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Kian Delos Santos was shot by police who said he was involved in the drugs trade and had resisted arrest.
But surveillance footage appears to show the 17-year-old being dragged away by plainclothes officers.
Evidence suggests he was kneeling, faced down, when he was killed.
Hundreds of mourners attended his funeral in the capital, Manila.
Some held placards calling for an end to President Duterte's violent campaign.
The drive has been supported by many who are fed up with drug-related crime in the Philippines.
Nuns, priests and hundreds of children chanting "justice for Kian, justice for all" joined the cortege from a church to the cemetery where the boy was buried, Reuters news agency reports.
His father, Saldy, had spoken briefly during the Mass to insist on his son's innocence and vent his anger at the police.
"Don't they have a heart?" he asked, his voice cracking with emotion. "I'm not sure they do. There's a lot of churches, they should go there."
Father Robert Reyes was one of several Catholic priests who celebrated the Mass.
"Kian is the name and face of the truth," he was quoted as saying by AFP news agency. "We must not allow the truth to die with Kian's murder".
The boy's parents and lawyers filed a murder complaint against three drug squad police officers on Friday.
Human rights groups have accused Philippine police of planning extrajudicial killings and in some cases profiting from them.
Police have maintained that the suspects are killed when they offer armed resistance to police, a claim that has been highly disputed.
Mr Duterte suspended the campaign in January promising to "clean up" the police, and re-organise the anti-drug units. The campaign resumed in March. | The funeral has taken place in the Philippines of a teenager whose death sparked anger at President Rodrigo Duterte's anti-drugs campaign, which has led to thousands being killed. | 41062242 |
The foreign exchange broker said in a statement that the move had created "exceptional volatility and extreme lack of liquidity".
As a result, the majority of Alpari clients had "sustained losses".
The euro rose 1.2% on Friday to buy 0.9869 Swiss francs.
Thursday's euro-franc close was 0.9755, well above its lowest point of 0.85 following the sudden removal of the cap.
"Where a client cannot cover this loss, it is passed on to us," it said. "This has forced Alpari (UK) Limited to confirm today that it has entered into insolvency."
The Financial Conduct Authority said it was "working closely" with the company.
West Ham said Alpari's collapse would not affect the club, which was in talks with potential new shirt sponsors for next year.
The SNB shocked markets on Thursday by reversing a three-year-old policy.
The bank had previously capped the value of the franc at 1.20 per euro.
At one point on Thursday, following the decision to abandon the cap, the franc soared more than 30% against the euro.
Derek Halpenny, a currency strategist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, described the currency move as "unprecedented".
The euro regained some ground on Friday, rising 2.5% to 1.01 francs.
Alpari, which signed a £3m, three-year deal with West Ham in 2013, is one of a number of companies to be affected by the volatility caused by the SNB's action.
Shares in US forex trading group FXCM were suspended shortly before trading began in New York on Friday after the stock plunged by 90% in pre-market dealing.
FXCM said on Thursday it might not be able to meet certain regulatory capital requirements due to "unprecedented volatility" after clients suffered losses of $225m.
The US market regulator, the National Futures Association, said it was in "constant contact" with FXCM.
"We've been watching the volatility in light of the activities that occurred early yesterday morning, so we are monitoring all of our firms," a NFA spokesperson said.
The Swiss National Bank's decision on Thursday to abandon attempts to fix the Swiss Franc against the euro resulted in the "Swissie" rising by 30%. It was probably the largest one-day movement by a major currency since the First World War.
The reasoning for the move were fears that the eurozone will soon start printing money. That is almost certain to cut the value of the euro and boost that of safe haven currencies, such as the franc. In short, the Swiss could no longer afford to hold the line.
The consequences are just beginning to be felt. Alpari, one foreign exchange broker, has gone bust, while another has lost £30m.
Yet it is the Swiss who have lost most, as the cost of their exports will now soar.
If you were thinking of treating yourself to a nice Swiss watch for the new year, you might want to check your bank balance first. It is likely to be 15% more expensive than it was on Wednesday.
New Zealand foreign exchange dealer Global Brokers NZ was also forced to close due to hefty losses incurred from the currency turmoil.
Following the closure, New Zealand's Financial Market Authority said it would "be seeking assurances that the client funds have been protected and segregated."
Other forex companies also suffered losses. IG Index said it would lose some £30m following the turmoil.
CMC Markets also recorded losses, but chief executive Peter Cruddas said the overall impact had not materially affected the group. "It's business as usual," he said. | West Ham football club sponsor and currency broker Alpari has shut its UK arm following the Swiss National Bank's decision to end its capping of the Swiss franc against the euro. | 30846543 |
The council brought in the mandatory training last year after the Rotherham child sex abuse scandal inquiry found taxi drivers had played a "prominent role" in the abuse.
Eleven drivers who have not yet attended the course could have their licences suspended unless they comply.
The council said feedback was positive.
Conwy council was the first in north Wales to launch the courses, which aims to raise awareness of the issue, give advice on the signs and symptoms to look out for and what to do if they suspect abuse.
A report to councillors said 340 drivers - 97% of those licensed in the county - had now attended.
Members are now looking at options on the action to take against those who do not comply.
They include revoking or suspending their licences, considering licence renewal applications or holding a meeting to hear their representations on why they have not attended.
Licensing officers are also in talks with children's charity Barnardo's over the feasibility of introducing an online course, which has already been done in other parts of the country. | More than 300 taxi drivers in Denbighshire have completed training to help spot the signs of child sexual exploitation. | 39165704 |
The 79-year-old great-grandfather was stabbed on the A24 in Findon, West Sussex, after a minor collision with another vehicle on Thursday evening.
Matthew Daley, 34, of St Elmo Road, Worthing, was remanded in custody by Crawley magistrates until Tuesday, when he is due before Hove Crown Court.
He is also accused of possessing a knife in a public place.
The family of Mr Lock, who died as a result of stab wounds, have described him as "gentle, kind and loving".
The retired solicitor had recently celebrated his 55th wedding anniversary with his wife Maureen and had also been given the all-clear from cancer. | A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of pensioner Donald Lock in an alleged "road-rage" attack. | 33596562 |
The 23-year-old received a five-year ban from all cricket and served three months in prison.
He has been selected to tour New Zealand this month for three Twenty20 and three one-day internationals.
However, the Pakistan Cricket Board said it is dependent on him receiving a visa from the New Zealand government.
Amir was one of three Pakistan players jailed in November 2011 for his part in a conspiracy to bowl deliberate no-balls against England the previous year, when he was only 18.
He was released from Portland Prison in Dorset in February 2012 after serving half of a six-month sentence.
His suspension originally covered all forms of the game but in January last year he was cleared to play domestic cricket in Pakistan.
Amir was selected for a Pakistan training session last month, which Pakistan one-day captain Azhar Ali and former skipper Mohammad Hafeez refused to join in protest at his inclusion.
Ali and Hafeez later reversed their decision and the PCB said Ali would remain as one-day captain after they rejected his offer to resign over Amir's presence. | Fast bowler Mohammad Amir has been named in the Pakistan squad for the first time since his conviction for spot fixing in the Lord's Test in 2010. | 35209291 |
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) made the seizures between 7 September and 31 October as part of its ongoing initiative, Operation Torus.
The campaign runs twice a year and is targeted at street-level drug dealing.
Det Supt Andrea McMullan said it had been successful in recent years, adding these figures continued that trend.
"To have taken £1.35m worth of drugs off the streets is further evidence of our commitment to acting on information provided by communities to reduce the harm posed by dangerous and illegal drugs," she said.
Over the course of almost eight weeks, PSNI officers conducted 1,166 drug searches across Northern Ireland.
They made 532 arrests and charged 44 suspects with drugs offences.
Officers reported a further 74 people to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS).
The operation was launched in August 2012 and uses billboard adverting, posters and social media to enlist the public's help to catch drug dealers.
Ms McMullan thanked them for their assistance in providing police with information and said the drugs trade had a "devastating impact" on communities.
She added: "An interesting supplementary benefit has been that 181 motoring offences were detected during the course of the operation, keeping people safer on the roads as well as from drugs." | The police made more than 700 drugs seizures, recovering drugs with a total value of £1.35m, in the latest phase of their operation against street dealers. | 35156783 |
Yr Ysgwrn, near Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, houses the bard's National Eisteddfod chair, posthumously awarded at the annual Welsh cultural festival in 1917.
He died in action at Passchendaele, Belgium, six weeks before the festival.
Snowdonia National Park Authority said Yr Ysgwrn had inspired several of his most well-known poems. Work to restore the property begins this summer.
The park authority has received £2.8m in heritage lottery funding to safeguard the home and other buildings which belonged to Ellis Humphrey Evans, who wrote under the name Hedd Wyn.
Efforts to save Yr Ysgwrn, a Grade II* listed building, started after his nephew Gerald Williams raised concerns in 2009.
Project manager Sian Griffiths said: "What is vitally important is that we keep the atmosphere of Yr Ysgwrn."
The plans include opening the farmhouse to the public, including the buttery, pantry and bedrooms with interpretation focusing on the life and work of Hedd Wyn.
And the Beudy Llwyd (an old cow house) will be converted to include a reception, cafe and an exhibition room. | Plans to preserve the home of World War One poet Hedd Wyn and turn it into a heritage centre go on show on Saturday. | 32454095 |
The 37-year-old, who is running for a senate seat in his native Philippines, later apologised for his comments.
"We find Manny Pacquiao's comments abhorrent," said a Nike statement.
"Nike strongly opposes discrimination of any kind and has a long history of supporting and standing up for the rights of the LGBT community."
The sportswear company added: "We no longer have a relationship with Manny Pacquiao."
Pacquiao's original remark was made in a television interview and he initially appeared unrepentant, writing on Instagram that he was "just telling the truth of what the Bible says".
However, he later wrote on Facebook he was "not condemning LGBT", while still voicing his opposition for gay marriage.
Pacquiao, whose last fight was a defeat by Floyd Mayweather in May, is due to fight American Timothy Bradley Jr in Las Vegas in April.
British world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury apologised in December for criticising homosexuality, as well as derogatory remarks he made about women.
But boxing promoter Frank Warren told BBC Radio 5 live that the sport did not have a problem with homophobia.
"No matter what walk of life you come from there are bigots," said Warren. "I don't think it's a problem for boxing. In Tyson Fury's case I hope it was something he said on the spur of the moment. He regrets it.
"You can't condemn all of sport because of people's stupid remarks. They are two boxers out of many thousands of boxers.
"Pacquiao's certainly lost any type of sponsorship. That's all finished. No-one's ever going to sponsor him again.
"The majority of the fans will be totally abhorred about what he said, but that is going be the test - how many people decide they want to watch him fight." | Nike has terminated its relationship with Manny Pacquiao after the six-weight world champion described homosexuals as "worse than animals". | 35600341 |
The criticism came from lawyers acting for the Arkinson family.
Arlene, 15, from Castlederg, went missing in August 1994.
Her body has never been found. Robert Howard, who died in prison last year, was the main suspect.
A retired police officer defended the handling of the case but said he was unable to provide an explanation for the delay in arresting Howard.
"I unfortunately am not in a position to give a reason why there was such a delay," said Neil Graham, a former detective inspector.
"I would love to give a reason."
Mr Graham added that all elements in a high-profile case would have been considered by a senior team.
He said that despite a significant number of searches, including a search of Howard's flat, there has never been any forensic evidence found.
"The concept of police pursuing a successful criminal investigation in the absence of evidence or a body had not been tested in any form," he said.
"I have no doubt that the senior investigating officer would have been very mindful of those facts, particularly in consultation with the prosecution service."
The inquest also heard from a detective constable who arrested Howard in 2004 on suspicion of the murder.
He said that he had a conversation with Howard in which the suspect "opened up to him".
He recalled Howard asking: "Assuming that I could help, where would I serve my time?"
The witness said that the matter was not pursued by him or, he believed, by a senior officer he had given the information to. | The police investigation into the disappearance of County Tyrone teenager Arlene Arkinson was a case of the "left hand not knowing what the right was doing", an inquest into her death has heard. | 35824299 |
The star made the comedy shorts Dearth of a Salesman and Insomnia is Good For You in 1957 as he tried to make his name as a film actor.
The two 30-minute films were originally salvaged from a skip outside a film company's office in 1996 before being forgotten about again.
They will be screened at the Southend Film Festival next May.
By Will GompertzArts editor
These films capture Sellers at a career crossroads.
He's nailed the radio with The Goons, and made a good start in TV and film. Now he wants to be a screen star.
They feel more like a TV sit-com than short movies. A pilot Peter Sellers half-hour perhaps, to rival Tony Hancock's, which had successfully transferred to telly the year earlier.
Sellers was already a radio star thanks to the BBC's The Goon Show when the films were made, but he had yet to establish himself as a screen actor.
He went on to earn big screen success in films like The Naked Truth, The Pink Panther and Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
The two rediscoveries were spoof government information films.
Sellers played a number of different parts and treated them almost as "show reels" to demonstrate "his considerable talents", according to Paul Cotgrove from The White Bus, which runs the Southend Film Festival.
Mr Cotgrove was given the films by building manager Robert Farrow.
Mr Farrow had spotted the 21 film cans as he was overseeing the clearout of Park Lane Films' former office in London before its refurbishment in 1996.
"[I] thought they would be good for storing my Super 8 collection in," said Mr Farrow, who admitted he thought about throwing the films away before putting them in a cupboard until a recent clear-out of his own home.
"It was then I realised they were two Sellers films including the negatives, titles, show prints, outtakes and the master print. It was amazing," explained Mr Farrow.
Mr Cotgrove, who is now getting the films digitally restored, told the BBC they captured Sellers "in a period when he was experimenting".
"They're kind of a pastiche of the public information films at the time," he said. "They're not riotous comedy, they're just good fun to look at."
Actor Neil Pearson, who is also a rare books collector and dealer, had also looked into the star's early films after buying the only known remaining script for Insomnia is Good For You.
"The BFI doesn't have a copy - it's a lost Peter Sellers film," he said.
Pearson said the films had "quietly disappeared" after being left "redundant" when Sellers' career took off later that year.
"They were clearly designed to be made on the cheap and, from Peter's point of view, to put him forward as a potential movie star," he said.
The films will be shown on the opening night of the Southend Film Festival on 1 May.
Mark Cousins from The Peter Sellers Appreciation Society said the discoveries, which are the final two of three missing films, were "very exciting" and helped to "complete the canon of his legacy".
"These early films, although they're only shorts, are quite important because they were really made before he hit the big time," he said.
"They are missing pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. [Sellers] is very well known for his later works such as Dr Strangelove and the Pink Panther films and these help to give people an appreciation of how he got there."
Dearth of a Salesman is believed to feature Judith Wyler, daughter of the Academy Award-winning film director William Wyler, and both films were co-written by Canadian screenwriter and author Mordecai Richler.
However, little else is known about them and Cotgrove said the festival wanted to hear from anyone who was involved in their creation. | Two "lost" films starring actor Peter Sellers are to be shown in public for the first time in more than 50 years. | 25300460 |
The 24-year-old, who signed a new Tigers contract on Monday, has been out for 14 months with a groin injury.
Tuilagi gained two and a half stone on during a holiday in Samoa, weight he has now lost.
"The indications are good," said Leicester director of rugby Richard Cockerill. "January is not far away. I'd like to think he'll be near playing in the next few weeks."
Tuilagi's three-year contract makes him one of the Premiership's highest paid players.
Cockerill says he is worth the investment despite spending so long on the sidelines during a period when he was also convicted of assaulting two female police officers and a taxi driver.
"He is worth the gamble," he said. "He's been here a long time and has played a lot of rugby for us.
"Clearly he's had some injury issues but you have to support people through those situations. I've no doubt Manu will repay that faith by how he plays." | England centre Manu Tuilagi is in line to return for Leicester next month. | 35046822 |
James McCafferty was released from prison in March and Police Scotland had been searching for him since 25 April.
A police appeal said Mr McCafferty was known to visit the Stobswell and Hilltown areas of Dundee and may have been sleeping rough. | A 35-year-old man wanted by police after his licence to leave prison was revoked by the parole board has been arrested. | 39895933 |
The Tynesiders followed up Saturday's 3-0 win over Chester to leave Southport, who were beaten 3-0 by Dagenham & Redbridge at the weekend, still looking for their first point and goal of the campaign.
The Sandgrounders' best effort came when forward Louis Almond hit the post early on with a deflected effort but, on the stroke of half-time, Danny Johnson broke the deadlock, bearing down on goal before finding the corner.
With four minutes of normal time to go Wes York, who scored twice on Saturday, did well to find an empty net after Ryan Bowman forced goalkeeper Tyrell Belford into a hurried clearance.
Substitute Mitch Brundle lashed home in the last minute to complete the scoring.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Southport 0, Gateshead 3.
Second Half ends, Southport 0, Gateshead 3.
Goal! Southport 0, Gateshead 3. Mitch Brundle (Gateshead).
Goal! Southport 0, Gateshead 2. Wes York (Gateshead).
Substitution, Southport. Ashley Grimes replaces Liam Nolan.
Substitution, Gateshead. Mitch Brundle replaces Danny Johnson.
Substitution, Southport. Connor McCarthy replaces James Gray.
Substitution, Southport. John Cofie replaces Louis Almond.
Substitution, Gateshead. Ryan Bowman replaces Reece Styche.
Second Half begins Southport 0, Gateshead 1.
First Half ends, Southport 0, Gateshead 1.
Goal! Southport 0, Gateshead 1. Danny Johnson (Gateshead).
Liam Hogan (Gateshead) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Neil Ashton (Southport) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Gateshead made it two 3-0 wins from two matches in the National League this season, beating Southport at Haig Avenue. | 36949610 |
City is centre of Art Nouveau architecture
1918 November - Latvian National Council proclaims Latvia an independent sovereign state.
1918-20 - Civil war, ending in peace treaty with Soviet Russia.
1922 - First constitution promulgated.
1934 - PM Karlis Ulmanis seizes absolute power following succession of unstable governments.
1940 - Soviet troops invade Latvia following Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939. Latvia incorporated into the Soviet Union along with the other two Baltic republics. Mass deportations of Latvians opposed to Soviet rule.
1941 - Nazi forces invade. Some 75,000 Latvian Jews were killed during the German occupation, many of them by Latvian paramilitary and police units established under the Nazis.
1944 - Red Army returns, presaging more deportations of Latvians and repression of resistance to sovietisation.
1986 - First anti-Soviet demonstrations held by nationalist and environmental activists.
1988 - Latvian People's Front formed to promote the cause of independence.
1989 - Latvians join pan-Baltic demonstrations commemorating secret protocols of Molotov-Ribbentrop pact which led to Soviet occupation.
1990 May - Latvian Supreme Council (parliament) declares "de jure" independence of Republic of Latvia. Ivars Godmanis of the People's Front becomes prime minister.
1991 January - As part of pro-Soviet forces' activities against the independence movement, Omon Soviet special police force storms Latvian Interior Ministry in Riga, resulting in six deaths.
Demonstrators show their desire for independence by forming a 600-km human chain across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
1991 March - Referendum produces large majority in favour of independence.
1991 August - During the attempted anti-Gorbachev coup in Moscow, Omon force again strikes in Riga, causing another six deaths. Supreme Council declares full independence.
1991 September - Latvia admitted to UN.
1991 November - Citizenship law passed, giving citizenship to those who held it before Soviet occupation of 1940 and their descendants.
1993 - Restoration of 1922 constitution.
1993 June - First independent elections to Saeima, the 100-seat parliament.
1993 July - Guntis Ulmanis elected president.
At independence Latvians got rid of symbols of Soviet rule
Latvians poke fun at Soviet past
1994 August - Last former Soviet/Russian troops leave Latvia.
1995 - Latvia admitted to Council of Europe.
1996 - Ulmanis re-elected.
1999 - Following end of term in office of President Ulmanis, Vaira Vike-Freiberga is elected president - the first woman president in Eastern Europe.
2001 - Riga celebrates 800th anniversary.
2002 May - Parliament votes to change election law in a bid to boost Nato membership chances. The new law omits a clause requiring parliamentary candidates to be Latvian speakers, a provision seen by human rights experts as discriminatory towards the Russian minority.
2002 November - Einars Repse of the New Era party invited to head centre-right coalition government following elections the previous month.
2002 December - EU summit in Copenhagen formally invites Latvia to join in 2004.
2003 June - Parliament elects President Vike-Freiberga to a second four-year term in office.
2003 September - Latvian referendum vote gives strong backing to EU membership.
2004 February - Protests as parliament passes law restricting the use of the Russian language in schools.
Governing coalition collapses and Prime Minister Einars Repse resigns amid personal feuding and disputes. Indulis Emsis of Greens and Farmers Union becomes prime minister in new coalition.
2004 March - Latvia admitted to Nato.
Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Latvia's first woman president
Profile: Vaira Vike-Freiberga
2004 1 May - Latvia is one of 10 new states to join the EU.
2004 October - Coalition government of Indulis Emsis resigns after parliament rejects draft budget. Government of his successor, Aigars Kalvitis, is approved in December.
2005 March - Veterans of Latvia's SS brigade, which fought the Red Army in World War II, march through Riga and call on President Vike-Freiberga to pull out of Moscow war anniversary ceremony. Dozens of arrests follow clashes with rival anti-fascist protesters.
2005 May - US President George Bush visits Riga.
President Vike-Freiberga is sole Baltic president to attend Moscow Victory Day celebrations.
2005 June - Parliament ratifies proposed EU constitution.
2005 October - Interior Minister Eriks Jekabsons resigns, citing low budget funding for police and emergency services pay.
2005 December - Former Prime Minister Einars Repse resigns as defence minister after criminal investigation launched into his business dealings. He denies all wrongdoing.
2006 August - Tough new citizenship laws introduced requiring people to have good knowledge of Latvian.
2006 October - Parties in coalition government led by Aigars Kalvitis together win parliamentary majority in general election.
2007 March - Border demarcation treaty signed with Russia.
2007 December - Prime Minister Kalvitis resigns, bowing to pressure over attempts to sack the country's anti-corruption chief. His coalition is returned to power in a parliamentary vote, with Ivars Godmanis as new prime minister.
2008 March - Latvian bilateral accord with US on visa-free travel criticised as undermining European Union talks on the matter.
2008 May - Latvian parliament approves European Union's Lisbon Treaty.
2008 December - International Monetary Fund (IMF) approves 1.68bn euro rescue package to help Latvia ride out severe economic slump.
2009 January - Hundreds of demonstrators clash with police in Riga as anti-government protests over the collapse of the economy turn violent.
2009 February - Ruling coalition collapses amid widespread discontent over belt-tightening imposed as price of IMF rescue package. Valdis Dombrovskis of the centre-right New Era party nominated to form new government.
2009 March - Valdis Dombrovskis is sworn in at the head of a new six-party coalition government.
2009 June - The Central Bank spends almost 1bn euros in 2009 to support the lat currency, prevent devaluation and avoid a domino effect elsewhere in Eastern Europe.
2009 August - Government, trade unions and employers agree deep public spending cuts aimed at saving the country from bankruptcy and getting the IMF to release a further tranche of rescue loans.
2009 October - Government agrees to slash budget deficit in 2010 in order to meet targets imposed by EU in exchange for 7.5bn euros of rescue loans.
2010 January - Unemployment soars to 20%, giving Latvia the highest jobless rate in the EU.
2010 March - Largest coalition party leaves government following repeated disagreements over austerity measures, depriving PM Valdis Dombrovskis of his majority.
2010 October - Centre-right government of PM Valdis Dombrovskis wins majority in parliamentary elections.
2010 November - PM Dombrovskis forms government with Union of Farmers and Greens.
2011 June - Parliament elects Union of Farmers and Greens candidate and wealthy businessman Andris Berzins president, defeating the incumbent Valdis Zatlers. The outgoing president had demanded a snap general election to root out corruption.
2011 September - Elections. Pro-Russian Harmony Centre emerges as largest party, but PM Dombrovskis forms a coalition government that excludes it.
2012 February - Referendum on giving Russian joint official language status rejected by a large margin.
2013 November - At least 54 people die when a supermarket in Riga collapses. Following criticism of lax building regulations, Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis takes responsibility and resigns.
2014 January - Latvia joins the eurozone.
Laimdota Straujuma becomes prime minister.
2014 March - PM Straujuma sacks a minister from the right-wing National Alliance who attends a parade honouring Latvian soldiers who fought in Nazi units during World War II.
2014 September - US President Barack Obama visits Estonia to reassure the Baltic states that they can count on Nato protection, amid tensions following Russia's seizure of Crimea.
2014 October - Centre-right coalition wins a clear majority in parliamentary elections dominated by concern about Russia's intervention in Ukraine and its influence in the Baltic region.
2015 March - NATO reinforces its presence in the Baltic states and its forces conduct major military drills in the region. | A chronology of key events: | 17529542 |
About 1,500 chicks were discovered close to an avian flu exclusion zone on the outskirts of Crowland on Friday.
The RSPCA said it was not possible to rehome them due to the possibility of infection.
The charity said it was possible that prior to being dumped, the chicks were being offered for sale.
More on this and other local stories from across Lincolnshire
The RSPCA said the chicks' farmer had been found and it was likely the birds had been passed to a third party by a "rogue member of staff" and then offered for sale from the back of a van.
They said the farmer was co-operating with the RSPCA investigation.
Insp Justin Stubbs, of the RSPCA, said the chicks were found close to an avian flu exclusion zone, which meant they could not be sold on.
"Sadly, the owner has had no choice but to euthanise them," he said.
Some were found dead, or dying, suffering from exposure and being picked off by predators, Mr Stubbs said.
Describing the case, Mr Stubbs said: "I would consider this to be one of the most callous acts I have come across in 20 years with the RSPCA."
The charity said it wanted to hear from anyone in the area who was offered any of the chicks. | Hundreds of newborn chicks found abandoned in a field in Lincolnshire have had to be put down, the RSPCA said, due to a case of bird flu nearby. | 39029617 |
Guy Hedger, 61, died in hospital after he was shot by intruders who entered a house in St Ives, near Ringwood, Dorset, just after 03:00 BST on Sunday.
Detectives have launched a murder investigation.
They said a second person in the property at the time was "deeply affected by the incident" and is being supported by specially-trained officers.
Mr Hedger's next-of-kin are aware, a Dorset Police spokesman added.
Det Ch Insp Sarah Derbyshire said police do not believe Mr Hedger was known to the intruders, although all lines of inquiry are being pursued.
She said: "At this stage we are still trying to establish exactly what happened at the address and how and why the victim was shot dead.
"I am appealing for anyone who may have seen or heard anything suspicious in the area, or was in the area at that time, to contact Dorset Police as soon as possible.
"There will be a heavy police presence in the vicinity and officers from the local Neighbourhood Policing Team will be carrying out high-visibility patrols to offer reassurance to the community. They can be contacted with any concerns." | A man shot dead at a house in East Dorset has been named. | 39767763 |
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It is the second time in the event's 155-year history that play will run to Monday, the first being in 1988.
With 40mph gusts of wind, play was suspended at 07:32 BST on Saturday and is expected to resume at 18:00.
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Governing body the R&A tweeted: "The intention is to complete the second round today with R3 to be played on Sunday and the final round on Monday."
Tickets for Saturday are eligible for a 60% refund, while week-long passes remain valid for Monday - where the on-the-day entry fee will be £10 and under-16s will enter for free with an adult.
More than 40 players resumed at 07:00 BST on Saturday after heavy rain on Friday had prevented the completion of round two on the Old Course.
Overnight leader Dustin Johnson of the USA bogeyed one of the two holes he completed to join England's clubhouse leader Danny Willett on nine under par.
World number two Jordan Spieth, who is five under par, four shots off the lead, criticised the decision, saying: "We should never have started."
The 21-year-old Masters and US Open champion was heard making his comment while on the course. The American added two pars to his scorecard before the enforced break.
The R&A says it made the right decision in sending out the players.
"We spent an hour at the far end of the course, before play started, assessing whether the course was playable," said an R&A statement.
"Balls were not moving on the greens and while the conditions were extremely difficult, we considered the golf course to be playable.
"Gusts of wind increased in speed by 10-15% after play resumed. This could not be foreseen at the time that play was restarted and made a material difference to the playability of the golf course."
Other players, including England's Lee Westwood, also complained about the handling of the decision by the R&A.
"Bit of a strange decision here at The Open," tweeted Westwood, who was three under when he came off the 16th hole. "They seemed to stop play out on 11 and allowed the rest of us to carry on playing."
Canada's David Hearn, one of the players on the 11th, added: "More than disappointed in the R&A. Some groups hit only one shot while others played on. It needs to be a fair contest and wasn't this morning."
"This will have massive implications for the players, the fans and broadcasters all around the world," said BBC Sport commentator Jay Townsend, who is a former PGA Tour professional.
"The players are really upset that they were sent out there in what they feel were unplayable conditions.
"But these guys have dealt with these things before and they are programmed to play as and when required.
"Despite not being happy they are mentally geared up to play." | The Open Championship at St Andrews will finish on Monday because of weather delays on Friday and Saturday. | 33579235 |
The patient was based in the area covered by South East Coast Ambulance Service (Secamb).
The details came from the NHS's 111 Easter SitRep internal report, showing how long patients had to wait for call backs between 26 March and 1 April.
Secamb disputed the 11-hour figure but said safety was its main priority.
The report was first published in medical industry magazine Pulse.
The new 111 non-emergency telephone advice line is expected to replace NHS Direct in dealing with non-emergency calls in June.
The service is being rolled out in stages around the country.
In Kent, Medway, Surrey and Sussex, it is being piloted from two call centres in Ashford and Dorking run by Secamb.
Charlie Elphicke, Conservative MP for Dover and Deal, said: "It's very hard for people to get emergency appointments, fast appointments to see their local GP.
"On top of that, you then phone the 111 service, if it sounds serious and they can't help you on the phone or they get to the end of their 'what you should do' chart, then they say 'go to hospital'.
"People are being funnelled into A&E services and East Kent Hospital is saying A&E's are now chock-a-block with people.
"It's not a great system, not a great situation and it does need to be sorted out."
In a statement, Secamb said: "Patient safety is our number one priority which may account for longer than average call back times for our region.
"Secamb is contracted to undertake three attempts to call back a patient. These are all included in the call back time data, whether they are successful or not.
"In addition, if no one answers on these attempts, and we feel it is important for us to speak to the patient because of the nature of their call, we will leave that call in the queue for a clinician to try again later on.
"These are also included in the overall call back time.
"We are currently looking to establish whether the data we are providing for this is in line with other organisations."
The spokesman said the implementation of the phone line was at a "very early stage".
"We recognise that there is a need for improvement which is why we are working closely with commissioners to resolve any issues," he added.
"Secamb, along with all part of the NHS, both in our region and nationally, is currently extremely busy.
"Demand in all areas has risen to levels far in excess of our expectations throughout 2012-13."
It said that it was recruiting extra staff to deal with the demand. | A patient waited 11-and-a-half hours for a call back from a clinician after ringing up the NHS's new non-emergency 111 service, it has emerged. | 22200466 |
Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif Yunus, an academic, were hoping to board a flight from the capital Baku to Doha in Qatar, but were held at the airport.
They were released after a night in custody. But her passport was withheld.
Her arrest comes amid a crackdown on human rights activists and journalists in the oil-rich ex-Soviet state.
Azerbaijan has been ruled by the Aliyev family since 1993, soon after the break-up of the Soviet Union.
Mrs Yunus had been pressing for reconciliation between Azerbaijan and its next-door neighbour and bitter rival Armenia.
Earlier this month journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov, who worked with her on the Armenian project, was arrested and accused of spying for Armenia.
Mrs Yunus predicted last week that she faced imminent arrest.
On Tuesday morning, after her overnight detention, she was taken back to her home but refused to let police search it without a warrant. Amid the tension her husband fell ill and was taken to hospital.
Doctors told the BBC Azeri service he had suffered from hypertension and was stable.
Mrs Yunus told journalists outside her house that during her 11-hour detention she was not allowed to use the toilet, and when finally allowed to go it was only in the presence of a male police officer.
"It's like torture, like the Middle Ages," she said. "I haven't slept for a whole day."
She was later released, but her office was searched.
Azerbaijan has been repeatedly criticised by human rights organisations for stifling dissent, jailing opponents and obstructing democracy.
Nevertheless, it is preparing to assume the chairmanship of the council of ministers of the Council of Europe, Europe's top human rights body.
Ilham Aliyev was elected for a third term as president in October, though he did not even run a campaign, in a vote opponents said was undemocratic and fraudulent. Azerbaijan said the vote was fair. | Azerbaijan's most prominent human rights campaigner has been detained with her husband while trying to leave the country. | 27202134 |
The Department of Enterprise estimates NI consumers are losing £100m a year to international fraudsters through postal, email, text and phone scams.
Common frauds include bogus lottery wins, prize draws, career opportunities and advance fee money transfers.
A Trading Standards spokeswoman said: "There are so many scams it's unreal."
Beverley Burns, who is tasked with raising awareness about scammers, said people needed to be careful as "there is a big problem and it's on the increase".
She said there had been a large rise in the number of phone call scams.
"We are seeing more scams from people purporting to be clairvoyants, and from people offering romance," she added.
Ms Burns said it was "very much a hidden crime".
"Very often people are too embarrassed to report it," she said.
"I have been working in Trading Standards for 25 years and if anyone said to me this was going on in Northern Ireland, I would not have believed them.
"I would never have dreamt that so many people are responding to scam mail, scam text messages and scam phone calls and scam emails."
Belfast pensioner Clara Nicol said she lost almost £1,000 when she began responding to scam mail.
Some of it came from people claiming to be clairvoyants, who suggested she would have bad luck unless she agreed to send them money.
"Those letters were dangerous and frightening," she said.
"One or two of them used to frighten me. One of them stated something about a black presence and that if I wanted to be safe I'd have to to send them (money) and they would perform rituals and so on."
One woman in County Fermanagh, who asked not to be named, lost £3,000 when she started an online relationship with a man who first contacted her through Facebook.
The fraudster claimed he was a doctor working in Afghanistan.
She said: "Half of the money was my own which I got through selling my gold, and I borrowed the rest to pay this person - it was almost my downfall.
"It nearly killed me - it nearly put me over the edge that I was foolish enough to be taken in by someone like that."
More than 1,000 people from Northern Ireland are on a so-called "suckers list" which has been complied by international scammers.
Scams inflicted on the Northern Ireland public range in value from several pounds to hundreds of thousands of pounds and affect all walks of life.
Ms Burns of Trading Standards highlighted one such case involving a woman from Lisburn, County Antrim.
"Her husband, whose name was on the 'suckers list', had passed away and she told me that he had sent off over £100,000 to scammers on a daily basis," she said.
"I then discovered that she had picked up the reins and she had started sending money as well."
People targeted by mail scammers - sometimes the vulnerable or elderly - often receive dozens of unsolicited letters each day.
Trading Standards said anyone worried about being scammed or who thinks they have been taken in, should contact their helpline on 0300 1236 262. | Trading Standards warns people to be vigilant as the number of scams, especially involving fortune tellers and bogus relationships, are rising. | 32730711 |
Alexander Gwillym, 39, of Llantarnam, Cwmbran, sold the repackaged Asda chocolate bars as the Nestle brand from his shop in Cwmbran, Torfaen.
He and his firm admitted eight consumer protection charges to Newport magistrates and were ordered to pay a total of £1,880 in fines and costs.
The court heard Gwillym had tried to lodge his own "Mr Wonka Bar" trademark.
Magistrates were told Torfaen council trading standards officers had previously warned the defendant about his actions after he began selling the fake branded bars in September 2012.
An investigation found his store, Sweet66 Ltd in Cwmbran Shopping Centre, was selling repackaged Smart Price chocolate bars available from Asda.
The sweet shop firm was fined £400 and asked to pay £1,000 towards the prosecutions costs.
Company director Gwillym was fined £400 with an additional £80 victim surcharge.
The defendant had been told his bid to register a Mr Wonka Bar trademark was too similar to Nestle's Wonka trademarks and was likely to mislead the public, the court heard.
After the hearing, Torfaen councillor Gwyneira Clark, executive member for housing, planning and public protection, said: "Consumers expect to buy goods, including food, that are correctly labelled in accordance with consumer protection laws.
"The work of Torfaen's public protection service is vital to safeguard the health and economic well-being of the public and this prosecution sends out a message to all retailers that selling counterfeit goods will not be tolerated." | A shopkeeper duped customers by selling 30p supermarket chocolates as £3 Wonka bars, a court has heard. | 24806690 |
Only three months ago, Ahmed Adeeb became the youngest vice-president in the country's democratic history.
The 33-year-old successfully pursued a constitutional amendment to lower the minimum age in order to assume the position.
He was regarded as one of President Abdulla Yameen's most-trusted aides.
But on Saturday, stepping off a plane from Singapore, Mr Adeeb was arrested on charges of "high treason", for allegedly conspiring to cause an explosion on the presidential yacht last month.
President Yameen managed to escape unharmed in the blast, but the first lady and two presidential aides were injured.
The alleged attack was the latest incident to unnerve the island nation, which in recent years has faced a protracted political crisis and an alarming rise of Islamic extremism.
While initially the government said the blast may have been a result of mechanical failure, it later announced that it was an assassination attempt on the president and was opening a criminal investigation.
Some media focused on a possible attack by Islamic State sympathisers, only a month after a video had been released showing armed Maldivian militants threatening to target the president and carry out attacks on home ground.
But rumours then emerged implicating Mr Adeeb, eventually forcing him to deny them on live TV.
Speaking on Dhi TV, he complained that he was always being unfairly blamed for such events - in his words, "a hen ready for slaughter".
And he accused his predecessor, Mohamed Jameel Ahmed, of being the source of the speculation. Mr Jameel himself had faced treason charges, and was subsequently impeached, paving the way for Mr Adeeb's ascendancy.
Under the Maldivian constitution, if Mr Yameen dies or is incapacitated, his vice-president would assume the presidency.
And Mr Adeeb has a questionable past, having been implicated in a $6m (£3.9m) corruption scandal, as well as having alleged links to gangs.
So his involvement in any alleged plot is not implausible. But is there any proof?
"It's so murky that we have no idea what's going on," says Zaheena Rasheed, the editor of the Maldives Independent, who has spoken to sources involved in the investigation.
"What's clear is that there is not enough evidence. From what we can see they have nothing on him.
"When so little is known, his arrest appears based on the fact that he would have the biggest motive."
The arrest reflects the extent of the political infighting that has characterised Mr Yameen's two years in office.
Since the blast, the defence minister and police commissioner have both found themselves dismissed from their posts.
And earlier this year, the former defence minister, Colonel Mohamed Nazim, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for weapons offences.
It has become apparent that President Yameen has not been afraid to remove or sideline supposed allies in the same way as he has sought to quieten the opposition.
His main political opponent, former President Mohamed Nasheed, was imprisoned in March under terrorism laws, for ordering the arrest of a judge while in office in 2012.
Mr Nasheed won the first democratic polls in 2008, ousting Mr Yameen's half-brother, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, after three decades of autocratic rule.
Despite international condemnation and calls for Mr Nasheed's release, President Yameen has remained steadfast.
What critics fear is that his most recent move is another step towards consolidating power, and ultimately leading the country back to its undemocratic past. | In Maldives politics, fortunes can change very quickly. | 34627449 |
Thorne, who was recently nominated for three Bafta TV Awards, has also written the forthcoming play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
The writer said taking on the project was an "honour and privilege".
"The His Dark Materials trilogy are vast and glorious books full of beautiful characters," he added.
"I'm going to work as hard as I can to try and do justice to them."
The trilogy, partly set in a parallel universe, tells the story of a girl called Lyra who embarks on a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust.
The books have been published in more than 40 languages and have sold almost 17.5 million copies worldwide.
The first novel, Northern Lights, was made into a 2007 feature film entitled The Golden Compass, starring Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman.
Pullman said he was "delighted" to welcome Jack Thorne as writer.
"Jack is a writer of formidable energy and range, and I've greatly enjoyed talking to him and learning about his plans for bringing His Dark Materials to the screen," he added.
"I'm certain he'll do a superb job and I look forward to seeing the whole project develop as he shapes the story."
Thorne is establishing himself as one of Britain's most sought-after writers. His credits include three of the This Is England series and the TV fantasy mini-series The Fades.
His plays include Mydidae, The Solid Life of Sugar Water and the stage adaptation of Let the Right One In.
He won best British newcomer at the London Film Festival for his first film The Scouting Book For Boys.
And last week Thorne's work was nominated for TV Baftas for best drama series - for The Last Panthers - best miniseries - for This is England '90 - and best single drama - for Don't Take My Baby.
His is currently working on a four-part miniseries for Channel 4 called National Treasure, starring Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters and Andrea Riseborough.
The cast of His Dark Materials is yet to be revealed, but filming will take place in Wales. | Jack Thorne is to write the BBC TV adaptation of author Philip Pullman's epic trilogy of fantasy novels His Dark Materials. | 35967042 |
A farm in the village of Sellindge in Kent found 26 hives had been burnt out and others stolen.
It is an attack thought to be linked to the theft of two hives from another farm nearby.
PC Daniel Mills from Kent Police said: "This damage is not only cruel but detrimental to the beekeepers who will suffer a financial loss."
A large number of bees were killed in the attacks, a police spokesman said.
The fires and thefts occurred between 11 and 14 June, police said.
Police have advised beekeepers to camouflage the hives behind hedges or tall fences or to paint them a muted colour.
They also suggested apiarists keep their hives out of view from main roads. | A large number of bees were killed and more than two dozen hives were destroyed by fire in separate attacks. | 40351718 |
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They were once reserved only for royal ceremonies but their use has expanded, and some drummers are asking for controls to be put in place.
BBC Africa's Salim Kikeke reports from Burundi. | The traditional drumming of Burundi is a symbol of national pride but a debate is being had about when the drums should be played. | 32313999 |
On 1 December 2015, Wales became the first nation in the UK to introduce "deemed consent" for organ donations.
Under what is known as a soft opt-out, people who are over 18 in Wales are regarded as having consented unless they register otherwise.
A keen supporter of the new system, Kimberly Chard, who has cystic fibrosis, had her new lungs on Christmas Eve.
BBC Radio 5 live has been following her progress since she was on the waiting list for a transplant.
She said she is hoping if her donor's family are able to read her letter, they can feel proud of what she is achieving.
Ms Chard, 32, and from Bargoed in Caerphilly county, has monthly check-ups at Llandough Hospital near Cardiff and regular visits to Harefield Hospital near London, where her surgery took place.
She still takes about 100 tablets a day to counter the effects of her transplant and her cystic fibrosis but is now able to resume work as a fine artist. She is taking part in a charity exhibition in Cardiff to raise funds to expand the All Wales Cystic Fibrosis Centre at Llandough.
Dr Ian Ketchell is the centre's director and Kimberly's consultant.
He told BBC Radio 5 live: "I came here 11 years ago. In the 10 years before that, there had been one transplant. Eight patients died in my first year.
"It's uncommon for us to lose a patient now. The majority of our patients are 'transplanters'. Looking at Kim now, that's why we do it. And that's why it's worth it."
Dr Ketchell is not sure how much the law change in Wales will affect the numbers of transplants over the years but said it had already brought about greater awareness.
And he revealed how his own family experience in the past year had affected him.
"I recently lost a relative. We'd never really talked about transplantation. Most organs could not be used for transplant. I thought, what about corneas?
"We had a letter a few months ago to say there'd been a successful corneal transplant and somebody had re-gained sight. I can tell you now that made me burst into tears - and I deal with life and death on a daily basis.
"That's why people need to talk about it. And this new law will make people talk about it."
Ms Chard still has good days and bad days but is now far more active than she was before the transplant.
"It was the only option for me. I didn't have much time left. Beforehand you're dealing with the fact that if the transplant doesn't come, you're going to leave your family. You don't think about yourself. So you have to be strong, so they'll be strong in case you don't get a transplant.
"Now I feel more pressure because I've been given a new lease of life, a few more years. It's not just my family who are going to lose out if something happens. I suppose I'm a little bit more scared now of the fact that I could lose out as well."
But she is determined to make the most of the chance she has been given.
"Before, I had to watch the world go by. Now I am able to join in."
She is unaware of the identity of her donor but through her transplant co-ordinator has passed on a message of thanks.
"I want to make my donor family proud of me, in a way. I've written a letter to them.
"It's totally up to them if they're ready to read it or not. They can decline it and it will always be there for when they are ready. But I have written to them to let them know how much it meant to me - what they gave."
Kimberly Chard will also be one of those telling their stories in a three-part documentary, The Greatest Gift, starting on 6 December on BBC One Wales at 22:40. | A woman who had a double-lung transplant last Christmas has written an emotional thank-you letter to her donor's family - as Wales marks the anniversary of a major new law. | 38144550 |
A Tigers side shorn of their World Cup stars lie 11th in the Premiership, having lost five of their six games.
Cockerill told BBC East Midlands Today. "We are one win from seven [in total] and I am very aware of it.
"I go to bed with that thought and wake up with that thought but there comes a point where enough is enough. All I am interested in now is how people react."
Although Friday's LV= Cup tie against Gloucester would normally see a mixture of fringe and young inexperienced players in the line-up, many of Leicester's international stars are set to feature.
But Cockerill said his big-name players were desperate to get stuck back into the domestic schedule.
"They are glad to be back and some of them have had a more difficult time than others," he added. "But when you have been away from home for a long time you feel more at ease.
"Those guys feel a little bit indebted to the club, we've got them to Test-match rugby. Clearly we have suffered a little bit because of that and they want to come back and help us out of the situation we are in."
And while former England international Cockerill knows his side's predicament is in no small way down to the international call-ups and injury problems at Welford Road, he feels it's time to move on.
"I understand it and know the ins and outs and you have to realistic," he said.
"It's hard and we have to all stick together and show our true colours.
"It will come round. We have to believe in what we do. I believe in the people who work for us and play for us.
"We have to keep our bottle and not throw everything away that's been so good for the last few years.
"We can still be in the top four and do very well in Europe this year."
Tigers forward Tom Croft insists helping the club get back to winning ways will not take much.
"The boys coming back are not knights in shining armour. The side that was there was perfectly capable," Croft told BBC East Midlands Today.
"The majority of games we have lost we have been in the game in the last minutes so the talent is there, it's just closing out those games and scoring in the attack zones when we get there.
"The boys coming back will bring a bit of new life and excitement around the club.
"The boys were saying there is renewed buzz and that is a great thing to have at this time of year.
"Gloucester on Friday is a massive game just to kick-start our season and make a statement to rest of the clubs that Leicester Tigers are not a club that will roll over and we will fight to get back on track." | Leicester Tigers director of rugby Richard Cockerill says they must forget their miserable start to the season. | 15405769 |
Under the rules of most defined benefit schemes, workers have the right to swap their pension entitlement for money.
According to the insurer Royal London, the cash that such people can get has soared over the last 12 months.
It says some are being offered "eye-watering" sums, often tens of thousands of pounds more than a year ago.
For someone with a pension income worth £20,000, it is not uncommon to be offered 30 times that amount - in other words, £600,000 in cash.
But while selling the rights to a defined benefit (DB) pension may be useful for many people, Royal London is also warning that there can be significant disadvantages.
After working for 30 years for a credit card company, Paul Osborne, from Southend, Essex, was made redundant.
He found it hard to get another job and found himself living on benefits.
As a result, he was advised to sell his DB pension.
In 2014, he was offered a cash sum of £505,000 for it. A year later, that amount had jumped by 12%, to £567,000, an amount he accepted.
He then reinvested the sum in a drawdown pension, which currently pays him £25,000 a year.
"It has taken so much pressure off my shoulders, and I am a lot more happy," he told the BBC.
"It has given me my life back; I can't recommend it enough."
Workers with defined benefit pensions know exactly how much they will receive in retirement.
Such schemes are either based on a worker's final salary, or on their career average earnings.
Workers with defined contribution (DC) schemes save into a pension pot, which they then use to buy a retirement income. The size of the pot depends on stock market performance.
The reason for the increase in transfer values is continuing low interest rates.
Because of the methodology used by actuaries, that leads to a higher valuation of such pensions.
Royal London says selling DB pensions can offer:
But it also warns that keeping a DB pension is sensible for many people, as they offer:
However, current rules mean that those selling their DB pensions have to sell the whole lot.
Steve Webb, a former pensions minister who is now director of policy at Royal London, believes workers should be able to sell any proportion they wish - a new right to "slice and dice" their company pension.
He said the option of taking a large lump sum was "a bit all or nothing".
"You either take the whole lot out or leave it where it is," he told the BBC.
"What I'm saying is there should be a middle ground where you can go on having some of your salary-related pension, so you have got this guaranteed income, but then you have got some cash you can invest or do something more flexible with." | Six million people with defined benefit pensions have seen their transfer values shoot up in the last year, according to a major insurance company. | 38267306 |
And the defender reckons his cup holders can go into the Tynecastle match with confidence, despite being a league below the Premiership side.
"He played and managed at the very top level," Gray said of Lennon.
"We do get inspiration from him and he'll have us ready."
Hibs go into the match top of the Championship table, while Hearts are fourth in the top flight.
Their respective positions in Scottish football's current pecking order will, however, have little bearing on Sunday's derby as far as Gray is concerned.
"The form book often goes out of the window in derbies." he told BBC Scotland. "The times we've done well against Hearts since I've been at the club, they were well clear at the top of the Championship the season we were there and we still managed to get good results against them, so it's all about who turns up on the day."
Hearts added nine new faces to their squad in January but Gray refuses to read too much into how that will impact the match. And with good reason.
"We were in a similar situation two seasons ago when Alan Stubbs came in as manager to rebuild the side then," he said.
"I was one of the players who'd never played in a derby so I don't think that really counts for much.
"And they signed a lot of experienced players. I'm sure they'll be well used to playing in derbies - although this one might be a wee bit different."
Gray, who scored the winner as Hibs beat Rangers in last season's final to end a 114-year wait to lift the Scottish Cup again, says Sunday's match gives the club even more focus in their promotion chase.
"These are the games that we've missed this year and games that we want to get back as soon as possible with us getting promoted," he added. "That is our main objective but at the same time we're all looking forward to this weekend."
"It's been such a long wait for the club to get it (winning the Scottish Cup), so it would be great to keep hold of it for another season for sure."
Easter Road assistant boss Garry Parker is relishing his first taste of the Edinburgh derby, and agrees with his skipper that a Hibs triumph would not represent a major shock.
"They are the Premiership team so they are the favourites, but it's a game of football and the best team will come through," Parker told BBC Scotland.
And Parker jokes that his players could have an unusual price to pay should they come up short at Tynecastle.
"People have been talking about it all the time," he said. "We've even got the kit people saying if we don't win we've got to wash our own kit." | Captain David Gray believes the inspirational qualities of manager Neil Lennon can help Hibernian upset the odds against rivals Hearts in Sunday's Scottish Cup fifth round tie. | 38935627 |
Kaspar Rorsted, who Adidas called the "perfect candidate", will take over on 1 October.
He is currently the boss of Henkel, whose brands include Persil detergent and Schwarzkopf shampoo.
He replaces Herbert Hainer, who has more than doubled revenue in 15 years in charge but has struggled to keep up with US rival Nike.
Adidas shares rose 5.4% to €88.52, while Henkel shares fell 3.4% to €77.88.
"The share price reaction speaks for itself," said Ingo Speich, an Adidas shareholder, told the Reuters news agency.
Mr Spiech, a fund manager at Union Investment, said he hoped the new boss would "end the long dry spell in the profitability of Adidas".
Adidas expects profits to have grown 10% in 2015, but its operating margin has been half that of Nike.
Mr Rorsted has worked at Oracle, Compaq and Hewlett Packard, as well as eight years running Henkel. | Shares in Adidas have risen more than 5% after the German sportswear firm named its new chief executive. | 35345006 |
The pound has fallen 18% against the US dollar since June's UK Brexit vote.
Walkers, owned by US giant PepsiCo, says "the weakened value of the pound" is affecting the import cost of some of its materials.
Birds Eye, owned by New York-listed Nomad Foods, says its products are priced in dollars, so the pound's fall means sterling costs have risen.
Walkers and Birds Eye want to increase the price they charge retailers for their products, but it will be up to the supermarkets whether or not to pass these onto consumers.
Last month, food giant Unilever raised the wholesale price of many household products after falls in the value of sterling increased the cost of products made outside the UK.
Walkers said it was making "selective cost price changes across our portfolio", including raising the price of standard and grab bag products.
It said the move was part of ongoing reviews of its price and promotion schemes.
The firm said in a statement that "fluctuating foreign exchange rates" were among the factors involved.
A Walkers spokesman told the Press Association that a 32g standard bag was set to increase from 50p to 55p, and the larger grab bag from 75p to 80p.
"Since we do not set the retail price of our products, it will be for individual retailers to determine the impact on the price at which they sell our products," they said.
The firm added that while its potatoes were British, it imported a number of different ingredients and materials to produce a finished packet of Walkers crisps.
These items include seasonings, oil for frying and key raw materials used in its packaging film.
James Russell, wholesale managing director at Blakemore, which runs a string of Spar stores, told trade magazine Retail Newsagent: "Brexit has caused uncertainty and I think this is massively opportunistic by PepsiCo considering the current performance of the category and the fact they've taken weight out of the bags not so long ago.
"It impacts the offer we can make for our customers. We have to pass the cost on to them. We've been told if we don't accept the terms it won't supply us. The value message is becoming distorted."
Birds Eye is also seeking to raise the prices of some of its products by up to 12% from next month.
One supermarket source said that Birds Eye was trying to push up prices across the board even though a lot of its costs were unrelated to Brexit and warned that shoppers would be happy to switch to own label fish fingers if a sensible outcome couldn't be reached.
Wayne Hudson, Birds Eye UK & Ireland managing director, said many of its raw materials were priced in dollars "and the fall in the value of the pound since the EU referendum has meant that our costs in sterling have risen".
He added: "We have been in open and collaborative conversations with the retailers for some time now to address the situation and minimise any impact on our customers.
"We are working hard to try and absorb these costs as much as possible." | Walkers and Birds Eye are set to raise the prices of some items due to the falling strength of the pound. | 37888331 |
Spider-Man: Homecoming raked in $117m (£91m) in its opening weekend, topping industry estimates of $80-$110m.
Sony Pictures, which owns the film rights to the Marvel comic character, said the figure was the second largest in its history, behind Spider-Man 3.
It comes amid a slow summer at the US box office where takings are down 8%.
In Homecoming, Spider-Man's alter ego Peter Parker, played by British actor Tom Holland, has to juggle his high school responsibilities with his secret life as a masked vigilante.
He soon encounters Adrian Toomes, a villainous arms dealer played by Michael Keaton, who has his own alter-ego in the form of wing-sporting marauder Vulture.
The film cost $175m to produce and has already grossed $250m in global sales, according to online database boxofficemojo.com.
Much attention has been paid its successful marketing campaign, which heavily featured the superhero Iron Man, played by Robert Downey Jr, who serves as Spider-Man's mentor in the film.
That followed a 2015 deal between Sony and Walt Disney which allowed the web-slinger to appear alongside fellow Marvel Comics characters on screen.
Tom Holland is the third actor to play Spider-Man in 15 years, following Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire.
The film's success comes despite a slow summer at the North American box office which impacted previously reliable franchises such as Transformers and Despicable Me.
Overall, summer box office takings stand at around $2.3bn, 8% lower than last year.
However, year-to-date takings are on a par with 2016, after movies such as Beauty and the Beast and The Fate of the Furious did well in the first half of 2017. | Shares in Sony have climbed 1.7% after the latest instalment of the Spider-Man film franchise beat expectations at the North American box office. | 40554432 |
It launched on Monday from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The Progress 62P took two-days to arrive.
It docked automatically.
Once the crew completed leak checks, the hatches opened, and they unloaded the cargo.
On Monday, British astronaut Tim Peake helped a successful space walk to fix a broken part to make sure the cargo could arrive safely.
US crew members Scott Kelly and Tim Kopra moved a "rail car" on the outside of the ISS a few inches away from the position where it had stalled.
Tim Peake arrived at the ISS on 15 December in a Soyuz spacecraft and is on board for six-months.
He is the first UK astronaut to fly to the ISS.
According to the Russian Space Agency, the unmanned Progress cargo ship carried 2,436kg of supplies, including oxygen, water, and food. | A Russian cargo rocket carrying food and supplies has docked with the International Space Station - just in time for the New Year. | 35175509 |
Bedene, 26, who had never won a match at Roland Garros until this year, played well but was outclassed by Serbia's world number one.
Djokovic, seeking his first French Open title, won just before play would have been suspended because of bad light.
The 29-year-old will face Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut next.
With the match only starting at 19:25 in France (18:25 in UK) because of rain earlier on, Djokovic faced a race against time to finish the match on Saturday.
The 11-time Grand Slam singles champion won the first set in 37 minutes, and despite dropping his serve, continued to dominate in the second.
British number two Bedene, bidding for his first victory over a top-10 opponent at the eighth attempt, kept plugging away, but in gloomy conditions Djokovic just managed to wrap up victory at 21:30 local time.
Second seed Murray, who beat Ivo Karlovic on Friday, faces American John Isner in the fourth round on Sunday.
His match is scheduled third on Court Suzanne Lenglen after a men's singles and a women's singles match, but rain could delay play.
Djokovic and Bedene's match was moved to Court Suzanne Lenglen after rain delayed play for more than two hours, but was switched back to Philippe Chatrier after Jo-Wilfried Tsonga retired hurt while leading 5-2 against Latvia's Ernests Gulbis.
The Frenchman, who reached the semi-finals last year, was leading 5-2 when a problem with his left leg forced him to quit in tears.
The sixth seed said: "I came on court feeling really good. The first game of the match I did a slide, and I just felt a pain.
"I continued a little bit and it was coming more and more painful. I knew it was over, because no chance I can play all match long like this."
Gulbis will play 12th seed David Goffin, who came through a five-setter against Nicolas Almagro 6-2 4-6 6-3 4-6 6-2.
Also through is seventh seed Tomas Berdych, who saw off Pablo Cuevas 4-6 6-3 6-2 7-5.
Britain's Jamie Murray and Brazilian partner Bruno Soares are safely through to the third round of the men's doubles.
The fourth seeds defeated French pair David Guez and Vincent Millot 6-2 7-6 (7-5) having twice recovered from a break down in the second set.
Murray is currently ranked third in the world but has the chance to move back to number one with a good run at Roland Garros.
Since reaching the third round in Paris last year, the Scot has made the final at every Grand Slam, winning his first title with Soares at the Australian Open in January.
Fellow Scot Colin Fleming and Israeli partner Jonathan Erlich lost their third-round match, as did British pair Jocelyn Rae and Anna Smith in the women's doubles.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Top seed Novak Djokovic won 6-2 6-3 6-3 to end Aljaz Bedene's hopes of joining fellow Briton Andy Murray in the fourth round of the French Open. | 36406468 |
A TV ad and poster received 63 complaints over claims it "hydrates and fuels you better than water".
The drink's former makers, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), said that two health claims for this kind of drink, a carbohydrate-electrolyte solution, had been authorised by the European Union.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the claims were not accurately reflected in the adverts.
They have ruled the adverts can no longer appear in their current form.
The television advert showed two groups of men, one drinking water and the other Lucozade Sport, running on treadmills while being monitored by technicians.
A voiceover then said: "At the limits of your ability, you need to replace the electrolytes you lose in sweat, keep your body hydrated, give your body fuel.
"Lucozade Sport gives you the electrolytes and carbohydrates you need, hydrating you, fuelling you better than water."
The poster featured an image of a professional rugby player and stated: "Hydrates and fuels you better than water."
GSK, which sold Lucozade and Ribena to Japanese firm Suntory for £1.35bn last September, said the adverts represented the authorised claim "carbohydrate-electrolyte solutions enhance the absorption of water during physical exercise".
The company also said it "strongly believed" that people would realise that Lucozade Sport provided calorific energy, mostly from carbohydrates, whereas water has none and could not therefore be said to provide "fuel" at all.
"Common sense dictated that the claim should be acceptable, because consumers were unlikely to misunderstand it," they added.
The ASA said the campaign did not make it clear that the benefits of the drink would only be got during prolonged endurance exercise.
They added: "Even if we had accepted that 'fuels' was an acceptable rewording of the authorised claim 'contributes to the maintenance of endurance performance during prolonged endurance exercise', we noted that that claim did not make any comparison with water, and we therefore considered that it would not have been acceptable for GSK to state that the product 'fuels ... better than water'."
One of the 63 complaints came from the Natural Hydration Council, a body which represents bottled water sellers.
Their general manager, Kinvara Carey, said: "We are pleased with the decision by the ASA to uphold our complaint regarding the high-profile Lucozade Sport advertising campaign.
"There is already much confusion over the role of sports drinks and for the majority of people participating in exercise and sporting activities, water is all that is needed for effective hydration."
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter | An advertising campaign for the drink Lucozade Sport has been banned. | 25650519 |
Lloyd-Roberts has acute myeloid leukaemia and is dependant on a stem-cell transplant to survive.
The BBC is holding an open day on Monday for anyone aged 16-30 to volunteer as a possible donor.
Lloyd-Roberts has worked for ITN and the BBC, making her name in foreign affairs.
She has reported on events in Syria, Burma and North Korea among many others, and has campaigned for human rights.
Lloyd-Roberts told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme she had been "really encouraged" by the number of people attending the open day.
Held in the BBC's New Broadcasting House in central London, it hopes to encourage 16- to 30-year-olds to join the register of the blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan Trust by supplying a saliva sample. It is open to the public as well as BBC staff.
Lloyd-Roberts's chances of surviving the disease rest on a transplant.
"My prognosis is very grim. So I'm counting on one," she said.
But she added she was "very confident" that a successful donor would be found with the assistance of the charity.
Until then, she said, her "life is on hold".
"You feel as though you're in limbo. You really can't plan anything," she told Derbyshire.
"The kind of work I do for the BBC tends to be long-length investigative films, which can take two months to do. So clearly my work is on hold.
"I really want to remain optimistic, but it's a strange period.
"You can't work, you can't live a normal life, I could have to go to the hospital any day."
But she added that despite "this killer disease in my body", she currently felt "physically fine".
"This is what is so insidious and maddening about it," she said.
Since being diagnosed four months ago, Lloyd-Roberts has undergone two rounds of chemotherapy at University College Hospital in London, and is now in remission.
She had expected a stem-cell transplant to take place in May, but the would-be donor failed medical tests and the operation was cancelled.
"It was a major disappointment," she said.
"I had my bags packed and was ready to go into hospital when the call came the day before I was due to go in, saying that the donor had failed his medical."
Of the 25 million names on the Anthony Nolan Trust register, only three potential donors had been identified - with all three later ruled out.
The charity says that only one in about 1,200 people on the register ends up donating in any given year. Because there are many thousands of different tissue types, matches can be rare.
Those unable to attend the BBC open day can sign up on the Anthony Nolan Trust website.
Watch Victoria Derbyshire on weekdays from 09:15-11:00 BST on BBC Two and BBC News channel. Follow the programme on Facebook and Twitter, and find all our content online. | BBC journalist Sue Lloyd-Roberts has said she is "very confident" of finding a stem-cell donor following a BBC-led appeal. | 33223612 |
28 March 2017 Last updated at 09:30 BST
Romeo and his classmates had their photos taken and were given special badges.
Romeo got to sit in the cab of the truck and pull the horn. He even went for a ride.
"I just thought it would be normal to put a normal Romeo picture on Facebook," Romeo's dad Charlie Makaveli said.
"I didn't think it would go quite as far. I don't think he quite understands how big it's become. He just brushes it aside and just gets on with his day." | A four-year-old boy from Romford who went viral on social media on World Book Day after he wore a costume based on the popular 'Transformers' series got the surprise of his life on Monday when the 'Optimus Prime' truck turned up at his school. | 39415616 |
She had lunch with King Willem-Alexander, Queen Maxima and their three daughters at the royal residence, Villa Eikenhorst, near The Hague.
Kate, 34, then visited the Mauritshuis Museum and stopped in front of Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, sporting identical jewellery.
The duchess viewed 22 paintings on loan from the British Royal Collection.
Crowds lined the streets as Kate arrived, to be greeted by one of the museum's directors, Emilie Gordenker, and stopped to chat briefly with children waving Dutch and British flags, who were lined up in front of three traditional red British telephone boxes erected for the exhibition.
But it was posing in front of Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring painting, wearing the jewellery on loan from the Queen, that caught the photographers' eyes.
Ms Gordenker said: "She didn't mention the earrings she was wearing but she was interested in the painting.
"She asked if it had become a lot more popular since the film came out, and I said it definitely had."
The duchess helped fix a bicycle wheel when she worked with two teenagers at a public workshop in Rotterdam.
She also "shook hands" with an interactive robot made by some of the local children, during her tour of the Bouwkeet Makers Space.
The centre, which is based in an economically deprived part of the city, is a new charity-funded project designed to keep youths off the streets by teaching them a range of skills, from furniture manufacturing to computer maintenance.
Richenel Lensa, 47, a welder from Rotterdam, who volunteers at the centre, led the bike refurbishment class the duchess joined, and said afterwards: "When I met her I told her my hands were dirty but she still shook it and said 'sometimes my hands are dirty, too'.
"The kids are very happy to see that someone important has come here to see what they are doing - it's great for the kids."
Charlinic Komsi, 14, a local schoolgirl who was one of the teenagers Kate helped at the workshop, said: "I didn't know she was going to help us, and I thought 'what's she doing?' but I thought she did really well."
The visit came a day after Prime Minister Theresa May was in the Netherlands to discuss Brexit with her Dutch counterpart, Mark Rutte.
The Duke of Cambridge carried out his first solo tour in 2010, aged 27, on behalf of the Queen in New Zealand.
It was Kate's first tour alone after she cancelled a solo visit to Malta in 2014 after suffering morning sickness. | The Duchess of Cambridge has carried out her first royal solo trip abroad with a visit to the Netherlands. | 37622731 |
The 28-year-old left Southend at the end of the season following 164 appearances across six years, having finished the campaign on loan at League Two champions Northampton Town.
He also won promotion out of League Two in 2014-15 with the Shrimpers.
Prosser is the second U's signing of the summer, after the acquisition of Maldon & Tiptree left-back Ben Wyatt.
The pair join a club that had the worst defence in the Football League, conceding 99 goals as they were relegated out of League One.
But Prosser told BBC Essex: "Colchester is a club in transition, I think. A few people have said that it might be the best thing that's happened to the club, to come down, rebuild and go again.
"Southend did it when I first went there. Colchester is a massive club, when you look at the facilities and stadium it's a League One, if not Championship club."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Colchester United have signed defender Luke Prosser on a two-year deal after his release by Essex rivals Southend. | 36590849 |
The 79-year-old Swiss feels monetary sanctions are increasingly ineffective.
"We have to use our rules to suspend teams, to take away their points or even to relegate them if racism continues," he said.
Blatter, who is bidding to be re-elected in May, voiced his views at the Confederation of African Football congress in Cairo on Tuesday.
He is expected to get extensive support for his candidacy from the continent's 54 countries.
And Blatter reminded African countries of extensive financial support to the continent's football associations from world football's governing body as he opened the congress.
He said Fifa had spent $700m (£470m) on various programmes across Africa.
"We should maybe spend more to prepare a better future for the children," he added, mirroring the promises of his three rivals in the Fifa election for more financial assistance for member countries.
Blatter was met with a warm ovation from the African delegates in contrast to having to sit through stinging criticism when he attended the Uefa congress in Vienna last month.
Tuesday's Caf congress was also attended by Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan, Dutch Football Association President Michael van Praag and former Portugal international Luis Figo, who are all standing against Blatter, but they were not permitted to address the assembly.
Caf president Issa Hayatou, who last year pledged his members' support to Blatter's bid for another term in office, repeated his call for Africa to back the incumbent.
"He has been a faithful partner and in Africa we acknowledge our friends and offer them that they deserve," added Hayatou. | Fifa president Sepp Blatter has called for tougher punishment for teams and associations found guilty of racism. | 32195434 |
The programme has come under criticism for taking its cameras to a makeshift church at the centre of the camp.
"It is not a political statement on the situation or a judgement on migration," said the BBC's head of religion and ethics, Aaqil Ahmed, in a blog post.
"To suggest so is wrong."
He added: "Songs of Praise is not only about Christian music, it also explores contemporary issues and modern themes from a Christian perspective."
Thousands of migrants from countries including Syria, Libya and Eritrea are camped in and around Calais. Two sections of Songs of Praise, which will be broadcast on Sunday, have been filmed at the camp.
The Daily Express and The Sun were among newspapers which criticised the BBC's decision to film at the camp.
The Sun wrote: "The BBC sending Songs of Praise to the Calais migrant camp amid the current chaos is like something from Monty Python.
"Will we get to see migrants wrestling with riot police and storming lorries as a choir stands at the Channel tunnel welcoming them with a rousing rendition of Jerusalem?"
Prominent figures from the Church of England have defended the programme including the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who tweeted: "The love of Christ is freely offered to all, celebrated everywhere, for everyone to know, well done #SongsOfPraise and @giles_fraser"
The Dean of Durham, Decanus Borealis, wrote in a blog: "I'm glad that SOP can be there to give the migrants air-time in a broadcast forum where it would be so easy to pretend they don't exist."
Mr Ahmed said, in his BBC blog: "The knowledge that the migrants had built a makeshift church is exactly the kind of action that Christian communities everywhere will relate to."
"Songs of Praise is simply reflecting the conversations going on in many churches and Christian households around the country.
Songs of Praise is on Sunday 16 August at 17:00 BST on BBC One. | The BBC has defended filming a Songs of Praise episode at a Calais migrant camp saying it is "reflecting conversations going on in Christian households". | 33931995 |
In early trade, the benchmark Nikkei 225 fell as much as 5.4%. By the close, it had recovered slightly, but was still down 4.85% to 14,952.61 points.
That was below the psychologically important level of 15,000 points and its lowest close since October 2014.
Friday's losses end what has been a turbulent week of trade for Japan.
The index has shed more than 11% over the trading week, which was short because of a public holiday on Thursday.
Big exporters in Japan were hurt on Friday as the dollar fell to a 15-month low against the yen. A stronger yen against the dollar hurts Japan's exporters, as it makes their products more expensive to purchase overseas.
Toyota finished Japan's trading day down 7%, while Honda lost 5.5% and Nissan shed 5.8%.
Overnight, benchmark indexes in London, the US and Europe posted sharp declines amid continued worries about oil prices and over the strength of the global economy - particularly the outlook for the world's largest economy, the US.
US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen's gloomy economic assessment on Wednesday was continuing to hurt investor sentiment around the world, analysts said.
Ms Yellen said financial conditions in the US had become "less supportive" of growth, dousing hopes of a second rise in interest rates in the near future.
Why are global markets in turmoil? - Kamal Ahmed, Economics editor, BBC News
It's a mix - part economic fundamentals, part market emotion as herding investors follow each other down a negative spiral, fearful of being left beached as the tide goes out, and part brute market forces, the major trading houses looking to make a profitable turn on share prices which they bet are not going up any time soon.
Read more: Global market turmoil explained
Elsewhere, Australian stocks were hurt by worries over oil prices, with some energy-related stocks, together with the country's big lenders, weighing down the index.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed down 1.16% to 4,765.30 points.
Meanwhile, South Korea's benchmark Kospi index closed down 1.41% to 1,835.28, in line with regional markets.
Investors were closely watching markets in Hong Kong after the Hang Seng index shed more than 4% on Thursday. The index finished a further 1.2% lower at 18,319.58 on Friday.
The Shanghai Composite remains closed until next week for the Lunar New Year break. | Japan's markets traded sharply lower on Friday, following global markets, and as a stronger yen against the dollar hurt the country's big exporters. | 35557072 |
Carol Todd was speaking at an event in Newry, County Armagh, aimed at informing parents and children about the dangers of the internet.
Her daughter, Amanda, took her own life at her home in British Columbia.
Before her death in 2012, the teenager made a YouTube video describing the bullying she had suffered.
The experience led to her abusing drugs and alcohol. Eventually she began to self-harm.
Carol said that Amanda began posting music videos online when she was 12 years old.
"She was a good singer, and so people started liking her videos and saying what a great voice she had," she told the BBC.
"Then, she started having a conversation with a teenage boy. This grew into what I suppose you would call an internet crush.
"Eventually, this boy convinced her to lift her top. And she did.
"Unknown to her at the time, this person took a picture at the other end and began to threaten her - if she didn't do what he wanted, he would post the picture to her Facebook page."
The stranger knew everything about Amanda - her address, school, friends, and the names of her family members.
Eventually, he posted her semi-naked photo online.
Amanda was too embarrassed and afraid to tell her mother about the turmoil she was experiencing.
"In 2010, police arrived at my door," said Carol.
"I hadn't realised what was happening or that the photo had been published," she said. She said her daughter was being bullied "online and offline".
To make matters worse, Carol learned that the other person was not a 16-year-old boy, but a 35-year-old man living in the Netherlands.
In the hope of ending the bullying and harassment, Carol moved her daughter to other Canadian schools, but her efforts to protect her daughter were fruitless.
"The internet travels everywhere," she said. "Before she moved schools, the children at the next school would know already about what happened."
Before she died, Amanda uploaded a video to YouTube describing years of bullying that, she said, drove her to drugs and alcohol.
In the nine-minute video she told her story with a set of handwritten notes.
The recording, described as "haunting", showed the former cheerleader going into detail about what happened to her.
Appealing to Northern Ireland parents to be aware of the dangers online, her mother said: "What I've learned in the last three and a half years is that what happened to my daughter is not an isolated case.
"If kids are going through these kind of things, they need to get support from friends, families, teachers and the police.
"We need to have the conversations with kids, to empower them."
A number of investigations took place following Amanda's death.
Chair of Newry, Mourne and Down Policing and Community Safety Partnership Mickey Larkin explained the purpose of the two-day event in Northern Ireland.
"Digital communication plays a large part in all of our lives and none more so than in the lives of young people," he said.
"New technology can be daunting and we are all guilty of ignoring things that we do not understand.
"However, we think it is vital for the safety of our young people and also parents and educators to make ourselves familiar with the risks and opportunities that the online world brings." | The Canadian mother of a 15-year-old who killed herself after prolonged cyber bullying has appealed to Northern Ireland teenagers to stay safe online. | 35558584 |
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Anger? Elation? Frustration?
Or perhaps this response: "It's eight years late, but I'll take it."
That was how Great Britain's Martyn Rooney reacted when it was confirmed he will become an Olympic bronze medallist, eight years late.
At Beijing in 2008, Rooney ran the anchor leg of the men's 4x400m for Great Britain as they finished fourth and missed out on a medal - or so they thought.
Then, in the run-up to this year's Olympics, it emerged that the British team might get a medal after all. The International Olympic Committee used the latest anti-doping technology to reanalyse samples from the Beijing Games.
Among those to test positive for a banned substance was that of Denis Alekseyev, who ran the anchor leg for Russia as they took bronze in Beijing. As a result, Russia have been stripped of their medal.
"I definitely feel that I've been robbed and it's a tough, tough place to be but we are athletes at the end of the day and we're here for medals," said Rooney to BBC Radio 5 live.
Rooney and his 4x400m team-mates are not the only British athletes to receive a belated medal. British record holder Goldie Sayers will also be hoping to collect her bronze from the 2008 Olympics after Russia's Maria Abakumova was disqualified.
Sayers, like Rooney and his colleagues, finished fourth in Beijing, but has been moved up following the decision to strip Abakumova of her silver medal.
If he were to have it his way, Rooney, along with team mates Andrew Steele, Robert Tobin and Michael Bingham, would receive their medals at the World Championships in London in 2017.
"I think it will be incredible to be in the Olympic Stadium with a home crowd," he said. "That would be an incredible occasion for us."
It is not yet clear how they will be presented with their medals, but they will not be the first athletes to be honoured late. With anti-doping technology improving, a number of athletes have been disqualified retrospectively, which means their medals are reallocated.
Those Olympic athletes bumped up to get the medals have gone about receiving them in different ways.
For instance, Australian 50km walker Jared Tallent held his own back garden ceremony, having been confirmed as the 2012 Olympic champion in March after Russia's Sergey Kirdyapkin was stripped of the title for doping.
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American shot-putter Adam Nelson, meanwhile, received his gold medal in a food court at Atlanta airport in late 2012.
Nelson was upgraded to Olympic champion eight years after finishing runner-up to Yuriy Bilonoh at Athens in 2004. When Ukrainian Bilonoh's sample was retested in late 2012, it was found to contain traces of a banned steroid.
The American, heading to the airport en route to a work conference, was told to meet an official from the United States Olympic Committee when he got there. It was there that his medal was handed over.
Nelson did get a more appropriate ceremony in 2016 when the United States Track and Field Federation arranged for him to attend the US Olympic Trials, awarded him his medal on the podium, played the national anthem and even organised a fly past by local US military air forces.
Sayers suggested on Twitter that she will not get too excited until she has the medal in her hands.
And as the British Olympic Association has suggested, there are still a few hurdles to clear before that happens. "The next step in the process will kick in once the IOC have received the returned medals, diplomas and medallist pins from the athletes who have been disqualified," a spokesperson said.
That medal presentation, wherever it happens, may be a little while yet. But as Rooney said: "It doesn't matter when we get them, as long as we get them." | It is hard to imagine the turmoil an athlete goes through upon hearing they should have been awarded an Olympic medal eight years ago. | 37363866 |
Ken Skates also rejected the suggestion the idea had been "written on the back of a fag packet".
He said it was being designed with investors, the local enterprise zone board and skills providers.
Mr Skates wants plans to go forward for a first building in the cluster in the autumn.
The automotive park project, which has an ambition to create 1,500 jobs, was announced when Mr Skates rejected support for the £433m Circuit of Wales last month.
Land is currently being identified for the park, which would develop automotive businesses with £10m a year over 10 years.
Mr Skates expects "shovels in the ground" by next March.
A cluster of automotive businesses had already been part of the Circuit of Wales plans.
"This is based on extensive research and expertise," Mr Skates told BBC Wales.
"It's being designed with stake-holders. This isn't just a case of 'build units and they'll come'.
"It's been informed by the likes of the enterprise zone board, by skills providers in the area, by existing companies and by investors into Wales.
"There is already a strong automotive manufacturing base within the region but what we want to do is make sure that is built upon and in a way that meets the demands of emerging technology and greener growth."
The first meeting was held to discuss the development last week. Business figures attending included TVR - which has already announced 150 jobs - Ford, IQE and General Dynamics.
CASE STUDY: SKILLS OF THE FUTURE
Riversimple is developing hydrogen cell cars in Llandrindod Wells.
It will be producing an initial run of 20 cars to try out with the public before eventually looking at full scale production with 5,000 cars in 2019.
That might make Ebbw Vale - 45 miles (72km) away- an attractive location, especially with the better road infrastructure to link up with suppliers.
Riversimple plans to rent its vehicles out, with all the maintenance and fuel provided by the firm, which it says will be an "innovative business model alongside an innovative car".
Programme manager Robert Cumming said the car industry is already adapting to new technologies and the development of electric cars but hydrogen cars are something different again.
"There are other elements of these vehicles in their construction which require different skills, so not all the skill sets will necessarily be there," he said.
"But it's an opportunity for us to train and teach people and bring new skills to the area - composites and materials technology.
"Being at the forefront of that can only be a good thing. Wales can be at the driving seat rather than waiting for the technology to come to it."
18,000 people directly employed
40 international components firms including Ford and Toyota
100+ other business in the supply chain, many small and medium-sized
£3.2bn sales generated annually
£500m paid in staff salaries a year
On the idea of an automotive technology park in Ebbw Vale, Mr Cumming said: "There's a great history of motoring in Wales - so this would be a dedicated park bringing these different skill sets in.
"It's difficult finding specialist companies we need, they're dotted around the UK. Having them on our doorstep would be absolutely fantastic."
The Welsh Government is being urged to tackle a shortage of skills in order to attract companies to the new development.
A separate business case is also being worked on for a skills academy.
Blaenau Gwent Learning Zone in Ebbw Vale is running courses to train people for the skills required for the automotive industry but it raises concerns that there is already a skills shortage with local companies, which will need to be improved to attract more businesses.
Ebbw Vale's enterprise zone has only created 179 jobs in seven years.
But Mr Skates said the automotive park would "meet head-on" the challenge of providing space, which would make a massive different to the enterprise zone. | Building work will start on a new £100m automotive business park in Ebbw Vale by the end of the financial year, the economy secretary has pledged. | 40715795 |
The project was intended to show how Afghanistan's natural gas reserves could be used as an alternative to expensive petroleum imports.
However, it cost more than 140 times that of a similar project in neighbouring Pakistan.
The report called the spending "gratuitous and extreme".
The highly critical report was published by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, a group overseeing the use of the approximately $110bn the US has spent in Afghanistan since 2002.
"It's an outrageous waste of money that raises suspicions that there is something more there than just stupidity. There may be fraud. There may be corruption," said John Sopko, special inspector general for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
The station, which was built in the city of Sheberghan, was meant to be the first ever natural gas filling station in Afghanistan.
It was meant to determine whether Afghanistan had an economic interest in developing a natural gas industry.
The station was constructed at the behest of a US military task force originally created to help spur economic development in Iraq after the US invasion that was later replicated in Afghanistan in 2009.
The cost of $43m is far larger than the estimated cost of building natural gas stations in other countries - which ranges from $200,000 to $500,000.
By comparison, a similar project in Pakistan was estimated to cost only $306,000.
The report acknowledged that building the facility in war-torn Afghanistan would incur additional costs not seen elsewhere.
However it said the US military was "unable to provide an explanation for the high cost of the project or to answer any other questions concerning its planning, implementation, or outcome".
In a email to the BBC, US Army Lieutenant Colonel Joe Sowers said that the US military had fully co-operated with the investigation.
According to Afghan government documents obtained by the oversight group, a business license granted to a company operating the filling station expired in 2014, and has not been renewed.
Mr Sopko said he intended to continue investigating to see whether any conduct was "criminal in nature". | The US Department of Defense has spent $43m (£28m) on a vehicle fuelling station in Afghanistan, according to a recently published oversight report. | 34703279 |
Wanderers' own promotion bid is faltering after back-to-back losses, though they still hold a four-point lead over third-placed Fleetwood.
The home side created the first chance as Erwin beat two defenders before pulling his shot a yard off target.
Darren Pratley twice fired over for Bolton in a dour opening half which was dominated by well-drilled defences.
Oldham almost scored when visiting goalkeeper Mark Howard palmed out Peter Clarke's shot before also saving from Paul Green, but they went down to 10 men in the 64th minute as striker Michael Ngoo picked up his second yellow card for a foul on Dean Moxey.
Despite his dismissal, the Latics broke through after 76 minutes when Howard parried a low cross against team-mate Jay Spearing and Erwin helped the ball over the line for his 10th goal of the season.
Bolton were denied when Dorian Dervite's effort was cleared off the line by Ryan McLaughlin, while Adam Le Fondre and Chris Long both hit the crossbar in a frantic finish.
Oldham's win saw them move six points above the relegation zone.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Oldham Athletic 1, Bolton Wanderers 0.
Second Half ends, Oldham Athletic 1, Bolton Wanderers 0.
Adam Le Fondre (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Oliver Banks (Oldham Athletic).
Max Clayton (Bolton Wanderers) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Dorian Dervite (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Tope Obadeyi (Oldham Athletic).
Attempt missed. Adam Le Fondre (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Chris Long replaces Derik.
Foul by Jay Spearing (Bolton Wanderers).
Tope Obadeyi (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Mark Beevers (Bolton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Josh Vela (Bolton Wanderers).
Paul Green (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Jamie Stott.
Adam Le Fondre (Bolton Wanderers) hits the bar with a right footed shot from very close range.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Jamie Stott.
Attempt blocked. Jay Spearing (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. James Henry replaces Dean Moxey.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Peter Clarke.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Peter Clarke.
Goal! Oldham Athletic 1, Bolton Wanderers 0. Lee Erwin (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Mark Beevers (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Lee Erwin (Oldham Athletic) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Jay Spearing (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Max Clayton replaces Darren Pratley.
Attempt missed. Jay Spearing (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Second yellow card to Michael Ngoo (Oldham Athletic) for a bad foul.
Foul by Michael Ngoo (Oldham Athletic).
Dean Moxey (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ousmane Fane (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Derik (Bolton Wanderers).
Ryan McLaughlin (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Darren Pratley (Bolton Wanderers).
Attempt saved. Darren Pratley (Bolton Wanderers) header from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Attempt missed. Brian Wilson (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Michael Ngoo (Oldham Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Mark Beevers (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michael Ngoo (Oldham Athletic).
Attempt saved. Paul Green (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. | Sheffield United were crowned League One champions as 10-man Oldham beat second-placed Bolton thanks to Lee Erwin's second-half goal. | 39536428 |
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said it would leave Portsmouth on Friday.
The Type 45 destroyer, and its 190 crew, will perform a similar role to that carried out by HMS Defender before it returned to the UK in July.
It will give air cover for US aircraft carriers, which dispatch planes on bombing raids in Iraq and Syria.
The Daring will also patrol busy shipping lanes and provide information to the headquarters controlling air operations against IS, which is also known as Daesh.
Mr Fallon said: "All three armed services are making a vital contribution to defeating Daesh.
"RAF aircraft are hitting the terrorists daily on the ground; the Army is providing counter-explosives training to Iraq troops; the Royal Navy helps protect coalition carriers in the Gulf as they launch strikes".
As a Type 45 destroyer, the Daring is armed with Sea Viper missiles which are designed to allow it to protect an entire fleet from air attacks and deal with threats up to 75 miles away.
Though they are the Royal Navy's most modern warships, earlier this year it emerged that the UK's fleet of six £1bn destroyers were to be fitted with new engines because they kept breaking down.
First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Philip Jones told the House of Commons Defence Committee in July that the gas turbine engines driving the warships "degraded catastrophically" in the Gulf's very warm seas.
He said the Royal Navy has accepted it would not be able to operate the ships "all the time in every place on every day of the year".
The Daring will be taking on the role previously carried out by the Defender, which spent nine months in the Middle East working mainly with American and French strike groups against IS.
In June, while working on counter narcotics and counter terrorist operations, the Defender intercepted a suspect fishing boat off the south coast of Oman and seized more than a tonne of hashish, with an estimated street value of £5.6m. | Royal Navy warship HMS Daring is to be sent to the Gulf to support US carriers that are launching bombing raids on militants from the Islamic State group. | 37209713 |
Valerie Amos said 3,000 people were evacuated last Sunday, but that the same number were trapped in the town amid continuing shelling and fighting.
Thousands of people were in a similar situations in towns across the country, she said.
The army has previously said rebel-held areas must surrender or starve.
Also on Saturday, activists said at least 16 soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing and fighting at a checkpoint near the mainly-Christian area of Jaramana.
State media blamed "terrorists" for the explosion but did not give details.
Rebels control much of the countryside around Damascus but Jaramana - a Christian and Druze area mostly loyal to President Bashar al-Assad - is still held by the government.
In a statement, Baroness Amos said was "extremely worried by the situation unfolding across Syria where ordinary women, children and men are facing horrific violence and brutality from all sides of the conflict".
She said relief workers had been unable to access Muadhamiya for months, and that the ongoing conflict was preventing any rescue mission from going ahead.
"I call on all parties to agree an immediate pause in hostilities in Muadhamiya to allow humanitarian agencies unhindered access to evacuate the remaining civilians and deliver life-saving treatment and supplies in areas where fighting and shelling is ongoing," she said.
But she said this was not the only area of concern, citing Nubil, Zahra, old Aleppo town, old Homs town and Hassaka as other places where people were in danger.
"Civilians must be allowed to move to safer areas without the fear of attack," she added.
"It is vital that all parties to the conflict respect their obligations under international human rights and humanitarian laws to protect civilians and to allow neutral, impartial humanitarian organizations safe access to all people in need, wherever they are in Syria."
Muadhamiya and at least two other Damascus's suburbs - Yarmouk and Eastern Ghouta - have been besieged by government forces for several months.
The situation has become so desperate that earlier this week Muslim clerics issued a religious ruling allowing people to eat cats, dogs and donkeys just to survive.
Those animals are usually considered unfit for human consumption in Islam.
Syrian activists say they are now starting to record the first deaths of complications caused by malnutrition.
On Friday, the US urged the Syrian government to allow relief convoys to reach starving civilians.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki warned that "those who are responsible for atrocities in the Damascus suburbs and across Syria must be identified and held accountable".
More than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria's conflict, now in its third year. The unrest began in the midst of the Arab Spring regional uprisings, with protests against President Bashar Assad, before degenerating into civil war.
A British surgeon who volunteered in a hospital in northern Syria for five weeks told the BBC on Friday that he had treated pregnant women deliberately targeted by snipers.
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David Nott said there "was definitely a game going on between the snipers".
"One day we would receive patients who had purely groin wounds, another day purely chest wounds or purely abdominal wounds. Then another day full-term pregnant ladies were coming in having been shot."
Most of the unborn babies and many of the women did not survive, he said.
International efforts to halt the violence have consistently faltered, but last month the UN Security Council broke its deadlock, voting unanimously to adopt a binding resolution on ridding the country of chemical weapons.
The move followed international outrage at a chemical weapons attack near Damascus in August.
UN experts are currently working in Syria, inspecting chemical weapons sites and destroying the arsenal, and say they have completed almost half their mission. | The UN's humanitarian chief has called for an "immediate pause in hostilities" in Muadhamiya, a rebel-held suburb of the Syrian capital, Damascus. | 24594853 |
Kante, 25, starred as the Foxes won the Premier League last season, and represented France at Euro 2016.
However, the defensive midfielder has been heavily tipped to leave the King Power Stadium, with Chelsea reported to have made a £27m bid.
Ranieri said: "We offered Kante a new deal before the Euros. Now I know there are a lot of big teams interested."
Kante was named on the six-man shortlist for the PFA Players' Player of the Year award last season - which was won by team-mate Riyad Mahrez.
Leicester kept striker Jamie Vardy earlier this summer after he rejected a move to Arsenal and signed a new deal.
Ranieri said that he was "very happy" that Vardy had stayed at the club, and said that Leicester are "ready" to defend their title.
"Doing it again is not possible, but we proved last season that everything is possible," he said.
"There is no pressure on us, we're the champions. The new champions will have to fight against us - not just the new champions but everybody.
"We know it will not be the same but we are ready."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri says N'Golo Kante's future is "in his hands" after he was offered a new contract. | 36794983 |
Wukan, in southern Guangdong province, has come to symbolise the anger felt over land seizures by rural officials.
It ousted local officials three months ago and won the right to elections as part of a deal to end unrest there.
Respected elder Lin Zuluan was voted in as village chief, with Yang Semao his deputy.
After his landslide victory, with 6,205 votes on an 80% turnout, Mr Lin said: "With this kind of recognition from the villagers, I'll work doubly hard for them."
Some 6,800 residents had turned up at a local school to cast their ballots.
Five other seats on the village committee will be filled in a run-off vote on Sunday.
Activists from other parts of the country had travelled to Wukan to observe the polls and to try to highlight their own grievances.
"Wukan is an example for us," Hua Youjuan, a village chief from Huangshan in eastern China where residents have also protested against corruption, told Reuters.
"What Wukan has achieved through its solidarity is something we can also learn from," he added.
Protests had been simmering in Wukan since September.
Villagers said officials had sold off their land to developers and failed to compensate them properly.
The unrest escalated after the death of a village negotiator in police custody in December.
Police say he died of a "sudden illness", but his family say he was beaten to death.
The granting of elections was seen as a surprising concession from the Guangdong authorities, led by ambitious Communist Party head Wang Yang. | Thousands of people turned out to elect a new leader in a Chinese village that staged a high-profile revolt over perceived local corruption. | 17243103 |
He confirmed the chosen city in a video message, which ended with the backing of pop star Kylie Minogue.
The games are a Paralympic-style multi-sport event ranging from archery and wheelchair rugby to road cycling and swimming.
The event began in London in 2014 and visited Orlando, Florida, in May ahead of Toronto next year.
"We have raised the bar higher with each successive games. I am happy to say the Invictus Games journey won't end there," said Harry.
He said the competition had "shown us what can be achieved when wounded, injured and sick servicemen and women rediscover their fighting spirit through sport".
Prince Harry has been heavily involved in the organisation of the event, after attending the Warrior Games, a similar gathering held in the US.
He himself served 10 years in the Armed Forces and saw action in Afghanistan twice.
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The announcement video, filmed at the Tourism Australia offices in Australia House, London, shows Harry's mobile phone ringing to the sound of the Kylie Minogue hit I Should Be So Lucky.
The prince, surrounded by members of the Australian military, announces to cheers that the caller is Kylie.
He says: "Hi Kylie, good timing, the 2018 Invictus Games is coming to Sydney, can I guarantee the Aussies are going to bring it?"
In her own video message in reply, she says: "Hey Prince Harry, listen - we're stoked the Invictus Games is coming to Sydney, but you don't need to tell the Aussies to bring it - it's guaranteed, no worries."
The prince, who is patron of the Invictus Games Foundation which oversees the delivery of the tournament, said Sydney was chosen because it is an iconic location with a proud military heritage and a population that is "absolutely sports mad".
The 2018 competition is set to take place in New South Wales from 18-29 October. | Prince Harry has named Sydney as host of the 2018 Invictus Games for injured, wounded and sick armed forces veterans. | 37961013 |
At least 16 people died in the accident, prompting officials to cancel the final day of the carnival.
Witnesses said someone on the float used a stick to move the power line to let the float pass, the Associated Press news agency reported.
Some of the victims were electrocuted while others died in the ensuing panic.
Officials said a further 78 people had been injured.
Haitian Prime Minister Evans Paul said a silent parade would be held later on Tuesday to honour the dead.
Those in attendance will wear white and march along the Champ de Mars where the accident occurred.
The three days of mourning will officially begin on Wednesday, with flags to be flown at half-mast.
A state funeral will be held for the victims on Saturday.
The float, one of 16 in the parade, was sponsored by the Haitian hip-hop group Barikad Crew.
The power line struck the group's singer Fantom, who remains in hospital in a critical condition.
Hundreds of people were reported to have gathered outside the hospital, waiting for news of their loved ones.
Haitian President Michel Martelly gave his condolences to the victims on Twitter.
"My sincere sympathy to the victims of the serious incident at Champ de Mars on the second day of carnival," the president tweeted in French.
Witnesses said some people managed to jump off the float, causing panic amid the crowd surrounding it.
"I saw the wire falling and sparks and I started running for my life," Natacha Saint Fleur told the Associated Press.
Thousands of people had been attending the carnival in the capital when the accident happened. | Three days of mourning have been declared in Haiti after a power line fell on to a carnival float in the capital, Port au Prince. | 31501543 |
Selby, the 2014 and 2016 world champion, defeated Ryan Day 5-3 in a tight last-eight encounter.
Bingham, last year's Crucible champion, had breaks of 58 and 91 as he beat Ali Carter 5-1.
Ding Junhui beat Michael Holt 5-3 and faces Stephen Maguire, 5-1 conqueror of Michael White, in the other semi-final.
Follow all results from the Shanghai Masters here. | Mark Selby will face Stuart Bingham as snooker's most recent world champions meet in Saturday's semi-finals of the Shanghai Masters. | 37450547 |
The Marie Curie charity and the Bevan Foundation looked at figures from 2012, which also showed one in four hospital beds were used by patients in their last year of life in Wales
Older terminally ill people were much less likely to have palliative care.
The Welsh government said there should be equal access to good care.
The report highlighted "huge numbers" of admissions to hospitals and days spent in hospital by people in the last year of life.
Out of all people who died in 2012, only a total of 17% accessed palliative care services.
Of people with cancer aged over 85, only 35% used the services, compared to 58% of those aged up to 44.
The report recommends the Welsh government and NHS Wales:
Simon Jones, head of policy at Marie Curie Wales, acknowledged that Wales had a higher level of specialist palliative care services than England or Northern Ireland, saying improvements had been made including better medicine, round-the-clock clinical nurse specialists and consultant support.
However he added: "Our report is a stark reminder of the work that still needs to be done to ensure that all those who need and would benefit from specialist palliative care get it.
"For example the recorded level specialist palliative care given to people dying from dementia is as low as 3.8%."
He said while some people would need the specialist services only available in a hospital, many could be cared for in other settings including hospices and patients' own homes.
Bevan Foundation director Victoria Winkler said: "Our analysis doesn't only reveal the short-fall in provision of specialist palliative care, it also shows that the NHS has a rich source of data at its fingertips which it can use to gain insight into its activities."
A Welsh government spokesman said it announced £6.4m funding in August to support hospices and palliative care across Wales.
"No matter where you live in Wales, people approaching the end of their lives should have access to consistently good care and support," he said.
"With advances in modern medicine and treatment, more people live longer with incurable diseases." | Less than half of people who died from cancer and only 5% of those dying from other conditions received specialist palliative care, a report has found. | 30267931 |
Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on Thursday announced that the dam's height would be increased from 121 metres to 138.62 metres, papers say.
Work to raise the height of the dam is expected to take 36 to 40 months.
Social activist Medha Patkar, who heads the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save the Narmada movement) group, has strongly opposed the decision.
"Densely populated villages in Nimad area of [the neighbouring] Madhya Pradesh state, with houses, farms, shops, temples, mosques and standing crops will face a watery grave if the dam's height is increased," the Hindustan Times quotes her as saying in a statement.
Greenpeace India has also criticised the announcement, saying it is contrary to the government's promise of inclusive development.
"The government in Gujarat has served a blow to the Narmada Bachao Andolan and all of us who stand in solidarity with the grave impact of the impacted communities and the environment. This seems to be the government's way of making it loud and clear that it's their way or the highway," The Times of India quotes Greenpeace's Abhishek Pratap as saying.
However, Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti said the decision to raise the height of the Narmada dam was based on the report of the ministry of social justice and empowerment on the rehabilitation of displaced people, the Zee News website reports.
The project, built to resolve power and water shortages in central and western India, has faced controversies in the past as well.
It was initiated by India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru in the 1950s but opposition from campaigners led to long legal battles and delays. The dam finally started generating power in 2007.
Critics say it has displaced tens of thousands of villagers who have not been adequately compensated.
In other news, four people have been arrested in Delhi for the murder of a retired army officer who fought in the India-Pakistan war of 1971, reports The Pioneer.
Major Rohit Sethi, 64, was given the Vir Chakra gallantry award for his "exemplary bravery" during the war.
The army officer was smothered to death after he was given food laced with sedatives, the paper says.
And finally, Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu was left "upset" after finding our that several officers in his ministry often came late to work, The Asian Age reported.
Mr Naidu arrived at 9am [local time] to take a round of the office but was "irked" on seeing many empty chairs and was also unhappy with poor maintenance of the premises, the report added.
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook. | Media and activists are concerned over the government's plan to increase the height of the Sardar Sarovar dam on the Narmada river in the western state of Gujarat. | 27828109 |
The centre was ever-present during the World Cup and was named in the Tier Two team of the tournament.
Hearn, 29, has been capped 49 times by Canada and has featured in two World Cups for his country.
He will join fellow Canada international Jebb Sinclair at London Irish, who have lost all three of their Premiership matches in 2015-16.
Exiles captain George Skivington was proud of his side's display against Premiership champions Saracens on Saturday.
Irish led at half-time before losing 24-14 at Allianz Park.
Winger Aseli Tokoirotuma and back row Leo Halavatau scored tries in either half for Tom Coventry's side.
"I'm proud of the boys, they did what was asked of them and got on with it," Skivington told BBC Radio Berkshire.
The team's tough start to the season continues as they face last season's runners-up Bath at the Madejski Stadium on Saturday.
But they led a Premiership game for the first time this season at Saracens and second row Skivington believes they are beginning to click.
"We're not a team of superstars, we just grit our teeth and get on with it," he added. "We've got a little bit to learn and we've got to fine-tune a few bits and pieces before we can get that first win.
"At Exeter (where London Irish lost 38-11), we were upset with our physicality and that's not what we're about.
"Bath play a different game to Saracens, but we'll look to bring some of that physicality that we showed against them. We'll have to get our tactics right if we're going to get over the line." | London Irish have announced the signing of Canada international Ciaran Hearn for the remainder of the season. | 34699495 |
London Olympian Smith was the favourite before dislocating her shoulder at the GB Championships earlier this month.
A statement from British Weightlifting said Smith would undergo shoulder surgery to return to full fitness.
Tiler, who won the GB 69kg title at the trials - is joined by Sonny Webster who competes in the men's 94kg class.
"I've been struggling with injury since the beginning of the year which has seriously hindered, and eventually ended, my road to Rio," Smith said.
"Although I'd obviously rather be competing, I'm glad I can give myself the break from competing that my body clearly needs."
It will be a first Olympic Games for Tiler and Webster, who were both crowned British Champion in their respective weight categories earlier this month.
Two years ago, Tiler finished fourth at the 2014 Commonwealth Games - aged just 15 - and earlier this year she won three bronze medals at the European Championships in Norway.
Webster also competed at the Commonwealth Games, finishing fifth, and is a former European junior bronze medallist. The 22-year-old broke the British U23 record at the 2016 British Championships, with Tiler breaking two British records on their way to the titles.
Team GB have won seven Olympic weightlifting medals - one gold, three silver and three bronze - with the last medal won at Los Angeles 1984 when David Mercer took home bronze. | Rebekah Tiler has won the battle for Britain's sole female weightlifting place at the Rio Olympics after Zoe Smith failed to recover from injury. | 36662047 |
The Cube, which must find ??185,000 before 31 December when its leasehold expires, intends to auction the print.
The work comes from the "Di-faced tenner" series - a set of spoof ??10 notes replacing the Queen's head with an image of the late Princess of Wales.
The signed and authenticated framed print was one of 50 produced.
It will be valued later in the week, a Cube spokesman said. One was sold at auction for ??24,000 in 2007.
"We have one of only 50 signed prints in existence that feature multiple 'uncut' notes with both sides visible," he added.
Once the freehold is bought, the Cube added, they would continue improvements to the building.
"This means we'll be continuing our fundraising activities. All proceeds from the 'Di-faced tenners' auction will go towards this ongoing goal, which is appropriate, as it's rumoured that Banksy frequented the Cube in his pre-fame days," he said.
The Cube is run by about 150 voluntary staff who have been renting the building since 1998.
The venue, which stages left-field film showings and performance art, is funded with income from the bar and the door.
Its 15-year lease expires at the end of the year and volunteers said they "jumped at the chance" when the landlord offered to sell them the building - if they could raise the funds in time.
Their supporters include Arts Council England who have pledged ??90,000, and other established venues in the city have also helped.
A recent benefit gig at the Bristol Old Vic raised ??5,000 and the Cube's neighbour ArtSpace LifeSpace "chipped in ??1,000".
The rest of the money raised has come from the "generosity of the public".
Cube volunteer David Hopkinson said: "It's very exciting to have the piece donated.
"Obviously the nature of anonymity means we don't know who it's from.
"But it's fitting as both Banksy and the Cube emerged on the Bristol independent art scene at the same time and artwork to do with money often sells particularly well in auction." | A rare Banksy artwork has been donated anonymously to an independently-run arts venue in Bristol which is campaigning to buy its building. | 24701608 |
The 28-year-old was shot dead when he and his girlfriend Joanne Lees were ambushed near Alice Springs in 2001. His body was never found.
In 2005 Bradley Murdoch was found guilty of murdering Mr Falconio.
Northern Territory Police has renewed its appeal for information on the 15th anniversary of his death.
Acting Deputy Commissioner Lance Godwin urged Murdoch to "consider the heartache of the Falconio family" and give up the location of the body.
"We are continuing to search for Mr Falconio and will do so until he is found," he added.
Murdoch was jailed for a minimum of 28 years after he was convicted of murdering Mr Falconio, from Huddersfield, and assaulting Ms Lees.
He has always denied he was the killer.
Last month, legislation preventing convicted murderers from becoming eligible for parole unless they reveal the location of their victim was passed by the Northern Territory Government.
Murdoch's case is the only one in the Northern Territory affected by the change.
Colleen Gwynne, the police officer who lead the investigation, told ABC news she feared Murdoch would never confess.
She said: "Do I think he'll disclose: no I don't. He maintains he is innocent to this day and the arrogance of the man astounds me." | Australian police searching for the body of murdered backpacker Peter Falconio have renewed their appeal for help to find his remains. | 36792282 |
Martin McGartland was shot as he sat in his car in Duchess Street, Whitley Bay, on 17 June 1999.
Five people have been arrested but no one has ever been charged.
Northumbria Police said its main line of inquiry continued to be that he may have been shot by someone with Irish Republican sympathies.
Mr McGartland survived despite being shot several times at close range and was given a new identity.
Det Ch Supt Chris Thomson said: "Although this was an unsuccessful attack, it was a cold-blooded, calculated assassination attempt."
He added: "Mr McGartland's history as an agent for the then Royal Ulster Constabulary and his supplying of information about the Provisional IRA is a matter of public knowledge, documented in his own books on the subject.
"Our main line of inquiry, therefore, continues to be that Mr McGartland may have been shot by a person or people with Irish Republican sympathies for reasons closely linked to his former life in Northern Ireland."
Northumbria Police said it was continuing to use DNA recovered from the scene to eliminate people from the investigation.
Other lines of inquiry concern a van abandoned at the scene which had been bought only two days before the attack and a message left on a telephone answering machine a few days earlier asking about a van for sale.
Police said two semi-automatic pistols and some ammunition were found in the Gateshead area within months of the attack and one was forensically linked to the shooting. | Police have renewed their appeal for information 11 years after the attempted murder of a former IRA informer on Tyneside. | 10337772 |
The department's strategic planning and policy development forum also criticised a number of the department's policies for promoting inclusion.
Academic selection concentrated "lower-achieving pupils, often from socially deprived areas, into a small group of 11-16 schools", the report said.
It added that NI's formal school leaving age should rise from 16 to 19.
The body was set up by DE in 2011 and its membership includes a number of departmental officials, teaching employers and trade unions.
Its function is to "work with the department to help shape and influence policy development and strategic planning before decisions are made".
It has been examining "how the education system might more effectively contribute to promoting inclusion and prosperity for all young people" since July 2015.
The report was submitted to Education Minister Peter Weir in November 2016 and has just been published.
While it said that "our education system has many strengths", it also noted "high-level policy inconsistencies and incoherence" in a number of areas.
"There is still a long way to go in terms of ensuring that the great majority of our young people leave school with a high level of achievement," said the report.
This is despite more than two-thirds of young people leaving school with five or more GCSEs at grades A*-C, including English and Maths.
The report did not explicitly call for academic selection to be abandoned, but said that it had "negative influences".
It said selection leads to some children becoming uninterested in learning during Year 6 in primary school.
Further, it said the education system was "reflective of a divided society in terms of religious background, social class, ethnicity and disability".
"This social division is evident in the continuing existence of a selective and non-selective post-primary system," added the report.
It recommended that only schools "which are non-selective and desirably co-educational" should be approved by the minister in future.
"Our social and educational systems are tolerating and even perpetuating poverty," added the report.
"The disparity in educational and employment opportunities between pupils from families experiencing socio-economic deprivation and better off pupils is stark.
"The gap between the achievement of those individuals who come from relatively affluent families and those from deprived areas is getting wider and wider."
The report recommended that all young people should receive "continuous education" until the age of 19.
However, it said more professional and technical subjects and options should be available to young people aged 14-19, and called for closer links between schools and business and industry.
The report was also critical of DE's sustainable schools policy, saying it was "flawed from the start".
It cited aspects of the Polish and Finnish education systems as examples Northern Ireland could learn from.
However, it warned that "future policies will also struggle to have a meaningful impact unless education can become a positive driver for inclusion and prosperity rather than a contested political entity".
In a statement, Education Minister Peter Weir said he supported the right of schools to select on the basis of academic ability.
He added that he believed that every child, regardless of background, should have the opportunity to get into a grammar school, if it is their wish to do so. | A policy group run by the Department of Education (DE) has criticised the impact of academic selection. | 39032961 |
His lawyers said that he was "bowing to the inevitable" after failing to reach agreement with creditors, including his former employer.
Mr Fitzpatrick owes 110m euros after a series of investments in Anglo-Irish shares, which became worthless following its nationalisation.
It is understoood his assets are worth 70m euros less than his liabilities.
Under the Irish system, somebody who cannot fully repay remains bankrupt for 12 years compared to as little as one year in the UK.
Such an individual must hand over assets to a court-appointed official who can sell them to reimburse creditors.
The official can also apply to the courts to appropriate some of the pension or income of a bankrupt person.
Mr Fitzpatrick built Anglo-Irish to become what appeared to be one of the biggest success stories of the Irish Republic's boom years.
However its business model, which involved lending huge sums to a small number of property investors, was exposed as fatally flawed by a collapse in property prices, caused by the credit crunch.
The bank was nationalised in 2009 and has so far cost the Irish taxpayer 22bn euros.
Mr Fitzpatrick was forced to step down from the chairman's role a month before nationalisation.
He left in disgrace after admitting hiding from the bank's shareholders 87m euros of personal borrowings he had taken from Anglo between 2000 and 2007.
He hid the loans from public view by moving borrowings to another bank before the end of the financial year.
Mr Fitzpatrick has been cast as one of the villains of Ireland's economic crisis.
In October 2008, at a time when the Irish government had committed itself to a huge guarantee for the Irish banking system, Mr Fitzpatrick gave a radio interview in which he refused to apologise for his bank's role in the crisis.
He later called for the government to consider tackling the "the sacred cows" of universal child benefit and state pensions.
Mr Fitzpatrick was also a critic of what he believed was excessive regulation of Irish banks.
A recent official report into the roots of the Irish banking crisis found that part of the problem was that regulation was so lax.
It described the approach taken by the Central Bank and the regulator to the banks as "timid", "excessively deferential" and "accommodating". | The former head of Anglo-Irish Bank Sean Fitzpatrick has been declared bankrupt by the High Court in Dublin. | 10595884 |
Ken Munro of Pen Test Partners was thinking of upgrading his Aga when he found vulnerabilities in the apps used to control the newest models.
It means ovens could be turned on or off, though not in a way that makes the cookers dangerous.
Aga has said it has contacted the third party that provided the system.
"If you were maliciously motivated, it wouldn't be very difficult to switch off people's Aga's remotely," Mr Munro told the BBC.
His investigation concerned the "iTotal Control" (TC) system, which Aga has marketed since 2012.
Among the security issues he says he found is the fact that SMS messages - which are used by the system to turn the oven on or off - are not authenticated by the cooker.
Nor is the Sim card set up to send the messages validated on registration.
Mr Munro also criticised the fact that user registration for the service allows passwords as short as five characters - security experts usually recommend using as many characters as possible, with a minimum of eight.
Email addresses are sent in plain text via the system, too, he explained - meaning personal data could be vulnerable to snoopers.
He also said that attempts to contact Aga about the problems, including a tweet and emails on 3 April, fell on deaf ears.
When he did get through to someone and advised them to take the Total Control website down, he got a disappointing response.
"I asked to speak to relevant departments, they couldn't put me through," he said.
"Aga Rangemaster operates its Aga TC phone app via a third party service provider," Aga said in a statement.
"Security and account registration also involves our [machine to machine] provider.
"We take such issues seriously and have raised them immediately with our service providers so that we can answer in detail the points raised."
However, the firm did not comment on Mr Munro's claims that it ignored his disclosure of the problems.
"It's kind of unacceptable that some random person could just take control of your Aga," said Professor Alan Woodward, a cybersecurity expert at the University of Surrey.
"Will hackers try it? Who knows, but it just shouldn't be possible."
He added that he was surprised there seemed to be a flat response from the firm when Mr Munro tried to raise the issues.
"If somebody calls up, 'I found a problem with your system,' they should look at it," Prof Woodward told the BBC. | An app that lets Aga cooker owners remotely control their ovens could be hijacked by hackers, a cybersecurity researcher has claimed. | 39580507 |
They include the son of a government politician, along with university and elite public school students.
Twenty hostages, two policemen and six suspects were killed in the raid. One suspect was arrested.
The so-called Islamic State (IS) group said it was behind the attack but the government has denied this.
Nine Italians, seven Japanese, one US citizen and an Indian were killed in the 12-hour siege at the Holey Artisan cafe in the Gulshan neighbourhood. One Italian is unaccounted for.
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Bangladeshi Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu told India's NDTV that "a majority of the boys who attacked the restaurant came from very good educational institutions.
"Some went to sophisticated schools. Their families are relatively well-to-do people."
One suspect is Rohan Imtiaz, the son of Awami League politician Imtiaz Khan.
The son had been reported missing by his parents after he disappeared in December. They recognised him from photographs of the attackers published in local media.
The father of one of the attackers has told the BBC of his shock at discovering his son was one of the attackers.
"I am stunned to learn this," said Imtiaz Khan, a leader of the Awami League's Dhaka chapter and deputy secretary-general of the Bangladesh Olympic Committee.
"My son used to pray five times a day from a young age. There is a mosque just 25 feet from our home. He started going to prayers with his grandfather. But we never imagined this. There was nothing at home, no books or anything to indicate he was leaning that way.
''The shock and suddenness of the event has left me speechless. I am so ashamed and sorry."
Rohan disappeared from the family home in December. "When I was searching for my son, I found that many other boys were missing - well-educated boys from good educated families, children of professionals, government officers. I used to share my sorrows with them," Mr Khan said.
Another dead suspect, Nibras Islam, reportedly attended the campus of Australia's prestigious Monash University in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, where the annual fee for a bachelor's degree is $9,000 (£6,700).
One student there told Reuters that Nibras Islam had appeared a normal student who loved taking photos of himself. He left last year and his social media activity tailed off. He did follow the Twitter handle of one Islamic State propagandist, Reuters reported.
Another suspect, Andaleeb Ahmed, has also been linked to Monash, having been in Malaysia from 2012 to 2015 and later in Istanbul.
Facebook posts and other sources named three other suspects as Meer Saameh Mubasheer, Khairul Islam Payel and Raiyan Minhaj.
Two of the six, Rohan Imtiaz and Meer Saameh Mubasheer, attended the elite Scholastica public school in Dhaka.
Meer Saameh Mubasheer's father told local media he feared his son had been brainwashed. "I felt in my heart that he was under someone's spell. We were good parents yet they took him away from our home," Mir Hayat Kabir said.
Analysts say the suspects' backgrounds would have helped them blend in easily in the upmarket diplomatic quarter.
They also say that is was previously believed that jihadists were poorer-educated men, radicalised in madrassa-style institutions. Only Khairul Islam appeared to be from a poor background.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told Agence France-Presse it had become "a fashion" to join self-styled IS.
Nobody has yet claimed the bodies of the suspects and police have not confirmed identities.
The names given out by police - Akash, Badhon, Bikash, Don and Ripon - may be aliases used by the attackers to conceal identities.
Bangladeshi officials say the men belonged to a local banned militant group, the Jamaeytul Mujahdeen Bangladesh (JMB), but are investigating IS links.
Meanwhile one survivor, Gianni Boschetti, has described how leaving the cafe to take a phone call saved his life - but he lost his wife, Claudia Maria D'Antona.
"The last time I heard my wife's voice was when she called for me from the inside," Mr Boschetti told La Repubblica.
He hid in the cafe garden for hours. "I saw bodies in a terrible state, from beatings and sharp weapons, but not my wife's. Maybe she didn't suffer," he said.
One eyewitness said hostages were tortured if they could not recite the Koran,
Nine Italians named by the Italian foreign ministry as: Cristian Rossi; Marco Tondat; Nadia Benedetti; Adele Puglisi; Simona Monti; Claudia Maria D'Antona; Vincenzo D'Allestro; Maria Rivoli and Claudio Cappelli
Seven Japanese Five men and two women, four of whose names have been released by Japanese officials: Koyo Ogasawara, Makoto Okamura, Yuko Sakai and Rui Shimodaira
Four Bangladeshis Two were named in national media as Faraaz Ayaaz Hossai, a student at Emory University in the US, and Ishrat Akhond - the other two were policemen
US citizen Abinta Kabir, also a student at Emory University
One Indian Tarishi Jain, 18, who was a student at the University of California, Berkeley
More about the victims | Bangladeshi police are continuing to investigate Friday's deadly attack on a Dhaka cafe, amid shock at the elite background of most of the suspects. | 36704853 |
On Wednesday, the High Court approved the £84m takeover by utilities giant Severn Trent.
However, shareholders of the Wrexham-based company, who called it a "David versus Goliath" dispute are appealing.
Any application to appeal must now be made by Monday and the case will be heard by 22 February.
Some staff and customers had opposed the move amid fears for jobs and an increase in bills.
Customers pay an average of £145 a year for their water compared with £172 for Severn Trent.
Dee Valley Water employs about 180 people and has 230,000 customers across the Wrexham and Chester areas. | Opponents of the takeover of Dee Valley Water have been granted leave to appeal the move. | 38931352 |
The cash is aimed at ensuring a "seamlessly managed transition" from child to adult mental health services.
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said he hoped the extra funding would make "a real and positive difference".
The money is on top of £1.25m already spent on treating eating disorders in people of all ages in Wales.
While child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) involve families in the treatment of eating disorders up to the age of 18, treatment models for adults may not always include the family.
The new money will pay for training and extra support from specialist staff, and ease the transition to adult services.
"Eating disorders comprise a range of highly complex mental illnesses, as well as being physically debilitating conditions in themselves, which is why early diagnosis and intervention is vital," said Mr Gething.
"The additional funding I'm announcing today will help ensure the services and treatment approach young people and their families receive will not change when they transition from CAMHS into adult services.
"This will help ensure young people receive the care and support they need during what is an extremely difficult time for them and their family.
"I hope the improvements this funding will support will make a real and positive difference to them." | Young people with eating disorders in Wales will get more help as they turn 18 with an extra £500,000 a year of funding. | 40941147 |
The Trust, which owns City, approved a motion in October to ask the club's board if Tisdale had a notice period and, if so, serve him that notice.
Tisdale had a two-year rolling contract and is now serving that notice period.
It means that unless a new deal can be reached, Tisdale, who is the longest-serving manager in the EFL, will leave Exeter City in November 2018.
Exeter City say they will not comment on the contractual status of any of their employees, while the Trust chairman Martin Weiler told BBC Sport that "the club are aware of the Trust resolution."
Tisdale is not under any immediate threat of the sack, with the Supporters' Trust saying last month that "members wanted to be satisfied that there was a contract that protected the best interests of the club, the trust and the manager."
Exeter are 23rd in League Two, having not won a game at home since April.
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It prompted the Trust to issue a statement on the club's form, which read: "Trustees considered letters from a number of members expressing dissatisfaction with current results.
"The Trust Board shares these concerns and stressed the need for improvement to club board chairman Julian Tagg."
Tisdale. 43, has been in charge at Exeter City since 2006.
He led the club to promotion from the Conference to League Two in 2008 and onto League One the following season, but they dropped back down to the fourth tier in 2012.
Exeter have been owned by their supporters since 2003, when a group of fans bought the club after it had amassed debts of more than £2m after relegation from the Football League.
The Trust has overall control of the club, with a board of directors running Exeter City on a day-to-day basis and a number of Trust members sitting on the club's board. | Exeter City's Supporters' Trust has ordered the club to serve notice on the contract of manager Paul Tisdale. | 38017590 |
Nash, 27, was a member of Britain's men's coxless four that won gold in Rio, securing Britain's fifth consecutive Olympic title in the event.
The three-time world champion claimed Olympic bronze four years ago alongside Will Satch in the men's pair.
"I'd like to thank everyone that supported me," said Nash. "I'm going to take a different tack professionally."
He said he would miss working with the "most dedicated, driven and dogged athletes, coaches and support staff in the world".
He added: "I'll miss exploring the limits of fatigue and laughing about it with the lads. I'll miss lining up next to the best rowers in the world and sharing that infectious, nervous energy on the start line.
"And of course I'll miss all those times I got to cross the finish line first."
Find out how to get into rowing with our special guide. | Olympic gold medallist George Nash has announced his retirement from rowing to take up a role as an engineer. | 37953005 |
The party produced freedom of information requests showing patients had been moved out of specialist wards.
Researchers say the practice of moving patients out of busy wards can increase the risk of infection and prolong patients' hospital stays.
The Scottish government said it was working to reduce the practice.
Labour's figures showed 130,559 patients had been moved into other wards, although the true total could be higher still as five health boards, including Tayside and Grampian, did not provide figures.
Dundee University researchers examined the practice in 2013, voicing fears that a reduction in bed numbers and a rise in hospital admissions was making the practice more common.
Scottish Labour said the figures "show the huge strain our hospitals are under", and called for more investment in social care.
Public services spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said: "These figures point to huge levels of stress in our hospitals.
"This information suggests that too often there isn't enough space for patients to be treated in the appropriate ward. That is hugely concerning.
"We know from the SNP government's own research that treating patients in the wrong ward is more likely to increase patient risk. Questions have to be asked of Health Secretary Shona Robison about what she is doing to deal with this."
A spokesman for the health secretary said a "proactive approach" was being taken to tackling the issue.
He said: "We recognise that peaks in demand may require use of beds flexibly at times, however we are working to ensure that NHS boards are managing their capacity and ensuring that patients are admitted to the right beds at the right time with the right staff.
"Key elements of our work to reduce boarding include freeing up capacity and easing pressure across the system. For example, our investment of £100m over three years in reducing delayed discharge is already seeing real results with a 13% reduction in bed days lost to patients ready to go home." | More than 130,000 patients have been "boarded out" from wards in Scotland's hospitals over the last two years, Scottish Labour has claimed. | 35574702 |
Ownership of the Grade II-listed Colwyn Bay pier has been contested for several years.
Businessman Steve Hunt, who ran the pier until he was made bankrupt in 2008, said it should have come back to him after three years.
But Conwy council claims it passed to the Crown Estate before it signed a deal to buy the pier in 2012.
A hearing on Tuesday before Mr Justice Morgan included a detailed discussion of events in summer 2011, when the pier was in the hands of a trustee in bankruptcy.
That trustee formally gave up any interest in the pier in August that year.
Mr Hunt told the court the trustee did not follow the process correctly, something they deny.
Representing himself, Mr Hunt said: "I want it back because I'm entitled to have it back. Conwy council have always intended to demolish it - they've turned down offers of lottery money to restore it."
The council's barrister, Louis Doyle, said the pier was in a dangerous state while the rest of Colwyn Bay is being improved.
He said: "The pier is in the centre of a seafront redevelopment. It shouldn't go back to Steve Hunt because of the exceptional circumstances of this case."
The hearing continues. | A dispute over who owns a pier in Conwy has reached the High Court in London. | 34522477 |
The UK government said the work, which is due to begin in 2017, would secure 6,700 jobs and create thousands more.
Mr Osborne told BBC Radio Scotland that the investment was a "massive boost for Scotland and the UK's defence".
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it was "arrogant" to pre-empt parliament's decision on the replacement of Trident.
The new contracts will include the building of ship lifts, sea walls, jetties and other major projects over the next 10 years.
The announcement followed the Conservative chancellor's pledge in the summer Budget to maintain the Nato commitment to spending at least 2% of GDP annually on defence.
Faslane on the Clyde is home to the Navy's fleet of Trident nuclear submarines and is the largest military establishment in Scotland.
Alongside Portsmouth and Devonport, it is one of three major naval hubs.
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From 2020, Faslane will be the Royal Navy's "Submarine Centre of Specialisation" which means all of the UK's underwater capability will be based in Scotland.
The Ministry of Defence also expect to base Successor class submarines at Faslane when they come into service from 2028.
The base currently hosts about 6,700 military and civilian staff and contractors, but that figure is expected to increase to about 8,200 by 2022.
The chancellor, who was at Faslane on Monday, told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme: "This is a huge investment in jobs, it will secure the 6,500 jobs already here and actually increase the number of jobs to around 8,000 - a massive boost for Scotland and the UK's defence."
He added: "In an uncertain world are we really content to throw away Britain's ultimate insurance policy? These new Trident subs when they come are going to be with us for decades."
Writing in the Sun newspaper, Mr Osborne said the political consensus that Britain needed a nuclear deterrent "risks being shattered again by an unholy alliance of Labour's left-wing insurgents and the Scottish nationalists".
"Some have been tempted to treat the Labour leadership contest as a bit of a joke. On the contrary, I think we should take it deadly seriously," he said.
"For the new unilateralists of British politics are a threat to our future national security. In a world that's getting more dangerous it would be disastrous for Britain to throw away the ultimate insurance policy that keeps us free and safe."
Ms Sturgeon said: "I want to see Faslane have a strong future as a conventional naval base, but this is an arrogant decision by the chancellor to try to pre-empt parliament's decision on the replacement of Trident.
And she added: "If the chancellor's got £500m to spend then I think he'd be better advised to spend it on health, education, giving young people the best start in life and reversing some of his cruel attacks on the most vulnerable."
Earlier, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that if savings are made by not renewing the Trident system, it would enable money to be invested in conventional forces and "as a consequence enable us to properly protect our country".
He said: "Our argument in the referendum was that Scotland's defence contribution would amount to about 1.7% of GDP in Scotland and we believe that to be the appropriate level of defence expenditure to enable us to support our conventional forces and to avoid the unnecessary cost of the Trident nuclear missiles system."
Mr Swinney also said that Mr Osborne's "explanation around the substance of the numbers was pretty weak".
This investment was unlocked by the "no" vote in the independence referendum.
In that campaign, the UK government said Faslane would become home to all Royal Navy submarines.
George Osborne is recommitting to that vision by promising a £500m upgrade over ten years from 2017.
He says it will secure 6,700 jobs and create many more.
But the SNP say he is also pre-empting a vote in Parliament on renewing the Trident submarines that carry Britain's nuclear weapons.
In the referendum, the Scottish government promised to remove the nuclear fleet from Scotland.
SNP ministers said they'd turn Faslane into a conventional naval base and the headquarters of all the armed forces of an independent Scotland.
They argued that would ensure Faslane remained a major employer. But they didn't get the "yes" vote to activate their alternative vision.
He added: "We have had a variety of different numbers set out. The Labour Party and the UK government have set out very significant numbers associated with defence jobs within the nuclear sector in Faslane.
"The STUC set out arguments some time ago which illustrated a much lower number of jobs dependent on the nuclear weapons system.
"What I think is important is that we should concentrate our decisions and priorities on the right choices around defence and the right choices for me are about making sure that we have an effective conventional defence footprint which operates, yes around the continuation around the base at Faslane, but under a conventional umbrella enabling us to properly protect the country, but also to afford the other priorities that are important to us as a society."
John Ainslie, coordinator of Scottish CND, said people should beware of Mr Osborne "bearing gifts".
He added: "If you look underneath the wrapping, you will see that his real present for Scotland is more nuclear submarines.
"He is cutting benefits for the most vulnerable in our society and making the poor pay for more weapons of mass destruction." | Chancellor George Osborne has been accused of "arrogance" after announcing more than £500m of contracts for the Royal Navy's submarine base at Faslane. | 34101989 |
The pair, who collected Academy Awards in February, each have films screening at the festival which is seen as the launch pad for awards season.
Redmayne appears as a transgender pioneer in The Danish Girl, while Moore stars in gay rights drama Freeheld.
Jake Gyllenhaal drama Demolition will open the festival on 10 September.
Directed by Canadian Jean-Marc Vallee - who previously directed Dallas Buyers Club and Wild - Gyllenhaal stars as an investment banker whose life unravels after his wife dies in a car crash.
Oscar buzz for both Redmayne and Moore began last year after their films The Theory of Everything and Still Alice premiered at Toronto.
Redmayne went on to collect the best actor Oscar for his portrayal of physicist Stephen Hawking, while Moore won best actress for her role as a college professor with Alzheimer's.
This year, the actress stars in the real life story of New Jersey police detective Laurel Hester, who after being diagnosed with cancer fights to leave her pension to her partner, Stacie Andree.
Freeheld also stars Ellen Page and Steve Carell as a gay rights activist.
Moore also has a second film premiering at the festival - Maggie's Plan - a romantic comedy also starring Greta Gerwig and Ethan Hawke.
Redmayne stars in Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl, playing another real life character - artist Lili Elbe, one of the first recipients of sex reassignment surgery.
The film is listed as being a North American premiere, which suggests it will have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival at the beginning of September.
Other films receiving their world premieres at the festival include Stephen Frears' Lance Armstrong film The Program, Ridley Scott's sci-fi The Martian starring Matt Damon and biopic Trumbo, about US screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (played by Bryan Cranston) who is blacklisted from Hollywood for his political beliefs.
Johnny Depp film Black Mass, Jason Bateman's second directorial effort The Family Fang, western Forsaken - starring Donald and Kiefer Sutherland - and Afghan war film Hyena Road will also premiere.
Among the other British stars who have films screening at the festival who will likely attend include Dame Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman, Emma Watson, Idris Elba, Kate Winslet and Jeremy Irvine.
Tom Hardy film Legend, in which he plays the notorious Kray twins, will also receive its international premiere following its UK premiere on 9 September.
A full list of film premieres announced on Thursday is available on the Toronto Film Festival website. | Oscar-winning actors Eddie Redmayne and Julianne Moore will launch their effort to become double Oscar winners at this year's Toronto Film Festival. | 33687016 |
RAF Dunkirk, near Faversham, was built after 1937 to provide long range early warning for the Thames Estuary and the south eastern approaches to London.
The station is spread over 26 acres and is a listed Scheduled Monument.
The site, which includes a transmitter block, pillboxes, a radar tower base and an underground transmitter room, sold for £158,000. | A former Kent radar station which was used to help defend Britain during World War II has been sold at auction. | 17104047 |
Sho-Silva's brace came either side of Jordan Higgs' strike to give the hosts a 3-0 lead just after half-time.
Jordan White began the visitors' comeback before Ntumba Massanka got his on the scoresheet on the hour mark.
Blair Turgott claimed Bromley's fourth before Massanka's second for Wrexham, who dropped from 10th to 12th.
Match ends, Bromley 4, Wrexham 3.
Second Half ends, Bromley 4, Wrexham 3.
Shabazz Omofe (Bromley) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Bromley. Shabazz Omofe replaces Jordan Higgs.
Goal! Bromley 4, Wrexham 3. Ntumba Massanka (Wrexham).
Goal! Bromley 4, Wrexham 2. Blair Turgott (Bromley).
Substitution, Wrexham. Leo Smith replaces Iffy Allen.
Martin Riley (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Bromley. Bradley Goldberg replaces Tobi Sho-Silva.
Substitution, Bromley. Lee Minshull replaces Connor Dymond.
Goal! Bromley 3, Wrexham 2. Ntumba Massanka (Wrexham).
Substitution, Wrexham. Ntumba Massanka replaces Izale McLeod.
Goal! Bromley 3, Wrexham 1. Jordan White (Wrexham).
Goal! Bromley 3, Wrexham 0. Tobi Sho-Silva (Bromley).
Second Half begins Bromley 2, Wrexham 0.
First Half ends, Bromley 2, Wrexham 0.
Goal! Bromley 2, Wrexham 0. Jordan Higgs (Bromley).
Goal! Bromley 1, Wrexham 0. Tobi Sho-Silva (Bromley).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Tobi Sho-Silva struck twice as Bromley held out against Wrexham's fightback in the National League to rise three places to 11th in the National League. | 39464104 |
The course for the inaugural Salomon Glen Coe Skyline race features an ascent of the Munro Buachaille Etive Mor.
Organisers had warned in advance that the severe terrain involved posed a risk of "serious injury or death" to those entering the event.
The event began at 07:00 and will go on until 21:00.
Athletes from France, Belgium, Spain and across the UK entered their names for the Glen Coe Skyline.
It is one of six races in the 2015 Skyrunning UK calendar.
The other events include races in the Lake District in England and Mourne Mountains in Northern Ireland. | More than 170 athletes are taking part in an endurance event which pits them against the Scottish mountains. | 34020771 |
The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead granted planning permission for the Landing development at Broadway, on Wednesday.
Under the plans shops, offices, restaurants, up to 225 apartments and a central public space will be built at King Street and Queen Street.
It is due for completion in 2019 in time for the new Crossrail services.
The central space - Lantern Circus - will feature public art.
The developer is London and Aberdeen. Work is expected to begin next year. | A £230m major regeneration project for Maidenhead town centre has been given the go ahead. | 34136733 |
Number 10 Admiral Grove, Toxteth, was sold following the death of "well-respected" tenant Margaret Gorse, its former owners Plus Dane Housing said.
The new owner is Beatles fan Jackie Holmes, who has previously bought properties connected with John Lennon and George Harrison.
She paid £15,000 over the guide price at the auction held at the Cavern Club.
Restrictions on the sale would mean it could not be turned into a tourist attraction or museum, a Plus Dane Housing spokeswoman said.
Starr moved into the terrace from nearby Madryn Street as a small child and lived there before finding fame.
He spent most of his formative years at the property, learning the drums and celebrating his 21st birthday party there.
The home became a regular haunt for the Fab Four as they honed their seminal sound.
Starr paid homage to the house in his 2008 song Liverpool 8, and The Empress pub at the end of Admiral Grove appeared on the front of his first solo album, Sentimental Journey.
Part of the official Beatles Tour, the property still attracts fans daily.
Plus Dane Housing said profits from the sale would be reinvested to improve other properties in the area.
Source: BBC/National Trust
Read more: Where did the Fab Four live in Liverpool? | The childhood home of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has been sold for £70,000 at auction in Liverpool. | 35894842 |
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As the masses streamed away from Arena de Sao Paulo they were left to reflect on a football match that had all the drama of a World Cup wrapped up in 90 explosive minutes.
There was an own goal, a highly charged atmosphere and a penalty decision by Japanese referee Yuichi Nishimura that left a bad taste in every Croatian mouth.
Brazilians danced in the streets around the stadium, but those in red and white could not share in their joy. Anyone who witnessed the players trudge towards their Croatia team bus could feel the frustration radiating. They will not forget this easily, they will not forgive the referee, they were in no mood to celebrate.
However, all over Sao Paulo, tens of thousands of Brazilians did just that.
Fireworks crackled in the night sky, car horns tooted in one street after another in this sprawling city. They sang and they shouted, they savoured the victory they so desperately needed.
They feted Neymar, the hero who stepped up when Brazil needed him most. The feeling, though, was mutual. This was country and football team in harmony.
"There were those that said the people didn't support the national team," Luis Felipe Scolari, the Brazil coach, said. "We disproved that in Sao Paulo, we go forward together."
Two moments stood out above all else. The first was the national anthem, when Brazil, as they did last summer, sang on long after Fifa had shut off the music. It was rousing, it was spine-tingling, it was an outpouring of pride that brought a number of players close to tears and left Scolari himself wiping away moisture from his cheeks.
The second was the deep, rumbling roar that thundered around the stadium when Neymar's left-foot shot flicked off the post and into the net to bring Brazil level. The young forward raised a finger to the sky and ran to his coach for a mass touchline love-in between staff and squad.
"The first match is always difficult, we were anxious, we were nervous," Scolari said. "Neymar is special. He needs to know that we know that."
The headlines were Neymar's, but they will gloss over the finer points. One was the poor goalkeeping between the Croatian posts. Neymar's mis-timed first effort may have been saved on another day, as might his second-half penalty. Oscar's third also found the net a little too easily.
And Croatia refused to let go after the match that on another day the young Brazilian might have been sent off for catching Luka Modric with a swinging arm.
Even with Neymar, Brazil looked vulnerable. Croatia's energetic midfield had the better of that particular battle for long periods, while in the full-back positions, Marcelo and Dani Alves were often caught out of position. Hulk and Fred failed to convince in attack.
Brazil may not be this bad again, however. They are a side that craves momentum, a team that will grow in belief now that they are one step closer to achieving their dream next month.
Bigger challenges await, as do better teams. Brazil will, however, become harder to beat, harder to shackle as the tournament gathers pace and public support grows.
"It's important to start these tournaments on the right foot, with a victory," Neymar said. "I'm happy that I got to score, but the entire team deserves credit."
Croatia made Brazil look human for long periods. They pinned them back, restricted the fluency that became such a feature of the Confederations Cup.
A year ago, Brazil had looked unconvincing in beating Japan 1-0, thanks to that man, Neymar. As then, Brazil face Mexico in their second match of the tournament. In the heat and intensity of Fortaleza, it promises to be another special occasion.
It should be remembered just how hard it is to beat Brazil on home soil. Their last defeat of any kind came by Paraguay in 2002. You have to go back to the 1975 Copa America to find a competitive defeat and that came against Peru. Few can match that.
Arguably the biggest positive of the day was the performance of Oscar. The week leading up to the day had been dominated by the Brazilian media asking questions about his form, his fitness and whether Willian, his Chelsea team-mate, should start.
"Oscar is pure, he is good, he is the child any father would like to have," Scolari said. "He doesn't say anything. He didn't want to shut anyone up. Just to play."
Both sides displayed a freedom, both sought adventure before caution. If that approach continues it could be an absorbing and spectacular tournament.
For the best of BBC Sport's in-depth content and analysis, go to our features and video page. | Brazil's World Cup may have been seven years in the making, but on this evidence it will be worth the wait. | 27827465 |
The Strategic Market Housing Assessment estimates between 1,522 and 2,053 properties need to be constructed each year in Guildford, Woking and Waverley.
It predicts the population in west Surrey will rise by 51,200 to 409,000.
The three councils that commissioned the report said it was helpful but the housing figures were not realistic.
Waverley Borough Council said it identified a housing need based on demographic trends but was only a "fraction of the picture"
Councillor Robert Knowles said there was nothing in the document about "how or where that need could be met".
"During our consultation last September, we tested a figure of 470 homes per year, residents raised many issues about infrastructure, roads, flood defences, power supplies, water and facilities such as schools and health services," he added.
"We simply can't plan for a number of homes that would be unsustainable for our towns and villages and must take into account infrastructure such as traffic, public transport, water and sewage as identified by our residents." | More than 30,000 homes need to be built by 2031 in west Surrey to keep up with the county's growing population, according to a new report. | 30546113 |
They said the increase of about 1,000 would help to generate up to £3m for the local economy.
More than 300 acts have been lined up to appear over the four-day programme on the Raehills Estate near Beattock from 8 to 11 June.
The list of headliners includes Gogol Bordello, Boney M., Cat Power, So Solid Crew, 2ManyDJs and Admiral Fallow.
Founder Adam Curtis said that although attendances were increasing he did not anticipate the event getting much bigger.
"We have got record numbers expected down in the field so it has crept from 8,000 to 9,000," he said.
"We are hoping for next year, for the 10-year anniversary, we should be at 10,000 people.
"The total number we are pushing to with the festival will probably stay under 15,000 so we are most of the way there."
The Eden Festival's value to the area's economy and visitor sector has been recognised by Dumfries and Galloway Council which this year provided the organisers with an £18,000 grant as part of its major events strategy.
Council events champion Adam Wilson said that was "pumping millions" into the region.
"For Moffat and Lockerbie and Dumfries, tourism is really important and there are a lot of people feel that actually the council isn't doing enough for the tourism industry," he said.
"I think it is a very significant strategy that we have - it is very important and it is working." | Organisers of the Eden Festival have confirmed they are increasing capacity to a record 9,000 this year. | 40105606 |
Shula Coward was in the foyer after the Ariana Grande concert when Salman Abedi detonated the bomb which killed 22 people on 22 May.
She said she instinctively grabbed her 11-year-old daughter Acacia and her friend and they ran.
"There was a bang, then firecracker noises, lights flashing and smoke... and it went very quiet," she added.
Ms Coward said her daughter's friend was crying so she took her hand and they ran for the exit.
She told BBC Radio Manchester: "We stopped for a spilt second when it was quiet. I remember looking up at the ceiling and you could see like all black pieces coming down.
"I realised straight away. I saw my daughter being lifted up the air and land on the floor.
"I reached forward and dragged her up off the floor. I didn't even look to see if she was injured.
"As we reached the exit door I could see my daughter was slowing up and she said 'I can't run anymore, my leg is really hurting'.
"I realised then she had been injured."
Ms Coward said it was like being in a "war zone" with people being stretchered out and others frantically searching for their loved ones.
The bolt from the bomb imbedded in her daughter Acacia's knee but the force of the blast pushed it two inches down into her leg, damaging an artery.
Acacia is now recovering at home and the netball fan was cheered up by a surprise visit from some of the members of her favourite team Manchester Thunder. | A woman who was caught up in the Manchester Arena attack says she felt like she was in a "war zone". | 40091531 |
Pompey secured a place in the League Two play-offs with a 1-0 win at AFC Wimbledon on Tuesday, but were without eight first-team players.
Automatic promotion is still mathematically possible for Paul Cook's side with two games remaining.
"Our whole squad is quality," Hollands told BBC Radio Solent. "Whoever takes the field, we're all together."
"The 11 that took the field (at Wimbledon) were fantastic and whoever lines up this Saturday will do the same job."
Mathematically, sixth-placed Pompey could still overhaul third-placed Oxford with wins in their remaining games at Hartlepool and at home to champions Northampton.
"If we do well at the end of the season, that will take us into the play-offs," Hollands added.
"There's six points still to play for and we want to get as many as we can to ensure we hit the ground running come the play-offs." | Portsmouth midfielder Danny Hollands says the depth of their squad will see them through the current injury crisis. | 36149516 |
The 26-year-old has signed a three-and-a-half year contract with the team from Konya who sit seventh in the country's Super Lig.
Douglas told the club website: "I'm very excited, very happy. I have opened a new chapter in my career."
He said his goal was to help his new side qualify for the Europa League.
Douglas helped Lech win the Polish title for a seventh time last season, but they presently lie sixth in the Ekstraklasa.
Konyaspor manager Omar Korkmaz Metropolitan said he hoped the Scot would force his way into the side by continuing the form he showed with the Poles.
Douglas began his career with Queen's Park and moved to United in the Scottish top flight in 2010.
He switched to Poland after three years at Tannadice. | Former Dundee United left-back Barry Douglas has completed his transfer to Turkish top-flight club Torku Konyaspor from Lech Poznan. | 35371178 |
The father of one of the team members told local media the girls had employed the stripper as a joke, and he had not totally disrobed.
Friday's event at the Des Moines Social Club was not attended by school staff.
Officials in Des Moines are deciding how the girls will be punished.
A Social Club employee eventually asked the stripper to depart, The Des Moines Register reports, after his presence was deemed inappropriate for teenage girls.
The paper quoted a parent of one of the girls as saying that while students and parents were embarrassed by the situation, the girls had never been in danger.
The stripper did not touch any of the girls, the parent said. | A US synchronised swimming team comprising ninth grade girls aged between 14 and 15 hired a male stripper to perform at their annual banquet, officials in the state of Iowa say. | 36040395 |
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The Hammers play their final competitive game at their 112-year home against Manchester United on Tuesday.
West Ham will move to the 60,000-capacity London 2012 Olympics venue next season.
"You need to have a hostile atmosphere, be intimidating for away teams. Forget about it - no chance," said Bilic.
It was revealed in April that West Ham will pay £2.5m a year in rent to the owners of the Olympic Stadium, the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC).
At least £272m has been spent to convert the site for use as a Premier League ground but the club have contributed only £15m.
They have sold all their season tickets for next season, which the club say is in excess of 50,000.
This season, they have won eight, drawn seven and lost only three of their 18 home league games.
Arsenal relocated from Highbury to the Emirates Stadium in 2006, while north London neighbours Tottenham are undergoing redevelopment work at White Hart Lane.
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"When you played Arsenal at Highbury, it wasn't dangerous but you felt it," added Bilic.
"Then we played against them at the Emirates and we enjoyed it; the players were taking selfies.
"The Upton Park stadium was a first home. No matter where you move after that - if you move to a fancy apartment, a big house or to a mansion - your favourite one is always the first.
"You are losing something because it is impossible to make the Olympic Stadium a fortress."
Midfielder Mark Noble has spent his entire career with West Ham since making his debut in 2004, making more than 360 appearances.
He has served as a fan, ball boy, apprentice, professional and now captain at Upton Park.
"How big could this club be? I don't think there is a ceiling," he said.
"Everybody has seen what happened to Manchester City, to Chelsea, over the years. With people in the world these days with a lot of money to burn, anything can happen.
"We are leaving a place that I have been coming to for over 20 years, first as a supporter.
"Every other weekend it's going to be strange to get in my car in the morning and drive to a game, and not down a street I know so well."
West Ham co-owner David Gold grew up on Green Street, where Upton Park is located, and took over the club in 2010 with David Sullivan.
"My earliest memories were as a six- or seven-year-old boy was the excitement every Saturday," said Gold.
"At that age I used to come and watch the boys playing in the morning at 11 and then at 3pm the reserves. The following week it would be the first team."
Former midfielder Jack Collison, who made 121 appearances for West Ham but retired this year through injury, said: "I remember coming to watch games here as a 16- or 17-year-old and being inspired by the atmosphere and the players.
"It pushed me on to want to be in the first team and make my mark.
"I did manage that and I scored my first goal against Everton. I don't think I will be able to recreate that feeling of the ball hitting the net." | It will be "impossible" to recreate the Upton Park atmosphere and make the Olympic Stadium a "fortress", says West Ham manager Slaven Bilic. | 36252537 |
Studies show as many as 60% of people who try to give up start smoking again in the first week.
But researchers argue measuring how quickly a person breaks down nicotine could boost the chances of success.
Other experts say the cost-effectiveness of these extra tests would need to be assessed.
Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances in cigarettes - smokers crave more nicotine when their body's levels drop, prompting them to smoke again.
But different people break down nicotine at different rates.
Some scientists suggest people who break it down more quickly may crave more cigarettes and in turn find it harder to quit.
In this study, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania in the US enlisted some 1,240 people on different smoking cessation programmes.
They checked each volunteer's blood to see if nicotine was broken down at a normal or slow rate.
Volunteers received either a nicotine patch, a drug called varenicline or treatment with a dummy pill.
Varenicline is a non-nicotine based drug that is available on prescription . Doctors balance potential side-effects - including the risk of depression and suicide - against the harms of continued smoking.
Everyone in the trial had access to behavioural counselling too.
Scientists found people who broke down nicotine at a normal rate had a better chance of quitting while using varenicline than those using nicotine replacement patches.
Though volunteers who broke nicotine down more slowly had similar success rates whichever method they used, they reported more side-effects with the varenicline.
Prof Caryn Lerman, one of the lead researchers, said: "If these tests are used, people could have a sizeable chance of success.
"For some people, with normal metabolism of nicotine, the chance of success might be low on the patches but could double if they take the pill while for a third of the population with slower breakdown, cheaper patches might be best."
Blood tests to check for nicotine breakdown speed are currently used in research but scientists say they could be easily developed for much wider use.
Dr Neil Davies, of the University of Bristol, provided an independent comment: "The results are an important scientific advance.
"If the findings can be replicated they could lead to changes in practice. But there are still questions that need to be answered.
"The cost-effectiveness of these tests would need to be taken into account."
Prof Robert West, from University College London, who was not involved in this paper, said: "We know that if people try to quit unaided their chance of success for a year is about 4%.
"The way to succeed is to keep trying. It is like rolling a dice. If you keep rolling it you will succeed but if you stop rolling you will fail."
The University of Pennsylvania research was published in the the Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal. | A blood test could help people choose a stop-smoking strategy that would give them the best chance of quitting, research in a Lancet journal suggests. | 30744250 |
The Scottish League One club recently announced that John Potter would be stepping down from the manager role to his former post as head coach.
Neil McCann, who started the season as assistant to Potter's predecessor Jim Jefferies, is leaving the Pars.
"The club is forward thinking, they obviously want to achieve success. It's the perfect fit for me," said Johnston.
Johnston, 41, won Scotland's third tier and promotion with Queen of the South in 2013 and then joined Killie.
However, he left Rugby Park in February a day after announcing his intention to depart at the end of the 2014-15 season.
Johnston was upset that forward Robbie Muirhead was sold to Dundee United on transfer deadline day, saying: "I never found out Robbie was away until five past 12 [midnight]."
The former Scotland international played for both Queens and Kilmarnock as well as Hearts, Rangers, St Mirren, several English clubs and Rennes in France.
Dunfermline, one of only two clubs with full-time playing staff, started the season with Jefferies in charge and were favourites for the title.
However, the former Hearts and Kilmarnock boss resigned in December, with Potter taking over, and finished the campaign in seventh place - 11 points adrift of the play-off places.
Johnston told BBC Scotland: "I was interested in the job, I put in my CV, and I got the interview, so absolutely delighted to get it. The size of the club there's always going to be people interested.
"I thoroughly enjoyed me time at all the clubs I've been at. Queen of the South, really successful. Kilmarnock, I think I left them in a good position.
"The main focus is Dunfermline now and obviously try and achieve promotion."
The East End Park club are now community-owned club in 2013 following administration. | Former Kilmarnock boss Allan Johnston is the new manager of Dunfermline Athletic, signing a one-year deal. | 32659299 |
Preston led as Alex Baptiste poked home a corner at the far post but Blues were soon level through defender Ryan Shotton's powerful header.
However the visitors reclaimed the lead within five minutes courtesy of Daniel Johnson's well struck free-kick.
Birmingham struck the crossbar through David Cotterill before Che Adams found a right-foot volleyed finish from Jonathan Grounds' cross to equalise.
The draw stretches Birmingham's unbeaten run to six league games and keeps them inside the top six on goal difference, but Gary Rowett's side almost fell to a second home defeat of the campaign late on.
Callum Robinson fired in a shot from substitute Aiden McGeady's throughball which forced Adam Legzdins into a smart save.
Robinson was twice denied by the Birmingham goalkeeper in the closing 10 minutes as Preston pushed for just a second away win of the season.
Legzdins was also on hand to palm a powerful Greg Cunningham shot over the crossbar just after half-time.
Match ends, Birmingham City 2, Preston North End 2.
Second Half ends, Birmingham City 2, Preston North End 2.
Attempt saved. Callum Robinson (Preston North End) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Aiden McGeady.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Jonathan Grounds (Birmingham City) because of an injury.
David Davis (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alan Browne (Preston North End).
Attempt missed. Viv Solomon-Otabor (Birmingham City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Michael Morrison.
Maikel Kieftenbeld (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tom Clarke (Preston North End).
David Davis (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Daniel Johnson (Preston North End).
Substitution, Birmingham City. Viv Solomon-Otabor replaces Jacques Maghoma.
Foul by Michael Morrison (Birmingham City).
Greg Cunningham (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
David Davis (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alan Browne (Preston North End).
Attempt missed. Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by David Cotterill with a cross.
Che Adams (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Daniel Johnson (Preston North End).
Foul by Ryan Shotton (Birmingham City).
Jordan Hugill (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Preston North End. Aiden McGeady replaces John Welsh.
Attempt missed. Callum Robinson (Preston North End) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Jordan Hugill with a headed pass.
Attempt saved. Callum Robinson (Preston North End) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.
Attempt blocked. Daniel Johnson (Preston North End) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Preston North End. Conceded by David Davis.
Jacques Maghoma (Birmingham City) is shown the yellow card.
Jacques Maghoma (Birmingham City) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Attempt blocked. David Cotterill (Birmingham City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Offside, Birmingham City. Jonathan Spector tries a through ball, but Lukas Jutkiewicz is caught offside.
Corner, Birmingham City. Conceded by Alex Baptiste.
Attempt missed. David Davis (Birmingham City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Jacques Maghoma following a corner.
Corner, Birmingham City. Conceded by Bailey Wright.
Ryan Shotton (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Hugill (Preston North End).
Substitution, Preston North End. Paul Huntington replaces Chris Humphrey.
Substitution, Preston North End. Alan Browne replaces Ben Pearson.
Goal! Birmingham City 2, Preston North End 2. Che Adams (Birmingham City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jonathan Grounds with a cross.
Corner, Birmingham City. Conceded by Bailey Wright. | Birmingham twice came from behind to claim a point against Preston. | 37415222 |
Scottish Power Energy Networks says it needs to replace much of the ageing system with a new higher voltage line.
It said the project would make the network "more resilient for homes and businesses" and increase capacity.
It said much of the existing 132,000 volt (132kV) system was coming towards the end of its operational life.
The Dumfries and Galloway Strategic Reinforcement Project project proposes a new high voltage overhead line of up to 400,000 volts (400kV) between Auchencrosh in South Ayrshire and Harker in Cumbria.
Initial consultation will seek views on a broad corridor of land that has been identified where potential routes for a new overhead line could be situated.
Consultation events are taking place at the following venues: | Consultation is starting on plans to modernise the overhead power line network stretching from Ayrshire across Dumfries and Galloway and into Cumbria. | 33061092 |
The bridge was closed on Tuesday in both directions for several hours until the vehicle was removed.
The 56-year-old is due to appear at Dunfermline Sheriff Court later.
Police Scotland said the accident happened at about 14:50 while the bridge was closed to high-sided vehicles because of 50mph winds.
The lorry was righted at about 17:00, and escorted off the bridge an hour later.
Both carriageways had been closed over fears the trailer could move in high winds.
No-one was injured in the incident.
Mark Arndt, Amey's account director for the Forth Bridges, said: "This incident demonstrates the dangers of ignoring high wind restrictions on the Forth Road Bridge, and the potential consequences for drivers.
"On this occasion it was only a matter of luck that nobody was killed or injured, and a huge amount of disruption and frustration was caused to many thousands of people.
"We would urge all drivers of wind susceptible vehicles - which includes caravans, cars with trailers or roof boxes and motorcycles as well as high sided vehicles - to pay close attention to safety restrictions during high winds and to obey road signs.
"If you ignore these restrictions you risk your license, your job and potentially your liberty, as well as your own safety and that of other road users.
"I would also like to thank the great majority of responsible drivers who do pay attention to restrictions for their patience and understanding during this incident." | A man has been charged with dangerous driving after an incident in which a lorry overturned in high winds on the Forth Road Bridge. | 39279342 |
They were given sentences of up to 14 years, and the convictions included murder, manslaughter and negligence.
The boat was bound for Italy when it sank eight miles (12km) off the Egyptian port city of Rosetta.
Some 450 migrants were estimated to have been crowded aboard, including around 100 trapped in its hold.
There were 163 survivors, mostly Egyptian. Syrian, Sudanese, Eritrean and Somali migrants had also been on board.
Survivors said the boat had been kept off the coast for five days before departure, so that more migrants could be brought aboard.
The boat capsized after a final group of some 150 people were brought onto the vessel, they said.
A total of 57 people were charged, but one woman was acquitted. The lesser charges included not using sufficient rescue equipment, endangering lives, receiving money from the victims, hiding suspects from authorities, and using a vessel without a licence.
Of the 5,096 refugees and migrants reported dead or missing at sea last year, 90% travelled along the Mediterranean sea route to Italy, according to the UN's refugee agency. | An Egyptian court has sentenced 56 people to prison over the capsizing of a migrant boat that killed more than 200 people in September. | 39399941 |
The 54-year-old man was seriously hurt in the attack at a house at Manor Court at about 02:10 GMT on Monday.
The woman, who is 36, is due to appear at Craigavon Magistrates' Court in County Armagh on Wednesday morning.
A 21-year-old man who was also arrested in connection with the incident has since been released on bail pending further inquiries. | A woman has been charged with the attempted murder of a man who was stabbed in Moira, County Down. | 35296134 |
Travel on trains was also disrupted as the sea topped defences in Dawlish and in Torcross, south Devon, some people were trapped in their seafront homes by the power of the waves.
In Penzance, Cornwall, a driver became stranded when huge waves engulfed his car on a seafront road during the storms.
Mobile phone footage captured the moment passers-by went to the driver's aid, and helped him restart the car and drive to safety.
At the same spot a driver narrowly escaped being washed away as he crossed the flooded seaside road.
Camera phone footage shows the car being buffeted by the waves before it reaches safety.
In St Mawes a hotel's ground floor was flooded after waves smashed in windows and a bolt of lightning was caught on camera striking Falmouth. | Huge waves whipped up by 65mph winds caused damage to homes, hotels and vehicles in Devon and Cornwall over the weekend. | 36015406 |
Without treatment, river blindness, guinea-worm and trachoma can disable children and stop adults working.
The funding will go towards the distribution of tablets to treat diseases and research into new drugs.
Ministers said the aim was to eliminate neglected tropical diseases for good.
The announcement comes ahead of a World Health Organization conference in Geneva dedicated to neglected tropical diseases and their eradication.
Over the next four years, the UK will spend a total of £360m on programmes to tackle diseases such as:
This is double what has been spent annually in the previous four years, the Department for International Development said.
International Development Secretary Priti Patel said the UK's support would protect more than 200 million people "from a future blighted by tropical disease".
"These diseases belong to the last century. They cause unimaginable suffering and pain to some of the world's poorest people, forcing them into a deeper cycle of poverty with no way out. Yet they are treatable.
"These diseases have been named 'neglected' for a reason, but I'm not prepared for them to be neglected any longer."
The WHO has classified 18 diseases as neglected but treatable tropical diseases, including dengue and chikungunya, leprosy, sleeping sickness and Chagas disease.
They are all infectious diseases that occur in tropical and subtropical conditions in 149 countries of the world.
They mainly affect people who live in poverty, who have no clean drinking water and who are in close contact with infectious insects and animals, such as mosquitoes.
They cost billions of dollars every year to developing economies because adults affected are too ill to go to work.
The diseases are avoidable but if not treated, they can deform, disable and even kill. | The UK government is investing an extra £200m in programmes to fight neglected tropical diseases, which affect more than a billion people in the world's poorest countries. | 39590402 |
King started his career at Swansea City but failed to make a first team appearance before joining Didcot Town.
The 31-year-old arrived at League One Scunthorpe from Preston in May 2015 and made 42 appearances for the Iron last season scoring two goals.
King is in contention for a place in the Stevenage side for their EFL Trophy fixture at Leyton Orient on Tuesday. | Scunthorpe United midfielder Jack King has joined League Two side Stevenage on loan until January 2017. | 37221490 |
Former Labour foreign secretary Lord Owen told the BBC's Newsnight critics of Jeremy Corbyn should "fight like hell" for the next two years but that creating a new party was an option.
Baroness Williams said she saw a new party of the centre-left party reviving "the concept of the SDP".
She said Mr Corbyn was "an idealist" being "manipulated" by others.
Two of the so-called "Gang of Four" former Labour MPs who set up the Social Democratic Party in 1981 have been talking to Newsnight ahead of the 35th anniversary of the establishment of the party.
Lord Owen, who served in Jim Callaghan's Cabinet before leading the SDP-Liberal Alliance, told the programme that Labour MPs opposed to Jeremy Corbyn should remain where they are for the timing being and fight for their values.
"For at least two years fight like hell I would say," he said. "I wouldn't contemplate a new party until the end of 2017."
But he said what the SDP stood for and achieved was still relevant four decades later.
"Labour MPs are thinking about creating a new party. Why? Because they see you can do it; It may not have succeeded in every aspect but that's an option open to them. So the SDP did not die in vain, it planted many new ideas into British politics."
Baroness Williams, who later became Lib Dem Leader in the House of Lords, also told the programme she thought the exact same people who made her feel compelled to leave Labour in 1981 had returned to the party under Mr Corbyn's leadership.
"I think he [Corbyn] is like Michael Foot's son - a kind of idealist - who is I think being manoeuvred and I think manipulated by exactly the same people as I couldn't stand but who are not visible in the same way."
She added: "I think the one way we get out of the mess at the moment is the SDP concept struggling back and becoming eventually there will be a new party of the centre left."
Former Labour deputy leader Roy Hattersley advised Labour centrists not to emulate the Gang of Four's example and to stay within the party and fight, as he did in the early 1980s. But he acknowledged that Labour's situation is "now is worse than the 1980s".
"I think our chances of getting back are still there and we will get back but it will take longer," he said. "I think it's more difficult for a number of reasons; I think the leader is less susceptible to reason than Michael Foot was, he was a sensible and mature politician although of the left.
"I think the trade unions are in a different position to what where they were in 1979 and 1983. But somebody has got to carry on the fight and must carry it on internally not externally. The lesson of the Gang of Four is you don't win by leaving you win by staying and fighting." | Two founding members of the SDP have speculated that there could be another breakaway from the Labour Party. | 35367714 |
The 24-year-old died on Sunday in a boating crash off Miami Beach, Florida.
Wearing black shirts with Fernandez's name and his number 16, the team beat the New York Mets 7-3 in front of a packed crowd at Marlins Park on Monday.
The players placed their caps on the pitcher's mound at the conclusion of the Major League Baseball match - many of them visibly emotional.
Marlins manager Don Mattingly said: "I'm just proud of our guys, just the way they hung together.
"It was not scripted. No-one tells you how to handle it. There's nothing that tells you how to handle it. They just stuck together and went out and played."
Fernandez, a father-to-be, was heralded by baseball commissioner Rob Manfred as one of the game's "great young stars".
He was drafted by the Marlins in 2011 at the age of 20 and named National League Rookie of the Year in 2013. | The Miami Marlins paid emotional tributes to pitcher Jose Fernandez in their first match since his death. | 37483133 |
Dublin were well worth their 0-5 to 0-2 lead at Ballybofey but two goals in a minute from Jason McGee and Ryan McHugh put Donegal ahead at half-time.
Niall Scully's goal helped Dublin fight back from four down to lead but Murphy's late score meant a draw.
Jack McCarron and Gavin Doogan hit Monaghan's goals in Killarney.
Monaghan's victory moves them on to five points in Division One as they lead both Mayo and Dublin by a point.
It was 14-man Kerry's second home defeat of the campaign as they had Bryan Sheehan sent off late in the game.
David Moran's Kerry goal wiped out Monaghan's early lead and the Kingdom led by five at one stage before McCarron's three-pointer, as he finished to the net after Brendan Kealy had saved a Conor McManus shot, got the visitors back in touch.
After trailing 1-5 to 1-3 at half-time, Doogan's goal was the crucial Monaghan score in the second half as Conor McManus struck two long-range scores.
Kerry hit the last two scores to reduce Monaghan's advantage to the minimum but Monaghan held on to repeat their away win over the Kingdom two years ago.
For the second time in a fortnight, Dublin had to be content with a draw against Ulster opposition as Donegal showed great resolve to increase their unbeaten run of Ballybofey games to 16.
The draw also extended Dublin's extraordinary unbeaten run in championship and league to 32 games after an entertaining, if low-scoring contest.
Four unanswered points, including two from Dean Rock, helped the Dubs take apparent control at 0-5 to 0-2 ahead but McGee's sidefooted finished levelled the contest on 32 minutes before McHugh scrambled a second goal within 33 seconds.
A Murphy free extended Donegal's lead to four after half-time but two Rock frees and Scully's goal after a brilliant sweeping move had the Dubs ahead by the 54th minute.
Dublin looked the likely winners as sub Davy Byrne added another score on 62 minutes but Ciaran Thompson's second successful free and Murphy's late placed ball - which looked a soft decision - earned Donegal a draw.
WEEKEND ALLIANZ FOOTBALL LEAGUE RESULTS
SUNDAY
Division One
Donegal 2-05 1-8 Dublin
Kerry 1-10 2-08 Monaghan
Division Two
Cork 1-14 0-9 Fermanagh
Derry 1-18 1-17 Kildare
Galway 3-13 1-11 Clare
Division Three
Antrim 0-11 1-07 Sligo
Longford 3-09 3-11 Armagh
Offaly 0-14 2-13 Louth
Division Four
Wicklow 0-17 2-4 London
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The US Department of Justice said it would seize more than $1bn (£761m) in assets allegedly bought with funds diverted from the state fund and alleged that "Malaysian official 1" received hundreds of millions of dollars from 1MDB.
The individual, who was not named but was referenced 32 times, was described as a "high-ranking official in the Malaysian government".
Many Malaysians believe that the reference is to Prime Minister Najib Razak and the term started being used as a replacement for his name on social media. Mr Najib has always denied all wrongdoing.
#MalaysianOfficial1 quickly became the most trending topic on the Twitter in Malaysia on Thursday with thousands chiming in.
Elsewhere, #1MDB, #Najib, Wolf of Wall Street and Jho Low, which were all linked to 1MDB, were all trending on Twitter.
In this cartoon, a woman is seen asking a man, drawn in the likeness of Mr Najib if he wants to eat curry, with him replying that he doesn't want it as it's too spicy.
In Malay, curry is commonly spelt as Kari, which also happen to be the acronyms for the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative (KARI), the name of a US unit established to curb high-level public corruption around the world.
The 1MDB scandal has been described by the US government as the largest single action ever brought under KARI.
Other users made light of the scandal in other ways.
The Hollywood film Wolf of Wall Street was produced by a production firm co-founded by Mr Najib's stepson Riza Aziz, who has been named in the court papers
While others implied there was another film going on closer to home that was much more interesting.
References to pop culture lyrics were also involved.
Malaysian cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, known more commonly as Zunar, used a cartoon to make his thoughts known on the issue.
The cartoonist was last year charged with nine counts of sedition and faces up to 43 years in prison. He says his cartoons are directed towards "fighting the tyranny and corruption of the Malaysian government".
The cartoon shows a "domino effect" of the 1MDB scandal, according to Zunar.
"The two cartoon characters below show [a] police chief and the public accounts committee chief," Zunar told the BBC. "They are supposed to take action, but instead they choose to be a bunch of lackeys. When things get worse, they run."
"Even though the [Department of Justice] action only affects Riza and Jho Low, in my opinion, the domino effect will come to Najib and Rosmah [Mr Najib's wife], either legally or politically," he added.
The 1MDB incident did not feature in the country's newspapers on Thursday, with The Star online, a local newspaper with a large online presence, running a story about organised crime as their headline.
Bernama, which is the country's official news agency, reproduced a statement on their website by Malaysia's communications and multimedia minister in which he called 1MDB the subject of "unprecedented politically-motivated attacks" and said and that the law suit "has nothing to do with the Prime Minister".
Users on Twitter were quick to pick up the apparent lack of news.
In 2015, Malaysia blocked news websites and shutdown newspapers that had run articles on the corruption allegations surrounding PM Najib Razak.
It also issued an arrest warrant for the editor of the Sarawak Report website who accused the country of "silencing free media". | After years of speculation and allegations of corruption, Malaysians woke up to a major development in the 1MDB scandal. | 36852745 |
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