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Wiggins leads by just over two minutes from team-mate Froome after defending champion Cadel Evans cracked on the final climb to slip to fourth.
Vincenzo Nibali, who attacked on the ascent to La Toussuire but was hauled in by Sky, climbed to third overall.
The stage was won by Pierre Rolland, the last survivor of an early attack.
"I'd been dreaming about this stage for six months," said Rolland, who became the second successive French stage winner after Thomas Voeckler's victory on Wednesday.
We spoke about Chris attacking and maybe making up those 20 odd seconds to move into second overall
"My second victory in the Alps in two years - I don't have the words to describe the feeling."
Wiggins admitted feeling a sense of relief after keeping hold of the yellow jersey on a punishing day in the mountains that saw the riders negotiate two hors categorie climbs and an 18km ride to the summit finish.
"When we got to the last climb, with about 5km to go, the relief started to come that we were almost at the finish," said Wiggins.
"Once Cadel had got dropped and we were in that little group, the sense of relief was slightly overwhelming that we've actually got through the stage.
"And to have taken more time off Cadel, which I don't think we really expected this morning."
Sky were happy to let a large group of more than 20 riders, including Rolland, go clear early on as it did not contain any contenders for the overall lead.
Behind the escapees however, the British-based team fought off several attacks by contenders for the yellow jersey on a gripping day's racing over 148km between Albertville and La Toussuire.
Several of the riders lying behind Wiggins in the general classification had promised to attack, and defending champion Evans knew he had to take time out of the Sky man, who is a superior time trialler, in the mountains if he is to successfully defend his title.
And the Australian was first to try his luck, launching an attack with just over 62km remaining on the second of the hors categorie climbs, the Col de la Croix de Fer.
He linked up with BMC team-mate Tejay van Garderen but, with Sky's Michael Rogers maintaining a good tempo on the front, the pair were never able to gain more than 20 seconds and were reeled in after only a few kilometres.
It was the last danger posed by Evans and it was Nibali who ended up being the biggest threat on the day.
The Liquigas rider attacked early on the final climb, joining a breakaway that also included the highly-placed Van den Broeck.
Sky workhorses Rogers and then Richie Porte fell by the wayside as they tried to lead Wiggins back to his rivals, and it was left to Froome to protect his leader.
The Kenyan-born Briton duly dragged Wiggins back to Nibali and Jurgen Van den Broeck, dropping Evans in the process.
Froome even attacked and dropped the others, but when Wiggins immediately floundered he was instructed over the team radio to slow his pace and the group reformed.
"At that moment I was just really concentrating on my effort and keeping it constant," explained Wiggins. "I'd been riding [very hard] for 1.5km, 2km before that. I just wanted to clear the lactate and didn't want to make any more of an acceleration.
"There was a lot of noise and a lot of things going on on the radio and a bit of confusion at that point as to what we were doing.
"In the morning we'd certainly spoken about Chris attacking in the final and maybe making up those 20-odd seconds to move into second overall.
"The plan this morning was for me to stay with Vincenzo and those guys, as long as Chris didn't drag them away."
Rolland, who crashed on a descent earlier in the race, held on to win, with Froome edged out by Thibaut Pinot for second, 55 seconds back, while Wiggins crossed the line with Nibali, a further two seconds behind in sixth.
Evans, paced by his young team-mate Van Garderen, came in almost 90 seconds later to seriously dent his chances of repeating last year's victory.
Wiggins is two minutes and five seconds ahead of Froome, with Italian Nibali a further 18 seconds back in third.
Australia's Evans is now three minutes and 19 seconds behind the leader, while Belgium's van den Broeck has climbed into the top five but is nearly five minutes off the pace.
The race stays in the Alps on Friday with a 226km ride from Saint-Jean-De-Maurienne to Annonay Davezieux.
1. Pierre Rolland (Fra) Europcar 4hrs 43'54"
2. Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ @ 55"
3. Chris Froome (GB) Team Sky
4. Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel) Lotto @57"
5. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas
6. Bradley Wiggins (GB) Team Sky
7. Chris Sorensen (Den) Saxo Bank @ 1'08"
8. Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Astana @ 1'58"
9. Vasil Kiryienka (Bel) Movistar @ 2'13"
10. Fraenk Schleck (Lux) RadioShack @ 2'23"
11. Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing
1. Bradley Wiggins (GB) Team Sky 48 hrs 43'53"
2. Chris Froome (GB) Team Sky @ 2'07"
3. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas @ 2:23"
4. Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing @ 3'19"
5. Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel) Lotto @ 4'48" | British riders Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome occupy the top two places in the Tour de France after an excellent day for Team Sky on stage 11. | 18819093 |
Casting is already underway for an actress to play West Indian nurse Lucille in the next series.
It's to reflect the influence of nurses from the Commonwealth on the NHS in the 1960s.
Series creator Heidi Thomas said Lucille will be "elegant, funny and clever" and bring "a fresh new energy to life at Nonnatus House".
"My research is continually bringing up new things," Thomas told the BFI & Radio Times Television Festival.
"[It] has made me very aware of the contributions made by West Indian and Caribbean nurses to the NHS in the early 1960s. She's going to bring stories with her, and a different cultural point of view, and that's very exciting."
Series six of the popular drama finished last month, concluding with a birth, death and a marriage in the final episode.
It will return to BBC One for a Christmas special, before series seven kicks off in the new year.
The casting news comes as Call the Midwife was voted the best TV drama of the 21st Century in a Radio Times poll.
It beat finalists The Night Manager, The West Wing, The Bridge, Happy Valley and Merlin, which won separate genre categories last week.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk. | BBC drama Call the Midwife is to get its first regular black character. | 39553512 |
Mr Grayling told MPs: "I think Cardiff Airport's been a great success story and I pay tribute to all of those involved in it".
He was responding to a question from Newport West Labour MP Paul Flynn, who asked him to "welcome the purchase of the airport by the Welsh Assembly".
In 2013, Welsh Tories criticised Labour ministers' purchase of the airport.
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said at the time he was "yet to be convinced that a 1970s-style nationalisation is the answer to the airport's problems".
He later accused the Welsh Government of a "stunning failure to safeguard taxpayers' money" for paying £52m for the airport, double an initial valuation of £20m-£30m.
Ministers dismissed BBC reports based on that first estimate, by accountants KPMG, as "entirely selective and misleading".
Cardiff Airport reported a 16% rise in passenger numbers in 2016.
On Thursday, Mr Grayling said the UK was "fortunate" to have "some very good regional airports" that would be a "crucial part of our overall airport strategy in the future".
A spokesman for Welsh Government Economy and Infrastructure Secretary Ken Skates responded: "With record passenger numbers, new routes and sustained growth, the Tory Transport Secretary is right to welcome Cardiff Airport as a great success story.
"For too long Tories like Andrew RT Davies and [Welsh Secretary] Alun Cairns have sought to frustrate and talk down the good work of Cardiff Airport and the huge achievements it has made over the past few years."
A spokesman for the Welsh secretary disputed the claim, saying: "Alun Cairns is a strong supporter of Cardiff Airport and works closely with its management, as well as continuing to meet airlines interested in using it." | UK Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has paid tribute to the Welsh Government-owned Cardiff Airport. | 38842761 |
The Helicopter Safety Steering Group (HSSG) had advised grounding all variants of the helicopter
CHC, which operated the helicopter that crashed two miles west of Sumburgh Airport on Friday, grounded its UK fleet and some models world-wide.
Bond and Bristow also suspended UK Super Puma flights.
An investigation has not yet established the cause of the tragedy
The HSSG, which is made up of oil industry representatives, advised that all models of the Super Puma series including: AS332 L, L1, L2 and EC225 should be grounded for "all Super Puma commercial passenger flights to and from offshore oil and gas installations within the UK."
Its advice allows for the use of search and rescue helicopters for emergency response.
It said it would meet again on Wednesday to review its position, and would reconvene before then if any significant information came to light.
There are currently 13 AS332 L2s, one AS332 L1 and 19 EC225 helicopters serving the UK oil and gas industry. AS355s have also recently been used.
It was a Super Puma AS332 L2, carrying 16 passengers and two crew from the Borgsten Dolphin oil rig, which ditched in the North Sea at about 18:20 on Friday.
The HSSG said while there were "significant technical differences" between the variants, a cautious approach was needed until more was understood about what caused the crash.
CHC, Bond and Bristow - the companies that operate Super Pumas for the UK oil and gas industry - grounded their Super Puma fleets, except for search and rescue operations.
CHC said: "We believe that engineering and operating differences associated with AS332 L/L1 and EC225 aircraft warrant continuing flights with those aircraft.
"However, in order to give us an opportunity to take stock of any implications associated with Friday's accident, we will not fly AS322Ls/L1s/L2s anywhere in the world on Sunday, except for life or death search and rescue missions.
It said it had "great respect" for the HSSG and that its primary objective was the wellbeing of its passengers and colleagues.
Super Puma manufacturer Eurocopter said the firm was "supporting CHC and relevant authorities with their investigations".
Three of the four bodies have been recovered. Coastguard authorities were working to recover the fourth body from the wreckage.
Work will then continue to locate the helicopter's black box.
The people who died were Duncan Munro, 46, from Bishop Auckland, Sarah Darnley, 45, from Elgin, Gary McCrossan, 59, from Inverness, and George Allison, 57, from Winchester.
Ms Darnley's mother Anne spoke of her family's shock and said her daughter was "a fun-loving free spirit".
She said in a statement: "She enjoyed her job. She had great camaraderie with her colleagues and over the years she made some fantastic friends whom she was able to visit in various parts of the world, including South America and Thailand.
"Sarah lived life to the full, she was easy-going and a one-off. She will be deeply missed by all who knew her."
The family of Mr Munro described him as a "fabulous father" and a "devoted husband".
In a statement, relatives said: "He will be sadly missed by everyone that knew him and his death will leave a large void in a lot of peoples lives.
"His family would like to thank everyone for their kindness and support since they received the tragic news, they would also like to pass on their sincere condolences to the other families who have lost loved ones in this tragic incident."
Police Scotland said 12 of those rescued had arrived in Aberdeen. Two others were still being treated at the Gilbert Bain Hospital in Lerwick.
Specialist police have been deployed to Shetland to work with local officers and other agencies on the crash investigation.
RNLI rescue co-ordinator Jim Nicolson said the helicopter had apparently suffered a "catastrophic loss of power".
He said it appeared the aircraft had "suddenly dropped into the sea without any opportunity to make a controlled landing".
Scotland's Finance Secretary, John Swinney, said it was "still too early to know what caused this terrible tragedy" but added that "a full investigation by the relevant authorities is already under way".
"We are continuing to work closely with all partner agencies who have been involved in this rescue and recovery operation and I have been closely liaising with trade unions representatives about the safety of staff using the helicopters," he added.
He said he did not anticipate that CHC's temporary grounding of Super Puma L2 flights would "have any immediate impact on the production of oil and gas in the North Sea but we will continue to monitor this situation closely".
Last year, Super Puma helicopters crashed in two incidents, one off Aberdeen and another off Shetland, but these involved the EC225 variety of the aircraft.
All passengers and crew were rescued in both incidents which were found to have been caused by gearbox problems.
Super Puma EC225s were grounded following the crashes but were given the go-ahead to resume flying again earlier this month.
Bob Crow, general secretary of offshore union RMT, said there was a lack of workforce confidence in the Super Puma type aircraft, and unions had been working with the industry to address their members' concerns.Helicopters grounded after crash
About 26,000 people work for more than 100 nights a year offshore in the UK.
Other aircraft serve the UK industry, including Agusta Westland helicopters. | All Super Puma helicopter passenger flights to UK oil installations were suspended after a crash off Shetland claimed the lives of four people. | 23829107 |
Okinoshima is home to the Okitsu shrine, built in the 17th century to pray for the safety of sailors.
Before stepping foot on the island, men must take off their clothes and undergo a cleansing ritual.
When they leave they are not allowed to take away any souvenirs, or disclose details of their visit.
Long before the shrine was built, Okinoshima was used for rituals involving prayers for oceangoing ships and trade ties with Korean and Chinese people, the Japan Times reports.
Thousands of artefacts brought as gifts from overseas have been found on the island, including gold rings from the Korean Peninsula, it says.
The island now welcomes visitors on a single day every year, 27 May, and ancient rules are still observed.
The number of visitors is restricted to 200. They must perform ablution rites in the sea, and - most controversially - be male. | Japan's Okinoshima island, an ancient religious site where women are banned, has been declared a World Heritage site by the UN's cultural body Unesco. | 40549909 |
As his Arsenal side dissolved and were brutally dispatched by Bayern Munich - once they awoke from 45 minutes of complacency - Wenger will have felt every goal, every added humiliation, like a blow to the solar plexus. Five second-half goals. Five more questions to ponder.
A proud man, Wenger will have surveyed the thousands of empty seats that increased in number at Emirates Stadium with every Bayern strike on the way to a humiliating 10-2 aggregate loss and surely questioned what more he can do at Arsenal.
The Gunners were out of the Champions League at the last-16 stage for the seventh successive season. However, few nights could have been more chastening than this one for the man who has known such glory, but who now may be contemplating the end of the road.
Once the German champions were prodded into life by a generous penalty award and a red card after Laurent Koscielny fouled Robert Lewandowski, they delivered a ruthless verdict on just how far Arsenal have been marginalised from the elite European group they once occupied with style and with regularity. It underscored a dramatic fall from grace.
Wenger was not subjected to widespread rebellion or mutiny inside the stadium, but there were ominous signs that can often be used as indicators that a manager's future has reached its defining moment.
A group of Arsenal fans, not huge in number but noisy, led a protest march on Emirates Stadium from their old Highbury home, brandishing banners that read "Enough Is Enough", "No New Contract", "All Good Things Come To An End" - and what looked like a rather hastily assembled affair that read: "Stubborn. Stale. Clueless."
They chanted "Arsene Wenger - You're Killing Our Club" - harsh and heartbreaking words aimed at a man who, whatever even his fiercest critic will say, loves Arsenal and has done so much to enrich them.
It was strictly a minority. But an even more significant indicator may have been the large number of empty seats inside the Emirates. It was announced that 59,911 tickets had been sold - but it was fair to say 59,911 had not pitched up, many clearly deciding they had better things to do despite having shelled out hard-earned cash.
Arsenal equipped themselves well for 45 minutes, but the whole night and performance had the stench of too little, too late - and there is no good news, no consolation, no hard luck story about successive 5-1 defeats in the Champions League.
The manner in which Arsenal collapsed once Bayern equalised was an alarming barometer of fragile confidence, belief and morale. It was understandable heads would go down as hope was snuffed out, but the manner in which they were picked apart was horrendous. Players were stretched hopelessly out of position and Bayern almost scored at will.
Alexis Sanchez was even robbed by Arjen Robben, hardly a tackling heavyweight, on the edge of his own area for one goal in an incident that summed up the Chile forward's night after the controversy of his exclusion at Liverpool.
Sanchez was a central figure amid stories of training ground unrest but he was restored here as Arsenal went in search of a miracle.
He was greeted warmly by Arsenal's fans when his name was announced, but he was not able to make a point to Wenger or anyone else on this night and his wave as he was substituted late on could even have been construed as the start of a long farewell between now and the end of the season.
After taking his seat on the bench, Sanchez was pictured chuckling briefly, something that riled some supporters on social media, despite it being impossible to determine precisely what he had found humorous.
The backdrop to this dead rubber - there was never any realistic chance of this Arsenal side in their current condition reviving it even when they took the lead on the night - was a cloud of uncertainty over the club that is becoming increasingly toxic.
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There are no guarantees about the future of arguably the three highest-profile figures at Arsenal, a state of affairs creating a mood of chaos around Emirates Stadium.
Wenger is giving no clues as to whether he will sign a two-year deal that is on the table, amid mounting criticism of his methods. Sanchez looks certain to depart in the summer as his relationship with the club fractures. And Mesut Ozil's stock has fallen as his own contract situation is shrouded in mystery.
This would be a situation to prey on the nerves and frustrations of Arsenal's fans even before it is set alongside a team that look further away than ever from a Premier League title challenge and now suffering from one of their most humiliating, harrowing Champions League experiences.
The double figures aggregate loss actually might have been worse and this latest last-16 exit is made even more painful by being cloaked in the feeling of an end of an era after a Champions League story that has increasingly become one of diminishing returns for Wenger and Arsenal.
They were made to look light years away from Europe's elite by Bayern. Wenger may have cursed the luck of the draw once more - and even the officials - but there was no escaping a seventh straight exit at the last-16 stage.
As Arsenal fans gathered on Holloway Road and around Emirates Stadium before kick-off the pervading emotion was gloom. There was no sense this Arsenal could frighten Bayern in the same way they frightened AC Milan here almost five years ago to the day, when they had the Italian giants rocking at 3-0 down after losing the first leg 4-0.
And so it proved. Not this time. Wenger's Arsenal, in this Champions League context at least, now find even a gallant near-miss beyond them.
If there is the growing sense that this is Wenger's final fling, there was also an ominous feeling of an extra layer of fear to add to the frustration of Arsenal's supporters. Is this finally the time they end up without Champions League football for the first time this century?
Wenger's sense of pride would be damaged enough by an elimination as wounding as this, an exit that left no room for debate about Arsenal's reduced status. It might hurt even more if he had to start life outside the European footballing environment that has become his and Arsenal's natural home.
The Gunners have always managed to find a place in the Premier League's top four but this now faces its most serious threat, with Chelsea the champions-elect and Tottenham, Manchester City and Liverpool (and arguably even Manchester United) all looking in better shape.
Wenger, who wrote about "our pride and our honour" being at stake in his match notes, might have to swallow his own pride should Arsenal end up with only a Europa League place at the end of this season. There was no pride or honour to take away from this night.
Would Wenger, at 67, have the desire to effectively start again and rebuild in Europe's second-tier tournament, or would that be a timely cue for him to step aside for a successor?
There is still time for Wenger to salvage a measure of success and respectability from Arsenal's season and either stay or go on a high of sorts.
Arsenal will be overwhelming favourites to reach the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley with a last-eight tie against non-league Lincoln City awaiting them this weekend, while there is still the top-four place on offer.
The FA Cup has been the only silverware sustaining Wenger and Arsenal in the barren years since the title triumph of "The Invincibles" in 2003-04.
If - and it is still a big "if" - he wins it, it will allow Wenger, Arsenal and their supporters a celebration. But even that may not prove to be enough to soothe the atmosphere of unease in this part of north London.
Chastening nights like these, when the cavernous gap between Arsenal and those they wish to challenge was cruelly exposed, may carry more weight when it comes to Wenger's verdict on his own future and that of the supporters on him.
Wenger was spared at the final whistle, with only a few jeers to be heard because so many had left. It looked and felt like a lonely existence for Arsenal's manager.
He simply shook his head, a mixture of disappointment at the result and what he later said he felt was an injustice at the hands of officials - which carried a note of desperation and straw-clutching when examined through the prism of both legs.
"Every Good Story Has An Ending" read one large banner being paraded outside the stadium before kick-off.
And as Wenger headed down the tunnel and Arsenal's fans headed out into the night, it was hard to escape the growing belief that this one is moving towards its final chapter. | Arsene Wenger stood in isolation and desolation in his technical area as the pain he suffers this time every year nagged away at him once more - but now it was accompanied by an inescapable feeling of finality. | 39201620 |
The Republican nominee appeared on Facebook Live with three women who have accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual assault.
A fourth woman, who was a child victim in a sexual assault case Mrs. Clinton defended during her legal career, also spoke at the brief news conference.
Mr Trump attempted to highlight the former president's past infidelities to quell the furore over a 2005 video released on Friday that revealed him bragging about groping women.
Since the explosive revelations, several members of the Republican party have called for Mr Trump to drop out of the race while others rushed to denounce him.
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"These four very courageous women have asked to be here and it was our honour to help them," Mr Trump said as he introduced the women.
The women also joined Mr Trump's family inside the debate hall in what some pundits say was an attempt to intimidate Mrs Clinton.
Mr Clinton has never faced any criminal charges in connection to the allegations, but what are the accusations?
The former Arkansas state employee sued Mr Clinton for sexual harassment in 1994, claiming that he propositioned her and exposed himself in a hotel room while serving as governor in 1991.
A federal judge threw out the lawsuit in 1998, but Ms Jones appealed against the ruling and settled with Mr Clinton for $850,000 without an admission of guilt
However, Ms Jones' lawsuit subsequently led to Mr Clinton's impeachment in 1998 due to a deposition he gave in that case.
He denied having sexual relations with White House intern Monica Lewinsky during that deposition.
At the press conference prior to the presidential debate, a reporter asked Mr Trump if his star power allowed him to grope women without their consent. Ms Jones fired back: "Why don't you go ask Bill Clinton that? Why don't you ask Hillary as well?"
Mr Trump, who praised Ms Jones for her courage, called her "a loser" in a 1998 interview with NBC's Chris Matthews.
The nursing home administrator claimed Mr Clinton raped her in an Arkansas hotel room in 1978 and Mrs Clinton helped him conceal it.
"Mr Trump may have said some bad words, but Bill Clinton raped me and Hillary Clinton threatened me. I don't think there's any comparison", she said during the news conference on Sunday, referring to the New York businessman's sex boast tape.
Ms Broaddrick served as a volunteer on Mr Clinton's first gubernatorial campaign.
The former president has denied the allegation through a lawyer and no charges were ever filed.
She spoke out in 1999 during an investigation of Mr Clinton by the independent counsel Kenneth Starr, recanting sworn testimony a year earlier stating the incident never happened.
Over the weekend, Mr Trump tweeted an interview Ms Broaddrick gave to right-wing website Breitbart, in which she alleged that Mrs Clinton thanked her for her silence at a political rally.
The former White House aide alleged Mr Clinton groped her in his office in 1993, but had previously said it never happened.
Ms Willey said she had met with the former president to ask for a paying job to help with her family's financial struggles.
Mr Clinton has also denied this claim and the Office of Independent Counsel found her allegations inconclusive.
"I think we can bring peace to this world, and I think Donald Trump can lead us to that point," she said at the news conference.
Ms Shelton was the 12-year-old victim in a sexual assault case Mrs Clinton was appointed to early in her legal profession.
Mrs Clinton was the attorney for a factory worker accused of raping Ms Shelton, despite her objections over the case.
In audio recordings from the mid-1980s of an interview Mrs Clinton had with an Arkansas reporter, the current Democratic nominee is heard laughing while discussing the trial, including this instance when she says: "Of course he [the defendant] claimed he didn't [rape her]… He took a lie detector test. I had him take a polygraph, which he passed, which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs."
Ms Shelton's attacker ultimately admitted a reduced charge, and she has since said Mrs Clinton put "me through hell". | With less than two hours before the second US presidential debate, Donald Trump mounted a pre-emptive attack on rival Hillary Clinton by going after her husband. | 37612453 |
But they're not the only record breaking bakers in the world - here's Newsround's pick of the biggest and the best food creations...
In February chefs in Guadalajara, Mexico, broke a world record by making a line of tacos nearly two miles long. A team of 130 cooks were together for six hours to create the masterpiece.
At eight and a half metres tall, this is the largest handmade Easter egg in the world. It was made in April in Argentina, South America, and 8,000kg of chocolate - that's about the same weight as two elephants - was used to make it.
Bakers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, served up a massive 450-metre-long cake to celebrate the city's 450th anniversary in March. The cake was made from around 30,000 eggs, 2,500 bags of flour and lots of butter, and took 10 bakers three days to make it.
The largest gingerbread house was made in Texas, USA and was not something that would fit in your regular baking tin! In fact it was 18.28 m long, 12.8 m wide and 18.28 m tall at its highest point. Money raised from visitors was given to the local hospital.
Sixty French and Italian bakers worked nearly seven hours to bake this record-breaking 122 metre-long bread. They used a specially designed portable oven to bake the dough and had to be very careful that the massive baguette didn't break. | Chefs in Italy have been busy baking the world's longest ever baguette - a whopping 122 metres long. | 34572342 |
Ruby, the 21-year-old mare, stumbled into the River Irwell near Bolton, while out with her rider on Tuesday morning.
Accompanied by a vet, 10 firefighters from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service spent an hour hauling the animal to safety using a harness.
After a brief rest Ruby trotted back to the stables to be given the all-clear. | A one-eyed horse has been rescued from a river in Greater Manchester by firefighters. | 26854989 |
High jumper Isobel Pooley is not overweight, but stands 1.92m (6ft 3½in), and some people cannot get their heads round that height.
"People swear and say: 'She's huge, have you seen that girl over there?' And I want to turn round and say: 'I'm not deaf,'" she tells BBC Sport.
"It's a part of my daily life. They say: 'How tall are you?' or just make pointless comments that don't go anywhere like 'You're really tall aren't you?' 'Aren't you tall?' 'You're massive'.
"People are just so rude without realising. They assume that it's OK to point it out. It's not kind ever to stop and stare at people, but that's what us tall people have to endure."
The 22-year-old is certainly using her height to her advantage though, setting a British record, qualifying for next month's World Championships, and eyeing a shot at the 2016 Olympics.
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There's an old athletics adage that you're not a "proper" high jumper until you soar past your own height.
Pooley went five centimetres clear of that when setting a new GB outdoor record of 1.97m at the British Championships earlier this month, and had the chance to go for a milestone.
"Two metres is the landmark height for a lot of female jumpers. To attempt that at a British Championships in front of a home crowd was absolutely sensational. It was such a monumental experience," she recalls.
"Despite not being successful at the attempt, I was able to at least look up to that bar and square up to it and feel confident in the near future that I am actually going to be able to tackle that height."
Her successful jump of 1.97 matched heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson's indoor mark at Birmingham earlier in the year.
Only three women in the world have gone higher in 2015. It was the latest stage in the progression of Pooley, who set the previous best British mark of 1.96 in Germany last year, passing a 33-year-old record, and was third in a Diamond League event in Doha in May.
"I'm ready and I gave myself a strong and consistent message in the weeks leading up to the British trials that I was going to be able to give that outstanding performance," she said.
"The feeling landing on the bed and knowing I was over the bar was just immense gratification, and feeling that's no less than I deserve because I've worked really hard and the only thing I've changed is I've let myself believe I can jump that high."
"High jump is hugely psychological. The bar is a challenge and it is inevitably going to catch you out in the end - it always ends in a failure," said Pooley.
Despite only being 19 at the time, Pooley nearly reached the qualifying standard for the 2012 London Olympics.
But at 1.90m, just two centimetres short of the standard needed to make a home Games, she froze.
"I got so fixated on the height of the bar, and about achieving selection, I was just incapable of jumping or even attempting that bar to anything near my ability," she added.
"I actually knew how to clear it, I had the answers, but I was so flustered about the concept of this home Games. The temptation when the bar goes higher is to change things, and that inevitably ends in disaster."
Pooley started to fulfil her potential at senior level with a silver medal at last year's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
"There are indicators of potential such as my height, dedication to training, the fact my coach (Fayyaz 'Fuzz' Ahmed) bothers with me at all - his time is like gold dust - and he devotes so many hours to training me shows I must be worth it," she said. "All I want to do is live up to how good I can be and the bar is an irrelevance now."
Pooley went to London as a spectator, cheered on training partner Robbie Grabarz to Olympic bronze, and now regards missing out as a blessing in disguise, having learned to trust her own techniques and believe in herself.
"A lot of the problems us high jumpers encounter are created in our own head as a reaction to the height of the bar. If we don't know the height, it makes it a lot more simple," she said,
"In training, my coach will put the bar up and not tell us how high it is so a lot of the time we are in the dark."
To get her approach right, Pooley has been helped by psychologists, including Julie Crane - also the wife of her coach Ahmed - who herself won high jump silver for Wales at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
Crane uses neuro linguistic programming, which examines how your thinking can affect performance.
"She'll pick up on things I have said which have significance that I didn't realise," said Pooley. "So I'll say something like 'I'm going to try to achieve this' and she says 'No, don't try, just achieve it'."
Pooley believes athletes have a kind of inner beauty, harnessed through ability.
"For me it's not about looking thin, it's about jumping high," she said.
"If I reach the point where I'm super light and unhealthy, that's not a positive situation to be in. It's about being the best athlete I can be.
"I enjoyed watching Serena Williams in the tennis, because she is a goddess in her body. She is big compared to your average woman, but nobody would say she is not beautiful.
"Her beauty is practical too, where you are not judging it on what it looks like but what it can do, and I think that's a really healthy principle to take into wider society.
"I hate it when people say: 'How are you ever going to find a boyfriend?' assuming that he has to be taller. Why do we have to think the man has to be the big guy? There are big women and small men."
Pooley is tall even for a high jumper, towering over most opponents, and has learned to love her height. It means she takes fewer strides, for example.
"Luckily I'm confident in my skin now but when you are growing up, especially when you are in your teens, that is an incredibly difficult time for any young person in terms of their own body image and self confidence," she said.
"Sport helps so much because all of a sudden it threw a positive light as it was such a clear advantage to be tall.
"When I was growing up, I would have killed to be 5ft 3in, instead of 6ft 3in, but now I wouldn't give up my height for the world.
"I'm glad life threw me that challenge because it has helped me become a lot more confident in a whole multitude of ways."
Whereas many people are reluctant to comment on weight, race or disability, height seems to be fair game - footballer Peter Crouch endured chants of "freak" earlier in his career.
"Sport is fantastic for flipping those nasty comments on their head," said Pooley.
"A fundamental philosophy of being an athlete is 'control the controllables' and if you can't change something all you can change is your attitude towards it.
"When people say to my mum: 'Oh you're daughter's awfully tall,' she replies: 'Yes, and she's British champion in the high jump.'"
Training features surprisingly little jumping - maybe 10-20 efforts in three sessions a week - alongside co-ordination drills, weights, short sprints and acceleration runs.
"It is a really common misconception that we just jump all the time but that is just not physically possible, our bodies would break down," she said.
Pooley largely trains with men for whom 2m is no big deal, but now has company in Victoria Dronsfield, the Sweden-born high jumper with an English father who has just been accepted as a British athlete.
"She pushes me on a daily and weekly basis. Although the boys push me, it's almost a bit too extreme to try and lift their weights or run as quickly as they do; having a female makes it that more attainable as a goal."
Becoming Britain's first female Olympic high jump medallist might seem a tall order - but don't rule out GB's rising star from reaching new heights.
She has another Diamond League meeting in Monaco on Friday, but there will be no appearance in the Anniversary Games in London a week later.
"Unfortunately they've chosen not to put a women's high jump in the programme, which is very disappointing but I'm going to do my utmost on the Friday night to come down and watch Robbie [Grabarz]," she said.
After her World Championships debut next month - "Beijing is going to be a hell of a big deal" - attention will switch to next year's Olympics, and then the 2017 Worlds in London.
"It's completely realistic that I can make the Beijing final, and then to be an Olympic finalist at 23 would be an enormous landmark for me," she added.
"It's really easy to get ahead of yourself when you give one good performance but this is going to be a long journey and 2017 is a massive target. Having a home World Champs is an opportunity that many athletes would give their right arm for." | Here's a tall story - an ultra-fit champion British athlete who suffers jibes every day because of her body. | 33501968 |
The Constitutional Reform and Governance Act requires peers and MPs to be tax resident and domiciled in order to remain in Parliament.
Lord Ashcroft, a Conservative deputy chairman, revealed in March he was a non-dom so did not have to pay UK taxes on most of his overseas earnings.
Five peers are now known to have quit the Lords seats to keep non-dom status.
The latest to announce the move is architect Lord Foster, who was ennobled in 1999.
The others are Conservatives Lord Bagri, Lord McAlpine and Lord Laidlaw of Rothiemay, and cross-bencher Baroness Dunn.
The Constitutional Reform and Governance Act passed through Parliament earlier this year with cross-party support.
A three-month period during which peers could instead permanently exclude themselves from the Lords expires on Wednesday.
Labour donor Lord Paul has, like Lord Ashcroft, said he will give up his non-dom status to keep his seat. | Lord Ashcroft has given up his non-dom tax status to stay in the Lords, it has been confirmed. | 10535852 |
nuTonomy, the firm behind the scheme, said the car had clipped a small lorry while driving at about four miles per hour.
It played down the incident as a "small prang", saying only minor damage was caused and that neither of the two engineers on board were hurt.
The Singapore scheme, which began in August, was the first around the world trialling driverless taxis.
The nuTonomy spokesperson said that given this was a trial, small accidents were not unexpected and that the idea of the testing was to learn from what went wrong.
The project is using six small Renault and Mitsubishi electric vehicles, equipped with the company's software and cameras. Each has a system of lasers which operate like a radar to monitor the car's surroundings.
But while the vehicles are doing the driving themselves in a small area of the city, drivers are there to monitor the performance and as a backup in case something goes wrong. Currently the vehicles are not taking paying passengers.
Driverless technology is one of the biggest growth areas in the automotive industry and just about every car company is working on driverless technology from Silicon Valley's Tesla to Ford, Volvo, BMW and a number of Chinese car makers.
Internet giant Google was amongst the first to pioneer and extensively test its driverless Google car and has teamed up with a number of car makers for their research.
nuTonomy, is a US-based start-up developer of software for self-driving cars. The company was founded in 2013 by two MIT researchers specialising in robotics and driverless technology. The firm has offices both in the US and in Singapore. | A self-driving taxi being trialled in Singapore has had its first accident. | 37689726 |
The body of 42-year-old Peter Ritchie was discovered in woods at Kippen, Stirlingshire on Monday.
The Daily Record reported that police were told about the car on Sunday night but could not find it.
The vehicle and Mr Ritchie's body were discovered by police the following day.
Police said Mr Ritchie's death was being treated as unexplained.
A statement issued by Mr Ritchie's family said: "Peter was a much loved son and brother and as a family, we have been left devastated by his death.
"It will take time to come to terms with this loss and as such, we would ask for our privacy to be respected so that we can grieve in peace."
Circumstances investigated
The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has now instructed the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) to investigate the circumstances leading up to the discovery of Mr Ritchie's body and the vehicle.
A Pirc spokesman said: "The investigation will focus on the actions of Police Scotland when responding to telephone calls made by members of the public and family on Sunday 29 January and Monday 30 January.
"A report on the Commissioner's findings will be submitted to the COPFS in due course."
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "Police in Stirlingshire are investigating following the death of a man in a wooded area near to Woodstone Road, Kippen.
"The body was discovered in the area around 22:45 on Monday, 30 January.
"The death is currently being treated as unexplained and inquiries are currently ongoing to establish the full circumstances." | A police watchdog investigation has been launched after a missing man was found dead near his abandoned car a day after officers reportedly looked for the vehicle. | 38826155 |
The animated programmes ask youngsters to choose between two options at several points in their plots.
The firm says the nature of its online streaming platform has allowed it to experiment with "branching narrative" tech in a way that would not be possible for traditional broadcasters.
But it acknowledges that such shows are more costly to make than normal.
"It was actually a little bit more than twice as much animation as a typical episode," explained Doug Langdale, executive producer of the Puss in Book series, which was made in conjunction with Dreamworks Studios.
"It was about 50 minutes [of footage] where it would normally be 22. Especially with computer animation, that's tremendously more expensive.
"It's not easy or cheap. But it's the next thing, and we've got to try it."
The programmes can be watched and controlled via smart TVs, games consoles and iOS devices - but cannot be downloaded and viewed offline.
In addition to the special episode of Puss in Book - subtitled Trapped in an Epic Tale - Netflix is making an interactive episode of the stop-motion series Buddy Thunderstruck available.
The former has two possible endings and the latter, four, but in both cases there are several ways that viewers can steer the stories to their conclusions.
It has taken two years to bring the shows to screen, with part of the challenge being trying to ensure their plots remain logical and compelling whatever choices are made.
A third child's show, based on the superhero Stretch Armstrong, is planned for 2018. But at present Netflix has no plans for adult-themed choice-based shows, nor has it committed itself to making further examples for children.
"The main priority right now is starting to learn how our members are going to engage with this [and] learning how we can tell these stories," Carla Fisher, Netflix's director of product innovation, told the BBC.
"Then we will go from there."
Netflix is far from being the first to develop interactive programming.
Beyond the many video games that have adopted the format, there have been:
However, one media analyst said scripted entertainment risked being made "gimmicky" by being forced into an interactive format.
"When it comes to linear entertainment there is an attraction to being presented with a fixed story, and having that crafted narrative presented to you by the director and writers," explained Tom Harrington of Enders Analysis.
"I doubt Netflix is going to be filled with these kind of interactive shows in 10 years.
"But it does know the value of great press, and it will get lots of publicity out of this." | Netflix is launching two interactive children's TV shows that let audiences determine the on-screen action. | 40340832 |
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Indeed, if Alastair Cook's men had recorded anything less than their 2-0 series win, then some questions might have been asked.
As it is, that final scoreline was the right outcome for the cricket that has been played.
However, great credit must be given to Sri Lanka for the way they have improved as the three Tests progressed.
After a horrific start in difficult conditions at Headingley they showed that, with the right attitude and the willingness to learn, you can get to the standard required.
The best example of this was the way openers Kaushal Silva and Dimuth Karunaratne played on the fourth evening of the final Test at Lord's. With James Anderson and Stuart Broad roaring in, they knuckled down to get through to the close. It was excellent batting.
In the end, the rain spoiled what could have been an intriguing final day. I'm not sure Sri Lanka would have chased their target of 362, but they might have shown some spirit in pursuit of a consolation win.
Overall, it was a pretty good series for England. Some questions were answered, while others remain.
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I would be very surprised if Nick Compton, who averaged 12.75, is picked again.
He's worked very hard and done a lot of the right things in terms of preparation, but you have to get the runs. It just didn't happen for him.
The selection process has to have an integrity and you can't keep going back to someone if they are not performing. Maybe a batsman with a career average of 50 would be given more time, but Compton doesn't have that sort of credit in the bank.
The one slight doubt is that we can't say what might happen between now and the first Test against Pakistan. Compton might get a stack of runs for Middlesex and Scott Borthwick, the man who seems to have earned an opportunity, might struggle for Durham.
Another man who has not taken his chance in the England top order is James Vince, but he will probably be given the Pakistan series to prove he is good enough.
Still, that might not be at number five, with the possibility of him moving to three depending on what happens to Compton.
Taking all of this into account, it is quite dangerous to try to select the team for the first Test against Pakistan at Lord's on 14 July.
While others in England's top order struggled, opener Alex Hales had a brilliant series.
Before the first Test I thought he was lucky to have kept his place after an indifferent time in South Africa, but he returned with 292 runs at an average of 58.
I previously read some nonsense about him coming into the side and banging the ball about, but that's not what Test cricket is and that is not how you play it.
Hales, a quick learner, realised that and the way he knuckled down is fantastic. In Test cricket you have time, once you get yourself in, to expand an innings. The attitude he showed is exactly what you need.
Pakistan, who have a more dangerous attack than Sri Lanka, will test him more around off stump, but his confidence will be higher and he should be better equipped to deal with that.
Jonny Bairstow, England's man of the series, was quite incredible with the bat, but the mistakes he made with the wicketkeeping gloves are a concern.
This winter, with two Tests in Bangladesh and five in India, will be a supreme challenge for a wicketkeeper, spending long hours standing up to the stumps for the spin bowlers.
I'm not being critical of Bairstow, because he will know he is missing too many chances. He is a competitive and determined man who will not rest on his laurels - he must maintain the work he is doing with England wicketkeeping coach Bruce French.
Is he going to be England's wicketkeeper in two years' time? I can't say for certain. With how much batting England have in their lower order, they might even be able to pick a specialist keeper.
When Ben Stokes returns to fitness, England will have a tricky decision to make between Chris Woakes and Steven Finn.
Finn is a natural wicket-taker, even when he's not bowling well, but he can bowl better than he has in this series.
At his best he gets the ball to an awkward height at good pace, quicker than he is currently bowling and that could yet click in the cricket he plays between now and the Pakistan series.
The pressure on his place comes from the fact Woakes has had a really good couple of games since coming in to the side as a result of Stokes' knee injury. In two Tests he's taken eight wickets and averaged more than 50 with the bat.
At the moment, if they are both fit, I would stick with Finn, but Woakes is a man who provides England with a lot of options.
The one-sided nature of the first Test in particular led to lots of talk about a two-tiered structure in Test cricket, one International Cricket Council chief executive Dave Richardson went on to endorse.
I'm firmly opposed to that because it could be the death knell of Test cricket in some countries. Disenfranchised players could go off to play in the various Twenty20 leagues and their national sides would never recover.
If you speak to the players, they will all say that you need to play against the best to improve. The difference between Sri Lanka at the end of this series when compared to the beginning is proof of that.
That is not to say Test cricket does not need to be scrutinised, because a root-and-branch review is required.
Structure it correctly so the players can do it justice. Give them enough time to prepare, don't shunt games to outposts, stop making some series two matches long and others five.
If we are serious about Test cricket, then treat it seriously.
Jonathan Agnew was talking to BBC Sport's Stephan Shemilt | In early season conditions and playing at the standard they have been, England were always likely to overwhelm Sri Lanka. | 36522993 |
Iain McIntosh won the election to elect a councillor for Yscir, a largely rural ward north of Brecon, with 165 votes.
The previous councillor, Gillian Thomas, retired in May.
After no-one contested the ward at the May polls, six candidates put their names forward to fill the post.
Independent candidate Chris Davies came second with 144 votes. Candidates from the Green Party and Plaid Cymru, and two other independents, also took part.
The turnout was 62%.
Yscir was the only ward in Wales to have no-one nominated in May's council elections. | A Powys County Council ward where no-one was nominated to stand at the council election in May has now been won by a Conservative, following a by-election on Thursday. | 40382559 |
NHS England said based on its latest data, 54% of women screened are getting their results on time.
Delays are being blamed on cytology labs struggling to keep staff as the screening process is replaced with another - which will need fewer staff.
A cervical cancer charity said waiting for results is "an anxious time".
Robert Music, chief executive of Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust, said it was "concerning".
"This [the wait] may cause additional stress and potentially result in delays in treatment commencing for those needing it," he said.
Information supplied by NHS England to BBC Coventry & Warwickshire said the process measure is that at least 98% of screening results letters should be received within two weeks.
It also said based on the latest data available, 20% of CCG areas are meeting that standard and that 54% of women screened receive their results within two weeks. The longest recorded wait for a woman to receive the results from her cervical screen is 59 days, it said.
Source: NHS England
Jess Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, had to be regularly tested after her smear test showed up pre-cancerous cells. She was pregnant at the time and could not be treated until after giving birth.
After that, she was tested every six months and then annually.
She said delays in waiting for her results would make her fear the worst.
"I always, and there is no rationale behind this, but I always thought the worst when my results have not come in and I would pester my GP and no doubt cause them trouble," she said.
Experiences like hers are not uncommon, she said, and it is an incredibly stressful time when waiting for results.
"I think this (the delays) could have been foreseen and things could have been put in place for a transition period," she said.
Dr Suzy Lishman, president of the Royal College of Pathologists, said although less than 50% of women were not getting their results within two weeks, 83% were getting theirs within three weeks.
"The effect is mainly anxiety but it is very unlikely to have an effect on their health as cervical cancer can take decades to develop."
Figures issued by NHS Digital for the year 2115-16 showed 89.1% of women across England got their results letters within the two weeks.
An NHS England spokesperson said cervical screening turnaround times are closely monitored.
"A way of analysing tests which will identify more women who are at risk and save more lives is being introduced. However, the transition is impacting on turnaround times as new system is implemented.
"This will be completed in 2019 and in the meantime NHS England is working with hospitals to increase capacity and cut backlogs."
John Crossley, the deputy chief examiner in cytology, said uncertainty leading to the changes in testing had been a difficult period.
Labs were unwilling to train staff in the current screening process when it was going to be replaced with a different process, HPV screening.
"It's been a balancing act and the scales are starting to tip, he said.
Mr Music said HPV primary screening had been shown to be a more effective test.
"However while the change from cytology to HPV testing as the primary screening method will inevitably mean changes to the workforce, we must not let this impact turnaround times for tests or let the situation get worse," he said.
Mitigation plans, where larger labs help out the smaller ones, have been put in place which Mr Crossley said was the best Public Health England could do.
"I understand the psychological effects of waiting for results, the anxiety it can cause," he said, "but patient care is not being affected."
Reporting team: Susie Rack, Jo Tidman, Shelley Phelps | Almost half of women in England screened for cervical cancer are waiting more than the two-week target for their results. | 40686393 |
County had won their first two Group D games and Hibs had taken full points from their only other game.
But, despite some exciting play, especially in the opening half, chances came and went in the first group game to involve two Premiership sides.
Michael Gardyne fired the deciding spot kick after Oli Shaw's was saved.
The extra point puts County, who had gone into the game seeking their fifth win in a row and 10th unbeaten following a good end to last season, in control at the top of the group.
Hibs, promoted as Championship winners last season, had arrived in Dingwall unbeaten in their last five games away from home.
And they gave debuts to summer signings Steven Whittaker and Danny Swanson, while Efe Ambrose was in the back line for the first time since making his move permanent from Celtic and a mix-up that led to a delayed return for pre-season training.
However, it was the starting place handed to Marvin Bartley that gave Hibs early dominance as the big Englishman shrugged off the challenges to dominate midfield.
His ball winning allowed John McGinn and Martin Boyle licence to bomb forward and continually worry the County rearguard with their thrusting runs towards the edge of the penalty box.
County were hampered by the loss to injury of forward Craig Curran after only seven minutes as Ambrose made his presence felt with a hefty challenge.
It meant that summer signing Thomas Mikkelsen made a swift return to the home line-up after Alex Shalk was handed a starting place ahead of the former Dundee United striker.
County were left reeling and goalkeeper Scott Fox, back in the side after young Aaron McCarey was given a workout against Montrose, was tested early by a couple of grass cutters from Dylan McGeouch and Simon Murray.
The home side, though, regained their composure and confidence after an Andrew Davies header that was beaten away by Hibs goalkeeper Ofir Marciano.
A Gardyne drive and a Ryan Dow cross almost deflected into his own net by Lewis Stevenson followed, while the Hibs full-back and McGinn flashed shots just wide as a high-tempo first half drew to a close.
County are obviously still adapting to the summer sale of Liam Boyce, last season's Premiership to scorer sold to Burton Albion, while it was too early for Hibs' latest addition, Lithuania striker Deivydas Matulevicius, to have more than a spectator's seat in the stand.
With defences tightened after the break, the game was crying out for a finisher and Hibs head coach Neil Lennon hauled off Simon Murray and sent on former County striker Brian Graham.
Yet it was a mistake from Fox, who let a deflected Boyle cross slip between his legs and just wide of the post, that came close to providing a killer moment.
Fox then denied Boyle at point-blank range and a Darren McGregor header struck the underside of the bar in stoppage time as Hibs paid the price for not finding the target before the game was decided from the penalty spot.
Goal! Ross County 0(2), Hibernian 0(2). Alex Schalk (Ross County) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.
Goal! Ross County 0(1), Hibernian 0(2). Martin Boyle (Hibernian) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Goal! Ross County 0(1), Hibernian 0(1). Jim O'Brien (Ross County) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Goal! Ross County 0, Hibernian 0(1). John McGinn (Hibernian) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the centre of the goal.
Penalty saved! Christopher Routis (Ross County) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the top right corner.
Penalty saved! Steven Whittaker (Hibernian) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.
Penalty Shootout begins Ross County 0, Hibernian 0.
Second Half ends, Ross County 0, Hibernian 0.
Marcus Fraser (Ross County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Brian Graham (Hibernian).
Darren McGregor (Hibernian) hits the bar with a header from the centre of the box following a corner.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Tim Chow.
Andrew Davies went off injured after Ross County had used all subs.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Scott Fox.
Attempt saved. John McGinn (Hibernian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Andrew Davies (Ross County) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Corner, Ross County. Conceded by Efe Ambrose.
Attempt missed. Marcus Fraser (Ross County) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Hibernian. Oli Shaw replaces Dylan McGeouch.
Jason Naismith (Ross County) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Brian Graham (Hibernian).
Corner, Ross County. Conceded by Darren McGregor.
Attempt missed. Christopher Routis (Ross County) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Thomas Mikkelsen (Ross County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Efe Ambrose (Hibernian).
(Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Brian Graham (Hibernian).
Substitution, Hibernian. Fraser Murray replaces Danny Swanson.
Foul by Jason Naismith (Ross County).
Danny Swanson (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Danny Swanson (Hibernian) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Michael Gardyne (Ross County) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Danny Swanson (Hibernian).
Substitution, Ross County. Jim O'Brien replaces Ryan Dow.
Foul by Thomas Mikkelsen (Ross County).
John McGinn (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Sean Kelly.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Marcus Fraser.
Attempt blocked. Dylan McGeouch (Hibernian) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Darren McGregor (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. | Ross County beat Hibernian to claim a League Cup bonus point after a penalty shootout was needed to separate the sides following a goalless 90 minutes. | 40661805 |
New rules governing drone ownership require anyone aged 13 or over who owns one of the craft to add their details to the register.
Anyone who gets a drone after 21 December must register with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) before it goes on its maiden flight.
Existing owners have until 19 February to put their details online. Anyone who does not comply could face hefty fines.
Those who register will be given an identification number that they must display on the remote-controlled craft. Registration is valid for three years.
The rules cover drones weighing between half a pound and 55lb (228g to 22.7kg).
A $5 (£3.30) registration fee is being waived for the first 30 days of the system to encourage people to register. Those who do not comply could face a fine of up to $27,500.
The FAA hs said that in "severe cases" of drone abuse it can mount a criminal prosecution which could see offenders hit with a $250,000 fine and up to three years in prison.
The register of owners has been set up following several high-profile cases which saw drones flown in restricted airspace near airports and crowds, or that interfered with the work of emergency services.
The FAA said it wanted the register up and working before Christmas as drones are widely expected to be a popular gift.
FAA rules for flying drones stipulate that they must: | A US government registration system for Americans who own drones has gone live. | 34807415 |
He left a rucksack with explosives which failed to detonate in November, and put another explosive device by the town hall a few days later, they say.
But a member of the public alerted the police, and no-one was injured.
The 12 year old - who is now in custody - is thought have been recently radicalised and to have links with the so-called Islamic State group.
Focus magazine cited security and judicial sources as saying the boy was "strongly radicalised" and apparently instructed by an unknown IS member.
The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office declined to comment on a possible IS link, but confirmed officials were investigating the case.
Public Prosecutor Hubert Stroeber said the boy left a backpack containing a home-made nail bomb at the Christmas market in Ludwigshafen, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on 26 November, but the device did not go off because the detonator apparently failed.
The second device near the city's town hall, placed on 5 December, was discovered by an "informant" and specialists defused it, Mr Stroeber said.
The boy was born in Ludwigshafen to Iraqi parents in 2004.
Prosecutors said no formal proceedings would be launched against him, because he is below the age of criminal responsibility.
Last Thursday, German police arrested two teenagers aged 15 and 17, accused of plotting a terror attack on a public institution in Aschaffenburg, in north-western Bavaria. Police found Islamic State flags and propaganda material in their homes.
Germany suffered a spate of attacks in the south of the country over the summer.
Ten people were killed and dozens more injured in separate gun, bomb, axe and machete attacks.
The authorities say they were not linked, and one of them was not terror-related.
But the wave of violence has made a nation already on edge after a huge influx of refugees even more nervous. | A 12-year-old German-Iraqi boy tried to blow up a Christmas market in the town of Ludwigshafen, prosecutors say. | 38343124 |
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England opener Hales made the highest individual one-day score at Lord's off just 167 balls as Notts chased 298 to win with 13 balls to spare.
Mark Stoneman had scored an unbeaten 144 off 149 balls in Surrey's 297-9.
They lost in the final for a third season in a row as Notts won their first trophy since 2013.
Hales, who hit four sixes and 20 fours, and Notts captain Chris Read (58) shared a 137-run partnership for the sixth wicket to guide the Outlaws to victory.
But it had looked like being a day to forget as early as the first ball of the match when Surrey's Jason Roy, Hales' opening partner for England, was dropped after edging a simple chance to Riki Wessels at first slip off Luke Fletcher.
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The Outlaws also dropped century-maker Stoneman twice and fielded sloppily before recovering to restrict Surrey to just under 300 from their 50 overs.
While Hales dominated from one end, at 150-5, their run chase looked in jeopardy as the rest of the top order failed to provide support at the other end.
But former England wicketkeeper Read joined Hales and struck a run-a-ball half-century to play his part in a domestic final victory in his last season before retiring from county cricket.
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In years to come, observers will look back on this final and call it 'The Alex Hales Show'.
Handed an early life on nine when Ollie Pope dropped what appeared a regulation chance at cover, Hales went on to punish Surrey, setting all manner of personal, ground and limited-overs records in the process.
He raced to his half-century off just 35 balls and then recorded the fastest Lord's domestic final century from 83 deliveries.
Smashing Sam Curran over midwicket for the first six of the game signalled his intent to dominate the bowlers, and he did so with a mixture of often effortless drives straight down the ground, or through the covers, and powerful pulls and slog-sweeps on the leg side.
Such was his dominance in the early stages of Notts' chase, his side were on just 133-4 from 21 overs as he reached three figures.
Registering his 150 from just 120 balls with a glanced four off Jade Dernbach, he broke a 52-year-old record for the highest individual score in a Lord's domestic final. Geoffrey Boycott's 146 for Yorkshire against Surrey in the 1965 Gillette Cup Final was the previous best.
Not content with that, Hales surpassed the highest one-day score at Lord's, beating David Boon's 166 for Australia v MCC in 1989 and then his own one-day best of 171, for England against Pakistan at Trent Bridge last August.
He still had time to set a club-best List A individual score, beating team-mate Michael Lumb's 184 of the previous season.
Before Hales stole the show, Surrey's Stoneman appeared likely to be the match-winner for Surrey.
Having been overlooked for England's first Test squad to play South Africa, Stoneman was handed lives on 32 and 73 during his 149-ball innings.
But the left-hander, who moved to The Oval from Durham in the winter to enhance his international chances, showed impressive application to guide his team through the 50 overs.
He became the first Surrey batsman to score a century in a Lord's final when he struck his 10th boundary.
After a first-class career-best of 197 for Surrey against Essex and scores of 58 and 86 for England Lions against South Africa A in the past month, Stoneman may not have to wait too much longer to make his Test debut.
In the first season of a revamped county calendar, the 50-over final was staged on the first Saturday in July, rather than its traditional end-of-season slot in September.
After a short turnaround between the group stage and semi-finals in mid-June, Lord's looked at best two-thirds full.
Tickets ranged from £30-£50, and the prices did not entice a surge in last-minute or casual sales.
Under the ECB's preference to play competitions in blocks of fixtures, the 50-over One-Day Cup is set to remain in its own designated block from May through to early July.
Nottinghamshire head coach Peter Moores told BBC Radio 5 live:
"It's a brilliant win. What an innings from Alex Hales - and fantastic for Chris Read to be there in the partnership to win the game.
"It's brilliant for the club, it's been a team job all the way through the competition."
Surrey captain Gareth Batty:
"It's a pretty bitter pill to swallow, but Nottinghamshire were magnificent today.
"I'm really chuffed for Chris Read, 20 years in the game and to finish like that is magnificent for him. Alex Hales was the man who took it away from us - no complaints." | Alex Hales' record-breaking 187 not out guided Nottinghamshire to a four-wicket triumph against Surrey in the One-Day Cup final at Lord's. | 40416511 |
Mr McGinley, 63, was shot outside a church in Newtownbutler as a wedding involving members of the travelling community, was about to get under way.
Patrick McGinley, who is believed to be the victim's nephew, was led into Omagh courthouse by two police officers with his head covered by a blanket.
He was remanded in custody until 16 March.
During the hearing he spoke only to confirm his date of birth and address that was given as Lisfarrell, Edgeworthstown, County Longford.
A detective said he believed he could connect the accused to the charges.
A defence solicitor told Omagh Magistrates Court his client went to police by arrangement and gave a very full account of "this tragic event". | A 46-year-old man has appeared in court charged with murdering Bernard McGinley in County Fermanagh on 11 February. | 31566134 |
The ruling came from Seattle district judge James Robart, the same judge who had issued the order that in effect halted implementation of the first ban.
Judge Robart said lawyers needed to file more extensive documentation.
The new 90-day ban on citizens of six mostly Muslim nations is due to come into effect on Thursday but has sparked legal action in a number of states.
Lawyers in Washington state had asked Judge Robart to extend his decision on the first ban to cover the second.
But the judge cited procedural reasons for not doing so.
He said a complaint or a motion would have to be filed before he could rule.
The justice department had argued that since the initial travel order ban had been revoked, the judge's first ruling could no longer apply. Those opposing that argument said the new travel ban had the same effect as the original.
In succeeding with the first ban, they argued the move was unconstitutional and damaging to businesses in Washington state.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Thursday that the administration believed the new order would withstand legal scrutiny.
Several states have launched legal challenges.
Oregon - said the order hurts residents, employers, universities health care system and economy
Washington - it has "same illegal motivations as the original" and harms residents, although fewer than the first ban
Minnesota - questioned the legality of the move, suggesting the Trump administration can't override the initial ban with a fresh executive order
New York - "a Muslim ban by another name", said the attorney general
Massachusetts - new ban "remains a discriminatory and unconstitutional attempt to make good on his campaign promise to implement a Muslim ban"
Hawaii - argued it would harm its Muslim population, tourism and foreign students
The first order, which Mr Trump signed in January, sparked mass protests as well as confusion at airports.
Critics maintain the revised travel ban still discriminates against Muslims. Trump supporters say the president is fulfilling his campaign promises to protect Americans.
Citizens of Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, six countries on the original 27 January order, will once more be subject to a 90-day travel ban.
Iraq was taken off the banned list because its government boosted visa screening and data sharing, White House officials said.
The new directive says refugees already approved by the state department can enter the US. It also lifts an indefinite ban on all Syrian refugees.
Green Card holders (legal permanent residents of the US) from the named countries will not be affected.
The new order does not give priority to religious minorities, unlike the previous directive. Critics of the Trump administration had argued that this was an unlawful policy showing preference to Christian refugees. | A US judge has declined to issue an emergency order banning President Donald Trump's revised travel ban. | 39241321 |
Just our Solar System, the little corner of the Milky Way in which we live, is vast.
Venetia Burney, the 11-year-old girl who in 1930 suggested the name "Pluto" for the newly discovered "planet", remembered playing games in Oxford's University Parks that would try to convey this scale.
She and her school chums would hang a two-foot-wide orb on the gates to represent the Sun, and then space out a caraway seed for Mercury and peas to signify Venus and the Earth.
Neptune was a lump of clay and sited a mile and a quarter from the gates.
"And then we were told the nearest star would be in China, and that really stuck with me," she recalled in a BBC interview.
Before she died in 2009, Venetia got to see the launch of Nasa's New Horizons probe to Pluto. It's even got an instrument on it that is named after her.
New Horizons was the fastest spacecraft ever despatched from Earth.
And on Tuesday, after nine-and-a-half years of travel at immense speed, it will finally reach the diminutive world, some 4.7 billion km away.
A few things have changed in the intervening years.
The first surely everyone now knows: Pluto is no longer regarded as a main planet and has been re-categorised as a "dwarf planet".
The second feeds into the first, and that is the recognition of just how numerous planetary bodies of all sizes are, not just within our Solar System, but around all the stars we see "beyond China".
Who'd have thought that some of these stars would have super-Earths and colossal Jupiters?
The arguments still rage over whether Pluto should be included in the planetary mnemonics that children learn in school.
But in many ways this is a distraction - and a distraction from something that is actually more interesting and really quite exciting.
Think about it for a moment: If the "classical nine" planets were all there were, then Tuesday would represent an ending. It would be the completion of a quest to map out our Solar System.
As it is, we now like to think of the reconnaissance of Pluto as just the start of something, as the beginning of the exploration of the "third zone".
If the first and second zones encompass the rocky inner planets like Earth and the outer gas giants like Saturn, then this third sector covers all the smaller bodies like Pluto that orbit billions of km from the Sun. And they are legion.
This third zone, known as the Kuiper Belt, probably contains hundreds of thousands of objects 100km and more across. Pluto, at about 2,300km wide, just happens to be the current "King of Kuiper Belt".
"Pluto is the biggest and brightest, and, as far as we know, it's the most interesting of this third class of planets," Alan Stern, the principal investigator on New Horizons, told BBC Newsnight.
"It was a wonderful discovery that our Solar System has this extra class and that - surprise, surprise - it is the most populous class. It's amazing: we had a completely upside-down view until the 1990s."
And not just in our Solar System. It is very probable that the dwarf planets are the most abundant type of planet in the Milky Way as a whole.
And remember, they will not all be dull balls of ice and rock.
As we're seeing on the approach to Pluto, many will have active processes shaping their surfaces. Some, just like Pluto, will even have atmospheres with evolving climates.
New Horizons should be thought of then as a sentinel.
It's the first mission designed to go and investigate this third domain.
After passing Pluto, it will be directed to a second Kuiper Belt object, which it will reach in another four years or so.
More missions will no doubt follow. Our problem currently is knowing where to direct them.
Present telescopes struggle to see the third zone, to pick out the candidates most worthy of a spacecraft encounter.
But this is all about to change. We're now building a new generation of monster observatories whose primary mirrors will be 30-40m across. These new telescopes will have the sensitivity and the resolution to open up the Kuiper Belt to a new era of study.
If you run the models, based on our best understanding, you would have expected a thousand or so Plutos to have been around in the early days of the Solar System, more than four billion years ago. But then we think there was a big re-organisation, and many of these objects would either have been destroyed in collisions, or scattered by close encounters with their own kind and the bigger planets.
Some will still be there, albeit perhaps further away than the Kuiper Belt, in an even more distant realm called the Oort Cloud.
"If these models are correct, we should expect to find dramatically more small planets, and possibly some large planets that were also scattered out there - Earth-sized and Mars-sized," says Prof Stern.
Just a final aside on Pluto's demotion from "full" planet status.
I got the chance the other day to talk about New Horizons with the famous radio astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell. It was she who facilitated the technical meeting a few months after the probe's launch in 2006 that downgraded Pluto.
She could not be more excited about the next few days.
"I think New Horizons has come out of it very well," she told BBC Newsnight.
"By going to visit Pluto and one or two other objects in the Kuiper Belt, it is going to a zone that hasn't previously been explored. And I think it's brilliant.
"Being able to send spacecraft out that far is going to lead to a lot of new information and, hopefully, new understanding."
You can watch a preview of the New Horizons flyby on Monday on BBC Two's Newsnight programme at 22:30 BST. The BBC will also be screening a special Sky At Night programme called Pluto Revealed on Monday 20 July, which will recap all the big moments from the New Horizons flyby.
Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos | Sometimes it is hard to comprehend the size of things in astronomy. | 33500681 |
The all-rounder succeeds fellow Lancastrian David Lloyd to become only the seventh president in its history.
Flintoff, 38, said: "This is a huge honour, especially as it will be the Golden Jubilee of the PCA in 2017."
He played in 79 Tests, 141 one-day internationals and seven Twenty20 internationals between 1998 and 2009.
Flintoff, who played a key part in two Ashes series wins in 2005 and 2009, was also voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2005.
Only John Arlott, Jack Bannister, Mike Gatting, Sir Ian Botham, Chris Broad and Lloyd have previously been president at the PCA, the representative body of past and present first-class cricketers in England and Wales. | Former England captain Andrew Flintoff has been elected the new president of the Professional Cricketers' Association. | 35644381 |
The total - the highest for any single force in the UK - included a 17% rise in cases last year.
The NSPCC , which obtained the figures, is calling on internet companies to do more to tackle the problem and for greater education of the dangers.
Police Scotland said it was committed to keeping children safe.
A Freedom of Information request from the charity revealed that in Scotland there were 1,904 indecent images offences reported over the last three years. The total figure for the UK was 21,651
Joanna Barrett, policy and public affairs manager for NSPCC Scotland, said: "These figures clearly show that there is a growing problem of people viewing child abuse material and more needs to be done to tackle the issue.
"We want to see companies who operate online to prioritise this issue by committing significant expertise and resources to preventing the publication and distribution of these images.
"Social network providers and other technology platforms must realise that they are the key enablers of online child sexual abuse and make a serious commitment to tackling it."
The police figures also showed that across the UK, where the age of the suspect was known, 2,031 under-18s were reported to police for indecent images offences.
The NSPCC is concerned that children reported to police may include youngsters who have shared naked "selfies".
Ms Barrett added: "Children need to be taught about the dangers of sending sexual pictures of themselves so they don't find themselves at risk of harm and abuse.
"Young people who are caught 'sexting' put themselves at risk of sexual exploitation, grooming and cyber bullying, whilst they could also face the prospect of a criminal record if they are reported to police.
"That's why we have recently issued advice and guidance to parents about how to talk to their children about sexting, as well as what to do if they have been sharing sexual images of themselves."
Police Scotland's Operation Latisse earlier this year saw 77 people charged and thirty million indecent images seized.
Det Ch Supt Lesley Boal said: "All children have a right to protection against abuse, exploitation, neglect and violence. The impact of online child sexual abuse can be wide ranging and have a long-lasting and potentially life-changing effect on the child.
"The possession of or sharing of images depicting the sexual assault of children or indecent images of children is not a victimless crime, it is child sexual abuse.
"Police Scotland proactively tackles the many forms of online child sexual abuse, our objective being to identify children who have been the victim of or who are at risk of online sexual abuse and identify perpetrators/predators who pose a risk to children online.
"Our message for perpetrators is very clear, Police Scotland employs the latest technology to investigate online abuse and trace offenders." | More than 1,900 offences involving possession of indecent images of children were reported by police in Scotland over the last three years | 37235507 |
Salman Butt, a British Muslim activist, has launched legal action, saying he was named as a "non-violent extremist" by the government.
He says aspects of Prevent breach free speech rights.
The Home Office has accused Dr Butt of expressing views that violate British values, something Mr Butt denies.
A Home Office spokesman said: "It would be inappropriate to comment on ongoing legal proceedings."
The Home Office has said the Prevent strategy plays a key role in the fight against terrorism, but it has faced criticism - including from some British Muslims, who say it alienates them.
Last September, Mr Butt was named in a Downing Street press release about an aspect of the strategy, known as the Prevent duty, being used to stop extremists radicalising students on university campuses.
He was listed as one of six speakers who gave talks on campuses, and was said to have views that violated British values - such as democracy, free speech, equality and the rule of law.
Under the Prevent guidance, such individuals meet the definition of a "non-violent extremist".
Through a parliamentary question to the Home Office, it was later revealed that Mr Butt - who is the chief editor of the web discussion forum Islam21c - had been accused of using the site to host material violating British values.
The Home Office said he had also personally expressed views on the site, and on social media, that appeared to compare homosexuality to paedophilia as a sin and supported female genital mutilation [FGM].
He was also accused of speaking alongside the campaign group Cage, and supporting their attempt to "try to justify... the resort to violence" of Mohammed Emwazi, the so-called Islamic State militant better known as Jihadi John.
Mr Butt, 31, from Slough, denies holding views contrary to British values.
He told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme: "I'm a father of three, I'm a British Muslim, a writer, an activist. I am not an extremist, either violent or non-violent.
"Being labelled as some kind of extremist does have a stigmatising effect. I have not spoken at any universities since I was named in the [Downing Street] press release.
"My aim isn't just to clear my name, it is to bring transparency to the hidden processes by which individuals are tarnished with the label of an extremist, to ensure it is brought into the scrutiny of the courts."
Earlier this year, a High Court judge ruled Mr Butt had an arguable case against the home secretary, and permission was granted to take the judicial review case to a full hearing.
Mr Butt's lawyers will be challenging part of the Prevent strategy that aims to stop people becoming or supporting terrorists.
Specifically they are challenging the Prevent duty, and how it has to be implemented in universities and further education institutions.
Since September 2015, the Prevent duty, issued under the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act, places universities and colleges in the UK under a legal obligation to engage with the Prevent strategy, and to have "due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism".
This means they are required to put in place specific polices to stop extremists radicalising students on campus, tackle gender segregation at events and support students at risk of radicalisation.
Saimo Chahal QC, partner and human rights lawyer at Bindmans LLP, said Mr Butt's challenge was a test case.
"The Prevent duty guidance issued to higher education institutions is flawed because it conflicts with the right to free speech which is enshrined in the Education Act for higher education institutions," she said.
"The challenge, if successful, could have major implications for the controversial policy as it applies to universities and higher education,' she added.
Mr Butt's lawyers will also be challenging the definition of "extremism" under the Prevent strategy, which they say is ill defined.
Additionally, they have been given permission to challenge the way the government's Extremism Analysis Unit collected information about Mr Butt, arguing the process lacks transparency, and that the procedure for identifying people as extremists is flawed and in breach of the law.
The three-day hearing is likely to be fought vigorously and go on to the Supreme Court, owing to its potential implications on government policy.
The BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel. | A key part of the government's counter-terrorism strategy, Prevent, is to face a legal challenge in the High Court on Tuesday. | 38209567 |
The proposal for the the 4.7 acre (1.9 hectare) city centre site includes 1,200 homes in six interconnecting towers.
Developers Allied London said it hoped to submit a planning application for the "Trinity Islands" project south of Liverpool Road this summer.
The project is part of plans to develop the St John's area which includes ITV's former Granada Studios site.
The broadcaster relocated from the city centre location to MediaCityUK, Salford in 2013.
The former Coronation Street set, which has been hosting visitor tours since April 2014, will be removed in early 2016 before the site is returned to Allied London (AL).
An AL spokeswoman said the area near Liverpool Road has "historically been a difficult site surrounded by highways and infrastructure".
She added that plans for Trinity Islands included shops, offices and restaurants alongside a "green space".
Proposals for the wider 15-acre (six hectare) St John's neighbourhood involve up to 2,500 apartments, two or three new hotels, event spaces and small shops and businesses built on narrow streets.
AL said it intends to submit its planning applications to Manchester City Council soon and hoped to start building the St. John's neighbourhood in mid-2016. | Details have been revealed on plans for a "vertical village" in Manchester. | 33260552 |
British armed forces are to take part in "three additional operations" aimed at supporting Nato allies, it said.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond added recent unrest in Ukraine had caused "great concern" and it was right to provide "reassurance" to partners in Eastern Europe.
The annual operations are US-led.
HMS Montrose, a Type 23 frigate, will take part in a two-week long security exercise which will begin on Monday.
Exercise Baltops, the largest multinational maritime exercise in the Baltic Sea this year, will test the maritime capabilities among Baltic sea countries and allied nations.
More than 100 British soldiers will also take part in live-fire training in Estonia and Latvia as part of exercise Sabre Strike, which began on Sunday.
They join personnel from the US, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Norway.
Mr Hammond said: "The situation in Ukraine continues to be of great concern to the international community and it is right that Nato members and partners publicly demonstrate our commitment to the collective security of our Nato allies.
"The UK continues to play a central role in providing reassurance to our allies in Eastern Europe and the Baltic states.
"Our contribution to these exercises builds on other action we have taken, including the deployment of RAF Typhoons to the Nato air policing mission in the Baltic states."
Meanwhile, around 200 British infantry troops will take part in a live fire exercise in Poland in September, along with up to 7,000 personnel from the US and Canada.
It follows action already taken by the UK to reassure Nato's Eastern European members, the MoD said.
In April, four RAF Typhoons helped to carry out Nato's air policing role of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as part of a long-standing rotation.
And in May, British soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment joined 6,000 troops from Nato states in Estonia for a training exercise.
A bloody insurgency has gripped Ukraine's eastern provinces since Russia annexed the Ukrainian territory of Crimea in March - which followed a controversial referendum on joining Russia. | A Royal Navy warship has been sent to the Baltic Sea to join multinational military exercises in the region, the Ministry of Defence has said. | 27752744 |
February's Winter Olympics take place in Russia, where a law banning 'gay propaganda' was passed this year.
I think we can say that sports and politics are inextricably combined
"The IOC needs to stand up better for their athletes," said Navratilova.
Meanwhile, the IOC has warned Olympians against making political gestures in Sochi but plans to set up protest zones for them to "express their views".
Russia has received criticism for its human rights record and for a law it passed in June, which allows for heavy fines to be imposed on those providing information about homosexuality to people under 18.
The Russian government has since provided written assurances that the law will not affect Games participants and spectators.
But Navratilova, who announced she was gay in 1981, remains unhappy.
"I think we can say that sports and politics are inextricably combined - they go hand in hand - and that's where my disappointment was with the IOC," said the 57-year-old American
"It said sports and politics don't mix, which is completely contrary to everything that's been happening.
"So that's where my disappointment is, more than with anybody else, with the IOC for really putting their head in the sand and not wanting to make any waves."
Navratilova, who won 18 Grand Slams during her tennis career, also criticised football's world governing body Fifa for awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, where homosexual activity is punishable by a jail term.
The IOC plans to warn athletes against taking part in demonstrations or making any political gestures at the Sochi Games.
According to the Olympic Charter, it can expel athletes who violate Rule 50, which states "no kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas".
However, the IOC has said the rule would be "interpreted and applied sensibly and proportionately" once athletes and National Olympic Committees had received proper briefings.
New IOC president Thomas Bach has welcomed the idea of 'protest zones' in Sochi, arguing they would allow people to "express their views and freely demonstrate their opinions". | Tennis legend Martina Navratilova has accused the International Olympic Committee of "putting its head in the sand" over the issue of gay rights. | 25329933 |
"If Taksim Square is not evacuated, this country's security forces will know how to evacuate it," he said.
A controversial redevelopment plan for the park has sparked two weeks of anti-government unrest.
After Mr Erdogan's speech, police fired tear gas and water cannon, and advanced into Gezi Park.
The protesters have vowed to stay there, despite a promise by the PM to halt the plan until a court ruling on the issue.
Mr Erdogan made his remarks in a speech at an AK party rally in a suburb of the capital Ankara.
"Staying there [in Gezi Park] makes no sense anymore as the matter is now in the hands of the courts," he told tens of thousands of cheering supporters.
31 May: Protests begin in Gezi Park over plans to redevelop one of Istanbul's few green spaces
3 June: Protesters establish camps with makeshift facilities from libraries to food centres
4-10 June: Protests widen into show of anti-government dissent in towns and cities across Turkey; clashes between police and demonstrators
11/12 June: Night of clashes see riot police disperse anti-government demonstrators in Taksim Square, which adjoins Gezi Park; camps in the park remain
13 June: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan issues a "final warning" to protesters to leave Gezi Park
14 June: Government agrees to suspend Gezi Park redevelopment plans until a court rules on the issue, PM holds talks with members of a key protest group
15 June: Protesters vow to continue occupying Gezi Park
Q&A: Protests in Turkey
Why is Gezi Park so important?
Turkey sails further into dangerous waters
Last month, an Istanbul court issued an initial injunction against the plan to cut down trees in the park to make way for a shopping centre and replica 18th-Century military barracks. The government has appealed against the ruling.
During the rally, Mr Erdogan also repeated a pledge to hold a referendum in Istanbul on the issue.
"If there are still brothers there, please leave because this park belongs to the population of Istanbul. It is not an area to be occupied by illegal organisations," he said.
"Nobody can intimidate us. We take no orders or instruction from anyone but God," he added, according to AFP.
He also dismissed the wave of anti-government protests as part of an organised plot against him.
Mr Erdogan has issued deadlines before - but this was a confident performance from a man who is a natural orator, the BBC's Chris Morris reports from Istanbul.
The crowd loved it, and Mr Erdogan said that as long as he had their support, no lobby or interest group could stop them, our correspondent adds.
After the speech, riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at demonstrators in Taksim Square and Gezi Park.
Protesters in the park have remained defiant despite Mr Erdogan's promise to halt the redevelopment plan.
The offer was presented as a major concession. But after all-night discussions in Gezi Park, the protesters said their movement was more than just a conservation protest and vowed to stay on.
"We shall remain in the park until all of our democratic rights are recognised,'' Tayfun Kahraman, a member of Taksim Solidarity - the group seen as most representative of the protesters - told the Associated Press, insisting that four key demands laid out by protesters in the talks had not been met.
Apart from halting the Gezi Park redevelopment project, Taksim Solidarity has also formulated the following demands:
On Friday night, riot police again used tear gas and water cannon to disperse demonstrators in the capital Ankara. About 30 protesters were reported to have been arrested.
Five people have died and thousands have been injured since the protests began on 31 May, spreading to the adjacent Taksim Square a day later and then to other towns and cities across Turkey.
Protesters have accused Mr Erdogan's government of becoming increasingly authoritarian and of trying to impose conservative Islamic values on a secular state.
The police crackdown on protesters in Istanbul, Ankara, and other towns and cities has drawn international concern, especially from Europe. | Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned protesters occupying Istanbul's Gezi Park to evacuate it before a rally of his ruling AK party on Sunday. | 22922282 |
The new rules will affect anyone taking money out of a personal pension from 1 April 2017.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said providers who already charge less than 1% will not be allowed to raise their fees.
Those taking out new pension contracts will face no early exit charge at all.
Workplace pensions will be subject to the same rules, but these will not come into effect until October 2017, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced.
Christopher Woolard, executive director of strategy and competition at the FCA, said: "People eligible for the government's pension reforms should feel able to access them as they wish.
"The 1% cap on early exit charges for existing pensions, and the 0% cap for new contracts, will mean that current and future savers will not be deterred by these charges from accessing their pension pots."
Previously some pension providers were charging fees of up to 10%, after the government announced that anyone over the age of 55 could withdraw as much as they wanted from their pensions, subject to income tax.
The "pension freedoms" came into effect in April 2015.
However, some experts believe the 1% cap is still not low enough.
"The cap on early exit fees for pensions, including occupational schemes, is a start, but 1% of a £100,000 pension is still a £1,000 charge for accessing your own savings," said Tom Selby, senior analyst at investment platform AJ Bell.
"We hope the authorities continue to monitor the cap, to assess whether it should be lower or even abolished if early exit penalties continue to prevent people utilising the new flexible pension rules." | Early exit charges for people taking money out of their pension pots will be capped at 1%, the financial regulator has confirmed. | 37985525 |
Despite Armagh's disappointing 2016 season, McGeeney and his assistant Aidan O'Rourke have been given a vote of confidence by the Armagh GAA board.
McGeeney has relinquished his managerial role with the county's Under-21s which now be taken by former county senior boss Peter McDonnell.
Ex-county stars Martin McQuillan and Diarmuid Marsden will assist under-21 boss McDonnell.
After losing the Kildare senior job in 2013, McGeeney served as Paul Grimley's Armagh assistant in 2014 before moving up to the Orchard County's main managerial role for 2015.
McGeeney guided Armagh to the Division Three Football League title in 2015 before they endured a disappointing championship campaign as a comprehensive Ulster Championship defeat by Donegal was followed by an early qualifiers exit against Galway.
Armagh then endured a disappointing 2016 as they suffered relegation back to Division Three before an opening 2-16 to 0-14 Ulster SFC defeat by Cavan was followed by two losses against Laois in round one of the qualifiers.
Laois' initial 1-10 to 0-10 win over Armagh had to be replayed after the Leinster county was found to have played one substitute too many but Laois also won the replay 1-11 to 1-10.
Following Armagh's Ulster Championship defeat by Laois, RTE GAA pundit Joe Brolly strongly criticised McGeeney's managerial abilities and this led the Armagh county board releasing a statement defending the manager. | Kieran McGeeney will be remaining on as Armagh football manager in 2017. | 37352789 |
Glasgow City Council took the decision following health and safety fears over the stability of the roof and the glazing in the gardens.
The Winter Gardens are expected to be closed for a number of weeks following an initial assessment.
No-one was injured in the incident and a full investigation will take place.
Plans have been put in place to re-open the People's Palace museum independently of the Winter Gardens as soon as possible.
A spokesman for Glasgow City Council said: "It is unfortunate that we have had to close the Winter Gardens so unexpectedly but the safety of our staff and the public must be our priority.
"Until we have a more accurate picture of the condition of the structure I'm afraid the Winter Gardens will remain closed. We understand that this is a disappointing situation especially for those who have bookings with the venue and we will make every effort to help find these clients an alternative venue." | The People's Palace museum and Winter Gardens in Glasgow have been closed to the public until further notice after a glass roof panel fell. | 36744854 |
Around 280 candidates are contesting 40 seats for a chance to represent Wales at Westminster for the next five years.
Polling stations are open until 22:00 BST when electoral teams will begin a long night of counting.
Thousands of postal votes will also be counted overnight and the first Welsh results are expected in the early hours of Friday morning. | Polling for the UK general election has entered its final stage with time to vote running out. | 32608865 |
The Owls broke the deadlock when Oxford failed to clear effectively and Nuhiu headed home from close range.
They nearly doubled the lead when Marco Matias reached Modou Sougou's cross but keeper Sam Slocombe saved his header.
Alex MacDonald almost found Oxford a late equaliser but his free-kick went just over the crossbar. | Atdhe Nuhiu's second-half goal helped Sheffield Wednesday overcome League Two side Oxford United to seal their place in the Capital One Cup third round. | 33970025 |
The 24-year-old, who will join Edinburgh Rugby in the summer, was injured in last month's Six Nations defeat by England at Twickenham.
Fellow Glasgow Warrior Josh Strauss is expected to be out for six weeks after injuring a kidney on Scotland duty.
Strauss will sign for Sale Sharks on a three-year contract in the summer.
Bennett had anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery and is expected to take between nine to 12 months to return to full fitness.
Back-rower Strauss has been out since February but, following a review by his consultant, the 30-year-old has been told he requires six more weeks of non-contact work before being allowed to return to full training.
"We're disappointed that Mark's time at the club has come to an end in this way, and it also looks like Josh may not play for us again as he continues his graduated return to training," said Glasgow Warriors head coach Gregor Townsend, who is leaving to become Scotland coach.
"We wish both players all the best with their rehab and look forward to having them as part of our wider group for the remainder of the season."
Both players are due to attend Glasgow's Pro 12 game at Scotstoun a week on Friday, along with other squad members who are leaving in the summer, to mark their contribution to the club. | Scotland and Glasgow Warriors centre Mark Bennett faces up to 12 months on the sidelines after having cruciate ligament surgery. | 39503597 |
It is running a competition that will share $55,000 (£42,000) between the top two people who can make its FUN3D software run up to 10,000 times faster.
The FUN3D code is used to model how air flows around simulated aircraft in a supercomputer.
The software was developed in the 1980s and is written in an older computer programming language called Fortran.
"This is the ultimate 'geek' dream assignment," said Doug Rohn, head of Nasa's transformative aeronautics concepts program that makes heavy use of the FUN3D code.
In a statement, Mr Rohn said the software is used on the agency's Pleiades supercomputer to test early designs of futuristic aircraft.
The software suite tests them using computational fluid dynamics, which make heavy use of complicated mathematical formulae and data structures to see how well the designs work.
Once designs are proved on the supercomputer, scale models are tested in wind tunnels and then finally experimental craft undergo real world testing.
Significant improvements could be gained just by simplifying a heavily used sub-routine so it runs a few milliseconds faster, said Nasa on the webpage describing the competition. If the routine is called millions of times during a simulation this could "significantly" trim testing times, it added.
Nasa said it would provide copies of the code to anyone taking part so they can analyse it, find bottlenecks and suggest modifications that could speed it up. Nasa is looking for the code to run at least 10 times faster but would like it quickened by thousands of times, if possible.
Any changes to FUN3D must not make it less accurate, said Nasa.
The sensitive nature of the code means the competition is only open to US citizens who are over 18. | Nasa is seeking help from coders to speed up the software it uses to design experimental aircraft. | 39803425 |
Brett Smitheram from Chingford defeated fellow Briton Mark Nyman in three straight rounds during the contest's final in the French city of Lille.
The 37-year-old's highest scoring word was BRACONID, meaning a parasitic wasp, which earned him 176 points.
Mr Smitheram, who also collected a 7,000 euro (£5,873) prize, said he was "absolutely thrilled to have won".
It was the former UK champion's first victory at the tournament. His best previous result was reaching the quarter finals in 2014.
His Knutsford-based opponent, Mark Nyman, is a writer who was named world Scrabble champion in 1993 and has been a producer on legendary Channel 4 word game Countdown.
After his win, Mr Smitheram admitted his opponent was one of his "Scrabble idols" when he was growing up.
"He used to be the producer of Countdown and he got me on Countdown when I was 17, 20 years ago now. I was on Countdown about 10 or 12 times," the new champion said.
"So he's known me for 20 years, and at the time when he interviewed me for Countdown he said 'What's your biggest aspiration?' and I said 'I want to win the Scrabble World Championship'.
"And today I beat him in order to do it. Quite a story behind it." | A recruitment consultant from east London has fought off other wordsmiths to be crowned Scrabble World Champion. | 37271010 |
Virginia Raggi of the Five Star movement was elected in June.
Her decision was a blow for the city's Olympic committee which had hoped to change her mind. But officials said she had failed to turn up to a meeting.
Rome last hosted the Games in 1960 and also pulled out of the bidding for the 2020 Olympics for financial reasons.
Boston and Hamburg have already dropped out of the running for the 2024 Games. Germany has not hosted a games since 1972, and Hamburg's decision to pull out was made in a referendum.
Paris, Los Angeles and Budapest are still vying to host the Games. The remaining candidates must confirm their application and the endorsement of local public leaders by 7 October.
Hamburg says 'No' to 2024
Listen: Why don't cities want the Olympics?
In ancient times here, Roman emperors offered the thrill of bread and circuses to appease and divert a restless population.
That tactic, it seems, no longer works. These days, Rome is a city which can barely pick up its own rubbish.
Among many Romans, the idea of hosting an Olympic Games hasn't provoked much enthusiasm.
The new mayor knows that. She comes from the populist Five Star Movement, which has strongly opposed a bid for the Games.
Ms Raggi has had a difficult first few weeks in power. Her tenure has been overshadowed by accusations of mismanagement and cover-ups. Rejecting the Olympics may be her way of winning back popularity and asserting her own authority over the city.
More from James: Raggi finds it tough at the top
Ms Raggi came to power after repeatedly saying she opposed the 2024 bid, but there had been hopes that she might agree to a local referendum.
The head of the Italian Olympic Committee, Giovanni Malago, had already indicated that without her support the bid would not go ahead and he said after the mayor's announcement that her decision hurt. "It was possible to do this, and do it well," he insisted.
The Roma 2024 committee issued a statement saying they were "profoundly surprised and disappointed".
They were disappointed "that a new political force is unwilling to accept the challenge of modernisation," it said, claiming that the Games would have boosted Rome's economy by $1.7bn (£1.3bn; €1.5bn).
But Ms Raggi disagreed. "We are effectively asking the people of Rome and of Italy to shoulder the debts. We just don't support it," she told reporters.
"No to the Olympics of concrete, absolutely not! No to cathedrals in the desert," she said, suggesting that Rome would have been left with redundant sports facilities.
The mayor said Rome was still paying out for the last time it held the Games in 1960.
The International Olympic Committee will elect the host at a vote in Lima, Peru, in September 2017, with Paris considered the favourite after unsuccessfully bidding for the 1992, 2008 and 2012 Games.
Rome bid officials set a budget of €5.3bn (£4.5bn; $6bn) to host the Games, with a plan to use existing venues for 70% of the sites.
That was a template used by Los Angeles in 1984, when existing stadiums and other facilities were used and the Games made a profit. LA's projected 2024 budget is $4.52bn, with a hoped-for profit of $150m.
But most cities have made a loss. The 2004 Athens Games cost almost €9bn and increased Greece's public debt.
The 2016 Rio Games cost an estimated $12bn.
London 2012 went three times over budget and cost £8.77bn ($11.4bn), although the event boosted trade and investment by an estimated £9.9bn.
Has the Olympics been a success for Brazil? | Rome is set to drop its bid to host the Olympic Games in 2024, after its anti-establishment mayor said it would be "irresponsible" to be a candidate. | 37432928 |
A letter reading: "Next time it will be a bomb, you Muslim scum," was posted to the Jamia Masjid Abu Bakr mosque and was signed with a number code which is believed to be used by neo-Nazi groups.
Mosque secretary Sabir Hussain called it "appalling and very frightening".
Ch Supt Rob Odell said police had "offered security advice" to the town's mosques.
Mr Hussein claims the Muslim community has felt "under siege" since the publication of the Jay Report into the sexual exploitation of teenage girls by men predominantly of Pakistani heritage.
More on this and other South Yorkshire stories.
He said community cohesion was "very low" in the town following far-right marches.
"There is never a day goes by when we don't get abuse.
"At first we thought the letter might be a prank with somebody messing about, but when we looked at the code and checked it on the internet then that made us think this is very, very serious and not just an ordinary prank."
Rotherham has seen 15 protests over the past two years in reaction to the report, which found at least 1,400 girls were abused between 1997 and 2013. | A bomb threat received by a mosque in Rotherham was "credible", according to police. | 37031973 |
The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) said the latest International Council for the Exploration of the Sea data showed cod stocks were only slightly above what are considered sustainable.
MCS fisheries officer Bernadette Clarke said: "Our advice remains to seek alternatives to North Sea cod."
However, the claim has angered Scottish fishing industry leaders.
The MCS's spokeswoman explained: "The efforts of fishers and managers have placed cod in the North Sea on the road to recovery.
"Programmes such as the Conservation Credits Scheme - which rewards fishermen for adopting conservation measures with additional days at sea - together with more effective long-term management plans will hopefully see the fishery continue to recover in the coming years."
But she added: "There are more sustainable cod fisheries that we currently rate as Fish to Eat."
Mike Park, from the Scottish White Fish Producers Association, told BBC Scotland it was time the efforts of fishermen were appreciated and recognised.
Mr Park said: "The advice from the Marine Conservation Society is extremely disappointing."
And Scotland's Fishing Secretary Richard Lochhead said: "All Scottish Cod is caught within internationally agreed limits with the aim of transitioning towards full Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) in the very near future, therefore the stock recovery is not being harmed and will not be harmed in any way if people eat Scottish caught North Sea cod." | North Sea cod should stay off the menu for consumers despite evidence of improving stocks, it has been claimed. | 24924812 |
Former RAF airman Ken Morgan met his wife Shirley when she was a conductress working on the bus route between Gloucester and Cardiff in 1956.
Now, Mr Morgan, 82, has paid £12,000 to buy the red and white vehicle which they keep in a heritage bus collection in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.
He said it took them "back down memory lane to the days when we first met".
Mr Morgan, then aged 22, first met his wife, aged 18, on the 60 mile (97km) journey on the red and white route one bus, which cost two shillings and six pence, before asking her on a date.
He left the RAF and even trained to be a bus driver to work with her before the pair married in 1959.
"Working on the buses with Shirley really was some of the happiest times of my life," Mr Morgan said.
After seeing one of the red and white buses in a transport museum, he found a collector who had saved another one from the scrap yard who sold it to the couple.
"I offered to help restore the bus. It was the same fleet 1749 which we met [on] all those years before. It was a real labour of love," Mr Morgan said.
The couple now travel from their home in Ashford, Middlesex, to take nostalgic trips around their old bus routes on the 1949 Guy Arab double-decker.
He said: "We are a good team and it's been so nice in our retirement years to play driver and conductor again. It reminds us of our courting days.
"We had such great times. I still adore Shirley as much as I did back then."
Mrs Morgan, 78, added: "We both believe in destiny and meeting Ken on the bus that day in 1956 was just meant to be.
"I still have my original conductress badge and wear it with as much pride as my wedding ring." | A husband's romantic gift to his wife was just the ticket - the double-decker bus where they first met. | 37383062 |
The Heritage Lottery Fund contributed £3m to the £5m conversion of Itford Farm, near Beddingham, Lewes in the South Downs National Park.
The project has taken 13 years, with the Youth Hostel Association (YHA) taking over as developer along the way.
The charity said the hostel would open to overnight guests from 5 April.
An Easter egg hunt and other family activities were planned for Sunday's open day.
"YHA South Downs has been a long time coming," said manager Dale Richards.
"Giving local people the chance to have a sneak peak and join us for a fun day is our way of saying thank you for their patience."
Area manager Lisa Venter said the YHA stepped in as developer during the final year after the project stalled.
The Greenbank Trust, Active Lewes, East Sussex County Council are among other organisations which helped fund the 68-bed hostel, which was a working farm until the 1980s.
YHA South Downs will also have a cafe and visitor centre for walkers and school parties.
"It's vital that visitors to the South Downs feel connected to the National Park's landscapes, wildlife and communities as that's the best way to encourage people to take care of them," said Trevor Beattie, chief executive of South Downs National Park Authority.
"The new youth hostel will be a fantastic gateway into the South Downs National Park." | An open day has been held at a converted 13th Century farm to allow local people a preview before it opens as a youth hostel. | 21967532 |
The exhibition, at St George's Hall in Liverpool, also includes a painting of former footballer Steven Gerrard, which will be put up for auction.
Funds will go to the charity Blind Veterans UK, which set up the display, titled Art - Life beyond Sight Loss.
Ex-soldier Matt Rhodes said painting gave him "a new lease of life".
His modern version of the John Singer Sargent painting "Gassed" showing a line of wounded soldiers following a mustard gas attack in World War One is also on display at the Liverpool exhibition.
The 42-year-old, from Preston, lost most of his sight after a motorcycle accident, which left him with a brain injury and paralysis down the right side of his body.
"I have half tunnel vision so when I'm working I can only see small sections of the painting like an eyebrow or an ear. I have to work my way around doing each bit on its own. It does mean that I can never see the whole finished work."
He added: "Unfortunately, my injuries have become worse over the last few months and I have had to stop painting conventionally."
He said he was "working with the instructors on finding new techniques using new technologies".
Blind Veterans UK, which was formed in 1915, said it believed art and craft skills was an "important element of rehabilitation" for former members of the military.
The exhibition runs until 29 January. | Signed portraits of actress Dame Barbara Windsor and tennis champion Sir Andy Murray have gone on show in a display by blind veterans. | 38622443 |
It was LaMia's only operational plane, and had been part-owned by the pilot.
The aircraft carrying Brazil's Chapecoense football team went down near Medellin, Colombia. There were only six survivors.
Colombian authorities say evidence is growing that the plane crashed because it ran out of fuel as it tried to land.
LaMia was only set up last year, and has three aircraft - two of which are being repaired.
The British-made BAE 146 Avro RJ85 aircraft had no fuel when it plunged into a mountainside near Medellin, Colombian aviation chief Alfredo Bocanegra said, corroborating audio of the pilot asking to land because of a fuel shortage and electric failure.
"Having been able to do an inspection of all of the remains and parts of the plane, we can affirm clearly that the aircraft did not have fuel at the moment of impact," Mr Bocanegra said.
Freddy Bonilla, another aviation official, said regulations stipulated that aircraft must have 30 minutes of fuel in reserve to reach an alternative airport in an emergency, but "in this case the plane did not have" it.
"The engines are the electrical source... but without fuel, obviously the electrical source would have been completely lost," he added.
In a leaked tape, the pilot, Miguel Quiroga, can be heard warning of a "total electric failure" and "lack of fuel". Just before the tape ends, he says he is flying at an altitude of 9,000ft (2,745m).
The plane was carrying Chapecoense, who had been due to play a football cup final against Atletico Nacional in Medellin on Wednesday.
The team flew from Sao Paulo to Santa Cruz on a commercial flight, then switched to the chartered aircraft.
Brazil's O Globo reported that because of a delayed departure, a refuelling stop in Cobija - on the border between Brazil and Bolivia - was abandoned because the airport did not operate at night.
The pilot had the option to refuel in Bogota, but headed straight to Medellin.
"The pilot was the one who took the decision," Gustavo Vargas, a representative of Lamia, was quoted as saying in Bolivian newspaper Pagina Siete. "He thought the fuel would last."
Approaching Medellin, the pilot asked for permission to land because of fuel problems, without making a formal distress call.
But another plane from airline VivaColombia had priority because it had already suffered a fuel leak, the co-pilot of another plane in the air at the time said.
The pilot of the crashed plane is heard asking urgently for directions to the airport before the audio recording ends.
Unconfirmed media reports say that a Bolivian official at Santa Cruz airport checked the paperwork for the LaMia plane and pointed out to the company that the amount of fuel they had was not enough.
Officials say the plane's "black boxes", which record flight details, will be sent to the UK to be opened by investigators. A full investigation into the crash is expected to take months.
There are some critical questions investigators need to answer.
If the plane did indeed run out of fuel, why didn't the crew fill up en route, as was reportedly planned?
And why wasn't it carrying the required 30-minute fuel reserve? Or maybe it was, and there was a fuel leak somewhere.
Also, why was the aircraft told to circle while another flight with a problem was given priority to land? Did the crew make it clear to the ground that they had a crisis on their hands?
Looking at the radar track, it appears to circle for around 13 minutes. Yet it was only around three or four minutes flying time from the airport.
Accidents normally come down to a series of problems and decisions that add up to catastrophe. There are often moments, with hindsight, where a tragedy could have been averted.
We still don't have an official explanation yet. So, there may be facts or problems yet to come out that put a totally different complexion on what happened.
On Wednesday night, when the match had been due to take place, tens of thousands of fans gathered at the Medellin stadium - and at Chapecoense's home ground in Chapeco - to pay tearful tributes.
Many wore white and carried candles as a mark of respect. Chapecoense lost 19 players in the crash. Twenty journalists were also killed.
Of the survivors, Chapecoense said two players remained in a critical but stable condition, while the club's goalkeeper had had one leg amputated and might still lose his other foot.
An injured journalist also remained in critical condition, the club said. | Bolivia's aviation authority has suspended the operating licence of LaMia, the charter airline whose plane crashed on Monday killing 71 people. | 38173708 |
The 24-year-old, who came through the Rams youth system, started all four of Republic of Ireland's Euro 2016 games.
Hendrick has two years left on his current contract at the iPro Stadium after signing a four-year deal in 2014.
He has made 210 appearances for the Championship club, scoring 27 goals, since making his debut in April 2011. | Derby County have rejected a £3m bid for midfielder Jeff Hendrick from Premier League side Burnley, BBC Radio Derby understands. | 36763363 |
Vaughan, 27, has failed to score in six appearances since initially arriving at St Andrew's on 26 November.
But he has led the line well in the absence of injured top scorer Clayton Donaldson, creating chances for others.
His registration was submitted before the 12:00 GMT Friday deadline, clearing him for FA Cup duty this weekend.
He is expected to be part of Gary Rowett's side to face Premier League side Bournemouth, who handed Blues their record 8-0 club home defeat, when they last visited St Andrew's in October 2014 - the game before Rowett took charge.
Vaughan still holds the title of the Premier League's youngest scorer - 16 years & 271 days, for Everton against Crystal Palace (10 April 2005).
Birmingham-born Vaughan grew up in the north side of the city, in Kingstanding and was a boyhood Blues fan. He joined Everton's Academy after his family relocated to the north-west, signing professional forms at Goodison Park in 2004.
After 60 appearances for Everton, mostly as substitute, as well as loans at Derby County, Leicester City and Crystal Palace, he finally left Goodison for Norwich City for £2.5 million in July 2011.
He joined Huddersfield, initially on loan, in August 2012, since when he has scored 33 times in 95 appearances over three and a half years. | Birmingham City have extended striker James Vaughan's loan from fellow Championship side Huddersfield Town until the end of the season. | 35262778 |
Bryant, 25, borrowed poles at last week's Hypo Meeting in Gotzis after his never arrived on a Swiss Air flight.
He fell 30cm short of his personal best in the pole vault and missed the qualifying standard by just 44 points.
"I'm now left chasing qualification events," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"And I have to sit down with my coach to decide where we go next."
Swiss Air say they have since reunited Bryant with his poles and are working to establish what went wrong.
Bryant must now try to achieve the qualifying standard of 8,100 points at the remaining meetings before the Olympics begin in August.
He scored 8,056 points in Gotzis, but does have a personal best of 8,141.
A British Athletics spokesman told the Guardian that Bryant's case would be looked at "as an individual case", meaning he could yet qualify.
"It's an incredibly frustrating situation," he said.
"We checked the plane we were going to take would take poles. We got to the airport and they said: 'These aren't going to make the flight. The next day there's a larger plane'.
"But Sunday came and my poles were not there. I managed to borrow some off a Swedish athlete but they're not the same poles I've trained on.
"I have different poles from the ones which are applicable to a lot of the other guys." | Great Britain decathlete Ashley Bryant says it was "incredibly frustrating" to find out an airline had lost his vaulting poles before a key Olympic qualification meeting. | 36418915 |
The nine items, including spoons and a pair of scissors, were found in their luggage during a routine check as they prepared to board a flight to Israel.
The couple admitted taking the items during a tour of the former concentration camp, now a museum.
They are expected to pay a contribution towards the preservation of the site.
More than a million people - most of them Jews - were murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz during World War II.
The 60-year-old man and 57-year-old woman - whose names have not been released - were detained at Krakow airport in southern Poland on Friday as they prepared to board a return flight to Israel, officials said.
The couple told Polish police they had found the items at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site, officials said.
Police took them back there and the couple indicated an area where the Nazis used to keep prisoners' belongings, the chief spokesman for the memorial, Jaroslaw Mensfelt, told AP news agency.
"We can safely assume that the objects they stole were original, from that time," Mr Mensfelt was quoted as saying.
The couple were then charged with stealing culturally important items - an offence that carries a maximum 10-year jail sentence.
"They have voluntarily accepted a two-year suspended jail sentence and agreed to pay a mandatory contribution towards the preservation of monuments," Deputy District Prosecutor Mariusz Slomka was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
He did not specify the amount of the contribution.
The couple will be allowed to return to Israel once the formalities are dealt with, added the deputy district prosecutor. | An Israeli couple have been given suspended jail sentences in Poland for the theft of artefacts from the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, officials say. | 13917740 |
Despite a lot of news coming out of Disney's D23 last week, the studio still saved some the big guns for San Diego.
Fans were sent into meltdown as they were bombarded with announcements and sneak peeks during the 90-minute session, as stars across the Marvel universe attended to support their films.
Here's everything that was revealed.
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After fans at D23 were given the chance to see the first footage from the highly anticipated film which sees every Marvel superhero unite on screen, 6,000 Comic-Con fans were given the same luxury.
Unfortunately Marvel are still keeping it a closely guarded secret so it hasn't been put online anywhere yet - much to the annoyance of fans not in San Diego. But the reaction from the crowd suggests something close to Beatlemania.
It's likely we'll have to wait until November when Thor: Ragnarok is released before the rest of the world will see it.
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Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk. | The Marvel panel at Comic-Con is traditionally one of the biggest events of the convention and this year was no exception. | 40695760 |
Adobe unveiled Project Voco last week. The software makes it possible to take an audio recording and rapidly alter it to include words and phrases the original speaker never uttered, in what sounds like their voice.
One expert warned that the tech could further undermine trust in journalism.
Another said it could pose a security threat.
However, the US software firm says it is taking action to address such risks.
At a live demo in San Diego on Thursday, Adobe took a digitised recording of a man saying "and I kissed my dogs and my wife" and changed it to say "and I kissed Jordan three times".
The edit took seconds and simply involved the operator overtyping a transcript of the speech and then pressing a button to create the synthesised voice track.
"We have already revolutionised photo editing. Now it's time for us to do the audio stuff," said Adobe's Zeyu Jin, to the applause of his audience.
He added that to make the process possible, the software needed to be provided with about 20 minutes-worth of a person's speech.
Dr Eddy Borges Rey - a lecturer in media and technology at the University of Stirling - was horrified by the development.
"It seems that Adobe's programmers were swept along with the excitement of creating something as innovative as a voice manipulator, and ignored the ethical dilemmas brought up by its potential misuse," he told the BBC.
"Inadvertently, in its quest to create software to manipulate digital media, Adobe has [already] drastically changed the way we engage with evidential material such as photographs.
"This makes it hard for lawyers, journalists, and other professionals who use digital media as evidence.
"In the same way that Adobe's Photoshop has faced legal backlash after the continued misuse of the application by advertisers, Voco, if released commercially, will follow its predecessor with similar consequences."
The risks extend beyond people being fooled into thinking others said something they did not.
Banks and other businesses have started using voiceprint checks to verify customers are who they say they are when they phone in.
One cybersecurity researcher said the companies involved had long anticipated something like Adobe's invention.
"The technology is new but its underlying principles have been understood for some time," said Dr Steven Murdoch from University College London.
"Biometric companies say their products would not be tricked by this, because the things they are looking for are not the same things that humans look for when identifying people.
"But the only way to find out is to test them, and it will be some time before we know the answer."
Google's DeepMind division showed off a rival voice-mimicking system called WaveNet in September.
But at the time, it suggested that the task needed too much processing power to find its way into a consumer product in the near future.
For its part, Adobe has talked of its customers using Voco to fix podcast and audio book recordings without having to rebook presenters or voiceover artists.
But a spokeswoman stressed that this did not mean its release was imminent.
"[It] may or may not be released as a product or product feature," she told the BBC.
"No ship date has been announced."
In the meantime, Adobe said it was researching ways to detect use of its software.
"Think about watermarking detection," Mr Jin said at the demo, referring to a method used to hide identifiers in images and other media. | A new application that promises to be the "Photoshop of speech" is raising ethical and security concerns. | 37899902 |
The Swans have struggled this term but lifted themselves off the bottom of the Premier League with a 3-0 win against Sunderland on Saturday.
Bradley's side face West Brom and Middlesbrough in their next two games.
"We still feel we can use it [January] to improve our squad and discussions need to continue," Bradley said.
"The discussions have been consistent.
"As a manager in a period where the team is really trying to fight back from a difficult start, the best thing that can happen is to see important players step onto the field and play well and that sets the one for everyone else."
After being appointed as replacement for former manager Francesco Guidolin, Bradley has not played the same starting XI in any of his eight games in charge and is still not sure of his best line-up.
"I think we've made good progress. Good performances from good players is what allows you to start to settle into your best team, assuming you can avoid injuries and suspensions," he told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"Certainly we feel strongly that we want to try and build on the work from Saturday and will it be the exact same team? I'm not sure but I think you'll still see a pretty good carryover from the game against Sunderland."
Despite taking just eight points from a possible 24 during his time in charge, Bradley believes his side is showing signs of improvement.
"We showed signs of good football in the previous seven games [before the win against Sunderland] but not always in a consistent enough manner," he added.
"Confidence is still important and with results, we're trying to see if we can build up that confidence." | Swansea City boss Bob Bradley says he has had "consistent" talks with the club's owners about how to improve his squad in the January transfer window. | 38299098 |
The 22-year-old Ospreys loose-head takes over from the injured Gethin Jenkins, who was making his 129th appearance when he captained Wales to a 27-13 win over South Africa in November.
Jenkins is out of the Six Nations with an arm injury, and will be missed said Smith.
"It's a big loss for the team to lose someone like Gethin," he said.
"But I'm happy to get the chance and to get the nod and I'm looking forward to it."
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Smith suffered his own injury frustration after making his international debut at the age of 20 against Fiji in 2014.
A torn pectoral muscle saw him slip from the radar and Scarlets' Rob Evans emerge as the player most likely to succeed Jenkins in the Wales number one shirt.
Evans has also injury problems this season, however, and will be on the bench in Rome as Smith makes his Six Nations debut.
Smith acknowledges he and Evans have an ongoing selection rivalry, but one tempered by mutual respect and a team ethic.
"I think that's the best bit about competition for places," said Smith.
"Fair play to Rob he's a great player and we push each other well.
"I know I've got the opportunity in this match but I know I'll have to give my best performance because with someone like Rob I can lose my place quite easily."
Smith came through the same Waunarlwydd RFC junior rugby set-up as outside back Liam Williams and says he is glad his junior rugby coach Tony Cleary persuaded him to give-up his ambition to be a number eight.
"I was a bit short and chubby for that," he laughed.
And Smith says he is also grateful for more wise words from a senior figure in the Wales camp.
"In the autumn Gethin was always there to help me if I had any questions," he said.
"He would be the first man to go to and he was fantastic.
"Obviously it's a bit of a loss for him not to be here n this period but I can still talk to people like Paul James back at the Ospreys and I know I can give him a call if I need any help.
"And me and Rob help each other as well.
"I know we're fighting for the same shirt, but at the end of the day we are team-mates and we can help each other out."
In the bruising, bone-against-bone world of scrummage confrontation, it seems the front-row union might be more important than selection rivalries.
Well, possibly. | Nicky Smith has big boots to fill when he wins his eighth Wales cap against Italy in Rome on Sunday. | 38861913 |
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Wales against England, neighbours with a capacity for generating grudges grand enough to make Donald Trump and Barack Obama seem the best of friends. Well, almost.
Wales against England has rarely failed to light blazing bonfires of controversy. Unforgettable tales of skill and skulduggery abound and yet of all the Wales versus England matches for me one stands out above the rest and not because it happened 50 years ago.
England came to the Arms Park on 15 April, 1967 needing a win to share the title with France. Wales had been wallowing in a winter of woe, beaten in all three matches, the country close to a collective nervous breakdown.
The way the selectors saw it, there was only one way to avert the impending national crisis. They picked an 18-year-old centre straight out of Monmouth School and added fuel to the fire by playing him out of position at full-back. His name was Keith Jarrett.
Now in sport there are dream debuts and then there are those so far-fetched, so implausible that they would have been beyond even the ultimate spinner of fairytales, Hans Christian Andersen.
Twelve days before the England match, the selectors pleaded with Newport to pick Jarrett at full-back for their game against Newbridge.
The black-and-ambers did so most reluctantly but not for long. They aborted the experiment at half-time and returned the bungling teenager to his normal position in the centre.
David Watkins, then captain of Newport and Wales, had seen enough - Jarrett would never make a decent full-back. "Keith cost us the game," he said. "He had a nightmare.''
Imagine then how Watkins felt when he learnt that Wales had picked Jarrett at full-back against England. The selectors got it in the neck but the chairman, the late Cliff Jones, a wise old bird, knew a winner when he saw one.
Jones summoned Jarrett to Rodney Parade that week for a crash course in how to be a full-back. "Keith I could meet you every day for the next five years and I still wouldn't be able to teach you how to become a full-back," he said.
"So all I'm going to tell you to do against England is this. When they have the ball stand between 30 to 40 yards behind Dai Watkins. Stand that far back and you will be running onto the ball instead of turning and going backwards."
It was as if Mr Jones had seen the future. For on that heavenly Saturday afternoon, everything Jarrett touched turned to gold. When the England centre Colin McFadyean kicked deep, Jarrett caught the ball in full flight and ran 60 yards for his try of tries without an English hand touching him.
Wales won 34-21, then a record score against England, and Jarrett's personal tally amounted to 19, simply unheard of for a teenage novice.
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Of all the stories told of that day, the one I like best concerns a bus driver.
Late that night when Keith was perhaps a little the worse for wear and looking for a bus back home to Newport, a driver stopped, explained that the last one had gone and told the hero of the day: "I'm going back to the depot so get in and I'll ask the supervisor if it's ok to take you to Newport."
Permission duly given, the driver was puzzled when the supervisor who'd noticed Jarrett smoking a cigarette, pointed to a double decker in the depot and said "take that."
"Why would I need that," said the driver. "There are only the two of us."
"Because Mr Jarrett here might want to go upstairs and have a smoke….that's why!"
You couldn't make it up but then exactly the same could be said of that afternoon and the wondrous Keith Jarrett. | They played the first one almost 140 years ago and, of all the fixtures in Test rugby, there is nothing like it. | 38914892 |
Downing Street confirmed Brexit was "top" of the prime minister's agenda when she returned from holiday.
Theresa May chaired a special cabinet meeting at Chequers on Wednesday 31 August to discuss the government's approach.
Mrs May opened the meeting by repeating the "Brexit means Brexit" mantra she's been using since the day she launched her leadership campaign.
"We must continue to be very clear that Brexit means Brexit. That we're going to make a success of it. That means there's no second referendum, no attempts to sort of stay in the EU by the back door. We're actually going to deliver on this," she told cabinet ministers.
Beyond that, the prime minister has said precious little that defines the future relationship with the EU she is seeking.
After the cabinet meeting, a Downing Street spokeswoman dropped a couple of hints when she said: "The model we are seeking is one unique to the United Kingdom and not an off-the-shelf solution.
"This must mean controls on the numbers of people who come to Britain from Europe but also a positive outcome for those who wish to trade goods and services".
Only when there's an agreed negotiating position will the prime minister trigger what's called Article 50 - the mechanism to formally begin two years of EU exit talks.
Mrs May has already said this will not happen before the end of 2016.
The Labour leadership contender, Owen Smith, wants his party to vote against Article 50 being triggered unless the PM agrees to give the public another vote on the final Brexit deal. Downing Street has said there is "no need for a parliamentary vote".
Theresa May was quick to rule out an emergency budget following the EU referendum.
However, she called for the government's "surplus by 2020" target to be dropped, the day before then-chancellor George Osborne announced that decision.
The new chancellor, Philip Hammond, has said he is prepared to "reset" UK economic policy, if necessary, in his Autumn statement.
Mrs May set out some of her thinking on economic reform in a leadership campaign speech in Birmingham on 11 July.
She talked about improving productivity, issuing more bonds to pay for public works and overhauling corporate governance.
In her speech launching her leadership bid, she said that if faced with a choice between spending cuts, increased borrowing or tax rises "the priority must be to avoid tax increases".
One major economic decision that is expected in the "early autumn" is on the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant.
The government unexpectedly put off a decision shortly after Theresa May became prime minister.
The former cabinet minister, Sir Vince Cable, has said that, as home secretary, Mrs May was concerned about China's involvement in the deal.
Her chief of staff and long-serving adviser, Nick Timothy, has previously expressed security concerns about the Hinkley deal.
China's ambassador to the UK has warned that any decision not to go ahead with Hinkley could damage relations between the two countries.
If a decision is not made before Theresa May travels to China for the G20 summit, questions over Hinkley Point's future could become a dominant feature during the trip.
Another big, much-delayed decision due this autumn is on airport expansion.
After the Brexit vote, the then transport secretary, Patrick McLoughlin put off an announcement until "at least October".
The Davies commission, published in July 2015, set out three options and recommended building a third runway at Heathrow.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Education Secretary Justine Greening have strongly opposed that idea.
The chancellor, Philip Hammond, is on the record supporting Gatwick's expansion instead.
The prime minister, whose Maidenhead constituency is on the Heathrow flight path, is chairing the Cabinet sub-committee that will decide.
Mrs May has spoken about making "Britain a country that works, not for a privileged few, but for every one of us".
In both her leadership speeches and in her first address as prime minister, she highlighted what she called "burning injustices".
"If you're born poor you will die on average nine years earlier than others. If you're black, you're treated more harshly by the criminal justice system than if you're white. If you're a white, working class boy, you're less likely than anybody else in Britain to go to university. If you're at a state school, you're less likely to reach the top professions than if you're educated privately. If you're a woman, you will earn less than a man. If you suffer from mental health problems, there's not enough help to hand. If you're young, you'll find it harder than ever before to own your own home"
She has not said exactly how she intends to tackle these issues but she has committed to doing so.
Mrs May chaired a new cabinet sub-committee on social reform in Downing Street on 1 September.
It seems reasonable to expect more on this agenda in her speech at the Conservative Party conference on 5 October.
In the context of social reform, Mrs May has specifically talked about school reform.
She was due to give more detail on her plans had the Conservative leadership contest continued.
The Daily Telegraph has reported that she wants to end the ban on new grammar schools in England.
The Department for Education has confirmed that the new secretary of state, Justine Greening, is "looking at the issue" having told the BBC that she is "open-minded" about it.
As a child, the prime minister won a place at a grammar school which converted to a comprehensive during her time there.
One other area where Theresa May has signalled a potentially different approach is on devolution.
In July Theresa May promised "a proper industrial strategy to get the whole economy firing. And a plan to help not one or even two of our great regional cities but every single one of them".
Whatever that means, it does not appear to mean ditching the Northern Powerhouse, which continues to have a dedicated minister.
Writing in the Yorkshire Post and the Birmingham Mail, Mrs May also confirmed plans to go ahead with mayoral elections next year.
Theresa May stressed her commitment to the Union as she arrived in Downing Street as PM: "We believe in the union, the precious, precious bond between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland".
Within two days she travelled to Edinburgh to meet Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon.
Ms Sturgeon has said a second independence referendum is "highly likely" following the Brexit vote and has begun a "listening exercise" to gauge support.
At the same time, Ms Sturgeon is seeking to retain Scotland's links with the EU as part of the UK's exit negotiations.
The prime minister said she was "willing to listen to options" without giving any firm commitments.
After the Brexit cabinet at Chequers, a spokeswoman for the prime minister made clear that none of the devolved nations would have a veto over the timing or content of the negotiations to leave the EU. | As Westminster returns from its summer break, what are some of the most pressing issues awaiting Prime Minister Theresa May? | 37256703 |
A 56-11 win at Devon on Saturday means they will reach the Twickenham final if they beat Hertfordshire on 20 May.
"We always sneak it against Hertfordshire, and I hope we sneak it again," Dawe told BBC Radio Cornwall.
"I was fortunate enough to be born in Devon, but the Cornish are very kind - they've sort of half-adopted me."
Cornwall are a point clear of Hertfordshire in the south section heading into the last pool match, meaning a draw in Camborne would be enough.
Only the pool winners will make it through, with Lancashire or Yorkshire likely to qualify from the north section.
"I'm not sure they've [Cornwall] completely adopted me, because if we lose one game I think they'll make me walk the plank out in the sea," Dawe joked.
"That's the way it goes - that's the territory. The Cornwall public are very passionate about their rugby.
"I just hope this competition stays alive and it doesn't become meaningless, because it's so important for a county the size of Cornwall." | Cornwall head coach Graham Dawe says he will be made to "walk the plank" if his side fail to reach a fifth consecutive County Championship final. | 39922031 |
The 27-year-old has agreed a three-year deal at Craven Cottage, with the option of a further 12 months.
McDonald, who has had stints at Dundee, Burnley and Sheffield United, made 126 appearances during a three-year spell at Molineux.
Meanwhile, Fulham have sold Fernando Amorebieta to Spanish La Liga side Sporting Gijon for an undisclosed fee.
The 31-year-old Venezuela international, who had one year remaining on his deal in west London, made 48 appearances for the Whites after joining from Athletic Bilbao in the summer of 2013.
The left-back spent time on loan at Middlesbrough in each of the last two seasons.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Fulham have signed midfielder Kevin McDonald from Championship rivals Wolves for an undisclosed fee. | 36871027 |
Anti-poverty campaigner Paul Nicolson deliberately refused to pay his tax to Haringey Council as he suspected the costs, checked by magistrates, were inaccurate.
A High Court judge said magistrates had not had "relevant information" before them when making a costs order.
Mrs Justice Andrews said the case was of "significant public interest".
The 82-year-old retired vicar described the ruling as "game, set and match to the poor".
He said he bought the case because a £125 costs bill was a "very big penalty" in addition to the "inevitable council tax arrears" generated by thousands of benefits claimants in Haringey.
The case had implications across the UK, as about three million liability orders were granted by magistrates every year to councils in England and Wales, he added.
Judge Andrews said Mr Nicolson suspected the costs were being used as a form of penalty or deterrent, or as a means of covering the council's general administrative costs of collecting council tax. | A retired vicar from Tottenham has won a case to highlight the inaccuracy of unpaid council tax enforcement costs. | 32612179 |
In November, the singer said he had talked to the Russian President on the phone and was arranging to meet him to discuss his concerns over gay rights in the country.
But a Kremlin spokesman has now said that will not happen as there was "no appropriate time in the two men's schedules".
However Dmitry Peskov said that they could still meet at a later date.
"We were in correspondence with him (Elton John) a couple of weeks ago, because there had been an agreement that, if their schedules allow, this meeting would take place. President Putin expressed readiness for this meeting. But this time, the meeting won't take place, unfortunately," he told reporters.
"Their schedules do not match up. But this does not mean that such a meeting won't take place next time."
Sir Elton will be performing at the Ice Palace in St Petersburg on 28 May, and on 30 May in Moscow at Crocus City Hall, as part of his world tour.
Last September, the singer fell victim to prank callers pretending to be the Russian leader.
Vladimir Krasnov and Alexei Stolyarov phoned the singer, after Sir Elton told BBC News he wanted to meet Mr Putin to discuss gay rights in Russia - describing the president's attitude to gay people as "isolating and prejudiced".
The hoax phone call was aired on Russian TV.
However the singer later received a genuine call from the president.
He told the BBC's Today programme: "He was very affable, he was very apologetic, he was very sincere.
"As soon as I can get a date in my diary that coincides with him, then I will be going... to Moscow and I will meet him." | Sir Elton John will not meet Vladimir Putin when he visits Russia this month. | 36386926 |
Security forces confronted a gang of five at the well-known tourist destination. Another member of the group was wounded.
Rangers say they recovered a firearm, ammunition and other tools used for rhino poaching from the scene.
It is the latest in a series of attempts to reverse the rising trade.
Demand for rhino horn has soared in recent years - fuelled by the belief in parts of Asia that it has medicinal properties.
The black market price of rhino horn is now in the region of £35,000 ($55,000) a kilogram.
Last year, South Africa recorded more than 300 cases of poaching.
Despite the prospect of high-level prosecutions, the financial rewards for criminals are helping to fuel the trade. | Three suspected rhino poachers have been shot and killed by rangers in South Africa's Kruger National Park. | 12385011 |
Their fingers have the power to destroy your social calendar for weeks to come, at least.
And yet at the moment hairdressers in the UK aren't required to have any qualifications.
That may change as MPs debate whether the industry needs greater regulation. But for now, what are your rights if your stylist gets it wrong?
If you look like you've lost a fight with a New Zealand sheep shearer at the end of your chop, you can refuse to pay.
Hairdressers provide a service and in law are governed by the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982.
This means they have to carry out their job to a good standard.
So, if you've gone in asking for a Kim Kardashian-style cut and come out looking more like Kim Jong-un, you're entitled to keep your money in your pocket.
But be warned, if the salon thinks your review of their handiwork has more holes in it than your head then they could take you to court to claim what they think they're owed.
If you do find yourself in a stand-off akin to a Clint Eastwood western another option is to pay under protest.
This means you pay for the haircut, with the intention of claiming the money back later.
Make sure though that if you go down this route the hairdresser is aware you're paying in protest. It's best to have a witness, or even better, get it in writing.
What's that old saying? "If at first you don't succeed, try, try and try again."
Even if it looks like they've used a lawn mower to cut your hair, you should first give your hairdresser another shot at getting it right.
As counterintuitive as this may sound if you take them to court you'll need to show you've been reasonable.
By all means ask the salon for a discount as a goodwill gesture, but this should be your first port of call.
Should your hairdresser agree to give it another go, you should tell them in writing that you reserve the right to get someone else to do the work if it still hasn't been done to a reasonable standard.
And keep a copy of the letter.
If the hairdresser can't or won't put things right, then it's time to try another salon.
You might be able to claim compensation from the first hatchet job if this leaves you out of pocket.
As a nation we're not known for our bluntness.
We'd often much rather smile sweetly and save the river of tears until we get home.
But in this instance it pays to be brave and upfront.
If you give the impression you're happy with your haircut, then you'll haveaffirmed the contract.
Once this is done, you'll lose the right to withhold payment and can only sue in court for damages.
To avoid affirming the contract you must shout if you notice things taking a turn for the worse.
By letting them continue you're seen as accepting what's going on up top.
Whatever you decide to do, if you want any money back, you're going to need evidence.
So although you might not feel like it, it's time to take a selfie. And then another.
Taking pictures of your new do and writing down the date and time of the cut will help you further down the line, whatever you decide to do.
It's worth remembering that although many stylists have undergone training, you don't have to have any qualifications to start your own hairdressing business.
The Hairdressing Council says 7,000 hairdressers are signed up to its voluntary register.
That's out of around 250,000 people who work in the UK's hairdressing industry.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | There are few things that threaten to bring you out in a cold sweat quite like a shaky-handed hairdresser. | 30713158 |
A group wants the Justice Department and Office of Government Ethics to scrutinise "legal issues" related to the appointment of Jared Kushner, 36.
His lawyer says the post does not breach anti-nepotism laws.
Mr Kushner is married to Mr Trump's daughter Ivanka.
The millionaire will step down as boss of his family's real estate business and publisher of the New York Observer newspaper in order to comply with ethics laws, his lawyer Jamie Gorelick said.
The influential Trump adviser will also divest "substantial assets", she said.
Mr Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th US president on 20 January.
Several of his cabinet picks have business interests that will be scrutinised at confirmation hearings taking place this week.
Mr Trump's selection for attorney general, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, is the first to face Senate confirmation hearings on Tuesday. He was turned down for a federal judgeship in 1986 because of alleged racist remarks.
Unlike cabinet positions, advisers are considered part of White House staff and do not require approval from Congress.
Softly-spoken and usually camera-shy, Mr Kushner is a vastly wealthy property developer and publisher who played an influential role in Mr Trump's presidential campaign and has been included in key meetings with foreign leaders during the transition period.
An Orthodox Jew whose grandparents were Holocaust survivors, he was raised in Livingston, New Jersey, and went on to study sociology at Harvard.
His father, also a property mogul, was jailed for tax evasion, illegal campaign contributions and witness tampering in 2005 by Chris Christie - then the US attorney for New Jersey.
Jared Kushner is said to have played a key role in the ousting of Mr Christie, by then New Jersey governor, from Mr Trump's presidential campaign team last year.
In his new role, Mr Kushner will initially focus on trade policy and the Middle East, according to officials from the transition team.
On Sunday, he and Mr Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon met UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
The rule, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1967, prevents public officials from promoting a relative "to a civilian position in the agency in which he is serving or over which he exercises jurisdiction or control".
It is thought to have been prompted by JFK's appointment of brother Robert to the post of attorney general in 1960
The law would stop a president from giving a cabinet job to a relative - but it is unclear whether it applies to positions in the White House team.
Those that say it does not point to President Bill Clinton's appointment of First Lady Hillary Clinton as chair of his health care reforms package in 1993.
In their letter, the Democratic lawmakers, all members of the House Judiciary Committee, argue that a "strong case" can be made that the 1967 federal anti-nepotism statute applies to staff working in the White House, a position rejected by Mr Trump's team.
They also raise questions about how, even with significant divestment, Mr Kushner could completely avoid conflicts of interest in his White House role.
Concerns have been raised about his relationships with foreign investors. The New York Times reported on Saturday that the businessman met the head of an insurance group with links to the Chinese government over development plans for his skyscraper, 666 Fifth Avenue, just days after Mr Trump won the presidential election. His spokeswoman, quoted by the paper, said the timing of the meeting was a coincidence and he had already decided to sell his stake in the building.
As his appointment as special adviser was announced, Mr Kushner's lawyer, Ms Gorelick, said he was committed to complying with federal ethics laws and had consulted with the Office of Government Ethics about what steps to take.
She added that he would not be paid for the advisory role.
Ivanka Trump will step down from executive roles at the Trump Organization as well as her own fashion brands.
But she will not be taking an official role in her father's government - for now at least - and instead will focus on raising her children.
Reports said last week that Ivanka and Jared and their children would be moving into a $5.5m (£4.5m) home in Washington DC's wealthy Kalorama neighbourhood - at least for some time. The Obama family are due to be moving to the same area after leaving the White House.
Meanwhile, Mr Trump announced in November that his wife, Melania, would be staying in New York - at least initially - after his inauguration to allow their youngest son, Barron, to finish the school year. | Democrats have called for US President-elect Donald Trump's naming of his son-in-law as a top adviser to be reviewed over concerns of nepotism and conflict of interest. | 38565939 |
Chief executive Hugh Morris said such a move was not something to be proud of but was essential to ensure its future.
Cardiff council has been challenged over its decision to write off £4.4m of the £6.4m it is owed.
But it could get almost nothing if the club goes into administration.
Glamorgan is due to host the first Ashes Test against Australia in July and has other international matches lined up.
But the cost of redeveloping its ground has left it with debts it has been unable to pay back.
The main creditor is Allied Irish Bank, with former club chairman Paul Russell also owed money. They have already agreed a 70% write-off deal, similar to the one put to the council.
Mr Morris, who took over at Glamorgan last year, said there was a "considerable debt" but it was vital to write it off.
"It's not something we necessarily want to do or are necessarily proud of but it's something we have to do to secure the future of this club," he said.
"To secure the economic impact that major matches bring to the city of Cardiff and the reputation that we will get as a country for hosting a Blue Riband event like the Ashes."
Geoff Mesher, a forensic accountant, said the council faced a stark choice if it tried to get all its money back.
"The risk for the council and for the cricket club is that they go into administration and effectively cease to trade. The council may well recover less than the 30% they get in this deal," he said.
"Also Cardiff and Wales is left without a cricket club and a stadium.
"I can understand why these questions are being asked but they should have been asked back in 2006 when the money was advanced. That was the time to look at whether the money was or could ever be repaid."
Mr Mesher said the council should have been more aware of the risks.
"There are a number of established Test cricket grounds, but there are only so many test matches and international games in any particular year.
"When you're sharing the rest out through a number of grounds and then when you have the unpredictable British weather there's always a risk they wouldn't get the level of income they needed to service the debt they've taken."
On balance, he said the option of writing off £4m was potentially the best.
He added: "What Cardiff and Wales has got is a premier stadium, a club fostering cricket, so you can understand the political imperatives that led to Cardiff Council investing in the first place. To be able place the club on a secure financial footing is probably worth it."
Chief executive Mr Morris admitted the club had experienced financial challenges, but said it had cut costs and the number of professional players.
As to the debt to the council, he added: "We're very aware of our responsibilities as far as the community is concerned.
"We have cricket programmes in many schools in Cardiff and have very close links with our 132 ambassador clubs across the whole of Wales, and are developing cricket in black minority ethnic communities around Cardiff.
"Also we have the Ashes in July and that's likely to bring in £5-8m for each day to the city, which is very considerable for Cardiff."
A Cardiff Council spokesperson said its decision to write-off 70% of the outstanding loans made to Glamorgan had been called in by a councillor and the matter would be considered by a committee on 12 May. | Glamorgan cricket club could go out of business and the local economy could lose out on millions of pounds if most of the club's £16m debts are not written off, it has warned. | 32238157 |
Phillip Potter told Bristol Crown Court he honked the horn to warn people and thought: "I'm dead. This is the end."
Mitzi Steady, four, Robert Parker, 59, Philip Allen, 52, and Stephen Vaughan, 34, died in the crash in Bath in 2015.
Mr Potter, 20, of Dauntsey, Wiltshire, denies a total of 10 charges including causing death by dangerous driving.
He was driving a truck belonging to Grittenham Haulage Ltd. The owner of the firm, Matthew Gordon, 30, also of Dauntsey, denies 14 charges against him.
Peter Wood, 55, from Brinkworth, Wiltshire, a mechanic who carried out safety checks on the truck, denies four charges against him.
Mr Potter said he realised the brakes were not working as soon as he saw a 20mph restriction sign on Lansdown Lane.
He said: "I was really scared. Honking the horn was the only thing I could think of, to warn people that I couldn't stop."
Mr Potter told the court that he could see a little girl running out into the road and tried to swerve the vehicle in order to miss her.
He said: "I didn't know that I had hit her, but had a feeling I had. I didn't feel the impact."
Mr Potter explained that "everything happened so fast" and claimed Mr Gordon said "don't tell the police about the ABS light" immediately following the crash.
Four-year-old Mitzi was one of a number of pedestrians struck by the lorry.
Mr Allen and Mr Vaughan, both from Swansea, and Mr Parker, from Cwmbran, south Wales, were in a car hit by the vehicle.
The case continues. | The driver of a truck which crashed and killed four people described feeling "really scared" when he realised the brakes were not working. | 38321382 |
The government spent £20.3bn to acquire a 43% stake in Lloyds at the height of the financial crisis.
It has already said it wants to return the bank to full private ownership during the course of 2017.
The biggest shareholder in Lloyds is now Blackrock, the world's largest asset manager.
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is still about 71%-owned by the government. In the aftermath of the 2008-2009 banking crisis the UK government had to spend a total of £115bn to rescue Lloyds Banking Group and RBS from imminent collapse.
UK Financial Investments, which manages the government's stake, stopped selling Lloyds' shares last January because of financial market volatility.
In October, it resumed sales to institutional investors, but because of continued volatility, the shares were not made available to member of the public.
As a plain vanilla UK savings and lending bank, Lloyds was always going to be an easier bank to fix than RBS which is still about 71% owned by the taxpayer.
As a global bank with fingers in most of the pies that got burnt during the crisis, RBS has paid out over £50bn pounds in fines and compensation and has its biggest reckoning yet to come.
It is still facing a bill from US authorities which could end up in the double digit billions for its role in the subprime mis-selling scandal that started the whole financial crisis in the first place.
While those negotiations could come to a head as early as this week (watch out for separate blog on this), RBS won't reach the point Lloyds did today for many, many years to come. Read more from Simon here
"Returning Lloyds to the private sector and recovering all of the cash the taxpayer injected into the bank during the financial crisis is a priority for the government," said Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond.
"Confirmation that we are no longer the largest shareholder in the bank and that we've now recouped over £18bn for UK taxpayers is further evidence that we are on track to recover all of the £20bn injected into the bank during the financial crisis."
Nicholas Hyett, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "Retail investors had the disappointment of being denied involvement in a Lloyds share sale, although there is still time and plenty of opportunity to rectify this with the remaining circa £2bn stake." | The UK government is no longer the biggest stakeholder in Lloyds Banking Group, after it cut its stake to less than 6%. | 38552829 |
5 January 2017 Last updated at 17:26 GMT
In 2014, China's government said they were working hard to reduce the amount of pollution in the air.
But for big cities like Beijing, air pollution levels can still be high for most of the year.
People have been saying this week's smog is the worst case ever, and it's been causing all sorts of problems. Find out what it's like for one child, Sophie, living in Beijing. | The Chinese capital of Beijing is on red alert because a thick blanket of pollution - called smog - has been covering the city for the last week. | 38496604 |
Those with type 1 diabetes whose blood glucose is in the target range increased from 17.8% in 2014-15 to 27.2% in 2015-16.
Diabetes affects the body's ability to produce insulin, meaning there can be dangerously high levels of glucose (or sugar) in the blood.
The annual statement of progress for diabetes also said those with high blood glucose fell from 21.6% to 18.6%.
Research for the National Paediatric Diabetes Audit found there were 1,400 children and young people, under the age of 19, with diabetes, in Wales. Almost all (96%) had Type 1 diabetes.
Issues caused by the condition include long-term eye, kidney and vascular problems.
In 2015-16, 188,644 adults (aged 17 or over) were registered with their GP as living with it, an increase of 17.5% on the 160,533 registered in 2010-11.
A further 540,000 are at risk of developing the disease.
Chief executive of NHS Wales, Dr Andrew Goodall said more education was being provided to help all people living with diabetes.
He said: "With careful management, healthy lifestyle choices and good blood glucose control the risks of complications are markedly reduced." | The health of children with diabetes in Wales is improving, a report has shown. | 39777798 |
An independent review published by Salford Safeguarding Board said it was "difficult to think of a more vulnerable child".
The girl, who is deaf and cannot speak, was trafficked from Pakistan aged ten.
Her plight was only detected when she was found by trading standards' officers investigating a scam.
Ilyas Ashar was jailed for raping the girl, benefits fraud and trafficking, and his wife Tallat was jailed for benefits fraud and trafficking.
The pair succeeded in "in maintaining a cruel deception," the report notes.
The 76-page report said none of the various agencies protected the girl, who worked as a servant, when they came into contact with her.
It stated: "For a country with a reputation as a safe place in which human rights are upheld and with sophisticated arrangements for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, this was indeed a shaming failing."
It highlighted key failures by official agencies:
It said there was a series of missed opportunities by different authorities.
The girl arrived from Pakistan on a forged passport which put her at twice her actual age.
She never had an interpreter when she was seen by different officials.
The girl had an employment contract with the couple ensuring she would neither have sex nor be locked indoors against her will, which could "have suggested she was vulnerable", said the report.
NHS staff were "too inhibited" about race issues to question the family.
The couple were originally sentenced at Manchester Crown Court in October 2013, but had their sentences increased in February last year, with Ilyas Ashar's extended from 13 years to 15 and Tallat Ashar's sentence raised from five to six years.
Social services said the girl, now in her 20s, had made a "remarkable recovery". | A girl who was kept in a cellar and repeatedly raped was the victim of a "shaming failing" by those who should have protected her, a report has said. | 33049823 |
One of the speakers, Chelsea Clinton, told delegates that women were a "crucial, vital and necessary" part of delivering global food security.
Data shows that progress has been made in recent years, but there is still a long way to go to close the gender gap.
The call for equality was made at the 2015 Borlaug Dialogue in the US.
"Certainly, we are not on track at the moment to feed the population we expect to have around the world in 2050," Ms Clinton, vice-president of the Clinton Foundation, told the gathering.
One of the themes of the three-day event, which focused on the "fundamentals of global food security", was inspiring young women to take up careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (Stem).
Global problem
Another speaker, Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg - director of the Kenya-based African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (Award) - outlined some of the challenges.
"We need to increase the number of women scientists but first of all we need to create a conducive environment in which they work. It is as much about institutional transformation as it is about investing in individuals," she said.
"It can be a little too easy to pretend that this is only an African problem, hence a cultural problem. But that is not true; we have got the same challenge in the UK, across Europe and in the US.
"It is a global problem so we have to change the global culture surrounding science and who can be a scientist."
A report produced by the Campaign for Science and Engineering (Case) that examined diversity in UK Stem said that just 9% of those involved in non-medical Stem posts were women.
However, it also highlighted that the problems facing the science sector in the UK went beyond gender equality. The authors reported that there was an annual shortfall of 40,000 skilled Stem workers.
Dr Kamau-Rutenberg told the BBC the shortfall illustrated why it was critical to attract more young women to pursue careers in the Stem sector.
"We need to expand the pool of talent and increase the number of scientists. Investing in women scientists is a really good way to solve the problem of not enough scientists being available to do the work."
Mentoring
She said Award offered a career development programme that was "investing in high-potential African women and agricultural scientists".
As well as developing technical skills, Award provided leadership training and a mentoring network.
"We just know that people do so much better at achieving their potential as a result of mentoring - when they are in a community of peers and when they are connected to senior scientists," she said.
Dr Kamau-Rutenberg added that just under half of the mentors in the network were men: "This is fantastic because we are able to engage men in this journey of investing in women scientists."
She said that a speech by US President Barack Obama, during his visit to Kenya in June, showed the importance of giving women the opportunity to "earn a place at the decision-making table".
Mr Obama had told a gathering at a sports stadium: "Any nation that fails to educate its girls or employ its women and allow them to maximise their potential is doomed to fall behind the global economy.
"We're in a sports centre. Imagine if you have a team and don't let half of the team play. That's stupid. That makes no sense."
Beyond the farm gate
Data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) shows that the gender gap extended to access to agricultural resources and opportunities.
The FAO said: "Closing the gender gap in agriculture would generate significant gains for the agriculture sector and for society.
"If women had the same access to productive resources as men, they could increase yields on their farms by 20-30%."
Dr Kamau-Rutenberg went further: "It is not enough to talk about African women in agriculture and leave the conversation at the farm level.
"There is no point pretending that the only place it is important to talk gender, and the roles of men and women in agriculture, is on the farms.
"We also need to transform the landscape when it comes to research and development. It is really important that we have both men and women setting the research agenda." | Policy and business leaders have used a major food conference to highlight the need for more women in the global agriculture sector. | 34551325 |
US PGA champion Day sank a 12-foot putt for birdie on the 17th and rescued par from the bunker on 18 to finish with a two-under-par 70 and 17 under total.
American Chappell finished on 16 under after also hitting 70, while England's Paul Casey (69) and Justin Rose (73) tied for ninth on 10 under in Orlando.
"There was not one shot today where I was comfortable," Day said.
The Australian, who dropped shots at three of his first six holes, added: "I tried to be as deliberate as possible, which worked out well on the back nine for me, but not on the front nine.
"I was out of my zone, as shown by two bogeys on the par fives."
Day, who rises one place to replace Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy at number two in the world rankings with the victory, begins his quest for back-to-back major championships at the Masters on 7 April.
McIlroy closed with a seven-under 65, despite a double-bogey on the 14th, to finish 11 shots adrift of Day on six under.
"It's a nice way to round off the week," he said. "I just need to eradicate my mistakes.
"I just can't beat myself up mentally; that's something that I have done this week.
"I've really beaten myself up for hitting bad shots and making mistakes and I can't do that because you can compound one mistake with another and then you get into a bit of a lull where you play a bad nine holes and you just can't afford to do that."
Day, Chappell and Sweden's Henrik Stensson shared the lead at 16 under with five holes to play, and Chappell edged ahead when he birdied the par-five 16th, but Day responded with a birdie on 17.
Chappell then came up short from 25 feet for par on the 18th after finding the rough, and Day kept his nerve on the same hole by a sinking a four-foot par putt following a 30-yard chip from a bunker. | Australia's Jason Day held off the challenge of Kevin Chappell to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational by one shot. | 35858568 |
Sally Holland said some schools were reluctant to address the issue, for fear of looking bad.
A report has warned that a lack of consistency in handling complaints leaves some children feeling isolated.
The Welsh Government said all forms of bullying should be tackled vigorously and a school behaviour policy should be in place by law.
But Dr Holland said in some cases, the anti-bullying guidance sits on shelves in schools and does not appear to have been read.
"I want to see guidance which is really useful, that builds on the experiences of children and gives them some solutions but also tells schools how to monitor it and not to be scared of monitoring it," she said.
"Some professionals were telling us there's a kind of reluctance to record bullying - they're reluctant to make their school look bad, that there may be some kind of league table or something like that. Of course that's not what I want to see.
"I want to see schools having an honest conversation with their student population and the community around it, about how they're tackling bullying in school and what they're going to do about it."
The report said there was confusion over what constitutes bullying and a lack of consistent recording.
These issues were raised three years ago by the schools inspectorate Estyn, yet have still not been addressed.
"Some things have changed, but yes, there are some fundamentals we still need to get right and of course it's frustrating, it's frustrating for children too, of course," said Ms Holland.
"We do need to be recording bullying and make sure the best practice, which we know is out there, is available to schools.
"Everyone should be owning this issue and everyone should be involved in tackling it. Let's not keep it in the corner as an embarrassing aspect of school life. Let's accept that it happens and positively move forward to tackle it."
Two thousand children and young people contributed to the report "Sam's Story", asking for their experiences of bullying, along with the views of 300 professionals.
Children highlighted differences like ethnicity, poverty, disability and gender stereotyping as key issues for bullies and said parents were often unresponsive.
Dr Holland has now called on the Welsh Government to place a statutory duty on schools to record all incidences and types of reported bullying, and to come up with a clear definition of bullying.
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We will consider the children commissioner's report which will feed into our review of anti-bullying guidance.
"We do not tolerate any bullying in the Welsh education system. We expect schools and education services to make it clear that all forms of bullying are entirely unacceptable and to tackle all incidents vigorously, ensuring that pupils are properly supported.
"All schools in Wales must, by law, have a school behaviour policy in place. Effective strategies to tackle bullying should be central to this policy and put into practice by everyone in the school." | A "radical overhaul" is needed to tackle school bullying, the children's commissioner for Wales has said. | 40635443 |
Last year campaigners against the mine at Shortwood Farm, between Cossall and Trowell, were "devastated" that then-Communities Secretary Eric Pickles did not call-in the decision approved by the county council.
More than 1m tonnes of coal can now be extracted by UK Coal.
The firm agreed to control noise and dust and restore the site to farmland after extraction.
Plans for the surface mine were first approved by the county council in 2013 pending the completion of legal matters.
Mr Pickles said in July last year he was satisfied correct planning procedures had been followed.
Nottinghamshire County Council supported UK Coal's plan to extract an estimated 1.28 million tonnes of coal and 250,000 tonnes of fireclay from the mine in under five years.
The coal will be used to generate power at the nearby Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station. | An opencast mine in Nottinghamshire has been given final planning consent. | 33112199 |
The Beer, Baccy and Crumpet Party was told by the Electoral Commission its name could not appear on voting slips.
Leader Ray Hall, will now stand for the newly-christened Beer, Baccy and Scratchings Party in Eastleigh, after "discussions in the pub".
"Scratchings was the nearest name I could come up with," he said.
"It is amusing. It is public house humour."
But, Mr Hall added: "We do have serious policies as well."
The party's new name was accepted by the Electoral Commission on Wednesday and Mr Hall officially registered with the returning officer before the deadline at 16:00.
He said he planned to go for a "celebratory drink" afterwards.
Mr Hall previously said he did not believe crumpet was a sexist term, and there were "far worse words" used to describe women.
Mr Hall received 235 votes in 2013's Eastleigh by-election after Chris Huhne resigned.
Candidates expected to stand in the Eastleigh constituency are: | A party whose "offensive" name was banned from ballot papers amid complaints it was demeaning to women has rebranded itself. | 32226877 |
It was given to the Luftwaffe commander-in-chief for his 50th birthday by Erhard Milch in 1943.
Field Marshal Milch, who was half-Jewish and received Goering's protection, was found guilty of war crimes after World War Two.
The box was sold to an anonymous phone bidder by J P Humbert Auctioneers.
It was one of a number of items associated with Goering sold at the auction in Whittlebury in Northamptonshire.
A silver bowl presented to him by the German Hunting Association went for £2,220 and an ivory letter opener given to him by the Japanese government made £680.
Auctioneer Jonathan Humbert said the results "show the continued fascination with high-ranking members of the Nazi Party". | A cigar box once owned by Nazi number two Hermann Goering has sold for £3,200, nearly the auctioneers' estimate of £800 to £1,200. | 40047902 |
The 25-year-old will join from NTT Shining Arcs at the end of January when the Japanese campaign has concluded.
Mafi, who featured four times for Japan at the World Cup this year, will remain at Bath until the end of the season.
"Amanaki is a talented young player who had a great World Cup, and we're excited to see what he can do in a Bath jersey," said head coach Mike Ford.
"We have some very good players in our back row already but we're always looking to strengthen the squad. Amanaki will give us another option in a hugely competitive position." | Premiership side Bath have agreed a deal to sign Japan number eight Amanaki Mafi on a short-term contract. | 35193795 |
Latest figures show a rise of nearly 35% in crimes of indecency between April and July this year compared with the same period in 2015.
Ch Supt Gary Ritchie said the increase had not been unexpected.
He said sex offences were the most under-reported crimes and they were working to address that.
A total of 112 indecency offences were reported in the months covered by the latest report to Dumfries and Galloway Council - it included 37 sexual assaults and 16 rapes.
It compared with a total of 83 over the same period last year.
Ch Supt Ritchie said: "It is what we expected and, in actual fact, what we hoped to see.
"The recent Scottish crime and justice survey has indicated that rape and sexual crime is the most under-reported crime in any category.
"An estimation carried out by the Scottish government suggests that only 40% are reported.
"So when we see an increase in that, that is encouraging for us." | Police in Dumfries and Galloway have said a rise in reports of sex crimes is "encouraging" as it shows victims are more confident about coming forward. | 37642591 |
The only goal of the game came in the 59th minute when Ricky Modeste's cross was powered in with a diving header from Joe Healy.
After a quiet opening quarter of an hour, the home side nearly took the lead when Moses Emmanuel evaded a couple of challenges and his shot from seven yards was pushed against the post by Bromley keeper Ross Flitney.
Toby Sho-Silva had the best chance of the first half for the visitors, but his shot from seven yards was blocked and a defender beat Bradley Goldberg to the rebound.
The hosts dominated the second half, but Bromley went close to earning a point five minutes from time when Alan Dunne's header was cleared off the line by match-winner Healy.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Dover Athletic 1, Bromley 0.
Second Half ends, Dover Athletic 1, Bromley 0.
Ross Lafayette (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Aswad Thomas (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Dover Athletic. Mitchell Pinnock replaces Ricky Modeste.
Ben Chorley (Bromley) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Dover Athletic. Aswad Thomas replaces Moses Emmanuel.
Substitution, Bromley. Ryan Hall replaces Bradley Goldberg.
Substitution, Bromley. Blair Turgott replaces Louis Dennis.
Sam Magri (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Bromley. George Porter replaces Connor Dymond.
Goal! Dover Athletic 1, Bromley 0. Joe Healy (Dover Athletic).
Second Half begins Dover Athletic 0, Bromley 0.
First Half ends, Dover Athletic 0, Bromley 0.
James Hurst (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Dover got their play-off bid back on track by ending their three-match winless run with a victory over Bromley. | 39240393 |
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Glenavon's Gareth McKeown and United midfielder Gary Thompson saw first-half red cards while Kyle Neill's free put the Lurgan Blues ahead on 35 minutes.
Allan Jenkins levelled with a backpost strike before substitute Patton hit the bottom corner after 76 minutes.
Tony Kane was red-carded in injury-time as Ballymena finished with nine men.
It was Glenavon's first Irish Cup triumph since 1997 while Ballymena have not won it for 25 years.
The opening quarter of the game was devoid of incident, but it was merely the calm before the storm with a dramatic final 27 minutes of the first half.
United full-back Jim Ervin was forced off with a knee injury seconds before McKeown's straight red on 29 minutes for an elbow on Ballymena keeper Aaron Shanahan.
The game opened up after the dismissal and Lurgan Blues midfielder Ciaran Martyn dragged a shot wide while United striker David Cushley sliced over at the backpost.
Neill made a 35th minute breakthrough with a superb strike, his 25-yard free-kick arrowing into the top corner.
Thompson was next to be shown a straight red card by referee Raymond Crangle, the midfielder sent off for a high challenge on Shane McCabe after 40 minutes.
Glenavon forward Guy Bates saw his overhead kick deflected wide two minutes later as Gary Hamilton's side made a strong finish to the half.
Ballymena improved on the restart as they chased the equaliser and Kane's powerful 30-yard flew just over the bar.
Martyn produced a goal-saving block to deny Darren Boyce on 68 minutes but United were soon rewarded for their second-half enterprise.
Glenavon keeper James McGrath failed to collect as a corner found Jenkins at the backpost and the United skipper Jenkins chested down before firing in from close range.
Parity lasted only five minutes as Patton again showed his value from the bench, hitting the bottom corner with a pinpoint strike from 20 yards.
Ballymena squandered a chance to level two minutes from time with Cushley clear on goal but McGrath raced out to save the striker's shot.
Kane became the third player to receive a straight red card after a poor challenge on Glenavon player/manager Hamilton deep into the injury time.
Ballymena United: Aaron Shanahan, Jim Ervin, Stephen McBride, Johnny Taylor, David Munster, Tony Kane, Gary Thompson, Allan Jenkins (capt), Alan Teggart, David Cushley, Darren Boyce.
Glenavon: James McGrath, Rhys Marshall, Kris Lindsay (capt), Gareth McKeown, James Singleton, Andy McGrory, Ciaran Martyn, Shane McCabe, Kyle Neill, Guy Bates, Tiarnan Mulvenna.
Referee: Raymond Crangle (Belfast)
Att: 7,282 | Mark Patton scored the winner as Glenavon beat Ballymena United 2-1 at Windsor Park in an Irish Cup final which saw three players sent off. | 27268792 |
John Kerr, from Paisley, Renfrewshire, was asked by the boy's mother to look after the child on 6 November 2015.
On leaving a pub and returning to the house after a one-hour absence, Kerr found police had been alerted after the tearful child had called 999.
Kerr admitted wilfully abandoning a child in his care in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury.
Paisley Sheriff Court heard that the boy dialled 999 after he could not find Kerr.
The seven-year-old was tearful when he told an emergency operator that he only had his pets for company.
Officers went to the property and were able to re-assure the schoolboy before one climbed in through a window and comforted him.
Kerr later returned under the influence of alcohol and claimed he had gone for food for the child.
He later conceded he had visited a bar and had stayed away longer than he had intended. | A 50-year-old man has been fined £280 for leaving a seven-year-old boy at home to go to the pub. | 35540553 |
Ms Jayalalitha, a powerful and controversial politician, has been in hospital since 22 September.
Anxiety about her health has grown in the absence of clear information about her condition.
There are concerns that her supporters could resort to violence and acts of self harm in the event of bad news.
There is a veil of secrecy over the extent of Ms Jayalalitha's illness which has triggered a wave of rumours, observers say.
The two arrests over the rumours were made in the state capital Chennai (Madras) on Tuesday. Cases have been registered against 40 others.
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Police said that one of those arrested was a technician who had uploaded an audio clip to a website he managed, of what he claimed was a hospital official talking about Ms Jayalalitha. The other man, an engineer, was arrested for posting "false information" on Facebook about the chief minister's health, The Times of India said.
The hospital treating the chief minister initially said she had "fever and dehydration", but in a media release on 3 October said that she was on "respiratory support" and was being administered antibiotics. A British doctor specialising in critical care treatment has also been flown in to examine her.
A photograph of a woman in an intensive care unit went viral on social media, with many claiming it was of Ms Jayalalitha. It was later found to be a picture of a hospital in Peru. | Indian police have arrested two people for "spreading rumours" about the health of Jayaram Jayalalitha, chief minister of southern Tamil Nadu state. | 37615997 |
On average, patients whose conditions are classed as being life-threatening, waited nearly three minutes more in 2015-16 than they did in 2013-14.
Average waiting times rose from 7.15 minutes to 10.17 minutes.
The NI Ambulance Service said its target of eight minutes was being missed because of the outdated system for categorising calls.
The longest average waiting time was in the South Eastern Trust area, where patients had to wait 11.30 minutes.
The information was contained in a Freedom of Information request by the BBC into ambulance response and waiting times across the UK.
999 calls are separated into three categories by the NI ambulance service:
The NI Ambulance Service (NIAS) said it was not meeting its target waiting time because of a problem in how those calls were broken down into each category.
It said some category A calls were being miscategorised under the current system, and should instead be treated as serious but not life-threatening incidents.
Brian McNeill, the director of operations at the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service, said they are advocating a change to the system which is much needed.
"Demand has increased 23% from the last time we met the target which was 2012," he said.
"Our staff are working way beyond what we should require of them, without breaks and late finishes and we feel that the changes as to how we define the immediately life-threatening conditions will be positive."
NI Ambulance said the way calls are prioritised and their targets set was established in 1974 and has not kept up with current medical practices.
The Welsh ambulance service introduced a new system in October 2015 which saw a tenfold reduction in the number of calls classed as an emergency, and enabled it to reach the most serious cases quicker.
This ambulance response programme is also up and running in England, and the NIAS says it wants to bring in a similar system.
In the meantime, it is operating a number of systems whereby not every call to a paramedic would require a hospital admission but could offer, for example, advice from a clinician.
The NIAS says that, along with rising population figures, it also has to cope with increasing demand.
The percentage of calls that waited more than 12 minutes for a response increased from 17% in 2013-14 to more than 27% in 2015-16.
Northern Ireland Ambulance Service waiting times for category A calls - the most serious calls, where there is, potentially, an immediate threat to life.
One area where Northern Ireland appears to be doing better than the rest of the UK is the time spent waiting to hand over patients at emergency departments.
In 2013-14, the NIAS spent 16,719 hours waiting on hospitals to take their patients. This dropped to 14,928 in 2015-16.
The NIAS has a workforce of 1,287 and while overall demand on the service has increased, so have staff sickness levels, going up from just under 9% in 2013-14 to more than 10% in 2015-16. | The highest priority ambulance call-outs in Northern Ireland are taking longer to arrive than three years ago. | 38146604 |
This is the level, according to the Bank, "below which it cannot be set" - the lowest practicable official interest rate.
But on this important issue the website is behind the thinking of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, which sets Bank Rate as its main tool to keep inflation on target.
Because just over a month ago, the Bank's governor said that if low inflation were to begin to depress expectations of inflation and wage growth, the MPC could "cut Bank Rate further towards zero".
And with inflation well below the 2% target at zero, the Bank's chief economist, Andy Haldane, has said - as a personal rather than institutional view - that there is a meaningful chance that Bank Rate will be cut.
So what has happened to demonstrate to the Bank that 0.5% is not the practicable minimum?
Partly it is the example of central banks - the European Central Bank and those of Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark - whose official rates are negative: banks that place funds with them are having interest deducted from their deposits, rather than receiving interest.
Their rates are less than zero.
The other contributor to the fall in the effective lower bound is the recovery of Britain's banks.
This matters because the nearer Bank Rate approaches zero, the bigger the squeeze on the profits banks earn from borrowing and lending.
Think of it this way. Competition between banks should bring down the interest rate on loans when Bank Rate is cut towards zero. But savings rates would be kept by competition above zero.
So the gap between the interest rate paid and received by banks would narrow: the profits on this most basic of banking activities would fall.
Also the windfall received by banks from all those interest-free deposits the banks hold would be significantly cut.
The thing is that in March 2009 when Bank Rate was reduced to its record low of 0.5%, the Bank of England figured banks needed to rebuild their capital and strength by generating a certain level of profit on lending and borrowing.
So it matters that Mark Carney now reckons the banks can cope with the profit squeeze that would come from a reduction in Bank Rate.
That said, if the Monetary Policy Committee were to decide that a Bank Rate cut is necessary, the Bank could not be confident that all banks and building societies would sail on untroubled.
Small uncomplicated banks and building societies, very reliant on borrowing and lending rather than fees and revenue from other activities, might not look desperately viable.
Which carries an important industrial implication.
If the worst happened - deflation and prolonged economic stagnation - which necessitated years of zero or negative interest rates, it is difficult to see how the British tradition of "free" in-credit banking could survive (though proper deflation would have much more serious consequences than that). | The Bank of England's website says that the "effective lower bound" for the interest rate it sets, Bank Rate, is the current rate of 0.5%. | 32050654 |
His liberal PLDM party - in Moldova's ruling coalition - condemned the move as "purely political" and "a violation of his rights".
He was arrested on Thursday, suspected of involvement in the disappearance of $1bn (£646m) from three Moldovan banks.
The scandal has thrown Moldova into economic and political chaos.
In recent weeks thousands of people have protested in the centre of Moldova's capital Chisinau, demanding that the government and top civil servants resign.
The missing money is equivalent to an eighth of the ex-Soviet republic's entire GDP. Moldova is one of Europe's poorest countries.
The scandal caused a rapid fall in the value of the national currency, the leu, hitting Moldovans' living standards.
Mr Filat, leader of the PLDM, was initially detained for 72 hours, accused of theft from the state-run Banca de Economii. Earlier parliament had stripped him of immunity from prosecution. He denies wrongdoing.
Anti-government protesters welcomed his detention. One of their leaders, Renato Usaty, called it "our first victory".
Moldova's central bank has withdrawn the operating licences of Banca de Economii and two other banks - the private Banca Sociala and Unibank.
The scandal erupted in April, when the central bank found that the three banks had lent $1bn to unidentified beneficiaries.
The trail points to a UK-registered company, Fortuna United, which is a limited partnership made up of two Seychelles companies.
Fortuna United is named in a leaked report, by the New York-based corporate investigative agency Kroll, as the firm that is ultimately owed the entire proceeds of the Moldovan fraud.
Businessman Ilan Shor, a former chairman of Banca de Economii, has told prosecutors that Mr Filat received payments from the bank, Moldova's Infotag news agency reports.
Mr Shor denies involvement in a scheme to siphon off money from the banks. | A court has extended the detention of Moldova's former Prime Minister Vlad Filat for 30 days as his possible role in a $1bn banking scam is investigated. | 34569887 |
At Liverpool Magistrates' Court, Garron Helm, 21, admitted sending an offensive, indecent or obscene message.
He was ordered to pay an £80 victim surcharge after the judge upgraded the offence to one considered racially motivated.
Labour MP Ms Berger said the sentence "sent out a clear message".
The Liverpool Wavertree MP said: "Hate crime is not tolerated in our country.
"I hope this case serves as an encouragement to others to report hate crime whenever it rears its ugly head."
Helm, of Thomson Road, Litherland, Merseyside, sent the message in the early hours of the morning of 7 August.
It had been sent from a Twitter an account called "Aethelwulf", which means "Noble Wolf" in Old English, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.
The tweet was investigated by Merseyside Police's Cyber Intervention Unit and was traced back to Helm.
A search of his home revealed Nazi and far-right paraphernalia, the CPS said.
Helm was arrested and charged with sending an offensive message via a public communication network.
Claire Lindley, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "It is vital that the right to freedom of speech is upheld but this tweet was so grossly offensive that it crossed the threshold of criminality and was clearly targeted at Luciana Berger because of her religion.
"This is a religiously-aggravated hate crime and it won't be tolerated." | A man with links to an extremist right-wing group has been jailed for four weeks for sending an anti-Semitic tweet to Liverpool MP Luciana Berger. | 29695846 |
Tom Hiddleston has also been nominated for the best actor prize for the awards on 5 September.
Hiddleston's competition includes Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi and Peaky Blinders actor Cillian Murphy.
ITV's Marcella and the BBC's epic adaptation on War and Peace are also shortlisted in the new drama category.
Downton Abbey mirrors Peaky Blinders by being nominated in the best actor, best actress and best drama series categories.
Jim Carter and Laura Carmichael are singled out for their Downton contribution, while Helen McCrory is cited for her work in Blinders.
Doctor Foster's Suranne Jones and Happy Valley's Sarah Lancashire complete the line-up in the best actress category.
EastEnders and Emmerdale lead the field overall with five nominations apiece in the four soap-oriented categories.
Mary Berry makes two appearances in the shortlist, with The Great British Bake Off up for best talent show and her BBC Two series on Foolproof Cooking nominated in the food show category.
The best daytime show category, meanwhile, sees one BBC show - teatime quiz Pointless - ranged against three ITV offerings - The Chase, Loose Women and This Morning.
All the nominations for this year's awards, to be hosted in London by comedian Jo Brand, can be found on the TV Choice magazine's official website. | Hit spy drama The Night Manager and drama Doctor Foster are among the nominees for best new drama at the TV Choice awards. | 36649502 |
Three people have been convicted of child abuse at Shirley Oaks in Croydon that took place in the 1970s and 80s.
Survivors of abuse there believe Peter Davis, 15, found hanged there 38 years ago, may not have killed himself.
Lambeth Council has acknowledged "very serious historic failings" and apologised to those abused in its care.
Shirley Oaks, which closed in 1983, was an 80-acre site that included cottages where children in care were looked after by house mothers and fathers.
The site included a school, swimming pool, sick bay and playing fields.
Survivors of physical, sexual and emotional abuse, some of whom were taken into care as infants, have come forward with harrowing experiences.
But there is one specific matter about which they are demanding answers - the sudden death of 15-year-old Peter Davis in 1977.
He was found hanged in a toilet with a cord around his neck.
A coroner ruled it was "death by misadventure". There were signs of sexual activity.
Friends who grew up with him believe he had been targeted by paedophiles.
The BBC has learned Peter was a witness in a rape trial at the Old Bailey two years before he died.
Music producer Raymond Stevenson, who was physically abused at the children's home, and heads the Shirley Oaks Survivors' Association, said Peter's death seemed unresolved at the time.
"We weren't even invited to his funeral. We grew up with him as a brother," he said.
"And then at one moment he was taken away.
"There was no explanation and we never felt comfortable about it.
"Right now, having looked through the history of Shirley Oaks and how many paedophiles were operating there, it's quite clear that something untoward took place which has been covered up for years."
When the BBC looked for court documents from the time, we found that in 2003 they had been made secret for 100 years.
Former senior detective Clive Driscoll said reopening the case would be a "great opportunity for detective work".
He said: "I thought that was an opportunity maybe to put that forward to one of our murder review groups and give the opportunity for maybe a fresh pair of eyes to look at that case."
Chuka Umunna, Labour MP for Streatham, who has constituents who are Lambeth abuse survivors said: "The police should reopen the inquiry into Peter Davis' death.
"I understand there are certain rules and thresholds that apply to these things.
"But they [the police] themselves conceded the investigation that was originally carried out was of its time - that means it did not meet the standards that we would apply today.
"I don't think there is any reason why they shouldn't look into this again, and I think they owe it to the survivors' group to do so."
The Metropolitan Police said officers looked at available material relating to Peter's death in September 2014.
A statement said: "In the absence of further new witnesses or new lines of inquiry, the matter remains closed.
"If new witnesses are identified who are prepared to provide police with statements that challenge the recorded decision then an assessment of that material will be undertaken."
Lambeth Council said it was "supporting the Shirley Oaks Survivors' Association in their campaign to identify further victims and offering counselling to those who have not already received it but feel they would now benefit". | Former residents of a children's home in south London targeted by paedophiles have called for an investigation into a boy's death in 1977 to be reopened. | 34648935 |
The game, to be played at Everton's Goodison Park on 3 September, will feature two teams managed by model Katie Price and boxer Tony Bellew.
Players will include ex-Everton stars Peter Beardsley and Alan Stubbs, former Sunderland left-back Micky Gray and singer-songwriter Olly Murs.
Sunderland fan Bradley died from a rare type of cancer aged six.
The players, who also include X-Factor winner turned Coronation Street actor Shayne Ward and Steps star Lee Latchford-Evans, will line up for either Bradley's Blues or The Lowery Legends.
Evertonians formed a special bond with the youngster, initially during Everton's match at Sunderland in September 2016 and then when he was a guest at Goodison Park for two matches in January and February this year.
Ex-Everton player and club ambassador Graham Stuart said the game would be "a chance to celebrate Bradley's life" and raise money for the Bradley Lowery Foundation.
The charity was set up after the youngster's death to help other young children suffering illness.
Former Black Cats and Toffees player Don Hutchison added: "I've been privileged to play for both sides and I couldn't think of two better sets of fans to play in front of, for young Bradley." | TV stars will join former footballers for a celebrity charity match in memory of Bradley Lowery. | 40936212 |
The visitors took a surprise half-time lead with a header from former Bayern youth striker Sandro Wagner.
Muller converted Rafinha's cross early in the second half, before scoring spectacularly from Arturo Vidal's chip.
Robert Lewandowski struck late on to give Bayern the win ahead of Tuesday's Champions League trip to Juventus.
Pep Guardiola had thoughts of the round-of-16 first-leg visit to Turin as he named a team without captain Philipp Lahm, who was rested.
Bayern dominated possession and had 36 attempts at goal - the highest by any team in a single Bundesliga match this season.
Darmstadt keeper Christian Mathenia, though, made a series of excellent saves, while Vidal and Kingsley Coman both hit the bar with deflected first-half shots.
Guardiola, though, will be pleased with the way his team responded to trailing at half-time - and even though they had to wait until 19 minutes from the end to go in front, their victory was pretty comfortable in the end.
Borussia Dortmund, in second place, will seek to cut Bayern's lead when they visit fourth-placed Bayer Leverkusen on Sunday.
Germany international Muller was the catalyst for Bayern's second-half revival with two excellent finishes.
His first was clinical - controlling and firing past keeper Mathenia three minutes after half-time - while his second was wonderful.
Muller had his back to goal when Vidal's diagonal chip reached him, but he somehow fashioned an overhead kick that left the goalkeeper helpless.
That laid the platform for Bayern to secure the win, with the prolific Lewandowski - who had earlier seen a goal ruled out for offside - touching in Franck Ribery's pass with six minutes to go.
The visitors, who are just above the relegation zone, came out of the game with great credit, having been without five players serving one-match bans.
Those suspensions had caused a degree of controversy in the build-up, with coach Dirk Schuster dismissing suggestions that his players had got booked deliberately so they could serve their bans against Bayern and be back for next weekend's important trip to relegation rivals Werder Bremen.
Schuster could be encouraged with the spirit his side showed, and they gave Bayern a fright by taking the lead with their first shot on goal, as Wagner headed in Sandro Sirigu's cross.
Hoffenheim's new 28-year-old manager Julian Nagelsmann picked up his first win since taking charge nine days ago, as his side increased their survival chances by beating Mainz 3-2.
Mark Uth scored twice to leave Nagelsmann's team just two points below the relegation play-off spot, occupied by Werder Bremen, who lost 2-0 at Ingolstadt.
Hertha Berlin moved above Bayer Leverkusen into third, as former Chelsea forward Salomon Kalou struck an equaliser in a 1-1 draw at home to Wolfsburg.Borussia Monchengladbach are fifth after beating Cologne 1-0.
Match ends, FC Bayern München 3, SV Darmstadt 98 1.
Second Half ends, FC Bayern München 3, SV Darmstadt 98 1.
Substitution, SV Darmstadt 98. Benjamin Gorka replaces Fabian Holland.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Christian Mathenia.
Attempt saved. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! FC Bayern München 3, SV Darmstadt 98 1. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Franck Ribéry.
Foul by Franck Ribéry (FC Bayern München).
Júnior Díaz (SV Darmstadt 98) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Xabi Alonso replaces Arjen Robben.
Attempt missed. Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Franck Ribéry.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Christian Mathenia.
Attempt saved. Douglas Costa (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Juan Bernat with a cross.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Júnior Díaz.
Attempt saved. Sandro Wagner (SV Darmstadt 98) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, SV Darmstadt 98. Marco Sailer replaces Sandro Sirigu.
Foul by Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München).
Tobias Kempe (SV Darmstadt 98) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Goal! FC Bayern München 2, SV Darmstadt 98 1. Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Arturo Vidal.
Attempt saved. Tobias Kempe (SV Darmstadt 98) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sandro Wagner.
Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sandro Wagner (SV Darmstadt 98).
Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sandro Wagner (SV Darmstadt 98).
Offside, FC Bayern München. Thomas Müller tries a through ball, but Franck Ribéry is caught offside.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Fabian Holland.
Attempt blocked. Douglas Costa (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Rafinha.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Luca Caldirola.
Attempt blocked. Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Franck Ribéry.
Rafinha (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sandro Wagner (SV Darmstadt 98).
Attempt saved. Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Juan Bernat.
Rafinha (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Fabian Holland (SV Darmstadt 98).
Offside, FC Bayern München. Juan Bernat tries a through ball, but Franck Ribéry is caught offside.
Substitution, SV Darmstadt 98. Jan Rosenthal replaces Mario Vrancic.
Offside, FC Bayern München. Arturo Vidal tries a through ball, but Robert Lewandowski is caught offside.
Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sandro Wagner (SV Darmstadt 98).
Attempt missed. David Alaba (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Rafinha.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Luca Caldirola. | Thomas Muller's two goals - including a stunning overhead kick - helped Bayern Munich go 11 points clear at the top of the Bundesliga as they beat Darmstadt. | 35622613 |
9 June 2015 Last updated at 16:18 BST
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The 27 EU leaders unanimously agreed on Saturday the guidelines issued in March by European Council President Donald Tusk.
In a letter to the leaders of the EU-27 ahead of the summit, Mr Tusk wrote that progress on "people, money and Ireland" must come before negotiations on the EU's future relationship with the UK.
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Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Enda Kenny hailed the outcome of the summit in Brussels as "a huge endorsement of the government's approach to the Brexit negotiations and a clear recognition of the unique and specific challenges facing Ireland".
Mr Kenny said the declaration on Irish unity, in which the EU affirmed that in the event of a successful referendum on a united Ireland, Northern Ireland would automatically rejoin the EU, was hugely important.
"It is important to provide reassurance that it does not undermine any provision in the Good Friday Agreement, and if the provision on unity by peaceful means and by consent and democratic means is invoked at some time in future, EU membership is assured, and is now unanimously accepted by the European Council to endorse that legal base," he said.
"Let me be clear, this is not about triggering any mechanism. I've been very consistent in my view that the conditions for a referendum do not currently exist. But an acknowledgement of the principle of the potential within the Good Friday Agreement is hugely important."
The UK's Brexit Secretary David Davis had previously said that in the event of such a vote, Northern Ireland could become "part of an existing EU member state".
Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald said EU leaders were helping to create a united Ireland.
"We welcome the fact that European leaders have recognised the provision within Good Friday (agreement) to end partition and to create a united Ireland," she said.
"We welcome the fact that a reunified Ireland would in its entirety automatically fall within the European Union.
"We think that that is logical and fair and we welcome the fact that European leaders have said that now out loud."
Talks with the UK will begin after the general election on 8 June. The deadline for completing the negotiations is 29 March 2019.
Former First Minister Lord Trimble said the issue of tariffs would be important in whether or not there would be a hard border after Brexit and said there may need to be a change in EU law.
"If there are tariffs and under existing EU law a member state who has part of the EU's external border has to put in place on that border appropriate installations to enable them to monitor the movement of that border," he said.
"If on the basis of where we're going, if there are tariffs, then it becomes a hardish border and it comes so by virtue of EU law."
The separation talks will seek to agree the rights of EU citizens living in the UK, as well as Britons living in the EU, plus a settlement for the UK's financial obligations as an EU member state. A deal must also be agreed to avoid a hard border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, Mr Tusk wrote.
However, the UK government has said made clear that it want talks on trade relations to run in parallel with the separation negotiations.
EU officials estimate that the UK faces a bill of €60bn (£51bn; $65bn) because of EU budget rules. UK politicians have said the government will not pay a sum of that size. | European Union leaders have said they want to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland as part of its Brexit negotiating guidelines with the UK. | 39757467 |
The three nations were given full-time seats on the International Cricket Council's (ICC) decision-making executive committee in January 2014.
However, that decision was reversed at a meeting in Dubai on Thursday.
ICC chairman and India board president Shashank Manohar said: "No member of the ICC is bigger than the other."
Manohar, who replaced Narayanaswami Srinivasan at both the Board of Control for Cricket in India and the ICC, was among critics who said the 'Big Three' would take over the sport at the expense of other nations.
He has promised "a complete review" of the constitution and will be in charge of a five-member steering group which will look to put together recommendations to proposed changes at the ICC's annual conference in June this year.
"I am determined to make a meaningful contribution in this regard with support of all the members," Manohar said before adding the ICC chairman would not be allowed to hold a position in a member country board in future.
Meanwhile, the ICC has also reinstated Sri Lanka as a full member after the country held elections last month to appoint a new organisation to run the sport.
Sri Lanka had previously been sanctioned for government interference. | The power of England, Australia and India in world cricket is to be reduced as part of reform measures introduced by the sport's governing body. | 35493755 |
Ferrari, with Sebastian Vettel 0.242 seconds slower than Raikkonen, turned the tables on Mercedes after Hamilton set the pace in both Friday sessions.
Hamilton was 0.381 seconds slower than Raikkonen, with Bottas a further 0.273secs off after engine problems.
The Finn missed three-quarters of the session as Mercedes changed his engine.
The team discovered a water leak in the new engine that had been allocated for Bottas this weekend and needed to replace it with the one he used in the first four races. Bottas got out at the end of the session for one run.
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Vettel also ran into engine problems at the end of the session - the German, who is leading the championship by 13 points, stopped in the pit lane when heading out for a final run and had to be pushed back to the garage.
Ferrari said there was "no real engine issue, but we are replacing some parts precautionally" before qualifying, which starts at 13:00 BST.
Red Bull's Max Verstappen was fifth quickest from team-mate Daniel Ricciardo, the Dutchman who won this race last year just 0.157secs off Bottas and 0.654secs slower than Raikkonen, apparently confirming that the team have made a significant step towards the pace with an upgrade for this race.
But Mercedes have the most dramatic-looking modifications, with a series of new aerodynamic parts in the front half of the car.
The silver cars dominated Friday running, fastest on both one lap and with an even more of an advantage on the long runs, on which teams simulate race pace.
Renault's Nico Hulkenberg took seventh, 0.645secs off the Red Bulls and ahead of Williams' Felipe Massa, Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz and McLaren's Fernando Alonso.
The Spaniard was just 1.879secs off the pace, a much better start to the day for McLaren and engine partner Honda than on Friday, when Alonso suffered a massive engine failure on his very first lap out of the pits.
Afterwards, the Spaniard brushed off an attempt by Honda F1 boss Yusuke Hasegawa to talk to him, as his frustrations with Honda's under-performance mount. | Kimi Raikkonen headed a Ferrari one-two in final practice at the Spanish Grand Prix with Lewis Hamilton third quickest for Mercedes. | 39907064 |
The Strictly Prom, on 21 July, will be hosted by BBC Radio 3's Katie Derham, a finalist in last year's show.
Bowie will be honoured with a late-night Prom on 29 July, featuring Amanda Palmer and Anna Calvi, amongst others.
And the festival will temporarily abscond its home at the Royal Albert Hall for a concert in a car park.
Taking place in Peckham, south-east London, the open-air show will feature Christopher Stark and the Multi-Storey Orchestra performing works by minimalist composer Steve Reich.
The Proms' new director David Pickard said previous concerts at the venue, a disused municipal garage, had been "very exciting" and a departure from type of venues that typically host classical concerts.
"The demographic is completely unlike anything I've ever seen," he told BBC News, adding that the aim of his inaugural year was to present "the best of classical music to the widest possible audience".
Elsewhere, the Proms will pay tribute to French conductor and composer Pierre Boulez, who died in January aged 90.
The Ensemble Intercontemporain, which he founded, will present a programme of pieces he conducted during more than 40 years of appearances at the Proms on 2 September.
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Explore the full line-up on the BBC Proms website
The Bowie Prom is billed as a "celebration and reinterpretation" of the star's music "from right across the spectrum", overseen by Berlin-based collective s t a r g a z e.
"Bowie is one of those people who had a tremendous influence on musicians of all kinds," said Pickard. "I wanted to celebrate that and show just how versatile and extraordinary a song-maker he was."
The Strictly Prom will feature waltzes, foxtrots and tangos, as well as several of the professional dancers from the BBC One show.
"The music will be to the fore - but with lots of spangly things," said Radio 3's controller Alan Davey.
This year's festival includes more than 90 concerts, culminating in the world-famous Last Night on 10 September.
The grand finale will turn the spotlight on young musicians, with the Proms Youth Ensemble premiering a new work by Tom Harold, one of the winners of the BBC's young composers competition.
The concert will also feature Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez, alongside the traditional performances of Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance and Rule, Britannia!
Although the Last Night is traditionally raucous, last year saw scenes reminiscent of a rock concert, as audience members threw underwear at German singer Jonas Kauffman.
"Will people throw throw their knickers at the front [again]? I suppose they might do," said Pickard. "But, you know, you're asking for it if you put Jonas Kauffman on stage on the Last Night."
"Bu look, the Last Night, as we all know, people get excited and it's a party atmosphere but what we tried to do with the Last Night this year is [have] the party atmosphere start in the second half, not right at the beginning."
More than 100,000 tickets for this year's festival will be available for £12.50 or less, although the price of the cheapest ticket has risen from £5 to £6.
Pickard said that, despite budget cuts across the BBC, the Proms had had its funding protected. The event costs £10 million to stage, half of which comes from the licence fee, with the rest raised via ticket sales.
All of the concerts will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3, with 26 filmed for television or iPlayer. Television coverage will be limited to Saturday nights during the Olympic Games in August, but a week-long series of concerts will be broadcast on BBC Four immediately after the games. | The BBC Proms, Britain's annual celebration of classical music, is to include music by David Bowie and a Strictly Come Dancing theme night. | 36034555 |
Sprint rider Varnish, 25, was dropped in April after failing to qualify in the team sprint for the Rio Games through the World Championships.
She later said she was the victim of sexist comments from technical director Shane Sutton, who has since resigned.
"I maintain that I am a world-class athlete and have the ability to win more medals," she said.
Australian Sutton, 58, has rejected accusations of using sexist and discriminatory language towards elite cyclists.
Varnish said she plans to meet new GB performance director Andy Harrison when she returns from training in Australia.
She also said she had spoken with British Cycling and UK Sport, offering her full support in their respective investigations into allegations of sexism in the sport.
Varnish, who has won sprint medals at World, European and Commonwealth championships since 2011, claims that, during the two-year Olympic qualifying process, she:
She added: "I still maintain that the decision not to renew my contract was not down to performance.
"Prior to the 2016 World Championships, I was not once told that I was underperforming.
"The first I knew that the coaches had an issue with my performance levels, or training data, was five days after the 2016 World Championships, when I was told I wouldn't be getting a new contract over the phone.
"It has been a dream for me ever since London 2012 to compete and be successful in Rio." | Jess Varnish says she hopes to regain her place on the Great Britain cycling team for the 2016 Olympic Games. | 36309473 |
Speaking on LCI television, government spokesman Christophe Castaner said he could not confirm or deny that 3 July had already been chosen as the date.
The National Assembly and the Senate normally meet in Paris.
The last two occasions on which they gathered at Versailles were at times of national crisis.
In 2009, the then President, Nicolas Sarkozy, addressed a congress at the height of the global financial and banking crisis, while in November 2015, Francois Hollande convened a session after the attacks by Islamic State militants on Paris.
Mr Macron's centrist party, La République en Marche (LREM), won an overall majority in the National Assembly at elections this month.
He has promised sweeping reforms planned to revive France's economy, from simplifying labour laws to lowering unemployment and cutting corporation tax from 33% to 25%.
He chose Versailles, the sumptuous former palace of France's kings, to host Russian President Vladimir Putin on a visit last month. | The new French President, Emmanuel Macron, is considering convening a joint session of parliament in the palace of Versailles, a spokesman said. | 40399180 |
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The 32-year-old, who had an outstanding Euro 2016, is a free agent after leaving Hamilton Academical at the end of last season.
Southampton were reported to be keen to sign McGovern but he is expected to finalise a deal with Norwich this week.
The keeper had previously worked under Norwich boss Alex Neil at Hamilton.
John Ruddy and Declan Rudd are the current senior keepers at Carrow Road.
McGovern, from County Fermanagh, played in Northern Ireland's four matches at the European Championships.
He earned rave reviews for a remarkable display when Northern Ireland restricted Germany to a 1-0 victory in Paris, a result good enough to send Michael O'Neill's men into the knockout stages.
As well as Southampton, Burnley were also reported to be interested in signing McGovern.
Neil last week helped his former club replace McGovern, who rejected a new contract, by sending goalkeeper Remi Matthews to Accies on loan for the season. | Championship club Norwich City have emerged as the favourites to sign Northern Ireland goalkeeper Michael McGovern. | 36823787 |
Marta Galikowska, 27, was found dead with daughters Maja, five, and Olga, one, at Sherwin Road, Stoke-on-Trent.
She had seen mental health workers in the days before their deaths, in October last year.
Stoke-on-Trent's Safeguarding Children Board said it had reviewed how workers relayed information.
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An inquest on 9 December heard Mrs Galikowska became depressed after mistakenly believing a lump in her eldest daughter's neck was cancerous, despite reassurance from doctors.
The coroner concluded the girls died from stab wounds and were unlawfully killed by their mother, whose death was recorded as suicide. All three were found dead on 12 October, 2014.
The serious case review reported that on Friday 3 October, 2014 Mrs Galikowska, a Polish national, was seen by a GP with husband Marcin, who made the appointment after becoming concerned about his wife's mental state.
After Mrs Galikowska admitted having thoughts about killing herself and her children, the GP referred her to mental health professionals and told her they should contact her later that day.
The doctor was told "urgent referrals service-users will be contacted within four hours", the review said.
But, neither the GP nor the call taker referred the case to children's social care and as a result professionals did not visit the family until Sunday 5 October.
The serious case review concluded this referral should have been made and the case would then have been "treated correctly" as a child protection investigation.
Further telephone calls were made on 6 October, but after a surprise visit on 7 October the mother's mental health was not judged to have deteriorated and the mental health service announced it was closing the case two days later.
The review criticised the "extremely concerning" delay between the GP's referral and mental health workers visiting the family and described further telephone calls in place of home visits as "poor practice".
"There is a pattern in Stoke-on-Trent of professionals making assumptions about other teams/agencies' roles, responses and remit, which can leave families vulnerable and both professionals and families with false expectations," it said.
However, the review acknowledged "without the benefit of hindsight it is understandable" mental health workers did not believe the children were in immediate danger because of Mrs Galikowska's behaviour and her husband's support at visits.
John Wood, chairman of the Stoke-on-Trent Safeguarding Children Board, said improvements had been made since the Galikowska case, including establishing a 24-hour mental health and social care access team.
"The devastating events united a whole community in grief and have been treated with the utmost seriousness by the city council, the police, health and other public services," he said. | A woman who killed her two children before herself should have had a faster response from agencies after she talked of harming them, a review found. | 35125400 |
The 28-year-old agreed a four-year extension with Perpignan in 2013, but has activated a get-out clause after their relegation from France's Top 14.
Hook, who has 75 international caps, started his career at Neath before a five-year spell with Ospreys.
Although a versatile back, he prefers the number 10 position and is likely to fill the gap left at Kingsholm by Leicester-bound Freddie Burns.
"I would like to thank everyone at Perpignan for the past three years, which have been memorable," Hook told the Gloucester website.
"It's very disappointing to see the side relegated, but I'm sure they will bounce right back and I sincerely hope they do so.
"However, I'm absolutely delighted to be embarking upon the next exciting phase of my career as a Gloucester Rugby player."
Hook is the sixth international to join Gloucester for next season, following New Zealand prop John Afoa, Argentina lock Mariano Galarza, Wales hooker Richard Hibbard,Scotland scrum-half Greig Laidlaw and England lock Tom Palmer.
However, the Cherry and Whites have yet to announce who will take charge of the squad following the sacking of director of rugby Nigel Davies last month.
Hook, who was called-up to the 2009 British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa, had also been linked with newly-promoted French side Lyon, as well as a return to Ospreys.
"I was fortunate to have a number of options, but what stood out for me when I spoke to Stephen Vaughan was how much Gloucester wanted me to be part of their plans," he said.
"They have huge ambitions and made it clear to me the role they wanted me to play in that.
"The talent in the squad is terrific, the training facilities are top notch and it's a wonderful area for myself and my family to settle in." | Gloucester have signed Wales back James Hook on an undisclosed-length deal. | 27671005 |
The agreement protects small savers but depositors with more than 100,000 euros ($130,000; £85,000), many of whom are Russian, face big losses.
Laiki Bank - the country's second largest - will be wound up.
Finance minister Michael Sarris said Cyprus had avoided a "disastrous exit from the eurozone".
In a televised address on Monday evening, President Nicos Anastasiades - who negotiated the deal with the "troika" of the EU, the European Central Bank and the IMF in Brussels - said the agreement was "painful" but the best option under the circumstances.
"I understand your anger," he said.
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To qualify for the bailout, Cyprus has to raise 5.8bn euros.
Mr Anastasiades said the agreed measures would be put into practice over the next few days and he called for all Cypriots to work together.
He said the central bank would impose some limited "capital controls" to prevent an outflow of money when banks reopened.
Laiki Bank and the Bank of Cyprus - the country's two biggest - will remain closed until Thursday, but all others will reopen on Tuesday after being closed for more than a week, Cyprus's central bank said.
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany - which pushed for terms of the deal - said the cost of the bailout had been fairly distributed.
"We do not want taxpayers to save banks, banks must save themselves," she said.
"This is what will happen in the case of Cyprus."
Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem - who chairs the Eurogroup of finance ministers - said the rescue represented a new template for dealing with bank crises in the eurozone, with uninsured depositors bearing some of the cost.
As global markets fell following his remarks, Mr Dijsselbloem issued a clarification, saying Cyprus was a "specific case with exceptional challenges".
Earlier, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said losses imposed on big depositors - many of them Russian - amounted to "stealing".
"What is going on around Cyprus is that they are continuing to plunder loot there," Mr Medvedev said.
"It is necessary to understand where this story will lead, and what its consequences will be for the international financial system and our interests," he added.
Suspicion has been growing in Russia that Europe is using the crisis to target Russian money in Cyprus, the BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow says.
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Nonetheless, President Vladimir Putin has told Russian officials to restructure a 2.5bn-euro loan extended to Cyprus in 2011 in order to support the restructuring effort.
The European Central Bank had set a deadline of Monday for the deal, which came a week after the Cypriot parliament rejected a proposed bank levy on small and large deposits.
The levy would have taken 6.75% from small savers and 9.9% from larger investors and caused widespread anger among ordinary savers.
On Friday the new bank restructuring plan was passed by Cypriot MPs. No further vote is needed as there is no levy on deposits under 100,000 euros, which are insured under EU deposit guarantee rules.
However, the Memorandum of Understanding between Cyprus and the EU - the formal agreement that triggers eurozone bailouts - will probably require the Cypriot parliament's approval, according to the Open Europe think tank.
A "no" vote at that stage could still put Cyprus's eurozone membership at risk.
Cypriot government spokesman Christos Stylianides said the deal had prevented a "disorderly" exit from the euro.
"The important thing is that we have reached an agreement that allows us to kick-start the economy and lay the groundwork for a new beginning," he said in a statement.
IMF head Christine Lagarde said the bailout deal agreed was "a comprehensive and credible plan" to help restore trust in the banking system.
There will be relief in Cyprus that small depositors have been protected, but the deal comes at a heavy price, BBC correspondents say.
The economy is expected to shrink sharply as offshore banking - Cyprus's main industry - is effectively shut down.
The chairman of the Cypriot parliament's finance committee, Nicholas Papadopolous, said the agreement made "no economic sense".
"We are heading for a deep recession, high unemployment. They wanted to send a message that the Cypriot economy ought to be destroyed, and they've succeeded in a large part - they've destroyed our banking sector," he told the BBC.
Under the agreement, Laiki will be split into "good" and "bad" banks, with its good assets eventually merged into Bank of Cyprus.
The percentages to be raised from uninsured deposits of more than 100,000 euros in Laiki bank and in Bank of Cyprus have not yet been announced.
Mr Stylianides said the figure could be "around 30%" for uninsured Bank of Cyprus deposits. Other estimates have put the figure at about 40%.
Correspondents say Germany has pushed hard for a levy on investors who have benefited from high interest rates in recent years, rejecting a Cypriot plan to use money from pension funds.
A Cypriot attempt to secure Russian help was unsuccessful. | The government of Cyprus has defended a 10bn-euro bailout deal to save its banks from collapse, amid warnings the island faces deep recession. | 21928277 |
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