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Two protesters abseiled down Parliament House in Canberra, unfurling a banner saying "close the bloody camps now".
Australia sends asylum seekers who arrive by boat to offshore detention centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
The government believes the policy prevents deaths at sea, but critics argue it is inhumane.
On Thursday, 13 more demonstrators held placards in a pond they dyed red to symbolise blood.
Last month, the Australian government rejected a human rights report comparing its asylum seeker camp on Nauru to an open-air prison.
The protest banners on Thursday called for an end to offshore detention and the controversial policy of boat turnbacks. The demonstration lasted about two hours.
The same protest group, Whistleblowers Activists and Citizens Alliance, was responsible for forcing the suspension of parliament for 40 minutes on Wednesday.
In heated scenes, the group of about 30 demonstrators shouted the detention policy was "separating families" and "killing innocent people".
Security guards used hand sanitiser to remove six protesters who glued their hands to a railing in the public gallery.
"We are here today because you have become world leaders in cruelty," the protesters said.
The asylum-seeker policies are supported by both the government and the Labor opposition. The issue has highly polarised public sentiment, with the majority agreeing with the government's position.
Both major parties condemned the interruption on Wednesday.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten thanked security staff for their handling of the demonstration.
"The reason why the Labor Party stayed in here today is because we will never give in to those who wish to shut down this parliament," he said.
"This is the exact opposite of democracy."
However, Greens MP Adam Bandt praised the protesters for their actions.
"Question Time brought to a halt as peaceful protesters hold MPs to account demanding gov #CloseTheCamps. Brave. Powerful. Proud," he wrote on Twitter.
It comes two weeks after Australia and the US reached a resettlement deal for asylum seekers held in Papua New Guinea and Nauru. | Protesters campaigning against the Australian government's treatment of asylum seekers have breached parliament security for a second day. | 38165762 |
Hill led 2-0 and 4-3 before eventually losing 5-4 to O'Sullivan in the German Masters qualifiers played in Barnsley.
Wednesday's match was O'Sullivan's first since losing Sunday's UK Championship final in York.
The 20-year-old world number 91 said taking O'Sullivan to a decider is a "great step forward" in his career.
For the past 12 months the Isle of Man's only professional player has been battling with an inflammatory bowel disease called ulcerative colitis.
He admits his battle has been "extremely difficult".
Symptoms can include diarrhoea, pain, anaemia, fatigue and sometimes inflammation of the joints, skin, liver and eyes.
"All I was thinking before I went on was to just get a frame and not disgrace myself but I took the first and felt good from there.
"It was a great feeling after having a difficult few months and even last week I was advised not to travel to this."
Born in Leeds, Hill has lived on the Isle of Man since he was six and turned professional after winning the European under-21 title whilst representing the island.
He continued: "At 2-0 up I was starting to fancy the job and it helped that I was just enjoying every minute of it.
"I knew Ronnie wouldn't be geared up the same as for the UK final but as the match progressed it was becoming more serious.
"Even though I only lost 5-4 looking back I am a little disappointed I didn't finish the job as it was a good chance to beat Ronnie."
Hill's next match will be against English Open winner Liang Wenbo at the Scottish open. | The Isle of Man's Darryl Hill came within one frame of a memorable victory over five-time world snooker champion Ronnie O'Sullivan. | 38249098 |
The scheme has been led by the Mourne Heritage Trust and the money comes from the Landscape Partnership programme which helps to protect treasured landscapes.
Meanwhile, £1,040,200, is going towards the Ring of Gullion area in Armagh.
The news has been welcomed by Environment Minister Alex Attwood.
"This is great news for two of our most prized landscapes, Mourne and the Ring of Gullion, both of which are designated Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty," he said.
"It is clear evidence of the growing recognition that investing in our natural and built heritage can produce very significant community benefits as well as a sound economic return."
Head of Heritage Lottery Fund Northern Ireland Paul Mullan said he was delighted at the news.
"The Mournes are one of the most iconic landscapes of such natural beauty we cherish in Northern Ireland," he said.
"They are subject to a high number of designations for their heritage value such as Special Area of Conservation (SAC), Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) and contain some of Europe's most important tracts of upland heath.
"This scheme will ensure long-term management, promising long-term benefits for the local communities, visitors to the Mournes and to the heritage of this magnificent landscape."
Martin Carey of the Mourne Heritage Trust said the funding would "celebrate and significantly enhance the conservation of our natural, built and cultural heritage".
Thirty individual projects make up the Landscape Conservation Action Plan which covers an area of 223km².
Among the plan's objectives are encouraging healthy heathland; caring for walls and monuments; making recreation sustainable; developing trails with tales; getting people around the Mournes; participative research and learning and sharing stories. | One of Northern Ireland's main tourist attractions, the Mourne Mountains, have received £1.5m from the Heritage Lottery fund. | 19005741 |
Only 49.8% of them are educated to chemistry degree standard - which is the worst figure in the UK.
In response, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) launched a campaign on Wednesday to give students in Wales a world class science education.
The organisation is campaigning for the Welsh government to raise standards by 2020.
The RSC wants every chemistry pupil over 14 to be taught by a specialist teacher and all primary schools to have access to one.
"I was really lucky to have specialist chemistry teachers at my comprehensive school and tertiary college in Swansea," said the RSC's Jon Edwards.
"But many Welsh science students don't have that luck, their teachers need more support to be confident and knowledgeable about chemistry.
"Otherwise wise we risk falling even further behind both the rest of the UK and many countries around the world."
The Welsh government said it has introduced financial incentives to attract students to teaching science.
A spokesman said: "We want to support and encourage our best graduates to train to teach in Wales.
"That's why we've put in place new financial incentives of up to £20,000 for top postgraduate students who want to train to teach priority subjects such as maths, physics and chemistry in Wales.
"These incentives will continue to strengthen the quality of initial teacher training in Wales by encouraging the most talented graduates with high level subject specialism to enter teaching." | Fewer than half of chemistry teachers in Welsh secondary schools have degrees in the subject, it has been revealed. | 30299851 |
Players had reacted angrily to the charges on the social news site Reddit.
In-app purchases can be made in the free-to-play game but the use of "lawnmowers" had been free.
The aim of the game is to stop an advancing line of zombies by putting plants in their way and using lawnmowers to get rid of them.
Electronic Arts had already faced criticism for its in-app purchase system in another game, Dungeon Keeper.
Writing on Reddit, Plants vs Zombies fan sketchampm said that the game had been "fundamentally changed" by the new charges.
"It's not like a level or a part of the game is missing, no, a part of the inherent gameplay itself is gone and if you want it back you're going to have to pay for it," he said.
Players are given five "lawnmowers" at the start of each level to use as a last ditch attempt to get rid of the zombies. Once each one has been used it is unavailable until the level is restarted or you move to a next level but in a recent update users noticed that they would now have to pay a fee to get their lawnmowers back.
In a statement to tech news site Ars Technica a spokesman for PopCap - the game's developers - said: "We are always testing new features in Plants vs. Zombies 2. The lawnmower feature noted by some players was part of a small-scale test and is now over."
EA has since released another update for Plants vs Zombies which has removed the charges for lawnmowers.
The first version of the game cost users money to download but the current one was released in 2013 as a free download.
Mobile analyst at IHS Insight Jack Kent said that users can be reluctant to pay upfront for a game if they don't know what they are paying for so in-app charges become more important.
"For smartphone and tablet developers in-app purchases are the dominant business model, 80% of revenue is made this way," he said.
"Mobile games are still evolving but it's not a business model that's going to go away. Different customers are happy to spend different amounts but the challenge is not to alienate users," he added.
But one user commenting on gaming website Gamezone thinks players of free-to-play games should stop complaining about in-app purchases (IAPs).
"Their mentality nowadays is that if they couldn't purchase any IAPs they wouldn't be able to complete the game. The only reason you can't finish Plants vs Zombies 2 is because of a lack of skill not a lack of depth of your own wallets." | The company behind the popular Plants vs Zombies mobile game has said that the introduction of a charge for a previously free item was just a "test". | 26172424 |
Mark Drakeford said it was "not a sensible course of action", saying the UK government should pay any increase.
A nurses' leader warned the 1% limit was "forcing workers into poverty".
The UK government said its policy was "designed to be fair" but added the Welsh Government was responsible for pay in most devolved public services.
Public sector wages have been frozen or capped at a 1% annual increase rise since 2010.
The Welsh government could deviate from the UK government's policy but without additional funding from the Treasury it would have to find the money from its existing budget.
It said the cost of increasing public sector wages by an additional 1% would be about £110m with £60m needed for the Welsh NHS alone.
Mr Drakeford told the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme: "It's not a sensible course of action for me to spend Welsh money where UK government money ought to be spent.
"The way we will do it is to put pressure on the UK government and to say, 'now is the time to do this, lift the cap and give us the money so we can do that in Wales'."
As for a Scottish government pledge to scrap the cap, Mr Drakeford said: "They've always had more money at their disposal than we do here."
Neil Evans is an A&E nurse at the Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend, with 16 years' experience.
"I've taken a second job on a health care bank with another health board and I do shifts just to pay the bills, to get through every month," he says.
"And that's what I'm finding a lot of my colleagues are doing - they're doing what they can to survive every month.
"We shouldn't have to do it - we work full time, we've come out of university with degrees.
"I have seriously considered packing it in and taking a job in a supermarket or somewhere less stressful."
However, Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood called on the Welsh Government to lift the cap on public sector workers in Wales starting with Welsh NHS staff.
"If it's a priority for Labour UK-wide it should be a priority for Labour in Wales," she said.
"We've estimated the cost of this to be around £60m. In a budget of £15bn, that can be found - if it's a political priority."
The British Medical Association - which represents doctors - has backed Ms Wood's call.
But Tina Donnelly, the Royal College of Nursing's director in Wales, said: "It's not for devolved administrations to say 'we're going to remove the cap' because they can't afford it."
She said the average nurse had lost £3,000 from their annual salary as a result of the pay cap.
"It's forcing public sector workers into poverty," she said.
"We see nurses who are working frontline in the NHS on their days off taking on bank and agency work to make ends meet or going to food banks.
"That is just absolutely deplorable."
On Wednesday, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss defended the cap, saying: "Government pay policy is designed to be fair to public sector workers, who work so hard to deliver these strong public services, but we must also ensure that we are able to provide those public services on a sustainable basis for the future."
A UK government spokesman added: "The Welsh Government decides public sector pay policy for devolved public services in Wales including health.
"They have an increasing number of powers under the Wales Act to decide more tax and spending policies and support their priorities."
Sunday Politics Wales, BBC One Wales, Sunday 9 July, 11:00 BST | The public sector pay cap for workers in Wales should not be scrapped using Welsh Government money, the finance secretary has said. | 40531031 |
Widnes were 18-6 up after 30 minutes with tries from Aaron Heremaia, Lloyd White and Chris Houston, James Saltonstall replying for the hosts.
Adam Robinson crossed just before half-time for Halifax, who levelled with Miles Greenwood's try after the break.
But Charly Runciman and Jay Chapelow scored late on to send Widnes through.
Halifax head coach Richard Marshall: "A few calls didn't go our way, and there were a couple of forward passes in a couple of the build-ups to one, possibly two tries.
"It's tough to lose because I thought we were the better team."
Widnes head coach Denis Betts: "It wasn't as comfortable as I wanted it to be, but it was all the things we expected.
"I am happy but relieved at the same time because it was a very tough encounter."
Halifax: Greenwood; Sharp, Smeaton, Tyrer, Saltonstall; C. Robinson, Murrell; Bennion, B. Moore, Tangata, Manning, Heaton, Fairbank.
Replacements: Johnston, Kaye, R. Moore, A. Robinson.
Widnes: Hanbury, Thompson, Runciman, Dean, Chamberlain, Mellor, Heremaia, Cahill, White, Dudson, Houston, Sa, Leuluai.
Replacements: Manuokafoa, Whitley, J. Chapelhow, Johnstone.
Referee: Mike Woodhead | Super League side Widnes Vikings held off a comeback from Championship outfit Halifax to reach the last eight of the Challenge Cup. | 36197996 |
Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams said orthopaedic patients at a hospital in Bridgend have to wait more than 70 weeks for elective surgery.
Also, Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said 123 children are waiting more than 36 weeks for paediatric treatment.
Under Welsh government targets, 95% of patients should start treatment within 26 weeks of being referred.
Every patient's treatment should start within 36 weeks of referral.
At First Minister's Questions on Tuesday, Ms Williams referred to a letter from a manager at Princess of Wales Hospital which says "unscheduled care pressures" between December 2014 and April 2015 led to elective surgery being "curtailed".
Karl Murray, interim service director at the hospital, wrote that, as a result, waiting times for things like hip and knee operations have risen to "in excess of" 70 weeks.
Carwyn Jones said he was happy to "investigate the circumstances regarding her constituent's complaint" but increasing demand for operations was a problem across the UK.
The Welsh government said it has made it clear to Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board that it expects to see improvements in waiting times.
Ms Wood asked the first minister to ensure "not a single child is waiting longer than 36 weeks for paediatric surgery" by the end of the year, as she said was the case three-and-a-half years ago.
Mr Jones replied: "I can certainly give my commitment to ensuring that that figure drops. We want to ensure the waiting times continue to be driven downwards.
"We expect to see an improvement in referral to treatment times." | NHS waiting times should improve after delays for certain treatments, first minister Carwyn Jones has said. | 33156488 |
Bydd tîm Gareth Bale, Real Madrid yn chwarae yn erbyn Juventus yn Stadiwm Genedlaethol Cymru am 19:45 nos Sadwrn, ac mae disgwyl i 170,000 o ymwelwyr ddod i'r brifddinas.
Ers bore dydd Iau mae rhai ffyrdd wedi cau a mesurau diogelwch mewn grym cyn gêm y merched nos Iau.
Roedd y Prif Weinidog Carwyn Jones yn agor yr ŵyl ym Mae Caerdydd am 11:00 wedi i'r tlysau gyrraedd.
Yn ôl Cymdeithas Bêl-droed Cymru hwn fydd y "parti mwyaf fydd y brifddinas yn ei weld".
Y ddau dîm fydd yn chwarae yn rownd derfynol y merched yn Stadiwm Dinas Caerdydd nos Iau fydd Lyon a Paris Saint-Germain.
Dywedodd Mr Jones y byddai "pobl wedi chwerthin 15 mlynedd yn ôl" pe bai rhywun wedi dweud y gallai Caerdydd a Chymru fod â'r gallu i gynnal ffeinal Cynghrair y Pencampwyr.
"Rwy'n edrych ymlaen at y pedwar diwrnod nesaf. Rydyn ni eisiau rhoi amser grêt i bobl," meddai.
Cyfaddefodd y byddai cau ffyrdd yn cael effaith ar drafnidiaeth, ond dywedodd mai diogelwch cefnogwyr yw'r mater pwysicaf.
Roedd y tlysau yn cyrraedd trwy law un o arwyr pêl-droed Cymru, a chyn chwaraewr Juventus, Ian Rush.
Roedd yn cyrraedd ar gwch ac fe wnaeth Mr Jones ddod i'w gyfarfod wrth y cae pêl-droed newydd sy'n arnofio ar y dŵr yn y bae.
"Mae cael y ffeinal yma yng Nghaerdydd yn anhygoel," meddai Rush.
"Roedd Euro 2016 yn anhygoel, ond mae hyn yn ei gymryd i'r lefel nesaf. Pan fydd pawb yn mynd yn ôl ddydd Sul, bydd Cymru ar y map ar lefel byd eang."
Bydd nifer o ddigwyddiadau a chyngherddau am ddim yn cael eu cynnal i gydfynd â'r pêl-droed yn ystod y pedwar diwrnod.
Mae nifer o drefniadau diogelwch eisoes mewn grym, ac yn ystod y pedwar diwrnod bydd 6,500 o blismyn ar ddyletswydd gan gynnwys 500 o swyddogion arfog.
Yn ogystal mae nifer o ffyrdd wedi'u cau ac byddant ynghau o ddydd Iau tan 22:00 nos Sul:
Mae Network Rail yn cynghori teithwyr i adael digon o amser ar gyfer eu siwrne, ac i ddisgwyl ciwiau.
Mae cyngor i gyrraedd y ddinas erbyn 13:00 ddydd Sadwrn os yn mynd i gêm y dynion, ac i fod yn yr orsaf o leiaf 30 munud cyn i drenau adael gyda'r nos. | Mae gŵyl yn dathlu rownd derfynol Cynghrair y Pencampwyr wedi agor ym Mae Caerdydd ddydd Iau. | 40112183 |
The Athletes' Village in Dalmarnock was home to about 7,000 competitors and officials during the Games last summer.
The 38.5 hectare site was reconfigured afterwards and now features 300 private homes, 400 homes for social rent and a new 120-bed care home for the elderly.
By the end of Friday, about 100 homes on the site will be occupied.
The remainder of the homes are expected to be filled by the end of the summer.
Of the socially rented homes, 200 will be for Thenue Housing Association, 102 for West of Scotland Housing Association and 98 for Glasgow Housing Association.
More than 250 of the 300 private homes have so far been sold. | The first residents are moving in to homes in the east end of Glasgow built to accommodate athletes at last year's Commonwealth Games. | 31549540 |
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England need a new partner for captain Alastair Cook, but Moeen has scored only 41 runs in his past three innings.
"I'm sure he'll show what he can do," said Root in the build-up to the first Test in Abu Dhabi, starting on Tuesday.
Alex Hales could also open the batting, but he made only nine on the final day of the tourists' final warm-up match.
All-rounder Moeen, 28, has made 749 runs at an average of 31.20 in his 16 Test matches.
"I think he's proven in Test cricket now that he's a valuable member of our batting side," said Root. "I'm sure he'll rise to the challenge.
"He's batted at six and eight and he's made valuable contributions in both positions."
England go into the three-Test series in the United Arab Emirates having beaten Australia 3-2 in the Ashes in the summer.
No visiting side has beaten Pakistan in a Test series since they relocated to the United Arab Emirates five years ago, with England beaten 3-0 on their only previous trip.
"It is going to be a big challenge and they're a very good side and very good in their own backyard," said Root.
"But we've shown over the last six months that we're capable of doing things that people don't expect us to and this is going to be no different.
"Against a very strong side like Pakistan, in their own conditions, we are going to have to play out of our skin, but we are more than capable of doing that." | Moeen Ali will "rise to the challenge" if he is picked to open the batting for England in the first Test against Pakistan, says vice-captain Joe Root. | 34495007 |
The 27-year-old suffered a heart attack in May after the Bulls' defeat by Leeds Rhinos at Magic Weekend.
He told BBC Radio Leeds: "I'd be silly not to think of the worst case scenario. I have hopes of coming back to play but I know my body has gone through a massive trauma.
"I'm hoping for the best but I am expecting the worst."
The boys can hold their heads up high because with all the uncertainty that's been going on it can be hard to concentrate on playing so they should be very proud to still be in with a chance of reaching the play-offs
He added: "I realise I'm very lucky to have got through what I did to be feeling quite healthy now.
"I'm pretty much back to normal now. I'm back training, I don't do as much as the other boys but I'm in the gym and it's hard to believe I had a heart attack four months ago."
The Australian is meeting a sports cardiologist in London on Wednesday to have further tests to see whether he will have to retire.
The former Penrith Panthers man, who is in his first season in Super League, praised the performances of his team-mates in his absence.
Despite being deducted six points for entering administration, the Bulls head into the final round of regular season games one point off Wakefield in eighth place.
"It's disappointing that I've not been able to play and help the boys out because they've been awesome," he continued.
"They can hold their heads up high because with all the uncertainty that's been going on it can be hard to concentrate on playing so they should be very proud to still be in with a chance of reaching the play-offs.
"It seems like things are heading in the right direction off the pitch too, so hopefully that gets sorted soon." | Bradford Bulls centre Adrian Purtell says he is not confident of being able to continue his playing career. | 19482126 |
Police said passengers on the bus were left "distressed" following the incident in King Street on Sunday evening.
Officers said a group of local youths had also caused "extensive and unnecessary" damage to Greenfield House and cars in Hill Street on Sunday.
A police spokesman said: "This sort of behaviour will not be tolerated."
He added: "Inquiries are currently ongoing to identify those responsible." | A bus passenger was left covered in glass after the vehicle's window was smashed in Alloa at the weekend. | 38649413 |
The 22-year-old singer will star in the film, according to US magazine Variety, but it's thought to be a small part.
The drama, which is due for release in 2017, will recreate the events of the World War II evacuation of the French city Dunkirk in 1940.
Styles will appear alongside British actors Tom Hardy, Oscar-winner Mark Rylance and Sir Kenneth Branagh in the film.
Warner Bros, who are making the movie, are yet to comment on Harry's role. Newsround has contacted a representative for Styles for comment.
Harry shot to fame in 2010 when he became a member of the pop group One Direction on the British talent show, The X Factor.
The four members are currently on a year-long break from the band, which began after they released their fifth album in March 2016. | Harry Styles has reportedly landed his first film role in Christopher Nolan's war drama 'Dunkirk'. | 35793463 |
Annaick, who lives in Lyon, told the BBC her heart was with Socialist Party candidate Benoit Hamon, but she had voted for Mr Macron in the second round of the election and was relieved he had been elected:
"I'm very happy. My family and I will be staying in and having a celebratory meal," she said.
Student Margot Cadic, from Paris, voted for Mr Macron in both stages of the election because she felt he represented her centrist and open values.
"I was a bit nervous during the day, but I'm relieved," she said.
"I wish there had been a bigger gap between him and Marine Le Pen.
"The country would appear divided, but at least Macron had a large victory.
"Hopefully, he'll be able to unite France.
"He understands that some people in France feel left out and misunderstood.
"He said he wants to represent them too.
"That will be difficult.
"Both left and right parties have to reconsider their position, and if they'd be willing to change their views to have a coalition with him."
Thierry Guedj, a finance director in Bordeaux, voted for Francois Fillon in the first round and then Mr Macron in the second.
"I am pleased with the result," he said.
"Emmanuel Macron was very presidential in his message of reconciliation and unity.
"I was surprised by the way he handled himself during his speech, and when confronted by Marine Le Pen in the recent TV debate.
"I'm feeling much more optimistic than at the start of the campaign.
"I feel Macron has improved a lot."
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Nadia Darcy, a therapist in Surrey, who has lived in the UK for 26 years, told the BBC she had voted for Jean-Luc Melenchon in the first round, then Emmanuel Macron in the second.
"I'm simply relieved," she said.
"I was a bit worried during the TV debate between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
"She was very aggressive and put his ideas down instead of providing her own.
"I still felt I had to vote for Macron, even though I didn't support him.
"However, he did impress me.
"He's got leadership.
"It's not over yet.
"His popularity has gone up because of the way he handled himself, but we need to watch over the next few weeks."
Pierre Gas, who has lived in the UK since 1993, and always voted for a Republican candidate was disappointed that Francois Fillon did not get through to the second round.
"I reluctantly voted for Macron," he said.
"I'm not very happy with the result, but it's a case of the lesser of two evils.
"I'm now hoping there will be a coalition.
"That could be possible.
"A lot of those who voted for Macron were not his supporters but did so to keep Le Pen out.
"A lot of people are fed up with the politicians of the last 40 years.
"I don't want five years of socialism.
"I want a coalition.
"I think Macron is too young and part of the elite, but let's just wait and see."
Test pilot Pierre Gatty voted for Francois Fillon in the first round, and Emmanuel Macron in the second.
He told the BBC he had been confident that Marine Le Pen would not become president.
"We're not exactly celebrating," he said.
"I think Francois Hollande is behind Emmanuel Macron.
"This has been arranged for some time between them.
"I'd like to be sure Emmanuel Macron will lead with the interests of France.
"I'm not so sure now.
"I've seen so many people saying he's the best.
"Most of the socialists were fighting him, and now they're saying he's the best.
"Let's see what happens now.
"I'm staying a bit optimistic.
"I'm half happy."
David Edwards is a French national living in Brittany with his wife and four children.
He voted for Emmanuel Macron in both stages of the election.
"It has been an eventful and quite emotional campaign," he said.
"Witnessing the normalisation of nationalist ideas on a grand scale is a thing I never thought I'd see.
"This campaign will probably leave scars across the electorate, the country will remain deeply divided for the coming months and years.
"Change must take place.
"The Front National will be right at the corner if Emmanuel Macron doesn't deliver the goods.
"Democracy and common sense have prevailed.
"La France est en marche.
"Let's celebrate, for now."
Compiled by Sherie Ryder, UGC and Social News team. | Emmanuel Macron, figurehead of the centrist En Marche party, will become France's youngest president, and French voters have been sharing their reaction to the outcome. | 39837665 |
The copyright infringement action is being taken on behalf of late guitarist Randy California, who played on the same bill as Led Zeppelin in the 1960s.
His lawyers say that he should be given a writing credit on the 1971 track.
Bloomberg Businessweek said that the eight-minute song had earned $562m (??334m) as of 2008.
The magazine says that the song was so profitable in part because Led Zeppelin did not release it as a single, leaving fans with no option but to buy the entire album, which is untitled but known as Led Zeppelin IV.
Both Led Zeppelin and Warner Music have said they will not comment on the allegations.
Media reports say that the court case is likely to be based on allegations that the famous Stairway to Heaven opening guitar riff loosely resembles guitar work on an instrumental called Taurus.
Taurus was written by Randy California's Los Angeles-based psychedelic band, Spirit, in 1968.
The plaintiffs include Spirit's founding bassist Mark Andes and a trust that manages royalties for Randy California, who died in 1997 trying to save his son from drowning.
Mr California is quoted by Bloomberg Businessweek as describing Stairway to Heaven as a "rip-off" shortly before he died.
'It is fairly blatant, and note for note," Mr Andes told Bloomberg Businessweek. "It would just be nice if the Led Zeppelin guys gave Randy a little nod. That would be lovely."
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page is reputed to have begun writing Stairway to Heaven in 1970 in a remote cottage in Wales.
Earlier this month the band unveiled two previously unheard recordings ahead of the re-issue in June of its first three albums.
Jimmy Page, now 70, meanwhile has scotched rumours of a reunion concert.
For a band that broke up in 1980, following the death of the drummer John Bonham, interest in Led Zeppelin remains intense.
The surviving members reunited seven years ago for a concert at London's O2 arena. | A legal dispute faces the band Led Zeppelin over the song Stairway to Heaven, widely seen as one of the greatest rock compositions of all time. | 27497950 |
The four men are demanding about 65m yen (£375,000; $620,000) in extra pay.
They claim the compensation for removing contaminated debris and patrolling the plant has been inadequate given the risks involved.
It is the first time Tepco has faced legal action from Fukushima workers over pay and working conditions.
The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes says if they win, it could set a precedent for thousands of other workers to come forward.
The lawsuit was filed by two current and two former workers at Fukushima.
The Japanese utility company had no immediate comment.
"My health may be harmed some day," one of the workers was quoted as telling Japanese broadcaster NHK. "I believe there are many people who can't speak out about this kind of problem.
"I may get fired or may be given no further work. But I hope people will take this as an opportunity to speak up and get paid."
Fukushima fallout
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors went into meltdown after a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 knocked out reactor cooling systems at the plant.
Subsequent radiation leaks made the surrounding areas around the plant unfit for habitation.
Tens of thousands of people had to leave their homes and businesses because of radioactive contamination, with the majority still unable to return home.
The facility is operated by Tepco, which has spent billions of dollars on the clean-up and decommissioning of the plant.
About 6,000 people have been working at the plant daily over the last two months, and the lawsuit is demanding that they either be paid directly by Tepco or the government.
However, many are employed by contractors and subcontractors.
Our correspondent says that there have long been complaints that many subcontractors are not paying their workers properly, and allegations that some are connected to Japan's Yakuza crime gangs.
The lawsuit claims that the subcontractors profit from the funds allocated for the decommissioning at the expense of worker wages.
The lawyer co-ordinating the case on behalf of the Fukushima workers said at least two more people were expected to join the lawsuit.
Last month another court ordered Tepco to pay damages to the family of an evacuee, Hamako Watanabe, who killed herself after she was forced to leave her home because of radioactive contamination. | Workers decommissioning Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have sued its operator Tokyo Electric (Tepco) over unpaid hazard pay. | 29041403 |
Former England captain Borthwick, 37, has reportedly been approached by Lions coach Warren Gatland, along with Ireland's defence coach Andy Farrell.
England head coach Eddie Jones said: "I'm happy for all of my coaching team except me to be involved."
The Lions will play three Tests against New Zealand in June and July next year.
Borthwick, who won 57 caps for England between 2001 and 2010, joined Jones' coaching team in December 2015.
England beat Fiji on Saturday for their 11th win from 11 games under Jones and are next scheduled to face the All Blacks in 2018.
"If they (his coaching team) are offered a job I will encourage them to take the job and get down there and work out how to beat New Zealand because that is one of our aims. They can help us and the Lions," the Australian said.
"What a great opportunity to spend six weeks in New Zealand on the Lions tour.
"Ten weeks of hearing 'bro' seven million times and getting to understand everything about New Zealand rugby."
England scored nine tries in their 58-15 over Fiji at Twickenham, a performance Jones described as "good fish and chips", a reference to the traditional style he said his side would play with before the match.
"It doesn't mean fish and chips is basic," he said.
"I thought we played some sparkling rugby, really good stuff. The ball movement, crispness of passing was fantastic.
"To score 58 points against Fiji is outstanding because they are a fair team, so I'm really happy with aspects of our game."
Winger Semesa Rokoduguni scored two tries against Fiji - on his second England appearance - as did Jonathan Joseph and Joe Launchbury, while fly-half George Ford also impressed.
"Rokoduguni has definitely got a smile on his face," said Jones.
"I'm really pleased for him because he worked hard to get this chance. He got a lot of reward for the hard work he's done.
"Some of George Ford's alignment on some of the phase ball was absolutely outstanding, the best I have seen for a long time.
"We are not going to play the perfect game - everyone wants to play the perfect game, when you play the perfect game you can retire. We haven't done that."
Elsewhere on Saturday, Wales needed an 80th-minute drop-goal from Sam Davies to beat Japan 33-30.
And Jones, who coached Japan from 2012 to 2015, said it was "not a good result for Wales".
"The Japanese cry when they win and they cry when they lose, so there will be plenty of tears," he said.
"It's a fantastic result for them and Wales were obviously complacent again.
"You look at the side Wales put out, they shouldn't be winning by three points against a Japanese team that has seven or eight new caps." | England forwards coach Steve Borthwick looks set to join the British and Irish Lions coaching team for next year's tour of New Zealand. | 38041319 |
While the suspected gunman from the Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, remains at large, much of the Belgian capital has come to a standstill.
Soldiers are patrolling the streets and the metro and local schools are staying shut.
But the authorities say normality will begin to return on Wednesday.
Here the BBC looks at how the lockdown is affecting different aspects of life in the city.
Schools and universities were closed for a second day on Tuesday under the strict security measures.
In a statement (in French), education officials said all lessons would be suspended on the orders of Belgium's National Security Council at nurseries, primary and secondary schools. No children would be admitted.
The Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) said it was cancelling classes and closing facilities including libraries, parks, and exhibition halls. The Vrije Universiteit Brussel advised all staff to work from home if they could but said it aimed to resume normal activity on Wednesday.
Nadine Rosa-Rossa, a school teacher in the Molenbeek district where anti-terror police have focused their operations, told the BBC's Newsday programme that she thought the measures were "excessive".
"It's like we are in a war," she said. "It's not a good thing for the children, for the teachers, for everybody."
Others spoke of the disbelief that schools would re-open on Wednesday when the main suspect was still at large and the terror alert at its highest.
But Brussels authorities say schools have not been cited as targets and the government has instructed the schools to take security measures such as creating safe rooms for children in the event of an emergency. Some 300 police will help step up security when schools reopen on Wednesday.
Transport authorities in Brussels suspended the city's Metro underground transport system and some bus routes, with others running a reduced service. Only overground trams and trains were operating.
The restrictions were set to continue until Wednesday, the Brussels Intermunicipal Transport company (STIB) said, and ministers announced that an extra 200 police would be patrolling the metro to help provide security.
Commuters travelling into the city reported quiet trains and empty streets, with some describing a sense of unease.
Road traffic spiked in Brussels as people sought alternative ways to get to work.
Eurostar is running a full service but says passengers can choose to swap their ticket up to 30 November for another day free of charge.
Passengers faced tightened security checks for Thalys and TGV high-speed trains from Brussels Gare du Midi train station.
Brussels is home to the EU's headquarters and also hosts the offices of many NGOs, think-tanks and international organisations.
Dave Baird, who works at the European Commission building, said his office was still open but very quiet.
"It's a normal working day but some colleagues have stayed at home and are too frightened to travel on the trains," he said.
Although some Nato staff members had been asked to work at home, ambassadors agreed to meet on Tuesday in response to Turkey's downing of a Russian SU 24 close to its border.
Meanwhile Olivier Willocx, head of the Brussels chamber of commerce, BECI, told public broadcaster RTBF (in French) that businesses in the city were facing "exceptional" circumstances.
He said employers should made their own decisions about whether to keep work places open, taking into account childcare demands due to the closure of schools.
Matthias Dobbelaere, who manages a legal practice with offices in Brussels, told the BBC that staff had been told to stay home for now.
"You can't let your people work in Brussels and feel safe when there is a terror threat."
While some locals complained that their city was becoming a ghost town, others bridled at the idea. "I live in Brussels. Yes, it's quieter in the centre but I don't see a beleaguered ghost town and I don't feel it either," one person tweeted, appealing for everything to be put in perspective.
Speaking to the BBC, Letitia Rawlings, who lives in the city, said there was a "very strange atmosphere".
"In general, people seem scared to go out," she said, adding that the terror threat dominated conversations.
The tourism sector has been badly hit in the Belgian capital, with visitors finding many shops, bars and cinemas shut.
While the city's main tourist attractions, such as the Grand Place central square, were unusually quiet, cafes and restaurants struggled to attract customers.
Hotels, restaurants and cafes were "licking their wounds" after a disastrous weekend, reported De Standaard newspaper.
"There are no clients to be seen, just staff. In the hotels it's a flood of cancellations. It's obvious that anyone who didn't have to be in Brussels has stayed away," complained Marc Van Muylders from the Brussels hotel and catering sector.
The US embassy in Brussels urged its citizens to "shelter in place and remain at home".
Brussels airport is open and all flights are running as normal, however there are increased security measures in place.
Compiled by Jasmine Coleman. Interviews by Stephen Fottrell. | Brussels is under lockdown for a fourth consecutive day, and on the highest state of alert over fears of a Paris-style attack by the militant Islamic State group. | 34900353 |
The performance earned the Ireland team their first medal of the Rio Games.
The Skibbereen pair produced a brilliant performance to finish only 0.53 seconds behind French duo Pierre Houin and Jeremie Azou.
The O'Donovans closed on the French duo in the last 500 metres as bronze winners Norway also challenged.
The Irish pair clocked six minutes, 31.23 seconds which left them only 0.16 seconds ahead of Norwegian pair Kristoffer Brun and Are Strandli.
The younger O'Donovan brother, Paul, said that he was almost "disappointed" that they hadn't been able to chase down the French boat in the closing stages.
"We put it up to the French as best we could," the 22-year-old told RTE.
"At the end, I'd say we were going all over the lane."
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Paul also joked that their Irish Olympic team-mate, Belfast boxer Michael Conlan, had warned them not to return from Friday's final without the gold medal.
"I'm already dreading going home because Mick Conlan said he'd box the head off us if we didn't get the gold."
Twenty-three-old Gary, the elder by 16 months, said that they had targeted an Olympic medal after finishing 11th at last year's World Championships.
"Our goal was to win the Olympics and we knew we'd have to beat one of the best crews in the world in France.
"But to come away with a silver medal, we have to be happy."
The jovial Cork duo have been gaining a big following in Rio and indeed worldwide after giving a series of highly entertaining interviews to the Irish national broadcaster. | Cork brothers Gary and Paul O'Donovan have won Ireland's first ever Olympic rowing medal after they took silver in the lightweight double sculls in Rio. | 37061543 |
Barely any Tsimane had signs of clogged up arteries - even well into old age - a study in the Lancet showed.
"It's an incredible population" with radically different diets and ways of living, said the researchers.
They admit the rest of the world cannot revert to a hunter-gathering and early farming existence, but said there were lessons for all of us.
Tsimane is pronounced "chee-may-nay".
There are around 16,000 Tsimane who hunt, fish and farm on the Maniqui River in the Amazon rainforest in the Bolivian lowlands.
Their way of life has similarities to human civilisation thousands of years ago.
It took the team of scientists and doctors multiple flights and a canoe journey to get there.
It means:
They are also far more physically active with the men averaging 17,000 steps a day and the women 16,000.
Even the over-60s have a step count over 15,000.
It makes most people's struggle to get near 10,000 seem deeply insignificant.
"They achieve a remarkable dose of exercise," says Dr Gregory Thomas, one of the researchers and from Long Beach Memorial medical centre in California.
The scientists looked for coronary artery calcium or "CAC" - which is a sign of clogged up blood vessels and risk of a heart attack.
The scientists scanned 705 people's hearts in a CT scanner after teaming up with a research group scanning mummified bodies.
At the age of 45, almost no Tsimane had CAC in their arteries while 25% of Americans do.
By the time they reach age 75, two-thirds of Tsimane are CAC-free compared with the overwhelming majority of Americans (80%) having signs of CAC.
The researchers have been studying this group for a long time so it is not simply a case of the unhealthy Tsimane dying young.
Michael Gurven, a professor of anthropology at University of California, Santa Barbara, told the BBC: "It is much lower than in every other population where data exists.
"The closest were Japanese women, but it's still a different ballpark altogether."
They also smoke a lot less, but they do get more infections which could potentially increase the risk of heart problems by causing inflammation in the body.
One idea is that intestinal worms - which dampen immune reactions - could be more common and this may help protect the heart.
Prof Gurven said: "I would say we need a more holistic approach to physical exercise rather than just at the weekend.
"Bicycle to work, take the stairs, write your story on a treadmill desk." (I didn't)
Dr Thomas said: "It could be to maintain health we need to be exercising much more than we do.
"The modern world is keeping us alive, but urbanisation and the specialisation of the labour force could be new risk factors [for an unhealthy heart].
"They also live in small communities, life is very social and they maintain a positive outlook."
Dr Gavin Sandercock, reader in clinical physiology (cardiology) at the University of Essex, said: "This is an excellent study with unique findings.
"The Tsimane get 72% of their energy from carbohydrates.
"The fact that they have the best indicators of cardiovascular health ever reported is the exact opposite to many recent suggestions that carbohydrates are unhealthy."
Prof Naveed Sattar, from the University of Glasgow, said: "This is a beautiful real life study which reaffirms all we understand about preventing heart disease.
"Simply put, eating a healthy diet very low in saturated fat and full of unprocessed products, not smoking and being active life long, is associated with the lowest risk of having furring up of blood vessels."
Follow James on Twitter. | The healthiest hearts in the world have been found in the Tsimane people in the forests of Bolivia, say researchers. | 39292389 |
Some experts believe delayed school entry benefits this group of children.
However, the study found children who missed a year of learning often did worse in tests at the age of eight.
The research team, led by scientists at Warwick University, analysed the records of children born in the German state of Bavaria in 1985 and 1986.
They studied 999 children, of whom 472 were born before their due dates.
The researchers looked at teachers' assessments of the children's achievements in their first year of school and compared these with results of standardised maths, reading, writing and attention tests when the children were eight.
The researchers say many parents are keen to hold their children back a year if they are born prematurely or in the summer months, believing they are not mature enough.
Previous research has backed this view for children who are born more than three weeks before their due date.
However, the new analysis found delayed school entry could mean children missed out on learning opportunities "during the critical early years".
At the time the data was collected, children in Bavaria were assessed for school-readiness by a community paediatrician in the year before they were due to start school at six.
This meant the researchers were able to compare the school records of children who started at the expected age with those whose entry was held back a year.
The records reveal no difference between the two groups of children in teacher assessments in their first year of school.
But both groups took the standardised tests at the age of eight whether they had started school aged six or a year later, and the results showed the children who started later than their peers did worse.
"Our study shows that delaying school entry has no effect on year-one teacher ratings of academic performance, but it is associated with poorer performance in age-standardised tests of reading, writing, mathematics and attention as the children get older," said Prof Dieter Wolke, of the psychology department and Warwick Medical School.
Dr Julia Jaekel, of the Ruhr University Bochum department of developmental psychology, said many parents of preterm children believed delaying school entry would be more beneficial.
"Many parents demand that preterm children should be held back, particularly if they were born in the summer. This is also supported by many charities supporting parents with preterm children.
"However, we found missing one year of learning opportunities was associated with poorer average performance in standardised tests at eight years of age for both preterm and full-term children.
"Future research is needed to determine the long-term effect of delayed school entry on academic achievement, but our results certainly give parents and educational providers food for thought."
The researchers drew on data from the Bavarian Longitudinal Study, which followed children born in the state in the mid-1980s.
The research is published in the Journal of Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology. | A delay in starting school for summer-born or premature children may be linked with poor academic performance later on, a study suggests. | 31533785 |
The 21 girls, aged seven to 12, will have separate duties to the boys but will combine with them for important occasions like Christmas services.
Conductor Nia Llewelyn Jones, said: "They're not that different to the boys - cheeky, sassy, but they're a great bunch of girls."
The cathedral's choir was founded in 1541 by King Henry VIII.
Since 1999 girls have been able to sing, with the boys, in the Cathedral Youth Choir for 12 to 18 year olds.
Then in 2014, the Cathedral Junior Choir was set up for both boys and girls - aged six to 12.
Canon Celia Thomson said: "I hope that lots of people will come to hear them and experience the worship with them singing."
The Girl Choristers of Gloucester Cathedral Choir will hold their inaugural Evensong at 17:30 GMT. | An all-girl choir is to sing for the first time in Gloucester Cathedral Choir's 475-year history. | 37889248 |
Saints had gone into the break 13-6 ahead after Harry Mallinder's early try off the back of great work by Ken Pisi.
A first try this term by British & Irish Lions hopeful Dylan Hartley and Pisi's try put Saints in control, but Chris Ashton's score gave Sarries hope.
Bosch finished the turnaround with minutes to go for third-placed Sarries.
The boot of Alex Lozowski was also crucial in the victory, finding the target with five penalties and one conversion, which moves the visitors to within two points of Exeter with two matches left to play.
Saints move up to sixth, into an automatic qualification spot for the European Champions Cup, but it could have been so much more having got on the scoreboard early on through Mallinder's effort, following a superb catch off a Stephen Myler kick forward.
And despite losing number eight Louis Picamoles the hosts, who will not play any "regular season" games in Milton Keynes next season, continued on in good form in the second half, with Hartley adding the second try off the back of a lineout.
Lozowski's two penalties made it 20-12, but Pisi finished in the corner after being superbly laid off by Ahsee Tuala, however with regular Stephen Myler off injured, Mallinder missed the conversion.
It proved to be crucial as Ashton finished against his former club, before Bosch cross after a fine Lozowski break in the dying moments to win the match for the reigning champions, for whom England second-row George Kruis played the whole 80 minutes on his comeback from injury.
Northampton director of rugby Jim Mallinder:
"It's really disappointing to lose but we needed a little bit of luck and more composure. We will need to keep looking at ourselves but it didn't help that we had our two key decision makers off the field.
"Louis has a bad neck while Stephen has a knee injury. Fingers crossed they will be okay for the Exeter trip as we now have a fortnight off.
"It will be tough down there so European qualification may come down to a winner-takes-all game against Harlequins in the final match of the season."
Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall:
"Our game wasn't up to the required level for the first 60 minutes as our set piece wasn't dominant.
"We had a decent bench and we got a bit cross after we conceded a soft third try and got up a head of steam in the final quarter as we carried a lot harder.
"It was a lesson for us as the big things have to be right and they'll need to be at Munster (in the European Champions Cup semi-final) next Saturday if we are to win there.
"We knew we had to put them under pressure as they've lost a few games of late in the final minutes and Alex Lozowski helped by having a superb second half and should be picked for the England tour to Argentina."
Northampton: Tuala; Pisi, Burrell, Mallinder, Foden; Myler, Groom; Waller, Hartley, Brookes, Lawes, Ribbans, Gibson, Wood (capt.), Picamoles.
Replacements: Haywood, Waller, Hill, Ratuniyarawa, Harrison, Dickson, Hutchinson, Estelles.
Saracens: Goode; Earle, Bosch, D. Taylor, Maitland; Lozowski, Spencer; Lamositele, George (capt.), Koch, Isiekwe, Kruis, Conlon, Burger, Wray.
Replacements: Brits, Thompson-Stringer, Du Plessis, Rhodes, B. Vunipola, H. Taylor, Tompkins, Ashton.
For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter. | Marcelo Bosch's late try gave Saracens a comeback win over Northampton at Stadium:MK to keep alive their hopes of a home Premiership semi-final. | 39569148 |
Thomas Orchard, 32, suffered a cardiac arrest in an Exeter police cell in 2012 and died a week later in hospital.
Sgt Jan Kingshott, 45, said Mr Orchard repeatedly threatened to "bite the faces off" custody staff.
Sgt Kingshott and detention officers Simon Tansley, 39, and Michael Marsden, 56, deny gross negligence manslaughter.
He told Bristol Crown Court: "It was unusual - a directed threat which makes you take notice. That's why it stuck in my mind."
Mr Orchard's mental health issues were not flagged up on the police computer nor was there a warning that he may be violent, the jury heard.
"I knew nothing about him - or what he was suffering from or his mental state or drugs," Mr Kingshott said.
Church caretaker Mr Orchard, who had schizophrenia, had stopped taking his medication when he was arrested for a public order offence and taken to the Heavitree Road police station.
He had a cloth emergency response belt (ERB) held around his face for five minutes to prevent him spitting and biting.
Sgt Kingshott told the jury he had seen the ERB used in this way on around 50 previous occasions and it was a method of restraint he had been trained in.
In initial interviews the custody sergeant told investigators he "had the impression that he [Mr Orchard] was actively resisting" but in subsequent questioning, after viewing CCTV pictures, he conceded "that perception is not correct".
The jury was told Devon and Cornwall Police has been investigated for corporate manslaughter and by the Health and Safety Executive following the death of Mr Orchard.
Those investigations are "substantially completed" with decisions to be taken in the near future over what will happen next.
The trial continues. | A police custody sergeant accused of the manslaughter of a detainee with mental health issues has told a court the man repeatedly threatened officers. | 38980694 |
Ms Gillard said the trip "reflects the importance" of Australia's "evolving relationship" with the country.
She is scheduled to meet newly-installed Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang and will visit Shanghai, Beijing and Hainan island.
This is Australia's most high-level delegation to China, officials say.
"The timing of this visit so soon after the new leadership has entered into office is deliberate and reflects the importance of our rapidly evolving relationship with China and our high-level political oversight of that relationship," Ms Gillard said on Thursday, ahead of her trip.
Ms Gillard is expected to discuss energy-related matters with Chinese leaders, among other trade issues.
Talks between both countries are also expected to touch on education and regional security.
Ms Gillard's delegation includes Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr and Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten, among other senior Australian officials.
This is her second visit to the country in two years. | Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has left for China on a five-day visit aimed at strengthening ties with the country's largest trade partner. | 22036807 |
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) is investigating what happened at the Albany Molecular Research Inc site in Greenfield.
Lara Cubley, regulatory officer at NRW, said the spill was contained within a building.
She added action would be taken if the site's environmental permit had been breached.
The man taken to hospital at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd was kept in overnight as a precaution.
It is not known what chemical was involved. | A man has been treated in hospital after a chemical spill at a factory in Flintshire. | 30436130 |
Geordie Chalmers, from Sandwick, was driving a blue Vauxhall Agila which was involved in the accident on the A965 Kirkwall to Stromness Road at Binscarth, Finstown.
Another person was injured in the crash and was taken to Balfour Hospital in Kirkwall by ambulance.
The road was closed for almost three hours after the incident, which took place at about 11:50 on Friday.
Police Scotland appealed for any witnesses or anyone with information about the crash to come forward. | An 84-year-old man has died after a three-vehicle crash in Orkney. | 30248689 |
The women, wearing hijabs, entered the station saying they wanted to report a stolen phone, police say.
One of the women pulled a knife and another threw a petrol bomb, starting a fire. Two officers were injured.
It is not clear who is behind the attack, but Islamist group al-Shabab has staged numerous attacks in Kenya.
The Somali-based group has been targeting Kenya since 2011, when Kenyan troops were deployed to rid Somalia of the militants.
A BBC journalist in Mombasa said the women were apparently wearing bullet-proof vests under their dresses, and an unnamed police officer said "they were definitely on a mission".
A witness called Saumu told Agence France-Presse that they were "shouting Allahu Akbar (God is greatest, in Arabic).
Al-Shabab has recruited hundreds of Kenyans, especially around Mombasa which has a large Muslim population.
Al-Shabab said it was behind the massacre at Garissa University in April 2015, in which 147 people were killed, and the attack on Nairobi's Westgate shopping centre in 2013 in which 68 people were killed. | Three women have been killed after trying to stage an attack at the main police station in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, officials say. | 37332459 |
The exchange announced in February that hackers had stolen hundreds of thousands of bitcoins from it, worth about $500m (£300m).
It later said that it had found a substantial number of the bitcoins and had hoped to find a way to continue as a business and pay back customers.
But the court dismissed this plan and appointed an administrator.
In a statement on the exchange's website the administrator said that bankruptcy proceedings were likely to follow.
This would involve MtGox customers being asked to make any claims through the court, although the administrator pointed out that there was no time frame for this process at the moment.
Customers can continue to check the balance of any bitcoins they have with MtGox but are warned that this is not necessarily the amount they would receive as the result of a claim.
MtGox said at the time it went offline that the bitcoins had been stolen from its system by hackers who exploited a loophole in the software that oversaw the Bitcoin system. The administrator said that it plans to investigate the missing bitcoins as part of its role.
The founder of MtGox, Mark Karpeles, refused a request by a US court to attend a hearing this week to answer questions about the collapse of the exchange. He has not been charged with any crime.
The bitcoin is currently trading for around $500, down from a high of more than $1,100 last year. | MtGox, once the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange, has been placed in administration by a Japanese court. | 27050902 |
Police Scotland said the 64-year-old man from Hawick died at the scene of the accident on the A7.
In an earlier statement, the force said the car caught fire after crashing with lorry, on the road south of Hawick.
The road between Langholm and Hawick has been closed since the accident happened at 09:25 for a collision investigation.
Insp Bryan Burns appealed for information from witnesses to the incident.
He said it involved a red Vauxhall Cavalier, which was travelling southbound, and a white Renault lorry with a blue side.
The lorry driver was taken to hospital but he was discharged after treatment.
Insp Burns said: "First and foremost, our sincere condolences go to the family and friends of the gentleman who lost his life.
"An investigation into the cause of the accident is underway and we are keen to speak to anyone who may have witnessed this collision, or the movements of either vehicle in the moments leading up to it."
Scottish Borders Council warned that the A7 closure was likely to remain in place until this evening. | A man has died after his car was involved in a collision with a lorry in the Scottish Borders. | 35061153 |
Six men and one woman died, and more than 50 people were injured, when a tram overturned on 9 November.
TfL has pledged to do "everything we can to support the families and all those affected".
An interim report into the crash is due to be published on Wednesday, but it could take "many months" to produce a final report, investigators warned.
Announcing the offer of assistance to victims' families, London's Transport Commissioner Mike Brown said: "The TfL Sarah Hope line is available 24 hours a day to provide advice on a whole range of matters and immediate financial and other support.
"This includes covering funeral costs and travel expenses for relatives."
Meanwhile, the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has conducted preliminary analysis and downloaded information from the tram's "black box" data recorder.
Previously it said the vehicle had exceeded the speed limit on the bend.
The RAIB said last week the two-carriage tram had been travelling "significantly" faster than the permitted 12mph (19km/h) as it entered a tight bend near the Sandilands stop.
Trade body UK Tram said tram accidents were incredibly rare and has cautioned against hastily imposed precautions as a knee-jerk reaction.
Simon French, head of the RAIB, appeared before MPs at the Commons Transport Select Committee on Monday and said a full investigation would involve a large number of interviews, as well as detailed analysis and examination of the evidence.
He said: "If there's information of immediate safety importance that needs to be communicated of course we will do so as is normal in our investigations by issuing urgent safety advices."
BBC London's transport correspondent Tom Edwards said: "We already know the tram was going too fast on the bend, the crucial question we're all trying to find out is why.
"We might get the speed of the tram, we might get some urgent safety recommendations but the full investigation is going to take many, many months."
At the scene: BBC London reporter Jason Rosam
New Addington is still in shock, you can sense it in the air. People are trying to go about their normal daily lives but there's constant reminders of what happened seven days ago.
Here at the parade of shops where I'm standing there's a makeshift memorial to the victims - it's got flowers, cards, photos, candles and messages for those lost.
One message hung onto a tree really says what the mood is perfectly: "It's so sad that you started your day from here only to lose your lives 20 minutes later. You will never be forgotten."
Doing this job I regularly stop people in the street who are rushing to work and a lot of people ignore me or brush me past. But here, every person I've spoken to has taken the time to stop and talk to me and that's unusual.
A police investigation has also been launched and the tram's 42-year-old driver, Alfred Dorris, from Beckenham, south-east London, has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and released on bail until May.
The Office of Rail and Road is carrying out its own investigation into whether safety rules were being followed. | Transport for London (TfL) has offered to pay for the funerals of the seven victims of the Croydon tram crash. | 37988749 |
Any club can still sign unattached players if they left their old clubs before the summer deadline.
Clubs can buy players again on a permanent basis in January.
Signings confirmed in September,October and November can be found on previous transfer pages.
For all the latest rumours check out the gossip page and, for all the manager ins and outs, see the current managers list.
Sam Johnstone [Manchester United - Preston] Loan
*Liam Ridgewell [Portland Timbers - Brighton] Loan
*Matt Jarvis [West Ham United - Norwich City] Undisclosed
Jordan Nicholson [Histon - Peterborough] Undisclosed
*Michal Zyro [Legia Warsaw - Wolves] Undisclosed
Chris Dagnall [Kerala Blasters - Hibernian]
Andy Rose [Seattle Sounders - Coventry]
Ryan Stevenson [Partick Thistle - Ayr United] Loan
Luke Varney [Unattached - Ipswich]
Martin Lorentzson [Unattached - Coventry]
Ron Vlaar [Unattached - AZ Alkmaar]
Nathan Ferguson [Unattached - Burton]
*Transfer will go through on 2 January, 2016 | The summer transfer window closed on Tuesday, 1 September, while the loan transfer window for Football League clubs closed on Thursday, 26 November. | 35028953 |
Samples taken from the 26-year-old Chester man were analysed by Randox Testing Services (RTS) in Manchester.
Two employees at RTS were previously arrested over claims data may have been manipulated.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there was too little evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction.
RTS is used by police forces across the UK to analyse toxicology samples used in prosecutions.
According to police, 484 cases handled by the firm since November 2015 may have been affected.
A spokesman said: "We are working with the Home Office, police and the Office of the Forensic Science Regulator to assess the impact of the testing failure at Randox Testing Services.
"This includes establishing which cases have been affected by this issue and working with other agencies to decide what action should be taken in relation to those cases.‎"
The two arrested employees, aged 47 and 31, were quizzed on suspicion of perverting the course of justice and have been bailed, police said.
The company, based in Northern Ireland, said the investigation centres on the "manipulation of quality control data, which supports test results".
The allegations relate to drug tests analysed at the Manchester office. | A drug-driving case has been dropped following a review of blood test data from a forensics laboratory at the centre of a police investigation. | 39041248 |
About 500 employees are leaving on Friday, with the remainder of the jobs finishing between now and May 2017.
In October 2014, cigarette maker JTI Gallaher announced it would be shutting its County Antrim plant with the loss of 800 jobs.
The factory has been a major employer in Ballymena.
A trade union proposal aimed at saving about 500 jobs at the factory was rejected by management in January 2015.
In a statement on the Ballymena plant, Robert Bisaillon, JTI UK's manufacturing vice president, said: "JTI would like to extend its deepest thanks to all employees that are leaving the company over the coming days.
"Their dedication over the years and their continued commitment and professionalism since the announcement of the factory closure has been exemplary.
"We would like to wish them well for the future."
One worker told the BBC: "I'm absolutely gutted, but that's the way things go sometimes. I worked here 14 years and it's a very good firm - the best firm."
Another said: "You can imagine what the mood's like - it's tragic for the local economy and everybody is very upset."
The end of employment for the 500 staff coincides with the introduction of the government's plain packaging rules for tobacco products.
Davy Thompson of the Unite union said: "It's been a real emotional roller coaster for people this week and the impact will be devastating.
"Around 90% of [the firm's] workforce comes from within a 10-mile radius of the town centre, so it's going to be a huge hammer blow, but it's only the first of many.
"We have Michelin coming down the line and the actual physical closure of JTI will be next year.
"So we're calling on the executive to set about putting jobs in there. Not zero hour contracts and minimum wage, real jobs.
"This is a highly skilled workforce which is why we need to look at not just foreign direct investment but indigenous companies being able to expand."
JTI is appealing a court decision on Thursday which rejected a legal challenge to the new rules, brought by four of the world's biggest tobacco firms.
Gallaher, which made Silk Cut and Benson & Hedges cigarettes, was taken over by Japanese firm JTI in 2007.
When the job losses were announced in 2014, JTI said it was restructuring its manufacturing facilities "as a result of significant and sustained changes impacting its global business".
It said a challenging economic environment, excise tax pressure and the illegal trade of counterfeit cigarettes had "triggered industry volume contraction in a number of key European countries".
The company said these problems had been compounded by European Union cigarette packaging legislation.
Anti-smoking legislation is being introduced across the EU in an attempt to cut the number of smokers by 2.4 million. | Workers losing their jobs at the JTI tobacco factory expressed sadness on their last day at the Ballymena firm. | 36335799 |
It has reinforced concerns that using the devices could become a "gateway" to smoking cigarettes.
The study found 6% of 10 to 11-year-olds in Wales said they had used e-cigarettes, compared to 2% who had smoked tobacco.
Children who tried e-cigarettes were seven times more likely to say they might start smoking within two years.
They were also more likely to use e-cigarettes if their parents were smokers.
The vast majority of children who had tried e-cigarettes had never tried tobacco, according to the latest Childhood Exposure to Tobacco Smoke (CHETS) study.
But the study found evidence to suggest that e-cigarette use may lead children to smoke tobacco.
Source: CHETS study
Health Minister Mark Drakeford said: "These latest findings shine further light on the potential impact of e-cigarettes on our children and young people.
"I am concerned the use of e-cigarettes may act as a gateway to and re-normalise smoking, especially for a generation who have grown up in a largely smoke-free society."
The study also found that fewer children were being exposed to second-hand smoke in cars and their homes.
Source: CHETS study | Three times as many children have tried e-cigarettes as have smoked tobacco, according to official figures. | 30309335 |
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The Daily Mail claimed only £14,115 out of £1.7m donated to the Didier Drogba Foundation had helped causes in Africa.
The Charity Commission has opened a case to review concerns about the charity's administration.
But Drogba, 38, said "everything is clear" and "this money will be spent when it needs to be spent".
In the article, the Mail said £439,321 was spent putting on lavish fundraising parties attended by celebrities, and more than £1m languished in bank accounts.
Speaking to the BBC from Montreal, Canada, where he is playing for MLS side Montreal Impact, Drogba said all charity projects so far had been funded by his own sponsorship deals, rather than money from UK fundraisers.
The former Ivory Coast international said: "I'm responsible for this money; I'm not going to spend it just to spend it.
"I have projects for the long term and I know what I want to do."
The African charity, established in 2007, is run in the Ivory Coast but is also registered in the UK.
Drogba said he will take legal action against the Mail, which said in a statement that it "stands by every word of this important story".
The Charity Commission said it wanted "further information" about the foundation's spending plans and would look into "allegations that the charity has provided misleading information to donors and the public". | Former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba has welcomed an investigation into his charity over "serious regulatory concerns". | 36050026 |
Sixteen National Trust for Scotland (NTS) properties have been digitally captured as using a Google Street View camera.
The panoramas have been published online for viewing worldwide.
It's been made possible because NTS wildlife filmmaker Simon Goodall went for a walk, covering more than 150 miles in two months with a portable Street View camera on his back.
The technology has already captured many of our towns and cities in panoramic detail.
But Simon took it where the streets have no name. Because there were no streets.
He carried the gear to Glencoe, Iona, St Abb's Head, Inverewe Gardens and the top of Ben Lomond.
With each step the multi-lensed device sticking out the top of his camera captured multiple, wraparound images from varied angles along with precise satellite positioning data.
And with each step Simon had to shoulder a 20kg backpack containing the technology.
"When we first saw the kit we were quite surprised by how much there was," he said.
"But when you put it together you realised it all kind of made sense for walking up a hill and being outdoors, as far as a panoramic camera goes."
That, as it transpired, was pretty far.
Visitors to Culzean Castle, Dollar Glen, the Glenfinnan Monument or Staffa may have spotted Simon on his digital trek. With a multi-eyed sphere-on-a-stick on his back he was difficult to miss.
This off-road version of the Street View technology is called Google Trekker. The NTS views it as a win-win proposition: Google gets content that's a lot more interesting to look at than shop fronts and parked cars, while the Trust gets a worldwide showcase for some of its finest properties.
NTS head of digital media Colan Mehaffey said: "As part of the Trekker loan programme, what you could do was apply to Google to borrow a big piece of kit to essentially do Street View for whatever you liked or whatever you owned.
"We came into our own with that because we're Scotland's third biggest landowner.
"People all over the world will suddenly be able to be on the top of a mountain in Glencoe and they'll be able to be on a boat looking at Staffa.
"So we want people from all round the world to engage with it."
I met Simon and Colan at the Grey Mare's Tail waterfall, one of the UK's highest. It falls 60 metres, ten twisting miles from Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway.
Simon told me about of the biggest obstacle he faced on his trek. It's the same one less digitally equipped walkers frequently encounter:
"The real challenge on this project was the Scottish weather.
"Because I was wearing a camera which had lenses on a full 360 degree circumference, one spot of rain on one of the lenses would ruin the whole picture."
That's why Simon's first attempt to capture the Grey Mare's Tail was a washout. It's also the reason why all these panoramas may give the impression that Scotland's weather is somewhat less drookit than it really is. Not that the NTS or our tourism authorities are likely to complain about that.
"The Google Trekker programme has allowed us to find a different way to tell people what we do," Colan Mehaffey says.
"We're not just about built heritage - castles and fine historic houses.
"We're actually also about wild land in Scotland: Munros, islands and the nature in them."
Simon Goodall's digital panoramas will be available on Google Maps, the Street View app, and on the Trust's own website; all in the hope it will tempt people to try the real thing.
But is it even better than that?
There are some things virtual reality can't yet mimic: the sun on your face, the wind in your hair.
On the other hand there are no such things as digital midges. | Some of Scotland's most remote and beautiful places are now available in virtual reality. | 34574217 |
Documents from the whistle-blower published by NBC indicate UK cyberspies used a denial of service attack (DoS) in 2011 to force a chatroom used by the Anonymous collective offline.
A spokeswoman for GCHQ said all the agency's activities were authorised and subject to rigorous oversight.
But others say it raises concerns.
Dr Steven Murdoch, a security researcher at the University of Cambridge, said using a DoS attack to overwhelm a computer server with traffic would have risked disrupting other services.
The UK government's communications-focused intelligence agency, employing about 5,000 people.
It stands for Government Communications Headquarters.
The agency is based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and also operates two smaller sites in Cornwall and North Yorkshire.
Its two key roles are:
The foreign secretary is answerable in Parliament for GCHQ's work.
"It's quite possible that the server was used for other purposes which would have been entirely unrelated to Anonymous," he said.
"It's also likely that most of the chat that was going on about Anonymous was not to do with hacking because the people who join Anonymous are fairly wide-ranging in what they think it is legitimate to do.
"Some have gone into criminality but many others just go out and organise protests, letter-writing campaigns and other things that are not criminal."
Campaign group Privacy International is also worried.
"There is no legislation that clearly authorises GCHQ to conduct cyber-attacks," said head of research Eric King.
"So, in the absence of any democratic mechanisms, it appears GCHQ has granted itself the power to carry out the very same offensive attacks politicians have criticised other states for conducting."
The UK government's Cyber Security Strategy document, published in 2011, says officials should take "proactive measures to disrupt threats to our information security", but also notes that any such action should be consistent with freedom of expression and privacy rights.
The latest documents are published alongside an article part-written by Glenn Greenwald.
The journalist is one of only two people reported to have access to all whistle-blower Edward Snowden's leaked documents.
The article highlights that the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG) is the division identified as being responsible for the DoS attack - a unit whose existence had not previously been publicly disclosed.
The documents indicate the unit also spied on and communicated with chatroom users to identify hackers who had stolen information.
In one case, agents are said to have tricked a hacker nicknamed P0ke who claimed to have stolen data from the US government. They did this by sending him a link to a BBC article entitled: "Who loves the hacktivists?"
"Sexy," P0ke is alleged to have commented.
But when he clicked the link it is reported that JTRIG was able to bypass measures he had taken to hide his identity, although it is not clear how.
NBC reports that P0ke - a Scandinavian college student - was never arrested despite GCHQ learning his true name.
But the leaks indicate others were imprisoned as a result of JTRIG operations.
One paper highlights the case of Edward Pearson - a hacker known as GZero - who was sentenced to two years in jail in 2012 for illegally acquiring credit and debit card details registered with PayPal.
A transcript of a chatroom conversation indicates that Pearson had contacted GCHQ agents claiming he knew a hacktivist they were investigating, unaware of the agents' true identity.
In addition to Anonymous, the documents list LulzSec, the A-Team and the Syrian Cyber Army as hacktivist groups GCHQ was concerned about.
In one case it appears simply warning activists that carrying out their own DoS attacks was illegal had the desired effect.
NBC reports that the notice was posted via Facebook, Twitter, email, instant messenger and Skype.
One alleged GCHQ document states that one month later 80% of those contacted had stopped using a hacktivist chatroom.
But the documents also indicate that GCHQ was willing to use DoS attacks itself as part of an operation codenamed Rolling Thunder, which prevented hacktivists using a chatroom for 30 hours in September 2011.
GCHQ has a longstanding policy of not commenting on specific intelligence-gathering procedures, but a spokeswoman said all its work was "carried out in accordance with a strict legal and policy framework".
Even so, one cybersecurity expert said he had mixed feelings about the latest leaks.
"We have to remember that cyberspooks within GCHQ are equally, if not more, skilled than many black-hat hackers, and the tools and techniques they are going to use to fight cybercrime are surely going to be similar to that of the bad guys," said Andrew Miller, chief operating officer at Corero Network.
"Legally, we enter a very grey area here; where members of Lulzsec were arrested and incarcerated for carrying out DoS attacks, but it seems that JTRIG are taking the same approach with impunity." | GCHQ disrupted "hacktivist" communications by using one of their own techniques against them, according to the latest Edward Snowden leaks. | 26049448 |
On a blameless surface, the tourists played a string of reckless strokes to be reduced to 87-4 and 144-5.
They were rescued in part by Jonny Bairstow, who made 89 in partnerships of 69 with the recalled Jos Buttler (43) and 57 with Ben Stokes.
England closed on 268-8, with India set to take control if they can wrap up the innings and bat long on the second day.
The home side, 1-0 up in the five-match series after a big win in the second Test, were accurate rather than brilliant with the ball, and could have been in an even better position if they had held their catches.
England, so often blighted by top-order failures, are once again relying on their lower order and bowling attack to remain in the match, and will be hoping that a dry pitch deteriorates to make batting last difficult for India.
"A high-class team would have made 450 or 500 on here," said former England captain Michael Vaughan on Test Match Special.
"Some of the dismissals have been poor and England will know that. They also know India will have to bat last on a pitch that, by day three and four, will be much more difficult."
Bairstow, the world's leading Test run-scorer in 2016, showed the patience that almost all of the rest of England's batsmen lacked to spare them from a complete calamity.
Promoted to number five after Ben Duckett was dropped, he showed solid defence against the pace bowlers and accumulated with pushes, punches, sweeps and rapid running - he scored only six fours in his 177-ball stay.
On 54, he could have been caught or stumped by Parthiv Patel off Ravichandran Ashwin, with the wicketkeeper also dropping another edge off Jayant Yadav when Bairstow was on 89.
But, from the next ball, Bairstow was given out lbw on the front foot, failed to overturn the decision on review and departed along with England's hopes of a first-innings score anywhere near par on this pitch.
"Bairstow is playing on a different planet," said Vaughan. "He made batting look so, so easy - balanced on front and back foot, and with options on both sides of the wicket against spin.
"Some of the other England batsman should be sitting next to him in the dressing room and hoping it rubs off on them."
At the end of play, Stokes was handed an official reprimand by the ICC for using "obscene, offensive or insulting'' language.
It related to his reaction to Indian players' celebrations of his dismissal when he was stumped after playing a rash shot off Jadeja's bowling.
In addition to the reprimand, one demerit point has been added to Stokes's disciplinary record. If Stokes reaches four points within a 24-month period, they will be converted into suspension points and he will be banned.
Two suspension points would result in a ban from one Test or two ODIs or two T20Is, whatever comes first. Stokes admitted the offence and accepted the sanction.
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The poor form of Duckett and Gary Ballance in India and Bangladesh respectively forced England to recall reserve wicketkeeper Buttler as a specialist batsman for his first Test in 13 months, despite the right-hander playing only one first-class match in that time.
His footwork was initially tentative, but time at the crease built enough confidence for Buttler to play trademark reverse-sweeps and handsome square drives.
He eventually joined the list of England batsmen to fall in sloppy fashion, tamely pushing left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja to Virat Kohli at extra cover.
Chris Woakes arrived to add 45 with Bairstow but was bowled by the pacey Umesh Yadav in the penultimate over to leave the tail exposed on Sunday morning.
With batting likely to become harder as the match progresses, England had the advantage of winning the toss, only to throw away wickets to some disciplined India bowling.
Haseeb Hameed was powerless in the face of some extra bounce extracted by Umesh, but Joe Root played an awful swipe across the line to Jayant, and captain Alastair Cook, who was dropped twice, edged a loose cut shot off Ashwin to depart for 27.
Moeen Ali, promoted to number four, was caught hooking the excellent Mohammed Shami, and Stokes, after battling hard with Bairstow, was frustrated into running past a Jadeja delivery to be stumped.
Bairstow showed his team-mates what could be achieved with the necessary application but, even after his effort, England are likely to need something special to get back in this match and possibly even the series.
England batsman Jos Buttler on TMS: "It was great to be out there in the middle and playing again. There are times when you question if you will get another chance.
"The day could have gone better for the team. There were a few dismissals that we could have been avoided, but at the end of the day a few started to spin and keep low.
"You're always in the game with runs on the board. We need as many as we can tomorrow."
England team-mate Jonny Bairstow: "Having won the toss, it was disappointing to lose the wickets that we have as the pitch will be its best today and tomorrow. It could have been a disastrous day if we didn't knuckle down and work hard. We could have been bowling tonight.''
India bowler Umesh Yadav: "England should have scored more runs - 260 is only a decent total because the pitch is not turning too much yet.''
Media playback is not supported on this device | England failed to capitalise on batting first on the opening day of the third Test against India in Mohali. | 38115814 |
Net income was $3.98bn, up from $2.74bn for the same quarter last year.
Google's revenue was $18.7 (£12.1bn) compared with $16.5bn.
Growth came mainly from mobile searches and YouTube users.
In August, the company created Alphabet as the new parent company of Google and its other diverse businesses.
In January, Alphabet will report Google's financial numbers separately from the other businesses, which include experiments with self-driving cars, investing in startups, making Internet-connected thermostats and searching for cures to health problems.
The break out of Google's figures are expected to reveal how much money Google would have made if it had not diverted money into chief executive Larry Page's so-called ``moon shots".
Alphabet shares were up 11% to $722.53 in after hours trading - a record, boosted by news of a large share buyback, which will means fewer investors in future who will therefore take a higher portion of any dividend payout.
YouTube announced on Thursday a plan to offer a monthly commercial free subscription service that will compete with Netflix and Amazon prime.
The company's board approved a plan to buy back a precise $5,099,019,513.59 in shares starting in the fourth quarter.
There has been speculation the number represented the square root of 26 - the number of letters in the alphabet.
Chief financial officer Ruth Porat acknowledged that was indeed the reference during a post-results conference. | Alphabet the new parent company of Google, has reported profits up almost 50% for the third quarter. | 34611360 |
Nicholas Williams' challenge against Andrew Barlow caused the cup match between Cefn Albion and AFC Brynford last October to be abandoned.
Williams claimed it was a freak accident but Recorder Huw Rees called it "shocking violence".
Williams, 26, of Wrexham, was found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm at Caernarfon Crown Court.
The court heard Mr Barlow broke his tibia and fibula and is still receiving treatment.
Speaking after the hearing, Det Con Rhodri Ifans of North Wales Police said: "This was a particularly callous assault which has had a huge impact on the victim.
"Anyone who commits acts of violence must realise to potential seriousness of their actions and we will vigorously pursue offenders and bring them to justice." | An amateur footballer who broke the leg of an opposing player with a flying tackle has been jailed for 12 months. | 37129844 |
A hugely popular sport with the converted, the battle continues to attract new fans and new sponsors against the backdrop of worrying financial unrest at a number of elite clubs.
After Crusaders, Wakefield and Bradford battled back from the brink, now Salford, in their brand new stadium, are fighting to stay alive.
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The opportunity to host the World Cup in Britain is one that the sport must wring every last drop out of to maximise exposure and showcase the best of the sport to a new audience.
A successful run from the home nations is key to creating the feel-good factor that surrounded minority sports in the Olympic Games.
Who would have dreamed of feeling rushes of adrenalin and passion supporting Team GB's handball or gymnastics teams before London 2012 came along? Now rugby league has the chance to get those success-hungry neutrals on board on home soil.
Gary Hetherington, chief executive of Super League champions Leeds says 2013 will be a "landmark" year for the sport. Former Great Britain star Jonathan Davies, a man who excelled in both codes of the sport, agrees.
"If you look at Super League it is a great product, unfortunately beset by financial problems," he says.
"It remains a great sport to watch but the challenge for league worldwide is obvious. They have to get the international game right and achieve what international rugby union has done.
"Get that media attention on to the international game as it is just not happening, and I do feel sometimes they have neglected that, which is going to be a huge problem. "
Easier said than done. An international game doesn't magically become more competitive just because you give it more media attention.
It is all very well hooking a new audience in, but you must keep them with a compelling product. And key to this will be a successful run from Steve McNamara's young England side.
"England have great talent and really have to push Australia and New Zealand," says Davies. "If you want the maximum exposure you have to go and win the World Cup. That would be a fantastic achievement."
So what chance of success? Hetherington describes the current England team as the best for over 20 years. Davies says the 2012 efforts of the union side in toppling the All Blacks should give the league boys hope.
"It is tough. New Zealand are world champions but Australia, as always are the team to beat," he says.
"We have such talented youngsters coming through and for the first time we have players who can score tries out of nothing like Sam Tomkins and Ryan Hall.
"We need that game management at half-back, and the selection there will be interesting from McNamara. We do have the forwards who can push them. It is about belief more than anything.
"We always seem to look up at and follow the Australian game. We are maybe worrying about them more than ourselves, so if Steve can instil belief then why can't we replicate what the union boys did and beat them?"
The domestic game meanwhile remains as dazzling as it is concerning. Thrilling Super League and Challenge Cup games serve as a weekly reminder that this pulsating sport has a lot going for it. But as the fight for survival off the pitch continues, so questions persist about the sustainability of the current Super League format.
England back rower Gareth Ellis is returning from Australia to play for Hull FC next season
The 14-team top tier, the licensing system rather than promotion and relegation, the salary cap, expansion. They are all issues that need looking at, and all issues that continue to split opinion when debating the financial health of rugby league.
The RFL insists all it can do is provide the best possible environment for clubs to flourish and then it is up to the clubs to keep their own houses in order.
Yet the ultimate responsibility for the health of the British game lies with its governing body. They will be as concerned by Bradford, and now Salford's travails, as they will be buoyed by the breathtaking sporting theatre that the top clubs continue to provide to a passionate and loyal fan base.
On the pitch Leeds will bid to maintain their remarkable modern stranglehold on the Grand Final. The champions will start as fourth favourites to retain their title, with Warrington the bookmakers pre-season choice to lift the Old Trafford silverware.
Wigan and St Helens will of course be fancying their chances, and look out for Hull FC this year.
The return to Super League of Gareth Ellis should give the Black and Whites a great shot at a successful season. | The Rugby Football League's chief executive Nigel Wood may have his critics, but when he labels 2013 as "rugby league's most important year since Super League began" it is impossible to disagree. | 20877714 |
It is the first time the guild has declared a tie for best film in its 25-year history, another indicator that this year's Oscars race is wide open.
The PGA has correctly picked the film that has gone on to win best picture at the Oscars for the last six years.
Disney's Frozen won best animation and Behind the Candelabra won best TV film.
ABC's Modern Family picked up the best episodic comedy award, while Breaking Bad won for best episodic TV drama.
James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson were among those given special honours for their contribution to film.
We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, scooped best documentary, while The Voice won best competitive TV series.
Other winners included Sesame Street, which won outstanding children's programme.
The PGA awards followed hot on the tails of the Screen Actors Guild awards, which also took place this weekend - SAG voters eschewed both Gravity and 12 Years a Slave, choosing instead 1970s crime caper American Hustle for its top honour.
The Oscars take place on 2 March.
Voting among the 6,000 members runs from 14 to 25 February. | Space drama Gravity and 12 Years a Slave have tied for the top prize at the Producer's Guild of America (PGA) awards. | 25807201 |
Research for the Auditor General and the Accounts Commission said current ways of working were unsustainable.
Challenges include an ageing population and financial pressures, the report found.
The Scottish government said it recognised the new demands and was taking steps to counter them.
Health Secretary Shona Robison said "This report includes recommendations which are very similar to those made in other recent reports from Audit Scotland, to which we are already responding.
"We do not believe the report fully takes into account the further £250m investment we have made in our 2016/17 budget for health and social care partnerships, or the impact that funding will have."
The number of people aged 85 and over in Scotland is expected to rise by two-thirds from 114,375 in 2014 to 187,219 in 2030 and double by 2034.
New ways of working are emerging in some parts of Scotland but change is not happening fast enough to meet the growing need for services, the report said.
It called on the Scottish government to provide stronger leadership and a clear plan for implementing its 2020 vision, which aims to have more people cared for at home.
The report also urged ministers to identify "adequate and timely longer-term funding to support transformational change".
Between 2010/11 and 2014/15 the health budget decreased by 0.6% in real terms to £11.85bn, while Scottish government overall funding for councils decreased by 5.9% in real terms to £10.8bn.
Spending on social care services increased slightly by 2% to about £3bn between 2010/11 and 2013/14.
Auditor General Caroline Gardner said: "An ambitious vision can be a catalyst for change but without a clear and detailed plan of action, there's a risk that ambition is overtaken by circumstances.
"Current health and social care models are unsustainable but with the right services in place, many people could avoid unnecessary admissions to hospital or be discharged more quickly."
"The Scottish government must produce comprehensive long-term plans for realising its 2020 Vision and work to reduce the barriers that hold local bodies back from creating new ways of working that meet the changing needs of their communities."
Scottish Labour public services spokesman Dr Richard Simpson said: "The SNP have had nearly a decade in power and a majority in parliament to get this right, but it simply isn't happening. They are not only failing in seven out of nine NHS targets but that failure has steadily worsened over the last five years."
Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesman Jim Hume said: "This report reveals a health and social care system that faces a perfect storm of an ageing population, real-terms spending cuts, huge pressure on primary care services and a lack of leadership from SNP ministers."
Scottish Conservative health spokesman Jackson Carlaw said: "Time is running out and an impending crisis is fast developing into an actual one. The Scottish government needs to show that it can lead and produce a solid and comprehensive plan." | A lack of leadership and planning is preventing Scotland's health and social care services changing fast enough, according to a report. | 35768504 |
In a nationwide TV broadcast, the longstanding ruler also reiterated his concern at "foreign interference".
Regional mediators, led by Nigeria's president, are expected in The Gambia on Friday to urge him to accept defeat following December's election.
President-elect Adama Barrow says he will be inaugurated next week.
Mr Jammeh, who initially accepted defeat in the 1 December poll, lodged a case before the Supreme Court after the electoral commission changed some results.
But the commission insists the outcome was not affected by an initial error and property developer Mr Barrow narrowly won.
Mr Jammeh seized power in the tiny country in 1994 and has been accused of human rights abuses, although he has held regular elections.
The president made his speech on Tuesday evening after it was announced that the Supreme Court hearing would be delayed until May because of a shortage of judges, who mostly come from neighbouring countries.
The chief justice suggested mediation would be the best way forward as Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and other West African leaders head to the country in another attempt to end the deadlock.
But Mr Jammeh said his cabinet and the National Assembly would remain in place "to ensure the rule of law is upheld" pending the court's ruling.
"[Under the constitution], only the Supreme Court can review our challenge and only the Supreme Court can declare anyone president," he said.
The president lashed out at the UN, the African Union and the West African regional body Ecowas for their "hasty resolutions" given the peaceful nature of the dispute so far.
"Our review and investigation have revealed an unprecedented level of foreign interference in our elections and internal affairs. And also, a sustained smear campaign, propaganda and misinformation," he said.
The Gambia would not allow any organisation, treaty or law to supersede its constitution, he added.
The 51-year-old leader also appointed a national mediator to meet "all parties to resolve any mistrust and issues" and draft an amnesty bill to ensure there was "no witch-hunt so that we can restore a climate of confidence and security".
The Gambia, a popular tourist destination, has not had a smooth transfer of power since independence from Britain in 1965.
According to the electoral commission's final count:
Results were revised by the electoral commission on 5 December, when it emerged that the ballots for one area had been added incorrectly.
Read more: | Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has said he will not step down before a Supreme Court decision on disputed elections, a ruling now not expected until May. | 38582180 |
The unrest, which started on Sunday, ended early on Monday, police said, when the inmates surrendered their weapons and freed unharmed the last of 12 guards they had taken hostage.
A prison chaplain said the riot began after a fight between rival gangs.
A number of inmates has reportedly escaped. Brazil has the world's fourth largest prison population.
There are some 600,000 inmates and overcrowding is a serious problem.
When the riot began on Sunday afternoon, six headless bodies were thrown over the perimeter fence of the Anisio Jobim Penitentiary Centre, the biggest in Amazonas state.
The prison was built for 454 inmates, but it is thought to have held almost 600. Latest available figures dating back to October suggest there were 585 prisoners in the jail back then.
Fights between rival gangs often result in dozens of inmates being killed and sometimes dismembered.
The gang members behind the deadly riots are often from violent inner-city areas of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo who have been transferred to prisons in remote states in order to break up the gangs.
However, the number of deadly riots in these states would seem to indicate that this strategy has not worked out according to plan, correspondents say.
In October, at least 25 prisoners were killed in a jail in Boa Vista, in Roraima state, and seven youths also died in a riot in Caruaru in Pernambuco state. | More than 50 inmates have been killed in a prison riot in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, officials say. | 38487722 |
The men's team finished sixth in India, while the women were seventh in their event, which was won by Argentina.
The hosts defeated New Zealand 5-1 on Sunday, with Germany beating China 6-2 for bronze.
"Unless people go through these experiences we won't actually be fully prepared for Rio," Danny Kerry, coach of Britain's women, told BBC Sport.
Kerry coached the GB women to Olympic bronze at London 2012 and then moved into the performance director role - overlooking both squads - before returning to the women's set-up in 2014.
Both teams have since secured places at next year's Rio Olympics, while England's women won a historic European gold medal in August.
"We can't lose sight of the big picture which is Rio, so it's probably a blessing in disguise having gone undefeated throughout the summer," said Kerry.
"Both squads are actually in really good shape so there's a lot of cause for optimism despite the results at the end of the year."
Helen Richardson-Walsh finished as the women's tournament's top scorer with four goals, and also made her 100th appearance for Britain.
She believes the team will learn from mistakes in Rosario as they attempt to become GB's first Olympic hockey champions since Seoul 1988.
"No team becomes a bad one overnight," she told BBC Sport.
"Yes, there are some critical things we need to look at and do better with, but this is an amazing squad and the European success shows what we can accomplish when we get it right."
Crista Cullen was the leading goalscorer at London 2012 and was widely regarded as one of the best players in the world when she retired after the Games.
After three years working in animal conservation in Kenya, where she grew up, Cullen returned to the sport this year.
The 30-year-old missed GB's first two matches in Rosario with a calf injury but performed well against Australia and New Zealand.
The Olympic bronze medallist struggled to create breakthroughs with her trademark penalty-corner routines, but insists improvements will come.
"I'm still coming back and there are a lot of things I need to work on with my game," Cullen told BBC Sport.
"It's important not to get frustrated because things will come together as they did for London.
"We could have won this tournament and learnt fewer lessons, but because this hurts so much we will learn a lot from it."
After a short Christmas break, the team will regroup for a month of strength and conditioning training in January before a series of matches in Australia in February.
Their final major event before the Rio Olympics will be the Champions Trophy in London in June. | Poor performances at the Hockey World League Finals could be a "blessing in disguise" for Britain's men and women. | 35088701 |
But the Spanish champions have not lost since 3 October last year - a 2-1 defeat at Seville - and that is one of only three losses this season.
Still, a side boasting the talents of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez can be beaten. All you need is a solid game plan, great performances from every player, huge slices of luck and hope they have an off day.
But is there anything else that can help a side to defeat mighty Barcelona? We've had a look at their recent (rare) defeats to see if there are any common themes.
Athletic Bilbao beat Barcelona in the Spanish Super Cup in August and, over two legs, had 10 bookings and a sending off. Seville had five players booked in their La Liga win.
This season, Barcelona's opponents average just over three bookings per game but the teams to have beaten them average more than four. Maybe the Catalans just don't like it up 'em?
Espanyol were the last team to take league points off Barcelona with a draw on 2 January. They did it with five bookings. Emboldened, they followed that up with six bookings and two red cards in a cup match four days later. But they clearly got the balance wrong and ended up losing 4-1.
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Atletico Madrid are the only team to have beaten Barcelona in the past three years without using all three substitutes - they used two in a Champions League quarter-final in 2014.
Every other winning team used all their subs - and of the 50 substitutions made by winning teams, exactly half have been made in the last 10 minutes. Of those, 21 were made in the last five minutes. So be ready to wind down the clock as Barcelona pile on the pressure late on.
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Barcelona's 4-1 humbling at the hands of Celta Vigo earlier this season came just three days after a 4-1 win against Levante.
Last season's 0-1 home defeat to Malaga followed a 5-0 win over Levante, while a 5-1 win over them the previous year was followed up with a home defeat to Valencia.
Barca tend to win big ahead of a loss - eight of their 17 defeats since 2013 have followed a game in which they've scored four or more goals.
In La Liga, just four teams have inflicted more than half of Barcelona's defeats in the past three years.
Real Madrid are the obvious ones, with their fierce rivalry and serious financial backing. Although they've only got a 0-4 home defeat to show for it so far this season.
But while not exactly having Barcelona on the run, Athletic Bilbao, Real Sociedad and Celta Vigo have each enjoyed a couple of wins over their illustrious opponents in the past few seasons too.
You'd expect Real Madrid to topple their rivals now and again with the likes of Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo to call on.
But the Celta Vigos, Malagas, Granadas and Vallodolids of this world have done it without the big bucks and the big names.
It's true they have called upon some former Premier League players to lead them to victory - but not necessarily players who set the English game alight.
Step forward Celta Vigo strikers Iago Aspas (Liverpool) and John Guidetti (Manchester City), Malaga's Liverpool loanee Tiago Ilori and Sociedad pair Carlos Vela (Arsenal) and Esteban Granero (QPR).
Last season's triumphant Vallodolid side also had Manucho - you know, the ex-Manchester United and Hull player - in their ranks.
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The only teams to have beaten Barcelona in the Champions League in the past two years are Paris St-Germain and Bayern Munich - two sides boasting genuine world stars such as Robert Lewandowski and Edinson Cavani among their expensively assembled line-ups.
And they still couldn't stop Barcelona reaching, and winning, the final.
But with Petr Cech, Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez giving the Gunners an X-factor, they will always have a chance.
Petr Cech has faced Lionel Messi eight times and has never conceded a goal from the Argentina forward.
Do they have the aggression to 'go hard'? This one's open to debate.
They will have options on the bench no doubt - and boss Arsene Wenger likes to use all three subs (he has done that in eight of their last 10 games). Check.
They certainly have stars and obviously boast Premier League talents, despite letting Carlos Vela go. Check.
But they aren't Real Sociedad or Celta Vigo.
And sadly for Arsenal, Luis Enrique's side didn't play Levante at the weekend either. They beat Las Palmas 2-1.
So, tactics aside, the signs aren't good. And even if they beat Barcelona on Tuesday, they'll have to bear in mind, ahead of the return leg, what happened to the other three sides to beat them this season: Athletic Bilbao and Celta Vigo both had six put past them by Messi and Co the next time the teams met.
Seville got off relatively lightly with a 4-0 loss. | Arsenal host Barcelona in the Champions League on Tuesday, hoping for a repeat of the last time the two sides met at Emirates Stadium in February 2011, when the Gunners were 2-1 winners. | 35630859 |
The average cost of unleaded petrol hit 117.23p at the end of the month, with diesel reaching 119.63p, the RAC said.
The wholesale price of both fuels has risen significantly, following the production cuts announced by Opec.
Brent crude jumped by 10% on 30 November, the day the cartel announced a cut of 1.2 million barrels a day.
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As a result, the oil price is now double what it was a year ago, rising from a low of $27.88 in January 2016 to more than $55 this month.
The fall in the value of sterling since the Brexit vote has also increased UK fuel prices, as oil is priced in dollars.
Over the next two weeks, the RAC expects the price of unleaded to rise to 118p, with diesel going up to 121p a litre.
Thereafter, the price will be mostly determined by the cost of oil and whether Russia in particular will adhere to the production cuts it agreed with Opec.
It promised to cut 600,000 barrels a day from January, but in the past it has been reluctant to co-operate with such deals.
"So far the price rises we've seen are purely down to the announcement at the end of November that Opec and non-Opec countries would be cutting oil production this month," said Simon Williams, a fuel spokesperson for the RAC.
"Everything now depends on the strength of the deal and each country sticking to the agreed production levels. Russia will be of particular interest as it is currently producing at near record levels."
Over the next few months, the price of fuel will also be determined by political events, such as policies introduced by President Donald Trump, and the success of Brexit negotiations, which are due to begin in March.
Both could affect the value of sterling against the dollar.
Some experts believe the price of oil could also rise to $60 a barrel or more later this year. | The price of petrol and diesel in the UK has risen to its highest since July 2015, following a three-pence-a-litre increase in December alone. | 38505980 |
Twelve-week-old Lexi climbed into the insulation cavity in the wall of a house in Witton Gilbert near Durham in May.
Firefighters and the RSPCA spent two-and-a-half hours cutting it free.
It was not known where the kitten came from and there was no response to posters. It has been rehomed with Gaynor Capp and her son Thomas, eight, in Durham.
Ms Capp said: "She's really lovely and such a friendly, playful cat.
"She's got into the habit of sitting in my bathroom sink and drinking the running water, or sitting on the kitchen bench and lapping up the water." | A kitten trapped inside a wall for three days has been found a new home. | 40985582 |
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Debutant fly-half Steve Shingler crossed for a fine early try in his 15-point haul for Cardiff Blues.
Other tries came from ex-Ulster forward Nick Williams, Tomos Williams and a penalty try, with Gareth Anscombe converting two of the scores.
Solomoni Rasolea scored Edinburgh's try while Duncan Weir kicked 11 points.
Ellis Jenkins led the Blues out with New Zealander Nick Williams and the ex-Scarlets trio of Shingler, Kirby Myhill and George Earle starting, while Wales utility back Matthew Morgan was a 58th minute replacement.
Edinburgh fielded a new midfield trio of Glasgow stalwart Weir, Rasolea and Sasa Tofilau.
It was the new boys who made plenty of impact as Shingler crossed for the first try after eight minutes, after his own break put Blues on the attack.
He also landed a penalty and two first-half conversions, with the home side awarded a penalty try in the 34th minute when Jamie Ritchie was yellow-carded for dragging down a rolling maul.
But Australian Rasolea also made a quick impression, crashing through for a short-range score after 15 minutes, Weir converting and booting two penalties from a series of long-range attempts, as Blues led 17-13 at the break.
Further penalties from Shingler and Weir were the only third-quarter scores, before man-of-the-match Nick Williams wrestled his way over for a typical close-range score 15 minutes from time, converted by Anscombe.
As the rain made conditions even more slippery, scrum-half Tomos Williams sniped over to earn the bonus point after 71 minutes.
Cardiff Blues lost Kirby Myhill with a knee injury while Nasi Manu (ribs) and Nathan Fowles (arm) were Edinburgh casualties.
Cardiff Blues head coach Danny Wilson told BBC Wales Sport:
"It's a good start, a five-point win in the first home game of the season in difficult conditions that I thought would have suited them more than us, but I was pleased with the way we dealt with their set-piece.
"I thought Nick Williams was superb and showed exactly why we signed him, his physicality is on another level and he's got some skills as well, on the whole his performance was top-drawer."
Edinburgh head coach Alan Solomons:
"They dominated territory and possession, and you can't play when you're deep in your half and don't have the ball.
"Maybe in the first half we had opportunities to counter-attack and we didn't, we kicked it away and they dominated the aerial battle.
"In fairness our pack will pick up, but they need game-time under their belt, but also give credit to Cardiff."
Cardiff Blues: Dan Fish; Blaine Scully, Cory Allen, Rey Lee-Lo, Tom James; Steve Shingler, Tomos Williams; Rhys Gill, Kirby Myhill, Taufa'ao Filise, George Earle, Macauley Cook, Josh Navidi, Ellis Jenkins (capt), Nick Williams.
Replacements: Kristian Dacey, Gethin Jenkins, Scott Andrews, James Down, Cam Dolan, Lewis Jones, Gareth Anscombe, Matthew Morgan
Edinburgh: Glenn Bryce; Rory Scholes, Sasa Tofilau, Solomoni Rasolea, Tom Brown; Duncan Weir, Nathan Fowles; Rory Sutherland, Ross Ford, WP Nel, Fraser McKenzie, Grant Gilchrist (capt), Jamie Ritchie, Hamish Watson, Nasi Manu
Replacements: Stuart McInally, Jack Cosgrove, Simon Berghan, Ben Toolis, Magnus Bradbury, Sam Hidalgo-Clyne, Blair Kinghorn, Chris Dean
Referee: John Lacey (IRFU)
Assistant referees: Stuart Gaffikin (IRFU), Rhys Thomas (WRU)
Citing commissioner: Jeff Mark (WRU)
TMO: Simon McDowell (IRFU)
Attendance 4,807 | Cardiff Blues got their Pro12 season off to a winning start with a 34-16 bonus-point victory over Edinburgh at Cardiff Arms Park. | 37220030 |
Three other Afghans are still being sought, two of whom may have gone back to Afghanistan, Italian media report.
Video clips and photos on the two detainees' mobile phones suggest that they were targeting landmarks in Bari, Rome, Paris and London for attacks.
They included hotels in London's West India Quay and Royal Victoria Dock.
The detained suspects were named as Hakim Nasiri, 23, and Gulistan Ahmadzai, 29.
Several photos released by police show Mr Nasiri posing with a rifle in a shop or warehouse.
The apparent targets they picked in Rome were the Circus Maximus and Colosseum. Police believe the Afghans had formed a jihadist cell linked to so-called Islamic State (IS).
The Bari investigators said one of the suspicious images showed a famous mosque in Mecca tinted blue - a colour associated with Islamic paradise and devotion - and the Eiffel Tower tinted violet - a colour associated with death and struggle.
Another photo showed Hakim Nasiri next to the Mayor of Bari, Antonio Decaro, during a march organised on 10 September 2015 in solidarity with immigrants.
Both suspects held by police have been living in Italy with humanitarian protection status. Mr Nasiri is accused of international terrorism and Mr Ahmadzai of assisting illegal immigration.
In Bari they had filmed the Ipercoop shopping mall, the inside of Bari Palese airport and the port area.
The police swooped after one of them was spotted using his smartphone to photograph the Ipercoop mall.
Police say the suspects' recordings included video tributes to friends and relatives of suspected Islamists held by the US authorities in Guantanamo, Cuba. | Police in the port city of Bari in southern Italy have arrested two Afghan men suspected of plotting jihadist attacks in Italy, France and the UK. | 36256675 |
Chief executive Bobby McEwan described the team's closure "as the hardest decision of my life".
The club finished seventh in the 10 team British Elite League when the season ended in April.
The closure means Hull will be without a professional ice hockey team for the first time in 27 years.
In a statement on the club's website, Mr McEwan said: "The loss of a major sponsor, increased operational costs, the introduction of ice-time charges as well as the shortage of fans attending our matches have left me with no other choice but to liquidate the club."
The team, which plays in the council run Hull Arena, has been owned by Mr McEwan since 2012.
Mr McEwan said he had "tried everything" to save the club.
"We've spoke to potentially other owners," he said.
"We've spoke with the league. The league has been great to us to be fair, they've tried to help us in a lot of ways.
"But it just came to the stage where there was nothing new that we could have done here in Hull."
Speaking on BBC Radio Humberside, Mr McEwan thanked the fans for their support but said the club was competing for support with the city's two rugby league teams and Hull City.
"They're playing in a city with four top class professional teams," he said.
"A lot of people have got choices and options to go and watch what they want to go and see and obviously we've just been getting lower and lower down the line." | Hull Stingrays ice hockey club has gone into liquidation following the loss of a major sponsor, according to the team's owner. | 33251311 |
Jones, 23, is contracted to Cape Town-based Western Province and Stormers franchise until October.
He will remain in South Africa to compete in the Super Rugby competition, which ends in August.
If a deal is done between Glasgow and the player, he could move to Scotstoun when the Stormers' involvement in the tournament comes to an end.
Discussions are also ongoing between Glasgow and Scotland under-20 fly-half Adam Hastings over a summer move from Bath.
Hastings, 20, is the son of Scotland great Gavin Hastings, and has made five appearances for the Aviva Premiership club this season.
Scottish Rugby has shown interest in recruiting Jones, who has been named in head coach Vern Cotter's Six Nations squad, for several months.
Glasgow have tracked his development since he enrolled at University of Cape Town in 2014.
Jones scored twice in the autumn loss to Australia and created Sean Maitland's try in the win over Argentina a week later.
Fellow Scotland centres Alex Dunbar and Mark Bennett are two of the bigger names whose Scotstoun deals expire at the end of the season, and have yet to re-sign.
Australian centre Sam Johnson has emerged as a key element of Glasgow's midfield this season, while Richie Vernon is set to return from injury after undergoing shoulder surgery in November. However, both their deals also expire in the summer.
In the case of Hastings, who is behind England's George Ford and Rhys Priestland of Wales in the battle for the Bath number 10 jersey, a move north would present the highly-rated pivot with the opportunity to play more first-team rugby.
Scotland's Finn Russell is the only fly-half contracted to Glasgow beyond the end of the season.
Glasgow's versatile Peter Horne can also play at fly-half, but is recovering from an ankle injury that could rule him out until late March. Although his contract also expires this summer, he is expected to sign a new deal at the club. | Glasgow Warriors are to offer a contract to Scotland centre Huw Jones. | 38685550 |
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His stare is vacant, his voice even quieter than his usual hushed tones. Rigid with disbelief, there is no consoling him.
Selby has just been told his IBF featherweight title defence against Jonathan Victor Barros in Las Vegas has been called off because the Argentine did not meet "fight requirements", as explained matter-of-factly by the Nevada Athletic Commission.
It emerges later that Barros' failure to meet those requirements is related to a problem with his medical tests but, for that moment, a hollow sense of confusion reigns.
The news is announced at the weigh-in, the time when a boxer feels most vulnerable; exhausted after days of excessive training and strict, draining dieting.
It is a little more than 24 hours before the bout, which would have been Selby's first in Las Vegas, and the 29-year-old is crestfallen on stage.
"I'm almost in tears," he says as he stands by the scales.
Selby leaves the auditorium at the MGM Grand and spends a couple of hours contemplating and refuelling with some much-needed, carbohydrate-heavy food - just as he would if the fight was still going ahead.
Even in this enormous 5,000-room hotel with its sprawling casinos and myriad restaurants and bars, Selby remains focused, eschewing the limitless distractions of Las Vegas despite being relieved of his professional duties for the weekend.
His recuperation has the desired effect. He enters the room for this interview with renewed vitality.
Selby's eyes are alert again, his body language sprightly, but there is no hiding the despair of being denied a debut bout in Las Vegas.
"I'm devastated. All the hard work I've put in, the months of training, the months I've been away from my family, and to be let down 30 minutes before I'm meant to go on stage, it's very disappointing," he says.
"We arrived at the weigh-in, got put in a back room and then the promoter came in, and that's when he told us Barros hadn't met the requirements of the Nevada Athletic Commission.
"They didn't say anything more than that. I wish him [Barros] all the best, it's not his fault - I'm just heartbroken."
Selby is more animated than he has been for days, fine-tuned for what should have been a significant fight on Saturday night.
Boxers are wired to peak at certain points. After depriving themselves before the weigh-in, they replenish their depleted stores, they prepare mentally and programme their bodies for the brutal high of the fight.
But Selby had to abort that process at the last moment, and the confusion, the lack of an explanation from organisers, must have exacerbated his sense of frustration.
"It did, yes, and also leaving it so late - literally 30 minutes before I was meant to weigh in," he says.
"I had the adrenaline, the buzz to go on stage in front of all my fans. It was my time to shine, this big stage in the mecca of boxing, and it got taken away from me."
The Barros bout was meant to be on the undercard of Northern Irishman Carl Frampton's WBA featherweight title defence against Leo Santa Cruz.
The featherweight division is regarded as one of the most exciting and competitive in boxing at the moment, and Selby and Frampton are both eager to face each other in what would be a mouthwatering unification duel.
Selby wants it to be held in Cardiff, while Frampton would prefer it in Belfast, but could the Barros cancellation hinder Selby's hopes of securing this super fight?
"It might slow things down, unless we can get a quick fight under my belt now, a quick win, then we could continue as planned," he says.
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Before planning his next move, Selby can at least afford himself a little treat. Adding milk and sugar to his morning coffee is first on the list, then a slice of cheesecake - his favourite post-fight indulgence.
Once he returns to Wales, he will be back in the ring, toiling at St Joseph's gym in Newport.
Then, in the not-too-distant future, he has his sights set on a return to Las Vegas - perhaps next time as the headline act.
"I've been away from my partner, my family, my children so I'll go back, spend time with them and get back to work," Selby says.
"It hasn't worked out as planned this time but I'm still returning home as I said, as IBF featherweight world champion.
"But trust me when I say I will be back, and I will make my stamp on the world of boxing."
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About 160 people died when HMS Anglia struck a German mine close to the Kent coast on 17 November 1915.
The ship was carrying soldiers, some severely injured in the Battle of Loos, back from France to England.
Many of the casualties were soldiers with amputated limbs as well as medical staff who perished trying to save them.
Campaigners have long-called for the ship to be protected - to safeguard the remains and honour those who died.
It has now been included in a new list of wrecks covered by the Protection of Military Remains Act.
Historian Dr Peter Marsden said it was "wonderful to have succeeded at long last" but he was highly critical of the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
"This huge story lying on the sea bed needs protection. It shouldn't take years and years to get it done," he said.
"It's not just protection of the objects that might be taken by divers, it's the recognition by the government that these are the people who died in service to their country."
An MoD spokesman said: "The Ministry of Defence ensures that all wrecks, including HMHS Anglia, are protected under the Act if they meet the correct criteria."
He said a survey carried out by English Heritage in October 2014 pinpointed the vessel's exact location and condition, information that was critical for her to be considered for designation under the Act.
The shipwreck will be given protective status in March, which is the next available opportunity, he added.
The ship sank within 15 minutes of striking the mine off the coast of Folkestone.
Dr Marsden said many died on their bunks as the ship went down. "It must have been a terrible death," he said.
The change, which comes into force on 3 March, will mean divers are still free to explore the site but they must not touch or remove anything they find. | The remains of a First World War hospital ship that sank in the English Channel more than 100 years ago has been given legal protection. | 39065046 |
United fans are planning to protest at the cost of admission for the first leg of their last-32 tie at the Danish champions' 11,800-capacity MCH Arena.
Southampton supporters were charged £22 to attend a Europa League play-off match at the same venue in August.
"We could have sold over 50,000 tickets," Midtjylland sports director Claus Steinlein told Ritzaus Bureau.
"So, in relation to supply and demand, the price might have been even higher.
"I think, in fact, we have been fair, and we've certainly had no trouble selling tickets."
Chairman Rasmus Ankersen told BBC Radio 5 live he understood the frustrations of United fans but said the club had to "try to make everyone happy".
He added: "It's a big game for us with a lot of demand so we feel it's important we capitalise on that. Our fans have not complained about it.
"It's a lot of money but people here think this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience."
A United fans' banner due to be unfurled at the game, which kicks off at 18:00 GMT, reads: "Welcome to Scamdinavia."
The managing director of the Scandinavian Manchester United Supporters' Club says he supports the planned protest.
Bernt Hjornevik told BBC Radio 5 live: "I've spoken to some of the Danish members about the price and they are also furious."
Last week, Liverpool's owners abandoned plans for a £77 top-priced match-day ticket for next season after fans staged a walkout protest during their home game against Sunderland.
The Black Cats, meanwhile, have announced reductions to their season-ticket prices for the 2016-17 campaign. | FC Midtjylland say selling tickets for Thursday's Europa League match with Manchester United for £71 was "fair". | 35597930 |
The company admitted water pollution and other offences at sewage facilities in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.
One fisherman lost thousands and went out of business because the pollution killed his crayfish, Aylesbury Crown Court heard.
Fish and birds died following the spills in 2013 and 2014.
Aylesbury Crown Court heard on Friday that the spills resulted in hundreds of dead fish, fewer dragon flies, overflowing manholes and sewage spilling into nature reserves.
Environmental damage was caused in the riverside towns of Henley and Marlow.
There were also reports of nappies and other sewage debris spilling into the Thames.
The four Thames Water Utilities Ltd sewage treatment works where the spills occurred were Aylesbury, Didcot, Henley and Little Marlow.
The other site is a large sewage pumping system in Littlemore in Oxford. | Thames Water will face its "biggest ever fine" after pumping millions of gallons of untreated sewage into the River Thames, a judge has warned. | 38867120 |
Underlying annual profits for 2015 fell 2% to £5.4bn. The bank said it would cut its dividend by more than half to 3p per share in 2016 and 2017.
Barclays also announced a further £1.45bn provision for PPI mis-selling.
It said it wanted to form two, main core divisions - Barclays UK and Barclays Corporate and International.
The bank said it would slim down its 62.3% stake in its Africa business in the next two to three years.
Barclays said it would split the company into Barclays UK and Barclays Corporate and International by 2019.
The UK's big four banks are having to make these changes to comply with tougher new banking regulations designed to prevent ordinary customers suffering from decisions made by investment bankers in the event of another credit crisis.
Barclays, like most of the world's major banks, has been tainted by - and fined for - rigging prices in both foreign exchange and Libor interest rates.
It confirmed it was assisting both the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in their investigation about Barclays's hiring practices in Asia, which centre on allegations jobs were given to people with influence.
In the UK, the bank said it had put aside a further £1.45bn this quarter to meet compensation claims for mis-selling payment protection insurance (PPI).
That brings the total for this year to £2.77bn.
Barclays has so far set aside £7.42bn for wrongly selling this insurance for loans.
Mr Staley told the BBC his main aim was to restore the bank's reputation.
"We are working at Barclays to change conduct," he said.
"I am truly dedicated that Barclays rests itself on the foundations of integrity and engenders trust from our clients, so the conduct issues will be a thing of the past.
"I do believe that trust is returning to our institution.
"But we will never rest, we are never done.
"We have to focus on building that trust every day."
Mr Staley said the bank's decision on Africa, where it has had a presence for more than 100 years, had been "very difficult".
"The reality is, in this new regulatory environment, we carry 100% of the liabilities, but we only own 62% of Barclays Africa," he said.
"It truncated possible returns from investing in Africa."
Barclays has more than 12 million customers across 12 nations in Africa.
"You go to places like Uganda and Kenya and the brand of Barclays is as strong there as it is in the UK," Mr Staley said.
"But we have to make some very difficult decisions if we are going to get Barclays into focused, clear, compelling business model that generates returns for our shareholders."
Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the new boss was clearly taking a big broom to Barclays's operations in an attempt to dramatically simplify the group.
"When the dust has cleared, the bank should have two high-quality financial services divisions, and the potential to offer investors a decent dividend, but it is going to take some elbow grease to get there," he said.
Mr Khalaf said the move to reduce its interests in Africa made sense as it would "free up capital and get rid of an unwanted distraction as the bank continues its clean-up operations".
The news that Barclays intends to retreat from Africa after 100 years of doing business there was one of the most eye-catching lines from the Barclays boss.
In recent years, former chief executive Antony Jenkins and before him Bob Diamond had described Africa as an important growth market for the bank.
Barclays Africa employs 45,000 people in Africa, so it is not an easy thing to sell, and the list of potential buyers is not a long one.
At the top of that list of potential buyers might be ex-Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond.
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Barclays also said its bonus pool for staff in 2015 had shrunk 10% to £1.67bn.
Mr Staley, who took up his post in December, told the BBC the bank was competing on an international level.
"In the last four years, Barclays bonus pool has been cut in half," he said.
"This is a dramatic move - but we need to pay competitively.
"Whether it is a bank manager in Manchester or a banker in New York, we need to pay our people competitively for Barclays to be competitive."
The annual report shows former chief executive Antony Jenkins, who was sacked in July, was paid £3.4m last year, of which £500,000 was a bonus payment. | Barclays shares closed down 7% after reporting a drop in full-year profits, a dividend cut and a restructuring including reducing its stake in Africa. | 35693952 |
The move is part of a review undertaken by Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) chief executive Michael Downey.
Britain's Davis and Fed Cup teams, the wheelchair programme and junior training camps will remain at the NTC.
The Roehampton venue opened in 2007 at an estimated cost of £39m, and is also the administrative base of the LTA.
Responding to a report in The Telegraph, an LTA statement said: "Most of the high-performance players who were part of the national programme and based at the NTC are making plans to relocate to high-performance centres."
Former British number one Laura Robson is currently using the NTC as she recovers from a wrist injury, and an LTA statement said the facility would continue to serve as "a drop-in centre for Britain's professional players".
Robson wrote on Twitter: "I think a few of the Fed & Davis cup team members plan to stay as it's closest to our homes/physios are based at NTC."
With 16 outdoor and six indoor courts, a gymnasium and sports science and medical facilities, as well as accommodation, it was hoped the facility in south-west London would help produce world-class players.
However, seven years on, Britain has just two top-100 players in Andy Murray and Heather Watson, neither of whom came through the NTC.
Bob Brett, formerly coach to Boris Becker and Goran Ivanisevic among others, will take up the role of head of player development next month and has already submitted a report on the structure of elite tennis in the UK. | Britain's leading players will not be based at the National Tennis Centre (NTC) in future, relocating instead to high-performance centres around the UK. | 28911520 |
It not yet known what caused the death of the baby rhino, who was born in January and named Fara.
She became ill on Tuesday morning and although keepers and vets stayed by her side, Fara died in the afternoon.
"It is too early for us to speculate to the cause of Fara's death but everything possible was done to help her," said Dr Nick Davies, assistant curator of mammals.
"It is a truly sad time for us all."
Officials have decided to close the rhino house today to give her mother "some quiet time".
Fara arrived on 31 January to mum Kitani, and her birth was caught on film.
The female calf landed safely in a "textbook" birth, said the zoo's curator of mammals Tim Rowlands at the time.
It was the first time Fara's father 15-year-old Sammy had sired a calf.
Eastern black rhino are a critically endangered species and the zoo says there are just 650 left in the wild.
"Fara was the fourth calf born here in the last three years and to date we have had a very successful breeding programme so Fara's death will be felt deeply by all those who cared for her every day," said Dr Davies.
The zoo says its breeding programme is using "ground-breaking science" to monitor the hormone levels of female rhinos, ensuring they are introduced to potential partners at the best time.
It also provides support to other organisations around the world who are involved in protecting the survival of the species.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | A black rhino calf has died at Chester Zoo, keepers have announced. | 31730735 |
She reported being attacked while walking in Chapel Street, Levenshulme, Manchester, on 22 November 2016.
A 16-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of rape faces no further action.
Ch Insp John-Paul Ruffle said: "It is not appropriate for us to pursue a prosecution in this instance due to a number of vulnerabilities."
"The girl is now being fully supported by specially trained officers and partner agencies." | A 12-year-old girl has admitted to police a rape allegation she made "was not genuine" and the case has been dropped. | 38859782 |
The Commons energy committee, which has been investigating the impact of Brexit on energy policy, urged the UK to delay leaving Europe's nuclear regulator.
Power supplies could be threatened if a new regulator was not ready, it said.
Ministers had told the committee that guaranteeing the UK's supply of nuclear fuel was a "high priority".
The report, by the cross-party Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, warns that Brexit could distract the government from introducing policies to tackle climate change and result in key standards being removed.
It says there is a long-term risk the UK will become a "rule-taker" - unable to influence European rules and standards it has to comply with - and says plans to leave the European regulator Euratom have not been thought through.
Committee chairman Iain Wright said: "Ministers must act as urgently as possible. The repercussions of failing to do so are huge.
"The continued operations of the UK nuclear industry are at risk," the Labour MP said.
The committee recommended delaying the UK's departure from Euratom, until alternative arrangements were in place, saying that would "minimise and disruptions to trade and threats to power supplies".
Former Business Secretary Sir Vince Cable said it was "madness" to pull out of Euratom, adding it would be "a monumental waste of time and money".
"The report makes clear that leaving will threaten power supplies.
"It shows the dogma of the Conservative Brexit ultras that they are prepared to risk power supplies, trade and research just for misguided ideological reasons," Sir Vince said.
Justin Bowden, national officer of the GMB union, said: "The latest stark warning about Euratom and the Brexit approach to nuclear power, yet again emphasises our government's lack of anything that could be called a coherent energy policy.
"Decisive action must take place now. The electorate will not forgive politicians of any political party who fail in their duty to maintain the electricity supply," he said.
As well as warning over regulation of the nuclear industry, the business committee's report also warned that there were risks if the UK started regulating areas like energy efficiency differently from the rest of the European Union.
"The UK could become a dumping ground for energy inefficient products," the report said.
"The committee urges the government to mirror or retain European standards for the immediate future at least," it said.
Business Secretary Greg Clark gave evidence to the committee in April. He told the MPs it was "a very high priority" that arrangements were in place that would guarantee the UK's supply of nuclear fuel.
Responding to the report, Mr Clark said: "The future of the nuclear industry in this country can only be protected by a prime minister who will actually stand up for Britain and nuclear power in Brexit negotiations.
"That's the stark choice in this election - strong leadership with Theresa May, who has already commissioned the first new nuclear power station in a generation, or entrusting Britain's nuclear future to floundering Jeremy Corbyn, a man who has spent his political career pushing for nuclear power stations to be decommissioned entirely."
In March the first concrete was poured at Hinkley Point C in Somerset, which marked the construction of Britain's first new nuclear power plant in more than 20 years.
Hinkley Point C is the first in a series of planned nuclear projects to replace ageing nuclear reactors and coal-fired power stations. | Ministers must act "as urgently as possible" to clarify how the nuclear industry will be regulated after Brexit, MPs have warned. | 39774062 |
Just seven of the 42 people on board survived when their plane crashed into Winter Hill in Lancashire in thick fog on 27 February 1958.
The tragedy came just three weeks after the Munich air disaster.
Most on board were mechanics, engineers and motor traders from the Isle of Man who were on their way to visit the Exide battery factory in Manchester.
A service, organised by the Rotary Club of Douglas, was held this morning at the Winter Hill Memorial in St John's.
A spokesman said it was an opportunity to "remember those who lost their lives and their loved ones."
He added: "It was also a chance to give thanks to the residents of Horwich."
Horwich Rotary Club members were among the first on the scene in 1958 and were heavily involved in rescue attempts.
Emergency crews dug through 6ft (2m) snowdrifts to reach the injured. | A memorial service to commemorate the 35 victims of the Winter Hill air disaster has been held on the island. | 31660536 |
For Republicans the weather has meant delays and bad news - at least for their campaign against Democrats.
Every month US state department officials release a batch of emails from former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's private computer server. They're following an order from a federal judge who said that the emails must be shown to the public.
A batch of emails was scheduled for release on 29 January.
On Friday, though, state department lawyers asked the federal court for an extension on their deadline for releasing the emails, saying the blizzard would hamper their work.
They said they'd planned to spend time on the task over the weekend. But now wouldn't have time to process the emails and asked for an extra month to complete their work.
Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, said it wasn't the snow that slowed the state department officials down - but politics.
He said they were trying to avoid "damaging developments in Hillary Clinton's email scandal" this month, shortly before voters go to Iowa caucuses and choose candidates in the New Hampshire primary. The caucuses are on Monday, and the primary is on 9 February.
Clinton and other candidates are campaigning in these states in a tough race for the presidency. Republicans believe that her emails may show signs of wrongdoing - which will embarrass or discredit her as a candidate.
And now the US House of Representatives has cancelled votes all week because of the snow.
This will delay the efforts of Republicans to override US President Barack Obama's veto of a bill that would repeal parts of his Affordable Care Act.
Some Republicans want to knock down the Affordable Care Act, which is also known as Obamacare, because they said it's bad for the US economy, among other things.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republicans didn't expect victory with the vote. They knew they didn't have enough support in Congress to override the president's veto.
Still they believed it was important as a symbolic act. Now it will have to be postponed.
"A lot of folks are just annoyed because they're not able to do something that would give the administration heartburn," said Aaron Jones, the director of congressional relations at the Wilson Center and a former staffer for a Republican congressman, Hal Rogers of Kentucky.
Not surprisingly leading Democrats have said little about the delayed vote. This week they've been relatively sanguine about the weather and its effect on the city.
In the past Obama has complained about the way Washingtonians react to snow.
Not long after he arrived, he heard classes at his daughters' school, Sidwell Friends, were cancelled because roads were icy. He thought people should buck up.
"We're going to have to try to apply some flinty Chicago toughness," he said.
This time, though, he hasn't chastised people in Washington for not being flinty enough, especially as the storm has led to fatal car crashes and other deaths.
His own plans the week seem unchanged, however.
He travelled around Washington on Monday and made snow jokes, pretending to hold up a shovel before he got on board a presidential helicopter. Meanwhile his dogs, Bo and Sunny, have been playing in the yard.
Others in Washington said the weather delays mean little.
After digging his car out of the snow, Jones spoke to me on a mobile phone. He said the snow might slow things down. But it wouldn't stop them from getting done.
People would still be able read the Clinton emails even if they're released late. (The court was closed on Monday, and it's not clear what the judges will say about an extension.)
Republicans will vote on Obamacare when they return to Capitol Hill.
"The theatre's going to continue," he said, "once they come back."
Follow @Tara_Mckelvey. | The blizzard left nearly 2ft (60cm) of snow in the Washington area, making it of one of the biggest storms in the city's history. | 35406200 |
The $50bn (£32bn) scheme, being built by a Chinese firm, will be longer, deeper and wider than the Panama Canal.
But the demonstrators fear it will have huge environmental costs and force thousands off their land.
Nicaragua's government says the canal will bring vital investment to one of Central America's poorest countries.
Some among the protesters, who were mostly farmers, accused President Daniel Ortega of selling Nicaragua to the Chinese.
Initial site work began last December, with completion due in five years.
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Read our terms and conditions. | Thousands of Nicaraguans have held a protest against the planned construction of a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. | 33125526 |
And, after the group-stage draw in Monaco, chief executive Peter Lawwell remarked: "We're back where we belong."
The Scottish champions had been drawn in Group C, alongside Barcelona, Manchester City and Borussia Monchengladbach.
In terms of history and even stature - the 60,000 home crowds, the club's global appeal through the Scottish and Irish diaspora - Celtic can feel a sense of belonging.
City and Gladbach have never won the European Cup after all. Yet, by other measures, Celtic face a stark competitive challenge in Group C, a reminder that money and status take little heed of tradition.
Celtic and Barcelona have played so often in recent years the fixture somehow seems commonplace. This will be their third set of European ties in four years - and their fifth since 2004.
In all, the two clubs have met 12 times in European competition, with the Spaniards having won seven and Celtic only two. Neil Lennon's side memorably earned a hard-fought and dramatic 2-1 victory at Celtic Park in 2012, which at least provides some small vestige of hope.
There were some major players for Celtic that night - Fraser Forster, Kris Commons, Joe Ledley, Victor Wanyama - but the starting line-up also contained Efe Ambrose in defence and Miku in attack. Even so, Celtic are still more of a work in progress now under Brendan Rodgers, because he has only been manager for a matter of months.
Barcelona continue to combine a thrilling sense of style with a hard-edged ruthlessness.
They won La Liga by a single point from Real Madrid last season, with Atletico Madrid a further two behind. As if any emphasis was needed of the scale of that achievement, the latter two sides contested the Champions League final.
Since then, Barcelona have signed midfielder Andre Gomes from Valencia, Samuel Umtiti, the centre-back who played in the European Championship final for France, from Lyon, left-back Lucas Digne from Paris St-Germain, Netherlands international goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen from Ajax and Denis Suarez, the Villarreal midfielder.
In total, they have spent almost £79m, while Celtic have so far signed three players for less than £5m.
Celtic have developed strong working ties with Manchester City. At executive and coaching level, there is a sense of collaboration between the two clubs.
The Scottish champions loaned Jason Denayer from City two seasons ago, then John Guidetti and now Patrick Roberts, who will be free to play against his parent club, as well as signing Dedryck Boyata.
Those connections, and the fact Celtic defender Kolo Toure may face his younger brother Yaya for the first time in European competition, are a small if diverting sub-plot, though.
In City, they are facing the latest project of Pep Guardiola, a manager so consumed with his work and its details that he watched three videos of St Johnstone before playing them in a pre-season closed-door friendly during the summer.
There is almost a casual air to City's financial power. They spent more on John Stones, the 22-year-old Everton defender (£47.26m), and Leroy Sane, the 20-year-old Schalke attacker (£42.5m), combined than Barcelona's entire summer recruitment.
A total of £180m has been spent reshaping the squad for Guardiola, who is implementing many of the tactical ploys he refined at Bayern Munich, with his wide attackers playing like wingers and his full-backs moving upfield and inside to supplement the midfield.
It may take time for Guardiola's work to be fully integrated, but with the likes of Sergio Aguero, David Silva, Kevin de Bruyne, Raheem Sterling and Nolito capable of winning interventions of their own, City can still be devastating during their development.
Celtic have never faced Borussia Monchengladbach before. In comparative terms, the German side is weaker than Barcelona and Manchester City, but this is their second successive appearance in the Champions League group stage.
On their way to finishing fourth in the Bundesliga, they defeated Bayern Munich at home and drew 1-1 in Munich. They finished bottom of their Champions League group last season, but it contained Manchester City, Juventus and Sevilla - and they still defeated the Spaniards once and drew twice with Juventus.
The squad is weaker than last season following Havard Nordtveit's departure to West Ham United and Granit Xhaka's move to Arsenal, but they can still call upon Thorgan Hazard, the brother of Chelsea's Eden, Germany international midfielder Christoph Kramer and Brazilian striker Raffael, who scored 13 Bundesliga goals last season.
There are still funds to strengthen a squad that won more Bundesliga games than all but three sides last season - and scoring more Bundesliga goals than all the teams other than Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund.
For Celtic, the return to the very heart of the elite is exhilarating but also daunting. | Celtic felt their absence from the group stage of the Champions League like a loss, as if an essential part of their identity was missing. | 37191768 |
The new condition was announced by Malta in a joint statement with the European Commission.
Applicants will still have to invest at least 1.15m euros (£944,000; $1.57m) in Malta to get a passport.
MEPs have condemned the Maltese scheme, saying it cheapens EU citizenship.
Earlier Malta had not set any residency requirement for rich foreigners wishing to get Maltese passports.
The new stipulation says "no certificate of naturalisation will be issued unless the applicant provides proof that he/she has resided in Malta for a period of at least 12 months immediately preceding the day of issuing of the certificate of naturalisation".
It followed talks between EU Commission officials and the Maltese government. EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding has said applicants should have "a genuine link to the country" - not just the ability to pay.
Malta, like most of the EU's 28 countries, is in the Schengen zone, where citizens can mostly travel without passport checks. The EU single market has made it much easier for citizens to settle in another member state.
Owning an EU member state's passport entitles the holder to EU citizenship, with all the rights guaranteed under EU law.
Malta's scheme, called the Individual Investor Programme (IIP), was initially to be limited to 1,800 people - not including their close relatives, who could also buy passports, for a lower fee.
But Malta is now considering raising that cap, so that more passports could be issued.
The scheme is being managed by a Jersey-based company, Henley and Partners. On its website the company says applicants will be subject to strict vetting and "only highly respectable clients will be admitted". The scheme is aimed at "ultra-high net worth individuals and families worldwide". | Malta has bowed to EU pressure over its controversial new passport scheme for non-EU nationals, saying applicants will now be required to spend at least a year in Malta in order to qualify. | 25959458 |
Alan Williams was refused outline consent for the proposal at Whitmuir Hall by Scottish Borders Council's planning committee in April.
The refusal came despite planning officials at the local authority and those in its economic development department backing the plans.
A final decision on the development is expected in October.
Mr Williams' proposals were knocked back by the committee after members said there was insufficient economic justification for the proposals.
Mr Williams has lodged his appeal against the decision with Scotland's Department of Planning and Environmental Appeals.
A planning reporter is now due to be appointed to the project before carrying out a visit to the proposed site.
In 2012, the council's planning committee rejected an outline application for 28 chalets by Mr Williams.
The decision to reject the scheme was upheld the following year by a Scottish government planning reporter. | A developer who hopes to build 19 holiday lodges near Selkirk is appealing a decision to reject them. | 36976124 |
Bray, without a win in five, took a sixth-minute lead through Darragh Noone but Derry levelled on 22 minutes when Ronan Curtis went through to score.
Ryan Brennan headed Wanderers 2-1 up just before half-time.
Derry equalised again through Nathan Boyle early in the second half but Tom Clancy bundled in a late winner.
Clancy had scored the winner when Bray won away to Derry earlier in the season by the same 3-2 scoreline.
It was a huge disappointment for Derry as they had looked destined to get at least a point.
They recovered from that early Noone goal to level through Republic of Ireland Under-21 player Curtis who went on to beat home keeper Peter Cherrie after a superb pass by Nicky Low.
City will be disappointed with the marking which allowed Brennan the chance to head in Bray's second from Gary McCabe's free-kick delivery.
Derry levelled again when Aaron McEneff's pass found Boyle who turned to shoot low into the corner.
The visitors were undone by a set piece for a second time when substitute Clancy forced the ball in after a corner with nine minutes left.
The defeat sees Derry slip two places to fifth as Shamrock Rovers also moved above them by winning away to Finn Harps. | Derry City fell to their first defeat in 11 matches when they were beaten 3-2 away by Bray Wanderers who replace them in third place in the Premier Division. | 40291155 |
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But the people who look after lots of rivers in England and Wales want us to stop giving them their traditional snack.
So what should we feed the ducks instead?
Ayshah's got more details. | Spring is nearly here so the time is right to head down to your local park and feed the local ducks. | 32190419 |
They studied the diaries of medical officers on his Antarctic expeditions at Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute, which refer to a heart murmur, breathlessness and breakdowns.
Cardiologist Dr Jan Till and retired doctor Ian Calder said the symptoms were "consistent" with the defect.
Shackleton died from a heart attack, aged 47, in South Georgia in 1922.
Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Dr Till, a consultant cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, and Mr Calder, a retired anaesthetist, said they believed he suffered from a congenital heart defect.
In 1903, during his first Antarctic expedition in the Discovery, Shackleton suffered breathlessness and weakness, according to the diary of team member Dr Edward Wilson.
His second expedition on the Nimrod was also marred by illness.
On 20 January 1908, medical officer Dr Eric Marshall wrote: "Heard S was very unwell after pulling on a rope. Will not hold myself responsible until he allows me to examine him. Something wrong?"
On another occasion he wrote: "Shacks collapsed after dinner tonight".
Shackleton was still "very unwell" the following day and had an irregular pulse.
He also mentioned a heart murmur.
In 1914, Shackleton made his third Antarctic trip on Endurance,
Dr James McIlroy, medical officer on the third and fourth expeditions, said Shackleton refused to allow him to listen to his heart when he became unwell.
He said Shackleton's wife had insisted he see a heart specialist before the Nimrod expedition and although he went, he refused to let the doctor listen to his heart.
From these and other diary entries the researchers concluded Shackleton's various symptoms were "consistent with an ostium secundum atrial septal defect" - commonly known as a hole in the heart.
On 5 January 1922, Shackleton died from a heart attack. | Polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton may have had a hole in his heart, researchers have concluded. | 35303072 |
Tracey Woodford, 47, was found dead in the Rhondda Cynon Taff town in April after being reported missing.
Christopher Nathan May, 50, from the Graig area of the town, denies murder.
Cardiff Crown Court heard on Wednesday he may have used his butchery skills to dismember Ms Woodford's body.
Her severed head was found on a ledge in an "underground chamber" 138m (453ft) inside a storm drain near Pontypridd Rugby Club.
Part of her lower torso was also discovered in the drain.
"The defendant carried a body part and the head from his flat, through part of Pontypridd, entering a dark tunnel and walking into it for 138m - a significant distance," Roger Thomas QC, prosecuting, told the jury.
"You may want to ask: What is going on in this man's mind?"
"What's the purpose of displaying the head in that manner?" he added. "It's a very strange thing to have done with it."
An expert said the way the body had been dismembered showed whoever had done it, had some "skill and knowledge".
The prosecution claimed a witness said Mr May instructed him on how to cut and bone animal carcasses when he had worked in a butcher's shop 30 years ago.
"It seems that his experience in butcher shops has been put to use on a human body," Mr Thomas said.
He said the cause of Ms Woodford's death was pressure to her neck.
However, she suffered many of her injuries while putting up a "desperate but ultimately unsuccessful struggle to save her life", he added.
The jury has been told some of the evidence during the two-week case would be "distressing", after hearing how police found remains of Ms Woodford in a bathroom at the flat where the accused lived.
She had been reported missing for three days by her family, after last being seen drinking at the Skinny Dog pub in Pontypridd.
The jury was told there was a "sexual motivation" for the killing and the dismemberment.
It also heard claims Mr May had mentioned in the pub that he "loved redheads" in the days before the killing, and that his affection stemmed from his sincere love for his daughter.
Skinny Dog barmaid Rebecca Williams told the court she knew Mr May and had often given him lifts home from the pub.
Ms Williams said: "He was a polite gentleman. I never had to say bad words to him at the pub. I never had to stop his drink."
She said those at the pub used to call Mr May "little legs" due to his short height.
Mr Thomas told the jury earlier in the trial the defendant claimed he either acted in self-defence, it was an accident or he lost self-control.
But addressing the court on Wednesday, he said there could only be one conclusion about the killing, and that it was "a perverted sexual desire that manifested itself violently that night".
The trial is continuing. | A former butcher accused of murdering a woman in a sexually motivated attack carried her head through Pontypridd and hid it in a storm drain, a court heard. | 34788319 |
Mohammad Kamaruzzaman of the Jamaat-e-Islami was found guilty of genocide and torture by a special war crimes tribunal in May last year.
The same tribunal sentenced party chief Motiur Rahman Nizami to die last week.
Another leader, Mir Quasem Ali, was also given the death penalty on Sunday.
Kamaruzzaman, 62, was found guilty of crimes which include a mass killing of at least 120 unarmed male farmers in the northern border town of Sohagpur.
He is due to be hanged.
The convictions of Jamaat-e-Islami leaders have outraged supporters, who have been on a three-day strike, due to end on Monday, in protest at Nizami's sentencing last Wednesday.
There are different estimates for the number of people killed in the nine-month Bangladeshi war of secession from Pakistan in 1971.
Government figures suggest as many as three million people died, while some say that figure is too high and unverifiable.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina set up the war crimes tribunal in 2010 to look into abuses during the independence war.
The first person the tribunal executed was Jamaat-e-Islami senior leader Abdul Kader Mullah last December.
But earlier this year the Supreme Court overturned the death sentence passed against another senior JI leader, Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, commuting it to life imprisonment.
Critics of the controversial court say the government is using the tribunal to target political opponents. But the Awami League, which leads the current government, says it is necessary to help the country come to terms with its past.
Violent clashes across Bangladesh over the tribunal's verdicts in 2013 left about 100 people dead, BBC Bengali's Akbar Hossein reports. | Bangladesh's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence given to a leader in the country's largest Islamist party for atrocities committed during the country's war of independence. | 29875827 |
The body of John Henry Sabine, who would now have been 85, was found at the rear of flats at Trem-y-Cwm, Beddau, on 24 November.
Det Ch Insp Gareth Morgan told the hearing in Aberdare there is an ongoing murder investigation.
Mr Sabine's wife Leigh Anne is the main suspect.
Mrs Sabine died of cancer on 30 October.
The court heard that a postmortem carried out by pathologist Richard Jones found the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head, although the date of his death was unknown.
Coroner Andrew Barkley adjourned the case ahead of a pre-inquest review on 10 March. | A man found in plastic wrapping in the garden of his former Rhondda Cynon Taff home died of "blunt force trauma to the head", a coroner's court has heard. | 35121068 |
The 12-time Grand Slam champion secured a 6-1 7-6 (7-4) 6-2 victory in an entertaining match in Melbourne.
World number nine Rafael Nadal earlier reached the second round with a commanding display.
The injury-hit Spaniard, who lost in the first round last year, beat Germany's Florian Mayer 6-3 6-4 6-4.
World number two Djokovic will next face Denis Istomin or Ivan Dodig while Nadal, attempting to win his first Grand Slam title since 2014, will play Marcos Baghdatis.
Djokovic, 29, was hardly stretched as he took the first set inside 31 minutes as Verdasco, who received warm support from the crowd, badly mistimed several shots.
But Verdasco broke straight away in the second set, putting Djokovic under pressure. He eventually forced a tie-break despite a slew of unforced errors.
However, his inconsistency meant he could not capitalise on Djokovic's errors and the Serb went on to secure his place in the second round.
"It feels like home," said Djokovic. "It feels like coming to the place where I have an amazing number of incredible memories.
"When I saw the draw I thought to myself, this is going to be the only match I could focus on."
Nadal, 30, had played just four matches since September's US Open after struggling last year with a wrist injury.
He dominated Mayer from the start, taking just over two hours to secure a straight-set victory in 39 degree heat.
"I was healthy enough to practise the way I wanted to, so that's important for me," Nadal added.
"I've had a longer period of time here in Australia, it was great experience and I was able to play in Brisbane."
Third seed Milos Raonic went through with a comfortable 6-3 6-4 6-2 victory over Germany's Dustin Brown.
The 26-year-old Canadian, a semi-finalist last year, hit 18 aces and 46 winners, and will next face either Luxembourg's Gilles Muller or American Taylor Fritz.
Brisbane International champion Grigor Dimitrov beat Australia's Christopher O'Connell 7-6(2) 6-3 6-3, while France's Richard Gasquet also advanced after a 6-4 6-4 6-2 over Australian Blake Mott.
Croatia's Ivo Karlovic and Argentine Horacio Zeballos played out a mammoth match on court 19 lasting five hours and 14 minutes.
Karlovic, the 20th seed, eventually took the fifth set 22-20 after a total of 84 games. He won 118 of the 226 points played.
The match, which Karlovic won 6-7 (6-8) 3-6 7-5 6-2 22-20, is the longest at the Australian Open in terms of games since tie-breaks were introduced for the first four sets in the 1970s.
It is the joint-second longest in terms of time, alongside Nadal's semi-final win over Verdasco in 2009 and behind only Djokovic's defeat of Nadal in the 2012 final.
However, it falls almost six hours short of the longest match in history - John Isner taking 11 hours and five minutes to beat Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon in 2010 in a match decided 70-68 in the final set.
Find out how to get into tennis in our special guide. | Defending champion Novak Djokovic reached the second round of the Australian Open by beating Spain's Fernando Verdasco in straight sets. | 38646419 |
Auckland Castle was saved last year by a £15m donation from businessman Jonathan Ruffer, after Church Commissioners tried to sell it.
It was then handed over to a new charitable trust, The Auckland Castle Trust, who have redeveloped the site into a heritage tourist attraction.
The revamp coincides with Durham County Council's redevelopment of the town.
Paintings by Spanish artist Francisco Zurbaran, which hung in the castle for 250 years, were also included in the deal.
The former home of the Bishops of Durham now has guided tours, a children's trail for younger visitors, a new tearoom and an exhibition of religious artwork.
Chief executive Rowena Hackwood, said: "We can't wait to welcome visitors from Country Durham and the wider region and to showcase some fantastic new features which kick-start our major development plans.
"Auckland Castle offers something for everyone and is not just a destination for art aficionados and lovers of history, culture and architecture."
Over the next five years, work will be carried out to give public access to new areas of the site and its grounds and the 17th Century walled garden and the 14th Century Scotland Wing will be restored. | A County Durham castle which is home to a collection of 17th Century religious paintings has reopened. | 21993157 |
It allows a security council led by Mr Najib Razak to declare a state of emergency anywhere deemed to be at risk, giving police wide powers.
Mr Najib has said the law is necessary as Malaysia is facing a growing threat from Islamist terror networks.
But the UN has said it could encourage human rights violations.
The new laws were approved by parliament in December and came into effect on Monday.
Now, if the Najib-led council declares a local state of emergency, security forces can impose curfews and are granted wide powers of arrest, seizure and use of force, for which they can also be granted immunity.
The United Nations said last week it was "gravely concerned" the law might encourage human rights violations and lead to restrictions on free speech.
Human right charity Amnesty said the Malaysian government had "assumed potentially abusive powers".
Ibrahim Suffian, a political analyst in Kuala Lumpur, said the laws will worry many as similar laws in Malaysia "have been in the end used for political dissidents".
Mr Najib has said his government "will never apologise for placing the safety and security of the Malaysian people first".
He pointed to the threat posed by militants like the so-called Islamic State (IS) group which was blamed by police for a grenade attack on a bar near Kuala Lumpur in June.
It comes as the prime minister is facing increasing questions over his involvement in the massive financial scandal surrounding the Malaysian development fund 1MDB.
Mr Najib is believed to be the "Official 1" mentioned in a US embezzlement case involving the fund.
He denies accusations of wrongdoing and and has been cleared by a domestic investigation into the scandal.
He has also moved to punish officials and media outlets which criticised him over the scandal. | A new security law giving Malaysia's prime minister sweeping new powers has prompted concern it could restrict rights and stifle democracy. | 36938782 |
The 29-year-old, an eight-time national champion in Luxembourg, edged out three-time world road race champion Marianne Vos on the 138.5km stage.
Lizzie Armitstead, one of Majerus' Boels Dolmans team-mates, was the highest-placed Briton, finishing 18th.
Compatriot Rebecca Durrell was 25th, with Olympic gold medallist Dani King one place further back.
1. Christine Majerus (Lux/Boel-Dolmans) 3hrs 24mins 48secs
2. Marianne Vos (Ned/Raboliv) same time
3. Giorgia Bronzini (Ita/Wiggle High5)
4. Marta Bastianelli (Ita/Ale Cipollini)
5. Lotta Lepisto (Fin/Cervelo-Bigla)
6. Leah Kirchmann (Can/Liv-Plantur)
7. Lucinda Brand (Ned/Rabo-Liv)
8. Alison Tetrick (US/Cylance)
9. Elisa Longo Borghini (Ita/Wiggle High5) +6secs
10. Floortje Mackaij (Ned/Liv-Plantur)
Selected others
18. Lizzie Armitstead (GB/Boels-Dolmans) +9secs
25. Rebecca Durrell (GB/Drops)
26. Dani King (GB/Wiggle High5)
34. Grace Garner (GB/British National)
35. Annasley Park (GB/British National)
41. Laura Massey (GB/Drops)
44. Jessie Walker (GB/British National) | Christine Majerus sprinted to victory on the opening stage of the Women's Tour from Southwold to Norwich. | 36542696 |
Delyn Labour MP David Hanson told MPs that 13-year-old George Atkinson had died when a pellet hit his head after an airgun went off accidentally.
Mr Hanson said the law should require airguns to be stored in metal gun cabinets, with trigger locks for the weapons further improving safety.
Policing Minister Brandon Lewis said he would consider the suggestions.
The teenager, from Pontblyddyn in Wales, near Mold, was playing with another boy when an air gun accidentally went off.
Mr Hanson said that the pain of that loss remained strong for the family and they wanted further tragedies to be prevented.
He said that in the last 27 years, 17 children had died as a result of airguns.
"Sadly the circumstances of George's death could be repeated today unless further action is taken," Mr Hanson said.
The MP also said that the RSPCA had reported a 49% increase in airgun attacks on animals over two years, and the charity wanted the legal age for unsupervised use of airguns to be raised from 14 to 17.
Mr Hanson said that securely locking away airguns in a metal gun cabinet when not in use, as with other firearms, would be a "small but important change" which would deter young people.
Requiring trigger locks on the weapons would further improve safety, he added.
Responding for the UK Government, Mr Lewis said that public safety was the top of his agenda, but that it was important to strike the right balance.
He said everyone had to take responsibility to ensure that weapons are not handled unsupervised by those under the age of 18.
"What is reasonable can and will vary according to the circumstances," Mr Lewis said.
The minister said the UK government recognised that there were legitimate uses for air weapons, such as shooting sports, but confirmed he would look again at Mr Hanson's ideas.
In Scotland it will be a criminal offence to have an air weapon without a licence or permit from 31 December 2016. | The events which led to a child's death from an airgun shot in 1999 could happen again, a Welsh MP has warned. | 37363292 |
The figure is to be placed outside the attraction's Downing Street set, joining world leaders such as Donald Trump and Angela Merkel.
Madame Tussauds says the likeness will be revealed by the end of the year, despite Mrs May being unable to attend a modelling session.
A team of sculptors typically spend 170 hours moulding a waxwork before hair and make-up are applied.
Likenesses of sitting prime ministers regularly appear at Madam Tussauds.
In the last 20 years, only Gordon Brown was snubbed as he had not won a general election, Madame Tussauds told the BBC.
Waxworks of David Cameron, Tony Blair and Winston Churchill sit in storage awaiting a return to the front line, depending on what is happening in the world and what is popular.
Edward Fuller, general manager of Madame Tussauds London, said: "While the prime minister's Brexit strategy may be unclear, we can be sure that her completed figure will bear a striking resemblance to the woman herself when it launches later this year." | Prime Minister Theresa May is to get her own waxwork at Madame Tussauds. | 40887752 |
Terry McSpadden was 24 when he went missing after leaving a Wisbech pub and police now believe he is dead.
His family said his two children "still miss their daddy".
The last sighting of Mr McSpadden was at the Locomotive pub at 01:00 GMT on 2 March 2007 when he said he was going home to nearby Elm but never arrived.
Crimestoppers has put up a £5,000 reward to try to solve his disappearance.
Det Insp Marie James, of Norfolk Police, said: "While Terry's disappearance was initially treated as a missing person inquiry, we have long since believed that Terry is no longer alive and his death was as the result of foul play.
"His body has never been found.
"We believe there are other people with important information who may have previously not felt able to come forward."
Mr McSpadden was known as a reliable and hard worker with strong local ties.
Det Insp James said: "His family deserve answers and we need to bring those responsible to justice.
"We are asking people who have the information to have the courage to come forward."
Mr McSpadden's mother, Helen Thrower, said: "The grief doesn't get any easier.
"We have had laughter and tears with people reminiscing about Terry - such lovely memories about a truly missed son."
His stepmother Susan Rolfe said: "Terry's children miss their daddy and really want him to come home.
"It is like living in a nightmare. Somebody must know something that will help us establish what happened seven years ago."
A man was charged with murder in 2011 but the case against him was later dismissed, with the judge in the case at Norwich Crown Court citing insufficient evidence. | A £5,000 reward has been offered to help solve a seven-year mystery of how a father of two vanished during a night out in a pub in Cambridgeshire. | 26368409 |
Particular concerns were raised about maths where performance has fallen from high to average over the past decade.
The review of the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) was undertaken by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The international experts said CfE was at a "watershed moment" and changes could deliver a world class system.
The curriculum has been operating in schools since 2010 and gives teachers more flexibility over what and how they teach.
The OECD review, commissioned by the Scottish government, focused on the "broad general education" element of the curriculum up the age of 15 and found "much to be positive about", including;
The review team also highlighted some "problems and challenges", including;
The CfE aims to give learners a "holistic understanding" of what it means to be a young Scot growing up in today's world.
It aims to equip learners with four key "capacities" - successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens, and effective contributors.
However, the report noted there was still some confusion about what constitutes the CfE and suggests setting out clearer definitions.
It also highlighted concerns from school inspectors that assessment results are often not used to improve pupils' learning progress - and a lack of clarity over what should be assessed.
The experts concluded: "Current national assessment arrangements in Scotland do not provide sufficiently robust information, whether for system-level policy-making, or for local authorities or an individual school."
The report notes that these problems may be remedied by the new system of national testing announced recently by the first minister.
The experts called for more academic research into how the curriculum is being implemented and suggest it be less centrally managed, with a greater role for schools themselves and local authorities.
They added: "To achieve the full potential of CfE, building on the valuable consensus and the clear enthusiasm, and for this watershed moment to be 'take off point' there is a more ambitious theory of change needed."
Scotland's largest teaching union, EIS, said the report painted a "largely positive picture" of Scottish education.
General secretary Larry Flanagan said: "It confirms previous data that indicates that Scottish schools and levels of pupil attainment compare well both internationally and with other countries within the UK.
"It also highlights the well-established challenges facing Scottish education, including the poverty-related attainment gap that continues to have a negative impact on too many young people across the country."
The Scottish government said it "broadly supported" the OECD recommendations - and said the review supported its plans to introduce national testing as part of its National Improvement Framework.
First minister Nicola Sturgeon said: "We share their view that we have a great opportunity to lead the world in developing an integrated assessment and evaluation framework.
"I firmly believe the Framework will play an important role in driving work to close the attainment gap and continually improve Scottish education."
Scottish Conservative young person spokeswoman Liz Smith said the review confirmed many encouraging signs including good levels of achievement in science and reading.
"However, it also confirms that there are major issues in numeracy and it sends out a very stark message about addressing failing schools,' she added.
"A range of recent statistics prove the extent of the attainment gap and the fact that literacy and numeracy are not as strong as they should be." | Achievement in Scottish schools is above international averages - but the gap is narrowing, a review has found. | 35101835 |
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The Bills came from behind with 28 unanswered points to lead with two minutes remaining but Allen Hurns' diving touchdown sealed a 34-31 win.
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His score - with little room to work with in the corner - sealed the Jags' first Wembley win in three attempts.
Marcus Easley and Corey Graham scores set the Bills up for a win on their London debut before the late drama.
Pre-game favourites the Bills will rue early errors from quarterback EJ Manuel who fumbled to allow Chris Clemons a score and then saw a pass intercepted by Telvin Smith, who touched down in the second quarter.
Seeking just their second win of the regular season, the Jaguars looked edgy despite their 27-13 half-time lead and Graham ran home a 44-yard interception to give the Bills a late advantage, sparking wild scenes on their bench.
But quarterback Blake Bortles was given time to throw a 31-yard pass to the corner and Hurns dived athletically to land inches inside the end zone.
"I just tracked the ball, it was in the moment," Hurns told BBC Sport. "I had to dive for it but you've got to lay it on the line."
The crowd of 84,021 is the second highest in the 13 games since Wembley began staging International Series matches in 2007.
The occasion also sparked activity on social media, with #NFLUK trending in the UK and the subject of over 10,000 tweets from midday.
Fans of gridiron have not got long to wait for the next Wembley instalment as the Detroit Lions meet the Kansas City Chiefs at the home of English football next Sunday.
And games in the UK will continue for the long term, as the NFL has extended its deal to stage at least two a season at Wembley until 2020, while another agreement has been signed for two matches a year at Tottenham Hotspur's new stadium from 2018.
A minimum of four fixtures a year in London is seen as a long-term precursor to a franchise from sport's richest league being based permanently in the English capital. | A dramatic finish saw the Jacksonville Jaguars beat the Buffalo Bills in front of over 84,000 fans at Wembley. | 34633052 |
The Senegal midfielder turned Nedum Onuoha to fire into the top corner.
QPR, led by academy coach Chris Ramsey after boss Harry Redknapp resigned on Tuesday, remain in the bottom three.
Jose Fonte hit the bar in the first half for Southampton, whose left-back Matt Targett was taken to hospital with a head injury.
The England Under-20 defender, in the starting line-up because Ryan Bertrand was suspended, needed seven minutes of treatment on the pitch after being left motionless an aerial collision with QPR winger Matty Phillips.
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Manager Ronald Koeman, though, later confirmed that Targett had suffered no serious damage.
Koeman's side were good value for their fifth successive away victory, against a Rangers side who created few clear chances, although substitute Mauro Zarate had a goal disallowed after Mane scored.
Tim Sherwood, who is expected to be Redknapp's permanent replacement, was not at Loftus Road to witness a game that suggested QPR have a lot of work to do if they are to remain in the Premier League.
Stand-in boss Ramsey attempted to freshen up QPR's side by giving Adel Taarabt - dismissed as not fit enough to play by Redknapp earlier this season - only his second league start of the campaign.
The Moroccan midfielder showed some neat touches, including a clever nutmegging of James Ward-Prowse, but was largely well policed by Victor Wanyama and was substituted after an hour.
Eljero Elia, who scored his first two Southampton goals when they won their last away game at Newcastle on 17 January, nearly embarrassed Rob Green early on, chipping wide from Wanyama's pass with the Rangers keeper out of position.
The visitors had the best first-half chances, with Fonte coming closest as he volleyed Ward-Prowse's corner against the bar from eight yards.
Mane had tested Green before that, and steered a shot wide after running in behind Clint Hill later in the half.
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Rangers created more openings in the second half, with Zarate steering a shot straight at Fraser Forster after Nathaniel Clyne failed to clear Phillips' cross.
Forster then reacted superbly to flick over a Joey Barton shot that was deflected off QPR's 13-goal top scorer Charlie Austin.
But Mane, playing his second Saints game since returning from the Africa Cup of Nations, capped an excellent performance with a stylish winner.
Southampton boss Ronald Koeman on Matt Target's head injury: "Everything is now under control. He will have a headache but nothing more. That's good news."
On his side's performance: "I think we played well. We played good football and we had the best chances in the game. We were maybe lucky that Fraser Forster made that great save 10 minutes before the end, but I think the better team won today."
QPR caretaker-manager Chris Ramsey: "If I'm honest, I felt we rode our luck a bit in the first half. But the defeat was very difficult to take.
"It gives a lot of hope to the owners and fans to see that the players are trying their best to keep us in the division. We had some good spells of play, but we really need to tighten up on the quality of our passing and our creativity in the final third."
Match ends, Queens Park Rangers 0, Southampton 1.
Second Half ends, Queens Park Rangers 0, Southampton 1.
Fraser Forster (Southampton) is shown the yellow card.
Offside, Queens Park Rangers. Mauro Z??rate tries a through ball, but Nedum Onuoha is caught offside.
Foul by James Ward-Prowse (Southampton).
Joey Barton (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Queens Park Rangers 0, Southampton 1. Sadio Man?? (Southampton) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Maya Yoshida.
Graziano Pell?? (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joey Barton (Queens Park Rangers).
Foul by Sadio Man?? (Southampton).
Leroy Fer (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Graziano Pell?? (Southampton).
Joey Barton (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Mauro Z??rate (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Clint Hill.
Offside, Southampton. Maya Yoshida tries a through ball, but Dusan Tadic is caught offside.
Offside, Queens Park Rangers. Nedum Onuoha tries a through ball, but Charlie Austin is caught offside.
Foul by James Ward-Prowse (Southampton).
Leroy Fer (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jose Fonte (Southampton).
Mauro Z??rate (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Eduardo Vargas replaces Richard Dunne.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Richard Dunne (Queens Park Rangers) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Steven Davis (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by James Ward-Prowse.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Southampton. Dusan Tadic replaces Eljero Elia.
Delay in match Steven Caulker (Queens Park Rangers) because of an injury.
Attempt blocked. Sadio Man?? (Southampton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Eljero Elia.
Foul by Maya Yoshida (Southampton).
Charlie Austin (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Sadio Man?? (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nedum Onuoha (Queens Park Rangers).
Morgan Schneiderlin (Southampton) is shown the yellow card.
Graziano Pell?? (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Richard Dunne (Queens Park Rangers).
Corner, Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by Fraser Forster.
Attempt saved. Charlie Austin (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Joey Barton.
Attempt blocked. Joey Barton (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Steven Caulker with a headed pass.
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Mauricio Isla replaces Armand Traore.
Corner, Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by Maya Yoshida. | Sadio Mane's 93rd-minute winner moved Southampton up to third in the Premier League as managerless QPR suffered a fifth straight defeat. | 31071178 |
Three workers at the Old Deanery in Essex, who were caught on camera during an undercover Panorama report, last week admitted assaulting residents.
Gill Lee's mother Joan Maddison, 85, was also shown being insulted and goaded in the 2014 documentary.
Mrs Lee said she had known that "something was wrong".
She said she became suspicious after her mother, who has dementia, appeared to "change overnight" after she was moved to another room in the Braintree home, with different carers.
"Before that she was very happy, she was described as a social butterfly and it was a joy to see her flourish.
"It was almost like an overnight switch in her attitude and becoming very wary of certain people," she said.
The management dismissed her fears, she said, and "no-one was prepared to listen" at the home.
"My sister and I knew something was wrong, and that gut instinct, if you have that feeling, you must follow it through.
"It was a relief to know we weren't going mad and we were vindicated in our continual quest to find answers," she said.
The family has decided to keep former social worker Mrs Maddison in the home because she seems "very happy again" now the workers have been dismissed.
The three carers, Adeshola Adewura, 33, Lorna Clark, 45, and Anita Ray, 47, will be sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court next month.
They were were charged with assault after detectives saw the programme and began an investigation.
Former owners Anglian Retirement Homes apologised "unreservedly" for the abuse at the time.
The home is now called the New Deanery Care Home and is owned by Sonnet Care Homes, which said it has "invested substantially" in staff training. | The daughter of an elderly woman who was filmed being slapped at a care home has said it was "devastating" to watch secret recordings of the abuse. | 35360054 |
He made 203 on day two of the second Test against New Zealand to help his side to 356 all out, a lead of 135.
Sangakkara will quit one-day international cricket after the World Cup, which starts in February.
But the 37-year-old said he will "see whether there is a few more months of cricket in me Test-wise".
Sangakkara, who spent the first third of his Test career keeping wicket - claiming 178 catches and 20 stumpings before giving up the gloves - also became the fastest player to reach 12,000 Test runs on day one.
"It just depends on how everything pans out after this World Cup," added the former law student.
"It's really hard to predict what will happen and what my thoughts will be at the end of the World Cup about my future."
Day two in Wellington ended with the Kiwis 22-0 in their second innings.
Sri Lanka need to win the Test to level the two-match series after an eight-wicket loss in Christchurch. | Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara scored his 11th Test double century to move one behind Australia legend Don Bradman's all-time record. | 30670977 |
John Tory won 40% of the vote, ahead of Doug Ford, whose brother Rob admitted problems with alcohol and crack cocaine use during his four years in office.
Rob Ford announced last month that he would not seek re-election as he undergoes treatment for a rare cancer.
However, he did win election to a council seat in the Etobicoke district.
"In four more years, you're going to see another example of the Ford family never, ever, ever giving up," he said, hinting at another run for mayor.
The results of the mayoral election were announced on Monday night after more than 90% of the votes had been counted.
Doug Ford congratulated Mr Tory on his victory and said he was proud of his brother.
"I still believe he's the best mayor ever," he said.
Earlier this year, Rob Ford began rehab for drugs and alcohol problems after a slew of newspaper reports and videos that depicted him under the influence.
In 2013, the mayor admitted he had smoked crack cocaine in a "drunken stupor".
He was stripped of many of his powers by the city council.
John Tory - 40%
Doug Ford - 34%
Olivia Chow - 23% | A moderate conservative has been elected as the mayor of the Canadian city of Toronto, defeating the brother of controversial incumbent Rob Ford. | 29775281 |
Vavra directed more than 50 films from the 1930s onwards, including 12 during the Nazi occupation of his country.
Golden Queen, winner of top prize at the 1965 San Sebastian film festival, and 1967's Romance for Bugle, are considered to be among his best works.
In the 1950s he helped to set up Prague's Famu film school.
Forman, who won two best director Oscars - in 1976, for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and in 1985, for Amadeus - was among his students there.
Vavra also taught Jiri Menzel who directed films including Closely Observed Trains, winner of the best foreign language film Oscar in 1968.
FAMU dean Pavel Jech hailed Vavra as "one of the most significant people in the history of Czech cinema and the teacher of the most important Czech film generation".
But Vavra's critics complained his films followed Communist ideology too closely. | Czech director and teacher Otakar Vavra, whose students included One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest director Milos Forman, has died in Prague aged 100. | 14947676 |
Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland has instructed his colleagues to use the full range of their powers to crack down of fraud.
He said the move was needed to protect the interests of legitimate businesses and their employees.
Ticket touts and those selling counterfeit goods are to be targeted.
Mr Mulholland said: "I have no doubt the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow will be the greatest ever held. Legitimate businesses in Scotland and their staff who have worked hard to make the games a success rightly stand to reap huge benefits.
"Anyone who thinks they can make an easy fast buck from the Games by committing fraud whether it is ticket touting or counterfeiting should be aware that prosecutors have a range of powerful laws to ensure that can't happen."
Mr Mulholland added: " Anyone who attempts to disrupt the Games by operating con schemes or committing public disorder crimes should also be aware that the lowest level they will be prosecuted at is the Sheriff Court, where they could face sentences of up to five years in jail and an unlimited fine."
He also revealed that those found guilty of crimes such as counterfeiting and ticket touting can also be prosecuted using proceeds of crime legislation because they are deemed to be "lifestyle offences".
The announcement has been welcomed by the Scottish Business Resilience Centre (SBRC).
SBRC Director Mandy Haeburn-Little said: "Counterfeit goods damage the economy. They are bad for the buyer and they harm the community in a whole range of ways.
"Not only is the quality often extremely poor but at worst items can be dangerous and, sadly, often produced in the shadow economy."
She added: "We all want to see Scotland as a safe, attractive and fun place to be during the Commonwealth Games and beyond and we all want residents and visitors to enjoy the very best quality that Scotland has to offer." | Scotland's senior prosecutor has warned tough action will be taken against anyone trying to make "a fast buck" out of Glasgow 2014. | 28282794 |
"A subset of elite state schools are contributing to the London and South East of England bias," says a Royal Geographical Society study.
"At post-16, these schools are comprehensive in name only," said researcher Sol Gamsu.
The research describes a concentration of elite schools in the South East.
The paper, to be presented to an RGS international conference later this month, maps the number of pupils sent to Oxford and Cambridge by different types of school from different regions.
It has long been known that students from schools in London and the South East are disproportionately overrepresented at both Oxford and Cambridge, says the study.
Using Department for Education data, it identifies the extent that access to England's two top universities varies between regions.
Overall, considering both state and private schools together:
But other regions of England are underrepresented:
When the figures were broken down further, according to school type, the study found state schools in the South East sent 1.43 times more students than the national average to Oxford and Cambridge,
In outer London, the figure is 1.24 times as many.
But private schools in regions including Yorkshire and Humber, the East Midlands and the North East sent about half as many as the national average, the study found.
Some Oxbridge "feeder schools" send up to 30% of their intake to the two universities, say the researchers.
"These are still largely the elite of the private sector, but this list also includes what have basically become elite sixth-form colleges," said Mr Gamsu.
Mr Gamsu said London gentrification and selective sixth forms had contributed to the rise of "super-state" schools.
"The capital's rapid economic and social change lies behind the rise of these schools," he said.
"London's housing market has resulted in the price of accessing sought-after comprehensives in gentrified neighbourhoods rising beyond the means of many less affluent residents."
A report earlier this year by London Councils said that last year 64,953 young Londoners had progressed to higher education, up 4% on the previous year.
"While this is good news, more still needs to be done to ensure everyone can make the journey from school or college to higher education," that report added. | Some London state schools send more pupils to Oxford and Cambridge than private schools in other parts of England, research suggests. | 37085904 |
The arrow hits the target, way down the range - not quite in the middle, but still gold.
"I love this sport," Ane Marcelle tells me, "but I'm not sure if I can carry on doing this for much longer."
The 23-year-old came a creditable ninth in the women's archery at Rio 2016. Those were her first Games, and she's a genuine medal prospect for Tokyo 2020 - part of what should be Brazil's Olympic sporting legacy.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast, Ane Marcelle explains how, less than a month after the Games ended, she lost most of her funding, her coach and other vital backing.
"The Brazilian Olympic Committee cut everything: my health insurance, my salary, everything," she says, barely able to contain her disappointment. "We made history in archery, achieving something no Brazilian had ever achieved. But it's all over. It made me think my sacrifice wasn't worth it."
Her story is not untypical for dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Brazilian athletes who face an uncertain future little more than six months after the jamboree that was Rio 2016.
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By now the vast Olympic Park, built on the edge of a lagoon to the south of Rio, should have been up and running as a centre of excellence for Brazilian sport.
But the 'stage' which only six months ago was playing host to 'The Greatest Show on Earth' is eerily empty. Most of the venues are mothballed - empty, stripped bare of Rio 2016 logos and seating.
Arenas where medals were won and lost are now little more than warehouses. Venues that should have been dismantled and rebuilt as schools elsewhere in the city are untouched. If there is a legacy here, it's not the one those who campaigned for Rio to win the Games had expected.
"I feel the Olympic Games in Brazil were not so successful because the legacy was not the number one concern," says Isabel Swan, a three-time Olympic sailor and former medallist who was a key member of the team that 'won' the Games for Rio in 2009.
I've spoken to Swan on many occasions, particularly about the repeated failures of Rio state and city officials to keep their pre-Olympic pledge to clean the chronic levels of pollution and rubbish in Rio's Guanabara Bay.
When 5 live Breakfast caught up with her again this week, she was deflated but not broken.
She told me: "Even though we grew as a city and delivered some great sport, we still have big problems. This is making me really sad. But I'll keep believing and working. I won't change my mindset."
The Brazilian Ministry of Sport has had to take over the running of most of the venues in the Olympic Park - including the tennis centre, the velodrome and the three 'Carioca' arenas - because no private company, and certainly not the local authority, can take on the day-to-day expense of running them, never mind transforming the Park into a hive of sporting activity where the next generation of Brazilian athletes, like Ane Marcelle dos Santos, should be preparing to challenge for medals at the next Games.
"Our worst fears are becoming reality. We're showing a terrible example to the world."
That was the stark conclusion from Marcelo Barreto - one of Brazil's best-known and most experienced sports commentators - when he spoke to 5 live Breakfast.
"I think they made such a huge effort to take care of the Games themselves, all our efforts were exhausted when the Olympic flame was gone," said Barreto.
"When Rio won the right to hold the Olympics, Brazil was thriving… now it's a broken state. The government doesn't have money to pay teachers, health employees. Taking care of the Olympic legacy is at the very back of the line. We should have done much better."
No-one could, of course, have predicted back in 2009, when Rio won the right to host the Games, that by 2016 the city and the country would be in the depths of a political and economic crisis.
It would be churlish and misleading to blame the Olympics (and the 2014 football World Cup) for Brazil's many ills. But spending billions of dollars, in deals shrouded in allegations of corruption, on white elephant stadiums when public workers haven't received their salaries for months, doesn't look good to say the least.
"I'm not in disappointment mode yet because I think we still have time to regroup and fix the situation," said Mario Andrada, executive director for communications at Rio 2016.
"For a young democracy to successfully stage the Olympics and World Cup says quite a lot, and the fact the non-sporting legacy is already so strong means we can have a good, positive memory of the Games and will can be proud of the legacy."
The "non-sporting legacy" to which Andrada refers is the single new metro line between the city and the Olympic Park zone, some other new urban transport and the opening of other, previously derelict, city centre areas - things from which Rio has undoubtedly benefited.
But such was Rio's desperation to get things ready on time, legacy was the last thing on anyone's minds, one anonymous official, who'd worked previously on the London Games, told us. These were his words.
"I never once had a conversation about legacy at any point or in any discussion I had working on the Games. You have to remember this was a Games where we were scrambling to put the event on, on a day-to-day basis. There was no time to think about what was going to happen the day after the Games finished in September."
One of the four main venues used for Rio 2016 was the Deodoro outdoor complex on the outskirts of the city. It was where Team GB's women's hockey team struck gold, and the men's rugby side won silver.
But Deodoro has long since been abandoned. There are 8ft high fences with padlocked gates surrounding the complex and promises this would be used for the greater good of the local community haven't been kept.
Among them is an already dilapidated BMX cycle track and the hugely expensive white water course. It was built for barely a week of competition and was meant to be transformed into an open-air swimming pool for locals after the Games.
The pool remains dry, unused and empty - yet another example of a Rio 2016 legacy that simply hasn't materialised. | At a small, run-down training centre just to the north of Rio, Ane Marcelle dos Santos steadies her bow, carefully pulls an arrow from her quiver, pulls back the high-tension cord, pauses and shoots. | 39323546 |
17 March 2017 Last updated at 09:20 GMT
A BBC team and some tourists were on the mountain when the explosion happened.
BBC science reporter Rebecca Morelle described the experience of "Running down a mountain pelted by rocks, dodging burning boulders and boiling steam."
Mount Etna is one of the most active volcanoes in the world, it's been erupting for the last three weeks.
Mount Etna erupts a few times a year. | The Mount Etna volcano in Italy has erupted. | 39301083 |
Mr Schwarzenegger will replace Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as host in 2016.
Mr Trump and the broadcaster parted ways after he made derogatory comments about immigrants in June.
He continues to lead polls among candidates for the Republican presidential nomination.
Mr Schwarzenegger was governor of California for eight years after an acting career that took in some hugely popular films, such as The Terminator. He has returned to acting since he left office in 2011.
An NBC executive said his "personal passion" for the format of the show and his "fresh take... made him the man to hire".
The show involves celebrities taking part in various business tasks in teams, with one individual sent packing each week with the words "You're fired" ringing in their ears.
Since 2004, hotel tycoon Donald Trump had been the host of The Apprentice and later its spin-off Celebrity Apprentice.
But controversial comments he made about Mexicans led to a deterioration of his relationship with NBC, which cancelled its broadcasts of Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants - previously co-owned by Mr Trump.
In June, Mr Trump accused Mexicans of adding drugs and crime to the US as he announced he was seeking the Republican presidential nomination.
"They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists," he said.
He also pledged to build a "great wall" on the US border with Mexico and insisted it would be paid for by Mexicans. | The actor and former governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has been named the new host of NBC's competition show Celebrity Apprentice. | 34251219 |
Toys from China, copper from Chile, T-shirts from Bangladesh, wine from New Zealand, coffee from Ethiopia, and tomatoes from Spain.
Like it or not, globalisation is a fundamental feature of the modern economy.
In the early 1960s, world trade in merchandise was less than 20% of world economic output, or gross domestic product (GDP).
Now, it is around 50% but not everyone is happy about it.
There is probably no other issue where the anxieties of ordinary people are so in conflict with the near-unanimous approval of economists.
Arguments over trade tend to frame globalisation as a policy - maybe even an ideology - fuelled by acronymic trade deals like TRIPS and TTIP.
But perhaps the biggest enabler of globalisation has not been a free trade agreement, but a simple invention: the shipping container.
It is just a corrugated steel box, 8ft (2.4m) wide, 8ft 6in (2.6m) high, and 40ft (12m) long but its impact has been huge.
BBC World Service's 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy programme highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations that helped create the global economy.
You can find more information about its sources and listen online or download the programme podcast.
Consider how a typical trade journey looked before its invention.
In 1954, an unremarkable cargo ship, the SS Warrior, carried merchandise from New York to Bremerhaven in Germany.
It held just over 5,000 tonnes of cargo - including food, household goods, letters and vehicles - which were carried as 194,582 separate items in 1,156 different shipments.
Just keeping track of the consignments as they moved around the dockside warehouses was a nightmare.
But the real challenge was physically loading such ships.
Longshoremen would pile the cargo onto a wooden pallet on the dock.
The pallet would be hoisted in a sling and deposited in the hold.
More longshoremen carted each item into a snug corner of the ship, poking the merchandise with steel hooks until it settled into place against the curves and bulkheads of the hold, skilfully packed so that it would not shift on the high seas.
There were cranes and forklifts but much of the merchandise, from bags of sugar heavier than a man to metal bars the weight of a small car, was shifted with muscle power.
This was dangerous work.
In a large port, someone would be killed every few weeks.
In 1950, New York averaged half a dozen serious incidents every day, and its port was safer than many.
Researchers studying the SS Warrior's trip to Bremerhaven concluded the ship had taken ten days to load and unload, as much time as it had spent crossing the Atlantic.
In today's money, the cargo cost around $420 (£335) a tonne to move.
Given typical delays in sorting and distributing the cargo by land, the whole journey might take three months.
Sixty years ago, then, shipping goods internationally was costly, chancy, and immensely time-consuming.
Surely there had to be a better way?
Indeed there was: put all the cargo into big standard boxes, and move those.
But inventing the box was the easy bit - the shipping container had already been tried in various forms for decades.
The real challenge was overcoming the social obstacles.
To begin with, the trucking companies, shipping companies, and ports could not agree on a standard size.
Some wanted large containers while others wanted smaller versions; perhaps because they specialised in heavy goods or trucked on narrow mountain roads.
Then there were the powerful dockworkers' unions, who resisted the idea.
Yes the containers would make the job of loading ships safer but it would also mean fewer jobs.
US regulators also preferred the status quo.
The sector was tightly bound with red tape, with separate sets of regulations determining how much that shipping and trucking companies could charge.
Why not simply let companies charge whatever the market would bear - or even allow shipping and trucking companies to merge, and put together an integrated service?
Perhaps the bureaucrats too were simply keen to preserve their jobs.
Such bold ideas would have left them with less to do.
The man who navigated this maze of hazards, and who can fairly be described as the inventor of the modern shipping container system, was called Malcom McLean.
McLean did not know anything about shipping but he was a trucking entrepreneur.
He knew plenty about trucks, plenty about playing the system, and all there was to know about saving money.
As Marc Levinson explains in his book, The Box, McLean not only saw the potential of a shipping container that would fit neatly onto a flat bed truck, he also had the skills and the risk-taking attitude needed to make it happen.
First, McLean cheekily exploited a legal loophole to gain control of both a shipping company and a trucking company.
Then, when dockers went on strike, he used the idle time to refit old ships to new container specifications.
He repeatedly plunged into debt.
He took on "fat cat" incumbents in Puerto Rico, revitalising the island's economy by slashing shipping rates to the United States.
He cannily encouraged New York's Port Authority to make the New Jersey side of the harbour a centre for container shipping.
But probably the most striking coup took place in the late 1960s, when Malcom McLean sold the idea of container shipping to perhaps the world's most powerful customer: the US Military.
Faced with an unholy logistical nightmare in trying to ship equipment to Vietnam, the military turned to McLean's container ships.
Containers work much better when they are part of an integrated logistical system, and the US military was perfectly placed to implement that.
Even better, McLean realised that on the way back from Vietnam, his empty container ships could collect payloads from the world's fastest growing economy, Japan.
And so trans-Pacific trading began in earnest.
A modern shipping port would be unrecognisable to a hardworking longshoreman of the 1950s.
Even a modest container ship might carry 20 times as much cargo as the SS Warrior did, yet disgorge its cargo in hours rather than days.
Gigantic cranes weighing 1,000 tonnes apiece lock onto containers which themselves weigh upwards of 30 tonnes, and swing them up and over on to a waiting transporter.
The colossal ballet of engineering is choreographed by computers, which track every container as it moves through a global logistical system.
The refrigerated containers are put in a hull section with power and temperature monitors.
The heavier containers are placed at the bottom to keep the ship's centre of gravity low.
The entire process is scheduled to keep the ship balanced.
And after the crane has released one container onto a waiting transporter, it will grasp another before swinging back over the ship, which is being simultaneously emptied and refilled.
Not everywhere enjoys the benefits of the containerisation revolution.
Many ports in poorer countries still look like New York in the 1950s.
Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, remains largely cut off from the world economy because of poor infrastructure.
But for an ever-growing number of destinations, goods can now be shipped reliably, swiftly and cheaply.
Rather than the $420 (£335) that a customer would have paid to get the SS Warrior to ship a tonne of goods across the Atlantic in 1954, you might now pay less than $50 (£39).
Indeed, economists who study international trade often assume that transport costs are zero.
It keeps the mathematics simpler, they say, and thanks to the shipping container, it is nearly true.
Tim Harford writes the Financial Times's Undercover Economist column. The 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy programme was broadcast on the BBC World Service. You can find more information about its sources and listen online or download the programme podcast. | Perhaps the defining feature of the global economy is precisely that it is global. | 38305512 |
Children playing football on an astroturf pitch: tackles flying in, appeals for handball, goals celebrated.
But this is Mufraq, a small town in Northern Jordan, and local boys are playing with teenage Syrians who have come to live here.
The pitch and the community centre it lies in have been paid for by the Scottish-based charity Mercy Corps.
Along with other NGOs it is funding community projects like this in Jordan to resolve some of the tensions the huge influx of Syrian refugees into the country has caused.
Khaled Holany is watching the game.
The 48-year-old volunteers at the community centre to help out.
Three years ago he fled some of the heaviest fighting in the Syrian town of Homs along with his wife, three sons and a daughter.
A judge by profession he found himself on the wrong side of the Assad regime.
He says: "The military wanted to interrogate me, and everyone knows once you go in you don't come out."
Mufraq, which lies a close to the Syrian border, was already poor before the crisis began.
The arrival of the refugees has seen its population treble.
The UNHCR estimates close to a million refugees have fled to Jordan. Less than 200,000 are in refugee camps. The rest have merged into local communities like this.
Many of the refugees in Mufraq come from the south of Syria which has strong tribal links with the area.
"Jordanians are very tolerant people," says Jeff Tudor, the UK's head of development in Jordan.
"But like any visitors, after four to five years when resources are scarce you have the opportunity for more tension."
Jordanians have less access to decent health care because Syrians are going into the health system.
The Jordanian government have taken 130,000 Syrian children into their schools. There is enormous added pressure on almost every local resource.
Heba Asad works as a community outreach leader at Mercy Corps.
She says the ideas for the project come from the local community and the Syrian refugees.
By establishing joint projects like the community centre and football pitch the hope is inevitable tensions can be reduced and managed.
Steve Gordon, from Mercy Corps, says most people have the idea refugees are in camps and confined spaces, but most go into the wider community.
He says: "In a camp you know where they are and can assist them because they are in a focused area."
Reaching the refugees who aren't in the camps is harder.
Many aren't registered as refugees and so may not want to come forward and identify themselves.
Khaled, the former judge, is a registered refugee.
He receives some aid but registration also means he can't work to support himself and his family.
Refugees caught working illegally can find themselves deported back to Syria.
For that reason refugee children are often the ones who are sent to work.
They are too young to be deported, so it is safer and can bring vital income to desperately poor families.
For the aid agencies it raises a whole range of issues, not least the danger of a lost generation.
Kids who miss an education, and become mired in poverty and hopelessness.
That mixture, the history of the Middle East has taught, creates a breeding ground for radicalisation.
Jeff Tudor from DFID says: "The problem we are facing now is if the war in Syria continues for four, five, six years what will people do after they leave education. There has to be some hope for the future for them."
For most of the refugees their hope would be to simply return to the homes they fled from.
But while the fighting continues across the border there is no hope of that.
For governments, for aid agencies the challenge is to create a better life for them now, here in Jordan, or in Scotland and elsewhere in Europe.
Khaled Holany has applied to come to Britain.
His application is pending, and poignantly he asks if talking to the BBC might help. He says if he can go to Britain he will feel human again. | It is a scene that would not look out of place in any Scottish town. | 34636951 |
After the hosts resumed on 205-2, Varun Chopra added just six to his overnight score before being caught in the slips off Steven Patterson for 107.
Jonathan Trott (74) and Tim Ambrose (61 not out) ensured full batting points for the Bears, who declared on 443-9.
The visitors lost Adam Lyth and Alex Lees cheaply as Yorkshire reached 73-2 before the players shook hands.
Yorkshire, who have started the defence of their Division One title with two draws, now face Nottinghamshire in a match which begins on Sunday.
But they will be without Ryan Sidebottom, whose ankle injury, sustained on day two at Edgbaston, will rule him out of next week's game against his former county Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge.
Three successive draws at the start of the season have been enough to take Warwickshire to the top of the table, although they have played at least a game more than all the other Division One sides.
Warwickshire captain Ian Bell told BBC WM:
"Being top of the table at this stage of the season doesn't really mean anything but the start we have made is very encouraging.
"The challenge was to get 400, which wasn't going to be straightforward against a good attack, but we did it quite comfortably in the end.
"Tim Ambrose and Rikki Clarke batted really well in the middle order. They are important players for us. Them getting runs is a good sign because we have got big runs at the top of the order in the early games.
"But also the engine-room, from 6 down to 10, is producing well. If they are batting well too, it just keeps the pressure on the opposition."
Yorkshire captain Andrew Gale told BBC Radio Leeds:
"We know we are playing 'okay' cricket but know we can be better. We are not playing our best cricket but have still got two solid draws.
"I don't think we have hit our straps in the top five with big partnerships and we haven't bowled in partnerships either.
"There have been periods of play when we have been quite sloppy and gone round the park.
"The encouraging thing is the lads recognise that and want to work hard to put it right. While they are doing that you know you are on the right path. | Warwickshire and champions Yorkshire settled for a draw on day four of their rain-affected game at Edgbaston. | 36146195 |
The first victim was a 58-year-old woman who had contact with the original case, a South Korean who visited the Middle East.
A 71-year-old man also died.
The vast majority of cases have been in Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries, but South Korea has reported 17 since last month.
More than 680 people, who may have come into contact with the infected patients, have been placed in isolation.
Health ministry official Kwon Jun-wook told reporters on Monday that those in quarantine were being held at their homes or in state-run facilities in order to prevent the spread of the virus.
The first fatality from Mers was recorded in June 2012 in Saudi Arabia.
It belongs to the family of coronaviruses that includes the common cold and Sars, and can cause fever, breathing problems, pneumonia and kidney failure.
Experts believe the virus is not very contagious.
There have been 1,167 cases of Mers worldwide, of which 479 have died, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
The only previous fatality in East Asia was a Malaysian man who died in April after returning from a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.
Meanwhile nurses at a hospital in China have been reportedly drawing lots to determine who should treat the country's first case of Mers.
The hospital, in the southern city of Huizhou, said the ballot was arranged because there were too many volunteers to treat the South Korean man.
But posts on social media suggest many were reluctant to take on the task.
The virus has a death rate of 27%, according to the World Health Organization. | Two people have died of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) in South Korea, becoming the country's first fatalities from the disease. | 32969054 |
Jodie Mitchell, of Selkirk, admitted behaving in a threatening and abusive manner towards the child at Falkirk Central Retail Park on 6 February.
The 26-year-old was originally charged with assault, but pleaded guilty to the alternative charge.
Sheriff Craig Caldwell deferred sentence until 30 July for reports. | A woman has admitted dragging a two-year-old toddler along the ground at a Falkirk shopping centre while shouting and swearing at her. | 33343687 |
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