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Williams, 23, who has played 69 games for Palace, spent the 2016-17 season on loan at Ipswich Town.
He missed most of the season after undergoing a shoulder operation.
"I will be working hard through pre-season so I am ready for the challenge ahead at the start of another campaign," he said.
"I am delighted to be signing this new contract at a club that holds a special place in my heart having been here since I joined the academy at the age of eight."
Williams has won 17 caps for Wales and was part of the squad that reached the 2016 European Championship semi-finals. | Wales midfielder Jonny Williams has signed a contract extension with Crystal Palace, which will see him stay at Selhurst Park until 2019. | 40198007 |
The firm has seen "false news, disinformation, or networks of fake accounts aimed at manipulating public opinion", it revealed in a new report.
"Several" such cases during the US presidential election last year required action, it added.
Some of the activity has been of a "wide-scale coordinated" nature.
Fake accounts were created to spread information stolen from email accounts during the 2016 US presidential election, the firm noted, though it said the volume of such activity was "statistically very small".
Facebook did not attribute it to any specific state or actor, but it did say that its data did not contradict the US Director of National Intelligence's claim that Russia was involved.
The company added that efforts to tackle "information operations" had led to the removal of more than 30,000 fake accounts in France - where a presidential election is currently under way.
In general, Facebook said it faced a new challenge in tackling "subtle and insidious forms of misuse, including attempts to manipulate civic discourse and deceive people".
Facebook described much of the activity as "false amplification" - which included the mass creation of fake accounts; the coordinated sharing of content and engagement with that content (such as likes); and the distribution of "inflammatory and sometimes racist memes".
It added, however, that there was not much evidence that automated bots had been set up to do this, but humans appeared to be directly involved.
"We have observed many actions by fake account operators that could only be performed by people with language skills and a basic knowledge of the political situation in the target countries, suggesting a higher level of coordination and forethought," the report explained.
The apparent objectives of those behind the propaganda efforts included one or more of the following:
Facebook said that it was working on a variety of methods to curb the spread of propaganda on its platform.
These included building new products to help stamp out fake news and creating new systems - some with artificial intelligence capabilities - to help quicken the response to reports of fake accounts or spam.
The rise in people who get their news from social media meant that propaganda on sites like Facebook was an important issue, suggested Ewan Lawson, an information operations expert at the Royal United Services Institute.
"If you can influence what people are reading and what version of the truth they're being shown, it has the potential to have an effect," he told the BBC.
However, he added, it was difficult to quantify this.
"I think the most interesting thing is the fact that Facebook has come out so publicly - there's been a sense of a little bit of reluctance on the part of the large communications companies to acknowledge the extent to which they have been abused," he said.
Mr Lawson also said he thought Facebook's efforts to tackle the problem were "very positive". | Facebook has admitted that it observed attempts to spread propaganda on its site, apparently orchestrated by governments or organised parties. | 39744000 |
The late night ruling means the travel ban will remain suspended until the full case has been heard.
The court gave the White House and the states challenging it a deadline of Monday to present more arguments.
Two states argued that the travel ban, affecting people from seven mainly-Muslim countries, was unconstitutional.
In its appeal, the Justice Department said Judge James Robart had overreached by "second guessing" the president on a national security matter.
It also argued that only the president could decide who can enter or stay in the US.
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In Friday's case, the Justice Department had argued that states did not have the authority to challenge a presidential executive order.
Lawyers for the states of Washington and Minnesota had argued that the ban was unconstitutional because it denied people with valid entry documents the right to travel without due process.
It also violated freedom of religion rights by appearing to target Muslims, they said.
The next step is for briefs to be filed by both sides for a formal review of Judge Robart's suspension on Monday. The Justice Department could have appealed directly to the Supreme Court on an emergency basis, but it chose not to since the appeal court is moving fairly quickly.
If the appeal court decides the stay is valid - perhaps as early as next week - then a Supreme Court appeal is almost certain.
In the meantime, everything is on hold. US immigration processes continue as they did before Mr Trump issued his executive order.
If it looks like this is bogging down, the president might eventually decide to modify the order rather than try to defend its legality. That's probably the most prudent course, but he's a stubborn man.
Iraq, one of the countries named in the ban, has praised the revocation of the travel ban as a "move in the right direction", Reuters reported.
Iran has also responded to Judge Robart's ruling by saying it would allow a US wrestling team to compete in a World Cup event it is hosting later this month.
The US wrestlers were initially denied visas after Iran said it would ban Americans in retaliation for Mr Trump's order.
However Mr Trump has called Judge Robart's ruling "ridiculous", described him as a "so-called judge" and vowed to restore the ban.
Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell told CNN it was "best to avoid criticising judges individually".
Judge Robart has served on the federal bench since 2004 after nomination by President George W Bush.
Friday's ruling has also seen visa holders from the affected nations scramble to get flights to the US, fearing they have a slim window to enter.
The State Department has been reversing visa cancellations and US homeland security employees have been told by their department to comply with the ruling.
Customs officials told airlines that they could resume boarding banned travellers. Qatar Airways, Air France, Etihad Airways, Lufthansa and others said they would do so.
The ban caused confusion at US and foreign airports when it came into force.
It envisages a 90-day visa suspension for anyone arriving from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
The directive also suspends the US Refugee Admissions Programme for 120 days, and places an indefinite ban on Syrian refugees.
It has led to protests in US cities and around the world. | The US federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration's request to reinstate a travel ban blocked by a federal judge on Friday. | 38872680 |
UKIP AM Dave Rowlands said it was the view of the party's assembly group that Mr Gill "shouldn't be doing both jobs".
Mr Rowlands said it was important for the "public perception" of the party.
A spokesman for Mr Gill said Wales needed an experienced MEP after the vote to leave the EU and someone new in the post would take time to "find their feet" in the European Parliament.
On Sunday Nathan Gill said he would continue as an MEP because it had become a "non-position" following the UK's vote to leave the EU.
In a leaflet sent to members during his party's assembly selection process in February, Nathan Gill said he would "resign as an MEP" to work in the assembly.
But speaking over the weekend on Sunday Supplement on BBC Radio Wales Mr Gill said: "I will be keeping the MEP position because it's now become a completely non-position.
"I don't get paid for that position, I get 300 Euros a week for being an MEP.
"So it doesn't make any real difference, financial sense for changing that position with somebody else.
"My focus now will be on the assembly."
Dave Rowlands, AM for South Wales East, said: "The belief among UKIP AMs is he shouldn't be doing both jobs and he must make a choice between the two jobs.
"It's very important regarding the public perception of the party.
"Grassroots are reported to be showing great disquiet about this issue."
Another UKIP AM, Gareth Bennett, said Gill should resign as an MEP in order to "do a satisfactory job in the assembly, which he has thus far signally failed to do."
His colleague Michelle Brown said being an AM "is a full-time job" and she questioned Mr Gill's ability to do it.
Speaking in a personal capacity, Tony Roper, UKIP Swansea branch chair said: "I'm not happy about Nathan Gill doing two jobs.
"I would like to know how much time Nathan is spending in Wales.
"He should keep his promise."
A spokesman for Mr Gill responded: "With the country deciding to leave the EU it is important at this time we have an experienced member of the European Parliament representing Wales.
"For any MEP it would take time to find their feet with the institution and time is something we haven't got at this point.
"Nathan has spoken with senior party officials on UKIP NEC and in [the] leadership who advised him to stay on to insure the strongest team possible fighting for UK and Wales and the best possible outcome post-Brexit."
The spokesman also stressed that "Nathan does not receive two salaries". | UKIP Wales leader Nathan Gill is being urged to choose between being an MEP and an assembly member. | 36655853 |
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Schoolteacher Peter Willett wrote the piece for a golf magazine, offering his thoughts on what each side needs to do to win the biennial event at Hazeltine.
"The Americans need their baying mob of imbeciles to caress their egos every step of the way," he wrote.
Danny Willett said: "I apologise. It's not the thoughts of me or the team."
The article, published in National Club Golfer magazine, went on to say that Europe's golfers need to:
"If these things happen, Europe will win and I'll try to support gracefully by embracing the same sense of fair-mindedness that has permeated this unbiased article," wrote Peter Willett, who teaches in Solihull.
"If not, the Americans will claim their second victory this century."
Peter Willett, who shot to prominence for his social media posts during Danny's Masters win, also called Americans "fat, stupid, greedy and classless".
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Danny Willett said he had spoken to his brother to tell him that he was "disappointed in what was written", calling it "a bad article written at a bad time".
However, Peter Willett did not appear to regret his article in a number of tweets from his official account, which has 24,500 followers, and indicated it was supposed to be satirical and a bit of fun.
He also retweeted messages from American golf fans praising his piece.
Danny Willett also went to see US captain Davis Love to apologise.
"He took it very well and drew a line under it and hopefully everyone else can do the same," said the Englishman.
Europe captain Darren Clarke was also disappointed with the article.
"It is not what Danny thinks, it is not what I think, it is not what Team Europe stands for," he said.
"I was obviously very disappointed in it because that's an outside person expressing their opinion, which is not representative of what our thoughts are."
Love said he had resisted the temptation to read the article.
"If I read it, I'm just going to get mad," said the 52-year-old from North Carolina. "If I read it, I'm just going to get defensive. So I just try to ignore it."
BBC Sport golf correspondent Iain Carter
While PJ Willett's article was largely tongue in cheek it was also inadvisable. Clarke is justifiably disappointed. No captain wants to be put on the back foot in the days leading up to the match.
It is important for away teams to make friends with home crowds and this does not help. It also means that Danny Willett will be preparing for his Ryder Cup debut surrounded by unwanted headlines. Regardless of how the fans react, the Masters champion will do well to avoid being unsettled by this episode. | Europe's Danny Willett has said sorry for an article written by his brother in which he called American Ryder Cup fans a "baying mob of imbeciles". | 37500790 |
The government is also investing £12.5m in new temporary flood defences for its "most comprehensive winter plan yet".
This follows a review of the handling of the problems caused by Storm Desmond in parts of the UK late last year.
The Met Office issued a warning of icy conditions, as snowfall in parts of northern England and Scotland caused travel problems and school closures.
Leeds Bradford Airport was forced to close its runway as snow was cleared, causing flight delays and cancellations. But the deepest snow level was 13cm (5in) in Barnard Castle, County Durham.
Highways England issued a severe weather alert, urging motorists in the North of England and the Midlands to check conditions before setting out and to ensure they had a winter kit in their vehicles.
A taxi driver escaped with minor injuries when his vehicle overturned in Huddersfield, while an elderly man was rescued near Sheffield on Tuesday after he got lost in worsening weather.
South Yorkshire Police said bad weather conditions on Tuesday evening had meant helicopters could not be used and mountain rescue teams were called in to find the 77-year-old in the area of Langsett Reservoir, to the north of the city .
The winter preparations follow a Ministry of Defence review of the handling of floods which caused blackouts and forced people from their homes across the North of England and Scotland in late 2015.
Storm Desmond wreaked havoc across Northern Ireland, north Wales and southern Scotland, but especially in north-west England, where record-breaking amounts of rain fell in Cumbria, prompting the county to declare a major incident.
The battalions - totalling 1,200 troops - will be on stand-by throughout the winter months and ready to be deployed across the country.
Cabinet Office minister Ben Gummer said: "We want to make sure that people across the United Kingdom keep safe, warm and healthy this winter.
"That is why we are working together to prepare for all that winter may bring, from providing flu vaccinations to specialist equipment and resources to deal with winter flooding.
"With the Army standing by, we have the most comprehensive winter plan yet to keep people safe and the country moving."
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced £12.5m for new temporary flood defences, including mobile barriers and high-volume pumps, to be deployed at strategic locations around the country.
But environmental campaigners said the government should be tackling climate change and investing in flood defences.
Guy Shrubsole, from Friends of the Earth, said: "Crisis management isn't a substitute for tackling the root causes of worsening floods: dealing with climate change, investing properly in flood defences and working with nature to slow the flow of water.
"And by failing to do our fair share to cut our emissions, the UK government is helping to drive floods and extreme weather around the globe - affecting millions of people who lack the resources to prepare for the climate crisis."
Last week the government faced criticism from a committee of MPs who called for major reform of the system for managing flood risk, including stripping the Environment Agency of its powers.
Other winter preparations from the government include working with energy companies to manage demand and rolling out NHS England's flu vaccination earlier to at-risk groups.
On the roads, local authorities and Highways England have stockpiled 1.7 million tonnes of salt - 500,000 tonnes more than in the severe winter of 2010/11. | More than 1,000 UK troops have been put on 24-hour stand-by to help in the event of flooding this winter. | 37922757 |
It was 2008, before its momentous first victory in the European polls, before it won some four million votes and got its first MP elected.
Before Nigel Farage resigned then returned within a week and before the referendum and the party's moment of glory - the UK's decision to vote to leave the EU.
After such a run, UKIP could be riding high. Instead, it's rudderless.
In winning the argument on EU membership, UKIP lost both its reason for existing and the leader credited with putting it on the map. Diane James must now establish both a new direction and identity - and that won't be easy.
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Ask voters in Ramsgate, Grimsby or Skegness why they back the party and his name often comes up.
His straight-talking, beer-swigging image reached parts of the electorate other politicians couldn't, and in doing so he became a household name synonymous with his party.
He'll be hard to replace. Diane James is a polished performer who portrays herself as competent and credible, but she's yet to prove she has the popular appeal of her predecessor.
Yet despite his undoubted charisma , Mr Farage is the first to admit he's a divisive character - both outside of UKIP and within.
Popular with many party members, his autocratic leadership style has alienated some in its upper echelons.
Even before this leadership contest, the party was beset by rifts.
Factions that developed during the 2015 general election hardened, popular leadership candidates were out of the running before getting started.
Two senior members have defected to the Conservatives in recent days.
Diane James will have to heal divisions that run deep. She will face animosity and anger from some senior figures, and will have to assert her authority while Nigel Farage inevitably remains on the field - a powerful voice even from the sidelines despite his promise to advise, not interfere.
Beyond its internal politics UKIP has an electoral challenge. Four million votes at the last election translated into just one Westminster seat; the current first-past-the-post voting system doesn't favour the party.
Diane James will have to not only maintain current support, but build on it ahead of the 2020 election.
With Labour facing its own leadership crisis, UKIP could use this moment to capitalise on the anti-establishment sentiment so apparent during the referendum.
Many insiders see their natural target as seats where the party came second to Labour in last year's general election, particularly in Wales and the North of England.
But the new leader must first persuade voters that the party still has appeal by proving her leadership credentials while developing policies that speak to the disenfranchised, beyond the promise of UK independence from the EU.
The pledge to ensure the government delivers on Brexit will only go so far.
In the eight years since that last Bournemouth conference, UKIP has achieved more than many members might have dreamed.
Then, some deemed it a protest movement, now it's a political party credited with forcing the government to hold the referendum which led to Brexit.
On those fronts, the mood among members is high. But despite such success Diane James is facing an enormous challenge.
She must unite a fractured party, prove it's more than one policy or one man, prove she can inspire the electorate like her predecessor did and prove that with the EU referendum over there's still a point to UKIP's existence. | The last time UKIP delegates met in the brown brick conference centre overlooking Bournemouth beach, the party was in a very different place. | 37387697 |
The 20-year-old former Blackburn player joined the Cherries in July, initially as part of the under-23 squad.
But following a pre-season appearance against Valencia, Mahoney is hungry for a chance in Eddie Howe's senior side.
"I've always wanted to play in the Premier League - once I've ticked that off, I can make new goals," he said.
Mahoney played 21 games for Blackburn last season, but made his English Football League debut aged 16 for Accrington in August 2013.
Interest also came from Nottingham Forest once his contract at Rovers had expired, but Mahoney admitted Bournemouth's passing style influenced his decision to join on a four-year deal.
"It's a massive step up from where I've been playing," he told BBC Radio Solent. "But, when you play with better players, you raise your game.
"I've got to be bright, intelligent and quick on my feet to play for Bournemouth. Some of the passing drills I've done in training so far have been unbelievable.
"You've got to be a good player, but also quick in the brain too." | Bournemouth winger Connor Mahoney wants to make his Premier League debut as quick as he can as he settles into life with the top-flight club. | 40791638 |
The Carlton Tavern, in Maida Vale, was bulldozed last month while under consideration for listed status.
Its owners have been told to rebuild it brick-by-brick.
Westminster City Council's planning director John Walker said: "The council will not tolerate any flagrant disregard of the planning system."
Backing the move Robert Davis, deputy leader of the council, said: "We cannot live in a city where unruly developers can just knock down buildings as and when they please.
"Westminster is home to the West End, not the Wild West."
The Carlton Tavern in Maida Vale was the only building left standing in the street after the area was bombed in WW2.
An application to pull down the building and replace it with a new pub at ground level and residential units over several floors was refused by the council.
Historic England - previously known as English Heritage - was recommending the 1920s building for listed status.
Landlady Patsy Lord said she had no prior warning of the demolition and was only called out to move her son's car away from the building on the morning the bulldozers arrived.
Historic England said the tavern was built in 1920 in the Vernacular Revival style by Frank J. Potter.
It was commissioned by Charrington & Co brewery at a cost of £11,600 and replaced an earlier pub on the site dating from the 1860s that was destroyed by a German Zeppelin bomb on 19 May 1918.
The owner of the pub has so far been unavailable for comment. | The owners of a west London pub that was demolished without planning permission to do so, have been ordered to rebuild it within 18 months. | 32607286 |
Princess Anne, 66, is understood to have had some tests at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on Wednesday.
Buckingham Palace said the Queen's daughter had been suffering from a bad chest infection and had cancelled her engagements on the advice of doctors.
She has been staying at Balmoral, the Queen's Aberdeenshire residence.
Princess Anne joined the Queen and other members of the royal family at the Braemar Gathering at the weekend.
The event on Royal Deeside, near Balmoral, is seen as the biggest in the Highland Games calendar.
A scheduled visit by the princess to HMP Grampian in Peterhead was cancelled on Thursday. | The Princess Royal has cancelled her public engagements next week because she is "feeling unwell", Buckingham Palace has said. | 37317238 |
The sabre-toothed cat lived alongside early humans, and may have been a fearsome enemy, say scientists.
Several feline teeth - and a chunk of arm bone - were uncovered at a site in Germany known for the oldest discovery of human spears.
The 300,000-year-old animal fossils are described as "spectacular".
Several types of sabre-toothed cat - once known as the sabre-toothed tiger - lived for over 40 million years, before becoming extinct about 12,000 years ago.
The predator had enormous teeth, which it used to rip through flesh.
Dr Jordi Serangeli, of the University of Tubingen, Germany, said the remains proved for the first time that the sabre-toothed cat was living in Europe alongside early humans.
"We can say that the humans - and the sabre-toothed cat - were living 300,000 years ago in the same area, in the same landscape," he told BBC News.
"The humans were hunters but they were not alone; they had to defend themselves from all the big carnivores."
Homo Heidelbergensis was among the first type of early human to use wooden spears.
Scatterings of animal bones found in their camps suggest they used the spears to hunt animals like the horse and deer.
The latest find of five teeth and a bone from two individual sabre-toothed cats at a former coal mine in Schoningen near Hanover gives a new insight into the perils faced by early humans.
"The discovery illustrates the possible day-to-day challenges that the Schöningen hominins would have faced and suggests that the wooden spears were not necessarily only used for hunting, but possibly also as a weapon for self-defence," Dr Serangeli, and colleagues at the University of Leiden, report in the Journal of Human Evolution.
The cat's humerus bone - worked by humans into a rudimentary hammer- is the first example of its kind anywhere in the world, he added.
Dr Mark Roberts of UCL, London, is an archaeologist at the Boxgrove site in southern England, which was home to one of Britain's oldest known human occupants, Homo heidelbergensis, 500,000 years ago.
Evidence shows "hominins (humans and their ancestors) were already the top predator at this time; they were able to kill and butcher, without interruption and competition, large animals such as rhino, bison, horse and giant deer", he said.
But it is uncertain if humans around at the time used weapons to kill the sabre-toothed cat, he added.
"If it could have been demonstrated that hominins killed the cat then that would have been very interesting but without more skeletal material that is impossible to demonstrate."
The Schoningen excavation is a cooperation between the University of Tübingen and the State Service for Cultural Heritage of Lower Saxony.
Follow Helen on Twitter. | Our ancient human cousins may have fought off big cats with spears, according to archaeological evidence. | 34944560 |
The Glasgow side have won only five out of 17 at Braehead Arena in all competitions, with four out of 12 in the Elite League.
And Rosehill says he and his team-mates can't dwell on it too much as they embarked on a run of four games in five days before the New Year.
"I honestly don't know why it's not clicked for us at home," Rosehill said. "I've been playing for a long time and never known anything like it.
"I've played on teams that have only won at home and that adds up sometimes, but we're performing on the road and can't seem to bring it to our own rink.
"It doesn't make sense as our fans are fantastic and they are loud. As players, we're excited to play out there, but it's something of an anomaly right now.
"Hopefully we can change it around in the New Year and we can't feel sorry for ourselves with such a busy week ahead."
Clan opened the Christmas period in the best possible way with a victory over Fife Flyers on Friday, beating their Kirkcaldy rivals 4-3, making it five wins on the trot against them.
Bari McKenzie and Scott Aarssen's strikes were cancelled out by Brendan Brooks and Carlo Finucci before Alex Leavitt and Matt Keith restored the two-goal lead.
Matt Sisca pulled another back for Fife on the powerplay late on and despite a final surge at the end, Ryan Finnerty's side held on for the points.
However, Boxing Day was a different story as they went down 5-1 to Belfast Giants, a team chasing down league leaders Cardiff Devils for the top spot.
Giants took the lead through Colin Shields, with Aarssen levelling by the end of the first. However, Belfast took the win as Ryan Martinelli, Mark Garside, Alex Foster and Steve Saviano all scored.
It completed a run of four wins in six days for the Giants, who were visited by Edinburgh Capitals twice in the days leading up to Christmas, taking four points from the sorry Caps.
Thursday's 3-0 win, courtesy of goals from Shields (two) and Saviano was followed up by a whopping 9-6 success when they met again 24 hours later.
Taylor MacDougall got a consolation as Giants led 8-1 after two periods, but Edinburgh came back in the third to turn a seven-goal deficit into three by the end.
Two from Yevgeni Fyodorov and single strikes from Pavel Vorobyev, Jared Staal and Mike D'Orazio softened the blow of a disappointing night.
A trip to Kirkcaldy on Boxing Day for the Murrayfield men produced another huge scoreline, but Caps were on the wrong end again, thumped 9-3 by Fife Flyers.
Phil Paquet, Justin Fox and Finucci had Fife three up before Vorobyev clawed one back in the first. Further goals from Ryan Dingle and Brooks had the Flyers 5-1 up with Vorobyev scoring again.
But Todd Dutiaume's men pushed further as Dingle completed a hat-trick, including a penalty shot and another from Brooks and Fox made it nine, with Staal adding a third consolation for Edinburgh.
Dundee Stars' recent collapse in form continued as their run was extended to nine losses in ten following three more defeats this week.
Cardiff completed the job on them in the Challenge Cup quarter final on Wednesday with a 4-2 win, making it an 8-3 aggregate success, despite goals from Vinny Scarsella and Scott Brannon.
Further lengthy trips to Nottingham Panthers and Manchester Storm either side of Christmas didn't fare much better as Marc LeFebvre's men continue to languish outside the top eight.
Friday's journey to Nottingham saw them lose 4-2 with Justin Faryna's early opener cancelled out by Panthers' Brian McGrattan before Felix-Antoine Poulin fired Stars ahead again.
Robert Farmer's double turned the game around before Alex Nikiforuk sealed victory with just under two minutes to go.
Dundee headed to Manchester on Boxing Day, but another loss made it a miserable Christmas for the Stars fans as Storm won 4-1 in Altrincham.
Darian Dzuirzynski, Mario Valery-Trabucco and two from Omar Pacha secured victory for them, despite Kevin Bruijsten nabbing a late consolation for Dundee as they ended the week in defeat.
Wednesday
Challenge Cup Quarter Final 2nd Leg -
Cardiff Devils 4-2 Dundee Stars (Cardiff win 8-3 on aggregate)
Thursday
Elite League -
Belfast Giants 3-0 Edinburgh Capitals
Friday
Elite League -
Belfast Giants 9-6 Edinburgh Capitals
Braehead Clan 4-3 Fife Flyers
Nottingham Panthers 4-2 Dundee Stars
Boxing Day
Elite League -
Braehead Clan 1-5 Belfast Giants
Fife Flyers 9-3 Edinburgh Capitals
Manchester Storm 4-1 Dundee Stars | Braehead Clan's Jay Rosehill has been left scratching his head by the team's poor home form after a Boxing Day defeat to Belfast Giants. | 38443557 |
The police believe a group of PSV supporters - who posed a threat of violence - were planning to travel.
The game was due to be played in Arnhem as part of the Fox Sports Cup being hosted by Eredivisie side Vitesse.
"We naturally share the disappointment of our supporters who have travelled," said Albion director of football administration Richard Garlick.
"It is a truly disappointing end to what had been some excellent preparation for us but the situation is out of our hands and we are working now to get the squad home as quickly as possible."
On Thursday, the Baggies beat Vitesse 2-1 in the first round of matches at the four-team pre-season tournament, which also features Portuguese club Porto.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | West Bromwich Albion's friendly against PSV Eindhoven on Saturday has been cancelled by Dutch police. | 36872354 |
Daryll Rowe, 26, of no fixed address, was arrested in Brighton following the allegations earlier this year.
After failing to answer bail he was re-arrested in Wallsend, North Tyneside, after work by Northumbria Police, Police Scotland and Sussex Police.
Mr Rowe has been charged with eight counts of causing grievous bodily harm and one of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm.
He has been remanded in custody and is due to appear before Newcastle Crown Court later in the week. | A man has been charged with infecting other men with HIV deliberately. | 38431169 |
John Noble, 43, of Horrabridge, Devon, admitted causing the death of Chris Dennehy, 58, by careless driving on the A38 near Lee Mill in September 2014.
He was previously cleared of causing Mr Dennehy's death by dangerous driving.
Noble was sentenced to 24 weeks, suspended for two years, at Plymouth Crown Court.
Experts told the court he may only have had two seconds to react after the cyclist came into view.
Noble's lorry hit Mr Dennehy, who lived in Plymouth, from behind on the Exeter-bound carriageway.
The court heard Noble later told a colleague he had been reaching across his cab to play a sermon on his mobile phone just before hitting the cyclist, adding that his vehicle must have drifted across the carriageway.
Noble was also banned from driving for 18 months, ordered to carry out 250 hours of unpaid work and given a 12-month supervision order. | A lorry driver who reached over to play a sermon on his mobile phone moments before he hit and killed a cyclist has been given a suspended jail term. | 34540151 |
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This was the Foxes' official homecoming after they won the Premier League on Monday when Tottenham failed to beat Chelsea - and how they celebrated before, during and after the greatest day in the club's history.
Leicester concluded the story that has captured the world's imagination when captain Wes Morgan and manager Claudio Ranieri jointly lifted the Premier League trophy as they completed the journey from relegation battlers and 5,000-1 outsiders to champions in the space of 12 months.
This 3-1 victory over Everton was simply another demonstration of the power, commitment and quality that has brought them the title - but this was more than a football match, it was a carnival with tears of joy and high emotion.
Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, blind since the age of 12, was accompanied by fellow countryman Ranieri as he walked out 30 minutes before kick-off to fulfil a promise to perform at the King Power Stadium if Leicester became champions.
And in a spine-tingling moment, Ranieri looked close to tears, although he later revealed he steeled himself not to cry on his greatest day, before the stadium exploded in applause and the teams came out.
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"It was amazing. I tried to be strong without emotion because I can live the moment better. It was amazing when the maestro Andrea Bocelli sang," said Ranieri, whose team will go on a victory parade in Leicester on Monday, 16 May.
This has been no ordinary title win and the moments when Ranieri stood side-by-side with Bocelli demonstrated that this was no ordinary title celebration.
Ranieri was soaked in Champagne by Foxes full-back Christian Fuchs while being interviewed after the trophy presentation as he continued to hold in his emotions at his side's achievements.
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"I am a strange man," he said. "There are a lot of cameras on me to see if I cry and then I say 'today no'. I stayed there but inside the emotion was at the top.
"It will be a nice celebration but not a disco. No more than 10 times in my life have I been in a disco.
"I now think only of our next match, then I will go to the sea to recharge my batteries and then we restart next season with the same ambition, humility and feeling."
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The long and winding Aylestone Road that weaves past Leicestershire's cricket ground at Grace Road and up to the King Power Stadium was awash with fans and festooned in colour more than three hours before kick-off.
Leicester's title party started at the stadium late on Monday and the scene suggested it had continued for a week in readiness for the day when the Premier League trophy was held aloft by Morgan and his boss.
Thousands of supporters surrounded the stadium simply to take part in the carnival to mark Leicester's achievement, a nine-month-long sustained shock to the entire world of sport's system.
A fairground was set up alongside the arena while hundreds gathered close to a big screen flashing up the greatest moments of this seismic season - and there was plenty to show, each goal bringing rousing cheers from the masses waiting for the main event.
Even those unable to secure highly prized tickets simply wanted to be near this outpouring of joy and a chance to celebrate an unlikely story of success that took Leicester from a brush with relegation to the Premier League title in the space of a year.
This is a global story, arguably the biggest overturning of the odds and defiance of logic in sport, with the demand for media tickets far greater than supply at this welcoming club that has dealt with the weight of expectation and rising attention in exemplary fashion.
Among the banners and signals of success one banner read "A Trophy Earned Not Bought". This has not exactly been a rags-to-riches tale but it has turned the Premier League's natural order upside down.
If the scenes outside were breathtaking, they were surpassed by what took place inside. This was a day Leicester, the city and its football club, will never forget and they did it justice.
Leicester's players and their popular, charismatic manager Ranieri were always going to be the central figures - but there was one special non-footballing touch that will never be forgotten by anyone who witnessed it.
It was when Ranieri led Bocelli to a raised platform in the centre circle and briefly addressed the crowd before gesturing for silence, a call they heeded, then listened in awe to a perfect rendition of Nessun Dorma.
Bocelli then revealed he was wearing a Leicester shirt before his final number, Time to Say Goodbye.
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The party mood continued on the pitch as Leicester City overran, outfought and outclassed Everton. If their celebrations had been to excess, perhaps understandably, there was no sign of it here as they simply did what they have done all season.
And as the Leicester family gathered, it was a time to celebrate the club's past as well as this glorious present.
There was a parade of greats at half-time, including England's World Cup-winning goalkeeper Gordon Banks, former captain and manager Frank McLintock - a league and FA Cup double-winner with Arsenal in 1971 - as well as Dave Gibson and Mike Stringfellow.
This thunderous atmosphere fell silent for a few seconds shortly after the final whistle in anticipation of the presentation, but not for long. There was even a rendition of We Are Staying Up - a knowingly incongruous anthem for this new, resurgent Leicester City.
One figure has been at the hub of it all, the manager celebrated in the banner as The Godfather - Claudio Ranieri.
This modest, emotional man was close to tears once more as he made his way to the presentation platform, the character they called the nearly man, 'The Tinkerman', who had pulled off one of the greatest feats in sport.
This weekend last year the Foxes were edging away from relegation with a 2-0 win against Southampton that took them into 15th place with 37 points from 36 games, two goals from Riyad Mahrez barely hinting at what was to come.
Now Mahrez is PFA Player of the Year, Jamie Vardy the Football Writers' Association Footballer Of The Year and - so much more significantly - Leicester are champions with 80 points from 37 games.
They have allowed sport to suspend belief - but the King Power Stadium was celebrating glorious reality as fireworks and flames went off in the moment Morgan and Rainieri lifted the Premier League trophy.
Sport's unlikeliest success story was complete. | Leicester City celebrated their coronation as Premier League champions and the first title in their 132-year history with victory over Everton on a day of elation at the King Power Stadium. | 36236680 |
Colin Gregg, 75, denies nine indecent assault charges involving four young boys over three decades.
Leeds Crown Court heard from one alleged victim, now in his 60s, who said he was assaulted in 1967 while Mr Gregg was working as a teacher.
Mr Gregg has dismissed the allegations as "evil lies" motivated by money.
The court heard the then teenager was asked by Mr Gregg to help build an adventure playground in Northumberland.
While there, Mr Gregg, from Newcastle, is said to have invited him to drive his car.
In evidence, the witness said he recalled Mr Gregg's was a Saab and accepted the invitation to drive it on a private road.
He told the court he was sitting "squeezed" in the driver's seat in front of Mr Gregg, who then went on to sexually assault him.
The man, who cannot be named, said: "I was shocked. I had to use my elbow with force him to force his hand away.
"It went on for two or three minutes and then I just jumped out of the car and ran off.
"I didn't speak to anyone about it for many years.
"It was so obvious so quickly what he was doing, it was out of the blue. I just wanted to get away. I felt awful."
The charges relate to alleged assaults on four boys aged between 10 and 15 during a period when Mr Gregg was a teacher and head teacher, beginning in 1963.
Earlier, the prosecution said Mr Gregg concealed his true nature behind a "veneer of respectability" and despite a life of distinction, which included being the director of a children's charity, was "an abuser of children".
The trial continues. | The son of the founder of the Greggs bakery chain abused a boy after letting him drive his car, a court has heard. | 38910387 |
The 32-year-old injured his shoulder during Sri Lanka's first tour match against Essex last week.
"We're hoping that we can get him bowling again pretty soon," head coach Graham Ford told BBC Sport.
Sri Lanka's latest tour match, against Leicestershire at Grace Road, ended in a draw on Sunday.
Prasad took five wickets to set up Sri Lanka's series-clinching victory over England at Headingley two years ago.
"Prasad has had a few tests and the specialist came to see him today," Ford added.
"We'll have to build him up and get him bowling a number of overs in the nets to have him prepared potentially for the second or third Test."
The tourists enjoyed a better day with the bat on the final day of their three-day match at Grace Road.
Leicestershire batsman Tom Wells hit a career-best unbeaten 87 but was stopped short of completing his ton with the home side unaware they were required to declare after 100 overs.
Sri Lanka opener Dimuth Karunaratne made an untroubled century on the flat pitch and Lahiru Thirimanne hit 40.
"As we have gone along players have started to find their feet and find a bit of form," Ford added. "Every day, there is someone new who is starting to look like he's feeling a bit more settled in English conditions.
"Hopefully with a bit more work the boys will have some good belief about what they can do. It is going to be about mental toughness and handling pressure when the Test starts on Thursday.
"Over the next day or two we'll decide the team but most of the places are starting to sort themselves out." | Sri Lanka bowler Dhammika Prasad has been ruled out of the first Test against England at Headingley, which starts on Thursday. | 36297770 |
Despite extensive and painstaking searches, the bodies have never been found of four out of 16 people listed by the commission set up to locate victims' remains.
Searches have been carried out by the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains, established in 1999 by treaty between the British and Irish governments to obtain information in strictest confidence that may lead to where the bodies are buried.
BBC News NI looks at the stories behind the Disappeared.
The IRA claimed that the 24-year-old from Belfast confessed to being a British provocateur and Military Reaction Force undercover agent in 1978.
Remains confirmed as Disappeared man
Abducted from his home in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast in July 1975, after being accused by the IRA of being an informer. It was claimed he was quartermaster in one of the IRA's three Belfast brigades and that his activities forced the IRA into calling a ceasefire that year.
His body was discovered in a coffin left at Faughart graveyard near Dundalk, County Louth in 1999 after IRA intermediaries passed information to the commission for the location of the victims remains. 'Disappeared' victim identified
Twenty-two when he was abducted with his friend John McClory in 1978, he had first gone missing a few days beforehand, but returned 48 hours later, beaten and distraught. He had allegedly admitted to stealing IRA weapons for use in robberies.
His parents made him give back the money and it seemed the matter had been "resolved", but when he failed to return home from work soon after, his family began to fear the worst. His body was uncovered in a bogside location in County Monaghan in 1999. 'My tears for Brian'
The 17-year-old was a friend of Brian McKinney and went missing at the same time. His body was also recovered at the same site. Body finds encourage searchers
The widowed mother-of-10 was killed in 1972. After numerous searches, the 37-year-old's remains were finally found at Shelling Hill beach in County Louth in August 2003.
Body is that of 'Disappeared' victim
IRA 'was wrong' over bodies issue
The west Belfast man went missing from his home in 1981. The IRA said Mr McIlhone was not suspected of being an informer but was being questioned about stealing weapons - it was claimed he was killed in a struggle with the person who was guarding him.
Remains discovered in the Wicklow mountains in November 2008 were confirmed as his. It followed two previous unsuccessful searches - in 1999 and 2000 - for his remains.
Family of IRA victim 'at peace'
The 57-year-old father-of-five from Crossmaglen in south Armagh, went missing on his way to Mass in 1981. His car was later found near a cinema in Dundalk. The IRA denied any involvement in his disappearance at the time. A team looking for Mr Armstrong found human remains in County Monaghan in July 2010. Two months later, the remains were confirmed as being those of Mr Armstrong.
Widow's relief as remains found
Fresh 'Disappeared' search
Described as a vulnerable person with learning difficulties, he vanished at the age of 21 from his home in west Belfast in 1973. Reports suggest he may have been abducted and murdered by the IRA. His name was added to the list of the Disappeared in 2009 after new information became available.
For four days before he disappeared he lived with an Army unit at their headquarters near his Falls Road home. At the time the Army was accused of using a vulnerable person to gather information on the IRA, but the Army said they wanted him to experience military life.
His remains were found at Waterfoot beach in County Antrim in November 2010. Fresh 'Disappeared' dig announced
Remains were 'Disappeared' man's
Inquest into 'Disappeared' death
Last seen hitch-hiking in County Monaghan in March 1979, no-one has ever admitted responsibility for the 24-year-old's death. In March 2008, his aunt was given a map claiming to identify the location of his body. Mr Evans' remains were found at a site in County Louth in October 2010.
A poignant conclusion
Appeal from Disappeared searchers
Remains confirmed as Gerry Evans
The 26-year-old went missing from his home near Castlewellan, County Down, on 1 January 1981. His body was discovered by chance in May 1984 in a bog near Dundalk, County Louth.
An IRA member, the Belfast man was alleged to have been a British army agent and member of its Military Reaction Force, an undercover unit. He was interrogated and murdered by the IRA in 1972. His body was discovered in Coghalstown, Co Meath, in June 2015.
The Belfast man was an IRA member, but in 1972 he was interrogated and murdered by his former colleagues who accused him of being a British army agent and a member of its Military Reaction Force. His body was discovered in Coghalstown, Co Meath, in June 2015.
The 19-year-old from Donaghmore, County Tyrone was abducted and murdered by the IRA in 1975 after allegedly confessing to being a British army agent with instructions to infiltrate the IRA.
Extensive searches for his body were carried out in 2003 at a bog in Emyvale, County Monaghan, but nothing was found. His mother, Vera, was a tireless campaigner for the return of his remains - she died in 2007. Mother of Disappeared victim dies
A specialist forensic team spent five months in 2013 digging in a bog in County Monaghan for Mr McVeigh's remains, but found nothing.
The 32-year-old from Newry, County Down, was working as a teacher in Paris when he went missing in 1985. It is believed he was killed by members of the INLA. Fresh searches were carried out in 2008 after his family were told his remains were in a forest in Normandy, but they found nothing. Family of INLA murder man misled
The SAS-trained officer was abducted by the IRA in Jonesborough County Armagh, in May 1977. The 29-year-old was abducted when he visited a pub at Dromintee, south Armagh. He had been in the pub singing rebel songs. He was seized during a struggle in the pub's car park and taken across the border to a field at Ravensdale, County Louth, and later shot dead. McGuinness in Nairac body appeal
A former Cistercian monk from the Beechmount area of west Belfast, he later joined the IRA. Mr Lynskey went missing in 1972, and republicans have claimed Mr Lynskey was "executed and buried" by the IRA. Commission to probe Lynskey death | The Disappeared are those who were abducted, murdered and secretly buried by republicans during Northern Ireland's Troubles. | 10814888 |
England's David Horsey had six birdies in his opening 12 holes to put pressure on Olesen but the Dane responded with three birdies in four holes to card a three-under 69 and win on 20 under par.
Horsey and China's Li Haotong both shot 65 to finish second on 17 under.
Masters champion Danny Willett failed to take top spot in the Race to Dubai.
The Englishman needed to finish fifth to move ahead of Open winner Henrik Stenson but was joint-68th after a disappointing final round of 75.
It was Horsey who had seemed the most likely to upset Olesen, holing five birdies to reach the turn in 29, while the Dane three-putted the ninth to card just his fourth bogey of the week.
But Olesen responded with birdies at the 12th, 14th and 15th and although he bogeyed the 16th, pars on the final two holes saw him claim victory.
He built his win on the back of course record 62 in the second round after missing the cut in eight of his 10 previous events.
He said: "The last three or four months have been poor and I didn't feel comfortable at the end, but I got over the line.
"I knew they had cut the lead to a couple of shots and it puts pressure on you. The last four holes were really difficult." | Thorbjorn Olesen rallied to claim the Turkish Open title by three shots - after briefly seeing his seven-stroke overnight lead reduced to just one. | 37888836 |
Developer Dandara said it was responding to a change in market conditions, with supply now outstripping demand for offices.
The tower and spire, built in the 1800s, became derelict in the 1970s.
Dandara said it was working with the city council's planning department over the change. | Plans to turn Aberdeen's historic Triple Kirks into an office development are being scrapped in favour of a new proposal for student flats. | 32065514 |
Its latest monthly UK House Price Index showed the average price of a property in October was £143,131.
That was 4% higher than a year ago and 1% up on the previous month.
The UK average price in October was £216,674 - 6.9% higher than the same month last year and 0.1% up on September.
The top five local authorities in terms of sales volumes were Glasgow City (1,031 sales), City of Edinburgh (1,020), Fife (564), South Lanarkshire (520) and North Lanarkshire (415).
The biggest price increase over the last year was in East Renfrewshire, where the average price rose by 17.7% to just over £222,500.
The biggest decrease was again in the City of Aberdeen, where prices fell by 8.7% to £172,870.
Across Scotland, all property types showed a rise in average price when compared with the previous year, with detached properties showing the biggest increase of 7.1%, to £251,709.
Registers of Scotland director of commercial services Kenny Crawford said: "The average price of a residential property in Scotland continues to show steady growth, with month-on-month increases in every month this year apart from February and August.
"This is a significant change from last year when there were decreases month-on-month in six out of the 12 months.
"Average prices have been steadily increasing on a year-on-year basis, too, with only one drop in average price being recorded in the past three years." | Scottish house prices have continued to show steady growth over the past year, according to figures released by Registers of Scotland. | 38301675 |
Ivo van Hove confirmed Bowie would not be appearing on stage in Lazarus, which is based on The Man Who Fell to Earth.
The singer is co-writing the show with Irish playwright Enda Walsh, the award-winning writer of the musical Once.
It is set to premiere at the New York Theatre Workshop in December.
"Some of the songs sound as if you have heard them for ever - like classics," van Hove told the BBC in an exclusive interview at Sunday's Olivier Awards.
The Belgian was named best director for his acclaimed version of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge, with its star Mark Strong winning best actor.
Van Hove said preparations for Lazarus were already "far advanced" and described the new Bowie material as "really great stuff".
"I started with [1975 album] Young Americans as a young man and went onto Station to Station, Low, Lodger, and Heroes, but I really loved his last album The Next Day - it's a mixture of all these things.
"There are romantic songs - because his songs are deeply romantic - and there are songs about violence and the ugly world surrounding us. That's what these new songs are about."
The show is inspired by the 1963 novel, The Man Who Fell to Earth, by Walter Tevis, and centres on the character of Thomas Newton, played by Bowie in the 1976 screen adaptation directed by Nic Roeg.
Lazarus will also feature re-arrangements of Bowie's old songs. "He told me he is going to give his songs a new skin," van Hove said.
"He will not be on stage - I don't think that is the thing he likes most in his life. But as far as I can judge, it is a very important project in his life." | David Bowie has written a number of new "classics" about love and violence for his forthcoming musical stage show, its director has revealed. | 32281816 |
Taxi firm boss Nasser Rezaie, 63, of Petersfield in Chelmsford, is accused of murdering Allan Frampton in May.
Mr Rezaie told Chelmsford Crown Court he noticed his wife's behaviour had changed when he returned from a trip to Iran in 2013.
He denies murder but accepts killing the 60-year-old divorced grandfather.
He argues his actions were a result of losing control and were not premeditated.
Mr Rezie told the jury his wife Jane had started wearing false eyelashes and making regular trips to the hairdressers when he returned from Tehran.
She admitted the 10-month affair with Mr Frampton, who rented a car workshop unit from the couple's taxi firm, after a confrontation with Mr Rezaie in June last year, he said.
The court previously heard Mr Rezaie made threats to kill Mr Frampton over the phone, which were recorded by Mrs Rezaie.
The jury was told he repeatedly ran over Mr Frampton with his silver Mercedes in Osea Way in Chemsford 11 months later.
Mr Frampton, a mechanic, died at the scene from multiple injuries.
Mr Rezaie broke down in tears as he told the court how his relationship with his children suffered following the breakdown of his marriage.
He said they were angry with him and admitted he had written "terrible things" in a series of Facebook posts in June and July 2014.
He also described how his business, Ali's Taxis, had suffered after the breakdown of his relationship with his wife, and alleged she had run up debts of £176,000 which he had to pay off.
The trial continues. | A man accused of murdering his love rival has told a court how he "collapsed" after his wife admitted she had been having an affair. | 34648660 |
Adverts for the Falcon 7X executive jet and Hawker 4000 are to appear in newspapers, Garba Shehu said.
Some of the other presidential aircraft are be handed to the Nigerian air force to boost its operations, he said.
The country is one of Africa's leading economies but it is now suffering from its worst economic crisis in years.
In a Facebook post, Mr Shehu said the downsizing of the president fleet had been a campaign promise made by Mr Buhari before his election last year.
The president had requested a compact and reliable aircraft for transporting government officials on special missions, he said.
"This exercise is by no means complete," the spokesman added.
BBC Abuja bureau editor Naziru Mikailu says the advert for the jets will ask potential buyers to bid in US dollars, not the local naira currency.
Nigeria's economy slipped into recession in August.
The government depends on oil sales for about 70% of its revenues - and the slump in global oil prices has hit the West African nation hard.
A planned luxury 4bn rand (£185m) aircraft for South Africa's Jacob Zuma was widely criticised last year as were plans by Swaziland's King Mswati to acquire a second private plane. By contrast, former Malawian President Joyce Banda was widely praised when she auctioned her official jet in 2013 and vowed to hitch rides with other leaders.
The need for a US presidential jet, nicknamed Air Force One, is rarely questioned.
But not every country has a private jet for their leader.
The first jet for a British prime minister was inaugurated in July. The UK had been the only country in the G20 group of the world's major economies not to have one. | Nigeria is selling two of its 10 presidential jets in a bid to "cut down on waste", President Muhammadu Buhari's spokesman has said. | 37562169 |
Here we assess three of the toughest issues on the EU's agenda: migration, Brexit and jobs.
In his State of the Union speech last month, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker lamented the EU's current "existential crisis".
He warned that weak European "solidarity" was allowing the agenda to be set by anti-EU populists, scornful of liberal democracy.
To inspire young people, he said, the EU should launch a European Solidarity Corps by the end of this year. Young volunteers would be able to help in emergencies, including the refugee pressure points.
A stark illustration of Europe's lack of solidarity is an emergency scheme launched in 2015 to relocate 160,000 refugees.
The Visegrad Group (Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia) opposes the policy, which applies only to Syrians and Eritreans with legitimate asylum claims.
As of 13 October, only 4,716 had been relocated from Greece - far below the target of 66,400. Out of a target of 39,600 to be relocated from Italy, only 1,316 had been moved. More than 144,000 migrants have arrived in Italy this year alone.
Resources in both countries are severely stretched, as most of the overcrowded migrant boats arrive there.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said he would be "very tough" towards EU countries "shirking their commitments" in the migrant crisis. Their refusal to help ought to trigger cuts in EU funding, he said.
The EU has launched a common European Border and Coast Guard agency, with an initial deployment on Bulgaria's borders. It is part of efforts to prevent a repetition of last year's crisis, when more than a million irregular migrants arrived in the EU.
At least 1,500 border guards will be available for rapid deployment to pressure points such as the Greek islands. EU specialists are already working at "hotspots" in Greece and Italy - camps that register migrants and assess asylum claims.
The camps are controversial, not least because living conditions there are often squalid.
The migration challenge is complex and demands action on many fronts. The EU wants to speed up deportations of economic migrants, many of them from sub-Saharan Africa. But push factors fuelling the exodus are deep-rooted: conflicts and human rights abuses are rife in Africa and the Middle East.
Deciding on safe countries of origin is another thorny issue. The EU is sending many migrants back to Turkey now - a major transit country. Yet Turkey is hosting 2.7 million Syrian refugees, few of whom can get work.
The numbers reaching Greece from Turkey have fallen dramatically since the controversial Turkey deal took effect.
Migrant crisis: A Syrian's struggle to become German
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A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.
The UK vote to pull out of the EU threatens to gouge a big hole in the EU budget. The UK's estimated net contribution was £8.5bn (€9.4bn; $10.4bn) in 2015, the House of Commons Library says.
On a per capita basis the UK made the third-largest net contribution to the budget in 2015. It was €215 per capita, behind the Netherlands (€331) and Sweden (€262).
Only Germany paid in more last year than the UK, though in previous years the French contribution had been similar to the UK's.
It remains to be seen which EU programmes, if any, the UK chooses to stay in after formal Brexit.
Businesses and many other stakeholders are worried about the uncertainty and lack of detail.
The EU refuses to hold even informal negotiations before Prime Minister Theresa May triggers the Article 50 exit clause. That should happen by next April.
EU officials say there will be no compromise over free movement of people - it is a condition for remaining in the EU single market.
European Council President Donald Tusk warned of a "hard Brexit", meaning the UK risks losing its single market advantages.
He mocked UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's remark about the UK "having our cake and eating it" in a Brexit deal.
"Brexit will be a loss for all of us. There will be no cakes on the table," Mr Tusk said. "There will be only salt and vinegar."
Trade terms will be the big battleground - and the battle is likely to drag on for years.
That is why there is great attention now on the EU-Canada trade deal, Ceta, which could finally be launched early next year.
The Ceta negotiations began back in 2009, and still there is much unease about it in Europe. It might be a model for a Brexit deal - but the tensions also highlight the difficulties the UK faces.
Would Ceta be a good model for the UK?
Brexit: Europe's phoney war
The aftershocks of the 2008 financial crisis are still being felt in Europe. This month there was further bleak news from the banking sector: 20,000 jobs to be cut, including 9,600 at Germany's Commerzbank and 5,800 at Dutch bank ING.
The EU is slowly putting in place a Capital Markets Union, to diversify funding for businesses. The goal is to help businesses - especially start-ups - get venture capital or market funding. Despite the 2008 crash, banks dominate lending in Europe, yet debt problems have forced many to rein in business loans.
Unemployment remains stubbornly high. In June 2016 the highest jobless rates were in Greece (23.4%) and Spain (19.5%), Eurostat reports. Germany's rate in August was 4.2% - the lowest apart from the Czech Republic.
Nearly 21 million were unemployed EU-wide in August, 16.3m of them in the 19-nation eurozone.
The picture is bleaker for young people, the under 25s. The youth unemployment rates in Greece and Spain in June 2016 were 47.7% and 45%, respectively. Italy's rate in August was also very high - 39%.
EU-wide, about 4.2m young people are unemployed, 3m of them in the eurozone.
The EU's Youth Guarantee scheme is targeted at the most precarious group - about 7.5m young people who are not in education, employment or training (Neets). It aims to ensure that within four months of leaving school or losing a job they get a good-quality job, further education or training.
The EU allocated €12.7bn to the scheme for 2014-2020, but the European Court of Auditors (ECA) says a funding shortfall from national governments has put the initiative at risk.
The UK is among several countries that chose not to participate. UK data for 2015 suggests that British support programmes for Neets reached only one in five of them.
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) said funding of about €21bn annually could make the scheme really effective.
The cost of having so many young people unemployed is enormous, in terms of benefit payments, lost earnings and taxes. The ECA estimates it to be €153bn annually.
In Spain, only one in 10 Neets has benefited from the Youth Guarantee, the daily El Pais reports. Spanish bureaucracy has been blamed.
The take-up is also poor in Italy, Hungary and Malta. In contrast, a majority of Neets in France and Germany have benefited from it. | EU leaders face a perfect storm of problems when they meet in Brussels on Thursday for another crisis summit. | 37680509 |
Airline Jet2 said the captain had "no option" but divert to Nantes in order to protect passengers and crew from the "increasingly violent" man on Friday.
He was given a lifetime ban from the airline and handed over to local police on arrival in France.
Jet2 said it had launched an investigation into the incident alongside Police Scotland.
The airline said it was also aiming to recover the costs incurred by the diversion between Reus and Glasgow airports.
It managing director, Phil Ward, said: "This passenger's conduct was absolutely unacceptable.
"We apologise to those customers who had to witness such disruptive and abusive behaviour and for the delay to their journey home."
He said the airline has a "zero tolerance" approach to such anti-social behaviour.
"Passengers should be in no doubt that the consequences of being overly aggressive towards fellow customers and our crew will lead to a divert and subsequent fines and prosecutions," he added. | A "disruptive and violent" passenger forced a flight from Spain to Glasgow to be diverted to France. | 36564111 |
A stunning Faissal El Bakhtaoui strike deservedly put Dundee ahead but Billy King equalised from close range before the break.
Paul McGowan's controlled finish put the hosts back in front.
King had another chance to level matters but dragged his shot wide while goalkeeper Scott Bain was stranded off his line.
Dundee will host Celtic in the next round.
These sides, who had met in the first-round group stage, had contrasting beginnings to their league season at the weekend, Dundee losing at home to Ross County in the Premiership, United winning away at Inverness in the Championship. Neil McCann had bemoaned his side's shortage of physicality in that defeat, but that was just one of the fixes he put in place in the early stages.
Dundee had to live without their suspended captain, Darren O'Dea, and their chief striker, Sofien Moussa. Marcus Haber came in for Moussa and Haber had the size and aggression to unsettle United all night long.
The home side lorded it over over the opening 40 minutes. Haber had a header just wide, then his forward partner, El Bakhtaoui, lashed one over. Dundee had a lovely edge and tempo to them, pinning United back, starving them of possession.
El Bakhtaoui should have opened the scoring after 20 minutes. He created the chance all by himself when ransacking William Edjenguele and running on to face Harry Lewis one-on-one. The thing that made McCann go potty on the touchline was not just that his striker failed to convert but that he failed to even hit the target, pulling his shot wide.
To say that El Bakhtaoui made amends would be putting it mildly. He was wonderful. His work-rate was off the charts.
On the half-hour, he collected a clearing header from a Dundee corner, composed himself with a touch and smashed a shot past Lewis, the ball finding the net off the underside of the goalkeeper's crossbar. For Kieran Tierney for Celtic against Kilmarnock on Tuesday, read El Bakhtaoui for Dundee on Wednesday.
Dundee kept their momentum up until five minutes before the break when United suckered them. Again, it was great execution, created by Sam Stanton's run and drilled cross and finished by King, who arrived at the back post to drill home.
The breathless nature of the tie carried on and on. Having been sickened by that equaliser, Dundee got back to work with an intensity that eventually brought a breakthrough. Rorie Deacon, a whirling dervish of a player out wide, crossed from the right to Scott Allan, who was cool in the moment, laying it off to McGowan. The midfielder hit a sumptuous shot high past Lewis.
As they pushed for a third goal, Haber's header, from an El Bakhtaoui cross, forced a fine save from Lewis. It was absorbing stuff. Rugged, narky, engaging. United launched men forward looking for the equaliser and came painfully close when Bain got in a muddle and presented a chance to King, who could not take advantage.
They could not create another. Dundee advanced and they deserved to on a night when the city delivered another thumping derby.
Dundee manager Neil McCann: "I thought we absolutely dominated the match from start to finish.
"We knew United, like every team will do, would have a little spell and they have some good threats.
"Disappointed with the goal, but overall I thought that was a flattering scoreline.
"I was so happy for Faissal because he's got thunder in his boots and he just needs to believe in himself a wee bit more and feel he belongs here.
"But, my goodness, he is a threat, but I thought, to a man, we were absolutely brilliant.
"I am delighted we've got a home tie and we've pulled the strongest side in the country, but if you want to win it, you've probably got to beat them sometime."
Dundee United manager Ray McKinnon: "I think in the first 30 minutes, Dundee were better than us.
"We moved our players around and I thought the game levelled out and we scored a really good goal.
"Going in at half-time we were feeling really good about things and the second half was more even.
"Both sides had chance, but we've undone ourselves with some slack defending.
"Congratulations to Dundee, but there's lots of positives from us as that game could have gone either way in the second half."
Match ends, Dundee 2, Dundee United 1.
Second Half ends, Dundee 2, Dundee United 1.
Attempt missed. Paul McMullan (Dundee United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
William Edjenguele (Dundee United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Glen Kamara (Dundee) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by William Edjenguele (Dundee United).
Foul by James Vincent (Dundee).
Samuel Stanton (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Faissal El Bakhtaoui (Dundee).
Paul McMullan (Dundee United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Dundee. James Vincent replaces Scott Allan.
Substitution, Dundee United. Stewart Murdoch replaces Fraser Fyvie.
Attempt saved. Billy King (Dundee United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Randy Wolters (Dundee) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Billy King (Dundee United) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Dundee. Conceded by Billy King.
Paul McGowan (Dundee) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Paul McGowan (Dundee).
Billy King (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Randy Wolters (Dundee).
Scott McDonald (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Dundee. Randy Wolters replaces Roarie Deacon.
Faissal El Bakhtaoui (Dundee) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jamie Robson (Dundee United).
Attempt saved. Marcus Haber (Dundee) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Faissal El Bakhtaoui (Dundee) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lewis Toshney (Dundee United).
Substitution, Dundee United. James Keatings replaces Jordie Briels.
Attempt missed. Paul McGowan (Dundee) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by Cammy Kerr (Dundee).
Billy King (Dundee United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Paul McMullan (Dundee United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Scott Allan (Dundee).
Attempt missed. Billy King (Dundee United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Foul by Kevin Holt (Dundee).
Paul McMullan (Dundee United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! Dundee 2, Dundee United 1. Paul McGowan (Dundee) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Scott Allan.
Billy King (Dundee United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Cammy Kerr (Dundee) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Billy King (Dundee United). | Dundee got the better of city rivals Dundee United to reach the Scottish League Cup quarter-finals. | 40831200 |
Rice, 18, only made his West Ham debut as a late substitute in the Premier League against Burnley on Sunday.
In March, Rice was named the Republic's Under-17 player of the year.
Rice, who can play in defence or midfield, is the second call-up to the squad in 24 hours after Preston's Alan Browne was drafted in on Monday.
The Republic face Mexico in New Jersey on 1 June and take on Uruguay in Dublin three days later before the qualifier at home to Austria on 11 June.
Uncapped Corkman Browne previously played for the Republic's Under-21s.
The 22-year-old joins his Preston club-mates Aiden McGeady, Daryl Horgan and Andy Boyle in Martin O'Neill's squad.
Browne joined Preston from Cork City in 2014 and made 35 appearances for the Championship club this season.
The Republic are level on points with leaders Serbia after five series of games in their World Cup qualifying group.
Wales and Austria are both four points off the pace. | West Ham youngster Declan Rice has been called up by the Republic of Ireland for their upcoming friendlies and the World Cup qualifier against Austria. | 40011682 |
Ohio's Morning Journal said police received calls from residents about a child driving through town.
Staff at the restaurant thought they were the victims of a prank when the underage pair stopped at the drive-through window, the paper added.
The boy obeyed all traffic lights and laws, witnesses said.
"He didn't hit a single thing on the way there. It was unreal," police officer Jacob Koehler, from the village of East Palestine, said.
The child told police he had learned to drive by watching YouTube videos.
The boy drove 1.5 miles (2.4km), covering four intersections, railway tracks, and several turns, Mr Koehler told Cleveland news outlet Fox8.
The children's parents were asleep at home, reports said, when the siblings decided to take the vehicle keys.
The two children got cheeseburgers and chicken nuggets while they waited to be picked up by family. No charges were filed. | An eight-year old boy in Ohio safely drove his little sister to McDonald's after learning to drive from YouTube, local news report. | 39587853 |
Last month the community-led Stove Network put initial plans on show of how to "breathe new life" into the area around the town's Midsteeple.
It was designed as a response to the number of shop closures in the area in recent months.
Now the group has started on online survey to gather public opinion on the best way forward.
It hopes to find the actions which "can shape a vibrant Dumfries High Street".
Among the areas it wants to assess are measures which could encourage more people to live or work in the town centre. | A survey is seeking public input into plans to regenerate the historic centre of Dumfries. | 38344998 |
Gerrard will leave the Reds when his current deal expires next summer, despite being offered a new contract.
Carragher said the 34-year-old could have been made to feel more "wanted" or been tempted by a coaching role to go with his playing responsibilities.
Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers said he wanted Gerrard to stay and that the midfielder wanted to carry on playing.
Gerrard will now move to the United States and has been linked with a move to Major League Soccer side LA Galaxy.
He joined Liverpool aged nine and has gone on to win the Champions League, Uefa Cup, two FA Cups, three League Cups, one Community Shield and two Uefa Super Cups during his time at the club.
However, Rodgers has rested him on several occasions this season when he has started with his captain on the bench.
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"Steven is not someone who would be comfortable just sitting on the bench and, in that sense, he has made the right decision," said Carragher, writing in his column for the Daily Mail.
"Still, I cannot help feeling Liverpool's hierarchy should have done more to ensure he remained at Anfield."
The 36-year-old added: "Over the next 12 months Steven could have been given a role on the staff to combine with his playing duties.
"It would have been like work experience, with him shadowing Brendan Rodgers, looking at how the academy is run - all the different aspects of the club.
"At the end of the year, it might have been that Steven wasn't at the right level to be a coach or he could have decided that coaching wasn't for him.
"But I look at what is happening with Ryan Giggs at Manchester United now and I am dismayed that Liverpool are letting that experience leave."
Rodgers, who took over as Liverpool boss in June 2012, said Gerrard wanted to play for a couple more years.
"Naturally, at this level that was going to be tapered a little bit over the next couple of years," the Reds manager said.
"He wasn't ready to move into coaching or anything like that yet. He still sees himself very much as a player." | Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher believes his old club should have done more to keep Steven Gerrard. | 30664819 |
Michael Johnson, 50, of Tiverton, Devon knifed director Carl Watson in the chest after their cars clipped each other, Truro Crown Court was told.
The attack happened after both men pulled into a disused quarry entrance, the jury heard.
Mr Johnson, of Redvers Way, denies stabbing Mr Watson, 42, on the A30 near Launceston in Cornwall on 2 June.
Mr Watson was airlifted to hospital with a single stab injury to the chest.
A surgeon who treated him at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, said the 12cm (4.7in) deep wound came within 5mm (0.2in) of his heart.
Mr Watson was discharged from hospital the next day.
He told the court he had been returning from a business trip in north Devon when a car driven by Mr Johnson pulled out to overtake but clipped his vehicle.
He said the vehicles then pulled over and he was "calm", but as the men exchanged insurance details the attack happened.
The case continues. | A driver was stabbed within millimetres of his heart in a road rage row, a court has heard. | 30319726 |
Hundreds of women in the German city were subjected to sexual assaults on New Year's Eve, 2015.
Jess Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, said it was akin to "heckling" on Birmingham's Broad Street.
Mrs Phillips made her comments on Thursday's BBC Question Time.
She was speaking during a debate about how many refugees should be allowed into Britain, in which an audience member suggested events in Cologne - said to have been carried out by migrants - proved mass immigration did not work.
She told the audience: "A very similar situation to what happened in Cologne could be describing Broad Street in Birmingham every week, where women are baited and heckled."
But viewers took to social media to reject the comparison.
Chris Humphreys tweeted: "Did Jess Phillips just compare the apparent mass sexual assault in Cologne with Birmingham city centre? Oh dear oh dear."
James Wilby said of the comments: "They are quite insane. And an example of a feminist hiding from reality."
Harry Yorke said the comparison of the Cologne attacks to Broad Streets was "utter tripe and disingenuous".
The comments also angered Mike Olley, who looks after Broad Street in his role as manager of the Westside Business Improvement District.
He said: "It's preposterous, ill-informed nonsense actually. It's a throwaway line from someone who hasn't got as much of a grasp as people - particularly myself - who work in the area."
Mrs Phillips finished her statement on the programme by saying: "We have to attack what we perceive as being patriarchal culture coming into any culture that isn't patriarchal and making sure we tell people not to be like that.
"But we should be careful in this country before we rest on our laurels when two women are murdered every week in this country." | An MP has been criticised for downplaying the Cologne sex attacks by comparing them to harassment of women during a typical night out in Birmingham. | 35440954 |
An agreement has been made to include them and Afghanistan in future plans.
At the meeting, the ICC also agreed the principle of a nine-team Test league, to be run over a two-year cycle, probably starting after the 2019 World Cup.
Decisions will be made at the next ICC board meeting in April.
In addition, after the controversy of the recent India-England series, the ICC has agreed in principle to use the decision review system in televised World Twenty20 matches from October.
The ICC has been discussing ways to revamp the Test structure for some time.
It is unclear if Ireland and Afghanistan would be able to play Tests straight away or would have to wait for the new structure of Test cricket to begin.
Ireland made their one-day international debut in June 2006 when they played England, while Afghanistan's maiden ODI was three years later.
Afghanistan's domestic four-day and Twenty20 competitions have now been granted first-class and List A status respectively, four months after Ireland's Inter-Provincial Championship became the first domestic event outside a Test-playing country to earn first-class status. | Ireland could be granted Test cricket status in April after a meeting of the International Cricket Council board in Dubai. | 38869091 |
Zulfiya Chinshanlo, Maiya Maneza and Svetlana Podobedova were all caught when samples from 2012 and the 2008 Games in Beijing were retested.
Chinshanlo won at -53kg, Maneza at -63kg and Podobedova at -75kg and all tested positive for steroid stanozolol.
It has not been confirmed if their golds will now be re-assigned.
Eight athletes were sanctioned on Thursday, with Marina Shkermankova of Belarus losing her London 2012 bronze medal in the -69kg class.
All Kazakh and Belarusian weightlifters could now be banned for a year from all international weightlifting competitions.
Under International Weightlifting Federation rules, automatic bans come into effect if at least three of a country's athletes fail Olympic retests.
The International Olympic Committee has reported a total of 98 positive cases from recent retests of samples from the Beijing and London Games.
At least six of those cases came in one weightlifting event, the men's -94kg category in 2012. | Three weightlifters from Kazakhstan have been stripped of Olympic gold medals won at London 2012 after new tests found them guilty of doping. | 37788446 |
Jet2 said Joshua Strickland's "absolutely unacceptable" behaviour led the flight to Larnaca in Cyprus to be diverted to Manchester Airport.
Phil Ward, from Jet2, said it caused "distress plus significant delays".
The 21-year-old has also been given a life ban by the company.
Mr Strickland, from Tadcaster, was also arrested by police over the incident when the plane landed in Manchester and a separate criminal investigation is under way.
At Manchester Magistrates' Court, Mr Strickland denied a charge of acting in a manner likely to endanger an aircraft or a person on board.
He was released on bail and is due back in court on 28 July. | A passenger on board a flight from Leeds Bradford Airport has been billed £12,000 by an airline after an "outburst" led to a flight being diverted. | 36798221 |
He was speaking as the capital marked the first anniversary of the clashes between protesters and police which toppled ex-President Viktor Yanukovych.
A top Kremlin aide, Vladislav Surkov, had organised snipers, he alleged.
The Russian government hit back at the claim, calling it "nonsense".
More than 100 people died in the violence on Kiev's central Independence Square, known as the Maidan, a year ago.
The anti-Yanukovych revolt was called the "EuroMaidan revolution", as huge crowds demanded a pact with the EU.
In a speech at the Maidan on Friday, President Poroshenko condemned the insurgency by pro-Russian rebels in the east.
Earlier, he told Maidan victims' relatives that, according to Ukrainian state security, "the Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov led the organisation of groups of foreign snipers on the Maidan".
The claim was first made by the head of Ukraine's security services on Thursday.
Mr Poroshenko was speaking just two days after his army retreated from the key town of Debaltseve, now in rebel hands.
Ukraine, Western leaders and Nato say there is clear evidence Russia is helping the rebels with heavy weapons and soldiers. Moscow denies this, insisting that any Russians serving with the rebels are "volunteers".
Ukrainian military spokesman, Andriy Lysenko, said more than 20 Russian tanks, 10 missile systems and busloads of troops had entered Ukraine in the past 24 hours, heading for Novoazovsk, a rebel-held town on the coast. The report has not been confirmed.
The Maidan ceremony included poetry, a choir singing the national anthem, and a performance of Mozart's Requiem by the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine.
Mr Yanukovych - a political ally of Moscow - fled into exile in late February 2014, but soon resurfaced in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.
He said he had been ousted in an "illegal coup" and lambasted the "fascists" who had taken power in Kiev.
For weeks in the winter of 2013-2014 the Maidan was a vast campsite populated by EuroMaidan protesters, who kept police at bay with barricades and burning tyres.
Most of those killed in the clashes were shot by snipers, and some uniformed police were filmed firing at protesters.
At the scene: Anastasiya Gribanova, BBC News, Kiev
Maidan was a breathtaking scene on Friday night - lit by thousands of candles and covered flowers to honour those who died here last winter.
The crowd chanted "Glory to Ukraine!" and "Glory to heroes!" before falling silent as the orchestra played Mozart's Requiem and projectors rose into the sky from the spots where each protester was killed.
Emotions were high. Many people we talked to couldn't contain their tears as they laid carnations and tulips on makeshift shrines.
"We will never forget these people," said Olena from Kiev. "We will come here every year."
"This is not a celebration. This is a day to remember," said Igor, who was wounded at Maidan last year.
The untold story of the Maidan massacre
Mr Poroshenko said on Friday that phone records obtained by Ukrainian state security showed a direct Russian state role in the shootings. Those records, he said, revealed "conversations between Yanukovych and Russian state security officials.
"They prepared for the shooting together, in advance."
Russia's foreign ministry spokesman, Alexander Lukashevich, said Mr Poroshenko had been duped by his security aides.
"Ukraine's investigative and security services have things to be getting on with. But at the moment, instead of carrying out investigations, they're exploiting people's deaths and putting out nonsense worthy only of a mental hospital," he said.
Shelling continues to mar a ceasefire for eastern Ukraine signed in Minsk on 12 February.
An intense rebel bombardment forced some 2,500 government troops to retreat from Debaltseve on Wednesday, and dozens of others surrendered.
The village of Chernukhino, near Debaltseve, is now in rebel hands too, according to the Kiev-appointed governor of Luhansk region, Gennadiy Moskal.
US Vice President Joe Biden condemned the rebel offensive on Debaltseve in a phone call with Mr Poroshenko on Friday.
The White House said he also discussed options for "effective monitoring" of the ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy weapons.
On Wednesday, President Poroshenko called for UN peacekeepers to be deployed to eastern Ukraine to enforce the ceasefire.
At the scene: Paul Adams, BBC News, Debaltseve
The streets of Debaltseve were mostly quiet and mostly deserted as we entered the city for the first time since intense fighting ended.
Those civilians still holed up in the city, who have been without water, gas and electricity since early January, were slowly emerging from shelters to see what was left of their homes.
But there were more rebels than civilians, with convoys of victorious separatists returning from the recent clashes.
Evidence of the fighting was littered across the roads and we spotted the bodies of two Ukrainian solders that had been lying in the cold for three days.
Poroshenko bruised by army retreat | Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has accused Russia of direct involvement in the sniper fire which killed dozens of protesters in central Kiev a year ago. | 31548896 |
As a player, Maldini won four Serie A titles with Milan, as well as their first European Cup in 1963. He then managed the club between 1972-1974.
In 1996, he became the coach of Italy - with son Paolo captaining the team - before going on to lead Paraguay in the 2002 World Cup.
AC Milan tweeted: "Goodbye dear Cesare. Today the world loses a great man and we lose a page of our history." | Former AC Milan defender and Italy coach Cesare Maldini has died, aged 84. | 35953421 |
The victims are said to be from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family who were walking to the Western Wall.
The attacker is said to have stolen a gun from one of the victims and fired a number of shots before being shot dead by Israeli police.
The two injured victims, a woman and a young child, are in hospital.
It comes two days after an Israeli couple, who were in a car with their four children, were shot dead in the West Bank.
The latest attack took place just after the end of the Jewish Sabbath close to Lion's Gate in the Old City. The victims are said to have been passing near the entrance of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, en-route to the Western Wall.
Jerusalem police chief Moshe Edri said the Palestinian man had "stabbed an Israeli man, his wife and the toddler" several times in an alleyway before stabbing another man.
Both Israeli men had died of their wounds, he said, adding that the mother and the toddler were in a serious condition.
Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the Palestinian attacker had taken a gun from one of the wounded men and opened fire at police and tourists. He was then shot and killed by an Israeli police officer who had rushed to the scene.
Police later identified the attacker as a 19-year-old from al-Bireh, near Ramallah in the West Bank.
Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad has issued a statement claiming him as one of its members.
There has been a recent flare-up in tensions between Israel and Palestinians, with violent confrontations between security forces and Palestinian youths in a compound holy to both Jews and Muslims in East Jerusalem.
Earlier this week, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas told the United Nations General Assembly that Israel risked creating "an explosive situation" in Jerusalem and the West Bank with its use of "brutal force".
In his address to the UN chamber on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu called on Mr Abbas to "stop spreading lies" about Israel and return to peace talks. | Two Israelis have been killed and another two injured in a knife attack by a Palestinian man in the Old City of Jerusalem, police say. | 34435197 |
Mr Trump has claimed variously:
In other countries, including many European ones where the experience of fascism is still deeply etched, some of these claims might well have fallen foul of hate-speech laws.
In the UK, for example, the Public Order Act 1986 says:
"A person who uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or displays any written material which is threatening, abusive or insulting, is guilty of an offence if -
(a) he intends thereby to stir up racial hatred, or
(b) having regard to all the circumstances racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby."
"Racial hatred" is hatred against a group of persons "defined by reference to colour, race, nationality (including citizenship) or ethnic or national origins".
Additional acts outlaw hatred incited on grounds of religion or sexual orientation.
One UK citizen has even launched a petition - currently being considered by the parliament petitions service - seeking to ban Mr Trump from the UK for allegedly violating hate-speech laws.
Only two weeks ago the controversial French comedian Dieudonne M'bala M'bala received his latest conviction for incitement to hatred, hate speech and Holocaust denial.
A Belgian court sentenced him to two months in jail in his latest conviction which has earned him fines and jail time in France and Belgium.
The former leader of the far-right National Front in France, Jean-Marie Le Pen, has been convicted of hate speech and anti-Semitism, including Holocaust denial, by both French and German courts.
Some US commentators say there is a "hate speech exception" to the First Amendment, but legal professor Eugene Volokh has argued that in fact such exceptions cover only narrow cases of, for instance, using face-to-face "fighting words" likely to start an immediate physical confrontation or inciting imminent illegal conduct.
Hate speech, he says, is not even defined in US law.
Another commentator, Sheldon Nahmod, allows that words "can in fact hurt and lead to terrible acts" - but suggests that the US approach seeks not to regulate ideas but to promote a "free market" of ideas - where "citizens are sellers and buyers" and where better ideas eventually win out.
The American Bar points out that one way of dealing with hate speech within the US legal framework is to "create laws and policies that discourage bad behaviour but do not punish bad beliefs" - for instance, by prosecuting the physical intimidation or assault, rather than the view that motivated such an action - and increasing the penalty where the victim has been selected due to their race, religion, sexual orientation and so on.
The contrast between the different legal approaches highlights the difficulty of trying to balance the individual's right to voicing their own opinion with protecting community interests and deterring hate crimes. | The First Amendment right to freedom of speech under the US constitution permits Donald Trump to make claims and proposals that others might deem unacceptable incitement. | 35041402 |
Wales' Jones won four bouts in Hamburg to reach the final only for Canadian opponent Ivett Gonda to withdraw.
The London 2012 gold medalist missed March's Dutch Open and April's Presidents Cup with her injury.
The 22-year-old used the German event to improve her fitness ahead of the European Taekwondo Championships in Switzerland later this month.
Jones beat Jennifer Richter of Germany 21-3 in her first match of the day, and Genesis Anduja of the Dominican Republic 14-2 in the second round.
The European Games champion progressed with a 14-2 quarter-final victory over Germany's Rhonda Nat, then beat Belgian's Raheleh Asemani by the same score.
Britain's Feyi Pearce, 19, won a bronze medal in the -58kg category, losing 8-7 to Germany's Amir Mohammad Hosseini in the semi-finals.
Josh Calland, 17, beat fellow Briton Archie Waldock on the way to the quarter-finals of the -58kg division, before losing to South Korea's Kim Tae-Hun. | Olympic taekwondo champion Jade Jones began her comeback from a knee injury with -57kg gold in the German Open. | 36124672 |
The Renegades had posted 222-4 in Australia's Twenty20 competition but their rivals chased it down with 223-8.
Ben McDermott, 22, set up the victory with 114 from 52 balls for Hobart.
Needing 16 off the last over to win, Broad hit 11 from four balls - including two fours before a single off the last ball in a dramatic finish.
Victory boosts the Hurricanes' chances of reaching the semi-finals. They move up to fifth in the standings, with the top four progressing. | England's Stuart Broad hit the winning runs for Hobart Hurricanes as they beat Melbourne Renegades with the highest score in Big Bash history. | 38597618 |
Bishops within the Church tabled a bill calling for the change and it was finally accepted by its governing body after a previous vote in 2008 narrowly failed.
There were huge cheers in the hall as the result was announced.
In England, the issue is due to be discussed again in November. Ireland and Scotland both allow female bishops.
Despite female bishops being allowed in Northern Ireland and Scotland, none has been elected yet.
The Church in Wales' bishops wanted a second bill to allow the Church's constitution to be rewritten for traditionalist priests who do not want to be led by a woman.
By Robert PigottReligious affairs correspondent
The decision means that the Church in Wales could elect its first woman bishop in the next few months, although in practice vacancies among its seven bishops are relatively rare.
Traditionalists will have to rely on a code of practice drawn up by bishops for any exemptions from the oversight of women bishops.
Some traditionalists have warned that they might leave the Church in Wales.
The decision leaves the Church of England as the only Anglican Church in the UK not yet having legislated to accept women bishops.
The Episcopal Church of Scotland and the Church of Ireland have cleared the way for women bishops but not yet appointed one.
But reformers successfully put forward an amendment earlier in the day to avoid delays in adopting the change during a meeting at Lampeter, Ceredigion.
Their amendment led to the straight yes-no vote
The governing body comprises more than 140 members and is made up of three separate divisions, with the six bishops, clerical representatives and non-clerical representatives.
The groups voted separately with a majority two-thirds vote required before the amended bill could be accepted.
Back in 2008, the move was defeated by just three votes but this time the vote was strongly in favour.
In the breakdown, the laity voted 57 for, 14 against, with two abstentions; the clergy section saw 37 voting for and 10 against, while the bishops voted unanimously in favour.
The Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, called it "an historic day for the Church in Wales."
He told BBC Wales he hoped it would be possible that no-one would be lost to the Church and said bishops would now be drawing up a code of practice.
"There are two things we've done today - firstly we've said it's possible for women to be ordained to the episcopate; that's a very important principle for the mission of the Church," said Dr Morgan.
"Secondly, we want to take care of those who find that decision difficult."
Dr Morgan praised the way in which the debate had been conducted and, addressing members, added: "I hope you will trust us as bishops to prepare a code of practice."
The bill was proposed by the Bishop of St Asaph, the Right Reverend Gregory Cameron, and seconded by the Bishop of Bangor, the Right Reverend Andy John.
And Bishop John said: "We can by God's grace ordain women to the episcopate. Thank you, governing body."
Bishop Cameron said the change would come into effect in a year, to allow time for pastoral care to be drawn up for those still opposed to women bishops.
"For too many years, sadly, the Church has been lagging behind," he said, admitting his surprise at the strength of mood within the governing body.
"I'm very glad we got the result we have today.
"The journey has been going in that direction for a little while," he told BBC Radio Wales
"The Church changes very slowly and you have to learn to live with that."
But one of those who spoke against, Dr Elliott King, said: "Personally I'm disappointed that the bill has passed but we have a great opportunity now over the next 12 months to work together to find a way forward for us all to stay within the Church."
Mary Stallard, co-director of St Giles' Centre for Religious Education and Faith Development in Wrexham, said she expected the move to "open things up in all sorts of ways".
She told BBC Radio Wales: "One of my daughters, who's 16, said spontaneously, 'this opens up a possibility for me, it makes me think that going into the Church might be something I would consider'.
"And I think all sorts of people will see this as an opening, something that makes the Church a little bit more hospitable. Anglicans never want to exclude anybody." | Women bishops will be allowed in the Church in Wales following a landmark yes vote. | 24064398 |
He says his manifesto has something for everyone - even Conservative and UKIP supporters - and says his mission is to "turn the light of hope back on". So what is he promising to do?
Economy
Mr Burnham rejects George Osborne's "punishing austerity" and criticises the Government for focusing almost exclusively on spending cuts to reduce the deficit. He promises a "balanced Labour plan" for a sustainable economy and tantalisingly, he proposes a "re-balanced tax system".
The tricky job of examining how to pay for some of Mr Burnham's policies will be given to a special commission. He calls it a Beveridge-style commission, harking back to the creation of the NHS in 1945. His commission would examine the pros and cons of a social care tax, a graduate tax and a land value tax to replace business rates.
Welfare
Mr Burnham says that if he was Labour leader the party would strongly oppose the Welfare Bill, which includes plans to limit child tax credit to two children. The issue has divided Labour with the acting leader Harriet Harman urging MPs not to vote against it.
Railways
One of the more eye-catching proposals is the "line by line re-nationalisation" of the railways. There would be a new National Rail governing body and public operators would be allowed to compete with private firms to run services. Mr Burnham denies the policy is a "lurch to the left" - prompted by Jeremy Corbyn's apparent success. He says the idea has very broad appeal and thinks most Conservative and UKIP voters want to see the railways back under public control. As for funding the proposal, he believes the scheme would "finance itself".
Higher education
Mr Burnham is promising to end the system of students paying for their university courses through fees. He's proposing a graduate tax instead - to be considered in detail by his commission. It's another of the policies he thinks will have wide appeal, saying: "Nobody can agree with young people being weighted down with this millstone of debt as they start off on their adults lives. It's just not right, is it?"
Schools
Mr Burnham declares that he believes in comprehensive education and promises to "reinvigorate" it. He rejects what he calls the "growing market of free schools and academies" - schools that are not under local authority control but overseen by central government. Mr Burnham would like to see "robust local oversight" of all schools.
National Health and Care Service in England
Since seeing his grandmother go on a "depressing journey" through the care system, Mr Burnham says he's been on a mission to reform social care. He says Labour created the NHS in 1945 to free people from the fear of medical fees and it's time to do the same for care charges - which Mr Burnham calls a "dementia tax". He says it's a policy that will appeal to everyone, including those living in affluent parts of England "who don't want to lose everything they have worked for because they're unlucky enough to have Alzheimer's or dementia".
Employment
Mr Burnham would abolish the youth rate of the National Minimum Wage, currently £5.13 per hour. He would establish what he calls a "true living wage" and he would ban forced zero-hours contracts and unpaid internships. Employees would be able to request flexible working from day one and there would be season tickets on the railways tailored to part-time workers.
He would call for reforms to tackle immigration from within the European Union, including time restrictions on access to benefits or social housing, action to prevent wages being undercut and EU funding for public services in areas affected. Wants a Labour campaign to stay in the EU.
Councils would be allowed to borrow money to build new social homes and they would be given power to introduce rent controls in their areas. He propose developing the idea of "rent to own" - mortgages that don't require a deposit.
Political reform
Mr Burnham would look at introducing a system of indirect election to the House of Lords, based on Billy Bragg's "Secondary Mandate" proposals. He would also lower the voting age to 16. He promises that his Shadow Cabinet in Parliament would be drawn from diverse backgrounds and there would be equal numbers of men and women in the senior jobs. | Andy Burnham says the Labour Party is crying out for a big vision, and has promised the most far-reaching reforms since the 1945 government. | 33802493 |
Claudia Huber and her husband Matthias Liniger were attacked at their home in Johnson's Crossing.
Mr Liniger fired several rounds at the bear as it was mauling Ms Huber.
The bear was shot and died, but one bullet ricocheted off a tree and killed Ms Huber, according to Kirsten Macdonald, Yukon's chief coroner.
"What transpired at that property on that day was an absolute, catastrophic collision of events," Ms Macdonald said, according to CBC.
Mr Liniger said: "It was almost already too much what happened there, what I saw, what I heard."
"And now I have to somehow get over that fact, too, that a bullet killed her," he went on.
The coroner's report noted that Ms Huber tried to play dead during the attack, which is not the recommended course of action in this situation.
Ms Macdonald said the best response during a predatory bear attack is to fight back.
The report called for better public education on what to do in different kinds of bear attacks. | A woman mauled by a bear at her home in Canada's Yukon Territory was killed by a bullet fired by her husband while trying to rescue her, a coroner says. | 35177762 |
The child was taken under safeguarding measures from the address in Station Street West, Foleshill.
A 29-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of wilful neglect of a person under 16.
Both were bailed after the incident, which happened at about 21:00 GMT on Friday. | A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of child neglect after a disturbance at a house in Coventry, police have said. | 35906890 |
Sir Tony Cunningham, who was knighted two years ago, has represented the constituency since 2001.
The 61-year-old said he felt it was the right time to go and he planned to spent more time with his family.
Labour held the seat with a 4,575 majority in the last election and it will now begin a selection process for a candidate to defend it in May 2015.
Locally-born Sir Tony was a teacher, local councillor, then mayor of Workington and became an MEP in 1994.
Fellow Cumbrian MP Tim Farron, who holds the Westmorland and Lonsdale seat for the Liberal Democrats, tweeted: "Sorry to hear that Tony Cunningham has decided to stand down at the next election.
"He was a great MP & a kind, thoughtful and decent man." | The Labour MP for Workington has announced he will stand down at the next general election. | 28062556 |
Rachel Slater, 24, and Tim Newton, 27, from Bradford, have not been seen since setting out to climb Ben Nevis.
The couple were reported missing on Monday 15 February when they failed to return.
The search operation has been hampered by poor weather, however, Police Scotland said the current search was expected to last all day due to "very favourable conditions".
A total of 37 people are involved in the latest search which involves rescue teams from Lochaber, Oban, Dundonnel, Cairngorm and Skye as well as three search and rescue dogs with their handlers.
Climbers and walkers in the area have been asked to report any information to police. | The search for a missing couple on Britain's highest mountain has resumed. | 35678019 |
Four wins, four bonus points, a bucket of tries. Top spot in the Pro12. Easy.
Saturday at the Sportsground in Galway was like entering a different dimension. This was rugby, but not as Glasgow have known it against their most recent, and most compliant, opposition. What they ran into in the west of Ireland was a lot of rain and whole pile of belligerence.
Glasgow scored seven points - their lowest total in a Pro12 game since October 2013. They lost for the first time in 10 games.
Their discipline went at critical times and it hurt them almost as much as those howitzer hits that kept coming at them from a Connacht side that had a voracious appetite for work and a thunderous quality in the collisions.
"All the big games we've won have come down to physicality," said Connacht coach Pat Lam in the aftermath of victory. "It's about the way we impose ourselves."
"That came through in bucketloads against Glasgow. There's a blank canvas now, though. The weather conditions might be different the next day. The game could be a total contrast. Glasgow are a phenomenal team."
To explain the Cinderella story that is this Connacht side you have to look at the record books going back a dozen years. They were even lucky to be alive back then given that the IRFU wanted to kill them off.
From 2004 to 2015 Connacht never finished above seventh in the table. Now they're taking down the champions in front of a packed, and tumultuous crowd, including the president of the country, Michael D Higgins, and the newly elected Taoiseach, Enda Kenny. Both are Connacht men. Both were waving the flag as Glasgow fell on Saturday.
This was brutal rugby. Both sides wanted to play but the rain made it impossible.
How much of a gauge it will be for the semi-final depends, in part, on what kind of day it is. If it's dry and the ground is hard then the game will be completely different. Both these teams want to take risks and make things happen. Saturday's grunt-fest in the wet didn't suit either of them.
What was compelling about it, though, was that Glasgow met a version of themselves in Galway. For some of them, it must have been like looking in a mirror.
The Sportsground had a similar edge to it as Scotstoun, the same kind of numbers, the same kind of intimacy, the same kind of railing against decisions that went against their team, the same kind of joy at victory.
The team inspired the supporters and the supporters inspired the team. The bond between them reminded you of what it's like in Glasgow these days. It was powerful.
Connacht dug deep, hit hard and won out. We've seen this kind of thing so often in Glasgow's own place - a team being lifted by the noise of their home crowd and dragging themselves across the winning line.
Connacht's reward is a rematch with Glasgow in the semi-final in a fortnight. Back to the dog track we go in the knowledge that an away team has never won a Pro12 semi-final. Twelve attempts and twelve losses. That's the kind of history that Glasgow are trying to break now.
That curious run of failure for the away semi-finalists will be part of the narrative ahead of the knockout tie, though Gregor Townsend was of a mind to play it down a tad.
"Last year, we played Ulster at Scotstoun in the final game of the league proper and we beat them convincingly," he said. "A week later, we played them at Scotstoun in the semi-final and they were all over us for 50 minutes.
"If all these home wins in all these semi-finals were by 20 points then I'd say that home advantage was a massive factor, but last year we only won our home semi by two points and Munster only won theirs by three. The year before that we had Munster in a home semi and beat them by a point. Leinster won their home semi by four points."
It's true that a lot of these games have been settled by a single score. Five of the last six Pro 12 semi-finals - and seven of the 12 - have been won by four points or less.
Why does the home team keep on winning tight matches? Townsend accepts that the crowd can make the difference.
"We had a lot of support in Galway but when they have 7,000 people then that's an advantage. We didn't cope as well as we should have. We learned a lot about ourselves.
"We have to be more disciplined and more accurate. Connacht are really well-coached, they show innovation, they've got character and they defend well. We've just got to be better."
Townsend said that the big thing that his team took away from the west of Ireland was a sense of "determined disappointment."
Saturday would have hurt them physically and mentally, but it wasn't a knockout blow. We get to see the heavyweights collide again in a fortnight. | Glasgow have spent recent weeks engaging in rugby's equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel; a 70-point annihilation of Zebre, a 45-point deconstruction of the Scarlets, 43 more points put on Zebre the week before, 38 put on Treviso before that. | 36241346 |
Gillian Sawyer owed £2,735 for various periods up to 2010 and had failed to adhere to seven court orders for payment, South East Northumberland Magistrates' Court heard.
Sawyer, 48, of Plessey Road in Blyth, was previously given a suspended sentence for failing to pay and was jailed for 12 days.
Northumberland County Council said prosecution was the only option.
Colin Logan, head of financial and customer services, said: "The council has a duty to its paying residents to take action against those who will not pay.
"The council has no alternative but to continue to bring council tax defaulters to court in order to ensure payment is received for essential local services.
"Whilst sending someone to prison is a rare occurrence and will usually only happen in the worst cases, it can and will happen."
He urged anyone with payment difficulty to contact the council. | A woman has been jailed for failing to pay her council tax. | 32240504 |
18 April 2016 Last updated at 19:57 BST
This constituency also had the closest contest in the last Assembly Election. Just 62 votes decided the final seat.
On the countdown to May's ballot, BBC NI South West reporter Julian Fowler has been on the election trail. | Fermanagh and South Tyrone provided one of the most dramatic results in last year's Westminster election, with Tom Elliott's surprise victory over Michelle Gildernew. | 36077594 |
Here an Afghan woman breastfeeds her baby at the Greek port of Piraeus, in Athens.
On the Greek island of Lesbos, a man collapsed as he waited to be registered by police outside a new registration centre.
Some eventually made it onto ships chartered to ferry people to the Greek mainland.
After arriving in Piraeus, families were bussed to a local metro station.
From Greece, many make their way north through the Balkans, before reaching Hungary, where Budapest's Keleti station has seen thousands of migrants passing through. Here, a young girl plays among donated shoes.
In the Hungarian village of Roszke, tensions ran high on Monday as a group of some 1,500 people waited for hours at a migrant collection point near the Serbian border to be picked up to be taken to a registration camp.
On Tuesday there were more scuffles as migrants tried to break free from police lines and were restrained.
Later, however, several hundred managed to leave the collection point and make their way along railway tracks towards the town of Szeged, accompanied by police officers.
For many, the goal is to reach Germany, which has said it can cope with large numbers of arrivals but also called for other EU states to play their part. | As the refugee crisis continues to unfold around Europe, thousands of migrants are making their way across the continent. | 34189116 |
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said there would be a Brexit "aftershock" and that the UK's exit from the EU would be "the firing gun on a decade of disruption".
It identified wide-ranging factors that would "reshape how we live and work".
The government has promised to "forge a new role" for the UK in the world.
In its report, the IPPR, a centre-left think tank, said Brexit would be one of the major "disruptive forces" in the years ahead, saying the vote had delivered a "profound shock" to the UK's political and economic order which was likely to set the country on a path of permanently lower growth and living standards.
It also anticipated a "demographic tipping point" with a population boom and the number of people aged 65 and over predicted to rise by a third by the end of the next decade.
The report said this would impose new strains on the state with the funding gap for adult social care expected to hit £13bn by 2030-31.
This would lead to an increase in the UK's deficit - the gap between income and spending - it said.
The IPPR also said two-thirds of current jobs - 15 million - were at risk from "exponential" improvements in new technologies such as artificial intelligence systems.
"Politics, economics and power structures will be profoundly disrupted, and with it social relations," it said.
The report said while this would not end "work as we know it", it would make jobs less secure and more freelance.
Politicians would have to shape who benefits from the changes and who loses out, it said.
The report also predicted a transformation in how energy is produced and consumed by 2030, which would be driven by climate change, as well as a "changing economic world order", with power to "accelerate eastward".
"Brexit is the firing gun on a decade of disruption," the report said.
"Even as what we do and how we work changes, the UK is likely to remain trapped in a low growth, low interest rate decade driven by demographic shifts, productivity trends, weak investment, weak labour power, high levels of debt, and the headwinds of a slowing global economy.
"Without reform, our political and social system will struggle to build a more democratic, healthy society in the decades ahead, even as Brexit accelerates us towards a radically different institutional landscape."
Labour and the Liberal Democrats both saw the report as an indictment of what they called the government's "hard Brexit strategy", which is taken to mean forfeiting single market access in order to gain control over immigration.
But the government reiterated its commitment to making a success of Brexit and saying the UK was forecast to be the fastest-growing major advanced economy.
"While there may be challenges ahead, we approach them from a position of strength," a spokesman added. | Life in the UK will undergo "radical" change in the 2020s due to Brexit, population changes and jobs being taken by robots, a think tank has predicted. | 38459135 |
His political secretary Katy Clark - a former MP - pulled out of the contest for Leigh, the seat Andy Burnham is vacating, at the eleventh hour.
A local councillor close to Mr Burnham, Jo Platt, received the nomination.
Sam Tarry - a key figure in Mr Corbyn's second leadership campaign - was also passed over for Hull West and Hessle, vacated by Alan Johnson.
Mr Corbyn's former speechwriter David Prescott - the son of Lord Prescott - was also not selected for the seat.
The chairman of the local Labour party in Leigh, Wigan council leader Lord Smith, had threatened to relinquish his post in protest if Ms Clark had been "parachuted" in to the constituency.
These nominations could have significance beyond the next election.
If Jeremy Corbyn were to decide to stand down before 2022, a left wing successor would need 15% of MPs and MEPs to get on the ballot to replace him.
At the moment, someone with similar politics to Mr Corbyn would struggle to get that backing.
But with 13 Labour MPs retiring so far, had Mr Corbyn got his allies into most of those seats, the balance could have been tipped more in favour of his wing of the party.
Seven members of Labour's governing National Executive Committee, rather than local constituency parties, have been carrying out the selections in what are mostly regarded as "safe" seats since Wednesday.
Those with links either to the Unite or GMB unions make up the majority.
Usually, three of the seven have been involved in each selection and it had been assumed a deal would have been struck to get some of the party leader's picks in place.
But independently minded, left-wing NEC member Ann Black was also involved in the process and is unlikely to have been open to union or leadership pressure.
Those closer to the party's deputy leader Tom Watson seem to have fared better than prominent leadership supporters - for example, union activist Steph Peacock was chosen in Barnsley to replace leadership critic Michael Dugher.
He has tweeted his approval at the choice.
Ellie Reeves - sister of MP Rachel - saw off left-wing Momentum activists to be selected for the London seat of Lewisham West and Penge.
That's not to say there aren't Jeremy Corbyn supporters amongst the new crop though.
Laura Pidcock, in North West Durham, is seen as firmly on the left, for example.
But as one Labour insider put it: "These are not leadership place men and women.
"For all the talk of stitch-ups, in most seats the panel has chosen the best-placed candidate to win.
"Yes, many have strong trade union links, but many are also councillors and local campaigners."
And in many cases, women have been replacing men who have been standing down.
I understand one of the questions candidates were asked was about what they had done for local people in the area they hoped to represent, and this may have counted against those competing from outside.
One so-called "safe" seat remains to be settled.
Steve Rotheram - an MP close to Mr Corbyn - was expected to stand down in Liverpool Walton, as he has been selected as the Labour candidate for the new post of metro Mayor on Merseyside.
The seat is being eyed up by Dan Carden, who is close to Unite general secretary Len McCluskey.
But Mr Rotheram is said to be reluctant to go unless a local candidate - very possibly the current Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson - is given the nod, and the impasse hasn't been broken.
So, if there is to be a left wing successor to Mr Corbyn, perhaps the best opportunity will come not as a result of new left MPs being returned to Parliament, but at this year's party conference.
It will debate whether there should be a change to the leadership rules to make it easier for those close to the current leader to get on the ballot.
It would be surprising - whatever the outcome of the election - for Mr Corbyn to stand down before that issue is resolved.
The website will list all parliamentary candidates when nominations close | Two of Jeremy Corbyn's key allies have not been selected for parliamentary seats under a fast-track process. | 39747199 |
Durham Police said six American bulldogs, which were being walked in the Belmont area of the city, fought with a Staffordshire bull terrier before attacking a man and two women.
A 48-year-old man, understood by the BBC to be dog breeder Stephen Potts, is being questioned by the force.
Mr Potts was attacked near his home in High Pittington last month.
Police said officers were called earlier to Coniston Close.
A spokeswoman said the dogs were being walked by a man and a woman.
The woman suffered bites to her hand and a 63-year-old man who was walking the Staffordshire bull terrier was taken to hospital with serious head and calf injuries.
A woman walking nearby was also attacked by one of the dogs and is being treated for injuries to her leg, police said.
Neighbourhood chief inspector for Durham Andy Huddleston told BBC Tees that 14 dogs had been seized, including a number which were taken from Mr Potts' home. | A man who had his arm amputated after being mauled by his own dogs has been arrested over a series of dog attacks. | 29709389 |
The Welsh Language Commissioner Meri Huws said she had seen a "significant increase" in complaints about the services offered to Welsh speakers at banks over the past weeks and months.
She said she would use a statutory review to try to find out how improve the experiences of Welsh customers.
She is inviting members of the public to give her feedback.
"As part of the review I will also gather evidence from the banks and experts in the banking sector," the commissioner added. | Welsh language services offered by banks in Wales are to be reviewed by a watchdog | 30578598 |
The bank blamed the negative effect of $2.4bn in fines and settlements and UK customer redress for the sharp fall.
The results follow allegations, which emerged earlier this month, that HSBC had helped people evade UK tax using hidden HSBC accounts in Geneva.
HSBC chief executive Stuart Gulliver saw his overall pay for the year fall to £7.6m from £8.03m in 2013.
The lower total reflects a smaller bonus of £3.4m for the year, compared to £5.5m in 2013. Mr Gulliver said the lower bonus reflected "failures" linked to foreign exchange manipulation.
Chairman Douglas Flint's total pay increased to £2.5m from £2.4m for the year, but he did not receive a bonus.
Pressed after the results on whether he should have received a bonus, Mr Gulliver said his bonuses were subject to 100% clawback by the bank for seven years, enabling the bank to demand repayment "if anything turns up later that happened on my watch".
Mr Gulliver was also asked about the bank's policy on placing advertising in newspapers.
It follows an allegation made by the former chief political commentator at the Daily Telegraph who said that the newspaper avoided writing negative stories about HSBC, so as not to lose its advertising.
Mr Gulliver confirmed that HSBC does withdraw advertising from companies that publish negative editorial content.
But he said it was not an effort to influence newspapers' editorial decisions.
Mr Gulliver said: "We advertise in order to sell more banking products. We don't put adverts alongside hostile editorial coverage because we won't get any value for spending that advertising dollar."
And Mr Gulliver went on to describe the move as "just common sense" for HSBC's marketing team.
"There's nothing sinister to it at all. Genuinely, there is nothing beyond a commercial decision as to where we put our advertising."
HSBC's shares fell more than 5%, hitting their lowest level for two-and-a-half years, after it reported its fall in profit, which was larger than analysts had expected.
The drop in profitability was driven by $2.4bn in fines and customer compensation costs, largely connected to fines in connection with traders' attempted manipulation of foreign exchange rates and compensation for the mis-selling of payment protection insurance.
The bank has been streamlining its business in an attempt to boost earnings, and Mr Gulliver said it had now closed or sold 77 businesses and lost 50,000 jobs since he took the helm in 2011.
"For all the recent media furore around potential conduct issues, it is the 'underlying' performance which, we believe, should be the greatest cause of investor concern," said Investec analyst Ian Gordon.
In all the coverage of HSBC's Swiss private banking arm and Stuart Gulliver's banking arrangements (channelled through Switzerland and Panama), it is easy to miss the fact that HSBC has more broadly had a torrid year.
Its return on equity (the key marker of the return a bank is making on the money it invests) has fallen from 9.2% to 7.3%. Its earnings per share are down. Its operating expenses - the amount it costs to run the bank - are up 6.1%.
Fines and "redress" (in the main payments for the mis-selling of payment protection insurance) total £2.4bn. The bank has also raised significant concerns over Europe, saying that reform is "far less risky than going it alone".
No wonder HSBC's share price is down 5% this morning.
On Monday, HSBC reiterated its recent apology for the conduct of its Swiss private bank, saying the historical practices and behaviour were "unacceptable".
The bank said restoration of trust in the industry "remains a significant challenge as further misdeeds are uncovered but it is a challenge we must meet successfully".
"When commentators extrapolate instances of control failure or individual misconduct to question the culture of the firm, it strikes painfully at the heart of our identity," it added.
On Sunday, Mr Gulliver himself was dragged into the Swiss tax furore, with HSBC confirming he used a Swiss bank account to hold his bonuses.
The bank was responding to a report in the Guardian that Mr Gulliver has £5m in the account which he controls using a Panamanian company.
HSBC said he opened the account in 1998 when he was living and working in Hong Kong and full tax was paid in Hong Kong on the bonus payments.
On Monday, Mr Gulliver said he had never paid below the highest rate of UK tax on all his earnings since becoming chief executive.
"I'm UK tax resident, Hong Kong domiciled. I've paid full UK tax on the entirety of my worldwide earnings. It's not surprising as a 35-year HSBC veteran that I should be Hong Kong domiciled. I would expect to die abroad, which is a test of domicility," he added.
He said HSBC's computer system in the 1990s let everyone in the bank access the bank accounts of every other member of staff. As a result, he opened a bank account in Switzerland to hide his compensation from prying colleagues. He said he then used a Panamanian company to ensure HSBC staff in Switzerland also could not access his account.
"Really it was to enable me to have confidentiality in my own firm. There was no tax advantage," Mr Gulliver said.
The Financial Conduct Authority, HMRC, Swiss prosecutors and MPs on the Treasury Committee are looking into the allegations that HSBC helped people evade UK tax using hidden HSBC accounts in Geneva.
The former director of public prosecutions, Lord Ken Macdonald, has warned that HSBC has left itself open to criminal charges in the UK over the tax-dodging scandal.
The QC said there were strong grounds to investigate the bank for "cheating" HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). | HSBC has said 2014 was a "challenging year" after reporting a 17% drop in profit to $18.7bn (£12.2bn). | 31583501 |
South Parade Pier Ltd said it had purchased South Parade Pier in Southsea for an undisclosed sum.
The Grade-II listed pier was closed in 2012 after being deemed "a danger to the public" and at risk of collapsing.
South Parade Pier Ltd said it would continue repairing the structure, which has faced storm damage and neglect.
The consortium took control of the pier from previous owners SSP South Coast Ltd in early 2014, before the sale was completed, and started an emergency repair plan to save it.
Malcolm Belcher, spokesman for South Parade Pier Ltd, said: "Our intention is to return the pier to the people of Portsmouth.
"We remember the pier in its heyday and that's how we want it to become again.
"We want music, dancing, restaurants, bingo and amusements - plenty of fun entertainment that locals will enjoy and which will also attract tourists."
The pier's owners have also started a public consultation, asking for suggestions on what should appear on the pier, on its website. | The new owners of a derelict Victorian pier in Hampshire have said they aim to reopen the site this year and restore it to its "heyday". | 30679620 |
The app will answer any questions which parents and children may have about their hospital stay.
It will also allow children to create a profile so that clinicians know things such as their favourite colour.
Later, it may be used to offer insights into treatments.
Watson is an AI platform that is already advising doctors on treatments in a dozen cancer hospitals in the US, trawling through data - it can read 40 million documents in 15 seconds - to offer insights into possible treatments.
It may eventually do similar things at Alder Hey but is starting with a more simple patient/doctor app, designed to make hospital visits run more smoothly.
The hospital is working with the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) Hartree Centre on developing the app.
For the next few months, hundreds of Alder Hey patients and their parents will be asked a range of questions on everything from parking, to what they would like to eat, to their favourite games and films, and what they want their bedroom to look like.
They will also be asked what questions they have about clinical procedures, general anaesthetic, and surgery. A team of experts from the Hartree Centre and IBM, will use this information to train "Watson" to anticipate and respond to questions from patients and families before they come into hospital.
Mr Iain Hennessey, a paediatric surgeon and director of innovation at Alder Hey, told the BBC: "Helping our patients and their families prepare properly for coming into hospital will really reduce their anxiety and could mean we can get them better and home faster.
"So much of medicine is about looking after people. It is roughly a third of what we do and it is a neglected part. How we communicate with patients hasn't changed much over the last 100 years. A leaflet is seen as cutting edge and a website of patient information is award-winning."
He said that later, the platform may offer "more hardcore diagnostics" but said governance around using patient data was "a nightmare".
"I wanted to get this off the ground quickly and using patient records takes time, is costly and can cause controversy. Alder Hey is famous for caring and that's what I wanted to build on."
Future applications could include summaries of patient notes, spotting trends across the hospital and the AI could even be used to offer treatment and care options.
IBM's European director for Watson, Paul Chong, commented: "I'm thrilled to see IBM Watson technology applied to help doctors and their patients in the effort to improve the lives of children and their families." | Staff at Alder Hey children's hospital in Liverpool are teaming up with IBM Watson to develop an app to help patients and doctors work better together. | 36259851 |
Counting continued on Wednesday in electorates where the result has been too close to call.
The Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) says the government has won 71 seats in the lower house and could reach an absolute majority of 76.
The close result surprised many analysts, who thought the coalition would retain key marginal seats.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said he accepts responsibility for the government's mediocre performance, with more than 20 coalition MPs losing their seats at the poll. He said that disillusionment with mainstream parties was also partly to blame.
The ABC's election analyst, Antony Green, says the government will win 73 seats at minimum and will hold more seats than the opposition Labor Party.
Postal votes favoured the government during Wednesday's counting.
Results in a number of electorates are extremely tight. In one seat, Queensland's Forde, the Liberal candidate leads by just 94 votes. Others may not be declared until next week.
If the coalition does not win 76 seats, it faces a "hung parliament" and will need to do a deal with independent crossbenchers to form government.
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The coalition would likely attempt to do a deal with Queensland rural MP Bob Katter, a former National Party member. It would also seek support from the Nick Xenophon Team's newly elected MP Rebekha Sharkie, a former Liberal Party staffer.
Labor is unlikely to have the numbers to form a minority government.
Australia has had five prime ministers in the past six years. The poor showing during the coalition's re-election campaign has led to speculation about Mr Turnbull's position.
"It's too early for definitive judgments … it will take time to absorb the learnings from the campaign," he told a press conference in Sydney.
"I want to make it quite clear that as Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal party I take full responsibility for our campaign.
"There is no doubt that there is disillusion with the mainstream parties and we respect that."
Some MPs have accused Mr Turnbull of running a poor campaign and opposition leader Bill Shorten has repeatedly called on the prime minister to step down. | The ruling Liberal-National coalition appears to be inching towards victory in the Australian election. | 36721544 |
Scott will continue Team GB's dominance in the event, winning the country's fifth successive Olympic title.
The 29-year-old finished eighth and second in his two races on Sunday to lead by 24 points.
A sailor's worst finish is not included in their final score, so the most Scott can score in the medal race is 17.
Sir Ben Ainslie, who won gold in London and Beijing, congratulated his successor for winning "in serious style". | Britain's Giles Scott is guaranteed Olympic gold in the men's Finn class after opening an unassailable lead before Tuesday's medal race. | 37079577 |
It is the second round of grants from the fund with the first, in July, providing £5m for 21 buildings.
Clifton Cathedral in Bristol will get the most at £600,000 followed by £594,783 for Portsmouth and £500,000 for Truro.
Culture secretary Sajid Javid said the country's heritage was "precious".
The awards will go towards fixing leaking roofs, repairing stained glass windows and spires.
Other cathedrals to benefit include Canterbury, Bradford, Chester and Lincoln.
Visiting Portsmouth Cathedral, Mr Javid said: "Our heritage in this country is precious and unique.
"We need to do all we can to protect it for future generations.
"This second round of grants will ensure that even more of our magnificent and awe-inspiring cathedrals can complete urgent and much-needed repairs, so they can continue to play a huge role in the communities they serve."
Si Paul Ruddock, chair of the fund, said: "The appeal of cathedrals is vast and enduring."
The £20m Cathedral Repairs Fund was announced by the chancellor in this year's Budget and set up in April.
It is to recognise the importance of cathedrals and the significant role they will play throughout the centenary commemorations.
Grants will also pay for work such as keeping the buildings wind-proof, weather tight, safe and open to the public and preventing further deterioration.
There is one more round of funding allocations, which will close in January 2015.
The amount awarded for repairs to Clifton Cathedral in Bristol is equivalent the amount it was to build.
Commissioned in 1965, the building cost £600,000 to construct in 1973. | Almost £8m has been awarded for urgent work to 31 cathedrals across England from the First World War Centenary Cathedral Repair Fund. | 29788123 |
Charity worker, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, was arrested at Tehran Airport in April 2016 while visiting family in Iran with her daughter.
The 38-year-old, who maintains her innocence, has lost the final stage of her appeal against the sentence.
Her husband said there were no more legal options to overturn the sentence.
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who works for the charity the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was imprisoned for five years in September and then lost an initial appeal against her sentence in January.
She was accused of allegedly plotting to topple the government in Tehran, but the official charges against her have not been made public.
Iran refuses to recognise dual nationals and denies them access to consular assistance.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has said it is "deeply concerned" by the latest court decision.
The British ambassador to Iran visited Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's two-year-old daughter Gabriella last year, who has been placed in the care of her Iranian grandparents, after the Iranian government confiscated her passport.
A spokesman for the FCO said: "Iran continues to refuse the UK access to her. The prime minister and foreign secretary have both raised Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case with their counterparts in Iran.
"We continue to press the Iranians for access and for due process to be followed, and are ready to help get her daughter back safely to the UK if requested."
But speaking from the UK, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband, Richard, said he would continue to put pressure on the UK government.
"We've had a year, the legal process is finished, so I think the government needs to step up, find a way to visit her, say that she's innocent and call for her release publicly," he said.
"As her husband, I can say Nazanin is innocent until I am blue in the face. I have spent a year doing it.
"But it makes a clear difference that the government hasn't. It indulges the whispers."
Monique Villa, CEO at Thomson Reuters Foundation, said she was "entirely convinced" of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's innocence and called for her immediate release.
She said: "This extinguishes the last hope we have had of legally overturning a punishment where the crime remains a mystery.
"Nazanin was given no court hearing for this final judgement. She is not a spy but an innocent mother who travelled to Iran only to show her baby to her parents."
Ms Villa added that Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe has never had dealings with Iran in her professional capacity at the Thomson Reuters Foundation. | Iran's supreme court has upheld a five-year prison sentence given to a British-Iranian woman for security offences. | 39697016 |
Pimco, an investment firm, considered acquiring the 850-property portfolio before its eventual sale in April 2014.
In a statement Pimco said it was contacted on "an unsolicited basis by third parties with a proposal relating to the potential purchase".
It did not identify the third parties.
The statement went on: "Pimco assessed the opportunity and followed its usual due diligence process, and as a result decided not to proceed with, or agree to any arrangement with those third parties."
Weeks later, Nama began a formal sale process that led to another US firm, Cerberus Capital Management, buying the portfolio for more than £1bn.
Nama has said it was "fully satisfied" that the process had delivered the "best possible return", with Cerberus being the highest bidder.
In its statement, Pimco said it did not take part in the tender process. | A potential US buyer of the Northern Ireland Nama property portfolio has said it was pitched a sale proposal by way of an "unsolicited approach from third parties". | 33394153 |
Fr Roy Donovan said childbirth and menstruation meant women "were more used to sacrifice and suffering".
A woman saying "this is my body, this is my blood," during the sacrament of the Eucharist could give it more meaning, he said.
"Many females give up their bodies, just as Jesus did," he told the BBC.
Fr Donovan, parish priest of Caheronlish/Caherline in County Limerick, is an outspoken supporter of women priests.
He said he was trying to counteract the Catholic Church's argument that only a male could celebrate the Eucharist - a ritual service of thanksgiving to God which centres on the consecration of bread and wine and their distribution at Communion.
Roman Catholics believe the bread becomes the body of Jesus, and the wine his blood, in the process of their blessing by a priest, and that sharing it at Eucharist or Holy Communion commemorates the Last Supper shared by Jesus and his apostles, and Jesus' sacrificial death by crucifixion.
"The bottom line is that despite being equal to men by virtue of their baptism, women are excluded from all positions of authority, decision making and ministry," he said.
He first made the comments in an interview with the Irish Times, where he also expressed his objection to the introduction of a male-only permanent body of deacons in his archdiocese before completion of a report by the papal commission on women deacons.
Deacons are a clergy rank one below priest.
Currently all Catholic priests and deacons are male. Priests must be celibate, but deacons can be married men.
The BBC has contacted the Diocese of Limerick for comment. | Women priests could celebrate Mass better than men because they are "more familiar with the shedding of blood", an Irish parish priest has said. | 40900349 |
John McIntyre, 51, attacked 39-year-old Alison Lyons when she found him standing in her bedroom at the flat in Greenock, Inverclyde, in August.
He also stabbed Ms Lyons' work-mate, 20-year-old Matthew Power.
At the High Court in Glasgow, McIntyre was jailed after he admitted assaulting the pair to the danger of their life.
Judge Lord Turnbull jailed McIntyre for what he called "serious conduct".
The court heard how McIntyre slipped into the flat while Ms Lyons and two guests were asleep.
When she awoke and realised he was there, she asked him what he was doing.
McIntyre, from Greenock, then stabbed her twice in the stomach with a vegetable knife taken from her kitchen drawer.
He then climbed on top of Mr Power and struck him with the blade before feeling from the flat.
Ms Lyons suffered a punctured bowel and her gall bladder had to be eventually removed.
Mr Power suffered wounds to his chest and wrist. Medics discovered the knife had come within millimetres of his heart.
McIntyre later handed himself into police having been identified as the attacker. | A man who stabbed his former partner after he turned up uninvited to her flat-warming party has been jailed for five years and four months. | 30520165 |
But throwing a tantrum because your complimentary nuts aren't served right might seem a tad unreasonable to most.
Even if you virtually own the airline it's not a good idea as Heather Cho, the daughter of Korean Air's chairman, just found out.
She's been jailed for a year for throwing a wobbly when her macadamias were served in a bag not a bowl.
Cho - who was also an exec at the airline - demanded the flight turn back to the terminal and whacked the attendant who'd served the offending nuts with a book.
She treated the flight "as if it was her own private plane", said Judge Oh Sung-woo in Seoul.
"It's doubtful that the way the nuts were served was so wrong," he said before jailing her for breaking flying laws and assault.
It's not just nuts that can make people angry - although as Newsbeat's discovered access to food and drink does play a large part in displays of bad behaviour on board.
Requests for particular snacks, for more alcohol or even to take home unfinished booze, have all been seen in-flight.
Amy tweeted saying she saw another passenger requesting a meal for an invisible passenger in an empty seat just so her son could eat more.
@Blewyn admits: "I asked a stewardess to ask a guy to stop his nine-year-old girl singing. Seems harsh, but at the time I'd been working three days."
Bad behaviour obviously sucks for other passengers, but cabin crew get totally fed up too.
So much so that air crew from all over the world have started naming and shaming what can only be described as in-flight anti-social behaviour.
"Some of these people might be feeling anxious," says psychologist Dr Katharine Ayivor.
"You get a large random group of people in a confined space and it can lead to anxiety and they become demanding."
She also thinks flying is a time when passengers are often tired and they lose focus on what really matters.
"People have less control - they can't just walk to the shops for food for instance - and that's when small things get blown out of proportion," she explains.
"Maybe they feel hemmed in and they want to claw back some of that control."
According to flight crew taking off socks is one of the most offensive passenger habits as well as noisy children, hair hanging over the back of seats and eating smelly food.
One of the most ridiculous demands has to come from Martin Ward though who tells us he overheard a request for some fresh air.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | It's pretty well known that too much alcohol can lead to some nasty in-flight incidents. | 31438517 |
At a tearful news conference, the premier said he would stand down after 10 years in public life.
"I said many times I didn't want to become a career politician," he said on Thursday. "Today, I am making good on that pledge."
Mr Baird was one of Australia's most popular politicians, but recent polls showed a drop in his approval rating.
He said his resignation would take effect immediately after a party meeting next week to elect a new leader.
Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian is considered his most likely successor.
"I think everyone's in shock," NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro said. "Today's announcement, of course, truly shows the measure of the man and that he's putting family first."
Mr Baird, who became premier in April 2014, said it had been a "tremendous honour" to lead the state.
But he said the job had come at a "strong personal cost", especially in recent months.
"My father and my mother and my sister are going through a very serious health challenge and, to be honest, at times I have been in pain not being able to spend the time [with them] that I should," he said.
"This will change today."
He said his father, who had undergone open-heart surgery, was now the primary carer for his mother, who has muscular dystrophy. His sister was enduring cancer.
"I have decided that this is the perfect time for me to hand the reins over to a new premier," he said.
After taking over from predecessor Barry O'Farrell, who resigned after failing to declare a gift of wine, Mr Baird enjoyed a long period of public support.
A strong public speaker who used social media to his advantage, Mr Baird embarked on a series of ambitious investments in the state's infrastructure.
But his soaring approval rating - as high as 61% in December 2015 - plunged in the second half of 2016 following controversial policy decisions.
He was criticised for advocating for strict lockout laws in Sydney, which mean nightspots cannot let in new patrons after 01:30. Critics say the laws have severely affected the city's vibrancy and economy.
Mr Baird was also forced to reverse a ban on greyhound racing in October, saying he "got it wrong" by banning the industry just months earlier following an animal cruelty scandal.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull thanked Mr Baird for his time in office, saying he "played a great innings".
"You've restored the state's finances and you are building the infrastructure that sets New South Wales up for the 21st Century economy," he said. | Mike Baird, the leader of Australia's most populous state, New South Wales, has announced he is quitting politics. | 38645844 |
Wasim Thajudeen was found dead inside a burning car after an apparent accident in the capital Colombo in May 2012.
But the case was reopened earlier this year after claims that Mr Rajapaksa's security officials killed Thajudeen.
Thajudeen is said to have been in a dispute over a woman at the time of his death with Mr Rajapaksa's son Yoshitha.
His body was exhumed from a Muslim burial ground at a mosque outside Colombo on Monday, watched by a judge and other officials.
Dozens of protesters gathered outside the mosque, holding placards with anti-Rajapaksa slogans.
After initially ruling Thajudeen's death an accident, police have now cited post-mortem reports saying his body had torture marks, as well as broken teeth and bones.
"The body had been wrapped in a plastic bag so it is well preserved and we hope to be able to finish our work very soon," chief judicial medical officer Ajith Thennakoon told reporters.
The removal of the body came as new evidence emerged that the victim had been abducted in a car owned by the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society, according to police.
In response, the Red Cross said the vehicle had belonged to them but that it was being used by a charity of the then first lady, Shiranthi Rajapaksa, at the time of the rugby star's death.
Police have impounded the car as part of their investigation, the Red Cross said.
On Sunday, Mr Rajapaksa denied his youngest son, who is also a former member of Sri Lanka's rugby union team, was involved in the mysterious death.
The former president also said the allegations, mainly by members of the current ruling party, were politically motivated to discredit him ahead of parliamentary elections next week.
Mr Rajapaksa's eldest son, Namal, also denied any link to his family and said his family had been close friends with Thajudeen.
"We totally deny this," he told the BBC's Azzam Ameen. "Even without doing a proper investigation they are pointing the fingers at the Rajapaksas."
"They began this investigation just ahead of the election so we all know it's politically motivated to target us," Namal added.
Mr Rajapaksa was defeated in presidential elections earlier this year but hopes to become prime minister if his party does well enough in the parliamentary elections.
The investigation is the latest blow to Mr Rajapaksa, who himself is under investigation over allegations he siphoned off billions of dollars from the state during his rule.
Is this the last battle for Sri Lanka's 'warrior king'? | Sri Lankan investigators have exhumed the body of a former national rugby player in a murder inquiry linked to ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa's son. | 33850551 |
The monarch, who is said to be aged about 90, was admitted to hospital on Wednesday for medical checks.
King Abdullah, who came to the throne in 2005, has suffered frequent bouts of ill health in recent years.
His age and condition has led to increasing focus on the issue of the Saudi royal succession.
Crown Prince Salman, who is in his late 70s, is next in line to succeed the king, though questions remain over who will follow.
The crown has passed between the sons of Saudi Arabia's founding father Ibn Saud, but few are still alive.
Last year, King Abdullah took the unprecedented step of appointing a deputy crown prince, his younger half-brother Prince Muqrin, to try to ensure a smooth succession. | Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah is suffering from a lung infection and has been breathing with the aid of a tube, Saudi officials have said. | 30659909 |
Professor John McCanny of Queen's University, Belfast, gets a knighthood.
Ex-NI Prison Service director Sue McAllister and leading civil servant Leo O'Reilly receive Companions of the Order of the Bath.
In sport, there are MBEs for Northern Ireland football boss Michael O'Neill and swimmer Bethany Firth.
Derek McClure receives a CBE for services to mental healthcare and people with learning disabilities, as does Gerard McGinn, chairman of the Strategic Investment Board, for services to the Northern Ireland economy.
Police officers, charity workers, teachers and business people are also among those recognised on the honours list.
Mr McCanny is a professor in Electronics and Computer Engineering at Queen's University and Director of the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology based at Titanic Quarter.
Queen's University has described him as an "international authority in the design of silicon integrated circuits for digital signal processing, having made many pioneering contributions to this field".
He receives his knighthood for services to higher education and economic development.
Mrs McAllister was appointed director general of Northern Ireland's prison service in 2012 and became the first woman to hold the most senior position within a prison service in the UK.
Earlier this year, she announced she would be stepping down from the role.
Leo O'Reilly is the current permanent secretary at the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland. He previously held the same position at the Department of the Environment and the Department of Finance and Personnel.
Michael O'Neill helped Northern Ireland end a 30-year absence from tournament football by qualifying for their first European Championship, which was hosted in France earlier this year. The team reached the knock-out stages, after topping their group during qualifying.
In 2015, he won Coach of the Year at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards. Mr O'Neill gained 33 caps for Northern Ireland during his playing career.
Bethany Firth, from Seaforde in County Down, won three gold medals and one silver at the Paralympic Games in Rio in 2016.
She was Britain's most decorated medallist at the Rio Games.
The full list of Northern Ireland recipients is below: | More than 100 people in Northern Ireland have been recognised for their achievements in the New Year Honours list. | 38469612 |
South Wales Police held a special news conference on Wednesday confirming that the search for the mother is ongoing.
It follows the discovery near the junction of Penarth Road and the Taff Embankment after 18:00 BST on Tuesday.
Police said their main focus was to provide "medical and emotional support" to the mother.
A section of the riverbank was sealed off on Tuesday while a detailed search was carried out, involving forensic teams, dogs, firefighters and a police helicopter.
Police said they are not searching the river for the mother and do not believe she entered the water.
They are so far unable to confirm the baby's ethnicity.
Appealing directly to the mother, Det Insp Gareth Morgan said: "I can understand you will have been through a traumatic time and I can reassure you we do have professionals in place with specialist skills who can provide you with support.
"Somewhere in the community there is a female who may be struggling with the after-effects of the birth and subsequent death of their son.
"I'm appealing to the public for any information concerning this incident; in particular those who frequent the Taffs Mead Embankment and those who use the river and may have seen something out of the ordinary between Sunday of last week and yesterday evening."
Police confirmed they are also carrying out house-to-house enquiries and additional patrols in the area to "provide reassurance" to the public.
Neighbours have since spoken of their shock following the incident.
Resident John Pearce Jones said: "It's a very, very quiet area. It was a shock to everybody."
Anna Padesta recalled how she looked outside to see a police helicopter hovering overhead and police tape across the embankment.
"It's awful, really sad. It does make you wonder what the poor mother has been going through to do that," she added.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact South Wales Police on 101. | Police have renewed their appeal to trace the mother of a newborn baby boy whose body was recovered from the River Taff in Cardiff. | 33262498 |
Given the immense impact the US Supreme Court has on US political life, the nominee will face tough questions from the Senate during any confirmation hearings.
So how might this pick change the nation's high court?
Who are the current justices? Meet the Supremes
The highest court in the US is often the final word on highly contentious laws, disputes between states and the federal government, and final appeals to stay executions.
It hears fewer than 100 cases a year and the key announcements are made in June. Each of the nine justices serve a lifetime appointment after being nominated by the president and approved by the Senate.
Cases are usually brought to the court after they are appealed from a series of lower courts, although in time-sensitive cases, lawyers can petition for a hearing. The court's opinions can also create precedents, directing other judges to follow their interpretation in similar cases.
In recent years, the court has expanded gay marriage to all 50 states, halted President Obama's immigration orders and delayed a US plan to cut carbon emissions while appeals went forward.
Occasionally, the Supreme Court will revisit an issue in a new case and change their own precedent, a move anti-abortion activists hope will come to pass with a new conservative justice.
The court already has cases this term on the rights of transgender students, gerrymandered voting districts and on a Texas' death penalty determination.
It is also likely the court will hear cases on voter rights, abortion, racial bias in policing and in the legal system, as well as US immigration policy in the upcoming years.
Mr Trump's executive order on banning refugees and travellers from Muslim-majority nations may also end up on the Supreme Court's plate.
President Trump has made clear he wants a conservative justice. He has specifically said his Supreme Court picks would be pro-gun rights, anti-same-sex marriage and would take a hard line on deporting undocumented immigrants.
When asked at the third debate, Mr Trump said he expects the landmark 1973 ruling on abortion, Roe v Wade, to be overturned under his presidency.
"That'll happen automatically, in my opinion, because I am putting pro-life justices on the court," he said.
In fact, a case would have to be tried elsewhere before being heard by the court, it would not happen "automatically".
He also described a justice who would "interpret the Constitution the way the founders wanted it interpreted" - an originalist like Antonin Scalia.
While a majority of Supreme Court cases do not break on ideological lines, there are conservative and liberal wings. Key cases have been decided on 5-4 votes.
With Scalia's death, the court is arguably divided four-four.
Confirming a conservative justice with similar views to Scalia would ultimately return the court to a narrow conservative majority, but it would not guarantee wins on all the issues Mr Trump has described as a priority.
Justice Anthony Kennedy is considered the court's swing vote, having sided with both the conservative and liberal justices on major cases.
Liberals and legal advocates on the other side of these issues are also concerned about the potential for Mr Trump to nominate a second justice during his term.
In March, President Obama nominated Merrick Garland, a federal appeals judge, for the empty seat. But Republicans refused to hold a hearing or vote on Mr Garland's nomination, and he is no longer under consideration.
During their year without a ninth justice, the court continued to work, with some cases affected by Scalia's death.
A 4-4 deadlock on Mr Obama's immigration order left the legal status of about four million undocumented immigrants in limbo. Public sector labour unions got a temporary win in another tied case, but no precedent was set because of the split.
But the court also rejected a conservative challenge to a university affirmation action policy in a 4-3 vote, after Justice Kagan recused herself. And justices voted 5-3 to strike down a pair of Texas abortion restriction laws.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer has said congressional Democrats would be willing to block confirmation and leave the seat open if Mr Trump does not name a "mainstream nominee".
Mr Trump is reportedly considering three judges for the position.
Neil Gorsuch
Mr Gorsuch, who lives in Denver, Colorado, has served on the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals since 2006. The 49-year-old is the youngest of the group and boasts an academic pedigree typical of Supreme Court Justices (Columbia University, Harvard Law School and at Oxford).
He also clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and previously served as a deputy assistant attorney general at the Justice Department.
Mr Gorsuch shares the late Justice Antonin Scalia's strict interpretation of the US constitution, which is that it should be followed as the Founding Fathers intended.
Thomas Hardiman
The Philadelphia-based judge, 51, has served since 2007 on the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals - the same court in which the president's sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, resides.
Mr Hardiman graduated from Notre Dame and Georgetown Law School, which would make him the court's only justice without an Ivy League degree.
He was the first person in his family to go to college and supported himself in law school by driving a taxi.
Mr Hardiman has supported gun rights and police powers, including a case in which he sided with jails seeking to strip-search all inmates.
William Pryor
The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals judge, 54, lives in Atlanta, Georgia. He previously served as Alabama's attorney general, preceding Senator Jeff Sessions, Mr Trump's choice for US attorney general.
Mr Pryor has criticised the Supreme Court's 1973 landmark abortion ruling Roe v Wade as "the worst abomination of constitutional law".
He also came under fire from conservatives for siding with a transgender woman who sued for sex discrimination in 2011. | Donald Trump has said he will name his nominee for the US Supreme Court on Tuesday night. | 38707720 |
Her body was found on the ground floor of the house in Hog Lane, Amberley, after the alarm was raised at 16:23 BST on Friday.
The initial call came from an automatic alarm, followed by 999 calls from neighbours, West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service said.
A cause of the blaze has yet to be established. | An elderly woman has died in a fire which started in the living room of a thatched cottage in West Sussex. | 33034310 |
Teenagers have been playing evening games of football at 38 venues, under the Premier League Kicks programme.
In its first year, 5,123 young people were involved, nearly double the number expected, the Premier League said.
West Midlands Police said the project, which involves five top football clubs, had been funded for two more years.
Five football clubs, Aston Villa, Birmingham City, West Bromwich Albion, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Coventry City, have received funding from the Premier League, Sport England and the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner since September, 2013.
Its first year has been marked at Birmingham International Futsal Arena.
Dasin Shamdeen, 16 and from Coventry, said he had been involved since the start after being handed a leaflet while playing football in a park.
"I invited a lot of friends and brought everyone down," he said.
"I've really enjoyed it. It has created a lot of opportunities for people."
Dasin, who now helps Kicks staff organise games and tournaments, said 50 to 100 teenagers played football at Coventry's AT7 centre twice a week.
Garry Forsyth, Assistant Chief Constable with West Midlands Police, said the force had given £225,000 from its Proceeds of Crime funds to support Kicks.
"We are in a society where there are not many activities that are freely available to engage young people due to austerity measures," he said.
Premier League Kicks begun in 2006 as a partnership between the Premier League and Metropolitan Police to use the "power of football" to build safer and stronger communities.
More than 11,00 youngsters involved have become project volunteers, while 500 have become employees of the clubs, the Premier League said. | A national project that aims to steer youths into football and away from trouble has had a successful first year in the West Midlands, say organisers. | 30689759 |
Lebanon has about 1.5 million displaced Syrians, in a country smaller than Wales.
And "refugee" is not a temporary status, most will have been there for at least two years.
Many refugees are of school or college age and as well as feeding their bodies, there is a need to feed their minds.
Lebanon has pioneered the concept of the "double-shift" school, making the most of limited school buildings by pupils attending in two shifts per day.
But Syria's "lost generation" will also need higher-level skills. Any ambitions for rebuilding will depend upon the type of ideas and talents developed by a university education.
The American University of Beirut is providing assistance, with a scholarship project to help young Syrian refugees become part of a post-war future.
But it's a tough starting point - and Rima Afifi, professor in the health sciences faculty, says the impact on Lebanon of the influx of Syrian refugees has been huge.
"It has affected every aspect of our lives. People have sometimes asked for the evidence. One of our faculty members said if I open my door it's right in front me. How much more evidence do you need than that?
"One in four people in Lebanon is now a Syrian refugee," she says.
It puts pressure on jobs, housing and health services as well as the education system - and it's not surprising that this causes friction.
"There's a lot of tension between the Lebanese population and the Syrians.
"It's one of the things I'm most concerned about. You feel like there's a potential for things to blow up."
These are the types of problems that you might not usually expect to be put at the door of a liberal arts college.
The American University of Beirut is a venerable 19th Century institution, which has continued through the region's wars and conflicts.
The university scholarship scheme for Syrian students is part of a wider global project run by the Mastercard Foundation, which has supported 18,000 disadvantaged secondary school and higher education students, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa.
Prof Afifi runs the scholarship project in Beirut and says that a university can provide a role model of tolerance and open debate for a "hopefully more just society".
"There are people here from every faction - there's discussion and dialogue - in a way that's safe and provides a good basis for when they return to Syria," says Prof Afifi.
She also rejects the stereotyping of young refugees as "a problem, people who are going to be violent".
"All our work has shown that despite all this negativity, they are still hopeful and an asset to their community."
Before the civil war, about a quarter of young Syrians were going to university, but much of the country's higher education system now lies in rubble.
And the scholarships in Beirut are a way of reconnecting these youngsters with an opportunity that the war has taken from them.
The Mastercard Foundation has supported the American University of Beirut with $35m (£24m) in funding - and the foundation's president Reeta Roy describes it as a "remarkable institution" which shares the aims of the scholarship project.
"The whole ethos is about ensuring a commitment to pluralism, whether it's about diversity of faith, ideology or political views. It's really trying to get above those differences to promote civil dialogue, peace-making," said Ms Roy.
The foundation itself dates from 2006 when Mastercard became a public company. A slice of the money was set aside to endow a free-standing, independent foundation - and that is now worth about $11bn (£7.5bn), says Ms Roy.
Educating deprived youngsters is one of the biggest priorities, with hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on scholarships, covering fees, books and accommodation and providing support such as mentoring and job advice.
Much has been targeted at the poorest countries in Africa, but there is an urgent need to help Syrians in Lebanon.
"No society rebuilds, no society progresses, unless it has the right kind of leaders, where different viewpoints can be aired. Education plays a huge role," says Ms Roy.
Prof Afifi says students at the Beirut university are taught "anti-oppression" lessons to challenge intolerance.
"In Lebanon, there is so much "othering". Depending on which sect or faction you are, you're "othering" everybody else," says Prof Afifi.
As well as religion, nationality and politics, these prejudices can be about gender or class.
"Let's be honest, let's look at these issues, let's put them on the table and see if we can deal with them. It's about interacting as humans rather than as someone who is different."
The AUB's president, Fadlo Khuri, said universities have to "take up the challenge of providing education for refugees".
"It is part of their larger commitment to equity and justice."
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Many of Syria's refugees have travelled much further than Lebanon.
Those who are in Hungary are being offered help by the Central European University in Budapest.
The university is opening its doors to refugees at weekends with volunteer academics offering courses in English, maths, philosophy, Hungarian culture and history and human rights law.
The university in Budapest has another poignant project. Two Syrian academics from Aleppo are working on mapping and planning a virtual version of their city, in preparation for when it might be physically rebuilt after the war.
The Aleppo Project links the university with those still in the besieged city as it gathers information about damaged buildings that might one day be reconstructed or replaced.
Last week, the United Nations described conditions in the city as "catastrophic".
"It is hard to have much hope for Aleppo," says the project's blog. "One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world has been torn apart by war.
"Rebuilding will take many decades, but it can start very suddenly. When that moment comes, it is important to be ready." | The destructive force of Syria's civil war has scattered refugees across its neighbouring countries. | 36164060 |
Angela Lansbury, who starred in the original London production, was among the first night audience at the Savoy theatre.
The production, which had transferred from Chichester, won a standing ovation from the audience mid-show.
The classic musical is about striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee and her overbearing mother, played by Staunton.
Jonathan Kent's production also stars Peter Davison and Lara Pulver.
Staunton had won excellent reviews previously but Dominic Cavendish in The Telegraph said Staunton's performance was even better than in Chichester.
"Not only does Staunton display greater leather-lunged force in the show-stopping numbers such as Everything's Coming Up Roses... She also packs more into this whirlwind-restless, tormented spirit," he said.
He gave the show five stars and called seeing it a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity".
Broadcaster and critic Libby Purves tweeted: "It blazes, it blooms, it has London leaping to its feet. Nothing beats GYPSY for wow 'n wisdom. Staunton superb."
In her review she notes there were three standing ovations and thought the production was even better than when it was on in Chichester.
"It is, if anything, even more kaleidoscopically irresistible set in the Savoy's weary gilt-and-velvet."
Dominic Maxwell in The Times also gave it five stars calling Staunton's performance "staggeringly good".
"Staunton's fierce but wounded Rose doesn't just gaze into the abyss, she sings and dances, bosses and bullies, sweet-talks and schemes into the abyss. She gives us enough pain and defiance to fuel a Greek drama couched in the showbiz trappings of Jule Styne's music, Stephen Sondheim's lyrics and Arthur Laurent's witty, sounding book. In a word: 'wow'."
It is the first time the musical has been seen in the West End since the UK premiere production in 1973, which starred Angela Lansbury.
This production, which started in Chichester last year, reunited Staunton with the team behind the award-winning Sweeney Todd.
Time Out and What's On Stage also give the show five stars, as did Stephen Collins from BritishTheatre.com, who called the Savoy Theatre "a perfect home for this Gypsy".
"The places where Rose might want her troupe to play might have looked like the Savoy does, and, as an encapsulation of wonderfully grand theatricality, it has a lot going for it. The sight of Rose alone on its vast, darkened stage is powerful indeed."
He said this version is "superior in absolutely every way" to its previous Chichester production and gushed it is "likely to be the definitive production of Gypsy for a generation".
David Nice at The Arts Desk said the audience was "beguiled to cheering point" by the show "because everything in this London transfer from the Chichester Festival Theatre, parody included, is solid gold."
"Imelda Staunton dazzles with truth and vitality in a near-perfect musical," he added. | Gypsy has returned to the West End for the first time in 40 years, winning rave reviews for Imelda Staunton. | 32331570 |
With only about 100 Kennel Club puppy registrations a year, the Dandie Dinmont terrier has been put on its list of vulnerable native breeds.
A discovery centre is to be created at the Haining in Selkirk and a statue sited there as well.
The modern-day "father" of the breed, Old Ginger, was born in kennels on the estate back in 1842.
The UK co-ordinator of the Dandie Dinmont discovery centre project, Paul Keevil, said the terriers had a long history in Scotland.
"As far as Scotland goes, it is one of your most ancient breeds - it is the only breed of dog to be named after a character from fiction," he said.
"It is named after a Walter Scott character in a book that he published over 200 years ago, so you can't get much more Scottish than that.
"It's a very, very ancient breed - it goes back to at least the 1700s to the Border counties."
Mr Keevil said the Haining estate had a special role in its story.
"The first dog that we can actually trace a full pedigree for - which is knowing the sire and the dam - was actually born in Selkirk, inside the Haining kennels, in 1842.
"So that is regarded as the modern-day father of the breed because before that nobody kept any records."
He said that the fall in numbers was hard to explain but might in part be due to the rise in popularity of designer breeds.
"I think maybe the old-fashioned, traditional working breeds - the ones which have been around for hundreds of years - are maybe just falling out of fashion," he said.
In a bid to reverse that trend, the discovery centre is being created.
"We are hoping that we are going to be able to give the breed a real kiss of life, as it were," he said.
"We are going to restore the original kennel building, that is the actual room where Old Ginger was born.
"That is going to be packed full of information about the breed and about the numerous other Scottish breeds and the other vulnerable breeds on the Kennel Club list."
The centre is being funded by the Kennel Club educational trust and members of the Dandie Dinmont owner community. | A new discovery centre in the Borders hopes to help boost numbers of one of the world's rarest types of dog. | 38300626 |
Players and officials have given mixed reactions to the panel being set up by world football's governing body.
They are accused by the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) of attempting to fix a goalless draw 2010 World Cup qualifier against South Africa in Pretoria.
Eleven officials and four players, who have all denied any wrongdoing. have been suspended since 2014 pending an investigations.
The SLFA president Isha Johansen confirmed the establishment of the Fifa panel on Thursday.
"An international investigative body is being set up which will, together with one appointed person from Sierra Leone look into the match fixing allegations," she said.
However one of the officials being looked into, Rodney Michael the former chairman of Sierra Leone Premier League board, is questioning the legality of the Fifa body.
"I am revered for demanding adherence to the principles of transparency, accountability and constitutionality and thus will only appear before a legitimate body," Michael told BBC Sport.
"Fifa has always maintained internal issues do not fall under their remit.
"Fifa will have to justify the sudden change of policy in setting up their committee rather than use the independent ethics board elected by the SLFA Congress.
"My position is purely on principles and not in fear, as I have adequate evidence to prove my innocence in front of any committee."
Another of those accused, who preferred to remain anonymous, agreed with Michael's interpretation of the SLFA rules but also welcomed the move.
"It's a total contravention of the SLFA constitution. But if that will help speed the process that has stalled for over three years, then let it be," he said.
"Am tired of the time wasted and am pretty sure I will be vindicated because I don't have anything wrongfully to hide or to answer to."
"I hope they will do it fast and clear our names because I'm confident that I'm innocent."
One of the players accused is the former Leone Stars goalkeeper Christian Caulker, who is currently based in USA, is happy with the latest developments.
"We welcome the investigations. This is what we've been calling for," Caulker told BBC Sport.
"We've been suspended for three years now without any investigations and it has seriously affected our careers.
"They should compensate us for tarnishing our reputation and wasting of time if they don't find us guilty. I know I'm innocent.
Johansen's statement came a week before her executive's term of office comes to an end it remains unclear whether she will stand for re-election.
However elections will not be held on or before 3 August after Fifa suspended the SLFA ordinary congress that should have paved way for an elective congress. | An investigative body is being established by world football's governing body, Fifa to probe match fixing allegations in Sierra Leone. | 40751619 |
If you haven't heard of it before, Tamboo Bamboo originates from the carnival traditions of the Caribbean, and involves hammering carved sticks on the ground to create complex rhythms.
It originally emerged in Trinidad, after skinned drums were banned by the British government in 1884. The word Tamboo comes from the French word Tambour, which itself means drum.
Trinidad began holding carnivals in the late 1700s when French planters arrived, and their slaves formed their own festival, fuelled by drum music.
After emancipation in 1834, the celebrations became noisier and more colourful, but disturbances led the government to clamp down on the use of sticks and drums.
In 1934 the Tamboo Bamboo was banned too, after the instruments were sharpened to a vicious point and used as weapons between rival gangs.
Musicians adopted the Steel Drum as a replacement, but the Bamboo tradition has recently re-emerged as a simple way of introducing children to music.
Sadly, it has nothing to do with pandas.
The world record attempt will take place in Bradford's City Park on BBC Music Day, which takes place on Thursday, 15 June.
Schoolchildren in Portsmouth will also gather to create a new drumming world record - and both attempts will be covered on CBBC.
BBC Music Day, which was established in 2015, is a celebration of music that "aims to unite communities and generations".
The line-up for this year's event has just been announced and includes:
In addition, Radio 2 will broadcast a series called Songs my Sons Loved, in which the mothers of four soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan will remember their sons through the music they loved.
Presented by Jeremy Vine, the documentaries will be broadcast daily in the week commencing 12 June.
BBC Music Day was originally scheduled for 9 June, 2017, but the day was changed to accommodate the UK's General Election. Some events, especially ticketed ones, will still take place on the first date.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk. | Next month in Bradford, 800 children will attempt to break the world record for Tamboo Bamboo, as part of the third annual BBC Music Day. | 39873095 |
The 25-year-old sea turtle fell into a coma after a second operation on Sunday, following intestinal problems.
Named Omsin, meaning "Piggy Bank", she was found to be eating coins thrown into a public pond where she lived, in Chonburi province.
By the time they were removed, she was carrying 5kg (11lb) of coins.
The unusual mass of metal had cracked her shell, making the initial seven-hour operation necessary.
She was said to have been doing well after that surgery but developed blood poisoning at the weekend, which doctors said was the cause of death.
The coins were thrown into the pond by visitors hoping for good luck - a practice some hope will become less common after widespread coverage of the case in Thailand.
Omsin's demise prompted sadness and soul-searching.
Many took issue with "merit making" practices common in Thailand, that sometimes harm animal welfare.
Hopes had been high for Omsin's recovery.
Even after she slipped into a coma, the surgeon leading the team trying to save her said they wouldn't give up.
Doctors said the removal of the coins had created a space in Omsin's stomach that had probably blocked blood flow in her intestine.
That became fatal after she suffered an acute intestinal infection. | A turtle in Thailand that had an operation to remove nearly 1,000 coins from her stomach two weeks ago has died from blood poisoning. | 39337085 |
Among the stations set to close by 2017 are Kidlington and Woodfarm in Oxfordshire.
Reading station will be replaced within the next four years. The force could not guarantee if a new town centre station would open 24 hours a day.
Neighbourhood offices will be opened in some areas, including five in Milton Keynes and four in Aylesbury.
Thames Valley Police intends to save £2.1m a year in operating costs, which it says is the equivalent of 45 police constable roles.
Deputy chief constable Francis Habgood wants officers and the public to see the police's new offices as "out on the street".
He said: "We're trying to provide services so that our police officers and staff can do most of their work out on the streets.
"As an organisation, we have quite a considerable estate and cover a wide geographical area.
"It's important we have a good footprint across the Thames Valley, but some of our estate is elderly and not very efficient.
"We're making sure we have a plan for the future which actually cuts down cost."
Thames Valley police and crime commissioner Anthony Stansfeld said: "We have got to make our offices more efficient as most of them were put in place before mobile technology.
"Our estate needs to be modernised right across the board."
A considerable number of neighbourhood offices will be replaced under the plans. The former station in Wantage, Oxfordshire has already been relocated to a "front counter" facility at the town's library. | Thames Valley Police hopes to raise £22m from the sale of police stations and offices. | 21960334 |
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The march began in Knottingley and finished with a rally and party at Kellingley Miners Welfare club, North Yorkshire.
Miners at Kellingley colliery, the last deep coal mine in the country, worked their last shift on Friday. | Thousands of people turned out for a march in Yorkshire to mark the end of deep coal mining in Britain. | 35144942 |
The complainant said he had sex with Julie Wadsworth up to 15 times, including once when her husband Tony joined in.
Now in his 30s, he told police he felt compelled to report what happened after having child protection training.
The couple deny assaulting seven boys in the 1990s.
In video interviews shown to the jury, the alleged victim said he first met Mrs Wadsworth when he was 14 and she was sunbathing in a park in 1995.
He went on to have sexual activity with Mrs Wadsworth at her then home in Long Street, Atherstone, the court heard.
"The first time we had sex in her living room and basically from then until I was 18 I would say there are 10, 12 or 15 occasions I have seen her in the park and arranged to meet," he said.
The man told the interviewing officer he only discovered the couple's names while channel-hopping on the radio.
The man said: "It was probably after about a year or two.
"While it was going on I was listening to the radio one night and I recognised their voices...co-presenting an evening programme.
"You could play me a recording of 10 BBC presenters and I would be able to tell you straight away which one was them."
The Wadsworths, from Broughton Astley, Leicestershire, who have worked for BBC Radio Leicester and BBC WM, deny five counts of outraging public decency between July 1992 and June 1996.
Mrs Wadsworth, 60, has pleaded not guilty to 12 charges of indecent assault, while her 69-year-old husband denies 10 counts of the same offence.
The man told officers: "I took part in (child protection) training and it brought up incidents that happened to me over four years from when I was 14 to when I was 18, when I engaged in sexual intercourse with a couple that I had met in the woods in Atherstone.
"I had never told a soul. I was sitting there having a conversation with myself, is this the day that I tell someone?" | A man who claims he was indecently assaulted by two ex-BBC presenters as a child learnt their identities when he heard them on the radio, a court heard. | 40032454 |
F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone says he was "horrified" by V6 turbo hybrids, which are much quieter than the old V8 ones.
Boullier said: "We can't dismiss it if fans complain but we also have to see some positives and not focus only on the noise."
Engines are among several F1 changes this year.
Boullier pointed out that the engines mirror the direction of the road-car industry and had been embraced by manufacturers.
Personally I like the sound of the engines, but then I love F1 and I love watching cars go round a racetrack
"This new power-unit we have developed is a completely industry-relevant engine formula and this is why we could attract some new engine manufacturers and keep some of them on board actually," he said.
Renault, one of the three companies producing the engines, threatened to quit F1 if the sport did not introduce a new formula that reflected the greater efficiency now popular in road-car power-plants.
And Honda, which quit F1 in 2008, has decided to come back to the sport with McLaren in 2015.
The new F1 features 1.6-litre V6 turbo engines with extensive energy recovery systems, and cars must complete races using no more than 100kg (about 130 litres) of fuel.
Boullier, McLaren's racing director, added that at the first race of the season in Australia last weekend the new cars had proven more of a challenge for the drivers than last year's.
"This new formula has a very torquey engine, less aerodynamic downforce. It is more of a driver formula and you could see that this weekend; there were a lot of small mistakes.
"And even if there is a need to manage and save fuel and energy, it was still interesting to see some overtaking and it was really a challenge for the drivers.
"It's true the engine sound is different but it's not very different from the turbo sound we had in the 70s [and 80s]. It needs a little bit of time to see what is going on and how it develops."
The team bosses of Williams and Mercedes have backed his views.
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Williams deputy team principal Claire Williams said: "Personally I like the sound of the engines, but then I love F1 and I love watching cars go round a racetrack.
"I think people will pretty quickly get used to what F1 engines sound like.
"We've had so many changes over so many decades of motor racing and you very quickly forget what a previous engine sounds like and I think people just want to see a good race.
"As we can deliver that then I think that any issues that perhaps... or contentious conversations around that may fade away."
Mercedes executive director (business) Toto Wolff said: "This is modern technology, this is where road cars are going.
"Downsizing is the motto and I think we just need to accept that the formula has changed.
"These cars are going to go quicker than the old ones in a couple of races, we're going to get used to the sounds and I promise next year you will not notice any difference any more."
Ecclestone, who was boss of Brabham when they became in 1983 the first team to win the F1 title with turbo engines, told the Daily Telegraph that he would like to see something done to the engines to make them "sound like racing cars".
"We can't wait all season," Ecclestone said. "It could be too late by then.
"I don't know whether it's possible but we should investigate. I think let's get the first few races out of the way and then maybe look to do something." | McLaren team boss Eric Boullier has defended Formula 1's new engines in the wake of complaints they have an uninspiring sound. | 26656258 |
Pulse magazine said money had also gone on horse riding, art classes, massage, and, in one case, a summer house.
The budgets were brought in to give people in England with long-term conditions more control and choice over their healthcare and support.
NHS England said all spending had to be agreed with the health service.
Patients decide with medical professionals how the money from their personal budget should be spent.
It can be used on services such as therapies to help with depression, and assistance with personal care such as dressing and washing.
Pulse, a magazine for GPs, used the Freedom of Information Act to find out how personal health budgets were spent in England in 2014-15.
Full responses were obtained from 33 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) out of 209.
The British Medical Association said it continued to have real reservations about the scheme and "the inappropriate use of scarce NHS money on non-evidence based therapies".
Dr Richard Vautrey, deputy chairman of its general practitioners' committee, said: "While individuals may themselves value a massage or summer house, others will understandably start to question why they can't also have such things paid for by the state - and that will just fuel demand."
Nigel Praities, editor of Pulse, said readers of the magazine had reacted to the story with "dismay".
He said: "Doctors have to follow the evidence, they have to make sure everything they do is effective. To see in other areas of the NHS money maybe being spent on things that doesn't have such evidence behind it, particularly at a time when the NHS is trying to save lots of money, is hard to swallow."
Mr Praities added that the problem with the funding was that it "may give a lot of choice to a small number of patients but actually, overall, it might actually reduce choice".
Simon Duffy, from The Centre for Welfare Reform think tank which came up with the idea of personal health budgets, said the money is meant to be spent in less conventional ways.
"There would have been no advantage in people carrying on spending the money exactly as the NHS used to spend the money."
He said personal health budgets made up a tiny percentage of NHS spending and was assessed and approved by health professionals.
"You cannot simply turn up to your GP and ask for a summer house."
Malcolm Royle's family decided a care home would not be right for him after he developed dementia symptoms in 2005.
They used a personal care budget of £46,000 to devise their own care plan, which allowed him to live at home until he died in April.
One of the items they bought him was a Sky+ box.
Mr Royle's son, Colin, said: "It might seem quite an unusual item to purchase with NHS money but it was a great success and the outcomes were terrific.
"We were able to record all of his favourite television programme and play them at times of day that suited him as well.
"We could also fast forward adverts. These caused him a lot of anxiety."
He added the Sky+ box had ultimately helped to "stimulate" his father and reduce his anxieties.
A spokesman for NHS England said: "Personal health budgets are designed to meet identified health needs in ways that give patients more control over the care and support they receive.
"The spending must be agreed between the individual and the NHS, meet the patient's individual health needs and achieve the desired outcomes.
"An independent evaluation has shown that personal health budgets are cost effective, help people manage their health and improve quality of life." | Thousands of pounds from NHS "personal health budgets" are spent on "treats" such as holidays and clothes, a Freedom of Information request has found. | 34110964 |
He wrote in the New York Times that a US military strike against Syria could unleash a new wave of terrorism.
The US had threatened strikes, accusing the Syrian regime of killing hundreds in a poison-gas attack on 21 August.
Instead, Russia, an ally of Damascus, proposed that Syria hand over its chemical arsenal. The US and Russia are due to meet later to discuss that plan.
The Syrian government, which denies that it has used chemical weapons on its own people, has agreed at least partially to the Russian proposal.
By Steve RosenbergBBC News, Moscow
The American people are used to being addressed by an American President. Not a Russian one.
But Vladimir Putin knows that the US public and politicians are deeply uneasy with the prospect of American military intervention in Syria. His opinion piece in the New York Times may be an attempt to exploit and maintain that scepticism.
Most of the arguments he makes in the piece he has made before: for example, that a US strike would spark more violence and widen the conflict. But the Kremlin may be hoping this direct appeal to the American people, coupled with Moscow's diplomatic initiative, will boost the international image of Russia and its president. However, it may take more than one op-ed piece to do that. After all, in the West, President Putin is widely seen as an authoritarian leader intolerant of dissent back home.
Putin's plea to Americans assessed
The diplomatic moves prompted US President Barack Obama to put military action against Syria on hold.
In his New York Times article, Mr Putin said recent events had prompted him to "speak directly to the American people and their political leaders".
He warned that the UN could suffer the same fate as its predecessor, the League of Nations, if "influential countries... take military action without Security Council authorisation".
"The potential strike by the United States against Syria, despite strong opposition from many countries and major political and religious leaders, including the Pope, will result in more innocent victims and escalation, potentially spreading the conflict far beyond Syria's borders," he wrote.
"A strike would increase violence and unleash a new wave of terrorism."
He reiterated Russia's opinion that the gas attack of 21 August was probably carried out by opposition forces "to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons".
US Secretary of State John Kerry is preparing to meet Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Geneva later to discuss Moscow's proposal.
Mr Lavrov told a news conference in Kazakhstan that both sides were bringing teams of specialists and experts to the meeting to thrash out the technical details of the plan.
5-6 Sep: Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama discuss idea of placing Syria's chemical weapons under international control on sidelines of G20 summit
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10 Sep: Syria's foreign minister makes first public admission of the regime's chemical weapons stockpile; commits Syria committed to Russian plan. Barack Obama postpones Congress vote on military action and says he will give Russian plan a chance
12 Sep: John Kerry due to meet Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Geneva
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He outlined three main phases of the proposal:
Mr Lavrov did not mention the destruction of the weapons, which is thought to be a sticking point in Moscow's negotiations with Damascus.
Gen Salim Idriss of the rebel Free Syrian Army has dismissed the Russian plan, saying it did not go far enough.
"[We] request not only that the chemical arsenal is put under international control, but [also] to judge the author of the crime before the International Criminal Court," he said.
On Wednesday, envoys of the five permanent UN Security Council members met in New York to discuss the plan.
One diplomat told the BBC that the UN envoys' talks were largely symbolic and that the serious questions would be left for Geneva.
Republican Senator John McCain, who has long argued for US intervention in Syria, said he was "puzzled" why Mr Kerry was meeting Mr Lavrov in Geneva.
Readers' views from the US and Damascus
"Why doesn't Lavrov come to the UN and everybody agree on a resolution and pass it? It's got to be a resolution through the Security Council," he said.
Diplomats predict that talks at the UN Security Council will continue for several days after the Geneva meeting before any resolution can be put to a vote.
France has already been working on a draft resolution that would be enforced by Chapter VII of the UN charter, which would in effect sanction the use of force if Syria failed in its obligations.
However, Russia has already indicated that this would be unacceptable, as would any resolution blaming the Syrian government for chemical attacks. Russia, supported by China, has blocked three draft resolutions condemning the Assad government.
More than 100,000 people have died since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began in 2011.
As the diplomatic efforts continue, the Syrian army has been trying to retake the Christian town of Maaloula, which was overrun at the weekend by rebel forces, including members of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front.
The BBC's Jeremy Bowen, who visited Maaloula on Wednesday, says fighting has been continuing despite earlier reports that government forces had retaken the town.
Meanwhile, video footage has emerged on the internet appearing to show Farsi-speaking men fighting in the northern city of Aleppo. Iran has long been accused of helping Syrian government forces. | Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a direct personal appeal to the American people over the Syrian crisis. | 24058529 |
Ryan Counsell, 28, a Muslim convert from Nottingham, had denied four charges, including having possession of an al-Qaeda bomb-making guide.
He planned to join Philippines-based terrorist group Abu Sayyaf, which is affiliated with so-called Islamic State (IS), Woolwich Crown Court heard.
He did not show any emotion as the jury returned its verdict.
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The married father, who worked at the Hyson Green branch of Asda, claimed his interest in the Philippines was because he wanted to live "off grid".
He also said he downloaded IS videos, some of which showed beheadings, so he could analyse and write articles about them out of a "business interest".
However, at Counsell's home in Forest Fields, police also discovered an article about how to make a bomb.
Officers also found military equipment and clothing to protect against shrapnel from explosions, some of which was inside a suitcase in a child's bedroom.
Det Supt Simon Atkinson, of the North East Counter Terrorism Unit, said "immediate action" was taken to stop Counsell.
He said: "He [could have put] himself in danger and others in danger over there. He could then return with his ideas and ideology, training equipment and commit terrorist acts."
The court heard Counsell converted to Islam at 21 and taught himself about the religion from extremist websites.
Adam Deen, managing director at Quilliam, a counter-extremism think tank, said: "Converts are vulnerable to radicalisation because they are quite isolated and they only know of Islam what the extremist recruiters will tell them.
"Whereas if you look at, for example, a young Muslim, he may have family members that will be able to educate him and give him a counter narrative if you like, but in the case of a convert, that doesn't exist." | An Asda worker has been found guilty of trying to join a Islamist terrorist group in the Philippines. | 38767356 |
It has been acknowledged that inclusion of the treasure in the new facility would boost visitor numbers.
The items were discovered in Galloway last year by a metal detectorist.
The Treasure Trove Panel will decide where the artefacts end up but Dumfries and Galloway Council is being asked to back a bid to bring them to the region.
A report to the Kirkcudbright common good sub committee states that the acquisition of the hoard would be a considerable draw for visitors to the town and the new gallery, with benefits for the local economy.
However, finance is a major issue with the plans with the collection thought to be worth between £500,000 and £1m.
All accredited museums in Scotland can bid for ownership.
The local authority has been advised that £100,000 should be allocated from the common good fund to kick-start a public appeal.
If the bid to bring the Viking hoard to Kirkcudbright was to prove unsuccessful, the council's pledge would not be called upon. | Councillors are being asked to pledge £100,000 to a public appeal to secure a major Viking hoard for the Kirkcudbright gallery project. | 34447688 |
The paper leads with the news that the woman at the centre of the abortion pills raid will not face charges.
Helen Crickard's workplace was searched on 8 March by officers with a search warrant. But she told the Telegraph she had received a phone call from police saying no further action would be taken against her.
Ms Crickard lays the blame for the raid at the feet of Stormont's politicians, who, she said, "completely failed to protect women in Northern Ireland by denying them the right to the same healthcare women in the rest of the UK can access".
The paper also reports on a series of arson attacks in Larne, quoting former Sinn Féin councillor Oliver McMullan who says the town is "getting more like Beirut every day".
There's a Cinderella story to go with the Telegraph's front-page picture of a dog who has found "his forever family".
Shadow was once a starved puppy who was so malnourished he struggled to stand up.
His owner at that time was banned for life from keeping animals because of the suffering caused to Shadow and his mother.
But his tragic story has a fairytale ending, the paper reports: He is now running rings around his dog sister Storm and living the dream with a new adopted family.
The Irish News leads with the headline: "Councillors fail to pay rates - but Stormont won't name them".
The paper says that despite being responsible for spending ratepayers' money, four councillors did not even get their own rates bills paid on time in recent years.
One faced legal action for owing almost £2,000, the paper says and, in the other three cases, the amounts were smaller and were eventually settled.
The paper quotes Alex Wild from the Taxpayers' Alliance.
"There is a clear public interest in the names of councillors not paying their bills being made available so residents can make a better decision next time they vote," he said.
The paper also got its hands on an internal police document advising officers on words they should never use.
There is a list of all the words that should never be used to describe Catholics, Protestants or the elderly. Among the taboo terminology is the word "spongers" for Catholics.
SDLP MLA John Dallat said its inclusion on the list was surprising.
"In many ways, to suggest that it can apply to Catholics is ancient and, I suggest, may spring from the old days when unionists liked to create the impression that they were all hard working whilst the Catholics were on the dole," he said.
The paper quotes a police spokesman who said the document was guidance for officers and was published "with good intentions".
Politics take centre stage on the front page of the News Letter.
The paper's headline stresses that talks on parades "must be key" in any political deal at Stormont. Orangeman Darryl Hewitt tells the paper that parades are as important as legacy issues and "anything else on the agenda."
"Until it is addressed, tensions are always going to be high around the marching season," he said.
The paper notes that he was speaking as the 2017 marching season got under way in Northern Ireland on Monday.
Inside, a series of photographs mark the Apprentice Boys of Derry Easter Monday parade in Ballynahinch.
The News Letter also carries photographs from a dissident republican parade in Londonderry and quotes DUP MP Gregory Campbell who calls them an "unwelcome throwback" to the past.
The Daily Mirror features "popular Aussie blogger" Constance Hall, "a mum on a mission" who is heading for a gig in Belfast.
The Mirror says her blog following rocketed from 2,000 to 70,000 followers overnight after she posted her thoughts on "parent sex".
But those hoping to catch a few pearls of wisdom may think again: Her Belfast gig is already sold out. | The story of a police raid for illegal abortion pills that happened on International Women's Day makes front-page headlines in the Belfast Telegraph. | 39626719 |
Under-20s sides from top-flight clubs featured in this season's Challenge Cup.
And Celtic's colt team went furthest in the tournament, losing at the last-32 stage.
"It is not just about Celtic, it is about Scottish football and what is best for the national team and the leagues," said Kennedy.
"If they can make it happen and pretty much make everyone happy as well, it is a positive thing.
"Our young lads have had a great experience this season with the cup.
"Obviously they lost to Livingston at the weekend but that is part and parcel of first-team football and it is a wake-up for them.
"They had a great result against Annan and Cowdenbeath and they lose against Livingston and that is the reality of that type of football. It can only be beneficial for them.
"So it is important for Scottish football to look at it and try to make it happen."
Kennedy believes playing against senior sides is "crucially important for the development of our players".
"We have a lot of players who go out on loan to other clubs and it is great to get that experience," he explained.
"But they do go to other clubs that play in a different style and have different methods and it almost knocks them out of sync a little bit in terms of what we do with them, what we are trying to teach them, because all of a sudden they are being told something different.
"We do have some fantastic clubs who take our players and do a very good job but I think it would make things a lot simpler if we could keep things in-house."
The possibility of colt teams playing in Scotland's league set-up has previously been mentioned in connection with proposals for Celtic and Rangers playing in cross-border leagues.
But Scottish Professional Football League chief executive Neil Doncaster says any involvement of under-20s teams in the senior leagues "deserves a proper conversation with all clubs".
"If you look at the situation in Germany and Spain, where colt teams have been a feature of the league set-up for some years, the general view is that colt teams assist player development and they give talented young players real experience against seasoned professionals," he said.
"We've seen that this year in the Irn-Bru [Challenge] Cup and the feedback from Premiership teams is that the players have benefited from those games. Let's keep an open mind about what the future holds.
"Any structural change requires and indeed deserves a proper conversation with all clubs. We need to understand what all clubs want and why they want it." | Celtic first-team coach John Kennedy has backed the idea of Premiership colt teams playing in Scotland's leagues. | 37289353 |
Or at least that is how it seems.
This is a candidate who has to win on 7 May. If he fails to become the next MP for South Thanet he has said he will quit as leader.
Yet I have seen no door-knocking. Our cameras have not been told of any public event, yet.
We have had two poster-unveiling ceremonies with impromptu leader interviews. He arrives, he speaks, he answers questions, then he leaves.
He stayed for a brief coffee at the seaside event today, but most of the accompanying media - including myself - were locked out of a nearby pub while he sat inside, speaking to a very small, select group of journalists.
Today it was immigration, UKIP's big issue. The number one issue in this election, according to Nigel Farage. He unveiled a poster, answered some questions, then went on his way after an hour or so.
Main pledges
Policy guide: Where the parties stand
The UKIP leader says the public will not start paying attention to this campaign until after Easter.
At the same time, his party does not have the money for the busy bus-centred start that some of the others have gone for. And perhaps the reality is that the campaign has been up and running since the new year; this is merely a continuation.
But Nigel Farage does not look like a man fighting for every vote in the Kent countryside. Perhaps he is, and UKIP does not want us, or you, to see that. Or perhaps he has gone for the slow start on purpose. It's possible he doesn't want to bore people, or that he wants to appear different to the other candidates.
He is off on Wednesday attending a private event, for which his absence is completely understandable. Then on Thursday he is behind closed doors preparing for that evening's seven-way TV election debate. Then it is his birthday. I suspect he will pop up on Friday if he has done well in the debate.
There is no question that Nigel Farage works hard. He is frenetically busy, and has been for years. He, more than the other leaders, carries the weight of his party's success on his shoulders.
But it has been a slow start so far. Or at least it looks like that. | I am not sure if it is by design or if he just wants a slow start, but two days in to this general election campaign and UKIP leader Nigel Farage appears to be taking it easy. | 32137293 |
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Darren Pratley spared bottom-of-the-Championship Bolton's blushes when he pounced on a loose ball in the area to equalise three minutes from time.
Eastleigh - the lowest ranked team left in the cup - led through a Dorian Dervite own goal just after half-time.
The centre-back turned Jai Reason's dangerous cross past his own goalkeeper as an upset looked on.
Reaction to Saturday's FA Cup third-round games
The game in Hampshire survived three pitch inspections before finally going ahead.
A crowd of more than 5,000 squeezed into the ground just a short walk from Southampton Airport and almost saw the home side reach the fourth round for the first time in their 70-year history.
Bolton, dogged by financial problems, brought 1,000 of their own supporters, who nearly had a wasted journey.
Bolton survived a tricky start as Eastleigh striker Yemi Odubade caused problems down the flanks and through the middle.
After the Spitfires took the lead, they came within inches of doubling it 14 minutes from time when Andy Drury's goal-bound shot was scrambled off the line by David Wheater.
Pratley looked Bolton's most dangerous threat in attack and was denied in each half by fine saves from home keeper Ross Flitney before eventually firing home unmarked from Liam Feeney's corner.
And though the Trotters escaped with a replay, they will have to battle past a dogged Eastleigh if they are to come close to matching their 2011 run to the semi-finals.
The game was only given the go-ahead 90 minutes before kick-off.
Referee Iain Williamson deliberated with both managers before giving the match the green light.
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Following the postponement of Eastleigh's National League game against Bromley last weekend and a week of heavy showers, a round-the-clock effort from ground staff and volunteers kept the surface just dry enough.
Bolton manager Neil Lennon delayed naming his side until the pitch was finally declared fit.
And, after the game, it was announced that Bolton had accepted bids for striker Zach Clough and defender Mark Davies, both of whom were excluded.
Conditions failed to improve when the game did eventually start.
Large areas of the surface immediately cut up, puddles formed in some quarters and both goalkeepers looked uncertain when clearing their lines.
Eastleigh keeper Flitney nearly opened the scoring in bizarre fashion when his long clearance bounced off a rare dry patch and almost lobbed his opposite number Ben Amos.
Rain started to fall moments before kick-off and continued throughout the first half.
But, the showers ceased during the interval, just in time for the hosts to take the lead through Dervite's error.
Eastleigh manager Chris Todd told BBC Radio Solent: "The players put absolutely everything into it and they've given a performance that deserved a win.
"The scenes when we took the lead were incredible. It's something we've never seen before, but it just goes to show what could happen if we achieve what we want to as a football club.
"They won't be too keen on us coming to their place as we've shown how good we can be and the problems we can cause them and it's going to be an interesting game when the return comes."
Bolton manager Neil Lennon: "I wasn't overly happy with the pitch, one of the worst pitches I have ever seen, but we travelled.
"The referee did say that if it rained he would call it off but I didn't really fancy coming back so thankfully the game went ahead.
"The pitch was a huge problem with how the game panned out. The pitch is a leveller, they played very well, this is their big day."
Match ends, Eastleigh 1, Bolton Wanderers 1.
Second Half ends, Eastleigh 1, Bolton Wanderers 1.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Josh Payne.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Paul Reid.
Shola Ameobi (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Paul Reid (Eastleigh).
Jai Reason (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card.
Kaiyne Woolery (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card.
Ross Flitney (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Eastleigh 1, Bolton Wanderers 1. Darren Pratley (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Rob Holding following a corner.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Dan Harding.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Kaiyne Woolery replaces Gary Madine.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Liam Trotter replaces Neil Danns.
Offside, Bolton Wanderers. Wellington tries a through ball, but Shola Ameobi is caught offside.
Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Will Evans (Eastleigh).
Attempt missed. Josh Payne (Eastleigh) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Jai Reason with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Eastleigh. Conceded by David Wheater.
Back pass by Ben Amos (Bolton Wanderers).
(Eastleigh) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Darren Pratley (Bolton Wanderers).
Jai Reason (Eastleigh) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match (Bolton Wanderers).
Attempt saved. Andy Drury (Eastleigh) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kaid Mohamed.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Paul Reid.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Joe Partington.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Will Evans.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Will Evans.
Dean Moxey (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Partington (Eastleigh).
Offside, Eastleigh. Josh Payne tries a through ball, but James Constable is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Dean Moxey (Bolton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Darren Pratley.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Shola Ameobi replaces Josh Vela.
Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Will Evans (Eastleigh).
Wellington (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ben Strevens (Eastleigh).
Corner, Eastleigh. Conceded by David Wheater.
Attempt saved. Josh Payne (Eastleigh) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. | Non-league side Eastleigh came within minutes of upsetting Bolton as their FA Cup third-round tie ended all-square. | 35211427 |
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The Italian had been under pressure after a run of just two wins in their last 15 Premier League games.
However, the Foxes said in a statement that "the entire club is and will remain united behind its manager".
"This is not a crisis," Ranieri said following the club's backing.
"When you aren't winning you lose confidence, it is normal."
Leicester play Derby County at home in an FA Cup fourth round replay on Wednesday and club chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha will be flying in from Thailand for the game - but also to give a public show of support to Ranieri.
Leicester are 16th and are without a league win in 2017.
Foxes goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel called the club's title defence "embarrassing" after Sunday's 3-0 defeat at home to Manchester United.
Leicester acknowledged that "recent form needs to improve", but said Ranieri would be given the opportunity to turn things around.
"The unprecedented success achieved in recent seasons has been based firmly on stability, togetherness and determination to overcome the greatest of challenges," the club said.
Ranieri guided Leicester to the Premier League title last season despite the Foxes being 5,000-1 shots.
They won the league by 10 points but face becoming the first defending champions to be relegated since 1938, after winning just five league games so far this season.
Recent reports suggested Ranieri had lost the support of his players, with the 65-year-old's squad tinkering and supposed ban on chicken burgers angering some of the Leicester squad.
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However, Ranieri denied any unrest and said he has "a fantastic relationship" with his squad.
"The dressing room is fantastic," he said.
"Never have I seen a chicken burger, only deep fried chicken. It's fantastic.
"The dressing room is fantastic. We try to do our best, but this season everything is wrong."
BBC Radio Leicester's Jason Bourne:
"Claudio was upbeat and thoroughly charming as he showed no signs of pressure during his news conference this afternoon.
"Leicester City are struggling in the Premier League and haven't scored a goal in the competition since 31 December, but you wouldn't know it from speaking to him today.
"He suggested the club's statement was for us in the media rather than for him - but what it does show is that the club are prepared to be patient with him.
"Nigel Pearson initially struggled in his first season in the top-flight but the club backed him and he led them to the 'greatest escape'.
"Here's my concern, though. There was real evidence of fight then but I'm not so sure that steeliness and determination is as prevalent now. I fear for the club this season, but they do have the capability to stay up. I hope they go out there and prove themselves once again.
"Kasper Schmeichel has come out with some strong words and the rest of the players could do well to heed his advice." | Leicester City have given their "unwavering support" to manager Claudio Ranieri despite the reigning Premier League champions being just one point above the relegation zone. | 38896070 |
Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has appointed eight people to work on the renewal of the BBC's royal charter - which sets out the corporation's remit.
Dawn Airey, former boss of Channel 5, and Dame Colette Bowe, former chairwoman of Ofcom, are among the advisers.
The current BBC charter is set to expire at the end of 2016.
Ms Airey, who is an executive at Yahoo, has previously called for the licence fee to be cut and to consider charging for website output.
Meanwhile, The Sunday Times has reported that a government green paper is due to be published on Thursday which will ask fundamental questions about the BBC's role, including whether it should stop chasing viewers and provide more public service programmes.
The green paper will look at exploring options to replace the £145.50 licence fee, with a household tax or subscription system, the paper said.
It will also suggest that the BBC website should be scaled back, question whether the corporation's news fulfils its obligation to be impartial, examine whether more of the broadcaster's output should be independently produced and consider the future of BBC Worldwide - the corporation's commercial arm - the paper reported.
The Sunday Times also said the green paper would look at replacing the BBC Trust with Ofcom.
Mr Whittingdale said: "Each member of the independent advisory group brings individual skills, experience and expertise.
"Together they will contribute to the oversight of the government's review of the BBC royal charter. I look forward to working with them on this important issue."
Other members of the panel include: Shazam executive chairman Andrew Fisher, Arts Council England boss Darren Henley, Johnston Press chief executive Ashley Highfield, former Shine Group chief executive Alex Mahon, digital entrepreneur Lopa Patel and journalism professor Stewart Purvis, a former editor-in-chief of ITN.
Mr Whittingdale's predecessor Sajid Javid, now business secretary, said the charter review should address what the BBC broadcasts and its "internet capabilities".
The discussion about changes to the BBC around licence fee renewal time was nothing new, he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, but bigger issues needed to be dealt with in the charter review. He refused to be drawn on whether the BBC should be smaller.
Labour's shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt, accused the government of an "unpatriotic" approach to the BBC which, he said, was part of the British identity and "one of our great public institutions".
Sir Michael Lyons, chairman of the BBC Trust from 2007 to 2011 said the corporation was coming under "intense pressure" and was facing a "hand-picked panel by John Whittingdale replacing the Trust... and not even a mention of how the public, who pay for the BBC are going to be involved".
"I think this is a matter for real concern," he added.
He said there was always room for debate over what the BBC does but the government's approach "feels like the beating up of the BBC to make it more compliant, less bold and that's really not in our national interest".
Earlier this month the BBC announced, after negotiations with the government, that it would take on the £750m cost of free TV licences for people over the age of 75.
BBC director general Tony Hall said the deal gave the corporation "financial stability and the ability to plan for the future".
However writing in the Observer Lord Hall said the negotiation process should not happen again.
He writes that "...although the BBC used this pre-Budget window of opportunity to reach a fair deal, it is not a process we would have chosen and it is not a process that should be repeated.
"I believe that for future negotiations the debate about the BBC's scale and funding should be taken out of the political cycle." | The government has set up an advisory panel to carry out a fundamental review of the BBC. | 33496925 |
Habib Essid had noted several security deficiencies during a visit to the museum, his office said.
The Islamic State (IS) said it carried out the attack on the museum in the capital, Tunis, killing at least 22 people, mostly European tourists.
Two of the gunmen were killed by the security forces, while a third was on the run, the president said.
"There were certainly three attackers... there is one who is on the run, he won't get far," President Beji Caid Essebsi said on Sunday.
The attack was the deadliest in Tunisia since the uprising which led to the overthrow of long-serving ruler Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.
The police chiefs of Tunis and the museum were among those dismissed, Mr Essid's spokesman Mofdi Mssedi told AFP news agency.
Mr Essebsi said in an interview with French media that a monument would be erected in memory of the victims.
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Cradle of 'Arab Spring' under threat
Suspects have been arrested over the attack but just two gunmen were thought to have raided the museum.
They are said to have been trained in Libya in an area controlled by Islamic State (IS) militants.
The two gunmen seen in footage released by the interior ministry were named as Yassine Laabidi and Hatem Khachnaoui.
They were both killed in a gunfight with security forces inside the building.
In an earlier interview with Paris Match, Mr Essebsi said that "shortcomings" in Tunisia's security system meant "the police and intelligence services had not been thorough enough in protecting the museum".
However, he added that the security services "reacted very efficiently" to the attack and had helped save dozens of lives.
At least 20 foreigners were among those killed in the attack, including British, Japanese, French, Italian and Colombian tourists.
Following the attack, large numbers of Tunisians gathered outside the museum to protest against terrorism.
Tunisia has seen an upsurge in Islamist extremism since the 2011 revolution - the event that sparked the Arab Spring.
The leader of Tunisia's moderate Islamist party, Ennadha, says the country will continue to be under threat of attack as long as neighbouring Libya remains unstable.
Rached Ghannouchi told the BBC that IS would not be able to establish a foothold in Tunisia itself but young men were being armed in Libya and crossing borders that were hard to control. | Tunisia's prime minister has sacked six police chiefs following last week's attack on the famous Bardo Museum. | 32018405 |
The Premier League champions confirmed the move for the Ghana international, 21, on their club website with Augsburg saying the fee will remain undisclosed.
Chelsea had been linked with the left-back after allowing Brazil international Filipe Luis to re-join Atletico Madrid earlier this summer.
He said: "I am very happy to sign for one of the biggest clubs in the world."
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, whose side lost 3-0 at Manchester City on Sunday, said: "It is important because he is a left-back, so he can compete with [Cesar] Azpilicueta.
"At the same time, Azpilicueta can compete with [Branislav] Ivanovic for the right-back position, so he replaces Filipe Luis in the balance of the squad."
Rahman spent 12 months with Augsburg after signing from SpVgg Greuther Fürth in August 2014, making 31 appearances for the Bavarian club last season as they qualified for the Europa League.
He was also a member of Ghana's Africa Cup of Nations squad which lost in the final to Ivory Coast in February. | Chelsea have agreed a deal to sign defender Baba Rahman from Bundesliga side FC Augsburg. | 33953803 |
Following the 5-0 Ashes loss in Australia, Flower denied claims that he would leave if Pietersen remained in the England team.
I'm sure what's being reported is nowhere near the truth
"We went through tough times and people want to make up stories," said Saker.
"Kevin has been the same as he has always been. I'm sure what's being reported is nowhere near the truth."
Flower pledged to continue as team director after the Ashes whitewash but doubts remain over the future of Alastair Cook.
He admitted he may step down as one-day skipper after losing the one-day international series in Australia.
A decision to rest Pietersen for the five-match ODI series and three Twenty20 internationals was made in December and he is now back in England, while Flower is not involved with the one-day team and is preparing for the home Test series with Sri Lanka in May.
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"The relationship between Kevin Pietersen and Andy Flower hasn't changed from where I'm sitting," Saker added. "That's what happens. When you are losing these things come out quite often."
Meanwhile, Saker, who replaced Ottis Gibson in 2010 and agreed a new contract to 2015 last October, also spoke of his frustration at not being able to improve the fortunes of fast bowler Steven Finn, who left the tour after being deemed "unselectable" because of poor form.
"We've been trying really hard over the whole time he was here," Saker said. "We were getting close at times and at other times we were going backwards. He's a fantastic kid and going forward he's going to be a big part of the future of English cricket." | England bowling coach David Saker has dismissed reports of a rift between team director Andy Flower and batsman Kevin Pietersen. | 25839755 |
Bowery, 25, scored twice in 18 appearances for Crewe during a loan spell from Leyton Orient in 2016-17.
"I think he improves us," said Alex manager David Artell.
Guthrie, 24, is set to join an unnamed League One club, while fellow out-of-contract defender Ollie Turton held talks over his future on Tuesday.
"I had a conversation with Jon and he told me that he wanted to leave, which was fine," added Artell.
"He said that we could have not have done anything more to convince him to stay."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Crewe Alexandra have signed striker Jordan Bowery on a two-year contract, while defender Jon Guthrie is leaving after five years at the club. | 40015966 |
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