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Boys as young as 12 were among the 27 youngsters who were taken in by George Heriot's school in 1916, after making a remarkable escape from Serbia as it fell to the armies of Germany and its allies.
Other refugees found homes in Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen.
They were among the lucky ones who survived a "retreat" over the mountains of Albania and Montenegro the previous winter, during which about 8,000 boys died. Many fell victim to the cold, starvation and disease; others were shot by the Albanians.
Within a few years the lives of these boys had been transformed. And in their later years many of the refugees credited Scotland - and George Heriot's - with giving them a second chance at rebuilding their lives.
The first 10 prospective Herioters arrived at Edinburgh's Waverley station in August 1916 - just before the start of the new school term.
Historian Louise Miller, who has researched the "Serbian Boys", said they had survived unimaginable horrors and they had barely a word of English between them.
But she added: "They were embraced by the school and supported by the generosity of the people of Edinburgh during the war years until they were able to return to what remained of their homes."
The school played host to the boys for three years, and several shone academically. However it was on the rugby field where they gained fame.
Historian Ms Miller said: "These boys, who had never played rugby before, embraced the game and showed extraordinary and unexpected talent.
"Several were good enough to join the 1stXV, where they played alongside future Scottish internationalists like Daniel Drysdale."
They went to form the first Serbian national rugby team for a match played at Inverleith in 1918, and they established it as a sport in their home country on their return.
Many of the boy refugees embarked on successful careers, enjoying healthy, happy lives and maintaining lifelong links with Scotland and Heriot's.
Aged just 15, Živojin arrived in Edinburgh in November 1916, speaking no English.
But the boy who months earlier had escaped Serbia and survived a mid-winter retreat, excelled in both the classroom and on the rugby field.
He went on to study civil engineering at the University of Edinburgh and when he returned home, he helped with the reconstruction of Serbia following the war.
His experience in Scotland changed his life completely, according to Živojin's granddaughter, Jelena Stankovic, who is among the relatives returning to Edinburgh this week to remember the boy refugees.
"He loved Great Britain and particularly Scotland as much as his native Serbia, and was extremely grateful to British people for all they had done for him," she said.
He built his home in Serbia in "British style" and he sang English nursery rhymes to his granddaughter when she was a child - songs she now sings to her grandson.
"Besides getting the very best education, he also adopted the British way of life," she said.
In 1982, 65 years after he left the school and, by then in his 80s, Živojin reflected on his time in Edinburgh.
"It makes me sad that I am not able to revisit Edinburgh and see the school once more," he said.
"My years do not permit me to make such a long journey but I often think of Edinburgh and my friends there."
After escaping from Serbia at the beginning of the Great War, the teenage Stevan Djordjević travelled first to Corfu before he was rescued by a British boat.
He eventually made his home in Glasgow, where he enrolled at Hillhead High School, before studying medicine at the University of Glasgow.
His family remember him talking about being cold and hungry while he was a student, when he often ate lard on bread.
But his experience in Scotland "totally changed his life", according to his daughter, Zora Buchanan, and he only returned to Serbia for family visits.
He changed his name to "Stevan George", worked as a family doctor in Glasgow, and married his Scottish sweetheart, Margaret. Within six years, they had three children.
After World War Two, he became a ship's doctor with Cunard Line and eventually settled in the Bahamas. He died in 1967, aged 67, and is buried in Nassau.
Mrs Buchanan, who is travelling from Canada for the events in Edinburgh, said: "As his youngest daughter I am very proud of what a young Serbian lad could accomplish."
Both the Serbian Ambassador to Great Britain, Dr Ognjen Pribicevic, and the British Ambassador to Serbia, Denis Keefe, will join 17 of the boys' descendents in Edinburgh this week.
As well as visits to the school and the rugby pitches, some of their relatives will reflect on their lives at a special event at the National Library of Scotland.
In conversation with Ms Miller, they will discuss the boys' experiences in Edinburgh and their lives after returning home. The event, on Monday, starts at 18:00. | One hundred years after an Edinburgh school offered sanctuary to a group of boy refugees fleeing the horrors of World War One, this week their descendants will travel to the capital to remember them. | 36427754 |
After a turgid first half which saw Gareth Steenson and Mike Delany trade penalties, the second half burst into life as Chiefs' Thomas Waldrom scored.
A flurry of tries then saw Sonatane Takulua and Nili Latu score for Falcons either side of Phil Dollman's effort to leave the game tied at 17-17.
However, late scores from Sam Hill and Elvis Taione eased the Chiefs clear.
Taione's late score ensured the bonus point and temporarily put Exeter two points clear at the top of the table, only for Saracens to then regain the lead with a 26-16 win over London Irish in New Jersey.
Much of the pre-match talk focused on the return of Exeter's England hopeful Henry Slade from injury, but despite some flashes of quality he was unable to spark this game into life.
Instead that mantle fell to Steenson, who was excellent with the boot and probed and sniped to give Exeter momentum.
Rob Baxter's Chiefs have recovered from a mini-wobble earlier in the campaign to stake their Premiership claims.
At the other end of the table, the Falcons remain second from bottom after leaving with nothing to show for their determined display following the late tries from Hill and Taione.
Exeter: Dollman; Woodburn, Slade, Hill, Whitten; Steenson, Chudley; Moon, Yeandle, Williams, Stevenson, Parling, Armand, Salvi, Waldrom.
Replacements: Taione, Hepburn, Rimmer, Atkins, Ewers, Lewis, Hooley, Bodilly.
Newcastle: Tait; Venditti, Harris, Pablo Socino, Sinoti; Delany, Takulua; Rogers, McGuigan, Cusack, Botha, Green, Wilson, Welch, Latu.
Replacements: Lawson, Harris, Hatakeyama, Mayhew, Hogg, Young, Goode, Penny.
For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter. | Premiership title hopefuls Exeter Chiefs left it late to secure a bonus-point win against Newcastle Falcons. | 35759792 |
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He becomes the fourth Australian to lift the Sir Garfield Sobers trophy after Ricky Ponting,Mitchell Johnson and Michael Clarke.
South Africa's AB de Villiers won the ODI cricketer of the year award for the second year in a row.
Australia captain Meg Lanning was named the Women's ODI cricketer of the year.
Smith, 26, was the sixth highest run-scorer in Australia's triumphant World Cup campaign this year, with 402 runs at an average of 67, and made 1,734 in 13 Tests, at an average of 82.57.
He succeeded Clarke as skipper of the national team and led his side to a 2-0 Test series win over New Zealand last month.
Englishman Richard Kettleborough was named umpire of the year for the third time.
Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year: Steve Smith (Australia)
Test cricketer of the year: Steve Smith (Australia)
ODI cricketer of the year: AB de Villiers (South Africa)
Women's ODI cricketer of the year: Meg Lanning (Australia)
Women's T20I cricketer of the year: Stafanie Taylor (West Indies)
T20I Performance of the Year: Faf du Plessis (South Africa)
Emerging Cricketer of the Year: Josh Hazlewood (Australia)
Associate/Affiliate Cricketer of the Year: Khurram Khan (UAE)
Spirit of Cricket Award: Brendon McCullum (New Zealand)
Umpire of the Year (David Shepherd Trophy): Richard Kettleborough | Australia captain Steve Smith has been named cricketer of the year and Test cricketer of the year by the International Cricket Council. | 35166452 |
The young man, dressed in a white shirt and sitting close to his mother, is told he is not the first employee of this restaurant forced to go to a tribunal to chase what he is owed.
In neighbouring tribunal room C, a tax authority employee tells the panel why he believes he has been the victim of workplace discrimination while suffering from asthma.
It is a typical day ofemployment tribunal hearings- but the rules are set to change as the government considers an overhaul of proceedings in these courts.
Justice Minister Jonathan Djanogly claims the system "weighs heavily on the public purse". Under the plans, those bringing a case to a tribunal, claiming anything from unfair dismissal to sexual discrimination, would be charged a fee for a service that, for now, is free.
The plans have been dismissed as "chequebook justice" by the TUC, which says that the move will be seized upon by unscrupulous employers to "discriminate at will".
Employment tribunal rule changes
Step into any tribunal room across the country and you will find it to be a mix of modern and traditional, of formality and informality.
In fact, when employment tribunals were created in the 1960s, they were supposed to be free of jargon and legal representation was discouraged.
In Leeds, you will often see three middle-aged suited men sit as a panel on a raised platform scribbling down notes as they listen intently to the evidence presented to them.
Yet there are none of the gowns or wigs you will see in a criminal Crown Court, and tribunal judges make an obvious effort to explain the proceedings to claimants in simple, accessible terms.
For the young, apprehensive chef, the proceedings last less than an hour. He explains to a solitary tribunal judge how he was not paid all his wages during five weeks of work at the restaurant in Leeds.
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"Every time I asked them for my wages, they said they did not have the key to the safe, or I would have to wait for a manager to come in," he says.
He expected to be paid £5 an hour, just above the level of the national minimum wage. After complaining, he was invited to resign and, in the end, felt obliged to do so.
Nobody from the restaurant bothered to turn up to the hearing, to hear the tribunal judge accept the young man's evidence, and rule that his wages were unlawfully deducted and that he was effectively unfairly dismissed.
Under the government's proposals, anyone who wins a case against their employer will be refunded any fee they pay at the start of the tribunal process.
It is unlikely the young chef, someone of limited financial means, would have to pay all or any of the initial fee to bring the case if the rules change.
In the adjacent tribunal room in the eight-court complex in Leeds, a senior science teacher is bringing a case against a local council for constructive dismissal.
People like him are much more likely to face a fee - of anything between £200 and more than £1,750 - to have a tribunal case heard from April 2013, under the government's plans.Consultation on these proposalsends on Tuesday.
The position of Mr Djanogly, the minister overseeing the plans, is that the introduction of fees will reduce spurious claims from those who, at present, can bring a case for free and so have nothing to lose.
It would also encourage discussion, conciliation and mediation in the workplace without the need to go through the "slow, expensive and daunting" experience of court.
The Treasury says that, even now, more than 80% of applications made to an employment tribunal do not result in a full hearing.
Almost 40% of applicants withdraw their cases, but employers still have to pay legal fees in preparing a defence. More than 40% settle out of court, and there is no record of how much applicants settle for.
Reducing these cases would give employers more confidence to hire people, according to the CBI. This "red tape" will be reduced from April when the normal qualifying period of employment to go to a tribunal is doubled to two years, a move that the government estimates will lead to 2,000 fewer claims.
The financial argument made by the minister is that the 218,100 claims and 2,048 appeals brought in 2010-11 in England, Wales and Scotland cost a total of £84m.
This cost is being picked up by taxpayers "despite the fact that most of them will never use the service", the minister argues.
This last point is particularly abhorrent to the TUC, which would argue that open justice is far more important that whether workers would consider paying for it.
"This is chequebook justice pure and simple and is a profoundly regressive step," TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said in a speech in January.
"As so few discrimination claims succeed at tribunal anyway, many potential claimants, particularly those who lack the support of a union, would be put off from making a claim - giving a green light to unscrupulous employers to discriminate at will.
"That is something that ought to concern everyone who cares about justice, fairness and equality."
Cases heard at tribunals range from claims of discrimination - on the grounds of disability, race, sex, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief - to a breach of contract, failure of employers to pay various entitlements or equal pay.
The median average award made by a tribunal is £5,000.
The 20-year-old chef, now a student, was awarded £2,489 in unpaid wages and compensation.
But his battle is not over. Nobody was at court from the restaurant company to sign the cheque, and tribunals do not have enforcement powers.
His next stop is the county court, and another legal process to ensure payment is made.
As the government plans for some workers to pay for justice, this young chef has to wait for justice to pay. | In a sun-filled tribunal room overlooking the rooftops of Leeds, a 20-year-old chef nervously explains how his former employer failed to pay his wages. | 17181327 |
Two teenagers were left needing leg amputations, while several others were also seriously injured in the crash on 2 June last year.
An investigation found human error caused the crash.
Merlin has been warned to expect a "very large fine".
Opening the sentencing hearing at Stafford Crown Court, barrister Bernard Thorogood, prosecuting for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), said the crash equated to "a family car of 1.5 tons having collided at about 90mph".
•The £18m Smiler was the world's first 14 multi-loop rollercoaster with up to five trains running at any one time
•On 2 June four trains were operating on the ride; a fifth was stored away
•At 13:00 BST there was a problem with one of the trains; technical staff were called
•One of the engineers thought it was a good opportunity to add the fifth train because the park was busy
•An empty test train was sent but failed
•Engineers pushed the train until it engaged with the system and off it went
•Another empty train was sent out. It got stuck, too, but in a different place
•Engineers were unaware of this, thought everything was working fine and handed it back to operators
•The train with 16 passengers on was sent out and stopped
•The engineers looked but could not see the stalled car, thought the computer was wrong, and over-rode the stop. This set the 16-passenger train in motion and into the empty carriage
Mr Thorogood said a test carriage had been sent around the 14-loop ride but had failed.
Engineers re-set the ride and overrode a computer system "block-stop" which they believed had halted the ride in error, sending a full 16-seater rollercoaster car around the track and into the empty carriage.
He said the "fault here is with the employers", not individuals.
The engineers were "without guidance from above", and had not been given a system to follow to safely deal with the problem on the track, he told the court.
"The fault is with the defendant for not devising a scheme, for not guiding the work of the engineers," he said.
The court heard how there were estimated winds on the day of 45mph. But the manufacturer's manual said the ride should not be operated at speeds above 34 mph.
Mr Thorogood said the victims were left for a "significant period of time" at least 20ft (6m) above ground, waiting for medical attention because of the inaccessibility of the ride.
He said those in the front row spoke of their "disbelief and horror" as they saw "the train into which they were going to dive" approaching.
Engineers on the day had not read or seen the operating instructions for the ride, the barrister said.
During the prosecution, Mr Thorogood made repeated reference to an expert report compiled by Stephen Flanagan, who inspected rides for the HSE.
Parts of the report which were not read in court said management had set targets for downtime on rides "with bonuses linked to achieving acceptably low levels".
One of the engineers "felt pressure" to get the ride "quickly back into service" shortly before the crash, the report said.
The Recorder of Stafford, Judge Michael Chambers QC, said in passing sentence he would consider "not just the impact on those injured, but on those close to them."
In mitigation for Alton Towers, barrister Simon Antrobus said Merlin's top executives had accepted responsibility for the crash from the day it happened and apologised.
"(The company) accepts its responsibility that this should never have happened and accepted that the accident was attributable to failures that, while they were never intended, would have been avoidable with greater care," he said.
Mr Antrobus said Merlin ran more than 120 rides over 11 different sites and was "the most reputable operator in this field".
"It's a good organisation that made a serious failure, but is one that is of otherwise good character," he said.
Asked by the judge if anyone had resigned as a result of the crash, he replied: "No."
Mr Antrobus said Merlin accepted "inconsistency" in staff training was a failure, and that there had been "blind spots" in educating staff.
In April, Merlin admitted charges of breaching the Health and Safety Act.
Since the crash, a number of safety changes have been made including improved access and a policy of closing the ride when winds exceed 35mph. | A court heard Alton Towers operator Merlin Attractions was at fault for a crash on the Smiler rollercoaster ride as footage of the accident was released for the first time. | 37471624 |
Ofcom has issued the firm with a £42m fine, which it said was the largest it has ever handed down.
It found BT's Openreach division had cut compensation payments to telecoms providers for delays in installing the lines between early 2013 and late 2014.
Openreach said it "apologised wholeheartedly" for the mistakes.
The investigation found BT had broken rules about its "significant market power" by cutting the payments.
Gaucho Rasmussen, Ofcom's investigations director, said: "These high-speed lines are a vital part of this country's digital backbone.
"We found BT broke our rules by failing to pay other telecoms companies proper compensation when these services were not provided on time.
"The size of our fine reflects how important these rules are to protect competition and, ultimately, consumers and businesses."
Openreach provides the wires and cables that powers the UK's broadband and landline phone network.
In this case, it failed to pay full compensation to providers when it was late installing ethernet lines - high-speed cables used by large businesses, and mobile and broadband providers, to transmit data.
Earlier this month, BT agreed to Ofcom's demands for it to legally separate Openreach from its main business.
Under the changes, Openreach will become a distinct company with its own staff, management and strategy "to serve all of its customers equally".
BT chief executive Gavin Patterson said the investigation "revealed we fell short of the high standards" for serving telecoms providers.
"We take this issue very seriously and we have put in place measures, controls and people to prevent it happening again," he said. | BT has been hit with a record fine from telecoms regulator Ofcom and has set aside £300m to repay providers for delays in installing high-speed lines. | 39401577 |
Some 31,000 Polish, US and other troops are participating in the land, sea and air exercises called Anaconda-16.
It comes weeks before a Nato summit at which leaders are expected to decide to base a significant number of Nato troops in Poland and the Baltic states.
Russia says Nato troops close to its borders are a threat to its security.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said: "We do not hide that we have a negative attitude toward the Nato line of moving its military infrastructure to our borders, drawing other countries into military unit activities.
"This will activate the Russian sovereign the right to provide its own safety with methods that are adequate for today's risks."
The Anaconda exercises began in 2006 and take place every two years.
About 12,000 Polish and 14,000 US troops will take part this time, as well as 1,000 from the UK and others from Nato states and five partner nations.
The exercises are intended to test Nato's ability to respond to threats.
But the BBC's correspondent in Warsaw, Adam Easton, says there's been a heightened sense of alarm in eastern Europe since Russia annexed Crimea two years ago and Anaconda is a way of reassuring those countries that the Nato military alliance is serious about their security. | Nato countries are taking part in their biggest ever joint military exercises in Poland, amid concerns about a potential threat from Russia. | 36465268 |
Yasutaro Koide, who was born on 13 March 1903, was officially named the oldest man by Guinness World Records in August last year.
At the time he was quoted as saying his secret to long life was not smoking or drinking, not to overdo things and to "live with joy".
Officials said he died of heart failure and pneumonia early on Tuesday.
It is not yet clear who succeeds him as the oldest man.
The title of world's oldest person is held by American woman Susannah Mushatt Jones, who is 116 years old.
She took the title last year after the death of Misao Okawa in Japan at the age of 117.
The oldest person who has ever lived according to Guinness was Jeanne Calment of France, who lived 122 years and 164 days. She died in August 1997. | The world's oldest man has died at the age of 112 in the Japanese city of Nagoya, local officials say. | 35349692 |
Scott and Donna Hussey's son, Freddie, suffered fatal head injuries when he was hit as he walked with his mother in Bedminster, Bristol, in January 2014.
Bristol South Labour MP Karin Smyth raised the case of the family in the Commons in a special debate.
A minister ruled out new legislation but has agreed to meet with the family.
Freddie Hussey was killed when a two-tonne trailer became detached from a Land Rover and careered across the pavement, crushing him.
Andrew Jones, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Transport, said new legislation could be "disproportionately burdensome".
Scott and Donna Hussey have been calling for a test similar to the MoT which would be applied to trailers and towed equipment.
Mr Jones said figures for 2014 showed there had been 1,257 road accidents involving towed vehicles, in which 39 fatalities and 214 serious injuries were involved.
But he said he would meet with Freddie's parents who have campaigned on the issue since their son's death.
After the debate Ms Smith said she was pleased the minister "took this issue very seriously" and that he had set out a number of clear actions that he has pledged to undertake.
Tony Davies, 37, from Hallen, was found guilty of causing Freddie's death through careless driving.
He was sentenced to 200 hours of community service. | The parents of a three-year-old boy killed by a runaway trailer said they were "disappointed" no change to the law is planned to improve their safety. | 35360344 |
The court rejected an appeal by Thomson Airways against an earlier county court decision to award James Dawson £1,488.73.
Thomson argued Mr Dawson's claim fell outside a two-year time limit.
Legal experts said the ruling could lead to more than 11 million passenger claims and cost airlines up to £4bn.
Mr Dawson's solicitors said the judgment meant that airline passengers now had six years to bring a flight delay claim in England and Wales.
In a statement, the firm said it had "hundreds of litigated cases which have been stayed pending the outcome of the Dawson case, and thousands more ready to issue proceedings".
The claim by Mr Dawson, from Peterborough, was brought over a delay to a flight from London's Gatwick airport to the Dominican Republic in December 2006.
His flight was held up by a crew shortage caused by sickness and the flight eventually arrived at its destination more than six hours late.
Mr Dawson sought to recover 600 euros per person from the airline, which is payable as compensation for a flight of that length under European Union regulations.
The EU regulation does not stipulate a time limit for compensation to be claimed, leaving it up to national governments to set time limits. In the case of the UK, the courts have interpreted this to mean that the six-year statute of limitations rule applies.
But the airline argued that a separate regulation known as the Montreal Convention applied.
The convention, which is also law in the UK, sets a two-year time limit for compensation claims, but crucially does not limit the amount of compensation that can be awarded.
As a result, the legal argument centred on whether Mr Dawson's claim had to be brought within the two-year Montreal Convention set limit or the six-year limit statute of limitations.
Mr Dawson began proceedings in December 2012, just before the six-year period elapsed.
Thomson accepted it would have been liable to pay Mr Dawson compensation, but argued his claim was "out of time".
It is the second court case in a week over flight delays, after the Court of Appeal found in favour of a passenger over a flight delay.
Ronald Huzar, whose flight arrived 27 hours late, won a compensation fight with an airline which said the delay was caused by "extraordinary circumstances".
Mr Huzar said he was entitled to compensation under EU regulations after suffering "no little inconvenience" when his flight from Malaga, Spain, to Manchester left a day late in October 2011.
But Jet2.com bosses claimed an exemption, claiming the problem which caused the delay - a technical fault on an airliner - was unforeseeable and amounted to an "extraordinary circumstance". | An airline passenger has won his case at at the Court of Appeal over flight delays, despite waiting six years to bring a case against the airline. | 27920902 |
The Australian-born Green Party leader told activists in a speech on immigration she rejected "those who try and divide us by our country of birth."
She accused politicians of attempting to "sound tough... to stave off the perceived threat from UKIP".
Conservatives want to tighten immigration controls. Labour has pledged prompt action on the issue.
UKIP wants to use an Australian-style points system to select migrants with skills and attributes needed in the UK, claiming annual net migration could be brought back to a "normal level" of about 50,000.
Divide and rule?
Ms Bennett made her speech at the Kurdish Community Centre in Haringey, north London, accompanied by Green MEP Jean Lambert.
"Elections should be about discussion and disagreement - but on the topic of immigration we've seen the entire political establishment attempting to sound 'tough' in an attempt to stave off the perceived threat from UKIP," said Ms Bennett.
"As a migrant, and someone who loves this country for the tolerance it has shown those arriving on its shores, I've watched in horror as politicians line up to blame those not born here for failures in government policy.
"And as a migrant I utterly reject those who try and divide us by our country of birth."
Border staff
She added: "I may have been born on the other side of the world, but that doesn't mean that I don't love this country."
The Conservatives say they plan to "control immigration and build a system that puts the British people first".
"We will regain control of EU migration by reforming welfare rules, tackle criminality and abuse of free movement and cut immigration from outside the EU," a spokesman said.
Labour leader Ed Miliband said his party would set out a "credible" set of measures on immigration within 100 days of taking office.
He has pledged to recruit an extra 1,000 border staff, introduce full exit checks and stop serious criminals coming to the UK.
He also challenged David Cameron to match his pledges, accusing him of "abandoning the issue to UKIP".
The best of BBC News' Election 2015 specials | Natalie Bennett says she has "watched in horror" as migrants are blamed "for failures" in government policy. | 32581091 |
The Athens stock exchange closed nearly 6% lower. Germany's Dax and France's Cac 40 ended more than 1% lower.
Shares also fell in the US, with the Dow Jones index dropping 0.8%.
Cash-strapped Greece is trying to reach a deal that will unlock bailout funds. It is seeking to avoid defaulting on a €1.5bn debt repayment to the IMF.
The payment is due by the end of the month.
According to official sources quoted by news agencies, senior eurozone officials meeting in Bratislava on Thursday held their first formal talks on the possibility that Greece might default.
Also on Thursday, officials from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) pulled out of talks with Greek politicians in Brussels, citing "major differences".
Shares on the Athens Stock Exchange had soared on Thursday amid renewed optimism about Greece's talks with its creditors. The index climbed more than 14% - the best performance in several weeks.
But the IMF's withdrawal has dampened investors' moods.
On Friday, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, president of the Eurogroup of finance ministers, said a deal without the IMF was "unimaginable".
On Friday stocks in the National Bank of Greece fell by more than 10%, while Piraeus Bank fell more than 11.5%.
European and US shares also fell on fears that a potential Greek default would hurt foreign investors in Greece.
However, German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged all parties to continue negotiations.
Speaking at a business conference in Berlin, Ms Merkel said: "Where there's a will there's a way, but the will has to come from all sides, so it's important that we keep speaking with each other." | Shares on European stock markets have fallen amid reports that senior EU officials have discussed a possible Greek default for the first time. | 33106990 |
Briton Timothy Spall was named best actor for his portrayal of the British artist JMW Turner in Mr Turner.
Winter Sleep, a domestic drama telling the story of a family running a hotel in the snowy Turkish mountains, beat 17 other contenders to the top prize.
Ceylan dedicated the award to "the young people in Turkey and those who lost their lives in the last year".
A coal mine explosion in Soma in Turkey recently killed 301 workers.
Mr Turner, directed by Mike Leigh, had been tipped for an award after being lauded by the critics at Cannes.
Spall has said he was ideally cast to play the artist because "he was a funny-looking, fat little man and so am I".
"I've spent a lot of time being a bridesmaid", he said, reading his speech from his mobile phone.
"This is the first time I've ever been a bride".
The best actress award went to Julianne Moore in David Cronenberg's Hollywood satire Maps to the Stars.
Leviathan, a Russian film about corruption, was named best screenplay, while Bennett Miller won the award for best director for his wrestling drama Foxcatcher.
Ceylan, who noted that his award came on the 100th anniversary of Turkish cinema, had previously won awards at Cannes for his films Uzak, Climates, Three Monkeys and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia.
Winter Sleep, which runs for more than three hours, stars Haluk Bilginer - who once appeared in BBC One soap Eastenders - as a wealthy retired actor living with his younger wife and his recently-divorced sister.
Director Jane Campion, who led the jury, said the film was "masterful" and "ruthless".
The jury prize was shared by the oldest and youngest directors at the Cannes festival: Mommy, by 25-year-old Xavier Dolan, and 83-year-old Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language. | Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan has won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Winter Sleep. | 27561439 |
In an interview with the Associated Press at the GLAAD Media Awards on Saturday, Soloway said getting Jenner to join was a "dream come true."
"We are all part of the same community. A lot of the transwomen who work on our show are also in her show, I Am Cait."
Amazon has not officially confirmed Jenner's casting yet.
One of I Am Cait's cast members, Zackary Drucker, is also a producer on comedy show Transparent. Filming begins next week.
The story revolves around a Los Angeles family and their lives after they discover their father Mort (Jeffrey Tambor) is transgender.
I Am Cait is a documentary series on the entertainment channel E!, which chronicles the life of Jenner following her gender transition.
Jenner previously starred with her family in Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Before her transition, she won the decathlon at the Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976 as Bruce Jenner. She is seen as the highest-profile American to come out as transgender.
In a fan question and answer session on her blog last year, Jenner was asked what had given her the courage to come out.
She says: "I had all of my diversions, sports… this… that… married… family.
"But after 65 years, here I was right back with the same problems that I had when I was 10-years-old and I had to finally do something about that.
"It's been both eye-opening and difficult to see first-hand what so many members of the transgender community have had to go through just to be themselves." | Caitlyn Jenner will appear in the third series of Amazon's Transparent, the show's creator Jill Soloway has announced. | 35958362 |
Dalglish, who was manager at the time of the 1989 tragedy, ensured the club was represented at the fans' funerals.
Other key figures receiving the city's highest honour include the Rt Rev James Jones and Professor Phil Scraton.
In April, the 96 who died at the FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield were found to have been unlawfully killed.
The Rt Rev James Jones, the former Bishop of Liverpool, led the Hillsborough Independent Panel which uncovered the truth about the disaster in 2012.
Prof Scraton led the Panel's research team and his book, Hillsborough: The Truth, first published in 1999, is widely accepted as the definitive account of the disaster.
Those who receive the Freedom of the City later this year, including Marina Dalglish, will also be awarded a specially commissioned medal while a brass Freedom of Liverpool plaque is to be placed in the city's Town Hall honouring those who died.
The victims' families were awarded freedom of the city of Liverpool in 2009.
Margaret Aspinall, chair of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, said the awards were "a wonderful tribute".
Dalglish said in an April interview on BBC Radio 5 live, that he and his wife tried "to give the (bereaved) families the support that their loved ones had given us."
"What these families must have been through... it's easy to say 27 years… they have been through some very, very bad days… and they have stayed totally true to their loved ones, they've fought the fight and come out triumphant," he said.
Prime Minister David Cameron said the inquests provided "official confirmation" that fans were "utterly blameless".
The latest recipients will be formally recognised at St George's Hall later this year.
These awards recognise years, and in some cases decades, of selfless work by individuals on behalf of the Hillsborough campaign.
Kenny Dalglish was already widely loved in Liverpool as a player and manager before he spent weeks after the disaster comforting the bereaved and attending funerals.
His sharp responses to questions in the new inquests about allegedly drunk and ticketless fans at Hillsborough only added to the affection in which he's held.
His wife Marina was by his side in the dark days after the tragedy.
But the most important new names on the Freedom Roll at Liverpool Town Hall will be those of the 96.
The dead, and the memories they left for the living, are always at the heart of everything the Hillsborough campaigners do.
Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Tony Concepcion, said: "The campaign for truth has been a long and difficult struggle and has succeeded, in part, thanks to the determination and support of the people we are honouring."
Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson said the posthumous honour was going "to the 96 innocent people who the whole world now knows paid the ultimate price for the failings and actions of others, and who have been disgracefully smeared over many years." | The 96 victims of the Hillsborough disaster and former Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish are to be awarded the Freedom of Liverpool. | 36276885 |
Father-of-two Mark Pilgrim, 48, from Tilehurst, was struck on the eastbound carriageway between Reading and Maidenhead on Friday night.
His death is being treated as murder by Thames Valley Police.
Det Ch Supt Chris Ward said he believed Mr Pilgrim was "ejected" from the vehicle he was travelling in a mile east of Junction 10, towards London.
He added: "We know that at about half past four in the afternoon he was on a bus in Reading but I need to know who he was with, what he was doing and who he was talking with."
A female driver reported hitting a man on the motorway between junctions 10 and 8/9 at about 22:00 BST on Friday. He was declared dead at the scene by paramedics.
A post-mortem examination held on Sunday found Mr Pilgrim had multiple injuries to his head and body, consistent with hitting the ground from a vehicle.
Det Ch Supt Ward said: "Our work so far suggests that Mark was alive until he left the vehicle on the M4 and so we want to hear from anyone who saw anything suspicious on that stretch of motorway before 10pm on Friday.
"We are also trying to trace Mark's final movements on the day of his death, so if you saw Mark on Friday, please get in touch." | A man who was hit by a car on the M4 in Berkshire had been thrown from a moving vehicle, police believe. | 29783058 |
Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, from London, challenged a ruling that said they did not meet the legal requirement of being the same sex.
The judges said there was a potential breach of their human rights, but the government should have more time to decide the future of civil partnership.
The couple said there was still "everything to fight for".
They intend to appeal to the Supreme Court.
A government spokesman said it welcomed the ruling and would take the judgement into account during its evaluation of civil partnerships.
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The BBC's legal affairs correspondent Clive Coleman said the couple had lost by the "narrowest of margins".
Our correspondent said: "The government's 'wait and see' policy, which is based on looking at the take-up of same-sex civil partnerships, was found by Lady Justice Arden not to be not good enough to address the discrimination faced by heterosexual couples.
"However, her fellow judges were prepared to let the government have a little more time and so the case was lost on that issue alone."
Kate Stewart and Matthew Cole, 46, decided to get a civil partnership in Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory, in June 2016, after deciding marriage was not for them.
"Matthew and I didn't feel that marriage reflected our relationship," said Dr Stewart, from Derby.
"The institution [of marriage] is very much unequal depending on your religion.
"We therefore felt it wasn't a status we were comfortable with because it still had hangovers of inequality from the past."
Dr Stewart, 48, said although they believed marriage was right for some couples, it was about having the choice.
They wanted recognition of their relationship after 10 years together, although their civil partnership is still not legally recognised in the UK.
"We paid for the ceremony in pounds, we have a certificate, it was all very British, but as soon as we were back home we didn't have legal recognition," Dr Stewart said.
"The declaration that we were both each other's partner was quite moving... we were on an equal footing. It was surprisingly touching."
Ms Steinfeld, 35, and Mr Keidan, 40, want to secure legal recognition of their seven-year relationship but do not consider marriage suitable for them.
The couple, who have a 20-month-old daughter, have said they want to formalise their relationship within a social institution "which is modern, which is symmetrical and that focuses on equality, which is exactly what a civil partnership is".
"We lost on a technicality," Ms Steinfeld said.
"So there's everything to fight for, and much in the ruling that gives us reason to be positive and keep going."
Dan Squires, QC for the secretary of state for education, who has responsibility for equalities within government, said it had been decided at this stage not to extend civil partnerships to opposite-sex couples, or to either abolish or phase them out.
Instead, he said the government planned to see how extending marriage to same-sex couples impacted on civil partnerships before making a final decision.
All three judges agreed that the status quo could not continue indefinitely.
Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, who supported Ms Steinfeld and Mr Keidan in court, said the ruling was "a defeat for love and equality".
"It cannot be right that lesbian and gay couples have two options, civil partnership and civil marriage; whereas opposite-sex partners have only one option, marriage," he said.
Education campaigner and journalist Fiona Millar, who has been in a relationship with journalist Alastair Campbell for 35 years, told the court they had chosen not to get married "on principle".
After the ruling, she said she was "one of thousands and thousands" of people in the UK who will be waiting for the government to "close the civil partnerships loophole by making them available to all".
Conservative MP Tim Loughton, who recently introduced a Private Member's Bill to give mixed-sex couples the right to a civil partnership, said the government had "no excuse" for delaying a change in the law as the bill received cross-party backing.
MPs are due to debate the bill on 24 March.
Lorely Burt, Liberal Democrat spokesperson for equalities, said the verdict was a "slap in the face" to mixed sex couples who want a civil partnership.
Since the start of the campaign by Ms Steinfeld and Mr Keidan, more than 72,000 people have signed an online petition calling for civil partnerships to be open to all.
The Same Sex Couples Marriage Act extended the right to marry to gay couples in England and Wales in 2014, allowing same-sex couples to choose between civil partnership and marriage.
In 2013, there were 5,646 civil partnerships in England and Wales, but this fell by 85% in the following two years and in 2015, there were 861 couples who opted for civil partnerships over marriage.
In July 2016, the Isle of Man became the only part of the British Isles where both gay and straight couples can enter civil partnerships.
London couple Claire Beale, 49, and Martin Loat, 55, became the first UK couple to take advantage of the legislation in the British Crown Dependency last year, but their partnership is not legally recognised in the UK. | A heterosexual couple have lost their Court of Appeal battle to have a civil partnership instead of a marriage. | 39039146 |
Education Minister Huw Lewis said evidence gathered by Prof Sir Ian Diamond showed the need for a "joined-up approach", considering links between further and higher education.
The review has been examining the current tuition fee subsidy policy.
Sir Ian said there had been calls for change, but no agreed alternative.
His final report is due by September. | A review of student finance in Wales is being widened to consider support for students doing apprenticeships, access and foundation courses. | 35726373 |
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Although Saints are looking to secure another top-eight finish, and reached the League Cup final, speculation remains about Puel's role.
Krueger told BBC Radio Solent: "The time for a football analysis is next week, after the season.
"If we, for the fourth season in a row, end up in the top half of the table, that's a good record to build on."
After the 0-0 draw with Manchester United on Wednesday, Puel refused to comment on his future plans.
"I try to stay focused about our last game now," he said.
"After the season we have time to discuss and speak about this, and make a debrief. It's important to focus on our last game."
Krueger stopped short of saying Puel, 55, was safe in his job, adding that he never commented on football-related decisions.
But he defended the club's progress under the Frenchman, pointing to the club's league position, currently eighth, and defeat by Manchester United in the League Cup final at Wembley.
"As a club, we've taken another step this year in many different ways," Krueger said.
"At the cup final, our fans were on display to the world on a level that I've not seen since I've been in England. We certainly won in the fan category but lost painfully on the pitch.
"But the experience itself gave us a new dimension. The hunger is tremendous to find a way back into Europe."
Krueger also said fans would need to remain patient while the club negotiated potential investment, with Chinese stadium builder Lander Sports Development linked to a stake in the club's holding company.
"We are still in a process and if that process goes through, it will be in the best interest of the club," he said.
"If nothing changes, and we remain in the present ownership structure, we're going to be fine and strongly positioned moving forwards.
"There will be no changes to our budget because of this shift and we feel comfortable in either direction.
"The fans just need to continue to trust, which they have been doing."
Krueger confirmed there would be no new chief executive to replace Gareth Rogers, with director of football Les Reed joining Krueger and Martin Semmens as part of the club's strategic board, which will oversee a management board led by managing director Toby Steele. | Claude Puel's future as Southampton boss will be decided at the end of the season, says chairman Ralph Krueger. | 39950251 |
That is despite many people in the age group having at least one chronic disease.
Participants were asked to rate how confident, cheerful, relaxed and useful they felt in their early 60s and then again aged 68 to 69.
The Medical Research Council survey has tracked the health and wellbeing of 1,700 people since their birth.
When the responses of those aged 60 to 64 were compared to their feelings towards the end of their seventh decade, the survey found there was an overall average improvement in all aspects of wellbeing.
This mirrors the results of previous studies which found that people in their 60s and 70s were more content than those in their 50s.
And a recent large survey of UK adults found those aged 65 to 79 to be the happiest age group.
Those aged 45 to 59 reported the lowest levels of life satisfaction.
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Dr Mai Stafford, the programme leader at the MRC's unit for lifelong health and ageing at University College London, said it was not yet clear what was behind the rise in wellbeing during people's 60s.
"We found that one in five experienced a substantial increase in wellbeing in later life, although we also found a smaller group who experienced a substantial decline," she said.
"The benefit of using a cohort study like this is that we can look at how individuals change over time.
"We hope this will allow us to pinpoint which common experiences may be linked to an improvement in wellbeing in later life."
In their 60s and 70s, people are more likely to prioritise social relationships and look after their mental health, she explained.
"By that time you've worked out what makes you feel better and what doesn't."
Although people are living longer, poor health in old age is still a concern.
Most survey participants reported having at least one common chronic disease such as arthritis, diabetes or hypertension. | The wellbeing of people in their 60s increases as they reach the age of 70, according to a national survey. | 35667488 |
The attack occurred after an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena on Monday.
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In a hugely emotional week, we also saw warm-hearted tributes to the likes of former Bond star Sir Roger Moore who died this week at the age of 89.
In the entertainment world, there was also news of a Mamma Mia sequel, a Top Gun sequel, Katie Hopkins' departure from the LBC and a new character in Coronation Street. Here's a round-up:
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Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk. | This has been a grim and bruising week in the news, with 22 people killed and 64 injured in the Manchester suicide bombing. | 40063280 |
The slogan on the bus read: "Boys have penises, girls have vulvas. Do not be fooled."
A Catholic group, Hazte Oir, had planned to take it on a nationwide tour of Spanish cities.
The group said the ban was illegal and that it planned to acquire a new bus.
One message on the side of the banned bus states: "If you are born a man, you are a man. If you are a woman, you will continue to be one."
It is believed to be a response to posters put up in northern Spain by a transgender rights group, which read: "There are girls with penises and boys with vulvas. It's as simple as that."
An outcry arose in various quarters when the bus was spotted in Madrid on Monday.
The Equality spokeswoman for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, Angeles Alvarez, branded the bus tour "a hate campaign based on intolerance", according to Spain's El Pais newspaper.
A spokeswoman for socialists on Madrid City Council, Purificacion Causapie, called it "contrary to the dignity and rights of transsexual children".
She urged the mayor's office to ensure Madrid remains "a city free of discrimination, violence and attacks on minors". Madrid City Council said the vehicle could incite hatred.
Though the outrage centres on its message, the bus has technically been ordered off the roads for breaching municipal rules on outdoor advertising.
Madrid Mayor Manuela Carmena said the City Council wants the vehicle out of the city "as soon as possible".
The Councilman for Security, Javier Barbero, said on Tuesday that police had contained "the bus of shame".
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The president of Hazte Oir, which translates as "Make yourself heard" has argued that the group has a right to protest against "laws of sexual indoctrination" and the right to freedom of speech.
Ignacio Arsuaga claimed the slogan on the bus states only "a fact of biology that is studied in schools".
The group told the BBC it was not expecting to meet so much opposition.
"The Madrid City Council kidnapped the bus this morning, with no legal order from any court. This is illegal, and our lawyers are preparing a complaint so that our right to freedom of expression is restored," Mr Arsuaga said.
"We are going to appeal this unjust decision and file a criminal case against the extreme-left Madrid mayor."
Hazte Oir intends to visit nine Spanish cities over two or three weeks, and is looking at getting a second bus.
The Mayor of Barcelona made clear the controversial coach would not be welcome there, writing on Twitter: "In Barcelona there is no place for LGBT-phobic buses. We want our children to grow in freedom and without hatred."
Barcelona's City Council has warned the group it could face a fine of up to €3,000 (£2,560; $3,160) for breaching advertising laws if the bus takes to the streets. | A bright orange bus emblazoned with an anti-transgender message has been forced off the roads in Spain, after activists, trade unions, and Madrid City Council united against it. | 39125187 |
It is a model where flats are built purely for private rent, with the building owned by a large investor.
It has been encouraged by the UK government as a way to increase the supply of rental properties.
Lacuna Developments and Watkin Jones are planning to develop a 19-storey block of flats on Academy Street, close to the Ulster University campus.
The same firms have been among the biggest developers of purpose-built student accommodation in the city, selling their student schemes to major institutional investors.
The Academy Street scheme would consist of about 120 flats run by a management company.
Mark Watkin Jones of Watkin Jones said build-to-rent was a "proven model" in other major UK and Irish cities.
Anthony Best, Director of Lacuna Developments, said Belfast has one of the lowest city centre populations in Europe.
He said the scheme would contribute to the council's target of increasing the number of city centre residents.
Lacuna and Watkin Jones will now undertake a 12-week pre-planning application community consultation.
A public exhibition will be held later at The Arc (Arts Resource Centre) on Donegall Street Place.
Official figures suggest almost a fifth of of households in Northern Ireland live in the private rented sector.
It is essentially a cottage industry dominated by thousands of individual landlords renting out a single property.
So this new development, with a single professional landlord owning 100 or more flats in one block, would be a big change.
However, it will only be a microscopic section of a market which consists of more than 125,000 dwellings. | A developer has announced plans for Belfast's first large scale "build-to-rent" housing scheme. | 40776392 |
The club has obtained a Section 106 planning order which states that the club will move into their new ground at Silver Bow on the outskirts of the city by 26 July, 2017.
"All the talking is finished," Truro chairman Peter Masters told BBC Sport.
"The diggers will go in in October this year, the building will commence in October or possibly before."
The agreement is similar to the one that the developers of the rival Stadium for Cornwall are waiting to be granted so they can begin developing their 10,000-seat ground for rugby union club Cornish Pirates.
Both grounds were granted planning permission at the end of July 2015, but had to get approval from the Department of Local Government and the Section 106 order before going ahead.
National League South side Truro had planned to share Torquay United's Plainmoor ground next season, but last month decided to stay at Treyew Road for one final season.
Once the new stadium is built, a retail park will be constructed on the Treyew Road site.
The new ground will meet the minimum grade 'A' standards, with a capacity for 4,000 fans and the potential for that to be increased to 5,000, making it suitable for the highest level of non-league football.
It will also have a synthetic 3G surface and conference facilities.
Masters and fellow businessman Philip Perryman took over the club in December 2012 when it was on the verge of liquidation, having gone into administration earlier that year.
After suffering relegation from what was then the Conference South, the club were promoted back to the second tier of non-league football last year when they won the Southern Premier League play-offs.
"If you think where we've come from, from £4.5m in debt and the ground being sold to a third party and relegation, we've turned it around," added Masters.
"We'll have a new stadium, which the football club will own. Coupled with it we got promotion last season and hopefully we'll make the play-offs this season, all while the club is debt free." | Work on Truro City's new stadium will start in October after the final legal document needed was signed. | 36101580 |
Worst hit was Moore, south of the city, where neighbourhoods were flattened and schools destroyed by winds of up to 200mph (320km/h).
About 120 people are being treated in hospitals. Earlier reports said more than 90 people had died.
President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma.
He also ordered federal authorities to join in the search efforts which have continued throughout the night.
By Jonny DymondBBC News, Moore
There is lightning in the sky above Moore, flickering on and off every 10 or 20 seconds; at ground level the only light is from the blue and red flashing lights of emergency vehicles and the bright portable lights with generators at their bases.
It is deceptively calm; insects chirrup in the background. Everywhere is covered in a light spray of soggy debris and a film of mud.
At the deserted Moore police station, cars are spattered with mud. Larger concrete structures are still standing - a cinema, a supermarket, reminders of what there was before the tornado struck.
But houses, offices and shops have been torn apart by the force of the winds that ripped through here, sturdy telephone poles snapped at their bases, street signs sent flying.
And most disconcerting - though unsurprising - is the complete absence of any residents.
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Monday's twister hit Moore, a suburb of about 55,000 people, at 15:01 (20:01 GMT) and remained on the ground for about 45 minutes.
On Tuesday morning, the chief administrative officer of the Oklahoma City Medical Examiner's Office told reporters that the death toll had been revised down.
"Fifty-one deaths were reported to the OCME during the early phases of the recovery efforts yesterday," Amy Elliott said.
"To date, 24 deceased victims of the tornado have been transported to our Oklahoma City Office, and positive identification have been made in the vast majority of those, and these are ready for return to their loved ones."
Earlier, local authorities said a further 40 bodies had been found but not identified.
Several children are believed to have been killed when Plaza Towers Elementary school took a direct hit. The storm tore off the building's roof and knocked down walls.
"The school was flattened. The walls were pancaked in," Oklahoma's Lieutenant Governor Todd Lamb told the BBC.
"There's still roughly two dozen children that are missing. There have been some bodies recovered from that school and it's absolutely horrific and devastating."
Another school - Briarwood Elementary - was also damaged, and teachers were later seen leading pupils out to safety.
Lt Gov Lamb said Moore had been prepared for a tornado, but not of this strength: "There was a warning in place, but when it veers and is as extensive as this one is - two miles wide - on the ground for 45 minutes, that is just wreaking havoc that it's hard to get out of the way of."
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin said it was a "tragic" day.
More than 200 Oklahoma National Guardsmen as well as out-of-state personnel have been called in to assist the search-and-rescue effort.
The storm destroyed several areas, leaving a tangle of ruined buildings, piles of broken wood, overturned and crushed cars, and fires in some places.
The BBC's Alastair Leithead in Oklahoma says many tornadoes in the region hit the open plain, but this one struck a residential area.
Many houses are built on hard ground without basements, so residents did not have recourse to shelter, our correspondent adds.
"We locked the cellar door once we saw it coming, it got louder and next thing you know is you see the latch coming undone," survivor Ricky Stover said.
"We couldn't reach for it and it ripped open the door and just glass and debris started slamming on us and we thought we were dead, to be honest."
Melissa Newton, another survivor, said: "There's shingles and pieces of sheet rock and wood in our yard and all across our neighbourhood. Some homes are completely gone. It's devastating."
James Rushing said he had hurried to Plaza Towers Elementary School, where his foster son Aiden was a pupil, to see it destroyed by the storm.
"About two minutes after I got there, the school started coming apart," he told the Associated Press news agency.
Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Weather Service (NWS) said Monday's tornado had generated winds of up to 200mph.
"It's certainly the most powerful tornado that I've ever dealt with in my 20 years with the weather service," NWS meteorologist Rick Smith in Norman, Oklahoma, told the BBC.
The NWS said the tornado measured EF-4 on the five-point Fujita scale - the second most powerful type.
The town of Moore was hit by a severe tornado in May 1999, which had the highest winds ever recorded on Earth.
But Betsy Randolph of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol told local news station Skynews 9 that the damage on Monday appeared to exceed that of the 1999 tornado.
Tornadoes, hail and high winds also hit Iowa and Kansas, part of a storm system stretching from Texas to Minnesota.
On Sunday, a tornado smashed a trailer park on Highway 102 near Shawnee, Oklahoma.
Oklahoma's state medical examiner confirmed earlier on Monday that two people had been killed in the area. | At least 24 people are confirmed dead, including seven children, and many are missing after a tornado tore through Oklahoma City, US officials say. | 22604251 |
The ferry operator revealed the attacks took place on consecutive days at Wemyss Bay on the Clyde coast.
The bridge crews of the MV Argyle and MV Bute were subjected to an intense green light at about dusk on 31 March and 1 April.
CalMac said the attacks on the crews were "utterly irresponsible".
Both ferries had been operating the service from Rothesay.
The use of lasers on ferry crews would be an offence under the Merchant Shipping Act and Police Scotland have confirmed officers have started an investigation.
CalMac service director Robbie Drummond said: "I cannot emphasise enough how dangerous such utterly irresponsible behaviour is.
"As well as posing an issue of immediate harm to our crews, these actions are illegal and an offence under the Merchant Shipping Act. They also have the potential to jeopardise the safety of passengers on board and, ultimately, the vessels.
"That may be blunt, but it is absolutely a fact and we condemn the actions of this reckless person or persons in the strongest terms."
A spokeswoman for Police Scotland added: "We can confirm that Police Scotland is investigating these incidents, which are utterly reckless. Thankfully, no-one was injured during these incidents.
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Monika Maldrik says she finished all the assignments for a Higher National Diploma in health and social care management at ABI College, west London.
Ms Maldrik says the delay meant she "lost a year".
The college says it will contest the order made by the County Court Money Claims Centre in May.
The certificate for the course, which ran from September 2013 until May last year, was finally issued in mid-June this year and the college has told Ms Maldrik it is ready to collect.
Her statement to the County Court Money Claims Centre says she paid more than £5,800 in tuition fees for the full-time course.
"Unfortunately, I did not get the service for which I paid," she says in the statement.
The college rejects Ms Maldrik's criticisms of her course but accepts that changes in teaching personnel did cause some delays in marking assignments.
Ms Maldrik, who works for the minimum wage as a carer says she has so far been unable to apply for better jobs because of the delay in issuing the certificate.
The order, which was issued in May after the college did not respond to Ms Maldrik's claim, tells the institution to pay Ms Maldrik, who now lives in Margate, £5,000, including £205 costs.
The college is now applying to have the order set aside and says it will contest the claim.
The college told Ms Maldrik the late issuing of the certificate was due to a block being placed on some candidates by the exam board Pearson which runs the HND qualifications.
A spokesman for Pearson said the exam board was unable to comment on individual cases but said it employed a rigorous set of checks "to enable us to have confidence in any centre which delivers our qualifications which can, on some occasions, result in centres being blocked until any issues have been addressed.
"We regret any distress that this process may cause to students but we have a duty to ensure that standards are upheld nationally so that students, universities and employers can remain confident about the performance of students who complete our courses." | A private college has been ordered to pay £5,000 to a former student who claimed that a certificate for a course she completed was issued a year late. | 36437947 |
The collision happened just before 09:00 BST and the woman, 26, was pronounced dead at the scene.
City of London Police shut the Bank junction for four hours and said the cyclist's next of kin were being told.
She is the eighth cyclist to die on London's roads this year. Transport for London (TfL) said every death was "one too many" and it was "committed to making all roads safer for everyone".
Leon Daniels, from TfL, said the organisation's "deepest sympathies go out to the family and friends" of the cyclist who "tragically lost her life".
"Every death on London's road is one too many and we are committed to making all roads safer for everyone," Mr Daniels added.
"We will do all we can to help assist the police and the local highway authority as they investigate this terrible incident."
On Friday, a 50-year-old cyclist died after colliding with a car in Harrow.
Other cyclist fatalities in recent months include 32-year-old Esther Hartsilver, who was killed in a crash in Camberwell, and designer Moira Gemmill who died in a collision with an HGV close to Lambeth Bridge.
Last year a total of 13 cyclists were killed on the city's roads and 14 died in 2013.
Statistically, the number of cyclist injured or killed on London's roads has fallen.
TfL figures released earlier this month show 432 cyclists were seriously injured or killed on the roads in 2014 - the lowest level since records began.
London Cycling Campaign's (LCC) chief executive, Ashok Sinha, said the group was "deeply saddened" to hear of the news.
"Without knowing the precise circumstances of today's tragedy, fatalities like this underline how urgently we need proper, protected space for cycling, especially at junctions," he said.
The campaign group, which said seven of the eight cycling deaths in London this year have involved HGVs, with construction lorries being the main type of vehicle involved, is calling for safer lorry designs to be adopted.
It described the six-way junction at Bank as a "dreadful throwback to a past, car-dominated era".
Darren Johnson, Green Party member of the London Assembly, said delays in making junctions safer - such as plans to improve Lambeth junction, consulted upon in 2012 as part of the Mayor of London's Better Junction program - were "costing Londoners lives".
He said "again and again" plans were discussed and safety improvements were "shelved".
"The result is that dangerous junctions stay dangerous and inevitably someone dies, or is seriously injured," he added. | A female cyclist has died in a crash with a tipper truck in London. | 33223823 |
Opposition leaders have called for a boycott after a number of protesters died in clashes with security forces.
Under the current constitution, the president cannot seek re-election because he is over the age of 70 and has already served two terms.
President Sassou Nguesso first came to power in 1979.
He is now coming to the end of his second seven-year term. He won the last election 2009 with nearly 79% of the vote in a poll boycotted by half the opposition candidates.
Tens of thousands of people took part in a peaceful demonstration against the referendum in September.
Four people died on Tuesday, when security forces dispersed further protests in the capital Brazzaville and the economic capital Pointe-Noire.
Protesters told the BBC the security forces used live ammunition and that army helicopters were deployed. Several activists and opposition leaders reported arrests and intimidation.
The outcome of Sunday's vote and the Congolese people's response to it will be watched closely in the region, as presidents in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda are also expected to try to run for third terms in forthcoming elections, the BBC's Maud Jullien reports.
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The 69-year-old country star made the declaration following a story in the National Enquirer that she had been rushed to hospital.
"There is absolutely no truth at all that I have stomach cancer," the statement on her website said.
"It is true that I had kidney stones," she said. "I had them removed three weeks ago and I am doing just fine!"
Parton added that she was already back at work following the operation.
"I am back to work and last week I was at Dollywood filming parts for my new movie Coat of Many Colors," she wrote. "I love and appreciate everyone's concern."
Fears for Parton's health were sparked when The Eagles star Don Henley said she had overcome a "medical issue" to shoot a video with him in Los Angeles.
Speaking during an interview at the Americana Music Festival last month, the musician said Parton had "got out of the hospital bed" to join him in the video for When I Stop Dreaming. | Singer Dolly Parton has issued a statement denying a report that claimed she has stomach cancer. | 34536941 |
A new report says that activists, journalists and government critics are locked up for years and often have their sentences extended arbitrarily.
The Uzbek authorities say there are no political prisoners in the country and that torture is being eliminated.
The report looks at the cases of 34 current and 10 former prisoners.
"We have concluded that at least 29 out of these 44 prisoners have alleged credibly that they have been tortured either during the pre-trial custody phase or in prison," Steve Swerdlow, Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch, told the BBC.
One case highlighted in the report is that of prominent journalist Muhammad Bekjanov who has been held since 1999.
Mr Bekjanov is the brother of Uzbek opposition leader Muhammad Salih and used to work on the opposition Erk newspaper.
He fled Uzbekistan for Ukraine but was abducted by Uzbek security forces in 1999 following a series of explosions in the Uzbek capital Tashkent which were blamed on the opposition.
His daughter Aygul - 18 at the time - told the BBC the family was in shock when they discovered what had happened.
"Inside the flat we saw the signs of a struggle. Everything was broken, all the furniture was smashed. Our family and personal photographs had disappeared. We couldn't believe our eyes."
Aygul Bekjanova says she has not seen her father since then, but that her mother visited him two years ago and found him in a terrible state, suffering from TB and with most of his teeth missing.
"My mum says she could not recognise him. He had lost weight to such an extent - he was like skin stretched over bones."
Ms Bekjanova says her father was so severely beaten during one interrogation that his leg broke.
"He told my mother that once prison guards formed two rows, forced him to walk between them while they were indiscriminately beating him with sticks," she said. "Afterwards they left him on the concrete floor for four days without food or water, lying there covered in blood."
Mr Bekjanov was due for release in 2012, but just before that date his sentence was extended by five years for breaking prison rules.
Human Rights Watch says that such methods are a regular occurrence.
"We documented here that the Uzbek government has a policy of extending the sentences of political prisoners on absurd, farcical, completely baseless grounds which they call violation of prison rules," Steve Swerdlow says.
In one case the violations included "incorrectly peeling carrots" in the prison kitchen, according to HRW.
The allegations of torture in the report are serious and include simulated suffocation, beatings, electric shock, hanging by wrists and ankles, as well as threats of rape.
Human Rights Watch says that the prisoners include people who have tried to uncover corruption or seek democratic reforms in a state regarded as one of the region's most authoritarian.
"Uzbekistan should immediately and unconditionally release everyone imprisoned on politically motivated charges, stop arbitrarily extending prison sentences and put a stop to torture in prison," Human Rights Watch says.
Uzbekistan routinely denies that there are political prisoners in its jails. Its officials say that torture is being eliminated and that some officers accused of torture have been prosecuted. | Political prisoners in Uzbekistan suffer "unspeakable abuses", including torture and abysmal jail conditions according to Human Rights Watch. | 29365617 |
Richard Sumner and Julian Barnfield, of the Heythrop Hunt, pleaded guilty at Oxford Magistrates' Court to charges brought by the RSPCA.
Film gathered by anti-hunt monitors over four days during the 2011/12 season was played in court.
Sumner and Barnfield were the master and huntsman of the hunting group.
They pleaded guilty to four separate counts, on four separate occasions, of unlawfully hunting a wild fox with dogs.
Heythrop Hunt Ltd also pleaded guilty to four counts of the same charge.
The presiding magistrate called the RSPCA's £327,000 costs "staggering".
He said the public could question whether the charity's funds to bring the case to court could have been better spent.
Sumner was ordered to pay a £1,800 and £2,500 in court costs.
Barnsfield was ordered to pay a £1,000 fine £2,000 in costs.
In addition, Heythrop Hunt Ltd was fined £4,000 and must pay £15,000 in costs.
The prosecution said hounds had been encouraged to chase foxes - which is banned under legislation that came into force in 2005.
Mr Cameron rode with the Heythrop Hunt on six occasions before the change in legislation.
Both Sumner and Barnfield have since retired from their positions.
An RSPCA spokesman said it was a "landmark" case.
"[It] is thought to be the first where a hunt has faced corporate charges," he said.
"It is also the first taken by the RSPCA involving the prosecution of a hunt itself." | Members of an Oxfordshire-based hunt that Prime Minister David Cameron has previously ridden with have been fined for hunting foxes illegally. | 20758022 |
Cats, Cakes and Coffee opened on Saturday, offering animal lovers the chance to "snuggle" with 10 cats while having food and drink.
Leicester City Council said it has had three reports from concerned members of the public.
But Lisa Rivers, the cafe's owner, said her cats are all happy and the cafe is hygienic.
"Regarding hygiene, the cafe is cleaned at the beginning and end of each day, plus in between each session," she said.
"The cats have three sealed litter trays to choose from, which are also checked and cleaned as regularly as the rest of the cafe is cleaned."
The 10 cats used to live in Ms Rivers' home before she moved them to the cafe.
She said they "laze around most of the day and are very relaxed and happy" as they are used to living together.
Dominic Shellard, vice chancellor of De Montfort University in Leicester, tweeted that he was "very disturbed" when he visited the cafe.
He said there was an "overpowering smell of cat faeces" and the cats "looked very sad".
He added that he was "worried about the cats - and you certainly wouldn't want to eat there".
Ms Rivers said the food is outsourced and none is prepared on the premises, for hygiene reasons.
She said Mr Shellard had been booked for a session starting at 13:00 BST but arrived an hour early, while her son was looking after the cats, then did not return.
Other visitors have given positive reviews, she pointed out, including on the Clarendon Spark blog and on the cafe's Facebook page.
Leicester City Council said its officers were due to carry out a routine food hygiene inspection next week. | Concerns have been raised about hygiene and animal welfare at a new cat cafe in Leicester. | 33791912 |
Aseel Muthana, 19, from Cardiff, joined his brother Nasser in Syria in 2014.
Kristen Brekke, 20, Forhad Rahman, from Cirencester, Gloucestershire, and Adeel Ulhaq, of Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, deny helping in the preparation of an act of terrorism.
Mr Brekke said Aseel Muthana cried at the idea of his brother being a jihadi.
The court heard Mr Brekke became a Muslim while a pupil at Cardiff's Fitzalan High School and took the declaration of faith at a mosque in Riverside.
He met Aseel Muthana in 2012 when they worked together at a cafe in Grangetown - Mr Brekke described him as friendly, easy going and always joking.
At the beginning of the trial, the jury was shown mobile phone footage of Mr Brekke and Aseel Muthana.
In it, they fantasise what they are seeing is a checkpoint in Raqqa, Syria.
Mr Brekke is seen waving a replica gun and Muthana is heard saying: "If you're watching this I'm probably dead - like a legend or something."
He said they had gone to shoot bottles and cans, adding that army surplus clothes found at his home were his and had not been bought for Muthana.
The court previously heard that on 21 February 2014, Muthana left Cardiff on a coach to Gatwick and then took a flight to Larnaca in Cyprus.
From there he travelled through Turkey to Syria. He has not returned.
Mr Brekke, Mr Rahman and Mr Ulhaq all deny helping Muthana travel to Syria.
The trial continues. | A Cardiff man accused of helping a teenager travel to Syria to fight with Islamic extremists is totally against extremism, the Old Bailey has heard. | 35404540 |
At least 21 cars in Festing Road and Salisbury Road in Southsea were targeted overnight.
It is thought a blade was used to puncture holes in the tyres. The damage has left many victims unable to travel for Christmas and is set to cost some hundreds of pounds in repairs.
Police described it as a random attack and are appealing for witnesses.
Sgt Alan Cameron from Hampshire Police said: "Whoever is responsible for this mindless act of damage has not only impacted financially on their victims at an expensive time of year but may have also stopped some of them being able to travel to visit loved ones over this festive period." | Dozens of car tyres have been slashed in a "mindless act" of vandalism in Portsmouth, according to police. | 30597720 |
With Bank of England interest rates at a record low, savers are turning to other ways of making their money grow.
At the moment there are five projects in Wales offering interest above the level offered by most banks and building societies.
But while investors get an income every year, they are tied in for up to 20 years.
The largest project is by Awel Co-op near Pontardawe, which is building two wind turbines to generate power for 2,500 homes.
It is offering 5% per year in interest for 20 years, in return for investment of £50 upwards.
The co-op has already raised £1.23m in this way and hopes that it will reach its target of £2m by the end of October.
Gerwyn Jones, a former teacher and community worker from Swansea, has invested in the project.
"We thought we'd like to put some investment back in the community," said Mr Jones.
"There's a risk involved but it is a cooperative and I understood the ethos, I thought it was a worthwhile way to use the money and the return was going to be healthy after that."
His wife Hilary, a former hairdresser, said: "I was worried about the financial side of it but I think it's the best investment now and the best for the children too.
Crowdfunding schemes - like Small Wind Co-op - and community share schemes - like the Awel Co-op - are not covered by the Financial Conduct Authority or the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
Share offer documents explain how income would be generated, both through electricity sales and government feed-in tariffs, and that investments could be a risk.
Investors have to confirm that they have read and understand this before they apply.
People who invested before the middle of June this year are being promised 7% a year by the Awel Co-op.
But like base rates, its level of interest has also reduced.
David Stonehouse, from Swansea, has invested £2,500.
"The investment will give a better return than what was being offered by the banks and it was also a chance to invest in green issues," he said.
"Considering what the banks are offering at the moment - only at best 1% - if it gets close to 7% or was even half that, it will be better.
"It's not a huge amount of money but it's not something to be sniffed at. I was prepared to take that risk."
Paul and Hilary Coffman, who are moving from Aberdare to live locally, are still making their minds up about whether to invest.
"Just leaving it in a bank or building society seems a bit of a waste of time at the moment and if there's something interesting to invest in, and with a better return, then we're interested in looking at it," Mr Coffman said.
"We could buy vintage cars or do all sorts of things with it, but this is worthy."
£500,000 Ynni Ogwen,Bethesda, Gwynedd (hydro)
£250,000 Ynni Padarn Peris Llanberis, Gwynedd (hydro)
£2m Awel Co-op, Pontardawe (wind, £1.2m raised to date)
£600,000 Carmarthenshire Energy (wind, £387,000 raised to date)
£700,000 Small Wind Co-Op (wind, inc Ceredigion, £670,000 raised to date)
Dan McCallum, chairman of Awel co-op, said people had to be sure they wanted a long-term commitment and to leave before 20 years they would need to apply.
But he said there was a benefit to keeping it local.
"We're not borrowing it from a venture capital fund or a distant bank," he said.
"People are putting their own money in and getting a return on that investment. The returns from energy co-ops over the years have proved very reliable.
"There are risks with the project, but we're building it, we have a guaranteed feed-in tariff price for the next 20 years - a secure income - and a track record in developing these types of project." | Community renewable energy projects are gaining momentum as an alternative option for investors in Wales. | 37087748 |
A photo of Wolfram Gottschalk, 83, and his wife, Anita, 81, went viral after their granddaughter shared their story.
Ashley Baryik, 29 said her grandparents have been separated because there is no room for both of them at the same home in Surrey, British Columbia.
Mr Gottschalk, who has been diagnosed with lymphoma, is on a waiting list to move into the same home as his wife.
In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Ms Baryik posted a touching image of her "Omi and Opi" wiping away tears as they held hands, adding that it was "the saddest photo I have ever taken."
The image has been shared more than 6,000 times online.
Ms Baryik explained that her grandparents were separated in January when Mr Gottschalk went to hospital for congestive heart failure.
While waiting to be placed in nursing home, his wife, Anita, also applied for senior assisted living with the aim of joining her husband.
Mrs Gottschalk was placed in a home first while her husband was moved to a transitional facility, where he continues to wait for an open bed at his wife's home.
"It's heartbreaking for my grandmother, she wants to bring her husband home every night," Ms Baryik told the BBC.
The couple, who have lived apart for eight months, cry every time they are able to see each other, she added.
"It's been emotionally draining for both of them."
Ms Baryik said she appealed for help on Facebook after Mr Gottschalk was diagnosed with lymphoma earlier this week, bringing a new sense of urgency to reunite the couple.
The family blamed the couple's separation on "backlogs and delays by our health care system".
Ms Baryik said the family's pleas to Fraser Health had not been answered over the last eight months, but a spokeswoman contacted them on Thursday to say that finding her grandfather a bed was their number one priority.
The outpouring of support, Ms Baryik said, has been overwhelming, but the family refuses to take donations in order to keep the focus on Canada's senior care system.
"Taking money defeats the purpose for fighting for families who can't afford privatised beds," she said.
"We want everyone's focus to be on fixing the system rather than raising money and putting a band-aid on the issue." | An elderly Canadian couple who have been married for 62 years have been forced to live in separate care homes. | 37198168 |
The filmmaker got word that Gil - also a famous musician - was hosting a prestigious viewing session of Padilha's first feature film "Elite Squad" at his house.
Padilha was furious, as his movie had just been released in cinemas. But a copy of the film leaked during post-production, and hit file sharing websites four months before its official release.
It became a piracy "super-hit" in Brazil. Some analysts estimated that more than a million people watched illegal copies of "Elite Squad" before the movie ever hit the big screens.
When Padilha heard that the culture minister was about to be part of that statistic, with an illegal copy of his movie, he evaded security and knocked on Gil's door demanding the pirate DVD be handed to him - which was promptly done by an embarrassed servant.
Brazil has long been a haven for movie piracy.
A government study found that 41% of Brazilian internet users have downloaded content illegally from the internet.
Piracy is also prevalent on the streets - with DVDs being openly sold in most commercial places and roads, and even outside movie theatres.
So Brazil is an unlikely place for movie subscription service Netflix to be successful.
Yet, since it was launched in Brazil in 2011, Netflix subscriptions have soared in the country.
The company does not release country-specific numbers, but two independent studies suggest Brazil has over the years become the fourth-largest market for Netflix - after US, Canada and the United Kingdom. The company has 69 million users worldwide.
Netflix's chief executive Reed Hastings - who usually refrains from commenting on countries - says Brazil is a "rocket ship" for its company.
When Netflix's Brazil and Latin Americas service started in September 2011 it was the firm's first venture outside of North America.
The region was chosen for three primary reasons - broadband penetration was considered big enough as a market, incomes at the time were rising rapidly, and there was an appetite for Hollywood content.
Netflix's chief communications officer Jonathan Friedland says there was another important reason that facilitated their entry.
"In Europe you have to buy individual content licences for every movie or TV show in each country, such as France, Germany or Spain," he says.
"In Latin America, you only need to two licenses - one for all Spanish-speaking countries and another one for Brazil."
Netflix's strategy against piracy was put to the test in Brazil, a country where users and sellers are rarely brought to justice for that crime.
The company decided to beat piracy by being competitive.
"If you offer good content at low prices and rapidly - releasing series in the same moment in Brazil as people are getting them in the US - that makes piracy less enticing," says Mr Friedland.
One of the key elements in its strategy is pricing. Netflix subscriptions in Brazil vary from 19.90 to 29.90 reais ($5 to $7.50; £3 to £4.60) a month. One movie ticket alone in Sao Paulo costs 30 reais ($7.50).
For that same amount of money you can buy about 10 illegal DVDs in the streets, but the quality is not always reliable.
And while many Brazilians illegally download films and TV shows, others are either not technologically savvy enough to do so, or are too concerned about computer viruses and malware.
For commentator Sergio Branco, director at the academic think tank Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro, Netflix's low prices is a key factor behind its success, making it more attractive to users than online piracy.
He also praises the firm's subscription-based model, which is mirrored at music streaming service Spotify, and online book provider Oyster Books.
Mr Branco says: "Instead of charging for a movie or a song or a book, these services charge a monthly fee for people to have access to a vast archive of cultural services."
Mr Friedland adds that when Netflix enters a country, the rates of internet file sharing drop.
"Most people don't want to steal," he says. "They don't want viruses in their computers, they don't want the hassle of it."
In addition to getting its pricing right, Netflix also had to work hard to adapt to local consumer habits, such as issuing pre-paid cards, and getting partnerships with local banks to allow payment for users who do not have credit cards.
Brazil's often low-quality internet connections also tested the company's adaptive streaming technology - that adjusts the quality of video transmission according to available bandwidth.
According to Netflix, Brazil's current economic woes is not hampering business there, as its product is seen by consumers as a cheaper alternative to going out.
Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings said earlier this month, in a presentation of the firm's latest results, that its base in Brazil is still growing, despite the economic contraction.
He said: "In Brazil, a value-based product that is very inexpensive is appreciated. Even though there are tight economic times currently, that has not held back our growth."
But what does hit Netflix is currency fluctuation. This year's appreciation of the dollar has made some international markets less profitable for shareholders in dollar-terms - particularly in Brazil, where the currency has lost 30% in value.
According to Mr Friedland, Netflix is still in "rocket ship" mode in Brazil, and now attracting content producers in the country.
Four years ago the company was approached by Jose Padilha - the same piracy-aggrieved movie director - who proposed a series about the history of cocaine in Latin America.
The Netflix original "Narcos" - based on the life of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar - premiered in August and was an international success.
In Brazil, it went down particularly well, with national star Wagner Moura in the main role, and music by popular singer Rodrigo Amarante.
Now Netflix wants to draw content out of countries like Brazil and launch it globally.
The company recently had a contest for young Brazilian filmmakers and gave global distribution to the winner's production. Next year it will launch "3%", a science-fiction series set and produced in Brazil and spoken in Portuguese. | In 2007, the acclaimed Brazilian movie director Jose Padilha pulled a daring stunt on the country's then Culture Minister, Gilberto Gil. | 34848094 |
One of T-14 Armata tanks suddenly stopped on Red Square, and the driver raised a red flag - apparently to signal that he had problems.
A tow vehicle was brought in, but the tank later managed to drive on.
The parade announcer said the stoppage had been planned to show how to "evacuate weaponry".
This prompted laughter from the crowds who gathered to watch the rehearsal in the Russian capital, Reuters reports.
Alexei Zharich, deputy head of the Uralvagonzavod tank producing factory, later wrote on Twitter (in Russian) that the tank "was in full working order and left on its own".
He also posted a video showing the vehicle leaving Red Square.
Russia's military was responsible for the rehearsal, Mr Zharich added, and any questions should be addressed to it.
The T-14 Armata has been the most talked-about innovation in Russia's new armoury ahead of the 9 May World War Two Victory parade.
It has a remotely controlled cannon and offers additional protection to its crew, Russian military experts say.
And Russia's RT news says the Armata could "evolve into a fully robotic battle vehicle".
The experts also claim the tank is superior to the T-90 - the current mainstay of the Russian army - and also to all Western analogues.
Russia plans to bring in about 2,300 Armatas, starting in 2020. | Russia's new high-tech battle tank has ground to a halt during a rehearsal for 9 May Victory parade in Moscow, prompting speculation of a breakdown. | 32628236 |
Since Sam Smith collaboration, Latch, catapulted Surrey brothers Guy and Howard to fame (and triple platinum status in the US alone), they have racked up Grammy, Brit, and Mercury Prize nominations, along with a number one album Settle.
As they return with their sophomore album, Caracal, Howard spoke to the BBC about their whirlwind success and what we can expect from their much anticipated comeback.
So why did you call this album Caracal?
We work with a lot of different vocalists and ended up writing about a wide array of completely unrelated subjects so there isn't one message that runs through every song. It isn't a concept album. For that reason we couldn't pick one title that would sum up everything on the record so we thought we'd just stick an art work on there which was amazing in its own right, and name the album after the art work.
A caracal is a cat, right?
It is. It's been my favourite animal since I was a little boy because they look so cool and no one seems to really know about them.
How has your sound evolved since your debut album, Settle?
It's not so much the actual sounds that we use that have changed because they are a quintessential part of what Disclosure is, but it's the context that we're putting them in. What has changed is the types of songs that we're writing.
A lot of this album isn't house music. We just wanted to experiment with some other genres because we weren't raised by house music and, although we love it, it's not where we're from. It's more influenced by R&B, soul and jazz.
Was it a natural decision for Sam Smith to be the featured artist on the single, Omen?
To be honest, Sam is the only person from the last record that we thought we might use on this one again, purely because he's such a good friend of ours. It would feel like a waste to not get him on board. We work with him all the time anyway and I'd say he's probably our favourite person to write with in the world. We got in the room for a catch-up, more than anything, and ended up writing about five songs.
Featuring on Latch helped to propel Sam from a relative unknown to a global superstar. Are there any new artists featuring on this album that you expect to head in a similar direction?
I'd like to hope that all of them are. There's no reason that someone like Kwabs couldn't be equally huge as Sam. He has such a beautiful soulful voice, and some great songs too.
How did you decide who to work with?
We have three criteria. They have to be good singers. They have to be able to write music, because when we work with someone we sit down around the piano with them and write a song from start to finish. We don't want to just finish the song ourselves and tell them to sing it, because we like them to feel what they're singing about and have a connection to the song. And they have to be nice.
It must be very interesting seeing each artist's songwriting process?
Absolutely. But more than anything it's been very educational. We wrote this whole album with Jimmy Napes who likes to come up with the title of the song before writing the actual song. He says it gives him a base of subject to work around and build on. I like that idea.
Lorde was definitely one of the more interesting ones to write with. She has such a clear idea of what she wants to do and that's why she's such a good artist, you know? She has such an identity with her music. She got involved in everything, even the production.
What is the biggest way in which the success of Settle changed your life?
It's allowed us to make music for a living. Before this, Guy was working in a clothes shop and I was at school. Now we're both professional musicians. And we've moved out of our parents' house and into London.
The success of Latch in America has also completely blown our minds. That song is nearly four-years-old now and it's still playing on the radio in America. It actually broke the world record for staying in the top 40 for the longest amount of time ever in US.
What's next?
The album comes out at the end of the month. We're doing a big American tour including Madison Square Garden. When we were growing up we used to watch a video of Led Zeppelin playing Madison Square Garden with our dad every weekend. After that we go on a world tour…all over again!
Caracal is released on 25 September on Island Records. | It's been a busy couple of years for electronic music duo, Disclosure. | 34328585 |
She went to hospital in New York City on the advice of her doctor on Friday evening.
Sean Lennon and her spokesperson were quick to quash reports that she had suffered a stroke, saying that she was only experiencing "flu-like symptoms".
"She's home and running about as usual. Just the flu in the end," Sean tweeted on Saturday evening.
Ono, 83, was married to former Beatle John Lennon until he was murdered in 1980 outside New York's Dakota Building, where she still lives.
An ambulance was called to the building at 21:00 on Friday (02:00 GMT Saturday), a Fire Department spokesman said.
Ono spent the night in Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan. | Artist and musician Yoko Ono is back at home after spending a night in hospital, her son Sean Lennon says. | 35677094 |
Gordon, 23, joined Thistle in the summer from Hamilton Academical and has appeared 19 times for the Firhill side.
Jagiellonia Bialystok are currently joint top of the Ekstraklasa and it is believed Thistle did not demand a fee for the versatile defender, who has a Polish mother.
Gordon came through the ranks at Accies and made his top-team debut aged 17.
Meanwhile, the Jags signed defender Niall Keown on Tuesday. | Partick Thistle defender Ziggy Gordon has signed for Polish top-tier club Jagiellonia Bialystok. | 38745648 |
The latest blast took place at an apartment block at 08:00 local time (00:00 GMT) in Liucheng county, said state media.
Seventeen separate parcel explosions hit Liucheng on Wednesday.
A man suspected of having built the bombs - 33-year-old Wei Yinyong - died in one of the blasts, media said.
Earlier reports said a suspect had been arrested.
The cause for Thursday's blast was not clear, and no casualties have been reported. It is also not known if the blast is connected to the multiple explosions on Wednesday.
Thursday's explosion took place at a six-storey building in a residential area. Xinhua news agency said the force of the blast had caused debris to rain down on a road opposite the building.
Local police issued a statement calling on the public to be wary of accepting parcels sent by strangers or packages "sent by non-proper channels".
The local postal service has halted all deliveries until Saturday.
The parcel bombs on Wednesday targeted a prison, a railway station, a hospital and a shopping centre among other locations.
State media said 51 people were injured in the afternoon's blasts.
A video reportedly of one of Wednesday's blasts taken from a street surveillance camera has since emerged, showing a person being catapulted out of a shop as a bomb goes off inside. Another person walking down the street past the shop is knocked to the ground by the powerful blast.
The BBC's John Sudworth in Beijing says there have been a number of cases in China of disaffected people with a legal grievance against the authorities using explosive devices in public attacks. | Chinese authorities are investigating a fresh explosion in Guangxi province, following a series of parcel bombs that have left 10 people dead. | 34409394 |
The theft took place at about 14:15 BST at the Amber Shop and Museum in Market Place.
A Suffolk Police spokesman said the theft was carried out by a man and woman. No violence was used and it is believed they stole items from a display in the shop.
They then ran off down an alleyway., Anyone with any information is asked to call Suffolk Police. | Jewellery worth about £10,000 has been stolen during a raid in Southwold. | 37528802 |
Prof Paul Gringras argued the setting should filter out the blue light that delays the body clock and keeps people awake later into the evening.
The doctor, from Evelina Children's Hospital in London, said every new model was "bluer and brighter".
He said manufacturers needed to show more "responsibility".
As it gets darker in the evening, the body starts to produce the sleep hormone melatonin - which helps people nod off.
Certain wavelengths of light, those at the blue-green end of the spectrum, can disrupt the system.
Prof Gringras was part of a study, published in Frontiers in Public Health, analysing the light emitted by devices.
It concluded there was a clear trend for new devices to be bigger, brighter, have higher levels of contrast and emit more blue light.
The professor of children's sleep medicine told the BBC News website: "That is great for use in the day, but awful for use at night.
"There is converging data to say if you are in front of one of these devices at night-time it could prevent you falling asleep by an extra hour."
He said some sleep-aware apps had already been designed to reduce blue-green light emissions.
And that a bedtime mode could automatically filter out the blue as software such as f.lux already does.
He said there needed to be "more responsibility from manufacturers" and the "key is to automate it".
Prof Gringras added: "It's not good enough to say do less and accept this is the world we live in, they're fun devices but we do need some protection on what they do at night-time."
Follow James on Twitter. | Smartphones, tablets and e-readers should have an automatic "bedtime mode" that stops them disrupting people's sleep, says a leading doctor. | 34744859 |
It marks the first phase of Plasdwr, a 900-acre site bordering Fairwater, St Fagans, Danescourt and Radyr.
Work is expected to start to the north and south of Llantrisant Road in the summer and the first residents are expected to move in by spring 2017.
Construction of the first phase of the garden city will generate between 2,000 and 3,000 jobs, Redrow Homes said.
The developers said Plasdwr would include shops, schools, leisure centres, pubs and restaurants. | The first 630 of 7,000 homes planned for a £2bn garden city in Cardiff have been given the go-ahead. | 35545325 |
Vasilijs Ransevs, 33, was found dead from a head injury in his bedsit in Portland Street, Lincoln, on 16 June.
A 17-year-old girl and three men, aged 20, 29 and 31, were arrested earlier after police executed warrants at several addresses across the city.
They are all helping police with their inquiries and officers are still appealing for information.
Det Supt Stuart Morrison said: "We are still appealing for information in this case and we would urge anyone who knows anything about Mr Ransevs and his death to get in touch with us as soon as possible."
Mr Ransevs had lived in Lincoln for about two years, and in Peterborough prior to that.
Police said a friend found him dead in the bedsit, and he had been last seen alive on 14 June. | Police have arrested four people in connection with the death of a Latvian agricultural worker. | 23406362 |
The milestone reflects a return to growth for exports of Scotch more widely, with nearly £4bn of overseas sales in total.
Exports account for around 93% of production.
That follows a dip in 2014 and 2015, when a rapid increase in previous growth was checked by disrupted overseas markets.
Chinese officialdom cracked down on lavish hospitality, while key growth markets in Venezuela and Brazil hit serious economic difficulties.
British exports of gin, meanwhile, rose by 13% last year, as it enjoyed a boom in variety and interest, rising to £474m worth.
The return to growth for Scotch whisky has been driven by the success of single malts appealing to luxury and prestige markets.
These have to be made at one distillery, from malted barley, and matured for at least three years in traditional casks.
They are led by brands including Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, the Macallan, Jura, Laphroaig, Talisker and Highland Park.
Figures issued this month by HM Revenue and Customs trade shows the amount of pure spirit exported as single malt in 2016 was equivalent to 113m standard bottles at 40% strength.
That did not rise as fast from 2015 as the value placed on single malts, as distillers find new expressions and add new features with which to add super-premium value.
These include longer maturation, stronger, cask-strength versions, and different types of cask flavouring.
The total value of single malt exports reached £1.02bn, up from £914m in 2015.
It now represents nearly 10% of the volume of Scotch exported, and more than 25% of its value.
The total value of Scotch whisky exported from the UK last year reached £3.999bn. That was a rise from £3.845bn in 2015. The previous three years were above £4bn, peaking in 2012 at £4.283bn.
The USA remained the biggest market for the value of sales, rising from £749m to £854m.
France remained the biggest importer of Scotch by volume, with 189m bottles. The value of sales in France was £424m, of which single malts made up £153m.
Other major markets for Scotch include India. It has high trade barriers to bottled Scotch, but the country's distillers import large quantities in bulk, for mixing with "Indian-made foreign liquor".
The value of exports to India was up from £85m in 2015 to £96m last year.
Singapore is a distribution centre for south-east Asia and one indicator of the strength of the Chinese market for Scotch. Sales there were £224m, up from £210m in 2015 and £200m the previous year.
Single malt sales have been an important part of the success of whisky in China. Although the value of the premium brands fell from £52m to £46m, the volume sold went up to 9.6m bottles.
Further analysis of the figures by Leon Kuebler, head of research at WhiskyInvestDirect, an online marketplace, showed the impact of the weaker pound helped the value of sales accelerate.
In the first half of 2016, the value of exports was down 1% while volumes increased. But after the European referendum and the slump in the value of sterling, the value of sales rose nearly 7%, and faster than volume increases.
That research also noted the rise in exports to Spain, which was a big consumer of Scotch until the financial crash. The value has returned to its highest level since 2007. | Single malt Scotch whisky topped £1bn worth of exports for the first time in 2016. | 39022740 |
They will meet the NI Secretary on Monday "to satisfy ourselves of the proper conditions for our full engagement in the new talks process".
The crisis was sparked by the murder of a former IRA man last month and the impasse over welfare reform.
On Friday, the prime minister called on the five main parties to take part in talks to try to resolve the crisis.
In a statement on Sunday, the UUP said: "The Ulster Unionist Party will enter talks, all things being equal.
"We have imaginative ideas, including the pathway to unblocking welfare, which we proposed at the talks last week.
"The status of the IRA and Sinn Fein's denial must be addressed as a matter of urgency, not relegated to the bottom of the agenda, as it was this week.
"We will meet the secretary of state early on Monday to satisfy ourselves of the proper conditions for our full engagement in the new talks process."
The crisis followed the killing of Kevin McGuigan Sr and the chief constable's assessment that members of the IRA had a role in the murder, and that the organisation still existed.
Last Wednesday, Bobby Storey, a former IRA prisoner, who is currently the northern chairman of Sinn Féin, was one of three senior republicans arrested over the murder. All were later released without charge.
On Thursday, DUP leader Peter Robinson announced he was stepping aside as first minister and that other DUP executive ministers would resign.
He asked his party colleague Arlene Foster to take over as acting first minister, after the DUP failed to get enough support to adjourn the assembly.
The Ulster Unionists had said they would not return to talks unless the Provisional IRA's existence was the first item on the agenda.
Also on Sunday, Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt said: "The IRA has established a crime empire with tentacles which stretch across the border into the Irish Republic and beyond this island.
"The government needs to show the resolve to confront paramilitary criminality in our society and remove it, once and for all." | The Ulster Unionist Party has indicated it will take part in talks this week to try to resolve the crisis at Stormont. | 34237720 |
The government announced on Wednesday that the price was to increase in a bid to ease crippling fuel shortages.
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said the rise from 86.5 naira ($0.43) a litre to 145 naira should be reversed.
In 2012, the government was forced to back down on a similar price rise after nationwide protests.
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The subsidy, which has kept the price low, costs the government $2.7m a day and there is no provision for it in the recently approved budget for this year, the petroleum ministry said in a statement.
Recent fuel shortages have seen Nigerians paying up to 350 naira a litre on the black market, it added.
The subsidy has also encouraged corruption with the government often paying for more fuel than Nigerians use, says oil analyst Neil Ford.
Despite being one of Africa's largest oil producers, Nigeria has to import fuel to meet demand as its refineries are dilapidated and work at a fraction of their capacity.
Petroleum Minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu said that the price rise should stabilise the market and help end the fuel scarcity.
But "even with the new price regime, Nigeria would remain one of the cheapest fuel markets in Africa," he added.
He also argued that increased competition in the sector will drive prices down.
One of the reasons behind the scarcity has been the shortage of US dollars held by the central bank that importers could use to buy the refined fuel.
As well as dropping the subsidy, the government has announced that importers can now buy dollars from other sources.
Some fuel stations in Nigeria have already begun to sell petrol at prices dictated by the market.
Many here in the capital, Abuja, started last night after the announcement that the subsidy had been scrapped.
Only filling stations owned by the state-run NNPC firm are selling at the old price until they exhaust their current stock.
And fuel is likely to be even more expensive in northern Nigeria because of the cost of transporting it there.
In January, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde urged Nigeria to drop the subsidy saying that it encouraged corruption and does not "help the poor".
But the NLC has argued that given the other economic difficulties ordinary Nigerians are facing, "the least one had expected... was another policy measure that would further make life more miserable".
It added that its national executive will be meeting on Friday to decide exactly what action to take. | Nigeria's trade union federation has said it will resist what it calls the "criminal" 67% rise in the petrol price, as fuel subsidies are removed. | 36274402 |
MyShake was launched for Android devices in February and has now been downloaded over 200,000 times.
Enabled phones have recorded hundreds of quakes all over the globe since then - some as small as magnitude 2.5.
These more sedate tremors were picked up in Oklahoma.
Traditionally, this US state has not been considered earthquake country but seismic activity has increased as a consequence of local oil and gas production.
Prof Richard Allen from the University of California at Berkeley said MyShake had become a useful tool for residents to monitor what was occurring in their region.
"These are induced earthquakes due to wastewater pumping. So there are lots of issues around what might happen, how big these earthquakes might be - and there's been a lot of pushback.
"We want to empower people to understand what the process is," he told BBC News.
The MyShake app relies on a sophisticated algorithm to analyse all the different vibrations picked up by a phone's onboard accelerometer.
This algorithm has been "trained" to distinguish between everyday human motions and those specific to an earthquake.
It works in the background - much like health apps that monitor the fitness activity of the phone user.
Once triggered, MyShake sends a message to a central server over the mobile network. The hub then calculates the location and size of the quake.
"MyShake is performing better than we'd hoped," said Prof Allen.
"We are actually recoding very small magnitude earthquakes, down to magnitude 2.5 in places like Oklahoma and California. We're recording the bigger earthquakes - the Ecuador quake in April, M7.8, is the largest so far; and also really deep earthquakes, down to depths of 350km.
"So, from a scientific standpoint, it’s starting to produce this incredible dataset and we’re just beginning to understand what we can do with it."
Prof Allen was speaking here at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
He came to announce a new version of the app that now pushes notifications to users.
This is a key next step because the idea eventually is to use the detections being made by devices to issue alerts.
In a dense network, the phones closest to the epicentre would sense the oncoming shaking and then tell cells further afield of the danger heading their way.
The early warning might only amount to a few seconds, but that would at the very least give people the thinking space to start to adopt the famous safety routine - to "drop, cover and hold on".
MyShake is not there yet.
The notifications now being issued with the new app version are being served from conventional seismic networks, and they arrive some minutes after the event.
But as more and more phones join the MyShake system and the Berkeley team improves its detection algorithm, the big switch to an early warning mode should be possible.
UC Berkeley developer and graduate student Qingkai Kong reported to the AGU meeting on performance of the app.
He showed how phones could readily detect the first seismic waves to arrive at a user’s position - the so-called P-waves. These less destructive vibrations run ahead of the far stronger and more damaging S-waves.
Being able to distinguish between the two is at the heart of early warning capability.
"We already have the algorithm to detect the earthquakes running on our server, but we have to make sure it is accurate and stable before we can start issuing warnings, which we hope to do in the near future," said Kong.
The v2 release of MyShake is now available in the Google Play store. An iOS version should be ready for download in springtime.
Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos | The researchers behind an app that turns a smartphone into an earthquake detector say they have been thrilled by the take-up and performance of their citizen science network. | 38349755 |
Just over 24 hours after Britain's worst football stadium tragedy, Monsignor Vincent Malone surveyed Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral with a growing anxiety.
A requiem Mass had been hastily arranged in the aftermath of the disaster at the Liverpool v Nottingham Forest FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield, which would eventually cost the lives of 96 people.
"People were heading to the cathedral like ants," recalled parishioner Rita Pinto.
Press photographer Tom Murphy added: "People who claimed not to believe in God or faith just came to the cathedral because there was nowhere else to go."
As a priest, Monsignor Malone might be expected to be glad to see so many turning to the church in their hour of need but there was one snag - the cathedral looked to be reaching its 3,000 capacity nearly 90 minutes before the Mass was due to start at 18:00.
"People started arriving around 4:30 and it soon became pretty clear we seemed to be getting over-full," he recalled.
"This was the worst possible situation," he added.
He decided to close the cathedral immediately and conduct a simultaneous service on the piazza at the building's rear.
Consulting with the police he had an urgent request - for a megaphone.
So as fans, councillors and Liverpool first team members gathered inside for the start of a service, Monsignor Malone was walking to the rear of his cathedral where more than 6,000 people had massed.
In a freezing wind on a piazza, where in joyful times Pope John Paul II had gone on walkabout in 1982, the people had waited for the service as the Salvation Army band played.
"What sticks in my mind most is, as I walked round to the piazza, I could hear waves of applause and wondered if the Salvation Army Band were still playing like they had been for most of the afternoon," he said.
"When I got there I was very moved to see that the people were applauding as individuals placed their football scarves on the outdoor Altar.
"It was a very unusual experience, I thought my megaphone would be one where I held a talk piece to my mouth but instead I had to speak into the trumpet directly.
"I wish I had had the foresight to get a copy of Archbishop Derek Worlock's sermon - I could have read it out. The cathedral seemed to be the only place outside of Anfield where people could come together that day to express their corporate grief."
Electrician Tony Zeverona had initially been outside the cathedral with a friend who was begging to be let inside because he had lost a relative.
"The man on the door agreed and asked did I want to go with him and I said 'yes' - to be honest it was a bit of a blur," said Mr Zeverona, who had been in the stands at Hillsborough the day before.
Earlier he had visited an injured friend in a hospital in Sheffield before going to the Anfield stadium where fans were laying tributes.
"I got home and my wife told me about the cathedral service - I had to go. I think it helped a lot of people. The people of Liverpool really came together."
For Liverpool players, the Mass was the first of many services they would attend as the club arranged for at least one player to attend each victim's funeral.
Midfielder Ronnie Whelan said: "I attended the Catholic cathedral service but my memory is a bit hazy. I have stronger memories of the service at the Anglican cathedral [the following week].
"It was so sombre. Very, very emotional - especially when You'll Never Walk Alone was sung," he said. "It was very, very difficult - although much more difficult for the families.
"I attended two funerals. You feel a little bit guilty. What can you do? The families seemed to appreciate it though."
In the blue half of the city, some Everton fans felt awkward in the tragedy's aftermath.
"We were caught between not wanting to intrude almost - and perhaps be seen as a bit phoney or insincere - and not wanting to appear unconcerned," said Evertonian Greg Murphy.
"I often say that the city as a whole didn't know how to react until late on the Sunday.
"The cathedral service was a great catalyst for focusing everyone's attention, because by that stage people knew how big a disaster it had been and were coming to understand that this was a global news story and so the cathedral event served to validate people's grief.
"I recall people saying 'I don't know why I feel so bad, I don't even like football, I don't know anyone who was there, I didn't even know where Hillsborough was until yesterday - but I feel dreadful'.
"The cathedral event pulled all that together - for everyone." | One day after the Hillsborough disaster - as the people of Liverpool struggled to comprehend the enormity of the tragedy - a remarkable service attended by 9,000 people took place at the city's Roman Catholic cathedral. | 26925745 |
Authorities in England and Wales will be able to demand owners be trained, muzzle dogs or insert microchips.
It follows changes made earlier this year enabling prosecution for a dog attack on private property.
Animal welfare minister Lord de Mauley said the government was taking "tough action" against negligent owners.
Prison sentences for owners of violent dogs were extended earlier this year as part of changes to the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991.
Owners now face a maximum of 14 years for a fatal dog attack, five years for an injury and three years for an attack on an assistance dog.
In 2013, 6,740 people required hospital treatment for dog attacks - an increase of 6% from 2012.
In total, eight adults and 13 children have died from dog attacks since 2005.
In October last year, Jade Anderson, 14, was mauled to death by a dog, but the owner could not be prosecuted under the Dangerous Dogs Act because it did not happen in a public place.
But in May, the Act was amended to allow prosecution if the pet attacked someone who was on private property, regardless of the circumstances by which they were there.
"Dog attacks are devastating for victims and their families which is why we are taking tough action against those who allow them to happen," Lord de Mauley said.
"Police and local authorities will now have more powers to demand that irresponsible dog owners take steps to prevent attacks before they occur."
Around nine postmen and women are attacked by dogs across the UK every day.
Shaun Davis, Royal Mail director of safety, health, wellbeing and sustainability, said he was "pleased" with the measure.
A manual will be released alongside the new legislation to help guide local and police authorities.
The national policing lead for dangerous dogs, Deputy Chief Constable Gareth Pritchard, said: "The practitioners manual gives police officers and other practitioners clear guidance on how to best implement the legislative changes, especially the early preventative measures such as community protection notices, to help prevent more serious events occurring in the future.
"It also provides a platform to share good practice between police forces and partner agencies and it will form part of the ongoing training of dog legislation officers across England and Wales." | Pet owners face fines of up to £20,000 if they fail to take steps preventing dog attacks, as new laws come into force from Monday. | 29653486 |
Treating wounds caused by issues such as pressure ulcers costs the Welsh NHS 10% of its annual budget - £600m. Across the UK the bill is about £4bn.
But one Wrexham-based mattress company says it has devised a system that can move a patient every 10 minutes, to reduce the risks.
Another development is using 3D cameras to measure and monitor wounds.
"You can never underestimate the patient experience with pressure ulcers," said Paula Lawrence, a specialist nurse at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.
"It impacts severely on their quality of life - often leading to patients feeling isolated, embarrassed, and there is a considerable economic hardship associated with the development of pressure ulcers."
She said the estimated cost of dealing with a patient with a bedsore can be anything from £1,200 up to as much £14,000, depending on the severity of the ulcer.
According to health experts, it can take as little as two hours for an immobile patient to develop a pressure sore in bed.
But the firm Cloudcair hopes its latest development can put an end to the problem, with a mattress that changes position constantly.
The company claims it is the world's first smart pressure care mattress system.
"The main innovation is that it is internet connected, which means we can remotely diagnose the bed as it is under the patient, and remote alarm," said Cloudcair's Jeremy Jones.
"The unit will send that message directly to the response centre either at the hospital or to a third party.
"That saves a lot of discomfort and a lot of nursing time, and allows us to control the system a lot better."
A 3D camera from firm GPC, based at Swansea University's Institute of Life Sciences, has also been adopted by health care services in Taiwan and Australia.
Huw Morgan said it used lower-cost consumer level cameras that could accurately measure and monitor wound depths.
He said the information was key to helping doctors and nurses ensure the patient is healing correctly.
"It it well known, for example, that if you accurately monitor and measure a wound then that will have beneficial effects on the outcome and potential reduce the time," he said.
"Every clinician that we talk to - every nurse, every doctor - they get it straight away. We've had extremely positive feedback." | Two firms in Wales are hoping they can help offer new hi-tech solutions to tackle the costly problem of bedsores. | 40522227 |
Yn ôl Comisiynydd Heddlu'r Gogledd, Arfon Jones, mae'n bosib y bydd rhaid talu am wasanaeth yr heddlu ar y safle trwy gynnydd yn nhreth y cyngor yn y dyfodol.
Mae'r Swyddfa Gartref yn dweud mai mater i'r prif gwnstabliaid ydi sut mae eu cyllideb yn cael ei wario, a bod Heddlu Gogledd Cymru wedi gweld cynnydd o £1.9m yn ei chyllideb ers cyllideb 2015/16.
Bydd y carchar newydd, ar gost o £250m, yn dal 2,200 o garcharorion a hwn fydd carchar mwyaf Prydain.
Bydd swyddogion yr heddlu ar y safle yn barhaol i gydweithio gyda staff y carchar, ac fe fydd hyn yn costio tua £185,000 y flwyddyn yn ôl y Comisiynydd.
Mae Arfon Jones wedi gofyn i'r Weinyddiaeth Gyfiawnder am fwy o arian ar gyfer cynnal presenoldeb y swyddogion yno.
Ond fe allai'r arian ar gyfer talu am yr heddlu yn y carchar ddodd o gyllideb y llu ei hun, ac fe allai hynny olygu cynnydd yn nhreth y cyngor yn y pen draw meddai Arfon Jones
Wrth siarad ar raglen Newyddion 9 nos Wener, dywedodd Mr Jones: "Mi fydd y rhai mwyaf difrifol lle mae carcharor yn ymosod ar warden yn cael eu delio gan yr heddlu. A mi fydd rheini'n mynd o flaen y llysoedd ac mi fydd hynny'n rhoi mwy o bwysau arnom ni fel heddlu.
"Mi fydd rhaid i ni ffeindio'r pres o rywle a dim ond un ffordd sydd 'na trwy bod nhw'n torri'r grant canolog, yr unig ffordd i'w godi o ydy trwy precept yn y dreth cyngor.
Ychwanegodd fod y llu wedi defnyddio arian o'r gronfa wrth gefn ar gyfer eleni.
"Ond yn y blynyddoedd i ddod, fydd rhaid gweithio allan faint mae'n gostio a fydd rhaid i ni ariannu o ryw ffordd neu ei gilydd," meddai.
Mae tua 65,000 o achosion gwahanol yn cael eu cofnodi mewn carchardai bob blwyddyn. O'r achosion hyn, mae hyd at 20,000 yn cael eu nodi fel troseddau.
Ar yr adegau hynny, mae'r heddlu yn cael eu galw i ddelio gyda'r sefyllfa.
Mae 15 math o drosedd yn cynnwys llofruddiaeth, anafiadau difrifol ac ymosodiadau rhyw sydd yn cael eu hystyried fel rhai lle mae'n rhaid galw'r heddlu.
Yn ôl Mr Jones, o ystyried maint y carchar, mae modd disgwyl un drosedd y dydd i gael ei chyflawni yn y Berwyn.
Mae'r heddlu wedi bod yn trafod gyda lluoedd eraill sut i blismona carchardai ac maen nhw'n hyderus bod popeth yn barod ar gyfer delio gyda'r digwyddiadau hyn.
Wrth ymateb i sylwadau'r Comisiynydd, dywedodd llefarydd ar ran y Swyddfa Gartref fod y llywodraeth wedi amddiffyn gwariant Comisiynwyr Heddlu a Throsedd ar gyfer heddluoedd i'r un faint a roddwyd yn 2015/16 mewn setliad ariannol teg.
Ychwanegodd y llefarydd mai mater i'r prif gwnstabliaid ydi sut mae eu cyllideb yn cael ei wario.
Dywedodd hefyd fod Heddlu Gogledd Cymru am dderbyn £141.8m mewn arian uniongyrchol yn y setliad ar gyfer 2017/18, cyhyd eu bod yn gwneud y gorau o'r presept, a bod hyn £1.9m yn fwy na roddwyd yn 2015/16. | Mae yna ansicrwydd o hyd ynglŷn â phwy fydd yn talu am blismona safle carchar newydd Wrecsam fydd yn agor mewn ychydig wythnosau. | 38938725 |
So much so, that Josue Garcia, the photographer who took it, has already been asked to give a number of interviews.
Mr Garcia works for the Panamanian president's office, so he will not get rich by selling the image.
But his eyes light up with pride when he is introduced to me as the man who captured "that" photograph.
Quiet and a little bashful, he goes back to editing the other pictures he took at the summit.
Because while all the attention may have been focused on Presidents Castro and Obama, there were 33 other delegations there as well.
"Thirty five human beings working for 900 million citizens of the Americas," is how the summit's host, Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela, puts it.
And there is certainly no shortage of problems in the western hemisphere for them to tackle.
Inequality is rampant in many of the 35 nations, and in his message to the summit, Pope Francis said governments could no longer "hope that the poor collect the crumbs that fall from the table of the rich".
It was a sentiment echoed by Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez, who told the BBC that it was time to move away from trickle-down economics.
"At the same time that we're growing, we have to share those riches and do so in a socially just manner," he said.
"How? We have to follow the best social policy which is generating genuine, decent jobs for our people."
The Pope warned the immense disparity of opportunities between one country and another also led many people to "feel obliged to abandon their homeland and family, becoming easy prey to human traffickers and slave labour".
Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina also touched on the problem of migration in his speech at the summit, reminding his fellow leaders that 77,000 unaccompanied minors had left Central America for the US between 2009 and 2014.
Their reasons for leaving are manifold, but they include some of the region's most difficult challenges such as insecurity, domestic violence, drug trafficking, gangs, poverty and exclusion.
And then there is the western hemisphere's longest running armed conflict between left-wing Farc rebels and the government in Colombia.
The two sides are currently engaged in peace talks in the Cuban capital, Havana.
The fact they should have sat down to negotiate after more than five decades of strife and a number of previous failed attempts was lauded by many leaders at the summit.
Cuba's good offices in hosting the talks are also thought to have contributed significantly to convincing US State Department officials to recommend the Communist island be removed from the US list of countries sponsoring terrorism.
Colombia's neighbours in particular are cheering the process on.
They hope an eventual settlement will mean less trouble in their border areas, which are used by the Farc as hideouts and as corridors through which they smuggle cocaine.
President Varela of Panama told the BBC drug trafficking remained a major problem in the region, especially because of the crime it bred.
He said: "70% of the homicides in Latin America are related to drug trafficking, and 70% of those homicides are kids between 18 and 30 years old."
Gang-plagued Honduras has the world's highest murder rate, according to a United Nations report.
But Latin America as a whole does not fare much better.
Since the mid-1950s, murder rates have been five to eight times higher than those in Europe or Asia.
But for all the negatives, summit host Mr Varela is optimistic.
For him, the historic handshake that captured all the headlines demonstrated countries can put aside their political and ideological differences to work together for things that really matter to the people such as basic sanitation, water, security, education and health.
"The things that unite us are that we want to work for our people and face the same challenges," he said.
And for Mr Varela, that unity was encapsulated in the moment he, Mr Obama and Mr Castro waved to the cameras after that news-making handshake. | There is no doubt the enduring image of the Summit of the Americas will be that of US President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro shaking hands just before the inauguration ceremony. | 32297728 |
Lincolnshire Trust For Cats has almost 80 cats living out the end of their nine lives, with luxuries including heated beds, sofas and an open fire.
Some of the cats live there because their owners have died, while other owners have moved abroad.
Finding new homes for elderly cats like these is more difficult because people prefer to adopt young cats.
Older cats can also be more expensive to look after, due to veterinary bills, so many are put down when their owners die.
Trust founder Jain Hills believes the home is unique.
"I know of some charities that have a few elderly cats, but they are not doing it on the scale we are," she said.
"For cats to come to us people have either got to make a provision in their will, or people come to look round.
"I don't think anywhere else does it because people come all the way from London with the cats to come here."
The home is set in seven acres of land on the outskirts of the village of Osgodby.
"There's three sitting rooms and they are connected by enclosed outdoor areas," said Ms Hills.
"It's all south-facing which means the cats have a lot of sunbathing options."
The trust cares for about 400 cats in total, as it also has a rescue facility for abandoned cats in need of new owners.
Rather than being a crazy cat lady, Ms Hills says she is "a bit of a dog person".
"I've got five dogs at home," she said.
"When you work with 400 cats all day you need to go home to a dog.
"I couldn't run a dog charity but I can run a cat charity because I can stand back from it. I don't get emotionally involved." | A charity believes it is running the only dedicated "retirement home" for Old Age Pussycats (OAPs). | 31517333 |
Data from 41 of the 55 mental health trusts collected by BBC Breakfast also found that 1,576 people have waited 18 weeks to see a specialist since 2012, 742 waited 26 weeks and 99 a year.
Eating disorder charity Beat said early intervention was critical.
The Department of Health said it was working to cut waiting times.
According to the data released following BBC Breakfast Freedom of Information requests, waiting times for outpatient treatment have risen by 120% in some areas over the past four years, with patients routinely waiting more than 100 days for a specialist.
The average wait was 182 days in Manchester but about 20 days in Dorset, Dudley and north-east London.
Humber NHS Trust saw an 165% increase in waiting times since 2012. The average wait in 2015 was 82 days. The average wait in Kent and Medway was 116 days.
Five mental health trusts responded by saying they did not provide an eating disorder service at all.
Manchester Mental Health and Social Care NHS Trust said: "Where urgent, patients are seen within approximately two weeks. Waiting times for therapy are longer than we would wish.
"If more services were commissioned, more services could be provided. The trust continues to work within tight funding levels and with increasing demand."
Humber NHS Foundation Trust said funding was provided last year for three specialist nurses to provide day treatment, usually over a period of many months, for children and young people.
Beat called for more investment in mental health treatment for eating disorders.
The government introduced new targets for mental health last week but waiting times for adult eating disorder services were not included.
The Department of Health said it was developing a pathway for treating adults with eating disorders and that its goal was that by 2020, 95% of patients would be seen within four weeks, or one week, for urgent cases.
"People with eating disorders must get high quality care as early as possible - and while this is happening in some places, there is far too much variation," a spokesman said.
"That is why we're investing £150 million to develop community services in every area of the country for children and young people, and have set a target for routine care to be available within four weeks and urgent care within one week by 2020."
It said there had been an 8% decrease in eating disorders in the 12 months to January compared with the previous year.
In my early twenties, I was diagnosed as anorexic, going from approximately eight stone (50kg) to five-and-a-half stone (35kg) over a matter of months.
When I was first referred to hospital for counselling by my GP, I was probably just over seven stone (44kg), eating virtually nothing and running upwards of 10 miles every day. I was unable to work or hold a really social life because of my illness.
I was told in the one-off assessment that there were long waiting lists and those with the most severe problems were at the top of the list.
The words of the therapist still stick with me: "Obviously if you lose weight you will move higher up the list and be seen more quickly."
Over the next few months I lost another two stone and became virtually a skeleton.
My periods stopped and my family came very close to having me hospitalised. This may have been in part because appropriate therapy was not available to me at the time when I still might have been able to prevent the decline continuing.
It has taken me nearly ten years to get back to the weight I was before anorexia and it is not the sort of illness that ever truly leaves you.
I can't stress enough how vital it is that more consideration and investment is given to the understanding and treatment of eating disorders. | Average waiting times for mental health treatment for eating disorders in England can vary from 20 days to 180 depending on the trust, figures show. | 35983715 |
Monday marks six months to the start of the Games with organisers saying ticket sales are between 12% and 15%.
Craven believe the next two months are crucial to ensure that athletes are not competing in front of small crowds.
"Obviously we have concerns and this was a key part of our latest project review in Rio last week," said Craven.
"But we have to accept that Brazilians don't buy tickets a year out or even six months out. It is something they do far nearer an event.
"While we know from research that 61% of Brazilian people believe tickets are too expensive generally, this is not the case with the Paralympics.
"There are two million tickets available for 10 Reals each (£2) and we have got to get that message out there.
"We are now working with the organising committee, the Brazilian National Paralympic Committee and the federal and city governments to launch a comprehensive plan to make the public aware of the great value for money.
"We want the Rio Paralympics to be the People's Games."
The Games, which will be the first in South America, run from 7-18 September with 4,350 athletes from 176 counties competing in 22 sports.
The Rio organising committee put 3.3m Paralympic tickets on sale in May 2015, hoping to surpass the 2.7m tickets sold that made London the best-supported Paralympics ever.
But Craven is aware that a lot of work still needs to be done ahead of the start of the Olympic Torch Relay in early May, when much of the media and publicity attentions will focus back onto the Olympics, which is also suffering from disappointing ticket sales.
"Each Games is its own Games and inspires a new group of people in a different part of the world and it continues to inspire the world through TV coverage," he told BBC World Service.
"We are confident that, in these next crucial two months before the Torch Relay starts, we will have great success with ticket sales and can follow London and Rio and will have just as great a Games.
"We are saying to the people of Brazil and Rio that this is the opportunity of a lifetime." | International Paralympic Committee president Sir Philip Craven says he is worried about the low take-up of tickets for the Rio Paralympics. | 35740719 |
The man was filmed by CCTV in Coopers Jewellery in Barnstaple in Devon on Thursday.
Owner David Bruce said he "chased" the suspect from his shop with a baseball bat following the attempted raid.
Devon and Cornwall Police said they believed the would-be robber's "weapon was some kind of blank firing firearm".
Det Insp Praveen Naidoo said: "The offender may well have received injuries as a result of this incident and it is likely that someone in the community knows who is responsible.
"Whilst the coat appears darker in the images, witnesses describe it as a light sandy colour."
Anyone who has found the mask, which Mr Bruce described as a "full latex" one, is asked to contact police. | Footage of a masked man wearing sunglasses and wielding a gun has been released by police after an attempted armed robbery at a jewellers. | 32968577 |
Matthew Carapiet, 23, from Kent, had been trekking north of the capital Kathmandu just before the disaster.
His family said the architecture student was "kind, happy and caring" and "made a huge impression" on others.
More than 7,500 people were killed in the 7.8-magnitude earthquake which struck on 25 April.
The architecture student from Bearsted was trekking in the Langtang valley as part of his gap year.
In a statement, released through the Foreign Office, his family said: "Matt was touring Asia in a gap year before planning to continue his architecture studies in the autumn.
"He spoke to us regularly about how much he was enjoying his travels and we know he was doing something that he loved."
They added: "Matt is loved by his family and friends who all have countless memories of how kind, happy and caring he was.
"He made a huge impression on the lives of everyone he met."
The news of Mr Carapiet's death came as the UK government said 92 more Gurkhas had been deployed to Nepal to provide aid.
The Gurkhas, from the 36 Engineer Regiment based in Kent, will boost the total number of UK military personnel in the region to almost 300.
Aid from the UK's Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) has reached more than 60 villages, towns and camps in the weeks following the earthquake, which has also left more than 14,500 injured.
More than 4,000 aid workers from around the world have been helping with relief and rescue operations.
The Gurkhas, who arrived in two groups on Friday and Saturday, will focus on providing support to the villages of serving and veteran Gurkhas and their families, the Ministry of Defence said.
They are expected to stay for about three months.
A separate team of Gurkha engineers has already been deployed to set up a water purification system in Kathmandu.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said: "The British Army Gurkhas deploying have a unique set of local knowledge, language skills and engineering experience, making them a vital element of the international response.
"We recognise that this terrible disaster will have directly affected our own Gurkha community and our thoughts are with them at this difficult time."
The DEC appeal, fronted by Absolutely Fabulous star and Gurkha campaigner Joanna Lumley, has raised £45m to date.
The UK government's humanitarian response now stands at £23m, which includes a pledge to match the first £5m raised by the public for the DEC appeal.
DEC chief executive Saleh Saeed said: "The overwhelming generosity of the UK public will help families get through the next few months and rebuild their lives over the coming years.
"Our members' teams have been are working around the clock to provide essential aid. However, a huge amount of work remains to be done before the monsoon rains make the response even more difficult and the risk of disease outbreaks increase."
The Department for International Development has flown out 54 tonnes of humanitarian aid supplies, including more than 1,100 shelter kits and some 1,700 solar lanterns, while the RAF has been transporting supplies and equipment from India to Kathmandu. | The family of a British backpacker missing in Nepal since last month's earthquake has paid tribute to him after confirming his death. | 32674395 |
Mrs Cox had started work on the cross-party campaign before she was killed in her constituency last year.
The commission, in her memory, will work with 13 charities including Age UK and Action for Children to come up with ideas for change.
They will provide findings as part of monthly campaigns on people such as new mums, carers and the elderly.
'Sociable but lonely' - how it feels when loneliness strikes
The campaigners will put together a manifesto of the charities' findings and ask the government to look into ways of reducing the problem.
Research by the partners shows over nine million people say they are "always or often lonely", but two-thirds of those would not talk about it in public.
MPs want the report to be a call to action to encourage people to chat and start conversations. The commission is asking people to do more, for example knocking on a door or picking up a phone.
Mrs Cox's sister, Kim Leadbeater, said she wanted to continue the MP's legacy "by ridding society of loneliness one conversation at a time."
Mrs Cox, who was the Labour MP for Batley and Spen, suffered from loneliness when she went to university and was split up from her sister.
"It was one of those issues where she felt she could make a real difference," she told the BBC News Channel.
"I can't go back to normality because there is no normality without Jo, but what I can do is try and work to continue the good stuff that she did and try and make her proud."
Despite the family's "dark days", Ms Leadbeater said she would not be beaten by what had happened and that she would "come out fighting".
"I'm going to try and make some of the change and difference Jo can't make for herself anymore", she added.
The co-chairwoman of the campaign, Conservative MP Seema Kennedy, said loneliness could be "profoundly detrimental" on mental and physical health.
"If you are chronically lonely, it is as bad as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. You might have an increased risk of high blood pressure."
Mrs Cox was determined to shine a spotlight on how loneliness affects people of ages, Ms Kennedy said. | Colleagues and family members of the murdered Labour MP Jo Cox have launched a campaign to tackle loneliness. | 38808665 |
8 June 2016 Last updated at 09:07 BST
They were chatting to Martin who was putting your questions to the Springwatch presenters.
They told Newsround all about the Hobby, a type of small falcon.
The team are trying to spot the bird of prey as it migrates back to the UK for Summer.
Watch the video to find out more. | Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan from Springwatch were live from Minsmere, an RSPB nature reserve in Suffolk this morning. | 36477459 |
Third seed Halep looked to be heading out after going a set and 5-1 down.
But the Romanian won five consecutive games and then saved match point to take it to a decider, which she finished off with ease.
Halep will play Karolina Pliskova in the last four, after the world number three beat Caroline Garcia 7-6 (7-3) 6-4 in Wednesday's other quarter-final.
Garcia, 23, was the last French hope remaining in both the men's and women's singles draw.
The world number 28 put up a decent fight to take the first set against second seed Pliskova to a tie-break, but the 2016 US Open finalist proved too strong.
Unseeded Latvian Jelena Ostapenko will take on Timea Bacsinszky in Thursday's other semi, meaning there will be a first-time Grand Slam women's singles champion crowned in Paris.
Fifth seed Svitolina looked set to become the first Ukrainian woman to make a semi-final in Grand Slam history, as she stormed ahead in the opening stages against Halep - a runner-up in Paris in 2014.
She allowed her opponent just four winners in the first set and was four games to the good in the second before the Romanian's remarkable turnaround.
Svitolina served for victory at 5-2 and 5-4 before wasting a match point at 6-5 in the tense tie-breaker.
"I don't know how I came back," said 25-year-old Halep, who won 12 of the last 13 games on Suzanne Lenglen Court and served out the match with an ace.
"She was playing tough, hard and strong. Maybe I was a little lucky but I didn't give up."
Pliskova, 25, will replace Angelique Kerber as the new world number one if she beats Halep to make Saturday's final.
"It was very tough. She played very well, we were both serving well," said Pliskova after reaching her first semi-final in Paris.
"She [Garcia] played a great tournament, even today, it was 50-50, it came down to about two points. I'm really glad I made it.
"I am very happy. Before the tournament I wasn't sure if I could play good tennis on clay." | Simona Halep battled back to beat Elina Svitolina 3-6 7-6 (8-6) 6-0 in the French Open quarter-finals. | 40187168 |
The department's documentaries have included Planet Earth II and Blue Planet - both narrated by Sir David.
The 91-year-old will join the unit's head Julian Hector.
They will discuss some of the most ground-breaking moments throughout its 60 years of programme making.
Sir David said: "I'm delighted to be at the Edinburgh TV Festival to recall the history of what was the first Natural History Unit to be set up in the world and to celebrate some of its milestones."
Mr Hector said: "I grew up with The Living World presented by Peter France on Radio 4 and was studying zoology at university by the time Sir David's Life On Earth was first broadcast in 1979 on BBC 1.
"The NHU has been part of my life ever since, and I look forward to sharing with the TV Festival all of the astonishing work that goes on behind the scenes to make these incredible series."
Sir David has been breaking ground in nature documentaries since the 1970s when one of his first televised expeditions, A Blank On The Map, saw him trek through the central New Guinea highlands to meet a group of tribespeople never before seen by Europeans.
Most recently, he lent his charismatic voice to the second series of Planet Earth, which won a Bafta earlier this year for best specialist factual programme.
His appearance at the festival will mark a special moment for visiting fans, not least the event's own director Lisa Campbell.
"It's long been an ambition of mine to welcome Sir David to the festival and I have no doubt that this will be a remarkable and historic session," she said.
The Edinburgh International Television Festival runs from August 23-25. | Sir David Attenborough will join the line-up for this year's Edinburgh International TV Festival as he celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Natural History Unit. | 40739893 |
The joke was made on the latest edition of the TV satire show by panellist Andy Hamilton in response to a question.
Dan Rogerson, Liberal Democrat MP for North Cornwall, said the comments showed that "Cornish are discriminated against as a group".
The show's producers said the comment was "clearly tongue in cheek".
In the show, guest host William Shatner asked a question about the Olympic torch relay: "What caused confusion in Truro?"
Panellist Andy Hamilton responded: "Well, they're Cornish aren't they? They'll always be confused in Truro."
Mr Rogerson said: "Of course I like a joke as much as the next person, but on this occasion I can't help but feel that these comments wouldn't be tolerated if they were aimed at the Welsh, Scottish or indeed any other nationality or cultural minority.
"I feel that it is comments like this which show that the Cornish are discriminated against as a group, and that they should be recognised as a distinct cultural minority.
"This would give protections to make sure the Cornish are not stopped from maintaining and celebrating our distinct identity."
He added: "I don't want kids in Cornwall to see this kind of thing and and think, 'Is there something about me, maybe I'm not as bright as all the others, maybe I haven't got the chance to be as successful as everybody else.'"
BBC Radio Cornwall listener Steve Dawe, 47, from Callington, said: "It was not offensive, it was very funny.
"People seem to be having a major sense of humour bypass. Everyone was being picked on, MPs, bankers, the Welsh, Scots. The whole programme was having a bash at everyone."
Mr Rogerson's action received a number of responses on the
BBC Cornwall Facebook page
including Ray Worden who wrote: "Dan Rogerson is a very good MP, but for goodness sake, what a huge storm in a very tiny teacup." | An MP has complained to the BBC and the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) over a joke about the Cornish on Have I Got News For You. | 18260805 |
Sequencing fragments of DNA from water 1km (0.6 miles) below the surface can determine the type and quantity of fish present, say Danish scientists.
The DNA-based technique could be used for monitoring fish sustainably without having to catch them.
Fish populations are under pressure from over-fishing, pollution and climate change.
Dr Philip Francis Thomsen, of the University of Copenhagen, said the environmental DNA (eDNA) approach was "very universal", giving information on many fish, including flatfish, sharks and rays, and deep-sea species.
"We are basically doing equivalent to CSI [crime scene investigation] work for a biologist," he told BBC News.
"Investigating the biodiversity of the ocean by using environmental DNA as a proxy for what is actually living there."
Fish leave tiny bits of DNA in the water during their lives.
The genetic material is invisible to the naked eye, but can be extracted and sequenced, yielding a "DNA fingerprint of the ocean".
In the study, samples of seawater were taken by scientists during deepwater trawling off Greenland for research purposes.
All but two of 28 different types of fish captured had left traces of their DNA in seawater.
Another three were identified through their DNA alone. These included rare deep-sea species such as the angler fish.
The scientists then looked at two commercial fish species - the Greenland halibut and the redfish - in more detail.
They made a heat map of where most of the fish DNA was found.
And this map fitted "quite well" with the amount of fish actually caught.
"This is the first evidence that there is a quantitative relation," said Dr Thomsen.
"We could say that the biomass catch is actually reflected in the amount of DNA in the water samples.
"But if we can fine tune this method, we might be able to use this as a supplement to estimating stock sizes and potentially to more sustainable fishing."
Dr Thomsen sees two other practical applications for the approach:
The research is published in the journal, Plos One.
Follow Helen on Twitter. | Sampling DNA from seawater may be one way to check up on fish and other marine life, according to research. | 37989260 |
Half of the ground floor of the Poundland store was alight as well as part of the first floor and the roof.
London Fire Brigade (LFB) was called to Old Church Road at 18:54 BST on Wednesday and 15 fire crews from Chingford and surrounding stations were drafted in.
The Met Police said the fire was being treated as suspicious.
"Three suspects were seen to leave the area soon after the fire started," a police spokesman said.
LFB said the cause of the fire is not known at this stage.
In a statement, LFB said 16 people had left flats adjacent to the building before fire crews arrived and that there were no injuries.
It added: "The fire severely damaged the store, rooms above and the building's roof but crews worked incredibly hard to contain the fire and to stop it from spreading.
"They remained at the scene throughout the night damping down remaining pockets of fire." | Almost 100 firefighters were called in to tackle a blaze at a discount store in Chingford. | 41031663 |
Speaking ahead of the Queen's Speech, the SNP leader also reiterated her party's support for Britain's continued membership of the European Union.
She made the speech on a visit to Heart of Midlothian FC's Tynecastle Stadium.
She was joined by the Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney.
The pair also unveiled the Scottish Business Pledge which aims to promote "fairness, equality and sustainable economic growth".
An "alternative to austerity" was the centrepiece of the Scottish National Party's successful general election campaign.
In her first major economic speech since the election, Ms Sturgeon argued that the prime minister cannot ignore the democratic will of the Scottish people.
She said: "The result of the general election provides an opportunity and a challenge for the Scottish government. There is clearly an opportunity to ensure that Scotland's priorities are better understood.
"But there is also a significant challenge in working with a majority government at Westminster - many of whose policies we disagree with.
"We will continue to oppose spending reductions of the scale and speed that the UK government has suggested. These would slow economic recovery and make deficit reduction more difficult - something shown by the impact of the cuts imposed after 2010."
Ms Sturgeon said David Cameron must either change his approach or find ways to lessen the impact on Scotland.
She also said that business, employees and government needed to work more closely together to build a prosperous and cohesive society.
The SNP leader again insisted that the UK should only withdraw from the EU if there was a majority in favour of exit in all four nations of the UK.
She said: "Since a referendum is now inevitable we will work to protect Scotland's interests in that referendum. We'll propose a double majority meaning that exit from the European Union would only be possible if all four nations agreed to that, something that would ensure that Scotland couldn't be forced out of the European Union against our will.
"And during the run up to the referendum, the Scottish government will of course make a strong and positive case for staying in the EU."
The first minister also called on businesses to commit to paying the living wage and promoting fair practices as she launched a new industry code.
Companies wanting to sign up to the Scottish Business Pledge must agree to pay the living wage to all direct employees over 18.
They must also be delivering on at least two of the pledge's nine components, as well as committing to achieving the rest "over time".
Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme, Scottish Finance Secretary Mr Swinney, said: "This has been described by the first minister as a shared national endeavour and I think that's exactly how we should look at this - government and business coming together.
"My priority is to get people into employment and then to make sure that as much of that employment as possible is high quality, productive employment, making a high-value contribution to our society."
Hearts, who recently won promotion back to the Scottish Premiership, are one of the first companies to sign up to the pledge.
The club's chief executive Ann Budge said: "By introducing the living wage across our business, by investing in youth education and staff education, by engaging fully with the community and by working closely with the Foundation of Hearts to introduce fan ownership, we are the perfect match for this initiative."
Businessman Brendan Burns, who operates a forestry company and is a former UK policy chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, told Radio Scotland's Kaye Adams programme that the Scottish government needed to address more than just the implementation of the living wage.
He said: "I pay more than the living wage, but that is not the point. To be able to pay the living wage, you have to get more efficiency into Scottish businesses.
"At this moment, that is what we don't have. Every businessman I meet will always say 'I would like to pay the living wage', but you can't pay out of a business if the profit isn't there. The profit is there when the business is more efficient."
Scottish Conservative enterprise spokesman Murdo Fraser MSP said many firms could not afford to pay the living wage and more incentives should be offered to businesses.
"In principle, the Scottish Business Pledge sounds like a decent strategy," he said.
"However, scratch beneath the surface and it would be realistic to say that many small to medium-sized business cannot afford to pay staff the living wage. This is particularly the case in sectors like care where income levels are set by the state.
"The Scottish government should be helping these businesses where they can. That's why we're calling for a living wage business bonus for small businesses which pay the living wage, in the form of a reduction in their business rates."
The Scottish Greens welcomed the new pledge but urged the first minister to go further and address environmental standards and tax avoidance.
MSP Patrick Harvie MSP said: "Given the clear opportunity Scotland has to develop a low-carbon economy that respects our finite resources, and the urgent need to meet our failed climate targets, it's disappointing that the environmental impact of business is barely mentioned in this pledge scheme."
"Ministers are also missing the chance to make a strong statement that tax dodgers won't be tolerated. " | First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has used a speech in Edinburgh to attack the "scale and speed" of spending cuts planned by the UK government. | 32878559 |
The star was found dead in his car on Thursday in Woodland Hills, California, officials said.
His body was slumped over the wheel of his Jaguar, but there was no suspicion of foul play.
Anonymous sources told the LA Times that drug paraphernalia and alcohol containers were found in the car.
Born in Harlem, New York, the star received his unusual forename from his father, Dudley MacDonald Gooding.
"He told my mother that he would name his first born son Cuba because he once lived in Cuba and had positive feelings about the country," the musician told the North Dallas Gazette in 2015.
He was encouraged to pursue a singing career by his family.
"My mom and dad were determined that their first-born son would do something in the arts, if I had the talent," he recalled in a 2014 radio interview.
"Being born in Harlem had its advantages if you wanted to be an entertainer because it was literally... the entertainment capital of the world.
"I lived literally only eight blocks away from the Apollo Theater, and 19 blocks from Carnegie Hall. Although Carnegie Hall required a little bit more sneaking in the back."
Growing up, he saw the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson play on his doorstep, and resolved to become a singer in his own right.
The other members of Main Ingredient - Tony Sylvester, Luther Simmons Jr and Donald McPherson - were childhood friends, but Gooding Sr initially declined to join the group, having set his sights on a solo career.
But, as the band started to achieve success, he helped out with backing vocals, and stepped up as the lead singer following the death of frontman Donald McPherson in 1971.
Under Gooding's leadership, the band scored their first million-seller, Everybody Plays The Fool, which led to further hits, including Happiness Is Just Around the Bend and Just Don't Want to Be Lonely.
In 1972, they recorded an album, Afrodisiac, which featured several songs written or co-written by Stevie Wonder.
But by 1977, Sylvester and Gooding Sr had both left the band. Gooding Sr signed with Motown Records and released two well-received, but commercially disappointing albums.
He later re-joined Main Ingredient and worked with them through the 1980s.
His son Cuba Gooding Jr is an Oscar-winning actor who appeared in films including Boyz 'N the Hood, A Few Good Men and Jerry Maguire.
The star had three other children with his wife Shirley Gooding: Omar and April, both of whom are also actors, and musician Tommy Gooding, who served as the musical director of his father's touring band.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk. | Cuba Gooding Sr, the lead singer of 70s soul group Main Ingredient and father of actor Cuba Gooding Jr, has died at the age of 72. | 39657941 |
They say that they, like footballers, do "difficult physical work" in the prime of their lives and their careers are short-lived.
A lawyer for the women said they should be allowed to save money in a tax-free pension fund.
Footballers enjoy a scheme under which they are allowed to save 5,000 euros ($7,000) tax-free a month.
The campaign to secure prostitutes a better deal is being run by Freya, a prostitution company which has applied to run a number of brothels in Utrecht.
A lawyer for Freya, Wil Post, told the BBC's Anna Holligan that prostitution, like football, is best-suited to younger people.
"It's hard physical work - you know by 40 you'll be doing something else.
"Some men like older prostitutes, but most men prefer younger women. That's a fact of life and women should be allowed to help take care of themselves financially," she said.
Prostitution was legalised in the Netherlands in 2002.
Under Dutch law, women working in the trade have to register at the chamber of commerce and pay tax.
Some work for prostitution companies, and enjoy the same benefits as salaried workers, including a pension.
But campaigners say the pension is not sufficient.
Wil Post says many women stay in the trade longer than they would like because they are trapped and do not have enough money to get out.
"Unlike footballers, prostitutes have no future career prospects such as coaching or merchandising opportunities," Ms Post said. | Prostitutes in the Netherlands are lobbying the tax authorities for the same pension rights as footballers. | 25413508 |
Claire Lewis, from Tonypandy, saw what she thought was a small snake trapped in the packaging of a chocolate cake from Asda.
It was later confirmed to be a slow worm - a limbless lizard.
The supermarket has apologised and sent Ms Lewis a "goodwill" gift voucher, which she will donate to her local food bank.
"It scared me before I knew it was a harmless slow worm," said Ms Lewis. "They're very snake-like."
Ms Lewis released it into her garden.
"Sadly the cake and the bag's other contents went in to the bin... but the slow worm was free to live another day," she said.
Asda refunded Ms Lewis £6 for the contents of her shopping bag and sent her a £30 gift voucher.
An Asda spokeswoman said: "We're really sorry that there was an unexpected visitor tagging along with Ms Lewis' home shopping.
"We have given Ms Lewis a refund and have offered a gesture of goodwill to go some way towards making up for any upset caused." | A cake maker from Rhondda Cynon Taff found an unexpected visitor in her home shopping delivery. | 39609700 |
It is Friday afternoon and children around the age of 12 are gathered in the computer lab of a public school in Itatiba, a small town an hour away from Sao Paulo.
Class time is already over for the week, but these students have chosen to stay in school for extracurricular activities.
They are learning Scratch, a piece of software developed by MIT experts that aims to teach kids how to code.
Most public schools in Brazil don't have computer coding in their curriculum. In fact, most schools are struggling to get kids to learn the basics, such as maths and Portuguese, as Brazil ranks among the worst countries in the world in school exams.
Students and staff in Itatiba have little interest in Formula 1. But much of what is going on in the classroom is part of the legacy of legendary driver Ayrton Senna, killed in a tragic accident during the San Marino Grand Prix on 1 May 1994.
The coding class is a project run by the Ayrton Senna Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that was founded by Ayrton's sister Viviane a few months after his death.
Most of the money for the Foundation comes from managing Senna's brand and legacy.
Ayrton Senna is still one of the most valuable sporting brands in the world.
In the past five years, the foundation drew in about 1bn Brazilian reais (£250m; $320m) for the NGO.
And it's all a family affair. While Viviane is the CEO of the foundation, her daughter Bianca is head of branding.
The foundation uses the money it raises to fund ambitious educational projects, which are today its core business.
"Usually companies have a philanthropic arm that helps society with social projects. We are the other way around. We are the only NGO I know that has a sports branding company inside it," says Bianca.
Ayrton Senna is still a goldmine in terms of marketing.
The strongest markets for Senna products are Brazil, the UK and Italy.
Research conducted in 2015 by the Boston Consulting Group suggests Senna is in the same league as tennis superstar Roger Federer and basketball legend Michael Jordan in terms of product endorsement potential.
Another survey of Brazilian athletes who competed in last year's Rio Olympics - many of them too young to have seen Senna race - ranked him as their biggest source of inspiration, above past and present idols such as Neymar and Pele.
The foundation does its best to fully explore the marketing potential, licensing hundreds of products with Senna's face and name on it.
It caters for two groups of consumers. The first are Formula 1 fans who buy products such as books, DVDs, helmets and collectible souvenirs.
And then there are products for the general public who may not necessarily enjoy racing, but like Senna for his charisma and values. These include toys and comic books for children and a food line of ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise.
Marketing specialist Marcos Machado, from TopBrands Consultancy, says Senna's tragic death while at the top of his game crystallised his image in the eyes of the public as a winner.
Most sports stars eventually lose their appeal when they get older and retire. Some devalue their own brands by getting involved in scandals - think Ryan Lochte and Tiger Woods.
"If you consider Senna as a brand, I don't think he has many competitors," says Machado.
F1's greatest drivers: Ayrton Senna
One of the brand's strengths is that virtually all money from licensing goes to charity, not profit.
Education is the foundation's core business. Over the past two decades, it has become one of the biggest NGOs in Brazil, helping 1.9 million children and training 60,000 teachers per year.
It invests heavily in research to come up with what Viviane Senna calls "vaccines" - smart solutions that can be applied to many schools with low costs.
Last year it achieved one of its greatest successes in Colegio Chico Anysio, a public school in Rio de Janeiro with students from low-income families.
The institute revamped the curriculum, training students in social and emotional skills such as resilience, discipline and determination, instead of focusing solely on traditional subjects, such as maths and languages. It even came up with special metrics to identify these skills.
And in the national students' exam, Colegio Chico Anysio was ranked the fifth best school for its income level.
This year the institute is applying its "vaccine" to 20 other schools in the south of Brazil.
Its work does not come without criticism, though.
Teachers' unions complain that social and emotional skills are personal traits - not skills to be measured - and that the foundation sees schools and teachers too much as enterprises.
Viviane Senna disagrees.
"If someone from the 19th Century travelled to our time, he wouldn't see any difference in classrooms. But the rest of the world has been through a technological and scientific revolution.
"And it's not just about bringing tablets and mobiles into students' hands. It's about giving them social and emotional skills to face our world."
Despite some successes, Brazil's level of education has been slipping recently in the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) global rankings.
Brazil has 50 million children in school, aged between six and 16. Only one in five end up graduating from high school. All others are lost along the way.
The future is fraught with challenges for the foundation. All the work it does with schools needs to be approved by state and city governments, but public finances are collapsing in Brazil thanks to the recession.
On the branding front, it must keep the interest in Senna's name alive, a task that is likely to get harder as years go by.
"The foundation has done outstanding work. And interest in Senna can be sustained, but not forever," says Mr Machado.
"We have to be realistic. One day, Senna is going to be more of a distant memory than a real idol for young generations. You can keep his name alive, but not forever."
On the racetrack, Ayrton Senna made a name for himself as a driver who could do things that seemed impossible. The foundation that now carries his name is trying to live up to that legacy. | Twenty-three years after his death, former Formula 1 world champion Ayrton Senna's name is almost as valuable as when he was alive - and it is making a difference in his home country of Brazil. | 39640707 |
Arnold Mouat was last seen at a property in Panbrae Road, Bo'ness at about 23:30 on 6 July.
Mr Mouat subsequently left the address at some point during the night and has not been seen since.
Police officers will be in Bo'ness on Friday to speak to people who may have been in the area on 7 July.
In a statement issued through Police Scotland, Mr Mouat's family said: "We're overwhelmed by the support shown by the local and wider community and are extremely grateful to everyone who has offered to help find Arnold.
"This includes the volunteers who assisted the police with searches yesterday morning and afternoon."
Mr Mouat's family said it had been "a very difficult time for all of us".
The statement continued: "We ask anyone who has information that might assist police with their ongoing search effort to please make contact immediately.
"Likewise, Arnold, if you're reading this then please let us know that you're okay."
A public search of the Bo'ness area attended by 59 volunteers was carried out on Thursday.
Police said local and specialist resources had been deployed across Forth Valley, West Lothian and South Queensferry.
Mr Mouat is white, about 6ft 3in tall, with dark receding hair, a tanned complexion, and speaks with a Shetland accent.
He is believed to be wearing distinctive blue running trainers, but the rest of his clothing is unknown.
Insp Jim Young said: "I'd like to pay tribute to Arnold's family who have shown incredible strength during what is undoubtedly a very difficult time.
"I would also like to thank the public for their assistance throughout this investigation, their support has been crucial.
"Unfortunately we are still looking for that key piece of information that will lead to us finding Arnold and give us the answers his family are desperately seeking." | The family of a 64-year-old man who has been missing for a week say they have been "overwhelmed" by support from the public. | 40606143 |
The students said dedicated prayer or "quiet rooms" are available in many other universities and public buildings, including airports and hospitals.
They said they have no alternative but to say their prayers in corridors, libraries, corners or wherever they can find a secluded spot within QUB.
QUB said it is reviewing its amenities.
Muslim student Nadira Nazir, who is from Malaysia, said: "If we had a room to ourselves it would be easier for us females, to be honest.
"We have to rush between classes to find any [empty classrooms] available and just go in and do our prayers.
"Sometimes you get students already coming into the class and they see us praying. I am glad for their understanding as they have to wait for us to finish [before] they start their lecture, because we are literally using their class."
Approximately 1,200 international students from over 80 countries currently study at QUB and more than 400 are thought to be from the Islamic faith.
Encouraging more students from abroad to study at QUB is a major priority for the university.
Ahmed Amer from the QUB Muslim society said that was more of a reason for the university to provide prayer or "quiet" rooms.
"These rooms are not something new that we have invented," he said.
"These facilities are provided by all universities across England, pretty much, and in the Republic of Ireland. The Ulster University has them."
Mr Amer said the provision of QUB prayer rooms "would be a sign that the university can accommodate people from all different backgrounds and different religions".
"There is no extra cost involved in providing them," he added.
QUB Muslim chaplain Dr Ashraf Ahmed said the prayer room or rooms could be used by all denominations.
"It would be great if we could have a multi-faith prayer room. All would be welcome from all backgrounds and all faiths," he said.
The Belfast Islamic Centre has two venues in south Belfast where Muslims pray. One is located on Rugby Road, the other at Wellington Park, but neither are connected to QUB.
QUB declined a BBC interview request, but in a statement, a spokesperson said: "A key priority in the Vision 2020 strategy for Queen's University, Belfast, is to increase the number of international students studying at the university.
"Accordingly, the university is currently reviewing all amenities in the context of its charter and statutes to ensure that staff and students from all backgrounds have access to appropriate facilities."
It said a "quiet room" has been created at the Queens Elms halls of residence.
While this was not a dedicated multi-faith or prayer room, it said students could use it for the purpose of prayer.
However, one Muslim student said the room in question was inappropriate, and pointed out that Queens Elms is further from the main university campus than either of the two south Belfast mosques.
Their campaign has been backed by the Catholic Bishop of Derry, Dónal McKeown, who said he was generally in favour of creating quiet rooms within public buildings that could be used by people of all religions and none.
The bishop told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme: "I think the university has to respond to the reality of new minorities in its midst who have particular needs, and I think we have to find ways of living together that respects the needs of others."
But speaking on the same programme, the former leader of the UK Unionist Party, Bob McCartney, said QUB was "a non-denominational, non-religious educational institution".
"For the university to accept that it has a duty to provide, and presumably pay for, facilities for a particular religion to exercise its rituals would, in my view, constitute a precedent that could give rise to future difficulties," Mr McCartney added. | Muslims at Queen's University have said they have to pray in corridors and other public areas because it will not provide multi-faith prayer rooms. | 33098694 |
Some of the archive, charting the 100-year-history of the Erskine Hospital, was recently found in a locked room in a disused part of the hospital.
The hospital was formerly known as the Princess Louise Scottish Hospital for Sailors and Soldiers.
Woodworking tools used to make prosthetic limbs are among the archive.
The tools were used by some of the recovering soldiers as part of their rehabilitation and training in new skills.
They made a wide range of wooden medical appliances for disabled soldiers, including the then pioneering Erskine Leg - a prosthetic limb designed and pioneered by Sir William Macewen, co-founder of the hospital and Regius Professor of Surgery at the University of Glasgow.
Sir William's work led to a global advancement in prosthetic limbs.
The archive contains a full collection of wooden shoe-size moulds used in the workshops for the manufacture of prosthetic legs.
It is not known how long the objects and archive material had been stored in the building, but some items date back to the original founding of the hospital which celebrates its centenary next year.
Additional records and documents were kept in boxes in various rooms throughout the hospital.
The collection will now be catalogued by Glasgow University's Archives Services and stored at the university.
Erskine are currently working on a patient database of every soldier admitted and discharged at the hospital during its history, which will become a research resource for families tracing their ancestry.
The project has been funded by the Wellcome Trust which awards grants to libraries and archives to support cataloguing, preservation and digitisation projects.
Steve Conway, chief Executive of The Erskine, said: "Archiving records and preserving artefacts was never high on the priority list until we started to prepare for our centenary. It was only then that we realised how much of our history had been recorded but largely neglected.
"Hopefully, these records and artefacts will help people to research family histories and also support research in to the care of veterans with physical or mental injuries sustained in the service of their country."
Dr Tony Pollard, senior lecturer in history and battlefield archaeology at Glasgow University, said: "What we are unearthing at Erskine is quite remarkable.
"There are boxes upon boxes of wartime history which will shine a light on so many personal stories of bravery and endurance during the First World War, but also the incredible advancement in the treatment of injured personnel not just physically but mentally since 1916.
"This archive will not only chart the hospital's history but also provide an insight into the many medical developments over the last century, methods which helped change care practices towards casualties of war around the globe.
"I am quite certain once we really start to delve into the vast collection, the findings will be used in research for many years to come."
The archive team is appealing for help to find an original Erskine Leg.
Only one known Macewen-designed Erskine Leg survives in the British Museum, but archivists and historians at the University of Glasgow are convinced there are more. | Historical documents and artefacts from an old hospital, some of which were found underneath floorboards, are to be formally catalogued. | 34899609 |
Imran Khan, 34, of Pendle Street in Accrington, Lancashire, admitted taking the girl from Nairne Street in Burnley on 26 March.
He also admitted intending to commit a sexual offence and breaching a sexual offences' prevention order.
Following the hearing at Preston Crown Court, Khan was remanded in custody and is due to be sentenced on 23 October.
Police said the girl was bundled into the boot of Khan's car before being driven to Scarth Lane in Hapton where he exposed himself and tried to force her to commit a sexual act.
Khan then dumped her in a wheelie bin before she later freed herself and was found wandering alone in distress by other children, the court heard.
Det Insp Jim Elston of Lancashire Police said it was a "horrendous" and "terrifying offence".
Khan was convicted in 2008 of a sexual offence involving a 12-year-old girl, police said.
Mr Elston said: "While we have rigorous systems in place to manage sex offenders who have served a sentence and been released into the community, this cannot happen 24 hours a day and unfortunately on occasion an offender may go on to commit a further offence as happened in this case.
"There is currently a review ongoing into this particular case and we will clearly look carefully at the results of that to see if there are any lessons we can learn." | A registered sex offender has pleaded guilty to abducting a six-year-old girl who was taken in a car from the street. | 34318122 |
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India eased to a nine-wicket win over Bangladesh in Thursday's semi-final.
Pakistan were comfortably beaten by defending champions India in their opening game but shocked hosts England in the first semi-final on Wednesday.
"They've turned around things for themselves really well," said Kohli.
After that opening defeat by India, Pakistan also beat number one-ranked side South Africa and Sri Lanka in the group stages before their eight-wicket victory over England to reach Sunday's final at The Oval.
"They've beaten sides that looked really strong against them, but the belief just showed on the field the way they played together as a team," said Kohli.
Matches between India and Pakistan are the most-watched in cricket and generate some of the highest audiences in world sport, but the two sides have never previously faced each other in a a global 50-over final.
"Regardless of who you play in the final, it's always going to be challenging because once you start thinking that it's a big game, then your mindset changes," added Kohli.
"What we are going to try to do is repeat the similar sort of cricket that we have played so far, knowing the strengths and weaknesses they have."
Rohit Sharma hit an unbeaten 123 and Kohli added 96 not out as India serenely chased 265 to beat Bangladesh.
However, Bangladesh had looked set to post a much more challenging score at 154-2, only for Kohli to turn to the part-time off-spin of Kedar Jadhav.
Kohli's decision was vindicated as Jadhav removed both Tamim Iqbal (70) and Mushfiqur Rahim (61) during a tight spell by India's spinners but the captain admitted that Jadhav's two wickets were "a bonus."
"With one left-hander batting, we knew that he had the ability to get in two or three dot balls to the left-hander every over, but it ended up changing the whole game for us," said Kohli.
He added that he could not "take the whole credit" as he also turned to advice from wicketkeeper and former captain MS Dhoni.
"We both decided that Kedar is a good option at the moment, and he bowled really well. He doesn't bowl much in the nets, but he's a smart cricketer," added Kohli.
Bangladesh reached their first global semi-final thanks to victory over New Zealand in the group stages but again struggled to take wickets, having claimed just 12 in the whole tournament.
Captain Mashrafe Mortaza said his side also could not keep relying on Tamim, Mushfiqur, Shakib Al Hasan and Mahmudullah for runs but added his young side will be ready to "do better" at the World Cup in 2019, also being played in England and Wales.
"We are coming up still, we need to learn so many things, but I think we need to be a little bit more ready mentally to play this sort of match," said Mortaza.
"Once you are ready mentally, anything can be possible. I know next time the boys will learn." | Pakistan's turnaround in the Champions Trophy has been "magnificent", said India captain Virat Kohli after his side set up Sunday's final against their fierce rivals. | 40296517 |
Nashville-based Gibson, whose products are used by artists in every genre of music, will pay a $300,000 (£190,000) fine and a $50,000 community payment.
Gibson admitted violating the Lacey Act, which requires firms to know that timber they use is legally obtained.
Deforestation is a huge issue affecting Madagascan wildlife such as lemurs.
Gibson's premises were raided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) in 2010 and 2011, with agents impounding ebony and rosewood imported from Madagascar and India.
The FWS found evidence that an employee had told Gibson two years previously that its Madagascan imports might be illegal, but that the company had nevertheless ordered further stocks.
"As a result of this investigation and criminal enforcement agreement, Gibson has acknowledged that it failed to act on information that the Madagascar ebony it was purchasing may have violated laws intended to limit overharvesting and conserve valuable wood species from Madagascar, a country which has been severely impacted by deforestation," said Assistant Attorney General Moreno following the settlement.
The ebony was mainly in the form of strips that would be fashioned into fretboards for guitars, mandolins and banjos.
Following the raids, environment groups urged the US Department of Justice to press its case and make a high-profile example of the guitar manufacturer.
But Gibson boss Henry Juszkiewicz said the issue was an example of the "over-reach" of government.
The case became a cause celebre in Tea Party circles, with right-wing politicians saying a US company should not be treated this way over environmental concerns.
The US Congress amended the Lacey Act in 2008 to tackle the continuing demand for hardwoods such as ebony in the face of evidence that much of the international trade was illegal.
The act is now one of the world's toughest laws on the issue.
In March, the World Bank published a report indicating that the illegal timber trade was worth $10-15bn (£7.5-11bn) per year globally.
Illegal logging in Madagascar became much more severe after the 2009 coup that brought Andry Rajoelina to power.
Conservation groups working in the country say enforcement of logging laws is virtually non-existent in many areas.
In addition to the payments, Gibson is withdrawing its claim to wood seized by the FWS, estimated to be worth more than £200,000.
The company has not yet commented on the settlement.
Follow Richard on Twitter | The US government has settled its legal case against the iconic Gibson Guitar company over use of illegal timber from Madagascar in its instruments. | 19153588 |
Chapelcross near Annan was on a shortlist of five potential locations.
Capenhurst in Cheshire has been selected to store the nuclear components, with Aldermaston in Berkshire as a "fall back" option.
The Scottish site was ruled out along with Sellafield in West Cumbria and Burghfield in Berkshire following public consultation.
Chapelcross was home to Scotland's first commercial nuclear station, which was built on old airfield in Dumfriesshire. The site ceased generation in 2004.
The nuclear components are from 18 redundant submarines and nine still in service.
The redundant Royal Navy submarines are currently stored afloat at Devonport in Plymouth and Rosyth in Fife, but cannot be dismantled until the reactor components have been removed.
The radioactive parts will be stored until after 2040, when the UK's Geological Disposal Facility, for the permanent disposal of spent fuel and nuclear waste, is planned to come into operation.
Defence Minister Philip Dunne said: "When submarines in the Royal Navy fleet reach the end of their lives, we need to dispose of them in a way that is safe, secure and environmentally sound.
"We have worked closely with the local communities around potential sites to listen carefully to their views, and the opinions and feedback we received has played an important part in formulating our final decision.
"With Capenhurst as our recommended site, we know that the radioactive waste from our decommissioned submarines will be dealt with properly and responsibly." | The Ministry of Defence has ruled out a Scottish site as a possible location to store waste from nuclear submarines. | 36745287 |
A team of six RSPCA officers were involved in rescuing the Great Orme animal, using a rope, near Llandudno.
It was trapped on a ledge above the town's Marine Drive.
The officers abseiled from about 30m (98ft) above the goat and caught him by the horns, placing him in a bag and abseiling down further to safe land to release him.
Mike Pugh, RSPCA inspector said: "This was a complex rescue, as it was imperative to ensure the goat was calm enough so he didn't panic, and dangerously jump off the towering ledge.
"The goat spent over a week on the ledge, and by the time he had eaten all available food, it became obvious that an RSPCA rope team would be required."
The goat was not harmed in the rescue. | A young goat has been rescued after becoming trapped on a ledge in Conwy county. | 40958874 |
Hollie Gazzard, 20, was killed by Asher Maslin in Gloucester in February 2014.
A review found he had been involved in 24 separate violent incidents involving Hollie, two more previous girlfriends, his mother and other people.
It concluded if any one agency had been given all the evidence it would have been foreseeable he would kill.
Hollie was killed three days after she had reported Maslin to Gloucestershire Police for the theft of her bank card and money from her account.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment in July 2014 and ordered to serve a minimum of 24 years behind bars.
In the six years before her death, Maslin - a former security guard - was arrested 23 times for a variety of offences, including domestic violence, criminal damage, possession of Class A drugs and theft.
The report, commissioned by Tewkesbury Borough Community Safety Partnership, discovered many of his victims had refused to press charges against him, which may have masked the scale of his crimes.
Nick Gazzard, Hollie's father, said: "Twenty-three arrests over a period of six years with increasing seriousness - that tells you something.
"There was lots of information known to different agencies and when you pull that all together it gives you a massive picture of what this individual was like and with all that, Hollie's death was preventable.
"There were two previous partners who were frightened and abused by him but didn't want to come forward, like Hollie."
Police were aware of three incidents involving Hollie and Maslin.
One of them involved CCTV footage of him grabbing her around the neck, but she refused to make a complaint.
The third and final time was just days before she was killed.
The review has called for legal guidance on whether Clare's Law can be used by specialist support groups so women can find out if their partner has a history of domestic violence.
It has also recommended that police improve how they assess risk and share information with partner agencies.
In May, the police watchdog criticised Gloucestershire Police for their handling of the case.
Hollie's father Nick Gazzard told me in order to prevent other young women from abusive partners we need to get much better at identifying warning signs and intervening early to prevent domestic abuse.
Crucially, he said we need to get better at supporting victims so they can report violence.
He said things had improved in the 18 months since Hollie's death but still more needed to be done.
Gloucestershire Police told me they have retrained staff since Hollie's death and they now share information about high risk offenders on a daily basis. | A man who stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death at the hairdressers where she worked, had a long history of violence against women, an inquiry has found. | 34899548 |
The University of London team looked at how many people carried a specific gene variant known to give them resistance to TB and leprosy.
It was more common in those from areas with a longer history of urbanisation, where the diseases were more likely to have been rife at one point.
They described the discovery as an example of "evolution in action".
The phenomenon, reported in the journal Evolution, is suggested as an example of so-called "selective pressure" in relation to disease resistance.
It happens because, when a population is exposed to a killer illness, the people who are best placed to pass on their genes to the next generation are those whose genetic make-up helps them fight the infection.
In towns and cities, where people intermingle far more closely, the likelihood of being exposed to infectious disease is theoretically higher.
So, over the centuries, the greater the level of historical exposure, the more likely it is that these resistance genes will be spread widely among the population.
The scientists, from University College London and Royal Holloway, part of the University of London, tested this by analysing DNA samples drawn from 17 different human populations living across Europe, Asia and Africa.
The results were cross checked against historical and archaeological data about the date of the first city or urban settlement in each region.
The protective gene variant was found in nearly everyone from the Middle East to India and in parts of Europe where cities have been established for thousands of years, but were less frequent in regions with a shorter history of urbanisation, such as Africa.
Dr Ian Barnes, one of the authors of the research, said: "This seems to be an elegant example of evolution in action.
"It flags up the importance of a very recent aspect of our evolution as a species, the development of cities as a selective force.
"It could also help explain some of the differences we observe in disease resistance around the world."
There are other examples of selective pressure in disease resistance - it has been suggested that one is the prevalence of the gene defect responsible for the lung disease cystic fibrosis.
Normally, the lethal nature of the condition across history would suggest that people carrying the gene defect were at a distinct evolutionary disadvantage, and their numbers would be fewer.
However, scientists believe that the gene gives carriers an advantage when faced with the cholera toxin - which, in early cities, could have significantly outweighed the disadvantage of some children developing cystic fibrosis.
Professor Brian Spratt, chair of molecular microbiology at the Imperial College London School of Public Health, said: "Individuals who are more resistant to a pathogen that causes a disease with substantial mortality, such as malaria or TB, will survive better and will contribute more offspring to the next generation. As many of their children will have inherited increased resistance to the pathogen, they also will survive better.
"Thus frequencies of these genetic sequences that provide increased protection to a disease will be far more common in areas where the disease has been killing people for centuries or even millennia than those where the disease has never been endemic.
The same effect should occur for some diseases with populations who have lived for centuries within dense cities because diseases such as cholera and TB will have always been a problem in cities due to overcrowding and poor sanitation, compared to people living nomadic lives." | People from traditionally urban areas could be genetically better suited to fighting infection, say researchers. | 11408114 |
The system will be called called Paym - pronounced Pay Em.
It will make it easier for people to transfer money to other bank accounts using mobile phone apps.
The key feature is that once users have registered their bank accounts to send or receive money with Paym, payments can by triggered simply by knowing a recipient's phone number.
Sort codes and account numbers will not have to be keyed in for each transaction, although passcodes will still be required to open an app.
Adrian Kamellard, chief executive of the Payments Council, said the new system would bring tangible benefits to users, such as letting people repay their friends for cinema tickets, splitting restaurant bills, or settling up for a colleague's birthday collection.
"Paym is a mobile update for payments that means you can pay securely using just a mobile number," he said.
"The service has the potential to link up every bank account in the country with a mobile number - millions of people will be able to use it this year and we look forward to expanding Paym even further, so everyone can benefit from this easy, secure new way to pay."
The first banks to say they will offer the new system to their customers are Bank of Scotland, Barclays, the Cumberland Building Society, Danske Bank, Halifax, HSBC, Lloyds Bank, Santander and TSB Bank.
Later this year it will also be adopted by Clydesdale Bank, First Direct, Isle of Man Bank, NatWest, RBS International, The Royal Bank of Scotland, and Yorkshire Bank, thus eventually covering 90% of all current account holders.
The Payments Council said that the Nationwide building society would also join, in 2015, and that Metro Bank and Ulster bank were planning to join too.
How will it work?
Bank or building society account holders will first need to register their mobile phone number and the relevant account they want to use.
People who wish only to receive money this way will be able to use the system, even if their phone is not a smartphone and they do not use mobile banking.
Current levels of security will apply and payments will not be possible without an app's pass code being entered.
"However any customer who is worried someone could get unauthorised access to their account (for example, if their phone was stolen) should still contact their bank or building society to report it," said a spokesman for the Payments Council.
"It is possible for them to suspend access to the service if necessary, to prevent fraud.
"You get the same legal protection with Paym that is already applied to your other current account, online and mobile payment services," he added.
Similar systems have been introduced by Barclays with its Pingit app, and by RBS NatWest.
In the case of Pingit, a recipient of a money transfer only needs to have registered a phone number, and does not need a smartphone or the Pingit app.
The RBS NatWest system hinges on users having a Visa card. | The banking industry's new mobile phone payments system will be launched later this year. | 26512638 |
Gill Pasola, head of school at Eythorne Elvington Community Primary School in Dover, asked parents to improve their behaviour at the gates in a newsletter.
She said the issue had been raised by the schools council which is made up of elected representatives from each year.
The adults were told to smoke well away from the school and mind their language in the vicinity.
On BBC South East Today's Facebook page, Chantelle Amini wrote: "Good! All schools should implement this! Nothing worse than having to walk through a cloud of smoke with your child!"
Mari Ellen Edwards said: "Good on the children for telling on the parents!"
Gary Gardiner posted: "Sounds like they need to go back to school!!"
Chris McGovern, a former head teacher and chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, said: "Normally we have bad news stories about schools going into special measures, but here we have a good news story about pupils putting some of their own parents into special measures."
He said the primary pupils had been rated outstanding by Ofsted for their behaviour.
"They actually in this particular case are going to teach their parents a little bit about how to behave, I suspect," he added.
He said their parents should be proud of them.
Waiting outside the school gates this afternoon, it was clear not all parents had got the message - or if they had they weren't choosing to do as they're told.
Children finishing school for the day explained their decision and said smoking could kill children and cause asthma - while swearing set a bad example to youngsters.
The head teacher declined to comment.
In the school's last Ofsted report, inspectors said the pupils concentrated well, tried their hardest to do their best, listened carefully, showed confidence and were polite and courteous towards one another and to adults and visitors.
"They greet everyone with bright smiles and hold open doors. Consequently, the atmosphere in the school is happy and harmonious," inspectors wrote. | Parents have been told to stop smoking and swearing outside a school - after pupils raised the issue as a problem. | 34872522 |
Samir Carruthers put the visitors ahead with a curling left-foot shot, but Gomez headed Rovers level with the first of his double following a corner.
Elliott Bennett's low drive put the hosts in front for the first time, only for Alex Revell to square matters, slotting in Josh Murphy's cross.
Rovers won it as Gomez curled superbly over the wall to beat Cody Cropper.
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It was a heartbreaking finale for Karl Robinson's side, whose relegation worries deepen after the side immediately below them in the Championship table, Rotherham, were 2-1 winners over Brentford.
For Blackburn, it was a second consecutive home league victory that lifted them to 18th after Fulham were beaten at Middlesbrough.
Rovers were booed off at the break, but their second-half performance was much improved, with goalkeeper Jason Steele needing to tip Jake Forster-Caskey's free-kick on to the bar before Carruthers' opener.
Even so, after a Dons revival that saw Dean Bowditch shoot into the side-netting and substitute Revell equalise, it needed a moment of magic from Spanish former Sunderland midfielder Gomez to seal just a fifth home league success of the season for Paul Lambert's men.
Blackburn Rovers boss Paul Lambert on the winning goal by Gomez:
"Jordi Gomez, as I said before, has been terrific. Jordi plays the game as if it's really natural to him - all top players do that.
"He's technically excellent on the ball. Even his first goal was a brilliant header. The second goal was genuine world class. We're thankful that Sunderland have let him come (on loan).
"I am delighted obviously with the win. First half, we were nowhere near it. I expect better and demand better. Second half, yes.
"I know how players react and how they think and sometimes you can see what is going to happen but your legs don't carry you because you feel tired from the game.
"It wasn't until the second half when we got them in, changed the system, got more bodies around the ball and started to dominate the middle of the pitch."
MK Dons manager Karl Robinson:
"I thought we were excellent in our performance levels. We showed we move the ball really well but we work hard as well in and out of possession.
"Today what's cost us is schoolboy-error defending from a set-piece and they need to eradicate that themselves and need to learn their lessons.
"It's gut-wrenching as a manager when we're sat here with nothing.
"I think we've been robbed, and that's not being disrespectful to Blackburn Rovers. Everybody knows the respect I have for this football club, but I'm gutted."
Match ends, Blackburn Rovers 3, MK Dons 2.
Second Half ends, Blackburn Rovers 3, MK Dons 2.
Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
George Baldock (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordi Gómez (Blackburn Rovers).
Goal! Blackburn Rovers 3, MK Dons 2. Jordi Gómez (Blackburn Rovers) from a free kick with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Foul by George Baldock (MK Dons).
Elliott Bennett (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Shane Duffy (Blackburn Rovers) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Thomas Spurr.
Attempt blocked. Danny Graham (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Darren Potter (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Elliott Bennett (Blackburn Rovers).
Goal! Blackburn Rovers 2, MK Dons 2. Alex Revell (MK Dons) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Josh Murphy.
Attempt missed. Dean Lewington (MK Dons) left footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Joe Walsh following a corner.
Corner, MK Dons. Conceded by Grant Hanley.
Attempt blocked. George Baldock (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Josh Murphy.
Substitution, MK Dons. Robert Hall replaces Samir Carruthers.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by George Baldock.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Adam Henley replaces Ben Marshall because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Ben Marshall (Blackburn Rovers) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Dean Bowditch (MK Dons) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Samir Carruthers.
Goal! Blackburn Rovers 2, MK Dons 1. Elliott Bennett (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Shane Duffy (Blackburn Rovers) header from the left side of the six yard box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Elliott Bennett with a cross following a set piece situation.
Substitution, MK Dons. Alex Revell replaces Nicky Maynard.
Foul by Jake Forster-Caskey (MK Dons).
Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Shane Duffy (Blackburn Rovers) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Elliott Bennett with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Cody Cropper.
Kyle McFadzean (MK Dons) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Kyle McFadzean (MK Dons).
Simeon Jackson (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Offside, MK Dons. Darren Potter tries a through ball, but Nicky Maynard is caught offside.
Kyle McFadzean (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Graham (Blackburn Rovers).
Attempt missed. Nicky Maynard (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt blocked. Josh Murphy (MK Dons) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, MK Dons. Josh Murphy replaces Jonathan Williams.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Simeon Jackson replaces Chris Brown.
Dean Bowditch (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half. | Jordi Gomez's stoppage-time free-kick clinched victory for Blackburn Rovers in a seesaw game with MK Dons. | 35618701 |
In the early hours of 9 June - as results from the general election came in across Wales - Leanne Wood was considering resigning.
The party has declined to comment, but the story comes from a reliable source who says Ms Wood changed her mind when Ben Lake - "an outstanding candidate" - won Ceredigion.
If true, it would not be the first time she agonised over an important decision during the election - originally dithering over whether to stand in Rhondda.
As it turned out, Plaid Cymru, according to its press release, celebrated a "historic election result".
The question asked by some senior members of the party is, 'was it really'?
Context is important. In the weeks leading up to polling day, the campaign co-ordinator Adam Price described the Labour vote as "soft as jelly".
Plaid identified the supposedly wobbly Labour Westminster seats of Blaenau Gwent and Rhondda as winnable constituencies.
Both were lost to a combined Labour majority of over 25,000.
In Rhondda, the Plaid vote went down despite an exceptional result by Leanne Wood in the assembly election last year.
Plaid, says one of its former elected politicians, is "in denial about the election". The source was "shocked" that these seats were identified as targets.
If this was a Plaid election pitched towards the south Wales valleys, then "Leanne Wood failed", the source said.
Others are far less gloomy, but they are also realistic.
There is no doubt that this was an election of two halves. Before the launch of the Tory manifesto Plaid, were polling very well in Rhondda, the data was said to be "off the scale". Ynys Mon was as safe as could be.
Then came the Corbyn bounce.
Doorstep conversations were not going well, as Plaid supporters said they were voting Labour.
Yet the party gained a seat and insiders make this very valid point - the electorate does not talk about vote share; the only thing that counts in elections is winning seats.
But whether Plaid was "sophisticated enough" to respond to the changing nature of the election is a question one AM would like to see on the debrief agenda.
Having increased its overdraft facility to £100,000, some are arguing money should be spent now at ground level in readiness for the next election.
Another senior member of the party is highly critical of the messaging.
Trying to outflank Corbyn on the left gave Carwyn Jones an open door to campaign on a nationalist ticket. "Defending Wales" was a negative slogan, he said.
This "historic election result" also included 14 lost deposits and a bitterly disappointing result in Ynys Mon.
No blame is attached internally to the candidate Ieuan Wyn Jones, described as "the right choice at the time".
There is however a recognition that candidates are important and that the party is not good enough at succession planning.
It could explain why so little was seen of candidates in the media, something many in the party want addressed.
And what of Leanne Wood?
"People like her but do they see her as a leader of a Government? She doesn't have the clout, she's not authoritative enough or confident".
Opinion is split on whether she should have put her name forward in Rhondda but less divided on whether taking days to come to a decision reflected badly.
The view of the leader is that people would not take kindly to her giving up the assembly seat so soon after winning.
"The boys," as Leanne Wood refers to them, could be waiting in the wings. Adam Price and Rhun ap Iorwerth are often talked up as future leaders.
It is hard to see how this will play out.
There is, I am told, "a great deal of support for Leanne but it is also natural that people will look at the leader. On the whole there is no big push against her".
It might have gone under the radar but Plaid does have a new leader - at Westminster. Liz Saville-Roberts actually increased her share of the vote in Dwyfor Meirionnydd.
If Plaid rules allowed it, she would, as one well-placed party member put it, "be head and shoulders above anyone else". | In the second of our pieces on the state of the political parties in Wales, political correspondent Aled ap Dafydd takes a look at Plaid Cymru. | 40802239 |
Mr Turnbull led a failed campaign to make Australia republic in a 1999 referendum, prior to entering politics.
On Tuesday, he said that during the 1990s he never imagined he would one day meet the Queen as Australia's PM.
"Even republicans like myself can be, and in my case are, very strong Elizabethans," he said.
"She has been a remarkable leader of the UK and the Commonwealth."
He added: "Politics is full of unpredictable events."
The centre-right Coalition leader said it was an honour to meet the Queen, telling reporters he would seek her "wisdom and advice".
It came after Mr Turnbull visited Downing Street and pledged that Australia would seek a trade deal with the UK post Brexit.
Mr Turnbull has previously said he does not believe a majority of Australians would support becoming a republic during the Queen's reign.
In the landmark 1999 referendum, Australia voted against changing its head of state to a president by 54.87% to 45.13%. | Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull has described himself as both a republican and a "very strong Elizabethan" before meeting the Queen at Buckingham Palace. | 40577565 |
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Joshua, 26, has won all of his 15 professional fights by knockout.
Joshua told BBC Sport: "[Mike] Tyson took 28 [fights before becoming world champion], [Muhammad] Ali 20, I think Lennox [Lewis] was 24.
"Some will say it's too soon, [but] opinions are irrelevant - I have to do what I feel is right."
Martin, who beat Vyacheslav Glazkov for the vacant IBF belt in January, is unbeaten in 24 fights while Joshua most recently beat Dillian Whyte with a seventh-round knockout to claim the British heavyweight title.
"Experience is valuable," Joshua conceded. "I've been in the Olympics, big British dust-ups, I've gone through these feelings, these emotions, these expectations.
"The reason I'm here so soon is because of what I had to go through early on in my career, and what I have to take with me on 9 April [is] that belief in myself that I'm here, I'm capable and I'm ready to rock and roll."
Martin is unbeaten in his 24 fights but believes he has been denied the adulation that Joshua has received from the boxing world.
"I want what he's got - the praise, the attention, and the fans," the 29-year-old Missouri native said.
"I don't take the glamour and all that stuff. I don't soak it in, I just go back to that tough grimy kid from the block, from the boxing gym, trying to make a way. That's what I do in preparation - go back to the roots."
Martin said Joshua had faced easy opponents in his professional career but admitted the same charge could be levelled at himself.
"The past is the past," Martin said. "The record, putting [Joshua] in with guys who were tailor-made for him to lay down - we've both had those people in our past and that doesn't matter. What matters now is there are two hungry fighters in there wanting to win." | Anthony Joshua says he is "ready to rock and roll" when he fights American Charles Martin for the IBF world heavyweight title on 9 April. | 35615913 |
Nick Panay, from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, told a GPs' conference that it could also improve women's energy and mood.
But he said there were no licensed testosterone products for women, who need much lower doses then men.
Around one in three women is affected by the condition at some stage in their lives.
Mr Panay, consultant gynaecologist at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, said there was a need to tell women about the potential benefits of testosterone.
He told the Royal College of GPs' conference in Harrogate: "We're not saying that female androgen replacement is a universal panacea.
"We're not saying it is a female Viagra. Women are, after all, much more complex creatures than men (and do not respond) to the on/off button that Viagra offers.
"But I think that it should be part of the counselling process."
He said he believed testosterone should be made available to all women who could benefit. Loss of libido affects 15% of menopausal women.
The medical term for the condition is hypoactive sexual desire disorder, which can also be caused by medical or mental health problems, hormonal factors and relationship issues.
He said patients who had taken testosterone had reported huge increases in their mood, energy, muscle strength and stamina.
Mr Panay said: "They go from feeling drained to being able to run marathons again."
Since there are no licensed products available for women, he had to prescribe it "off-label" which he found "frustrating".
All licensed testosterone medications are designed for men and have to be measured down for women, he said.
Dr Channa Jayasena, a clinical senior lecturer in endocrinology at Imperial College London, said testosterone can be given to women in much lower doses than men.
He said: "It's mainly given in a patch. Women have both sex hormones - oestrogen but also testosterone - made by their adrenal glands and also the ovaries.
"It is a natural hormone but less is known about its effects."
Last year, GPs wrote more than 370,000 prescriptions for testosterone, which costs the NHS £21.3m annually. | Women suffering from a loss of sexual desire should be offered testosterone on the NHS, a doctor has suggested. | 37588549 |
And the first voice to congratulate him when he crossed the line was Prince Harry's.
"Thank you very much Lewis for not letting the British public down. Well done Lewis you are a legend," he said over the Mercedes team radio.
"Woooooaaahh world champion, oh my god, can't believe it, thanks everyone," replied the new world champion.
The driver's friends and family, including girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger, were among the first to see him after he left his car.
The singer said: "For me he's always a world champion. So I'm just really proud of his dedication and heart and sacrifice this year and I'm really glad it's paid off."
And although support of split ahead of the race, some big names from the world of sport, and Brian Mcfadden, were quick to followed Prince Harry in saying well done.
And even if they weren't congratulating Lewis on his win, other stars were in Abu Dhabi to soak up the atmosphere.
After qualifying, Hamilton - who has become the fourth British driver to win more than one world title, was pictured with Pharrell Williams and Fast and Furious actor Tyrese.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Lewis Hamilton has won his second Formula 1 world championship after winning the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. | 30169527 |
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The ships were destroyed during storms in 1588, and more than four centuries later, a man walking along the County Sligo coast found a washed-up piece of timber that turned out to be a rudder from one of the wrecks.
The cannon are now being treated at the National Museum in Dublin where it is hoped they will eventually go on public display.
BBC Newsline's Dublin correspondent Shane Harrison reports. | A chance discovery during storms along the west coast of Ireland earlier this year has led to nine Spanish Armada cannon being recovered from shipwrecks. | 33697918 |
The artefacts, found in Cheshire, include rings, brooches and dozens of coins issued some 2,000 years ago.
Known as the Knutsford and Malpas Hoards, the treasure finds were uncovered in 2012 and 2014 by metal detectorists in the county.
They will be on show at the Museum of Liverpool until 19 June.
The treasure includes:
Liz Stewart, the museum's curator of archaeology, said the hoards will "provide fascinating evidence about the wealth, trade, lifestyles and identities of people in the early Roman period".
She added: "The hoards tell the story of the early history of the region, and point to links between the Cheshire salt fields and the coastal trading centres in and around Merseyside."
Experts at the museum believe many of the artefacts were probably buried for safekeeping. | Two recently-discovered hoards of Roman and Iron Age treasure have been put on display for the first time in a Liverpool exhibition. | 35560821 |
Cambridge United supporter Simon Dobbin, 43, has just returned home from hospital following the fracas in Southend last March.
Several people were arrested but no one has been charged.
His wife Nicole said it was "very frustrating" that no one had been "brought to justice".
Mr Dobbin, who lives with his wife and daughter in Mildenhall, Suffolk, was attacked outside The Railway pub while on the way home from Southend's Roots Hall stadium on 21 March.
Essex Police arrested 17 men on suspicion of assault or violent disorder following the attack. One man remains on bail and three men will face no further action. The force said it is continuing to work with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) "in order to reach a decision" on any charges.
"Our lives have completely changed and yet these people are still walking around as if nothing happened.
"If they get away with it then it will send out completely the wrong message and the next person might not pull through," Mrs Dobbin said.
Neighbours put out banners and balloons for Mr Dobbin's return home earlier this week.
He is still unable to talk, walk or eat solid food, but his wife said she had seen a "fantastic change" over the last few days.
"He is more alert, he is trying so hard to communicate, he has really come alive again and it has lifted everybody.
"Everyone has been so supportive and happy for us," she said.
The next goal is to get him talking and back "to some sort of normality", she added.
A hospital bed, a reclining chair and a hoist have all been installed at their home but she said they need to raise £20,000 for a wet room and an extra bedroom.
Mrs Dobbin and her daughter Emily are taking part in a 12-mile walk on Sunday to raise money and mark 12 months since the attack. | The wife of a football fan left with brain damage after an attack a year ago has criticised a "lack of progress" in the case. | 35845005 |
Inspectors visited 12 schools run by the Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) and found too many pupils were "not receiving a good enough education".
A survey of the group's head teachers found doubts about the ability of the trust to support their schools.
A statement from AET said the findings did not give "the true picture" of the full range of the trust's 77 schools.
Ofsted has published the findings of a wave of inspections of academies operated by AET, following concerns they were not improving quickly enough and too many were "less than good".
Inspectors are not allowed to assess the trusts running academies, but they can inspect their individual schools - and in this case, 12 were inspected, in areas including Essex, Liverpool, Birmingham and Hull.
Ofsted found:
Inspectors highlighted a lack of overall progress and identified "key weaknesses", including teaching not being good enough.
The inspection findings warned of "low expectations of what pupils can and should achieve" and "pupils with less than good attitudes to learning and unacceptable behaviour".
Ofsted said some schools were "left to flounder".
There was also a survey of school leaders working in AET academies.
It found "academy leaders did not have confidence in the trust's ability to provide the support they needed".
Earlier this year, the Department for Education included AET on a list of academy sponsors restricted from taking over new schools.
The recently appointed chair of Ofsted, David Hoare, is a former trustee of AET.
A statement from AET said that across its full range of schools exam results were improving faster than average.
The trust also challenges the "unfairly negative slant" of the inspection report summaries.
"We have raised a number of issues with Ofsted about their interpretation of the data and potential errors of fact," said the trust statement.
"Many of the academies inspected by Ofsted have a history of underperformance and have been with AET only for a short time.
"Turning a school around takes time, but we are acting to ensure a rapid and sustained improvement in these academies."
Sir Michael Wilshaw, head of Ofsted, has called on the government to allow inspectors to be able to check academy trusts, as they can for local authority education services.
A majority of secondary schools in England are now academies, which are state-funded schools outside of local authority control and with flexibility over areas such as the curriculum.
Labour's shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said there was inadequate oversight of academies and "problems are not being spotted early enough".
"The decision to rapidly expand the underperforming Academies Enterprise Trust was taken by ministers.
"The ongoing refusal by this government to allow Ofsted the powers to inspect academy chains at a systematic level means that too many academies remain exposed to falling standards," said Mr Hunt. | Ofsted inspectors have accused one of the biggest academy chains in England of "low expectations". | 29011548 |
They said they became aware of details of his injuries only when the medical examiner's report was released on Thursday.
Mr Lesin, 57, was found dead in a US hotel four months ago. US coroners say he died of head injuries.
Medical examiners say the exact circumstances of death are not clear.
Russian media had reported his death as a suspected heart attack.
He was one of the most influential figures on the Russian media scene.
Who was Mikhail Lesin?
The Russian embassy in Washington told the BBC that it became aware of the injuries sustained by Lesin only on Thursday, when the medical examiner's report was released.
Press Secretary Yuri Melnik said Russia had made repeated requests for updates on the investigation but very few facts had been given.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said no detailed information about the case had been provided to Moscow via the channels used for such cases.
"In the light of these media reports we hope that we will receive the detailed information," he said.
Washington DC's chief medical examiner said Mr Lesin had, as well as head injuries, blunt force injuries to the neck, torso, arms and legs, without concluding how the injuries had been sustained.
Police spokesman Dustin Sternbeck said the case remained under investigation, the Washington Post reports.
He declined to say whether the post-mortem examination results meant a crime might have been committed.
The New York Times reported that Mr Lesin's injuries were the result of "some sort of altercation" that happened before he returned to his hotel.
A former Russian press minister and one-time head of the powerful Gazprom-Media Holding group, Mikhail Lesin was found dead on 5 November 2015 in the Dupont Circle Hotel.
It is unclear why he was in Washington but several family members were resident in the US and had business interests there.
He worked as an aide to the presidency between 2004 and 2009 and was instrumental in the creation of Russia's state-funded international broadcaster RT (formerly known as Russia Today).
The BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow says that for years Mr Lesin was the mastermind behind the Kremlin's wholesale takeover of the Russian media landscape after Vladimir Putin became president.
As Russian press minister and media adviser to the president, he earned the nickname The Bulldozer for the way in which he crushed all Kremlin critics in his path, our correspondent says.
After Mr Lesin's death, President Putin spoke of his "enormous contribution" to Russian media.
Competing theories
Various theories are swirling in the media about what happened to Mr Lesin now it has it emerged that he suffered multiple injuries.
Last November the UK's Daily Mail raised the possibility that the FBI could have faked Lesin's death in order to give him witness protection - as a valuable information source, since he had long been a Kremlin insider.
It also quoted Mikhail Seslavinsky, head of Russian media regulator Rospechat, as saying Mr Lesin had appeared happy and healthy a month earlier. He added that he had undergone complicated surgery for a spinal injury, but was now practising sports.
There are unconfirmed reports that Mr Lesin had had a dispute with financier Yuri Kovalchuk, a longstanding friend of Mr Putin.
A Russian forensic expert quoted by Lenta.ru website (in Russian), Alexander Aulov, said Mr Lesin's injuries were consistent with a severe beating, not an accident or the result of convulsions.
In 2014, Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker called for an investigation into Mr Lesin over possible money laundering, saying he had moved his family to the US and bought several multi-million dollar properties in California.
Some of the properties reported to have been bought by companies connected to the family include, according to the LA Times, a house in the Pacific Palisades for almost $4m and a house in Beverley Hills bought in 2011 for almost $14m.
His son Anton Lessine has produced several high-profile Hollywood films, the Business Insider website reports, featuring stars like Brad Pitt, Woody Allen and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Lesin's Gazprom-Media group is owned by Gazprombank which, in turn, has links to Bank Rossiya, described by the the EU and US authorities as "the personal bank" of top Russian officials.
Bank Rossiya is under EU-US sanctions, as is the bank's biggest shareholder Yuri Kovalchuk. He is a longstanding close aide to President Putin. | Russian officials have criticised a lack of communication by US authorities over the death of Mikhail Lesin, a former aide to President Putin. | 35790526 |
Chief executive Michael Pritchard praised the duchess for her "talent and enthusiasm" behind the lens.
Kate, 34, took the first official photograph of Princess Charlotte when her daughter was born in 2015.
She had previously published photos from her and Prince William's Asian and Pacific tour in 2012.
Since becoming a mother, the Duchess has released a number of family photos including Prince George's first day at nursery school and Princess Charlotte's first birthday.
Older shots include a photo of Mount Kinabalu, the highest point in Borneo, and a black-and-white image of an orangutan from when she travelled there with Prince William in 2012.
Mr Pritchard said the society chose to recognise Kate for her "long-standing" interest in photography and its history.
"She is latest in a long line of royal photographers and the society is pleased to recognise her talent," he said.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were also patrons of the 1853-founded Royal Photographic Society.
The duchess joins fellow lifetime members Annie Leibovitz, who has photographed the Queen, along with the recently-knighted war photographer Sir Don McCullin.
The Queen herself took cine films to capture family memories and royal trips.
Kate, who graduated in History of Art from the University of St Andrews, is also a patron of the Natural History Museum and National Portrait Gallery.
Her first commission was in 2008 for her parents' company, Party Pieces. | The Duchess of Cambridge has accepted a lifetime honorary membership of the Royal Photographic Society for her family portraits and tour photos. | 38494382 |
The road at junction 41 westbound was closed from 07:00 to 09:00 BST and 16:00 to 18:00 weekdays for a six-month trial, which started last August.
The junction will now be reopened, but a consultation on its future will continue.
Steve Garvey, president of Port Talbot Chamber of Trade, said the trial closure had "decimated" businesses.
He said: "There has been a 20% fall in trade across the board. There has been a huge impact on the footfall since August.
"A couple of stalwarts of the chamber of trade have gone since this came in.
"A ladies accessories business and another T-shirt business have both been lost since August.
"We can't say it was exactly down to the closure, but it will certainly have contributed. Most cafes used to be open until 5pm, but many are closing earlier now.
"The biggest problem we have had is the working day went from 9-5 to 9-3 as the traffic was so congested people left early to avoid the backlog.
"Simply, it meant people were around for two hours less. We are just really relieved it's going to be open again."
Announcing the on-slip road was to reopen, Transport Minister Edwina Hart said: "The final report into the trial closure confirms the primary measure - the overall balance of monetised journey time benefit for the westbound M4 and local roads routes - is £180,000 per annum.
"On this basis the trial has demonstrated a benefit to the M4 without overall dis-benefit to the local road network.
"The report also states that car parking, footfall, queue lengths and air quality did not show any significant impact attributable to the trial closure." | Businesses in Port Talbot have seen a 20% fall in trade since the closure of a M4 slip road, it has been claimed. | 32931073 |
Domenico Masciopinto, 35, was sentenced to 14 years in prison in 2012 for drug-dealing.
From prison he told his now estranged wife Giulia Masciopinto, 37, to unearth cash buried in their Bedford garden.
At Aylesbury Crown Court, the pair and two other relatives were ordered to return £222,251 under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
That was on top of £121,736 seized from Domenico following the discovery of the stash.
In November 2015, Giulia was jailed for nine months for her involvement in digging up the cash. Her mother Caterina De Filippo, 58, and sister Palma De Filippo, 28, were given 12-month sentences for helping her.
The court heard that in 2013 officers recovered £270,000 in cash at the home of Guilia in Redhall Close and Caterina's home in Harrowden Road in Bedford.
The majority was suspected to have previously been hidden in a holdall buried in the garden of the home Domenico shared with Giulia in Harrowden Road, Bedford.
Det Insp Chris Day said: "Domenico Masciopinto thought he was above the law and that he could squirrel away his ill-gotten gains for when he was released from prison.
"We have been able to recover a large amount of cash and also obtain orders on the family members who had used their bank accounts to hide some of his profits."
A number of the notes were mouldy and had been placed in freezer bags.
The court heard that Giulia was told to take some of the money for a holiday. | A husband and wife from Bedford must return more than £220,000 of drugs money which was buried in their garden. | 36951573 |
The three Tests the world champions will play in the International Series will be in New Zealand.
"To be the best we have to play the best," coach Simon Middleton said.
The match against New Zealand in Rotorua on 17 June will be followed the British and Irish Lions taking on the Maori All Blacks.
England Women fixtures:
9 June: v Australia (Porirua Park, Wellington)
13 June: v Canada (Rugby Park, Christchurch)
17 June: v New Zealand (Rotorua International Stadium, Rotorua) | England Women will play Australia, Canada and New Zealand in June as they prepare for the World Cup in Ireland in August. | 39130935 |
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