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Darren Kelly, 42, died on Tuesday evening after he was attacked on Caister Drive in Basildon, Essex.
His friend Stuart Cullum said: "I just wish I could have been there that night he was in trouble, because I would have made sure that I had been in front of it.
"I wouldn't let someone die who doesn't deserve it."
Five people, including a 13 year old girl, are being questioned by police on suspicion of murder. The other four are aged 15, 16, 17 and 20-years-old.
A post-mortem examination found Mr Kelly, a lorry driver, was likely to have died from "multiple stab wounds and blood loss", Essex Police said.
Mr Cullum, a taxi driver, saw him just three hours before he died.
He described his friend, who he had known for more than a decade, as "the life and soul of every party" and said that he "wouldn't harm a fly".
"He was very outgoing, he loved life to the max, he was very, very, very, friendly to everyone he met, and he always had a good story to tell."
Mr Cullum said that he will miss having chats with his friend, who would "always find time for all of his mates" and "always be the first one to put his arm around you." | The friend of a man who was stabbed to death said he wishes he could have taken his place. | 34614994 |
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The 29-year-old will face world number one Novak Djokovic in Sunday's final after beating defending champion Stan Wawrinka 6-4 6-2 4-6 6-2.
"Reaching the French Open final is definitely not something I thought I'd do," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"When I was having problems with my back on clay, I never thought it would happen for me here."
He added: "Last year, I started to have the belief that I could do it. It's great credit to my team to get my body healthy."
Murray has now reached the final of all four Grand Slam tournaments.
But up until 2013, the year he had surgery on a back injury, he had reached the semi-finals at Roland Garros just once.
The world number two made the final four in 2014 and 2015 - going out to Djokovic last year - but has been in impressive form on clay this season, winning 18 of 20 matches on the surface.
Djokovic, 29, who has won every Grand Slam except the French Open, holds a substantial 23-10 lead in his career head-to-head with Murray.
But the Scot won their last meeting, beating the Serb on clay in the final of the Rome Masters.
BBC Radio 5 live commentator and 1987 Wimbledon winner Pat Cash suggested the damp conditions in Paris may favour Murray.
But Murray insisted Djokovic "plays well on all the courts".
He added: "It probably means there will be long rallies, you have to be patient in these conditions. It's not easy to hit winners."
Djokovic has made three of the last four French Open finals but lost them all.
"I'm sure it's going to be a final with a lot of emotions and exchanges from the baseline because we have a similar style of game," he said.
"I know his game he knows mine. I'm sure we'll both give it our all."
Murray was seen chatting with former Manchester United and France striker Eric Cantona after his semi-final victory.
It seems Murray may have arranged himself a teaching job for later in the summer.
"We mainly spoke about football," said Murray. "He said he's just had three tennis lessons. I told him if he's ever around the Wimbledon area I'd take him for a lesson at Wimbledon."
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | British number one Andy Murray has said there was a time he thought he would never reach a French Open final. | 36449502 |
The strike, over pay and working conditions, is likely to cause the cancellation of hundreds of flights.
It will affect Lufthansa passenger services at all airports in Germany, as well as Lufthansa Cargo and low-cost carrier Germanwings.
If it goes ahead, it will be the third strike to hit Frankfurt airport, Lufthansa's home base, in six weeks.
The airline's management is urging the pilots' union, Vereinigung Cockpit (VC), to come back to the negotiating table as soon as possible.
"With the good will of everyone involved, we should be able to avert a strike," said Lufthansa's head of personnel, Dr Bettina Volkens.
In the meantime, the airline says it will take whatever steps it can to minimise the effect of a strike on its customers.
But it said: "We regret very much that from April 2 to April 4 we probably won't be able to get our passengers to their destinations or home as planned". | Pilots at Lufthansa will hold a three-day strike from 2200 GMT on 1 April, their union has announced. | 26792423 |
The documents from the 1980s reveal Mrs Thatcher wanted to make state schools independent of local authorities.
This has been the central plank of the current government's education reforms.
In 1986, policy adviser Oliver Letwin wrote that she had "failed" to give people more responsibility for their own lives within the education system.
In Mrs Thatcher's personal files, there is a critical, very direct memo from Mr Letwin - his "swansong" as a member of Mrs Thatcher's policy unit.
"You were elected to give back to individuals a greater degree of responsibility for their own lives," he wrote. "In education, you have so far failed."
He said there had been no effort to change the "framework" - a point endorsed by Mrs Thatcher with a large black tick in the margin - and that education was still "a nationalised industry".
"The provider decides what the customer ought to have, largely ignoring what the customer actually wants," he continued - words which the then prime minister underlined.
Mr Letwin, who is still an MP and a Cabinet Office minister, acknowledged that radical restructuring would not be popular in some quarters.
"It would provoke intense hostility" from the local authorities and the teaching unions, he wrote.
However, he saw it as the only way to improve the "quality" of schools.
Like Michael Gove, who stood down as education secretary in July this year, Mr Letwin believed giving power to the "customer" - the parents - would drive school improvement.
Mr Letwin suggested state schools could "declare UDI", rather like academies today, and suggested extending the "assisted places" scheme where the state paid for places at independent schools.
Parents could then have the choice of moving their children if they were unhappy with the local state school - just as Free Schools are intended to provide an alternative under the current government.
The files include a paper titled "Education without LEAs", marked "secret" - politicians and civil servants knew how controversial these ideas would be.
The documents show that Keith Joseph, education secretary from 1981 to 1986, had wanted to create 12 new independent state primary schools to show how a new approach would work.
The idea was supported by Mrs Thatcher, and other members of the cabinet were enthusiastic too.
According to a note of one meeting, then cabinet member Norman Fowler said: "It would reverse a trend for parents such as himself to send children to the private sector!"
On the memo, Mrs Thatcher scribbled: "It isn't meant for parents like him!" That idea was dropped.
It was left to Keith Joseph's successor, Kenneth Baker, to create the first state schools independent of local authorities. He set up the first City Technology Colleges in the late 1980s for secondary pupils.
However, Lord Baker has now said he is fascinated to see Mrs Thatcher's files. "I didn't know about any of this," he told the BBC.
He said Mrs Thatcher had not told him what to do when he took over as education secretary, and had asked him to come up with his own ideas.
Lord Baker said: "I was on a rather different tangent but we got to the same destination."
Lord Baker gave schools control over their own budgets, established a national curriculum, encouraged grant-maintained schools - so setting the groundwork for Mr Gove's future rapid academies policy.
In recent months there has been growing criticism of this flagship reform.
Sir Michael Wilshaw, chief inspector of schools in England, recently called for an end to "sterile" debate over structures.
He said it was not the most important factor and that in practice there could be little difference in school improvement under an academy chain or a local council.
Since 2010 more than 4,000 state schools in England have become academies, accountable to central government rather than local officials. | Margaret Thatcher explored plans to overhaul the structure of English education when she was PM, files released by the National Archives show. | 30625941 |
The video shows the bird briefly lifting the child in a Montreal park before dropping him unharmed.
Nearly 17 million people have watched the video on YouTube in three days.
But a digital training centre in Montreal later told the BBC that the clip was made by its students as part of a degree course.
Suzanne Guevremont, director of the Centre NAD, said the clip had been produced by four students who "had an idea of making something believable".
The students - who were doing a degree in 3D animation and digital design - had come up with the idea after a brainstorming session, completing the project in seven weeks, she said.
"It's a challenge... they wanted to test their skills," Ms Guevremont said.
She added that the bird and the child seen being snatched were all computer generated imagery (CGI), and the only real things in the video were the park, the boy (after being dropped on the ground) and his father comforting him.
The CGI was dropped into real footage to create the effect.
Some YouTube and Twitter users expressed doubts about the authenticity of the clip soon after it was posted online on 18 December. | A video of a golden eagle snatching a child in Canada that has gone viral online was an elaborate hoax aimed at testing the skills of the clipmakers. | 20798561 |
The Brazil striker nodded in a Nicolas Gaitan free-kick to give the Portuguese champions a slender advantage.
Jonas's 25th goal of the season came after Zenit defender Domenico Criscito was sent off for a second booking.
Benfica were the better side in the second half against a Zenit team that had not played for 10 weeks.
Zenit's last competitive fixture was their final group game in the competition on 9 December and Andre Villas-Boas' side looked short of their best following the winter break.
The Russian champions failed to create a serious chance but looked like going into the return leg as marginal favourites until Criscito committed a foul on Andre Almeida to concede the decisive free-kick.
Criscito is one of four players who will now miss the second leg on 9 March through suspension, with team-mate Javi Garcia and the Benfica pair of Almedia and Jardel also banned after picking up yellow cards.
Benfica, who last reached the quarter-finalists in 2012, struggled to force a breakthrough, although they should have gone ahead in the 69th-minute.
Argentine playmaker Gaitan cleverly made space for a shot but couldn't beat goalkeeper Yuro Lodygin and defender Jardel also shot wide following a corner before the predatory Jonas proved the difference.
Zenit St-Petersburg coach Andre Villas-Boas: "We were solid and wanted to keep the result as it was. We looked to be on track for the second leg. Unfortunately from the set-play we conceded.
"It's going to be a different game now. We will have to attack more and create more chances because we didn't create as much as we wanted.
"But at 1-0, the tie is still open." | An injury-time header from Jonas gave Benfica a 1-0 lead to take to Zenit St Petersburg for the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie. | 35577580 |
Environment Minister John Griffiths has ruled around 230 square kilometres of land in Wrexham and Denbighshire should fall within the Clwydian Range AONB.
He said the move proposed by the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) would help protect the landscape.
Farming unions and the Conservatives say it will hit agriculture and create "unnecessary" red tape.
Mr Griffiths announced his decision at a plenary meeting of the assembly.
It is the first new area of land to be made an AONB in Wales for 26 years.
Along with the Clwydian Range there are four other AONBs in Wales at Anglesey, the Llyn Peninsula, Gower and the Wye Valley.
Mr Griffiths said: "The natural environment is crucial to the Welsh economy and it is vital it is protected and managed as effectively and efficiently as possible to ensure the best outcomes for Wales.
"AONB status for this area will help safeguard its natural beauty and promote sustainable development.
"The AONB brand may also help to draw in an increased number of tourists to enjoy the area's natural beauty."
The CCW said extending the protection is not designed to impose restrictions on agricultural activities around Llangollen and parts of the Dee Valley.
The Clwydian Range forms a 35km north-south chain of hills with the summit of Moel Famau, near Mold, Flintshire, in the centre of the area.
Denbighshire and Wrexham councils, with several voluntary organisations and businesses, lent their support to the bid when the CCW held a second consultation earlier this year.
CCW chairman Morgan Parry said: "We are delighted with the decision, which confirms all the evidence provided that this is truly an AONB.
"Whilst the designation gives the area the national recognition it deserves, the key to its success will rest with local management.
"We now look forward to working with the local authorities of Wrexham, Flintshire and Denbighshire, their local communities and landowners, to realise the environmental, social and economic opportunities of this national designation - so that all sectors of society benefit from the sustainable management of the natural environment."
National Farmers Union of Wales branch chairman Eifion Davies, whose farm is affected by the decision, said it was "unnecessary".
"The decision will considerably restrict our ability to develop our farms properly and it comes at a time when population is forecast to increase dramatically along with food prices," he said.
"Without sustainable agriculture and healthy local economies these landscapes would not be maintained and preserved and if our communities are to remain viable and healthy we need the freedom to develop.
"What we don't need is the restrictive approach that comes with an AONB, which will lead to an artificial and unsustainable preservation of a landscape."
Marian Jones, executive officer for the Farmers' Union of Wales, said her members would be disappointed.
"Given the number of existing designations in the area, any further designation is unnecessary and will only serve to increase the bureaucracy and red tape encountered by farmers," she said.
Conservative rural affairs spokeswoman Antoinette Sandbach AM called the decision "deeply disappointing" and said it was against the wishes of the local communities. | An official Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in north Wales is being extended. | 15832666 |
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Speaking in an interview with BBC Newsnight's Evan Davis, he said it was "a job that doesn't exist" which would require a "constitutional change" - and he compared the role to that of "director of football".
Watch the full interview on BBC Newsnight on 21 July at 22:30 BST on BBC Two. | Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has dismissed an offer from Owen Smith of becoming party president in the event his rival wins the Labour leadership. | 36861497 |
Forward Porter, 24, and defender Johnson, 21, both joined the club at the start of the season and have agreed extensions after helping secure a 10th-place finish in the National League.
"I'm delighted to have Daniel on board for next season, he's had a fantastic season," manager Neil Smith said.
"George has been brilliant in every position we've asked him to play, he gives 100% and deserves his new deal."
Alan Dunne, Jack Holland and Jordan Higgs are the other players to remain contracted to Bromley for the 2017-18 season, but Connor Dymond and Lee Minshull have left the club. | George Porter and Daniel Johnson have signed new contracts with Bromley. | 39870856 |
At present, people visit seven times a year on average, industry analysts CACI have said.
It forecasts that contact with banks will rise - but primarily through apps, with desktop banking also shrinking.
Hundreds of branches have closed in the UK in recent years, with banks pointing to changing consumer habits.
Although the number of visits to banks may be falling, the proportion of those who use a branch, however infrequently, is relatively unchanged. This has prompted a warning from the forecasters that the public still see branches as having a role to play.
On Tuesday, the industry marked the 50th anniversary of the first cash machine, and many ATM manufacturers claim that new technology allows the most up-to-date machines to carry out 90% of all tasks conducted in a branch.
The latest CACI figures, which are used by the banking industry, estimate that banking app transactions - such as balance checks and payments - will more than double in the next five years.
These will not be simply be tasks that had been carried out in branches. Many customers - primarily high-income professionals - will shift from banking via computers, it claims.
Interactions made using a laptop or desktop will decrease by 63% between 2017 and 2022, it estimates.
All these shifts are happening faster than five-year forecasts made a year ago.
"The speed and convenience of mobile banking is a huge contributing factor to its ongoing popularity, especially as banks add more and more functionality to their apps. Understanding who is using it, and how, is key for banks to ensure it works for everyone," said Jamie Morawiec, associate partner at CACI.
"However, with more than half of the population still expected to visit a branch in 2022, the branch still has an important role to play.
"Banks and financial institutions must ensure that the function of the branch remains relevant, complements the digital channels, and meets the specific needs of the demographics that are using them." | Typical consumers will visit a bank branch four times a year by 2022, turning instead to their mobile phones for services, according to forecasts. | 40421868 |
Here's what we know about what happened.
The drama took place on board a high-speed train travelling from Amsterdam to Paris, via Brussels, on Friday afternoon.
The journey was apparently uneventful until the train, operated by Thalys, reached Oignies in northern France, having just crossed from Belgium.
French prosecutor Francois Molins said a French passenger in carriage 12 who was trying to access a toilet cubicle was faced with an individual who emerged from the cubicle "bare-chested, wearing a backpack on his chest and carrying a rifle slung across his shoulder".
Mr Molins said the man was also in possession of an automatic pistol, nine cartridge clips, a bottle of petrol and a box-cutter.
The unnamed French passenger tried to overpower the man.
Seeing the struggle, 51-year-old French-American passenger Mark Moogalian also tried to intervene.
But the gunmen fired several shots and Mr Moogalian was hit in the neck.
Three American friends on a tour of Europe - off-duty military servicemen Spencer Stone and Alek Skarlatos, and Anthony Sadler - were also in the first class carriage.
They had initially been unable to find their first class reservations and had moved to this carriage to get a better internet connection. They were all sleeping when the commotion woke them.
Seeing the suspect had freed himself from the Frenchman who first tackled him, the Americans charged the gunman.
"Alek just yells, 'Spencer, go!' And Spencer runs down the aisle," Mr Sadler said.
"Spencer makes first contact, he tackles the guy, Alek wrestles the gun away from him, and the gunman pulls out a box cutter and slices Spencer a few times."
Mr Stone was slashed in the neck and eyebrow with the box-cutter and had a thumb almost sliced off.
Mr Stone held the suspect in a chokehold and Mr Skarlatos hit him in the head with the butt of one of the weapons.
The three men tied him up with the help of British businessman Chris Norman.
Mr Stone - despite having sustained injuries himself - then went to the aid of Mr Moogalian, who was losing blood.
Mr Stone said: "I just stuck two of my fingers in the hole, found what I thought to be the artery, pushed down and the bleeding stopped. I just said 'Thank God' and held that position until the paramedics got there."
Mr Hollande said Mr Stone had "probably saved Mr Moogalian's life".
Meanwhile, the train staff alerted authorities as to what had happened. As the train slowed down and passed through Henin Beaumont station, several frightened passengers broke the windows and escaped the train, according to Mr Molins.
The gunman was held until he could be arrested at Arras station.
The suspect was named as Ayoub El-Khazzani, a 25-year-old Moroccan.
Investigators say Mr Khazzani was born on 3 September 1989 in Tetouan in Morocco and lived in the Spanish city of Algeciras.
They say he frequently attended the city's Takwa mosque, "known for its radical preaching", according to Mr Molins, and for which his brother was the treasurer.
Mr Molins said he had been convicted of several offences in Spain, including drug trafficking and traffic offence, and has been given at least two prison sentences.
According to Mr Molins, Mr Khazzani had travelled through several European countries in recent years.
Mr Molins said Mr Khazzani had returned to Europe from Turkey in June 2015. Prosecutors believe his presence in Turkey may indicate he went to war-torn Syria.
Mr Molins said he had also spent "five to seven months" living in the Paris suburb of Aubervilliers in 2014, during which time he had worked for a mobile phone company for two months.
The suspect was flagged up to France by the Spanish authorities in February 2014 as affiliated to a radical Islamist movement.
Mr Khazzani says he was left homeless after his identity documents were stolen. In the last six months, he says he travelled to Spain, Andorra, Belgium, Austria, Germany and France, but denies travelling to Turkey or Syria, according to his lawyer.
Mr Khazzani apparently did "not understand why this story has become so inflated," his lawyer told Le Parisien newspaper (in French).
"He said he wanted to extract money from the passengers on this Thalys train and nothing else. He denies any terrorist intent to his actions. This is almost laughable, he says."
The lawyer added that Mr Khazzani said he had found the rifle and Luger gun he used in the attack in a suitcase left in a park, near the Brussels station where he used to sleep.
Mr Molins said that this had been Mr Khazzani's initial version of events under questioning but that his explanation had grown less and less lucid and that he eventually stopped speaking to investigators at all.
He said that analysis of Mr Khazzani's phone revealed he had watched a YouTube audio file whilst already on the Thalys train "in which an individual called on the faithful to fight and take up arms in the name of the Prophet".
Mr Khazzani's father, Mohamed el-Khazzani, told the Daily Telegraph in Algeciras, Spain, that his son was a "good boy" interested in "football and fishing".
He later told El Mundo: "They are saying Ayoub is a terrorist but I simply can't believe it. Why would he want to kill anyone? It makes no sense. The only terrorism he is guilty of is terrorism for bread; he doesn't have enough money to feed himself properly."
French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, who injured his hand as he tried to activate the train's alarm, told Paris Match (in French) that members of staff ran through his carriage (next to carriage 12 where the melee took place) to the guards' van at the end of the train.
They opened the door with a special key and locked themselves in, he alleged.
"We shouted for the staff to let us in, we yelled 'open!'", he said. "There was no response."
However Agnes Ogier, the boss of Thalys, denied Mr Anglade's allegations, saying train staff "fulfilled their duties".
One member of staff found himself under fire and took five or six passengers with him into the baggage car, where he sounded the alarm, she said.
Mr Hollande praised the actions of the staff when handing the Legion d'honneur to four of the passengers. | French President Francois Hollande has announced the award of the country's highest award - the Legion d'honneur - to six passengers who tackled a suspected radical Islamist on board a train travelling from Amsterdam to Paris. | 34027051 |
Marie Alphonsine Ghattas and Mariam Bawardy were among four new saints declared in Rome's St Peter's Square.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and over 2,000 Christian pilgrims from the region attended the ceremony.
The move is seen as a token of Vatican support for dwindling Christian communities in the Middle East.
On Saturday, Pope Francis met Mr Abbas at the Vatican, calling him "an angel of peace".
The promotion by Pope Francis to sainthood of these two women, born in Palestine when it was under Ottoman rule in the 19th Century, speaks volumes about his commitment to revitalising the diminishing Christian presence in the Middle East.
There was a large contingent of Arab Christians present in Saint Peter's Square for the ceremony, together with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and also a delegation from Israel.
Over the past year Arabic has been added to the five main languages used in Vatican information bulletins, and a new Vatican handbook in Arabic has just been published.
Veneration of the two new Palestinian saints will now be encouraged by the Vatican among Catholics around the world, not just in the Middle East.
Both are reputed to have performed miracles, according to research by church authorities.
Vatican boost for Christians in Holy Land
Mr Abbas' visit came just days after the Vatican formally recognised Palestinian statehood in a treaty.
The treaty states that the Holy See favours a two-state solution to the conflict with Israel and allows the Vatican to oversee aspects of Roman Catholic life in the areas President Abbas controls.
Israel expressed disappointment with the treaty, which uses the term "Palestinian state".
Marie Alphonsine Ghattas - who was born to a Palestinian family in Jerusalem - co-founded the Congregation of the Rosary Sisters, which today runs many kindergartens and schools.
Mariam Bawardy was born in Galilee to Greek Catholic parents from Syria and Lebanon.
A mystic, she is said to have carried out many miracles and to have experienced stigmata - wounds representing those suffered by Jesus on the cross.
Both nuns were educators who lived through tough conditions, overcoming male dominance in Ottoman society, poverty and ill-health while helping others.
They are said to have seen apparitions of the Virgin Mary and remained in close communication with her.
By granting these women sainthood, the Church is celebrating their good works but it is also showing support for Christians in the birthplace of their religion, the BBC's Yolande Knell in Jerusalem reports.
The total number of Christians in Israel and the Palestinian territories has declined to less than 2% of the population.
This is partly because of growing Jewish and Muslim populations, but also because of the conflict and the chance of better opportunities abroad, our correspondent adds. | Pope Francis has canonised two 19th Century nuns who lived in Ottoman-ruled Palestine, making them the first Palestinian saints in modern times. | 32770385 |
Michael Davies, 71, from Blaina, Blaenau Gwent, was staying at a hotel in Sandown with his wife Pat when he disappeared on 26 May.
His family thanked those who organised and took part in a search on Wednesday.
They said they wanted to join in, but it was difficult for them to return to the island from Wales.
In a statement released through Hampshire Constabulary, they said: "The whole family remains in limbo right now. Every day is a struggle as we feel unable to face things and move on."
A police spokesman thanked those who took part in the search, adding that detectives and specialist officers continue to work on the case.
There is no evidence to suggest Mr Davies has been the victim of a crime.
But there is concern that he may not have access to the blood pressure medication he needs. | The family of a south Wales man, missing on the Isle of Wight, have said they are "in limbo" and "unable to face things and move on". | 33096112 |
Summer flights to Faro, in Portugal, are also being dropped while the airline's service to Liverpool is being reduced to twice a week.
City of Derry Airport said it was "extremely disappointing news".
John Kelpie of Derry and Strabane District Council said the airport was in discussions about a twice daily service to a London airport.
In a brief statement Ryanair said its Derry 2017 summer schedule has yet to be finalised.
However, the airport confirmed the Stansted flights will stop in March 2017 while the Faro flight will be axed from April of next year.
"The London connection is by no means lost," Mr Kelpie said.
"Nothing is guaranteed in a highly volatile environment, in a trading environment such as this, but our plans have been well made and well laid."
Mr Kelpie said the Northern Ireland Executive has been "extremely supportive" and said discussions about a Stormont route development fund had been "positive."
"That fund will enable us to diversify routes, attract new airlines into the airport and to enable the airport to expand."
Alan Law of trade union NIPSA described the cuts as "devastating."
"The impact of Air Passenger Duty continues to disproportionately affect the airport and this remains a huge issue which local politicians need to grasp," he said.
Last week, City of Derry Airport chairman, Roy Devine, told local councillors the airport would not break even until 2021/22.
In August, Ryanair announced it was to reduce the number of flights it operates from City of Derry Airport to London Stansted.
From 30 October, the Irish airline will cut its daily service and instead operate six flights per week.
The Derry airport is currently running at a £2.145m loss per year, paid for by local ratepayers. | Low cost airline Ryanair is to axe its Londonderry to London route, the airport has confirmed. | 37348416 |
The two sides have been holding talks in Geneva and the US has said discussions are "making progress".
However, a US official later confirmed that deliberations in Washington were behind delays to a deal.
The latest talks came as the UN special envoy for Syria warned that fuel supplies could run out within days in a rebel-held part of the city of Aleppo.
Fighting has escalated between Syria's army and rebels in eastern Aleppo, where 250,000 people live.
Staffan de Mistura said food and water shortages made the situation there even more serious than previously.
He said a ceasefire deal could make a major difference to aid efforts across Syria.
A US state department official said talks with Russia aimed to reach a deal on "a nationwide cessation of hostilities in Syria, as well as sustained and unimpeded access to humanitarian assistance for communities most in need".
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said his officials had been waiting five hours for a response to the latest proposed text of a deal and he was "thinking of calling it a day" until next week.
Mr Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry have been meeting on and off for the past several weeks and the negotiations are clearly proving complicated, the BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva reports.
The US and Russia support opposite sides in the conflict that began in 2011: Washington backs a coalition of rebel groups it describes as moderate, while Moscow is seen as a key ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
On Sunday, Syrian government forces were reported to have recaptured parts of Aleppo which were lost to rebels last month, placing rebel-held districts in the city's east once again under siege.
A monitoring group said government troops had recaptured two military academy sites in the Ramouseh district, in the south of the city, and severed a recently established rebel supply line.
"There is a growing concern about eastern Aleppo: the issue about food, the issue about the possibility that within perhaps the next few days it will turn out to be dark because there is no fuel, problems of water," Mr de Mistura said on Friday.
UN humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien told the BBC conditions in Aleppo had become appalling: "Eastern Aleppo is at the apex of horror, where anyone of us if we were there would find life barely possible, let alone tolerable."
Mr O'Brien said civilians were trapped in ruined buildings, subjected to daily bombing and shelling.
He described children in the city as a "lost" generation, who had no access to school.
Over the summer the UN's ability to deliver aid across Syria was greatly reduced because of the increased fighting, the UN said.
Little aid was delivered in July, less in August, and none at all so far in September, it added.
A ceasefire deal that the Russians and the Americans arranged back in February collapsed quickly in the north but it is still more or less holding, or at least influencing matters, around Damascus.
That does not mean that the war is anywhere near over. A Syrian general at the ministry of defence told me they were well aware that the war in Lebanon a generation ago had lasted 16 years.
This one, he said, was much more complicated so there could be at least another 10 years of bloodshed. The collective tragedy is that so many foreign countries have intervened in the war that it has become much harder to stop.
Syria's war is a big part of the historic change sweeping through the Middle East, and it is tied into other conflicts. Power is shifting, with global repercussions. More tragedies lie ahead.
Read on | Russia has said agreement on a ceasefire deal in Syria is being held up by the United States. | 37324273 |
The man from Llanelli was arrested on suspicion of blackmail and has been bailed to a date in March 2016.
The telecoms provider's website was hit by a hacking attack in October.
Police have arrested and bailed four others, including a 15-year-old boy from County Antrim and two 16-year-olds from London and Norwich.
A 20-year-old man, from Staffordshire, has also been arrested and bailed. All four were arrested on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences.
The Metropolitan Police Service's Cyber Crime Unit (MPCCU) is leading the investigation.
The latest arrest and property search was carried out in conjunction with officers from the Southern Wales Regional Organised Crime Unit.
In the most recent update given by TalkTalk on last month's cyber attack, the firm said hackers had accessed personal details of almost 157,000 customers, including more than 15,000 bank account numbers and sort codes.
The phone and broadband provider, which has more than four million UK customers, said this was fewer than had been thought originally.
It also said any stolen credit or debit card details were incomplete - and therefore could not be used for financial transactions - but advised customers to remain vigilant against fraud. | An 18-year-old who became the fifth person to be arrested in connection with an alleged data theft from TalkTalk has been released on bail. | 34916774 |
A leaked email says the airline was "instructed by the Chinese government" to "follow the One China policy".
Crew were told to wear China's flag instead, but this directive was later withdrawn. Flag pins show passengers the nationality and languages of crew.
The airline told the BBC there had been a "communication error".
A spokesperson said that now no crew needed to wear any flag pin, whatever their nationality. But the airline did not explain why, if this was an airline-wide change in uniform policy, such a specific demand had been made to Taiwanese crew.
The BBC also asked whether Chinese authorities had indeed complained about staff wearing the Taiwan flag - but the airline is yet to respond.
China sees Taiwan as a breakaway province and insists that the self-ruled island is an inalienable part of one China to be reunified one day.
The email, quoted by the South China Morning post and other media in Asia, said cabin crew were "to follow the One China policy" - a hugely sensitive diplomatic tightrope.
"This means you must remove the Taiwanese flag from your service waistcoat and replace it with the Chinese flag," wrote Nicola Parker, the airline's uniform standards and development manager.
She added fresh stocks of China badges were being ordered.
However, hours later, Ms Parker wrote a second email saying that the previous message was "incorrect and inappropriate", apologising for "any upset I may have caused".
She added: "Please refrain from wearing your Taiwanese flags on flights until further notice. Therefore no flag is required on your uniform."
But in a statement to the BBC, the airline apologised for what it said was a communication error.
"An internal email was sent to cabin crew instructing them to remove a flag pin from their uniform and replace it with another flag pin. This email was sent in error and has since been retracted.
"Our intent is to recall the flag pins worn by all our cabin crew as part of our uniform update. This is based on ongoing feedback and review from our teams. All cabin crew are no longer required to wear a flag pin as part of their uniform. "
On social media, users have responded by repeatedly posting pictures of the Taiwanese flag on the airline's Facebook account, with some also vowing to boycott the airline.
China is a major growth area for several airlines, with industry body Iata predicting the country will replace the US as the world's largest aviation market in terms of number of flights by 2029.
Emirates already flies dozens of flights a week between Dubai and the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Yinchuan and Zhengzhou.
And the airline says it carried more than 1.3 million passengers and 106,000 tons of cargo on its China services in 2015. | Emirates is under fire after instructing Taiwanese cabin crew to remove pin badges showing the island's flag from their uniforms. | 40103064 |
Police said the incident happened on Tuesday at a property in the Huntly area.
A 15-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy have been charged with reckless conduct in connection with the incident.
No-one was injured and a report is being sent to the procurator fiscal, officers said.
Sgt Ian Moeller added: "I would like to take this opportunity to stress how deadly fireworks can be in the wrong hands and when let off in the wrong place and at the wrong time.
"Without being in complete control you have no idea how the situation will develop and what the outcome will be.
"What might be considered to be a prank could have deadly consequences." | Two teenage boys have been charged after a firework was posted through a letterbox in Aberdeenshire. | 37520060 |
The 44-year-old man also suffered neck and chest injuries after falling in a gully on Blencathra's Sharp Edge.
Keswick Mountain Rescue Team, which rescued the man on Sunday, said the area was a "blackspot" in wet or snowy conditions.
The Great North Air Ambulance Service airlifted the man to the Cumberland Infirmary after the six-hour rescue. | A man suffered serious head injuries when he fell 160ft (50m) down a Lake District mountain. | 37974827 |
Alex Lozowski and Saints counterpart Stephen Myler kicked three penalties each as the first half ended 9-9.
Myler put the visitors ahead after the break but Sarries seized control when Alex Waller was sin-binned.
Jamie George crossed and the hosts were then awarded a penalty try before two more Lozowski penalties sealed victory.
The first period saw a battle for supremacy between both forward packs, with France international Louis Picamoles influential at number eight for Northampton.
Saints, playing with the wind behind them in the second half, looked to have gained the upper hand but the momentum switched when prop Waller was shown yellow for a dump-tackle on George off the ball at the breakdown.
England hooker George ran in the first try from a well-worked line-out and the game was effectively settled when referee Greg Garner gave the hosts a second score with Waller still off the pitch.
Northampton replacement Sam Dickinson then received a yellow card late on, allowing Lozowski to take his personal tally for 17 points and help extend Saracens' 100% start to their title defence.
However, Sarries winger Chris Ashton could be cited after being accused of biting the hand of Waller in a first-half incident.
Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall: "We were second-best in the first half and we allowed some things to get under our skin a little bit.
"Their line speed was tremendous and we couldn't get any quick ball.
"We weren't quite ourselves in the first half, but I thought in the second half we did a phenomenal job.
"The most encouraging thing today was that we found a way to win while not being at our best."
Northampton director of rugby Jim Mallinder on Waller's sin-binning: "We had the ball, Alex got charged into and he took it too far.
"Saracens are tough enough to beat when you have got 15 men, but when you are down to 14 for 20 minutes you are really up against it.
"I thought we did pretty well for 55 minutes or so. We put them under pressure and we defended with the passion and intensity that we needed to.
"They were spilling ball and we were beginning to get into them, and then a moment of madness from Alex Waller started our downfall."
Saracens: Goode; Ashton, Bosch, Barritt (capt), Wyles; Lozowski, Wigglesworth; M Vunipola, Brits, Du Plessis, Itoje, Hamilton, Rhodes, Burger, B Vunipola.
Replacements: George, Barrington, Figallo, Brown, Wray, Spencer, Tompkins, Maitland.
Northampton: Tuala; K Pisi, G Pisi, Burrell, North; Myler, Dickson; Waller, Haywood, Brookes, Lawes, Paterson, Wood (capt), Harrison, Picamoles.
Replacements: Clare, Ma'afu, Hill, Dickinson, Gibson, Groom, Mallinder, Foden.
Sin-bin: Waller (55), Dickinson (70).
Referee: Greg Garner | Reigning Premiership champions Saracens recorded their third win of the season after a physical encounter with Northampton at Allianz Park. | 37353189 |
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Made a CBE in 2014, the 36-year-old is the only player - man or woman - to captain England in 200 internationals.
"It became clear that Mark wants to build a new team and I fully support that," Edwards said.
She made her international debut in 1996, becoming the youngest player to represent England.
"I would have loved to have carried on. Whilst I am disappointed that I won't be doing so, I fully understand and respect what Mark is looking to do," she added.
"This is a new era and he wants other players to come to the fore to build a strong team."
Edwards led England to the 2009 World Cup and World T20 titles, also winning four Ashes series against Australia.
But the team has struggled of late, despite the introduction of central contracts in 2014 to help make women's cricket more professional.
After relinquishing the Ashes to Australia last summer, England were beaten in the semi-finals of the 2016 World T20.
Ebony Rainford-Brent, who was a member of the World Cup-winning team in 2009, said it was the right time for Edwards to go.
"The 2017 World Cup will be here in England and the side hasn't continued that success from 2009," she said.
"It's a difficult decision but it gives the team time to build towards the World Cup with a younger captain in place."
Edwards will continue to play domestic cricket, captaining the Southern Vipers in the inaugural Kia Super League this summer and leading Kent in the Royal London Women's One-Day Championship.
"I leave very proud of the standing in which the women's game is held and of my contribution as a player and captain," she said.
Director of England women's cricket Clare Connor said Edwards made a "remarkable impact" on the women's game, but wants a new captain to "come to the fore".
Connor confirmed 25-year-old vice-captain Heather Knight was among the candidates, with a decision to be finalised before England face Pakistan in one-day and Twenty20 series this summer.
"We haven't kicked on as we envisaged," Connor told BBC Sport.
"When, in professional sport, a team does under-perform and players aren't necessarily playing to their potential, it's the captain, sadly, who is called into question.
"We have a key year now to develop the team under a new head coach, under a new coaching team and to give the opportunity to a new captain to have a voice and take the team in that new direction.
"He (Robinson) was very honest with Charlotte that he was unlikely to pick her this summer because he wants other players to have those opportunities at the top of the order, to be accountable and come to the fore."
"Charlotte has had an incredible career," Rainford-Brent said. "She's done it all and broken so many records.
"But most important is the era she's spanned, from paying for her own blazer right through to professionalism. She should be proud of her legacy.
"I've not met a character like her. I very much looked up to her as a junior and she was a real leader.
"She was straight-talking, a special character and she'll still offer the game so much in other ways."
Test Match Special commentator Charles Dagnall said Edwards was "an absolute pro" and "players should be grateful" for her contribution to the game.
ECB chief executive Tom Harrison said: "Charlotte's achievements in the game are unrivalled and, in many aspects, are unlikely to ever be surpassed.
"She leaves the most wonderful legacy, having inspired countless women and girls around the world to pick up a bat and a ball and play the game she so clearly loves."
BBC Test Match Special's Jonathan Agnew
"Not many people play international sport for as long as Charlotte has. She's been absolutely outstanding and women's cricket has undergone a great transition during her time.
"It's fantastic that they are now professional, but if you're not winning - as England haven't been recently, losing the Ashes and going out of the World T20 in the semi-finals - it's below expectations.
"You have a new coach coming in from the men's game in Mark Robinson and he's looking at a 36-year-old captain and thinking: 'Do we make a clean break?'.
"On one hand there are great benefits to professionalism, but on the other it's a lot more ruthless." | Charlotte Edwards has ended a 20-year England career after "honest and open" discussions with coach Mark Robinson but would have "loved" to carry on. | 36263023 |
Ferguson replaced Jim Duffy, who left for Greenock Morton, as four of the division's 10 clubs prepare to start the season under new management.
Former Aberdeen and Dunfermline Athletic midfielder Darren Young is the fresh managerial face with Albion Rovers, replacing James Ward, and the experienced Sandy Clark has become his assistant after his departure from Kilmarnock.
Former Morton manager Allan Moore has taken over at relegated Arbroath after Paul Sheerin joined the coaching staff at Premiership outfit Aberdeen.
George Shields has been confirmed as the new manager of Montrose after ending the season as caretaker following the departure of while former Scotland defender Lee Wilkie has come in as assistant from junior outfit Lochee United.
Relegated East Fife have also been affected at coaching level, with manager Gary Naysmith losing Robbie Neilson to Hearts as well as experienced assistant Paul Hegarty.
On the playing front, not many have taken a major step up following their exploits last season, the exceptions being Blair Spittal, who left Queen's Park for Dundee United, and Kieran MacDonald, who exited Clyde for Hamilton Academical.
United will be hoping that 18-year-old defender Spittal proves to be as much of golden nugget as Andy Robertson, who made the same journey last season and ended it with the prospect of regularly playing at Hampden in front of thousands for Scotland instead of handfuls for the Spiders.
Ferguson took his time to assess his squad before the re-shaping finally took place with five signings and three exits over the final weekend of the transfer window to add to four earlier additions.
Apart from Arbroath and East Fife, where relegation has led to the typical squad restructuring, it is East Stirlingshire and Queen's Park who appear to have the most significant strides in the summer transfer window so far.
Key signing: John Gemmell is a seasoned campaigner - and goalscorer - at this level and the 29-year-old steps down a division from Stenhousemuir.
One that got away: Defensive stalwart Barry Russell, 25, won himself a move up a division to Stranraer.
Last season: 7th
Prediction: 1st. New manager Darren Young is putting together a strong-looking squad that could surprise many by becoming title contenders.
In: Darren Young, midfielder/manager (Alloa Athletic); Sandy Clark, assistant manager (Kilmarnock); Mark McGuigan, forward (Partick Thistle); Kieran Hughes, goalkeeper (St Mirren); Kyle Turnbull, defender (Livingston); John Gemmell, forward (Stenhousemuir); Gary Fisher, midfielder (East Fife); Marc McKenzie, forward (Cowdenbeath); Ally Love, defender (Annan Athletic); Ross McNeil, forward (Stenhousemuir); TJ McCluskey, midfielder (St Roch's); Jamie Pollock, midfielder (unattached).
Out: James Ward, manager; Barry Russell, defender (Stranraer); Ryan Donnelly, midfielder (Ayr United); Gary Phillips, midfielder; Matt McGinley, goalkeeper; Kevin Green, defender; Graeme Shepherd, goalkeeper; Pat Walker, forward; Ryan Tiffney, midfielder; Dom Kennedy, midfielder; Josh Flood, midfielder. Loan ended: Mark Shankland, midfielder (Ayr United); Mark McGuigan, forward (Partick Thistle).
Key signing: Experienced forward Dererk Carcary has arrived from Brechin City, while Martin McNiff and Steven Logan have signed permanently after loan spells.
One that got away: Midfielder Andrew Mitchell, who was a youth signing with Manchester City and then Rangers, has moved on to Conference Premier outfit Southport.
Last season: 2nd
Prediction: 5th. Annan have over-achieved in recent seasons and this campaign might slip down the table as others strengthen their squads in comparison.
In: Steven Logan, midfielder (Newcastle United); Derek Carcary, forward (Brechin City); Martin McNiff, defender (Dumbarton); Stuart McColm, midfielder (Clyde); Rabin Omar, forward.
Out: Kenny Arthur, goalkeeper (retired); Ally Love, midfielder (Albion Rovers); Andrew Mitchell, midfielder (Southport). Loan ended: Martin McNiff, defender (Dumbarton); Steven Logan, midfielder (Newcastle United).
Key signing: Experienced goalkeeper David Crawford helped Stirling Albion win promotion from League Two last season.
One that got away: Defender Colin Hamilton, 22, decided to remain in League One with Brechin City following Arbroath's relegation.
Last season: 12th, League One
Prediction: 4th. New manager Allan Moore has brought in some experienced campaigners and the Red Lichties could challenge for a return to League One via the play-offs.
In: Allan Moore, manager; Jordan Lowdon, defender (Waitakere United); Kieran Stewart, midfielder (St Johnstone); Jack Smith, forward (Greenock Morton); Paul McManus, forward (Forfar Athletic); Adam Hunter, midfielder (Ayr United); Scott McBride, midfielder (East Fife); Craig Johnstone, defender (East Fife); David Crawford, goalkeeper (Stirling Albion); Kevin Buchan, forward (Peterhead); Ross Fisher, defender (Brechin City); Mark Whatley, midfielder (Spartans); Simon Murray, forward (Tayport). Loan: Aldin El Zubaidi, defender (Hamilton Academical); Dylan Carreiro, midfielder (Dundee).
Out: Paul Sheerin, midfielder/manager (Aberdeen); Stewart Petrie, assistant manager; Colin Hamilton, defender (Brechin City); Graham Bayne, forward (Elgin City); Alan Cook, midfielder (East Fife); Chris Scott, midfielder (Lochee United); Ross Chisholm, midfielder; Jonathan Lindsay, defender; Lari Yao, forward; Alex Keddie, defender. Loan ended: Lee Erwin, forward (Motherwell); Leighton McIntosh, forward (Dundee); Paul McManus, forward (Forfar Athletic); Steven Doris, forward (Dundee).
Key signing: Former Dunfermline Athletic winger Paul Willis has switched to Shielfield Park after his release by relegated East Fife.
One that got away: Striker Kenny O'Brien was sold to junior outfit Vale of Leithen after being transfer listed.
Last season: 5th
Prediction: 6th. Colin Cameron will hope that his young captures following the fallout from Hibs' relegation quickly blossom, but another mid-table season looks likely.
In: Craig Dargo, forward (Dunfermline Athletic); Paul Willis, midfielder (East Fife); Kerr Young, defender (Dunfermline Athletic); David Gold, midfielder (Hibernian); Scott Maxwell, midfielder (East Stirlingshire); Euan Bauld, defender (Hibernian); Dean Horribine, midfielder (Hibernian); Kai Wilson, defender (Hearts).
Out: Kenny O'Brien, forward (Vale Of Leithen, undisclosed); Dougie Brydon, defender; Damian Gielty, midfielder. Loan ended: Michael Dunlop (Forfar Athletic); Peter Grant, goalkeeper (Celtic); Owen Ronald, forward (Dumbarton); Ross Drummond, defender (Dunfermline Athletic).
Key signing: No matter who he signs, former Rangers and Scotland midfielder Barry Ferguson will remain Clyde's most significant acquisition for many years.
One that got away: While 20-year-old defender Kieran MacDonald has won himself a chance of Premiership football with Hamilton, striker Stefan McCluskey, 23, followed manager Jim Duffy to Morton.
Last season: 4th
Prediction: 2nd. Barry Ferguson has not had much time to reshape his squad, but promising cup performances suggest his influence will help them improve on last season's finish.
In: Barry Ferguson, midfielder/manager (Blackpool); Stephen O'Donnell, midfielder (Dundee); Euan Murray, defender (Motherwell); Scott Durie, defender (East Fife); David Sinclair, midfielder (BI Bolungarvik); Alan Marting, goalkeeper (Aldershot Town); David Gray, midfielder (Montrose); Scott McManus, forward (Vale of Clyde); Craig McLeish, midfielder (East Kilbride Thistle); Andy Gibson, midfielder (Beith). Loan: Euan Smith, midfielder (Kilmarnock); Craig Halkett, defender (Rangers); Aidan McIlduff, defender (Celtic).
Out: Jim Duffy, manager (Greenock Morton); Kieran MacDonald, defender (Hamilton Academical); Pat Scullion, midfielder (Cowdenbeath); Stefan McCluskey, forward (Greenock Morton); Stuart McColm, midfielder (Annan Athletic); John Sweeney, midfielder; Neil Janczyk, midfielder; Ryan MacBeth, midfielder; Bradley Coyne, forward; Giuseppe Capuano, midfielder; Grant Dickie, forward. Loan ended: Joe McGovern, goalkeeper (Dundee United).
Key signing: Former St Mirren and Hamilton striker Jon McShane, 22, has returned to Scottish football after a spell with troubled English Northern League outfit Celtic Nation.
One that got away: Goalkeeper Greg Paterson managed to avoid a drop to League Two by winning a deal with promoted Stirling Albion.
Last season: 11th, League One
Prediction: 3rd. Gary Naysmith has axed much of the squad that suffered relegation via the play-offs and he might have to rely on that route again should he wish to lead his side back up in one season.
In: Caolan McAleer, midfielder (Partick Thistle); Fraser Mullen, defender (Raith Rovers); Scott Smith, defender (Dumbarton); Kevin Smith, forward (Dumbarton); Ewan Moyes, defender (Brechin City); Allan Walker (Brechin City); Ross Campbell, forward (Forfar Athletic); Alan Cook, midfielder (Arbroath); Jon McShane, forward (Celtic Nation); Allan Fleming, goalkeeper (Kelty Hearts). Loan: Liam Smith, defender (Hearts); Jonathan Page, defender (Dunfermline Athletic).
Out: Robbie Neilson, coach (Hearts); Paul Hegarty, assistant manager; Gregor Fotheringham, midfielder (Stenhousemuir); Greg Paterson, goalkeeper (Stirling Albion); Scott Durie, defender (Clyde); Paul Willis, midfielder (Berwick Rangers); Gary Fisher, midfielder (Albion Rovers); Scott McBride, midfielder (Arbroath); Craig Johnstone, defender (Arbroath); Connor Shaw, goalkeeper (East Stirlingshire); Liam Buchanan, forward; Pat Clarke, forward; David Cowan, defender; Bruce Inkango, forward; Joe Mbu, defender; Greg Paterson, goalkeeper; Ryan Stewart, midfielder; Johnny Stewart, midfielder; Gary Thom, defender. Loan ended: Marc McKenzie, forward (Cowdenbeath); Stephen O'Neill, midfielder (Peterhead).
Key signing: Former St Mirren, Cowdenbeath, Stirling and Brechin forward David McKenna will add experience to what is virtually a completely new squad.
One that got away: After a poor start to the season, summer signing David Niven, the defender freed by Elgin City, and striker Jamie Glasgow, the club's longest-serving player, both left the club, the former citing work pressures and the latter taking time out from football for personal reasons.
Last season: 8th
Prediction: 11th. Shire have lost 11 goals with only one in reply in their two cup games so far this season and it looks likely to be a long hard season for Craig Tully's much-changed squad.
In: David Niven, defender (Elgin City); David McKenna, forward (Stranraer); Paul McMullan, midfielder (Elgin City); Steven Brisbane, midfielder (Falkirk); Alan Deans, defender (Dumbarton); Billy Vidler, forward (Raith Rovers); Lloyd Kinnaird, defender (Stranraer); Neil McCabe, midfielder (Forfar Athletic); Connor Shaw, goalkeeper (East Fife); Paul Brennan, forward (Stenhousemuir); Richie Barnard, goalkeeper (Camelon); Andy Kay, midfielder (Motherwell); Jay Doyle, forward (Hibernian); Connor Greene, defender (Falkirk); Martyn Shields, midfielder (St Roch's); Ross Gilmour, defender (Dundee United).
Out: Scott Maxwell, midfielder (Berwick Rangers); Mikey Herd, midfielder (Spartans); David Niven, defender; Jamie Glasgow, forward: Kevin Turner, forward; Ross O'Donoghue, midfielder; Craig Gordon, goalkeeper; Jordan McKechnie, midfielder.
Key signing: Goalkeeper Michael Fraser, 30, moved down three divisions after his release by Ross County following three seasons with the Premiership club.
One that got away: DefenderSean Crighton, 24, impressed former Clyde manager Jim Duffy enough in opposition last season to be offered the chance to join him at his new club, Morton.
Last season: 9th
Prediction: 8th. Elgin have conceded eight goals without reply in their two cup outings so far, but the addition of some experience from higher leagues could help them improve their lowly league standing.
In: Michael Fraser, goalkeeper (Ross County); Matthew Cooper, defender (Inverness Caledonian Thistle); Gordon Finlayson, defender (Ross County); Graham Bayne, forward (Arbroath); Daniel Moore, midfielder (Nairn County); Marvin Andrews, defender (Forfar Athletic).
Out: Sean Crighton, defender (Greenock Morton); David Niven, defender (East Stirlingshire); Paul McMullan, midfielder (East Stirlingshire); Paul Harkins, midfielder (Montrose); Ray Jellema, goalkeeper. Loan ended: Jamie Masson, midfielder (Aberdeen); John Gibson, goalkeeper (Dundee).
Key signing: Former Dundee and Dundee United midfielder Steven Robb, now 32, has switched from League One outfit Brechin City.
One that got away: Midfield stalwart David Gray has been persuaded to switch to League Two rivals Clyde by their new manager, Barry Ferguson.
Last season: 6th
Prediction: 7th. George Shields will have to add more quality before the transfer window closes if he is to challenge for a play-off place in his first season as manager.
In: George Shields, manager; Lee Wilkie, assistant manager (Lochee United); Steven Robb, midfielder (Brechin City); Bryan Deasley, forward (Forfar Athletic); Stephen O'Neil, midfielder (Peterhead); Stephen Day, midfielder (Stirling Albion); Paul Harkins, midfielder (Elgin City); Danny Cavanagh, midfielder (Lochee United); Ross Graham, defender (Dundonald Bluebell). Loan: Declan O'Kane, defender (Dunfermline Athletic).
Out: David Gray, midfielder (Clyde); Craig Duguid, defender; Ricky McIntosh, midfielder; Lewis Bonar, midfielder. Loan ended: Jamie Reid, midfielder (Dundee); Calum Ferguson, forward (Inverness Caledonian Thistle); Bryan Deasley, forward (Forfar Athletic).
Key signing: Ross Gallacher has been with several junior clubs but impressed with Pollock to an extent that the left-back has moved into senior football for the first time at 29.
One that got away: Blair Spittal is the latest product of the Spiders' youth policy to win a move to a top club, with the 18-year-old midfielder joining Dundee United.
Last season: 10th
Prediction: 10th. Queen's Park manager Gus MacPherson has gone down the route of raiding the junior ranks and will have to quickly blend together a completely new squad if he is to avoid another bottom finish.
In: David McGregor, defender (Stranraer); Ross McPherson, forward (Clydebank); Darren Miller, midfielder (Irvine Meadow); Vincent Berry, midfielder (Clydebank); Shaun Fraser, midfielder (Irvine Meadow); David McWilliams, defender (Campsie Black Watch); Paul Woods, midfielder (Petershill); Ross Gallacher, defender (Pollok); John Carter, forward (Greenock Juniors); Kevin Fotheringham, forward (Bannockburn Amateurs); William Muir, goalkeeper (Shotts Bon Accord); Bryan Wharton, defender (Shotts Bon Accord). Loan: Chris Duggan, forward (Partick Thistle).
Out: Blair Spittal, midfielder (Dundee United); Craig Sutherland, forward (Cowdenbeath); Michael Keenan, midfielder; Paul Gallagher, defender; James Brough, defender; Lucas Birstingl, goalkeeper (Airdrieonians). Loan ended: Tony Wallace, midfielder (Morton); Ricki Lamie, defender (Airdrieonians); Ross Fisher, defender (Brechin City); Eamonn Brophy, midfielder (Hamilton Academical). | Former Scotland captain Barry Ferguson switching from Blackpool to Clyde as player-manager has thrust Scotland's League Two back into the spotlight two seasons after his former club, Rangers, left their financial and publicity mark behind. | 27793737 |
The Immigration Bill will make it a criminal offence to rent accommodation to illegal immigrants.
But shadow home secretary Andy Burnham told the Independent on Sunday it could cause problems for "anyone with a foreign-sounding name".
The Home Office said checks had to be made "on a non-discriminatory basis".
The bill, which returns to the House of Commons on Tuesday, includes the Right to Rent scheme.
This would see landlords required to carry out checks on prospective tenants, such as seeing their passport or visa, to ascertain their immigration status.
Failing to do so would be a criminal offence leading to a fine or a jail sentence.
Mr Burnham, describing the bill as "disproportionate, divisive, deceitful", said: "The aim of the Immigration Bill is to make Britain a 'hostile environment' for illegal migrants.
"In practice, it could end up making Britain a more hostile place for anyone with a foreign-sounding name."
Mr Burnham said society had advanced since landlords used to display discriminatory messages in their windows in the 1960s.
"But the new document checks could become the modern equivalent of the 'no dogs, no blacks, no Irish' signs and, by being more insidious, such casual discrimination will be far harder to challenge," he wrote.
He claimed the scheme was at odds with Prime Minister David Cameron's speech last week in which he raised the problem of young job-seekers with "white-sounding names" on their CVs getting a better response than others.
Mr Burnham asked: "If he truly believes what he was saying, why on earth is he about to legislate to make the same everyday racism far more likely to happen in the housing market?"
He said Labour would not "pander to prejudice" and called on Home Secretary Theresa May to rethink the plans.
A Home Office spokesman said: "The government has made clear that the Right to Rent scheme is about reducing illegal migrants' access to services - it has never been targeted at people with a lawful right to be in the UK.
"Right to Rent checks must be performed on a non-discriminatory basis - landlords are advised to check and record identity documents for all new tenants.
"Anyone who discriminates would be breaking the law." | Labour has accused the government of planning legislation that could cause "everyday racism" and "widespread discrimination" in the housing market. | 34498836 |
The zoo earlier reported that the much-loved hippo, Gustavito, had been stabbed and beaten by unknown assailants.
But prosecutors, who found no sign of puncture wounds, said it was likely the hippo died as a result of poor care.
Gustavito, 15, died late on Sunday.
A detailed examination showed that the animal had apparently died of a pulmonary haemorrhage, or bleeding from the lung, state prosecutor Mario Salazar said.
Earlier reports that Gustavito had been brutally attacked caused international outrage and the alleged incident was described by officials as cowardly and inhumane.
Police later questioned employees of the zoo to try to establish who could have entered the premises to carry out such an attack.
None of the CCTV cameras at the zoo overlook Gustavito's enclosure.
Culture Minister Silvia Elena Regalado said the result of the post-mortem examination did not rule out an attack on the hippo, which she said could have died from the resulting stress.
Following the death, zoo director Vladlen Hernandez said he did not believe employees were involved in any attack and added that the zoo had received no threats from any of El Salvador's feared street gangs.
Mr Hernandez later said that Gustavito had been buried "straight away" because he wanted Salvadoreans to remember the hippo the way he used to be - eating fruit or swimming in his pool.
Last Saturday, the zookeepers noticed Gustavito acting strangely, refusing to eat and unwilling to come out of the pool in his enclosure.
The zoo's veterinarians then reportedly found lacerations on the hippo's neck and face, and the animal clearly in great distress.
His condition worsened on Sunday and he died late that night despite the efforts of the staff to save him. | A post-mortem examination on a hippopotamus at the National Zoo of El Salvador has found that it did not die as a result of a stabbing attack, officials say. | 39162029 |
Firefighters have been tackling the blaze at Skip-It containers in North Quay Road, Newhaven, since Friday.
East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service said they believed the burning rubbish had been extinguished but were checking for signs of smouldering.
Crews will remain at the depot for another 24 hours.
Most of the smoke from the blaze, which had been billowing hundreds of feet into the air, cleared on Monday.
An investigation is under way into the cause of the fire.
In a statement, East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service, said: "It is believed the fire is now out but crews are working with the site operators to make sure this is the case.
"Piles of waste are being moved and checked for any signs of smouldering.
"It is likely that we will remain on site for a further 24 hours, along with other agencies including the Environment Agency."
Skip-It said the waste was compacted, baled household waste due to be exported to Germany for burning in an incinerator. | Fire crews believe they have finally extinguished 200 tonnes of rubbish that was alight for six days, sending smoke hundreds of feet into the air. | 30419637 |
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Kaur smashed an unbeaten 171 - the highest score by an India player at a World Cup - as they made 281-4 from their rain-reduced 42 overs.
A big-hitting cameo from Alex Blackwell (90) gave Australia hope but they were bowled out for 245 with 11 balls left.
Mithali Raj's side will face England in Sunday's sold-out final at Lord's.
Kaur's powerful hitting, which included 20 boundaries and seven sixes, put the defending champions under pressure as India struck 81 runs from the final six overs.
Australia were nine wickets down and still 113 runs behind when Blackwell began to hit out.
Her aggressive innings, the vice-captain striking 10 boundaries and three sixes, took Australia to within touching distance of reaching their ninth World Cup final.
It is the first time India have reached a World Cup final since 2005 in South Africa, where they lost to Australia by 98 runs.
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After a three-hour delay and faced with a miserly Australia bowling attack, Kaur looked stuck until Raj was dismissed by leg-spinner Kristen Beams for 36.
Once Raj fell, Kaur found her feet, targeting the Australian spinners and the off-target pace of Megan Schutt as she moved from 50 to three figures in just 26 deliveries.
Kaur's century was marred by her own over-reaction when, on 98, she called partner Deepti Sharma through for a quick two. Kaur turned quicker than Sharma and both players were briefly stranded mid-pitch, before the throw from mid-wicket hit Sharma's stumps.
A review showed that Sharma was in, but Kaur had already thrown her helmet and bat away in frustration and was yelling at her partner as it was confirmed she had reached three figures.
An embarrassed Kaur apologised to Sharma, who was near tears, and later put all her frustration into consecutive towering sixes off off-spinner Ashleigh Gardner as she plundered 23 runs from one over.
Despite losing Sharma towards the end of the innings, Kaur barely let up, taking 19 runs from one Elyse Villani over despite clearly struggling with cramp.
She raced from 100 to 150 in just 17 deliveries as she made the fifth highest score in women's ODIs and left Australia looking uncertain.
Ex-England captain Charlotte Edwards: "The innings was out of this world. If you put it into context - against Australia, in a semi-final, to play at Lord's - I don't know how she's played with that freedom and power. It was unbelievable hitting.
"That was the best innings I've ever seen and some of the best hitting you are going to see. She picked her gaps with ease, and such power."
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Meg Lanning, who has struggled with a shoulder injury throughout the tournament, looked static as she fell for an eight-ball duck and Australia were soon floundering at 21-3.
Elyse Villani has had an underwhelming career - prior to this match she had scored just two half-centuries in 24 innings - and had twice fallen to her first ball in this tournament, but she showed intent from the beginning.
She stood out of her crease to strike both spinners and seamers across the ground and overcame a drop on 10 to bring up her 50 from 41 balls, including 10 boundaries.
However, India dried up her run-scoring options and she chipped spinner Rajeshwari Gayakwad to Smriti Mandhana to spark Australia's downfall.
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Ellyse Perry had made four consecutive half-centuries in this World Cup but after opening the bowling she looked tired, and ended her innings sending a simple catch through to the wicketkeeper.
The players watched forlornly from the sides as they lost four wickets for 29 runs, before Blackwell let loose.
She struck Gayakwad for two straight sixes, forcing Raj to turn to her part-time bowlers, but Blackwell was savvy enough to rotate the strike to protect number 11 Beams.
However, there was only so much Blackwell could do, and she was bowled trying to swat Sharma out of the ground to spark raucous celebrations from India.
India captain Mithali Raj: "Harman's innings was exceptional and the bowlers have done very well. Overall, this unit looks compact now, after losing we came back and beating Australia is a huge achievement.
"We have players who of international standard, someone stands up in every game. The top order is scoring when it is needed and response from the bowling unit has been brilliant.
Australia captain Meg Lanning: "The innings from Kaur was incredible, we couldn't stop her and it was a very special effort in a high-pressure game so well done to India. Alex Blackwell was hitting it well at the end and we left her too much to do, but her knock was outstanding.
"I don't think we really nailed a full game at any stage of the tournament, so it was a disappointing end." | Harmanpreet Kaur's stunning century helped India beat six-time champions Australia by 36 runs in Derby and reach the Women's World Cup final. | 40668019 |
He is the first opposition figure to win a presidential election in Nigeria since independence in 1960.
"I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody", he told cheering crowds at the inauguration in the capital, Abuja.
He vowed to tackle "head on" the issues of corruption and the insurgency from militant Islamist group Boko Haram.
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Mr Buhari, a former military ruler, has taken over from Goodluck Jonathan, who had been in office since 2010.
At the inauguration ceremony at Abuja's Eagle Square - Mr Jonathan handed over the constitution and national flags before Mr Buhari took his oath of office.
In his first speech as president, Mr Buhari reiterated his commitment to tackle Boko Haram, whom he described as "a mindless, godless group, who are as far away from Islam as one can think".
Will Ross, BBC News, Abuja:
As soon as Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in the invited guests in Eagle Square rose to their feet, danced and sang their new president's name. As he was then driven around in an open vehicle, people rushed forward to record the moment on their phones.
This was a time for celebration not just for supporters of the new leader but also for Nigerians who are proud that their country has witnessed this historic transition. By conceding Goodluck Jonathan steered the country away from violence. We will never know how close Nigeria was to the precipice.
Moments after Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in thousands of excited young men ran through the security barriers to Eagle Square and pressed up against the perimeter fence cheered their new leader. It was a stark reminder that so many in Nigeria are expecting change, including jobs, from President Buhari.
As Mr Jonathan is driven away I would not be surprised if he has a sense of relief and feels an almighty weight has just been lifted off his shoulders.
Mr Buhari also announced plans for the Nigerian military's command centre to be moved from Abuja to the strategic north-eastern city of Maiduguri, which is closer to areas where the group operates.
He said Boko Haram could not be said to be defeated without rescuing the more than 200 Chibok girls, whose capture last April sparked a global campaign to bring them back home.
"This government will do all it can to rescue them alive," he said.
Mr Buhari said the Nigerian economy was "in deep trouble", identifying "insecurity, pervasive corruption... and seemingly impossible fuel and power shortages" as key concerns.
The country's power supply crisis was "a national shame", he said, which had brought "darkness, frustration, misery, and resignation" to Nigerians.
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The president rounded off his speech with a quotation from Shakespeare, before issuing a final rallying call to Nigerians: "We have an opportunity. Let us take it."
Among the guests at the ceremony were US Secretary of State John Kerry and African leaders including Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe. | Muhammadu Buhari has been sworn in as Nigeria's president, promising to bring "increased prosperity" to Africa's most populous country. | 32927311 |
The 26-year-old, who made 37 league appearances for the Cards last season, has agreed a one-year contract with the option of a further year.
"He is more than capable of making the step back up to league football," Reds head coach Dermot Drummy said.
"In fact, he will thrive on an opportunity to establish himself again at this level."
Arthur, who has previously had spells at Northampton and AFC Wimbledon, becomes Crawley's seventh signing of the close season.
Meanwhile, 26-year-old midfielder Lewis Young has agreed a new one-year deal with the West Sussex club.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | League Two side Crawley Town have signed midfielder Chris Arthur from National League club Woking. | 36479542 |
Now he is mere leader of the opposition, the chance comes less frequently - but Monday night offered up a humdinger.
In full flow with France Television's star interviewer David Pujadas, Sarko delivered this pearl: "Just because I get the salad, doesn't mean I pass the rhubarb."
The context was the aftermath of the regional first-round elections on Sunday, which by giving the far right such a huge score poses the problem for the two main parties of how best to react.
Should Sarko's Republicans and President Francois Hollande's Socialists stand and fight in each of the 13 regions?
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The risk is that by doing so they would split the anti-FN vote, and thus increase the National Front's chances of victory.
Or, should one of them withdraw in each region - thus allowing all anti-FNers to concentrate the vote?
This is what the Socialists have agreed to do in the two regions where the FN is best-placed (and they - the Socialists - came a rotten third).
The withdrawal poses a serious challenge to Marine Le Pen's hopes of becoming regional president in the north, as well as to Marion Marechal-Le Pen in the south, because now Socialists can vote for the centre-right candidate.
But Mr Sarkozy is refusing to make any such arrangement.
His argument is that by stitching up the regions with the Socialists (you stand here, we stand there), the two parties would be playing straight into the FN's hands.
They would be displaying exactly the kind of chumminess at the top that the far right constantly denounces.
As Nicolas Sarkozy said, political parties cannot go round giving each other mutual favours.
Or put another way: "Just because I get the salad, doesn't mean I pass the rhubarb."
Except he got it wrong.
The real French expression is: Pass me the rhubarb, and I'll pass you the senna.
Why senna? Well like rhubarb, senna is a natural laxative. The proverb means, I'll do you a service, if you do a similar one back. In this case, by curing our common constipation.
Mr Sarkozy was confusing his salad with his senna pods.
A sign of verbal diarrhoea? | In the olden days of Nicolas Sarkozy's French presidency, much fun was to be had irreverently pointing out his tics and verbal idiosyncracies. | 35037852 |
He said he would "absolutely" give a cast-iron guarantee that a referendum would be held by the end of 2017.
Asked if that meant he would recommend voting to leave the EU if he failed to get the changes he wanted, he said he was confident the talks would succeed.
UKIP's Nigel Farage accused Mr Cameron of "pretending" to be Eurosceptic.
Appearing on The Andrew Marr Show, Mr Cameron restated his plans to secure changes to EU powers over the UK in areas of immigration, welfare, the single market and the ability of national parliaments to over-rule Brussels.
He said the most important change was ensuring the goal of "ever-closer union", contained in the Treaty of Rome, did not apply to the UK.
"We have the referendum whether or not I have successfully negotiated," he said. "I believe I will be successful.
"Others in Europe need change to the European Union. The Eurozone needs change - it needs a banking union, it needs more fiscal union - and so we're perfectly legitimate to ask for our changes.
"You've already seen other leaders in Europe including for instance Chancellor Merkel in Germany, not rejecting out of hand what Britain is saying but saying 'yes, we can discuss these issues'."
Mr Cameron said he would not sit on the fence during the in/out referendum.
Pressed on what his stance would be if he did not succeed in negotiating the changes he hoped for, he said: "We'll be having a referendum, where I'll be recommending 'look I've got these changes, I believe we should stay in this reformed organisation'."
The Conservative leader said his message was a positive one compared with the UK Independence Party's one of wanting to leave the European Union.
He said: "I'm someone who has a very positive optimistic plan for this country - we have turned around Britain's economy.
"I'm tremendously upbeat, bullish and optimistic about what Britain can achieve in terms of our economy and also about our place in Europe.
"We have a plan and that is the most important thing in politics."
Mr Cameron repeated his pledge to quit as prime minister after the 2015 election if he could not guarantee the holding of a referendum on whether the UK should stay in the EU.
UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage told the BBC's Sunday Politics that Mr Cameron had a problem being believed, after failing to hold a referendum on the Lisbon treaty.
Mr Farage added that Mr Cameron was "desperately pretending to be a Eurosceptic whilst at the same time saying whatever the results of all this he will campaign for Britain to remain in".
Labour's Michael Dugher said the interview had shown the Conservatives "offer no answers to the big challenges facing the country".
The shadow Cabinet Office minister said: "Families in Britain are facing a massive cost-of-living crisis, yet all Cameron offers is more reheated and vacuous banging on about Europe." | David Cameron has told the BBC he is "upbeat, bullish and optimistic" that he will succeed in renegotiating the UK's relations with the European Union. | 27361601 |
Researchers analysed the genomes of 51 individuals who lived between 45,000 years ago and 7,000 years ago.
The results reveal details about the biology of these early inhabitants, such as skin and eye colour, and how different populations were related.
It also shows that Neanderthal ancestry in Europeans has been shrinking over time, perhaps due to natural selection.
The study in Nature journal shines a torchlight over some 40,000 years of prehistory, showing that ancient patterns of migration were just as complex as those in more recent times.
Some of the earliest arrivals on the continent contributed little to later populations. But between 37,000 years ago and 14,000 years ago, different groups of Europeans were descended from a single founder population.
The fortunes of these human hunting groups were often linked to changes in the climate.
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Co-author Prof David Reich, from Harvard Medical School in Boston, US, said the 51 ancient individuals comprised "a pretty substantial fraction of the known human skeletons in this period".
He told BBC News: "Because we've studied so many ancient humans from Europe from the beginning of the modern human occupation, we're able to form a picture of how populations transformed over time."
Prof Reich, Svante Paabo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and others found evidence that people belonging to one of Europe's most important Ice Age cultures - the Aurignacian - were displaced between 34,000 and 26,000 years ago by another group of humans called the Gravettians.
After 14,000 years ago, Europeans became more closely related to populations from the Middle East, the Caucasus and Turkey. This happens to coincide with the first major warming period at the end of the Ice Age and could reflect an expansion of people from the South-East.
"We see multiple, huge movements of people displacing previous ones," said Prof Reich.
"During this first four-fifths of modern human history in Europe, history is just as complicated as it is during the last fifth that we know so much more about."
Research on that last fifth of population history has revealed that mass movements of people in the Neolithic period (from 7,000 years ago) and the Bronze Age (5,000 years ago) transformed the genetic landscape of Europe.
Analysis of genes carried by Ice Age Europeans shows, among other things, that they had dark complexions and brown eyes. Only after 14,000 years ago did blue eyes begin to spread, and pale skin only appeared across much of the continent after 7,000 years ago - borne by early farmers from the Near East.
Early European populations possessed more Neanderthal ancestry than present-day people, consistent with the idea that much of the DNA we inherited from the Neanderthals had harmful effects. Scientists think this inheritance was progressively lost via natural selection.
What seems clear is that most modern populations offer only hazy glimpses into the past, because their genetics are shaped by relatively recent patterns of migration.
Insights like those from this study have only been made possible by dramatic progress in the last two decades on techniques for analysing degraded DNA from ancient remains.
"A lot of amazing work was done [previously] to develop and use sophisticated methods to forensically piece apart patterns based on populations today," Prof Reich told BBC News.
"But it's a little bit like trying to dissect the ingredients that go into the batter of a cake from the mixed up batter... how much flour, how much egg, how much sugar, how much butter.
"You could do it if you worked really hard and knew the chemistry. But what if you could go back to when they were adding in the butter, adding in the sugar, adding in the flour and measure how much was added in each time."
The Aurignacians: A 35,000-year-old male from Goyet, Belgium, belonged to a distinctive branch of the Ice Age population. DNA was extracted from the upper arm bone of the hunter, who was associated with the Aurignacian archaeological culture.
The Gravettians: This ancestral group displaced the Aurignacians to dominate much of Europe from 34,000 to 26,000 years ago. Though they carried distinct genetic signatures, the Gravettians and Aurignacians were descended from the same ancient founder population.
The Magdalenians: The Aurignacian genetic signature disappeared from much of Europe when the Gravettians arrived. But it resurfaced 15,000 years later in the "Red Lady of El Mirón Cave" from northern Spain (pictured). This tall, robust woman was a member of the Magdalenian archaeological culture, which expanded north as the ice sheets melted.
The Villabruna cluster: From about 14,000 years ago, the gene pools of Europe and the Middle East draw closer together - perhaps reflecting an expansion of people from the south-east. This genetic cluster is named after a male hunter from Villabruna, Italy, who had dark skin and blue eyes.
Follow Paul on Twitter. | A study of DNA from ancient human bones has helped unlock the secrets of Europe's Ice Age inhabitants. | 36150502 |
In the footage, revealed by the Washington Post, Mr Trump is heard bragging to TV host Billy Bush about trying to have sex with a married woman. The clip, from 2005, was part of unaired footage ahead of Mr Trump's appearance on US soap opera Days of Our Lives.
Here is the full transcript of the conversation:
Unknown: "She used to be great, she's still very beautiful."
Trump: "I moved on her actually. You know she was down on Palm Beach. I moved on her, and I failed. I'll admit it. I did try and fuck her, she was married."
Unknown: "That's huge news there."
Trump: "No, no, Nancy. No this was [inaudible] and I moved on her very heavily in fact I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said I'll show you where they have some nice furniture. I moved on her like a bitch. I couldn't get there and she was married. Then all-of-a-sudden I see her, she's now got the big phony tits and everything. She's totally changed her look."
Bush: "Your girl's hot as shit. In the purple."
Multiple voices: "Whoah. Yes. Whoah."
Bush: "Yes. The Donald has scored. Whoah my man."
Trump: "Look at you. You are a pussy."
Bush: "You gotta get the thumbs up."
Trump: "Maybe it's a different one."
Bush: "It better not be the publicist. No, it's, it's her."
Trump: "Yeah that's her with the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful... I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything."
Bush: "Whatever you want."
Trump: "Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything."
Bush: "Yeah those legs. All I can see is the legs."
Trump: "It looks good."
Bush: "Come on shorty."
Trump: "Oh nice legs huh."
Bush: "Get out of the way honey. Oh that's good legs. Go ahead."
Trump: "It's always good if you don't fall out of the bus. Like Ford, Gerald Ford, remember?"
[As Mr Trump attempts to leave the vehicle he struggles with the door]
Bush: "Down below, pull the handle."
[Mr Trump exits the bus and greets actress Arianne Zucker]
Trump: "Hello, how are you? Hi."
Zucker: "Hi Mr Trump. How are you?"
Trump: "Nice seeing you. Terrific. Terrific. You know Billy Bush?"
Bush: "Hello nice to see you. How are you doing Arianne?"
Zucker: "I'm doing very well thank you. [Addressing Trump] Are you ready to be a soap star?"
Trump: "We're ready. Let's go. Make me a soap star."
Bush: "How about a little hug for the Donald, he's just off the bus?"
Zucker: "Would you like a little hug darling?"
Trump: "Absolutely. Melania said this was okay."
Bush: "How about a little hug for the Bushy, I just got off the bus? Here we go, here we go. Excellent."
[Mr Bush gesticulates towards Ms Zucker as he turns to Mr Trump]
Bush: "Well you've got a good co-star here."
Trump: "Good. After you. Come on Billy, don't be shy."
Bush: "Soon as a beautiful woman shows up he just, he takes off. This always happens."
Trump: "Get over here, Billy."
Zucker: "I'm sorry, come here."
Bush: "Let the little guy in there. Come on."
Zucker: "Yeah, let the little guy in. How you feel now, better? I should actually be in the middle."
Bush: "It's hard to walk next to a guy like this."
Zucker: "Wait. Hold on."
[Ms Zucker changes position and walks between the two men]
Bush: "Yeah you get in the middle. There we go."
Trump: "Good. That's better."
Zucker: "This is much better."
Trump: "That's better."
Bush: "Now if you had to choose, honestly, between one of us. Me or the Donald, who would it be?"
Trump: "I don't know, that's tough competition."
Zucker: "That's some pressure right there."
Bush: "Seriously, you had to take one of us as a date."
Zucker: "I have to take the Fifth [Amendment of the US Constitution] on that one."
Bush: "Really?"
Zucker: "Yep. I'll take both."
[They reach the end of the corridor]
Trump: "Which way?"
Zucker: "Make a right. Here we go."
Bush: "Here he goes. I'm gonna leave you here. Give me my microphone."
Trump: "Okay. Okay. Oh, you're finished?"
Bush: "You're my man. Yeah."
Trump: "Oh. Good." | US presidential candidate Donald Trump has been forced to apologise after a video emerged in which he made obscene comments about women. | 37595321 |
Orchid, a leading male cancer charity, says only 38% of 18 to 34-year-olds are confident in recognising the signs of testicular cancer.
That's despite it being the most common type of the disease to affect young men.
Will Gingell found a lump in one of his testicles when he was 17.
"It came out of nowhere really," he tells Newsbeat.
"I just found a very distinct lump. It was very hard, solid and felt very different. There was no pain, aching, nothing, I felt fine."
Though it was only when Will asked his girlfriend Lucy for a second opinion that he sought professional help.
"When Will first came to me and said he had a lump, he said it in a jokey way," she explains to Newsbeat.
"It was a very distinct, hard lump on the side of his testicle. It didn't look right and it didn't feel right.
"Straight away I told him he had to go and get a doctor to look at it."
According to Cancer Research UK around 2,300 men are diagnosed with testicular cancer in the UK every year.
That's double what it was 40 years ago.
"Not once did either of us at the time think 'oh there's a lump, therefore that means cancer,'" Lucy says.
"It was more that it could be a cyst or it's just abnormal, so I think it was very easy for Will to just dismiss it."
But after going to see a doctor Will and Lucy were told it was cancer.
Testicular cancer is one of the most treatable types of the disease. More than 96% of men with early stage testicular cancer will be completely cured.
"I wasn't scared," the 28-year-old says.
"It was a case of 'this is what I've found, what do I need to do to get rid of it and how do I move forward?'"
Radiotherapy and chemotherapy weren't deemed necessary, but Will was told he was going to have to have his cancerous testicle removed.
"It's one of those things that can really knock a man. I was offered a prosthetic testicle, but it wasn't something I really looked at."
While some patients who undergo chemotherapy may be asked if they want to freeze some of their sperm, this wasn't something doctors felt Will needed to do.
Then nine months ago Lucy gave birth to the couple's first child.
"This just goes to show that fertility isn't [necessarily] an issue and you still can have children," Will says.
The couple now believe getting people to check their own or their partner's privates is crucial.
"There's no point being embarrassed about it.," says William.
"It's nothing to be embarrassed about. This is a life threatening disease.
"If you've got a concern - go and see a doctor. At the end of the day, that's what they're paid for and it could save your life."
For advice on what to feel when testing yourself or your partner for symptoms of testicular cancer, visit BBC Advice.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Young men are being encouraged to check their testicles on a regular basis; as not enough do according to research seen by Newsbeat. | 31652634 |
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is asking the chancellor to introduce a Savers' Bonus, which would treat all taxpayers equally.
At the moment people on higher incomes benefit from either 40% or 45% tax relief, while others only receive 20%.
The ABI said a flat rate would provide a "massive boost" for ordinary workers.
But other sections of the pensions industry disagree, arguing that a single rate would be of little benefit to any savers.
Chancellor George Osborne is due to announce changes in his budget on 16 March, following a seven-month inquiry by the Treasury.
The ABI said that basic rate taxpayers - the majority of the UK population - currently receive only 30% of the money that the government spends on tax relief.
If there was a flat-rate, they could get almost half that sum, making the system much fairer.
Such a change would also encourage low and middle-income earners to save more. At the moment, such workers are not saving enough for retirement.
"The Savers' Bonus would provide a massive boost to the average worker's savings," said Yvonne Braun, the ABI's director of long-term savings policy.
"A single rate of tax relief would be simpler, fairer and more sustainable for all savers."
But others argue there would be little benefit to a flat rate.
The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association - previously the National Association of Pension Funds - said any flat rate was likely to be set at 25% or lower.
It said that would produce little benefit to basic-rate taxpayers, but would "greatly reduce" the attractiveness of pension saving for 4.6m higher rate taxpayers.
Basic rate tax-payers making a £10,000 pension contribution would gain £500 if the flat rate was set at 25%.
But those on the higher, 40%, rate would lose £1,500.
One other advantage of a flat-rate is that it could save the Treasury up to £6bn a year if set at 25%, according to the Pensions Policy Institute.
Earlier this week the Treasury Minister David Gauke told the BBC that any changes would need to be effective for encouraging saving.
Higher rate taxpayers wanting to save money are being advised to make extra contributions before 16 March.
Those on the basic rate are being urged to wait until then, as it could be to their benefit. | A new system of flat-rate tax relief on pension contributions would be fairer to everyone, especially the low-paid, the insurance industry has said. | 35385264 |
Jeff Farrar said he foresees every police vehicle carrying a drone in the years to come and for more computers to do jobs "that do not involve emotion".
Gwent has had £50m of funding cuts and still needs to make £9m of savings. It has also lost 300 officers since 2011.
But Mr Farrar said the force was recruiting again after a jobs freeze.
Last year, 120 police officers were taken on, along with cadets and volunteers. This year, 160 officers will be recruited and the force had been "inundated" with applications, he said.
But, with more money needed to be saved by 2020, Mr Farrar said police needed to work in different ways to ensure they were as efficient and effective as possible.
He said detective work was benefitting from computers. Surveillance work that involves physically following a suspect might take a week - but the same checks can now often be carried out online because people post so much on social media, he said.
"The reality is a lot of the job we do, if it doesn't contain emotion then we can probably do it by way of a computer.
"So a lot of the things that we may be able to do in the future though artificial intelligence might be things that ordinarily would have been done by people."
Mr Farrar pointed out the usefulness of drones in the case of the body of a woman murdered 20 years ago being found at Wentwood Reservoir, near Newport.
"We couldn't have done that by foot and conventional means," said Mr Farrar, speaking as Gwent Police celebrated its 50th anniversary.
"We put a drone up in the air, the drone was right above the scene and I had in my office perfect HD quality pictures of the scene. We could never have done that [without the drone].
"I actually think in years to come, and it's not that far off, we will have one of those drones in the back of every police vehicle so we will be able to deploy those all the time."
Earlier this year, Gwent became the second force in Wales after South Wales Police to gain permission from the Civil Aviation Authority to use the drones - or unmanned aircrafts - to help search for missing people, tackle anti-social behaviour and other operations.
In addition, police officers now have body cams to record incidents and hand-held devices which can quickly carry out checks on vehicles and criminal records.
Back at police headquarters in Cwmbran, Mr Farrar has an app he can use to look at any officer's pocket book in real time if he needs any information.
But, ultimately, he said computers would never fully replace the role of police officers.
"The public still like to see a police officer as it's reassuring." | Artificial intelligence and drones will be key tools in the future amid budget and job cuts, Gwent Police's chief constable has said. | 39529504 |
On Friday, crowds opposed to the expansion attacked police in the city of Ningbo in Zhejiang province.
Officials from Ningbo's city government announced on Sunday evening that work on the project would now not go ahead.
Environmental protests have become more common in China. They come ahead of a once-in-a-decade change of national leaders in Beijing.
Protesters gathered again in Ningbo on Sunday, marching on the offices of the district government. They are opposed to the expansion of the plant by a subsidiary of the China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation.
"There is very little public confidence in the government," protester Liu Li told the Associated Press.
"Who knows if they are saying this just to make us leave and then keep on doing the project," she added.
On Saturday, police dispersed more than 1,000 protesters in Ningbo.
Witnesses described scuffles and said a few people were arrested.
Local police accused protesters of throwing stones and bricks at officers. Residents, however, said the violence came after police used tear gas and made arrests.
Local officials met demonstrators later on Saturday to hear their demands.
The huge growth in China's economy has come at a huge environmental cost.
Many Chinese are becoming more environmentally aware and are deeply concerned about pollution, correspondents say. | Plans to expand a petrochemical plant in eastern China have been shelved after days of protests. | 20116546 |
A win would have made Bayern champions for the 26th time but that was denied them by Andre Hahn's equaliser, driven low into the net 18 minutes from time.
Thomas Muller headed Bayern in front with a 20th league goal of the season.
Borussia Dortmund beat Wolfsburg 5-1 to move five points behind Bayern with two games left.
Bayern face a local derby at Ingolstadt next weekend before playing Hannover at home in their final game.
Bayern coach Pep Guardiola made eight changes to the side that lost 1-0 in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final to Atletico Madrid with the home leg to come next Tuesday.
One of those was the return of Muller. Bayern had won 51 consecutive league games in which the Germany international has scored but Hahn's fifth goal of the season ended that run.
Bayern face Dortmund in the German Cup final on 21 May as they look to complete a treble under Guardiola before his summer move to Manchester City.
Gladbach ended a run of four successive away defeats to enhance their chances of qualifying for the Champions League as they moved above Hertha Berlin, who lost 2-1 at third-placed Bayer Leverkusen, into fourth place on goal difference.
Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola: "Of course we had wanted to win today, for our fans and for ourselves.
"We need just a point now, a draw, or a win to secure the title.
"But now there's time to concentrate on Atletico Madrid. It will be a different game on Tuesday. We must play better."
Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge: "We would have liked to be champions today, I won't lie. But we'll try to seal the deal against Ingolstadt next weekend.
"The spirit was there, but you can't forget that we had a very difficult game three days ago.
"Now we switch all our focus towards Tuesday. I hope that we can pull it off.
"We will throw everything at the game and put up a fight, with 70,000 fans behind us. I can promise that." | Bayern Munich must wait to secure a record fourth successive Bundesliga title after being held to a 1-1 draw by Borussia Monchengladbach. | 36125988 |
Mr Hun Sen's court complaint, filed on Monday, said Mr Rainsy had not only defamed the government but also "incited the public".
He asked for just 100 riel ($0.025) in compensation.
Mr Rainsy said that there was "no other explanation" for Kem Ley's murder.
Tens of thousands of Cambodians joined his funeral procession on 24 July.
Kem Ley was a prominent commentator in local media and was known for being unafraid to criticise politicians on both sides of Cambodia's polarised political landscape.
He was shot dead while drinking coffee at a local petrol station, days after commenting on an investigation into the business dealings of Mr Hun Sen and his family members.
Police said the alleged killer had confessed to shooting Kem Ley over an outstanding debt.
But Mr Rainsy, who currently resides in France to avoid arrest for an old defamation conviction, called it "state terrorism".
He compared it to previous killings of government critics in a Facebook post, saying "only the government had the means and the capabilities to conduct such brazen attacks, to arrange for their cover-up and to ensure a total impunity for the perpetrators and their mastermind".
Several politicians from the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), which Mr Rainsy leads, have been hit with lawsuits in recent months.
Mr Hun Sen has led Cambodia for more than 30 years, presiding over dramatic developments while ruling with what critics say is an iron fist.
He has recently enthusiastically taken to Facebook to project a softer image, but has been accused of buying fake likes to boost his popularity. | Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has sued opposition leader Sam Rainsy for defamation for saying the government was behind the killing of a political analyst last month. | 36954497 |
Hatters officials have contacted Orient for information regarding the reported chanting at the Matchroom Stadium.
"Luton Town do not condone any kind of discriminatory chanting or comments from supporters, and any serious abuse will be dealt with," said a statement.
The Hatters won the game 2-1 to move up to fourth in the table.
Orient said on Saturday that the club were "reviewing CCTV footage of the incident and will be sharing all relevant information with Luton Town in order to identify any offenders". | Luton Town will assist Leyton Orient if they receive information concerning alleged homophobic chanting by fans during Saturday's League Two match. | 37677358 |
Bath, who reached last season's Premiership final but now sit ninth after 10 matches, led 8-0 after Dominic Day's try and Tom Homer's penalty.
Homer landed another kick after two Hook penalties to keep them 11-6 ahead.
But, in the wind and rain, three more kicks from Hook secured Gloucester's first win at The Rec since 2012.
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Victory for the Cherry and Whites, which lifted them to fifth in the table, also ended Bath's run of five straight wins in the West Country derby, the most consecutive successes either side have ever managed.
Mike Ford's team spent the first 13 minutes camped inside Gloucester's half and led 8-0 after Day eventually forced his way over behind a driving maul, but threw away a significant lead for the second week running, having squandered a 13-0 advantage to lose to Saracens last Saturday.
The Blue, Black and Whites have now won just two of their past 11 games in all competitions and have already lost seven Premiership matches this season - more than in the entire campaign in 2014-15.
They are 14 points off the top four and, with six points also separating them and sixth-placed Wasps, may even face a tough task to again qualify for the European Champions Cup.
But Gloucester, whose spirited second-half display was rewarded by Wales fly-half Hook's accuracy from the tee, continue their revival under director of rugby David Humphreys and have opened up a seven-point advantage over their local rivals.
Bath head coach Mike Ford:
"We didn't have much of a kicking game, to be honest. There were times near the end we should have held on to the ball and tried to build pressure. But we carried on kicking poorly.
"Dan (Bowden) had a great debut at 12 last week but we missed an out-and-out number 10 tonight. The forwards did what they had to do but it was an ugly game, wasn't it? Not the best I've ever watched.
"Once they got in front it was difficult in that wind and rain. When we did get field position we kicked poorly or offloaded and the ball went to ground.
"Tactically we couldn't do anything else, with the weather and the personnel we had available."
Gloucester director of rugby David Humphreys:
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"It was an important toss to win. We knew there was wind and rain coming in, so then it was a case of trying to get into the lead.
"Our set-piece was good but our half-backs managed the game and didn't panic, just kept Bath in their half.
"It's hard to appreciate watching on TV or even sitting in the stand how difficult it was out there to play."
Bath: Homer; Rokoduguni, Banahan, Eastmond, Agulla; Bowden, Cook; Lahiff, Webber, Wilson, Hooper (capt), Day, Garvey, Louw, Houston.
Replacements: Dunn, Catt, Thomas, Ewels, Ellis, Faosiliva, Matawalu, Clark.
Gloucester: Burns; Sharples, Meakes, Twelvetrees (capt), McColl; Hook, Heinz; McAllister, Hibbard, Afoa, Savage, Galarza, Kalamafoni, Rowan, Morgan.
Replacements: Dawidiuk, Wood, Thomas, Stooke, Kvesic, Braley, Atkinson, Moriarty.
For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter. | James Hook kicked all 15 points as Gloucester came from behind to beat Bath and inflict a sixth successive loss on their West Country rivals. | 35474480 |
The force of 1,500 guards would be able to deploy even if a member state did not ask for its help.
The European Commission said the force would work as a "safety net".
The proposal was approved a day after 4,500 people were rescued from boats in the Mediterranean near Italy.
National border guards in EU member states will be supported by the new European Border and Coast Guard in "exceptional situations", according to the European Commission.
The new force will "build" on Frontex, an existing EU agency that helps to coordinate national border forces, it said.
Plans for the new agency had faced criticism from some EU governments for allowing intervention even if member states did not request help in managing their borders.
Under the approved proposal, the EU Commission would propose an intervention and the European Council would make the decision.
"There should no longer be shortages of staff or equipment for operations at our external borders," First Vice President Frans Timmermans and Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos said in a statement.
"The external border of one Member State is the external border of all Member States."
The proposal will be sent to the European Council for final approval.
More than 231,000 migrants have arrived in Europe by sea this year, the UN says, compared to just over one million in total last year.
Monthly arrivals in April, May and June of this year were significantly lower than the same months in 2015.
A controversial deal between the EU and Turkey to tackle Europe's worst migration crisis since the Second World War came into effect in late March.
Several countries in the Balkans also sealed their borders amid the crisis, cutting off routes used by migrants to travel to northern European countries.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants. | The European Parliament has approved a proposal to set up a new border and coast guard agency to help countries cope with unusually high levels of migration. | 36727437 |
The mound of soil, stone bricks and kerbs, discovered at about 07:45 GMT on Wednesday, has completely blocked Back Lane in Tibberton, Shropshire.
Telford and Wrekin Council says it appears to have been fly-tipped and it is now clearing up the mess. An emergency road closure is in place and police are on the scene.
The driver of the car was left shocked but uninjured.
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Angela McClements, the council's cabinet member for transport, customer and neighbourhood services, said it was a "disgraceful environmental crime" as she asked people with information to get in touch.
"Whoever has done it has acted with a complete lack of responsibility, blocking a road and resulting in significant clear up costs for the council," she said.
Back Lane in Tibberton remains closed while the road is cleared. Diversions are in place. | A car has crashed into a 12-tonne pile of rubble left dumped on a road. | 38664888 |
Nicola Sturgeon continued to insist, however, that no final decision had yet been made on holding such a vote.
In a BBC interview she would take things forward at "the pace that I think is right for the country".
Ms Sturgeon has previously said another referendum is "highly likely" following last year's Brexit vote.
Scotland voted by 62% to 38% to remain inside the EU, and the Scottish government argues that access to the single market after Brexit is vital to the country's interests.
Scottish ministers have put forward proposals they claim could achieve this, but have accused the UK government of "intransigence" on the issue.
In a recent speech in Edinburgh, Ms Sturgeon said a second independence referendum may become a "necessary" way of protecting Scotland's interests.
Interviewed by BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg for a BBC documentary to be broadcast on Thursday, she gave her clearest indication yet about the possible timing of such a vote.
Asked if autumn 2018 was a likely date, she replied: "Within that window, of when the outline of a UK deal becomes clear and the UK exiting the EU, I think would be common sense time for Scotland to have that choice, if that is the road we choose to go down."
Asked if that meant she was not ruling out autumn 2018 as a possible date, she said: "I'm not ruling anything out, I'm going to continue to, to take things forward at the pace that I think is right for the country."
Analysis by BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg
At Westminster and Holyrood in recent months there's been a building sense that Nicola Sturgeon has made up her mind to call a vote.
If she 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.
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.
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Scotland voted to stay part of the UK by 55% to 45% in the 2014 independence referendum.
Ms Sturgeon's predecessor as first minister, Alex Salmond, has already predicted that a second independence referendum would take place in autumn next year.
While the SNP does not hold an overall majority at Holyrood, it could count on the support of the Scottish Greens if the Scottish Parliament voted on holding a new referendum.
Permission to hold such a vote, however, would have to be granted by the UK government at Westminster.
Prime Minister Theresa May has so far declined to be drawn on whether her government would allow a second referendum.
In her speech to the Scottish Conservative Party conference earlier this month, Mrs May accused the SNP of being "obsessed with its own priority of independence" to the detriment of devolved public services like education and health.
Nicola Sturgeon's interview was recorded for the BBC documentary Brexit:Britain's Biggest Deal - to be broadcast on BBC Two at 21:00 and on BBC Two Scotland at 23:15 on Thursday. | Scotland's first minister has said autumn 2018 would be a "common sense" date for any second independence referendum. | 39213767 |
In July members of the Taliban met representatives of the Afghan government for talks in the pretty hill town of Muree, just outside Islamabad in Pakistan.
It was hailed as a breakthrough, the first very tentative sign that the Taliban might consider some kind of negotiated peace.
Those talks were disrupted by news of the death of Taliban founder Mullah Omar.
But hopes were boosted just days ago when the new leader of the Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, hinted he might support talks under certain conditions.
So the Taliban seizure of Kunduz looks like a huge setback.
Suddenly the discussion is all about whether this marks the moment a resurgent Taliban begins to roll back the Afghan government.
But the all too familiar scenes of war in Afghanistan do not mean all hope of a negotiated peace is lost. Indeed, the ferocious battle for Kunduz may actually make a negotiated peace more likely.
Why? Well, first off no-one thought the conflict would end as talks began.
When the main coalition forces pulled out in December, bloodshed was expected as the Taliban tested the strength and resolve of the Afghan forces.
But the movement has been at a low ebb, split by the succession battle that followed the surprise announcement in July that Mullah Omar had been dead for more than two years.
Kunduz demonstrates that the Taliban remains a formidable fighting force.
What it doesn't show is that the Taliban has ruled out the idea of a negotiated settlement.
Many observers believe its leadership recognises that they are never going to take back control of Afghanistan, opening up the possibility of some kind of political compromise.
In which case Kunduz could be seen as part of a long-term bid by the Taliban to strengthen their hand in future negotiations.
The bad news is that it also confirms that this is likely to be a very long game.
But the success of the assault on Kunduz may have repercussions that weaken the Taliban's position in the longer term.
There are still some 10,000 US troops stationed in Afghanistan. President Obama has said complete withdrawal will take place by the end of next year.
The Americans will leave a tiny force based in the US embassy in Kabul.
Kunduz could well force the Americans to reconsider the policy.
America's longest war in recent years is reckoned to have cost more than a trillion dollars and the lives of almost 2,500 US soldiers.
"Do they really want to see their huge investment here turn to dust?", the former Afghan interior minister, Mohammad Omar Daudzai, asked when we met earlier this week.
He hopes Kunduz will encourage President Obama to explore the options for keeping more troops on the ground.
A bigger US presence would strengthen the Afghan army, hampering the prospects of a further Taliban advance in the longer term. And that, in turn, might make them more likely to come to the table for talks.
So while we may not see a let up in the violence here in Afghanistan any time soon, there are reasons why a flicker of optimism may still be justified. | A few months ago the prospects for peace in Afghanistan looked better than they had in years. | 34425544 |
Menzies said Iain Napier had informed the company that he wished to retire.
Mr Napier, who joined the board eight years ago, will step down after the group's annual general meeting on Friday.
He is the third high-ranking figure this year to leave the Edinburgh-based print distribution and aviation services company.
In January, former chief executive Jeremy Stafford resigned after just 15 months in the post, citing "personal reasons".
And last month, chief financial officer Paula Bell gave notice of her intention to resign in July, in order to join the board of Spirent Communications.
In a statement on Wednesday, the company said Mr Napier's wish to retire was "in line with the reduction of his other plc responsibilities".
Current non-executive group director Dermot Jenkinson will become interim chairman, following Mr Napier's departure.
He will run the process of appointing a permanent successor.
Mr Jenkinson said: "The board would like to thank Iain for his considerable contribution to the John Menzies business and board over the last eight years.
"He has marshalled us through significant periods of change over his tenure with great skill and experience. We wish him the very best for the future."
In March, John Menzies reported that contractual problems at London Gatwick Airport last year cost the company £6m in lost earnings.
In its annual results statement, the firm said profits were hit by increased labour costs incurred in maintaining ground handling service levels.
Overall pre-tax profit for the year was down by about 30%, at £18.2m.
The group's turnover for the year was flat at just under £2bn. | Logistics specialist John Menzies has announced that its chairman is to step down from the board later this week. | 36322254 |
Researchers working on the US space agency's Maven satellite have reported their first big set of results in a clutch of scholarly papers.
These detail how Martian air today is being removed at high altitudes through its interactions with the Sun.
They calculate the rates at which gases escape, and suggest why these rates may have been even higher in the past.
"We're well on the way to answering many of our questions; much further along actually than I thought we would be at this stage," said Bruce Jakosky, the principal investigator on Nasa's Maven spacecraft.
"What we're reporting today is data from just the first 6-7 months from our primary mission.
"We're still analysing this data, and we have already been approved for a mission extension that will allow us to round out one full Martian year and to see the response of the system to all the seasons on Mars," he told BBC News.
All the observations by previous satellites and landers at the Red Planet indicate that it was once shrouded in a thick blanket of gases, which supported the presence of liquid water at its surface.
This is evident in the many landscape features that resemble the remains of river channels, deltas and lakes.
But the air pressure on Mars today is less than 1% of what it is on Earth, meaning any free water would instantly boil away or freeze solid.
Some of the air has probably reacted with, and been incorporated into, minerals at the surface.
However, the most likely explanation for the atmosphere's loss - and the one that Maven began testing last year - is that the Sun has simply stripped it away, turning Mars from a warm and wet world into a cold and dry one.
The satellite has been making a series of deep dives into the atmosphere as it orbits the planet.
These dips take it to under 200km from the surface - enabling it to sample the gases that are present and to record how they are behaving when excited by our star.
The Sun emits a constant stream of charged particles called the solar wind. This wind carries magnetic fields and when these hit the planet they generate electric fields that are then able to accelerate atmospheric ions, hurling them either directly off into space or slamming them into other atmospheric constituents so that they are removed.
The loss rates may appear on the face of it to be quite small, but they are significant when applied over the 4.5 billion years of Mars' history.
Maven scientist Jasper Halekas from the University of Iowa explained: "We find that there are roughly 100 grams of atmosphere escaping every second, a quarter of a pound escaping every second.
"I can't help but imagine hamburgers flying out of the Martian atmosphere - one per second. But fortunately it's instead oxygen and carbon dioxide that are leaving the planet which are important both for water and for the climate of the planet overall."
The Maven team also got to observe the impact of a coronal mass ejection at Mars in March this year.
A CME is a huge bubble of excited gas that occasionally billows away from the Sun. A CME will move faster than the solar wind and carry even more energy.
When this bubble struck the atmosphere, Maven saw escape rates spike 10 to 20 times higher, at least.
"Solar storms were more common and more intense earlier in Solar System history, so long ago we expect escape to have been happening all the time and stripping away lots of atmosphere from the planet," said Dr Halekas.
"This implies that not only is Mars' atmosphere escaping today and has been escaping over time, but much of that atmosphere may have been lost early on."
Had Mars retained a global magnetic field, it might have been able to deflect and resist this persistent, abrasive assault from our star.
Scientists think however that the internal dynamo generating such a field probably collapsed just a few hundred million years after the planet formed.
Thankfully for Earth, its global magnetic field continues to operate and afford protection. Otherwise, our climate system could have been altered in a very similar way.
Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos | Scientists think they are getting closer to explaining precisely how Mars lost much of its atmosphere. | 34736574 |
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New Zealand lead Sir Ben Ainslie's Great Britain team 3-1 in their first-to-five contest. In the other semi-final, Japan lead Sweden 3-1.
America's Cup Race Management said all four scheduled races will now move to Thursday, when better conditions are forecast.
"It's not good out there today," said regatta director Iain Murray.
"Unfortunately we won't be racing and we will have to come back tomorrow."
The delay could benefit New Zealand, who spent all night repairing their catamaran after a spectacular capsizing during a race against Britain on Tuesday.
The catamaran fell forwards on the run-in to the start, leaving some crew suspended in the hull above the water.
Three were thrown overboard but all of New Zealand's crew were accounted for.
Media playback is not supported on this device | Wednesday's semi-final races at the America's Cup in Bermuda have been postponed because of high winds. | 40194996 |
Glen More, 24, Thomas Carling, 19, and Joshua Colman, 22, were part of a large group who clashed with officers attempting to break up the event at Twyford Wood, near Bourne, on 23 June.
The men, who admitted violent disorder, appealed against their jail terms but the application was rejected.
Mr Justice Males said the judge was "entitled" to pass deterrent sentences.
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More than 20 officers and a police dog were injured during the incident.
Colman, of Narborough, Norfolk, was jailed for 18 months and Carling, of Corsham, Wiltshire, was jailed for 12 months at a hearing in July.
More, of Stroud, Gloucestershire, was jailed for 12 months in October.
Mr Justice Males said: "It's a matter of great regret when a person of good character takes part in criminal activity that is out of character and quickly regrets.
"That activity and the punishment that follows may cast a blight over the lives of those who are essentially, apart from this occasion, decent young people.
"We recognise the severe consequences for each of the three appellants. A single night of mindless violence may have long-term consequences.
"The fact this was mindless and carried out under the influence of alcohol or drugs was no excuse." | A judge was right to jail three men for their part in violence towards police at an illegal rave in Lincolnshire. | 38238068 |
Men in Ullapool took on fishermen from the USSR in the kick-about in 1984.
The fishermen had to borrow boots for the game, which caused a storm in western media because of the heightened tensions between the East and West.
The pictures taken by Frank Hempel, then a resident of East Germany, are on display at Ullapool Muesum.
The images form part of a new exhibition recalling visits to Ullapool by "klondykers", factory ships that would anchor in Loch Broom to process mackerel.
Dozens of klondykers from all over the world, including the former USSR, arrived in the loch between the 1970s and early 90s.
Dubbed Scotland versus the Soviet Union, the game in 1984 saw the Eastern Bloc crewmen borrow boots from local people so they could play.
It was condemned by the media in the UK, USA and Australia. Ullapool Museum said the match was seen as a threat to western society.
Cold War events during 1984 included a collision between a US aircraft carrier and a Soviet nuclear submarine, and the USSR's boycott of the Olympics in Los Angeles.
Noel Hawkins, one of the residents of Ullapool involved in setting up the exhibition, said it was the first and last time such a football game was played in the village because of the attention it gained.
The idea for the exhibition followed a recent visit to the Highlands by Mr Hempel from Naumburg in Germany.
During a trip on the tourist boat Summer Queen, Mr Hempel mentioned to Mr Hawkins, a crewman on the vessel, that he had been a teenager from Soviet East Germany on one of the klondykers.
Mr Hawkins had worked as a ferryman in Ullapool delivering stores to the factory ships.
Mr Hempel now visits Scotland every year with his wife Beate and daughter Lena.
Ullapool Museum curator Helen Avenell has recorded the former klondyker talking about his earlier visits to the west Highland port.
She said: "As word spread that we were planning an exhibition about the klondykers, many people in the village that had worked with the ships and businesses supplying stores, personnel and ferrying came forward to share their recollections as well as pictures and memorabilia."
The memorabilia includes a sealed bottle of Russian vodka that was brought ashore in the 1980s. | Photographs of a controversial football match played in the Highlands during the Cold War have been put on public display for the first time. | 32844684 |
The 29-year-old woman was attacked in Papermill Wynd in Edinburgh at about 01:00 on Saturday 19 December.
Police said she had been out in the city centre with friends and was walking home when a man approached her in Queen Street.
The pair walked together until they reached Papermill Wynd, where the man assaulted her.
She contacted police after returning home and detectives said they have since been pursuing various lines of inquiry to identify the man or speak with anyone who may have witnessed the attack.
The suspect was described as being of South Asian appearance, in his late 20s, 5ft 7in of skinny build. He had short, dark hair and was wearing blue jeans and a dark waterproof jacket.
Det Sgt Jon Pleasance, of Police Scotland, said: "This was a distressing ordeal for the victim and we have been actively conducting inquiries in the area to trace the suspect.
"I would ask that anyone who remembers seeing any suspicious activity around Papermill Wynd in the early hours of 19 December contacts police immediately.
"We would also ask anyone who was returning from work or a Christmas night out in the city centre that evening and remembers seeing this male approaching and then walking with the victim to get in touch." | A woman was indecently assaulted as she walked home from a night out last month. | 35268697 |
The Norwegian side visit Celtic Park this week in a Champions League third qualifying round first leg.
Deila manages Rosenborg's Eliteserien rivals Valerenga in his homeland.
"Their best skills in the team are defend and counter attack," the 41-year-old coach said of the Trondheim team.
"That will suit them and that's what they want to do in Celtic Park - they want to stay a little bit higher than maybe Linfield was doing.
"But, of course, if Celtic's very good. Rosenborg will try to break on the counter attacks, a little bit like Molde did against Celtic when I was the manager - so 4-5-1, quite low and very quick on the counter with quick wingers.
"It's the best team in Norway by far in the last seasons. They have tradition and they have consistency in culture and style of play, so it's very easy to know what Rosenborg is going to do.
"They're not thinking about hiding something. Everybody knows what they're going to do.
"They just want to do it good enough that Celtic are going to struggle.
"They are very similar to the Dutch football - 4-3-3 with two offensive midfielders and quick wingers.
"They have the best academy - a little bit like a small Celtic in Norwegian style, but at the same time, not even close to being as big as Celtic. And the team this year is not the best.
"They were better two years ago and much better 10 years ago."
Deila believes injured winger Pal Andre Helland is "a big loss" for Rosenborg and says former Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner has underperformed.
The 29-year-old Denmark international joined Rosenborg for the 2017 Eliteserien and has scored six goals in 20 games, with his side five points clear at the top of the division.
"He hasn't performed very well," Deila said of Bendtner, who also had spells in England with Birmingham City and Sunderland forward.
"He's scored some goals in set plays, but if you're a striker in Rosenborg, you should score 20-plus every year and he hasn't scored that much and also hasn't been good in the open play either.
"When he has a goal chance, he has very good technique and is a good finisher, but he doesn't come to enough goal chances.
"They brought him to the club because he's going to be the main man when it comes up to games like Celtic."
Brendan Rodgers replaced Deila at Celtic last summer and led the Glasgow side to the Champions League group stage and the domestic treble, the latter feat without losing a match.
Deila insists he was "not very surprised" by his successor's debut season and says the Northern Irishman is "a fantastic manager".
"It's a fantastic culture in the club - they are used to winning," Deila said.
"Celtic now is way above all the other teams in Scotland and you can see that also when you look at the results in Europe and also in the league table."
The Norwegian was also asked if he felt he could have achieved more success with more investment, having secured successive Premiership titles and a Scottish League Cup during his two years in Glasgow.
"You can always think about that, but at the same time, I knew what the deal was when I signed the contract," he added.
"It was about building up young players and bringing talented players and trying to get them to get up to the highest level.
"A lot of the players who are playing with Brendan last year and this year as well are players that got a chance when I was the manager. I'm of course proud of that.
"We won trophies, but in the crucial games in Europe, we were not good enough, like Malmo away [2015's Champions League play-off defeat].
"That's the most irritating game if I think back to the time.
"I'm not angry at anybody. I enjoyed the time and learned a lot.
"This was the first time I was abroad and managed a club like that so, of course, I feel much more competent and much more experienced as a manager.
"That's how life is. You need to learn from your bad decisions and you have to take with you the good ones." | Former Celtic manager Ronny Deila expects Rosenborg to try to hit the Scottish champions on the break when the sides meet on Wednesday. | 40697034 |
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The 24-year-old, who returned to the England training squad on Tuesday after 15 months out because of injury, could play against Exeter on Sunday.
Tuilagi could then make his international return in the Six Nations match against Wales on 12 March.
England have retained 22 players, with Alex Goode, Courtney Lawes and Jamie George among the others released.
"This is an opportunity for them to get back to their clubs, to play well, to get some more game time under their belts, and rejoin us ready for the next match," said England forwards coach Steve Borthwick.
Tuilagi has scored 11 tries in 25 England appearances, but has not featured for his country since June 2014 as his career has been disrupted by injury and off-field disciplinary problems.
He returned to action for Leicester in January but injured a hamstring in his third game back, further delaying his Test comeback.
Tuilagi feared during the past year his rugby career might be over - and said his focus is now on staying fit.
"When you're out for a long time, it can get quite hard mentally," he said. "I just kept thinking about when I was going to get back playing again. I kept thinking that there's going to be light at the tunnel and it did come in the end - thank God."
Borthwick, a former England captain, says Tuilagi has looked in "good shape".
"It's great to have him here. He's done well in the short time he's been back with us, and he's certainly a player that will hopefully have an impact for this team," Borthwick added.
"Hopefully he'll have another good game for his club side this weekend." | Leicester Tigers centre Manu Tuilagi is one of 11 England players released to play for their clubs this weekend. | 35702795 |
It has emerged that they included the foetus of her unborn child.
Sylvia Fleming's dismembered remains were discovered under the flooring of a house at Mullaghmore in County Tyrone.
The 17-year-old care worker's former boyfriend Stephen Scott, was jailed for life for the 1998 murder.
Josie Fleming says the family only found out that her sister's body parts were retained when they received a visit from a PSNI Liaison Officer.
She said: "I thought they were here to talk about Stephen Scott's release, but then they started to talk about body parts that were retained.
"I was here on my own. I was very shocked and I just broke down. At first I couldn't put together what they were trying to tell me, it was only after they left and I sat and thought about everything I realised what they were actually here for.
"I rang my sister Kathleen and broke the news to her. She reacted the same way as me, very shocked, very upset, the past three months have been a complete nightmare to get through."
Josie Fleming said the family want answers
"I don't think we will ever get closure until these questions are answered. We want to know how this all happened in the first place. It has taken until now for it all to come to light.
"Why have they held Sylvia's body parts and organs this past 14 years when Stephen Scott was convicted and sentenced in 2000? We are very angry that the whole thing has happened in the first place." | The family of an Omagh murder victim say they have been put through a "living hell" after discovering that body parts belonging to her were retained. | 19541215 |
Northampton Borough Council sold the 4,000-year-old Sekhemka statue in July.
Arts Council England has ruled the council ineligible for a series of grants because of the sale.
The funding was being sought for an exhibition of designer shoes dating from the 19th Century to the present. The council said it was "disappointed".
As well as losing Arts Council "accreditation", the Museums Association has decided to ban the council from membership for five years.
But the authority said it had already decided to resign its membership.
Arts Council England said the sale of Sekhemka breached the accredited standards for how museums managed their collections.
Money from the auction at Christie's was shared with Lord Northampton, whose ancestors donated the statue to Northampton Museum.
The HLF said it had rejected Northampton Council's Collecting Cultures application for £240,400 because it was ineligible for that particular programme.
This programme requires Arts Council eligibility as part of its criteria, a spokeswoman said.
"We would assess any other future applications from the council on their own merits," she said.
The borough council received £130,000 in 2008 from the HLF for a Collecting Cultures project called Trainers, Sneakers, Pumps and Daps.
The council said it understood the HLF had a duty to fund a wide range of projects and was disappointed to miss out. | A council's bid for a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant of £240,400 has been rejected after it sold an ancient Egyptian statue for nearly £16m. | 29903549 |
British-Australian company Rio Tinto and US-based Alcoa said on Tuesday they would relinquish a 44-year-old agreement with the WA government.
The Mitchell Plateau area in the country's Kimberley region will become part of the Kimberley National Park.
At more than two million hectares, the new park will be Australia's largest.
The termination of the deal between the WA government and the two companies will see more than 175,000 acres incorporated into the new Kimberley National Park.
The area being surrendered by the joint mining venture is known for its rich flora and fauna, as well as the spectacular Mitchell and Merthen Falls and indigenous rock art more than 40,000 years old.
The new park will also incorporate the existing Prince Regent, Mitchell River and Lawley River national parks.
Sam Walsh, chief executive of Rio Tinto, acknowledged that the successful development of an alumina refinery on the site - which was part of the deal - had "always proven to be economically challenging".
Mr Walsh said Rio Tinto was "proud to be able to encourage the government's ambition to establish a new National Park in the Kimberley region, with this significant addition to the conservation area".
Western Australia Premier Colin Barnett said: "The Mitchell Plateau and the Mitchell Falls are spectacular and unique landscapes in Australia and will be the jewels in the crown of the new Kimberley National Park.
"I am delighted that thanks to this agreement, this extraordinary landscape will now be conserved."
Legislation will be introduced in Parliament this week to cancel the mining deal and it is expected to receive cross-party support.
The two mining companies have agreed to contribute approximately A$750,000 (£400,000; $590,000) to restore parts of the landscape which have seen exploratory drilling. | Mining giants Rio Tinto and Alcoa have agreed to scrap plans for a new mine in Western Australia to allow the land to be incorporated into a national park. | 32045553 |
He will still ask Congress to approve the arming of Syrian opposition forces.
Mr Obama is due to give a speech on Wednesday night in which he will outline his anti-IS strategy.
IS militants have taken over large parts of Syria and Iraq in recent months and have declared a "caliphate".
In the past month, IS militants have beheaded two US journalists in protest against American airstrikes on its forces in Iraq.
Mr Obama's moves come as Secretary of State John Kerry goes to the Middle East in an effort to build up regional support for a coalition to combat IS.
Mr Kerry is travelling to Jordan and Saudi Arabia for talks with officials from 10 Arab states and Turkey.
Meanwhile the Saudi ambassador in London, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf, rejected suggestions that his government was supporting or funding IS.
"It is the lack of international involvement that has paved the way for terrorist-affiliated movements to breed within Syria, and now Iraq," he said in a statement.
"We have previously urged the international community to take an in-depth look at the financial backing and organisational structure of this terrorist organisation.
"Had this been carried out it would have been revealed that rather than being the instigator of such terrorist network Saudi Arabia is in fact the main target."
Mr Obama discussed his anti-IS strategy with leaders from both parties at the White House on Tuesday. A spokesman said the talks were "productive".
The meeting with Congressional leaders came a year after lawmakers blocked Mr Obama's previous plans for missile strikes against Syria.
Mr Obama has ruled out the possibility of a US ground operation against IS but has signalled he may expand airstrikes to include Syria.
"Over the course of months, we are going to be able to not just blunt the momentum of [IS]," he said on Sunday. "We are going to systematically degrade their capabilities; we're going to shrink the territory that they control; and, ultimately, we're going to defeat them."
At the White House on Tuesday, he met Democrats Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and Republicans John Boehner, the speaker of the House of Representatives, and Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader.
The White House said Mr Obama had told the congressional leaders he welcomed action from Congress in support of the effort and pledged "continuing extensive consultation".
But Mr Obama's aides suggested he would not seek new authorisation from Congress for military action.
"The president told the leaders that he has the authority he needs to take action against [IS] in accordance with the mission he will lay out in his address tomorrow night," the White House said.
Mr Obama will make a televised speech from the White House at 21:00 local time on Wednesday (01:00 GMT Thursday).
Mr Boehner, one of Mr Obama's chief political adversaries, told the president he would back a US military deployment to train and advise the Iraqi security forces and assist in the targeting of IS leaders, an aide to the House speaker said in a statement to the BBC.
According to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, a large majority of the American public views Islamic State as a serious threat to the US and widely supports air strikes in Iraq and Syria.
About 100 Americans are believed to have joined the militants and the US state department has tried to counter this by making a hard-hitting video that tries to dissuade potential recruits.
Meanwhile, France has announced it will host an international conference on Iraq on 15 September and President Francois Hollande will visit the country later this week. | President Barack Obama has said that he has the authority to widen military action against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq and Syria without the approval of Congress. | 29131830 |
Keith Lowe and Joshua Hack lured Brendan Mason to Abbey Park in Leicester where they beat him, stripped him naked to get rid of evidence, then left him for dead.
Mr Mason, 23, died in hospital after suffering 99 injuries.
Lowe, 22, and Hack, 21, were given life sentences at Leicester Crown Court.
Lowe will serve a minimum of 21 years and Hack will serve a minimum of 20 years and six months.
Hack admitted murder while Lowe changed his plea to guilty after video evidence emerged during his trial of him landing blows on Mr Mason.
Prosecutor Miranda Moore QC said the defendants filmed the attack for a third party to view and footage shows Mr Mason's naked and bloodied body on the ground.
Speaking after the sentencing, Mr Mason's aunt Sarah Chambers said: "It is not right how two evil people can do such a horrific thing and leave a massive hole in our lives that will never be filled again.
"Brendan was a lovely young man and he was so happy.
"Even though Brendan had numerous learning difficulties and was very easily led by others, he always knew right from wrong."
The court heard Lowe, of Rockingham Close, Leicester, and Hack, of St Helen's Drive, Leicester, had been friends of Mr Mason and planned to assault him.
Judge Michael Chambers QC said the attack on 5 July "was an intention to cause extremely severe violence and injury".
"You [Lowe and Hack] subjected him [Mr Mason] to a brutal and sustained attack in which you caused him great pain and humiliation," he said.
"Brendan Mason was only 23 with his life before him. You subjected him to a merciless attack with extreme violence."
Judge Chambers described the footage, which was not shown in court, as "chilling and deeply disturbing". | Two men who used their phones to film themselves brutally attacking a man with learning difficulties have been jailed for his murder. | 39029305 |
Mr McDonagh, who was 28 and from Castledawson, was assaulted outside a bar last Sunday morning.
The 33-year-woman was detained in Banbridge on Saturday morning and is being questioned on suspicion of withholding information.
A 24-year-old man appeared in court on Thursday charged with murder. | Police investigating the murder of James McDonagh in Toomebridge last weekend have arrested a woman. | 35333174 |
Lawro's opponents for this weekend's Premier League fixtures and FA Cup quarter-finals are Sophie Rose from Chelsea supporter channel CFC Fan TV and Manchester United followers Adam McKola and Stephen Howson from Full Time DEVILS.
Unsurprisingly, Sophie has a very different view from Adam and Stephen about how Monday's mouth-watering tie between Chelsea and United will turn out.
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You can watch that game live on BBC One and the BBC Sport website from 19:30 GMT to find out who called it correctly.
Sophie, Adam and Stephen have also got involved in BBC Sport's No Guts, No Glory campaign to share their tales of the magic of the FA Cup - and choose some recent match as their most memorable moments.
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*United to win on penalties. There are no replays in the FA Cup quarter-finals.
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
This week's guests will need a big performance to claim top spot on the FA Cup leaderboard after Robbie from Arsenal Fan TV joined BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ A Dot at the summit with his scores from round five.
Last week, Lawro got six correct results, including two perfect scores from 10 Premier League matches, for a total of 120 points.
He beat cricket legend David Gower, who got five correct results with one perfect score, for a tally of 80 points.
All kick-offs 15:00 GMT unless otherwise stated.
Middlesbrough 0-2 Man City
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
CFC Fan TV's prediction: 0-3
Full Time Devils' prediction: 1-2
Match report
Bournemouth 3-2 West Ham
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
CFC Fan TV's prediction: 2-2
Full Time Devils' prediction: 2-1
Match report
Everton 3-0 West Brom
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
CFC Fan TV's prediction: 2-1
Full Time Devils' prediction: 2-0
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Hull 2-1 Swansea
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
CFC Fan TV's prediction: 0-2
Full Time Devils' prediction: 1-0
Match report
Arsenal v Lincoln (FA Cup, 17:30 GMT)
I am now in the camp that feels sorry for Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, but for the sake of his legacy I don't know why he is holding on.
The big thing for me is that he has absolutely nothing to prove any more. You could ask any of the Premier League managers he has come up against and they would tell you what a fantastic manager he is.
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So I don't understand why he doesn't say something about how it has been a fantastic 20 years, but after the last game of the season that is it.
Wenger has been absolutely brilliant and he has written his own chapter in the history of the Premier League, but his best mate - whoever that is - needs to tell him: "Arsene, come on. It's time to go."
He deserves the chance to say goodbye and that way he would be given a great send-off he could organise himself, not a sad ending.
It would also lift the club completely and get rid of the doom and gloom surrounding it at the moment.
I don't see those issues affecting them on Saturday at Emirates Stadium, though.
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The Lincoln story is fantastic and the other great thing for them is that, as well as reaching the last eight of the FA Cup, they have kept winning to stay top of the National League too.
That tells you how good they are, but their FA Cup adventure ends here.
Lawro's prediction: 3-0
Sophie: We all know Arsenal are nowhere near winning the title but they have a habit of doing well in the FA Cup. Also, they are still a top-four Premier League side and Lincoln are nowhere near that.
CFC Fan TV's prediction: 4-1
Adam: Arsenal at home against the minnows. Can the unthinkable happen?
Stephen: I am going for the upset. Arsenal will go through, no doubt about it. It will probably be a slapping too.
Full Time Devils' prediction: 4-0
Match preview
Tottenham v Millwall (FA Cup, 14:00 GMT KO, live on BBC One from 13:30 GMT)
Millwall are flying in League One and have not lost any of their past 17 games in all competitions.
The Lions also went nine games without conceding a goal before MK Dons found the net against them on Saturday.
They have already beaten three Premier League teams - Bournemouth, Watford and Leicester - to get this far, so it is fitting that now they have landed one of the really big boys.
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I think this is where the Lions' run ends, though.
Spurs striker Harry Kane cannot stop scoring and his partnership with Dele Alli looks very special. Tottenham will just be too strong for them.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Sophie: It would not surprise me if Millwall get a goal but I don't see them stopping Kane.
CFC Fan TV's prediction: 3-1
Adam: A good London derby here, are Millwall going to cause another upset?
Stephen: I don't think so, to be honest. Kane used to play for Millwall, so he is nailed on to score.
Full Time Devils' prediction: 3-0
Liverpool v Burnley (Premier League, 16:00 GMT)
I am at Anfield on Sunday for Match of the Day 2 and in many ways - especially in relation to the rest of the season - this is Liverpool's biggest game for a long time.
Forget about the Reds' wins over Arsenal, Tottenham and Manchester City at home in the past few weeks because we know what Burnley are all about - they showed that in their win over Liverpool at Turf Moor in August.
The Clarets have only picked up two points away from home all season but they are still very difficult to break down and we know that Liverpool really struggle against teams like that.
So I am looking at this game and thinking what will Liverpool do to change that.
I think the Reds will win and I am certainly not expecting a repeat of their performance against Leicester when they got everything wrong.
But whether that happens depends on Philippe Coutinho and Roberto Firmino finding some consistency - because they have not been at their best recently. While Sadio Mane and Adam Lallana have been great, those other two have been a little bit iffy.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
CFC Fan TV's prediction: 1-1
Stephen: Liverpool have been massively inconsistent in 2017. They can look good but sometimes they look awful - and being a United fan, I can't predict a Liverpool win.
Full Time Devils' prediction: 1-1
Chelsea v Man Utd (FA Cup, 19:45 GMT KO, live on BBC One from 19:30 GMT)
Manchester United's busy schedule that sees them play in Russia in the Europa League on Thursday night will obviously make a difference.
I will be fascinated to see what team United boss Jose Mourinho picks, because Chelsea are not a side you want to play when you are tired.
Chelsea will want to turn United - and Mourinho - over, just like they did when they beat them 4-0 in the Premier League October.
There will be no room for sentiment and that is just the way Chelsea are at the moment - they get the job done. That is not going to change because their manager Antonio Conte will not let them change.
The Blues are cruising in the league, 10 points clear and they have to be favourites to win that and the FA Cup too. There is no better team than them in the Premier League at the moment.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
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Sophie: Now for the big one. I am buzzing for this game. I am going and cannot wait.
As a Chelsea fan this fixture will always be bittersweet while Jose Mourinho is United's manager, but we did well against them earlier in the season when we beat them 4-0 in October.
It is going to be a really tense game and a tough one too. I think we will get through but it is going to be tight.
CFC Fan TV's prediction: 3-2
Adam: This could be a classic FA Cup tie.
Stephen: It is going to be very tight - I am struggling to call it but I think I am going 1-0.
Adam: I am going for the same scoreline as in Moscow in the 2008 Champions League final when we beat them in a penalty shoot-out. You having that?
Stephen: I will take whatever there is to get through this game, mate!
Full Time Devils prediction: 1-1 aet. United to win on penalties
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
*Does not include scores from postponed games.
Lawro's best score: 140 points (week 22 v James McAvoy)
Lawro's worst score: 30 points (week four v Dave Bautista) | BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson is pitting his wits against a different guest each week this season. | 39201043 |
Its plane, yet to go into development, would carry 150 people on journeys of less than 300 miles.
Wright Electric said by removing the need for jet fuel, the price of travel could drop dramatically.
British low-cost airline Easyjet has expressed its interest in the technology.
"Easyjet has had discussions with Wright Electric and is actively providing an airline operator's perspective on the development of this exciting technology," the airline told the BBC.
However, significant hurdles need to be overcome if Wright Electric is to make the Wright One, pictured above, a reality.
The company is relying heavily on innovation in battery technology continuing to improve at its current rate. If not, the firm will not be able to build in enough power to give the plane the range it needs.
Industry experts are wary of the company's claims. Graham Warwick, technology editor of Aviation Weekly, said such technology was a "long way away".
"The battery technology is not there yet," he told the BBC.
"It's projected to come but it needs a significant improvement. Nobody thinks that is going to happen anytime soon. And there's all the [safety] certification - those rules are yet to be created, and that takes time."
The company is yet to produce a plane of its own and is instead working alongside American inventor Chip Yates, whose own electric aircraft, the Long-ESA, holds the world record for fastest electric aircraft.
Wright Electric's competitors include aviation giant Airbus, which has been developing its electric two-seater plane E-Fan since 2014, and has stated plans to create its own short-haul electric aeroplane seating 70 to 90 passengers.
Wright Electric is backed by Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's most highly-regarded start-up incubator programme. Alumni of the scheme include companies such as AirBnB, file storage company Dropbox and HR management software firm Zenefits.
Wright Electric's goal, detailed in a presentation given to potential investors on Tuesday, is to make all short-haul flights electric-powered within the next 20 years, which would be about 30% of all flights made globally.
The company said that as well as lower fuel costs for the airlines, the technology could have a major added benefit for the public.
"Depending on how it's designed, you can have an electric plane that's substantially less loud than a fuel plane," said Jeff Engler, Wright Electric's co-founder.
Batteries would be charged separately, he said, meaning planes would not have to sit on the tarmac while power is replenished.
"The way we've designed our plane is to have modular battery packs for quick swap using the same cargo container that's in a regular airplane," Mr Engler said.
"We want it to be as fast as possible, so airlines can keep their planes in the air as long as possible and cover their costs."
Other technology start-ups are seeking to innovate within the aviation industry.
Boom, a company backed by Sir Richard Branson, is developing a Concorde-like supersonic jet. It hopes to achieve London to New York in three-and-a-half hours, a journey which currently takes more than eight hours. It is expected to run test flights later this year.
Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC. You can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370 | A new start-up says that it intends to offer an electric-powered commercial flight from London to Paris in 10 years. | 39350058 |
A report by the group highlights secret defence budgets and poor oversight of militaries as particularly problematic.
The region has some of the fastest growing defence budgets in the world.
The report says defence corruption has also fuelled the rise of extremist groups such as Islamic State (IS).
The release of the report comes amid several conflicts in the region, including the fight against IS in Syria and Iraq, the Syrian civil war, fighting between militias in Libya and an air campaign by a Saudi-led coalition against Shia rebels in Yemen.
"Corruption has fuelled political unrest, extremism, and formed a narrative for violent extremist groups," Transparency International's Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index says.
The report examined 17 countries from Morocco to Iran, that have spent a total of more than $135bn (£88bn) on their militaries. Israel and the Palestinian territories were not included.
The report says most of the countries it studied - excluding Jordan and Tunisia - provided no detailed information about military spending.
The details of Egypt's defence budget of $4.4bn are a state secret, with the military maintaining its own bank accounts and acting without oversight.
The Saudi government meanwhile uses arms purchases to seal alliances, buying similar weapons systems from different nations.
The report concludes:
The report also says that states that export weapons to the region should beware of the growing risk of arms proliferation and conflicts there.
"Governments in the region and their international allies should prioritise the creation of accountable defence institutions... in order to achieve sustainable security," the report says. | Corruption in the defence sector poses a huge risk to the security and stability of countries in the Middle East and North Africa, watchdog Transparency International says. | 34671502 |
Bale glanced in a Luca Modric cross just before half-time to claim his third goal of the season.
Ronaldo then scored his 16th after Lucas Vazquez was tripped late on.
Real avoided a third successive league defeat for the first time since the end of the 2008-09 season to move six points behind leaders Barcelona.
Benitez had received the backing of Real Madrid president Florentino Perez following his side's 4-0 defeat by Barcelona in last weekend's Clasico.
But the position of the former Liverpool manager would have been placed under further scrutiny had Real failed to beat the smallest club in La Liga and lost more ground in the title race.
Seventh-placed Eibar had lost only twice in the league this season and held their own for long periods.
But despite fielding a makeshift defence missing the injured Sergio Ramos, Raphael Varane and Marcelo, Real's lead was rarely threatened once Bale broke the deadlock before the interval.
Ronaldo missed good chances either side of the break when he had just goalkeeper Asier Riesgo to beat.
But he ended his frustration from the spot eight minutes from time after Dani Garcia brought down substitute Vazquez, as Real secured the result Benitez badly needed.
Benitez said: "We knew they were playing well, that they are an intense and aggressive team. That's why the victory has more merit.
"We are in November. We have had injuries and the games are getting tougher. We have a great team and we are going to keep fighting until the end."
Valencia had defender Joao Cancelo and midfielder Javi Fuego sent off either side of half-time as they lost 1-0 to Seville.
Afterwards, Valencia coach Nuno Santo confirmed that he would be leaving his position.
Villarreal missed the chance to move into the top four as a 2-0 defeat at Getafe means they have won only one of their last seven league games.
Angel Lafita and Alvaro Vazquez scored the goals which lifted Getafe four points clear of the relegation places.
Striker Aritz Aduriz, 34, scored a hat-trick and took his total for the season to 20 goals as Atletico Bilbao won 3-0 at Rayo Vallecano.
Match ends, Eibar 0, Real Madrid 2.
Second Half ends, Eibar 0, Real Madrid 2.
Simone Verdi (Eibar) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Luka Modric (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Simone Verdi (Eibar).
Attempt missed. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Gareth Bale following a fast break.
Foul by Nacho (Real Madrid).
Mikel Arruabarrena (Eibar) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Gonzalo Escalante (Eibar) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Luka Modric (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gonzalo Escalante (Eibar).
Pepe (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Simone Verdi (Eibar).
Luka Modric (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Simone Verdi (Eibar).
Substitution, Eibar. Mikel Arruabarrena replaces Sergi Enrich.
Substitution, Eibar. Izet Hajrovic replaces Saúl Berjón.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Karim Benzema replaces Daniel Carvajal because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid) because of an injury.
Goal! Eibar 0, Real Madrid 2. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.
Penalty Real Madrid. Lucas Vázquez draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Dani García (Eibar) after a foul in the penalty area.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Casemiro replaces Mateo Kovacic.
Attempt missed. Takashi Inui (Eibar) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right following a set piece situation.
Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid).
David Juncà (Eibar) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Pepe (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Simone Verdi (Eibar).
Attempt missed. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Luka Modric with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Dani García.
Danilo (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Takashi Inui (Eibar).
Attempt missed. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez with a through ball.
Substitution, Eibar. Simone Verdi replaces Adrián.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by David Juncà.
Mateo Kovacic (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gonzalo Escalante (Eibar). | Gareth Bale's header and Cristiano Ronaldo's penalty eased the pressure on manager Rafael Benitez as Real Madrid earned an unspectacular win at Eibar. | 34896757 |
In a presentation to supporters, owner Ann Budge said she hoped the structure would be open for September 2017.
The Edinburgh club also said they are confident it will be "completely paid for, with no bank debt at all."
They say funding plans will be revealed "shortly", with the formal design plans yet to be submitted.
The club will now enter into a period of public consultation.
Hearts add that they have been in discussions with supporters' group Foundation of Hearts, who are aware of how the project will be funded.
The new stand will bring the capacity of the stadium up to just under 21,000. | Hearts say they have raised 50% of funding for their proposed new main stand, with the cost of redeveloping Tynecastle estimated at £11-12m. | 36188593 |
A joint Lancet and Imperial College London review found poor countries were being given devices they could not use or maintain.
It said richer nations should aim their efforts at lower-cost equipment tailored for the developing world.
Research has shown 40% of devices in poor countries are out of service, compared to 1% in the developed world.
Donated medical equipment is one of the key sources of supply for developing countries, with some nations relying on aid for up to 80% of their infrastructure.
But the researchers gave several examples of equipment being donated that was just not suitable.
A Gambian hospital was once handed oxygen concentrators, devices used to deliver high concentrations of oxygen to patients, that did not have a voltage compatible with local electricity supplies.
On another occasion a hospital in Nicaragua was given lights for an operating theatre, but they could not afford the bulbs.
The report said rich nations should focus their efforts on what they called "frugal technologies".
These include things such as the Jaipur foot, a rubber prosthetic for people who have lost their leg below the knee.
Its design allows users to walk on uneven surfaces without a shoe.
Another suggestion was single use needles to reduce infection rates through needle re-use.
Peter Howitt, one of the report's authors, said: "We need to remember that most health technology is designed for an environment with high spending on health, a reliable energy supply and large numbers of trained healthcare professionals.
"It is not always appropriate for the developing world."
But the report did urge rich nations to consider making more use of mobile telecommunications, pointing out that while basic services such as sanitation remained a problem, many people had access to phones.
It said things such as smoking cessation and disease surveillance could be done via mobiles. | Inappropriate equipment is undermining the medical aid effort in developing countries, experts say. | 19063429 |
Rachel Fee, 31, and her civil partner Nyomi Fee, 28, deny killing their son Liam in a house near Glenrothes on 22 March 2014.
The women also deny locking another boy in a cage and tying a third to a chair in a room with rats and snakes.
The trial, which is expected to last for between four and six weeks, at the High Court in Livingston continues.
The couple, originally from Ryton, Tyne and Wear, deny committing the offences at the home they shared near Glenrothes between 12 January 2012 and 22 March 2014.
Both women are charged with assaulting Liam by repeatedly inflicting blunt force trauma to his head and body between 12 January 2012 and 14 March 2014.
They are accused of murdering him by inflicting similar blunt force injuries between 5 and 22 March 2014.
They are also charged with wilfully ill-treating, neglecting and abandoning Liam in a manner likely to cause him unnecessary suffering or injury to health between January and March 2014 leaving him in a darkened room without physical or mental stimulation, giving him medicine to make him sleep and failing to provide and seek appropriate, timely and adequate medical aid for him when he was injured.
They further deny attempting to defeat the ends of justice following Liam's death by delaying contacting the emergency services and falsely claiming during a 999 call - and later to police, friends and family - another boy was responsible for his death.
The Crown also alleges that prior to the arrival of police and paramedics on 22 March, they forced the hand of a boy they blamed into the dead child's mouth.
The women face cruelty and neglect charges against all three boys and the indictment includes allegations that they deprived them of food and threatened them with violence.
One of the boys allegedly had a cage of rats put on his head and the other was alleged to have been tied up in a room where rats and snakes were kept. | Two women have gone on trial accused of murdering a two-year-old boy in Fife and blaming the killing on another boy. | 36016542 |
RWE Innogy wanted to use water from the River Conwy to supply its proposed hydro power project at Betws y Coed.
The firm said it would have had a positive impact on the environment but campaigners were worried half an acre of the centuries-old Fairy Glen Wood would be destroyed by the build.
Snowdonia National Park Authority rejected the proposals on Wednesday.
The project would have taken water from the river above Penmachno bridge and diverted it through more than half a mile (1km) of pipeline around Fairy Glen to generate electricity, before returning it to the river near the River Lledr junction.
It would have been capable of generating enough power for about 3,200 homes a year.
Billy Langley, of RWE Innogy UK, said he was "extremely disappointed" with the authority's rejection of the plans, which he said would have had a positive impact on the local environment and economy.
"In light of this decision, we will now take some time to consider our options," he added. | Controversial plans to build a £12m hydro electric scheme at a beauty spot in Conwy Valley have been refused. | 35708521 |
The new cases of the H7N9 strain bring the total number of reported cases to 60. Two more people have now died.
Authorities believe the virus is being spread through direct contact with infected poultry.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said there was no evidence yet of human-to-human transmission.
Michael O'Leary, the WHO's representative in China, said cases did not appear to be connected.
"There's no way to predict how it will spread but it's not surprising if we have new cases in different places like we do in Beijing," he told reporters.
On Saturday a seven-year-old girl became Beijing's first confirmed case of the H7N9 strain.
Two cases were reported in the central Henan province, while the others were seen in and around Shanghai, where the virus first appeared in February.
Two new deaths announced on Sunday were also in Shanghai, bringing the total number of dead to 13.
There are no reported cases outside the country, according to the WHO.
Nineteen people who had close contact with the two new victims in Henan had shown no signs of infection, China's state news agency Xinhua said.
International health experts have commended China on its transparency in reporting the spread of the virus, in sharp contrast to its handling of a Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) outbreak in 2003, when 8,096 people were infected worldwide and 744 died. | China has reported 11 fresh cases of bird flu, with the virus now appearing in the central province of Henan and the capital Beijing. | 22141290 |
Numerous patients refused to have Antonella Indrizzi look after them due to her "extremely poor" language skills, a committee heard.
She worked as a healthcare assistant at King's Mill Hospital in Nottinghamshire but was a registered nurse.
The hospital has been asked to comment.
Ms Indrizzi's case went before the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) conduct and competence committee, which found that her fitness to practise as a nurse was "impaired".
"The panel has concluded that her lack of knowledge is such that she has in the past put patients at unwarranted risk of harm," the committee said, adding that "a striking-off order is the only appropriate order that would be sufficient to protect the public interest."
Ms Indrizzi was employed by the Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on 16 February 2015 following an overseas recruitment campaign in Italy.
One colleague told the committee that Ms Indrizzi would look at her like she did not understand what she saying.
It led to the colleague having to point with her hands and mime, while explaining verbally.
Ms Indrizzi also misinterpreted medical terms on the ward where she worked and did not communicate effectively with patients.
She told one upset patient to "be quiet" because she was unable to find the words to reassure her, a ward leader said.
In May 2016 she was directed by an NMC registrar to undertake an English language assessment, but failed to do so.
The committee panel said she had been given chances to improve her English but did not take any steps towards this.
"As a consequence, the panel cannot be satisfied that her knowledge of English has reached or will reach the necessary standard," the panel said. | An Italian nurse whose English was so bad a colleague had to point and mime to show her what to do has been struck off the medical register. | 40253305 |
Zafreen Khadam, 32, told Sheffield Crown Court she did not support terrorism and posted the links in order to "put myself in their little world".
Prosecutors claim the posts, which included execution videos, "glorified" IS and "encouraged terrorism".
Miss Khadam, of Vincent Road, Sheffield, denies the charges.
She said she had become interested in finding out more about IS after reading an article about a footballer who had joined the group.
She said she had been working with Sheffield-based group Football Unites Racism Divides and running a football blog at the time.
"There was an article saying 'London footballer leaves to join ISIS' and that really attracted me because it said football and London," she said.
"I read about him but then I did not know what ISIS was, what's an ISIS? where's he going? That's when I started looking in to it."
The court previously heard how Miss Khadam had described Kuwaiti-born Mohammed Emwazi - nicknamed "Jihadi John" - as "kind of scary" but said she "would marry him".
Asked by her barrister, Dermot Hughes, why she had begun posting links relating to IS on Twitter, she said: "I wanted to know more about these people and why would people that like football want to go across, so I put myself in their little world."
Mr Hughes then asked if she wanted to be a "paid-up, card carrying member of IS" to which she replied: "It was always about understanding them. I never supported them in my heart. It was an act."
Miss Khadam is said to have set up 14 Twitter accounts and used online messaging service Whatsapp to share pro-IS videos, documents and speeches.
She denies ten charges of disseminating terrorist publications between February and March 2015.
The trial continues. | A woman accused of encouraging terrorism by sharing so-called Islamic State propaganda online has said it was an "act" to "learn more about ISIS". | 36278315 |
The report, published in the Lancet to coincide with the build-up to the Olympics, estimates that about a third of adults are not doing enough physical activity, causing 5.3m deaths a year.
That equates to about one in 10 deaths from diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and breast and colon cancer.
Researchers said the problem was now so bad it should be treated as a pandemic.
And they said tackling it required a new way of thinking, suggesting the public needed to be warned about the dangers of inactivity rather than just reminded of the benefits of being active.
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The team of 33 researchers drawn from centres across the world also said governments needed to look at ways to make physical activity more convenient, affordable and safer.
It is recommended that adults do 150 minutes of moderate exercise, such as brisk walking, cycling or gardening, each week.
The Lancet study found people in higher income countries were the least active with those in the UK among the worst, as nearly two-thirds of adults were judged not to be doing enough.
From Monday to Saturday, the streets of the Colombian capital of Bogota are packed with cars.
The city - one of the largest in South America - is a teeming metropolis, home to more than seven million people.
But on a Sunday vehicles are nowhere to be seen. Instead, the streets are taken over by pedestrians and cyclists, thanks to Ciclovia, a traffic-free streets initiative run by the city authorities.
The scheme, backed by successive mayors, has been running in one guise or another since the mid-1970s.
It now covers nearly 100km of roads in the centre of the city on Sundays and public holidays.
But as well as making Bogota a quieter place to roam, the ban on cars also has a health benefit.
Research has shown about a million residents regularly walk around on a Sunday, a fifth of whom say they would be inactive if it were not for the ban on vehicles.
Dr Michael Pratt, who was involved in the Lancet research on physical inactivity, said the Bogota scheme was a "wonderful example" of how governments could be encouraging more exercise.
Sedentary lifestyle can kill
The researchers admitted comparisons between countries were difficult because the way activity was estimated may have differed from place to place.
Nonetheless, they said they remained confident that their overall conclusion was valid.
Pedro Hallal, one of the lead researchers, said: "With the upcoming 2012 Olympic Games, sport and physical activity will attract tremendous worldwide attention.
"Although the world will be watching elite athletes from many countries compete in sporting events... most spectators will be quite inactive.
"The global challenge is clear - make physical activity a public health priority throughout the world to improve health and reduce the burden of disease."
Prof Lindsey Davies, president of the UK Faculty of Public Health, agreed.
"We need to do all we can to make it easy for people to look after their health and get active as part of their daily lives," she said.
"Our environment has a significant part to play. For example, people who feel unsafe in their local park will be less likely to use it."
But others questioned equating smoking with inactivity.
While smoking and inactivity kill a similar number of people, smoking rates are much lower than the number of inactive people, making smoking more risky to the individual.
Dr Claire Knight, of Cancer Research UK, said: "When it comes to preventing cancer, stopping smoking is by far the most important thing you can do." | A lack of exercise is now causing as many deaths as smoking across the world, a study suggests. | 18876880 |
The Scotland coach's current deal runs out after the conclusion of the Euro 2016 qualification campaign in October.
"Gordon and I have had a chat about it and we will sit down after the Euro qualification phase and we'll discuss his future," Regan told BBC Scotland.
"Gordon has made it very clear that he loves this job."
Former Southampton and Celtic boss Strachan, 58, succeeded Craig Levein in early 2013, midway through a disappointing World Cup qualifying campaign.
And he has a record of 11 wins and four draws from the 21 matches he has overseen.
"Gordon's got a contract in place, that contract is all about taking Scotland to a major final," added Regan.
"We're part way through a campaign, we're in a very good place going into our double-header against Georgia and Germany next month.
"The point I would make is that whilst Gordon is winning matches for Scotland and developing the country like he has done it becomes very difficult to do anything other than to support him."
Asked about whether or not there might be concerns Strachan might be lured away by another management job, Regan emphasised the commitment the Scotland manager had shown to the cause.
"It suits him, it suits his lifestyle," he continued. "He likes working with the players, he likes working with the Scottish national team.
"And we've got a commitment that we'll sit down and have a chat about this once we know where we are with qualification."
Scotland sit third in Group D behind Poland and Germany, with the top two places securing qualification for the Euro 2016 finals in France.
The best third place side also enters the newly-expanded tournament automatically, with the remaining third place teams playing off to determine the final four qualifiers.
With four games to play over the next two months, Regan admits the anticipation is building.
"I think the Georgia game is going to be huge, a really great opportunity to put daylight between ourselves and the Republic of Ireland," he said.
"If we can get a result in Georgia it means we come back to two huge games at home against Germany and Poland. The Germany game is a sell-out. The Poland game is well on the way, and we're all very excited."
"Gordon has got everybody absolutely up for it. The players are wanting to be part of the squad, everyone wants to be picked.
"The fans are excited, the phone calls are coming in about tickets so it's something to look forward to. We haven't had that for such a long time, we're in such a good place. It's now up to the squad to try and do the business." | Scottish Football Association chief executive Stewart Regan says there is no rush for contract talks with Gordon Strachan. | 33933604 |
As cocks crow in the background, 17-year-old Nji Collins Gbah tells the BBC about the series of complex technical tasks he completed for Google between November and mid-January.
Nji had thrown himself into the contest, using knowledge gained from two years of learning how to code, mainly from online sources and books, as well as other skills he was picking up on the fly.
The prestigious Google Code-in is open to pre-university students worldwide between the ages of 13 and 17. This year more than 1,300 young people from 62 countries took part.
By the time entries closed, Nji had completed 20 tasks, covering all five categories set by Google. One task alone took a whole week to finish.
And then just a day after the deadline for final submissions, the internet went dead.
Nji lives in Bamenda in Cameroon's North-West, a journey of about seven hours by road from the capital (according to Google).
It is an English-speaking region where there are long-held grievances about discrimination and what people see as the Francophone establishment's failure to respect the status of English as an official language of Cameroon.
In recent months, disgruntlement has escalated into street protests and strikes by lawyers and teachers.
The authorities have responded with scores of arrests and a text-message campaign warning people of long jail terms for "spreading false news" or "malicious use of social media".
Cutting off the internet, an act still unacknowledged by the government, is seen by rights activists as both punishment and a blunt tool for holding back dissent.
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For an ambitious, tech-savvy though outwardly unpolitical teenager like Nji, whose school was already closed because of the protests, living without the internet was unthinkable.
As it was becoming clear that the outage was more than temporary, Nji received some unexpected news - he had been chosen as one of Google's 34 grand prize winners.
"I was really, really amazed," he says. "It meant my hard work writing a lot of code had really paid off."
But a champion coder without the internet will not stay on top of his game for long. Hence the trip to Yaounde.
"I wanted to get a connection so I could continue studying and keep in touch with Google," says Nji.
In due course, he hopes to finish school back in Bamenda, and then study computer science at a good university.
As part of his prize from Google, Nji will spend four days in June at the tech giant's Silicon Valley headquarters, meeting its top engineers and gaining insight into one of the world's most successful enterprises.
"Hopefully I would like to work there one day, if that is possible," he says.
At the moment, Nji says he is hard at work building his knowledge of artificial intelligence, neural networks and deep learning.
"I'm trying to develop my own model for data compression, using deep learning and machine learning," he says.
His eventual goal is a "huge step" forward in capabilities for data transfer and storage.
In a few days, Nji will turn 18, having already won international recognition for his achievements.
He admits to having gone back through previous years' Code-in prize announcements to double-check he was the first African winner.
When I ask, he says he has received congratulations from "a lot of friends and family and some people I don't really know".
Has anyone from the government been in touch?
"No, no-one," he says.
Back in Bamenda, a city of 500,000 and home to one of the continent's brightest young technologists, they wonder when the government will plug the internet back in. | The first African winner in Google's annual coding competition is 370km (230 miles) from home, sitting outside his cousins' house in the Cameroonian capital, Yaounde, because the government has cut off his hometown from the internet. | 38922819 |
The former hat model and her comic book maestro husband were set to celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary later this year.
Marvel Entertainment said they had "lost a member of the Marvel family".
American comic Kevin Smith, who interviewed Joan earlier this year, called her "Stan's personal superhero", adding: "Thank you Marvel Muse."
In a statement published by The Hollywood Reporter, Stan Lee's family confirmed "the sad news that Joan Lee passed away quietly [on Thursday] and surrounded by her family."
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to her husband and daughter," said Marvel in its own statement.
"We are so saddened to hear about the loss of Joan Lee... Our thoughts and prayers go out to Stan and his daughter Joan in this difficult time."
Stan Lee worked with artist Jack Kirby to create such comic book characters as Thor, Doctor Strange, X-Men and the Fantastic Four.
Joan Lee was the author of 1987 novel The Pleasure Palace and had several cameos in Marvel films, including last year's X-Men: Apocalypse.
Writing on Instagram, Kevin Smith said that when he had met Joan Lee in January, she told him: "It's always Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Spider-Man. They don't know the amazing writer he really is."
He added: "She then talked about the words her long-time love had written for her over a lifetime spent together.
"There's a very famous story about Stan wanting to leave Marvel, in which Joan advises him 'Before you quit, write a comic you're proud of.' That comic was Fantastic Four - the birth of the Marvel Universe.
"He told us tales of heroes but Joan was Stan's personal superhero - and without her, we never get our modern mythology.
"They say behind every great man is a great woman. In this case, the great woman was always standing right beside him. Joan and Stan were best friends for 70 years."
The couple had two daughters - Joan, born 1950, and Jan, who died three days after her birth in 1953.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk. | Tributes have been paid to British-born Joan Lee, wife of Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee, who has died aged 95. | 40530859 |
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Federer, 35, will become the oldest champion at SW19 since the Open era began in 1968 if he overcomes 28-year-old Croat Cilic on Centre Court.
The Swiss superstar is looking to secure a 19th Grand Slam title against a man who has just one - the 2014 US Open - to his name.
But will it be as straightforward as many expect? Four-time Wimbledon semi-finalist and former British number one Tim Henman tells BBC Sport why Cilic could spring a surprise.
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Cilic led Federer by two sets to love and had three match points in the fourth set of their Wimbledon quarter-final last year, before Federer triumphed in five sets. Federer has won six of their seven meetings since 2008.
Henman: Federer is the favourite but Cilic definitely has a chance. To put it into context, I would say if they played 10 times I think Cilic could win twice - well, maybe two and a half times.
He came very close to beating Federer here last year - and he should have won that match.
Cilic did beat him at the US Open, on his way to winning that title in 2014, and I think it is also in his favour that he has been in a Grand Slam final before.
If it was his first Slam final I think that would be an even bigger occasion for him to deal with mentally.
Yes, it is his first final at Wimbledon, and Roger has been there 10 times before, but Cilic has plenty of experience. He will know the crowd will be behind Federer but that won't worry him, and he is a very dangerous player.
Henman: I don't think fatigue will make a difference here. When you take into account that it is the final and the adrenalin rush that Cilic will get from being in such a huge match, I don't see him being tired.
I think who wins is going to boil down more to who is going really dominate with their serve and attacking baseline play.
If Cilic is going to have a chance, I think that is where he really needs to be super-aggressive from the back of the court and try to take Federer's time away to stop him dictating points.
Henman: Serve is such an important factor in Federer's game.
He has only been broken four times in 79 service games at the tournament so far and, when you are holding serve so comfortably, that is such a great platform to free you up to be more aggressive in your return games.
Cilic has done well returning serve on his way to the final - has won more break points than any other man at Wimbledon this year - 26.
The challenge for him on Sunday is to find a way of adding to that total against someone as good as Federer.
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We have not seen Federer's serve under pressure very often at this tournament, but he showed in his semi-final against Tomas Berdych how he can respond when it does happen.
He faced break points at 15-40 at 3-3 in the third set but responded with a series of aces that saw him hold. Less than 15 minutes later, he was through.
Henman: Cilic is a tall guy with long arms and a very big reach so he is able to get a lot of serves back in play, and be aggressive about it too - particularly against second serves.
He has to do that against Federer, every time he gets a look at a second serve.
It will be harder for him to do that on Sunday than in any of his six matches here so far, because Federer has got a great second serve too, but Cilic has to attack him whenever he gets the chance.
Henman: Cilic's serve is one of his main weapons and following it into the net sometimes would give Federer something different to deal with.
Federer is very good at blocking the ball back but, if you are serving big, then you know a lot of the time that is all he is going to do.
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I was amazed at one of the statistics I saw about Berdych after he had been beaten by Federer - the Czech had served 394 first serves at the tournament and had only come to the net 11 times after it.
That is staggering when you have got as much power as he does, and I definitely think that if Cilic can serve and volley once a game just to keep Federer guessing, it could be an important tactic.
Federer is playing in his 11th Wimbledon final, 14 years after his first. He was last at this stage in 2015, when he lost to Novak Djokovic. Before winning the 2017 Australian Open in January, he had not won a Grand Slam since his last Wimbledon triumph in 2012.
If Federer does win Wimbledon for an eighth time, it is a massive achievement in the same realms as Rafael Nadal winning his 10th French Open title last month.
When you think that, when Federer turned 35 last August, he was injured and did not play again for the rest of the year, it did not look like he would be adding to his 17 Slams.
He came back to win the Australian Open and if he was to win Wimbledon on Sunday then he will have won both the Slams he has played this year. I don't think anyone saw that coming.
But I don't get surprised by what Roger does anymore - I've said that enough times down the years, that I've given up being surprised by him. I am just amazed.
What he and Nadal have done this year has turned the clock back five years in the men's game, and they continue to be incredible to watch. | Roger Federer will try to win the Wimbledon men's title for a record eighth time when he plays Marin Cilic in Sunday's final. | 40611385 |
Manager Graham Westley confirmed he does not want to retain either player and is hopeful of making two signings before Saturday's game at Barnet.
County are bottom of League Two - six points from safety in spite of their 1-1 draw with Colchester.
"Ben Tozer's been told he can leave the club and Compton's been told he can go as well," said Westley.
"There's a few lads who are aware that they are not going to be playing a part in what we do going forward, and the best thing is that they find somewhere else to play their football."
Westley has already made nine signings during the January transfer window.
"Talks are ongoing and there's a couple who may come through before the weekend, but they won't affect selection this week," added Westley.
The former Peterborough Preston North End boss suggested there will be more players brought in later this month - "good quality, experienced lads towards the end of the window," he said. | Newport County midfielders Ben Tozer and Jack Campton have been told they are free to leave the club. | 38674825 |
Following the retirement of Bill Knox, member clubs and associations chose directors to the board, from which the chairman was then chosen.
Beatt said: "I am proud to have been elected Chair of one of Scotland's most established sports governing bodies.
"I aim to sustain the sport for the future whilst ensuring that current members and clubs are supported."
Beatt, who lives in Glasgow and is described as a "passionate bowler", has been a director of Bowls Scotland for the past two and a half years.
She is the owner and director of two businesses - People Solutions (Scotland) Ltd and The Whisky Ambassador Limited.
Knox added: "The election of Sue as chair of Bowls Scotland is fantastic.
"It shows that our clubs and members have chosen an individual with the relevant skill-set for the position.
"Sue will be a great asset to our board." | Sue Beatt has become the first women to be voted into the post of Bowls Scotland chair. | 38117522 |
GB lost their opening fixture to the hosts on Saturday, but began brightly on day two.
Helen Richardson-Walsh put her side ahead in the third quarter, diverting her wife Kate's penalty corner.
China levelled minutes later through Mengyu Wang, but neither side could find a winner.
GB earned a series of penalty corners in the final minutes of the game but the Chinese defence held their nerve.
"We dominated the game and we had more chances we just couldn't get the ball over the line and it does get frustrating," skipper Kate Richardson-Walsh told BBC Sport.
Lily Owsley - who scored against Argentina - insisted the British team would be motivated by their opening-day loss in Rosario.
True to her word, GB were the stronger in the opening exchanges, but China, who lost their opener 1-0 to Australia, were resilient.
They created few opportunities themselves and restricted GB to just a couple of clear chances until the tense closing stages.
Kate Richardson-Walsh and Alex Danson - who were making their 350th and 250th respective international appearances - both went close, but there were to be no further goals.
Reflecting on her 350th cap, Kate Richardson-Walsh said: "I'm so grateful to have been given this opportunity because this is the most amazing squad I have ever been a part of and I'm really excited about what could happen over the next nine months."
Danson added; "I can't really believe I have 250 caps and I feel so honoured."
Great Britain will face Australia in their final Pool B fixture on Tuesday.
All nations from each pool qualify directly for the quarter-finals with results in the initial phase used to determine seedings.
Whoever finishes bottom of Pool B will face the winner of Pool A, which is expected to be the Netherlands.
The world and Olympic champions secured their second dominant victory in as many days, defeating New Zealand 4-1 earlier on Sunday. | Great Britain's women endured a frustrating 1-1 draw against China in their second match of the Hockey World League Final in Argentina. | 35023342 |
Japan has apologised and will pay 1bn yen ($8.3m; £5.6m) - the amount South Korea asked for - to fund victims.
Estimates suggest up to 200,000 women were sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during WW2, many of them Korean.
Other women came from China, the Philippines, Indonesia and Taiwan.
The issue has been the key cause of strained relations between Japan and South Korea.
Only 46 former "comfort women" are still alive in South Korea.
The agreement came after Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida met his counterpart Yun Byung-se in Seoul, following moves to speed up talks.
Later Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe phoned South Korean President Park Geun-hye to repeat an apology already offered by Mr Kishida.
"Japan and South Korea are now entering a new era," Mr Abe told reporters afterwards. "We should not drag this problem into the next generation."
Ms Park issued a separate statement, saying a deal had been urgently needed - given the advanced age of most of the victims.
"Nine died this year alone," she said. "I hope the mental pains of the elderly comfort women will be eased."
Read more: 'Comfort women' - a painful legacy
After the meeting in Seoul, Mr Kishida called the agreement "epoch-making".
"Prime Minister Abe expresses anew his most sincere apologies and remorse to all the women who underwent immeasurable and painful experiences and suffered incurable physical and psychological wounds as comfort women," Mr Kishida told reporters.
The wording of the deal does not explicitly state that the "comfort women" will receive direct compensation, but states that the fund will provide "support" and bankroll "projects for recovering the honour and dignity and healing the psychological wounds".
Some former "comfort women", such as Lee Yong-soo, have taken issue with this.
The 88-year-old told the BBC: "I wonder whether the talks took place with the victims really in mind. We're not after the money. If the Japanese committed their sins, they should offer direct official government compensation."
Another former "comfort woman", 88-year-old Yoo Hee-nam, said: "If I look back, we've lived a life deprived of our basic rights as human beings. So I can't be fully satisfied.
"But we've been waiting all this time for the South Korean government to resolve the issue legally. As the government worked hard to settle deal before the turn of the year, I'd like to follow the government's lead."
In Japan journalist Nobuo Ikeda reflected the view of many on Twitter that the country had lost out, although others thought the deal could have been worse for Mr Abe.
"Japan pays 1bn yen and our PM apologises but South Korea will 'consult about the girl's statue' - that's not a diplomatic negotiation," Mr Ikeda tweeted.
With only days left until the end of the year, the timing of the talks was highly symbolic and the expectations for results were high.
Earlier in the year, the South Korean president called for a resolution to the "comfort women" dispute by the year's end, marking the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations.
However, few believed that a quick breakthrough could be reached on a thorny issue that has strained the region for decades and some critics say the talks have been rushed to preserve the symbolism.
It's unclear if Japan's admission of responsibility was legal or just humanitarian, and Tokyo's offer of 1bn yen has been described as a measure to help the women, not as direct government compensation.
The dozens of surviving women have asked for a formal apology specifically addressed to themselves, and direct compensation. They say past expressions of regret have been only halfway and insincere.
Japan revisionists deny WW2 sex slave atrocities
Negotiators appear to have overcome several obstacles including disagreements over the wording of the agreement and the amount of compensation. Tokyo was reportedly initially considering paying only about 100m yen.
The United States congratulated the governments of Japan and South Korea on reaching the agreement.
"We believe this comprehensive resolution is an important gesture of healing and reconciliation," a White Hose statement said.
"The United States applauds... two of our most important allies for having the courage and vision to forge a lasting settlement to this difficult issue."
Japan has repeatedly apologised or acknowledged its responsibility for wartime sex slaves, most notably in a 1993 statement by the then-chief cabinet secretary Yohei Kono.
It had also resisted giving greater compensation, arguing that the dispute was settled in 1965 when diplomatic ties were normalised between the two countries and more than $800m in economic aid and loans was given to South Korea.
A private fund was also set up in 1995 for the victims and lasted for a decade, but money came from donations and not from the Japanese government. | The leaders of Japan and South Korea have welcomed the agreement between their two countries to settle the issue of "comfort women" forced to work in Japanese brothels during World War Two. | 35190464 |
The double Olympic cycling champion was unhurt on the Paul Nicholls-trained mount in the Switching Saddles "Grassroots" Fox Hunters' Chase.
Pacha Du Polder appeared to be impeded by Baltic Blue at the seventh fence.
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"More than anything it's a bruised ego but it won't put me off," said Pendleton.
"You have to expect a setback at some point and this was one of those days, unfortunately."
Pendleton, 35, is aiming to ride in the Foxhunter Chase at Cheltenham in March on the same horse.
She added: "I hope Cheltenham is still the plan."
The former cyclist was riding the nine-year-old Pacha Du Polder for a second time, with the pair having been beaten in a photo-finish at Milborne St Andrew point-to-point in late January.
Pendleton, who fell from her mount Working Title in the novice riders' point-to-point event at Barbury Castle last Sunday, gave her mount time to find his feet, initially dropping him out at the rear of the six-runner field.
Pacha Du Polder gradually warmed to his task and was moving closer to the leaders when he unseated Pendleton.
Pendleton and Baltic Blue's rider Carey Williamson crashed to the ground, but both riders were soon on their feet.
The race was won by 8-1 shot Vasco Du Mee (8-1) with Good Egg (11-2) second.
BBC horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght:
The fall was probably somewhat luckless because Pendleton's mount was momentarily distracted by another rider being unseated, and there was probably some contact, but that kind of hurly burly is a staple diet of horseracing.
She said her advisers will make the final call about Cheltenham. They must decide if she's made enough progress to line up at jumping's highest pressure event in just a month.
Cheltenham is sometimes called the Olympics of racing but, unlike the real Games, at which Pendleton has won two golds, it does happen every year. | Victoria Pendleton was unseated from odds-on favourite Pacha Du Polder at Fakenham on the jockey's first start under National Hunt Rules. | 35616027 |
David Warner made a rapid 64 as Australia slipped to 121-3, but Voges and Marsh put on an unbroken 317, the second highest Test stand in Hobart.
Voges, whose century took 100 balls, hit 19 fours in his highest Test score.
West Indies left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican removed Warner and captain Steve Smith in claiming 2-111.
The tourists' seven bowlers conceded almost five runs per over on a tough day after Australia won the toss.
Warner and Joe Burns scored 75 in the opening hour before the latter was bowled between bat and pad by Shannon Gabriel for 33.
Smith edged to slip off Warrican, who had Warner caught down the leg side after the left-hander became the first Australian to score 11 half-centuries in a calendar year.
However, Voges and Marsh, who both began cautiously, exploited an increasingly ragged West Indies attack as the day wore on.
Voges beat Adam Gilchrist's record of 110 balls for the quickest century at Bellerive Oval, while Marsh brought up his third Test hundred off 150 deliveries.
They are closing in on Australia's record fourth-wicket stand of 336 in Tests against West Indies, by Bill Lawry and Doug Walters in Sydney in 1969. | Adam Voges hit an unbeaten 174 and Shaun Marsh 139 not out as Australia amassed 438-3 on the opening day of the three-Test series against West Indies. | 35058813 |
Paul Eason also told the inquests he failed to fully alert the ambulance control room, despite being their "eyes and ears" inside the stadium.
"Unfortunately, on this day, the eyes were blurred and the ears were blocked," he agreed.
Ninety-six Liverpool fans died following a crush on 15 April 1989.
On the day of the tragedy, Mr Eason, fellow station officer Patrick Higgins, and two other colleagues were positioned in one corner of Sheffield Wednesday's ground just before kick-off.
Three minutes later, at about 15:03, Mr Eason and a colleague noticed something happening on the Leppings Lane terraces and walked over to see what was going on.
A barrister representing some of the families described the walk as a "leisurely stroll" - at this point, it is claimed that Mr Eason did not know the severity of the situation.
Despite walking in front of the pens, Mr Eason said he did not notice fans being crushed inside.
Asked if he heard screaming from the pens, he replied: "All I can remember hearing is a roaring noise."
Mr Eason agreed he "failed to properly assess the situation" on the Leppings Lane terraces at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
He also accepted he "failed to declare a major emergency at the earliest opportunity", and "failed to relay all the relevant information to South Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service (SYMAS) control".
Asked whether he thought he adequately informed anyone of what was going on - so hospitals could be prepared - he said: "I think that the mistake that I made there was presuming that the control room would know what I was doing and would pass that information on.
"That was the mistake I made - I assumed they would understand what I was dealing with. Obviously they didn't. They couldn't be expected to."
Transcripts of a conversation between ambulance control and police at 15:08 showed an officer asked for a "fleet of ambulances" and then "all the ambulances you have got available".
A similar conversation was had at 15:09.
On both occasions, the controller said there were officers in the vicinity who could assess the situation.
Mark George QC, who represents a group of families who lost loved ones, asked Mr Eason if he agreed the initial ambulance service response was "a complete shambles".
"We had a delayed response," he replied.
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The former station officer also accepted "partial responsibility" for failing to "organise and impose command-and-control from the outset".
The jury heard Mr Eason say that "under extreme circumstances, we all did the best that we could".
Mr Eason was also questioned by Jenni Richards QC, who represents Yorkshire Ambulance Service.
He agreed neither he nor the service had "anything to do with the actions and decisions that led to the severe overcrowding".
Ms Richards also said the SYMAS presence at the ground was "very modest" and included Mr Eason and three colleagues.
Asked whether "any amount of training, however good, could really have prepared" him for what happened, he said: "No. I have never experienced anything like it before or since."
The inquests, sitting in Warrington, continue. | A senior ambulance officer has admitted failing to "properly assess" the unfolding disaster in front of him at Hillsborough. | 30325885 |
The 13-part series "Manly Health and Training" was written under a pseudonym for a New York newspaper in 1858.
It contains multitudes of tips on topics such as diet, sex, and hygiene.
The 47,000-word series, which survived only in a few libraries, was discovered in a digitalised newspaper database by a graduate student last year.
It is now being published by the online journal The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review.
US commentators point out that some of Whitman's health advice sounds surprisingly modern.
"Let the main part of the diet be meat, to the exclusion of all else," one entry reads - a exhortation that both The New York Times and Time Magazine say would be endorsed by today's paleo-diet advocates.
Whitman also recommended the general use of the comfortable shoes "now specially worn by base-ball players" - trainers, as we would call them today.
He also warned against the ravages of desk jobs. "To you, clerk, literary man, sedentary person, man of fortune, idler, the same advice. Up!"
Whitman is regarded as one of America's literary giants, but for many years he scraped a living as a journalist, and achieved success as a poet late in life.
He began writing "Manly Health and Training" for The Atlas, a small New York newspaper, after the flop of Leaves of Grass - a collection now recognised as his masterpiece.
Ed Folsom, editor of The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, told the New York Times that some of the journalism echoes the themes of self-improvement and homo-erotic love that are central to the poet's work. | A trove of journalism by the great US poet Walt Whitman is being published online after lying in obscurity more than 150 years. | 36177820 |
This time it's not about filters, it's all about where people are.
'Snap Maps' puts users and their snaps onto a map so friends and other Snapchatters can see where they are and what they are doing.
It has raised a lot of concerns amongst child safety experts.
The NSPCC advise that young people should set Snapchat to 'ghost mode' which means that no one can see your location.
Remember if you have any concerns about online safety speak to a parent or teacher. | Snapchat has just launched another new feature on their popular social media app. | 40415706 |
Its proposals for up to 33 turbines at Dyfnant Forest, near Llangadfan, have been shelved, partly due to expected "lengthy planning processes".
The project was announced in 2008.
The company said it has decided to focus its onshore wind efforts on replacing turbines at Llandinam in mid Wales, subject to a planning decision.
"We have been an active wind power developer in Wales since 1992, and we hope that our association with renewable energy in the country will continue for many years to come," said UK managing director Simon Christian in a statement. | Wind farm plans in Powys have been ditched with ScottishPower Renewables saying it is no longer financially viable. | 30547563 |
The almost mile-long (1 km) hallway at Llandough Hospital, Penarth, was gifted the pictures by the Contemporary Art Society Wales.
They are from the Paintings in Hospitals art collection and intended to make patients feel better.
The display can be used by the region's health and social care organisations. | What is said to be Europe's longest hospital corridor has been adorned with more than 80 paintings, some which have never been seen before. | 33777815 |
John "Goldfinger" Palmer, who allegedly amassed a huge fortune in a time-share scam, was treated for a cardiac arrest on 24 June at his home in South Weald.
But a post-mortem examination on 30 June revealed the 65-year-old convicted conman had been shot in the chest.
Essex Police had initially referred the case to the IPCC.
An IPCC spokesman said: "Following an assessment of the evidence provided, it has been recommended that the matter should be investigated locally by the police force.
"This decision is based on the fact that there was no evidence of immediate police contact with Mr Palmer before his death, or identifiable conduct issues from the officers who attended the scene that would require the ongoing involvement of the IPCC.
"If any conduct issues are identified in the course of the local investigation, we would expect Essex Police to re-refer these for further assessment, which is in line with the usual process." | The case of a notorious criminal shot dead in his home has been referred back to Essex Police by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). | 33561943 |
It is thought the six-week-old cub had been "lodging" in the house in Welney, on the Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border for several days after getting through a hole where a cat flap used to be.
The homeowner had noticed "a smell" and when her cat began "standing guard" by the sofa, she decided to investigate.
The wily intruder is being looked after by Fenland Animal Rescue until it can be released.
"It wasn't until she looked under the furniture and noticed two little eyes staring back at her, that she realised she had a lodger," the charity's founder Josh Flanagan said.
"It soon became apparent this little one had been in the house for several days and had been without food or fluids throughout."
Unable to find any trace of its mother, they had to take it into their care.
Ten days later, after careful feeding and treatment, the "seriously dehydrated" and starving cub is doing well.
He has been moved to a semi-wild outdoor pen "so that he can remain wild, but also enjoy the space to play and explore like any fox cub should", said Mr Flanagan.
Once old enough, and if he has developed the skills he needs to survive in the wild, the fox cub will be released. | A fox cub was rescued after a curious cat found it underneath a sofa. | 40013177 |
Now Thomas Piketty has launched a new crusade - an attempt to change the debate on mass immigration, which he describes as an economic good.
In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC, the chairman of the Paris School of Economics and visiting professor at the London School of Economics told me the European Union would benefit from a major increase in the inflow of people from the rest of the world.
"The European Union has the capacity to absorb a large flow of migrants, one million per year in terms of inflow net of outflow," he said.
"This is exactly what we had between 2000 and 2010 and this was working in the sense that unemployment was being reduced.
"The problem is - with the austerity policies and with the recession - now we are in a situation where it's very difficult in particular with southern Europe, with the terrible economic situation that we have created there in particular."
Mr Piketty was speaking to mark the launch of his new book, Chronicles On Our Troubled Times, a collection of essays he originally wrote for the French newspapers Liberation and Le Monde and published in English for the first time.
In the book Mr Piketty argues that, with a population of 510 million, the European Union is well able to cope with more immigrants.
The population of the EU has only risen by 0.2% a year since 1995, he argues, compared to 1.2% for the world's population over the same period.
According to Eurostat, the official statistical arm of the European Commission, a total of 3.4 million people came to the EU during 2013.
Some 2.8 million left, leaving a net immigration figure of around 600,000.
Between 2013 and 2014, the UK saw non-EU net migration of 157,000, according to the Office of National Statistics, a figure that has risen since then.
Mr Piketty said that slow growth across the eurozone had been exacerbated not just by a lack of immigration but also by austerity policies aimed at reducing public expenditure.
"I think there has been an attempt, particularly in the eurozone, to reduce the public deficit too fast," he said.
"When you look at the growth trajectory of Europe as compared to the United States, I think it's very clear that we started a new recession in 2011, 2012, 2013 because we have tried to reduce the public deficit too fast.
"If we had taken our budgetary decision in a eurozone parliament in a democratic manner rather than through these automatic rules about budget deficit [we could have avoided] excessive austerity and the rise in unemployment and xenophobia right at the time when there was a true need for Europe to be more open with respect to the rest of the world, in particular regarding the refugee crisis."
I ask him, if he were an adviser to George Osborne, what he would be saying about the Treasury's target of creating a budget surplus by 2020, eliminating the deficit.
He smiled in response - Mr Piketty knows he is not likely to be the chancellor's favourite economist.
"What I find particularly incredible in this policy is that, OK, we need to cut the deficit, we don't have money, we need a surplus," he said.
"But we have money to cut the tax of the higher income groups, so I think it's a complete contradiction and I think that's very hard to understand for the general public.
"I think you have some people in this country who have benefited from growth much more than others in the past decade and you cannot just give more and more to those who already have more."
The Treasury's analysis is different, with officials pointing to research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies which says that income inequality has reduced since the 2008-09 recession.
Rather than looking at the impact of tax changes on income, the Treasury analyses taxes paid as a proportion of the total.
Their figures show that in 2010, the richest fifth of households paid 49% of all taxes whereas the poorest fifth paid around 6% of all taxes.
By 2020, the proportion of tax paid by the richest fifth will have risen to 52%, with the poorest fifth paying around the same proportion, 6%.
Mr Piketty says that income inequality figures mask a broader problem of wealth inequality which is still growing.
"If you compare the 1980s and the 1970s with today - 20 or 30 years down the road - there's absolutely no doubt that not only in the US but also in the UK and in most developed countries we have had rising inequality," he said. | He is the French economist who shot to international fame following his 2013 book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which dealt with inequality in the modern world. | 35982528 |
Relatives and 999 staff gathered for the event, organised by emergency workers and community leaders.
The Bishop of Chichester, who led the service, said the tragedy "sliced through the fabric of our life".
Emergency officer Paul Sutton said: "A uniform cannot prepare someone for those memories."
Eleven men were killed in the crash on 22 August when a vintage Hawker Hunter jet failed to complete a loop at the annual Shoreham air show and plummeted into the busy A27.
The memorial service, three months on, took place in Lancing College's gothic chapel which overlooks the scene of the devastation.
Leading the service the Bishop of Chichester, The Right Reverend Dr Martin Warner, said the tragedy left one unanswerable question: "Why?"
He praised the "human courage, generosity and compassion" of the emergency services and said this was a time when "grief must blend with love" in a celebration of those who died.
Names of the victims were read out ahead of a minute's silence at 13:22 GMT, the time of the crash.
The congregation then sat in silence while candles were lit by representatives of each family in memory of those who died.
Family members gave readings and emergency service personnel gave personal reflections on the rescue effort.
Sean Ruth, chief fire officer at West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service, said there was no time for crews to prepare mentally for what they were to deal with, "but in spite of that they did what we expect of them".
Sussex Police Chief Constable Giles York spoke of how "a day like any other" turned out to be anything but for the 18 officers who reported for duty that morning.
He told the service: "They watched in horror and disbelief, with everyone else, as the plane came down... The scale and nature of the incident made it one of the most challenging scenes ever faced by the emergency services in this county.
"Thoughts constantly turned to the fact that there would be families with loved ones who would not be returning home."
Paul Sutton, chief executive of SECamb, spoke of the "difficult and challenging" task the ambulance service faced, and said: "I can never be more proud of what our staff do and did that day."
He added: "Most poignantly in our minds are the families of those who sadly lost loved ones."
In the days after the crash, thousands of flowers, cards, pictures and messages of condolence were left on the Shoreham Tollbridge, which became known as the "Bridge of Flowers".
Some of the thousands of messages left were on view at the chapel, alongside several books of condolence.
After the service, Communities Secretary Greg Clark expressed his sympathies to the grieving friends and relatives.
And he hailed the "bravery and professionalism" of West Sussex's emergency teams, describing them as "world class".
Eleven candles, each lit by the families of one of those lost, flickered in the broad nave of Lancing College Chapel.
At 1.22pm - three months to the minute since the crash - those gathered fell silent for a minute to remember.
This was a personal and intimate service, where the families, the emergency services and people from the wider community recalled with sadness and affection the 11 men - fathers, sons and brothers - who died on a summer's day.
Below the chapel, in the Adur Valley, you can see the old toll bridge that crosses the river and which, within days, was covered by flowers and tributes by local people.
A permanent memorial is planned. And, if you wanted a sign that Sussex people still care and care deeply, then you saw it today in Lancing College Chapel. | The victims of the Shoreham air disaster and the "human courage" of the emergency services have been honoured in a memorial service in West Sussex. | 34879862 |
Campaign group Zero Waste Scotland said the behaviour was costing the public purse more than £50m a year.
Its appeal includes asking businesses to put posters up in windows to discourage customers from littering.
Zero Waste said more than 15,000 tonnes of litter were discarded in Scotland each year.
It warned it was creating a "substantial impact" on the environment.
Other measures it is asking businesses, councils and organisations to consider, is storing waste correctly and making sure any outside areas are clear of litter.
Zero Waste Scotland chief executive Iain Gulland, said: "It is clear that litter-picking and cleaning alone is not a long-term solution to Scotland's litter issue.
"That's why we need to work together to prevent litter at its source.
"We have had a fantastic response from organisations in Dundee that are passionate about protecting their communities and the environment, and I'm excited to replicate this success across the country.
"I hope as many businesses and organisations as possible will get in touch to look at putting together an action plan for your area to help prevent litter from blighting it."
The call is being launched at the Engine Shed, Historic Environment Scotland's (HES) building conservation centre in Stirling.
HES climate change manager Dr Mairi Davies, said: "Keeping Scotland's historic environment litter-free is a key priority for us so we can help to ensure that it remains somewhere that people can enjoy.
"Working together with partners like Zero Waste Scotland to promote this litter prevention message means we are one step closer to achieving this shared goal."
Zero Waste's funding comes from the Scottish government and the European Regional Development Fund. | Scottish firms and councils are among organisations being urged to join a new nationwide campaign to prevent littering and fly-tipping. | 40991616 |
The family were among seven people injured in the crash outside The Friary Centre in Guildford on Friday morning.
A boy, aged two, and his one-year-old sister were both released from hospital over the weekend, Surrey Police said.
The condition is not known of three other women who were hurt. Their injuries had been described as minor.
A spokeswoman for the force said the police investigation was ongoing.
At the time, police said the Volkswagen Polo was being driven by a woman in her 80s, and she had a male passenger with her.
The siblings were in a children's push-along shopping trolley, in the shape of a car, which was being pushed by their grandparents.
A specialist crash investigation unit has been investing the circumstances of the crash in North Street. | The grandparents of two children hurt when a car mounted a pavement and hit a group of pedestrians are still in hospital with serious injuries. | 34636848 |
A total of 30 patients have experienced sickness and diarrhoea and nine staff have also reported the symptoms.
Ward 12, for stroke patients, is the third ward to be shut to admissions and transfers and to be subject to visitor restrictions since Monday.
General medical wards nine and 10 are also closed to new patients.
Dr Martin Connor, consultant microbiologist and infection control doctor, said: "We appreciate that this temporary visiting restriction to wards nine, 10 and 12 may cause some frustration, but this measure will allow us to help prevent further spread of the infection and ensure safe patient care and dignity, at this difficult time.
"Where circumstances are such that relatives are concerned about the need to visit their loved ones in wards nine, 10 and 12, they are asked to contact the ward before coming to the hospital.
"All members of the public who plan to visit other areas of the hospital are asked not to visit if they are suffering symptoms of nausea, vomiting or diarrhoea, and to comply with the hand hygiene and infection control measures in place." | Three wards at Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary will be closed over the Easter weekend following an outbreak of norovirus, the NHS has confirmed. | 32167342 |
Douglas Gordon has directed Neck of the Woods, starring Charlotte Rampling, at the Home theatre in Manchester.
Critics have described it as a "vanity project" and "humourless and sedate".
The show features several axes, and Gordon is thought to have wielded an unused prop to take a chunk out of the wall, which he then signed and dated.
He inflicted the damage on Saturday, the day after Neck of the Woods opened as part of the Manchester International Festival (MIF).
The show begins with the sound of an axe, and the stage has a number of axes screwed to it.
The Daily Telegraph said Neck of the Woods had "the unmistakable whiff of a vanity project", with a script that "simply isn't very good", while "Rampling looks terribly uncomfortable most of the time".
The Guardian, meanwhile, described it as a "humourless and sedate Red Riding Hood retelling" that "takes itself very seriously" and is "so old-fashioned you wonder if Gordon has any familiarity at all with contemporary theatre".
MIF artistic director Alex Poots said: "We understand that one of our artists acted in a wholly inappropriate way on Saturday night, causing slight damage to the fabric of Home's new building.
"This is totally unacceptable, and the artist involved will be paying for repairs.
"MIF and the artist have contacted staff who were present and our co-commissioning partners at Home to apologise."
Mr Poots went on to say that the festival supported artists to make ambitious shows.
He added: "We do not support or condone reckless, inappropriate or intimidating behaviour and will work with our co-commissioning partners and artistic and producing teams to ensure that this doesn't happen again."
Gordon won the Turner Prize in 1996.
Home opened in May after being built at a cost of £25m. | A Turner Prize-winning artist has used an axe to attack the wall of a theatre where he has staged a new play to scathing reviews. | 33529750 |
The woman, 19, was found at City Warehouse ApartHotel on Great Ancoats Street, Manchester, at about 06:30 GMT.
Greater Manchester Police said they are concerned about any others who may have taken the pills and have advised them to seek medical attention.
Supt Stephen Howard said: "Even if you took it some hours ago this pill could be seriously harming your health." | A teenager has been found dead in a city centre hotel after apparently taking ecstasy, police have said. | 38275766 |
He told an NBC News interviewer on Sunday that he's a "reasonable person", however, and he'd listen if someone can come up with a "reasonable explanation for why they would like to kill a baby". Women, however, should not look at their foetus as "the enemy".
To illustrate his point, Mr Carson - whose understated yet forceful condemnations of liberal orthodoxy made him a darling on the conservative lecture circuit before he launched his presidential bid - offered an analogy that compared women seeking abortions to slaveholders.
"I know that's one of those words you're not supposed to say, but I'm saying it," Mr Carson began. "During slavery, a lot of slave-owners thought they had the right to do whatever they wanted to that slave, anything that they chose. And what if the abolitionists had said, 'I don't believe in slavery, but you guys do whatever you want'? Where would we be?"
Mr Carson has made a habit of saying what he's "not supposed to say" and then deriding the subsequent firestorm as attacks from "politically correct" critics.
The retired doctor has said President Barack Obama's healthcare reform was "the worst thing" since slavery and that the US government is acting like Nazi Germany. He asserted that being gay is a choice, Muslims aren't qualified to seek the US presidency, the Holocaust could have been prevented if persecuted Europeans owned more guns and - just a few days ago - that the US government should cut off funding to universities that are found to exhibit "extreme political bias".
Mr Carson's comments on abortion have set off yet another cycle of outrage from the left - a reaction that he will likely wear as a badge of honour.
"Carson's comments are part of a larger disinformation campaign by Christian fundamentalists and other elements of the American right in which examples from the United States' slave regime are used to delegitimise women's full equality and freedom," writes Salon's Chauncey Devega.
The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart writes: "Carson is a crackpot who should get nowhere near the White House, let alone the presidential nomination of a major political party. His incendiary and ignorant comments - not political correctness, not racism - are the cause of the 'relentless attacks' on him."
At one point, according to the New York Times, Mr Carson's political team was concerned about their candidate's propensity to make off-the-cuff statements that provoked outrage. In the end, however, they decided to "let Carson be Carson" - and the results have validated their instincts so far.
Much like fellow Republican frontrunner Donald Trump before him, Mr Carson has soared in public opinion polls of likely Republican primary voters despite controversial statements that would sink more traditional politicians.
In recent surveys of Iowa, the state where voters will first help select presidential nominees, Mr Carson has tied or even taken the lead from Mr Trump. In a Monmouth University poll released Monday, Mr Carson is backed by 32%, 14 points over second-place Trump.
This development has prompted the New York billionaire to begin targeting Mr Carson.
He remarked this weekend that the soft-spoken candidate is "super low on energy". He told a CNN interviewer that Mr Carson wouldn't be able to make deals with nations like Japan and China.
He tweeted that Mr Carson wasn't a job-creator and would abolish, the government-run healthcare system for the elderly. He also raised questions about Mr Carson's particular brand of evangelical Christianity.
"I'm Presbyterian," he said during a campaign stop in Florida. "Boy, that's down the middle of the road. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don't know about. I just don't know about."
In the same interview where he made his abortion remarks, Mr Carson said the he wouldn't get in the "mud pit" to respond to attacks, but noted that he had the energy to conduct 20-hour surgeries when he was a practising physician.
As the Washington Examiner's Byron York points out, Mr Carson presents a tricky opponent for the other Republican presidential hopefuls. While Mr Trump has decided to go on the attack, others have been reluctant to follow suit by criticising the physician's lack of governing experience.
Veteran political operatives, he writes, are concerned that Mr Carson's high popularity in polls means any attack will backfire.
"Republican candidates have a Ben Carson problem," York writes. "He's ahead of most of them. They want to win. But how do they defeat him without offending the voters who admire him? No one has yet found the answer."
With just over three months before Iowans head to the polls and other states quickly follow suit, the clock is ticking.
Candidates in (and out of) the Republican presidential field | Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, one of the current frontrunners for the Republican presidential nomination, wants to make abortion illegal in all instances, including cases of rape and incest. | 34641563 |
The family was celebrating their son's sixth birthday and had spent hundreds of pounds on tickets, a friend said.
Mr Singh, from Coventry was in breach of health and safety rules when he refused to exchange his Kirpan for a replacement necklace, the park said.
Sikh elders advised that could be worn as an acceptable substitute, it added.
Kirpans have not been allowed to be worn in the park for "a number of years" because of health and safety risks, the park said, adding, it was "regrettable" the family did not take up their offer and were denied entry.
The dagger, or sword, is one of five Ks initiated, or baptised, Sikhs wear.
The others are Kesh (uncut hair), Kara (a steel bracelet), Kanga (a wooden comb) and Kaccha - also spelt, Kachh, Kachera - (cotton underwear).
More on this and other stories for Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire
The family friend described what happened at the park near Tamworth, Staffordshire on 2 June in a blog under the name of The Secret Psychiatrist.
The friend said they were "ashamed" and "disgusted" by the incident that had spoiled a happy family day out.
The Sikh Press Association, which is liaising with the family and a Sikh legal advocacy team, said together they were calling for the park's rules to be changed.
"In this day and age where the Kirpan can be taken into Parliament, it is disappointing to see an amusement park ban this article of faith from their grounds," a spokesman said.
Although Sikhs can choose to substitute their Kirpans, the park's offer devalued what the five Ks meant, he added.
"Sikhs treat them like their own limb.
"The word (Kirpan) means 'a blessing' so it's not just a physical item, and to use something that has probably been lying in a cupboard, it just devalues it."
In a statement the park said as well as consulting Sikhs, an independent health and safety report confirmed that wearing a sheathed dagger, or anything similar, "posed a viable compromise to safety" on a ride.
"It is for this reason that cameras and other similar articles are also forbidden on rides. The same rule applies to all visitors without exception." | A Sikh family was denied entry to Drayton Manor Theme Park after an adult refused to remove his ceremonial dagger, worn as a symbol of his faith. | 40205139 |
A Steven Lawless shot was deflected past Connor Ripley in the 90th minute of a 1-0 home win at Firhill.
"We shot ourselves in the foot because the goal was avoidable, one of our players switched off," McGhee said.
"The boy got in behind, it gets a big deflection and we've lost a game we didn't need to lose."
The match looked destined to end in a goalless draw, with few chances created throughout a hard-fought encounter.
The late strike from Lawless lifts Thistle above Motherwell in a congested Premiership table, but McGhee already considered his side to be in a battle to avoid dropping into the relegation zone.
It was also the second consecutive game in which a late goal has denied McGhee's side valuable points, with Dundee equalising in a 2-2 draw at the weekend in the closing stages.
"We've not thought anything else other than we're in a dogfight," McGhee said.
"Even if we'd won tonight I would be saying the same thing. We've shown that we matched Thistle all the way, they've got the break and taken advantage.
"There will be games when we're the ones who do that. We've just got to make sure that there's more of them than what happened tonight.
"There's not a trend that's costing us to lose a [late] goal. On Saturday it was a penalty kick that was never a penalty kick in a million years. Tonight it was a goal we could have avoided by somebody being more alert."
Alan Archibald admitted that the weather and the state of areas of the pitch - patches were bare and heavily sanded due to the recent heavy rain - affected the game.
At this stage of the season, though, it is points rather than performances that matter more to the Partick Thistle manager.
"A bit of luck, we get a deflection, that probably summed up the game," Archibald said.
"It wasn't much of a match. We knew that was going to be the case because of the conditions, and we probably played to the conditions too much.
"When it opened up we could have passed it better. We're just delighted to get the three points, which is all that matters on a night like this.
"Both teams cancelled each other out for long periods, there wasn't much goalmouth action. Motherwell slightly shaded it in the first half, but the second half we were a little bit better.
"The ref played a bit too much time, as they do. We'll take a bit of luck, and the clean sheet because Motherwell are hard to play against with a good front two up top." | Manager Mark McGhee was left frustrated by a moment of misfortune and a piece of slack play as Motherwell lost a late goal to Partick Thistle. | 35477160 |
Spurs are City's closest rivals, seven points behind with five games left.
The Professional Game Match Officials Ltd (PGMOL) does not pick Friend, who lives in Leicester and has attended games in a personal capacity, to referee matches involving the Foxes.
The PGMOL said "the timing and context" of the game saw it replace Friend.
"It was felt unnecessary to add extra scrutiny on the refereeing appointment," a PGMOL statement said.
Neil Swarbrick, from Preston, will take charge at Stoke, with Friend instead officiating Newcastle's game against Manchester City on Tuesday.
Have you added the new Top Story alerts in the BBC Sport app? Simply head to the menu in the app - and don't forget you can also add score alerts your football team and more. | The Premier League has removed referee Kevin Friend from Tottenham Hotspur's game at Stoke City on Monday, because he supports top-of-the-table Leicester. | 36042805 |
Jason Stange, 44, had taken a role as a doctor who commits a "deranged act" in a film called Marla Mae.
Images of him appeared in a piece publicising the shooting of the film in a newspaper in Washington state.
Police agents recognised him and arrested him at a restaurant close to the film set.
Stange had pleaded guilty to an armed bank robbery in 2006 and was given a prison sentence of almost ten years.
Last year he absconded from a "halfway house" facility and a warrant was issued.
Brandon Roberts, the film's producer, told the local News Tribune that Stange was a talented actor who was well-liked by the cast and crew.
He said the film was rewritten to suit Stange, who had "really nailed the audition", adding that Stange will remain in the film, which is scheduled for release in 2016. | A bank robber wanted for violating his probation has been apprehended by US police after starring in a low-budget horror film using his own name. | 33701781 |
Henderson tore his hamstring on Friday against Edinburgh as Ulster casualties mounted with Dan Tuohy, Peter Nelson and Darren Cave also injured.
"Iain's type of injury has historically been up to six months [out]," said Ulster director of rugby Kiss.
"At this stage it doesn't look good in terms of the Six Nations."
Kiss added: "He has a consultation later this week and the medics will work out the best form of surgery going forward."
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Henderson's expected absence over the coming months will be a massive blow both to Ulster and Ireland.
First up, the versatile forward will miss Ulster's back-to-back European Champions Cup games against Toulouse over the next two weekends.
And following his impressive displays at the World Cup, and given Paul O'Connell's exit from the international stage, Henderson's likely absence from the Six Nations will also be a jolt for Ireland coach Joe Schmidt.
In terms of Ulster's other injuries from the Edinburgh game, Nelson (dislocated foot) is out for the rest of the season while Ireland lock Tuohy, who fractured an ankle, will be missing for at least two months.
Darren Cave's shoulder injury will keep the Ireland centre out for at least two games.
It's a grim injury toll for the Irish province resulting from the hard-fought 14-7 win over the Scots at Kingspan Stadium. | Ulster's director of rugby Les Kiss fears Iain Henderson's hamstring injury could rule the Ireland forward out for the remainder of this season. | 35043535 |
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