-sufficient.
Widespread fracking has not started in the UK yet, but Cuadrilla began exploratory drilling in Lancashire in 2011 and many other possible sites have been identified.
During Lords Questions, Conservative Lord Howell, who was energy secretary from 1979 to 1981, asked: "Would you accept that it could be a mistake to think of and discuss fracking in terms of the whole of the United Kingdom in one go?
"I mean there obviously are, in beautiful natural areas, worries about not just the drilling and the fracking, which I think are exaggerated, but about the trucks, and the delivery, and the roads, and the disturbance, and those about justified worries."
He added: "But there are large and uninhabited and desolate areas. Certainly in part of the North East where there's plenty of room for fracking, well away from anybody's residence, where we could conduct without any kind of threat to the rural environment."
After the comments, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, wrote on Twitter: "North east England very beautiful, rugged, welcoming, inspiring, historic, advancing, not 'desolate' as was said in House of Lords today."
Friends of the Earth's Tony Bosworth called the comments "jaw-dropping", adding: "The government's ill-conceived fracking plans aren't something that can be quietly brushed under the carpet 'up north' - as the villages resisting the drillers in the Tory heartlands of England's south show."
Following the criticism, Lord Howell issued a statement saying: "I apologise for any offence caused. I certainly did not intend to suggest that the North East is desolate and I do not believe it to be the case. There are parts of the country that are less densely inhabited than others.
"That includes parts of the North East but also other areas in the south of England as well. The shale gas industry should be encouraged to develop in a sustainable way where it is appropriate to do so and in way that ensures communities benefit, which could be in many different parts of country."
Downing Street said Lord Howell did not speak for the government.
But Labour MP for Newcastle North Catherine McKinnell said the peer's remarks demonstrated that the Conservative Party was "out of touch".
"It's right that Lord Howell has apologised for these offensive comments but such outdated opinions leave a lasting impression," she said.
Andy Wilson, chief executive of the North York Moors National Park Authority, said the authority had received initial contact from companies over fracking for shale.
"It's something that in the longer term we're expecting to deal with," he said.
"But we shouldn't start with an assumption it's empty and desolate; it's beautiful and peopled." | A Tory peer has apologised for "any offence caused" after he said fracking should take place in "the North East" because it was "desolate". | 23510479 |
Staring into the lens, the survivors have found themselves able to speak candidly, without fear of identification or repercussions.
Yusuf Omar, the mobile editor at the Hindustan Times has been using the filters to disguise the faces of women he interviews, while still allowing facial expressions to be visible.
"Eyes are the window to the soul," says Yusuf. "And because of the face-mapping technology that Snapchat uses to make these filters work you don't lose that.
"The dragon filter one of the girls used actually exaggerated them, so you can clearly see her expressions as she speaks."
Sexual abuse is a huge problem in India, with an estimated 27.5 million women in the country affected.
But it's also under-reported as many survivors don't come forward because they fear the impact being identified would have on their future.
It's illegal to identify victims of sexual abuse in India, as in many other countries. So using technology like this allows them to speak openly while safeguarding their privacy.
"I was five years old when it happened," said the girl who was disguised as a dragon.
"Someone kidnapped me from Hyderabad to Mysore and locked me in a room. They tortured me at home and never let me go out."
Yusuf said the women chose their own filters, "so they instantly had a feeling of control".
"They liked the fact that they could see the final image in front of them and did not have to rely on me to adequately hide their identities.
"Once the phone was set up each girl was left alone to record their story.
"The girls I spoke to were very comfortable using smartphones and apps like Snapchat," Yusuf said. "It's something they are familiar with because it's something they do with their friends.
"So doing it like this was like telling a friend - dignified and discreet - rather than having a huge camera shoved in their faces, which is intimidating.
"Using the inside camera, they felt like they were looking in a mirror.
"I hope that empowering survivors by giving them a voice will go some way to breaking down the stigma associated with suffering sexual abuse, not just in India but around the world."
Additional reporting by BBC UGC and Social News team | Snapchat filters are normally used for playful interactions between friends, but in India they have been employed for a far more serious purpose - to help survivors of sexual abuse tell their stories. | 36774176 |
Chelsea forward Eniola Aluko, who is the top English goalscorer in Super League 1 this season, has again been overlooked for the friendly fixtures.
Aluko, 29, and Duggan, 25, were both left out of Sampson's previous two squads, for the Euro 2017 qualifiers against Serbia, Estonia and Belgium.
England qualified top of their group.
Chelsea midfielder Millie Bright, who made her debut as a substitute against Belgium last month, retains her place in the squad of 23 players.
Sampson's side will face France in Doncaster on Friday, 21 October, before travelling to Guadalajara to face Spain on Tuesday. 25 October.
England have never won in Spain and lost 3-2 in their last meeting as they exited Euro 2013 at the group stage.
"Both France and Spain will be challenging matches for us but these are the type of opportunities this group looks forward to and are an important part of our preparations for next summer," said Sampson.
"We will be working hard over the camp to prepare ourselves as best we can to win both matches while also having one eye on the Euros."
The Lionesses will find out their opponents for Euro 2017 in the Netherlands when the draw is made in Rotterdam on Tuesday, 8 November.
England women squad:
Goalkeepers: Karen Bardsley (Manchester City), Siobhan Chamberlain (Liverpool), Rebecca Spencer (Chelsea),
Defenders: Laura Bassett (Notts County), Lucy Bronze (Manchester City), Gilly Flaherty (Chelsea), Steph Houghton (Manchester City), Alex Scott (Arsenal), Demi Stokes (Manchester City), Casey Stoney (Arsenal),
Midfielders: Millie Bright (Chelsea), Isobel Christiansen (Manchester City), Jade Moore (Notts County), Jordan Nobbs (Arsenal), Jo Potter (Notts County), Jill Scott (Manchester City), Fara Williams (Arsenal).
Forwards: Karen Carney (Chelsea), Danielle Carter (Arsenal), Rachel Daly (Houston Dash), Gemma Davison (Chelsea), Toni Duggan (Manchester City), Nikita Parris (Manchester City). | Manchester City striker Toni Duggan has been recalled by England women coach Mark Sampson for the games against France and Spain this month. | 37646207 |
Tom Dunn opened the scoring in the first minute, while Paul Grant, Anthony Watson and Tom Homer all crossed to wrap up a bonus point by half-time.
Six further tries followed, with Grant and Watson each getting their second, before Rhys Priestland, Zach Mercer, Ben Tapuai and Ross Batty all crossed.
Mosese Ratuvou scored the French side's only try of the game.
Bath's comprehensive victory means they finish top of Pool Four.
And their superior points difference over Pool Three winners Brive, who also finished with 23 points, means they pipped the French side - their likely opponents in the last eight - to a home quarter-final.
Bath: Homer; Rokoduguni, Joseph, Fruean, Watson; Ford (co-capt), Fotuali'i; Catt, Dunn, Palma-Newport, Ewels, Stooke, Mercer, Louw (co-capt), Grant.
Replacements: Batty, Obano, Knight, Charteris, Mercer, Cook, Priestland, Tapuai.
Pau: Buros; Lestremeau, Fumat, Dupouy, Ratuvou; Fajardo, Moa Teutau; Hurou, Lespiaucq Brettes Sclavi, Pesenti, Ramsay, Habel Kuffner, Dougall, Butler (capt).
Replacements: Boundjema, Jacquot, Tierney, Tutaia, Daubagna, Dupichot, Malie, Bernad.
Sin-bin: Habel Kuffner (36)
Ref: Ben Whitehouse
For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter. | Bath secured a home European Challenge Cup quarter-final with 10-try thrashing of Pau at The Rec. | 38654059 |
The single mother won the cash just three months after netting £30,000 with the same bookmaker.
William Hill said the latest prize was the largest ever won by one of its customers.
The woman, who lives on an island in the north of Scotland and works in a school, described the accumulated jackpot win as "surreal".
She has asked to remain anonymous.
She has booked a trip to Disneyworld for herself and her seven-year-old son but has no idea what she will do with the rest of her winnings.
"I was washing the dishes this morning and thought to myself - 'no matter how much money you have, you still have to wash the dishes,' she said.
"It is all still so surreal. You obviously play these games, hoping to win a couple of quid, not a couple of million. I'm still stunned."
The woman won a total of £2.558m on The Festival of Lights Vegas game.
A spokesman for William Hill said: "This, by our reckoning is the biggest sum that a William Hill customer has ever won. It is an incredible, life changing sum of money." | A Scottish woman is celebrating becoming a millionaire after scooping a £2.5m jackpot in an online casino game. | 35586251 |
Crewe seized the lead when Marcus Haber tapped in a rebound in the first significant opening of the game.
Brad Inman then fired at goal from 20 yards, stinging the palms of Jon McLaughlin as Crewe sought a second.
But Lucas Akins grabbed the equaliser for the Brewers when, from Mark Duffy's cross, he turned three Crewe defenders and slotted past Ben Garratt.
Crewe, who lost defender Jon Guthrie late on with a cheekbone injury, remain seven points from safety with 11 games left to play.
The Brewers maintain their four-point advantage over second-placed Wigan, now nine points clear of third-placed Gillingham.
Crewe manager Steve Davis told BBC Radio Stoke:
"Drawing against the team that is top of the league should give us confidence because it shows that on our day we can compete with the very best.
"But, in the context of our situation, we need to be getting three points, especially from our home games. It is still a good point and I don't think it's two points lost.
"Overall a draw was fair. There was not a lot between the two sides. We took the lead again but we didn't hold onto it long enough. We have taken the lead in 17 games and only gone on to win six, so that tells its own story."
Burton boss Nigel Clough told BBC Radio Derby:
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"Jon McLaughlin's not had much to do. We should have worked their goalkeeper a bit more.
"We had some brilliant situations today which we didn't turn into clear cut chances and ultimately we were just lacking that little bit of quality in the final third to get us the winner.
"I was pleased the way the players responded to going a goal down and the way we got back into the game and deserved out equaliser and were looking to win the game but when you're a goal down away from home then you end up with a point, it's not a bad result." | League One strugglers Crewe held leaders Burton Albion to a draw in a game of few clear-cut chances. | 35675613 |
Last week, legendary Vogue editor Anna Wintour, considered one of fashion's most influential voices, was overheard on a train lambasting the mogul.
Her comments came as Teen Vogue ran a "scorched-earth" attack on Mr Trump, posting an opinion editorial that accused him of repeatedly lying to the public.
Many online readers were shocked by the ferocity of the piece - and Miss Wintour's criticisms.
But what both show is that 2016 has changed women's magazines, perhaps forever. Vogue and others are now unashamedly political, securing access to top-ranking leaders and endorsing their favourites in print.
Vogue set out its stall for then Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in mid-October, by endorsing her for the presidency.
"Vogue has no history of political endorsements," the fashion Bible noted, before stating that it was making an exception "given the profound stakes of this one".
Critics said the glossy had no business weighing in on politics, but many readers praised it for considering readers' core concerns.
Vogue pointed out that while it has profiled Ms Clinton six times, it has also featured Ivana, Marla, Melania, and Ivanka Trump repeatedly in its pages.
And it wasn't alone in making a historic exception.
"For me, the only option is Hillary Clinton," Glamour magazine editor-in-chief Cindi Leive wrote the same month, in a piece titled "In This Election, I'm With Her".
Ms Leive noted that after four election cycles spent at Glamour, 2016 was the first time she had felt compelled to share her private views.
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"One of the two major candidates [Hillary Clinton] is an experienced public servant, while the other [Donald Trump] sports a decades-long résumé of dismissiveness toward women and their concerns," she wrote.
The same passion for politics crossed the border to Marie Claire Mexico, which put Ivanka Trump on its cover along with a public plea: "#DearIvanka. When will you protect us from your father?"
One reason the recent Teen Vogue opinion piece spread like wildfire online is that non-readers associate the brand with boyfriend angst and make-up tips.
Few people expected it to publish something so hard-hitting. But maybe they should have.
"Young women have been excited and perhaps disturbed by things like Brexit and Donald Trump," says Barbara Rowlands, an associate professor in the journalism department at City, University of London.
"If there was a junior GQ and they put something like that up, nobody would have batted an eyelid."
Dr Rowlands says younger Teen Vogue readers generally come from an ABC1 readership, and will have heard discussions about Donald Trump - so naturally they are curious.
Feminist commentators have suggested the shock at Teen Vogue publishing a coherent piece of political opinion is a sign of how badly women are under-estimated.
"Stop proudly flaunting your low expectations," advised US feminist writer Roxane Gay on Twitter.
In September 2016, Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka cut short an interview with Cosmopolitan.com after being asked how her father's childcare policy compared to his past remarks on maternity leave.
Interviewer Prachi Gupta said: "In 2004, Donald Trump said that pregnancy is an inconvenient thing for a business. It's surprising to see this policy from him today. Can you talk a little about those comments, and perhaps what has changed?"
According to Cosmo's transcript, the mother of three replied: "I think that you have a lot of negativity in these questions. So I don't know how useful it is to spend too much time with you on this."
She terminated the meeting shortly afterwards.
Ms Gupta's other political reporting has included a video piece where five young women explained why they were voting for Mr Trump.
Lena Dunham, creator of the HBO TV show Girls, interviewed Ms Clinton for her feminist email newsletter, Lenny.
The interview was full of personal insights from a candidate frequently accused of lacking warmth, including how she felt about working in a salmon canning factory after college.
Miss Dunham, who was a vocal Democrat supporter in the run-up to the US presidential vote, asked Ms Clinton if she had worried about marrying her husband Bill.
"I was terrified about losing my identity and getting lost in the wake of Bill's force-of-nature personality," the former secretary of state admitted.
"I actually turned him down twice when he asked me to marry him."
In August 2016, President Barack Obama penned an exclusive piece for Glamour magazine about his feminist views as a man and a father.
It was a gesture that showed he was keen to address young women through whatever media they are drawn to.
"Michelle and I have raised our daughters to speak up when they see a double standard or feel unfairly judged based on their gender or race - or when they notice that happening to someone else," he wrote.
"It's important for them to see role models out in the world who climb to the highest levels of whatever field they choose. And yes, it's important that their dad is a feminist, because now that's what they expect of all men."
Glamour says it has 10 million print readers and 15 million unique users online. With that in mind, it seems less surprising that politicians are harnessing it to get their message across. | Tensions are simmering between the US magazines Vogue and Teen Vogue, and the country's president-elect Donald Trump. | 38287698 |
The outcome was close, with just 56.61% of people voting against change, but it is a personal blow for pro-change Prime Minister John Key.
Here's how the debate unfurled, from Laser Kiwi to Red Peak to Silver Fern.
This is New Zealand's flag, which has fluttered from flagpoles across the nation since the 1800s and was officially adopted in 1902.
The royal blue is meant to represent the sea and the sky, while the four stars are the Southern Cross, representing New Zealand's place in the Southern Ocean.
In the top left corner is the Union Flag, a legacy of New Zealand's identity as a British protectorate.
That was problem number one: New Zealand has been fully independent since 1947 and for many people, including the prime minister, the Union Flag is a constant unwelcome reminder of the colonial era.
And here's problem number two:
That's the Australian flag, almost identical except for the Commonwealth or Federation Star in the bottom left and an additional star in the, now white, Southern Cross.
Mr Key said this was "terribly confusing" for the rest of the world, and that he'd seen news broadcasts which placed him in front of the wrong flag.
When Mr Key's National party was elected in 2014, he promised to put the issue to the people.
It was, said Mr Key, the "right time for New Zealanders to consider changing the design to one that better reflects our status as a modern, independent nation".
It began in May 2015, when the official Flag Consideration Project panel invited absolutely anyone to suggest a design for a new flag.
A total of 10,292 had a go, and it's fair to say not all took the task entirely seriously, to the delight of commentators around the world.
Though some of the ideas, like Laser Kiwi, have arguably since become icons of the country anyway.
On both sides of the debate, strong feelings began to emerge.
Former prime minister Jenny Shipley was quoted as saying she was "horrified to think that people would allow a colonial symbol to be part of the shadow that flies over us".
But military veterans said abandoning the flag soldiers had died under disrespected their sacrifice.
"So much has happened under our flag that has made us the nation we are today," said David Moger, of the Royal New Zealand Returned and Services Association (RSA).
He told the BBC that reassurances to veterans they could still use the existing flag if they wanted were "a poor attempt to sideline" them.
The Flag Consideration Panel announced a long list of 40 in August 2015. The list dropped to 39 shortly after when one was removed for copyright reasons.
It was a fairly predictable selection of Maori symbols, silver ferns and Southern Crosses. Just one made a reference to the Union Jack.
A few weeks later, the Flag Consideration Panel unveiled it four finalists.
Three silver ferns and one koru Maori symbol. All male designers, two of them the same man.
New Zealanders were by and large uninspired.
The creative mind behind Laser Kiwi, incidentally, found them "a tad disappointing".
"I think these people actually take their artwork seriously."
But a rebellion was brewing. Across the land, New Zealanders were throwing their support behind an outsider - Red Peak by Wellington-based Aaron Dustin.
Through the power of social media, some slick lobbying from Mr Dustin himself and perhaps a degree of trouble-making spirit, a petition for Red Peak to be added as a fifth finalist gobbled up signatures.
Signatories called it drawable, appropriately symbolic, and with the colours and shapes to represent the nation.
At first, Mr Key stood firm and defended the "well set-out process" of the judging panel. But 52,000 signatures were too many to ignore.
After a heated late-night debate, in which one MP compared Red Peak to a Nazi sentry box, parliament performed a dramatic U-turn and pushed through legislation to change the Flag Referendums Act to allow Red Peak to join the final stretch of the race.
Stage one of the referendum, which ran from mid-November to mid-December 2015 asked New Zealanders which of the five designs they'd want IF the flag were to change.
About 1.5 million people sent in a postal ballot, just under half of registered voters and a better turnout than some had predicted. And with just over 50% of the vote, this was the winner.
Designer Kyle Lockwood, who'd had two designs in the final and had the prime minister's backing, said he was "speechless", but that as Silver Fern had both red on it and the Southern Cross "we've got the best of both worlds really".
The flag was put in place across the country so people could get a feel for it.
One feng shui master, however, told the New Zealand Herald the colours represented mourning and its bad energy could cause a stock market crash.
Another month-long postal ballot opened in March - after unexpected encouragement came from sitcom The Big Bang Theory telling the "crazy Kiwis" that "we're rooting for you".
This time, the ballot papers asked whether Silver Fern should officially become the new symbol of New Zealand.
More than two million ballots were sent in and from fairly early on it appeared the status quo was leading the way.
One telephone survey in late March, however, found 59% of people condemned the whole NZ$23m ($17.4m; £12.3m) process as "a distraction and a waste of money".
The result on 24 March was close: 1,200,003 for no change, 915,008 for change.
Mr Key took it on the chin, calling on New Zealanders to "embrace" their flag.
So is that it? Officially yes, the Union Jack-bedecked flag will continue to fly above Aotearoa.
But there will be plenty who say the current flag was just the least bad of the two options.
Lewis Holden, chairman of Change the NZ Flag campaign group, told the BBC earlier this week there was still "a large sentiment for change".
"But the questions remain on what to change to. We'll keep campaigning, we have thousands of followers on FB, and strong support base and strong sentiment, but simply the issues have got in the way of the process."
And of course it remains to be seen whether rebellious New Zealanders may yet be pinning a Laser Kiwi to their lapels.
Additional reporting by Tessa Wong | The results are in, New Zealanders have spoken - and they do not want a new flag. | 35878485 |
Tries from Luke Narraway, Tom Fowlie and Tom Smallbone put Irish 19-10 up at the break, with Agen responding through a Filipo Nakosi try and Francois Bouvier kick.
Jalil Narjissi then crossed to get the hosts back to within two points.
Fergus Mulchrone's effort and a penalty try completed the visitors' bonus-point win to finish second in the group.
Grenoble's triumph over Edinburgh was enough to help the Londoners progress as one of the three highest ranked runners-up in the group stage.
Even with passage to the next stage in Europe at stake, London Irish head coach Tom Coventry has used the competition to rotate his squad, with only eight players featuring in each of the last three games, dating back to their Premiership win against Newcastle on 10 January.
Despite the changes, London Irish become the fourth Premiership side to reach the last eight, with Harlequins going through as top seeds, while title holders Gloucester are the only ones with an unblemished record.
Agen: Sicart; Tardieu, Roux, Heriteau, Nakosi; Bouvier, Abadie (capt); Tetrashvili, Barthomeuf, Joly, Naikatini, Roidot, Marchois, Bastien, Miquel.
Replacements: Narjissi, Bethune, Ryan, Braendlin, Gal, Darbo, Fouyssac, Mchedlidze.
London Irish: Brophy-Clews; Ojo (capt), Mulchrone, Waldouck, Fowlie; Geraghty, Steele; Smallbone, Cruse, Halavatau, Curry, Sisi, Narraway, Gilsenan, Guest.
Replacements: Ellis, Harris, Aulika, McCusker, Symons, Allinson, Murphy, Lewington.
Referee: Lloyd Linton (Scotland)
For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter. | London Irish secured a European Challenge Cup quarter-final spot after overcoming French Top 14 side Agen. | 35355414 |
The party was prepared to take action if the first minister did not do what "society desires", he said.
Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir has warned an election would be inevitable if she did not stand down.
Mrs Foster is under growing pressure over the Renewable Heat Initiative.
The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme was launched in 2012 to help businesses ditch fossil fuels for renewables such as wood.
Mrs Foster was the then enterprise minister in charge of the scheme, which was set up to help cut carbon emissions, but its flaws could cost taxpayers £490m.
The subsidies offered were greater than the cost of the fuels, meaning users could legitimately earn more cash the more fuel they burned.
Speaking at a meeting of party activists in Belfast on Saturday, Sinn Féin leader Mr Adams said Mrs Foster was not "a prime minister".
"She is a co-equal partner in the Office of First and Deputy First Minister," he said. "She can continue in that office but only for as long as Sinn Féin allows it."
Sinn Féin has put forward proposals for dealing with the crisis engulfing Stormont, and Mrs Foster has said they provided "a basis for taking an investigation forward".
But the first minister has rejected Sinn Féin's further calls for her to temporarily step aside.
Mr Adams told the meeting: "The DUP leader has thus far refused to stand aside, without prejudice, pending a preliminary report by an independent investigation into the RHI scandal.
"If the first minister does not take the actions that society desires and deserves and which a sustainable process of change requires, then Sinn Féin will bring this ongoing and totally unacceptable state of affairs to an end."
Earlier this week, Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir warned that if Mrs Foster did not step aside temporarily, an election would be inevitable.
"It's the greatest conflict of interest I've seen in my political life that the architect of the RHI scheme would remain in office while the investigation gets under way," he said.
Mr Adams said the "future of the political institutions are at a defining point", as he paid tribute to Mr McGuinness who was not at the meeting.
"Under Martin's tolerant and tireless leadership the institutions have continued to operate and progress has been made, for example on the difficult issue of the transfer of policing and justice powers," he said.
In a wide-ranging speech, Mr Adams spoke about the decision to cut Irish language bursary funds, describing Communities Minister Paul Givan as an "ignoramus".
"The DUP has also shown a serious disrespect for the Irish language and to those citizens who wish to live their lives through Gaeilge (Irish language).
"The decision on the eve of Christmas to cut funding for the Líofa programme was a very deliberate snub to the Irish language. It was an ignorant decision taken by an ignoramus.
"Of course we will forgive him for this. When he restores the funding and treats our teanga (language) with the respect it deserves." | Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness could resign if Arlene Foster does not stand aside during an investigation into a botched green energy scheme, Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams has signalled. | 38541704 |
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The Czech Republic goalkeeper, who played more than 400 club games in 11 seasons at Stamford Bridge, has joined the Gunners on a four-year contract.
Cech, 33, made only seven league appearances last season after losing his place to Belgian Thibaut Courtois.
In a letter to Chelsea fans, Cech said he thought he would retire at Stamford Bridge, but added: "Life doesn't always turn out the way you think it will."
He wrote: "Last summer, things changed and I understood I was no longer the first-choice keeper, but I felt it was not the right time for me to go.
"During the season, it became clear that my situation would not improve and - as I know I am not at the stage of my career where I want to be on the bench - I made my decision to move and look for new challenges."
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger said: "Petr Cech is a player I have admired for a long time and I am very pleased he has decided to join us."
Cech, brought to Stamford Bridge from French club Rennes in July 2004, won 13 trophies with Chelsea - including one Champions League and four Premier League titles.
He also set a club goalkeeping record of 228 clean sheets in all competitions, beating the previous highest total of 208, set by former England international Peter Bonetti between 1960 and 1979.
Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey responded to Cech's arrival by posting on Twitter: "Wow, what a signing. One of the best Premier League keepers ever."
Gunners forward Theo Walcott tweeted that he scored his first Arsenal goal against Cech - in the 2007 League Cup final - to which his new team-mate replied: "Happy it won't happen again."
And Arsenal's current number one Wojciech Szczesny, said: "Delighted to have a chance to learn from one of the best GK's in the world."
Cech, Arsenal's first signing of the summer, could face Chelsea as early as 2 August, when the two sides meet in the Community Shield at Wembley. | Arsenal have signed Petr Cech from Chelsea in a deal worth about £10m. | 33318367 |
Reservists will protect Llanbedr Airfield and the Trawsfynydd decommissioned nuclear power station from simulated attack from patrols from Malaysia, Japan, Ireland and the US.
The Honourable Artillery Company (HAC) said it was the most ambitious exercise it had ever conducted.
It will be the largest UK ground-based air defence concentration since 2003.
For many of the nations taking part, this will be the first time they will have trained in the UK. | Soldiers from across the world are taking part in a week-long training exercise in Gwynedd from Saturday. | 37588368 |
St Peter's Church in Swepstone, Leicestershire, was targeted some time between Sunday evening and Monday morning.
Canon Vivien Elphick said everyone felt "gutted" as they had recently raised £25,000 for general repairs to the church.
A spokeswoman for Leicestershire Police said they were investigating.
The theft was discovered by builders who turned up to work on repairs to stonework at the church.
Canon Elphick said: "We just feel gutted in a sense.
"We have just spent £25,000 on the building and we now have to get a load more to pay for this.
"Fortunately we already had builders on site who have put sheeting over the roof otherwise rain would be going into the building right now." | A village church has had £50,000 worth of lead stripped from its roof by thieves. | 32963820 |
The three-time world heavyweight champion, who had Parkinson's disease for 32 years, died aged 74 from "septic shock due to unspecified natural causes" according to his family.
"The last week has been particularly tough," said Abraham Lieberman, who was with Ali only hours before he died.
"It became apparent God wanted him and we all became reconciled to it."
Lieberman told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek: "Everyone in the back of their minds expected something bad was going to happen but you always hope you will beat the odds because he is someone who always beat the odds - he is not an ordinary person.
"He stood up for his beliefs and what he thought was right. He treated everybody from the humblest person to the biggest celebrity the same - which was fair.
"You could not believe how nice he was outside the ring compared to the way he was inside the ring. I lost a great friend."
Lieberman, a director of the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center in Arizona, rejected suggestions that boxing was solely responsible for Ali's illness.
"I don't think it helped but I think he developed it slowly over a number of years," he said.
"People that develop Dementia Pugilistica are usually dead within three or four years - he's had Parkinson's for over 30 years.
"It started on one side, his brain looked relatively good on MRI scan, I can't tell you boxing didn't have a role but I think he had regular Parkinson's disease."
The doctor recalled a story from many years ago when Ali visited an elderly man in a nursing home, who mistook him for another great boxer, Joe Louis.
"Muhammad said: 'If it gave that old man pleasure to think he met Joe Louis - then I'm Louis.'," he said.
"I think that summed up Muhammad, he was a great personality but really a kind person, with tremendous feeling of sympathy for people."
Lieberman said Ali had been supported by his family throughout his illness.
"His Parkinson's got worse but he had a very devoted family who really treasured him and gave him as much quality of life as you could have," he said.
Former boxer Joe Bugner, who fought Ali twice, was also a guest on Sportsweek and the 66-year-old, speaking from his home in Australia, said: "He and I became one of the closest friends in the boxing world.
"He was unique, not only was a great, great boxer and athlete but also very intelligent and nobody could outwit him as far as the words were concerned." | Muhammad Ali's doctor says the iconic boxer had been "having a tough time in the last year" before his death. | 36454654 |
The game appeared to be heading for a goalless conclusion when Conrad Logan kept out Ben Reeves' 76th-minute spot-kick after the Dons substitute had been brought down by Jim McNulty.
But a free-kick from the left deep into time added on from Ed Upson picked out Wootton at the back post and he headed the ball into the top corner of the net.
Logan had earlier denied Nicky Maynard while Dale defender Niall Canavan made a superb block to deny Reeves.
Those chances aside, it was all Rochdale and for all Logan's heroics, Dave Martin in the Dons goal was equally impressive in keeping the home side out.
Martin denied midfielder Matt Lund in the first half and frustrated Donal McDermott with a one-handed save before his best block of the afternoon in the last 10 minutes of the game, a fine stop to divert Ian Henderson's header from point-blank range.
Logan maintained the excellent display of goalkeeping when he kept out Daniel Powell and Kabongo Tshimanga in quick succession while at the other end Calvin Andrew slid a shot wide from close range after a teasing centre from Steven Davies before Wootton settled it in the dying seconds.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Rochdale 0, MK Dons 1.
Second Half ends, Rochdale 0, MK Dons 1.
Goal! Rochdale 0, MK Dons 1. Scott Wootton (MK Dons) header from the right side of the six yard box to the top right corner. Assisted by Ed Upson with a cross following a set piece situation.
Foul by Jamie Allen (Rochdale).
Ben Reeves (MK Dons) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Daniel Powell (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Calvin Andrew (Rochdale) right footed shot from very close range misses to the right.
Foul by Matthew Lund (Rochdale).
Ben Reeves (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
George B Williams (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Donal McDermott (Rochdale).
Matthew Lund (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Scott Wootton (MK Dons).
Attempt saved. Daniel Powell (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, MK Dons. Kabongo Tshimanga replaces Nicky Maynard.
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by George Baldock.
Attempt saved. Jamie Allen (Rochdale) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Ian Henderson (Rochdale) header from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by David Martin.
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by Ed Upson.
Corner, MK Dons. Conceded by Harrison McGahey.
Substitution, Rochdale. Steve Davies replaces Nathaniel Mendez-Laing.
Attempt saved. Ben Reeves (MK Dons) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Penalty conceded by Jimmy McNulty (Rochdale) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty MK Dons. Ben Reeves draws a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt missed. Jamie Allen (Rochdale) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, MK Dons. Conceded by Jimmy McNulty.
Attempt saved. Daniel Powell (MK Dons) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Attempt saved. Donal McDermott (Rochdale) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the centre of the goal.
Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dean Lewington (MK Dons).
Substitution, MK Dons. Ben Reeves replaces Dean Bowditch.
Matthew Lund (Rochdale) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Matthew Lund (Rochdale).
Samir Carruthers (MK Dons) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Rochdale. Donal McDermott replaces Joe Thompson.
Jamie Allen (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dean Bowditch (MK Dons).
Attempt saved. Matthew Lund (Rochdale) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Joe Thompson (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the defensive half. | Scott Wootton's 94th-minute header earned MK Dons a 1-0 victory at Rochdale. | 37067529 |
The tearful Benidorm actress said on air it was "kind of time" to leave and she had "said everything there is".
"I have a thing that goes right through my body that says Loose Women, like a [stick of] rock in Blackpool, and so it will never, ever leave me," she added.
The 65-year-old, who has appeared on the lunchtime show since 2003, will bow out on 5 September.
Yet she hinted she might return in future by saying: "Like Arnold Schwarzenegger said, 'I'll be back'."
Hewson thanked her fellow panellists on Wednesday's programme as she made her emotional announcement.
"We all care about each other," said the former Coronation Street star. "We all look after each other.
"We've all been there for each other and stood by their side and made sure that they're okay."
Hewson will be seen later this year in a one-off Are You Being Served? special, playing the Mrs Slocombe role Mollie Sugden played in the original BBC sitcom.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk. | Loose Women panellist Sherrie Hewson has announced she is to leave ITV's talk show later this year. | 36967156 |
Christopher Halliwell denies killing Becky Godden, who was last seen getting into a taxi outside a club in Swindon.
The former taxi driver told Bristol Crown Court he drove two men to a field in Gloucestershire in 2003, where they buried a large sports bag.
Miss Godden's remains were found at the site in 2011.
The prosecution alleges Mr Halliwell, 52, formerly of Ashbury Avenue, Swindon, strangled 20-year-old Miss Godden between 1 January 2003 and 3 April 2008 and buried her in Oxo Bottom field in Eastleach.
The court previously heard that he confessed to strangling her and led police to her remains but he has since denied murder.
Mr Halliwell, who is representing himself, told the court he had "no reason to lie".
The jury heard he had regularly driven the drug dealers over a period of three years from 2001 and they would pay him "three of four times" the usual fare.
"It was apparent what they were actually doing, delivering large amounts of Class A drugs. I commented on the amounts they were paying me and they said it was 'chicken feed'," he said.
He told the court he had received a call from the men in 2003 saying that they "needed to get rid of something".
"When I picked them up one of them opened the boot and they put a large sports bag in the boot."
He said he drove the pair to Oxo Bottom Field and returned to collect them an hour later.
"I didn't know at the time they had buried Rebecca. I was under the impression it was drugs, money or weapons," he said.
Mr Halliwell is already serving a life sentence for murdering Sian O'Callaghan in 2011.
Earlier, as be began giving evidence, he said: "What happened between me and Sian - my actions were brutal. What I put Sian's family through was inhuman.
"Whether I get out or not is irrelevant; whether you the jury find me guilty or not guilty doesn't matter."
The trial continues. | A man accused of murdering a woman who worked as a prostitute said two drug dealers buried her body in a field and denied he ever knew her. | 37362252 |
The legal motions are designed to halt Green party presidential candidate Jill Stein's request for a ballot review.
In Wisconsin, a federal court rejected a request to immediately stop the recount, but allowed a lawsuit to proceed.
Even if the recounts take place, they are unlikely to change the poll result.
Ms Stein, who says her campaign is focused on ensuring the integrity of the US voting system, has questioned why Mr Trump is "afraid" of a recount.
On Friday, Michigan's Republican Attorney General Bill Schuette filed a motion in the state Supreme Court to block a potential recount in the Midwestern state.
He said it could cost taxpayers "millions", but Ms Stein called the move a "shameful" attempt to undermine democracy.
Mr Trump's team filed a complaint a day earlier with Michigan's elections board to block a recount of all 4.8 million ballots cast in the state, which he won by 10,700 votes.
Lawyers for Mr Trump argued that Ms Stein cannot seek a recount in Michigan because she took just 1% of the state's vote.
The Michigan elections board was deadlocked in a vote over the Trump campaign's request on Friday, which will allow the recount to begin on Tuesday or Wednesday unless there is legal intervention.
Read our recount explainer.
In Wisconsin, supporters of Mr Trump, including the Great America PAC, the Stop Hillary PAC and voter Ronald Johnson, filed a federal lawsuit and requested a temporary restraining order to stop the Wisconsin recount hours after it began on Thursday.
Their lawsuit argued that the recount threatened the due process rights of those who had voted for Mr Trump and would likely contain errors as officials rush to meet this month's deadline.
Federal law requires states to resolve the disputes by 13 December.
One of the state's 72 counties had already completed the process by Friday - Mrs Clinton gained a single vote over Mr Trump.
Later on Friday, US District Judge James Peterson rejected the motion to halt the recount, saying there would be no harm in allowing it to proceed while the state was preparing its defence.
The judge said a hearing on the issue would be held on 9 December.
Mr Trump eked out a victory over his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin by about 22,000 votes, or less than 1%.
Meanwhile, Mr Trump's lawyers have also filed a complaint to stop the Green party candidate's bid for a voter recount in Pennsylvania.
"Despite being no more than a blip on the electoral radar, Stein has now commandeered Pennsylvania's electoral process, with an eye toward doing the same to the Electoral College," the complaint filed on Thursday said.
"There is no evidence - or even an allegation - that any tampering with Pennsylvania's voting systems actually occurred."
A court hearing is scheduled on Monday regarding Ms Stein's effort to secure a statewide recount in Pennsylvania, where Mr Trump won by a margin of 67,416 votes.
Ms Stein, who is funding her recount bid through public donations, said in a statement: "Verifying the vote is a common-sense procedure that would put all concerns around voter disenfranchisement to rest.
"Trump's desperate attempts to silence voter demands for recounts raise a simple question: why is Donald Trump afraid of these recounts?"
She contends her challenges are meant to ensure that voting machines were not hacked in the election, but there has been no evidence to prove otherwise.
Some critics have claimed Ms Stein is trying to garner more national attention while building a donor database by raising money for the recount effort.
Mrs Clinton, who lost to Mr Trump, has kept silent on the matter.
But a lawyer for her said last week that though the campaign has not found any evidence of hacking or attempts to alter the voting process, it would co-operate with Ms Stein's recount efforts. | US President-elect Donald Trump's supporters are moving to block election recount efforts in the states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan. | 38187641 |
Liam Boyce gave County the lead just after the hour mark, firing past Craig Samson after being teed up by Alex Schalk.
Louis Moult converted a penalty after Scott McDonald was fouled to bring Motherwell level.
County's Jay McEveley saw red for his second booking with 20 minutes left but the visitors could not press home their numerical advantage.
Dingwall is often a difficult destination and most sides leaving with a point will feel fairly content.
The fact that Motherwell had a numerical advantage after McEveley's sending off and didn't win might frustrate Mark McGhee, but County didn't sit back and might have nicked it themselves.
Jim McIntyre might feel his side should have managed the game better after getting in front but an honest appraisal of events would suggests a point was fair for both.
The destination of the points may have hinged on the sending off of McEveley, which was hardly contentious, after picking up a second yellow card.
Perhaps referee Alan Muir's decision to award Motherwell the penalty from which Moult scored will attract a little more scrutiny.
McDonald ran through on Scott Fox and went down under the keeper's challenge. There was contact but the question is whether the contact occurred before the player was going down.
There were few complaints from County players which suggest it was a clear penalty.
It's one of those decisions that is very hard for the referee, with some spectators convinced it was a stonewall penalty, others casting doubt depending on their location in the stadium.
TV pictures will give a clearer indication.
Once again Boyce was the man to deliver for County with another composed finish.
He instinctively drifted into space and confidently slotted home to open the scoring in a match, until that point, which lacked finesse in the final third.
Frustratingly, he did have chances to win the match and might have expected to have taken at least one of them.
He slashed at one which flew past the post, missed a close range header from a brilliant Jonathan Franks cross and nodded one over from six yards.
It's hard to criticise a striker who's scoring but he might have delivered more on this occasion.
Ross County manager Jim McIntyre: "Once we get the goal I thought we were well on top and looked as if we would go on and get the next one.
"Obviously the sending off just turned the game on its head. It's a silly challenge, Jay doesn't need to make that challenge. I thought the boys from then battled manfully, we still looked a threat.
"I'm annoyed that we haven't taken three points
"I think, Scott McDonald is definitely looking for it (the penalty), there's no doubt about that. Being a former striker I understand that. I've not seen it again to see whether there's clear contact."
Motherwell manager Mark McGhee: "Regardless of the man being sent off, a draw was probably about right. They missed chances, we missed chances. I'm absolutely content with a point.
"We're still working out what is the best system and best way to play with this team. In a sense our season started today.
"Marvin Johnson's gone, we put a lot of onus on him and have him no longer. We've got to find other ways of beating teams. We're content.
"For all the world it can look like a penalty. It's one of these ones you know you see it up close in replay it might not be.
"There wasn't a lot of complaint from them and that's usually quite a good indicator."
Match ends, Ross County 1, Motherwell 1.
Second Half ends, Ross County 1, Motherwell 1.
Foul by Andrew Davies (Ross County).
Louis Moult (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Scott McDonald (Motherwell) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Erik Cikos (Ross County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by James McFadden (Motherwell).
Attempt saved. Lionel Ainsworth (Motherwell) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Christopher Routis (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Chris Cadden (Motherwell).
Corner, Ross County. Conceded by Richard Tait.
Tim Chow (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Scott McDonald (Motherwell).
Substitution, Ross County. Tim Chow replaces Michael Gardyne.
Attempt missed. Stephen McManus (Motherwell) left footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Paul Quinn.
Christopher Routis (Ross County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James McFadden (Motherwell).
Attempt missed. Liam Boyce (Ross County) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left.
Craig Curran (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Chris Cadden (Motherwell).
Substitution, Ross County. Craig Curran replaces Jonathan Franks.
Andrew Davies (Ross County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Louis Moult (Motherwell).
Substitution, Ross County. Kenny van der Weg replaces Alex Schalk.
Second yellow card to Jay McEveley (Ross County) for a bad foul.
Foul by Jay McEveley (Ross County).
Scott McDonald (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Motherwell. James McFadden replaces Joe Chalmers.
Goal! Ross County 1, Motherwell 1. Louis Moult (Motherwell) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Scott Fox (Ross County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty conceded by Scott Fox (Ross County) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Motherwell. Scott McDonald draws a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt missed. Martin Woods (Ross County) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Paul Quinn (Ross County).
Louis Moult (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Ross County 1, Motherwell 0. Liam Boyce (Ross County) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Motherwell. Louis Moult replaces Ryan Bowman.
Jonathan Franks (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Chris Cadden (Motherwell). | Motherwell came from behind to claim a point against Ross County in Dingwall. | 37263837 |
Writing on Twitter, Lynch said he had not been given enough money "to do the script in the way I felt it needed to be done".
"This weekend I started to call actors to let them know I would not be directing," he added.
Lynch's departure casts doubt on the revival, which was commissioned by US network Showtime last October.
The auteur, whose credits include Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, created the cult drama with Mark Frost in the 1990s.
Revolving around the murder of teenage schoolgirl Laura Palmer, the show was a precursor of dense, cinematic TV shows like The Sopranos and The Wire.
It won three Golden Globe awards in 1991, including best TV series and best actor for Kyle MacLachlan.
MacLachlan played Special Agent Dale Cooper, an FBI agent who got drawn into the seedy town of Twin Peaks as his murder investigation took several surreal turns.
He was due to reprise the role in the Showtime revival when production began later this year.
Lynch and Frost have already written scripts for the nine episode series, which was due to air in 2016, marking the 25th anniversary of the original finale.
In his statement, Lynch said: "I love the world of Twin Peaks and wish things could have worked out differently."
However, he hinted the show might go ahead in his absence.
"Twin Peaks may still be very much alive at Showtime," he wrote.
Soon after his comments were published on Twitter, Showtime released the following statement.
"We were saddened to read David Lynch's statement today since we believed we were working towards solutions with David and his reps on the few remaining deal points.
"Showtime also loves the world of Twin Peaks and we continue to hold out hope that we can bring it back in all its glory with both of its extraordinary creators, David Lynch and Mark Frost, at its helm." | Director David Lynch has confirmed he will not direct the sequel to Twin Peaks, citing disagreement over money. | 32194193 |
McCabe's strike midway through the first period proved decisive despite Wales creating several chances in the contest before and after the interval.
Wales won their opening match 2-0 against Hungary before drawing 0-0 with Czech Republic.
The Cyprus Cup finals day is on Wednesday, 8 March.
Wales Women's' Squad: Claire Skinner (Cyncoed), Laura O'Sullivan (Cardiff City Ladies), Emma Gibbon (Eastern Suburbs FC), Loren Dykes (Bristol City Women), Hannah Miles (Cardiff City Ladies), Hayley Ladd (Bristol City Women), Sophie Ingle (Liverpool), Gemma Evans (Cardiff City Ladies), Shaunna Jenkins (Cardiff City Ladies), Jess Fishlock (Seattle Reign FC - on loan at Melbourne City), Angharad James (Notts County Ladies), Charlie Estcourt (Reading FC Women), Bronwen Thomas (Brighton & Hove Albion Women), Georgia Evans (Bristol City Women), Nadia Lawrence (Yeovil Town Ladies), Helen Ward (Yeovil Town Ladies), Natasha Harding (Liverpool), Rachel Rowe (Reading FC Women), Kayleigh Green (Chieti), Melissa Fletcher (Reading FC Women), Rhiannon Roberts (Doncaster Rovers Belles), Amina Vine (Bristol City Women), Emma Beynon (Swansea City Ladies). | A first-half goal from Katie McCabe was enough to secure victory for Republic of Ireland in the final group game of the Cyprus Cup. | 39182413 |
Rahmon Fletcher scored 18 points and Joe Chapman 17 for the champions; TrayVonn Wright and Andrew Sullivan hit 14 points each for the Riders.
Leicester led by 14 points in the third quarter but found the Eagles' comeback irresistible in the last 10 minutes.
Sheffield Hatters beat Barking Abbey 79-45 in the Trophy final to continue their domination of the women's game.
The Hatters, led by Great Britain guard Helen Naylor's 21 points, scored the first 15 points of the game.
"Experience pays," noted Hatter coach Vanessa Ellis. "We can bring people off the bench who are GB internationals [Steph Gandy and Olympian Julie Page] and that gives confidence to the team."
Newcastle are similarly dominant in the men's game and Sunday's victory means they remain unbeaten after 23 matches this season.
The Eagles and Riders, meeting in the final for the third time in the last four years, produced what Eagles coach Fab Flournoy called the "most intense final that I've been part of in the last 10 years" in front of a near-capacity crowd estimated at more than 9,000.
Leicester's ball control and defence edged the first quarter 28-25 and after trailing briefly at the start of the second, they reached half-time 50-41 in front.
Three point shots from Jamell Anderson, Tyler Bernardini and Wright studded an 18-8 Riders run to put Leicester 14 ahead in the third quarter but Newcastle surged back to retake the lead for good midway through the final quarter thanks to the efforts of Fletcher, Andrew Lasker and Scott Martin.
"It was frustrating, not so much about the loss but the way we conceded in the second half," said Leicester's Sullivan.
"Newcastle are the standard in this league but some of the mistakes we made allowed them to chip away at our lead."
Lasker said he had not been aware of how big Leicester's third-quarter lead was, just that "there was a lot of time left and you're never going to get it all back in one go".
He added: "We never panicked. We just played our style of basketball." | Newcastle Eagles won the BBL Cup for the fourth time when they beat Leicester Riders 94-82 in Birmingham. | 35339164 |
The pair, aged 18 and 17, were discovered during the search, which also uncovered about 100 marijuana plants inside the house in Liverpool.
Merseyside Police said the crop, found in Suburban Road, Anfield, on Thursday, had an estimated annual yield of £400,000 a year.
Both men were arrested on suspicion of cultivation of cannabis. | Two teenagers were found hiding under the floorboards of a cannabis farm during a police raid. | 37129022 |
The Mariners previously had a bid rejected for the pair, but have now come to an agreement after they handed in transfer requests.
Osborne, 24, has signed a two-and-a-half year deal while Asante, also 24, has agreed an 18-month contact.
They are reunited with boss Marcus Bignot, who took over in November.
Dutch forward Asante, who has 12 goals this season, and midfielder Osborne are both available to face Notts County on Saturday.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here. | Grimsby Town have signed midfielder Jamey Osborne and striker Akwasi Asante from National League side Solihull Moors for undisclosed fees. | 38672309 |
Crews cited low water pressure, radio problems and equipment that was either lacking or did not arrive before the fire on 14 June got out of control.
Newsnight has learned a high ladder did not arrive for more than 30 minutes.
The London Fire Brigade says it has changed its procedures since the fire.
A high ladder will now automatically be sent to a fire in a tower.
An independent fire expert said having the high ladder, which is also known as an "aerial", available earlier would have given firefighters a better chance of stopping the blaze when it jumped from a fourth floor flat in the tower block and began to race up the side of the building.
More than 200 firefighters and 40 fire engines were involved in battling the blaze that engulfed the block in North Kensington, west London.
About 300 people are believed to have lived in Grenfell Tower and most got out on their own.
The fire brigade rescued 65 people but at least 80 people are thought to have died.
Firefighters have been told not to talk to the media but Newsnight obtained a copy of the "incident mobilisation list", the document which details every appliance dispatched to the incident.
The programme was also sent anonymous accounts from a number of men and women involved in the operation.
The mobilisation list revealed that the 30m (100ft) aerial, which could reach the 10th floor of Grenfell Tower, was not dispatched until 01:19 BST, 24 minutes after the first crews were sent to fight what had started as a fridge fire on the fourth floor.
The aerial did not arrive until 01:32 BST, by which time the fire had raced up the building's cladding.
Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, said: "I have spoken to aerial appliance operators in London... who attended that incident, who think that having that on the first attendance might have made a difference, because it allows you to operate a very powerful water tower from outside the building onto the building."
A London Fire Brigade (LFB) spokesman confirmed the so-called "pre-determined attendance" for a tower fire - the list of appliances which are automatically dispatched - has been changed from four engines to five engines plus an aerial.
The spokesman said: "An 'interim' change to pre-determined attendance for high rise buildings was introduced in direct response to the government's action to address concerns of cladding on buildings.
"The Brigade's pre-determined attendance to high rise buildings had already been increased in June 2015 from three fire engines to four as part of our ongoing review of high rise firefighting.
"It is important to understand that fires in high rise buildings are nearly always dealt with internally, not usually needing an aerial appliance.
"The fundamental issue of high rise safety remains that buildings are maintained to stop fires spreading."
The spokesman added: "The Brigade has a fleet of specialist aerial firefighting appliances and these attend a variety of incidents across the capital."
Newsnight's investigation also heard that firefighters had struggled with water pressure problems and the fire service had to call Thames Water to ask the company to increase pressure in the area.
One firefighter said: "The fire floors we went in were helmet-meltingly hot… when we were clearing flats, it was a case of a quick look and closing doors because the water pressure wasn't up to firefighting."
A Thames Water spokesman said: "We've been supporting the emergency services' response in every way possible… any suggestion there was low pressure or that Thames Water did not supply enough water to fire services during this appalling tragedy is categorically false."
Firefighters also described problems with radio reception inside the building and said they lacked enough of the "extended duration" breathing apparatus they needed, especially when reaching the higher floors of the building.
All fire engines have basic breathing apparatus that provides firefighters with oxygen for around 30 minutes.
The extended duration apparatus enables them to breathe for a theoretical 45 minutes - but working in dense smoke and intense heat 20 stories up uses up the oxygen more quickly.
The LFB said all of its rescue units carry extended duration apparatus and "all of the fire brigade's rescue units attended the incident".
The LFB said the police investigation into the fire would examine the brigade's response "including all of the issues Newsnight has raised".
Questions have also been raised about why a 42m firefighting platform had to be called in from Surrey to fight the fire at Grenfell - itself 67m high - because the LFB does not have one of its own.
The LFB spokesman said it had never responded to a fire on the scale of Grenfell Tower before.
He said: "The commissioner has made clear her intention to fully review the brigade's resources and seek funding for any additional requirements."
Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning | A series of failings that hampered the efforts of firefighters to tackle the Grenfell Tower fire and rescue the building's residents have been identified by a BBC investigation. | 40535417 |
Adam Spearritt, 14, was one of 96 Liverpool fans who died after a crush at the FA Cup match against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's ground.
The new inquests heard his father Edward, who has since died, wrote in a statement that he started "to bang on the fencing" to get a PC's attention.
But Mr Spearritt said he "just looked at me and seemed to take no notice".
He tried to lift his son out of the pen but was "unable to get a grip of him" due to the pressure of the crush, he recalled.
Adam was eventually taken to hospital where he later died.
But jurors heard his family was initially told he had survived after his name was included on a list of those reported missing but found safe.
The inquest was shown CCTV footage of Mr Spearritt and Adam entering Hillsborough at 14:48 BST shortly before the semi-final started on 15 April 1989.
In his statement, Mr Spearritt said he became aware of an "immense amount of pressure building up" behind him in the crowd and "instinctively... knew that something was wrong".
"I was unable to turn around to see what was happening. Adam was in front of me and was getting crushed."
After trying to lift his son out, Mr Spearritt lost consciousness on the terrace and was in hospital until 18 April.
Matthew Fenwick, a police constable on duty at the match, climbed into the pen and helped carry Adam out just after 15:15.
Mr Fenwick said the boy "seemed to go more limp" as he was passed over the fence.
The jury heard that, in his 1989 statement, Mr Fenwick said that "the life seemed to ebb away from his body".
Former PC Fiona Nicol added she could find no signs of Adam's pulse or breathing.
She said she gave Adam cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for about 10 minutes, helped by two other people. She eventually stopped when someone told her he was dead but she "didn't want to leave him".
Officers then carried Adam to the Nottingham Forest end of the pitch, jurors heard.
Volunteer police officer David Pearson, who had no formal first aid training, said Adam showed no signs of life when he first saw him laid on the pitch.
However, after giving him chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, he said he "intermittently detected a faint pulse in his neck".
He said the pulse would fade after compressions were stopped, but an unidentified doctor who was working with him could also detect it.
Mr Pearson then helped take Adam into a courtyard where ambulance officers took over the resuscitation.
Trevor Dale, a divisional superintendent at South Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service, said Adam showed "no signs of life" when he was with him, but he thought there might have been a "chance of saving him".
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Adam was taken to Sheffield's Northern General Hospital at about 15:50.
On arrival, the jury heard, he was not breathing and did not have a pulse but doctors re-started his heart using cardiac massage and adrenaline injected into his heart.
However, his heart rate slowed and a doctor certified he had died at 16:50, the court was told.
The inquests, sitting in Warrington, Cheshire, resume on Wednesday. | The father of a victim of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster said a PC seemed to take "no notice" of screams for aid. | 32958023 |
Youssef Zaghba, a 22-year-old Moroccan-Italian man who lived in east London, was named as the third attacker.
He was stopped at an Italian airport on his way to Syria last year and was put on an EU-wide database but was not prosecuted, reports say.
Zaghba, Khuram Butt and Rachid Redouane killed seven people and injured 48 others during the attack on Saturday.
So far four of those killed in the attack have been named: Australian Kirsty Boden, Canadian national Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, from Hackney, and French national Alexandre Pigeard.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian confirmed on Wednesday that a second French citizen had died.
The three attackers drove a hired van into pedestrians on London Bridge at 21:58 BST before stabbing people in the area around Borough Market.
Armed officers killed all three within eight minutes of receiving a 999 call.
Speaking at her house in Bologna, Italy, Zaghba's mother told the BBC that she believed her son was radicalised in the UK.
She claimed her son was under surveillance when he was in Italy, but she questioned why this was not the case in the UK.
An Italian police source has confirmed to the BBC that Zaghba had been placed on a watch list, which is shared with many countries, including the UK.
In March 2016, Italian officers stopped Zaghba at Bologna airport and found IS-related materials on his mobile phone.
He was then stopped from continuing his journey to Istanbul.
The BBC understands he was not prosecuted but was listed on the Schengen Information System, an EU-wide database which includes details of potential suspects.
When Zaghba entered Britain, staff at passport control should automatically have been alerted by the Schengen system, BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said.
"One unconfirmed report suggests that did happen, apparently when Zaghba arrived at Stansted Airport in January - but that border staff still let him in," he said.
When asked if this was the case, Work and Pensions Secretary Damien Green, a former Home Office minister, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that if someone's passport comes up on the Schengen system the person should be stopped at the border.
"I obviously don't know what happened in this case," he said.
"It would be wrong to comment on an individual case while there is a very serious continuing police investigation going on."
On Wednesday, the Metropolitan Police said a 30-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of terror offences in Ilford, east London.
On Tuesday a 27-year-old man was arrested in Barking on Tuesday in connection with the investigation.
Scotland Yard has been criticised for the way it handled intelligence about Butt, who had been investigated by police and MI5 and featured in a Channel four documentary on extremism.
Police said Pakistan-born Butt, 27, from Barking, had been subject to an investigation in 2015, but there had been no suggestion an attack was being planned.
Redouane, 30, was a chef who also used the name Rachid Elkhdar and police said he claimed to be Moroccan-Libyan. He married a British woman in Dublin in 2012 and lived in the city's Rathmines area.
A man was arrested in Limerick, in the Irish Republic on Tuesday over the discovery of ID documents in Redouane's name. He was later released without charge.
A second man, who is in his 30s, was arrested on Tuesday evening, with the Garda saying it was also related to Redouane. He is being held in Wexford.
Entering the final day of election campaigning, Theresa May said she will change human rights laws if they "get in the way" of tackling suspected terrorists.
The PM said she would make it easier to deport foreign terror suspects and "restrict the freedom and movements" of those that present a threat.
Sir Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary and director of public prosecutions between 2008 and 2013, said existing human rights laws did not stand in the way of taking action against suspected terrorists.
"If we start throwing away our adherence to human rights... we are throwing away the very values at the heart of our democracy," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Former SAS commander Col Tim Collins has said intelligence "isn't good enough", adding that police needed to recruit informants from within the Muslim community and appoint Muslim officers.
"MI5 and the police have to recruit sources, informants," he told Today. "Intelligence from within the community is improving, but there's a lot more to be gleaned."
Four of those killed in the attack have been named.
Australian Kirsty Boden, 28, worked as a senior staff nurse at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London. Her family have described her in a statement as an "outgoing, kind and generous person".
"We are so proud of Kirsty's brave actions which demonstrate how selfless, caring and heroic she was, not only on that night, but throughout all of her life," they added.
The hospital said that Ms Boden was "an outstanding nurse and a hugely valued member of the staff team in Theatres Recovery, described by her colleagues as 'one in a million' who always went the extra mile for the patients in her care".
Canadian national Chrissy Archibald, 30, was the first victim to be named. Her family said she had died in her fiancé's arms after being struck by the attackers' speeding van.
The family of 32-year-old James McMullan, from Hackney, east London, say they believe he also died.
Mr McMullan's sister said he was believed to be among those who died, after his bank card was found on a body at the scene.
Two French nationals were also killed in the attack, according to foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.
The BBC understands one of them to be Alexandre Pigeard, 27.
Manager of the Boro Bistro, Vincent Le Berre, told the Brittany news outlet Le Telegramme how his colleague was attacked in a bar near Borough Market.
"I managed to escape him, but my friend Alexandre did not have that chance," he said. "He was hit in the neck with a knife."
Mr Le Drian confirmed on Wednesday that a second French citizen had been "identified among those who have died".
The identity of the victim has not been released.
The Met have set up a casualty bureau on 0800 096 1233 and 020 7158 0197 for people concerned about friends or relatives. | One of the London Bridge attackers was able to enter the UK, despite being placed on an EU-wide watch list. | 40183147 |
Ms Gillard had presented redrafted legislation to the opposition as she sought support for her "Malaysia swap".
But the opposition said the proposals did not provide adequate protection for asylum-seekers.
Australia's asylum policy has been in crisis since a court ruled a plan to swap refugees with Malaysia unlawful.
Australia detains all those who arrive by boat, some on the mainland and some at the Christmas Island detention centre.
The government says its "Malaysia swap" plan aims to deter people from making the dangerous sea voyage.
Under the plan, Australia would have sent 800 asylum-seekers who arrived by boat on to Malaysia and would have received 4,000 refugees in return over four years.
But the court ruled Malaysia - which has not signed UN refugee conventions - did not offer adequate protection.
The ruling also threw plans to send asylum-seekers to re-opened processing camps in Papua New Guinea or on the Pacific island of Nauru in doubt.
Ms Gillard leads a minority government which depends on the Greens for support. The Greens do not support offshore processing, forcing Labor to look to the opposition for co-operation.
Source: Australian Department of Immigration
She wants to change the Migration Act to allow Australia to send asylum-seekers to Malaysia.
But opposition leader Tony Abbott said the proposed changes paid "lip service to protections without actually guaranteeing them", and said his party had rejected them.
Instead, he said his party would present an alternative proposal which excludes a deal with Malaysia.
The Liberals want to reopen a processing centre on the Pacific island of Nauru - a policy that was heavily criticised by the Labor party.
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said Labor would "not be going down that road".
"Very clearly, if this legislation doesn't pass, then offshore processing will be regarded as unlawful," The Australian newspaper quoted him as saying.
"And therefore the obvious result of that is onshore processing."
Last year 6,535 asylum-seekers arrived in Australia by boat.
Both parties have sought to appear tough on asylum, despite recent opinions polls which suggest many Australians support onshore processing of asylum-seekers. | Australia's opposition rejected the government's proposed immigration law changes, as PM Julia Gillard scrambled to salvage a controversial asylum plan. | 14969288 |
In total, 38 people died in the hour-long gun attack near Sousse in June 2015.
But local units deliberately "slowed down" as Islamist gunman Seifeddine Rezgui opened fire, said the counsel to the inquest into the British deaths.
The attack was the deadliest on Britons since the 7 July 2005 London bombings.
A senior Foreign Office official also defended the government's decision not to raise the level of its terror alert in Tunisia following shootings at a museum in the capital city of Tunis four months earlier.
Survivors share their stories of terror on the beach
Who were the British victims?
What exactly happened on that day?
The hearing at London's Royal Courts of Justice - set to last for seven weeks - began with a minute's silence and the names of all the victims being read out.
The 38 tourists who visited Tunisia for "relaxation and enjoyment" were "systematically" gunned down from around 11:30 local time on 26 June 2015, said Samantha Leek, counsel to the inquest.
She said the attack could have been stopped sooner, citing a Tunisian judge's report into failings by local security units.
Alison and Baron Caine, who were on the beach when the attack began, told the BBC that they escaped the gunfire and barricaded themselves in their hotel room.
"We started hearing screams, people were running," Mrs Caine said. "It was like a complete warzone."
The couple heard a knock on their hotel room door and a man saying he had their key.
"We looked at each other and we just thought this is it, we're going to die."
A lone armed guard was on the beach when Rezgui opened fire. The gunman also threw a grenade and left the guard "seemingly unconscious".
A second armed guard on duty was patrolling the nearby sea in a speedboat. He attempted to shoot Rezgui but could not work his gun.
Nearby security forces "had an ability to put an end to the attack" before the police arrived, Ms Leek said, but they "deliberately and unjustifiably slowed down to delay their arrival at the hotel".
Meanwhile, witnesses telling of the man with the gun in the speedboat may have led to confusion over how many attackers there were, she added.
Rezgui was shot dead by police about an hour after the attack began.
The court hearing the inquest's opening day of evidence was filled with relatives and friends of the British dead, who were aged between 19 and 80.
Three people from Ireland, two Germans, one Russian, a Belgian and a Portuguese woman were also killed.
They were all holidaymakers staying in the popular resort of Port El Kantaoui, just north of Sousse.
Three generations of a family - a young man, his uncle and grandfather - were among them.
At the time of the shootings, official travel advice from the UK Foreign Office did not specifically advise holidaymakers against going to Tunisia.
Instead the advice available on its website stated "further attacks are possible", following the killing of 24 people at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis on 19 March 2015.
Jane Marriott, the Foreign Office's Middle East and North Africa director, told the inquest that the level of the terror alert relating to Tunisia had not been raised, with officials deciding "we should not discourage tourism to Tunisia".
The government did persuade Tunisian authorities to step up security in tourist areas, she said.
Ms Marriott said the UK was powerless to force Tunisia to improve its security, but "what we can and we do say is that we want to see an improvement in your security."
Over the next seven weeks, the court will examine whether the UK government and travel firms failed in their responsibility to protect British tourists.
The coroner, Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith, will look at travel advice issued for Tunisia by the Foreign Office, as well as the security put in place at the hotel by tour operator Thomson.
The inquest was shown CCTV footage of Rezgui as he was dropped off in a white van.
Photos of the Imperial Marhaba Hotel, including its beach where the attacks started, were also shown as evidence.
Live TV feeds of the proceedings were also shown in courts in Cardiff and Stirling for survivors and relatives to watch.
The government has applied for some details to be kept private over national security concerns.
The Islamic State militant group said it was behind the attack by the Tunisian student.
The BBC's Panorama programme this month reported that the suspected "mastermind" behind the shootings is believed to be on the run in Libya.
Chamseddine al-Sandi recruited and directed Rezgui, according to documents obtained by Panorama.
And confessions from suspects arrested by Tunisian police state that al-Sandi ran a militant cell responsible for both shootings - the attacks at Sousse and at the Bardo National Museum. | Tunisian security forces "wasted time" before responding to a massacre on a beach resort as 30 British tourists were shot dead, a UK coroner has heard. | 38630124 |
Ahead of learning whether their 12-point deduction will remain in place, the Port were totally outclassed
Cliftonville moved up to fourth spot after David McDaid's 78th-minute goal secured a 1-0 win over Carrick Rangers.
Jamie McGonigle's last-gasp goal earned Coleraine a 2-1 win over Ards while Glentoran drew 1-1 with Ballinamallard.
After Joe McKinney's headed goal on 69 minutes had cancelled out Darren McCauley's volleyed goal for Coleraine on 65, Ards were reduced to 10 men on 78 minutes following Emmet Friars' second yellow card.
Coleraine's numerical advantage only increased their domination of the second period in Bangor and McGonigle's late winner moved the Bannsiders above Ards and Glenavon into fifth spot in the table.
Dungannon needed only 14 minutes to take the lead against the struggling Ports as Dougie Wilson curled in a delightful free-kick over the wall and past Christopher McGaughey from just outside the penalty area.
Wilson turned provider to cross for David Armstrong to double the lead with an unopposed header on 23 minutes and any chance of a Ports fightback was ended when Cormac Burke's angled shot beat McGaughey six minutes after the restart.
Terry Fitzpatrick headed the fourth on 55 and Portadown's horror show was completed as Chris Hegarty and Andy Mitchell added further goals in injury-time.
Cliftonville regrouped from their stunning defeat by Crusaders as McDaid's late winner meant a seventh straight league loss for Carrick Rangers.
Carrick's Adam Salley, Martin Murray and Nathan Hanley all hit the Cliftonville woodwork but the home side dominated for the most part as Rangers keeper Brian Neeson kept his team in the game with some superb saves.
Neeson made a brilliant triple stop to deny two Jude Winchester efforts and a Levi Ives shot in the first half and the Antrim man produced a number of other fine interventions before the interval.
While Murray and Hanley struck the woodwork in the second period, Cliftonville continued to dominate possession and the deadlock was finally broken 12 minutes from time as substitute McDaid scored his ninth goal of the season after good work by Stephen Garrett.
Ards and Coleraine both had chances in a closely-contested first half in Bangor.
Joe McKinney's brilliant early effort was tipped away by Bannsiders keeper Chris Johns and Ards' Ian Parkhill had two efforts blocked midway through the opening period before Jordan Allan headed Coleraine's best first-half chance straight at Aaron Hogg.
As Coleraine took control after half-time, Darren McCauley volleyed the Bannsiders into the lead on 65 minutes but Ards levelled within four minutes as McKinney's backpost header looped over the impressive Johns.
James McLaughlin's introduction boosted Coleraine in the second half and the Bannsiders were given further impetus as Ards centre-back Friars was sent off after picking up a second yellow card on 78.
Ards looked set to hold on for a point but McGonigle hit Coleraine's winner in injury-time to move the Bannsiders into fifth in the table.
Ballinamallard continued their impressive recent run as they earned a 1-1 draw against Glentoran at the Oval.
Glens striker Curtis Allen tested keeper James McGrath early on but after Ballinamallard's Johnny Lafferty hit the woodwork, Adam Lecky put the visitors ahead on 42 minutes with his sixth goal of the season as he shot through Elliott Morris' legs.
Lecky missed a chance to double the Fermanagh club's lead after the restart but as Glentoran began to dominate, Ciaran Caldwell levelled on 56 minutes and Chris Lavery and Jonathan Smith went close to snatching victory for the home side.
The draw keeps Ballinamallard ninth in the table - three points above the 10th placed Glens. | Portadown's season of misery continued as they were hammered 6-0 by impressive Dungannon Swifts in the Irish Premiership game at Stangmore Park. | 37596638 |
The unbeaten American was incredibly game, standing up to some brutal assaults by the champion, who now has 17 knockouts from as many fights.
But after Breazeale was floored for a second time in the seventh, the referee waved the fight off.
Joshua's mandatory challenger is New Zealand's Joseph Parker.
Fellow Briton David Price is another viable option.
Joshua, who won Olympic super-heavyweight gold at London 2012, told Sky Sports: "It's been tough.
"I only had two weeks off after my last fight and got straight back in the gym. I can have a nice little break for once and come back with recharged batteries."
The 6ft 7in Breazeale held a height and weight advantage over Joshua and was unbeaten in 17 pro fights, although he had fought nobody of note.
In his previous contest, he had been knocked down by Amir Mansour and was well behind on the scorecards when the 43-year-old was forced to retire with breathing problems.
The opening round did not produce much in the way of action, although Breazeale was stiffened by a sharp left hook, which did not bode well.
He was in all sorts of trouble in the second, sent reeling by a huge right hand and just managing to make it through to the end of the round.
But in the third, Breazeale demonstrated he was nothing if not game, firing back when Joshua appeared to have him where he wanted on the ropes.
The challenger was on unsteady legs again in the fifth after Joshua landed with a vicious left hook and the challenger finally fell under a fusillade of punches in the seventh.
Breazeale clambered to his feet but was down again a few seconds later, persuading the referee to call a halt to proceedings.
It was only the second time Joshua, 26, had gone past three rounds - he was also taken seven rounds by fellow Briton Dillian Whyte last December.
Joshua won the title with a second-round knockout of American Charles Martin in April.
Asked when Joshua will next return to the ring, promoter Eddie Hearn said: "November. We like the Joseph Parker fight, that's the mandatory, we'll have to deal with that at some point, whether that's November, December or whether that's March, April that's a good fight."
He said Wladimir Klitschko, 40, was also "a fight we'd love as well, but I'm always reluctant to make a fight of that magnitude in November".
"He needs a long rest," Hearn added. "He needs to go and be a young boy, go and sit on the beach with his mates and mess around. It's been absolutely relentless."
Joshua remains on a collision course with Manchester's Tyson Fury, who faces a rematch with Klitschko in October.
Fury, 27, was supposed to have put his WBA and WBO titles on the line against Klitschko on 9 July but injured his ankle in training.
Joshua said: "I was really looking at Tyson Fury. I hope he gets better soon, as I was hoping to get that sometime in the winter if everything went well.
"We're going to have to reschedule that and look at other opponents like Parker if he's vacant or anybody else that the people want.
"I need to rest. I'm tired. I'm working hard. And now I can get some rest and recharge my batteries and start afresh again."
Liverpool's Price was knocked out twice by American Tony Thompson in 2013 and also by Germany's Erkan Teper last year, but both men subsequently failed drugs tests.
The 32-year-old Price, a former Olympic bronze medallist, continued to rebuild his career with a second-round knockout of Vaclav Pejsar last month.
Another potential opponent for Joshua is fellow Londoner and former heavyweight world champion David Haye.
Haye, 35, continued his comeback with a second-round stoppage of a badly overmatched Arnold Gjergjaj last month.
The WBC champion is Deontay Wilder but Joshua's team are likely to keep their charge away from the hard-hitting American for as long as possible.
"I'm in a good position, Joshua added. "Wilder, Fury, Haye, Any one of them, and they all want me." | Anthony Joshua defended his IBF heavyweight title for the first time with a seventh-round knockout of Dominic Breazeale in London. | 36631289 |
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