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Bombs fell on Bury St Edmunds and Sudbury during an attack by Zeppelin airships on the night of 31 March-1 April 1916.
Twelve people were killed in Suffolk, with further deaths in Essex.
A service of commemoration was held at Bury St Edmunds cemetery at midday. More on this and other stories from Suffolk
Bury St Edmunds, where seven people died, was believed to have been targeted because it was a base for the Suffolk Regiment and home to the Robert Boby engineering plant, which manufactured shells.
Fatalities from an earlier Zeppelin raid on the town, in 1915, were restricted to a dog.
Ron Murrell, of Moyse's Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds, said: "It would have been terrifying to hear these bombs going off around you - the shock would have been like a spaceship turning up today.
"It would have had an effect on the morale of British soldiers serving on the western front knowing their families back home were at risk, and it would have bolstered morale in Germany."
Five people were killed in Sudbury - four civilians and an off-duty soldier.
Shirley Smith, Sudbury Town Council employee and co-author of No Glorious Dead, said: "It was the first time it brought terror on to the home front and the impact of the war was felt by civilians."
That night, the fleet of airships also dropped bombs on Braintree, Chelmsford and Brentwood in Essex.
A spokesman for Braintree Museum said four people were killed in the town that night, but accurate records for civilian casualties were not kept everywhere.
Ian Hook, curator of the Essex Regiment Museum in Chelmsford, said: "They were such a shock to British civilian life because we regarded ourselves as an impregnable island defended by the world's greatest navy.
"These Zeppelin air raids suddenly changed people's perceptions and they realised we were vulnerable to attack from the air." | Civilian deaths inflicted by German airships during World War One have been remembered on the 100th anniversary. | 35938019 |
He described Russia as a growing challenge for the US.
Relations between Russia and the West have plummeted since Russia annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in March 2014.
The Pentagon will also propose a 50% increase in spending on the campaign against so-called Islamic State (IS).
Mr Carter said US forces engaged in an air campaign against IS in Iraq and Syria were "starting to run low" on laser-guided missiles and "smart bombs".
Moving closer to a new Cold War
Nato bolsters Eastern Europe
"So we're investing $1.8bn (£1.2bn) in 2017 to buy over 45,000 more of them," he said in a speech to the Economic Club of Washington.
On Europe, Mr Carter said increased funds would allow greater numbers of troops to be deployed to European bases, as well as more training and exercises with allies.
"We're taking a strong and balanced approach to deter Russian aggression," he said. "We haven't had to worry about this for 25 years, and while I wish it were otherwise, now we do."
The Pentagon's proposed 2017 defence budget will include $3.4bn for its European Reassurance Initiative - up from $789m for the current budget year.
The initiative is to demonstrate US commitment to its Nato allies in Europe amid increasing concern about Russia's intentions after its military involvement in Ukraine.
On a trip to Eastern Europe last year, Mr Carter announced that the US would position 250 tanks, armoured vehicles and other military equipment across six former Soviet bloc nations.
He also pledged more weapons, aircraft and troops for Nato's new rapid reaction force.
As well as Russia, Mr Carter highlighted Chinese assertiveness over disputed islands in the South China Sea as a growing concern for the US.
"Key to our approach is being able to deter our most advanced competitors," he said.
"We must have - and be seen to have - the ability to impose unacceptable costs on an advanced aggressor that will either dissuade them from taking provocative action or make them deeply regret it if they do."
Mr Carter also said the Pentagon aimed to spend $8.1bn on undersea warfare systems in 2017 and more than $40bn over the next five years.
He was speaking a week ahead of the formal rollout of the Pentagon's 2017 budget.
Overall, the administration is to seek a $582.7bn for the next financial year, compared with $585bn for the current year. | The Pentagon is to propose quadrupling its budget for European defence in 2017 in the light of "Russian aggression", US Defence Secretary Ash Carter says. | 35476180 |
John Holmes, 53, who taught at Landau Forte College, Derby, grabbed the Year 8 pupil during a geography lesson.
A National College for Teaching and Leadership disciplinary panel banned him from teaching for two years for "unacceptable professional conduct".
However, the panel accepted Mr Holmes had not made a genuine threat to kill.
Mr Holmes's actions, in the summer term of 2012, were said to have been prompted by the pupil giving the wrong answer.
The teacher, who started working at Landau Forte College in 1992, received a police caution for possessing a blade on school grounds after the matter came to light in April 2013.
Mr Holmes expressed remorse but explained that what took place had happened in a "jovial manner" during a "light-hearted" quiz, the panel said.
Giving the panel's decision, NCTL official Paul Heathcote said: "We accepted that there was no intention to cause the pupil harm and that Mr Holmes's actions were not intended as a genuine threat to kill."
However, he said Mr Holmes was "guilty of unacceptable professional conduct and conduct that may bring the profession into disrepute".
"He has not shown clear insight into the implications of his behaviour," said Mr Heathcote.
Stephen Whiteley, chief executive of Landau Forte Charitable Trust, said that following "detailed internal and external investigations appropriate employment procedures were then followed" and Mr Holmes "ceased to be employed at Landau Forte College as of August 31, 2013". | A teacher who held a student in a headlock and made a "pretend" threat to kill him with a knife has been banned from the profession. | 28341446 |
Despite the British sounding names, the "farms" do not exist and the produce is often sourced from abroad.
The National Farmers' Union (NFU) says the labels may give customers a false idea of where the produce is sourced.
Tesco said in a statement: "We've named the brands after farms to represent the quality specifications that go into every product across the range."
New brands such as Rosedene Farms and Boswell Farms were launched on Monday to cover Tesco's own-label produce.
Phil Bicknell, the NFU's Head of Food and Farming said: "It is clear that Tesco have identified that customers have a positive affinity with farmers and want to capitalise on this.
"The key question to ask with this is, what are these brands trying to communicate? If this is not aligned with the origin sourcing and specification of the product we must ask if this is misleading to customers."
Tesco's statement added: "Every product is sourced from a selection of farms and growers - some are small, family-run farms while others are of a larger scale - reared or grown to our specific standards from known and audited farms and growers."
The new brands cover 76 new lines that will either match the price of competitors like Aldi or Lidl or beat them.
Tesco has been heavily criticised on social media with one tweet reading: "Shocking! Shoppers deserve to know where their food comes from. "
Tesco is not alone in using "fictional farms" to brand its products. Aldi has its own Ashfield Farm brand.
Marketing experts talked to by the BBC felt that Tesco was not being deliberately deceitful. Phil Dorrell from the retail consultancy Retail Remedy said: "I think they are being fairly upfront and honest that these are Tesco own-brands."
Professor David Hughes from Imperial College London, an expert on food marketing, speaking on Farming Today said: "I don't think it is particularly insidious.
"But particularly when it comes to fresh produce and fresh food, then from a consumer point of view if there's a farm name there, the understanding from a consumer perspective is that it reflects a true farm. That isn't the case. It seems misleading.
"I don't think it is done maliciously. It's probably a marketing mistake. Let's have transparent traceable supply chain. And, if there are farms there let's have a real farm name." | Britain's farmers have said Tesco's fresh produce labelled with "fictional farm" brands may be misleading. | 35889282 |
Reflecting on 2015, Dr Barry Morgan said cuts to libraries and community facilities were "desperate".
Speaking to BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement he also restated his opposition to UK military intervention in Syria.
Dr Morgan argued there were parallels to draw between the Christmas story and the new Star Wars film.
On austerity, the archbishop told Mai Davies: "When I look at my own childhood, brought up in a mining community, miners fought in order to build community halls and have libraries and suddenly we're told you can get all that on the internet, you really don't need libraries.
"But I think that does something to the soul of society... that somehow the mind and the imagination don't matter."
Dr Morgan said he would also remember 2015 as the year that Britain went to war with Syria - for which he says there is no moral case.
"I begin to wonder if we have learnt anything from our encounter with the Middle East.... and I know the cause is just and I know the so-called Islamic State is evil - but what about the implications for the civilian population and how is it all going to end?" he said.
"I'm not a pacifist and I think there are times when we have to go to war. The Second World War was a necessary thing to do - but I don't think this is comparable.
"I think that in some ways by us going in, there are fanatical extremist Muslims who think 'well that's what they're doing to us, we'll become more extreme'."
Finally, the Archbishop said there was a message for everybody in the latest Star Wars film - The Force Awakens.
"What that film is about is good does eventually overcome evil," he said.
"At Christmas we think of Jesus as the light of the world, and light sabres are a symbol of hope.
"And when you see individuals and communities standing up for what is right, when you see people being helped in all kinds of ways, when you see the Paris summit where the hope is that 195 nations have signed up to that, that gives me hope really that light ultimately will triumph." | The Archbishop of Wales has claimed austerity is impacting on the "soul of society" in Wales. | 35138275 |
A full road closure will be in place in Cardiff city centre from 12:30 GMT to 17:30 with the kickoff at 14:30 at the Principality Stadium.
Arriva Trains Wales passengers are advised a new queuing system will be in place at Cardiff Central for the match.
The council advised drivers to pre-book park and ride facilities.
Partial road closures will also be in place on Kingsway, Cowbridge Road East, Tudor Street, Plantagenet Street, Beauchamp Street, Saunders Road, Customhouse Street and Penarth Road.
Buses will be diverted from central city centre bus stops and will instead terminate at either Churchill Way for the east, Greyfriars Road for the north or Tudor Street for the west.
St Mary Street taxi rank will be shut from 14:30 and will re-open at 20:00. | Rugby fans are advised to be aware of travel restrictions and road closures due to Wales' Six Nations clash against Italy in Cardiff of Saturday. | 35844339 |
Durban was stripped of hosting the Games in March after failing to meet the criteria set by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF).
Liverpool has declared its interest in staging the Games, as part of a bid to host the 2026 event.
Birmingham, London and Manchester have also expressed an interest in hosting.
"Hosting the Commonwealth Games in 2022 could give us an opportunity to step up and show the very best of global Britain as an outward-looking nation that is confident on the world stage," said Culture Secretary Karen Bradley.
"It's only right that we look into the potential for hosting one of the world's biggest sporting events on home soil."
The government will consider multi-city proposals and decide whether to submit a formal bid to the CGF later this year.
CGF chief David Grevemberg said officials were looking to make a decision quickly and would consider a joint bid.
"The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games showed the appetite and enthusiasm that the British people have for supporting major sporting events," said Sports Minister Tracey Crouch.
"We will weigh up whether the UK should step in to host, looking at the opportunities to promote global Britain and deliver a lasting legacy at good value for taxpayers."
Britain hosted the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, while the 2002 event was staged in Manchester. | British cities interested in hosting the 2022 Commonwealth Games have been asked by the UK government to submit proposals for staging the event. | 39666912 |
The Serb came back from two sets to one down to win 5-7 6-3 3-6 6-1 6-1.
Djokovic, 30, finished strongly despite making 55 unforced errors and arguing with umpire Carlos Ramos over a conduct warning.
The second seed goes on to face Spain's Albert Ramos-Vinolas, who beat France's Lucas Pouille.
The presence of new coach Andre Agassi has yet to inspire Djokovic to rediscover the form that made him a seemingly untouchable world number one this time last year.
An erratic performance saw the 12-time Grand Slam champion hit 21 errors in relinquishing a 4-1 lead in the first set.
However, Agassi's unexpected arrival midway through the second set apparently inspired Djokovic to a break of serve.
"I was focused on the screen and I saw obviously people reacting when he arrived," said the Serb.
"He was not supposed to be here today, because we have finished yesterday with our in-person collaboration here in Paris.
"I appreciate that. I respect that very much that he managed to do things and move his commitments around so he could come and watch."
That late break in the second appeared to have settled the world number two, but Schwartzman - playing his first ever third-round match at a Grand Slam - was his equal throughout the third.
The 5ft 7in Argentine then broke serve for a 5-3 lead and remarkably recovered from 0-40 to serve out the set.
With the crowd now excited by the prospect of an upset, Djokovic finally took a firm grip on the match by quickening the pace and shortening the rallies.
It was not plain sailing, however, and despite racing into a 4-0 lead in the fourth set, Djokovic became embroiled in a row with umpire Ramos after receiving two warnings in a game - one of slow play, the second for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Clearly annoyed, the champion retained his focus on the job in hand and reeled off 12 of the last 14 games as dark clouds above threatened to delay his progress.
"Playing a five-setter at this stage is good," added Djokovic.
"I enjoyed playing, really, even though of course at times I was not playing my best, especially for first three sets, but fourth and fifth sets went completely my way." | Defending champion Novak Djokovic survived a third-round scare at the French Open to beat unseeded Argentine Diego Schwartzman in five sets. | 40134827 |
Eight-year-old Fabi was moved from Chester Zoo, where he fathered seven cubs with a female who was born at Paignton.
The move was necessary after Paignton's 14-year-old male, Tenang, had to be put to sleep because of illness in June,
Sumatran tigers are critically endangered, with just about 300 believed to remain in the wild.
The zoo said the decline in numbers has been caused by habitat loss, poaching and "human-tiger conflict", making the breeding programme vitally important to the future of the species.
It is hoped Fabi will mate successfully with Paignton's female tiger Shakira.
Curator of mammals at the zoo, Neil Bemment, said initial signs from Fabi were good
"He is settling in very quickly to his new surroundings and early signs are good, with lots of encouraging vocalisations," he added.
Fabi and Shakira are important genetically, with both of them ranked in the top 15 Sumatran tigers in Europe, because their blood lines have not been "over represented" or diluted.
Stewart Muir from Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust said: "We hope that Fabi and Shakira will breed successfully and help us to help the dwindling population of Sumatran tigers." | A rare Sumatran tiger has arrived at Paignton Zoo in Devon as part of a European breeding programme. | 35104462 |
High dynamic range (HDR) clips feature a wider range of colours and a greater number of brightness levels between black and white. This boosts contrast and can make images seem more detailed.
However, users will require compatible screens to see the improvements.
And HDR-encoded videos may also look odd when played back in normal mode.
While YouTube is offering one of the first ways for the public to share videos in the new format, professional streaming services including Netflix and Amazon Video have offered HDR films and television programmes for several months.
The Xbox One S and PlayStation 4 video game consoles also recently added HDR support.
"YouTube's move is a big vote of confidence in HDR," said David Mercer, from the technology consultancy Strategy Analytics.
"It really is all about whiter whites and blacker blacks - it sounds corny, but when you've seen a really good demo, it can be quite spectacular.
"But we will all need HDR screens to enjoy it."
Many of the latest 4K televisions support the innovation, which can help water appear to glisten, stars to sparkle and generally adds "pop" to footage.
But it is still relatively rare to find HDR-capable computer monitors or laptop displays.
Creators will also need access to compatible video cameras and editing programs.
Apple's Final Cut Pro X, Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid all added support for HDR video formats in recent months.
But consumer-orientated software, including YouTube's own web-based Editor, have yet to do so.
To ensure those without compatible displays do not miss out, YouTube will, by default, play a standard dynamic range (SDR) version of a clip if necessary.
To make this possible, the Google-owned service will automatically generate a "down-converted" version of HDR material posted to its platform in a similar manner to how it already creates lower-resolution copies of uploads.
However, professional video editors are normally advised against relying on such automated technology because it can cause colour shifts, which result in unnatural looking footage.
A YouTube support document acknowledges this risk.
"On challenging clips, it might not deliver the perfect result," it says.
"We're working on improving automated SDR down-conversion so that it works great for all material."
Videos that have been colour-graded to enhance their look will be among those most at risk of being tarnished, undermining the extra effort taken to create them.
For now, the only way round this is for creators to separately upload both an HDR copy of a video and a manually tweaked SDR version, which will appear on different YouTube pages. | YouTube has introduced support for technology that promises to make its videos appear more vibrant and realistic. | 37908975 |
The chancellor said this could include raising income and inheritance taxes and cutting the NHS budget.
But 65 Tory MPs have said his position would be "untenable" if he tries to cut NHS, police and school spending.
And Vote Leave criticised Remain's "hysterical prophecies of doom".
The UK votes on whether to remain in the EU or to leave on 23 June.
In other referendum news:
In the latest of a series of government warnings about the consequences of a vote to leave, Mr Osborne shared a stage with his Labour predecessor, Lord Darling, setting out £30bn of "illustrative" tax rises and spending cuts, including a 2p rise in the basic rate of income tax and a 3p rise in the higher rate.
How trade and the UK's economy are affected by membership of the EU.
They also said spending on the police, transport and local government could take a 5% cut and ring-fenced NHS budget could be "slashed", along with education, defence and policing.
Mr Osborne and Lord Darling said the measures - £15bn of tax rises and £15bn of cuts - are based on the Institute for Fiscal Studies' predictions about the economic impact of a vote to leave from lower trade, investment, and tax receipts.
The IFS has said such an outcome could trigger between an extra one to two years of austerity measures.
Mr Osborne told Radio 4's Today that leaving the EU would be an "irreversible" step that would cause "financial instability" and leave the UK "with no economic plan", demanding an immediate response from government.
"There would have to be increases in tax and cuts in public spending to fill the black hole," he said.
The UK, he suggested, would not be able to "afford the size of the public services that we have at the moment" outside the European Union and would have to "cut its cloth accordingly".
He also played down the threat of Conservative MPs blocking an emergency Budget, suggesting that Labour and Conservative MPs would join forces to "take the necessary measures".
Lord Darling, chancellor between 2007 and 2010, said there would be "severe consequences" for the NHS, schools and other publicly-funded services in the event of a leave vote, saying it was "far better not to make a mess in the first place" than have to clear it up afterwards.
But Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, whose party is on the same side as Mr Osborne in the referendum debate, said he would not support an emergency budget.
"We would oppose any post-Brexit austerity Budget, just as we have opposed any austerity Budget put forward by this government," he told David Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions.
Analysis by Laura Kuenssberg, the BBC's political editor
The most drastic warning yet in a campaign laced with fear, has met its most drastic response.
George Osborne, together with the former Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling, vows today that the hit to the economy would be so great if we vote to leave the EU that he'd hold a Budget with cuts and tax rises almost immediately.
But in retaliation, in a direct challenge to George Osborne's authority, 57 Tory MPs, including former cabinet ministers, have issued a statement, incredulous at the chancellor's behaviour - saying it is absurd to make a political promise to punish voters in this way - to break Conservative manifesto promises.
Most seriously for a government with a tiny majority, they say they would vote to block such a Budget, making Mr Osborne's position untenable.
As the chancellor threatens drastic action - so too, by suggesting an open coup against him, his internal opponents threaten him.
Whatever you decide a week tomorrow, the governing party may be changed for good.
He urged the prime minister to "condemn the opportunism of 57 ( of your colleagues who are pro-Leave", who he said had "suddenly" undergone "a Damascene conversion to the anti-austerity movement".
Mr Cameron said "nobody wants to have an emergency Budget, nobody wants to have cuts in public services, nobody wants to have tax increases," but he said the economic "crisis" that would follow a vote to leave could not be ignored.
"We can avoid all of this by voting Remain next week," he told MPs.
In his Today interview, Mr Osborne ruled out seeking any further concessions from the EU on immigration rules, saying his focus was on implementing restrictions on benefits negotiated by David Cameron earlier this year.
The Conservative government last year introduced legislation not to raise income tax rates, VAT or National Insurance for the duration of the Parliament.
Leave campaigners dismissed the warning from Mr Osborne.
Iain Duncan Smith, Liam Fox and Owen Paterson are among the Conservative MPs who signed a statement saying they "cannot possibly allow" cuts to services their party promised to protect in their 2015 manifesto.
'We find it incredible that the chancellor could seriously be threatening to renege on so many manifesto pledges," they said.
"It is absurd to say that if people vote to take back control from the EU that he would want to punish them in this way."
They added: "If he were to proceed with these proposals, the chancellor's position would become untenable."
Conservative MP and Vote Leave campaigner Steve Baker said: "I am shocked that the chancellor is threatening to break so many key manifesto pledges on which all Conservative MPs were elected."
And a senior Conservative told the BBC it was "laughable" to think Mr Osborne would still be chancellor if the UK voted to leave, adding: "He'll be carried away by the men in white coats before he gets the chance to make these ludicrous proposals." | George Osborne says he will have to slash public spending and increase taxes in an emergency Budget to tackle a £30bn "black hole" if the UK votes to leave the European Union. | 36534192 |
Ian Hamilton pulled out the weapon and pointed it at Neil McIntyre in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, in July 2016.
Hamilton, who is from Kilwinning, said "you're getting robbed" as he tried to force Mr McIntyre, 31, to hand over his takings.
The 30-year-old pled guilty to a charge of assault with intent to rob.
Dumbarton Sheriff Court heard that Hamilton approached Mr McIntyre's ice cream van as it was parked in the Pennyburn area of Kilwinning at about 15:30 on 3 July last year.
He asked for "20 fags" while holding his hand behind his back, then produced the weapon and said: "You're getting robbed."
Mr McIntyre grabbed the ball-bearing gun and tried to take it off him, before Hamilton managed to wrestle the weapon back and escape empty-handed.
The ice cream van owner - who recognised Hamilton as local but did not know his name - reported the attack to the police, who launched an investigation.
Hamilton contacted Mr McIntyre the following morning via his business' Facebook page to apologise.
His message read: "Alright bud. Just wanted to say soz for pointing that gun at you, it was only a toy.
"It's a bit daft, I know, but I had a bevvy in me and I thought it was funny.
"I know it's not, though. I've got rid of it now so it doesn't cause any problems."
The court heard Hamilton had taken the weapon from his friend on the morning of the attack.
Mr McIntyre informed the officers investigating the attempted robbery about the message and Hamilton was arrested.
Defence solicitor Fraser Alexander reserved his plea in mitigation until the next hearing and Sheriff Simon Pender called for background reports ahead of sentencing next month. | A TSB account manager pulled a gun on an ice cream van man as he tried to rob him, then sent him a Facebook message to apologise, a court has heard. | 39492653 |
Just 15 minutes before the meal, he and his wife Lisa had no idea who would be joining them.
Then the news came in - it was Mark Zuckerberg.
According to Mr Moore, the CEO had told Facebook staff he wanted to meet traditional Democrats who had voted for Donald Trump as president.
The Silicon Valley team got to work, and found Mr Moore - who voted for Barack Obama twice, but campaigned heavily for Mr Trump.
Mr Moore was only told that his mystery guest would be a "very wealthy philanthropist in California and 90% of Americans use his product," according to WKBN.
They only found out his identity 15 minutes before he arrived.
Over dinner, the talk moved beyond politics, taking in the family's work with a Ugandan orphanage.
Mr Zuckerberg, who has vowed to give away at least $45bn, suggested he could help with a fundraiser.
Mr Zuckerberg sent his thanks via his website, telling his 89 million followers: "Just got into Ohio. Thanks to Dan and Lisa Moore for welcoming me into your home for a wonderful dinner!"
Mr Moore responded in kind, saying: "Thanks so much for dropping by Mark. You're one hell of a man."
The billionaire Facebook founder is touring all 50 states after challenging himself to do so in January.
The move has raised speculation that he could be pondering a political career.
After leaving the Moores, Mr Zuckerberg went on to meet recovering drug addicts in Ohio, then travelled to Indiana for dinner with the Elkhart Fire Department. | Daniel Moore of Newton Falls, Ohio speaks warmly of the stranger who appeared at his dinner table on Friday night. | 39761260 |
Thomas Docherty, who is originally from Bellshill, took his inspiration from the wreath that lies at the foot of The Royal Mint's own on-site war memorial.
His £5 coin features a full-colour wreath surrounded by the inscription: Their name liveth for evermore.
He is the fourth designer to be chosen to produce a Remembrance Day coin.
What is Remembrance Day?
The coin will be struck at the Royal Mint in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taff.
Thomas, who has worked at the Royal Mint for 11 years, said: "This wreath is not only personal to us at The Royal Mint but also reflects the 'everyman' we all commemorate on Remembrance Day; from the wreath-layers to the poppy wearers all over the country.
"I wanted to paint the colours of the poppies boldly and vibrantly, hopefully emphasising that the poppy is a symbol of remembrance, but also one of hope for the future." | A Royal Mint designer from North Lanarkshire has been selected to design this year's special Remembrance Day coin. | 37919354 |
Atletico scored a potentially valuable away goal when Fernando Torres blasted in a clinical first-time shot.
But the game turned when Torres was sent off before half-time for two needless bookings inside seven minutes.
Holders Barca upped the tempo after the break, Suarez prodding in the equaliser then powerfully heading in the winner.
However, the Uruguayan had been fortunate not to be shown a first-half red card for kicking out at Atletico right-back Juanfran.
The teams will meet again in the second leg at the Vicente Calderon next Wednesday.
Torres, 32, has failed to rediscover anything like prolific form since returning to boyhood club Atletico - but his goal here was arguably the most important of his second spell.
The former Liverpool and Chelsea striker showed the clinical edge which characterised the early part of his career as he latched on to Koke's defence-splitting pass to fire in through Barca keeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen's legs.
However, his side's tactical masterplan - grab the away goal and sit tight - was blown apart by his dismissal.
Torres was shown his first yellow card for clipping Barca forward Neymar, then saw red moments later when he needlessly clattered into the back of midfielder Sergio Busquets close to the halfway line.
Atletico manager Diego Simeone was incensed by the decision of German referee Felix Brych, who upset Los Rojiblancos by sending off Arda Turan in their Champions League quarter-final defeat by Real Madrid last season.
And the Argentine may well believe his team were the victim of a further injustice when the official seemingly missed Suarez lashing out at Juanfran near the dead-ball line.
"I can't say what I think, but I am not angry with Fernando for sure," said Simeone.
Eleven men behind the ball when not in possession, staying compact and narrow to limit the home side's space - Barca knew exactly the tactics Atletico would employ.
But the Catalan team were powerless to stop Atletico's stubborn effectiveness in the opening hour.
Atletico wanted to frustrate Barca, refusing to allow the home side to play their free-flowing football in a relatively comfortable first half capped by Torres' opener.
After the break, the hosts showed more urgency - and the intense pressure finally told.
Neymar curled the ball against the bar and missed another gilt-edged header, while Filipe Luis's superb last-ditch challenge stopped Lionel Messi pouncing to convert a loose ball.
Eventually they found a way through.
Suarez, who had been kept relatively quiet by Uruguay team-mate Diego Godin, instinctively diverted in Jordi Alba's mis-hit shot, then generated remarkable power to head in Dani Alves' pinpoint cross.
Barcelona came into the match on the back of Saturday's 2-1 home defeat by arch-rivals Real Madrid, a loss that ended the Catalan side's 39-match unbeaten run.
And Atletico appeared to take plenty of encouragement from their neighbours' win at the Nou Camp.
However, the numerical advantage after Torres' dismissal allowed Barca to secure their seventh successive win against Simeone's team.
The Spanish champions have beaten Atletico in both La Liga matches this season, helping them move six points clear of their opponents.
Now Barca appear to be the slight favourites to reach the semi-finals as they attempt to become the first club to win back-to-back Champions League titles.
Barcelona manager Luis Enrique: "We must appreciate the difficulty in playing against Atletico. With this attitude and these players we will go to the end of the world."
Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone: "Beyond the inequality there was in the match, we leave with a situation that allows us to have hope.
"I am very happy with my team. Once again, we started winning, we were doing very well."
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Match ends, Barcelona 2, Atlético de Madrid 1.
Second Half ends, Barcelona 2, Atlético de Madrid 1.
Foul by Rafinha (Barcelona).
Koke (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Lionel Messi (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gabi (Atlético de Madrid).
Foul by Dani Alves (Barcelona).
Thomas Partey (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Atlético de Madrid. Ángel Correa replaces Saúl Ñíguez.
Corner, Atlético de Madrid. Conceded by Sergi Roberto.
Attempt blocked. Augusto Fernández (Atlético de Madrid) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Sergi Roberto (Barcelona).
Saúl Ñíguez (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Rafinha (Barcelona).
Lucas Hernández (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Augusto Fernández (Atlético de Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Dani Alves (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Augusto Fernández (Atlético de Madrid).
Attempt blocked. Rafinha (Barcelona) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Arda Turan.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Barcelona. Arda Turan replaces Andrés Iniesta.
Delay in match Gabi (Atlético de Madrid) because of an injury.
Javier Mascherano (Barcelona) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Javier Mascherano (Barcelona).
Saúl Ñíguez (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Barcelona. Sergi Roberto replaces Sergio Busquets.
Jan Oblak (Atlético de Madrid) is shown the yellow card.
Lucas Hernández (Atlético de Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Neymar (Barcelona) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Lucas Hernández (Atlético de Madrid).
Attempt blocked. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gerard Piqué.
Substitution, Atlético de Madrid. Thomas Partey replaces Antoine Griezmann.
Goal! Barcelona 2, Atlético de Madrid 1. Luis Suárez (Barcelona) header from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Dani Alves.
Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jordi Alba (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid).
Foul by Neymar (Barcelona).
Koke (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Rafinha (Barcelona) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sergio Busquets.
Attempt missed. Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. | Luis Suarez scored twice as Barcelona fought back to beat 10-man Atletico Madrid in an action-packed Champions League quarter-final first leg. | 35956625 |
The rapid charger is one of 25 set up across Kent, Sussex and Surrey.
It is part of a plan by public sector-led Energise Network to set up more than 150 charging points across the region by the end of the year.
The network has rapid (30 minute), fast (three to four hours) and slow (six to eight hours) chargers.
Crawley council said there were already 75 fast points in operation.
Energise Network said fast chargers included 50 this year fitted by Southern rail operator at its car parks and more installed by county councils.
Rapid chargers have also been installed at Eurotunnel.
Crawley councillor Colin Lloyd, cabinet member for environmental services and sustainability, said electric vehicle sales had soared but drivers were still put off by the lack of a proper network of charging points and the length of time cars took to charge.
The network should make owning an electric vehicle far more attractive, he said. | A rapid car charger has been installed by Crawley Borough Council as part of a drive to have a network of charging points across the South East. | 33822287 |
The process of beatification, or declaring the late pontiff to be "blessed", is a crucial step towards making him a saint.
John Paul II died in 2005 after a papacy of nearly 27 years.
The Vatican credits him with the miraculous cure of a nun said to have had Parkinson's Disease.
Church officials believe that the Polish pope, who himself suffered from the condition, interceded for the miraculous cure of Sister Marie Simon-Pierre, a Frenchwoman in her late forties.
She has said her illness inexplicably disappeared two months after John Paul II's death, after she and her fellow nuns had prayed to him.
Church-appointed doctors agreed that there was no medical explanation for the curing of the nun, although last year there were some doubts about the validity of the miracle.
The 'miracle' that clinched the beatification
A Polish newspaper said that a doctor who scrutinised the nun's case had concluded that she might have been suffering not from Parkinson's, but from a nervous disorder from which temporary recovery is medically possible.
Up to a million people are expected to gather in Rome for the beatification.
Mourners at John Paul II's funeral on 8 April 2005 chanted: "Santo subito!" - or "Make him a saint right now!"
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The following month, Pope Benedict put him on a fast track to sainthood by dispensing with Church rules that normally impose a five-year waiting period after a candidate's death before the beatification procedure can start.
Work is under way in St Peter's Basilica to make space for John Paul II's tomb since, in accordance with tradition, the remains of popes who are beatified are moved up from the crypt to the nave.
"John Paul II's coffin will be moved in St Peter's Basilica from the Vatican crypt without being opened," said Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi.
His body will not be displayed but placed in a tomb under a simple marble stone reading "Beatus Ioannes Paulus II" (Blessed John Paul II).
In order for John Paul II to be canonised as a saint, a second miracle would have to be verified following the beatification. | Pope Benedict XVI has formally approved a miracle attributed to his late predecessor, paving the way to John Paul II's beatification on 1 May. | 12191423 |
The US and the UK were among the countries which sponsored a resolution which for the first time explicitly calls for an international probe.
Sri Lanka's army defeated separatist Tamil Tiger rebels after 26 years of bloody civil war in May 2009.
Both sides have been accused of committing war crimes.
But it is events in the final phase of the war that has come under scrutiny, with one UN report saying that as many as 40,000 Tamil civilians may have been killed, mostly by government shelling in those final months.
Sri Lanka has consistently denied such allegations and says it is being unfairly targeted. It also claims that Tamil rebels are attempting to regroup in the north of the country.
But the resolution calls for a "comprehensive investigation into alleged serious violations and abuses of human rights and related crimes by both parties in Sri Lanka".
"We reject this," Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa told the AFP news agency. "This resolution only hurts our reconciliation efforts. It does not help."
The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says this is the first concrete step towards any kind of international inquiry on the conduct of the island's government and the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels.
The resolution was carried in a 23-12 vote.
That means that 23 member states of the 47-member Human Rights Council voted for this resolution, 12 voted against it while 12 abstained - including India which many had expected to vote against its neighbour.
The document also expresses "serious concern" at events said to be still going on in Sri Lanka - including the intimidation of civil society, disappearances and torture.
Earlier this month Sri Lankan detained two prominent human rights activists for 48 hours under anti-terrorism laws. While rights groups point to continuing abuses, the government just as vehemently denies such allegations.
Resolutions expressing alarm at the human rights situation in Sri Lanka have been passed before by the council, but the distinctiveness of this draft is that it asks the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to carry out an inquiry. | The UN Human Rights Council has voted for a resolution which paves the way for an inquiry into rights abuses at the close of Sri Lanka's civil war. | 26765503 |
Signs of liquid water had been seen on southern Mars, but the latest findings reveal similar signals in craters in the north of the Red Planet.
The team made their discovery by examining data from instruments on board Europe's Mars Express and Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
They report the findings in the latest issue of the journal Science.
John Carter, of the University of Paris, led the team of France- and US-based scientists.
"Until now, we had no idea what half Mars was made of in terms of mineral composition," he told BBC News.
"Now, with the Esa and Nasa probes, we have been able to get a mixture of images and spectral information about the composition of the rock."
He explained that these instruments had revealed clay-type minerals called phyllosilicates - "the stuff you would find in mud and in river beds."
"It's not the species of mineral itself that's important," said Dr Carter, "it's more the fact that the minerals contain water.
"This enhances the picture of liquid water on Mars."
Previously, researchers have seen similar signs of water in the highlands of southern Mars in rocks that are up to four billion years old. But in the northern part of the planet, more recently formed rocks have buried the older geology.
The prevailing theory for why this is, is that a giant object slammed into northern Mars, turning nearly half of the planet's surface into the Solar System's largest impact crater.
Dr Carter explained that this meant a thick veneer of younger rock covered the older geology, "so the craters are the only way of accessing the older stuff".
But the craters are relatively small and more difficult for the orbiting probes to take measurements from.
"There's also ice and dust coverage in the north of the planet, making it harder to get signals from these craters," said Dr Carter.
The new findings suggest that at least part of the wet period on Mars, that could have been favourable to life, extended into the time between that giant impact and when volcanic and other rocks formed an overlying mantle.
This indicates that, 4.2 billion years ago, the planet was probably altered by liquid water on a global scale.
But Dr Carter said that the findings did not paint a picture of huge Martian oceans.
"It was probably a very dry place," he said. "But we're seeing signals of what were once river beds, small seas and lakes." | The whole of Mars' surface was shaped by liquid water around four billion years ago, say scientists. | 10408113 |
It follows the case of a woman wrongly told she had miscarried nine weeks into her pregnancy after a scan at the University Hospital of Wales.
Emily Wheatley, from Monmouth, went on to have a healthy baby daughter, Ella.
The Public Service Ombudsman for Wales believes flaws in UHW's practices may have gone back as far as 2006. A helpline has been set up for patients.
Ms Wheatley was told during a dating scan she had suffered a silent miscarriage - where there are no symptoms.
She chose to undergo a uterine evacuation at Nevill Hall hospital in Abergavenny, but staff there discovered she was nine weeks pregnant with a healthy foetus.
Ms Wheatley suffers from polycystic ovary syndrome and endometriosis, meaning the chances of her conceiving naturally were "very, very slim".
"To be told that I'd miscarried was a real shock," she said.
"It took a lot to adjust to that after adjusting to the fact that I was pregnant in the first place."
After being told she was indeed still pregnant, she said: "Even though the baby was there clearly on the screen, I couldn't really believe it."
She said the hospital "took away the enjoyment of pregnancy".
She added: "It's just unbelievable actually that there are potentially other women out there who have been diagnosed with having a silent miscarriage... and they potentially have got rid of healthy babies. That frightens me."
"Maybe hundreds of babies have been lost because of their decision making, which is unthinkable."
Peter Tyndall, Public Service Ombudsman for Wales, said it was an "unacceptable mistake" which should have been avoided and he has called a review of midwife sonographers' competency.
He said staff, after discovering a silent miscarriage, should have used a different scan to give them a "more accurate picture", but failed to do so.
In a report, he says the health board "failed to implement guidelines issued by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) that were designed to prevent the misdiagnosis of early pregnancy loss" and had been using out-dated guidance for two years or more.
Asked how many other people could have been affected, he replied: "You'll have to ask the health board but clearly there will have been others.
"The health board has set up a helpline for other women who think they may have been affected.
"We'd advise them if they are concerned to contact the helpline."
Mr Tyndall said he thinks Ms Wheatley's case is "unusual and I don't think it's typical", but he said other women may have been similarly affected.
The ombudsman made a series of recommendations, including that the health board issues a written apology and pays the woman £1,500.
The helpline - 0800 952 0244 - was launched on Friday and will remain open from 09:00 to 17:00 daily until 17:00 GMT on 4 November.
Dr George Findlay, Cardiff and Vale Health Board director for children and women's services, said about 6,000 deliveries are performed each year, and between 600 and 1,200 people have a miscarriage.
"We're saying that about 600 women per year may have a miscarriage that leads to an intervention by us," he said.
"What I don't know right now is what type of scan or number of scans that these patients had and we're happy to look at that on a case by case basis."
Dr Findlay added: "We let her down and we didn't provide a standard of care that's acceptable to me as a doctor or me as a manager."
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board's executive director of nursing, Ruth Walker, offered an "unreserved" apology to Ms Wheatley and said the said the board was "genuinely sorry that it has taken an ombudsman's report for her to receive the answers she deserved".
She said that correct procedures were now followed.
She added the helpline had received 28 calls throughout the day on Friday.
"We were able to immediately reassure eight of those patients regarding their care and will be speaking further with 10 other patients in the coming days.
"There were also 10 calls from patients outside the Cardiff and Vale area which we were able to redirect accordingly." | A Cardiff hospital has been forced to apologise for flaws in the way it diagnosed miscarriages over many years. | 24762594 |
The tutors allege there was a "climate of intimidation and fear" at Green Spring Academy Shoreditch, where "dishonesty was the main ingredient".
Head teacher Mark Keary was suspended last month over exam-fixing claims.
Green Spring Education Trust said it had acted robustly in dealing with the allegations.
Mr Keary, who was reportedly paid £220,000 per year, was suspended in February along with a number of other staff members.
An investigation into alleged misconduct in relation to some examinations had found "irregularities".
The Department for Education (DfE) said exam malpractice had been identified and disciplinary action was being taken.
Mr Keary has not responded to approaches for comment.
GCSE results had gone from being among the worst in the country to making the academy one of the top-performing schools nationally.
In its latest results it recorded an 83% A-C pupil pass rate for GCSE English and maths.
Mr Keary took over the then Bethnal Green Technology College in June 2006 and oversaw its transformation into an academy at the start of 2012.
BBC London has heard from six former teachers who spoke of a culture of intimidation where some felt they had no choice but to cheat or leave.
Jahangir Alam left the school in 2012. He said: "It became like an exam-production factory.
"Everything was geared toward the exam and it really didn't matter how you got the result.
"On a few occasions I have seen malpractice with coursework, meaning inflated coursework marks."
John McKelvey, who retired after many years at the school, alleged there was a "climate of intimidation and fear".
He said: "People would come into work one morning and, presumably, they were asked to leave and escorted from the premises.
"This happened to a large number of people, at least 10 that I know personally. This was very upsetting. People were watching their backs."
He added: "I would say it would be extremely difficult to get those kind of [GCSE grade] percentages from the student intake as I remember it; very difficult indeed."
A spokesman for the DfE said: "There is no place for cheating in our schools, and while exam malpractice is extremely rare, it is right that any allegations are thoroughly investigated.
"Following an investigation at Green Spring Academy in Tower Hamlets, exam malpractice has been identified, resulting in disciplinary action being taken.
"The regional schools commissioner is working closely with the academy trust to ensure students face as little disruption as possible during this time, and we continue to monitor the situation closely."
In a statement, Green Springs Academy said: "The independent investigation commissioned by the trust board has now concluded and appropriate action is being taken which cannot be discussed for reasons of confidentiality.
"Working with key authorities, including the DfE, the trust board has acted robustly and with integrity in dealing with the allegations made."
The school made headlines in 2015 when three pupils, Kadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum, aged 15 and 16 at the time, left the UK during February half term for Syria. | Teachers at a high-flying East London academy have claimed they witnessed coursework and examinations being marked falsely. | 39194587 |
The Railwaymen's four-year stay in League One was ended last week but they went ahead when Oliver Turton's 25-yard shot dipped over goalkeeper Joe Anyon.
Williams lashed in a right-footed effort to equalise before Hakeeb Adelakun turned in a cross for 2-1.
It was 3-1 when Williams bundled the ball in from close range meaning Marcus Haber's flick was just a consolation.
Crewe boss Steve Davis, whose side have not won since 6 February, was targeted by angry home fans throughout as they look set to finish the season rock-bottom, while Scunthorpe dropped to 10th. | Relegated Crewe slumped to a seventh successive loss as Luke Williams' brace helped Scunthorpe to victory. | 36003313 |
She only started singing in the mid-60s "for smoking money," she once told US radio station NPR.
But her richly detailed, confessional lyrics changed folk music.
Before Mitchell, singer-songwriters concentrated on love and politics. After her, they sang about themselves - their fears, their pain, and how the loss of a lover can leave you feeling: "The bed's too big, the frying pan's too wide."
Her reputation as a fragile, confessional lyricist does her a disservice. Mitchell's writing may be unflinchingly personal, but it is also rich with imagery and engaged with the world beyond her "yellow curtains".
"My work has always contained the question of how far the pop song could go. What themes it could hold without collapsing," she once said.
Her most famous compositions are the poem-songs she released during her early, Laurel Canyon years, but she was incorporating jazz and world music in her work long before it became fashionable.
"My music is not designed to grab instantly," she once said. "It's designed to wear for a lifetime, to hold up like a fine cloth."
It would be impossible to select a definitive list of her best songs, but here is a quick guide to seven of the most popular ones.
Covered more than 200 times by the likes of Tori Amos, Herbie Hancock, Linda Ronstadt and Aimee Mann, River is one of Mitchell's most enduring songs.
Featured on 1971's Blue album, its spare, piano-driven arrangement paints a vivid picture of loss and self-recrimination, with Mitchell facing Christmas with no-one to kiss under the mistletoe.
Key lyric: "I wish I had a river I could skate away on / I wish I had a river so long / I would teach my feet to fly."
Made famous by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, whose hard-rocking version is a stark contrast to Mitchell's stripped-down, intimate performance where her multi-tracked voice is set against a simple Wurlitzer electric piano.
A tribute to the 1969 festival of peace, love and music, the song is quiet and thoughtful when the event was anything but.
Mitchell famously did not attend Woodstock, basing her lyrics on the (undoubtedly hazy) recollections of her then-boyfriend, Graham Nash.
Key lyric: "We are stardust / We are golden/ And we've got to get ourselves / Back to the garden."
A devastatingly gorgeous ballad, A Case Of You captures the nuances and complications of an affair in its dissolution.
"You are in my blood like holy wine," sings Mitchell, seemingly drunk on love, before delivering the killer blow: "I could drink a case of you and still be on my feet."
But the song also captures her ambiguity over ending the relationship: "Love is touching souls / Surely you touched mine / 'Cause part of you pours out of me / In these lines from time to time."
Arguably Mitchell's best composition, A Case Of You is tucked away at the end of Blue, and exemplifies the album's searingly intense lyrics.
"The Blue album, there's hardly a dishonest note in the vocals," she told Cameron Crowe in a 1979 interview for Rolling Stone.
"At that period in my life, I had no personal defences. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes.
"I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn't pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defences there either."
Key lyric: "I could drink a case of you / And still be on my feet."
A reflection on the demands of fame, Free Man In Paris is more exuberant and funny than most musicians' stories of "screaming in a hotel room".
Mitchell adopts the voice of her record-executive friend David Geffen as he enjoys a worry-free weekend in France, neatly capturing the tension between having power and wanting freedom.
Key lyric: 'I was a free man in Paris / I felt unfettered and alive / There was nobody calling me up for favours / And no one's future to decide / You know I'd go back there tomorrow / But for the work I've taken on / Stoking the star-maker machinery / Behind the popular song."
An upbeat sing-along that hides a message about imminent ecological disaster, Big Yellow Taxi is Mitchell's biggest radio hit - and her only top 40 single in the UK, reaching number 11 in 1970.
She wrote it after a trip to Hawaii, where she arrived at her hotel in the dead of night.
"When I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart... this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song."
Key lyric: "They paved paradise / And put up a parking lot."
Mitchell's biggest hit in the States, Help Me is one of her most straightforward compositions - a shimmering, swooning love song that largely adheres to pop's verse-chorus structures.
It finds the singer helplessly falling for a man she knows is bad news: "A rambler and a gambler and a sweet-talking-ladies man."
It's a favourite of funk musician Prince, who references it in The Ballad of Dorothy Parker, from his 1987 album Sign O The Times.
Key lyric: "Help me / I think I'm falling in love again / When I get that crazy feeling, I know / I'm in trouble again."
Written in 1967 and originally recorded by Judy Collins, Both Sides Now stemmed from the failure of Mitchell's first marriage and her decision to give up her daughter for adoption.
It uses clouds as a metaphor for the loss of innocence - how a child pictures "ice cream castles in the air", but adults only see a portent of bad weather.
Written when she was 21, the world-weary lyrics sat uncomfortably on Mitchell's young shoulders - but her 2000 re-recording is darker and wiser.
"It took a mature woman to bring it to life," Mitchell once said.
Key lyric: "I've looked at love from both sides now / From give and take and still somehow /It's love's illusions I recall." | Joni Mitchell describes herself as a "painter who writes songs" with a "little helium voice". | 32143868 |
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The team's mechanical arm proved superior to 15 rivals at moving dozens of different products between a box and shelves without damaging them.
Amazon says it hopes such robots could one day work "shoulder-to-shoulder" with humans.
Read more | A Dutch team of roboticists has won 2016's Amazon Picking Challenge. | 36707518 |
The Irish province secured a bonus point by half-time as Darren Sweetnam, Conor Murray, CJ Stander and Simon Zebo all touched down.
After a further penalty try and Stephen Archer score, Stander notched his second try after the break.
Peter O'Mahony came on for his first game since the World Cup before Gabriele Di Giulio's late reply.
Ireland flanker O'Mahony, who has been out of action since sustaining a serious knee injury in Ireland's win over France last October, received a big ovation from the home crowd as he was introduced with 20 minutes remaining.
Sweetnam notched Munster's opening try in the second minute, with Tyler Bleyendaal adding the extras, and the home side were quickly 14-0 ahead after scrum-half Murray finished off a well-constructed line-out maul.
Stander gathered his own charge down to score Munster's third try under the posts and Zebo then ran on to a Murray chip to clinch the bonus point as Bleyendaal's impeccable kicking stretched the lead to 28-0 by the break.
The penalty try came shortly after the resumption after Sweetnam was tackled without the ball as he looked certain to race in and collect it following a kick in behind the Zebre defence.
Replacement fly-half Keatley's break set up prop Archer's try and, after wing Di Giulio got Zebre off the mark, Stander notched his second touchdown thanks to a slick pass from replacement scrum-half Duncan Williams.
The win maintained Munster's satisfactory start to the season under new director of rugby Rassie Erasmus but they will expect a much tougher test against their Irish provincial rivals Leinster next weekend.
Munster: Zebo; Sweetnam, Earls, Taute, Wootton; Bleyendaal, Murray; Kilcoyne, Casey, Archer; Ryan, O'Shea; Holland (capt), O'Donnell, Stander.
Replacements: N Scannell for Casey 67, Cronin for Kilcoyne 60, Ryan for Archer 67, O'Mahony for O'Shea 60, Oliver for O'Donnell 67, Williams for Murray 60, Keatley for Bleyendaal 48, Bohane for Earls 48.
Zebre: Padovani, Di Guilo, Bisegni, Castello, Venditti, Canna, Palazzani, Lovotti, D'Apice, Chistolini, Geldenhuys, Koegelenberg, Sarto, Meyer, Ruzza
Replacements: Postiglioni for Lovotti 64, Roan for Chistolini 50, Furno for Meyer 65, Engelbrecht for Palazzani 68, Boni for Castello 55, Greeff for Venditti 54.
Not used: Festuccia, Minnie. | Munster made it four wins from their opening five games in the Pro12 as they strolled to victory over Zebre. | 37521597 |
Although it's already been used by industry, the military and some emergency services, it was expensive and therefore had a limited market.
But in the same way that GPS location tech has now found its way into cars, smartphones, cameras and many other devices, thermography, as it's more properly known, is on the brink of becoming a universal technology, too.
The cost of chips and thermal detectors that enable us to see and measure infrared heat signatures from surfaces has plunged in recent years.
So in the future, that means more sensors in more places. Doing what exactly?
In a supermarket a manager could be alerted when the checkout queue gets too long without looking at a video feed. The cumulative heat signature would be enough to trigger an alert.
At big venues, audio could be redirected on the fly amongst dozens of loud speakers to give the area with the most people at any given moment the best possible aural experience.
Sensors placed along the side of a cruise ship could instantly detect falling passengers even before they touched the water's surface.
And smartphones equipped with such sensors could be used to carry out thermal efficiency inspections in homes, spot leaks, or simply look for wildlife on night camping adventures with the kids.
There are hundreds of other likely scenarios, says Tim LeBeau of Seek Thermal, which already makes a thermal camera accessory for iOS and Android smartphones, as well as a handheld device called "Reveal".
"Let's take a baggage carousel at a big airport," he tells the BBC. "There are several thousand electrical motors that move the bags around. If one seizes up, a tonne of bags could miss their connection.
"With thermal imaging, taking a snapshot every 30 seconds would allow for an alert if [a motor] was about to go bad."
Seek Thermal has also produced prototype sensors that it says will bring the cost down from around $3,000 (£1,977) to about $300 per chip.
These cheaper sensors are mostly uncooled, which makes them slightly less sensitive than cooled sensors because they pick up some heat from their immediate surroundings.
But they are still good enough for most non-specialist purposes, says Dr Gabe Fulop, a 25-year industry veteran who writes a newsletter called Infrared Imaging News.
And it is these cheaper uncooled sensors that are likely to drive the market, he believes.
"The worldwide uncooled market is currently worth more than $2bn (£1.3bn) but is expected to double in the next five years," says Mr Fulop.
The number of gadgets equipped with thermal sensors is forecast to grow from about 500,000 to three million units, he says, "most of it driven by these new applications".
Making this kind of technology more affordable for local authorities could even save lives, he believes.
Firefighters are already experimenting with drones equipped with thermal imaging cameras - using them to spot wildfires, for example.
And police and paramedics could also find them valuable tools in emergency situations.
Many car crash victims manage to stumble 20-30ft (6-9m) before collapsing in long grass or behind hedges and trees. They can easily be missed by the emergency services, especially at night.
If the first responders had mobile thermographic devices, such potential tragedies could be avoided, he argues.
"Each person as he sits in the car warms up the seat. So for a very short time you can detect a heat signature on the seat," says Mr Fulop.
This means emergency services would know if someone had been occupying a vehicle even if the person were now absent from the scene.
"If another car has just left [the accident], the tyre marks will still be visible because of a little extra heat, but those, too, will dissipate quickly."
Infrared thermography (IRT) has been used on animals for many years, mostly as a way of diagnosing physical illness, especially in agricultural settings.
But at Detroit zoo in the US, Dr Stephanie Allard is investigating methods of testing animals for psychological ups and downs using thermal cameras.
The aim is to measure the welfare of animals and how they react to different situations.
"Looking at the surface temperature of an eyeball has turned out to be a really valuable tool with horses and cows, for example," she says. "Stress leads to an increase in temperature.
"However, that has not been validated for most other species, which, of course, is a wide range in a zoo. We have to determine where those differences in temperature may happen in order to know if IRT will be a useful tool to tell when an animal is having an amazing time…or not."
But thermal technology has its limitations.
One of its biggest drawbacks is that heat signatures are very hard - if not impossible - to read behind walls, doors and glass.
But a new twist on another established technology could solve this problem.
A team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology has come up with a system called RF-Capture that can track people through walls using certain radio frequency (RF) signals.
A device that resembles a wi-fi router sends out a stream of RF signals which in turn are bounced back from different parts of a body as it moves, producing images that resemble a thermal pattern, but are not.
The MIT researchers devised an algorithm to turn these individual snapshots into an animation. The kit can detect the movement of a heartbeat and lungs even when someone is standing still, and differentiate between body shapes.
The MIT team, led by Professor Dina Katabi, has started a company called Emerald to promote the device, and the tech has attracted the attention of the White House.
One potential application is monitoring elderly relatives without the need for panic button necklaces or wristbands. It could also be integrated into home and office security systems.
But what will the public think about tech that can see through walls?
Follow Technology of Business editor @matthew_wall on Twitter | Soon we'll all be feeling the heat, thanks to thermal imaging technology. | 35049606 |
Chris Wood had the best chance of the first half for the visitors but shot wide, while Kemar Roofe headed over.
All the goals came in a dramatic final 17 minutes, with Stuart Dallas' strike into the corner putting Leeds ahead.
Elliott Bennett's shot from 20 yards looked to have stolen a point for the hosts before Pontus Jansson won it when he headed in Pablo Hernandez's corner.
Blackburn, who now have only one win in their last 11 Championship matches, remain 23rd in the table and are three points adrift of Burton, in 21st, who lost 2-0 at home to Fulham.
The hosts had the ball in the net as early as the fourth minute, but Jason Lowe's effort was disallowed for a foul on Rob Green.
Leeds went ahead when captain Liam Bridcutt set up Dallas at the back post for his first league goal of the season, before Rovers levelled when Bennett's bobbling shot wrong-footed Green.
But a minute from the end, Hernandez won a corner and his accurate delivery found Jansson to head into the top left-hand corner.
Blackburn manager Owen Coyle:
"I don't think there's any doubt about the disappointment we feel. I thought we looked the team at 0-0 that would get in front.
"We certainly put enough into game to be taking something. Certainly a minimum of a point and probably with a bit of luck, maybe all three.
"There's no doubt it's very galling, disappointing, but those are the margins in this league and if you're going to switch off for any given moment in the Championship, you're going to get punished."
Leeds United boss Garry Monk:
"It wasn't pretty by any stretch of the imagination. Neither team got control of anything. (It was) a bit to and fro, a bit of a grind.
"We defended our box very well, stayed strong when it was difficult and in those crucial moments we scored two good goals. Yes (we were) a bit lucky to come away with the three points but the mentality and character is what I was pleased with.
"We know we didn't perform near our level but we found a way to win and, for me, that's a real good sign for a good team with a strong mentality."
Match ends, Blackburn Rovers 1, Leeds United 2.
Second Half ends, Blackburn Rovers 1, Leeds United 2.
Offside, Leeds United. Pablo Hernández tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.
Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Gordon Greer.
Attempt blocked. Pablo Hernández (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Stuart Dallas.
Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Elliott Bennett.
Attempt blocked. Chris Wood (Leeds United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gaetano Berardi.
Goal! Blackburn Rovers 1, Leeds United 2. Pontus Jansson (Leeds United) header from very close range to the top left corner. Assisted by Pablo Hernández with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Ryan Nyambe.
Attempt blocked. Pablo Hernández (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Ayling.
Attempt missed. Lucas João (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Danny Graham.
Goal! Blackburn Rovers 1, Leeds United 1. Elliott Bennett (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Craig Conway.
Attempt blocked. Lucas João (Blackburn Rovers) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Darragh Lenihan.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Ronaldo Vieira.
Attempt blocked. Sam Gallagher (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Lucas João replaces Jason Lowe.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Craig Conway replaces Liam Feeney.
Substitution, Leeds United. Ronaldo Vieira replaces Eunan O'Kane.
Souleymane Doukara (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers).
Goal! Blackburn Rovers 0, Leeds United 1. Stuart Dallas (Leeds United) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Liam Bridcutt.
Luke Ayling (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Elliott Bennett (Blackburn Rovers).
Foul by Elliott Bennett (Blackburn Rovers).
Gaetano Berardi (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Robert Green.
Elliott Bennett (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Souleymane Doukara (Leeds United).
Attempt missed. Sam Gallagher (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Danny Graham.
Attempt missed. Stuart Dallas (Leeds United) header from a difficult angle on the left is too high. Assisted by Pablo Hernández with a cross.
Substitution, Leeds United. Souleymane Doukara replaces Kemar Roofe.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Luke Ayling.
Hand ball by Elliott Bennett (Blackburn Rovers).
Charlie Mulgrew (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Eunan O'Kane (Leeds United).
Danny Graham (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gaetano Berardi (Leeds United).
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Liam Bridcutt.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Stuart Dallas.
Derrick Williams (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. | Leeds United moved to within a point of third-placed Reading by winning at Championship strugglers Blackburn. | 38740344 |
Frank Moussa fired in from the edge of the box to put the visitors in front, before Southend's Adam Barrett turned a cross from Lowe into his own net.
The Shrimpers regained the lead when David Mooney's effort went in off the post, but Lowe side-footed in to level.
Southend twice hit the woodwork and were punished when Lowe converted from the spot after Sam McQueen's handball.
Victory saw the Shakers end the season 14th, one point and one place above their opponents.
Veteran striker Lowe, 37, is set to rejoin Crewe, who have been relegated to League Two.
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Bury manager David Flitcroft told BBC Radio Manchester:
"Seeing Ryan Lowe step up in the 92nd minute to score is fitting on a day like this. The guy's an absolute true professional. I think he can keep going until he's 40, 41, 42.
"You never know how the season is going to pan out. You come to the end of it and see teams like Blackpool and Doncaster fighting for their lives. Some of these teams are Championship teams with a Championship set-up.
"Four more wins and a couple of draws and we get into the playoffs. We can possibly achieve that next season. We've consolidated and made staying in this league look easy."
Match ends, Bury 3, Southend United 2.
Second Half ends, Bury 3, Southend United 2.
David Worrall (Southend United) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Bury 3, Southend United 2. Ryan Lowe (Bury) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty conceded by Sam McQueen (Southend United) with a hand ball in the penalty area.
Foul by Callum Styles (Bury).
David Mooney (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Southend United. Conceded by Craig Jones.
Corner, Bury. Conceded by Adam Barrett.
Substitution, Bury. Robert Bourne replaces Jacob Mellis.
Craig Jones (Bury) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Tyrone Barnett (Southend United).
Substitution, Bury. Callum Styles replaces Anthony Dudley.
Corner, Southend United. Conceded by Anthony Dudley.
David Mooney (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Anthony Dudley (Bury).
Foul by Jacob Mellis (Bury).
Ryan Leonard (Southend United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Southend United. Sam McQueen replaces Franck Moussa.
Attempt missed. Andrew Tutte (Bury) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Franck Moussa (Southend United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Franck Moussa (Southend United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kelvin Etuhu (Bury).
Substitution, Southend United. Adam Thompson replaces Piotr Malarczyk.
Corner, Bury. Conceded by Adam Barrett.
David Mooney (Southend United) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Danny Rose (Bury) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Piotr Malarczyk (Southend United).
Foul by Andrew Tutte (Bury).
Jack Payne (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Bury. Danny Rose replaces Danny Mayor.
Substitution, Southend United. Jack Payne replaces Jack Bridge.
Foul by Peter Clarke (Bury).
Franck Moussa (Southend United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Second Half begins Bury 2, Southend United 2.
First Half ends, Bury 2, Southend United 2.
David Worrall (Southend United) hits the left post with a right footed shot from outside the box.
Foul by Jack Bridge (Southend United).
Peter Clarke (Bury) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Jacob Mellis (Bury) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. | Ryan Lowe scored twice in his final game for Bury as they came from behind to beat Southend and finish above them. | 36180781 |
A call was made to the coastguard about 02:00 following the incident which happened near Girdleness Lighthouse.
Aberdeen and Stonehaven Coastguard rescue teams, along with two lifeboats from Aberdeen and a helicopter, were involved in the search.
Coastguards later said the "extensive search" had been suspended at about 10:00.
Coastguard area commander Ross Greenhill told BBC Scotland: "Coastguards received a call from a vessel stating that one of their crew had gone overboard.
"They threw him a life ring and turned to try to rescue him but lost sight of him.
"The search was very good so had he been on the surface we are fairly sure he would have been found."
More than 10 vessels were involved in the search, including tugs, rig vessels, merchant vessels and fishing boats. | A large-scale search after a man fell overboard from a fishing boat south east of Aberdeen has been suspended. | 33956246 |
The 31-year-old striker, who was a part of his country's 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012-winning squads, joined the Swans from Sevilla.
He now hopes to emulate former Swan Michu in playing for Spain while plying his club trade at the Liberty Stadium.
"I would like to return to play for Spain, it would be a very special thing for me," said Llorente.
"I would like to get back into the national side and I know that I will need to play well for Swansea all season if I want to do that."
Llorente won the most recent of his 24 caps in 2013, though there is a precedent for Swansea players representing Spain.
Former forward Michu was rewarded for a prolific first season for the Swans - in which he scored 22 goals - with a debut for the then world champions against Belarus in 2013.
Llorente would like to emulate his countryman's goalscoring exploits, as well as Michu's feat of winning silverware in his first season with Swansea in the form of the 2013 League Cup.
"I would like to score a lot of goals like him. He has done very well here and I need to work hard if I am to perform like him," said Llorente.
"I think it is possible to win one of the cups. We know winning the Premier League is a very difficult competition with a lot of teams at a high level but we want to do well."
After successful spells with Athletic Bilbao and Juventus, Llorente scored only seven goals for Sevilla in all competitions last season as he struggled to secure a regular starting role.
He is likely to face similarly stiff competition for places at the Liberty Stadium, with Swansea set to complete a club-record £15m signing of Atletico Madrid striker Borja Baston.
"He [Borja] is a good player, he will be important for Swansea. I need help from all the players and I need competition," said Llorente.
"My year in Sevilla was not very good for me but now I want to change this situation and score more goals for Swansea and show my best performance like I showed with Athletic Bilbao and Juventus." | Fernando Llorente hopes to force his way back into Spain's squad by impressing for new club Swansea City. | 37003185 |
The government is scrapping automatic "cost caps" which limit the costs of losing such a challenge.
Opponents claim the changes will make it "impossible" to "hold the government to account".
But the government says people will not be expected to pay above their means.
The caps currently stand at £5,000 for an individual and £10,000 for an organisation.
The normal "loser pays rule" means that successful claimants can claim their legal costs back from the defendant.
But if they lose, they have to pay both their own legal costs, and those of the winning side.
Under the changes, any person or organisation wanting to bring a judicial review in environmental cases will not automatically receive the protection of a '"cost cap" if they lose.
That could mean individuals having to sell a house.
ClientEarth, Friends of the Earth and the RSPB are challenging the rule change in the courts, arguing those bringing such cases would be exposed to huge and uncertain financial risk.
The "cost caps" came in in 2013 in part due to the international Aarhus Convention, which was ratified by the government in 2005.
It requires contracting parties to ensure that legal action to protect the environment is "fair, equitable, timely and not prohibitively expensive".
This recognises that the environment cannot protect itself and that there is a public interest in people and groups bringing legal actions to protect it.
Before the caps the cost of bringing cases could be huge.
In one concerning the construction of a funicular railway up Cairngorm Mountain in Scotland, WWF was ordered to pay the government's legal costs of over £200,000 on losing.
In another, local resident Lilian Pallikaropoulos faced a costs bill of just under £90,000 after losing her challenge against the legality of a large cement works near her home in Rugby, Warwickshire.
Under the new rules, the court can look at the financial resources of a claimant and discard the automatic cost cap.
This could involve an assessment of how much their house is worth and whether they should be forced to sell it if they lose.
It is estimated that some 40,000 people in the UK die prematurely each year because of air pollution.
The group ClientEarth has brought successful legal challenges against the government's failure to meet EU targets on air pollution.
Its chief executive James Thornton said: "By removing cost caps and allowing personal finances to be publicly examined, it creates a huge deterrent for those who would use law to defend people's health and the natural world.
"With unlimited legal costs, it will be virtually impossible to bring a public interest case and hold the government to account.
"This is especially true after a hard Brexit - which looks increasingly likely - when the EU won't be able to punish UK law breaking."
Campaigners say the UK's public interest cost rules are already more punitive than the US, China, and any other country in the EU.
They claim environmental public interest cases made up less than 1% of all judicial reviews from 2013 to 2015, and that they achieve twelve times the success rate of other judicial reviews.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "The cost of bringing environmental challenges must not be prohibitively expensive and our changes will ensure that individuals are not expected to pay legal costs above their means. Legal aid remains available for these cases".
But last week, a House of Lords committee concluded that "people with a genuine complaint will be discouraged from pursuing it in the courts". | New rules have come into force which could dramatically reduce the ability of individuals and non-governmental organisations to bring legal challenges to protect the environment. | 39109865 |
Irvine received a second yellow card after 38 minutes with the score 1-1 and Burton then conceded three times to slip to a second league defeat.
"I've got no problems with the first yellow card but the second one was harsh," said Clough.
Burton will try to make a loan signing before Tuesday's trip to Middlesbrough.
Clough's side will head to Teesside with no points from their opening two league matches and will be without suspended Irvine at the Riverside Stadium.
"It was a trip on the edge of the penalty area," said Clough. "Luke Murphy got brought down in the same way and I asked the fourth official what the difference between the two challenges was and he couldn't tell us.
"The head of referees keeps using this analogy which I never agree with about 'your players make mistakes as well', but our players have got 11 players against them - the officials don't have anybody.
"The referee and both linesmen made incorrect decisions which have had a big effect on the game." | Burton Albion manager Nigel Clough labelled the sending off of Jackson Irvine during his side's 4-1 defeat at Hull on Saturday as "harsh". | 40925438 |
The 32-year-old former Brentford and Colchester United player has featured 79 times in his two and a half seasons with the Chairboys.
He had been out of contract, along with ex-Chairboys defender Aaron Pierre, who joined Northampton Town on Friday.
"Delighted to finally put pen to paper. Now let's get out of the league," Bean said on Twitter. | Wycombe Wanderers midfielder Marcus Bean has signed a new one-year contract with the League Two side. | 40689542 |
The 43-year-old, who finished fourth in the event in 2016, hit eight birdies to return a bogey-free round.
Dredge's round of 64 is his best since regaining his tour card last year.
Meanwhile, former US Open champion Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland started well and finished the day two strokes back in third.
McDowell opened with three birdies and reached the turn in only 30 shots after starting on the 10th tee.
The 37-year-old dropped just one shot, on the sixth, as he signed for a six-under 66.
"I understood today that the scoring was going to be good," Dredge said.
"It was an opportunity to go at more flags and get the ball closer to the hole.
"Without the wind, it certainly makes it a lot easier to get the score going and get the putts in."
Find out how to get into golf with our special guide. | Welsh golfer Bradley Dredge carded an eight-under-par 64 in the opening round to lead the Qatar Masters by one shot over Finland's Mikko Korhonen. | 38757417 |
He's been awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen's New Year's Honours list for services to Drama.
Speaking to Greg James on Radio 1 he says: "Turning it down doesn't really exist - you have to say if you'd accept it before it's offered.
"You get a letter that says you've been put forward for [an OBE] and if you were to be given it would you accept?"
James says he thought about it a lot and discussed it with his wife because "it's a weird thing" and questioned whether he deserved it.
"You're painfully aware there are so many people who deserve it so much more," James tells Greg on Radio 1. "Then you sort of think I went to Holmer Green Upper School in High Wycombe and I don't know how many of my year are getting letters like this.
"When I told my dad he said [the OBE] stands for other blokes' efforts.
"I'm honoured to accept it, I don't know if it's deserved or not. It will be a nice day to take my parents and thank them for the sacrifices they made for me to be able to do this as a job. It's lovely."
James is flying out to America today to start work on his new CBS show - The Late Late Show with James Corden.
He says: "It's terrifying to think about it because I've no idea why I would be doing such a thing - I really don't. I came to the decision that I would rather regret doing something than regret not doing something.
"This is something I just have to go for and try my best to enjoy it.
"I'm not going with any expectation that I think it will work for the same reason that I thought I shouldn't accept the OBE at Christmas - I'm from High Wycombe and why should I be able to sit and talk to America every night?
"I just hope we can make a really fun, warm silly show."
Hosting the Late Late Show means that James can no longer be the frontman at the Brit Awards - which he's been since 2011.
Ant and Dec will host the music awards next month with performances from Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift.
James says he remembers feeling terrified: "When I first took that show on it was in a place where it was almost unhostable. The very best people had done that show.
"I feel like the changes we made have allowed it to sit more as a TV show and Ant and Dec will be amazing.
They'll be far better than me - I've no doubt about that at all."
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | James Corden says he thought about not accepting his OBE from the Queen. | 30709894 |
Yovan Garcia accessed payroll records at Security Specialists, which provides private security patrols, to inflate the number of hours he had worked.
He later hacked the firm's servers to steal data and defaced its website.
District Judge Michael Fitzgerald said Garcia had used the stolen data to help set up a rival business.
Security Specialists first noticed issues with Mr Garcia's pay records in July 2014, about two years after he joined.
In one example, they showed he had worked 12 hours per day over a two-week period and was owed 40 hours of overtime pay, when in fact he only worked eight hours per day.
According to the Central District Court of California, Mr Garcia had obtained login credentials - without ever having been given them - and accessed the records without authorisation.
Judge Fitzgerald said: "As a result, defendant Garcia was paid thousands of dollars more in overtime wages than he was really owed."
This led to his sacking, but soon afterwards he hacked Security Specialists' servers with "at least one other individual".
Mr Garcia took emails and other confidential data to "lure away" Security Specialists' clients to his new business, the judge said.
He also deleted or corrupted back-up files creating "debilitating" damage, according to the company.
A few days later, Security Specialists' website was also vandalised, with the website's header being changed to read "Are you ready".
An "unflattering picture" of a senior member of staff was also published on the site, Judge Fitzgerald said.
He ordered Mr Garcia to pay $318,661.70 to cover costs to Security Specialists such as lost income and lost data.
Mr Garcia could also be liable to pay the firm's legal costs at a later date, he said. | A former private security officer in California must pay nearly $319,000 (£248,000) in damages for attacking his employer's computer systems. | 39883229 |
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A tournament was held in glitzy Las Vegas and broadcast on television, with a million dollars up for grabs as prize money.
The game has become a big box office sport event - competitors even arrive in posh cars called limousines. | The board game chess has been given a glamorous makeover in the United States. | 29609731 |
Natalie McArthur locked her father's Yorkshire terrier in a car boot on a hot day, causing it to die of a cardiac seizure brought on by heatstroke.
Her daughter Caitlin kept a menagerie including three ducks and six hamsters in small cages in her bedroom.
A sheriff banned both women from keeping animal for five years. The Scottish SPCA welcomed the sentences.
Natalie McArthur, 45, admitted causing Crystal the Yorkshire terrier unnecessary suffering by leaving her in the boot of a car without water for an hour on a hot day in the summer of 2013.
She also left three other dogs in the car while taking Crystal to the vet, where the terrier died.
In March of that year, her daughter Caitlin had been caught keeping animals including three ducks, six hamsters and a rabbit in tiny cages and dirty conditions at the pair's council house in Fallin, near Stirling.
The 20-year-old pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to all of the animals.
Stirling Sheriff Court heard that the pair had lost their council house following the incident, and ended up living in a car with two dogs and a cat for several days. They now live in council homeless accommodation in the city.
Sheriff William Gilchrist placed both under supervision for a year, under community payback orders, and banned them from keeping animals for five years.
Scottish SPCA inspector Louise Seddon said Crystal had suffered a horrific death due to Natalie McArthur's actions.
She said: "What makes this case all the more worrying is that Natalie McArthur left another three dogs inside the car at the vet surgery before being instructed to bring them inside. It is very important to understand that the heat inside a vehicle can build up to a dangerous level when it is warm outside.
"We hope this case will serve as a warning that leaving a dog inside a hot vehicle can have dreadful consequences and is completely unacceptable. In the vet's opinion, Crystal could potentially have been saved had she been taken to the vets straight away after being found, making it even more tragic."
Insp Seddon said Caitlin McArthur's pets had been "forced to live in appalling conditions".
She said; "They were being kept in extremely dirty containers that were far too small for their size and none of them had any food available.
"In her bedroom she had three ducks together in a small cage with no water. They were caked in mud and were constantly trying to clean themselves.
"A rabbit was also kept in a tiny, filthy cage on the floor and in another room small cages were stacked on top of each other housing six hamsters, three guinea pigs and a gerbil.
"We are pleased both Natalie McArthur and Caitlin McArthur have been dealt with by the court and hope they will seriously consider their ability to care for any other animals in the future." | A mother and daughter who admitted mistreating animals have been banned from keeping pets for five years. | 32234335 |
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Yet his legacy extends far beyond the microphone. He was also an exceptional all-round cricketer and one of Australia's finest captains.
BBC Sport looks back on Benaud's remarkable life on and off the field.
Born in the Sydney suburbs on 6 October 1930, Benaud was taught to bowl leg-spin by his father, Louis, and is one of the few players in history who can lay claim to having mastered the art.
It took him until his 25th Test to pick up his first five-wicket haul, but he became a potent force in Australia's attack, taking 248 wickets at an average of 27.03.
Never afraid to innovate, he single-handedly spun Australia to an unlikely victory in the Old Trafford Ashes Test of 1961 when he became the first player to go round the wicket and bowl into the footmarks made by the bowler at the opposite end.
England had reached 150-1 in pursuit of 256 when Benaud took five wickets in 25 balls to win the match and series, thus retaining the Ashes.
A genuine all-rounder, Benaud is one of a select group of Australians to have scored 10,000 runs and taken 500 wickets in first-class cricket.
As a result of a stiff shoulder, brought on by a smallpox vaccination, he was forced to bat with his elbow up. But it worked well for him.
In June 1955, he bludgeoned a century in only 78 minutes against a West Indies attack that included legendary all-rounder Sir Garfield Sobers. It remains the third fastest Test hundred in terms of minutes.
After scoring two of his three career Test centuries on the 1957-58 tour of South Africa, Benaud was rewarded with the Australian captaincy.
With an attacking style that has influenced Australia captains from Steve Waugh to Michael Clarke, the national team blossomed under his leadership, never losing a Test series during his 28 matches in charge.
In the famous tied Test with the West Indies in 1960, Benaud took on a target of 233 in under a day and, coming in with the score at 92-6, scored a belligerent 52 to almost see his side over the line.
Asked for the secret to his success, his reply was modest and witty: "Captaincy is 90% luck and 10% skill. But don't try it without that 10%."
Benaud was still playing in 1956 when he attended a BBC journalism training course. He eventually took to the airwaves in 1960, developing a warm, smooth delivery allied to a peerless knowledge of the game.
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Splitting his time between Australia and England, he became the face of cricket in both countries for more than 40 years, his trademark cream jacket becoming as synonymous with the sport as leather and willow.
When asked to sum up his commentary style, he said his mantra was: "If you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up."
Quiet and authoritative, Benaud's way with words and knack of coining a memorable phrase made him a popular subject for affectionate mimicry among cricket fans in the United Kingdom and down under.
His signature greeting of "morning everyone" became a household refrain, while his delicious delivery of the word "marvellous" seemed to make everything seem well with the world.
Some of Benaud's one-liners have also entered cricketing folklore. During Sir Ian Botham's famous Ashes century at Headingley in 1981, Benaud described one of the all-rounder's sixes with the words: "Don't even bother looking for that. It's gone straight into the confectionery stall and out again."
When Australia tail-ender Glenn McGrath was once out for two, Benaud quipped that he was "just ninety-eight runs short of his century".
Outside the commentary box, Benaud remained an influential figure in the development of the sport.
He was central to the birth of modern one-day cricket, drawing up the rules for Kerry Packer's World Series, which helped revolutionise the game in the late 1970s.
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"He knew the game had to develop and he always had interesting theories," said BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew. "You never heard him say cricket was better in his day."
The author of more than a dozen books on cricket, Benaud was awarded an OBE for services to cricket in 1961 and inducted into the International Cricket Council's Hall of Fame in 2009.
Benaud's distinctive voice and appearance gave British impersonator Rory Bremner and Australian satirist Billy Birmingham, also known as 'The 12th Man', enough material to last them years.
The sight of hundreds of Australia fans wearing Benaud fancy dress at every Sydney Test is testament to the esteem he is held in by the public.
That he was Australian did not matter to English supporters, who gave him a standing ovation at The Oval in London after his final commentary stint in England during the 2005 Ashes series.
Benaud was a big fan of horse racing and enjoyed pitting his wits against fellow commentator and close friend Jack Bannister for almost 60 years.
"Every Saturday for the last 20 years, wherever we were in the world, we would ring each other up, pick a race and bet on it," said Bannister.
"We'd keep a tally of the winners throughout the season and whoever lost would have to take each other and our wives out for dinner. I ended up paying for many more suppers than him. Even in the last few weeks, his wife Daphne would still ring through with the selections."
Benaud also played golf off a single-figure handicap. He and Bannister were such enthusiasts that they managed to squeeze in a full round every morning before play at the Edgbaston Test each summer.
When Benaud crashed his 1963 Sunbeam Alpine into a brick wall in 2013, he was more worried about the car than he was about his own health, according to Bannister.
"Richie absolutely adored that car," he said. "He was heartbroken when they told him it was a write-off.
"Of all the things he was good at, driving was not one of them. I know a fair few journalists who politely refused when Richie offered them a lift..."
According to renowned Australian author, journalist and historian Gideon Haigh, Benaud was "perhaps the most influential cricketer and cricket personality since the Second World War".
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew added: "Richie Benaud was the doyen. He was a one-off."
Former umpire Dickie Bird said: "I put him along with Henry Longhurst in golf and Harry Carpenter in boxing. They'll never replace Richie Benaud."
Compiled by Marc Higginson, Sam Sheringham and Justin Goulding | Richie Benaud, who has died aged 84, will be remembered as one of cricket's finest commentators. | 15903158 |
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The build-up to the second Test has been dominated by the two coaches exchanging views in the media.
On Sunday Gatland accused the All Blacks of using dangerous tactics, with Hansen calling his fellow Kiwi "desperate" in response.
"I've got a lot of respect for him," Hansen said.
"You guys [the media] are having a field day between Gats and I so I'm not feeding it. I haven't lashed out at Warren Gatland at all.
"I'm looking forward to having a beer with him and a chuckle. We have a lot of common interests. He likes racing horses, so do I. He coaches Wales, I have been through that experience myself."
Gatland told the media on Sunday the All Blacks had targeted scrum-half Conor Murray during their 30-15 first Test defeat in Auckland and could have caused a career-ending injury.
But New Zealand flanker Jerome Kaino insisted there was no malice or intent behind his challenge on Murray.
Hansen also turned on his national newspaper The New Zealand Herald, who mocked up a picture of Gatland as a clown on their front page.
"It's one thing to have a bit of banter and [the media] to beef that up to make it bigger than it really is," Hansen added.
"[But] you are ridiculing someone who doesn't deserve it. To ridicule someone is not right, so it's a bit disappointing really."
Meanwhile, Gatland says there has been "no hostility" from the Lions towards Hansen and the All Blacks.
"I think I've been pretty mild and have tried to be complimentary of the All Blacks, obviously they are the best team in the world," Gatland added.
"It's been a great experience for us as a team. Hopefully we can have a good game of rugby and maybe enjoy a beer together afterwards." | New Zealand coach Steve Hansen has played down the war of words with Lions counterpart Warren Gatland, and insists there is no animosity between the pair. | 40441649 |
Staff told police that beef items on their menu were buffalo, not cow, meat.
Police said they only went to Kerala House as a "preventive measure", not to investigate the complaint or take meat samples.
An angry Kerala government has complained to the police.
Kerala is one of the few Indian states in which cow slaughter is legal.
Most states, including Delhi, most states, including Delhi, ban the slaughter of cows, because the cow is considered sacred by India's majority Hindus.
Indian media report that Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing the police of overstepping their authority.
"I would like to inform you that the Kerala House staff canteen serves authentic vegetarian and non-vegetarian Kerala cuisine and the items in the menu are entirely within law," the letter is reported to have said.
The confusion likely stemmed from the fact that in India, buffalo meat is often called "beef", the BBC's South Asia Editor Charles Haviland reports.
After the police action, the institution removed the buffalo meat from its kitchens - but has since, defiantly, restored it, our correspondent says.
Following Monday evening's incident, the police picked up the caller from the Hindu Sena group for further questioning.
"We dealt with the matter with necessary alertness and took our position. The objective was to ensure that law and order is not disrupted," Jatin Narwal, a senior police officer, told the NDTV news site.
However, Kerala Chief Minister Oomen Chandy condemned the police for visiting Kerala House at all.
"The Delhi police should have shown restraint and consulted officials concerned before checking the premises for beef dishes," Mr Chandy told Indian television channels.
The incident has led to outrage on both social and mainstream media.
"Kerala's famed beef curry has been an annoying bone that got stuck in the throat of the Sangh parivar [Hindu hardline group], especially because many Hindus in the state relish the dish," an editorial in the Telegraph newspaper said.
Arun Shourie, who was a minister in the former BJP government, also criticised the government, saying its policies were identical to those of the previous Congress government - except for its preoccupation with cows.
"People have started recalling the days of [former prime minister] Manmohan Singh. The way to characterise the policies of the government is - Congress plus a cow. The policies are the same," he said at a function in Delhi.
"Kerala House" was one of the top trends on Twitter India, with many criticising the government as well as what they saw as overzealous police action.
The issue of beef consumption has become highly political since a 50-year-old Muslim man was lynched in north India over allegations that he had consumed beef.
Government ministers from the Hindu nationalist BJP said the incident was a "spontaneous expression of anger", while the chief minister of the northern state of Haryana said the cow "is an article of faith" in India.
The beef ban has provoked outrage, with many questioning the government's right to decide what is on their plate.
It has also been criticised by many as beef is cheaper than chicken and fish and is a staple for the poorer Muslim, tribal and Dalit (formerly untouchable) communities. | The canteen of a Delhi guesthouse belonging to the southern Indian state of Kerala was visited by police after a rightwing Hindu group complained it had beef on its menu. | 34645240 |
The 20 top-flight English teams made a pre-tax loss of £110m, after two consecutive seasons in the black, according to figures from Deloitte.
Clubs saw increased player expenditure, operating costs and one-off charges.
The two Manchester clubs' revenues increased by a total of £160m - roughly half of the total revenue growth recorded by the Premier League clubs.
"The 2015-16 season saw Premier League clubs grow revenues by almost 10% ... with the two Manchester clubs alone responsible for more than 50% of the increase," said Dan Jones, head of the Sports Business Group at Deloitte.
Mr Jones said Manchester United's participation in the 2015-16 Uefa Champions League, along with continued strong commercial revenue growth, resulted in a 30% increase in revenue to £515m, making them the world's highest revenue-generating club.
"Increased distributions to clubs competing in Europe, under the new Uefa broadcast rights cycle - notably Manchester City, who reached the semi-finals of the Uefa Champions League - also contributed to Premier League clubs' revenue growth," Mr Jones added.
Premier League 2015-16 in numbers (2014-15 in brackets)
Source: Deloitte Analysis. Note: Figures subject to rounding
Looking at the combined losses, the first since the 2012-13 season, he said it was "worth noting that this is due to a small number of one-off 'exceptional' costs".
He said an example of these one-off items was Chelsea making a big financial provision against the early cancellation of their kit supply deal with Adidas.
Overall league revenues are set to be even higher in this season, thanks to the effects of the new television deal with Sky and BT, which kicked off last August and is worth a record £5.136bn for live Premier League TV rights over three seasons.
"We continue to see television deals go up, and there is no reason to believe that will end any time soon," said Mr Jones.
He said that as well as TV, there were other long-term revenue earners in the pipeline, principally the move by a number of clubs - including West Ham, Chelsea, Spurs, Liverpool, Everton and Manchester City - to expand their existing stadiums or move into bigger ones.
"It means that clubs will enjoy a growth in that most traditional of revenue streams, namely matchday income," said Mr Jones.
Another highly touted source of future income for clubs has been digital, but Mr Jones said that rather than bringing in huge sums in its own right, digital could be used to enhance the clubs' existing commercial connections with fans and sponsors.
And he said that at the top of the Premier League, clubs would constantly look to add to their global rosters of sponsors.
However, one potential worrying sign for clubs is that player and wage costs were on the rise again in 2015-16, with gross transfer spending in 2015-16 at a record and salaries up by 12% to £2.3bn,
In addition, gross transfer spend in 2015-16 was a record, although this has since been surpassed by player spending in the 2016-17 season reaching almost £1.4bn - eclipsing the previous high by one-third.
But Mr Jones said that whereas in the past, the ratio of player wages to income rose steeply when a new TV deal was signed, this time, "it is reassuring to see that there is more balance."
In 2015-16 wages accounted for 64% of income, compared with 71% in 2012-13 and 69% in 2009-10.
Meanwhile, combined operating profits for 2015-16 - which strip out the effects of player trading, net interest charges and the changing value of player contracts - remained stable at £500m, the same as in the previous 2014-15 season. | Premier League clubs posted record revenues of £3.6bn in 2015-16, but still struggled to make a profit. | 39641423 |
But in love, as in tennis, there is always room for surprises.
Talking about her evening with 20-year-old John Goehrke, Ms Bouchard called him a "gentleman" and declared it "awesome!"
Asked by a reporter if there would be a second date, she answered: "For sure!"
The saga behind the original date has charmed millions as it played out online, starting amid the drama of the US Super Bowl.
While the Atlanta Falcons were 21-0 ahead, Ms Bouchard predicted their victory on Twitter.
But when New England Patriots fan Mr Goehrke bet her a date that his team would triumph, she gamely accepted.
The Patriots duly mounted a nail-biting comeback in the game's dying minutes.
Ms Bouchard, 22, clearly a woman of her word, met the University of Missouri student in New York on Wednesday to watch a basketball game - and tweeted a picture with him en route.
"Just met my 'Super Bowl Twitter Date' John. On our way to the @BrooklynNets game!" she wrote.
The Montreal native had secured prime courtside seats for the encounter, where the Brooklyn Nets took on the Milwaukee Bucks.
Ms Bouchard is a one-time Wimbledon finalist who is currently 44th in the world tennis rankings.
The signs were good when she shared a photo of Mr Goehrke kissing her cheek at the evening's end.
And when US news site TMZ asked how the date had panned out, she answered: "He picked me up at my hotel, like a gentleman, and we came over here. He got me a nice little gift. We enjoyed the game courtside, and he's a normal fan!"
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She admitted feeling "so lucky" the total stranger had turned out to be a regular guy.
"The most amazing part is that she agreed to it without knowing who I was," her date noted.
The Brooklyn Nets lost the basketball 129-125. But the dating game, it seems, was a win for all concerned.
Eugenie Bouchard is not the first famous face to prove a good sport in the romance stakes.
In 2011, actress Mila Kunis accompanied a US serviceman, Sgt Scott Moore, to a Marine Corps Ball in North Carolina after he asked her to be his date via a YouTube video.
The same trick worked on Justin Timberlake, who joined Cpl Kelsey de Santis at a Marine Corps ball in Virginia - and called it "one of the most moving evenings" of his life.
And singers Rihanna and Taylor Swift both made teenage dreams come true via the MTV show Once Upon a Prom - showing up as glamorous prom dates for two high school boys. | When Canadian tennis star Eugenie Bouchard agreed to a date with a student after losing a Twitter wager, it had the hallmarks of a one-off event. | 39006541 |
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Rooney, with 53 England goals in 119 appearances, left Manchester United to return to Everton this summer with his place in Old Trafford's history books also assured after he overtook Sir Bobby Charlton's club record with 253 goals.
He had been sidelined by Jose Mourinho at United, and also by Southgate with England, but such has been his early rejuvenation at Goodison Park that he was offered a place back in the fold for the forthcoming World Cup qualifiers against Malta and Slovakia.
Rooney, who originally planned to end his England career after next summer's World Cup in Russia, decided against a return and will now focus fully on Everton.
So how will history judge Wayne Rooney's England career?
Those of us fortunate to be in Portugal for the long, hot summer of Euro 2004 will remember the rise of this phenomenon and how Everton's 18-year-old became the most talked-about player at a tournament eventually won by rank outsiders Greece.
Rooney had made his debut, and become England's youngest player at 17 years and 111 days, in a defeat by Australia at Upton Park in February 2003.
But it was his deeds in Lisbon against France, where he gave an experienced defence a harrowing night in a 2-1 loss at the iconic Stadium of Light, as well as scoring twice against Switzerland and Croatia, that thrust him into the global spotlight.
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Suddenly, the quiet youngster who played football from the streets was the name on everyone's lips. Calls to hotels and mobile phones were being fielded from around the world, seeking the story of the Croxteth boy who played in an untamed style that had suddenly transformed him into a superstar.
As someone who attended the same De La Salle School in Liverpool, it was easier for me to paint a picture of his working-class background and the environment that had shaped his development - on the school playground in Carr Lane East and in junior sides before joining Everton.
Rooney himself was largely protected from the mounting media attention, but his football did the talking.
Phil Neville, a fellow England squad member at Euro 2004, recalls: "I remember when he first got into the squad - the youthfulness, the bravery, the courage he showed, particularly at his first major tournament in Portugal.
"He was a breath of fresh air. No-one enjoyed playing for England more than Wayne Rooney."
This Euro 2004 episode ended in misery when Rooney broke his foot early in the quarter-final against Portugal, which England lost on penalties.
Many felt England would have won that tournament had Rooney stayed fit, but he had made an indelible mark - life would never be the same as he embarked on an international career lived under intense personal and sporting scrutiny.
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Rooney's stratospheric rise in Portugal sent expectation through the roof, his unstoppable blend of power, awareness and potency in front of goal leaving England fans hoping they had finally found the talisman to end the years of frustration since the World Cup win of 1966.
Sadly, this proved beyond not just him but a generation of world-class players such as Liverpool's Steven Gerrard, Chelsea's Frank Lampard and the likes of Paul Scholes and David Beckham from Manchester United. The 'golden generation' could not reproduce their consistent success at club level once in England colours.
Rooney's legacy will be coloured by his failure to make a mark on another major tournament. Not fully fit, he was sent off in another quarter-final defeat to Portugal at the 2006 World Cup, and was then the most obvious symbol of the frustrations felt inside the infamous 'Camp Capello' in South Africa in 2010.
Manager Fabio Capello's decision to keep England's players miles off the beaten track - when they threw open their bedroom windows there would not have been the slightest clue they were in Africa - seemed to particularly affect Rooney, someone who did not apparently need or enjoy downtime.
He described a typical day as "breakfast, training, lunch, dinner, bed", adding for good measure "there are only so many games of darts and snooker you can play".
Rooney's dark mood surfaced as he shouted criticism of England's supporters into a television camera following a horrific goalless draw with Algeria in Cape Town before England were thrashed by Germany in the last 16.
For all his effort - and you only had to listen to Rooney at close quarters to sense his desire and commitment - it simply never happened for him at another tournament.
Rooney missed the start of Euro 2012 through suspension after being sent off in a qualifier in Montenegro and while he was actually one of England's better performers at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and at last summer's Euro 2016 in France, the abiding memory will be of abject humiliation on both occasions - failure to reach the knockout stage then a last-16 exit to Iceland.
Rooney scored just one goal in 11 appearances at World Cup finals from 21 attempted shots. It is a telling statistic for him, and for England.
The counterpoint to this is that only Gary Lineker (10) and Alan Shearer (nine) scored more than Rooney's seven goals for England at major tournaments.
But it seemed the harder Rooney tried the more this success eluded him, and when his England career is examined, it will be through the prism of these let-downs - something that still hurts enough to warrant a mention in his retirement statement.
And yet Sven-Goran Eriksson, the man who gave him his England debut, believes Rooney could have stayed on to make an impact at next summer's World Cup.
In giving a glowing tribute to BBC World Service, the Swede said: "If he goes on playing like he is now, scoring goals for Everton, then he could still have been an important player. If I was England manager I would do everything to convince Rooney to play at the World Cup then make a decision."
And he recalled the player he worked with as he said: "I remember when training was finished Rooney didn't want to leave the training ground. He wanted to stay doing free-kicks, shooting etc.
"He's tough, a great player, hard worker, has everything as a football player. He was mature at 17. I remember I told him the day before his debut for England that he was going to start he just said 'OK' like it was normal. It was not normal at 17."
Rooney's England record is in the books and cannot be erased - but he may just fall short of the status of "great" afforded to Sir Bobby Charlton, whose goals record he broke for Manchester United and his country.
Charlton has an accolade shared by only 11 Englishmen, a World Cup winners' medal, while Rooney was perhaps a victim of his own stunning early success.
But he will be recalled, certainly by those who have followed the England camp closely throughout his international career, as someone who was endlessly committed to his country.
He was always the consummate team player, always willing to sacrifice his own needs and personal preferences if he thought it would achieve the desired result. As an example, he willingly shifted to the left-flank, unfamiliar territory, to accommodate the shock inclusion of Raheem Sterling against Italy in Manaus at the 2014 World Cup.
Whenever the case was made for his exclusion, as it occasionally was, the counter-argument posed was whether England would be a better team without him. The answer was rarely yes.
England team-mates spoke with almost unanimous respect for his presence inside the dressing room and on the field. He was, in dressing room parlance, a player's player.
Rooney's work-rate was prodigious, often leading to him appearing in areas of the pitch where he was not at his most effective, but it was always done with the best of intentions, fuelled by an unquenchable desire to win - something that often caused his volatile temperament to boil over.
Throughout all the years and managerial changes, as well as starting alongside 86 different players, Rooney was always regarded by Sven-Goran Eriksson, Steve McClaren, Fabio Capello and Roy Hodgson as the key member of their team. Time ran out under Gareth Southgate as Rooney struggled at Manchester United, but even he was ready to bring him back after his early excellence for Everton.
And if respect among opposing players and managers is a measure of Rooney's stature, then it was also a running theme throughout his career that he was invariably the man they feared most in England's team.
It is perhaps a sign of his selflessness that he has decided to bow out now rather than take the opportunity to close in on the seven more England caps he needed to pass goalkeeper Peter Shilton's record tally of 125 but it appears he has listened to his body and called it a day.
"He's definitely the greatest goalscorer we've ever had," said Neville. "I think he's made the right call for his career and probably made the right call for Gareth Southgate as well. He's gone out at the top and as England's greatest ever goalscorer - what a classy way to bow out from what's been a fabulous international career."
Of course, it is impossible to paint a glorious unblemished canvas of his England career, with two red cards and his role in squads that failed at major tournaments, but Rooney has a record that he can be justly proud of and can take his place in the Football Association's Hall Of Fame.
Wayne Rooney is England's all-time record goalscorer - this is the immediate factual, historic legacy.
And it may well be that in time Rooney might actually come to be regarded as under-rated and under-appreciated, his career finally being put in perspective away from the initial excitement.
Rooney will hold his record for many years to come and one of those who may yet threaten it, Tottenham's Harry Kane, tweeted after his retreat from the international scene: "Wayne Rooney. An amazing player and goalscorer for England. A Three Lions Legend."
And Michael Owen, who shared those heady early days in Portugal in 2004 as Rooney's strike partner, responded to his decision with: "Brilliant timing. Always go out on top. Well done Wayne Rooney. An international career to be proud of."
Lineker, third in England's goal standings behind Rooney and Charlton, added: "England's highest ever goalscorer calls it a day. Congratulations to Wayne Rooney on a magnificent international career. A player's player."
Indeed, it was Lineker who described Rooney as "under-appreciated" after he scored in Everton's 1-1 draw at Manchester City on Monday, stating: "He'd be one of Britain's top 10 ever. He's had a marvellous career."
Neville now hopes the FA can let Rooney take one final England post-retirement bow when they face Slovakia at Wembley, saying: "I hope they get Wayne down to Wembley next Monday and he can stand on Wembley with England for the last time, the fans can applaud him, cheer him, thank him.
"He can thank them and he can go down to Wembley with his wife and children and have one last goodbye."
He may not have played a part in ending England's so-called 'years of hurt' and there will always be an element of 'what might have been', but Rooney deserves great admiration and respect.
He may have fallen short of the international greatness so many of us expected but he will be regarded as one of the finest players ever to represent England, a player who made history.
That alone is tribute and testimony enough. | Wayne Rooney's retirement from international duty - announced after England's all-time record goalscorer had been told he had won a recall at 31 - closes another chapter in his illustrious story. | 41029594 |
Ukrainian Iryna Nohai and her South African fiance Emlyn Culverwell were arrested in Abu Dhabi after a doctor discovered Ms Nohai was pregnant.
Sex outside marriage is illegal in the religiously conservative Gulf nation.
Mr Culverwell's mother had pleaded for their release, saying "the only thing they did wrong was fall in love".
Describing the phone call she received from her son on Friday to say that the charges had been dropped, Lynda Culverwell told South African media: "I didn't know if I wanted to scream or cry."
"I'm dreaming about my grand-baby‚" she added in an interview with the Times Live news website. "I have to resist calling them every two minutes."
Iryna Nohai, 27, had gone to hospital, suffering from stomach cramps.
But a local doctor reported her to the authorities after discovering she was pregnant.
When the pair failed to produce a marriage certificate they were arrested in the hospital.
South Africa's International Relations Department, which had said it was unable to offer the couple any help in the case, confirmed news of the release to local media. | A couple jailed for a month in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over "unlawful sex" have been released and the charges against them dropped. | 39231780 |
The Jesse Window conservation was completed in November following a three-year, £500,000 project.
Free guided tours are being offered for the first time on Saturday and Sunday as part of a weekend of celebrations.
The window is described as one the most remarkable examples of 14th Century stained glass in Europe
It depicts the genealogy of Jesus dating back to Abraham.
Lindsay Mann, from the cathedral, said: "It's the first time visitors are being invited to come in and have tours given by our specialist guides.
"It will focus on the story of the window and also its conservation. The window can now be seen as our mediaeval counterparts intended it to be seen.
"It escaped the reformation, in part due to the sheer scale of it and and its height in the cathedral."
Ms Mann said the free tours needed to be pre-booked via the cathedral's website.
A one-day conference looking at the significance of the window and the process of its conservation will also take place on Saturday. | A recently restored medieval stained glass window at Wells Cathedral is to be shown off during an event to celebrate the project's completion. | 32739683 |
Two men and a woman were arrested after the front door of a property was set on fire in Berwyn Street, Bala.
North Wales Police officers were called at about 23:00 BST on Tuesday.
North Wales Fire and Rescue Service and the police are carrying out a joint investigation. | Three people have been arrested on suspicion of arson after a flat fire in Gwynedd. | 34527848 |
His England counterpart Wayne Rooney, 30, has said the tournament in Russia will be his last.
But 32-year-old Williams hopes his summer move from Swansea City to Everton will prolong his career.
"I would like to think so. I am not retiring today," he said.
"I am enjoying it and have no immediate plans for that.
"I love coming away and playing for Wales. I want to try and keep that going for as long as possible."
Wales manager Chris Coleman has said he will step aside after the 2018 World Cup campaign, which starts with Monday's match at home to Moldova.
However, Coleman has no intention of leaving Wales for the vacant managerial role at Hull City.
A sell-out crowd is expected at Cardiff City Stadium as Wales aim to build on their success at Euro 2016, where they reached the semi-final of a major tournament for the first time.
Coleman says he is "desperate" to follow that historic campaign by qualifying for the World Cup, and Williams is of the same view.
"It's important we don't keep going on about it but use the experience from there to move into the next campaign, knowing what's required to qualify," he said.
"I'd use the same word as the manager in being desperate. Having tasted it, we would love to get back there. We want that elation that we had this summer. We want that again in our careers.
"We have had a couple of videos in meetings. The first one we got together and had a video about the Euros just to relive a couple of those memories and relive what it was like. It was important to acknowledge what we did and it was also important to put that to bed a little bit. Use the experience of it and move on."
Williams' switch to Everton, reluctantly accepted by the Swans, means he has started only two games this season, but the former Stockport centre-back says he is "fine and ready" to face Moldova.
He is also relishing working with his new manager at Goodison Park, Ronald Koeman, who enjoyed a distinguished playing career as a defender with Barcelona and the Netherlands, having won 78 international caps.
"I am enjoying playing underneath him. As I said when I moved here he is one of the best centre-halves who ever played," Williams said.
"I am going to be a sponge to learn off him and try and take in as much as I can of his knowledge.
"When you go to a new place and you are the new boy you have to try to impress everyone and get your head down and start from scratch." | Wales captain Ashley Williams has no intention of retiring from international football as he prepares to lead his country in their 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign. | 37270478 |
David Mundell told Holyrood's Europe committee that it was "absolutely wrong" to suggest individual areas or industries could win separate deals.
However, he said there could be "differential" arrangements within the single UK deal for some sectors, such as the financial services industry.
And he said Scotland's concerns would be "right at the heart of the process".
Nicola Sturgeon has voiced frustration at the Brexit talks so far, saying after a meeting in London that she "got the strong sense the UK government itself doesn't know what it is trying to achieve".
The Scottish government is studying its options around Brexit, and Ms Sturgeon has called for a "coalition" across the UK in support of single market membership.
MSPs on the Europe Committee pressed Mr Mundell on a range of matters relating to Brexit, from the single market to the issue of Scottish independence.
The Scottish secretary said the UK's Brexit goal was to "maximise involvement" with the single market, adding that the UK would seek a "bespoke" deal, dismissing labels of a "hard" or "soft" Brexit.
He said: "I wouldn't believe all the media speculation which exists around special deals. David Davis confirmed when we met businesses in Glasgow that there isn't currently a plan for a "special deal" for the City [of London] or the car industry.
"There will be issues that those industries have - we know that there are issues in relation to the financial services around passporting for example.
"So there are very specific issues to specific industries, but there won't be special deals and it's absolutely wrong to characterise a suggestion that certain areas of the country will get a special deal and Scotland will not.
"What will happen for Scotland is that we will get the deal that we need to meet our interests and concerns."
Mr Mundell also appeared to suggest that leaving the EU would mean Britain leaving the single market - but it would still enjoy tariff-free access to markets.
"I accept on one level, if we are leaving the EU then essentially we are leaving the single market but access to the single market can, I think, continue in a way that doesn't involve tariffs or barriers," he told MSPs.
A Downing Street spokesman later refused to endorse his remarks, insisting that Theresa May was committed to securing the "best possible deal for Britain" outside the EU.
"Clearly we haven't started the process of exiting the EU yet. We will be triggering Article 50 at some stage in the first quarter of next year.
"Clearly we will engage in a process with the EU. Issues like that will form part of the dialogue," the spokesman said.
Mr Mundell was also pressed on the issue of potential border controls at Scottish marinas post-Brexit.
He said he "can't envisage" there being controls at Stranraer due to Ireland remaining an EU member after the UK leaves, but added that "we have to ensure we don't have abuse of the system".
Committee convener Joan McAlpine said Mr Mundell's evidence had raised "a number of questions".
She said: "Will Scotland have full access to the Single Market after Brexit? What will be the position of EU citizens living in Scotland after Brexit? How many meetings of the Brexit sub-committee has he attended? We didn't get clear answers to those questions.
"The overwhelming view of those we have heard from so far has been supportive of Scotland remaining in the European single market.
"The committee will wish to hear from the secretary of state again in the near future, when he will hopefully be able to provide full answers to the many crucial questions on Scotland's future relationship with the EU." | Scotland will not get a "special deal" when the UK leaves the EU, the Scottish secretary has told MSPs. | 37788780 |
The Labour MP is urging people to "break the silence" about the issue, a taboo subject he says must be tackled.
He told the BBC it "hurts like hell" to talk about his father, who died in the run-up to May's general election.
Children at risk must be identified and adults given the right help, he said.
Mr Byrne, who served in the cabinet under Gordon Brown, said he was going public about the subject for the first time to draw attention to the plight of families whose lives had been damaged by alcohol abuse, a problem which he said was "cascading down the generations".
The MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill has used a parliamentary debate in Westminster Hall to draw attention to the issue, saying he had lived with the effects of his father's drinking on his family since he was seven years old but many families had had it "much worse".
Earlier, he told BBC Radio 4's Today. "My Dad was an amazing guy, a very charismatic guy, a great public servant who inspired me to go into politics."
"He struggled with alcohol addiction for 30 years. That struggle, that addiction hurt us as a family and before the election it killed him."
While alcohol addiction affected different families in different ways, he said he was conscious of the "sense of shame" that he felt about it and the fact that the illness often transcended generations of the same family.
"Children of alcoholics are three times more likely to become alcoholics themselves and that was the same for my Dad. He was the child of an alcoholic.
"So if we are to break the cycle, I think we have to break the silence about the damage that it is doing to children and to our country."
Referring to the public reaction to Charles Kennedy's death earlier this year, he said the subject of alcohol addiction - from which the former Lib Dem leader suffered and which contributed to his death - was too often swept under the carpet or talked about in coded language.
Like discussions about mental health, he said the subject must be brought out into the open.
"When Charles died a lot of people started talking about demons and I just thought 'it was not demons, he was addicted to alcohol'. Unless we normalise the conversation about this we are not going to make progress."
With only one in 20 "dependent drinkers" receiving help and alcohol-related admissions to Accident and Emergency departments increasing in two thirds of the country, Mr Byrne said urgent action was now required in three areas.
He wants a major public health information campaign to make parents aware of the damage they are doing to their children while dependents must be put in touch with professionals who can help them, such as GPs, nurses or social workers.
Finally, he said "we have to make sure that the right treatment is in place so when parents ask for help, it's there".
Speaking in Parliament, childrens' minister Edward Timpson praised Mr Byrne's "courage" for speaking out and his "determination to give a voice to the many thousands of children who find themselves in the same predicament".
Mr Timpson said social workers and teachers must be equipped to respond to alcohol-related distress, while the public sector as a whole must be more consistent in its approach to ensure "families who feel unsupported and children who feel lonely no longer have that as a feature of their lives."
He added: "I will undertake to talk with ministerial colleagues around how we raise public awareness of this issue in a similar ilk to the way we have on smoking." | Ex-minister Liam Byrne has called for more to be done to help children whose parents are "hazardous drinkers" after speaking publicly about his father's fight with alcohol addiction. | 34908611 |
Despite carrying 50 million vehicles a year, the status meant nitrogen dioxide recordings were not reported to the EU.
Consisting of the Dartford Tunnel and QEII Bridge, the crossing - officially known as the A282 - connects the M25 north and south of the River Thames.
It has now been reclassified.
In a letter obtained by the BBC, government minister Therese Coffey conceded the error.
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Dr Coffey - responsible for improving air quality on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) - said: "The A282 in Dartford does not appear in the national air quality plan for nitrogen dioxide because it was classified as rural and was, therefore, excluded from Defra's air quality modelling assessment."
She added that the Department for Transport (DfT), which is responsible for road classification, confirmed the rural status "was incorrect".
However, the DfT told the BBC it was Defra that designated the A282 as a rural road.
The error was only recognised because Dartford Borough Council noticed the stretch of road was not included in the government's National Air Quality plan.
For 15 years the council has carried out its own air quality measurements, and each year the area around the crossing has been above the EU's target for nitrogen dioxide.
It said it passed the data to Defra, but no action was taken.
Councillor Keith Kelly, the council's head of transport and infrastructure, said the revelation was "shocking" as for years key pollution data was not seeing the light of day.
He added he was "hugely concerned" about the state of people's health because, despite the crossing being labelled as an A road, the eight lane dual-carriageway was effectively a "motorway running through the middle of our town".
The road, according to Highways England, is routinely "full to capacity".
It is "one of the least reliable sections of the UK's road network" and "congestion at the crossing quickly backs up to affect local roads".
Public Health England has estimated Dartford has one of the highest percentage of deaths that can be attributed to long-term exposure to particulate air pollution in Kent.
Particulates are the deadliest form of air pollution due to their ability to penetrate deep into the lungs and blood streams unfiltered.
Thurrock, at the northern end of the crossing, has the highest estimated percentage in the East of England.
Defra has now promised to include the data "in any future assessments reported to the EU".
You can see the full story on Inside Out, on BBC One South East and on Monday 6 March at 19:30 GMT, and later on the BBC iPlayer. | Pollution levels around the Dartford Crossing have been excluded from government air quality assessments because it was classed as a "rural" road, the BBC has discovered. | 39152942 |
About 24 of the rocks, known as Hertfordshire Puddingstone, were removed from the former St Albans Museum grounds.
It is thought they were taken from the garden between the 3 and 14 April.
Hertfordshire Police said the theft of the rare rock was being treated as a heritage crime.
PC Sean Lannon said Hertfordshire Puddingstone was "one of the world's rarest rocks" and part of the county's heritage.
"We are doing all we can to ensure that these stones are returned to the museum," he said.
The force has appealed for witnesses or anyone who may have been offered the rocks for sale to come forward.
Hertfordshire Puddingstone is a naturally occurring conglomerate consisting of rounded flint pebbles bound in silica cement, found mostly within the county.
It is thought to have originated from deposits laid down millions of years ago and is called puddingstone because the flints resemble the plums in a Christmas pudding.
Most of the rocks taken came from the site of the Seventh Day Adventist Church during the late 1970s.
St Albans Museum in Hatfield Road closed earlier this year ahead of its move to a new site in the Town Hall which is due to open next year. | A collection of prehistoric stones thought be about 54 million years old has been stolen from a former museum site, police have said. | 36203933 |
More than two million people have watched it on Facebook and Instagram in the two days since it was published.
In the upbeat video, Ana-Alecia Ayala dances with her "chemo buddy" Danielle Andrus in a Texas hospital, while still connected to her intravenous lines.
The pair smile and laugh while performing the internet dance craze "TZ Anthem".
"Who says cancer and chemo have to get you down? We'll have the last laugh!" Ana-Alecia boldly states on her Instagram page.
She says she wants to show the world that "dancing and laughter" are the best medicine.
Her video is clearly proving inspirational, with thousands leaving positive messages on her social media posts - many of which are variations on the single-word: "beautiful".
"Love your video and your positive attitude. Such an inspiration. Praying for you!" Valerie Faulkner Bentley said on Facebook.
"Keep on dancing beautiful girl. Praying for you. Thank you for inspiring others. Sharing with my Facebook friend that has breast cancer. She needs this," Laura Swiatovy Roy-Gures commented.
"You're such an inspiration! Keep pushing beautiful you've got a big team cheering you on. Loved watching the positive vibes! Sending hugs from Houston," KK Garcia writes on Instagram.
Ana-Alecia was diagnosed with a rare tumour in her uterus in December 2015. Since then she has undergone surgery twice and started chemotherapy, according to her gofundme page.
She is being treated at the Baylor T Boone Pickens Cancer Hospital in Dallas, Texas.
Ana-Alecia told local news channel KVUE that she wants to inspire others "not to look at cancer as a death sentence".
"I also want to encourage cancer patients' loved ones to step out of their comfort zones and be silly, have a dance party, be present in the moment and have a great time," she told the channel.
By Nathan Williams, BBC UGC & Social news team | A video of a cancer patient dancing in defiance of her condition while still in her hospital ward has gone viral. | 37719053 |
Figures from the Fifty Thousand Homes campaign show permission has been given for 50,000 new houses and flats in the capital each year since 2014.
But the group said 36% of these were not built which was "compounding the huge challenge" of building more homes.
City Hall said the data "underlines the huge scale of the challenge we face".
The Fifty Thousand Homes campaign was launched by London First "to ensure London builds the homes it needs to stay competitive".
The group found fewer than 25,000 homes have been built in the capital each year for the last six years, compared to the 50,000 required.
"We have to act now to keep hold of the people that make London work," London First CEO Jasmine Whitbread said.
Lewisham Councillor Damian Egan said some building work in the borough, like in other parts of the capital, was being delayed by developers as they "wait and see if prices go up".
He called for the introduction of a land tax as "there's no financial incentive for developers to get building under way".
Housing charity Shelter, which has backed the campaign, called on the mayor "to get tough with organisations who have planning permission but don't get on with building".
Anthony Impey, founder of technology service provider Optimity Ltd, said his business was one of many finding it "difficult to recruit great people".
"It's really, really difficult, particularly for young people, to find somewhere affordable to live," he said.
Deputy Mayor for Housing and Residential Development, James Murray said City Hall was working to build more homes but "solving London's housing crisis will be a marathon, not a sprint." | Planning permission is being granted for enough homes to solve London's housing crisis but over a third of them have not been built, campaigners said. | 39074885 |
Adele Bellis had "life changing injuries" after the assault in Lowestoft, Suffolk in August.
Leon Thompson, 38, of Alma Road, Lowestoft has pleaded not guilty at Ipswich Crown Court to assault and wounding.
Anthony Riley, 25, of Raglan Street, denied conspiracy to wound and false imprisonment.
The attack happened in the London Road South area on 14 August.
Mr Thompson has also been charged with possessing a knife.
Both defendants have been remanded in custody and their trial is due to take place in March.
A Suffolk Police spokeswoman said Ms Bellis was continuing to undergo treatment for "serious, life-changing injuries". | Two men have denied charges relating to an attack where a 22-year-old woman had corrosive liquid sprayed in her face. | 30448284 |
Govinda said on Tuesday that he "respected" the top court and was waiting for its order.
Santosh Ray said Govinda had slapped him "without any provocation" while he was watching a film shoot in 2008.
Govinda, a former MP, was one of Bollywood's top comedy stars in the 1980s and 1990s.
Mr Ray had sought criminal proceedings against the actor, but his lawyer later told the court that his client would be satisfied with an apology, reports say.
"I was just watching the shooting of a movie as I was his fan. But the incident left me shocked and I lost all respect for him," he told The Hindustan Times newspaper.
On Monday, the court watched video recordings of the incident and asked Govinda to apologise to Mr Ray.
"We all enjoy your movies and you are a great actor but we cannot tolerate your action of slapping. You don't need to do in actual life what you do on screen," the court was quoted as saying by The Times of India newspaper.
"You don't need to pay money for it. Even expressing regret is more than enough. Your prestige would not go down by expressing regret. Have a large heart and apologise," the judges said.
Govinda told reporters on Tuesday that he did "not want to hurt anybody" and was waiting for the complete court order before deciding what to do. | India's Supreme Court has told a Bollywood actor to apologise to a fan whom he slapped while he was shooting a film seven years ago. | 34972466 |
The mayor and the London Assembly make up the Greater London Authority (GLA).
Transport, policing, environment, and housing and planning in London are the four big areas which the mayor controls.
The mayor also creates policies for arts and culture, business, fire, health, regeneration, sport and young people in London.
The London Assembly debates the mayor's policies,
The assembly must also be consulted over the GLA budget. It can reject mayoral policies or amend the draft budget if two-thirds of assembly members agree to do so.
Polling stations are open from 0700 until 2200 on 5 May.
Registered voters will be given three ballot papers - pink, yellow and orange.
After polls close, ballot boxes are stored overnight and counting begins from 0900 on Friday.
Results are expected on Friday evening.
Using the pink ballot paper, voters choose their first and second preferences for mayor.
The votes are counted and if a candidate has won more than 50% of first preferences, they are elected mayor.
If no candidate has won more than 50%, all but the top two candidates are eliminated.
Any second preferences for the top two candidates from the eliminated candidates are added to their totals. Whoever has the most votes combined is declared the winner.
Second preferences on the ballot papers of the top two candidates for one of the other top candidates are not counted.
Voters have two ballot papers to choose the two types of London Assembly member.
The yellow ballot paper is used to choose the constituency member. Voters choose one candidate, who if elected will represent their area of London.
Ballots are counted and whoever has won the most is elected.
The orange ballot paper is used to choose one of the 11 additional London-wide assembly members, who represent the whole city.
This time, voters choose one political party or an individual standing as an independent candidate.
London-wide seats are allocated using proportional representation, using a mathematical formula called modified D'Hondt. | On 5 May 2016 Londoners go to the polls to elect a mayor and 25 members of the London Assembly. | 17769428 |
Among the highlights were playing in the Premier League, being capped by England under-21s and a man-of-the-match performance in the Championship play-off final.
But it was at these enviable heights that Clarke Carlisle often felt at his lowest.
He has twice tried to take his own life; once in his early 20s and again a decade later.
The scars on his head are testament to how close he came to death.
Now 37, the father-of-three's playing days are over but perhaps his most rewarding career has begun.
The former Burnley and Leeds United star has been in Belfast to raise awareness of mental health and the need for better support services.
The talk is for everyone but Clarke says there's one group who need the most help - young men.
He says the highest rate of suicide is among males under 45.
"The belief structure about what it is to be a man... the understanding of what emotions are and how to process them constructively... our young men are bereft of that.
"They also feel that they're bereft of any kind of support structure because they should be dealing with things on their own."
The former QPR and Watford player says it is not an issue that can be tackled just at home, school or work.
He says society, as a whole, is failing to understand and support the mental health issues of young people.
The audience at Clarke's discussion in north Belfast was made up of students and local youth groups.
The big questions from the crowd included: "Who was the best player you played against?"
It was Cristiano Ronaldo, seeing as you're wondering. Robbie Keane was the "cleverest".
But the theme of the talk did not go unnoticed.
"Growing up you always want to be a footballer," said Connor who is a from a local youth group.
Connor said it was scary that depression can affect anyone, even those with seemingly the most enviable lives.
"He has the best job in the world, he's earning loads of money, but inside he's not feeling like he does on the pitch," he said.
"The persona of a guy is that he has to be hard, he doesn't open up to anyone.
"Especially in today's generation, if you say something wrong in school or do something wrong on the pitch you're criticised on social media.
"So, for someone to say they're feeling down today, some people could take the mick out of them on Facebook," he added.
Clarke says the worst of his mental health problems are now behind him, but only after years of working with physiatrists, counsellors and family.
He says there are still "bad days" but now understands he does not have to be alone in his battle against depression.
Nor, he says, does anyone else. | His 17-year career was the envy of many budding professionals. | 40130798 |
There were a total of 138 candidates in Northern Ireland and 1.2m people were eligible to vote.
Fermanagh and South Tyrone Tom Elliott (UUP)
East Belfast Gavin Robinson (DUP)
South Antrim - Danny Kinahan (UUP)
Lagan Valley Jeffrey Donaldson (DUP)
Foyle Mark Durkan (SDLP)
North Antrim Ian Paisley (DUP)
Strangford Jim Shannon (DUP)
North Down Lady Sylvia Hermon (Independent)
Upper Bann David Simpson (DUP)
East Antrim Sammy Wilson (DUP)
West Belfast Paul Maskey (Sinn Féin)
North Belfast Nigel Dodds (DUP)
South Belfast Alasdair McDonnell (SDLP)
Mid Ulster Francie Molloy (Sinn Féin)
East Londonderry Gregory Campbell (DUP)
South Down Margaret Ritchie (SDLP)
Newry and Armagh Mickey Brady (Sinn Féin)
West Tyrone Pat Doherty (Sinn Féin) | All 18 seats have now been declared in the general election in Northern Ireland with eight DUP, four Sinn Féin, three SDLP, two Ulster Unionists and one independent elected. | 32650765 |
Corpus Christi Catholic College's inspection came after Mrs Maguire, 61, was murdered by Will Cornick, 15, on 28 April 2014.
Ofsted rated the college as "good" in its latest inspection after previously judging it as requiring improvement.
But, the inspectors said "pace of progress was slow and some learning was affected" by the tragedy.
In the report, Ofsted stated: "Leaders, well supported by the local authority and the Catholic community, have mitigated the effects of the critical incident and maintained the focus on school improvement.
"Behaviour in lessons and around the school is good. The calm college atmosphere supports a good work ethic in classrooms.
"The pace of school improvement slowed and some learning was affected by staff absence following the critical incident."
It added students had been "well-supported following the incident and help continues to be available".
In a statement, Corpus Christi Catholic College said it was "delighted" with the judgement.
"It is wonderful that Ofsted has recognised the good progress that has been made despite the challenges that we have faced," it said.
"We are immensely proud of the way that we pulled together as a whole learning community, following the tragic death of Ann last year and we know that she would have been very proud of this judgement.
"Her legacy lives on in the college and we continue to remember her in our thoughts and prayers."
Mrs Maguire was stabbed seven times in a classroom by Cornick during a Spanish lesson at the school, where she had taught for more than 40 years.
She had been due to retire last September.
After his trial at Leeds Crown Court in November, Cornick was detained for life and told by a judge he must serve a minimum of 20 years. | A Leeds school where teacher Ann Maguire was killed has improved despite the murder, inspectors say. | 33361930 |
Former players Shane Warne and Ian Chappell attended, as did former team-mate and Anglican lay-preacher Brian Booth, who led the service.
Benaud died on Friday, aged 84, after complications from skin cancer.
He was remembered in a private funeral attended only by his immediate family.
But later at the commemoration service, Warne and Chappell were joined by former Australia captain Mark Taylor and current test skipper Michael Clarke.
In the memorial booklet, Benaud's family described him as "a special person who means so much to each of us in many different ways".
On Sunday his family "kindly declined" an offer by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's to have a state funeral in favour of something "very quiet and very private", Mr Abbott said.
A pioneering leg-spin bowler, Benaud played in 63 Tests - 28 as captain - before retiring in 1964 to pursue a career in journalism and broadcasting, including a long association with the BBC.
His final commentary in England came during the 2005 Ashes series, but he continued to work for Channel Nine in Australia until 2013.
Cricket Australia chairman Wally Edwards described Benaud as "the iconic voice of our summer". | A private funeral and commemoration service attended by family members and former players has been held for former Australian captain and legendary cricket commentator Richie Benaud. | 32316799 |
Ms Kellaway, aged 57, plans to begin training next September with a scheme she has helped set up called Now Teach.
She hopes to inspire other late career professionals to join her.
"We want to convince people who have spent a career at McKinsey or wherever that teaching is a cool and noble thing to do afterwards," she says.
Now Teach is a pilot scheme aimed at encouraging successful, late-career professionals, who have the skills to teach Stem subjects - science, technology, engineering and mathematics - to retrain as teachers.
The scheme is in the mould of Teach First, which encourages successful young graduates to try their hand at teaching.
Now Teach hopes its plan will eventually create "a movement of senior professionals redeploying their skills in the classroom".
"You can't go on doing the same thing forever. We're all going to go on living to 100," Ms Kellaway told the BBC's Today programme.
Ms Kellaway also said her age, she will be 58 when she starts teaching, was an advantage.
"I don't have a mortgage on my house. I can afford to take risks now in a way in my thirties and forties I couldn't afford to do," she added.
She says colleagues have been sceptical, questioning her decision to leave her well-paid job in the media for one that will probably be harder work for certainly less money.
However, she says: "With jobs, as with parties, it is best to leave when you are still having a good time."
But she admits changing career late in life isn't for the faint-hearted: "It's terrifying. I might be absolute rubbish at it." | Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway has announced she's ditching the newsroom for the classroom and is urging others to join her. | 38047129 |
The Champions League play-off first-leg result puts Celtic on course for the group stage of the competition.
The Scottish Premiership winners led 3-0 but lost two goals before adding two more of their own before the end
"At 3-2, to then go and win the game 5-2, really shows that mental strength of the players as well as the quality," said Rodgers.
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First-half goals from Tom Rogic and a brace from Leigh Griffiths put the Scottish champions firmly in control.
Lucio Maranhao and Maor Melikson replied for Hapoel early in the second half before Moussa Dembele's header and Scott Brown's effort restored Celtic's three-goal advantage ahead of next Tuesday's return leg in Beersheba.
"It is a brilliant result for us," added Rodgers. "You would obviously prefer 3-0 but 5-2 really shows the level that the team played at in a European game where there is everything riding on it.
"They are nowhere near the finished article yet but they look a really exciting team which is full of character.
"I said before about the supporters being patient and allowing the players to play, especially in difficult moments in games and I have to say a massive thank you because I think they took a stride forward tonight in terms of understanding how we want to work."
Captain Brown, making a club record 69th European appearance, was singled out for particular praise.
"I thought he was brilliant," said Rodgers of Brown, 31. "He has become lean over the course of pre-season and I thought he looked powerful, I thought the team looked fit and powerful.
"Having worked in England, I look at him and think he could play in the Premier League in England. There is no question of that.
"But he loves it here, his heart is here and he wants to see out his career at Celtic. I thought he was outstanding with the ball, his goal after driving forward was a wonderful finish.
"He was one of many great performers tonight."
Hapoel manager Barak Bakhar feels it will be "very hard" for his side to recover from their deficit.
"We started the match very badly, we didn't play aggressively, but came back and were close to equalising but Celtic scored," he explained.
"We showed our qualities and we hope to do the unbelievable next week. We don't have a big chance. It will be very hard." | Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers praised his side's "character" after they secured a "brilliant" win over Hapoel Beer Sheva. | 37114103 |
There you are, sitting in the departure lounge watching the clock, or looking round the duty free shop for the eighth time.
Bored out of your mind, you might buy some overpriced, processed food just for something to do.
To add to your frustration, nearby, outside the airport is a foreign city you'd rather like to look around. It's full of great tourist attractions, restaurants and shops.
Yet you wouldn't dream of leaving the airport to go and take a look, because not knowing the local transport system, language or geography, you are terrified that you wouldn't get back in time, and therefore miss your flight.
Frenchman Emmanuel Rozenblum and his sister were on such a stopover at Warsaw's main airport three years ago. But, faced with having to wait eight hours for their connecting flight to Tel Aviv in Israel, they decided to risk venturing into the Polish capital.
Mr Rozenblum, who had flown into Warsaw from Paris, says: "We left the airport on our own, but we didn't know which bus to take, and we were really stressed about making it back in time."
Although the siblings did make their flight, the experience sparked the idea for a fast-growing business.
It dawned on Mr Rozenblum that with millions of air travellers each year having to make a stopover to change fights, there must be a huge untapped demand for short guided trips into the nearest city or countryside.
His idea was that a guide would pick up the travellers at the airport, whiz them around the sights and to a restaurant, and then guarantee to get them back to the airport well in time for their connecting flight.
So in March 2015, he and business partner Anna Veyrenc launched such a "stopover tours" business, calling it TripAside.
Initially based just in Paris, it was an immediate hit, and today has expanded to Frankfurt, London, Brussels, Rome and Madrid.
Meanwhile, a host of other such stopover tour firms (called "layover tours" in North America), have also been set up in recent years, and are equally seeing their businesses boom.
TripAside now has a team of five people working in its Paris office, plus 10 guides in Paris, three in London, two in Frankfurt, and one each in Brussels, Rome and Madrid.
One of its most popular trips is the Paris Day Tour. Costing €230 ($250; £180) per person, for visitors with at least seven hours before their connecting flights, it includes sightseeing at the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame Cathedral, plus stops at a number of patisseries.
Mr Rozenblum, 32, estimates that between 30% and 40% of his company's clients are business travellers, who can also order a more bespoke tour.
He says: "One time we had a business traveller from the US on his way to South Asia, and he just wanted to be picked up and brought to a restaurant to eat steak frites."
While the majority of stopover tour companies guide people around the main sights of a city, others - such as Frankfurt on Foot - offer to take customers off the beaten track.
The business was started in the German city back in 2008 by Jodean Ator and her husband David.
It devises walking tours based around the specific requests of a traveller, such as seeing the city's Jewish history, or trying Frankfurt's culinary specialities, such as veal schnitzel with green sauce - a blend sour cream, yoghurt, and seven herbs.
"We can tailor it to whatever you want," says Mrs Ator, 60. "[For example], some people need to collect souvenirs before they head home, so we can go out on the hunt for a beer glass."
The Ators, who also employ three freelance guides, gave 131 stopover tours in 2015 alone, with prices from 115 euros per person.
Frankfurt is a user-friendly city for stopover tours because the airport is connected to the city centre by a regular 11-minute train ride.
This means that short trips of a few hours are possible, without people fearing that they will miss their flights.
By contrast, for cities whose airports don't have such decent public transport links, and whose road are often gridlocked, transit can be a major concern.
Moscow and its often horrific traffic is just such a city.
One firm which offers stopover tours in the Russian capital - Bridge to Moscow - gets around the problem by only offering trips to travellers who have at least eight hours to spare, and by allowing a lot of time for potential transport delays.
Co-founder Katerina Pigusova, 30, says that the business, which employs 10 guides, works hard so that clients "don't have to worry".
Back in Frankfurt, Mrs Ator says that despite the rail link, Frankfurt on Foot still always leaves "a nice cushion of time".
"We've been doing this for over seven years, and no-one has ever missed a flight," she says.
Steve Vranian, a chef from Minneapolis recently used TripAside when he had 22 hours to kill in Paris on his way back to the US from visiting his daughter in Armenia.
He says he so enjoyed the experience, that he now plans to deliberately select flights with long stopovers, so he can sample similar tours.
"Just think of the number of hours you spend sitting in airports, " says Mr Vranian. "Why not use that time to actually see something worthwhile?" | As any frequent flyer can attest, there are few things more soul destroying than spending any number of hours sitting in an airport terminal waiting for a connecting flight. | 35705764 |
"Further stoking of anti-Russian sentiments... could significantly aggravate the atmosphere in Russian-French relations," the ministry said.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rebuked French police for detaining 43 Russian fans after clashes in Marseille.
Separately, France is to expel four Russians arrested in Lille.
France's crackdown on hooliganism among supporters relates to incidents outside the stadiums.
Uefa, football's European governing body, separately fined Russia and gave it a suspended disqualification following fan violence inside the stadium in Marseille where Russia played England on Saturday.
The Russian foreign ministry summoned Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert soon after a speech by Mr Lavrov to the lower house of the Russian parliament in Moscow.
Mr Lavrov suggested Russian fans had been provoked and criticised the way French police were subjecting them to security checks.
"It was an absolutely unacceptable incident when a bus with more than 40 Russian supporters was stopped and [the police] demanded that they leave the bus for document and ID checks," he told the State Duma.
He accused the French of violating international conventions by detaining the fans.
"It is a fact that the French behaved completely contrary to their obligations under the Vienna Convention, and I have already written to the French foreign minister, demanding that he does not allow any more such incidents to occur."
Mr Lavrov did concede that the behaviour of some Russian fans at the tournament had been poor.
"Behaving like some of our citizens did, bringing flares, fireworks and so on, is unacceptable."
"However..." he added, "we cannot close our eyes to the attempts to ignore the provocative actions of other countries' fans.
"You have probably seen the shocking images where they are jumping on the Russian flag, shouting insults at Russian leaders and top Russian athletes. Of course, it is never acceptable to resort to fist-fighting, but it is also unacceptable to ignore provocateurs who are trying to create crisis situations."
French police blamed 150 "well-trained" Russian hooligans for clashes before England played Russia.
A bus carrying fans was stopped in a police operation near Cannes on Tuesday, and some of those Russia supporters are now being deported.
Five England fans were jailed for throwing bottles at police and a sixth jailed in connection with the violence.
A match between Russia and Slovakia has ended in Lille, with the Slovaks winning 2-1, and thousands of Russia fans are leaving the stadium.
Lille is also being used as a base by supporters of England and Wales, who are due to play in nearby Lens on Thursday.
English Football Association chairman Greg Dyke expressed "serious concerns" about security in Lille.
The authorities in Lille announced that four Russians would be expelled, two for a scuffle near a railway station, and two who had been found with a baseball bat and a hammer in their car during a vehicle check.
Three other Russians were detained on Wednesday morning, it added.
The French authorities have pledged to increase security in Lens, deploying 2,400 police, gendarmes, security guards and a riot squad.
Drinking alcohol in the streets has also been banned.
Up to 50,000 England fans are expected in Lens despite the fact that the 35,000-capacity stadium has already sold out. | The French ambassador to Moscow has been summoned to the Russian foreign ministry after sharp criticism of policing at the Euro 2016 tournament. | 36537313 |
The St. Petersburg-based artist pokes fun at stereotypes about people from Russia.
Ms Bakhtiozina takes a sideways look at the roles and perceptions of men and women in Russian society.
Men in Russia often have unrealistic expectations about women, she says.
If a teenage boy's dreams differ from those of his classmates he will be ridiculed, she says.
Russian women are often stereotyped as wanting to marry a foreign husband to secure a prosperous future, says Ms Bakhtiozina.
In some parts of the country, there is pressure for women to marry before they reach a "scary age", such as 25, says the photographer.
Ms Bakhtiozina says it would be surprising to see a man doing the house work in Russia as he would rather promote a tough image.
Ms Bakhtiozina says women who compete in beauty pageants are sometimes missing the point in life.
She says the standardised image of beauty in the modern world lacks uniqueness.
The artist was born in St Petersburg and studied photography at the University of Arts in London.
Her work has been exhibited across the world including London, Berlin and Moscow.
The BBC's 100 Women season runs online, on BBC World News TV and on BBC World Service radio from 27-29 October. Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter, using the hashtag #100Women. | Russian photographer Uldus Bakhtiozina challenges gender and cultural norms across her country through fairytale pictures. | 29819059 |
The avalanche was spotted by other climbers and rescue teams in the area.
Four mountain rescue teams attended the scene, 25 miles north east of Fort William, at about 15:15.
No other people were involved in the incident and the search has been stood down.
Insp Donald Campbell: "Police Scotland would like to thank all rescue personnel involved in today's rescue for the rapid response and determination displayed in very challenging conditions.
"Sadly, one man succumbed to his injuries and his climbing companion remains in hospital."
A helicopter was diverted from a search on Ben Nevis for two missing climbers. That search has been suspended. | One man has died and another is in a serious condition in hospital following an avalanche on Creag Meagaidh in the western Highlands. | 35599335 |
A welfare officer made the discovery at a property in Surrey after being contacted by a distressed homeowner in December.
It is a one of a string of calls made to the animal welfare charity where people have mistaken objects for living creatures.
The RSPCA is urging the public to double check before raising the alarm.
Other call outs include a report in November that an owl had been sitting on a roof for more than four days and appeared unable to move.
Inspectors discovered that the creature was in fact made out of plastic.
A month later animal collection officer Alan Farr was asked by a homeowner to help find a trapped bird which was making a "peeping noise" in her loft.
"After searching around and unable to find the mystery bird, I then went into her front room and found a smoke alarm beeping after the battery had gone flat," he revealed.
Others include:
The charity's 24-hour cruelty line received 1,153,744 calls in 2016, 3% more than the previous year.
It has urged the public to make sure they have a genuine problem before getting in touch.
RSPCA spokesman Dermot Murphy said: "We know that people mean well and most of these calls are not made in malice, and although we would like to be able to help everyone, we simply haven't got the staff to personally investigate each and every issue that the public brings to us.
"We must prioritise to make sure we get to the animals most in need." | The RSPCA was called out to catch a stray snake in a loft which turned out to be a child's cuddly toy. | 38633548 |
Llandudno-based Livetech are behind a website detailing the location of almost a thousand creatures - up to 160 million years old - frozen in time within the walls of buildings including the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey.
The map has revealed that the Clipsham limestone used to repair the Gothic parliament building since the 1920s includes the fossils of echinoids or sea urchins dating back to the Middle Jurassic period.
'London Pavement Geology' is the brainchild of retired Colwyn Bay geologist Dave Wallis and Dr Ruth Siddall, of University College London.
Mr Wallis said: "Ruth had a database which she used regularly on her accompanied walks and in discussions with colleagues.
"She's researched the architecture of buildings, particularly the facings on the front, and also where the raw materials - the stone - came from.
"Ruth even went back to the quarries where the materials were worked and was then able to identify the geological contexts."
Although they are now very much part of London's landscape, Mr Wallis explained that thanks to Britain's colonial past many of the fossils they have discovered originate from thousands of miles away.
Mr Wallis said: "London has probably the best collection of different rocks used on the outside of buildings in the world.
"It is because the captains of industry during the industrial revolution spared no expense and they sent their architects to wherever they could find the best or most exotic materials.
"There are rocks on the outside of buildings from China, South Africa, India, Brazil, North America and everywhere in Europe, just to make them look attractive."
Mr Wallis says new locations - accurate to within 15 metres - are being added to the website every day and the team welcome new additions from amateur fossil hunters.
Livetech are also working on a mobile app to guide smartphone users to places of interest and provide information on both the creatures within, and how they ended up in London.
Mr Wallis added: "London is a geologist's dream.
"Without having to go and climb a cliff or go down a mine, you can walk along with a cappuccino and a smartphone and, without trying too hard, you can see a huge range of rock types, fossils and minerals." | Fossils found in some of London's most famous landmarks are being brought to life with the help of a north Wales technology company. | 33912240 |
He was trying to overtake another vehicle when he lost control and hit a tree, at 21:40 BST on Thursday, police said.
Officers have yet to trace the owner of the BMW 318SE, and do not yet know if the car was stolen.
The boy was taken to hospital from the scene in Ridge Avenue, Burnley, Lancashire, but died later as a result of multiple injuries, police said.
Lancashire Police Sgt Nigel Ralphson said it was "an extremely tragic incident".
He urged any witnesses, particularly the driver of a car travelling in the opposite direction towards Queen's Park who may have had to swerve to come forward. | A 16-year-old boy driving a BMW has died in a crash. | 35996286 |
Instead, the foreign secretary will focus on forging a UK-US free trade Brexit deal when he meets senior members of the president's team.
Britain is said to be ready to forget the spat after the US agreed not to repeat claims GCHQ wiretapped Mr Trump.
GCHQ said the claims made by the White House were "nonsense".
Mr Johnson will meet with congressional leaders and members of Mr Trump's team in Washington, including chief strategist Steve Bannon and senior adviser Kellyanne Conway.
Officials said he will not raise the diplomatic row which was sparked when White House press secretary Sean Spicer repeated allegations GCHQ spied on Mr Trump for Barack Obama.
The UK is said to be satisfied by reassurances from the US that the claims - described by GCHQ as being as "utterly ridiculous" - will not be repeated.
Officials hope Mr Johnson can carve out a role as a link-man between No 10 and the White House, says the BBC's diplomatic correspondent James Landale.
On his three-day visit to the US, the foreign secretary will attend a summit of countries fighting so-called Islamic State and chair a meeting of the UN security council.
He will also host a UN event on female empowerment around the world, aimed at giving women better access to schools, jobs and democracy. | Boris Johnson will avoid discussing claims the UK's intelligence agency spied on Donald Trump when he visits Washington later, officials say. | 39335907 |
Michail Antonio's turn and shot gave Slaven Bilic's side the lead as they totally dominated the first half.
Giannelli Imbula equalised with a 20-yard effort before substitute Diouf powered home a Charlie Adam corner.
West Ham finish seventh and, in order to qualify for the Europa League, need Manchester United to win the FA Cup.
Stoke finish ninth for the third successive season.
Southampton's victory over Crystal Palace ensured they leapfrogged the Hammers.
Relive Stoke's victory here.
Follow all the reaction to the final day of the Premier League here.
After the high emotion of Tuesday night's goodbye to Upton Park, West Ham did not appear to suffer any hangover as they created all the chances in the first half - yet still ended up losing.
Knowing a victory would secure at least a sixth-place finish, the visitors took the lead when Antonio held off the Stoke defence at a corner and fired past Shay Given.
The winger then shot over and Diafro Sakho found the side-netting with Stoke, winless in six games, offering no threat of their own.
Mark Hughes' men at least woke up after the break but Sakho should have made it 2-0 when he side-footed at Given after another fine run by the excellent Antonio.
Even after Stoke's equaliser, Given made a brilliant double save from Enner Valencia and Emmanuel Emenike, while Glenn Whelan just about cleared off the line from Cheikhou Kouyate.
The goal review system showed only a tiny fraction of the ball had not crossed the line. On such small margins can European qualification rest.
Stoke ended last season with a 6-1 demolition of Liverpool at the Britannia Stadium, scoring five of them in the first half. Here, they managed only one shot in the opening 45 minutes.
It could only get better after the break and, although there was a significant improvement, they were still fortunate to equalise when record signing Imbula picked out the bottom right-hand corner after running across the box.
West Ham had 20 shots to Stoke's seven but the Potters dug in to keep the visitors out as chances mounted up at 1-1.
Substitute Charlie Adam almost repeated his feat of scoring from his own half, as he did against Chelsea in April 2015, but a backpeddling Darren Randolph juggled the ball over at the second attempt.
Diouf's 88th-minute header gave them an unexpected reward and a first win in seven league games.
West Ham boss Slaven Bilic: "Basically, the most important thing today was to win no matter how and that we didn't do. We're disappointed to lose sixth place in the last game of the season. But it was still a great season for us. It makes us proud.
"I'd like to congratulate Stoke - they took their chances. But it is hard to take this defeat. For the whole game we played much better football. You have to take 50% of your chances. I said to my players at half-time if it was basketball we would be 20 points clear.
"Despite losing, I'm happy because we played really good football and were totally dominant in a difficult game."
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Stoke boss Mark Hughes: "We lost a little bit of confidence, as we have done of late, because we've had a few defeats.
"We just needed to regroup at half-time. It could have been very easy to go long [at 1-0 down] and I think we would have been beaten once again. Credit to the lads: they were brave and played their stuff and, in the end, got their reward.
"We wanted at least a top-10 finish and we knew we would have to work hard to get that."
Media playback is not supported on this device | West Ham must wait to see if they will secure European football next season as Mame Biram Diouf's late header earned Stoke victory at the Britannia Stadium. | 36240338 |
The scrum-half scored the game's only try and was named man of the match as the Irish made it two wins from three.
"With the weather it was going to be difficult and we had a few chances which we did not convert," said Murray
"But we stuck in the fight and to win 19-9 is great and we are still in the hunt for this championship."
Murray added: "A win and nothing else would do this week and we have managed to do that.
"Johnny Sexton slotted back in really well and the 70-odd minutes he got will stand to him for the next two matches.
"The forward laid the foundation by getting into great positions.
"A win against France is always a good win.
"We have a week off to rest up and look at Wales, so we're still in the fight." | Conor Murray believes Ireland's 19-9 win over France has kept them right in contention to win the Six Nations Championship. | 39093299 |
Its Transfer Matching System (TMS) estimates that since 2013 some 57% of funds have gone into stars' pockets.
Actual transfer fees have accounted for just 41% of the cash, and agent commissions the remaining 2%.
Football clubs in Europe account for four-fifths of the total money spent on wages in those global deals.
The new figures refer to international transfers from one country to another, and do not cover "domestic" transfers between two clubs in the same nation.
In cash terms it means that over the past two years, from international deals, $16.5bn (£10.8bn) has gone on player salaries, $12bn in transfer fees, and $700m to player agents.
"Most of the transfers discussed in the media involve large transfer fees, but in reality, only 13% of all worldwide transfers involve the payment of a fee," said Fifa TMS General Manager Mark Goddard.
"Salaries, though, are part of every single contract."
Increasingly lucrative TV deals have given top-flight English clubs the financial muscle to bring in a plethora of global stars from overseas.
Big signings this summer have included Manchester City's purchase of Kevin De Bruyne from Wolfsburg for £52m and Nicolas Otamendi from Valencia for £32m, while rivals Manchester United bought Anthony Martial from Monaco for £36m and Memphis Depay from PSV for £25m.
And Fifa's analysis of the spending on international transfers during the recently ended summer transfer window shows that English clubs spent a total of $996m (£653m) - more than double any other country.
Meanwhile French clubs spent $270m - a 65% increase on summer 2014, but Spanish clubs, another traditional home for glamour players, particularly from South America, saw summer spending decrease by 23% on 2014, to $495m.
Those three nations, plus Germany and Italy, make up what are known as the "Big Five" European leagues.
These big five countries recorded a total of 1,340 incoming international transfers during this summer's transfer window, an increase of 4% when compared with the same period in 2014.
And the total international transfer spending across these nations reached $2,396m, an increase of 2% on last year's summer window, driven by increased spending in Italy as well as France.
Former Italian football club legend Gianluca Vialli, who starred for Sampdoria, Juventus, and Chelsea, said there were a number of reasons for the increased spending on transfers in Italy, a country where the football economy has been seen as stagnant compared with England or Germany.
"The Italian league has got better TV deals than it previously had, so there is more money available," Mr Vialli told the BBC website at the Soccerex football conference in Manchester.
"But more importantly, I think the football clubs decided that to come out of this 'football recession' it would be better for them to invest in players."
Other findings from Fifa's analysis of international deals involving the Big Five leagues are that:
Fifa's TMS organisation uses modern electronic technology with the aim of making international football transfers more transparent and legally compliant.
Mr Goddard said the system also helped Fifa to gauge the size of the global football transfer industry, and how best to manage it.
For its latest report, Fifa has analysed data supplied to it from 6,500 clubs.
Following on after the heavy financial outlay from clubs in Europe on player wages, teams in the Asian confederation were the next highest spenders on salaries.
In a separate look at the European transfer market, Spanish-based sports business and marketing consultancy Prime Time Sport has released its report into summer player spending.
In a presentation at Soccerex, its chief executive Esteve Calzada said that all clubs, including the biggest in Europe, were now involved in selling players.
He said that previously it was certain teams, such as Porto or Southampton, who had a role in producing home-grown talent for sale to larger clubs on the continent.
"Player trading has now become normal across the board," Mr Calzada said, noting that this was partly a result of Uefa's financial fair play rules, which state that clubs - including the largest - should spend no more than the revenues they generate.
"[Bigger clubs] have to generate income, and find money to buy new players," Mr Calzada added. "Big clubs will now pop up in the lists of the biggest sellers.
"All teams have got used to selling their best players."
He said AS Monaco from the French league was the European leader in player sales income this summer, earning some €160m (£117m) - including cash from the sale of Martial to Manchester United.
However, Mr Calzada said that his team's research showed that. for buying clubs, heavy investment in players did not always translate into immediate trophy success. | Player wages have eaten up most of the money involved in international transfer deals during the past two years, according to Fifa TMS figures. | 34172417 |
The results were recorded in Pisa tests run by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
There is little change since previous results were published in 2013.
Singapore is ranked the top education system in the tests, which were taken in 2015 by around 540,000 students in 72 countries and regions.
Within the UK, students from Northern Ireland slightly outperformed their counterparts in Scotland and Wales, but were a little behind those in England in all three areas.
Overall, the results suggest that the UK is still lagging behind leading countries at education and has made little progress in international rankings since results three years ago.
However, Northern Ireland had relatively few high achieving pupils, with only 7% of pupils in science and maths, and 6% in reading regarded as "top performers" in the tests.
The Pisa tests - the Programme for International Student Assessment - have become the most influential rankings in international education.
They are run every three years by the OECD and measure education standards in Europe, North and South America, Australasia and parts of the Middle East and Asia. Pisa aims to compare international education systems and their outcomes.
However, some critics have argued that Pisa tests tell us little about the quality of education in different countries
As a whole, the UK remains among the average, middle-ranking countries, in 27th place for maths and 22rd for reading, broadly similar to three years ago.
High performance at primary school - particularly in maths - tails off at post-primary school. That seems to be the message for Northern Ireland from the two big international education studies published over the past week.
However, due to the nature of the studies themselves, drawing blunt conclusions is not straightforward.
The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) said our primary school pupils were the best at maths in Europe.
The Pisa study suggests our 15 year olds are average - on average - when it comes to global tests in maths, science and reading.
Both studies are based on common tests taken by a significant sample of pupils in Northern Ireland and in other countries, but there are differences between the nature of the tests and what they examine.
The studies are both huge and complex, with the Pisa report alone running to almost 1,000 pages.
Also, some countries participate in both, but the two studies also get results from differing countries.
Pisa, especially, is very powerful, with some governments setting their education policy according to its findings.
But some experts are critical, arguing that the test results obscure longer-term reasons for educational achievement and change.
However, the UK has risen in science from 21st place to 15th place.
The Republic of Ireland has improved steadily over the past two surveys and now ranks fifth in the world in reading. Pupils there also outperform those in Northern Ireland in maths and science.
In mathematics, the performance of pupils in Northern Ireland has risen since the last round of results were published in 2013. Northern Ireland pupils achieved an average score of 493 in Maths, up from 487 and slightly above the OECD average of 490; Pupils in Singapore scored 564.
Although boys slightly outperformed girls, the gender gap was "insignificant."
However, almost one in five Northern Irish students were deemed "low achievers" who could not use "complex reasoning to solve the kinds of problems that are routinely faced by adults in their daily lives," according to the OECD.
Northern Ireland's performance in reading was down one point on 2013 at 497, slightly higher than the OECD average of 493.
As with the rest of the UK, girls significantly outperformed boys in reading.
In science, Northern Ireland's performance fell slightly, even as the UK ranking in the subject rose. Northern Ireland pupils achieved an average score of 500, which is lower than 507 in 2013 but above the OECD average of 493. There was no statistically significant difference between boys and girls.
However, a third of pupils surveyed in Northern Ireland said they expected to work in a science-related occupation in the future, more than any other country in the UK.
Northern Ireland also had "particularly high" truancy rates, with more than a third of pupils reporting that they had "skipped a day of school or more in the two weeks prior to the Pisa test," compared to one in five across all countries.
Among the other findings in Pisa were that socio-economic background has a significant effect on pupil attainment. | Fifteen year olds in Northern Ireland have performed slightly better than the global average in international tests in maths, reading and science. | 38223132 |
The Labour leader appeared alongside Lib Dem leader Tim Farron, the SNP's Angus Robertson and Conservative Sir Patrick McCoughlin at the hearing.
He said women ought to be there too.
But Women and Equalities Committee chairwoman Maria Miller told the senior male politicians present: "With respect, that's your fault, not ours."
The hearing was part of an inquiry into the lack of female representation in the House of Commons.
Mr Corbyn, who has set a goal of at least 50% of Labour's MPs being women, said British society was "quite misogynistic".
He added: "I hope you are also going to be taking evidence from women representing all of the political parties.
"It seems slightly odd to have four white men sitting in front of you giving evidence about women's representation."
Challenged about allegations of bullying within Labour, Mr Corbyn said: "You are assuming that the party is riddled with intimidation. It is not. There is some intimidation that goes on. I am stamping it out and dealing with it."
Mr Farron acknowledged the Lib Dems were not setting a good example since their number of MPs had been hugely reduced at the last general election.
He said: "To be left with eight white blokes is hardly a great result for diversity or indeed for the party."
The Conservatives have not imposed all-female shortlists for parliamentary seats and Sir Patrick, the party chairman said to do so "would possibly risk a resentment" towards female MPs.
He said: "I would rather do other measures, working with associations, working with women who are trying to get on the candidates' list."
There are currently 191 female MPs. Another, Labour's Jo Cox, was killed earlier this year, prompting a by-election in her Batley and Spen constituency, which is due to happen next week. A contest is happening in Witney, the seat vacated by former Prime Minister David Cameron, on the same day.
When full, the House of Commons has 650 members.
The committee has previously raised concerns that government plans to reduce the number of MPs to 600 could make it harder for women to be selected by parties for winnable seats.
Mrs Miller, a former Conservative cabinet minister, has said: "We need to see proper diversity in public life - an important part of this is making sure the House of Commons is representative of the nation at large." | Jeremy Corbyn has accused an MPs' committee of behaving in a "slightly odd" way by questioning "four white men" on the role of women in politics. | 37631830 |
Dancers, musicians and acrobats from across the world will make their way from the Mound to the West End before finishing up in Princes Street Gardens and The Ross Theatre.
There will also be a performance stage and a market in the Grassmarket.
The parade will begin the festivities at 14:30 on 17 July.
The event, which finishes at 17:00, is free.
There will also be a special area for young people and families at the west end of Princes Street Gardens.
Performers are coming from Senegal, South Africa, China, USA, Italy, Portugal, Netherlands, Martinique, and Trinidad as well as a host of Scottish drummers, dancers, fire-eaters, jugglers, stilt walkers and circus acts.
Last year over 20,000 people flocked to the event.
Roger Spence, The Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival producer, said: "We are delighted to be able to bring the carnival atmosphere and another fantastic celebration of music and dance from around the globe to Edinburgh.
"It's the event that makes everyone feel good."
Richard Lewis, Edinburgh's festivals and events champion, said: "Founded on the belief that the arts really are for everyone, this all-inclusive, family event brings communities together for a truly spectacular experience.
"I am delighted that the carnival continues to be a free event for everyone.
"This year we're sure the Jazz and Blues Festival organisers will inject the streets of Edinburgh with the biggest, brightest, feel-good carnival yet." | More than 700 performers are to take part in a parade through the centre of Edinburgh later this month as part of the city's Jazz festival carnival. | 36683620 |
The 22-year-old welterweight will fight at the SSE Arena on the undercard of Ricky Burns' super-lightweight unification bout with Julius Indongo.
He lost to eventual champion Daniyar Yeleussinov of Kazakhstan in round two of last year's Olympics in Rio.
"The pro game will suit me, I'm business-like and I think I can sell myself," said Kelly, from Sunderland.
"I want to get fans across the whole of Britain and beyond to want to watch me and come to my fights. I think they'll see flash and flair, and there will be KOs too."
He has signed with promoter Eddie Hearn and will be trained by Adam Booth - former trainer of David Haye - who also currently oversees WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders.
Kelly added: "My style is perfect for Adam, he loves flair but he knows how to control it. He lets you express yourself but he doesn't neglect the basics." | British Olympian Josh Kelly will make his professional debut in Glasgow on 15 April, against an unnamed opponent. | 38909112 |
Permission to add to the development, in Bicester, Oxfordshire, will make the project the largest of its type in the UK, it is claimed.
Cherwell District Council granted permission for the zero-carbon homes, in addition to 393 already under construction.
Further plans for 3,500 more homes have yet to be approved.
Plans for the development, on the north western side of the town, include a new school, road network, and 250 care apartments for the elderly.
Planning committee vice chairman Colin Clarke described the project, which includes roof solar panels on all properties, as "unique".
"It's by far the largest project of its type anywhere in the UK," he said.
"It's very aspirational...the idea is to make sure the whole estate looks after itself."
Mr Clarke said the locations of green spaces, football pitches, a "desperately needed" burial ground, and the realignment of the A4095 still needed to be discussed in detail.
Work on an initial batch of 393 homes began last April and is expected to be completed within four-and-a-half years.
Of those, 91 are set to be built by the end of 2015, with the first residents expected to move on-site in the late summer.
The council said it hopes to complete all phases of the development by 2031. | A 2,600-home expansion to the UK's first "eco-town" has been given the green light. | 31982821 |
One in 10 patients dies within 30 days of undergoing urgent, unplanned laparotomy and some of these deaths could be avoided, the authors say.
The National Emergency Laparotomy Audit team found the care for these high-risk patients was lacking at some hospitals.
Expert supervision and best treatment was not always immediately on hand.
The audit, commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership and funded by the government, looked at data from more than 20,000 patients from 192 of 195 eligible NHS hospitals.
It found:
More than 30,000 patients have this emergency surgery each year in NHS hospitals within England and Wales.
The procedure, done under general anaesthetic, involves making an incision to operate inside the abdomen to treat life-threatening conditions such as bowel obstruction, perforation or a bleed.
Miss Clare Marx, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, is concerned the mortality rate for the procedure remains too high.
"This audit demonstrates patients are still not accessing a consistently high standard of care from initial assessment through to post-operative care," she said.
She said improving the outcomes for these patients should be made a top priority.
Iain Anderson, the lead surgeon involved in the audit, said many clinical teams had already reviewed and improved the way they delivered care. He urged other hospitals to follow suit.
"This audit is an essential step in helping all involved measure and continue that development and in indicating particularly to weaker teams how they might improve services and save lives," he said.
Prof Mike Grocott, chairman of the audit, said even a modest improvement could have a substantial benefit.
He said the audit team would be following up with the best and worst hospitals to understand what was being done well, sharing best practice to improve performance where necessary.
It may be necessary to accept more delays for routine surgery so these emergency cases can be given a higher priority, say the report authors.
The Office for National Statistics will soon be releasing new hospital-level data on emergency laparoscopy death rates. | Too many patients are dying following emergency bowel surgery, experts who have done a comprehensive audit of care across England and Wales warn. | 33308262 |
He said he was "very flattered to be asked back" and was "currently dusting off my dancing shoes".
The programme's boss Simon Cowell said: "Dermot's back, hooray! And so is his dancing! Welcome home, Dermot."
Dermot left The X Factor after "eight wonderful years" and was replaced by Olly Murs and Caroline Flack.
Dermot said: "There is nothing more exciting than hosting live TV on a Saturday night. The show is naturally very close to my heart, after having hosted it for eight years.
"I'm excited to be back."
Olly and Caroline announced they were leaving the show in February after just one series, less than a week after Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw said he would not be returning as a judge.
The audience figures for The X Factor have been falling over the last few years, and more people in the UK regularly chose to watch the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing on a Saturday night in 2015.
The show is also seeing the return of the room auditions, in which hopefuls sing for the judges face-to-face in a more intimate setting. If they impress three or more of the judges, they move on to the next stage of the competition.
The X Factor has made a number of singers into stars, including One Direction, who finished third in 2010 and have sold more than 70 million records worldwide.
Former contestant Olly has had four big-selling albums and 2011 champs Little Mix - the first group to win - have sold 3.3 million albums globally.
The revamped show will return this autumn. | Dermot O'Leary has said he is "really looking forward" to returning to The X Factor as its presenter - just a year after he left the ITV talent show. | 35915080 |
The prime minister accused critics of the Trident system of being "the first to defend the country's enemies".
MPs will vote later on whether to renew the UK's nuclear weapons programme.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who will vote against the government but whose party is split, warned of the effect that using an "indiscriminate weapon of mass destruction" could have.
But he faced repeated criticism from his own backbenchers who told him to state Labour's official policy, which is in favour of renewal.
Labour is currently reviewing its stance on Trident, and its MPs have been given a free vote in the Commons debate.
The SNP will oppose the government, but ministers are expected to win the vote.
MPs will be asked whether to press ahead with the manufacture of the next generation of nuclear submarines, set to be built at the BAE shipyard in Barrow.
Mrs May warned of the threat faced by the UK, saying: "We cannot afford to relax our guard."
The nuclear threat, she said, had "not gone away, if anything it has increased".
She said it would be irresponsible to discard the "ultimate insurance policy".
Green Party MP Caroline Lucas said Trident was "driving proliferation, not preventing it", prompting the PM to accuse her and other critics of defending the UK's enemies.
Stopping nuclear weapons being used, the PM said, was "not achieved by giving them up unilaterally".
Since 1969, according to government documents, a British submarine carrying nuclear weapons has always been on patrol, gliding silently beneath the waves, somewhere in the world's oceans.
The logic is to deter a nuclear attack on the UK because, even if the nation's conventional defence capabilities were destroyed, the silent submarine would still be able to launch a catastrophic retaliatory strike on the aggressor, a concept known as mutually assured destruction.
The submarines, based at Faslane on the River Clyde, carry up to eight Trident missiles; each can be fitted with a number of warheads.
Read more about the history of the UK's nuclear weapons system
Responding for Labour, Mr Corbyn - a life-long opponent of nuclear weapons - saying the UK should "step up to the plate" on disarmament.
He said the cost of renewal - currently £31bn - was "ballooning ever upwards".
"We on these benches, despite our differences on some issues, have always argued for the aim of a nuclear-free world," he said.
But he asked MPs to "pause" to consider the "catastrophic" effects of the use of nuclear weapons.
They had not stopped so-called Islamic State or former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, he said.
SNP Westminster leader Angus Robertson said Trident "was an immoral, obscene and redundant weapons system", saying the vote was "one of the most important this parliament will ever take".
Labour, he said, were "facing three ways at the same time and letting the government get away with this".
Mr Corbyn is at odds with many of his Labour MPs over the future of the UK nuclear weapons system and has commissioned a review led by shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry to look at its future.
Earlier shadow chancellor John McDonnell urged Labour MPs to "respect each other's views".
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson told the BBC he would vote in favour of renewal, saying he thought it was "unacceptable" for MPs to abstain.
"Now the government have made us take another vote on this, you cannot absolve yourself of responsibility for making a decision," he said.
He also warned that to oppose Trident would threaten security and cost jobs.
Ms Thornberry told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she will abstain from the vote "because frankly the Tory government is playing games with us".
"It will make no difference to what the government does, the government is proceeding with it in any event," she said.
"This vote, in the last week of Parliament, is all about playing games with the Labour Party and trying to embarrass us."
But Defence Secretary Michael Fallon denied the vote was politically-motivated, saying the government was seeking Parliament's backing so it could get on with the renewal project and give confidence to the supply chain.
The estimated cost has risen in recent years, but Mr Fallon said a new delivery body would ensure the submarines were delivered "on time and on budget", saying the £31bn bill had to be against their 30-year lifespan.
Labour leadership hopeful Owen Smith, a former member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), said he would back renewal, saying he believed the world had become "more volatile, more insecure over the last few years". | Theresa May has told MPs it would be "an act of gross irresponsibility" for the UK to abandon its nuclear weapons. | 36820416 |
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The Belgium defender added to Yaya Toure's first-half brace as City won 3-0 at West Brom in their opening game.
"Last season was below what we're used to doing," said Kompany, 29.
"There are a lot of favourite teams now and we're not part of it, I've heard. It's something that gives us extra motivation."
City, runners-up to Chelsea last season, dominated at The Hawthorns on Monday, with BBC Radio 5 live pundit Robbie Savage saying their performance was "on a different planet" and that they looked the best team following the opening weekend of the new campaign.
A Toure shot trickled in after appearing to be deflected off team-mate David Silva to give the visitors the lead after nine minutes.
Toure then scored a fine second in the 24th minute before Kompany headed in Silva's corner to complete the win for City, who host champions Chelsea on Sunday.
"It will be a big game very early in the season," said Kompany, speaking to Sky Sports.
"We can't go into it thinking it's about winning the league, but it will matter so we need to put in a great performance."
Raheem Sterling made his City debut after his controversial £49m move from Liverpool this summer and he failed to take two good chances.
However, Kompany believes the 20-year-old England forward's pace has added to City's attacking threat.
"The main thing is that we have some new tools to use this season," he said. "Raheem has given us sharpness and speed to hurt teams when we're defending.
"It gives other teams things to think about. It gives us that bit of danger we need and we have so many tools to hurt teams."
Toure, who went off with an apparent injury late on, was sometimes criticised for his performances last season but put in an impressive display, along with Silva, to inspire City to victory.
"We know what he can give to our team in every game," said manager Manuel Pellegrini.
"Yaya had a strange year last year. It was not the way he normally started a season. He had many problems, with the death of his brother, and then problems with his agent.
"Now he is more calm and we will see the same Yaya that we know."
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West Brom manager Tony Pulis conceded that he employed the wrong tactics in playing two strikers - Rickie Lambert and Saido Berahino.
"I said to the players after the game I have to take responsibility for this one. I played Saido Berahino and Rickie Lambert and that left the midfield too open. It went against the principles I have always worked to and it has given me a rude awakening.
"I won't be doing that against the big teams. You have to make sure you fill the midfield and don't get out-numbered. I want to be positive but that has taught me a lesson." | Manchester City have "a point to prove" after their struggles to defend their Premier League title last season, says captain Vincent Kompany. | 33857446 |
Argyle created chances early on, as Reuben Reid had a headed effort from within the six-yard box well saved.
The hosts grew into the tie and went close when Nick Wright saw his effort parried away by Jake Cole.
Luke Young had the best opportunity late on when his dinked ball over the Imps keeper was inches off target.
The replay will take place at Home Park on Wednesday, 20 November.
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Lincoln City manager Gary Simpson told BBC Radio Lincolnshire:
"I think we played okay again. The opportunities that we've had, we just couldn't put away. It was tight and they came into the game late on as we tired a bit in midfield but I think a draw was a fair result.
"Sometimes we fell asleep and didn't pick the runners up but overall we acquitted ourselves quite well. A better ball into the box might have given us some reward but it's another tie and more money in the coffers but we're doing it the hard way."
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Plymouth Argyle manager John Sheridan told BBC Radio Devon:
"We had good possession of the ball, especially in the second half, and I think if we'd used it a lot better, we could possibly have got one or two goals - but I was pleased with the way we played.
"I thought he [on-loan striker Tope Obadeyi] came on and looked sharp and bright. He's very quick and he'll give us that threat in behind, and I thought he did well. He only met up with us last night so full credit to him.
"Our form's not too bad at the moment - we've got to make sure we get through and I'll expect another tough game, but we're at home and I expect us to win." | Conference Premier side Lincoln City battled to a goalless draw against League Two Plymouth Argyle in the first round of the FA Cup. | 24783833 |
Johnston, 28, rose to fame last year by winning the Spanish Open and has since come to be regarded as one of the biggest crowd-pleasers in the game.
Pieters, meanwhile, made a huge impression on his Ryder Cup debut at Hazeltine last year.
Poulter has become one of the greats of the modern Ryder Cup era.
Tournament host Rory McIlroy will return home to defend the title he claimed in style last year, while world number two Hideki Matsuyama will make his regular European Tour debut having finished joint runner-up at last week's US Open.
"This is certainly one of the strongest fields I've ever seen for the Irish Open, if not the strongest. It's really shaping up for an incredible week," said four-time major winner McIlroy.
"Everybody knows how special this tournament is to me, and to return to Northern Ireland as defending champion, with my Foundation again hosting the event, is a real honour.
"The Northern Irish fans are renowned the world over for their great support. The last two tournaments here in 2012 and 2015 were both sell-outs and the atmosphere was something else.
"I expect it to be the same this time with a field of this depth and such a great venue at Portstewart." | Andrew 'Beef' Johnston has confirmed he will play in next month's Irish Open at Portstewart, as will fellow Englishman Ian Poulter and Belgian Thomas Pieters. | 40387187 |
The vessel, El Faro, went missing during Hurricane Joaquin, while sailing from Florida to Puerto Rico.
A US Navy had been searching the area for more than a week, using a deep ocean remotely-operated vehicle.
The ship had 33 crew members on board. Only one body has been recovered.
The US-flagged 241m (790ft) El Faro sent out a distress signal on 1 October, saying it had lost power and was taking on water.
Debris was spotted in the ocean in the days after the vessel disappeared.
The wreckage was located on Saturday by a US Navy ship using sonar equipment.
It was found intact and upright, at a depth of 15,000ft, by the remotely operated vehicle, CURV 21.
The 33 crew are believed to be dead. Most of them were US citizens.
Relatives have filed four lawsuits against the ship's owner, Tote Inc, saying it was not seaworthy and chartered a course too close to the hurricane, the Reuters news agency reported.
The company said El Faro was "seaworthy and properly manned". | The wreckage found on the seabed off the Bahamas on Saturday is that of a cargo ship that went missing last month, the US National Transportation Safety Board has confirmed. | 34706341 |
Ward, who is capable of playing at hooker or flanker, has made 115 appearances for the club since signing from Cornish Pirates in 2012.
Details of the length of the 31-year-old's new deal have not been disclosed.
"I am absolutely delighted that Dave has significantly extended his length of contract with Harlequins," director of rugby John Kingston said.
"Dave is flexible in that he can play both hooker and back row, but in addition to that, he is also a magnificent leader who sets a shining example to others." | Versatile Harlequins forward Dave Ward has signed a contract extension with the Premiership club. | 39601488 |
The indoor format may not reflect exactly how outdoor results will pan out later in the year, but is nonetheless a gauge of where some athletes are in their preparation for the Rio Olympics.
Great Britain have sent a team of 23 to Portland - reduced after Olympic and World long jump champion Greg Rutherford withdrew through illness and injury.
There is no Jessica Ennis-Hill or Mo Farah in the team but among the British contingent are some who have high hopes of bringing home medals.
Dina-Asher Smith will be looking to build on 2015 where she broke British records in both the 100m - where she became the first GB woman to break 11 seconds - and the 200m.
In Oregon the 20-year-old will challenge in the 60m event. There, though, she will face stiff competition from Dutch 200m world champion Dafne Schippers and Barbara Pierre of the USA, who have both run world best times of 7.00 seconds this year compared to 7.11 by Asher-Smith.
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"I've had a good winter, I feel like I'm in good shape. I've got to work on my execution but for the first time in a long time I'm really happy with where my body is," Asher-Smith told BBC Sport.
"To get on the podium it's going to take a really good race and a fast time - which is why I'm really excited.
"The track feels amazing and hopefully I can put a good race together and be up there with the top girls."
In the men's 60m sprint, James Dasaolu lines up among a well-known cast including American world 100m bronze medallist Trayvon Bromell, Jamaica's Asafa Powell and 39-year-old Kim Collins of St Kitts and Nevis.
Dasaolu is keen to exorcise the ghost of his 2014 World Indoor disappointment. Having been crowned European 100m champion he had to withdraw from the world event after injuring a hamstring.
The 28-year-old's season best of 6.53 seconds is just 0.07 off the year's fastest time and he is well aware of the strong British tradition in the event with Jason Gardener, Dwain Chambers and Richard Kilty all winning gold in recent years.
Kilty chose not to defend his 2014 title in order to concentrate on the outdoor season.
In the field events Shara Proctor and Tiffany Porter are Britain's leading contenders.
Proctor set a new British outdoor record of 7.07 metres on her way to world silver last year in the long jump, while Porter, who already has 60m hurdles bronze and silver to her name, is looking to complete the set by taking gold in the country of her birth.
Porter is in good form but whether that will be enough to make the podium remains to be seen as 11 of the 14 fastest times this year have been set by American athletes - including 2013 world champion Brianna Collins, and Keni Harrison.
"I want desperately to come away victorious. I just need to execute what we've been working on in practice," said the 28-year-old.
"I'm optimistic, I'm feeling good and pretty confident. I'm trying to perfect my craft every day."
Proctor, 27, takes part in a strong field including two-time world indoor champion Brittney Reese and Janay DeLoach, the Olympic bronze medallist.
"I know I can jump further. I definitely want to win and get a personal best," said Proctor, who has jumped 6.91m indoors.
"It's a very strong field so if I win a medal it'll be that much more special because I had to work hard to achieve it."
These world championships are the first since the All-Russian Athletics Federation was suspended indefinitely from all international competition by the International Association of Athletics Federations after being accused of "state-sponsored" doping.
At the last indoor, as well as outdoor, world championships, Russian athletes claimed a handful of medals mainly in jumping and hurdling events. So, it is perhaps there where their absence will be noticed most.
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Proctor said: "I haven't thought about it. I've just been focused on my competition so it's not something I've paid attention to."
Dasaolu added: "It is a bit strange but for my event there weren't too many Russian sprinters making global finals, going sub-10 seconds and pushing for medals in the 60m.
"So, for me, it hasn't made much difference. But, yes, for the likes of the 1500m and a few field events they may see a difference."
The answer to that varies from athlete to athlete and between events.
Natural outdoor variables such as rain and wind are unable to affect results - benefitting some runners as well and pole vaulters and other jumping disciplines.
Meanwhile, runners of distances greater than 60m are slowed down by the shorter 200m track along with its cambered lanes and larger number of bends per distance, compared to the outdoor arena.
Nonetheless, it provides some gauge as to where each athlete is in relation to their outdoor rivals looking ahead to the outdoor season.
"The world indoors means different things for different athletes," said Dasaolu, who has hopes of individual and relay success at the Olympics in Rio.
"For me I know I've always run well outdoors off the back of a really strong indoor season."
Porter said: "It's been a big goal on my list this year - obviously with Rio being the biggest goal - and I think it'll be a good stepping stone for the outdoor season."
However, other strong indoor athletes - such as Kilty - have not always been able to convert their indoor prowess to a similar standard over the regular outdoor 100m distance. | British track and field athletes get their first chance of this Olympic year to test themselves against the best at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in the American city of Portland. | 35830530 |
"I stand here as a great optimist about how we can combat populism. It may seem odd that I am so optimistic, because after all the rise of populism cost me my job."
So said David Cameron recently, on the lecture circuit for the defeated, at DePauw University in Indiana in the United States.
The man who is president of the United States this Christmas and won't be for much longer has opined on the subject too.
"This whole issue of populism. Maybe somebody can pull up in a dictionary the phrase populism. But I am not prepared to concede the notion that some of the rhetoric that has been popping up is populist," Barack Obama said recently.
OK then, Mr President, let's take you up on that dictionary idea.
"There is no definition of populism. It is like liberalism or conservatism. It varies from continent to continent and century to century," John Judis, the author of the book called The Populist Explosion told BBC Radio 4's The World at One.
But, he added: "Populism is based on a dichotomy, on a differentiation between the people and the elite."
So, can the word "populist" be usefully attached to Jeremy Corbyn, Donald Trump and Brexit?
"The strategy that we adopted was really quite a simple one because we realised that to get attention, similar to Trump, we had to be outrageous," recalled Andy Wigmore, the director of communications for Leave.EU, a group he described as the "provisional wing" of the broader Leave movement, during the EU referendum campaign.
"There was an element of pantomime to our approach. The more outrageous we were, the more attention we discovered we got. The more attention we discovered we got, the more outrageous we were. That was the foundation of our campaign."
The Trump campaign in America was their template. Their critics describe both as crude, irresponsible and, yes, populist.
But Andy Wigmore said that was unfair: it was about engaging those who had, until then, given up on politics.
"They were the two and a half million people who had never voted before, very much in Labour strongholds. And that is what we concentrated on. So were we irresponsible to put messages out to them? No.
"We had to use every weapon we could, against an establishment that was attacking everything that was said and everyone who was saying it. Nigel Farage being a classic example."
So is there a parallel here, however unlikely, between Mr Farage and the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn?
"There is the common theme of being against the establishment and challenging an establishment that has become completely corrupt and out of touch with the people," Hilary Wainwright, the co-Editor of the socialist, feminist and green magazine Red Pepper said.
"Nevertheless, Jeremy's whole ethics and political demeanour is one of him, a politician, believing in the people. He is actually not simply giving a voice to the people but also attempting to build a politics that shares power with the people. I don't think that is yet built into the understanding of populism."
The success of those who define themselves against the so-called "establishment" arguably creates a bigger challenge for them having won, because of the scale of what their supporters expect them to achieve.
But, looking at President-Elect Trump, John Judis has noticed a partial shift in emphasis.
"What Trump has done is, he's definitely shed some of his populist rhetoric. The idea that he was going to "drain the swamp" of all of these fat cats who were controlling Washington.
"He's ended up with an administration filled with Wall Street people and billionaires. But in terms of some of his demands about jobs no longer being shipped overseas, bad trade deals, changing the relationship with China, he is going to try to do them. When a populist takes power, that doesn't necessarily mean they are going to fail at their task."
Let's conclude by returning to that fuzzy concept of populism.
Douglas Murray, an associate editor at The Spectator magazine, says the word is so debased in reality it only conveys one impression.
"When I see the term 'populism' used, I know the author is referring to a movement the author he or she doesn't like. That is what it does. It signals to the listener that the thing they are deprecating is to be deprecated."
But, he argues, whether you think the term has any value or not, what it is attempting to describe does matter and must be celebrated.
"We had in Britain, for years, a mounting problem about this issue about our relationship with the European Union.
"I am amazed that so many people have chosen to interpret the most legitimate expression of dislike that you can do - ie voting - and interpreting that as some awful, rabble-like, unwashed monstrosity. It is the only thing we have to stop something, far, far worse." | The man who was prime minister last Christmas and isn't this Christmas thinks he knows why. | 38443035 |
Lancaster stepped down on Wednesday following the team's poor World Cup.
Baxter reaffirmed his desire to see out his contract with the Chiefs, who are currently second in the Premiership.
"English coaches are best placed to work on the management of England's best players through into an international environment and get the best out of them," he told BBC Sport.
He cited Northampton's director of rugby Jim Mallinder and Leicester counterpart Richard Cockerill as possible England coaches.
"Richard Cockerill has had a lot of success at Leicester, Jim Mallinder's done very well over a long period at Northampton," said Baxter.
"There are coaches there who have done their time and I would like to think they would at least get asked, or be thought of as genuine contenders, before we start thinking that we've got to bring in an overseas coach."
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The Rugby Football Union's chief executive Ian Ritchie said they would conduct a "global search" and were "looking for a head coach with international experience".
But Baxter, 44, said English rugby's set-up, with players contracted to clubs as opposed to being centrally-contracted to a national union, would make it hard for a southern hemisphere coach.
"England need to be very careful that they don't think they're going to put a coach into the English game, which is built differently through the Premiership clubs, and think that that guy's not going to get quite frustrated with what he wants to put in place," added Baxter.
"We've got a very challenging structure here at club level.
"It's very pressurised with promotion and relegation between the Championship and Premiership, and that creates new pressures and it creates people who can deal with these things and deal with difficult scenarios.
"I don't see why guys who are flourishing in the Premiership can't go on and flourish in the international environment."
Former Gloucester wing James Simpson-Daniel echoed Baxter's call for an English coach to take over the England job by tipping Worcester director of rugby Dean Ryan as the man for the job.
"What we've got to do now is move in the direction of someone with experience. I'll tell you the person I think - but he won't do it - Dean Ryan," Simpson-Daniel, who played under Ryan during his time in charge of the Cherry and Whites, told BBC Radio Gloucestershire.
"For 99% of the time when he was at Gloucester, he was brilliant. He's got coaching experience internationally with Scotland. He's had a lot of experience in the Premiership.
"He's a forward, but he's got the best rugby brain that I've ever worked with in a coach. For someone that used to play so physically and brutally on the pitch, he has got a real rugby brain in that head.
"I'd have loved to have seen Dean but I'm pretty sure he won't make himself available."
Former England number eight Ryan, one of the 59 men spoken to by the RFU's exhaustive performance review, was not available ahead of Worcester's European Challenge Cup tie at home to Atlantique Stade Le Rochelais on Saturday.
His place at the Warriors' weekly press conference was taken by his number two, head coach Carl Hogg, who is on good terms with Lancaster, having started his own coaching career under him when his playing days ended at Leeds.
"I know Stuart very well," said the former Melrose, Edinburgh, Leeds and Scotland international. "He's a friend of mine. I played and coached alongside him at Leeds. He's a normal, hardworking bloke. And it's disappointing when someone loses their job.
"Stuart has put a lot of things in place off the field and changed the culture of that England group. We're trying to achieve a similar philosophy here at Worcester. But that takes time.
"It was always going to be tough. It's a results driven industry. If you don't qualify in a home World Cup, there's always going to be pressure.
"It's the nature of what we do. International rugby is all about pressure. If you don't get results, then there's consequences."
Northampton Saints prop Kieran Brookes was given his England Test debut by Lancaster, 46, during the 2014 summer tour of New Zealand and was a member of the World Cup squad.
And the 25-year-old told BBC Look East that Lancaster had "taken the brunt" of England being the first World Cup hosts to be eliminated at the pool stage.
"He's [Lancaster] a good coach, I've only ever had positive memories of it," said Brookes. "I was coached more by Andy Farrell and Graham Rowntree in the World Cup with defence and forwards work, but as a person I got on with him quite well and always had a good relationship with him.
"He's helped bring an identity to the team, he's brought out what it means to play for England. 'Wear the Rose' was one of the big things, pride in the shirt."
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A crowd wearing red fez hats chanted "just like that" as balloons were released to reveal the plaque on the house in Barrowgate Road, Chiswick.
FA chairman and member of the blue plaque panel Greg Dyke called the comic an "enormous man who wore a funny fez".
Mr Cooper lived in the house with his wife and two children from 1955 until his death in 1984.
The comedian died after collapsing during a live broadcast from Her Majesty's Theatre on Haymarket in the City of Westminster.
Unveiling the plaque, Mr Dyke called him "a comic genius and none of us quite understand how and why but he was."
Tommy Cooper's friend and colleague Ken Dodd had supported the proposal for a plaque, but was unable to attend the ceremony.
Other comedians previously given blue plaques include Kenneth Williams and Tony Hancock. | Entertainer Tommy Cooper has been honoured with a blue plaque on his former west London home. | 36282589 |
Tiaan Loots and Ross Davies scored the North Walians' tries, with Jacob Botica kicking five points.
Lewis Williams crossed for Pontypridd while teenager Ben Jones landed two penalties in a tense final.
Earlier Penallta won the Plate final on a try-count and Shane Williams' Amman United took the Bowl.
The two sets of Cup final supporters created a noisy atmosphere with Pontypridd fans enjoying their 12th final while the North Wales newcomers were tasting the experience for the first time.
South African centre Loots' try from Botica's inside pass helped put RGC ten points up in the second quarter.
But Ponty pulled back to 10-8 at the interval as wing Lewis Williams made the most of an opportunist quick throw-in, with opposite number Rhys Williams in the sin-bin.
Jones nudged them ahead with his second penalty on 45 minutes, after veteran player-coach Phil John was harshly yellow-carded for a ruck offence.
But fellow prop Davies was awarded RGC's second try by the TMO eight minutes later, in a pile of bodies on the line.
That proved enough for the team coached by former Wales wing Mark Jones to hold on through a tense scoreless final quarter, and take their first top-flight club honours.
Botica, son of former All-Black Frano, was named man of the match.
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The second-tier Plate trophy went to Penallta on a 2-1 try-count after a 16-16 draw with battling Ystalyfera, who had flanker Jesse Patton sent off after 20 minutes.
Maxfield George's 79th-minute corner try for the Pitmen was decisive after Joe Scrivens' two early penalties and a Corey Tucker try.
Steffan Castle kicked 11 points for their Swansea Valley opponents, who were also awarded a penalty try.
Former Wales wing Shane Williams scored the opening try and had a hand in three others as Amman United beat Caerphilly 43-31 in the third-tier Bowl, with scrum-half Joel Foster kicking 23 points. | RGC 1404 battled to a 15-11 victory over Pontypridd in the National Cup final to lift the trophy for the first time at the Principality Stadium. | 39617334 |
Best live action short winner Mat Kirkby was promised doughnuts "for good" after namechecking Orford's Pump Street Bakery at last month's ceremony.
He took his statue into the bakery to receive his first offering.
"I've had nine doughnuts this weekend and am having second thoughts," he said.
Kirkby, who is from Shottisham in Suffolk, won the award for The Phone Call, which stars Sally Hawkins and Jim Broadbent.
The 20-minute film is about a volunteer who works for a helpline call centre in London.
Kirkby said the Oscar ceremony in Los Angeles was like a "dream".
"If you've got a little bumpkin brain you can only take so much," he said.
"I got a lot of high fives and selfies and things. When I came off stage Gwyneth Paltrow was in the wings and she gave me a high five.
"I said 'at least I didn't cry', and then she punched me."
Kirkby said he stayed in LA after the ceremony for meetings at "big studios".
"You take your gold statue in and their eyes light up," he said. "You realise that some of these famous people haven't got one of these things that you've got - it was pretty special."
He is now going to concentrate on pitching scripts he has written for feature films.
"I'm just trying to make the most of it before the drawbridge goes up," he said. | An Oscar-winning director has returned to the bakery he mentioned during his acceptance speech to claim the first of his lifetime supply of doughnuts. | 32032309 |
1918 October - Arab troops led by Emir Feisal, and supported by British forces, capture Damascus, ending 400 years of Ottoman rule.
1919 - Emir Feisal backs Arab self-rule at the Versailles peace conference, following the defeat of Germany and the Ottoman Empire in World War I.
1920 March - National Congress elected the previous year proclaims Emir Feisal King of Syria from the Taurus mountains of Turkey to the Sinai desert in Egypt.
1920 June - San Remo conference puts Syria-Lebanon under a French mandate and Palestine under British control. King Feisal flees abroad ahead of French occupation forces the following month.
1920-21 - Syria is divided into three autonomous regions by the French, with separate areas for the Alawis on the coast and the Druze in the south. Lebanon is separated off entirely.
1925-6 - Nationalist agitation against French rule develops into uprising. French forces bombard Damascus.
1928 - Elections held for a constituent assembly, which drafts a constitution for Syria. French High Commissioner rejects the proposals, sparking nationalist protests.
1936 - France agrees to work towards Syrian independence and dissolves the autonomous regions, but maintains military and economic dominance and keeps Lebanon as a separate state.
1941 - British and Free French troops occupy Syria. General De Gaulle promises to end the French mandate.
1943 - Veteran nationalist Shukri al-Kuwatli is elected first president of Syria, leads the country to full independence three years later.
1947 - Michel Aflaq and Salah-al-Din al-Bitar found the Arab Socialist Baath Party.
1949-1954 - Civilian government disrupted by repeated coups.
1955 - Shukri al-Kuwatli returns to power, seeks closer ties with Egypt.
1958 February - Syria and Egypt form the United Arab Republic. Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser heads the new state. He orders the dissolution of Syrian political parties, to the dismay of the Baath party, which had campaigned for union.
Israel occupied the Golan Heights in 1967 during the Six Day War
Golan Heights profile
1961 September - Discontent with Egyptian domination prompts a group of Syrian army officers to seize power in Damascus and dissolve the union.
1963 March - Baathist army officers seize power. 1966 February - Salah Jadid leads an internal coup against the civilian Baath leadership. Hafez al-Assad becomes defence minister.
1967 June - Israeli forces seize the Golan Heights from Syria and destroy much of Syria's air force in the Six Day War with Egypt, Jordan and Syria.
1970 November - Hafez al-Assad overthrows president Nur al-Din al-Atasi and imprisons Salah Jadid.
1973 - Rioting breaks out after President Assad drops the constitutional requirement that the president must be a Muslim. Suppressed by the army.
1973 October - Syria and Egypt go to war with Israel, but fail to retake the Golan Heights seized in 1967.
1975 February - President Assad says he's prepared to make peace with Israel in return for an Israeli withdrawal from "all occupied Arab land".
1976 June - Syrian army intervenes in the Lebanese civil war to ensure that the status quo is maintained, keeping its Maronite Christian allies in a position of strength.
1980 - After the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Muslim groups instigate uprisings and riots in Aleppo, Homs and Hama. Syria profile
Hafez al-Assad brought stability, but did so through repression
Obituary: Syria's shrewd master
Syria profile
1980 September - Start of Iran-Iraq war. Syria backs Iran, in keeping with the traditional rivalry between Baathist leaderships in Iraq and Syria.
1981 December - Israel formally annexes the Golan Heights.
1982 February - Muslim Brotherhood uprising in the city of Hama suppressed by army, tens of thousands of civilians killed.
1982 June - Israel invades Lebanon and attacks the Syrian army, forcing it to withdraw from several areas. Israel attacks the PLO base in Beirut.
1983 May - Lebanon and Israel announce the end of hostilities. Syrian forces remain in Lebanon.
1984 - President's brother Rifaat promoted to vice-president.
Return to Lebanon
1987 February - President Assad sends troops into Lebanon for a second time to enforce a ceasefire in Beirut.
1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait; Syria joins the US-led coalition against Iraq. This leads to improved relations with Egypt and the US.
1991 October - Syria participates in the Middle East peace conference in Madrid and holds talks with Israel that founder over the Golan Heights issue.
1994 - President Assad's son Basil, who was likely to succeed his father, is killed in a car accident.
1998 - President Assad's brother Rifaat is dismissed as vice-president.
1999 December - Further talks with Israel over the Golan Heights begin in the US, but are indefinitely postponed the following month.
2000 June - President Assad dies and is succeeded by his second son, Bashar.
2000 November - The new president orders the release of 600 political prisoners.
2001 April - Outlawed Muslim Brotherhood says it will resume political activity, 20 years after its leaders were forced to flee.
2001 June - Syrian troops evacuate Beirut, redeploy in other parts of Lebanon, following pressure from Lebanese critics of Syria's presence.
2001 September - Detention of MPs and other pro-reform activists, crushing hopes of a break with the authoritarian past of Hafez al-Assad. Arrest continue, punctuated by occasional amnesties, over the following decade.
2002 May - Senior US official includes Syria in a list of states that make-up an "axis of evil", first listed by President Bush in January. Undersecretary for State John Bolton says Damascus is acquiring weapons of mass destruction.
2004 January - President Assad visits Turkey, the first Syrian leader to do so. The trip marks the end of decades of frosty relations, although ties sour again after the popular uprising in 2011.
2004 May - US imposes economic sanctions on Syria over what it calls its support for terrorism and failure to stop militants entering Iraq.
The killing of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri sparked anti-Syrian protets in Beirut
Syria withdrawal: Lebanese speak
2005 February-April- Tensions with the US escalate after the killing of former Lebanese PM Hariri in Beirut. Washington cites Syrian influence in Lebanon. Damascus is urged to withdraw its forces from Lebanon, which it does by April.
2006 November - Iraq and Syria restore diplomatic relations after nearly a quarter century.
2007 March - European Union relaunches dialogue with Syria.
2007 April - US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi meets President Assad in Damascus. She is the highest-placed US politician to visit Syria in recent years. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meets Foreign Minister Walid Muallem the following month in the first contact at this level for two years.
Israeli forces destroyed what they said was a nuclear facility under construction. Syria says it was an unused military facility
2007 September - Israel carries out an aerial strike against a nuclear facility under construction in northern Syria. 2008 July - President Assad meets French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris. The visit signals the end of the diplomatic isolation by the West that followed the assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri in 2005. 2008 October - Syria establishes diplomatic relations with Lebanon for first time since both countries established independence in 1940s.
2009 March - Jeffrey Feltman, acting assistant US secretary of state for the Near East, visits Damascus with White House national security aide Daniel Shapiro in first high-level US diplomatic mission for nearly four years. Meets Foreign Minister Walid Muallem.
Trading launches on Syria's stock exchange in a gesture towards liberalising the state-controlled economy.
2010 May - US renews sanctions against Syria, saying that it supports terrorist groups, seeks weapons of mass destruction and has provided Lebanon's Hezbollah with Scud missiles in violation of UN resolutions.
2011 March - Security forces shoot dead protestors in southern city of Deraa demanding release of political prisoners, triggering violent unrest that steadily spread nationwide over the following months.
Pro-democracy protests erupted in 2011; the government responded with violence
President Assad announces conciliatory measures, releasing dozens of political prisoners, dismissing government, lifting 48-year-old state of emergency.
2011 May - Army tanks enter Deraa, Banyas, Homs and suburbs of Damascus in an effort to crush anti-regime protests. US and European Union tighten sanctions.
2011 June - The IAEA nuclear watchdog decides to report Syria to the UN Security Council over its alleged covert nuclear programme reactor programme. The structure housing the alleged reactor was destroyed in an Israeli air raid in 2007.
2011 July - President Assad sacks the governor of the northern province of Hama after mass demonstration there, eventually sending in troops to restore order at the cost of scores of lives.
2011 October - New Syrian National Council says it has forged a common front of internal and exiled opposition activists.
2011 November - Arab League votes to suspend Syria, accusing it of failing to implement an Arab peace plan, and imposes sanctions.
The uprising against President Assad gradually turned into a full-scale civil war
2012 February - Government steps up the bombardment of Homs and other cities.
2012 March - UN Security Council endorses non-binding peace plan drafted by UN envoy Kofi Annan. China and Russia agree to support the plan after an earlier, tougher draft is modified.
Divisions and concern about the role of Islamists have bedevilled the opposition
Guide to the Syrian opposition
2012 June - Turkey changes rules of engagement after Syria shoots down a Turkish plane, declaring that if Syrian troops approach Turkey's borders they will be seen as a military threat.
2012 July - Free Syria Army blows up three security chiefs in Damascus and seizes Aleppo in the north.
2012 August - Prime Minister Riad Hijab defects, US President Obama warns that use of chemical weapons would tilt the US towards intervention.
2012 October - Fire in Aleppo destroys much of the historic market as fighting and bomb attacks continue in various cities.
2012 November - National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces formed in Qatar, excludes Islamist militias. Arab League stops short of full recognition.
2012 December - US, Britain, France, Turkey and Gulf states formally recognise opposition National Coalition as "legitimate representative" of Syrian people.
2013 January - Syria accuses Israel of bombing military base near Damascus, where Hezbollah was suspected of assembling a convoy of anti-aircraft missiles bound for Lebanon.
Government forces have faced - and denied - repeated allegations of chemical weapons use
Rise of Islamists
2013 September - UN weapons inspectors conclude that chemical weapons were used in an attack on the Ghouta area of Damascus in August that killed about 300 people, but do not allocate responsibility. Government allows UN to destroy chemical weapons stocks, process complete by June 2014.
2013 December - US and Britain suspend "non-lethal" support for rebels in northern Syria after reports that Islamist rebels seized bases of Western-backed Free Syrian Army.
2014 January-February - UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva fail, largely because Syrian authorities refuse to discuss a transitional government.
2014 March - Syrian Army and Hezbollah forces recapture Yabroud, the last rebel stronghold near the Lebanese border.
2014 June - Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militants declare "caliphate" in territory from Aleppo to eastern Iraqi province of Diyala.
2014 September - US and five Arab countries launch air strikes against Islamic State around Aleppo and Raqqa.
2015 January - Kurdish forces push Islamic State out of Kobane on Turkish border after four months of fighting.
2015 May - Islamic State fighters seize the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria and proceed to destroy many monuments at pre-Islamic World Heritage site.
Jaish al-Fatah (Army of Conquest) Islamist rebel alliance takes control of Idlib Province, putting pressure on government's coastal stronghold of Latakia.
Russian intervention
2015 September - Russia carries out its first air strikes in Syria, saying they target the Islamic State group, but the West and Syrian opposition say it overwhelmingly targets anti-Assad rebels.
2015 December - Syrian Army allows rebels to evacuate remaining area of Homs, returning Syria's third-largest city to government control after four years.
2016 March - Syrian government forces retake Palmyra from Islamic State with Russian air assistance, only to be driven out again in December.
2016 August - Turkish troops cross into Syria to help rebel groups push back so-called Islamic State militants and Kurdish-led rebels from a section of the two countries' border.
2016 December - Government troops, backed by Russian air power and Iranian-sponsored militias, recaptures Aleppo, the country's largest city, depriving the rebels of their last major urban stronghold.
2017 January - Russia, Iran and Turkey agree to enforce a ceasefire between the government and non-Islamist rebels, after talks between the two sides in Kazakhstan. | A chronology of key events: | 14703995 |
In February thousands of fans protested against plans to charge £77 for some tickets in the club's new main stand.
"Ticket prices are an issue in England," said owner John Henry. "That may foreclose further expansion."
A fans' group called the news "disappointing", adding it would like clarification on the situation.
Liverpool's redeveloped main stand has increased Anfield's capacity to 54,074.
That is an increase of about 8,500 seats and plans for the next phase of the redevelopment would see the Anfield Road end extended, adding another 5,000 seats.
But Henry said: "I don't know if there will be a next step."
Last season, Henry's Fenway Sports Group apologised to fans and reversed plans to increase ticket prices after supporters staged a walkout during the 2-2 draw at home to Sunderland.
"These comments are a little surprising and disappointing for some supporters." said James McKenna from the Spirit of Shankly fans' group, who were involved in February's protest.
"There is outline planning for the work and it seems a little disingenuous that we have never been told that ticket prices would impact the decision to redevelop the Anfield Road end.
"At a time when the club has increased revenues, to suggest that making an extra million pounds or so would prevent further expansion going ahead is a little strange; maybe John Henry should clarify what he means."
Meanwhile, Henry says Premier League owners are "not happy" at Uefa's plans to alter the way Champions League prize money is distributed.
Uefa wants to give more money to clubs who have historically performed well in the competition.
That would benefit five-time winners Liverpool and other European giants such as Real Madrid, who hold the record with 11 titles.
However, it would lead to a decrease in cash for sides like Manchester City, who have never won the competition.
The changes were only agreed by a small number of club officials and Uefa prior to them being unveiled in August.
"They unilaterally made changes to the market pool and there should have been I think more discussion," said Henry, whose club did not qualify for European competition this season.
"But I can tell you that the [Premier League] owners were not happy... at least among the clubs that I speak with."
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Plans to expand Anfield further may not go ahead because Liverpool are worried about fans being angered by the ticket price rises needed to fund it. | 37503693 |
"It's isolated and the transportation is very difficult," he says. Behind him, there is a busy chicken pen and tiers of corn fields outside his home, near the top of a hill.
At 43, Mr Xiong is what is called a "bare branch" in China - single, unmarried, a bachelor.
This is the label given to men like him who have not found a wife, in a country where a man in his twenties is still expected to marry, provide a home and carry on his family line.
He lives in Laoya village in a very rural part of Anhui province of eastern China.
The immediate approach to the village is an hour-long slow drive up a dirt road, which turns into a walk up a steep dirt track.
His house is one of seven in a spot surrounded by a forest of bamboo and trees. It is a beautiful scene.
But Laoya, which means "Old Duck" village, is known locally as the "bachelor village".
In a survey in 2014 it had 112 men between 30 and 55 registered as single out of a population of 1,600. That is unusually high.
Mr Xiong said he knew of more than 100 local men who were still unmarried: "I cannot find a wife, they migrate to somewhere else to work, then how can I find someone to marry?"
Then he mentioned the road again.
"Transportation is so difficult here, we cannot go across the river when it rains. Women don't want to settle down."
His part of the village is remote but the odds are already against Xiong Jigen. China has far more men than women. There are now around 115 boys born for every 100 girls.
In a culture that historically favours boys over girls the Communist Party government's One Child policy led to forced abortions and a glut of newborn boys from the 1980s onwards.
The result is a 21st Century male marriage squeeze.
Parents can still play a significant role in trying to fix up their children. Matchmakers are common in the villages.
Mr Xiong said he had used them: "Some [women] visited here through matchmakers then left, because they had a terrible impression of the transportation."'
As we stood in the doorway of his sparsely decorated bedroom, I asked if he had ever been in love.
"I was in a relationship before," he said, "but it didn't work out. She complained that my village was not good for her, especially the roads."
They'd met through a matchmaker. He went on to describe her: "She was almost as tall as me, not too fat nor too slim. She was quite extrovert."
Women leave the village, as they do in other villages all over China, to head to the city for work.
In Anhui where Mr Xiong lives it is Shanghai that is the allure. They find far better pay and for some a husband. Some come back but by then they are, of course, already married.
Men migrate too but it is usually just for work. Some men stay to look after their aging parents, in keeping with the Chinese tradition of filial piety.
Xiong Jigen decided to stay to care for his uncle. He was the old man with frayed trousers whom I saw standing outside the house, running his hand through a bowl of bright orange half-dried corn kernels.
"He will not find food if I leave," Mr Xiong said. "He cannot go to the nursing home."
That sense of duty the younger generation has to the elders who brought them up remains a crucial part of family life in China.
President Xi Jinping has spoken about how he believes nothing should get in the way of building a strong, traditional family unit. In Shanghai, new rules came in earlier this year which threaten adult children with punishment if they do not visit their parents.
Some women stay too. Mr Xiong's neighbour Wang Caifeng is still there. At 39, she is a farmer with two daughters and a husband.
"Home town is the best," she told me. "I definitely choose to stay".
I asked her what the future held for her two girls. They walk for more than an hour, twice a day, to get to school at the moment. Would it be okay if they left the village once they were old enough?
Ms Wang hopes her daughters will stay. But her 14-year-old daughter had a slightly different take on it. Fujing wanted to be a doctor, like her father, but felt this would work best "in the outside world".
The outside world is not that far away. In fact it is in their homes. They have satellite TV, Mr Xiong has a bike. The main street in a small town is not that far away.
But Laoya feels thoroughly remote and at times cut off. Even when women have come to see his new house, built just three years ago, it is not enough to persuade them to consider staying to become Mr Xiong's wife.
This is not the only bachelor village. It presents the dilemmas of life in rural China: the relentless escape from poverty and being bound to the land, the gender imbalance, the duty to aging relatives.
And bad roads. | Xiong Jigen blames the road. | 37192818 |
Jutkiewicz's first goal for Blues - and first since May 2014 - came moments after Adthe Nuhiu had headed against the crossbar for visitors Wednesday.
Gary Hooper had given them the lead going in to the closing stages from Steven Fletcher's clever back heel.
Clayton Donaldson then levelled soon after from the penalty spot after he was brought down by Keiren Westwood.
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The game at St Andrew's suddenly came to life in the closing 15 minutes after the main talking point had been Birmingham's appeals for a penalty in the first half.
Former Owls winger Jacques Maghoma appeared to have been tripped by Tom Lees on the edge of the area after he squared the ball.
Birmingham's protests went unanswered and their hopes of taking any points from the game appeared dashed when Wednesday led through substitute Hooper.
They were behind for just five minutes as Donaldson picked himself up to send Westwood the wrong way from 12 yards, having been clipped by the goalkeeper rushing off his line.
It was another substitute who had the final say as Jutkiewicz, on loan from Burnley, suddenly found space to loop his header over Westwood moments after Nuhiu headed Liam Palmer's cross against the bar at the other end.
Birmingham boss Gary Rowett:
"The way we worked hard when we were not playing well certainly gave us the opportunity to do what we did late in the game.
"The changes we made in terms of tactics gave us the chance to get back into the game. Against a team like Sheffield Wednesday you always have to ride out 15 to 20 minutes which I thought we did really well."
Sheffield Wednesday manager Carlos Carvalhal:
"I am very happy with our form. We are playing fantastic but not scoring. We again had five good chances against Birmingham.
"If we were not playing well I would be concerned. We play to win but we need to improve our finishing."
Match ends, Birmingham City 2, Sheffield Wednesday 1.
Second Half ends, Birmingham City 2, Sheffield Wednesday 1.
Adam Reach (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Adam Reach (Sheffield Wednesday).
Clayton Donaldson (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
William Buckley (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jacques Maghoma (Birmingham City).
Foul by William Buckley (Sheffield Wednesday).
Che Adams (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Birmingham City 2, Sheffield Wednesday 1. Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City) header from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Jacques Maghoma.
Atdhe Nuhiu (Sheffield Wednesday) hits the bar with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Liam Palmer with a cross.
Foul by Atdhe Nuhiu (Sheffield Wednesday).
Jonathan Grounds (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Jonathan Grounds.
Attempt blocked. William Buckley (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Fernando Forestieri.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. William Buckley replaces Ross Wallace.
Foul by Atdhe Nuhiu (Sheffield Wednesday).
Michael Morrison (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Birmingham City. Lukas Jutkiewicz tries a through ball, but Clayton Donaldson is caught offside.
Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jacques Maghoma (Birmingham City).
Foul by Atdhe Nuhiu (Sheffield Wednesday).
Michael Morrison (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Birmingham City 1, Sheffield Wednesday 1. Clayton Donaldson (Birmingham City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.
Keiren Westwood (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty conceded by Keiren Westwood (Sheffield Wednesday) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Birmingham City. Clayton Donaldson draws a foul in the penalty area.
Substitution, Birmingham City. Lukas Jutkiewicz replaces Stephen Gleeson.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Atdhe Nuhiu replaces Steven Fletcher.
Liam Palmer (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Che Adams (Birmingham City).
Goal! Birmingham City 0, Sheffield Wednesday 1. Gary Hooper (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Steven Fletcher following a set piece situation.
Gary Hooper (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonathan Spector (Birmingham City).
Attempt missed. Clayton Donaldson (Birmingham City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is too high. Assisted by Adam Legzdins.
Foul by Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday).
Jacques Maghoma (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ross Wallace (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Reece Brown (Birmingham City).
Attempt missed. Greg Stewart (Birmingham City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. | Lukas Jutkiewicz headed in a stoppage-time winner as Birmingham came from behind to beat Sheffield Wednesday. | 37325043 |
The protest in Downing Street on Friday evening was against the American attack on a Syrian airbase.
Hassan Akkad, from Damascus, asked why the group was not protesting against President Assad instead, but was drowned out.
He said: "British people not letting a Syrian say something about Syria in a protest about Syria. It's mad."
The 29-year-old said he had wanted to be the voice of Syrians who were still in the country but left the protest "livid".
Stop the War was founded in September 2001, after US president George W Bush announced a "war on terror".
After a video of the encounter was shared widely online, Mr Akkad told the BBC: "I didn't see them protesting against the chemical attacks, I didn't see them protesting against Putin bombing Syria for the last two years.
"I wanted to go to that protest and I wanted to observe.
"I went to the protest and I saw a group of 30 people with placards, not a single mention of Assad.
"All the placards are against Donald Trump and they're repeating baseless slogans with their megaphones."
He added: "I went to them respectfully and said, 'Listen I'm a Syrian refugee who lives here and I have an opinion, it's a protest about Syria I want to say something'.
"They didn't even address me, they ignored my existence. With their megaphones they went louder and louder and the organisers told them to carry on."
Mr Akkad left Syria in September 2015. He says he was imprisoned twice and tortured for protesting against Assad's regime.
He left his family there and made an 87-day journey to the UK.
Mr Akkad said when the US launched its attack on a Syrian airbase, it did so with "great accuracy" whereas, he said, Assad's bombers "literally shred people down".
"They [President's Assad's forces] have killed hundreds of thousands, we've lost our home, we were displaced, we were made refugees all because of the Assad regime," he said.
"People were tortured to death, chemical attacks, all sort of attacks barrel bombs shredding children and flattening down entire cities.
"So bombing Assad's war machines is in our favour because that means less Syrian civilians will die, less children will die."
After the group would not let Mr Akkad speak, he said: "I felt oppressed, it was like being back in Syria. Like how the Syrian police used to mute our voices.
"I'm not going to be silenced I have the right to say what I believe.
"I left the protest. I was angry, I was livid."
A spokeswoman for Stop the War said: "This was an anti-war protest. There are Syrians who support Western bombing of Syria, and Syrians who oppose it.
"Those who support it have protests calling for intervention. This was an anti-intervention event. Of course his voice can and should be heard.
"But it would be strange if Stop the War gave a platform to people who supported bombing."
Video courtesy of Tehmoor Khalid. | A Syrian refugee who was shouted down at a Stop the War demonstration says he "felt oppressed" by the group. | 39540340 |
Members of the RMT have staged walkouts on seven days in the last month, with three more stoppages planned for Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
The union is in dispute with ScotRail over staffing concerns on new trains.
Transport Minister Humza Yousaf said planning was "well-advanced" in order to minimise any disruption caused by the strike action.
The RMT said it had "the overwhelming support of the Scottish people".
The transport minister said ScotRail was offering an "enhanced timetable above the regular provision".
Mr Yousaf added: "More services and carriages will run between Glasgow Central and Troon throughout Thursday to Sunday to allow the vast majority of people to travel to and from the venue with minimum disruption to travel plans."
However, ScotRail has said some trains to Glasgow from other parts of Scotland would have a reduced service and different departure times.
Those travelling to The Open were advised to check the ScotRail website or app for the latest updates and leave extra time for their journey.
The ongoing dispute with the train operator and RMT union concerns the operation of train doors by drivers instead of onboard conductors.
The union said it was defending its policy of no extension of driver-only trains and for guards to be in control of operating doors.
ScotRail has insisted there will be no job losses or pay cuts with its proposed changes.
Mr Yousaf added: "These strikes are disrupting passengers and affecting the reputation of Scotland's railways, and they should be suspended to allow talks to conclude and a way forward agreed."
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "The minister and his colleagues in the Scottish government need to remember that this dispute has been created byAbellio/ScotRail via Transport Scotland on behalf of his own administration who have the power to sort it out.
"RMT has been engaging with the public over the last eight weeks and we have the overwhelming support of the Scottish people who want to see a safety-critical guard on our services and not this watered down version of scheduling a second person on the train who has no safety-critical function and who can be removed at the drop of a hat." | ScotRail has said train services to the Open Golf Championship in Troon will run despite ongoing strike action. | 36787658 |
The France left-back, 33, has signed a two-year contract with the Italian champions, ending his eight-and-a-half-year stint at Old Trafford.
"Playing for Manchester United has been a privilege, a dream come true, and my time there has been so memorable," he said.
Evra joined United in January 2006 from Monaco for £5.5m and won five Premier League titles.
He signed a one-year extension to his contract in May but asked to leave when Juventus approached United over his availability.
Evra would have been competing for a starting berth next season against £27m signing Luke Shaw.
"After a great deal of thought I have decided the time is right for me to leave," Evra said.
"It is the biggest decision of my career as this club is, and will always remain, in my heart."
Evra made 379 appearances for United and as well as Premier League success, he helped the club win the Champions League in 2008, three League Cups and the Club World Cup.
He was part of the France squad at the 2014 Fifa World Cup squad in Brazil and played in four out of their five games, including the quarter-final defeat by Germany.
As he departed, Evra also thanked former manager Sir Alex Ferguson and the club's fans.
"An immense thank you to Sir Alex for making it all possible, for giving me the privilege to be a captain and to understand that nobody is bigger than the club," he said.
"My biggest thanks go to the fans. We have had some fantastic times together and every single time I stepped out in that shirt I knew I was playing for a very special club."
Juventus will pay an initial £1.2m for Evra, plus an extra £300,000 if they qualify for the Champions League in 2015-16.
Red Devils executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward has told United fans to expect more signings over the next few weeks as new manager Louis van Gaal attempts to build a side capable of competing for the Premier League title. | Patrice Evra has completed a £1.2m move to Juventus from Manchester United. | 28409439 |
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