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Koscielny, signed in 2010, has been a key component of a defence that helped secure fourth spot in the Premier League and reach the FA Cup final.
"I am very proud to have reached agreement with the club on a new contract," said the 28-year-old.
"I have enjoyed four great years at Arsenal already, and I look forward to continuing to help the team in the years to come."
Arsenal have kept 15 clean sheets in Koscielny's 31 league games this term, which has helped ensure the Gunners have qualified for the Champions League for a 17th consecutive season.
"Laurent has proven himself to be an outstanding player since joining us in 2010 and has showed his quality once again this season," said Wenger.
"I am delighted he has decided to commit his future to the club." | Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny has signed a new long-term contract. | 27351094 |
The visitors took the lead when Josh Windass burst down the right wing, before crossing for Scott Brown to turn in from close range.
Luton were unable to respond, and saw efforts from Windass and Terry Gornell go narrowly wide as they struggled to keep out the visitors.
Accrington sealed the win when Gornell met Tariqe Fosu's excellent cross with a glancing header.
Accrington rise into the automatic promotion places, two points clear of the play-offs with five games to go. | Accrington made it seven games unbeaten as they brushed aside Luton. | 35949032 |
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Martin's been there all day talking to excited fans ahead of the first match, England vs Fiji.
Watch this clip of fans telling him what they've been doing in the build up to the competition. | The Rugby World Cup kicks off tonight at Twickenham in London. | 34296500 |
Analysts at investment bank Morgan Stanley said lower migration rates, tighter financial lending rules and over-supply would blunt housing growth.
Australia's official cash rate is a record low 2% but regulators recently tightened lending rules for investors.
Morgan Stanley predicts a fall in the number of houses sold at auction, and slowing price growth.
A prolonged period of low interest rates was meant to help the sector but tighter lending rules were squeezing the market, the research said, according to local media.
"Despite common belief that lower-for-longer Reserve Bank of Australia rates will see strong housing conditions persist, we think macro-prudential [lending rules] is effectively tightening policy settings," Morgan Stanley said.
"We are now calling the peak in the housing cycle, and expect further falls in auction clearance rates and house-price momentum, with a negative impact on construction occurring over 2016."
The report comes ahead of the first spring auctions in Sydney, this weekend, which will give an indication of whether this year's strong buying interest is tapering off.
At a median price of A$1m ($710,000, £460,000), Sydney houses prices are among the world's most expensive.
Prices in some other capital cities have already cooled.
Australia's bank regulator, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), has imposed conditions on lenders in a bid to keep total investor loan growth at 10% for 2015.
The number of immigrants entering Australia has also slowed at a time when housing construction, particularly of apartments, has increased.
Morgan Stanley said any slow down in the housing market would coincide with a slow down in Australia's resources sector, outweighing any positive contribution to the economy from a lower Australian dollar. | Australian housing sector has "peaked", increasing the risk of recession, according to new report. | 34321218 |
The 1920 film The Mark of Zorro and Peter Sellers' 1979 comedy Being There have also been chosen for preservation at the Library of Congress.
Documentaries, silent movies and one of the earliest film recordings made in 1894 are also on the list.
Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman said the film's inclusion was "an honour".
"Making Ghostbusters was one of the great joys of my life," he said.
"It's an honour to know that a movie that begins with a ghost in a library, now has a spot on the shelves of the Library of Congress. It's humbling to be part of a collection of extraordinary films that I have loved all my life."
The library makes the annual registry selections after conferring with members of the National Film Preservation Board, library film staff and considering thousands of public nominations.
Some 675 films are now on the list, which represent "important cultural, artistic and historic achievements in film-making".
Frank Darabont, director of The Shawshank Redemption, said he could "think of no greater honour" than for the film to be considered "part of our country's cinematic legacy".
"I express my deepest thanks to all those who chose it for inclusion in the National Film Registry… and most of all to the audiences who embraced our movie and have kept it alive all these years."
Older films on the list include the 1959 melodrama Imitation of Life starring Lana Turner and Jimmy Stewart's psychological western Winchester '73.
The silent films selected this year include the Spanish-language version of Dracula from 1931, which was shot concurrently with the English-speaking film starring Bela Lugosi.
The oldest surviving copyrighted motion picture, which was produced by Thomas Edison's team of inventors is also on the list.
The Sneeze, which was filmed in 1894, became synonymous with the invention of movies.
Other films on the list that feature early cinematic techniques are Dream of a Rarebit Fiend made in 1906, using trick photography, and Disney's 1937 animation The Old Mill.
"Selecting a film for the National Film Registry recognises its importance to cinema and America's cultural and artistic history," said Congress librarian David Mao.
"The registry is an invaluable way to advance public awareness of the richness, creativity and variety of our nation's film heritage." | Ghostbusters, Top Gun, The Shawshank Redemption and LA Confidential are among 25 films that have been added to the US National Film Registry. | 35111409 |
On Tuesday, seven schools received bomb threats. Similar incidents also occurred in other parts of the UK.
Police said there is nothing to suggest the incidents are terrorist-related.
"We continue to investigate who is responsible and whether these incidents are linked to similar calls made to seven schools earlier this week," Ch Supt Garry Eaton said on Friday.
Among the schools affected on Friday was Kilmaine Primary School in Bangor, County Down.
Ulster Unionist MLA Alan Chambers, whose grandchildren attend the school, said 600 children were moved from it to a nearby church.
"Fortunately, the pupils seemed to be taking events very much in their stride and did not seem to be distressed in any way, even though they had to leave the school without their coats or lunch boxes," he said.
"It was clear that the parents and grandparents who arrived to collect their children were upset at what had happened.
"I simply cannot conceive of the mentality of anyone who would target young children in his manner.
"The number of alerts that have been received this week indicate a degree of sophistication and organisation. It is imperative that the police act swiftly to catch whoever is responsible for this disruption."
Kilmaine PS principal Billy Campbell said they were interviewing for teaching jobs when the secretary came in said they had received a bomb threat.
"We immediately took the decision to evacuate the school. We had already thought about this beforehand because, in light of these other incidents happening at other schools, we thought 'what will we do if it happens here?'" he said
"So we had a plan in place already, which we hopefully weren't going to have to use, but it was there so we did it today.
"As soon as the message was received, the building was evacuated very professionally by all the teachers and classroom assistants, the children were all fantastically well behaved as I knew they would be."
Other schools threatened on Friday included Armstrong Primary School in Armagh and Omagh County Primary School. | Four schools in Northern Ireland have received bomb threats on Friday, three days after others received hoax calls. | 36396419 |
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The 12 contenders for this year's award have been announced with the winner to be revealed during the live show in Belfast on Sunday, 20 December.
You can vote by phone or online during the programme, which will be screened on BBC One, with further coverage on BBC Radio 5 live and the BBC Sport website.
Here's a look at the sports stars in with a chance of joining the star-studded list of previous winners, which includes Bobby Moore, Princess Anne, Sir Steve Redgrave and David Beckham.
Age: 26 Sport: Cycling
A dream was realised when Armitstead became world road race champion with a breathtaking triumph in America.
The Olympic silver medallist won the gruelling 130km race by a wheel in Richmond, Virginia.
Armitstead also won a second successive Road World Cup and claimed the British title - just 11 days after being taken to hospital following a crash at the Women's Tour.
What she said: "All the failures I've had in the past, ups and downs, just makes it more special."
What they said: "She's been incredible for putting women's cycling on the map" - Mark Cavendish on Lizzie Armitstead.
Did you know? She warms up for a morning ride with a bowl of porridge, with berries, cinnamon and nuts, and a coffee.
Sports Personality record: First nomination. Four cyclists have previously won the award - Tommy Simpson (1965), Sir Chris Hoy (2008), Mark Cavendish (2011) and Sir Bradley Wiggins (2012).
Age: 24 Sport: Football
England's footballers made history with a best-ever third placed finish at the Women's World Cup in Canada and Bronze was among the stars.
The Manchester City defender was one of eight players shortlisted for the Golden Ball player of the tournament award.
She scored twice as England won new fans - their semi-final attracting a peak audience of 2.4 million viewers back home, despite kicking off at midnight.
What she said: "I'm not aiming to be the best right-back in the world, I'm just aiming to be the best player I can and if they happen to coincide then even better."
What they said: "She is a credit to herself and her family" - Steph Houghton on Lucy Bronze.
Did you know? Bronze used to play the saxophone as a child and still has one at home.
Sports Personality record: First nomination; first female footballer on shortlist.
Age: 29 Sport: Athletics
Headline writers called it the "mother of all comebacks" as Ennis-Hill won her second world heptathlon title in August 13 months after the birth of her son Reggie.
She had only decided to compete in Beijing the previous month, having returned to training in the autumn of 2014.
It was the first time in three years she had competed at a major championships in the event which consists of the 100m hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200m, long jump, javelin throw and 800m.
What she said: "We spoke about the bronze medal and that it would be amazing for a silver medal, but we never spoke about gold. I kind of thought it was a little beyond me this year."
What they said: "A supreme competitor, well respected and admired by other athletes" - Denise Lewis on Jessica Ennis-Hill.
Did you know? Ennis is a psychology graduate from the University of Sheffield.
Sports Personality record: 2nd, 2012; 3rd 2010; 3rd 2009. Athletics has provided the Sports Personality winner on 17 occasions, with Kelly Holmes the last victor in 2004. Heptathlete Denise Lewis was second in 1998 and 2000.
Age: 32 Sport: Athletics
The first man to pull off a triple double - triumphing in two athletics events at two World Championships and an Olympics.
Farah won his third successive 5,000m world gold medal in Beijing in August, having already retained his 10,000m title.
It completed a magnificent seven for the Somali-born runner - his seventh global track title in a row.
What he said: "It's great to make history. I didn't feel great, my hammy (hamstring) was playing up a bit, but the medical team helped me through it."
What they said: "He's like a conductor of an orchestra, they go at his pace, and they're completely mesmerised" - Steve Cram on Mo Farah.
Did you know? Farah uses an underwater treadmill, which helps him to run extra miles without the same risk of injury as when running outside.
Sports Personality record: 4th, 2013; 4th, 2012; 3rd, 2011. Of the 17 athletics winners, Brendan Foster was the last long-distance runner to triumph in 1974.
Age: 30 Sport: Cycling
Four years ago, a British cyclist had never won the gruelling three-week Tour de France. Now Froome has done it twice.
He took over where 2012 winner Sir Bradley Wiggins left off by triumphing a year later, and claimed a second victory in July.
The Kenyan-born Team Sky rider showed great dignity as he shrugged off abuse, including being spat at and having urine thrown over him, to prevail again.
What he said: "No sportsman should have to go through what we went through."
What they said: "He has that real fight to get everything out and give everything to the finish line" - Geraint Thomas on Chris Froome.
Did you know? Froome won a charity bike race aged 13 despite being knocked over by his mother, who was driving alongside.
Sports Personality record: 6th, 2013. Between 2008 and 2012, cycling had three of the five annual award winners.
Age: 27 Sport: Boxing
In the back yard of a feted world champion who had not lost for 11 years, Manchester fighter Fury claimed one of boxing's biggest upsets.
He became Britain's first world heavyweight champion for six years when outpointing Wladimir Klitschko in Dusseldorf.
The self-styled 'Gypsy King' is unbeaten in 25 fights - 18 of those victories coming via knockout.
What he said: "It is the start of a new era. I will be the most charismatic champion since Muhammad Ali."
What they said: "A phenomenal achievement, amazing to see" - Carl Froch on Tyson Fury.
Did you know? Fury was born three months premature in 1988, weighing in at 1lb - doctors described his chance of survival as slim.
Sports Personality record: First nomination. Four boxers have been honoured - Henry Cooper (1967), Barry McGuigan (1985), Lennox Lewis (1999) and Joe Calzaghe (2007).
Age: 30 Sport: Formula 1
Hamilton won a third Formula 1 title to become only the second British man after Sir Jackie Stewart to achieve the feat.
The driver, from Hertfordshire, edged out team-mate Nico Rosberg with a thrilling United States Grand Prix victory, his 10th of the campaign.
Hamilton passed Ayrton Senna's mark of 41 career race wins, and joined his childhood hero by winning three championships.
What he said: "Since I was a little boy, I have wanted to win three Formula 1 world titles - because that's the number that Ayrton Senna won."
What they said: "Every year he has moved the bar up" - Eddie Jordan on Lewis Hamilton.
Did you know? Hamilton first appeared on the BBC's Blue Peter programme aged seven, and won three Blue Peter badges before being honoured with a gold one.
Sports Personality record: 1st, 2014; 2nd, 2008; 2nd, 2007
Age: 28 Sport: Tennis
The 2013 BBC Sports Personality helped make history by guiding Great Britain to their first Davis Cup victory for 79 years.
Scot Murray was the team talisman, winning all 11 of his cup matches during 2015, and triumphing three times in more than eight hours on court in the final against Belgium in Ghent.
A two-time major winner in his career, this year he reached the final of the Australian Open and the semi-finals of both Wimbledon and the French Open.
What he said: "It's incredible that we managed to win this competition. I didn't know that would ever be possible. It's great."
What they said: "It's going to be one of his greatest accomplishments" - John McEnroe on Andy Murray.
Did you know? One of Murray's dogs is called Maggie May, after a Rod Stewart song, and has its own Twitter account with nearly 30,000 followers.
Sports Personality record: 1st, 2013; 3rd, 2012; 5th 2011; 7th, 2009; 6th, 2008; 8th, 2007. Also nominated 2005, 2006. Young Sports Personality 2004.
Age: 20 Sport: Swimming
Gold in the 50m breaststroke meant Peaty was the first man to complete the 50m and 100m double at the World Swimming Championships.
He then helped Great Britain win the mixed 4x100m medley relay gold in a world record time in Kazan.
Peaty, who trains in Derby, has been tipped to be the first British man for 28 years to win Olympic swimming gold at Rio 2016.
What he said: "We fought for every inch. We left it all on the battlefield"- after relay triumph.
What they said: "He wants to be breaking world records and doesn't want an easy ride at all" - Rebecca Adlington on Adam Peaty.
Did you know? Peaty was so scared of water as a young child that he would scream with terror if put in the bath.
Sports Personality record: 10th, 2014. Two swimmers have been BBC Sports Personality of the Year - Ian Black (1958) and Anita Lonsbrough (1962).
Age: 29 Sport: Athletics
Rutherford's gold at the World Championships in Beijing cemented his place as current king of the long jump - adding to his Olympic, European and Commonwealth titles.
Only four other Britons - Daley Thompson, Linford Christie, Sally Gunnell and Jonathan Edwards - have ever held all four titles at the same time.
Rutherford felt ill earlier in the day, with dehydration and a headache, but jumped a stadium record 8.41m - beating his nearest rival by 17cm.
What he said: "It's unbelievable. This was my best ever performance. The stresses this year, I can't even express to you."
What they said: "Greg delivers on the biggest of stages" - Michael Johnson on Greg Rutherford.
Did you know? Rutherford and his father laid a long jump runway and sandpit in his back garden to help with training.
Sports Personality record: First nomination. Long jumper Mary Rand won in 1964, while triple jumper Jonathan Edwards took the 1995 award.
Age: 35 Sport: Rugby league
Finished his rugby league career on a high, featuring in Leeds Rhinos' treble-securing Super League Grand Final win against Wigan.
The former England captain spent nearly two decades with the Rhinos, making his debut at 16, and in 2015 became only the fourth rugby league player to pass 4,000 career points.
At the age of 35, the stand-off has switched to union with Yorkshire Carnegie.
What he said: "To top it off with the treble in the final year is unbelievable. It is something I will cherish forever."
What they said: "He's going to go down as one of the best rugby league players" - Brian McDermott on Kevin Sinfield.
Did you know? His sporting hero growing up was former England footballer Gary Lineker.
Sports Personality record: First nomination. A rugby league player has never featured in the top three of the main award, although Wigan (1994) and St Helens (2006) took team of the year honours.
Age: 22 Sport: Gymnastics
Denying team-mate Louis Smith by 0.01 points, he became the first man to win a gold for Great Britain at the World Gymnastics Championships.
Whitlock, from Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, triumphed in the pommel horse event in Glasgow.
He had won his second silver medal of the championships earlier on Saturday on the floor, and recovered from missing out on an all-around medal where he fell at the start of the high bar routine.
What he said: "It has been a tough year with glandular fever at the beginning of the year and this makes up for everything."
What they said: "An impressive all-rounder in the ultimate circus" - Matt Baker on Max Whitlock.
Did you know? Whitlock did not try gymnastics until the age of seven when a friend at the local swimming club suggested it to him.
Sports Personality record: 7th, 2014. A gymnast has never won the BBC award, although Beth Tweddle was fifth in 2009.
More details on voting terms and conditions here. | Who will you vote for to be BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2015? | 34845334 |
A grand jury in Louisiana indicted Derrick Stafford and Norris Greenhouse Jr on second-degree murder charges over the death of Jeremy Mardis.
The two men opened fire on the car during a traffic stop in Marksville, Louisiana, after a police chase.
The charges come as a national debate rages over police use of deadly force.
It was not clear why the police were in pursuit of Jeremy's father, Chris Few, who was not armed.
The indictment, delivered on Thursday by a grand jury, charges Mr Stafford, 32, and Mr Greenhouse Jr, 23, with one count each of second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder.
Police have said the two men fired 18 rounds into the car, severely injuring Mr Few and killing his son.
Another police officer who was present when it happened told investigators he had not fired his own weapon because "he didn't fear for his life", according to court documents. | Two US police officers have been charged with the murder of a six-year-old boy who was shot and killed while travelling in his father's car. | 35067238 |
The PCCs, as they will be known, will be tasked with scrutinising their force and holding it to account. They will also be able to hire and dismiss the chief constable and set the force's budget.
The commissioners will be paid and are supposed to empower local people into having a say on how crime is tackled in their area.
Nominations for candidates in Leicestershire have now officially closed.
BBC News has taken a look at each of the police forces ahead of the elections.
Leicestershire Police cover an area of more than 965 square miles and serve almost one million people living and working in the county.
The area ranges from towns and rural villages to the conurbation of the city of Leicester.
The force said its local priorities are to deal with those who cause the most harm, protect vulnerable people, effectively deploy people, work with partners to solve locally identified problems, trust staff and officers to sue their judgement to make good decisions and ensuring effective and efficient use of resources.
It splits its area into basic command units (BCU) which reflect the local authority boundaries.
The city BCU covers six local policing units - Beaumont Leys, City Centre, Hinckley Road, Keyham Lane, Spinney Hill Park and Welford Road.
The county BCU covers seven district councils - Charnwood, North West Leicestershire, Melton, Hinckley, Blaby, Oadby and Wigston and Market Harborough.
Leicestershire Police has more than 2,300 police officers and more than 1,200 police staff.
The force is led by a team of chief officers headed by the Chief Constable Simon Cole.
By John HessPolitical editor, East Midlands
The Leicestershire force has undergone considerable internal changes since the incident that summed up for many the problems of "Broken Britain".
Four police officers faced misconduct proceedings over their force's failure to properly help the family of Fiona Pilkington.
She was the mother from Barwell, who killed herself and her severely disabled daughter in 2007 after years of torment by youths.
An Independent Police Complaints Commission report blamed the force for failing to identify the family as vulnerable from anti-social behaviour.
Chief Constable Simon Cole issued an unreserved apology to the family and said the force accepted the IPCC's recommendations.
Now Leicestershire has a more positive message. Crime is falling and domestic burglary rates were down by 8%. The force's Operation Tempest has attempted to target more officers and resources at improving detection rates.
In 2010 it was confirmed by the government that Leicestershire Police would have to make savings of £34m by 2015.
Leicestershire Police Authority said: "Forward planning and preparation work in the form of an efficiency programme mean the authority has already achieved savings worth £12.1m that have plugged the funding gap this year and will go some way to helping it balance the budget in 2012-13."
It added: "Local policing remains our top priority and we have taken pre-emptive steps to protect the high quality of service that local residents and businesses deserve.
"However, over 80% of our budget is spent on employing people, so to reduce the number of people we employ we have had a freeze on recruitment for some time.
"This has seen police officer numbers fall by 107 and staff numbers reduce by 228 and due to the need to find further savings it is anticipated that these numbers will increase.
"We have reviewed the constabulary's vehicle fleet which has produced annual savings of over £250,000. We are also saving approximately £1m on forensic services through better procurement practices."
The budget for policing Leicestershire for 2012-13 is £191.3m, a reduction of £6.3m on last year's budget.
In 2011-12 Leicestershire Police recorded 68,242 crimes in the county.
According to Leicestershire Police, crime is falling and domestic burglary rates have gone down by 8% in the past year.
In December 2011 the force announced the start of Operation Tempest, a plan to direct more officers and resources at improving detection rates.
According to figures from the Office of National Statistics, Leicestershire Police recorded the second highest number of crimes in the East Midlands: | On 15 November 37 police and crime commissioners will be elected in England along with four in Wales. | 19486519 |
On Monday Chinese papers continued their admonishments, warning Ms Tsai and her DPP party against any move towards independence.
China sees the island as a breakaway province, which it has threatened to take back by force if necessary.
Before her win Ms Tsai said she wanted to maintain the "status quo".
But some analysts say her rhetoric has hardened somewhat in the wake of her victory, when she said that "any forms of suppression will harm the stability of cross-strait relations".
Her pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party beat the ruling Kuomintang, which has overseen friendlier and ever-closer ties with China on Saturday.
Two days later, on Monday, Ms Tsai met former US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, and vowed to maintain close relations with the US in all areas, particularly the economy.
One report from the Reuters agency said that DPP Secretary General Joseph Wu would be going to the US.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also congratulated Ms Tsai on her victory, calling Taiwan "an old friend".
She has already set up a taskforce to oversee the transfer of power, Taiwan's third transition of power in its democratic history.
Chinese state media lashed out swiftly in the wake of the victory, saying that Taiwan should abandon its "hallucination" of independence.
On Monday, a Global Times report said it wasn't Ms Tsai's pro-independence views that won her the vote but the "dissatisfactory performance of the incumbent Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou and his ruling KMT".
"I will, based on the existing ROC constitutional system, based on democratic principles, on the basis of the largest public opinion, promote cross-strait policy.
"I will make the greatest efforts to seek a way for Taiwan and mainland China to interact that is mutually acceptable to both sides. I will not be provocative, there will not be any surprises."
"I also want to emphasise that both sides of the strait have a responsibility to find mutually acceptable means of interaction that are based on dignity and reciprocity. We must ensure that no provocations or accidents take place.
"The results of today's election showcases the will of the Taiwanese people. It is the shared resolve of Taiwan's 23 million people that the Republic of China is a democratic country.
"Our democratic system, national identity, and international space must be respected. Any forms of suppression will harm the stability of cross-strait relations. | Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen is preparing for a historic transfer of power after her sweeping victory, amid strident warnings from Chinese state media. | 35340493 |
Robert Bryan, 43, died in hospital after he was attacked by Kieron Simpson, 26, at HMP Doncaster on 27 February.
A post-mortem examination found the cause of death was a blow to the head.
Simpson, from Dodworth, was serving a sentence for burglary when he attacked Bryan. He admitted manslaughter at Sheffield Crown Court on 30 April.
The court heard Bryan, who was serving a sentence for manslaughter, was knocked unconscious when he fell to the floor after being struck by Simpson. He died later the same day.
Det Sgt Andrew Knowles said: "This case clearly shows how dangerous and devastating just one punch can be.
"Simpson attacked Bryan for no apparent reason - he may not have intended to kill him but anyone who makes the decision to strike another with force must consider the potential shattering consequences a single punch can have." | A man has been jailed for four years for killing an inmate with a single punch at a South Yorkshire prison. | 32885850 |
Korea raced to a 2-0 lead despite the efforts of GB goaltender Nicole Jackson, who made 35 saves in total.
Leanne Ganney scored her second goal of the tournament for GB before Kim Heewon ensured victory for the hosts.
Great Britain, who face North Korea on Wednesday, lost their opening match against the Netherlands on Sunday.
"It was a very good performance from the girls and we have got a lot to be proud of," GB head coach Cheryl Smith said.
Britain also play Slovenia and Australia in the group stage in Gangneung. | Great Britain Women suffered a 3-1 defeat by hosts South Korea in their second Group A game in the World Championship Division. | 39484509 |
Asda in Wrexham recorded the highest level of shoplifting of any store in Wales over the past three years with 350 offences, BBC Wales found.
The chain was the most hit by thieves in three Welsh police force areas.
Asda said it took such crimes seriously but shoplifters accounted for a tiny fraction of people visiting its stores.
The statistics compiled by BBC Wales found Asda came top in shoplifting crime in North Wales, Gwent and Dyfed-Powys Police force areas.
In the South Wales Police force area Boots stores in Swansea and Cardiff reported the most shoplifting.
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) says more than eight out of 10 adult shoplifters have a previous conviction which suggests that current sentencing has a "limited impact" in preventing re-offending.
The figures, obtained through Freedom of Information (FoI) requests, also show that in every area of Wales, food is the most shoplifted item.
Earlier this month, North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Winston Roddick said officers will start to give details of food banks to shoplifters because of concern about crime being committed to get drugs or food.
Shoplifting in north Wales has increased by 21.7% compared with last year, which Mr Roddick said accounted for 10% of all local crime.
The statistics on the worst-hit stores throughout Wales show:
In a statement, an Asda spokesperson said: "Our total customer numbers for the stores you list have been around the 10m mark so as you can see this is a minute fraction (around 0.005%) of the people who visited our stores during this period.
"That said we do take shoplifting very seriously and work with police and crime squads to bring this figure down even further and allow us to continue to offer the low prices that customers expect from Asda.
"That's probably one of the reasons why it looks like we have 'the most shoplifting offences' - we're just good at catching it and reporting it."
BBC Wales also asked two of the other chains for comment. Boots said it invests significantly in crime prevention and have a number of measures in place and Tesco said staff "work very closely with the local police" to prevent shoplifting.
According to the BRC, the direct cost was £511m in the years 2012-13 and the amount retailers spend on crime prevention measures is virtually the same.
It is calling for shoplifting to be "taken seriously within the criminal justice system", claiming half of all fines for shoplifting go unpaid so it wants sentences changed to act be a stronger deterrent.
According to its figures for 2012, 85% of adult shoplifters who were caught had a previous conviction, with 41% of them having 10 or more convictions. | Food is the biggest target for shoplifters according to figures which also reveal which stores are hit hardest. | 28313861 |
It happened on the 20:50 train on Saturday, after Tyrone beat Armagh in the All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals at Croke Park in Dublin.
Gardaí (Irish police) were called and boarded the train at Drogheda at about 22:20 local time. No arrests were made.
Translink said some passengers were involved in "an affray on board".
There have also been some complaints about overcrowding on the train, but Translink rejected complaints that any of its services were dangerously overcrowded.
While the trains were "very busy", they operated within safety limits, said Translink.
Irish Rail staff contacted gardaí at Drogheda Garda Station to inform them of the disturbance on the Belfast-bound train.
Gardaí said they boarded the train, spoke to a number of passengers and calmed the situation down.
"No complaints were made and no arrests took place," added the Garda spokesperson.
"The train departed a short time later without further incident."
Translink said the police were called after a train manager raised concerns.
"A number of passengers were removed (at Drogheda) and the gardaí continued to travel on the train to Dundalk," said a Translink spokesperson.
As a result, the train arrived in Belfast at 00:40 on Sunday - 98 minutes late.
"We would like to apologise to passengers for this delay," said Translink.
Three other extra trains travelled from Dublin to Belfast on Saturday without incident, according to the company.
"Passengers who had reserved a seat on the 8.50pm Enterprise train, but travelled on one of the alternative trains, will be entitled to compensation," it added.
"Translink has a policy that only alcohol purchased on board the Enterprise train can be consumed on the train and we are currently reviewing the implementation of this policy on busy days like this."
In a statement, the Ulster GAA highlighted that the onboard fracas had resulted in no arrests.
"There were 80,000 people at Croke Park on Saturday who travelled, sat together at the game, and enjoyed each other's company," said a GAA spokesperson.
"For some individuals to misbehave, it is difficult to legislate for that." | Clashes between Tyrone and Armagh GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) fans on the Dublin-to-Belfast Enterprise train are being investigated by Translink. | 40847951 |
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said 562,337 new cars were registered in March, up 8.4% on the same month last year.
Those figures were boosted by a change in the number plate in March and planned changes to the Vehicle Excise Duty (VED), it said.
Many customers would have benefited by buying their car before 1 April.
Changes in the way cars are taxed came into effect on that date.
In particular, anyone planning to buy a low-emission car would have had an incentive to buy before 1 April.
"These record figures are undoubtedly boosted by consumers reacting to new VED changes, pulling forward purchases into March, especially those ultra-low emission vehicles that will no longer benefit from a zero-rate fee," said Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive.
However, dealers and manufacturers will also have pre-registered some vehicles, which are not actually sold to buyers until a later date, sometimes at a discount.
Diesel car registrations rose 1.6% in March to 244,463. However, diesel's share of the overall car market fell to 43%, from 46% in March 2016.
Diesel cars were once touted as environmentally-friendly, but have fallen out of favour as studies have found they emit higher levels of polluting nitrogen oxides than petrol cars.
That negative image was bolstered in 2015, when Volkswagen admitted to fitting cars with devices which allowed them to cheat emissions tests.
As a result, diesel cars might be targeted when the UK government publishes its plan to meet EU air quality standards. That plan is due by the end of the month.
The prospect of higher taxes has upset many car owners who were encouraged to buy diesel cars in the early 2000s by tax changes made by the Labour government.
In March, registration of of low-emission cars jumped by almost a third, as customers raced to avoid higher taxes.
From 1 April onwards, only newly registered vehicles with zero emissions - electric and hydrogen cars - will escape VED.
For other low-emission cars, such as hybrids, there is a sliding scale of charges related to CO2 output for the first year of ownership. After that time, petrol or diesel vehicles are subject to a "standard" rate of £140 a year.
Buyers of cars worth more than £40,000 attract a "premium" levy. After their first year of ownership they pay an extra £310 a year, for five years, on top of the £140 standard rate.
Previously most low-emission cars would not have paid any VED.
But Mr Hawes warned that the March rise could be followed by slowdown in April, particularly as there are fewer selling days in April because of the timing of Easter. But he expects the market to remain strong this year.
"Looking ahead to the rest of the year, we still expect the market to cool only slightly, given broader political uncertainties, as there are still attractive deals on offer," Mr Hawes said.
However, some economists are less optimistic.
Howard Archer, chief economist at IHS Markit, says the industry will face "an increasingly challenging year".
He says that rising inflation and sluggish wage rises will erode the purchasing power of consumers. Meanwhile, imported cars are likely to become more expensive because of the fall in value of the pound, he points out.
"There may have been an element of a last hurrah in March's record car sales performance," he said. | March was the best month to date for UK car registrations, according to the car industry trade body. | 39500576 |
Ofgem said it was the largest penalty paid to date by a UK energy supplier.
Its investigation found "extensive poor sales practices" amongst staff selling on the doorstep and by phone.
E.On has apologised to its customers, and has promised to pay compensation to anyone who was mis-sold an energy package.
The company has estimated that the bill for compensation payments is likely to be between £3m and £8m, on top of the £12m penalty.
"I am personally absolutely devastated by this, and I'm sure my colleagues across the country are equally devastated" said Tony Cocker, E.On's chief executive.
He told the BBC he took full responsibility for the failings, but said he would not be resigning as a result.
However he said his bonus for the year to 2013 would be cut by "around 25%", resulting in a payment of £510,232.
His bonus in 2012 was £687,300.
In total pay was cut from over a million pounds in 2012, to £945,286 in 2013.
By John MoylanBBC News
From the earliest days of retail energy competition, when households were given a choice of their energy supplier, consumer groups have warned about sharp practices and pressurised selling techniques.
The firms and the regulator repeatedly claimed that they were addressing the issue. Yet today's news suggests problems continued right up to the end of last year.
E.On insists that there was no organised attempt to mislead or misinform customers. Yet at a time when energy prices were soaring, the fact remains that the actions of E.On and other firms meant that hundreds of thousands of customers did not get the best deal.
The industry says the days of pressurised telephone sales and doorstep selling are behind it. But today one of the leading consumer groups has warned that we can't simply draw a line under the affair and that we should remain vigilant.
Consumer trust in the energy suppliers has collapsed in recent years. Few issues can have done more to erode that trust than the prolonged and sustained mis-selling of gas and electricity to hard pressed households.
Other directors have had their bonuses cut by up to 50%.
The mis-selling took place over a three-and-a-half year period, between June 2010 and December 2013.
Customers were misled by sales staff, and some may have been sold more expensive tariffs than they were already on with other companies.
E.On was the last of the big six energy suppliers to stop doorstep selling, in September 2012.
It said it had now stopped all cold-calling by telephone as well.
The £12m penalty will be distributed to 333,000 of the company's poorest customers.
Those who receive the Warm Home Discount - pensioners, disabled people and low income families - will receive £35 each, even though they were not necessarily affected by the mis-selling.
Other vulnerable customers will also receive automatic payments.
In addition, the company will be writing to 465,000 other customers to advise them how to complain if they believe they were the victims of mis-selling.
Or they can call the company directly, on 0800 0568 497.
The regulator said that E.On had opportunities to improve its sales practices long before 2013, but its response was inadequate.
In addition, Ofgem said that E.On had
Sarah Harrison, senior partner in charge of enforcement at Ofgem said: "The time is right to draw a line under past supplier bad behaviour and truly rebuild trust so consumers are put at the heart of the energy market.
"E.ON has today taken a good step by accepting responsibility for its actions and putting proper redress in place."
The energy watchdog has imposed nearly £100m in fines and redress on energy companies for various rule breaches over the last four years, £39m of which have been for mis-selling.
E.On was itself fined £1.7m by Ofgem in November 2012, for overcharging customers. The company blamed a computer error. | Energy giant E.On is to pay out £12m to some of its customers following an investigation into mis-selling by the industry regulator. | 27433428 |
Bicester Village Station has been rebuilt from the former Bicester Town station, to form part of Chiltern Railway's new £130m Oxford to London Marylebone rail link.
Rob Brighouse, managing director at Chiltern Railways, said: "The team has been working exceptionally hard to reach this significant milestone."
The station is due to open in October.
Two trains an hour will run to London from Bicester Village station, with a fastest journey time of 46 minutes at peak times, Chiltern Railways said.
The new station has two new platforms, a rebuilt car park, and a new approach road.
Andy Milne, senior programme engineer at Network Rail, called it a "real step forward in reconnecting the railway from Oxford and Bicester towards Bletchley, Milton Keynes and Bedford, bringing huge economic benefits to the whole area".
Mr Brighouse said the rail link would be the first "between a major British city [Oxford] and London for over 100 years".
The renaming of the station was met with criticism by some residents, who felt it took focus away from the town in favour of Bicester Village, a popular retail outlet to out-of town-shoppers.
The town's other station is Bicester North on the Chiltern Main Line. | The structure of a new railway station in an Oxfordshire market town has been completed. | 33105949 |
But in recent weeks, the 86-year-old has been very much in evidence, attending various events ahead of next month's pivotal party congress.
His re-emergence, say observers, is a signal to the Chinese public that he is in good health and intends to have a key say in the make-up of the once-in-a-decade leadership succession.
For even though he has not held an official post since 2004, he remains influential in Chinese politics - with allies in the highest echelons of the Party.
Jiang Zemin was at the forefront of Chinese politics for 15 years.
As president from 1989 to 2003, he took the helm of the world's largest country in the wake of the Tiananmen Square killings.
When he came to power, China was a virtual pariah state. By the time he had handed the presidency over to Hu Jintao, it had become the fastest-growing economy in the world.
Mr Jiang's rise to power stemmed from a politburo purge of liberal leaders in 1989, after the ruthless suppression of the pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.
Paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, who held all the real power, needed to find a new protege to lead the Communist Party.
Mr Jiang, who as Shanghai party chief had weathered the student protests without resorting to violence, fitted the bill.
By the time Deng finally died in February 1997, Jiang Zemin had been given enough time to establish himself.
Not regarded as an innovative statesman, Mr Jiang is a facilitator whose main priority in power was to maintain social stability, continuing with gradual economic reforms and thus ensuring the Communist Party remained in power.
But he also attempted to make his mark as a political thinker, alongside Mao and Deng, by expounding the three representations theory - an attempt to modernise the Party.
The theory says the Party should further the development of "advanced social productive forces" [allow entrepreneurs and professionals membership of the party], develop culture, and represent the majority of the people.
Jiang Zemin was born to an intellectual family and graduated as an electrical engineer. He had previously worked in a Soviet car factory and as a diplomat in Romania in the 1950s.
He served as minister in charge of the electronics industry and as mayor and party chief in Shanghai.
He likes to recite poetry and plays the piano as well as an erhu, a two-stringed instrument similar to the violin.
Famously, he also delivered a stirring rendition of the Elvis Presley song Love Me Tender, after a dinner with Philippine President Fidel Ramos at the 1996 Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit in Manila.
Former US ambassador to Beijing James Lilley recalls that Jiang was known as the "Flowerpot" by the people of Shanghai: ''Lots of decoration, no action."
"Well, it turns out he is a good consensus builder, he's a good manipulator," Mr Lilley said.
He has been credited with squeezing as much advantage as possible from events - such as the spy plane crisis or the Nato bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade - but always allowing US ties to recover.
This was especially illustrated in the co-operation offered by China for Washington's "war on terror" following the 11 September attacks in 2001.
Mr Jiang began the leadership transition to Mr Hu in November 2002, when he gave the younger man the post of party chief.
Mr Hu succeeded him as president in March 2003.
But until September 2004, Mr Jiang remained chairman of the commission which oversees China's armed forces, and retained a huge influence over foreign policy and security issues.
His supporters will work hard to protect his legacy and his family interests.
His son, Jiang Mianheng, has been called the "Prince of Information Technology".
The US-educated entrepreneur is chairman of the state-run China Netcom and is also in partnership with Taiwanese tycoon Winston Wong to build a $1.6bn semiconductor plant in Shanghai. | A year and a half ago, public appearances by China's former president Jiang Zemin were so rare that speculation swirled of his health, and a Hong Kong television station was fined for reporting his death. | 20038774 |
Kyle Parish, 19, of Clifton in Nottinghamshire, pleaded guilty to rape at an earlier hearing at Nottingham Crown Court.
The victim's mother said the attack "totally destroyed" her daughter's childhood.
She said: "It totally devastated her. She has real low days and panic attacks."
She added: "She is not the confident child she was before this attack happened.
"She attempted to cut both wrists a few weeks after he was put on bail.
"It has totally destroyed our family life ... the littlest thing will take you back to that day.
"It is just soul destroying thinking how is she going to cope with this. That her first encounter was a violent rape."
The court was told the girl was with a group of friends who were camping out in a field.
When the pair were alone, Parrish, of Horwood Drive, grabbed her against her will, threw her to the ground and raped her.
Judge Stuart Rafferty said: "The devastation is not just for five minutes, five hours or five days - this will last a lifetime.
"He has taken away from her the one thing that matters to us all - that is the right to say 'yes' or 'no'."
Her mother said her daughter has had counselling but the past 18 months have been "a living hell". | A teenager has been jailed for five years for the "soul destroying" rape of a 14-year-old girl. | 38738655 |
Mohammad Kamaruzzaman of the Jamaat-e-Islami party was found guilty of genocide by a domestic war crimes tribunal in May 2013.
Kamaruzzaman, 62, was convicted of crimes including the killing of at least 120 unarmed farmers.
He had refused to seek clemency from Bangladesh's president.
Kamaruzzaman was the third most senior figure in Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamist opposition party.
He is the second war crimes suspect in Bangladesh to be executed.
In December 2013 Abdul Kader Mullah, assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami since 2010 and a former editor of an Islamist newspaper, was hanged after being found guilty on five of six counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Of the others who have been convicted:
Twenty-one members of the condemned man's family, including his wife and son, visited him in prison on Saturday afternoon.
There was tight security outside the jail ahead of the condemned man's execution, with large demonstrations and counter-demonstrations expected in support of and against the hanging.
Kamaruzzaman was the assistant secretary-general of the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party. He was found guilty in May 2013 of masterminding what the prosecution described as one of the bloodiest single episodes in the independence war.
The war crimes tribunal heard that he played a prominent role alongside Pakistani troops in the "slaughter" of at least 120 unarmed farmers in the remote northern village of Sohagpur which subsequently became known as the "village of widows".
Three women widowed as a result of the killings testified against Kamaruzzaman during his trial. They described how he led Pakistani troops to the village and helped the soldiers line up and execute the farmers.
Kamaruzzaman was found guilty on five out of seven charges of crimes against humanity, including the murder and torture of unarmed civilians. His lawyers insisted that he had not received a fair trial.
Civil war erupts in Pakistan, pitting the West Pakistan army against East Pakistanis demanding autonomy and later independence
Fighting forces an estimated 10 million East Pakistani civilians to flee to India
In December, India invades East Pakistan in support of the East Pakistani people
Pakistani army surrenders at Dhaka and its army of more than 90,000 become Indian prisoners of war
East Pakistan becomes the independent country of Bangladesh on 16 December 1971
Exact number of people killed is unclear - Bangladesh says it is three million but independent researchers say there were up to 500,000 fatalities
Court condemns Bangladesh Islamist
Bangladesh's watershed war crimes moment | An Islamist politician convicted of war crimes during Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence from Pakistan has been hanged at a prison in Dhaka. | 32263541 |
Inspectors made an unannounced visit to Carson House Care Centre in Stalybridge on 16 January after concerns were raised about safety.
Their report, which rated the home inadequate, said it was unclean, smelly and placed it in special measures.
The home's receivers said it has been under new management since January.
Most staff were caring, the report found though, and many relatives had no complaints.
"Everyone is so nice. I give them 10 out of 10. I've never found anything wrong," said one visitor.
However, not all family members were happy with the service and a complaint was made to the CQC about the lack of a hoist on the ground floor.
Inspectors found one person who had not been hoisted out of bed since their admission in August 2016.
The care plan specified they should sit out of bed for two hours a day.
A second case was also highlighted where a resident had been nursed in bed for three months.
Inadequate equipment and "challenging behaviour" were blamed but inspectors said they did not find any rationale for this.
"This placed the person at risk of social isolation, pressure sores, muscle wastage and other health complications," the report said.
The commission's findings, published on 12 May, said another person was "visibly suffering from an eye infection" but no GP had been called.
Another had long and overgrown toenails which required attention to prevent harm.
People mostly received support by caring staff, the report said, however, people were not always treated with dignity nor had their privacy respected.
The CQC report also found:
Many of the bedrooms had a "strong malodour" and one was so smelly inspectors asked for it be deep cleaned.
One staff member said: "Cleanliness is not good. Some days there's a cleaner on the unit and some days there is not."
Stained carpets, broken sinks and cracked window panes were also noted.
At the time of the inspection, a receivership company had been appointed to sell the home and an external care management organisation had been appointed to oversee the day-to-day management, the report said.
The home's receivers FRP Advisory said that since January Carson House Care Centre had been under new independent management brought in by the receivers.
A FRP Advisory spokesman said the new management team was brought in to "help start the transformation of the home and address any legacy issues to ensure that the provision of services for residents... was at the core of operational decision making". | A care home resident was left in a bed without being given a bath or shower for five months, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) found. | 39996953 |
The strategy will outline restrictions on CO2 from electricity that individual states will have to implement.
To give reluctant states more time to comply, the starting date is expected to be delayed by 2 years.
It's likely that new supports for renewable energy will also be announced.
In June last year the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) first put forward its proposals for restrictions on power plants.
The EPA said that emissions from electricity generation need to be reduced by 30% of the 2005 level by 2030.
At that time the EPA said that individual states need to get their plans in place by 2016 and they were to become operational by 2020.
But after consultations with industry, states and 4.3 million comments from the public, the EPA is likely to extend the deadline for the start of carbon cutting until 2022.
But while some have seen the delay as a weakening of Obama's climate commitment, the White House Chief of Staff hinted that the new rules would actually make a bigger overall impact on emissions.
"There really is no overstating how big this year is for climate change," said Denis McDonough, speaking at a Washington forum earlier this week.
"We will finalise a stronger rule."
The thinking appears to be that a shorter deadline makes it more likely that states will switch from coal to natural gas, as they have been doing in recent years.
A longer timeframe supports the view that energy efficiency, renewables and emissions trading between states could all play a greater role, and result in bigger carbon savings over time.
Experts believe that the delay will come with some sweeteners to encourage the take-up of renewable energy sources like wind and solar.
"The EPA have let it be known, and we all don't know what this is yet, but when they put the final Clean Power Plan out, they are also going to include more incentives for renewable energy," said Bob Perciasepe, a former deputy administrator at the EPA and now president of the Centre for Energy and Climate Solutions, a Washington think tank.
"It could make things go faster with incentives, particularly with incentives for renewables instead of just switching from coal to gas."
Lobbyists for US utilities warn that the interim goals proposed by the EPA would make electricity more expensive. Political opposition in states that produce coal is likely to lead to legal challenges.
Environmental campaigners believe that the courts will support the EPA changes.
They argue that because the plan is due to come in over a number of years, the courts are unlikely to grant a judicial stay that would halt the whole strategy in its tracks.
"The final rollout of the Clean Power Plan will have polluters throwing everything they can at the EPA and the White House because they know the deck is stacked against them legally," said Joanne Spalding, chief climate counsel for the Sierra Club.
"The Supreme Court has already said that Congress has charged the EPA with regulating CO2 emissions from power plants just as it regulates other air pollutants."
Green campaigners say that three times in the past eight years the court has supported the idea that the EPA has the authority and responsibility to curb carbon under the Clean Air Act.
International observers are keenly awaiting details of the plan, to see how it might affect UN-sponsored talks on climate change, that are due to agree a new global treaty later this year.
The US has put forward a proposal to cut its overall emissions by 26-28% of their 2005 levels by 2025. The widespread acceptance and implementation of the electricity plan is vital to achieving this target.
"I expect to see quite a few governors and state air regulators welcoming the announcement, and indicating that it is quite reasonable and achievable for their states to meet," said Alden Meyer, from the Union of Concerned Scientists.
"That should help assure our international negotiating partners that the initiative is likely to survive the political challenges it will inevitably face in the coming months and years."
Follow Matt on Twitter @mattmcgrathbbc. | After a year of consultations and over 4 million public comments, President Obama's Clean Power Plan will be finalised early next week. | 33731391 |
Mr Corfield, 19, had not been seen since he left the White Horse pub in Builth Wells in the early hours of last Tuesday morning.
His body was found in the River Wye, Builth Wells, on Sunday afternoon.
In a statement, his family said: "We will miss James with all our hearts, and are utterly devastated."
Mr Corfield, a member of Montgomery Young Farmers' Club, was due to meet his family at the Royal Welsh showground where he had been camping with friends but failed to show up.
The statement continued: "James was very much a farming family guy - farming was his life, and he loved his animals with a passion.
"A visit to the Royal Welsh Show was a real highlight for him - and seeing the sheep and poultry judging was something he really looked forward to.
"He went to the Royal Welsh Show every year throughout his life, and we have fond memories of taking him as a child, which we will always treasure.
"We will miss James with all our hearts, and are utterly devastated. We are very grateful to all the volunteers who helped with the search, and for all the messages of support, but we ask now to be left in privacy."
Outside of farming Mr Corfield was a keen and "gifted" cricketer who played for Montgomery Cricket Club.
He was recently awarded Shropshire Division 2 Cricketer of the Year, and the league's young player of the year in 2016, which his family said was a "massive achievement for someone his age and something he was incredibly proud of". | A body found in the search for a man who went missing during the Royal Welsh Show has been identified as James Corfield. | 40773367 |
Eight of those hurt in the collisions, which took place in thick fog, sustained serious injuries.
Ambulance crews said 35 casualties needed hospital treatment in what were described as "horrendous scenes".
The A249 bridge was closed for more than nine hours and reopened to traffic at about 17:30.
One witness said visibility had been very poor at the time of the crash but drivers were approaching the crossing with no lights.
Others at the scene described a mass of tangled cars, lorries, and a car transporter. Some reports said the crash went on for 10 minutes as cars continuously collided with each other.
South East Coast Ambulance Service (Secamb) said a further 200 people were either treated for minor injuries or given advice should symptoms develop later.
Firefighters had to free five people from their vehicles on the southbound carriageway.
The injured people were taken to six different hospitals in Medway, Ashford, Margate, Maidstone, Canterbury and London.
Medway Maritime Hospital declared a major incident and cancelled all its routine planned surgery, to help deal with the incident.
Service returned to normal at the hospital at about 14:00 BST.
Secamb said the first ambulances left the crash scene at 08:50 BST because much of the triage and early treatment was carried out at the scene.
Patients started arriving in hospitals shortly after with Medway admitting its first casualty at 09:45 BST.
Crash witnesses and people with concerns about relatives who may have been involved can contact Kent Police on 01622 653580
The national speed limit applies to the dual carriageway crossing, with cars able to travel up to 70mph, the Highways Agency said.
Driver Martin Stammers said the scene was "horrendous" and described seeing cars under lorries and people lying on the ground.
He said visibility was about 10 to 20 yards when he approached the bridge and saw five cars smashed into each other with one across the outside lane.
He managed to squeeze through a gap between that car and the central reservation.
"For 10 minutes afterwards, all we could hear was screeching, cars thudding into each other, lorries crashing," he added.
He said he and his son ran to warn other drivers and warn cars to slow down.
"Later, a woman came up to us sobbing saying, 'thank you, thank you, you saved my life'," he said.
Jaime Emmett, a 19-year-old student who was driving through the fog, said she managed to stop in time but a van collided with her car, and she then hit a car in front.
She said the fog was so thick she could only see a few cars ahead but added: "All I could hear was the cars smashing in front of each other and I could not know how far ahead the accident was."
Later she said she could see "smashed cars everywhere", a lorry that had crashed into the central reservation and ambulance crews helping injured people with one team carrying a man in a stretcher.
Cliff Montgomery, 53, who was driving from his home on the Isle of Sheppey to Gillingham, said he was trapped in a group of vehicles with a pile-up in front of him and another one behind.
"I was in the outside lane when vehicles in front of me braked and cars were crashing," he said.
"There was another pile-up behind the group of cars I was travelling in. All I could do was brake, stop and await further instructions."
He said it was very foggy and in some places he could only see 30ft in front of him.
Mr Montgomery added: "When you see the state of vehicles being brought off the bridge on transporters, you have to think it's very lucky that no one was killed."
By Simon JonesBBC South East reporter
As far as the eye could see it was car after crashed car. Looking at the scene gave me a real sense of the force of some of the crashes.
People told me they heard braking and then ran into vehicles. Others managed to brake but then cars went into the back of them.
For many this incident was a terrifying experience.
The recovery is now under way. With 130 vehicles needing to cleared off this bridge the operation is not going to be quick.
Ch Insp Andy Reeves said the crash was over a "protracted area" with undamaged vehicles between others which had collided.
When asked if the fog had caused the crash, Mr Reeves said it was "too early" to give a cause but added the "weather will be a factor".
"It was... very hazardous. It was described to me as a very thick fog and it was certainly low visibility at the time."
The front of the crash happened where traffic was coming off the bridge towards Sittingbourne, and it had then "concertinaed" over the bridge behind it with incidents stretching back to Queenborough, he said.
Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP Gordon Henderson said he had previously had concerns about lighting on the bridge and said he would be asking questions of the authorities about the accident.
"My concerns must rest solely with the people that have been injured on the bridge," he said.
A spokesman for the Highways Agency said: "It is far too early to speculate on the cause of today's incident which is still under investigation by police."
He confirmed a safety audit was carried out on the crossing a year after its completion.
"This audit concluded that accidents on the A249 had decreased since the completion of the scheme and that the accident rate was below the national average for that type of road," he said.
The £100m four-lane crossing, which connects the Isle of Sheppey with mainland Kent, opened in 2006 and is 0.75 miles (1.25km) long and rises to 115ft (35m) at its highest point. | Sixty people have been injured as more than 130 vehicles were involved in a series of crashes in thick fog on the Sheppey crossing in Kent. | 23970047 |
A study in the BMJ looked at GP data spanning over a decade and found that more than a quarter of 33,000 adults with learning difficulties had been prescribed antipsychotics, often with no obvious clinical justification.
The drugs are designed to treat severe mental illness, not tricky behaviour.
NHS England has already warned prescribers about the problem.
In July, it sent a letter to patients and professionals saying these powerful medicines should not be used as a "chemical restraint".
A report by Public Health England estimates that up to 35,000 adults with a learning disability are being prescribed an antipsychotic, an antidepressant or both without appropriate clinical justification.
NHS England advises: "If you are worried, either for yourself or someone you know, about the medicines being taken, speak to the person responsible for prescribing them. This will usually be a GP, psychiatrist, specialist doctors, pharmacist or nurse prescriber."
It says medicines used to treat mental illness can be very effective in treating some people with learning disabilities when used appropriately. | People with learning difficulties in the UK are being inappropriately over-medicated, patient records suggest. | 34120682 |
Both players will see out the rest of the season with their current clubs.
O'Flaherty, 22, has played three times on permit for Ospreys and scored a try after only three minutes of his regional debut, against Harlequins.
Salmon, 23, plays at lock and spent time with Chinnor and London Irish before joining Rotherham.
"Tom's got genuine pace, genuine footwork, and he's very combative - he's not the biggest of players but he's powerful," Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter told BBC Radio Devon.
"What we've seen of Toby is he's got the core fundamental things we look for in front-five forwards when we bring them to the club, and that has been pretty successful for us in the past." | Bridgend winger Tom O'Flaherty and Rotherham forward Toby Salmon will join Premiership club Exeter Chiefs at the end of the season on two-year deals. | 38748758 |
The girls, aged 14 and 15, were "inappropriately touched" near to the playground in Prospect Park between 16:15 and 16:40 GMT on Monday.
The offender assaulted the victims in two separate incidents before running off towards Waverley Road, police said.
He is described as a white man with tanned skin in his late twenties and about 6ft with brown hair which was longer on top and gelled.
Investigating officer, Det Sgt Stuart Streeter of Thames Valley Police, said: "He was wearing a grey hooded top, a dark coloured T-shirt, grey tracksuit bottoms with a black stripe down each leg and trainers.
"He was carrying a mobile phone that was orange or had an orange case.
"The park is popular with joggers, dog-walkers, children who use the playground facilities, and children and adults who use the sports facilities next to the playground."
Police will be carrying out additional patrols in the area following the incident. | Two teenage girls have been sexually assaulted at a park in Reading. | 39290162 |
2 February 2016 Last updated at 15:20 GMT
School kids have been submitting their questions for the British astronaut.
Hundreds have travelled to the World Museum in Liverpool to see the live stream, and others are watching from classrooms around the country.
Tim is expected to be live at 2.30 to answer their questions. | Tim Peake is preparing to talk to hundreds of school pupils in a live webcast from the International Space Station. | 35475900 |
Matthew Doyle, 46, of south Croydon, was charged on Friday morning under Section 19 of the Public Order Act.
Following discussions with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the Met said he was "no longer charged" and will not be appearing in court.
It said police may not make charging decisions over section 19 of the Act.
Mr Doyle, who was arrested on Wednesday, had been charged with publishing or distributing threatening, abusive or insulting material, likely or intended to stir up racial hatred.
It followed the posting of a message on his Twitter profile about confronting a Muslim woman in south London over the Brussels attacks, which was widely shared on social media and spawned a wave of parodies.
The Met said further consultation with the CPS would take place. | Police have dropped a race-hate charge against a man who allegedly tweeted about confronting a Muslim woman over the Brussels terror attacks. | 35898029 |
Almost half of that figure - $143.6 million (£96 million) - was made at the US box office.
Globally, it is the fourth-highest opening of all time, beaten only by two Harry Potter films and The Avengers.
Interest in the film was at least partially tied to its late star Paul Walker, who died in a car crash in before the film was completed in 2013.
Following the fatal accident, production on Furious 7 was suspended while the filmmakers decided whether or not to proceed.
The team ultimately decided to delay the release from its scheduled July 2014 date. Walker's scenes were completed using a mixture of computer animation and body doubles - including two of the star's younger brothers, Caleb and Cody.
"This is a bittersweet instalment in the franchise," said Phil Contrino, vice president and chief analyst at BoxOffice.com.
"Walker's passing made this movie more intriguing for people who hadn't seen some of the instalments. It raised awareness and its success is a tribute to him."
Film company Universal said Walker's death "probably created some curiosity" amongst audiences but added: "It's not by any means the prime motivator to see the movie".
The adrenalin-fuelled franchise has gone from strength to strength since its low-key beginnings as a genre movie about street racing in Los Angeles.
The original - The Fast and the Furious, released in June 2001 - was a sleeper hit that spawned a few moderately successful sequels.
After the third film in the series, Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, left cinemas with a franchise-worst box office of $158 million (£106 million), it seemed the series would be scrapped, or move to the straight-to-DVD market.
Instead, executives persuaded Vin Diesel, the star of the original film, to return and made Fast & Furious - a heist film set overseas.
Since then, the franchise has gone from strength to strength, with each movie outperforming the last.
"This franchise took the road less travelled and became a trailblazer," Jeff Bock, a box office analyst told Variety magazine.
"You don't have the highest-grossing film in a series come seven films into a franchise. That has a lot to do with the way they're continually upping the ante."
Universal spared no expense in rolling out the seventh film. The $190 million (£127 million) production opened in 4,003 US cinemas, and earned $14 million (£9.3 million) on 365 Imax screens.
Its global success was achieved without the help of the Chinese market, where the film will not debut until 12 April.
"This could be the first in the franchise to flirt with the billion dollar mark," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior analyst for box office company Rentrak. | Action movie Furious 7 has taken $384 million (£257 million) at the global box office in its opening weekend. | 32194184 |
Kelly Gissendaner, 47, was the first woman put to death in the southern US state in 70 years.
Lawyers filed at least three appeals with the US Supreme Court to try to delay the sentence hours before she died.
Gissendaner planned but did not carry out her husband's murder in 1997.
Her former lover, Gregory Owen, who killed Douglas Gissendaner, was given life in prison as part of a plea bargain.
Pope Francis, who was recently on a US tour, urged the review board to reconsider. But on Tuesday afternoon, the board announced it was not granting clemency.
Hours later, the US Supreme Court said it had rejected three applications for a stay of execution.
Witnesses to the execution told local media that she sang Amazing Grace before being given a lethal injection.
"Bless you all," she was quoted as saying by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Tell the Gissendaners I am so, so sorry that an amazing man lost his life because of me. If I could take it all back, I would."
The Pope's appeal for Gissendaner's life was made in a letter written by his diplomatic representative in the US, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, on Tuesday.
The archbishop wrote that, while not wishing to minimise the gravity of the crime, he implored the board "to commute the sentence to one that would better express both justice and mercy".
Gissendaner's lawyers told the board she had undergone a transformation in prison, offering support to troubled inmates and showing remorse for her own crime.
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Former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Norman Fletcher also made representations to say Gissendaner's death sentence was disproportionate to the crime that she committed.
He noted that Georgia had not executed a person who had not committed the actual killing since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, and said a court process to review an appeal by Gissendaner had been "deeply flawed".
Georgia has executed nearly 60 people since 1976, and has more than 80 people on death row.
Gissendaner's former lover Owen will become eligible for parole in 2022. He took a plea deal and testified against Gissendaner, and for his co-operation was sentenced to life in prison.
Douglas Gissendaner's family said in a statement on Monday that Kelly Gissendaner's sentence was appropriate.
"She had no mercy, gave him no rights, no choices, nor the opportunity to live his life," the family said.
Gissendaner has had two previous execution dates.
Her execution was rescheduled in February because of a winter storm that was forecast to hit Georgia, and the next date in March was cancelled after officials said the drug used in the lethal injection was cloudy. | A woman in the US state of Georgia has been executed despite a number of last-ditch appeals, including one by the Pope, to try to block her execution. | 34393027 |
Ahly, coached by former Tottenham manager Martin Jol, went into the game under some pressure after drawing the first leg in Angola 0-0.
Martin Jol's men eased the nerves with a strike from the impressive Ramadan Sobhi after just 10 minutes, and their victory was complete in the 83rd minute when John Antwi made it 2-0.
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Elsewhere on Saturday, Alex McLeish watched his Zamalek side reach the last-16 with a 2-0 win over Union Douala of Cameroon in Cairo.
Zamalek made the most of home advantage having won the first leg 1-0, making sure of the victory thanks to goals from Mahmoud Kahraba and Ahmed Tawfik.
It ensured the Egyptians went through 3-0 on aggregate.
South Africa's Mamelodi Sundowns booked their place with a 1-1 draw away to AC Leopards of Congo Brazzaville to secure a 3-1 aggregate win.
Sundowns went to Dolisie leading 2-0 from the first leg and extended their advantage after just seven minutes through midfielder Hlompho Kekana.
Leopards pulled one back from the penalty spot to draw 1-1 but it was not enough as the South Africans advanced.
Tunisians Etoile du Sahel beat Olympique Khouribga of Morocco 2-0 to advance, having drawn the first leg 1-1.
Morocco did have cause to celebrate earlier in the day as Wydad Casablanca became the first side to reach the next round of the 2016 Caf Champions League, despite a 2-1 defeat away to CNaPS of Madagascar.
Their 5-1 win in Morocco was enough for Wydad Casablanca to progress 6-3 on aggregate.
It was an identical scoreline for Nigerian champions Enyimba who went to Vital'O of Burundi with a 5-1 advantage from the first leg.
Ikechukwu Ibenegbu put Enyimba ahead after 28 minutes to extend their overall lead to 6-1.
Vital'O grabbed one back just two minutes later through Shasiri Nahimana, and scored a second through Laudit Mavugo to make it 2-1 on the day - although it was not enough to prevent Enyimba from progressing 6-3 after both legs.
El Merreikh of Sudan beat Nigeria's Warri Wolves 1-0 to go through 2-0 on aggregate.
Tanzania's Young Africans also advanced to the next round after a 1-1 draw with APR of Rwanda in Dar es Salaam.
Young Africans were leading 2-1 from the first leg, and they held on to secure a 3-2 aggregate win.
The defending champions TP Mazembe of the Democratic Republic of Congo were among the teams scheduled to play on Sunday.
They were set to host Saint George of Ethiopia in Lubumbashi with the tie level at 2-2. | Egyptian giants Al Ahly went through to the last-16 of the African champions league after a 2-0 win over Recreativo Libolo of Angola in the second leg of their last-32 tie in Alexandria. | 35844194 |
The teenager has scored five goals in four games for the Green Lions since joining the club in December.
Meanwhile, Guernsey boss Tony Vance has added another Robins youngster on loan by signing left-back Cameron Pring.
He has agreed a month-long deal at the Isthmian League Division One South club and replaces Kodi Lyons-Foster, who has returned to Ashton Gate. | Guernsey FC have extended the loan of Bristol City youngster Jake Andrews for another month. | 38530774 |
Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, who is known as Mother Mushroom, was found guilty after a one-day trial in the central province of Khanh Hoa.
Her lawyer told the BBC she had 15 days to appeal.
Rights groups have described as "outrageous" the charges against the writer, who has become an icon for the country's dissident community.
Vietnam's one-party communist regime frequently jails its critics.
Ms Quynh has been detained since October 2016 when she visited a fellow activist in prison.
Ms Quynh, 38, started a blog in 2006 raising awareness of social injustice and pointing out political and environmental concerns.
With the growing importance of social media, the internet has become a vital platform for dissidents in a country which tightly controls its media.
Her unusual blogger name is based on the nickname "mushroom" for her youngest daughter.
One of the biggest cases she drew attention to has been the environmental damage caused by a bauxite mine in the central highland area.
Ms Quynh also co-founded the Network of Vietnamese Bloggers, an independent writers' association.
In 2015, she received an award from the Sweden-based Civil Rights Defenders and earlier this year she was awarded the International Women of Courage Award by the US State Department.
She was unable to attend the ceremony because of her detention.
Given her prominence domestically as well as abroad, her case has attracted a lot of attention.
The day before her trial, Human Rights Watch called on Vietnam to drop all charges against her.
"The scandal here is not what Mother Mushroom said, but Hanoi's stubborn refusal to repeal draconian, rights-abusing laws that punish peaceful dissent and tarnish Vietnam's international reputation," the group said in a statement.
The arrest of activists and dissident bloggers is not unusual in Vietnam but this case has struck a particular nerve with people because of Ms Quynh's popularity.
After her arrest, more than 1,000 people including bloggers, activists and lawyers signed a petition asking for her release.
Since her detention, she has not been not allowed to see visitors and only met her lawyer nine days before the trial.
According to the BBC's Vietnamese Service, Ms Quynh's mother was only allowed to visit her on Wednesday and for about five minutes.
After her trial, her lawyer told Reuters news agency that the sentence was "too heavy and unfair for the accused".
The verdict is likely to spark an outcry in the online dissident community.
Critics accuse the government of using the trial to intimidate other activists but there are also hopes that it will draw more widespread attention to the harsh treatment of those who speak out. | One of Vietnam's top bloggers has been jailed for 10 years for distributing propaganda against the state. | 40439837 |
Relatives of Matthew Williams, found attacking Cerys Marie Yemm at a homeless hostel in Argoed, near Blackwood, said they were "devastated by the death of an innocent young lady".
Gwent Police stunned Williams, 34, with a Taser but he later died.
Sources have confirmed Ms Yemm suffered substantial facial injuries.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating.
"Our thoughts and prayers at this time are with the victim, her family and friends," the family said.
"Words cannot express our grief."
It is understood Williams had been released from prison two to three months ago after serving around half of a five year sentence for assaulting a former girlfriend.
Before that, he had been convicted of a burglary offence.
The IPCC said Williams had been formally identified and confirmed he had been a resident at the Sirhowy Arms hostel.
It was there on Thursday that police found him attacking Ms Yemm.
Gwent Police said a lone female officer initially responded to the attack.
Ch Insp Paul Staniforth told reporters on Friday Ms Yemm's family is being supported by officers.
He also said the female officer and others who later attended were being supported by the force's occupational health department.
"The post mortem for Cerys will start today, although may not be complete for some time," he added.
"Speculative comments about what happened and cause of death are unhelpful."
Police said Williams, who lived at the halfway house, and Ms Yemm knew each other and they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the murder.
Tributes have started to be paid to Ms Yemm, who worked in sales at Next and was formerly a student of Coleg Gwent between 2008 and April 2009. She had been studying health and social care.
Principal Jim Bennett said: "We would like to send our deepest sympathy and condolences to Cerys's family, friends and loved ones."
Gareth Griffiths, from Argoed, said: "It's not a massive village, everyone wants to know what's happened. Everyone who doesn't want the place to be there thinks it's ammunition to use against the council to get it moved or shifted... it must be a horrific way to die, it's horrible, it's unbearable."
IPCC Commissioner for Wales Jan Williams said: "I would like to express my sincere condolences to the families of the deceased at this sad and difficult time.
"Our investigators are gathering all relevant evidence to understand the full circumstances of what happened."
Police vans and TV satellite trucks continue to line what was, until 24 hours ago, a quiet residential street in the centre of the small village.
Now, red and white tape cordons off part of the pavement outside the hostel at the centre of a murder investigation. An officer stands guard at the doorway.
On the ground lies flowers and a note addressed to the building's residents. Scenes of crime officers move in and out of the building, while those who still live there try to get on with their day-to-day business, making use of a back entrance.
Neighbours have continued to speak of their shock at what happened here in the early hours of Thursday.
One described the killing as "horrific", while a woman said their worst fears about the hostel had come true.
"We knew there was going to be problems when it was opened," she said.
"But until yesterday it was nowhere as bad as we thought it would be. Now it is as bad as we thought - and worse.
"The whole thing is horrible."
Argoed councillor Garry Lewis described the nature of the killing as "grotesque".
Baptist chapel secretary June Trace said the Sirhowy Arms was converted into accommodation for vulnerable people several years ago.
She said it had a "fluctuating population" with people aged in their 30s or 40s.
Despite some concerns she said there had never been any trouble there.
However, others have said the police have been called on occasions. | The family of a man suspected of murdering a 22-year-old woman in an act of cannibalism says it is in "shock". | 29957977 |
It was one of a number of heightened security measures in place for Sunday's Flight of the Angel show - one of the highlights of the two-week carnival.
Police checked bags and used metal-detecting wands before allowing carnival-goers into St Mark's Square.
Those allowed in saw a beauty pageant winner ride a zipwire over the crowd into the square.
Wearing beautiful hand-painted masks and elaborate costumes to stroll around the canals of Venice is a key part of the carnival, which is believed to have started in the 11th Century after a military victory.
The authorities decided to increase surveillance during the festival following November's attacks in Paris, but rejected a plan to ban people from wearing masks.
Venice police chief Angelo Sanna told The Associated Press when the event got under way a week ago that the discussion about masks was approached "with balance and attention, because carnival is the masks. It is difficult to have carnival without them."
He said spot checks of masked-revellers would be made to verify identities, and more officers - both in uniform and under-cover - would be posted around the city during the length of the event.
The carnival will end on 9 February, marking the start of the Christian observance of Lent. | Revellers at the annual carnival in Venice were briefly asked to lift their masks before going in to the event. | 35454892 |
Detectives were called to Thomas Street, Briton Ferry, at 09:45 GMT on Wednesday after the body was found in a lane behind the street.
South Wales Police said a 44-year-old man had been arrested and remained in custody.
Det Supt Paul Hurley said: "The body has yet to be identified and a post mortem examination has been arranged."
The area has been cordoned off and forensic examinations of the scene are continuing. | A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man's body was found in Neath Port Talbot. | 35244674 |
Parties in Bordj Bou Arreridj Province had been showing hijabs surrounding blank spaces alongside photos of male candidates.
On Tuesday the election authorities gave parties two days to display photos or be removed from the vote.
An official said the practice was illegal.
"This kind of encroachment is dangerous; it is not legal and it opposes all laws and traditions," said Hassan Noui of the Independent High Authority for Election Monitoring (HIISE).
"It is every citizen's right to know whom he will vote for."
He said at least five parties including the Socialist Forces Front (FFS) had not been showing female candidates' faces on posters.
The blank images have prompted debate inside Algeria.
One candidate, Fatma Tirbakh, from the National Front for Social Justice party in the eastern Ouargla Province, appeared as a blank female avatar on Ennahar TV to discuss the issue.
"Displaying my photo is important, I believe. But I come from a southern region. Honestly speaking, it is hugely conservative... it is because of this that my own photo is not used," she said.
"In all honesty, the family did force me not to show my photo on TV. But they do not have a problem with my face being on a poster," she said.
However no one in her family had a problem with her working as a politician representing people in parliament, she added.
Parties are obliged to field female candidates under a 2012 law requiring women to make up between 20% and 50% of candidates on electoral lists.
FFS official Hassen Ferli blamed the party's communications team in Bordj Bou Arreridj for the "regrettable" posters.
"The FFS vigorously condemns this practice which is incompatible with the party's values," he said in a statement carried on local media.
The party was committed to equality between men and women, the statement said.
Algeria is not the only country in which women running for parliament have had their faces concealed on election posters. In the 2011/2012 Egyptian parliamentary polls, Salafist parties used the image of a flower instead of the female candidates' actual photos. | Algerian political parties have agreed to show female candidates' faces after some posters displayed blank avatars instead, the state news agency says. | 39636548 |
By creating a "smoke curtain" they hope to impede visibility from warplanes that have been carrying out bombing raids.
Rebel-held parts of Aleppo have been heavily bombarded recently by pro-government forces. Rebels have launched an offensive to try to break a government siege.
Russia is a key backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and is supporting pro-government forces with air strikes. Government forces cut off rebel-held eastern parts of Aleppo last month.
Rami Jarrah, a journalist covering events in Syria, says the burning tyres are effective. "It's causing confusion for the jets and a diversion for the offensive on the ground that aims to break the siege.
"Everyone is doing it but to participate in the resistance this is really the only thing the children can do."
They are promoting a series of hashtags on Twitter to try to build momentum including #AngerForAleppo and #AleppoUnderSiege.
Aid organisations believe about 250,00 civilians still live in the rebel-controlled areas of Aleppo.
On Monday rebel fighters shot down a Russian helicopter killing all five on board.
The aircraft was returning from delivering humanitarian aid to the besieged city of Aleppo, Russian officials said.
It is not clear which group brought the helicopter down. | Children in the Syrian city of Aleppo are burning tyres in an attempt to create a no-fly zone above the besieged city. | 36944470 |
Left-arm spinner Ravi Jadeja took 5-30 as the Proteas, who have passed 200 only once in six innings during the series, again failed with the bat.
AB de Villiers top scored with 42 after India were taken to 334 by Ajinkya Rahane's 124, his first Test century on home soil.
India already have an unassailable 2-0 series lead.
If they wrap up a 3-0 series victory they will climb to second in the world rankings behind South Africa, who will lose top spot if they are beaten in their next Test series at home to England.
After all 20 South Africa wickets fell to spin in their third-Test defeat in Nagpur, the top order was again found wanting against the turning ball as Jadeja accounted for four of the top five.
Paceman Umesh Yadav had opener Dean Elgar caught behind before Jadeja got to work.
Recalled opener Temba Bavuma was bowled, captain Hashim Amla was caught behind looking to cut and Faf du Plessis was out sweeping for his third duck of the series.
De Villiers watched most of the carnage from the other end but his counter-attack ended when he was caught in the deep off Jadeja, the ninth wicket to fall.
Earlier, Rahane not only added the 11 runs he needed for a century, but also combined with Ravichandran Ashwin for 98 valuable eighth-wicket runs.
At number five, his chance of batting again in the match may hinge on whether India opt overnight to enforce the follow on.
South Africa are 231 behind and their top score in the series in 214. | India bowled South Africa out for 121 on day two to take firm control of the fourth and final Test in Delhi. | 35009909 |
She appeared with Lula on the balcony of his apartment and waved to hundreds of people who had gathered below.
Lula has said his brief arrest on Friday is part of a campaign to sully his image and that of Ms Rousseff.
Police are looking into payments and donations made to Lula's institute.
Some of Brazil's wealthiest people as well as dozens of politicians from both the governing coalition and the opposition are also being investigated for involvement in the alleged Petrobras corruption scheme.
Lula, a left-wing icon, left office in 2011. His Workers' Party has been hit hard by the long-running scandal.
After his interrogation on Friday, he told reporters he was the victim of a "prejudice as a working-class man".
Ms Rousseff turned up at his home on Saturday, along with hundreds of people showing support for the former president.
Saturday's rally was peaceful in contrast to angry scenes on Friday when protesters clashed with police outside the building.
"She is going to meet with Lula as a gesture of solidarity and support," a press officer at the presidential palace told the Associated Press news agency.
She later could be seen on the balcony with Lula and his wife Marisa.
The Workers' Party has held the Brazilian presidency since 2003, both under Lula and Ms Rousseff.
In the latest operations, police enforced 33 search and 11 detention warrants in the states of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Bahia, officials said.
Lula, 70, is suspected of receiving about 30m reais ($8m; £5.6m) in speaking fees and donations to his charity.
His home was among the premises targeted, as was the headquarters of the institute in Sao Paulo. | Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has visited her predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a day after he was questioned over corruption allegations at the state oil company, Petrobras. | 35737249 |
Cars ran for just 15 minutes of three hours' scheduled practice because the medical helicopter could not operate.
Hamilton, who crossed the track to sign caps for fans in the grandstands, wrote on Twitter: "So sorry for all you watching on TV or at the track.
"We must find a solution to deal with the weather issue."
The three-time champion has proposed running practice on Saturday in Shanghai and switching qualifying to Sunday morning before the race in the afternoon.
And the Mercedes driver added that the problems could become an opportunity for F1's new owners, an American media conglomerate which bought the sport in January and removed long-time boss Bernie Ecclestone as chief executive.
"Seriously, though, this could actually be a blessing in disguise. A chance for new bosses to be proactive and creative," he wrote.
Of the two remaining days of the meeting, Saturday is forecast to have the best weather, with rain due overnight before Sunday.
The idea of moving the race to Saturday was discussed briefly by teams with Charlie Whiting, the F1 director of governing body the FIA, after second practice but was quickly dismissed.
Insiders said the weather forecast for Sunday "looks significantly better" than Friday's.
The issue on Friday was that the medical helicopter could not land at the designated hospital, which is more than 30 miles away from the Shanghai International Circuit.
Conditions at the track were poor, with low cloud, smog and mist, but helicopters could fly in its vicinity.
It is a fundamental safety requirement in F1 that the medical helicopter must be able to operate before cars are allowed to take to the track.
Four-time champion Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari, who is leading the championship after winning the first race of the season in Australia two weeks ago, said: "It was boring. It was a shame, especially of the people who came to watch. But what can we do?" | Lewis Hamilton has called for a rethink of Formula 1's procedures in bad weather following a farcical day of practice at the Chinese Grand Prix. | 39526963 |
The bank's commitment is included in the new charter for small and medium enterprises by its parent company Lloyds Banking Group.
The group has set a target of supporting 5,000 new exporters across the UK in 2016 and 25,000 by 2020.
The charter also pledges to boost lending to small businesses by £1bn.
Graham Blair, from the Bank of Scotland, said: "The future success of the Scottish economy hinges on small businesses looking to overseas markets for growth.
"Through this new pledge, we want to support a new legion of Scottish exporters, and ultimately to help the Scottish economy to prosper."
Lloyds Banking Group said it planned to invest £450m in digital technology and training in the next three years, including creating a new international trade portal enabling UK businesses to discover opportunities across the globe.
The group has trained more than 300 UK staff in international trade and has a network of export specialists across the country to help develop and advise on overseas trading opportunities.
UK Trade and Investment Minister Lord Price said: "This government has committed to having 100,000 more UK companies exporting by 2020 and this pledge by Lloyds is a welcome contribution towards this target.
"It's great to see the banks doing their bit to support small and medium-sized businesses looking to invest and create jobs." | The Bank of Scotland has pledged to help Scottish businesses become first-time exporters to boost the nation's economy. | 35955175 |
The 26-year-old PhD student killed himself on Sunday inside the campus of Hyderabad Central University.
Mr Vemula was a member of the Ambedkar Students' Association, which fights for the rights of Dalit (formerly known as untouchable) students on the campus.
He was one of five Dalit students who were protesting against their expulsion from the university's housing facility.
The five faced allegations last year that they attacked a member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) - the student wing of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
They all denied the charge and the university cleared them in an initial inquiry, but reversed its decision in December.
P Vijay, a close friend of Mr Vemula, described him as a "hard-working and a brilliant student and a kind-hearted soul".
Mr Vijay added that "he used to spend most of his time in the university's library".
"I cannot believe what has happened. He was a source of inspiration for others. But he was also very sensitive and was depressed over what was happening around him."
Mr Vemula was studying for his PhD in sociology. A keen reader of revolutionary literature, he aspired to become a writer.
"I always looked at the stars and wanted to be a writer, a writer of science like Carl Sagan. But in the end, this is the only letter I am going to write," he said in a suicide note.
"I loved science, stars, nature - but then I loved people without knowing that people have long since divorced from nature. Our feelings are second hand. Our love is artificial, our beliefs [are] coloured. It has become truly difficult to love without getting hurt," he wrote.
The letter was an outburst of a thinking mind.
Though he did not blame anyone for his death, the contents of the letter show that he was upset over the discrimination shown to Dalits like him.
In an earlier letter to the vice-chancellor of the university in December, he had requested that a "nice rope" should be supplied to rooms of all Dalit students.
"Please give us poison at the time of admission itself instead of humiliating us like this," he had written in his letter.
In his suicide note, he expresses similar pain.
"For some people life itself is a curse. My birth is my fatal accident. I can never recover from my childhood loneliness. I am not hurt at this moment. Not sad, just empty. That is pathetic. That is why I am doing this."
Mr Vemula's mother Radhika received the shocking news while she was expecting her son to come home next week.
"My son died because of the misuse of power and conspiracy by some powerful people. At least, now they should revoke the suspension of four other boys," she pleaded.
His friends said he was troubled by the treatment given to him at the university.
"Rohith was disturbed that the vice-chancellor was not responding to all the protest and the fact that he was being treated like a pariah," said D Prashanth.
"He loved reading poetry, but he was also a man of action participating in agitations for Dalit students and an avid rock climber." | In his death, Rohith Vemula has emerged as a symbol of protest against injustice and indignity. | 35349790 |
Councillors confirmed the closures alongside increasing the cost of adult social care services and cutting back on street lighting during the night.
Twelve paddling pools are to be closed over the summer but a decision on the future of leisure services was deferred.
The council needs to make ??70m budget savings over four years.
Although the Muni is to close, the Coliseum in Aberdare and the Park and Dare in Treorchy will be retained, which the council says is more than many other local authorities operate.
And while the Cynon Valley museum will close with , the Rhondda Heritage Park will be retained and developed into a heritage hub.
Bus route subsidies for services that are not commercially viable are to be nearly halved to ??0.4m a year.
Councillors also voted for part-night lighting of all streetlights in non residential areas and part-night lighting of alternate streetlights in residential areas.
Paul Cannon, deputy Rhondda Cynon Taf council leader, said: "There is no easy solution in these tough financial circumstances.
"Our funding has been dramatically reduced by the government in London, and this will mean that difficult and unfortunately unpopular decisions were necessary today and will be required in the future.
"It must be remembered, however, that even after these tough decisions, the level of provision offered in Rhondda Cynon Taf still compares favourably with other local authorities." | The Muni Arts Centre in Pontypridd and the Cynon Valley Museum are to close as part of budget cuts in Rhondda Cynon Taf. | 27414368 |
Brown was sent off for a tackle on Liam Boyce in the 2-2 draw at Ross County.
The offence would trigger a two-match suspension.
However, the Scottish FA informed clubs in advance that all disciplinary hearings for incidents this Easter weekend will take place on 28 April.
Boyce, who converted a controversial 90th-minute penalty, was booked for a tangle with Brown moments before the Celtic skipper's red-card challenge.
When asked if he had any complaints about the red card, Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers said: "No. Scotty has gone in and caught the boy late, but I'd have to see it again.
"Scott has been brilliant this season. He's never once made a challenge like that. He's been aggressive and strong.
"In his defence, the referee was letting a lot go on him. But that was the referee's making. It was a poor end to the game."
Following the semi-final at Hampden, Celtic meet Rangers again, on league duty, at Ibrox on 29 April. | Celtic captain Scott Brown will be available for next Sunday's Scottish Cup semi-final against Rangers, with the club planning to appeal against the late red card he received on Sunday. | 39616097 |
The crash happened on the A4067 between Glais and Pontardawe in the Swansea Valley at 13:35 GMT and the road was closed for several hours.
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service used cutting equipment to free one casualty.
Four men and an elderly woman have been taken to hospital. | Five people have been taken to hospital after a multiple vehicle accident near Swansea. | 38535133 |
The planet was known to have an active volcanic history but this is the best evidence yet for ongoing eruptions.
Four "hotspots" in a rift region of the planet's northern hemisphere were seen to rise and fall dramatically in temperature over several days in 2008, suggesting an active lava flow.
The observations were collected by the Venus Express probe.
This European Space Agency mission arrived at the planet in 2006 and its findings had already hinted in 2010 that Venus might still be volcanically active.
That evidence was compiled from infrared measurements, because the planet's surface is shrouded by a thick and swirling atmosphere. A distinct dark region towards the planet's south pole suggested lava deposits that were less than 2.5 million years old.
Then in 2012 Venus Express researchers reported a spike in the sulphur dioxide content of the Venusian atmosphere, which happened in 2006-7 and declined gradually afterwards. This was very evocative of a blast of volcanic activity, but could also have been a result of shifting winds.
Now, images in near-infrared wavelengths snapped by the craft's Venus Monitoring Camera have revealed tell-tale, transient hotspots in a region called Ganiki Chasma.
"This latest evidence very much leads us to believe that we've finally found proof that the surface is tectonically active and changing today," said Dr Colin Wilson, an atmospheric physicist at Oxford University and the science operations coordinator for Venus Express.
The pictures were first unveiled at a conference in March 2014 but have now been analysed in detail and published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
"We have now seen several events where a spot on the surface suddenly gets much hotter, and then cools down again," said Dr Eugene Shalygin, the publication's lead author, from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany.
"These four hotspots are located in what are known from radar imagery to be tectonic rift zones, but this is the first time we have detected that they are hot and changing in temperature from day to day. It is the most tantalising evidence yet for active volcanism."
The hot areas could indicate a pool of lava, superheated rocks or even plumes of gas surging from beneath the surface. A combination of these scenarios is probably most likely, Dr Wilson said.
"The region is a rift system on the flanks of a volcano," he told BBC News. "These rifts are formed when, for example, a magma chamber lying below fills up and causes expansion and fracture up above.
"We don't really know exactly what's happening, because the spatial resolution of the images we're getting is blurred by the overlying clouds, to 50-100km pixel size."
Radar data from previous missions revealed many volcanic peaks on Venus, most of which have shallow slopes, "like Hawaii", Dr Wilson explained.
"That implies fairly liquid, low-viscosity magma flowing down their sides."
But there are also signs that some Venusian volcanoes were rather more explosive.
"It seems that on Venus, as on Earth, we can have a variety of styles of volcanism," Dr Wilson said.
Future Venus orbiter missions will reveal more detail about Venus and its intriguing, apparently active geology - including just how similar it is to Earth's.
The successful eight-year career of Venus Express, however, ended when the craft ran out of fuel in November 2014. The orbiter plunged into the planet's hot, carbon-laden atmosphere in January.
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Henry Bett, 28, of Thornham, near Hunstanton, killed Rebecca Brown, 43, when his tractor hit her car in December 2013.
Bett, son of Stephen Bett, was jailed in 2015 but the conviction was quashed.
At a retrial a jury at Cambridge Crown Court found him guilty of causing her death by dangerous driving.
Bett, of Ling Farm Cottages, was released on bail and will be sentenced later this month.
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Mrs Brown, of Castle Acre, Norfolk, died when the Fiat people carrier she was driving was crushed in the collision with Mr Bett's Fendt tractor on the West Acre Road at about 15:10 GMT on 4 December 2013.
Bett was initially found guilty of causing her death by dangerous driving in August 2015 and jailed for three and a half years.
He was freed by the Appeal Court in London in September.
The court ordered that no details of the arguments in Bett's appeal could be published for legal reasons but appeal judges said he must be retried.
At the retrial in Cambridge Bett denied causing Mrs Brown's death by dangerous driving, but admitted causing death by careless driving.
However, he was found guilty by a majority verdict of 10 to two. | The son of a former Norfolk police and crime commissioner has been found guilty at a retrial of causing the death of a woman by dangerous driving. | 40162208 |
She is 30, lives with her parents, loves making videos about herself dancing - and she's 27 stone.
Now Whitney's about to star in her own TV show on TLC.
It's called Whitney: Fat Girl Dancing and in it she explores family life, dating, and of course, dancing.
The interesting element to her story isn't the dancing, or even the insults hurled at her by random strangers in the street, it's how her family accept, or fails to accept her weight gain.
Most people have experienced the cruelty of a stranger, but a comment may hurt more when it's from those you love.
Whitney told Newsbeat her family struggled as her weight increased.
"My parents have always been very supportive and loving. They really have, but my dad and I had a little bit of a disconnect when I gained weight because he really wanted so much for me to just lose weight.
"He used to tell me: 'Whitney, I know you're struggling but you can't change the world. You have to fit into society's mould'.
"And I did actually lose 100lbs once, but I gained it back and I was so upset and I said: 'Dad, you know, I don't care anymore, I'm just going to be me.' And he was like: 'Well, Whitney you're going to run into some trouble'.
"But after all this has happened and he's seen the effect that just even the dance videos had on people, he told me just the other day: 'I know I told you that you couldn't change the world but I've changed my mind.'"
Whitney was crying as told this story. So was I.
"That's pretty incredible and my brother and I had kind of a rift between us for a long time. He didn't really know how to interact with me and being fat was something nobody ever talked about. He's so proud of me now, and I thought he was embarrassed of me.
"Now I have the most supportive people in my life and they are truly proud to be connected to me and that is a feeling that I never thought that I would feel."
Whitney: Fat Girl Dancing - Tuesday February 3, from 9pm on TLC
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Film review website Rotten Tomatoes, which collates reviews, currently has the movie on a 0% rating.
Which means not one of the 23 critics whose reviews are on the site so far have given the film the thumbs up.
The film invites viewers inside a smartphone, where an emoji called Gene has a glitch which allows him to use expressions other than his "meh" face.
But when Gene comes under threat of deletion, he goes in search of a hacker who can reprogramme him and eliminate his unwanted facial expressions.
Here's a rundown of the reaction to the film, due for release in the UK on 4 August.
The most disturbing part of this toxic film is the way it infects audiences with its ugly cynicism. A viewer leaves The Emoji Movie a colder person, not only angry at the film for being unconscionably bad, but resentful of it for making them feel angry. A critic can accept the truth that art and commerce will spend eternity locked in opposition. Nevertheless it's still startling to see art that cheers commerce on while being stamped in the face by its boots.
Read the full review here.
The Emoji Movie isn't terrible, it isn't offensive or outright bad. It just is, and there could be far worse ways to spend 86 minutes. But maybe, just maybe, it'd be the better choice to spend those 86 minutes outside, or reading a book, or talking face-to-face with another human being. Because The Emoji Movie could not be more meh.
Read the full review here.
This movie's "believe in yourself" message is borne out, in a perverse way, by the very fact that it even exists. And yet the whole thing remains nakedly idiotic. To add to the pain and despair of the experience, The Emoji Movie is preceded by a short, Puppy, featuring the characters from the Hotel Transylvania animated movies. It is also idiotic.
Read the full review here.
Given the right combination of inspiration, intelligence and gifted artists, any dumb thing can be turned into an enjoyable film. But Tony Leondis' The Emoji Movie, a very, very dumb thing, comes nowhere near that magic combination. It is fast and colourful enough to attract young kids, but offers nearly nothing to their parents. If only this smartphone-centric dud, so happy to hawk real-world apps to its audience, could have done the same in its release strategy - coming out via Snapchat, where it would vanish shortly after arrival. But even that wouldn't be fast enough.
Read the full review here.
A film as mindless and disposable as most smartphone apps — and nowhere near as addictive — Sony's animated The Emoji Movie is a calamitous comedy that inadvertently shows how difficult it is to pull off the witty, imaginative world-building that Pixar makes seem so breezy. Despite wanly espousing the importance of individuality, this anonymous product couldn't feel more strained or cautious, playing down to its childhood audience while offering plenty of screen time to the myriad brands featured in this movie-length advertisement.
Read the full review here.
It is a soul-crushing disaster because it lacks humour, wit, ideas, visual style, compelling performances, a point of view or any other distinguishing characteristic that would make it anything but a complete waste of your time, not to mention that of the diligent animators who brought this catastrophe into being.
Read the full review here.
Once upon a time, something like The Emoji Movie would be regarded as a dire commentary on the culture that produced it. These days, the culture so consistently comments upon itself that something like The Emoji Movie just makes you wonder what's left to be said. Yes, this is ugly swill that will make parents daydream about going back to work, but at least the poop emoji is wearing a bowtie. At least he's a good dad (yes, the poop emoji has a son). At least he knows that he stinks.
Read the full review here.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk. | The reviews are in - and it's not looking great for The Emoji Movie, despite it starring the likes of James Corden and Patrick Stewart. | 40751190 |
The 21-year-old came through the youth ranks at the Gunners before joining Swansea in 2015 and spent much of last season on loan at Barnet.
He made 23 appearances for the Bees and joins the League Two Imps after his release by the Swans.
Vickers previously played under Imps management duo Danny and Nicky Cowley at Concord Rangers in 2014-15.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Lincoln City have signed former Arsenal and Swansea City goalkeeper Josh Vickers on a two-year contract. | 40443752 |
Tynwald will consider easing the entry requirements because Manx-based games companies have been experiencing problems recruiting qualified workers.
Tax breaks have attracted about 30 e-gaming firms, transforming the Isle of Man into a major international player.
The wider e-business industry accounts for about 25% of national income and employs more than 1,700 people.
Work permit exemptions would apply only to contracts of at least 12 months and with a salary of at least £25,000.
It is thought the sector will be looking to fill 100 skilled positions every year for the foreseeable future.
A government spokesman said if the work permit exemption is applied it will only affect some positions within Information Communications Technology and e-Business. | Some e-gaming specialists could be added to a list of professions exempt from Isle of Man work permits. | 35495464 |
Will Pooley, 29, was discharged from the Royal Free Hospital in north-west London two weeks ago where he received treatment in a special isolation unit.
Both Mr Pooley and the new victim, who has not been named, are believed to have worked together in Sierra Leone.
The Foreign Office said it had arranged a replacement passport within 24 hours.
As a survivor of the disease, Mr Pooley could help the victim recover by donating his blood which will now contain natural antibodies that can help protect against Ebola.
Mr Pooley is thought to have flown to Atlanta at the weekend after the Foreign Office issued him with an emergency passport.
His original passport was burned along with other belongings as a precaution to stop the virus from spreading.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said in a statement: "Following a request from his family, the FCO Consular Team and the UK Passport Office worked together to get a replacement passport to Will Pooley within 24 hours, this enabled him to fly out to the US immediately and potentially assist with the treatment of an Ebola victim."
Infectious diseases specialist Dr Aneesh Mehta, one of five doctors working at a specialist unit in Atlanta, said the team were looking at all treatment options for the latest patient.
He said: "We believe the supportive care - allowing the body to heal itself and supporting it through that process - is the mainstay of therapy, as is true for any infectious disease. If we have therapeutic options, we'll evaluate those."
Ebola is transmitted through sweat, blood and saliva.
The World Health Organisation says that more than 2,500 people have been killed by the latest outbreak in west Africa, where the death rate stands at 90% if it goes untreated. | A British nurse who recovered from Ebola has travelled to the US to donate blood to try to save the life of another victim of the virus. | 29248080 |
The midfielder took his tally for the season to six as Wycombe picked up a fourth successive league win.
The hosts were unlucky not to take an early lead when Kashket capitalised on poor play from youngster James Martin but could only hit the side-netting.
Kashket then gave the Chairboys the lead in the 23rd minute, collecting Luke O'Nien's ball in the area before unleashing a low effort beyond Pools goalkeeper Trevor Carson.
Hartlepool striker Padraig Amond wasted a glorious chance to restore parity 10 minutes before the break as he headed wide.
Wycombe almost gave themselves a two-goal cushion midway through the second half as Adebayo Akinfenwa's 18-yard effort struck the post.
Pools substitute Michael Woods wasted a golden opportunity to level as he burst into the area before screwing his effort wide.
And Wycombe then sealed victory 10 minutes from time as Kashket fired beyond Carson after finding himself in space in the area.
Report provided by the Press Association.
Match ends, Wycombe Wanderers 2, Hartlepool United 0.
Second Half ends, Wycombe Wanderers 2, Hartlepool United 0.
Scott Harrison (Hartlepool United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Garry Thompson (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Scott Harrison (Hartlepool United).
Foul by Michael Harriman (Wycombe Wanderers).
Rhys Oates (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Luke O'Nien (Wycombe Wanderers).
Josh Laurent (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dominic Gape (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Nicky Featherstone (Hartlepool United).
Billy Paynter (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Marcus Bean (Wycombe Wanderers).
Substitution, Hartlepool United. Rhys Oates replaces Lewis Alessandra.
Attempt missed. Garry Thompson (Wycombe Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Garry Thompson replaces Adebayo Akinfenwa.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Marcus Bean replaces Matt Bloomfield.
Goal! Wycombe Wanderers 2, Hartlepool United 0. Scott Kashket (Wycombe Wanderers) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Luke O'Nien.
Attempt missed. Michael Woods (Hartlepool United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right.
Foul by Josh Laurent (Hartlepool United).
Matt Bloomfield (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Hartlepool United. Conceded by Joe Jacobson.
Foul by Scott Kashket (Wycombe Wanderers).
James Martin (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Sam Wood replaces Paul Hayes because of an injury.
Lewis Alessandra (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Luke O'Nien (Wycombe Wanderers).
Substitution, Hartlepool United. Billy Paynter replaces Nicky Deverdics.
Attempt saved. Scott Kashket (Wycombe Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers) header from very close range is too high.
Foul by James Martin (Hartlepool United).
Michael Harriman (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Hartlepool United. Michael Woods replaces Lewis Hawkins.
Dominic Gape (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lewis Hawkins (Hartlepool United).
Lewis Hawkins (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matt Bloomfield (Wycombe Wanderers).
Attempt blocked. Matt Bloomfield (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. | Scott Kashket scored in each half as Wycombe Wanderers beat Hartlepool to move back into the League Two play-off places. | 38035629 |
But the likely takeover of the sport's commercial arm by US giant Liberty Media does look like one of those occasions that could well signal the beginning of the end for a man whose diminutive stature belies his giant influence over the huge arena he has dominated for 40 years.
The smart money in F1 says Liberty will not divest themselves of the 85-year-old's influence immediately and that Ecclestone will stay on for a while, even if it is only to allow some form of transition.
Meanwhile, his remarks to The Times that he will "say adios" if he does not like the "noises" coming from the new bosses are a reminder that he likes to be in control. It is the very essence of the way he has run the sport all these years.
But whether Ecclestone is kept on in the interim or not, his time at the top of the sport must surely be running out - if only because of the inevitability of time passing.
When he does finally go, it will signal the end of one of the more remarkable careers for administrators and impresarios in any sport.
During his stewardship, Ecclestone has turned an essentially niche activity into a global phenomenon, a sporting spectacle whose reach is surpassed only by the Olympics and football World Cup.
His success in doing so is beyond doubt, but even before the Liberty takeover, uncomfortable questions were being asked about whether the time for change was not already overdue.
Ecclestone has been reluctant to embrace the internet age, and even now seems to struggle with the concept of how to move on from his tried and tested formula - or even accept whether he needs to.
His success was built on a simple plan based around selling F1 as a complete package to a major broadcaster in each country for the highest possible amount.
Significant revenue was also secured by extracting fees so large from race organisers for the privilege of hosting a grand prix that it has become almost impossible to stage one without support from a national government.
This creates an annual global revenue in the region of $1.5bn but younger minds in F1 wonder whether it should be much larger given the sport's reach. Some have talked about reshaping the model for the digital age.
Under Liberty that seems inevitable, but how successfully it is done remains to be seen.
Even as F1 is poised for a takeover that values the sport at $8.5bn, there are questions about just how healthy the sport really is.
Apart from Mercedes, Red Bull, Ferrari and McLaren, pretty much all the teams are struggling to make ends meet.
Many races in Europe, the heartland of the sport and its main fanbase, are struggling to meet Ecclestone's high demands - even if historic races such as Silverstone and Monza attract huge attendances and TV figures are holding up well in traditional markets such as Britain and Germany.
Meanwhile the 'new' races, many in countries with questionable regimes, struggle to attract spectators and create a decent spectacle.
The need to satisfy the demands of owners CVC, a private equity group, has meant F1 is increasingly moving away from terrestrial television in favour of pay channels.
This inevitably shrinks the audience, raising questions about how it will attract younger fans.
These declining audiences have led to new regulations for 2017 aimed at increasing the sport's apparently diminishing appeal - but it is questioned whether the rule changes will actually achieve what is intended.
F1's tyre supplier has been chosen owing to its willingness to pay large amounts of money and bend to Ecclestone's demands rather than its product satisfying teams and drivers.
Those tyres have had a questionable effect on the racing, guaranteeing pit stops and differentiations of pace while preventing drivers from pushing to the maximum as they have in the past.
After six years, this has finally been recognised as a problem and there is a new tyre design for 2017. Again, though, it remains to be seen whether it works.
Addressing the issues Liberty bosses will find in their in-tray will not be easy.
That said, the group only wants to buy F1 because of the level Ecclestone has taken it to.
He started his involvement with the commercial side of the sport in the early 1970s, when he owned the Brabham team.
The path to his current position began when he offered to look after the team's commercial relationships with key outside bodies - the circuits, governing body, and particularly negotiating the television rights, which had previously been handled on a haphazard race-by-race basis.
It's unlikely Ecclestone foresaw then the billion-dollar business F1 would become, but he certainly recognised the chance to make a lot of money, and wasted little time in building his influence.
He persuaded television companies to buy F1 as a package, rather than pay for individual races. That vastly increased exposure, and the sport's popularity grew, at first slowly then increasingly quickly.
The system endures to this day; in exchange for being granted permission to run the TV rights, he gave the teams an annual payment.
Already very rich, the sheer scale of his current wealth - he is reputed to be worth more than £2bn - arose from two key decisions made by the sport's governing body, run at the time by Ecclestone's friend and long-time associate Max Mosley.
The first, in the mid 1990s, meant Ecclestone's own company became the rights holder of F1, taking over from the teams' collective body Ecclestone previously ran.
The second, in 2000, granted Ecclestone the commercial rights to F1 until the end of 2110 for a one-off fee of $360m. Even then, many were shocked by the relatively paltry amount of money that changed hands to secure such a lucrative and lengthy deal.
Some of the teams opposed the granting of the TV rights, saying they were being robbed. But the complainants were eventually bought off, and he set about monetising his new asset with a dizzying number of deals that sold the rights through a series of companies.
One of the many financial transactions that led to F1's current ownership was the sale by German bank BayernLB of its 47.2% stake in F1 to CVC in 2006.
This ultimately led to the court cases on bribery charges that Ecclestone fought and survived a couple of years ago - and which he ended by paying the German courts $100m to end the case, without a presumption of guilt or innocence.
More than a few people marvelled at the perfectly legal arrangement that allowed a man charged with bribery to pay to end a criminal trial.
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Those court cases were the biggest threat to Ecclestone's position, but have not been the only ones - some arising from the ill-advised public comments he occasionally makes.
He has referred to women as "domestic appliances", praised Adolf Hitler for "being able to get things done", and suggested it would be a good idea if Vladimir Putin ran Europe. That he wasn't sacked for any one of those remarks is a reflection of his ability to make money for his employers.
However in recent years CVC has hinted at less tolerance while his ability to run the sport unchecked has diminished as the manufacturers have worked together to ensure he cannot run amok.
Ferrari, Mercedes, Renault and Honda joining forces in 2014 to prevent him dumping the expensive but revolutionary turbo hybrid engines is one example.
Despite his flaws, he remains a skilled deal maker and if the Liberty deal is to prove the development that finally sees Ecclestone off, replacing him will not be easy.
The likelihood is a more corporate structure will be adopted, with a chairman and bosses of the various arms of the company working together to do what one man has run largely singlehandedly for the last few decades.
When Ecclestone does ultimately leave, F1 will clearly evolve.
A US-based media group is likely to want F1 to have more of a foothold in America than just one race in Texas, a move that will compromise Ecclestone's preferred modus operandi of simply finding someone rich enough to put up the money for a race.
A more equitable distribution of revenue to the teams would increase F1's stability, and a US-style franchise system guaranteeing their position would take that a step further.
The possibilities of the internet and social media to grow the audience will surely be pursued with much more vigour too.
Whenever he finally goes, one thing is certain - F1 would not be what it is today without the efforts of this remarkable man. | The end of Bernie Ecclestone's stewardship of Formula 1 has appeared close on a number of occasions over the last few years, so it is with a degree of caution that one discusses the latest episode that may seem to signal it again. | 37284386 |
The civil case brought by Judy Huth accuses Mr Cosby of sexually assaulting her as a 15-year-old at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in the 1970s.
The 78-year-old is facing a series of sexual assault accusations dating back decades.
He has always maintained his innocence and has never been criminally charged.
Ms Huth alleges that Mr Cosby plied her with alcohol before sexually assaulting her.
The decision by the court means that Ms Huth's lawyers will be able to question Mr Cosby under oath.
Her lawyer, Gloria Allred, described it as a "major victory" and says she intends to take a sworn deposition from the comedian within the next month.
Earlier in the week, the LA police department confirmed that it was investigating "certain complaints against him".
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It has already emerged from a previous lawsuit that Mr Cosby admitted giving a woman drugs before sex.
Court documents relating to the case brought in 2005 Andrea Constand - an employee at Temple University in the 1970s - were published earlier this month, after the Associated Press news agency applied to a judge to have the sealed papers made public.
They revealed Mr Cosby had admitted obtaining Quaaludes from several doctors to give to women before sexual encounters, but did not take them himself.
Mr Cosby is now suing Ms Constand for breaching a confidentially agreement after the New York Times obtained a full copy of the deposition.
Dozens of women have accused the comedian of sexually assaulting them but most of the claims are barred by statutes of limitations. They restrict the length of time in which legal actions can be taken after an alleged crime has been committed.
The accusations, which Mr Cosby has described as "fantastical" and "uncorroborated", have led to some of his stand-up shows being called off and the cancellation of some TV projects.
2002: Lachele Covington, a 20-year-old actress, reportedly files a police report saying she had been inappropriately touched. No further action was taken.
2005: Andrea Constand sues Mr Cosby for sexual assault. The case is eventually settled out of court in 2006.
2014: Over the year, dozens of women make public accusations that Mr Cosby sexually assaulted them. Live shows are cancelled across the country amid protests
November 2014: TV network NBC scraps plans for a new show with the comedian following allegations by TV presenter Janice Dickinson that he had assaulted her in 1982. Repeats of the Cosby Show are also pulled from cable TV
December 2014: Judy Huth sues Mr Cosby for molesting her in 1974 when she was 15 years old. Mr Cosby counter-sues, claiming she is trying to extort money from him
May 2015: Mr Cosby speaks publicly about the allegations for the first time. "I can't speak; I just don't want to argue; I don't talk about it," he told ABC News. | A sexual abuse case against the comedian Bill Cosby will continue after the California Supreme Court rejected his petition to review the case. | 33632330 |
The star told fans she was leaving to get on with "next chapter" of her life.
Rumours of her departure began after pictures of her on a group holiday in Georgia were shared on social media by the show's crew, with the hashtag #ninawewillmissyou.
"I want to be the first to tell you that it wasn't just a holiday celebration, it was a goodbye party," she wrote on Instagram.
Dobrev plays Elena Gilbert, a girl who becomes involved with two vampires - Stefan Salvatore and his brother Damon.
"I always knew I wanted Elena's story to be a six season adventure, and within those six years I got the journey of a lifetime.
"I was a human, a vampire, a doppelganger, a crazy immortal, a doppelganger pretending to be human, a human pretending to be a doppelganger.
"I got kidnapped, killed, resurrected, tortured, cursed, body-snatched, was dead and undead, and there's still so much more to come before the season finale in May.
"Elena fell in love not once, but twice, with two epic soulmates, and I myself made some of the best friends I'll ever know and built an extended family I will love forever."
Series seven of the show has been confirmed and will go ahead without Nina - although many fans are confused as to how the show can go on without her character Elena.
In a statement on The Hollywood Reporter, the show's executive producer Julie Plec, who is pictured in many of Nina's holiday photos, described how it was "bittersweet and beautiful" to say goodbye.
"After six-plus years together, the entire cast and crew of The Vampire Diaries has reached a level of closeness that I don't think any of us ever expected," she said.
"Nina is excited to spread her wings, get some rest, travel the world and also take it by storm, and we support her a thousand-fold.
"We will miss Nina and the 400 characters she played, but we look forward to the insane and exciting challenge of continuing to tell stories of our Salvatore Brothers and our much-loved and gifted ensemble."
She also commented on another star, Michael Trevino, who is set to leave the show as well.
"Michael has been a beloved member of the Vampire Diaries family since Day 1," she said.
"Even though he's also going to be out in the world exploring new opportunities, we look forward to finding creative ways to make sure he and his character Tyler Lockwood always remain a part of the show."
In her Instagram post, Nina told fans there was "more to come" before the season finale.
"Until then I invite you to hop on the roller coaster ride that is Elena Gilbert's life and join me as I celebrate her and prepare to say goodbye to her - and to my work family - as I move on to the next chapter of my life.
"I want to share this goodbye with all of you (this weekend's pictures were just the beginning).
"You, the wonderful fandom who gave more love, support and passion than anyone could have ever imagined seven years ago, when a young Degrassi girl from Canada showed up in LA to audition for 'that Twilight TV show'.
"I love you all. Fasten your seatbelts. If you think you know what's coming, you don't."
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Nina Dobrev is quitting The Vampire Diaries after six series. | 32200317 |
Lord King told BBC Newsnight that while questions had been raised over which currency an independent Scotland would use, he did not see "major problems".
But he said it could be a challenge to borrow on the international markets.
On Brexit, he said his "biggest worry" was "obsessed" politicians ignoring the trade deficit and NHS funding.
Theresa May has said it is not the time for a Scottish independence referendum.
But Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she remained "determined" to have an independence referendum on her timescale.
Lord King, who headed the Bank of England between 2003 and 2013, said there are plenty of small countries the same size as Scotland, and it "certainly" could be independent.
"It has... the people, it has a capital city, a history and culture, it could be an independent country. The question is, does it want to be given the consequences of it?" he said.
"And if the oil price remains low and if they lose the money which is transferred from the rest of the UK to Scotland, then they would have to make that up in their own budget, but that's a consequence of deciding to be financially independent, you end up paying for yourself.
"And it would be a challenge to borrow on the international market if Scotland decided to run a large budget deficit. I think that would be expensive, the interest rate would go up."
Ahead of the 2014 referendum, ratings agency Fitch warned that plans for an independent Scotland to continue use of the pound without shared fiscal and banking union with the UK could risk "high volatility and market turbulence".
Lord King said: "I myself don't think there are any major problems in terms of currency, that was the thing project fear focussed on last time, but there is an issue about public finances."
He also said he had concerns about a range of issues facing the UK in future.
"My biggest worry about economic policy in the next few years is that all the politicians seem obsessed with Brexit.
"And actually, the biggest problems we face now are not Brexit, it's about how we can reduce the trade deficit, how we're going to save enough as a nation to pay for our pensions... how we're going to save enough to pay for care for the elderly... how we are going to finance the NHS."
He added that if politicians only focused on Brexit over the next two or three years, "then those big questions will not receive the attention which they deserve".
On the implications for Northern Ireland's border with the Republic of Ireland post-Brexit, Lord King said it was in "everyone's interests to have an imaginative discussion about where we should go".
He said there may be a "way of shifting the tax and tariff border, from the land frontier to the sea frontier while not disturbing the political arrangements".
And he added: "There's no reason why the rate of corporation tax in Northern Ireland has to be the same as in the rest of the UK, once we have the freedom to do that."
You can watch Evan Davis's full interview with Lord Mervyn King here | Scotland "could be an independent country" but would risk a hit to its public finances, the ex-governor of the Bank of England has said. | 39330702 |
The firm has an automated warehouse in Andover, Hampshire, where robots select crates containing specific items that make up customer orders.
They are currently brought over to a human team for selection but, in future, the hand could replace them.
Also in development is a humanoid maintenance robot called SecondHands.
It will work alongside a human colleague to maintain the warehouse.
The fruit and vegetable picker is part of a five-year research EU-funded collaboration between five European universities and Disney called Soma (Soft Manipulation), said Ocado spokesman Alexandru Voica.
The demonstration device is an early prototype, he said.
"People have tried suction cups, robot hands with three fingers... What we are trying to do is to actually mimic the human hand.
"The gripper is based on air pressure, which controls the movement of the robotic fingers.
"What we are trying to do is combine computer vision - being able to recognise products by looking at them - with the control aspect which is the gripping aspect."
At the moment, only the gripper is being demonstrated but ultimately the robot will learn to distinguish fruit ripeness through machine learning.
It will also be able to pick other items which require different care - such as wine bottles and detergent.
"Fruit and vegetables are the hardest to pick," said Mr Voica.
"When the customer gets their bag of bananas or tomatoes, if they see the product is damaged they don't care whether it's a human or a robot that's picked it."
Prof Chris Melhuish, director of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, said that building robotic devices - or manipulators - to carry out multiple tasks is difficult.
"A general purpose manipulator is a really tough thing to build, and certainly understanding and exploiting the way the human hand functions, because it is so flexible and adaptive, makes a lot of sense," he told the BBC.
"There are lots of groups that are looking at robotic manipulation but often it is for a specific purpose - picking up a concrete block is not the same as doing artificial suturing for example - so the tendency has been to build different types of manipulators for different domains." | Online grocer Ocado has shown off a soft robotic hand that can pick fruit and vegetables, without damaging them, in its warehouses. | 38808925 |
An internet watchdog based in Canada, Citizen Lab, said the surveillance software is only sold to governments.
Last week, Citizen Lab also said that 12 journalists and human rights lawyers had been targeted.
At the time, the Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto, described accusations that the government was involved as false.
Mr Peña Nieto said surveillance software was only used for matters of national security and for fighting organised crime.
He added that he had ordered an investigation by the attorney general's office.
Citizen Lab said the head of the Conservative National Action Party (PAN), Ricardo Anaya, a PAN Senator, Roberto Gil Zuarth, and the party's communications secretary, Fernando Rodriguez, were targeted.
"There is strong circumstantial evidence implicating the government of Mexico", the watchdog said.
The software, known as Pegasus, was sold to Mexican federal agencies by the Israeli company NSO Group on the condition that it only be used to investigate criminals and terrorists.
It is usually sent in a text message to a smartphone.
If the person taps on it, the spyware is installed, and huge amounts of private data - text messages, photos, emails, location data, even what is being picked up by the device's microphone and camera - are hacked. | Three senior opposition politicians in Mexico have been targeted by spyware on their mobile phones, researchers say. | 40452469 |
The Cornwall Council vote is a major step forward in the bid to finance the stadium on the outskirts of Truro.
The Cornish Pirates rugby club, Inox Group, Truro and Penwith College and Henry Boot Developments were behind the plans for the multi-use stadium.
In an eight-hour debate, members also approved plans for a new football stadium on a separate site nearby.
The stadium is expected to cost £10m, with £2m promised by Truro and Penwith College and the other £8m from a deal still to be done with a supermarket.
March 2011 Cornwall Council agrees to fund stadium business plan
November 2011 Outline planning permission granted
May 2012 Councillors vote against public funding for stadium
January 2014 Developers say supermarket would fund stadium
March 2015 Council defers planning decision on supermarket
July 2015 Prime Minister David Cameron says he 'wants to see the stadium happen'
Ian Connell, Cornish Pirates chairman, said he was "absolutely delighted" at the "excellent news".
He said: "It will be a tremendous boost for our players, for our supporters and for the public throughout Cornwall."
Rob Saltmarsh, of developers Inox Group, said councillors had realised the "significant community benefit" of the stadium.
Mr Saltmarsh said he hoped the government would "stand by their word" following a pledge by David Cameron ahead of May's general election to support the stadium.
He said: "We can now look to meet with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and ask them if there is any money available."
Mr Saltmarsh said extra government money could be used to expand the scope of the stadium and possibly increase its size to 10,000 seats.
Plans to build a retail development on the Treyew Road site of Truro City Football Club were also approved.
Money from that project is expected to be used to fund a new ground for the football club at Silver Bow, which was also granted planning consent. | A new supermarket expected to fund a 6,000-seat sports stadium for Cornwall has been given planning consent. | 33707794 |
She warned of a "dangerous situation" as politicians opened a "can of worms" over immigration.
As her party conference began, Ms Wood claimed the Tories were developing "an ugly, divisive, nationalistic politics" and called for tolerance.
The Welsh Conservatives said she was "hypocritical" to make such comments as the leader of a nationalist party.
Ms Wood claimed there was an increase in hate crime, as well as anti-immigration and anti-refugee sentiment in some UK newspapers, especially since the referendum vote to leave the European Union.
"More and more we hear racist language becoming the norm," she said.
"I fear we've ended up in this situation because of irresponsible politicians trying to use rhetoric against immigration in order to make political points, for example for Brexit.
"But we've opened a can of worms now and we are potentially in quite a dangerous situation."
Ms Wood said people had an "opportunity" to change the tone of the debate, saying: "I want people in Wales to reclaim politics.
"We saw from the Tory party conference, the language, the attempts to try to take UKIP's base back is developing an ugly, divisive, nationalistic politics.
"We can be much more positive, much more global in our thinking and more tolerant than politics has been in the recent past".
A spokesman for the Welsh Conservatives rejected the criticism and claimed they were an "inclusive" party.
"Leanne Wood should think twice before bandying around words like 'divisive' and 'nationalistic' when describing other parties," he said.
"After all, let's not forget that she herself presides over a nationalist party whose ultimate aim is to separate Wales from the United Kingdom."
Ms Wood is due to speak at the Plaid Cymru conference in Llangollen on Saturday.
On Friday, Ynys Mon AM Rhun ap Iorwerth told the conference that "hard Brexiters" mustn't be allowed to "have the last laugh" on Wales' future by taking the UK out of the European single market.
"Yes, Wales voted to leave," he said.
"But I don't think Wales wants to take leave of its senses when it comes to our economic future."
Earlier, the conference observed a minute's silence to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster. | Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood has urged Wales to "reclaim politics", claiming racist language is becoming the norm. | 37718406 |
Seven out of the 43 blocks of flats due to make way in phase one of the 300-home development at Hendrefoilan site will remain standing temporarily.
The site was sold in 2013 and the university's new £450m Bay campus will house the students.
Another part of the student village will stay open until summer 2018.
Permission has been granted for demolition to take place and an application has been submitted to Swansea council for the first 43 two and three-storey homes to be built. | Bats have caused the delay to demolish some flats at Swansea University's student village which are due to make way for housing. | 35917441 |
The European Court of Justice has ruled that AB InBev cannot have exclusive European rights to the Budweiser name.
The ruling comes 14 years after its initial application to register the name as an EU trademark was blocked by Czech brewer Budejovicky Budvar.
Budvar also uses the Budweiser name in several European markets.
The ruling, which agreed with an earlier decision by the European General Court, means that Budvar retains exclusive rights to the Budweiser name in Germany.
Most other European countries, including the UK, allow both companies to use the name.
Anheuser Busch, which was bought by InBev in 2008, first began producing their Budweiser in 1875 in the US, while Budvar's use of the brand dates back to 1895. | Global brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev has suffered a defeat in a long-running battle over the rights to the Budweiser beer brand. | 10809473 |
Watts, 26, was sent off in his side's defeat by Castleford Tigers on Sunday.
He pleaded not guilty to a Grade B high tackle charge and appealed after the original RFL panel ruled against him.
Meanwhile, Salford Red Devils winger Justin Carney, who faces a Grade F charge for verbal abuse based on race or colour, has had his case adjourned at the club's request.
However, the Devils have agreed that Carney will not play until his case is heard. | Hull FC prop Liam Watts has had his ban reduced from two games to one by the Rugby Football League. | 39713250 |
Early tries from Ronan O'Mahony and David Kilcoyne looked to have seen off the Italian challenge.
But Treviso got back in it thanks to a drive-over try from Marco Lazzaroni just before half-time.
Conor Murray strolled through to score in the second half, and O'Mahony crossed to seal Munster's bonus point.
Stade Francais' victory over table-toppers Leicester ensured Munster finished third with Treviso propping up Pool Four.
It took only five minutes for Munster to break the Treviso resistance as winger O'Mahony powered through the defensive line to break clear and score.
Ian Keatley converted for an early 7-0 advantage, and the Irish province were able to build on their lead 12 minutes later.
Scrum-half Murray took a quick tap penalty from deep inside Treviso territory and found prop Kilcoyne, who barged over to score a second converted try.
The Treviso pack began to flex their muscles and they got their reward on 37 minutes.
Munster flanker Billy Holland went offside at a promising Treviso rolling maul and was sent to the sin-bin, with the hosts making their man advantage count as they shunted the resulting line-out over the line for Lazzaroni to score.
Murray got Munster's third try after 50 minutes, the scrum-half scoring following a line-out on the 22-metre line.
The bonus point came in the 66th minute thanks to a fantastic break from replacement Jack O'Donoghue.
The centre cut through in his own half and raced downfield before feeding O'Mahony, who crashed over at the corner to claim his second try of the match.
Treviso: Hayward, Pratichetti, Bacchin, Sgarbi, Ragusi, Ambrosini, Lucchese, Zanusso, Gega, Ferrari, Fuser, Montauriol, Lazzaroni, Zanni, Steyn.
Replacements: Christie for Bacchin (63), McLean for Ambrosini (67), Giazzon for Gega (48), Manu for Ferrari (48), Palmer for Montauriol (48), Barbini for Lazzaroni (63).
Not used: De Marchi, Iannone.
Munster: Zebo, Earls, Saili, R. Scannell, R. O'Mahony, Keatley, Murray, Kilcoyne, Sherry, J. Ryan, Foley, D. Ryan, B. Holland, O'Donnell, Stander.
Replacements: van den Heever for R. Scannell (68), O'Leary for Murray (73), Cronin for Kilcoyne (48), N. Scannell for Sherry (63), Chisholm for Foley (68), Copeland for B. Holland (63), O'Donoghue for Stander (54).
Not used: Sagario.
Sin bin: B. Holland (36).
Ref: Alex Ruiz (France). | Munster, already out of quarter-final contention, finished their European Champions Cup campaign with a bonus-point triumph away to Treviso. | 35382389 |
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Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown finishes a touchdown in style with a somersault in their 30-9 win over Cleveland Browns.
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Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Martavis Bryant avoids three tackles to score a touchdown while Dallas quarterback Matt Cassel has an up-and-down week in week nine.
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Watch Odell Beckham Jr's Michael Jackson-style celebration after scoring for the New York Giants against the New Orleans Saints, and the best plays from week eight.
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The Oakland Raiders' Amari Cooper and the Miami Dolphins' Jarvis Landry are on scintillating form, scoring touchdowns in our pick of the NFL's best plays from Week 7.
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Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Steve Smith Snr's amazing touchdown catch is among the highlights, as is New England Patriots linebacker Jamie Collins' athletic block.
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Larry Donnell's stunning fingertip catch to earn the New York Giants victory is among the highlights, as is Jay Cutler's superb touchdown pass for the Chicago Bears.
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Drew Brees throws his 400th touchdown pass in the most dramatic of circumstances and Eric Decker makes a one-handed catch at Wembley.
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The Cincinnati Bengals' AJ Green and the Baltimore Ravens' Steve Smith Sr both prove difficult to take down. Adrian Peterson looks to be back to his best while there is some punt-return trickery from Richard Sherman and the Seattle Seahawks.
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Wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr uses his searing pace to break clear and score a touchdown for the New York Giants, while the Philadelphia Eagles' running back DeMarco Murray also features as he hurdles over a Cowboys defender in some style.
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Wide receivers Jarvis Landry and Tavon Austin feature alongside a marvellous one-handed catch from the Cleveland Browns' Brian Hartline and quarterback Johnny Manziel's first touchdown throw for Cleveland. | NFL is back on the BBC - and you can watch the top plays here every week. | 34243073 |
Allan Dell and Zander Fagerson have only nine Scotland caps between them, but Humphreys has no concerns about them taking on a "huge" French pack.
"They understand what we're trying to do and their responsibility - we're delighted with them," Humphreys said.
"We have to be prepared for what is a massive battle in that area."
Dell and Fagerson are the frontline props following injuries to the established duo of Alasdair Dickinson and WP Nel.
The Scottish scrum was in trouble in the early stages of the Six Nations opener against Ireland on Saturday. They were penalised at the first two scrums but Humphreys was impressed by how they stabilised that area as the Scots went on to secure a 27-22 victory.
"We understood that Ireland would be a threat in that department," he said.
"The stuff we had planned we probably didn't execute at the start of the game as we would have liked. We had consecutive scrums where we got our process wrong. What was really pleasing was that the boys solved the problem.
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"We know that it's a huge work in progress for us. We've got fantastic athletes in that front row who are learning but they give us so much more as a team.
"There are going to be more scrums this weekend [than the six against Ireland]. The pitch the last time we played out there [in Paris] wasn't great but the weather forecast is good so hopefully it will suit our game."
Hooker Ross Ford was called into the action as an early replacement against Ireland after an injury to Fraser Brown.
If he features in Paris it will be cap number 104 for the Edinburgh man, and he believes this team is well equipped to register a first Scotland win in France since 1999.
"Before the Ireland game nobody gave us much of a look-in but as a group we have confidence in our ability," Ford explained.
"We have got that little bit of momentum going into this game. If you look at the past two times we've been across there we've been in the game.
"I think we've developed in the last 18 months and if we find ourselves in that situation again hopefully with the lessons we've learned we can now close games out." | Scotland's inexperienced props will be able to handle the power of the French scrum this weekend, according to forwards coach Jonathan Humphreys. | 38894758 |
The Eagle will be shown in Achiltibuie in the Screen Machine, a mobile cinema.
Universal Pictures have paid for the screenings of the feature which is set in Roman-era Britain and directed by Scotsman Kevin Macdonald.
Scenes were shot around Achiltibuie and Old Dornie, near Ullapool. Locals also had roles as extras.
Ron Inglis, of the Screen Machine, said the cinema would be making its first visit to Achiltibuie when it sets up in the community on Thursday.
Two evening showings were fully booked and an extra screening would be available on a first come, first served basis at 1400 GMT.
On UK release from 25 March, the film follows a young Roman's attempt to honour his father's memory by finding the standard of his lost legion.
It stars Donald Sutherland, Channing Tatum, Mark Strong and Jamie Bell and is an adaption of a book by Rosemary Sutcliff. | People living in the north west Highlands have been offered the chance to see a new film before its UK release as a "thank you" from its makers. | 12679545 |
The damages, agreed 13 days after the broadcast, total £185,000 plus costs.
"The settlement is comprehensive and reflects the gravity of the allegations that were wrongly made," the corporation said in a statement.
The Tory peer had said it was "terrifying" to find himself "a figure of public hatred".
Lord McAlpine said: "I am delighted to have reached a quick and early settlement with the BBC. I have been conscious that any settlement will be paid by the licence fee-payers, and have taken that into account in reaching agreement with the BBC.
"We will now be continuing to seek settlements from other organisations that have published defamatory remarks and individuals who have used Twitter to defame me."
The terms of the agreement will be announced in court in a few days' time, according to RMPI LLP, solicitors for Lord McAlpine.
Newsnight broadcast a report on child abuse in north Wales care homes earlier this month. Lord McAlpine's name was not broadcast, but he was wrongly identified on the internet.
BBC home editor Mark Easton says the BBC will apologise to Lord McAlpine in court - but Lord McAlpine will also give a statement, in what our correspondent describes as an unusual step.
Lord McAlpine will say in his statement that he still holds the BBC in very high esteem, our correspondent adds.
The BBC has previously apologised for the broadcast, and investigations are being held into the programme, including by the BBC and media watchdog Ofcom.
Lord McAlpine said "there is nothing as bad as this that you can do to people" as accusing them of being a paedophile.
"They are quite rightly figures of public hatred - and suddenly to find yourself a figure of public hatred, unjustifiably, is terrifying," he added.
Conservative MP Rob Wilson said the settlement will "incense" licence fee payers because "they are paying for a self-inflicted wound".
He said: "This is a very expensive lesson for the BBC that it must maintain the highest standards of journalism and fairness at all times.
"The settlement is also expensive and particularly hard on the licence fee payer... unfortunately, a protracted court case may well have cost a great deal more."
Lord McAlpine's solicitor Andrew Reid had earlier said that Lord McAlpine was "more than aware that the ultimate people who will paying for any monies that he may receive are in fact the licence payers, the people who really own the BBC, and he is very much aware of this and hence any agreement that is reached is tempered in the light of that."
The Newsnight report led to director general George Entwistle quitting at the weekend. Acting director general Tim Davie has said he hoped to personally apologise to Lord McAlpine.
Mr Reid has also earlier urged those who had named Lord McAlpine on social media site Twitter to come forward.
He said Sally Bercow, wife of Commons Speaker John Bercow, had not yet been in touch to apologise for her tweets.
She tweeted on Thursday that she maintained her tweet was not libellous, "just foolish".
Mr Reid confirmed several prominent people had already apologised.
Ofcom is also investigating ITV's This Morning. It received complaints after presenter Philip Schofield handed the prime minister a list of alleged paedophiles during a live broadcast.
ITV director of television Peter Fincham said Schofield will remain on air, and that he "realises his mistake and lapse in ITV journalism".
Mr Fincham confirmed that he had received a letter from Lord McAlpine's legal team and would be responding to it "very quickly". | The BBC has settled with Lord McAlpine over his libel claim about a Newsnight broadcast which led to him being wrongly implicated in child abuse. | 20348978 |
In June, 17 men were sentenced for the sexual abuse of the vulnerable girl, which started when she was 12.
A serious case review found that between 2009 and 2011 opportunities were missed because there was not an "effective system" in place.
The report said services in the area had improved due to the case.
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Both West Yorkshire Police and Calderdale Council have apologised to the girl.
The Local Safeguarding Children Board's report said police and social workers were "unable to protect [her] because professionals in Calderdale did not, at that time, have an effective system for assessing and planning intervention for children at risk from sexual exploitation."
Det Supt Darren Minton praised the girl's "immense courage and bravery" in giving evidence against the men.
He said: "West Yorkshire Police accepts that opportunities were missed in the past to protect victims of child sexual exploitation, it is important to stress that child sexual exploitation is a top priority and we now have strong partnerships and better working practices with agencies." | Police and social workers failed to protect a child from systematic sexual abuse by a group of men, a report into a case in Halifax has found. | 38095989 |
Output rose by 3% in April from a year earlier, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, the fastest annual rate since January 2011.
The narrower measure of manufacturing output rose 4.4% year-on-year, the fastest pace since February 2011.
Meanwhile, economists at research group NIESR estimate that UK gross domestic product is now above pre-crisis levels.
The ONS said that both industrial output and manufacturing output increased by 0.4% during April itself.
Manufacturing output was boosted by transport equipment, electronic products, and rubber and plastics.
However, the levels of industrial output and manufacturing output were respectively 11.3% and 7.0% below the pre-downturn GDP peak of the first quarter of 2008, the ONS said.
"Robust momentum in manufacturing shows no sign of easing, with activity across the sector broadening out impressively over the past year," said Neil Prothero, deputy chief economist at manufacturers' body EEF.
"Production is now at its highest level in five years, highlighting industry's prominent role in the economic upturn, despite the subdued trend in external trade."
IHS Global Insight's chief UK and European economist, Howard Archer, said that manufacturing output had expanded month-on-month for five successive months, and that "this fuels hopes that the sector can make a sustained contribution to balanced UK growth".
In addition, a "robust gain in industrial production in April indicates that it started off the second quarter on the front foot and is well placed to make a healthy contribution to GDP growth", he said.
Separately, data published on Tuesday from the National Institute for Economic and Social Research suggests that UK GDP grew by 0.9% in the three months ending in May, after growth of 1.1% in the three months to April.
On this estimate, the level of GDP has surpassed its pre-recession peak, and is approximately 0.2% above where it was in January 2008.
NIESR forecasts GDP growth of 2.9% for this year and 2.4% in 2015, which is unchanged from its projection last month.
Last week, the IMF warned the UK government that accelerating house prices and low productivity posed the greatest threat to the UK's economic recovery, but noted that there was evidence that the economy was now rebalancing towards an "investment-led recovery". | UK industrial output grew at its fastest annual pace for three years in April, official figures have shown. | 27779000 |
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Temperatures in the area reached around minus 12 this month.
He was diving into the snow to find some food - watch this clip to see how he gets on. | Everyone's been enjoying the snow this weekend - including this little squirrel in Estonia, Eastern Europe. | 35338170 |
The petition, organised by political group Momentum Movement, may force a referendum, which Balazs Furjes says would be "too little, too late".
Los Angeles and Paris are the other bidding cities after Hamburg pulled out in 2015 followed by Rome a year later.
"This ship has sailed, it seems," Furjes told Inforadio.
"Unity has gone up in the air, and lacking that, we stand no chance against Paris or Los Angeles," Furjes added.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will elect the winner at a vote in Lima, Peru, in September 2017.
"Over a quarter-of-a-million signatures have come together so this money is spent on modern hospitals and well-equipped schools instead of on the Olympics,'' said Andras Fekete-Gyor, chairman of Momentum Movement.
Hungary is the only one of the 10 most successful medal-winning countries at the summer Olympics never to have hosted the event.
Furjes added: "The Hungarian Olympic family, the capital, Parliament, and the government have all made unified decisions.
"Now I see that cause ran aground, even though a 120-year-old Hungarian dream had a palpable chance of coming true." | Budapest stands "no chance" of hosting the 2024 Olympics, according to the bid's chief organiser after more than 260,000 signed a petition against it. | 39025693 |
The Wales forward made the announcement after spending 10 days evaluating progress at the academy he set up as a vehicle of hope in a war-torn nation.
"We had a pilot project last year for the girls and this year's league has been remarkable," the Welshman said.
"We need to start a proper girls' league and I hope to have girls in my academy in the future," he added.
The Craig Bellamy Foundation (CBF) in Tombo village, just outside Freetown, is the first and only professional football school in Sierra Leone.
It opened its doors last September and has 16 young boys who represent the first generation of players registered in the academy.
"I'm impressed with the structures and pitch at this academy," Bellamy told BBC Sport.
"The pitch is of European standard; it's exceptional and one of the best in Sierra Leone.
"Facilities for the boys are perfect but we need to have more classrooms in the future."
During his 10-day visit, Bellamy had several training sessions with the boys and was greatly impressed by what he saw.
"The boys responded well to my training but don't forget that a lot of my methods are European - that's what I do in training," he said.
"It's difficult for the boys to adapt but they're picking up things quickly.
"I understand how difficult it is to put kids in school in Sierra Leone because you have to pay fees but if they want to play football then they have to be able to go school.
"It'll be a win-win situation because the kids love football so much."
Many of the boys told BBC Sport that they enjoyed training with the Welsh star and have learnt a lot from him.
"The training we received was good. We loved it," said 12-year Samuel Tarawalley.
"He has taught us many things, including how to dribble."
Another trainee in the academy, 12-year-old Ibrahim Kamara, said: "We enjoyed the training with Bellamy.
"He has improved my skills by showing me how to score nice goals, how to dribble and how to make short and long passes." | Craig Bellamy hopes to create opportunities for girls in Sierra Leone by welcoming them into his academy. | 13927442 |
It encourages the larvae to plead more honestly according to how hungry they are and not try to outdo their siblings by pestering their mother for food.
It also helps the mother beetle to maintain a degree of control over how she feeds her squabbling offspring.
Cannibalism is also used by parents when food is in short supply.
Burying beetle larvae pester for food by touching the parent's mouths with their legs. Parent beetles then feed their young by regurgitating pre-digested flesh.
The Edinburgh University team gave mothers large foster families to find out if they were more likely to cannibalise offspring that begged most for food.
Researchers also examined whether mothers could control how food was shared between older and younger offspring.
They found when mother beetles were able to control which larvae to feed, even if younger and older larvae were pestering for food, they chose to feed older offspring.
Researchers said the findings further showed understanding about why animal parents respond to begging.
Like many other mammals and birds, burying beetles seem to favour elder offspring, the scientists said.
It could be because the older offspring are more likely to grow up larger and survive to give them grandchildren in the future.
Dr Clare Andrews, of the University of Edinburgh's school of biological sciences, said: "We already knew that larvae beg more if they have been deprived of food but we had not known whether this is because they are informing their parents how hungry they are or whether they are simply squabbling with each other to get their parents' attention.
"Our study shows that if you're a baby beetle it doesn't pay to pester your mother for food unless you're really hungry.
"Communication is crucial in helping to mediate conflicts of interests between parents and offspring."
The study, which is published in Behavioural Ecology, was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council. | Burying beetles occasionally punish young who nag for food by eating those who pester them most, according to Edinburgh University research. | 23754861 |
Simon Hamilton says the guidance will help clinicians when dealing with the most difficult cases.
Northern Ireland's abortion law differs from the rest of the UK.
Access to termination is only permitted if a woman's life is at risk or there is a permanent or serious risk to her mental or physical health.
The long-awaited guidelines are aimed at providing clarification for medical staff on when a termination is legal.
Mr Hamilton recognised that the issue was "an area of public policy where people hold differing views".
He added: "My focus is on ensuring that health professionals who have to deal with extremely difficult cases have the clarity around the law that they have been asking me for."
The lack of clarity on the issue has been a sticking point for decades, and clinicians have expressed fear that they could face prosecution for carrying out abortions, based on their interpretation of a permanent or serious risk to woman's mental or physical health.
The publication of the latest set of abortion guidelines follows years of talks between the Department of Health, the Department of Justice and senior clinicians.
It also comes after a series of legal challenges against the current law and a high-profile but unsuccessful campaign to legalise abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality.
A fatal foetal abnormality diagnosis means doctors believe an unborn child has a terminal condition and will die in the womb or shortly after birth.
The campaign was led by Northern Ireland woman Sarah Ewart, who spoke out about her own experience of travelling to Great Britain for an abortion in 2013, after doctors told her she was carrying a baby with anencephaly, that had no chance of survival.
Reacting to Thursday's development that the NI Executive had agreed that the guidelines are to be published, she said the new guidelines "may help some women, but it won't help me and other women with fatal foetal diagnoses".
Ms Ewart lobbied politicians for more than two years on the issue but in February, Northern Ireland Assembly members voted against legalising abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality.
Breedagh Hughes of the Royal College of Midwives said she hopes that the guidance provides clarity for medical professionals.
"They need a very clear exposition of what the law is and what the law says is legal," said Ms Hughes.
"They need to know the legal context within which they are working.
"Until the legislation is changed, midwives and medics are working with the legislation that stands and that is the legislation that must be outlined in the guidelines."
Ms Hughes said a major concern for medical professionals is the rise in the numbers of women accessing abortion pills on the internet.
Politicians also agreed on Thursday that the working group on abortion set up by Mr Hamilton will now include the Department of Justice.
Mr Hamilton was asked to set up the working group last month by First Minister and Democratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster.
On Friday, the minister indicated progress on the creation of the working group, saying he and Justice Minister David Ford both agree that "it should engage with healthcare professionals and those people directly affected by fatal foetal abnormality, and take account of recent consultation on the question of legislative change, as it goes about its important work". | The health minister says the newly agreed guidance on abortion should bring some clarity to health professionals. | 35898576 |
But this is not 2012, and this is not the Brownlee brothers. A couple of miles down the road from where Alistair and Jonny now live (in separate houses), history is repeating in a friendship that has become almost familial in its closeness.
In one bedroom, 2013 world champion Non Stanford. In the other, 2014 Commonwealth medallist Vicky Holland.
And that is almost all that comes between them. This is not just a story of cooking duties shared, the same swim sessions or mutual running and biking routes. The two have reached the ultimate relationship benchmark: finishing each other's sentences.
Take, for example, the topic of working together in races, and the habit of their male counterparts of shouting and swearing at those saving energy in others' slipstreams.
Stanford: "I'll get frustrated with people who aren't working, but I'm not as vocal as the boys. I don't think the best way to encourage someone is to be nasty to them..."
Holland: "…especially in the girls' race."
Stanford: "It's more, 'That's awesome, keep coming through.'"
Holland: "It's knowing how to coax those girls into something, rather than forcing them..."
Stanford: "…whereas with men you can peer-pressure them by calling them names..."
Holland: "…whereas that doesn't work with girls."
Stanford: "You have to think of the best way to get the whole group to work together."
Olympic years bring both spectacular sporting opportunity and unparalleled pressures. In 2012 the contrasting fitness and character of the Brownlees put a recurring strain on the brothers' relationship.
Alistair, relaxed and laissez-faire, could inadvertently wind up Jonny by getting up for early-morning swim training at the last possible minute. Jonny could annoy Alistair by sitting in their shared car with the engine running while he waited.
Stanford and Holland, both automatic selections for Rio, are different in that they are more alike.
One may hail from Swansea, the other from Gloucester. Holland is three years older. As triathletes, preparing to race this weekend in Cape Town, they both dovetail and drive each other on.
Holland: "We're not anywhere near as polar as the boys. I think if you're early you're wasting time. You should just be on time."
Stanford: "I've rolled with it, and I've got more like Vicky. I'm a couple of minutes early."
Holland: "I've made her worse."
Stanford: "It doesn't stress me out."
Holland: (mock fury): "'WHERE ARE YOU?'"
So far at least, all advantages. In training, each has a benchmark. "It keeps us both honest," says Vicky, "because if you want to back it off and go a couple of seconds easier, they're not going to. They're not giving an inch, so why should you?" In the frantic moments before races each is an ally to the other.
But what about in races themselves, when pressure can rewire the most resolute of personalities? Who takes control? Who decides the tactics?
It is a new challenge for an old friendship. In 2012 Holland's Olympic focus limited her World Series racing. In 2013, the year Stanford was crowned world champion in Hyde Park, Holland was off the pace. In 2014 Stanford was injured. In 2015, as both sought to qualify for Rio, strategies naturally meshed.
Holland: "In Chicago we went out with the same aim: getting on the podium. To do that we had to get out hard on the run, and get all the other contenders gone within the first kilometre. And instantly Non went to the front. And I just tucked in behind."
Stanford: "I was quite happy to lead it…"
Holland: "…and I was quite happy thinking, 'Non's dragging this out…'"
Stanford: "It's never been a verbal collaboration. It's instinctive. We both know each other, and it just happens."
But what if it no longer suited one of them to collaborate? What if, in Rio, the two are together with 4km of the run to go, and there is one medal between them?
Friends for life. Elite athletes when it counts.
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Stanford: "If it came down to it in a race, we'd just be racing."
Holland: "That's it. We've always said that the advantage we have going into races is that we know each other so well. We are our own little team; we know everything about each other, and we know we'll help each other.
"But we also know when it comes to the run, it's a race. And then it's about who gets to the line first, not, 'I'm going to run this pace because it will be better for Non'. We're absolutely racing other."
Could one deliberately throw in a tactic - say, a sudden injection of pace - that you know would hurt the other?
Stanford: "Oh, well that's racing."
Holland: "Absolutely fair game. The ideal scenario at the Olympics is that we come off the bikes and we're running away for gold and silver. But if at that stage one of us wants to put a surge in because they know it will hurt the other, or try to drag it out from 3km to go, that's fine. That's racing."
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Stanford: "We would never jeopardise each other. I would never try to not hand her water."
Holland: "No dirty tactics. Just race tactics."
You might wonder how a friendship could survive such stresses. Can a shared love of Friends repeats and Don't Tell the Bride really compensate for the fear of coming second not just to the world but to someone in your own house? The answer, as always, is a united one.
Stanford: "You train three or four times a day. If you are obsessing over every detail of every session, you would just have anxiety all the time."
Holland: "It's never been an issue."
Stanford: "In London last year I had an absolute shocker. But I don't remember thinking, 'oh no', Vicky was fifth. It was more, 'Well, at least she had a good race.'"
Holland: "Even after training we don't harbour anything. All we're thinking about as we walk back into the house is, 'when's the food coming? Who's cooking?'"
World Triathlon Series: BBC coverage, calendar and reports | It's a familiar tale: two of the world's best triathletes, living together in the same small house just north of Leeds, training together three times a day, going into an Olympics as both the closest of allies and the biggest of rivals. | 36029372 |
The National Audit Office said £300m a year would eventually be saved but other impacts of changes were unknown.
It also said the number of family court cases about child contact where neither parent had a lawyer rose by 89% in 2013/14 in England and Wales.
The government said cuts were essential and it was not an "easy process".
Since April 2013, a range of civil cases - including most family, debt, housing, employment and social welfare cases - have not qualified for legal aid.
Of family court cases starting in 2013/14 involving contact with children, there were 17,268 in which neither party had a lawyer - up from 9,158 in 2012/13.
Overall, there were 79,747 family court cases where neither party was represented - up 30% from the previous year.
The NAO said the government was "on track to meet its main objective of significantly reducing in a short timeframe spending on civil legal aid", with estimated savings of £300m a year "in the long term".
But it said it was "less clear" whether it had met other objectives of reducing "unnecessary litigation" and targeting legal aid at those who need it most.
It said the Ministry of Justice "did not think through early enough" the full impact of its changes and "does not know whether people who are eligible for legal aid are able to get it".
Analysis
by Clive Coleman, BBC legal affairs correspondent
The government wanted to cut the annual legal aid budget of £2.1 billion by £350 million and is well on its way to achieving that.
Some will consider that a good deal for the taxpayer - as the additional cost of the reforms is a modest £3.4 million a year. But the real cost is a sharp rise in those with little choice but to represent themselves.
That is especially acute in family cases involving divorce and couples trying to sort out living arrangements for their children.
At a traumatic time for families, the lack of independent legal advice and representation can aggravate an already heated situation.
The government hoped mediation - less expensive and less confrontational than court - would be a panacea in many cases.
So it is especially worrying that there has been a dramatic fall in the number of couples choosing to take that step.
The NAO report also noted a 38% fall in the number of mediation cases starting in 2013-14 compared with 2012-13 - a fall of 5,177 cases - despite the government saying legal aid cuts would "divert" people from courts to mediators.
It estimated that people appearing in court unrepresented would cost the taxpayer an extra £3.4 million a year for reasons including the fact they "tend to lack the knowledge and skills required to conduct their case efficiently".
"There may also be costs to the wider public sector if people whose problems could have been resolved by legal aid-funded advice suffer adverse consequences to their health and wellbeing as a result of no longer having access to legal aid," the report added.
Margaret Hodge MP, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, said the increased number of child cases where both parents were unrepresented was "concerning".
"The ministry is out of touch with reality and has shown no understanding of the wider cost of its reforms," she said.
Labour's shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said the government had "completely failed on legal aid".
"This damning report by the NAO completely exposes David Cameron's reckless assault on access to justice for what it really is: bad value for money and leaving hundreds of thousands without proper legal advice," he said.
But an MoJ spokesman said the legal aid system previously cost £2bn a year and the government had "no choice but to find significant savings" at a time of financial crisis.
"This was never going to be an easy process, but we have made the necessary reductions whilst ensuring legal aid remains available where people most need legal help," he said.
Family courts handle a range of cases including divorce, adoption and parental disputes over children. | The government did not "think through" its legal aid cuts early enough and "does not know" whether people in need of aid are getting it, a report says. | 30118086 |
He received the email after he wished Speaker John Bercow a "happy 'Kiss a Ginger' day" last week.
Mr Bryant said later he wanted to "put an end" to the "tough time" many red-haired children experience in school.
The email, seen by BBC Wales, contains threatening, racist and homophobic language.
The Labour politician has previously called for more protection for MPs, following threats over the 2015 vote for air strikes in Syria, and the murder of MP Jo Cox in 2016.
"I think of myself as ginger and proud to be so," Mr Bryant said.
"I want to stop the bullying that goes on in many schools.
"I think the best way to do that is that we are 'out and proud' as gingers."
The MP said he "wanted to celebrate the fact it was international 'Kiss a Ginger' day" which he said was "not a derogatory term at all".
"Some of the responses I've had have been brilliant but I've had one very, very nasty death threat which the police are dealing with," he said.
A South Wales Police spokeswoman confirmed the force had received a complaint and investigations were ongoing. | Police are investigating a death threat sent to Rhondda MP Chris Bryant, following a remark he made in the House of Commons. | 38650463 |
The Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry is examining allegations of abuse at Rubane House, Kircubbin.
The inquiry estimates that 200 of Rubane's 1,050 former residents have made allegations of serious sexual or physical abuse.
A total of 13 Northern Ireland institutions are being investigated.
The Kircubbin home was run by the De La Salle religious order, which has already accepted some children were abused.
A lawyer acting for the inquiry said more than 200 children had claimed they were abused at Rubane House, which was open from 1950 to 1985.
A total of 55 former residents have come forward to the inquiry to allege that they were physically or sexually abused.
Their public testimony will begin next week.
Other documentation, including police reports, suggest that a further 150 boys also made allegations of abuse in the past, but have not contacted the inquiry.
The sex abuse allegations ranged from watching children in the shower to rape, while physical abuse ranged from corporal punishment to serious assault.
The inquiry has heard that the paedophile priest, Fr Brendan Smyth, was among the offenders.
Some children also alleged that they were sexually abused by older boys in the home.
The lawyer added that in 1997, a senior police officer, Det Ch Supt Eric Anderson described the sexual abuse of children at Rubane House as "rampant" and likened the scale of the abuse at Rubane House to that of Kincora Boys Home in east Belfast.
Kincora Boys Home was the subject of a high-profile child abuse scandal in the 1980s.
Three senior care staff at Kincora were jailed in 1981 for abusing 11 boys in their care.
In 1997, Mr Anderson wrote to the director of public prosecutions about the Rubane House allegations: "I consider the complaints made to show it to be on a par with, if not worse than, the abuse at the Kincora children's home.
"Sexual abuse by a considerable number of the De La Salle brothers on the children, and consequently between children was rampant."
The HIA inquiry was set up in 2013 to investigate child abuse in residential institutions in Northern Ireland over a 73-year period, up to 1995.
The Rubane House allegations form the third module of its public hearings.
It had previously been examining what happened to children sent from Northern Ireland to institutions in Australia. | Sexual abuse at a children's home in County Down was equal to, if not worse, than abuse at Kincora Boys Home, an inquiry has been told. | 29401679 |
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou shook hands at the start of the talks, which were seen as largely symbolic.
China views Taiwan as a breakaway province which will one day be reunited with the mainland.
But many Taiwanese see it as independent and are concerned at China's growing influence.
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"Both sides should respect each other's values and way of life," Mr Ma said as the talks began at a luxury hotel.
Mr Xi told the Taiwanese leader: "We are one family."
The meeting "has opened a historic chapter in the cross-Strait relations, and history will remember today", he added.
The meeting took place in neutral territory on the sidelines of a state visit by Mr Xi to Singapore.
Relations between China and Taiwan have improved under Mr Ma since he took office in 2008, with better economic ties, improving tourism links, and a trade pact signed.
The two sides split in 1949 when the Kuomintang lost to the Chinese Communist Party in the civil war and set up a new government in Taiwan.
Mr Ma described the talks as "positive and friendly", but no major agreements or deals appear to have been reached.
Mr Ma said in advance that the issue of the South China Sea disputes, which has dominated recent concerns in the region, would not be brought up.
Mr Ma proposed reducing hostility across the Taiwan Strait, expanding exchanges and establishing a cross-strait hotline, according to Taiwan's central news agency.
He said this was part of consolidating the "1992 consensus" - the agreement under which both sides recognise the principle of "one China" but define it in their own ways.
Similar remarks were made by Mr Xi, who said upholding the consensus would help "the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation".
It is not entirely clear why the meeting has happened at this time, as neither side has properly said.
Mr Ma has built his presidency on closer links with China, so there is a good reason for him to meet Mr Xi, says the BBC World Service's Asia editor, Michael Bristow.
There is also a presidential election in Taiwan in January. Mr Ma might think the meeting will give a boost to his party's candidate, who is trailing in the polls, our correspondent says.
China also has something to gain, and that also concerns Taiwan's election. Mr Xi's decision to talk reminds Taiwanese voters that China is far friendlier to a government of Mr Ma's nationalist party than one formed by the opposition, which leans towards independence for Taiwan.
It is a calculated gamble for Mr Xi, as China's attempts to influence Taiwanese voters have previously backfired, our correspondent adds.
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Growing fears over China's influence have led to widespread dissatisfaction in Taiwan.
President Ma's Kuomintang (KMT) Party suffered a crushing defeat in local elections last year, a result that was widely seen as a rejection of Mr Ma's push for closer ties with China.
In the Taiwanese capital there were protests before the talks and one group tried to enter the parliament building.
State media in China heralded the meeting, with an editorial in the Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily calling it a "victory of peace and rationality".
It said critics were "displaying jiggery-pokery from a small circle. Such extremism is bound to be stigmatised". | The leaders of China and Taiwan have held historic talks in Singapore - their first in more than 60 years. | 34742680 |
That was the message from a fringe event at Labour's conference in Liverpool which examined the electoral threat from UKIP - and the effect of the marginalisation of working-class communities.
While the Conservatives remain the biggest obstacle to Labour getting back into power, Jeremy Corbyn faces challenges on multiple fronts. In Scotland, there is the SNP and across large swathes of England, there is UKIP.
The party is arguably the official opposition to Labour in much of the north west and north east.
Labour MPs who feel UKIP breathing down their necks are anything but complacent, but dealing with the challenge is another matter.
"For us, it is about how you fight an emotion," says Ruth Smeeth, who won Stoke on Trent North for Labour in 2015 but saw UKIP increase its vote by 18% in the constituency.
"They were not politicians in the way we recognise them," she says of her opponents. "They didn't run political campaigns in the way we recognise political campaigns."
UKIP, like Labour, may have had its share of internal strife recently but that doesn't mean it will be any less of a threat whenever the next election takes place, activists were warned.
"There are some people trying to write off UKIP saying they are busted flush and they have peaked because of the EU referendum and (Nigel) Farage going," says Nick Lowles, founder and director of campaign group Hope Not Hate.
"But we should really caution against writing them off or at least writing off a party like that. Even if that party did not exist, there is nothing to say that people who voted UKIP at the last election would come back to Labour.
"Political and culturally, there is a huge and growing gulf between the Labour Party and Labour voters and UKIP voters."
Its research points to a growing divergence between Labour and UKIP voters in their attitudes to immigration and the threat posed by multiculturalism, with Labour voters becoming more "tolerant, open, and relaxed" about immigration and its benefits while UKIP supporters' views have moved in the opposite direction.
"This is fundamentally Labour's problem," he adds. "Where we are is not necessarily where our voters are."
This is a situation, he fears, which could be exacerbated by Brexit if leaving the EU does not result in lower levels of immigration and a rise in wages.
The rise in hate crime incidents after the EU referendum was a worrying portent, Ruth Smeeth says.
In her constituency, she says there was a 157% rise in racially-motivated incidents following the Brexit vote, with some people - in her words - "looking for a fight".
Coming so soon after the death of her friend Jo Cox, she said it made it even more important that the late Labour MP's legacy was not squandered.
"There has been too much said about what happened," she says. "It is now a question of making sure everything she stood for, we continue to fight for."
For Labour to make headway in communities that have turned their back on the party, it will be necessary to confront some "uncomfortable" truths and, in the words of community organiser John Page, the "narrative of blame" that has been fostered by decades of economic disempowerment and dislocation.
The reality, he says, is that there are towns in England and Wales where refugees are not welcome and the Brexit vote was as much a howl of frustration and anger than a focused political statement.
"If we want to win in these communities, I am thinking of places like Rotherham, Dudley, Merthyr Tydfil and Thurrock, we need to start off with a discussion with people who hold racist views," he says.
"We have to distinguish between the hard racists who are off the spectrum and those people who are not inherently racist but have adopted racist views and narratives - those who I would describe as 'I am not a racist, but'.
"These are the people we need to engage with."
Labour's attempt to shift its position on immigration under Ed Miliband, by admitting it made mistakes in the past - ostensibly did not work, partly campaigners believe, because the nature of discussions it was having were misguided.
Challenging the economic pessimism that many in Labour believe UKIP feeds off will not be done by attempts at "myth-busting" or ramming facts down people's throats, John Page says.
What is needed, in his words, is a mixture of "empathetic listening and Socratic questioning" - the former designed to encourage people to open up and the latter to help them to make connections of their own.
"You have to encourage people to reflect on their own views."
This was echoed by Waida Forman, a Labour councillor in Harlow, who says the party has reacted to the challenge posed by UKIP in the town by "talking to people and actually listening to them".
This approach is striking for the absence of any talk of standard policy prescriptions - instead, the focus is on grassroots initiatives aimed at boosting communities' self-respect and sense of identity - ranging from things as simple as setting up a local choir or walking club.
"If you speak to people out there, you cannot get people involved in Labour at the moment," John Page adds. "If you try to start a darts team, you wouldn't get people involved because people are atomised and isolated.
"If people start to engage with each other, get out of the house, do some exercise, meet new people and feel a bit better, they are already winning. When people feel they are winning, they are prepared to take more action and have a bigger vision of the change possible." | Labour must take a hard look at itself and the gap that has opened up with millions of people who used to vote for the party. | 37475726 |
The Harry Potter novelist published the book - The Cuckoo's Calling - as Robert Galbraith.
The book had sold fewer than 500 copies before the secret emerged in the Sunday Times, according to Nielsen BookScan's figures.
Within hours, it rose more than 5,000 places to top Amazon's sales list.
The digital version is now also at number one in the iTunes book chart.
The book was published by Sphere, part of Little, Brown Book Group which published Rowling's first foray into writing novels for adults, The Casual Vacancy.
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Little, Brown's David Shelley confirmed to The Bookseller the publisher had ordered an "immediate reprint" with the number not yet confirmed.
Rowling said she had "hoped to keep this secret a little longer".
The author described "being Robert Galbraith" as "such a liberating experience".
A spokesman for bookseller Waterstones said: "This is the best act of literary deception since Stephen King was outed as Richard Bachman back in the 1980s."
One reviewer described The Cuckoo's Calling as a "scintillating debut", while another praised the male author's ability to describe women's clothes.
Crime writer Peter James told the Sunday Times: "I thought it was by a very mature writer, and not a first-timer."
Fellow crime author Mark Billingham, who reviewed the book ahead of its publication in April, said he was "gobsmacked" at the revelation.
The fictitious Galbraith was supposed to have been a former plain-clothes Royal Military Police investigator who had left the armed forces in 2003 to work in the civilian security industry.
However a clue that Rowling was behind the novel was that she and Galbraith shared an agent and editor.
In previous interviews, Rowling has said she would prefer to write novels after Harry Potter under a pseudonym.
Another Cormoran Strike book by Robert Galbraith is in the pipeline, to be published next year. | JK Rowling's "secret" crime novel has topped book charts after it was revealed she had written it under a pseudonym. | 23311708 |
The region wants new investment under plans that would see the Welsh Rugby Union relinquish its 50% stake.
Davies said follow-up meetings with "interested parties" are in the pipeline.
But he was disappointed by ex-Wales captain Gwyn Jones' recent call for Dragons to become a "development" team.
Dragons finished in 10th place in the Pro12, one place ahead of Zebre despite winning a game fewer than the Italian side.
The Welsh region finished ahead of them after picking up 10 losing bonus points during the season.
Dragons parted company with director of rugby Lyn Jones in April and head coach Kingsley Jones will remain in charge for at least 2016-17.
Before the season ended, Gwyn Jones told Scrum V: "It wouldn't be a bad thing if they were to become more developmental in their philosophy."
Davies said he had "absolutely no problem with the observation that it's been a very poor season for the Dragons".
The former Swansea number eight added: "But I was very disappointed with the context, really because whilst Gwyn was saying that we need change, I also felt he'd probably been on a desert island for the last six weeks because there was no reference to the change that we're actually instigating.
"So I share his feelings around us needing to improve - that's not an issue at all.
"But certainly in the context of what we've announced this year, I don't think we can do more than we currently are in terms of showing our ambition and our desire as much as anyone to improve performances on the field." | Chief executive Stuart Davies says he is "busy" dealing with "approaches" from potential new backers of Newport Gwent Dragons. | 36272523 |
So, just how long can fires burn?
The blaze at the abandoned Good2Grow recycling centre started on 30 November last year and was put out on 21 June.
But that is no match for the world record for the longest-burning fire which is believed to have started around 5,000 years ago at a coal seam beneath Mount Wingen in New South Wales, Australia, and is still smouldering.
"Lightning struck the coal seam where it reached the Earth's surface," said a spokesman for Guinness World Records.
"Today, the fire is now burning around 30m (100ft) underground, as it has slowly eaten away at the seam."
In Hertfordshire, fire crews were on site for 15 days in Hemel Hempstead when a "deep-seated fire" burned in a large pile of recycled timber in November last year.
"How long can fires burn? How long is a piece of string?
"As long as there is a fuel supply and oxygen to supply it, a fire can burn indefinitely," said Steve Tant, policy support officer for the Chief Fire Officers' Association operations directorate.
He said the fire service would "never walk away" from a burning fire which is likely to endanger life, property or affect the economy.
Underground fires tend to burn longest, he said.
"They have the right conditions, particularly if they are on a coal seam where there is a constant fuel source.
"The dangers involved in trying to extinguish these types of fires - the risk to life, the environment, not to mention the sheer cost due to the millions of tonnes of water you would need - it's the Devil's own job to get them to go out."
In the US, a fire set in 1884 by striking miners in New Straitsville, Ohio is still burning underground.
"It's now a tourist feature," said Laura Thrapp, president of New Straitsville History Group.
"Visitors ask how they can find it - we tell them to look for the smoke billowing up from the fire holes."
In the 1930s, the government intervened as the fire was beginning to spread to parts of the town. Residents were evacuated and homes demolished.
"A barricade was built around the town to try and stop it spreading - the old mine works were dug out and back-filled with clay," said Ms Thrapp.
"It should have worked but it did not, and in the 1970s one of the highways had to be moved because it kept sinking."
She said residents had been known to brew coffee straight from their wells because the soil was so warm, or even fry eggs over the fire holes.
It is estimated the fire, which is currently smouldering under nearby Wayne National Forest and does not pose a threat to infrastructure, could burn for at least another 100 years.
UK Coal said one of the biggest underground coal fires in the UK happened last year at Daw Mill Colliery near Coleshill in Warwickshire.
Gordon Grant, of UK Coal, said: "It lasted for several weeks and is regarded as one of the biggest fires the industry has seen for at least 30 years.
"It was described by the miners who tackled it as a 'raging inferno'."
He described the 50-year-old mining roadways underground as a "huge network".
"The oxygen supply was turned off the night the fire broke out, which gives you some indication of just how long it took that oxygen to disperse," he said.
Mr Grant added: "The main thing is no-one was injured." | It was declared a "public nuisance" but after burning for almost seven months the compost fire in Beenham, Berkshire, has finally been extinguished. | 23051367 |
His presence in the city became known when photographs of the star started to appear on social media.
The A-lister was sighted having a stroll in the city centre and also filming in The Crown Bar.
The veteran actor has starred in numerous films, including The Shawshank Redemption, Driving Miss Daisy, The Dark Knight Rises and Along Came a Spider. | The Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman has been spotted out and about in Belfast. | 39594337 |
Police believe the boy had taken the drug MDMA at the disco in Ilfracombe, before being admitted to North Devon District Hospital.
He died in the early hours of Saturday, and his next-of-kin have been informed.
Police say the incident could be linked to two similar cases in Plymouth in the same evening.
Two other "young adults" were admitted to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth after taking a "recreational drug" suspected to be MDMA.
Currently police say they are "unsure" whether the two incidents are linked, or if there is a "tainted batch" of the drug in circulation.
Local inquiries have begun into the young man's death. | A 15-year-old boy has died after taking a "recreational drug" at a youth disco, police said. | 40075962 |
He won with the one-liner: "I decided to sell my Hoover... well it was just collecting dust."
Vine, 47, saw his joke scoop almost a fifth of the votes in the competition run by comedy television channel, Dave.
It is the first time the award has been presented to a previous winner.
Vine also won in 2010 with the joke: "I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again."
He was runner up in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
On being crowned this year's winner, Vine said: "I'm a little bit surprised but very delighted. This is the second time I've won this award but I guess nobody loves a repeat more than Dave."
In an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the comedian talked about the process of writing one-liners.
He said: "When I think of what I think is a good joke I do often laugh, because of course it's the first time I've heard it. So I will chuckle.
"But I've been wrong many times and I'll go in front of an audience thinking this is an absolute work of genius and they stare back at me going 'Sorry you want us to laugh at this point, do you?' and I realise that doesn't work at all.
"But it also works the other way and that's the exciting thing about writing comedy - you never quite know until you try it with an audience. Never test it on family and friends."
When asked if he ever stretched his jokes to a paragraph he said: "Only on this show would I be asked that question. It's a beautiful question 'do you ever do paragraphs?'
"I do occasionally, but what happens is I think that bit can go, and I don't really need that bit, and then eventually it's back to a line and a half again."
Some of the finalists for funniest joke of the Fringe Festival 2014
Steve North, general manager of Dave, said: "It's great to see a range of established and new comedians in this year's top 10.
"The award celebrates the fantastic range of comedy on offer at the Fringe, and Tim has once again proved he is king of the one-liners."
To find the favourite joke, the judges scoured the festival's venues for a week before nominating their three favourite jokes.
They were then put to the public vote, with 2,000 people choosing those they found funniest.
Three female comedians, Bec Hill, Ria Lina and Felicity Ward, featured in this year's top 10, reflecting the 62% rise of women performing at this year's Fringe on last year. | A joke by comedian Tim Vine about a vacuum cleaner has been voted the funniest at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. | 28838287 |
One of the first public landmarks to be transformed was the eight-lane I-35W Mississippi River bridge in his home town of Minneapolis.
The Minnesota Department of Transport said that the bridge and the city's famous Lowry Avenue Bridge over the Mississippi river had been illuminated in the colour of Prince as the state mourned with the world over the loss of a "true artist and a beloved Minnesota son".
Similar purple tributes to the star were made in Washington DC, New York and Los Angeles.
The Niagara Falls also turned purple - initially regal purple to honour the Queen's 90th birthday - but in a strange twist it also became an official tribute to the dead star, Canada's Toronto Sun reported.
Twitter users reported that the Eiffel Tower in France had turned purple while the Ritzy cinema in south London carried lines from one of his hits: "This is what it sounds like when doves cry."
A weather forecast sign in Sydney, Australia, read "cloudy with a chance of purple rain". | Key landmarks across the US have turned purple in honour of the singer and superstar Prince, who was found dead at his Minnesota home on Thursday. | 36109110 |
Xulhaz Mannan, editor of a LGBT magazine, and actor Tanay Mojumdar, were hacked to death on Monday.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has blamed opposition parties for the killings, claims denied by the opposition.
It comes after a university professor was hacked to death by suspected Islamist militants on Saturday.
At least 20 people - including professors, secular writers and bloggers, foreigners and members of religious minorities - have been killed in attacks blamed on Islamist militants since 2013.
Who is behind the Bangladesh killings?
Lurching from secularism to sectarian terror?
Ansar al-Islam said on Twitter that it had killed Mr Mannan and Mr Mojumdar because they were working "to promote homosexuality... with the held of their masters, the US crusaders and their Indian allies".
The claim could not be independently verified.
Mr Mannan edited Roopbaan, a magazine and activist group for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community that had received some support from foreign embassies.
The US ambassador to Bangladesh said he was "devastated by the brutal murder of Xulhaz Mannan and another young Bangladeshi". Mr Mannan had also worked at the US embassy.
On Monday night, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its ally, the Jamaat-e-Islami group, were "involved in these killings and committing these murders" as a way to destabilise Bangladesh.
The opposition denied her claims, and local media have criticised the government, saying it is responsible for protecting minorities.
Earlier this month, a Bangladeshi law student who had expressed secular views online died when he was hacked with machetes and then shot in Dhaka.
Last year, four prominent secular bloggers were also killed with machetes.
The four bloggers had all appeared on a list of 84 "atheist bloggers" drawn up by Islamist groups in 2013 and widely circulated.
Two foreigners - an Italian aid worker and a Japanese farmer - have also been killed, with both attacks claimed by so-called Islamic State, although the government denies the presence of IS on its soil.
The grim list of those who have fallen victim to attacks by Islamist militants in Bangladesh is growing ever diverse.
Secular bloggers, academics, gay rights activists, and members of religious minorities including Shia, Sufi and Ahmadi Muslims, Christians and Hindus have all been killed, many of them hacked to death.
That a university professor whose family said believed in God could also be murdered suggests the list of those at risk has widened further.
Who exactly is behind the attacks remains murky. Bangladesh has myriad extremist groups and there have been few convictions over the attacks.
Bangladesh has disputed claims by so-called Islamic State or al-Qaeda-linked groups for the attacks, instead often blaming opposition parties or local Islamist groups.
But until the killings stop the government itself will face accusations of not doing enough to protect minorities in the Sunni-dominated nation. | A Bangladeshi militant group affiliated to al-Qaeda, Ansar al-Islam, says it was behind the killing of a top gay rights activist and his friend. | 36137665 |
Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn battling it out on the dodgeball court may have propelled the sport into the mainstream, but this weekend the game hits another level with the inaugural Dodgeball World Cup in Manchester.
The top eight men's and women's teams from 10 countries and five continents will battle it out to be crowned the best in the world.
Crowds of 1,000 are expected each day at the National Basketball Arena in Belle Vue Sports Village to watch the nations collide.
Six-time European champions England and the USA are the favourites in the men's tournament, while the women's draw is wide open. Wales shocked England at last year's European championships and America and Australia are expected to challenge.
"Most of the world would like to see a England v USA final in the men's draw, " said World Dodgeball Association (WBA) president Tom Hickson.
The film DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story was released in 2004, but the sport has been played in Japan for the past 60 years.
Hickson says the film helped gain "traction" for the sport, and the UK Dodgeball Association was established in 2005 and there are 750,000 active players in this country.
It is even bigger in the US, with 9.7 million players and a club world championship, while 2.1 million play the sport in Australia.
The WBA, which is also based in Manchester, works with 57 nations on grassroots and high performance programmes.
It hopes the World Cup will be a watershed moment for the sport and its long-term aim of getting dodgeball into the Olympics and Paralympics.
"With it being the first ever World Cup it is a huge milestone, a historic weekend," said Hickson.
"We hope that in 15 and 20 years in the future we can look back at that first World Cup and say that Olympic sport started in Manchester.
"We want to increase participation in dodgeball in the UK and across the world as a result of young people watching at the National Basketball Arena and the live stream on our website and think 'one day I want to play for my country'." | If you think dodgeball is just about a Hollywood movie, then it is time to think again. | 36025664 |
The club's owners raised the issue at a preliminary hearing in a legal battle with Latvian Valeri Belokon, the club's president and 20% shareholder.
They said that a bank owned by Mr Belokon was fined one million euros for repeated money-laundering "violations".
Mr Belokon who is alleging "unfair prejudice" denied the claim.
Eric Shannon, representing owner Owen Oyston and chairman Karl, his son, added the fine, on Mr Belokon's Baltic International Bank, was for "transactions that subjected the bank to a significant money laundering risk".
Fraser Campbell, representing Mr Belokon, told registrar Sally Barber at the hearing in London that the allegations were "wild and extremely serious" and which they had "responded to in a detailed letter setting out precisely the source of the funds involved."
Mr Belokon has accused the Oystons of stripping the football club of funds and is pursuing a claim for "unfair prejudice".
The hearing heard that Belokon's company, VB Football Assets, bought a 20% share of Blackpool FC for £1.8m in July 2006 and advanced £2.7m of loans "on highly generous terms" to the Oystons and their company Segesta Limited.
They also made money available to buy players and consequently the club was promoted to the Championship and, in 2010, to the Premier League.
VB Football hoped to convert the loans into a further 30% of shares, documents before the court revealed.
The documents also stated: "Promotion to the Premier League produced unprecedented revenues for the company, particularly in respect of television rights.
"However, instead of investing those funds in, for example, a strengthened playing squad, or using them to pay dividends to shareholders, the respondents (Segesta and the Oystons) caused enormous sums to be transferred to themselves and their associated companies."
Segesta and the Oystons deny unfair prejudice and are fighting the claims.
Blackpool supporters are set to march through the town ahead of Saturday's lunchtime fixture with Wigan in protest at the club's plight. | Lawyers for the Oyston family have told a High Court registrar of "concerns" that money-laundering cash may have been used to help fund Blackpool FC. | 36170299 |
24 November 2015 Last updated at 06:48 GMT
Her dad decided to do something about it.
He created a comic starring Emily as a superhero called, "The Department of Ability".
Ricky went to meet the girl behind the superhero mask. | Emily loves comics, but she has a disability and couldn't see any characters in her comics who looked like her. | 34900285 |
Two women were also taken to hospital after their cars were involved in the collision with the man's silver Skoda Octavia.
The crash happened on the A4058 Trehafod bypass in Hopkinstown, near Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff, at about 20:00 GMT on Tuesday.
Both the women, aged 31 and 46, were drivers in the other two cars.
South Wales Police said they were both taken to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital but their injuries were not believed to be life-threatening. | A 78-year-old driver has died after his vehicle collided with two cars travelling in the opposite direction. | 38741490 |
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Sport England figures show the amount of 16 to 25-year-olds playing the game regularly almost halved between 2009-10 and 2012-13.
What other initiatives could help golf widen its appeal?
We have been looking at your suggestions, from lowering the cost of play to more offbeat ideas.
One major obstacle is money. It is an expensive hobby for youngsters. How about some of the mega millions earned at the top end of golf being used to subsidise struggling clubs and younger players? bigted
My son was a junior member at a prestigious London club until he was 18. Once he had been to university and returned home he would have had to become a full member which he can't afford. Clubs should do more to provide a bridge from junior membership to full membership. Peter
Joining fees are the issue, to join a decent course near me I'd have to find £3,000 on top of membership. If I relocated again in a year's time that's a sunk cost. Not too appealing when trying to save for a house. Meanwhile, those most settled in life, the retiree who can play seven times a week, doesn't have these concerns - clubs will pay the ultimate price for pricing a generation out of the game in 20 years. AndyL
Make it cheaper. Green fees, lessons, gear, balls, all too expensive. Golf clubs and manufacturers at fault. Dave Harrison
Most clubs offer payment plans and there has never been so much used golf equipment available as now. There's no need to buy new kit and many would benefit from using a half set in a lightweight bag rather than the mobile homes on wheels that trundle round our courses making such a mess in the winter months. Chrisf
Slow play has nothing to do with the falling number of younger players playing golf. The primary reason is COST - to play one round; to be a member; to buy golf clubs et al. Gary R
Clubs need to widen the gap between groups on the time sheet, offer nine, 12, 14 and 18-hole competitions and subsequently offer specific memberships to match the competitions and the members' needs. Also clubs should look at the concept of zone golf, pin positions ranging from easy, to medium and hard. The game needs to be 1. more affordable; 2. less stressful; 3. enjoyable. Christian Porter
To attract young golfers we need to show the fun side of golf and get rid of stupid dress codes to make it more accessible. Sam Hatton
Time stopped me playing golf at 11. Went to tennis. A game of nine holes got me back: Family fun. Ray Bundell
How about a timer. Players should have a set time to take their shot. This would add urgency and pressure. Christian
Have specific blocked out times for junior fourballs so three or four groups can play together and then speak about the game after. Electric Kid
Shorter courses where more sensible club selection and ball accuracy with a difficult layout is the way. Nozzie
The player who is deemed first to putt on the green should putt out completely, saving oodles of time - marking the ball, cleaning the ball, lining up the ball etc. Lyle Hill
Design or adapt courses to have three six-hole loops. So time-restricted people can play the first six, or the first twelve. Maybe have competitions where an 18-hole round score could be accumulated over, say, a week. Alan
Make it a contact sport with players marking each other as in hockey....lots of running around the golf course!! Kennedy Maswaure
Golfers should use jet packs to move around the course instead of walking or using golf carts. Jay | The number of people playing golf is falling and Rory McIlroy believes speeding the game up at grassroots level could reverse that trend. | 30491539 |
Anonymous said the data was "a form of resistance" against racial violence.
The KKK last year threatened to use "deadly force" against those protesting over the killing of a black youth in Ferguson, Missouri.
A list of alleged KKK members published earlier in the week appears to have been fake.
That list had incorrectly outed several US politicians as KKK members and was quickly followed by a denial from Anonymous's official Twitter account.
Thursday's list appears to detail social media profiles of people who had joined or "liked" KKK-related groups on Facebook and Google+. Many of the profiles featured racist imagery and slogans.
Anonymous said it had collected the names over the course of the last year, using a variety of ways, from "interviewing expert sources" and "digital espionage" to obtaining publicly-available information.
The group said those on the list included official members of various KKK groups "as well as their closest associates (most are also in other extremist hate groups)". Some were listed with their alleged aliases.
"Some members of this list are quite dangerous, sociopathic individuals. Others are not," Anonymous added in its statement accompanying the release of the list.
Some observers were not overly impressed by the list.
Mark Pitcavage, director of the US Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism, told Vice News it was "low-hanging fruit, basically public source information. For most of these people it's not a secret that they've been in the Klan."
He also said there were "all sorts of errors", including the mis-spelling of at least one person's name.
Inside the minds of the hacktivists
'I am absolutely not a KKK member'
The release of the list came on 5 November, a significant date for members of Anonymous because it is the day that Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up the English Parliament in 1605. Guy Fawkes masks, made popular in the movie V for Vendetta, have become a symbol for the group.
The group launched its campaign, dubbed Hoods Off, after the Ku Klux Klan threatened violence against protesters - including Anonymous members - who took to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, after a jury decided not to prosecute a white police officer who shot dead Michael Brown, a black teenager, in August 2014.
In November last year, Anonymous launched denial-of-service attacks to take down a website associated with the KKK and also took over two Twitter accounts connected to the group.
Anonymous expert Gabriella Coleman has described the outing of KKK members as a "comeback" for the hacker group, which has faced criticism for failing to control members and leaking inaccurate information.
The fact that fake data was leaked earlier will be seen as an embarrassment for the group that has become well-known for backing social justice causes.
To coincide with Guy Fawkes night, Anonymous held protests in cities around the world, including one in London where there have been at least 50 arrests. | The hackers' collective Anonymous has shared details of hundreds of alleged sympathisers of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan (KKK) on the internet. | 34736941 |
The vote in the Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, came the same day as the ECHR ruled against Russia's Federal Security Service over spying.
The European court said Russia had violated privacy rights with a system to secretly intercept mobile phone communications.
The Russian constitution takes precedence under the new Duma law.
The measure was fast-tracked, giving the constitutional court the right to declare international court orders unenforceable in Russia if they contradict the constitution.
It specifically aims to "protect the interests of Russia" in the face of decisions by international bodies responsible for ruling on human rights, according to Tass news agency.
Also on Friday, the ECHR ordered Russia to pay Roman Zakharov, editor-in-chief of a publishing company, €40,000 (£29,000) in expenses in a case over state spying.
It agreed with Mr Zakharov that Russia's FSB security service had violated his rights to privacy by installing secret surveillance systems, and denying him the ability to resist potential monitoring.
Russia ratified the European Convention on Human Rights in 1998, and is one of 47 member states in the Council of Europe, which monitors compliance with the convention. This year Russia contributed nearly €33m to the CoE's €306m budget.
But Russia has often taken issue with rulings against it, including one by the ECHR last year ordering Moscow to pay more than $2bn (£1.3bn; €1.8bn) in compensation to shareholders in the defunct Russian oil firm, Yukos.
In a separate development on Friday, Hungarian prosecutors said they had questioned a Hungarian MEP suspected of spying on EU institutions for Russia.
Chief Prosecutor Imre Keresztes said Bela Kovacs, a member of Hungary's far-right Jobbik party, denied the spying allegations and made a case for his defence.
The European Parliament lifted Mr Kovacs' immunity in October, which Jobbik said would help clear the MEP's name.
Investigators have until 20 December to bring charges, according to reports. | Russia has adopted a law allowing it to overrule judgements from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). | 35007059 |
In one of the ubiquitous street-side bars in the west of Rio de Janeiro, Leandro Firmino sits sipping water dressed in the shirt of his beloved Flamengo football team. In Cidade de Deus, the community where he grew up, he knows almost all who pass by and gives them a thumbs up or a wave.
He could be any of the million who live in the city's favelas. But his famously haunting eyes are unmistakeable.
A decade after playing the terrifying drug lord Li'l Ze in the unexpected box-office success, City of God, he shows few other signs of the fame he achieved back then.
The film, which begins in the 1960s and ends in the early 1980s, follows the lives of Li'l Ze and Rocket, a young photographer who chronicles the decline of Cidade de Deus, against a backdrop of drugs, criminal rivalry and wanton violence.
Now home to around 40,000 people, the community was originally built for families relocated to the outskirts by Rio's authorities to rid the city centre of its favelas. However, it became notorious for its gangsters, criminals and dangerous streets.
In one of the most memorable scenes, Li'l Ze orders a boy to choose another boy to shoot dead.
Felipe Silva, one of the children in the scene, recalls: "I was scared to death of Leandro Firmino. They kind of made me fear him so I could cry in that scene."
Firmino, now 35 and father to a 21-month-old boy, was recruited directly from the favelas to make the film, an adaptation of Paulo Lins's novel.
"It's gone pretty fast," says Firmino. "I'm surprised people remember it. It's very much alive, even among children of 11 or 12."
Like many of the cast, Firmino enjoyed a high profile in the wake of the film's success, which included four Oscar nominations.
He has worked with film group Nos do Cinema (We in Cinema) and acted in several Brazilian films.
In 2011, Firmino was invited to the reception for US President Barack Obama when he visited Brazil.
"I didn't go. I had another engagement," he says. "Barack Obama's visit to Cidade de Deus was a political thing."
But while continuing to act and work in film, Firmino's life remains unaffected by one of the most enduring works of cinema to emerge from Brazil in recent years.
"Do I feel like a celebrity? No. I think it's ridiculous. It's a ridiculous word. Art is about being close to people, celebrity is about being distant," he explains. "I grew up here in Cidade de Deus. I really like it here. And God willing, I will continue to work in cinema."
He mentions that others also found success following the film, many of whom feature in the forthcoming documentary, City of God: 10 Years Later.
Alice Braga, who played Rocket's love interest Angelica, went on to star opposite Will Smith in I Am Legend and credited City of God with launching her career.
"I think that beach scene, especially the one with the kiss, really helped my career because the frame of that kiss stuck in many people's minds," she tells the documentary.
"I got an agent abroad. I met many people thanks to that kiss and the picture it became."
The favela...
The film...
And Seu Jorge, who played Li'l Ze's arch rival Knockout Ned, continues to be one of the best known musicians in Brazil, performing at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics.
Firmino says others have been less fortunate, mentioning Jefechander Suplino, who played Clipper, one of the impoverished thieves in the film's "Tender Trio".
He could not be traced by the producers of the documentary and is feared dead. His mother insists her son is still alive and told researchers: "He's not dead, I'm sure of that."
Rubens Sabino da Silva, who played Blackie, was arrested for trying to rob a woman on a bus in 2003. He appealed for help from the film's director, claiming he received no money for his part.
While the cast had mixed fortunes, the film has become a steadfast cultural reference for Brazil's social problems, crime and violence.
After the film was released, original novelist Paulo Lins says he feared the reaction of such a brutal depiction of Rio de Janeiro.
"I was a little scared about the repercussions of the launch [of the film]."
"It was the time of the presidential election in Brazil. Violence was the most discussed topic of the campaigns and the media talked every day about the movie. Everyone was looking for me to do interviews. I never thought I'd be so exposed in the press.
"The launch was a show of glamour, there was a lot of talk from politicians on criminality, but so far nothing has been done to effectively stop children getting into the world of violent delinquency."
But for Firmino, who returned to life in Cidade de Deus after the film, there was little in the way of public response.
"It was normal," he says. "I lived here. Cidade de Deus has the difficulties of the favela but it always had a kind of culture.
"When I launched the film and became a public persona, it was cool, but it wasn't a big novelty because we had already seen others - musicians, some who no longer live here, and some who still live here.
"For example, if you talk about funk in Rio de Janeiro, you talk about Cidade de Deus. It was normal. It just raised morale here among people that I had produced this piece of work."
The reaction of the community to the new documentary is perhaps more telling.
Cavi Borges, executive producer, says: "There are many people in City of God who don't like the film because of the violence. When they heard we were doing a documentary, they were like: 'Oh no, not again.'
"But ours is a different form. It's a reference for Brazilian cinema; everything is City of God, City of God, City of God. It's good and bad.
In 2009, Cidade de Deus became the second favela in Rio to be "pacified" as part of a government programme to improve safety and security by increasing the police presence in poorer communities.
Police officers moved into the favela and installed a special unit to try and drive out drug traffickers. The murder rate fell from 36 in 2008 to five in 2012.
Mr Borges says he wants to change people's perception of the area.
"It's what people think Brazil is like in reality. Everyone wants to see the communities. It's like Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire," which is set in the Indian city of Mumbai.
"My dream is to bring this documentary to all the countries that saw the original film." | Ten years after a Rio de Janeiro slum called Cidade de Deus (City of God) burst into the world's consciousness with the hit film of the same name, very little has changed for the residents and the actors have enjoyed mixed fortunes, writes Donna Bowater. | 23333368 |
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